Cable Boxing – LEO”S WEEKLY TELEVISION REHASH
‘Weeds’ tokes it on the run Weeds Season 4, Episode 1: “Mother Thinks The Birds Are After Her” Showtime, Mondays, 10 p.m., aired June 16. Starring Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Nealon, Justin Kirk, Hunter Parrish, Allie Grant and Alexander Gould. Synopsis: With the embers of Majestic and Agrestic smoldering in their rearview mirror, Nancy…
Theater Review – “Some Men” & Wonky “Willy Wonka”
(Pandora Productions presents Terrence McNally’s “Some Men” at the Henry Clay Building through June 29. Directed by J. Daniel Herring. Call 216-5502 or visit www.PandoraProds.org.) During the New York Public Library’s historic 1994 exhibition “Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall,” one amazed viewer felt compelled to ask, “How did this get here?” In Pandora’s final…
What A Week – The City”s Weekly Zeitgeist Radar
+2 Following a five-month trial period, the mayor’s office has announced that all police officers and Metro government employees will be assessed a fee to take their vehicles home or to a second job. Officers taking city vehicles home will be charged $30 a month, while those who use their cars for a second job…
Shaking up the world
Muhammad Ali is arguably the most famous person in the world. We just can’t get enough of his floatin’ and stingin’. Aside from his illustrious boxing career, of course, he has left a legacy more meaningful and lasting than any right hook could ever be. The University of Louisville’s Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and…
Muddy waters – A recent lawsuit rekindles questions of accountability in Floyds Fork
The April 15 legal appeal by the Floyds Fork Environmental Association, which had attempted to sue the Kentucky Waterways Alliance and other parties for violation of the Open Meetings Act, is an intriguing read. It lays forth a story of collusion among business and government bent on collecting federal funds for their own interests. Even…
Double whammy – An anti-gay flier may”ve cost Ken Herndon a seat on the council. Along the way, the council president was bull
Among the primary campaigns in May, the race for the Metro Council’s 6th District seat, between Democratic incumbent George Unseld and challenger Ken Herndon, was the closest. Unseld won by a razor-thin margin, beating Herndon by 112 votes. The Saturday before the election, voters opened their mailboxes to find a nasty mailer that likely changed…
Gannett Watch
Courier-Journal employees are about to have their pensions frozen. As of Aug. 1, C-J parent company Gannett will no longer pay into the established pension benefit program, according to a memo written by CEO Craig Dubow and provided to LEO by a current C-J employee. That memo, circulated to Gannett employees via e-mail June 11,…
ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO – Special Philadelphia edition
Q Dear Mexican: I recently went to a Los Angeles Dodgers game at Dodgers Stadium. It was good to see the familias having fun with their children, pero I then saw and heard something disturbing. There will always be rivalries in any sport, of course, pero the white people cheering for the St. Louis Cardinals…
Wayside demolition plan still wrecking East Downtown vibes
If things go as Wayside Christian Mission plans, the three buildings that comprise its Market Street frontage would be piles of rubble at the end of this month, replaced in time by a large, streamlined structure intended to better accommodate the hundreds of women and children who spend their days and nights there. The facades…
Music Reviews
Run Run Interstates (THE RECORD MACHINE) After Louisville instrumental band Of Asaph called it quits (or did they?), Alex O’Nan and Kyle Noltemeyer probably discovered they had entirely too much talent and creativity to stop playing altogether. This week they reboot under their new project, Interstates, for the release of Run Run, 50 minutes of…
Hometown heroics
PHOTOS BY FRANKIE STEELE My Morning Jacket’s first in-store performance at ear X-tacy last Tuesday drew a throng of 500 devotees About halfway through the euphoric rendering of Evil Urges at ear X-tacy last Tuesday, My Morning Jacket singer and guitarist Jim James paused to share an autobiographical moment. My Morning Jacket is scheduled to…
