Who says it’s a house? Your most important possession is your Derby Horse
Trainer Carl Nafzger understands that the Kentucky Derby extends beyond Barn 26. [img_assist|nid=4534|title=Carl Nafzger|desc=Image courtesy of Horsephotos.com/NTRA|link=|align=left|width=133|height=200]That’s where Nafzger’s string is stabled at Churchill Downs — the home of Street Sense, the runaway winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last fall at Churchill Downs and one of the big favorites for the 2007 Kentucky Derby.…
Farmers marketing
As Big-Ag continues to put the squeeze on local farmers, the General Assembly tries to help Kentucky’s fight back Nancy Hanson: Photo by Angela Shoemaker Nancy Hanson buys a cinnamon roll from Bill and Teresa Dickey of Nature’s Dream Farm. The Dickeys prepare their food offsite; with the passage of a new law during the…
Rumor & Innuendo
Pledge of Allegiance. What in the name of Pudge Heffelfinger is going on? Well, it seems the new assertion of college football status is how many show up at the spring scrimmage? A tip o’ Bear’s houndstooth to the Crimson Tide. Bama fans totaled 92,000+, with thousands more partying in the parking lot. Which makes…
Bluegrass Beacon: Can we debate school choice?
Call me naïve. When I started promoting “school choice” — emancipating parents so they can choose where to send their children with at least some public money to follow — I knew opposition awaited me.But I thought critics would engage in debate based on facts and sound reasoning. I am right about school choice. I…
Message to the People: Issues after Imus, Part 1
Word has it that Al Sharpton is under police protection. Apparently, some people are so upset about his role in the Don Imus firing that Sharpton has received several death threats. That’s unfortunate. I’m not a great Sharpton fan. That’s not to say he doesn’t serve a purpose, because he does. I’m just not too…
City Strobe
The unintended-irony capital of the world?Imagine you live in Jeffersonville. You’re on a fixed income, and to help make ends meet you don’t drive. You work downtown — say Humana — and walk to work every day. There’s only one way for pedestrians to cross the Ohio River in Metro Louisville, by walking over the…
West Louisville: Closed for business?
West Broadway: A sign in the window of Lee’s Famous Recipe, 21st and West Broadway, lists businesses that will be open during Derby weekend. The City’s blanket policy to curb cruising has left some business owners — and the West Broadway Vendor’s Fair — without a home for Derby weekend. One of Karl Marx’s maxims…
Voter Guide 2007: first of three – Clip and Save!
The power of 10Welcome to Week 1 of LEO’s gubernatorial primary coverage. With 10 bodies in the race, it’s a chore to recall all of the names, much less glean meaningful information. For the record, they are: Democrats Steve Beshear, Gatewood Galbraith, Steve Henry, Otis Hensley, Bruce Lunsford, Jonathan Miller and Jody Richards, and Republicans…
Erosia
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CD Reviews
Some Midnight Kissin’Dark Romantics(LUJO) The glamour that’s arrived on the rock scene lately has received a warm welcome from many, even while detractors knock The Killers and dance-focused brethren like The Rapture for straying too far from the substance and seeming too much like a rock band. That criticism, of course, lacks merit because style…
Fueling a creative future: Public can view drawings for new arts facility planned near Indiana landfill
Grounds Here’s a scene, heading toward reality in the near future, that may portend real progress for artists and environmentalists. Old tires are stacked like rubberized skyscrapers at the Clark-Floyd landfill, just a stone’s throw from Deam Lake Park, while nearby, a group of accomplished glass artists is hard at work. Granted, landfills are perhaps…
Jazz Factory does some ‘Soul Searching’ with Dick Sisto
Dick Sisto The Jazz Factory’s Derby Week festivities keep rolling with a CD release party in honor of Dick Sisto’s new album, Soul Searching, which was used in part as the jazz score for the recent Thomas Merton documentary of the same title by Morgan Atkinson. Sisto is a widely known quantity in these parts,…
