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THORNS & ROSES THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD

THORN: HOW TO LOSE ON NOV. 3... WE HOPE

Is your business hurting because of COVID-19? Could you use another government check because, you know, you’ve been furloughed? Well, U.S. Sen. Mitch “Who Spit In My Food?” McConnell would rather ram through tRump’s nomination of a *handmaid for the U.S. Supreme Court than care about your puny lives. He said a relief deal is unlikely before Nov. 3. *See WashPo story.

ABSURD: THIS IS WHAT HE REALLY THINKS ABOUT US

Why did McConnell laugh during his debate with Amy McGrath?

Because he was being attacked for how he led the U.S. Senate into inaction as COVID-19 swept the nation. “I had to say goodbye to my dying mother over FaceTime and I don’t know if she could even hear me and this monster is having a giant, diaper-filling chuckle,” tweeted Kat Kinsman, senior editor at Food & Wine.

THORN: DETAILS, SMEETAILS...

We are learning that the Louisville police made multiple mistakes at all levels that led to Breonna Taylor’s death and have continued after. Like — the massive investigative file released recently included part of an autopsy report for an unrelated case!

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THORN: 3PERCENTERS ARE 100% BABIES

Gov. Andy Beshear knows about domestic terrorists. Armed protesters hanged him in effigy at the Capitol because he dared to save our lives by enacting social distancing rules. After the FBI arrested 13 people for an alleged anti-government plot in Michigan, he said, “These groups are not freedom fighters. They are terrorists. They’re not security forces. They are threats to our nation.

So, this nation, and every single one of its leaders — including everyone here in Kentucky — must in one voice denounce all of these groups.” The Kentucky group demanded an apology. “We are not racists, white supremacists, right-wing fanatics nor are we domestic terrorists,” the Kentucky 3Percenters said in a statement emailed to The Courier Journal by the group’s secretary, Patsy Bush. (The CJ reports she was recently charged with menacing for allegedly threatening to hang a man wearing a face mask with “Black Lives Matter” written across it in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.)

ROSE + THORN: WELL-DRAWN PROTEST VS. IDIOCY

We know he would demur credit and elevate the others who took part, but Marc Murphy deserves a rose for organizing the “March to Justice” rally. Some 300 people gathered at Tyler Park, cheered powerful speeches by state Rep. Charles Booker, Louisville Urban League President and CEO Sadiqa Reynolds and LEO founder U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, among others, and marched to Jefferson Square Park. Not a cop to be seen. Guess that is what happens when a white lawyer does the organizing. But just days later, police wrestled a woman to the ground and arrested her over a dispute about people playing basketball behind a bus parked in a traffic lane. “A couple of Black kids were playing basketball. ... and all of the sudden, police are coming in hot,” attorney David Mour told The CJ. “There’s another way that could have been handled.”

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Jaye Jayle. | PHOTO BY NIK VECHERY.

MORE SOCIALLY-DISTANCED, OUTDOOR CONCERTS Outdoor concerts with COVID-related safety measures have been happening around town lately, and Headliners Music Hall recently announced an entire weekend of them this month. From Friday, Oct. 23 to Sunday, Oct. 25, the venue will host its first ever parking lot concert series, with the Fleetwood Mac tribute band Back2Mac on Friday, Jaye Jayle’s album release show on Saturday and SMTN TO Do — A Pull Up Day Party on Sunday. For more information, check out our story at leoweekly.com.

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I agree with firing the mayor, but it’s my belief that Attica is being framed for something she did not do. She’s dedicated her entire career to public education, and to libraries of Ky - I don’t believe for one minute that she attempted to burn one down. She’s being set up to take the fall. —Ed Joe Snyder This is what real leadership looks like. —Ryan Leonard She ought to be kicked out of office along with the mayor and the joke metro council. —Tim Ritchey

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ON: THE CITY CURFEW WAS INEFFECTIVE AT BEST AND DEADLY AT WORST

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ON: STATE REP. ATTICA SCOTT, ‘WE WERE BEING SET UP’

David McAtee died last time around, because of N’tl Guard enforcing curfew, only for it to be lifted two days later. That’s a death that didn’t need to happen. Curfews are unnecessary, and unenforceable, as well as ineffective. —Ed Joe Snyder

ON: POST BREONNA TAYLOR DECISION, BLM LOUISVILLE ISSUES NEW DEMANDS

“Remove or impeach the mayor.” There are two processes in place to do just that. One requires proving that the mayor has done something illegal, and that means he violated the law, not that he has done something you don’t agree was the right course of action. The other is accomplished by waiting to the next election and voting him out. —Andy Albatys This is pathetic and the demands will never be met. You BLM folk are fighting a battle that you will never win because you’re not seeing the larger picture. You’re being used by Satan to further his divide. What you’re doing in the streets is Bible history repeating itself. Hence, why you’re fighting a battle that you will never win.

Because God will win the final war. —Joey Collins

ON: DAN CANON, THE FORMULA FOR POLICE VIOLENCE IN LOUISVILLE

Well said! Hoping though for a different result this time and release of all the transcripts... not holding my breath. —Bob Eiden

ON: THEY WANTED AN ANGEL, BUT SHE WAS ONLY HUMAN,WHY WAVE DELETED THAT STORY ABOUT BREONNA TAYLOR

I believe in simple solutions to simple problems. Report the truth.

News organizations choose what to report based on the narrative they favor. Instead of berating the one that corrected you, get it right. If you don’t know, research instead of being the first to report. Stop choosing four-year-old photos when there are plenty of current ones. Stop pretending the victim/perpetrator/subject is an angel or the devil. Half of the articles reported she was shot in bed — how does that serve the public good? Regardless of where you stand on this topic, this is a pretty significant detail. I agree her job is an irrelevant detail, but then I have to ask — why was it in all of the headlines? —Vilmos Bathory

ON: THORNS AND ROSES, CURFEW APPLIED TO WHERE COPS THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE PROTESTING *Might* be protesting. —Valerie Bock @LegalWriterJD LEOWEEKLY.COM // OCTOBER 14, 2020

EDITOR’S NOTE

FEDS MUST STEP IN TO REMAKE LMPD

By Aaron Yarmuth | ayarmuth@leoweekly.com WHEN RODNEY KING was beaten nearly to death by Los Angeles police officers in 1991, Congress responded by passing the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. It gave the Department of Justice the authority to protect citizens from civil rights abuses by local police departments — essentially the power to police the police.

It’s been a month since the announcement that no criminal charges would be brought against the police officers responsible for killing Breonna Taylor. Still, everything we’ve learned since then — on top of years of scandals and questions of corruption and transparency — further demonstrates that the Louisville Metro Police Department is incapable of repairing itself. LMPD needs a comprehensive overhaul of cops and culture, and it must come from outside the department.

Mayor Greg Fischer needs to request that the DOJ spearhead a comprehensive reform of LMPD through consent decree. A mayor can make this request, as then-mayor of New Orleans Mitch Landrieu did in 2010.

When local police departments exhibit patterns of misconduct, systemic-institutional failures and civil rights abuses — such as excessive uses of force or racial profiling — the DOJ can compel that department through consent decree to solve the problem at an organizational level.

We’re still learning about the institutional failures that led to Breonna Taylor’s death.

Detective Joshua Jaynes allegedly lied in the sworn affidavit used to receive the search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s home.

Former-LMPD Chief Steve Conrad was also lied to, or misled, by those under his command in the following hours and days. (His response was to avoid seeking further information out of concern that he might be pulled into an investigation by the Public Integrity Unit, pitting him against other officers.)

Body camera footage showed that a number of department policies seem to have been violated, to wit showing how Brett Hankison was allowed to walk around Taylor’s apartment discussing bullet casings. He was the only officer charged criminally (for shooting a neighboring apartment).

