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Everything You Need To Know About Delta 8, The ‘Legal Weed,’ In Kentucky
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include information from KSP on the agency’s raid of Eastern Kentucky Hemp Co. in Morehead, Kentucky. Have you tried Delta 8? It’s found in Louisville hemp shops. Your fave Instagram influencer is pushing it on their profile. Your friend offered you a hit off his vape last time…
See Logan Street Under Lights This Saturday With New, Monthly, Night Market Event
Logan Under Lights is a new celebration of the art, music and community around Shelby Park. Starting this week, on the second Saturday of each month, participating businesses in the neighborhood will open their doors and offer a night market experience. From 5-9 p.m. the event will feature live music, drink specials, food and featured…
Bonnaroo To Require Vaccination Or Negative COVID Test
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated. Bonnaroo has joined the list of festivals requiring a COVID vaccination or a negative COVID test to attend. The Nashville festival announced the new rule for its September festival on Tuesday. Railbird festival in Lexington, Kentucky, which features My Morning Jacket and Dave Matthews Band, will enforce a…
Louisville’s Impellizzeri’s Pizza Giving $10K To One Employee Amidst Labor Shortage
Impellizzeri’s Pizza sees your $100 sign-on bonus and raises it times 100. The local pizza chain will award $10,000 to one, hourly employee at the end of the year by random draw in an effort to combat hiring issues brought on by the pandemic. “We’ve had a lot of difficulty hiring, and it’s a very…
David Sedaris Returning To Louisville This Year
David Sedaris is coming back to Louisville. The author of hilarious tomes about his life and family has been to town many times before. This time he will be appearing for one night only at The Brown Theatre on Dec. 17, according to a Monday announcement. Sedaris will be in Louisville following the release of…
Louisville Parks Foundation Devoting Itself To Equitable Investment in Local Parks, Changes Name
The Louisville Parks Foundation is changing its name and devoting itself to driving equitable investment in the city’s parks, starting with a needs assessment. Brooke Perry Pardue, the president and CEO of the Parks Alliance of Louisville, formerly the Foundation, said the group would be contacting the public for input on the city’s parks and pairing…
LVA Announces New Skills Program For Louisville Artists
Louisville Visual Art is announcing a professional development series geared towards supporting emerging and mid-career artists. Louisville Visual Arts feels that this series will help continue to give artists the skills needed to continue working as professional artists. The program will be known as ARS or the Louisville Artist Resource Series. The series will include…
Photos: See How Weird The Louisville Fringe Festival Got
The Louisville Fringe Festival, last Wednesday through Sunday at Planet of the Tapes and Mile Wide Beer Co., showcased alternative theater in Derby City. We saw dancing, comedy and full-on theatrical productions. Here’s a taste, from photographer and the Fringe’s Director of Development Jon Cherry.
A State Beer Style? Campaign Pushes For The Kentucky Common To Be Adopted
Kentucky is about more than just bourbon. It has pretty great beer, too. Michael Moeller, a co-founder of the Louisville Ale Trail, is on a mission to get the Kentucky Common named the official beer style of the bluegrass state. Not only is it a significant beer style, but naming it the official state beer…
Louisville Government Announces Focus Areas For American Rescue Plan Funds
Mayor Greg Fischer and Louisville Metro Council announced six areas where the city wants to focus spending its remaining $340 million in America Rescue Plan funds. The “primary” areas are homelessness and affordable housing, workforce development and small business support, public health and public safety. The city also plans to fund premium pay for “critical”…
Fast-casual Arepa Restaurant Opens Tuesday In NuLu
The Venezuelan arepa is the focus of a new, fast casual restaurant in NuLu, which opens Tuesday at 11 a.m.. Señora Arepa is located behind La Bodeguita de Mima and is owned by the same restaurant group, Olé Hospitality Group. The arepa is a crisp, round cornmeal cake traditionally filled with cheese, butter or meat.…
