Cover Stories
2012 People Issue : Deborah Yetter
Fresh out of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Deborah Yetter returned home to Louisville in 1978 and applied for a reporting job at The Courier-Journal. But she didn’t get the gig. Undeterred, the aspiring journalist reapplied, to no avail, then tried again. “They kept turning me down,” she recalls with a dry laugh. And…
2012 People Issue: Sudanese Rebaba Project
Inside a brick ranch house, sitting on a soft, brown sectional couch, Michael Pac, David Bior and James Malou watch a Saturday afternoon Kansas City Chiefs game on a big-screen TV. It’s a scene stitched into many American living rooms. But tucked into a corner lies a musical amalgamation unfamiliar to most households. Constructed from…
2012 People Issue: Arsenio Zignoto
Arsenio Zignoto is not the name given him by those who brought him into the world, but neither is Zignoto merely the sum of his chromosomes. You may not know him by any name, but his is a face easily recognized. As long and lean as his dreadlocks (or his affinity for giraffes), the multi-instrumentalist…
Staffpicks
Through Dec. 21 BFA Thesis Exhibition Hite Art Institute Galleries 107 Schneider Hall • 852-6794 louisville.edu/art The holiday season is upon us, a time of new beginnings as another year draws to a close. This December, U of L’s Hite Art Institute also finds itself at a point of transition, as the latest class of…
2012 People Issue: Aubrey Clemons
One of the first things you notice about Aubrey Clemons is his smile, almost cartoonish in its expanse, each tooth straight and bright like a row of “Wheel of Fortune” squares awaiting Vanna’s spin. Not exactly the dental framework one might expect from a man who’s spent his life dodging fists. “Good defense,” Clemons jokes.…
Bar Belle: Xmas and/or Bucket List
Dearest Santa, I’m a little late this year getting you my Christmas list — shocker — but I’m sure your magical and drunken elves will have no trouble pulling together some of these items and throwing them under my beer-can tree. Last year you only got me two things I asked for — the O.W.N.…
Banh Mi Hero gets the Vietnamese sandwich right
It’s no longer hip to claim colonialism was cool. Take it from one who spends entirely too much time in the groves of academia: In this post-colonial era, the dead white men who once strode the earth to plant a flag in distant lands in the name of president or queen are distinctly out of…
2012 People Issue: Dr. Kim Carpenter
When you go to see Dr. Kim Carpenter, she does not play around. “Our approach to health is looking at you as a whole person, and then we address the way you eat, the way you move, the way you think, and the way that you live your life through your nervous system, to see…
Be Still
Trumpeter Dave Douglas is prolific and versatile. Past albums range from sparse trio work to 1970s Miles Davis-style electric jazz. This new release features top young jazz players, mostly eschewing solo virtuosity for clear and concise playing. They emphasize the structure of the songs, many of which are traditional hymns that Douglas’ late mother requested…
Plugged In
Readers are strongly encouraged to call ahead to verify these listings. To get your musical act listed, send email to pberkowitz@leoweekly.com with PLUGGED IN in the subject line. The deadline is FRIDAY at NOON the week before the show happens. We do not accept listings via social networking sites. Wed DEC 19 Air Devils…
Art: Under the sea
For Amy Goforth, the act of creating her latest exhibit, “The Spirit of the Devilfish,” was a spiritual journey. Goforth, who had stopped painting after her graduation from Indiana University Southeast, endeavored to gain some creative momentum by trying to get a single piece shown at Tim Faulkner Gallery three months ago. Impressed with her…
Apocryphon
Listening to The Sword’s fourth album, Apocryphon, is like stepping back in time, but to which era, I am not quite sure. At first, the classic guitar riffs and vocals with a heavy rate of vibrato channel the ’70s sounds of Asia and Blue Oyster Cult, but as the mythical and philosophical element of the…
Inbox — Dec. 19, 2012
No Mercy Talk about a “Snow Job”: Peter Berkowitz’s mean-spirited review of Jewish Christmas records (LEO Weekly, Dec. 5) reveals a superficial understanding of religion, American popular culture, commerce and, most of all, music. Christmas, as it is observed today, compels people to spend money they don’t have to give people they don’t like things…
The secession of Louisville
Holy secession, Batman! Apparently, the U.S. is going to lose a few states — at least that’s what some Southerners would like to see. Immediately following Barack Obama’s re-election, a New Orleans resident petitioned the White House to allow Louisiana to secede. As is the wont of their twisted ilk, sympathizers throughout the region followed…
2012 People Issue: Berk Bryant
When public radio is at its best, it brings music, community and a strong point of view together in a way that can’t be faked. And while WFPK-FM has a heaping handful of local talent, none can quite be compared to Berk Bryant, the authentically genial host of “Sunday Bluegrass.” Aged 82 years, Bryant’s both…
Just another Christmas story
Santa Claus was a dick. Jesus, too. Those were Jasper’s views about Christmas in a nutshell. Frosty, Rudolph and Hermey the Dentist could all kiss Jasper’s ass. And God? Literature’s most implausible science-fiction villain. Jasper’s brother Cal had died on a cold December midnight, gasping for air as cancer stole his life away in the…
2012 People Issue: Courtenay Kunnecke & Nathan Erickson
