New Center skirts the line with new exhibit
• Line (lin), n.: A long narrow mark on a surface. “Desenho em banana (Banana Drawing)†by Tonico Lemos Auad. That simple dictionary definition doesn’t do justice to the line. Lines are an artist’s most basic tool and a very important visual element. In fact, everybody draws, resulting in a familiarity that has the tendency…
Splatters: art news bits
Laura Ross, Charles Hansen and J.D. Schall each won a design award for their booths at the recent Kentucky Crafted: The Market. Hidden Hill Nursery & Sculpture Garden has reopened for spring with its own blacksmith-in-residence, Jeff Reinhardt. Sculptor/painter Amanda Matthews Fields will create an environmental art installation at the Louisville Zoo on Earth Day,…
Does wireless come with that shake?
James Browdy: Photo by Richard Meadows James Browdy, who’s retired from his job at Audubon Hospital, says he visits the Heine Bros. at Eastern Parkway and Bardstown Road four or five days to check out jazz videos through a Wi-Fi connection. While I’m over here in Italy checking out the wine and food and trying…
Mug Shots: Good beer isn’t hard to find
“None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater.…
Community Listings
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Arts & Entertainment Listings
Please send your information to 640 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40202, fax to 895-9779 or e-mail to listings@leoweekly.com. Deadline is Wednesdays at 3 p.m. Include a daytime phone number. Events published on a space-available basis. Listings marked with the LEO “O” are worth a special look. Derby Galt House — hosts 2007 Derby…
Erosia
LEO welcomes letters that are brief (250 words max) and thoughtful. Ad hominem attacks will be ignored, and we need your name and a daytime phone number. Send snail mail to EROSIA, 640 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40202. Fax to 895-9779 or e-mail to leo@leoweekly.com. We may edit for length, grammar and clarity.CorrectionsLast week’s…
Film Preview – Old Joy
Old Joy The relative anonymity of “Old Joy” in Louisville reflects that of its co-star, Will Oldham. Despite being lauded as one of the best films of 2006 — raking in gushing reviews from The New York Times to TV Guide — and boasting one of our most prominent artists in Oldham, it took a…
In revitalizing jazz, drummer finds new grooves
Steve Smith formed Vital Information more than 20 years ago. The upcoming performances at the Jazz Factory by drummer Steve Smith and Vital Information, in support of Vitalization (due in June from Hudson Music), are essential for fans of electric jazz and funk. Smith, who formed Vital Information as a fusion band more than two…
III cheers for Sebadoh as influential trio hits road
Sebadoh’s original lineup is touring for the first time in more than a decade. The acclaim has come like a deluge, to the surprise of few and the relief of many. When the British label Domino Records re-released Sebadoh’s masterwork, III, speculation kicked into high gear on whether Jason Loewenstein, Eric Gaffney and Lou Barlow…
20 years of Panic, dear Watson, Metal’s edge, more ’Pipes
Widespread Panic: Photo by Terry Manning After 20 years, Widespread Panic is as much an institution as it is a band. Typically thought of as a Southern rock stylist, Widespread Panic’s John Bell actually traces his roots to Cleveland. It was only after high school that this affable jam-band frontman fled the rust belt and…
Green eggs and art: At Easter time, Jeffrey Scott Holland taps into the hunter-gatherer in all of us
illustration by Scott Schroering Over the past month, he’s been staying up all night; stashing eggs across the nation is sleepless, hellish work. Art is often described as a labor of love, and Project Egg, Louisville artist Jeffrey Scott Holland’s effort to turn our saccharine-cloaked Easter-Egg-hunt tradition on its head, more than rises to that…
City Strobe
MSD: still hemorrhaging funds over whistleblower case The Metropolitan Sewer District, which lost a federal whistleblower case in January, had paid $323,712.16 for that and a related legal matter by the end of February, according to documents obtained by LEO recently through an open records request. That figure represents an additional $70,927.98 over the total…
Portrait of a heroine: Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research opens its doors
The Braden Institute has original pressings of many of her writings. Some of the tattered hardback books are stamped “Government’s Exhibit,” tattoos of bold black ink that have turned gray with age. The books loosely adhere to a theme: eastern politics, or that which could be affiliated with communism. In contrast are books labeled “Defendant’s…
Can anyone see the damn light?
INTEROFFICE MEMOTO: ALL LEO STAFFERSFROM: STEPHEN GEORGE, THE CITY DESKRE: WE NEED NEW LIGHT BULBS Illustration by Brian Orms Colleagues, As you may know, there is inarguable scientific consensus that global warming — also commonly referred to as climate change, probably by the same people who call sex “intercourse” — is a real and actual…
Rumor & Innuendo
Significant sighting. Seen last Thursday having coffee together at the Frankfort Avenue Heine Brothers: Billy Donovan, The Rick, Cotton Nash and Adolph Rupp. Truth. The barista swears she saw Donovan holding the deed to a Citation Pointe luxury condo. Old Cards, new Cards. Given that The Rick has gone public with info that Jonathan Huffman…
Staffpicks
Thursday, April 5Painter/draughtsperson Anne HarrisLECTUREU of L’s Hite Art Institute continues its ”Images and Ideas” visiting artists and scholars series with a lecture by New England artist Anne Harris. She will discuss her artwork — and what work it is, as she is well versed in both paintings and drawings of sensuous figures best described…
The Video Tapeworm: New, encore and low-price releases through Tuesday, April 10
This Week’s Twin Peeks: BOBBY2006; DVD $28.95, REmilio Estevez — a man whose movies have never risen much above the bump-and-jiggle variety — distinguishes himself as writer, director and star of this very ambitious drama about the denizens of the Ambassador Hotel on the night Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated there. A cast that…
Web Exclusive: Q & A With Toby Lightman
Toby Lightman recently made an appearance at the Hard Rock Café in Louisville to play a benefit concert for Music Rising. The charity that helps replace musical equipment lost or damaged by Hurricane Katrina. LEO caught up with her by phone to talk to her about New Orleans, and her new album, Bird on a…
