“People are going to live here” Louisville students represent in the not-so-Big-Easy
Bill Coleman Two Louisville Collegiate high school students, both in the upper school, expressed the same idea in different ways: “It’s almost like Louisville has done more for New Orleans than FEMA.” Those guys were Remy Sisk and Joe Geoghegan, two of the nearly 60 students in Collegiate’s junior class who spent a recent week…
Feelin” bad with Kevin Phillips
Kevin Phillips is a cold, hard realist.: Photo by Katherine Lambert NOTE: A condensed interview appears in LEO’s May 7 print edition. Here is the whole interview, edited for clarity and grammar. An unwritten journalistic axiom says we should ask “experts” for solutions. What would you recommend, Mr. Know-it-All? And yet, when I repeatedly pushed…
Gannett Watch
We’re not always haters here at LEO. To prove it, check this out: Gannett TV stations won 34 regional Edward R. Murrow journalism awards at the end of last month, four of which were for “overall excellence.” The other awards ran the gamut: sports, features, hard news, spot news coverage, and so forth. That’s got…
No parking zone: A flap over parking enforcement has one Audubon Park resident trumpeting claims of police abuse
The Audubon Park police department may have picked on the wrong citizen when it started enforcing a parking ordinance in front of Suzette Sewell Scheuermann’s home on Eagle Pass. Scheuermann lives on what you might call the bad end of Eagle Pass, near some rental properties catering to University of Louisville students. In February, she…
New report dumps carbon capture
If you thought the idea of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and burying them deep in the ocean was absurd on its face, Greenpeace says you were right. A new report by the environmental group confirms the suspicions of sober coal observers the world over, saying the concept of carbon capture and storage…
¡ ASK A MEXICAN ! Who”s more likely to outrun the “COPS”?
Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now, cheap enough so that even a Guatemalan can afford it. Buy, por favor! Now, on to the preguntas … Q Dear Mexican: Whenever I see the television show “COPS,” the white folks pull over and hope no one searches anything where there are…
Let my people vote …The elephant in the room rears its ugly head on the backside
A few days before the Kentucky Derby, former Gov. Brereton Jones stood on the backstretch at Churchill Downs, talking about trainer Larry Jones’ decision to run the filly Eight Belles in the Kentucky Derby instead of the Kentucky Oaks. He applauded the decision, and not just because it meant that his filly, Proud Spell, would…
Why does the bell toll for Eight Belles?
Eight Belles: Photo by Phyllis EagleTree Eight Belles is led onto the track for the Kentucky Derby. The filly finished second but broke down after the finish and was humanely destroyed. The demise of the gallant filly Eight Belles, who ran second in the Kentucky Derby but broke down just seconds past the finish line…
What a Week :The City’s Weekly Zeitgeist Radar
-1Using the time-honored little-old-lady attack format, Democratic Senate candidate Greg Fischer accused primary opponent Bruce Lunsford of preying on elderly nursing home patients back when he was a business mogul. Several prominent Democrats (who suspect Lunsford might be a Democrat) attacked Fischer for attacking Lunsford for attacking the elderly. Republican Mitch McConnell, who may or…
No More False Dichotomies : Too much like right?
