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In search of Louisville’s homeless: We joined the Coalition for the Homeless on their quest to find answers and solutions
Neil lives in a small, dark blue tent about 100 yards from the entrance to the Big Four Bridge. In his 50s, Neil is surrounded by two smaller tents, plus a couple of makeshift tents created with tarps. A small camping stove sits on the ground a few feet away from where he has been…
The Ties That Bind: A review of Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” tour
Right before he launched into “The Ties That Bind,” the opening track off of “The River,” which he played in its entirety on Sunday night at the Yum! Center, Bruce Springsteen referred to the 1980 classic as his “coming-to-age record.” I never noticed that shift catalyzed by “The River” — a focal pivot of how…
Defining Five: Nicholas Layman, Jeremy Perry, Ken Wilson and El Chubbs discuss songs that have had an impact on them
Defining Five is a series at Haymarket Whiskey Bar, where, each month, four people/groups from the Louisville music community pick five songs that have moved, inspired or impacted them and then play them during a DJ set. After each event, LEO Weekly will publish an interview with all four people/groups to get some context as to…
Visually Speaking: This week’s art news and events (2/22)
[The above image is a section of the International Honor Quilt featured in “Capturing Women’s History: Quilts, Activism and Storytelling” at UofL’s Schneider Hall Galleries.] Art news Call for art: Kaviar Forge & Gallery is seeking art for its upcoming exhibition “Touched with Fire!” This show will be an exploration of the theme of mental…
LEO Podcast #22: An interview with Phourist & The Photons, plus listen to two tracks from their record “In Infinite Indigo”
Nick Hill and Scott Boice of Phourist & The Photons swung by our office to chat with contributor Nik Vechery about starting as a solo project and developing into a band. They also break down two songs from their newest record, “In Infinite Indigo.”
5 things to do in Louisville this weekend (2/19)
FRIDAY Floetic Friday Youth Poetry Slam Local Speed $5; 7 p.m. If you have never witnessed poetry being read aloud, you haven’t experienced true poetry. Nothing captures raw human emotions quite like live poetry, which is why Local Speed is hosting a youth poetry slam with six of Louisville’s best up-and-coming poets. This is the…
Members of the LGBT+ community, along with a number of allies, gathered at the state capitol Wednesday to call on lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 176 and House Bill 155
Members of the LGBT+ community, along with a number of allies, gathered at the state capitol Wednesday (Feb. 17) to call on lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 176 and and House Bill 155 (bills that would extend civil rights protections to members of the LGBT+ community). In most of Kentucky it is still legal to…
The Coalition for the Homeless’ city-wide campaign #TakeAStandLou aims to raise awareness
The Coalition for the Homeless is asking everyone to take part in #TakeAStandLou this Thursday (Feb. 18) at 4:30 p.m. It’s a city-wide campaign to raise awareness about Louisville’s homeless and get people involved in solving the problem. Natalie Harris, executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, said that many in our community think…
Bevin leads Kentucky into the past
Richard Florida recently published The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, the latest installment in his ongoing examination of the factors that add to American cities’ abilities to build more humane, progressive, and sustainable social and economic systems in the 21st century. His meticulous evaluation began almost a decade and a half ago and yielded…
Life Like This: A conversation with Kurt Vile
Catching up with Kurt Vile was no easy task. The singer/songwriter has been on the road periodically since the release of his 2015 album “b’lieve i’m goin down…” the follow up to the critically acclaimed “Wakin On A Pretty Daze.” Vile, in Australia at the time of this interview, stays busy touring, writing and being…
b-sides: Concerts to catch during the rest of February and all of March
Freakwater Zanzabar — Saturday, Feb. 20 Alt-country pioneers who released their eighth record, “Scheherazade” — their first in more than a decade — On Feb. 5. And, unsurprisingly, it’s really good. Kurt Vile Headliners — Wednesday, Feb. 24 The poster boy for folk filtered through fuzz-rock, Vile’s established himself as a solid songwriter who crafts…
Alt-Country Luminaries: A ?conversation with Freakwater
There are few bands in town that have weathered the years with such grace as alt-country luminaries Freakwater. You might think that founders Janet Beveridge Bean or Catherine Irwin may be a bit intimidating, given their years of experience both in Louisville and abroad, but, when we spoke with them, they were anything but. The…
Write a holiday song
So you want to be rich and famous but don’t want to do the work? It’s not really a problem. Just write a holiday song. It doesn’t even necessarily have to be one of the greatest of all time, it just needs to be good enough to be played every year. With programmers constantly scurrying around…
Jacob Williams’ one night homecoming show
Jacob Williams is a Louisville original. He has become one of the most buzzed about comedians since he got his big break on “America’s Got Talent,” where he was a semi-finalist and made lifelong fans of comedy vets like Howard Stern and Howie Mandel. He so impressed Nick Cannon, host of “America’s Got Talent” that…
Young playwrights bring provocative scripts to the ?Nancy Niles Sexton Stage
Although many a long play should have been shorter, the opposite is seldom true. Hence, the appeal of a well-curated festival of short plays — where every script is duty-bound to be clear in its purpose and efficient in its means. This season’s Walden Theatre/Blue Apple Players Young Playwrights Festival, which opened last weekend, is…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS JESUS OF NAZARETH:THE COMPLETE MINISERIES 1977; $22.98; UR The 40th anniversary Blu-Ray release of a groundbreaking TV event. British actor Robert Powell, fresh from his role as Captain Walker in The Who’s “Tommy,” plays the titular savior, ably assisted by Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, James Farentino, Ian McShane (Blackbeard from “Pirates…
‘Honest, simple’ fare commands ?white-tablecloth prices at Butchertown Grocery
Hey! Let’s go out and get some gnocchi for dinner! These are words one rarely hears, unless one grew up in a family or with friends who had an old-country Italian Nonna around. Hell, there aren’t many people around here who know what a gnocchi is (or, to be pedantic, what gnocchi are); and fewer…
Which Wich – making sandwiches fun
I like Subway as much as the next guy — it’s an easy lunch staple, even if it’s a chain, and one reason I eat there occasionally is that after having a Subway sandwich I don’t feel like I’ve ingested a bowl of grease. (See also, fast food burgers and tacos.) But my pal Fred…
It’s me, not you
This is kind of a “Dear White People” piece. Certainly, this is not for all white people, just those confused or angered by Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance. Let’s start with something basic: When you witness or see a show of black pride, hear me once and for all, it does not come at the denigration,…
The eldercare dilemma
A few years ago, I vowed I would care for my elderly mother in her Hurstbourne apartment as long as it was safe. On Valentine’s weekend, after looming risks reached a critical mass, I passed the torch to my beautiful, dutiful sister — a Taylor County nurse practitioner whose husband is a surgeon. Mom remains…
‘Can you spare $6 billion ?in change?’
So everyone is sick and tired of nothing getting done in Washington. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and everyone remaining, can’t stand that nothing gets done. This isn’t a scathing commentary on Mitch McConnell being to blame, or the blatant negligence with which Senate Republicans are treating the Supreme Court and Constitution. I’d like to say, Scalia’s…
Your Voice
Dear Editor, The time has come for LEO to acknowledged its complicity in the UofL sex scandal. Over the years LEO has spent a spectacular amount of ink popularizing and promoting the very mindset, behavior and lifestyle in which this scandal has its origin. This mindset is just one side of the counterfeit coin that…
