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Abandoned Kentucky: Preserving history, one photo at a time
The old farmhouse looms above us on the hill, fractured gray clouds framing its shape. As we approach, I see that a huge branch from a dead tree has fallen toward the stone porch, just missing its mark. There is no front door to the graying, brick structure and we can basically see through to…
The Kilroys, a gender parity initiative in theater, continues to evolve
Every year, on the last weekend of The Humana Festival of New American Plays, a horde of industry insiders shows up to check out the new plays, meet up with each other and attend events where the brightest and the best in the field share new ideas about how to make theater better. This year,…
An early stream of ‘The Curse of the Crystal Teeth’ by Baby Bones
After forming to write and record a song (“Pay Us In Dimes”) for the We Have A Bevin Problem compilation, Baby Bones decided to stay together and make an entire album, which resulted in the riff-heavy The Curse of the Crystal Teeth. You can listen to it below, in advance of its Friday release. Living…
10 under $5 – What To Do This Week In Louisville (4/9)
MONDAY Nonpartisan Louisville Mayoral Candidate Forum UofL, Ekstrom Library Free | 6-8 p.m. This is your chance to hear from Democratic, Republican and Independent candidates running for mayor of Louisville. FORward Radio listeners selected the theme: “equal opportunity and justice: racial and economic equality and environmental and food justice.” Mayor Greg Fischer is running for…
LEO Podcast #63: The Prodepressants
The Prodepressants stop by to talk about their new album, mental health and how the song “Soothsayer” was inspired by people who preach on street corners.
A Q&A with artist Jeaneen Barnhart
Artist Jeaneen Barnhart (artsocool.com) is a Derby-time mainstay. She’s been busy lately creating images of Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown champion, and the 2018 Kentucky Derby Festival print, with her sister Doreen Barnhart DeHart. LEO: What type of artist are you? Jeaneen Barnhart: My primary works include finished charcoal/pastel drawings, loose oil paintings and quick…
LEO’s Guide to Friday the 13th Tattoo Specials
Editor’s Note: This story was updated for 2021. These sales are no longer active. Friday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky, but some tattoo shops have made it all about affordable ink by offering $13 tattoos. Customers can choose from a flash-sheet of designs, which are small and usually follow the macabre-theme of the…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (4/6)
FRIDAY Tartan Day with The Scottish Society of Louisville Crescent Hill Library and Molly Malone’s Highlands No cover | Times vary Celebrate Tartan Day, which commemorates the Scottish Declaration of Independence, with the Scottish Society of Louisville. The society will be at the Crescent Hill Library from 2:30-5 p.m. for a meet and greet where…
Frederick The Younger premieres new video for “Human Child II”
On Frederick The Younger’s debut full-length album, Human Child, singer Jenni Cochran performed the title track solo. Today, via LEO, they are premiering a music video for “Human Child II,” a full-band version of the original song. The electric guitars on the new version give the song a more psych-rock tone, and the video matches…
Pension bill an attack on schools
As state Republicans move to solve a pension crisis at the expense of teachers, remember that politicians got us here by using pension fund payments for other purposes, instead of raising taxes or finding new revenue. But the GOP decided instead to dun teachers. A cynic would say it is more of Gov. Matt Bevin’s…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Support teachers | Rose A rose goes to Kentucky teachers who stayed home and marched on Frankfort after Republican state lawmakers rushed through a misdirected pension bill. The GOP should have heeded the thousands of teachers and their families, rather than bend over for the thuggish, insult-hurling tRump mannequin in the governor’s office. Why? Because…
Rachel Grimes scores documentary,?‘The Doctor from India’
After being approached by director Jeremy Frindel, Louisville musician and composer Rachel Grimes created an immersive score for the film “The Doctor from India,” a documentary that focuses on the work of Dr. Vasant Lad, who introduced Ayurveda — an ancient, holistic style of medicine — to Western culture in the 1970s. “I instantly fell…
