Indiana Hoosiers: It”s the season that could”ve been for IU. With a bad tournament draw, it may be over soon
[img_assist|nid=6446|title=Eric Gordon|desc=Photo by Paul Riley/IU Media Relations Eric Gordon —along with D.J. White — is one of the top two scorers in the Big Ten, but teams have lately figured out how to slow the dynamic duo.|link=|align=left|width=134|height=200]It is Senior Night at Indiana University, which is a very big deal, with many happy speeches and a…
Kentucky Wildcats: It”s been a storybook season for the Cats. All that”s left now is the ending
Senior Ramel Bradley: photo courtesy UK Athletic Dept Senior Ramel Bradley (3) has carried UK this season along with Joe Crawford. Ramel Bradley hasn’t found an end to his novel yet, but he still has time. Kentucky received its 17th consecutive NCAA Tournament bid Sunday night, completing a journey that took the Cats through the…
Louisville Cardinals: Cards enter the tournament on a downtick, looking to regain their mojo
PHOTOS BY MARTY PEARL David Padgett: photo by marty pearl Louisville center David Padgett draws a charge as sophomore forward Earl Clark goes up to block the shot against Villanova, a Senior Day game the Cards won at Freedom Hall. Earl Clark was peaking. The Pittsburgh Panthers had double- and triple-teamed senior Louisville center David…
Xtra :Five years of hell — and counting — in Iraq
Somehow we’re already here: March 19 marks the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Every American media outlet worth its salt will be covering it, so you can make your own judgments about whether invading a foreign country for changing reasons — most of which were either unfounded or lies — is any…
Gannett Watch:
The Courier-Journal launched a new version of its website Tuesday. It’s built on the template Gannett is using now for several of its daily newspapers, including the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. The redesigned site was accompanied on the same day by some slight design changes to the print edition, likely in anticipation of the general…
Queen for an hour: Can you get a high-class escort in Louisville? Try looking online
If nothing else, the Eliot Spitzer scandal proves you really can get anything you want online. It doesn’t matter if it’s an Oprah Book Club pick or a $1,000-an-hour booty call. The world’s oldest profession has gone high-tech. Spitzer, the former New York governor, picked his 22-year-old escort through the website of a suspected prostitution…
What A Week: The City’s Weekly Zeitgeist Radar
+8The House approved its version of the budget, restoring many of the cuts Gov. Beshear proposed. The new-math House version restores funding to universities, gives state workers and teachers a raise, includes funding for road construction, and avoids the most painful cuts in social services. The plan includes a 25-cent cigarette tax and a 6-percent…
¡Ask A Mexican! When mano a mano is more than just a sports cliché
Q Dear Mexican: Since moving to Aztlán from Boston, I’ve spent so much time with my next-door neighbor from Mexico City that I’ve taken to using the word manito as a term of endearment with my buddies, regardless of who and where they are. It’s been my observation that most Anglos think mano a mano means…
Summary of My Discontent: The superdelegate: democracy”s Simon Cowell
It must be pretty sweet to be a Democratic superdelegate. Not only do you get to wear a cape and take phone calls from Bill Clinton, but you’ll be able to tell your grandchildren you participated in one of the greatest non-chad-related disasters in U.S. electoral history. Because Americans love them both so much, neither…
Connected Diss: The March of Military Madness
Go ahead and exhale. For a brief moment, I considered regaling you with my thoughts about basketball. Considering, however, that the sum of my knowledge about the sport is that it is played with an orange ball by really tall people, my musings wouldn’t have amounted to much anyway. But basketball isn’t the only March…
On Media: Who”s going to the NCAA Tourney?
No one was more interested in the fate of local teams in the NCAA basketball tournament than executives and news directors at local TV stations. That’s because their budgets and reputations were riding on being able to get reporters to game sites. From the time the brackets were announced Sunday night, station personnel scrambled to…
Erosia for 3-19-08
LEO welcomes letters that are brief (250 words max) and thoughtful. Ad hominem attacks will be ignored, and we need your name and a daytime phone number. Send snail mail to EROSIA, 640 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 40202. Fax to 895-9779 or e-mail to leo@leoweekly.com. We may edit for length, grammar and clarity.Protection FirstDon’t…
Mug Shots: Craft brews are up!
