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EDITOR’S NOTE

REPUBLICANS’ BULLYING OF TRANSGENDER CHILDREN IS ROOTED IN THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS PERVERSION

By Erica Rucker | erucker@leoweekly.com IN UTAH, Republican Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed his state’s version of an anti-trans sports bill. He said, “Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.”

A similar bill was also vetoed by Eric Holcomb, Indiana’s Republican governor.

And yes, Andy Beshear did the same in Kentucky, but was quickly overrode by the Kentucky legislature, where the Republicans hold a supermajority in both chambers.

The same happened to Cox’s veto and is expected to happen to Holcomb’s veto.

These bills seek to ban transgender children from playing sports with their peers.

All three bills would ban trans girls and women from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams. This means that a transgender child would be restricted from kicking a soccer ball, throwing a baseball, running in a loop on the school track because Republicans are uncomfortable with what might or might not be happening in their underwear.

Why have Republicans chosen to target children? It certainly has nothing to do with saving money or preserving any strongly held value. What it is, is adults bullying children because of a sickly obsession about what is happening in the most private of spaces, and it is gross. Very.

Republicans have claimed that it is to preserve women’s sports. Sports that they

underfund and “women” that they don’t allow to control their own medical decisions. Sure... we believe you. We don’t. We don’t believe this bullshit.

Since the Republican party was infested with evangelical ideology and forgot the very roots of their party platform, it has gone on a crusade to attack marginalized groups including immigrants, People of Color, all members of the LGBTQ+ community, and right now the “attaques du jour” are against children, read that again, children who are transgender.

The fact of the matter is that Republicans are making decisions based on evangelical beliefs and the truth is that high religiosity and rampant sexual abuse are intertwined, so the fingers they are pointing at others, should be pointed in their own churches.

I’m enraged and protective because they are attacking children and I am a mother.

And, even though my child seems to fall into the cis gender category, some of my friends’ children do not and I will fight against this sort of intimidation and discrimination as if it were my own child.

Why are we allowing a minority to make decisions that align with the very behavior we’ve already deemed unacceptable, the behavior we tell our children to stand up against? Bullying is never OK, but Republicans have forgotten that because “values” for them are only lip service.

The modern Republican party in this

country, and particularly in states like Kentucky, are run by overtly white protestant groups of bruised egos and out-of-control Ids, meaning that these adults are displaying the very behavior that should have been lost in the natural process of maturity.

But to be sure, more at fault are the people who refuse to vote, and those who voted for these people to mistreat babies.

America has a bullying problem and now, more than ever, we’re allowing that behavior to become institutional mores.

Two things need to happen immediately, and the first is for American parents to demand that legislators focus on policy that helps people and to make the passing of bills that do harm an offense worthy of being voted out of office.

The American people and our government need to grow the fuck up.

The other thing that needs to happen immediately is counseling and emotional care for the babies being targeted in this sort of legislation. Children can’t understand what this all means and for them and it definitely will become something that could have major adverse consequences, including the loss of young lives. We can’t afford that.

“Four kids and only one of them playing girls’ sports,” said Gov. Cox. “That’s what this is all about. Four kids who aren’t dominating or winning trophies or taking

scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are part of something.”

In Kentucky, just before a similar piece of legislation was advanced by the Senate Education Committee back in February, Sen. Reginald Thomas, a Democrat from Lexington, asked the bill’s sponsor Sen. Robby Mills, a Republican from Henderson, if he was aware of any issues or disputes concerning transgender students and sports occurring in Kentucky. He said he couldn’t.

Last year, the Associated Press reached out to more than 20 lawmakers from across the U.S. who sponsored bills that would ban transgender girls from competing on girls’ sports teams, asking them to cite a single example of why their bill was needed. In almost every case, they couldn’t.

We know that kids’ participation in school and having strong peer connections can reduce the risk of suicide. This is true for all children but particular for those children in the transgender and gender nonconforming communities.

We can’t lose our kids. We can’t lose them because of the perverted policy decisions that we’ve given Republicans the opportunities to make. What we can do is protect the children and end some careers.

I mean, since we’re in the business of bedrooms and underwear… what skeletons are in the closets of Kentucky Republicans? •

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TITLE IX

TEACHING OUR SONS: LOCAL PARENTS INSTILLING LESSONS OF HEALTHY MASCULINITY

By James Wilkerson | leo@leoweekly.com

THE TERMS “toxic masculinity” and “healthy masculinity” are in reference to a set of behaviors that any man can exhibit on any given day. Through the Behaviorist Approach, we learn that all behavior is learned.

As such, if we are to foster an environment where healthy masculinity is our factory setting, these lessons must be taught to young boys in their formative years. As we continue to observe Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we take a look at several Louisville parents who are teaching their sons healthy masculinity practices.

helpful coping mechanisms to handle your anger,” says Sean. “Our goal is to teach our son that there is nothing wrong with feelings and it’s okay to be angry or sad.

You just need to take a moment to process and talk.”

NICK

Nick is a bank teller at Republic Bank and an Indiana State Senate hopeful. He and his wife Melonie are parents to Sebastian, their four-year-old Battle Bot engineer. For Nick, respect is a lesson that was instilled in him as a child growing up in the foster system. It is also a lesson he vigorously CHANELLE & SEAN teaches his own son. “In the foster environChanelle is a Kentucky Senate employee ment, I was able to learn that being respectand her husband Sean works as an accounful and polite can go a pretty long way,” tant. Their son Victor is an 8-year-old Tae says Nick. “I strive Kwon Do and anime to teach Sebastian enthusiast. Chanelle Through the that very lesson.” says she and Sean work hard to break Behaviorist Approach, Another lesson Nick adds to Sebastian’s the toxic masculinity healthy masculinbarriers that Chanelle we learn that all ity curriculum is herself experienced behavior is learned. not using your size, growing up with strength or power to her own father. “My As such, if we are to get what you want father was a stern foster an environment from others, a lesson believer that ‘real that the therapists at men’ don’t show where healthy masTalkspace highlight emotion,” she says.

“We try our best to culinity is our factory as a cornerstone for healthy masculinity. break that stigma and setting, these lessons “Living in the frat teach our son that it house, I learned that is okay to be sad and must be taught to you don’t have to be that you are not lessaggressive to earn than for experiencing young boys in their respect,” Nick says. those emotions.” formative years.

“I work to teach my Sean and Chanelle son that it is alright to also realize they are talk in a calm manner fighting against a tide and that you don’t have to be forceful.” when it comes to utilizing therapy as a tool Another layer of respect Nick teaches of healing. The American Psychological young Sebastian is the art of the apology.

Association states that only 26.4% of Black “Owning up to our mistakes and taking men ages 18 to 44 who experience mental accountability is big in our house,” Nick health challenges actually seek treatment, citing structural racism and the unique Black says. “I teach Sebastian that our mistakes don’t define us, nor does apologizing when American experience as roadblocks. As you are wrong make you any less of a man. such, Sean and Chanelle prioritize breaking Instead, it is an admission that we all still down this wall to mental health with Victor. have room to grow.”

“It is important for us to teach him that therapy is okay and that you can learn many

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James J. Wilkerson.

LINDSEY

Lindsey is a coordinator at a mentor program for children in the foster care system. Her son Mason is a bright 8-yearold bookworm who loves a good game of Minecraft. At Lindsey’s house, consent and boundaries are paramount lessons for Mason’s development. “If you start to build right now, then boundaries and consent will be normalized by the time he is older,” says Lindsey. Mason loves to show affection for his friends through hugging, something that Lindsey encourages, only after permission is given. “I love that he is such an affectionate kid,” she says. “I just teach him not everyone likes being hugged and to get in the habit of asking before he does it.”

Early childhood experts like those at Healthline recommend starting consent

lessons by teaching children the correct vocabulary for body parts early. Lindsey says she adopts this approach with Mason to tear down the taboos that surround sex in hopes of important conversations later in life. And while some may struggle teaching consent to younger children, Lindsey emphasizes that teaching this lesson doesn’t have to be difficult. “It doesn’t have to be a super in-depth conversation nor is it ever too early to start teaching our sons these valuable lessons that will grow them into great men,” says Lindsey. “If we aren’t teaching them, then who is?” • 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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THE NEWLY FORMED LOUISVILLE TENANTS UNION ON HOUSING RIGHTS, PROGRESS AND THEIR GOALS

By Louisville Tenants Union | leo@leoweekly.com WITH THE CITY’S political and ownership classes tightly transfixed upon the spectacle of a contested mayoral primary, a group of poor and working class Louisville tenants are already taking power back from them.

The formation of the Louisville Tenants Union last month represents, in part, a local wave in the broader sea change in class relations sweeping the country: The zeitgeist of unionization — from the victorious Amazon Labor Union in New York to the brave Heine Brothers baristas demanding a fair share of the fruits of their labor — is occurring at a moment in American life where those disenfranchised by decades of neoliberal austerity and its accompanying political theater have said, collectively, ”Enough.”

Similarly, tenants unions across the United States are seeing victories in all arenas, from rent control policies to eviction prevention, achieved by direct action and legislative pressuring; and we’re the new kids on the block.

For our first campaign, we voted to target CT Group, a private company contracted by the Louisville Metro Housing Authority to (attempt to) manage several public housing sites in Louisville, including the HOPE VIcreated Sheppard Square and Liberty Green.

We had initially sought to pursue other goals immediately after our formation (elements of a tenants’ bill of rights, for example), but the abuse and neglect perpetrated upon several of our members by CT Group — under the aegis of the LMHA, mind you — forced our hand in solidarity.

