CD Review – Bob Brozman Orchestra
LumiereBob Brozman Orchestra(RIVERBOAT/WORLD MUSIC NETWORK)The weathered hands of guitarist, world traveler and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman are dipped in gold. He is an alchemist, blending delta blues, West African, Indian, calypso and myriad other styles into voluptuous movements that are progressive but not geeky. And that’s just on his solo records. Lumiere, a collaboration between…
Getting back to golden
At Camp Golden Bear, women battling homelessness and addiction get a little quality time with their children — and a chance to know innocence again Amanda Bourland and her son Justin, 12, prepared to dock their canoe. Amanda Bourland radiates with pride as she watches her 12-year-old son Justin hit a bull’s-eye at the archery…
City Strobe
Iraq war costs Louisville $673 millionAbout 20 people gathered near the front steps of the federal courthouse at Sixth and Broadway last Thursday to call for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and draw attention to the general acquiescence of Kentucky’s senior U.S. senator, Mitch McConnell, to President Bush’s calamitous war. It was…
Rumor & Innuendo
JaMarcus who??? According to a source, holdout Russell, the NFL’s first draft pick, may not be the QB of the Future for the decrepit Oakland Raiders. I’m told if Michael Vick ever gets to play again — other than in “The Longest Yard III” — he’ll be wearing the silver and black of Sunday’s baddest…
Welp”s Louisville: Back-to-school schadenfreude
If I take joy in my kids’ back-to-school misery, does that make me a bad dad? Each year, I try not to tiptoe into my sleeping daughter’s bedroom at 6:59 a.m. on the first day of school, patiently waiting for her alarm clock to go off so I can point and shout, “In your face!…
A mile in their boots: Damion Maynard is walking a mile for every American solider killed in Iraq
Damion Maynard is attempting to walk a mile for every soldier killed in Iraq Dude is sweaty. He’s got an 80-pound backpack slung over a shoulder and he’s trying to get the other arm under the strap, but the whole procedure is a little awkward now because the bag’s pretty heavy for just one arm.…
To believe in a dream, what sacrifice means: Reflections from the Forecastle Festival
by JK McKnight More than a year of planning, thousands of hours of work, hundreds of volunteers, 60 bands, artists, businesses, organizations, sponsors, speakers, panels, films, sports, rain and sun. Reflecting on the past year, and all the hard work and effort that went into producing Forecastle’s Waterfront debut, is like removing your heart, placing…
The Culture Maven: Made in China? Can”t avoid it if you try
The image doesn’t seem unusual at first.A well-dressed elderly man is riding in the back of a limo. On the seat next to him is a Louis Vuitton bag, containing a newspaper and important papers. Obviously the photo is an advertisement. “Use my bags,” Louis Vuitton hints, “be a man of intellect, importance, wealth and…
Erosia
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Eating ourselves to death
What is food security, how secure is Louisville’s food supply, and does being poor have to mean an unhealthy diet? Eat responsibly. The preeminent Kentucky poet and essayist Wendell Berry delivered that advice to the city folk here at an event last month. He’d been asked what they could do about the decline of farming…
Gulp with the gators, slurp with the sloths
Bernie Taupin, longtime personal lyricist for Elton John, chose the metaphor of inebriated simians to accent the jaunty Brit-trash sentiments of the duo’s 1973 hit, “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting).”My old man’s drunker than a barrel full of monkeysAnd my old lady, she don’t care … I’ve really no clue how monkeys came to be…
The quality factor: Three local gems
Caffé Classico: Photo by Nicole Pullen Caffé Classico stands out on Frankfort Avenue for its cool, sophisticated Euro-style atmosphere and excellent coffee and espresso drinks. Owner-chef Tommie Mudd recently introduced a full dinner menu of reasonably priced French and In a world where MBAs rule and where economic terms like “monetization” and “quarterly balance sheet”…
Staffpicks
Thursday, Aug. 23Marc Swanson lectures 21c Museum Hotel continues to bring a wide variety of thoughtful and exhilarating exhibitions and events to Louisville. Their latest show, “Beginning to See the Light,” is an introspective overview of paintings, sculptures, videos and installations by Marc Swanson. It was organized by curator Miki Garcia, also the executive director…
Faster, hotter, more: Lusty and busty muscle cars sex up new LVAA exhibit
Dodge Charger: Photo courtesy of LVAA An early design of the Dodge Charger that will be on display at the Louisville Visual Arts Association’s ‘Designing An Icon: Creativity and the American Automobile.’ The hot, sweet memories of your “first” just won’t quit. She had those unstoppable, circa-1968 lord-help-me curves poured into a perfectly proportioned back…
Room for another theater group in town?
