Cover Stories
Flight pattern
Last year, more than 1,000 independent movie buffs flocked to the first-ever Flyover Film Festival. They watched Chevron go under the knife in one documentary and learned the history of black metal in another. They saw William H. Macy play a horn-dog father, a journeyman “walk” with Werner Herzog, and Louisville native Roy Germano flip…
Vagabond heart
The only rules Allison Anders followed were the ones she set. Following a childhood spent mainly on the road, Anders enrolled in UCLA Film School, where she wrote her first feature film, “Border Radio.” That early experience would shape her creative ethics through later projects like the 2001 Emmy-nominated film “Things Behind the Sun,” in…
The Films: Who, What, When and Where
Friday, June 11 High School 7 p.m. • Bomhard Theatre • $15/$13 Starring Adrien Brody and Matt Bush and directed by John Stalberg. If everyone’s guilty, nobody’s innocent, right? Given his background as a morally corrupt cop in “The Shield,” it’s not hard to imagine Michael Chiklis in his role as Principal Gordon. As part…
Book: The Locust’s mystery remains buried
From The Graveyard of the Arousal Industry By Justin Pearson. Soft Skull Press; 208 pgs., $14.95. The Locust is a many splendored thing. This is band that could easily contend for the weirdest ever conceived: They play a bizarre spazz-pastiche of thrash, space rock and grating electronic noise. Shying away from choruses or a cohesive…
Staffpicks
June 9-13 ‘Legally Blonde the Musical’ Kentucky Center for the Arts 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 $22.50-$71.50; various times Elle Woods is a girl close to my heart. As a bubbly blonde, wearing my sorority letters proudly, with eyes on the possibility of law school, Elle has been just the sweetest pop icon an…
Bar Belle: Worshipping at the foot of the beverage doc
Albert Schmid has so many abbreviations following his name — 11 to be exact — he’s inspired me to reach for greatness. He’s chairman of beverage management at Sullivan University, and I recently met him at a book signing for his “Kentucky Bourbon Cookbook.” The book offers hundreds of recipes — both food and drink…
Plugged In
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Blame it on the Whiskey
Channeling classic chops, Wheatley’s debut transports listeners to the days when the construction of country songs mattered more than an artist’s age, hairstyle or love life. These tunes are traditional, spirited and stately, drawing on many canonical influences, starting with Hank and Jimmie Rodgers. The title song breaks out of the starting gate like a…
Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends: The Publishing Demos, 1968-72
This nostalgic compilation is more than just an aural experience. For true fans of KK, the personal photos, lyrics and stories included in the sleeve-notes are delicious, offering a deep insight into his early years and musings. The true musical nerd can read while listening, track by track, for a true “Avatar”-ish, sensory experience. But…
The Grape Escape: Today’s wine word: Punt
The bottom of a wine bottle, more often than not, is not flat but deeply indented in a cone shape. Surprisingly, this odd dent prompts a frequently asked wine question: What’s it called, and what is it for? Get ready for it: It’s called a “punt,” just like the kick on fourth down. Even more…
Another Lifetime
Cindy Blackman’s day job is drumming for Lenny Kravitz; she has deep jazz chops, though, and her new release pays tribute to her mentor, Tony Williams. The original Tony Williams Lifetime was a groundbreaking fusion band, featuring John McLaughlin on guitar, Larry Young on organ and, later, Jack Bruce on bass. On Another Lifetime, Blackman…
Inbox — June 9, 2010
Unfair Concern Dear Jonathan Meador: I just read your account of the public hearing on the LG&E landfill (LEO Weekly, June 2). I was in attendance, and I feel like your characterization of the participants was somewhat unfair. I found the majority of the residents and other concerned citizens to be well informed, articulate and,…
Good eats among the antiques at Michele’s On Goss
Early in April, Michele Brinke took over as owner of the restaurant in the Goss Avenue Antique Mall, renaming it from Olivia’s to Michele’s On Goss. Chef Travis Hall moved on to focus on his school nutrition business, and Brinke is now joined by Sous Chef Philip Hess. Brinke, who among other things joined her…
A call for change
For the past several weeks, I have been glued to the television, horrified by images of the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster on the Gulf of Mexico. The explanations and updates of “top hats,” “top kills,” “junk shots” and containment domes intended to control and mitigate what can only be described as a catastrophe…
Jerry’s kids
For the past three years, University of Louisville student Whitney Franklin has lived at Sheppard Square, cramped in a public housing unit with her mother, sister and nephew. Other frequent guests include increasing mold on the walls, growing ant infestation and high crime in the area, she says. Poor living conditions are among the…
