10 Things To Do Under $5 This Week In Louisville (11/18)
MONDAY, Nov. 18 Autumn Flower Arranging Fairdale Library Free | 6-7 p.m. Impress your family with a Thanksgiving centerpiece that looks plucked from Pinterest. You bring the vase, but all other supplies will be provided at this free flower arranging workshop taught my a master gardener. Call 375-2051 to secure your spot. ShopBar Potluck and…
Album Review: Bonnie “Prince” Billy — ‘I Made A Place’
There’s a song on I Made A Place, the new Bonnie “Prince” Billy record, that I’ve been listening to over and over, retracing the lines, searching for clues. It’s called “Look Backward On Your Future, Look Forward To Your Past,” and it’s an odd track for singer-songwriter Will Oldham, who has been recording under the…
5 Things To Do In Louisville This Weekend (11/15)
FRIDAY, Nov. 15 Reckless Eric / Cat Casual and The Final Word Monnik Beer Co. $10 | 8 p.m.-midnig Eric Goulden, or Wreckless Eric, is best known for his punk hit “Whole Wide World,” but the 65-year-old English musician “is a rare example of an older and established artist who hasn’t lapsed into comfortable formulas,”…
Election 2019, The Great Urban-Rural Divide
For once, the polls were right: Andy Beshear barely beat Matt Bevin to take the governor’s office (unless Bully Bevin prevails in his dangerous efforts to subvert the democratic process). What should be clear is that Beshear lucked out by facing perhaps the only Republican in Kentucky who could not get elected that day. The…
Another Louisville Foodie Pioneer: Lilly’s Kathy Cary
In 1974, while the Grisanti family was creating its empire with fine dining in Louisville’s meat-and-potatoes restaurant desert, The Fig Tree Restaurant at Third Street and Broadway also was bringing innovation to the city’s dining scene: French food. And the person making it possible? The restaurant’s 21-year-old head chef, Kathy Nash, now Kathy Cary. “Because…
Olé On Mission To Create Own Dining Legacy
Olé Hospitality Group stands tall over Louisville’s modern dining scene. Starting in 2012 with Guaca Mole, Olé has owned 10 concepts over the years, with nine current locations and two more concepts in the works. Surely, you’ve gone for margs at El Taco Luchador or grabbed Mussel & Burger Bar before an Actors Theatre show.…
Why The GOP Legislature Must Work With Beshear
Dear Kentucky Republican lawmakers, Sure, the 2019 election was a good night for Democrats. On the other hand, it was an even better night for the Republican Party! You might not have won the top race, but you comfortably swept the other five statewide races. And seeing as each of the victorious-Republican candidates received on…
Here Is How Democrats Cheated Matt Bevin Out Of A Second Term
Now that we have been able to observe the outcome of the 2019 elections, there is no reason why we should not be able to forecast, with perspicuous clarity, the outcome of contested elections next year. If you listen to national media personalities, the folks who think Kentucky has had a Republican governor since the…
Beshear’s Win Not Just Luck Or Teachers: Trump Could Fall In 2020
Twenty-five years ago, Mitch McConnell had an idea. Maybe, just maybe, the second-term senator could convince Newt Gingrich, the Republican war chief busy laying plans for a political earthquake later that year, to throw some money at an obscure race in Kentucky — a special election that May to replace U.S. Rep. Bill Natcher from…
Wanker Brits Lob Last Bombs In Final Column
So, the end of two eras. As we said last time, if Bevin obliges us and maintains our perfect losing record on political predictions, our work here is done. Our record against reality is worse than his against Beshear, so we should both bow out. The end of the Bevin era, and the end of…
Thorns & Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd
Thorn: Gov. Bevin Rips A Page Out Of The Autocrats’ Playbook… Again A thorn goes to Gov.-ejected Matt “Bully” Bevin for questioning the legitimacy of his loss by claiming “irregularities” but providing zero proof — even a week later. This tactic, debasing the process and undermining voter confidence, has become a front-line response for Republicans…
A track-by-track breakdown of Duncan Barlow’s new album, Colony Collapse
Duncan Barlow has left an indelible impact on the Louisville music scene as a member of seminal acts including Endpoint, Guilt and By the Grace of God. Around 20 years ago, Barlow left Louisville behind to pursue his profession as an educator and writer. He has spent the interim decades writing and releasing books, while…
