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Eat (Out) Local: Nine Of Our Favorites
It hasn’t even been a year since I dropped in at Butchertown Grocery Bakery and enjoyed a really good meal and a loaf of artisanal bread for my first review of 2020. Looking back on that mild January day now, it seems unbelievable that none of us saw the COVID-19 pandemic coming. We slogged on…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (11/16)
TUESDAY, Nov. 17 Education Event: White Supremacy Culture Zoom Free | 5:30-7 p.m. Learn how white supremacy culture shows up in your own life with a facilitated discussion about its characteristics. Book Launch: ‘The Fights We Fought Have Brought Us Here’ Online Free | 6-7 p.m. Students from Muhammad Ali’s alma mater, Central High School,…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (11/13)
FRIDAY, Nov. 13 R.J. McNeal & T.S. Elliott Presents: Jokes n’ Jazz 21st Amendment Germantown $20 | 7 p.m.-Midnight Comedians Rico Lovelace and Farrell Lee (aka, Mr. Skitz) will bring the jokes, Indianapolis musician Bashiri Asad will bring the jazz. Sippin’ Soul Brown Riot Cafe $30 | 7 p.m. Get out and enjoy and intimate…
McConnell has the switch to turn off The Trump Show, but will he use it?
As far as we know, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t told President Trump to throw in the towel and start funding the transition to President-elect Biden. That’s a message that would quickly emit from the leakiest White House in living memory. So, why hasn’t he given Trump the word, for the good of the…
Disband State Democratic Party
After the annihilation of Kentucky Democrats in last week’s election, we will inevitably hear that the state party has some “soul searching” to do. There’s only one problem: You can’t engage in soul searching if there’s no soul to search. No one has any idea what Democrats stand for. Democrats don’t seem to be fighting…
Savage Love: Four Play
Q: Why are threesomes much more accepted in the popular imagination than foursomes? I was just googling “finding foursomes,” and the first result is an article about threesomes that takes for granted that people are looking for MFF. That is a form of heteronormativity, right? I am not judging threesomes, of course, but asking why foursomes…
KY Democrats lost big: Now they differ on future
State Democrats got thumped. It was a “bloodbath,” a “whoopin’” and a “blowout,” according to political journalists and observers. The party that once dominated Kentucky lost 13 seats in the state House and two in the Senate — further cementing state Republicans’ supermajority in the chambers. And, to possibly no one’s surprise, Marine and mom…
As winter sets in, local music venues fight to stay open
On Halloween weekend, Zanzabar hosted its first indoor event since the pandemic started. It was a socially-distanced burlesque show with around 50 people in the 400-capacity venue. Booking agent Mark Evans said it was also a trial run for indoor concerts, which Zanzabar is currently considering in the near future. “As long as we can…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (11/11)
Rose: Listen, KY loser… uh, Democrats! The always intriguing Perry Bacon Jr. of FiveThirtyEight has good advice for Democrats. The 2019 and 2020 statewide elections had roughly the same vote proportions for Republicans beating Democrats for four, top state offices, Perry wrote in his Bluegrass Beat newsletter: “The big outlier was Matt Bevin, who got less…
Police union contract slipped through with little reform
The process tells you everything you need to know about the new Fraternal Order of Police contract with the city, approved by Louisville Metro Council last week. Politicians flock to cameras to announce something positive: big-dollar projects, ribbon-cuttings, bill-signing ceremonies. The opposite is true of less-popular or more-controversial initiatives and votes. So, of course, the…
