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RIGHT TO COUNSEL IS THE RIGHT MOVE FOR LOUISVILLE

By Aaron Yarmuth | leo@leoweekly.com

their work, including quantifiable outcomes.

THE FEDERAL EVICTION MORATORIUM By definition, this program helps parents was extended for 90 days earlier this week, who struggle every day, week and month just days before it was set to expire. While to stay in their home, provide food for their millions of Americans can rest a bit easier child and keep the lights, heat or air on. The — at least until July — the respite could last thing they can afford is an attorney. afford the city enough Without counsel, time to take action to help protect its most When Philadelphia tenants are unlikely to know their legal vulnerable families adopted a right to rights or that they from losing their can even negotiate a homes. counsel program settlement to avoid Good thing Democourt. But, because cratic Councilwoman in 2019 — guarmany cannot afford Cassie Chambers anteeing counsel an attorney, as a Armstrong was result, many evictions already working on a to anyone below go unchallenged, solution.

Last week, Arm200% of the federal which can cause even more immediate and strong announced she poverty level — long-term problems was filing a “right to than just being counsel” ordinance, an independent removed from your which would provide economic study by home. legal representation An eviction on to low-income famiStout Risius Ross, someone’s record lies through eviction hearings. The comLLC estimated that potentially damages their ability to find munity has a chance housing in the future. budgeting $3.5 to provide help to It can hurt their credit those most in need, a million annually for score. Evictions lead level-playing field for low-income tenants legal representation to higher rates of homelessness and job and an investment would save the city loss. For kids, evicthat will ultimately tion devastates school save the city money, over $45 million performance, leads plus the personal pain and hardship of so each year — nearly to more mental and physical health probmany. a 13-to-1 return on lems, higher rates of It’s the kind of juvenile delinquency program that makes investment. and other social one wonder: How problems. was this not already Plus, if a tenant does show up to court to a thing? challenge their eviction, and are unsuccessSeveral major cities across the country ful, they may end up responsible for court have similar programs. In Louisville, Armfees and the landlord’s attorney’s fees. strong’s draft ordinance would offer free They need legal counsel. legal counsel to those with at least one child “We know from other states and cities and a gross income below 125% of the fedthat if a person has access to an attorney, eral poverty guidelines — $33,125 in Ken86% of those cases end up in resolution that tucky. The city would contract with outside organizations to provide legal services, at no is not an eviction,” said Ben Carter, an attorney who works with the Kentucky Equal cost to the tenant. The organizations would Justice Center, in a Facebook Live video. “It also have to provide reports documenting

doesn’t necessarily mean that people stay in their homes, but it means they don’t have an eviction on their record. That eviction doesn’t haunt their ability to attain housing for their family.”

It’s not just a compassionate program, but a smart investment for the community.

“It has been cost-effective at saving cities money, by keeping families out of shelters and in a more stable situation,” Armstrong said at a press conference announcing the ordinance.

And she’s right. All of the aforementioned long-term effects — job loss, homelessness and the impact on children — add to the social-cost burden carried by the rest of the community, the taxpayer.

When Philadelphia adopted a right to counsel program in 2019

— guaranteeing counsel to anyone below 200% of the federal poverty level — an independent economic study by Stout Risius Ross, LLC estimated that budgeting $3.5 million annually for legal representation would save the city over $45 million each year — nearly a 13-to-1 return on investment. In Baltimore, Stout figured that a $5.7 million budget would save the city $35.6 million annually — a more than 6-1 ROI. I don’t mean this pejoratively, but this is the absolute bare minimum we should be doing for families facing eviction. And, this is not a temporary solution to a COVID-19-created crisis. This is a critical public service that will pay back our community with compounding interest.

The Metro Council should work with Armstrong and co-sponsor Jecorey Arthur to pass — or expand — this program. •

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THE MIDWESTERNIST

THE JUGGERNAUT AND AMERICA: JUST KEEP RUNNING

By Dan Canon | leo@leoweekly.com I’VE READ COMIC BOOKS for as long as I can remember. I like the ready ability to escape into a world where the good guys usually win, or at least where costumed characters are smashing stuff.

But my interest is rooted in more than just escapism: Volumes of honest-to-god scholarship have been written about comics (or “graphic novels” if you want to sound all hoity-toity). Comic book storylines reflect changes in culture over time, and you can learn a lot about the character traits a society prizes by who its preferred superheroes are. It’s like the original Nite Owl says in “Watchmen” No. 1: “The world of Doc Savage and the Shadow was one of absolute values, where what was good was never in the slightest doubt, and where what was evil suffered some kind of fitting punishment.” The decidedly different world of The Watchmen, The Punisher, and an alcoholic, street-brawling Batman reflected the grittier, more complicated reality of Reagan-era America.

One of my longtime favorite villains from the Marvel universe is Cain Marko, better known as the Juggernaut.

Marko starts out as a kid who is abused by his scientist dad.

He accidentally kills his parents in a laboratory fire. Then he’s drafted and sent to North Korea, where he steals an ancient ruby that turns him into an unstoppable powerhouse.

None of this backstory matters much. All you need to know is that he’s big, he wears armor that makes him look like a Cadbury egg, and he smashes things. Mostly by running through them.

At first, it’s difficult to see the cultural significance of a character like The Juggernaut. He’s not particularly complicated, as supervillains go. He is killed and resurrected every now and again. He gets blasted into the farthest reaches of outer space. He’s used as an avatar by an otherworldly demon who reaches him via a portal created by a swamp monster. But he’s mostly unfazed by all of it. He doesn’t brood, he’s not introspective — there’s no monologuing, pontificating, or whining about his childhood. The character is only multidimensional in the sense that he occasionally gets banished to other dimensions. He just keeps right on running through things, no matter what.

I’ve lost more than a few people to COVID-19 in the last year, including at least one close friend. Maybe more. I’m not sure. I’m processing these losses by not thinking about them too much. It’s like I’m watching all humankind’s existential fears become trivialities, manifested as balloonfish, peacefully floating in a world-sized tank. I am aware that people I love are suffering. Lost relatives, lost jobs, lost relationships, a lost year at the very least. Seems pretty bad.

Oh well.

I’m not sure how I got to this point, but I’m sure it has taken more than this one year for it to happen. I was a sensitive kid. I felt things deeply. I cried a lot. Even as a young adult, I wrote bad songs and bad poetry and drew bad pictures to deal with all the bad feelings. In the rare event that I got a glimpse of death, either of a pet or some distant relative, I’d dwell on it for weeks.

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But I’ve gotten older, the senses have dulled, and a protective callus has been rubbed around the emotional mechanism in the brain. Death means less now, somehow.

Not just death, but birth too, and everything in between.

When I received my first vaccination, I didn’t experience euphoria or even noticeable relief. It was OK, I guess.

I can’t prove it, but I don’t think I’m the only one to wax apathetic. During the Civil War (the real one, not the Avengers’ internal spat), people routinely lost entire communities in the space of hours but still spent prolonged periods of public mourning. Now, again surrounded by death, it seems like much of America is experiencing something akin to what psychologists call “dysfunctional grief” — that is, no mourning at all. Some of us can openly laugh at half a million deaths and still cram ourselves into restaurants every weekend. Even the most empathetic of us can only furrow our brows, squinch our faces into a tight frown, scratch the back of our heads and say “yeah, that really sucks. Welp, whaddya gonna do?” Life has to keep up a certain pace for those of us still living, and that means forever sprinting to the next thing, gaze fixed forward to an infinite horizon, without acknowledging a time when the running must stop.

All the loss of the last year has helped me realize the archetypal value of the Juggernaut, who smashes through things in a helmet big enough to obstruct his peripheral vision almost entirely. He’s not putting on armor like Colossus; that’s too deliberate. He’s not hatching elaborate plans or building precision lasers like the Red Skull or the Leader; you have to confront the nature of your adversary to do that. He’s just running through shit.

That’s the way to be. Need a building knocked down? Run through it. Gotta get past the Fantastic Four or the New Mutants? Run through ’em. Your mom and dad on ventilators? Masks all over the goddamn street? Dozens of funeral passcodes to keep track of in your inbox? Surgeries, career changes, elections, house fires, birthdays, graduations, weddings, mass shootings, suicides?

Don’t think too much about any of that, just slap that goofy helmet on. Keep running. Keep smashing.

In 2020, the Juggernaut was rebranded and given his own book for the first time in the nearly 60-year history of the character. When I found out, I experienced something very close to mild happiness.

What costumed character represents this American epoch better than the Juggernaut? When faced with

problems like a global pandemic, what else can we do but careen headlong into them, hoping to burst through to the other side?

The Juggernaut may not be the hero we need, but he’s the one we’ve got. One wonders what we might become when we emerge, fully vaccinated, with nothing left to smash. Law-and-order caped crusader types? Gritty, murderous anti-heroes? Cackling, calculating villains? No use thinking about it; there is too much right in front of us; we can’t see that far ahead. Nor is there extra time or energy to look back at the collateral damage we’ve left behind. For now, all we can do is keep running. •

Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer and law professor.

“Midwesticism”is his short-documentary series about Midwesterners who are making the world a better place.

Watch it at: patreon.com/dancanon.

OUR PATH FORWARD TO ADVANCE RACIAL EQUITY Story By Brian Lamb

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Brian Lamb is Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The past year has been one of the most tumultuous chapters in recent history for Black Americans, with numerous reminders that systemic racism brings devastating consequences for individuals, families and communities.

The COVID-19 pandemic is tearing through Black communities across the country, killing Black people at twice the rate of white Americans, while leaving a trail of lost jobs and shuttered Black-owned businesses in its wake. This, along with the killing of George Floyd and so many others, has sparked an outpouring of corporate support for Black Americans in recent months, and we’ve seen numerous examples of companies stepping up to make concrete changes to the way they do business in an effort to advance racial equity around the world.

As the largest bank in the United States, it’s long past time for JPMorgan Chase to own its part in creating economic opportunity and inclusion for communities that have been historically marginalized. Systemic racism is a tragic part of America’s history. It’s a congenital defect of our society that’s resulted in racial gaps across virtually every walk of American life, including wealth, homeownership, educational outcomes, health care, incarceration rates and life expectancy.

Real lives that matter are impacted by these gaps, and it’s our responsibility to do something about it, given the role of banks in the financial health of the communities we serve.