Scared by the sight of organized tenants, the city quickly tried to placate us with a small treat: Earlier this month, it was announced that the CT Group will stop managing 185 of its current city units on June 30. Plus, one of our union sisters was rehoused.

But as Malcom X said, “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress.”

Two weeks ago, we met with LMHA Executive Director Lisa Osanka in a Zoom call to implore her to cancel the entire contract with this slumlord. To our disappointment, Osanka gaslit our members traumatized by the horrific living conditions allowed to fester in these supposed “public housing” redevelopments, even feigning ignorance of the material complaints filed

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A recent Louisville Tenants Union meeting. | PHOTO PROVIDED.

with her own agency over the course of several years.

Lisa claimed that the city doesn’t have the power to end those contracts, but that the private investors of these “public” housing buildings do — a stunning admission by a powerful bureaucratic official representing a so-called democratic government.

Let us be clear: We don’t hate Osanka.

We don’t consider her our enemy, even.

But we do want her to feel a fraction of the discomfort that our brothers and sisters feel everytime their broken floorboards kick up strange dust and mold, or their building’s security doors stop working, or are generally treated like criminals in their own homes.

We hope that those who know Lisa can convince her to stand with marginalized residents in her charge, and to use her power to end this terrible contract with CT Group so that our members and countless other residents can live in safety and with dignity — just as all people everywhere should.

We also wish to stress to the public that the LTU isn’t a liberal protest movement, nor do we consider ourselves activists in the traditional sense. As such, we derive our power not from the state nor from individuals, but from the relationships we build and maintain with each other.

We are a disciplined, autonomous union dedicated to prolonged struggle against the forces of capital which dictate our public housing policy, our living conditions, our quality of life and our relations to each other.

We are a multi-generational, multi-racial, tenant-led organization dedicated to protecting and fighting alongside poor and working class tenants, and whose mission is to create housing for every tenant in Louisville that is safe, decent and permanently affordable.

We believe that housing is a human right, not a commodity.

We fight for an end to all evictions, and for community control of housing through the building of tenant power, whether you’re

a traditional renter or a mortgage-paying “bank tenant” chasing an increasingly inflated white picket fence.

What we are learning from this struggle, right out of the gate, is amazing: After being told our entire lives that real change happens at the ballot box, our early success and the string of union victories blazing across the country have proven that there are other, more democratic methods of making our corners of the world a better place.

But this is only possible when we come together and organize, because no one else is going to do it for us.

If you or someone you know is having trouble with their landlord, or you want to help organize and empower tenants into a vanguard capable of changing their material conditions for the better, please contact us at 502-438-9048, email us at loutenantsunion@gmail.com, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. •

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THE MIDWESTERNIST

HORSE RACING IS DECADENT AND DEPRAVED

By Dan Canon | leo@leoweekly.com

I’VE NEVER been to the Derby. I went to the track once a decade ago, but only as part of an elaborate, extended mating ritual. It served its purpose: I eventually married and sired offspring with my date. But I don’t think I’ll ever go again.

A couple of years before my successful bid to find a breeding partner, a filly named Eight Belles was euthanized just after finishing second in the Derby. Generations of Mendelian tinkering had made her leg bones so thin that they snapped an eighth of a mile from the finish line. She couldn’t be moved from where she fell. Horse ambulances and horse trailers pulled up so horse doctors could administer horse poison. No longer visible to the barrels of higher primates stumbling to ticket windows and limousines, the great black beast heaved, sighed and finally expired right there on the track.

Eight Belles was mourned more bitterly and more extravagantly than most humans. Her trainer said in a documentary that he believed “the good Lord has a plan for all things,” but he couldn’t understand this one, and that the filly’s death left him with a “hole in his heart.” An Oaks Day race is named after her. There is a sleek Gallopalooza statue of her in her idealized form, mercury mane in a headwind, ebony legs perfectly intact. She is conspicuously buried at the Kentucky Derby Museum.

We are approaching 14 Derbys from the death of Eight Belles, and the horse racing industry continues without apparent revision or shame. Hundreds of thoroughbreds still suffer injuries on tracks every year. Most of them have to be killed right then and there because their legs are like toothpicks propping up a deluxe Christmas ham. Once those legs break, they’ll get broken again and again every time they are used. The vast majority of those horses don’t end up in museums, and a number of those who survive their racing days end up as food; thousands per year are sold for slaughter.

On the whole, though, racehorses have it far better than most domesticated creatures. Millions of unwanted baby chickens are fed alive into meat grinders just after birth.

Factory-farmed birds who manage to make it to adulthood are too grotesquely large to move; they can only sit and wait to be mashed into sandwiches. Pigs, who are much smarter than dogs and cats, have their tails, testicles, teeth and other stray parts removed so they can be crammed into closer quarters. Cows frantically search for their babies, bellowing in grief long after calves have been converted into veal.

Sorry to be such a downer. You see why I can’t go to the Derby. This time of year makes me into the quintessential killjoy, a role I relish, loathe and relish loathing. Listen: Eat what you want, I’m not here to judge. I, too, enjoy the occasional fried flesh nugget because I am a product of a culture that has convinced itself it is entitled to take every liberty with every non-human entity on the planet. But some moral bargains must be struck, and I’m just not sure that two minutes of watching beautiful, confused hulks get whipped to run in a circle as fast as they can is worth the price. We

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can still dress up in pastels and collapse under the weight of our enormous hats and drink cocktails with leaves hanging out of them. We can still dump megatons of munitions into the Ohio River and pretend like warplanes are attacking us.

We can still roll in the mud and fight with broken whiskey bottles and drench each other in vomit and copulate in the infield. We can do all this without creating 20,000 new lives each year for us to exploit and discard.

In this pre-civil war era, most readers will recognize the gravity of dehumanizing language.

History shows that comparing groups of people to rats or cockroaches is the precursor to some Very Bad Shit. When a former president referred to some immigrants as “animals,” pundits rightly sat up and took notice. “It took an animal,” explained the former press secretary, “to stab a man a hundred times and decapitate him and rip his heart out,” so chill out liberal media, these are real animals we’re talking about.

The implication is that once something is less than human, we have license to treat it however we might like: We may kill it for the sake of convenience, we may dismember it just for fun, we may cage it, burn it, stomp on it, eat it, whatever.

It is, therefore, a mortal sin to downgrade the biological status of any human being. But I wonder if it might be worth examining the other side of the equation, too, viz. Can’t we think a little kindlier of all the creeping things that creepeth upon the earth? Horses, for example, can read facial expressions and other emotional cues. They nuzzle and protect their young, and they mourn lost companions. They will not stab you a hundred times, or decapitate you, or rip your heart out, or murder your family with machetes, or bomb your hospitals, or put you in death camps. No animal is capable of such atrocities (with one notable

exception). Perhaps we owe them more dignity than making them run for our drunken pleasure until their limbs snap in half.

That Gandhi quote, the one about judging a society by how it treats its animals? It’s bullshit. Gandhi never said it.

No one takes it seriously, so I suppose it doesn’t matter. But I suspect there is an as-yet-unknown cost for the millennia of harsh dominion we’ve exercised over the beasts of the sea, air and land, the methodical mutilation of flora and fauna, the bleaching of all the green things, the demolition of entire ecosystems and the top-speed ruining of muscular marvels just for the hell of it. Our species has long bet that we are entitled to an unlimited number of such abuses, and that we would never have to pay for any of them. I bet we’re wrong. • Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer and law professor. His book “Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class” is available wherever you get your books.

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NO INTERNAL INVESTIGATION NEARLY 2 YEARS AFTER LOUISVILLE POLICE OFFICER SHOT PEPPER BALLS AT REPORTER

By Josh Wood | jwood@leoweekly.com

ON MAY 29, 2020, Louisville was experiencing its second night of mass protests over the police killing of Breonna Taylor when a Louisville Metro Police Department officer fired pepper balls at a WAVE 3 news crew as they were live on air.

The dramatic footage of the incident — which clearly showed a riot gear-clad officer approach the journalists, aim his weapon and open fire — quickly went viral online. The episode was held up alongside the arrest of a CNN reporter live on air in Minneapolis that morning as a cut and dry example of police openly violating the basic tenets of press freedom as unrest spread across the United States.

LMPD immediately said that the incident would be investigated and that any disciplinary action deemed necessary would be taken. That night, an LMPD spokesperson apologized for the incident and said that the video appeared to show members

THORNS & ROSES THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD THORN: PEOPLE ARE NOT GARBAGE In Louisville, houseless people are treated like trash.

Literally. When asked by LEO about Metro311’s homeless encampment reporting system, which is displayed prominently on their department’s landing page, a spokesperson for the department compared the public complaining about a homeless encampment to calling about a missed trash pickup or a dead animal. P.S. If you’re calling Metro311 on the houseless, you’re garbage, not the people in the camp.

THORN: TRUMPED UP PRICES Trump is putting the decadent and depraved back into the Derby with his planned visit. Decadent, in that tickets to his Kentucky Derby fundraiser are $75,000 per person. Depraved because, well, it’s Trump.

LMPD officer Dusten Dean fired pepper balls at a WAVE 3 news crew while on camera. | PHOTO: WAVE.

of the media being “singled out.”

Asked about the incident in a Metro Council committee meeting later in the year, LMPD’s then chief said it was under investigation for policy violations.

