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Keep Louisville Theater Weird: The Fringe Festival Returns
In 1947, Edinburgh Festival Fringe began with a concept that still remains today — bring alternative theater that may get traditionally left behind to small venues. That festival in Scotland has become the world’s largest art festival, but its influence has spread all over the globe, including to Louisville. The Louisville Fringe Festival, which started…
Well-reviewed Documentary On Louisville, Muhammad Ali’s Death Now Available To Stream
You’ll see lots of familiar shots of Louisville in “City of Ali,” a documentary about how Louisville and the world celebrated Muhammad Ali’s life after The Greatest died in 2016. The movie, which is now available to stream on Amazon Prime, Google Play and Apple TV, explores how Ali’s death occurred during a period of…
A Visit To Mooby’s, A Pop-up In Louisville Modeled After Restaurant From ‘Clerks II’
I wanted to open this review with a clever quip from one of multi-hyphenate filmmaker Kevin Smith’s clever films, but there are simply too many to choose from. Such is the genius of Smith for longtime fans such as myself. I may or may not have yelped in excitement upon learning Mooby’s, the fictional fast-food…
10 Things To Do For $5 And Under In Louisville This Week (8/2)
MONDAY, Aug. 2 Return of Anime Night Hideaway Saloon Free | 7 p.m. The New Anime Collective is bringing back their Anime Nights at the Hideaway Saloon. The evening starts at 7 p.m. with Japanese curry and conversation. Then, at 8 p.m., the anime showings begin with episodes of “Jujutsu Kaisen” and “So I’m A…
15 Art Exhibits You Can See In Louisville This Month
A gallery roundup of arts shows to see in Louisville this month. Note: This list is a selection of current exhibitions. “Carol Brenner Tobe: Landscapes” Through Aug. 21 Features paintings by Tobe that show the “intimate nature” of gardens, backyards and neighborhoods. Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery 137 E. Main St., New Albany, Indiana Hours: Thursdays-Fridays, noon-5 p.m.;…
Three Concerts To Catch In Louisville This Weekend
Lespecial Friday, July 30 Enchanted Forest | The Grain Haus at Floyd County Brewing Co. | 41 W. First St., New Albany, Indiana | $12 | | 8 p.m. This trio brings its “heavy future groove” to the New Albany venue, The Enchanted Forest. Fans of Fela Kuti, King Crimson and Radiohead don’t want to…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (7/30)
FRIDAY, July 30 Youth Business Pop-up Shop Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center Free | 3:30-8 p.m. Over 30 young entrepreneurs are going to be selling their wares at this event, including clothing, jewelry, desserts and art. This free, family event also includes live music and entertainment, school supply and backpack giveaways, food and games.…
Win Tickets To See Candlebox At Mercury Ballroom
Mercury Ballroom is reopening Thursday, Aug. 5, with Candlebox’s Wolves 2021 Tour. Special guest, Of Limbo, will start the night off. Click to win tickets.
Churchill Downs Investing $76 Million Into Derby City Gaming Expansion, Hotel And More
Churchill Downs Inc. is making moves. The company is investing $76 million into its Derby City Gaming facility, as well several upgrades to the racetrack itself. Derby City Gaming, located at 4520 Poplar Level Road, is planning a 135,000-square-foot expansion that includes a hotel, additional space for gaming, a restaurant and an entertainment stage. The…
Louisville Court Chaos Leaves Some Unaware They’re Missing Court Dates
This story was produced by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit newsroom by Louisville Public Media. For more, visit KyCIR.org. Last month in Jefferson County District Court, a prosecutor mistakenly asked a judge to issue a bench warrant for a man’s arrest after he failed to show for a court date that never…
Take A Photographic Ride Along The Monon Railroad With Upcoming New Albany Carnegie Center Exhibit
The Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany is debuting their latest exhibition, Hoosier Lifelines: Environmental and Social Change Along the Monon, 1847-2020. This exhibit will be part of the 2021 Photo Biennial and focuses its attention on the now decommissioned Monon Railroad. The collection focuses on how life and the environment along…
New Comics Showcase
Join Louisville Laughs for a showcase of some of our favorite new comedians at Aloft Louisville Downtown. Watch several locals starting their comedy journey, including Kelli O’Toole, Alex Fleming, Rich Enright, Mz Johnson, Jesse Rhodes, Adam Kaelin and Kane Johnson. Then veteran Keith McGill will close out the show. Keith is a Louisville comedian and…
New Restaurant, Big Bad Breakfast, To Take Over Former Lynn’s Paradise Café Location
Big Bad Breakfast, a small breakfast restaurant chain with eight locations across the Southeast, is coming to Louisville, taking over the building that once housed the storied — and eventually infamous — Lynn’s Paradise Café. Big Bad Breakfast, a collaboration between the Louisville-based Endeavor Restaurant Group and James Beard Award-winning chef John Currence, has plans…
Savage Love: How Do I Sexually Satisfy My Paraplegic Partner?
