CD Review – Mushroom With Eddie Gale
Joint HappeningMushroom with Eddie Gale(HYENA)The secret behind making a killer stoner rock anthem is to write it vertically, not just horizontally, and Mushroom’s topsy-turvy twists and turns climb into your brain with focused layers. At this buffet, everyone feasts — “freak jazz,” fluid guitars with all the texture of molten lava, at times blistering,…
City Strobe
Nurses, doctors simpatico with ‘Sicko’ Sicko: Photo by Ryan Real Activists and healthcare professionals rallied outside Baxter Avenue Theatres The red that progressive doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals are seeing over the roughly 47 million uninsured Americans probably looks a lot like the blood-colored, “Sicko”-branded scrubs they wore Friday morning as they shouted, “I…
A narrow crack in the schoolhouse door
Supreme Court’s school integration ruling is out of step with the needs of Louisville schools We have come a long way since 1975, when a federal court mandated a school desegregation plan to dismantle the dual school system that was a product of de jure segregation. Louisville was a racially divided, tumultuous city in the midst…
Representin” : Can we get a Kumbaya?
The Metro Council passed the budget, Lord, kumbaya The Metro Council passed the budget, Lord, kumbaya The Metro Council passed the budget, Lord, kumbaya O Lord, kumbaya —Unknown, 2007 The Metro Council commenced its annual rite of passage last week, passing a budget that closely resembled the one proposed by Mayor Jerry Abramson about…
LG&E customers will soon know household carbon output: What”s the frequency?
Electricity users in the Bluegrass will soon learn the awful truth about how much carbon output their electricity consumption creates, one balmy summer month at a time. In a unique initiative to better inform customers of their contributions to global warming, LG&E and Kentucky Utilities (which covers Lexington and surrounding counties) will begin including the…
Time for a special session, Fletcher says
Ignoring the staggering taxpayer cost of $60,000 per day, Gov. Ernie Fletcher on Monday called a special session of the General Assembly to address the “urgent need” to pass an energy bill, among a few other “important” things, he said in a statement. That bill, which would provide incentives for developing alternative energy in the…
NO MORE FALSE DICHOTOMIES : The end is near. Get ready for the beginning
Public transportation: is plentiful in Portland, and the light rail line downtown is free. Early Sunday evening, I met my niece over near Churchill Downs, where she is looking at a house. We walked and drove around to take the measure of the street and its environs. We passed an elementary school that sits right…
Rumor & Innuendo
The backlash.The reports have been rampant that superduperprep guard Tyreke Evans has secretly made an oral commitment to join his pal Samardo Samuels at Louisville. Evans denies it. The wags are saying, “Don’t listen to the kid, he’s a lock to be a Card.” My sources are saying the contrary, that the kid is indeed…
Beautiful dreamer
Sid Griffin When The Smithereens released Meet the Smithereens! late last year, their front-to-back cover of Meet the Beatles! thrust the date of Feb. 9, 1964 back into the general consciousness. Unlike dates such as Dec. 7, 1941, or Nov. 22, 1963 or, of course, Sept. 11, 2001, this was a date of art, not…
Erosia
LEO welcomes letters that are brief (250 words max) and thoughtful. Ad hominem attacks will be ignored, and we need your name and a daytime phone number. Send snail mail to EROSIA, 640 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40202. Fax to 895-9779 or e-mail to leo@leoweekly.com. We may edit for length, grammar and clarity.Outside the…
Bluegrass Beacon: The recipe for success leads to great sausage
As a kid, I sang along with the “Bob Evans, down on the farm” television commercial jingle while the company’s namesake wore his famous Stetson and string tie. Evans, an American Icon, died last week. He epitomized the can-do spirit that makes America a great country. Evans was Ohio’s version of Col. Harland Sanders, Kentucky’s…
Jarfi”s artful fare now available at two centers
jarfi’s: Photo by Nicole Pullen Jeff Jarfi, who operates the striking Jarfi’s Bistro at the Kentucky Center, has quietly branched out with a new casual eatery, Jarfi’s @ Mellwood One of Louisville’s more striking dining venues has to be Jarfi’s Bistro, which makes stylish use of its space in the Kentucky Center, the big, black…