But nearly two years after WAVE 3 News reporter Kaitlin Rust and cameraman James Dobson were struck by pepper balls, LMPD has informed LEO Weekly that it has yet to begin its internal investigation for potential breaches of policy. Such an investigation, carried out by the department’s Professional Standards Unit, is necessary before any disciplinary policy violation charges can be brought against the officer by the LMPD. Instead, LMPD told LEO that the department is waiting for the Federal Bureau of Investigations to wrap up its own investigation of the incident, which could potentially lead to federal charges and prison time for Dusten Dean, the officer who fired

the pepper balls. In the interim, Dean remains employed by LMPD on administrative reassignment.

“The investigation has not yet begun as PSU is waiting for the FBI to conclude its investigation and provide PSU with any files that PSU can use for its investigation,” read part of a response to an open records request that the mayor’s office attributed to Sgt. Anthony Wilder, a member of LMPD’s Public Integrity Unit, which is tasked with conducting criminal investigations of department members.

Peter Kraska, a criminology professor at Eastern Kentucky University, said the delay is troubling.

“From what I saw in the video, it’s hard to imagine any legitimate reason for this long of a delay in investigating this,” he said. “Regardless of if there are legitimate reasons, possibly, the appearance of foot dragging and lack of accountability is inevitable with these kinds of

THORN: IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO? After weeks of fighting off criticism that they couldn’t produce any testimony from cis female athletes in Kentucky who had been unfairly slighted by trans athletes, Kentucky Republicans produced their example: A UK swimmer who told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that she tied with a trans competitor for fifth place. Where is the discrimination, you ask? Gaines said she was not given the fifth place trophy to pose with. Instead, she was given a sixth place trophy to hold, while her opponent received the fifth place trophy. Gaines was told she’d be given the proper trophy in the mail. In an alternate universe, Tucker is airing a segment on how crying over “participation awards” is contributing to the ruin of America.

ABSURD: A BIG BUC-EEING DEAL… APPARENTLY Louisville freaked out over the opening of a popular Texas gas station chain in Kentucky. So, what else is new? Except this “travel center,” called Buc-ee’s is located an hour and a half away in Richmond, and there are no plans to open another one any closer.

ABSURD: COOK OUT FREAKOUT Speaking of Louisville losing its mind over chains, the city was salivating over a morsel of a chance to lure a Cook Out to the area. The Southern fast food chain posted to Twitter last week asking the public where it would like to see a new store, and one of the options was Derby City, alongside Baltimore, Pensacola, Alabama and Pigeon Forge. Not that we have much stake in this argument, but on principle, we would be offended if Baltimore got a Cook Out before Louisville.

Whether Louisville is in the South is debatable, but we definitely say y’all more than they do in New England.

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delays. And I think sometimes — and I’m that can be seen in the video, Dean is the not sure it’s the case in this situation — only one who appears to be reacting to but sometimes it’s a matter of the longer the presence of the news crew. you wait it out, the less people are going “I am disappointed that they’re not to care.” looking into it, but I’m not surprised either,” said Dobson, who kept his At times, when LMPD officers camera trained on Dean while under fire have been under both FBI and internal and was hit several times. “I think that investigations, LMPD appears to have it was terrible what happened, but any conducted parallel investigations. In the reporter on the ground saw a number of case of some of the officers involved in violations to protesters every night.” the March 2020 raid on Breonna Taylor’s Dobson, who said he was wearing a apartment, for example, disciplinary protective Kevlar vest that night, said action was taken as the result of internal one of the pepper balls struck him in the investigations even as federal investigacollar bone, severing nerves leading to tions into Taylor’s death continued. his left arm. As a result, he said, he lost In response a list of questions sent by feeling in his fingertips and had tingling LEO — including questions about why and a loss of sensation in that arm for this case was handled differently — an months.

LMPD spokesperson issued a brief Rust, who said she was hit once, statement saying: “Determinations on said it felt like time was moving in slow the course of investigations related to motion as she watched Dobson get hit. employees are made on a case by case “Repeatedly, I just watched the pepper basis. Officer Dusten Dean remains on balls explode up his legs, up his torso, administrative reassignment.” his chest and eventually ending right in The two former WAVE 3 employees the camera lens by who were hit say his eye. He got hit they were never Over the course multiple times,” she contacted by LMPD of 2020, LMPD said. to give a statement Both Rust and about the incident. repeatedly said that Dobson have since “I would have assumed that the that incident and other left Louisville. Rust is now working for PSU investigation potential misuses of a TV station in New would have been Louisiana complete by now,” pepper balls must be Orleans, and Dobson took a said Rust, who was job with a Missoula, live on the air with investigated.

Montana station. anchors in the newsDean is one of room as she and several LMPD officers who has been fedDobson, the camera operator, came under erally investigated for their actions during attack. “I don’t see how a federal invesLouisville’s protests. tigation into civil rights violations would In announcing the firing of former prevent them from doing that because this LMPD officer Cory Evans, who plead is a policy violation that there is video guilty in federal court of hitting a kneelof the incident. I don’t see what they ing, surrendering protester in the back would need from a federal agency what of the head with a baton, the police they wouldn’t be able to tell themselves department told local media outlets last through looking at the video and talking year that they had “stayed” their investo all the parties involved.” tigation “in deference” to the federal While they were never contacted investigation.

by LMPD, Dobson said the pair did an However, Evans’ case still began as a interview with the FBI on June 8, 2020, a PSU investigation, with the protester who little more than a week after the incident. was hit, Marty Chester, giving statements In video footage from the incident, to LMPD investigators. It also yielded Dean can be seen walking away from disciplinary action and federal charges in a line of police officers and heading a little over a year’s time. towards the journalists with his pepper In March, LMPD officer Katie Crews ball gun raised before opening fire. “I’m was federally indicted over firing a getting shot!” exclaimed Rust. At one pepper ball gun in Louisville’s West point, Dean pauses and appears to make End in the moments leading up to the adjustments to his weapon before again high-profile killing of BBQ chef David taking aim and firing more. Of officers

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McAtee. After the federal charges were announced, LMPD said Crews had been fired from the department the month before. Documents obtained via an open records request showed that Crews had been terminated from the department over social media posts she had made as well as her actions on the night McAtee was killed.

In a statement to LEO, Tim Beam, a spokesperson for FBI’s Louisville field office said the agency does not get involved in LMPD’s administrative investigations and added that they could not comment on the timeline of the agency’s investigation into Dean, the officer who fired pepper balls at the WAVE 3 crew.

Over the course of 2020, LMPD repeatedly said that that incident and other potential misuses of pepper balls must be investigated.

“If we inappropriately used pepper balls, then whoever does that needs to be subject to discipline for it. In my mind there’s no ambiguity about that,” said Lt. Col. Josh Judah in a Sept. 6 Metro Council committee meeting when asked about reporters who said they had been targeted with pepper balls. He added: “We don’t condone, we don’t train, we don’t allow our officers to walk around looking for targets to pepper ball. If there are specific allegations of misconduct, those need to be investigated.”

At a Sept. 28, 2020 Metro Council committee meeting, Metro Council President David James asked then-chief Robert Schroeder if there was an internal investigation for policy violations related to the targeting of the WAVE 3 crew.

“There is an ongoing investigation into that for policy violations, and I know there was a criminal investigation going into that,” said Schroeder.

Speaking at a virtual press conference on May 29 soon after the pepper balls were fired at Rust and Dobson, LMPD spokesperson Jessie Halladay said: “I want to apologize, as obviously, um, not something that should have occurred in terms of if she was singled out as a reporter. And that obviously is what the video looks like occurred.”

At the time, Halladay said they had not determined whether the officer was with LMPD or Metro Corrections, but said that the department would “get to the bottom” of what happened and take disciplinary measures if warranted.

At the time that Dean fired at the WAVE 3 crew, LMPD policy was that

pepper balls and other chemical agents were permitted to be used when “the officer reasonably believes that a degree of force is necessary to overcome actual, or anticipated, resistance by the suspect.”

However, when using pepper balls, “the head, neck, and face should be avoided, unless exigent circumstances exist.”

LMPD’s policy on pepper balls was later updated to say that when used to move “disorderly or unlawful crowds” they should be aimed either above the crowd or at the ground. The new policy says officers should not aim at the body of an individual “unless the individual is presenting a safety threat to the officer or another person, or is engaged in arson or serious property damage.”

The sometimes glacial speed of LMPD’s internal investigations is something that Chief Erika Shields was openly critical about when she arrived in Louisville last year.

Speaking at a meeting of the Louisville Forum, Shields said she arrived to a backlog of slow-moving internal affairs investigations and was shocked at the department’s lack of a disciplinary matrix governing how misconduct cases are handled.

“When I came in here, there’s 70 — seven, zero — internal affairs files backed up in the chief’s desk. I’m not doing that,” she said.

Shields, who earned a reputation as a disciplinarian when she was chief of Atlanta’s police force, added that LMPD’s investigations “have to move at a faster clip, we owe it to the public.”

LMPD did not respond to questions about whether the department had instituted a disciplinary matrix or taken other reforms to address its internal investigations process.

Kraska, the Eastern Kentucky University professor, said that by taking so long to investigate cases of alleged officer misconduct during the 2020 Breonna Taylor protests, “there’s a head nod to the line personnel that are going to be handling the next social unrest situation that maybe a few bad apples did a few things, but overall, the really aggressive approach that we took was approved of and not much has happened.”

He added: “Not only is there no deterrent effect, but I think there’s also a message of ‘This is okay.’” •

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Messier, named for hockey star Mark Messier, is a “refugee” from the barn of suspended trainer Bob Baffert, now handled by Tim Yakteen. John Velazquez rides. | PHOTO © BENOIT PHOTO.

