Humbug
So presumably we liberals have declared war on Christmas. Funny, I missed the memo. I’ve gone back and checked every e-mail from moveon.org and the Center for American Progress for the past six months. Not one about Christmas. Or should I say, “The Holidays”? How can you wage a war if you don’t inform your…
Humbug
So presumably we liberals have declared war on Christmas. Funny, I missed the memo. I’ve gone back and checked every e-mail from moveon.org and the Center for American Progress for the past six months. Not one about Christmas. Or should I say, “The Holidays”? How can you wage a war if you don’t inform…
Sports Bits by Bill Doolittle
I cannot lie: My team is best You know, you always hear a few people say, “I’m a fan of both teams. I like Kentucky and Louisville.” Please. It’s like a voter declaring, “I like both parties, Republican and Democrat.” Nobody believes that stuff. Except for “move-ins,” people around here are either Cardinal Red or…
Sports Bits by Bill Doolittle
I cannot lie: My team is best You know, you always hear a few people say, “I’m a fan of both teams. I like Kentucky and Louisville.” Please. It’s like a voter declaring, “I like both parties, Republican and Democrat.” Nobody believes that stuff. Except for “move-ins,” people around here are…
Why do the faithful scoff at the Mormons?
Guest Commentary This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka the Mormons). This is one of the world’s fastest-growing religions, with 12 million adherents all told. From 1990-2004, the Mormons have increased their ranks by 31 percent in the…
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Not Good for Nothing Quiz
“Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.†— Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis BY JIM WELP Illustrations by Brian Orms Official Rules for the LEO 2005 Not-Good-For-Nothing Quiz 1. The contest runs from Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006 through Monday, Jan. 9, 2006. All entries must be submitted via www.leoweekly.com, by 5 p.m.…
Don’t be S.A.D. – Shedding a little light on a dark disorder
Sadness will never be trendy and is usually not an acceptable topic for polite conversation. But at one time or another it colors all of our lives in varying shades — sometimes more intense than others. For many people, sadness seems particularly pronounced during the winter. The anecdotal signs are everywhere. In the chill and…
Plugged In – Jan 11 – Jan 17
WED JAN 11 Air Devil’s Inn: Serpent Wisdom Bluegrass Brewing Co.: Bluegrass Anonymous Jam w/ Mike Bucayu Brickyard Sports Bar: Open mic/DJ Terry Bulldog Café: Open Jam — Country Cactus Jack’s: Mike Owens Café Lou Lou: Larry Abrams jazz trio Dame: RC Pro AM, Danny Feedback, The Meloday Function Diamond Pub & Billiards: Big Rock…
CD Reviews (01-11-2006)
Live Lunch Juggernaut Jug Band (Independent) jug music It would be difficult not to like the Juggernaut Jug Band. For years (in various incarnations), these guys have melded traditional jug music with jazz, blues, swing, ragtime and rock to create an honest sound to go with a fun stage show. This album is a recording…
Still on the fringe, Wainwright reflects bright as ever
You are forgiven if the only thing you know about Loudon Wainwright III is that he had a big hit single in 1972 with “Dead Skunk.†You know the one — a countryish tune, consisting of banjo, fiddle, Wainwright’s warbled tenor and a chorus that goes Dead skunk in the middle of the road/stinkin’ to…
Band Together, right now, over me
A pair of high school girls are trying to make a difference A wildly overused Chinese proverb goes, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.†The thing to take away, before you roll your eyes at another cliché,…
Staffpicks (2005-01-11)
BOOK Thursday, Jan. 12 Landon Turner book signing Landon Turner, who starred on Indiana University’s 1981 national championship basketball team and then was paralyzed in a car wreck later that year, appears Thursday at an IU Southeast basketball game to sign copies of his new book, “Tales from the 1980-81 Indiana Hoosiers.†Turner was a…
Aftertastes
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Nibbles
It’s Jolly Rogers, mates There’s a new seafood establishment in town, pirates, so let me you’re your hoarsest “Arrrrr!†Located at 850 Main St. in Charlestown, Jolly Rogers’ is open for dine-in or carryout, with deliveries available on orders of $30 or more. Seven seafood combos are offered, most under $8. For all of those…
There’s nothing dumb about El Mundo except the waiter
Visiting El Mundo is like suddenly slipping into one of Frida Kahlo’s sunnier fantasies — not just because prints of Kahlo paintings can be seen from nearly every seat in the restaurant, but because the place blazes with festive colors and sounds. Here, a wall looks like the shell of a great pumpkin; there, a…
The winners of  and answers to  LEO’s 2005 Not-Good-For-Nothing Quiz
“Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.†—Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis And the winners are … Several readers entered LEO’s annual year-end quiz contest, and those with the most correct answers were put into a drawing for some cool prizes. The lucky (and smart) ones are: First place: Larry West (wins:…
