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The last bridge is built — but are we happy now?
Back in the late 1700s, more than 200 years before the East End Bridge loomed above us all, settlers were making their way across the Ohio River from Harrods Creek to Utica, Indiana, by ferry. The early 1800s trips were less than $2, although a dime in 1775 is worth $2.90 today, so it’s all…
A review of Mile Wide’s first six beers
Hidden away in the back of the Diamonds complex off Barret Avenue is the newest addition to the growing family of Louisville microbreweries, Mile Wide Beer Co. With an open-space layout, Mile Wide is a warm and inviting atmosphere with plenty of room to put your feet up and hang out with friends. And that…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (12/19)
MONDAY Bourbon Pop Up Gift Shop Green Building Free | 5 p.m. This event promises to take the “Louisville bourbon experience to the next level.” With retailers offering “bourbon analogous gifts for those looking to surprise the Bourbon lover for the Holidays.” And it wouldn’t be a true bourbon event without bourbon cocktails on hand…
Squirrels, Sea-Doos and their first live performance: The Annual Christmas Album Band celebrates a decade
The Louisville folk group, The Annual Christmas Album Band, has released Christmas-themed albums on Dec. 25 every year since 2007. This year they will release their tenth-annual Christmas album. To mark the occasion, they will play their first live show on Dec. 20 at the Nachbar. This year’s album will be a best-of collection of…
Staple guns through shoulders and nails through nostrils: A glimpse into the strange sideshow world of Octo Claw’s Bizarre Bazaar
So, there’s this drag queen onstage. Her name is Sofawnda Peters. She done up to the nines, her face stamped, and her outfit looking tight. She’s singing in a mirror, lip synching to Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary.” Of course, the mirror is just a frame. On the other side of the frame is Stevie Dicks,…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (12/16)
FRIDAY Quiet Hollers – Hollerday Yuletide Food Drive Headliners $10 | 9 p.m. Local cool guys (and band) Quiet Hollers is hosting a kick-ass food drive, and they want you to come party with them. It’s a night of live music with acts by them, Sun Seeker and Shadowpact. The event also doubles as a…
UofL cheating scandal, either Coach Bobby Petrino is lying or out of control of his team
Louisville, we have a problem The cesspool that is UofL is deeper than ever. Football Head Coach Bobby Petrino could be lying again, and Athletic Director Tom Jurich is testing the weight limit on his throne — a self-anointed king who reigns over an empire of for-profit college athletics. Jurich’s admission that UofL’s coaching staff…
Saving Louisville’s trees, one ordinance at a time — three views on what needs to be done
We at LEO recently called on Greater Louisville Inc., the city’s chamber of commerce, to support a tree ordinance proposed by Metro Louisville Councilman Bill Hollander. We took issue with GLI’s opposition to new rules for protecting trees, because, the group has said, protecting Louisville’s diminishing canopy could be accomplished through education and voluntary, incentive-based…
UK fans value excess and dominance, winning the games isn’t enough
For a moment, and only a moment, the world made sense. Not just the basketball world — to a Kentuckian, the basketball world always makes sense, even if we have to rearrange the parameters of nature to fit our delusions. (I’ll die believing Tubby Smith had a bad fax machine, Eddie Sutton wasn’t paying players…
UofL’s defense and front-court size will dominate
So, the real question: Does the University of Louisville have a chance? Of course. But after losing nine of 10 games to the University of Kentucky since coach John Calipari arrived, it also feels like UofL’s never again going to win another battle of the Bluegrass. Do I expect the Cards to win when they…
An excerpt of the proposed ?tree ordinance
WHEREAS, the 2015 Louisville Urban Tree Canopy Assessment found that there was 37 percent canopy coverage overall in Louisville Metro as of 2012, a 3 percent loss from 2004 to 2012; an average of 54,000 trees have been lost per year over the eight year period studied; threats associated with invasive pests could lead to…
Councilman: a plan to save and restore city tree canopy
When I ran for office in 2014 and knocked on thousands of doors, I heard a lot about trees. Residents told me that trees were one of the real attractions of their neighborhoods and worried about a declining tree canopy. You don’t have to be a scientist to know the value of urban trees. They…
A GLI letter to LEO: we do like trees
Let’s get serious LEO. GLI is not against trees. In fact Greater Louisville Inc. would like to strongly restate its support of certain initiatives to increase the tree canopy of Louisville. The notion of our organization and its 1,500 member businesses being against things that make our region a more attractive place to live and…
A solid first step
At Louisville Grows, we know that trees build communities. After planting nearly 1,500 trees in neighborhoods in recent years through our Love Louisville Trees program, we see the connection that grows over the fresh-turned soil of a newly-planted tree and under the canopy of long-standing specimens. For every tree we plant, however, about 80 are…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst and Best
