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Pack Mentality
One day in New Orleans, “Dirty” Dave Johnson, the lead singer of The Glasspack, saw a street performer who fascinated him. The man simply stood on a soapbox for hours in the same position with both hands in the air. “There was all of this stuff going on around him,” Johnson remembers. “All of these…
I see dead people
“Extreme social networking,” the latest wave to sweep both the Internet and Silicon Valley venture-capital circles, has opened a new frontier: chatting with the dead. Pramana Darmali, a 13-year-old Indonesian boy, has devised a video chatting site that allows users with webcams to chat with random dead people. “It was the next logical step for…
Inbox — July 7, 2010
Stand-Up Temples I’ve done crowd work ever since I learned to control my farts at age 6. But actually “getting up” on stage, in a real club, and emulating the comedic heroes and spiritual advisors of my youth (Carlin, Carson, Pryor, Nixon, etc.) didn’t get bucket-listed until a couple of years ago. Prostate cancer in…
Art: A world far, far away
Creative freedom — it’s what every artist craves but only a true artist captures. That freedom is the inspiration for Robby Davis’ first solo show, “Far, Far Away,” opening Saturday at Liberty Tattoo and Art Parlor. Though nervous in the days leading up to his opening, Davis keeps his work in perspective. “As an artist,…
The wind blows (or whatever)
During the ’90s, Paul Kopasz was a self-described media whore, trying to get ink anywhere he could. He’d talk to anybody if it might further his efforts to reach an audience. But it didn’t work. As many times as he got written up, it seemed like his efforts were useless. And then a friend shared…
Book: Author succeeds with lighter vampires
Nowadays you can’t walk 20 feet in bookstores (and plenty of other locations) without seeing some reference to vampires. So says MaryJanice Davidson, who’s partially to blame for the situation — but she’s fine with that. She’s now on a promotional tour for the ninth book in her Queen Betsy series of — to use…
Bar Belle: Hot Belle on Bell action
One of my favorite summertime beers is Bell’s Oberon, occasionally enjoyed with a slice of orange. I’ve been a fan of Bell’s Brewery for a few years and consider us lucky to be among the 13 states that carry the Kalamazoo, Mich.-brewed craft beer. Bell’s has many flavors and styles — more than 25 ales…
Bridge to division
Last Thursday, the Ohio River Bridges Project Bi-State Authority heard impassioned pleas to finance and build the East End bridge first; downsize the demolition and expansion of Spaghetti Junction; not to toll existing bridges; not to toll any bridges; not to build a downtown bridge; and to scrap the project in favor of public transit.…
Club Directory
19th Green 1740 Williamsburg Drive Jeffersonville 812-284-9088 60 West 3939 Shelbyville Road 719-9717 930 Listening Room 930 Mary St. 635-2554 Air Devil’s Inn 2802 Taylorsville Road 454-4092 Angel’s Rock Bar 4328 S. Fourth St. 540-1461 Backstage Café 109 N. Mulberry St. Elizabethtown, Ky. 270-234-1686 Bearno’s by the Bridge 131 W. Main St. 584-7437 Bearno’s Highlands…
Video TapeWorm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: CHLOE 2010; $27.95-$34.95, R Julianne Moore — who plays crazy chicks better than any crazy chick we know — imagines her hubby (Liam Neeson) is having an affair. So — in logic only a redhead could dream up — she hires hot little “escort” Amanda Seyfried to seduce him. A surprisingly…
Industry Standard: Insider info for those who dine out
I hate it when servers bring me something and try to pass it off as something else entirely, don’t you? Earlier this week, my boyfriend, John, and I were trying out a newish spot in the Highlands. On initial reconnaissance at a new place, I like to find out if the cook can actually, you…
Indian home cooking at Little India Café
I’d like to tell you about a cozy new place where dining is much like being invited into an Indian family’s home for dinner. Pop bustles about while Junior sets the table and keeps up a stream of friendly chatter. Mom’s in the kitchen with a clatter of pans and spoons, and wonderful smells come…
Theater: Brutal ‘Richard III’ overtakes Central Park
