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See Giants! 3 Rise at Bernheim Forest
As I drive the serpentine road toward the Visitor Center at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, I see small yard signs carefully spaced to build anticipation: “FE FI FO FUM,” “Forest Giants,” “Here They Come!” My eyes begin to dart into the trees trying to spot one of these fantastic creatures, until I come around…
Bourbon & Beyond announces Foo Fighters, Robert Plant, John Fogerty
The three-day music festival Bourbon & Beyond has announced its 2019 lineup, which includes headliners Foo Fighters, John Fogerty, Robert Plant, Daryl Hall & John Oats, Zach Brown Band and ZZ Top. Also performing at the festival, which takes place Sept. 20-22, are The Flaming Lips, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Leon Bridges, Alison Krauss,…
From Backstage to the Runway: An Interview With Frankie Lewis from ‘Project Runway’
In the world of theater, we tend to talk about the actors, directors and maybe even the playwrights and choreographers. But there are dozens of parts being played offstage that go into making a theater production. As a theater major, Frankie Lewis designed costumes for productions put on by the UofL, where she graduated in…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (3/11)
MONDAY, March 11 A Taste of Yoga 2019 Rainbow Blossom Natural Food Markets, Highlands/Gardiner Lane location Free | Times vary Starting Monday, it’s an entire week of free yoga classes at Rainbow Blossom’s Highlands location. Whether you’re a morning or an evening person, if you’re a beginner or someone who wants to try something different,…
A Q&A with artist James Grubola
The phrase “those who can’t do, teach” does not apply to artist James Grubola. He does both equally well. After all, he’s been teaching drawing at UofL for 44 years. LEO: You recently received the LVA Honors Visual Art Educator Award for your years of teaching at UofL’s Hite Art Institute. What is your best…
LEO Podcast #74: 99 Bottles, Mile Wide’s Black IPA Gish
Scott Shreffler from Mile Wide Beer Co. stops by to talk about Gish, the brewery’s limited release Black IPA.
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (3/08)
FRIDAY, March 8 Character Assassination Presents: The Roast of Disney Villains Sheraton Louisville Riverside Hotel Ballroom $21 | 8-10 p.m. You watched them as kids. You cheered their demise. Now you can laugh at their misfortunes again. Special guests Ursula, Gaston, Maleficent are but a sampling of the Disney villains you’ll see roast each other…
The Impossible Burger gets even more impossible
The Impossible Burger gets even more impossible, and Morels has it. Even if you’re not a vegetarian or vegan, the folks who make the Impossible Burger want to get their meat-free, gluten-free, hormone-free and ridiculously delicious burger into your mouth. No, they’re not pushy vegan evangelizers. They just want to save the Earth by replacing…
Crawling for the World’s Worst Liquor: Malört in Louisville
“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain” – Karl Marx The champagne of pain. Turn your taste buds into taste foes. The flavor of the day dad left. Those are but a few quips tossed around — tongue planted firmly in cheek — to describe a rugged, bitter liquor forged by Swedish immigrant…
Lawmakers create rules for e-scooters, bill awaits Bevin signature
A bill setting new rules for e-scooters in Kentucky, including creating a minimum age limit of 16, will soon be sent to the governor to be signed. HB 258, introduced by Rep. Ken Upchurch, R-Monticello, treats the scooters as bicycles, allowing them to legally operate on public streets and bicycle paths. The law also sets…
400 acres of forgotten land, one ‘iconic’ park
Scott Martin imagines protected marshlands and wildlife habitats. He imagines streams and rapids for canoeing and rafting and trails for hiking. And he imagines it all in Southern Indiana: A 400-acre park across from Louisville, along a relatively undeveloped swath of land starting in Clarksville and ending in New Albany. A park that embraces the…
While State Pot Bills Stall, City Panel Asks: Should Pot Crimes Be A Police Priority?
