‘Pride and Prejudice’ perfect for girls’ night out
(Actors Theatre of Louisville presents Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Adapted for the stage and directed by Jon Jory. Continues through Nov. 2 in the Pamela Brown Auditorium. For tickets, call 584-1205 or visit www.actorstheatre.org.) It is a truth universally acknowledged but seldom voiced — that the man who woos a woman after wearing her…
Staffpicks
THURSDAY, OCT. 9 Wovenhand If evolving, tribal dirges excite you, David Eugene Edwards’ project Wovenhand will have you running to the nearest drum circle. Edwards, from Elktooth, Colo., started Wovenhand while Horsepower was on sabbatical, and although he shares the same label, Sounds Familyre, with Sufjan Stevens, Half-Handed Cloud and Danielson, Edwards’ milieu is not…
Culture shock
A Somali man accused of slashing the throats of his four children and attempting to murder his wife might seem crazy, but an expert for the prosecution says that’s just because his culture is misunderstood. “There is a tendency in a psychological setting to pathologize,” Dr. Larry Curl, a licensed clinical psychologist, testified Monday in…
Is a union due?
Nurses at Louisville’s Audubon Hospital have spent nearly two decades trying to unionize, saying the move would help them deliver better patient care. Pro-union nurses claim hospital owners — first Columbia/HCA Healthcare, now Norton Healthcare — have stymied their efforts, breaking labor laws along the way. They say hospital managers have used fear tactics to…
WHAT A WEEK
+7 Maybe it’s outrage over an ongoing war, fear about the failing economy or that hockey MILF Sarah Palin. Whatever the reason, a record number of Kentuckians registered to vote this year. As of mid-September, 2.9 million voters had registered in the commonwealth. If you haven’t bothered registering to cast your ballot by now, it’s…
Civic unrest
Ken Herndon is an energetic civic servant who has run in a handful of races for public office since 2002. But now it seems some powerful members of Metro government — including the office of Mayor Jerry Abramson — are trying to stifle the perennial candidate’s political ambitions. Since Herndon narrowly lost a Metro Council…
Easy Money
Sitting at a boardroom table littered with three-ring binders, spreadsheets and legal pads, Jim Host leans forward to shake hands without rising from his seat. It’s been a month since the Louisville Arena Authority closed on a $349 million bond deal to finance a new arena slated to open on the waterfront in November 2010,…
619 & 621 E. Burnett Ave., Louisville
These two boarded-up houses, at 619 and 621 E. Burnett Ave., have been sitting vacant and in disrepair for many months, and there are no noticeable renovations under way. Epic Homes LLC purchased the property at 619 in the spring of 2007 for $52,500. In February 2008, Leon Joyce bought the crumbling residence next door…
Peak Summit; dear Watson
Saturday, Oct. 11 This year’s Peak Summit Groove and Dance Festival features a jam-packed day of music and happenings, just how founder Myron Koch planned it. “(The Festival) keeps getting bigger and bigger as (Louisville) has grown … structurally this is the biggest the festival has ever been,” he says. “I’ve toyed around with the…
Prince and his revolution
Prince Terrence • Friday, Oct. 10: The Pink Door, 2222 Dundee Road, 413-5204. $5; 11 p.m. • Saturday, Oct. 11: Fuzion, 1335 Story Ave., 588-8861. 18+ $10/21+ $5; 10 p.m. For Terry Campbell, aka Prince Terrence, it pays to put out. After relocating to New York — a move paid for by Island Records —…
Cancer. Achilles. For Pinback, at least there’s Rock Band
Rob Crow is walking through Athens, Ga., with a box of robots. His band, Pinback, a collaboration between Crow and Armistead Burwell Smith IV (Zach), have already endured a grueling start to their fall tour, which stops Friday at Headliners with sBACH. With a box of robots in his hands, Crow talks touring, “Rock Band”…
MUSIC & OTHER EPHEMERA
Squeeze me Squeeze-bot have a race of their own going on this election year, and it’s for a slot that, if enough votes come in, could put them in great company. The band has entered the Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival contest, but need votes to earn a spot at the event, which will feature…
Inbox — Oct. 8, 2008
CORRECTIONS The Sept. 17 cover story about the Louisville Orchestra (“Performance enhancement”) reported that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra had recently declared bankruptcy. They have never declared bankruptcy, although they have faced financial woes in the recent past. Also, due to an editing error in our Oct. 1 edition, the song “Art’s Groove” was printed as…
The Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL 2008; $29.95-$39.95, PG-13 We traveled to Universal Studios Florida to see the first midnight showing of this, reveling along with Indy’s most rabid fans — including a score of the park’s Indy-portrayers, each one a screaming, wild-eyed adventure nut. Good crowd, disappointing…
