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A Church Divided
Despite increasing public acceptance, homosexuality and same-sex marriage are divisive issues within the Baptist Church. November 11, following its adoption of a resolution supporting LGBT rights, Crescent Hill Baptist Church was ousted from the Kentucky Baptist Convention (KBC). While the KBC feels that the “authority” of the Bible demands they separate themselves from churches like…
Plugged In (Nov. 19 – Nov. 25)
WED Nov 19th Brasserie Provence: Brian Curella Duo, Todd Hildreth; 5 p.m. Diamond Pub (Highlands): The Shane Dawson Band, Me & You; 7 p.m. Diamond Pub (St. Matthews): Sean Danielsen; 10 p.m. Gary’s on Spring: Walker & Kays; 6 p.m. Gerstle’s: Kimmet & Doug; 9p.m. Haymarket Whiskey Bar: James Redmon; 9 p.m. Headliners: Jucifer, Ohlm…
Inbox – November 19, 2014
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You’re damn right I am biased
Something I wrote last week has been bothering me. When describing the disrespect for, and subjective application of, science, I said: “This is insanity on a whole new level.” Well, upon a week’s worth of reflection, I want to apologize for speaking hyperbolically. That statement is not accurate. This insanity has been around for years…
Thanks for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love how it flies under the radar and then, before you know it, it’s time to get a little too buzzed, eat ourselves into oblivion, loosen our belts and make inappropriate comments to our loved ones. We Americans tend to go overboard on everything. Christmas, college basketball, campaign advertising,…
Prelude to the Black General Political Strike
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or…
A constitutional crisis of Obama’s making
As Benjamin Franklin emerged from Independence Hall at the close of the Constitutional Convention, a lady asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin famously replied, “A republic … if you can keep it.” And, for nearly 250 years, we have kept it and many heroes have died on the…
Staffpicks
THURSDAY, NOV. 20 ‘The Grand Tour: British Collecting and Travelling in the 18th Century’ Kentucky Center 501 W. Main St., 584-7777 kentuckycenter.org $10, Speed members free; 6:30 p.m. If you were anybody, it used to be de rigueur that you visited Europe. The “Grand Tour” let wealthy young men (and occasionally women) wander the cultural…
No time to think: St. Paul & The Broken Bones shake up soul
Paul Janeway showed signs early in life that he might be a born performer. “My mom was telling a story, and I don’t remember this, but she said when I was about 4 years old, I’d line up my stuffed animals, get on the bed and I would preach to them,” Janeway recalls during a…
b-sides: The Tillers
In November, The Tillers will donate 50 percent of their merchandise profits to The Cure Starts Now Foundation in honor of Lauren Hill, a terminally ill 19-year-old freshman at Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, which is also the band’s home city. And, for the bluegrass trio’s multi-instrumentalist/singer Mike Oberst, the connection to Lauren is more…
Never the same: A Q&A with Sapat
Perhaps Louisville’s best-kept secret, Sapat has a long and storied musical history that charts a wide course, from psychedelia to world music to indie-prog, all in a context that makes perfect sense. In that spirit, the band is releasing “A Posthuman Guide to the Advent Calendar Origins of the Peep Show” on the label Sophomore…
The Posthuman Guide to the Advent Calendar Origins of the Peep Show
Describing Sapat at any given time is like describing water. They never really do the exact same thing, dynamically changing as the situation warrants, be that in terms of the constituency of the band, or just in their mood. For example, opener “Arson Lieder I/Our S(u)(o)n Leader II” runs the gamut from klezmer music to…
A Tower in the Right Flood
Perhaps Satellite Twin’s greatest achievement is in illustrating just how durable mid-’90s indie can be, which by my estimation remains remarkably listenable. Such can be said for “A Tower in the Right Flood,” the newest EP by Satellite Twin, recently released via the band’s Bandcamp page. That the album was released digitally wasn’t the only…
The Narrative
There is a certain early-’90s quality to the production and raps on “The Narrative,” the debut album by Louisville hip-hop duo Shadowpact, and this is a good thing. The beats, courtesy of Artemis the Archer, are a little gritty, with plenty of jazz qualities thrown in for good measure — like a lost Digable Planets…
White Reaper
With hook-conscious energy, plenty of fuzzy guitar work and a straightforwardness that gets right to the point, White Reaper have this way of feeling both familiar and refreshing. Maybe it’s that their music is unapologetically gritty and minimalistic and wastes no time wandering around, feeling a little like the music of two decades ago. Or…
ART: ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Art, Fashion & Luxury in the Gilded Age’
I love to time travel. But since I’m still waiting for my time machine, along with the jet pack and self-driving car that science fiction said we should have by now, I travel in time the old-fashioned way — through books, movies and museum exhibitions. My recent excursion into the past landed me in the…
THEATER: ‘Tribes’ communicates an eloquent message
At one point in Nina Raine’s play “Tribes,” an angry family shouting match abruptly dissolves into white noise and pantomime. It’s rare that raw noise conveys an eloquent message, but here it articulates one of the play’s central themes: Sometimes even our most strongly felt words mean nothing more than static. In terms of story,…
Video Tapeworm
This Week’s Twin Peeks JEEVES & WOOSTER COMPLETE COLLECTION 2014; $37.98 – 59.98; UR If there was ever the perfect pairing of actors, it has to be in this gut-busting Limey series starring Hugh “House M.D.” Laurie and Stephen “V for Vendetta” Fry from 1990. Laurie plays Bertie Wooster, a brainless, lazy, aristocrat/layabout whose…
COMEDY: The wildman that never was
Bobcat Goldthwait has long been known as “The Wild Man” — at least since the late ’80s and early ’90s, when he was one of the biggest names in all of comedy. For those old enough to remember, hearing his name immediately conjures the image of a sweaty, long-haired, stuttering gorilla throwing nervous, bug-eyed fits…
Toast on New Albany’s Market lights our fire
I should have known that Toast on Market’s spicy chipotle grilled cheese sandwich was going to be hot, because spicy chipotle. But I didn’t quite expect flames to come shooting out my mouth while my endorphins took off in a wild and crazy rush around my brain. Wooee! That sandwich is HOT! In fact, even…
Locavore Lore
Emily Diamond knows that preparation for a sustainable holiday meal begins in January. That’s when the one-woman powerhouse behind Diamond Family Farm in La Grange begins scheduling livestock orders for her community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. Since we’re approaching the day of giving thanks, I talked with Diamond about her philosophy behind the natural way she…