Recently, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, who was shot during the raid, revealed how he feels about civil rights, as well as about the FBI, writing in an email sent to over 1,000 of his LMPD colleagues: “The position that if you make a mistake during one of the most stressful times in your career, the department and FBI (who aren’t cops and would piss their pants if they had to hold the line) go after you for civil rights violations. Your civil rights mean nothing, but the criminal has total autonomy.”

Even the Public Integrity Unit investigation has been tarnished. A Courier Journal analysis

found PIU, “investigators didn’t ask follow-up questions that would pinpoint what officers knew or didn’t know about who and what they were shooting at in the apartment.”

Further, the PIU, in a summary of the investigation report, outlined ways in which Maj. Kim Burbrink, commander of the Criminal Interdiction Division, injected herself into the investigation challenging investigator’s questions.

While Louisville’s focus at the moment is rightly on the Taylor case, we cannot forget evidence of the LMPD’s toxic culture comprising years of harassment of Black people, civil rights abuses, scandals and cover-ups: the Explorer Sex Scandal; videos of unjustified, harassing traffic stops; the killing of an unarmed, homeless man, William Young; and countless examples of excessive force against peaceful protesters.

All civil rights abuses.

All examples of systemic-organizational failures.

All evidence LMPD needs the DOJ to take control.

Over 40 consent decrees (or similar settlements) have been reached since 1994.

It is a legally binding agreement — enforceable by federal courts — requiring comprehensive reforms made under the DOJ’s guidance.

Reforms can include: improving officer accountability and department transparency; achieving specific hiring and officer-demographic benchmarks; and overhauling training practices, use-of-force policies and basic streetstop procedures.

The DOJ can force reforms unilaterally, in some cases, prohibiting certain uses of force or eliminating problematic department practices.

Or, reforms can be implemented gradually through incentives, grants and collaborative reform projects.

Not all consent decrees, but some, have produced transformative, permanent cultural changes.

After 12 years under a consent decree (from 2001 to 2013), Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck said, “It has been the catalyst for incredible change in my Police Department.

We’ve become accountable, we’ve become transparent and we’ve become more effective than we’ve ever been.”

In recent years, the Baltimore mayor and police chief argued against efforts from the DOJ to delay their consent decree: “After a consent decree experience, when it’s done right, that police department is forever changed for the better,” said Police Commissioner Kevin Davis in 2017.

In Louisville, we hope the FBI investigation leads to a consent decree. Because we have lost confidence that the city alone can fix its police department. •

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BY LEO WEEKLY We at LEO offer our sincerest congratulations to The Courier Journal for winning its 11th Pulitzer Prize, this one for studiously and unrelentingly chronicling the avalanche of last-minute pardons and commutations handed out by the corrupt, craven and mercenary Gov.-reject Matt Bevin.

We are fortunate as a city to have it as our paper. In a poignant tribute and plea, former CJ reporter Howard Fineman wrote in The Washington Post that the paper’s latest plaudit “should remind us (and surely was meant to remind us), that what we call ‘local’ journalism is profoundly essential to self-government as the Founders designed it, and to the American way of life.” He cited a study that found nearly 1,800 newspapers have closed since 2004, and he said, “Virtually all of the remaining 7,000 are thinner and weaker than ever.” He implored you to subscribe to the paper because, as the op-ed’s headline said: “My former newspaper is struggling — and is more important than ever.”

This is all true, but there is more.

What Fineman’s op-ed neglected to underscore is that the news media landscape extends far beyond daily newspapers and must include alternative weeklies.

Alt-weeklies also provide “local journalism” and are “profoundly essential.” They are critically important because they work in the margins and areas where newspapers do not or cannot. They provide free-to-read accounts of a community’s culture, ethos and priorities. Good ones are not substitutes for daily newspapers, although their coverage and stories may overlap.

At LEO, our goal since John Yarmuth founded it in 1990 has been to dive deeply into areas that The CJ and other mainstream news media have neglected, dismissed or overlooked. Accordingly, LEO is the authority on local music, theater and visual arts. We publish A&E guides twice a year. Every issue of LEO has (or had) at least two food and drink stories, including reviews, a beer column and insiders’ views on the service industry. We offer a range of commentary, which, admittedly, skews left but also has included conservative and right-leaning views (such as a column from, gasp — Mitch McConnell). We print op-eds that The CJ would not, such as from Black Lives Matter. We champion equality and provide a voice to the LGBTQ+ community. Our printed and online lists celebrate the best things to do in the region to help you plan your week and weekends. We also publish news stories that are written differently (we’d like to say, more interestingly) than a newspaper would run. They include primary source stories (first-person) and stories told through alternative (there is that word again) formats. Our core topics include those that the daily paper rarely touches, such as urban planning, race relations, labor and the environment (since The CJ’s ace enviro reporter moved on). And, they include media criticism (we are looking at you CJ, but we have given ourselves thorns) because who else is going to do it?

In short, Louisville has at least six ways you can get your news, counting TV and radio.

We try to not be like any of them.

We try not to tell the same story.

We try to be more interesting and less predictable.

And the hundreds of thousands of people who read us and click on our stories tell us we are doing something right.

Alas, LEO, as you might imagine, also has been crippled by this virus, as have alt-weeklies across the nation.

LEO is free to pick up and relies almost entirely on advertising. No subscriptions. No grants. No membership drive for donations twice a year.

The backbone of our advertising is entertainment (think: music, ballet, theater and visual art) and food and drink. Similarly, we distribute to places where people enjoy those activities and relax (think: bars, coffee shops, restaurants, etc.), and those have been closed. LEO already runs lean and has not had to furlough any editorial staff — yet — but our editorial budget has been cut by three-quarters. LEO has been online-only mostly since the epidemic began. Starting with this issue, our goal is to publish a print edition every other week. Fortunately, we have been an outlier among alt-weeklies, so far.

A story from NiemanLab listed more than 40 alt-weeklies that had taken steps to survive within just days of us all realizing this pandemic was real.

Many suspended print publication, others furloughed staff and, still, others asked for donations.

They included Pittsburgh City Paper, which launched a membership program: “in order to help fight some of these losses, with the hope that readers who depend on our daily coverage of local news, arts, music, food, and entertainment recognize the importance in the work we do to keep the city informed and want us to continue.”

We like that idea!

Won’t you please consider helping to fund LEO’s mission by underwriting a reporter or providing financial support for more stories?

You could sponsor a reporter to cover a specific topic or issue, such as visual arts or theater or labor… or poverty… or the environment or… you name it.

Perhaps you want to sponsor a weekly column on dance or jazz, or you want to underwrite a series of stories on land use in The West End. You would not have a say in exactly what we write and what gets printed, but you would see more coverage in the area you have selected.

If you are interested, please contact us at: leoweekly.com And, please, if you value LEO and want us to continue to survive and thrive, continue picking up the papers, continue sharing stories on social media and consider advertising if you do not already.

As always but particularly now, thank you for reading LEO, and thanks to all of you who have emailed and called to ask when you would see another printed edition on the news stands.

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A&E BEST LIVESTREAM LOCAL EVENT 1. CARL’S STUCK ON THE COUCH

BEST PLACE TO SEE COMEDY 1. THE CARAVAN COMEDY CLUB

2. TIE: 502 LIVESTREAMERS AND LOUISVILLE PROTESTS 3. TIE: BIG HOWELL AND POSSUM, KENTUCKY DERBY AND LATE FOR DINNER

2. PLANET OF THE TAPES

BEST VIRTUAL ENTERTAINMENT SERIES 1. CARL’S STUCK ON THE COUCH

2. LEAH HALSTON 3. GILDA WABBIT

2. BIG HOWELL & POSSUM 3. ACTORS THEATRE DIRECT

BEST ART GALLERY (THAT IS NOT A MUSEUM) 1. TIM FAULKNER GALLERY 2. REVELRY BOUTIQUE GALLERY 3. QUAPPI PROJECTS

2020 LEO READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS!

...AND THE WINNERS ARE?

