Great Caesar”s ghost! – KY Shakespeare Fest peppers “Caesar” with a little samurai
(Kentucky Shakespeare Festival presents “Julius Caesar” in Central Park through July 13. Directed by Pamela DiPasquale. For more info, go to www.kyshakes.org.) The idea of reinventing William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” as a story of samurai warriors sounds almost preposterous; one might hastily dismiss it as gimmick. And yet, director Pamela DiPasquale not only pulls it…
Staffpicks
FRIDAY, JUNE 27 Merle Haggard & Loretta Lynn As the legends of country music get old and die, it becomes more of a special occasion to see one of them in concert; it is more rare a treat, then, to see two of them together. As part of its Outdoor Concert Series, the Horseshoe Casino…
Cable Boxing – Griffin”s “D-List” doesn”t suck it much
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List Season 4, Episode 2: “Home is Where the Profit Is” Bravo, Thursdays, 10 p.m., aired June 19. Starring Kathy Griffin, Jessica Zajicek, Tom Vize and Tiffany Rinehart. Synopsis: Kathy’s assistant’s assistant, Tiffany, and her tour manager, Tom, are here to stay — but what do we really know…
What A Week
0 Like water and cognitive dissonance, liquor always seeks its own level. So when Shawnee residents voted to ban liquor from four precincts, demon rum had to think of a new way to keep flowing. Last week, liquor store owner Bakhos El-Khoury applied for a license to move his store at 3401 W. Market to…
Gannett Watch
According to an internal memo provided to us by a source at The Courier-Journal, the newspaper will discontinue publishing its Find A Home magazine at the end of next month. The magazine, one among an array of free and not-quite-free publications targeted at big advertising markets, could have been yet another casualty of fallout over…
Hedge funding
The Mayor’s office on Friday sent a letter to the Metro Council announcing that the city would likely have an extra $5 million to work with as it hammers out details of a budget. The announcement was no doubt welcome amid the council’s budget hearings in the worst fiscal climate since the city-county merger in…
New look at WAVE-TV
When WAVE-TV airs its first newscast in HD Monday, everything from the curls in Carrie Weil’s hair to the lines on Tom Wills’ face will be clearer. In fact, news director Lee Eldridge says the cameras pick up fingerprints on the news desk. That doesn’t mean a radical change for the on-air personalities at WAVE,…
Art therapy – Why is the list of arts groups funded by the mayor”s budget so utterly predictable?
A bunch of pissed-off people waited in line to sign up to address the Metro Council last week, at the final public hearing on the mayor’s proposed budget. Few council members bothered to attend. The ones who were present asked perfunctory questions of the representatives of arts agencies standing to lose between 30 and 100…
Inbox — June 25, 2008
FLOYDS FORK FIX Kentucky Waterways Alliance is disappointed in your reporting on the lawsuit recently filed against us in Jefferson Circuit Court (LEO Weekly, June 18). We are constrained by our attorney from presenting our side of the case to the media. But we can correct the record about our organization and factual errors in…
Music Reviews
At Mount Zoomer Wolf Parade (SUB POP) Remember 2005, when everyone was all about Canada for a minute? Every interesting new band suddenly seemed to be from Montreal, and The New York Times couldn’t send enough reporters to cover every aspect of the, for once, actually great Great White North. Well, that passed, eh? Which…
Video TapeWorm – Releases through Tuesday, July 1
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: BATMAN: THE MOVIE 1966; $39.95, PG Holy Blu-Ray, Batman! Adam West and Burt Ward — the original TV Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder — finally make it to HD in this unbearably embarrassing ode to Bops! Biffs! and Bad Ideas! The first and, mercifully, last time that the true Dynamic Duo…
Going down under in the thick of Bardstown
Bardstown is experiencing a bit of Australian flavor this weekend. Aussie native singer-songwriter Pauly Zarb has set up camp there and is hosting the sixth annual Zarb Brothers Street Concert on Saturday. The event springs from the idea of brothers Pauly and Matt Zarb to host a concert around the Fourth of July as an…
MUSIC & OTHER EPHEMERA
The Loved, redux Temporary Residence Limited, the label owned and operated by Louisville native Jeremy DeVine, is releasing The Loved’s Everything, Anything, Nothing. Formed in 1996, The Loved — Michael Weis, Benny Clarke and (LEO Weekly theater critic) Joey Yates — recorded a batch of material with former Rodan drummer and engineer Kevin Coultas. The…
Coming together with this restless “city”