Q: I am on the cusp of starting a sexual relationship with a newly paraplegic man. (We’re both in our late 20s and cis het if that matters.) He hasn’t had any sexual partners since his injury, so he hasn’t had much opportunity to experiment with what works for him now. He’s told me he…
Louisville’s Faces Bistro Settles On Menu — And Into Our Hearts
When Chef Eric Morris opens a restaurant, I pay attention. I loved his Hull & Highwater and Gospel Bird eateries in New Albany, and I loved his citizen journalism and photography during the Breonna Taylor demonstrations (#SayHerName), although that’s another story. So when Morris opened his eclectic, new spot Faces Bar/Bistro in Louisville’s Highlands last…
LMPD, We’re Asking You Once Again, End Traffic Stops Now
In 2018, Tae-Ahn Lea was pulled from his car and frisked by LMPD. There has been no clear reason given as to why this young man’s person was invaded by LMPD, including from LMPD who just can’t quite recall why they did this. They can’t recall, but Detective Gabriel Hellard claimed in an interview with…
Stimulus Money Finally Rolls Into Indie, Louisville Music Venues, But Some Still Wait
Seven months after the U.S. Congress passed the Save Our Stages Act — which put more than $16 billion into a grant fund for independent venues — Headliners Music Hall has finally received stimulus money. The venue’s owners Billy Hardison and Joe Argabrite said they received their portion shortly after July 4 weekend, and while…
Louisville-born Filmmaker To Debut Horror Anthology Film, ‘8 Days To Hell,’ At Village 8 Theatres
Actor and director Shane Woodson grew up in Louisville but, like many talented locals, he packed up his dream and moved west to pursue his career. This week, he returns to Louisville to premiere his latest film, “8 Days to Hell.” The film stars Eric Roberts, Woodson, Tori London and Jennifer Day. It follows several…
Thorns And Roses: Kentuckian Takes Olympic Gold, What Happened To Ta’Neasha Chappell
ROSE: Shoutout Lee Keifer Big props to Lee Keifer who became the first U.S. woman to medal in Olympic Individual Foil (fencing). Keifer was born in Ohio but raised here in the bluegrass and we definitely want to take the chance to shout her out. She’s won four NCAA championships and 10 Pan-American championships. She’s…
My First Concert In Louisville Since COVID: An Anxious, Uproarious Experience With Prayer Line
I thought I was ready. I hadn’t been to a show since the day before the shutdown, in that halcyon time when the pandemic was a problem for someone else, somewhere else. With the shutdown came the doomscrolling, watching the uptick in reported cases, deaths rising every day thanks in no small part to the…
The ‘Victoria’s Secret Karen’, Abigail Elphik, And The Stages Of White Tears
In yet another episode of White Women Are Always Allowed To Be The Victim, I was scrolling on Twitter and discovered an incident between Abigail Elphick, a white woman that assaulted Ijeoma Ukenta, a Black woman, in a Victoria’s Secret at the Short Hills Mall in New Jersey. Many online have dubbed Abigail “Victoria’s Secret…
The Pandemic Isolated Incarcerated People. Kentucky And Securus Cashed In
This story was produced by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit newsroom by Louisville Public Media. For more, visit KyCIR.org. For over 460 days, as the pandemic shut down visitation across the state, incarcerated people and their loved ones relied on the prison system’s costly phone calls and emails. The Kentucky Department of…