All of you.

All of us.

LEO’s Readers’ Choice Awards once again have proven that we live in a community rife with choices, great places to eat, great places to visit and great people to read and follow. The voting this year was tighter and heavier than usual, perhaps because so many people, alas, have had more time to think about life and more time to vote.

Some of the perennial winners earned the title perennial winner, and some new winners burst forth. This year we call 20-Plenty also called for new categories, such as Best Place to Social Distance Outdoors, Best Virtual Entertainment Series and Best and Worst Parts of the Pandemic.

But, enough chitchat — and the winners are!

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BEST LOCAL ALBUM IN 2020 1. LIKE YOU MORE BY KIRIKO KILLS 2. SWEET ACTION BY JACK HARLOW 3. THE WATERFALL II BY MY MORNING JACKET

BEST LOCAL SONG IN 2020 1. WHAT’S POPPIN’ - JACK HARLOW 2. LIKE YOU MORE - KIRIKO KILLS 3. LIFT UP LOUISVILLE - VARIOUS ARTISTS

BEST BAND/MUSICIAN PERFORMING ORIGINAL MUSIC 1. KATIE TOUPIN 2. WHITE REAPER 3. HOWELL DAWDY

BEST COVER BAND 1. JUICE BOX HEROES 2. COVER ME BADD 3. THE RUMORS

BEST LOCAL COMEDIAN 1. TOM MABE 2. KEITH MCGILL 3. TIE: CHRIS VITITOE, HOWELL DAWDY AND SEAN SMITH

3. THE BARD’S TOWN

BEST DRAG QUEEN 1. JADE JOLIE

BEST DRAG KING 1. ROCKY VALENTINO 2. TB SPARROW 3. JOEY PAYGE

BEST JUKEBOX 1. MAGNOLIA BAR 2. NACHBAR 3. PLEASE & THANK YOU

BEST KARAOKE BAR 1. AKIKO’S KARAOKE CLUB 2. NORAEBAR 3. PATRICK’S

BEST LIVE MUSIC VENUE (WHOSE REOPENING YOU’RE MOST ANTICIPATING) 1. HEADLINERS MUSIC HALL 2. THE LOUISVILLE PALACE 3. ZANZABAR

BEST LIVE THEATER VENUE (WHOSE REOPENING YOU’RE MOST ANTICIPATING) 1. ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE 2. THE KENTUCKY CENTER 3. THE LOUISVILLE PALACE

BEST IMPROV TROUPE (WHOSE RETURN TO THE STAGE YOU’RE MOST ANTICIPATING) 1. PROJECT IMPROV 2. LOUISVILLE IMPROVISORS 3. THE INDICATORS

BEST MOVIE THEATER 1. BAXTER AVENUE THEATRES FILMWORKS 2. CINEMARK TINSELTOWN 3. XSCAPE THEATRES

BEST MUSEUM (THAT IS NOT A GALLERY) 1. SPEED ART MUSEUM 2. FRAZIER HISTORY MUSEUM 3. KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER

BEST PERFORMING ARTS GROUP (WHOSE RETURN TO THE STAGE YOU’RE MOST ANTICIPATING) 1. LOUISVILLE BALLET 2. KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE

3. ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE

BEST THEATER PRODUCTION (BETWEEN SEPTEMBER AND MARCH 2020) 1. “DRACULA” — ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE 2. “THE NUTCRACKER” — LOUISVILLE BALLET 3. “LA CAGE AUX FOLLES” — PANDORA PRODUCTIONS

BEST VISUAL ARTIST 1. JOHN BROOKS 2. MARC MURPHY 3. TIE: MATTHEW FULKS AND SYDNEY EWERTH

ATTRACTIONS BEST PLACE TO SOCIAL DISTANCE INDOORS 1. OXMOOR CENTER

BEST NEIGHBORHOOD 1. THE HIGHLANDS

2. LOGAN STREET MARKET

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BEST REUSE OF A HISTORIC BUILDING 1. MICHTER’S FORT NELSON DISTILLERY 2. NOCHE MEXICAN BBQ 3. OLD FORESTER DISTILLING CO.

BEST PLACE FOR FREE ENTERTAINMENT 1. WATERFRONT PARK/ WATERFRONT WEDNESDAYS 2. KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE AT CENTRAL PARK 3. JEFFERSONVILLE RIVERSTAGE

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BEST PLACE TO TAKE KIDS IN THE SUMMER 1. LOUISVILLE ZOO 2. KENTUCKY KINGDOM 3. THE PARKLANDS OF FLOYDS FORK

BEST PLACE TO SWIM 1. LAKESIDE SWIM CLUB 2. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER 3. KENTUCKY KINGDOM

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My Favorite 2020 Memory

BYE, CASTLEMAN STATUE

The weekend of the Charlottesville incident, the John B. Castleman statue in Cherokee Triangle got a bright orange makeover, courtesy of a can of paint, which continued to multiply even after surveillance was installed. As a Highlands resident and then-Nextdoor user, disputes over Castleman were a daily occurrence, with graffiti argued as somehow a much graver concern to public safety than what many saw as a specter of white supremacy. The Castleman statue wasn’t on a registry or in a Confederate uniform, but John Castleman was an eager volunteer for the Confederacy. Once protests over the tragic death of Breonna Taylor began rocking Louisville, the Castleman statue paid the price, quietly removed one morning in early-June to no fanfare. Art should reflect the times, and Castleman’s time is over, a small, but symbolic victory in otherwise troubled times. —Syd Bishop

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BEST RETAIL CURBSIDE SERVICE 1. MAHONIA

BEST CHOCOLATE/CANDY SHOP 1. MUTH’S CANDIES

2. WORK THE METAL

2. CELLAR DOOR CHOCOLATES

3. CARMICHAEL’S BOOKSTORE

3. SCHIMPFF’S CONFECTIONERY

BEST ADULT/EROTIC STORE 1. CIRILLA’S

BEST CAR DEALER 1. NEIL HUFFMAN AUTOMOTIVE GROUP

2. ADAM & EVE 3. LOVE BOUTIQUE

BEST ANTIQUE STORE 1. FLEUR DE FLEA 2. MELLWOOD ANTIQUES & INTERIORS 3. GREEN COLLAR STUDIO

BEST BICYCLE SHOP 1. SCHELLER’S FITNESS & CYCLING 2. PARKSIDE BIKES 3. ON YOUR LEFT CYCLES

2. BACHMAN AUTO GROUP 3. OXMOOR AUTO GROUP

BEST CLOTHING BOUTIQUE 1. DOT FOX CLOTHING CULTURE 2. COLLECTIONS BOUTIQUE 3. DARLING STATE OF MIND

BEST COMIC BOOK SHOP 1. THE GREAT ESCAPE 2. THE DESTINATION 3. HEROES COMICS AND GAMING

My Favorite Place To Get Your Inner Child A Drink

GRIND BURGER KITCHEN

BEST CONSIGNMENT SHOP 1. SASSY FOX

BEST STORE FOR BOURBON 1. WESTPORT WHISKEY & WINE

2. MARGARET’S FINE CONSIGNMENTS

2. OLD TOWN WINE & SPIRITS

3. EYEDIA

3. TOTAL WINE & MORE

BEST FLEA MARKET 1. THE FLEA OFF MARKET

BEST LOCAL BOOKSTORE 1. CARMICHAEL’S BOOKSTORE

2. FLEUR DE FLEA

2. BARNES & NOBLE

3. AWESOME FLEA MARKET

3. HALF PRICE BOOKS

BEST INSTRUMENT SHOP 1. DOO WOP SHOP

BEST LOCAL HARDWARE STORE 1. OSCAR’S HARDWARE

2. GUITAR EMPORIUM

2. BROWNSBORO HARDWARE

3. MOM’S MUSIC

3. KEITH’S HARDWARE

BEST JEWELRY STORE 1. KOERBER’S FINE JEWELRY

BEST LOCAL HEALTH FOOD STORE 1. RAINBOW BLOSSOM NATURAL FOOD MARKETS

2. SHANE CO. 3. DAVIS JEWELERS

BEST LIQUOR STORE 1. OLD TOWN WINE & SPIRITS 2. TOTAL WINE & MORE 3. LIQUOR BARN

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Some days, run-of-the-mill pandemic drinking just isn’t enough. Some days you need a special treat, something bright and cheery, just a little sweet, in beguiling packaging with a bendy straw you can nostalgically stab into a colorful plastic pouch.

