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State Rep. Charles Booker’s “From the hood to the holler” campaign is genius! What mid- to low-income Kentuckian doesn’t identify with that (even if one does not reside in a hood nor a holler!)? He is exciting and charismatic, unlike Amy McGrath for whom I voted. I can’t wait for Booker to give this his best shot! I personally know a lot of people who would have voted Booker but their ballots had already been mailed! —Gayle White Johnson
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I’d say the second one: Go grassroots, disassociate from the DNC, and actually listen to constituents. —That Raccoon @ThatRaccoon13Meh History. Democrats controlled the house for nearly a century until four years ago. Democrats have mostly controlled the executive and legislative branches for most all of the 20th century and most of the 21st century. Ebb and flow. Corruption set in due to one party rule and the populace eventually responded. History will again repeat. —Wendell Sego
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ALL DADS AREN’T TURKEYS Published Nov. 22, 1995
By John Yarmuth | leo@leoweekly.com FATHER’S DAY isn’t until June, and the Million Man March is weeks in the past, but it’s never a bad time to think about being dads. William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, raised the issue of fatherhood last week. His theme was how difficult it has become to figure out the role of fathers in America. Raspberry cited the impact of “gender blending” on the traditional roles of fathers, like bread-winner and occupational model, etc. He posed excellent questions but offered no answers. Maybe the proper conclusion is that there is no longer a gender-specific role for dads, but that surely doesn’t mean that fathers are irrelevant. After all, a million men can’t be totally wrong. So I’ve been thinking about the role of fathers and what we uniquely can do for our children. Fathers can teach their children the value of play and fun. It’s true that boys will be boys, so why shouldn’t kids learn that occa-
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sionally it’s OK to be goofy, and to learn it from someone other than Jim Carrey? My son and I just returned from a mostly-male, college football reunion weekend, during which he saw about a year’s worth of childishness. Now, of course, it’s my responsibility to teach him the old saw about “a time and place for everything.” As the nearly-exclusive perpetrators of society’s violent acts, men can teach their children — especially their sons — that violence is always a last resort and never a satisfactory one. We can drive at moderate speeds and resist the temptation to respond in kind when we’re cut off, passed, or otherwise have our manhood threatened. We can laugh in the faces of macho men. I have a collection of ideas I want to teach my son. They are values a mother could promote as well, but somehow I think boys especially will be more receptive to suggestions coming from someone who’s not also preaching about vegetables and
toothbrushes. In any event, here are some of them: Always maintain a presumption of equality toward others. Everyone is not your equal, but assume they are until they’ve demonstrated their inferiority. Also, assume everyone has something to offer, even if you find few who have anything worthy of receiving. Always stand up for what you believe, but don’t believe you must convince others in order to validate your ideas. Everyone else could be wrong. At least once in your life, discover how it feels to devote yourself totally to one activity, but don’t think you can live a truly fulfilling life that way. If you have the luxury of time and financial security, spread yourself intellectually thin. Every so often do something that is a complete waste of time. It may be some of the best time you’ll ever spend. Find a spiritual side of life that resonates within you. You can’t inherit it, and you can’t buy it. Avoid anyone who is marketing it. Try to be the kind of person you would want to dine with every night.
Approach everything you do as if you’re writing the history of your life. If it’s a chapter you wouldn’t want anyone to read, don’t live it. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Those who do either don’t have any large stuff or don’t know the difference, which is far worse. Once every few years, watch “Dead Poets Society.” We can teach our children that striking out is bad only if it keeps them from swinging. Tell them Babe Ruth struck out more than he homered. Then explain who he was. More than anything, we dads can let our sons, the next fathers, see how much pure pleasure we get from being parents. We can show them how proud we are of them, admit it when they do things better than we did or can, and tell them how much we enjoy simply being with them. If we do all these things, maybe our kids will realize that being a dad is cool, and maybe that we are too. • U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, founder of LEO, has represented Kentucky’s 3rd Congressional District since 2007 and is now chairman of the House Budget Committee.
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DEAR BLACK PEOPLE, YOU WILL NOT ‘GOOD PERSON’ YOUR WAY OUT OF RACISM By Hannah L. Drake | leo@leoweekly.com A FEW YEARS AGO, I wrote a blog titled, “The Inconvenient Victim,” about a young Black man named Stephon Clark. Stephon Clark was a 22-year-old Black man who was killed in the back of his grandmother’s home by the Sacramento police. Clark’s name instantly became yet another name in the long list of Black men, women and children who have been killed by the police. As news of Clark’s death spread throughout the nation, so did revelations of the disparaging comments he made about Black women. I labeled Clark the inconvenient victim. While many people disagreed with me, I stood firm — I do not get to choose the victim when fighting injustice. Every victim of police brutality will not be a perfect victim. And so we find ourselves with Jonathan Price, a 31-year-old Black man, killed by Shaun Lucas, a 22-year-old white officer who had only been on the police force for six months before the fatal encounter with Price. According to The Washington Post, Jonathan was trying to break up a fight at the Kwik Chek, a local convenience store in Texas. Officers received a call about a “possible fight in progress.” Eyewitnesses said, “When Lucas arrived around 8:24 p.m., Price offered a handshake and asked him multiple times, ‘You doing good?’” according to a publicly released affidavit written by Texas Ranger investigator Laura Simmons. Price apologized for broken glass on the ground (presumably from a bottle of juice Price dropped), saying that someone tried to “wrap me up.” Lucas told the investigator that he believed Price was intoxicated. According to the affidavit, he tried to detain him, and Price responded, “I can’t be detained” and resisted, prompting Lucas to pull out his Taser. While being Tased, Price continued to walk toward Officer Lucas,” Simmons wrote. “Price appeared to reach out and grab the end of Officer Lucas’ Taser.” Lucas fired his gun four times, Simmons wrote, hitting Price in the upper torso. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.” In minutes Jonathan Price’s name joined the chorus of names shouted worldwide as America faces a racial pandemic. I immediately shared the information about Jonathan’s murder, and as with any Black death, his past will always come out. As we heard from his friends and family in the community, Price undoubtedly seemed like a nice, young man who never had
any legal issues. He appeared to be very focused on fitness and working with others to achieve their fitness and personal life goals. According to reports, “Jonathan took a job with Wolfe City in maintenance after moving back to the area from Dallas to help his mother. In his free time, the former college football player was a personal trainer, trained for fitness competitions and spent most of his time with family,” said Lee Merritt, the Price family attorney. “Jonathan was a small-city guy. He spent most of his days with sort of his adopted family,” Merritt said. “That’s where he would lay his head at night, which was a white family.” Many in the community described the 31-year-old as a “hometown hero.” Seemingly, Jonathan is the “perfect victim” in America’s eyes. However, as people started to comb through Jonathan’s social media, they found several posts that he made regarding the protests surrounding the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Jonathan speaks about his personal experiences with white people, white officers and his addiction to white women. He talks about the many times he should have been detained for various traffic infractions and never was, even in a town that he says people consider to be very racist. He challenges people not to forget about their own experiences with the police. Jonathan also speaks about the current protests and how the protests and aggressive rioting are fanning the flames. He also called protesters dummies. Finally, Jonathan states, “All of this race shit makes him want to vomit and that it is not going anywhere.” I took a deep sigh after reading Jonathan’s posts. There are many Black people, often those who have received a level of economic comfort and social status according to white standards, who believe if Black people are just “good enough,” they will not have to deal with racism and police brutality. However, you will not good deed yourself out of racism. You will not “good person” your way out of racism. You will not excel your way out of racism. You will not educate yourself out of racism. You will not comply yourself out of racism. You will not codeswitch your way of out racism. It. Will. Not. Happen. No matter how many good deeds you do, you are a Black person, and in America, that
is enough for a police officer to kill you with no regard. You will not avoid racism and police brutality by: Having an Ivy League education. Having a college degree. Offering an officer a handshake. Praying with an officer. Hugging an officer. Dancing with an officer. Living in a nice neighborhood.
