Cover Story
Crazy and condemned
It was clear from the beginning Eugene Gall was guilty. It also was clear he was insane. Driving through a Cincinnati suburb on the morning of April 5, 1978, Gall — a paranoid schizophrenic with a criminal past — spotted a young girl walking alone through the tranquil neighborhood. The 12-year-old girl was on her…
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Democracy in St. Paul – While Republicans gestured inside, police stole the streets from the people
Photos by Sam Stoker The anti-capitalist bloc in Monday’s March on the RNC demonstration: More than 5,000 people marched to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul to protest the Republican National Convention. ST. PAUL, Minn. — The bright white light of flash bombs can be seen everywhere among the scattering crowd now. Loud explosions…
Staffpicks
Thursday, Sept. 4 KMAC’s gettin’ busy Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft is busy this time of year. Case in point — they have three exhibitions opening at the same time. Local treasure Julius Friedman gives us a double shot of his photographs and graphic designs with “Images and Ideas” (through Oct. 11) and the…
What a Week
-25 Four hours in the scorching heat and the only action Cards fans got was a safety? In what seemed like the most tedious sporting match-up in recent history (except for competitive fishing … and perhaps soccer), the University of Louisville managed to score only 2 points in its football season opener against the Cats…
Shelter from the storm
Louisville, now a regional hub for hurricane evacuees, is prepared this time Rows of military-green cots, hundreds of disaster kits and tables of medical supplies fill the hall inside the Kentucky Expo Center South Wing. Dozens of Red Cross volunteers are milling about and making last-minute preparations when they learn the first plane of evacuees…
A fog of more
A new report shows Louisville is still a big carbon emitter. Is anybody — including you — doing anything about it? Louisville’s greenhouse gas emissions have increased by almost 10 percent since 1990, though the city remains in range with similarly sized communities, according to a preliminary report released last week by the Partnership for…
ATL season opens with a closer
(Actors Theatre of Louisville presents David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Directed by Mark Masterson. Continues through Sept. 20 at the Pamela Brown Theater. For tickets, call 584-1205 or visit www.actorstheatre.org.) In clipped bursts of profane dialogue, David Mamet’s characters consider the big questions. What good are ethics in an unprincipled world? And what does it…
Politics – Meet Sarah Palin
The defining moment of Sarah Palin’s political career — at least up until Friday, Aug. 29 — took place while she didn’t even hold elected office and occupied a place largely outside the public eye. In 2004, two years after leaving the office of mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (a town of fewer than 10,000 souls),…
Change agent, class clown or criminal?
Former U of L dean accused of throwing spitballs and belittling colleagues, not to mention mishandling federal grants The University of Louisville posted a nationwide job search in 2003, looking to find a new dean to oversee the College of Education and Human Development. The man they found for the job: Robert Felner. Given Felner…
Execution Information
Inmates on Kentucky’s death row: 39 Year the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment: 1976 Inmates executed in Kentucky since death penalty was reinstated: 2 Harold McQueen: executed by electrocution in 1997 for killing a convenience store clerk during a robbery in Richmond Edward Lee Harper: executed by lethal injection in 1999 for shooting his…
Inbox — Sept. 3, 2008
SPINNING MADDER In the Aug. 27 Inbox letter “Spinning Mad,” Julianne M. Thomas told the story of how she opened her car door and hit a biker. I am that biker. A few things need to be made clear regarding this incident. This happened on Ash Street in Germantown, which is a narrow road only…
Video Tapeworm
Releases through Tuesday, Sept. 9 THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS BABY MAMA 2008; $29.95, PG-13 Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — two of SNL’s brightest lights of recent years — come together in this damn funny look at the path to modern-day motherhood. Fey is perfect as the successful career woman, too busy to be fertile,…
Music Reviews
