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Painting The City: Muralists Memorialize Neighborhoods, Culture
Certainly by now you have realized that murals are having a renaissance. Seemingly every day a new one appears, many with heavy doses of graffiti-inspired color and style. Businesses and corporations are embracing the colorful, outdoor paintings by sponsoring artists to decorate the sides of their buildings. For LEO’s 2020 Winter A&E Guide, we interviewed…
10 Concerts You Shouldn’t Miss in February
Jade Jackson Friday, Feb. 7 Zanzabar The country-tinged folk rock of Jade Jackson is breezy and deep, an existential mediation that you can blast in the car. There’s a Laurel Canyon influence to her sound, updated with modern pop sensibilities. Louisville Is For Lovers Album Release Friday, Feb. 7 Craft Gallery Louisville is for Lovers…
Louisville native Christian Cowgill uses military experience as inspiration on ‘LEGO Masters’
Louisville native Christian Cowgill will be a contestant on the new reality show “LEGO Masters,” which debuts Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 9 p.m. on FOX. Hosted by Will Arnett, the series pits contestants against each other in ambitious LEGO building challenges until the top teams face off for a $100,000 cash prize. Cowgill is a…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (2/3)
MONDAY, Feb. 3 Expert Panel on Legislation Dangerous to Immigrants Guiding Light Islamic Center Free | 6:30-9:30 p.m. Kentucky’s Senate Bill 1 would require many public employees to cooperate with immigration law enforcement and would not allow cities to adopt “sanctuary policies.” Opponents are calling it a “family separation bill.” Some of those people, immigration…
LEO Podcast #85: 99 Bottles, Brain Check from Akasha
On this episode of the 99 Bottles podcast, host Syd Bishop talks with Spencer Guy, head brewer at Akasha Brewing Company, about Brain Check, a seasonal imperial stout.
Stream Louisville Is For Lovers 2020 A Few Days Early
The Louisville Is For Lovers compilation, an annual album from local musicians that explores the complexity of love, is back, and you can listen to the 2020 installment below. The record will be released officially on Tuesday, Feb. 4, but you can stream the album in advance right here. This year’s comp features tracks by…
Our Six Favorite Local Songs From January
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy — ‘This is Far From Over’ Over the course of his career, Will Oldham has proven his talent for dynamic songwriting. That has manifested itself with a who’s who of musical partners covering Americana, indie and even ambient. With “This is Far From Over,” Oldham strips all of that away for a…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (1/31)
SATURDAY, Feb. 1 African American Read-In Carnegie Center for Art & History Free | 10:30 a.m.-noon Celebrate Black literature by listening or participating in two- to three-minute readings of work by American American authors. Expect special presentations from Idris Goodwin, the author of the breakbeat poetry book “Can I Kick It?”, children’s literature writer Dedee…
New Plans For Eastern Parkway: More Single Lanes, More Bike Paths, More Greenery
The Final Eastern Parkway rehabilitation proposals unveiled Jan. 28 contains more green space, a 10-foot shared path for pedestrians and cyclists and significant traffic slowing measures including two roundabouts. Next, Louisvillians have one more week (until Feb. 11) to comment on the report before a draft is sent to the city in March and finalized…
Vyva Melinkolya Creates Intricate Shoegaze On Violet
On the new Vyva Melinkolya EP, Violet, primary member Alyc Diaz builds massive shoegaze galaxies, employing a type of raw, slowcore ambience that blossoms into sheer walls of sound intent on swallowing the listener. Each of the five songs is impeccably layered, connected by a thread of driving darkness. Diaz achieved all of this by…
Frederick the Younger To Release New EP, Fever
Since 2015, Jenni Cochran and Aaron Craker have been dedicated to making music as indie-pop band Frederick the Younger, and recently they made it their full-time career. With the addition of Meg Samples (drums), Shelley Anderson (bass) and Julianna Rodriguez (keys), the band’s sound is even more expansive and energized. Their new EP Fever will…
The Stories Behind Louisville Is For Lovers 2020: Local Compilation Explores The Complexity Of Love
Love is a many-sided dice that’s rolled over and over throughout life, turning up a wide spectrum of emotions and situations — the good, the bad, the complicated, the simple and everything in-between. That’s always captured well in the Louisville is for Lovers compilation, an annual album from local musicians that explores the complexity of…
Eat Veggie Food, Go To A Brewery
Hope and I try to get out of our eatery comfort zone, whether it be to a new area of town or new style of cuisine. So, our friends who write LEO’s Beer Me! column suggested Monnik Beer Co. and offered to come along for the road show. I hadn’t thought of a brewery for…
A Kitchen Conversation, Translated
A sous chef speaks to a server in a steamy kitchen. “OK, that’s the special eighty-sixed. Eighty-sixed, you hear me? And if I get one more order for it, I’m gonna lose my — ” (ticket printer chirrups) “Oh My God! Get me Lance right now!” The server wheels around and heads for the dining…
Ask Minda Honey: Quickies!
