Staff Picks
Aug. 31-Sept. 2 WorldFest/WorldFeast WorldFest is a massive annual celebration of Louisville’s many vibrant international cultures, with more than 50,000 people expected to crowd onto the Riverfront this year. The two-day event is a profusion of music, dancing, food and craft presented by people from all ethnic backgrounds, as it has been for the…
The Flipped Lid: Professor Tempest
Sitting in room 120 of U of L’s Bingham Humanities building during Sena Naslund’s graduate creative writing seminar, I mused on teaching — its power, its importance. This was my first class of the semester, and a gentle way to enter into what will become dark, cold weeks. With strong feminine grace and a touch…
The Tear Sheet: Stinkin’ thinkin’ – Stench lingers two years after secret letter aimed at circuit judge
[img_assist|nid=2448|title=William Stewart and Sarah Dutton|desc=with their lawyers during the last day of their trial, which ended with a hung jury. PHOTO BY WALT REICHERT/SENTINEL NEWS|link=|align=left|width=200|height=146]As voters go to the polls in Shelby, Anderson and Spencer counties this fall, they might want to bring their own air freshener to cover the stench still wafting from the…
City Strobe
Is the NBA really dead here?Last week’s joint meeting of the U of L Board of Trustees and Athletics Board was so scripted and predictable, as was a concurrent meeting of the Louisville Arena Authority, that it only proved one thing: One didn’t have to go to the State Fair to see a dog-and-pony show.In…
Bluegrass Report: The varnished, well-hidden truth
Whatever you think about last week’s deal between Attorney General Greg Stumbo and Gov. Ernie Fletcher — the AG dismissed criminal charges in exchange for the governor’s expression of wrongdoing— it doesn’t look as if we’ll ever get the one thing Fletcher promised last year: the unvarnished truth. We got blanket pardons, the Fifth Amendment,…
Sports Bits: How many points can Louisville score?
Here’s half the score when Louisville meets Kentucky Sunday at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium: Louisville 52.Huh?Well, it’s not much news that Louisville (9-3 last season and ranked No. 13 to begin this year) is a heavy favorite to whip Kentucky. More interesting is the question of how many points Louisville can score. Can the Cards…
Rumor & Innuendo
Are your ready for some … Cats, Cards, Crimson and Canada? Forget the overbearing humiture outside, thaw out the kielbasa mamaw, it’s that pigskin and pageantry time o’ year. With some added hoops for a little extra zip on the palate.The season is gonna dawn mighty clear around Seedy K’s new hacienda. I’m talkin’ HDTV…
Your Weekly Reeder : Blood and ashes stain our bluegrass
Horror becomes personal when it hits close to home, especially when home isn’t a very big place. Here in Kentucky, our tragedies are almost a family thing. At the least, many of us know somebody who knew somebody who was on Comair Flight 5191 when it took off at 6:07 a.m. Sunday from Lexington’s Blue…
Message to the People: Welcome home, monkey!
Cal Thomas is either crazy or … well, crazy! Why? Because he seems to really believe Andrew Young’s comments about some Jews, Koreans and Arabs who have operated businesses in black neighborhoods was more racist than Virginia Sen. George Allen calling a man a monkey (see Thomas’ Aug. 22 commentary, “Who’s Racist Now?”). Yes, a…
Erosia
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Video Tapeworm: Releases through Nov. 5
THIS WEEK’S TWIN PEEKS:GODZILLA: GOJIRA DELUXE COLLECTOR’S EDITION1954; DVD $21.95, URFINALLY! A halfway decent release of this seminal cross-cultural phenomenon. A two-disc set containing the original subtitled “Gojira” in its complete 98-minute theatrical length, plus its American cutting, “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” sliced down to 79 minutes and stuffed with ham (Raymond Burr). Includes…
Arts & Entertainment Listings
Special Events ••Art Festival — Goldenrod Gala Arts and Entertainment Festival, free, outdoors, Sept. 2, 9am-6pm, General Butler State Resort Park, Hwy. 227, Carrollton, Ky., 732-7030.Oldham County History Center — “A History of Free Masonry and the English Culture of Oldham Co.” exhibit, thru Sept. 9, 222-0826.“Discover Louisville” Landmarks — tours scheduled second Sun., 1-4pm,…
