RIP Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee One of the greater geniuses of rock music died last week, and many will not know his name. Not many folks under the age of 30 (and frankly, not even that many under 40 or 50) even know of Love (the band, but perhaps also the concept). Simply, Love were the first and…
Smart is as smart does: Reality says we may want to change our land use policies before it’s too late. But how?
‘Turned off the TV/ sat down to dinner/ phone rang, we were saying grace/grandma died, left us 60 acres/ the last of the old home place.’—James McMurtry, from his song “60 Acres” Almost 15 years ago, as a new reporter at a small-town weekly newspaper, I got a rude awakening about how our landscapes were…
City Strobe
Downard unfurls plan for the futureMayor Abramson is only good for pep rallies and press conferences. His administration is paralyzed by bureaucracy and focused too heavily on the Watterson-bound pre-merger City of Louisville. His administration is glad to take post-merger revenue from the old county but has yet to provide basic services like trash pickup…
Rumor & Innuendo: Rumblings From the World of Sports
Heard it on the X. There is a slight chance that U of L’s exhibition games in Canada will be available on the radio. The school is working on it. There’s a slimmer possibility that the tilts might be televised. But don’t be setting your TIVO just yet. Cats fans really seeing red. More than…
Erosia
LEO welcomes letters that are brief (250 words max) and thoughtful. Ad hominem attacks will be ignored, and we need your name and a daytime phone number. Send snail mail to EROSIA, 640 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40202. Fax to 895-9779 or e-mail to leo@leoweekly.com. We may edit for length, grammar and clarity. The…
Bluegrass Politics: Gubernatorial Power Rankings (Republicans)
Now that Fancy Farm has come and gone, the beginning of the 2007 gubernatorial campaign pre-season is upon us, like it or not. Within a few months, the regular season will begin as prospective candidates become formal ones, after gaining running mates and filing formal candidacy papers (deadline: Jan. 31). Then, on May 22, 2007,…
Culture Maven: Do you miss Norman Rockwell?
This has evolved into an ode to Norman Rockwell. Or, at least, to an America that Rockwell famously depicted last century. If you are of tender age and haven’t heard of the artist, that, too, is symptomatic of the story. How this evolution came about is a testament to the human mind and its mysterious…
Guest Commentary by Joseph Phelps: If you love God, then love the environment
Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” on global warming is yet another excellent reminder of the importance of reading from a Green Bible. The Green Bible is actually the same scriptures we read in churches and synagogues every week, no matter the color of its cover. It is simply allowing the “green” focus, or care…
Your Weekly Reeder: Where has our music gone?
At some point, and I’m not sure when, pop music and I got divorced. I’m not sure whether it was a matter of me abandoning music, or music abandoning me. Probably a little of both. Whatever, it has been a long time since I spent nights trolling the pubs and bistros, catching the hot new…
On with the show
FOR SERIAL ENTREPRENEURS ED HART AND BRUCE LUNSFORD, THE MOVIE INDUSTRY WAS JUST THE NEXT FUN THING TO DO On the set of “Watching the Detectives.â€: From left, Celine Rattray and Daniela Taplin Lundberg, both of Plum Pictures; director Paul Soter; and Ed Hart of Hart/Lunsford Pictures. Until recently, the closest Bruce Lunsford got to…
LEO’s Eat ’N’ Blog: Four-star fish
Mike Hungerford: cooks up fish tacos and more at the Seafood Connection in St. Matthews. Hungerford started cooking several years ago at his parents’ bistro in Phoenix, then at Mitchell’s Fishmarket before coming to Seafood Connection, which began serving lunches this yea I’ve never taken the position that an eatery must boast white tablecloths or…
The Bar Belle
Bar Belle Messages from the bottleThe first thing my creative writing professor told me was to write what you know. As a journalist, and bartender, I know a little bit about a lot of things. But what I do know more about is Louisville nightlife — I spend my fair share of time in this…
Aftertastes
MORRIS DELI, 2228 Taylorsville Road, 458-1668; 555 S. Second St., 587-2353. Not a traditional deli — no display cases for meats and cheeses and such — but a broad and idiosyncratic selection of goodies that includes deli favorites. Formerly Karem Deeb’s. (Reviewed 7/5; Rating: N/R) ANDREW’S GOOD HOME COOKING, 2286 Bardstown Road, 454-5399. Small Highlands…
