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THE HOPE VILLAGE OFFERS PROMISE TO HELP A CRISIS

By Scott Recker | leo@leoweekly.com FOR FAR too long, homelessness in Louisville has been a crisis, with an uneven government response — and, as a result, underfunded nonprofits — struggling to adequately address a serious and incredibly complex problem.

Through the years, several pivotal nonprofits, too many to name, have been on the ground, working diligently to do everything possible. The government has provided some ideas, sprinkles of empathy and limited money to the problem, but it has also been incredibly volatile, coldly bulldozing numerous homeless camps, especially near tourist districts. Of course, government, like most things, isn’t a monolith, and there are people in office with dramatically varying intentions — some that truly care, some that are completely indifferent — which also makes galvanizing a big-splash, unified response very difficult, especially when budget money is tight.

But, with the influx of American Rescue Plan funds, money isn’t that tight this year — and that big splash is happening, with a lot riding on it.

The Hope Village — a governmentfunded safe outdoor space for homeless people that will house 40-50 people in

tents — is scheduled to open before March 1. It will be run by the nonprofit The Hope Buss, and, other than shelter, Hope Village will provide food and resources to individuals in need at its location at 212 E. College St. in Old Louisville.

But, the city’s $3 million investment in the safe outdoor space, which aims to meet people where they are, and offer an alternative to indoor shelters, is only the beginning of a planned city response to homelessness. Not only is the safe outdoor space important because it could help change people’s lives immediately, but it’s also the first piece of a multi-pronged solution — it could be a gleaming example about how significant investment, innovative solutions and a multi-year plan are the way forward.

In an end-of-the-year interview with Mayor Greg Fischer, he and I spoke about the city’s longterm response to homelessness in the city.

“So, safe outdoor space is the first, and then transitional housing is the second and then permanent supportive housing and then more investment in affordable housing,” Fischer said. “So, that’s a big story from this past year. The significant amount of money that we’re able to dedicate to that area.”

This is the opportunity the city has been looking for. Instead of the standard do-what-we-can, sweep-the-rest-under-therug, rinse-and-repeat cycle, the city government has an incredible opportunity to make a real difference instead of what’s been a largely stagnant reaction.

The safe outdoor space has already run into some issues.

The mayor told me that closing while purchasing the property was difficult and there were some supply chain issues that resulted in delays on items like tents. He said that pushed back the original goal for an opening date by six to eight weeks.

Those things are likely out of

everyone’s control.

But, now, as the The Hope Village eyes that March 1 goal, it’s important that this becomes smooth and efficient, helping people as soon as possible, and establishing a program we can be proud of as a city.

If these initiatives work, and the money is followed by success, Louisville could be viewed as a leader in the nation. If they crumble, a lot of people are going to be left in the cold.

Anything the city — and we as individuals — can do to help The Hope Buss and The Hope Village, we should.

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TITLE IX GUY

WHAT I’LL BE TALKING ABOUT AT TEDXBELLARMINEU’S ‘NOW WHAT?’

By James Wilkerson | leo@leoweekly.com

OVER THE PAST 11 years, I have worn many hats at Bellarmine University. When I first stepped foot on campus, it was as an admissions counselor, tasked with recruiting the best and brightest to Kentucky’s premier private university. As a graduate student, I learned from world-class professors such as Kyle Barnett and Ruth Wagoner in the communication department. As an alumnus, I’ve served as a mentor to several students interested in the law as a profession through the alumni mentor program: one of the largest in the nation. And back when I was DJ Joe Dubb, I spun records at numerous school dances on the Belle of Louisville and the Muhammad Ali Center.

One role that has eluded me at the School On The Hill, however, has been that of guest lecturer. Since I began my sexual assault prevention work in 2015, I have longed to return to my alma mater to work with the current generation of Knights. Numerous Instagram messages to the school’s Greek organizations and a courtesy meeting with the Dean of Students were unsuccessful in opening this door. Luckily, Bellarmine offers a fantastic stage for those with ideas worth spreading: TEDxBellarmineU. This year’s installment of TEDxBellarmineU, which I will speak at on Feb. 18, is themed “Now What?” The event webpage provides a description of the program, stating: “Unprecedented changes have wrought havoc on our world, continually pushing and pulling humanity through challenging situations such as a global pandemic, racial tension, mass shootings, and extreme political division. In spite of these challenges, we must listen to one another and forge onward, seeking answers to quell turmoil with safety, unity, justice, and peace. From a wide range of experience, disciplines, and genres, our selected speakers will share their ideas on what to do now as we move forward.”

With such a robust theme, what better place to discuss the next steps needed to advance sexual assault prevention?

A MOVEMENT, DIRECT ACTION AND MOMENTUM

Finding its origins on the MySpace page of Brooklynite Tarana Burke, the #MeToo Movement was founded in 2006 with the purpose of uniting and empowering the survivors of sexual assault and harassment. Over a decade later, a tweet from actress Alyssa Milano would catapult Burke’s movement viral. #MeToo provided survivors nationwide a platform to share their stories and experiences with sexual misconduct. The movement finally allowed for a long overdue conversation about sexual assault and harassment on a global scale.

But #MeToo was more than just talk. It was about action as celebrity serial abusers such as Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and R. Kelly finally faced justice for their decades of inflicted abuse. Other celebrities such as Aziz Ansari and Louis C.K. would be “checked” for their questionable behavior. #MeToo even made it to some of the highest offices in the country as we tuned in to hear Dr. Christine Blasey Ford bravely recall her experiences with then

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Supreme Court hopeful, Brett Kavanaugh. From 2017-2019, no star shined brighter in the social justice sky than #MeToo. Until one day, it didn’t.

It’s certainly not uncommon for social justice movements to cool off after a period of glowing in the spotlight. The 24-hour-news cycle delivers us stories at a pace that forces us to move to the course before we have a chance to fully digest what is currently on our plate.

MEN NEED TO STEP UP

Activist Brenda Tracy famously stated, “There are good men out there, but they’re not speaking up and doing their part.” Thus, if the question regarding #MeToo is “now what,” then the answer is men. Men doing our part is exactly what’s needed to progress the fire sparked in Brooklyn 15 years ago. Men must be willing to indulge in meaningful self-reflection that fearlessly evaluates our beliefs and actions, both past and present. We also must engage in compassionate listening that doesn’t quickly jump to conclusions but that allows us to understand another’s human experience.

Most importantly, men must hold other men accountable. Be it correcting a friend that catcalls a woman walking

down the street, or physically interfering when we see an assault in progress, we must intervene. Not being a bad actor yourself is no longer enough. We must take the tone-deaf hashtag of #NotAllMen, and work tirelessly until we can say #NotAnyMan.

HOMECOMING

TEDxBellarmineU takes place in Bellarmine’s Wyatt Hall on Feb. 18 at 4 p.m. The event is a part of the university’s homecoming week. And for me, it is truly a homecoming as I return to my alma mater not as an employee, alumni or DJ. But as an expert in my field, ready to share my work with the school that has been the foundation of my academic life.

In Veritatis Amore. • James J. Wilkerson, J.D., is the director of Staff Diversity and Equity and the Deputy Title IX Coordinator at IU Southeast.

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PLEASE CANCEL STUDENT DEBT SO PEOPLE CAN BUY MY BOOK: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BIDEN

By Dan Canon | leo@leoweekly.com DEAR JOE: I have a book coming out on March 8, and I need a favor.

The publisher has priced my book at $30. It turns out that a lot of people don’t have 30 extra bucks to spend on a book right now. So I’d like you to cancel the student loan debt of all my potential readers. Since the book is intended for general audiences, that means you’d have to cancel student debt for everyone.

I know this is a big ask. But there are good reasons to forgive student loan debt apart from my naked desire to have penned a bestseller. Here are a few.

I won’t insult you with the whole “you said you would do it” routine, though during the 2020 campaign you did say you’d “Forgive all undergraduate tuition-related federal student debt from two- and four-year public colleges and universities and private HBCUs and MSIs for debt-holders earning up to $125,000.” No one put much stock in that.

Most of us who have been around a while understand that during a presidential campaign, words just sort of happen.

Whether or not those words mean anything is the province of historians and art critics, not go-getting people of the world like us, right? Semantics is boring and we’ve got business to tend to.

The business of bookselling, for example. But other business, too. On my public Facebook page, I asked: “What would you do with the extra money if you didn’t have to pay your student loans?” Almost all responses can be grouped into three major categories: 1) buying or renovating a home; 2) investing in a retirement account; 3) charitable giving or other leisure spending (example: “We might go out to eat as a family, or have a date night. Do things people do when they aren’t accounting for every dollar.”).

To be candid, not a single person said they’d use some of the extra money to buy my book. But I think that was implied. Anyway, my point is that no one said they’d stick the extra cash under their mattress, burn it or stuff it in time capsules. All that money — nearly two trillion dollars — would go right back into the economy. Many of the people who responded, ordinary folks in the Middle West and thereabouts, will have an extra thousand bucks or more every month. They’ll spend it. Think of how happy you’ll make the construction industry! Real estate agents! Financial advisors! Retail booksellers!

Lots of people said they would use the extra money to pay off other existing debts, especially medical bills. This course of action is less exciting than buying a tangible thing like a home or a crisp, new hardback book with riveting true-crime stories and incredible cover art. But even that money won’t be wasted. After all, hospital administrators, insurance company CEOs, and their ilk need to make ends meet too. If they can’t, who will finance astonishingly expensive political campaigns?

Speaking of campaigns, I’m sure you know about the elections happening later this year. I’m sure you also know

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that it is widely assumed Democrats are going to be pestled into red goo if the Senate can’t pass something big, and it can’t just be medium big, it’s got to be big big, so big that it’s noticed by folks who are normally too apathetic to vote in a midterm. I’m sure you also also know that it isn’t going to happen. But you can fix that singlehandedly by canceling debt gnawing at 40 million American adults. Prominent members of your own party say you can do it “with the stroke of a pen.” Do it. Please. It will help me sell my book.

A collateral consequence is that you might retain control of Congress, and maybe even get a second term as president.

