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Louisville’s Bloody Monday immigrant hatred 163 years ago
A political party based on anti-immigrant sentiment. Neighbors taking sides against each other over civil rights, political expression and the fear that their ways of life were changing for the worse. Newspapers accused of publishing fake news, stirring people into violence. This was 163 years ago in Louisville. It could be now… or could it?…
10 under $5 – What To Do This Week In Louisville (8/13)
MONDAY Trolleys to the Park: Beechmont And Kenwood – Louisville’s Trolley Suburbs LFPL, Iroquois Library Free | 6:30 p.m. It’s hard to imagine now, but, at one point in Louisville’s history, the Beechmont and Kenwood neighborhoods were distant suburbs of downtown Louisville, until trolley lines were extended to the neighborhood parks. Learn more about how…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (8/10)
FRIDAY St. Joe’s Picnic For the Kids St. Joseph Children’s Home No cover | 5-10 p.m., Friday; 12 p.m.-midnight, Saturday It’s the largest picnic in Kentucky, according to the St. Joseph Children’s Home, with over 60,000 people expected to attend… on Saturday, alone! This is the 169th year of the picnic, where you and the…
Photos from the opening of Purrfect Day Cafe, a cat cafe on Bardstown Road
The Purrfect Day Cafe is open! Located at 1741 Bardstown Road, the Purrfect Day Cafe — a coffee shop/bar — had 19 kittens between 3 and 4 months old on Thursday that patrons could pet, play with and adopt. It is Louisville’s first cat cafe. The big idea is that creating a comfortable place for…
Castleman, Prentice statues to be moved, mayor says, because of “racist,” “bigoted” ideology
The John B. Castleman statue in Cherokee Triangle and the George D. Prentice statue behind the downtown library will be moved, Mayor Greg Fischer said today, because “Louisville must not maintain statues that serve as validating symbols for racist or bigoted ideology.” Delivering his decision in a tweet, Fischer did not provide details about the…
Documentary touches on George Prentice’s legacy
A new documentary titled “Our Library,” a look at the impact and importance of the Louisville Free Public Library, will air on KET later this year, and it includes a brief study of George D. Prentice, the journalist forever linked with the Bloody Monday riots. In the documentary, singer-songwriter Will Oldham portrays a librarian who…
When the justice system is unjust, cash bail harms poor most
When Shameka Parrish-Wright was 18, she defended herself against domestic violence and was arrested, she said. The judge set bail at $1,000, which Parrish-Wright couldn’t afford to pay. Her public defender advised her if the case went to trial she could face eight to 15 years, so after 38 days in jail, she took a…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
It’s international because… why? | Rose, Thorn and Absurd Maybe the best thing about the completion of the Kentucky International Convention Center is that now Market, Jefferson and Third streets will fully open, that is, until another sewer or water line collapses or hotel is built. And you would think that for $207 million, the Convention…
Michael McDonald doesn’t hold back on album ‘Wide Open’
Between the Motown covers and Christmas compilations that have dominated his recent studio output, Michael McDonald was compiling demos for his first album of original material since 2000’s Blue Obsession. The process for that resulting record, 2017’s Wide Open, was more arduous than anticipated — redefining his identity once again proved difficult, because, after all,…
Nels Cline on his latest record, ‘Currents, Constellations’
Like so many other things for guitarist Nels Cline, his new instrumental jazz record with recurring collaborator Julian Lage, Currents, Constellations, happened in an unexpected way. Perhaps most famous for his work with Wilco, Cline is a prolific musician with more than 400 credits to his name, but his latest record is the first under…
Sonic Breakdown: droneroom — ‘Dancing Plastic Flowers’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] droneroom’s Blake Edward Conley equates his song, “Dancing Plastic Flowers,” to the musical equivalent of a choose-your-own-adventure novel — you can always find a new path to journey down. Conley laughs in an attempt to explain. “Well, instrumental music is…
Record Review: Rabbit on Acid – ‘Moon Rabbit’
The music of Rabbit on Acid is, as you might expect from the name, an ever-shifting psychedelic landscape. But, where their previous releases included singer-songwriter influenced tunes, Moon Rabbit is a complex electronic album that recalls an early-aughts, turn-of-the-century Warp Records vibe. The result is an album that mines each groove and sound to the…
Record Review: Quality – ‘Cable Static’
