The great and powerful Host: Who’s the man behind the Arena curtain?
Late on the afternoon of April 19, Arena Authority Chairman W. James Host, accompanied by five suits with big titles, appeared before the finance committee of the Louisville Metro Council to make the case for building a downtown arena at the LG&E site instead of the old Water Company site. Although Host vowed again that…
Golden Boy bronzed: New downtown statue memorializes Paul Hornung
As a player and playboy at Notre Dame and with the Green Bay Packers of the NFL, Paul Hornung sometimes seemed larger than life. Now he really is. At least, the new bronze statue honoring him will be. The official unveiling will be at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 2, outside Slugger Field at the…
Rumor & Innuendo: Rumblings from the World of Sports
Wha happened? Back when they were just amateurs, playing hoops for the sheer love of the game and dear ol’ alma mammy, weren’t Dwyane Wade and Reece Gaines about the same? Well, the former Card looks three and done. Three NBA teams in three years and not much of a future in the league. He’s…
Ramped up: Possible closure of Third Street exit invokes terms like ‘aesthetics’ and ‘functionalityâ&acir
It’s quickly becoming the chorus to America’s drive-time soundtrack: Gas prices went up again today. The most recent jumps occurred because, as of last week, a barrel of oil topped $75. Some analysts predict that by summer’s end we’ll pay around $4 for a gallon of gas, not just on the coasts but in the…
Short News: They’ve got CLOUT
Suzanne Collett is 24 years old, with short black hair and a baby’s face. She has two daughters, a toddler who bounces over the ground like a marionette, and a stroller-bound 14-month-old. For the last month they’ve been living at Volunteers of America, a non-profit faith-based organization that helps people who’ve undergone hardships like Collett’s.…
What a Week
You’re nuts and so are youA U of L biochemist launched a company to market a test he invented that will tell people whether they’re likely to develop schizophrenia. While there’s currently no cure, the professor believes people will want to know their propensity to develop the mental disease and there’s probably good money in…
Message to the People: And the fools still worry about cruising
Derby is upon us again, and I have thoughts. In April, with impressive coordination, hundreds of thousands of people across the country took to the streets and demanded U.S. citizenship for illegal immigrants, which some estimates number around 11 million. The protestors seemed to be everywhere: New York, San Diego, Atlanta, D.C., Dallas, New Jersey,…
Culture Maven by cd kaplan
Listen. Carefully It is one of the most quoted lines in all of cinema. The context was skewed, written to be ironic. But the words themselves, if heeded, herald the human trait that could realign our harum scarum world tipping perilously off axis. “What we’ve got here,†intoned Captain, the good-ol’-boy prison overseer, to his…
Bluegrass Politics: Fletcher vs. Chandler: How about a rematch?
With barely a year until Kentucky voters select the nominees for governor in 2007, political insiders and the media are wondering if we’ll see a rematch of the 2003 race between current Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R) and U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler (D). In 2003, Fletcher ran against a climate of scandal, promising to “clean up…
The Tear Sheet by Michael Lindenberger
Earth Day 2006: Is it time for you to act? Away in the north, polar caps are melting. Around the globe, oceans are warming. High above, the sky’s sheltering blanket is thinning. May I suggest, kind readers, that it is time for a discussion in Louisville unlike any we’ve had in a very long time?…
Your Weekly Reeder: In tribute to Up an Octave
News item: Kentucky legislature fails to pass insurance plan for thoroughbred jockeys who have suffered catastrophic injuries. LEXINGTON, Ky. — In the walking ring at Keeneland, on a gray and drizzly Thursday afternoon, the big colt looked sleek and robust as his groom led him around in tight little circles. His name was Up an…
Erosia
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The Long Review: Solid Gold – a big batch of T. Rex reissues
Mark Feld was a short, chubby, Jewish lad from the London ’burbs. After slimming down, growing his hair, playing in a few bands and changing his name to Marc Bolan, he morphed his very 1960s hippy-dippy folk duo Tyrannosaurus Rex into the very ’70s full-on electric psychedelic boogie band T. Rex, becoming a bona fide…
