WEB ONLY: LEO’s 2008 Election Day coverage
What better way to spend your Election Day than at Fat Lip, LEO Weekly’s news blog, where our team of reporters/partiers will bring you live coverage all day and night from polling places across the Metro, the classy(ish) high-profile candidate soirees downtown, swill-fests where relative degenerates congregate to engage the victory/chug away the pain, and…
‘Preaching to the Perverted’
Henry Rollins, born Henry Lawrence Garfield, is a singer-songwriter, spoken-word artist, stand-up comedian, author, actor and publisher. He’ll be appearing at Headliners next Wednesday, the day after one the most important elections in U.S. history, with a spoken-word show. After joining the short-lived Washington, D.C., band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the Californian…
Inbox — Oct. 29, 2008
Corrections, Amendments and Clarifications In last week’s Election Guide, we erroneously left two District Judge candidates off the Jefferson County ballot: John J. Vandertoll in the 30th District, 2nd Division; and Anne Dedman Watkins in the 30th District, 8th Division. Also, in the story “Ping-Pong in the weird 37th,” state Sen. Perry Clark is misquoted.…
Homo class
I waited until my last semester at U of L to take my required science course. I took the lowest-level biology course I could find; I saw no need to stress myself out over a class I didn’t want to take. I had no plans of “working hard” or “trying”; my effort was not going…
America: New and Improved
Oboy oboy oboy! Can you believe it? It’s almost here! The end of Bush. The end of Cheney. The end of our neocon nightmares. The end of trying to shop our way out of recession, murder our way out of fear and tax-cut our way out of inequality. Can you believe it? No more borrow-and-spend,…
Countdown to E-Day: Precipice of change
Urbana, Ill. — I suppose it is appropriate that I complete the last Message to the People before Election 2008 from a hotel room in Illinois. Recent speaking engagements have led me through Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama — all places with too much blood in the soil. Now, here I am in the home state…
Consider before voting
If you’re like me and a record number of our fellow Americans, you will be taking an hour or so out of your busy Tuesday schedule Nov. 4 to exercise your fundamental right to participate in a free, fair and open election (we hope). As you are no doubt aware, this is a historic election…
B-Sides
Zena’s last call Zena’s is closing. In an e-mail sent to yours truly from Stephen Davis of Bluestown, the Main Street club known for its blues concerts, Zena’s will throw a final show on Nov. 29. For clubs, a bleak market is a reality these days. Studio King’s As Joe Manning explained at their Headliners…
What a Week
World-classness: +7 +5Conspiracy to commit money laundering, mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud Uncle Sam are among the charges former University of Louisville Dean Robert Felner faces after a grand jury indicted him last week. The feds say Felner and a friend embezzled $576,000 from U of L (although they tried to pocket more), and…
Staffpicks
Wednesday, Oct. 29 ‘Death, Dissection and Disaster’ in Louisville According to the 1985 cult horror film “Return of the Living Dead,” Louisville was ground zero for a night of toxic chemical death and reanimated corpses hungry for brains, all culminating in a 5:01 a.m. nuclear strike from the U.S. military to wipe out our bluegrassed…
Election night shenanigans
If incessant nitpicking and network blatherskite are ruining your election night, this lineup might ease your bleary red, white and blue eyes: Murder By Death, J. Roddy Walston & The Business and William Elliott Whitmore play Uncle Pleasants (2126 S. Preston St., 634-4147) Election Night. Whitmore’s new album on Anti drops next year, and you…
Hoops dreams
BELKNAP CAMPUS — On assignment, the intrepid reporter is driving through the red and black quagmire U of L students maneuver daily. Who knows why, but he asks himself — as the youngest at the Seder table asks during the Jewish observance of Passover — Why is this day different from all other days? Simple…
The Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS: FUTURAMA: BENDER’S GAME 2008; $29.95 UR For those keeping score, this is the third full-length “Futurama” movie. With the universe running short of spaceship fuel, the Planet Express crew (spoofing “Lord of the Rings”) visits the last remaining Dark-Matter mine, only to find a Dungeons-and-Dragons-like land — where everyone looks like…
New Bootsie
Laura Patterson, aka Bootsie Anne, calls clothing her primary passion, but is as creative a singer and ukulele player as you’ll find around here. It’s a craft she doesn’t take lightly, and her show with Ben Sollee Saturday at The 930 Listening Room (930 Mary St., 635-2554) will be the first time she’s played out…
Aftertastes
CARLY RAE’S, 103 W. Oak St., 365-1003. With the arrival of Chef David Clancy (of the late Bistro New Albany), Carly Rae’s is emerging as a strong contender to break the spell of the doomed location at the corner of First and Oak streets in Old Louisville. The attractive and fair-priced casual bistro offers a…
RIP Mouse & Elephant