AN EARLY LOOK AT THE FIELD OF

THE 2022 KENTUCKY DERBY

By Bill Doolittle | leo@leoweekly.com AFTER a string of cockeyed Kentucky Derbys that ranged wildly out of the norm — with an empty grandstand one year because of the pandemic, a Derby run in September, the wettest Derby Day in history another year and two disqualifications that roiled the thoroughbred racing world, it looks like (keep your fingers crossed) the coming 148th Run for the Roses might finally be coming up roses.

The way it should be.

Certainly everyone is ready to get out and have fun, and ready for a special spring day on the first Saturday in May.

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Been cooped up too long. Lemme have one of those mint juleps.

And if it comes up a wing-ding Kentucky Derby race, that’ll be even better.

The good news is the Derby horses might be as ready for the Derby as Derby people.

It looks like a sharp field of 3-year-old thoroughbreds is set to contest the 2022 Kentucky Derby.

Not merely the survivors of the annual Derby prep points race that determines the field, but succeeders, who’ve looked

good winning and running second in the traditional races leading to the Kentucky Derby. That’s not to say this bunch is the best field in years. Or there’s a Barbaro or American Pharoah among them. There’s no riveting rivalry like Affirmed and Alydar. But how many Derbys have that?

But we do think it’s a Cracker Jack field, competitionwise. Plenty of contenders to handicap, and all the picks ridden by top jockeys.

Interestingly, as many as six different trainers will start two horses in the Derby, and there’s one trainer with three.

Zandon picked up plenty of dirt charging from last to first to capture Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland.

That’s jockey Flavien Prat, with happy owner Jeff Drown. | PHOTO BY KEENELAND PHOTO.

Which means the top stables, with the most vaunted prospects, have had the most success in the races leading to the Kentucky Derby. The names are familiar: Todd Pletcher, Steve Asmussen, Chad Brown, Kenny McPeek, Brad Cox — he’s the one with three. Bob Baffert, who is suspended, transferred his two top prospects to trainer Tim Yakteen so they would be eligible for the Triple Crown.

To this handicapper, it means the talent is concentrated. And there will be action.

Most folks, when asked about last year’s 2021 Kentucky Derby will remember it for the disqualification of the winner.

What I will remember, as well, is how uncompetitive a race it was. The horses that finished 1-2-3-4 huffed along in that order all the way down the homestretch — none of them good enough to pass the one in front of it.

This won’t be like that. These horses are better.

Broadly speaking, I look for the race to revolve around Epicenter, the likely betting favorite. Epicenter is a Type-A personality, a front-end powerhouse who will come out of the gate looking for the lead.

Or at least to be near it. He’s piloted by Joel Rosario, the Eclipse Award-winning champion jockey of 2021, so if Epicenter is willing to “rate” a little, Rosario might be able to sit just behind some speed horses and wait for the moment to go.

But it might not be all that easy for Epicenter. We see Zandon, the Blue Grass Stakes winner, as a major challenger, coming from off the pace. His rider is Flavien Prat, who has a knack for being in the right place in a race. In the Blue Grass, Zandon was near the back. Coming to the far turn he was last for a stride or two as Prat let some others go wide. The horse was ready to go, and Prat found just the right path — inside horses, between horses, then outside to arrive at the stretch in position to step on it. Kind of like a turf horse does, sprinting down the stretch to victory. He’s a handy horse, though not distance bred.

Messier did not win the Santa Anita Derby. Stablemate Taiba ran by him in the stretch. But we doubt Taiba, who made his first start Mar. 6, and has only run twice, will be up for a mile-and-a-quarter in the Kentucky Derby. But Messier might be.

Named for the hockey star, Messier hails from the Raise a Native sire line that has led the Derby for decades. Since this is originally a Baffert horse, some fans mad at Baffert might not wish to back Messier. One understands the sentiment, but the horse knows nothing about it. John LEOWEEKLY.COM // APRIL 27, 2022

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Smile Happy won the Kentucky Jockey Velazquez rides.

I thought the Wood Memorial Stakes, in Club Stakes at Churchill Downs last fall, so you know he likes the track, and has some New York, was the most impressive prep race. For one thing, it was the fastest 1 1/8 chest on him. He was second to Epicenter in mile prep, and it usually is one of the slowNew Orleans and second to Zandon in the est. The final quarter mile was also the fastBlue Grass, at Keeneland. Which pleased est of all the preps. In the race, Early Voting trainer Kenny McPeek, who says he’s led to the final strides when Mo Donegal planned all along for Smile Happy to be at got up to nip him. I thought Early Voting his peak in his third start of the season — on “needed” the condithe first Saturday tioning of the race in May. Promising Cyberknife won the and would improve. pedigree.

Plus he’s got a terrific Cyberknife won Arkansas Derby, and name. I mail in a few the Arkansas Derby, looked like an improv- and looked like an ballots every time I think about him. But horse, as ing horse, as well. But improving he may not start in well. But I’m kind of the Kentucky Derby.

I’m kind of not on the not on the bandwagon Mo Donegal looked for him as much bandwagon for him as as another horse in especially sharp coming on to win.

Brad Smith’s much as another horse trainer Could be my No. 1 barn named Zozos. pick, but I am leery in trainer Brad Smith’s The horse is named of his pedigree to get for a restaurant somebarn named Zozos. the Derby distance. where down in the Of course, I’m leery Caribbean — which The horse is named over most pedigrees we could visit if he these days. for a restaurant some- wins. Maybe 30-1.

Finally, there That’s my top where down in the is Crown Pride. A four: Epicenter, Early of 1989 Voting, Mo Donegal, Caribbean — which we grandson Messier. They’ll be Derby winner Sunday popular with readers, could visit if he wins. Silence, bred in too. I’ll pick one (or Japan. Crown Pride another) after seeing took the long way to how they train over the Ancient Downs Louisville. Rather than hopping east over the coming to the Derby.

Pacific, he followed the sun west to pick off After that, the top suspects include White the UAE Derby in Dubai, picking up enough Abarrio, the Florida Derby winner, who is a qualifying points (and plenty of money) to whiter shade of gray. One commentator said, fly on to Louisville. He’s been here train“I love the way this horse just scoots over ing quietly for several weeks. French rider the track.” He’s light-footed, that’s for sure.

Christophe Lemaire flies in to ride.

But he’s only raced in Florida.

Of the rest, we should mention SimplifiCharge It was a stretch-running second to cation and Tawny Port, because … well, I’m White Abarrio in the Florida Derby. Charge not sure why. But either would serve well It is kind of a cool name, harkening back to filling out a five-figure trifecta.

1985 Derby winner Spend a Buck.

Hope we get it right.

Good luck! • Smile Happy is an interesting horse, owned by the Mackin family of Louisville.

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[Editor’s Note: This story was reported in early 2020 for Louisville Magazine’s Derby issue. However, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, that issue never ran and the story got lost in the wind. It is being published by LEO Weekly with Louisville Magazine’s blessing. Minor updates regarding time references have been made. Chandler tells LEO his glass collection remains the same and that he is still missing the four rarest Derby glasses.]

WHEN Mike Chandler’s father-in-law dragged him to an estate sale at a wealthy Highlands residence in 1990, he wasn’t planning on buying anything. But then he saw it: a mint julep glass from the 75th running of the Kentucky Derby in 1949. The glass depicted Matt Winn, the president

Mike Chandler in front of his collection of Kentucky Derby glasses. | ALL PHOTOS BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

By Josh Wood | jwood@leoweekly.com of Churchill Downs at the time of the anniversary, who had attended every single Derby. “He has seen them all” was written in green letters under Winn’s picture. Chandler knew he had to have it.

“I saw that glass, and it just caught my eye,” says Chandler, who has rarely missed a Derby since attending his first as a 16-year-old with a $3 infield ticket in 1971. “It spoke to me.”

Chandler was hooked. After his first purchase, he started hitting antique stores and yard sales looking for more glasses. He started doing research on them and bought books that listed their values so he’d know which ones to go after.

Three decades and about $10,000 later, he has a formidable collection of early Kentucky Derby mint julep glasses,

missing only the four rarest (and most expensive) ones from the 1930s and ‘40s. In the corner of the TV room where he watches football and horse racing in his Cherokee Gardens home, dozens are kept in a display case with the oldest and most prized glasses on the top shelf, right under a set of lights. Chandler has more in four or five boxes in the attic, but he doesn’t display anything from the last 45 years as those are too common.

“Once you go above 1975, they’re worth about $4 or $5 dollars each. I can go online and get them like this,” he says, snapping his fingers.

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bulk purchases of more recent glasses he’d use to hold mint juleps at Derby parties he’d host on the rare occasions that he wasn’t able to make it home to Louisville for Derby over the decades he was living in the Philadelphia area.

“I had a recipe I got from Churchill Downs,” he says. “It was elaborate. You’d have to chill the sugar syrup and the mint overnight and then serve them the next day.”

But while Chandler was dedicated to giving his guests an authentic mint julep, his own love of the glasses never extended to the boozy beverage.

“I’m not a big julep fan,” he says. “What I would do is, I’d take that crushed mint and sugar water and throw it away and just drink the bourbon.”

Still, for tradition’s sake, he usually gets one at Derby.

After Chandler retired and moved home to Louisville several years ago, his collection made it onto his resume when he applied for a job as a tour guide at the Kentucky Derby Museum. He listed the collection right in the middle, under experience.

“I think they are a huge part of the history of the Derby,” he says. “It’s just a huge symbol of the Derby itself.”

