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No rools aloud?
Aloha! That’s right, no rules allowed. The enduring motto of Louisville’s eccentric rag. And no, we’re not retiring to the Hawaiian islands, but rather saying hello in our own way. That was how the 15-page, bi-weekly paper started: with a message from its founding father, John Yarmuth, saying simply, “Howdy.” It’s LEO’s 25th birthday —…
Visually Speaking: this week’s art news and events
[The above image is “Nothing Happened” by Mark Palmer in “Ruminations, Musings & Lucid Daydreams” at the Tim Faulkner Gallery.] Top art news 21c Museum Hotel is opening in Lexington, Nashville and Oklahoma City in 2016 and is considering properties in Kansas City and Indianapolis, as well. Top art events Glass artist Daniel Cutrone will…
Friday UofL Basketball Roundup: Initial Thoughts
Ashley: Assessing their performance in the last week, I am encouraged by the team’s high level of defensive intensity. The great thing about this level of intensity in November is that it will only get better as the season progresses. The only frustrating thing is that the players are mostly new to this defensive scheme,…
LEO Podcast #14: John Yarmuth
For the final episode in season one of the LEO Podcast, LEO Founding Editor, and Congressman, John Yarmuth stopped by to talk about why and how he started the publication, his transition into politics and the issues LEO was championing in its early days. The LEO Podcast is weekly, with a new interview released every…
5 things to do in Louisville this weekend (11/20)
FRIDAY A Family Affair Copper and Kings Suggested Donation $10; 5:30 p.m. Time to start the weekend off right with an event that has it all. Live music by King Kong, coffee from Heine Brothers, food by Creation Gardens and prepared by The Mayan Cafe, beer by Against The Grain Brewery and soda by Butchertown…
WELP!: To-go turkey go-tos for lazy turkeys like you
Shout-outs to Thanksgiving next week, an illustrious celebration of manifest destiny and your garbage disposal of a body’s acrobatic digestion. In theory, Thanksgiving sees millions travel home for polite familial conversation about your lack of job and relationship prospects. In reality, it means collapsing across those musty, torturous benches in your local airport, bodying a…
Defining Five: Shadwick Wilde, Sam Filiatreau, Guestroom Records and Jecorey Arthur discuss songs that have had an impact on them
Defining Five is a series at Haymarket Whiskey Bar, where, each month, four people/groups from the Louisville music community pick five songs that have moved, inspired or impacted them and then play them during a DJ set. The day after each event, LEO Weekly will publish an interview with all four people/groups to get some…
25th Anniversary Issue: Six former editors recall their time at LEO
John Yarmuth LEO, 1990–2006 What do we really need to say about John Yarmuth? He’s the founder of LEO Weekly, congressional representative for what’s known as “the Louisville district” and an all- around cool guy. So, without further ado, the original LEO himself. LEO: So I know you started out as a congressional aid. What led…
John Yarmuth
LEO, 1990–2006 What do we really need to say about John Yarmuth? He’s the founder of LEO Weekly, congressional representative for what’s known as “the Louisville district” and an all- around cool guy. So, without further ado, the original LEO himself. LEO: So I know you started out as a congressional aid. What led you…
Joseph Grove
LEO, 1991–1999 Joseph Grove started out as a freelance movie critic for LEO before he was hired on as an editorial assistant, then a managing editor, and finally a manager of business development. He is now the account director at Bisig Impact Group. LEO: So I heard you did a little bit of everything at…
Cary Stemle
LEO, 1998–2008 Cary Stemle was with LEO for almost 10 years. He started out freelance writing about music before becoming the managing editor and ultimately served two years as editor-in-chief. Now he is managing editor of Louisville Business First. LEO: So what were you doing before LEO? Cary Stemle: I worked as a staff writer…
Stephen George
LEO, 2003–2010 Stephen George was editor-in-chief at LEO from 2007 to 2010, but before that he was also a part-time contributor, staff writer, news editor and city editor. No matter the position, he always had his watchdog eye on city hall and Metro Louisville politics. Now he is the executive editor at WFPL, Louisville’s NPR…
Sarah Kelley
LEO, 2008–2013 Sarah Kelley started at LEO in 2008 as news editor and was editor-in-chief from 2009 through 2013. Now she is vice president of content and editorial director at Insider Louisville. LEO: What were you doing before LEO? Sarah Kelley: I was a journalist who had moved around to a couple of different cities.…
Sara Havens
LEO, 1999–2014 Sara Havens, known for her “Bar Belle” columns, got her start at LEO 16 years ago. She moved from assistant editor, to associate editor, to arts and entertainment editor, to managing editor and finally to editor. Now she is cultural editor at Insider Louisville and the author of two books, “The Bar Belle”…
Plain Brown Rapper
Plain Brown Rapper by Michael Jones I’ve known Carl Brown since the early ’90s. At the time, I was a college dropout who was driving a delivery truck and trying to figure out how to be a writer. Carl was a disgraced politician who was rebuilding his reputation as the second coming of Hunter S.…
