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The story of the Louisville Outskirts Festival
Sitting down to meet with the women of the Outskirts Festival, there is an air of openness and kinship that puts you right at ease. In its second year, the Festival seeks to establish a safe and inclusive environment for women — trans, cis-gendered or non-gender-conforming individuals included. Like in many places, the women of…
Visually Speaking: This week’s art news and events
[The above image is “Cinco Etapas del Duelo: Denial” by James Robert Southard at Swanson Contemporary.] Art news The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft recently gave its first Art and Advocacy Award to Elmer Lucille Allen. She was granted $1,000 to donate to a community arts organization of her choice and she chose Wayside…
LEO Podcast #8: Allen Poe
Rapper Allen Poe swung by LEO’s office to talk with contributor Syd Bishop about upcoming material, Spotify, how he has worked to progress his live shows, the Wu-Tang Clan and the difference between a mixtape and an album. The LEO Podcast is weekly, with a new interview released every Friday, until we end the first…
5 things to do in Louisville this weekend
FRIDAY Diarrhea Planet, The Tommys, Brenda Zanzabar, 2100 S. Preston St. $10; 9 p.m. Four-guitar harmonies that have the hook-heavy characteristics of contemporary fuzz-punk, but also a clear fascination with metal, Diarrhea Planet may have the most marketable name in the Internet age. Where it once would have been tricky to get radio play or…
Barkeep Confessions: Why changing last call is a bad idea
Louisvillians have been all a flutter since Highlands Metro Councilman, Tom Owen, issued a knee-jerk, reactive proposal to solve the violence and vandalism issues plaguing some (cough – Cahoots – cough) area bars: Push last call at bars up to 2 a.m., rather than the current 4 a.m. ordinance. Local news outlets have taken to…
Disorderly conduct charges against Fairness Campaign activists dismissed, following KFB Ham Breakfast arrest
On Thursday morning, charges of disorderly conduct were dismissed for three Fairness Campaign activists who were arrested at the Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) Ham Breakfast on August 27. Chris Hartman, Carla Wallace and Sonja de Vries of the Fairness Campaign — which advocates for LGBTQ rights and works to dismantle racism — were taken into…
In one accord: more on West End gentrification
After last week’s LEO went to press, city officials that we reached out to regarding the Cedar Street development project in the Russell neighborhood responded. Jeana Dunlap from Develop Louisville said over email that the Urban Renewal Commission is the same as the Urban Renewal and Community Development Agency and that it is not, under…
Then and now: A conversation with Loudon Wainwright III
Forty-five years ago, the simply-titled “Loudon Wainwright III” came out. Fittingly enough, five years ago a massive retrospective (four CDs and a DVD), “40 Odd Years,” was released. Looking back didn’t mean not looking forward, though, as Wainwright continues to write and record, with 2014’s “Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet)” being the latest installment in…
b-sides: Diarrhea Planet
Trying to get ahold of Emmett Miller, guitarist and singer for the six-piece rock ensemble Diarrhea Planet, was no small feat. Calling just a little shy of the scheduled time, the phone went to voicemail. Miller called back about 45 minutes later, sheepishly reporting that he had missed his interview because of band practice. That’s…
Plugged In
WED Oct 7th 4th Street Live!: Lunchtime Live!; 11 a.m. 8Up: High Sounds with DJ Matt Anthony; 7:30 p.m. Alley Theater: Evil Dead – The Musical; 7:30 p.m. Baxters 942: Full Contact Karaoke; 10 p.m. Bearno’s (Highlands): Ryan Conroy; 8 p.m. Bistro 42: Live Entertainment Brownies (All Locations): Karaoke with French Kiss Prod.; 8 p.m.…
‘Luna Gale’ tackles the woes of social work
Workplace trauma. Vicarious traumatic stress. Harassment. Violence. Enormous case loads. Inadequate budgets. Low pay. Take a look at the peer-reviewed scholarly literature around the challenges facing child welfare social workers, and you may wonder why anyone would take on the job of advocating for helpless children and trying to shield them from abuse and neglect.…
Bryan Callen: Comic abroad
Bryan Callen is definitely a face you know after playing Bilson on “How I Met Your Mother,” appearing in “The Hangover” and “The Hangover II,” and ABC’s “The Goldbergs.” He was born in the Philippines and was moved all over the world growing up, living in India, Pakistan and Greece — before settling in Massachusetts…
Lipstick Wars: A poetry slam
Popular slam poet Rheonna Thorton is stepping off the stage and into a new role this weekend as she throws a slam of her own. “Lipstick Wars” features 15 fabulous female poets. Fellas can feel free to come cheer from the audience, but the stage and the mic will be ladies only. Thorton says she…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEKS TWIN PEEKS BRAM STOKERS DRACULA 1992; $17.98-38.98; R Better known in some circles as “Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula”, this is a far cry from the Lugosi standard, with Gary Oldman as The Count, Winona Ryder as his love interest(s), Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. But the real…
Speed Cinema: Back to basics
Back in the day — and you can pick what day that was — Louisville had an abundance of movie theaters. Downtown, especially on Fourth Street, was the place to see and be seen in the early 20th century. There was the Majestic, Mary Anderson (named for the Louisville silent film/stage actress Mary Anderson Navarro),…
Fontleroy’s: The buzz builds
To hear the buzz emanating from the local foodie blogosphere you might think that the newborn Fontleroy’s represents the second coming of Chef Georges Auguste Escoffier or somebody. They’ve got a point, too. There is a lot to like about Fontleroy’s. It’s Chef Allan Rosenberg’s latest venture, and he’s cheffed a string of winners with…
Over The 9 underwhelms
For the record, Over the 9, I want to love you. I’ve been waiting for that intoxicating moment when trendy restaurateurs would start taking up shop along the stretch of road west of 9th Street into Portland, where developers like Gil Holland have been screaming the gospel of cheap real estate and prosperity from dilapidated…
The new American… an alarming norm
It’s almost like a bad dream that none of us can awake from. It has happened again. In America, the most prosperous land on Earth, in the land with the most opportunity, people’s lives are cut short, almost daily, in mass shootings. We are not safe anywhere anymore. And this is no exaggeration; at school,…
‘Cardinal rule’ of journalism
Full disclosure, I am a University of Louisville fan and graduate of Indiana University. Since the oft-reported “bombshell” story started circulating late Friday evening, indicting the UofL men’s basketball program of a heinous, illegal scandal, the general consensus seems to be that — one way or another — this is not good for the program.…
Your Voice
On “Metro Council Votes to Fund West End Development” Very much on point. Why aren’t they Considering multi family or duplex or two unit per lot development that could bring income and density? Project Rebound didn’t work. All the cheapo infill of the past fifteen years is either boarded or falling down. Why is every…
