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Being Beer In A Bourbon Town
Cheers! This is one of our stories in our annual Beer Issue. For more coverage, click here. “The spirit of the city.” In just five, short words, that catchphrase from the Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau explains how vital bourbon has become to Louisville. Yet, it was just a little over five years ago when…
A review and photos of Wu-Tang Clan at Old Forester’s Paristown Hall
[Photos by Nik Vechery] I’ve gotta be real: I was not hyped for this show. Don’t get me wrong, I fucking love the Wu-Tang, but it’s been a long couple of weeks, and I was not about to sit around on hip-hop time until the wee hours. But when they came out to “Bring Da…
Watch the horror rock band Prayer Line’s gory new video for ‘Drink The Blood’
Right in time for slasher binge watching season, the horror-movie-worshiping rock band Prayer Line has released a gory, new video for “Drink The Blood,” the self-titled song off their debut album that was released earlier this year. The video contains the sort of stuff that you would expect from these guys: A cult leader and…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (10/21)
Monday, Oct. 21 Pizza Lupo’s Garlic Celebration! Pizza Lupo No cover | 7-11 p.m. If garlic didn’t cling to your breath like a Titanic survivor to a lifeboat, it’d be the perfect seasoning. Pizza Lupo’s owners, like any good Italian restaurateurs, are well aware of this. So, they’ve devised this evening of garlic love, featuring…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (10/18)
Friday, Oct. 18 Flux In Focus: ‘Night of the Living Dead’ 1619 Flux: Art + Activism Free | 6:30-9:30 p.m. Get your classic zombie attack on at Flux with an “interactive screening” of George Romero’s seminal, 1968 “Night Of The Living Dead,” complete with a costume party! It is all about “food, film, fellowship,” organizers…
But, Bevin’s Emails…
Seldom am I more frustrated than when I agree with Gov. Matt Bevin. Hopefully, this will be the last time. Last week, an email slamming Bevin’s challenger for governor, Attorney General Andy Beshear, was sent to public school teachers through their school email addresses. Teachers were rightfully outraged, but for the wrong reason. More on…
You Will Never Know Why The Public Isn’t Shocked
So, this is it, eh? Old man Trump finally did himself in, tied his own rope, stepped in his own shit, buttered his own bagel. We’ve heard from congressional Democrats for three long years that we must wait for public opinion to shift before any impeachment proceedings may begin, because God forbid the opposition party…
Bevin’s Credit Card… Trump’s Achievement
Extraordinary, and extraordinarily amusing, to see Bevin flail so desperately, isn’t it? Yes and no. It does tickle my funny bone, but it’s not a shock. He’s the least popular governor in the country, loathed by his own state government, barely scraped past an unknown Kenneth Parcell-alike in the primary and wears a tie with…
U-God On ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’
In early November 1993, the Wu-Tang Clan released their debut, the seminal Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Now on tour to celebrate 25 years of Wu-Tang, the hip-hop luminaries’ legacy has continued to evolve, from their rich solo careers, to documentaries and now to a bio-series on Hulu. But it all started with nine members…
The Midnight Hour’s new album marries jazz and hip-hop
Adrian Younge, a multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles, is a prolific composer and producer. And on his latest project, an orchestral collective called The Midnight Hour, Younge teams up with A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad to create a sound that pays homage to the Harlem Renaissance, while forging new avenues for his signature analog…
Jim James, Teddy Abrams Join For Live Album
Through the years, My Morning Jacket’s spacey, sweeping psych-rock has built a vast atmosphere around Jim James’ reverb-soaked vocals, so, in some ways, it’s not really surprising to see him team up with an orchestra. Of course, a giant classical accompaniment is much different than a five-piece rock band, but The Order Of Nature, a…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Thorn: City’s Homeless ‘Shell Game’ Buried 10 paragraphs into a Courier Journal story about our homeless people is this obscenely honest remark from the city official who is supposed to be helping them: “We are odd in how we fund things,” Eric Friedlander, city director of Resilience and Community Services, told the CJ. “We fund…
Vandalism, Political Graffiti: A Focus On Louisville’s Response
First came messages of “Resist 45” painted on billboards and highway overpasses, just after the Trump election, and then paint was splashed onto the statue of former Confederate John B. Castleman. Most recently, “Crazy Bernie Sucks” was painted on an Interstate 64 overpass as he visited the city. Josh White, a graffiti abatement advocate, told…
‘Measure for Measure’: Shakespeare With Modern Resonance
Nearly six years ago, Fiasco Theater in New York opened a celebrated production of “Measure for Measure” that breathed 21st century life into the classic Shakespeare play. Its production garnered national reviews and was such a success that Noah Brody and Ben Steinfield, now co-artistic directors at Fiasco, have decided to bring the show to…
Laugh For Teacher: Comedian Chastity Washington’s Two Lives
By day, Chastity Washington is a teacher. By night (and weekends), she is a professional comedian who tours nationwide. Nothing incongruous about that. “Children are hilarious — flat out. The things that upset them: They will kill each other over skipping in line,” she told LEO. Washington has appeared on BET’s “ComicView” and HBO’s “Def…
Our Favorite Local, Fall Beers
Cheers! This is one of our stories in our annual Beer Issue. For more coverage, click here. Autumn is a season that brings with it the promise of change — change already reflected in the increasingly darker brew options. Prost! 3rd Turn Brewing Beer Flavored Gun Boobs — Full stop: This is the best name…
Louisville Ballet Resident Choreographer Takes On Mahler, Afterlife
Choreographer Andrea Schermoly had envisioned a dance based on a story of a child who dies too young. When Robert Curran, the company’s artistic and executive director, asked her to create a piece with the title “at High,” her story and dance had a home. For more than a month now, the Los Angeles-based Schermoly…
Instruments of Holocaust Victims Showcase Power, Beauty Of Human Spirit
For two decades, Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli luthier, has been tracking down and restoring violins that were owned and played by Jewish musicians who were killed during the Holocaust. Weinstein has now gathered and made whole more than 50 violins — instruments that survived the horrors their owners did not. That collection — dubbed “Violins…
Shirley Mae’s Puts The Soul In Soul Food
Soul food and soul music go back to the ‘50s and ‘60s when the civil rights movement burst into the national conscience and with it “black power” and “black pride.” Shirley Mae’s came along a bit later, in 1988, but this Smoketown landmark remains as one of the best places in Louisville to enjoy seriously…
Louisville’s Shandy Mastery
There’s a drink on the cocktail menu of the bar I’ve worked at for many years called the “Sunset.” It’s a mix of peach vodka, coconut rum, banana liqueur and three fruit juices. Fairly basic, but it gets the job done, and it’s aptly named — the juices are layered so the drink looks a…
Savage Love: Impossible Standards
Q: I’m a Seattle local who basically grew up reading your column. I think you’ve always given really sound advice, so I’m reaching out. My boyfriend and I have been together for two years. We started out poly, but I was clear from the start that when I fall in love with someone, I lose…
