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Local MMA: A cage fight, a death… and regrets
[Photos by Kathryn Harrington] [This story has been updated to reflect the cause of death and that the fighter suffered from a heart condition.] Donshay White was sprawled on the floor of the cage. He covered his head with both hands as Ricky Muse sat on his belly, landing a couple tired blows until he…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (9/18)
MONDAY Game Knights Kaiju Free | 7 p.m. Test your board gaming skills (with the aid of beer and bourbon) at Game Knights. This weekly event, hosted by Nerd Louisville and Squire, of Book & Music Exchange (Highlands), provides a choice selection of board games for you to play with friends. Come early to ensure…
A Q&A with Woodcraft Artist Ali Muhammad
StoryWood Bowties (storywoodbowties.com) specializes in accessories created from historic wood, aka “wood with a story.” CEO Ali Muhammad said, “It was a way to give the wood purpose again.” LEO: What type of art do you make? Ali Muhammad: We make belts, cufflinks, bow ties and earrings out of wood from historic buildings. Not only…
The story behind a Louisville photographer’s exhibition featuring David Crosby
Jeffery Parrish met David Crosby at Harbour Island in the Bahamas in 1988. Parrish was managing a small dive shop, while the recently-sober rock star was on vacation, piecing his life together after battling an addiction that landed him in jail. They randomly ran into each other one day, and Parrish asked Crosby if he…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (9/15)
FRIDAY Smoketown GetDown for Democracy 735 Lampton St. Free | 4-10 p.m. Block party! Of the people, by the people and for the people, this block party is your place for local food, dance, music, family-friendly activities, Magbooth, a live art wall and beer!.. which is actually of and by West Sixth Brewery, but it’s…
Finding the value of theater, 10 minutes at a time
Onstage there is a man strapped to a chair. A sexy nurse is grinding in his face, while a doctor with a clipboard looks on and takes notes. What began as a realistic, but tense, circumstance has devolved into a satirical take on the morals espoused by the anti-LGBTQ crowd. We’re watching “An Invasive Procedure”…
LMPD helped immigration agents
As law enforcement officers chatted outside his apartment complex, Mauro Perez-Perez huddled in the corner of his living room with his children, his couch a makeshift barricade across the apartment door. Earlier that morning in April, Perez-Perez, 37, fled federal officers as they tried to stop and question him outside. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best & Most Absurd
Screw the west end… again! | Thorn To keep parking free at Waterfront Park, a board member suggests using money meant for extending the park into The West End. Councilwoman Barbara Sexton Smith said it would put the project’s future at risk. “And why in the world would we do that on the back of…
The long, winding journey of guitar mastermind Mdou Moctar
Three days marching across the Sahara to Libya, a roughly 1,000-mile journey through the scorched desert landscape. This is just a snapshot of the life-changing trek that 31-year-old Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar made two decades ago. After his father’s death in 1997, the young musician left his home of Abalak, Niger, without an…
Jimmy Can’t Dance, a new downtown jazz club
Brian Goodwin wants to breathe new life into the jazz community. His new jazz club, Jimmy Can’t Dance, opened Aug. 19, downtown in the basement of the Another Place Sandwich Shop on Seventh Street. A Louisville ex-pat, Goodwin currently lives in Austin, Texas. He worked here for a month prior to the opening to get…
Dear Patti Smith
I’ve been reading your newest book, “Devotion.” I had gone into the bookstore for something else entirely when I noticed that you had something new. I couldn’t help but finger through the pages, taking in random paragraphs. Your last two books have meant so much to me, which is a bit of a funny thing…
‘Ten-Tucky Festival,’ ingenious, uniformly high quality
There was a fair amount of consternation and regret when Actors Theatre of Louisville announced earlier this year that it was discontinuing its National Ten-Minute Play Contest. It had been a fixture of the season since 1989, and the company’s history of systematically supporting short plays dates back years before that. Still, ATL’s rationale made…
Comedian Dan Frigolette: ‘We don’t need another reason to talk about our dick’
Have you noticed that every time someone mentions speaking in public, someone inevitably dusts off the old adage: “Imagine the audience in their underwear.” Well, Dan Frigolette doubled down on that advice and recorded his debut album Naked and Amused in front of a crowd of nudists. The setting fits Frigolette, a New York-based comic…
Kentucky Opera 2017-18: Season opens with opera within an opera
Let’s see… how to explain this? Kentucky Opera opens its 2017-18 season Friday, Sept. 15, and Sunday, Sept. 17 at The Brown Theatre with a new production of the Richard Strauss opera “Ariadne auf Naxos,” which is actually an opera within an opera. Or an opera about presenting an opera at a present-day gala event…
Lydia House, tasty heritage and sensual pleasure
If you held a magical mystery mirror up to Louisville’s historic Germantown-Schnitzelburg neighborhood in hope of perceiving what’s going on in this changing community, the chances are the image that first appeared would be Lydia House. Why Lydia House? Consider its history. The sturdy, two-story frame building was born more than a century ago as…
Chicken at a roast beef joint?
I’m one of those weird people who, if forced to eat at Arby’s for some reason (it’s rare), orders a chicken sandwich. Or chicken tenders. I’m just not a fan of the Arby’s mystery meat. Of course, this reminds me of when Arby’s first came to this market when I was a kid; my parents…
Ask Minda Honey: Bartender flirting woes
In a relationship or life jam? Lemme unstuck your life: AskMindaHoney@leoweekly.com. Minda, So, I am really lucky in that I have a great job at a bar in town, which means I interact with tons of attractive women all the time. I never explicitly hit on my customers — that’s not cool — but when…
Savage Love: Girls and Women and Sex
Q: My teenage daughter just came out to us as gay. We told her we love her and support her. As a heterosexual, cisgender mother, how do I make sure she gets good advice about sex? I don’t want her learning from other kids or porn. Do you know of any good, sex-positive advice books…
40 acres and a mule: What reparations look like 152 years later
So… I wrote a list of actions. So let’s call this list The Calls to Action. I mean, I think I should be the one to give it a proper title, right? The Calls to Action, ran in LEO on Aug. 16, traversed the internet via the Alt-Right and became the most threatening list of…
Three strikes for mayor… sanctuary now
Mayor Greg Fischer is disingenuous. He claims to support our immigrant population but refused to declare Louisville a sanctuary city after President Trump was elected and then again following the revocation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. So now we learn that Louisville police have been assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents…
Yanks like farting royals, Gov. Bevin subjugates women…
Exciting news from Blighty, eh? Don’t tell me, M has demanded that you return home permanently, with immediate effect and on pain of death? I understand that my Bond-like good looks and debonair charm might lead anyone to think that I’m a licensed-to-kill snoop. But if intelligence gathering and bumping off the Queen’s enemies was…
Bronze-and-marble man-life
I cruised down to the Speed on Friday and caught a screening of “Funeral Parade of Roses.” It was real sweet, almost as sweet as the block of Cupcakke videos I watched on YouTube directly afterwards. Cupcakke, she’s not holding back — she’s existing on a level of beautiful self-expression I’d like to reach one…
Amazon, here’s our request
Hey Amazon, thanks in advance if you are considering Louisville as your second North American headquarters. Your company profile is certainly impressive, and any city should be honored to gain your interest and attention. We already have a working relationship. But before we proceed, it is important that you understand our city. As such, here…