HOW JPMORGAN CHASE IS COMBATTING THE RACIAL WEALTH DIVIDE Over the past few months, we’ve reviewed our business practices, products and the role we play in communities across this country to understand the changes we need to make to

address the largest drivers of the racial wealth divide. We’ve been especially focused on developing ways to expand affordable lending and housing, increase credit and capital for Blackowned small businesses, and improve access to tools that will help Black people save money and get on a path to sustained financial health.

This work led us to make a $30 billion commitment over the next five years to provide economic opportunities in underserved communities — with a special focus on Black and Latinx people. These commitments include loans, equity, and direct funding to promote homeownership and affordable housing.

We’ve set a goal of originating an additional 40,000 home purchase loans for Black and Latinx households. To do this we’ve committed $8 billion toward mortgages. We also want underserved communities to be able to take advantage of historically low interest rates, and we’ve committed $4 billion toward helping Black and Latinx households refinance their home loans.

CREATING PATHWAYS TO FINANCIAL HEALTH Through our own research, we know that Black households tend to have lower savings and higher debt burdens than other groups.

Historically, Black Americans have been forced to grapple with less access to credit, and often have to pay higher financing fees. Too many Black Americans are completely unbanked as well, which increases the likelihood of turning to predatory alternative financial services like check cashing and payday lenders.

To combat this challenge, we aim to help one million people open low-cost checking and savings accounts. To accomplish this, we must build stronger connections to underserved

communities, so we’ve committed to hiring 150 new community managers. We’re also planning to open new Community Center branches in the areas that need them most, and increase our marketing outreach to our Black and Latinx populations to raise awareness of these efforts.

LEANING IN ON BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP If we are to make meaningful progress in closing the racial wealth divide, entrepreneurship must be a key part of the equation. We’re committed to helping the job creators in Black and Latinx communities gain access to the credit they need to launch, grow and scale their businesses. As part of this effort, we’ve committed to delivering $2 billion in loans, and to spending an additional $750 million with Black and Latinx companies that can supply products and services to JPMorgan Chase.

We’re also going to expand our Entrepreneurs of Color Fund to support more Black and Latinx small-business owners nationwide.

As we move forward with these efforts, we know we must hold ourselves accountable if they’re going to achieve their intended impact.

We are going to continually assess how these commitments are performing and will adjust when necessary. Ultimately, we know that no single company can close the racial wealth gap, but it is our responsibility to try — and to work with other companies and policymakers along the way.

We’re owning our part in this — and we’re just getting started.

Visit JPMorganChase.com/Pathforward to learn more about our efforts to advance racial equity, which include affordable housing, minority-owned businesses, financial health, workforce diversity and more.

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WE’RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYONE’S ‘BAD DAY’

By Nguyễn Vũ Ngọc Uyên

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“WE’RE NOT responsible for anyone’s fuckago, my mom said, “I know that racism exists. You can be out in public and people ing bad day.” My first coherent thought. I could spit on you.” We each do what we posted it on Instagram. I struggled to string can to survive our version of reality. I used together sentences —thoughts interrupted, to say “I’m lucky I have never really been words written then erased. I am enraged for targeted for racism…” Except that time in all the times I have felt the need to protect college when a classmate said, “It’s posmyself from men’s bad days. The following sible that you got your scholarship because day I thought, now I should share something of affirmative action, and I’m okay with else, something lighter, more politically corthat.” And that time rect, more peaceful at Cherokee Park to balance out the Why must I be where a few teenage fuck that I had so boys yelled “Asian thoughtfully blipped polite when I feel whore” simply out. I fought the urge anything but? I because I walked to remain the pleasant past, or that time a “model minority.” feel the grief, the white man called me Why must I be polite rage, the despair in a liar because I told when I feel anything I didn’t have an but? I feel the grief, waves — breaking him English name, or that the rage, the despair time on the bus somein waves — breaking down crying at one said “Go back to down crying at work, work, leaving work your country.” I’m leaving work early struggling to keep to continue crying at early to continue my head above the home, feeling scared waves to survive my while walking to the crying at home, reality. Grief comes vigil and seeing a feeling scared while in waves. Trauma man whose beard line in waves. resembled that of the walking to the vigil comes The recognition Atlanta shooter. My over and over again breath sharpened, and seeing a man that the world you quickened. I felt whose beard line live in is not safe for angry at my tears you is trauma. The because my reality, resembled that of therapist in me ticks though never quite safe, is now even the Atlanta shooter. off: “hyperarousal, hypervigilance, more dangerous.

My breath sharpdistressing dreams, There’s not intense psychologione unified Asian ened, quickened. cal distress, desire to American response avoid memories or to the violence. My I felt angry at my reminders…” Somefriend said, “I don’t tears because my times I want to avoid know if I can talk. the world. IntersecI’m too angry. I don’t reality, though tionality is trauma. know what it’ll take To be a woman of for me to feel safer.” never quite safe, color in this world Another friend said, is now even more is trauma. We said it “I’m more emotionwhen Breonna Taylor ally detached than dangerous. was murdered, when you are.” My niece the women before said, “I’m more her were murdered and are now saying it proud than ever. Being Asian is what makes again for six more Asian women: Soon me different and unique. I have a culture to Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha share and I’m never going to be ashamed of Kim, Yong Ae Yue, Xiaojie Tan and Daoyou it.” Another friend, “My motto is be careful, Feng. My memories turn to all the women but don’t live in fear... How much more?

I know: alive but still violated. I think of When will it be bad enough?” A few months

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the women who work in hair salons, nail salons — nieces, cousins, sisters, who have been fetishized, sexualized as excuses for harassment and violation. I think of my friend’s sister who was violated when a man got a pedicure from her as an excuse to touch himself knowing she would be alone. I think of the women who have to keep working at massage parlors with the fear that next time it could be them. I think of the first woman I know who was violated — me — and my insides collapse, realizing the origin of the deep pain that has been with me since the news of the shootings. These specific shootings hit closest to home for me because of who I am, what I have experienced — my own set of intersectionality.

Intersectionality has a more poignant meaning now than ever, and trauma and its reminders hit again in waves.

I think of women who have been violated and stayed silent, forced to stay silent because they are women of color, and that vulnerability held them silent. The women killed in Atlanta will forever be silent. I don’t want to be silent.

The waves of violence, the waves of fear, of trauma continue. The waves threaten to drown out our voices, but we refuse to stay silent. Inside my mind, I whispered the words along to my friend Thảo’s voice as she spoke at the vigil. I watched the shakes in her hands and felt the shakes in my own body. I heard the shakes in her voice and saw the tears in state Rep. Attica Scott’s eyes. She reminded us, Rep. Nima Kulkarni is the first and only Asian American legislator in our Commonwealth and it is hard for her. It is hard for her, them, us. Still, we speak up, with tears in our eyes, voices trembling, breaths shaky — because we’re scared, hurt, angry, shaking as we speak louder and louder, until that shaking is the world shaking from our rage, cracking open, collapsing into changes.

What do we do in a world that’s not safe for us? The fight to undo racism should not fall on the oppressed, but in many ways, it has been and still is on our shoulders. I continue to see women of color shouldering

Nguyễn Vũ Ngọc Uyên.

the fight. I’m grateful for these women.

My heart feels safer in the company of women these days. I went away for a weekend with my soul sisters. We sat and talked. I asked one’s daughter if she has experienced racism. “Yes... many times… from 6 to 12 years old.” Classmates pulled at their eyes saying “ching chong” and “free fried rice.” “Who? When?” her father asked.

“Hundreds of times, dad!” My coworker said, “I tell my son this all the time, and he thinks I’m crazy. He’s Black, and it’s not the same for him like those other boys. I said, if he ever gets pulled over, to put his hands on the dashboard so they could see.” When I looked at my Vietnamese friend’s sons at the vigil, I thought of the children playing at the BLM protests down at Injustice Square.

This is their reality. This is our reality — the world by design is not as safe nor kind to people like us. • Nguyễn Vũ Ngọc Uyên is a VietnameseAmerican immigrant, a social worker and a therapist. She lives in South Louisville with her husband and their two cats and two dogs.

April 7 – June 6, 2021

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Advanced ticket reservation strongly encouraged and face masks required.

Promise, Witness, Remembrance will reflect on the life of Breonna Taylor, her killing in 2020, and the year of protests that followed, in Louisville and around the world. The exhibition explores the dualities between a personal, local story and the nation’s reflection on the promise, witness, and

Amy Sherald (b. 1973) Breonna Taylor 2020 Oil on linen 137.2 x 109.2 cm / 54 x 43 inches © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Joseph Hyde L2021.11

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Made possible through support from The Ford Foundation.

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IF YOU FOLLOW Your Korean Dad on YouTube, you know he posted a remark about how sometimes we want to help, but we feel we might just be making things worse.

He said he was sad, and his voice broke — not his usual mood. My Chinese American friend Christine has two small daughters and lives in Brooklyn where the violence has been almost daily. She posted that she is scared for them every time they go outside.

Some Asian people are posting images of their beautiful grandmothers, some are posting articles they wrote for The Atlantic. But the social media post that stays with me is from a poet named Grace: the image of the white man beaten bloody and being hauled away on a stretcher. He had punched an old Chinese woman out of nowhere, and she beat him over the head with her cane.

Grace said what I thought: Why don’t we focus on, make a narrative of, broadcast a spectacle of this person on a stretcher, make a visible monster of the person who hadn’t calculated the cost of his hate, who tries to beat up a little old lady out of nowhere, in broad daylight? Who did not understand the confinements of his imagination? Because this is the problem (to paraphrase Toni Morrison): People who have no respect for themselves, who are cowards.

My book, “The Betweens,” addresses specific aspects of this experience. It navigates scenes from my life, thoughts about Asian America, microaggressions, moments in country clubs, scenes from scientific history, intergenerational trauma, art curation, hues and shade, distances in the solar system, etc., and my love of quilting.

The book looks down two hallways: I was privy in my youth in the ‘80s and ‘90s in

Louisville to what people said when they thought non-white people were present and what they said when I was passing, when they thought only white people were present. All of this happened in what would be called a white-adjacent section of the city, where I saw the three other minorities out of 750 students at my all-girls Catholic high school from a huge distance. The city, where studies of our desegregated classrooms showed that the majority of children prefer a teacher of color and which after K-12, a bachelor’s, and seven years of advanced degrees, I have yet to have.

Therefore, because of my experience as described in my book, I ask us all to interrogate the white imagination: What it means to get my own, one’s own, and consequently *the* white imagination into perspective. To see its limits and programming. To audit whiteness.

