.@jess_m_clark and I are downtown right now. Many businesses are boarded up or putting up boards. Speaking to a landlord who says they’re putting these up “out of an abundance of caution.” He hopes the decision comes today or tomorrow given how the city has shut off downtown.

Things are mellow at the square, people talking, someone playing the piano. We spoke w/Carmen Jones of Kentucky Alliance & Black Women’s Collective, who described scene as “prickly,” as city awaits the AG announcement. Jones thinks the barricades are “an intimidation tactic.”

Diamond Dorsey improvising a song, “I hope these guys get held accountable... Black Lives Matter.”

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Stephanie Wolf

@StephRWolf

Sep 18, 2020

@CarlyJMusic

Lou's @CarlyJMusic released 1st single off forthcoming album today. Music vid features 3 @LouBallet artists & 4 musicians.

🎧to "Burn Your Fears"⬇️

Johnson says, "I wrote "Burn Your Fears" for a dear friend of mine, Marisa Wittebort, shortly after she was diagnosed w/ an extremely rare form of lung cancer. She really beat the odds and was able to live 4 full years after being diagnosed, but she passed away last November..."

"...after her diagnosis, Marisa told me the story of how she decided to embrace life going forward... She wrote down her greatest fears on tiny pieces of paper & threw them into a fire... I wrote the song as an anthem for her... abt facing something incredibly difficult..."

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Stephanie Wolf

@StephRWolf

Sep 17, 2020

Another Greater Lou area arts & culture org will soon have a vacancy at the top.

Eileen Yanoviak will step down as director of the Carnegie Center in New Albany at the end of this month. Story below.

wfpl.org/director-of-ne…

@newsandtribune

First a quick s/o to @newsandtribune, which reported this 1st.

Yanoviak came to the center in 2018. She's leaving to be an art teacher with Sacred Heart Model School in Louisville.

Yanoviak told me the past 2.5ish yrs has "the greatest privilege of my professional career,” but she had time to re-evaluate things during the pandemic & she's making this move to focus on her family more.

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