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New Albany Did What Louisville Has Not: Pushed Through Downtown Street Redesign
In just four years, Louisville’s Southern Indiana neighbor quietly redesigned its entire downtown road network — a feat unmatched virtually anywhere else in the country. Meanwhile, across the Ohio River, Louisville has seen almost no progress on its downtown road redesign efforts. A study commissioned by Louisville in 2009 made many recommendations, almost all of…
Photos from ARTxFM’s Voix De Ville 2020
The independent, local radio station ARTxFM (WXOX 97.1 FM) celebrated its four-year anniversary this past Saturday with Voix De Ville 2020 at Spalding University’s Columbia Theater. The event featured several local bands. Here are our photos.
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (2/10)
MONDAY, Feb. 10 Movie Monday: Popcorn for Mispits! Old Louisville Brewery Free | 5-10 p.m. This Movie Monday is for the dogs (and humans)! Catch a showing of “The Secret Life of Pets” at 6 p.m. and “Best In Show” at 8 p.m. with your furry best friend. There will be free samples of popcorn…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (2/7)
FRIDAY, Feb. 7 Banjo Extravaganza Surface Noise Donation-based | 7 p.m. This three-day tribute to the beloved banjo kicks off on Friday. Each evening (or afternoon) of performances features three banjo players, starting with Walker Shepard, Chris Mattingly (from Lexington) and Bradley Reinstedler. The banjo may be the star of Surface Noise’s Extravaganza, but the…
Sonic Breakdown: Bon Air — ‘The Blue Line’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from an area musician or band.] Sam Scholten of Bon Air knows how to spin heartbreak into a song. And he wrote “The Blue Line” with a still-bleeding wound — a figurative one, that is. “I’d just been shot down by a woman I had the…
Three Defining Songs By Amanda Shires
Amanda Shires is one of roots music’s most forward-thinking musicians, combining country sensibilities, pop prowess and atmospheric rock into a style that is distinct and magnetic. The singer-songwriter and fiddler has released several solo records, and 2019 also saw a self-titled debut from her supergroup The Highwomen. Before Shires performs at Headliners Music Hall on…
A Conversation With The Beach Boys’ Mike Love
In 1961, The Beach Boys started out as an inauspicious vocal group composed of family and friends from Hawthorne, California that slowly but surely evolved into a worldwide phenomenon. Throughout the tumultuous years that followed, the band maintained a staggering domination of the U.S. pop charts, with ubiquitous singles such as “I Get Around,” “California…
Capitol Gun Rally = White Supremacy
The Courier Journal began its piece on last week’s Frankfort gun rally with: “The crowd was mostly men and mostly armed.” The error is the missing adjective we all know needs to be there, and what we all are thinking: The mob was mostly white men, the demographic shooting up crowds and Black churches and…
Rethink Prison
Today is my brother’s 35th birthday. Most of my friends are in their 30s, so we can all relate to that poignant moment — a birthday often celebrated alongside career and familial milestones. In 2015, my brother, Brandon, was sentenced to 27 years in prison for nonviolent drug offenses. Twenty-seven years for drugs. Brandon has…
Gaslighting In The Victorian And Modern Eras
There is a woman crying in my dining room. Her almost-musical wailing carries softly through the house. I’m used to this sound; it’s the second time this week. So, I know not to check on her, interrupt her cries, even as I hear a man’s voice begin to shout at her. The crying stops. The…
Galan’s For Cuban, Puerto Rican And More
Many of Louisville’s West End neighborhoods are defined as food deserts, places where residents don’t have easy access to supermarkets. Carlos Galan is trying to do something about that. Galan, who came to Louisville from Florida five years ago with his wife, Kim, saw potential in The West End, and he is taking practical steps…
Peanut Butter Whiskey?
I’m in the throes of opening a bar, y’all, and we’re getting down to the wire. Construction is wrapping, paint is drying, and we’re just about ready to line our shelves with your favorite mind-altering elixirs (and, perhaps, some you’ve never even heard of before!). Keep your eyes and ears peeled for news of soft…
Savage Love: Cam What May
Q: I started reading your column when I was a 20-year-old kid. Now I’m an old married lady with 20 years of (more or less) blissful married monogamy behind me. My oldest daughter, who is 23, just came out to me as a sex worker. She’s been making a slim living as a cam girl.…
‘Once On This Island’ Lives Up To Hype
It’s a rare treat when Actors Theatre of Louisville puts on a large-scale musical production, especially a Tony and Olivier awards-winning musical such as “Once on This Island.” First performed at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in September, this particular co-production, directed and choreographed by Actors’ executive artistic director, Robert Barry Fleming, has been heralded…
A Festival Celebrating Beethoven’s 250th!
In 1840, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the most prominent intellectual of his time, wrote about Ludwig van Beethoven’s music, saying that it addressed “vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.” Long before that, as early as 1805, Americans had embraced Beethoven as a kindred spirit, a champion of republicanism, a visionary humanist and artist-hero…
New documentary ‘Beecher Terrace Story’ examines the history of the housing project
Lavel White was a high school junior living in the Beecher Terrace Housing Complex in 2004, when an unarmed black teen named Michael Newby was killed by a Louisville police officer during an undercover drug bust. White first picked up a camera to document the community outrage that followed the Newby shooting. The incident also…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Detective Comics Annual’ and ‘Doctor Strange’
‘Detective Comics Annual’ No. 3 Writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Sumit Kumar Review by Krystal Moore, The Great Escape Louisville This story titled “Who Dares, Wins” opens with Batman’s butler and right-hand man Alfred Pennyworth back in the day, fighting Soviet spies and pulling off James Bond-level escapes. Flash forward to Gotham City, and…
Accent On Funny: A Q&A With Comedian Mary Mack
A conversation with comedian Mary Mack takes twists from stream of consciousness silliness to quirky to rather dark, all in a matter of seconds. Yet it all sounds sweet when filtered through her thick, Wisconsin accent. “That’s probably how the South got away with so much for so long, racism-wise. Because everyone does sound so…
LEO Weekly Writer Targeted With Vandalism
On Sunday, my parents’ truck was vandalized with paint, and a threatening note indicated that I was the reason. “Inform Danielle Grady that she will be held personally responsible for any further graffiti,” read the letter in a manila envelope. Video footage from the early hours of the morning caught the driver of a car…
Thorns & Roses: The Best, Worst And Most Absurd (2/5/20)
Thorn: Have Tiny Dick, Must Travel The We Are KY Gun Owners rally brought gun-wielding, camo-clad, mask-wearing, insecure men (mostly) to protest the impossible possibility that Kentucky lawmakers would ever pass any legislation having anything to do with gun safety or control. Actually, it may have done more to harm their cause and Kentucky legislators…
Stop Wasting Time!
Where are our state legislators going to find enough time to fix all of these problems that exist in only their deranged, alternative-fact world? Instead of helping Kentuckians climb out of poverty, get off Medicaid, no longer need food subsidies and end drug addiction, they’re focused on: Voter fraud — that doesn’t exist. Care for…