The Derby glass first appeared in 1938, conceptualized

by Harry M. Stevens, the British-born food concessionaire who is credited with creating and marketing the hot dog (which he originally called dachshund dogs, but that’s another story). The glasses were, of course, another way to squeeze money out of spectators and give fans something to commemorate their visit with. But they addressed a very real problem the track was facing: people were stealing water glasses from Churchill Downs to bring home as souvenirs.

The early years of the Derby glasses were turbulent, going through a number of different permutations before settling on a shape, size and material.

The earliest julep glass Chandler has is an aluminum tumbler from 1940, which was produced alongside a glass glass that year. After buying it in an online auction, he noticed that it must have been used as a flower vase by a previous owner as the vessel had a water mark inside of it.

Thankfully, it scrubbed off easily enough.

He’s missing glasses from 1938, 1939, one of the 1940 glasses as well as a cup made of an early plastic that was used between 1941 and 1944 due to wartime supply shortages.

Chandler’s favorite glass in his collection is a 1945 shot glass that was sold only at Churchill Downs cigar stands.

It was one of three different Derby glasses made for the 1945 Derby and also represents a Derby that almost didn’t happen; horse racing was banned by the federal government in early 1945 due to strains caused by World War II. That ban was lifted after Nazi Germany surrendered in May and Derby organizers hustled to hold a race in June.

“If Germany hadn’t surrendered, there wouldn’t have been a Derby,” says Chandler.

In the 1950s, Derby glasses started taking on a more familiar and uniform look, listing previous winners on the back and looking more like the glasses you see for sale at Kroger every year.

But listing winners would lead to chaos following Dancer’s Image’s post-race disqualification in the 1968 Derby and the subsequent years of legal battles. In 1969, no winner was listed — and for several years to follow, there

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Chandler bought his first Derby glass in 1990. Since, he has spent around $10,000 on his collection.

were asterisks and notes about the winner being disputed.

“It’s those kinds of little details that make these glasses special and drive up prices,” says Jessica Whitehead, curator of collections at the Kentucky Derby Museum, as she uses gloves to pick up some of the rarest glasses in her office below the museum’s exhibits. “And for us, the historic value of these, because they record something bigger than just the design that was chosen to be featured that year.”

The rarest glasses can be hard to obtain, even for those actively seeking them out.

“You know, I always thought I was going to walk into a garage sale and stumble across a great one at a low price. That’s never happened,” says Chandler. “I’m sure it’s happened to other people who must be luckier than me.

But most people are smart: they know they’re worth something.”

Without much luck at garage sales, much of Chandler’s collection comes from pricier estate sales and online auctions where, like in the Derby, the action comes in the last minute and can often be fiercely competitive. Online auctions can be expensive, but you can find what you’re looking for. Often, Chandler would try to make his major glass purchases when the racing gods had padded his wallet.

“If I had a real good day at the track bettingwise I’d usually buy one soon thereafter,” he says.

A friend of a friend once offered to sell him

a complete set of Derby glasses for $22,000 — a fair price, Chandler says — but he decided he wanted to build his collection one by one.

The rarest glasses can cost thousands of dollars.

Chandler came close to buying one of the World War II-era cups one time during an eBay auction, bidding $1,800 before asking the seller to show him the other side of the glass. When a photo arrived showing a crack in its backside, he withdrew.

He’s only had one glass break in his care — a few years ago when his grandson was reaching up into the display case and knocked one from the 1960s over. He says it was probably worth about $100, so he replaced it pretty quickly.

It’s been some years since he’s last purchased a glass, but Chandler hopes to acquire the ones he’s still missing. The next one in his sights is the plastic World War II-era cup. He’ll probably buy it online, but he’s still holding out hope he’ll find one in the wild one day.

“That’s the one I think I’m going to walk into someone’s yard sale one day and see it,” he says. •

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STAFF PICKS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27

Waterfront Wednesday

SATURDAY, APRIL 30-MAY 1

Cherokee Triangle Art Fair

WIllow Park | 1402 Willow Ave. | cherokeetriangle.com/art-fair | Free | 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of this family-friendly event. With more than 200 artists and artisan booths, local food, beer and wine and live performances by NerART vous Melvin & the Mistakes, Appalatin and more, mixed with a little good weather and old friends, this is the perfect way to spend a weekend. —Erica Rucker

Big Four Lawn | 1101 E. River Road | wfpk.org/2022/waterfrontwednesday | Free | 5 p.m.

WFPK’s beloved outdoor free music series Waterfront Wednesday returns this week, JAM kicking off its 2022 series on April 27 with Nappy Roots, Neal Francis and Kiana & the Sun Kings. The night will be headlined by the legendary soulful rap group Nappy Roots, who formed in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in the mid-‘90s. Chicago-based Neal Francis twists ‘70s-style psych-rock into multiple directions.

Louisville’s Kiana & the Sun Kings lifts up smooth, yet soaring soul and razor-sharp R&B. This year will mark the 20th year of the series, Nappy Roots which will take place on the last Wednesday of every month from April to September on the Big Four Lawn.The lawn will open at 5 p.m. those days, and lawn chairs and food are allowed to be brought in, but pets, coolers, glass and outside alcohol are prohibited.

Here’s where the entire season’s lineup stands so far: April 27 – Nappy Roots, Neal Francis, Kiana & the Sun Kings May 25 – TBA, Maggie Rose, Phourist & the Photons June 29 – War, Bendigo Fletcher, Wombo July 27 – TBA, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Routine Caffeine August 31 – TBA, Seratones, Mark Charles September 28 – Yonder Mountain String Band, Hot Brown Smackdown, Houseplant

SUNDAY, MAY 1

Beltane Festivals

The growing interest in pre-Christian holidays is giving the community many opportunities to find celebrations that don’t tie them to a church or temple but can CELEBRATE give them a spiritual connection in other ways, often with nature. The Beltane celebrations are an example of those. Happening May 1, Beltane commemorates the midway point between spring and summer. It is the “May Day” celebration. Here are two you can attend in the Louisville area.

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

Bealtaine | The Raven Irish Pub | 3900 Shelbyville Road | Search Facebook | No cover | 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

Mary M. Miller Riverboat | 401 W. River Road | belleoflouisville.org/specialevents | Prices vary | 8-10 p.m.

Beltane is a Gaelic festival, so it’s no surprise that The Raven Irish Pub is holding its own.

There will be a drum circle, storytelling with the Ancient Order of the Hibernarians, a presentation on “The Lore of Bealtaine” from the Rev. Erika Rivertree, ogham (stone) readings and live music.

Balloon Glow Sunset Cruise

The Kentucky Derby Festival’s annual events don’t change much, so we’re always interested in experiencing them in a different way. This year, you can see the Great CRUISING Balloon Glow from a sunset cruise aboard the Mary M. Miller Riverboat.

There will also be “chill vibes” from Rhythm Science Sound, which will be playing downtempo and R&B music.—LEO

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New Albany Beltane Festival | Raven’s Roost Boutique | 128 W. Main St., New Albany, Indiana | Search Facebook | No cover | Noon-6 p.m.

The witches of Raven’s Roost Boutique present a family-friendly Beltane celebration with shopping, crafts, music, drinks, a drum circle, mini maypoles and more.—LEO

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SANFORD BIGGERS

THE SPEED ART MUSEUM PRESENTS

Codeswitch is the first survey of quilt-based works—inspired, in part, by the rich creative legacies of African American quilters—produced by the American interdisciplinary artist Sanford Biggers. The works, part of Biggers’s Codex series, consist of mixed-media paintings and sculptures done directly on or made from antique American quilts.

Members see it all for free!

Advanced ticket purchase strongly encouraged.

Visit speedmuseum.org

Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch was co-organized by Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, New Orleans, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, and curated by Andrea Andersson (Founding Director and Chief Curator, Rivers Institute) and Sergio Bessa (former Director of Curatorial Programs, Bronx Museum). The exhibition and catalog are made possible by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund: Culpeper Arts & Culture Program, Henry Luce Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Massimo De Carlo, David Castillo Gallery, Monique Meloche Gallery, Baldwin Gallery, and Yale University Press.

Leading sponsors: Brooke Brown Barzun & Matthew Barzun Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham Contributing sponsors: Hardscuffle, Inc. Jeffrey and Susan Callen Colin and Woo Speed McNaughton Lopa and Rishabh Mehrotra

Exhibition season sponsored by: Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein Paul and Deborah Chellgren Arthur J. and Mary Celeste Lerman Charitable Foundation Debra and Ronald Murphy

Image: Sanford Biggers American, b. 1970 Quilt 35 (Vex), 2014 Antique quilt fragments,treated acrylic, and tar on antique quilt.

Exhibition opening sponsor:

Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson

2035 S. 3rd Street Louisville, KY 40208

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STAFF PICKS

FRIDAY, MAY 6

SATURDAY, MAY 7

The Whirling Tiger | 1335 Story Ave. | Search Facebook | $10 | Starts at 9 p.m.

Lynn Family Stadium | 350 Adams St. | Search SeatGeek | Prices vary | 7 p.m.

Coat Check Presents: DecaDANCE and Depraved You can’t really show up to Churchill Downs doused in glitter (then again, we haven’t tried), but you can cover yourself with it at The Whirling Tiger at this Oaks Night DANCE party, thanks to BioGlitz. DJs McKinley, Sam Sneed, Kym Williams and Angel 004 will provide the beats; Introvert will make the night even more colorful. — Carolyn Brown

Come behind the “Velvet Rope” and LEGENDS “Cool It Now” with two Black music legends. Janet Jackson and New Edition will be bringing their “Rhythm Nation” together for a night of “Escapades” and fun, “All For You,” Louisville. “Is This the End?” Not at all. It’s “Crucial” that you make it to this show and “Runaway” with Ms. Jackson, if you’re nasty... and the original “Boys To Men,” New Edition.

