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Eat Around the Clock: Louisville Food by the Hour
[photos by Nerissa Sparkman] Come on, admit it. You tell time with your stomach. You plan your day, nay — your week — by deciding what you will eat next — and when. So for the 2017 Dining Issue, we decided we would offer you eight possibilities of what to eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and…
Modern Vows: Modern’s 2017 Wedding Issue
efore we dive into this issue, can we take a second and reflect on how monumental it is that we, an LGBTQ magazine based (arguably) in the South, are able to even have a Wedding Issue? Two years ago, it seemed vaguely possible; three years ago, it seemed idealistic; four years ago, it seemed like…
Steve Bowling & Andrew Crocker
Often when we think of weddings, we think of those like the others in this issue: lovely affairs that have been well-planned and are resplendent with beauty, meaning and true love. However, there are those that aren’t quite as planned but indeed just as meaningful and indicative of true love, if not more so. Speed…
A Love that Rings True
Sometimes, planning a wedding can feel exhausting – but that’s not the case for Angie Merrick and Rachel Miles. Their May wedding will be boldly simple and classy, nuanced by a few elegant details to fit the couple’s personalities. Their story is short and sweet. “We actually met online,” says Miles. “We had a lot…
Challenging the world: Four days at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam
Last week, one of the nation’s biggest poetry festivals, Southern Fried, came to Louisville for the first time. For four straight days, The Kentucky Center for the Arts and KMAC Museum turned into the epicenter of America’s slam poetry scene. Slam poetry is a competitive form of spoken word, during which poets perform and are…
Community activists gather for LGBTQ Equality Rally for Unity and Pride
On Sunday June 11, community organizations and activists came together for the LGBTQ Equality Rally for Unity and Pride outside of Louisville Metro Hall. The rally was one of three events held in Kentucky, along with over 100 others across the nation, all in solidarity with the Equality March for Unity and Pride in Washington, D.C. According…
Photo Set: Armored Combat League’s Slugfest
This past Saturday, a local chapter of the Armored Combat League hosted Slugfest, Louisville’s first annual regional tournament and medieval festival at Sunny Acres Farm. Slugfest featured fighters from across the United States who competed against each other in full-contact, steel-armored combat. Each of the fighters wore around 70 to 80 pounds of steel armor compete in events such…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (6/12)
MONDAY Live Jazz Decca Free | 8 p.m. Not only does Decca have fantastic drink specials (the $5 Dolla Holla, which comes with a shot of bourbon and a can of beer), but it also has great live jazz nights. So if you are looking for a way to get rid of your Monday blues, some jazz by The…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (6/9)
FRIDAY Coat Check Pool Party Turners Club Pool $12 | 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Coat Check Pool Party is back for a third season, so prepare to get strange at this pool party where you can “wear a tie, wear a coat, wear a wetsuit, wear whatever the hell you want.” Live music will be provided by…
News Of The Weird: bizarre-but-true news from around the world (6/7)
Troubling Airwaves A country-and-western radio station in Benson, Arizona (near Tucson), owned by Paul Lotsof, has periodically run “public service announcements” about one of Lotsof’s pet peeves: the harsh sentences usually given to mere “collectors” of child pornography. Many, he believes, are non-dangerous, daydreaming hermits — but often imprisoned for long stretches. Thus, his PSAs…
Louisville’s real food scene: What the lazy national media miss
You might get lucky if someone exclaims “Oh, Muhammad Ali!” But chances are, go anywhere in the world, mention you live in Louisville and expect the requisite: “Hey, KFC!” Which is not totally unfair — the immediate sight I beheld exiting a Tube stop during my first trip to London (the British one, not the…
Ask a Restaurant: Q & A with your favorite places to eat
Price Range: $$$$ = Fine Dining | $$$ = Higher | $$ = Moderate | $ = Cheap Eats 8up 350 W. Chestnut St. | 8uplouisville.com | 631-4180 Neighborhood: Downtown Cuisine: American Open: Breakfast Mon.-Sun. | Dinner Mon.-Sun. Late Night Mon.-Sat. Reservations: Yes Outdoor Seating: Yes Delivery: No Take Out: No Price: $$$ Q: What…
15 ideas to stop city violence that are better than Gov. Bevin’s call for prayer
