LEO Weekly Sept 28, 2022

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RAND PAUL WON’T DEBATE CHARLES BOOKER — AND THAT SETS A BAD PRECEDENT

By Scott Recker | leo@leoweekly.com

DOWN the home stretch of this election cycle, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is likely going to continue to rely on his campaign’s robotic, effective and glacial plan: use his large monetary lead to continue to carefully market, brand and sometimes scare the populace across the state of Kentucky. It will be the opposite of grassroots. It will be mostly boring and controlled. There will be no big splashes. No new ideas. There will most likely be subtly-sinister, slyly-worded, somewhat-nonsensical commercials that play on basic human fears. He’ll give a few advantageous soundbites to cameras, attacking from a distance.

It will be a safe and calculated campaign.

And there will almost certainly be no debate between him and his opponent, Democratic candidate Charles Booker.

According to the Lexington Herald Leader, KET — the state’s PBS affiliate — offered both candidates the opportunity for a forum appearance on Oct. 3. Booker’s team told LEO that they accepted, but also said they were informed that Paul has declined to appear.

On Sept. 24, Booker wrote on Twitter: “Yesterday, we learned that Rand Paul declined a debate with me. He doesn’t want to face the people of Kentucky, and he is terrified to face me. Pitiful.”

Two days before, WNKY 40 out of Bowling Green asked Paul about the possibility of a debate with Booker, during which he took a quick shot at his opponent before being much more ambiguous about the idea of sharing a stage with him.

“It’s alarming his advocacy for defunding the police,” Paul told WNKY. “I think defunding the police would be a terrible idea and very dangerous to our community.

We’re still thinking about the debate and haven’t made up our mind.”

For most of the summer, Booker has been calling for a debate, and Paul has been seemingly dodging it.

While there is still time for it to happen — Election Day is Nov. 8 — I would be pretty surprised to see the two politicians share a stage at this point.

Hopefully I’m wrong.

Either way, I’ve got a quick pitch to stop making debate season a convoluted mess where we keep wondering if these exchanges are going to happen until it’s too late: National and state-wide candidates leading in

the polls should be required to step onstage in a forum with their opponents at least one time during the general election cycle. If they refuse, a heavy fine should follow.

The candidates who decline would not only get hit in the pocketbook, they would also attract some negative press, and it would be completely clear who decided against transparency on current issues.

It’s not perfect — the majority of voters probably don’t care — but if we make it harder for the deep-pocketed candidates to avoid an exchange of ideas of how to make our state or nation better, then the people

We deserve better from our politicians.

Using buzzwords and scattered attacks isn’t enough.

We need longform answers to important questions. •

MARC MURPHY

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT THE BAR EXAM?

By Dan Canon | leo@leoweekly.com

YOU didn’t take the bar exam. That’s probably because you didn’t go to law school. Good for you. Law school is hard. Your first year is an elaborate hazing ritual in which we law professors pull out your brain and put it back in upside down. We make you read hundreds of pages every week while looking for summer jobs and shoring up extracurriculars for your résumé. Most classes base your grade on one all-or-nothing exam at the end of the semester. By the end of the third year, you are a different person: You have learned a new language, new ways to shake hands, new ways to dress, new methods of killing and being killed.

But you did all that, and you didn’t crack. You made it through high school with good enough grades in your classes and on the SAT to get into college. You made it through college with good enough grades in your classes and on the LSAT to get into law school. You made it through law school with good enough grades on exam after exam to graduate. And you paid for it all.

All that was even harder to do if you had to work a full-time job between classes during the day, put your kids to bed, and then spend all night parsing 2,000-word paragraphs written by Englishmen in the 19th century. Or if you were a firstgeneration college graduate, stuck with the additional homework of learning the culture and habits of the professional class.

Now you must take what will be the final standardized test before beginning your lifelong campaign to accumulate capital: The bar exam. Or you would, if you had gone to law school, which you didn’t. Again, probably a good choice.

Then again, maybe you didn’t have much choice in the matter. Ours is an exclusive club, after all. For much of American history, legal education was not open to women, people of color or the offspring of wage laborers. As the demographics of those seeking to practice law changed, the requirements for becoming a full-fledged lawyer got more difficult. For decades, most students automatically became lawyers upon graduation from law school. But in 1921, three years after the first women were admitted to the American Bar Association, written bar examinations started to become the new norm. That same year, the profession began to “regulate” law schools — that is to say,

to make it tougher to get in. Today only one state (Wisconsin) allows graduates to practice law without taking a bar exam.

American lawyers are expected to uphold tradition and precedent; that is to say, to preserve as much as we can of a judicial system founded on white supremacy and naked class warfare, even as social and cultural changes gradually render that system obsolete. As such, the vetting process to ensure that we will be guardians of the system as it is (and as it was) is a vigorous one. There are a lot of genuinely good-hearted lawyers out there, but one might say the entire legal system itself is geared toward protecting the interests of the wealthy, to the extent that it has a natural disdain for those who set out to do anything to the contrary. Gatekeepers charged with making sure that lawyers end up faithful dogs for the right masters are thus everpresent, following closely behind earnest students from the first day of their formal education right up till the last day of law school. There’s an academic timeline that every idealistic law graduate knows well:

In your first year of law school, you want to help people.

By your second year, you want to help people, as long as you can make some money doing it.

By your third year, you just want to get the hell out and make a living, already.

The few clear-eyed “radicals” who manage to make it into law school have had their vision so obfuscated by the time they graduate that they often end up using their licenses at big firms, helping corporations do all the despicable things they swore they’d never be a part of. In fact, it is a blessed miracle when they do anything other than that; less than two percent of America’s 1.3 million lawyers work on legal problems of the poor.

The bar exam is the final boss, the ultimate flaming hoop, the last chance to stop altruists in their tracks. If you don’t have an extra $2,000 to pay for a prep course, or if you don’t have several hours a day to study for a couple of months, or if you are just not that great at regurgitating obscure factoids that you will never have to use again, you are more likely to fail.

Around this time of year, recent graduates begin posting about whether they

passed the bar exam. Over the years, I have noticed an unmistakable overlap in the Venn diagram of 1) those who fail and 2) those who really want to change the system by challenging power, those who remained radical for three long years of brutal reprogramming and financial hardship, those who remember why they came to law school in the first place.

I don’t have any statistical proof that do-gooders do worse. But what I can say for sure is: Students who are the most capable of taking on the whole damn world fail this thing sometimes. Every one of these beautiful souls who does not end

about who fails it? You should care if you are poor, because there will be no one to represent you. You should care if you are watching the courts, because you only get empathetic judges from empathetic lawyers. And you should care if you are interested in your society at all, because — like it or not — lawyers tend to make the rules. Who would you rather have in positions of power? People who are good at taking tests? Or people who are good?

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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.

LOUISVILLE JAIL REPEATEDLY VIOLATED KENTUCKY JAIL STANDARDS, DEATH REVIEWS FOUND

By Josh Wood | jwood@leoweekly.com

PRELIMINARY reviews of Louisville jail deaths by Kentucky’s Department of Corrections found repeated violations of the state’s jail standards, the minimum standards that local correctional facilities in the Commonwealth must maintain.

Through Kentucky’s open records law, LEO Weekly obtained findings related to eight of the 11 in-custody deaths that have occurred in Louisville since November of last year. In five of those cases, the state Department of Corrections found that the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections violated the Commonwealth’s jail standards.

In all five cases where violations occurred, the Kentucky Department of Corrections found that LMDC did not properly supervise prisoners by checking on them at least once every 60 minutes (in the case of the average prisoner) or 20 minutes (in the case of incarcerated people at risk for suicide, detoxing from drugs or alcohol or prisoners who are “mentally or emotionally disturbed”).

In an additional violation, the Department of Corrections said LMDC failed to properly inform them of the death of Keith Smith, a homeless man who died in LMDC custody in January after being arrested for refusing to leave a downtown restaurant. Instead, the Department of Corrections wrote, they learned of Smith’s death on the news.

While the jail standards are the minimum standards a facility must maintain, LMDC’s own jail policy is more in-depth than the bare-bones state guidelines and provides detailed instructions on how officers should handle situations.

LMDC policy on monitoring inmates is also more stringent than the state jail standards, mandating medium and maximum security prisoners be checked every half hour instead of once per hour. For prisoners on suicide watch, LMDC policy

necessitates checks every 15 minutes instead of every 20 minutes mandated by the jail standards.