What Made Us Lou Foodies: The Tasty Legacy Of Casa Grisanti
As hard as it is to imagine now, there was a time when Louisville’s restaurant selection was limited, to say the least. There were no Mexican, Indian, Thai, French, Japanese, Filipino, Latin American or vegetarian restaurants. Brewpubs were unheard of. Italian was considered exotic. Luvisi’s on Fifth Street had apparently served the city’s first pizza…
Elvis Costello and two more concerts to catch this weekend
Marco Benevento Friday, Nov. 15 Zanzabar Although he’s probably best known as an experimental keys savant from the jam scene, Marco Benevento has recently been making shiny and strange alt-pop songs that value brevity and a good hook. His latest album, Let It Slide, is experimental and drenched in psych-rock tones, but the core of…
Record Review: Tender Mercy — ‘War Within’
For more than a decade, singer-songwriter Mark Kramer has crafted some of the most painfully bleak music out there. Kramer is a master of storytelling with the sparsest arrangements, often only individually plucked notes and his quivering voice. That steadfast commitment is perhaps best realized on War Within, a work that operates on the tension…
Record Review: Twin Sister Radio — ‘Extended Play’
Twin Sister Radio blends styles as disparate as kraut rock and pop into a cohesive whole. Where opener “Without the Rain” features prominent motorik beats and a heavy use of repetition, “Sugar (I Want)” immediately switches gears into a hook-heavy number with punk sneer. From there, it only continues to branch out, from the garage…
Record Review: Jasun K & Kogan Dumb — ‘KaBoom Vipin’’
There is a menacing vibe to the production on KaBoom Vipin’ that elevates the compositions beyond a lot of contemporary hip-hop. This is dense and meaty, stacking shoegaze ambience over boom-bap beats and verbose rhymes. Lyrically, Jasun and Kogan have developed their own shared lexicon, a world that evokes yams, bandanas and shrimp, all call…
Record Review: Savage Master — ‘Myth, Magic and Steel’
With Myth, Magic and Steel, Savage Master captures the hysteria of mid-’80s Satanic Panic. Their brand of metal is anthemic, the guitar lines galloping and the vocals theatrical and spellbinding. Singer Stacey Savage channels Ann Wilson and Ozzy, spinning tales of pure D&D glory — magical seers using mystic objects to look into the beyond,…
2020 Humana Festival Lineup and Preview: A Wonderfully Eclectic Selection
In March 1977, Actors Theatre of Louisville premiered a set of two plays that alternated in repertoire on a bill bearing the quaint title “PlayFaire.” Those plays, Donald L. Coburn’s “The Gin Game” (which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize) and John Orlock’s “Indulgences in the Louisville Harem,” started what came to be known…
‘Here Is What You Do’ Creates Wince-Worthy Tension
“Here Is What You Do” by Chris Dennis (Soho Press; 216 pages, $16) Are you ready for characters who push each other to extremes? Psychologically, sexually, financially — you name it. Some of the most obvious of the manipulators look to get themselves something that might ease their self-loathing. But all of them — and…
Veggie Happy With Dragon King’s Daughter Happy Hour
Bardstown Road has a secret: It has some of the most generous happy hours in town. The specials usually coincide with its ridiculous rush hour traffic patterns (no one has ever really understood the shifting, red X lane), and it just takes one parked car during no-parking prime time to back up traffic. Perhaps because…
Lola’s Kitchen, Filipino Food For A ‘Happy Lunchtime’
If language reflects culture, then it’s fair to assume that the people of the Philippines love to eat. Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, is the only language I know with a special greeting tucked between “good morning” and “good afternoon” to wish people a “good lunchtime.” So, let’s say “Magandang tanghali po” to…
Rock Star Dreams At Trouble
I’ve worked in the bar and hospitality industry for over a decade. I spend most of my time immersing myself in entertainment trends and new and innovative spirits and cocktail creations and figuring out how to weave those into a genuinely special experience for guests. All this time, I thought I was pretty damn good…
Savage Love: Sissy That Talk
Q: My boyfriend and I met online to explore our kinks. We’d both been in relationships with kink-shaming people who screwed with our heads. Since we weren’t thinking it was more than a hookup, we put all our baggage on the table early and wound up becoming friends. Eventually we realized we had a real…