What if Louisville police were required to consider marijuana a low priority? That is what a panel of Metro Council members discussed last week. Councilwoman Jessica Green, chair of the Council Public Safety Committee, brought up the subject at a meeting last Wednesday. Some committee members questioned whether such an ordinance was necessary, but they…
Thorns & Roses: The Best, Worst and Most Absurd (3/6)
We need a truth survivors protection act | Thorn It may be reasonable to argue about abortion based on when you believe life begins. And you may disagree with the U.S. Supreme Court on this (we don’t). But now Republicans are just plain making up stuff to use abortion as a wedge issue against Democrats. And,…
Photographer Bill Carner’s exhibition revisits early Louisville punk scene
For more than 50 years, Bill Carner has observed the human experience through his camera’s rectangular viewfinder, pressing the shutter button to visually archive a moment in time. Carner’s collection has amassed into years of documenting the people, places and things that might go unnoticed, if it weren’t for his keen eye. A new solo…
Sonic Breakdown: Vyva Melinkolya — ‘1:00AM’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] Like many artists, Alyc Diaz, the main operator of the project Vyva Melinkolya, does her best work when she’s not, well, exactly happy. As proof of this, Diaz has dressed her self-titled album in full melancholic regalia, none more sonically…
Local fiddle virtuoso Michael Cleveland gets a documentary
According to Henryville, Indiana’s Wikipedia page, the small Clark County town is best know as the birthplace of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders, as well as Michael Cleveland, the award-winning bluegrass fiddle player who has been nominated for a Grammy. Despite being born completely blind and losing 80 percent of hearing in his left ear,…
Reasons to see/skip Metallica, Weezer and Kiss
In the next seven days, three iconic rock giants who all have ubiquitous songs and beloved albums will all play at the KFC Yum Center — although none of them has released a great record so far this century. That doesn’t necessarily mean you shouldn’t see them. It doesn’t help to justify going either. While…
Characters, Ghosts Abound in ‘Corpse Washer,’ ‘Red Light Winter,’ powerful, unflinching
“The Corpse Washer” is a new play, but it actually started out as a novel released in 2013, about a young man whose family wants him to follow in his father’s footsteps of washing the bodies of the deceased — according to Muslim tradition — while he dreams of becoming an artist. The stage adaptation…
Metalhead Comedy: A Q&A with Jim Breuer
A lifelong metalhead, comedian Jim Breuer recently landed the perfect gig — opening act for Metallica on their WorldWired Tour. He knows the crowd is not there to see him, so his outlook is: “We’re all stuck in here until they come out, so let’s have a party until they’re ready.” He has been on…
‘Conspiratorial Aesthetics,’ compelling
“Conspiratorial Aesthetics” at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts is an impressive grouping of internationally recognized artists and artist cooperatives whose works offer a variety of perspectives about the concept of conspiracy. These pieces, ranging from video installations to printmaking, reveal that conspiracy has many facets. Master printer Cara Benedetto’s series of lithographs and the…
J. Gumbo’s feeds our Mardi Gras faces
If you woke up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning, ready to get to work, you probably did not celebrate Mardi Gras in the traditional way last night. Lent starts today (March 6), and for those who observe the penitential season, there’ll be no more joyful excess until Easter arrives on April 21. We’ve got you…
Let’s hear it for Holy Grale,? one of America’s (and Louisville’s) best
As much as I love breweries, I’ve always admired Holy Grale as being its own thing in Louisville — a unique beer bar patterned after a traditional European pub. This isn’t a place you go for a tap takeover to “steal the glass.” It’s a place you go to gather, commune, dine on shared plates…
Savage Love: Loaded Question
Q: Let’s say my kink is edging and I edge myself for a few days leading up to a date. Is it my responsibility to tell my potential partner? There are a few variables here that are important to note. This is a first/Tinder date, and it’s just a coffee date, BUT she and I…
Dear White People, Please Stop Saying? You Don’t See Color — That’s A Lie
(Before I get into this, let me be clear: I am not talking about anyone who is blind, who is colorblind or anyone who has an issue with their eyes that would genuinely stop them from seeing color.) Dear White People, please stop saying that you do not see color. We all know that is…
Lawmakers For Sale
The solar bill before the state legislature has revealed three disgusting truths about how Kentucky laws are made. 1. It takes money to be heard, and the more money you have, the better your views will be represented. 2. Companies and special interests spend millions of dollars on lobbying because it works. 3. A bill…
GOP Hates Bevin, But Goforth is Toadeater
I’ve been thinking. Oh, bollocks. Here we go again. What now? Who’s the worst Brit in America? What a tortured world you must live in. However, the answer should be obvious to someone who spends as much time staring into the mirror as you do. What got your half-dozen grey cells pondering such important questions?…
