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A heroic mother: ‘Mama, they are taking me out of the vehicle’
You might say that everything in Tija Jackson’s 47-year life had prepared her for an evening last August when her 18-year-old son Tae-Ahn Lea phoned her during what should have been a routine trip to a convenience store for a slushie. A single mother of four children, a private investigator with years of experience working…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (5/13)
MONDAY, May 13 Movie Monday: ‘Lemonade’ and ‘Homecoming’ Old Louisville Brewery No cover | 5-10 p.m. All hail Queen Bey. Sing along to her visual album “Lemonade” and Coachella performance captured in the Netflix documentary “Homecoming” in this double-feature at Old Louisville Brewery. TUESDAY, May 14 22 Miracles of Immigration with Ann Dorzback Middletown branch,…
Through the Smoke: Seven Hours on a Food Truck (Told in 20 Photos)
Food trucks are seemingly everywhere — welcome invaders at almost any event in town or during a weekday lunch break. They offer a wide variety of cuisines. They’re easy — for you. But what most people don’t know is how many hours of preparation and care it takes to be set up and ready as…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (5/10)
SATURDAY, May 11 How-to Festival Main Branch, Louisville Free Public Library Free | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Have you ever wondered about how to start a podcast? How about how to embroider? Or how to become a beekeeper? You want to learn, and the library wants to teach you. Choose from over 50 how-to lessons led…
Marijuana possession would be lowest law enforcement priority, under proposed city law
LMPD, could you pretty please start ignoring people you find with marijuana? As long as it’s in small amounts? That’s what a four Metro Council members are asking: They have proposed a city law that would designate small amounts of marijuana possession as the city’s lowest law enforcement priority. That means investigations, citations and arrests…
Castleman statue can leave Cherokee Triangle, city board rules
The polarizing John B. Castleman statue will be removed from Cherokee Triangle, unless Thursday’s decision by a city board is appealed in the courts. The Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission voted to overturn a 3-3 decision by the Cherokee Triangle Architectural Review Committee that would have kept the memorial to the Confederate soldier and…
Who’s voting on Castleman?
This is one of the several articles about the John B. Castleman statue that appeared in the May 8 issue of LEO Weekly. To read the rest, go here. When the Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission meets this week on whether the John B. Castleman statue stays, it might be down a member —…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Maximum (bad) exposure | Thorn Regardless of whether you think the stewards were good stewards of the Derby, the Santa Anita Park horse deaths and Maximum Insecurity made the race more than a news brief worldwide. And not in a good way. The New York Times wrote horse racing “now faces an uncertain future after…
Tristen delivers something worth dreaming about
Nashville-based musician Tristen draws you in with her ethereal voice and commanding lyrics, making you question how two different things can come together so seamlessly. It’s peaceful in sound, but her meaning is full of question and contemplation. Tristen is set to release a 7-inch vinyl, Dream Within a Dream, from the Louisville label This…
Kentucky musicians, poets create for ?Pine Mountain
After his first visit to Pine Mountain a few years ago, Louisville-based musician/producer Daniel Martin Moore left feeling inspired and drawn to the place. He went back several more times, each time learning more about the history and environmentalism associated with the Eastern Kentucky landmark. It all led him to bring together some of Kentucky’s…
3 Concerts To Catch ?This Week
Tom Morello Saturday, May 11, Mercury Ballroom Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello has recently embraced EDM, mixing it with his signature, hard-driving guitar. On his solo record from last year, The Atlas Underground, he collaborated with Bassnectar, Killer Mike, Pretty Lights, RZA and more. Explaining the sound to Discogs, Morello said, “The thought…
We are Hooked on Frankfort
For many decades before the first pizza came to Louisville in the 1950s or the first real taquerias arrived in the 1990s, this town has had a love affair with seafood and fish. It wasn’t long after the Civil War when Mazzoni’s started shipping fresh oysters up from the Gulf in railroad cars filled with…
Taprooms! they are for more than just political fundraisers
Brewery taprooms are designed to be inviting places where friends and the community can come together to celebrate or to simply meet and drink beer. They are unique in that they offer one-of-a-kind products and ambiance under one roof. Increasingly, groups, companies, families and wedding parties are booking rooms, local breweries report. Perhaps the most…
City loses two masters in Ann Stewart Anderson and Alun Jones
In memoriam: Ann Stewart Anderson and Alun Jones. Visual artist Ann Stewart Anderson was a wonderful old woman. She would be delighted by that reference, for that’s the title of her last series before she died on March 4, one day after her 84th birthday. Her “Wonderful Old Women” series, aka WOWs, are paper mosaics…
‘Rough Magic,’ ?a different horse race
“Rough Magic, Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race” by Lara Prior-Palmer (Catapult; 288 pages, $25) So, how do you feel about horse racing competitions that get decided by penalty calls? If the Derby just whetted your appetite, I definitely have a book for you, and the race-winning author is coming to read at Carmichael’s Bookstore.…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘KISS/Army Of Darkness’ & ‘Detective Comics’
‘KISS/Army Of Darkness’ Writers Chad Bowers and Chris Sims and artist Ruairi Coleman Review by David Williams, The Great Escape Louisville When I first saw “Army of Darkness” as a teenager, I thought, “I loved that, but I wish it had more of my dad’s favorite band KISS in it.” With a brand new trade…
Savage Love: Best Wishes
Q: I’m a 43-year-old straight woman, and I spent the majority of my 30s celibate. At 40, I realized that while I wasn’t interested in dating, I was tired of my vibrator. I also realized that it was time to go forth and fuck with the body I had instead of waiting for the idealized…
Misinterpretations, a bad precedent: Don’t move the Castleman Statue
This is one of the several articles about the John B. Castleman statue that appeared in the May 8 issue of LEO Weekly. To read the rest, go here. A bad precedent should not be established by removing the John B. Castleman statue since this will open up a Pandora’s Box of other bad decisions.…
How could Castleman remain? The Euro way
This is one of the several articles about the John B. Castleman statue that appeared in the May 8 issue of LEO Weekly. To read the rest, go here. Did you enjoy Derby? I don’t care for the nags myself, but I do take some joy in seeing people all togged up like a frat…
Keeping the statue is preserving lies
This is one of the several articles about the John B. Castleman statue that appeared in the May 8 issue of LEO Weekly. To read the rest, go here. In a reasonable world, we would no longer have debates about Confederate flags, statues, memorials and sympathizers. In a reasonable world, we would see them for…
Replace Castleman statue with ?a horse(man) of a different color
This is one of the several articles about the John B. Castleman statue that appeared in the May 8 issue of LEO Weekly. To read the rest, go here. If you check Nextdoor (the social media equivalent of Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist at a cloud), you know that the Cherokee Triangle is upset over…
There is no Confederate lite
This is one of the several articles about the John B. Castleman statue that appeared in the May 8 issue of LEO Weekly. To read the rest, go here. James Baldwin once said, “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
Send Castleman statue to an antique shop
This is one of the several articles about the John B. Castleman statue in the May 8 issue of LEO. To read the rest, go here. After the Confederate monument on Third Street was removed in 2016, I drew a cartoon for LEO that asked whether the John B. Castleman statue must be next to…
