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Protesters in arms: Guns as plentiful at protests as the reasons people carry them
John Subleski was standing near a row of storefronts on Baxter Avenue and holding his assault rifle across his chest while he watched 300 or so mostly white protesters march by. No one seemed to take notice of him. But it would be hard to miss Subleski, who is white, because he looked as if…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (11/9)
MONDAY, Nov. 9 Monday Mingle — City Mix Up The Palm Room No cover before 8 p.m. | 5 p.m.-2 a.m. On Mondays, come to The Palm Room for food, drink specials, karaoke, Black-owned vendors and business and entrepreneur spotlights. TUESDAY, Nov. 10 Let’s Talk Election Results Zoom Free | 6 p.m. Biden may have…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Weekend (11/06)
FRIDAY, Nov. 6 Use These Hands! Facebook Live Free | 5 p.m. Local activist Dominique Harding will lead a conversation about learning sign language. Black Lives Matter Louisville said, “Many folks are hearing impaired, and this impacts a lot of their interactions. A part of community care and community defense is being able to communicate…
Voters whip Kentucky Democrats with a Trump lash
Well, that was a whoopin’. Tuesday’s election was a political disaster for Kentucky Democrats, and it has the makings of a governing disaster for their leader, Gov. Andy Beshear. But if Republicans overreach, it could be a public-health disaster for us all. Driven by allegiance to President Trump and a strong seventh endorsement of U.S.…
The Dems Are Alright
Don’t worry, Democrats. It really isn’t as bad as it seems. Hot take-pundits are claiming Democratic failure, but that failure is measured against inflated expectations — rather, the disappointment Democrats may feel are the result of unreasonable optimism and ravenous aspirations for an electoral tidal wave to crash over the White House and U.S. Senate.…
Rmllw2llz gets personal on Concerto No.9 Movement II.V
Rmllw2llz’s new record started taking shape in a van somewhere between Louisville and Columbus, Ohio. Rmllw2llz, aka hip-hop artist Romell Weaver, and Dom B were out on tour, in between cities, and were ranking the albums that are the most important and influential to them and which ones they would remake if they had the chance.…
Hillcrest Tavern offers pure comfort
Halloween has come and gone, taking with it another piece of collateral damage from the pandemic: There was no Hillcrest Avenue Halloween decoration extravaganza this year. But there is still a doggone good reason to go to Hillcrest — or to be more exact, to cross the railroad tracks, turn left onto Frankfort Avenue and…
Breonna Taylor case has damaged faith in courts
Kentucky’s courts run on faith. Citizens have to trust that the judicial system is run by people who try their best to follow the law. To keep this faith, judges, prosecutors and police must act with transparency. People deserve to see what transpires in court unless there is a very good reason for them not…
Bardstown goes to one lane both directions — and back to neighborhood street?
On Nov. 4 and 5, construction crews will convert a section of Bardstown Road through The Highlands into one lane both directions — the start of a plan that outgoing Councilman Brandon Coan hopes will turn it from a commuter highway into neighborhood street. After Thursday, Bardstown Road from Eastern Parkway to Highland Avenue will…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (11/4)
Thorn + Rose: KSP finds inner Hitler Two student reporters at the Manual RedEye get a rose for their scoop about how a Kentucky State Police training slide show included quotes from Adolf Hitler and Robert E. Lee and urged cadets to have a “mindset void of emotion” to “meet violence with greater violence.” For its part,…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Review of The Autumnal’ & ‘An Unkindness of Ravens’
‘Review of The Autumnal’ No. 1 Writer Daniel Kraus and artists Chris Sheehan and Jason Wordie Review by Krystal Moore, The Great Escape Louisville Kat Sommerville is a single mother on her way to a conference with the principal from her daughter’s school. We see pretty quickly that neither fit into what society would call…
Savage Love: Old Times
Q: I’m a nearly-80 straight male, with undiminished libido. I have no problem with it, just a persistent curiosity. Like, why now? And why so various? And is it common among us old geezers? Male and female? I’m more sex-obsessed than ever before, including adolescence. Until my sixties, tits were my sexual focus, and other…
‘Louisville Anthology’ timely, angry
‘The Louisville Anthology.’ edited by Erin Keane (Belt Press; 194 pages, $20) A compilation of essays, reprinted articles and verse about a city. Sounds simple enough. Isn’t that the sort of reading material that gets revised every half-decade by civic organizations? You know, the “town fathers.” Or maybe a group of Realtors who are hungry…