Jory returns to direct a Shanley comedy
Full disclosure: I have a “theater” crush on Jon Jory. Since college, when I studied the legendary artistic director who built Actors Theatre of Louisville into a Tony-award-winning, Pulitzer-Prize-birthing behemoth, I’ve been in awe of him. I also might have a little crush on playwright John Patrick Shanley. Shanley, who is no stranger to…
Psst! Try this Derby Daily Double
Shaking Beef: Basa Modern Vietnamese’s Shaking Beef, a dish made famous by San Francisco’s Slanted Door, consists of bite-sized cubes of tenderloin marinated in soy and spices with onions, watercress, grape tomatoes and jasmine rice. Derby is big in Louisville, not just for racing but for restaurants, too. If you don’t have reservations already for…
Aftertastes
Gumbo A Go-Go, 2109 Frankfort Ave., 896-4046, www.gumboagogo.com. This home-style Cajun eatery in Clifton has become a neighborhood mainstay and is slowly building its hearty, good and affordable fare. The new Voodoo Chicken — an offshoot of the popular Drunken Chicken — significantly ramps up the fiery Cajun spice. (Reviewed: 1/31; Rating: 85) Schuler’s Family…
The Bar Belle
Pub crawl patrol This will be a great weekend to whip your tolerance back into shape. The seven-day binge known to outsiders as “Derby Week” is fast approaching. Lucky for us, two pub crawls have been planned for Saturday with this very intention in mind, I would assume. Let’s just get all these bullshit givens…
Booksmart – Ode to writers’ block
Herbert looked like a raccoon with deathly alabaster features. But these qualities were more than the effect of insomnia. The smudges under his eyes indicated a much greater problem. What terrorized Herbert at night and haunted him during the day was his … Pen and Computer. Pen and Computer seemed to love their sadomasochistic relationship…
Booksmart – Listings: Events for the book-smart set
Send information about upcoming literary events to listings@leoweekly.com. Include “book smart event” in the subject line. Deadlines are the second Wednesday of the month. April 28, 11 a.m.: Kathryn Cocquyt — Author of the children’s book “Little Freddie at the Kentucky Derby.” Barnes & Noble Booksellers, The Summit, 4100 Summit Plaza Drive, 327-0410. • April…
Booksmart – Reviews
Timothy LearyBy Robert Greenfield. Harcourt Publishing. 689 pgs., $28. Timothy Leary Tim Leary lived a life few can capsulize. His military service and his work at Harvard were mere prologue. Leary’s LSD epiphany begins the ’60s. His troubles bring the era to an end. He gets arrested numerous times, jailed and eventually escapes, supposedly helped…
Booksmart – Book Nerds
What we’re reading (or at least what’s laying around on our coffee tables …) Cary Stemle (editor) — “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky; “The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina” by Frank Rich; “Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq” by Thomas E. Ricks; “The Road”…
Booksmart – Dickey’s gift of storytelling lifts it from labeling
Eric Jerome Dickey: Photo courtesy of CurtisWilsonPhotography Best-selling novelist Eric Jerome Dickey comes to Carmichael’s tomorrow night. Last Tuesday, the Louisville Free Public Library received 42 copies of Eric Jerome Dickey’s latest book, “Sleeping with Strangers.” Just as quickly, they all went to members citywide who had signed up for a waiting list. Almost any…
Loveable Tribe, fresh Gore, Strait shooters, Miner-isms
Touring to promote its newest release Rock en Espanol Vol. 1, which blends old-time classics with Spanish-language lyrics, Nashville’s Los Straitjackets promise to provide audiences with a humorous, high-energy show. “We like the way it sounds,” guitar and bass player Eddie Angel said of the record. “When we started the band, we were into ’60s…
Hail to the King? Might have to before long
Amore the King His moniker smacks of pompous royalty, but 24-year-old Amore the King is betting his boldness will pay off.The resume indicates he might be right. “Cool It,” the first single off King’s mixtape, Royalty Bound, is in regular rotation on B96.5 FM, as well as satellite radio. He has been invited to Atlanta…
Staffpicks