I’ve spent a lot of time considering that my imagination has errors, that it has to be expanded, that I don’t know anything after I’ve seen a documentary with a director whose imagination is steeped in received ideas, who will build in their own narrative while imagining they are showing the truth.

Or the poor logic of those tricked into eating their own resentment for dinner — sorry robots and rich bastards took your job, it was no one else.

How will you — how do we — every day retool our thoughts — the closest one can come — to the actual? • Cynthia Arrieu-King is a writer, professor and quilter. She grew up in Kentucky, and divides her time between Philadelphia and Louisville. Her book “The Betweens” was released by Noemi Press on March 15, 2021.

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CHEROKEE PARK LOOP PLAN STIRS QUESTIONS OF ACCESSIBILITY

By Danielle Grady | dgrady@leoweekly.com PAGE PACKER, 34, has all of Louisville’s parks mapped out in her mind based on whether they’re accessible for her 6-year-old daughter, Claire Parker, who has cerebral palsy and uses a walker and sometimes a wheelchair.

Brown Park: Good, because its playground surfaces are rubber.

Tom Sawyer: Not so great, because it uses mulch.

Dupree Park: No — mulch again.

A new proposal to keep most of the closure of Cherokee Park’s loop to cars permanent would knock it down on Packer’s list of most accessible parks.

That plan, which has not been finalized, would reopen one section from the Eastern Parkway entrance, up toward Hogan’s Fountain and ending at the Dingle/Cherokee Road entrance. Metro officials say the idea is a compromise to keep the safe environment cultivated during the pandemic, while also making sure the park is still accessible for those with mobility issues. Hogan’s Fountain, which features a playground, a splash pad, picnic tables, a shelter, basketball court and a sports field, is a popular gathering spot, but it’s an uphill walk both ways to get there with the road closed.

“I think, in part, this was designed, the sort of way that the proposed road configuration is right now, is designed to make sure that either people with disabilities, people with mobility issues, people with young children do have access to a lot of those amenities,” said District 8 Councilperson Cassie Chambers Armstrong at a virtual public Parks and Recreation meeting about the Cherokee Park loop. “Because we don’t want to be creating a system where we’re excluding members of our communities from the amenities that we want them to be enjoying.”

Packer sees the plan as a half-measure.

“It would be helpful, but large portions of the park would still be inaccessible to us,” she said. “We probably wouldn’t go as much.”

The city is also mulling the permanent closure of the loop at Iroquois Park.

This is not as much of an issue for those

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KY 120 United — the organic, public teacher-led movement that began three years ago — hasn’t gone away. In fact, it’s only grown stronger and, now, the group is unionizing as a Kentucky chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. KY 120 began overnight, when Republicans (cowardly) attempted to sneak teacher pension reform through the legislature as an amendment to a “sewer bill.”

When word got out, hundreds (possibly thousands) of teachers across the Commonwealth called into school sick the next day, forcing more than 20 school districts to cancel school. In subsequent days, hundreds (ultimately thousands) of teachers used “sickout” days to rally at the Capitol in Frankfort against the Republicans’ effort to cheat the legislative process. The bill Republicans eventually passed was ultimately struck down by the Kentucky Supreme Court.

What a fitting lesson for Republicans: Your failed efforts to pass pension reform without hearing from teachers now ensures that you’ll hear from teachers a lot more.

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Metro government has proposed a plan to partially reopen the Cherokee Park loop in the Hogan’s Fountain area.

with mobility issues, say some park advocates, because important Iroquois amenities, such as its playground and amphitheater, have nearby parking. But, there are still those who use the loop for leisure driving, or — for residents — as a cut-through.

The majority of feedback from park users since closing the Cherokee Park loop at the beginning of the pandemic has been positive, said Layla George, executive director of Olmsted Parks Conservancy, in an interview with LEO. The city decided to build on that public input by sending out a nonscientific survey to help determine the loop’s future, said Louisville Forward Co-Director Jeff O’Brien at the virtual meeting.

Out of 7,234 survey responses, 67% approved of a permanent closure and 32% did not. A smaller percentage, 62% said they would support a partial reopening at Hogan’s Fountain, while 37% said they would not. The survey was only publicly promoted for one week: Louisville Parks and Recreation posted the survey to its Facebook page on March 12, and the deadline to respond was March 19. The survey was not meant to be the end of public comment on the proposal, city officials said. The city is

still collecting opinions and will likely make an internal decision sometime this spring, Margaret Bosko, the assistant director for Louisville Parks and Recreation, told LEO. One group that has benefited from the loop closure is parents with children who are not disabled.

Chris Glasser, the director of Streets for People, a Louisville nonprofit that advocates for redesigning roadways to make them more pedestrian and bike friendly, said that personally, he feels safer taking his two, small kids to Cherokee Park since the closure of the loop.

“If kids can’t run free in a park, because you’re worried about them getting mowed down by a car, that’s not a park experience,” he said.

But, Glasser also had concerns about the park remaining accessible to people who are more dependent on cars.

So, after the city’s survey went up, he drafted a “car-muted” plan that would open up the loop near parking areas.

Like the city’s plan, it would allow car access near Hogan’s Fountain, although it would start where Barney Street intersects with Cherokee Road instead of from Eastern Parkway. The main difference is that Glasser’s plan would open the loop near the rugby field.

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ABSURD: MCCONNELL SUFFERING FROM ATHAZAGORAPHOBIA

Sen. Mitch McConnell — the most “powerful” Republican in the U.S. Senate — is begging for attention. First, McConnell wrote an op-ed in the Courier Journal last week, countering calls from House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth to end the Senate filibuster. Talk about Athazagoraphobia! (See *footnote for answer to joke…) Now, he’s taking on CJ columnist Joe Gerth! In this week’s op-ed — in which he continues to cling to the filibuster, his only tool to remain relevant — McConnell invokes Gerth, his column and the CJ more than a dozen times. It’s almost as though he’s desperate to find a new scarecrow to inflame his Trump-Republican base. Perhaps, after years of demonizing Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and AOC — those responsible for delivering $1,400 “Biden Bucks” to millions of Kentuckians and billions in state aid to the Commonwealth — people realize Mitch is just crying wolf… crying out for attention. Perhaps, Democrats and their “socialist” policies are actually pretty damn popular. ( *Athazagoraphobia: “The fear of being forgotten, ignored, or abandoned.”)

ROSE: MAKE DEMOCRACY EASIER

The pandemic has been a substantial time of suffering, but hopefully there are things that we take from it that make our society better. One of those things should be expanded voting access, and, on Monday, the Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation that will make voting in the state easier moving forward. The bipartisan House Bill 574 will establish three days of early in-person voting, create an online portal for absentee requests, allow for secure drop boxes for absentee ballots, among other increased access measures and updated security guidelines. We need to move forward from the terrible suppression that’s plagued voting for years.

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NEWS & ANALYSIS “In my mind it serves as a middle ground between allowing cars to access the park at certain locations but also preventing them from using the park as a cut-through. And it also keeps cars out of the narrower parts of the loop,” said Glasser.

George said she approves of opening the loop near Hogan’s Fountain, because it would alleviate parking concerns and allow easier access to the amenities there. But, she doesn’t know if it’s necessary near the rugby field, because there aren’t amenities like playgrounds and bathrooms there.

Glasser said he presented his plan to the Conservancy and to Chambers Armstrong, but it was not mentioned at the virtual meeting.

Twenty-six percent of people who took the Cherokee Park survey said they use the loop for leisure driving.

In comments on Facebook posts about the survey, several people who use the parks for leisure driving said they were older.

George said, “We have a lot of empathy and appreciation for those park users who do experience the park form their cars. I think at this point it’s a question of safety.”

THE LOOP’S HISTORY OF CHANGE

Frederick Olmsted designed Cherokee Park in 1891 to be an escape for city-dwellers,

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George told LEO. There were no cars at the “I know that on some of these recent time, so George thinks the loop’s purpose was weekends that have been so beautiful, I would for horse-drawn carriages. be petrified to drive a car through the Scenic In the 1990s, more people started using Loop,” George said.

Cherokee Park. To give the new visitors more room, the city decided to take the loop from a MISSING THE PARKS two-way road for cars down to a one-way.

Packer used to take her daughter and her “It was a difficult decision for the admin8-year-old son to Cherokee Park a couple istration and certainly times a month. not without controSince the loop has versy,” said George. been closed, they’ve Olmsted also only been once. She recognized that uses parked on Willow and for Cherokee Park pushed Claire to the may change over park in her wheeltime. George read a chair. They walked a 1935 quote from the portion the loop and Olmsted Brothers checked out one of saying that the park’s the trails. original bridle trails “It was OK,” said could be converted Packer. “But it just into walking trails stunk because we should the demand couldn’t go to the vast arise. majority of the park.”

Claire Packer. | PROVIDED BY PAGE PACKER. Now, the park has Instead of going once again seen an increase in users. Jefferson to Cherokee, Packer and her family have County parks have seen a 121% increase in visited Beckley Creek Park more often, which visitors from their baseline, according to a is closer to their home in Middletown and March Google report, tracking movement completely accessible, Packer said. But, she trends during the pandemic. misses Cherokee.

“I think out of all the parks in the city, I have the strongest emotional connection to Cherokee,” she said. “Just because I spent so many hours there, and I spent so many hours there in my formative years.”

Jacqueline Raque, who uses a cane because of a disability that limits her mobility, moved to Louisville in March just before the loops closed. One of the reasons she chose to move to Louisville from the Bay Area was because of the city’s parks. But, because of the Cherokee Park loop closure and medical issues that have sent her to the hospital several times, Raque, who lives in the Original Highlands, has not visited the park that she originally envisioned spending hours relaxing in.

“It broke my heart,” said Raque, 62, about the loop closure. “I was highly disappointed because that was actually one of the things that this would be a reasonable risk to take, moving cross country like this.”

Those who would like to voice their opinion about the city’s loop proposal can send an email to parks@louisvilleky.gov or call 502-574-PARK. A virtual meeting about Iroquois Park’s loop is expected to take place the first week in April. •

IN GEOLOGIC TIME

THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LOUISVILLE’S ROCKS

By Sean Patrick Hill | leo@leoweekly.com

ON THE FAR SIDE of Mitchell Hill, across the Bullitt County line, there is a small creek called Sugartree Run. It lies in the former Samuels property, nearly 300 acres held by that family for eight generations — as far back, according to one descendant, as the land grants of the 1800s. It was farmed until 1984, when Walter Samuels, a diabetic, lost his eyesight. Since then, the forest has steadily grown back.