Theater Review – Bed, Boys & Beyond
With a minimalist set and a shoestring budget, Pandora Productions nevertheless delivers a fun-filled evening of enthusiastically performed skits depicting the joy and pathos of four men trying to find love and acceptance in a community that is “not communal.” Although the musical revue is gay-themed, its message is one all can relate to —…
Theater Review – Crowns
by Rebecca Haithcoat The morning after I attended a performance of “Crowns,” I marched right out and bought my first real hat. Sure, my closet holds its fair share of newsboy caps, woolen winter beanies and scarves. Yet my head had never been graced by the likes of the hats displayed on the stage of…
Karaoke
WED APRIL 26Akiko’sBrewskees Brickyard Sports Bar Creeker’s Bar & GrillGaslite Tavern Good Times Pub Jim Porter’sJoker’sJT’s Variety Club Mac’s HideawayMain MenuMonon Station New ViewPhoenix HillR Place Pub Reflections Lounge Ro-Joe’s Karaoke BarSeidenfaden Cafe Shooters Sid’s Pub SkivviesSmyrna Inn St. Andrew’s PubSteinert’s T.K.’s Pub Union Station Wick’s Pizza, DixieZaZoo’s THU APRIL 2719th Hole Pub Akiko’s Angelo’sBrewskees…
Club Directory
19th Green 1740 Williamsburg Dr., Jeffersonville (812) 284-908819th Hole Pub 5603 Greenwood Rd. 933-4858717 Studios 717 Market St. 609-93171135 S. 7th St. 1135 S. 7th St. 589-4978A Little Peace Café 1860 Mellwood Ave. 895-3650Air Devil’s Inn 2802 Taylorsville Rd. 454-4443Akiko’s 1123 Bardstown Rd. 459-8020The Alternative 1032 Story Ave. 561-7613Angelo’s 627 N. 34th St. 776-9127Artemisia 620…
Project/Object carries on in the Zappa tradition
Note: As he aptly explains in the first question, Jon Beazlie is not a journalist, nor a writer. He is LEO’s production coordinator, and more informally a cultural ambassador. The operative fact herein is that he’s LEO’s resident Frank Zappa maniac. So when the Music Desk learned that Ike Willis was coming to town with…
Kumbaya, my lord, with Tiger Saw
Massachusetts’ Tiger Saw is a folk band of sorts, but you never know what incarnation they will appear in next. Founded by singer-songwriter Dylan Metrano, Tiger Saw has been everything from Metrano performing solo to a folk orchestra with more than 15 members singing along and playing all sorts of instruments including — but not…
Art show benefits retired thoroughbreds
“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” is the title of a terrific book and movie. It is also reality for some unfortunate thoroughbreds, those top-of-the-line athletes we are used to seeing in Kentucky. The best-known example of the needless killing of a racehorse is the case of 1986 Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand, who died in…
Splatters: ART NEWS BITS
Bird artist Ray Harm’s limited-edition print featuring two cardinals is now for sale and will benefit U of L’s J. Graham Brown Cancer Center. He will sign the print during U of L graduation events on May 12-13. Call 852-7768 to pre-register to purchase the $125 print. The Children’s Free Art Classes, a Louisville Visual…
Staffpicks
Friday, April 28Unstable Barn Party So your chances of sneaking into the Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala are even more remote than winning Powerball? Just hit the Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center, where you can eat and drink and dance off the rejection. Unlike its $1,200 counterpart, the Unstable Barn Party is free and the celebrities…
Community Listings
Special Events Career Fair — National College of Business and Technology holding free fair, April 26, 12:30pm-6pm, 4205 Dixie Hwy., 447-7634. FIND of Louisville — free training for families of children with disabilities, April 27, 6:30-8:30pm, Fairdale Neighborhood Place, National Turnpike & Gene Snyder, 584-1239.Kentucky Flea Market — with 1,000 booths of antiques, collectibles, jewelry,…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events ••New Albany Public Library — “Celebrating Indiana’s Overlooked Cultural Heritage” looks at abandoned and forgotten places through photography, April 27, 7-8:15pm, Strassweg Auditorium, 180 W. Spring St., (812) 944-8464.Legal Aid Society of Louisville — third annual “Brush, Bottle & Barrel of the Bluegrass” preview party for Cherokee Triangle Art Fair features wine tasting,…
Video TapeWorm Releases Through May 2.