VIOLATIONS CONTINUED DESPITE CORRECTIVE PLANS

The observation policy violations stretched from the death of Gary Wetherill on Dec. 30 of last year to the death of Barry Williams Sr., who died three months later in late March.

All of the violations came during a period that saw eight LMDC inmates die in less than four months, a jarring spike for a facility that previously averaged three deaths per year.

Among the documents LEO Weekly obtained were four plan of corrective action letters authored by LMDC in response to policy violations found by the state Department of Corrections. In three of those letters — one by former LMDC director Dwayne Clark and two by current director Jerry Collins — identical, word-for-word responses were provided to the observation policy violations.

In those identical responses,

THORNS & ROSES

LMDC said that shift commanders had been instructed to inspect observation logs on every shift “effective immediately” and to “reemphasize on a regular basis to their staff the appropriate procedure for conducting required observations.”

Additionally, LMDC wrote, random checks of observation logs would be conducted.

LMDC also said the jail was trying to secure a vendor to provide an electronic tracking and monitoring system in the jail.

However, despite the corrective actions outlined, the Department of Corrections would find the same repeated violation of the prisoner observation jail standard over the course of months. While former LMDC director Dwayne Clark wrote on March 1 that the violations of the observation jail standard were being addressed, the state Department of Corrections would later find that the jail again violated the observation standard in two deaths later that month.

In one of the five observation vio-

THORN: LOUDER THAN LIFE ENDS EARLY Disappointment was palpable on Sept. 25 after the Red Hot Chili Peppers vacated the stage 20 minutes early as the last act of 2022’s Louder Than Life Festival. However, amid reports of beer bottles being thrown, women being groped, out-ofcontrol crowd sur ng and just general assholery to the point that the band had to remind members of the crowd to be nice to one another, it’s kind of understandable.

ROSE: JCPS KEEPS ‘GENDER QUEER’ ON LIBRARY BOOKSHELVES

A Je erson County Public Schools appeal panel voted to allow the illustrated memoir ‘Gender Queer’ to remain on library bookshelves in two schools after a parent who labeled the book “pornographic” led a months-long campaign to have it removed. “This is a book that is instrumental for LGBTQ and particularly queer youth to be able to learn about who they are and the community that they’re a part of,” said Chris Hartman, director of the Fairness Campaign, according to the Courier Journal.

ROSE: FORD INVESTING $700M IN LOUISVILLE, ADDING 500 JOBS

Gov. Andy Beshear proclaimed Sept. 27 to be “KenTRUCKy Day” after Ford Motor Company announced that it would expand its presence in Louisville by investing $700 million into the Kentucky Truck Plant. That investment is anticipated to create 500 full-time jobs.

THORN: RACING LOUISVILLE’S NADIA NADIM OUT AGAIN

Racing Louisville star Nadia Nadim, who graced the cover of LEO Weekly’s Aug. 17 issue, recently suffered a torn ACL in her left knee, just months after returning to the pitch after tearing her ACL in her right knee last September. Nadim, who ed Taliban rule in Afghanistan as a child, is Racing Louisville’s top goal scorer at the time of writing. Following the injury, Nadim wrote on Twitter: “I was born a ghter and I know that nothing can break me down.”

THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD

An incarcerated person walks through a section of Louisville’s jail. | PHOTO BY JOSH WOOD.

lation cases, LMDC pushed back, saying that logs provided regarding the January death of Keith Smith showed observation rounds conducted at least once every 30 minutes instead of once every 60 minutes.

In that same response, LMDC did concede that they failed to properly notify the Department of Corrections of Smith’s death.

“The missed telephonic report was an oversight on our part,” wrote then-LMDC director Dwayne Clark. “This office will ensure moving forward the appropriate notifications are completed as required by designating a second staff member to verify the notification occurred.”

VIOLATIONS REVIEWS LIMITED IN SCOPE

The Department of Corrections did not respond to inquiries about how the reviews were conducted and did not grant an interview request, but from what is written in the letters obtained by LEO, it appears that they are reviews of documents and not as in-depth as breach of policy investigations conducted by jail staff, which include extensive interviews with witnesses and reviewing available video footage.

For instance, in January, the Department of Corrections wrote to LMDC to inform them that no violations of the jail standards were found in their review of the death of Stephanie Dunbar, who hanged herself last December after being held in a cramped attorney booth that lacked a bed or toilet for 18 hours. A later LMDC Professional Standards Unit investigation found that eight officers had violated LMPD policy by not checking on her regularly. Two of those officers were also deemed to have broken policy by fabricating observation sheets. And another was observed on security footage giving Dunbar the middle finger the night before she killed herself.

In March, then-jail director Dwayne Clark wrote to the Department of Corrections to warn that their findings may have been misguided by the records they were provided.

“Metro Corrections internal investigation cast doubt on the veracity of records created by LMDC staff,” he wrote.

In response, the Department of Corrections agreed to keep their findings pending while they awaited additional information from LMDC.

In a statement to LEO Weekly regarding the violations, Kentucky Department of Corrections spokesperson Katherine Williams said: “The Department of Corrections is responsible for enforcement of Kentucky Jail Standards, which can be found under Title 501 KAR Chapters 3, 7 and 13. When an in-custody death is reported to Local Facilities, the division conducts a review to determine if there were violations of Kentucky Jail Standards during the course of that incident.”

In an email to LEO Weekly, LMDC spokesperson Maj. Darrell Goodlett said the jail’s policies “either meet or surpass Kentucky Jail Standards” and highlighted the reforms and safety changes enacted by Collins, who took over as the jail’s director in April.

Since Collins took over, there have been three prisoner deaths.

“Director Collins has taken steps to enhance safety and security inside of Metro Corrections. This includes efforts on multiple fronts to combat dangerous narcotics and to increase staff awareness of mental health issues,” said Goodlett. “You are correct that one of the things coming in the future is using modern technology to record observations that officers conduct. This will increase accountability and supervisor awareness of the frequency of observations.” •

Part of a June letter from the Kentucky DOC informing Louisville’s jail of a Kentucky Jail Standards violation found in their review of the March in-custody death of Moman Anderson. | Via Kentucky DOC.

DRIVING north on Interstate 65, you might drive past the basic red and white billboard and never notice it.

It’s a simple logo for Theatair X, with the tagline, “The Pride of Clarksville!” Amidst a flurry of commercial businesses on either side of the highway and a multitude of other billboards screaming about a wide variety of products, the sign doesn’t stand out.

But the adults-only Theatair X literally sits in its shadow. If you leave the main highway and find your way to Indiana 31, you’ll drift just outside the bluster that is Clarksville, Indiana, with its chain restaurants, big box stores and traffic. Driving north, you’ll pass a White Castle, a tire center, a business called Big Tex

Trailer World and a Furniture Row warehouse store.

Off the road a bit are a couple of small hotels.

On your left, it’s just a railroad track and trees.

And if you didn’t see the sign on the highway (or its southbound companion identifying Theatair X as a “Clarksville icon”), you may just drive past Theatair X, the former open-air drive-in theater, which sits between a clump of brush and a roadway overpass.

The oddly-shaped building is a faded peach color with a single door surrounded by signs touting an adult bookstore and “video peep shows.” A thin, cursive neon sign with the business name isn’t on in the daylight.

The place looks perpetually closed, if not aban-

By Kevin Gibson | leo@leoweekly.com

Theatair X in Clarksville, Indiana. |

PHOTOS BY NIK VECHERY.

doned altogether. But if you turn into the parking lot and drive around back, you’ll find yet another door — darkened, so that it’s impossible to see in. That door is surrounded by signs with messages like, “No guns” and “No camera phones.” A sign over the door simply says, “Bookstore Entrance,” and also warns, in unnecessary quotation marks, “Not responsible for damage to vehicles on lot.”

On a recent afternoon, a single red pickup truck parked outside the door. A pair of semis, one pulling a Dollar General Store-branded trailer, sat farther back. The lot is quiet, and it’s still unclear from the rear view if the business is open or closed.

And then you open the mysterious door and step inside to a surprisingly clean and modern retail space which looks roughly 2,000 square feet, with a soft lavender color scheme. The contrast is startling to the point that it’s almost reminiscent of Dorothy first opening the black and white door and stepping into the Technicolor Land of Oz.

