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A is for adjunct
Adjunct faculty teaches approximately 70 percent of the general education courses at the University of Louisville and Jefferson Community and Technical College. These numbers are in keeping with national statistics, as are the abysmal working conditions of local adjunct instructors: low pay, no benefits and no job security. While they teach the majority of core…
LEO Playlist 3/17
1) “Mice in the Kitchen” by Desert Noises, who will be at Zanzabar on Wednesday, March 18. 2) “Love in the Worst Degree” by Shannon McNally, who will be at The New Vintage on Sunday, March 22. 3) “Hey Na Na” by Galactic, who will be at Headliners on Wednesday, March 18. 4) “Weatherman” by…
Purple Rain: Three LEO contributors recap the Prince shows
We sent three writers to the weekend Prince residency (two days, four shows) at the Louisville Palace. Here are their takeaways. Alan: “Kentucky, we’re going to do nine hits in a row,” the 56-year-old funk master shouted as he took the stage, opening Saturday’s 11 p.m. concert with a slowed-down, swagger-filled version of “Let’s Go…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS ANNIE 2014; $17.98-38.98; PG When we first met Quvenzhané Wallis, she was just a tiny, amazing force of nature, perfectly at home with the “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Here she moves to the jungles of NYC as the titular unstoppable foster child in this popular Broadway favorite. Her Daddy Warbucks…
Staffpicks
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 Artist talk and ?display by ?Koren Shadmi Zephyr Gallery 610 E. Market St., 812-786-0026 ideaslouisville.com 5:30-7:30 p.m. Illustrator and cartoonist Koren Shadmi is in town, courtesy of IDEAS and the National Endowment for the Arts-funded XLerateART grant that has him working with the Mayor’s Summer Works program. While he’s learning about Louisville, we have…
Holding all the roses: A Q&A with Blackberry Smoke
“There I go, watch me leave you behind / holdin’ all the roses on the other side.” It sounds like a victory cry for the Derby, but the band behind that title track from their new album, “Holding All The Roses,” is a quintet from Georgia. If southern bands and country-rock work for you, you’ve…
b-sides: Wilder Stallions
Meatloaf. The baked meat entrée was the link to young Will Wilder’s future when he decided, as a 16 year old who played guitar before dinner, what to name his first album. Wilder completed his jazz studies through the University of Louisville School of Music’s graduate program. A class on Duke Ellington became a pillar…
Plugged In (Mar. 11 – Mar. 17)
WED March 11th Brasserie Provence: Brian Currella Duo, Joey Thieman; 5 p.m. Diamond Pub (St. Matthews): Devereaux Trio; 10 p.m. Gerstle’s Place: Kimmet & Doug; 9 p.m. Jack Fry’s: Ray Johnson, Dave Wilson, Jenna Mattingly; 7 p.m. Louisville Palace: The Pink Floyd Experience; 7:30 p.m. Majid’s: Barb and Eddie; 7 p.m. Nachbar: Jacob Duncan; 10…
Raw Power: Talking with Young Widows
With a visceral display of seething energy that’s barely caged, Young Widows brings an incredible amount of fury — both lithe and vulgar — to a live setting. And with the release of their 2014 album “Easy Pain,” the band has synthesized their disparate influences into a cohesive whole for a sound that is both…
THEATER: Humana Festival kicks off with ‘The Roommate’ and ‘Dot’
For many years, there was always at least one comedy of contemporary manners on the bill of fare at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Many of them offered the same easy, instant gratification you’d find in the pilot episode of a proposed sit-com. And most of them were easily forgotten a few days…
BOOK: Kentucky refugees share comfort food recipes in new book
Flavors from Home by Aimee Zaring (University Press of Kentucky; 280 pgs., $29.95) Aimee Zaring, who’s taught English to refugees in Kentucky, has fashioned a fascinating concept, and she’s given it a beautifully appropriate structure. This is a story of how America, and Kentucky in particular, has become a sanctuary for individuals, couples, extended families…
COMEDY: Tom Green grows up
Tom Green is the ’90s face of Generation-X, piss-off-your-parents, I-don’t-give-a-fuck comedy. Or, at least, he was “that guy”. As he aged, like good bourbon, he has matured. This isn’t the same goofball you saw on “The Tom Green Show” or in “Road Trip” or who made the cult classic “Freddy Got Fingered.” Green has turned…
Ramen guys do ramen and dumplings at Rumplings
Warmed by the delights of four big bowls of steaming ramen at Rumplings in five day’s time, I asked my baby boomer pals on Facebook a simple question this week: When did you first encounter instant ramen? What did you think of it when you did? The discussion quickly blew up into a sharp, snarky…
The Babes of Bourbon
Pouring bourbon, drinking bourbon and diva stomping around town, being overbearingly proud of my womanhood, have been pastimes of mine since I was legally able to do so (really, I’ve been diva stomping since birth — see also Google images for Beyonce — that’s how I came out of my mother’s womb). So, naturally, when…
Scenes from a bridge
The Edmund Pettus Bridge was built in 1940 to carry U.S. Route 80 across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. The span is named for a former Confederate brigadier general, who became a U.S. Senator and Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is one of…
The roof of mediocrity
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” — a poignant question posed by Sheryl Sandberg in her book “Lean In,” one that makes us pause to consider our lives and the decisions we have made and those we have not made. This question highlights the times in our lives when we have been paralyzed…
Waiting for the sugar
Can we stop thinking bad thoughts for just a few minutes? Can we turn off the rancor, put down the phone, click out of Facebook, look away from the comments, take a breath and clear the bedlam from our heads? Can we block out the tweets and take our eyes off murder, mayhem, road rage,…
I pledge allegiance to the Islamic Republic of Iran
I am a Democrat primarily for this reason: I don’t want to be confused with the other party. I agree with conservatives on several issues and find their reasoning behind certain policy perspectives to be reasonable, logical and often times correct. However, when 47 Republican Senators write an open letter to a foreign nation in…
Inbox – March 11, 2015
LEO Weekly welcomes letters that are brief (350 words max) and thoughtful. ?Ad hominem attacks will be ignored, and we need your name and a daytime phone number. Send snail mail to Inbox, 607 W. Main St., Suite 001, Louisville, Ky. 40202. Fax to 895-9779 or email to leo@leoweekly.com. We may edit for length, grammar…
