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We Happy Few: How we see veterans,? how they see themselves
Shakespeare isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when most people think about American veterans. If we don’t have family who served, we imagine Hollywood types — homeless, or the crew-cut dad forever disappointed with his kids for their inability to hack it, or those old guys drinking down at the VFW. In recent…
Rediscovering A Louisville Classic: Ollie’s Trolley Is Still Serving Nostalgia & Good Eats
Back in the late 1980s, I worked just a couple of blocks from an Ollie’s Trolley, those curious and quaint faux trolley cars that once speckled the Louisville landscape, serving secretly-spiced burgers, french fries and more. I took it for granted, stopping in only occasionally for a quick lunch. And then, one day, it closed,…
Concert Review: The Jesus & Mary Chain transcend nostalgia
A little over a week ago, I saw Guns N’ Roses. It was the first time I’ve watched Axl and Slash share a stage, and it’s something that I’ve wanted to see happen for more than a decade. Concerts, like most things in pop culture, are always at least a little bit impacted by expectations…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (11/13)
MONDAY Speaker Series With Dr. Ricky L. Jones Louisville Urban League Free | 6-8 p.m. Dr. Ricky L. Jones, our favorite Courier Journal columnist (and LEO Weekly legend), is speaking on “Curriculum For Whom: Whose Lie Is It Anyway?” Jones is one of Louisville’s foremost voices, advocates and critics of social injustices. As chair of…
Best of the Web: GoHo Provisions embraces all of the restaurant cliches
When a storefront popped up on the market recently in the rapidly-developing Germantown neighborhood, St. Matthews-based entrepreneur Jack Dunaway knew he had to seize the opportunity. Though he spends his work day as owner of the boutique wealth management firm Dunaway Trust, following in his father’s footsteps, dining is his true passion. “I love dining…
LEO Presents: Boa, live in studio
For the latest LEO Presents, our video series where we ask local musicians to stop by our studio to play three songs, Boa brings their breezy, The Band-style Americana. Look for a new LEO Presents video every Friday, and watch every past episode of the series here.
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (11/10)
FRIDAY Pep Rally for Louisville City FC Fourth Street Live! Free | 4-6 p.m. For the first time in club history, Louisville City FC has made it to the USL Championship game! But before the big game against the Swope Park Rangers, Mayor Greg Fischer and the team are hosting a pep rally to “gear…
Is it legal for politicians to block you on social media?
[Ed. note: The controversy over Gov. Matt Bevin’s blocking of critics from his official Facebook page and Twitter feed has left many wondering: What are our rights as Kentuckians? Two lawyers from the law firm Frost Brown Todd spell out a precedent and wherefores.] With the rise of social media as the modern public forum…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Clown car politicians | Thorn That the Metro City Council let accused groper Councilman Dan Johnson remain employed is bad enough. But the reason is outrageous. The council did not understand the state law for removing him, claiming lawmakers made it vague and created the risk of an appeal. We say the council should have…
Waxahatchee gets personal on ‘Out In The Storm’
Katie Crutchfield, who performs under the name Waxahatchee, released her fourth album, Out In The Storm, earlier this year. It’s a deeply personal record dealing with the dissolving of a relationship, punching you in the gut with its pounding guitars and straightforward lyrics. At other times it feels fragile and brittle, destined to fall apart…
Shut Up and Sing
This is a story about personal accomplishment. It’s the story of my 2017, a year spent behind a microphone, in a room and usually alone, except for a distant voice coming through my headphones. It’s a story of a year where I spent around 15,000 minutes thinking about and preparing for what would, most of…
Rmllw2llz breaks through on his new record
A local hip-hop staple who has released a wide range of solo studio material and performed as part of Dr. Dundiff & Friends at Forecastle and on record, Rmllw2llz is currently set to release Concerto No. 9 Movement 2 this weekend, the second album in a trilogy. The first single from the record “So Amerikkkan,”…
Two ballets celebrate ‘Stravinsky!’
Contemporary life likes to shake things up to make them, well, more modern. Bourbon is added to ice cream, stores are open on Thanksgiving for Christmas shopping, and a classical ballet now focuses on refugees. The Louisville Ballet is presenting “Stravinsky!” with two ballets by innovative Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). “Rubies” is first on…
Katie Kershaw of Second City: ‘I am with me so much, I drive myself crazy’
The Second City has been perhaps the most well-respected improv company in the world for nearly six decades. It has launched the careers of seminal performers such as Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Tina Fey, Steve Carrell, Stephen Colbert and dozens more equally-iconic actors and comedians. On Friday night, The Second City’s latest traveling improv show…
V-Grits works vegan magic
You’d be surprised to know how many people who give up eating tasty animals for reasons pertaining to the environment, health or animal welfare, nevertheless harbor a nostalgic memory for the comfort-food pleasure of the meat that they won’t eat any more. But there’s good news for vegetarians and vegans who want life to be…
Ask Minda Honey: Can a cheater change?
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life by asking me a question at: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com. Hi Minda, I have been dating a guy for almost three months now, and things are going great. We have a great emotional connection and physical chemistry. We’ve had a lot of deep and meaningful conversations about our…
Savage Love: The Daddy Files
Q: I’m a 40-year-old bi man. I’ve been with my 33-year-old bi wife for three years and married for one. When we first met, she made it clear that she was in a long-term (more than three years) “Daddy” relationship with an older man. I figured out six months later that her “Daddy” was her…
Stranger conspiracy
Ay, Caramba! You’re out there, NBC blogger, in the wild of day trying to link the popular children’s program “Stranger Things” to being pro-colonialism because it features space invaders as a trope? Yo, that’s what you’re out here doing, in 2017, with everything awful that’s going on you’ve decided to throw rocks at the throne…
Papa John’s pigswill, and Bevin is, uh… convincing…
We should start a podcast, mate. Broadcast live from the khazi at Molly’s. What, and convert our reader into a listener? Bit late to shift to sound when the entire media industry is pivoting to video. Plus the background noise might be a bit off-putting — Finbar locked in a cubicle after another Arsenal spanking,…
Perfect shade of handsy harasser orange
Councilman Dan Johnson has made fools of the entire Metro Council. And yet this debacle over sexual harassment claims made by Councilwoman Jessica Green and an aide of Councilwoman Angela Leet has highlighted a glaring deficiency in the rules that govern the council. But first… let me get some shit off my chest from the…
Clown car council
By outward appearances, the Louisville Metro Council seems overwhelmed, busy with a tremendous number of vital issues: the gun violence and opioid crises, police Chief Steve Conrad’s status, KFC Yum Center and soccer stadium finances, sanctuary city demands and Councilman Dan Johnson’s sagging pants saga. Some issues are vital, others merely dramatic… Unfortunately, the Metro…
