There is much to say about Leslie Feist.
Feistw/ Jason CollettBrown Theater11.20.07 There is much to say about Leslie Feist. About her life in general, her talent and her show at The Brown Theater. I have broken it down into lists. Basic information about Feist:1. She is part of the disjointed Canadian collective Broken Social Scene.2. Her songs have been featured in various…
What do the Iraqis have to say?
With their documentary ‘Meeting Resistance,’ Molly Bingham and Steve Connors campaign for a new approach to understanding our enemies: Ask them “Meeting Resistance” screeningsNov. 30-Dec. 2 Baxter Avenue Theatres1250 Bardstown Road459-22887 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. In the spring of 2003, it looked as if the American adventure in Iraq might yield a stable, moderate friend…
Is 8664 an option? The group behind the bridges alternative releases a study, and an expert says it”s legit
In the elevator to the third floor of City Hall last week, a middle-aged blonde woman bearing no outward partisan signs asked me whether I was there for the “big hearing.” That would be the one where members of the Metro Council finally heard an expert speak to the merits of 8664, the proposed alternative…
¡Ask a Mexican! Special long-questions edition (The Mexican takes it easy on you this week)
Q : Dear Mexican: With a scant four weeks before I cram my mochila with a few clothes for me and a horde of presents (read: bribes) for my future cuñadas, sobrinas, y mi mera suegra, I found myself terror-stricken tonight as mi novio and I watched a home video of his family doing varios familial…
City Strobe
School board broadens employee protectionsThe end of a raucous five-hour meeting of the Jefferson County Board of Education couldn’t have come sooner for most on Monday night, even though about three-quarters of the over-capacity crowd left in a righteous huff. That’s because finally, after hearing from more than 50 people, the board voted 4-3 to…
Rumor & Innuendo
Money talks, but Krag walks away. If the source for this wasn’t a longtime member of several U of L boards, both for the university and the athletic department, I wouldn’t waste the ink passing along the rumor. It is absolutely unbelievable, but the source swears it to be so. So here goes. It is…
Welp”s Louisvile: Mayberry”s RFD
On a recent trip over the river and through the woods, I got the opportunity to catch up with my favorite road sign. It’s a public-service billboard on a lonely state road in Southern Indiana, and it always reveals how our brethren and sistren in the sticks are faring. Over the years, the billboard has…
What happens in Vegas …Mr. Young plays a cocky game of Cards
It is the nature of the place, Las Vegas. With arid desert sprawling in all directions and a canyon in one of such magnificence it’s hard to fathom it was created in just one day, the area was discovered to be an oasis centuries ago by Spaniards traveling north from Tejas. The area has always…
Erosia
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No More False Dichotomies: Investigating our contempt for 8664
My girlfriend’s mother, Judy, has a penchant for naming cats after authors. There’s been a Thoreau, an Eliot, an Emerson, a Kipling. You get the idea. Andrea took up the habit a couple years ago after Judy finally snagged a pregnant cat living near the school where Judy teaches kindergarten. Judy “bequeathed” one of the…
Message to the People: Damn that Devil!