You know, like an adult Capri Sun, which is exactly what Grind Burger Kitchen at 829 E. Market St. serves up on their to-go cocktail menu. And, oh… the choices, so much more tempting than fruit punch and surfer cooler. There’s the Spicy Cranberry Margarita (with smoked jalapeño simple syrup), Prickly Pear Margarita, Wisconsin Old Fashioned, Uffda Mule, and my two favorites: Cherry Soda and Grind Iced Tea. The Cherry Soda is made with gin, Luxardo liqueur, Peychaud’s bitters and Grind’s Capri Sun — to go!

Luxardo cherry juice. The Grind Iced Tea is a Long Island-style tea with pineapple rum, Tito’s Vodka, Mala Idea Mezcal, Grind’s house triple sec mix and a splash of Coca-Cola. They’re a party-favor splash of fun in an otherwise party-less time. So whimsical, they make you happy before you even take a drink. —Laura Snyder

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Bardstown Road takes a lot of crap from those of us who “remember what it used to be like.” Sure, there’s plenty of room for improvement. But, it remains my favorite route for ambulatory exercise.

Between COVID-19 quarantining and entertaining a 1-year-old who wants nothing more than to be outside (and loves watching cars), walking up, down and around Bardstown Road several days a week is our path of choice. Yes, it’s busy and loud. In many spots the sidewalks are battered to rubble, while others are choked by overgrown plants, poles, trash cans and parking meters. And, of course, there are a decent number of smoke shops.

(Plus, in the evenings, you JD Yarmuth finds cat love on Bardstown Road. risk an occasional contact high from passing cars.) But there’s a lot more nuance to Bardstown Road — economic, social and cultural character that can’t be gleaned through a car window on your daily commute. And, while 2020 has exacerbated everything to its extreme, Bardstown Road remains the best bellwether for the city. I’m seeing a variety of new, locally-owned eateries, including small specialty shops that may never be rated by food critics — for example, Healthy & Delicious, The Sweet Spot or Rawnaissance Desserts. I love seeing how some establishments are adjusting to the coronavirus and changing health guidelines. Sol Aztecas, for example, turned their plain, storefront sidewalk into a beautiful outdoor seating area. And, most important, there are kittens. Every walk includes kittens at Purrfect Day Cat Cafe, where you can walk right up to the window and watch a playroom full of kittens — playful kittens, sleepy kittens, kittens too small to jump onto the windowsill (all kittens having the best kitten time, while waiting for their permanent home and family). If at any point if you want to escape the noise and traffic, there are ample detour opportunities to beautiful neighborhoods or parks. But, if you really want some entertainment on your walk, and a sense of what is going on in the city, nowhere is better than Bardstown Road. —Aaron Yarmuth

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Whenever I am overwhelmed by 2020, when I am tired of scrolling through Twitter and shaking my fist at strangers and situations out of my control, I find refuge on another corner of the internet: One that is so pure, or should I say purr, that I momentarily shake the dread that comes with life in a crumbling republic.

The Animal Protection Association Facebook page, documenting the lives of the Jeffersonville cat shelter’s feline occupants and adoptees, is full of photos of bonded cats snuggling, videos of kitten high jinks, and heartwarming updates on cats finding their furever home. A favorite resident of mine is the The toothsome Noel. snaggle-toothed Noel, whose protruding fangs and black coat have earned her the nickname “Vampire Kitty.”And then there’s Bungee, a slave to Party Mix treats who gets results by “begging.”Both are not available for adoption (more scrolling fodder for me), but there are plenty of other page regulars that are. The shelter posts with such enthusiasm and frequency, you’d think their furballs were as famous as Grumpy Cat (RIP, little guy.) You’ll also see posts asking for donations and volunteers, and the content is so good — and so needed — that you might as well chip in. —Danielle Grady

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There are several layers to the magic of a crowd, but people watching is very high in the power rankings. It’s how we learn about behavior patterns, style and how humans can be remarkably kind or gigantic assholes. According to official COVID-19 data, bar fights, strangers making out with each other in public and random sidewalk screaming matches about unmeasurable pieces of pop culture are down a staggering 300,000% this year. Humanity, in all of its ridiculous drunken glory, is lagging a bit behind on Saturday night antics. But, during the pandemic, another, maybe better (although more depressing), form of people watching emerged in the metro parks. During shutdown, Cherokee Park was packed, a place to escape to. As the data on the virus shifted, so did people’s attitudes. There were peaks of collective paranoia, everyone being extremely cautious. And there was also the weekend that marked where everyone stopped giving a fuck. When the bars reopened, half the crowd vanished. At least we’re still predictable.

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THE BEST AND WORST OF THE PANDEMIC — YOUR ANSWERS THE BEST PART OF THE PANDEMIC 24/7 with my kids

Cherokee Park without cars

Able to finish projects

Clean air

Family time and getting to know neighbors Fewer expectations

Absolutely nothing

Cleaning out closets

Fewer obligations

Alcohol to-go

Fostering a dog

All the time home

Coming to the realization that you are not in control and realizing that god is the only one who is

Gardening

Men don’t tell me smile I’m in a mask hahahahahaha

Alone time

Cooking more at home

Getting all the $ off unemployment

More time to read books without apology!

An excuse to wear pajamas 24/7

Daydrinking

Getting perspective

My now-regular poop schedule

Andy Beshear is governor & not Bevin

Discovering carry-out restaurants

Going to bed early

My wife

Appreciating my spouse and home

Dogs thrived

Having a baby

My wife cooking

Appreciating the restaurants we have

Doing creative things

Having a clear picture of who is stupid

Nice reset to get your life back on track

Avoiding annoying people

Don’t spend anything

No Derby crowds

Backyard hangs

Don’t have to share my weed

Having adult children come home for 3+ months

Being able to deep clean my house

Easy to make excuses not to hang out

I feel there is a better sense of community and loving the Ville

No March Madness

Being disguised by face mask not having to wear makeup

Eating while being sad

I have hobbies again!

No more commuting downtown

Everything

I look good in a mask

No small talk

Excuse not to go to dance parties

Introverts’ paradise

Non-Trumpers helping each other out

Excuse to sit at home

Keeping my job

Not a damn thing

Exploring local parks/trails

Learned to play the ukulele

Not as much traffic

Extended vacation

Less idiots outside

Not dying

Extra time for my houseplants

Lots of alcohol

Not smelling people’s bad breath

Being stuck with him Being together Better public and personal hygiene Capitalism on the brink Carl Stuck

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Lowered appearance standards Meeting my boyfriend right before we both lost our jobs and we ended up quarantining together

No hugging

Not wearing pants

Saving lots of money not going out

Opening a business

Seeing neighbors walking whom I’ve never met before

Purging stuff in my house Rediscovering passions Reevaluating life goals

Spending time with my grandma Still got married

Stimulus check

Watching a lot of movies

That’s a sick joke, and that’s coming from me

Witnessing folks’ action of empathy toward others during a time of need and care <3

Time to learn a new skill

Work from home

Walking around Highlands and Cherokee Park

Working out Zooming with my friends

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Boredom drinking

Impact on non-profit work

No school

A whole summer going to waste!!