This letter is meant to be a practical appeal, not a moral one. But given that so many borrowers now report owing two to three times the amount of their original loans despite years of regular payments, there are moral points to be made, too. When you were senator, and then vice president, you and nearly everyone else in Washington supported a bailout package totaling over a trillion dollars for the biggest financial institutions. A great vulture’s claw descended from the heavens and clutched America’s banks tightly in its grasp, so that they would remain a solid mass and not crumble into grit and gravel. What I’m asking is a little extra food for the worker ants who provide the stable earth beneath that mass. It’s only fair.

There may be drawbacks. Some people who are already very, very wealthy may get mad because they aren’t getting even more wealthy.

Perhaps there is a powerful lobby of sour-faced Wall Street Journal readers who, having paid off their own loans, believe that there is a deeper life lesson to be learned from eternal

peonage. And many of the same fat hogs who fund your campaigns also fund your opponents, so chances are good that the money you kick back to ordinary folks will pay the tab for more than a few GOP blood orgies.

These drawbacks are more than offset by the aforementioned factors: Economic boosts, political power, fairness and the fact that you said you would do it. Also — and this is critically important — people will have a little extra scratch to buy my book. I hope you’ll consider this favor. It would help me out a lot.

Very Truly Yours, Daniel J. Canon, Esq. P.S.: As an alternative, please consider banning my book.

That sort of thing can really drive sales.

Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer and law professor.

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HOUSE MINORITY LEADER JONI JENKINS ON WHY SHE IS RETIRING AFTER REDISTRICTING

By State Rep. Joni Jenkins | leo@leoweekly.com

LAST WEEK on the floor of the Kentucky House of Representatives, a Republican colleague stopped me and asked, “So, you’re throwing in the towel?” He was referring to my recent announcement that I had withdrawn my filing papers and would retire at the end of the year.

I replied that, under the new redistricting map, minorities would make up more than half of my legislative district.

He said, “But you could still win.” When I explained that I thought it was important to have more minority representation, he answered, “So, I guess you really believe all that stuff you talk about. Most people don’t, you know.”

In 1994, when I was first elected, female legislators, at least in Kentucky, were still a novelty. At one of my first committee meetings, when I had arrived early to review the agenda, a lobbyist (assuming I was a staffer) asked me to make copies for him. I replied that I didn’t know where the copier was and he huffed, “Well, find out.” I took the materials to the staff, who were horrified, and I calmly said it would be fun during roll call — which it was.

Representation matters.

During a floor debate in 2008 on whether to require the HPV vaccine for school-aged children, one of my male colleagues (I’ll let you guess his party affiliation) asked me if men could get cervical cancer. When I looked at him questioningly, he asked, “Do I have a cervix?” I answered, “I’m not sure what’s going on down there,” gesturing to his lap, “but, I doubt it.” Representation matters.

During the conference committee on Senate Bill 152, the 2015 legislation that addressed the heroin crisis, I was the only female legislator in the room. When we got to the portion dealing with pregnant women with substance use disorder and tried to determine what week in their pregnancy they would lose their parental rights if they did not seek treatment, I pointed out that women’s bodies do not all function like clockwork and asked who would determine each individual’s exact week of pregnancy. We struck out the language.

Representation matters.

In 2019, on the last day of the legislative session, majority leadership called me into a meeting and said they were finally going to pass the Pregnant Workers Act, but they needed to add an amendment regulating breast feeding and the amount of time workers could express their milk on the job.

I calmly said, “Great, I’ve got 17 Democratic women out there (on the House floor) who would be glad to stand up and talk for hours about the problem with this amendment.”

It didn’t get called and the Act passed.

Representation matters.

All of these examples are about why it is important for women be involved, but it illustrates why it’s such a problem when whole groups of people are left out of the rooms where

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their rights and concerns are being discussed.

The Kentucky General Assembly is overwhelmingly white, male, Christian and wealthy when compared to the state we all serve. Currently in the Senate, there are three African American men, one Latino, four women and 30 white men. In the House, there are 28 white women, three women of color, two African American men and 66 white men. There is currently one vacant seat.

At a time when the majority party’s agenda is focused on controlling women’s bodies and controlling the teaching of African American history, the lack of representation of the affected population is troubling.

Representation matters.

Some years ago, at a Women’s History Month Celebration in the Capitol Rotunda, a white male Democrat

admonished the mostly female crowd by saying, “You need to stand up and speak out.” I followed him in speaking and gave it right back at him: “For women to stand up and speak out, some of the men need to sit down and shut up.”

In stepping aside, I am merely following my heart, my values and my own advice.

Representation matters. • House Minority Leader Joni Jenkins has represented House District 44, which contains parts of Jefferson County, for more than 25 years.

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NEWS & ANALYSIS

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BRETT HANKISON’S TRIAL OVER SHOTS FIRED DURING THE BREONNA TAYLOR RAID

By Josh Wood | jwood@leoweekly.com

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Kentucky is more than 2,000 miles away from Silicon Valley, but even we’re not safe from obnoxious tech bros. A local group of entrepreneurs have teamed up to create a collection of Derby horse themed NFTs, which if you don’t know, is “exclusive” digital art that you can’t do much of anything with besides brag that you have it. Admirably, Party Horses LLC is trying to combat the inherent uselessness of an NFT by throwing in real-life items and experiences like a Derby party. Now that we think about it, it’s not such a bad idea to corral all the Bitcoin buddies into one space so us normal folk can enjoy the first Saturday in May without hearing about Elon Musk’s latest asinine tweet.

THORN: BAD TEACHER ≠ GOOD POLITICIAN

Brett Hankison is charged with three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree.

IN 2020, many Louisville protesters had one central demand as they marched through the streets calling for justice: Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.

Nearly two years later, one of the officers who fired his gun in the March 13, 2020 raid on her apartment — former LMPD Detective Brett Hankison — is set to stand trial, but not for her death. Hankison will instead face charges of wanton endangerment for shots he fired during the raid that entered a neighboring apartment.

Of the officers involved in the raid, Hankison is the only one facing charges for his actions.

Hankison’s trial was set to begin on Tuesday, Feb. 1 with the questioning of 250 potential jurors getting underway. However, the start was delayed until Thursday, Feb. 3 after the judge in the trial said Hankison underwent minor, unexpected surgery.

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Here’s a preview of what to expect and a look back at what happened and how we got here.

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE RAID?

Before 1 a.m. on March 13, 2020, LMPD officers serving a warrant on Breonna Taylor’s Springfield Drive home breached her apartment’s door.

Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a single shot from a handgun, hitting Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly in the leg. Police returned fire, shooting 32 rounds and killing Taylor.

Walker would say he did not know it was police breaching the door and thought it was a home invasion.

The warrant police were serving was tied to a narcotics investigation of Jamarcus Glover, an ex-boyfriend of Taylor’s.

Three officers — Mattingly, Hankison and Detective Myles Cosgrove — fired their weapons in the raid.

It was determined by the FBI that

Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Taylor.

Hankison and Cosgrove were both fired from LMPD for firing their weapons without identifying a threat in violation of the department’s policy on the use of deadly force.

A third LMPD officer, Detective Joshua Jaynes, was fired for being untruthful in obtaining the search warrant for Taylor’s apartment.

Mattingly, the other officer who fired their weapon in the raid, was not terminated and retired from LMPD last year.

On Sept. 23, 2020, Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that Hankison would be facing three counts of wanton endangerment for shots he fired during the raid that entered a neighboring apartment. No charges were brought against other officers — or even presented to the grand jury that indicted Hankison.

Outrage over Taylor’s killing saw months of street protests in

Welcome to 2022, when a scandal isn’t an opportunity to think about any wrongdoing — but is a great chance to run for office. William Bennett, the Marion C. Moore School teacher fired for fighting a student last August, is now running for a state House seat in Elizabethtown.

Tell us, did he display the levelheadedness required in a leader when he pinned a 16-year-old JCPS student to the ground and pulled his hair during a confrontation?

ABSURD: GEORGE FOKING WASHINGTON FOR CONGRESS If you think U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie — who recently tweeted a quote from a neo-Nazi claiming it was Voltaire — is the most bizarre person running for Kentucky’s 4th District, you would be wrong. Earlier this month, Alyssa Dara McDowell — who is best known for rushing the stage at a GOP watch party to falsely tell the crowd that Matt Bevin was elected governor before being escorted away — filed to run for the seat. Then, last week, George Foking Washington formally entered the seat’s royal rumble. Washington’s campaign website is called flushthecommode.com and contains a series of wacky YouTube videos including one in which he pours what appears to be urine on the Capitol building. He also compared the news media to a condom with a hole in it. Charmed, we’re sure.

ROSE: REVIVING HUMAN DECENCY

Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville is now the site of a free, 24/7 Naloxone vending machine. Turns out, it’s one of 19 that will be deployed across the state at jails and medical sites thanks, in part, to the state government. We love to see innovative, humane responses to the opioid crisis. Safe injection sites would be a great next step.

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WHAT CHARGES DOES HANKISON FACE?

Hankison faces three charges of wanton endangerment in the first degree, one count for each person that was in the neighboring apartment.

According to Kentucky law, “A person is guilty of wanton endangerment in the first degree when, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, he wantonly engages in conduct which creates substantial danger of death or serious physical injury to another person.”

Wanton endangerment in the first degree is a Class D felony in Kentucky, with each count punishable by between one and five years in prison. Class D felonies are the lowest class of felony in Kentucky.

WHAT DID HANKISON DO DURING THE RAID?

In his March 25, 2020 interview with Public Integrity Unit investigators, Hankison said he had seen a person in Taylor’s apartment with an AR-15 or “a long-gun, a rifle-type gun” in a shooting stance when the door was breached.

When a shot was fired, Hankison said he moved back away from the doorway and ran around the corner of the apartment’s exterior. From that position, he told the investigator that fired through a slidingglass door and a window at muzzle flashes that he believed were coming from the weapon of the person inside the apartment.

“I didn’t know if John was down, and they couldn’t get his body out or he was — but all I could hear was the firing and I saw the flashes. I thought they were just being executed, because I knew they were helping John,” he said.

He said his “only option” was to return fire from that position.

The ballistics investigation deemed that the bullet that hit Mattingly was fired by a 9mm handgun. Additionally, Walker said he fired one shot from a handgun, and Mattingly told Public Integrity Unit investigators he could see a man holding a handgun when the door was breached.

