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Gratuity excluded: The bottom line for tipped workers
Just last month, Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration published the study “Have Minimum Wage Increases Hurt the Restaurant Industry? The Evidence Says No!” The title of this peer-reviewed study speaks for itself, and the data looks at both increases to the federal minimum wage for tipped workers of $2.13 and $7.25 for non-tipped workers…
Visually Speaking: This week’s art news and events (2/8)
[The above image is “Miner Racking Pool Balls After His Shift. Powhatan Point, Ohio” by Ted Wathen from “Coal – 1979” at UofL’s Photographic Archives.] Art news Call for art: The Seventh Annual Animal Attraction Show at the Arts Association of Oldham County, Gallery 104, 104 E. Main St. in La Grange. Work must be…
LEO Podcast #20: The 2016 1st place Literary LEO winners of poetry, flash fiction and short fiction read their work
For the latest episode of the LEO Podcast, we asked the first place Literary LEO winners of poetry, flash fiction and short fiction to stop by and read their work. We separated this podcast into three different audio files and the stream for each is below. Poetry First Place Local Mechanic Performs Successful Neurosurgery (The Weekly…
5 things to do in Louisville this weekend (2/5)
FRIDAY Va Va Vunderland Headliners $20; 8 p.m., 18+ The month of love is upon us, and The Va Va Vixens — Louisville’s own vaudevillian burlesque group — has a new show to stoke the fires of your desire. Follow Alice and Malice as they explore the tantalizing vunders of Vunderland! There will be striptease,…
The waterfall mural, “calligrafigures” and the state of the public art scene: A Q&A with artist Chris Chappell
[The above image is “Hilltop” by Chris Chappell.] Calling all blank walls – Chris Chappell (clchappell.com) would like to paint on you. He’s so passionate about murals he wants a mural festival in Louisville (after all, Lexington has one). LEO: I know you best as a glass artist, especially for skateboard decks, but that’s only one…
UofL Basketball Roundup: 48 Hours of Jekyll and Hyde
Aaron: What a difference 48 hours can make. Saturday morning was unquestionably the low point of Louisville’s season. They weren’t just beaten, but they were humiliated on their home floor in the biggest home game of the season to date. I have to get something off my chest on behalf of college basketball fans, regardless of…
Rural grit: A conversation with original Walking Dead artist Tony Moore
Whether you realize it or not, you have probably seen the name Tony Moore, especially during the late fall and early winter each year. As the co-creator of the The Walking Dead comic, Moore’s work has reached an audience larger than the former Kentuckian may have ever imagined. He spoke with an easy charm, the…
Listen: Stream the new Louisville Is For Lovers ‘LIFE’ compilation
Below you can stream the new Louisville Is For Lovers ‘LIFE’ LP, featuring White Reaper, Twin Limb, Quiet Hollers and more, which is out Friday, February 5. The album will be available for download for $8, and it’s $15 (plus shipping) for one of the 300 vinyls. Fore more information, check out the Louisville Is…
Housing for tourists, none for locals
With the thrust of a spotless, silver shovel into a pile of dirt, Mayor Greg Fischer broke ground on construction of the luxurious Omni Hotel. Across the street activists gathered in the cold to ask Mayor Fischer why he only pays attention to Louisvillians with fat wallets. “Only certain people are benefiting from the investment…
The story behind the records auralgamiSOUNDS released during its first year
It’s hard to imagine, in the age of downloads and streams, that anyone would start a label. Not only has auralgamiSOUNDS done so, but they’ve flourished. Started by JC Denison and Matt Dodds, both formerly of the band Lucky Pineapple, the label, in some ways, is a manifestation of the community that they have come…
b-sides: Black Birds of Paradise
Black Birds of Paradise recently finished their second studio album, “Terror Bird.” In anticipation of the album, LEO reached out to the neo-psychedelic group. LEO: It’s been two years since your last album. How has your approach changed, if at all, while working on this project? BBOP: ‘Terror Bird’ and ‘BBOP’ were both recorded and…
Lust for life
I love getting obsessed about a band. It doesn’t happen like it used to when I was young, and thank god. I don’t have the time that I did back then, nor do I have the willingness to dive into a hole for months on end. For instance, I was about 19 when I decided that I…
A fittingly fun and moving backstory for Peter Pan
Every great story has a backstory, and I guess every great backstory has its own backstory. “Peter and the Starcatcher” is a 2009 play by Rick Elice (with a musical score by Wayne Barker), adapted from a novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson that invents a backstory for J.M. Barrie’s paragon of perpetual youth,…
Norton won’t be drinking bourbon, will be sharing his sexploits
Jim Norton is a raw, gritty comic known as much for delving into his debauched sexploits as he is for his astute political observations. Hailing from New York’s Comedy Cellar scene — a club that launched the careers of greats like Chris Rock, Louis CK (Norton co-starred on “Lucky Louie”), and Amy Schumer — Norton…
Diverse venues and genres for annual Jewish Film Festival
This week the Jewish Film Festival begins, bringing Jewish-themed films from around the world to a variety of locations around Louisville. From Feb. 6 to March 1, the festival will premiere 12 films for Louisville audiences at a variety of venues around town, including the Jewish Community Center, Bellarmine University’s Cralle Theater, the Ali Center…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS SHEBA, BABY 1975; $29.98; PG A flawless new two-disc Blu-Ray Special Edition release of arguably the greatest movie ever made in Louisville by its greatest native filmmaker, William Girdler — take that, Tod “Dracula” Browning! Chicago P.I. Sheba Shayne (Pam “The Black Beauty” Grier) returns to her old Kentucky home to…
DiFabio’s offers comforting Italian family fare
Mmm, mmm, Tortellini! Who doesn’t love these little stuffed pasta rings? Artfully rolled into small rounds, their Italian name stems from “torta,” naming them as “little cakes,” a moniker that doesn’t actually make much sense since there’s nothing very cake-like about them. If you want descriptive food words, try their alternative name, ombelico, aka “belly…
Oriental House ?comes up big
I rarely eat Chinese food because it’s so hit and miss. I hate to go to some non-descript restaurant and get General Tso’s chicken that tastes like a Healthy Choice entree. Spicy? Not. Two or three hot peppers, nothing but breading and a tiny bit of chicken? No thanks. So I went to a real…
So Kentucky, let’s talk
You left a lot of your voters at home and accidentally elected Matt Bevin. It’s not OK, but I understand the apathy. Unfortunately, the rate of destruction to the state economy and government is certainly astounding. Bevin seems to be, at the very least, a man of his word. He promised to dismantle your healthcare,…
The teacher who was the lesson
Patsy Lundblad made an unforgettable impression on students, parents and her fellow educators because we best remember those who change us for the better. None of my teachers loved students more maternally — and none resembled my mother more than she. Both were close to 50, still stunningly attractive, slender, with chiseled faces and jet-black…
Mud pit media
In an election year when the unexpected is truly the only common denominator of presidential politics, I will not even venture to prognosticate what the Iowa Caucus results mean for the future. That would put LEO, and me, in the irresponsible media-speculation mud pit, and they don’t pay me enough to be that irresponsible. Instead,…
Your Voice
on “Legislation to watch: LGBT+ rights and reproductive freedom at stake” The current Kentucky law restricting women’s reproductive rights doesn’t pass Kentucky constitutional muster. Kentucky’s Bill of Rights Section 2 reads: Absolute and arbitrary power denied. Absolute and arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in…
