Watch the video for ‘Lift Up Louisville’ featuring more than 20 musicians
Several of the area’s best known musicians came together to create “Lift Up Louisville,” an inspirational song about community while everyone’s experiencing isolation during this tough time. The song is part of Mayor Greg Fischer’s Lift Up Lou movement, and is a collaborative effort by Louisville Orchestra Music Director Teddy Abrams, Jim James, Will Oldham,…
Volunteer State volunteers you for the virus… or why Tennessee is Kentucky’s bad neighbor
We all have had one — that crazy neighbor who plays “Stairway to Heaven” at volume 11 at midnight, parks on the lawn and uses your rose bushes for an ashtray. That is Tennessee. Tennessee is allowing restaurants in rural areas to reopen Monday, while retail businesses are set to do so Wednesday in 89…
10 Things To Do In Isolation This Week In Louisville (4/27)
MONDAY, April 27 Monday Night Flights: Virtual Edition Zoom Free | 7-8 p.m. Grab a bottle of Yellowstone Select Kentucky bourbon whiskey from your favorite liquor store and settle into a virtual tasting and Q&A with Stephen Fante, whiskey ambassador from Limestone Branch Distillery and Roger Tieskoetter, bartender at Chill BAR in the Highlands. Ask…
Make & Muddle
Spend your time at home learning to craft the perfect cocktail with the Make and Muddle series! These online classes will range in skill and equipment, giving everyone the opportunity to learn the art of mixing drinks. April 25: STIR CRAZY – Learn to make three classic stirred cocktails, including the chemistry behind them, with…
Bourbon & Beyond, Louder Than Life, Hometown Rising festivals have been cancelled for 2020
All three Danny Wimmer Presents Louisville festivals — Bourbon & Beyond, Louder Than Life and Hometown Rising — have been cancelled in 2020 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. They were scheduled for consecutive weekends starting in September at the Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition center. Emails with details on refunds will be sent…
5 Things To Do In Isolation This Weekend (4/24)
Every Friday Virtual Happy Hour Facebook Live Free | 8 p.m. This week learn how to make blue curaçao cocktails. “Everyone would rather be at the beach right now anyway, so why not drink like you are!” the organizers say. Every week the folks from Chin Up go on Facebook Live to take you through…
Photo Set: Front-line workers get a hero’s thank you
As you walk toward the emergency room entrance of Norton Audubon Hospital, you’ll see the chalk written statement “Heroes Don’t Always Wear Capes.” The phrase is being used to describe healthcare professionals in the Age of Coronavirus. Rather than capes, these heroes fighting on the front lines of the outbreak don scrubs and surgical masks…
McConnell to Kentucky: Drop dead… or why a steakhouse got a bailout but you won’t
You’d have to be stupid to tell your home state in an election year that it can drop dead. That is essentially what U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has done. He told conservative radio talk show bloviator and user, the notoriously loopy Hugh Hewitt, that he would rather force Kentucky and other states to declare bankruptcy…
My 6 favorite concerts in Louisville from the last 6 years
The time frame of in-person concerts returning in any capacity is completely uncertain, and the recent festival cancellations that include Forecastle indicate that getting thousands of people together for live music is probably still a successful vaccine away. For now, we have livestreams and nostalgia. I’ve lived in Louisville and edited the music section of…
Photo Set: We can still go outside! Get your steps and burn on
At least we are not stuck inside during the wintry depths of February. While we’ve been told to limit travel to essential trips, that does not mean we cannot exercise and get fresh air for our physical and mental health. Louisville residents are getting out to walk, jog and cycle while practicing social distancing, which…
Savage Love: Big Moves
Q: I was raised in a religious home and didn’t lose my virginity until the embarrassing age of 26. I was told by the church to save it for marriage and I was a virgin until met the woman who would become my wife at a party. I said to hell with it, we had…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd (4/22)
Absurd: Bevin now has 10 children? Like a “Jerry Springer” show guest on acid, Gov.-reject Matt Bevin made a rumor public by denying on Twitter that he cheated on his wife and fathered a child with his former press secretary. “Let me be perfectly clear… The vulgar and slanderous lies being spread about me and…
Where to eat during a quarantine: vegetarian edition
As a lot of us in The ‘Ville settle into our quarantined, socially distant lives, we still need to eat. Before the world shut down on us, Louisville was an effortless place to find good gluten-free, vegetarian food. The good news is: That is still the case. My wife Hope and I have been trying…
For Gov. Beshear, the politics of coronavirus are tough, and they are only going to get tougher
We figured the ides of April would be the first crucible of Andy Beshear’s governorship, with a Republican legislature rendering its verdicts on the Democratic governor’s proposals and vetoes. But for a month, Beshear has faced a much greater test: how to deal with a deadly pandemic that is tanking the economy and altering the…
Race, reparations and the allegory of the roach
The question is simple: “The coronavirus is the latest situation that shows how the long history of racism has damaged Black people in America, but when reparations are brought up — crickets. Why?” Crickets, indeed. From Father Divine to Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore to the brilliant Sandy Darity, even reasonable ideas on reparations are…
Protesters have a right to be ignorant
The latest in the coronavirus pandemic is unrest that has broken out in Kentucky and states across the country where governors were proactive in issuing stay-at-home orders and closing parts of the economy. To those of us doing our part — making personal, professional and social sacrifices in the interest of public health — the…
