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Fine dining by design — local artists help set the mood
We like good food and drink around here, no doubt about it. And if the restaurant we frequent is locally born and bred, we can get positively giddy. Add another layer of local — like locally-made furniture, lighting and fittings — and we’ve hit the food trifecta. A growing number of eating establishments in Louisville…
From fallen trees to art: A Q&A with wood artist Lindsay E. Frost
Lindsay E. Frost (lindsayefrost.com) has a wonderful relationship with wood. It is her medium, but it is also her muse. “Spirits need to live on in something,” she said. “Why not wood?” LEO: What type of artist are you? Lindsay E. Frost: I consider myself a wood artist. I make containers from the wood of…
The Internet didn’t kill the radio: A Q&A with ‘This American Life’s’ Ira Glass
For over two decades, the internationally-syndicated “This American Life” has served as the gold standard for riveting storytelling, with a touch of radio theater, during which personal vignettes tell larger truths and resonate with millions on a significant level. Hosted by its conversational and consummate orator Ira Glass, “This American Life” has spun off into…
10 things to do under $5 this week in Louisville (11/28)
MONDAY Rare Louisville Live Seidenfaden’s Cafe Free | 8 p.m. For this edition of Mondo Video Night at Seidenfaden’s Cafe, there will be back-to-back showings of rare Louisville music videos, followed by a mixed bag of other music video goodies, and at the bar there will be $1 off drafts and wells specials. Bourbon, Beer,…
5 Things To Do This Weekend in Louisville (11/25)
FRIDAY Jim James with Twin Limb Louisville Palace $35 | Doors at 7 p.m. As LEO’s own John King wrote, Jim James’ newest album, Eternally Even, has “weaving soul-infused keyboards with dark vocal undertones that emulate the best of Neil Young’s protest era.” And you can see the My Morning Jacket frontman perform his newest…
Ask a Restaurant: Q & A with your favorite places to eat
Price Range: $$$$ = Fine Dining | $$$ = Higher | $$ = Moderate | $ = Cheap Eats 8up 350 W. Chestnut St. | 8uplouisville.com | 631-4180 Neighborhood: Downtown Cuisine: American Open: Breakfast Mon.-Sun. | Dinner Mon.-Sun. | Late Night Mon.-Sat. Reservations: Yes Outdoor Seating: Yes Delivery: No Take Out: No Price: $$$ Q:…
Our newest neighbors blend new and old traditions for Thanksgiving
If you really want to see the spirit of Thanksgiving, try viewing it through the eyes of our most-recently arrived neighbors. When you’re thankfully celebrating a new home, but holding memories of the old one, there’s nothing that says “thanks” any better than having both roast turkey and ropa vieja, or crispy falafel, on the…
Fire on the Mountain: Arson and other threats at Pine Mountain
For weeks, fires have raged on Pine Mountain. One burned, downward from the ridge, through the James E. Bickford State Nature Preserve, habitat for several rare species of invertebrates and plants. At one point, the flames breached the firebreak behind the Laurel House at the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Staff, firefighters and residents fought the…
Thorns & Roses: The Best and Worst
We were not with her, really | Thorn In Kentucky, Hillary Clinton won just 32.7 percent of the vote, the second-lowest level of support for a Democratic presidential nominee in the state since 1828! That, says the University of Minnesota’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. Donald Trump got a whopping 62.5 percent,…
Jim James on his politically-charged new solo record and the post-election blues
Weaving soul-infused keyboards with dark vocal undertones that emulate the best of Neil Young’s protest era, Jim James’ newest solo album, Eternally Even, was released shortly before the U.S. presidential elections on Nov. 4, and it is equal parts a political commentary on the looming governmental sea change and a plea for unity and compassion.…
The story of DYAN’s debut album, with a Louisville connection
After moving to Cincinnati from Los Angeles to take a break from composing films in order to focus on the material that would become DYAN’s first album, singer-songwriter Alexis Marsh found herself in Louisville, watching her former UofL classmate Dan Dorff play drums on Ray LaMontagne’s latest record, Ouroboros, at La La Land Studio. Being…
House Ghost: Handshakes
On Handshakes, House Ghost does a lot with their moody, bubblegum electro-soul, from the soaring and smooth “Kid Icarus” that ambiguously darkens an 8-bit landscape with an interesting juxtaposition, to the album’s strongest track “Gold Watch” (featuring James Lindsey), a down-and-out melodic gem that will be stick with you. “Dear Dead Days” is a hazy…
Harpy: Wrong Songs
Building songs this experimental and strange and piercing, while maintaining a core ability to sweep you in with an undercurrent of affable and wild guitar riffs, unhinged drumming and unique vocal work, makes the noise-punk of Wrong Songs a compelling roller coaster ride. Harpy — the solo project of musician/artist Yoko Molotov — is an…
Equipment Pointed Ankh: STRESS GX
Equipment Pointed Ankh has returned to tap into the celestial zeitgeist again, here with a psychedelic swirl of warbling guitars. EPA mixes raga, manifested with the soft repetition of the drums, slow twanging drones and spidery lead work, as well as a distinct kraut rock influence, most notably on “Juno Money,” but running throughout, identified…
Touch AC & Dr. Dundiff: Odysseus
There is some next-level satire at play on Odysseus, the most recent collaboration between Touch AC & Dr. Dundiff. Unlike some of his recent efforts, Dundiff eschews the R&B angle that he’s been working, in favor of a bit-crushed Nintendo vibe, which makes for a playful feel throughout. Touch AC spits poignant and complex rhymes…
Bad Year For Rock and Roll?