30 years on, Blondie re-draws the Lines
Blondie succeeded in straddling the styles of the ’70s and ’80s, a feat tried by many but accomplished by few. They came out of the resident roster of bands hanging around CBGB’s in New York, but Blondie’s basic sound was more radio-friendly than art-punkers The Talking Heads or Television, and it wasn’t long before Blondie…
By any other name, it”s still Mark Kozelek
On his group’s latest album, April, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek produces melodic folk soundscapes and sings from the heart about life’s ups and downs. April is only Sun Kil Moon’s third release, but Kozelek, the primary member, has been a folk-rock pioneer for more than 15 years now, beginning his career in 1989 with the visionary…
B-Sides – MUSIC & OTHER EPHEMERA – All over but the shoutin”
The Lee Boys are a sacred steel band whose music Paradigm keyboardist Brian Healey calls “an upbeat, funky, gospel sound.” Usually those adjectives aren’t found in the same sentence. But then again, sacred steel is atypical gospel. The style originated when lap steel guitar was introduced at Protestant House of God worship services in the…
Inbox – June 17, 2008
Corrections • An item in last week’s film issue erroneously reported that filmmaker Bruce Skinner ran Blue Sage Mercantile. Skinner, in fact, is completing two additional documentaries: “May the Horse Be With You,” a film about the extraordinary relationships people have with horses; and “Kentucky Elks Club,” a wildlife film about the transplanting of elks…
The Video Tapeworm – Releases through Tuesday, June 24
by David B. King and Bill Raker THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS FUTURAMA: THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS 2008; $29.95, UR This sort-of sequel to “Futurama: Bender’s Big Score” finds Earth being molested by a horny, planet-sized creature with billions of sensuously probing tentacles (“urging a woman to let go” … sorry, that used to…
TERRASTOCK SCHEDULE
June 19-22, 2008 THURSDAY June 19 The Photographic — 7 p.m. Inside Parlour — 8 p.m. Inside Dead Maids — 10 p.m. Inside Hush Arbors — 11 p.m. Inside FRIDAY June 20 United Bible Studies — 12 p.m. Outside Sharon Krauss — 12:50 p.m. Outside Ignatz — 1:40 p.m. Inside Antietam — 2:30 p.m. Outside…
Sapat, Tara Jane O”Neil pause in mid-excavation for live catharsis
Were the name Tapes ’N Tapes not already taken, it would be an appropriate “I appreciate the opportunity to keep the music living,” she says. “To some degree, it’s about sharing that part of things, and also, it’s demonstrative of the process or some of the processes I go through in creating all this stuff.” …
Espvall and Batoh are two of a kind, for now
Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh give the final performance of Friday night at Terrastock 7. They’re worth sticking around for, especially because we can’t be sure that this collaboration will be renewed after their short tour accompanying Damon & Naomi, an act that has appeared at every Terrastock. But we’ll be able to savor the…
Mono stretches its tentacles across the world
The performances and recordings of Japanese instrumental quartet Mono are often described as Zen-like, but also dynamic. Gentle interludes, gathering storms and slashing cacophonies come out to the listener in a unique, almost stoic grace, even when howls of feedback are unleashed. The two releases from 2006 show the band’s controlled restlessness. You Are There…
Terrastock 7 – The music fest that”s freaky, drone-y, spacey … and now it”s ours
It is said that this musical scene is underground, so why are there so many references to space? A band named Bardo Pond will regale us with the best of “psychedelphia.” Other acts are named after a Russ Meyer movie, a comet and a Civil War battle. This weekend, Louisville will be the recognized nexus…
French Flying: Le Relais soars
WITH GUEST WRITER PAIGE MOORE-HEAVIN Le Relais consistently ranks among my top five restaurants in Louisville, and on any given night, it can make the top one. Yet a lot of people are wary of experiencing this great dining room. Some fear it will be too expensive. Others sweat the potential embarrassment of being unable…