Behind the counter sits a bearded young man eating a fast-food lunch. Beyond the check-out counter is a hallway with a sign signaling that’s where the peep shows happen. Along the many aisles are countless numbers of sex toys, from dildos to buttplugs to sex swings.

The place is quiet and highly organized. The clerk, who is polite and ready to help, takes a break from his lunch to let me know that the peep shows are “closed indefinitely.” Why? Because this obscure business along a backroad in tiny Clarksville is embroiled in a contentious legal battle with the town.

What many don’t realize is that for the past 50 years, local governments, from Clark County to the town of Clarksville, and Theatair X, have been engaged in a series of such battles, with the municipalities trying to find ways to close down the former drive-in that once showed X-rated flicks like “Deep Throat.” Through the years, various owners of the business trying to duck legal punches and leap over zoning hurdles to stay open, while decades of court cases and numerous arrests have played out over the last half century.

REMAINING OPEN

Before we go back to the beginning of Theatair X’s long and debauchery-filled journey, let’s zoom into the current legal battle, one that threatens the businesses’ improbable run.

The current trouble started in 2018, when the Clarksville Police Department did an undercover investigation that resulted in two arrests. A week later, after obtaining an inspection warrant, Clarksville Building Commissioner Rick Barr observed more than 20 holes in walls that connected separate viewing booths in the Theatair X building, a code violation in city speak (or in layman’s terms, glory holes.)

In an unsafe building notice, Barr wrote the holes were “obviously made with the knowledge and intent of the owner.”

Shortly after, Barr issued an order suspending Theatair X’s adult business license, although, according to court documents, Theatair X did not stop operating during that time.

During the suspension, David Mosley, an agent representing Theatair X said the business had trouble closing the holes in the past. According to court documents, Mosley

wrote: “In the past X has put metal plates over the openings but these get whittled off or pulled off.”

The business did eventually repair the holes, and after another inspection by the building commission, the suspension was lifted.

In January of 2019, Midwest Entertainment Ventures, the company that was then behind Theatair X, filed an application for an annual adult business license. The following month, Clarksville Police officers charged several patrons for public indecency and public nudity after officers observed a man and a woman “engaging in sexual intercourse in the middle of the theater” as well as other patrons “openly masturbating.”

An undercover detective who was there testified that he had been to the theater to make arrests on “about a half dozen occasions.” He also said he once assisted in the arrest of a patron who had assaulted an undercover cop by touching him in a sexual way against his will.

Barr issued a notice of intent to revoke Theatair X’s license for operating while suspended and allowing sex acts on the property.

Midwest Entertainment Ventures claimed that they were not properly notified, that there was no evidence that they “knowingly allowed” any illegal conduct and there was “a multiyear effort by the Town to harass, annoy, persecute and destroy the licensee’s business.”

In May of 2019, the Town Council of Clarksville unanimously voted to revoke Theatair X’s adult business license.

In August of 2021, Clark Circuit Court Judge Vicki Carmichael affirmed the town’s decision to revoke the license, writing, “[Midwest Entertainment Ventures] has been willfully ignorant toward knowledge that sex acts occur in the premises. For years, Theatre X maintained glory holes in the walls between its viewing booths and provided theater rooms with no oversight or enforcement concerning sex acts that occur there.”

Shortly after the ruling, a company called Clarksville Ministries took over Theatair X.

In September of 2021, a federal judge ruled that the Town of Clarksville had to grant Clarksville Ministries a temporary license. They did, but that same night, the Town Of Clarksville passed a zoning ordinance that changed the distance that adult businesses must be from residences and certain other uses from 500 feet to 750 feet. Theatair X couldn’t possibly comply with that, because it’s less than 750 feet from Clarksville Lofts development.

Right now, the situation seems to be in a bit of legal limbo, as the process draws out in the courts.

According to a lawyer for the Town of Clarksville, Theatair X is currently operating without a license, but the town is choosing not to enforce that during litigation.

Theatair X’s “The pride of Clarksville!” billboard is visible from I-65.

While Theatair X still advertises peep shows, its video booths have been “closed inde nitely” amid an ongoing legal dispute with the city.

PRELUDE TO PORN

Theatair X began innocently enough as Theatair DriveIn, a family outdoor theater – with the obvious play on “air” in the name – operated by K. McAllister & Robert Harned. According to CinemaTreasures.com, its capacity was 232 cars, and the base of the giant screen also had a family restaurant and concession stand. Dinner and a movie? You could enjoy both in one spot.

The drive-in was so popular that a second screen was added in 1949 and the capacity ultimately increased to nearly 1,500 cars, with Theatair’s new owners, Municipal Enterprises at Indianapolis, proclaiming it “the largest open-air theater in the world,” according to an article in The Courier Journal. But as Americans more and more turned to television for viewing entertainment over the next decade and a half, the 1960s became difficult for family drive-ins. Interstate 65 construction picked up during the 1960s, and one of the screens would ultimately come down.

By 1966, the theater had added a “dance patio,” but the projectors would soon shut down, and in 1969 the property had been dubbed Theatair Flea Market, a weekly “auction house,“ and was described as a “formerly twin drive-in theater” in classified ads of the time.

But the flea market was short-lived — the theater returned to showing films in late 1970, re-identifying itself as, simply, “Theatair,” once again playing the latest big screen releases. But, in November of 1970, something abruptly changed. Movie listings in the Nov. 13, 1970, Courier Journal indicate that Theatair screened three movies

that weekend: “Sand Pebbles,” starring Steve McQueen; “Bandolero,” starring Jimmy Stewart and Raquel Welch; and “Frankenstein Created Woman,” starring Boris Karloff. Listings for the following weekend of Nov. 20, 1970 – with the name of Theatair still not sporting an “X”

– list these X-rated films as those featured on the outdoor screen: “Sex of the Angels,” “The Christine Jorgenson Story” and “What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?”

The surrounding community reacted quickly and angrily. Public backlash led to the formation of a community group calling itself Citizens for Decency, who were hellbent on shutting down Theatair, which by May the following year was advertising itself as Theatair X for the first time.

Around that time, an early sign of the coming trouble showed itself in the form of a letter to the editor in The Courier Journal. Louisville resident Edwin Jon Wolfe went to Theatair to see the documentary “Woodstock,” but he got a surprise in the form of “at least half an hour of stag movies” for previews.

“I think it’s a low blow to use a film like ‘Woodstock’ to forcibly turn people onto a two-bit stag film operation,” Wolfe wrote.

He wasn’t the only one who complained. Along with the cries from the so-called Citizens for Decency, Clark County prosecutor Dan Donahue quickly joined the fray and began a years-long legal effort to shut down Theatair X.

What became even more problematic was that as the years trickled by, the theater’s reputation began to get worse. Former Rep. Richard B. Wathen, a long-tenured local Republican lawmaker, was vocal about supporting a state bill intended to outlaw theaters like Theatair X, calling the business “a hardcore bookstore and center of prostitution” in 1973.

It was around this time that Theatair X played host to an

early local screening of the well-known porn film “Deep Throat,” starring Linda Lovelace, on May 17, 1973. The screening was packed, according to media coverage of the time.

“Deep Throat” would cause a national debate that sparked much litigation throughout the country, with varying results. But for those who attended the screening at Theatair X that night, it was simply entertainment.

“I just read today that a Boston judge ruled it to be obscene, so it’s gotta be good,” Kentucky resident Richard Bennett told The Courier Journal at the screening.

The drive-in was surrounded by a fence that shielded cars passing on I-65 from seeing the big screen, but it only helped draw more attention, as the fence didn’t exactly cover everything. And area teenagers would drive down Indiana 31 to find — or create — breaches where they could peep through the wood fencing.

Meantime, police were keeping close tabs on the goingson at the theater. Not long after the “Deep Throat” screening, local police arrested the manager and projectionist, and police began confiscating the films. But one by one, the theater thwarted Donahue’s attempts to close the business. By 1978, it wasn’t even clear who owned the theater, leaving the prosecutor flummoxed. By that time, the U.S. and Indiana Supreme Courts had lightened restrictions on what constituted pornography, and Donahue’s efforts slowed.

During the 1980s, there was little legal effort to shut down Theatair X, although the reputation persisted. By the end of the decade, the movie screen had been torn down and the business model turned toward video rentals. As Clarksville’s commercial sprawl crept up around the theater, most believed it would squeeze the life out of the business. But it continued.