—Erica Rucker

THROUGH MAY 7 FRIDAY, MAY 6

Derby Week Concert Series: Steve Aoki

Fourth Street Live! | 411 S. Fourth St. | Search axs.com | $20 | 8 p.m.

Celebrity DJ/producer Steve Aoki will bring his beats BEATS to the heart of downtown Louisville on Oaks Night. If you can’t make it to the track that weekend, you can still feel the pre-Derby excitement at this 21+ event. — Carolyn Brown

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Janet Jackson and New Edition

‘The Divinity Of All Creatures, Great And Small’ WheelHouse Art | 2650 Frankfort Ave. | wheelhouse.art | Free

When characterizing Cynthia Kelly Overall’s paintings, WheelHouse Art has come up with one of my favorite descriptions: “Her work holds an unmistakable luminosity and ART technical application reminiscent of Old Dutch masterworks with just a hint of a Kentucky accent.” Her new series of pastoral scenes, largely inspired by her trips to Europe, feature deer, cows and sheep. The landscapes seem to make time slow down, letting viewers be transported to a still, calmer location. It’s the beauty of nature, y’all. —Jo Anne Triplett

‘Ladies of the Lea’ by Cynthia Kelly Overall. Oil painting.

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STAFF PICKS

THROUGH MAY 8

‘Equine Fascination’

Revelry Boutique + Gallery | 742 E. Market St. | revelrygallery.com Hallelujah, we get to celebrate all-things-Derby live and in person this year. A DERBY good place to start is at Revelry to see the equine art by Melissa Crase and fascinators by milliner Nicole Bracken (see what they did here for the show’s title?). “Springtime always feels like a fresh start,” said Crase, “but after the past couple of winters, everything seems even more vibrant and hopeful this time around. We wanted to create a collection of bright pieces that showcase the excitement surrounding spring horse racing in Kentucky.” —Jo Anne Triplett

8 ‘The Roses’ by Melissa Crase. Charcoal, ink, acrylic and spray paint.

MARIACHIS • MEXICO LINDO DANCERS +FloW • MARIO SANTIAGO band SCHEDULE

THROUGH MAY 31

‘Sta�f Picks’

Paul Paletti Gallery | 713 E. Market St. | paulpalettigallery.com | Free

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3:30 PM

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MARIO SANTIAGO BAND

6:15 PM

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You’re reading a staff pick about “Staff Picks.” The former is a section in LEO Weekly, PHOTOGRAPHY with the latter a show composed of photographs selected by the staff at Paul Paletti Gallery. Hope that clears things up. Paul Paletti is a collector with a capital C, and the pandemic barely slowed him down. The gallery is a result of that expert eye and support of local to international photographers.

But it takes a village to run it. This exhibition let those villagers show us their favorites. —Jo Anne Triplett

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‘Twirl’ by Patrick Pfister. Chromaluxe inkjet print.

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GENEVVA TALKS ‘ISN’T IT LOVELY’

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LOVE can often be a complex, nuanced monster but that has in no way stopped bands fro,m trying to distill it into three minute pop songs since time immemorial. To this end, Genevva, comprised of Jenni Cochran and Aaron Craker, have added their own contribution to this musical tradition with the song “Isn’t It Lovely.”

“It’s about being in love and letting go of any hang-ups that get in the way,” Cochran said.

“The lyrics came pretty quickly on this song. I really like words that sound good together, so I tend to use that as my guide. One of my favorite lines is in the second verse, ‘Sorry never cost as much as holding onto a past resistance,’ which is basically the idea that forgiving other people is really letting yourself off the hook. It’s funny to go back and break down your own songs because I feel like an outsider, too. I wrote this song about two years ago, so I’ve had a lot of space from it.”

“Isn’t It Lovely” is a soft dream of a track, waltzing in with a combination of bouncy keys and angelically harmonized melodies before melting into Cochran’s sultry drawl. While musically austere, the song is a masterclass in songwriting maturity, never rushing itself and — at just a shade over three minutes — is wise enough to know when to leave the party.

“I love songs that can grab you instantly with a vibe and a beat,” Craker said. “That’s what I was going for with the intro. Jenni’s melody made me think of an old doowop song. It had a throwback sound, so I thought it would be fun to contrast it with a more

modern beat. We played around with different intros and several different tempos. We drove around listening to about 10 different versions of this song. I recorded an electronic drum beat on Pro Tools but decided to record drums at La La Land because I wanted more of a live sound.”

“We wanted some old school “oohs” in the beginning to give it a throwback sound,” Cochran added.

“I remember we spent a lot of time on the chorus specifically to make it pop more — we tried different things to figure out what would give it a ‘sound.’ We ended up settling on me singing the chorus in a more breathy, punctuated way to give it more of a soulful sound.

Genevva.

The bridge we added last. I wanted a Bee Gees-type bridge because I was listening to them a lot at the time. I think I even subconsciously chose the line ‘Giving me life’ because it sounds like ‘Stayin’ Alive!’”

The song has also been especially instrumental in quickly elevating Genevva’s reputation as well.

“It took off on YouTube, unexpectedly,” Craker said. “A YouTuber named Aylou posted our song with some artwork, and overnight it had 20,000 views and lots of really nice comments. We woke up to messages from people all over the world. It gave that song and our album a lot of exposure that otherwise it wouldn’t have received. So we’re very grateful for that!” •

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THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA EXPLORES RECLAIMED TREASURES

By Bill Doolittle | leo@leoweekly.com

NEW YORK TIMES critic Olin Downes in mid-20th century America, “African Americans did not play in American orchesventured to Cincinnati in 1937 to cover the tras, or conduct them, or perform concertos annual May Music Festival, which was to with them.” And, adds Horowitz, composers be highlighted by the king-sized Berlioz “Requiem Mass,” performed by the host Cin- and conductors of the day were no longer interested in the cinnati Symphony roots of American Orchestra and the Dett was the grandson music. festival’s mamof an African-American But that has moth chorus — changed. assembled to preswoman who followed the Saturday ent the work in night, in Whitney all its power and Underground Railway Hall, the Louisenormity. Downes to Canada to escape the ville Orchestra, dutifully reported under the baton on the “Requiem,” tyranny of slavery in the of director Teddy but quickly turned United States in the years Abrams, intends attention in his to revive the review to a new before the Civil War. faded glory of work premiered “The Ordering on the May FestiThe family succeeded in of Moses” as val program called freedom and nurtured the centerpiece “The Ordering of of a concert Moses,” written the talent and intelAbrams has

by African Amerititled “Reclaimed can composer R. lect of young Nathaniel Treasures.” The Nathaniel Dett.

Dett. Scholars credit Dett symphony is “Each of the joined by a full May Festivals,” as the fırst universitychorus and vocal Mr. Downes soloists under the explained, trained African-America direction of Dr. “advances a new composer.

Kent Hatteberg. work deemed parAlso on ticularly worthy the program of the festival are works by two Jewish composers who audience’s attention.” And this one, he said, escaped Nazi Europe to find safety in the “greatly excited” the audience on hand. And United States: Ernst Toch’s “Notturno” and the reviewer.

“Violin Concerto in D Major” by Erich “The story is that of the passage of the Korngold, the famous Hollywood movie Israelites led by Moses, and the triumphant composer. Assistant concert master Julia song of Miriam, and the frantic rejoicing of Noone performs the concerto. a liberated people,” reported the critic. “The What the trio of composers have in musical emblem and the predominant motive common, says Abrams, is they each experiof the whole work is the great thunderous enced some kind of oppression in which the Negro spiritual ‘Go Down Moses.’” stage for their music was somehow denied But the glow of Downes’ New Yorkthem.

Times review and the fervor of the May “It’s not just one era, it’s not just one Festival audience did not last. The work was people,” says Abrams. “It’s parallel stories performed a few times after its Cincinnati of people around the world saying they love triumph, but failed to catch on. Mr. Dett died this music, but they don’t accept the people in 1943, and “The Ordering of Moses” faded who create it.” out of play. Mostly, it is felt, because it had no advocates in the classical music world.

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done in the pale white fashion.”

But he loved Dett’s musical portrayal of Israelites rushing through the parted waters of the Red Sea. “Barbaric pulse and wordless ululations on the syllable ‘Ah’ over the thrashing and thrumming of the instruments portray the passage through the Red Sea,” wrote Downes.

“An orchestral tone picture follows, intended to suggest the pursuing Egyptians, and their tragic fate.”

One can picture the scene in “The Ten Commandments.”

“It’s the Exodus Nathaniel Dett. story from the Old Testament, that is so closely connected to people of many faiths,” says Abrams. “The uniqueness of Nathaniel Dett is that his family insisted on him obtaining a very traditional white Western education, alongside Black culture. It’s the Old Testament, in a perfect overlap with Black music. And it’s so joyous to listen to, a beautiful piece of music.”

Dett was the grandson of an AfricanAmerican woman who followed the Underground Railroad to Canada to escape the tyranny of slavery in the United States in the years before the Civil War. The family succeeded in freedom and nurtured the talent and intellect of young Nathaniel Dett. Scholars credit Dett as the first university-trained African American composer. Rising through Oberlin College, with graduate honors at the Eastman School of Music and Harvard University, Dett became head of the music department at HampdenSydney College, in Virginia — just miles from where his family had escaped slavery two generations before.

