Some days you’re the doughnut, some days the hole: Butchertown residents raise a stink about new Swift traffic flows
Photo by Cary Stemle: Under a recent agreement between the city and Swift Co., the meatpacking company will move its refrigeration trucks from this lot on Story Avenue to an old MSD lot a couple blocks away on Cabel Street. That move has prompted two lawsuits. The writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., no stranger to scatological…
Rumor & Innuendo
If you build it, will they come?The debate over the efficacy and placement of a new arena has been festering for too long. The thing’s likely to get built. And in the long haul, it’s a no-brainer, even at the oddly chosen and more expensive riverfront site. (Unless, of course, you’re a U of L…
City Strobe
Eyesore: Photo by Stephen George: Address: 1152 S. Floyd St. Size: 1,678 sq. ft. Value: ,510. Built: 1900. Owner: Charles D. Robinson. Status: LEO was unable to reach the owner for comment. Poe’s “Crossings at Irish Hill” proceeds with cautionThe huge, empty lot on Lexington Road that’s currently owned by River Metals and Progress Rail…
Mr. Yarmuth doesn’t live here anymore (But Ms. Northup is invited to set up shop)
They say election season really doesn’t heat up till after Labor Day, but I think the race for Kentucky’s 3rd District Congressional seat got started a little earlier. You may have seen the news last Wednesday about Rep. Anne Northup’s visit to the LEO headquarters on Fourth Street. Ms. Northup came to complain publicly about…
All the world’s a stage, even in front of LEO
Photo by Ben Schneider: A LEO crew took in Rep. Anne Northup’s street theater outside LEO HQ last Wednesday. Below, the security contract for accompanying a Northup staffer to copy back issues of LEO, at an hour. I can’t speak for my colleagues here at LEO, but, personally, I’m thrilled that U.S. Rep. Anne Northup…
Your Weekly Reeder: Baseball in Louisville (a success story)
Every time I go to a Louisville Bats game in our jewelbox of a riverfront stadium, I’m reminded of what a wonderful success story this has been for our community. We can fight forever about bridges and arenas — and probably will — but baseball is something we’ve done right. It seems impossible that 25…
Bluegrass Report: The Godfather speaks, silently
When Jack Richardson IV, chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party, unambiguously denounced Gov. Ernie Fletcher last week, it was yet another indication that Republican godfather Mitch McConnell has finally decided to intervene and stem the bleeding of his political party. And by mobilizing people like Richardson, who accused Fletcher of “political ineptitude†and urged…
Culture Maven: Forty-five years and umpteen tanks of gas
My driving history spans four and a half decades. Forty-five years I’ve been filling the tank with dinosaur decomposition from a past era when the Earth’s prominent species went kaput. During that time there have been vehicles of various hues and attributes. There was the red Porsche that blew an air box every six weeks…
Guest Commentary: In memory of Miss Bergy
by T.N. McGill Bergy — “The belle of the ball†in 1925. Never to her face, she was called Bergy. Mom’s 1925 high school yearbook, dedicated to Bergy, shows a beautiful woman, “The belle of the ball,” Mom said. Commentary included “words of cheer” to students, “when our responsibilities seemed too great.” (After all, their…
Plain Brown Rapper: The Man in the Arena
Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (for negotiating a peace treaty in the Russian-Japanese War), creator of America’s unsurpassed national parks, author of almost 40 books, political reformer extraordinaire and one of the four faces on Mount Rushmore, said a lot of smart things. One thing comes to…
An insight into life: 87 artists interpret the human experience in KMAC exhibit
“Relative Strangers & the Talking Wallâ€: by Elizabeth Spotswood Alexander. We humans are an inquisitive bunch, always trying to figure out how to better live our lives and wondering who has the owner’s manual. Look no further — it seems the artists in the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft exhibition “Life InSight” have copies…
Splatters: ART NEWS BITS
galerie hertz, on the second floor of 632 E. Market St. (584-3547), will close on Saturday, July 15, with art at reduced prices during the grand finale sale. Louisville Metro’s Historic Preservation Officer Joanne Weeter is retiring from the Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission at the end of the month. Artists Dave Caudill and…