Reasoning with an officer. Wearing a belt/ Not sagging your pants. Having a well-paying job. Dating a white woman. Dating a white man. Having biracial children. Having white friends. Attending social events held by white people. Doing good deeds in the community. Being wealthy. LEOWEEKLY.COM // NOVEMBER 25, 2020
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Being raised in a two-parent home. Being “respectable.” Speaking out online about inner-city crime. Adding the phrase “Black on Black crime” to your narrative about the state of Black people in America. Speaking about your love of the police. Claiming you never experienced racial profiling. Voting Republican. Voting Democrat. Wearing a MAGA hat. Being a police officer. Complying. Being friends with well to do white people. Driving a nice car. Abiding by all the laws. No level of respectability will combat racism and police brutality. Unfortunately, Jonathan paid the ultimate price to learn this lesson. By all accounts, Jonathan offered the officer a handshake several times, even apologizing to him for the broken glass, and still, Jonathan was shot and killed. We will not “good deeds” or “good person” our way out of racism. We must
fight and resist our way out of racism. We must challenge systems. We must tear down in order to rebuild something new. The people who are in the streets demanding justice are demanding it for all Black people. We understand whether you are a Black man or a Black woman, you can be a victim of police brutality. We understand whether you have a GED or a Ph.D., you can be a victim of police brutality. We understand if you wear jeans that sag to your knees or a tailormade, three-piece suit, you can be a victim of police brutality. Do not let your proximity to whiteness and good deeds fool you. As Jay-Z so eloquently put it in his song, “The Story of O.J.”: “Light n*gga, dark n*gga, faux n*gga, real n*gga Rich n*gga, poor n*gga, house n*gga, field n*gga Still n*gga, still n*gga…” And if you ever forget it, rest assured this world will always remind you. • Hannah L. Drake is an author, poet and spoken word artist. Follow her at writesomeshit.com and on Twitter at hannahdrake628.
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KDP ELECTS FIRST BLACK CHAIR: WITH NEW IDEAS, IS IT ENOUGH? By Danielle Grady | dgrady@leoweekly.com
FOR THE FIRST TIME in its history, a Black man will lead the Kentucky Democratic Party: Colmon Elridge was nominated by Gov. Andy Beshear to be the party’s chair and was voted in on Saturday by KDP’s State Central Executive Committee. His election comes after Democrats lost 13 seats in the state House and two in the Senate, further cementing a GOP supermajority that formed in 2016. Some Democrats called for another post-mortem analysis of “what went wrong” while others wanted to completely disband the state party in favor of becoming a grassroots organization that supports progressive, minority candidates. Elridge said he wants to keep the KDP together, and he also plans to continue to ask the question of “what happened.” But, he also wants to involve more people of color in the party and collaborate with grassroots organizers. “We for cycles now have been losing seats, and the cycles have been, I think, losing the communications game in our counties and our cities and wn person to person,” he told LEO. “And we have to as a party take a step back usand say, how did that happen? How did we go from having our finger on the an pulse of what was going on in every barber shop and on every corner and in ou families and things like that to being so m out of step that people don’t see themselves as part of the party anymore?” orState Rep. Attica Scott, the only m Black woman state lawmaker, told LEO ity that simply having a new leader isn’t enough on its own to turn the KDP g, around, even though she acknowledged the significance of Elridge being the , party’s first Black chair. “Change happens with actions, of course, and one person in a position is not nearly enough transformative change, although one person can make his a difference,” Scott said. Previously, Scott told LEO she wouldn’t oppose disbanding the party, because she thinks it would free up fundraising money to go to candidates of color. And she doesn’t like the two party system because it’s restrictive and
confining, she said. Elridge, meanwhile, already has theories about why Kentucky Democrats have lost so much influence in the state, as well as how to gain some of it back. He said that Democrats have let Republicans define what the party is by staying silent when Democrats are accused of wanting to take away guns away or kill babies. Really, the party is for things like background checks or safeguarding women from being criminalized for having miscarriages, he said. Colmon Elridge, the newly elected chair of the Another mistake Kentucky Kentucky Democratic Party. | PHOTO BY MARVIN YOUNG. Democrats made, according to charges while at Louisville’s protests Elridge, was not staying relevant to its for racial justice. In his statement, members — and not just white workElridge also praised Scott for fighting ing class voters but Black and brown against law enforcement killing Black Democrats who have given time and and brown people. money to the party. Scott has said the KDP didn’t “I think we enjoyed such a voter acknowledge the charges when they registration edge that we frankly took were first filed. That Elridge did was for granted that we had to continuously important, she said. communicate with Democrats and “You can’t be silent when your continuously ask the question: What only Black woman in your entire state do you need and how can we help?” legislature is being unjustly arrested Elridge said. “Or maybe we were and then think people are going to flock asking those questions but they weren’t to your party,” she said. being asked in a credible way.” But, there are more things she wants Though Elridge doesn’t want to to see from the KDP, in addition to disband the party, he said he does supporting candidates of color with want to invest in grassroots organizsocial media posts and funding. She ers and to work collaboratively and would like for the new vice chair to be share resources with more progressive, a woman of color; she thinks that KDP like-minded organizations. He also said members, not the governor, should be he wants to devote more resources to in charge of picking the next chair; and candidates of color and fill the party she wants to see Elridge’s ideas in writwith campaign managers, strategists and fundraisers of diverse backgrounds. ing and sit down with him and share her concerns. His election as the first Black chair Elridge said his doors are open to could be the start. those who want to speak with him, and “I hope what it means for the party, at least out the gate is that there is room he plans on reaching out to those grassroots organizers and people working for everyone to sit at the table and not with progressive groups. only sit at our table, but sit at the head “One, it’s the right thing to do,” said of the table,” he said. “And that hasn’t Elridge. “The urgency of the moment always been the case. I don’t make any demands that we don’t waste any time bones about that.” when it comes to bringing together our Elridge also issued a statement on mindsets and our resources in a way Monday, saying he was happy to see to where we can begin to fight back in that criminal charges against Scott 2022.” • had been dropped. Scott incurred the
THORNS & ROSES THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD THORN: ...BUT SHOULD WE ALLOW HIM?
U.S. Sen. Mitch “Traitor” McConnell said tRump “is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options.” He also is within his rights to tweet out lies he hears on FOX, undermine our democracy to the brink of civil war, idolize dictators, pack the White House with swampy sycophants and scar the United States like a case of chronic cystic acne.
ROSE: JUST LET GOV. ANDY DO HIS JOB!
Kentucky’s highest court smacked down state Attorney General Daniel Cameron and other nano-minded Republicans who think Gov. Andy Beshear wrongly saved lives by enacting science-based rules in the pandemic. “The governor’s orders were, and continue to be, necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect the health and safety of all Kentucky citizens,” the court ruled. Meanwhile, we log record numbers of cases.
ROSE: DISMISS ALL PROTESTER CHARGES!
All charges now have been dismissed against state Rep. Attica Scott. They stemmed from the night Scott joined protesters, and police said she was in a group that damaged the downtown library. Now, dismiss charges against the other 500 or so peaceful protesters!
ABSURD: EXTRA NONTHREATENING, PLEASE
We wanted to give a rose to new state Democratic Party chairman, Colmon Elridge, who lauded the dismissal of Scott’s charges and wrote: “If America is to truly be great, freedom and justice for all must mean All. Until then, there is no justice, there is no freedom, and there cannot be a lasting peace.” But then Elridge “corrected” his statement to end: “If America is to truly be great, freedom and justice for all must mean All, and we must acknowledge that black lives matter is not merely a movement, but a statement for the dignity our humanity deserves and has been too long denied.”
THORN: DEFUND THE LMPD? REPLACE IT
The Louisville police Explorer Scout program’s sex scandal worsens. The CJ says “that LMPD concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer scouts by two officers — then lied to keep the files from the public.” And now a third cop has pleaded guilty.
THORN: GOP DOESN’T WANT YOU TO VOTE
If you liked voting early, too bad. “I can tell you that right now, that the model that was used for this election is not going to be made permanent,” Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, told The CJ. LEOWEEKLY.COM // NOVEMBER 25, 2020
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BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES: WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT THEM, HOW THEY’RE SUPPORTING OTHERS
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AS A BLACK entrepreneur and nonprofit founder, Aaron Jordan has submitted grant proposals and pitched to investors before. And he’s experienced the feeling that comes when it is clear to him that those efforts aren’t taken seriously. But, that’s not what happened when he presented his latest idea, a co-working space focused on Black-owned businesses, to Tawana Bain, a Black woman and the founder of the economic diversity nonprofit GEDDI. She has become a mentor to Jordan and lets him operate The Black Complex out of her business, Encore on Fourth. A $50,000 investment from entrepreneur Gill Holland followed. But, without Bain’s buy-in, The Black Complex would have been just another business proposal by a Black entrepreneur, Jordan said. “I still have the same vision. I’m still the same person; She’s just giving me the pieces to put together, like, ‘OK, you need to do this; you need to do that,’” Jordan said. “Imagine if Black people all over the place had those types of resources.” Now, Jordan hopes to help other Black business owners obtain those resources with The Black Complex by providing its members with business training, mentorships and networking with other members and business partners from Louisville and beyond.
