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Announcing the Great Meadows Round 23 Artist Professional Development Grant Recipients
The Great Meadows Artist Professional Development grant is aimed at bettering the careers of Kentucky artists. The grant encourages artists’ growth by expanding access to skill building and connection opportunities, and by helping artists reach beyond the limits of their state and even their nation, binding them with a greater arts world. The next grant…
The March Superlist of Louisville Comedy
From our friends at Louisvillelaughs.com A list of the upcoming comedy shows and open mics in the Louisville area. If we missed your event, let us know. (Information on how to sign up for open mics at bottom). UPCOMING SHOWS AND OPEN MICS Friday, March 1 7 p.m. — Bryan Callen, Louisville Comedy Club. Tickets…
Louisville’s Best Spring Party Is Happening This Weekend At Speed Art Museum
Saturday, Mar. 2, the Speed Museum(2035 S. 3rd St.) hosts its annual Speed Museum Ball. The swanky fundraiser that supports the efforts and work of the Speed. Each year, the Speed offers premium exhibits, community programming, educational and outreach programming. The Speed Museum Ball helps to make that possible. For the full Speed Ball event,…
Louisville’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade Is This Saturday
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit! The 51st St. Patrick’s Day Parade happens Saturday, Mar. 9, on Baxter Ave. and Bardstown Rd. Founded by the local Ancient Order of Hibernians — an organization established in 1966 around the principals of friendship, unity and Christian charity seeking to advance Irish culture— the parade will wind through the…
Tailspin Ale Fest Returns To Bowman Field This Weekend
Tailspin Ale Fest returns to Bowman Field on Saturday, March 2. Now in its eleventh year, the winter warmer beer festival is celebrating the end of the cold weather season with more than 50 breweries and 250 brews from across the country. The 21-and-older event will feature four tents full of taps, a cigar lounge…
Tuesday Tracklist: MGMT, Chelsea Wolfe, Warpaint, And More (2/27)
In this weekly feature, a different LEO staff member will share 7–10 of the songs they’ve got on repeat right now. (Songs by Louisville artists are marked with an asterisk.) Got a track that you think we’d like? Let us know at leo@leoweekly.com or at the author’s email below. MGMT — “Bubblegum Dog”Last November, the…
Korean Brunch Is Now Available In Louisville At Cafe KIWA
The Louisville brunch scene just got an exciting new addition thanks to KIWA, a new Korean Café on Frankfort Avenue. This elegant new spot will be offering a traditional Korean brunch on the weekend as well as a few options during the week. Korean Café Culture Comes To Louisville KIWA is quickly becoming one of the…
Celebrate International Mother Language Day at Speed Cinema
Celebrate International Mother Language Day at Speed Cinema with a free screening of the documentary “Colours of the Alphabet,” directed by Alastair Cole. Co-presented with the Office for Immigrant Affairs, the screening will be followed by a panel discussion and spoken word performance. International Mother Language Day was recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific…
Is Kenny Payne’s Termination Inevitable?
That ought to do it. That should vaporize any lingering doubt. If Kenny Payne can survive a 72-50 home loss to a sub-standard Notre Dame team — his 47th loss in 59 games as a head coach — it could only mean results and revenue no longer matter at the University of Louisville. Surely, that…
3 Concerts To See In And Around Louisville (Feb. 23-25)
Here’s what’s we’re listening to this weekend in the ‘Ville. FRIDAY, FEB. 23 Laid Back Country Picker w/ Tyler Lance Walker Gill Whirling Tiger $10 | Doors 7 p.m. Pure music with one foot in the truckstop, the other in 1970s guitar rawk. Playing with local host of Honky Talkin’. (Who’s also hilarious on Instagram.)…
Downtown Louisville’s ‘Reimagine 9th Street Project’ Focused On Infrastructure Before Economy, Will Host Kick-off Event
The Reimagine 9th Street Project is having its official kick-off Thursday, Feb. 22 at Louisville Central Community Center (1300 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd.) beginning at 4:30 p.m. The project will reconfigure Ninth Street/Roy Wilkins Ave. with the aim of eliminating “physical and psychological barriers that the ‘Ninth Street divide’ creates between Louisville’s Central Business District and…
When Bad Things Happen To Good Food
Your steak is too well-done for your liking. It’s dry, tough, and leathery. Your partner’s tenderloin is too rare for their liking. It’s dripping bloody juices that make them go “ick.” You find dirt in your dish. Mold in your dish. A hair, or several! Grossed out by now? You haven’t heard anything yet. You…
The Flaming Lips Return to Louisville And Tickets Are On Sale This Friday
Cue the confetti. Iroquois Amphitheater is kicking off their summer concert announcements with the return of The Flaming Lips. The psychedelic rock band will bring their Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20th Anniversary Tour to Louisville on June 28. First released in 2002, the band will be performing their 10th studio album in full on…
The 2024 Louder Than Life Lineup Is Here