10 Things To Do For $5 And Under In Louisville This Week (8/9)
MONDAY, Aug. 9 Back to School Giveaway Chickasaw Park Free | Noon-6 p.m. Mobile Auto Care hosts this back to school community event with school supply giveaways, free food, activities, vendors and more. TUESDAY, Aug. 10 ‘Orphan Trains: A Genealogical Challenge’ Zoom Free | 1-2 p.m. Former Humana Director of Education Mel Arnold discusses his…
Churchill Downs Chef Opens Southern-style Ghost Kitchen
The executive chef for Churchill Downs has opened a Southern-style ghost kitchen called Hoss Boss Wings & Ribs. A ghost kitchen is a restaurant with no physical storefront, open for delivery only. Chef David Danielson’s new restaurant, starting delivery today, sells southern-style chicken wings and baby back ribs with southern sides. “With the gaining popularity…
Relax With The Butterflies At New Albany’s New Monarch Educational Garden
The Arts Alliance of Southern Indiana, or AASI, will be dedicating their Monarch Educational Garden with a ribbon cutting on Thursday, Aug. 12 at 11 a.m. The event will be held at the AASI building located at 820 E. Market St. in New Albany, Indiana. “We are thrilled to contribute to the flourishing vibrancy of…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (8/6)
FRIDAY, Aug. 6 The Bicentennial Park Concert Series: Jacob Resch with Kiana & The Sun Kings Bicentennial Park, New Albany, Indiana Free | 6-9:30 p.m. Head to New Albany for one last free, outdoor concert of the summer. The series is ending strong with singer-songwriter Jacob Resch and R&B and soul from Kiana & The…
Affordable Housing A Top Priority For Louisville’s American Rescue Plan Spending, Public Says In Survey
Louisvillians identified affordable housing as a top priority for the remaining $340 million in American Rescue Plan funds, according to results from a Louisville Metro Council survey. The council received 1,846 public comments on its survey, with 1,009 respondents selecting affordable/government supported housing as one of their top three priorities for the American Rescue Plan…
3 Concerts To See In Louisville This Weekend
The Cleverlys Friday, Aug. 6 Headliners Music Hall $18 | 8 p.m. A little comedy, a little country — that’s probably the best way to describe The Cleverlys, a band from the Ozark Mountains that puts a deep bluegrass twist on popular songs. Covers include “Walk Like An Egyptian” and “Single Ladies,” but it’s always…
Everything You Can See At The Louisville Fringe Festival This Week
Where do these people come up with this stuff? The theater at the Louisville Fringe Festival is wacky, intriguing and maybe a little bit genius. You have shows like “Sorceress!” a sci-fi narrative crafted from public-domain movies and “Tales from a Jukebox,” in which four storytellers tell you about “that one song” that tethers them…
Logan Street Market Announces Garlic And Pepper Festival
Logan Street Market will be vampire free at its Garlic + Pepper Festival, scheduled for Aug. 17-22. All week long, Logan Street Market chefs will sell a special garlic and/or pepper dish, made with locally-grown ingredients. “The idea is to push our chefs into supporting local — even if it means spending a bit more…
TEN20 Craft Brewery Opening Second Location In East End
TEN20 Craft Brewery is heading for the East End less than a year after opening its first location in the Butchertown neighborhood in October of 2020. The Louisville brewery is building a 2,000-square foot taproom next to The Village Anchor in Anchorage. That’s quite a bit smaller than its 22,000-square foot, $5.5 million production facility…
Savage Love: My Boyfriend Had A Threesome With My Parents
Q: I’m a 24-year-old gay man with a 31-year-old bi boyfriend. I’ve known since we got together that he’s a lot more sexually experienced than I am, but it’s never been a big deal before now. This weekend, he met my parents for what we thought would be the first time. But it turns out…
‘Into You’ By Nashville-based Artist Tia Ortiz Is A Pop-country Gem About Not Settling
Like so many things, the advent of the pandemic in early 2020 overshadowed the release of Tia Ortiz’s song “Into You.” This is a shame, considering the song is the culmination of two years of hard work, but a fortuitous bright side is Ortiz’s message, which is now very relevant. “I wanted to write a…
Hankering For Pho? Louisville’s Eatz Vietnamese Makes Some Of The Best