Samer Yahyawi says Y.E.S. to budding actors Samer Yahyawi’s company, Y.E.S. Group, LLC, has lofty goals. (Y.E.S. stands for Yahyawi Entertainment Services.) Yahyawi, a lawyer, has loved theater since the sixth grade, when he played the snowman in a school play. For the past 20 years, he’s been involved in acting, both onstage and in…
Greed runs through it: Documentary examines Austin”s deteriorating Barton Springs
unforseen Texas-based documentarian Laura Dunn chose an unlikely muse for “The Unforeseen,” her feature-length meditation on development, the environment and greed: Barton Springs Pool. This obscure local attraction is actually an oasis for Austinites who live in one of those sweltering Southwest cities with an ever-growing concrete cityscape. In the 1960s and ’70s, the naturally-filtered…
Bigger and bolder, Summit Festival shows no signs of peaking
Paradigm: is one of the acts playing this year’s Peak Summit Festival at the Rustic Frog. Next year, Myron Koch might need a staff. The founder of this weekend’s Peak Summit “dance and groove festival” has overseen an event that went from one night in St. Matthews five years ago to a multi-day smorgasbord of…
Ex-Jayhawk Mark Olson celebrates the struggle
Mark OlsonSaturday, Aug. 25930 Listening Room930 Mary St.www.the930.org$12; 8 p.m.All ages Mark Olson comes to the 930 Listening Room on Saturday, Aug. 25. “Can you hold on a minute? Victoria is on the other line.”It’s unclear which is more surprising — the fact that the musician on the phone assumes that I know about his…
Brothers back together on Meat Puppets tour
Meat Puppets w/The Only ChildrenMonday, Aug. 27Headliners1386 Lexington Road$15; 8 p.m.18+ Meat Puppets A quarter-century of the Meat Puppets? Doesn’t seem possible. But then again, their mixture of growl, twang and a little psychedelia coalesced into a bedrock upon which has been built all sorts of not-particularly-pop music, some of it becoming quite popular. After…
CD Reviews 8-22
All This Could Kill YouBen + Vesper(ASTHMATIC KITTY)Ben + Vesper’s All This Could Kill You probably won’t, but you might suffer from some fits of boredom … oh, wait, make that ennui, as if you enjoy this, you are definitely one of the cool kids. I’m getting a bit tired of saying, “I really wanted…
Aftertastes
JARFI’S @ MELLWOOD, 1860 Mellwood Ave., 259-9888. Jarfi’s Bistro is a well-traveled mainstay at the Kentucky Center downtown; and now Jarfi’s @ Mellwood (inside the Mellwood Arts Center) offers a simpler version of owner Jeff Jarfi’s culinary imagination. The casual lunch spot offers up salads, wraps, sandwiches and more, and plans to open for dinner…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Aug. 28
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKSBLADES OF GLORY2007; DVD $29.95-$39.95, PG-13Will Ferrell and John “Napoleon Dynamite” Heder star in this just-plain-stooopid farce that pokes fun at figure skating and, in a larger sense, male-male relations, sports movies, organized games and corporate shilling. The two are bitter rivals, banned for life after a brawl on the ice, who…
