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Censored!
Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored for 13 years, is finished with reform. It’s impossible, he said in a recent interview, to try to get major news media outlets to deliver relevant news stories that serve to strengthen democracy. “I really think we’re beyond reforming corporate media,” said Phillips, also a professor of sociology at…
Censored: The Local List
It’s not just national stories that get short shrift in mainstream media. Here are LEO’s top 10 under-reported or ignored Kentucky stories Shootings in Louisville If there’s a murder in the region, you can expect local news outlets will dedicate at least a few paragraphs to the crime. But when it comes to non-fatal shootings,…
Inbox — Jan. 6, 2010
Thanks, Louisville On behalf of myself and the entire Tim Krekel family, I would like to thank the Louisville community for its loving and generous support during Tim’s illness and following his passing. It is difficult to find words to adequately express our profound gratitude to the many people who gave of their time, their…
Tone Farmer
Growing up in the farming community of Centerville, Ind., an hour north of Indianapolis, Matt Kinder listened to a steady diet of punk and hardcore music, playing bass while learning guitar chords from his cousin. In 2003, Kinder moved to Louisville to attend school, honing guitar and singing skills along the way. It wasn’t until…
Stale Champagne
Anyone can write a sad song, but not everyone can do it well. You have to combine technique and belief. That’s the problem with “Come See What I Have Done.” It has too much of the former and not enough of the latter, coming off sarcastic as a result. I doubt this was the goal,…
Homos in Hollywood
Back in the early 1990s, when I was a budding pre-teen lesbian, I used to dig through barrels of VHS tapes at the video store to find a movie that might have a hint of homosexuality in it. I would search for crumbs of gayness, watching entire movies just to catch a look between characters…
Diamond Café: A Facebook phenom scores in the real world
As a veteran of food and wine online since well before Al Gore played his small role in the invention of the Internet, I’ve been following the development of social media from the start. But here’s something new: Mark down Diamond Café as the first local spot I’m aware of that went viral on Facebook…
Mug Shots: When you gotta go …
Any farm boy can tell you what happens in winter when hot liquid hits the frozen ground and steam is produced, and so my youthful reveries tending our livestock came back to me after I made my way from the toasty upholstered interior of the beer café, through the entry door, across a corridor, through…
How to Play Pretend
The surface analysis is that Daniel Duncan fills his sandbox with something illicit. Determined to renew intelligence as a tenet of modern pop, The Commonwealth’s ringleader makes bold, sweeping arrangements a rule. There is no sonic cave he won’t crawl into, no rhythm that isn’t fair game, and manipulation and composition are synonymous. Pressure to…
Comedy: The Louisville Improvisors & Improvapalooza 10
Believe it or not, the Louisville Improvisors are coming on 10 years together, and with Chris Anger, Alec Volz, Josh Lane and Java Man keyboardist Todd Hildreth at the helm, they’re still going strong. With their quirky, sometimes off-color blend improvisation, you can’t help but be reeled into every performance. Instantly you move from being…
Jerry’s kids
Metro Councilman Tom Owen, D-8, believes the next council president needs to take a more active role in city government given the circumstances: For one thing, Mayor Jerry Abramson will inevitably be distracted in his last year in office while campaigning throughout the state as Gov. Steve Beshear’s running mate. In addition, the administration has…
Love Hasn’t Killed Me Yet
Modern blues recordings are a little too electric and a little too neat. And don’t get me started on the list of white guys who couldn’t find Clarksdale with a TomTom interpreting Muddy Waters. One of blues’ hallmarks is that its lyrical subject matter rarely evolves (women, workin’, drinkin’, redemption), so delivery means everything. At…
Video TapeWorm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: THE BURNING PLAIN 2008; $19.95-$20.95, R The very definition of epic drama (and, frankly, one seriously chicky flick), this rises above through flawless casting and a perfect script. The stars include Charlize Theron as a woman who decides to face her inner demons, many of them the fault of her mother,…
$200 Man
What appears to be Olympia Three’s final effort — the band is splitting up next month — shows the group evolving toward modern nu-grass and ending on a mixed result. Phillip Olympia’s stretched-out vocals are long on character yet feel detached from the rest of the hoedown going on in “Oh, The Humanity.” “Two Hundred…
Plugged In
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For the good times
Sometime last year, I finally entered the digital age and got a cell phone. How did I go so long without it? Now I can get phone calls any time of day or night, no matter where I happen to be, like on Christmas, as I was walking from my son’s mother’s front porch to…
Sixth grade is a pain in the ass
[Jim Welp is on vacation. This column originally appeared in LEO in January 1971. -ed.] Sixth Grade at St. Mary’s School is a pain in the ass. I thought fifth grade was bad, but sixth grade is even worse. At least in fifth grade Sister Rose Ann was dense enough that you could get away…
B-Sides: Music & Other Ephemera
Metroschifter returns from a winter European tour for a show Saturday, Jan. 9, at Zanzabar (2100 S. Preston St., 635-ZBAR). Hard to believe they’ve been around 15 years. Their new album, Carbonistas, is out now on Noise Pollution. Joining the bill is Second Story Man, which ventured out and about around the Midwest this winter…
Nip/Tuck
Do no harm. That’s essentially the basis for the Hippocratic Oath: Whatever you do as a doctor, try to avoid chopping off your patient’s head. If you’re a lawmaker in Kentucky facing a projected $1.5 billion budget shortfall, inflicting some degree of harm will be inevitable, as Gov. Steve Beshear’s latest budget reduction order —…
Industry Standard: Insider info for those who dine out
OK, people: Those who favor keeping children home and away from restaurant dining rooms, step to this side of the line. Those who maintain that children are people, too, and thereby have a right to go anywhere their parents or guardians accompany them, step to the other side. Now, prepare to dance — because it’s…
Comedy: Whitney Cummings is funny … for a girl
You might not know who Whitney Cummings is today, but it won’t be long before she’s a household name. She has appeared on E!’s “Chelsea Lately” countless times, wrote for many Comedy Central roasts, and appeared in the films “He’s Just Not That Into You” and “Maid in Manhattan.” Recently, she released an album called…
