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10 takes on what 2019 holds for Louisville, Kentucky and the nation
“One of Fred’s childhood memories was the arrival of the family in Louisville. How strange that dark sky had looked; how he had started and wondered. (You didn’t study “petrochemical smog” in the first grade.) ‘Daddy,’ he’d asked, ‘What’s that? Why’s the air so dark?’ ‘That’s civilization, son,’ his father told him, not without pride.…
A Q&A with photographer Sam English
Sam English (samenglish.com) came to photography, to use his phrase, “later in life.” So, he dislikes it when people say that “they aren’t creative or don’t have ‘an eye.’ I bet otherwise. Pick up a camera and start taking pictures of something that interests you. Try it, spend time, fail, succeed, try again. If not…
Christmas Cheers: Seven local holiday beers you should try
Holiday beers are often spiced with adjuncts meant to dazzle your senses, the glow from cinnamon or the comfort of nutmeg, and the Louisville and Southern Indiana microbreweries carry on that tradition. The holidays can be an intense time of year, whether that’s because of having to organize family functions or having to find the…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week (12/24)
WEDNESDAY – DEC. 26 K&I Model Railroad Club Winter Wonderland Southwest Regional Library – Louisville Free Public Library Free | 9 a.m.-9 p.m. What better time than the holidays (school break) to take in a train show? The enthusiasts of the Kentucky & Indiana Model Railroad Club have brought you their best model trains to…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (12/21)
FRIDAY – DEC. 21 Magic at the Mansion Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site, New Albany Adults $20-$30, Children $15 | 6:30 p.m., 9 p.m. No trick, magician Richard Darshwood will be performing at the opulent Culbertson Mansion on Friday. He’ll have two shows: the earlier one for all-ages, and the second one for adults over…
Justice-seekers allege widespread mistreatment by LMPD based on race
In response to a violent arrest of a black, Louisville man, a group of Louisville organizations and residents Wednesday sharply rebuked what they said is the historic mistreatment of people of color by Louisville police. “Black and Brown people are held in lower esteem than animals because even dogs in Louisville are protected from the…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
You can run Matt, but not hide | Thorn Gov. Matt Griswold Bevin found out last week that multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning ProPublica is teaming with the Courier Journal to investigate “a state program.” No word from the CJ about which program, but the announcement pushed Matt into an online tirade. “This is why so many…
Tyler Childers talks about his reflective album, ‘Purgatory’
About a year ago, the alt-country musician Tyler Childers played a 400-capacity room in Louisville. Compare that to now — his late-December three-night stand at the Louisville Palace, a 2,600-person theater, is completely sold out. The catalyst of his quick rise was his record Purgatory, a sharp and contemplative reflection of living, hustling, trying to…
Four bands and solo musicians to keep an eye on in 2019
Louisville has no shortage of original bands, and new ones seem to start almost every week. Since this is LEO’s Future Issue, we decided to highlight four young bands that we think you should be paying attention to. Cowboy Kevin & The Kush Bandits Nashville is over-saturated with country bands, but, oddly, 178 miles north…
Six concerts that you shouldn’t miss between now and the new year
With the annual Best Of The Web issue coming next week, this will be LEO’s last music section of 2018. Some years, the last two weeks of December in Louisville is a concert dead zone, but not this time around, so we’re going to highlight six concerts that you shouldn’t miss between now and 2019.…
Actors Theatre will ‘Share the Spark’ With Lovers of American Theater
Actors Theatre’s 43rd annual Humana Festival of New American Plays is all about new. So, new this year is “Share the Spark,” an encore panel in the last week of the festival that will be made up of panelists selected from public submissions. That’s right… Anyone with a vision for the future of American theater…
Comedian Rich Ragains: ADHD and comedy… Ha!
Jokes have their time, and sometimes they get stale, according to stand-up comedian Rich Ragains. “Let’s be honest, Billy Ray Cyrus doesn’t ever want to sing ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ again. So, it’s up to the fans to sing it in the shower every morning,” he said. Don’t expect old jokes when Ragains headlines The Caravan…
Martin’s lands in old Lynn’s ?with decent ‘cue, no ugly lamps
Five and a half years and about 500 rumors later, the long-vacant space that had long housed Louisville’s Lynn’s Paradise Cafe is occupied again. Martin’s Bar-B-Que, a small Nashville-based barbecue chain, reopened the Barrett Avenue A-frame in late August as its eighth property. Lynn’s, which had enjoyed a 21-year run either beloved or mocked for…
Vibrant spirits of Mexico City
Every few months or so, I get the itch to get out of town. I’m a travel and culture junkie at heart, and particularly when the bitter cold rolls around, I begin perusing the Hopper app to see where the wind may take me. I pulled the ticket trigger, and this past week, I embarked…
See ya later, alligator
I was a regular at Joe’s OK Bayou back in the early 2000s, and that was where I first tried alligator tail. It was fried, a bit chewy and nothing special, but I ordered it fairly often because it was something different, something novel. Maybe there was just something interesting about being able to eat…
Savage Love: Quickies
Q: I’m a kinky single woman who keeps attracting the wrong men for me—specifically, submissive guys into face-sitting. I’m submissive myself, and face-sitting is not a turn-on for me. But the vast majority of men who hit on me have this fetish. I think it’s a size-related issue—a my-size-related issue. I’m a full-figured/curvy woman with…
2019: Governor picks, Bevin’s fears are real
So this is the future issue, then. Do we break the cardinal rule for op-ed writers: Never try to predict the future? We do that every week, with such an abysmal failure rate that we’d be soundly thrashed by someone chucking darts from a 50-foot oche. This is the only “creative” project I have ever…
2019, waiting for the flood
As we go steamrolling through the wall of 2018 to meet the “future,” some of us seem to have an urge to peer backward in an attempt to suss it all out and try to place the who with the what and the where with the why… and, bada bing, bada boom, here’s your year…
What will/should happen ?in 2019?
Good, bad or embarrassing, much of the future is predictable. Amazon and Walmart— the wealthiest companies in the world — still won’t pay employees livable wages. Elon Musk will be the first person to live on Mars, and Donald Trump will be the first president removed from the White House. The crystal ball for Louisville…
