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The Ravens of Pine Mountain
To begin, the raven is not at all like the crow. The crow, for one, is ubiquitous. Acclimated to our cities and the edges of our farms, the crow is opportunistic. They band together in flocks — murders, as they’re known — and make themselves conspicuous by their noise, being the largest of songbirds. Their…
Our favorite local spring beers that are out right now
3rd Turn Brewery Hefegerste At an easy 4.2-percent ABV, the Hefegerste is a hefeweisen style beer that is incredibly easy to drink. There is a Belgian vibe to this beer, which adds a nice, malt-forward flavor, both in terms of the aftertaste and the head, with a crisp wheaty finish that is incredibly juicy and…
10 under $5 – What To Do This Week In Louisville (4/23)
MONDAY Pink Fuzz, Vale, droneroom The Cure Lounge $5 | 9 p.m. Start the week off right with rock ‘n’ roll. Featured acts at this show include heavy rock band Pink Fuzz, psych-rock band VALE and drone/krautrock musician droneroom. TUESDAY 13th Annual New Voices Young Playwrights Festival Actors Theatre of Louisville $5 | Times vary…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (4/20)
FRIDAY The April Flea Off Market (April 20–22) Fresh Start Growers Supply Times vary Before you descend into Thunder Over Louisville madness — or instead of that — stop at The Flea Off Market. The flea opens Friday with live music by King Kong at 6 p.m. On Saturday, there are free yoga classes at…
LEO’s Guide to Record Store Day in Louisville
Record Store Day is an international, vinyl holiday that elevates the visibility of small record shops by giving them access to exclusive records, featuring hundreds of new releases this year. As always, everything is limited, and not everything will be available at every store, but… This year’s Record Day Exclusives include Johnny Cash, Courtney Barnett,…
A conservative environmentalist: U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie finds freedom in sustainability
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie drives a Tesla Model S, one of the most technologically-advanced, environmentally-friendly electric cars made. It has Kentucky’s black “Friends of Coal” license plate. He cosponsored a bill to get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency. (“I would rather start over with the EPA than fix the one we have.”) Climate change…
Clowns leave Frankfort, here’s what they did and didn’t do
The 2018 session of the General Assembly came to a crashing close over the weekend, as Republicans (almost exclusively) overrode Gov. Matt Bevin’s vetoes of their budget and tax bills. Bevin proved (again) his fecklessness and idiocy by first claiming that children would be sexually assaulted and poisoned because teachers had left their classrooms to…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Insider Louisville, for lo-cal | Thorn Insider Louisville CEO Tom Cottingham sent two scurrilous, embarrassing emails last week begging for handouts. He made false claims about Courier Journal in hopes of puffing up Insider to look like more than a news blog. The first email asks “Is local journalism in Louisville going to die?” and…
A Q&A with Rob Pennington about the new By the Grace of God record
Above Fear, a new, six-song EP by Louisville-based hardcore band By the Grace of God has recently been released by State of Mind Records out of Long Island, New York. Sean A. Garrison engaged in a text message interview with their singer, Rob Pennington, while pretending to watch a scary BBC soap opera with his…
Bit Brigade creates live soundtracks for video game speed runs
Covering the music to games including “Metroid,” “Mega Man II,” “Ninja Gaiden,” “Castlevania” and “Contra,” Bit Brigade provides the live soundtrack for the gaming wizardry of Noah McCarthy, who does speed runs on a projector behind the band at their concerts. The structure of the game informs the live performance, which is built around the…
Sonic Breakdown: John The Band — ‘Perfect Coreen’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] Led by songwriter John Keller, John The Band delivers a punked-out slab of “country-billy back beat” with “Perfect Coreen.” And, while the song is a track that noticeably sticks out from their other work, it also furtively chameleons itself into…
We came to Aladdin’s for labneh, stayed for the food
I love labneh, the thick, tangy, strained-yogurt cheese of the Eastern Mediterranean. It was a treat to get a dab of labneh, dotted with pumpkin seeds, atop a risotto at Marketplace on Theatre Square last week, but a bite only made me want more. So we headed over to the highly regarded Aladdin’s Cafe in…
Donum Dei brewery growth, beer jelly beans, ew
Donum Dei Brewery of New Albany was named one of the fastest growing small and independent craft breweries in America last week by the Brewers Association. The brewery, which opened in spring 2015, was ranked No. 30 out of 50 for production growth. Co-owner Richard Otey said Donum Dei’s production increased to 300 last year…
‘Boatwright,’ wonderfully seaworthy
The Banks Dory is an iconic example of American small boat design: easy to build, simple to handle and well-adapted to all sorts of conditions. In the 19th century, one writer described the Banks Dory as, “swift, easily handled, capacious and safe and, if properly handled, hard to capsize.” You could say the same of…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Shadowman’ and ‘Mera’
‘Shadowman’ No. 1 Writer Andy Diggle; Artist Stephen Segovia Review by Krystal Moore, The Great Escape Louisville I’ll have to open this review with the confession that I hadn’t read a Shadowman comic before, so when I picked it up, I thought I might feel like I’d just walked in on a story in…
Comedian Jason Kanter: ‘Darker jokes are layered’
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be the third rail for comedy, but not if you ask comedian Jason Kanter: “Palestinians keep losing wars over their land. Don’t they know when you lose a war over land you’re supposed to stop fighting and build casinos?” You may have seen Kanter on Netflix, HBO and Showtime. He makes…
Ask Minda Honey: Women too agro for shy man?
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 Hey y’all, keep sending your questions. But this week, I’m revisiting a Facebook chat I had with a reader over the holidays. I’ve condensed our original convo so it fits my column’s…
Savage Love: Down There
Q: Background: I, a 21-year-old male, enjoy receptive fisting. I’ve also had constipation problems all my life. Question: I saw my doctor recently, and he tried to link my enjoyment of anal sex to my constipation. (Granted, I didn’t tell him EVERYTHING I do down there.) My understanding was that there was no causal relationship,…
West of Ninth: Wayne Barbour, owner of Barbour Bros. Cleaning
“My brother and I started in July 25 of 1969. We are from the country, from Hart County, Kentucky. My brother left home when he was 17 and went to Illinois and worked at a cleaners there. I think it was in Joliet, Illinois. He figured that he wanted to get into the dry cleaning…
Mitch and hemp, Bevin and polling gold
Lots of reasons I love living here, but let me tell you what I don’t like about it. Oh, Joy. But don’t tell me — let me guess. Trying to look and sound like a poor man’s Bond villain, but still being the lamest nonce in Jefferson County? Not even close. What I dislike most…
Matt ‘Never To Blame’ Bevin
Matt Bevin has been governor of Kentucky for three legislative sessions and the best he can come up with is: It’s not my fault. From the beginning of his administration, Bevin has used politicians, judges, teachers, the media and any other constituency or individual he can find as political pinatas — someone else is always…