The Bar Belle
Vegas vacation Vegas is my kind of city — with free drinks and 24-hour buffets, you can’t really go wrong, unless you actually go to gamble. I’m one of those people who screw the system, but I’m OK with it. I can sleep at night. I’ll stick $10 in a machine just as the waitress…
Aftertastes
STEVENS & STEVENS DELI, 1114 Bardstown Rd., 584-3354, HYPERLINK “http://www.stevensandstevensdeli.com” www.stevensandstevensdeli.com. Located in the back of Ditto’s Grill on Bardstown Road, Stevens & Stevens has built a loyal following the old-fashioned way, providing quality deli fare at reasonable prices. (Reviewed 5/7/08; Rating: 89) JASON’S DELI, 410 N. Hurstbourne Pkwy Ste. 100, 412-4101, HYPERLINK “http://www.jasonsdeli.com” www.jasonsdeli.com.…
Plain Brown Rapper – Guns and defense of country, self and others
PREFACE: This is Rap No. 274. My next Rap, “The Revolution Solution,” will be my last. Then I lay down my pen. No one can make me write another word. I have fought monsters for 15 years. Let another pick up the sword. I chose this Rap to be about guns. It is not my…
Connected Diss – The Lois Lane factor
I have always thought that the creators of Superman missed a bet. Had they been a tad more gender sensitive, they would have realized that as a girl reporter, Lois Lane possessed the power of invisibility, a special power unfortunately still possessed by women in the media today. Despite many gains for women in many…
EDITOR’S NOTE: If you can read this, thank a taxpayer
Not surprisingly, the Louisville Free Public Library has yet to arrive on the American Library Association’s list of the nation’s 100 largest systems. There are many reasons for this, none of which is that the city failed to pass a slight increase in the occupational tax last November that would’ve resulted in a brand-new budget…
Chalk it up to Zen – Street artist Tracy Lee Stum finds solace in her 3-D creations
You’d be forgiven for thinking suddenly, in a moment of panic, that you were about to fall down a flight of stairs that somehow found its way into a completely random point on the sidewalk. “Passage to India”: a three-dimensional illusion street painting by Tracy Lee Stum, who holds the Guinness World Record for the…
Staffpicks
June 19-July 13 KY Shakespeare Fest’s ‘Julius Caesar’ The nation’s oldest free and independently operating Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 48th season this summer, kicking off this week with “Julius Caesar,” the master’s writ on nobility and honor. More than a dry recitation of history, this play is full of intrigue, scheming and backstabbing. As always,…
The India Thomas Friedman failed to glimpse
Ever since the Big Cheese himself, Thomas Friedman, spent a few weeks in Bangalore back in 2004 and then came back to pronounce that the world, after all, is flat and we should all engage in a free-market orgy, we’ve seen an influx of literature (both fiction and non) from India, proving him … a…
Forgotten Fiction – CLASSICS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
The Garden Party and Other Stories (By Katherine Mansfield. First published in 1922.) Born in New Zealand, Katherine Mansfield emigrated to England, where she became a contemporary of Virginia Woolf, who greatly admired her work. Mansfield died of tuberculosis at a much too young age — just a year after the publication of this fine…
Carmichael”s top 5 staffpicks
1) “Little Things: A Memoir in Slices” by Jeffrey Brown (graphic novel) — Jeff Brown creates the most vulnerable, honest comics around. His deceptively simple drawings and natural dialogue spring to life off the page and are sure to have you feeling his joy and pain. —Kate Hanratty 2) “Bigfoot: I Not Dead” by Graham…
Lady Macbeth: A Novel
(By Susan Fraser King. Crown; 340 pp., $23.95.) Lady Macbeth: A Novel: By Susan Fraser King. Crown; 340 pp., .95 Lady Macbeth — is there any figure more in need of rescue from her characterization in a literary masterwork? Nobody looks to Shakespeare for historical accuracy, but the reputations of Macbeth and his wife may…