Golden indie-pop hooks ride waves of chilly psychedelia on Quality Cable’s four-song EP, Static. The sharp and contemplative record is scattered with jazz-leaning twists and turns, one of the many symptoms of its four creators all being music students. High-IQ versatility is mixed with visceral catchiness, forming smooth, but oddball songs that live in the…
Record Review: Glob – ‘Cure For Culture’
On Cure For Culture, Glob builds psychedelic garage-punk in thick clouds of distortion, combining a Stooges-like wildness with an early Jesus & Mary Chain sort of hazy atmosphere to form a thick, explosive cocktail. About a maze of those swirling dark thoughts that won’t quiet, Cure For Culture searches for the light behind the storm.…
Record Review: Ron – ‘Mamaw’s Ouija Board’
There is some kind of insane charm to Mamaw’s Ouija Board, the latest from Ron. The band channels a drunken fury, a stumbling sort of punk rock that slurs like an uncle at Thanksgiving, although not the sort that pops off in regrettable ways. There is a primitive frenzy to their music, a primordial rage…
Louisville Ballet’s ‘The Tempest’ made Magic
“The Tempest” is the kind of play people either love or hate, but wherever you fall, it’s hard to deny that it’s one of Shakespeare’s most visually stunning plays. A violent storm and shipwreck, a magical island and ethereal water sprites are just a few of the images that flow across the stage. It’s probably…
David Cross on Trump: ‘I think we’ll correct ourselves’
It was no laughing matter when comedian David Cross reunited with his former comedy partner and “Mr. Show” co-creator Bob Odenkirk last year, on Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-nominated drama “The Post.” “It’s nerve-racking to be telling such an important story that is so timely,” Cross recalled. Dramatic roles aside, Cross is best known as a…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Justice League Dark’ and ‘Dead Life’
‘Justice League Dark’ No. 1 Writer James Tynion IV, artist Alvaro Martinez Bueno Review by Meredith Harris, The Great Escape Louisville In terms of publishing, the magic side of the DC universe has been lacking lately. By that, I mean it’s basically fallen solely on John Constantine and his “Hellblazer” title. But those times are…
New Albany Dragon King’s Daughter ?achieves enlightenment
The dragon king’s daughter, ancient Buddhist tradition tells us, was an 8-year-old female dragon that became the first woman ever to reach enlightenment. Female, young, in the form of an animal? It seemed impossible for such a creature to attain Buddhahood — and yet she did it. There could be no more appropriate spirit animal…
Gravely Brewing to celebrate one year with a rare new IPA… and Wax Fang
New England-style IPAs have been all the rage for many craft beer drinkers and the object of scorn from others — particularly brewers. For its one-year anniversary, Gravely Brewing Co. is going in a different direction. Brewery co-owner and head brewer Cory Buenning, who prefers clean, crisp beers such as pilsners and lagers, has brewed…
Ask Minda Honey: Let’s Play with Instagram’s? New Questions Feature!
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 This week’s questions come from Instagram’s new question feature, but you can always shoot me your Qs at the email addy above or on my Ask Minda Honey Facebook page (Are you…
Savage Love: Après Pill, Le Déluge
Q: I’m a 27-year-old woman living on the East Coast. I’ve been sexually active and on birth control since I was 16 — almost always on the pill. I recently switched to the NuvaRing, which I had a bad reaction to: I had no libido at all and extreme mood swings/bouts of depression I could…
For Q’s sake, read this aloud and loudly!
I’ve figured it! If Q is Trump, and Trump is Q, and pizza is pedophiliac because Killary shoots wild horses in Benghazi on slush funds maintained by radioactive emails hidden within the chainsaw massacre world of dark web philosophers, cartel kingpins and pornographic liberals getting stoned by licking the ick off of the backs of…
A Letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell From the Heyburn Nine
[Ed. note: This was written by the nine people who were arrested July 26 after blocking entrance to a federal immigration court in the Heyburn Building on Broadway.] Sen. McConnell, On July 31, you declared in the Courier Journal your alignment with the interests of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. You also made it…
JCPS settlement equals ?re-segregation
The Bevin administration is up to something. He didn’t campaign on it, he never announced it as part of his agenda, he certainly hasn’t begun a public dialogue with constituents… but everything he has done relating to Jefferson County Public Schools is what one would do if they intend to end student busing — to…
