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The Winners Of The 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards
Who won? All y’all are a consistent bunch. LEO’s 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards leaned heavy on the usual gems, go-tos and glitterati that make this town so faab-you-lous. We have great restaurants and bars and attractions, and, well — they don’t change much year to year. There were a few surprises. LMPD gets on the…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (10/7)
MONDAY, Oct. 7 Family History Fair Filson Historical Society Free | 4-6:30 p.m. Curious about your family’s background? All the resources you need to uncover your past will be in one place at the Filson Historical Society’s Family History Fair. The Louisville and Kentucky Genealogical societies will be there, as well as UofL Archives &…
10 Concerts You Shouldn’t Miss In October
Boa (Album Release) Friday, Oct. 4 Zanzabar Boa, the local, three-piece psych-rock band, has found their sound on Someplace Special, the new album they’re set to release at this show. The harmonies and the atmosphere of these songs are so much more dense and ambitious than last time around, delivering a solid leap in their…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (10/4)
FRIDAY, Oct. 4 Whitehall has Bluegrass Whitehall House & Gardens Prices vary | 6-9 p.m. Amongst the carefully-curated gardens of the Whitehall mansion, the three Whiskey Bent Valley Boys will play their Kentucky folk music, including ballads, sea shanties and swamp stomps. Bun’s Smokehouse BBQ, Monnik Beer Co., Morris Deli, Steel City Pops and the…
‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ an outcast’s story of a virtual lie powerfully told
“Dear Evan Hansen,” with its story of a high schooler with painful social anxiety facing his senior year and trying to make friends, makes a poignant production as PNC Broadway in Louisville’s series opener at the The Kentucky Center. From the early moments as Evan Hansen, Stephen Christopher Anthony engenders enormous sympathy as he fidgets…
Where are the sober queer spaces in Louisville? They’re here, and they’re growing.
Spencer Jenkins’ first entrance to LGBTQ-friendly spaces was centered around gay bars. “I was partying so much, because I thought that’s what queer life was, basically,” Jenkins, 30, said candidly on a sunny September day in NuLu. “I thought it was bar life, doing drugs, drinking, sex, all that kind of stuff.” Jenkins’ experience is…
5 Expert Tips About Home Buying and Refinancing
Story By Class Act Federal Credit Union From Yvonne Overstreet, Mortgage Lending Manager at Class Act Federal Credit Union You can refinance your home to pay for other expenses and save on interest. Refinancing your mortgage and “cashing out” is a creative way you can use home equity to finance things such as home improvement,…
Readers’ Choice 2019 Staff Choices
LEO’s readers voted in the Readers’ Choice Awards, but we didn’t want you to have all of the fun. Here are LEO’s Staff Favorites Awards. My Favorite Way To Avoid A Screaming Baby Running errands… to Costco I wish I could claim the gym (maybe I’ll start next week). Obviously, the golf course is great for…
Is Bardstown Road Hurting?
Bardstown Road, which has been the cultural heart of Louisville for years, is hurting. Crime, drug use, panhandling and poor traffic flow, among other ailments, are leading the decline of this vital corridor. That is not just me saying it. Neighborhood residents, small business owners and even the council member, Brandon Coan, from that district…
GOP Must Join Dems To Save Democracy
But Obama. But Hillary. But Hunter Biden. But no quid pro quo. But hearsay. That’s what we have heard for the last week from Republican officials in response to the clear and compelling evidence that President Trump asked a foreign government to help smear his political opponent. To all of them, I ask: But what…
Bardstown Road And Noshing A Titfer For Bevin
Tough times ahead for you, my vertically challenged china. As Guy Garvey sang, I’m from a long line of survivors, so I live for the moment. I’m not sure why you think there might be tough times ahead for me when your physique, if it can be called that, screams accident waiting to happen. That’s…
Be Like Bob — A Mediocre White Man
Meet Bob. Bob is a M.W.M. better known as a Mediocre White Man. Bob doesn’t believe that he is mediocre. In fact, Bob believes that he is the Master of the Universe. When Bob wakes up in the morning, Bob doesn’t think about being bloated from eating three slices of pizza and drinking two glasses…
City To Vapers: Stop Or You May Get Sick
Stop all kinds of vaping, THC and nicotine products included, because they could make you sick, city officials warned Monday. “The outbreak does not just involve products with THC bought on the black market,” said Sarah Moyer, the city’s director for the Department of Public Health and Wellness. “Investigators have not been able to narrow…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Thorn: Corruption In Diplomacy? Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr told NPR that President tRump’s conversation with the Ukranian president was “routine diplomacy.” He also really said this: “Corruption is a routine part of American diplomacy with respect to Eastern Europe,” Barr said. “The president here is doing his job.” Doing his job by being corrupt.…
The Sharp Perspectives And Creative Expansions Of Lucy Dacus
After a quick rise in 2016, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus now has two strong LPs to her credit, as well as an EP with the supergroup boygenius, a trio that includes Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. We recently caught up with Dacus by phone to discuss The Boss, her third album that’s in-progress and the current…
The Weeks and two other concerts to catch this week
Mdou Moctar Wednesday, Oct. 2 Zanzabar Mdou Moctar is one of the leading performers of adding modern twists and turns to Tuareg guitar music. With electronic elements and pop sensibilities, he has introduced many Americans to a style that usually doesn’t get a lot of promotion or attention in the United States. He’s both a…
Boa Finds Their Sound On Someplace Special
For a lot of people in their early 20s, as their world widens, they start to reflect and contexualize where they came from. That’s where the three-piece psych-rock band Boa is at on their second album, Someplace Special, which will be released on Friday, Oct. 4 via a show at Zanzabar. “Growing up, you don’t…
Kathleen Lolley Explores Botanical Surrealism
A multimedia visual artist, Kathleen Lolley transports the viewer into fantasy worlds that blur the line between human, plant and animal. Selected as one of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest’s 2019 artists-in-residence, she will use her art and passion for exploration to help promote its mission of “connecting people with nature.” Lolley spoke with us…
Comic Book Reviews: ‘Spider-Man’ No. 1 and ‘Frogcatchers’
‘Spider-Man’ No. 1 Writers J. J. Abrams, Henry Abrams and artist Sara Pichelli Review by Krystal Moore, The Great Escape Louisville Nick Lowe, the editor of this title, wrote in 2004 that he came up with an idea of having his favorite non-comic writers write comics. This was the beginning of, what in 2019, would…
Trouble Bar Delights
Nicole Stipp and Kaitlyn Soligan Owens have lovingly referred to their baby, Trouble Bar, as the “Rainbow Palace of Whiskey Dreams,” and, in truth, it’s not hard to see why. Upon entering, you step into the historic bones of the Shelby Park building and into an envelopment of floor-to-ceiling exposed brick, and while the furniture…
The Table Tastes Great And Does Good
Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing if every restaurant followed the pay-what-you-can model of The Table in Portland? What if Vincenzo’s or Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse, for example, made its menu pricing variable depending on what the diner could afford? Or offered creative alternatives such as putting in a few hours serving tables or helping out…
Savage Love: Bad Guys
Q: I met a guy right around the time my boyfriend dumped me. I met him on a dating site, but he was really only interested in my boobs and me giving him head. I really like having him in my life and he’s very attractive, but he won’t do anything with me other than…
