August 31, 2009 – 8:59 am
Monday, Aug. 31 21c Museum Hotel 700 W. Main St. www.21cmuseum.org Free; 7:30 p.m.
August 31, 2009 – 8:48 am
Monday, Aug. 31 Headliners 1386 Lexington Road www.headlinerslouisville.com 584-8088 $15; 8 p.m. Need to Breathe and Green River are also on the bill.
August 28, 2009 – 9:26 am
Friday, Aug. 28 River Bend Winery 120 S. 10th St. 540-5650 Free; 7 p.m. This is one of Teneia’s last shows — she leaves Tuesday for Phoenix, Ariz.
August 28, 2009 – 9:15 am
Friday, Aug. 28 Jim Porter’s Good Time Emporium 2345 Lexington Road 452-9531 www.jimporters.com $12; 7 p.m. At once a virtuoso but with a sense of soul and, when the song calls for it, sass, Vienna Teng’s path to greatness might well be sealed with Inland Territory, the follow-up to 2006’s Dreaming Through The Noise. Her [...]
August 28, 2009 – 9:12 am
Friday, Aug. 28 Rooftop at Glassworks 815 W. Market St. 584-4510 www.louisvilleglassworks.com $5; 8 p.m. Here we have a young Louisville band with potential. Ohorella, a three-piece that sound about their size, make reggae-infused pop with a hit of carnival and just enough late-era Police to keep you curious. Their tunes are jangly and weird, [...]
August 28, 2009 – 9:07 am
Aug. 28-29 Comedy Caravan 1250 Bardstown Road 459-0022 www.comedycaravan.com $20; various times This weekend, Heywood Banks invades Comedy Caravan with his quirky, over-the-top sense of humor and a repertoire of hilarious songs guaranteed to be a riot. He schizophrenically bounces in and out of character with witty observations on modern life — and then into [...]
August 28, 2009 – 9:03 am
Aug. 28-30 Thrust Theater at U of L 2314 S. Floyd St. 614-7062 www.indicatorsimprov.com $10 ($7 students); 8 p.m. Comedy troupe The Indicators have been entertaining Louisville for four years and are now officially too good for us. They’re movin’ on up like George and Weezie to New York City, where they will share their [...]
August 27, 2009 – 9:03 am
Thursday, Aug. 27 Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft 715 W. Main St. 589-0102 www.KentuckyArts.org Free; 6-8 p.m. The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (KMAC) has recently acquired a large assortment of rare, regional folk art and they will host an exclusive sale of these works on Thursday, Aug. 27 from 6-8 p.m. The [...]
August 27, 2009 – 8:59 am
Thursday, Aug. 27 Showtime, 8:30 p.m. “GUYS ‘N DIVAS: BATTLE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL MUSICALS” is a documentary co-produced with Lionsgate and Spitfire Pictures follows three Indiana high schools during the heated winter musical season. The film follows the drama, both on stage and off, at Floyd Central High School, New Albany High School and Jeffersonville High [...]
August 27, 2009 – 8:54 am
Thursday, Aug. 27 Carmichael’s 2720 Frankfort Ave. 896-6950 Free; 7 p.m. Join us for an thought-provoking evening of Kentucky history as we welcome Catherine Fosl & Tracy K’Meyer, both University of Louisville professors, who will sign and discuss their book, ”Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky,” as well as K’Meyer’s new book, ”Civil Rights in the Gateway [...]
August 27, 2009 – 8:52 am
Through Oct. 4 Derby Dinner Playhouse 525 Marriott Drive Clarksville, Ind. (812) 288-828 www.derbydinner.com $33-$42; various times I’m a middle child, so I know a thing or two about sibling rivalry. Who hasn’t wanted to sell a brother or sister into slavery over a little back-to-school wardrobe skirmish? It’s not like dopey Joseph wasn’t asking [...]
August 27, 2009 – 8:50 am
Thursday, Aug. 27 21c Museum Hotel 700 W. Main St. www.lgda.org/ $5 for non-members; 7 p.m. Ever been curious about how the words “just do it” became a cultural mantra as familiar now as “I pledge allegiance …”? “Art and Copy” has the dish. The film looks at the personal odysseys of some of the [...]
August 26, 2009 – 9:10 am
Through Sept. 26 Zephyr Gallery 610 E. Market St. 585-5646 www.zephyrgallery.org Prepare to be dazzled by color. Patrick Donley, perhaps best known for his sculptures, has returned to painting. “My work is first and foremost about color,” he says. “Surface and form follow closely behind. These works begin as improvisations, working directly on the canvas [...]
August 26, 2009 – 9:06 am
Through Sept. 29 B. Deemer Gallery 2650 Frankfort Ave. 896-6687 www.bdeemer.com Prepare to be dazzled by color, part 2. “Color is my inspiration,” says artist Pam Folsom. “Using strokes created by brush or knife to lay down thick and thin paint and then scrape down the surface, creating relationships between sky and trees, fields and [...]
August 26, 2009 – 9:04 am
Wednesday, Aug. 26 Harbor Lawn at Waterfront Park 574-3768 www.wfpk.org Free; 5 p.m. (weather permitting) Is this the age of affected folk? Not that it all turned as fast as you can say bon iver, but acoustic guitars and humble pianos now are given lots of atmospheric treatment. Add some silent dropouts, plus cryptic background [...]
August 25, 2009 – 8:45 am
Tuesday, Aug. 25 Browning’s Slugger Field 515-0174 $50; 6:30 p.m. Join chef Anoosh Shariat of Browning’s Restaurant and Brewery for a special evening featuring vegetarian cuisine made with fresh produce from local farms and cheese from Capriole Farms tonight. The event will cost $50 per person which includes dinner, goat cheese tastings paired with handcrafted [...]
August 25, 2009 – 8:40 am
Tuesday, Aug. 25 The Clifton Center 2117 Payne St. www.veerthemovie.com Free; 7:30 p.m. Feeling the wind on your face, the pavement speeding beneath you, riding a bike is high on the list of free fun. But the seedling of transportation has grown into a culture all its own. The recently released documentary “Veer” takes an [...]
August 25, 2009 – 8:38 am
Aug. 25-Sept. 20 Actors Theatre of Louisville 316 W. Main St. www.actorstheatre.org $25-$56; various times O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! The beamish boys and girls at Actors Theatre kick off their 2009-10 season with Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company’s playful adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s timeless and absurd children’s classic. Alice’s slip through the mirror takes her [...]
