Cover Stories
A&E Guide: 2010-2011 Season Schedules
COMPILED BY ROSIE HANEY, SARA HAVENS, WHITNEY SPENCER & JO ANNE TRIPLETT ••Dance THE KENTUCKY CENTER FOR THE ARTS • Diavolo — Oct. 10, 8 p.m., Whitney Hall • The Kusun Ensemble — Oct. 14, 8 p.m., Bomhard Theater •100 Years of Broadway — Oct. 29, 8 p.m., Brown Theatre • Cirque Mechanics Boom…
A&E Guide: Guide to local galleries, performance houses & arts organizations
21c Museum 700 W. Main St. 217-6300 www.21cmuseum.org The 48 Hour Film Project www.48hourfilm.com/louisville The 930 Center 930 Mary St. 635-2554 www.the930.org Actors Theatre of Louisville 316 W. Main St. 584-1205 www.actorstheatre.org Alley Theater 1205 E. Washington St.? 713-6178 www.thealleytheater.org As Yet Unnamed Theatre Company 445-3203 www.myspace.com/ayutc Art Cartel…
A&E Guide: Striking a chord
Type in “Mendelssohn Violin Concerto” on YouTube and the top video choice that pops up is Sarah Chang, performing the work 16 years ago in her debut with the New York Philharmonic — at the age of 13. But that doesn’t seem to excite Miss Chang, who is now 29 and one of the top…
A&E Guide: Art outside the lines
Carlos Gamez de Francisco has had a lifelong preoccupation with his craft. Despite having little means growing up, the Cuban-born artist managed to find ways to pursue his childhood penchant for painting — using scrap pieces of wood for paper, elementary school watercolors, and even relying on toothpaste when he needed white. Fast-forward 22 years,…
A&E Guide: More than a pretty picture
Growing up, Bryce Hudson’s identity was questioned on a regular basis. The summer sun would flush his hair of any darkness while his skin took a golden brown tone. Even now in his adult life, he finds people attempt to place him in categories where he doesn’t belong. The questions he’s faced in his lifetime,…
A&E Guide: Singing to the choir
The notion that opera is so intimidating that the average person won’t attend is probably true. Even if it weren’t intimidating (with a high-end dress code and songs sung in foreign languages), it is likely only a small percentage of the population is ever going to be interested in hearing the fat lady sing. (Even…
A&E Guide: One man’s trash is this woman’s treasure
Plastic bottles, hula-hoops, discarded CDs. For most, these are not objects of beauty. They don’t trigger profound thought. They don’t create wonder about the world we live in, the way we live in our world, or human nature. But sculptor Leticia Bajuyo is fascinated with such mundane materials, which she incorporates into works of art.…
A&E Guide: Won’t you be my neighbor?
As I’m walking through the new Kentucky School of Art (KSA) space in Spalding University, I realize this is the physical manifestation of a dream come true. But the word “dream” hardly covers the hard work that went into making KSA happen. It really is a goal achieved. Churchill Davenport had an idea that Louisville…
A&E Guide: Preserving a passion
This is a David and Goliath story, or, to be more precise, Goliaths. During all the noise surrounding the possible demolition of the buildings on Whiskey Row, Preservation Louisville Inc. was there fighting to save them. Their name says it all — they work to preserve Louisville’s past by saving its architecture. Part of what…
Book: Irish crime novel a gripping read
Faithful Place By Tana French. Viking Press; 416 pgs., $25.95. Is it possible for a book to be both a page-turner and a page-savorer? The very question provides us with an opportunity to consider the annoying word “page-turner” itself. Pages do not turn themselves. Readers do (unless they’re reading on the kind of electronic device…
Fidelity
It’s a collection of anthems for star-crossed lovers whose orbits are finally and unexpectedly traveling in heat-seeking parallels. Welsh singer-songwriter J.P. Jones and head Pretender Chrissie Hynde are sick with want over something they can’t have: each other. He’s almost half her age, but succeeded in softening an aging beauty’s heart into a puddle of…
Video TapeWorm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: THE EVIL DEAD 1981; $29.95, UR First-ever Blu-ray release of the seminal work in indie oogity-boogity. Five buds stumble across the Sumerian “Book of the Dead,” plus tape recordings of a long-vanished archaeologist, waaaay back in the piney woods. What happens next can only be described as “inspired.” This crazy gorefest…
Game (inter)changer
At a Prospect meeting hall last Thursday, the Louisville and Southern Indiana Bridges Authority placed the option of tolling a massive interchange in downtown Louisville squarely on the table to finance the Ohio River Bridges Project. Moments later, citizens condemned the proposal, renewed calls to scale down the two-bridge plan, and cited a recent cn|2…
Bieber v. The Boss
Consider for a moment the phrase “arts and entertainment.” The words roll off the tongue like they were made for one another. As neatly as peanut butter and jelly, rhythm and blues, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, the word “arts” has been joined in popular usage to its seemingly natural life partner “entertainment.” But this linguistic…
Locavore Lore: Louisville fosters wannabe farmers
