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The Plantation In Your Town: How We Handle The Vestiges Of Our Past
I wasn’t happy when an ad for the “Soul Cleanse Yoga Festival” popped up in my Facebook feed and I saw several of my friends — my white friends — had marked themselves as interested in going. The problem? The yoga festival was being held at Farmington Historic Plantation. I’m no expert on how to…
Photos from the Bizarre Bazaar’s Fire Church
The Bizarre Bazaar brought the heat with Fire Church this past Sunday — the first in a new series of performances by regional fire and flow artists at The Mammoth. The show returns the first Sunday of every month at The Mammoth. We stopped by and took some photos.
10 under $5 – What To Do This Week In Louisville (7/2)
MONDAY Anime Monday: Summer Fun! Kaiju Free | 7:30-11:30 p.m. The Fourth of July is almost here, and what better way to celebrate it than with… anime? If you’re a patron of Kaiju, it totally makes sense. Join the Germantown bar for a night of anime featuring fun summer vibes and fireworks. The schedule is…
Our six favorite local songs from June
Black Lung Unit — ‘Echochamber’ An industrial music outfit that channels the darkness and rage of NIN filtered through the vocal delivery of Mike Patton, the Black Lung Unit offers up a biting screed about the dangers of the social media outrage machine, specifically in the travails of living in your own echo chamber. It’s…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (6/29)
FRIDAY 1993: Celebrating 25 years of the Louisville Leopard Percussionists Headliners Music Hall $15 | 8 p.m. To celebrate 25 years of the Louisville Leopard Percussionists, an internationally-recognized group of young musicians ages 7 to 16, Leopard alumni and teachers and special guests are playing songs from 1993 (the year the Leopards began). To read…
Here is how we can make it all stop
“Make it stop!” That’s what I’ve been hearing from so many Louisvillians these days. And that’s what I reported at a meeting of House leadership not long ago when we were asked what our constituents were talking about. And that was before the horrific scenes from our southern border started hitting the media. The brazen…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
When babies don’t win… | Thorn A judge threw out the sewer… er, pension bill because it was passed illegally. A frustrated Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer says he is done trying to save Kentucky’s dying pension system, even if it drags down the state. “I don’t see much inclination out there to open this…
Gay UK football player seeks acceptance? vs. butch Aussie comedian’s unpretty rage
We’re nearing the end of Pride month, which means the straights are feeling fatigued and posing thought-provoking questions such as “when is straight pride?” and “why won’t gay people stop talking about being gay?” Maybe, it has been repeatedly suggested, people wouldn’t hate the LGBTQ community so much if we would just sit down and…
Louisville Leopard Percussionists Celebrate 25 Years
In 1993, Diane Downs was digging through a utility closet at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary to find supplies for a bulletin board, when she stumbled upon an assortment of unused instruments. She saw it as an opportunity to have a little fun and put together an ensemble in her class with the intention of…
Bettye Lavette and more concerts to catch this week
Bettye Lavette, Ruen Brothers, Dr. Dundiff/Otis Junior Wednesday, June 27 Waterfront Wednesday The June installment of WFPK’s Waterfront Wednesday, featuring soul icon Bettye Lavette, roots band Ruen Brothers and the local duo of Otis Junior and Dr. Dundiff. Otis Junior and Dr. Dundiff will soon follow up 2017’s Hemispheres with the duo’s second record, Cool.…
Sonic Breakdown: Mother Runaway — ‘Hands & Knees’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] Sometimes songs aren’t developed from preconceived ideas, but instead they pour out of the writer as a spontaneous surprise. Savannah Ecklar, frontwoman for Mother Runaway is no stranger to this. It’s precisely how the song “Hands & Knees” was written.…
‘Steel Magnolias,’ superbly-crafted theater
In the opening moments of Robert Harling’s 1987 play “Steel Magnolias,” Truvy Jones, the proprietor of a beauty salon, lays out her personal and professional manifesto: “There is no such thing as natural beauty,” she declares. From a purely commercial standpoint, this maxim is good for business, of course. But in the world of the…
Comedian Ryan Singer, ‘I dated a woman who could shapeshift’
Comedian Ryan Singer is a funny guy, but his paranormal themed podcast “Me & Paranormal You” is no joke. He believes in the paranormal. “I was kind of built for it. When you’re raised Catholic, and you go to Catholic school for 12 years, you kind of have a built-in mysticism,” he told LEO. He…
Love, War and ?Restaurant Openings
Someone I worked with briefly at another restaurant recently opened a restaurant of his own with partners. They’d renovated and refitted an empty restaurant that had been a neighborhood institution years ago. There were playful nods to the original name and reworking of some of the original menu staples, but, from what I could tell…
J-town Beer Festival takes the taste outside I-264
Jeffersontown, east of Louisville proper, is a town of about 27,000 people that has been around since the late 1700s. It’s a classic example of an American small town, with plenty of local businesses, a chamber of commerce and people who raise families. J-town also has its own beer festival and it’s now going into…
Ask Minda Honey: To chase… or wait?
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 Dear Minda, Does it even make sense to ask a woman out, or does one’s path simply lead a gentleman to the lady he is to be with? Furthermore, is it realistic…
Savage Love: Both & Baggage
Q: When I started dating my husband, he told me he had a low libido. I said I could deal with that. We waited several months before having sex, and then after we started, it was infrequent and impersonal. There was some slow improvement over the three years we dated. Then we got married, and…
Trump isn’t crazy or dumb
“The president is insane.” “Jeff Sessions is a racist moron.” “These idiots elected Trump.” “Stupid people voted against their own self-interest.” These statements probably seem familiar to you. Maybe you have said similar things yourself. I know I have. At a certain point, the words “moron,” “idiot,” “batshit insane,” “crazier than a shit-house rat” and…
A nation of mean
We’re reaching peak nonsense, and it’s sickening to see just how poisoned by it all we have become. A shirtless, flexing, Nazi Viking, pickup artist and pro-rape video game enthusiast spewing verbal diarrhea about the alpha-male, sword-swinging, white nationalist complex is now commonplace. Just another side attraction gaining traction in the shit-show circus that are…
Can we finally take down the Castleman statue now?
Louisville finally, after a year of discussion, has a policy for determining what values we want city public art and monuments to embody. Finally, Mayor Greg Fischer has the bureaucratic process and political cover to remove the John B. Castleman statue from Cherokee Triangle… before the November election. The Public Art and Monuments Advisory Committee…
