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Taking the temperature: How’s your physical, emotional health?
How are you? The question before COVID-19 was often an obligatory, unheard, rhetorical conversation starter. But, now, people seem to really care when they ask, and people seem to really want to tell you how they are. We asked five people from various backgrounds essentially the same question — how were they maintaining their physical…
Balancing fitness and public health: Louisville gyms to reopen with safety measures
Pre covid-19, Yoga on Baxter was a place where you could come after a long day of work or on a weekend afternoon to clear your mind with stretching, sweating and mindfulness. Owner Kristi Fulkerson hopes her studio continues to be a refuge from daily worries when it reopens on June 1 with an exhaustive…
10 Things To Do While Social Distancing (Or Protesting) This Week In Louisville (6/1)
MONDAY, June 1 Kentucky Democratic Senate Candidates on TV KET Free | 8 p.m. Let’s face it, we’ve only got one more opportunity to defeat Mitch McConnell. Despite all the changes to the primary election, Democrats still need to nominate the candidate to take him down in November. KET will have the three leading candidates…
Scenes from the Louisville protest: Demands for justice for Breonna Taylor met with tear gas, pepper balls and smoke grenades
NEAR SIXTH AND JEFFERSON STREETS — If there were an accurate zeitgeist of Thursday evening’s street protest, it was the stark contrast between the police, equipped with helmets and body armor and face shields and batons, gearing up for a night of ultraviolence as thick as the humidity and the peaceful protesters they were charged…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (5/29)
FRIDAY, May 29 Protest for Breonna Taylor Downtown Louisville Free | Evening Anger at law enforcement taking Black lives bubbled over last night as hundreds took to Main and Jefferson streets to protest. The demonstrations, prompted by the death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of Louisville police, are expected to continue tonight. On Thursday,…
River City Banana Republic: Chief Conrad’s ouster is an opportunity to reclaim the LMPD
Last night’s street protests and the “retirement” of Louisville police Chief Steve Conrad, in the wake of the killing of Breonna Walker, has highlighted ominous trends in policing In America. Weeks of stories about the dysfunction of the department has only confirmed the impression. Yet, it does bring a ray of hope. We can use…
The lynch mob that we’ve all created… or why Gov. Beshear was not surprised when a mob stormed his home
Armed protesters marched on Gov. Andy Beshear’s home Sunday and hanged him in effigy, using the words of President Lincoln’s assassin, all because he wants people to wear masks so they don’t join the 100,000 dead from COVID-19. Did he deserve that? Did Breonna Taylor deserve to be shot to death by police in her…
What is it like to self-isolate?
My personal experience with COVID-19 began when my boyfriend, Marshall, called to tell me that he had tested positive for the virus. Marshall works as a patient aide at Audubon Hospital and had been tested for the coronavirus after he had been experiencing a low-grade fever for a little under a week. When Audubon began…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (5/27)
Thorn: Sounds like a death threat The armchair soldiers converged on Frankfort ostensibly to celebrate their right to carry penis proxies in public to compensate for being bullied when they were kids or some other humiliation. It then turned into a protest of Gov. Andy, who they say has stepped on their right to get…
Lakeside quarry won’t open this summer, leaving a hole in the community
Whenever I need to relax, or I can’t sleep or anxiety overwhelms me, I like to imagine it’s midsummer, and I’m floating in the deep end of the limestone quarry lake that sits just beyond my backyard. In my mind, I’m on my back— no raft, just alone with my thoughts and the water that…
Local drive-in becomes music venue
In-person live music screeched to a halt in the middle of March, but as society slowly reopens, there have been a few concerts at drive-in movie theaters popping up around the globe. And now the trend is hitting Kentucky, with last week’s announcement that the Christian rock band Newsboys tour is coming to Sauerbeck Family…
A message from Louisville music venues
More than 1,000 music venues across the country and in Louisville have formed the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) to lobby Congress for financial support during the shutdown. LEO wrote last week about its efforts. Below is an op-ed from local members explaining why the music industry is in desperate need of help. Shutdown. Postponed.…
Jake and Elwood’s masters the Chicago pie
Jake and Elwood’s opened its Chicago-style pizzeria in Clifton at 11 a.m. Monday, March 16. Does that date sound familiar? Yep! That’s the day that Gov. Andy Beshear told all the state’s restaurants to put a halt to dining in. “We are mandated to close for dine-in at 5 p.m. today,” the restaurant posted on…
Breonna Taylor’s death does not call for a SWAT solution
The longer I live, the more I’m convinced that this era will be remembered for two things: First, for our newfound capability to instantaneously analyze zettabytes of data to find ready solutions to the common problems of humankind. Second, for the stunning capacity of our leaders to implement the opposite of whatever the data suggest…
COVID-19… for goodness sake
There has been plenty since mid-March to be nervous and upset about, but leave it to LEO to take the counter view. For our Health and Wellness Issue, I am going to explore how the coronavirus has improved at least some aspects of our health and wellness and maybe wrought changes in society that will…
Savage Love: Quickies
Q: I don’t want to become one of those people who write to you complaining about how I married someone I wasn’t sexually compatible with 10 years ago, and now my sex life still sucks. I already know I need to break up with my boyfriend, and I was about to do it when he…
