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Louisville Photo Biennial 2015
Welcome to the Louisville Photo Biennial 9.0. This long-running event has one focus: photography. But after that, it’s wide open, with different photographic techniques, subject matter and styles from regional, national and international artists being showcased. The Louisville Photo Biennial 2015 officially starts on Sept. 25 and goes through Nov. 7. A few shows are…
Visually Speaking: This week’s art news and events
[The above image is “Anonymous Bone Noise” by Jim Pearson at Galerie Hertz, part of the Louisville Photo Biennial.] Art news The Louisville Photo Biennial is from Sept. 25-Nov. 7 (louisvillephotobiennial.com). Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery, 815 W. Market St., is presenting its annual Pumpkin Blow. This blow-your-own-pumpkin event takes about 20 minutes and…
LEO Podcast #5: Chris Hartman
Director of the Fairness Campaign — an organization that works for LGBTQ equal rights — Chris Hartman swung by the LEO office to speak with Executive Editor Aaron Yarmuth about getting arrested for protesting at the Kentucky State Fair, Kim Davis and more. The LEO Podcast will be weekly, with a new interview released every…
5 things to do in Louisville this weekend
FRIDAY Yappy Hour Apocalypse Brew Works Free; 5 p.m. Head to Apocalypse Brew Works, where you’ll find live music, food trucks and some doggone good beers on tap, like Black Lab Black IPA, Black Hound Agave IPA, Chocolate Lab Milk Stout, Cute Puppy Pumpkin Ale, and Shia LaRuff. All the proceeds will go to the…
A Q&A with artist Shohei Katayama
[The above image is “Untitled” by Shohei Katayama.] Meet Shohei Katayama, one of Louisville’s talented young artists (shoheikatayama.com). The Japanese-American sculptor believes in giving back to the community, whether it is through art or by Asian culture education. You can find his work at the PYRO Gallery. LEO: Saying you make sculpture doesn’t seem to…
Savage Rose opens season with ‘Medea’
Savage Rose Theatre has spent years presenting Shakespeare, and other lesser known works from the classical canon, to Louisville audiences. Louisville has embraced the strange brew of the Bard, Jacobean tragedy, morality plays and early 20th century absurdism. But when company founder, and driving force, J. Barrett Cooper announced he had been offered a job…
The way it goes
In 2008, I wasn’t yet too well versed on how to handle myself at an industry gathering. If you read my LEO piece a few weeks ago about accidentally attending an AA meeting, you were able to get a picture of my naivety from that period. While that all happened a few years prior, I was…
By the numbers: Gubernatorial debate says a lot, shows little
The first showing of all three candidates for Kentucky’s highest hen house was an exercise in political consistency. The evening included a lot of policy talk, too much —but surprisingly little — Kim Davis, and the usual mud slinging between the two party candidates with Independent candidate Drew Curtis managing to avoid the mud while…
Louisville Photo Biennial Exhibitors
EXHIBITIONS Additional information on louisvillephotobiennial.com. 21C MUSEUM HOTEL • “Hybridity: The New Frontier” — Through February • “Art in Proof: Culture & Community” — Through April • “Albano Alonso: Self Portrait as Light” — Through Feb. 10 • “30 Years of Photographic Work: Linda Adele Goodine” — Through Feb. 15 849 GALLERY (KENTUCKY SCHOOL OF…
Credit where credit is due: Politics and the state teachers’ retirement fund
The potential impact of the state’s recent credit rating downgrade from “AA-” to “A+” is largely being ignored in the firestorm surrounding Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis’ intransigent refusal to issue wedding licenses because she disagrees with the recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. Given the distrction, it would be easy to think a drop in…
Best Coast loves the night: A Q&A with Bethany Cosentino
Best Coast, the band responsible for the garage-pop perfect “Boyfriend,” pushes for a less-filtered sound on this year’s “California Nights,” as Bethany Cosentino throws her voice upfront and Bobb Bruno increases the quantity of his guitar solos, turning their breezy, sun-soaked tunes more open-ended and free. With the release of their third album, Best Coast…
b-sides
Joan Shelley At the beginning of the month, Joan Shelley turned in her best record yet with “Over and Even,” where the stories are evocative, the music is minimalistic, but intense and her voice shines as the subtly powerful driving force. Shelley will be at The Bromhard Theater on Friday, Sept. 18. One third of…
Celebrating Germantown: The 9th annual Festival