As a music historian, Dett brought college scholarship to the collection and preservation of spirituals and slave songs, which he called “the melodies of enslaved peoples, who poured out their ANOTHER KIND longings, their griefs, OF ESCAPE and their aspirations Growing up in in one great spiritual Austria, Erich Wolflanguage.” gang Korngold was “The Ordering of composing operas as a Moses” thus finds its teenager and appeared footing in both classical destined for classical music and Africanmusic fame. But as the American song.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold. 1920s grew into the “Learning the music, it was easy to hear all that,” says Nick Finch, 1930s, Jewish musicians in Europe found their opportunities disappearing. Korngold the principal cellist of the Louisville Orchessensed trouble coming and simply packed up tra. “There are places where the themes of the spirituals sound out like a Handel fugue.” and left.

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realized movie music could be more than Concerto in D Major,” which includes background tinkling. It could help tell the themes from his most famous movie scores. story.

Louisville Orchestra Assistant Concertmaster Korngold’s 1936 Julia Noone performs. soundtrack for Other composers “Anthony Adverse” A PEN followed Korngold’s I HAVE won an Oscar and Composer Ernst signaled the arrival Toch’s story lacks the lead, many of them of a new cinematic Hollywood fanfare, but also refugees from era. Korngold built his escape was more sensuous scores into dangerous.

European troubles. important scenes — As a promising Errol Flynn sailing young composer in Dimitri Tiomkin, a the Spanish Main Germany, Toch was Russian Jewish immi- invited to attend an in “Sea Hawk,” and making love to Olivia music grant, scored “High important de Havilland in “The conference in Florence, Adventures of Robin Noon,” with its classic Italy — which he did.

Hood.” The music But instead of returnWestern ballad “Do ing to Germany, Toch followed Flynn up narrow stairways in his Nazi minders Not Forsake Me, Oh gave wonderfully staged the slip and hopped a sword fights, and into train for Paris. There My Darlin’.” Alfred the stolen moments of he sent a telegram Newman won a shelf to his wife Lilly, in desperate lovers.

Other composers Berlin. The wire read: full of Oscars for followed Korngold’s “I have a pen.” Lilly lead, many of them movies as varied as was waiting for the also refugees from cryptic message, and “The Diary of Anne European troubles. immediately walked Dimitri Tiomkin, a the door with their Frank” and “Camelot.” out Russian Jewish immidaughter to join Toch grant, scored “High in Paris. The family Noon,” with its classic rushed on to London, Western ballad “Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My then New York and finally Los Angeles.

Darlin’.” Alfred Newman won a shelf full In 1954, Louisville Orchestra direcof Oscars for movies tor Robert Whitney as varied as “The Diary commissioned Toch to of Anne Frank” and compose a piece that “Camelot.” was premiered by the “And Korngold was orchestra and recorded the pioneer of it all,” on its First Edition says Abrams, who sees label. The orchestra the cinema as an imporwill perform that tant part of American piece, “Notturno,” for culture. “The sad thing “Reclaimed Treasures.” is that many of the great • things these composers wrote — beautiful The Louisville Oras they are — are not chestra, led by Teddy celebrated or played Abrams, will perform on symphonic stages, “Reclaimed Treasures” because that’s not how at Whitney Hall on they were produced. It’s April 30 at 8 p.m.

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Korngold vowed he would continue in Hollywood until Hitler was defeated. It was how he felt he could do his part. With the war over, he nostalgically glanced back to his lost classical roots, penning a “Violin

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LOUISVILLE COMPOSER DEREK DOUGLAS CARTER DISCUSSES HIS APPROACH

By Melissa Gaddie | leo@leoweekly.com

DEREK DOUGLAS CARTER can be claimed

by Louisville thanks to the UofL School of Music, where he received graduate degrees in both music composition and orchestral conducting. Carter has received international recognition for his work ever since his undergraduate career in Illinois, but his piece “Breonna’s Lullaby” has raised that level of recognition considerably.

“Breonna’s Lullaby,” inspired by the life of Breonna Taylor, was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra as part of its Cartography Project, a multi-year collaboration with the Washington National Opera that was designed to provide opportunities to musicians and artists of color, especially those from communities grappling with institutional race-based violence. LEO spoke with Carter about his musical career and the world of classical music.

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LEO: Do you yourself play any instruments?

Derek Douglas Carter: I don’t perform anymore, but I was trained to play, like, low brass instruments.

And was that what drew you into composing and conducting?

I think, not really. I always kind of had a desire to write music even before I was ever classically trained. And I always thought that conductors were, like, super mythical creatures that I always wanted to be a part of, and so, as I was studying, I kind of gravitated towards becoming both conductor and composer.

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I generally start with a couple of ideas, some small ideas, and, like a seed, plant, then I just let them germinate for a while.

Then finally, once I start having more ideas about those small ideas, I don’t want to pack too many concepts, too many ideas into one thing. So once those initial three ideas or so really start to grow into something worthwhile, that’s when I’ll actually start getting the pen to the paper.

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Do you find that you enjoy composing music more for ensembles or do you gravitate more toward the solo performances? Or is it just a matter of the idea dictates the direction that you take?

Yeah, it’s very much the latter. You know, there’s some ideas that work really, really well for large ensemble groups and some ideas that need to be explored by a single person.

But lately, I think I’ve been doing smaller ensemble pieces. I think chamber music has this intimacy that I’m really excited to explore.

What about the intimacy is exciting to you? What draws you to creating pieces that focus on that smaller kind of ensemble?

When an audience as they’re watching a group of musicians that connects so strongly with each other while they’re

playing a piece of music. I think it’s a really powerful experience, and can help remind us of our own connections to the world and our own intimacies that we have with other people. And I think that’s like a building block to building communities. And I think, ultimately, and my goal of writing music, is to help build communities.

What do you hope to achieve as a conductor?

Ideally, I would want to conduct new work. Specifically, like help bringing unheard voices into the forefront. I think conductors are basically curators, so I’d love to be able to curate and show the music that I listen to, to the public space and hopefully music that I have never heard before as well into the public space.

What do you think the arts could do to encourage more community building and move into spaces or engage people who have typically been shut out, maybe not intentionally, but just historically? What could you see taking place to change things?

That’s a tough question. I think getting to those communities sooner rather than later, you know, really starting young to immerse them in not necessarily music, but the tools of making music and allowing them to explore music making, both performing and conducting and writing from an earlier age, to really foster classical-style music into these cultures. •

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The pizza is good, the meatballs are impressive and the scene looks like a spot in New York City’s Little Italy. Well, a little bit, anyway.

Titled after the 1990 Martin Scorsese gangster flick of the same name, Goodfellas’ tongue-in-cheek mob theme extends from specialty pizzas like The Don and The Vinny to its Wiseguy Lounge, which has soft leather sofas, as well as silhouettes of mobster figures in fedoras and the ItalianAmerican crooners of the ‘50s and ‘60s.

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We took advantage of the lunch special and grabbed both a slice and a meatball sub.

A slice adorned with strips of green pepper and purple onion caught my eye, and I didn’t have any complaints about its flavor either. In proper New York City style, these slices are long and flexible, making it easy to fold your slice and walk away.

Also in proper NYC style, the guy behind the counter took my slice and popped it back in the oven to warm up briefly before handing it over. The crust was thin and nicely browned from the hot oven, and the edge, lightly pocked with heat marks, was exceptionally chewy.

The pie bore a slightly spicy and gently sweet layer of thick tomato sauce topped with abundant melted cheese and fresh, crisp-tender veggies. Not bad, although I can’t say it really reminded me of grabbing a slice for lunch in TriBeCa. I chose a caprese salad as my free side and got an uninspiring looking little black

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The walnut-size meatballs were light, easy to bite, made with a beef and pork blend that added complexity of flavor and texture.

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“THE ABSURD” Through May 15 Exhibition of art questioning life’s meaning.

“STILL, LIFE! MOURNING, MEANING, MENDING” Through December The show focuses on dealing with loss during the pandemic.

Chateau Gallery 1230 S. Third St. Hours: Saturdays-Sundays, 12-2 p.m. chateaugallery.com

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Barr Gallery, Indiana University Southeast 4201 Grant Line Road, New Albany, Indiana Hours: Mondays-Thursdays, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ius.edu

“FORGOTTEN FOUNDATIONS: LOUISVILLE’S LOST ARCHITECTURE” Through Sept. 23 Exhibition of photographs and architectural records of destroyed historic architecture in downtown Louisville.

“WILLI HANS KOESTERS IN RETROSPECTIVE” Through May 27 Solo show by the late photographer.

The Filson Historical Society 1310 S. Third St. Hours: Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. �ılsonhistorical.org

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“CELEBRATING THE BLACK EXPERIENCE” Through June 17 Features more than 20 local, national and international artists inspired by Black life.

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“ANIMAL ATTRACTION SHOW” Through June 4 Animal themed exhibition.

Gallery 104, Arts Association of Oldham County 104 E. Main St., La Grange, Kentucky Hours: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. aaooc.org “FRUIT/BODIES” Through May 8 Solo show of new works by Ann Dawkins on the fragility of the human body. garner narrative contemporary �ıne art 642 E. Market St. Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays, 1-6 p.m. garnernarrative.com

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“THE REALITY OF OUR ESSENCE” Through Aug. 14 Paintings of Black women by Sandra Charles.

KMAC Museum 715 W. Main St. Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. kmacmuseum.org “ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS IN HANDWOVEN TEXTILES” Through May 14 Textiles by mathematician Ada K. Dietz and textile artist Ruth E. Foster.

