CENSORED!: Ten big stories the nation’s major news media refused to cover last year
[img_assist|nid=2597|title=Carl Jensen,|desc=who started Project Censored, laments the media’s fascination with junk food news. PHOTO BY RORY MCNAMARA/SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN|link=|align=left|width=200|height=144]Last month, two news stories broke the same day, one meaty, one junky. In Detroit, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that the Bush administration’s warrantless National Security Agency surveillance program was unconstitutional and must…
Cease and desist: LMPD should stop using Tasers till more is known
Keep your Tasers in your holsters, officers. That is the message Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert White needs to deliver to his force following the death of Larry Noles, the unarmed black man who was killed after being shocked by an officer last week.White has promised to re-evaluate his department’s use of stun guns if…
City Strobe
It’s the guzzling, stupidFord Motor Company hired a new president and chief executive officer to try to help the struggling automaker figure out why oh why oh why it’s losing money at the rate of about $3 billion per year. The company hired Alan Mulally, an expert from another polluting, fuel-guzzling, dangerous, totally screwed industry:…
Rumor & Innuendo
Bulking up in the Bluegrass.Apparently new UK hoops strength coach Scott Holsopple is taking the tough guy approach. The former Penn State boxer allows no cell phones — nay, talking of any type — during workouts. Brooksie begone. Hear me now and believe me later. This is Rich Brooks’ last season in Lexington. I’m told…
Bluegrass Politics: Five years later
New York, NY (September 11) — I was in a Midtown Manhattan hotel on the morning of Sept. 11 when I turned on my television. My stomach dropped at the sight of an airplane smashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center. Unlike New Yorkers who experienced the horrors of the 9/11 attacks…
The Flipped Lid: Nary A Bridesmaid
My upcoming wedding has become almost as controversial as my exotic dancing history, at least for some members of my family. For those of you (you romantic, hopeful, goofball lovers, you) who have gone through organizing and participating in a wedding, you may understand my growing sentiments about the occasion. And how others view it.…
Guest Commentary: God intersects with First and Broadway
Thomas Merton, the famous author and monk, had a revelation of God at Fourth and Walnut in Louisville, so I shouldn’t be surprised to have a similar experience of God a few blocks away at First and Broadway.The afternoon sun beat down on the group of 75 people huddled around the portable cross on a…
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.Correction• Four…
Aftertastes
QUEEN OF SHEBA ETHIOPIAN, 3315 Bardstown Road, 459-6301, www.queenofshebalouisville.com. Expansive Ethiopian lunch buffet ($6.49, Sunday-Friday), featuring the finest of the African country’s hot and cold dishes, is the highlight. (Reviewed 7/26; Rating: N/R) RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS & SPIRITS, Brownsboro Crossing, 339-8616, www.redrobin.com. The buzz surrounding this corporate restaurant chain is warranted. More than two…
Video TapeWorm: Releases through Tuesday, Sept. 19
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKSELVIRA’S MOVIE MACABRE2006; DVD $9.95 singles/$14.95 doubles, ROh, for the days of the TV horror-host! From Cassandra “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark” Peterson’s collection of late-night super-schlocky, grade-Z features — and we’re not talking about her now-sagging décolletage — we find “Dracula’s Great Love” with Paul Naschy, “Doomsday Machine,” “Werewolf of Washington,”…
Arts & Entertainment
Special Events Little Colonel Players — 50-Year Anniversary Open House, Sept 15, Gala Event Sept 16, $25, www.littlecolonel.org, 241-1137.Keep Louisville Gonzo — evening of Gonzo film, music, & poetry, Sept 15, 7-9pm, $7, Rudyard Kipling, 422 W. Oak St., 636-1311.Squallis Puppeteers — Performances of “A Work In Progress” Sept 15, 7pm & Sept 16 1…
Community Listings
