Probing ‘the Lifestyle’ – Conference at Bellarmine shines an academic light on a sexual taboo: swinging
Dr. Curtis R. Bergstrand: Photo by Claudia Olea This weekend, Bellarmine University plays host to an academic conference that may raise a few eyebrows. The topic is swinging, and while it may elicit a giggle from the average person, organizers believe the topic is important because research into this particular activity has historically been lacking.…
City Strobe: No smoking in Louisville …
Here is a list of the places you can no longer smoke in Louisville as of July 1, 2007: everywhere that’s inside. Here is a list of where you can smoke inside: Churchill Downs and tobacco manufacturers. Yes, the double standard on smoking (as Mayor Abramson said, if that’s what it takes for a full…
Rumor & Innuendo
The kid grew up way back when football was nice. Hoops had its moments in Kentuckiana. But baseball, sweet game o’ nines, was the deal. Truly the national pastime. And national passion. ’Twas the era of Mickey, Willie and the Duke. And plenty of others with names like Elmer Valo and Vinegar Bend Mizell. They…
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.Protect and…
The Stink Eye: Part of the Story
There is an ethos in journalism that says reporters and the publications for which they report should never become part of a story. Of course, that was shattered by a handful of intrepid and adored journalists over the years — Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese back when — and also by some major…
Guest Commentary: Who would Jesus torture?
I was a guest panelist a few years ago at a Southern Baptist Seminary symposium on Christianity and the new war in Iraq. In an otherwise somber discussion, I got the single laugh of the evening when I quipped, “You see, I’m much more conservative than my fellow panelist, (Seminary) President Al Mohler. I take…
Bluegrass Politics: Dogs days for the GOP
With less than three weeks until Election Day, Republicans are experiencing the dog days of this political season at the worst possible time. It’s hard to imagine things getting more sweltering and uncomfortable for the GOP, which now must contend with more than 50 congressional seats in play, thanks to the caustic combination of the…
The Culture Maven: Riddle me this …
Autumn is upon us. Leaves are falling. I just bought a new rake. But, but, but I’m not quite ready to tackle that yard yet. So I’m killing time, daydreaming. A wandering but inquiring mind needs to know? Mick, Keith, yeah you all, the Glimmer Twins, what’s up with Alice Cooper opening your show at…
The Flipped Lid: Personally stupid
It happened again a few weeks ago. A girlfriend who’d passed the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) with a 700 — an extremely good score — described herself as not being intelligent that way (read: academically). Instead, she claims to know how to take standardized tests. She is currently working on a master’s degree in American…
Aftertastes: Recently Reviewed in LEO
BENEDICT’S GARDEN CAFÉ, 1519 Baxter Ave., 479-7777. Tasty new café that specializes in vegan and vegetarian cuisine with an extensive menu that satisfies both vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. Complete with a juice bar! (Reviewed 8/23; Rating: N/A) AMICI, 316 W. Ormsby Ave., 637-3167. This new Italian eatery aims to break the jinx associated with the…
The Bar Belle – Who Dey think gonna drink my beer?
Are you ready for some football? Or, more importantly, a reason to drink, be loud, eat wings, go high-five crazy and let the fate of a few dozen men running a ball up and down a field dictate your emotions? Already a few weeks into the season, I’m sure you have your favorite spot picked…
LEO’s Eat ‘N’ Blog: Frosting the Hoosier pumpkin
Server Dacqueri Mahar: shows off Huber’s finest, the country platter dish of fried chicken and ham. “When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock,And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkey-cock …And the rooster’s hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence …O, it’s then the time a…
Video TapeWorm: Releases through Tuesday, Oct. 24
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS:MONSTER HOUSE2006; DVD $28.95, PGThis spooky/goofy CGI haunted-houser is an all-around hoot and an instant Halloween classic through terrific animation (particularly the titular house), great voice talent and a clever plot (though we took some offense at their treatment of fat people). Three kids discover that the house across the street, where…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Halloween Haunts Louisville Zoo — hosting Yum! Brands “World’s Largest Halloween Party!,” 1100 Trevilian Way: $1.50-$6, Oct. 19-22, & 26-29, 5-8:30pm on Thu. & Fri, 4-8:30pm on Sat. & Sun., 459-2181.Halloween Family Fest — at Otter Creek Park Campground, 850 Otter Creek Park Rd. in Brandenburg, Ky.: campsite fee, Oct 20-21, & 27-28, 574-4583.••Bardstown Bound…
