


Cover Story for May 6, 2008
Identity politics: How do you define Louisville? For one ex-pat photographer, it’s in the people
LEO Eats: Deli belly — Louisville does the deli phenom right
By Robin Garr
Let’s start right out by admitting that I’ve lived in New York City off and on, had plenty of exposure to the NYC deli phenomenon, and don’t really get it.
In a metropolis known as one of the world’s great cities for fine dining, how exactly did such a genre evolve? Heavy, fatty, overpriced food, served by rude waiters whose shtick seems to be insulting the customers ... and the customers love it?
Art Review: Is life better in Suburbia? Check out Bill Owens’ photographs
Sparks flies at Jenicca’s; Elvis and Amy take the Palace
By Kevin Wilson
Friday, May 9
Now that all of the out-of-towners have vacated the clubs, we can get back to business as usual. This week’s performance highlights include the legendary genre-jumper Elvis Costello tonight at the Palace Theatre (625 S. Fourth St., 583-4555, $44.50, 8 p.m.); a Saturday evening Pops Orchestra session with songbird Amy Grant (also at the Palace, $37-$87, 8 p.m.) and silver-tongued crooner Johnny Mathis’ Mother’s Day Special (you guessed it, Sunday at the Palace, $67-$77, 8 p.m.).
Music Preview: ’Tis the Season
By Mat Herron
Delayed reactions have an upside: There’s still a reaction.
Nearly two years after the release of their first record, The Swell Season — a fortuitous collaboration between The Frames’ Glen Hansard and Czech phenom Marketa Irglova — are swimming in praise for their starring roles in “Once.”
No More False Dichotomies : Too much like right?
By Cary Stemle
That Jeremiah Wright is something else, isn’t he? What is he thinking — it’s as if he wants to take Obama all the way down.
Or maybe he wanted to give Obama a chance to stand up and prove he really is different. To say, “Well, sure I knew he was out there, but there were enough good things to the man that I could understand his ‘extreme’ side and agree to agree where we agreed and disagree otherwise. Because none of us, and I mean no one in this world, is, or should be, in lockstep with another human being when it comes to the deeply personal aspects of being alive in our own skin. We each take the whole of any situation, and act accordingly.”
That, as they used to say on the dryer line at General Electric, would be too much like right.
New report dumps carbon capture
No parking zone: A flap over parking enforcement has one Audubon Park resident trumpeting claims of police abuse
By Rick Redding
The Audubon Park police department may have picked on the wrong citizen when it started enforcing a parking ordinance in front of Suzette Sewell Scheuermann’s home on Eagle Pass.
‘People are going to live here’ Louisville students represent in the not-so-Big-Easy
By Jason Sitzes
Two Louisville Collegiate high school students, both in the upper school, expressed the same idea in different ways: “It’s almost like Louisville has done more for New Orleans than FEMA.”