In a relationship or life jam? Send your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com or reach me on Facebook.com/AskMindaHoney Hey y’all! I recently created an anonymous form you can use to submit questions to my column. I’m going to answer a few of those this week and you can submit your own at: tinyurl.com/QforMinda Minda, Basically, is it…
Comedian Julie Scoggins: ‘Crotch Full Of Iced Tea’
Here’s the punch line: “So, I got a ticket and a crotch full of iced tea.” Read our interview with Comedian Julie Scoggins for the rest of the joke. And go see Scoggins this week at The Caravan. LEO: How was growing up in Charlotte? Julie Scoggins: Oh, I shouldn’t even be a comedian. You’re…
Savage Love: Rain Checks
Q: I’m a 33-year-old woman in a relationship with a 43-year-old man. My boyfriend’s fantasy is to have a threesome with another man. He enjoys watching me have sex with other men and then intermittently fucking me. But he mostly likes to watch me get fucked. For a long time, my boyfriend would send nudes…
‘Loose Nuts: Bert Hurley’s West End Story’
If you are willing to venture: head across the Speed Art Museum’s original atrium, pass through the first few wings of oil paintings, go up the stairs above the cinema, and you’ll finally arrive at “Loose Nuts: Bert Hurley’s West End Story.” On the way, you will, of course, notice elegant marble busts, the large…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (1/29/20)
Absurd: ‘Sorta Slots’ — Good, Casino Gambling — Bad A Courier Journal story updating Churchill Down’s purchase of Turfway Park last fall included a fascinating nugget that exposes Kentucky’s hypocritical, conflicted relationship with gambling. Forget that the state sanctions, no, celebrates horse racing and that you can throw away our money on the lottery a…
2020 Legislative Session: Amendments, Accusations
In a particularly bizarre mini-drama at the beginning of the 2020 Kentucky legislative session, state Sen. Stephen Meredith proposed and quickly withdrew a bill that would have allowed law enforcement to detain you for up to two hours if you refused to identify yourself and explain what you were doing. The proposition drew biting social…
Dear Comrade Beshear
If you missed the broadcast on KET, the Kentucky capitol was bedlam after the conclusion of Beshear the Younger’s State of the Commonwealth. It was nothing short of an act of the Almighty that the building didn’t catch on fire and explode while he was delivering his address, as the smell of methane still haunts…
Homeless Ruling A Victory For Only Some
In a case called Boise v. Martin, the U.S. Supreme Court last month refused to hear an appeal of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that cities cannot cite people for sleeping on the street when no shelter space is available. For anyone with a shred of empathy, the high court’s refusal to hear…
Unraveling Bevin’s Edicts
Andy Beshear’s first actions as governor have reinforced the strong policy and character traits that he showed as a candidate. They also revealed that he is not looking to his next election to steer his administration. They showed he has political courage. Every newly-elected governor or president uses executive powers to change policies to reflect…
