By Alisha Proffitt Photos By Matt Johnson Writer, actor, and filmmaker James Steele Haney was originally born in Lexington, Kentucky. He later moved to Louisville, where he attended high school and college, before eventually relocating to Las Vegas. Steele didn’t begin in film school or in the predictable corridors of cinema. “I’ve always kind of filmed stuff on my own—silly, funny things with friends,” he says. Life, however, is its own unpredictable screenplay. In 2020, his sister passed...

By Kelsey Knott Photos By Antonio Pantoja  On his debut album, I Hope They Set You Free, Sam Tabor describes what it means to grow and leave behind past beliefs, fully accepting a “new you” and embracing change through fear.  Tabor’s musical family instilled a love of music early in his childhood. “My mom’s one of the best singers I’ve ever heard. I started singing because of her, and she got me my first guitar when I was 7 or 8. My brother, who’s six years older, was playing music before me,...

By Kevin Murphy Wilson Photos Provided  In recent weeks, the 2025 Louisville Photo Biennialhas overtaken more than 50 participating venues (including many noteworthy galleries, museums, colleges and cultural organizations) in the area. This time around that sprawling event features some rather stunning bodies of work such as “Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise” — a solo exhibition by renowned practitioner and art educator Patty Carroll. As the show card proclaims, “Carroll’s Anonymous Women...