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Larry Flynt speaks with LEO about Trump, Kentucky and the Press
It has been 75 years since Larry Flynt entered the world in Magoffin County, Kentucky, population 12,913.The big, sprawling, confounding real life he has lived since would not be believed if it were fiction: Self-made millionaire (Celebrity Net Worth says his is at least $500 million), whose empire started in a string of bars-turned-strip-clubs in…
Photo Set: Somali Culture Night
Amina Mahamud wants to break stereotypes about Muslim women. “When some people think of Muslim women they think they’re not powerful, and that they can’t talk, and that they’re not energetic, and that they can’t protect themselves. But to be honest, most of our Muslim women, we run our countries more than the men do”…
Photo Set: The How-To Festival
Six years ago, the How-To Festival at the Louisville Free Public Library had only 50 things for people to learn. On Saturday, there were 100. “Basically, the Library does programming and wants to help facilitate lifelong learning anyway, and we thought you know people’s lives are busy, why not just do a big festival where…
Stream Joann + The Dakota’s new EP, Holy Coyote!, a week early
On Saturday, May 20, Joann + The Dakota are set to release their debut EP, Holy Coyote! — five pieces of rollicking Americana that take down-and-out heartbreak and turn it up to 11. Holy Coyote! will be released via a show at Zanzabar on Saturday, May 20, but right now you can stream the entire…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (5/15)
MONDAY CommunityTalks: Housing Over the 9 Free | 5:30-7 p.m. CommunityTalks, a series hosted by Young Professionals Association of Louisville, asks professionals from the private, public and nonprofit sectors to discuss important community issues in a panel format. This week, the issue is housing, and it will feature panelists from the Coalition for the Homeless,…
Listen to Dream Eye Color Wheel’s new record, False Omega, a week early
On May 19, Dream Eye Color Wheel releases their newest album, False Omega — a hazy, dreamlike, low-fi, ambient folk album. With a gentle disposition and an ominous undercurrent, False Omega offers singer-songwriter sensibilities, surrounded by unpredictable and ephemeral parts that swoop in and leave just as quickly. More or less, it’s something that would…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (5/12)
FRIDAY The Flea Off Market (May 12–14) Fresh Start Growers Supply Free | Times vary This Flea Off Market opens its Friday Night Music Series, in addition to having many vendors, food trucks and other oddities worth seeing. On Friday, catch a show by The Family Secret, and on Saturday see a music showcase by Louisville Folk School and…
The birth of a bat: The site of the first Louisville Slugger manufactured goes down in history
A historical marker was unveiled today at 118 S. First St., to commemorate the site where J.A. “Bud” Hillerich made the first Louisville Slugger bat for Pete Browning 133 years ago. In 1884, Bud Hillerich skipped work at his father’s wood working shop to root for the Louisville Eclipse major league baseball team. Pete Browning,…
Larry Flynt and Hustler, free speech, obscenity laws and your pornography
Larry Flynt and Hustler magazine will be forever linked to the First Amendment, though perhaps not for the reasons that most people think. In popular culture, Flynt is likely most famous for his 1977 conviction for dissemination of obscenity, which reached the Supreme Court, was rejected on a technicality and was the subject of a…
Iranian immigrant: terrorism and Islamophobia both work against humanity
This is the fourth of seven stories LEO will publish about immigrants in Louisville who came from the seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — that President Trump initially targeted with bans. Documentary photographer Amira Karaoud said about her series of photographs and interviews, “Keep the American Dream Alive” that:…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Food desert for the oasis | Thorn The city bought a former grocery at 28th Street and Virginia Avenue in West Louisville. You know, where grocery stores are rare. Asked about how to use the property, Councilwoman Jessica Green told The Courier-Journal: “Obviously, a grocery store, given the current food-desert status of the neighborhood, would…
Together through time: Shovels & Rope on their new record, ‘Little Seeds’
Shovels & Rope’s latest record, Little Seeds, retains the rowdy and twangy rock sound of O’ Be Joyful and Swimmin’ Time, but shows some growth, both musically and lyrically. “I think every time we approach a new record, we want to expand the sonic landscape,” said Michael Trent, who is one half of duo, the…
