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Louisville Orchestra’s Teddy Abrams? is curating an entire stage at Forecastle
Scroll down the list of artists performing at Forecastle this year. From the top down, there are several names that make it around the festival circuit. What you don’t often see at those other high-profile events around the country is the presence of a local music scene. The Forecastle Festival, by comparison, has pushed to…
10 under $5 – What To Do This Week In Louisville (7/23)
MONDAY Metal Monday Yoga Goodwood Brewing Donations | 6 p.m. Metal Monday Yoga, with instructor and metal god warrior Denise Ingle, is promoted as “a fun high-energy class followed with some beer drinking!” Classes begin at 6 p.m., the cost is donation-based and attendees are asked to bring a mat and a beach towel since…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (7/20)
FRIDAY Kalashnikov Clowns and The Vodka Cabaret Purrswaytions $8 | 10 p.m. Head to Louisville’s one and only lesbian bar, Purrswaytions, for a night of kings, queens and clowns. The Kalashnikov Clowns count Hunter S. Thompson as one of their inspirations, and you can see it in their storytelling and sideshow antics. For this show,…
Photos from all three days of Forecastle 2018
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Our Six Favorite Forecastle Sets From Day Three
Courtney Barnett Courtney Barnett is a casualty of cool. Her set at Boom Stage on Sunday confirmed this, and she even sported a French tuck. She opened with three songs fresh from her new album released in May, Tell Me How You Really Feel: “Hopefulessness,” “City Looks Pretty” and “Charity.” She eventually switched from a sunburst Jaguar (a…
Our Six Favorite Forecastle Sets From Day Two
West End Showcase Any set that starts off by dissing Gov. Matt Bevin and his bullshit is already all right in my book. Shout out to poet and set emcee Lance Newman for his presence during the set, which helped to highlight one of the numerous talents in The West End of Louisville, Jecorey “1200”…
Our Six Favorite Forecastle Sets From Day One
Lucero I like every record Lucero has put out, except the last one. The muddled mid-tempo stuff on All A Man Should Do didn’t register for me like the big, punk-leaning, horn-driven alt-country on records like 1372 Overton Park, which is my favorite from them. But, looking back on this Forecastle set during which they…
10 under $5 – What To Do This Week In Louisville (7/16)
MONDAY Graphic Novel Discussion Group Louisville Free Public Library, Downtown Free | 6 p.m. Interested in how graphic novels are expressing gender identity? Join this graphic novel discussion — the focus won’t be on any one graphic novel in particular, but will cover gender identity and expression in all comics. Everyone is welcome, whether you’re…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (7/13)
FRIDAY Forecastle Festival (July 13–15) Waterfront Park Prices and times vary Certainly, you already know about Forecastle this weekend. But have you read LEO’s coverage? There’s “Six bands to catch at Forecastle before 6 p.m.,” “Five Places Within Walking Distance Of Forecastle to Catch AC, A Drink and A Bite,” Michael C. Powell’s take on…
A last-minute Forecastle playlist
Forecastle starts tomorrow, so by now, you most likely know if you’re going. And you probably even have a plan. But, there are so many bands playing in such a short amount of time that it’s hard to do your homework on all of them. So, here’s a three-hour playlist, featuring 48 songs, each from…
What you can bring into Forecastle, what to leave home
We know you’re pumped about Forecastle, but before you start pregaming and forget about… well… everything, you may want to check these two lists of what you can and can’t bring in. Because the last thing you want to do is spend all your money on Uber to get the right backpack. Or worse, bring…
Liquor Barn unveils new delivery app
Ever have a dinner party and find yourself running out of wine? Or host a cookout and the beer begins to run low? Or maybe you just don’t feel like getting out of your pajamas to go out and grab a bottle of wine. A new app puts Liquor Barn, literally, at your fingertips. The…
Six bands to catch at Forecastle ?before 6 p.m.