Beach Slang’s James Alex talks about unplugging for Quiet Slang
When Beach Slang opens for Dashboard Confessional at Mercury Ballroom this weekend, expect the usual loud, layered and reckless fuzz-punk antics that launched them, but next month, on May 18, the James Alex-led band will dive deeper into its other side. That’s the release date for Everything Matters But No One Is Listening, the debut…
Sonic Breakdown: Pleasures Of The Flesh — ‘Visitations’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] While Pleasures Of The Flesh incorporates sounds from various corners of the post-punk world, “Visitations” bleeds somewhat differently than the other songs on their new EP. It’s less bombastic, more melancholy and a little more of an earworm hum-along. The…
‘Sex with Strangers,’ sparks fly
At a remote, snowbound writers’ retreat a brusque, arrogant young man arrives late one evening, interrupting the solitude of an older woman. Both — of course — have come to write. Olivia (Lauren Argo) is a once-promising novelist whose ambitious first novel failed in the marketplace because of inept marketing. The experience left her shattered…
A catch-up on the Humana Festival of New American Plays
In Leah Winkler Nanako’s “God Said This,” a young woman returns from New York to Kentucky because her mother has been diagnosed with cancer. In Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s “Do You Feel Anger,” a young woman effectively abandons her mother. In Deborah Stein’s “Marginal Loss,” the emotional sterility of a workplace in the immediate wake of the…
Comedian Danny Browning: Indiana proof that by removing ‘Pencey, progress can be made’
It didn’t take comedian Danny Browning long to recall his worst show. It was the time when he was run out of a gig in South Carolina after commenting on why the state was still flying a Confederate flag over the state capitol. “I’m white — I should be cool with white supremacist dudes. And,…
Going to the KFC Yum Center? Dine at BBC first
Say what you will about the KFC Yum Center — and I say it looks like the offspring of an unnatural union between a toaster oven and an ink-jet copier — but you have to give it credit for helping foster a boom in good places to eat in its Main Street neighborhood. Like Bluegrass…
Falls City taproom opens, brings back canned pilsner
Falls City Brewing Co. officially opened its new brewery and taproom last weekend, complete with a “first toast” with Mayor Greg Fischer, along with members of the Louisville City FC squad, local media and more. The new taproom is open Tuesday through Sunday and is located at 901 E. Liberty St. Falls City representatives also…
Ask Minda Honey: You’re Just not that into him
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life — send your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com. Hi Minda, Ten years ago, I had a massive crush on “Nate.” Nate and I never got past being acquaintances, even though he and I ran around with the same crowd. We would see each other periodically, but either…
Savage Love: Royal Oak Music Theatre
I visited Royal Oak, Michigan, for Savage Love Live at the Royal Oak Music Theatre. I didn’t get to all of the questions submitted by the large and tipsy crowd — a crowd that skipped the Stormy Daniels interview on “60 Minutes” to spend the evening with me (so honored, you guys!) — so I’m…
West of Ninth: People, in their own words
Quotes become clichéd because they are true. “Be the change you wish to see in the world” perfectly describes why husband and wife team, Walter and Marshae (Shae) Smith, started their West of Ninth project. They want to tell the stories of West Louisville, and they decided the best way to do that is to…
Bill Murray not funny, Bevin to challenge Mitch, gang bill fatal
I can’t wait. Even you’re going to become a college hoops fan if Bill Murray starts turning up at Cards games. It’ll take a lot more than a never-funny, played-out twat like Murray to stop me knowing that $28 million of public money on a kids’ sports coach is an insult to this city’s efforts…
Teachers join the resistance
Teachers from 120 strong school districts marching at the state Capitol validate the belief that a wave is coming to Kentucky and Washington, D.C. this November. It’s easy to attribute the political activism we’re seeing across the country to the pendulum effect — the cycle of American politics, when things go too far one direction,…
