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The List Of Delicious: What Local Chefs Eat On Valentine’s Day
If your job is making delicious things in a city internationally known for delicious things, what would you eat with your loved on Valentine’s Day? We asked a handful of chefs for their at-home menus and desires and also where they might go if they did not feel like spending time in their own kitchens.…
Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton and Dierks Bentley Headline Hometown Rising 2020
For its second year, the two-day pop country music festival Hometown Rising has announced that Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton and Dierks Bentley will headline, with notable acts including Old Dominion, Jon Pardi, Chris Janson and Billy Ray Cyrus also in the lineup. Hometown Rising — which will take place Sept. 12-13 at Highlands Festival Grounds…
Author Ed McClanahan Revisits The Past With ‘Not Even Immortality Lasts Forever’
Kentucky author Ed McClanahan arrived at Stanford University in 1962 as part of an extraordinary post-graduate fellowship of creative writers that included Wendell Berry, Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, Gurney Norman and Ken Kesey. Through his fast friendship with Kesey, McClanahan fell in deep with the Merry Pranksters, who were then in the process of perfecting…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (2/17)
MONDAY, Feb. 17 Enhailer / Ghost:Hello / droneroom / Hazelfire Magnolia Bar $5 | 8:30-11:30 p.m. Enjoy misanthropic sludge doom; dark wave stoner doom; twang, screech and drone; and rock from four bands. Hazelfire and droneroom are from Louisville. Ghost:Hello and Enhailer join from Akron, Ohio. Fringe X: Mold vs. Diamonds Kaiju $5 | 8-10…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (2/14)
FRIDAY, Feb. 14 ‘No Reservation Needed’ Valentine Dance Party and Art Show ShopBar No cover | 6 p.m. Still haven’t made Valentine’s Day plans? The fancy restaurants are all booked up, but you didn’t want to go to one of those anyway. Not when there’s deejayed music, tintypes, an art show and food and drink…
A Q&A With Oscar-Winning Director Julia Reichert, Who Will Speak About ‘American Factory’ in Louisville
Earlier this month, director Julia Reichert added an Oscar for best documentary to her reasons to celebrate 50 years as a thought-provoking filmmaker. We recently caught up by phone with this celluloid storyteller — who is best known for exploring issues of class, gender and race in America — to discuss her impactful career and…
Savage Love: The Girls
Q: My boyfriend and I were having relationship issues until we tried something new: pegging. He wanted to try it, but he was afraid and sometimes said the idea disgusted him. Then we tried it, and it was better than normal vanilla or even kinky bondage sex. It was the most emotionally connected sex we’ve…
Ask Minda Honey: Should I Out My Friend As Trans To Potential Dates?
In a relationship or life jam? Send your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com or reach me on Facebook.com/AskMindaHoney Hi Minda, I have had cis-gender gay/straight friends tell me they think a trans person is hot/attractive. They also say they’d like to ask the person out on a date. Catch is, the friends don’t know the person they’re…
Diamond Street Grub & Hops, An Edible United Nations
I’m generally a bit skittish about restaurants that offer a mix of different world cuisines that extend well beyond the chef’s personal DNA. How can one chef master so many culinary arts? So, I wasn’t sure what to expect when Diamond Street Grub & Hops came to town last summer: Its international menu draws randomly…
One Brewery To Rule Them All?