Black-owned businesses need the help. Only 2.2% of businesses in the United States with employees are Black-owned, according to the U.S. Census, although that percentage has grown since 2002. They are denied loans at higher rates than white-owned businesses and, when they do receive a loan, they’re twice as likely to receive less than what they asked for, according to a survey from the Small Aaron Jordan. Business Administration. Black business owners in Louisville whom LEO spoke with saw other challenges to fostering new ones, such as a lack of business education opportunities, mentors and investment. This has created extra challenges for many Black-owned businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses with existing lender relationship were more likely to get help from the federal Payroll Protection Program quickly, according to the Center for Responsible Lending — a benchmark that Black-owned businesses are less likely to meet. More Black business owners, 41%, shut down at least temporarily from February to April because of COVID than entrepreneurs of any other race, according to the University of California, Santa Cruz. But, in 2020 there has been another factor at work impacting Black businesses: the racial justice movement. Tanika Bryant created Buy Black Lou in 2019, a directory and Facebook group to discover Black-owned businesses in Louisville. After the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor ignited quests for racial equity across the nation, Bryant’s app received its highest number of monthly users — 21,000 — in June. “While we were already trending in the Black community, the civil unrest in Louisville and the racist ideologies
supported in a local restaurant promo group on FB contributed to many non Black community members reaching out to us asking if they could join in support,” she said. “I think with a spotlight finally being put on the many injustices and neglect in the Black community, many non racists were ready to step up and put their money, time and resources where their mouths are.” This support does more than just help out a few business owners, according to Bryant. “When Black businesses flourish, so do their communities,” Bryant said. “Black businesses foster job creation. We are more likely to hire unemployable and Black community members. Black business owners invest in the communities they are in. It celebrates culture and diversity. It brings hope and pride of ownership to Black families and it allows Black youth to see successful Black people in their community. It also helps Black families to create generational wealth.” There are other organizations and projects in Louisville supporting Black-owned businesses. The Noir Black Chamber of Commerce provides its members with business education, mentors, networking events and “corporate and political connections.” As a registered Community Development Entity, the Chamber can also help large, economic development projects in low-income areas receive tax credits. GEDDI, started this year, has already developed several new programs in addition The Black Complex, including The Collective, a business accelerator for Black-led event organizers, and Just Boss Up, a business certification course. Pocket Change is another venture, by Change Today Change Tomorrow, which provides a Butchertown storefront space for Black businesses. Still, Bryant said that Louisville’s major employers and organizations need to do more to help local Black businesses. Her call is for them to “unclench their fists” and to invest in Buy Black Lou, her nonprofit the Black Business LEOWEEKLY.COM // NOVEMBER 25, 2020
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Association, and other Black-led organizations that are actively “doing the work.” LEO talked to four business owners in Louisville about their successes and the challenges to running a Blackowned business.
GARDEN GIRL FOODS
Whitney Powers comes from a line of Black business owners. Her great-grandparents sold vegetables and preserved jars of food from a stand, her great uncles own a construction business, and her mom has run an event planning enterprise for 21 years. Powers started out helping with her mom’s business, Penelope Party, and has since become a co-owner. And this year, at the age of 33, she created a business all her own: Garden Girl Foods. When COVID-19 halted Penelope Party’s work, Powers decided to start a garden. She claimed a spot in Germantown’s community plot and soon found herself with too many vegetables for her and her husband to eat on their own. Powers decided to start canning them, using her greatgrandmother’s recipes. By June, Powers had sold her first jar, and by October, she had a permanent stall at the Logan Street Market, selling her preserves but also soups and baked goods. Powers attributes this swift success to her locally-grown, handmade product; her cute setup at the market; and a recent surge in support for Black-owned business. To Powers, being a Black business owner means she can break the cycle of poverty. It’s something that’s been present in her own family, even though she comes from an entrepreneurial unit. “For me, it’s not like, ‘Oh my gosh, buy my stuff because I’m Black, and it’s so much better.’ It’s more about: As a Black person, I had less opportunities from the beginning, and so I had to scratch and claw my way through everything, and every single thing I’ve gone through in life has gotten me to this business,” she said. “So, people see Garden Girl, and they see the finished project. They see success, and they see beauty. But when I was a restaurant manager for 10 years as a GM working 90 hours a week, underpaid, no one’s seen that. So, to be able to take all of my past experiences and do something for myself and be successful as a Black business owner, again, it means healing poverty for my family and anybody that wants to join my team actually.” Powers did walk into owning Garden Girl Foods with at least one advantage: Because of her business experience, she knew how to scale up when her supply of vegetables started
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depleting. Powers was quick to find organic farmers in and around the city to buy more product from. And, she listened to her customers to find out what else they wanted. Then, she met that need. If Powers didn’t have that knowledge — as well as her perseverance — she said she probably would have given up Garden Girl Foods after running out of supplies. And, a lack of knowledge to begin a business is one of the biggest challenges facing other Black-owned businesses, she said. “We,” Powers began, referring to Black entrepreneurs in general, “don’t have our aunts or our uncles or our grandparents or our parents to look at and to say, ‘Hey, this is how you start your business credit,’ or to say, ‘Hey, this is how you scale,’ or to say ‘Hey, you have that great idea? This is how you can take $100 and run with it.’ We don’t have people who have already done it in our ear or right in our corner to help us along our way. So we have to scratch, and we have to find people and we have to find each other.”
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Timalyn Bowens, 31, grew up in a family that told her she could be anything. So, owning her own business was a goal that didn’t seem out of reach when she left her hometown of Evansville, Indiana, to study accounting at Bellarmine University. Bowens got distracted by making money right away at an “amazing” internship at Crowe Horwath. Then, she transitioned to contract work while she took care of her and her husband’s infant daughter. But, three years after graduating, she was ready. Bowens opened her bookkeeping and tax advising and preparation business in 2016. As time has gone on, and Bowens has joined Buy Black Lou, she’s realized how lucky she was to have an encouraging family and the college experience. “I just didn’t realize I was blessed with so many
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resources and connections,” she said. “Like I could probably reach out to a classmate or another alumni for anything I ever need. Whereas other people don’t have the same access to that or know who they want to talk to.” In some ways, Bowens has become that resource for other members of Buy Black Lou. She shares informational blog posts and gives business advice that she didn’t even realize would be needed, like how to set up an LLC. “I was coming in and thinking that people knew the information that I had,” Bowens said. “Tanika and other people were like, no you need to break it down a little bit more because the people in these groups, they can definitely sell, they can raise the money, but it’s after that.” Bowens has also been surprised to learn since starting her own business how aspirational she can be for others. “I have had other people tell me that they are pursuing this because they have seen me do it,” she said. “I have had people reach out and tell me, they’re not in the accounting field, but after talking to me they were inspired to go out and pursue their own thing.” As the operator of a Black-owned accounting firm, Bowens also believes she serves a purpose for her Black customers. “The way I explain things as if you don’t know anything makes people feel more comfortable,” she said. “Because, like I said, I know there’s a tax education gap there. So, we don’t have as many legacy businesses and that type of thing. So, I get to come in and bridge that gap.”
STACEY’S DONUTS
Erica Hector has a surplus of entrepreneurial spirit, she said. But business knowledge? “No,” she admitted.
