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Filmed on location in Kentucky: Will Greenfield, House Bill 340 and the bottom line on the film and television production incentive package
On May 9, Kentucky took another step toward becoming its own little Hollywood. With the passage of House Bill 340, signed into law by Gov. Steve Beshear, financial incentives were put into place with the intent of bringing more film and television production to the state. These incentives, designed to make Kentucky a more viable…
LEO Playlist 8/14: Best Coast, White Reaper and more
1) “Fine Without You” by Best Coast, who will be at Headliners on Wednesday, September 16. 2) “Pills” by White Reaper, who will be at Zanzabar on Friday, September 18. 3) “Bad Power” by Jawws, who open for White Reaper. 4) “Don’t Disappear” by The Fervor, who will be at Haymarket on Saturday, September 19.…
Visually Speaking: this week’s art news and events
[The above image is “Homecoming” by Windi Rosson at garner narrative contemporary fine art.] Art news Louisville Visual Art has moved its offices from its former site at 609 W. Main St. to its new building at 1538 Lytle St. Chris Reitz has been named the new gallery director of U of L’s Hite Art…
LEO Podcast #4: 1200
Musician and community organizer Jecorey Arthur, aka 1200, swung by our office to speak with editor Scott Recker about a forthcoming record, playing with the Louisville Orchestra at Waterfront Park on the 4th of July, his recent performance in Brooklyn and constantly experimenting with his sound. The LEO Podcast will be weekly, with a new…
A Q&A with artist Kathleen Loomis
[The above image is “Crossroads 4” by Kathleen Loomis.] Kathleen Loomis (kathleenloomis.com) works in quilting, a medium people have warm and fuzzy thoughts about. None of that gets in her way in making serious art, full of message, detail and craftsmanship. One of her pieces, “Entropy,” is currently part of the “Quilt National ’15,” which…
5 things to do in Louisville this weekend
FRIDAY Louisville Craft Beer Week #LCBW2015 All Over Louisville Free; All Week Brace yourself, Louisville, Craft Beer Week is upon us! From Friday until next Sunday the city will be buzzing with a constant barrage of craft beer-themed events at all of your favorite beer joints (Crescent Hill Craft House, Apocalypse Brew Works, Goodwood Brewing…
Digital media workers unite: The Louisville Statement on Media Workers’ Rights
Mike Elk, who was recently scrubbed out of existence from politico.com where he created and manned the labor desk, says this story is not about him. The news threads are stretched all over the web, claiming and updating and changing the story. The more progressive-leaning rumblings — unsubstantiated but generally understood — claim Elk was…
Protest at Heaven Hill Distilleries in West Louisville
Taking inspiration from the Boston Tea Party of 1773, activists from West Louisville came together on Sunday, Sept. 6, to pour out a couple hundred dollars worth of Evan Williams’ whiskey in protest of the proposed anaerobic digesters set to be built at the Heaven Hill Distilleries on 17th and Maple Streets. Organizer Ray Barker…
Like a rolling stone: ?Rhiannon Giddens talks about new projects
Rhiannon Giddens isn’t a fan of musical labels. Classically trained in opera at Oberlin University, she moved on to a whole different style in becoming the leader of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Grammy-winning old-time string band. “I hate genres. I know that they’re necessary, but I hate them. Americana, what the hell does that…
b-sides: The Sheepdogs
“We just try not to repeat ourselves. We keep it in the same territory, but try to push it in different directions,” Ewan Currie, the singer/vocalist of The Sheepdogs humbly says about his band’s ability to carefully lean into the classic rock formula, while still being able to move forward. This is evident on the…
Plugged-in
WED Sept 9th 4th Street Live!: Lunchtime Live!; 11 a.m. 8Up: High Sounds with DJ Matt Anthony; 7:30 p.m. Baxters 942: Full Contact Karaoke; 10 p.m. Bearno’s (Bardstown): Petar Mandic; 7 p.m. Brownies The Shed (Hurstbourne): Karaoke; 10 p.m. Churchill Downs: O.A.R., Allen Stone, Brynn Elliott; 7 p.m. El Nopal (Crestwood): Nick Nichols; 7 p.m.…
‘Seven Guitars’ doesn’t miss a bluesy beat in its ?grand, mythic sweep
The onstage action of August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” is set in a scruffy back yard in 1948 in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. In William Boles’ exquisitely detailed design it’s a colorfully run-down collection of crumbling bricks and broken flower pots, bounded by looming wooden fence and a tall brick house with a weathered stoop, and a…
Waiting for Kristin Key is a bottle of booze with her name on it
What’s there to say about Kristin Key? She is a high-flying, energetic ball of sunshine with a mouth befitting a jailed sailor. Raised a preacher’s kid in Texas, Key is a walking swirl of contradictions stuffed into one smiling ray of sunshine. She made it to the top six finalists on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,”…
Poet Frank X Walker reimagines York at the Frazier
Lewis and Clark loom large in the American imagination. Their names are synonymous with the sense of adventure that many feel when contemplating the growth of our great nation back in the olden days. Their exploits and adventures are at the center of The Frazier Museums current exhibit, “The Lewis and Clark Experience.” While the…
Matinee idol Victor Mature
Louisville is fortunate that it produces a prominent movie or TV actor every generation or so. Jennifer Lawrence, of course, is our current lady-of-the-screen. Silent film/stage actress Mary Anderson (Navarro) was our shining star at the beginning of the 20th century. In between the decades there have been other notables such as Irene Dunne, Ned…
Video tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS FURIOUS 7 2015; $24.98; PG-13 Man, this car-nut juggernaut just won’t quit! Vin Diesel, the late Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Dwayne Johnson and the rest of the gang continue their patented automotive mayhem, squeezing in a wee bit of plot along the way, and…
Mt. Everest View offers a delicious taste of Nepal
Our friend Ashley just came to town recently, from Alabama by way of 10 years in New York City. A savvy foodie with a love for ethnic eats and a proud adoptive Brooklynite, she came to Louisville expecting great regional fare, but worried that her new hometown might be a culinary purgatory when it came…
Bernie: Bottled in bond
As children, we all had dreamy, lofty aspirations for our futures that didn’t seem at all out of reach at the time. From being firefighters to President of the United States, it all seemed possible in our sweet, naïve, idiotic little minds. For me, I went through a rotation of fantasizing of my future as…
Can he be better than Teddy?
I arrived at the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta not really knowing what to expect. As a Cards fan, I knew this place has a great vibe for us; it’s the same place I stood in awe in 2013 watching the confetti fall as the University of Louisville won the Men’s Basketball National Championship. Those…
The Plain Brown Reaper
By accident or design, my recent letter to the editor that appeared in the Aug. 28, 2015, issue of LEO referred to me not as “The Plain Brown Rapper,” but rather as “The Plain Brown Reaper.” I like it. These are grim times. Prefatory note: About that name … The Plain is what these columns are.…
Kim Davis and ‘sloppy Joes’
Kim Davis is no hero or martyr. She is the latest “Joe the Plumber” or “Sheriff Joe.” She is a hero to those who cheered Governor Jan Brewer for sticking her finger in the president’s face, and hailed Congressman Joe Wilson for yelling, “You lie!” during the State of the Union. And like Joe, Joe,…
Your voice
On “Green Eggs and Hate” KFB’s [Kentucky Farm Bureau’s] long history of discriminatory policies against members, such as myself, who did not know, and have had their claims denied for obscure policy exclusions unbeknownst to us as policy holders until their claim was denied and our policy canceled. This was reported to the state but…