Kentucky Yesterday | Thorn Kentucky Today, the online shill for the Kentucky Baptist Convention, “because you deserve the truth,” has given Gov. Matt Bevin an A+ for his first year in office. But not before railing against The Courier-Journal and Lexington Herald-Leader for having out-of-town, corporate owners and being “reliable mouthpieces for liberals bent on…
‘Fun is not always the objective’: Yoko Molotov talks new Harpy record, performing in dressing rooms and Tycoon$ of Teen
It’s somehow entirely accurate, and wholly inaccurate, that Yoko Molotov operates a solo project under the name Harpy. So named for a mythical monster, half woman and half bird of prey, the name has long since become associated with shrill and unpleasant people. Molotov is certainly a strange bird and one that flies her freak…
The Stick People are set to perform their first show in 18 years
Before the days of My Morning Jacket and Houndmouth, in the magical decade called the ‘90s, alternative rock was king in Louisville, and The Stick People was one of the biggest bands in town. Next week, they will reunite for the first time since playing their last show at Butchertown Pub 18 years ago. Jeremy…
‘Night and Day,’ two artists change and contrast
When you think of Tom Pfannerstill’s art, you do not envision paintings. But Pfannerstill, well-known for his trompe l’oeil trash sculpture, has assembled a collection of acrylic-on-panel paintings of night scenes. Fortunately, the exhibition title “Night and Day” hints at the change and highlights the contrast with co-exhibitor Caroline Waite’s mixed-media pieces. Pfannerstill’s new black…
New Publisher Endever, fostering collaboration
Love that grows beyond the power of death? Readers can find clever perspectives on that classic literary motif within the first two novels issued by an innovative publishing venture founded by Louisvillian Andrew Toy. And writers might find even more. Endever Publishing Studios was started earlier this year. Toy, like many novelists seeking inroads at…
Michael Turner, ‘I question the whole system and the lunacy’
Michael Turner was born and raised in Cincinnati but left at 19 to attend Arizona State University in Phoenix, where he began performing stand-up comedy. In his relatively-short career — he started performing comedy in 2012 — Turner has become one of the stand-out comics in the Phoenix scene. He also cohosts a weekly podcast…
Choose A bridge and go to Portage House
The East End Bridge is slated to open this weekend, and when it does, Louisville will have more ways to get across the Ohio River than ever: four by car and one on foot or via bicycle. This is good news, because Southern Indiana has more good places to eat and drink than ever these…
Vote on your fave IPA; Mile Wide opens
Goodwood Brewing is having a tough time making up its mind, and it wants your help. The brewers have been busy working on a recipe for a new flagship IPA, and have narrowed it to three. That’s where you come in. On Thursday, Dec. 29, Goodwood will host a tasting event at which you’ll get…
Gimme some dim sum
Our Louisville restaurant scene is forever keeping up with the Jones, looking for the next creative concept, striving to provide a unique experience and an unforgettable night for patrons. Be it a five-course meal infused with hemp, or a pop-up holiday-themed cocktail bar inhabiting an existing bar for only December (see also: “Miracle” inside Rye…
Ask Minda Honey: How To Handle Nosy Relatives
Ask Minda Honey is LEO Weekly’s relationship advice column. Write MInda with your dating, love and relationship questions at AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com or follow her on Twitter at @MindaHoney Last week, a close friend sent me a frustrated text message. She’s tired of family members asking her when she plans to get married. Marriage isn’t one of her…
Savage Love: Slouching Toward 2017
Q: Perhaps you’re not the best person to ask, being a cis white man, but as a queer woman of color, the election had an extremely detrimental effect on my relationships with my white partners. I love and care for them, but looking at those results has me wondering why the fuck they didn’t do…
UofL Jurich in abusive ménage a trois, Bevin hates Louisville
So, looking forward to the KFC Yum! Center becoming Louisville’s latest white elephant? Right on the heels of us investing in an architecturally-banal convention centre and tarting up our ‘international’ airport with last decades’ hipster craft-centric aesthetic. What a perfect storm of inept financial and infrastructural leadership. I see what you’re throwing down there. I…
Mean Season
I knew we were in trouble when Sheryl Sandberg wanted us to #BanBossy. Sandberg is Facebook chief operating officer and author of the how-to-get-moms-to-the-boardroom-table-without-feeling-guilty book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead.” Her book offers women a recipe for success, including forgiveness, if they couldn’t manage to “have it all,” after all. If…
UofL — Blackmailing in the city
UofL Athletics Director Tom Jurich has threatened the city and, by extension, UofL fans, saying the Cardinals should leave the KFC Yum! Center and build their own arena on campus. “If they don’t want us in there just tell us — we’ll leave,” Jurich said on the radio show, WLOU1350 “D&D Spill the Tea.” Who,…
Your Voice
on editor’s note: why not a west end va? I have been saying this for years: Why is everything going out east when you have space here right downtown … — Fabian Roberts … Those of us who have been fighting this boondoggle project for four years have, unfortunately, found the senator and mayor confoundedly,…