Residents of the small, fictitious town of Balthrop, Ala., blend folk, rock and indie pop to create a distinct style heard around the South and Midwest. Among the town’s 549 characters are a milkman, a drunkard/handyman and a bearded lady. “We change the number every time someone dies in the town,” multi-instrumentalist Georgiana Starlington said.…
Southern standard – A loving defense of the shotgun house
I didn’t know quite what to expect. The information, which had arrived via a third party, was thin and inexact, although essentials were there. The kitchen was perhaps on the small side. So long as you’re consumers of fresh goods, she’d said, the smaller fridge won’t be bothersome. A coffee shop was across the street,…
Shotgun Festival blasts into second year
ermantown, located approximately three miles southeast of downtown Louisville, was once a vast swathe farmland that was settled predominantly by Germans sometime in the 1870s. For most of its history, the Germantown, Schnitzelburg and Paristown neighborhoods — as well as other nearby enclaves — have been filled with the descendents of the original Louisville pioneers.…
Aftertastes
JASON’S DELI, 410 N. Hurstbourne Pkwy Ste. 100, 412-4101, HYPERLINK “http://www.jasonsdeli.com” www.jasonsdeli.com. A relatively new arrival, Jason’s Deli is attracting big crowds to the East End suburbs. Menu items like the delicious New York Yankee sandwich make it worth the trip. (Reviewed 5/7/08; Rating: 78) COTTAGE INN, 570 Eastern Pkwy., 637-4325. Serving up simple, affordable…
Mug Shots – Train station brews
Airports are sleek, clean and carefully calibrated to soothe your fear of flying by extricating as much cash as possible from your wallet while you hurry up to be late. I’d rather have my beer at a European train station. They’ve become modern, too, but if you’re lucky, the one you visit will have resisted…
Sidebar
The typical shotgun house contains three basic rooms of equal size. The lots these houses were built on tended to be around 20 feet wide, so the rooms — squares — were something like 17-by-17 feet. Most also feature fireplaces that were located between the front and middle rooms, the back and middle rooms, or…
We eat with our fingers, tastefully
“Don’t eat with your fingers!” This nugget of parental advice is known to just about every child. It’s an integral part of the process of growing up with good manners. From time to time, though, there’s a certain pleasure in casting aside knives and forks and diving right in. This casual approach works with fried…
KMAC exhibit interprets Southern traditions
Because tradition in art is the handing down of methods from generation to generation, is its opposite innovation the introduction of new methods? The answer, eloquently stated in the exhibition “Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art,” is yes and no. Works are displayed by 58 artists from the Southern states of Alabama,…
Splatters – ART NEWS BITS
Glassworks (www.louisvilleglassworks.com) has unveiled a mobile glassblowing studio called Juicy Lucy. The van will be onsite at Westport Village one weekend a month and is also available for private events. The quirky public restrooms in 21c Museum Hotel (www.21cmuseum.org) are a finalist in the “America’s Best Restroom VII” contest. Vote at www.bestrestrooms.com until July 31.…
Plain Brown Rapper – The Last Rap: The Revolution Solution
Parting remarks: It’s been a Magical Mystery Tour authoring these Raps since 1994. I am grateful to the readership and to my masters at LEO — John Yarmuth, Joseph Grove, Cary Stemle, Stephen George and Sara Havens. None of them censored me, twisted my words or tried to force me into the Black Hole of…
Summary of My Discontent – Oregoing Green
“How prepared is Louisville for the future?” and “Is the ’70s porn-star mustache making a comeback?” are two questions that came to mind during my recent economic fact-finding trip to Portland, Ore. (And by “fact-finding” I mean “sampling microbrews,” and by “economic” I mean “giving money to brewpubs.”) Like trips taken by mayors, governors and…
EDITORS NOTE: Anne Northup will lose badly and leave politics forever
I hesitate to devolve like this, but I feel, given the present circumstance, that I must. This is a column about gas prices and, perhaps more importantly, although I’m still unsure about that, the people who believe vaingloriously that they have the ability to dramatically affect them. People like Anne Northup and those who buy…
Message to the People – Exploring Obamamania
My latest book, “What’s Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination,” made its way to book stores and Internet sellers last week. The pre-release buzz and national reviews have been very exciting for me. It’s always flattering when people you may never meet evaluate your work and use terms…