Special Events Career Fair — Archdiocese of Louisville’s Office of Multicultural Ministry, Sept 13, 12pm-3pm, 3146 W Broadway, 776-0262.Crescent Hill Branch Library — upcoming events: “Iran – a Fabled Past” lecture by Dr. Scott Levi, U of L Dept. of History, Sept. 13, 7pm, free, 2762 Frankfort Ave., 574-1793.••Kentucky Bourbon Festival — “Racing with the…
The Long Review: Pure Metal
Heavy metal is seen by its detractors as music for teenage white boys who don’t know any better and middle-aged white trash who should know better. Screw metal’s detractors; What do they know? The music is still kicking after all these years, and bands like Mastodon and High on Fire carry the tradition to new…
Club Directory
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.…
Karaoke Korral
WED SEPT 13 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
Friday, Sept. 15Keep Louisville Gonzo Take time now to see a heartfelt film about one of Louisville’s true geniuses at a place that remains (for now) one of Louisville’s finest watering holes. The Rudyard Kipling is hosting a showing of Sara Booth’s intriguing mini-documentary “The Road to Hunter.” The first doc made since the Good…
LEO’s Eat ’n’ Blog w/ LouisvilleHotBytes: Dining among the antiques
If you want to find a really good lunch in Louisville for a really good price, go shopp The Bluegrass Bistro: recently opened inside the Derby City Antique Mall in Buechel. ing for antiques. Here’s my theory: People who enjoy the hunt for serious antiques and who know how to distinguish the good stuff from…
Theater Review: Highland flings and Oklahoma hoedowns
Kristen Connelly, Nick Johnson, Rebecca Chaney and Victoria Hay: appear in Clarksville Little Theatre’s “Oklahoma!†photo courtesy of clarksville little theatre Music Theatre Louisville ends its season with “Brigadoon,” which takes place in 1947. The production is a treat for the eyes and ears — a pleasant evening in the park. The sound quality is…
Splatters: ART NEWS BITS
Earlier this month, the Chapman Friedman Gallery, formerly occupying both gallery spaces in 624 W. Main St., moved into the back gallery, with Pyro Gallery taking over the front gallery. Chapman Friedman will continue hosting invitational events at its Highlands location, and all artists will exhibit work at both places. Photographer Geoff Carr and assemblage…
Artists with disabilities showcase work at new StudioWorks gallery
“Untitledâ€: by Sally Hardman and Kim Epps Contemporary theories about historic visual artists are always intriguing. Two current ideas suggest that Michelangelo was mildly autistic and Vincent van Gogh may have been bipolar. These surmised illnesses certainly didn’t hurt them creatively, since we consider them to be two of the finest artists in history. And…
Funeral for a Friend: the Unsung Life of Gordon Graham
I Gordon Graham t was the fall of 1997 when Gordon Graham called the WFPK-FM studio to have one of his gigs placed on the radio station’s concert calendar. He’d introduced himself as Gordon, but I instantly remembered him as Gordie, an old high school crush. “Gordie?” I asked. “Gordie Graham from Ballard?” “Uh oh,”…
Music Preview: Have you met My Friend Heidi?
My Friend Heidi Hello, world. I’d like to introduce you to My Friend Heidi. This Saturday, Heidi Davis and her friend Joe Smallwood will release their debut EP, Red Sun Queen, which is intended to be the first of four releases this year. I talked to Davis and asked why, if My Friend Heidi has…
Music Preview: Remember, there’s no ‘in’ in Fire the Saddle
After speaking with some members of Fire the Saddle about their “final show,” I find it difficult to call it the end, or even a hiatus. Rumors of their demise have been greatly exaggerated. Louisville’s homegrown bluegrass/folk darlings will play Headliners this Saturday, capping off five years of fun for everyone involved, band and fans…
The Bar Belle
Crazy ’bout corn holeThe other night my friends and I stumbled upon the Frankfort Avenue Beer Depot, which was one of those places we kinda forgot existed. Even though I’ve walked right by it on the way to Patrick’s, the thought never occurred to stop in. Definitely my bad. Not only do they have a…
