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Murder She Loved: Louisville Women And True Crime
The Crowd at The Brown Theatre was filled with mothers and daughters, best friends together for girls’ night out and wives escorting husbands. “It is sooo many women,” said one audience member as she shuffled into a back row of seats for the April 19 show. “My husband hates this podcast,” said another, already sitting…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (5/20)
MONDAY, May 20 Metal Monday Highlands Tap Room Free | 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Who’s playing this week at Highlands Tap Room’s weekly, free metal show? This Monday, it’s Wooden Leg Named Smith from Owensboro, Kentucky, and Aaron West from… here. TUESDAY, May 21 Pizza & Preservation The Floyd County Library, New Albany Free | 6-8…
Advance stream Twenty First Century Fox’s new album, ‘New Energy’
On Saturday, May 25, the Louisville indie band Twenty First Century Fox will release their new album, New Energy, via a show at Odeon, but click below to listen to the full album a week early. New Energy, which was recorded at La La Land, is layered, catchy rock ‘n’ roll, with the band as…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (5/17)
SATURDAY, May 18 Forest Fest Jefferson Memorial Forest, Horine Reservation $10 parking | 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Bluegrass: I mean, it’s meant to be played in the woods, right? String bands and musicians will play at this music festival, from places near and far, including Grammy-nominee Michael Cleveland, Tennessean Becky Buller, Amythyst Kiah and more. There…
Activists found guilty, given fine for blocking immigration court
Activists were fined just $150 each and spared jail Friday after being found guilty of criminal trespassing for blocking access to an immigration court in July. An attorney in the case, Dan Canon, hailed the decision as a victory because of the relatively lenient punishment. He had told the jury that his client, Courtney Kearney,…
LEO Podcast #79: True Crime
True crime buff and LEO Weekly staff writer Danielle Grady speaks with a fellow enthusiast, Sydney Clinkenbeard, about why women are (seemingly) more interested than men in murder. The two analyze why they’re so interested in the genre, talk about the ethics of enjoying true crime, and reveal the cases that turned them over to…
A Guide To Louisville Music Festivals in 2019
For its size, Louisville and the surrounding area deliver a decent number of music festivals each year. Local and national producers and production companies are investing their dollars in music festivals of various genres to bring out hoards of music lovers — from those in crop tops with bejeweled belly buttons to those with dad…
Sonic Breakdown: Carly Johnson — ‘I Don’t Care (Zirophux)’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a local musician or band.] Given the title of Carly Johnson’s song, “I Don’t Care (Zirophux),” it should be apparent what the song is about. She’s done caring what others think about her — and she thinks you should be, too. “It’s about living in…
Weaving sounds and cultures: A conversation with ?Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei
Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei are two string players from different, yet equally dynamic, backgrounds. Washburn, who lovingly clasps the stylings of clawhammer banjo, is a Grammy award winner and the marital partner of banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck. Fei, an accomplished composer and singer currently based in Nashville, wields her traditional Chinese zither called a…
Meet The Two Men Behind ‘Resist 45’ Billboards
The first “Resist” tag showed up on a billboard just a few days after Donald Trump became president. Spelled out in white paint on a billboard, the message was inescapable to thousands of people as they whizzed by in the northbound lanes of Interstate 65. Now lengthened to “Resist 45,”this anti-Trump message and many more…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd (5/15)
Castleman put in his place | Rose Mayor Greg Fischer and the Landmarks Commission get a rose for pushing to remove the John. B. Castleman statue and succeeding. He was a Confederate. His statue offends members of our community. Those who truly miss seeing the bronze can visit it at its new home in Cave…
‘Lazy Susan,’ Stories Told In Complex Colors
In her artist’s statement for her exhibit “lazy susan,” Joyce Garner says her “hope is [that] there is room in each painting for a connection to flicker … ” She is interested in communicating, via her oil paintings, her story and the stories that surround her. This is reflected in the subject matter offered, ranging…
Married to granny? A Q&A with comedian Alex Reymundo
Comedian Alex Reymundo often sees double. When he isn’t shooting specials for Showtime and Comedy Central, he is busy running Number Juan, a tequila company he owns with his best friend, brother-in-law and fellow comedian Ron White. “I think the world would be a better place,” he said, “if everyone had a tequila and a…
Five Plays… No Gaslighting
I’ve seen a lot of Lears — including Lee J. Cobb at Lincoln Center a half-century ago. Last week, I saw another Cobb in the role. Hal Cobb is serving a life sentence at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex. His performance in the Shakespeare Behind Bars production was as urgent, mercurial and psychologically insightful as…
Ask Minda Honey: Dating A Trump Voter?
In a relationship or life jam? Send your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com or reach me on Facebook.com/AskMindaHoney Dear Minda, Eight months ago, I matched with a man on Bumble, and we started exclusively dating. He’s super thoughtful, treats me well, and (at least for now) seems like the best guy I’ve ever dated. The reason I’m…
Savage Love: Disclosed
Q: Garbage human here. I’ve had herpes for about 15 years. The first five years, I was in a relationship with a guy who also had it. The last 10 years, I haven’t been in a serious relationship. I’ve been a (rare, drunk) one-night-stand type of gal, and I don’t usually tell the guy because,…
Moms = Goddesses
By the time you read this, Mother’s Day 2019 has come and gone. Yet, all the excitement and gratitude toward the women who gave birth to us or raised us, or were our maternal connection later in life, has me thinking about their sacrifices long after the flutter dies down. Moms work in every industry…
Simply Thai comforts with bright flavors and spice
When you need comfort food, nothing else will do. When you’re feeling down, pulling up to a plate full of comfort may be the best thing you can do for yourself. So it was for me last week when I had to say goodbye to my beloved cat Spike, a ginger furball buddy who’d been…
Oskar’s Slider Bar for many small bites of unique veggie tastes
When you hear the phrase “burger joint,” gluten-free vegetarian fair probably does not come to mind. Add the word “sliders” to that mix, and it sounds like an after-hours comfort food choice that will come back to haunt you the next morning. Bucking that is Oskar’s Slider Bar. It has the hallmarks of a pub…
Midwexit, When The Places We Love Don’t Love Us Back
My friend Jared is a lot smarter than I am. He’s the kind of guy who’s probably been told his whole life that he’s “too smart for Indiana.” He’s a grad student in cybersecurity. He lived in D.C. for a while, went to a top school, did some important-sounding military industrial complex stuff for a…
Of The Better-Than-Bevins ?There Is One Choice
Regardless of who the Democratic nominee is after the primary election next Tuesday, I will run, skip and hop to the polls, to vote for them in the fall. They’re all better than Matt Bevin. But Democrats still have to pick their nominee — House Minority Leader Rocky Adkins, Attorney General Andy Beshear or former…
West Of Ninth: People, in their own words…
May 9, 2019 Natasha, owner of That’s a Wrap, Portland “Last year, on Mother’s Day, I almost died. I was headed to Cincinnati, and my truck front tire blew, and I lost control of the car. It knocked me unconscious, and I was thrown through the window. I was on Interstate 71. From there, I…