Many years ago, I began closing my LEO columns with, “Until next time, stay strong, have no fear, stand on truth and do justice. Most importantly, do not leave the people in the hands of fools.” Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin clearly did not read or heed this charge. Recently, many citizens waited with bated breath…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Bevin libel to get sued | Thorn The race is on to see who reaches the impeachment finish line first: Gov. Matt “Oblivious” Bevin or President tRump. Bevin may have committed libel when he called Courier-Journal reporter Tom Loftus a “#PeepingTom” and a “sick man” “caught sneaking around” his maybe-new mansion, said Bevin archenemy Attorney…
Nashville punk band Mom and Dad want to create shelter from the storm
After growing up on a farm, the child of German immigrants, Mom and Dad guitarist Zach Prosser gravitated toward the punk and hardcore community, spending his formative teen years crashing couches and playing basement gigs, picking up on the ideological conceits of DIY culture along the way. “As a young kid, I’ll never forget seeing…
Ron Whitehead talks about his new album, ‘Prayer’
“With the way the political situation in the world, especially in the United States, has been going, and the way my own life has changed, I wanted to produce a more-meditative album,” Louisville poet Ron Whitehead said of his new record Prayer, a reflective set of tracks that aims to be evocative and applicable to…
The Graduates
Congratulations! You’ve graduated. You did the time, did your work and paid your dues. You sat through the valedictorian reading “Oh! The Places You’ll Go!” The graduation party has happened, the money has been collected from the grandparents and maybe even you got a car if you’re a TV character. The world is in front…
Scout Durwood: ‘The myth of reality TV ?is that it’s real’
Her introduction includes Kansas born and raised feminist lesbian, who happens to be a former burlesque and cabaret performer and is currently performing as a comedian, musician and actress. Who else could it be but Scout Durwood? Raised in a liberal, Midwest home, Scout is the second of three daughters. “I am a classic middle…
Go see ‘Much ado’ and ‘Comparables’ if you want to laugh
Shall I compare the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Central park to a drive-in movie? It is, if anything, sweeter by far. Instead of rolling over gravel, you reach the C. Douglas Ramey Amphitheater via paths that wind under stately trees. Instead of concession-stand menu, food trucks offer such choices as sushi, brisket and Cuban sandwiches.…
ROC rocks Italian food and drink
Some of Louisville’s favorite restaurants have their roots in other cities. Consider Selena’s, for instance, which came up from Tampa almost a decade ago. Or Jeff Ruby’s, which added Louisville to its Cincinnati eateries. Or even Vincenzo’s, with its roots in St. Louis. Now, let’s put our hands together for ROC, an elegant eatery that…
The snack attack
I love to snack. I’ve written before about some of my favorite snacks, like those tasty trays of smoked salmon (I’m salivating just typing about it). But other snacks I have come to enjoy haven’t gotten their own Taste Bud column for whatever reason, which is why I want to shout them out now. One…
Wife says ‘no’ to dining south
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com. Hey Minda! My wife is reluctant to let me go down on her. One of my proudest attributes is being good at cunnilingus. Every woman I’ve been with has been very complimentary, and I seriously love to do it so much; almost more than…
Savage Love: Get Out
Q: I hate how my boyfriend has sex with me. He is 40 years old. It used to be fine, but a year ago he started adding new moves he obviously got from porn: smacking my pussy with an open palm, vigorously rubbing my clit, wrapping his hands around my neck. I’m not anti-porn; what…
Prince of the skinks
On break, I went to the store to buy an Arnold Palmer, and the clerk behind the counter had a fidget spinner crammed in his mouth, tongue to roof, jacked open wide — it was a wild sight; the future is not at all how I imagined it was gonna be. So I paid for…
Gov. Bevin wants to colonize west Louisville
A few weeks ago, 7-year-old Dequante Hobbs Jr. was killed in the kitchen of his home by a stray bullet. Across the street, a game of craps in an abandoned house had turned sour, ending with someone pulling a gun, firing and accidentally killing Dequante. It was yet another death as the city races toward…
Abdication of Leadership
When U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot in the head, I thought America would finally realize we have a gun problem. Then, 20 schoolchildren were massacred by a lunatic armed with his family’s arsenal of weapons, and I thought that would push our leaders to act. So why would I think that the shooting of…
Your Voice
on: editor’s note – gov. bevin, the 140-character coward Next, the Bevinator will say reading the LEO is a waste of money. When reminded it’s free, he will say, “That’s fake news.” —Tim Keith Duh, why would Bevin want to trust the mainstream media to convey any message he might have? Joe Gerth and his…
