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Treasure map to the Speed: A guide to the recently reopened art museum
‘It’s Your Speed Art Museum’ That’s one of the marketing slogans the Speed Art Museum is using as it reopens after a $60-million dollar renovation and expansion. So first we asked the Speed curators to talk to us about their favorite must-see art from the museum’s permanent collection, something they want the visitors to see.…
Visually Speaking: this week’s art news and events (3/21)
[The above image is “Peephole” by McKenna Graham from “DoppelDoppel” at ThinkBox Contemporary.] Art news The gallery part of Kaviar Forge & Gallery has been closed for relocation. They will reopen on Thursday, March 24 at 147 Stevenson Ave. adjacent to Kaviar Forge (craigkaviargallery.com). Kroger, in partnership with Louisville Visual Art, will continue with its…
LEO Podcast #26: Planned Parenthood
Tamarra Wieder and Meghan Rouse from Planned Parenthood stopped by the LEO Office to talk to contributor Holly Houston about the current political issues surrounding the organization and the comprehensive health care that they offer.
Defining Five: Carrie Neumayer, Joey Flispart, Allison Cross, Chris Johnson and Nik Vechery discuss songs that have had an impact on them
Defining Five is a series at Haymarket Whiskey Bar, where, each month, five people from the Louisville music community pick five songs that have moved, inspired or impacted them and then play them during a DJ set. After each event, LEO Weekly will publish an interview with all four people to get some context as…
5 things to do in Louisville this weekend (3/18)
FRIDAY The Living Library Main Library Free; 5:30 p.m. You can learn a lot from reading, but some things are better said out loud. Which is why Louisville Free Public Library is hosting its Living Library event at the Main Library downtown. People can interact with “living books” — people — and hear their stories…
March Sadness
What’s your Final Four? Ashley Miller: Miami, Michigan State, North Carolina and Oklahoma Aaron Yarmuth: Kansas, Oklahoma, Virginia and West Virginia What board game best describes Uofl’s season, and the controversy? AM: Operation. Literally this whole thing felt like a surgery without anesthesia. This team had amazing potential to go a long way in the…
The song doesn’t remain the same: ?A conversation with Tortoise
For more than 20 years, Tortoise has been slowly and steadily making some of the most compelling music in the indie world, blending elements of prog, dub, jazz and krautrock into a cohesive whole. A largely instrumental ensemble, Tortoise, formed in Chicago in 1990, makes music that privileges the aural experience over any sort of…
b-sides: We’ve got a Bevin Problem: A Kentucky Music Compilation
If you’re featured in a segment on “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver, then you’ve probably fucked up. In Gov. Matt Bevin’s case, it wasn’t what he had already done at the time, but what he intended to do, and what he has since gotten down to the business of doing: systematically dismantling affordable access…
Tiny Elephant: Tiny Elephant
(self-released) The musicianship presented by Tiny Elephant is remarkable, but it’s a bit more difficult to identify specifically what it is that they do. Is this jazz, funk or a bit of a fusion? Safe money leans towards the later, as the trio mix things up from track to track by never really focusing on…
Jaye Jayle: House Cricks and Other Excuses ?to Get Out
(Hawthorne Street) There is a quiet seething barely contained on the newest from Jaye Jayle that creates a sense of brooding tension that never lets up. What Jaye Jayle do so well is to play in that place where the storm is always about to crash down, where the moment is always imminent. There is…
Murals: Violet City Lantern
(Fire Talk) Soaked in swirling psychedelia — the kind that bounces from hazy fuzz to brighter tones — Murals’ latest record, “Violet City Lantern,” is thick and dreamy, with the power to pull the listener into a serene state, where nothing else matters, not unlike sitting on a beach 1,000 miles from anything that will…
Tender Mercy: It Was You
(self-released) The latest EP from Tender Mercy, the moniker of astral-folk singer-songwriter Mark Kramer, “It Was You” moves in an ambitious direction, as Kramer found a different collaborator for each track to replace his original guitar lines with their own vision, stretching the sonic landscape. While the collaborators bring different sensibilities — some layered and…
Talk about the passion
I stress out over every interview I do. Every single one. From the moment it’s confirmed until right before it happens. It’s usually then that it all goes away. It’s almost always fun, too, but, still, I stress. There’s no good reason either. In fact, you’d think that after seven straight years of doing interviews, that I’d…
‘For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday’ and ‘This Random World’ offer virtuosity, death and comedy
“Let’s not talk about that,” says Kathleen Chalfant toward the end of the monologue that opens Sara Ruhl’s new play, “For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday.” It’s a monologue that begins with Chalfant — in her role as Ann — bursting on stage and announcing, “I’ll be playing Peter Pan.” Then she regales us…
Here comes Mr. Nice Guy
Pete Lee is as affable a human being as one might expect after seeing his “Nice Guy” stage persona, which in reality is undoubtedly more Pete Lee than persona. He has been featured on “Last Comic Standing,” “Late Show with David Letterman,” and as a cast member of VH1’s “Best Week Ever.” This spring he…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA 1973; $19.98-29.98; R Oh, happy day! A very welcome two-disc Blu-Ray special edition of a 70’s high-water mark in exploitation cinema, which we first saw in a steamy double-bill with “Night of the Cobra Women” at the long-gone Preston Drive-In back in the day. Bodacious Pam “The…
Let’s go to the Hub! No, the other Hub …
It went down like this: “Hey, wanna go eat at The Hub?” “Sure! I’ve been looking forward to that.” A few minutes later we were whizzing across the new Abraham Lincoln Bridge, and Mary started getting skeptical. “Are you lost? That place is right next to the Comfy Cow. I’m pretty sure that’s Indiana ahead.”…
OK, fine, the pot roast was pretty ‘awesome’
I don’t have to tell you what happens when you ask an 8-year-old where she wants to have dinner on her birthday. When my son came to tell me that his step-daughter, Jaelynn, had finally made her choice, he seemed almost apprehensive about telling me. You know, because I’m a food writer. “She says she…
Get to work ?Matthew Griswold Bevin!
Half way through watching Governor Bevin’s “#GetToWork” video I found myself scratching my head like a confused pet chimpanzee who has just been asked to cast a spread of tarot cards for a love torn debutante, like what in all that monkey hell is this?! Did Bevin one day at lunch go stumbling through the…
Fall of the house
Originally, I came to the page to write only about the Donald Trump Louisville rally where the young woman was accosted by angry white men and boys whose behavior is indicative of entitlement centuries old. I am embarrassed that as a nation, we have not done a better job at tempering this type of prejudice.…
Red bird down
The drama surrounding UofL’s basketball program will last well beyond the publicity of any other school this season. Not even the NCAA Champion will be in the news as long as the Cardinals this spring and summer. However, while that drama plays out like a daytime soap opera, filled with investigations into stripper parties, sex,…
Your Voice
On “Oakdale: Snapshot of a neighborhood in distress” Many of the neighborhoods near Churchill Downs are near to being blighted. Does Churchill Downs participate in any community outreach for the surrounding neighborhoods? —Bryan Mercke, March 9 on “Nice caucus, Trump” The Republicans will get a taste of their own medicine if Trump is president. They…