Video TapeWorm – Releases through January 17
ALL SOULS DAY: DIA DE LOS MUERTOS 1997; DVD $19.95, UR Danny Trejo got top billing in this hackneyed, if fun, South of the Border zombie-thon, but the real stars are mostly attractive newcomers. Peppered with cameos by Trejo, the incomparable Jeffrey Combs, underused Ellie Cornell and David Keith, if you’ve only seen this on…
Theatre Review: Intimate Apparel
Starring Tiffany Adams, Denise Cormier, Perri Gaffney, Erik LaRay Harvey, Joe Hickey and Gwendolyn Mulamba. Directed by Timothy Bond. An Actors Theatre of Louisville production. Continues through Jan. 28. For tickets or more info, call 584-1205 or visit www.actorstheatre.org. The corset, an ever-present undergarment in the early 1900s, cinched the waist while squeezing the hips…
Film Review: Hostel
2 stars Starring Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Jan Vlasák and Barbara Nedeljáková. Directed by Eli Roth. Released by Lions Gate. Rated R; 1:35. Whether it’s intended or just inept, writer-director Eli Roth doesn’t bother to build an atmosphere of dread into the torture scenes of “Hostel.†In Roth’s second film after the equally…
Film Review: Brokeback Mountain
God, I hate writing about films like this. This sort of movie, with its politically charged topic and suffocating pre-release promotion, is the type of offering that is almost impossible to be objective about (although that has never stopped me before). The truth is, anyone of liberal bent is loathe to say anything negative about…
Brother Fletcher lays it out
Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s State of the Commonwealth address Monday night left no question that he’s seeking to serve the Christian conservative and big business bases that are crucial to his 2007 re-election campaign. While advocating that public schools teach intelligent design (that life is too complex not to have been created by a higher power),…
Mark Daniel Haines: a tribute
STORY AND PHOTO BY MARTY PEARL I was shocked to read the news that Mark Daniel “Danimal†Haines was dead. Given that he had lived on the streets of Louisville and had battled — or embraced — his alcoholism for as long as I knew him, I guess it should come as no surprise that…
Kramer for President – New Metro Council head wants to bridge partisan divides
BY STEPHEN GEORGE That sharp collective inhale you could hear in City Hall last Wednesday night, just seconds after Metro Council member Tom Owen cast his vote for Republican presidential candidate Kevin Kramer, was as loud as the six minutes it took to decide a new president was brief. Some Democrats expressed a mixture of…
PRP president expected to resign
Public Radio Partnership President Gerry Weston is expected to resign later this week pending his agreement to terms created by the PRP Board of Directors for his departure. Since PRP was created in 1994, Weston has led the organization, which operates three FM public radio stations — WFPL, WFPK and WUOL. He also has been…
The Pork Report – Have a taste of Kentucky’s first ‘piglet book’
BY CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE AND BLUEGRASS INSTITUTE FORPUBLIC POLICY SOLUTIONS Since 1991, Citizens Against Government Waste has helped save taxpayers billions of dollars with its annual exposés of pork-barrel spending in federal appropriations bills known as the “Congressional Pig Book.†Now the battle against wasteful spending is spreading from Washington to state legislatures. CAGW…
Welcome to the new world order
by Mark Nickolas Few things exceed the joy of serendipity that clears a roadblock erected by The Establishment. It was just such an encounter with the editors of LEO that brings me here today as the newsweekly’s newest weekly columnist on all things political. As publisher of BluegrassReport.org, Kentucky’s most heavily trafficked political Web site…
In 2006, some love for 8664, new faces in LEO and exciting possibilities in the 3rd District
by Cary Stemle In Southern Indiana where I live, when the topics turn to bridges, folks are certain there’s been a concerted effort to resist building that missing and quite logical new way across the Ohio River in the East End. All they have to do is look across the water from the Clark Maritime…
Who is Billy Reed
Billy Reed, a former sports editor of The Courier-Journal and a senior writer with Sports Illustrated, knew Coach Adolph Rupp and covered the team known as “Rupp’s Runts.†He is a member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame, the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. The writer…
Following the King
Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 77 on Sunday, and as the nation takes the opportunity to celebrate one of history’s greatest activists, a few are asking about where the next King may be. Jesse Jackson is as ubiquitous nationally as Louis Coleman is here in Louisville; indeed, their overexposure vividly begs the issue…
Tainted glory
Conventional wisdom, based on revisionist history, says Adolph Rupp was a racist. Jerry Bruckheimer’s new film, ‘Glory Road,’ provides an opportunity to set the record straight. by Billy Reed The most significant way to honor the 30th anniversary of Rupp Arena would be for all friends of the University of Kentucky to band together in…