Into the 2000s, frequent arrests plagued the theater, with men being arrested and charged with crimes like public indecency and drug possession. The discovery of so-called “glory holes” in many of the peep-show video booths also raised concerns of prostitution. Clarksville police conducted multiple raids and made multiple arrests into the 2010s, including arresting men who were performing sex acts on themselves and each other.

A civic group calling itself ROCK (Reclaim Our Culture

A movie listing for the “Theatair Drive-In” in the Courier Journal in November 1970, shortly before the theater began showing pornographic movies.

Theatair X has been embroiled in its current legal battle since 2018, when their adult business license was brie y suspended for the presence of glory holes between video booths.

Kentuckiana) entered the fray in opposition to Theatair X during this time and openly criticized the Clarksville police chief’s handling of the business, leading to a lawsuit and continued attempts to take down Theatair X. But no one could. And today, with the peep show booths at least temporarily closed, the business remains open as a retail shop.

THE NEVERENDING FIGHT

Just a few hundred feet away from that oddly shaped building that houses Theatair X is the Furniture Row store. Speaking to a manager of the business, who asked that their name not be used, it seems, at least in recent times, Theatair X has been a quiet neighbor.

“I think if they were causing issues, it would be different,” the manager said of how Furniture Row views Theatair X. “It doesn’t really affect us.”

In an e-mail interview with LEO Weekly, Michael Sanchez, who identifies himself as the president of Clarksville Ministries LLC, called Clarksville officials and their

attempts to close the business “bigoted” and “hate-filled.”

His reasoning is that he regularly claims Theatair X is supported not only by customers who have the right to purchase the store’s retail offerings but also by the LGBTQ community, even telling LEO it is “an adult retail store and LGBT social center.”

Evan Stoner, president of Southern Indiana Pride, disputes the latter claim.

“I do not have all the details regarding the pending litigation but from what I can tell from publicly available information, the LGBTQ community is being used by the owner of that business as a means to give his lawsuit more legitimacy and attention,” Stoner said via e-mail. “It’s very sad to see our community used in such a way that degrades the seriousness of important LGBTQ advocacy in our country. That is not being an ally and actually hurts our community.”

Sanchez is also listed as CEO and/or contact for businesses called Janra Distribution Inc., Janra Holdings Inc. and Janra Enterprises Inc. on various online corporate databases. Based in Henderson, Nevada, Janra Distribution identifies

itself on its website as “one of the world’s largest integrated distributors of adult novelties.”

If this assertion is true, it would seem Sanchez has the financial firepower to continue the 50-year fight against Clarksville’s efforts to shut it down.

Clarksville’s zoning chess move in 2021 seemed to seal Theatair X’s fate, but the courts once again delayed — or possibly stopped — the town’s efforts. Clarksville’s communications director, Ken Conklin, said the city would not go on record for this story due to the ongoing litigation.

For his part, Sanchez vows to fight on.

“The bigots and censors on the Town Council have spent the last fifty years failing to shut down our store because they believe that its residents should have fewer freedoms in the name of moral purity, and we expect that until the taxpayers tell them that there are better ways to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, the battle will continue.”

Scott Recker contributed to the reporting of this story. •

Michael Sanchez, the president of Clarksville Ministries LLC, portrays the e orts to close Theatair X as “the bigots and censors on the Town Council” trying to restrict the freedoms of taxpayers.

PHOTOS FROM BOURBON & BEYOND AND LOUDER THAN LIFE

FOR the first time since 2019, the Danny Wimmer Presents music festivals Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life took place on back-to-back weekends, closing out September in Louisville with a bang. After eight (!) days of music on the grounds of the Kentucky Expo Center, the LEO staff is currently drinking a little more coffee than usual, but we had a great time. Here is the very, very abbreviated version of our photography from the fests that we published over at photos.leoweekly. com. •

BOURBON & BEYOND

PHOTO ESSAY

Pearl Jam.

Houndmouth.

Photos by Nik Vechery.

The crowd at Alanis Morissette.

Japanese Breakfast.

LOUDER

PHOTO

Ministry

Body Count.

KISS.

The Pretty Reckless.

STAFF PICKS

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28

WFPK Waterfront Wednesday

Waterfront Park | Big Four Lawn | wfpk.org/2022/waterfront-wednesday | Free | 6 p.m.

SATURDAY, OCT. 1 Oktoberfest

West Sixth NuLu | 817 E. Market St. | Search EventBrite | $100/table for a group of 4-10 | 11 a.m. - 1 a.m.

Oktoberfest is a holiday best celebrated with friends.

If you’ve been to any Waterfront Wednesday this year, you know that the free event series is a big deal — thousands of people ock to Waterfront Park on the last Wednesday of every month to see live bands, eat local food, drink and be merry. This Wednesday, three bands — Houseplant at 6 p.m., Hot Brown Smackdown at 7:30 p.m. and Yonder Mountain String Band at 9 p.m. — will bring an interesting mix of bluegrass and psychedelic rock to the waterfront. Unfortunately, with the arrival of colder temperatures comes the end of the series for this year, and this is the last Waterfront Wednesday of 2022. Don’t miss it. —Carolyn Brown

WATERFRONT

FRIDAY, SEPT. 30

‘Hocus Pocus 2’ Opening Movie Night

Hi-Wire Brewing | 642 Baxter Ave. | Search Facebook | $12 | 6-10 p.m.

“Hocus Pocus 2” debuts on Sept. 30, and to celebrate, Hi-Wire Brewing is hosting a HalloQueen KickO Party with Drag Queen StorytimeKentucky. For the price of admission, you also get a small bag of popcorn and two slices of pizza, not to mention games, ra es and other spooky activities. —Ethan Smith

It’s possible to go to West Sixth’s celebration of German food and drink on your own (and for free!), but they recommend you get a table for a group. Not to mention, each table also comes with six souvenir beer steins and six 32-oz. ll tickets, plus plenty of snacks (including pretzels, of course.) The day will include games, drinking, a brewery tour (tickets sold separately) and Deutsche merriment. — Carolyn Brown

SATURDAY, OCT. 1-2

Bowman Fest 2022

Bowman eld | 3345 Roger E. Schupp St. | bowmanaviationfest.com | $20 adult, $50 family, $15 senior/youth | 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

FRIENDS AND BEER AEROBATIC

Bowman Fest is celebrating 100 years of Bowman eld with a rst for the air eld — an aerobatic airshow. The two-day festival starts with an IPA 5K on the runway on Saturday, followed by a CAT3 aerobatic air show that will happen twice a day. There will also be over 35 historic and military planes on display, helicopters and a C130 cargo plane available for walk-throughs. —Ethan Smith

Yonder Mountain String Band.

Photo courtesy of Bowman Fest.

FRIDAY, OCT. 7-8

Belknap Fall Festival

Douglass Loop | belknapneighborhood.org/belknap-fall-festival | Free | Friday 6-11 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Local food and beer, local artists, local businesses and local musicians (including an Elton John tribute act) — yes, this is a neighborhood festival, technically, but everyone is welcome. Now that festival season is winding down in Louisville, we say this sounds like a fun opportunity to get into the community and enjoy the weather before it gets too cold. — Carolyn Brown

FALL IS HERE

SATURDAY, OCT. 8

Asian Night Market

Fourth Street Live! | 411 S. Fourth St. | cranehouse.org/upcoming-events | Free | 6-10 p.m.

The Crane House will host its rst Asian Night Market at 4th Street Live! The event will feature food from all across Asia, highlighting the cultural signi cance of that food. There will also be performances, retail booths and food trucks.

CULTURAL

Food trucks will include: All Thai’d Up, Bamba Eggroll Co., Hot Buns, Louisville Sushi, Aeja’s Kitchen and District 6. Performances will include: Association of Chinese Americans of Kentuckiana, Dusk N Dawn (K-pop), River Lotus Lion Dance, Cultura Philippines and Oreya Ou (Chinese traditional dance and belly dance). —Erica Rucker

EVENTS

Cultura Philippines will perform at the Asian Night Market on Oct.

PHOTO BY PHOTO BY EMMA BAMBA.

STAFF PICKS

SUNDAY, OCT. 9

Louisville’s Great Chili Cook-O�f 2022

NuLu | 800 block of E. Market St. | louisvillesgreatchilicooko .com | No cover | Noon-6 p.m.

