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Families behind bars: The cycle of imprisonment
Jackie Floyd is a widow who works as an outreach worker in the Russell neighborhood. Last January, her son, Robert Robinson, began serving a two-year prison sentence after he cut off a home incarceration ankle bracelet. Robinson started his sentence in a Barren County jail, but he was recently transferred to a jail in Fulton…
Listen: A playlist containing one song from every act that was added to the Forecastle 2016 lineup on Tuesday
Ghostland Observatory, The Arcs, Pokey Lafarge, Unknown Moral Orchestra, AlunaGeorge, Teddy Abrams and Friends, Joan Shelley and more have all been announced as additions to the Forecastle 2016 lineup Tuesday. The festival, which takes place at Waterfront Park July 15-17, released the second wave Tuesday morning to go along with previously-released artists that include headliners The…
Visually Speaking: This week’s art news and events (1/25)
[The above image is a detail of “Power Tower” by Robert Halliday in “Bridges” at the Kentucky Fine Art Gallery.] Art news Louisville Visual Art has hired Lindy Casebier as their new executive director (louisvillevisualart.org). In 2016, the Kentucky Foundation for Women will award two grants of $10,000 each for radical art for social change.…
A Q&A with artist Claudia Hammer
[The above image is a detail of “The Getaway” by Claudia Hammer.] Claudia Hammer (claudiahammer.com) is one of those artists that fellow artists admire and students love. If you want to excel at your technique, take one of her classes. You’ll sweat, no doubt about it, but what you will learn will make you think…
5 things to do in Louisville this weekend (1/22)
FRIDAY Let’s go sledding! All over Louisville Free; All day! Since Louisville is no longer a city as much as a giant mound of snow and ice, you might as well grab a garbage can lid and slide down it. Enjoy your snow day and head to one (or all?) of Metro Parks’ six designated…
A positive rage: A conversation with Bully
There is an electric kind of energy in the music of Bully that manages to be positive and aggressive, without ever coming off as saccharine or trite. The band captures that mid-’90s grunge feel, imbuing it with a freshness that transcends the genre. They’re fun to listen to and singer/guitarist Alicia Bognanno perfectly encapsulates that…
The Astronauts: A conversation with Wax Fang
It’s been a decade since local psychedelic auteurs Wax Fang released their enigmatic debut album “Black and Endless Night.” Frontman Scott Carney remembers,“When we were coming up in Louisville, playing music was something we did because there wasn’t much else to do for outcasts. Now there’s tons of shit for people to do, not just…
Goodbye Spaceboy
Monday morning, January 11, 7:50, my phone buzzes with a text from John Timmons telling me that David Bowie has died. If I had read it on the Internet first, I wouldn’t have believed it. I would have laughed, because David Bowie can’t die. He’s not even a human, just an amazing spaceboy who fell to earth,…
Plugged In
Wed Jan 20 8Up: High Sounds with DJ Matt Anthony; 7:30 p.m. Baxters 942: Full Contact Karaoke; 10 p.m. Bearno’s (Highlands): Ryan Conroy; 8 p.m. Bistro 42: Lauren Eid Brownie’s The Shed (Highlands): Karaoke with French Kiss Prod.; 8 p.m. Brownie’s The Shed (Hurstbourne): Karaoke with French Kiss Prod.; 10 p.m. Brownie’s The Shed (New…
Jubilant, comic performances of Chekhov ? by the new Chamber Theatre
Anton Chekhov, it seems, had a vexed relationship with his plays — or at least with the companies that produced them. His squabbles with the great Russian director and teacher Konstantin Stanislavsky were legendary. Chekhov asserted, for instance, that two of the works that became central fixtures of modern drama — “The Cherry Orchard” and…
10 days with Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
This week the internationally acclaimed Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (SPDT) is coming to Louisville for a 10-day residency. Funded through the National Endowment for the Arts, SPDT will offer Louisville a variety of workshops and talk backs, several open to the public. The residency includes a public performance from the full company at the…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS BURNT 2015; $22.98; R Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller have been burning up the talk-shows to promote this film-critic favorite, the tale of a nearly-famous chef who can’t decide whether he wants wealth and fame and glory, or simply the freedom to create amazing food. Uh huh. A silly premise, to…
Hot and hotter: ?Royals joins the hot chicken derby
Mary took a bite of her Royals hot chicken, and wrinkled her nose. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “Is it too hot? You ordered it mild.” “No,” she grumbled. “It’s too sweet.” I pried off a slab of the crunchy, crackly reddish-brown crust and tried it. Mm, mm good. It was spicy but not fiery, as…
Hopping back on ?the sushi train
Have you ever gotten a piece of “bad” sushi? By that, I mean sushi that was contaminated with something that made you sick? Related, I once put a raw oyster in my mouth that felt and tasted like it was on fire. I spat it out very quickly (and without maintaining even a hint of…
Come through, 2016
We got a new house. It took us time to paint and clean but we finally moved in. We were supposed to have flooring done before moving but the work took longer than expected. In fact, it is still taking longer than expected and I’m losing patience. In addition to the floor fiasco, Time Warner…
Better time, this year
It was the best of years; it was the worst of years. Let me be less equivocal: 2015 predominantly sucked. Despite precious few mixed blessings and curses, it previewed hell on Earth — if hell is the impossibility of reason. If 2015 had a gravesite, I would set a box of wine on its tombstone,…
State of the ‘Dream’
Last week America watched President Obama provide Congress with his Constitutionally required “time to time” update on the state of the union. This week, we celebrated one of the men who made it possible for Obama to stand in that position. This is not a Martin Luther King Jr. commentary, but, his holiday provides an…
Your Voice
ON “Bulleit Experience At Stitzel Weller with leo” Excited we got a late night tour of the awesome Bulleit Bourbon Distillery filled with live music, free cocktails, and tastings. #kentuckybourbon #urbanbourbontrail —Ashley Presnell, @ashpresnell On “President Obama’s State of the Union” While President Obama laid out an inspiring vision for America’s future in his State…
