Web Exclusive – Q&A: The Showdown
Hailing from Elizabethton, Tenn., The Showdown recently made a stop in Louisville at Expo Five. David Bunton chatted about the band’s record, Temptation Come My Way, its self-booked tour, and why they’re not necessarily touting themselves as a Christian metal band. LEO: How’s the tour going?David Bunton: Great. We booked it ourselves for the most…
Once-and-again Louisvillian John Cowan helps New Grass Revival
John Cowan has ably lent his talents in New Grass Revival, and has bouncing back and forth to Louisville several times in the early and mid 70s before the band relocated to Nashville. Cowan took a break from a visit to the doctor’s office to talk to LEO. Cowan plays this Thursday night the Rudyard…
Rethinking legal graffiti: The Urban Experimental Art Project hasn’t gone as well as many hoped. Will the city pull the p
If the city’s legal graffiti wall had a voice: it might say, “Nice try.†Or it might say “a few thickskulls blew it for everybody.†The wall, an experiment, will be decommissioned six months ahead of schedule. This photo shows Jeral Tidwell and Sean Griffin in front of a piece that adorned the wall at…
City Strobe
It’s time to Step It Up, LouisvilleIt may surprise you to learn that here in Kentucky we get 95 percent of our electricity from coal-fired power plants. The state ranks third in the nation in coal production, accounting for roughly one-tenth of the output of the entire United States and a quarter of what’s mined…
I want my MetroTV: Council subcommittee report reveals distinct pattern of negligence in Metro’s governance of cable TV
You’d think they would hide it better, but they apparently don’t care enough to make the effort.That’s the basic sentiment conveyed in a report issued quietly last month by a Metro Council subcommittee established to study the city’s cable contracts and the entity (Insight) that controls Louisville telecom under a carefully managed and supported monopoly.…
The Plain Brown Rapper: Two more skyrockets light up the midnight sky
I shot off two more skyrockets last month, two more dead. Like with Abbie and Kevin, whose obituaries appeared the same day, so too were the obits for these two dear friends of mine. Congressman Gene Snyder died. He was a mentor and strong influence on my political and public life. When running for Jefferson…
Rumor & Innuendo
Billy Clyde trumps Billy the Kid. I pray that Big Blue faithful are breathing easily. And willing to cut Mitch Barnhart some slack. All in all, the Cats landed firmly on their feet. Gillispie, as obsessed as those who have wildcatnation.net as their home page, is truly the guy for the job. Apparently Barnhart had…
The Dog Diaries: Our canine companions want us to take charge. What we don’t understand may come back to bite us
Sam Malatesta: makes a point about socializing dogs around other dogs during a recent training session at the Zorn Avenue Ramada Inn. Sam Malatesta says dogs should be bomb-proof. He believes you can stand in the median of I-71 at morning rush hour, your dog at your side, with neither of you feeling any particular…
Erosia
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Bluegrass Beacon: Huffing and puffing against lighting up
“Why waste a column on smoking bans?” a friend asked me. “You’ve got bigger fish to fry.” Or cigars to smoke — as the case may be. Just kidding. You’ve heard of teetotalers. Well, I’m a smoke-totaler. In fact, the level of rudeness among Kentucky’s smoke-a-holics never ceases to amaze me. My favorites are puffers…
Cyro Baptista follows the ‘Beat’ with intensity
Cyro Baptista is in pain. The dancing machines of Cyro Baptista’s “Beat the Donkey†are rhythmic virtuosos. The Brazilian mastermind behind next Thursday night’s “Beat the Donkey” performance at the Kentucky Center has pushed his body to the limit, and his body is letting him know it. “For me, this show is very important, more…
The Bar Belle: Gone but not forgotten
Lately I’ve been diligently working on our upcoming Nightlife Guide (which drops April 25). The main part of it is our comprehensive list of bars in the area. Currently we’re sitting at nearly 360 beloved watering holes — almost enough to visit one per day for a year. That is something to write home about.…
Colbert’s foils, hello Andrea, Afrobeats, Rejects roll
Over the years, The Decemberists have become the band everyone can love. Musically, they aren’t married to any indie rock conventions or clichés, and lyrically, their songs are vast, storybook worlds. You could call them the English major’s response to MTV drivel. Recently, The Decemberists kicked things up a notch by releasing their hardest rocking…
Stick a fork in it…the Humana Fest is done. We take one last look at Louisville’s Theatrical Sacred Cow, Vol. 31
BY SHERRY DEATRICK AND REBECCA HAITHCOAT The Cast of Batch: Photo by Harlan Taylor More than 750 plays were submitted to this year’s Humana Festival of New American Plays. That’s fairly typical, Actors Theatre spokesperson Kyle Shepherd said, and certainly not shocking. What is astonishing is that the six chosen plays were the crème de…
Bartok’s austerity finally finds its audience
Cavani String Quartet: Photo by Christian Steiner The Cavani String Quartet comes to UofL’s Comstock Hall on Sunday, April 15. The Cavani String Quartet concludes the 2006-07 Chamber Music Society season with a concert Sunday at Comstock Hall featuring works by three composers from three very different centuries. Bookending the program are Ludwig van Beethoven,…
Keeping things balanced on Bardstown
Ballyhoo’s Bardstown Road has been established as Louisville’s primary “restaurant row” for so long now that things seem to have achieved a sort of natural balance: If one eatery closes, chances are something similar will be along soon to fill its niche. So, when the short-lived Baja Fresh closed after only a few months of…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, April 17
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS FORGIVING DR. MENGELE 2005; DVD $24.95, UR In one of the most powerful docs we’ve ever seen, Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and victim of Dr. Joseph Mengele’s cruel and barbaric genetic experiments, returns to Germany along with another Death Camp doctor to forgive her torturers.…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Derby Derby Hats — by Polly Singer, bring your own hat: $40 (members), $45 (non), provided hat: $65 (members), $70 (non); April 14, noon-3pm, KY Museum of Art & Craft, 715 W. Main St., 589-0102. ••2007 Spring Into Derby Style Show — hosted by the Home Builders Association of S. Indiana, April 14, 6pm, Caesars…
Community Listings
Special Events Metro Democratic Club Meeting — featuring the Governor’s Candidates Forum and spotlighting Congressman John Yarmuth, April 11, 6pm, UAW Hall 3000 Fern Valley Rd, metrodemclub@metrodem.com. ••Harriet Tubman Dinner — hosted by Scott County Heritage Center & Museum, $20, April 12, 6:30pm, 1050 S. Main St. in Scottsburg, Ind., (812) 752-1050. Hot Luck &…
Aftertastes
recently reviewed in LEO Taste of Jamaica, 2017 Brownsboro Rd., 896-1055. Open for more than a year in the Clifton area, the Jamaican eatery changed management in October and will introduce a made-over menu this month. Delicious dishes like jerk chicken will remain, and new ones such as curry shrimp and a “jerk patty” dinner…
Staffpicks
Thursday, April 12David Lynch’s ‘Inland Empire’ There are two types of David Lynch fans: people who don’t get his movies but love him anyway, and people who don’t get his movies but think they do. Lynch probably does have some sort of logic in his movies, and he probably has themes (if no overarching ones),…
Web Exclusive Q&A: Martin Perna of Antibalas
Antibalas Antibalas plays next Saturday, April 14, at Headliners Music Hall, 1386 Lexington Road, with Chin Chin. LEO chatted with Martin Perna, the baritone sax player who helped found the group. —Mat Herron When Antibalas first started out, they played nontraditional venues. Was that intentional or by default?Martin Perna: Intentional. I didn’t want the group…