The parcel, purchased in 2005 for $1.14 million, is now part of the Jefferson Memorial Forest, the totality of which lies in the geologic region known as The Knobs. There are no trails in the Samuels purchase, though this small creek parallels Knob Creek Road, and there are a few pullouts from which to see it.

I located the creek, initially, on my laminated foldout

map of the forest. One afternoon, curious, I drove with my daughter to the creek. I figured the water was close enough to the pavement that we could get some access. We drove south, past the turn for Tom Wallace Lake and the forest’s Welcome Center. At the top of the hill, we turned at a small cemetery and a cell tower, and then we started down along Sugartree Run. The road, once we crossed the county line, was freshly paved. I watched for pullouts. I settled on a small gravel bench, a gabion wall bound tight by canvas pinned with plastic posts above the creek’s edge — a recent job, from the looks of it. I backed into the head of an old access road, not noticing at first glance the barrier gate a few yards in the woods nearly invisible in the undergrowth.

We stood on the crushed gravel at the shoulder, watch-

ing the schools of minnow. I pointed out the beds of New Albany shale, rock dating back to the Devonian, that the water had worn down to smoothed ripples of iron-colored rock. The creekbed and the banks were littered with a variety of stones. I could see, even from a distance, the conglomerates packed with crinoid fossils. We climbed down the retaining wall, leaped over the water — it was only a few inches deep at most points — and picked among the stones.

Among the shards of broken glass, we found bits of chert, clastic rock, numerous limestones. I showed my daughter how wetted clumps of mudstone could be molded like clay.

She sat at the creekside and played with that while I walked upstream, ducking under fallen trees still in leaf.

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slowly. Like any other creek I’d seen across the country, this one bore the wastes that early settlers left in it. There were several large iron culverts, big enough to crawl into, and a slab of concrete on the bank, perhaps an old bridgehead for a wooden deck now long gone. At the end of the access road — I could see the parked car from here — was a ring of stone around a mess of burned limbs, aluminum cans, glass bottles. In the water, my daughter found a tiny salamander, black, no more than two inches, which disappeared under a rock. We watched a larval crane fly wriggling in the water.

Bits of crayfish lay about the beds — food, no doubt, for raccoons.

Cars passed on the road, and though they were no more than 10 yards away they seemed to travel at a distance, the lives of the drivers at such a remove that they seemed to be travelers from another time. It occurs to me now, that everything I saw that afternoon — every tree, every insect, even the litter — was, in fact, just such a traveler. It was all passing through. What was most enduring in the scene before us was not the meandering stream, whose course changed by the moment, and which in time would alter more, but what lay beneath it: the bedrock. The geology of hundreds of millions of years upon which everything we know in our lives either roots down or rests upon. And in either case, impermanently.

I study the geology of the region not as a scientist, or even a student, but as an amateur. What I ask of the discipline is more than understanding, more than an additional nomenclature with which I might comprehend the character of the land. The fossiliferous rock interests me, naturally, as well as the form and texture of the various layers, but what fascinates me deeply is how the rock shifts my perspective.

In the Bernheim Research Forest, walking upstream from the mouth of Slate Run where it empties over a bed of Beechwood Limestone dating to the middle Devonian period, I moved over compressed beds of New Albany Shale, younger, dating to the upper Devonian. The hills about the stream are entirely composed of thin pages of this shale, eroding out from under tree roots as dark gray chips.

Along the banks are bits of limestone and fossils of crinoids washed down from a long lost plateau, and I realize that I am walking beneath what was once an immense sea and, later, a river delta.

Where I am standing was once under water and hundreds of feet of stone, hidden. Hundreds of millions of years later, the mud, lithified, again sees the light. In such an expanse of time, I am no different from the water striders skating across the pools of water. Dwarfed to such proportions, this geology spanning millions of years puts my life into an appropriate perspective and asks me, in relation to such an enormous history, what I might do with this life in my tiny, allotted time.

In the summer of 2020, I wrote an email to Alan Goldstein, an interpretive naturalist at the Falls of the Ohio State Park. I asked him about rocks I would find in such creek beds. He readily agreed with some of my assessments — I had correctly identified the cherts and quartzes that weather out of limestone and lie in the water — and went on to describe ironstone nodules, often red on the exterior, heavy, dense. I’d seen them. He told me that what I thought was a

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grainy sandstone was actually siltstone, a common capstone in the Knobs.

Online, I found a study published by the Department of the Interior, Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology of the Glaciated Ohio River Valley. In the library, I found a more accessible book by local author Barbara Conkin, “Why Are the Highlands High?” I’d long known the basic rock of the area — sandstone, limestone, shale — but I did not know much about its age, how it interbedded, nor the periods it was formed in. I began to study rock outcrops in earnest. I took note of several outcrops that Conkin detailed — and she drew on a number of experts for her descriptions — and examined them. I began my own field work, as it were. The dominant rock in the city of Louisville is, of course, limestone, though even then this rock is far from homogenous. There are numerous beds of limestone, differing in age by millions of years.

Along Poplar Level Road, between the playing fields of Saint Xavier High School and the Norton Audubon Hospital, the roadbed dips into a hollow where a creek — so far as I know, unnamed — flows under the four-lane highway.

The creek emerges from George Rogers Clark Park, meandering roughly northeast toward the South Fork of Beargrass Creek. For the most part, traffic hurries by, and one would never suspect such a stream existed; this is, after all, a main arterial, Kentucky Highway 864, connecting Eastern Parkway and the Germantown neighborhood with the Watterson Expressway. The waterway is too small to register.

The road, originally a turnpike built of poplar planks not long after the Civil War, is today largely a series of apartment complexes, gas stations and chain restaurants around what was known as Mulberry Hill, property largely belonging to the Clark family, some of whom are buried in the park. Driving this stretch, in your haste, you might find little to light your attention on. One could without a doubt cynically comment on the unimaginative development or else ignore it entirely. One could regard the urban nature of the landscape — particularly the McDonald’s, the car wash, the CVS drug store — as unexceptional, mundane.

Passing by the park, however, there is a momentary break in the manmade structures as one drops into the hollow and passes the rows of trees lining the park to the west of the shoulder. Traveling it frequently, you may notice the pullouts where cars are often parked, marked for sale. You may also have noticed, directly across from the park, jutting from the grass slope beneath the hospital’s parking lot, a substantial outcrop of rocks. I have always taken notice of them. One summer, I decided to look closer.

I parked beside the tennis courts of Clark Park, in the

Carter Caves. | PHOTO BY SEAN PATRICK HILL

gravel pullout, and walked back along Thurston Avenue toward Poplar Level. I crossed at the light then walked south along the road, the roar of cars filling the air, noticing details I’d otherwise missed driving a car: the weeds along the guardrails — Japanese honeysuckle, for one — and the number of birds in the bramble, robins especially. I noticed all the trash along the edge of the sidewalk. In the distance, I could see the Calvary Cemetery, the spire of Saint Agnes.

I would invite you to go there. When you come upon the rocks, they might seem at first unremarkable. But looking closer — and you would unavoidably encounter the trash strewn among the rocks, too — you would begin to discern the fossils of corals.

What you are looking at are two distinct layers of limestone. The underlying, thicker rock is what is known as Louisville Limestone, and it is overlaid with a crumbly layer of Jeffersonville Limestone. Both were formed in the Paleozoic Era, when terrestrial life was only beginning. The lower rock is, of course, the oldest of the two, dating to the Middle Silurian period. It contains many fossils and, frequently, chert. It is well older than 400 million years. The upper layer of limestone is from the Middle Devonian period, which ended over 350 million years ago. Fish began to appear

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during this period. In both cases, these rocks — along with regional shale and dolomite — were formed in shallow prehistoric seas long drained. All the exposed rock of Jefferson County dates to roughly between 450 and 320 million years ago. Older than the dinosaurs.

They are, as the geologist James Hutton said in the eighteenth century, “The ruins of an older world.”

Standing just about anywhere in Jefferson County, Kentucky, the rock beneath your feet is more than a mile thick. Paleozoic sedimentary rock, in the ecoregion of the Interior Low Plateau, and even more precisely, the Lexington Plain — what we generally know as the Kentucky Bluegrass.

In Louisville we are, in fact, at the extreme of this physiographic region, the edge of which is the Pennyroyal Plateau, specifically the escarpment of Muldraugh Hill. Karst

Cliff, Cataract Falls, Indiana. | PHOTO BY SEAN PATRICK HILL

topography is common, meaning sinkholes, caves and streams that appear to be swallowed by the ground, only to reemerge elsewhere downstream.

Standing in front of my house, in the southern portion of Germantown, I am in a kind of borderland between what we know as the Highlands — where outcrops of limestone become much more pronounced, whether along creeks or in roadcuts and the remains of old quarries — and the Ohio River floodplain, a bed of glacial outwash.

The age of the earth directly below me is relatively recent, of the Quaternary age, which extends from 2.5 million years ago to today. Underfoot is a lithology of silt, sand, gravel — all that was left by the glaciers that melted to the north. Downtown is undergirded by this loose earth, as well. So is Shively, West Louisville, Valley Station.

On the sidewalk before my house, I am standing at 476 feet above sea level. When I turn and look southeast along Lydia Street, a

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very gradual slope signifies the beginning of the Springdale Anticline which, along with the other side, the Lyndon Syncline, is a kind of ripple of the Cincinnati Arch, a massive warping of the earth atop which sits Lexington, the Inner Bluegrass, the watershed of the Kentucky River. As such, the rock formations of our county are actually tilting westward toward the Ohio River. Because of this tilt, the exposed rock at the Falls of the Ohio — riddled with fossils of rugose and horn coral, brachiopods, and trilobites — is the same formation as rocks at the top of Cochran Hill in Cherokee Park.

It is easy, traveling by car, to not sense this tilting bedrock, which trends roughly northeast to southwest, aside from a sense that one is at times traveling up or downhill.

The slope is subtle; for example, were you to begin at Hurstbourne Lane and travel west on Shelbyville Road, by the time you reached the Watterson Expressway, a distance of only three miles, you would have fallen nearly one hundred feet in elevation. You would notice, too, that every creek flows away from the ridge of this anticline — Wolf Pen, Goose Creek, each fork of Beargrass Creek — toward the Ohio River. On the far eastern side, all the creeks flow toward Floyd’s Fork and the Salt River drainage.