Quality and quantity: ?A conversation with Kogan Dumb
Lamar Kendrick is a busy man. An emcee by the name of Kogan Dumb, he maintains a fine balance between high quality and quantity, with a string of singles, albums, guest spots and video work. Known for his work as part of the incredible Bird Zoo, over the last few years, Kendrick has branched out…
b-sides
The Villebillies Living somewhere between hip-hop and rock, The Villebillies pull good-time sensibilities from both genres, ending up with big choruses, chugging guitars, exploratory beats and/or banjo as well as a variety of verses from their various members spliced in-between. This is their homecoming party and Elephant Room, Vice Tricks and Tunesmiths open. Saturday, Nov.…
Plugged In
Wed Nov 18 Diamond Pub (Concert Hall): Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts, The Icarus Line, Whitener; 7 p.m. Gerstle’s Place: Kimmet & Doug; 9 p.m. Headliners: Laura Marling and Band; 8 p.m.; $20 Hideaway Saloon: Digg; 10 p.m. The Kentucky Center: Music with Borders; 7:30 p.m.; $20 Play: Adore Delano Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar: Louisville…
Diversity, experimentation, talent abound on the city’s stages
In 1974, in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, an article called “Aversion Therapy for Sexual Deviation” (by Leitenberg and Callahan, based on a Ph.D. thesis), reported on a 29-year-old heterosexual married man (“Subject 5”) who had been “apprehended by police while walking along a main street in women’s clothing. This was his first police contact…
Roundup of local holiday art happenings
We’ve rounded that Halloween corner and slid right into Christmas. All holidays in between, including Thanksgiving, get wrapped up in what is now known as “the holiday buying season.” Art wants to feel that love too, so below is a partial list of art-related holiday events and exhibitions. The Block Party Handmade Boutique (560 S.…
The return of the Good Folk Fest
With so many art and music festivals in Louisville, it can be hard for a festival to distinguish itself amid the fray. The Good Folk Festival, a folk art festival making a triumphant return this year at a new venue, has always hewn a strong aesthetic that helps it stand out from the pack. “In…
Geoff Tate on being PC ?and avoiding alt-venues
Geoff Tate is wildly funny, with a cunning sense of dry wit. After performing on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham,” he has become one of the most in-demand comedians in the country. Tate has traveled the country touring with two of the funniest Dougs on the planet:…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY 2015; $29.98; UR Does the town of “Bailey Downs” ring a bell? Fans of “Ginger Snaps” and “Orphan Black” should recognize the name. The creators of those two fine pieces of outre crafted this entertaining horror anthology that mines the truly bloodthirsty history of our “holy” holiday…
We get decadent ?at Vincenzo’s
There comes a day in everyone’s lives when it’s time to celebrate. Be it a promotion, an achievement, or simply gathering amongst friends to honor the beauty that is you, everybody deserves to get decadent and commemorate in joviality once in a while. For me, last week, it was reaching a deadline for a project…
We miss Diwali but dine well at Taj Palace
If we lived in India, there’s no way we could have been unaware that last week was Diwali, the Festival of Lights, when Indians — and Hindus around the world — celebrate the triumph of good over evil with a holiday filled with lights, color, fireworks, music and dance and plenty of good things to…
LEO’s new generation
What a difference five years can make. In 2010, LEO’s editors asked me to reflect in this space on the publication’s first 20 years. It was an honor I appreciated and an effort I enjoyed. Now my son, Aaron, has afforded me the same privilege, and I am thrilled to try it again on the…
The revolution will not ?be televised
I heard an interview on Mizzou’s campus wherein a black male student said racism had been brewing there long before its president resigned. The student recalled walking out of class to find cotton balls scattered around the quad and another said he was expected to rap on the spot by a professor who called on…
Happy Birthday, LEO!
“Think, and most about that which is most important: all the fools get lost because they do not think: they never see the half of things, and knowing neither their loss, nor their profit, they make small effort in either direction. Some make much of what is of little importance, always judging wrong. Most do…
KFC Dumb! Center
Yep, there you go, UK fans, it is yours to use. Create T-shirts and signs and make fun of the “dumb” Yum! Perhaps the public ridicule will swing the sanity pendulum back toward human intelligence. If not, I’m sure everything will be fine … at least we have fought back against the tyrannical forces of…
Your Voice
on “DISQUALIFY TAINT ELSEWHERE” Well written. I’ve been involved in the fight for the new VA hospital for a decade. Most causing the delay say they are concerned with the veterans. Hog wash! Politics and personal interest are poisoning this at the expense of the veterans. —Bob Moore, Nov. 12 on “‘Kynect’ the dots, Bevin”…
