10 Things To Do In Isolation This Week In Louisville (5/25)
MONDAY, May 25 Monday Night Flights: An Evening with Woodford Reserve Facebook Live Free | 7-8 p.m. The staff at Chill BAR misses you and wants to hang out. Join bartenders Anthony Jones and Roger Tieskoetter as well as Casey Gray from Brown-Forman as they taste Woodford Reserve and demonstrate how you can make your…
Photos of restaurants in Louisville reopening
Kentucky restaurants were allowed to reopen Friday, May 22, for inside dining under new rules. The regulations include that restaurants must limit allowed capacity to just a third inside, and tables must be spaced 6 feet apart. Also, only members of the same household can sit at the same table. Here is a peek from LEO photographer Kathryn…
Payback for McConnell loyalty? Trump axes inspector general investigating Chao
The political stars are aligning for our senior senator Mitch McConnell, just in time for his sixth and hopefully final election campaign! President Trump has fired the acting inspector general who was investigating whether Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao was helping McConnell, her husband, funnel projects to Kentucky to boost for his re-election campaign. The Associated…
5 Things To Do While Social Distancing In Louisville This Weekend (5/22)
FRIDAY, May 22 Songs for Conservation: A Livestream Benefit Concert Facebook Live Donations accepted | 7-9:30 p.m. We hope that as you’ve escaped into the woods for a solitary activity while social distancing, you’ve remembered how important it is that we protect our natural resources. This live-streamed concerned benefits the Kentucky Conservation Committee, which lobbies…
Dining out in Kentucky is about to get Corona Complicated as restaurants reopen under new rules
“Excuse me, but do you all live together?” “What?” “Are you all from the same household? If you are not, I cannot allow you to sit together tonight.” “Uh, maybe we will go across the river to Indiana.” Yup, starting Friday, May 22, dining out in Kentucky gets complicated — the hospitality industry will become…
Sen. McConnell — Please don’t enable a pandemic
Republicans facing an election amid a once-in-a-century catastrophe made worse by their president are throwing anything they can against the political wall to see what sticks. Some of what they’re throwing is pretty slippery — trying to discredit experts, shifting the blame to China or, well, just making stuff up. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (5/20)
Thorn: Conrad had to go… yesterday Where do we start on the police raid that killed Breonna Taylor? How about at the top: Police Chief Steve Conrad needs to go. The list of his department’s failures creates a critical mass that cannot be ignored. Let us not forget that a judge signed off on the…
7 memorable Louisville festival sets in the past five years
Last week, I wrote about the deep economic impact of a year in Louisville without music festivals. Losing festivals like Forecastle and Louder Than Life goes way beyond just hurting big corporations and musicians with mansions — the cancellations are also detrimental to just-getting-by bands, your favorite food trucks and the city’s microbreweries and about…
Soft-shell crab tacos lured us to Red Hog
It all started, as things so often do, on social media. I was browsing Instagram, tapping through a lot of the local restaurants that I follow, when a simple white-on-black text image caught my eye. “Taco Tuesday,” read the post from Red Hog Artisan Butcher. And then the clincher: “Fried Soft-Shell Crab Tacos!” “Taco Tuesday is…
Back to work! But no childcare
When Anthony and Karlee Miles found out that their employer, Toyota in Georgetown, Kentucky, was temporarily shutting in mid March, it was a relief compared to what they were facing at first: no child care for their 3-year-old daughter. Gov. Andy Beshear had ordered child care facilities closed along with much of the state economy.…
Savage Love: Power Players
Q: Here’s a non-COVID question for you: I’m a queer, white female in a monogamish marriage. I vote left, I abhor hatred and oppression, and I engage in activism when I can. I’m also turned on by power differentials: authority figures, uniforms, hot guys doing each other. Much to my horror, this thing for power…
