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Mad medicine
One of the most rancorous battles of the 2010 Kentucky General Assembly is expected to restart this week with the filing of a bill that allows nurse practitioners autonomy to prescribe non-narcotic drugs such as antibiotics, insulin and blood pressure meds. Under current state law, they cannot prescribe without the written consent of a doctor.…
Staffpicks
Wednesday, Feb. 2 Jolie Holland & Kyp Malone Zanzabar 2100 S. Preston St. • 635-ZBAR www.jolieholland.com $12; 8 p.m. While their respective styles couldn’t be more different, folk ingénue Jolie Holland and TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone find strains and similarities in the unpredictable turns their set will take Wednesday night. Holland’s forthcoming album,…
Culture: ‘Star Trek’ exhibit proves sci-fi is more than fiction
Sunday mornings were always times of hope when I was growing up — hope that my parents wouldn’t feel like going to church so that I could watch “Star Trek” at 11 a.m. While I never evolved into a true “Trekkie,” my years of watching Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and the never-ending line of ill-fated…
Sixth & Jefferson
During the campaign, Mayor Greg Fischer used social networking to relay his message to voters. But the real Greg Fischer is not behind a satirical Twitter account in his name that’s taking humorous swipes at the mayor himself. On Facebook, the mayor’s official page is updated regularly with pictures of meetings and information about city…
Film: Love sucks it big time in ‘Blue Valentine’
Blue Valentine Starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Directed by Derek Cianfrance. Rated R; 1:54. LEO Report Card: A- At what point does a relationship go sour? Is it an event? An argument? Hidden agendas? Words left unsaid? Too many words said? “Blue Valentine” examines the highs and lows of Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy’s (Michelle…
Catch My Shoe
G.W. Sok was The Ex’s singer for 30 years. As the Dutch band went through the membership upheavals that any punk survivor will, Sok and guitarist Terrie Hessels were the only constants. But the group’s instrumental core has been together since 1990, and they’ve developed into a Beefheartian rhythmic juggernaut, capable of creating knotty, lithely…
Mirrors
U.S. Royalty seems determined to please however they can. So much ground is covered on Mirrors, from pure atmosphere to folk to pop to noise, you don’t know quite what to expect from track to track. That’s a fine thing, except the band is better at being ambitious than delivering on ambition. At their best,…
‘Dark’ nights
ear X-tacy launches its After Dark concert series on Saturday, Feb. 5. Lineups favor underground rock, punk, hardcore, metal and hip-hop, and the free weekly Saturday shows begin at 8 p.m. at the shop (2226 Bardstown Road, 452-1799, www.earx-tacy.com). “We have always featured a plethora of in-stores representing varying genres, and we felt it was…
Plugged In
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‘No copper’
On the edge of 24th Street and Maple, two houses sit dormant like a pair of gutted brick Sphinxes. Quiet and unassuming, their broken windows and boarded-up doors bear a message in black spray-paint — “no copper” — that’s more of a warning than a riddle to would-be pipe-marauders. Birds fly into and out of…
Art: In context
Recently, Mentos introduced new packaging for their fruit-flavored chews — one that allows you to see from the outside that inside are two of each flavor. Patrick Smith’s show of new paintings at Swanson Reed Contemporary rolls out much along those lines. From Market Street, the juicy, vibrant paintings advertise their flavor in a frankly…
Our seat on the world stage
Now that we have a new year, a new mayor, a new basketball cathedral and a new plan to someday build a bridge, it’s only natural that we look for more ways to, as Mayor Greg Fischer says, “place Louisville on the global map,” or what the Germans call nehmen der Welt gnadenlos von hinten.…
Police story
Newmarket, Ontario may have produced Jim Carrey, but musically, it was a virtual dead zone for the kind of sarcastic, carefree pop rock Tokyo Police Club enjoys making. Unenthusiastic about its hometown’s addiction to punk, metal and ska, bassist and singer David Monks, guitarist Josh Hook, keyboardist Graham Wright, and drummer Greg Alsop found solace…
The Taste Bud: The incredible edible uzura