Wednesday, April 25Queendom Come Revolutionary But Sexy is the title of the new mixtape by Queendom Come, a.k.a. Afrykah WubSauda and Naima J. Released by Louisville hip-hop impresario Father Jah’s Unstoppable Sound Agency, Revolutionary came together thanks to the duo’s staggering freestyle abilities. The duo maintains it can flow for hours upon hours, and at…
Freewheelin’ Theatre’s rough ’n’ tumble, anarchic debu
While Freewheelin’ Theatre Company, a new troupe to Louisville, designed its “Fromage! The River City Comedy Festival” as an evening of live theater from local and touring performers, the reason for attending the festival is the company’s one-act comedy “Lester and Louie Save the World.” After sitting through some mediocre improv and standup…
Nightlife 2007 – Neighborhoods
nightlife I Love CliftonWhen I moved to Clifton last year, a friend and fellow Cliftonite told me in an e-mail: “You’ll love Clifton; it’s the new Highlands!” Kind of cheesy, but Clifton certainly does seem to be a recent focal point of the city, thanks to its restaurants, real estate and Trolley Hop. Still, Clifton…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, May 1
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: ALPHA DOG 2006; DVD $29.95-39.95, R With all the hoopla and back story — based on the real-life murder of an innocent teen; the case against his kidnappers having just come to trial — it’s easy to lose sight of the central issue: Is this movie any good? Simple answer: Hell…
Community Listings
Special Events Free the Children — Manuel High School students hosting silent auction to build a school in Sierra Leone, April 25, 6-8pm, 21C Museum, 700 W Main, 741-7981. Friends School — hosts its annual plant sale, April 25-27, 9am-6pm, 901 Breckenridge Ln, 899-01822.••Irish Society of Kentuckiana — present Irish Tea in the Gardens, April…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Derby ••Derby Festival Pow-Wow — featuring Native American dance and music, $5-$7, April 27, 5pm, April 28-29, 10am, Harbor Point at Waterfront Park, 935-7920.Festival of the Arts — sponsored by Arts Council of Louisville, with vendors, Flamenco Louisville dancers, poetry and more, April 27-28, 10am-7pm, Jefferson Square Park, corner of Sixth and Jefferson, 585-9525.••Bun &…
2007 Nightlife Guide Listings: Bar me!
2007 Nightlife Guide COMPILED BY SARA HAVENS, CLAUDIA OLEA & NATHAN THACHER We are lucky to have more than 365 established watering holes in the Greater Louisville area, all of which offer a place to escape — from work, from home, from mind. Life seems simpler with a beer in hand and a baseball…
Nightlife 2007 – Keep America Beautiful: A celebration of real jukeboxes, B-sides and beer
The Outlook Inn: is famous for two things — a delicious bloody mary and a kickin’ jukebox. It’s Sunday in the Highlands. The sad sound of Jerry Garcia’s pedal steel is floating around the speakers of the back room at the Outlook Inn as I sit pondering many things. Mostly I’m thinking about beer and…
Nightlife 2007 – Dr. Aura is in the house: Does what you drink really affect your mood? LEO conducted an ‘official’
Photo By Gina Moeller Does bourbon make you mean? Does vodka make you flirty? Does tequila really make your clothes fall off? LEO conducted a little experiment to get at the truth behind these age-old and quite possibly apocryphal beliefs about liquor and the human psyche. What we found wasn’t pretty — some stereotypes seemed…
Nightlife Guide – Around The World In 10 Beers (but mainly just Europe)
Tired of macro-brewed domestic beer that resembles fizzy urine? For once, then, take your weekend beer budget and put it to good use. Prepare for an adventure in beer snobbery as we tour some of the finest watering holes in the area in search of exotic beers from around the world.Before setting off, let us…
Nightlife 2007 – Does the import invasion mean farewell to ‘fizzy yellow beer’?
Jim Huie: Maido Essential Japanese Cuisine and Sake Bar owner Jim Huie nurtures his beer list almost as much as the menu. “I put beers in that I think have a lot of flavor,†he says. A Stella Artois promo recently found in a Louisville-area bar details “The Stella Artois Pouring Ritual” in nine steps,…
