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Climate Change In Kentucky: ‘One Home Came Floating Down The River’
VARNEY, West Virginia — Pigeon Creek flows through a narrow mountain hollow along a string of coal mining communities, its water trickling under the red and yellow of the changing fall foliage. The tranquil scene belies the devastation the creek delivered one night a decade ago as heavy rain fell on soggy soil and thousands…
Six of our favorite local songs from November
Ted Tyro — ‘I Saw Ya’ The wind chimes that open “I Saw Ya” preface the airy dreaminess of the song, which exists as much in the space between the notes as otherwise. This is to say that this is compositionally restrained — each note is used to punctuate a specific theme. Lyrically, the song…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (12/02)
MONDAY, Dec. 2 Perez vs. Goodwin – A Pop Art & Poetry Dust Up Revelry Boutique Gallery Free | 5-7 p.m. Artist Andy Perez and poet and playwright Idris Goodwin bring together painting and poetry to make a statement on today’s culture and zeitgeist. The event features 10 new paintings by Perez based on Goodwin’s…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (11/29)
FRIDAY, Nov. 29 2019 Fête de Noël Winter Holiday Festival & Ice Skating Rink 720 Brent Street $9-$12 | 4-11 p.m. A new winter wonderland has come to Louisville. A pop-up, outdoor ice skating rink has opened in the Paristown neighborhood, and with it, comes the Holiday Laser Dome, previously located along the waterfront. So,…
‘Inscapes,’ Stunning Timelessness
Sublimation refers to the process of matter transforming from a solid directly into a gaseous state, bypassing the liquid stage. In dye sublimation, dye ink is turned into a gas that bonds with the polymer molecule of a specially primed surface via transfer paper and a heat press, creating images that are brilliant and permanent.…
A Thanksgiving Prayer
A Thanksgiving Prayer after Burroughs like a bird on a wire like a drunk in the midnight choir I have tried all my life to be free Leonard Cohen “Thanks for the Wild Turkey and the passenger pigeons destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts Thanks for a continent a world to despoil…
West Of Ninth: People, In Their Own Words…
Sept. 19 Antwanette, in Russell “I have basically been here all my life. I lived in the East End once, but we came back here. My mama loves The West End. It was pretty cool, growing up. It’s not about where you live but how you live. My mama didn’t let us run the streets.…
Savage Love: Bluff Calls
Q: I’m a heterosexual cis woman in a monogamous marriage. My husband and I have always struggled to connect sexually, mostly because he has extreme anxiety that makes doing anything new or different difficult. He’s been in therapy since before I met him, but it doesn’t seem to be helping much. His anxiety has caused…
Todd Snider On The Ghost of Johnny Cash And Bob Dylan’s Middle Finger
In spite of the fact that volumes one and two have yet to be written, recorded or released, Todd Snider recently issued his latest collection of tunes under the title, Cash Cabin Sessions Vol. 3. The new disc signals a return to his original folkie form and contains some of his strongest work as a…
Kaiju celebrates five years
There are several, equally important layers to a city’s ecosystem of music venues. Arenas and theaters bring in big names. Standing rooms such as Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, Headliners Music Hall, Mercury Ballroom and Zanzabar are consistent places to catch different levels of national up-and-coming bands, veteran indie acts and larger local shows. But the…
Psychedelic Art-Pop Band Frederick The Younger Releasing New EP In Early 2020
Frederick The Younger debuted four years ago as an indie group reminiscent of the pop-rock sound of the ‘80s, with Aaron Craker’s Dire Straits-like guitar and Jenni Cochran belting lyrics in the tone of Chrissie Hynde. Their debut full-length, 2017’s Human Child, was a heck of a crowd pleaser, an album with bounce and shake.…
Weigh In On Bardstown Businesses
The Louisville Independent Business Association wants to know: What kind of businesses do you think The Highlands needs more of? LIBA, which represents around 900 locally-owned businesses and whose motto “Keep Louisville Weird” was explored in the last issue of LEO, wants to hear your answers in an online survey. It’s working with Metro Council…
Two Tales of Heroism in Restaurant Service
I recently stopped in on a Monday for breakfast at a diner near where I work. The place was busy, but not full. I wasn’t greeted, as I had been on each previous visit. This restaurant features an open hot line, where I could see a solitary cook hard at it. A single server was…
A Chance To Connect The City
More road construction and downtown traffic jams are not usually things to be excited about, but a $140 million redevelopment of Broadway could be worth the headache. Overhauling Broadway is major piece of the city’s Move Louisville plan, a 20-year, $1.4 billion effort to rebuild the city’s transportation infrastructure. The redesign of Broadway will cover…
A Surge Of Thefts In City Targets Vehicle Catalytic Converters
Jeral Tidwell and his family were about to leave home on a Saturday. They piled into their Ford E-350 van, started it up and heard a sound akin to a tractor with a broken muffler. “I knew exactly what had happened,” said Tidwell, an artist who lives near Churchill Downs. His catalytic converter had been…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Thorn: So, What Are You Hiding, Mr. Mayor? Louisville police are suing The Courier Journal so the paper won’t get records about the abuse of Explorer Scouts by officers. At issue is how the city handled the investigation of abuse, leading to the prosecution of two former officers. The CJ’s lawyer said the case was…
‘Scotchy, Scotch, Scotch’
It’s not every day when you walk into one of Louisville’s premier cocktail bars and find a brand new staff behind the stick. It almost wasn’t evident, upon crossing Meta’s threshold, as the dimly lit ambiance enveloped the bar so all I could see was a slew of hands holding coupe glasses but couldn’t make…
Comedian Katherine Blanford: ‘Don’t Have To Lean On My Queef Stuff Anymore’
Comedian Katherine Blanford, a Louisville native, remembers well when her family came to see her perform early in her career. “I did all my dirty jokes, stuff about queefing and whatever. Even if you didn’t know me, you would have felt how uncomfortable everyone was,” she said. Look for her friends and family when she…
