10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (2/12)
MONDAY Louisville Neighborhood Trivia – Neighborhood Roundtable Four Pegs Beer Lounge Free (RSVP encouraged) | 5:30-8 p.m. Test your knowledge of Louisville at this neighborhood trivia night with Louisville historian and former Metro Council President Tom Owen. The beginning of the event will be set aside for networking, and the trivia will begin at 6…
5 things to do this weekend in Louisville (2/9)
FRIDAY Galentine’s Day 3 with Girls Rock Louisville Block Party Handmade Boutique No cover | 6-10 p.m. Celebrate Galentine’s Day, the holiday when “women celebrate women,” with Girls Rock Louisville. The night will feature music by Glitteroke and Blind Peace (a band of alums from Girls Rock), beer from West Sixth Brewing, a waffle-making station,…
Where to find the best Valentine’s Day candy in Louisville
Valentine’s Day is near, and when you’re buying sweets for your sweet, why not consider these local candy stores? This list covers the gamut — from gourmet chocolates to classic candies from your childhood. And honestly, shopping at one of these stores is infinitely better than picking through the leftovers at Kroger. Amore di Mona…
LEO Podcast #60: Project Improv
Members of Project Improv stop by to preview their upcoming show, Improva-Sutra Burlesque and Comedy Extravaganza, which is at The Bard’s Town Feb. 9-10.
The 2018 Literary LEO Winners
The one job you wouldn’t want this year is judge for Literary LEO 2018. OK, maybe: bathroom specialist on Trump’s housecleaning crew… just ew… Anyway… this year’s submissions of short fiction, poetry and photos, black and white and color, were exceptionally good, reflecting the klieg light-powered talent in our community. Paring them down was grueling.…
The powerbrokers’ intentions: Two views from inside SCALA
News that 70, now 80, wealthy business people and other powerbrokers have met on key Louisville issues immediately drew comparisons to the Illuminati, a clichéd reference to any secretive organization that has power outside of government. Yet keeping secret such a large group is like hiding an elephant; local media just missed that it existed…
Sonic Breakdown: Order Of The Fang — ‘Alpha Female’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] “I would consider myself a strong woman, a feminist, and with ‘Alpha Female,’ I feel like I have an opportunity not only to have a voice and be heard, but to do that for other women as well,” said Juicy…
Teddy Abrams & Friends scales down for an ?up-close performance
Teddy Abrams & Friends has become a staple and tradition at the Forecastle Festival, with the Louisville Orchestra conductor and music director working with a diverse group of musicians to create a compilation-style set that runs a spectrum of genres. While Teddy Abrams & Friends will be back at Louisville’s largest music festival this June…
12 local musicians on their ‘Louisville Is For Lovers’ songs
Love is universal, but it’s far from a similarly-experienced, perceived, felt, described or understood feeling. It pulls us in a bunch of different, idiosyncratic directions that lead to joy, pain, humor and endless other emotions, which is why the annual Louisville Is For Lovers compilation is so interesting. The yearly compilation project asks local bands…
Thorns & Roses: The worst, best & most absurd (2/7)
A five on a SCALA of… | Rose and Thorn A rose goes to Insider Louisville for writing first about the Steering Committee for Action on Louisville’s Agenda, or SCALA, a group of about 70 rich and influential people — basically an alternative chamber of commerce. A thorn goes to IL for spending some 4,000…
Porcini’s landmark status is fully earned
It seems as if Porcini just got here. It seems as if Porcini has been here forever. The truth, as usual, lies between these extremes, but one thing is certain: The years have flown since I first sat down to a fine Italian dinner at this comfortable Frankfort Avenue landmark. It was in the early…
Heavy metal yoga, Valentine’s Day brews
Raise your horns, rockers. It’s yoga time. Err, make that heavy metal yoga time. Denise Ingle, the Goodwood Brewing sales representative and certified yoga instructor who last year brought Poses and Beermosas to the brewery, has introduced a new concept — heavy metal yoga. It is a hit. And she said the demand means it…
Savage Love: Showing Up
Q: I’m a 28-year-old bi-curious female, and I ended a three-year straight LTR a month ago. It’s been tough — my ex is a great guy, and causing him pain has been a loss on top of my own loss, but I know I did the right thing. Among other things, our sex life was…
Ask Minda Honey: Help! I’m Obsessed with My Cheating Ex!
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life by sending your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com. Hi Minda, I thought I met the person that I would spend the rest of my life with eight years ago. We spent five years together before the lies and betrayals came to light. She was unfaithful with other women…
‘Most ethereally beautiful music’ of the 20th century
Any notion that classical music is an abstract art that is somehow isolated from the real world is pretty well refuted by last weekend’s Louisville Orchestra program and this Sunday’s Chamber Music Society of Louisville concert. The Orchestra concert focused on the theme of “War + Peace,” and the Chamber program features a masterwork composed…
A Q&A with comedian Emily Galati on New York, religion and hecklers
Comedian Emily Galati is a recovering Lutheran, what she describes as “Catholicism without the religion.” She earned a master’s degree in history at Arizona State University, but moved to Chicago to pursue a career in improvisational theater. “I’m the only person with a master’s degree whose parents are disappointed in their kid’s life decisions,” Galati…
‘Antiques Roadshow’ returns! Dig out your treasures.
Are you an avid watcher of “Antiques Roadshow”? Do you want to be a participant in the show PBS calls “part adventure, part history lesson, part treasure hunt”? Then, this is your moment. It’s coming to Louisville on May 22, for the third time. Here’s what you need to know: If planning to attend the…
Representation matters
Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman and the first civilian to make it to space. This was 1963. It would be 20 years until another woman went into space. She was also Russian. By this time, the United States had female astronauts in training, but had yet to send one into the cosmos.…
Load them into the guillotine?
You know that no one is ever gonna completely be, 100 percent on the page you wrote, right? And to think such is just you setting yourself up for big-time calamities. At the end of the day, you stand alone — alone in your intricacies, your eccentricities and insecurities as an upright beast of misfortune.…
‘Louminati,’ David Jones Sr.’s agitated defiance, JCPS is well run
Presumably you weren’t invited to join the Louisville illuminati. No faux communists allowed, I should think. I’m not a faux communist, I’m a genuine, free-market socialist. But I was NFI, which is a pity for them because they could use some of my wit and wisdom, plus I could’ve claimed I came up with “The…
SCALA: Work with us not above us
Make no mistake, the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of the Steering Committee for Action on Louisville’s Agenda, or SCALA, has been going on for about a year. Longer than, most notably, David Jones Jr. and Sr., have been publicly acknowledging. The group’s attempt to usurp control of Jefferson County Public Schools has been building for longer than…