Hector, 34, is an actress by passion (and schooling) and is currently working toward a master’s degree in marketing and public relations. While taking various jobs in the service industry, she started a side clothing business called Tomboy Empress in 2015. And, in 2019, she paused that dream to take over State Donuts in The East End after the owner died. She renamed the business Stacey’s Donuts to honor her former boss and friend, Stacey Trieu. The business, under her leadership, has received an enthusiastic response on the Buy Black Lou and Louisville Takeout Facebook groups as the only Black-owned donut shop in Louisville. She’s kept the donut recipe the same and added different toppings. But, Hector said, she’s struggling under the strain of the pandemic and her own lack of business know-how. “I’m not business savvy,” she said. “I’m just, you know — I want to be business savvy. I love the entrepreneurial spirit. I love the idea of financial freedom. I love the idea of being able to give back to my community and help rebuild in my community… The best attribute that I bring to this business is customer service and marketing. And the rest of it, I need help.” The pandemic, meanwhile, has slowed traffic at her shop. Now, her storefront is open only Friday and Saturday, with delivery on Tuesday through Thursday. It used to be open to walk-ins every day except for Sunday. As a result, she’s had to cut hours for three employees. A few more decided to leave their jobs voluntarily. On top of that, Hector has struggled to get one of the forgivable, low-interest loans that the federal government offered businesses during the pandemic under the Payroll Protection Program. The problem, according to Hector, is that State Donuts is still registered to the store’s address. Recently, though, she received $25,000, because a customer nominated her for — and she received — an award from Discover for their Eat it Forward program. The financial services company is giving out money to Black-owned restaurants as a part of its “commitment to fighting systemic racism and injustice and driving change to create a diverse, inclusive and equitable place for people to work and live.” Hector has had people reach out to her because of her involvement with Buy Black Lou to help her with business advice. But, all of their talk about supply and demand, profits and loans sounded like a foreign language to her. (Learning is already complicated for Hector because she has ADHD.) Since then, she’s done some of her own research and reached out to other, retired business owners. But, Hector said she still needs more help to keep her business running: a strategic mentor, she said, or a partner, as long as they’re interested in helping her expand Stacey’s Donuts into something more than it is already. Hector’s vision for the shop is a full-fledged cafe with a traveling donut truck. Being a successful business owner benefits Hector’s community, she said. “It’s very important, especially in today’s society, other Black people and Black women in general, we’re being overlooked,” she said. “Like, just for maybe loans or scholarships or golden opportunities, or internships and things like that. And we’ve always had the will to actually want to work and want to be something great. We’ve just never had the resources and the opportunity.”
JW CUTS LAWN & LANDSCAPING
Jason Whiting, 45, started manicuring lawns — mowing, weed eating and leaf blowing — in 1994.
Jayson and Jason Whiting.
He got his equipment from a friend. The push mower was missing a wheel and the other tools weren’t gas powered, so he’d often have to snake an extension cord through his customers’ garages to connect to an outlet. Over the years, Whiting has taken jobs bartending and driving trucks. But as he’s gotten better equipment, picked up more clients and expanded his services, he’s been able to grow his side hustle into a full-time business. “I like bartending — it was cool. Driving trucks is cool,” he said. “But it’s something about owning your own business in lawn and landscaping. When you work for yourself, you feel a certain kind of productivity when you do it. Sometimes when you work for other people, you just kind of, you feel like you’re just kind of walking the trail which they laid for you. And regardless of how profitable the country that you work for is, you’re still just a digit within the whole parameters of everything. So working for yourself, you kind of see yourself growing or see where you make the mistakes.” He gravitated toward a landscaping business because there’s a creative aspect to it. “It’s almost like a blank canvas to an artist,” he said. “It’s instant gratification. You see what the yard looked like when you got here. You see what it is
when you leave.” Recently, his landscaping business has grown by 15% to 20% with the help of Buy Black Lou. Before, he paid Home Adviser to be listed on its website and receive leads. Now, he’s on a directory for free. To help other Black-owned businesses flourish, he said, there needs to be more resources for aspiring entrepreneurs. “It’s kind of hard to get experience if no one’s hiring you, and you’re dealing with lack of support in general,” he said. “You know, if you’re looking to expand to more of the commercial side, obviously you’re going to require more revenue in order to get bigger and better equipment to be able to account for the projects. So, unfortunately a lot of minority businesses don’t get the support that allows them to grow to be able to get them the things they need or want.” Being a Black-owned business is important to him, because sometimes, he feels as if they get a bad rap from the public. “And there’s a lot of Black-owned businesses that are thriving,” he said. “So, it’s a lot of talented minorities in the city, all over, and we’re just like, you know we’re just like anybody else. We want the same opportunity to thrive and to make the money and things like that.” • LEOWEEKLY.COM // NOVEMBER 25, 2020
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WOULD EAR X-TACY SURVIVE IN TODAY’S VINYL REVOLUTION? By Kevin Gibson | leo@leoweekly.com FOR MUSIC LOVERS in Louisville, it’s almost a citywide shared memory: You carve out some time, head to ear Xtacy in The Highlands and get lost for the next two hours checking out new music on the many listening stations scattered around the store. The hope was you’d hear that next band or artist that you were about to fall in love with and listen to incessantly, as the thrill of “discovering” that new favorite band is something that cannot be explained, only experienced. The iconic store opened Aug. 1, 1985, at 4264 Poplar Level Road, moved to a space next door to Great Escape where it did business for three years, then to the 1534 Bardstown Road location that became its long-time home. It ultimately landed in a smaller spot down the street, at Douglass Loop, before closing for good in late 2011. The classic Bardstown Road space then became a Panera restaurant, adding insult to injury. Ear X-tacy’s legacy would spark the 2012 documentary “Brick and Mortar and Love,” and many remain wistful for those days of browsing through albums and CDs and soaking in the quirky atmosphere of the destination music shop. Founder John Timmons, now a daytime host on WFPK, doesn’t necessarily remember the store the way much of Louisville does, however. “I get it now,” Timmons told LEO Weekly. “I didn’t see the story like you would until long after it was gone. As an owner, it was a totally different take. Now I can see it was a good store. I couldn’t see that for a very long time.”
ear X-tacy. | PHOTO BY SPENCER JENKINS.
Here we are nearly a decade later. Several music stores have been born in ear X-tacy’s wake, while stores such as Better Days Records and Underground Sounds continue on. This is in no small part due to a vinyl revolution that’s been building steam for several years now. According to a recent report from Business Insider,
Americans are spending more on vinyl records than CDs for the first time since the 1980s; the report estimates the Recording Industry Association of America show vinyl sales through the first half of 2020 totaled $232.1 million, nearly double the $129.9 million raked in from CD sales. And Billboard reported that — boosted by Record Store Day on Aug. 29 — vinyl sales in the week ending Sept. 3 rose to 802,000, a 63% increase over the previ-
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ous week and second only in history to the Christmas-fueled week ending Dec. 26, 2019, citing numbers from Nielsen Music/MRC Data. So, the question we set out to answer, at least in theory, was: Would ear X-tacy survive during the modern vinyl revolution? Even in a pandemic?
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While Timmons was busy building a business, he didn’t realize he was building a community space that would become socially legendary. After about six months in the original spot, he relocated the store to a slightly larger spot on Bardstown Road, next door to The Great Escape. As business grew, so did inventory and so did the need to have a store that would be able to welcome more people. Moving to the two-level, 10,000-square-foot building at 1534 Bardstown Road a couple of years later proved huge results. Timmons added video, T-shirts and other swag, quirky and fun novelty products, a record label and more. In-store performances became more and more frequent, with acts such as Queens of the Stone Age, The Black Keys, Drive-By Truckers, Cage the Elephant and Tenacious D, interspersing with acoustic gigs, album release performances and local bands from Cooler to Tim Krekel. But as the cost of the lease on the spot went up each year, revenues gradually decreased. Downloading of MP3 files transitioned into services such as iTunes and Amazon selling music downloads, prompting many to skip the in-store experience and download music to their devices. Streaming was on the horizon, people were enjoying music differently, and brickand-mortar retail felt it in a major way.
What was lost for many was an experience, even if the music was still available.
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Lisa Foster, co-owner of Guestroom Records in Clifton, grew up in Campbellsville, Kentucky, making frequent trips to Louisville during her high school years with ear X-tacy a frequent focal point. When she went to college and later graduate school, trips home to visit family usually included a side trip to Louisville. It was a lifestyle thing, she said. “To me it was just a part of home that meant something to me,” Foster said. “When I went home I would go see my parents, I would go see my friends and I would go to ear X-tacy. It just became part of my social fabric.” Matt Anthony, owner of Matt Anthony’s Record Shop, was a longtime ear X-tacy employee, giving him a different perspective. Asked his best memory of the place where he worked and socialized, he paused and said, “The lifetime friends I made at that shop. Working with the best of Louisville musicians, just hanging out. Working the counter with an incredible guitarist [Jason Noble of Rodan and other bands]. Black Keys playing for 20 people, and you’re right
While Timmons was busy building a business, he didn’t realize he was building a community space that would become socially legendary.
