Covered in clay: International ceramics conference comes to Louisville  a year ahead of schedule
Laura Ross: removes work from her kiln at her Prospect studio, where she’s been busy creating pieces for exhibits that are part of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts’ annual conference. Ross is the only area ceramicist chosen to demonstrate how sh Ceramicist Laura Ross thinks the worst part is over. Since…
Chewing the future: Arts organizations want to invite college students to the party
Louisville arts organizations have been wearing mismatched socks to the campus keg party. Like the friendly-but-odd foreign exchange student who lounges against the wall, longing for disco and warm zelnacka soup, some regional arts programmers appear similarly aching to fit in with the more than 21,000 students at the University of Louisville. The Speed Art…
City Strobe
Promoting intolerance while hamstringing education — what could be more Frankfort than that? Kentucky Senate Bill 152 is a poetic piece of legislation that props up discrimination, ignorance, second-class education and second-class healthcare, all in an economical 182 words. It aims to prohibit universities and agencies from offering health insurance coverage to anyone other than…
Rumor & Innuendo
Big Blue smirk. Who knows whether UK fatcats will buy Tubby out of his contract or not? It’s obvious from Mitch Barnhart’s recent statement that it’s more of a possibility than ever. There is loads of conjecture as to who the next coach might be. Texas A&M Aggies’ Billy Gillespie is a name often heard.…
This I Believe: Planting seeds to carry on
Maggie Cassaro I believe in planting seeds in pots and gardens, farms and minds and souls. I believe every seed planted has the potential for growth. I believe given enough space and time as well as nourishment and light, love and hope, any seed can grow anywhere. At the age of 4, my best friend…
Erosia
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.Band Plays…
NO-ni and more wacky pizzas
the wacky chicken bacon ranch: A couple of pies from Danny Mac’s: At left, the wacky chicken bacon ranch with a base of ranch dressing in lieu of tomato sauce. At right, a more traditional version, with sausage, onions and peppers. Pizza fundamentalists, not unlike the other kind of fundamentalists, insist that there is only…
Mug Shots: All hopped up
Passion-specific jargon is fun and educational. In beer speak, “hopheads” get their considerable jollies from lupulin, and it’s all street legal. Lupulin is the minute yellowish-brown hairs obtained from the strobili of the hop plant, and the hop (Humulus lupulis) is the traditional flavoring agent of beer. Hops provide the bitterness to balance sweet barley…
Va-Va-Va-Voom! Voluptuous Varla Jean Merman asks the musical question, ‘Is your hole greater than your parts?’
Varla Jean Merman’s show is part of LEO Presents A Little Off Center series at the Kentucky Center. Known as Varla Jean Merman, Jeffery Roberson (his birth name) is an actor, singer and drag performer who hails from New Orleans. As sexy, red-haired siren Varla, he won both the 2003 Outfest Film Festival “Best Actor”…
Radio days, America’s return and a Lung breathes
Some of you might be disappointed, as we surely were, to learn that Aqualung is not a Jethro Tull tribute act. It is, rather, the moniker under which British semi-genius Matt Hales releases the music that he also happens to write, perform and produce. Lucky for us, beautiful pop-inflected numbers have become his specialty instead…
Humana Festival blasts off with a double whammy
If theater mirrors our culture, Actors Theatre of Louisville’s kickoff week for the Humana Festival should have us all rushing to the psychiatrist’s office or the monastery. Humans are sick, depraved animals with no redeeming qualities. We can’t possibly sink any lower. Just take comfort that our civilization is near its end. That is the…
Austin, here we come: Louisville invades SXSW
The Glasspack is one of many Louisville bands playing SXSW. Austin, Texas, is home to another kind of March Madness. The annual South by Southwest Music and Arts Festival is a musical orgy of Bacchanalian proportions, a seething crush of bands and fans so completely out of control that by the time you leave, you’re…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, March 13
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS CASINO ROYALE 2006; DVD $28.95-$43.95, PG-13 Wow! A fabulous reinvention of the James Bond franchise with beefy Brit Daniel Craig capturing the book-Bond’s arrogance and suicidal narcissism like no one has since the days of Sean Connery (though we have great respect for the Pierce Brosnan films). Judi Dench returns as…
Aftertastes
Liang’s Café, 3571 Springhurst Blvd., 425-0188. One of the city’s newest top Chinese spots, Liang’s is owned by Roland Wong, who for many years ran the front of the house at Emperor of China. A dozen regional North China dishes are integrated into the regular menu as “House Specialties,” which are listed on the menu…
Community Listings
Special Events Brandeis Law School — presents Student Bar Foundation’s 2007 Charity Auction to benefit grant funds to law students working in public interest areas of law, featuring appetizers & live music, March 7, 5:30pm, Louisville Bar Association, 600 W. Main St., 852-5883.••UofL — will host annual National Conference on the Black Family in America…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events ••International Women’s Day — to celebrate women’s contribution to community w/ artists & live music, will highlight women’s issues thru history and more, free, March 8, 5:30pm, Americana Community Center, 4801 Southside Dr., 852-7014.Gerald Ford Papers — on display in Berheim Gallery at Main Library, free, exhibit runs March 8-31, 527 W. Jefferson…
Staff Picks
March 8-30 The Gerald Ford Papers President Gerald Ford was the only man to assume the office of President of the United States under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and he did so during a time of extreme historical significance — in the wake of the Watergate scandal. President Richard M. Nixon resigned from…
