CD Reviews – Neko Case, Johnny Cash
I was a little disappointed when the LEO Music Desk handed me the audio version of the Neko Case 2003 Austin City Limits rather than the recently released DVD. As I’ve said before, she could read the phonebook and I’d be captivated. Then it occurred to me: With the DVD, I’m just watching her onstage…
Web Extra: River Bend in the Round concert kicks off Saturday
Doug Weede knows that sometimes, you have to hit people over the head about where live music is happening in Louisville. “You know that saying, ‘You can take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink’? I’m trying to take these people to the music,” said Weede, 55, senior vice president at King…
20 Questions with ‘Jeopardy’ champion Julie Dunlevy: Three-time game-show winner is challenged on her knowledge of
Julie Dunlevy: photo courtesy of Jeopardy! Productions Inc. Louisvillian Julie Dunlevy with “Jeopardy†host Alex Trebek. Her four appearances, which aired last week, were filmed Nov. 7-8. By day Julie Dunlevy is a computer tech specialist at the University of Louisville’s health-sciences campus. By night she is a three-time winner on “Jeopardy,” taking home $75,800…
Documenting Iraq
Photographers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors strive to present a picture of Iraq that other media haven’t shown [img_assist|nid=3623|title=A child plays|desc=PHOTO BY MOLLY BINGHAM/WORLDPICTURENEWS BAGHDAD (ADHAMIYA), Nov. 24, 2003 — A child plays on a main street in Adhamiya where a poster hangs on a lamp post seeking Muhammed Saddam, formerly a policeman and now…
Culture Maven: A moment’s pause before we ‘fly into the mystic’
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic And when that foghorn blows I’ll be coming home —Van Morrison, “Into the Mystic” It is the most humbling of engagements. It is inevitable that the grim reaper comes to call. For those whose hand he is then shaking. For those who are near and dear…
Bluegrass Politics: Shades of blue
If November’s election of John Yarmuth (D) to the U.S. Congress wasn’t a clear enough sign that Kentucky’s political pendulum had finally begun swinging back to the Democratic column, then last week’s legislative leadership and committee elections in Frankfort should leave little doubt. Last Tuesday, House Democrats shunned more conservative members and elected two moderates…
Erosia (Letters to the Editor)
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. Idealism…
This I Believe: by Elizabeth George (Contributing to a world in need of balance)
I believe there is more than one way to live in the world. I have been blessed to experience life and love in other cultures. My work took me to England, where I lived for more than six years. My marriage took me into an enveloping Iranian family who considers me one of its own.…
Rumor & Innuendo: Cardinal winter of discontent.
No rumor this week. No innuendo. Just one diehard’s opinion on the sad condition of his beloved U of L Cardinal hoopsters. It is a dumbfounding state of affairs. This team is not without talent. Rick Pitino hasn’t suddenly lost his abundant coaching faculties. Young teams in such a desultory state at the beginning of…
City Strobe: This vandal has a steady, considered hand
Liberty Green The signage for Liberty Green, the mixed-income housing development now being constructed on the former footprint of downtown’s Clarksdale housing project, is innocuous enough: title, phone numbers one might dial to inquire about living there, artistic renditions of a few model buildings. But when driving by the fenced-in lots last weekend, we noticed…
City Strobe – Metro Council: Meet the new boss
The Louisville Metro Council elected Rick Blackwell, D-12, to its highest post last Thursday, putting to rest any rumors that the majority-wielding caucus couldn’t hold it together for a major vote — oh wait, passing the dog ordinance did that. Yeah, never mind. Regardless, it’s a new year, and most people — while they can’t…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events ••InKY Reading Series — readings and music including poet Teneice Delgado, essayist Liz Nethery and singer/songwriter Teneia Sanders, Jan. 12, free, 7pm, Rudyard Kipling, 422 W. Oak St., 636-1311. UofL Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. — two events with guest speakers Judge Toni Stringer and Glenda Dickerson, on Jan. 12 Stringer will discuss…
Community Listings
Special Events ••Zooperstars — world-famous inflatable characters will perform at women’s and men’s Bellarmine Basketball games, Jan. 11, women’s game 5:45pm, men’s game 7:30pm, $4 & $6, 2001 Newburg Rd., 452-8380. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture — Saturday Academy hosts with speaker Dr. John Cumbler, Jan. 13, 11am, DuValle Education Center, 3610 Bohne Ave, 852-2252.…
LEO’s Eat ‘N’ Blog: How can we miss Impellizzeri’s when it hasn’t gone away?
