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Best of the web: Our favorite leoweekly.com stories from 2015
As we dropped a massive leoweekly.com website redesign at the beginning of this year, we were basically given a blank canvas. New ideas had to follow a new format, and we’ve spent a large portion of this year slowly and steadily solidifying where we intend to bring our online presence. We wanted it to reflect what…
Visually Speaking: this week’s art news and events (1/4)
[The above image of ceramic spoon rests is by Jana John who will at Mellwood’s Second Saturday Demonstrations.] Second Saturday Demonstrations at Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center, 1860 Mellwood Ave., on Saturday, Jan. 9 at 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (mellwoodartcenter.com). “Portals: The Space Within” by Fred Wiesener and Catherine Wiesener at Gallery Janjobe, Mellwood Arts and…
Looking Back on 2015
2015 was a historic year for the LGBTQ community. The Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality on June 26, 2015, was a monumental victory and certainly a moment that, going forward, will shape the unending movement for equality and justice. But there were other moments, locally, that influenced LGBTQ individuals in a pivotal way last…
The Woman Who Tracked Fire
The buzzer of the UpStairs Lounge rings incessantly, and a patron is asked to see who it is. He opens the door and the blast is sudden, overwhelming. He never knows what hit him. Scorched by the incredible heat, I jump from my table near the stairwell and run. Flames barrel under the indoor/outdoor carpet,…
The 2015 LEO Playlist: Our favorite local songs of the year
Maximon — “Flame” Hearing Maximon’s “Flame” for the first time feels like discovering something, like the feeling you get when you’re 15 and it all sounds brand new and endlessly exciting. The fact that I’ve played it countless times on repeat only lends to that old realization. Right from the beginning, with those vocals somewhat reminiscent…
Plugged In
Wed Dec 30 8UP: High Sounds with DJ Matt Anthony; 7:30 p.m. Baxter’s 942: Full Contact Karaoke; 10 p.m. Bearno’s (Highlands): Ryan Conroy; 8 p.m. Brooke & Billy’s: Tyrone Cotton; 6 p.m. Brownies The Shed (Hurstbourne): Karaoke; 10 p.m. dREAMLAND: David Grubbs; 8 p.m. Gerstle’s Place: Kimmet & Doug; 9 p.m. Goodwood Brewing: Open Mic…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE 2015; $19.99-26.99; R This thing is an absolute hoot! Three dim-witted “teens” (Tye “Last Man Standing” Sheridan, Logan “I’m in the Band” Miller, and first-time actor Joey Morgan) having outgrown their childhood Scout troup, go on one last camp-out just as raging rotters come a-bustin’…
Unused (random) ?2015 thoughts
As I sit in a our one-year-old conference room, eyes glazed over the glow of a computer screen, caught somewhere between a Christmas party coma, UofL-UK basketball coma, food coma and beverage coma, pondering what I could possibly write for the 52nd issue of LEO 2015, it occurs to me that there are so many…
