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John Austin Clark, classical and timeless
This article is part of the 2019 Winter A&E Guide. To read the rest of the section, click here. In a city that celebrates bourbon (the drink), Bourbon Baroque (the chamber group) has an attention-grabbing name. Just don’t be confused by the Baroque part. As John Austin Clark, cofounder and co-artistic director of Bourbon Baroque…
Majority of Kentuckians support bail reform for low-risk groups, new polls says
Seventy-six percent of Kentuckians polled in a new survey supported the elimination of cash bail for low-risk offenders. They were asked if they supported reforming Kentucky’s bail system so that those charged with a nonviolent, nonsexual crime could be released from jail while awaiting trial through a bail process that does not require cash payment.…
Roasting Live: A chat with the comedians behind Character Assassination
Eminem. Tim Burton. Aquaman. Kanye. Disney Princesses. Mario. They’ve all been the targets of Character Assassination, a reoccurring live comedy show at The Bard’s Town during which local comedians roast historical and fictional figures. An ad hoc troupe with members in Louisville and Chicago, including Kent Carney, Mandee McKelvey and Sean Keller, Character Assassination was…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (2/04)
MONDAY, FEB. 4 Redlining Louisville: A History of Race, Class and Housing Crescent Hill Library — Louisville Free Public Library Free | 6:30-8:30 p.m. Joshua Poe, urban planner and community organizer, will discuss Louisville’s history of redlining, starting with the city’s 1938 maps that had a far-reaching impact on the city’s black population by crippling…
LEO Podcast #72: 99 Bottles, Cumberland’s Barrel Aged KY Krunk
This is the inaugural episode of our new podcast 99 Bottles, where we invite one local brewer to talk in detail about one of their beers. On this episode, we talk to Cumberland’s brewer Justin Vasher and owner Mark Alleier about the Barrel Aged KY Krunk, a special release that will be available at noon…
10 concerts you shouldn’t miss in February
Shark Sandwich, DUD, The Daddy Sisters, TART, The Shitdels and Saturday School Art Sanctuary Friday, Feb. 1 Catch some great punk and indie bands while browsing — and hopefully purchasing — from local visual artists. Music by Shark Sandwich, DUD, The Daddy Sisters, TART, The Shitdels and Saturday School. Artists and vendors include Sarah Tidwell,…
LEO Presents: Voodoo Economics, live in studio
Voodoo Economics brings their energetic, hook-heavy skate-punk to LEO Presents, our video series where we ask local musicians to stop by our studio to play three songs. Watch past episodes of LEO Presents here.
118 people stayed outside in polar vortex: Has the city met goals to help?
As the last near-zero temperatures from the polar vortex penetrated Louisville early Thursday morning, 118 people were found staying outside. That number from the Coalition for the Homeless’ annual count was 35 fewer than during last year’s January count — “an important sign of progress,” according to a news release from the Coalition. Thursday’s count…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (2/01)
FRIDAY, FEB. 1 I Heart Heart…A Tribute to Heart Headliners Music Hall $12 (or free with donation) | 8-11 p.m. Powerhouse singer Carly Johnson has curated an evening of music for this annual charity concert, this year benefitting The Salvation Army of Louisville. Johnson will be belting tunes, of course, and she’ll be joined by…
Our six favorite local songs from January
Introvert — ‘Shadowed Walls’ Opening with a somber drone with granular delay, “Shadowed Walls” starts off small and expands in deeply personal ways. It exemplifies the very best of electronic music, a fluid movement that transitions in extraordinary ways.There is an energy here that carries the track, a deep groove that builds and evolves almost…
Stepping out in dance
This article is part of the 2019 Winter A&E Guide. To read the rest of the section, click here. Thanks to Gene Kelly, we know there are people who “gotta dance.” Safiyyah Rasool (safiyyahdance.net) is one of those people. As a specialist in hip-hop dance, she is filling a void from her childhood. LEO: What…
The art of skateboarding… and how unicorns help
This article is part of the 2019 Winter A&E Guide. To read the rest of the section, click here. What happens to a skateboard when it has outgrown its usefulness? There’s the junkyard, of course, but there are also visual artists like Jeremy Vessels (jvafd.com) who see a skateboard as a future table. LEO: What…
Spelling out Success: Actor Alex Roby, what goes into making a show
This article is part of the 2019 Winter A&E Guide. To read the rest of the section, click here. Alex Roby stands on the stage of TheatreWorks of Southern Indiana in a baseball uniform and wailed, “My unfortunate protuberance / Seems to have its own exuberance.” It’s one of the many quirky and curious lines…
Will Castleman statue move? ?It’s a matter of opinion
The John B. Castleman statue is staying for now in Cherokee Triangle after a vote last week from a neighborhood architectural review committee. But the city is appealing that decision to remove the statue, which the mayor had originally vowed would be gone by the end of 2018. After the city files its appeal, the…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd (1/30)
Not bad, just dressed that way? | Absurd Roger Stone’s arrest wouldn’t typically make this local-centric column, but we must note he is a LEO reader. When LEO’s Two Brits in The Lou called him a “tailor’s nightmare” in 2017, he wrote, “Sorry, I’m an Anderson and Sheppard man myself and far better dressed than…
The stories behind this year’s Louisville Is For Lovers compilation
