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Beshear Year One: Reflections On The Governor’s Time In Office
87 days. That’s the amount of time between when Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was sworn in and the first official case of the coronavirus in the Commonwealth. Beshear’s first year in office was a time of unpredictability and on-the-spot decision-making, with the pandemic causing a public health crisis and economic disaster. In Louisville, after police…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (1/25)
TUESDAY, Jan. 26 KY LIVE With Savvy & Shauntrice Facebook Live Free | 6:30-7 p.m. In this seven-part Facebook live series, Shauntrice Martin of the Black Market KY and Savvy Shabazz of All of Us or None Louisville, discuss issues plaguing the city. Last week, they covered the #CancelTheRent movement. Join them for their fifth…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (1/22)
FRIDAY, Jan. 22 Tom Mabe The Caravan Comedy Club $20 | 7:30, 9:30 p.m. Louisville’s favorite comedian (according to the 2020 LEO Weekly’s Readers’ Choice Awards), Tom Mabe, is performing at The Caravan Comedy Club this weekend, with four shows split over two days (Friday and Saturday).You may know Mabe from his popular prank YouTube…
Inauguration Inspired Looks: Locals Celebrate The New Administration
Fashion is a language that blends creation, concept and meaning. It is also art. To argue that it’s not is to miss a fundamental piece what art does. It communicates. Fashion is not unlike painting, sculpture or poetry. It uses the same tools and carries with it our histories, cultures and innovations. From creating garments…
The Fine Art of Financing: Grants, Residencies and Other Funding for Artists
Art may feed the soul, but the artist’s stomach demands something less metaphorical, as does the landlord and the electric company. Therefore, we’ve compiled a select list of grants, fellowships, residencies and other financial resources for Louisville-area artists. As it seems the wolf is ever knocking at the studio door, we intend this to be…
AHOY! Portland Museum Explores Immersive Expansion
According to legend and the Oxford English Dictionary, how we greet each other in the English speaking world — with the word, “hello” — was a matter of happenstance. Apparently, Thomas Edison answered the first phone call with “hello,” although Alexander Graham Bell preferred, “Ahoy,” a greeting that had been around at least 100 years…
Boomerang: Coming Back to LEO
When I left LEO two years ago, it was one of the hardest decisions I’d made as a writer. It isn’t easy to exit a platform that provides you with such openness to speak, but I was tired. I’d talked to too many people, too many politicians, right-wing activists and religious zealots. I was done.…
Four Politicians Who Fell Into 2020’s (And ’21’s) Traps
The year 2020 really threw it all at us — a pandemic, killings by police officers that led to a racial justice movement, the further cementation of far-right conspiracy theories. These occurrences, besides stressing the hell out of us and, in some cases, bringing needed change, opened up potential pitfalls for our politicians. Even the…
Savage Love: Case Disclosed
Q: I could really use your advice. I recently found my boyfriend’s HIV meds while I was house sitting for him and went into his cupboard for a multivitamin. We’ve been dating for a year and I had assumed he was negative. I’m negative myself and on PrEP and he is undetectable, so I know…
Fine Italian Dining at Home with Grassa Gramma
I wonder if you miss sitting down to a good meal in a fine local restaurant as much as I do. It’s not just about the food. Driving through Holiday Manor the other day, I spotted Grassa Gramma and remembered how much fun it is to dine there. Executive Chef Robert Rice’s fine Italian fare…
Baby Steps: Zanzabar Opens Its Stage
Louisville’s stages have gone dark. Once the locus of mass rejoicing, elation and sometimes the collective place to release the frustrations of living, few Louisville venues have found a way to host live performances amidst the frighteningly rapid spread of COVID-19. Music halls, bar stages and arenas are gathering dust with many months of only…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (1/20)
Absurd: No room for McConnell in KY GOP Over 30 Republican Party county chairs and vice chairs in Kentucky are calling for a special meeting to discuss a resolution calling on Sen. Mitch McConnell — who has recently been downgraded from the Majority Leader Grim Reaper to a sad little turtle man with significantly less power —…
Hope
Hope. The word “hope,” only four letters long, but packed with such big meaning. As the third person in Kentucky to receive the COVID vaccine and working on the COVID floor since March, hope is the only answer I can give when asked what the COVID vaccine means to me. Hope that the 28 patients…
The Do Nothing Republicans Only Want Power
In the 1850s, there was a political movement called the Know Nothings. They were fundamentally populist, but they also were intensely xenophobic, racist (although they opposed slavery), and anti-Catholic and Irish. Their name derived not from professed ignorance, but because they were instructed to say, “I know nothing,” when asked about their organization. The Know…
You Must Be Lost: Gender Discrimination in STEM
From the moment Katie stepped into her first high school chemistry class, she was in love with science. She marveled at the movement of atoms and molecules and found that she naturally understood the discipline. Upon graduation, she chose to stay in Kentucky for college, a decision no doubt aided by her full tuition Governor’s…
What If… Bevin Year-5?
This week, LEO is taking a special look at Gov. Andy Beshear’s first year in office. You think the last year was bad? The following is a made-for-print dramatization of what Kentucky might be dealing with had former-Gov. Matt Bevin won reelection in 2019. While the following is a satirical piece, it includes actual [marked]…