Recently, when I told a black conservative I thought a number of statistics from poverty to prison demanded more attention to structural issues that could help explain retrograde black behavior, she responded that I “had been seduced by the enemy.” I’m not sure if “the enemy” is Tavis Smiley, Maxine Waters or the Devil. I…
The Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Dec. 4
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS:20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH1957; DVD $25.95-28.95, URIn honor of the 50th anniversary of this breakout film from stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen, the studio has pulled out all the stops to present the best-possible viewer experience. Now available in its original widescreen format in pristine black-and-white (as God intended), or on colorized…
Sublime screenings: BBC offers a night of underground music and film, but bring your own chair
The Louisville Film Society and Wild and Woolly Video are teaming up for a night of rare music and films from both the Sublime Frequencies collective and from the Alan Lomax archives. Tuesday’s event — B.Y.O.C. (Bring Your Own Chair) — continues in the Film Society’s tradition of combining public screenings of unique films with…
Let”s do Lunch Today at The Café
It’s been almost a week since Thanksgiving Day, and chances are most of us have eaten up the leftovers by now, or discreetly discarded the congealed remains. It may still be a little too soon to think about settling down to another expansive repast, though, so this week let’s do lunch.In fact, let’s do two!…
Mug Shots: Behold beer sommeliers
som•me•lier, n. — A restaurant employee who orders and maintains the wines sold in the restaurant and usually has extensive knowledge about wine and food pairings. Can there be a “beer sommelier”? Yes, according to craft brewing stalwart Ray Daniels, who looks to the wisdom of antiquity to find a descriptive term for the job.…
Aftertastes
STEINERT’S GRILL AND PUB, 2239 Charlestown Rd., New Albany, Ind., (812) 945-8827. Steinert’s has been dishing up down-home chow in New Albany since 1883. It doubles as a club, with live music several nights a week, and even a sports bar. (Reviewed 10/24; Rating: N/A) CHEZ SENEBA, 4218 Bishop Ln., 968-8659. Louisville reportedly has a…
Book – Q&A: Talkin” ”bout the ”60s with Tom Brokaw
In his latest book, “Boom — Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ’60s and Today,” former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw looks back at the period in contemporary American history that just won’t go away. But Brokaw doesn’t just tell war stories; he conducts extensive interviews with people who were players then and now…
PB&J”s tumbling, rumbling pop set
It begins with a tumble of drums before a steady, regular beat kicks in. And then, the whistling: a happy, jaunty, old-timey novel sound that seems amusing at first but becomes an integral part of the listening experience. Vocals trade off between an accented male and a female who sounds like she’s been awakened from…
Two “masters in motion” — Stuart and McCoury — join forces
When two masters come together, it is more than a show, it is an event. On Saturday at the Brown Theatre, Marty Stuart will perform on a double-bill with the Del McCoury Band. Stuart doesn’t just pay lip service to the artists who built country and bluegrass music. Lester Flatt gave him his first big…
Delayed in America, Gonzalez enjoys his critical acclaim
LEO: Your cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats” made quite an impression. Is covering/reworking another group’s material something you make a habit of doing?JG: Yeah … I haven’t done that many. I liked it at first, because I didn’t have that many songs. It’s an easy way to fill the different releases with more music, since…
Staffpicks
THURSDAY, NOV. 29Tori Sparks This Nashville songstress, who has earned praise from the likes of Ben Folds, falls squarely in the triple-A radio genre. Sparks’ latest, Under the Yellow Sun, which she co-produced with David Henry (R.E.M., Cowboy Junkies, Indigo Girls), finds Sparks reveling in her independence and quirky, intelligent rock ’n’ roll. “Most of…
Props: THEATER NEWS AND BANTER
‘High School Musical’ — Hoosier styleFilm director Barry Blaustein (“The Ringer,” “Beyond the Mat”) is wrapping up his latest documentary, tentatively called “American High School Musical.” The movie is about the theater programs at Floyd Central, New Albany and Jeffersonville high schools. Why Southern Indiana?“I was blown away by these extraordinary kids. The teachers are…
Holiday classics need editing, or a long winter”s nap
Actors Theatre of Louisville is entering its second decade of producing “A Tuna Christmas” and its 32nd straight year of “A Christmas Carol.” The former is in desperate need of a good trim, and the latter just needs to be retired for a few years. Now, before penning that diatribe, reader, let the record show…
CD Reviews 11-28
The RedwallsThe Redwalls(MAD DRAGON/RYKO)This Chicago group that once opened for Brit provocateurs Oasis marinates in “Come Together”-era Beatles’ pomp, right down to the Baren brothers’ half-whiny vocals, which call to mind Lennon at his most raucous, where “Game of Love” recalls the Fab Four at their dreamiest. —Mat HerronPeace, Love and Anarchy (Rarities, B-Sides and…
