City Strobe
Eyesore: photo by Stephen George: Address: 1343 S. Brook St. Size: 2,798 sq. ft. Value: ,050. Built: 1900. Owner: C. Bold LLC. Status: Currently being rehabilitated; owner declined comment. 2010: A city odyssey?According to the nonprofit Greater Louisville Project, making this city a better place to live for all of its citizens doesn’t rest on…
THE TEAR SHEET: Perception vs. reality – Have you heard that crime is up in Old Louisville?
Kirk Stone lives in Old Louisville, and like many residents there, he cherishes the neighborhood’s architectural flourishes, tree-lined streets and proximity to nearly everything that makes Louisville special.“I love living in Old Louisville, and I love the history, the art patrons, the whole neighborhood,” Stone, a 36-year-old interior decorator, said. What he doesn’t love —…
Erosia
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Therapy of note: A spoonful of music helps the medicine go down, so to speak
photo by Cary Stemle: Music therapist Jenny Branson works with Linda Toborowsky, who recently had a hip replacement at Norton Audubon hospital. The woman has cancer, and, just four days after being discharged from Norton Audubon Hospital, she’s back again because she can’t keep food down. Sitting forlornly on the edge of her bed, she…
Jolie Holland: curious, delightful and rewarding
The Simple 5 Series is striking again on Saturday with perhaps its best bargain yet. Jolie Holland returns to town in the wake of a fabulous new release. Dig. Jolie Holland Springtime Can Kill You is a gem, sepia-toned and finely balanced in spirit. “Crush in the Ghetto” is an amazing opener — like many…
Perfect alignment: The October has things all lined out
Nothing compares to the feeling of a great idea finally gelling. It’s a mixture of smug I-told-you-so satisfaction and confidence-boosting accomplishment. Dustin Burnett, guitarist and vocalist for the October (of Illinois), surely knows the feeling. When he started developing ideas and songs for a new band, he didn’t have any members, so he recorded most…
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 Story Ave.…
Karaoke Korral
WED JULY 19 Akiko’s Brewskees Creeker’s Bar & Grill Gaslite Tavern Good Times Pub Jim Porter’s Joker’s JT’s Variety Club Monon Station New View Phoenix Hill R Place Pub Ro-Joe’s Karaoke Bar Seidenfaden Cafe Shooters Skivvies Smyrna Inn Spectators Bar & Grill St. Andrew’s Pub Steinert’s T.K.’s Pub Union Station ZaZoo’s THU JULY 20…
The Long Review: Legacy’s Family Artist Series
One of the hardest lessons to learn as a father was that kids like what kids like and parental influence does not, necessarily, translate across generational pop culture. My toddler daughter will dance to Asha Bhosle and sing along to the Flaming Lips. She’ll even “air drum†along to Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii if…
Staff Picks
JULY 19-26Short films, Blue Skies, a funny young dude So, what’s up at Comedy Caravan these days? Glad you asked … ’cause there’s plenty. Tonight the club starts “Show Your Shorts,” a new series highlighting local and regional filmmakers. Also, Mike Armstrong headlines today through Sunday. On Monday, it’s the latest installment in Blue Sky…
Theater talk: Networking in African-American theater is more than putting on a show
The Black Theatre Network conference: features many noted theater professionals, including Paul Tazewell. Tazewell designed costumers for the Broadway musical “The Color Purple,†which includes the dance sequence pictured here. “I’m never going to do this again.” Lundeana Thomas recalls making this pronouncement in 1988 after organizing her first conference for the newly formed Black…
BLUEGRASS POLITICS: It’s Ernie’s world  and he lives there alone
There are rare moments in life when a situation becomes so perverse that you could scarcely create even fiction from it. For fiction to work, readers must believe the events could actually happen. The real-life political saga of Gov. Ernie Fletcher is fast approaching that point. And his appearance at last week’s Louisville Forum was…
YOUR WEEKLY REEDER: The essence of life
One thing we know for sure about the Third District candidates for U.S. Congress is that both are devoted family people. So last week, when Democratic challenger John Yarmuth extended his sympathy to Republican incumbent Anne Northup upon the shocking death of her son Joshua, it was more than a pro forma statement. You know…
THE FLIPPED LID: Men and apartments  and not settling for less
Having very recently moved from my beloved one-bedroom apartment into an entire house, and having also moved into this house with my fiancé, real estate and men have been heavy on my mind over the last few weeks. About a year ago I moved back to Louisville from metropolitan D.C., where I lived for five…
LEO’s Eat ’n’ Blog with Louisville HotBytes: Just like great-great-grandma used to do, StrattoÃ&c
illustration by gina moeller As far back as most of us could remember, folks in Southern Indiana who wanted to enjoy a fine-dining experience were pretty much obliged to hit the bridges to Kentucky if they wanted anything more sophisticated than diner fare or a fast-food chain. Photo by Kelly Mackey: John McCullough is the…
$UCCE$$ Stories – Titans of Industry
High on music •Andy High,WFPK-FM audio engineer (Photo by Kelly Mackey) In the mid-1980s, while working at Taxi’s Pizza in the Highlands, Andy High visited a recording studio. He was smitten. The sight of the boards and other gizmos fed his dream of working in music — he’d taken guitar lessons since age 9. He…
$UCCE$$: Media and Approach – Forced restart (How and why Big Technology decided to get personal)
Illustration by Gina Moeller Moving into a new century has proven awkward and sometimes surreal for the music world (or, if you prefer the more pejorative term, the “music industry”). For all of the incredible advancements in digital sound quality and Internet availability (anyone remember 8-bit samplers or the first time someone said, “Omigod ……
$UCCE$$: Music Licensing – License to sell
Independent artists are finding themselves more in the mainstream, but with a route that’s anything but conventional, and a price that’s sometimes anything but fair Photo courtesy of Jeremy Devine: Jeremy Devine, owner and president of Temporary Residence Records, sees music licensing as a legitimate tool for bands, but also realizes it opens the…
$UCCE$$: Louisville Shows – Do us all a favor and go see a show (Does Louisville get good shows? Does it have a right to? )
Bryan Volz, www.louisvillehardcore.com: Back in the day, Louisville’s most popular streets and stores used to be adorned with art like this, promoting a show in 1995. Wino’s Aaron Hodge, now playing mostly electronic music, says the city would get better shows — and in turn a better scene — if At some point or another,…
$UCCE$$: Ron ‘King B’ Britain: Sting like a B
Radio legend Ron “King B” Britain was that weird kind of countercultural icon who can meaningfully exist in the mainstream and retain credibility with the underground. He finally left the biz when he couldn’t watch the suits stab creativity to death any longer. Then he came back to Louisville. Photo by Kelly Mackey: Louisville…
Genres we’d like to see dead
Dead Genres MEMO: From the LEO Music DeskTo: JAY DITZER & T.E. LYONSGentlemen: I sincerely hope this correspondence finds you well. As you know, the time is upon us for the annual LEO Music Issue. This year’s crop of stories is particularly strong, if not a little intellectually heavy. We need a counterweight, something to…
$UCCE$$: An Interview With Carrie Neumeyer
Success: An Interview With Carrie Neumeyer
In support of ideas: The Grawemeyer Awards bring the brightest lights to Louisville
photo courtesy of university of louisville: Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag won the Grawemeyer Award for his composition “Concertante Op. 24,†a work full of mystery and power, of questions and vibrant, athletic musicality. He spent seven years completing the 26-minute piece. A few weeks ago, before one word was written for this LEO music issue,…