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Muhammad Ali Center 144 N. Sixth St. Hours: Wednesdays-Sundays, noon-5 p.m. alicenter.org “STAFF PICKS” Through May 31 Photographs from gallery owner Paul Paletti’s private collection.

A “FRIENDS” Through May 1 PYRO member Bob Lockhart with guests Lynn Duke, Amber Thieneman and Cédric Ballarati.

“SANFORD BIGGERS: CODESWITCH” Through June 26 First survey of quilt-based works, inspired by African American quilters, produced by the American interdisciplinary artist.

“STRUCTURE” May 6-29 Architectural scenes by Stephen Kuhlman.

Speed Art Museum 2035 S. Third St. Hours: Fridays, 1-8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. speedmuseum.org

PYRO Gallery 1006 E. Washington St. Hours: Fridays-Saturdays, noon-6 p.m.; Sundays 1-4 p.m. pyrogallery.com

ELMER LUCILLE ALLEN Through May 15 Solo exhibition of Allen’s textiles.

“EQUINE FASCINATION” Through May 8 Derby exhibition featuring Melissa Crase and Nicole Bracken.

Paul Paletti Gallery 713 E. Market St. Hours: Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. paulpalettigallery.com

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By Felix Whetsel and Krystal Moore | leo@leoweekly.com

‘Break Out’ #1 Written by Zack Kaplan Art by Wilton Santos

By Krystal Moore

This is just a normal world for teenagers, you know, school shootings, wildfires, pandemics, too much homework. In this story, however, something new is added to the mix. All over the world, huge hovering cubes have appeared in the sky. At first, the powers that be are greatly concerned. The military is called in and sadly, the cubes seem impervious to any weapons. If looming geometric spaceships aren’t scary enough, abductions start happening. But, not to worry, only young people are taken. Make it to 20, and you’re home free. Thus, not too long after the abductions start, they begin to become the new normal.

When the brother of one of the main characters goes missing, he decides to take action. With the help of his friends and the Dark Web, he hopes to find a way to do the impossible and get his brother back, and maybe save some

of the other young prisoners as well.

Writer Zack Kaplan explains that he wrote this book with today’s youth in mind. Never before has a generation of kids dealt with climate change, insane social media and the myriad of other worrisome modern issues facing them, all while just trying to grow up. Inspired by their resilience, “Break Out” is a story of hope and determination. Let’s hope our heroes can make a difference and save their friends and family as well as strangers equally deserving of saving by taking action rather than turning away and avoiding the problem facing them. We have four issues to find out!

‘Alice Ever After’ #1 Written by Dan Panosian Art by Giorgio Spalletta and Dan Panosian Review by Krystal Moore

I read an excellent graphic novel called “Cheshire Crossing” by Andy Weir, in which Alice, Dorothy and Wendy Darling all find themselves teaming up against all the villains from their fanciful stories. It was such a fun read that when “Alice Ever After” came in, I picked it up expecting something similar. Well, I guess you could call it similar, but certainly a totally different story. In this book, Alice is all grown up, but she’s not the determined young woman we see in “Cheshire Crossing.” This Alice is more of... an addict. It seems she feels the pull of Wonderland all the time, but can only get there by taking a pill she buys from an unsavory character who is using Alice as much as she is using him.

The art is absolutely gorgeous in this book, showing the beauty of Alice’s world as well as the dark side. The style changes as the scene does. When she enters the tawdry alleys looking for those who can sell her the gateways to her fantasy world, the colors go all gray and steel blue, while the house she lives in and the other places she visits are a warmer hue.

There are a few characters we’re not sure to trust, including her family. When Alice is sent to a place they say will help her, we see a familiar person making us wonder, is Alice a troubled soul, or is she a victim of a real, live place and people and beings who want to use her for their own ends? I guess we’ll find out!

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Q: I’m a heavy sleeper, and my wife knows that, but not so heavy that I don’t wake up when she periodically masturbates next to me and has the bed shaking pretty hard. She doesn’t know this wakes me. How do I handle this? Do I offer a hand (or a dick) the next time? Talk to her when she’s not having her moment and ask if she feels like our sex life is lacking? Or just let it go and continue to pretend that I’m still asleep when this happens? Our sex life seems healthy to me otherwise.

Nocturnal Incidents That Erupt Necessitate Inquiries To Elucidate A: The wife masturbating in the middle isn’t by itself evidence your sex life is lacking, NITENITE. She’s most likely waking up horny at 3 AM and rubbing one out to get back to sleep. You can and should tell her over breakfast— with a loving and supportive smile on your face—that you sometimes wake up when she’s masturbating, and that you’re happy to help her out. But if all your wife wants and/or needs at 3 AM is a quick orgasm, she may not be interested in a full-blown sex session. And if “helping her out” means she’s obligated to get you off before she can go back to sleep, NITENITE, don’t be surprised if she passes (and slips out of bed the next time she needs to have a wank).

Q: Gay man here with a question about topping. I was a top with my college boyfriend but switched to being mostly a bottom in my early 20s. I’m in my late 30s now, and recently got out of a decade-long relationship, so I’ve been doing a lot of exploring and rediscovering what I want in bed. While I’m very experienced as a bottom, I feel a bit like a fish out of water when I’m topping. The guys I’ve fucked have all been very complimentary, so it doesn’t seem to be a problem with my technique, but it’s just not as intense for me. Also, I’m uncut and I find that if I’m pushing deep inside

someone then my foreskin pulls all the way back while I’m inside to the point that it hurts. (This is especially a problem when a guy rides me.) I’m with a new boyfriend who has enjoyed bottoming for me, but all of this is kind of playing with my head so I can’t just relax and enjoy myself when topping.

Should I just accept that topping isn’t for me?

Subpar Orgasms From Topping A: You could accept that topping isn’t for you and swear off topping forever… but that seems a little dramatic, SOFT, and a whole lot drastic. How about accepting this instead: while you prefer bottoming to topping and your orgasms are better when you bottom, you also enjoy topping occasionally, so long as you don’t push too far in and/or get ridden too hard. You might also wanna accept the compliments you’ve been getting about your topping skills/style.

Instead of assuming the guys you’ve topped are lying to you, give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they’re telling the truth: you’re a good top and bottoming for you is a good time. And with more experience, SOFT, you’re likelier to get even better at it, earn more praise, and grow to enjoy topping more.

Q: I am a 60-year-old woman who has had a lot of lovers. My current lover does not enjoy cunnilingus, which happens to be the only reliable way to get me off. How can I make cunnilingus more enjoyable for him? I thought about getting a can of whipped cream to “sweeten the deal,” but will that work?

Exciting Additives That Make Eating Pussy A Lark A: It won’t work.

First, putting whipped cream on your clit and labia isn’t good for pussy—and since whipped cream rapidly melts after being applied to the body, EATMEPAL,

it’s not going to look sexy or taste good for long. Minutes after emptying that can of whipped cream, you’re gonna look and smell like a newborn puked on your lap. Chocolate sauce, flavored lubes, whipped cream—none of those things have the power to turn someone who doesn’t like eating pussy or sucking dick into someone who does. Pussy is not a sundae, dick is not a candy bar.

If cunnilingus is the only thing that reliably gets you off, it’s a new lover you need, EATMEPAL, not a dairy product.

Q: I’m a male who is curious about wearing a male chastity cage. I’m on blood-thinning medications and I very rarely get erections due to my health issues, but I want to experience the feeling of wearing a cage. Are there any long-term effects from wearing a cock cage for short periods of time that I need to know about? I am just curious how it would feel wearing one.

Looking Into Mysterious Pleasures A: You’ll be fine, LIMP. I’ve spoken to a few urologists over the years about the risks of chastity cages for men, and their only concern was potential damage to the erectile tissues when a dick gets hard (or tries to) in the confines of a cage. If you rarely get hard—or don’t get hard randomly—there’s no danger in wearing one even for extended periods of time, so long as it’s not too tight, LIMP, and you keep it clean.

Q: I’m a 20-year-old woman who just started a new job. One of my new coworkers is a 20-something man who doesn’t speak much English, but he’s made it very clear that he’s attracted to me. I found him on Facebook and realized he has a girlfriend in another country. So, as it turns out, he’s in a three-year-long relationship, but he can’t be with her currently. I’ve always considered men in relationships to be strictly “off limits,” but I’ve got an intense crush on this man and wanna get with him. I’m only interested in hooking up. I’m not looking for a commitment from him at all. Should I let him know I am attracted to him too and possibly ruin his relationship?

Possible Wrecking Ball

A: Unless you’re planning to post to Facebook about fucking this guy and tag his girlfriend back home, I don’t see how fucking you—even if he’s not supposed to be fucking anyone while they’re apart—will automatically ruin his relationship. Here’s hoping he’s allowed to fuck other women while they’re separated like this, PWB, and here’s hoping she’s allowed to fuck other guys. But even if he were to break the rules to get with you, PWB, it doesn’t mean that he would break her heart… so long as you’re capable of being discreet.

Q: I learned that you helped pegging get its name. But is there a name for a man using a strap-on on a woman?

Strapped On Dude A: In 2001 my readers decided—in a free and fair election—to give the name “pegging” to the act of a woman fucking a man in the ass with a strapon dildo. Some pegging purists have argued that the word should continue to mean that and only that, but language evolves and changes. These days women peg men, men peg women, women peg women, men peg men, and enbys peg all comers.

Q: Is it okay to get a quick “happyending” massage once a month if you are getting almost no sex in the marriage?

Reevaluating Understood Boundaries A: It’s okay with me. questions@savagelove.net Listen to Dan on the Savage Lovecast!

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