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$20 Worth of History
There has always been a certain mystique about Louisville’s “$20 Art Show.” Exactly when and how it began its love affair with the Louisville art community is a somewhat disputed story, but most everyone agrees that, from the very beginning, it has been a unique opportunity for people to purchase original art directly from the…
Catching up with local artist Bob Lockhart
At this particular moment, Bob Lockhart is the most-celebrated artist in town. His retrospective, “The Untold Tale of Bob Lockhart,” is so large and detailed that it’s three separate exhibitions: “Bobzilla! The Legacy of Bob Lockhart” (through Dec. 13 at Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery), “The Sardonic Eye: Bob Lockhart in Context” (through Dec. 21 at…
The crimes against Shaqquan Aaron
If the University of Louisville basketball team had not cut down the nets in Atlanta in 2013, this town would be storming the NCAA offices with torches and pitchforks right now. It had been over a quarter-century since U of L last won the NCAA Championship, so one year removed, we fans lack the sense…
Inbox – December 3, 2014
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ART: The gift of art: holiday exhibitions and sales
We’re in that long holiday stretch that shows up at the end of every year. Hopefully you’ve been a good girl or boy so you can get the art gift that’s on your wish list. If you haven’t found the pottery, painting or pin you want to give or receive, don’t worry; there are a…
THEATER: Holiday sentimentality earned in the theater
In “Ulysses,” James Joyce wrote, “The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done.” Because this isn’t the catchiest of maxims, many writers credit Joyce with a simpler version: “Sentimentality is unearned emotion.” As nearly as I can tell, Joyce’s actual sentence paraphrased his Irish predecessor, Oscar…
Video Tapeworm
MISTER ED: THE COMPLETE SERIES 1958; $94.98-139.99; UR Holy Expletive Deleted! The entire six-season, 143 episode run of America’s greatest talking horse sitcom! (Okay, “only” talking horse sitcom …) And best of all, it contains broadcast-length Season 1 episodes – previously only available in shorter “syndicated” form – and Season 6, available here for the…
Brasserie Provence soothes the savage critic
“Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.” Or maybe “beast.” Everybody thinks the Bard wrote this, but it was actually William Congreve, a decidedly lesser poet who lived a century or so after Bill Shakspear trod the boards. Whatever. My breast was savage, and so was my beast, the other day. I was crabby.…
Suburban songwriters: Talking with Frontier Ruckus
Growing up in suburban Detroit, Frontier Ruckus has always brought a sense of its roots into its music. But, the new record, “Sitcom Afterlife,” takes on a slightly different tone. It comes from a more personal and specific situation in the primary songwriter’s life. LEO spoke with Matthew Milia about the new record, Detroit and…
Freaks in the street
Here Come the Mummies is a live show that’s 5,000 years in the making. According to lore, the boys were unearthed and dusted off in the 1920s by Professor Nigel Quentin Fontenelle Dumblucke IV (b. 1895 – d. 1993), and they’ve been rocking stages all across the country nonstop since. Their music walks a fine…
Plugged In (Dec. 3 – Dec. 9)
WED Dec 3rd Diamond Pub (St. Matthews): Devereaux; 10 p.m. Dreamland: Tim Barnes, Tom Carter; 7 p.m., $7 Brasserie Provence: Brian Curella Duo; 5 p.m. Gerstle’s: Kimmet & Doug; 9 p.m. Jack Fry’s: Ray Johnson, Dave Wilson, Jenna Mattingly; 7 p.m. Jim Porters: Mixed Bag Wednesday From DJ’s to Country, Rock to Jazz, Comedy to…
How Gardens Grow
Wow. With “How Gardens Grow,” Allen Poe comes out swinging. Everything from the rhymes to the production is immaculate, and he seems to be adhering to Brian Eno’s famous adage about ambient music: that it should remain as ignorable as it is interesting. Not that you’d want to ignore this album, as it has some…
Obedience
There is something so exceptionally frantic about the music of Anwar Sadat; it’s so visceral and lumbering that it seems ready to collapse under its own weight at any moment. The beauty though, aptly illustrated with “Obedience,” their newest EP, is that the trio never falters. Step by blistering step, Anwar Sadat adheres to the…
Black Blizzard
There is a maximalist undercurrent to “Black Blizzard” that gives the album a colorful, if sometimes chaotic kind of glow. That chaos is entirely intentional mind you, a path well paved by Flying Lotus or Nobukazu Takemura, forming a delightful rainbow of melodies and textures that cohere into a dynamic composition. All that said, there…
Young Guns
Pat Martino, a multidimensional guitarist, came up in the 1960s, working with saxophonist Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson, then replacing George Benson in Brother Jack McDuff’s band. His early solo albums stretched past funk to more adventurous bop. One night in 1968-69, he appeared at Eddie Donaldson’s Shack, 118 W. Washington Street, Louisville. Fortunately captured on…
Staffpicks
Dec. 5-30 ‘SAW-Contemporary Artists Explore The Tool As Canvas’ CRAFT(s) Gallery 572 S. Fourth St., 584-7636 craftslouisville.com The 18th century practice of tole painting, the folk art style of decorative painting on tin and wooden utensils, objects and furniture, has local and regional artists using the hand saw or saw blade as a canvas and…
