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The 2020 LEO Playlist: 15 of our favorite local songs of the past year
Brutal. Unrelenting. Game-changing. Historic. We could probably think of apt descriptors for 2020 all day, but the result would remain the same. It was a year of pain and reckoning, with a deadly virus floating around and a social justice movement that exposed some of the most terrible scars that the city, nation and world…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (1/11)
TUESDAY, Jan. 12 Kentucky & Louisville Politics Zoom Free | 6-7:30 p.m. The subject of this week’s class by Louisville Political Education For Liberation is about local politics, that of Kentucky and Louisville. “Each class session is focused on education, liberation, and building political power,” write organizers. Register here. Roots101 Poetry Slam Live Facebook Live…
Covidiots and reformers: Some of this year’s pre-filed bills
It was during the last civil rights movement that Sam Cooke penned “A Change Is Gonna Come.” And it did. During this year’s racial justice movement and coronavirus pandemic, people have been asking for a change, too. If they’re depending on the state legislature, though, they might have to wait. “They’ll pass a budget; they’ll…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (1/8)
SATURDAY, Jan. 9 Let Us Learn At FEED Louisville Douglass Boulevard Christian Church Free | 10 a.m. Nearly 900,000 people in Kentucky are food insecure, ranking eighth worst in the nation in 2020, according to Feeding America. Food insecurity is up around the world as a result of COVID-19, and it will take a united…
Photos that defined Louisville in 2020: A recap of the year through the lens of LEO’s photographer
Over the course of 2020, I was asked a handful of times what it was like photographing the year. I’ve never had a great answer to that question, because there’s been what feels like a decade of life-changing events crammed into one year. The pandemic brought a kind of terror to Louisville — and to…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Remina’ & ‘Giga’
‘Remina’ Writer and Artist Junji Ito Review by David Williams, The Great Escape At long last, the 2005 cosmic classic “Hellstar Remina,” by the unequivocal master of Japanese horror Junji Ito, has received its first English publication. This new translation is published by manga mainstay VIZ and is bound in a lovely blood-red hardcover tome with…
Savage Love: European Adventures
Q: We’re an adventurous, bisexual, non-monogamous, opposite-sex couple with a teenage kid living in Europe. We don’t really struggle with finding and trying new and interesting stuff in bed. However, we do have a problem and it’s getting worse. Having sex is, well, weird, when the kid is at home. We can’t be loud, we can’t…
Three local musicians reflect on the hardships — and silver linings — of 2020
The pandemic has had a wide range of negative effects on the music industry — concerts screeched to a halt, recording anything in a group became tricky, making money became harder in an already difficult business. And those are just a few examples from an unforgiving cycle of the sun. Undoubtedly, 2020 was a rough…
New Albany’s Legacy Pizza is a keeper
As a pizza geek whose tastes have been formed (I will not say snobbified) from past years living in New York City’s Queens borough and many visits to Italy, I have a high standard for pizza. Allow me to assure you that the fine pie at Legacy Pizza & Bakery fully meets that standard. So…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (1/06)
Thorn: Better late than never Breonna Taylor was killed in her home on March 13, 2020. Last week, two of the officers involved in her case received termination notices from LMPD. Nearly 300 days, a $12 million settlement, a fired police chief and over 100 days of marches and protests later, the slightest bit of justice…
Sexual assault prevention advocacy in the midst of the pandemic
On a dreary day in February 2016, my criminal law professor stood before our class. We were set to begin our unit on sex crimes. However, before the lesson began, Professor Sam Marcosson had a message to deliver. He told us how law schools in the country had begun skipping this chapter due to the…
Can the city government win back public trust?
Each new year offers an opportunity to fix our failures and shortcomings of the past — begin anew with healthy living, diets and exercise; being a better spouse, parent or friend; setting budgets and ridding frivolous habits. Resolutions should be noble and ambitious endeavors toward self-improvement, while some are borne of necessity. Such is the case…