If you haven’t heard of or been to the Flea Off Market by now, you’re likely spending way too much time inside a mall and leaving large carbon footprints all over the city. The monthly urban flea market just turned 1 in November and boasted more than 100 vendors and thousands of patrons at its…
Mic Tyson
Your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper, Mic Tyson is the Heltah Skeltah emcee’s long-gestating third official long-player. While he may never attain crossover appeal (nor does he seek it), it’d be nice if more of the world was aware of the greatness of P. No matter, though, as Tyson delivers on every level. Gritty, dirty production…
Half Way Home
Vulnerable” doesn’t even begin to describe the voice of Angel Olsen. Thought I was cool, turns out I’m a fool/Clearly you’ve proved me wrong, she croons with a tone both elegant and frail on “The Waiting.” The title is a poignant one for a woman who was given up for adoption as a girl too…
Vice Tricks jump up and down
I’m not a sick boy, I’m not a well boy I’m just a man who likes his music really, really loud. —“Rock & Roll” King and Verity Vice are a couple made for each other, like Lulu and Sailor in “Wild at Heart” or Johnny and June. The leaders of the self-described “Psycho Rock” band…
2012 People Issue: The Rev. Patrick Delahanty
If you’ve ever walked through the bustling halls of the capitol annex in Frankfort during a session of Kentucky’s General Assembly over the past three decades, there’s a good chance you’ve run into the Rev. Pat Delahanty. One of the founders of the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty 24 years ago, Delahanty is…
Ball Droppings 2012
COMPILED BY PETER BERKOWITZ & SARA HAVENS | leo@leoweekly.com Is it a coincidence that New Year’s rhymes with few beers, screw tears, cue cheers and shoo fears? Well, listen up with your two ears (bonus rhyme) as we relay some of the best spots in town to fill your dance card. Like Grandma always advised,…
B-sides
Black and Blue and White White Reaper is a fuzz-rock explosion made up of two: guitarist and vocalist Anthony Esposito and drummer and “cassette tape technology” specialist Nick Wilkerson. Their debut album, White Aura, was released on Halloween. “We’re really influenced by fuzzy 1960s and 1970s kind of stuff, like Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath,…
2012 People Issue: Savannah Dietrich
Wearing skinny black jeans and a T-shirt, 17-year-old Savannah Dietrich tucks her feet beneath her as she folds into her dad’s Lazy Boy chair. “Law and Order” — her favorite show — plays on TV. She’s watched pretty much every episode and knows the characters, their dialogue by heart. “Olivia Benson always says, you know,…
Keep on the Sunny Side
Meat Loaf, meet Meat Oaf Pablo Picasso saw Françoise Gilot’s lovely, fragmented Cubist face as an ashtray for stubbing out his Gitanes. I am not likely to forgive him for that, but on account of my sick and dysfunctional family training, I can’t just cast him aside. I have to accept his nauseating flaws, like…
2012 People Issue: Anthony Smith
To say that Anthony Smith is a busy man with big goals would be a grand understatement. As the organizing director for Louisville’s Network Center for Community Change (NC3), Smith tackles a wide range of challenges, from vacant and abandoned properties plaguing neighborhoods to at-risk youth lacking the necessary resources to escape a cycle of…
Video TapeWorm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: JUSTIFIED: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON 2012; $38.98-$75.98; UR It’s hard to believe that we’re already in the third season of this terrific FX series set in the coal-mining slums of Eastern Kentucky. Timothy Olyphant rawks as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a man who once played by the rules but now…
Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing/Breadcrumb Trail
In the dream, I was sent away from my home. I wasn’t wanted anymore. I wasn’t given the option to pack. The house disappeared as soon as I looked over my shoulder. There was nothing to be seen in any direction. Moonlight shone through spindly, leafless trees and sparkled on the muddy clay ground. I…
Take me to your leader
Just five days after being mocked by his Democratic colleagues on the Senate floor for filibustering his own bill, Sen. Mitch McConnell faced an even greater indignity last Thursday: a new poll from Public Policy Polling showing his approval rating in Kentucky as the lowest of any senator in the country. In addition to his…
Advice: Savage Love
Q: This is a touchy and gross subject. I am a 17-year-old girl growing up in an adoptive family in Australia. I was sexually abused by my birth family, and I think it really fucked up my sexuality. The only thing that gets me off is the idea of people absolutely destroying their lives for…
2012 People Issue: Lola Arslanbekova
If your résumé boasts that you’re ranked No. 3 in the nation in kills, you’re either a crazy serial killer or a damn fine volleyball player. Lola Arslanbekova is the latter, thankfully, and she led the University of Louisville volleyball team in one of its most successful seasons to date. The Cardinals finished the year…
Book: School’s out
Carrie Neumayer has pursued three things over the past 15 years and has learned that, sometimes, something’s got to give. She began making art and music while still in school and struggled to continue when she became a JCPS art teacher. “Teaching in the system is rewarding in many ways, but it’s a ridiculously demanding…
2012 People Issue: The Brewmaster — Leah Dienes
Most of us sit chained to our desks from 8-5 dreaming of a better job, a thinner body and a fatter wallet. Very few of us are actually able to break those chains to pursue what it is we really want to do. Leah Dienes loved to brew beer and knew she was good at…
