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As of July 25, the 59th day of protests, LMPD had made 519 arrests, including some people arrested more than once. But what has happened to these protesters since being taken in by the police? Each story is different, of course, but in last week’s issue writer Cary Stemle caught up with six people who have been arrested during the protests, to find out about each person’s experience and the charges they face. Go to leoweekly.com to read the story under the In Case You Missed It section of the homepage.

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ON: EDITOR’S NOTE, A GOP PLAN TO BEAT MITCH MCCONNELL

I certainly wish them luck. At this point, Mitch has a campaign war chest that equals the wealth of small countries. The Lincoln Project and others better start flooding local airwaves with antiMitch and defeat-Trump ads because Amy McGrath needs all the media assistance she can get. She’s what Dems have... but she sure ain’t ready for prime time against a dirty, old fox like Mitch.

—Susan Gorsen USA politics sounds and looks like a B-series movie that flopped.

—Yan Chatel Yan Chatel, some of it depends on the state. Here in Kenfucky, where most of the state is super conservative and religious, people like Mitch win by yelling Jesus and god and abortion. —Austin Weber

ON: THE OCCUPY NULU ACTION, WHY WE SHOULD CARE AND NOT LET HISTORY REPEAT

As a former resident of this area and one who believes we need a great deal of change, this article deeply disappoints. Mainly the anonymity. Such cowardice. I’ll stop here. If LEO wants the community to engage in everything that is wrong about the gentrification of Clarksdale and how NuLu should correct those sleights, then step forward, out of the shadows. —Jeff Noble Gentrification is a good thing. Neighborhoods should have a mix of people. Gentrification also reduces crime and offers locals more job opportunities as businesses and restaurants open.

—Jake Sorenson A lot of white people here who don’t want to consider how the system is made for them and them alone. —Aron Conaway Shameful far-left “news.” —Greg Brown Greg Brown, do you understand what an alt-weekly is? If you don’t want to pick up a free copy, no one is forcing you to.

And do you realize that engaging with the weekly’s Facebook posts makes it more likely for more and more of them to show up in your feed? Opinion pieces and editorials are a part of journalism. Eat it, cowboy. —Matt Taylor

ON: FOR GRIEF-STRICKEN WEST LOUISVILLE, HOPE MAY LOOK LIKE A GROCERY

... Until you solve the crime problem, you will never have a company want to build a grocery store there. I do not see where there is anything in any city’s charter or constitution that allows them to take taxpayer money to build a grocery store. Where are all of the Black, multimillionaire athletes and movie actors? Why aren’t they building grocery stores in these communities? —Dick Wood You’re an ignorant piece of crap and most likely a troll, with a name like “Dick Wood” —Aderrika S. Cummings

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FANS AT THE DERBY?! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

By Aaron Yarmuth | ayarmuth@leoweekly.com SIX MONTHS into the coronavirus pandemic, one would expect our elected leaders to have a better understanding of how to protect us.

Unfortunately, they seem more lost today than they were when it started. Even our reassuring Gov. Andy Beshear seems lost — stuck between choosing proven safety protocols and a Trumpian perspective that the virus will just go away.

How can you explain Beshear’s exhortations that rules and protocols are gravely serious, but then he allows the big moneymaking events to go on?

Gatherings of 10 people or more are prohibited, but a national street rod convention can converge on the Fairgrounds, drawing over 12,000 cars from around the country; restaurants can operate at 50% of capacity, but the Oldham County Fair was open to the public… rides, shows, competitions — everything but the agriculture, floral and arts exhibits .

Is Beshear ignoring what he knows needs to be done just to appease the freedom-first nuts who think wearing a mask is akin to taking away their guns?

What about the Derby?

Churchill Downs announced a plan that will allow 23,000 fans to attend under enhanced health and safety measures that include a temperature check at the gate, a mask requirement and a “Healthy at the Track” bag with personal hand sanitizer, mask and stylus to operate the self-serve betting kiosks.

Sounds like a party!

“At its essence, the Kentucky Derby is as much about the people, the fans, the community and our traditions as it is about the horse race itself,” wrote Churchill Downs CEO Bill Carstanjen in a Courier Journal op-ed.

His hypocritical, community-first message ignores the fact that he and the track are inviting thousands of people to Louisville for an entire weekend. The safety protocols won’t protect the rest of us while visitors are here for the race. Carstanjen is doing everything he can to salvage something, anything from his golden goose — in the interests of Churchill Downs and its stockholders, not the community. We’re watching the NBA, MLB, NHL and PGA all play without fans,

and Carstanjen expects us to believe that Churchill can more safely manage a Derby crowd? Golf won’t allow fans, outside, across properties spanning at least 150 acres or more.

Why would I be so cynical about Churchill’s motives? Carstanjen cited the “Greatly reduced guest capacity … across our nearly 200 acre facility.” We know Bill isn’t being genuine in his community-first PR pitch because he knows damn well that the 23,000 fans will not be strewn across that property. They will be in boxes and suites.

But, in his defense, it’s not his job to worry about the health and safety of the community outside of the track. It’s Beshear’s job to look after us.

When the Indy 500 announced it would run without fans, that should have been the signal — or political cover — Beshear needed to make the call on behalf of Churchill Downs: There will be no fans at The Derby this year.

So, what’s the most important reason, in the public’s interest, for the Derby to run with fans? The economic boost, right? Over

$400 million in economic activity, locally, according to Louisville Tourism.

Well, a crowd of 23,000 is a measly 15% of last year’s 150,000 fans. On top of that, restaurants will be at 50% capacity and bars will operate under early closing times.

The worst part is: Of those who would insist on coming to The Derby — “I ain’t afraid of no virus, I’m going to have my fun and bourbon” — some will bring the virus, and they will leave it here when they go home. Add it all up: Allowing this reducedfan Derby could end up costing the city and state more than the meager economic activity Churchill is chasing. Run the Derby just like the Belmont ran it — without fans.

The Big Ten and Pac 12 football conferences have canceled their football seasons, and pressure is on the ACC, SEC and others.

What?! No college football?!

Perhaps then, once the sacred cow of American sports is canceled, the reassuring Beshear will return.

This isn’t a hard call to make: Beshear needs to announce that no fans will be allowed at the Derby, so don’t bother coming to Louisville. •

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I HAVE ALWAYS WORKED downtown and lived in the suburbs. I’ve always loved downtown. About four years ago I decided to move to The Henry Clay building downtown. I wanted to be where the action is — in the middle of business, commerce and entertainment. I wanted to wake up in the morning and go to bed at night in the middle of it all. Waking up to the sound of traffic and activity was my caffeine. I walked to work, restaurants, ball games and theaters.

I have loved it here.

But in late May, all the reasons I moved here went away.

It’s as quiet as a tomb.

No rush hour, no buzz, barely a restaurant or coffee shop available.

Plywood everywhere.

I did what our city leaders wanted us to do — I committed to downtown.

But now what?

During the last 10 weeks, I’ve seen the worst of humankind but also the best of humankind. On May 29, the building in which I live was looted, and fires were set outside my living room window. Scary and despicable.

