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Grassroots Groceries: Black Women Team Up To Flood Food Deserts… And Beyond
Shauntrice Martin’s grocery store, Black Market KY, opens next month in a transformed Domino’s location at the border of the Russell and Portland neighborhoods. A 20-minute walk away in Russell, Megan Bell is working on opening a mini mart, also in January. It will be one of two physical locations — there’s another coming to…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (12/14)
MONDAY, Dec. 14 #ClotheTheWestHolidayShop Donations Various locations Donation-based | Any time Clothe The West is collecting new toys and other gifts for its Holiday Shop this Friday and Saturday. If you drop one off at NoraeBar, you’ll receive 10% off to-go cocktails. You can also ship gifts directly to Clothe The West, send a monetary…
Watch the new video for Air Chrysalis’ song ‘Helical Scan’
One of this year’s best new bands, the dream pop duo Air Chrysalis, has released a new video for the song “Helical Scan.” The song itself is an emotionally-heavy, kaleidoscopic track that has a striking, yet subdued power behind it. The art of the video matches that, creating the feeling of a psychedelic storyboard that…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Weekend (12/11)
FRIDAY, Dec. 11 Breeway Picture Day Jefferson Square Park Free | 5 p.m. Photographer and documentarian Jon Cherry is offering to take portraits of “our unique protest family.” He said, “Come ready for the camera at 5 pm Friday! Your #502livestreamers will capture the spirit of the Square while the event takes place.” #clothethewestpjparty St…
Savage Love: The Casserole
Q: Something is bothering me and I don’t know where else to turn. I’m a bisexual man. I’ve been married to a great guy for the past six years. Despite COVID we gathered safely for an outdoors Thanksgiving dinner with my family. My mom, my brother and sister-in-law, and my adult nieces and nephews and…
How Kentucky Missed Out On A $90 Million Unemployment Upgrade
After the 2008 recession revealed the weaknesses of the nation’s unemployment insurance systems, most states got to work upgrading their technology. The need for such an overhaul was obvious, and the reason the federal government set aside $7 billion in 2009 to modernize the nation’s unemployment systems. Forty states took the free money. But Kentucky…
Murder By Death’s curveball Christmas record
Christmas music is probably deeper, heavier and more nuanced than it gets credit for. Sure, there’s the eye-roll-inducing sing-a-alongs that exist for a quick hit of serotonin, but there’s also the material that deals with isolation, longing and despair, and on the other end of the spectrum, thankfulness, joy and appreciation. At first glance, Murder…
Bourbons Bistro eggnog and Kizito’s oatmeal cookies
I have a vivid (and fond) Christmas party memory of a friend who loves certain little square hamburgers as much as I do. She served them for the occasion on silver platters and ladled up cups of her father’s special eggnog. Let me simply say that as much as I love that dear friend, the…
Support our local restaurants: This week, Royals Hot Chicken
The Louisville dining scene is facing a grim scenario as I write this, and we’ll be looking down the barrel of a disturbing deadline when you read this. Let’s talk about this, but first, as I’ve told you before: Get out there and order as much takeout food from local restaurants as you can and…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (12/9)
Thorn: Now for the rest of the story… U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell writes in The Courier Journal about how his “forward-thinking parents, including a dad who actively participated in the Louisville Urban League, taught me from an early age to prize equality and dignity for all people.” More like dignity to all people who prop…
Justice Barrett won’t stop killer cops
Now that it’s been over a month since Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation, I can confidently say she is not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Sure, she was nominated by the vilest figure in the last century of American politics. Sure, Mitch McConnell rammed her nomination through the Senate while millions of Americans…
Pols, not restaurants deserve ire
If you are looking to be outraged, you’ll have to wait for the dessert course of this column. For starters, though, swallow your outrage over those complaining that restaurant restrictions during the pandemic are unfair. At least, resist predetermining boycotts of establishments that say they are going to reopen indoor dining next week regardless of…
