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‘Supposed To Care’: Absentee Child Advocates Bring Calls For Oversight
This story was produced by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit newsroom by Louisville Public Media. For more, visit KyCIR.org. Trinitii Puente became a foster parent because she believes every child deserves to feel loved. It’s a lesson from her grandmother, who grew up in an orphanage and once confessed that she hadn’t…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (7/2)
FRIDAY, July 2 Sunflower Field & Wildflower Explosion Knobstone Flower Farm, Scottsburg, Indiana $7.50-$10 | 7-8:30 p.m. The Knobstone Flower Farm in Scottsburg, Indiana, features over three acres of sunflowers and one acre of wildflowers. For its opening night, the farm’s owners are inviting guests to book a time slot to marvel over the colorful…
Radio Arcane And Art Sanctuary Offer Dead of Night With The Dark Market
Shahn Rigsby is an events coordinator board member of Art Sanctuary. The group — particularly Rigsby — has always held a special place for the darker side of local arts. Rigsby, who DJs and performs under the moniker Motuvius Rex, along with Radio Arcane, will be presenting Dead of Night with the Dark Market on…
What To See: Gallery Roundup
Galleries are open and there is no shortage of amazing work to be seen in the city. Get out and visit one of the local galleries this week. Note: this list is only a small selection. Moremen Gallery 710 W. Main St. • Louisville Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. – 4…
Stevens & Stevens Fills Us Up With Deli Delights
Just about everyone likes a good New York deli, but judging from my mailbox, an awful lot of people around Louisville don’t know where to go to find one. Here’s the bad news: Purists, unfortunately, will have to drive 110 miles to nosh at Shapiro’s Deli in Indianapolis. But if you’re not a stickler for…
Big Days for Big Atomic
Friday, June 25 was a banner day for Louisville-based Big Atomic. With the release of a new album and video, a concert and a GoFundMe campaign committed to social change, this is a band on a mission. Rising out of Western Kentucky in 2013 and relocating to Louisville in 2016, Big Atomic incorporates elements of…
Cracker’s David Lowery Talks The Industry And Tiki Torches
Cracker’s last album was in 2014, which seems like a long time ago, but the album, Berkeley to Bakersfield, seems to still speak about the divisions in the country though the band wasn’t trying to make any particular statement about politics with the album. Nevertheless, the band hasn’t stopped touring except for the forced pause…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (6/30)
Rose: We’re Happy You’re Safe, Quintez Quintez Brown’s family has reported that they have been safely reunited with the local activist who went missing on June 19. No explanation given or needed. We’re just glad he’s all right. Thorn: Vandalized Memorials The “Say Their Names” mural — a painting depicting Black people who were recently killed…
What Is Critical Race Theory, Really? A Q&A With Ricky Jones
Last week, a group of people, mostly white, disrupted JCPS school board meeting to decry critical race theory — a lens through which to study race, which is not currently being taught at Jefferson County Public Schools, according to officials. This followed a pattern of protests at public school meetings across the country and a…
Advocate Spotlight: Trinity High School’s Allie Kerns
Tupac Shakur once said schools should teach a real sex education class that goes beyond pictures, diagrams and “unlogical” terms. I always took this to mean that while sex education classes place their focus on the biology of sex, the sociology of sex is largely missing with principles such as consent and bystander intervention typically…
LEO Weekly, Moving Forward
By now, many of you know that LEO was recently sold to Euclid Media Group, which owns several other alt-weeklies across the country. You might have read the press release, or an article in another publication, and while all of those seemed about as fair and accurate as our staff could have hoped for, we…
