Friday, July 20 Magnolia Bar 1398 S. Second St. facebook.com/MagBarOldLou $5; 9 p.m. Can you think of anywhere better to see Kentucky Knife Fight than … in Kentucky? (The Mag Bar would also suffice as an answer to that question.) The St. Louis-based (yeah, I said it) rock ’n’ rollers are coming to give us [...]
Friday, July 20 AmVets Post 9 1567 S. Shelby St. facebook.com/Amvetspost9 $5; 7:30 p.m. “All dances will be taught. Everyone will have fun. No one is required to dance, but everyone is encouraged to try it out. No experience necessary.” T-Claw will be calling the traditional Appalachian dances here (“calling the shots and teachin’ the [...]
July 20-21, 27-28 Actors Theatre 316 W. Main St. · 584-1205 $17; 8 p.m. (plus 4 p.m. on July 28) In case you’re not a baby boomer, theater queen or vintage culture aficionado, the original play “The Odd Couple” basically runs with the idea of two mismatched roommates — one a slovenly sportswriter, and one [...]
Gallery 104, 104 E. Main St. in LaGrange, 502-222-3822, is presenting the “Photography as Art” contest exhibition from July 17 – Sept. 8. The awards reception is Thursday, July 19 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 19 The Green Building 737 E. Market St. dancassaro.eventbrite.com $5-$10 (free for members); 6 p.m. Dan Cassaro has a way with words. The Brooklyn-based graphic designer has created logos, illustrations and other custom typography and art for MTV, VH1 and publications such as Fortune, Nylon and The New York Times Magazine. With his [...]
Thursday, July 19 Headliners Music Hall 1386 Lexington Road headlinerslouisville.com $15; $9 p.m. Blues-rock steeped in Memphis soul, Black Joe Lewis should have a much larger following than he has been able to collect thus far from his two Lost Highway releases. His blend of Muddy Waters, James Brown, and ABKCO-era Stones is infectious and [...]
July 19-21 Kentucky Center for the Arts kentuckycenter.org $16; 8 p.m. I imagine prison might be a lot like a circus — but not in the fun spectator kind of way; rather the caged, lonely elephant way. Local actor Eric Welch touches on this scenario in his first production he wrote with longtime friend Brian [...]
Wednesday, July 18 Louisville Public Library — Iroquois Branch 601 W. Woodlawn Ave. Free; 6:30 p.m. If the powers that be required every Louisvillian to attend a couple events at the Iroquois branch of the public library every year, want to know what would happen? Possibly some mad libertarians, but definitely a more culturally sensitive, [...]
Through July 28 Carnegie Center 201 E. Spring St., New Albany 812-944-7336 carnegiecenter.org We talk about the environment a lot today, from global warming (hello, hot summer) to the lifespan of a plastic bag. Glass artist Joel O’Dorisio has long thought about it. One way the environment shows up in his work is when he [...]
Through July 28 Galerie Hertz 1253 S. Preston St. • 581-8277 billyhertzgallery.com Nonrepresentational abstraction gets right down to art’s building blocks of color and form. With an exhibition title like “Explorations in Mark Making,” you know the paintings and drawings by Emily Church are back to the basics. “I search for phenomena in nature and [...]
Tuesday, July 17 Headliners Music Hall 1386 Lexington Road headlinerslouisville.com $8; 9 p.m. And So I Watch You From Afar is a three-piece band from Belfast, Ireland, usually identified by the unusually long acronym “ASIWYFA” in the parlance of their fans. They’re well known for their stage presence and ability to get a crowd on [...]
Registration required. Preservation Louisville at the Brennan House Historic Home, 631 S. Fifth St., 540-5146, is conducting a Historic Preservation Tax Credit Workshop on Saturday, July 21 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Offered quarterly, these workshops assist property owners with applying for state and federal historic preservation tax credits. The cost is $20 for Preservation Louisville members, [...]
Julie Yoder is showing her mixed media collages in KMAC’s gallery shop, 715 W. Main St., through July.
•‘Breaking Up is Fun to Do’ Saturday, July 14 The Bard’s Town 1801 Bardstown Road derbycitydatingscene.com $10; 7:30 p.m. Attention Louisville theater-goers: There’s a new kid on the block. Derby City Dating Scene has brought together some of the city’s best and brightest actors, improvisers, writers, musicians and more to form a new kind of [...]
Mellwood Art and Entertainment Center, 1860 Mellwood Ave., is holding Second Saturday Demo Day on July 14. The demos are from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with the shops open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Contact Joy Lait at 502-777-9792 for more information. Justin The Artistic Horse has consigned one of his art pieces to the American Saddlebred [...]
Friday, July 13 Jazzyblu Café and Lounge 815 W. Market St. • 435-9908 $10+; 8 p.m. Slow … mellow … thorough … how’s your flow? The “Let It Flow” Poetry Slam is now celebrating its fifth anniversary. So if you’re thinking it’s time for your spoken word to be heard, perhaps you’ll be lured. And [...]
Friday, July 13 Cahoots 1047 Bardstown Road facebook.com/CahootsLouisville $5; 9 p.m. This female-fronted punk rock outfit from Boston is as indie as they come, having self-recorded every track they have ever released. Despite this, they have more drive and professional finesse than most bands of their breed. Though they have only existed since 2007, they [...]
Pre-registration is required. The Carnegie Center for Art and History, 201 E. Spring St. in New Albany, IN 47150, 812-944-7336, is hosting the Lunch & Learn Summer Civil War Series with author Michael Peake on Tuesday, July 17, from 12-1 p.m. Peake will be discussing “I Remain Your Affectionate Son,” the Civil War Letters of [...]
