How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (8/10)
MONDAY, Aug. 10 Food for Thought: Louisville Service Industry March 640 Barret Ave. Free | 7 p.m. Louisville’s service industry is uniting for a march in support of Black lives. The industry is “vast, diverse, and typically booming,” organizers write. Plus, they say, many of its members are Black or people of color. Restaurant owners,…
How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This Weekend (8/7)
FRIDAY, Aug. 7 Out of the Bars, Into the Streets: Volume 2 Planet of the Tapes Free | 6 p.m. Members of Louisville’s vast music and entertainment community are coming together for a second time to march for Black lives and against police brutality. “Bring banners, cheap noisemakers (pots, pans, hand drums, etc.), megaphones, and…
Hoax or healthy? ‘Wear a mask because I do not want anyone to have to go through what I went through’
Norman Chaffins and Donnie Keeton probably never expected to see their name in a column about Kentucky politics. But they’re elected officials who have done the right thing when it comes to the coronavirus, and they and their kind should be exalted. Chaffins, a Republican, is the sheriff of Grayson County, in west-central Kentucky. Keeton,…
More than 500 protest arrests: Here are the stories behind six arrests and what they can expect
Kentucky Teacher of the Year Matt Kaufmann was still riled up on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. He’d been tear gassed on May 28, the first night of the Louisville protests over the police shooting of Breonna Taylor. Then, Mayor Greg Fischer came out in defense of police who’d destroyed supplies that protesters collected…
Here is how you can get rental help because million$ await
There are millions of dollars out there if you’re a renter or a landlord in Jefferson County who needs help paying the bills because of COVID-19. And, you’re not alone either. An estimated 211,000 households in Kentucky are unable to pay rent and are at risk of eviction, according to an analysis by Stout, which…
Warhol’s Christianity, on display at Speed
Of all the things commonly known about Andy Warhol — former commercial artist, compulsive collector, wig wearer — I have to admit I didn’t know he was deeply religious. Turns out he was a lifelong Catholic. The Speed Art Museum is reopening after its COVID-19 shut-down with “Andy Warhol: Revelation,” a revealing exhibition that’s the…
Savage Love: Stating the Obvious
Q: I’m a gay guy who’s involved with a guy I met a few months before COVID-19 took off. He’s a great guy, smart, funny, hot, healthy and easy to be around. It started as a hookup, but we have chemistry on several levels and, without either of us having to say it, we started seeing each…
For takeout? Take Oskar’s on a picnic!
I’ve been doing a lot of takeout dining in the past couple of months, and I’m content with that. But I have one big problem with takeout: Unless I choose from a handful of restaurants within a five-minute drive from my house, my takeout dinner is likely to be lukewarm or worse by the time…
The journey to ‘Moon’: R&B artist Zaniah Harris on her new song’s evolution
Zaniah Harris has a voice that once you hear it, you’ll want to keep listening. Her tone is like the delicate notes of Solange combined with the celestial vibe of Willow alongside her own pop of jubilance. Harris is a rising, 21-year-old R&B artist in Louisville who has been performing and writing music since she…
Thorns and Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (8/05)
Wrong answer for $10, Mayor | Thorn The search for a police chief has begun. Mayor Greg Fischer was asked whether the next chief should be a Black person. He said: “I feel the next police chief has got to be the best person for the job.” He might as well have said: “All chiefs matter.”…
Local videographer recut an LMPD promotional video to show police brutality
In 2016, the Louisville Metro Police Department released a promotional video called “Help Us Keep Our City Safe,” which featured scenes of training exercises, ominous music and a fictional warrant being executed, holding a similar tone as those action-oriented Marine Corps commercials. On July 21, Louisville videographer Kyle Gordon released a recut of the video,…
Photo Set: ‘No lives matter till Black trans lives matter’
As the fight against police brutality continues in the wake of the killing of Breonna Taylor by LMPD in March, the LGBTQ community and allies wanted to shed light on Black trans lives that have been lost to racial and police violence. The group of roughly 60 protesters gathered at the KFC Yum Center on…
Should we give the government the power of life and death?
I’ve been writing about capital punishment for about 20 years now, which is about 20 years too long. It’s easy enough to poke holes in the ideas that drive the practice itself; it’s expensive, it doesn’t deter crime, it hits the poor and people of color harder, the rest of the world abandoned the practice…
A Republican plan to beat McConnell
Maybe you have seen the #RichMitch ad on local TV or online. “He spent most of his time making deals for himself, not so much for Kentucky. Mitch didn’t have money when he went to Washington 35 years ago. Today, he’s one of the richest guys up there.” The seventh wealthiest U.S. Senator, in fact,…
