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The Twisted Web Of Revenge Porn: Despite Kentucky’s Law, Problems Remain
“Hey, there are some naked pictures of you online!” That is not a text message most people would like to get, but it was a reality for Melissa. “About three of four years ago after I moved to Louisville, I met a guy online,” Melissa said. “We flirted for a couple of months and somewhere…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (3/1)
MONDAY, March 1 Volunteer Opportunity: California Neighborhood 1435 S. Second St. Free | 1-5 p.m. Black Lives Matter Louisville has secured a warehouse to transform into a communal space providing opportunities for people in the California neighborhood. Bring trash bags, gloves and friends to help clean. Volunteers will also be sent out to canvass in…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (2/26)
FRIDAY, Feb. 26 Rich Ragains The Caravan Comedy Club $17 | 7:30, 9:30 p.m. Louisville comedian Rich Ragains, as seen on Fox and CMT, is performing at The Caravan this Friday and Saturday. To see what you’re missing, we interviewed Ragains in 2018 about being a dad and performing in Ireland. SATURDAY, Feb. 27 2021…
Youth Need More BIPOC and Gender Expansive Representation in Music
I consider myself fortunate to have many youth teach me how to call out the truths hidden in plain sight. I am now the executive director of an organization that, for the time being, is called Girls Rock Louisville (GRL). GRL empowers girls, trans (regardless of identity) and gender non-conforming youth from all backgrounds by…
Con Huevos Makes Takeout Brunch Work
Brunch is one of my favorite meals. It’s right up there with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and, of course, breakfast for dinner. Notice how breakfast keeps coming up? But I’ve had a problem with brunch since the pandemic has wiped out my enthusiasm for dining inside a local eatery, no matter how carefully socially distanced: I…
Havana Rumba serves great veggies with a Cuban flare
Since immigrating from Cuba in the early 2000s, owner Marcos Lorenzo has opened several traditional Cuban restaurants including a favorite of mine and my wife Hope, Havana Rumba! at Douglass Loop. We go to HR for a few different eating experiences: I love the vibrant veggies and variety of sauces and flavor profiles; they have…
Posthumous Release Of Steve Ferguson’s Final Recordings
In some ways, Louisville is like an alleyway. It’s a smallish city, with big city dreams. We’re sort of between here or there and always on the way to somewhere else. We’re both a place to move through, and if you stop, a place that quickly becomes home. In places like these — unexpected though…
Savage Love: De-Kinked
Q: I know you and other sexperts say that kinks are ingrained and not something you can get rid of, but mine have all vanished! Ever since I started on antidepressants my relationship with my body and how it reacts to pain, both physical and mental, has completely changed. I used to love getting bit…
Actors Theatre Lighting Supervisor Pens Book, Looks Forward to Theater’s Return
Jason Weber was, like most of us, going about his business as the lighting supervisor at Actors Theatre of Louisville when COVID happened. “We were in the beginning of the Humana Festival, and we had opened the first show and were just about to open the second show,” he said. “We had done our rehearsal…
Equity in Vaccines Comes Down to Black Churches, Hospitals
Much has been said about how vaccination rates are lower amongst Black Americans, because they’re rightfully distrustful of a medical system that has experimented on them and brushed off their legitimate medical complaints for generations. But the Rev. F. Bruce Williams of Bates Memorial Baptist Church in the Smoketown neighborhood thinks more needs to be…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (2/24)
Absurd: What About The Kids? Listen up! Eyes toward the front! I’m only going to say this once… Stop claiming you know how easy and obvious it is for schools to reopen in-person classes. And don’t parrot media blowhards who make it sound so simple. It’s not. On Monday, JCPS demonstrated what schools could look like…
Indiana in the Amazing Year 2025
In the old times, before the Great Freeze, when there was still such a thing as “Indiana,” the tax man would come around, and we’d have to give him money. Then the state sold the utilities, schools and hospitals to private corporations, and we’d have to give them money, too. Then the state sold everything…
The LMPD Lacks Control: An Ongoing Crisis
I’m sure many in the community are exhausted hearing about all the problems with Louisville Metro Police. Unfortunately, LMPD keeps making the same mistakes, and the public keeps getting the same ambiguous excuses. Two episodes over the weekend make clear that LMPD has not made any progress in reforming itself. Both instances reveal that the…