How will we look at 2016? If we were to write the history books on New Years Day, would we be too close to being objective? Would the pain still burn too painfully? Could we brush past the heartbreak to see the happier moments? I’m sure there were some, somewhere. I’m not an inherently pessimistic…
‘Mothers and Sons,’ a rigorous, unsentimental sense of purpose
Perhaps the most important character in Terrence McNally’s 2013 play, “Mothers and Sons,” is never seen on stage. His name is Andre. An early victim of the AIDS epidemic, he died in the ‘80s, during the period when the disease was barely understood — let alone treatable. His death left a hole in the lives…
The art of giving for the holidays: Where to find art sales, events and exhibitions during the holidays
Before you can make like Tiny Tim from “A Christmas Carol” and proclaim, “A Merry Christmas to us all,” you need presents. And they had better be good ones. Let me help. Below is a partial list of art-related holiday sales, events and exhibitions to get you in the spirit (dates are subject to change).…
Jodi White, ‘You are not going to say that about me on stage’
You can get a pretty good idea of what you’re getting into with Jodi White’s comedy once you see the headline on her website: ‘M.I.L.F. & Cookies.’ She’s a little bit tawdry, and a little bit naughty, as she tackles subjects including children, men and, of course, sex. She has appeared on “NickMom Night Out”…
Korean food, a warming choice for chilly days
I’m wild about Asian food. From India across Southeast Asia to Japan and China with all its regional delights, my Asian culinary favorite is usually whichever I had last. But winter’s coming on now — believe it, even if the leaves are still mostly green and the breezes balmy as I write this — and…
Breakfast sausage of the sea
I got a call recently from Lewis Shuckman of Shuckman’s Fish Co. & Smokery, a family-owned business in The West End that has been serving Louisville since around 1919. The company is well known around the region and beyond for its smoked fish and particularly Kentucky Spoonfish Caviar. Well, Mr. Shuckman was excited to tell…
Eat Me
Q: I’m a very sex-positive girl and I finally convinced my boyfriend to open up about his fetishes. I could tell he was ashamed and torn about sharing them with me, but I’ve been with my fair share of guys and surfed the net for years, and I was convinced nothing would shock me. Well,…
Your yacht is not in the mail
“A Great Civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within”— W. Durant So after suffering a shock-induced cardiac attack after witnessing Donald Trump be crowned the abusive Prom King of all of America, my consort, Shelby, managed to blast me back among the livin’ using two defibrillator paddles plugged into…
On depression and politics
Our world is turbulent. With the election of Donald Trump, and the wave of harassment across the nation in his honor, it is natural that we who envision ourselves a beacon of hope should fall into widespread states of sadness. We are faced with an egregious identity crisis. Who are we in America? Is America…
We will not wait
I don’t know what we were all so worried about. President-elect Trump’s brilliance is already radiating through Washington, D.C. Before even taking office, Trump has done the unimaginable: He has convinced Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to start leveling with Kentuckians about the evaporation of coal jobs — there is no war on coal, just the…
Your Voice
on president trump or: ?how we learn to stop worrying I know, right? He got elected, and I woke up to a national casting call for the “Portlandia” reboot. How droll. — Ian McIan on dan canon: trump and lgtbq rights — your worst nightmares unlikely to come true Dear President Obama, please appoint Dan…
