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Big favor for Big UofL donor: UofL Bought An Empty Factory In Oklahoma — Because A Donor Asked
A major donor went to the University of Louisville Foundation in 2014 with a proposition. The company Henry Vogt Heuser Jr. ran for nearly three decades was in bankruptcy. His factory, empty and racking up expenses, was for sale. Would the foundation be interested in making a deal and helping him out? University leaders assured…
When Sexism Runs Rampant, Maybe Women Should Own The Power In Male Fear
It’s a shame that stories I wrote in 2016 can still be relevant today. In light of the wildly sexist attacks levied at women in politics, particularly Vice President Kamala Harris from our “friends” on the right, it seems appropriate that I remembered a time when an emotionally disregulated man who was having trouble dealing…
This Week In Louisville History: The city battles the 1918 Flu Pandemic
On Oct. 18, 1918, an emergency meeting was held at the Seelbach Hotel concerning the rapid spread of the influenza virus in Louisville. The outbreak, known later as the 1918 Flu Pandemic, would infect nearly 500 million people worldwide and spread quickly around the world aided by the movement of troops involved in WWI. Military…
A Q&A with The Kalashnikov Clowns about the national clown paranoia
With the recent clown sightings across the country and the paranoia that’s followed it, we spoke to Kalashnikov Clowns founding member Steven Hughes about the public anger, and the idea of “killer clowns” being rooted into the American psyche. LEO: You have spoken out against the mounting paranoia in the U.S. surrounding the ‘killer clown’ sightings. The public has…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (10/17)
MONDAY “Project 14: Drawn to Bodies” (ends Oct. 22) Zephyr Gallery Free | 11 a.m. This is your last week to see “Project 14: Drawn to Bodies” at Zephyr Gallery. It is an exhibition filled with art by five very different artists, from different generations, whose “approaches range from the allegorical to the erotic, from mining…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (10/14)
FRIDAY You’re The Wurst — Sausage Party Copper and Kings $10 | 7 p.m. Enjoy the flavors of Germany at this Oktoberfest-style party featuring handmade sausages and other German-inspired foods, Marzen/Oktoberfest style beers by Monnik Beer Co. and live music by The Prost Band and DJ Kim Sorise (who will be spinning Polka and Krautrock…
12 ways Mike Pence did not make Indiana great … again
This article originally ran back in October, a few months after former Indiana Governor Mike Pence joined up with The Orange One. Now that pressing issues, such as immigration and healthcare, are front and center, it’s important to remember that Pence might not be the unfiltered blowhard that Trump is, but he has a deep…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst & Best (10/12)
Hurricane Matt | [Thorn] While points south suffered the unpredictable wrath of Hurricane Matthew, we continue to bend, but not break, from the gusts of our own blow-hard, Gov. Matt “Southern Depression” Bevin. That is all. America was great — when? | [Thorn] His methods were “brutal and detrimental to the stability of government. I…
Beach Slang moves into darker territory with ‘A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings’
Beach Slang’s first full-length, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us, was written from a single perspective — that, being singer James Alex’s heavy-hearted ride through wild nights and battles with isolation. On their second album, this year’s A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings, the band’s lyrical focus widened to include…
Bleached on writing and recording their new record, Welcome The Worms
Bleached — a grunge-pop band with infectious melodies, walls of guitar and lyrics about “embracing the dark side of life” — recently released their new full-length, Welcome The Worms, their first in three years. Before tour brings them to Louisville, we caught up with singer/guitarist Jennifer Clavin to talk about writing and recording the new…
Second Story Man: Olds (1999-2010)
It’s hard to believe that Second Story Man has been around for close to 20 years, but here we are with a b-side retrospective that spans a little over a decade, while omitting the last six years of content. The material found in Olds is a treasure trove, serving as a showcase of the long…
Ron: Is Real
A gleeful rowdiness signals the return of Ron, a band that dodges categorization. This is ugly music, and it’s clear that they don’t give a hot shit about that — in the best, most punk-rock, weird-out-your-parents way. It’s raw and unfiltered in that way that just grabs life by the short hairs and runs. None…