Film Review – Ratatouille
A gifted chef must overcome workplace adversity and a lack of valid employment credentials in the struggle to showcase his peerless talents. The plot of “Ratatouille” sounds more like fodder for a Michael Moore documentary than the latest Pixar feature. Then again, the writer-director of “Ratatouille” is the enormously talented Brad Bird of “The Incredibles”…
Film review – Live Free or Die Hard
By my reckoning, Bruce Willis has only made two great films and a handful of decent ones. That ain’t nearly enough to justify his mega-stardom, bloated pay scale and irritating, self-satisfied smirk. Reprising his role as NYPD Det. John McClane, the actor looks longer in the tooth but not appreciably wiser. His crackling way…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, July 10
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKSTHE LAST MIMZY2007; DVD $28.95, PGA truly original and wildly entertaining kid-vid that actually is “fun for the whole family.” (Man! Can’t believe we wrote that.) Two kids find a box of junk on the beach, including a stuffed bunny that gives them genius IQs and telekinetic powers. But as word of…
CD Reviews
At My AgeNick Lowe(YEP ROC) With what could very well be his last studio album, Nick Lowe provides listeners with a work that is at once careful and composed, but also fresh and dynamic in its style and execution. What Lowe accomplishes with At My Age could very well be more impressive than it…
Breakers, Divine nomads, The CW, all Business
Slowbreak Friday, July 6Yeeeeeoooooowwwww! Behind a lean, mean piano, Baltimore’s J. Roddy Walston and the Business are traveling the East Coast spreading the love and documenting their highs and lows with humor and innuendo. Opening the show is Dangerbird, which features Brian Gray and Bradley Coomes, formerly of The Pine Club, and Nashville’s Hotpipes return…
Ryan returns, Buck up, travels with Charlie, long Story, Krekel pop
Ryan Adams Wednesday, July 11Legendary Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh has a major aversion to the recording studio. However, he told LEO there is one person who could coax him into such an environment. “If Ryan Adams … who, to me, is like a little brother with immeasurable talent … if he were to…
Staffpicks
Wednesday, July 4Crescent Hill Old-Fashioned 4th of July When I hear about the combination of art and fireworks, I immediately think of a sculpture with a sparkler. That’s not the case with the 24th annual Crescent Hill Old-Fashioned Fourth of July. They have expanded their arts and crafts section to 65 booths. A highlight this…
Maybe not for “Murder,” but Waverly warrants a visit
Murder on the Hill: The cast of “Murder on the Hill” includes Paul Reynolds, Chris Haulter, Amanda Horton, Julie Streble, Jason Roberts, Kent Carney and Jason Crowe. Those intent on proving the existence of paranormal activity have always tended to provoke in me laughter as opposed to fear. Yet even my hair stood on end…
The written word is worthy of a thousand images: New KMAC exhibit features work inspired by Kentucky singers and authors
Artemesia: Mary Dennis Kannapell’s “Artemesia” was inspired by Wendell Berry’s “The Farm.” The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft turns the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” on its head with the upcoming show “Visions from Voices: Art Inspired by Kentucky Poetry, Prose and Songwriting.”The initial conception was to have “artists inspiring other…
Aftertastes
MELILLO’S, 829B E. Market St., 540-9975, www.melillos.com. Famous for gigantic portions, this East Market staple has earned almost fanatical loyalty among its regular customers. The menu — call it “New Jersey Italian” — features Italian-heritage dishes from spaghetti and meatballs and parmigiana to a broad selection of Italian deli sandwiches. (Reviewed 5/23; Rating: 89) RITE…
The Bar Belle: The Toke Not Taken
Smoking, choking,The government is interloping. On our rights, our fights, our lights,A sitting duck in their sights. No drags, no pulls, no tokes to take,No trays, no cinder, no sense to make. Bonds we have made, our freedoms we trade,Outsiders banished to dark shadows in shade. Clean air, no fair,Double standards for a mare. No…
