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The year in review
Recaps, best-of lists, predictions … what would the last publication of the year be without them? (Given the post-holiday hangovers, fatigue and depression, there probably wouldn’t be a last issue of the year without them). So, here we go, LEO’s 2014 year in review — a peek ahead at what we’re looking forward to in…
A Q&A With Joe McGee About the Exhibition “En el Espiritu de Frida,” plus Five Art Events That You Shouldn’t Miss
Frida Kahlo is an artist celebrated around the world. Louisville is doing its part with the exhibition “En el Espiritu de Frida” at Swanson Contemporary through Saturday, Jan. 3. This tribute to Kahlo is the brainchild of curator/artist Joe McGee and gallery owner Chuck Swanson. LEO spoke with McGee to find out more about this…
THEATER: Kentucky Shakespeare tops highlights of 2014
The finest moment of Louisville theater in 2014? A July night in Central Park. Gusts of wind were whipping the canopy of those massive trees. To the north, flashes of lightning were making a slow approach. Onstage at the C. Douglas Ramey Amphitheater, Hamlet stood in a graveyard, contemplating the skull of Yorick, that fellow…
Video Tapeworm
This Week’s Twin Peeks BOYHOOD 2014; $25.98; R A lot has been made of writer/director Richard Linklater’s impossible technique – filming the adolescence of a young boy by adding a few minutes of film every year for 12 years – but even without that gimmick, this would have been an amazing movie. Ellar Coltrane stars…
Industry Standard: Battle scars and war stories
That scene in “Jaws.” You know the one – Quint and Hooper are comparing scars attained from shark-hunting: “You wanna drink?” “I’ll drink to your leg.” “OK, so we drink to our legs!” Comparing cooking scars is typical after-hours cook talk. We often have ladders of oven-door burn stripes on the insides of our forearms.…
The 2014 Playlist: Our favorite local songs of the year
It was an unquestionably great year for local music in Louisville. We’ve seen debut records earn national praise, a big name (Jim James) cover legends (Bob Dylan and The Band) for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and, maybe most importantly, we’re seeing artists pushing their boundaries in all sorts of ways — from Old Baby’s Jonathan Glen…
Plugged In (Dec. 31 – Jan. 6th)
WED Dec 31st 21c Museum Hotel: DJ GlitterTitz Baxter’s 942: Cover Me Badd; 9 p.m. Bud’s Tavern: DJ Marko; 8 p.m., free Darkstar on the Creek: Contraband; 10 p.m., free Decca: The Buzzard; 10 p.m. Diamond Pub (Concert Hall): Gitsum, DJ Travisity, DJ Rewind, Josh Woods, Naked Garden, Slinky Jenkins, Bob Anonymous; 8 p.m., $10…
School of Roots
Dave Howard, a member of both the 23 String Band and Relic — two prominent regional acts — has a clear love for all things bluegrass, acoustic and folk, however you’d like to define that. “Folk music is simply the people’s music: it is informed by tradition and regional culture. As Louisvillians, we are in…
Staffpicks
Wednesday, Dec. 31 Derrick Barry Play Dance Bar 1101 E. Washington St., 882-3615 playdancebar.com $18+; doors 8 p.m. You want a piece of Britney? Here’s your chance. From stunning the audience of America’s Got Talent in 2008 with his spot-on Britney Spears impersonation, to the highlight of the current “Divas Las Vegas” house show, Derrick…
To be, or not to be … in love
Love has gone from something sacred, something shared between two people who are crazy about each other, to something exploited on reality television and within society as a sport of sorts. The demise of the American intimate relationship is probably one of the most heartbreaking realities of this generation. Relationships have become disposable and the…
‘The Interview’ … only in America
Full disclosure, Christmas lasted about four days longer than typical: family and friends in town, playing Santa for the first time in my life, an engagement party, plus the unnecessarily stressful basketball game Saturday. As a U of L Cardinals fan, I am taking a little longer to snap back to the world of things…
Inbox – December 30, 2014
LEO Weekly welcomes letters that are brief (350 words max) and thoughtful. ?Ad hominem attacks will be ignored, and we need your name and a daytime phone number. Send snail mail to Inbox, 607 W. Main St., Suite 001, Louisville, Ky. 40202. Fax to 895-9779 or email to leo@leoweekly.com. We may edit for length, grammar…
2015: the year in preview
Thanks to the sweet new Oculus Rift I got for Christmas and Apple’s new Quantum Mechanics app, I have been able to explore the future and I can now divulge what to expect in 2015. But first, let’s take a quick look at how my 2014 predictions turned out. Owing to a glitch in Google…