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there. The White Stripes coming in, shopping, ringing them up. Hanging out with Jack Black.” Brett Ralph, a musician and owner of Surface Noise, located at 600 Baxter Ave., was one of the early adopters of businesses like ear X-tacy, likening it to other long lost Highlands businesses like Twice Told and Hawley-Cooke Booksellers. He loved ear X-tacy for the same reasons most of those who still mourn it loved it: for the experience of discovering new music. That’s the business he’s in now. He started out in vinyl sales renting a booth at the early versions of The Flea Off Market; he saw the vinyl trend growing around him. But he pointed out that a key difference between his store or, say, Matt Anthony’s, which is on the other corner on Baxter at Payne Street, and ear X-tacy, is that the latter had grown into a huge, one-stop shop in its heyday, whereas his and other smaller stores are more focused on specific audiences. For example, ear X-tacy was certainly selling a lot of indie punk records and CDs, but a lot of its bread was coming in the door by way of sales of Britney Spears and Limp Bizkit CDs. As Anthony put it, “We sold hundreds of those so we could sell one Gang of Four record, one Nina Simone CD.” Better Days relied on sales of used music, with a lot of blues and jazz, while Underground Sounds took a deep dive into punk and underground (thus the name) to attract a specific audience. Modern Louisville record stores are doing
Timmons browsing the racks of his now-closed business.
Guestroom’s Foster concurred, saying, ‘If it were alive in same market I would think it would absolutely be doing well, but operating at that level seems like it would be difficult. I’m not sure you would see ear X-tacy the exact same way that it was.’ the same thing. For Ralph of Surface Noise, it’s hard-to-find used vinyl and classic vinyl, as well as a unique environment. The store also includes an evergreen art installation, in a space that Ralph said was curated to feel “like a cross between a museum and a living room.” For Anthony, it’s about getting the right music to the right people, skipping selling modern pop hits in favor of classics: “The stuff that really matters: Marvin Gaye, ‘What’s Going On?’, Etta James’ ‘At Last.’ Those were made in the ’60s, and I still sell them every week.”
WOULD EAR X-TACY THRIVE TODAY?
And there’s the rub. If ear X-tacy was the ultimate onestop shop, it was also far closer to a big box store than most local stores ever get, in Louisville, at least. And big box music stores have been slowly falling by the wayside for a long time. Jennifer Rubenstein is the director of Louisville Independent Business Alliance, and while she is quick to point out she is no music store expert, she quickly supports the point that today’s record stores look nothing like commercial record stores from the past.
“They’re a little bit more boutique-ish,” she said. “I think we’re going toward right-sizing the venue.” And while she misses ear X-tacy like many Louisvillians, she pointed out that it was, basically, unfortunate timing to have a store like Timmons’ as CD sales were falling and downloads, and later streaming, were becoming the new norm: “I feel almost it was like the cross-point of a graph, you know?” Guestroom’s Foster concurred, saying, “If it were alive in same market I would think it would absolutely be doing well, but operating at that level seems like it would be difficult. I’m not sure you would see ear X-tacy the exact same way that it was.” Anthony pointed out that shops like his have an added point of sale — online — that ear X-tacy didn’t have and probably couldn’t have effectively managed. Given ear X-tacy’s massive inventory, it would have been difficult to simultaneously do in-store and online sales. When he gets a great new record in, he has it simultaneously for sale in multiple places, driving more and quicker sales while minimizing the overhead. But the legacy of ear X-tacy isn’t lost — it just may exist in many different, more manageable, forms today in other, smaller stores. “It created a void that a bunch of us were able to fill,”
Ralph said of ear X-tacy’s demise. “I certainly miss ear X-tacy and what they offered to those of us who loved records but I feel like the record culture in Louisville is healthy right now.”
WHAT IF … ?
The answer is “No.” And Timmons doesn’t even need time to think about it. And he’s amazed that people still, nearly a decade later, ask him if he’ll ever reopen ear X-tacy. “Sometimes it’s a polite no,” he said. “Sometimes it’s a hell no. I wouldn’t be passionate about it at this point. The store could never be as good as it was — so hang on to those memories.” And his more thoughtful response to such a question is, why not support the indie record stores that are in business now and help make sure they don’t have to close? Right now, the market is working at least somewhat in their favor. And asked if ear X-tacy would survive in today’s economy and culture, Timmons isn’t sure. “That’s an interesting question,” he said. “I’m not sure what the market looks like these days. I don’t know how ear X-tacy would do at this point. I don’t think it could be as large a store. I feel fortunate that it was able to hang on as long as it did in Louisville.” • LEOWEEKLY.COM // NOVEMBER 25, 2020
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Virtual | headlinerslouisville.com | $24 | 8 p.m. Five-time Grammy Award-winning, singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter performs this special solo show, promoted by Headliners Music Hall, which will be recorded LIVE and released as a live album in the future. “As we enter the holiday season, so many of us are apart from the ones we love. I hope this concert — which will include songs from my first record to my most recent release — will bring us a little closer, until we can gather again, shoulder to shoulder, celebrating live music once more,” Carpenter said. Livestream the show 8 p.m. Friday, or an encore stream p.m. Saturday. And if you miss it, the archived video will be available to ticket holders PHOTO BY AARON FARRINGTON: TO THE END OF THE WORLD PICTURES. through midnight on Sunday. Ticket holders will also be eligible to pre-order the album, and purchase special event merchandise. —LEO
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A (Virtual) Christmas With The Griswolds: An Evening With Chevy Chase & Beverly D’Angelo We could all use a vacation, maybe not a GrisI DON’T KNOW MARGO! wolds family-style one, but a vacation for sure. Unfortunately, we can’t leave our homes (for much, anyway), but this virtual event does take us on a nostalgia trip with a live Q&A answered by “Vacation” stars Chevy Chase (Clark) and Beverly D’Angelo (Ellen). They’ll also share fan-favorite clips of “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” and chat about their favorite memories from filming the franchise. It’s a good way to escape for an hour and support Kentucky Performing Arts. A portion of your ticket purchase goes to the Louisville art institution. —Danielle Grady
Special Exhibit: Christmas Village Learn about how Christmas was celebrated MR. CLAUS in the 1800s and the 1930s at the Blackacre homestead. You can check out a 60-piece Thomas Kinkade Christmas village depicting a Great Depression-era town, and then take a tour of the Victorian-era Presley Tyler House, decorated for the holidays. —LEO
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Fleur De Flea Vintage Urban Markets | 947 E. Breckinridge St. Search Facebook | Free | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. We’ve missed the flea markets this year. Damn you, 2020! But the former outdoor-urban and vintage flea market has an indoor home in Paristown, HOLIDAY SHOPPING and it’s one you won’t want to miss when shopping for the holidays: secondhand and vintage jewelry and apparel, books, vinyl, holiday decorations and more. For more holiday cheer, festive cocktails and snacks will keep your shopping spirits high. Plus, you could get lucky and win a gift card giveaway. The warehouse is large, and social distancing won’t be a problem, but masks remain required. —LEO
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MONDAY, NOV. 30
Virtual Bingo Bene�ıtting Mattingly Edge Online | Search Facebook | Prices vary This ain’t no Pike County bingo hall. This BINGO virtual bingo fundraiser is a COVID-19-friendly way to have fun and support Mattingly Edge, which helps people with disabilities find and maintain jobs, homes and relationships. Head to Old Louisville Brewery to pick out your bingo boards, which are $1 each. Your name and email will be taken down, and you’ll be sent a link to the live event. Fifty percent of the pot goes to the winner, the other 50% goes to Mattingly Edge. There will also be rounds with bonus prizes such as a free filled growler or pint of beer. —LEO
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Masks are the de rigueur accessory of the year (the best one I’ve seen states “Wear the Damn Mask”). Local artists make them, famous art is on them (“The MASK UP Scream” by Munch is so appropriate) and now a local art agency is getting in the act. Louisville Visual Art has unveiled its own face mask with the LVA logo imprinted on the stretchy fabric. Proceeds go to LVA’s Children’s Fine Art Classes. Available on its website with free shipping or at the LVA office (best to call or email to make an appointment since most of the staff is working from home). LVA is also offering social distancing pads by artists in the Mural Art Program. LVA Executive Director Kristian Anderson modeling the LVA face mask. —Jo Anne Triplett
The Christmas buying season has been here since October, thanks to the coronavirus, skipping right over those unprofitable holidays of Halloween and ThanksgivGLASS ing. So, it makes sense local art venues, such as the glass studio and gallery of Flame Run, are in the act early too. The Holiday Bizarre Bazaar is offering free delivery of items purchased online as well as design-your-own items (reservations required). Its new hands-on Galaxy Paperweight Experience is also taking reservations. Flame Run is also hosting its first Studio Purge Sale with pieces never seen before that may have acquired a little bit of dust. The art will be available until the studio runs out of sale items. —Jo Anne Triplett Glass for sale at Flame Run.
