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Staying Sober, Connected In The Loneliest Year: The COVID Curse For Those In Recovery
Jessica Dueñas had been in recovery since 2019 when COVID-19 hit, and she had what she needed to stay sober: A therapist, a serious boyfriend and friends she could still talk to, as well as a new Pyrenees Pit hybrid, Cruz, to keep her going outside on walks. There were gaps, of course: Dueñas, who…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (2/8)
MONDAY, Feb. 8 Diversity At The Table: That’s Not A Compliment 620 S. Third St. Free | 6-8:30 p.m. Participate in an open, honest conversation about harmful “compliments.” You might have heard them before. Some examples, provided by organizers, are: “You’re pretty for a dark skinned girl,” or “You’re too pretty to be gay.” This…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (2/5)
FRIDAY, Feb. 5 First Friday February Tim Faulkner Gallery No cover | 6-11 p.m. Tim Faulkner Gallery is opening its doors this Friday for a look at “fresh work” from a list of artists, including the gallery owners (Faulkner and Margaret Achambault), as well as Joshua Bleecker, Debra Kay Guess, Loren Myhre, Pution Parker and…
Savage Love: Quickies
Q: I’m a 30-year-old straight woman in a three-year relationship with my live-in partner, who is also 30. I love him and he loves me and he wants to make a life with me. However, in this pandemic, the stress is so great that I have lost all desire to have sex. I don’t want…
Waxing Creative: Art Boom, For Whom?
This was to be a simple exploration of the gap between art money and Black artists. It sounds so naive. Nothing about the Black experience in America is “simple” and the places where we go to work through our traumas, to dream, to manifest — our arts — are as fraught as the nation we…
What To See: Gallery Roundup
Places to go are few and far between. If you have hit your hibernation, pandemic wall, don’t be discouraged about the lack of safe ways to leave the house. Get creative or at least go and be inspired by creative people. This list is only a selection. houseguest gallery/YARDSIDE SUPPERCLUB LAB 2721 Taylor Blvd. Gallery…
Jewish Film Festival Enters 23rd Year With Highlight on Justice
We’re taught to look for our similarities, sometimes at the peril of our differences. We aren’t all placid rivers that roll along uninterrupted, only calm or unwinding. Even the calmest rivers have turns and bubble over rocks, emptying or beginning from a larger body of water. These intersections aren’t accidental. They are necessary for the…
Your Friendly Neighborhood Comic Book Reviews!
‘Byte Sized’ No. 1 Writer Cullen Bunn Artists Nelson Blake II and Snakebite Cortez Review by Krystal Moore, The Great Escape “Byte Sized” No. 1 opens at a mysterious government or military compound, where panic-stricken scientists are realizing the subjects of their experiments have gone missing. Not only that, the subjects sabotaged the vehicles they…
LEO Playlist: Seven Recently-Released Songs By Local Musicians
By now, all of 2020’s traits are baked into almost every new song you hear. From hardship to optimism, everything is unsurprisingly emotionally heavy, reflecting on a society that remains ill, and a future that remains uncertain. January is usually a dry month for new music, but here are seven excellent recently-released songs that you…
We Celebrate Our Immigrant Neighbors At Alwatan
Within hours after taking office on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden moved quickly to sign executive orders to make life better for immigrants and refugees. He halted construction on the border wall, stopped family separation at the border and pushed for an end to mass deportations. These good things merit celebration with a meal at…
Will A Grassroots Candidate Finally Be Mayor?
This is the final part of a two part series about grassroots candidates in the 2022 Louisville mayoral race. When Tom Owen ran against “the power brokers and the tall downtown buildings” in the 1998 Democratic primary for Louisville mayor, he nearly beat them. “I think the election came too soon. We were actually building…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (2/3)
Thorn: Fool me once… In The New York Times’ “77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election” — an exhaustive look into Trump’s post-election efforts to overturn the results — Mitch McConnell is portrayed as an innocent, naive bystander, who was fooled by The White House into believing Trump “was only blustering” and not a clear…
The Legacy Of The Midwest’s Forgotten Socialist Newspapers
More than 120 years ago, in Greensburg, Indiana, a socialist publisher named Julius Augustus Wayland founded a journal called The Coming Nation. Wayland moved to Girard, Kansas in 1895 and started another socialist weekly called Appeal to Reason. These long-forgotten publications became the mouthpiece for the socialist movement in the early-20th century Midwest; a movement…
Unsolicited Nude Pictures And The Lack Of Laws
As technology continues to develop, so do the ways humans interact with one another romantically. From passing “Do you like me?” notes in class to paging “143” (translation — “I love you”) to a high school crush, advances in technology have brought changes in communication. Today, sexting has become a popular habit, with 8 out…
Impeachment Superlatives
Impeachment seems to be all the rage these days for Kentuckians. Both Republican U.S. senators from our state, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and junior Rand Paul, continue to play featured roles in Washington, as Donald Trump’s second impeachment heads to trial. Meanwhile, a special impeachment committee has been formed in the Kentucky House to consider…
