A Half-Cocked love story: Indie film about Louisville’s days as a ‘music mecca’ is revived
At first, you want to cry. Then you smile. Tara Jane O’Neil and Jeff Mueller: then bandmates in Rodan, share a bass drum roadcase before a show. “Bible Silver Corner,” the pristine Rodan instrumental that opens the band’s only full-length album Rusty, crystallizes a low mood under three grainy, black-and-white shots of Germantown. The camera…
Erosia
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Seeking fast funds: African-American center will ask for help getting to finish line
courtesy of Kentucky Center for African American Heritage: A rendering of the planned Kentucky Center for African American Heritage Like a person ravaged by an inexplicable illness, the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage has faced one trial after another on its road to completion. But the group behind the museum has proclaimed it a…
Rumor & Innuendo
Still Myles to go. Maybe that Ellis Myles fella is more capable of legerdemain — that’s magic to you without a thesaurus — than I thought. As a bunch of you pointed out to me at last Saturday’s game, my sources and I were wrong about Derrick Caracter’s future as a U of L Cardinal.…
City Strobe
Putting the one in every 1Last week, the James Graham Brown Foundation got out its fat wallet and ponied up a sweet $1 million to support the local literacy program “Every 1 Reads.” Every 1 Reads trains volunteer tutors from the community to spend a half hour per week reading with Jefferson County Public School…
The arena: a disaster in the making
Stop the madness. Stop it now, while there’s still time. The downtown civic and business leaders should put their egos aside and table the plans for the new downtown Louisville arena. It will not be a poor reflection on the city. To the contrary, it will make us look smart. Super-salesman Jim Host, who can…
The Big Read: Guest Commentary by Aletha Fields – Shout out past the ‘Dirty I’
During February, LEO is featuring commentaries from community members in conjunction with the Louisville Free Public Library’s Big Read of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” For more information, visit www.lfpl.org “Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’…
Culture Maven: On to greener pastures
You won’t have the Culture Maven to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last column.OK, that’s not exactly the deal. I’ll explain further in a sec. But, hey, if you can’t dis Tricky Dick at a time like this, when can you? Truth is this is the last Culture Maven column that will…
Treat your sweetie to a Fat Tuesday Valentine at Joe’s OK Bayou
Nothing says “I love youâ€: like a plate of gumbo, jambalaya and fried crawfish tails from Joe’s OK Bayou. Dig in! It’s a long way from the Louisiana bayou country to the shopping centers that are rapidly replacing forests and fields on New Albany’s far north side, but once you step into Joe’s OK Bayou,…
Sight Unsound: Enter Teenage Rehab, a Twin’s turn and Joel pops the cork
If punk rock is extinct, then there is a school of coelacanths navigating the waters of the Paducah music scene. This bunch has the punk idealism and has managed to hold on to it all these years and put their money where their collective mouth is. That is to say, this Saturday, Louisville experiences a…
Lambarena Project gets down to earth: Louisville Ballet combines ballet and African dance on stage and in schools
Portia White Muhammad: leads a group of students at Camp Taylor Elementary School in African dance moves during a class that is part of the Louisville Ballet’s educational initiative, the Lambarena Project. In a bright white and cavernous rehearsal hall at the Louisville Ballet’s East Main Street home one cold January night, an audience of…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Feb. 20
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS FLUSHED AWAY 2006; DVD $29.95, PG Aardman Studios, the guys who brought us “Wallace and Grommit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” make their first foray into computer animation with this excellent tale of a pet mouse who finds love and adventure in the sewers of London. We missed the claymation, but…
Community Listings
Special Events ••4th Annual Alice C. Nugent Step-Off Competition — the Louisville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority hosts, Feb. 17, 3pm, 1130 W Chestnut St., 553-1451.“An Evening at the Races” — benefit for Holy Spirit School, featuring music from ’40s & ’50s by Thumper & the Plaid Rabbits, food from local restaurants, silent…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events ••Valentine Guy — presents free couple’s check-up session, by relationship counselors Marc Leibson and Carrie Hunter, now thru Feb. 28, 895-3388.Soapbox Sirens — free open forum for artistry/music/poetry/politics, third Thu., 8pm, Alternative 1032 Story Ave., 561-7613.Collaboratory — evening of live music, poetry, graphic arts, collaborative and spontaneous multi-media jams, free, all ages, last…
The Bar Belle: Mardi Gras emissions
The year was 2001, the month February. New Orleans was knee-deep in Mardi Gras festivities. It was my first trip to the bayou. And did I mention it was Mardi Gras? My friend (who shall remain nameless) and I flew down to stay with another friend’s parents, who had just moved into a suburban neighborhood…
Aftertastes
Pho Binh Minh, 6709 Strawberry Ln., 375-9249. The city’s latest Vietnamese entry features a menu that lists about 40 authentic dishes, divided into appetizers, sandwiches (Bahn Mi) and four main-dish categories: Pho (soup); Hu and Mi (stews); Bun (noodle) and Com (rice). The fare is friendly, filling and not too expensive. (Reviewed 12/20; Rating: 85)…
Staffpicks
Thursday, Feb. 15Alexi Murdoch Rolling Stone recently listed Scottish singer-songwriter Alexi Murdoch as an artist to watch. His heartfelt and at times heartbreaking delivery has earned him comparisons with Nick Drake, and his independently released single, “Orange Sky,” has been used in films. Truly, thus far Murdoch has enjoyed a cult following for his low-key,…