It is my sad duty to inform Kentuckiana that the Mouse & Elephant has closed. It is now a former pub, and that’s too bad. Not only that, but the brewery that produced the pub’s only draft beer isn’t even located in Copenhagen anymore. This disclosure may not resonate with those who haven’t been to…
Confidence man
Thursday, Oct. 30 With the voluminous accolades showered on The Hold Steady and their latest album, Stay Positive, it’s surprising to hear Craig Finn’s circumspect attitude. This is the guy who concocts pimps and pushers out of thin air, set to an incendiary backdrop of brawling drums, anthemic piano lines and caterwauling guitar hooks that’s…
Locavore Lore: Seasonal arugula is more herblike than salad
Arugula. Is there any other vegetable whose name rolls so luxuriously and seductively off the tongue? For me, the name perfectly captures the depth and complexity of this delicious yet surprisingly underappreciated salad green — invoking its nutty, spicy, buttery flavor as well as the aesthetic of autumn, with the crisp cool air and changing…
To hell with Winehouse, Palin and journalism
Comedian Lisa Lampanelli can’t hide her anger. A frequent guest on Howard Stern’s Sirius radio show and a regular on Comedy Central (her stand-up specials include “Take it Like a Man” and “Dirty Girl”; you may have seen her on the Flavor Flav roast), the self-touted “Queen of Mean” is stopping in town this weekend…
Splatters
An artists’ breakfast is open to all visual artists to network — every Thursday at 9 a.m. at The Café, 712 Brent St. Ceramicist Amy Potter has moved her studio to 741 E. Chestnut St. Creative Diversity Art Studio’s (107 S. Ewing Ave., www.creativediversity.org) Annual Chili Supper and Benefit will be held during the Oct.…
Trick or treat?
Each Halloween, I find I’m better at handling little monsters than I was the year before. That’s why last year I was more than ready for the first kid who showed up on our doorstep. Dressed in dime-store wings and a tutu sloppily pulled over a tracksuit, she grabbed at my basket of candy the…
The Erin Brockovich of Appalachia
Every important cause needs a champion. One of Kentucky’s anti-mountaintop removal/coal mining “dragon slayers” is Berea activist Teri Blanton. “Some people have called me the Erin Brockovich of the social justice movement within the Appalachian coalfields,” she says on her website. “I believe that we have a future beyond fossil fuels. I believe that people…
Dissection: Recorder-gate 2008
Here is how the latest narrative in Sen. Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign goes: A tracker for the National Republican Senatorial Committee stashes a digital audio recorder on Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford’s podium before a debate in the western Kentucky city of Gilbertsville last Thursday, apparently hoping to catch Lunsford saying something other than that which…
Skeletal Lamping
Skeletal Lamping expands on Of Montreal’s more recent electro-heavy sound, similar to last year’s monumental release, Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? “Nonpareil of Favor” channels the vibe of the album. Starting with a cheerful harpsichord melody over a frantic drumbeat, the track veers off into an experimental rock jam halfway through, which plays out…
Dark Developments
Vic Chesnutt and Elf Power? What is this? Some experiment putting “old” in a room with “new”? The truth is that Chesnutt is no stranger to collaborations. He’s recorded whole albums with Widespread Panic and Lambchop, so this record is another example of Athens artists working together. Naturally, Chesnutt, the central singer and, judging from…
SM Backwards
This review has been a real bitch for me to write for one reason: How do you discuss two discs of unabashed retro-shoegaze without comparing the band to My Bloody Valentine? It’s lush, atmospheric, noisy pop-indie-rock. I don’t think I really need to draw you a picture. If I did, it probably wouldn’t be the…
Car Alarm
From the opening track, you can tell The Sea and Cake have been playing together a long time. Everything about their sound, from the airy guitar melodies to the gentle interplay between the bass and percussion, suggests a smoothness more reminiscent of a jazz ensemble than a rock band. The title track is a good…
Los Angeles
Flying Lotus is the nom de plume of Steven Ellison, a name you don’t know, although you know his music. He’s been moonlighting for years as one of the beatmakers behind Adult Swim’s commercial interludes. He is also the nephew of a Mr. and Mrs. Coltrane you may be familiar with. Los Angeles is his…
Young. Poor. Black. Artistic.
Lee loves hip-hop. It’s apparent in every syllable of his debut album. Unfortunately, like Steinbeck’s Lennie, love for a thing doesn’t necessarily translate to a need to do that very thing. I’m a firm believer in the idea that one of the downfalls of hip-hop is that it seems nearly every fan of hip-hop wants…
God-Mart
St. Stephen Baptist Church — Kentucky’s largest African-American congregation — plans to build a new $13 million, 3,400-seat sanctuary by mid-2010. Scheduled to break ground next year, the project is yet another entrepreneurial triumph of the Rev. Kevin Cosby, pastor at St. Stephen for almost 30 years. Once called “master pastor” in inner circles of…