That Jeremiah Wright is something else, isn’t he? What is he thinking — it’s as if he wants to take Obama all the way down. Or maybe he wanted to give Obama a chance to stand up and prove he really is different. To say, “Well, sure I knew he was out there, but there…
Identity politics: How do you define Louisville? For one ex-pat photographer, it”s in the people
The hokey, mule-brained yarns about Louisville’s identity are rarely in short supply. Janene Shakir: Photo by Leslie Lyons for www.iliveinlouisville.com Janene Shakir is the coordinator of community programs for the Peace Education Program We’re a big city with a small-town feel.We’re Southern but we’d rather not talk about the sordid history of that because, you…
Erosia (Letters to the Editor)
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. Rising…
Staffpicks
Wednesday, May 7Venue Oops — Scream Club Last week we were so eager to get you the news that Scream Club was visiting our fair city tonight that we botched the show location. Since we were way early on it, we can set things right: Scream Club’s Cindy Wonderful and Sarah Adorable, two Caucasian rapper…
LEO Eats: Deli belly — Louisville does the deli phenom right
Jason’s Deli: a relatively new arrival, is attracting big crowds to the East End suburbs. Let’s start right out by admitting that I’ve lived in New York City off and on, had plenty of exposure to the NYC deli phenomenon, and don’t really get it. In a metropolis known as one of the world’s great…
The Bar Belle
Mourning BellesI had no favorite in mind Saturday when I went to the track. Sure, I had heard about Big Brown and Colonel John — but who wants an easy bet? I wanted the longshot, the underdog, the one that could turn my $5 into $500, if that’s even possible. After patrolling for celebrities and…
Music Preview: ”Tis the Season
Delayed reactions have an upside: There’s still a reaction. Hansard and Irglova. Nearly two years after the release of their first record, The Swell Season — a fortuitous collaboration between The Frames’ Glen Hansard and Czech phenom Marketa Irglova — are swimming in praise for their starring roles in “Once.” The film, which follows two…
Sparks flies at Jenicca”s; Elvis and Amy take the Palace
Tori Sparks Friday, May 9Now that all of the out-of-towners have vacated the clubs, we can get back to business as usual. This week’s performance highlights include the legendary genre-jumper Elvis Costello tonight at the Palace Theatre (625 S. Fourth St., 583-4555, $44.50, 8 p.m.); a Saturday evening Pops Orchestra session with songbird Amy Grant…
CD Reviews
Rising DownThe Roots(ISLAND/DEF JAM) Have you ever walked into a room where a family is in the middle of a knockdown, drag-out fight?That’s where we find The Roots on their 10th album. But wait, the intro, a telephone screamfest, is actually from 1993, before their first album had even been released. Fifteen years later, and…
Splatters: Art News
Julien Robson, curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum, is leaving the museum to take the same position at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His last day is July 4. May is National Preservation Month and Louisville’s “Hometown Tourist Month.” The Brennan House Historic Home and the…
Art 812 (The Southern Indiana Scene): Check the art and culture in Corydon
by Amanda Arnold You hear a lot about gas prices, and subsequently about how cool it is to be a “tourist in your own hometown.” Sure, that’s chamber-of-commerce speak, but that doesn’t mean there’s not truth contained therein. Consider Corydon, Ind. You have surely heard about it, but if you’ve never gone, there are…
Art Review: Is life better in Suburbia? Check out Bill Owens” photographs
“Flag”: by Bill Owens now showing at the Paul Paletti Gallery. ‘Bill Owens: Suburbia’Through May 30Paul Paletti Gallery713 E. Market St.589-9254 Suburbia: the land of the spindly trees, SUVs and few (or no) sidewalks. Bill Owens has photographed this middle-class rush away from the city core since the 1970s. His images look all too…
Aftertastes
INCREDIBLE DAVE’S, 9236 Westport Rd., 426-4790, www.incredibledaves.com. 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. (Reviewed 3/19/08; Rating: 74) ANN’S BY THE RIVER, 149 Spring St., Jeffersonville, Ind., (812) 284-2667. This…
Video TapeWorm: Releases through Tuesday, May 13
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS TOBOR THE GREAT1954; $14.95, UROne of the greatest bad Cold War sci-fi movies, now available on a crystal-clean DVD. When the United States plans to explore space, a scientist creates an android robot astronaut that can be controlled psychically. An evil foreign power wants this technology for their own nefarious purposes,…
Film Reviews: Not quite “Flawless,” but entertaining to say the least
‘Flawless’(Starring Michael Caine, Demi Moore, Lambert Wilson, Joss Ackland and Constantine Gregory. Directed by Michael Radford. Rated PG-13; 1:45. Starts Friday at Baxter Avenue Theatres. LEO Report Card: B) Right as the summer blockbusters are beginning to hit, director Michael Radford’s film “Flawless” gives us a smart heist movie with none-too-subtle liberal themes. It’s…
Cableboxing: “30 Rock” disses Cleveland and “Ghostbusters”!
30 RockSeason 2, Episode: “Sandwich Day”Thursdays, NBC, 9:30 p.m. Aired May 1. Starring Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan and Jane Krakowski.Synopsis: Liz tells Jenna and Pete that her ex, Floyd, called her the night before to tell her he is in New York and, because of a big storm coming, he’s going to be…
