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Labor Day and Election Day 2014
Former C-J editor David Hawpe is a member of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, the Kentucky Humanities Council and the editorial board of the University Press of Kentucky, as well as senior aide to state Sen. Morgan McGarvey. Here’s the skinny on what’s hot in Kentucky politics Sure, there’s lots of heat in…
El Camino’s brunch wows us with Latino style
What? The food guy is going Mexican again? Three weeks running, he’s ricocheted from Argentine beef to taqueria offal to fancified Chicano fare in the surfer tradition? ¿Qué pasa? Or, in the Queen’s English, what’s up with that? Hmm. I suppose I could claim that I’m dining Latino-style out of solidarity with the flood of…
Eat Your Bourbon
“Slow. Small. Simple.” That’s the slogan of Chef Matt Jamie’s Bourbon Barrel Foods in Butchertown. Jamie first got the idea for small-batch, artisan soy sauce while eating oysters and drinking beer in Gainesville, Fla., in 2003. He brewed his first batch of soy sauce at home in Louisville. Eleven years later, Bluegrass Soy Sauce is…
Generosity, Distilled – Angels Envy
In 2013, more than 18 million 9-liter cases of bourbon and Tennessee whiskey were sold in the United States (that’s a 19.6 percent increase since 2008), resulting in $2.4 billion in revenue for distillers. Undoubtedly, the bourbon trend has been a much welcomed boon for Kentucky. But if bourbon enthusiasts keep drinking at the current…
Inbox – September 3, 2014
Bill Stone and Right to Work Dear Editor, It was no surprise to read in LEO (Aug 27) that longtime state Republican leader Bill Stone thinks a Right-to-Work-for-Less law would make our state more competitive with neighboring states. My hunch is he limits his information to what he hears from his friends in the GOP…
Industry Standard – Insider info for those dining out
In Louisville, you can have ho-hum deli sandwiches, somewhat decent Chinese food, and pizza delivered. This dearth of local delivery options is all the more reason to treat our rare, professional delivery drivers well. Delivery drivers normally make more than servers’ minimum of $2.13 an hour, but then their tables are really far apart…
Locavore Lore
Pushing your cart down the aisle of the grocery store, staring at the same old boxes of cereal and pasta, it might be hard to imagine that manufacturers could come up with something new in the world of food each year. But imagine being a wholesale buyer faced with more than 760,000-square-feet of merchandise shown…
Video Tapeworm
This week’s Twin Peeks GIOVANNI FALCONE: THE JUDGE/BORSELLINO: THE 57 DAYS 2014; $29.98; UR A pair of gritty Italian teledramas based on real events. The first is the true story of the judge who risked his life to expose the Mafia in Italy, eventually shattering the organized crime families that held that nation and much…
A comedian’s comedian: Brian Posehn
Brian Posehn is about as famous as someone can be, without being famous. His face is instantly recognizable, while his name probably still alludes mainstream America. You’ll know him from roles on network and cable shows like “Just Shoot Me,” “Newsradio,” “The Sarah Silverman Program,” and “Mr. Show with Bob & David.” He was also…
Some of our favorite artist…
This qualifies as one of the longest exhibition titles ever: “Some of our favorites artists who are current & former gallery/studio directors who are producing absolutely FABULOUS art!” Billy Hertz of Galerie Hertz lets us know right up front that we will see quality art by people who work in the biz. It’s akin to…
Plugged In
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Ancestors Tale
Forsooth, before D’Arkestra brightened the scene, yea, even before Liberation Prophecy foretold things to come, there dwelt a tribe of Grets. The members had jazz chops, ethnic influences ranging from klezmer to gamelan and beyond, and a love of progressive rock. The tablets of their musical notations have been transferred to 21st century media, with…
Thirty Spokes
With the release of their self-titled album, Thirty Spokes proves adept at their craft befitting a working band with four albums under their belt. There is a soulfulness, or at least the pretense of such, that threads throughout the entire album, which sees the group balancing between delicate college alt-radio numbers, and up tempo blues…
Ballad of Jon
As a member of Old Baby, Sexy Minotaur, Jaye Jayle, and the duo Lowe & Sutherland, it was hard to imagine what to expect with Jonathan Glenn Wood’s debut solo effort. With “Ballad of Jon,” Wood leans heavily on the Americana influence that is so part and parcel of too much of his efforts. The…
My Friends Are Better than Yours
Douchebag rap has been a thing for years now, often by emcees who are capable of putting together solidly built, well-delivered packages, but much like a 3am bar pickup, you feel guilty, dirty, and hate yourself a little bit more after experiencing it. File Hemi Hardaway with Cool Kids, Das Racist, and other similar company.…
Staffpicks
1. Aug. 29 – Sept. 7 “The Importance ?of Being Earnest” Kentucky Center, MeX Theater 501 W Main St., 584-7777 kentuckycenter.org $16; 8 p.m. There is no more enchanting and outrageous 19th century playwright than Oscar Wilde, and his witty assault on prudish convention is as funny and relevant today as it was in 1895,…
Why Unions Work
During our long meeting, it became clear to me that while they were certainly interested in a legislative agenda specific to unions, they were far more interested in a broader economic agenda that would help reverse decades of setbacks for the American middle class. Indeed, it is not stretching to argue that the stagnation in…
The Minimum Wage Debate
The same careful evaluation of political remedies is necessary because like in medicine, good intentions are not enough. Too often what seems to be a good solution may have disastrous consequences down the road. If only it were so simple that we could just mandate every employer pay his employees more money and presto, the…
Bobby Petrino 2.0
In Louisville, we tend to like our horses fast, our bourbon neat and our football … actually I have no idea how we like our football. With four head-coaching changes (three different men) in the last dozen years, the University of Louisville has struggled to establish an identity for its football program. Yes, overall Louisville…
Dissed, Dismissed & Dumbstruck
The folks listed had pretty impressive qualifications, but I didn’t see any names I recognized and I definitely know some awesomely diverse emerging leaders. Only six photos accompanied the article and they were all of white people. While I was happy to see a fair share of women represented, I simply can’t accept as legitimate…
JCPS Needs Its Diesel
Diesel smokes a cigar with psychiatric staff as breezily as she drives a fork deep into a dinner table to punctuate a point. They’re dealing with “dangerously sick people,” after all. So it comes as no surprise when we learn that Diesel is a dominatrix. In a hilariously PG-rated BDSM scene, Dr. Montague (Harvey Korman)…
Post-purge movie threats
The incident has prompted a proposal to require the following notice on all Internet comments: “Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that most of what you are about to read was written by bored teens, delusional A-holes or lonely, gullible simpletons.” Until our Internet overlords implement the warning, it’s important to be on the lookout…
Labor Day
Every so often there is a moment or an encounter that affects you for the rest of your life. These paradigm-shifting occasions are sometimes brief, while others enduring, sometimes scheduled, others unexpected. Back in first days of 2006 — amid my preparations to return to Bloomington for my final semester at Indiana University —…
Inbox – August 27, 2014
Clearing Up Misinformation Thanks for doing such a great article on the heroin epidemic. I just wanted to clarify that JADAC does take all private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and we do not have a waiting list. Sometimes the wait is for a few days while we get approvals, but there is not a two-month…