But I’ve had the privilege of walking to Jefferson Square and being around the protesters and their activities and have seen some spectacular, beautiful people pushing for a very important and just cause.

So, my heart breaks for down-

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town’s current emptiness. Yet, I also feel blessed for living downtown and seeing personally and up close the protests and other activities for the cause of racial justice.

I moved here to be in the middle of the action. That action of downtown, tragically, is now on life support.

But I’ve been enriched to be so close to the protesters, to meet them, to talk with them.

And, frequently, I have been intellectually and spiritually challenged to look inwardly at my own prejudices while also, at times, struggling to understand the situations of others.

People often ask me if I regret living here or if I might move away.

While it’s very painful and sad to see my neighborhood looted, vandalized and become less safe — I would not trade this experience.

I pity many in the suburbs who only read about it or watch it on TV and then shake their heads and say: “I’ll never go downtown.”

Those words sadden me. Now is not the time to turn our backs on downtown. It needs us like never before.

As the old saying goes — you can’t be a suburb of nothing. • Dan Hartlage is a principal with Guthrie/Mayes Public Relations.

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So, my heart breaks for downtown’s current emptiness. Yet, I also feel blessed for living downtown and seeing personally and up close the protests and other activities for the cause of racial justice.

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HOAX OR HEALTHY? ‘WEAR A MASK BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT ANYONE TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH WHAT I WENT THROUGH’

By Al Cross | leo@leoweekly.com NORMAN CHAFFINS and Donnie Keeton probably never expected to see their name in a column about Kentucky politics. But they’re elected officials who have done the right thing when it comes to the coronavirus, and they and their kind should be exalted.

Chaffins, a Republican, is the sheriff of Grayson County, in West-Central Kentucky.

Keeton, a Democrat, is a magistrate in Morgan County, in Eastern Kentucky. They both got the virus, and they went above and beyond the call of duty, telling others about it.

And they think we should all be wearing masks, probably the biggest single thing we can do to thwart the virus and its COVID-19 disease — but something that has become way too controversial and politicized, just like so much else about the pandemic.

After recounting his COVID horrors in a Facebook post, Chaffins, 51, wrote, “I’m telling you this because I want you to wear your mask. Not because I am the sheriff, not because the governor said so, and not because the business tells you to. I want you to wear a mask because I do not want anyone to have to go through what I went through. I want you to wear a mask because I don’t want my kids or grandbabies to get sick. I want you to wear a mask because it’s just the right thing to do. It may not 100% guarantee that you won’t contract it, but wearing a mask will certainly reduce your chances. Please understand this: I am not telling you to wear a mask. We are not going to fine you or insist that you wear a mask.

As your friend, I am asking you to wear a mask when you are around others and when you go out into public at least until there is a vaccine.”

Chaffins, a former state trooper, published 929 words on July 12. Keeton, a disabled heavy-equipment operator, kept his July 16 post simple, but in white type on a red background: “For those who don’t think COVID-19 is real, it is. I tested positive…

Sue hasn’t got her results yet.” (His wife tested negative.)

Yes, Keeton knew people who didn’t think the virus was real, he told me: “They think it’s all about the election, or it’s going to be over after the election.”

That’s what happens when a president

politicizes public health, downplays a deadly pandemic and uses Twitter to peddle conspiracy theories and quack medicine, apparently in an effort to so confuse Americans that they don’t know what to believe.

Keeton, 52, told me he voted for Trump because “it’s kind of hard to go with the national Democratic Party right now,” but he had the president’s words in mind when he told his local newspaper, the Licking Valley Courier, “It’s not a hoax, and it’s probably not going away anytime soon.”

Trump implied Feb. 28 that the pandemic, or Democrats’ criticism of his response to it, was Democrats’ “new hoax” after their failed impeachment of him. He walked that back, but Keeton told me that the phrase probably gave a lot of people the wrong idea.

Trump was elected partly because a lot of Americans, especially in rural areas, thought they were being left behind and disregarded by the urban elite. Many if not most of those people have never liked elites and experts telling them what to do (remember the debates about seat belts?), and Trump appealed to their resentment.

That approach turned dangerous when Trump started contradicting public health

know always have greater impact. experts and scientists, but he was operating Licking Valley Courier Editor Miranda in a friendly environment, as the unchalCantrell put a note at the end of her story lenged boss of a political party that has about Keeton asking other victims to fueled and capitalized on skepticism about tell their stories, because locals wonder science, primarily the evidence of climate “whether the effects are as severe as mainchange. But it is also a friendly place for stream media outlets have reported.” skepticism about vaccines, which could Yes, they can be that severe, but many be the long-term obstacle in quashing the don’t trust those coronavirus. outlets — especially That’s why it’s That’s why it’s after four years of more important more important “fake news” bashing than ever for public from a president who officials at all levels than ever for public has uttered more than to set good examples.

20,000 falsehoods.

Chaffins told me he officials at all Local news media has tested negative for levels to set good are more trusted, so the virus and doesn’t they need to step up, think government examples. tell these stories and should mandate masks, help their audiences but he wears one to be understand how to deal with the pandemic. “a good role model.”

The politicians can only go so far. • And in an age when social media have Al Cross is a former Courier Journal more sway than news media, it’s important to hear COVID-19 stories from authoritative political writer and is professor and director victims. Chaffins said his nurse practitioner of the Institute for Rural Journalism and told him his post was helpful because “a lot Community Issues at UK. He writes this of people don’t know anybody who’s had column for the Kentucky Center for Public this and had a bad case of it.”

Service Journalism. On Twitter he is @ In other words, stories about people you ruralj.

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PROTESTERS SUE CITY, CLAIM USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE

VIOLENCE LED SOME PROTESTERS TO NOT RETURN

By Danielle Grady | dgrady@leoweekly.com ATTICA SCOTT attended the second night of protests in downtown Louisville in several roles: as a state representative; as a mom whose 19-year-old daughter wanted to go; and as a person wanting justice for Breonna Taylor, whose death ignited the demonstrations.

Louisville police shoved and tear gassed Scott, she said, while she and the vast majority of the other protesters she was with peacefully protested. And, it was this forceful response that has led to Scott becoming a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the city and the Louisville Metro Police Department, demanding that they halt violent tactics against nonviolent demonstrators.

“Part of it reminds us why we’re out there,” said Scott, speaking last week to LEO about her experience over two months afterward. “We’re protesting against police violence and police are violently responding to our protest. It’s a reminder of why we must show up. We have no choice. This isn’t an option for us. This is about life or death.”

Scott’s Kentucky House district, 41, spans from Chickasaw to St. Matthews.

In 2017, she became the first Black woman to serve in the state legislature in almost 20 years.

LMPD’s use of “crowd control weaponry” on peaceful protesters, including tear gas, flashbangs, pepper balls, batons “and other military grade technology,” is a violation of their First Amendment rights to peacefully protest and their Fourth Amendment rights to be free from excessive force, according to the federal lawsuit filed on behalf of six injured protesters and the Kentucky Alliance Against Racial and Political Repression.