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: LIVE FROM AUSTIN TEXAS2006; DVD $19.95 each, URThree terrific new offerings from TV’s premier live-music showcase. First “The Sir Douglas Quintet” … what? You don’t remember “She’s About A Mover?” For shame! A rare treat for early indie rock fans. Next, songwriter Billy Joe Shaver showcases such honky-tonk hits as “I…
Aftertastes
Quality of Meal: 3 = Good; 4 = Very good; 5 = Extraordinary. Price Range: $ = $10 or less; $$ = $20 or less; $$$ = $30 or less; $$$$ = more than $30. (Per person for a meal without tip or tax.) HA = Wheelchair accessible. Descriptions are summaries of previously published dining…
Nibbles
The biggest fight on Derby Day will probably be the altercation when my neighbor, Mike Murphy, gets into a battle with his wife, Mona, on the way out of the Downs, as they discuss Mike’s inevitable betting losses. But the second-biggest fight of the day, for those who admire the pugilistic arts, will be televised…
Jucy’s masters the barbecue basics … and beyond
When Columbus first visited American shores (which weren’t then called “American,” but that’s a whole ’nother story), he encountered the Arawak Indians (who weren’t really Indian, but let’s call a halt to all these digressions), and was reportedly amazed to find them doing two unusual things with fire. First, they stuck lighted cylinders of rolled,…
WATERING HOLE WORKFORCE
Like a good neighbor, Brad Jennings is there at Red LoungeBY STEPHEN GEORGE The first thing that registers while I’m crossing Frankfort Avenue toward the Red Lounge on the last Thursday in March is the two rows of motorcycles in the front lot. The façade’s signature garage doors are up, electronic music emanates from within,…
RIP: Pour out a little liquor for these dead homies …
316 Ormsby: 316 OrmsbyAllure: 2420 S. Fourth St.BAR Louisville: 436 Baxter Ave.Chugs: 2817 Del Rio Pl.Dugout Bar and Grill: 130 N. Spring St.Furlong’s: 2350 Frankfort Ave.Fusion: 1605 Story Ave.The Gate: 1335 Story Ave.Have a Nice Day Café: 436 Baxter Ave.Kelly’s Bar and Lounge: 5110 Dixie Hwy.Maier’s Tavern: 3921 Shelbyville Rd.Mike’s Place: 2301 Taylorsville Rd.Paddock Pub:…
2006 LEO Bar Guide
COMPILED BY SARA HAVENS, JONATHAN FRANK, CHRIS COX, MATT MATTINGLY “Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”—Oscar Wilde Let’s have a toast to bars. All bars. The good ones, the bad ones, the dives, the clubs, the expensive ones, the cheap ones, the everybody-knows-your-name ones, the perfect-one-night-stand-pickup ones. Putting this list together was like…
Handling friendship problems is a matter of geography
BY MICHAEL JACKMAN Lately several of my friendships, for various reasons, are in jeopardy. I’m building up anger and frustration with people I’ve known and been happy with for about six years. But now stuff has happened, words have been exchanged, and my feelings are hurt. None of my approaches to relationship problems have ever…
REALLY GOTTA GO  Bar Bathrooms: Loving and loathing Louisville loos
If you think about it, given any one night at a bar, you can spend a good deal of the time in the bathroom — waiting in line, doing your business, gossiping, re-applying lipstick or, for those with weak livers, white-knuckling the rim. A bar bathroom is a lot like a bedroom — some you…
Single in an unfamiliar city: Can you really bond over a Hot Brown?
BY MELANIE WOLKOFF WACHSMAN I’m not overly materialistic, but I will admit that a diamond can make you do crazy things.Case in point: I got one (in the form of an engagement ring), and then not only agreed to embark on a new life with someone I love, I agreed to move to Louisville to…