The Great Chili Cook-O has been taking place in Louisville since 1989 and raising money for charities in the process. Not to mention, it’s delicious. This year, the cook-o is being held in NuLu with live music by Soul Circus. So, head down and sample all of the di erent styles of chili, grab some drinks and enjoy the day. —Ethan Smith

FALL HEAT

THROUGH OCT. 22

‘Life in Light’

By Stephen Brown

WheelHouse Art | 2650 Frankfort Ave. | wheelhouse.art | Free

I confess I love realism, especially if the painting is so detailed you think it’s a photograph. So, it is no surprise I’m struck by the work of the late Stephen Brown (1950-2009). His paintings seem to be lit from within. The more than 40 still life, landscape and portrait paintings are being shown at WheelHouse Art for the rst time. The gallery is also showing art by Gretchen Treitz. —Jo Anne Triplett

ART

‘Boots’ by Stephen Brown. Oil on birch panel.

STAFF

‘Kentucky Women: Helen LaFrance’

Speed Art Museum | 2035 S. Third St. | speedmuseum.org | Prices vary

Helen LaFrance lived to be 101. For most of her long life, she documented her Black smalltown world in Graves County in paintings, quilts and wooden sculptures. The Kentucky folk artist specialized in what she called “memory paintings” similar to the work of Grandma Moses. The Speed’s retrospective of the self-taught artist includes more than 35 pieces, some of which show buildings in May eld that were destroyed by last December’s tornado. —Jo Anne Triplett

MEMORIES

THROUGH DEC. 31

‘Just Pushing Paint’ By CJ Fletcher

Kentucky Center for African American Heritage | 1701 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd. | kcaah.org | Free

CJ Fletcher is an artist who thinks of people, especially children, as she creates. So much so that she “always [strives] to enhance what I do in an e ort to make our community a better place to live.” Specializing in paintings and limited-edition prints, her solo exhibition at KCAAH features “work that stimulates man’s spiritual aspirations rather than the intellectual aspect of life,” Fletcher said. —Jo Anne Triplett

EXHIBITION

‘Connections’ by CJ Fletcher. Acrylic on canvas.

‘Barn Dance’ by Helen LaFrance. Oil on canvas.

Q&A WITH MAGGIE LINDEMANN, WHO PERFORMED AT LOUDER THAN LIFE

By Carolyn Brown | cbrown@leoweekly.com

MAGGIE LINDEMANN is a young alternative musical artist whose work crosses pop punk, metal, and pop. On Thursday, Sept. 22, Lindemann was the first artist of the day to play on the Space Zebra Stage at Louder Than Life, a stage that would later be occupied by Evanescence and Nine Inch Nails.

Lindemann’s newest album, “Suckerpunch,” came out on Sept. 16.

LEO caught up with Lindemann at the festival for a brief chat about her musical style and her first time at Louder Than Life, which ran last weeekend from Sept. 22-25.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Maggie Lindemann: It was really good. Honestly, whenever I’m doing festivals, I never know what to expect, especially a metal festival — I’ve never done something like this before. So I didn’t know what to expect, especially being on so early, also. But it was really good! It was a really good turnout. There was a lot of fans in the crowd singing the lyrics. And I love festivals like this, where it feels like a big community, so it’s really nice.

I don’t think I have one sound specifically. I like to do a bunch of different stuff because I don’t think anyone listens to one genre. I think everyone likes to dabble in everything.

For me, it’s the same with music. I like to make pop punk music, rock music, metal music, alternative music, pop music — whatever I’m feeling that day, I just want to be able to freely create. So I don’t think [my style] really has a title, but I think that I just do what I love in that moment.

WITH POP PUNK SPECIFICALLY, OBVIOUSLY, THERE IS ONE

PARTICULAR PRECEDENT FOR A FEMALE POP PUNK ARTIST — OR A BIG ONE, AT LEAST — AND THAT IS AVRIL [LAVIGNE.] TO BE HONEST, I SORT OF SEE YOU BRINGING A KIND OF AVRIL SOUND TO THIS GENERATION. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT?

Thank you. That’s, like, a crazy compliment. I think she’s obviously iconic, and I feel like those are big shoes to fill. But she’s insane, and I look up to Avril a lot. She’s one of my biggest inspirations, so I appreciate that a lot.

HOW DID YOU SPEND YOUR TIME DURING THE BULK OF THE PANDEMIC?

Writing — I did a lot of Zoom sessions. I [had] never done Zoom sessions before.

So I did a lot of Zoom sessions and finished my EP.

YOU WERE AT GUESTROOM RECORDS THE OTHER DAY — YOUR FIRST TIME IN LOUISVILLE, AND YOUR ALBUM WAS DISPLAYED ON A WHOLE COLUMN INSIDE THE STORE. WHAT WAS THAT LIKE?

It was cool. It’s weird to see it in person and at an actual record store. I love going to record stores, so it was cool. It was really fun, and the fans came out and everyone was really sweet and excited.

SO NOW THAT CONCERTS ARE BACK, NOW THE FESTIVALS ARE BACK, WHAT DOES THAT FEEL LIKE?

Fun. I love festivals, so I’m excited for them to be back. This is my first time at

Maggie Lindemann.

Louder Than Life, but it’s insane. [My boyfriend and I] are about to go watch YUNGBLUD’S set, and it’s fun. It’s just really cool. I love being here.

SO WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOU AFTER THE FESTIVAL?

After the festival, I go home and I go to Vegas the next day for iHeart[Radio Music Fest], and then I have a couple of shows coming up in October and then I’m playing Aftershock in, like, two weeks.

IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE OUR READERS SHOULD KNOW?

I got two shows coming up that I’m really excited about, my first headlining shows. I’ve been really looking forward to doing headlining shows, so hopefully that opens the door for me to tour next year off this album. And, yeah, [my] album’s out, so go check it out!

LEO: YOU WERE ONE OF THE OPENING ACTS FOR LOUDER THAN LIFE. TELL ME ABOUT HOW THAT FEELS.

YOU SAID YOU’RE NOT USED TO METAL FESTIVALS. OBVIOUSLY, YOUR WORK HAS SHIFTED GENRES FROM POP PUNK, METAL, POP — HOW DO YOU DEFINE YOUR MUSICAL STYLE?

HOW DO YOU DEVELOP THAT?

THE CREATIVITY SHINES AT MELT 502

By Jon Larmee | leo@leoweekly.com

MY JOB as a teacher — at its heart — is about intel. And as has been true for decades, high school students are a wellspring of intel. Who’s got a crush on who, when that other teacher’s assignment is due, how much the new iPhone is going to cost, and, occasionally, the answer to the content question you were asking that rudely interrupted their conversation.

A few weeks ago, I noticed a rash of conversations about egg rolls. TikTok rules everything around me, so I figured there was a new food trend going around. Finally, in the waning moments of seventh period, I interjected when the topic came up: what’s the deal? Where’s the video?

No video, they told me, there’s a place down the road. Why hadn’t I been there yet?

I asked where “there” was and was met with a pitch-perfect “uhhhhh.”

The question was called out to a peer across the room and delivered, in the most suburban way: “What’s that place we went to with the rolls and grilled cheese? In that shopping center across from the Post Office. Behind the Moby Dick.”

It was Melt 502 (6318 Bardstown Rd.), the same name in the graffiti visible the moment you set foot in the restaurant. The logo hangs above a small stage in a corner opposite the bar and diagonal from the small counter where you place your order.

There you’ll find an array of delivery-app tablets and a front-and-back sheet menu that sports a surprising three dozen items spanning from egg rolls and melts to wings, burgers and salads, most of which are named after hip-hop artists.

In a nod to the variety that exists within the genre, Melt’s topping combinations are equally expansive. From the chickenand-waffle Roscoe Roll to the cheesesteakstyle Philly Jawns. If I had to describe the Bossalinie any other way than what’s on it, I’d say it’s an Italian sub topped with spaghetti bolognese. And the Juvenile homage 400 Degreez sits just above a straightforward Caprese Classic melt. Looking at the menu, it seemed like the owners were aiming to do what Tom & Chee — which closed its last Louisville location five years ago — never seemed willing to: go further

Bu alo lemon pepper wings from Melt 502. | PHOTOS BY JON LARMEE.

The M.I.-Y.A.YO Roll.

out, get more creative.

