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10 Tasty Bourbons Not Made In Kentucky
This article is a part of the 2019 Bourbon Issue. For more, click here. One of these is not like the other. New Southern Revival Straight Bourbon Whiskey (High Wire Distillery, Charleston, South Carolina), with notes of roasted corn and hard fruit candy with a contrasting, long, peppery finish. A.D. Laws Four Grain Straight Bourbon…
10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (9/16)
MONDAY, Sept. 16 Metal Monday: Horseburner and Indighost Highlands Taproom No cover | 10 p.m. Horseburner (West Virginia) and Indighost (Tennessee) ride into town for a tour stop at Louisville’s weekly Metal Monday show. But this show might be a little different. Horseburner ascribes to the stoner metal genre, while Indighost describes itself as psychedelic…
Young Authors Greenhouse gets creative with youth writing programs
The nonprofit organization Young Authors Greenhouse wants to instill the art of writing in area students. While subjects such as math and science are generally given high priority in school, Jeannette Bahouth, who co-founded the organization with Hannah Rose Neuhauser in 2017, believes that creative writing is a skill that is as useful as any.…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (9/13)
FRIDAY, Sept. 13 Lung / Shellshag / Wombo Kaiju $10 | 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Lung (Daisy Caplan of Foxy Shazam fame and cellist Kate Wakefield) are “unlike any other band right now,” says LEO Music Editor Scott Recker — and he swears he’s not being hyperbolic. So, come see the powerhouse duo from Cincinnati, which…
Photos from The Venardos Circus at Waterfront Park
The Venardos Circus — a traveling, Broadway-style act — is a wholly human experience, as there are no animals in this circus. The performers sing, dance, launch each other into the air, juggle and make the crowd laugh. Ringmaster Kevin Venardos had been a “paid actor” in multiple circuses, including the Ringling Brothers, before he…
Louisville is Funny
Louisville is Funny is out to prove their name in their third-annual Tim Northern Comedy Festival, featuring local, regional and national comics sure to provide side-splitting evenings of stand-up acts. Featured comics include Louisville native Ryan Riker, whose “favorite target is himself;” Kentucky-born Misty Hines, a finalist in Southern Kentucky’s Got Talent; and Zach Wycyff,…
Place a bet on sports in Southern Indiana — here’s a guide
You can now gamble on basketball, football, baseball, mixed martial arts and other sports at two places in Southern Indiana. On Thursday, the Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino located along the Ohio River in Elizabeth, as well as a satellite location called Winner’s Circle Race • Sports • Pub in Clarksville, began taking action on sports…
One Park Is A Winner
“Why don’t we build Topgolf in your backyard!” was one of the regular responses I heard after expressing my support in this column for the Topgolf project at Oxmoor Mall. Well, the proposed “One Park” project by developer Kevin Cogan is close enough to where I live… at least, l would pass it every day…
Never Again! My Spanx Nightmare!
Before I get into this column, let me tell you: I don’t want to hear one thing about working out. I started with my trainer months ago, and all is going well. I have been wanting to write this for a while but kept putting it off until I saw my friend Sadiqa Reynolds post…
West Of Ninth: People, In Their Own Words…
Sept. 4, 2019 Vicki, from Chickasaw “I’ve been in The West End since 2006, and I haven’t had any problems. I’ve been down here a while, and I like it. I’m a suburb kid from out Westport Road. I was a little naive growing up out there. I didn’t know much about the buses and…
One Park Public Meeting Dates Set
Speak against or for Jefferson Development Group’s multi-use One Park development at the corner of Lexington Road and Grinstead Drive at two upcoming meetings. The big one, the planning commission meeting, is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 30 at the Kentucky International Convention Center at 6:30 p.m. — a time picked so that more of the…
Bernheim Needs You To Fight The Pipeline
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest’s lawyers are fighting hard to stop two projects that threaten its woodlands, but it also has a secret weapon that it hopes will start making an impact soon: You. There are several ways for you to help fight the Louisville Gas and Electric Co.’s natural gas pipeline and an Interstate…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Roses: The Mayor Knows His People A rose goes to Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky for just being. A rose also goes to Mayor Greg Fischer for this rejoinder after its 4Play Soiree fundraiser, which featured the always-popular vibrator races. As reported by LEO columnist Kelsey Westbrook: “Favorite moment from the Planned Parenthood Gala:…
Dr. Dundiff’s New Band Blends Jazz And Hip-Hop
