U.S. Rep. Yarmuth: ‘Keep being loud’ to protect healthcare
U.S. Rep John Yarmuth told a crowd recently that the tone of debate over healthcare must change from one of personal attack to one of policy debate. “We need to change the tone of our dialogue, it really isn’t productive, so if I believe that it’s accurate to say that a certain health care policy…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (7/10)
MONDAY Game Knights Kaiju Free | 7-11 p.m. Ever wonder if, like Jackie Chan in “Drunken Master,” you are actually better at games while drinking? Well, you can test that theory at GameKnights, a night of beer, bourbon and board games. This weekly event, hosted by Nerd Louisville and Squire, of Book & Music Exchange…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (7/7)
FRIDAY Poorcastle Festival 2017 (July 7–9) Apocalypse Brew Works $10 for weekend; $5 for day | 2 p.m. As the “festival for the rest of us,” Poorcastle plays the lighthearted foil event to the Forecastle Festival, but, more important, it’s three days of local music, and the proceeds are injected into area organizations that aim…
LEO Podcast #52: Recently Released w/ music from Dream Eye Color Wheel, RMLLW2LLZ, White Knight
Syd, Scott and Nik talk about their favorite new music released in Louisville in the past few weeks, including songs by Dream Eye Color Wheel, RMLLW2LLZ and White Knight.
News Of The Weird: bizarre-but-true news from around the world (7/5)
Get to the Pork Chopper! Tourists and father-son duos looking for out-of-this-world bonding experiences are paying up to $50,000 for the opportunity to “hunt” feral hogs from helicopters in Texas, sometimes using machine guns. “There’s only so many places in the world you can shoot machine guns out of a helicopter and no one shoots…
The Summer of Our Discontent
I don’t know about you, but this summer I’m feeling agitated – like never before. Typically, once Kentucky’s legislative session comes to an end, giving way to Derby and LGBTQ Pride Month, the summer is bustling and hopeful. This year, it feels different. The chilling ghost of November past continues to haunt me, even as…
Plugged in: The city’s third places spark big ideas
An office walks into a bar… Bear with me for a moment. I am talking about the third place. For some, it might be a café or the library. For others, it might be a barber shop or the gym. Regardless of where it is, or what it is exactly, most of us have a…
Poorcastle’s proceeds go right back into the local music community
When you go to Poorcastle this weekend to see 36 local bands, know you will also be helping a kid learn to play percussion with the vaunted Louisville Leopards. The nonprofit, three-day festival sends its proceeds to the Leopards and four other local groups, the Musicians Emergency Relief Fund, Crescent Hill Radio, AMPed and the…
Crescent Hill Radio’s library has surpassed 20,000 regional songs
When Crescent Hill Radio, a nonprofit community station that plays nothing but regional music, passed the 20,000 song mark in its library, it was a validation for Kathy Weisbach, station founder, president and general manager, and Gary Sampson, vice president and program director. “We’re not only playing the music, but we’re protecting it. We’ve created…
Completely Obsessed: A tale of two records
Around this time of year, a lot of writers take the time to step away from our usual butchering to take stock of the crop of music that has thus far been raised and pilfered in the year. On one hand, it’s a nice way to remember the great songs that have already made their…
Ask Minda Honey: Gemini friendship trouble
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com. Minda Honey, My current partner and my ex-partner have always been very close friends. My ex has been saying things to my current partner that make her feel like my ex is challenging her knowledge of me. Example: “Has So-and-So told you the story…
Savage Love: Sacrifice
Q: I’m a 29-year-old straight woman facing a dilemma. I dated this guy about a year ago, and in many ways he was exactly the guy I was looking for. The main hitch was sexual. Our sex was good, but he had a fetish where he wanted me to sleep with other guys. Basically, he…
KY Shakes’ ‘Caesar’ has a sharp sense of purpose
At the end of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” the Roman Republic is in ruins. The brutal civil war precipitated by Caesar’s assassination has devastated the country. An entire generation of elite leaders — the Senators who conspired against Caesar — are dead, slain in combat (fight choreography by Eric Frantz), or by their own hands. In…
‘The Last Cowboys’ is rich reading
“The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo” by Ian Stansel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 194 pgs., $23) Do you want a book about how a hopeless pursuit in the modern American West tests the best and worst in the pursued party? You don’t need to go back to Harry W. Lawton’s 1960 book, “Tell Them Willie Boy…
It’s Cesar Classics for me
[Ed. note: This is a special guest column by The Taste Bud’s dog, Darby] Hi, my name’s Darby, and The Taste Bud guy is my dad. I requested to do the column this week because I found a new food I really like. I mean, a lot. You see, I’m 13 now, which is pretty…
You’ll eat fake meat and like it at Morels
There’s this funny thing about plant-based meat analogues, aka fake meat: Hard-core carnivores and hard-core vegans all seem to get downright angry when they catch someone eating fake bacon, veggie burgers or even amazing meat-free goodies like those on the menu at Morels Cafe. I really can’t figure this out. The aversion, maybe, but why…
George L. Burney Sr. (1928—2017): He kept the dream alive
Every McDonald’s restaurant in America seems to have a breakfast club made up of old men who spend their mornings sipping coffee and solving the world’s problems. The McDonald’s at 28th Street and Broadway is no different. A few days after Christmas, about 10 middle-aged to elderly African-American men sat together in the front of…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
More Bevin secrets | Thorn After Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer released his tax returns and attacked Gov. Matt “Oblivious” Bevin for not doing the same, our grandiloquent and august leader said: “It’s not required by law, and it’s not going to be done. You can bring it up from now until the cows come…
Honor on the battlefield, humility in the heart
On a table covered in white cloth sat two frames and two flags, that of the United States and the other of France, and the mangled, Bakelite cigarette case that had saved his life. In one of the frames, a photo of a young John Eckert with an inscription to his mother, “Your loving son,…
Celebrate this
July 5, the day you spend your morning in the backyard picking ammo casings out of the dog’s water dish. The day you suspend yourself over a foul, hard-partied toilet bowl because you ingested too much red, white and blue nonsense the night before. The day you find Uncle Terry’s ripped WAMZ shirt hanging on…
The death panels
Well, we finally have death panels. Among the state laws taking effect this week is Senate Bill 4, changing the structure of medical malpractice lawsuits in Kentucky. Now, claims of malpractice will be reviewed by a panel before they are allowed into a courtroom. While Republicans in Congress and the White House are threatening the…
