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Fried Chicken Showdown: Indi’s vs. Chicken King
Go to another country, tell someone you are from Kentucky, and the first blink of recognition likely will be: “Yes, Kentucky Fried Chicken!” Maybe they mention the Kentucky Derby, and, increasingly, bourbon. But KFC, unfortunately, is our state touchstone. Certainly, KFC is fried, and it is chicken, but it is not the fried chicken that…
An early stream of Andy Matter and Ten Wet Dollars’ ’Louisville Lip Service’
Andy Matter and Ten Wet Dollars’ new album, Louisville Lip Service, features walls of guitars and soaring lyrics, falling somewhere between hard rock and post punk. It will be released on Friday, Nov. 23 via Gubbey Records, but right now you can stream it below, exclusively at leoweekly.com.
Will Trump vote hurt or help? union-backed, Richard Ojeda’s bid for president?
Richard Ojeda, a Democrat, voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Now, the West Virginia state senator wants to be president. Ojeda says he regrets his 2016 vote for Trump, but he believes this makes him the ideal candidate to take on the president in 2020, if he runs again, because “I can relate to the…
A Q&A with gallery owner Susan Moremen
The 2-year-old gallery Moremen Moloney Contemporary in Butchertown is no more. Susan Moremen is now the sole owner of Moremen Gallery (moremengallery.com), with a new location and a renewed art focus. LEO Weekly talked to Moremen on the changes. LEO: Let’s start with why you moved the gallery from 939 E. Washington St. to downtown?…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (11/19)
MONDAY – NOV. 19 Zen Doodling Fern Creek Branch – Louisville Free Public Library Free | 7-8 p.m. Prepare mentally for the family political conversations and cooking-related stress of the Thanksgiving weekend with a peaceful, Zen doodling sesh at the library. “Leave with your own work of art!” TUESDAY – NOV. 20 Titty Tiki Tuesdays!…
A breakdown of the 2019 Humana Festival of New American Play lineup
This is a transitional year for Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 43rd Humana Festival of New American Plays, the lineup of which was announced Thursday. Les Waters’ tenure as the company’s artistic director, from 2012 to 2018, ended this summer. The company has not yet announced a successor. Under Waters’ leadership, the Humana Festival built on…
A conversation with the people breathing new life into Black Scene magazine
Black Scene, a West End political magazine published from 1973 to 1976, is being reborn. Louisville journalist Michael Jones and Katy Delahanty, a Portland Museum board member and Louisville Visual Art Outreach program director, are archiving Black Scene and plan to publish an updated version called Black Scene Millennium. LEO spoke to them recently about…
5 Things To Do This Weekend In Louisville (11/16)
FRIDAY – NOV. 16 Art Sanctuary Presents: ‘Va Va Views from the Vault’ Art Sanctuary $30 ($40 for VIP) | 7-11:30 p.m. If you have seen past Va Va Vixens shows, then you know to expect surprises and risqué. This show (running on Saturday, too) may top it all, as the troupe promotes it as…
Young journalists document Dance Theatre of Harlem in Louisville, learn of the company’s important history
Weeks before any dancers from Dance Theatre of Harlem stepped foot in Louisville, a few young journalists began learning about its history and the history of African Americans in ballet — including dancers and teachers here in Louisville. From late October until even the day after the company’s Friday performance at The Kentucky Center for…
In Search of Real Fried Chicken
For LEO’s fall Dining Issue, we pitted Indi’s against Chicken King to find the best fried chicken in town. Here are Susan Reigler’s thoughts about what makes fried chicken delicious. Decades before menus came with fine print cautions about consuming “raw or undercooked meat, seafood, eggs,” many in the Louisville area contained a temporal warning.…
Tried and true: Some of our favorite places to get fried chicken in Louisville
Louisville may have more pizza joints, but it was built on fried chicken and bourbon. Read about our showdown between city favorites Ind’s and Chicken King. But here is a non-exhaustive list of some of our other favorites: Big Momma’s Soul Food Kitchen 4532 W. Broadway 772-9580 Search Facebook Open for lunch and early dinner…
Women, Democrats gain in state, city
With all the recount madness going on in Florida and Georgia, we can be thankful that Kentucky’s results are in, and able to be analyzed. So, let’s take score: We’ve still got a Republican supermajority in the Kentucky House, but that doesn’t mean women and teachers didn’t make gains, and we all know that Jefferson…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Bevin won? | Thorn Gov. Matt “Elected on the Bell Curve” Bevin has done just about everything possible to make himself unpopular (including supporting an independent candidate over a Republican in Northern Kentucky.) And the polling numbers show it. Yet, he may be a winner, if not a whiner, in the midterm elections. Despite his…