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MUSIC INSTRUMENT SHOPS ADAPT TO SURVIVE BOREDOM, STIMULUS CHECKS AND TECHNOLOGY HELPED
Phillip Bullock playing a bass guitar at the Doo Wop Shop. PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.
By Scott Recker | srecker@leoweekly.com THE PANDEMIC has caused ups and downs for sales at the Doo Wop Shop, which rents and sells instruments, PA systems and other concert and event equipment. While in-store customer traffic went from nonexistent during the shutdown in the spring to currently extremely light, certain aspects of the business have thrived. For example, when everyone was staying home as the first wave of the virus circulated, people were bored. Learning to play music or picking up that old instrument became popular. “At first, we actually had a strong bit of sales in beginner instruments,” said John Metcalf, manager of the Doo Wop Shop. “We sent the lights out of your $100 to $200 guitars, your keyboards, your cheap, beginner-level stuff. We had record numbers of guitar restrings every day because people were getting that guitar out of the closet that they haven’t played in 10 years, and they had some time to do it. As adults, often we say, ‘Well, if I still had the time to,’ and everybody did.” That lasted only so long.
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Now, with a drop in large orders of rental equipment, the Doo Wop Shop’s challenge has become to get customers into the store in a safe way. It has installed safety measures, including hand sanitization rules for people touching instruments and how rental gear is cleaned upon return. “We had to do some serious homework before we unlocked the doors and quarantine kind of stopped and you could have people in,” Metcalf said. “One of our biggest issues was, how do we sanitize if someone wants to play a guitar? Who buys a guitar before they’ve played it?” All of the music instrument shops that LEO spoke with echoed the sentiment that, throughout the pandemic, business has been an unpredictable mixture of high and low, with repairs and online shopping being up, and in-store foot traffic being down. Like many small businesses, music stores generally had to furlough some employees. And, most significantly, they’ve been attempting to adapt to a fluid situation that’s significantly changed people’s shopping habits.
BETWEEN THE SHUTDOWN AND THE HOLIDAYS
Jerry Hill, owner of J&J Old Louisville Music Shop, said that late March and the beginning of the spring were tough, but when the federal government cut stimulus checks, he saw an increase in business. “When the shutdown first happened, boy, that was scary. We were able to maintain doing curbside, but no one was doing any of that,” Hill said. “It really wasn’t until people got their stimulus checks that we started getting repairs come in, and people were buying strings and stuff. Everyone got a breath of fresh air, and had a little more confidence to do those things.” Like the other shops, J&J has seen a drastic decrease with in-store browsing, but Hill said he’s been using social media to push new and popular items. And Hill hopes that the upcoming holiday season means that people searching for gifts for musicians will help the business survive through the winter.
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Instrument shops, like a lot of other small specialty businesses, were often used as a gathering place for like-minded people and a cultural nerve center for some musicians. “With the Christmas holiday coming up, we’re usually able to get a boost in sales during that time,” Hill said. “For the Christmas holidays, accessories, they sell like hot cakes, because that’s what people buy for musicians — strings, cables, straps, effects pedals.”
‘BULLSHITTING’ WON’T PAY BILLS
When the pandemic started, Guitar Emporium furloughed all of its employees except Eric Whorton, who continued to do business via online sales for the store. Finding buyers hasn’t been a problem, since the Guitar Emporium has long done business all over the world, but Whorton said getting new inventory has been hard.
“We’re shipping stuff all over the world every day, and we’ve been doing that since the late ’70s,” Whorton said. “The difficult things were getting products from manufacturers, because manufacturers closed, and many products, the things that we are a dealer for, small accessories and stuff, that aren’t made in America, they come from China or wherever, a lot of that stuff gets tied up in customs and ports. So, it makes it hard to replace things once you’ve sold them.” Currently, the Guitar Emporium allows only five people in at a time, which is much different from how the store operated pre-pandemic. Instrument shops, like a lot of other small specialty businesses, were often used as a gathering place for like-minded people and a cultural nerve center for some musicians. Whorton said the social aspect of the shop
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is missed, but it’s become more important to give the most in-store time to people who have the intention to purchase something. “It’s a social hangout, which we love, and we understand, and it’s just that kind of a store,” Wharton said. “There are other businesses that are like that too — comic book stores, barbershops, places like that. However, you can’t pay the bills with bullshitting.” Although the Guitar Emporium has had enough business to sustain itself, Wharton said, the store has only been able to bring back one of the four people they furloughed last spring. It’s something that he worries about — not just for the Guitar Emporium, but also other small businesses that are struggling. “I wonder, in general, will all of these small businesses be able to employ their full amount of former employees again — restaurants, small merchandise stores like this,” Whorton said. • LEOWEEKLY.COM // NOVEMBER 25, 2020
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Kale Italian salad at Emmy Squared is a tasty mix of healthy things from the garden, sorted in the box for you to mix up and dress at home.
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EMMY SQUARED BRINGS DETROIT PIZZA FROM BROOKLYN By Robin Garr | LouisvilleHotBytes.com Kale Italian salad at Emmy Squared is a tasty mix of healthy things from the garden, sorted in the box for you to mix up and dress at home. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.
PAY ATTENTION, NOW, because what I’m about to tell you might not make sense if you hear it with only half an ear: A popular Brooklyn restaurant that features Detroitstyle pizza has opened in Louisville. Yes, that’s right: Say hello to Emmy Squared, new in NuLu, where you can get fine square pizzas in the fashion of Detroit, plus worthy burgers and a lot more goodies that you won’t find in your usual pizza joint. Starting from its base in gentrifying Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2016, Emmy Squared is going national, with two more shops in Gotham plus Philly, Washington D.C. and most recently, Nashville, Tennessee and Louisville. Emmy Squared’s East Market Street storefront joins the emerging NuLu Marketplace consortium along part of the 800 block. But we’re here to talk about pizza, and Emmy Squared makes a good one. The menu offers a broad selection of pizzas and quite a bit more. It starts with seven appetizer plates that include such Italian restaurant standards as cheesy garlic sticks ($8) and eggplant parm ($15), but goes on to add five variations on waffle fries (from $8 for plain fries to $13 for double chopped cheese topped with grass-fed beef, smoky queso and more). Four salad options range in price from $10 (for a Caesar) to $15 (for the Huge Hot
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Chicken Wedge, iceberg topped with Nashville hot chicken. Want bacon? That’s three bucks more). Three sandwiches — eggplant parm, chicken parm or Nashville hot chicken katsu, all built on tasty pretzel buns — are $13 each. Burgers, also on pretzel buns, are the chopped cheeseburger with grass-fed beef and American cheese ($11) and Le Big Matt, double-stacked grass-fed beef patties and American cheese ($16, plus a $3 upcharge for bacon). Someday, I’m coming back for that Le Big Matt, but we were here for the pizza, and it did not disappoint. Nine red-sauced pizzas and eight white pies range in price from $13 (for a classic cheese-and-tomatosauce model) to $19 (for a red-sauce pizza topped with Nashville hot chicken). You can also get creative with 16 added toppings, $2 for most veggie options, $3 for meats and $5 for creamy Italian
Spicy, vodka-laced tomato sauce and pecorino cheese make Emmy Squared’s vodka pizza a piquant mashup of the classic margherita pie.
