•Buy Local Fair Saturday, May 11 Louisville Water Tower 3005 River Road keeplouisvilleweird.com Free ($5 parking); 2-8 p.m. Louisville is lucky to have an impressive local arts scene and a thriving farm-fresh foods movement, two assets that will be celebrated Saturday at the fifth annual Buy Local Fair. Spearheaded by the Louisville Independent Business Association [...]
Thursday, May 2 Baxter Avenue Theatres 1250 Bardstown Road secretariat.com $50-$100; 6:30 p.m. Secretariat is arguably the best racehorse of the 20th century and by far the most popular. Now, on the 40th anniversary of his Triple Crown win, the Kentucky Derby Museum and Secretariat.com present a documentary about the other half of Secretariat’s team: [...]
Monday, April 22 Clifton Center 2117 Payne St. cliftoncenter.org $10; 7:30 p.m. Ever wonder what became of that VHS tape of your second-grade talent show in which you dressed as a Smurf and sang “Walk the Dinosaur”? Let’s hope it won’t be on display Monday night at the Found Footage Festival, which showcases clips of [...]
March 21-24 U of L’s Gheens Science Hall 106 W. Brandeis Ave. • 852-8976 Free; 12:15 p.m. (March 21), 6 p.m. (March 22), 3 p.m. (March 24) “Girl Rising” is an independent film that tells the stories of unforgettable girls born into unforgiving circumstances. Playing this weekend at U of L’s Gheens Science Hall and [...]
•Louisville Leopard Percussionists Saturday, March 16 Brown Theatre 315 W. Broadway kentuckycenter.org $15; 2 p.m. The annual beginning of spring is magnificent for oh-so-many reasons. For local lovers of music and/or education, it means it’s also time for the Louisville Leopard Percussionists’ annual “Big Gig” — and this year is an even bigger celebration, their [...]
•Wild & Scenic Film Festival Saturday, March 2 Clifton Center 2117 Payne St. • 589-8008 wildandscenicfilmfestival.org $15-$25; 6 p.m. Tom Fitzgerald, executive director of the Kentucky Resources Council, will emcee a screening of six films focused on environmental issues at the fifth annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival in the Clifton Center’s Eifler Theatre. From [...]
February 15, 2013 – 10:21 am
Friday, Feb. 15 Dreamland Film Center 810 E. Market St. louisvillefilmsociety.org $5-$8; 7 & 9 p.m. Peter Brötzmann has been a defiant giant of improvised music for decades. To label it as “jazz” would be much too limiting; he’s also made some of the heaviest noise known to humankind along the way. Friday, the Louisville [...]
February 15, 2013 – 10:19 am
Feb. 15 & 22 Kentucky Center for African American Heritage 1701 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd. kcaah.org Free; 7:30 p.m. Forty percent of the Africans sent to the Americas during the slave trade landed in colonial Brazil. The 1986 film “Quilombo” tells the story of a group of them who escaped to form a remote settlement [...]
January 24, 2013 – 10:06 am
Thursday, Jan. 24 Decca — The Cellar 812 E. Market St. • 749-8128 $50; 6:30 & 9:30 p.m. “Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle,” the actor Victor Mature has said. If this is true, the Shelby Park resident must have kept himself in pretty decent shape, landing his first role [...]
January 8, 2013 – 3:39 pm
Tuesday, Jan. 8 St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church 1960 Bardstown Road 459-0494 Free; 7 p.m. The Academy Award nominated documentary “Sun Come Up” (2011,) follows the people of the Carteret Islands, whose ancestral land in the South Pacific is projected to be entirely under water by 2015. Considered by many to be our planet’s [...]
December 13, 2012 – 9:00 am
The Carnegie Center, 201 E. Spring St. in New Albany, 812-944-7336, is showing the film “YERT (Your Environmental Road Trip)” on Thursday, Dec. 13 from 7-9 p.m. Free and open to the public.
December 7, 2012 – 10:30 am
Friday, Dec. 7 Land of Tomorrow 233 W. Broadway landoftomorrow.org Free; 7 p.m. For the second in what will hopefully be an annual event of music-meets-art shows, Louisville’s Land of Tomorrow outpost hosts an amazing collection of multimedia work. First, there’s a for-real roller disco, featuring music from none other than techno godfather Juan Atkins. [...]
November 29, 2012 – 9:00 am
The Carnegie Center for Art and History, 201 E. Spring St. in New Albany, 812-944-7336, is showing “The Last Mountain,” a spellbinding tour along the front lines of America’s most spirited battle over the environment and the economy. Set deep in the heart of Appalachian West Virginia, this consciousness-raising film captures a rowdy band of [...]
November 13, 2012 – 9:34 am
Tuesday, Nov. 13 Spalding University 824 S. Fourth St. • 873-4400 Free; 6:30 p.m. Louisville looks to the film “Winter’s Bone” with pride, seeing as how homegirl Jennifer Lawrence’s performance was at the center of the character-driven slice of contemporary backwoods gothic. But Debra Granik has best claim on being the proud parent after directing [...]
October 4, 2012 – 8:47 am
Oct. 4-6 Various locations louisvillefilm.net Warren Oates was a genuine Kentucky badass. Born in the small, coal-mining town of Depoy, he went on to study acting at the University of Louisville, before becoming one of the go-to character actors of the ’60s and ’70s. A face that could morph from textbook handsome to kind of [...]
October 2, 2012 – 11:27 am
Tuesday, Oct. 2 Kentucky Center manhattanshort.com $9.50; 6 & 8:30 p.m. For the third consecutive year, Louisville audiences will participate in the Manhattan Short Film Festival — one of more than 300 cities that will play a part in judging this international contest’s 10 finalists. Billed as “the world’s first global film festival,” work from [...]
September 18, 2012 – 8:25 am
Tuesday, Sept. 18 Dreamland Theater 810 E. Market St. Free; 7 p.m. One of the most haunting images in the “Sin País” (“Without a Country”) trailer shows a chubby-cheeked toddler resting on her father’s shoulder as he carries her through an airport. She clutches a pink tiara with feathers and butterflies. The little girl’s large [...]
September 12, 2012 – 11:11 am
Ongoing Village 8 Theatres 4014 Dutchmans Lane $3-$5; various times In the new film “Compliance,” a prank caller posing as a police officer induces a “ChickWich” manager to detain and strip-search her 19-year-old cashier over the course of several hours. If this set-up seems unlikely, know that the plot is based on real events that [...]
