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Art: Hot off the letterpress
Time travel, as far as I know, is not yet a reality. So if you’re interested in a time gone by, you have to rely on photographs, films or books for your historical fix. Another option is to go to where history is still alive, where the old is new again or has never left.…
LEO editor takes new gig in Nashville, changes follow
Stephen George, editor of LEO Weekly, is leaving the position to become editor of the Nashville City Paper. The new job begins Jan. 11, 2010. George, a Louisville native, has been with LEO Weekly since January 2005. During that time he has served as staff writer, music editor, city editor, managing editor and editor,…
Art: News Bits
The group behind Louisville’s 21c Museum Hotel (www.21cmuseumhotel.com), with its combination of contemporary art museum, hotel and restaurant, is renovating the former Metropole Hotel in downtown Cincinnati. They are also building a 21c in Austin, Texas. The resale shop eyedia, design it again (1631 Mellwood Ave., www.eyediashop.com) now features a gallery with original art. Both…
Video TapeWorm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE 2009; $24.95-$62.95, PG-13 While this isn’t the late David Carradine’s last picture, it was his last Western, the genre that made him a star (sort of). Here he plays a U.S. marshal on the trail of a former Civil War sharpshooter (Jim Hilton, who also wrote the…
A Shot in the Dark — coffee for thinking
It was a late October afternoon, and I was looking out the steamy window of Day’s Coffee when a leaf swirled down from a gun-metal sky. As I watched, the sun sent a ray, and the sullen, monotone leaf morphed into a vivid gold. It was a surreal instant, enhanced in meaning by the warm…
Mug Shots: Thanks for craft on draft
Hectic? Tell me about it. Yesterday was Easter Sunday, and tomorrow will be Groundhog Day. That’s how late autumn and the arrival of winter always seem to me, especially as Thanksgiving arrives, and with it the opportunity to drink Doppelbock with leftover turkey sandwiches on Black Friday morning, with the caveat that I’ll be working…
Monoliths and These Flowers Never Die
Louisville’s Phantom Family Halo return with Monoliths and These Flowers Never Die, a sophomore double-album that is surprisingly both sprawling and focused, an exemplary effort of what is possible when retro-rock sensibilities are distilled through modern musical techniques. Unlike their debut, The Legend of Black Six, the new double album sports a cohesive, unified sound,…
Executions on the horizon?
Kentucky has executed only three prisoners over the past four decades, with two of those inmates actually expediting their own demise by waiving all appeals and volunteering to die. In fact, when compared to the 35 other states that still dole out death sentences, the commonwealth is remarkably measured (relatively speaking), ranking 26th in our…
Plugged In
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Queer query
That’s queer. You are a queer. Queer pride. Queer theory. Q Bar. (The “Q” does not stand for quesadilla.) What do we do about this funny little word that holds different meanings to different people? Its evolving history took an unfortunate turn during most of the 20th century, when it was frequently used as a…
B-Sides: Music & Other Ephemera
In the early ’60s, Glasgow band Us Incorporated started playing annual benefit shows to support Toys for Tots in South-Central Kentucky. These concerts quickly became a tradition in the area, held every year the weekend after Thanksgiving until the early ’70s, when the benefit shows died out. In 2007, however, Black Stone Cherry decided to…
CDC bulletin: Swine Flu and You
As winter approaches, cases of the H1N1 virus are expected to increase. We at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to encourage you to get vaccinated, cover your cough and wash your hands as the first line of defense against H1N1, commonly known as “swine flu” or “bacon fever.” Many of you have…
Jerry’s kids
St. Xavier High School scolded Metro Councilman Jim King, D-10, last week after his mayoral campaign was caught distributing an e-mail using the school’s alumni association logo to promote a fundraiser. King graduated from the historic Catholic school in 1969, and the promotion played up his biography as a “Son of St. X,” going out…