Buffets closed

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Acute suicidal ideation

Can’t hug the homies

Lack of fun

No visiting mom in long-term care

All of it

Canceled vacations

Lack of leadership

No Waterfront Wednesday

All the businesses that went out of business

Canceling live events

No yoga classes

All the closed restaurants and bars

Can’t hug friends

Loneliness, death, isolation, lack of normalcy

All the time home

COVID and fear of catching it

Almost losing my business

Dead people

Andy Beshear Anti-maskers

Deaths and sickness, not being with people, lack of national leadership, no trust in government

Bars either closed or closing at 10 p.m.

Delay with unemployment

My friend dying from COVID

Being alone

Depression and alcoholism

My hair

Being at home with kids

Depression and weight gain

News

Being away from family

Donald Trump

No Bourbon & Beyond

Being away from friends

Entertainment industry destroyed

No church picnics/music

Being isolated from people

Everyone thinking they are a health expert

No dance parties

Being jobless

Everything

No Derby

Witnessing folk’s lack of empathy toward others in a time of need and care

Being with my wife

Horrible restaurant customers

No hair color

Zoom fatigue

Boredom

Idiots who deny it

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Not being able to get married Nothing to do Other people acting like there is no pandemic Paranoia Politicizing the virus Stress The fear of each other, and neighbors turning on each other The malicious ignorance of so many that has become apparent Unknown

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Harrods Creek Park is northern Jefferson County’s best kept secret when it comes to hiking trails. This park located in Prospect, boasts well maintained and clearly marked trails totaling just under three miles. There are four color-coded trails — red, blue, orange and green. Each trail is clearly marked and has easy to Blue or green trail, you cannot go wrong. identify mile markers along the way. The red, blue and green trails are shaded. The orange trail, the easiest of the four trails is open and offers views that parallel the creek. Everyone who enters the park begins on the blue trail. However, it’s best to decide which path you want to take using the trail map prior to entering. Once in, you are in for an earthy treat as the paths offer a unique experience from easy to moderate. If you really have to stop and soak in the views, there are swinging benches along the orange trail that offer an even closer view of the creek and a small beach area. Have I walked all four trails? Absolutely! I’ve also challenged myself by running a few of the trails as well. So, lace up, grab some friends and get one with nature! —Kenya Turner

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My Favorite Place To Win My Children’s Approval Without Breaking The Bank

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Every parent knows even the most well-behaved child is going to ask to buy something every time they enter a store. Dealing with the dreaded store tantrum is a rite of passage for parenting, and while it may feel like the most embarrassing thing ever, it’s all right. No one wants to say “no” to their child, but it’s part of the job. Besides, money doesn’t grow on trees, and daddy has a mortgage to pay. The truth is, your young kids don’t actually want expensive things, they just want… things. The answer is Dollar Tree. Walk in, hand them a cart and tell them they can buy any 10 things in the store and watch as their eyes widen, and you instantly become parent of the year. It’s probably going to be a cart full of green glitter slime, potato chips and nail polish, but that’s the child equivalent of living like a rock star. —Talon Hampton

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Domino is always down for a walk through the park, meeting new people and he seems to like other dogs too! He’s quickly stolen the hearts of all of our staff Domino and we want nothing more than Domino to have the best home and family. Could that be with you? If so, schedule an appointment to meet this 12 lb angel today! Domino is neutered, micro-chipped and up-to-date on all vaccinations. Schedule an appointment to meet Domino at the Main Campus, 241 Steedly Drive, by visiting kyhumane.org/dogs today!

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She’s a fantastic snuggler and enjoys playing with any and all toys. Dogs? Not a big fan, but she might get there with time. Other cats? She loves ‘em! Won’t you give this girl a chance and take her home? Mimi is spayed, microchipped, and up-to-date on her shots. Head over to kyuhmane.org/cats to schedule an adoption appointment to meet her at our East Campus, 1000 Lyndon Lane, today!

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The first time I encountered the Buy Black Lou app was when all my Facebook friends were going wild over the farm-fresh produce box from Barbour’s Farm. COVID-19 had just rocked our worlds, and about 10 of my friends were sharing how they had picked up a box of produce for $30 in what we’d soon call a contactless transaction. Loving entrepreneurship like I do, I knew this was a trend I had to get on fast! A couple months later, I met and hired Ebbs & Lowe Paint Company & More, an interior finish contractor, for a small design project I sourced on Buy Black Lou. As one of the 35,000 members of the Buy Black Lou Facebook community and app users, I got to see all the times Steve Ebbs was tagged on painting and carpentry recommendations. I love what Steve did for my office at WorkThrive — a huge, 15-foot dry erase wall for all our clients’ brilliant business ideas! I talked with Buy Black Lou founder Tanika Bryant about why she started her economic empowerment Facebook community in May 2019. She told me she was trying to be more intentional after learning that a dollar earned in a Black community circulates for six hours while a dollar earned in a non-Black community circulates for months. Now, Tanika leads the Buy Black Lou Facebook community, publishes the Buy Black Lou Directory (available on the web and as a smartphone app), and drives economic development through the nonprofit Black Business Association. Promoting Black-owned businesses, BOBs, is a big part of Tanika’s mission, and between the Facebook community and the app, Buy Black Lou delivers! I recently discovered a new favorite lunch salad from The Salad Chick, and I cannot wait to go to Four Pegs for a round of smoked wings and beers. Every time I need to source a contractor, I check Buy Black Lou first. It’s now my favorite Facebook buying channel and my go-to for patronizing Louisville BOBs. Like Tanika told me, with Buy Black Lou, “We get to see all this Black excellence that we didn’t know was out there!” You can find your next Black doctor, lawyer, chef, and fashion consultant at theblackbusinessapp.com. Be sure to list your BOB in the directory and to patronize BOBs on the regular. It’s great for the Black community, it’s great for non-Black communities, and it’s great for Louisville. —Megan Campbell Smith

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LOCAL MUSICIANS TALK ABOUT COVERING THE MISFITS ON LOUISVILLE BABYLON III

By Syd Bishop | leo@leoweekly.com LOUISVILLE IS FOR LOVERS released the third installment Oct. 2 of Louisville Babylon, a once-every-13-years compilation of local artists covering songs by the Misfits. We asked a few of the musicians featured on the comp to break down their songs.

DRIFT CITY — ‘SHE’

“I chose this song partly because it packs such a punch of heavy hooks in a short burst of time, and the narrative of the story. Both known and unknown parts of the story allow the listener’s imagination to fill in the rest. Working during the quarantine, besides giving me something productive to focus on, allowed me to re-sharpen my production skills. For this, I was quite pleased and grateful.” — J. Rivers

SEASON OF THE WITCH — ‘BLOODFEAST’

“Season of the Witch has always written songs about old-school horror movies and true-to-life horrors. We accent the music with gore makeup and costumes for our live performances. The Misfits did this back in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s. They were pioneers of the genre, one which we are trying to keep alive. We chose the song “Bloodfeast.” A great song, and we’re all fans of the film. We’re currently a three-piece band, with two members in Louisville, and one in Cincinnati. With the COVID shutdown, we sent our drum and guitar tracks to our bassist/vocalist in Cincinnati to record his parts. He sent them back and we mixed the track at our practice space. Fangs to [Louisville is for Lovers Founder] John King and all of the other bands involved with this project. Was a lot of fun and great to focus on in this strange time in history.” —Jared Glenn Goacher

COBRA JET — ‘WE ARE 138’

My wife Natalie and I recorded a number of songs this spring during the early days of quarantine, ranging from bluegrass to the hard rock of Cobra Jet. We had previously recorded all our Planetary Overdrive albums at home, so this was no different, although due to contact limiting I played the drums. ‘We Are 138’ is actually one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar when I was first starting out in the late ‘90s, so I thought it was the perfect choice for us on this compilation. It’s always a blast working with John [King], and we were thrilled to be a part of it. We enjoy the mystery of the numbers, the sci-fi imagery of the lyrics and getting a chance to bust out at full speed!” —Daniel Sturdevant

