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Kentucky’s Right-To-Work Law: Unions Punch Back
For LEO’s Labor Day Issue, two attorneys have written about how unions are pushing back against Kentucky’s anti-union right-to-work law, which you can read below. Also, a union organizer writes about the three steps unions should take to survive into the next century. “We must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right…
Watch the video for DOMDI’s “Listerine”
On Sept. 14, local R&B artist DOMDI will release his new EP, Selfish, but right now you can stream the first single from that record “Listerine,” a silky smooth song with clever, atmospheric production. Watch the video for “Listerine” below and keep an eye out for upcoming performances from DOMDI.
Our six favorite local songs from August
Saturday School — ‘Movement IV’ Featuring ex-members of Boner City, Saturday School carries that same momentum, hook-heavy punk music ideal for sing-alongs. Melody and harmony are the name of the game, which carries a certain amount of irony, given lyrics such as, “I told myself you were the one, now you’re the one I hate,”…
Meet Jordan White, an eco-blogger you should be following
Growing up as a farmer’s daughter in Northern Kentucky, Jordan White’s natural state was barefoot. She’d tear through the barn when her mother wasn’t looking, feet caked in soil and dodging horses as if their legs were a game. She’d get in the car for school each morning, her mind eager for information, but she…
What to do this Labor Day besides grill your meat
It’s hard to beat a good ol’ cookout, but sometimes you gotta switch it up. That is why LEO decided to put together this list of fun Labor Day events. 19th Annual Labor Day at the Zoo Picnic & Car Show Louisville Zoo $9 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. If you’re a union member, you may…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (9/31)
FRIDAY WorldFest (Aug. 31–Sept. 3) The Belvedere Free | Times vary Want to believe that Louisville is an international city? The WorldFest provides a lot of evidence toward that perception. Enjoy wowza performances, freshly cooked food and an array of arts and crafts from people who hail from far-away but have made Louisville their homes.…
10 under $5 – What To Do This Week In Louisville (9/3)
MONDAY Subway Fresh Fit Hike, Bike & Paddle Waterfront Park Free | 8 a.m.-noon Before you grill the brats and ribs for that final summer cookout (or the vegan dogs, portobello burgers and tasty, tasty eggplants), burn some calories and allay that guilt at this annual convergence of athleticism. The day starts with fitness demonstrations,…
Liquor Barn-Party Mart are your destinations for premium cigars and high-end selection
Cigars and cigar knowledge started as a hobby for Jason Lois, cigar buyer for Liquor Barn and Party Mart. Now it’s a way of life. He’s heading to Croatia next week to participate in the Cigar Smoking World Championships, having at one time won the first such event ever held in the U.S. and being…
Three steps for organized labor to survive in the 21st century
For LEO’s Labor Day Issue, a union organizer writes about the three steps unions should take to survive into the next century, which you can read below. Also, read what two attorneys have written about how unions are pushing back against Kentucky’s anti-union right-to-work law. The American labor movement has been in a slow-motion decline for decades.…
Gov. Bevin’s Legal Strategy Is In The Pitt(s) — again
While President Trump rails about what is or is not a felony (even as his lawyer pleads guilty to those crimes), here in Kentucky we have a governor whose understanding of federal law is just as far off the beam. Speaking of Jim Beam, he is backed up by his general counsel, Steve Pitt, who…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Little piggies of the KFB | Thorn Louisville’s news media fawned over the Grand Champion Ham and Kentucky Farm Bureau Country Ham Breakfast and Charity Auction last week, but no stories mentioned that KFB hates LGBTQ people. The ham brought in $2.8 million, which will go to charity. Meanwhile, KFB works through its lobbyists to…
Rob Pennington and Becca Lindsay return to say goodbye: Black God, Julie of the Wolves play final shows Saturday
Earlier this summer, Rob Pennington and Becca Lindsay, two longtime, venerable musicians in the Louisville scene, relocated to North Carolina, but the married couple returns home this weekend to play a send-off show with their respective bands. Pennington’s Black God and Lindsay’s Julie of the Wolves will perform at Zanzabar on Saturday, marking the final…
