EDITOR’S NOTE: We think we think about energy
“As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” —Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,…
Staffpicks
July 30-31 9th Annual Studio2000 art show Every summer there’s a minor skirmish for art. People stand their ground, whimper or elbow their way (sometimes all three) to purchase items by the high school students of Studio2000. I imagine this year will be no exception. The youth employment program pairs the student apprentices with professional…
Cable Boxing – LEO”s Weekly TV Rehash
South Park Episodes 1110-1112: “Imaginationland: The Trilogy” Comedy Central, Sundays, 10 p.m., aired July 27. Synopsis: When the entire contents of the world’s imagination lay open before them, Stan and Kyle step right in. Imaginationland is attacked by terrorists and evil characters, and the final battle between good and evil takes place. Back in South…
What a Week
-5 Having a sleepover with students, hurling expletives in the classroom and threatening to bring a gun to school: These incidents are among a long list of inappropriate behavior Jefferson County Public Schools officials cited in refusing to renew the contracts of 18 teachers. The teachers’ union is suing JCPS for not giving the educators…
No city oversight for MSD
Concluding that the Metropolitan Sewer District is a public corporation that acts independently of Metro government, the Kentucky Court of Appeals has affirmed the decision of a lower court saying the agency does not have to comply with city ethics rules. In a 10-page opinion issued July 18, the court upheld the May 2007 decision…
Nightclub jitters – Club Villa Fontana could lose its liquor license in the wake of two shootings
Underneath the flashing marquee at Club Villa Fontana, security guards methodically frisk those lined up outside. Searching for weapons, drugs and other contraband, the bouncers pat down patrons before waving them through the nightclub’s tinted front doors to shell out a $10 cover. Meanwhile, three off-duty police officers patrolling Theater Square on foot monitor a…
Gannett Watch
Despite plunging stocks and company cutbacks, it turns out Gannett’s top executive is one of the highest paid in the nation. Gannett Chairman and CEO Craig Dubow earned nearly $7.5 million in total compensation last year, landing him 22nd on a recent Washington Post list of the nation’s top-100 executive earners. Earlier this month, Gannett…
Fielding change – The Bats rack up wins despite an ever-changing roster
Last year the Louisville Bats logged more than 200 roster changes over the course of the season. And this summer they’re at it again. You’d need a scorecard and a Global Positioning System to track all the player movements between Louisville and its major league parent, the Cincinnati Reds. (Mostly traveling up Interstate 71, with…
Fighting foreclosure – Legal Aid helps those on the verge of losing their homes
Like so many Americans in these days of bursting market bubbles, Jackie and Larry Partee’s American dream is turning into a nightmare. After years of apartment living, the couple finally bought a home, moving into a stone house off Poplar Level Road with their 10-year-old son Dominick just over a year ago. Earlier this month,…
Attack of the activist – A longtime civil rights leader faces criticism for her latest outburst
A seasoned Louisville civil rights activist with a reputation for a quick temper has landed in trouble with the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, perhaps for the last time. For years Gracie Lewis has worked to fight racism, but the feisty advocate’s longtime tenure with the Kentucky Alliance now is in jeopardy after…
MUSIC & OTHER EPHEMERA
On the Spot: Grizzly Bear Chris Bear of Grizzly Bear paused in mid-trek to answer some Qs. The band stops at the 930 Listening Room (930 Mary St.) Aug. 2 with Violens. LEO: The Radiohead opening slot has to be a serious highlight for the band. How did you guys luck into that enviable position?…
A Mann in full – Singer-songwriter debuts his “Evening News”
Evening News, John Mann’s latest record, is what happens when a rocker unplugs. He says he chose an intimate approach based on how the songs would come across live. “It’s different in that I wasn’t worried about making something that is rockin’. The last record I made was done with a band — a really…
Jazz Caravan; WMMF; high-rise McRae
BY JANE MATTINGLY, CASSIE BOOK & CAITLIN BOWLING Sunday, Aug. 3 On Sunday, blues singer/harmonica player John Nemeth transports Stevie Ray’s (230 E. Main St., 582-9945) to the ’50s and a time of true rhythm and blues. The 30-year-old began his career singing in a church and with local bands in Boise, Idaho. After one…
Solar System: As we burn toward full energy dependence, a case for something simpler: the sun
