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Trumped! When is it time to leave your country?
In the early morning hours after the 2016 presidential election, Kirk Kiefer walked from his bedroom to his home office to check his computer. There, he learned the news: Donald Trump would be the new president of the United States. Kiefer walked back to his bedroom. “I just turned to my wife and was like,…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (1/27)
MONDAY, Jan. 27 Tapestry Weaving Workshop South Central Regional Library Free | 6-7 p.m. Two weeks ago you learned circle weaving. This week, artist-in-residence Michelle K. Amos teaches how to create a tapestry on a lap loom. Each participant will design their own and take it home. Ages 7 and up are welcome. To register,…
Teenage reporters cover the making of ‘The Wolves’ — a critically acclaimed play about teenage athletes
When the youth arts journalism program, Arts Bureau Edge, saw Actors Theatre of Louisville was opening Sarah DeLappe’s “The Wolves” — a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama about a teenage girls’ soccer team — this production, we knew, would be a perfect focus for a reporting project. This would give teenagers the opportunity…
A chance to weigh in on possible Eastern Parkway changes
There may be a roundabout in your future if (or unless) you show up to the final public meeting for the Eastern Parkway Transportation Study. Planning firm Gresham Smith and Louisville Metro reveal their design ideas for an Eastern Parkway refresh at the meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the…
Laundromats And Beyond: Dog + Mouse House Is Working to Redistribute Comedy
Once upon a time in Louisville, stand-up comedy meant one thing: The Comedy Caravan, or The Caravan, as it’s currently known. But, those days are long past and the “alt-comedy” scene in Louisville — which really just means anything that isn’t The Caravan — is blooming. It has spread out across the city to venues including…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (1/24)
FRIDAY, Jan. 24 WhiskerMania 5 Pre-Party and World Soul Patch & Fancy Hat Championship Gravely Brewing Co. No cover | 6 p.m. Before Saturday’s Whiskermania facial hair competition, there’s another face-off of furry faces to enjoy: the first ever World Soul Patch & Fancy Hat Championship. Both real and fake soul patches are allowed, but…
Girl On A Mission: How A Young Activist Plans To Change The World
Madison Erin Roy, a senior at Whitefield Academy, has been inspiring people ever since she wrote her first book at the age of nine. In second grade when a friend was diagnosed with Leukemia, Madison was determined to help. Together, Madison and her brother Reagan created, “GW Fights Back,” a comic about a boy who…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (1/22)
Thorn: Protect and serve its own So, two city cops fatally shot a mostly deaf man 14 times while he stood 16 or so feet away from them. They shot him seconds after telling him to drop a tree saw. The LMPD exonerated both cops, except to ding one for not turning on his body…
Are You Ready For Plastic Bag Ban And Is Kentucky?
State Rep. Mary Lou Marzian thinks her bill to ban some single-use plastics, such as grocery bags and foam food and drink containers, should receive bipartisan support. “Because we all have to live on this planet together, no matter who you are,” the Louisville Democrat said. But the Republican chair of the committee, which her…
Sonic Breakdown: The Hell You Say — ‘Einhorn’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from an area musician or band.] Everyone deals with loss and regret differently. Joshua Spriggs and his band The Hell You Say channeled those hardships into “Einhorn.” It’s “about the loss of love and love of one’s self,” he said. “And regret, but not in a…
The Look Back: Revisiting Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle
[The Look Back is an occasional column in which we dive into a notable album from a band or musician with a deep discography before they perform in Louisville.] While the laid-back party anthem “Gin And Juice” is unquestionably one of the most iconic and definitive songs of West Coast hip-hop, “Murder Was The Case”…
A conversation with Jeff Mueller of June of 44
It is often difficult to express the complex feelings and ideas of existence. The band June of 44 named themselves after the time period of erotic correspondence between American writer Henry Miller and muse Anaïs Nin. And what Miller once wrote of Nin — “Sweet, treacherous acquiescence” — seems like a perfect parallel to those…
Noche, The Church Of Mexican BBQ
The tall, gray, stone sanctuary of Calvary Lutheran Church was approaching its 90th anniversary when its congregation, aging and declining in numbers, regretfully decided to pack it in. “Emptying the building. Sad work,” the Rev. Austin Newberry wrote in February 2016 in the final post on Calvary’s Facebook page. But now the lofty nave is…
No egg for foam? No problem
There’s nothing quite like the delicious, frothy, foamy velvet that comes from shaking an egg white for a whiskey sour. In fact, many cocktails include egg whites; bartenders use them as a tool to create an agitated froth for texture throughout the drink or for a merengue-like layer atop the libation. That layer can include…
Savage Love: The Long Game
Q: I’m a 30-year-old bi male. I’ve been with my wife for five years, married nine months. A month into our relationship, I let her know that watching partners with other men has always been something I wanted and that sharing this had caused all my previous relationships to collapse. Her reaction was the opposite…
‘American Psycho’ Like You Have Not Seen, ‘New Play Projects,’ Truth Telling, Authenticity
Acting Against Cancer has been known to take on unconventional or even dark musicals in recent years: a little known musical adaptation of Stephen King’s “Carrie,” a rock musical adaptation of “Heathers” and its upcoming “Murder Ballad,” to name a few. Their most recent production of “American Psycho” certainly follows in that theme. The book…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Thor’ & ‘Killadelphia’
‘Thor’ No. 1 Writer Donny Cates and artist Nic Klein Review by Ashley Cornell, The Great Escape Louisville From the dust of the War of the Realms arises a new king… and a retired god. To reign as the King of Asgard has been Thor’s wish since childhood, but now that the title is finally…
‘Grit In The Mountain Women’
“Hill Women” by Cassie Chambers (Ballantine; 288 pages, $27) Towing the subtitle “Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains,” this book shows the author certainly has a lot on her mind. Look at it again: Once family is found — or thoroughly and lovingly rediscovered, as is the case here — do…
Big Plans, No Political Will Or Money
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood.” —Daniel Burnham, an American architect and urban designer. Fair enough. And great words to aspire to. LEO Executive Editor Aaron Yarmuth’s column on the Broadway redesign planning process in the Nov. 27 issue made the case for a transformative transportation project on the…
I Guess I’m A Democrat Now: I’m leaving the Republican Party — here’s why you should too
I didn’t originally vote for President Obama… But man oh man, I miss him. Well, crap. How did this happen? I don’t have the wisdom, or wit, of George Will. I’m not a defecting GOP congressman. Nor state representative. Not even a retired party elder saying what others won’t. But, I’m not politically apathetic. I…
It’s The Revenue, Ned
Andy, Andy, Andy, you are on your way to becoming a one-term governor. Sure, you have been in office for less than a month, so it might seem too early to make such a dark statement, but your State of the Commonwealth speech flopped. It offered just more of the same kumbaya pablum that you…
