Rumor & Innuendo :Rumblings From the World of Sports
Optimism with an asterisk. Folks on the inside and others close to U of L’s football program advise there’s a cautious optimism about the upcoming season. Despite an apparently speedier-than-expected recovery, Brian Brohm’s condition is the biggest possible gotcha. There’s anxiety over whether the marvelously talented Mario Urrutia is ready to become the go-to guy.…
Tubing on the Alaskan’s pipeline: Or, how a feckless U.S. senator is running interference for Big Media
Anyone with access to a modem probably realizes by now that Ted Stevens’s understanding of technology runs about as deep as a table ashtray. The U.S. Senator from Alaska, a brutish and tone-deaf Republican (not all Republicans, thankfully, are this way — see, in this matter, Olympia Snowe of Maine), chairs the Senate committee that…
City Strobe
To wear or not to wear (the air, that is) CITY STROBE: Here’s an underside view: of one of three recommended designs for the downtown bridge (right). This one has a single A-shaped tower with diagonally shaped support cables. See all of the potential designs, for both the downtown and East End bridges, at www.kyinbridges.com.…
Think locally, grow locally
At A Place on Earth Farm in Campbellsburg, Carden Willis and Courtney Meade are thinking outside the agricultural box Photo by Ross Gordon: Carden Willis and Courtney Meade, both 25, followed varied routes to A Place on Earth, the Campbellsburg farm they now manage. Several years ago, in a PBS documentary about factory farming, a…
Erosia
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Your Weekly Reeder: It’s almost time to rack ’em up once again
Those of you who think the Governor’s Cup is what Ernie Fletcher wears to protect himself from low blows can move on to the next item, because you obviously are effete intellectual snobs who think it’s obscene to give any college football coach a $25 million contract, as the University of Louisville has done with…
On Media: Mural, mural: Who deserves a spot on the wall?
When Bud Hillerich’s image — all 1,750 square feet — went up on the east side of the Heyburn Building at Fourth and Broadway just this week, he became the 11th Louisvillian so honored. The founder of Louisville Slugger was a natural choice, and his 1944 photo shows a hard-working man, sawdust on his shirt…
The Culture Maven: Gee, any idea why this ‘expert’ was ‘left behind’
OK, it was bad enough just reading last week’s issue of this rag, an annual rite dedicated to the local music scene. My editor had asked me for nary a syllable of contribution. This despite the fact that he first recruited me to LEO centuries ago to review music. Yo, dude, remember the admonition of…
Message to the People : Myths and realities about black violence, Part II
I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it? Because it will make us happy, you tell me? My God, we would also be happy if we had no books,…
Bluegrass Politics: Republican war on science
When President Bush used his veto pen last week for the first time in his presidency, rejecting a bill to expand federal support for medical research using embryonic stem-cell research and dashing the hopes of millions of Americans with diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s, it was yet another example of his administration’s disdain for…
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: Happy lunch-time at Sari Sari
Chef Fronteras Lourdes: a longtime fixture at El Mundo, now works a few doors down at Sari Sari. The new eatery reflects the varied influences of Filipino cuisine, which is exotic and yet strangely familiar at the same time. Photo by Kelly Mackey In addition to the customary greetings that all languages share for “Good…
The Video Tapeworm Releases through Tuesday, Aug. 1
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: PUTNEY SWOPE1969; DVD $19.95, RA new release of the best damned satire on social radicalism ever made. Robert Downey Sr. will forever be remembered for creating this perfect ’60s underground tale of the only token black man at an all-white ad agency who is accidentally made CEO after the racist original…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events New Albany-Floyd County Library — “Heartstrings: Contemporary, Traditional & Celtic Music” brings sounds of dulcimer to Strassweg Auditorium, July 27, 7-8:15pm, free, 180 W. Spring St., New Albany IN, (812) 944-8464.Speed Museum of Art — free movie and family fun night includes children’s films “The Bubble Man” and “Paperclips,” July 27, 5-8pm, free,…
Community Listings
Special Events Dainty Contest—Hauck’s Handy Store, July 31, 5:45pm, Horetz St. and Goss Ave., 634-9130.New Albany-Floyd County Public Library — first-hand account of WWII experiences, including Battle of the Bulge, liberation of the Buchenvald Concentration Camp, presented by veterans Bob and Gary Emerson, Aug 1, 7-8:15pm, free, Strassweg Auditorium, 180 W. Spring St., New…
Five Important Questions with John Whitaker
John Whitaker: in a quaint European city or at a ride at Epcot Center. If there’s going to be another James Taylor, John Whitaker may very well be him. The guy who used to front The Middle Men has that voice from the cosmos, the melted meat-and-cheese sandwich of undeniably mannish baritone and svelte croon.…
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…
Unbridled folk music: Kentucky Music Weekend readies for Year 31
Barton Para Kentucky can probably be accused of a lot of things. As of late, most of the big complaints seem to concern coal mining and the destruction that goes along with it. But if there’s one thing the bluegrass state certainly cannot be accused of, it’s denying or ignoring its heritage. We’ve got a…
An almost rock star: Marty Casey had more than INXS needed
I felt a bit bad, confessing disdain for over-the-top Big TV star-making crapfests, to a guy who had just recently gotten a belly full of said crapfest, riding it to something like auxiliary stardom, or at least a major label record release. Marty Casey: second from left, has worked with the band Lovehammers for 15…
Forecastle grows up: Moving a homegrown festival forward isn’t without pain
Sleater-Kinney: Sleater-Kinney is waving goodbye The second Forecastle Festival, in 2003, was my first. I was 16 years old. Money was tight, as it is now, so the idea of seeing two of my favorite Louisville bands — Irina and Your Black Star — for free, in a park a block away from my best…
Staff Picks
Thursday, July 27What is the Peace Corps? Stereotypes abound when one utters the two words “Peace Corps.” There is the idea of a multitude of baby boomers circa the late 1960s going to exotic and isolated locations to live in grass huts. Then there is the subversive idea of volunteers who act as American agents…
Theater Review – Great American Sex Play
Actors in the “Great American Sex Playâ€: include (top row) Delilah Smyth, Jacob Newton, (bottom row) Eric Welch, Eli Keel, Erica McClure and (upside down) Leah Roberts. Photo by Brian Walker In “Great American Sex Play,” the third opus by local playwright Brian Walker, Finnigan Productions aims to grab rather than nudge its audience. And…
