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A legislative preview of Kentucky’s 2016 session
Within 60 days of taking the oath of office, and swearing to have never “fought a duel with deadly weapons within this State nor out of it” and some other stuff, Governor Matt Bevin is required by Kentucky’s Constitution to present a budget to the state’s legislators. While not the focal point of his outsider-turned-insider…
Visually Speaking: This week’s art news and events (1/11)
[The above image “Full of Life, Now” by Benjamin Swallow Duke is at Louisville Metro Hall.] Art news Louisville Metro Government’s first artist-in-residence is Benjamin Duke. His painting “Full of Life, Now” is now on permanent display in Metro Hall, 527 W. Jefferson St. (louisvilleky.gov). Marianne Zickuhr’s new morning radio show “Marianne in the Morning”…
Weekend UofL Basketball Roundup: The Kentucky Blues
Aaron: I got the Kentucky Blues. No, no. I was not hiding after the UK game. It just so happened that there was a holiday the day that weekly roundup would have been posted. I will stand here and face the music. To all the UK fans out there: Nice home win! (See what I…
5 things to do in Louisville this weekend (1/8)
FRIDAY 7th Annual Jam for a Cure Headliners $10; 7:30 p.m. Well, the holidays are over, and now it’s cold as hell outside, but you can party away the winter blues at Headliners this weekend with a benefit concert. All proceeds go to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Live musical acts include V-Groove, Danny Flanigan…
Pee equity
If there is one thing that reinforces the analytical, spelling and grammar skills of Kentuckians, it’s the comment sections of social media. In the spirit of sites such as “Don’t Date Him Girl,” if you want to maintain the bliss of your ignorance of others’ ignorance, Don’t Read ‘Em Girl. Some folks get an A…
On their own terms: ?A conversation with Sea Hero
It’s rare as a musician that you have the ability to end a band or project on your own terms and in a way that best reflects the desires of everyone involved, but the band Sea Hero certainly has found that good fortune, the silver lining to their untimely demise as a unit. That doesn’t…
Cannabis Freedom for Kentucky
The “Cannabis Freedom Act,” which would decriminalize marijuana and other cannabis-related products for consumption and sale in Kentucky, is perhaps the most controversial bill to be considered in the state’s current legislative session. The bill is modeled after Colorado’s cannabis legislation and would allow anyone over 21 years of age to possess up to one…
Moving, just keep moving
I was perusing Facebook over the weekend when I noticed a good amount of my friends were recapping their 2015 accomplishments, a celebration of overcoming obstacles and making themselves a better person. I guess it caught me because the new year is usually where we project who we’d like to be from here on out, but…
b-side: Free Week
The second annual Free Week, presented by do502 and featuring more than 30 local bands, will take place January 27-30 at Headliners Music Hall, Zanzabar, The New Vintage and Mercury Ballroom. Villebillies, Quiet Hollers, Jalin Roze Presents #FreeFunction (all-star finale), A Lion Named Roar, Jack Harlow, among others, are playing this year. Below is the…
Plugged In
Wed Jan 6 8Up: High Sounds with DJ Matt Anthony; 7:30 p.m. Baxters 942: Full Contact Karaoke; 10 p.m. Bearno’s (Highlands): Ryan Conroy; 8 p.m. Brooke & Billy’s: Tyrone Cotton; 6 p.m. Corner Restaurant & Bar: Brent Mathis; 5 p.m. Decca: Mike Hyman, Dave Stryker; 5:30 p.m. Gerstle’s Place: Kimmet & Doug; 9 p.m. Goodwood…
‘The Tens’ showcases Actors’ Apprentice/Intern talent
“The ten minute play isn’t an Actors Theatre creation,” said Jon Jory in a 2007 interview that reflected on his three decades as leader of Actors Theatre of Louisville. “But we are the ones who made it national and viable.” ATL’s first festival of new plays was produced in 1976. In 1979, the company initiated…
A last Louisville concert for Jorge Mester, with a few notes from pianist William Wolfram
Jorge Mester, who has twice served as maestro of the Louisville Orchestra — in two of the symphony’s most critical periods — conducts his final concerts as conductor emeritus this weekend in Whitney Hall. Mester is not retiring, just winding up his duties here as he concentrates on his next career challenge as the founder…
Krish Mohan on comedy ?and politics
Krish Mohan and Liss Victory are a modern couple who have constructed “Transcontinental Variety Shows” as a coast-to-coast tour that utilizes performance as a vehicle for positive change. Mohan’s comedy touches on hot-button topics like race, religion and his place in the world as an immigrant from India. As a counterpoint, singer/songwriter Liss writes protest…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS BOLERO / GHOSTS CAN’T DO IT $28.98; R A pair of legendary 80’s soft-porn titillaters starring the incomparable Bo “The Most Beautiful Woman Who Ever Lived” Derek; both products of her pervy Svengali-husband, John. Inspired by her star-turn sorta-sex-scene opposite Dudley Moore in “10,” the first (1984) finds Bo traveling the…
We look back at 2015, and way back ?at Oriental House
We’re just a week into the New Year, and most of you foodies are probably already tired of reading many versions of the same basic story about all the new restaurants that joined the metro’s culinary community last year. So let’s not do that. I’d like to tip my fedora to Baby 2016, though, by…
Better late than never, especially when tacos are involved
One of the quirks of writing about dining and drinking experiences is that sometimes a hot new restaurant opens, I’m not tabbed to write about it, and it gets away from me. A perfect example of this is El Camino, the trendy Mexican spot in the Highlands that opened in late 2013. The place quickly…
Youth gone wild, ?dollars gone with them
When I was 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 … you get the picture, I lived down the street from Bashford Manor Mall. When I had $5 dollars, I took that money and walked from my apartment complex, up the street and to the mall, where I knew I could play games in the arcade damn…
Hope for a less toxic health policy
Yesterday, Lexington-Herald-Leader Frankfort Bureau Chief Jack Brammer turned 65. On Saturday, Gov. Matt Bevin will turn 49. Happy birthday, fellow Capricorns. I have more in common with Jack than with Matt. But in the spirit of Bevin’s inaugural goodwill challenge “of befriending someone who’s in a different political party than yourself and … find something…
Kentucky’s baby RINO
Did the zoo in Frankfort just get a new baby RINO? Governor Matt Bevin is only a month into his first term, and we are already starting to see the political-outsider, the businessman-turned-political reformer, take his first steps down the sufficiently-trampled path by generations of politicians before him. I kid, I kid. I should preface,…
Your Voice
While Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin takes Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis for a walk Kentucky Poet Ron Whitehead chases them with The Storm! cause rebuilding Noah’s ark ain’t gonna save us now with the election of millionaire Creationist Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and with Donald Trump leading the vicious pack of Republicans running for President…
