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President Trump – or how we learn to stop worrrying
Whitelash. Whatever you call it, and whatever caused it, you should be furious. Nearly half of America voted for a man who condones sexual assault and treats women as objects and commodities. Nearly half of America voted for a man who thinks Mexicans are rapists and Muslims are terrorists, solely because of where they came…
A guide to the new food options at the Louisville Airport
I have, on more than one occasion, almost missed a flight in the interest of finding something better to eat. Those crusty, scone pastry things tough enough to balance a table with at the kiosk near my gate simply won’t do. At DET in the McNamara terminal, Sora Sushi Bar serves a conscience-shifting bowl of…
This Week in Louisville History: Third time’s a charm for World War I victory parade
On Nov. 23, 1918, the Saturday before Thanksgiving, a parade was held in downtown Louisville to commemorate the end of the first World War. Ten thousand troops from Camp Zachary Taylor, as well as marching bands and civic groups, made their way from Clay Street and Broadway past the courthouse, ending at Central Park amidst…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (11/21)
MONDAY Johnny Azari Louis’s “The Ton” Free | 8 p.m. With the Thanksgiving weekend on the horizon, nobody is going to get anything done. Embrace the holiday spirit of not working and having fun by seeing the enigmatic Johnny Azari at Louis’s “The Ton.” Azari is a New Orleans musician who “plays his own mutant…
A search for more voices: Pandora Productions’ new reading series from local playwrights on LGBTQ themes
It’s Monday night, and there’s a respectable crowd of 70 people milling about the lobby and finding their seats at The Henry Clay Theatre. Mixed into the crowd of patrons are members of the Louisville theater scene. Here, a couple of people from Looking for Lilith Theatre Company; there, local playwright Larry Muhammad waves to…
LEO Podcast #42: LOCALS, a Louisville ceramics group
LEO Weekly’s contributing arts editor Jo Anne Triplett talks with artists Amy Elswick and Suzy Hatcher about the ceramics group LOCALS.
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (11/18)
FRIDAY Future is Female (through May) 21c Museum Hotel Free | All day We may have missed the oppurtunity to elect the first female president in U.S. history, but damn we got close! And if this art show is any indication, the future is still female. So explore that future with this collection of contemporary feminist art…
Savage Love: Mourning in America
Q: I’m a longtime fan — reader and listener — and part of the 47 percent of white women who did NOT vote for Donald Trump. To say I’m disappointed, horrified, scared, and mad about the election is woefully insufficient. I donated $100 to Planned Parenthood this morning because I honestly felt like there was…
Fingers crossed, but still safer to be very afraid: Congressman John Yarmuth on the election of Donald Trump
Ready for some verbal Xanax? Well then, uncurl yourself from the fetal position and read on, as I make a case for a reasonably productive and tolerable Trump administration. Believe me, I understand how oxymoronic that phrase sounds. After the most demoralizing and offensive campaign in American political history, it is hard to conceive of…
Don’t Worry, Be Happy That You Live in America: A conservative’s take on the election
One of the things I’ll remember most about the Obama years is the online advertisement featuring Pajama Boy, the flannel-clad man-child sipping hot cocoa while admonishing his fellow ne’er-do-well millennials to sign up for Obamacare. I hadn’t thought about Pajama Boy for a long time, until late last week. That’s when I read the following…
Trump and LGBTQ rights: Your worst nightmares unlikely to come true
As one of a team of civil rights lawyers who took the marriage equality case of Obergefell v. Hodges to the U.S. Supreme Court last year, I’m getting a lot of questions about what a Donald Trump presidency means for LGBTQ rights. People are worried. I get it. While it may seem like every principle…
KenSTUCKy: Can Louisville secede from Kentucky?
