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Three of Every Four Jailed Louisville Youth are Black?: Who Can Change That?
When Alicia Price’s son was cited by police for the first time, officers said he was part of a marauding group of juveniles “terrorizing” the Shawnee neighborhood. A police report said the large group was causing unreasonable annoyance and alarm to residents. The officers labeled him for the first time as a gang member. Price’s…
A look inside the new Tim Faulkner Gallery, which opens in August
The Tim Faulkner Gallery has evolved and thrived over nearly a decade, and now it has found itself a new home. After several venue changes, co-owners Tim Faulkner and Margaret Archambault have discovered what they anticipate to be the gallery’s final location. The space at 991 Logan St. features nearly-filled studio spaces, a gallery, a…
The Smashing Pumpkins still have it: Notes from their show at the Yum Center
It’s been 25 years since the summer of 1993, when The Smashing Pumpkins shook the alternative rock and grunge universe with their epic breakthrough album Siamese Dream. On Saturday at the KFC YUM! Center, the band performed a memorable set full of songs from that iconic record, as well as other material from that decade,…
9 Unusual Places to Do Yoga in Louisville
No longer are yogis content to twist themselves at a yoga studio. Yogis are branching out, and twisting themselves all over the place. So if you’re a yogi looking to expand your horizons (quite literally), we put together this nifty list of where you can do yoga in unusual places. This list focuses on reoccurring…
A conversation with the Squallis Puppeteers at Forecastle
Despite that it’s hot as hell every year at Forecastle, the Squallis Puppeteers are there, winding through the crowd. These are no ordinary puppets, though — they are enormous figures from local pop culture and beyond. “I keep joking that every year, the puppets are going to get lighter and lighter, and I’m going to…
What Does Louisville Rally For?
Louisville can really put on a rally. Thousands met at the Metro Hall steps earlier this year for the “March for our Lives” call for stricter gun laws, many chanting “Enough is enough!” Hundreds rallied in response to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. And, just in the past couple of weeks we…
Chasing Mitch Mcconnell: You Aren’t Hurting him, ?You Are Helping Him
Should Mitch McConnell be confronted in public? Conservative writer Scott Jennings and LEO Executive Editor Aaron Yarmuth take opposite sides. Read Jennings’ opinion below, and click here for Yarmuth’s take. Watching liberal activists hound Mitch McConnell with smartphones and megaphones at local restaurants, screaming about abolishing ICE, I couldn’t help but think: I never knew it would…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Better UofL trustees board? then, better ingredients | Thorn Aside from illuminating the depths of this nation’s racism, perhaps the worst part of the Papa John Schnatter reveal is that he is off the UofL Board of Trustees. Why? Because now Gov. Matt “My Bell Done Got Rung” Bevin gets to replace him. If nothing…
Three of our favorite sets from Forecastle 2018
Go to here to check out all of our coverage from Forecastle 2018, including features, photos and daily recaps, but, for a taste, below are a few words about three of our favorite sets from the weekend. Wax Fang | Friday The Port Stage, which is now hidden in a shaded row of flea market…
Three concerts to ?catch this week
Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus Headliners: Wednesday, July 18 Julien Baker’s melancholy folks songs are raw and introspective, chronicling personal struggles in a direct and relatable way. Her lyrics are striking, her instrumentation is spare and haunting, and, if you’re a fan of dark, honest singer-songwriters, she’s one of the best in the business. Lucy Dacus…
Louisville Photographic Archives unveil 300 photos from the city’s music scene
“Live From a Dark Room: Louisville Underground Music in Photographs, 1980-present” features work by 20 photographers who have captured Louisville’s vibrant underground music scene over the course of nearly the past four decades. The nearly 300 photographs that cover the walls of the exhibit are part of the LUMA Project (Louisville Underground Music Archive). One…
Louisville Fringe Festival, a creative maelstrom
The medium, as Marshall McLuhan famously put it, is the message. The Louisville Fringe Festival, which opened last weekend and continues through Saturday, is a prime example. From the beginning, the organizers (who, doubtless, will guffaw at the use of that particular word) set out to create an event worthy of the moniker “Fringe.” During…
Mandee McKelvey, the comedy of tragedy
You might know Mandee McKelvey from the monthly storytelling show “We Still Like You,” and as various characters in “The Celebrity Roast” series. This week, she steps into unfamiliar territory, balancing her dark sense of humor with the dramatic ups and downs of her past, when she premieres her first one-woman show “Herself” at The…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Captain American’ and ‘Catwoman’
‘Captain America’ No. 1 Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, artist Leinil Francis Yu Review by Kyle Thompson, The Great Escape Louisville BETWEEN FAMILIES being separated at the border, a government that seems to care more about social media than governing and the fact that less than a year ago Captain America was essentially a Nazi, Ta-Nehisi Coates…
Anoosh Bistro delights with memorable fare
You’d think I’ve been doing this culinary critiquing long enough that I’ve been just about everywhere and tried just about everything. But the other night Anoosh Bistro delivered a first: an appetizer so fine that I couldn’t eat just one. Yes, that’s what I said. The grilled Roman artichoke app was so good, so intense,…
Fernet About It
I was on a treacherous hiking journey in Patagonia years ago, heading toward San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina. My group had been slogging its way through the unforgiving, but staggeringly-beautiful Andes Mountains for four days, our bodies weary and sustained by only powdered meals and bewildering views of glaciers and crystal lakes that pepper…
Bourbon-based jelly? ?It’s a Kentucky thing
When you live in Kentucky, sometimes you just want a little bourbon to spread on your toast in the morning. It’s what we do here. Enter Highland Bard, a small, local outfit operated by father-daughter team David and Morgan Bard, who recently rolled out a new line of products including a jelly made with tea…
Savage Love: Connections
Q: I’m a 20-year-old submissive woman. I’m currently in a confusing affair with a 50-year-old dominant married man. He lives in Europe and has two kids close to my age. We met online when I was 17 and starting to explore my BDSM desires — out of the reach of my overbearing, sex-shaming, disastrously religious…
West of Ninth: People, in their own words…(7/18)
June 25, 2018 Katina, Park DuValle “I was born and raised in The West End, off 36th and Market. My experience in the West was good. I got eight brothers and sisters. My father’s a hard worker. My mom died when I was 15. She had breast cancer. My father was a parks worker. He…
Bevin’s blunder, Papa John’s value to the city
I saw some whales last week. Real ones, in the ocean. Pretty amazing. Nothing to brag about. Those private-pool liberal impostors at Lakeside see one every time you strip off down to your Speedos. A quite repulsive sight, I’m sure. Your wife doesn’t mind it. Nice try, Moby, but I know my wife pretty well,…
Mitch McConnell must blame himself ?for being heckled
Should Mitch McConnell be confronted in public? Conservative writer Scott Jennings and LEO Executive Editor Aaron Yarmuth take opposite sides. Read Yarmuth’s opinion below, and click here for Jennings’ take. At a picnic several years ago, a man approached my dad, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth. “Congressman,” he said, “I appreciate your service and think you’re doing…