Breweries buying breweries is becoming almost as common as inexplicable Trump tweets. New Belgium Brewing Co. recently shocked the craft beer world when it announced its sale to Lion Little World Beverages (Japan). Prior to that was the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery/Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.) merger (which still has us scratching our heads if…
Comedian Melissa Doran Tells Us Her Story About Appearing At A Swingers’ Resort
Every comedian has a nightmare-gig story to tell. Melissa Doran ends her story about appearing at a swingers’ resort with: “I was like, ‘No way, this is definitely breaking some kind of health code violation.’” Read the rest of the story below, and see her and Louisville comedian Mandee McKelvey at the Galentine’s Day Comedy…
‘Kings, Queens And War Games’: Richard Bram’s Celebration Of Music
The airing of “The Lonesome Pine Specials,” the acclaimed concert series that began at KET and expanded to PBS, ended nearly 10 years before I moved to Louisville. The show itself, now that I am familiar with it, was extraordinary; many of the musicians — Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, Alison Krauss and Béla Fleck, went…
‘Visiting Edna,’ A Rare Production
Edna wants to live. That’s the crucial thing we learn in the opening moments of playwright David Rabe’s “Visiting Edna,” an epic masterpiece that premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre in 2016. We learn it from a character listed in the program as “Actor 2,” played here by Neil Brewer. Actor 2 is more than a number, though. He…
A Belushi Speed Ball Betrothal: A Couple Is Getting Married At The Thrash Band’s Valentine’s Day Show
A thrash metal band, a neighborhood bar whose motto is “Beer. Monsters. Music,” a few punk bands, some cake, flowers, fake blood and improvised bachelor/bachelorette parties will all be part of what has the potential to be the most interesting Louisville wedding of the year. To be more clear, Courtney Poole and Evan Fowler are…
Rebranding Valentine’s Day… Or Listen To Your (Candy) Heart
It seems fitting that St. Valentine was a martyr. After all, his legacy is a cornerstone of the “obligation holiday” trifecta that includes Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Obligation holidays are the worst because they’re a lot of work, no one enjoys them, and everyone goes to bed disappointed. They’re also the worst because they’re…
Romance On The Menu: Famous Aphrodisiacs Is Not A Band Name… But It Could Be
Flesh of the skink? Eringoes? Potatoes? Oysters… Chocolate! Valentine’s Day, or St. Valentine’s Day, has roots that go back to the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February to herald the coming of spring. It included fertility rites and a lottery to pair men and women. For you haters who think Valentine’s Day is merely…
Thorns & Roses: The Best, Worst And Most Absurd (2/12)
Thorn: No Get Out Of Jail Free Card So, you got arrested but then the charges were dismissed? Forget about a jail fees refund, the state Court of Appeals said. The court issued this ruling in a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for 14 months while awaiting trial and then was billed…
2020 Legislative Session: Deadly Bills Target Trans People
Three bills in the Kentucky legislature target transgender children by seeking to limit their access to school bathrooms, sports teams and medical treatments and procedures. These bills are crafted by non-trans, cisgender legislators, and they will be voted on by cisgender legislators, as the General Assembly includes no openly transgender representatives. If elected, Kentucky House…
Campus Free Speech Is Just State-Sanctioned Violence In Disguise
When we say UofL is a PWI, or predominantly white institution, we have to focus on the “dominantly white” part. And then you’ll understand why some UofL students and faculty are outraged by the latest incident that took place on campus. Pan-African Studies Department Chair Ricky L. Jones last week tweeted out a scorching statement…
Yarmuth: Impeachment Necessary, Now Trump Emboldened
The Founding Fathers warned us. Last week, 52 Republican senators decided that even if President Donald Trump had committed impeachable offenses, he should not be removed from office. Following a shameful public cover-up masquerading as a constitutionally prescribed trial, where no witnesses were allowed to testify, Trump is now emboldened to do whatever he wants…
Hanging With The Haters
Back in 1996, then-LEO Editor John Yarmuth was invited to speak to the American Renaissance Conference, a national conference of white nationalists and neo-Nazis. He was invited to tell them why their ideology was wrong. I bring this up because of what happened at UofL last week: A student came to a LGBTQ studies class…
The 1975, Cage The Elephant, Jack Johnson headline Forecastle 2020
Forecastle has announced its full lineup, which includes headliners The 1975, Cage The Elephant and Jack Johnson, as well as some other notable names such as Soccer Mommy, Jack Harlow, Julien Baker, Carley Rae Jepsen and Andy Shauf. The three-day festival runs from July 17-19 at Waterfront Park. Tickets are currently on sale, which you…
