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Thursday, Dec. 8Martinis & Mistletoe That sound you hear is not the ringing of bells but the clanging of vodka bottles — it’s time for the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft’s Fourth Annual Martinis & Mistletoe. The holiday event features martinis by Finlandia vodka, appetizers from Martini Italian Bistro and Godiva chocolates. And don’t forget…
Imagine there’s no Arena Authority meeting. WOW! It’s easy if you try
The Louisville Arena Authority apparently won’t hold its regularly scheduled meeting next Monday because Chairman Jim Host summarily suspended the board’s work until the Jefferson County legislative delegation makes up its mind which site, LG&E or old Water Company, that it supports. But Host’s decision doesn’t mean arena news has halted. Quite the contrary, in…
Putting the ‘butcher’ in Butchertown?
We’ve heard about the Ohio River Bridges Project for years. Butchertown will hear it for eons It was in 1966 that Jim Segrest first met Butchertown. Then a burg packed with quainter and more numerous slaughterhouses than the behemoths of recent memory, the neighborhood was also a burgeoning political seedbed, galvanized by a posse of…
‘Old friends’ live another day: Musicians’ concessions save LO from bankruptcy
Bob Bernhardt turned to the audience during the Louisville Orchestra BB&T Night Lites performance last Thursday at the Brown Theatre, and spoke of the musicians behind him as his “longest, oldest friends in music.” Bernhardt, the principal pops conductor, said he has known many of them since he joined the orchestra 25 years ago. He…
Battle of the bills
It’s late in the session, and anxiety is the disorder of the day as laboring lawmakers make a final push to deliver their bills. And it’s not just the rank and file who are nervous. Late last week, House Speaker Jody Richards toted a tattered tally as he petitioned fellow reps to support a measure…
What a Week
A kick in the asphaltYour federal government, rubber-stamper of corrupt lobbyists, crumbling infrastructure, theocracy, spying on citizens and a $6 billion-per-month preemptive quagmire, finally found a project too egregious to stomach: a shady asphalt deal. The Feds put the kibosh on an adorable, gee-I-wonder-who-thought-that-up Kentucky House budget provision that would have required all interstate-construction projects…
Rumblings From the World of Sports
Follow the Benjamins. I’m told that a vast majority of U of L’s players — perhaps as many as 11 Cardinals — wished to end the season after the BEast tourney. I’m also told closure was The Rick’s desire. The word: Tom Jurich decreed that the team would compete in the NIT, because, well, you…
Bluegrass Politics: 2007: The Year of the Democratic Women?
As the pundits and political insiders begin their quadrennial exercise, handicapping the field of potential statewide candidates for 2007, several Democratic women have quietly moved to the top of the lists. That’s a sharp contrast to the overwhelmingly male-dominated structure that currently resides in the bowels of Kentucky Democratic Party leadership. At the top of…
Your Weekly Reeder: A fine day in J’town
Around 9:30 Sunday morning, only 12 hours or so after Jeffersontown High had won the Boys State High School Basketball Tournament in Lexington’s Rupp Arena, Capt. Bill Howard of the J’town Fire Department was in the firehouse kitchen, fixing egg-and-sausage biscuits for his men as he awaited The Call. It had been a memorable weekend…
Exreme WWJD: profile of a real Christian
by Joe Phelps What does a real Christian look like?Christians come in all shapes and sizes. Like dieters, some are dedicated and others are derelict. Some are near their goal and others have miles, or pounds, to go. All of them are “real” Christians, I suppose, but a few of them begin to resemble the…
Erosia
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Cherry pickin’: Catching up the Cherryholmes family, IBMA Entertainers of the Year
Cherryholmes is a family bluegrass band from California that’s come a long, long way in a very short time. Parents Jere (bass) and Sandy Lee Cherryholmes (mandolin) are joined by four children: daughter Cia Leigh (banjo), 21; son B.J. (fiddle), 17; son Skip (guitar), 15; and daughter Molly Kate (fiddle), 13. Last fall, the band…
On the banks of the Ohio: Brand new bluegrass festival puts the pickin’ back into downtown Louisville
By now everyone who really cares knows the IBMA bluegrass convention took its gig to Nashville last year after an eight-year run at the Galt House in Louisville. That affront will probably remain some sort of rallying cry in local bluegrass circles in perpetuity, but there’s no reason to expect the genre’s proponents to hang…
Plugged in
WED MARCH 22 Air Devil’s Inn: Serpent WisdomBluegrass Brewing Co.: Bluegrass Anonymous jam w/ Mike BucayuBrickyard Sports Bar: Big Rock ShowBulldog Café: Open Jam — CountryCactus Jack’s: Mike OwensCafé Lou Lou: Larry Abrams jazz trioClifton’s Pizza: Jennifer Lauletta & Boogie MortonDutch’s Tavern: Kimmet & DougExecutive West: Randy MeyersHideaway Saloon: Lost AnthemHighlands Tap Room: Open Stage…
Five Important Questions with Liberation Prophecy