Here’s a universal truth and a massive understatement: Love is complicated. It’s universal, but how it’s perceived, felt, described and contextualized is a wide-ranging and tricky thing. Louisville Is For Lovers, an annual compilation from local musicians, is once again exploring all of those variables — and all of the joy and sorrow that comes…
Record Review: Tyler Lance Walker Gill — ‘?Live From a Parking Lot’
Tyler Lance Walker Gill’s Live From a Parking Lot was recorded at the 2018 Seven Sense Festival during a muggy, August afternoon in Louisville. For a live recording, it sounds incredibly clear and includes solo riffs from his accompanying band members with his “take it away” encouragement. Five songs are included, with “So Called Christian…
Record Review: Stonecutters — ‘Carved In Time’
Stonecutters are the rare metal band that manages to mix sonic brutality with ear-pleasing melodies, and their latest album Carved In Time is a sterling example. While it’s certainly an extension of their past, Time also brings a growing musical maturity, both in recording quality and complexity of song and structure. They deftly wield their…
Record Review: Sloe Pink — Platypus
While he has traditionally pulled from hip-hop, Sloe Pink has always skewed toward the esoteric, a trend that continues on Platypus. Like the titular animal, the record’s music is unique — a pastiche of rap, indie and a touch of vaporwave. The production is dense and features a lot of moving parts, although not at…
Record Review: Quality Cable — ‘Paper View’
The project of four UofL music school students, Quality Cable blends the old with the new, taking subtle elements of jazz and psych and modernizing them into melancholy indie rock. On their sophomore EP Paper View, the band builds on that base — a more polished, bold and intricate entry, without going over the top.…
Paula Poundstone: ‘I don’t want any president to be funny’
Paula Poundstone has funny Trump jokes. “It’s not hard to do,” Poundstone told LEO. “Nothing would delight me more than him not being funny… I don’t want any president to be funny. I want them all to be deadly boring.” She ought to know. Poundstone was political correspondent for “The Tonight Show”and the first female…
Comic Book Reviews: Buffy the Vampire Slayer & The Avant-Guards
‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ No. 1 Writer Jordie Bellaire and artist Dan Mora Review by Meredith Harris, The Great Escape Louisville Welcome back to the Hellmouth, everyone! Actually, we’re here for the first time. We’re going back to the beginning of the pop culture phenomenon that is Buffy the Vampire Slayer for issue No. 1…
What’s the Hubbub, Bub?
I see and hear a lot of restaurant-goers discussing the noise levels they encounter when dining out. I get it. As I age, it’s harder and harder for me to hear my companions’ conversation in the midst of a noisy crowd. However, I have yet to cross a restaurant off my to-visit list simply because…
In Praise of Pudding… and Whiskey
A friend visiting from Great Britain brought me a most welcome and very traditional gift during the recent holidays: a dense, savory, fruit-spice-and-rum-spiked Christmas pudding. A little bigger than a softball, the pudding was almost as dark and dense as a black hole. It had been aged for nearly a year in order to reach…
Dryuary
We’ve laid another year to rest, and our communities are abuzz with “new year, new me” proclamations. Whole30 diets. Juice cleanses. New gym memberships. And, admittedly, my least favorite of all: DRYuary. Now, I am not talking about going sober for the impactful, necessary reasons needed to shift the course of one’s life — bravo…
Rethinking gyro expectations at V-Grits
I was in Liverpool, England, about a decade and a half ago and was drinking pints with my friend Rob at the Jacaranda, a club once frequented by the Beatles. He said, “Let’s go across the street and get a gyro.” At that time I had never had one of the classic Greek sandwiches involving…
Ask Minda Honey: Boyfriend would rather smoke than work
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 Hey Minda, I have some concerns in my current relationship. We have been dating a year now and are currently living together. This is the first time in my life that I…
Savage Love: Omissions and Emissions
Q: I’m a 21-year-old woman, and I have an IUD. I’ve had sex with quite a few men, and one thing seems to be almost constant among them: trying to fuck without condoms. Many of the men I’ve been with seem to be perfectly fine and terribly eager to have sex without condoms. This has…
West Of Ninth: People, in their own words…(1/30)
Jan. 21, 2019 Dereck and Martin, from the California neighborhood Dereck: “Dr. King in his ‘Drum Major Instinct’ speech spoke on being a servant. The type of service that he did, he wasn’t well paid as a lot of the activists are today. He was looking for his reward in heaven. I really think that’s…
One more comment on Covington
Covington fuckin’ Catholic on the cross… I feel amazing! Have you ever been proven so right on a massive subject that your very soul shines ever so goddamn bright there’s no fuckin’ way the giant intergalactic space spiders who run this whole shitshow don’t see you blasting holy light from your pores from up high?…
Get rid of private schools
Our public schools have been bled dry by legislatures, their carcasses then put on display to show that public education is a “dead end.” If private schools are outperforming public schools, or offering services that public schools can’t, this just proves the often-right-wing-but-sometimes-left-wing talking point that public schools don’t work. Public education is under attack.…
Constipation City
A new study by Ohio State University found that using a simple stool in the bathroom can help with… well, your stool. Seventy-one percent of participants experienced “faster bowel movements,” while 90 percent “reported less straining.” (Google: Squatty Potty) This could be welcome news to the one in six Americans who suffer from constipation. Could…
