Fair Housing Policy – NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY
LEO Communications, LLC NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY It is the policy of LEO Communications management not to engage in or assist in efforts of others to engage in housing discrimination. Therefore persons placing housing advertisements in LEO must NEVER: 1. Refuse to rent or to show or negotiate for the rental of or otherwise make unavailable or…
A week in the life of the Arena Authority
The Louisville Arena Authority is expected to call an emergency meeting within the next week to discuss alternate plans to pay for a downtown sports and entertainment complex. The Arena Authority recently was on the brink of finalizing a bond package to pay for construction of a new downtown arena when a major financial market…
Staffpicks
Aug. 5-9 Phoenix Hill’s 32nd birthday! Let’s see … there are gifts for every anniversary. And the 32nd gets you … Gold? Silicon? No, it gets you swag and souvenirs to remember some evenings that you enjoyed but can’t completely recall. Plus some musical guests and other excuses to drink, of course — because that’s…
What a Week
-2 Talk about bad timing: Just days after a building was demolished to make room for a downtown arena, funding for the project crumbled as well. The Louisville Arena Authority is now trying to piece together a new $360 million financing plan by September, in order for the arena to open in time for the…
Gannett Watch
Courier-Journal Public Editor Pam Platt announced in her regular Sunday column that the newspaper is eliminating her position, replacing the editor who interacts with readers about their concerns over news coverage with a hotline and e-mail address. Platt will fill a vacancy on the newspaper’s editorial board. The C-J — now owned by Gannett Co.…
“Mad Men” new season takes flight
Mad Men Season 2, Episode 2: “Flight 1” AMC, Sundays, 10 p.m., aired Aug. 3. Starring Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss and Michael Gladis. Synopsis: The ad men at Sterling Cooper find themselves doing damage control after a plane crashes, killing Pete’s father. Meanwhile, Don and Betty Draper’s…
No bliss on Newburg – Council president embroiled in neighborhood zoning dispute
Nancy Morris has hosted weddings on her garden-like Newburg Road property near the Highlands for 14 years. A picturesque guesthouse is situated on the lush plot of land, which many couples have found ideal for nuptials. On wedding days, couples often set up tents on the Morris’ tennis court, more than 100 yards off the…
Uncivil rights activist – A civil rights leader is disciplined, sparking outrage among supporters
The Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has suspended longtime member Gracie Lewis for three months following an altercation with a fellow activist and the woman’s 13-year-old son. A student volunteering with a summer camp at the Kentucky Alliance claims that on July 21, Lewis yelled at him for getting in her way, waved…
Citizen soldier – A Kentucky judge weighs whether to try a former soldier accused of rape and murder in Iraq
A former soldier faces execution in a civilian court in Kentucky for allegedly raping and killing an Iraqi teenager and slaying the girl’s family in a village outside Baghdad. But lawyers representing the onetime Army private are urging a judge to dismiss the case, calling the prosecution unprecedented and unconstitutional. A federal judge is expected…
For Kelly Richey, the details are in the notes
Friday-Saturday, Aug. 8-9 The internationally celebrated Kelly Richey Band evokes the wandering spirits of Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Vaughn Brothers and Band of Gypsys. But the leader of this independent power trio is actually a homegrown talent who hails from Lexington. We recently chatted with Richey, now a Cincinnatian. LEO: Let’s go…
Funtown will secede from the Union
At work I spend long periods of time by myself, being mostly quiet or listening to NPR too much. While I’m convinced that mild depression and periodic anxiety are completely rational responses to the world at large, my dour outlook, though consistent and painfully well founded, bores me to tears these days. Sometimes I think…
For Nappy Roots, the “good days” start now
Southern hip-hop collective Nappy Roots burst out of the clubs and house parties in Western Kentucky with two platinum albums: 2002’s Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz and 2003’s Wooden Leather on Atlantic Records. In theory, this should have given the band enough clout to keep major label powers from tinkering with a machine that wasn’t broke.…
Video TapeWorm
Releases through Tuesday, Aug. 12 THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! 2006; $39.95, UR Wow! Where to begin? The films of Guy Maddin defy both description and categorization; they are quite literally beyond film as we have come to know it. Here he takes us on a trip through his alternative childhood: a…
B-Sides – MUSIC & OTHER EPHEMERA – Doll parts
Sandpaper Dolls, the not-quite-year-old collaboration between Rebecca Dennison, Amber Estes and Suki Anderson, is a lesson in personal and musical harmony. The three have been rehearsing since last October, expanding their registers and honing their a cappella songcraft while keeping their influences close by. Dennison says she noticed a variety of old-school and contemporary artists…
Inbox — Aug. 6, 2008
