Magic and action: Starhawk aims to show people how to go beyond rumination
Starhawk: Earth activist Starhawk, who appears at this weekend’s Earth Spirit Rising conference, is actually optimistic about the possibilities of mitigating, and even reversing, the damage to the planet. “Mother Earth transition team.” That is how Starhawk, one of the presenters at this weekend’s Earth Spirit Rising conference, describes our role in healing the planet…
City Strobe
Tricky Mitch gets his very own billboardWhen an obviously sarcastic I-65 billboard appeared last week, co-starring Mitch McConnell and a light bulb, curious commuters must have wondered what it was all about. Does the incandescent bulb symbolize Mitch’s utter lack of ideas beyond those parroting Bush administration policies? Is it meant to illustrate the senior…
Rumor & Innuendo
The Boobie Effect. That LeBron James broke 11 on the superduperüberstar meter ain’t the real NBA story. What was it, three games into his kindergarten season that observers called him the next Jordan? The inevitable happened in Game 5 of the Eastern Finals when he beat the formerly formidable Pistons fair and square one on…
All you need is love: An antiwar protester gets arrested during a Summer of Love redux. Excuse me?
Carol Trainer: photo by Patti Seckers Carol Trainer before she was arrested last Monday at Abbey Road on the River. This much we know. Carol Trainer, a Prospect grandmother, was arrested last Monday, late in the final afternoon of a swampy Memorial Day weekend — Memorial Day itself — at the Abbey Road on the…
Erosia
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Representin’: A Column About the Metro Council
Is the planning process slightly cracked? Given the closed-door state of American politics right now, it’s hard to imagine a small group of citizens actually registering a difference. That is the crux of the argument for participating in local politics: While Bush and his bloodhounds doom us to decades of apologizing and reestablishing basic Constitutional…
The Bluegrass Beacon: Eliminate treasurer’s office? It’s common ‘centsâ€â&#
My money is on cashing out the state treasurer’s office. This not-so-original idea seems to float up from time to time. Most recently, it came in the form of a campaign promise by Melinda Wheeler, who ran for the office in the recent primary election on a platform of abolishing it. Doing so would require…
The Plain Brown Rapper: Nosh this: a stew of opinions
Another launched skyrocket“The son of our leader has fallen” was the way I began the prayer at our Friday morning men’s meeting at Highland Baptist Church last week. Our leader, Pastor Joe Phelps, lost his son to smoke inhalation. Robert McAlister, 25, has gone to a better place: Heaven. Joe and Terri Phelps will mourn…
Billy Reed Says: On the arena, naysayers and devil’s advocates
In its most recent defense of the Louisville Arena project at the LG&E site on the riverfront, the cheerleaders on The Courier-Journal editorial board concluded another don’t-worry-be-happy tome with this: “… there’s no evidence that the many interested parties represented on the Arena Authority are doing anything but working diligently and honestly to do this…
Film Review – Mr. Brooks
For a boilerplate thriller starring the redoubtable Kevin Costner, this is a minor miracle. It’s not that Costner hasn’t made plenty of good (or even great) films. He has — some of them recently. It’s just that his choices aren’t exactly adventurous, and he doesn’t exactly span a wide range. Serial killers and thrillers,…
Film Review – Knocked Up
Judd Apatow may just be the M. Night Shyamalan of adult comedy. His newest, “Knocked Up,” is just as funny, irreverent and relatable as his first successful directorial adventure, 2005’s “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” Apatow has a knack for making secondary characters just as important to his stories as the leading stars. And just like…
Pizza: The all-American snack?
