The mandatory review column
Now that Christmas once again has been saved from the secularists, we turn to New Year’s, another holiday that has evolved over time. That’s right, Jan. 1 has not always been the first day of the New Year, not to speak of a day worthy of hangovers. According to Information Please, the Mesopotamians celebrated a…
What a Week
Commandments posted, broken A federal appeals court upheld Mercer County’s right to display the Ten Commandments in its courthouse, ruling that the commandments are part of a historical display and show no religious intent. The good people of Mercer County celebrated the victory by breaking the coveting, false-witness, stealing, adultery, parent-honoring, Sabbath-keeping and the-Lord’s-name-in-vain-taking commandments.…
2005 didn’t suck as bad as we thought!
A collective dispatch from the LEO MUSIC DESK Stephen GeorgeIt’s hard, in a year marred by bookend natural disasters of an unholy scale (remember the tsunami?), the same dumb brute president with his wars and doublespeak, a new Ashlee Simpson record and the impending divorce of her brainless sis, to relax and focus on what’s…
Nibbles
Nibbles New Year’s at Maido Steam some mochigome, a short-grained sweet rice from Japan, then pound it in a wooden mortar until it becomes, in the words of one cookbook, “a smooth, silky snow white dough,†and you have mochi. Form your mochi into small cakes, then toast them so they have a stretchy, chewy…
Erosia
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No end Insight: Round 3
Since humans began using the Gregorian calendar, Dec. 31 has signified a day of cleansing, reckoning and perhaps most optimistically, new hope. We’ll have none of that around here, thanks. Three days from now, television-watching Louisvillians may notice a change on their dial. WYCS — the call letters stand for “Your Community Station†— will…
Rumblings From the World of Sports
The black of it. What’s wrong with this list of NFL coaches: Marvin Lewis of the Bengals, Tony Dungy of the Colts and Da Bears’ Lovie Smith? Oh, yeah, that’s right: These guys are all in the playoffs and all are of the Negro persuasion. They’re not supposed to know how to coach in the…
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…
Watcha gonna do?
If by now you haven’t etched in stone some kind of New Year’s plan, well … uh, I dunno what that means. Maybe you’re lazy, or like most righteous people in the world, just an imperiled procrastinator. Perhaps this is a sore spot for you, something for which the prospect of 2006 affords the luxury…
Live from Iraq: The best Christmas gift: a quiet day in Mosul
BY LT. COL. JOHN G. NORRIS U.S. ARMY 4TH BATTALION 23RD INFANTRY OF THE STRYKER BRIGADE LEO is publishing occasional reports from Louisville native John G. Norris, who holds a key Army command in Mosul, Iraq. This is the second installment. Sitting in my office, I heard a knock and the distinct sound of someone…
Party like it’s 1995: Metroschifter is playing a show again. Really.
Here’s what you need to know: Metroschifter has reunited and is playing a show on Dec. 30 at the Rudyard Kipling. This is a relatively significant moment in Louisville’s music history, as Metroschifter — though on the caboose of what most consider our city’s musical freight train — was one of a lonely few bands…
NO-Shima: New Orleans is destroyed. NO-kidding.
Prologue: Saturday night, Aug. 27 Katrina eve — and I with my family am about to spend a nervous last full night in our home. One of our local TV weathermen says if the storm does not turn right by 10 a.m. on Sunday morning, New Orleans will be hit. On Sunday morning, Mayor Ray…
Staff Picks
Staffpicks PARTY Saturday, Dec. 31 Zoo Year’s Eve I’ve always thought break-dance fighting and walk-offs only occur in Ben Stiller movies, so it came as a wonderful surprise to find that they’ll both be going on at Zooaville’s first annual Zoo Year’s Eve. The party, sponsored by the likes of Carmichael’s and Wild & Woolly,…
Dave Barry’s Year in Review
It was the Year of the Woman. But not in a good way. Oh, I’m not saying that men did nothing stupid or despicable in 2005. Of course they did! That’s why we call them “men.†But women are supposed to be better than men. Women are the backbone of civilization: They keep families together,…