Some of the 10 rounds Hankison fired entered a neighboring apartment.

Announcing the charges in Sept. 2020, Attorney General Cameron said there was no evidence that any of Hankison’s shots hit Taylor.

On June 19, 2020, it was announced

that LMPD would fire Hankison. A termination letter from then-acting chief Robert Schroeder said Hankison’s actions during the raid “displayed an extreme indifference to the value of human life” when he “blindly fired ten rounds” into Breonna Taylor’s apartment. Schroeder added that the patio door and window which Hankison fired through were covered in a material that “completely prevented” Hankison from identifying a target.

WHEN DOES THE TRIAL START?

Juror questioning is set to take three weeks as a pool of 250 will be chiseled down to 50 by Feb. 22. Once the pool is down to 50, 12 jurors and several alternates will be selected. Once a jury is seated, the trial will begin.

WHY IS JURY SELECTION TAKING SO LONG?

knowledge of the raid that killed Breonna Taylor is likely impossible. And with the killing sparking widespread protests — as well as backlash against protesters — finding people without opinions on what happened during the raid might be difficult as well.

“Good luck trying to seat 14 people who don’t have an opinion about this,” said Nick Mudd, another Louisville criminal defense lawyer who previously worked as an assistant commonwealth’s attorney for Jefferson County.

In the 2021 murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, killing him, jury selection took two weeks.

WILL THE MEDIA BE ALLOWED TO WATCH THE JURY SELECTION PROCESS?

Citing the high-profile nature of the Voir dire — the questioning of potencase, Hankison’s attorney Stewart Mattial jurors to identify biases — is usually thews filed a motion in January to bar the done in a group setting. media from watchCiting the highHowever, due to the ing the jury selection high-profile nature profıle nature of the process, saying the of the Hankison trial, presence of the media case, Hankison’s potential jurors will be for the individual questioned individually questioning could have attorney Stewart on the witness stand. a “chilling effect” on Matthews fıled a “If the attorneys the candor of potenand the court are motion in January to tial jurors. However, trying to explore the Judge Ann Bailey bar the media from level of familiarity of Smith struck down that a potential juror with motion in a Jan. 27 watching the jury the facts of the case, order. selection process, by doing it individuWhile journalists ally, away from other saying the presence and members of the jurors — whether it’s public will be of the media for the general public or not — that allowed in the courtjuror can say thing that individual questioning room for the jury selecother potential jurors process, Smith is could have a “chilling tion didn’t even know,” said prohibiting the use of Larry Simon, a crimieffect” on the candor both still and video nal defense attorney in cameras. of potential jurors.

Louisville. “So that’s In her order, Smith one of the reasons that wrote that individual you do it individually when there’s a voir dire is “inherently intimidating to a case that has a lot of publicity, because lay person” and that by keeping camyou don’t want to poison — for lack of eras out of the courtroom, “jurors will a better word — other potential jurors be likely to be less intimidated by this hearing something from another juror that process, and therefore more likely to be they didn’t even know about.” candid in their responses, if they know In addition to being exposed to details there is no possibility that the general about the case they might not know, public and the media present at the proSimon added that potential jurors might ceeding have the ability to broadcast or also hear misinformation or otherwise otherwise record their testimony.” incorrect information from other prospective jurors in group voir dire.

Finding a local jury that has no

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE IN THE TRIAL?

Mudd, the Louisville attorney, said that proving Hankison showed “extreme indifference to the value of human life” would be a “hard hurdle” to overcome for the prosecution.

While he anticipates the prosecution to present Hankison as a rogue officer who broke with LMPD’s training in how he acted during the raid, Mudd expects the defense to argue that Hankison was returning fire to where he thought gunfire was coming from — and was doing so to preserve the life of himself and fellow officers.

“It’s not a whodunnit, and I don’t think most of the facts are going to be in dispute. What I think is going to be the case is the mental state,” he said.

According to a motion filed by Hankison’s lawyer in early January, Hankison intends to testify at his trial. The defense also plans on calling 11 other current or former LMPD officers, including Mattingly and Cosgrove, the two other officers who fired their weapons during the raid on Taylor’s apartment.

Cosgrove and Mattingly have spoken publicly about the raid — with Mattingly even writing a book about it that is scheduled to be released in March — but the trial will be the first time Hankison does so.

IF FOUND GUILTY, COULD HANKISON SPEND TIME IN PRISON?

Class D felonies are punishable by between one to five years in prison — meaning Hankison could face up to 15 years behind bars. But defendants convicted of Class D felonies can also be sentenced to probation.

In making decisions on probation, the court considers things like the risk of the defendant committing another crime, their history and their character.

Hankison would traditionally be a good fit for probation under the criteria in the Commonwealth’s probation statute, Simon said, but there is one clause that could make that tricky: A stipulation that probation cannot be given if it would “unduly depreciate the seriousness” of the crime.

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By Lance G. Newman II and Marlesha Woods (with editorial input and artist interviews by Erica Rucker) | leo@leoweekly.com EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: When speaking about the state of Black arts in the city of Louisville, it is important to understand the landscape of Blackness and the experience of being Black in Louisville, but also how the visual art scene moves. The two have to be viewed together. For this piece, artists Lance G. Newman II, Marlesha Woods, Ton’nea Green, Kayla Morgan and Sheila Fox have shared their experiences as Black visual artists working in the Louisville area.

Many of their sentiments are mirroring the statements of Black artists for many years in Louisville press and seen in Brianna Harlan’s Louisville People’s Art Report, which gave an anonymous platform to local

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Black creatives to share their experiences in the local arts and creative scene, both good and bad.

Originally, Newman was writing this piece alone, but it became an imperative to include more voices to share a varied Black experience. While there are similarities in our experiences — as there are in the lived experience of being Black — we are not a monolith, and we operate at all levels of local arts and beyond. The hope is that it presents more of a roundtable discussion where commonality and contrast is seen but an overall theme remains — more can be done to bring equity to the arts.

Black artists have spent years work-

ing in visual arts in Louisville. Creation is central to the experience of being Black, and despite the history of Black people in the United States, we have always created.

Our ability to create in the face of disparity and disenfranchisement has made it possible for our survival. In Louisville, that has not always been an inclusive experience, as artists like Ed Hamilton, William Duffy and others have detailed in other interviews.

Their experience was one where their collective efforts gave them a voice to show and collaborate with each other as serious artists. A similar network still exists in Black communities.

There are few Black galleries, with

E&S Gallery and Roots 101 being the most prominent, and many Black artists feel cut off from the other art galleries and museums in the city. For some, it is an unawareness of how to approach the gallery, and, for others, it is the repeated experience of rejection or other poor experiences in those spaces.

Certainly, local artists like Kiah Celeste and Stan Squirewell have found entry into those galleries in Louisville and beyond.

Squirewell was met this year with a sold-out show at Art Basel in Miami, and Celeste was awarded the Artadia award through 21c Museum Hotel, giving her $10,000 in unrestricted funds for her work.

WHAT DO YOU CREATE? Lance Newman “In 2018, I was selected to be a part of the very first Hadley Creatives cohort presented by the Community Foundation of Louisville with support from Creative Capital. This cohort was made up of 15 artists, each from a different artistic medium.

Hannah Drake and myself, were selected for our poetry, but I saw this as an opportunity to come out of my visual arts closet, so to speak. At the group’s finale exhibition at KMAC Museum, instead of a poem, I unveiled a mixed media, visual art piece.

In that moment, I was no longer just a poet, I had become an artist that created images with more than words. I fell in love with art all over again. Fast forward to the present day. As a visual artist, I’ve sold a few pieces, I’ve organized a (semi) solo show and I’ve even had some work displayed

Artist Marlesha Woods | PROVIDED BY ARTIST

Artwork by Marlesha Woods. | PROVIDED BY ARTIST.

in galleries outside of Louisville. Add in the guidance of a veteran visual artist out of D.C. [Stan Squirewell] and you have a walking, talking, visual arts toddler.

I believe it is in the artists’ perspective that we find the answers to questions like, ‘What are Black artists doing right now?

What issues are they grappling with in their work? Where are they showing their work?

What are the needs of Black artists?’

Initially, I can tell you exactly what most Black artists are doing… working a ‘nine to five.’ Black artists have ‘job jobs,’ often multiple. The old adage of ‘time is money’ rings true for Black artists in Louisville and proper compensation of time would in turn give financial stability and space to create.

Let’s be honest, Louisville doesn’t treat its artists of color well. That’s why they’re always leaving the city to find success elsewhere.

What? You don’t believe me? Please,

take an afternoon and delve into my Hadley Creative classmate, Brianna Harlan’s ‘Louisville People’s Art Report.’ With the cost of living steadily rising and the wages of labor remaining stagnant, Black visual artists find themselves sacrificing their calling to make a living. That’s what they’re doing, trying to stay afloat because Buddha knows they’re not getting the proper compensation for their work.”

Marlesha Woods “I have been engaged in visual arts for many years. My artistry is centered in developing people and land through art education and art making. Unlike [cities such as] San Diego, Louisville does not have a dedicated and funded Black arts district.

Many racially-identified minorities gravitate to a particular group of artists and form their own micro-communities within the larger context of the arts sector, which can be both welcoming and isolating.

When examining various arts clusters, there is a particular trend that correlates alliance with certain funding sources, which lessens the need for gatekeeping for some but also provides space for many artists to be tokenized and stratified further.

My community engagement through artmaking and art education consists of 15 years of development throughout. I believe

it is vital to not be, as I term, ‘zip-tied’ to zip codes, but rather expand impact across geographic bounds. From East to West Louisville, and pockets in-between, I have witnessed what empowering people through the arts can achieve.”

Ton’nea Green “I recently started consistently making art in 2017. I graduated from YouTube art university and taught myself the basics of acrylic portraiture. I have received the Black Artists Grant from Fund for the Arts, which led me into exclusively painting Black children, and participated in the Speed Art Museum, after-hours virtual program: There Are Black People in the Future. Just last year, I was able to get my art in an art gallery, specifically Galerie Hertz. Within the last year, I have collaborated with many artists to create the Thomas Gales Art Foundation. Named after my great uncle who was a talented oil painter and activist. Before his passing he wanted to get more children of color to participate in visual arts. We created the organization to continue his legacy.”