Every Girl In The Shower Rude Weirdo (LOUISVILLE LIP) Rude Weirdo’s sound calls to mind the Golden Age of hardcore and indie rock, before these Siamese twins of vibrant, diverse genres became homogenized same-fests. We’re talking about an era of independent music that spawned both Dinosaur Jr. and Big Black. In this spirit, the Weirdos…
Where creativity is relative
Louisvillians-turned-Austinites Will and Lily Courtney form the harmonic crux of Brothers & Sisters, whose new record, Fortunately, sits firmly in indie-Americana. They visit Skull Alley Thursday for an all-ages show. LEO: So where is “Mason City”? Will Courtney: You know what, it was when we were on tour a couple of years ago. We were…
B-Sides – MUSIC & OTHER EPHEMERA – Anagramalicious
These United States play Thursday at The Rudyard Kipling (422 W. Oak St., 636-1311). We spoke with TUS’s Jesse Elliott. LEO: The French: good or evil? J.E.: Trés good. You would not believe how them French love and treat their live musiques! LEO: TUS’s new record is called Crimes. List your figurative and literal convictions,…
An East Coast sensibility for a Bay Area outfit
Wednesday, Sept. 3 Some time ago, venture capitalist Roger McNamee decided to quit his day job, grow his hair out and, along with his wife, music professor Ann McNamee, form a rock band. The McNamees’ ambitions culminated in Moonalice, a collective that features seasoned players Barry Sless, Pete Sears, Jimmy Sanchez and G.E. Smith. To…
The Church Hoppers
and ZACH NORD St. Michael Orthodox awes and confuses THIS MONTH’S CHURCH HOP Name: St. Michael Orthodox Church Location: 3701 St. Michael Drive (near the corner of Hikes Lane and Furman Boulevard), Louisville Service Times: Sunday at 10:30 a.m. (Vespers and Matins services are offered on weekdays) Website: www.stmichaelorthodoxchurch.com Size: Medium — the church boasts…
Summary of My Discontent – Killing Time
If you’re killing time waiting for Anne Rice to re-lose her religion, you might want to pick up “The Black Hole War” by Leonard Susskind. In that book, subtitled “My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics,” Susskind, a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford, speculates that the expansion of…
Mug Shots
“I freely admit to being condescending toward smoking-ban opponents and their ‘reasons’ because I have facts and evidence on my side, and they have none.” —Smoking-debate participant on blog To me, such expressions of anti-smoking fervor make the case for the existence of “health fascism” with little additional testimony required. On Aug. 21, the New…
Voyage of foodie discovery at Worldfest
AND KEVIN GIBSON Another WorldFest, Louisville’s annual celebration of ethnic diversity, is behind us and as usual, that means I’ve spent another weekend stuffing myself with delicious and exotic food from many nations. That’s the good news. On the other side of the ledger, it didn’t seem to me that there were quite as many…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Untying the GOP sex paradox
Like you, my first act upon learning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was John McCain’s pick for vice president was a Google search. It was important, both professionally and personally, to locate nude pictures of the foxy brunette — or, at worst, something featuring negligee. Finding instead a dated headshot, some full-clothes action shots and…
Suburban Turmoil – The Mommy Mafia
Their police records (along with their bed sheets) are lily white. They think a “shakedown” is what you do at the end of Jazzercise class. And they’d sooner eat razor blades than a plate of manicotti. But cross the Mommy Mafia and they’ll whack your social standing faster than you can utter the words Cosa…
Aftertastes
RECENTLY REVIEWED IN LEO BLUE NILE ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT, 558 S. Fifth St., 625-7400. If you’re looking for fair-priced, foreign food, the Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant offers an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. The restaurant supplies its consumers with a choice of vegetarian dishes, chicken or beef stews, tips and wots. (Reviewed 6/25/08; Rating: 77) CORBETT’S “AN AMERICAN…
Slouching toward Hilarity City
There is often profound comedy in the ordinary. Try that theory out this weekend, when you’ll find a pair of Louisville improv troupes (one with the aid of another, rather larger group) vying for the attention of a smallish, though still voracious, set of comedy lovers here. Brian Regan at the Palace and Etta May…
