“Cruising the divide” A new play examines Derby cruising
Cruising the Divide: Actors gathered at the Braden Center last week for a community reading of “Cruising the Divide,” a play about Derby cruising that will run this May at Actors Theatre. With the Kentucky Derby forthcoming, we in the local media are obligated to cover with dull regularity the customary sideshows leading up to…
Gannett Watch for 4-9-08
Walter E. Hussman Jr., publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, was this week named Publisher of the Year by the trade magazine Editor & Publisher. The newspaper is often criticized for its conservatism, and a resigning state editor recently accused it of being a “good ole boys club” where offensive racist and sexist rhetoric is allowed…
The hillside iconoclast: Ever the rebel, Barry Thomas wants to find out how far Louisville will go when it comes to home styles
Barry Thomas: on the back deck of the house he built in Kenwood Hills. He originally intended to live there, but he’s decided to put it on the market. In the early 1990s, when the music world was all up Seattle’s ass, Barry Thomas wasn’t wearing much flannel. He was inspired by a vastly different…
Imaginary Conversations: Tom Crean wanders Indiana in a rental car.
The scene: Tom Crean wanders Indiana in a rental car. He’s wasting no time looking for hotshots shooting at ramshackle hoops affixed to weathered barns with gaudy Indiana University logos. His cell phone rings. It’s his old friend, Kelvin Sampson. TOM CREAN: Hey, buddy, I guess you heard the news.KELVIN SAMPSON: Yeah, I did. I…
News Xtra: Statement on the 2009-2010 Budget of the Commonwealth
BY REP. JIM WAYNE Rep. Jim Wayne Mr. Speaker and fellow House members, tonight storm clouds are hovering over our commonwealth. These clouds have been moving in our direction for at least five years. Tonight they are threatening our schools and universities, our health and mental health services, our public safety and court systems, our…
Ballz: Get yer hot young prospects here!
Jay Bruce and Homer Bailey bolster Bats’ ‘best team’ in years [img_assist|nid=6610|title=Jay Bruce|desc=©sportsimage/stan denny Jay Bruce plans to be the Reds’ center-fielder — in a month or a year.|link=|align=left|width=160|height=200]Ask Jay Bruce where he hopes to be in, say, one year.Or one month. “Which one?” asks the 21-year-old Texan, who will hit third in the line-up…
¡ ASK A MEXICAN ! Special dia de los impuestos edition
Q Dear Mexican: Sitting on my desk is a levy from the Internal Revenue Service for over $12,000 in unpaid taxes. Turns out some dude used my Social Security number for two years in Albuquerque to get paid, and didn’t bother to pay taxes. It’s taken me plenty in time and attorney’s fees to figure it…
What a Week: The City’s Weekly Zeitgeist Radar
-10Stupid schtupped ugly in Frankfort, resulting in a bouncy biennial budget that is both stupid and ugly. A brave citizenry clenched its collective sphincter and fretted over basketball without wondering breathlessly: Would the Senate approve the House’s stingy budget or would the House settle for the Senate’s even stingier budget? Ten negative points if you…
Smells Like Holy Spirit
morning service: Photos by Scott McIntyre Sojourners sing with the band at an April 6 morning service. Most congregants are between 20 and 45 years old, pastors say. They’re young, involved and socially aware — and think being gay is a sin. How does Sojourn Church square its progressive image with some of its more…
Erosia (letters to the editor) for 4-9-08
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. One…
Plain Brown Rapper: (W)rapping up the Raps
I will retire from my long-running and sporadic LEO gig, effective five columns hence. It has been a pleasure, indeed an honor, to entertain and educate you these last 15 years.By my best count, this is my 270th Rap. When LEO hits the stands with No. 275, that’s it. I’m outta here. No one can…
The Bar Belle: West Virginia on a whim
West Virginia isn’t the first place you think of when planning a weekend getaway with friends. New Orleans, Vegas, Ashville, Chicago and Memphis all land much higher on my list than Morgantown. But I wasn’t the one celebrating my birthday last weekend, so I had no say. Instead, my friends Courtney and Matt were the…
Aftertastes
PRIMO, 445 E. Market St., 583-1808. Run by Louisville restaurant pioneer “Bim” Deitrich, Primo offers a mix of modern, flashy yet sophisticated style. Chef Michael Hargrove is doing a very serious job with Italian regional cuisine in a menu that changes every week. (Reviewed 2/13/08; Rating: 95) SITAR INDIAN CUISINE, 1702 Bardstown Rd., 473-8889. This…
LEO Eats: The fine young men of We Tappa Keg visit BJ”s & The BBC Tap Room