Film: ‘Precious’ is no holiday
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Starring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Sherri Shepherd, Mariah Carey, Paula Patton and Lenny Kravitz. Directed by Lee Daniels. Rated R; 1:49. LEO Report Card: A- It’s easy to brush society’s ills under the rug, especially this time of year. Everything is supposed to be happy and jolly,…
Suppression in the Third
Listening to a noise recording can sometimes be a losing proposition as the sound dynamics present in a live setting can be absent. Not to mention that if your stereo’s volume is too loud, you might royally piss off your neighbors. Thankfully, Suppression in the Third, the new double 10-inch by North Carolina-based noise artists…
III
Have you ever wondered what it would sound like if Emmylou Harris, Rosemary Clooney and The Frames were all thrown into a proverbial blender? I can tell by the look on your face that you have. It would sound a lot like Espers’ third album, simply titled III. The music is varied, and often eccentric.…
For Your Own Special Sweetheart Reissue
I’ve always wondered why Jawbox didn’t receive the same reverential treatment as Fugazi. True, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson helped forge D.C.’s post-punk identity by starting Dischord, and there was the 2005 Jawbox tribute “Until the Shaking Stops” (which featured Black Cross’ version of “Tools & Chrome”). J. Robbins, Kim Coletta, W.C. Barbot and Zach…
Count the Days
Count the Days’ opening track, “Winter 04,” is instructively titled — by fusing skittering Postal Service synth-pop with Rilo Kiley’s sleepy country overtones, Cincinnati’s Seedy Seeds have crafted an album seemingly borne out of Pitchfork’s fever dreams, circa the early-to-mid ’00s. It’s also worth noting that the duo never deviate from the sonic template laid…
For which I am thankful
I am sitting outside Heine Brothers Coffee Shop, watching the cars chug along Bardstown Road, trying to make a list. It is Monday morning, the 23rd of November, the temperature is 52 degrees, and despite the canopy of clouds, it feels warm. I cannot reasonably say I am thankful for this warming, because it is…
They grows up
Ricky Feather has read articles about his band, Bodeco, before. “We kept seeing these lines in a lot of articles that said: ‘Primarily a live band.’” The shows that such lines referenced were “a little Mardi Gras …,” he says. “We would have it where there was quite a bit of alcohol on stage. And…
Inbox — Nov.25, 2009
Monsters of Food Thanks to Mat Herron for his piece about the Food Literacy Project, the charity benefiting from the Monsters of Folk concert (LEO Weekly, Oct. 28). I would like to clarify the role that Ivor Chodkowski and his farm play in making FLP’s work possible. While we work in close proximity, Field Day…
Book: Atwood’s ‘Flood’ fails to maintain sci-fi buzz
The Year of The Flood By Margaret Atwood. Knopf Doubleday Publishing; 448 pgs.; $26.95. The foundation for this novel, “Oryx and Crake,” was released in 2003. The post-apocalyptic scenario and themes in that novel were no surprise then; they were something Margaret Atwood had used as a device in her earlier novel “The Handmaid’s…
It’s all over now, baby blue
American popular music has long advised that “Life is but a dream” (“Row Row Row Your Boat”) and that “Nothing is real” (“Strawberry Fields Forever”), but until recent years, it seemed that our collective grip on reality was secure. Sadly (or maybe not so sadly), that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. A careful…
Left by the Wayside
Anita Foster and her two sons, Deyonte, 16, and Anthony, 10, are nestled in a cozy hotel room with a view of downtown. The two-bed room is small, but tidy, with only a few homework notebooks and school supplies scattered across the table. In the spring, the 34-year-old Gary, Ind., mother moved her family to…
S/T
Josh Homme and Dave Grohl coaxed Led Zeppelin’s bassist-and-more John Paul Jones into some jams and gigs under a jokey collective name. Normally, the resulting supergroup CD would stake out a compromise of everyone’s style — but not this time: The two junior members want to be as Zeplike as possible, as long as they…