The Tragedy of Richard III A production by the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. Directed by Matt Wallace. Continues through July 11 in the C. Douglas Ramey Amphitheatre at Central Park, 1350 S. Fourth St. Admission is free. For more information, go to www.kyshakes.org or call 637-4933. “The Tragedy of King Richard the Third” is arguably the…
Boogie Knight
Louisville native, record dealer and guitar genius Paul Major of Endless Boogie chats with LEO Weekly about growing up in Louisville and about Endless Boogie’s second full-length record, Full House Head, due out July 20. LEO: Talk a little bit about what memories you have of Louisville, especially concerts you saw or buying records. Paul…
Staffpicks
July 7-10 ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ U of L Thrust Theatre 2314 S. Floyd St. • 893-0788 $25-$150 (workshops), $5-$15 (performance); 6:30-9 p.m. (w), 6:30 p.m. (p, Sat.) Augusto Boal, a Brazilian director, writer and politician, believed theater could be used for more than entertainment and artistic expression — it could be a vehicle to…
Roots’ Maneuver
Ever since “Po’ Folks,” the hit single from their platinum debut, Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz, Nappy Roots have excelled at their everyman personas. On their fourth, Pursuit of Nappyness, solid drums, acoustic guitar and piano stew at 90 beats per minute. One can argue whether the emcees are by nature introspective, or if the chosen…
Hit it Yonder
Hit it Yonder! It’s a Louisville Bats baseball cheer ready to happen — as soon as the highly rated prospect Yonder Alonso begins to hit a few more balls out yonder. Or at least hit ’em where they ain’t. Alonso, the No. 1 draft choice of the Cincinnati Reds in 2008, hit .300 last year,…
The last time I saw Richard
I can’t remember the last time I went to see Shakespeare in Central Park. There for a while, I made a habit of it. I remember seeing a number of productions, but for whatever reason, I lost the initiative. It’s a shame, really. I live in a city with a nationally respected, free Shakespeare program,…
Duo tones
For more than a decade, Louisville native and English professor Drew Daniel and his partner Martin C. Schmidt have been better known as Matmos. Their multilayered sound collages are revered worldwide — the duo collaborated with Bjork and met heads of state in France and Iceland. Three years ago, the pair moved from San Francisco,…
Plugged In
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5 Important Questions
LEO: Three songs you can’t live without? JA: “That’s How I Got to Memphis” by Tom T. Hall as done by Bobby Bare; “You’re a Big Girl Now” by Bob Dylan; and “Death or Glory” by The Clash. LEO: Women are … JA: … profound and often purposefully unreasonable. LEO: Men are … JA: ……
Get Evolved
Conceived in 1973, Devo rose up on its own two spools and migrated from the industrial blandscape of Akron, Ohio, to the hills and tinsel of Los Angeles, where they broke new ground and old rules, creating a niche in music history that no one, short of Charlie Darwin or Warner Bros., could have predicted.…
Nine Lives
She & Him (West Stage, Sunday, 6:45 p.m.) M. Ward has done plenty of singing and songwriting, filling up acclaimed solo records and taking a few turns leading the Monsters of Folk supergroup. But for She & Him, he yields both the central mic and the songwriting pen to Zooey Deschanel. “I just love being…
Jerry’s kids
The backroom brokering that propelled Deonte Hollowell to replace the late George Unseld ended the Metro Council’s stalemate, but the Jefferson County Democratic Party isn’t pleased with the tradeoff that elected the council’s first independent member. “It certainly wasn’t something I enjoyed watching as it played out,” says Tim Longmeyer, chairman of the Jefferson County…
Home Bound
Will HullabaLOU give Dwight Yoakam his biggest home-state audience ever? The Pikeville, Ky.-born country icon (appearing Sunday, July 25, at 7:25 p.m. at the Fleur de Lis Stage) has traveled a lot musically as well as geographically in more than 25 years performing and recording, but he’s never forgotten his roots. It’s a sucker’s bet…
Book: Classics You May Have Missed
Three Came Home By Agnes Newton Keith. First published in 1947. During World War II, after she and her son were sent away from their adopted home of Borneo, the American journalist Agnes Keith kept a secret but vivid record of her three and a half years imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp for women,…