BJ’s: a 30-year-old Southern California chain, has expanded to Louisville with the launch of a large and very well capitalized brewhouse at Oxmoor Center. Inquire about the American Pale Ale (aka “APA”) at Louisville’s BBC Tap Room, and you’ll get a virtual education in this classic American beer style: Made with Special Pale, Caramunich, Flaked…
Staffpicks
Thursday, April 10Journalist/author Andrew Ferguson Do you like the way the media and our fellow citizens treat today’s presidential candidates? Try to imagine what is brought to bear on the man oft-considered the greatest of Americans — good ol’ Kentucky-born Honest Abe. Historical revisionists, impersonators and proprietors of tourist traps are just part of the…
Back Lot: 9th Annual IUS International Film Fest
It’s a sad state of affairs when our international film festivals have moved out of the theaters and onto the campus. University of Louisville frequently shows new, first-run foreign films in its Floyd Theater. Bellarmine had a solid festival last year. And right now, IU Southeast is having a festival through its department of…
Film Reviews for 4-9 (Snow Angels, Leatherheads)
‘Snow Angels’ is hard to swallow(Starring Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Thirlby, Amy Sedaris and Michael Angarano. Directed by David Gordon Green. Rated R; 1:46. LEO Report Card: C+)David Gordon Green scored a minor success a few years back with “All the Real Girls,” a folksy coming-of-age drama set in the rural South. It was…
Shorties: Recently Reviewed in LEO
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Starring Anamaria Marinca, Vlad Ivanov, Laura Vasiliu and Luminita Gheorghiu. Directed by Cristian Mungiu.) Set in the dark days of Romanian Communism, the film is simultaneously bleak and kindhearted, intelligent and artful, plodding and restless. Yes, it is about abortion. But it’s also just a good film. (Reviewed…
Video TapeWorm: Releases through Tuesday, April 15
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKSDRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN1971; DVD $12.95, URA legendary hack-job that has nothing whatsoever to do with Universal Studios. Z-film auteur Al Adamson stumbled across aging thesps J. Carrol Naish (from 1944’s “House of Frankenstein”) and Lon Chaney Jr., so he gathered Angelo Rossitto, bizarre Dracula-obsessed stockbroker Roger Engel (renamed “Zandor Vorkov” by Forrest…
Theater: “Love! Valour! Compassion!” is a multiple character treat
Love! Valour! Compassion: Photo courtesy of louisville repertory co. Ted Lesley (standing), J.C. Nixon, Bryce Woodard and Todd Ziegler star in Louisville Repertory Company’s production of “Love! Valour! Compassion!” (Louisville Repertory Company presents “Love! Valour! Compassion!” through April 13 at the MeX Theater. Directed by Amy Lewis. Call 584-7777 for tickets.) Imagine how you’d feel…
Cable Boxing: “ER,” I want a divorce
We interrupt our regularly scheduled episode of Cable Boxing for this one-sided commentary by Sara. Apparently, Mat is off frolicking with the recently booted Survivor Big Bird Kathy. His penance: viewing every episode of this season’s “The Hills,” then commenting weekly on the Cable Boxing blog (cableboxing.blogspot.com). It seems only fair. This isn’t working. I…
CD Reviews for 4-9-08
Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds(ANTI-)Nick Cave is music’s itinerant street preacher. Put the music on, or see him live, and you smell the scent of sulphur and brimstone. Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! is no different, and possibly the best of 2008. Again, the familiar topics — sex, death, literature, religion and humor —…
B-Sides (Music & Other Ephemera): Some Velvet Addiction
Velvet Saints The Velvet Saints’ first show last month at the Beechwood Jam Fest at Louisville Gardens might have been an opening salvo, but its members aren’t exactly greenhorns. The Saints — Jeff Epperson (Big Head), Ryan Murphy (Peter Searcy Band, Brian Fox), Kevin McCreery (Tantric, Outspoken, Ugly), Kevin Manning (Room For Emotion) and Jill…
Marty Stuart adapts; Two Men (& 2 Giants); Bravery on the dance floor
Saturday, April 12“Country music is what I do. If I die tomorrow, that’s what the headline will say: ‘Country Singer Marty Stuart,’” Stuart tells LEO. Stuart established himself first as a sideman for the likes of Doc Watson and Johnny Cash, then later as a solo artist. He now enjoys life as sort of a…
Dead Child”s tales of the grotesque and arabesque
Dead Child Hello LEO readers,I’m David Pajo, and I play guitar in Dead Child. That’s right, Dead Child. I know, it’s a terrible name. Terribly cool, that is. Who do we think we are by calling ourselves a heavy metal band? Aren’t we all indie guys? In other words, we’re posers, right? Death to false…
