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Suffer the little children
And they brought young children to Him, that He should touch them: and His disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, He was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Mark 10:13-14…
Sixth & Jefferson
The band of citizens trying to save the “teepee” shelter in Cherokee Park are gaining momentum in a grassroots fundraising effort to repair the pavilion. Last week, the group Save the Hogan’s Fountain Pavilion announced it won an $11,000 grant from an online Reader’s Digest contest, which boosts their total to more than $21,000 raised…
Book: ‘The Cloud Corporation’ is an event
The Cloud Corporation By Timothy Donnelly. Wave Books; 153 pgs., $16. Timothy Donnelly’s “The Cloud Corporation” is the best poetry book of the year — at least if you believe The New Yorker, which published Dan Chiasson’s “Best of 2010” list and his strongly positive review of the book last year. But it’s not only…
10 fingers
The art of Andreas Kapsalis and Goran Ivanovic (www.akgiduo.com) couldn’t be more different, but they share a mutual destiny through guitar. Kapsalis, the Chicago-born son of a classical violinist, is a self-taught steel string player known for his instrumental acoustic guitar work with Andreas Kapsalis Trio. Ivanovic, who plays nylon strings, studied formally in government…
Theater: Humana Fest isn’t all doom and gloom … maybe
It’s hard out there for the arts. Government and philanthropic support is threatened by politics and economics. Rare are the leaders — national, regional or local — with the vision and courage to state with conviction that the arts are not simply luxurious frills that can be trimmed away in troubled times. In Louisville, an…
Inbox — Feb. 23, 2011
Correction Last week, The Taste Bud incorrectly listed the address of Chicago Gyros. It’s located at 2317 Brownsboro Road. Save Facades I was extremely disturbed to read the news that the Landmarks Commission and the Waterfront Development Corp. were circumvented by the Mayor’s Office and that Todd Blue will be allowed to demolish his iron-facade…
Soul power
Jared Tankel likes where his band is at right now, in both professional standing and location. As part of Daptone Records, The Budos Band is connected to the most musically diverse scene in all of Brooklyn. But Tankel belongs to a large ensemble that hails from and hones its sound in Staten Island, which has…
Barton Hollow
A female singer who plays piano. Her male counterpart on acoustic guitar. Such surface details aren’t the only resemblance between this duo and The Swell Season. Delicate melodies that effortlessly fall into close-harmony — it’s a card Joy Williams and John Paul White play well. But it’s a shame how monotony accumulates on their full-length…
Sixth & Jefferson
The band of citizens trying to save the “teepee” shelter in Cherokee Park are gaining momentum in a grassroots fundraising effort to repair the pavilion. Last week, the group Save the Hogan’s Fountain Pavilion announced it won an $11,000 grant from an online Reader’s Digest contest, which boosts their total to more than $21,000 raised…
Video TapeWorm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: 127 HOURS 2010; $29.95-$39.95, R At first blush, this would seem impossible to turn into a life-affirming feature film: the true story of a guy who gets his arm caught under a boulder and must cut it off to escape. But director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire,” “Trainspotting”) fills it so full…
Let England Shake
P.J. Harvey fills the gap in Anglo-lady pop history between Kate Bush and Florence Welch. Eccentric, powerful, striking and, yes, English, these women have never been frightened by their own shadows. You can tell by some of the daring moves and musical risks that they’re in it for creativity rather than record sales, and this…
The Grape Escape: Wines with unfortunate names: Schistes
So, you ask, what the shizz is this? Relax and get your mind out of the sewer. “Schistes,” the attention-grabbing moniker on the label of this week’s featured wine, is named after a rock. “The schists,” Wikipedia dryly informs us, are “metamorphic rocks … The individual mineral grains, drawn out into flaky scales by heat…
Bar Belle: Better Than The Beatles
Just the other night, my friend asked me, “Do you ever run out of stuff to write about?” Funny he should mention that. I’ve been scratching my head all week about what debaucheries I should detail here, and now I sit, 30 minutes till deadline, with only three sentences written. So I’m going to revisit…
Staffpicks
Feb. 24-27 International Film Fest Paul W. Ogle Center IU Southeast 812-941-2232 Free; 7 p.m. (all screenings) The subtitle averse should probably stay clear of IUS’s 12th International Film Festival. For everyone else, it’s hard to go wrong with this one: Screenings are free, and the odds that you’ll watch an Academy Award winner —…
Go-Go Boots
Country has a relationship with tradition that indie rock cannot claim. Within indie, any formula that sets out a rote way of doing things is something to avoid, or at least reinterpret. So when country-ish indie band Drive-By Truckers use clichéd “country”-twanged voices to sing “country” songs, it doesn’t strike me as part of the…
Plugged In
Readers are strongly encouraged to call ahead to verify these listings. To get your club, comedian, musical act or karaoke listed, please send e-mail to mherron@leoweekly.com with PLUGGED IN in the subject line. The deadline is NOON THURSDAY the week before the show happens. We do not accept listings via social networking sites. Wed. Feb.…
‘What the %#!@’ for $1,000, Alex
First we taught them to wake up before us and make our coffee. Then we programmed them to sing for Britney Spears when she didn’t feel up to the task. Now computers will begin to relieve us entirely of the burdens of thought, labor, killing people, handing Russians their asses at chess, and clobbering American nerds…
The Gathering
The last time a rock band cited Carl Jung as a primary influence was probably on The Police’s swan song, Synchronicity; but on Arbouretum’s new record, The Gathering, Dave Heumann has found inspiration in the father of analytic psychology’s posthumously published, hallucinatory “The Red Book.” The lyrics are darkly imagistic and dream-like, and perfectly match…
All aboard?
Amanda Gatewood drives a lot. An epidemiologist with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Gatewood, 26, must drive 100 miles roundtrip between her home in Louisville and job in Frankfort, five days a week, making a workhorse out of her Honda Civic. “I spend probably $130 a month on gas just to get…
Art: Keepers of Kentucky heritage
Did you know that owning three of the same thing qualifies as a collection? Knowledge like that makes the dust-bunnies in my house look more appealing. Part of the job description of a museum is to collect. The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (KMAC) decided to illustrate that concept with two exhibitions, “Collecting Kentucky”…
Locavore Lore: Portlanders do it better
I can’t stop watching the trailers for “Portlandia,” a TV show that recently started airing on the Independent Film Channel. Starring Fred Armisen (from “Saturday Night Live”) and Carrie Brownstein (of Sleater-Kinney), the show is basically a satire of Portland’s progressive culture. It’s silly, but it pokes fun at the things Portlanders (read: hipsters) are…
The joy of sax
The University of Louisville’s Jazz Fest has long combined topnotch teaching and evening concerts that are open to the public, and this weekend rarely strays from that theme. Antonio Hart, who performs Friday, emerged in the early 1990s. The saxophonist has released seven albums as a bandleader and has recorded and performed with pianist McCoy…
The Year of Magical Drinking
I liked 2008’s Now or Heaven — just enough ’80s and ’90s pop-rock, blended with an overproduced Shins-esque format that didn’t detract from the solid, fresh songwriting. Where would The Broken West go from here? Would its next album be a breakthrough? Then, The Broken West broke up, leaving Ross Flournoy alone on his couch…
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
The image on the cover of Mogwai’s seventh LP — traffic against a dusky morass of urban sprawl — evokes the music contained inside. Ethereal guitar and synth melodies streak like headlights in the fog. This contrast drives the album, as Mogwai marries strikingly subtle compositions to some of the most oceanic guitar layering since…