The full lineup for the Year 10 Edition of Louder Than Life is here. The largest rock festival in North America will return to Louisville September 26–29. Thrash metal trailblazers Slayer will take the stage for the first time in four years. Headlining performances by Mötley Crüe, Slipknot, and Korn, and supporting performances by Disturbed,…
Review: Nickel Creek
Sara Watkins (fiddle), her brother Sean Watkins (guitar), and childhood friend Chris Thile (mandolin) had already been collaborating under the moniker Nickel Creek for a handful of years when Thile’s family abruptly relocated to Murray, Kentucky. According to Thile, it was quite possibly this move, while Thile was 14, that helped to expand the band’s…
Self-Taught Artist Shakia Harris Takes On Solo Show
“I didn’t think this event would even happen,” wrote local artist Shakia Harris. She shared the details of how her upcoming February 24th show came to be in an Instagram post highlighting her textured, oil paintings. Though Harris already has one solo art show under her belt, her second is different. This time around, the self-taught…
Free Therapy Available to Nearly 100 West End Louisville Residents
On Feb. 19, Tip It Forward, in collaboration with Martin and Muir Counseling, hosted an event at Blak Koffee in Russell, where West Louisville residents could register for free mental health and wellness sessions. The launch event also included a panel discussion on equitable care. Louisvillians age 18–35 who live in Shawnee, Russell, California, Chickasaw,…
City of Louisville Begins Negotiations On Consent Decree Draft Received Today From The DOJ
The city of Louisville has received the first draft of the Consent Decree from the Department of Justice and has begun review and negotiations of the document. The parties to discuss and negotiate include Mayor Greenberg’s office, The Jefferson County Attorney’s office, Louisville Metro Police Department, and the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ advised…
The Stadium Rock Of The ’80s Takes Over Louisville’s Lynn Family Stadium
Forget being “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”… Break out the Aquanet, Spandex and fingerless gloves because Saturday, Aug. 3, Lynn Family Stadium is taking the city of Louisville back to the days of hair metal with the Stadium Rock ’80s concert featuring ‘80s metal acts: Great White, Slaughter, Aldo Nova, Vixen, Enuff Z’Nuff, Pretty Boy Floyd…
Louisville Wins Multiple Music and Culinary Arts Awards
Locals already know that Louisville deserves to be recognized for more than bourbon, horse races, and baseball bats. Thanks to our world-class orchestra, flourishing music scene and top-notch chefs, the rest of the world is starting to recognize us too. Check out the latest awards and accolades lighting up the internet. The Louisville Orchestra Wins…
Louisville Music Producer Wins Grammy For Work With Christian Artist Lecrae
Antonio Gardner works under the name Yons as a music sample creator, producer, and as an instructor at AMPED Louisville. When he won a Grammy this February, he was working on a song. Not sure what was happening when he heard members of his Pelham and Junior team screaming, he panicked at first. “When they…
Listen Local: 6 New Releases From Louisville Musicians
LEO now has playlists for Listen Local. Search Spotify for LEO Weekly. Greg Tripure Stranger in This World Even if you don’t recognize the name right away, chances are you’re familiar with Greg Tripure. Having spent 20 years recording and touring as the rhythm guitarist and backup singer for Sub-Urban Situation, and sharing the stage…
THE MIDWESTERNIST: One Prisoner
“That is the island of Imrali. There is nothing but a prison on that island. They only are having one prisoner there. You know we don’t have terrorism here? They caught the only terrorist and put him there. All by himself. Now everyone is safe.” That’s the story we got from our tour guide in…
Tracy Likes This One: Short Film on a Big Screen
2024 Oscar Nominated Shorts Feb. 16-18, 21-25, 28 Speed Art Museum, 2035 South Third Street $12 | $8 Speed and Louisville Film Society members www.speedmuseum.org/cinema For the last 19 years ShortsTV and Magnolia Pictures have gathered the Academy Award-nominated short films for theatrical distribution. In a world inundated with short form video, it is a…
Kentucky Novelists Delivering the Goods…
By T.E. Lyons …and then some. Are you ready to accept some extremes? Here are two significant contributors to the Ohio Valley’s literary scene today. These women writers are stretching well beyond reality with their respective new novels. An intention found in both seems to be overwhelming the reader—not with epics, but within modestly scoped…
SNEAK PEEK: Speed Art Museum’s First Indian and South Asian Art Exhibition
“India: South Asian Painting from the San Diego Museum of Art” opens Friday, Feb. 16 at the Speed Art Museum. Curated as a pair of thematic exhibitions, it represents one of the most extensive collections of South Asian paintings in the world outside of present-day Pakistan and India. It also represents the first exhibition of…
Louisville Gets Its Soul Music Memorialized in Sounds of Derbytown
Carol Butler, cofounder of Butler Books, is fond of saying that books are born when they are ready. “The Soulful Sounds of Derbytown,” Butler Books’ latest release, had a particularly long gestation period. When this history of African American music in Louisville is released on March 2, it will be nearly a decade since the…
Editor’s Note: We’re Baaaack!
