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For decades, well-educated — and expensively educated — adjunct or “contingent” faculty have slogged it out in American colleges and universities, public and private, for scant recognition, minimal pay, no departmental support and an increasingly tenuous existence entirely dependent on the whims of colleges, student enrollment and money. All too frequently, adjuncts have no access…
Staffpicks
Wednesday, May 21 ‘Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace’ 21c Museum Hotel 700 W. Main St. 21cMuseumHotels.com Free; 7 p.m. Instead of featuring a film out of their collection, this month’s Art21 screening at 21c features the documentary “Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace.” Directed and produced by Louisville native Jeff Dupre, the documentary…
Comedy: Louisville’s not-so dead astronaut
Chris Anger has been a fixture on the Louisville theater scene for many years. Most notably, he is one of the co-founders of the Louisville Improvisors, and he has spent more than a decade putting together the annual Improvapalooza festival. Last year, in the wake of near tragedy, Anger rose from the ashes with a…
Bar Belle: BarBellapalooza
When’s the last time you went to KingFish on the river? It’s gotta be one of Louisville’s best-kept secrets — with its spacious outdoor seating area that looks out on the river and the fun and free putt-putt course and playground. I stopped in just last weekend for a drink before walking over to the…
Advice: Savage Love
Q: I am a genetic male with recurrent questions about my gender identity. Straddling desires to maintain my stature in the professional world, keep my wife at my side and become who I feel like I am, I have experimented with crossdressing, chastity, antiandrogens and, prior to all that, steroids. While the matrimonial veto has…
Inbox — May 21, 2014
Unclear Channel With regards to the news story “Making waves” published in the May 7 LEO Weekly, the article’s slant tended to pit Crescent Hill Radio against FORward Radio Louisville with citations of apparent programming incompatibilities. Let me clarify, first of all, that being a 501c3 nonprofit, Fellowship of Reconciliation cannot and does not promote…
Labor pains
When Greg Fischer ran his successful campaign to become mayor of Louisville in 2010, his endorsement and support from local labor unions was a key ingredient toward his ability to win competitive races in both the primary and general election. Four years later, several of those same labor unions representing thousands of city workers have…
Video TapeWorm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: DAN CURTIS’ DRACULA 1974; $16.98-$19.98; UR This largely forgotten, much maligned, highly underrated, made-for-TV version of Bram Stoker’s Count — made flesh by Curtis, the man behind such great fare as “Dark Shadows,” and master horror writer Richard Matheson — finally claws its way into the Blu-ray light. Jack Palance is…
Donald Sterling and the ‘nation of cowards’
In 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder (or, as I like to call him, “The Obama you’ve been waiting for”) boldly proclaimed, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation…
Book: Sexual rebellion is older than the Revolution
‘Regulating Passion: Sexuality and Patriarchal Rule in Massachusetts 1700-1830’ By Kelly A. Ryan. Oxford University Press; 265 pgs., $55. If someone said, “Part of the book is about society insisting on marriage for women, denying them power and authority over their sexuality, and women’s refusal of these policies, including participating in sexual behavior that opposed…
Houndmouth brings it on home for the Boomtown Ball
Usually, being “discovered” means years of toil, sweat, rehearsal, tears, personnel changes, playing crappy dive bars for $40 and half-price drinks, creative differences, rehearsal, broken-down tour vans, seedy A&R reps, and lots and lots of rehearsal. For New Albany’s Houndmouth, it boils down to a single set at Austin’s South by Southwest festival that the…
Plugged In
Readers are strongly encouraged to call ahead to verify these listings. To get your musical act listed, send email to pberkowitz@leoweekly.com with PLUGGED IN in the subject line. The deadline is FRIDAY at NOON the week before the show happens. We do not accept listings via social networking sites. Wed may 21 Baxter’s 942:…
Completely Obsessed
Kill yr idols How seriously are we allowed to take the fan/artist relationship? Sure, there is an obvious line, like stalking. Or, alternately, getting creepy with fans over Instagram (I’m talking to you, James Franco!). On the less physical side of the line, we can be pretty vocal about our opinions of what is essentially…
Sweet dreams
Last week, German researchers announced they’ve unlocked a way for people to control their dreams by zapping their sleeping brains with electricity. The sensation of being aware that we are dreaming — and directing what happens in our dreams — is known as “lucid dreaming.” Many people are able to do it naturally. Now there…
Loop 22 is a fine addition to the Highlands restaurant scene
When baby boomers were kids, our parents overcooked our veggies until they were mushy and bland. A generation later, baby millennials got their veggies crisp and barely cooked, reflecting the then-trendy restaurant style. You’d think that by 2014, some kind of balance might have been achieved between the extremes of ’70s mush and ’90s crunch,…
B-sides
Bringing people together through metal After a decade, another chapter in the saga of (ohlm) concludes with the release of their new album. A release show is planned for the Highlands Diamond Pub on Saturday. LEO: Can you tell me about making the new album? Nate McDaniel (guitar): Making the album took a lot of…
Art: Pressed in time
Louisville has an unintentional art twofer going on. In the April 30 issue of LEO Weekly, April Corbin reviewed “Print & Process” at The Green Building Gallery. In it, she mentions “PRESS: Artist & Machine” at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft and the creative connection between the two exhibitions. While both deal with…
Shadow boxing
From 1968 to 1970, this was Jimmy Ellis’ world and the rest of us just lived in it. That is because Ellis, who died in early May at the age of 74, was then the Heavyweight Champion of the World. He was a mighty warrior and had the professional record to prove it. Of his…
Blinded by science?
It’s a rainy Wednesday evening, and Levi J. Beverly is talking to a standing-room-only crowd at Against the Grain about scrotal cancer. See, back in 1775, somebody noticed that former chimneysweeps seemed to get scrotal cancer more than other dudes. That’s when people started to figure out that, hey, maybe this cancer stuff could be…
