Step into Fantasy Land at Club Flanny’s
It was after midnight on a cold Friday night. I was with a group of girls, and we had just gotten off work. We sat on couches and talked about the things servers talk about when they’re through waiting on tables full of strangers asking for the world. We did this over adult beverages and…
Stumbling toward perfection
It won’t come as a surprise to anybody if I say that we live in a broken world. The evidence is only too clear that things are not right. Some people think it never was right. Opinions vary on that, but the truth is, from our human perspective, things seldom work out the way we…
Nibbles
Mojo’s Friday Dinner Club In September, Angie Campbell, 26, began regularly meeting up for sushi at Sapporo Japanese Grill with several friends she had made through LouisvilleMojo.com. In October, the group suggested going to some different restaurants. At the same time, the Louisville Mojo began offering members the option of forming live online groups. Campbell…
Two shows worthy of attention, even if you’re short on cash
Can’t take back decisions/So begin the denial, goes “When the Walls Fall Down,†by Echos Aim. The group’s founder, guitarist Kurt Reynolds, isn’t at all going to take back the decision to put on an unusual event. This alternative-but-eclectic group is going to transform their all-originals oeuvre into an acoustic concert, presented as a freebie…
Rumblings From the World of Sports
Hoosierectomy on hold. Those same IU stalwarts who a month ago were absolutely resolute that Mike Davis wouldn’t coach the Crimson and Cream next season aren’t, uh, quite so sure now. Funny how having the best three-ball team in the land zips the lips of the naysayers. Huggie update. A reminder: It was right here…
WHAT A WEEK
Where the rubber meets the rubber Rubbertown’s American Synthetic Rubber Co., without whose tires your SUV could not carry you to your oncologist, installed a new pollution-control device that will reduce its emissions of 1,3-butadiene from 120,000 pounds to less than 10,000 pounds per year. Thanks to the new $3 million dollar cancer condom, company…
Paradise found: Warm weather, good hoops can heal a Gator wound
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Well, football season is over, and we’re probably better for it. The Gator Bowl was a bust, though its officials were dead wrong about the allegiance of Cardinals fans looking to get off on a temperate climate and the hope that Hunter Cantwell could pull off a miracle. The Cards faithful overwhelmed…
Under the big top in Frankfort
State lawmakers are converging on Frankfort for what some observers hail as the greatest show on Earth — or at least the greatest circus in politics: the reliably irregular regular session of the Kentucky General Assembly. And this year’s convergence has a cacophony of conflicts playing in the background. Gov. Fletcher, hobbled by charges that…
A glimpse of the real world: Two-year-old Mennonite program throws young adults into the thick of city life
This is a story of six strangers who were picked to live in a renovated convent in Louisville, to live a life of simplicity by helping strangers in a city where they’re strangers themselves. No, it’s not a new reality show. But here’s their story. Eleven years ago, the Mennonite Urban Corps in Pittsburgh formed…
The LEO 2005 Not-Good-For-Nothing Quiz
“Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.†— Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis 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. on Monday, Jan. 9. Entries received after…
Live from Iraq: A new beginning
BY LT. COL. JOHN G. NORRIS U.S. Army 4th Battalion 23rd Infantry of the Stryker Brigade We welcomed 2006 by firing 120mm illumination rounds exactly at midnight. This was a planned mission to accomplish the key task of disrupting enemy IED placement by illuminating the sky over an area of suspected enemy activity. The mortar…
Rhinestone cowboys
