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Not Just For Fun: The Role Of E-Scooters In Urban Planning
When Mike Sewell, a civil engineer with Gresham Smith, designed the urban bike network along Sixth Street in 2015, he wanted to connect downtown to more residential areas and encourage more people to bicycle on their commute. As a bike commuter, he said he considered himself “a purist” when Bird scooters first showed up in…
A Night Out In The Louisville Salsa Underground
“1,2,3…face your partner…5,6,7…1,2,3…Leads turn…5,6,7… let’s try that two more times,” said instructor David Sommer at beginner’s salsa night at Butchertown Social. The makeshift dance floor was crowded with people of varying ages, ethnicities, genders and dance skills, together shifting their feet forward and back to the instruction of a trained salsa dancer. “A little…
Young writers cover Pandora Productions’ Louisville premiere of ‘Fun Home’
When Pandora Productions premiered the Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home,” four high school students set out to cover different aspects as part of Arts Bureau Edge, a youth arts journalism program. The coverage was part of the program’s most recent workshop. “Fun Home,” based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir of the same name, recounts her…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (12/09)
MONDAY, Dec. 9 Student Assignment Community Forum Louisville Urban League Free | 6:30-8:30 p.m. Voice your opinion on proposed changes to Jefferson County Public Schools’ student assignment plan, which helps determine where your kids will attend. One idea is to give some students another option if they choose not to attend a magnet school. Learn…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (12/06)
FRIDAY, Dec. 6 Bookstock: Meet the World’s Finest Spirits Writers Copper & Kings Distillery $15 | 6-10 p.m. Sixteen of what are promised to be the “world’s finest” spirits and cocktail writers are coming to Louisville for two days of enlightening talks (and, of course, some drinking, too). On Friday, your ticket nets you a…
Louisville’s ‘Dark Waters’
Louisville’s drinking water is the best tasting tap water in the country. That’s what we’ve been told by the American Water Works Association — twice! Even actress Busy Philipps said so after doing a blind taste test on “Live with Kelly and Michael” in 2015. Plus, Louisville pure tap®, which comes from the Ohio River,…
Politics Can’t Be A Sport
Twenty-one years ago, I wrote a column in LEO about the impeachment of President Bill Clinton that is the one I still regret most. I argued, with perfect logic but little sensitivity, that Clinton was entitled to lie to a Grand Jury because the prosecutor was not entitled to ask him about a private, consensual…
The Fight For Public Opinion: LG&E vs. Bernheim
First came a press release from Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest about a rare snail found on its property in May. Bernheim claimed the snail would be hurt by a natural gas pipeline planned for the area by LG&E KU. Soon after, the nonprofit launched a zealous publicity campaign against the project, with a web…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Thorn: Pompeo, A Loyal Flush U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke at UofL’s McConnell Center’s Distinguished Speaker Series this week. It was proof that the bar is as low as Hades for whom U.S. Sen. Mitch “By Any Means” McConnell deems “distinguished.” The only way Pompeo has distinguished himself is as complicit in the…
Pile’s Rick Maguire On Aging, Religion And A Trump Advisor
Over the last 12 years, Pile has become a noise-rock institution, achieving their cult following by releasing seven records in quick succession, while also aggressively touring. After a recent lineup change, Pile relocated from Boston to Nashville, where they shaped the critically-acclaimed, full-length Green and Gray. We caught up with songwriter and guitarist Rick Maguire…
Wax Fang’s New EP, Repetition, Gives Life To Old, Unreleased Songs
Last week, the psychedelic art-rock band Wax Fang released a surprise four-song EP called Repetition, which was, years ago, initially supposed to be a full-length and the follow-up to their 2007 album, La La Land. “It was to include these four tracks, a few others which I wrote around that time, and a couple from…
Sonic Breakdown: Molly O’Malley — ‘That Scares Me!!!!!’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from an area musician or band.] Molly O’Malley’s “That Scares Me!!!!!” deals with one of life’s most important lessons: the art of talking about emotions. “To me, it’s about how fucking terrifying vulnerability is,” O’Malley said. “It’s scary as hell. I remember when I was younger…
Actors Theatre Enters New Era: Focus On Heartland, Says New Artistic Director
Robert Barry Fleming came home to Kentucky six months ago to become the artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, replacing Les Waters, who did the job from 2012 to 2018. Homecomings in the world of professional theater seem to be rare, at least here in the heartland. Fleming, 55, who grew up in Frankfort…
Fresh Take, Funnier ‘Santaland’
Warm-hearted Christmas plays about the magical, charitable nature of the season, or Christmas movies about falling in love as snow gently accents the scene, are all well and good, but sometimes we need something with a little more Christmas punch. Those who work in retail understand better than most that Christmas can be at least…
Comedian Darryl Lenox: ‘Uglier Than Urkel’
Comedian Darryl Lenox is as inspiring as he is hilarious, considering he’s been legally blind since he was a teenager. “People with disabilities are stubborn. We’re like, ‘This is what I have, but this is what I’m going to do.’ People without disabilities — they tap out a lot sooner,” he told LEO. Catch him…
Psst… Local Art Makes Best Gifts
Poor Thanksgiving. It gets so little lovin’ because it’s a slippery slope of consumerism the minute Halloween candy is half price. That said, local visual and performing arts groups want in on that Christmas/Hanukkah/Festivus money too. Here’s a sampling of what’s happening during the holidays. Season’s greetings! Blow Ho-Ho at Hyland Glass through Dec. 22, hylandglass.com.…
Fine Dining At Sou!, No Matter How You Say It
SOU might mean “South.” It could represent “soul.” Yet, the proper way to pronounce the name of this new Plainview-area eatery is not “sow” or “soo” but “So-you.” Intentional ambiguity seems to lie at the heart of this upscale dining room in a thoroughly renovated, former Skyline Chili parlor, and that’s all right. SOU! is…
Family-Friendly Brewery: To Beer or Not to Beer?
Before having kids, we considered enthusiastically petitioning for adult-only days at the zoo and animated movies. Now, with two elementary school-age girls — and a nearly insatiable appetite for good beer and taproom vibes — it’s no surprise that our kids know their way around a brewery. But, having been on both sides of the…
Ask Minda Honey: My Partner Doesn’t Want To Be Poly
In a relationship or life jam? Send your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com or reach me on Facebook.com/AskMindaHoney Dear Minda, I am interested in an open/poly relationship, and my partner isn’t. I love her deeply, but I can’t deny feelings I have for others. I’ve never acted on them, but to continue to deny their existence is…
Savage Love: Quickies
Q: My ex-girlfriend, who I dated for nine months, called me two months after we broke up and accused me of giving her HPV. She was going on, telling me how I needed to tell any future person I had sex with that I have HPV. I’m a 38-year-old man, and I’ve never had any…