There are seeming anomalies, though they make sense given the tilt. The peaks of the Knobs, the monadnocks that make up Iroquois Park, Kenwood Hill and the Jefferson Memorial Forest, are composed of far younger rock: Mississippian limestone, the youngest of which would be close to 320 million years old, topped with siltstone and, in rare cases, sandstone. These hills are heavily eroded, steepened by the easily-weathered shale that underlies the limestone.

This accounts for why one can find fossils along the ridges, the tiny rings of crinoids lying along trails. Fossils of marine life, essentially, in the sky. And the siltstone is the compacted silt of a long extinct river delta.

Knowing this, sensing this history, one understands that, standing on a ridgeline overlooking the valley of the Ohio River, and the enormous city built there, surrounded by a forest of hardwoods and wildflowers, that one is standing on a seabed lifted hundreds of feet into the air and, simultaneously, at the bottom of something akin to the Mississippi Delta long gone dry. What’s more, one understands that given another billion years of weathering, that the ridge one stands on will be brought low, erased, and that something else will take its place. That the chert atop Flint Knob will ultimately come to rest in the Gulf of Mexico.

Where we are is a kind of ark that has drifted from the equator, where the warmth of those shallow seas offered refuge to the corals, the trilobites. A sea shallow enough at points that one could have walked to Utah in water no higher than your waist. One can begin to understand, too, that the city that lies before you will inevitably become a part of the fossil record, crushed to perhaps the width of a cigarette paper.

One may ask at this point, what is the value of knowing this? Why study rock?

I am aware that the rock of Jefferson County lacks the grandeur of Yosemite’s granite, or Utah’s sandstone arches, let alone those of the Red River Gorge. Our rock is not as dramatic as the basalt flows that meet the Pacific Ocean, or the tilted marble of Death Valley, the uplifted Rocky

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Mountains. The beds of limestone here, interspersed with brittle clay shales, seem flat by comparison.

But I have come to find that one can look at the rocks at one’s feet in much the same way as one looks to a clear night sky far from city lights.

In both cases, one can touch the infinite. A sky unmarred by city lights allows one to negotiate a distance that empties the mind. To look down and hold the fossil of a horn coral in the palm, to hold the perfect shell of a brachiopod between one’s fingertips, is to go in the same direction of time. The fossil — and the rock its shape is preserved in — is as distant from us in time as the light traveling from the stars.

Near the top of Holsclaw Hill, just below the entrance to the Horine Reservation, there is a ledge of Harrodsburg Limestone, of the Brodhead formation, from the Lower Mississippian period. Though Holsclaw Hill is among the highest elevations in the county, at 900 feet above sea level, you come to understand that what you are seeing — what you, in fact, can touch — is a seabed. Were you to drive east into the valley of Floyd’s Fork, climbing down into the water-carved hollows, you would encounter even older rock from the Ordovician period, the oldest in the county, yet another older seabed. Fairmont Falls slips over a lip of Brassfield Limestone capping a thick bed of Saluda Dolomite — more seabed. The cliffs of Cherokee Park, the quarry walls throughout the county, the rock shelves along Beargrass Creek where it flows behind the Oxmoor Center: all seabed. What lived in those seas left their prints embedded in the mud now turned to bedrock.

And beneath the rocks we typically see lies even older rocks — the Liberty, Waynesville, and Arnheim Formations — that extend into the Precambrian Era. Their ages extend

into billions of years.

Carter Caves. | PHOTO BY SEAN PATRICK HILL.

As John McPhee noted in his colossal “Annals of the Former World,” a book that brings poetry to geology, a geologist loves a good roadcut. In Louisville, there are frequent roadcuts, as well as quarries. One can easily see in our buildings and stone fences how much Louisville has made of the rock.

One such quarry sits beneath Cave Hill Cemetery, at the corner of Grinstead Drive and Cherokee Parkway. An excavation in the Louisville Limestone and, at the top, the Jeffersonville formation. Up Lexington Road, to the east, across Beargrass Creek and up Cochran Hill, more outcrops along the roadway, overgrown with English ivy. And just on the other side of the interstate is a prominent cliff, and at its top there sits a house on Cross Hill Road.

There is no sidewalk along the offramp that runs below this cliff. But I walked one summer along the edge of the road, the grass vanishing as the strip between the asphalt

and the guardrail narrowed. I stepped over the guardrail and into the patch of woods at the base of the rock wall. Directly above me, on the bluff, sits the expensive house with an expansive view — one easily sees it from the interstate.

But beneath it, I found a tent, a small camp tucked back in the trees.

Many of us have seen the homeless men standing at the end of this ramp, holding cardboard signs, perhaps a pack stashed beside the post of a road sign. We can notice, if we are careful, the food packaging and the bottles of water left there.

Atop the cliff, as if hung in the air, the established house suggests comfort. Beneath it, the primitive camp suggests a hardscrabble existence. And in between, the colossal bedrock of history, silent and resolute. Countless seabeds stacked like pages in a novel in a language we barely understand. It frames us, our small lives, and offers us a perspective to address what is important.

I turned and walked out of the wood.

Someone must own this small plot, though I don’t know. I only know I had no right to be there. I felt like an intruder.

Before I turned away, I laid my hand to the rock. It towered above me, above the tent, above the interstate. What was it I was looking for? More importantly, what had I found?

There are obvious, scientific reasons to study the rock record. One can begin to understand the processes of the earth, for one. The earth begins to seem more of a living being, growing, changing, always in movement. There is no solidity, no permanence. No peace. There are practical matters, too, the geologist considers: The drainage of the soil in relation to the bedrock indicates

Rock Creek. | PHOTO BY SEAN PATRICK HILL

what might be grown on a parcel of land, what could reasonably be built upon it. What minerals industry might find there. Those, of course, are human concerns.

What I return to is the afternoon, the infinitesimal hour, of kneeling beside a creek on the eastward slope of the Knobs, kneeling in gravels worn down by millions of years of weather. I recall the recognition of shale — its name, its approximate age — as readily as I recognize my daughter, myself. I realize, and attempt to hold, what lays before us in stark contrast: that the body of rock beneath us dwarfs us. In durability, in history, it is like standing beside the Grand Canyon. We are like the salamander disappearing beneath it.

But every tree, each bit of broken glass, my daughter and I, and the homeless men sleeping beneath the columns of rock — we will all disappear. What the rock says, I think, is this: Pay attention. Act while you have the ability. Our time on earth is brief. •

It’s been a tough year for everyone, but as we look forward to warmer weather and brighter days, it’s time to start making plans for the summer months. Ones where we can all have some fun. For the kids, that means summer camps. Here is a list of the best and safest options, where getting outside is prioritized right alongside of your child’s safety. If you’re in the market for summer camps in Louisville, this is your guide.

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CAMP J: WHERE CAMP FRIENDS ARE FOREVER FRIENDS Imagine a transformative summer full of splashing in the pool, playing gaga, and creating amazing crafts.

Camp J at the Jewish Community Center invites your camper to join us for our Camp June 7 – August 6. Weekly traditional camp is offered for children entering Kindergarten through 9th grade with arts & crafts, sports, free swim, and more! Each week, camp will be centered around inspiring themes that makes each week feel like a new adventure.

Camp provides: • Healthy, developmentally appropriate activities and meaningful learning experiences • Discovery through experiential education • Caring, competent role models

• High staff to camper ratios • Impactful service to the community and the environment • Opportunities for leadership and personal growth

Specialty camps are also offered which include: Snapology Lego Camps, Soccer Shots, Chess, Mesa Kids Cooking Camp, CenterStage Theater Camp and many more! All specialty camps enjoy swim during the week.

Yachad is our inclusion program that allows campers with varying needs the opportunity to enjoy the Camp J experience and empowers all children to fully integrate into our program.

The beautiful JCC campus includes

three outdoor pools, gaga pits, open outdoor fields, as well as indoor gymnasiums, classrooms, auditoriums and more! Visit our website for more information on all camps.

Camp J follows regulations from Kentucky and recommendations from the CDC to keep campers and staff safe.

3600 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, KY 40205 502.238.2728 www.jcclouisvillecamp.org

Kentucky Country Day School’s Summer Stretch program is offering dozens of camps this summer! Campers can choose from summer camps covering academics, enrichment, sports, and the arts—all in a caring and nurturing environment that promotes healthy minds and bodies. KCD Summer Stretch camps begin the week of June 6. See kcd.org/ summer for registration and details.

Summer Fun for Summer Stretch 2021

Campers can choose between academic and enrichment opportunities, sports, and the arts—all on our beautiful 80-acre campus. KCD camps begin the week of June 6! We’ve got a great lineup of camps this year, including Knots & Knits, Camp Zootopia, Nerf Camp, Woodworking, Lego Fun!, Graphic Novels, and many more!

Academic Camps & Tutoring

We take great pride in our academic camp offerings, including SAT Grammar and Writing, Essay Writing, and College Application and Essay Workshop.

Sports & Fitness

Our 80-acre campus is the perfect place to come enjoy one of our sports & Fitness camps such as soccer, basketball, football, lacrosse, and field hockey.

Staying Healthy & Safe

All our summer camps will follow KCD’s existing “Hands, Face, Space” rules around masking, social distancing, and frequent handwashing. See kcd.org/covid to learn more about COVID-19 guidelines on our campus.

To register, go to www.kcd.org/summer. All courses are open to the public. Please see course listings for grade and age requirements. Questions? Contact Arron Davis at arron. davis@kcd.org or 502-814-4329.

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KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

CAMPS FOR ALL AGES & INTERESTS! ARTS • SPORTS • GAMES & FUN • ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT Details & registration at kcd.org/summer

2021 School’s Out Summer Camps May 31-August 6 Pay-by-day Camps: April 30 & May 28 Aug. 9 & 10 At Kentucky Science Center’s Schools Out Summer Camp, your child will develop skills and make friendships that will last a lifetime. Our camp encourages all campers to play, tinker, and investigate the world around them with plenty of time to explore their favorite science center.

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LEO

THE WINNERS OF LITERARY LEO 2021 (PART 2)

IN the March 17 print edition of Literary LEO, a few honorable mentions in poetry and photography were cut off accidentally during the production process. Here are those works. We apologize to these winners, and we really appreciate everyone’s hard work and talent.

