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The 2018 LEO Playlist: Our favorite local songs of the year
It was once again a high-output, diverse year in Louisville music. And the annual LEO Playlist — our 20 favorite local songs of the year — reflects that through its range: oddball alt-country to silky smooth R&B to experimental jazz and to sharp hip-hop. Yet, 2018 was an emotionally-charged year for quite a few reasons,…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week (01/07)
MONDAY, JAN. 7 Metal Monday: Deathcrown Highlands Tap Room Grill Free | 11 p.m.-1 a.m. Every Monday, Highlands Taproom hosts a free, 21-plus metal show — anything heavy and usually underground, according to booker, Brian Omer. This week is Deathcrown, “Raw, Angry, Dark, Rotten, Old School Death Metal” from Richmond, Virginia. TUESDAY, JAN. 8 Book…
Our favorite winter beers from local breweries this season
Winter beers from local craft breweries skew dark, from stouts and porters to dark saisons or Belgians. These are created to help you through the colder times of year — calorie-rich beers that rarely shy away from high gravity. There are a lot of options to convince you to leave the house and brave the…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (01/04)
FRIDAY, JAN. 4 The Iron Maidens Mercury Ballroom $15 | 9 p.m. Just four badass ladies killing Iron Maiden covers. Founded in 2001, The Iron Maidens play songs from all eras of their favorite band’s career. SATURDAY, JAN. 5 NEW HORIZONS Latin Dance Social Horizons Dance Theatre $10 | 7 p.m.-midnight How are your Afro-Cuban…
LEO Presents: Wombo, live in studio
For the latest LEO Presents, our video series where we ask local musicians to stop by our studio to play three songs, the trio Wombo brings a quickly-shifting, driving sound that lives on the border of post-punk and indie-pop. Watch past episodes of LEO Presents here.
10 Concerts That You Shouldn’t Miss In January
Peter Wesley & P. Rick (Dual Album Release) Friday, Jan. 4 Kaiju Sharp and versatile hip-hop artists Peter Wesley and P. Rick will each kick off 2019 with a new record. Wesley, who released the excellent Give Me The Ball & I’ll Do The Rest last year — an album about moving past the dark…
Louisville opening three more low-barrier shelters with surplus money
Louisville will have four low-barrier options for the city’s homeless population starting Jan. 14, paid for with over $540,000 in surplus from the Metro Council, the mayor said Wednesday. Two weeks ago, Louisville had no low-barrier shelters — shelters that allow homeless people to enter regardless of whether they’re with a partner, have a pet…
Privately-run low-barrier shelter opens while city efforts plod
[Ed. note: Since this story was published, the city announced it is opening three more low-barrier shelters. Read about it here.] The day before Christmas, Louisville’s first low-barrier shelter opened. The next evening, around 90 people had taken refuge in the gymnasium of Wayside Christian Mission’s Jefferson Street shelter, said Nina Moseley, the nonprofit’s chief…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd (1/2)
No rush on racist statue | Thorn Some five months after Mayor Greg “Tortoise” Fischer said the city would remove the statue of Confederate John B. Castleman, he apparently just figured out he needs permission from the Cherokee Triangle Architectural Review Committee. This means yet another public hearing on whether the bronze is prideful civic…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Fantastic Four’ and ‘Black Hammer: Cthu-Louise’
‘Fantastic Four #5’ Writer Dan Slott and artists Mike Allred, Adam Hughes, Aaron Kuder, Esad Ribic Review by Krystal Moore, The Great Escape Louisville Well, this has been the year of comic book weddings, and, thankfully, this last one actually has a wedding in it! Back in 1962, in “Fantastic Four #8,” Ben Grimm met…
Exquisite pho sets a high standard at Eatz Vietnamese
I was reading Anthony Bourdain’s book “Medium Raw” the other day when I got to his loving, sensual passage on pho. Bourdain’s celebration of pho was carnal, bordering on word porn, as he observes, “Using sexual metaphors to describe food … seems particularly appropriate when describing pho in Hanoi.” The broth, for example, is “usually…
Annual Inventory
Happy New Year! If you’re like me, you’re exhausted from the holiday hubbub but looking forward to the challenges of the coming year. So, it’s a great time to take stock of what’s in your kitchen, get rid of some old stuff and at least make a list of what you need to replace. Most…
Champagne every day!
By the time you read this, New Year’s Eve celebrations will have come and gone. The balloons are sadly deflated, and the remnants of confetti and sequins are still strewn about, smashed into the tile crevasses of bar floors. Ceremonial midnight kisses and whispers of resolutions may be a distant memory at this point (here’s…
Krispy Krunchy Chicken!
A couple of years ago, I stopped at Dongar, the little convenience store and gas stop at the corner of Lexington Road and Payne Street. It was early evening, it had been a long day, I hadn’t eaten in hours, and I figured I would just eat whatever was in the fridge when I got…
Ask Minda Honey: Love Advice for the New Year
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life — send your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com or reach out to me on Facebook.com/AskMindaHoney Hello, my loves, and Happy New Year! A couple weeks ago, I was at a dinner party. A friend’s friend I hadn’t seen in awhile told me a lot had changed for her.…
Savage Love: Two Breakups
Q: I’m a thirtysomething straight woman married for 16 years. Eighteen months ago, I met a man and there was an immediate attraction. For the first 15 months of our relationship, I was his primary sexual and intimate partner, as both sex and intimacy were lacking in his marriage. (My husband knew of the relationship…
Back to the Trump Future
Like many Americans — heck, people everywhere — this is a stressful time of year for me. I’m not talking about the normal holiday stress; I mean the annual exercise of reviewing the past year and the hopeful forecasting of the year ahead. Really, how many of you are looking forward to 2019? Irrespective of…
People, in their own words…
Ebony, with her daughter Adira, from Parkland Dec. 18, 2018 “She’s my youngest of four. She’s my baby. We have a really good connection, too. I don’t know what else to say, but she’s just the last one. She’s special, and she’s different. When you start having kids, you don’t realize what your job really…
Kanye West Is Not the Scapegoat For Your Covert Racism
I remember when I was a kid my brother and sister and I would crack jokes on one another. Some jokes were funny; however, some jokes were mean and cut to the core. But no matter what, I knew at the end of the day, they were my family. And while they had the “freedom”…
Unused thoughts,? 2018 edition
As I sit in my quiet, desolate office the day after Christmas, I’m enthusiastic about my column for LEO’s 52nd issue of the year (and our 28th year of publication). While other news media are publishing and airing year-in-review, self-congratulatory gibberish and tacky New Year resolution lists, this is my opportunity to get rid of…
