Literary LEO: Photography
TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHYFIRST PLACE “Apple, Boots” by Bill Brymer “Apple, Boots†by Bill Brymer: TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY — FIRST PLACE SECOND PLACE “Nest Building” by Robert Sachs “Nest building†by Robert Sachs: TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY — SECOND PLACE THIRD PLACE“Kentucky State Fair Cows”…
Literary LEO: Fiction
Short Fiction — First Place La Belle époque or A Week Without You BY JESSICA ELLIOTT The old man who lives upstairs goes wandering down the street every Saturday at noon. He finds me crouched between bushes, smoking a cigarette. He’s surprised to find me there. I tell him that I’m hiding, and he…
Literary LEO: Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction — First Place Big Circle BY GRAY SMITH Albert jerked his sweat-soaked head up from his pillow. Today was the day. A lifetime of dreaming and fervent preparation for one single hour — the window between experiments that would leave him alone with the world’s most powerful scanning electron microscope. Albert’s life had…
Literary LEO: Bad Poetry
Bad Poetry — First Place Going to My Happy Place BY MATTHEW HEIMERDINGER When I sit and think long thoughts like the toes of old men, knobby and mottled — Joan-Rivers-jaded-thoughts —I lean over and close my eyes and thin‘Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.’ And ‘My God’ and ‘New Zealand. Just think of rolling down…
Literary LEO: Poetry
Poetry — First Place HOLY BY AMY TUDOR Preakness Stakes, 2006 The ankle of a horse is holy. —Larry Levis A blue-eyed boy in a field rides barebackon a horse made entirely of hay. They ridein circles, and where the horse steps,its hooves leave prints that sprout black tulips. The field wears them like…
Literary LEO 2007
Literary LEO is an annual rite that dates to the early years of this newspaper. It has grown along with the newspaper’s readership, and each year, LEO receives hundreds of poems, prose and photographs from throughout the community. The work that this year’s judges deem the best are in the following pages. Each year, LEO…
Mixed message:
Equivocal verdict confirms MSD violated the law by laying off workers, but the lack of financial penalties leaves the agency claiming victory [img_assist|nid=3790|title=A jury said MSD violated the law|desc=illustration by Ashley Cecil / www.ashleycecil.com A jury said MSD violated the law by laying off Sarah Lynn Cunningham, above, but did not impose financial penalties.|link=|align=left|width=186|height=200]There was…
Rumor & Innuendo
Denny Crum Court. About damn time. I’m told The Rick, who has always been publicly deferential to the former coach, was the main mover. Anybody familiar with the bad blood that has existed between Hall-of-Famer Crum and the current AD will tell you this was far from a sure thing ever happening under the current…
Counting of a sort: The feds say we must tally the homeless. Easier said than done
By JENNIFER OLADIPO One way to get better participation: Photo by Marty Pearl One way to get better participation in the biennial homeless count is to distribute socks and underwear. It’s the last Thursday in January, a clear winter day, slightly warmer than the one before. But by sunset, about the time Louisville and cities…
City Strobe
More evolution proof?State Republican senators (of all people) are proposing (of all things) more money for education in (of all subjects) science and math. Conservative Christian Republicans in Kentucky are not known for either funding education or holding much truck with science, but there they were last week, touting bills that would boost science education…
Indie films get some love: U of L Film Committee steps in to fill art house film void
U of L Film Committee: Photo by Leah Whitmer Members of the U of L Film Committee include (back row) Stuart Neff, Dillon Campbell, Hank Knight, Joshua Hardman and (front row) Remington Smith and Selene Black. The University of Louisville Film Committee, a subset of the Student Activities Board and the ultimate arbiter of film…
A chat with John Cusack, star of ‘Grace is Gone’
John Cusack: John Cusack plays Stanley Phillips, a hardware store manager whose soldier wife is killed in Iraq, in the indie film “Grace is Gone.†“Grace is Gone” is a film with Louisville ties that had a hell of a week at the recent Sundance Film Festival, winning two prominent awards and getting bought by…