Producer and multi-instrumentalist Dr. Dundiff’s new five-piece band blends jazz, neo-soul and hip-hop. SGJazz features Dundiff splitting his time behind the analog mixer and the drum kit, with Patrick Denney on bass, Idris Frederick on keys, Anthony Keenan on guitar and Noah Reed on saxophone and flute. The band’s self-titled debut is largely instrumental, and…
Three Concerts To Catch This Week
Lung Friday, Sept. 13 Kaiju The cello-and-drums duo Lung is one of the most explosive bands out there, mixing early Velvet Underground-like innovation with a White Stripes level of heart. The band’s rich, dark, driving songs rumble with an ominous and compelling power, experimentation and mysteriousness that recalls PJ Harvey. Although, it’s not hyperbole to…
Sonic Breakdown: Quality Cable — ‘Cavalcade’
LEO’s biweekly sonic breakdown column deconstructs a single song from an area musician or band. Quality Cable keyboardist William Lamkin said their song “Cavalcade” was, at one time, poised to be an ode to crustaceans. “We were dead set on it,” Lamkin laughed, “and maybe we should have.” But, the band went through a last-minute…
Revisiting Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera
The Look Back is an occasional column in which we dive into a notable album from a band or musician with a deep discography before they perform in Louisville. In the mid-to-late ‘60s and early ‘70s, when Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shooting off racist slogans like “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” white and…
Look For New In ‘Dracula’ (Still Spooky!) And ‘Ten Minute Plays’ In Spanish, A First-Ever Locally
“Dracula” may be an annual tradition at Actors Theatre of Louisville, but recent productions seem determined to ensure that audiences have a unique experience each year, even going so far as to change the endings we’ve come to expect for some of the characters. This year brought fresh takes on old scenes, as well as…
Comedian Gabe Kea: A Tadpole Named Queef?
Comedian Gabe Kea is 6 feet 5 inches tall. “It’s not all it’s cracked up to be,” he said of his height. “I have to change every light bulb in every room, everywhere I go.” He’s been bringing laughter to audiences in clubs, colleges and festivals across the country for the better part of two…
Alix E. Harrow: A Hugo Award and Other Doors Opening
For Berea’s Alix E. Harrow, this is a time to celebrate. Celebrate what? Well, she can take her pick. A couple weeks back, she received the vaunted Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Her winning work was “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” — a cute, socially conscious and uplifting…
Old School ‘Distillery’ At Locust Grove
This article is a part of the 2019 Bourbon Issue. For more, click here. Kentucky now welcomes about 1.5 million visitors each year who come specifically to see where and how bourbon is made (and maybe to drink some). Most distillery and museum tours mention how early Ohio Valley settlers brought their stills with them…
Distillery, Local Bars Team For Bourbonism
This article is a part of the 2019 Bourbon Issue. For more, click here. Ben Barker sees tourists in his bar at all stages of their bourbon journey: Before they embark on their tour of bourbon bars and distilleries, while they sop up their 1.75-ounce tasting samples with a solid lunch and then when they’re…
Biscuit Belly Boosts The Biscuit Trend
“The next wave of hot restaurants could be a basket full of biscuit concepts,” the trade journal Restaurant Business Magazine prophesied in 2016, focusing on Cracker Barrel’s planned biscuit-eatery spin-off Holler & Dash. Heck, it could have mentioned the Florida-based Maple Street Biscuit Co. chain, which opened in 2012, and even the West Virginia-based chain…
The Pine Room, Fine Dining For Veggies
Just 200 yards from the Ohio River but high enough to outlast at least a 50 year flood, The Pine Room has more than just a great view for vegetarians and those with gluten intolerance alike. TPR just celebrated its year anniversary, but the current menu and back-of-house team, Chef James Moran and Sous-Chef Joe…
Oktoberfest Beers: What Do You Know?
Fall is so close that we can taste it — the wet-hop harvest ales, pumpkin beers and that brew-tiful “fall in a glass” Oktoberfest beer. But, would you be surprised to learn that Oktoberfest isn’t actually a style of beer? And that the Oktoberfest beers we drink here are not the same as those most…
Ask Minda Honey: More Than a Fat Fetish — Advice for Dating While Fat
In a relationship or life jam? Send your questions to: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com or reach me on Facebook.com/AskMindaHoney Hi Minda, I found your response to my last question to be really helpful, so thank you! And thank you for considering my next question, which I suppose is a sort of continuation of that first one. So, I…
Savage Love: Open Wide
Q: My roommate is a gay man who is into getting fisted. A lot. We were FWBs until he moved into my place, at which point we agreed it would be better for us to not have sex anymore. It’s worked out fine, and he’s been here for a year. Here’s the problem: About two…