Community Listings
Special Events ••IUS annual Health & Wellness Center — 40-plus vendors open to the public, Oct 18, 11am-2pm, free, 4201 Grantline Rd, 941-2316. Decade of Bourbon — Woodford Reserve hosts week-long celebration, Oct 18-21,10am-4pm, 21+, 7855 McCraken Pike, Versailles, Ky., 774-7443.“This I Believe” — local celebrities read famous radio essays, Oct 19, 7pm, Louisville Free…
DIRTY ROCK ’N’ ROLL 101 – Weird musical advice for the kids: Urban guerillas
‘Dirty’ Dave Johnson WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF GASOLINE, OH MY! Damn the price of gas. Damn it to hell fire for eternity. It makes being a musician a complete bitch. No one wants to pay you what you’re worth these days, much less the inflation of gas for your 1984 Ford Econoline that sucks it…
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 OCT 18 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 Pub…
Music Preview – Wanted: Some idiot who hit Calvin Johnson’s van
Calvin Johnson: hopes he’ll have better luck this time around when he brings his underground sound to the Old Louisville Coffee House on Monday. After what happened to Calvin Johnson the last time he came to Louisville, last November, it’s amazing he’s coming back. During that visit, when he performed at Old Louisville Coffee House,…
Music Preview – Sounds better in the song: Trucker Patterson Hood’s experiment
Drive By Truckers Patterson Hood apparently stumbled into his vocation as a rocker around the time he first started walking. As he explains it to LEO, “My career in music is a 40-year ongoing experiment — most of which has gone unnoticed and undocumented. I started playing around with words as a very small child,…
Staff Picks
Thursday, Oct. 19‘The Origins of Art’ lecture “The Camera Obscura and the Origin of Art: the Case for Image Projection in the Upper Paleolithic” — no, you have not stumbled onto a science lecture. That is the long title of artist Matt Gatton’s art historical theory on how early humans discovered two-dimensional art. This well-researched…
Theater Preview: Murder and mayhem in ‘King Hedley II’ –
U of L’s African-American Theatre offers up its version of the August Wilson play Kamilah Lee Long and Robert O’Bryan Greene: in “King Hedley II.”Photo by Michael F. Hottois It’s a good time to be an August Wilson fan in Louisville. Even as “Gem of the Ocean” currently runs at Actors Theatre, a very different…
Dining Guide 2006 – Soup’s On!
You may have noticed fall has snuck up on us again, and quite smoothly, it seems. Something about the angle of the sun and the colors of the leaves and the crisp air … well, it all seems tailor-made for eating. Maybe it’s that ancient instinct to fatten up for winter, or maybe it’s because…
Dining Guide 2006 – Chefs’ Challenge
Chef Challenge: photo by Ross Gordon For LEO’s 2006 Dining Issue, we issued a dare to a handful of local chefs. The charge was simple: figure out a unique dish (or dishes) they could prepare that incorporates the following ingredients: Cheez Whiz, persimmons, chipped beef and cassava (or manioc, which is known as yucca in…
Dining Guide 2006 – LEO’s Top 10’s
Top 10 Fine Dining (listed alphabetically)1) 211 Clover Lane2) 610 Magnolia3) Asiatique4) Equus5) Le Relais6) Limestone7) Park Place8) Proof on Main9) Seviche10) The OakroomTop 10 Great Cheap Eats 1) Bluegrass Bistro2) Café at the Louisville Antique Mall3) Clarksville Seafood4) Cottage Inn5) Cumberland Brews6) Cunningham’s7) Seafood Connection St. Matthews8) Stan’s Fish Sandwich9) Third Avenue Café10) Zap’s…
Dining Guide 2006
Price Range: $ = $10 or less; $$ = $20 or less; $$$ = $30 or less; $$$$ = more than $30. (Per person for a meal without tip or tax.) Capsule Reviews: Restaurants marked with the special LEO “O” were reviewed in these pages throughout the past year and include short summaries of those…
Dining Guide 2006 – At your service …A day in the life of a Louisville waitress
Deborah Deletti-Renier: has worked in food service for a decade and now serves at Volare Italian Restaurant on Frankfort Avenue. LEO asked dining critic Robin Garr to follow her around for an entire 5-11 p.m. shift.photo by Robin Garr “Can I get you started with something to drink? This is Wine Down Tuesday at Volare,…
Dining Guide 2006 – No-WBRO dining: Dining out is a challenge for the gluten-intolerant
Several people turned out: for a recent gluten-free tasting fair at Rainbow Blossom in St. Matthews, including Marie McCanless, right. McCanless, a Charlotte, N.C. native who’s now a student at the Presbyterian Seminary here, has celiac disease, which causes extremely d I never thought of gluten-intolerance until my young niece was diagnosed with celiac disease…
