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The 2018 Readers’ Choice Awards Winners
Haters sometimes poo-poo LEO’s Readers’ Choice awards as a “popularity contest.” Yeah? It is, geniuses. If the body politic says they like such-and-such brewery or so-and-so’s band or even LEO, then that is what the majority likes. This is why it is called the Readers’ Choice Awards. Now, one might ask whether the most popular…
City announces policy for Bird scooters, other dockless vehicles
In a clear effort to regulate Bird scooters, the rentable, electric devices that appeared in Louisville in July, the city has announced a policy for “dockless vehicles,” including limits on how many companies are allowed to operate in the city and where. Louisville’s city government originally banished the scooters when they first came on the…
Photos from LRS Fest
This one-day, 11-band music festival on the river featured Flaw, Post Animal, Daddy Issues, Anemic Royalty, GRLwood, King Kong and more. From hard-hitting punk to straight-forward rock and roll, the LRS festival took place at the Brown-Foreman Lawn at Waterfront Park on Saturday, Oct. 6.
10 under $5 — What To Do This Week In Louisville (10/8)
MONDAY – Oct. 8 and Oct. 9 Actors Theatre Professional Training Company: ‘And We’re Live’ WAVE 3 News Station Free | Times vary If you get a chance to watch an Actors Theatre performance for free, take it. This one is a new, one-act play about a TV news crew struggling to inform viewers about…
Local artists are trying to keep The MAMMOTH alive
Three years after being closed by the city because of structural issues, the Civil War-era building in West Louisville known as The MAMMOTH remains closed. It has yet to become the promising, collaborative art, music and creative space that artist Aron Conaway envisioned when he bought the building on 13th Street with former partner Hallie Jones…
Five things to do in Louisville this weekend (10/5)
SATURDAY, Oct. 6 Cat Show Holy Family Saffin Center Prices Vary | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. There’s Yappy Hour, Hounds on the Grounds, DOGtoberfest. Where are all the cat events? As elusive as the animal, it seems. But no worries, because at this cat show, hosted by the Kentucky Colonels Cat Club and Great Lakes Abyssinian…
New Springhurst Liquor Barn will focus on customer engagement
When the new location of Liquor Barn opens in Springhurst, just a few doors down from where the former store was located, long-time customers will be in for a surprise. And a different, more interactive experience. Liquor Barn Chief Operating Officer Chris Edgerton said the store is transitioning into a new customer-centric concept that will focus…
Staff Choices: LEO’s favorite things about Louisville in 2018
You’ve probably read LEO’s Readers’ Choice Award winners, but here are LEO’s Staff Choices. Favorite Depot of Depravity Ali Baba Liquor Ali Baba Liquor (and smoke shop) sits at the corner of Hill and Seventh streets, a voluminous crossroads of the Portland divide. It sees swarms of red-faced commuters flying down Ninth Street at sunset and…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Festival, not festering | Thorn A thorn goes to the city of Louisville for allowing the Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life festivals at Champions Park, part of which is built over a toxic landfill. The redevelopment of the landfill was meant for low-impact uses, such as soccer. As LEO staff writer Danielle Grady…
Jacob Duncan takes risks on new album ‘It’s Alright to Dream’
Supergroup isn’t far-off from describing the lineup of the new Jacob Duncan Quintet. The recently-formed jazz ensemble puts Duncan (alto saxophone) alongside JD Allen (tenor), John Goldsby (bass), Gabe Evans (piano) and Michael Hyman (drums). The group performs at Jimmy Can’t Dance this Thursday, coinciding with the release of It’s Alright to Dream, a compelling…
Sonic Breakdown: Jordan Jetson — ‘My Shooter’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] “My Shooter” inverses the idea of a classic fairy tale. Hip-hop artist Jordan Summers, better known as Jordan Jetson, wrote the song for his girlfriend, but “My Shooter” also aims to be a parable that rallies against conventional tropes. “I…
Five bands you shouldn’t miss at Cropped Out
One look at the Cropped Out festival’s lineup, and you can tell that it is made by, and for, the DIY community. While there is no specific sonic quality that each band shares, they do embrace an adventurous spirit to push beyond the mundane. Before Cropped Out takes place at American Turners this weekend, we…