Related Stories: Professor Plum, with the wrench, in the greenhouse The 93 million-mile-away Energizer Bunny Websites to Visit Winter in Louisville. Ugh. The season too often means living on the crust of a cloud cream pie, below a layer of cumulus piled on stratus, topped off with whipped cirrus. We grasp at the meager gruel…
Professor Plum, with the wrench, in the greenhouse
Any passive solar design would use the greenhouse effect. To understand the greenhouse effect, let me first explain that warming water using the black hose is not the greenhouse effect. The hose material is simply absorbing solar radiation and gaining heat, and then passing that heat through conduction to the water within it. (Black absorbs…
The 93 million-mile-away Energizer Bunny
Actually, all energy on planet earth, excepting geothermal and energy from cracked atoms, is solar. Our planet is, and always has been, powered by the sun. There would be no plants, animals or weather without it. Fossil fuels are aptly named, since that’s exactly what they are. Coal, oil and natural gas are the remains…
Visit these websites:
Gary Watrous, www.sunearth.net Mark Isaacs, www.legacyhomeslouisville.com (or tour Legacy Lofts every Saturday at 2 p.m.) Gill Holland, www.thegreenbuilding.com (tours available by arrangement) U.S. Green Building Council, www.usgbc.org Solar Living Institute, www.solarliving.org
Inbox — July 30, 2008
WHAT SAY YOU? You really did a job on Second Presbyterian Church (“Church Hoppers,” LEO Weekly, July 2). To treat the article kindly: Your problem was that your writers couldn’t decide what genre to work in. Was it a humor column? Was it a serious review of Sunday worship? Was it a cheap class attack…
Video Tapeworm
by David B. King and Bill Raker Releases through Tuesday, Aug. 5 THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: BELPHEGOR: PHANTOM OF THE LOUVRE 2001; $19.95, UR Lovely Sophie Marceau (“The World Is Not Enough,” “Braveheart”) stars in this fun French flick based on a popular kids TV show from the ’60s. She’s infected with the spirit of…
Locavore Lore – Heirloom tomatoes in full bloom at farmers markets
Editor’s Note: This week starts a new monthly dining feature about eating locally. It’ll run the last week of every month. Succulent. Mouth-watering. Seductive. These are just a few of the passionate descriptors tossed out during a recent conversation with friends about one of the most thrilling aspects of our July farmers markets: heirloom tomatoes.…
“Signs of Life” and the undercurrent of NOLA culture
“I’d like to tell the story they want told.” Charles Silver has found himself called to the African Americans of New Orleans. His photographs in “Signs of Life: Subcultures of New Orleans Post-Katrina” are about the Black Carnival (Carnaval Noir), a celebration that starts in January and ends just before Mardi Gras, and focus on…
AfterTastes
LE RELAIS, Bowman Field, 2817 Taylorsville Rd., 451-9020, www.lerelaisrestaurant.com. Some French restaurants may be pretentious, but Le Relais is simply elegant. Its art deco environs are a perfect match for the setting — inside the Bowman Field Administration Building, circa 1929, (Reviewed 6/18/08; Rating: 96) QUEEN OF SHEBA, 2804 Taylorsville Rd., 459-6301. Ethiopian restaurant Queen…
On Media – Metromix hits Louisville
As long as there’s been the Internet, entrepreneurs have been trying to come up with an online destination that has it all. If only there was one website where you could map out your leisure time, droves of locals would go there and advertisers would throw money at it. It’s a pretty simple business concept,…
The Bar Belle
Beer and butterflies … Sometimes, sitting at your favorite bar and knocking back a few beers can get boring. So one late evening three years ago, a friend and I came up with the Dundee Tavern Challenge. We were about six beers in, twiddling our thumbs, staring at the 20 taps that towered above. “Wonder…
Splatters
Artist Joel Pinkerton is seeking expired Kentucky license plates from every county. Deadline is early August. Contact Pinkerton at 502-802-2618 or joel.pinkerton@insightbb.com for more information. The new executive director of the Louisville Visual Art Association is Shannon Westerman. The Louisville Film Society is showing a documentary on visionary artist Henry Darger on Aug. 5, at…
Message to the People – How we killed Louis Coleman
Louis Coleman, one of Louisville’s greatest freedom fighters, was buried a few weeks ago. Make no mistake, he was not a favorite son. He was not the most beloved fellow to walk the city’s streets. He was not a man who brought comfort to wrongdoers. He was not easily appeased. Louis Coleman was a reverend,…
SUBURBAN TURMOIL
Mr. Mom I once wrote that being a stay-at-home mom isn’t all that difficult. Not surprisingly, that caused lots of mommy heads to explode. “Are you kidding me?” One woman wrote in an e-mail. “This is the hardest freakin’ job I’ve ever done.” Whatever. I’ve always considered myself to be a mothering badass, sort of…