Six-string masters: California Guitar Trio comes to town with local in tow
California Guitar Trio There is virtuosity among all instrumentalists. Then there is wizardry. The California Guitar Trio — Paul Richards, Bert Lams and Hideyo Moriya — are a truly extra-planetary collection of highly trained and creative guitarists with a range as wide as the Atlantic Ocean. Friends since studying under legendary prog guitarist Robert…
Welcome to OurSpace: Local band Wine and Spirits convinces songwriter Simon Joyner to make a pitstop
Wine & Spirits Wine and Spirits is a Louisville band not entirely unlike its namesake. Like the experience of being under the influence, there is most definitely a calming aspect to their songs, but they also creep along with an abrasive drone by no means unpleasant but completely impossible to drive out of the mind,…
Five Important Questions With VRKTM
VRKTM The thing about cock rock (see also: butt rock, ass rock, Guns ’N Roses, horse turd), what makes people like it before they realize how low-brained it is, is that the guitar riffs are provocative and seductive. They follow a natural, musically logical progression that is organically pleasing to the human ear. This is…
Club Directory
Club Directory 19th Green 1740 Williamsburg Dr. Jeffersonville (812) 284-9088 19th Hole Pub 5603 Greenwood Rd. 933-4858 717 Studios 717 Market St. 609-9317 1135 S. 7th St. 1135 S. 7th St. 589-4978 A Little Peace Café 1860 Mellwood Ave. 895-3650 Air Devil’s Inn 2802 Taylorsville Rd. 454-4443 Akiko’s 1123 Bardstown Rd. 459-8020 The Alternative…
Karaoke Korral
WED AUG 9 Akiko’s Boozseller Lounge Brewskees Creeker’s Bar & Grill Gaslite Tavern Good Times Pub Jim Porter’s Joker’s JT’s Variety Club Monon Station New View Phoenix Hill R Place Pub Ro-Joe’s Karaoke Bar Seidenfaden Cafe Shooters Skivvies Smyrna Inn Spectators Bar & Grill St. Andrew’s Pub Steinert’s T.K.’s Pub Union Station ZaZoo’s …
Staff Picks
Aug. 11-12Animecon III Anime buffs! If there are only two days this year that you’ll be out of your house, they may have to be this weekend at the Louisville Free Public Library. Animecon III is a convergence of all things Japanese, crammed efficiently into a two-day festival. The convention offers a wide range of…
Theater Review – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
[img_assist|nid=2281|title=Photo by Maria Lyle / Florida Studio Theatre|desc=|link=|align=left|width=192|height=200]The Producers Touring Group kicks off a national tour of the off-Broadway musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” in Lexington this week. David Colbert, who plays both Hedwig and Tommy Gnosis, thinks it’s a good place to begin the tour because Stephen Trask, who wrote the music and…
Strokes and jokes: Sobel hopes inaugural comedy golf scramble can go national
John Garrett: Comedians Jeff Jena, John Garrett and Seamus O’Brien will be hitting the links for “Laff Fore Life.†We’ve all seen them on TV. Celebrity golf tournaments. Seeing Alice Cooper in slacks, a polo shirt and eyeliner is one of my favorite things to watch. Why? Because it’s funny. And that’s the entire idea…
Video TapeWorm Releases through Tuesday, Aug. 15
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS:HONG KONG PHOOEY: THE COMPLETE SERIES2005; DVD $26.95, URScatman Crothers voices the inept superhero and his simpleminded janitor alter-ego Penrod Pooch in this cool ’70s Hanna-Barbera offering that has, more than once, been accused of racism. True! Blue-nosed activists actually threatened to sue HB because they hired a black man to (1)…
Community Listings
Special Events Light the Night Kickoff — hosted by John Ashton and Kathi Lincoln of 106.9 FM, open to anyone interested in becoming involved with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Aug 9, noon-1pm, free, Galt House, 140 N Fourth St., 719-0550.••Full Moon Ghost Tours — tours of Old Louisville’s Victorian neighborhood: Aug. 9, Sept. 7,…
Arts & Entertainment
Special Events Animecon III — anime convention at Louisville Free Public Library, includes kendo demonstration, Samurai sword ceremony, Japanese storytelling and more, Aug 11-12, 10am-noon, registration each day at 9:30am, 301 York St., 574-1620.••InKy Reading Series — opens fall series with poetry and music by local talent, including Mitchell Douglas, Anne Marie Fowler and more,…