Sheila Fox “I’m a self-taught mixed-media artist originally from Chicago. Been here in Louisville for 13 years. I’ve been drawing for over 20 years, and painting for almost six.

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Artist Kayla Morgan sits with one of her pieces. | PHOTO PROVIDED BY ARTIST.

My vibrant portraits of Black women take inspiration from my own experience as an African American woman.

I seek to celebrate my story and the stories of generations of Black women through the joy of artistic expression. A local artist by the name of Chip Calloway took a chance on me, he believed in me and asked me to showcase at one of his events.

Things went up from there for me.”

Kayla Morgan “I took art classes at Louisville Visual Arts when I was younger and watched my grandmother create crafts and sell them to locals in our neighborhood. Growing up in the West End, my parents always kept me busy with art classes, and I worked for a few local art businesses.”

WHAT ISSUES ARE BLACK ARTISTS GRAPPLING WITH IN THEIR WORK? Lance Newman “Black artists in Louisville are creating nostalgic works derived from their childhood. They’re creating odes to pop culture figures, as well as local and personal heroes.

Seeing that a large number of Black visual artists in Louisville are women, the art seems to be capturing the Black woman’s figure and face. There are also many murals

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around the city created and fabricated by Black artists.

The themes highlighted in Black art across Louisville range from social conflicts of racism and economics, to youthful fervor meant to tap into a more innocent part of ourselves. There’s a larger conversation about sexuality, gender and self image being had among Black artists, as well. I am also seeing a decent amount of commissioned pieces, whether these are personal commissions or institutional ones. Black artists often have to put food on their easels by creating work for someone else. There seems to be a lack of freedom of expression among Black artists because the call to submit is far higher than the call to create.”

Marlesha Woods “My visual artistry includes wearable art with a focus on exclusive designs for the Muhammad Ali Center, and commissioned paintings including an emphasis on abstract expressionism intertwined with portraiture. Many of my interpretative portraits are commissioned to celebrate milestones or commemorate loved ones that have transitioned.

My work is inspired by my community, nature and faith. The growing body of work that I have developed over a decade is heavily experimental in color harmonies, textures and rhythm created in abstract forms.

If ever asked, do I create ‘Black art?’

Artist Sheila Fox poses with her artworks. | PHOTO PROVIDED BY ARTIST.

The inquiry poses additional inquiries. I think this question yields more introspection on what is considered Black, art, and Black art? Do you mean afros, tribal print and slave paintings? If Blackness is not monolithic, and clearly it is not, then my answer is ‘yes.’ Whatever my Black hands choose to create is Black art. I believe our production is a byproduct of our person. I am Black. Black.

I encourage patrons to consider how they consume art. Should art be sold solely because it’s Black art or a Black artist created it? I would like to believe that art should be appreciated because it’s dope.”

Sheila Fox “The type of work I create is of Black women, that taps into the Black fashion, class and elegance, the Black culture and style. Mixed-media paintings seeking to

capture the timeless beauty and spirit of Black women throughout history.”

Kayla Morgan “I create colorful, emotionally-packed experiences I personally have went through or the people closest to me have. Themes and issues range from love, pain, happiness and freedom. My art goes with my mood and my paintbrush is my therapist.”

Ton’nea Green “I create realistic portraiture of Black children. I, specifically, do this because I really believe they need to be seen. By having a child of my own, I had the revelation that they come into this world with the most basic ideas and purest intentions. I find myself trying to tap back into that, a part of the unlearning of what society has told me I should be. I create art with Black children to

the millionaire bought them. I was conflicted. I felt the gallery owner should have negotiated a higher price on the artist’s behalf. The pieces were worth far more than the price I had set, and I initially refused to sell them because I felt the millionaire should’ve paid the proper hourly rate for the pieces creation.

The gallery owner scolded Artist Ton’nea Green. | PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE ARTIST me and accused me of financial discriminaactively tion.

‘You’re not selling the pieces because looking for they’re wealthy?!

That’s discrimination, their work, Sketch by Ton’nea Green| PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE ARTIST. that’s racism!’ so they The gallery owner said that I couldn’t adjust their withhold the pieces because ‘I’ set the price, business show their deepest emotions. A part of that and I couldn’t go back on my initial ask. model to is creating less structured art as well, drawBut, if a patron can easily pay double or accommodate the people who frequently ing with paint markers, ballpoint pens and triple or 10 times the listed price of a piece support their art. Instead of one piece gel pens in a very loose way.” of Black art, they should. The millionaire paying rent for a year, artists have to resort took away the opportunity for my audience to selling 10 pieces to pay rent for a month. to own my work, while increasing their WHAT IS IT THAT BLACK Those frequent supporters look like friends, asset holdings. family, other artists and blue-collar, average ARTISTS NEED TO PRODUCE The potential buyer didn’t speak to the Joes, so the artist sets their price to reflect artist or care to learn the context of the art.

AND SHOWCASE THEIR the income of those who support it.

In their mind, maybe, they felt they were Equity is a two-way street. When proWORK? doing the artist a favor by buying the art grams adjust their costs based on a lower at the price set, but true equity would have income, we consider it to be an equitable Lance Newman garnered enough capital to afford the artist act. In the same breath, adjusting the cost of “From the top of my lungs and with all time. Time to create more art and sustain something based on a higher income is also of my chest I say, ‘EQUITY!’ other lives in the process. equitable.

Black artists in Louisville need ‘life Now, maybe I should’ve priced it differI sold a couple of pieces of art to a local changing money’ for their work. Black artently for the gallery. Maybe it was a lesson millionaire through a third-party gallery ists in Louisville often price their work far for a novice artist, so after consultation with owner. I intended to sell these pieces to my lower than what it actually cost to create. my visual arts mentor and my mother, I peers, so I priced them lower to reflect that They do this because their main buyers are reluctantly sold the work.” audience. Before the pieces were even put their economic peers and contemporaries.

Black artists know that millionaires aren’t

on the gallery’s walls, they were shown and

Marlesha Woods “I choose not to focus on barriers such as the racial wealth gap, solely, but rather illuminate solutions to address them. Artists are in many ways business owners. Businesses thrive from providing quality services, products and consumer experiences. The greatest problem is not a deficit that community members must fill alone. The core problems derive from systemic challenges that take time and strategy to transform.

I desire to engage with authentic, community-minded individuals not because they owe me anything but simply because we owe ourselves the shared opportunity to transform how we do business. Many business problems can be resolved with art solutions. To see barriers and understand that the strategic framework that created such can be dismantled is community empowerment. I choose to build.”

Kayla Morgan “More art-focused events would be great, more Black art spaces, galleries and studios. One barrier I can speak on is that I’ve had to build our brand online. I haven’t found a lot of places where artists can hangout or meet and talk about ideas.”

Ton’nea Green “It wasn’t until I visited a Cincinnati art gallery that I recognized how much my hometown lacks in the arts scene. I visited an art gallery that was massive and was filled with only artists of color that were local. Since the die-down in momentum after the Breonna Taylor protests, opportunities for Black visual artists have ceased to exist on the scale it was two years ago.

If the city wants to be a staple in visual arts nationwide, the key is to invest in the Black people. That is just my opinion, but I have run into so many talented Black artists and there isn’t a stage for us. The barriers are literally the lack of space, that is open minded to art they’ve never seen before, to works of artists that may not be educated in art, but they figured it out and is a testimony to their style. Art to me literally has the broadest definition, and that doesn’t take away from anyone but should add to others that may be overlooked because a few people said it’s not art.”

Sheila Fox “Support, support, support!

Support is everything within the local art community. When we support our local art centers, museums and galleries, what we are doing for our community is creating culture, stimulating business, driving tourism and inspiring young minds.”

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Artwork by Sheila Fox | PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE ARTIST.

WHAT ARE WAYS THAT YOU SEE BLACK ARTISTS USING THEIR RESOURCES AND COMMUNITIES TO THRIVE AS ARTISTS AND WHAT DO YOU THINK IS NEEDED TO BUILD UPON THAT? Lance Newman “Life-changing money translates to ‘quit my day job’ stability. Black artists in Louisville are regularly underfunded and underrepresented by the mainstream arts community. The result is less art and more creativity wasted on trying to survive the economic times we find ourselves in.

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when financial stability is high. In that same trend, we see the creation of art suffer when financial times are unstable. Black artists cannot inspire or be inspired when they are preoccupied with maintaining the basics of life. In another word, surviving.

The well-to-do organizations that put out calls for Black artists, often attach hoops for Black artists to jump through in the form of applications that look more like a 1950s literacy test.

Louisville’s arts funding feels like it’s applied to the administration of art instead of sustaining the artists who create the art.

But if there’s no time for creation, there will be no need for administration. It is time for Louisville to put its money where its compassionate mouth is. Acknowledge Black visual artists and fund their work by

Abstract Expressionism with a figurative edge. Artwork by Marlesha Woods. | PHOTO PROVIDED BY ARTIST

events that pop up throughout the city and I have noticed artists have started filling those tables. It’s great. But I would have to double back on my last answer and repeat I wish these events were more art-focused.”

Ton’nea Green “I honestly see it a lot — I know of Black artists that are youth Artist Kayla Morgan often explores themes in popular culture.| PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE ARTIST. art instructors specifically in the communities they reside. I believe if we are going to have a cohesive stabilizing their livelihood.” world of technology has provided tools to Black visual arts community a create platforms and collaborative spaces good start is investing and encouraging the Marlesha Woods that may not be readily available within a youth. local community.

“To be an artist is to continually be a Currently, due to the lack of space for Intentionally building genuine relationlearner. We must learn how to adapt under visual artists, the Black art community is ships is vital. There are missed opportunities really obsolete in a ‘community’ sense; it’s changing economic climates. We must learn for growth when art becomes transactional. how to navigate spaces in which we have more like we have to invite you to the table Success is defined in many ways. I have been historically disenfranchised from, and instead of just adding the chairs and telling among many other lessons, we must be will- witnessed artists achieving their defined Black artists everyone is invited, no invitasuccess by creating art that rests outside of ing to learn to teach. Artists from all backtion needed. A lot of people I know have trends. Make it real and consistent. drops have the responsibility to learn how very little knowledge of art. The theme I get Real is where your tribe can find you.” to teach community members, organizations from, just general, associates is, ‘Art has and peers how to treat them. to look a certain way,’ ‘You have to go to Kayla Morgan It is important not to limit our sense of school,’ etc. Ultimately, a limited viewpoint “I see a lot of vendor spaces at all the community to one particular region. The of all of the Black artists that have existed,

and the many forms art can come in.”

