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When love is (really) complicated: being asexual, aromantic, demisexual
Throw a rock in February, and you can find someone complaining about Valentine’s Day. But for some people, the way sex and even romance are pushed at them on the 14th of February is indicative of something more difficult than just this day of chocolate and obligatory flowers. It can be an everyday discomfort for…
Medical marijuana resolution town hall meetings
Three town hall meetings have been scheduled by the Louisville Metro Council on the topic of legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The events are to collect information in anticipation of a council vote on a resolution that would urge “the Kentucky General Assembly to adopt House Bill 166 or any other legislation…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (2/19)
MONDAY Murals of the Holocaust – KET Screening Kentucky Center Free | 7-9 p.m. Come out to watch this 30-minute documentary by KET about WKU’s summer camp for gifted youth, which for 20 years, has designed and created murals about the Holocaust. A reception will precede the screening, with an exhibit showcasing many of the…
Photos of Tailspin Ale Festival 2018
Despite the cold and rainy weather, people still gathered in Bowman Field on Saturday for the sold-out Tailspin Ale Fest, which included a wide variety of beers. New to this year was a silent disco in the center of the aircraft hanger.
Podcast Watch Episode 1: Some of our favorite Louisville podcasts
The digital revolution has almost completely removed the traditional barriers that keep people out of all sorts of previously well-guarded places. The rise of the podcast began as an alternative to radio shows, but has since mutated into its own hugely-popular medium, with break-out hits and artistic experiments. Who could have guessed that a podcast…
5 things to do this weekend in Louisville (2/16)
FRIDAY After Hours at the Speed Speed Art Museum Nonmembers, $18 | 5-10 p.m. Mild-mannered art museum by day, party house by night! This month’s After Hours party features music by Joan Shelley, Dane Waters and Sara Louise Callaway, Ashley Thursby Kern and The Other Years. Also, enjoy a conversation with the curators on the…
Make Valentine’s Day Great Again
In an America divided into factions of Us vs. Them and Left vs. Right, what we need this Valentine’s Day is more love and less sociopolitical angst. Instead of raging against our cyber-friends in tweets and ridiculous Facebook posts, we should take at least one day to be at peace. Share some chocolate. Pick some…
A romantic pairing for Valentine’s Day… chocolate seduction and bubbly
It’s Valentine’s Day, and chances are more than good that within the last week, you have purchased candy, specifically chocolates, for your special someone. According to the National Retail Federation, Americans buy about 60 million pounds of chocolate for the holiday to the tune of some $350 million. That’s actually considerably less than we spend…
What Trash Cans Tell Us About Poverty In Louisville
Sharon Cissell squints her eyes and points out to the street. From her porch, she can see just beyond the curb, where a needle lies next to a discarded paper cup. The needle’s bright orange cap is an unmistakable, yet unremarkable, sight in the Taylor Berry neighborhood, just west of Churchill Downs. Cissell said the needles…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
GOP mayoral candidate leet, leading with no opinion? | Thorn The Metro City Council voted 19-2 to require the city to post a 21-day notice and make other notifications before clearing homeless encampments. Republicans Julie Denton and Marilyn Parker voted against the proposal, Courier Journal reported. Councilwoman Angela Leet, R-7th District, who is running for…
Where does your Christianity fall on the rainbow of LGBTQ tolerance?
Ark Park director Ken Ham declared last summer that Christians were taking back the rainbow… from the gay community, which had, of course, stolen it from God. It’s easy for a lot of Americans to dismiss Ham with a tear-squirting laughter emoji, but Ham is hard to ignore if you live in Kentucky, what with…
Portugal. The Man discuss their eighth studio album, Woodstock
Portugal. The Man is neither a country nor a person, but rather a shape-shifting band with core members who first bonded over music and movies while growing up near the remote town of Wasilla, Alaska. Now based in the Lower 48 — Portland, Oregon, to be precise — they are enjoying widespread popularity due to…
Fruition’s new record is full of evocative breakup songs
Watching It All Fall Apart, Fruition’s recently-released record, is packed with evocative breakup songs that draw you into personal and specific, yet highly-relatable scenes. Considering the band has three singer-songwriters, the record is very cohesive, mainly because a similar chapter was closing in each of their personal lives. “Our timelines in these relationships were pretty…
Willie Nelson, an outlaw for everyone
We are a divided people, with a growing schism between the left and the right. I don’t even know anyone who really falls in the middle these days. Politicians will tell you that it’s the other side that always needs to meet them halfway, like they’re really trying to find the way to the center…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Is This Guy For Real?’ and ‘Swamp Thing’
‘Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman’ Writer/artist Box Brown Review by Kyle Thompson, The Great Escape Louisville I wasn’t born when Andy Kaufman died in 1984. Various attempts have been made to capture his persona, most notably the movie “Man on the Moon” and the more recent documentary “Jim & Andy: The…
Sarino carries Vincenzo’s DNA, but it’s no clone
Vincenzo and Agostino Gabriele reinvented the Louisville dining scene a generation ago. Now, Agostino’s sons, Carmelo and Michael Gabriele, have opened their own Italian restaurant in Germantown, named Sarino after the family nickname for another uncle, Rosario. Will Sarino be something like Vincenzo’s Jr., then? I’m going to say: no. But that’s no slam. Sarino…
The Limbo, a Louisville oasis
Olivia Griffin has a genuine aesthetic. It’s true that one could spot her from a mile away, as she’s frequently adorned in faux fur, sequins, a colorful kimono or a billowing head-piece draped atop whichever dazzling neon hair color she may be flaunting at the moment. In fact, she could be sporting all these items…
A visit with an old friend at the Irish Rover
I will always remember the first meal I ever ate at the Irish Rover. It was sometime in the mid-1990s, and I met some local Celtic-band musicians there to do an interview. I was warmed by the atmosphere and by my first order at the place, Welsh rabbit with Irish chips. More than two decades…
Savage Love: Fighting Words
Fighting Words Q: I’m a 24-year-old nonbinary person living in Florida. I have two wonderful girlfriends. One I have been with for four years (we live together). The other I have been with for a year and a half. They’re both brilliant, interesting and kind. Both relationships have their issues, but they are minor. They…
Don’t Chattel on Me
When I was in law school one of our writing assignments was to analyze the legality of a statute allowing men to rape their wives. The statute didn’t encourage it, but it excluded non-consensual sexual intercourse between a husband and wife from the criminal code, presumably because wives — not spouses mind you — were…
To win, GOP changes rules
A hallmark of the modern Republican Party is: If you can’t beat ‘em, change the rules… and then beat ‘em. Coal is not the energy of the future. But the Kentucky GOP appears determined to keep it on life support as long as possible. Last week, that Grand Ol’ Practice of rule changing was on…