Louisville has GAS
The next time you think Louisville’s slogan of “Possibility City” is getting a little stale, remember that it’s actually true. Maybe we need to add “It’s the people, stupid” to the fine print. The Glass Art Society (GAS) didn’t select Louisville as the site of its 40th anniversary conference out of the blue. While we…
Video TapeWorm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: BLIND MENACE 1960; $24.95, UR A rare treat for fans of the “Zatoichi, Blind Swordsman” movies. The legendary star of those films, Shintarô Katsu, first played Suganoichi, a beloved yet secretly evil and diabolical blind court masseur, in this film. Essentially invisible among the lavish denizens of the city, he darkly…
Pink Elephants
Alanna Fugate has a wonderfully soulful voice that only seems to hint at the agony hidden beneath her sometimes angry, sometimes sad, but always pain-drenched lyrics. First off: With 16 tracks, Pink Elephants feels like a bargain of an album — each song is carefully produced (by Fugate and Kevin Ratterman) with deeply layered arrangements…
Omni
Seattle-based Minus the Bear have spent most of this century making a name for themselves as a band known more for potential than anything. As post-rock holdovers, they introduced that style’s proggy song structures and interspersed guitars to a light and breezy brand of indie-pop. On their latest, Omni, the band has pushed themselves further…
Father and son
I recently caught myself making a “Tch!” noise and scrunching my face the same way my dad does when something inconsequential goes wrong. I had just finished reading a section of the first volume of “Lone Wolf and Cub,” and I was trying to toss it over to the table, just out of reach, missed,…
Theater: Alternative education
My Name is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare By Jess Winfield. Twelve Publishing; 320 pgs., $14.99. It never hurts to brush up on a Shakespeare play before making the annual pilgrimage to an outdoor Shakespeare play or two in Louisville’s Central Park. And it might even be necessary before this year’s performance…
The $260 million home
If you want an idea of how expensive the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project really is, consider the Drumanard. Built in 1929 by wealthy landowners Alexander Watson and his wife, Jessie Strater, the Drumanard — that’s Scottish for “hill top” — is located at 6401 Wolf Pen Branch Road, secluded by a winding trail…
Follow the plant
Singer Anthony Hoyle’s imagination couldn’t be more vivid. Take the title of The Web’s newest album, Clydotorous Scrotodhendron: “It’s actually a fanciful plant that I invented in the course of working on a story,” says Hoyle, a onetime Louisvillian who practices disability law in the Bronx. “There’s a number of phrases and titles and characters…
Glass30: Four Weeks of Fire Exhibitions
Carnegie Center for Art & History 201 E. Spring St., New Albany www.carnegiecenter.org? “Phase Change: Works in Glass by C. Matthew Szösz” Through July 10 Christ Church Cathedral, Bishop Hall 421 S. Second St. www.christchurchlouky.org? “Louisville Lights: Historical Designs from Blum Ornamental Glass” Through Aug. 1 Felice Vineyards 829 E. Market St. “An Irishman and…
Art: Neon show not so spectacular
I arrived at the “Ne10: Louisville” show at the Water Tower Saturday as hopeful as a person going on a date with someone they had met on the Internet. I had seen some preview pictures of the show online, spoken to the curator on the phone, watched YouTube videos of some of the artists working…
Advancing the status quo
The following is the text of a recent speech to the National Inertia Guild by Biff Crowningshield Bredwell III of Indian Hills, winner of a McArthur Genius Grant. Thank you for inviting me here today to talk about my genius grant to pursue research into advancing the status quo. I would like to begin by…
Doghouse Flowers
Jon Ashley’s Doghouse Flowers is an earnest collection of depressed country songs that tell tales of pretty much every woman who has done him wrong. He sings in 180 proof, and his voice perpetually sounds like it’s on the verge of an emotional collision with a honky-tonk band. That said, it’s sad, angry and self-deprecating…
I can do better
I was mindlessly dawdling on Facebook last week, absorbing all sorts of trivial information, when I encountered a horrific image. There, among the clever status updates, YouTube videos and beach vacation photos, was something I was in no mood to see: an oil-drenched sea gull, utterly helpless and unable to move due to a thick…
And the winners are
And the winners are … Andrea Davidson and Olivia Henken are the choices from LEO Weekly’s “Hey Bands! Be Heard!” contest for Hullabalou. Davidson, a regular barfly performer, has changed that up (for the better) with her new album Retracing Steps. Country singer Henken, onetime model for Alix Adams, picked up a mic to sing…
