Cable Boxing: “Lost” finale: Stuff finally happens
Lost Season 4, Episode 13: “There’s No Place Like Home” ABC, Thursdays, 9 p.m., aired May 29. Starring Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O’Quinn, Naveen Andrews and Josh Holloway. Synopsis: As the face-off between the survivors and the freighter people continues, the Oceanic Six find themselves closer to rescue. Sayid goes back to…
It”s August in June: Juneteenth Jamboree debuts controversial new plays
It’s a year sure to generate some heated post-show discussions. Juneteenth Legacy Theatre pays tribute this month to Pulitzer- and Tony-award-winning playwright August Wilson. Guest artists from the St. Louis Black Rep theater company, Ron Himes and Linda Kennedy, will present excerpted scenes and monologues from all 10 of Wilson’s plays. Himes and Kennedy, along…
Staffpicks
Friday, June 6 That tingly feeling The Seattle art pop duo Two Loons For Tea will be making a stop in Louisville as part of their tour to support their third album, Nine Lucid Dreams. Sarah Scott and Jonathan Kochmer describe their new album as a “hybrid of many distinct musical species,” which is certainly…
A journey into reality
BY PETER THIONG Lost and Found: Peter Thiong, a Sudanese Lost Boy now living in Louisville, graduated from Berea College last month with a degree in agriculture. Photo by John Herzfeld The claim of the golden America was mainly preached and fueled by the few Sudanese women who lived in the refugee camp, in the…
25 years on, we still haven”t found Ann Gotlib
Anatoly and Ludmilla Gotlib are parents, and therefore unwilling to give up hope that their daughter Ann will be found. After 25 years, though, hope is in short supply. Last week in 1983, Ann disappeared somewhere in the vicinity of Bashford Manor Mall off Newburg Road. The case remains a perennial black eye on the…
Sports: Only the Belmont itself can block Big Brown
The Belmont Stakes takes care of the Triple Crown. That’s its job. It’s the final “jewel” of the Triple Crown, the race at the end — the gatekeeper of history. If it’s “right” for Big Brown to become just the 12th horse to step into horse racing’s version of immortality — as the undefeated phenom…
¡Ask a Mexican! Special Negrito Edition
Q Dear Mexican: First it was the Native Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. For a while, Muslims. Now, I fear that American prejudice will soon overwhelm Mexicans. It’s one thing to get called a dirty Jap or border-hopper, but tell me: Is it possible that America will cause another ethnic…
Nigh Times: Mayor Abramson unveils a thin budget proposal. So, how well off are we?
The Metro Council’s budget committee today begins a month of hearings on Mayor Jerry Abramson’s proposed budget, an underfed $812 million animal he introduced to the council Thursday in a down-tempo speech laced with reminders of the cash-flow scarcity. Abramson, normally the city’s ultimate cheerleader, resolved to a muted tone for the second straight year,…
Extreme Makeover: Pondering ways to change South Louisville”s image
Robert Price doesn’t want to talk sour grapes when he advocates revitalizing Southwest Louisville, a place fraught with incessant anti-establishment whining that turns off many outsiders to its cause. Instead, the business owner began the conversation with warm childhood memories. “I was a paper boy out here,” he said, smiling. Birth of Spring: The former…
News: Gannett Watch
Thanks to a loyal reader for this tip: The Courier-Journal, Louisville’s Gannett-owned daily newspaper, is initiating a new ad delivery system by which advertisers can upload their own art, via an FTP site, straight to C-J designers, “using nothing more than a web browser,” according to an e-mail from the C-J’s tech department that was…
What a Week: The city”s weekly zeitgeist radar
+1 Everybody knows Kentuckians are mystical, good-looking, sweet as pie and handy with a shotgun. But could we stand a little more learnin’? “Yes,” say Kentucky education officials, who launched www.KnowHow2GOKy.org, a campaign that is not about potty training but rather aims to help prepare high-school and middle-school kids for college. The website includes helpful…
Sight Unsound: The Thorn on your side; Bingham”s tactics
Thursday, June 5 Like someone you’d encounter in the world of Gus Van Sant or Townes Van Zandt, Lost Highway recording artist Ryan Bingham is a true original. He brings his brand of outlaw sensibilities and his band, the Dead Horses, to Jim Porter’s Good Time Emporium (2345 Lexington Road, 452-9531) this Thursday for a…
