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Why we are mad in march: 10 takes, not all about basketball
It is March. Time to get mad! The Cardinals are on fire, but the men’s team is not. Regardless of what happens next week, we at LEO find the trademarked March Madness is oh so dull every year. Instead of pumping up a deflated sportsball, we decided to take a 180-degree turn away from this…
LEO Podcast #75: Louisville’s March Madness Draw
Scott Recker and Aaron Yarmuth discuss Louisville’s draw in the 2019 March Madness NCAA men’s basketball tournament, as well as the juggernaut that is Duke.
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (3/18)
MONDAY, MARCH 18 Know Your Rights Trivia Night Zanzabar Free | 7-8 p.m. Y’all, Kentucky really tried to pass a law this year making it so people from other states couldn’t place open records requests (applications for government information that’s supposed to be available to the public). It might be a good time to know…
Science Friction: A “High Art Exploration” Ahead of Time
Science Friction might be an art show, or a “high art exploration,” as the creators call it, but don’t expect some quiet, thoughtful circle through an art gallery. A quick look at the event’s lineup sounds more like a wild party, exuberantly celebrating art, nerd culture and LGBTQ culture all at once. “Every element of…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (3/15)
FRIDAY, March 15 After Hours at the Speed Speed Art Museum $15 (seniors, students and children)-$20 (adults) | 5-10 p.m. It’s your monthly chance to cavort in the Speed Art Museum after dark. For March, enjoy musical performances from The Local Honeys, the Louisville Folk School and Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg. There will be…
Kentucky Shakespeare Kicks Off 6th Shakespeare In The Parks tour annual tour
Kentucky Shakespeare has released its schedule for its 2019 Shakespeare In The Parks tour, which will bring free, six-actor, 90-minute productions of “Macbeth” to 28 parks in Louisville, Indiana, and elsewhere from April 6 to May 25. “In 2014 we started with nine parks and this spring we’ll triple that number!” Producing Artistic Director Matt…
‘Midwesticism: Stories from the End of America,’ Dan Canon’s video roadmap
Dan Canon, a Southern Indiana civil rights lawyer who helped take the marriage equality case to the U.S. Supreme Court and won, has launched a video series called “Midwesticism: Stories from the End of America.” His most-recent installment is with Salem Vytch-Tryells, a champion drag performer living in Elizabethtown. But we are partial to his…
Ban conversion therapy in Kentucky… now
Of all the problematic statements on the website Abba’s Delight, a Louisville-based ministry devoted to turning gays into straights for their own good, this sentence is the most chilling: “Approved for working with Youth. Background check on file.” Call it what you like — ministry, counseling, social orientation conversion efforts — this resource, facilitated by…
Legislative Session 2019: Did state lawmakers make us safer?
We expect our legislators to pass bills that will make Kentucky a better state. This session, lawmakers had a chance to improve at least one thing: safety — in our schools with new security measures and on our streets with gun legislation. Did they? Senate Bill 1, filed in response to the shooting deaths of…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
It will be Trump for governor | Thorn If you wonder why Gov. Matt “Trump Toady” Bevin will be hard to beat in November, read the recent editorial “Decision Time for Trump Democrats” in The Licking Valley Courier, located in Eastern Kentucky. Ahead of a special election last week for state Senate, it wrote: “Here…
Will Oldham talks ?‘Songs of Love and Horror,’ his career-sweeping book and record
With the release of “Songs of Love and Horror” singer-songwriter Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy) cataloged the lyrics that have defined his long and storied career into a book. That book and the corresponding retrospective album — on which he recreates his older material acoustically and sparsely — winds through his entire discography. Oldham…
Vince Staples and two other concerts to catch this week
Vince Staples Wednesday, March 13 Mercury Ballroom One of the most sharp, interesting voices of his hip-hop generation, Vince Staples has released an album every year since his solo debut in 2014, establishing himself as a prolific, highly-creative force. Starting out as an associate of the collective Odd Future, Staples is currently one of the…
Farewell, until we eat again
When this column began back in the summer of 2010, the intent was to seek out places where one could eat good food on the cheap. It didn’t take long for it to evolve into something of a catch-all — an extremely tasty and satisfying catch-all, at least for me. The column’s name came by…
Grassa Gramma, ?next best to dining in Italy
I think Grassa Gramma is more than ready for prime time. Every single thing I’ve had to eat there in two visits (so far) has been really good, and the service was fine in that not-quite obsequious hovering style that’s been a hallmark of fine Italian dining in Louisville since Casa Grisanti went upscale in…
Savage Love: The Sins of the Grandfather
Q: My grandfather was a pillar of the community and beloved by his family. He was also sexually abusive. He died when I was a child. I remember only one incident happening to me—during a cuddle session, he encouraged me to put my mouth on his penis, and then told me to let it be…
Ask Minda Honey: How Can I Better My Life When I’m Dealing with Depression?
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 Hi Minda, I’m a 25-year-old black women, and right now my life is a hot mess. A little over two months ago, I quit my first real job since finishing grad school.…
‘Thin Place,’ between mysterious and material
When she was a child, Hilda, the central character in Lucas Hnath’s play “The Thin Place,” would sit on the floor with her grandmother. Then, her grandmother would write a word in a notepad and tell Hilda to “listen” for the word — not with her ears, but with the part of her head located…
‘See Me Clearly: Women Photographers, Women Photographed’
Women are integral to the history of photography. They have participated in the art as far more than muse or subject since its 19th-century beginnings. As the book “Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First One Hundred Years of Photography” points out, women’s contributions are more enormous than are recognized. And, in light of…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘PTSD’ & ‘Naomi’ No. 2
‘PTSD’ Writer and artist Guillaume Singelin Review by Ashley Cornell, The Great Escape Louisville Guillaume Singelin’s “PTSD” is the story of a girl having returned from a vicious war to an unsupportive home. She must work through the trauma that she endured and continues to live with. Written within the world of a speculative near-future…
Tiny park, big names: A Q&A with comedian Mack Dryden
Comedian Mack Dryden spent three decades with Jamie Alcroft as Mack & Jamie. It took him around the country, including three times on “The Tonight Show” and gigs with comedy legends. “Eddie Murphy used to ride with us to gigs because we were the only comics who actually had a car in New York,” Dryden…
Student loans: golden handcuffs or stay poor
My friend Damon (not his real name) has been a prosecutor in a major metropolitan area in the Midwest for more than six years. He’s earnest and conscientious, just like you’d hope a prosecutor would be. He went to a middle-tier law school, comes from a middle-class background and is the only lawyer in his…
Teachers must march to stop scholarship madness
Teachers should strike, or force school closings by calling in sick, only as a last resort. House Bill 205, the private school scholarship bill, presents one of those moments. Not only would its passage be detrimental to public education, but it represents open class warfare — the rich get to write off more taxes to…
West of Ninth: People, In Their Own Words…(3/13/18)
Feb. 26, 2019 Terrance, from Parkland “I’ve been in The West End my whole life. I was born and raised here. We lived in California Square. When I was 6 or 7, we moved to 42nd. Yeah, I’ve been here my whole life. Growing up in the West really ain’t as bad as people think…