It’s pretty cool that two of the people named by Time magazine as “The World’s Most Influential People” are local-food visionaries. Both Will Allen and Michael Pollan have done an enormous amount to foster an understanding of the importance of small-scale, sustainable agriculture and the development of local food economies. This also says a lot…
Inbox — Aug. 25, 2010
Correction A music review in our Aug. 11 edition incorrectly identified Ginger Baker as having played with Deep Purple. LEO regrets the error. Moving On I am responding to the article by Jonathan Meador about Metro Animal Services (MAS) in the July 28 LEO Weekly. Metro Animal Services has been repeatedly berated in the media…
Hawk
His-and-hers companion pieces feeling de rigueur, no? Scottish cellist and composer Isobel Campbell was a member of Belle & Sebastian from 1996 until 2002. Nice to see you again. Lanegan has sloughed off the skin of Screaming Trees/Queens of the Stone Age/Gutter Twins to join the thought party. Her breathy apparition of a voice meets…
Sugar
Sideways pop reckonings come naturally in Athens, Ga., after all. It’s a hub of Elephant 6 and longtime HQ for R.E.M. Next to these, Dead Confederate is the burly, trucker-hat wearing, glad-handing cousin who uses distortion as his chief narcotic. Conceived during a New Jersey blizzard, Sugar has its own dynamic moments, but they are…
Staffpicks
Friday, Aug. 27 ‘The Superhero’ Village 8 Theaters 4014 Dutchmans Lane www.thesuperhero-movie.com $5; 8 p.m. (7:30 pre-show) Films about unlikely superheroes are becoming a genre unto themselves; take “Kick-Ass” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World,” both released this year. Contributing a local take on this emerging zeitgeist is “The Superhero,” which depicts “the rise…
Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
Hey, you’re not wearing that to the party are you? Less is more. Just make sure you smell good. And don’t think too much. You’ll be up late, and all the flesh will be in fine form. We’re here. Do you have your fake? I didn’t know you were from Omaha, um, Mark. I got…
Rhymes with ‘me-oh-my-oh’
The self-described “toughest sheriff in America” leaned into the podium and turned serious. He’d already spoken for more than an hour, and it was getting late. The question posed by an audience member was about babies born in this country to mothers who aren’t U.S. residents. Sheriff Joe Arpaio slipped out of character for a…
Terror Blood
Compared with the making of Lee Van Cleef’s first album, guitarist Syd Bishop says their newest, Terror Blood, was a vacation. Recording sessions for their 2007 debut, The Gentleman’s Punch, started in haste because original guitarist Eric Young was leaving town. The band laid down the basic tracks in a cold attic space with zero…
Plugged In
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Wicked Witch
John Dyer Baizley is the voice and chief artist behind Baroness, who are opening for Deftones at Expo Five on Tuesday. He’s also a painter and visual artist whose work can be seen on albums by Kylesa, Black Tusk and Flight of the Conchords, as well as in Guitar World magazine. Baroness’ sonic treachery can…
Mosaic
What would you do if you could see the end of the line? What if mortality occupied every thought, and you wondered what lay on the other side of the grave? Bluegrass icon Ricky Skaggs must be thinking of his grand exit lately; it’s a recurring theme on this album. Mosaic is his spiritual walkabout,…
The Grape Escape: A glass of Amontillado
“For the love of God, Montresor!” Who can read this chilling line from Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” without feeling a strange impulse to taste this dark, strong Spanish wine? Yet Amontillado remains a mystery to many. What is this wine, the mere mention of which was sufficient for Poe’s evil protagonist to lure his…
The Taste Bud: Long live the Ollie Burger
The Ollie Burger is the stuff of legend: Thick, juicy, spicy and unique, it is available from only one place in Louisville these days, and a handful of places on the planet. That said, I learned that eating more than one of these delectable mouth-gasms in a single day might not be a great idea.…
Down on the Farm
The first car Hampton “Hoppy” Henton ever drove was a Chevrolet Biscayne. “It was an ugly thing,” recalls the 62-year-old Woodford County farmer, “but it ran.” The Hentons insured the Biscayne with Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance, the commonwealth’s largest property and casualty insurance provider, because, as Henton puts it, “The Farm Bureau is just something…
My date at the state fair
We are now well into the sweltering days of August in Kentucky. The kids have returned to school. The late summer flowers are in bloom. And if you smell hard enough, you can catch a whiff of fried food and livestock in the air that can mean only one thing: Kentucky State Fair. An estimated…
Obadiah
This is a heartbreaker, but in the best way. One-third of folk ensemble The Be Good Tanyas, singer Frazey Ford has released a charming solo debut that she hammered out over a summer in Vancouver. Ford has grown up on a steady diet of spare and sultry storytelling, but she can change that plan around…
