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Fake Issue 2017: Exclusive Trump Q&A, first Blue Life born in Lyndon and more
Behold our annual Fake Issue, celebrating the April fool in all of us. The difference is that this year, fake news is more than just Onion-esque frivolity or Andy Borowitz-ian profound-punditry. The phrase carries new, 1,000-volt currency in this era of tRumpian bluster and lies, and Russian meddling and agitprop. Its ascendancy and normalized use…
Listen to PRJCTR’s new single, “If I Won The Lottery”
PRJCTR is set to release their debut album, Odds, this Friday, April 7, via a show at Zanzabar, but first listen to the single, “If I Won The Lottery,” a straightforward dream-rock song that calls to mind Radiohead, with melancholy vocals and glimmering ambience.
10 concerts you shouldn’t miss in April
PRJCTR, Black Birds of Paradise (Album Release) Zanzabar Friday, April 7 The dream-rock band PRJCTR — which packs together powerfully-simplistic guitars with hushed vocals and subtle ambient sounds — is set to release their debut record, with the psych-rock band Black Birds of Paradise opening. White Reaper, Wombo, Future Killer (Album Release) Zanzabar Saturday, April…
Our favorite spring beers from Louisville breweries this season
There isn’t a shortage of breweries in Louisville, and the number continues to grow. As such, we greet Holsopple as the newest addition here, all while welcoming back old favorites and innovators in the Louisville and Southern Indiana beer scene. In fact, the biggest obstacle here is finding just one delicious beer to write about…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (4/3)
MONDAY Monday is meh, so take a nap and save your energy for the rest of the week. TUESDAY Vectortone’s Vinyl Night Galaxie Bar Free | 8 p.m. Vectortone’s Vinyl Night is a living, neighborhood mixtape. It’s simple: Just bring a vinyl, sign up and hear your favorite songs played over the speakers. As LEO’s…
The Housies: House shows are expanding the comedy scene in Louisville
Last week, I saw one of the best comedy shows I’ve ever experienced in Louisville. It wasn’t at The Caravan, Louisville’s full-time comedy club. It wasn’t at The Bard’s Town or any of the other bars and restaurants that have started hosting occasional comedy nights. No, instead we were in a dirty basement, 30 to…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (3/31)
FRIDAY Louisville Bats vs. Cincinnati Reds Louisville Slugger Field $17-$59 | 6:15-9:15 p.m. It’s impossible to resist a good underdog story. This weekend, the minor league Louisville Bats players will take up the mantle of underdog as they face off against the major league Cincinnati Reds. Be there to cheer on our hometown team, and…
Our six favorite local songs of the month
Wax Fang — “Pusher” Wax Fang returned in March with “Pusher,” the next entry in their continuous psych-pop opera, a spaced-out journey into sound. Opening with a crushing dance-tinged groove, “Pusher” explodes into pop glory and is hook heavy, unashamedly so, led by singer Scott Carney’s distinctive voice. Space is employed in a variety of…
Fake Etc. 2017: WikiLeaks releases Bevin’s selfies
WikiLeaks dumps new bevin selfies It appears Gov. Matt Bevin might be on the outs with Donald Trump and the president’s Russian allies. Just days after Bevin publicly declared he was “not impressed” with Trumpcare, Wikileaks — the White House’s Moscow public relations office — dumped what appears to be Bevin selfies that have never…
Listen to LEO advice columnist Minda Honey on Dan Savage’s podcast
You know what happens when you tweet something about trying to steal Dan Savage’s crown as the internet’s most-regaled dating advice guru? He invites you on his show. Dan, who spent a summer in our fair city of Louisville in the mid-‘80s, had me on an episode of his podcast, Savage Lovecast. We answered one…
Fake Staff Picks 2017: Amiri King to perform at Klan rally behind Cracker Barrel, more
Saturday, April 1 Amiri King to perform at Klan rally behind Cracker Barrel Cracker Barrel | Brooks, Kentucky | Search Facebook Free | 8 p.m. There are few comics as edgy and ready to tell it like it is than Amiri King, and he’s bringing his ball-busting comedy to bear at the Cracker Barrel in…
Fake News 2017: A letter from the big city editor and an undercover councilman
We’re first, second is so… sad By Big City Metro Editor | wefirst@secondisforlosers.com This is not appearing in The Courier-Journal because if it were, it would be an exclusive! Not something you would read on WDRB’s website. We take exclusives very, very seriously at The CJ, because we are trying reestablish ourselves as the city’s…
Fake Music 2017: Gov. Bevin signs bill to fire, hire members of My Morning Jacket and more
Gov. Bevin replaces Louisville Public radio with Westboro church members When Northern Kentucky University’s radio station WNKU announced that it would sell its license and transmitting site to the Bible Broadcasting Corp. earlier this year, it gave Gov. Matt Bevin an idea. And, on Tuesday, in an unprecedented move that no one can grasp, probably…
Fake Food 2017: Louisville’s best locally-sourced sushi, Trump’s new chain
Sen. Mitch McConnell banned from Morris Deli U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has been famously declining to meet with his constituency this year. He has refused to schedule town hall-style meetings in favor of a pay-to-play setup in which Mitch will sup with, and take brief questions from, an audience gathered by invitation and willing to…
LEO’s Real Staff Picks
Thursday, March 30–April 1 Michael Mack Laughing Derby | 1250 Bardstown Road | laughingderby.com | $15 | Times vary Michael Mack stands at over 6 feet tall, with a shaved head, and he is often decked out in black. He resembles Rob Halford from Judas Priest, not what I conjure when asked to picture a…