Luckily, we beat the lunch rush because deciding took considerable effort. I ended up with the M.I.-Y.A.Y.O. roll (feat. garlic shrimp and spinach) and the LaBelle melt with caramelized onions, melt sauce and ground beef (no patty). Add to that my brother’s lemon pepper buffalo wings and

two canned sodas and my total, with tip, was a few cents north of $40.

Taking our seats at the bar, we occupied ourselves recalling the first time we’d heard the albums under the laminate mosaic.

In January, co-owners Reinaldo Murphy and Jamel Smith told Michael L. Jones of Louisville Business First that they think of

Melt 502 as a “hip hop Hard Rock Cafe.”

I started to wonder if the final iteration of Melt might feature murals in place of the showcased memorabilia. Maybe some gold record plaques to line the wall over the liquor selection.

The thought was interrupted when our food came out. All considerations of music went out the window when I saw that my egg roll was almost the size of my Coke can. A few bites in revealed why: they used extra-large shrimp. The flavor profile reminded me of an extra saucy shrimp Alfredo. Despite its size, it went too quickly.

My brother was kind enough to admit he was in over his head with the ten-piece wings. They were served uncut and had a strong nose of the Frank’s Red Hot in the buffalo sauce. But the acidic tang of the lemon pepper added depth to the sauce.

Finally, the godmother, the LaBelle. The ground beef that made up the bulk of the filling was seasoned and provided little resistance to the bite; it almost seemed to melt. But its tenderness didn’t mean weakness. It held together after a bite rather than its ingredients tumbling out onto the bar. Accentuated by sweet caramelized onions — not simply grilled, as some might expect

— the melt would’ve been worthy of an encore. As I sat back in my seat, I wondered how often customers came in prepared to have dessert.

Whether we’re aware of it or not, we tend to sort creativity into two categories. On one hand, there’s the more-accessible, indulgent type of creativity. The kind that says pile it high; stick six skewers in a Bloody Mary; put spaghetti on an Italian and griddle it. The other kind, which gets lauded for being “refined,” fixates more on pairings and fidelity of ingredients above all else.

Melt 502, however, doesn’t fit in that dichotomy. They’ve assembled a menu that, line after line, says, “We’ve got something damn good that you’ve never seen.” If we extend the hip-hop theme to their current status, they’re still in their underground phase. But I’d recommend getting there soon so you can tell your friends you saw them before they blew up. •

MELT 502

6318 Bardstown Rd. 594-8570 www.melt502.com

The Labelle melt.

PAINTING A LEGACY’S SARAH BATTLE TO APPEAR AT THE ST. JAMES COURT ART SHOW

MAKING TRANSFORMATIVE CONNECTIONS, THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART’S ACADEMIC PROGRAMS COORDINATOR ILLUMINATES BLACK ART IN LOUISVILLE

By Sarah Kinbar | leo@leoweekly.com

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART’S Academic Programs Coordinator, Sarah Battle, commenced with an oral history project this spring that will be preserved at the University of Louisville. Her project, “Painting a Legacy: the Black Artistic Community in Louisville, 1950s-1970s,” was funded by the Kentucky Historical Society through a grant in the amount of $4,435, and the Center for Advanced Study and Visual Arts at the National Gallery gave her the sabbatical fellowship, which included time off and a stipend.

Battle, who works in the education division at the Washington, D.C., gallery, also researches artist Kenneth Victor Young. Young has typically been viewed through the lens of the Washington Color School and was a resident of Washington, D.C., for much of his adult life. Battle followed her curiosity to his hometown of Louisville to uncover the links between Young’s work and the city’s mid-century Black artistic community.

Louisville should be understood as a crucible yielding notable and exemplary work by Black artists, but historically, their contributions were largely ignored by many of the powerful leaders in the local art scene. Even today’s privileged leaders, resting on a claim that “all are welcome,” do not actively seek out and spotlight the work of Black artists. Ending segregation in the art world requires intention, and Battle’s dedicated scholarship emphasizing the work of Black artists who spent significant years in Derby City is much needed as part of an overall shift that for which the city yearns.

As she wrote in a member’s report, “Young’s childhood in Louisville, Kentucky; his formative years as a painter; and his lifelong relationship with the Black art scene in Louisville have not been formally acknowledged in scholarship. This omission of significant experiences and artists from Young’s narrative has consequently yielded an incomplete picture of his legacy in American art.”

FALLING IN LOVE WITH LOUISVILLE

This community is compelling for Battle, and she began conversing with artists in Louisville in September 2021. She moved here in February 2022 and stayed until May.

The oral history project speaks on Louisville’s Black artistic community between the 1950s and the 1970s. The project illuminates the stakeholders — places, spaces and people — informing the Louisville modern art scene, whose central figures were artists Bob Thompson, Sam Gilliam, Ken Young, G.C. Coxe, Fred Bond, Robert Douglas,

Robert Carter, Eugenia Dunn, Anna Bond, Ed Hamilton and William M. Duffy.

“The really exciting thing about an oral history project is you’re hearing directly from the artists,” said Battle. “I spent the first two months just getting to know Louisville,” said Battle. “I had never been there. I am very aware that I’m a young white woman interviewing largely older artists of color, so I wanted to make sure there was a lot of trust before I started to do the oral history project.”

Battle recorded sculptor Ed Hamilton, sculptor William M. Duffy, painter and

sculptor Robert Douglas, painter Robert Carter, ceramicist Elmer Lucille Allen, actor Norman Bush and music composer Ray Johnson. Young died in 2017, but Battle was able to interview Young’s daughter, Leslie Young, and brother-in-law, Reverend Thomas Shepherd, a poet. She recorded Ed Hamilton’s wife Bernadette Hamilton, William M. Duffy’s wife Sherrie Duffy, Earl Hooks’ son Earl Hooks, Jr. and beat poet Ted Joans’ daughter Yvette Johnson.

She also heard leaders in the Louisville art field, like Ken Clay, a persistent, lifelong community organizer in the arts who,

William M. Du y and Ed Hamilton, circa 1979. | PHOTO PROVIDED.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

in the 1960s, opened the Corner of Jazz, the first African American culture shop in Louisville, and Roberta Williams, former director of the Junior Art Gallery. Painter Carol Tobe also worked at the Junior Art Gallery, painter, and was a fellow University of Louisville student with Ken Young, Robert Douglas and Sam Gilliam. Joyce Tyson — a childhood friend of many of the artists affiliated with the two main Black art collectives and an art collector — is in the mix. Charlotte Hildebrand shared her memories of being a teen taking classes at Louisville Art Workshop.

In total, 18 people contributed to the project, which, while not a complete picture, offers a strong framework of the major stakeholders informing the Black art scene at that time. The project will be transcribed and then made accessible on the University of Louisville’s oral history website, so people can read it and listen to it.

The project bred obsession, fueling Battle’s desire to uncover as much as she could along the way and ensuring that Lousiville will be her second home for some time.

“It doesn’t help that I actually really love Louisville, too,” she said. She’s kidding. Her love for Louisville helped a lot, and her obsession with the project was a healthy one.

THE ST. JAMES COURT ART SHOW LEARNING PROGRAM

This oral history project is not yet available for listening or viewing, but the good news is that it will be referenced during a new addition to the tourist-magnet St. James Court Art Show — a learning program organized by Battle herself. It includes three facets.

On Friday, Sept. 30, at 4 p.m., stationed in the Old Louisville Visitor Center, Robert Douglas, William M. Duffy and Ed Hamilton will speak during a moderated discussion on the importance of Louisville’s mid-century Black artistic community. The conversation will be moderated by Fari Nzinga of the Speed Art Museum.

At 6 p.m. that same day, there will be an Artist Panel Reception at the historically significant jazz club Joe’s Palm Room.

The following day, Saturday, Oct.1, at 1 p.m., also at the Old Louisville Visitor Center, there will be an Artist Conversation: “Women Cultivating Louisville’s Black Artist Community.” Sandra Charles, Tomisha Lovely Allen and Tonnea Green will discuss their artistic influences, the importance of art and activism and the ways in which they continue to cultivate the Black art community in Louisville. Ramona

Dallum will moderate.

This is especially meaningful to Battle because, to her knowledge, “It will be the first time this art show is doing programming in this kind of way, doing public programs in the Old Louisville Visitor Center.”

REMEMBERING THE ORIGINS

Flashback to 1957, the year of the first St. James Court Art Show.