Bluegrass Politics: The Democratic scrum
Editor’s note: After LEO went to press, information surfaced about a possible Charlie Owen-Ed Hatchett gubernatorial ticket in the Democratic primary, which is mentioned in this piece. Hatchett now says he won’t run, leaving Owen to scramble for a running mate before the Jan. 30 filing deadline comes and goes. In the game of rugby,…
Message to the People: Get ready for Soul Bowl Sunday
I don’t write about sports in this column unless there’s some sociopolitical tie. That’s intentional. It’s not because I don’t like sports — I just think they are seriously over-emphasized in the black community. Too many young black boys harbor false hopes of becoming the next LeBron James or Michael Vick. Beyond that, you don’t…
The Bar Belle: G-town’s the spot
A friend recently moved here from Chicago, the land of the wind and bustling city-dwellers who can afford to drop $12 on a cosmo. As she settled in to Louisville, she found herself most comfortable at places like Molly Malone’s or Fourth Street Live. She rarely ventured out of these comfort zones, except for the…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Feb. 6
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS:FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS2006; DVD $29.95, RClint Eastwood/Steven Spieberg’s big-budget ode to WWII, its media-created heroes and the lucky men who died in it. Centering on the six iconic soldiers captured on film as they righted the American flag on Iwo Jima, it expresses the simple truth about war: that a soldier’s…
The Muse, the Spankers and the mortician’s son
Korby Lenker No offense, but your dad isn’t as cool as Korby Lenker’s.Pops Lenker was a mortician. He showed up at grisly accidents. He examined dead bodies. Sometimes he’d even take young Korby along.Caskets were like sandboxes to the lad, and it never occurred to Korby that he should be afraid. “I’ve seen so many…
Staffpicks
Feb. 1-28The Big Read In a rush-rush, media-rich world, the thrill and enrichment that come from reading isn’t always evident. But reading makes you think. It takes you on an adventure. It makes you smart. Next month, the Louisville Free Public Library shares the journey of Janie Crawford with the pubic through a community reading…
Specific Gravity Ensemble’s big splash
GOING UP?: The cast of Specific Gravity Ensemble’s moveable feat — “Elevator Plays.†Last weekend proved a major breakthrough in the theater world. While site-specific performances have become more prevalent, no company, as far as Louisville’s Specific Gravity Ensemble can tell, has staged plays in elevators. Friday, the company premiered “Elevator Plays: Ascent-Descent/Assent-Dissent,” setting tongues…
A celebration of Zora Neale Hurston
Lorna Littleway: courtesy of Juneteenth Legacy Theatre Lorna Littleway portrays author Zora Neale Hurston in “The Last Dust Track.†Writer Zora Neale Hurston, who died in 1960 at age 69, was an explosive and powerful figure throughout her life. Tomorrow her personality will reverberate in the halls of the Louisville Free Public Library’s main branch…
Community lISTINGS
Special Events Small Business Breakfast Club — Mark T. Hamlin leads “Converting Experiences Into Success,” $20 (GLI member), $40 (non), Feb. 1, 8-9am, registration 7:30-8am, KY Derby Museum, 704 Central Ave., 625-0094.Red & Black Ball — to benefit Brown Cancer Center’s Harriett B. Porter Endowment, featuring cashbar, dinner, music, dancing & silent auction, $250, Feb.…
LEO’s Eat ‘n’ Blog: Circling the globe on your dinner plate
One of the most enjoyable aspects of dining out for me is the opportunity to sample a world of cuisines, from the familiar to the exotic. With relatively few exceptions, ranging from such culinary delights as Indonesian rijstafel to more morally dubious items like Japanese whale sushi or Chinese “fragrant meat” (a euphemism for dog,…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events Francisco’s Farm Arts Festival at Midway College — Artist Application Deadline Jan. 31, show dates June 16-17, 598-9063.••Jeffersonville Main St. Chili & Beer Bonanza — featuring chili, brew, silent & live auctions & live music, $15 (adv), $20 (door), Feb 1, 5:30-8:30pm, KYE’s II, 500 Missouri Ave., 280-7772, JeffMainStreet.org.••Frazier Museum — presents dramatic…
