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9 Local Podcasts You Should Be Listening To
“Dude, we should totally start a podcast.” If you’re a millennial and have said more than 10 words in your lifetime, those have probably been seven of them. And now, thanks to our willingness to blabber, there are something like 766,555 active podcasts out there to choose from, according to Podcast Industry Insights. We’ve compiled…
10 Things To Do For $5 And Under In Louisville This Week (4/19)
TUESDAY, April 20 11th Annual Interfaith Iftar Zoom Free | 7-8 p.m. This week marks the beginning of Ramadan, the Muslim month of prayer and fasting between sunrise and sunset. This year, interfaith community leaders invite the public to gather virtually for an iftar, a fast-breaking meal, where participants will hear from Mayor Greg Fischer,…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (4/16)
FRIDAY, April 16 The New Albany Wicked Walk Presents Macabre Main: Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem The Odd Shop $20 | 8:30-10:30 p.m. Take a walking tour of the places in downtown New Albany that have been the sites of ghostly hauntings, murders, tragic accidents and crimes. Ghost hunting equipment is encouraged! SATURDAY, April 17 Dirty…
Concerts Are Returning To Louisville
Before the pandemic, there were dozens of concerts on any given week in Louisville, from giant arena shows featuring nationally-touring household names, to buzzy mid-sized acts playing ticketed standing-room shows, to hip dive bars where a $5 cover allowed you to see the latest promising bands that only recently released a demo. Last March, that…
Lonnie’s Hot Dogs Deliver Chicago Flavor
Spring is fully sprung, more than 20% of Americans are vaccinated, and the Cubs return home to Wrigley Field to play the Pirates on Friday, April 16. Wrigley Field? Now I want a Chicago-style hot dog. If there’s one thing that can unite Chicago’s perpetually warring Cubs and White Sox fans, it’s the classic Chicago…
Castlewood Is Searching For The Stage
Any band who wants to take the stage, first has to prove themselves in the studio. For one local band, though, that studio is actually a living room in New Albany, a cozy yellow space encircled by liner notes, album covers and lyrics scribbled on the walls. This is the homebase of Southern Indiana musicians…
Savage Love: Letter Rip
Q: I’m a female in my late twenties. I broke up with a toxic ex about a year ago and I’ve been walking around (my house!) thinking I was over it. I never missed him and rarely thought about him. A brief backstory: In the final months of us living together, we started having more…
Your Friendly Neighborhood Comic Book Reviews!
‘Alien’ No. 1 Writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist Salvador Larroca Review by Krystal Moore, The Great Escape The year is 2200 and Weyland-Yutani still controls most of the space highways. If you’re a fan of the Alien movies, you’ll remember that these are the folks responsible for the incredible and tragic loss of life…
Beargrass Thunder Uses Vlog To Create Community Change
Admittedly, I’m not a podcast person in any meaningful way. I prefer visual stimulation and often fall into the YouTube rabbit hole over any number of topics from K-Drama gossip to music nostalgia. When LEO decided to do a podcast issue, I knew I was in trouble. What the hell do I write about when…
Why Local Podcasters Joined The Pandemic Audio Boom
Like many people who took social distancing seriously during the pandemic, Jessie Bartholomew’s evening routine was repetitive and solitary: She would come home from her job for a real estate company, eat in front of the TV and run on the treadmill. “When you’re single and you live alone, it does leave you with a…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (4/14)
Absurd: Mayor Jung’s “Meandering Discourse” In an op-ed published last week, Bonnie Jung, mayor of Douglass Hills and president of Jefferson County League of Cities had a lot to say. Among Jung’s grievances was when Metro police were reassigned from suburban neighborhoods last summer to help with downtown protests, claiming, “residents of unincorporated Jefferson County could…
The History Of Unfair Housing In Louisville
In honor of National Fair Housing Month, the Metropolitan Housing Coalition and the UofL Oral History Center are inviting African American families to share their stories of housing discrimination on April 27 at 5:30 p.m. “Unfair Housing in Louisville: A Community Listening Session” will be an online forum moderated by Riece Hamilton, interim program manager…
If We Do Our Homework, We Can Have A Pizza Party
I once had a teacher who offered rewards for class achievements. I don’t recall the exact system, but it had something to do with doing extra credit or completing homework assignments on time. In any event, the goal was to accumulate stars or happy-face stickers. Once the class accumulated enough stickers, we got a pizza…