Louisville rapper Pronoun wants to destroy political apathy
Finding a creative avenue through the madness of hostile partisan politics is overwhelming for many musicians, but that’s exactly what rapper Pronoun, aka Floyd Patterson, accomplishes with Context, his newest album, which will be released at Mag Bar this weekend. For Patterson, the Trump administration is the symptom of a larger, systematic problem in this…
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Theatre [502]’s ‘A Feminine Ending’ Explores? What It Means to Be a Woman Artist
The lights go up slowly in the beginning of “A Feminine Ending,” the opening show of Theatre [502]’s 2018-2019 season. It is a soft beginning, a “feminine beginning” as the main character Amanda Bloom (Tamara Dearing) explains, though this is usually a term that applies to music. “It is known, by the few that know…
St. James Court Art Show poster, a focus on colors
When autumn arrives, you know the St. James Court Art Show is right around the corner. Held this year on Oct. 5-7, the 62-year-old sale, featuring nearly 700 artists, has become one of the most important events of its kind in the nation. New this year is an historical marker proclaiming the founding of the…
Comedian Josh Branham: Funny, not so famous
New York-based comedian Josh Branham might be the third most-famous person from Versailles, Kentucky, but he is most certainly the funniest. “Sturgill Simpson, was a year ahead of me,” Branham said. “And Shaun King was a friend of mine, too. He’s now a big-time writer for the New York Daily News and has a million…
Brilliant Southern Gothic
“In the House of Wilderness: A Novel” by Charles Dodd White (Ohio University/Swallow Press; 250 pages, $26.95) You can point to any year that has new novels by David Joy and Charles Dodd White as evidence that Southern/Appalachian Gothic is alive and well. Not just published — fully, artistically alive. White’s latest strikes an amazing…
A biscuit makes a meal at lovable Boujie Biscuit
Today, let us consider the noble biscuit. An all-American delicacy with its roots in the South, this flaky, layered treat may be made with milk, buttermilk or even cream. Some are made with lard, some with butter, but it’s always elevated with some form of fat worked gently into flour and leavened with baking powder.…
Local Harvest equals fresh, hoppy beer at Donum Dei
There aren’t a lot of hop farms in the Louisville area or even the region, for that matter, but as they begin to creep in, we may find new chances to drink local beer made with fresh hops. Most hops are grown out West, largely in Washington state, and then pelletized and shipped. But some…
Ask Minda Honey: Partner’s work life off limits
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life — send your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com or reach out to me on Facebook.com/AskMindaHoney Hi Minda, My partner works as a waiter at two different restaurants. He works late most nights and is very social with his coworkers. He goes out with them a few nights…
Savage Love: Hearts and Minds
Q: Is it even possible for a couple that stopped having sex to start back up again? My girlfriend and I (we’re both women) have been together for four years, and we haven’t had sex for two. I thought the sex was good before it stopped, but apparently she was going through the motions. She’s…
West of Ninth: People, in their own words… (10/3)
Sept. 25, 2018 Stella, from Russell “I started off on 36th and Broadway, for about six years. Then, I did about five or six years in Portland, on 28th. I just moved over here to 20 and Chestnut, so I’m making my way east. A lot of people have a misconception of what The West…
Iroquois Park’s whips
On my way to pick up my brothers, GoodWill and Josh B. Quick, so we could go to a car show Sunday at Iroquois Park, I was stopped at a red light when this 500-year-old, mangy-ass biker pulled up next to me on a chopper with this horrifically-cornball country song blaring on the radio, the…
There is no debating it, again
Why would Republican mayoral candidate and Metro Councilwoman Angela Leet want another debate with Mayor Greg Fischer? Hasn’t she lost enough? After last week’s debate, it is obvious that Fischer overwhelms Leet in policy… and politics. Fischer will win this reelection handily, as he should. Where he demonstrated full command over issue after issue, Leet…