PRAYER LINE — ‘THE CRAWLING EYE’

“We wanted to cover a Graves-era Misfits song because we love the music, but Michael Graves is trashy dogshit. So here is a version of ‘The Crawling Eye’ that you can listen to without thinking about that asshole.” —Jake Hellman

TENDER MERCY — ‘WHERE EAGLES DARE’

“What are the chances that two of my all time favorite bands write incredible songs with the exact same title? I hope Louisville Is For Lovers decides to do an Iron Maiden covers album next so I can cover theirs!” —Mark Kramer

HAWKS — ‘AMERICAN NIGHTMARE’

“We’re more of an old-school rock-and-roll band, so when it was time to pick a song, I went with ‘American Nightmare.’ It’s kind of a misfit in the Misfits catalog in that it’s less punk and more rockabilly, but it was a perfect fit for Hawks. The title also seemed relevant, unfortunately. To track the song at a distance, I recorded the rhythm guitar and vocals to a click and shared that with the band. It took a while for everyone to record their parts, as

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we don’t all have our own equipment. But when it all came together, it had that perfect lo-fi, vintage recording kind of vibe.” —Danny Cash

JESSICA BAILIFF & JOHN KING — ‘HYBRID MOMENTS’

“My new friend, John King, sent an invitation to add to a recording he’d made of ‘Hybrid Moments,’ which was already gorgeous on its own — beautiful voice and perfectly elemental guitar. It needed nothing else, but it was super fun to add a couple of parts, and to get to know him better along the way.” —Jessica Bailiff

PARDIEU — ‘LONDON DUNGEON’

“‘London Dungeon’ is a perfect song for 2020. As a people, we continually find ourselves stuck, trapped, locked up by race, society, politics... forgetting that the cure for these perceived inadequacies exist within us.” —Brian Walter •

FOOD & DRINK

Can a Chinese meal in the U.S. be complete without a crisp fortune cookie?

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JADE PALACE’S DIM SUM MAKES GREAT TAKEOUT

By Robin Garr | LouisvilleHotBytes.com I’VE BEEN A BIG FAN of Jade Palace’s dim sum ever since the late 1980s, when this popular eatery in what is now Westport Village introduced Louisville to these tasty, bite-size Chinese snacks.

But the other day I had a pandemicrelated revelation: In these days when many of us are wary about dining indoors at a crowded restaurant, dim sum makes a great takeout alternative. In fact, Jade Palace is closed to dining in during the pandemic, but it does offer takeout, curbside pickup and delivery.

So, we came, we saw, we carried out, and I was as happy as could be to spread an array of favorite, Chinese small plates across our dining-room table.

Jade Palace’s online menu covers a vast range of about 300 familiar Chinese and Chinese-American dishes; the “Chef’s Specialties” section offers an extensive list of Hong Kong cuisine, with most entrées ranging from $9.99 to $16.99.

I recommend the dim sum, though.

That’s where Jade Palace really shines.

You’ll have to scroll down to the second page of the online menu to find it, just past the chow mein and chop suey.

Once you’re there, you’ll find some 75 of these bite-size delights organized under small, medium and large and priced to fit: Small items are mostly $3.99. Medium-size dim sum are mostly $4.99, while the large

A selection of takeout dim sum from Jade Palace, neatly packed in white plastic foam boxes, fills our dinner table. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.

and extra-large items range from around $8 to $12.

It’s customary to conclude a leisurely dim sum lunch with a larger rice or noodle dish or main course soup, and Jade Palace’s menu offers plenty of these options, too, most from $10 to $16.

There’s no way I can describe all 75 different dim sum dishes in this space, so let’s just talk about the goodies that we brought home. Our order came out to curbside right on time and stayed hot in its white, plasticfoam packages.

An old favorite, beef balls ($3.99), was a hit. Three golf ball-size beef rounds were ground to a soft, almost creamy puree with minced ginger adding a tasty bite, plus elusive anise aromas of five spice. They had been steamed in wilted lettuce leaf wrappers.

Another favorite, lotus leaves stuffed with rice and meat ($4.99), was milder in flavor than I remember from past visits.

It consisted of two, large uncooked lotus leaves wrapped around plump, squarish packets of creamy short-grain rice in a sticky wad concealing chunks of boneless chicken breast, finely cubed bits of whitish pork and a fat shrimp.

Fried, browned squares of turnip cake ($3.99), a dish not overly familiar to Western tastes, made an unexpected flavor treat.

Four half-inch thick, slightly gelatinous

Roast duck pieces are rubbed with anise-scented five spice.

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Chinese broccoli and black mushroom noodle soup comes with the broth separate for you to mix at serving time.

3-inch by 3-inch rectangles of thick, turnip puree had been fried until well browned, not crisp, on the exterior. They’re good on their own but better soaked in soy sauce, and they are available in a similar version made from taro.

It’s not a dim sum spread without at least one bao, which are soft rounds of purewhite steamed wheat bread with a treat at the center. Lotus paste buns ($3.99) made a good choice. The tender buns bore a generous dab of sweet brown lotus paste with the consistency and something like the flavor of apple butter.

A larger dish, Chinese broccoli and black mushroom noodle soup ($10.34), is packaged for takeout with the dry ingredients neatly laid out in a plastic box and a quantity of clear broth in a separate tub so you can mix it yourself. It included a generous mound of thick, soft, crinkly Chinese wheat noodles, four fat, beautiful black-mushroom caps and a bed of perfectly cooked gai lan (Chinese broccoli) swimming in rich, darkbrown mushroom juices. These ingredients’ flavors blended with the broth to make an appetizing soup, and the meaty, umami-rich mushrooms and gai lan brought woodsy flavors to the noodles.

Sadly, another old favorite, an extralarge serving of roast duck ($9.19) proved a disappointment. Normally, this dish is

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served fresh-roasted; the crisp and aromatic skin painted with a five spice coating on deeply flavored, juicy meat in rich, fatty and delicious skin. This duck, unfortunately, was served in whole, dry portions that were neither crisp nor juicy but just tired.

Dim sum is not always savory. Sweet bites also abound on the menu, and it’s a mistake not to include at least one for dessert. Happily, sesame balls with sweet red bean paste come free with dim sum orders of $30 or more. Small rounds of wheat pastry are covered with white and black sesame seeds and stuffed with a dab of fruity red bean paste. The combination of flavors reminded me of nothing so much as sweet, rich peanut butter.

Crisp fortune cookies in cello wrappers and a quantity of soy sauce packets came in the takeout bag. Bring your own chopsticks.

All that dim sum came to $37.68, plus a $7.50 tip and an extra $1.50 added to the receipt as something called a convenience fee. •

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This dinner and drag event is also a tribute to Amirage Saling, a trailblazing trans woman working in HIV services who died last month. “Organizers said: “Amirage was TRIBUTE awarded the 2019 Kent School Student of the Year Award and was the first transgender person to carry a school/college banner at the UofL commencement ceremony. She was also a trailblazer in the LGBTQ community in Louisville and in the HIV services field.” To help honor her, some of the city’s best performers have been tapped: Karmen Kazzi, TB Sparrow, Shante, Leah Halston, AJ Allen Montrese, Gilda Wabbit, Ominous Situation and Felicia D. Knight. Your tickets are for your seat; you can also buy food and cocktails from The Café at the Amirage Saling. | PHOTO BY ANTONIO PANTOJA. performance. —LEO

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Sauerbeck Family Drive-in | 3210 D.W. Griffith Lane, La Grange, Kentucky redpintix.com | $28 per car | 6:30-11:30 p.m.

LEO Readers’ Choice Party this year is heading to the drive-in.