For almost a decade now, Shotgun Fest has celebrated the Germantown spirit. What started off as a small community gathering has expanded into an all-day event featuring bands, food trucks and all sorts of family-friendly fun. Founded by friends and neighbors, Tracy Heightchew and Tandee Ogburn — along with the German-Paristown Neighborhood Association — the…
Plugged-in
WED Sept 16th 4th Street Live!: Lunchtime Live!; 11 a.m. 8Up: High Sounds with DJ Matt Anthony; 7:30 p.m. Bardstown, KY: Kentucky Bourbon Festival; 9 a.m. Baxters 942: Full Contact Karaoke; 10 p.m. Bearno’s (Bardstown): Petar Mandic; 7 p.m. Bistro 42: Kevin Cummings; 8:30 p.m. Brownies The Shed (Hurstbourne): Karaoke; 10 p.m. dREAMLAND: Jacob Wick;…
‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’ abounds with fast-paced, madcap antics
Anarchists and axe murderers. Cockroaches and octopi. When rafts of wisecracks about seemingly random ideas start flooding from a theater stage, it’s a pretty good bet that you’ve wandered into the zany world of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. During the ’30s, the pair collaborated on eight of the most sparkling works in the…
Yoko Molotov’s smutty art
Recently I came across a flyer on the Internet. It featured a clean, simply drawn piece of cartoon art, and proclaimed the impending release of “SMUT: 100 Filthy Drawings by Yoko Molotov.” The image on the flyer is of a sweet- faced young woman in a leather jacket winking at the viewer and smiling. You…
Comedian Mat Alano-Martin at Gallery K
Mat Alano-Martin has lived a life just interesting enough to be funny. Raised in a blue-collar, Midwestern family, he developed a love of punk rock at a young age. This led Mat to form several marginally successful bands on the underground scene, and he spent the following decade on the road. Eventually, he gave up…
Opera honors David Roth’s legacy as it opens the season with ‘Macbeth’
This weekend the Kentucky Opera opens its 64th season with “Macbeth.” This new and engaging production comes at the same time as announcements about the future of the Opera, which is appointing new leadership from within, while still reeling from the tragic loss of General Director David Roth, who died unexpectedly in July. Newly appointed…
Video Tapeworm
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS HAMATORA THE ANIMATION 2014; $39.98-69.98; UR A butt-head friend of ours told us that this was about talking hamsters who save the world. Thanks a lot, dude. Actually, it’s a surprisingly lighthearted rodent-free anime series set in a world where some people have special powers, though no one seems to know…
I want to bring the heat at Thai Cafe, but the chef won’t let me
Where in the world do you find the globe’s most fiery-spicy cuisine? This seemed like a simple enough question when I dreamed it up amid a sudden craving for culinary fire the other day, but it’s hard to get a definitive answer. I have some notions of my own, based on many a chile-induced endorphin…
Investigating the Lay’s craze
Every weekday, I stop at Thornton’s on lower Brownsboro Road to get a Pepsi and a snack. A few weeks back, I noticed something strange in the impulse buy bin by the counter: Lay’s potato chips flavored like biscuits and gravy. The heck? I later learned that this is part of the ongoing Lay’s “Do…
‘Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross’
I don’t want to write a story about Kim Davis. I’ve tweeted enough and gritted my teeth at her bigotry one too many times in the past couple of weeks. But here I am, mentioning her name because what I do want to write means that I have to acknowledge her as a small part…
Contempt of clerk
When cameras captured Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis denying a marriage license to a gay couple “under God’s authority” — in defiance of the Supreme Court of the United States of America — fans of horror writer Stephen King had a nagging sense of déjà vu. We’d seen that movie before — a quarter century…
Why UofL is becoming a bad place to work
It has been a disappointing summer for the University of Louisville. Much attention has been paid to the compensation packages of President James Ramsey and former Provost Shirley Willihnganz. Disgracefully, Governor Steve Beshear saw fit to leave the school’s Board of Trustees without African-American representation for the first time in 45 years. Little was said…
Feeding the fantasy
Sitting on the back patio of a sports bar this past Sunday with family, friends, grill-cooked wings and cheese sticks, we celebrated the kickoff of a new NFL season. There was the usual screaming and swearing, high-fiving and cheering. I even took a picture of a young man about 8 years old leaning against the…
Your Voice
On “Kim Davis and ‘sloppy Joes’” Thomas Jefferson said, “An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.” Kim Davis was put in jail because she does not understand or accept the very founding principles that permit her to freely exercise her Christian beliefs. —Hank Sutton, Sept. 13 On “Matinee…
