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History, Community And Talent Fuel The Dirt Bowl
With seconds left in the first half of the Dirt Bowl’s championship game, Jon Jon Henry intercepted an attempted behind-the-back pass, broke out in transition, found the top of the arc, stopped, eyed the basket for a split second and drilled a three, bringing his team Business As Usual within 5 points of its opponents,…
Photo Set: CONNECT at Bernheim
On Saturday night, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest held its annual CONNECT, which aims to be at “the intersection of art, science and nature.” This year, CONNECT’s highlights included the uncommon sight of the wooden Forest Giants illuminated in the dark. CONNECT took place next to Lake Nevin and along the path around it were…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (8/26)
MONDAY, Aug. 26 Community Yoga Tim Faulkner Gallery Donation-based | 6 p.m. Feel connected to yourself and your community with a yoga class courtesy of the Kentucky Yoga Initiative. Admission is donation-based, although $5 is the suggested amount. Afterward, check out the latest exhibit at the Tim Faulkner Gallery, “Change of Pace,” featuring studio…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (8/23)
FRIDAY, Aug. 23 Midwest Queer Comedy Festival: ‘Fucktales’ Purrswaytions Donation-based | 10 p.m. As part of the five-day Midwest Queer Comedy Fest, Chicago comedian Dylan Scott brings his storytelling show, “Fucktales” on the road in which funny people share their sex stories. Check out MQCF’s website for more comedy shows and podcast recordings happening this…
Damn Good Improv Festival!
You never know what will happen next during an improv show, but one thing’s certain—you’re sure to laugh your socks off. Enjoy a three-day weekend of belly laughs and excitement at the Bardstown from August 29 through August 31. Presented by Nerd Louisville and the city’s local improv school Improv 502, the event is the…
Fairness Campaign director arrested — again — while protesting at Kentucky Farm Bureau ham breakfast
Fairness Campaign Director Chris Hartman was arrested Thursday at the annual Kentucky Farm Bureau ham breakfast and dragged from the event as he and others protested the bureau’s anti-LGBTQ policies. In a video Hartman posted on Facebook, as he sat handcuffed in a police cruiser, he said: “I am sad to report that the Kentucky…
Trust, Legitimacy
The (self-)esteemed Pegasus Institute think tank presents itself as a credible authority on a range of issues. However, the dust-up over the most-recent protest outside of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s house proved one thing: The Pegasus Institute is more fraud tank than think tank. One of the founders quit a city-sponsored panel designed to bring communities…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Absurd: NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM? Public schools in Fayette County are posting framed, enlarged copies of the back of the $1 bill to comply with a new state law that requires all schools to display prominently “In God We Trust.” The GOP should be totally down with this brilliant workaround because it satisfies the law and…
Why Nimbys Should Back Off Cogan’s ‘One Park’ Project
Editor’s Note: Aug. 22’s city planning committee meeting is to set a date for “One Park” to go before the Planning Commission. After several design overhauls, One Park, a massive, mixed-use development proposed for Lexington Road and Grinstead Drive will soon go before a city planning committee. Developer Kevin Cogan of Jefferson Development Group has…
A Song-By-Song Breakdown of Jordan Jetson’s New Record, Deva
Sincerity is at the core of Deva, the newly-released album by Louisville hip-hop artist Jordan Jetson. Named for a Zoroastrianism term denoting the pantheon of gods, Deva is a complex pastiche of earnestness and allusion, balancing confidence and insecurity. Jetson is leaving in early October to move to a small town outside of Atlanta, Georgia,…
Three concerts to catch this week
Mixed Feelings: Long Jumper, Scary Black, D-Twizt Twizted, Hazelfire, CHMBRS Kaiju Thursday, Aug. 22 A mixed genre project, with the intention of creating a series that brings together different styles of music, the first Mixed Feelings will feature fusion artist Long Jumper, the dark wave duo Scary Black, rapper D-Twizt Twizted, experimental punk band Hazelfire…
Sonic Breakdown: Barrel & Biscuit — ‘All I Got’
LEO’s biweekly sonic breakdown column deconstructs a single song from an area musician or band. If it sounds like Kendall Robinson has the blues in Barrel & Biscuit’s “All I Got,” it’s because he knows a thing or two about having them. Take, for example, the time, six years ago, when Robinson, aka Kendall Ellijah Dynamite,…
5 Reasons to Drop Your Bank and Join The Movement with Class Act
Story by Class Act Federal Credit Union • Class Act Gives Back Class Act Federal Credit Union is a resource to the education community – not just a service provider. With an education focus, Class Act’s members include, but are not limited to, JCPS teachers, UofL students, janitors, bus drivers, and their families. Class Act…
Comedian Al Jackson, ‘I Would Have Done It For Free’
Two decades ago, comedian Al Jackson went from mild-mannered school teacher by day, to raucous open-mic comic by night. “Teachers don’t make enough money to see psychologists,” Jackson said. “I decided I would start going to open-mics instead of paying for therapy.” Now, he co-hosts “Daily Blast Live,” a nationally syndicated talk show, which airs…
La Sierra Tarasca’s Carnitas, Lo Mejor!
There’s a special place in my heart for Mexican eateries like La Sierra Tarasca. First, in a time when the president calls our Latin American neighbors thugs, criminals and rapists and orders refugee families separated at the border, it’s time for the rest of us to stand up for our Latinx brothers and sisters, whether they…
Barkeep’s Choices
It’s that time of year again, when local businesses, entrepreneurs, community members and the like vie for the coveted win of various categories of LEO’s Readers’ Choice Awards. It’s true that accolades, press and shiny plaques will boost business, and who doesn’t love a little public recognition for their hard work from time to time?…
Savage Love: Quickies
Q: I took Molly with my best bud. We wound up cuddling and telling each other everything. We didn’t mess around—we’re both straight guys—but one of the things I told him is that I would much rather eat pussy than fuck, and one of the things he told me is that he’s not at all…
Wayward Actors’ ‘The Green Room,’ A Little Unsettling… Just As It Should Be
When the audience first hears two characters talking about an important guest making his way to Jimmy Fallon’s green room, we’re not sure what to expect. Even the program lists the role as only “The Guest.” I tried to parse out clues in the preceding conversation. A famous musician? A politician? The last person I…