State Champion dials in on? ‘Send Flowers’
“Death Preferences,” the second song from State Champion’s recently-released record, Send Flowers, epitomizes singer-songwriter Ryan Davis’ lyrical style. It’s not linear, and there’s no central theme. Instead, “Death Preferences” juggles stories within stories and thoughts within thoughts, but with these sharp, open-ended, evocative lines that break through the dense writing. And that’s reflective of his…
Fotocrime at Kaiju and two other concerts to catch this week
Fotocrime Thursday, Nov. 15: Kaiju A post-punk, synth-heavy band, Fotocrime plays melancholy-leaning, paranoid-sounding songs that seem like they could soundtrack a modern day noir. Ryan Patterson’s steady, grizzled vocals align well within this dark wave frame, as his voice carries a thinly-veiled anger, sounding distant and indifferent, but also like it’s always on the verge…
Sonic Breakdown: The Kentucky Vampires — ‘Spider and the Fly’
[LEO’s biweekly Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.] The Kentucky Vampires’ gloom-goth sensibilities are perfect for their style of storytelling. In most of their material, the band turns to history, and “Spider and The Fly” is no different. The song recounts the sordid tale of Elizabeth Báthory, a…
‘Play on Pygmalion,’ frothy and provocative
It’s a risky business, messing about with masterpieces. But when it works — as it does in The Chamber Theatre’s “Eliza: A Play on Pygmalion” — the rewards are tremendous. That’s especially true in this case, because “Eliza” is a fascinating celebration of the rise of women’s political power, and it opens on the heels…
Laughing for food security
How many comedians does it take to battle Louisville’s food deserts by raising money for a new food co-op? Never enough, but seven will do this time. The Bard’s Town is hosting a benefit to help the Louisville Community Grocery open as the city’s first community-owned grocery store. This show brings: Tim Northern, Melissa Doran,…
Comic Book Reviews: The Green Lantern & The Empty Man
The Green Lantern No. 1 Writer Grant Morrison | Artist Liam Sharp Reviewed by Meredith Harris The Great Escape Grant Morrison is back at DC Comics, y’all! Considered to have written some of the best Batman, Superman and JLA stories of all time, he’s now taking us on a crazy cosmic ride in The Green…
Free-roaming chicken adds value at The Eagle
The Eagle landed in Louisville two years ago this month, the fourth shop in a Cincinnati-based mini-chain. I have to confess that I didn’t pay much attention at first. But then I found out that The Eagle isn’t just another Highlands bar. Its fried chicken is also a big thing. It’s not your industrially-fried chicken,…
Spend Thanksgiving at a brewery
On Thanksgiving Day several years ago, I found myself with a number of clouds hanging over my head. I was in a bad place. Perhaps it wasn’t the best decision I could have made, but on that particular Thanksgiving, I decided to give thanks for negativity and self-loathing — I decided to be alone on…
Ask Minda Honey: Is my future with an ex in the stars?
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life — send your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com or reach out to me on Facebook.com/AskMindaHoney Hi Minda, I’m getting back out there after a dating break, and my vision was that I’d meet a lot of nice, new people to go out with. However, as you know,…
Savage Love: Bound and Gagging
Q: I’m a 44-year-old straight woman. I’ve been married for 14 years to a husband I love very much. We have two small children. Early in our courtship, I discovered his interest in bottoming during fem-Dom pegging sessions. I GGG’d his desires, and we explored them. He bought a variety of dildos, strap-on harnesses, and…
American gangsters:? It ain’t all good after Election 2018
In the waning days of the 2018 midterm election campaigns, as the Democratic Party struggled to find its voice once again, it deployed its only heavy hitter — “Made Man” Barack Obama. When President Trump and the Republicans began to repeatedly call them a mob, I thought the Dems should embrace the insult. I recommended…
The old world is dying,? did we expect it all to be done with one election?
During my run for Indiana’s congressional primary last year, my wife asked me: “What does your gut tell you? Are you gonna win?” I hadn’t stopped to think about it. But yeah, my gut said I was going to win. We had unbeatable momentum, lots of media attention, the biggest intern program in the history…
Election just the beginning
Republicans won the high-profile races, but Democrats won the night. Kentucky has a long way to go, but Louisville is where the tide begins to turn… and this election speaks to that. Here are a few quick takes on who won and who lost. The King of Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer earned his resounding victory,…
