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Homebrew: Craft beer before craft beer was cool
The mustachioed 20-something sips away at his IPA of the week as he peers around the bar. All around him, people drink beers of all styles, colors and creeds. “Craft beer” is the buzz term of the 2010s thanks to a beer-drinking public that has increasingly demanded more and more from its beer than a…
Grateville Dead: A Day-Long Celebration of Jerry’s Birthday and The Dead
Monkey Wrench owner Dennie Humphrey and bartender Ashley Angel had the idea for Grateville Dead after going to Abbey Road on the River. With all the Deadheads, Dead-influenced music and Dead cover bands around these parts, they wondered why Louisville doesn’t have a festival celebrating all things Dead. Then, being the make-it-happen kinda folks they…
LEO Playlist 7/27: Rakim, Strand of Oaks and more
The first three bands on this week’s playlist will all be at Waterfront Wednesday on July 29 to play a free show. Music starts at 6 p.m. 1) “An Honest Man” by Fantastic Negrito 2) “Shut In” by Stand of Oaks 3) “Katherine Bell” by American Aquarium … and on to the rest of our…
Barkeep Confessions: The plight of the female bartender
T’was an average Tuesday evening at my sprawling cherry wood bar, craft brew and hot wings permeating the air like a Glade plug-in, when a gentleman bearing an uncanny resemblance to the stalker from the movie The Bodyguard bellied up to my bar. I politely and promptly greeted him and served him a pint. Several minutes later,…
Visually Speaking: this week’s art news and events (7/27/15)
[The above image is work by Diversity Studio artists showing at Wayside Expressions Gallery.] Art news On Tuesday, July 28, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., the Food Literacy Project’s Youth Community Agriculture Project (YCAP) will activate “Grain Pit,” a sculpture installed in Republic Bank as part of Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft’s “Food Shelter Clothing”…
A Q&A with artist Mary Levinsky
[The above image features a mask by Mary Levinsky. Photo credit: Amber Estes Thieneman.] Mary Levinsky creates unusual and beautiful works of art. Her animal masks are a hit on Etsy (missmarymask.etsy.com). Another successful venture is her shop, Block Party Handmade Boutique (blockpartyhandmade.com) at 560 S. Fourth St. LEO: What type of artist are you?…
An after-Forecastle look at its place in the festival circuit — plus the retirement of #fedorcastle
[Above photo by Nik Vechery] I’ve retired #fedorcastle. This was a thing I did on Twitter. I’d creepshot a festival goer wearing a fedora and tweet it out with that pun-y hashtag. Fedoras provide good joke fodder due to their popularity and the general population’s inability to figure out how to wear one. Are you sporting…
Dreaming of a better world: The future of Kentucky Jobs with Justice
If you are at all familiar with the social and economic landscape in Louisville, you have heard of Kentucky Jobs with Justice (KyJwJ). Its victories against the Yum! corporation’s exploitation of farm workers, it’s successful campaign to get Louisville to sign onto Ban the Box (a national movement addressing employment practices that unfairly target ex-offenders…
Free Falling Waltz: A conversation with Kaleidico
Electronic music can often come in a form that is super slick and processed, which, for some, can strip the humanity out of it. What’s seldom articulated in those moments are the microscopic tempo or key changes that account for the human element in music; a drum machine is mechanically precise, but a person is…
b-sides
Well, this year we’ll all have to collectively shake those post-Forecastle blues and lingering dehydration and try to get back to some level of normality quickly because Iroquois Amphitheater has a few solid shows this week and next. On Thursday, July 23, Grace Potter (with opener Jessica Lea Mayfield) will be there and the following…
A New Hope
We were just a little over two weeks from moving back into our house. The river had flooded us out back in March, and after a battle with MSD that we didn’t exactly win, but took the consolation prize, we were finally on our way to getting back in. For the past four months, my wife, son…
Plugged-In (July 22 – July 28)
WED July 22nd 8Up: DJ Matt Anthony; 7:30 p.m. Baxters 942: Full Contact Karaoke; 10 p.m. Bearno’s (Bardstown): Petar Mandic; 7 p.m. Brownies The Shed: John Hager; 10 p.m. Commonwealth Tap: Dick Wood’s tribute to Frank Sinatra; 8 p.m. Diamond Pub (St. Matthews): Devereaux Duo; 10 p.m. El Nopal (Crestwood): Nick Nichols; 7 p.m. Gerstle’s…
Portraits of the artists by Iacovazzi-Pau
I remember the first time I met David Iacovazzi-Pau and saw his art. (That alone is a news worthy event because I have a bad memory. Let me be truthful here; I remembered some of the exhibition and had to look up the rest.) It took place at the Art Beat Gallery on Bardstown Road…
Even with its growth, Forecastle keeps its local spirit alive
[Above photo by John Miller] The music at Forecastle this year was top notch, but for my recap I’m not going to spend anytime talking about my favorite acts, biggest disappointments or anything of that nature. Instead I want to talk about “haters.” Now, I hate the phrase “hater,” which categorically makes me a “hater”…
Louisville’s favorite ‘pub theater’ celebrates five years
It might be shocking when I write the next few words, so brace yourself … The Bard’s Town is celebrating its 5th anniversary. “Some days it feels like five years and some days it feels like 20,” The Bard’s Town co-owner Doug Schutte tells me. No matter how it may feel, our favorite neighborhood pub…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS KABOUL KITCHEN: SEASON ONE 2012; $39.98; UR No, it’s not another damned reality cooking show! Instead we offer a wildly different comic look at a father and adult daughter during the George Bush era, who come together in a posh free-wheeling enclave of sex and liquor in the heart of devoutly…
Epic Sammich Co. is not Rumplings, but it’ll do
For a too-short, brilliant seven months, the glory that was Rumplings blazed like a comet soaring across the sky of Louisville’s dining scene. Then, just like that, one night in early June, Rumplings went dark, accompanied by a chorus of wails from despairing fans. Okay. I admit it. That’s kind of dramatic. But dammit, that’s…
Don’t fear the mall sushi
When I was a teenager, eating at the mall meant a slice from Sbarro or maybe a cup of potatoes from Steak and Fries, or whatever that chain was called. But sushi? At what point did sushi become mall food? Well, at Oxmoor Mall, it absolutely is. At a kiosk called, simply, Rice, you will…
A battle in an old war…
A long time ago when I was younger — in my 20s — I had my first apartment, a full-time job and a very sweet cat. I went to work, went to school, came home, crawled in bed with my cat and watched the news. I did this most every day for two years. Luckily…
The cruel irony of tough ‘justice’
The only good death is one for which you’re ready. This suffocating, ass-kicking humidity is only half of it. I see dead people — and shiny, angry people holding arms. It’s enough to make you lose your religion. But maybe if we cussed more, we’d kill less. No? Why are so many of us acting…
I’m not a scientist, I’m a ‘sarcasticist’
It has been pretty daunting living in this crazy world of weather, not being a scientist, having to live in the dark ages of ridiculously-cool weather apps, satellite and storm-tracking gadgets that allow you to see exactly what tree was hit by lightning within the last half hour (true story). I can’t imagine how terrifying…
Your Voice
Facebook In response to “UofL accepting donations (to pay President Ramsey’s taxes)” I am accepting donations to pay for my MBA from UofL, if anyone’s interested in donating to that instead. — Andrea Sanders, July 16 I’m glad I have never made a donation to the university when they’ve called me. As a grad of…