The right headliners might make the price of admission worth it, but finding solid shows earlier in the day at a music festival is the key to getting the most out of your money. The weekend is packed with choices, so here are six bands that perform before 6 p.m. that you shouldn’t miss. Lucero…
Jenny Lewis returns to Forecastle? with new material
Jenny Lewis may not be from Louisville, but she certainly feels a connection to it. “I also have some really close friends, The Watson Twins. I’m like their shorter sister,” Lewis said about the identical alt-country duo who are from Louisville, and now based out of Los Angeles. “And I’ve just had some really lovely…
Houndmouth moves forward with a new album, ‘Golden Age’
Before the August release of their latest album, Golden Age, and a subsequent national tour, Houndmouth finds comfort in being in their hometown, as they gear up for a Saturday evening set at Forecastle. “It was the first festival we ever played,” singer Matt Myers says of 2012’s Forecastle. “It was kind of our introduction…
You’re not too old for Forecastle: Music festivals aren’t about age, they’re about discovery
Basking in a resplendent, cotton candy sunset for PJ Harvey’s trenchant Sunday evening set at last year’s Forecastle Fest, I was offered free mushrooms by a friend. Like the major league dumbass that I am, I declined because — get this — I “had to work.” Had to work. That’s what my soupy brain, in…
Five Places Within Walking Distance Of Forecastle ?to Catch AC, A Drink and ?A Bite
So the heat index is 110, you have no shade, and Waterfront Park is basically a sauna. What do you do to cool off at Forecastle? You could jump into the Ohio River, but we strongly advise against that. You can grab a drink or post up in the shade at Forecastle, but you’ll still…
Courtney Barnett is? one of this generation’s ?best songwriters
After being crowned a new voice for this generation thanks to her observational wordplay on 2015’s Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett took a bit of time to find the words for the follow-up, this year’s Tell Me How You Really Feel. It’s a record that mirrors the bigger…
Cave DWLR joins the local-leaning lineup at Forecastle’s Party Cove
Starting off in metal and punk bands, Elysia Jade Swigart eventually developed her own brand of electronic music and hip-hop under the name Cave DWLR. Her music is hyper-kinetic, using anime, television and video games as source material, which colors her sound into something that’s both nostalgic and fresh. Swigart recently joined the Spinsters Union…
Immigration debate: comprehensive reform,? not rhetoric
[Editor’s note: Vickie Yates Glisson is the Republican nominee for Kentucky’s 3rd Congressional District, which Democratic U.S. John Yarmuth LEO’s founder, has represented since 2007. This is her response to Yarmuth’s column last week, which can be read at leoweekly.com] To call the immigration debate a “heated issue” would be an understatement. But as this…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Mitch gets pegged | Rose Four Pegs blasted Public Enemy on an outdoor speaker at U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell while he dined across the street at Sarino in Germantown. He then fled as protesters shouted: “No comfort for fascists!” No axes… but Guns? OK! | Thorn While protesters stand vigil outside of the Immigration and…
‘The Summer Wives’ is relaxed entertainment
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams (William Morrow; 372 pa., $26.99) Oh, you know how it is, darling. You don’t? Never fear, you’ll pick it up quickly. The historical fiction — with culture clash on an island getaway of the rich and bored, in a Gatsby-esque manner. The romance — rich-girl, poor-boy style. The murder…
Re-imagining WHY Louisville store as? The Marvelous Mystery, ?recovery from Funtown Mountain, ?liftoff with Everything Will Be OK Project
Following the Funtown Meltdown, I was left with a mess of epic proportions. Staggering legal and financial complications, destruction of my personal relationships, heavy restrictions on access to my daughter and, quite literally, a massive pile of junk. All of this fallout was overwhelming to the point that I truly believed I could not make…
Comedian Creig Ewing: ‘Trump makes it hard on comics’
Creig Ewing has gone from editor of the sports page to performer on the comedy stage. Ewing, former sports editor for the Courier Journal, decided that with a new career at Humana, he also wanted to give his old passion for writing a new twist. “When I got out of the paper,” said Ewing, “I…
Expand your world-food horizons at Abyssinia and Addis
To gain real insight into other people, walk a mile in their moccasins. This simple, old wisdom still feels fresh, maybe more than ever these days. Here’s another saying, not so famous, because I just made it up: To get to know friends from around the world, sit down to a meal of their food.…
World giraffe day, beer and weirdness
I didn’t know World Giraffe Day existed. But it does, and it happened last month. 3rd Turn Brewing hosted an event for a group raising money for the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, an organization dedicated to protecting giraffes in the wild. It was part of a growing trend of odd and creative ways breweries are using…
Ask Minda Honey: Delete Online Pics? After a Breakup?
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 I’m out of questions, so this week I’m answering one I got IRL. If you have any questions about any kind of relationship issue you’re having, shoot me an email at askmindahoney@leoweekly.com…
Savage Love: Lopsiders
Q: Longtime Savage Love fanboy with a bit of a conundrum — and it’s your fault! I’m a bi man in my 30s. To use Charles M. Blow’s word, my bisexuality is “lopsided.” This means that I fall in love with women exclusively, but I love to have sex with men occasionally. My current girlfriend…
Din din for Mitch
Normally, when Kentucky hits the national news it’s for embarrassing, over-the-top reasons in dumb-fuckery — we built a biblical dinosaur boat, Rand Paul got body slammed, Matt Bevin is a vindictive, shallow shit head out here doing what vindictive, shallow shit heads do, Rick Pitino is poorly slinging dick in a public space and catching…
The real Occupy ICE
By now, the Families Belong Together Rally on June 30 seems like old news. A grasstop organization took it upon itself, once again, to helm a rally in the name of “helping” immigrant communities. By the time the date rolled around, the White House had already backpedaled, saying it would, in fact, keep families together…
Killing our universities
The financial future of Kentucky’s colleges and universities is ominous, a recent study warns. It’s one thing to refuse expanded gaming or legalized marijuana to bring in new money, but instead Kentucky’s leaders seem to not understand that the future of this state depends on the quality of our workforce — the quality of our…