The lawsuit was brought in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky by the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the ACLU of Kentucky and the law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady War & Maazel LLP. “People have a fundamental human right to participate in protest activity, to march peacefully, gather and assemble and to present their grievances and concerns about government to their govern-

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Both the NAACP’s Legal Defense ment,” said Aaron Tucek, a legal fellow Fund and the ACLU have filed similar with ACLU-KY working on the lawsuit. suits in other cities where police have The use of crowd control weaponry also amounts to battery and assault on the responded violently to protests. The NAACP did so in July for the residents of protesters, the lawsuit argues. a Black West Philadelphia neighborhood The complaint asks the city to: who experienced “excessive and unwar— halt the use of crowd control ranted use of militaristic force.” And, weaponry on peaceful protesters ACLU affiliates — develop in other areas policies restricting The lawyers have filed suits in the use of crowd involved have asked Denver, Seattle, control weaponry and to situations when for the lawsuit to Minneapolis Washington, D.C. a person “faces an “We’re hopeimminent risk of be designated as ful that this is serious physical class action, which part of a larger danger” — award damwould allow other conversation that really the ages to affected protesters. protesters to join entire country has been having this The lawyers if they attended summer about involved have the proper role asked for the demonstrations of police and the lawsuit to be proper role of designated as class from May 28 to various police action, which July 30 and were weapons and would allow other tactics and protesters to join if subject to crowd violent how they should they attended demonstrations from control weaponry. be used against the community,” May 28 to July said Tuceck. “And I think it’s fair to say 30 and were subject to crowd control that at the ACLU, the broad position that weaponry. we’ve taken not only here but throughout As of Aug. 7, the city had yet to file the country in different lawsuits has been a response to the lawsuit, but Mayor that these sorts of tactics are inappropriGreg Fischer’s spokesperson Jean ate and should be curtailed.”

Porter said, “The complaint raises very The six protesters included in the important issues as we, as a city and a lawsuit have documented several injuries nation, work through the complexities and injustices. One, Corbin Smith, said of balancing personal and public safety he and a companion, Tyler Weakley, with a person’s First Amendment right were supporting peaceful protests from to protest. We’ll work with the Jefferson the sidelines on Broadway on May 31 County Attorney’s office on any further when “without warning or justification,” response.”

LMPD deployed flashbangs and tear A spokesperson for the Louisville gas and started firing pepper balls and Metro Police Department declined to rubber bullets “indiscriminately.” Smith comment. and Weakley tried to run back to their Another Louisville protester, Jonah Albert, has filed a separate lawsuit saying car, but were confronted by around 40 officers in riot gear. As Smith begged that he was shot with an “unknown profor him and Weakley to be let past, the jectile” by either Kentucky State Police officers trained their weapons on the pair, or Louisville police while peacefully who knelt and raised their hands into protesting on May 30.

THORNS & ROSES THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD THORN: GOV. ANDY’S PANDEMIC PLAN — CONSISTENCY MUCH?

So, Gov. Andy now says bars and restaurants can reopen at 50% capacity and must close at 11 p.m. And we are supposed to keep gatherings to 10 people or fewer. But the Kentucky Derby, Oldham County Fair and the Street Rod Nationals are or were allowed to run.

Struggling restaurants and bars lose at least half their business, but the big venues can invite in thousands of people? They need tighter restrictions.

THORN: WHY KENTUCKY IS FUCKED

Joe Coleman, 68, a retired government maintenance worker in Eastern Kentucky, told The Guardian newspaper that Democrats are to blame for America’s coronavirus death toll. “President Trump has tried to do right, but they won’t give him a break. I think he loves his country, not just the rich — the middle class and poor as well. He’ll get us back on our feet. Joe Biden isn’t capable of running this country. I think he’s got Alzheimer’s or something.”

ROSE: A PAROCHIAL VIEW OF TRUMP

But not all Kentuckians are nutbags. “For this president to call himself pro-life, and for anybody to back him because of claims of being pro-life, is almost willful ignorance,” said the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Lexington, The Rev. John Stowe. “He is so much anti-life because he is only concerned about himself, and he gives us every, every, every indication of that.”

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the air. Smith said five officers charged and For some of the protesters represented tackled him, slamming him to the ground. One in the lawsuit, the excessive force from the officer placed his knee on Smith’s neck while police has scared them away from joining the other four hit him with batons, inflicting the demonstrations again. This is part of the cuts and bruises on his knees, legs and back. reason that officers’ tactics are a violation of Four more officers pinned Weakly. They were the constitution, according to Tuceck. arrested. Weakley was charged with one count “In a democratic society, that’s not OK,” of felony rioting and Smith with one count of he said. misdemeanor unlawful assembly and another It’s too early in the lawsuit process to say count of misdemeanor curfew violation. what the plaintiff’s request for no crowd control weaponry on peaceful protesters would According to the lawsuit, police shot another plaintiff, Willa Tinsely, with pepper look like, Tuceck said. The attorneys involved, balls and tear gassed her over two nights of however, are not asking for police to stand on protests. They shoved Stevie Schauer to the the sidelines if someone is at serious risk of ground as she recorded the scene, twisting her bodily harm, he said. But, they also don’t want ankle and bruising her shoulder. And, Kayla police to use “indiscriminate force,” or tactics Meisner was part of that affect all protesters, a group of protesters peaceful or no, such as Scott was at the at whom officers fired tear gas. protest for three flashbangs, pepper balls “What really I and tear gas. think we’d like to see hours and saw the police doing, and Scott arrived at the what I believe their protests on May 29 at no violence until 5:30 p.m. own standard operating a small group of “It was the second procedures already call is taking situations day of protests protesters threw for as they arise and using downtown, and after seeing what happened water bottles at the the minimum necessary amount of force that night before, that police. They were to resolve it,” he said, Thursday evening, I in a lot of cases, wanted to show up to quickly denounced “and be in solidarity with my employing dialogue and people, the folks that de-escalation tactics by the crowd, I represent in District that don’t involve according to the 41 and people across the use of force at all Jefferson County,” she can be sufficient to lawsuit. said. “I wanted to show diffuse most of these up as a mom, I was situations.” there with my teenage daughter who wanted Scott said that she doesn’t want police to to be there. So I was showing up with her as a use any crowd control weaponry. mom. So it was important for me to be there.

“It is inhumane,” she said. “I mean, there And of course, justice for Breonna Taylor at was at no point in time in the early days of the the center of it all.” protests, including day two when my teenage daughter and I were tear gassed, were there Scott was at the protest for three hours any attempts at de-escalation by LMPD. We and saw no violence until a small number of weren’t even warned that they were wantprotesters threw water bottles at the police. ing us to disperse. We weren’t warned that They were quickly denounced by the crowd, they were about to use anything against us. according to the lawsuit.

