The Video Tapeworm – Releases through Tuesday, Oct. 7
and Bill Raker THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: THE VISITOR 2008; $29.95-$39.95, PG-13 The best film you’ve never seen. Richard Jenkins (“Six Feet Under”) plays a traveling college professor who discovers a pair of squatters living in his apartment. At first frightened, he comes to realize the aimlessness of his life as they teach him to…
Movin” on up? Wayside”s proposal to move a homeless shelter to the Highlands has everyone in a tizzy
Most of the lights on East Market Street are out, not the result of the recent violence of a hurricane-associated windstorm, but because of the implied curfew that comes with a somewhat depressed but still managing to gentrify neighborhood like this. It is a weekend night, midnight, outside Wayside Christian Mission’s east downtown complex, a…
WHAT A WEEK
-10 How about a heaping helping of gay bashing with that Big Mac? That’s what the McDonald’s on East Market Street served up on July 26, when an employee repeatedly called two customers “faggots.” When they reported the slurs, the manager apparently didn’t see what the big deal was. The ACLU has filed a complaint…
Avett Brothers pair with giant; Lucky”s strike
Friday, Sept. 26 The bubble bursts for Lucky Pineapple Friday at the Glassworks rooftop (815 W. Market St.). Bloomington’s Push-Pull opens, and other features include fire-spinning by the Phoenix Collective, a celebratory glass pineapple by McKinley Moore (maybe you can drink out of it?) and an afterparty with OK Deejays, aka A. Bell and Narwhal.…
Staffpicks
Thursday, Sept. 25 ‘Jane: An Abortion Story’ The popular image of 1960s feminism is of academic feminism: middle-class women sitting around and critiquing patriarchy. But in many places, feminism was far more practical: magazines on sex education, shelters for battered women, inexpensive home birthing and, in Chicago, an abortion underground. “Jane: An Abortion Story” documents…
Music Reviews
The Bubble Has Burst In Sky City Lucky Pineapple (NOISE POLLUTION) This sophomore release from Louisville favorites Lucky Pineapple follows the parameters of a classic prog-rock album, letting eight songs sprawl and luxuriate over 42 mostly instrumental minutes. The sometimes-epic track lengths are hardly the only thing progressive about Lucky Pineapple: Their freewheeling eclecticism, fearless…
All Ike and no water – Hurricane Ike”s crazy winds brought Louisville to its knees. Most of it, anyway
It was shaping up to be a beautiful late-summer Sunday afternoon when Hurricane Ike unexpectedly thrashed Louisville. At least that’s what I hear. I was 2,000 miles away in San Francisco when I first learned 70-mile-per-hour winds had whipped through the city. “You wouldn’t believe it,” my dad told me as he surveyed the damage.…
Memo from the Winners” Circle
To: Mr. Eldrick “Tiger Who?” Woods From: Team America Re: Easy Ryder Cup at Val Holler Hey, buddy. Just kidding about that “Tiger Who?” stuff. We know that “you da man,” as those drooling idiots in the galleries like to yell from time to time. It’s just that we’re pretty deep in the champagne here…
Electric win Cards light up Papa John”s Stadium
Last week’s gotta-have-a-W battle between U of L and Kansas State was not the usual made-for-TV athletic department-implored blackout. Cards fans could wear what they wanted to the game. It was a real blackout, on a Football Wednesday when our burg was distracted over the lack of power, and distraught because it might be like…
B-Sides – MUSIC & OTHER EPHEMERA
Bedlam ensues Photo by Kacy Machir: Two years in the making, Better Than Bedlam’s debut album finally sees cellophane Saturday. Two years in the making, Better Than Bedlam’s debut album finally sees cellophane Saturday. Singer-guitarists Tyler Stiller and Laren Rapp, drummer Justin Lee and bassist Adam Hamilton have been doing what most local musicians do:…
Say ”tello to Kelly Kaduce
Kentucky Opera nabs up-and-coming soprano for Verdi classic You take Desdemona, the beautiful but tragic heroine of “Otello,” the Verdi grand opera to be presented by Kentucky Opera Friday and Sunday at the Kentucky Center. Yes, Desdemona is beautiful. And, yes, she’s desperately desirable. And this Otello fellow can’t help but go crazy for her.…
Inbox — Sept. 24, 2008