Talking with Murder By Death about their eighth album, ‘The Other Shore’
For the last two years, Adam Turla and Sarah Balliet have pulled double duty, as the core members of the band Murder By Death, as well as the owners and managers of Pizza Lupo, the Italian restaurant they started. After two years of long days, they felt the time was right to break free and…
Three concerts to catch this week
Didi, Bathroom Laws, DUD Thursday, Aug. 30 Kaiju This is a free show, with an array of indie punk bands, so you can’t go wrong. Didi plays experimental noise-pop with an impactful, ominous post-punk lean. Bathroom Laws is pure punk driven by activism. And DUD brings golden-hooked, fuzzy, ‘90s-style indie to the mix. Kaiju is…
Q&A with the authors of ‘My Old Kentucky Road Trip’ about their new book, ‘The State of Bourbon’
What makes your best weekend: barreling down the road? Or searching for the best single-barrel? Two authors want to show that you can enjoy both (as long as the driver’s sober). Cameron Ludwick and Blair Thomas Hess will use their new book “The State of Bourbon” as the basis for teaching a “Fast Class” at…
Comedian Greg Hahn: ‘The lady I hit had a glass eye’
Living in Los Angeles now, comedian Greg Hahn had a brush with a celebrity that left him confused. At one performance, Roseanne Barr told him she was concerned about going onstage, but he reassured her that the audience would be excited. “I found it funny that I was backstage counseling someone who is practically a…
Comic Book Reviews – ‘Batman: Cold Days’ and ‘The Snagglepuss Chronicles’
‘Batman: Cold Days’ Writer Tom King, artist Lee Weeks Review by Meredith Harris, The Great Escape Louisville It’s Time for a three-issue story arc of Bruce Wayne vs. Batman! Well, sort of. Wayne is on jury duty. Mr. Freeze is on trial for the murder of three women, but, as we see in the dual…
Is it safe?
I am, in modern parlance, “an old,” so I remember the unsettling scene from 1976’s “The Marathon Man” in which a Nazi war criminal, played by Laurence Olivier, repeatedly asks Dustin Hoffman, “Is it safe?” while laying out dental instruments with which to torture him. Hoffman — terrified, sweating and strapped to a chair —…
A barkeep’s code
I was recently perusing my social media threads when I was stopped in my (finger) tracks by the status of a friend lamenting over a bartender being glued to their phone during dinner service. It’s true, really, as servers and bartenders we shouldn’t be on our phones in front of guests — phones can be…
Louisville’s ‘Unique Eats’
Ever been to Shack in the Back BBQ? The little space in Fairdale is the result of years of hoping and dreaming by owners Mike and Barbara Sivells, who knew two decades ago they wanted to open a barbecue restaurant. Sometimes, life just gets in the way. Raising money isn’t easy to do. But they…
Savage Love: Quickies
Q: This woman has gone down on me (I’m a man) more than half a dozen times in the last three months. Each time seems to be better than the previous! She does not want reciprocation. She has also turned down all my offers for intercourse. As far as I know, she is heterosexual just…
Toxic boys become toxic men
I live alone. This evening someone broke into my apartment building and tried to kick down my door. He was pounding on the building’s front door for 10 minutes before he broke the glass and got into the shared hallway. As I sat crouched on the floor talking in nervous hushed tones to the police…
Senate a grifter’s tool, mayor could be great, Leet in a mug’s game
I know that by the time this gets published, some new disgrace will have made the world forget about Super Tuesday, but damn me, what a week that was. Almost comical the way Ryan and McConnell went into complete and total hiding. What a time to be alive and getting paid to write about these…
The John B. Castleman and George D. Prentice statues – We asked you:?‘what will replace them?’
Now that Mayor Greg Fischer has decided to move the John B. Castleman and George D. Prentice statues because “Louisville must not maintain statues that serve as validating symbols for racist or bigoted ideology,” the next question is: What should replace them? The Mayor’s Office has said that any replacement proposals will be reviewed under…
In Special Interests We Trust
The premise of the recently filed Kentucky bill that would require public schools to prominently display the phrase “In God We Trust” is ridiculous for several reasons. What makes it even worse is that the legislation proposed by Republican state Rep. Brandon Reed came from a national, conservative, Christian organization that produces (and evangelizes) Judeo-Christian…