Community Listings
Special Events WorldFeast/WorldFest — annual festival celebrating all cultures, Sept. 1-3, new: culinary world tour of international dishes prepared by local restaurants with international wines, beers, craft booths, Aug. 31, 6-9pm, festival: free; feast: $50, Kentucky Center, 501 W Main St., 574-1443.••ACLU of Kentucky Bill of Rights Dinner — featuring former White House Bureau Chief…
Club Directory
19th Green 1740 Williamsburg Dr. Jeffersonville (812) 284-9088 19th Hole Pub 5603 Greenwood Rd. 933-4858 717 Studios 717 Market St. 609-9317 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…
Karaoke Korral
WED AUG 30 Akiko’sBoozseller LoungeBrewskees Creeker’s Bar & GrillGaslite Tavern Good Times Pub Jim Porter’sJoker’sJT’s Variety Club Monon Station New ViewPhoenix HillR Place Pub Ro-Joe’s Karaoke BarSeidenfaden Cafe Shooters SkivviesSmyrna Inn Spectators Bar & GrillSt. Andrew’s PubSteinert’s T.K.’s Pub Union Station ZaZoo’s THU AUG 31 19th Hole Pub Akiko’s Boozseller LoungeBrewskees Corner TavernCreeker’s Bar &…
Itzhak is the star of Orchestra’s ‘Fanfara’
Itzhak Perlman: Photo by Akira Kinoshita Itzhak Perlman, the world’s most celebrated violin virtuoso, returns to Louisville Thursday night to perform with the Louisville Orchestra in the symphony’s annual “Fanfara” gala that launches the classical music season. And Perlman fans can only hope this concert is as exciting as his last. Headlining “Fanfara” in 1999,…
Bluegrass from a bottle: Louisville’s Troublesome Creek refreshes bluegrass with new album
Troublesome Creek With today’s radio programming as it is, bluegrass is not a type of music one hears regularly. In fact, I would imagine a majority of people in their nascent 20s wouldn’t even recognize bluegrass were it not for the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack six years ago, an album that stayed atop…
Rock the Water Tower gets relevant: Annual music fest takes aim at Louisville’s youth culture and music
Villebillies It’s important to know when it’s time for a change. Sure, change is frightening, and it is so much easier to continue on with the momentum of the past, never questioning, developing or growing. But change can be incredibly rewarding. For 20 years, Rock the Water held its traditional position as an annual festival…
Sorise for Sore Ears: Journey In Satchidananda
Journey In SatchidanandaAlice Coltrane(IMPULSE!)reissue: 1970 Many will speak of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane as one of the greatest and most innovative jazz musicians who ever lived. Coltrane’s preeminence is rarely disputed, but less attention is paid to his wife and musical collaborator Alice Coltrane. She was in many ways his musical and spiritual counterpart, both…
Aftertastes
STRATTO’S, 318 W. Lewis & Clark Pkwy., Clarksville, (812) 945-3496. Fine new Italian eatery raises the bar for gourmet-style dining north of the Ohio. Extensive menu featuring more than two dozen courses. (Reviewed 7/19; Rating: 84) SARI SARI, 2339 Frankfort Ave., 894-0585, www.gosarisari.com. Popular new Crescent Hill spot — you might call it a “Brother…
The Bar Belle: Big Game = another reason to drink
Bar Belle Let’s raise a toast to college football season. Just another excuse to head to the bar, be loud and consume mass quantities of beer, usually on discount. I’ll be a fan of any team for a great drink special. Just be sure to remind me who I’m rooting for a few drinks into…
LEO’s Eat ’n’ Blog w/ Louisville HotBytes: Italian dining in our cityâ€&ac
Wits in the restaurant business often evoke the mysterious waters off of Eastern North America as a mean metaphor for a restaurant property that can’t seem to hold an eatery in business very long. Amici: aims to break the jinx associated with the property at 316 W. Ormsby in Old Louisville. The restaurant has a…
Hurricane Katrina, one year later: Have we learned anything?
Katrina’s winds shredded through the Gulf South like a giant scythe, but it was the flood in New Orleans that jolted the national psyche, leaving the deepest memory. The flood turned the Big Easy into a disaster zone, planting the image of a Third World backwater. When has the persona of a city been so…