Forget? Hell, yes. We don’t live in the United States of Amnesia for nothing. How else to explain the Pyrrhic, pointless secession talk that crops up about every two-to-four years, or whenever there’s an election whose outcome has a lot of us completely bugging. Recent history shows it’s equal opportunity bugging that runs red and…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst & Best (11/16)
Vandalism trumps thinking | Thorn “Trump Build That Wall” was written on the base of the “The Thinker” statue outside of UofL’s Grawemeyer Hall. The statue, which is the first large-scale bronze casting of Auguste Rodin’s sculpture, is said to have been intended to depict “The Inferno” poet Dante looking down on Hell. Yes, we…
Temporal nature: novemberGroup carries on ‘In C’
It’s become a recurring gathering on Thanksgiving eve for the last three years. An array of local players come to contribute, with new ones always bound to show up. But what happens relies on the commitment of its implementors — united, willing and diligent in the task of upholding 53 musical phrases for an hour.…
A Q&A with John Paul White about his first post-Civil Wars record, ‘Beulah’
You may look at John Paul White and think, “That guy looks familiar.” And that’s because you recognize him as half of Grammy-winning folk band The Civil Wars. In August, White released Beulah, his first collection of new material since the dissolution of the band. The critically-acclaimed album feels like the stark reflections of his…
Theater city — ‘Venus in Fur’ ?and Shakespeare aplenty
A few years back, when “Fifty Shades of Grey” made the leap from fan fiction to hit novel, I read a few of the excerpts that popped up online. My conclusion: Stupidity is not erotic. That’s not to say that stupidity can’t be popular. Only a fool would think otherwise — and, as the governor…
Rolan Whitt, on politics in comedy and rhinoceroses
Rolan Whitt had been a touring stand-up comic for well over a decade when he settled into a regular gig in Las Vegas around the turn of the millennium. But as the glimmer of big-city lights dimmed, the Second City-trained improvisational actor and stage hypnotist returned to Louisville a few years back. Teaming up with…
An honor roll of meat-free dishes in Louisville
How many of us are eating turkey for Thanksgiving next week? Let’s run the numbers! The National Turkey Federation tells us that 88 percent of Americans will chow down on roasted bird next Thursday, meaning that 46 million turkeys will be sacrificed to our national tradition. On the other hand, close to 500,000 Tofurky roasts…
Down with beer snobs, up with arrogant bastards
If it tastes good, drink it. I was at Hilltop Tavern in Clifton the other evening, watching NFL football and sipping a Bell’s Two-Hearted Ale, when a young man, 30-ish, walked up and began to ponder the latest entries on the white board bearing the day’s draft beer selections. Hilltop isn’t a large place, and…
Three hot cocktail recipes to make in your Crock-Pot
I know I’m a little late to the game. OK, I’m decades late to the game, but I just recently got my first ever slow cooker, sometimes referred to generically as a Crock-Pot, and I feel like a horribly self-deprived asshole for believing they existed only to steam massive vats of chili. On the contrary,…
Achieving Peace of Mind through mindfulness
Are you mindful, or is your mind full? Often mindfulness — a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment — is overlooked as a major component for total wellness. LEO spoke with Kyle Kramer, executive director of The Passionist Earth & Spirit Center, to learn how it continues to support our…
How to supercharge your dating profile
Over a round of margaritas recently, I sat down at Havana Rumba with dating-profile expert Emily McGlawn. She told me all the must-haves and don’t-dos for your dating profile. Emily got her start doing this job with a string of offers on a freelance writing website to rewrite clients’ dating profiles. Finally, a client suggested she…
We want our spaceships and transmogrifiers
After a brief hiatus from my research career, during which I pursued crying a lot and not having any money, I returned to my current job. This was about the same time Donald Trump was working to become the Republican nominee. I had a lot of conversations with friends of all political persuasions about what…
May I have another, daddy?
If no other lesson is clear yet from the 2016 presidential election result, it is this: patriarchy reigns. Let freedom ring — if you’re a white male. And, if you’re a white nationalist, well, even better. What fresh hell is this? President-elect Donald Trump chose Stephen Bannon, a white nationalist and former head of Breitbart…
It’s not OK
Since the election, a lot of optimistic people have been trying to reassure everyone: It’s going to be OK. Depends on your definition of OK. President-elect Trump is quite a predicament for people, like myself, who are optimistic and want to lift up those around us. We want to spread joy and humor, as well…
Bevin’s unbridled stupidity
Tired of Kentucky’s crappy public image, then-Gov. Ernie Fletcher launched the “Kentucky Unbridled Spirit” advertising campaign in 2004 after a statewide vote on proposed slogans. Fletcher’s plan caught the attention of Jay Leno, who suggested the motto could be “Kentucky: Got Teeth?” Asking for equal time, Fletcher then appeared on Leno’s show with a few…
Your Voice
EDITOR’S NOTE PROTEST VOTE AT OUR PERIL Aaron, I just read your article on protest votes. I had already noticed how close the races for some of the states were so I grabbed a few numbers. If the high percentage of the [Gary] Johnson/[Jill] Stein votes go to Hillary Clinton, and [then] she carries Florida,…