ON THE DEFENSE Regarding the “Attack of the activist” article in the July 30 LEO Weekly: Phillip Bailey should be fired. First of all, I am a journalist, and what you have here is “biased reporting.” His friend, Attica Scott, decided to take full advantage of his employment with the LEO. This is a situation…
Socrates Café Philosophy Club: High on mind
Mapquest directions in my left hand and a loose grip on the steering wheel with my right, I scan Spring Street in Jeffersonville for some kind of philosophy-magnetic café. As I have the same inherited sense of direction that, let’s say, a donut has, my journey to the meeting place is filled with the chaos…
Kentuckiana Radio Addicts: Tuning up the past
Pay particular attention or you might pass it. Hidden behind the trees on Frankfort Avenue and distinguishable only by the book box near the sidewalk is Crescent Hill Public Library, home to, among many other things, Kentuckiana Radio Addicts. Around 6:30 p.m. every third Monday of the month, anywhere from three to eight members hang…
Louisville Ghost Hunters Society: Spooktastic and fantastic
I’ll admit it: I’m a bit of a skeptic. Ghosts, angels, politicians — it takes convincing, tangible evidence to get me to believe anything these days. Shadows and creepy noises can always be explained. I’m more worried about the living making such noises. I’m not closed-minded to the supernatural; I’ve just never met a ghost. …
Belegarth Medieval Combat Society: Tolkien-inspired foam combat
Before you read this story, abandon all your preconceived notions of the Medieval Combat Society, otherwise known as Belegarth. You may or may not have caught them in battle on a Sunday afternoon at Cherokee Park, where at first glance, nearly everyone, including myself, would see a bunch of obsessed role-playing nerds dressed in tunics,…
Club Scouts – A COMPENDIUM OF STUFF YOU”D NEVER KNOW ABOUT, WERE IT NOT FOR OUR FEARLESS INTERNS
The key to a successful free market, I have come to believe, is the intern. The economics are simple: high output, no overhead. These conditions allow for people in management to focus on the more important tasks of modern business, like finding cheap permanent labor to fill the holes when the freebies hit the road.…
Louisville Geek Dinner: Don”t call them nerds
A geek is not a nerd. Nerds are typically known for their lack of basic social skills. This is the first piece of information you need before stepping into the room at the Bluegrass Brewing Company in St. Matthews for a regular gathering of self-proclaimed geeks. They obviously have social skills because they are gathered…
Calling all friends and fiends … The Modern Culture art group launches first show
Sometimes all it takes is a grand idea and a little liquor to propel a vague concept into reality. For artists Rebecca Crutcher, 28, and Jill Morgan, 25, The Modern Culture art collective was devised amid tequila and friends in 2005. Back then they called it “The Anthropologists of the Modern Culture,” more of an…
ASK A MEXICAN, ask a Norteamericano: Buenos Dias Café es muy sabroso
If your idea of Mexican food is shaped by Taco Bell or Don Pablo’s, it’s time you tie your taste buds into something auténtico. Real Mexican food sports colorful flavors that aren’t just spicy but tickle your tongue like a mariachi band rattles your ears. In recent years, we’ve told you about quite a few…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cracked crystal ball
I think about the future often, mostly because it represents a time during which I aspire to be alive. That is an exciting prospect for many reasons, not the least of which is that I’m not finished with what I want to say to you people. So I’m hopeful that, despite a streak of cuts…
Suburban Turmoil – Fashionably Crazy
I’ve been thinking of going crazy. I mean, all the hip mommies are doing it. “Time for my Prozac,” they murmur with a wink over a table full of birthday cake-buzzed four-year-olds. “Forgive me, I really shouldn’t mix Xanax with wine,” they giggle helplessly during cocktails. “OK, rant over,” they type in mass e-mails to…
Mug Shots
Local beer keeps it near Pilsner-style golden lagers take their name from the Czech city of Plzen, where the style was invented more than 150 years ago. Champagne is the French regional style of sparkling wine. In terms of both beverages and food — Munster cheese, frankfurters, bologna — humans have tended to associate distinctive…
The Church Hoppers
Written by: George Halitzka & Zach Nord The people are friendly, but money talks at Pleasant Grove Baptist As soon as we walked into church, I smelled trouble. The video screen up front proclaimed this week “Catch-Up Sunday.” Translation: The congregation was being asked to cough up bucks for a budget shortfall. So I took…
Summary of My Discontent – Murketing Mitch
An interesting item spilled out of the mail recently. Mixed in with the skyrocketing bills, the desperate pleas from environmental watchdog groups, the 401k statement informing me that I’d be spending my retirement years Windexing the sneezeguard at Wendy’s — and other hallmarks of Republican handiwork — I found a flyer from Mitch McConnell. Its…
Aftertastes – Recently Reviewed in LEO
LE RELAIS, Bowman Field, 2817 Taylorsville Rd., 451-9020, www.lerelaisrestaurant.com. Some French restaurants may be pretentious, but Le Relais is simply elegant. Its art deco environs are a perfect match for the setting — inside the Bowman Field Administration Building, circa 1929, (Reviewed 6/18/08; Rating: 96) QUEEN OF SHEBA, 2804 Taylorsville Rd., 459-6301. Ethiopian restaurant Queen…