Seven-year-old Kyleigh Reeves wrinkled her nose without even taking a sniff when faced with uzura; simply seeing it was enough to make her recoil in horror. She then considered my quail egg concoction for a moment, sat back in her seat and proclaimed, “That’s jacked up.” My friend Glenda, Kyleigh’s mom, constantly badgers me about…
Man out of time
One early evening, way back in the early 1990s, I was working at a bar and Sean Garrison was there. His presence wasn‘t necessarily unusual, but he rarely does anything without a purpose, so I guess he was there for a reason that I can‘t remember. There may have been one other person there; it…
Mantic
As a self-described minimalist musician with an experimentalist bent, Lady Lazarus’ latest offering is perhaps understandably melancholic and confusing. But unless you’re looking for an hour’s worth of music to slit your wrists to, give it a miss. Life is too short to get a headache from listening to this somber dirge when there’s a…
A new, safe place
Dozens of Somali Bantu teens are shooting basketballs, doing homework online, and gossiping near a portable stereo on a recent afternoon at the Arcadia after-school program, which almost did not make it to the new year. Well, technically, it didn’t. The Southeast branch of the YMCA recently took over Arcadia Community Center, helping the organization…
Culture: Podcasts You Might Be Missing
Even though blonde bombshell Mariella Frostrup is a Notting Hillionaire who counts Mick Jagger and George Clooney among her famous ex-conquests, she is no mere celebrity chaser. Well, she may be a bit of one, but it only comes in handy for scoring interviews with everyone from John Waters to Marilynne Robinson. She practically runs…
Industry Standard: Insider info for those who dine out
Have you ever been tempted, when dining out, to compare the price of your meal to what it would have cost to prepare at home? Let’s see … chicken, $1.19 a pound, so let’s say 60 cents. Fancy mushrooms, at most $8 a pound, but there’s only a couple ounces here, so add a dollar.…
Not Yet
Recordings don’t do Monotonix justice. You can’t just listen to them; they have to be seen and felt. And smelled. The Israeli trio’s reputation as a live band is near mythic; audience and performers alike face imminent danger. It’s the sort of thing that’s tough to capture on wax, and the band still hasn’t figured…
Napa Asylum
Boasting 22 fragmentary songs caked in basement-studio grime, Napa Asylum feels like a throwback to lo-fi’s early-’90s heyday, but Sic Alps rarely deliver the heart and soul that pioneers like Sebadoh and Guided By Voices brought to their home-recorded masterpieces. The album suffers from predictable pitfalls: self-consciously sloppy drumming, inconsistent levels and, most damningly, a…
It’s not just about wine at L&N Wine Bar
Whether you identify as a wine geek or a lofty connoisseur, if you fancy the fruit of the vine, chances are you’re already a fan of L&N Wine Bar and Bistro. Its massive Cruvinet wine unit, the largest made, dispenses wines from 54 well-chosen bottles; an additional wine list raises options to 100 or more.…
Let Me Come Home
Broken Records are so indie it hurts. Dig the lazy pun band-name, artsy song titles (“You Know You’re Not Dead,” “A Darkness Rises Up”) and tense guitar/bass/drums/piano/strings template circling in cold-blooded minor keys. This forward-thrusting sextet has been hailed as “the Scottish Arcade Fire,” and the comparison is well earned. On their sophomore full-length, Let…
Video TapeWorm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (aka DAY OF THE WOMAN) 1978; $19.95-$34.95, UR First Blu-ray release of this savage, seminal and thoroughly shocking rape-revenge flick. Camille Keaton (grand-niece of Buster Keaton) plays a young woman seeking solitude who is brutally and repeatedly raped by four men, one of them with the…
Art: No boundaries
If age can be a state of mind, then artist William L. Fischer is younger than most of us. His biological age is 92, but his mind has been emitting bursts of creativity on a daily basis for decades. Fischer doesn’t work in one medium or in a single style. He’s been an artist for…
Inbox — Feb. 2, 2011
Nix SB 6 I am a student at the University of Louisville. My hometown in Northern Kentucky is predominately white, and so arriving in Louisville was like a breath of fresh air; the diversity of an immigrant and refugee city has been vital in my education and in my stance on David Williams’ proposed Senate…