Then, as Scott recorded the action, a police Nothing. So we weren’t even treated as human officer, identified in the lawsuit as J. Johnson, beings with some kind of warning. And so shoved her. She tripped on a box behind her I believe because it is the fault of LMPD to and fell, injuring her knee. While receiving go to these weapons, they have to be banned. medical attention from a tent on site, she was They have to stop using them.” exposed to tear gas, deployed by LMPD. As a lawmaker, however, Scott knows there are other ways to make change. She “I was like, ‘Wow, this just takes over your personally plans to sponsor a bill called Brewhole face,’” she told LEO. “Your sight, your sense of smell, your ability to even scream out onna’s Law that would ban no knock warrants for help.” in the state. And, she supports a colleague’s idea for a bill that would end the use of Scott has returned to the protests at least twice a week since and has continued to only chemical weapons, long-range assault devices seen peaceful activity, save for some graffiti and violence against peaceful protesters in on sidewalks.

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PROTESTERS KEEP UP PRESSURE

‘Y’ALL, WE ARE MAKING THEM SQUIRM AND VERY UNCOMFORTABLE’ “KEEP APPLYING PRESSURE,” Black Lives Matter Louisville tells protesters. “Y’all we are making them squirm and very uncomfortable.”

Among the uncomfortable? Mayor Greg Fischer, who put that into words as he explained newly enforced rules to keep protesters off the streets: “We’ve got to have some orderliness to the city so regular citizens can go about their day-to-day activity.”

Yes, he said that: Regular citizens.

For more than 70 days and nights, people have used their creativity, voices and bodies to demand justice for Breonna Taylor and an end to police brutality.

Musicians are marching weekly. So are moms, members of the LGBTQ community and the army of chefs, servers and others who make our restaurants so great. There is even a “Smallidarity” Kids March.

People have come here from New York and Atlanta and Ferguson, Missouri and around the world to take part in the push for justice, as Louisville sadly has joined the tragic pantheon of cities where police have killed Black people.

The protesters are creative, once taking over NuLu with a pointed message aimed at gentrification there and the lack of Black representation in businesses. Earlier, they brought their demands to the lawns and curbs of Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s and Fischer’s homes.

But on Sunday, Louisville police said they would begin enforcing what they claimed were laws to keep pedestrians out of the streets, to forbid vehicles and protesters from blocking intersections. They also want to restrict caravan protests: “Participants who refuse to comply with any law or lawful order will be eligible for citation and/or arrest.”

The police coated their language with affirmations of First Amendment protection and pledges that they were considering the safety of protesters.

But Fischer told the truth: The new focus on how protesters can protest is for what he sees as the rest of the city.

“We’re just concerned about where all this can lead,” Fischer said, according to The Courier Journal. “And whether it’s protesters trapping a car on a road, and then somebody inside of the car gets frightened, and there’s no telling what their response will be, or going through Fourth Street Live and raising havoc in there while people are dining — we can’t have that.

“We’ve got to have some orderliness to the city so regular citizens can go about their day-to-day activity. And you can still protest while you’re doing that, but you can do so peacefully.”

Protesters see this new push as yet another effort to squelch their freedom of speech and right to assemble. And a local lawyer said he will seek an injunction to block the new rules of the road and protest.

Hours after the police announced its new policy, protesters took to the streets again. Two people were arrested and six citations were handed out.

But, this past weekend was huge for the movement, with rallies every day, some merging with others in Jefferson Square Park, variously renamed as Injustice Square or Breonna Taylor Park. There was an anti-eviction demonstration downtown Saturday, during which furniture was left

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The LGBTQ March for Black lives and Out of the Bars, Into the Streets march joined forces on Jefferson Street. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

in a downtown intersection to block traffic. The musicians’ rally also was Saturday, drawing hundreds from the city’s music scene.

On Saturday, Black Lives Matter Louisville hosted a “healing ceremony” in Shawnee Park and restated its demands on the city.

Those demands have not wavered.

They include that Mayor Greg Fischer resign and for the city to: — address the use of force by LMPD — fire and rescind pensions for Brett Hankinson, Myles Cosgrove and Johnathan Mattingly, the officers Protesters raise their fists in solidarity during the musician’s march. | PHOTO BY KAELAN DAVIS. who broke down the door of Breonna Taylor’s apartment, leading to her have the peace of mind that Susan, John or Beck have. We shooting death. are not protected in Louisville and that is just a fact. Facts — create a policy for transparent investigation and based on recent events and the response that our “leaderdemand Cameron be fully transparent in investigation ship” has given, or lack thereof.”

— develop local, independent civilian community police “I say this to all the protesters who feel as if they’re not accountability council making a difference, to all the beautiful artists who feel as BLM Louisville issued a statement ahead of the rally. It if you’re pouring out your heart into this art that LMPD will read, in part: throw away, keep applying pressure. Y’all we are making “We’ve heard it many times before and will hear it many times again, Louisville is tired, we’re going to be tired today, them squirm and very uncomfortable. We’ve found out that stopping their commerce magically opens their ears and I tomorrow and so on until we get the justice and respect say let’s bust them wide open. This is your community do we deserve. We deserve respect and justice just as simply not let these white cis males come in and try and make you for being a human and living being. We deserve to sleep in feel less than or not enough. Each and every one of you all peace, to walk home from the store. We deserve the security are sacred and vital to our community. Remember that.” that if someone came into our homes in the middle of the We don’t think the new police rules will help. We think night without any announcement and killed us, that they they will cause more “good trouble.” • would be held accountable. The sad reality is that we do not

MAKING NOISE IN THE STREETS

A trumpeter played along with the chants during the march. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

THE LOCAL MUSIC SCENE JOINS THE PROTESTS WITH A WEEKLY EVENT

By Syd Bishop and Scott Recker | srecker@leoweekly.com LAMAR CORNETT, a drummer in several Louisville bands, was a little dismayed that he wasn’t seeing more members of the local music scene at the downtown protests against police brutality. So, last Friday, he helped organize “Out Of The Bars, Into The Streets,” a two-mile walk from the Highlands to the ongoing protests at Jefferson Square that attracted about 100 people from the Louisville music community.

“A lot of us are A: upset at what happened to Breonna Taylor, and B: frustrated with our communities lack of response,” Cornett, who is 39, said. “It kind of started on social media. Someone posted that the whole Louisville music scene needs to get together and show up and show out, because we are a huge part of this town too. And we’re just as pissed off as everyone else.”

“Out Of The Bars, Into The Streets” was a night of chant-

ing, singing, drums, horns and other musical expressions that took place on the 72nd consecutive day of downtown protests, with a few impromptu performances during a healing ceremony. And now the event will take place every Friday.

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Mez Hendrix wrote BLM on his drum that he played during the march. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

earlier, but previously haven’t because they might have felt overwhelmed, and the goal of “Out Of The Bars, Into The Streets” is to create an easy avenue to participate.

“A lot of people sit at home and say to themselves, ‘This is terrible and I hated this happening,’ but then you never really see them out in the street, in the protests,” Cornett said. “That’s not pointing fingers at anyone, I’m just saying that sometimes those people need inspiration. Sometimes those people need something to give them that little push. “ On Friday, Cornett got the response he was looking for, with scene fixtures across multiple generations showing up.

