Gift Guide: Show time for the holidays Concert DVDs take you back
Ray Charles Few aspects of life stir the soul like a live concert.Whether it’s Led Zeppelin’s iconic “The Song Remains the Same” or The Band’s jaw-dropping “Last Waltz,” these cinematic treasures can transport listeners to a state of emotional ecstasy without all the pot smoke, spilled beer and sticky floors. Thus, LEO has cherry-picked some…
Gift Guide: Holiday Season on stage
A Tuna Christmas: Photo by Harlan Taylor Bill McKinley and Scheffield Chastain in a past performance of “A Tuna Christmas†at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The sight of trees changing their foliage to the warm colors of fall accompanies the fragrance of crackling fireplaces in the air. These are the smells and sights that prepare…
Gift Guide: With forethought, art can top your holiday shopping list
Chez Moi: Courtesy of chez moi art gallery This photograph by Michael Skrentny is just one in the show “Flight of Angles,†on exhibit at Chez Moi Art Gallery. I often hear complaints that people do not view or buy visual art during the holidays. There seems to be just too little daylight available; hours…
City Strobe: Clear Channel sells out
Clear Channel Communications, the media behemoth we love so for the “access” it provides us, has agreed to an $18.7 billion buyout (plus $8 billion in debt) from a private equity group co-led by Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital Partners. The need for a bailout stems from the scramble-buys in TV and radio…
The finish line: The public has no say when proposed zoning changes reach the Metro Council. Should it?
Stephen T. Porter is a real estate lawyer who also happens to live in the Tucker Station neighborhood, in the southeastern portion of Louisville Metro, where a group of 12 houses will be replaced in due time with a 282-acre industrial park, though the development was challenged by a lawsuit Porter filed on behalf of…
Rumor & Innuendo
Rumor: The name game. Let’s do Shirley. Name the two teams that competed in this recent “instant classic” that was all offense all the time. Forty-one total first downs. Nine hundred yards between the squads, 317 on the ground, 583 in the air. Eighty-one points. Don’t either one of those powers know how to play…
The Flipped Lid: Did you bring your charisma today?
Because Thanksgiving falls this week, and because I am also from this here city, today’s column offers praise and thanks to Louisville. Putting aside traces of critical analysis, shelving cynicism and negativity, I am instead bringing to the fore pure gratitude, even about Louisville’s endearing dark edges and lovely messiness. This is a random love…
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. Break…
Gift Guide: Adjust your aural thermostat this season
Guilderoy Byrne: Courtesy of Guilderoy Byrne In past years, the Celtic band Guilderoy Byrne has performed at The Rudyard Kipling. This year it performs at First Unitarian Church. At this time of year a mantle of darkness shrouds most of our “day” and the capitalists of Christmas who rule our shopping environments — which are…
Gift Guide: A 2006 Gimmee-Gimmee Guide, vid style
BY DAVID “B. GETTING STUFF” KING AND BILL “ME LATER” RAKER Sgt. Bilko: Phil Silvers is genius in “Sgt. Bilko: The 50th Anniversary Edition.†Is there anything to compare with that look on someone’s face when they receive your gift Christmas morning and squeal, “Uh, Dude!? I spent a LOT more on you!”? Yeah, to…
LEO’s Third Annual Highly Useful Eccentric Holiday Guide
LEO’s Third Annual Highly Useful Eccentric Holiday GuideSo, the holiday season is upon us, and after watching a bunch of campaign ads, we will now be subjected to all manner of advertising telling us that the only way our loved ones will really know we love them is if we buy them that expensive yet…
Theater Reviews: More literature into plays: How novel!
