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They Are Lions: A New Louisville School For Boys’ Powerful Push To Make History
Principal Robert Earl Gunn Jr. told them to close the cafeteria doors. He’d already shooed out the television cameras and parents craning their necks for one last look on this historic day — the opening of the new W.E.B. DuBois Academy. In their smiles and too-long jacket sleeves, crooked ties and untied shoelaces, with jitters…
Bob Seger’s final tour delivers
When garage rock pioneer, radio hit machine and five-decade road warrior Bob Seger took the stage at the KFC Yum Center on Saturday night during his final tour, my main concern was how his vocals would be. Seger’s always had a strong, well-controlled voice, even as it has gotten grittier through the years, but it’s…
Where to find the best chicken livers in Louisville
A somewhat polarizing dish, chicken livers aren’t a menu staple in Louisville. So, finding a plate of good chicken livers that are not too greasy can be an odyssey. The great news for Southern fried weirdos with a taste for paté is that we at LEO have got you covered. So, skip Kroger and Lee’s…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week (12/10)
MONDAY – DEC. 10 Louisville Mandolin Orchestra Holiday Sing-Along Southwest Regional Library – Louisville Free Public Library Free | 7-8 p.m. Who knew Louisville has a mandolin orchestra? Well, it will be playing your holiday favorites to sing along to. Refreshments also will be served. TUESDAY – DEC. 11 KMAC Poetry Slam KMAC Museum Free …
Statue of anti-immigrant publisher to be moved, but Castleman statue remains for now
Finally, the city is moving one of its controversial statues. The George D. Prentice statue behind the library downtown will be sent to storage, the Mayor’s Office said Monday. The announcement comes some five months after Mayor Greg Fischer said in August that the Prentice and the John B. Castleman statues would be moved. No…
LEO Podcast #69: Teri Dryden
Contributing Arts Editor Jo Anne Triplett interviews artist Teri Dryden about her recent residency at Shiro Oni Studio in Onishi, Japan.
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (12/07)
FRIDAY – DEC. 7 Nerdlouvia 2018 824 S. Fourth St. $10-$40 | Times vary Louisville’s tabletop gaming convention is Saturday and Sunday, but on Friday at 7 p.m., the nerds of Louisville are convening for a VIP party with live music, which you can attend for $10. On Saturday, the main event ($20-$40) begins with…
A Q&A with Yoko Molotov, creator of the illustrated book “Babes of Louisville”
A burlesque performer, a human pincushion and a guitar-wielding trans woman are just a few of the vibrant people featured in Yoko Molotov’s new illustrated book, “Babes of Louisville.” Molotov, a multimedia artist and musician, has spent the last two years curating a list of 50 people, all of whom she personally knows and has…
Kentucky Supreme Court to? Gov. Bevin — read our lips
It has been long said that federal special prosecutor Robert Mueller never comments but “speaks through his indictments.” Recently, the Kentucky Supreme Court might have spoken too — in this case through its calendar. In an unprecedented extra November rendition (court-speak for a release of decisions), the court dropped major decisions upholding the legislature’s recent…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd (12/5)
Why Brohm turned down UofL | Absurd “Sources say Jeff Brohm was ready to come to Louisville, but some Hurstbourne residents were afraid he’d increase traffic and noise,” quipped LEO contributor and vaunted comedian Creig Ewing. Football once again brings out the brightest | Thorn & Absurd On a more serious note, Brohm’s alma mater…
Five ways you can make the local music scene better
For 11 years, I had my hands in several aspects of concert promotion, working at standing-room venues that hold from 100 to 400 people, all of which booked local and touring acts. And, after each show, I listened closely to the comments and complaints of everybody involved: the band, the venue employees and the fans…
The Winger Brothers release debut album, ‘Live At T. Eddie’s’
Four years into a career, many bands have two or three albums. But then again, these other bands aren’t The Winger Brothers. So, when it came time for the local country band to finally cut their debut, the Wingers slated a more unorthodox course. Because, well, it’s The Winger Brothers. “I’d been really into this…
The Look Back: Revisiting Bob Seger’s? Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man
[The Look Back is an occasional column in which we dive into a notable album from a band or musician with a deep discography before they perform in Louisville.] Before Against The Wind, before Night Moves, before the Silver Bullet Band even existed, Bob Seger made gritty, experimental garage rock. It was far from the…
Divine Intervention Found in ‘Greetings!’ a ‘must-see’ from Bunbury
The holidays are a time to get together with the family you don’t have a chance to see throughout the year. This can be comforting and sweet for some, but for many of us, it comes with its own special brand of stress headache. That’s certainly true for Andy Gorski in “Greetings!” at Bunbury Theatre,…
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Follows the Leaders
Sometimes timing is everything. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said as much in a telephone discussion with LEO about her new book “Leadership in Turbulent Times.” This volume has been in the works for several years and yet the timing of its publication seems almost preordained. Right now, America could use an authoritatively focused look…
Comedians Jessa Reed and Aaron Woodall: Mormon + meth = ha!
