Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Jan. 30
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS FARCE OF THE PENGUINS 2006; DVD $19.95, R A hilarious disaster of a mockumentary spoofing the public’s love affair with penguins. Written and directed by Bob Saget and narrated by (who else?) Samuel L. Jackson, this treats the male’s cruel existence in the frozen wastes of Antarctica as a big ol’…
Rumor & Innuendo: What you didn’t see.
A throng of hangers-on and media folk — cameramen, scribes, talking heads — jostled for position last week outside the elevator from which new coach Steve Kragthorpe (nickname pending) would arrive for his coronation in the press room of the Pizza Bowl. The doors opened, an entourage disembarked, lights flashed, cameras clicked … and the…
City Strobe: Wage wars
Everybody knows that raising the minimum wage would help relatively few American workers, most of them teenagers and part-time employees. It would result in job losses and discourage companies from creating new jobs, ultimately leading to higher unemployment. And it would hurt small businesses. Wrong, wrong and wrong, according to Media Matters (www.mediamatters.org). The media…
Plain Brown Rapper: Three skyrockets at night
I shot off three exploding bottle rockets in the dead of night. One for Clay, one for Abbie and one for Kevin. They all died within a few weeks of one another. Indeed, the obituaries of Abbie and Kevin were together on the same page of the Dec. 30 Courier Death Count, separated only by…
On Media: Louisville: A springboard to the Big Time
The college and pro football coaching carousel, as we’ve all seen at our local university, is all about jockeying for position and moving up to a bigger and presumably better job. It’s the same with local TV reporters — minus the promises of allegiance and multimillion-dollar contracts. For the ambitious among them, it’s a nomadic…
Editor’s Note: A little chit-chat about Dr. King
I caught Cornel West on Tavis Smiley’s TV show Friday night. West is a professor of religion at Princeton University, and, as Smiley described him, one of America’s great thinkers and perhaps our leading public intellectual. I love Dr. West for many reasons. He peppers his humble speech with phrases like, “What a blessing, my…
Erosia (Letters to the Editor)
LEO welcomes letters that are brief (250 words max) and thoughtful. Ad hominem attacks will be ignored, and we need your name and a daytime phone number. Send snail mail to EROSIA, 640 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40202. Fax to 895-9779 or e-mail to leo@leoweekly.com. We may edit for length, grammar and clarity. Mommy’s…
CD Reviews – The Wilson Chronicles
Departures Andy Wagner (TENSE FORMS) As soon as I put on the album, it came on with piano, acoustic guitar and a harmonica. Oh lord, are we ripping off Dylan or Tweedy? In reality, it’s a little of both I suppose, even some Elliott Smith. The songs are pretty and arranged very simply, but very…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Jan. 23
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEK’S: MONSTERS AND MADMEN 1959; DVD $79.95, UR A four-disc box set containing two excellent drive-in double-features from the chrome-and-tailfin era, courtesy of producers Richard and Alex Gordon. After becoming mired at the age of 70 in tedious B-movies, Boris Karloff left Hollywood to make a pair of wonderfully lurid 1958 thrillers,…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events Monkey Wrench — showing documentary film “Venezuela Rising” followed by Latin American music w/ Appalatin to benefit KILAC/Witness for Peace, Jan. 18, 7-10pm, $5 suggested donation, 1025 Barret Ave., 424-3444. 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,…
Community Listings
Special Events Big Brothers Big Sisters — invites you to one of their kick-off luncheons for Bowl for Kids Sake 2007, Jan. 17, 12pm, Buckhead’s Mountain Grill, 707 Riverside Dr, Jeffersonville, Jan. 18, noon, Carabba’s, Hurstbourne Pkwy, Jan 19, noon, Jewish Hospital East, 3920 Dutchman’s Ln, Jan 24, noon, Outback Steakhouse, 4621 Shelbyville Rd, 587-0494…
Art Review: ‘Art of Photogravure’ featured at Paletti Gallery
“Grand Prix at Longchampâ€: Alfred Stieglitz is credited with popularizing photogravure. This piece, “Grand Prix at Longchamp†by Stieglitz acolyte Edward Steichen, is part of a new exhibition at Paul Paletti Gallery. Creative types like to experiment, find new ways of doing things. Photographers too. Photogravure came about because of this need to “push the…
The Bar Belle: B.S. sabbaticals
Something very puzzling happens to people around the first of the year. Some feel the need to re-evaluate their life, set new goals, blah, blah blah. Some even go so far as to give up, or take a break from, their vices. Sure we all need to eat better and hit the gym every now…
Art Splatters
The Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center has initiated an artist-in-residency program for emerging artists, which includes free studio space for a year. The application deadline is Feb. 15. Scott Scarboro at 895-3650 has more info. Ceramicist Tonya Johnson has moved her Payne Street Pottery to 531 N. Hite St. Call 896-0230 for info. There’s a…
LEO’s Eat ‘n’ Blog: Lentini’s is back, again, and it’s better than ever
Lentini’s tris di pasta sampler: wide tagliatelle in a light cream sauce with Portobello mushroom slices, thin and dense lasagna and risotto con asparagi. The red neon sign out front of this Highlands landmark isn’t retro, it’s real. It takes us right back to the ’60s, still luring us in to Lentini’s “Little Italy”…
Aftertastes
Holly Hill Inn, 426 N. Winter St., Midway, Ky., (859) 846-4732, www.hollyhillinn.com. A good hour’s drive east of downtown Louisville, Holly Hill is one of Kentucky’s most sophisticated eateries and too good for Louisville not to claim it as one of our own. Talented Chef Ouita Michel creates inspired seasonal menus, which change monthly but…
Father Jah: Hip hop is dead, but we can still party
Father Jah: Image courtesy of unstoppable sound agency “There is a formula for how you market a rap record: You have to have a club cut, you have to have a cut for the ladies. You need gold teeth, gold chain. Matter of fact, you’re gonna make a new dance,†Jah say New York rap…
Show Off: Jazz giants Jackson, Barron simply incredible
Javon Jackson Super Band & Kenny Barron The Jazz Factory 815 W. Market St. Nov. 29-30 Kenny Barron The Jazz Factory closed out November with two incredible nights in a row, beginning with the Javon Jackson Super Band and Kenny Barron in a solo performance. While “Super Band” may sound like hype, Jackson’s bandmates —…
Sight Unsound: VilleBillies come home, Ladybirds sing, a lone ’Wolf howls
You get two immediate clues from Caddle, who open for the VilleBillies tonight at Coyote’s. First, the band’s album cover art is dominated by a skull with a cowboy hat (the hat’s black, of course). Second, their Web homepage boasts of “County Rock,” so these guys are obviously moving forward too fast to bother with…
Staffpicks
Thursday, Jan. 18 ‘Venezuela Rising’ fundraiser In mid-February, a Witness for Peace delegation will travel to Venezuela to witness and support the economic transformation occurring there. To support this laudable effort, the Monkey Wrench is playing host to a film showing and music event on Thursday. The film is “Venezuela Rising,” a bracing take on…