Poetry — Honorable Mention

WORK HAIKU

By Christopher Burton | leo@leoweekly.com The printer is jammed The man grows richer through me My coffee is cold

Poetry — Honorable Mention

CHESTNUT

By Clifford Wieck | leo@leoweekly.com Passing meds in the witching hour Out of boredom I recite “When you are old and gray And full of sleep.”

Bed-bound Verna, Tired, old bed-bound Verna With the pretty over-bite After months, after months of silence, Mumbles Along.

I hear my voice catch, trill, Terrified, thrilled-She knows; I know she knows.

“Nodding by the fire, take down this book.”

Her eyes shoot to the ceiling, glistening, Mumble, mumble, mumble.

I slow down.

“And dream of the soft look” Mumble, mumble, mumble.

“Your eyes had once and of their shadows deep.”

Awake, awake, Verna is awake.

“She’s not awake, she’s disturbed,” Says the night-nurse with the triple chin And the pronounced under bite.

“You’ve disturbed her. You disturb everyone.

You need to leave. I’ll never understand Why they didn’t fire you months ago.”

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Black & White Photography — Honorable Mention ‘The Wharf’ by Charles Bell.

Color Photography — Honorable Mention

Color Photography — Honorable Mention

‘Reflected Sky’ by Erik Eades.

‘Sunday’ by Christian Nelson.

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STAFF PICKS SATURDAY, APRIL 3

2 Girls & A Mic Presents Pre Ladies Night Twerk and Paint Vibes Restaurant & Ultra Lounge | 1346 River Road | Search Eventbrite $40 | 3-6 p.m.

SATURDAY, APRIL 3

Easter EGG-stravaganza At Awesome Flea Market Awesome Flea Market | 165 Dawson Drive, Shepherdsville | Search Facebook Free | 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Ohhhh did we miss our flea markets during COVID. And many, especially the kiddos, didn’t get to have the usual Easter fun last year. While we’re getting back, little EGG PUNS by little, you can knock out some flea market shopping and Easter fun at the Awesome Flea Market, less than a half-hour south of downtown Louisville. There will be candy and activities for the kids. —LEO

2 Girls & A Mic is “Turning Vibes into the ultimate twerk studio for just you and all your hottie friends!” DJ Lil Jerry is bringing the music, along with artist Kreative KolGET LOW lextions. Twerk team sections are available, so get busy getting busy. —LEO

SATURDAY, APRIL 3

The Bunny Trail Geocache Event

E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park | 3000 Freys Hill Road | Search Facebook $5 per person (5 and under free) | 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

The pandemic has prompted us to get more creative with our entertainment options — drive-in concerts, Zoom theatrical productions — and in some BUNNY SEASON cases, those alternatives have ended up being just as fun as what we’re used to. This geocache Easter egg hunt might be one of those times. Instead of a mad dash for eggs that’s over in five minutes, this is more akin to an Easter egg scavenger hunt that you can make an afternoon of.

There are eggs scattered along two trails, a short one for the tykes and a more difficult one for the “big kids.” Follow clues in the park, with the help of a phone GPS and a map. Once you find all the eggs, the Easter Bunny will grant explorers a prize. Visit the park’s Activities Building the day of the event to register and to pay (cash-only).

—Danielle Grady

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SATURDAY, APRIL 3

Adult Easter Egg Hunt

Love Boutique | 140 W. Jefferson St. | Search Facebook | Free | 2 p.m.

It sounds a bit like a scenario found in the depths SEXY BUNNY of online, erotic literature: An Easter egg hunt with capsules containing, not candy, but adult goodies and toys. We’d like to thank the devilish minds at the Love Boutique for making our fantasies come true — and just when you thought Easter was the least sexy holiday! (Sorry, Jesus.) There will be over 150 eggs, each with its own naughty prize. Groups of 20 will be let into the store at a time. Stay for a free raffle, a contest for best Easter mask and 20% off all Rabbit products. You must be 18 and up to partake. —LEO

STAFF PICKS

SUNDAY, APRIL 4

SUNDAY, APRIL 4-10

133 Breckenridge Lane | leemarieyoga.eventbrite.com | 10:30 a.m. | Free

Online | 502kidsbizweek.com | Prices and times vary

Sunday Soul Sweat

Sunday is a day to reset, to disengage from work and worries and do what matters most to you. And getting some exercise is always a good idea. The Sunday Soul SOUL Sweat is a 75-minute, all-levels, donation-based vinyasa yoga class above Honest Home in St. Matthews. Whether you’re a weekend warrior, or just need a couple minutes away from the kids, this is a good way to do something nice for yourself. —LEO

502 Kids Biz Week

This isn’t like the corner lemonade stand. These young entrepreneurs are growing and developing their businesses on Instagram, Etsy… even through their own KIDS websites. T. Marie Consulting is hosting the inaugural 502 Kids Biz Week, “A week to highlight and promote kiddieprenuers so they too can learn and earn while offering a week of specials and deals for you to take advantage of!” Check out the website to see all the “Tiny Tycoons,” “Mini Moguls” and “Baby Bosses,” and help foster the next generation of go-getters. —LEO

SUNDAYS

Pancakes & Paddlewheels Cruise

Belle of Louisville Riverboats | 401 W. River Road | belleoflouisville.org $39 ($25 for children 5-14; free for kids 4 and under) | 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Looking for something different for your Sunday brunch? How about a two-hour river cruise on an old fashioned steamboat, the Mary M. Miller. The boat might BRUNCH be old school, but the modern amenities promise a comfortable ride, with a “hearty, Southern-inspired meal.” Don’t worry, you can still get your Bloody Marys and Mimosas, and other drinks at the full bar. This Sunday’s event is sold out, but don’t worry, you can go next Sunday, or the one after… Boarding begins at 10:30 a.m. with a prompt-push off at 11 a.m., so please arrive at least 15 minutes early. —LEO

ANYTIME

Tim Barnes Medical Expenses gofundme.com/f/tim-barnes-medical-expenses

Tim Barnes, an extremely talented musician/engineer and all-around nice guy, has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. He is currently seeking treatGIVE ment from the Mayo Clinic, and the money received from this GoFundMe campaign will be used for therapies and cutting-edge treatments that could mitigate his symptoms. More than $67,000 has already been raised.

—LEO

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THROUGH MAY 9

Clue: The Musical

Derby Dinner Playhouse | 525 Marriott Drive, Clarksville, Indiana derbydinner.com | Prices and times vary Derby Dinner Playhouse is one of the first theaters in the Louisville area to restart in-person shows. Seating is socially distanced and masks are required. For those of MYSTERY you who are ready, “Clue: The Musical” should uplift your COVID-dampened spirits with an interactive production. You’ll receive a form to help a hard-nosed female detective solve the mystery of who killed Mr. Boddy. The suspects are, well, your usual suspects: Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock and co.. And, you don’t have to worry too much about spoilers, because there are 216 different solutions to the show. —LEO

THROUGH AUG. 22

‘Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art From Paper’ Speed Art Museum | 2035 S. Third St. | speedmuseum.org | Prices vary

Paper is not used very often in clothing. Except for paper dresses that were fashionable during Pop Art, paper is used for patterns, not the finished project.

PAPERBACK Isabelle de Borchgrave’s art changes all that. Her trompe l’oeil paper costumes are deceivingly real and mimic the art on the walls of the Speed Art Museum.

The exhibition is also a history of fashion, featuring the clothing of Queen Elizabeth I, the Medici family, designers Mariano Fortuny and Coco Chanel and the costumes of Les Ballets Russes.—Jo Anne Triplett

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Elizabeth I Court Dress’ by Isabelle de Borchhgrave. Paper and paint.

MUSIC

GETTING DOWN TO WORK WITH SWAGGER BOI

By Erica Rucker | erucker@leoweekly.com LOUISVILLE is a city of independence. Artists for years have sought to stand on their own two feet and make their market in music or art by doing things their own way. Maybe we’re stubborn. Maybe we’re naive. But we get out and hustle, making the most of the networks and technologies at our disposal. Swagger Boi, aka Marlon Andru’ Mah’lon Baker is doing just that. His Swagger Boi Entertainment, LLC brand is making the connections to get his artists noticed. He calls the sound of Swagger Boi “SwaggerNoise” and places it between East Coast and West Coast hip-hop with a definite Southern charm.

His newest single, “Spread Love” is dedication to the legacies of Black people harmed and/or murdered at the hands of police. Having a personal connection to Breonna Taylor gave the situation urgency for him.

LEO caught up with Swagger Boi. He is an artist driven with a purpose and willing to put in the work to see his dream realized. According to the swaggerboi.com website, Baker wants folks to know that he and his brand represents a “reflection of those living an everyday life, facing everyday struggles.”

LEO: Tell me about Swagger Boi Entertainment?

Baker: Swagger Boi Entertainment is an independent company in Southern Indiana/ Louisville area. Newly established in 2020, we specialize in music marketing and promotions, photography, comedy, community events and more.

What are your current projects? Any collabs with other local artists?

I’m currently in the finishing stages for two upcoming projects titled Black Rhino (EP) and the I’m King mixtape. As far as local/independent artists I have worked and recorded with HurraSeason, Soul River Brown, Sash Renee, including countless other aspiring artist in the Louisville music scene.

Tell me about the Breonna Taylor tribute song? Was there a specific moment that really made you want to write this song?

The creation of the “Spread Love” track was a result of pain, frustration and the ugly

Swagger Boi aka Marlon Andru’ Mah’lon Baker.

reality that, to some, Black lives do not matter or aren’t as equal to certain people. Basically, it was a way for me to vent musically and deliver an emotional song with meaning and substance.

The song was inspired by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all other young Black brothers and sisters who are being hunted and gunned down by the hands of those who swore to protect us!

She and my younger sister were close friends, so her tragedy affected me like it did most of those who continue to Say Her Name, to Say Their Names. The “Spread Love” single featuring Morgan Danielle is now available on Spotify, iTunes and all other digital platforms.

How did the last year in Louisville with all of the protests affect you? Your work?

The protest in our city of Louisville affected me in various ways. I had several mixed emotions by watching news footage and all the negativity that surfaced from social media, not to mention the leader of the free world was at the helm of most of the chaos and disruption. I didn’t participate in marching, I just prayed and remain very cautious of my surroundings.

Any live shows or music coming soon?