Normal people don’t find The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or crystal meth addiction especially funny. Luckily, stand-up comedians Jessa Reed and Aaron Woodall aren’t normal people. Together, Reed, a self-described “former meth-head,” and Woodall, a “recovering” Mormon, cohost a darkly funny, touching podcast, “The Mormon and the Meth-head.” They come Monday to…
A feast without meat at V-Grits
Frankly, it’s not that hard to be a vegetarian cook. Armed with all the world’s fruits and vegetables and a bounty of dairy products, it’s easy to produce a vegetarian dish so rich and succulent that your diners won’t miss meat. But vegan chefs — such as Chef Kristina Addington and the black-clad geniuses who…
Down one for the sickness
On the first day of December, my true love gave to me… a sinus infection and a deeply-congested head and chest. No partridge. No pear trees. It appears everyone around me is hacking and wiping and blowing their noses through the beginning of December, as the Derby City’s weather tends to be radically different from…
Find of the month: ?smoked ghost chilies at TJ’s
My friends know of my affinity for hot sauce, hot chili peppers and anything spicy. I enjoy the heat, and I like to punish my palate with it. It wasn’t always this way. I remember being 11 or 12 and adding too many red pepper flakes to my pizza, to the point that I couldn’t…
Savage Love: Cringe and Purge
Q: I’m a 59-year-old man in good health. For basically my whole adult life, I’ve had this problem during intercourse with a woman of (1) being very quick to come and (2) having a too intense “cringey” sensation when I come. This has led to often going soft at the prospect of intercourse. This too-intense…
Mitch’s a git… Trumpers’ unused Todgers
Wotcha. Alright mate. So is this a compassionate city or what? Nothing says “Compassionate City” like debating whether or not to destroy makeshift shelters built by and occupied by our city’s most unfortunate. Tugs at the heartstrings, does it not? And the end result is the kind of compassion that Democrats can take to the…
Dear White Women, I’m Breaking Up With You
Dear White Women, I have thought about writing this letter for years and have finally realized that it is time. Perhaps a letter that has been long overdue. I have spent more than half of my life writing everything from poetry to novels, trying to speak to women and encourage women to live their best…
You really want a civil war?
You can find a lot of dummies on the internet calling for another civil war, and I’m not ruling out that possibility, but when you think about it for even a split second, your eyes will involuntarily roll into the back of your skull to never return as a long rope of drool hangs from…
Mitch must recuse himself
A pivotal moment of the Watergate scandal was when Kentucky Republican Sen. Marlow Cook called for President Nixon’s resignation. The rebuke of the president by a member of his own party, ultimately, doomed Cook’s political future. But history has validated Cook’s courage and independence. John Yarmuth, now a Democratic congressman (and LEO’s founder), and Mitch…