Sheila Fox “I haven’t had any bad experiences with any Black artists here in the city, all the artists I’ve come in contact with have been very supportive of my work and the journey I’m taking with my art. I see so many artists that have a larger platform to help other inspiring artists, such as myself, and I’m beyond appreciative.”

EDITOR’S OUTRO

There is no definitive State of Black arts in Louisville. It is a state defined by two factors, that of the art scene itself and that of the experience of living as a Black person in this art scene. The experiences of these artists share some common themes often heard when talking to Black artists but there are more perspectives still.

Louisville has come a long way towards inclusivity. But, yes, there is still some ground to cover before we truly make local arts a place for everyone. •

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WEIGHTING FOR LOVE THE COMPLEXITIES OF A FAT FETISH RELATIONSHIP AND WHAT THE FAT ADMIRER COMMUNITY TAUGHT ME ABOUT ROMANCE [This essay was written by an anonymous Louisille writer. Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals in this story.]

A FEW MILES away from my tiny storage-closetturned-bedroom, the financial analyst in Westchester was begging me for photos of my belly.

He was desperate for details: Was it hairy?

Was it round? Saggy? Did it have stretch marks? Lots of them? Did it hang over my waistband? Why didn’t I want to show him what it looked like? Just one photo? Please?

I left him on read. This man was an FA –– a “fat admirer,” a man who likes fat women –– and this was the beginning of my second attempt to date within the FA community. I was back on the fat dating site Feabie (pronounced like “Phoebe”), resurrecting a long-dormant account, but all I was getting so far were unsolicited sexual comments with no respect for my boundaries and men who were flaky about conversations. I was a few weeks away from changing my bleak perception of the community, but I had to wonder: is this my romantic lot in life?

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year break from dating and sex, I decided that I was ready to give FAs another try.

My first Feabie date was with a six-foot-four programmer and part-time standup comedian named Albert who sported Dahmer glasses and thick headphones. We met at a noodle restaurant in Chinatown, halfway between his apartment and mine. His knees scraped the underside of our table. Rather than taking the train, he insisted on walking the entire length of the way there and back, across the Brooklyn Bridge, in the early October cold.

I was newly awash with free time, thanks to dropping two classes at school to accommodate the demands of a freelance client, and eager to fill it with the privilege of being a single woman in New York City. Albert’s last date (his first ever from Feabie) had ghosted him, so he wanted to prove that I was, in fact, real, and that he could make a good connection with a woman from the site. Fascinating idea: that a fat woman could be the object of desire to the point that he would be disappointed by her ghosting him.

It didn’t work out. I wanted to talk; he was very introverted; our senses of humor didn’t really align, and a bunch of my jokes didn’t land. We now follow each other on Instagram, but that was the end of it. I probably exist in one of his standup routines.

Lesson learned: if being a desirable woman in this new environment of fat fetishists made me an equal to thin women in the mainstream world, then it really did make me an equal. If fat girls can go on dates, fat girls can go on crappy dates.

A few weeks later, I got an intriguing message on Feabie. On my profile, I had written: “Take me to a wrestling match, improv show, or concert — bonus points if it’s yours!”

Out of the many heys and hellos and what’s ups in my inbox, this new message was a welcome relief. It read: “I can take you to a pinball tournament!”

The message was from Connor, a 26-year-old engineer who looked like a mashup of James Franco and Nick Jonas. He lived outside of Nashville, where I was born; our initial conversation established that we’d even been born in the same hospital.

Over the next two weeks, he and I began to talk every day. I was fascinated: unlike many other Feabie guys, he was never overtly sexual, and he always typed in full sentences. We talked at length about the

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world of competitive pinball, then gaming, then politics, Connor was almost everything I wanted in a guy: he had then journalism, then our day-to-day lives. It was the begina steady income, a tidy apartment, and a job that allowed ning of something beautiful, and I was certain of that. him to work from anywhere; he was handsome, and he was interested in me. In fact, on one of our first dates to a lakeThen I straight-up ghosted him for four months. It wasn’t side park, he asked me what kind of wedding I might want. on purpose, per se; I just happened to meet the guy who Even the banalities of living with him for two weeks –– getwould be his predecessor, my 34-year-old Russian painter ting groceries together, cleaning, etc. –– felt so natural. now-ex, at a bar, and we hit it off right away. When that Still, he was unquestionably a straight twentysomething relationship crashed and burned, Connor was the first person man –– he didn’t own a can opener and mostly cooked from Feabie that I wanted to talk to again. He had already himself chicken and broccoli. One of his kitchen cabinets forgiven the ghosting, and it wasn’t long before we were was filled with old Nintendo controllers. Yet it was easily making plans to see each other in person. forgivable. Nearly everything else that I wanted in a longThus began the most impactful vacation of my life. term relationship was there and within reach.

Funnily enough, one of the most revelatory parts of my As an FA, Connor was a tour guide in my homeland, a trip was watching TLC shows with Connor. I have a lovefluent speaker of my native language. hate relationship with TLC, and Not only did he understand the more TLC has a love-hate relationship uncomfortable truths of plus-sizedwith fat people. They don’t love At 5’2 and 240 lbs, ness –– we sometimes need special us, but they certainly love making I’m what the commufurniture; we may need to take breaks money off of us. Their current and when we walk; we do often like large past shows include titles like 1000nity calls a “smaller portions of food –– he wanted to Lb Sisters, Big Medicine, Big Sexy, accommodate them as much as possiToo Large, I Eat 33,000 Calories fat.” I’m defınitely a ble. He spoke fondly of his future plan a Day, My Big Fat Fabulous Life, BBW (“big beautiful to build a “fat-friendly” one-story Hot & Heavy, and, of course, My house. He was always patient with 600-Lb. Life. woman”), but a lot of my endless questions about the finer I couldn’t get enough of Connor’s comments on the YouTube guys like Connor prefer details of his kinks and the FA world as a whole –– a matter of curiosity, clips of these shows that we SSBBWs (“super-sized not prurient interest. watched on his big-screen TV. A few offhand remarks of his did He pointed out the hypocrisy in a big beautiful women”) throw me occasionally, though. When mini-documentary about a feeder/ — or at least women Connor made reference to a particular feedee relationship (a relationship element of his fetish, I responded with where one person feeds the other whom they can turn confusion. He heaved a frustrated for sexual pleasure): namely, that the video spliced clips of a condeinto SSBBWs. He, too, sigh.

“You’re one of the few people who scending doctor between the main was thinking longknows about this side of me,” he said, subjects in a way that made them closing his eyes. look careless. Connor said that a term, but not in the “Few” was a curiously relative documentary about hobbies like, for example, motocross would same way as I was. He term; he had been to (and had been very, ahem, active at) a number of never do that; that, if anything, confessed his biggest “bashes” –– parties for fat women and the risks would only be mentioned fans. Still, when he confessed his as something that the participants fantasy: me, bed-bound their attraction to fat women to a college were bravely conquering, not frat brother several years prior, the dismissing. all day, weighing 500 friend warned him, “I wouldn’t tell We also watched a video that or 600 pounds and anyone else about that if I were you.” parodied the episode of Saved by that moment, as I was sitting on the Bell where a fat girl wins Zack diabetic, attended to by his Incouch half-naked, the absurdity of in a date auction, much to Zack’s it all came rushing over me. He was vocal dismay. I asked Connor a a caretaker. totally fine to hold hands with me in rhetorical question: “You wouldn’t public, to make out with me in public, be complaining if a fat girl won to be assumed a couple in public, to you in an auction, would you?” go to restaurants and the beach and multiple parks, to tell his “No way,” he said. “I’d be celebrating.” closest friends that I was staying in his one-bedroom apartConnor’s directness about fat bodies was new, and it changed how I referred to myself. Rather than calling myself ment for two weeks, but for them to think that he might want to have sex with other women who looked like me –– well, more delicate terms –– “plus-sized,” “curvy,” “bigger” –– I that was just too far. started to more often acknowledge that I was straightforA wicked irony about my relationship with Connor is, wardly fat. Around him, I talked frankly about my cellulite although his attention and affection cured a lot of my inseand my wide upper arms. He loved my double chin and curities, there was one thing that they unintentionally made even called me his “body pillow” when we cuddled. It was worse. a blunt truth, but he wasn’t wrong: I was fat, and it wasn’t a Connor didn’t want me exactly as I was. He wanted me to problem.

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get bigger.

It’s not like I should’ve been surprised. I can’t pretend I didn’t see him sneak a glance or three at even larger women as we were walking or driving around town. I’m not blameless there, though; I may have ogled a few bodybuilder-type guys through my sunglasses at the beach. But Connor had once bragged about 600-lb model Mary Boberry calling him “cute,” albeit too young for her. A love of even bigger women was just part of him.

At 5’2 and 240 lbs, I’m what the community calls a “smaller fat.” I’m definitely a BBW (“big beautiful woman”), but a lot of guys like Connor prefer SSBBWs (“super-sized big beautiful women”) –– or at least women whom they can turn into SSBBWs. He, too, was thinking long-term, but not in the same way as I was. He confessed his biggest fantasy: me, bed-bound all day, weighing 500 or 600 pounds and diabetic, attended to by a caretaker.

Oh. So only one of us was googling the cost of an elopement in Montego Bay or apartment listings on the Upper East Side. I see.

This uncomfortable realization highlighted the complicated truths of being the object of this particular fetish. On the one hand, it’s liberating: the old trope of the partner losing attraction after you gain a baby belly or “let yourself go” inherently does not exist with a fetishist. Plus, there’s a certain joy in being seen as beautiful in moments of “imperfection,” like burping and farting. What better way to do so than with someone who thinks burping and farting are hot?