A little after 7 p.m., Cornett and co-event coordinator Kara Rexx took to the mic to do what musicians do best: rehearse. The crowd practiced the chants planned for the route. Fifteen minutes after the scheduled start time, protesters began their march — not bad for the typical lack of punctuality in the music scene.

Phil Najjar, of Vox Populi and the musical collective The

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Human Project, felt like he had to be there. “My partner is a POC, many of my friends in the music community are POCs, most of the community I deal with are POCs, so I would be a shitty ally if I wasn’t,” he said.

When asked what he hopes the protests accomplish, Najjar said: “Three cops locked up, defunding of the LMPD that’s already got an inflated budget, and you know, better cohesion in the music scene.”

During the march, a

Protesters danced in Jefferson Square Park to music and chants after the Out of the Bars, Into the Streets march and the LGBTQ for Black Lives march on Friday. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

caravan of vehicles served as a physical boundary and rear guard, a mostly successful endeavor.

The march took place before Louisville police issued a statement Sunday that officers will begin enforcing laws relating to protesting in the street: “All pedestrians must stay out of the streets — staying on sidewalks and following all laws for pedestrian traffic” and “Cars and pedestrians will not be allowed to block intersections for any length of time,” the police said in a Facebook post.

“Participants who refuse to comply with any law or lawful order will be eligible for citation and/or arrest.”

The police claimed they were concerned about the protesters’ safety. “We have seen increasingly unsafe behavior, including an escalation in aggressive behavior over the past week or so.”

On Friday, as the marchers moved toward Baxter Avenue and Jefferson Street, a motorcyclist became impatient, breaking into the crowd. Protesters parted to let them through, with cars, cyclists and marchers forming a tight rear guard to mitigate any further disruptions to the formation. The line reformed stronger and ended up both protecting protesters and amplifying their voices with a chorus of car horns.

Adding to that big noise, drummers and percussionists kept rhythm for an ad hoc marching band, singing anthems against injustice. Guitarist and bassist Mez Hendrix brought his drum to help keep the pace.

“I think my rhythm was a little off, because it was my first time bringing it out, but I just thought we should make as much noise as possible,” he said.

Hendrix has been a part of several different marches throughout the protests and said that its important to fight against injustice and inequality at every opportunity because it’s time that things change.

“We just want justice for everybody,” Hendrix said. “We want everybody to be happy and at least comfortable, and have the same chances and the same opportunities.

I’ve grown up my whole life around people of color and watching them get beat down for their whole lives, their whole, basically, existence it seems.”

Once on Jefferson Street, marchers moved toward what some protesters have renamed Injustice Square, chanting and raising a beautiful hell en route. Cyclists and caravaners blocked intersections to protect protesters in vulnerable areas. There was a palpable energy as the musician group met up with co-marchers in the LGBTQ community at Second Street. Cheers were all

Hakeem Harvey led a variety of chants while Marsalis Thomas played the drums in Jefferson Square Park after the march. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

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Marchers carried large banners in the march that was attended by musicians, venue owners, managers and others involved in Louisville’s music scene. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

around, the soft throb of golden age hip-hop emanating from a Bluetooth speaker in the backpack of a protester.

There were no visible police on rooftops downtown, at least around 8:30 p.m. Friday night, and no low drone of rotors as helicopters hovered. One activist took the megaphone, leading a conversation about systemic injustice, and there was music all around, as impromptu performances broke out.

Out with her family, Nikki, a musician and activist who didn’t want to give her last name, said she has been to protests throughout the last several months. Like most in attendance, Nikki said she seeks justice for Breonna Taylor and changes against systemic injustice. She sees the various marches, from the musicians gathering to the weekly LGBTQ march, as an opportunity to keep the pressure on and raise awareness.

“There is always a core faction here, but this is like a big breath, an expansion,” Nikki said of the addition of the “Out Of The Bars, Into The Streets” to the protests.

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The music scene marches will continue every Friday, with the Aug. 14 event once again starting at 6 p.m. behind the Planet of the Tapes. Cornett wants to continue to build “Out Of The Bars, Into The Streets” to bring positive attention to the demonstrations.

“We’re not being the criminals and thugs that they’re painting us as,” Cornett said. “We’re just trying to get people to pay attention. We want people to know what’s happening and to make their voices heard, so there can be justice for Breonna Taylor, so that we won’t have to do this again in the future, so we don’t need to keep adding names to that list.” •

Several protesters rode skateboards, bikes and scooters. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

After the marchers reached Jefferson Square Park, many raised their fists in solidarity while chanting the names of Breonna Taylor, David McAtee and ‘No Justice, No Peace’. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

Marchers chanted and sang once reaching Jefferson Square Park.

PHOTO BY KAELAN DAVIS.

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PHOTO ESSAY

NATIONAL GROUP RALLIES FOR #JUSTICEFORBREONNA

By Kathryn Harrington | leo@leoweekly.com UNTIL FREEDOM, which led the protest on state Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s lawn, held a rally downtown with the sister of Breonna Taylor, Juniyah Palmer, and Michael Brown Sr., whose son Michael Brown Jr. was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri.

Organizers for Until Freedom, which is based in New York, said they will continue to work in Louisville for at least a month, until justice is delivered for Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency room tech who was killed by LMPD in March.

The group used the rally at 11th and Main streets to introduce itself to the Louisville community.

“We know this gets exhausting, we know that you are tired, and we want you to know that we are here to alleviate any of that exhaustion. We are here to inject whatever energy you need so the whole world turns their eyes to Louisville,” co-founder of Until Freedom Linda Sarsour told the crowd.

Until Freedom plans to serve the Louisville community by helping local social justice organizations, Sarsour said.

“We are also here to stand up for a Black woman, to defend a Black woman, because you can’t be marching around the country talking about racial justice and Black lives matter if you cannot even get justice for one Black woman in Louisville, Kentucky. And so what we hope to do with you in partnership with you as your neighbors is to get justice for Breonna Taylor and to send a message in every corner of this country, to every police officer, police commissioner, mayor, attorney general, governor, to the president of the United States, whoever they may be, that Black women will be protected and we will not allow this to happen on our watch.”

The rally featured several speakers including poet and activist Hannah Drake and performers including the No Justice No Peace choir. •

Michael Brown Sr. and Juniyah Palmer hugged at the rally on Saturday. Both have lost family members to police brutality. Brown lost his son, Michael Brown Jr. in August 2014 and Palmer lost her sister Breonna Taylor in March 2020. | PHOTOS BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

Co-founder of Until Freedom Tamika Mallory spoke at the rally on Saturday.

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PHOTO ESSAY Hannah Drake read her poem ‘You Were Born to Be a Problem’.

Those who attended the rally danced and sang to music played by Dj LEGIT.

Attendees of the rally shared a hug.

Dj LEGIT played at the rally on Saturday.

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PHOTO ESSAY

C-Tez Jones performed his famous splits before the start of the rally on Saturday. Jones has been a part of the protests since they began on May 28th.

Michael Brown Sr. attended the rally at 11th and Main Streets.

The No Justice No Peace Choir performed at the rally on Saturday that was organized by Until Freedom, a social justice group from New York.