I’ll be promoting a few upcoming shows to expand the Swagger Boi brand. We are finalizing the details for the first annual Swagger Boi Entertainment Street Ball tournament on Saturday, April 24. This family and sport fan event for the community will be held at the Swagger Boi HeadQuarters located in Jeffersonville, Indiana. I’ll be releasing new music monthly started in April with another single titled “Take Control” featuring Don The Poet. I also work with dancers, comedians, producers, musicians, anyone with a serious passion for creative arts, music, entertainment. •

Love Bug - Meet the energetic, athletic, and silly Love Bug! Love Bug is an almost two-year-old Pit Bull Terrier mix who weighs 47 lbs and came to the Kentucky Humane Society from an overcrowded shelter. Now she’s ready for a forever home! Love Bug is a goofy girl who still believes she is nothing more than a small puppy. She loves playing outside, playing with other active dogs, chewing on her toys and getting belly rubs. Love Bug is definitely a high energy dog that had not received much training or life experience before coming to us. She has learned a lot since joining us here at KHS (she’s much less likely to steal your shoes now!), but she needs a home that will be patient and continue to show her the ropes. Having another energetic dog around to wear her out has helped so much, but she does still need management as she continues to learn. Positive reinforcement using treats and toys works the best for her as she does like to please her people.

Because of Love Bug’s need for consistency and exercise, she should go to a home with another friendly, energetic dog and a backyard where they can run and play. She would not do well in an apartment setting. Since she is so playful and active, please bring any resident dogs by to meet Love Bug to see if they are a good match. Love Bug does need a home with kiddos 10 and older. Could you be the one for her? Love Bug is spayed, microchipped and up-to-date on all vaccinations. To learn how to meet her, please visit kyhumane.org/dogs today.

Chip - Say hello to Chip! Chip is a 6-month-old Domestic Shorthair kitten who loves to cuddle and play. He entertains his foster family daily with his silly antics and charming personality.

Chip’s foster dad says he is growing more and more affectionate each day and has turned into a real love bug! He can be pretty shy around new people, but once he warms up he is your best friend. Chip has feline leukemia or FeLV and needs to be the only kitty in the house unless other cats in the home are also FeLV+. Chip would love to shower you with his love and attention! Chip is neutered, microchipped and up-to-date on his vaccinations. Learn how to meet Chip by visiting kyhumane.org/ cats today!

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FOOD & DRINK

RECOMMENDED

SIMPLY THAI MAKES TAKEOUT DELICIOUS AND EASY

By Robin Garr | LouisvilleHotBytes.com

NOW that I’ve resumed dining in with last week’s Monnik Beer Co. review, it’s back to sitting down at a restaurant table every week, right?

Well, no — not necessarily. This week, for instance, I got takeout from Simply Thai.

Before I tell you about the food, let’s talk about this.

Our dining habits, it seems, may have changed after a year of pandemic isolation.

Now that we’re getting a peek at the new normal, it appears that some of the things we learned during this strange year are going to stick with us. Such as the way we do restaurant dining.

B.C. (Before COVID), I never did takeout or delivery. I like dining in the restaurant’s environment. I generally shunned alfresco dining, and I wasn’t wild about takeout.

But when the pandemic shut down indoor dining just over a year ago, suddenly takeout — ideally with the curbside pickup option — started looking a lot more attractive.

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Pad thai is the national dish of Thailand, and every cook makes it just a little different. The proportions of ingredients in Simply Thai’s version are a bit different, but it passes the taste test. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.

I’ll confess, even after Dr. Fauci said you couldn’t get COVID from eating stuff, I was a bit wary. But after a month without a restaurant dish, I couldn’t take it any more.

I got my first curbside meal in April from MozzaPi, and it made me happy. Then just like that we were eating restaurant fare every week, and it worked really well for me.

Sure, I missed the restaurant experience, but plating an excellent meal — that I didn’t have to cook — made up for a lot of that.

It was thrifty, too: It was easier to stretch takeout leftovers over a couple of days than to get and use a restaurant doggie bag.

So now that I’m in the habit of easy takeout, I don’t want to quit, and I imagine a lot of you don’t, either. Just keep in mind that to support our still struggling local restaurants, we want to order often and tip as generously as we would in the restaurant.

I chose Simply Thai for lunch this week because it’s a favorite. As I hoped, we got a good quality meal for a fair price in

Simply Thai’s green curry is just as green as the name implies, filling a gentle greenish broth with fresh green beans.

FOOD & DRINK

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | ART

WHAT TO SEE:

GALLERY ROUNDUP THIS LIST IS ONLY A SELECTION of the art shows open or opening in Louisville for the Month of April.

Pyro 1006 E. Washington Street Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, noon–6 p.m., Sundays, 1 p.m.–4 p.m. pyrogallery.com “Pandemic Studio: Works in Isolation” April 2–25 Show features 20 regional artists creating during pandemic isolation

You say tod mon moo, I say meatballs. Either way, this Simply Thai appetizer is a savory treat.

startlingly generous portions. My box of pad thai weighed almost three pounds on the kitchen scale. Not only was it good, but it took me three or four days to finish it all.

It’s easy to fashion your order on Simply Thai’s online menu. It offers a broad selection of traditional Thai dishes, a shorter list of sushi and a few items that appear to blend Thai and American traditions.

Fifteen appetizers range in price from $3.95 (for edamame pods) to $7.95 (for Thai satay or a sushi roll or tempura). Just about everything else on the menu other than curries and entrees is under $10. The five curries are all $11.50, and the entrees are mostly under $20, save for a few fancy dishes that top out with the appropriatelynamed $29.95 Amazing Seabass, a panseared 8-ounce sustainable Chilean seabass filet in green curry sauce on zucchini and rice noodles.

One of our apps, tod mon moo ($6.95), consisted of six Thai-style beef meatballs on two skewers. Very crisp on the outside and finely textured within, they were flavored with coconut flakes, kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass, seasoned clearly with garlic and ginger. They came with a small tub of hotsweet pineapple sauce but were just as good au naturel.

Another appetizer, nam prik ong ($6.95) is the Thai version of the lettuce wrap that seems to show up in various forms in most Asian cuisines. A large wedge of crisp iceberg lettuce and prettily sliced cucumbers were boxed alongside a good-size portion of fiery Thai red-curry sauce filled with your choice of silken tofu cubes or ground pork.

Spread a little sauce on a piece of lettuce, add cucumber and enjoy.

Green curry ($11.50) was rich with coconut milk, surprisingly sweet and disappointingly short on Thai basil, with just a single wilted purple Thai basil leaf in the bowl. On the good side, it was chock full of inch-long green bean bits and tender, garlicky slices of boneless chicken white meat in a simple but tasty green-curry broth. We ordered it at a gently piquant 1 heat level on the 0 to 5 scale. It was served with appropriately sticky white jasmine rice.

Pad thai ($9.50) is the national dish of Thailand, the menu points out, and in my experience every cook brings individual variations to the table. The proportions of ingredients in Simply Thai’s version were a bit different from most, but it passed the taste test. As I mentioned, the portion was huge, and most of it consisted of thin, soft rice noodles. Traditional pad thai will bring just about one crisp bean sprout for every soft noodle in pleasing textural contrast, but this had almost no sprouts. Ditto for scanty crushed peanuts and bits of egg. Nevertheless, it boasted good flavor and hit the median 3 out of 5 spice level on the nose.

Lunch for two held up nicely in attractive, reusable plastic boxes on the drive home. The tab came to a reasonable $37 plus a 20% tip. •

SIMPLY THAI

323 Wallace Ave. 899-9670 simplythaiky.com Another location: 12003 Shelbyville Road, 690-8344

The Arts Alliance of Southern Indiana 820 E. Market Street New Albany, Indiana Gallery Hours: Virtual sointoart.org/events Braylyn “Resko” Stewart “Aerosol Savant” Opening April 16 Muralist takes work inside with this collection of works by Stewart UofL Hite Art InstitutePortland MFA Studio 1606 Rowan Street Gallery Hours: Reservations required except for opening night louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/ all/2021-mfa-thesis-exhibitions Rachid Tagoulla and Karen Weeks “Shifting Sands” and “Love Labor: Literal Symbols and True Abstractions” April 9–26 MFA Thesis show

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery 2400 C Lime Kiln Lane Gallery Hours: Tuesdays–Fridays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. kentuckyfineartgallery.com Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, Greta Mattingly and David O. Schuster “Winners Circle” April 9–June 30 Derby-themed artworks Moremen Gallery 710 W. Main St. Gallery Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. moremengallery.com Vian Sora “FLOODGATES” On view til April 24 The show features Vian Sora’s new experiments with abstraction and neon colors.

Tim Faulkner Gallery 991 Logan St. Gallery Hours: Mondays, 5 p.m.–midnight, Tuesdays–Saturdays, noon–midnight, Sundays, noon–10 p.m. tfgart.com Damon Thompson “Archetypes” April 6–May 3 Thompson’s first solo show featuring and celebrating “the intimacy that happens when we see a celebrity”

ARTWORK BY VIAN SORA

“Lauren Bacall” | BY DAMON THOMPSON

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PROMISE, WITNESS AND REMEMBRANCE OPENING NEXT WEEK AT THE SPEED ART MUSEUM

By Erica Rucker | erucker@leoweekly.com THE SPEED MUSEUM’S Promise, Witness and Remembrance show that honors the life and legacy of Breonna Taylor opens April 7. For the city of Louisville, it represents a moment for the community to reflect on the events of the past year since Taylor’s murder by LMPD. For the nation, it puts the life of Taylor in the spotlight in an art museum, an area where the lives of Black people are too often sparsely explored.

LEO caught up with the show’s curator, Allison Glenn, again to talk about the show, and how artists, museums and communities can move forward together. In our last conversation, we briefly spoke about how the perception of museums can often appear tone deaf and unresponsive to a community and why the Speed show represents such a contrast.

Glenn wanted to clarify the previous statement.

“I do think that that can be the perception [of museums],” said Glenn. “I also think that with regard to the specific incidents of police brutality and gun violence and how museums have approached trying to contextualize, you know, a position, there’s been different approaches.”

These approaches have varied in how they were received by different audiences. Sometimes not speaking to the people they claim to represent.

“I think that, um, that we’ve seen different successes,” said Glenn. “And for me, what was appealing about this particular project was really that it, from the beginning, from the top, it wasn’t. . . there was a particular way that the Speed Museum wanted to approach telling this story, you know, the story of Breonna Taylor.”

That approach included having a good understanding of the important stakeholders in the show’s theme. The most important being Breonna Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, followed by the local Black and protest communities.