On the other hand, it gives you a new awareness of your body that is hard to shake, even months (or years) after the relationship ends. When I look at myself in a mirror, I sometimes still hear Connor’s voice in my head remarking on my “baby rolls” –– new, growing rolls of fat, like love handles.

I also can’t let go of a comment he made once, when he said that, at 500 pounds, I’d “waddle even more than [I] already do.”

I didn’t know I waddled.

I visited Connor a few more times after that vacation, but it was a little impossible to recreate the same magic of the original trip since he’d confessed that fantasy. He ended up breaking up with me in early August over a Facebook video call. It was so unceremonious and indirect that I didn’t even realize I had been dumped until weeks later.

I’m left asking myself: How do I reconcile that? How do I redeem my experience of not winning in romance with the notion that Feabie granted to me –– that fat girls can and do win in romance?

I’m still figuring that out. But that experience made me realize that my body is not an impediment to love –– sometimes, it’s the first step to it. •

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LOUISVILLE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

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OLD LOU BREW CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL

oldlouisville.org/old-lou-brewcraft-beer-fest August 27, 2022, 6-10 PM Old Louisville Visitors Center, 1340 S. 4th Street 40208 GA $15, 18 & under are free

Music KENTUCKY OPERA Kyopera.org

“Orfeo” - February 11 & 13, 2022 Brown Theatre, 315 W Broadway.

40202 “An American Dream” - April 8 & 10, 2022 Brown Theatre, 315 W Broadway.

40202 “Robin Hood, A Youth Opera” - June 10 & 11, 2022 Bomhard Theatre, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, 501 W Main St. 40202

“Puccini’s La bohème” - September, 2022

BLOOMINGTON MUSIC EXPO

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LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA LouisvilleOrchestra.org/concerts/ “The Blue Hour” – Feb 19, 2022 “Festival Of Latin American Music” Mar 4, 5, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26, 2022 “A Night At The Pops With Bob Bernhardt” – Mar 19, 2022 “Exploring The Orchestra” – Mar 27, 2022 “Michael Cavanaugh Plays Music Of Elton John” – Apr 22, 2022 “Reclaimed Treasures” – Apr 30, 2022 “Fantastique” – May 13, 14, 2022

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Theater KENTUCKY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS kentuckyperformingarts.org

“Black Violin: Impossible Tour” — February 16, 2022 7:30 PM “Punch Brothers with Special Guest Haley Heynderickx” — February 17, 2022 8:00 PM “The Second City Remix” — March 4, 2022 8:00 PM

DERBY DINNER PLAYHOUSE derbydinner.com (812) 288-8281 “The Red Velvet Cake War” – Now Playing Thru Feb 13, 2022 “Kinky Boots” – Feb 16 Thru April 3, 2022 “Junie B. Jones The Musical” – Feb 19 Thru April 2, 2022 “Eddie Miles Live In Concert” – March 14, 2022 “Saturday Night Fever” – April 6 Thru May 22, 2022 “The Van-Dells Live In Concert” – April 18, 2022 “How Great Thou Art: The Gospel

“Steel Magnolias” – May 25 Thru July 3, 2022 “Alice In Wonderland” – May 28 Thru July 2, 2022 “The Glenn Miller Orchestra” – June 6, 2022 “The Return: Beatles Tribute” – June 27, 2022 “A Tribute To John Denver” – August 29, 2022

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UPCOMING EVENTS New Comics Showcase

Thursday, February 03, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EST

Aloft Louisville Downtown

604 S 3rd St. 40202 “Head Over Heels” Conceived by + original book by Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q), adapted by James Magruder, music + lyrics by the Go-Go’s March 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 @ 7:30 PM.; March 6, 13 @ 5:30 PM & March 20 @ 2:00 PM. “A Very Sordid Wedding” - The Sequel to SORDID LIVES by Del Shores April 29, 30, May 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 @ 7:30 PM; May 1, 15 @ 5:30 PM & May 22 @ 2:00 PM.

THE CHICKEN COOP THEATRE COMPANY

thechickencooptheatre.com “I Love the 80s Variety Show” - Feb 18 & 19, at PLAY Louisville, 1101 E Washington St. 40206 “Xanadu: The Musical” - April 12 17, at Champs Rollerdome, 9851 La Grange Rd. 40223

Joe Pontillo

Saturday, February 05, 2022 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EST

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Musique Romantique—27th annual Valentine Dinner Show, Dancing & Silent Auction

Monday, February 14, 2022 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM EST

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The Walnut Street Revue 2022

Saturday, February 26, 2022 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM EST

Kentucky Center for African American Heritage

Jessica Tanselle: Becoming a Medium

Friday, March 11, 2022 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM EST

The Bard’s Town

March 30-April 16, 2022; Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30PM; Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00PM

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Kentucky Exposition Center | 937 Phillips Lane | kosaircircus.com | $11-$32 | Times vary You know, it’s a circus. Clowns, contortionists, other spectacles. Animals aren’t as popular in the circus these days, but this circus has them. The Kosair Shrine cirCENTER RING cus is a full three-ring event and one with a 50-year history. There will also be protests held near Broadbent Arena each day of the event for those who oppose the use of animals and question their treatment in the circus. —Erica Rucker

‘Black Joy’ Author in Conversation

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In just one of many powerful essays in her fourth book, Tracey Michae’l LewisREAD Giggetts serves up “The Right Kind of Chili” — and what she has to say flows organically from a remembrance of someone adapting to spaghetti under their chili to a contemplation of Black resilience. The author doesn’t always go to metaphors — she heads straight to the weathered-but-not-weakened heart in multiple looks at why she left her native Louisville, though racism was at all her destinations and only sometimes in new guises. Now seeking to distinguish Black joy (“unique and deeply rooted in the cultural experiences and expressions of Black people across the Diaspora”) from the pursuit (or even achievement) of happiness, she mines her experiences to find pragmatic, necessary and uplifting tools within herself, her heritage and her faith. Frank X. Walker will be joining Lewis-Giggetts in conversation. —T.E. Lyons

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Air Chrysalis Miniature Comet Album Release Show Zanzabar | 2100 S. Preston St. | Search Facebook | $12 | 8 p.m.

With a kaleidoscopic sound that leans into striking shoeMUSIC gaze and emotionallycharged dream-pop, Air Chrysalis is a captivating project that sounds like its influences but branches out into its own little space of experimental rock. And this show is the release party for the band’s great new album, Miniature Comet. Routine Caffeine and Parister open. Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 72 hours of the show is required. —Scott Recker

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The Louisville Jewish Film Festival is more than movies. There are short films, animation FILM and a TV mini-series. In addition, there will be six speaking events including from actor Dov Glickman. The movies chosen for the film festival explore Jewish life from a holistic perspective. These are films about life and love and all of these other things that make cinema a great medium to share common experiences and bring understanding to all communities. For more than 20 years, this festival has offered the best in Jewish cinema to local audiences. You’d be doing yourself a disservice if you miss this festival. —Erica Rucker

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Cressman Center for Visual Arts | 100 E. Main St. | louisville.edu/art | Free UofL’s Hite Art Institute has partnered with the 2022 Southeast Conference of the AsART sociation for Asian Studies to present an exhibition of work by artists of Asian descent. The show, featuring contemporary art by faculty and students, ranges from personal insights to social justice concerns and creative use of materials. An example is the drawings of Jingshuo Yang, who connects the stress of the world to a search for inner tranquility by using the butterfly to represent peace. —Jo Anne Triplett ‘Butterfly Dream 2’ by Jingshuo Yang.

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Louisville Loves Valentine’s

This year, Louisville must be really feeling the love, because we’ve found several Valentine’s Day events that are turning our black hearts more of a deep mauve. Check ‘em out (but look, don’t touch): Romance Run (Feb. 4-20) | Big Four Lawn | 401 River Road | 2022romancerun.fearticket.com | Times vary | $29.99 A romantic scavenger hunt from your car, ending at Recbar in Jeffersontown.

We Ain’t Goals - Lover’s Lounge (Feb. 11) | Loft at The Biscuit Lounge | 120 S. 10th St. | Search Facebook | $40 single, $60 couple | 7-11 p.m.

Games, music, a raffle and more at the new and swanky Loft at The Biscuit Lounge.

Valentine’s Day Silent Disco (Feb. 11) | Hi-Wire Brewing Louisville | 642 Baxter Ave. | Search Facebook | $5 for headphones | 8 p.m.-midnight Dancing on your own is no problem even on V-Day at this silent disco party, featuring headphones playing the playlists of three different DJs.

Tunnel of LoVe with Va Va Vixens (Feb. 4-19) | Art Sanctuary | 1433 S. Shelby St. | vavavixens.com | 7-11 p.m. | $35 “A whimsical assortment of music, dance, aerials, burlesque.”

Valentines Love Jam (Feb. 11) | KFC Yum! Center | 1 Arena Plaza | kfcyumcenter. com | $54.75+ | 8 p.m.

A Valentine’s Day concert from three vocal powerhouses: Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Stephanie Mills.

The Purrfect Valentine’s Weekend (Feb. 11-12) | Purrfect Day Cat Cafe | 1741 Bardstown Road | purrfectdaycafe.com | $50 for two | 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m.

Share your V-Day with adoptable kittens at the Purrfect Day Cafe — a dessert and non alcoholic beverages included.

GALentine’s Day (Feb. 12) | Our Lady of Perpetual Hops | 300 Foundation Court, New Albany | Search Facebook | No cover | Noon-4 p.m.

It’s not Valentine’s Day; It’s Galentine’s for you and the girls featuring mimosa flights, beer and cupcake pairings, psychic readings, shopping, hairstyling and more.

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Valentine’s Dinner at 1844 Presley Tyler House (Feb. 12) | Blackacre State Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead | 3200 Tucker Station Road | visitblackacre. org/calendar | 5:30-9 p.m. | $150 per couple An intimate three-course dinner with strolling violinists in the historic Presley Tyler House.

Valentine’s Candlelit Hike (Feb. 12-14) | Louisville Nature Center | 3745 Illinois Ave. | louisvillenaturecenter.org | $60, nonmembers | 7-10 p.m.

A romantic, candlelit walk through the woods with a fire, snacks and drinks afterward.

Valentine’s at Limón y Sal (Feb. 14) | Limón y Sal | 10000 Brownsboro Road | Search Facebook | No cover | 11 a.m.10 p.m.

