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Heroes or losers? History shows Trump’s rise and failure a familiar story
So, OK, history is not likely to place our more local heroes Daniel Boone, John Floyd, George Rogers Clark and Ohio and Missouri river travelers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Clark’s slave York in the same canoe with Donald Trump. It would be kind of like an orange with a bunch of apples. The Donald…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (12/07)
MONDAY, Dec. 7 Apply For Civilian Review Board Online Free | Anytime Metro government will be collecting resumes through close of business, Dec. 10 for members of the public who wish to serve on a new board that will help investigate claims of police misconduct, internal reports on police killings and LMPD practices and procedures.…
Photo Set: Church plants crosses to memorialize record number of city homicide victims
As the city shatters its homicide record with nearly 150 so far this year, the Highland Baptist Church continued its 23-year tradition of placing crosses on its front lawn to mark the deaths and memorialize the victims. One aspect was sadly different this year. “Friends, the fact is that there are too many names for…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Weekend (12/4)
SATURDAY, Dec. 5 Highlands Can’t You See What The System Has Done To Him? 1244 East Broadway Free | 4 p.m. Louisville’s protests haven’t stopped with the cold weather. A rally, organized by White Radicals Against Thoughtless Hate, is scheduled for this weekend at Broadway and Baxter so participants can “chant for equality so loud”…
Gov. Beshear needs help making preventive pandemic messages stick in Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. – It’s rare for a high-ranking official to seek advice publicly, but that’s exactly what Gov. Andy Beshear did Wednesday at his daily coronavirus briefing, seemingly at wit’s end when it comes to persuading Kentuckians to follow his emergency orders and help thwart the accelerating pandemic. Beshear was asked by Melissa Patrick of…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Symbiote Spider-Man: King In Black’ & ‘Miskatonic’
‘Symbiote Spider-Man: King In Black’ No. 1 Writer Peter David and artists Greg Land, Jay Leisten and Frank D’Armata Review by Krystal Moore, The Great Escape Louisville At the end of Marvel Comics’ Secret Wars storyline, Peter Parker’s costume is destroyed on an alien planet. He’s given a new one, all black and with the…
Savage Love: Losing Out
Q: I’m a lesbian and my girlfriend is bi. I’ve read your column and listened to your podcast for a long time, Dan, and I always thought I’d be fine with having a partner ask me about being monogamish. Then my girlfriend of about a year and a half told me she wants to see what…
7 recently-released songs from Louisville musicians
It’s been a long and draining year, one with injustices scattered across the nation and a global health crisis. By now, one way or another, that’s baked into all of the music you’re hearing, locally and beyond. And you’ll definitely hear aspects in the following playlist. As we do every month or so, here are…
New Indian grocery leads us back to Shreeji
Back in the ‘90s, I lived for a while on New York City’s Lower East Side. It was quite an experience for a Louisville boy, and one of the best things about it was my proximity to Indian Restaurant Row. That’s what we called the block of Second Street between First and Second avenues, anyway,…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (12/02)
Thorn: What is it with cops and Nazis? The Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training featured a Nazi symbol — a sonnenrad or sunwheel — in a training video, duPont Manual High School’s newspaper, Manual RedEye, reported. Recall that the RedEye broke the story that a Kentucky State Police training video quoted Hitler and Robert E.…
State GOP Priority? Attack Andy
Talking sports with my dad over Thanksgiving weekend, he remarked that he’s not rooting against anyone any longer. While he still has his favorite teams and players, he realized he wasn’t rooting against anyone. He surmised this was the result of individually and collectively as a country, enduring so much hatred and division over the…
‘All Hands On Deck. Keep Going!’ – Travis Nagdy
Trying to make sense of out something senseless often doesn’t make sense. I had the opportunity to meet Travis at Injustice Square Park, as many of us did following the tragic murder of Breonna Taylor. Whether you knew him by Travis or his nickname Cairo, whether you were at Injustice Square Park one day or…