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burrata cheese. I ordered online and was given only the option of an immediate (20 to 35 minute) pickup; but that didn’t matter since I was hungry for pizza and ready to dine. The menu also didn’t mention curbside pickup, but in fact you can call in when you arrive to have your order brought out. I didn’t bother and found my order waiting with my name on it on a large black shelf just inside. A roasted cauliflower app ($10) sounded healthy and tasted delicious. Enough florets for two to share had been steamed until just tender but still showing an al dente bite; they gained an Indian vibe with enough turmeric to color them bright yellow plus a good dose of fiery chili flakes. Puffy golden raisins and toasted pine nuts added flavor surprises, with a squirt of lemon to bring it all together. The kale Italian salad ($11) was a real winner. It did require some assembly, but that’s a good thing as you can mix it up fresh. Whole leaves of baby lacinato (“dinosaur”) kale and red Russian kale, crisp and dry, were nestled in a compostable cardboard box with other bits of deliciousness to mix in: chopped red peppadew peppers, halved green olives and quartered marinated halved artichoke hearts rubbed with hot paprika. One tub contained generous portions of pine nuts, and a second a delicious basil, Parmesan and olive oil vinaigrette. Once assembled, the interplay of flavors and textures made clear that real thought had gone into creating this salad. Two thumbs up! But wait! I need more thumbs to hail the pizza. No, it’s not the classic Neapolitan or New York City style that I love in my heart,
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VEG OUT — DINING IN A MEAT EATER’S WORLD
BAR VETTI SERVES ITALIAN VEGGIE FEAST By Joe DeSensi | leo@leoweekly.com SINCE THE APOCALYPSE started, my wife and I have taken advantage of carry-out mostly and gone to only a few restaurants we know well. Hope and I are trying to venture out, safely, again, so I asked her if she wanted to try bar Vetti Italian Restaurant. She told me I had her at “bar.” BV recently moved to Nulu adjoining the new AC Hotel. We went with family members who are in the culinary industry, which made for an evening of tasting and trying a variety of dishes outside of my normal gluten-free, vegetarian purview. While there are plenty of Italian options for those who don’t eat things with faces (or who hang back from wheat), the other side of our table ordered a true beef-pocalypse of menu items. We started our repast with an exploratory bottle of Sean Minor Sauv Blanc ($40), light and crisp with a hint of grapefruit in the nose. For no-meat appetizers, we selected the Gräńde Burrata ($15) and the roasted cauliflower ($17). Hope and I love a good, fresh burrata, which is made by stretching mozzarella into a sheet, filling it with curds (about the consistency of cottage cheese) and folding it to look like a little snowman. Think of it as eating a savory Olaf. BV serves its dish with an interesting twist — set in a bowl of high-end olive oil, balsamic vinegar, slices of toasted Blue Dog sourdough and cracked pepper and finishing salt. We got the bread served on the side with a medley of thick cut carrots and celery for my cheese consumption experience, while the rest of the table flouted their gluten tolerance by dipping the bread into the oil-vinegar mixture, eliciting a moan with each bite. We ended up ordering a second burrata. Our veggie starter was the cauliflower “small plate,” with small plate being in quotes because of the entrée-sized portion that came out. A trough of cauliflower seasoned with seaweed tonnato, white grapes, golden raisins, herbs and capers (breadcrumbs on the side to make gluten-free). One note for those of you who find white bread and table salt a little too spicy: There is a little slow-burn kick in this dish. The starters for the animal-killing side of the table included beef tartare ($19), a shareable Caesar salad ($10) and chicken liver toast ($13). The tartare looked like the “before” picture of a burger about to be grilled and was the fave of the bunch.
The toast featured rich foie gras on a thick cut of toast accented with butternut squash caponata, pecans and balsamela (a sweet apple balsamic vinegar), perfect for those who like to eat the pureed glands of fattened water fowl. As we pivoted to entrées, we tried a bottle of Malvira Roera Arneis ($50), unoaked and dry with a hint of melon and citrus, just like my 12th-grade English teacher. For entrées, there are a variety of meatier options including some steak dishes and what was described as the best chicken Parm in town ($30 — spaghetti, red sauce, mozzarella, parmesan); BV also offers a variety of pizzas and pastas. Hope and I decided on the cocoa campanelle ($27 for a full portion) with the glutenfree pasta. The white wine sauce had rich, sweet and savory notes with black truffle and corn, but the locally sourced Frondosa Farms mushrooms did the heavy lifting on the flavor profile. With a starter or two, the full portion is more than enough to split. Our niece ordered the kid’s pizza ($12), which I thought was going to be way too much food for her until the eating machine found a second gear devouring it as well as the residual Blue Dog toast from the appetizers. Though a very interesting Italianinspired dessert menu, my brother-in-law and I decided to drink our dessert with BV’s specialty pick of bourbon, Willett 6-year Eternal Optimist ($16 for a 1.5 ounce pour). At 129-plus proof with one small ice cube, it has a luxurious caramel and vanilla flavor that is complex on the tongue with just the slightest of Kentucky hugs on the finish to let you know you’re drinking Bluegrass gold. •
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727 E. Market St. 883-3331 barvetti.com Noise: The evening topped out at 93 decibels with an average of 78 with the main bar area about two-thirds full. Accessibility: The restrooms have an accessible stall with handrails in the stalls, and the low top tables are accessible. COVID-19: Masks were worn uniformly in a spacious dining area with tables spread out and capped at 50% capacity. Also, online ordering with curbside carryout or delivery is available.
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‘GLOSSARY’: DRAMA, LAYERS By T.E. Lyons | leo@leoweekly.com “Glossary for the End of Days” by Ian Stansel (Acre Books; 192 pages, $17) SOME OF THE MOMENTS that change lives are sudden: a random act of violence, an unexpected reunion, a storm, a lover’s meeting. Such moments can and will throw crosswinds where there were already courses set, ambitions that had developed momentum, personal histories being taken over by inertia. But most of us look on incident versus habit and feel compelled to stir such alreadychangeable pots with reactionary opinions or fallback beliefs — some eye-opening, some willfully blind. UofL’s Ian Stansel (director of the Creative Writing Program) can take hold of all of these in less than two dozen pages and bring insight into entertainment. Or is it vice versa? This is his second story collection, coming three years after his fine debut novel “The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo.” It may be an unintentional benefit for 2020, when many activities are limited, but the primary stories here keep busy. Author Ian Stansel. They are layered but keep their characters on the move, so don’t come here looking for drawing-room stillness. What can be found includes specks of speculative fiction. An alternative history where John Lennon recovers from his wounds to reunite the Beatles. A near-future when utility outages are subject to foot-dragging depending on whether it’s a liberal- or conservative-leaning district. But the meat of the prose here depends on what’s brought out in characters when individual events either tear at — or glaringly reinforce — their perspectives, the phase of life they’re in (several are in grief) and their need to act or respond or be heard. For instance, in reading “Someone Interesting I Know,” you’re invited for the drama (and the drama *is* good — a few stories offer nail-biting suspense), but the author’s style gradually makes clear you’re also on a garden walk. Little lessons are on display, showing how people gingerly reinforce half-truths for their own convenience or tell lies to protect the hearer’s sensibilities or time their honest revelations as if wielding the weapon to raise them above perpetual defensiveness.
