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CBD Oil: ?Fad Or Fantastic? What You Need To Know.
In the well-lit back room of the Bean coffee shop in Germantown, owner Billy Seckman sifted through a container of chocolate-colored beans while more swirled behind him in an industrial-sized roaster. After Seckman’s beans are ground and brewed, he might add one last ingredient to your espresso if you ask, one that he thinks is…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (2/25)
MONDAY, FEB. 25 ‘After King’ Bellarmine University Pasteur Hall (Room 102) Free | 7 p.m. ‘After King’ is a Louisville-made documentary about the state of race relations since Martin Luther King Jr.’s death almost 51 years ago. Filmmaker Jeremiah Wrong, as well as other community leaders, including Dr. Timir Bannerjee, the founder of the anti-violence…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (2/22)
FRIDAY, FEB. 22 Sunny’s Sweetheart Dance BBC Four Roses Bourbon Barrel Loft $30 | 8 p.m.-midnight Throw it back to high school, regardless of which decade you’re from, and attend the fun, drama-free dance you always wanted but never got — all to raise money for Saving Sunny, Inc., a local pit bull rescue. There…
More trees! New developments would need to plant more under proposals
Developers in Louisville might have to start considering something besides parking and building materials: more trees. A set of proposed changes to the land development code call for most new and modified projects to have a higher percentage of tree canopy than what was required before. The proposals from the city Planning and Design Department…
What Makes Louisville’s Weirdest “Bank” so Weird?
Louisville prides itself on being weird. In fact, the word “weird” has taken on a new connotation for Louisvillians. Our citizens welcome local businesses that are different, off-kilter, and eccentric, which is why Class Act Federal Credit Union fits right in. Some may even consider them to be Louisville’s weirdest “bank.” It all started in…
2019 Legislative Session: State Senate, where the sun don’t shine
The news regarding solar power in Kentucky has overtaken the Lexington Herald-Leader editorial below, but the point of the piece remains: Republicans have subverted the legislative system to push through their agenda with as little debate as possible. The state Senate last week passed SB 100, which would undercut solar power users and businesses by…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Dudes in control, per usual | Thorn The Republican’s Kentucky Carnage continued last week as state senators moved forward a bill that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected (about six weeks from gestation). First, it passed out of a Senate committee over the objection of the only woman on that panel. Republicans…
Rachel Grimes’ new folk opera ‘The Way Forth’
From the legendary Louisville chamber/post-rock band Rachel’s to her current solo pianist/composer career, Rachel Grimes’ work has been important and unique. And it seems she was always meant to tell a story through music about her past and the women who aided her journey. Her new folk opera (and film) “The Way Forth” brings her…
Kurt Vile talks collaborations, fatherhood and Gritty
Kurt Vile’s off-the-cuff vocals and stream-of-consciousness lyrics over reverberated, rollicking finger picking might get the irreverent Philadelphia-based songwriter incorrectly labeled “slacker” or “stoner” rock. But a cursory look at his output reveals a deeply-industrious artist and road warrior. Vile visits Louisville this month for the fourth time in almost as many years, supporting his eighth…
Sonic Breakdown: Bridge 19 — ‘The One’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] When Amanda Lucas and Audrey Cecil of Bridge 19 got together for one of their regular writing retreats last year, they had no intention of writing a song like “The One.” But, at the time, Larry Nassar’s trial was taking…
Daughters’ lithe and sinister album, ‘You Won’t Get What You Want’
In 2013, Robotic Empire Records founder Andy Low decided to attempt to get the noise-rock band Daughters back together. His plan was to trick two of the founding members into having dinner, telling both that the other had requested a meeting. And it worked. Singer Alexis S.F. Marshall and guitarist Nicholas Andrew Sadler — who…
‘Sergio’s Museum,’ an intriguing mystery and a family drama, intimate and honest
In more ways than one, Theatre [502]’s new play “Sergio’s Museum” is about coming home. The main character, Sergio de la Plata (played by YPAS senior Mateo Sollano), has been kept away from his childhood home for seven years since the night his parents’ died. Now, at the age of 18, he’s finally able to…
Comedian Anthony Kapfer: ‘They wanted me to keep my clothes on’
Anthony Kapfer is a comedian, cartoonist and musician. He grew up reading and loving Gary Larson’s comic “The Far Side.” “I liked its attitude,” Kapfer said of his earliest cartoon and comedy influence. “It was the closest thing you could get to punk rock in the newspaper on a Sunday morning.” Kapfer will be in…
One-Woman Play Resurrects Early Suffragist
Mattie Griffith Browne was a Kentucky suffragist a half-century before women won the right to vote. She was also an abolitionist who wrote about the lives of slaves to help free those she owned as part of an inheritance. The Owensboro native was a fascinating figure for her activism, commitment and forethought in the 19th…
Joe’s Older Than Dirt is back, and we’re glad
The first sign that Joe’s Older Than Dirt had returned from its two-year absence was the reappearance of its fabled moose statue out front, overlooking the busy traffic on New La Grange Road. Yes. Joe’s is back, moose statue and all, and, in some respects, it’s better than ever after its brief closure for renovation…
Akasha to offer first bottle release Feb. 22
Brain Check is a beer that has existed for nearly five years, a brain child of Akasha Brewing Co.’s head brewer, Spencer Guy. It’s based on a recipe Guy began brewing just six months after he became a home brewer. After some time spent perfecting it, the beer went on to win three straight gold…
Savage Love: Consider the (Extra) Lobster
Two weeks ago, a longtime reader challenged me to create a new sexual neologism. (Quickly for the pedants: You’re right! It is redundant to describe a neologism as “new,” since neologisms are by definition new: “ne·ol·o·gism noun a newly coined word or expression.” You got me!) “Neo-Neologisms, Please!” was too polite to point it out, but my two…
Amazoned, Googled… giving liberals a taste
I think we need to start doing this every week. Every time we write some bollocks, it’s old bollocks by the time anyone reads it. That’s where you’re wrong. Nobody reads it, which gives us true and absolute creative freedom. The unread columnist is the most sought-after job in media. Got to love that positive…
Have the Courage to Speak Truth to Power, Cory Booker
I started Black History Month on a high note believing that black people would spend the next 28 days celebrating and rejoicing in all things black. Indeed, black people are magnificent, and I was looking forward to seeing Black Excellence on full display on my social media feed. Yet, what I envisioned and what is…
And, not or… and cheating
While Mayor Greg Fischer is barnstorming the city selling his tax increase proposal — warning of a dystopian future if he must resort to budget cuts — some Republicans on the Metro Council are cheating off each others’ talking points… some of them word for word. But, more about that later… For those keeping score,…
