Q & A: Joe Queer of The Queers
Twenty years is a long time to do anything, much less play in a band. But The Queers are not just any band. As their new DVD, The Queers Are Here, makes perfectly clear, this group has forged a loyal following since it first strummed the opening chords of “We’d Have a Riot Doing Heroin.”…
All praise the dung beetle: Science Center’s ‘Grossology’ exhibit offers a new spin on slime, blood and poo
Sylvia Branzei: finds the common housefly the most disgusting creature on the planet. Sylvia Branzei’s favorite insect is the dung beetle — and not because it so magnanimously cleans up the world’s shit, but for its ability to complete a task. “They’re so agile, determined and persistent,” the former science teacher says as she explains…
The color of curiosity: The Speed Museum creates a landscape to lure audiences through the art of David Macaulay
Photos by Ross Gordon Follow the pictures of the wooly mammoth, and don’t smudge the glass.Not exactly the sort of directions one would expect when entering Louisville’s highfalutin’ art space, the Speed Art Museum. But starting this week, that’s just what visitors will hear as they and their welcomed progeny wend through “Building Books: The…
Rumor & Innuendo
Cards’ dance card. Bottom line to jitterbug in the NC2A: Louisville needs to win out at home. If the Cards can beat UConn and steal a W at Pitt or Marquette, they need to get to the Big East semis. Otherwise, they need to make the final and probably prevail in the Garden. Not so…
No reprimand in sight for MSD
Government accountability is about as low as the temperature around here right now: In light of a jury decision that MSD and its executive director violated state law by laying off an employee and a contractor who reported what they believed to be ethical and legal transgressions within the agency to the Kentucky Attorney General,…
Birds of a feather: A Native American group is protesting something a WHAS radio jock said. Should we be surprised?
Matt Cordes: a full-blooded member of the Dakota subset of the Sioux Nation tribe, sprinkles tobacco during a prayer for healing in downtown’s Founder’s Square last weekend. Cordes, his wife Lynny (left, behind the tree) and a small group were protesting comments by W “Why does everything America has ever done bother these people? If…
Erosia
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Zora Neale Hurston: Notes on an Outsider
IZora Neale Hurston was an outsider. Not so much as a black woman in America, rather, for the unusual circumstances of her life and for the extreme political stands she took. Big Read:: Frederick Smock says Hurston’s novel “transcends mortal vanities†and broadens empathy. She grew up in the first incorporated black community in America…
A tribute to Molly Ivins
Goodbye, Molly I.Molly Ivins is gone, and her words will never grace these pages again — for this, we will mourn. But Molly wasn’t the type of woman who would want us to grieve. More likely, she’d say something like, “Hang in there, keep fightin’ for freedom, raise more hell, and don’t forget to laugh,…
Mug Shots: From me to brew
“Every great action is extreme.” —Duc de La Rochefoucauld Two decades ago, as the notion of localized craft brewing began to make long overdue sense to beer-loving Americans who had been denied choice for so very long, the act of microbrewing was itself considered revolutionary and profoundly extremist. After all, there was plenty of…
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)…
Splatters: Art News Bits
Internationally known folk artist Marvin Finn recently died in Louisville after a long illness. The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft carries his work, similar to his “Flock of Finns” sculptures that move around the city. LEO sends our condolences to his family. Rockwall Bistro, 3426 Paoli Pike in Floyds Knobs, has started a “Meet…
Travel back in time at Schuler’s
Imagine a world without fast-food restaurants, with no golden arches beckoning hungry travelers. It’s almost unthinkable in this day and age, but if you can do it, you’re probably at least 50. For anyone younger, fast food has always been a fact of life. So says local free-lance writer (and psychotherapist) Fred Schloemer, who favors…
Patio Gallery exhibit honors the sculptress
The word “sculptress” tells you two things — the artwork is a sculpture and a woman created it. The feminine ending is outdated now, but it was hard-won. A male sculptor told Louise Nevelson, one of the prominent artists of the 20th century, early in her career that she couldn’t be a sculptor. Nevelson said…
Orchestra puts on ‘Russian Favorites’: Composer Dmitri Shostakovich finally gets his due
Violinist Corey Cerovsek: will perform Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto†in D Major Friday, while the Louisville Orchestra will present Shostakovich’s “Fifth Symphony.†You hear artists and musicians complain how the critics are so tough.Tough?Wonder how they’d like to walk around in the shoes of composer Dmitri Shostakovich — whose toughest critic was Josef Stalin! Almost all…
A lover, not a fighter, seven years running
John King John King is a lover, not a fighter. Each February, we get to know just how much of a lover King is through a collection of songs released around the Hallmark-manufactured holiday called Valentine’s Day.For the seventh consecutive year, Louisville is for Lovers shows you how versatile our city’s music can truly be,…
Sorise For Sore Ears: The ‘Phases’ of Steve Reich
Stasis is the state of stability in which all forces are equal and opposing and cancel out each other.In minimalist music, stasis is the technique used to denote slow musical development, an idea that American composer Steve Reich pioneered and changed to suit his own innovations. British newspaper The Guardian has described Reich as one…
Sight Unsound: Doll faces, Split lips and those lovable bastards
Heartless Bastards “When I was a kid, I would play cigar boxes, ukuleles, kazoos, mops … anything to get people’s attention. So, I guess I was cut out to be in a band,” explains Goo Goo Dolls bassist Robby Takac. “Still, most folks have this misconception that the musician’s life is one big party. Don’t…
Theater Review – ‘Sherlock’ is surprisingly slow
“Sherlock Holmes.â€: Photo by Harlan Taylor Brandy Burre, Howard Kaye and Joris Stuyck in Actors Theatre’s “Sherlock Holmes.†You would be hard-pressed to find a person completely ignorant of the character Sherlock Holmes. It might even be difficult to find someone who doesn’t find the Sherlock mysteries, at the very least, entertaining. Director Edward Stern…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Feb. 13
THIS WEEKS TWIN PEEK’S DEADLY WEAPONS/DOUBLE AGENT 73 1974; DVD $19.95, UR Holy Mother of Pearl! Now available on “legit” DVD, the sexploits of the world’s only assassin with 73-inch tits! A drive-in fave back in the day, Chesty Morgan uses her massive mammaries as Deadly Weapons to bust the boobs who killed her boyfriend.…
Staffpicks
Thursday, Feb. 8Creed Mattingly benefit Creed Mattingly needs your help. Mattingly was born with cystic fibrosis, a hereditary disease that affects breathing and can result from lung infections that are treated, but not always cured. Unless Mattingly gets a double lung transplant, he will die in less than a year. Bands Anvil Grey, Dye Hollow,…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events Louisville Uncorked — “Merlot vs. Pinot Noir” benefit for Louisville Orchestra, featuring light appetizers & music by Ensembles, $10 donation, Feb. 8, 7:30-11pm, The Henry Clay, 300 W. Chestnut St., www.louisvilleorchestra.org.••Young Playwrights Festival — presented by Walden Theater, featuring best works from class, $8-$15, Feb. 8-10, 7:30pm, Feb. 10, 2pm, 1123 Payne St.,…
Community Listings
Special Events Great Backyard Bird Count — the Louisville Audubon Society presents a program on how to participate in the bird count, Feb 10, 1pm & 3pm, Louisville nature Center, 3745 Illinois Ave, 458-1328. Free Adoption Info Meeting — for those who have considered adoption but don’t know where to begin, Feb 10, 10:30am, 10503…