The UPG Militia came to the rally on Saturday to provide protection for those attending.

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STAFF PICKS THROUGH AUG. 23

‘River City Drumbeat’: A Virtual Speed Cinema Presentation Online | speedmuseum.org/cinema $12 nonmembers, $10 members | Any time

THURSDAY, AUG. 13

Free Virtual Painting Class

Zoom | Search Facebook | Free (or $25 for kit) | 6:30-8:30 p.m.

The Black-owned A Purposeful Ponte Studio has started a Thursday night painting series.

EXPRESS YOURSELF Tune in through Zoom for a lesson on how to create a hydrangea art piece for your home. It’s free to participate, but if you want to buy a paint kit with brushes, a canvas and paint, Purposeful Ponte is selling kits for $25 —LEO

“River City Drumbeat” is a 2019 documentary about Louisville’s River City Drum Corp, a musical group and mentoring program for Black, West Louisville WITH THE BAND youth. The film follows RCDC’s founder Edward “Nardie” White as he shifts leadership of the group to Albert Shumake, as well as three student drummers — Imani, Jailen and Emily — who are approaching the end of high school. The New York Times review said: “Though the movie does include footage of drum performances, it doesn’t move at the clip of sticks on snares. Instead, the film listens for this community’s heartbeat, finding its steady pulse just as expected: healthy and strong.” The film will be streaming through Aug. 23 along with a discussion between the film’s co-directors (Marlon Johnson and Anne Flatté), White and Shumake. —LEO

By Ronnita Nance, owner of A Purposeful Ponte Studio.

THURSDAY, AUG. 13

Film Fest Encores — ‘Reaching for the Moon’ Online | Search Facebook | $5 suggested donation | All day

THURSDAY, AUG. 13, 15

Seventh Annual Bourbon Mixer

Facebook Live | bourbonmixer.com | Prices vary | 6:30-9 p.m.

The annual Bourbon Mixer is still happening this year, but it’s just, like many things — virtual. Bourbon lovers “from novice to connoisseur” are invited to exHAVE A DRINK perience some of Kentuckiana’s best distilleries and to support the Coalition for the Homeless. On Thursday, tune into Facebook Live for a free tour of Heaven Hill’s new visitor experience expansion, cocktails and tastings from Starlight Distillery, Four Roses featuring Master Distiller Brent Elliot” and a “Jeptha Creed history and cocktail event.”

On Saturday, order a three-course meal and complimentary bourbon pairings from River House Restaurant & Raw Bar for $55.

Hurry home after for a virtual reveal of an “aristic masterpiece”

by Richard Sullivan.

You can also bid on silent auction items and enter into raffles all week. —LEO

The Louisville LGBT Film Festival is POPCORN celebrating its upcoming 10th anniversary with a virtual showing of one of its favorite films from previous years. “Reaching for the Moon,” is a ‘50s period piece about the real-life, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop who moves from the United States to Rio de Janiero where she meets, dislikes and then falls in love with architect Lota de Macedo Soares. —LEO

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STAFF PICKS

THURSDAY, AUG. 13

SUNDAY, AUG. 16

Home Bar | Search Facebook $20 | 9-9:30 p.m.

Blackacre Conservancy | 3200 Tucker Station Road | Search Facebook | $13-$45 Times vary

Limbo Rum Club

Enjoy the fun and flavors of The Limbo from JOIN THE CLUB the safety (and social distance) of your own home by joining the new Limbo Rum Club. For $20 a week, you can have a quart of its rum cocktail of the week sent to your home along with a rum sampling. Then, assuming you can hold off on consuming it until 9 p.m., join the Limbo crew on Facebook Live or Instagram Live to for a brief symposium on One of the past drinks featured — the G-21, created by that week’s rum as well as instrucLimbo friend Corey DeGraw, a bartender at the famous Nopa in San Francisco. tion on how to make the cocktail of the week. No long-term commitment necessary for this opportunity to wade into a delightful summer spirit. Message The Limbo on Facebook to get started. —LEO

Blackacre Trail Days 4- And 8-Mile Trail Race

Maybe you’ve taken to the trails to distance yourself from other runners during the pandemic. Well, now you can test out your newfound skills with KEEP RUNNING! a trail race through the historic Blackacre Conservancy. The farm contains over 300 acres of fields and forests. —LEO

SATURDAY, AUG. 15-SEPT. 11

‘Knock On Wood 2020’

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery | 137 E. Main St., New Albany bourne-schweitzergallery.com | Free Five Southern Indiana artists are showing in this year’s “Knock on Wood” exhibition (it shows even a pandemic can’t stop this annual display of woodworkGOT WOOD? ing). The Southern Indiana artists — Clay Colvin, Floyd Cornett, James Michael Kearney, Paul Schreck and Alan Shrebtienko — have different ways of finding the abundant material. Schreck uses wood harvested from his farm, while collaborators Colvin and Kearney salvage driftwood. Shrebtienko glues multiple pieces of wood together, and Cornett creates with barrel tops. The opening reception is on Saturday, Aug. 15 from 2 through 4 p.m. (masks are required). After that, the gallery is open by appointment.

—Jo Anne Triplett

‘Flower’ by Alan Shrebtienko. Wood.

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MONDAY, AUG. 17

Park Yoga For A Cause

Big Four Lawn, Waterfront Park | 1101 E. River Road | wellthyvybes.com Donation based | 6-7 p.m.

Make your Monday yoga practice a service to the community. Wellthy Vybes hosts safe, comfortable yoga practices for yogis of all abilities every MonONE WITH NATURE day evening, and the price of admission is only a donation to a different charity each month. This month, the donations are going to Volunteers of America, serving those in the region in need of housing services, addiction-recovery support and other areas of need. Plus, in-person yoga in the park is a service to yourself. The event depends on cooperating weather, so keep an eye on the radar. —Aaron Yarmuth

STAFF PICKS

MONDAY, AUG. 17

Food For Thought: Louisville Service Industry March

Planet of the Tapes | 640 Barret Avenue | Search Facebook | Free | 7-8 p.m.

Louisville’s service industry is uniting for a march in support of Black lives. The industry is “vast, diverse, and typically booming,” organizers write. Plus, they say, TOGETHER many of its members are Black or people of color. Restaurant owners, chefs, servers, cashiers — every job — is invited to this demonstration. Marchers will meet at 6 p.m. and start walking two miles from Planet of the Tapes to Jefferson Square Park at 7. Wear a work uniform if you can and bring a mask, signs, noisemakers, pots, pans and megaphones. Water and snacks will be available. —Danielle Grady

UPCOMING EVENTS Stay home and stay safe while still supporting your favorite local places with online and future events.

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Weekly Psychic & Mediumship Development Group

Jessica Tanselle: Medium AUG

TUESDAY, AUG. 18

Found Poetry: Discover The Poet Within

All Thai’d Up Online

Online | redpintix.com | $25 nonmembers, $19 members | 7-8:30 p.m.