PARTY OF THE YEAR This evening of creepy, campy film is a double-feature showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” — with Acting Against Cancer’s shadow cast — and “Little Shop of Horrors.” Basically, expect a night of entertainment as offbeat as LEO is. As always, the celebration will commemorate the winners of the LEO Weekly Readers’ Choice Awards. Strict social distancing rules will be enforced for your safety (because we’re socially responsible, too): All customers must maintain 6 feet of space, including in line for the bathroom, and only one household per vehicle is allowed in. You won’t be able to get close to strangers, but we encourage you to get to know Sauerbeck Drive-In’s concession stand, with food available for drive-thru or curbside pickup. —LEO

STAFF PICKS

FRIDAY, OCT. 16

SATURDAY, OCT. 11

There are two ~eerily~ similar outdoor movie events happening this Friday: one in BOO New Albany, one in Louisville!

Jefferson Square Park | 301 S. Sixth St. | Search Facebook | Free | 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Movies In The Park!

Spooky Carnival Movie Nights Jefferson Square Park 301 S. Sixth St. , Louisville | Search Facebook | Free | 5 p.m.

The Black Women’s Collective is now hosting a weekly Halloween carnival at Jefferson Square Park — the hub for Louisville’s racial justice protests. This Friday, there will be a pumpkin decorating contest, food and two movies, including “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (for the fam) and “It Chapter 1” (for the brave).

Movie in the Park | Bicknell Park 315 Silver Street, New Albany | Search Facebook | Free | 6 p.m.

Bring the kids and your already carved pumpkins for a contest and a showing of “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” (The top 10 Jack O’Lanterns will earn a prize.) Social distacing will be enforced, with “family circles” painted in the grass for each group, with a limit of eight people per circle. Spots are first-come, first-served. —Danielle Grady

Breonna’s Roots Protest Homecoming Harvest Festival This fall festival hosted by White ACTIVISM Radicals Against Thoughtless Hate is infused with activism.

There will be a chicken dumpling and apple dumpling cook-off, kids activities, games and free food. But, the parade will also be a march with wagon floats, and demanding justice for Breonna Taylor will still be at the center of it all. The event will benefit Feed the West, as well, which is bringing free groceries to The West End. —LEO

FRIDAY, OCT. 16 AND 17

Irish Fleadh Louisville Presented By The Ancient Order Of Hibernians

Christy’s Garden - Paristown | 720 Brent St. | Search Facebook $10-$25 | Times vary Music, food, pints and laughs are all FUN things 2020 has us yearning for. An Irish Fleadh is just that — a festival of music and fun. The Ancient Order of Hibernians (in partnership with The Cafe) are hosting two days of Irish culture including food, beer, cocktails, vendors and Paristown — Imagine a Place. live music. Live music Friday includes Derby Boys and Drunk & Sailor. Then, tailgate with Irish food and drinks and “Watch the Irish with the Irish” on Saturday, as UofL plays Notre Dame in football at 2:30 p.m. Later, live music picks back up with Celtica Fae, and Tony and the Tanlines (“who claim to be Irish for the day,” say organizers). Each night includes a bagpiper call to attention, as well as an Irish blessing and tapping with Goodwood Brewing. Tickets include outdoor table seating. —LEO

SATURDAY, OCT. 17

Lipstick Wars Poetry Slam: SAY HER NAME Edition Encore on 4th | 630 S. Fourth St. | Search Facebook | $10 | 7 p.m.

It’s been a long year since the POETRY Lipstick Wars, but we’re so happy they’re back. The sixth annual all-women poetry slam, hosted by poet Brandon “B Shatter” Harrison, features eight BIPOC poets. There couldn’t be a more important time to hear from the spoken word artists and, as organizers say, “celebrate and uplift the slain black women who have lost their lives to police brutality and say their name!”

The three finalists will compete at Black Harvest on Halloween. Masks are required for all attendees. —LEO LEOWEEKLY.COM // OCTOBER 14, 2020

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STAFF PICKS

SATURDAY, OCT. 17

THROUGH SUNDAY, NOV. 1

The Mammoth | 744 S. 13th Street | Search Facebook | $10-$20 | 7 p.m.

Virtual stream | actorstheatre.org | Pay what you can, $10 and up | Any time

Feed The Revolution: A Live Music Benefıt

‘Dracula: A Radio Play’

Socially-distanced, outdoor concerts are starting to pop up around town, and this one features Vox Populi! (POC psychedelic improv/ funk), Furiosa (femme punk), Kids MUSIC Born Wrong (bluesy, rowdy punk), Peter Wesley (hip-hop) and JP Wright (folk singer-songwriter). The show will benefit Feed The Revolution, a coalition of local gardeners restoring West End community gardens. S’mores packets will be available. Ramsi’s Cafe on the World will be selling food and drinks. Consider bringing a blanket that you would also be willing to donate at the end of the evening.—LEO

Peter Wesley.

THROUGH NOV. 21

SATURDAY, OCT. 17

Smokey’s Discount Tobacco Outlet School Bus Figure 8 Race

Sportsdrome Speedway | 1207 Kopp Lane, Clarksville | sportsdromeonline.com Prices vary | 5-11 p.m.

School buses hurtling along a figure eight track makes for a pretty thrilling race. And, this will be the only such event at the Sportsdrome Speedway DON’T MISS THE BUS of the year. —LEO

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Actors Theatre won’t let COVID-19 CLASSIC prevent the annual resurrection of the Prince of Darkness. “Dracula” is back, albeit for a very different kind of show. This year’s show features a radio adaptation of the classic story, first produced and performed by Orson Welles in 1938. This adaptation

by Hannah Rae Montgomery and Jenni Page-White summons all of the thrills and suspense characteristics of Dracula, just told Orson Welles at CBS’ studio in 1938. through radio broadcast.

Order your “ticket” through the Actors website (above) and you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the streaming site. The link will remain live until Nov. 1 at midnight. And for real Dracula fans, order the Dracula at Home box ($20), a limited edition box of interactive artifacts, including Professor Van Helsing’s research (circa 1891), a map and artifacts from encounters with the Undead and more. —Aaron Yarmuth

Yup, they race school buses at the Sportsdrome Speedway.

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‘We All Declare For Liberty: 2020 And The Future Of American Citizenship’ Quappi Projects | 827 E. Market St. | quappiprojects.com | Free

Gallerist and artist John Brooks believes “We All Declare for Liberty” to be the most important exhibition his gallery has shown. “Quappi Projects was borne from a ART desire to highlight work reflecting the zeitgeist … ,” said Brooks. “Now more than ever, it could not be more clear that life, let alone art, does not exist separately from the events and movements of society, culture and politics.” The work by the 18 featured artists illustrates their thoughts on politics and citizenship. Their visual exclamations state many important points, but the takeaway is: VOTE! ‘KING LOUI’ by Kenyatta Bosman. | Photography.

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SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage

DIRECT MESSAGES

Q: My husband recently passed away.

He was a wonderful person and we had 12 great years together. He was also very, very organized. His death was an accident, but everything was in order. He even left a note in a sealed envelope for his lawyer to present to me. It was one last love letter, Dan. Our relationship wasn’t perfect, no relationship is, but that’s who he was. Or that’s who I thought he was.

My husband was a very good-looking man who took meticulous care of his body.

We actually met in a gym at a hotel. He wasn’t a conceited, which I think may be because he didn’t come into his looks until he was in his 20s, but he enjoyed the effect his appearance had on others. In addition to his last love letter and other documents, I was given a list with the passwords to my husband’s social media accounts. I made the mistake of looking at his messages on Instagram. He exchanged private images with hundreds of women and gay men all over the world. Not just photos of him shirtless.

Photos of him fully nude from the front and back, images of his genitals, even video clips of him masturbating with his face clearly visible.

I knew he had exhibitionistic tendencies.

Years before we met he got in legal trouble for exposing himself in a public place. He sought help for impulse control and never did something like that again. But he always had a very high libido, much higher than mine, and he masturbated frequently, and public sex remained his biggest fantasy. I didn’t judge or shame him for any of that.

