An interview with Dan Bern in advance of his performance at Headliners Music Hall (Oct. 10, 2006)
LEO: When you’re working on a new album, where do songs come from? How do they come about? Do you have some vision for them or do you just accept them when they arrive and then decide what to do with them?DB: Mostly the latter. They are always driven by something, some notion, some idea.…
Why we love the Stones
Here’s something funny. Tony Bennett comes to the Kentucky Center and he’s lauded as the classic entertainer that he is. B.B. King comes to the Palace and he’s the man. Maybe by the time the Rolling Stones hit their eighth decade, if it should come to pass, people will stop making fun of them. Not…
Culture Maven: Dear John: Fight fire with fire
Bill Clinton’s back in the spotlight. For Democrats that’s a good thing. Al Gore and Barack Obama notwithstanding, the former president remains the best and brightest.Oh, how he rankles those Republicans. These days Chris Wallace is none too fond of him either. Only recently has it come clear, to me anyway, why the former president…
On Media: News judgment or censorship?
A mysterious package was delivered to The Courier-Journal last week. Inside were lurid contents — a CD with 232 pictures of scantily clad women, supposedly members of the Kentucky National Guard unit that recently shipped out to Iraq. The C-J ran a front-page story on the photos, with comments from the appropriate military brass condemning…
Bluegrass Politics: Say what?
With less than five weeks until the election, it’s that time when politicians will make whatever comments they feel will assist their electoral efforts, and not necessarily those they intend to live up to.So, over the past few days, I sifted through hundreds of old posts on my BluegrassReport.org blog, pulling out those quotable gems…
Plain Brown Rapper: Do you remember how to cry?
If I live to be 100, I’ll never forget that London cabbie, that summer asphalt cruise through Hyde Park, not long after 9-11. “Me son and me, he’s a cabbie too, sir, yes he is, well we pulled up window to window and we cried, we did, when The Mother Queen’s band itself struck up…
City Strobe
Anything for a dollarIn a letter sent to supporters three weeks ago, U.S. Rep. Anne Northup asked for financial contributions to her campaign, saying she was behind in fundraising because of the break she took in campaigning following the death of her son Joshua, who died in July of an undiagnosed heart ailment. She referred…
Making it legal: Mayor’s Committee on Public Art creates legit venue for graffiti art
Some of the players: involved with the new graffiti wall on East Market Street. Standing, from left to right, Jo Anne Triplett and Bob Markert, members of the Mayor’s Committee on Public Art, and Cynthia Knapek from Operation Brightside. In front, artists Jeral Tidwell and Se “We all need a place for Some of the…
Rumor & Innuendo
Saints are marching in. Like me, you probably got a little tired of all the hype about New Orleans during the football game Monday a week ago. Well, I’m advised by close friends in the Crescent City that the game indeed meant all that and more to the beleaguered town. According to one, “We woke…
On The Scuzz of Campaign Politics: Is Anne Northup a big fat liar? (New attack ads, Web site, more of the same misdirection)
Note: The Stink Eye thinks context is important, especially during political campaigns, many of which tend to thrive on the lack of it. So for the next five issues, we’ll be here to offer some context and analysis to the squabbling that will no doubt pollute your eyes, ears and minds until Nov. 7. If…
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. Thank…
What if? IdeaFestival gets a new home in Louisville. What do you have in your attic?