Scarlet Pimpernel: Courtesy of the As Yet Unnamed Theatre Co. Jennifer Poliskie and Edward Adamson star in The As Yet Unnamed Theatre Company’s “The Scarlet Pimpernel,†showing at the MeX Theater through Sunday. It seems local theater-goers and other arts audiences (case in point: Louisville Orchestra’s upcoming presentation of music from “The Lord of the…
Sight Unsound: The Bonnie and the Believers
Bonnie Prince Billy: In whatever configuration — and by whatever name he’s using — Bonnie “Prince†Billy is producing some of the best music of his career. How do we love Will Oldham? Let me count the ways: They are as numerous as the stars in the sky … or at least as many as…
5 Questions with Shedding
Beneath this trash can, a shy Connor Bell Shedding provides Connor Bell with the freedom that only a solo project can. His most recent concoction, What God Doesn’t Bless, You Won’t Love; What You Don’t Love, The Child Won’t Know, mixes electronics, recordings of birds, samples of Eric Dolphy’s jazz flute work and live drums…
Music Preview – Texas two-step: Wax Fang’s Scott Carney grills MMJ’s Jim James
My Morning Jacket: Photo by Danny Clinch Somewhere in the vast state of Texas, Scott Carney and Jim “The Tornado” James sat down to discuss their likes, their dislikes and the superpowers they wish they had …SC: It’s me, Scott Carney, here talking with Jimmy J. Alright, we’ve got some questions, Jim’s got some answers.…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Nov. 28
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKSSHE1935; DVD $19.95, URFor the literary-deprived, “She” is a fabulous book by M. Rider Haggard that’s been made into a movie nearly a dozen times, but this one is a particular Guilty Pleasure. Former congresswoman Helen Gahagan “Married to Melvyn” Douglas prepared for her political career by playing the 500-year-old living goddess…
Staff Picks
Wednesday, Nov. 22Gordon Graham tribute Some of the city’s finest musicians will gather at the Rudyard Kipling tonight to honor Louisville singer-songwriter Gordon Graham, who passed away recently. A custom Washburn electric guitar will be raffled at the show, and proceeds will be donated to the St. John Center, which serves 175 homeless men every…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Holiday Events ••Holiday Gift Collection — Actors Theatre, with Cabinet for Families & Children, collects gifts for disadvantaged children, thru Dec. 20, 316 W Main St., 584-1265.Blow Ho Ho! — Glassworks invites public to blow their own glass ornament, reservations req., 815 W. Market St.: $40, Nov. 24-Jan. 6, Thu.-Sun., 992-3056.••A Little Peace Café —…
Community Listings
Holiday Events Light Up Louisville — annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony, includes children’s events, Santa visits, music, food and more, Jefferson Square Park, free, Nov. 24, 3-9pm, 574-5220 or www.louisvilleky.gov.Simple Gifts — sixth annual open house hosted by Thieneman’s Herbs & Perennials, includes Mini Arte Faire, Midwinter Crafts table, & shopping, 9120 Blowing Tree Rd.:…
Club Directory
19th Green 1740 Williamsburg Dr. Jeffersonville (812) 284-9088 19th Hole Pub 5603 Greenwood Rd. 933-4858 A Little Peace Café 1860 Mellwood Ave. 238-7301 Air Devil’s Inn 2802 Taylorsville Rd. 454-4443 Akiko’s 1123 Bardstown Rd. 459-8020 The Alternative 1032 Story Ave. 561-7613 Angelo’s 627 N. 34th St. 776-9127 Artemisia 620 E. Market St. 583-4177 Atomic Saucer…
KARAOKE Korral
WED NOV 22 Akiko’s Boozseller Lounge Brewskees Brickyard Sports Bar Creeker’s Bar & Grill Gaslite Tavern Good Times Pub Jim Porter’s Joker’s JT’s Variety Club Monon Station New View Phoenix Hill R Place Pub Ro-Joe’s Karaoke Bar Seidenfaden Cafe Shooters Skivvies Smyrna Inn Spectators Bar & Grill St. Andrew’s Pub Steinert’s The Swamp T.K.’s…
LEO’s Eat ‘N’ Blog: Eating our way through the holidays
Tony Boombozz: Photo by Brian Bohannon Proprietor Tony Palombino of Tony Boombozz Pizza & Vino. OK, you’re going to shop till you drop — taking care to drop someplace where you can get something tasty and restorative so you can bounce back to shop again. Or maybe you hate shopping as much as I do…
The Bar Belle: Holiday Buzz
The next six weeks may be a good time to work on that reckless bender you’ve been planning ever since you saw “Leaving Las Vegas.” The holidays, the family, the long lines at your favorite stores, bars and restaurants … it can all be easier with the hum of a constant buzz. In fact, swigging…
Aftertastes
JERUSALEM CAFÉ, 1907 S. Fourth St., 635-6767. Located in the shopping center just west of U of L’s Belknap Campus, this cafe speaks Middle Eastern with a Palestinian accent. All the classics — Baba Ganush, Tabouli, hummus and falafel — make for quick meals with fresh, clean and balanced flavors. (Reviewed 9/27; Rating: N/A) PRIMO,…