It was a weird moment when our media group CEO Chris Keating suggested that we take a break to regroup and rebrand. When you hear words like that you begin to think the worst, especially in the media with a paper that’s spent a lot of years struggling while still trying to bring news and…
3 Concerts To See In And Around Louisville (Feb. 16-18)
Groovy, soulful and socially impactful. This weekend brings a mix of inventive local artists and profound lyricist to Louisville. FRIDAY, FEB. 16 Crys Matthews + Shannon Vetter The Monarch Music & Arts Community Artist Donation | Doors 7 p.m. Already being hailed as “the next Woody Guthrie,” Nashville resident Crys Matthews is among the brightest stars…
6 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (Feb. 16-18)
Get your groove on at a Bollywood silent disco in honor of the Speed’s first South Asian exhibition. Then, hit up the world’s largest biscuits and gravy competition on Saturday. FRIDAY, FEB. 16 After Hours at Speed Speed Art Museum $20 | 5 p.m. Celebrate the opening of Tour of India: South Asian Paintings with a…
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[Vlog] The Metal Grind With Athena Prychodko (2/15)
Athena Prychodko does a great many things. She works in film as a producer, makeup artist, actress, etc. and she’s hip to all things metal, both locally and beyond. Here, Athena will bring you the latest in metal news: where to find it, where to see it, and definitely what she thinks about it. Locally,…
Louisville’s Bourbon Country Chefs Name Butchertown Bakery Chef, ‘Pastry Chef Of The Year’
Butchertown Bakery’s pastry chef, Amanda Johnson has won Bourbon Country Chefs “Pastry Chef of the Year.” Bourbon Country Chefs is a local chapter of the American Culinary Federation, which was established in 1929 as the premiere professional organization for North America’s chefs. The organization provides certifications, education and resources to its members. Johnson’s win has…
Louisville’s Hottest Black Musicians To Check Out This February
Louisville has been known for its brilliant music scene for many years. So it isn’t news to us in the ‘Ville that talent and our town go hand-in-hand. For February, Black History Month, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite local Black musicians and events so that you can experience local music while also supporting…
Gralehaus Turns 10, Grales Campus Set To Expand
This month, gralehaus celebrates its first 10 years. Louisville’s beloved brunch spot, housed in a 1900s Victorian-style home just behind Holy Grale, was founded by Lori Beck and partner Tyler Trotter in 2014. As they celebrate this special anniversary, they look forward to expanding their suite of businesses into what they’re calling The Grales Campus. Gralehaus…
Four Pegs Scores With Smoky Wings, Ribs, And… Jackfruit?!
It’s easy to run out of superlatives when we’re talking about the barbecue at Four Pegs in Germantown. You’ve got those hefty, flavorful wings that come in a squadron of memorable flavors. You’ve got those firm, flavorful, impeccably sauced baby back ribs. And you’ve got that tender, mouth-watering pulled jackfruit. What? Who knew that barbecued…
World’s Largest Biscuits and Gravy Competition Returns to Louisville This Weekend
Did you know the world’s largest biscuits and gravy competition takes place right here in Louisville, Kentucky? Well, you do now! This weekend, more than 30 professional and amateur chefs will toss their toques (you know, those big white chef hats) in the Gravy Cup ring for a chance at being crowned victor. The event’s…
Louisville Orchestra Announces 2024–2025 Season
On the heels of their first Grammy in the category “Best Classical Instrumental Solo” for their collaboration with Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, the Louisville Orchestra has announced their 2024–2025 season. The lineup includes events in five series across three venues: Louisville Palace (Classics, Pops, Film); Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts (Classics,…
Jack Harlow Foundation Collabs With Louisville’s Kizito Cookies, Raising Money For Kentucky Refugee Ministries
This is the “collab” we love to see. The Jack Harlow Foundation has teamed up with Kizito Cookies to raise money for Kentucky Refugee Ministries for the month of February. With just half the month to go, there is still time to jump in on this initiative. For every box of 12 Kizito cookies purchased,…