Music Preview: Eddie Clark: Fighting medocrity, one note at a time
Eddie Clark: Eddie Clark has shared stages with the likes of Rosemary Clooney, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin. Photo by Lisa Spears Renowned trombonist Eddie Clark isn’t exactly thrilled with the state of Louisville music. He says it is a case of “acceptance of the mediocre.” Clark, who grew up in Simpsonville but now lives…
B-Sides: Music & Other Ephemera
Shut the door “What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.” This adage crept into my skull like a WFPK earworm last week when I read that Universal Republic’s 3 Doors Down had topped the Billboard 200 chart, lending credence to the possibility that 11.4 million people (the number…
Music Reviews for June 4
Lie Down in the Light Bonnie “Prince” Billy (DRAG CITY) If Billy had been around when he sounds like he was around — the late ’60s and early ’70s — today he would be even more rich, famous and legendary than Bob Dylan or Neil Young. He is even more prolific but more consistent. While…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, June 10
Releases through Tuesday, June 10 THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS THE BUCKET LIST 2007; $28.95-$35.95, PG-13 Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman — do we really need to go on? These two super-thesps are having a ball as a pair of irascible cancer-ward patients who decide to go out in style, doing everything in life they’ve never…
Film Preview: Last Call for irreverant films
Andy Schanie is the organizer of the Last Call Film Festival, a yearly showing of independent shorts and features housed at The Rudyard Kipling in Old Louisville. I spent some time at his house going through the movies that made the cut this year. As always, I was amazed by the breadth and quality of…
Steeple Chase: Where We Went This Month
Where We Went This Month: Northeast Christian Church 9900 Old Brownsboro Road (just off the Brownsboro Road exit on I-265) Services: Saturday at 5 p.m., Sunday at 9:15 a.m. and 11 a.m. Website: www.necchurch.org Size: Megachurch — about 2,500 people in three weekend services Denomination: Nondenominational (Evangelical Protestant) Senior Pastor: Bob Cherry You Might Like…
Steeple Chase: The Church Hoppers go to church so you don”t have to
By George Halitzka and Zach Nord These are the first three of a 10-part monthly series of reviews of Christian churches. LEO chose to include only that brand of worship in this series for several reasons, its popularity in this part of America for one, but not because we prefer it or wish to see…
Dining Review: Unchained Macca”s delights at Westport Village
Macca’s Florida Seafood Grill & Bar holds down a prime spot in the Westport Village center. Outside seating, clean restrooms and a full bar, with plenty of scurrying employees wearing matching attire, put Macca’s squarely in the upscale-casual realm. Phot If Macca’s Florida Seafood Grill & Bar, with its clean, corporate, angular design and requisite…
The Bar Belle
Redneck Bourbon Tour So last week, the Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau came up with the Urban Bourbon Trail — a pub crawl of sorts that encourages thirsty bourbon seekers to journey to eight posh establishments around Louisville, most located downtown. The list includes places like Maker’s Mark Bourbon House, Proof on Main and The…
Aftertastes: Recently Reviewed by LEO
OISHII SUSHI, 2245 Bardstown Rd., 618-2829. Word of mouth has quickly built a good reputation for this new sushi shop in the Highlands, and it’s drawing crowds with its friendly, outgoing sushi chefs and wide selection of sushi treats. The menu offers a broad selection of both basic types of sushi, nigiri-zushi and maki-zushi. (Reviewed…
Plain Brown Rapper: Reflections on the Candidates
America elects a president in six months. What matters is our final choice — a caramel-colored African-American, a 60-year-old white woman and a senior statesman. Here’s the real skinny: Barack Obama I like this half-white guy with the big ears and funny name. Predictably, every four years we are told “this a crossroads election.” That…
Editor”s Note: Dirty, stinky, smoggy city
What a shame. Or is it sham? The big, hilarious news out of Louisville last week was the confirmation that the air here is quite polluted. According to a study by the Brookings Institution, the River City has the fifth-biggest carbon footprint per capita of the 100 largest metro areas in the country. Welcome to…