“The show was actually conceived as a way of raising money to repair the fountain on St. James Court. Malcolm Bird and Ethel DuPont, over a cup of coffee on the porch of Ethel’s house, which is still on St. James Court,” said the show’s executive director, Howard Rosenberg. “If there had been more bakers on St. James Court, it may have been a bake sale.”

The show was pulled together quickly. All the art was hung on clotheslines. This detail connects the dots between the St. James Court Art Show and the artists being recognized in Battle’s learning program.

“One of the important art collectives for the Black artistic community is called the Gallery Enterprises. They started to do openair art shows, ‘clothesline art shows,’ as Professor Douglas would say, right around the time that the first St. James Court Art Show happened. The collective’s art shows were really important because there were no spaces for African-American artists to exhibit,” Battle said.

Representation is still a problem in Louisville, and there’s a lot of work to be done.

Last year, artist Brianna Harlan conducted an Instagram survey to assess public knowledge of the appearance of Black art at the city’s most known and established galleries; the public’s impression of whether a diverse cross-section of the community shows up for art openings; and the public’s opinion on whether the critical content of the work displayed at art events is designed to make transformative connections. A Google survey covering similar territory followed, and Louisville essentially earned an F for its failure to desegregate the art world. You can read the findings in the Louisville People Art Report.

Curators, educators, academics, directors, leaders and organizers in Louisville’s art community can observe the intention involved in Battle’s work and similarly seek to cultivate the transformative connections Harlan’s report shows are too often missing. •

YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD COMIC BOOK REVIEWS!

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

BLACKWATER OGN

Written and Illustrated by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham Review by Felix Whetsel

Ghosts! Werewolves! Queer romance! Enemies-tolovers! There literally isn’t more that I could ask for from a comic, and “Blackwater” delivers.

Tony and Eli are very different people with very different high school experiences. One is a tall, popular track star with lots of friends; the other is a small, quiet nerd and often bullied. Tony takes it upon himself to make Eli’s high school experience a tad bit less miserable, but that decision swiftly lands him in a flurry of creepy encounters and complicated feelings. It’s hard to balance teenage hormones, an unstable home life, high school drama, your first crush on a boy and a serious case of lycanthropy.

As a fan of all things paranormal, I was immediately interested in “Blackwater” . Just as interesting as watching the mystery unfold is watching the development of the relationship between Tony and Eli. They each have their own issues, such as having an alcoholic father or an autoimmune disease, and these two different people find they have more to bond over than they thought at first.

If you’re a fan of “Heartstopper,” you’ll enjoy “Blackwater” — awkward teen romance, but with the addition of the paranormal. There’s representation of being young and coming to terms with your sexuality, as well as the experience of being a young trans man. I highly recommend this comic if you’re looking for an autumnal read to ease your way into the spooky season!

GIANT CHICKENS ON THANKSGIVING NIGHT

Art and story by Izzy Serrano Review by Krystal Moore

If you liked those “Sharknado” movies, then the locally penned and produced “Giant Chickens on Thanksgiving Night” will be right up your alley. That said, if the thought of using and/or legalizing marijuana is upsetting to you, or if you need your comics to be big, colorful, shiny productions by big comic companies, then maybe it’s not.

The premise is fairly simple: a drug lord actually doesn’t want weed to be legalized as it would cut into his market. So, to keep that from happening, he sends radioactive product to Cliff, Kentucky, where we meet a slew of homestyle, and probably pretty familiar-feeling characters. Some of that product ends up in some cornbread, which naturally ends up getting fed to some backyard chickens. The title tells you what happens next!

This is just a fun romp of a book with a silly story and artwork that really ramps up when the giant chickens appear and start wreaking havoc. The $20 price tag gets you a one-shot story almost the size of a trade paperback and the knowledge that you’re supporting an upand-coming local artist and writer. The cover art alone is worth it. We’ll keep watching for the follow up issue, “Giant Chickens 2: Revenge of the BBC,” hopefully coming soon.

THREE YEARS IN, THE LOUISVILLE LGBTQ+ BOOK CLUB HAS A NEW HOME

By Melissa Gaddie | leo@leoweekly.com

THREE YEARS AGO, Sanjay Saverimuttu was tapped by Mike Slaton of Louisville Pride Foundation to lead the Louisville LGBTQ+ Book Club. The book club was started to provide an opportunity within the LGBTQ+ community to come together and socialize in a place that wasn’t in the bar scene. Before the pandemic, the group met monthly at the Beechmont Community Center, but then carried on via Zoom when it wasn’t safe to be in person. Now the group is back to meeting in person, but as of Tuesday, Oct. 11, they will be in their new home at the LGBTQ Community Center in Old Louisville at 1244 S. Third St, which is a shared space with Asia Institute-Crane House. LEO spoke with Saverimuttu about the book club.

HOW DO YOU SELECT THE BOOKS? WHAT KIND OF CRITERIA DO YOU USE?

I usually will ask people if there’s a certain genre or, you know, author demographic — and really we try to cover different books to make sure we’re covering a whole spectrum of both authors and genres of books. So let’s say if we’re like, ‘For this next one is a book like horror sci-fi,’ I’ll look at about four options for horror sci fi and then the people who attended the last meeting will vote on which book they want to read next. That’s an incentive to come to the meetings and so that way you can have a decision what books you read next.

Sanjay Saverimuttu: I’m friends with Mike, the executive director, and I think he just knew I was an avid reader and asked if this was something I’d be interested in. It’s nice to meet people who I wouldn’t normally meet, especially because I feel it’s usually hard to meet queer people unless you’re in a bar. And even then, like the places that I go to, it’s usually just gay men. So now I feel like I can meet a diverse group of people of different ages, different genders, different races, different life experiences, which is pretty nice.

DO YOU PUT A FOCUS ON AUTHORS OR STORYLINES THAT TREND TOWARD LGBTQIA OR DO YOU FIND THAT THAT’S JUST A WELCOME BONUS?

So pretty much always the center of the book is always on LGBTQIA issues or has that main focus for the main character, or most of the authors are LGBTQIA. Out of like the three years we’ve been doing this, I think there’s only been two instances where the author wasn’t queer, which I think is pretty good for the amount of books that we’ve read. Because we’ve just celebrated having our book club for three years, that’s about 36, 37-ish books that we have now read.

LEO: WHY DID LOUISVILLE PRIDE PICK YOU? DID THEY ASK YOU BECAUSE YOU LOVE TO READ?

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL OF THE BOOKS THAT YOU ALL HAVE READ SO FAR?

I really enjoyed ‘Real Queer America’ by Samantha Allen, which is a nonfiction book. The author basically travels to different states, more like ‘red states’ in the country, and interviews people in those communities.

I think it showcases how strong LGBTQ culture can be even in the not-so-typical, blue havens and even how they can sometimes be just as strong or stronger than in those blue havens. Like, what’s it like to be the only LGBTQ club in the entire state or region? Who shows up in these spaces dealing with certain political issues in Texas, or dealing with like the intersection of Mormonism and being queer in Utah, topics like those, which I found pretty interesting.

DO YOU HAVE A PARTICULAR FAVORITE BOOKSTORE OR A PLACE THAT YOU GO TO CHECK OUT NEW AUTHORS AND NEW BOOKS?

As always, Carmichael’s is great, and what’s great about them is if you have a book club, you can get it registered with them and get the book picks for 20% off. For the most part, unless it’s a weird publisher, you can get it for 20% off as long as you mention our book club. And, especially with all these different categories and exploring different genres, I’m just always Googling various lists, various awards. Lambda Literary is a organization that gives awards for LGBTQ literature, and they have different categories of literature, and it’s a good place to see different options for books.

I think it’s nice to just meet people or hang out with people outside of book club too. Knowing that our friendships or that these relationships that people have have started and were prompted from book club. Also because the nature of books, it allows people to get pretty vulnerable about their own experiences and sometimes, you know, whether it’s they’re working through something in their past or their trauma, there is a safe space for people to figure that out. And tie it to the literature that like sort of spawns their thinking at the same time and watching people go through that and also be supportive of those people at the same time, I think is pretty beautiful. •

The Louisville LGBTQ+ Book Club meets again Tuesday, Oct. 11, and will be discussing “Summer Sons” by Lee Mandelo at 7 p.m. at the Louisville LGBTQ Community Center at 1244 S. 3rd St. Please bring a mask if you are attending in person. There will also be an online option, which you can sign up for by visiting facebook.com/groups/ loupridebookclub.