Tobin Sprout talks about his new record, ‘The Universe and Me’
A glance at the cover of Tobin Sprout’s new album, The Universe and Me, will take any familiar fan back to the pop-infused, low-fi bits that framed his contributions as a significant member of Guided by Voices. And that remains within his modest solo offerings, since his songwriting is comparable to that of GBV’s charismatic…
Ryan Patterson’s post-Coliseum project Fotocrime to release EP
After more than a decade together, Coliseum has called it quits. Here you’ll find no drama or contention, no angry bandmates sore over a break-up, but, instead, three friends who agreed that the band, which released five full-length albums, had run its course. And in the wake of that decision, frontman Ryan Patterson has developed…
The Show Is About To Begin
Some years, the summer slips up, and I’m in the middle of it before I even realize that it’s halfway over. Other years, I can feel it coming from the turn of the calendar. This happens to be one of those years, and it’s all because of the onslaught of live shows that are about…
Speed Art Museum director, erased from history? no more
This is the Case of the Missing Director. I recently wrote an op-ed piece stating the Speed Art Museum needs to consider selecting a woman and/or minority for its next director (see April 12, LEO Weekly). Right after the issue was published, I was told I had missed a director, Jesse (Jay) G. Wright Jr.,…
‘Orpheus: A Silent Circus,’ expressive acting and acrobatic gesture
Picture a tall ship, square-rigged with all the customary lines and fittings. Now, in your mind’s eye, replace the ropes and spars with aerial hoops, trapezes, cubes and brightly-colored lengths of dangling silk. What you’ve just imagined is what you’ll see in the flesh when you step into Suspend, which describes itself as a movement…
Chik’n & Mi gives the noble bird an Asian spin
There’s something lovably gritty about the stretch of urban Louisville along lower Brownsboro Road in Clifton that some call LowBrow, and we’re OK with that. Take that well-worn restaurant building that sits up on the bank across from Kroger. Home to a dozen short-lived spots over the past couple of decades, it started life as…
A lesson in oil and vinegar
You know that extra virgin olive oil you bought at the supermarket? You might as well toss it, because it’s probably no good. Yeah, I was a little surprised, and saddened too, but apparently much of the commercial olive oil on the market isn’t up to snuff. If it seems greasy, get rid of it.…
Ask Minda Honey: More Than Drinks at the Bar
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com. I was at Big Bar enjoying a brief burst of springtime weather recently with one of my faves, Big Bar’s manager, Drew Gillum. He introduced me to his bartender, who we will call A who immediately laid a question on me: How do I…
Savage Love: Traps and Triggers
Q: My husband is nearly 20 years older than me, which was never an issue early in our relationship. However, for approximately the last eight years, we have not been able to have fulfilling sex because my husband can’t keep an erection for more than a few thrusts. I love my husband and I am…
Fear and Intimidation
In 1992, I was 11 years old when Spike Lee dropped his most complex and monumental joint, “Malcolm X,” and I remember like last payday how every Uncle Terry I knew lost their alabaster minds without even seeing the fucking flick. From church parking lots to the horseshoe pits they was pissed the fuck off…
‘Can you help?’
People in Syria just want to leave. For those under attack, the country of their birth no longer wants them and, because the war continues, the only solution they see is to give up everything and try to find a life elsewhere. I am listening to a mother of three young children describe, through her…
Anti-LGTBQ judge did right thing, but it wasn’t enough
Circuit Court Judge Mitchell Nance recused himself last week from hearing adoption cases involving same-sex couples. He did the right thing, and he should be commended for so much. But that is not enough. It is also important that he step down because he can no longer do his job, and continuing to pretend otherwise…
Your Voice
on Gov. matt Bevin ignores reporters who are critical Thank you to LEO for printing the article by Al Cross and for Al’s hard questions to the Bevinator and his communications director. Mini Trump, aka KYrump, is clearly afraid of the hard questions that come with press conferences. If I behaved as he does, I’d…