Billy Aon: Motorbike b/w Teenage Cage & I Wanna Be Your Dog
There is an almost drone-like quality to the repetitive nature of Motorbike that recalls the very best of AC/DC or early Alice Cooper. Aon features big guitars and simple chord structures that undeniably pay homage to Ron Asheton of the Stooges — you can even hear a cover of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” here…
Anagnorisis: Peripeteia
While many of their black metal peers focus on delivering raw and straightforward music, Anagnorisis continues to bravely eschew many of the genre’s tired clichés with their latest record, Peripeteia — their first since 2013’s Beyond All Light. An experimental and progressive release, Peripeteia uses eerie audio clips from vocalist Zachary Kerr’s childhood, beautiful saxophone…
‘Tis A Season
It’s almost Halloween, and I, for one, am loving the season — the decorations, the fall colors, all of the pumpkins and the get-togethers. I’m especially enjoying the music. Halloween-themed music, in my opinion, is infinitely more fun to play than music from any other holiday. Yes, Christmas has the ultimate weight as far as…
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Theatre [502]’s ‘River City’ has spectacular characters
“River City,” by Diana Grisanti, which opened last week in a moving, richly-entertaining local premiere by Theatre [502] production, is a journey of discovery. Mary (Angela D. Williams) has recently lost her father. In the course of sorting through the detritus of his life, she comes across a scant handful of fascinating, mysterious artifacts. The…
The 8th Annual Louisville International Festival of Film, from bikes to Rubbertown
Indie films need lovin’ too. The major studios have the Megaplex 2020 all booked up with their latest superhero movies — what’s an independent film to do? Film festivals fill the void, and Louisville is lucky to have its share. The 8th Annual Louisville International Festival of Film (LIFF) is here from Oct. 13–15 with…
Bozeman, ‘my soul is definitely for sale, but not for laughs’
Kevin Bozeman is a Chicago-based comedian who hails from a big family, is a big sports fan and comes with big laughs. He is a former college athlete who played basketball at Division III University of Wisconsin, Whitewater — which explains his passion for athletics, a topic that he takes on weekly on his sports-themed…
Roots will make you eat your vegetables, and like them
Vegetarian and vegan lifestyles are on the rise, and this really shouldn’t surprise anyone. After all, the baby boom is growing older and more health-conscious, while a lot of millennials are looking at a self-destructing world and worrying about a sustainable future for themselves and their children. Put these trends together, and it’s no wonder…
Rise of the beer festivals; Bo & Luke on the way
I went to my first beer festival probably nine or 10 years ago, when the Fest of Ales was still young. It was quite an experience to be able to sample that many beers in one place, not to mention, there were plenty of brews I’d never tasted. Brew at the Zoo was next. And…
Return of the ghost peppers
Ghost peppers are a thing now, it seems, as I see more and more products hitting the market trumpeting that they contain ghost peppers, which are among the hottest peppers on the planet. Native to India, the pepper’s actual name is bhut jolokai, and at about one million Scoville units — the system of measurement…
Derby City Runners Club: Community through Fitness — or one run at a time
The Derby City Runners Club is a free runners club that meets four times a week: rain or shine, with a total of about 200 runs per year. It offers a great way for people to come together in the name of fitness to grow our community. The club started out with nine members in…
No country for dirty old men
Donald Trump is a reprobate. A lecherous, year-one baby-boomer, and a dispensary of a very particular brand of potent white poison. He’s the doted upon dote of affluence and nepotism, squeezed from the penis tip of a glorified slumlord, consummate racist and “old Adam” father, who reared and geared his hellish heir in the dark…
Why LEO took the Reader’s Choice Award away from Amiri King
Before this last weekend, I had never heard of the winner of our Readers’ Choice award for best comedian. I had not seen or heard him perform. I also didn’t know that, from now on, we will have to vet the winners of our awards. But here we are. It turns out that, like Donald…
Your Voice
on on leo’s readers’ choice awards 2016: best comedian, Amiri King … er, tom mabe? How about you address your support for rape-sympathizer Amiri King? — James Persh Hedges [Ed. note: We also find King repugnant. While we respect that a majority voted for him, we do not condone his commentary on Donald Trump’s video,…