The centerpiece here, “The Caller,” is keyed to melancholy, but with numerous twists. Unreliability is in plentitude, even as various parties in the plot base much of their lives on flow of information (e.g., phone-in journalism, marketing and of course social media). Some progress toward justice is sought — but it’s attitudes that drive actions — some of them drastic or violent. Matters like determining root cause, or giving thought before affecting others, aren’t high priorities. In one of several stories making good use of music as symbol or harbinger, a character muses on his own performance history: “ … it was only a matter of time before the novelty of a new group wore off and all he could see, all he could *hear*, was the windy gap between what he’d always thought he’d wanted and the reality of what he was doing.” Small wonder that Stansel’s interviewer at this week’s online event is Craig Finn, singer-songwriter for the Hold Steady. Occasionally, a story’s character conflicts aren’t | PHOTO BY TRAVIS STANSEL. the ideal match to the background actions. In “North Out of Houston,” dialogue about betrayals and alliances seems rushed alongside the well-constructed tablesetting of a potential cataclysm playing out in slow motion. But other stories have lingering impacts. “Coordinated Efforts” at first seems reductive — a middle-class academician and a food-industry wage earner trade self-pity stories that turn into escalating, competitive accusations. But the framing circumstances work with irony and timeliness. If not quite up to, say, Updike or Cheever, Stansel certainly gets into the league of the masterful T. Coraghessan Boyle when marooning the reader at a finely honed point to consider whether a character has learned to scratch the itches that he *can* reach. •
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COMIC BOOK REVIEWS! ‘Punchline Special’ No. 1
Writer James Tynion IV and Sam Johns and Artists Mirka Andolfo and Romulo Fajardo Jr. Review by Krystal Moore, The Great Escape Louisville
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IT ALL STARTS on a school field trip to a TV newsroom when the Joker picks Alexis Kaye from the group of high schoolers to read his message to Gotham City on air, after he’d killed the professional newscasters in front of them. “Punchline Special” No. 1 carries on the origin story of DC’s new character who made her debut in the Joker War storyline. She’s been caught, and the evidence of her guilt seems overwhelming. The questions, though, are whether or not she’s insane, and whether the Joker forced her or brainwashed her into doing the things she did. But as one boy goes back through her podcast episodes, we see that even prior to her experience at the TV station, she was enamored and maybe even radicalized by the Joker’s message. Was it really just a chance meeting between Punchline and the Joker? And is all this just a part of the plan? Punchline may be way more into the Joker’s message than he is. This was a great read, that hopefully will keep getting even more interesting in the future with this very motivated character. •
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Writer Peter Hogan and artist Steve Parkhouse Review by David Williams, The Great Escape Louisville
HOGAN AND PARKHOUSE’S quirky, fish-out-of-water mystery series “Resident Alien” returns with its sixth volume to date, ominously titled “Your Ride’s Here.” Issue No. 1 opens with a literal bang before diving headfirst back into the signature character-driven storytelling we have come to expect from the series. New developments include people getting married, people having babies, and people reconciling their workplace crush on a stranded space alien detective. The classic art style and concise storyboarding of “Resident Alien” will have even a first time reader curious to follow its twisted path and relate to its wide and complex cast. Resident Alien is a worthwhile slow burn of a series, so check out the previous volumes or even the new SyFy (bring back the old spelling!) series to catch yourself up. •
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BY CAITLIN REID / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
Hole in the ground ____ card Shaded Went over the limit, say Where to find the radius ____ Lipa, Grammy-winning pop artist ‘‘Big Little Lies’’ co-star of Witherspoon and Kidman 88 Barely afloat? 91 Buzz in the morning 93 Place you may go just for kicks? 94 Mail lady on ‘‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’’ 95 Occasion to stay up late 97 Some surfing destinations 99 You are here 100 Pounds 101 He made a pact with the Devil 102 Makes blue, say 103 One of three for ‘‘Mississippi’’
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By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage
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Q: My boyfriend and I were friends for a couple of years (we're both 30-year-old gay men), then I stopped traveling around the world and pursued him. We’ve been boyfriends for a year and a half now. We were both happy and we had sex on a regular basis during the first year. I'm more into anal (as a top) but we mainly did oral because he isn't into anal. We tried a few times early on but every time I mention it now he doesn't seem keen, so I've left it alone. Six months ago he started having trouble “getting it up” even for oral. After it happened a couple of times he basically said, “I'm sorry it's because I think people aren't attracted to me.” After that happened I started to lose my interest in sex between us and now we rarely have it. Even if he did offer to try anal I don’t even think that would motivate me to have sex with him. Apart from that we get on great but I feel as though I'm starting to see him more as a friend. I've been thinking about breaking up for the last three months but I would feel terrible for a few reasons: his previous boyfriend broke up with him without giving him a reason, which he struggled to come to terms with, and he's very self-conscious about his weight. So I can’t tell him the reason I want to break up—I don’t find him attractive anymore— because that might erode his mental health. (He is seeing a therapist.) If sex was great between us I would be happy to remain boyfriends since everything else is working out and I'm fairly certain he's happy with our relationship as it is, which makes it even harder to end it. Advice? Promising Relationship Is Sexless Or Nearly So A: A sexless relationship may be fine for your boyfriend—it may be what he wants—but it’s not fine for you, PRISONS, and it’s not what you want. And a guy who’s too insecure about his own attractiveness to get it up for a guy who’s attracted to him is unlikely to be secure enough for an open relationship, which means staying with him and getting sex elsewhere isn’t a workable option. So unless you’re prepared to spend the next fifty years of your life in a sexless relationship to avoid hurting your boyfriend’s feelings, PRISONS, you’re going to have to end it. But instead of saying, “It’s over because I’m not attracted to you anymore,” say, “It’s over because we clearly aren’t attracted to each other.” He might claim he’s still attracted to you, PRISONS, and that might even be true, but if he’s too insecure to have sex with you—if his insecurities are such huge stumbling blocks—then he’s not in good enough working order to be in a sexually exclusive relationship. You should, of course, be as considerate as possible about his insecurities when you end things, PRISONS, but you don’t have an obligation to stay with him forever because of them. He has an obligation to work on them with his therapist before
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entering into a new relationship. Q: A friend just shared on Facebook that she has been accosted by some dude—a stranger to her—over the phone. Sexually explicit stuff. She hung up and blocked him but he kept leaving her messages and sending her texts somehow. She just learned how to permanently block his number, which she has done. I have this dude’s phone number and it traces to Phoenix, Arizona. My question: Is there some service somewhere where I could share his phone number and an army of allies would call him? Or tele-market to him? Or otherwise accost him until it becomes so inconvenient that he has to get a new number? I don't want him to be sexually harassed. I am not the kind of person who would invite sexual harassment on anyone. I just want him harassed to the point where he can no longer use the number he currently has to sexually harass anyone else. I get scam calls all the time about winning another free vacation at a Marriott Hotel. (I don't know why I'm still paying rent with all the vacations I'm supposed to have won.) Is there a way I can sign him up for endless calls for free vacations? Can you or your readers think of some other suitably annoying/debilitating fate for his number? I'd love to write to my friend in support and solidarity and inform her of the annoyances about to rain down on this dude’s number! Sexual Harassment Unleashes Totally Unrelenting Phone Promotions A: I’m sorry your friend was harassed by some asshole with a phone, SHUTUPP, but the counterstrike you’re considering could backfire on your friend. I mean, let’s say you got this asshole to change his number—let’s say your campaign of targeted non-sexual harassment was a success—then what happens? Well, then the asshole gets a new number. He’ll still be an asshole with a phone, most likely the same phone, just with a different phone number. And since his new number won’t be the one your friend blocked, SHUTUPP, and since he’ll still have your friend’s phone number, he’ll be able to resume harassing your friend and any other woman who’d blocked his old number. As unsatisfying as it might seem, your friend’s best course of action here is the one she already took—blocking the fuck out of this asshole—and your best course of action would be to express sympathy and solidarity without doing anything that might make things worse. Q: My marriage of ten years recently fell apart. My ex, who is a piece of shit, told me she would have to leave or I would have to leave. I moved out but continued to pay her bills and rent for a year on top of my own expenses. We both agreed not
to see other people until we either reconciled or divorced. On more than one occasion she convinced me that we might be close to reconciling. She basically led me on. Unfortunately, she was shacking up with a “Dom” who was old enough to be her father and this was going on long before we separated. When I confronted her she told me she did it because you said sometimes cheating can save a relationship. She tried to get me to agree to having poly relationship with them but the trust was gone. I know she was just saying things to cover her ass and I moved on. Now I am looking for your advice on what steps to take, please. Your Fan The Quiet Mouse A: I’ve said cheating is sometimes “the least worst option” for all involved. But to say something isn’t always the worst option isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement. And I’ve said it’s foolish to define cheating as unforgivable considering how common cheating is. But to say something is forgivable is not to say it isn’t wrong. Quite the opposite, in fact, as non-wrongs do not require forgiveness. And, yes, I’ve said that cheating can sometimes save a relationship. For example, a person in an otherwise loving, low-conflict relationship that has become sexless might, after exhausting all other options (difficult conversations, couples counseling, etc.), cheat in order to “stay married and stay sane.” It’s not ideal, of course, but it may make it possible for the cheater to remain in a relationship that neither the cheater nor the cheatee wants to end. That’s not what your wife did. She lied, she cheated, and only floated the idea of an ethically non-monogamous relationship after she got caught being non-ethically non-monogamous. While this has been known to work—there are couples out there that were able to create functional and healthy open relationships in the wake of messy and painful affairs—it’s not the kind of cheating that typically saves relationships. This kind of cheating, the kind your wife engaged in, more often than not destroys relationships. Sorry—I’m issuing clarifications, not answering your question. You asked about next steps. I don’t have to tell you to give yourself permission to be angry, as you sound pretty in touch with your anger, so I’ll just tell you to feel the shit out of your feelings. Ask your friends to let you freely vent for the next few months. After three months they’re allowed to gently change the subject when you start in on your ex; after six months they’re allowed to insist you talk about something else; after a year they’re allowed to block your calls if you can’t get through a conversation without rehashing your divorce for the millionth time. You should also eat a lot of ice cream while getting enough exercise to neutralize its effects, YFTQM, and remind yourself every day that an ex who treated you like shit is no excuse for treating your next like shit. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage On the Lovecast, Elle Chase on dating for large ladies. www.savagelovecast.com
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