“The Brewers Association reports estimated sales by independent craft brewers up 12 percent by volume and 16 percent in dollars for 2007. Craft brewers’ share of the beer category is 3.8 percent of production and 5.9 percent of retail sales.” For those of us espousing the virtues of real beer, another year of double-digit sales…
LEO Eats: Incredible Dave”s – Flawed inspiration
Chuck E. Cheese on steroids: Photo by Nicole Pullen If you’re unfamiliar with Incredible Dave’s concept, imagine a Chuck E. Cheese on steroids, and with a bar. While the concept carries a touch of inspired brilliance, in practice there are flaws. Incredible Dave’s is a fantastic world of sound and color; the kind of place…
Staffpicks for 3-19-08
Friday, March 21‘FLOW: For Love of Water’ “FLOW: For Love of Water,” a new film executive-produced by Louisvillian Augusta Brown Holland and co-produced by her husband Gill Holland, will premiere in Kentucky this Friday at the Baxter Avenue Theaters. Afterward, attendees are invited to make their way to 21c Museum Hotel for a 10 p.m.…
Aftertastes
J. GUMBO’S, 2109 Frankfort Ave., 896-4046, www.jgumbos.com. At this original location, there’s a down-home, neighborly feeling that results from having the proprietor (the affable Billy Fox Jr., Louisiana-bred Cajun cook and jockey) on the premises, slinging skillets around. I know I can count on a hearty, spicy meal at a price that’s almost laughable. (Reviewed…
Shorties: recently reviewed in LEO
HONEYDRIPPER (Starring Danny Glover, Gary Clark Jr., Keb Mo, Ruth Brown and Kel Mitchell. Directed by John Sayles.) In Sayles’ “Honeydripper,” everything is exactly what it seems, and that is a problem. If the director’s intention was to imitate the cadences of the minister at the pulpit, he succeeds mostly in being preachy. Every issue…
Video TapeWorm: Releases through Tuesday, March 25
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKSTRIPPING THE RIFT: THE MOVIE2008; DVD $26.95, URYes, believe it or not, those profane purveyors of sci-fi CGI savagery have gone and made a full-length friggin’ MOVIE! When our hero Chode knocks space-boots with the daughter of his arch-enemy Darph Bobo — and the psycho king of the Clown Empire finds his…
CD Reviews for 3-19-08
Everywhere At OnceLyrics Born(ANTI)Rappers and punks have a lot in common. They both share an amazing talent for the DIY mentality. They both have a very distinct sense of style and fashion that is instantly recognizable, then just as quickly co-opted by mainstream followers seeking a vicarious thrill. So when a label like Epitaph (through…
Cable Boxing: “The Return” of Posey and Ambrose
The Return of Jezebel JamesEpisodes: “Pilot” & “Frankenstein Baby”FOX; Fridays at 8 p.m., aired March 14. Starring Parker Posey, Lauren Ambrose, Scott Cohen, Michael Arden and Dianne Wiest.Synopsis: Sarah, a single children’s book editor, reconnects with her slacker sister, Coco, in this half-hour comedy. Sarah wants to have a baby but is unable to conceive,…
Theater: Yes, yes, y”all, “the break/s” smashes it
[img_assist|nid=6459|title=“the break/s.”|desc=Photo by Harlan Taylor Marc Bamuthi Joseph in the Humana Fest’s “the break/s.”|link=|align=left|width=133|height=200](Actors Theatre presents Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s “the break/s” through March 29. Directed by Michael John Garces. Part of the 32nd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. Call 584-1205 or www.actorstheatre.org.) “Hip-hop, you the love of my life.” You who whisper those…
Film Reviews for 3-19-08
‘Funny Games’ is no laughing matter (Starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart and Michael Pitt. Directed by Michael Haneke. Rated R; 1:52. LEO Report Card: B) Writer and director Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games” — a remake of his own 1998 film — stretches the patience and tolerance of anyone without a dark…
Booksmart: Matter over mindset – Two pieces of fiction worth venturing into “Young Adult”
Before I Die: By Jenny Downham. David Fickling Books, 336 pp., .99 Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You(By Peter Cameron. FSG; 240 pp., $16) Before I Die(By Jenny Downham. David Fickling Books, 336 pp., $15.99) There’s nothing quite like branding a book for determining its worth. Check out those hardcover prices. If novels…
Booksmart: Forgotten Fiction (Classics You Might have Missed)
The Good Soldier: By Ford Maddox Ford. First Published 1915. The Good Soldier(By Ford Maddox Ford. First Published 1915.) Of course, no one in real life has a name as solid and rhythmic as Ford Maddox Ford, whose actual name was Ford Hermann Hueffer. That was much too Germanic-sounding, so as his career got humming, the…
Booksmart: Book Reports for 3-19-08
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob (By Lee Siegel. Spiegel & Grau, 182 pp., $25.95) “How did the egalitarian, self-expressing, hierarchy-busting, anti-exclusive Internet end up standardizing its users?” you might ask. Or perhaps you haven’t asked. But you should, because culture critic Lee Siegel has some mighty trenchant answers.…
B-Sides (music & other ephemera): Hip hop hooray
Hip-hop history meets experimental theater at this year’s Humana Festival of New American Plays. Marc Mabuthi Joseph is directing “the break/s,” which opened March 11. The play, based on hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang’s book “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,” is touted as a “living history of hip-hop,” and runs through the end of the month at…
Pere Ubu”s pitstop; Man Man keeps slate clean
Pere Ubu: photo by lex van rossen Cleveland’s Pere Ubu makes a rarified stop at the Pour Haus Saturday. Saturday, March 22Back in the early glory days of punk, one of the rallying cries was DIY: Do It Yourself. Pere Ubu came out of Cleveland with an attitude that was more about what they’d undo.…
Coryell headlines Jazz Factory”s final week of shows
Coryell’s autobiography chronicles his career Jazz guitar would be a different world without the innovations of Larry Coryell, who returns to The Jazz Factory to perform during the club’s final week. Coryell’s “A Team” of electric bassist Mark Egan and drummer Paul Wertico has performed together for several years, and together they create magic. Coryell…
Expect some T.L.C. from N.E.R.D. at C.B.
An N.E.R.D. show aims to give its audience two things, says Pharrell Williams: energy and emotion. You can hear both qualities in N.E.R.D. (No one Ever Really Dies) as it grows its catalog.This month, it decamps from mixing Seeing Sounds to stomp and sway its way through a club tour as a warm-up to a…