Enjoy live music, craft goodie bags and a new love potion cocktail at Limón y Sal. Valentine’s Dinner (Feb. 14) | Whitehall House & Gardens | 3110 Lexington Road | historicwhitehall.org | $85-$100 per person | 7 p.m.

A romantic, candlelit, four-course feast at the historic Whitehall House & Gardens. — Danielle Grady

Coat Check’s Valentine’s (Feb. 12) | The Whirling Tiger | 1335 Story Ave. | Search Facebook | $10 | 9 p.m.

A Valentine’s rager benefitting Planned Parenthood with DJ sets.

Valentine’s Day Brunch & Day Party (Feb. 13) | Seafood Lady | 601 E. Jefferson St. | Search Instagram | 1-5 p.m. | No cover A brunch experience from the famous Seafood Lady, including door prizes, a DJ, buffet and bottomless mimosas.

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‘Slow Songs’

Quappi Projects | 827 E. Market St. | quappiprojects.com | Free Quappi Projects always has inspired exhibitions. This one, focusing on drawing, features work of an intimate nature. Often considered a starting place of creEXHIBITIONS ativity, “Slow Songs” shows finished works by 15 artists. There’s a kinship between people who draw because it’s something we have all done, be it with crayons, pencil or ink. These artists just do it better than most of us. Gallerist John Brooks, quite the wordsmith, makes sure we do not dismiss the act of drawing. “Quieter than painting, softer than sculpture, more archaic than NFTs, drawings are akin to ballads and slow songs: they can dazzle, but often do so with some delay, revealing both their depth and subtlety over time and with repeated consideration.” —Jo Anne Triplett ‘Above & Below’ by Devra Fox. Graphite on paper.

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‘Native Re�lections: Visual Art by American Indians Of Kentucky’ Louisville Metro Hall | 527 W. Jefferson St. | artscouncil.ky.gov | Free

“Native Reflections” is a touring exhibition of contemporary art created by American Indians living in Kentucky that was developed by the Kentucky Arts Council and NATIVE the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission. The 12 artists featured are identified by tribe name when applicable, with their works focusing on “identity and their sense of self, sense of community and sense of place,” said Mark Brown, KAC’s folk and traditional arts director. Throughout its history, Kentucky has been home to the Shawnee, Chickasaw and Cherokee people. —Jo Anne Triplett

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MUSIC

SONIC BREAKDOWN COUNT SPACEY — “MERCHANDISE”

(2020)

By Tyrel Kessinger | leo@leoweekly.com

Count Spacey’s “Merchandise”

[LEO’s Sonic Breakdown column deconstructs a single song from a Louisville musician or band.]

AS LEAD vocalist, guitarist and producer for Count Spacey, Patrick Hume is adept at wearing

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many hats. But one he’s never worn well, he says, is one of salesman. “Truth be told, I’m horrible at it,” Hume tells me, laughing. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have something to sell.

“Anyone who has seen live music has heard

a band mention that they have merchandise for sale,” he says. “So, instead of taking a moment between songs to mention this, I thought we’d just write a song about the merchandise, the items we’re selling. I know, it’s kind of ‘meta,’ but I’ve been playing shows for well over 22 years now and I realized a long time ago that I’m not really in the business of selling music.

Really I’m in the ‘t-shirt’ business. But, to be honest, we barely have or sell any music or merch.”

“Merchandise” is a funky, ska-tinged song that could also easily serve time on a modernday spy soundtrack. Lively horns stab in and out, the guitar wah-wahs a dark riff of mystery, while Hume lambasts the scourge of “late stage capitalist carried to full term” in his acerbic talk-sing rants. Think: a modern day “Money.”

(And, as a sweet bonus, it even comes with a badass squealy saxophone solo.)

According to Hume, “Merchandise” has been through more variants than the COVID-19 virus, though certainly its a much more enjoyable to experience.

“This song took many iterations until it became the song it is now,” he says. “At one point there was a Latin breakdown in the verse, then it went funky. There’s a big speech in the middle and the lyrics have changed numerous times. We’ve been playing it for years though,

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even when the band was a whole different band.

It was and still is our closing song because it’s the perfect song to end a set. It’s loud, energetic, and has a fast tempo. The ironic thing is that I’ve noticed we sell less merch when we play it.

I think it makes people feel self conscious about buying our stuff. If I were better at marketing, I think more LEO readers would know of our band by now!”

Count Spacey created a fun, jaunty song with amazing production values, but Hume hopes people see it more than a just a song to listen to. The song, he says, is threaded with a very common theme that everyone can relate to.

“The lyrics are very obviously a critique on modern day capitalism. I am very self aware how that conflicts and coexists with my life as an ‘artist.’ These two sides of my life are constantly at odds with each other. I make a full-time living off of music and I’m very proud of that, but I have to make artistic compromises daily in order to sustain this meager lifestyle.

Under our modern system of capitalism, it is those with the most money who can compromise less of their time, their morals, and their soul. Money can buy you a certain freedom in this society, the rest of us are all in a modern type of indentured servitude.”

But, hey, at least we get a killer tune out of the deal. •

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GIANT DUNE AT ECHO LAKE

Throughout his career, singer-songwriter Joe Manning has crafted thoughtful, beautiful songs, which is the case with Giant Dune, his latest musical endeavor featuring a host of talented players. Each track on At Echo Lake is carefully paced, equal parts Neil Young and The For Carnation, never in a rush to get anywhere in particular; the journey is absolutely the point. As such, At Echo Lake is an exquisite album, whether that manifests as an austere vocal passage, the instrumentation stripped to the basics or an elegant sax solo. Manning’s vocal delivery is as comforting as it is confident, as he transports you away through his storytelling. On the dreamy “Utrillo,” Manning transports the listener away with the lines, “And the spoils go to them that can auger the signs of thousands taken to wing / And look through the snow down the road on the vanishing line, where the tangent is lost on the string.” The only real issue on the album — and this is a very minor one — is that I wish the vocals could come up a bit in the mix to better highlight Manning’s wonderful performance. Still, this is a delight to listen to and rewards repeat listens.

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AIR CHRYSALIS MINIATURE COMET

There is an ease to Air Chrysalis part and parcel to an eager attention to detail and rigorous practice routine, the kind that makes the challenging seem simple. With Miniature Comet, the duo offers up an ethereal pop masterpiece that recalls synth-heavy indie bands like Air or Beach House as filtered through Ennio Morricone.

Clocking in at eight songs, Miniature Comet has the soul of Boards of Canada, hazy and groove-heavy, but with an incredible pop sensibility. These songs are catchy and will absolutely take root in your mind, a collection of earworms that invite you to revisit over and over. Compositionally, songs like “In This Starlight” highlight their wonderful use of harmonic tension, between the bass and drum groove, the guitar/synth work, and the vocals, which all carve out their own unique niche. This is a wonderful album that, even on the coldest winter days, will brighten and complement your day.

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SATELLITE TWIN ROUTINES

It’s been a while since Satellite Twin has graced our speakers.

On “Routines,” the trio returns to form, building on their post-punk origins for a sound that is dense, challenging, but familiar all at once. Kicking off with the fiery “A Pale Light,” the band establishes a refreshed tone, a bright and bold direction that has roots in bands like Fugazi and melodically dense bands like Hum. Vocalist Scott Boone plays with form somewhat, harmonizing with himself for an almost choral effect. By contrast, songs like “Evil” or “I Don’t Suppose” evoke disparate comparisons like Springsteen or Neil Young. Still, the album feels wholly cohesive, any change in direction signaling not a departure, but the folding in of influences relative to any seasoned act.

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By Robin Garr | leo@leoweekly.com Shady Lane’s Brownsboro burger, a favorite for decades through two sets of owners, won a Best in City award from Louisville Magazine over 34 competitors in 2013. I agree with that rating. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.

AHH, SHADY LANE CAFE! This lovable little East End diner-style cafe has been a popular lunch (and weekend dinner) spot since Bill Smith and Susi Wood opened it in the early 2000s. It earned deserved popularity for its iconic Brownsboro Burger and much more.

All good things eventually move on, though, and in August 2019, Bill, shortorder chef and poet, and his wife Susi, amiable host and professional singer, turned the business over to another couple, Carol Reeves and Satbir “Shan” Singh.

The new owners have maintained the same high level of quality and popularity.

When I dropped in to pick up a takeout lunch on a recent Saturday, every table in the little space was filled with apparently happy diners, and the line to the counter extended all the way back to the door.

Bill and Susi intended it to turn out that way. “It is with a profound, bittersweet sadness that Susi and I would like to announce that we will soon be leaving our little Shady Lane Cafe behind,” they wrote on social media in 2019. “We are leaving it in the hands of a wonderful young couple

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who are eager and enthusiastic to continue, improve and grow on our fifteen-year legacy.”

The new and old owners worked together to ensure a smooth transition, and I’m happy to report that every time we’ve dropped in since that switch, the food — especially that burger — has been on point.

From one master of the flat-top, short-order grill to another, with a consistent emphasis on quality and welcoming service at the counter: If only every restaurant transition could be so smooth.

So, when we go to Shady Lane, we get a Brownsboro Burger. That’s the rule. It’s $8.50, add half a buck if you want cheddar on top and of course we do.

Then a curious thought crossed my mind: As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I’ve been following the trend toward high-tech plantbased meat like the Impossible and Beyond Burger, not to mention KFC’s recent Beyond Fried Chicken launch.

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real vegetables, without a single ingredient that we can’t pronounce. It’s not intended to taste exactly like a meat burger. It’s just meant to taste delicious, and to fill a burgershaped space for anyone who doesn’t want ground beef right now.

Then a light bulb went off: Let’s get a Brownsboro Burger and the veggie burger and, well, not compare them exactly — they’re different animals, or maybe one animal and one not-animal — but consider them, side-by-side.

Of course, Shady Lane is not just about burgers: In addition to the two burgers, nearly 20 sandwiches fill Shady Lane’s menu. It’s all good and well-made, and it’s just about all under $10. For an even more thrifty lunch, you can choose half of a sandwich and a cup of soup for $9.50.