“I think that the approach that I feel is very successful is to work with community,” said Glenn. “You know, if an institution wants to approach issues of police brutality and gun violence, I guess the issue directly impacts the community that the museum serves. I think it’s the first point of contact to be in dialogue with that community.”

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keen understanding of the communities that they serve and that within the multiple communities, each group is not a monolith, right? So, um, there’s going to be nuance and variance in interests, ideas, approaches thoughts on how things should be handled.”

Glenn worked closely with members of the local community including Palmer to develop the concept and mood for the show. One of the requests by the community was that Glenn and the Speed focus their efforts on centering the work of Black artists. With the exception of the photography of the late Tyler Gerth, who was killed during the protests, almost all of the artwork being displayed is by African American artists.

“Some really exciting things I can talk about. . . Kahlil Joseph has a work called, ‘BLKNWS,’” said Glenn. “This particular work is called, like, fugitive newscasts or conceptual journalism, where essentially, ‘What would it look like if all news were centered on the Black experience being told from the position of Black community or community?’ And so it’s like a radical reframing of how we understand the news and a radical reframing of how Black communities are portrayed in the media. And I think that it’s going to be an important cornerstone because it. . . it touches on so many things, you know.”

Other artists in the show include Sam Gilliam, an artist who started his career in Louisville, Nick Cave, Lorna Simpson, local photographer Jon Cherry and Alisha Wormsley.

“Another work I’m really excited about — that is finished being installed — is Alisha Wormsley’s ‘There Are Black people In The Future,’ because it’s the text that runs along the gallery two. . . runs along just underneath the wainscotting,” said Glenn. “So you have to kind of look up, and it’s maybe like 15- to 18-feet high on the wall and it just says, ‘There are black people in the future.’ It repeats over and over and over until it, it begins as it ends.”

The work by Wormsley will be accompanied by a guided meditation presented by The Nap Ministry founder, Tricia Hersey. • To attend the show, tickets are available currently at the Speed’s website (speedmuseum.org) and website for the show (promisewitnessrememberance.org). The show opens April 7 and runs through June 6.

“CAROUSEL FORM II”| ARTWORK BY SAM GILLIAM

Allison Glenn. | PHOTO BY MARIANA SHEPPARD

“Same” | ARTWORK BY LORNA SIMPSON 1991

“Open Up The Cells” | PHOTO BY JON CHERRY/GETTY IMAGES

“Unarmed” | ARTWORK BY NICK CAVE 2018

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SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage

FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT

Q: I’ve been with my boyfriend for 2.5 years and we have a great relationship— or so I thought. Last week, I snooped on my boyfriend’s browser history and I don’t know what to do with what I found. I’m a longtime reader and Savage Lovecast listener SO I KNOW WHAT I DID WAS WRONG. I believe my actions were driven by 1. lingering trust issues (a while ago, I found out my boyfriend had been looking at Tinder since we’d been together, though I don’t believe he ever messaged or intended to meet anyone) and 2. my general anxiety/depression, which seems particularly high one year into the pandemic. Now, to what I found: my boyfriend has been looking at random women on Facebook—not people he’s friends with, or people in his immediate network, so far as I know.

And then he clears his activity log. What do you think this means? Where is he finding these names/women? Is he using these pictures to masturbate? Should I raise the issue with him or just feel shitty about invading his privacy? He gives me no other reason to not trust him, I should say, and he seems like a pretty open book. (Everyone in my life who knows him agrees.) However, I can’t shake the fear/paranoia that he’s living a double life and I don’t want to be blindsided. I would appreciate your insight.

Sincerely Nervous Over Online Pattern A: My position on snooping is more nuanced than you think. To quickly summarize: I DON’T NECESSARILY THINK WHAT YOU DID WAS WRONG. I mean, snooping is wrong and I believe people have a right to privacy— even partnered people—but sometimes a snooper finds out something they needed to know and/or had a right to know. A woman who finds out her husband has been sneaking off to big gay sex parties and taking loads until cum bubbles are coming out of his nose and them goes home and has unprotected sex with his her? Yeah. She needed to know that 30

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and her husband doesn’t get to play the wronged party because his wife found out about it by snooping on his phone.

My position—my maddening position (as it seems to madden some)—is that snooping can only be justified retroactively.

If you learned something you needed to know and had a right to know, the snooping was justified. If you didn’t, it wasn’t.

A person should only snoop if they have other evidence or cause for concern— some will regard your boyfriend’s harmless interactions on Tinder as grounds, some won’t (for the record: I don’t)—and just being a jealous or insecure or paranoid person doesn’t count. Additionally, anyone who is tempted to snoop with or without cause needs to consider the not insignificant risk of finding something they 1. didn’t need to know and 2. can’t unknow. I once got a letter from a man who snooped on his computer phone and discovered that she had, years before they met, slept with her brother—just the once, and shortly after they met for the first time as adults. But the husband didn’t need to know that and couldn’t unknow it and knowing his wife had slept with her brother messed up his sexual relationship with the wife and his ability to enjoy family gatherings.

Moving on…

So you snooped, SNOOP, and what did you find out? Something you didn’t need to know—your boyfriend

isn’t cheating on you, he doesn’t have a secret second family in another city, he doesn’t spend every other Friday duct taped to a sling in a gay sex dungeon.

All you know now that you’ve snooped that you didn’t before is… well, all you know now is something you should’ve known all along. Your boyfriend, like most people’s boyfriends (mine included), likes to look at people on the Internet. If you have no other reason to suspect your partner is cheating on you, SNOOP, then you’ll have to do what everyone else does and give your partner the benefit of the (very trivial) doubt here. Discretely checking out the hotties on the street or on Facebook or even on a dating app is not cheating. Masturbating to images, mental or otherwise, of other women or men or non-binary folks isn’t cheating. What you found is not, by itself, proof that your boyfriend is cheating or plans to. So your snooping is not, I’m sorry to say, retroactively justified, which means you’ll have to shut the fuck about it.

Your boyfriend is entitled to a zone of erotic autonomy. If he’s checking out hot people on the Internet and having a wank every once in a while but not touching anyone else with the tip of penis or the tip his tongue or the tips of his fingers or with any other part of his body that he’s pledged to you and you

alone— and if he’s not neglecting you sexually and if he’s not being inconsiderate (clearing his browser history/activity log isn’t evidence of guilt, it’s evidence of consideration)—then he’s done nothing wrong here. Only you have.

Finally, of your boyfriend demanded a

zone of erotic autonomy for himself but denied you the same—if he checked out other women online or off but blew up at you for checking out other men or being checked out by other men—then you’d have a problem of a different sort, i.e. a controlling, sexist, and hypocritical boyfriend. Thankfully, SNOOP, your boyfriend doesn’t appear to be any of those things. That doesn’t mean you couldn’t be blindsided by him at some point—just because someone hasn’t cheated yet doesn’t mean they’ll never cheat ever, not finding evidence that he’s cheating doesn’t mean he isn’t—but there’s no need to tell him what you did or confront him with what you found. Which is nothing.

Q: I was born and raised in Middle East in a culture of “a girl doesn’t have sex until she gets married.” I am heterosexual and 33 years old and living in United States now. I’ve had multiple sexual partners. But I am always conflicted when it comes to having sex for the first time when dating a new guy. If things don’t go right after having sex and we wind up splitting, I always associate that with having sex too soon. I would like to hear your opinion on this matter.

Sexual Politics Lost In Translation A: The fastest way to find out if someone only wants sex from us is to fuck ‘em.

If they stick around, great. They wanted sex, obviously, but not just sex. If they disappear and we didn’t want them to, well, that’s obviously not so great. But if you enjoy the sex and you’re not devastated when a guy decides, for whatever reason, that he’s not interested in pursuing things further after you’ve had sex once or twice, SPLIT, then fuck the guys you like and get serious about the guy (or guys) who stick around.

But if you feel used and/or devasted when things “don’t go right” after sex, you might want—for your own sake—to put sex off for a while. Since a guy who’s only interested in sex isn’t going to wait weeks or months to have sex with you for the first time, waiting will weed out guys who aren’t interested in the possibility of a relationship. Waiting is no guarantee a relationship will last, SPLIT, just as jumping into bed right away doesn’t always lead to failure. I’m not advising you to do

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what’s right here, SPLIT, but to do what’s right for you.

Also, there are lots of ways to define “things going right” after sex. Whether you had sex on the first date or sex after dating for three months, if the sex was bad and you didn’t enjoy it—if the guy was inconsiderate or unhygienic or not invested in your pleasure or all of the above—never having to see that guy again would definitely count as “things going right.” mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @ FakeDanSavage. www.savagelovecast.com

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Importdoktor, 1387 Lexington Rd, Louisville, KY 40206; 502/5843511 is seeking to obtain a clear title to 05' VW Passat; VIN# WVWCD63B05E024598 -Owner Patricia Gann, 620 England St, Louisville, KY 40217. -Sale date 04/14/2021.

Notice is hereby given by B&S Auto 2518 Dixie Hwy Louisville, Ky 40216 (502)356-3013. Owner has 14 days after publication of this notice to respond after that B&S Auto has intention to obtain title on a 2012 Dodge Charger R/T vin# 2c3cdxct9ch106970 unless owner or lienholder objects in writing form within 14 days after last publication of this notice. Vehicle interests Progressive Casualty insurance 5920 Landerbrook Dr Mayfield HTS, OH 441246506.

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February 19 – August 22, 2021

This show-stopping exhibition features life-size, trompe l’œil paper costumes spanning nearly 500 years of fashion, replicating historical garments found in European masterworks and in collections from around the world.

Members see it all for free!

Learn more at

speedmuseum.org

This exhibition is organized by Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, in cooperation with Isabelle de Borchgrave Studio.

This exhibition is supported by: W. L. Lyons Brown, Jr. Foundation (Cary Brown & Steven Epstein) Hardscuffle, Inc.

Media sponsorship from:

Exhibition season sponsored by: Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein Paul and Deborah Chellgren Debra and Ronald Murphy

Images: Isabelle de Borchgrave (Belgian, b. 1946) Detail of Paysanne, 2009 Based on a costume design by Mikhail Larionov for the Ballet Russes Isabelle de Borchgrave (Belgian, b. 1946) Detail of Pallas, 2007 Inspired by a figure in Sandro Botticelli’s painting Pallas and the Centaur, dated 1482, in the collection of the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Mixed media, primarily acrylic, ink, metallic powder, and adhesive on paper

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Advanced ticket purchase strongly encouraged and face masks required.