Epiphanies come in all shapes and sizes. Over the weekend I happened upon an old photograph of television cowboy Hopalong Cassidy. There he was, impeccably dressed in black, a stylish scarf held together by a silver broach, a hat that looks pretty goofy today but could have made GQ in 1953, and to top it…
What a happy year …
Frankly, I’m tired of all the caterwauling by the pinko namby pamby atheistic types about what a bad year 2005 was. I just received my year-end retirement portfolio. Modest as it is, there’s more paper moolah in there than a year ago. What’s to cry about? Thanks to our beneficent Washington leadership, how-much-money-is-in-it-for-me is the…
Comedy & Karaoke
WEDJAN 4 316 OrmsbyOpen Mic — ComedyAkiko’sKaraokeAngelo’sKaraokeBrewskees Karaoke w/ TriciaBrickyard Sports Bar Open Mic/DJ TerryComedy CaravanPat Godwin, J.T. Thomas, Juan CabezasCreeker’s Bar & GrillKaraoke w/ Dirty DanDiamondKaraoke ContestGaslite Tavern Karaoke w/ LarinsoGood Times Pub Karaoke Jim Porter’sKaraokeJ.T.’s Variety Club Karaoke, The Summit Bros.LighthouseKaraokeMain MenuKaraokeMichael E’sKaraokeMonon Station KaraokeNew ViewKaraoke w/ JoePhoenix HillKaraoke w/ DJ Big KahunaR…
Plugged In
WED JAN 4 Air Devil’s Inn: Serpent WisdomBluegrass Brewing Co.: Bluegrass Anonymous jam w/ Mike BucayuBrickyard Sports Bar: Open mic/DJ TerryBulldog Café: Open Jam — CountryCactus Jack’s: Mike OwensCafé Lou Lou: Larry Abrams jazz trioClifton’s Pizza: Walker & KaysDame: Nolido, Ralph Jones Band, Jimmy Carter ExperienceDiamond Pub & Billiards: Big Rock ShowDutch’s Tavern: Kimmet…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Arts & Entertainment Special Events Jazz & the Spoken Word night of readings and improvisational jazz, featuring Crystal Wilkinson, Nickole Brown, Connie Meyer, David Owen, Ron Whitehead and more, Jan. 4, free, 7:30pm, Jazz Factory, 815 W. Market St., 992-3242. Birthday Salute to Elvis, Jan. 7, 7:30pm, $5/10, Elizabethtown Historic State Theater, 270-234-8258. ••Professional Bull…
Community Listings
Special Events Recycle Xmas Trees, thru Jan. 5, 10am-5pm: Recycling Centers at 965 Hubbards Ln. & 7219 Dixie Hwy., Public Works Yard at 3528 Newburg Rd., and Waste Reduction Center at 636 Meriwether Ave, 574-5000. Singles’ Dance, 7:30-11:30pm, Jan. 5, Paroquet Springs Conference Center, I-65 exit 117, $4 (or free w/ this listing), 736-7600, kysinglesdance.com.…
Releases through Jan. 10
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS:EARTH VS. THE SPIDER/WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEASTDVD $14.95, URLegal problems prevented the makers of this video from packaging “War” with its progenitor, “The Amazing Colossal Man,” but these two Burt I. Gordon masterworks are so terrific you won’t care. First, 1958’s “Spider” finds Ed Kemmer of “Space Patrol” killing the titular…
New dine-in Tony Boombozz location hits the spot
Sure, we all know that the big, publicly traded pizza giants sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of pizza a year — and that many of those millions are forked over in cash to a delivery-person standing on the porch during a basketball game. But did you know that in 2002, Americans consumed 9.6…
Staff Picks
Staffpicks Thursday, Jan. 5 & Saturday, Jan. 7 Louisville Orchestra’s ‘Musical Thievery’ OK, let’s get this straight — the Louisville Orchestra will host a tuba soloist? Is “tuba soloist†even a real phrase? Isn’t that like calling someone an apathy enthusiast? Or a sandwich drinker? Nevertheless, the Orchestra presents “Musical Thievery: The World’s Most Famous…
Theater Review: Homo for the Holidays
“Homo for the Holidays†is the “Vagina Monologues†for gay people. It’s thought-provoking, painstakingly honest and refreshingly amazing. It’ll make you laugh, clap uncontrollably and cry. The play is great because it’s real, and raw emotions almost always work on stage. It’s that deer-in-headlights feel that makes great reality shows so watchable. The story behind…