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Crossword

BODY LANGUAGE

BY CHRISTINA IVERSON AND KATIE HALE | EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ No. 0327

ACROSS

1 Almost

5 Oven setting

10 Portrayer of the boxer Clubber Lang in ‘‘Rocky III’’

13 In case

17 When repeated, old-time call to listen

18 Part of a prank

20 Govt. organization with a two-syllable acronym

22 Kind of clarinet

23 Came to know, old-style

24 It empties into the Bay of Bengal

26 Radar spot

27 Bringing in, as income

29 ‘‘Keen!’’

30 With 12-Down, spend much more than a fair price

31 Department-store department

32 Lay ____ to

34 Question that’s not one of the five W’s

35 Big consideration for the expecting

37 Ticket fig.

40 Wisteria and honeysuckle

42 Video game character in a hit 2020 film

43 Educator/writer ____ Johnson McDougald, first African American female principal in New York City public schools

45 Belief of roughly 25 percent of the world’s population

46 Director Craven

47 Downstairs

51 Kept in

53 Lets out

55 Vape’s lack

56 Martini & Rossi product, familiarly

57 Emmy-winning Ward

58 Took down, in a way

59 Fly around Africa

62 Doughy dinner item

64 Drug agent’s seizure

65 Deseret News reader, typically

66 Did nothing

67 Professor ____

69 With 74-Across, gesture of approval

70 On fire

73 Champing at the bit

74 See 69-Across

78 One cutting down, so to speak

79 What babies do faster than college students

80 Feudal land

81 O’s, but not P’s or Q’s

83 Petty

84 Some posers

86 Self-titled rock album of 1958

88 Quaint contraction

91 Smoking spot, for short?

92 Former baseball commissioner Bud

93 Sound, e.g.

94 Moves like muck

96 I.T. help center, often

98 Ending with bear or bull

99 ‘‘Uncle!’’

101 Rocker Rose

102 Heard in court

104 Promotion

105 Letters that might change your mind?

107 Prepare, in a way, as eggs

109 Irritable

112 En voz ____ (aloud: Sp.)

113 Insincere, as a remark

116 Kristen of ‘‘Bridesmaids’’

118 Jaunty

119 Counterpart of ‘‘adios’’

‘‘Yes’’ or ‘‘No’’ follower

121 Old Icelandic work

Fivers

Idiosyncrasy

Greek performance venue

Alternative to Wranglers

Down

1 Blues group, for short?

2 Fully ready to listen

3 Loretta who sang ‘‘You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)’’

4

Cold climate cryptids

‘‘The ____ they are . . . ’’

Messenger ____

Walk around at a rest stop, say

‘‘Bus Stop’’ playwright

Be in store

‘‘Who, me?’’

letters

30-Across

of some tests

Burstyn

some insects and insults can do

Bit of bad weather, on a weather map

Indo-____ languages

numbered in Microsoft Excel

agreeable

Theodor ____ a.k.a. Dr. Seuss

Smith/Tommy Lee Jones film franchise, for short

Flat-earther?

Like many a stuffed toy

of

Word that, fittingly, contains all four different letters of APPEAL

following a clever trick

scorn toward

Take by force

48 Wood strip

49 Peak in the ‘‘Odyssey’’

50 One of the five W’s

Arcane matters

Panache

Leave gobsmacked

Scatter

60

Sudden sharp pain

Have seconds and thirds and fourths and . . .

Flatten

Lilies with bell-shaped flowers

Rachel Zegler’s role in 2021’s ‘‘West Side Story’’

Allow entry

Forehead mark on Hindu women

City SW of York

Safe bettor

Instruments with endpins

77 Some sources of leafy greens

80 F on a gauge

82 It’s just not true!

85 Easy opportunity for a basket

86 Vegas venue with an iconic fountain

87 Who might be on the trail

89 Candy bar fillings

90 Emergency request

92 Vikings’ foes

95 A goose egg

96 One reporting to an underboss

97 Nauseate

99 Bankrupt

100 Bizarre

103 One holding things together, perhaps

104 ‘‘____, Can You Hear Me?’’ (Oscar-nominated song from ‘‘Yentl’’)

106 Sub station?

108 Lemon or

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By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage

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Q: 42-year-old dad here. I’ve been married for 12 years, and my marriage has been somewhat turbulent. But after some affairs—one where my wife screwed my best friend—and therapy, we reconnected, righted ourselves, and started a wonderful family. We both identify as bisexual now, and we are ethically nonmonogamous. My question is this: my wife never seeks out other lovers, but I often do. She thinks looking for sex on apps is gross and won’t try it. She did recently suggest we become poly—that we date other couples together—only to shut that down after one date with another couple. She also kind of slut-shames me when I ask permission to hook up or date someone else. She wants to be open in theory, but she seems to be against it in practice. We communicate well and she continues to give me permission (but always after shaming me), and I check in regularly only to have her act annoyed when I inform her of each new adventure. I am not sure what to do.

Often Practicing Ethical Non-monogamy

A: Has it occurred to you that maybe… just maybe… your wife doesn’t wanna hear about each and every one of your adventures? Or any of them? I mean, it seems clear to me she doesn’t want to hear about them. It’s all right there in your letter: your wife doesn’t enjoy discussing your dates, your hookups, your adventures, etc., and yet you persist in asking her and telling her.

You mention “some affairs” earlier in your marriage, OPEN, back before you came out to each other as bisexual and opened your relationship. But you only share the details of one: your wife fucked your best friend. That had to hurt. I’m glad you two got into

therapy, managed to work through the fallout, got to a better place, and decided to start a family together. But I feel like I don’t have all the relevant information here—like whose idea opening up was (yours?) and your wife’s state of mind when she agreed (guilt-racked?)—which means I have no choice but to speculate…

You’ve been married 12 years, you started a family sometime after that turbulent period, which means your kid or kids are still young and may be very young. Your wife could be interested in other sex partners but lacks the energy for them right now, seeing as she’s doing… judging from your letter… way more than her fair share of the parenting. I mean, if you’re constantly running off on dates and hookups and having adventures and leaving her home alone with the kid(s), it’s possible that your wife is annoyed with you and you’re reading her annoyance as slut-shaming. And if you proposed opening up the relationship and she agreed to it— after she fucked your best friend— maybe she doesn’t feel free to say no when you ask for permission to fuck someone else, which could also leave your wife annoyed. Annoyance that, again, you could be reading as slut-shaming.

At any rate, OPEN, if I were married to someone who agreed to open the relationship but who seemed annoyed or upset or slut-shamed me whenever I asked for their okay to go fuck someone else, I would have a few questions for my spouse: Do they want an open relationship at all? Did they ever? Do they still? And if they did and still do, would they prefer a DADT (“don’t ask, don’t tell”) arrangement over a TMFE (“tell me fucking everything”) arrangement?

I think a few check-in/check-up sessions with your couples’ counselor are in order here. Maybe your wife’s feelings have changed, after having a kid (or kids). Or maybe your wife— cheater though she was—would prefer

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a monogamous relationship after all. Or, hey, maybe your wife is happy for you to fuck other people but would like to see—at least while your kids are young—you dial back your adventuring and dial up your dadding. But I can only speculate. Your wife knows. Ask her.

Q: My wife likes to suck cock. But not my cock. She finds the act degrading “in a sexy way,” and the “vibe” is all wrong with me, she says, because we love each other too much. We have a wonderful, loving, and creative sex life otherwise. (And, yes, I eat her pussy.) She has my okay to suck off other men, which happens once or twice a year, and I have her okay to get sucked off by other women, which never happens.

Finding men who want no-stringsattached blowjobs from a hot married woman is obviously easier than finding women who want to give no-strings-attached blowjobs to married men. We live in a very gay part of the Los Angeles area. I’m 100% straight and not the least bit bisexual.

But more than once I’ve been offered a blowjob by gay men at my gym (the locker room is a scene), and I’ve honestly been tempted to close my eyes and think about it being a woman. My wife isn’t comfortable with the idea because she thinks gay men are likelier to have STIs and she doesn’t want me bringing anything home. I think she’s being a bigot.

Seeking Understandable Compromise Knowing Erections Rarely Sucked

A: I hope the guys lining up to suck your cock at the gym will forgive me for this…

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