But let’s get right to it: How about those burgers? They’re both delicious, obviously different, but I’d be happy to find either one in my takeout bag.

The Brownsboro Burger features a 1/3pound patty, cooked to your order, served on a good bun — light, yet substantial and slightly sweet. Ordered dressed, it comes with fresh leaf lettuce, decent-for-the-season tomato, red onion and cheddar or other cheese of your choice for the 50-cent charge.

Assuming that the burger would continue to cook in its takeout box, we ordered it just medium rare, and it remained pink in the center all the way home. It was nicely browned on the surface, and exceptionally tender within, very finely ground and almost fluffy. It had a great beefy taste. With the well-planned dressing and simple but tasty

bun, it earned A-plus on every aspect of burger preparation.

Could the veggie burger compare? Yes, it could. Making no effort to simulate beef, it was a delicious chickpea patty — tasting something like falafel, something like Indian channa tikki — with a meaty texture closely akin to ground beef and colorful veggie bits that appeared to be edamame and yellow corn kernels. The texture and flavor were great. Top it with cheddar and dress it like the Brownsboro Burger and it was similar-only-different, a delicious burger with no animals harmed in its preparation.

An order of onion rings ($3.25) hit the spot. Shady Lane has always had excellent rings, and these were right up there with the best: Crisp breading over thick rings that were crisp yet juicy inside; grease-free and admirably tasty.

Chocolate layer cake ($4.75), the dessert of the day, was very light and fluffy. A huge wedge might have been enough for three servings, but we demolished it in two.

Our delicious takeout meal came to $28.09, plus a 20% tip. •

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“WHAT LIES BENEATH”

“ASIA IN MOTION’

“STILL, LIFE! MOURNING, MEANING, MENDING”

Cressman Center for Visual Arts 100 E. Main St. Hours: Thursdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Fridays, 1-6 p.m. louisville.edu

Through March Group show that’s part of the Louisville Photo Biennial.

Through December The show focuses on dealing with loss during the pandemic.

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Carnegie Center for Art & History 201 E. Spring St., New Albany, Indiana Hours: Mondays-Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursdays, noon-8 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. carnegiecenter.org

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Through Feb. 13 Meatyard’s photographs of Red River Gorge accompanied by Wendell Berry’s essays. Part of the Louisville Photo Biennial.

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By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage

FIRST TIME

Q: Long time reader here, first-time writer.

I’m a bisexual woman. I’ve been married to a straight man for eight years. Our marriage and our sex life are amazing. We communicate well, and we have a lot of fun together. You probably think you know where this is going, Dan, but trust me this isn’t your typical bisexual-person-married-to-a-straight-person problem.

Here’s the thing: I would call myself a heteroromantic bisexual. I love men. I love dick, and I love having sex with men. Men turn me on. And I have always been interested in men romantically. I’ve also always been into women, but only sexually. I can’t picture myself dating a woman. Or being married to one. But I’ve never been able to get off from straight sex or straight porn. When I orgasm, I am either watching lesbian porn or gay male porn or I’m thinking about it. I am turned on by my husband. I find him attractive, and the idea of having sex with him gets me wet. But when it comes time to get off, I go into my head and think about two women or two men.

If I don’t do this, I can’t orgasm! I’ve always been this way. My husband is satisfied, I’m getting off, and we both enjoy sex together. So, what’s the problem? I don’t want to have to leave the moment to get off! I want to be able to get off while being fully present! I feel like I’m losing out on a ton of intimacy with my husband by not being in the moment with him while I’m trying to cum. I want to cum from straight sex!

Do you think there is a way I can achieve this? Is it fucked up that I have to think about something else to orgasm when I’m with a man? Help me! I haven’t told my husband this because it would crush me to learn he had to “dip out” to get off.

Being In Moment In Straight Sex Is No-Go P.S. I fully explored the possibility of being a lesbian but I’m sure I’m not. I really, really like men. I like men a lot. I couldn’t live without them.

A: There’s a solution here, BIMISSING, one that would allow you to remain in the moment without sacrificing your orgasms.

Zooming out for a quick second, BIMISSING, first let’s put your problem in perspective.

You married to a man you love, you have a great sex life, and you’re getting off. You’re winning. And you’re not the only person with this… well, I don’t wanna call it a “problem,” BIMISSING, because for some people fantasiz-

ing during partnered sex—the kind of dipping out you describe—is a solution. Lots of people need to imagine a particular scenario and/or particular cast of characters to get themselves the point of “orgasmic inevitability,” to use one of my favorite phrases from the sex-research literature, and if entertaining go-to fantasies during partnered sex is the thing that gets them to that point, they shouldn’t hesitate to entertain those fantasies. In other words, BIMISSING, while I wanna offer you a fix, I don’t want you—or anyone like you—to think you’re broken. Or fucked up. Because you’re not.

Now, here’s the simple, easy, obvious fix—here’s the sex hack—that’ll keep you in the moment without derailing your orgasms: dirty talk.

A quick review of my tips for dirty talk beginners: tell ‘em what you’re gonna do (“I’m going to fuck the shit out of you”), tell ‘em what you’re doing (“I’m fucking the shit out of you”), tell ‘em what you did (“I fucked the shit out of you”). You can also ask someone what they’re gonna do, what they’re doing, and what they did.

Now, if you’re already doing that kind of dirty talk, BIMISSING, great. If you’re not, start.

Then, once you’ve mastered Gonna, Doing, Did (GDD) basics, you need to start mixing your basic GDD dirty talk together with dirty talk about your go-to fantasies.

But before you can do that, BIMISSING, you are gonna have to level with your husband about these fantasies and your reliance on them.

Telling your husband that you’ve always had to think about gay sex to get to the point of orgasmic inevitability—while emphasizing that

he makes your pussy wet, and you love having sex with him—is definitely a risk. He could have a bad reaction. If he has a problem with it, BIMISSING, tell him you’re like a woman who can’t come from vaginal intercourse alone, a.k.a., most women, only instead of needing to press a vibrator against your clit during intercourse to get off, you need to press a mental image of gay sex against your brain to get off.

So, yeah, your husband could have hurt feelings, and it could take some time to work through this. But think of the potential rewards!

Instead of leaving your husband behind when you start fantasizing about men fucking men and women fucking women, you’ll get to take him along! (And I don’t want to tell on straight guys here, but some of them really like hearing about two women fucking. Your husband could be one of those guys.)

“BIMISSING can be fully present in her body and feel the great pleasure of sex with her husband—and know that this is where her pleasure is coming from physically—while also be intentional about bringing this fantasy into her mind at

the same time,” said Dr. Lori Brotto, a clinical psychologist and a sex researcher at the University of British Columbia and the author of Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire. “And if BIMISSING can share her fantasy out loud, she’ll be able to hear herself sharing the details of this fantasy, which is an auditory trigger that will keep her rooted in the here-and-now even more and intensify the pleasure. If her husband responds with his own sounds of pleasure,” or

with fantasies of his own that build on yours, “that will further anchor BIMISSING in the present moment.”

Picture this, BIMISSING: You’re having hot straight sex with your hot straight husband. You start thinking about two hot fags or two hot dykes going at it. But now, instead of feeling guilty about these fantasies, you’ll be able to share them with your husband. And, yes, it’s a hard truth to share, BIMISSING, but for all you know your husband has some go-to fantasies of his own that he’d love to share—fantasies he may rely on when he needs a little help getting to the point of orgasmic inevitability. If you can successfully integrate your go-to fantasies (two women or two men fucking the shit out of each other) with your in-the-moment reality (your husband is fucking the shit out of you while you describe two women or two men fucking the shit out of each other), you won’t have to “dip out” to come.

P.S. I feel the exact same way—really like men, couldn’t live without men—and I’m not a lesbian either. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

There are no coincidences.

Follow Dr. Lori Brotto on Twitter @DrLoriBrotto. Dr. Brotto’s new book, Better Sex Through Mindfulness: The At-Home Guide, comes out soon.

This is my first time asking for your advice. I’m a gay man in his early fifties, a bit heavy, but people tell me I’m handsome. I haven’t gotten close to a man, let alone had sex with one, in many years. I decided to try some dating apps. In the past week I’ve had two hook-ups, both safe, but neither was successful. The first went south very quickly, the second went better with the other guy getting off. While I very much enjoyed the physical closeness, I couldn’t get hard either time.

I have no problems with that by itself. I tried relaxing and just getting into the experience, but I just couldn’t get aroused. Both guys were attractive, the second even more so, but I couldn’t get into it either time. Any thoughts on how I might be able to get past this block? I just feel like giving up on physical relationships for good.

My First Time Take the pressure off yourself and your dick by telling your next partner that you wanna focus on his dick, not yours. And be honest about why: “I’ve been out of action for a few years and I’m easing back in to sex and right now it’s working better for me to focus on getting the other guy off.” Then pop a Viagra, put on a cock ring, relax, and enjoy. If you wind up LEOWEEKLY.COM // FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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being able to get off with him, great. If you don’t but you liked the guy and he enjoyed being with you, suggest getting together again.

Then with those first-time-with-a-new-guy jitters out of the way, MFT, it’ll be easier to get out of your own way, get hard, and stay hard.

It’ll also help if you gave less weight to the one experience that went south quickly and more to the one that “went better.” Start rounding that second experience up to a success instead of down to a defeat, okay?

P.S. Heavier guys can be handsome, and some men strongly prefer heavier guys. So, believe

those guys who tell you they think you’re handsome. Because as a general rule, MFT, when someone who’s actively trying to get in your pants tells you they find you hot or think you’re handsome, they’re probably not lying. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan Savage on Twitter @ FakeDanSavage.

The Savage Lovecast, books, merch and more are all at www.savage.love.

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Endrew Stone Samantha Stone Unknown Heirs or Beneficiaries Unknown Owner(s) or Creditor(s) Year: 1986 Make: Liberty Model: Liberty VIN: Unknown Located at 7112 Green Oak Drive, Lot 97, in Green Acres Mobile Home Community Owner T Hobbs 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 VIN# 3d7ha18n12g203859 Diagnostics & Storage 3610. Contact & Sales Rick's COLLISION AND PAINT 5210 Cane Run Rd, LOUISVILLE Ky 40216. 502-553-8664 or 502-494-2262.

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