SHOW SOME MERCY As employees and a business owner in the Highlands, we were approached by a nice lady from the Original Highlands Neighborhood Association with a petition. The petition was against Wayside buying the old Mercy Academy property. She informed us that Wayside Christian Mission was planning on purchasing Mercy and placing 350+ drunk,…
The Video Tapeworm – Releases through Tuesday, Sept. 30
and Bill Raker THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL 2008; $29.95-$39.95, R Jason Segel of “How I Met Your Mother” is terrific in this romantic comedy/disaster flick, which he also wrote, for producer Judd Apatow. When the titular Sarah — an absolutely stunning Kristen Bell — dumps him for a demented rock star, Jason…
Reader’s Choice 2008 Winners
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Best Annual Festival 1) KY Derby Festival 2) St. James Art Fair 3) Thunder Over Louisville Best Charitable Event 1) Crusade for Children 2) St. Joseph’s Orphans Picnic 3) St. Baldrick’s Louisville AIDS Walk Best Film Festival 1) Last Call Film Festival 2) Gay & Lesbian 3) 48-Hour Film Fest Best Church…
Readers” Choice – LEO Weekly”s (Probably) Overly Optimistic Guide to Promising Changes in Louisville
Once a year, for reasons known mostly by our advertising department, we let you people say what’s good in our fair river burg — unequivocally and without embellishment. It is an inexact science, as you’ll see in the following pages, and (sometimes unfortunately) we make no executive decisions as to what should qualify or, more…
What”s old is new (again)
I was born and raised in Louisville, and have fond childhood memories of this fair city: posting up on the curb at Derby parades (never mind a few close-calls with crazed Shriners in tiny cars), daring to water ski on the Ohio (it’s called boosting your immune system) and pulling up to Frisbee Field on…
Fables of the Deconstruction
The Wicked Messenger If you have been paying attention to the LEO letters page over the last couple months, you may have become aware of a kerfuffle regarding a LEO critic who panned an album by Alejandro Escovedo. One reader advised that he might have agreed with the reviewer, but the review lacked any basis…
Aftertastes
RECENTLY REVIEWS IN LEO JARFI’S BISTRO, 1543 Bardstown Rd., 589-5060, www.jarfis.com. Jarfi’s menu has changed a bit (it’s always evolving), but what is truly new here is the atmosphere — whereas Lentini’s was upscale and sophisticated, the new Jarfi’s is colorful, vibrant and ethnically diverse. Under one roof, diners can encounter a French-style bistro, a…
Francene
Stimulate this I need to break a cardinal rule. Even though this is my very first of what I hope will be a long line of LEO Weekly columns, I’m going to tell you how much money I make. I know discussing compensation is indelicate. Still, I’m naming numbers — because I didn’t get a…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Infinite sadness
“The fact of the matter is that if you’re a true-blue, market-savvy Young Voter, the only thing you’re certain to feel about John McCain’s campaign is a very modern and American type of ambivalence, a sort of interior war between your deep need to believe and your deep belief that the need to believe is…
Locavore Lore – Looking for the perfect seasonal dish? Beet it
Making out under the bleachers … smoking cigarettes behind the bushes … carving dirty words on the stall doors. What did the poor beet do to deserve such a bad reputation? I don’t think I’ve ever encountered another vegetable as maligned and misunderstood as the beet, which is one of the most delicious root vegetables…
Suburban Turmoil – The ex factor
“What ever happened to Tom Wilson?” I asked my friend Helen the other day. “I never see him anymore.” “Oooh,” Helen said, her voice delightedly lowering to a conspiratorial tone, “You know he used to be friends with Margaret when they were teenagers, right?” “Yeah.” “Well, Margaret finally admitted to her husband that she slept…
The Bar Belle – The Ten Commandments of Drinking
While last Saturday’s Gettin’ Drunky in Kentucky was a success (read: we think most of the 50 or so walkers made it to Bearno’s in one piece), I violated some major rules when it comes to drinking, causing a week of shame, regret and a sense of overall douchebaginess. So I thought I’d create the…
