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Introducing the Louisville Six: Progressive, new lawmakers join the fight
For more of LEO’s preview coverage of the 2019 legislative session, go here. Barreling into the 2018 midterms, predictions were that the blue wave was coming nationally and in Kentucky. Women, teachers and minorities were going to rise up against the chaos of Trumpism and the GOP stranglehold to retake the chambers of change. In…
A Behind The Scenes Look at The Louisville Rock Lottery
“Well, here we are” was one of the apropos remarks overheard at Headliners Music Hall early Saturday morning as 25 Louisville musicians convened for the third-annual Rock Lottery, a unique musical concept where a group of unrelated musicians form five bands and create three to four original songs within 12 hours. It all takes place…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week (01/14)
MONDAY, JAN. 14 ‘You Can’t Change What We Never Chose’: A Film & Keynote The Floyd Theater Free | 6:30-10:30 p.m. This legislative session, the UofL Student Activities Board and Ban Conversion Therapy Kentucky are launching a campaign to protect LGBTQ youth. Get informed by listening to Sam Brinton, a conversion therapy survivor and head of…
LEO Podcast #70: Lindy Casebier on the 2019 LVA Honors
Contributing Arts Editor Jo Anne Triplett talked with Louisville Visual Art’s Executive Director Lindy Casebier about the 2019 LVA Honors.
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (01/12)
FRIDAY, JAN. 11 Corpse Flower Bloom Yew Dell Botanical Gardens Free | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Hurry up, run, to Yew Dell Botanical Gardens before the rancid corpse flower (Amorphophallus Konjac) closes again. You don’t want to miss this smell, variously described as the scent of rotten eggs, garbage and, of course, a decomposing corpse. Once…
LEO Presents: Rmllw2llz, live in studio
Rmllw2llz brings his sharp, politically-charged hip-hop for the latest 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.
2019 Kentucky Legislative Session: This time, expect politics, inexperience and ?pro-rich to rule
For more of LEO’s preview coverage of the 2019 legislative session, go here. Jim Wayne left the Kentucky House of Representatives after serving there from 1991 to 2019. He represented the 35th district which includes the south-central parts of Jefferson County. He is the author of the award winning novel “The Unfinished Man.” Here is…
Bring in the clowns: how much havoc can lawmakers wreak ?in just 30 days?
For more of LEO’s preview coverage of the 2019 legislative session, go here. Magic 8 Ball… What will the 2019 legislative session hold for Kentucky? “Outlook not so good.” Oy… This is a short session, lasting only 30 days but extending with breaks into March. Still, that’s plenty of time for a lot of havoc…
Louisville’s homeless crisis: More low-barrier shelters to open
Christina Grimsley and Demetrius St. Clair said they were happy to be off the streets and allowed to stay together at Wayside Christian Mission’s new low-barrier shelter last week. They just wished the conditions could be better. The couple complained about frequent fighting among residents, unsanitary conditions and a lack of sleeping options besides mats.…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Attica Scott: ‘we will get there together’ | Rose A rose goes to state Rep. Attica Scott because we love the Louisville Democrat for her progressive, people-first politics, so we are sorry she decided to not run for governor, but we understand why. She said she wants to spend more time with her daughter and…
Quality Cable fine-tunes their sound with second EP, ‘Paper View’
College campuses are breeding grounds for newly-formed bands. There’s something magical about those unfettered years as an underclassman when new ideas and newfound freedoms make you believe the motivational posters imparting encouragement of possibilities. Enter indie rock band Quality Cable, whose four members are all pursuing various music degrees from the UofL School of Music.…
The culture blog ?Never Nervous ends
Never Nervous, a Louisville blog that covered local music, sports, food and pop culture, shut down at the end of 2018 after a seven-year run. We asked the blog’s founder and occasional LEO contributor Phillip Olympia to eulogize it. When I started Never Nervous back in the summer of 2011, I was losing touch with…
Sonic Breakdown: Prayer Line — “A Martyr’s Death”
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] They may not have much of a catalog yet, but, according to guitarist and vocalist Phillip Olympia, “A Martyr’s Death” is definitely what a Prayer Line song is all about. “We write songs about spooky horror cinema or other kinds…
Comedian Slade Ham on why you must travel
Comedian Slade Ham had never been out of Texas, that is until he somehow got on a tour in Germany right after 9/11. “I remember at the top of the list of instructions the military gave us, it said: ‘Don’t act overtly American.’ I’m from southeast Texas — that’s like American to the tenth power.”…
South End’s Chilakiles, ?delicious Mexican breakfast and more
A couple of weeks ago, I started getting glowing reports from friends and readers who urged me to check out a new, little, South End Mexican breakfast spot called Chilakiles. But when I asked Google to search, Google fought back. “Did you mean: chilaquiles?” No! “Chilakiles,” and “Chilakiles” is what I meant. Google didn’t believe…
New year? New beer resolutions for 2019
The Onion recently posted a story with the headline, “Earth’s Successful Completion of Orbit Around Sun Inspires Woman to Reflect on Eating Habits.” It speaks volumes as to why people annually decide to make big changes in their lives. Why not midyear? Why does the turning of the calendar from one year to the next…
Savage Love: Men and Women
Q: I’m a 40-year-old guy with a 30-year-old girlfriend. We’ve been together a year, and I can see a future with her. But there are problems. This girl comes after two minutes of stimulation, be it manual, oral, or penile. As someone who takes pride in my foreplay/pussy-eating abilities, this is a bummer. She gets…
Three ways you can help save abortion rights
The confirmation of Brett “Animal House” Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court was a call to post in the race to see who can most effectively end a woman’s right to bodily autonomy. I don’t mean the assault allegations, but rather what Kavanaugh represents to religious extremists and Federalist Society incels: an end to legal…
Keep Bevin in office, Mitch’s good work… ?
How was gai Parie? It was a delight to spend the festive season in a city with more culture than you can shake a stick at, where nobody’s heard of college sports or believes in God, where the average person’s weight is 100 pounds less than it is here, and that’s thousands of miles away…
Louis C.K. was funny
Comedy is a risky business. The shelf life of any given joke is like six months, and then poof — what we all were just cackling at is suddenly off limits, and everyone starts pointing fingers and passing the blame like the backward, lying cowards we all are at heart. “Louis C.K. was never funny!”…
People over profits
For more of LEO’s preview coverage of the 2019 legislative session, go here. The 2019 legislative agenda for Greater Louisville Inc. is surprisingly progressive, albeit for the wrong reasons — it is all about making money. To be fair, GLI is the self-proclaimed “voice of the Greater Louisville business community,” so it exists to help…