Not only is this your chance to find the magic of language through poetry, but it’s also an opportunity to find your inner poet! Keith McGill hosts this workshop exploration into “a written art form that winds its way through ancient Greeks, William Shakespeare, Dadaism, and right now.” We could just say this is a Staff Pick to spend an evening with McGill, who is an actor, director, playwright and stand-up comedian. In addition to his extensive experience as an entertainer, McGill is also a facilitator with Shakespeare Behind Bars, an amazing literary and rehabilitation program that brings a Shakespeare production inside correctional facilities. Helping you discover your inner poet could be consider a bonus for this online event.

Purchase tickets through the website above and receive instructions to join the event.

—Aaron Yarmuth

Getting All Thai’d Up In Kentucky

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Private Cocktail Tasting Event or Virtual Spirits Tasting Make & Muddle

AUG 14

Date Night w/ Lucas Fleitz Cooking At Millie’s

The Devil’s In The Details: Research for Nonfıction Writers

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AUG 15

Infused Spirits Make & Muddle

Found Poetry: Discover the Poet Within

AUG 18

Louisville Literary Arts AUG 19

Macaron Class Cooking At Millie’s

Boys & Girls Haven Trivia Night + Raffle!

AUG 21

Louisville Literary Arts

Willett Family Estate 7 Year Old Bourbon Raffle

AUG 31

Ovarian Awareness of Kentucky

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Louisville Literary Arts

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FOOD & DRINK

If you’re driving a compact, you’ll have to reach way up to grab your to-go order at ToGo, but pull up close to the window, and it’s not a problem.

RECOMMENDED

GET YOUR SUSHI ON THE GO FROM TOGO SUSHI

By Robin Garr | LouisvilleHotBytes.com The dragon roll at ToGo Sushi places eel and cucumber within a roll topped with avocado and tobiko, flying fish roe. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.

ONE OF THE GREAT pleasures of sushi for me is the opportunity to sit down at the sushi bar, admire the artfully arranged rows of beautifully cut seafood and fish and talk with the chef about what’s interesting and good.

But I have to be honest: During the pandemic, the idea of joining a few neighbors and a chef or two in such close quarters does not appeal, not even with masks and social distancing in play.

Happily, many of the city’s sushi bars offer a takeout option. One stands out: ToGo Sushi, as its name implies, does most of its business — you guessed it — to go.

Thanks to the drive-through window that this 3-year-old Lyndon eatery inherited from its predecessor, Bruster’s Ice Cream, you can go through the drive-through line that circles the little red-and-white building to pick up a phoned-in order or make your choice through a fast-food-style speaker.

Although ToGo’s focus is takeout, there is a short sushi bar and a few tables inside, so, in theory, you could go in and pull up a seat in front of the chefs and say: “feed me.”

But drive-through seems to be a better idea right now, and our lunch order proved well-made and tasty. The price for four rolls and a salad ended up under $40, which isn’t bad for sushi. Indeed, although sushi isn’t known as cheap eats, ToGo’s prices are more competitive with Kroger sushi than it is with the city’s fancier sushi shops. Connected

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through ownership with Louisville’s Oishii Sushi and Samurai Sushi & Hibachi, ToGo brings a solid heritage to its sushi game.

The menu consists entirely of maki sushi (rolls) and an array of Japanese-style appetizers. For the familiar nigiri sushi (bites of fish formed atop a ball of rice) you’ll have to look elsewhere.

You’ve got plenty of rolls to choose from, though, nearly 70 of them, subdivided among specialty rolls, regular rolls, vegetable rolls, cooked rolls and deep-fried rolls.

Enhancing the value further, these rolls are big, perhaps twice the size of grocery sushi.

The pricier specialty rolls almost all range from $8.95 to $12.95; just a couple of fancy items go up to $13.50 and one red snapper and yellowtail specialty is $14.95.

All the other rolls are under $9.95, with a few as low as $5.95 (for the popular California roll) or $4.95 (for cucumber or asparagus rolls). Fifteen appetizers range from $1.50 (for miso soup) to $7.95 (for a soft shell crab). Nonalcoholic beverages include Pepsi drinks and iced tea ($1.50) and hot tea ($2.50).

The house salad ($2.50) was simple but pleasing, perfectly crisp iceberg lettuce and carrot shreds, with a tub filled with that delicious creamy Japanese-restaurant ginger dressing alongside to use as you like. I liked using it all.

The rolls and salad all came out ToGo’s

The tofu roll at ToGo Sushi is oversize, filled with fried silken tofu and avocado with its nori seaweed wrapper on the outside.

FOOD & DRINK

Like all the maki rolls at ToGo Sushi, the basic tuna roll is oversize and packed full.

window at or near room temperature. In green. Within the inside-out roll was crisp, retrospect they might have been even more barely cooked asparagus and fresh cucumappetizing if we gave them an hour in the ber. It was hard to decide whether to enjoy fridge before serving. But that’s picky, as its natural, simple flavors or kick it up with they were quite good as is. soy sauce and wasabi, so did a little of both.

Tofu roll ($6.50) Like all the rolls at was another oversize, ToGo Sushi, the basic The house salad thin-cut roll, filled tuna roll ($7.95) was oversize and packed ($2.50) was simple with big cubes of pan-fried silken tofu full, neatly arranged but pleasing, and ample chunks of in a plastic foam box with a ball of wasabi, avocado. This one was perfectly crisp a pile of piney, pink, an exception to the pickled ginger and a inside-out rule, made iceberg lettuce little plastic tub of soy with the black nori and carrot shreds, on the outside of the sauce. Exceptionally large cubes of fresh rice. The flavors were with a tub filled dark-red tuna and subtle and appealing, chunks of avocado with that delicious but like the dragon were surrounded in roll, it was loosely creamy Japanese- constructed and dif“inside-out” fashion with nori seaweed, cult to impossible to restaurant ginger fipick then perfect short up without the grain sushi rice. The dressing alongside insides falling out. tuna wasn’t as firm as ToGo offers two ice to use as you like. cream desserts, mango, I’ve ever eaten, but not mushy and was mochi or green tea definitely fresh and clean. ($3.50 each), but I’m wary of taking out ice The dragon roll ($11.95), an eel specialty, cream on a hot summer day.

Overall, it was a good experience, good was even bigger than the tuna roll, but cut enough to consider going back for more. more thin. Also an inside-out roll, it conLunch for two totaled $39.06, plus an $8 tained cooked eel with its skin, cucumber tip. • and avocado, surrounded by nori and rice and topped with tiny orange, pop-in-yourmouth tobiko (flying fish roe). It was rather TOGO SUSHI loosely wrapped and hard to pick up with 700 Lyndon Lane chopsticks or fingers, but the flavor forgave 883-0666 mere technical issues. togosushiky.com Pretty veggie rolls ($7.95) were artfully topped with sliced avocado arranged to display alternating stripes of bright and dark

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By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage

MARRIED PEOPLE

Q: I’m a 38-year-old bi woman who has been sleeping with a married male coworker for the last eight months. We’re a walking cliché: I’m a nurse, he’s a doctor, and one night he ended up spilling a lot of personal information about his marriage to me (sexless, non-romantic, she might be a lesbian) before asking if he could kiss me. I declined. Three months and many text messages later, I met him for drinks. The next thing I know we are falling in love and spending as much time together as we can manage. Even though he is married and has kids, this has been one of the best relationships of my adult life. He loves me in ways I never thought possible. (He even savors my COVID-19 curves.) The obvious problem here is that he is married and his wife allegedly doesn’t know about his unhappiness in their marriage. We have to arrange our dates around his work schedule and his lies to his wife. I find myself becoming increasingly jealous of the time he spends with his wife and his inability to spend more time with me. I want him to confront the issues in his marriage and I want him to at least attempt being honest with her so we can figure out if it’s even possible for us to move forward.

