October 21, 2020
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COVID-19 brings more need, bigger strains to local food pantries
It was the first time the woman had ever visited the St. Matthews Area Ministries food pantry, and she was shaking, Julie Abbott noticed. “I’ve never had to do this; I don’t want to be doing this,” Abbott recounted her saying. Abbott is the executive director of St. Matthews Area Ministries, which also provides rent…
Pressure on Attorney General Cameron continues on 150th day of protest
A group of around 100 protesters gathered outside of Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s house on Saturday night, marking the 150th day of protests in Louisville over the killing of Breonna Taylor by police in March. Though Cameron announced in September that the grand jury would not charge any of the officers involved for the killing…
How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (10/26)
MONDAY, Oct. 26 LMPD Survey Anywhere Any time A consulting company is conducting a top-to-bottom review of the Louisville Metro Police Department, and it wants your input. You can take the survey at the link above. Responses are anonymous, and you have until tomorrow at 11:45 p.m. to submit your thoughts. “This survey focuses on…
How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This Weekend (10/23)
SATURDAY, Oct. 24 What KY Women Leaders Can Tell Us About Equity in the Workplace Online Free | 9 a.m.-11 a.m. A virtual panel of women leaders coming from a range of fields, including government, the nonprofit sector and academia, will discuss “advances made by women in the professional world and systemic obstacles that must…
Savage Love: Don’t give up
Q: Borrowing Gen Z’s love for labelling everything, I’m a 46-year-old, homoromantic, asexual, Canadian faggot. For me that means I’d like to love and be loved by another man, but I’d hate having sex with him. To add a vexing complication, I also need some sort of power imbalance. Ideally, I would fall somewhere between…
Think you know ‘Macbeth’? Drive-in version startles audience
“Scotland Underground is your only choice for news of the apocalypse.” A few years back, Kentucky Shakespeare established an October tradition of using alternative strategies to create disruptive and innovative theatrical experiences like a couple of astonishing productions of the blood-soaked “Titus Andronicus” and radio broadcasts of Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” and a…
Why I started a record label during a pandemic
Of all the things I do in life, making music is what I take the most pride in. Composing is about the act of creation — discovering something transformative or meditative. For me, music is about the moments that never repeat, just as much as it is about a solid hook or clever lyric. It’s…
Cochinita pibil at Mayan Cafe, an amazing Yucatán dish
Cochinita pibil. These two Spanish words — one common, the other not so much — offer us a bright light into both the Mayan cuisine of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula and neighboring Guatemala and into one of Louisville’s favorite south-of-the-border restaurants, Mayan Cafe. So what’s a cochinita pibil? A little pig — that’s the easy part.…
Gov. Beshear offered ‘self-quarantine’ unemployment, now state is backtracking — and billing people
Tracey Hayes was working as a retail merchandiser in March, arranging products on store shelves around Glasgow to promote sales, when she decided she couldn’t risk exposing her mother to the coronavirus or handle child care for her two children by herself. Hayes had been watching Gov. Andy Beshear’s daily coronavirus briefings, and she was…
‘Hillbilly Hustle’ forges new Appalachian territory
“Hillbilly Hustle” by Wesley Browne (West Virginia University Press; 264 pages, $19.99) The story of semi-lovable losers who are stuck in Appalachia? The kind who seem like they might get out and achieve their dreams, but then some family member gets hooked on hard drugs or the sole remaining local factory announces layoffs and all anyone…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best And Most Absurd (10/21)
Thorn: Appoint a special prosecutor It seems Attorney General Daniel Cameron lied. After claiming grand jurors heard evidence in Breonna Taylor’s killing, one now says: “The grand jury did not have homicide offenses explained to them. … Questions were asked about additional charges and the grand jury was told there would be none because prosecutors…
Do your job, Tom Wine: Investigate the search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s home
On Oct. 7, the Louisville Metro Police Department’s Public Integrity Unit , or PIU, released its file on the Breonna Taylor case. The police’s internal investigation concluded that Det. Joshua Jaynes, the officer who obtained the search warrant for Taylor’s home, made “misleading” statements to the presiding judge. The PIU detectives thought Jaynes’ actions should…
McGrath got my vote at the debate
To everyone’s surprise, ?I’m voting for Amy McGrath, Marine and mom… plus, Mitch McConnell has been in the U.S. Senate for too long. That is how McConnell described McGrath’s strategy to unseat him. He quipped at the (one-and-only) Kentucky Senate debate, “I think her entire campaign is she’s a Marine, she’s a mom and I’ve been…
The Trump card is all McGrath has left
In the only debate of their race, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and Amy McGrath painted very different pictures of the incumbent, on whom the election is essentially a referendum. The Senate majority leader, seeking a seventh six-year term, portrayed himself Monday night as a supremely accomplished practitioner of politics who gives Kentucky an advantage when…