Last week, I had to try calling Vietnam Kitchen a half-dozen times before I could break through the busy line. I guess I wasn’t the only Louisville foodie aching to find out for sure if they were really back from a month-long vacation. But one reality remains: Vietnam Kitchen, the beloved South End storefront eatery…
4 New, Louisville Album Releases You Need To Listen To
Jordan Jetson Phoenix Rose Emcee Jordan Jetson has remained an incredible creative force since coming onto the scene. There is much to be read into the title Phoenix Rose, from Jetson’s personal tragedies and challenges, to a rebirth of his career. It’s this later read that merits immediate attention: Jetson has never missed, and, as…
New Book Recalls How Kentucky Became The Center Of The Early U.S. Hemp Industry
Kentucky and hemp have a long and storied history, and author Dan Isenstein nails down the details of the early days in his new book ‘Tales from the Kentucky Hemp Highway,’ which is available via Arcadia Publishing on Monday, Aug. 9. Below is an excerpt from two chapters of the book, one covering Kentucky’s first…
Astounding, New ‘Word Of God’ Legal Defense Banishes LMPD From EMW Clinic
It is often the case that statutes and published judicial opinions, the “black letter” of the law, will not provide an answer to a particular problem. And so we lawyers must wade through more arcane sources: treatises, restatements, unpublished case law, hornbooks, law review articles, lost episodes of “Matlock” and so on. None of these…
Sen. Rand Paul’s COVID Disinformation Machine Is Plain Political Opportunism
Sometimes, in politics, someone’s ability to question their peers is inspiring, and other times they’re just a pathological liar and opportunistic coward that doesn’t care about the erosion of society. Kentucky’s junior U.S. Sen. Rand Paul — and his anti-mask stance, natural immunity rhetoric and perpetual Dr. Fauci bashing — definitely falls under the latter.…
Comic Reviews: ‘The Walking Dead’ Screenwriter Brings Magical Realism To The Jim Crow South With ‘Dark Blood’
‘Dark Blood’ No. 1 Writer LaToya Morgan Illustrator Walt Barna Review by Felix Cornell Avery Aldridge is a family man and decorated vet, as well as a Black man living in 1950s Alabama. He’s simply trying to make a living to support his family, but a run in with a violent and racist white man…
Thorns And Roses: Kentucky Eviction Disaster Averted, IU Vaccine Mandate Upheld
Rose and Thorn: Eviction Disaster Averted Two days after the federal eviction moratorium lapsed, the CDC declared another one for those living in rates of high COVID transmission. That means most counties in Kentucky, including Jefferson, are safe from eviction. But why did it take a couple days to reverse? We knew the eviction moratorium was…
Newfields’ Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit Is Worth The Visit To Indianapolis
LEO doesn’t often delve into out-of-state stories but occasionally something happens close enough to Louisville that it would be a disservice not to tell our readers. This is one of those things. A Van Gogh exhibit opened on July 27 at the new LUME in Indianapolis at Newfields. Newfields is the name for the Indianapolis…
What The ‘Victoria’s Secret Karen’ Situation Can Teach Us About The White Bystander
Disclaimer: Before I get into this article, this is not about placing yourself or your loved ones in any danger. Please note, many of these incidents do not involve someone using a physical weapon but instead using tears and whiteness as a weapon which can become deadly for the Black person involved in the incident. …
Life Through The Lens Of The Late Louisville Photographer Bud Dorsey
Louisville photographer and avid documentarian of Black life in the city, Charles ‘Bud’ Ford Dorsey Jr., passed away Thursday, July 8 surrounded by his family. Born in 1941, Dorsey was given his first camera by his uncle John Dorsey as a child. Dorsey was the lens for many important and life-changing events and celebrations in…
Vote For Your Louisville Favorites In The LEO Readers’ Choice Awards 2021
Welcome to the 2021 LEO Weekly Readers’ Choice Awards! Cast your ballot for 200+ local favorites and support the people, places, businesses and organizations you love. Vote for all or only one — you decide. One ballot accepted per each email address per day. Voting closes at 11:59 pm Wednesday, Sept. 1. Results will be…