There are nine people in Liberation Prophecy because this is how many people it takes to make these kinds of sounds. There’s a lot happening in a little time, guitars and keys and bass and drums and all kinds of brass and wood just bouncing and snaking and jiving along supreme melodies that travel fast…
Get ready to Follow the Train
A lot has happened since Follow the Train materialized on the Louisville music scene with their EP The Great Disturbance on Debauchery records about a year ago: The line-up has changed, they’ve switched record labels, they’ve played South by Southwest. Twice. More importantly, the band has matured since Disturbance, which was recorded as a demo.…
Video TapeWorm: Releases through March 28
2001 MANIACS2006; DVD $26.95, RNot the awesome drive-in “Brigadoon-cum-Hillbilly-Ghouls” masterpiece of Herschell Gordon Lewis from the ’60s, this is a modern remake with Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund as the mayor of that sleepy little Southern town that rises from the grave every few decades to playfully eat Yankees.A SOUND OF THUNDER2005; VHS Rental/DVD $27.95, PG-13This…
Comedy/Karaoke
WEDMARCH 22 Akiko’sKaraokeBrewskees Karaoke w/ TriciaBrickyard Sports Bar Open Mic/DJ TerryComedy CaravanSpike DavisCreeker’s Bar & GrillKaraoke w/ Dirty DanGaslite Tavern Karaoke w/ LarinsoGood Times Pub Karaoke Jim Porter’sKaraokeJT’s Variety Club Karaoke, The Summit Bros.Mac’s HideawayKaraoke w/ Swift Ent.Main MenuKaraokeMonon Station KaraokeNew ViewKaraoke w/ JoePhoenix HillKaraoke w/ DJ Big KahunaR Place Pub KaraokeReflections Lounge KaraokeRo-Joe’s Karaoke…
Arts & Entertainment
Special Events Arts Council of Southern Indiana presents Regional Partnership Initiative grant workshops for arts organizations and providers near Floyd Co., March 21 (4pm), Arts Council Office, 820 E. Market St., (812) 949-4238. ••The Jazz Factory presents a Dissent Lecture featuring readings of famous Kentuckians and other celebrities, March 22, 7:30pm, 815 W. Market St.,…
Community Listings
Special Events Derby Fest. Spring Fashion Show, Lloyd Boston Hosts, March 23, 5:30pm, Marriott Louisville Downtown, $51-$61, 584-6383.Pioneer Days at Oldham Co. Historic Center, March 24-25, 106 N. Second Ave. LaGrange, KY, 222-0826.••Angelic Auction presented by St. James Catholic, parish silent auction and fish fry, March 24, 5pm, 1818 Edenside Ave., 451-1420.Life Story Workshop sponsored…
Theater Review – Natural Selection
Rare is the writer who can put race relations bluntly in front of an audience and make it laugh. And not just illicit, guilty twitters, but full-out side-splitting laughter. Eric Coble is that writer, and in his new play, “Natural Selection,” he puts it out there for both the discomfort and entertainment of his audience.…
Theater Review – The Scene
Playwright Theresa Rebeck puts her best foot forward in “The Scene,” the third offering in the 30th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre. “The Scene,” with compelling writing, terrific performances and sharp direction from Rebecca Bayla Taichman, is Rebeck’s powerful warning about the dangers of the cult of celebrity. Her central…
Expressions of You provides an open stage and a refuge
Among the audience are faces of almond-ivory, magenta-yellow, ripened rose, cobalt and painted browns. It’s a diverse crowd. The room darkens and the scent of flowered jasmine and spiced cinnamon lingers. Everyone is waiting, while a shaman, the first poet of the night, stands below a dim light. He furrows his eyebrows. His body rocks.…
Staff Picks
Wednesday, March 22Go C-A-R-D-S! It may be the No Interest Tournament everywhere else, but Louisville should draw another nice crowd tonight for its quarterfinal NIT game tonight against Missouri State, an angry team that got unfairly snubbed by the NCAA selection committee. A win sends the Cards back to Madison Square Garden, where they’re 0-2 this…
The American dream: cash for trash
When French artist Marcel Duchamp reasoned that his signed urinal was a piece of art, he had no idea how far the spirit of that piece would be taken. Today, nothing is so intimate or mundane as to be verboten. Particularly if there’s some manner of fame attached to it. Jeffersonville native Ward Harrison spent…
Aftertastes
Quality of Meal: 3 = Good; 4 = Very good; 5 = Extraordinary. Price Range: $ = $10 or less; $$ = $20 or less; $$$ = $30 or less; $$$$ = more than $30. (Per person for a meal without tip or tax.) HA = Wheelchair accessible. Descriptions are summaries of previously published dining…
Nibbles
New additions to dining sceneA few new restaurants have popped up around town recently — if you haven’t checked them out yet, here’s the info: Proof on Main restaurant, which opened March 1 at 702 W. Main St., will feature Executive Chef Michael Paly’s Tuscan-influenced American cuisine along with an art gallery and interior design…
Jeffersonville’s Come Back Inn warrants the trip
Downtown Jeffersonville, across the river in Indiana, is maybe five minutes from downtown Louisville, just over the Second Street Bridge. It’s maybe a little further from the outlying city, but still easily accessible from I-65, maybe 10 or 15 minutes from the Highlands. In other words, it’s closer to much of Louisville than the East…