photo by matt hilton Couldn’t care less what Tom Cruise’s baby looks like, or even that Cruise and whosits had a baby? Would you pay (as I would) for a video of the Paris Hilton exploding with its namesake inside? Like to see Mel Gibson nail himself to a cross and then pogo into the…
Video Tapeworm: Releases through Tuesday, Oct. 10
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKSHOLLYWOOD’S LEGENDS OF HORROR COLLECTION2006; DVD $39.95, URFrankly, most of the “horror collections” we run across are complete crap, but not this one! Three double-feature discs of “Doctor X/The Return of Dr. X” with Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray, followed by Humphrey Bogart with Pepe LePew hair; “Mark of the Vampire/The Mask…
‘Jimmy and Judy’ trumps ‘Romeo and Juliet’: Kentuckian Jon Schroder&
Directors Jon Schroder and Randall Rubin: discuss a scene on the set of “Jimmy and Judy.†“Jimmy and Judy” has been billed as a “twisted, f’d up teenage love story.” Believe it or not, that’s an understatement. The movie follows a couple of misunderstood teens as their fiery relationship boils over into an orgy of…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events ••Ghost Hunters at Nunnlea Historic Home — Keith Age, president of Ghost Hunters Society, conducts look at haunted Nunnlea House, Oct. 5, 7pm, 1940 Hurstbourne Pkwy., free, 491-7343 or www.nunnlea.com.Fashion Rocks — 3rd Annual fashion presentation at Dillards, Oct 5, 6:30pm, 5000 Shelbyville Rd, www.dillards.com.Oktoberfest — Celebration of Louisville’s rich German Heritage, Oct…
Community Listings
Special Events ••Wine Tasting — supports Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s teams in training: Broadway Run Winery, music by Another Colour, 10 wine samples & appetizers, $25-$30, Oct 5, 6:30-10pm, 744-4198.••Saturday Academy — by UofL College of Arts & Sciences, “Catch Up before you get Caught Up” for ninth graders, speaker Dr. Blaine Hudson: Muhammad Ali…
Theater Review: ‘Women Speak: Iraq’ gives a story to many seldom-heard voices
Shannon Woolley plays all 12 roles in Looking for Lilith’s “Women Speak: Iraq.†The ink was still wet on the Senate’s version of the Military Commission Bill as Looking for Lilith Theatre Company premiered its original work, “Women Speak: Iraq,” last Thursday at the Rudyard Kipling. Ironically, this unconstitutional legislation could some day be used…
Splatters: ART NEWS BITS
David Kern, formerly the executive director of the New Center for Contemporary Art at 742 E. Market St., is now executive director of the Historic Homes Foundation, which oversees Whitehall, Farmington and the Thomas Edison House. Co-founder Jay Jordan will continue operating the New Center. The Speed Art Museum recently announced the publication of “Presence,”…
Photography as social activism  do you care? Photojournalist James Nachtwey dares to look at the hard truth
“Mother attending a dying son†by James Nachtwey This exhibition presents lessons in current events and geography. Wars, bombings, mutilation — you can sum it up as man’s inhumanity to man. It’s possible to learn something about the world’s monstrous acts, yet be instantly grateful to be a spectator from a safe distance. Someone has…
The Bar Belle: Sidecars make for fast getaways
Sometimes beer just doesn’t cut it. It’s heavy. Bloating. High in calories, low in alcohol. But I don’t care for mixed drinks. Bourbon & Diet every now and then, sure. I’ve just never learned how to judge my tolerance on mixed drinks only. One minute I’m fine, the next I’m dancing with strangers. That is,…
Aftertastes: RECENTLY REVIEWED IN LEO
TOAST ON MARKET, 736 E. Market St., 569-4099. Adds a tongue-in-cheek bistro spin to traditional breakfast and lunch diner fare. Located in the old Shel-Mar theater, offering plenty of seating. (Reviewed 8/16; Rating: N/R) BENEDICT’S GARDEN CAFÉ, 1519 Baxter Ave., 479-7777. Tasty new café that specializes in vegan and vegetarian cuisine with an extensive menu…
Leo’s Eat ‘N’ Blog: Fast food follies
How does A&W get those little dogs to roll around in corn? The life of a food critic is not all white tablecloths and fawning service and foie gras for breakfast. Take it from me, folks, sometimes I do these things so you won’t have to. Occasionally it becomes necessary to follow a food trend…
FarmAid comes of (legal) age in Jersey
Famous citizen-activist-artists: Willie Nelson and Neil Young want to save you from spinach, and worse. Photo by T.E. Lyons Some publicity just can’t be bought. This year’s Farm Aid concert should have given off at least a faint whiff of anachronism, as the 21st annual event was held in New Jersey (at an amphitheater with…
There will be a light: Blind Boys of Alabama grace the Brown
Blind Boys of Alabama Amazement is the most common reaction from audiences upon witnessing a Blind Boys of Alabama performance. This is in part because of the incredible talent and emotion that is let loose whenever they take the stage. But also, the reaction deals with the reality, as their moniker suggests, that everybody in…
Open mic is about more than selling beer
Billy Bradford, Samuel Bell and Seth Freeman play at a recent “8 Until Late.†Trying to make oneself known as a new musician is a difficult task. Shows are hard enough to arrange for established musicians and nearly impossible for the unknown. Eventually, if a new performer runs out of other options, he may find…
When you can’t help but look: Dan Bern takes it all in stride on Breathe
Dan Bern: has been living in the New Mexico desert. He’s back on the road now supporting his new full-length, Breathe. Photo by Judd Irish Bradley MEMOFrom: The LEO Music DeskTo: The Big Cheese It has come to our attention that you are writing yet another piece on Dan Bern*. What can we say —…
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. 895-3650 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 4 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 T.K.’s Pub Union…
Staff Picks
Thursday, Oct. 5Yerba Buena Quite possibly the best musical party taking to concert stages these days, Yerba Buena is coming to town as part of the Fifth Third Bank World Rhythms series. As is so often the case in our world, the sound’s stylistic pedigree comes from all over (Cuban, traditional African, hip hop) but…