The wild ambition of the Derby City Film Fest
For the Derby City Film Festival, the key word is ambition. Although only in its first year, it’s being housed in the luxurious Memorial Auditorium (with its 1,700 seats). It spans five days, with dozens of shorts and features from all over the planet. And bizarrely, to coincide with a similarly themed documentary, it will…
Candidate
I arrive at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington around 11:30 a.m. to a near-empty tent. It is Sept. 20, a warm, sunny Saturday morning, the kind where you get burned without realizing it because the temperature isn’t quite as insane as the U.V. rays. I’ve beaten the Secret Service here by an hour, which…
Lunch and antiques, not necessarily in that order
Ladies who lunch and go antique shopping (and men who do the same) have an unprecedented wealth of options these days, as a series of moves and changes has expanded the antique mall circuit from one popular eatery to three. Let’s summarize: When the Louisville Antique Mall on Goss Avenue announced plans last year to…
AfterTastes
CAFFE PERUSA, 9200 Taylorsville Rd., 495-5070. The little-known Continental restaurant tucked away in a strip mall stands out with its succulent food well worth the cost. The variety of choices make it difficult to decide on just one entrée, but the “Study in Oysters” appetizer is a good start. (Reviewed 7/17/08; Rating: 91) ASAHI JAPANESE…
Desperation is the mother of necessity
The soundbites from the two situations have been nearly identical: “It is a lot of money, but we have to spend it.” “We don’t have an option.” Uh huh. When politicians say that taxpayers have to spend an outrageous sum of money, their justification is usually pretty outrageous too. First case in point: the U.S.…
Talk of Spring EP
Goddammit. I wish “emo” would have had the sense to die a dignified death sometime around the late-’90s. Instead, we’re forced to suffer through teenage rehashes of bad Sweet Valley High storylines, put to song and sung in whiny-ass, nasally voices until we want to kick the shit out of whatever electronic box is producing…
Do The Zombie
OK Zombie opens Do the Zombie with “Like You,” a song that kicks off amid a wonderfully infectious riff that rings of vintage, lo-fi garage rock. But just as suddenly as you get settled in, waiting for the heavy swell — the song and the album into an unfocused mishmash. From this point on, the…
Meets the Morning
With his plaintive vocals and coffeehouse-friendly acoustic backdrops, it’d be tempting to think of Ben Purdom as just another earnest Louisville singer-songwriter. And while the sleepy folk of Meets the Morning occasionally gives credence to this assumption, the record manages to incorporate enough detours to stand out from the pack. Unlike so many similar troubadours,…
From the Belly of the Beast
Two years beyond their major-label debut, the VilleBillies return to independence with From the Belly of the Beast. Any worries that this would bring a lower production quality are unfounded. If anything, Beast is more produced than its predecessor. Fans of their single “Rolling Stone” will be happy to hear the rock elements have been…
The Concorde Fallacy
You can stick this quotation on The Muckraker’s onesheet: The Concorde Fallacy is disarming, alluring, infectious. More than 10 years after the band’s formation, Rob Carpenter, Brian Meurer, David Kidd and Micha Gerdis have continued to serve up a delicious mix of pop, guided by Carpenter’s earnest vocals and clever instrumentation. It’s easy on an…
Bar Belle vs. Mr. Mug Shots
The New Albanian Brewing Co. is hosting the Fringe Fest this weekend (Oct. 9-11) at the new Bank Street Brewhouse in New Albany. Mr. Mug Shots Roger Baylor agreed to answer a few questions. Bar Belle: So is the Fringe Fest the first big event for the Bank Street Brewhouse? Roger Baylor: Yes, and it…
Another ghost bike
The ghost bike you may have noticed chained to a tree on Bardstown Road between Baxter and Grinstead is for Jen Futrell. She was 29 years old when, riding in the brightness of a pleasant mid-afternoon last Tuesday, she was struck by a van that, by early accounts, was attempting to pass a TARC bus.…
A boy and his dog
When discussing criticism among bewilderingly interested acquaintances and passersby, I like to make an example of the (imaginary) movie critic whose top 10 includes “Benji,” “Lassie Come Home,” “Air Bud,” “Old Yeller” and “The Mask” (which features a delightfully twisted sequence where Jim Carrey’s cute little fox terrier sticks his face into the titular artifact…
Dirty deeds?
In December 2004, several MSD employees were laid off after raising concerns about alleged political patronage. This week their whistleblower lawsuit is going to trial, and the outcome could answer this question: Is governmental ethics an oxymoron? This is a story about dirt. In a small sense, it is about the proper and improper moving…
