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Ashley Smith and Donovan Miles dated for five years, but the two began to grow apart after the birth of their now 7-year-old son. Smith, 23, says the stress of being teenage parents was exacerbated by the fact that the 26-year-old Miles had a daughter with another woman and went to prison for nine months…
Bourbon and gourmet MAN food!
Danny Wimmer created the LOUDER THAN LIFE festival “to highlight and celebrate” Louisville, which he proclaims to be “the culinary capital of bourbon country.” The weekend festival will take place October 4 -5 and includes camping, 30 bands (including Kid Rock, Judas Priest, Korn Five Finger Death Punch, Limp Bizkit, Stone Temple Pilots and Papa…
LouVino? LOUVINO? What? I can’t heeeaaarrr you!
We stepped into the high-ceilinged room that had housed De La Torre’s for so many years. It looks … different. And very cool. There’s wood all around, and glass and some brass, too, and a bar so long it goes back to there, backed by an awe-inspiring wall of wines housed in high-tech argon gas…
Plugged In (Sept. 10 – Sept. 16)
WED Sep 10th Bistro 42 – Karaoke; 9 p.m. Diamond Pub & Billiards (Highlands) – Open Mic on the Deck; 8 p.m. Diamond Pub & Billiards (St Matthews) – Short Bus; 10 p.m. Dreamland – Potty Mouth, Opposable Thumbs, Aye Nako; 7 p.m., $10 Gerstles – Kimmet & Doug The Hideaway Saloon – The Pranksters;…
Definitely Now
The blues, especially as it intersects with rock music, is a well-mined vein. How do you get something fresh out of a genre so well tread? Liam Bailey seems intent on answering this on “Definitely Now,” his newest record. I can’t say that he necessarily breathes fresh air into the genre, although the press packet…
Canto Secondo
The newest in a long line of excellent, if eccentric, projects by legendary bassist Mike Watt, Il Sogno Del Marinaio defies any easy characterization. It should go without saying, given Watt’s involvement, that the level of musicianship here is unparalleled. For example, in lesser hands the track “Skinny Cat” would come off as instrumental detritus,…
So It Is With Us
There is an AM radio gentleness, or maybe tameness, that imbues “So It Is With Us,” the fifth release from Portland, Ore., indie folk band Horse Feathers. For better or worse, Horse Feathers plays like James Taylor on Quaaludes, at least if Taylor listened to Pure Prairie League to refine his light Americana with a…
Tut Tut
Living out of town for a bit about a decade now gone, I had an objective, sociological comparison between my fair city and anywhere else. Denver, with its usually pleasant weather, produced usually pleasant music. Louisville, with its high humidity, had an unusually moody and often agro musical output, an attribute I widely ascribed to…
Singer and guitarist Mike Cooley finds his songwriting groove
The last time the Drive-By Truckers went into the studio to record new music – a session that yielded two albums, 2010’s “The Big To-Do” and 2011’s “Go-Go Boots” – singer/guitarist Mike Cooley was something of a bystander when it came to the songwriting. He may have been listed alongside the other band members as…
Staffpicks
1. Wednesday, Sept. 10 The Black Keys with Cage the Elephant Yum Center 1 Arena Plaza • 690-9000 kfcyumcenter.com $33+: 7 p.m. When I first saw The Black Keys, it was two guys, one drum and one very loud guitar. I didn’t know two people could make such amazing and wonderful noise. Times have sure…
34 things to freak out about immediately
The physical world we think we see doesn’t actually exist but instead is created by our brains on the fly. You are starting to say more and more things your parents once said. Most Americans still expect capitalism to start working any day now. Professional tennis player CiCi Bellis, who won a first-round match at…
Second Chances Need Not Apply
To the domestic abuse victim and wife of Ray Rice — running back for the Baltimore Ravens and wife abuser — I apologize for writing this column. In a comment released on an Instagram post, she says in part, “No one knows the pain that the media & unwanted options(sic) from the public has caused…
Inbox – September 10, 2014
LEO Weekly welcomes letters that are brief (350 words max) and thoughtful. Ad hominem attacks will be ignored, and we need your name and a daytime phone number. Send snail mail to Inbox, 301 E. Main St., Suite 201, Louisville, Ky. 40202. Fax to 895-9779 or email to leo@leoweekly.com. We may edit for length, grammar and…
Video Tapeworm
This Week’s Twin Peeks GODZILLA 2014; $18.98-29.98; PG-13 You have to give this 1,278th reboot of Toho’s signature franchise credit: They did it right! Despite all the massive set pieces, a new Big G – 10 times the size of any previous monster – and all the groundbreaking (snigger) digital work, it is in every…
THEATER: Bingham Signature Shakespeare at its witty, rambunctious best
Four and a half centuries after he was born, Shakespeare still captivates directors, actors, readers and audiences. We love his plays, whether staged traditionally or in radical updates – like the 1995 film of “Richard III” where the king’s horse becomes a Jeep or the excellent 2012 Actors Theatre of Louisville production of “Romeo and…
ART: ‘Preaching to the Converted’ by Bill Pusztai
I am not a Roman Catholic but I have friends who are. Through them, I’ve been exposed to bathtub Marys, framed colorized reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” and rosary beads made from a variety of materials. Being an outsider let me see the rituals from a historical, not faith-based, point of view. Bill…