an Impellizzeri’s pie: Photo by Robin Garr There’s nothing quite like an Impellizzeri’s pie. If the closing of the Highlands location made you cry, dry your eyes and head for the ’burbs. Pizza may trace its culinary roots to Naples in Italy, but since this delicious immigrant-food treat exploded out of its ethnic enclaves in…
Aftertastes
Pig City BBQ, 12003 Shelbyville Rd., 244-3535, www.pigcitybbq.com. If pigmeat is what you crave, head on over to the new barbecue joint out in the East End. Pig City BBQ seasons with a special rub and smokes the meat for up to 24 hours with cherry wood, which imparts a slight sweetness to the meat…
Theater Review – Mary’s Wedding
Mary’s Wedding: Photo by Harlan Taylor Will Rogers and Nell Geisslinger in Actors Theatre’s “Mary’s Wedding.†With elegant imagery, “Mary’s Wedding” is a heartwarming story of young love, regret and loss in which Canadian playwright Stephen Massiciotte uses World War I to frame the events of this one-act play. The staging at Actors Theatre invites…
Sight Unsound: Ludacris returns, Lawler resonates, pirates reign
R. Keenan Lawler: Photo by ARON CONAWAY “No guitar teacher would tell a student to do what I do,†says R. Keenan Lawler. The resonator is a strange, hollow-bodied metal guitar that has one foot in the past and one foot in the future. It’s probably the least traditional of traditional Americana instruments, which makes…
Opera Preview: Fishing for meaning through sights and sounds
The Pearl Fishers: The exotic set from “The Pearl Fishers.†Photo Courtesy of The Opera Company of Philadelphia Try finding Ceylon on the map. For the typical geographically-challenged American, that may be difficult. A hint: The tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, struck two-thirds of the country’s coastline, killing more than 35,000 people, displacing more than…
CD Reviews: Here’s the Haikus
BIBLE OF THE DEVIL The Diabolic Procession (CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC) For their name alone These guys rule, but their metal Stylings seal the deal —Jay Ditzer THE KNIFE Silent Shout (RABID/MUTE) Two Swedes who make dark Spooky electronica, Which is the best kind —Jay Ditzer PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS Mercy (ABACUS) Part metal, part…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Jan. 16
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS DIE YOU ZOMBIE BASTARDS! 2005; DVD $19.95, UR What’s this about? We haven’t seen it — cheap-assed Image Entertainment won’t send us a preview — but what a title! They tell us it’s a gore-comedy about a good-hearted serial killer who dons a cape (made of hippies!) to rescue his wife…
Mug Shots: A beer by any other name
As a professional publican, and as an aficionado of beer in private life, my beer taste operates under a general principle of differentiation. Exactly what is it about a particular beer that makes it different? How does it differ from others of the same style? Is it sufficiently different to merit an extra effort to…
Show Offs – Live review: No-frills requiems for a gutsy songwriter
Air Devil’s Inn knows how to kick off the new year. Billy Stoops: Photo by Brigid Kaelin Billy Stoops performed “Be Here to Love Me.†For the fourth consecutive year on New Year’s Day, the quaint little bar near Bowman Field played host to a tribute to the late, great Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt.…
Staff Picks
Wednesday, Jan. 10 Drepung Gomang monks at Brick House The Brick House invites the public to drop by tonight as the Drepung Gomang monks pay a visit. There’s dinner and a blessing ceremony for Brick House, and sample of the monks’ work and texts will be on hand. Those interested in dinner and the discussion…