Aftertastes
Quality of Meal: 3 = Good; 4 = Very good; 5 = Extraordinary. Price Range: $ = $10 or less; $$ = $20 or less; $$$ = $30 or less; $$$$ = more than $30. (Per person for a meal without tip or tax.) HA = Wheelchair accessible. Descriptions are summaries of previously published dining…
LEO’s Eat ’n’ Blog with Louisville HotBytes: We hablamos a little Spanglish at La Perla del Pacifico
illustration by Gina Moeller PHOTOS ALSO BY ROBIN GARRIt’s a good thing to have at least one really authentic, Spanish-speaking eatery in the East End — it’s a long ride out Preston to the Metro’s more concentrated Latino-eats zone when you’ve got a hankering for something more real than Taco Bell or even the gently…
Staff Picks
Wednesday, July 12Willie Nelson & FamilyMy personal encounters with Willie Nelson over the last decade have been facilitated not by publicists and managers but rather through the efforts of my somewhat controversial attorney (a longtime pal of Nelson). While interacting with Nelson, it is easy to sense that he is a man full of unconventional…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, July 18
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY JR.: THE COMPLETE SERIES1993; DVD $99.95, URWe absolutely loved this goofy sci-fi/Western series starring Bruce “Bubba Ho-Tep” Campbell as the titular bounty hunter. On the trail of the evil men who gunned down his pa, he encounters a mysterious golden Orb that saves his life while turning…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events Kentucky Opera Guild — “Night of First Choice,†guild’s 33rd annual Book Sale offers used books, CDs, DVDs and costumes from many past play productions, includes live music, buffet and silent auction, July 13, 5:30-9pm, $40, $200 for group of 6, 440 Zorn Ave., 584-4500. ••Berea Craft Festival — 120 artists convene for…
Community Listings
Special Events Hospice Anniversary Celebration — in the main lobby at Baptist Hospital Northeast to commemorate one year of providing inpatient care, July 13, 3-6pm, La Grange, Ky., (502) 719-8925. ••Kentucky Center — The Society of American Magicians Annual Convention includes three open-to-the-public performances in Whitney Hall, July 13-15, 8pm, (718) 336-0605. Greyhound Festival —…
Five Important Questions: With Between Two Lions
Between Two Lions I liked this band as soon as I heard them, and then I found out that they’re from New Albany, which made me like them even more.( Being from across the river myself, it’s exciting to see a really great band coming out of my hometown.) Between Two Lions’ new…
Club Directory
Club Directory 19th Green 1740 Williamsburg Dr., Jeffersonville (812) 284-9088 19th Hole Pub 5603 Greenwood Rd. 933-4858 717 Studios 717 Market St. 609-9317 1135 S. 7th St. 1135 S. 7th St. 589-4978 A Little Peace Café 1860 Mellwood Ave. 895-3650 Air Devil’s Inn 2802 Taylorsville Rd. 454-4443 Akiko’s 1123 Bardstown Rd. 459-8020 The Alternative 1032…
Karaoke Korral
WED JUNE 21 Akiko’sBrewskees Creeker’s Bar & GrillGaslite Tavern Good Times Pub Jim Porter’sJoker’sJT’s Variety Club Monon Station New ViewPhoenix HillR Place Pub Ro-Joe’s Karaoke BarSeidenfaden Cafe Shooters SkivviesSmyrna Inn Spectators Bar & GrillSt. Andrew’s PubSteinert’s T.K.’s Pub Union Station ZaZoo’s THU JUNE 22 19th Hole Pub Akiko’s Brewskees Corner TavernCreeker’s Bar & GrillDouble DeuceGood…
The music never stopped: Phil Lesh & friends will gather at The Palace
Phil Lesh For 30 years, Phil Lesh functioned as the bass player for the legendary Grateful Dead. The Dead were conceived in 1965 in the now-mythical Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. In fact, it was then and there that Lesh, a classically trained composer, first experimented with the bass guitar. As he recalled during a…
Music Tribute: Threnody for Soul Brother No. 1
BY KRISTAFER ABPLANALP David Sauter was a local musician (Valley of Ashes, Sapat, Kark), activist, husband and father. He died last week at age 34. The writer was a friend and bandmate of Sauter’s. David Sauter David Christopher Sauter died the morning of July 4, 2006. He was at home amongst the two people…
Theater Review – Anything Goes
Photo by Kathy Reynolds: Scene from “Anything Goes.†Cole Porter’s quirky musical, “Anything Goes,” gets first-class treatment from Music Theatre Louisville and director Wendy McClellan. With some strong performances, fun dance routines, engaging costumes and musical favorites such as the title song, “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “It’s De-lovely,” the…