My question is this: How do I have this conversation with him without it seeming like an ultimatum? I adore him and I don’t think he’s lying to me about his marriage. But I long to have more freedom in our relationship. I love that I finally found someone who treats me so well when we are together but my heart is breaking because our love exists in the shadows. It’s a win/win for him—he gets his marriage, his kids, his “real life,” and me too. But I can’t even text or even call him freely and I certainly couldn’t rely on him in an emergency. I want this to work.

I don’t necessarily want him to get divorced, Dan, as I fear it would cause him to resent me, but that would honestly be my preference. What should I do?

Outside The Home Exists Romance A: What are you willing to settle for, OTHER? If you can’t live without Dr. Married and you can only have him on his terms—terms he set at the start, terms designed to keep his wife in the dark—then you’ll have to accept his terms. You can only see Dr. Married during office hours, you can’t call or text him, and you’re on your own if you have an emergency outside office hours.

But agreeing to his terms at the outset doesn’t obligate you to stick to his terms forever. Terms can be renegotiated. But unless you’re willing to issue an ultimatum, OTHER, Dr. Married has no incentive to renegotiate the terms of your relationship.

Zooming out for a second: I get letters all the time from women who ask me how issue to an

ultimatum without seeming like they’re issuing an ultimatum. I don’t get many letters from men like that for good and not-so-good reasons: men are socialized to feel entitled to what they want, men are praised when they ask for what they want, and consequently men are likelier to get what they want.

To get what you want, OTHER, you’re gonna have to man up: feel entitled, act entitled, make demands. And you gotta be willing to walk. You have to go in fully prepared to use the leverage you actually have here—your presence in Dr. Married’s life—or nothing will change. His circumstances have required you to live in the shadows if you wanted to see him and maybe that worked for you once. But it doesn’t work for anymore and Dr. Married needs to understand that if his circumstances don’t change—if he doesn’t change them—then he’s going to lose you.

There’s a middle ground between divorce, your preferred circumstance, and things staying exactly as they are. Dr. Married’s wife is surely aware that her marriage is sexless and nonromantic—assuming he’s told you the truth—and if his wife’s actually a lesbian, well, perhaps she’d like the freedom to date other women too.

(Or date them openly, I should say; for all we know she’s been getting some pussy on the side herself.) If they want to stay together for the kids, if they have a constructive, functional, low-conflict loving partnership, and it would be possible to daylight you without anyone having to get divorced, maybe you could settle for those terms.

Q: I’m a bi man in a straight marriage. We have two young children. My wife and I have been working through some relationship issues.

Because of these, she has not been open to sex with me and for eighteen months our marriage has been essentially sexless. I’m not happy with this, but we are working on things. Since we stopped having sex, I have been using my wife’s used panties to masturbate. I work from home and do a lot of the household work, including laundry. Every couple of weeks, I will take a couple of her panties from the laundry. I rub myself with one pair and sniff the other one. I enjoy the way the fabric feels and am turned on by knowing that they’ve been rubbing up against her pussy. It makes me feel very close to her. I finish by ejaculating into her panties and then I rinse them out and wash them. I’m very careful not to stain or damage them. This is something I do to feel more connected with her sexually. I don’t get hard thinking that she’s wearing panties I came in; I get hard thinking about coming in panties she’s worn. But I worry that I’m violating her—which is not something I want to do.

I know that if I were doing this with a stranger’s panties, or with the panties of someone I knew but was not in an intimate relationship with, it

would be at best creepy and at worst a sex crime.

But she’s my wife, and although we are in a hard place right now, we’re trying to find our way back to each other. So, is this an acceptable way for me to get off while we work on our relationship? Or is it a violation?

Wonders About Nuzzling Knickers A: I’m torn, WANK. If you and the wife were fucking, WANK, she might enjoy knowing that, however many years and two kids later, you’re still so crazy about her that you’re down in the laundry room perving on her dirty panties. But you aren’t fucking and things are strained for reasons you didn’t share.

So you need to ask yourself whether this perving, if your wife were to find out about it, would set you two back. If you think it would—if, say, your wife isn’t fucking you because she feels like you don’t respect her opinions, her boundaries, her autonomy, etc.—then the risk (further damaging your marriage) has to outweigh the rewards (momentarily draining your sack.)

That said, WANK, if perving on your wife’s panties—without damaging or staining them—is helping you remain faithful during this sexless period of your marriage… and sustaining your attraction to your wife though this difficult time… well, an argument/rationalization could be made that your wife benefits from this perving. And these aren’t stolen panties—these aren’t a stranger’s panties or a roommate’s panties— these are panties your wife hands over to you for laundering. That you derive a moment’s pleasure from them on their way from laundry basket to washing machine could be self-servingly filed, I guess, under “what she doesn’t know won’t hurt her.”

But if you feel like your wife would regard this as a violation—and I’m guessing you feel that way, WANK, since you’re asking me about it and not her—then you might wanna knock it off.

Q: Quick question: Why get married? I’m a 29-year-old lesbian who got married to a woman at 26 and divorced at 28. We had a pretty low key wedding, but we still stated to all of our friends and family that we were in it for the long haul, people wished us well, bought us gifts, gave us money. When I realized it was a huge mistake (we rushed into it, we ignored huge incompatibilities,) I felt terrible for all the usual reasons involved a break up, Dan, but I also felt like we were letting down our friends, family, and all gays everywhere. I’m jaded right now, I realize, but seriously: WHY DO THIS? Why get married? Why do this thing that adds so much stress and pressure to leaving a relationship that might have run its course, as MOST relationships eventually do?

Marriage-Averse Dyke A: Quick answer, MAD: People get married for love—ideally, at least these days, and it was not always thus. (Suggested reading: Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage,

by Stephanie Coontz.) But sometimes I think people marry for the same reasons you think no one should, MAD: the stress of ending a mar-

riage—the pressure to stay in a marriage—often prompts a couple to work through a rough patch.

Of course that pressure can keep two people together who really shouldn’t be together anymore—or never should’ve been together, MAD, like you and your ex-wife—but sometimes two people stick it out to avoid the embarrassment, expense, and drama of divorce and eventually get to a place where they’re genuinely happy to still be together. Maybe a wedding isn’t a promise that two people will stay together forever, MAD, but rather a promise that two people will have to think long and hard before parting. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage On the Lovecast, it’s Millennial vs Boomer with Jill Filipovic. www.savagelovecast.com

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