We jokingly called masturbation “his thang” and sex, which we had roughly once a week, “our thang,” and one time, when it seemed safe, we did manage to have sex in public.

He expressed an interest in opening up our relationship years ago, but I am monogamous by nature, and he agreed to keep our relationship closed. And I believe he did: I’ve read through all his messages with these strangers and there are no mentions of any meetings. I’ve seen dozens of messages from people wanted to meet in person, and he always turned them down. But he never turned down a request for more photos.

Help me understand this. I can’t tell anyone else about this and I hate sitting here feeling like my marriage was a lie. ~ Wishing Instagram Didn’t Open Window

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P.S. Also, men? My husband was straight.

Why was he sending photos to gay men?

A: I am so sorry for your loss, WIDOW, and I’m so sorry your grief has been complicated by what you found in your husband’s Instagram account. But you shouldn’t for a moment doubt the love of a man who wanted to make sure you got one last love letter if he should die unexpectedly. That’s not something a person would think to do for a someone they didn’t truly love. Your husband was who you thought he was. Your marriage wasn’t a lie, and your husband wasn’t a liar, WIDOW, it’s just that your grief — like you and your husband and your marriage and anything human beings do or feel or touch — is imperfect.

So far as you know, WIDOW, your husband never cheated on you — and after reading thousands of his DMs, and since your husband didn’t think you would ever see those DMs, it’s safe to say you know everything. And what you know now that you didn’t know before is that sharing pictures with strangers was one of your husband’s “thangs.”

Now I’m going to ask you to make a leap, WIDOW. Instead of seeing what you found on Instagram as evidence of your husband’s unfaithfulness, WIDOW, try to see it as something that made it possible for a man like your husband to remain faithful. Think of those DMs like a pressure-release valve.

On Instagram your husband could expose himself to strangers who wanted to see him naked—avoiding both consent violations and legal trouble—without exposing himself to the temptations of face-to-face encounters, WIDOW, temptations that might’ve led him to violate the monogamous commitment he made to you and, like all people who make monogamous commitments, sometimes struggled to keep.

One person can’t be all things to another person sexually. People can ask for monogamous commitments, of course, and we all have a right to expect consideration and compassion from our partners—and not having the needs we can’t meet or the ways we fall short thrown in our faces is one way our partners demonstrate consideration and compassion. Your husband needed more attention than any one person could ever

provide. He didn’t rub that in your face. He cut an ethical corner by swapping DMs with strangers to meet a need you couldn’t—but if getting that need met the way he did made it possible for him to stay in your marriage and stay faithful to you, perhaps you benefited too. And while your husband should’ve asked for your permission—while he should’ve gotten your okay—if you had found his DMs while he was alive, WIDOW, he would no doubt ask for your forgiveness. Think of the years he gave you and the love he showed you and ask yourself if you could give him the forgiveness he would be asking for if he could. Then give him—give yourself—that gift.

P.S. Your husband’s willingness to accept attention from gay men is another sign he was ones of the good guys. Straight guys who are secure in their sexuality are much more willing to accept compliments from gay men these days—some straight guys, like your husband, even seek them out.

P.P.S. I am, again, so very sorry for your loss.

Q: I sent you a letter yesterday. Today I told my husband I want a divorce. So I didn’t need any advice from you after all. Once I laid it out in my letter to you and thought about the last three years and the amount of struggling with this I have gone through, I realized that it was SO. DAMN. OBVIOUS. There was no question. There was only an answer. Divorce. It has been horrible the last couple days but things are starting to feel a bit better. The worst part is the intense pain that I have caused him. He loves me so much and it is painful to tell him that I do not love him the same way. But I am holding tight to my firm belief that in a few years, he will understand that I did this out of love— for him and for me. Thank you. Even though you did not need to respond, just being there to write to helped. ~Writing Was Enough A: I’m happy it helped just to write the letter, WWE, and I read your letter and I agree: you’re doing the right thing for yourself and your husband. Best of luck to you both. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage savagelovecast.com

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Sternberg Chevrolet intends to sell the following vehicle: 2008 GMC Acadia; VIN: 1GKER33788J185785; Titled Owner: Andrew Conner; Lienholder: Credit Acceptance Corp. To cover unpaid repair and storage fees. Sale will be 14 days from last date of advertisement. Sternberg Chevrolet 6600 Dixie Highway, Louisville KY 40258 502-448-2820.

The auction will take place on 10/27/2020 at 1pm and will be held at storageauctions.com (it will not be held at the facility location): Paulesha Mclean – Unit 130, Deidra Bolen – Unit 180, Moses Rayford – Unit 203, Miranda Jones – Unit 231, Mary Peach – Unit 248, Angela O’Bannon – Unit 249, Dontaizha Jenefor – Unit 294, Gennithia Taylor – Unit 334, Gordon Jackson – Unit 348, Kenya Adams – Unit 461, Lamour Pettway – Unit 506, Treva Parker – Unit 776, Gerald Ferguson – Unit 812.

AT&T Mobility, LLC is proposing to construct a 199-foot overall height monopole telecommunications structure at 4513 Blevins Gap Road, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky (N38° 4’ 28”, W85° 50’ 35.5”). AT&T Mobility, LLC invites comments from any interested party on the impact the proposed undertaking may have on any districts, sites, buildings, structures, or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering, or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under National Historic Preservation Act Section 106. Comments may be sent to Environmental Corporation of America, ATTN: Megan Gomez, 1375 Union Hill Industrial Court, Suite A, Alpharetta, GA 30004 or via email to publicnotice@eca-usa.com. Ms. Gomez can be reached at (770) 667-2040 x 405 during normal business hours. Comments must be received within 30 days of the date of this notice. W3458 DMG Leo’s Towing & Recovery, 510 E Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)-727-9503, has intention to obtain title of a 1996 GMC Sonoma Green VIN # 1GTCS1449T8502182, Owner Stephen Jones of Louisville KY Lien Holder: Unless owner or lienholder objects in written form within 14 days after the last publication of this notice. Leo’s Towing & Recovery, 510 E Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)-727-9503, has intention to obtain title of a 2008 kia spectra silver VIN #KNAFE121185508500 , Owner WESTERN RESERVE GROUP LOUISVILLE KY Lien Holder: Unless owner or lienholder objects in written form within 14 days after the last publication of this notice. Leo’s Towing & Recovery, 510 E Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)-727-9503, has intention to obtain title of a 2014 DODGE CHARGER BLACK VIN #2C3CDXBG1EH146483 ,Owner PATRICE CHATMAN OR LARITHA GOLD LOUISVILLE KY Lien Holder: Unless owner or lienholder objects in written form within 14 days after the last publication of this notice.

Leo’s Towing & Recovery, 510 E Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)-727-9503, has intention to obtain title of a 1994 PONT BONNEVILLE GREEN VIN #IG2HX52L9R4262905, Owner PAUL LEWIS LOUISVILLE KY Lien Holder: Unless owner or lienholder objects in written form within 14 days after the last publication of this notice. Leo’s Towing & Recovery, 510 E Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)-727-9503, has intention to obtain title of a 2005 Chevy Monteca white VIN #2G1WW12EX59130655 , Owner Michael Moley Louisville Ky Lien Holder: Unless owner or lienholder objects in written form within 14 days after the last publication of this notice. Leo’s Towing & Recovery, 510 E Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)-727-9503, has intention to obtain title of a 2007 Ford Freestyle Tan VIN # 1FMDK03147GA09667 , Owner JASON JOHNSON LOUISVILLE KY Lien Holder: Unless owner or lienholder objects in written form within 14 days after the last publication of this notice. Leo’s Towing & Recovery, 510 E Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)-727-9503, has intention to obtain title of A Ford F150 White VIN # 1FTRF18L91NA00643, Owner GONZALO BUSTO LOUISVILLE KY Lien Holder: Unless owner or lienholder objects in written form within 14 days after the last publication of this notice.

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