Chef Michael Hargrove: Photo by Nicole Pullen Primo offers the most authentic Italian pizza in Louisville. Chef Michael Hargrove places a signature pie in the wood-burning pizza oven, which creates a thin but cracker-crisp crust. Pizza, as I’ve pointed out before, traces its roots to Italy, specifically to the seaport city of Naples in the…
The Bar Belle
Tap that! Beer snobs, cover your ears (Roger Baylor’s Mug Shots returns next week). I’ve been on a Bud Select kick for some time now — it’s tasty, low in calories and crisp. If you’ve never tried it on draught, you must! Not many places have it on tap yet, but if you’re lucky…
Aftertastes
Mojito, 2231 Holiday Manor Ctr., 425-0949. Named after the popular Cuban drink, this new eatery features tapas, both hot (“calientes”) and cold (“frias”) along with tablas (Spanish-style snacks served on wooden cutting boards), pinchos (skewers), bocaditos (Cuban-style sandwiches) and paellas for heartier appetites. Everything but the paellas is priced under $10, with many options as…
Splatters : ART NEWS BITS
Louisville ceramicist Sarah Frederick received the 2007 Rude Osolnik Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. Ohio Valley Creative Energy (profiled in the April 25 issue of LEO) has linked itself with PRODEGE to raise money. The PRODEGE search engine, powered by Yahoo, shares a portion of advertising dollars with charities and schools every time it…
A focus on lines, and women, in new Pyro exhibit
“Bariatric Pressure†by Debra Lott Art educators see art through the eyes of others; after all, it’s part of their job description. Fiber artist Melinda Snyder and painter Debra Lott are artists first and educators second, but they have mastered this necessary duality relating to art. They are accustomed to sharing. The quick and spontaneous…
Fighting sturm und drang with improv
Sun Gods in the Shade: An Evening of Sketch Comedy Sun Gods: Robert Greene (left) and Matt Gifford in The Indicators’ “Clowns … Oh My!,†one of the best of the 17 skits in “Sun Gods in the Shade.†By The Indicators. Starring Erin Crites, James Cronin, Matt Gifford, Robert Greene, Mary Holt, James Issac,…
Hot Damn, Bobby’s all-stars, R&B revelry, and adieu to a Ky. treasure
BY MAT HERRON AND KEVIN WILSON Wilco isn’t the only band to air its laundry for public consumption.When The Damnwells’ Alex Dezen was fighting over the phone with Epic Records over the company’s decision to shelve the group’s debut album, director, producer and friend Chris Suchorsky was right there, capturing every word. Suchorsky and Dezen…
Be Gooders: Tanyas add their stark goodness to Americana
Be Good Tanyas How’s this for organic: Samantha Parton, Frazey Ford and Trish Klein met at a tree-planting camp in the early 1990s. “We had a lot in common and knew a lot of the same singer-songwriters. It was love at first sight,” said Parton, who, it should be noted, is a huge fan of…
Switch hitters, Suck-A-free, blues hound, Funeral songs
Gypsy Switch formed in 2004 when singer Daphne Luster, who used to live above the Atomic Saucer coffee shop next door to Lisa’s Oak St. Lounge, met Chet Surgener, a Harlan, Ky. native reared on AM radio. Surgener was playing drums in Gillespie’s band then, and Gillespie had invited Luster to sing at the open…
Staffpicks
Thursday, June 7Dennis Ross speaks Former diplomat Dennis Ross, now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, has not only been around the world — and specifically the Middle East — but around several administrations. The guy, who comes to Louisville tomorrow, first reached the upper echelons among foreign policy-makers in 1981…
CD Reviews
Betty Davis/They Say I’m Different Betty Davis (LIGHT IN THE ATTIC) Very rarely is an artist capable of producing a vicarious sexual thrill in the listener. Janis Joplin managed to convey an onanistic dervish in the first couple of seconds of “Cry Baby.” Betty Davis, one-time model and former Mrs. Miles Davis, took…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, June 12
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS GHOST RIDER 2007; DVD $28.95-38.95, PG-13 Cage! Why did it have to be Nicolas Cage?! No-Talent Nicky relies on his half-assed Elvis impersonation to slide through this tale from a somewhat obscure Marvel comic (that we LOVED!) about a cursed motorcycle daredevil. A fun little outing highlighted by cool CGI flame…
