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08.06.10 - Movie Clock August 6 - 15

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Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore: 11:45am, 12:45, 1:55, 2:55, 4:05, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25
Charlie St. Cloud: 11:55am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50
Despicable Me: 11:45am, 2:10, 4:35, 6:55, 9:15
Dinner for Schmucks: 12:20, 1:40, 3:00, 4:20, 5:40, 7:00, 8:20, 9:40
Grown Ups: 7:10, 9:55
Inception: 12:00, 1:35, 3:15, 4:55, 6:30, 8:10, 9:45
Romona & Beezus: 1:45, 4:15
Salt: 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 6:25, 7:40, 8:50, 10:05
Step Up 3: 11:40am, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00
The Kids Are Alright: 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15
The Other Guys: 11:50am, 1:10, 2:25, 3:45, 5:00, 6:20, 7:35, 8:55, 10:10
The Scorcerer’s Apprentice: 1:30, 4:10
Twilight: Eclipse: 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30
Toy Story 3: 7:05, 9:35

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The Other Guys: 12:15, 1:20, 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:55, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30
Step Up 3: 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55
Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore: 12:10, 1:55, 3:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:25
Charlie St. Cloud: 4:20, 7:10, 9:35
Dinner for Schmucks: 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15
Romona & Beezus: 12:45, 3:20
Salt: 1:30, 4:10, 7:35, 10:05
Inception: 12:40, 3:55, 6:35, 7:25, 9:45, 10:35
The Scorcerer’s Apprentice: 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20
Despicable Me: 12:35, 2:10, 2:55, 4:35, 5:20, 7:05, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10
The Kids Are Alright: 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:50
Twilight:Eclipse: 6:50, 9:40
Grown Ups: 12:00, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25
Toy Story 3: 1:25, 4:05, 7:15, 10:00

KENTUCKY THEATER
The Kids Are Alright: 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30
A Piece of Work: 1:30, 5:30

LEXINGTON GREEN, 264.7469
Killers: 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10
Knight & Day: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00
Letters to Juliet: 7:10, 9:35
Predators: 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05
Sex & the City 2: 12:15, 3:25, 6:40, 9:50
Shrek: Forever After: 12:10, 12:50, 2:25, 3:05, 4:40, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55
The A-Team: 12:30, 3:20, 7:00, 9:40
The Karate Kid: 12:25, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45

WOODHILL (behind Woodhill Plaza), 269.1911
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore: 12:25, 2:35, 4:45, 6:55, 9:05
Charlie St. Cloud: 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45
Despicable Me: 11:50am, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10
Dinner for Schmucks: 11:35am, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15
Inception: 12:00, 2:00, 3:15, 5:20, 6:30, 8:40, 9:45
Romona & Beezus: 11:50am, 2:20, 4:50
Salt: 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55
Step Up 3: 11:40am, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00
The Other Guys: 11:45am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:55
Toy Story 3: 7:20, 9:55

by: Matt Sparks

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09.04.10 - Wild Women of Poetry

“Wild women don’t get the blues,” Francine Reed wails on Lyle Lovett’s Live in Texas album. I submit that wild women sometimes do get the blues, but rather than whine about it, real wild women write poems. And they probably also drink bourbon, aren’t afraid of dark eyeliner, have been known to wear stacked-heel cowboy boots and pour their souls out onstage (to name just a few wild women traits).

On Sunday evening, a throng of ladies will descend on the Green Lantern for the second annual Wild Women of Poetry reading, a teaser event for the Kentucky Women Writers Conference.  Yours truly will be hosting an evening of poetry and music featuring the talents of: Lisa Williams, Tina Andry, Carrie Green, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, and Sunny Montgomery.  Heather Parrish from the band June July will be on hand to kick off the night with songs and original poems and Coralee and the Townies trio will send us home.  The fun starts at 8 PM with a suggested donation of $5 at the door.

Now, just so you know, some of these women may be demure in delivery, but there is nothing safe or predictable about their poems.  You can read about a few of our featured women here and will have to see the rest for yourself tomorrow.  And, just for the record, if you can’t get enough of these wild women, there will be some more in store during the conference.  The Gypsy Poetry Slam will be celebrating its fifth consecutive year this year and bringing in spoken word artists and femme poets from across the country featuring the literary and verbal gymnastics of Rae Hodge (Louisville), Donna Ison (defending 2009 champ from Lexington), Amanda Johnston (Austin), Ami Mattison (Hazel Park, MI),  Lauren Zuniga (Oklahoma City, OK), Laura Yes Yes (Chicago),  Rebekah Hargis (Louisville), Lisa Marie (Covington), Grace Bruenderman (Lexington), and featuring National Book Award nominee and four-time National Poetry Slam champion, Patricia Smith.  To find out more about the conference lineup taking place September 10-12, 2010, go here: http://www.uky.edu/WWK/

But before we get ahead of ourselves, meet:

Heather Parrish was recently seen performing in 2009 as Patsy Cline in Studio Players SOLD OUT shows of the Broadway Production of “Always… Patsy Cline” at Studio Players Theater. She was the lead vocalist for the band June July along side her fiance Billy Mason and good friend Jonny Keys. She’s now a new mother to her baby boy, Billy Jude, and plans to continue following her and Billy’s mutual dream to always share their love of music and art.

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer is the author of the bilingual poetry book, The Air around the Butterfly (Fakel Express, 2009), which won the 2010 Pencho’s Oak award, given annually to recognize literary contribution to contemporary Bulgarian culture. Her English language chapbook, The Most was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010. Katerina’s poems have appeared in publications throughout the US and Europe, including The Louisville Review, Margie, Adirondack Review and others. Katerina is the founder and leader of poetry and prose groups in Lexington, Kentucky. She hosts Accents – a radio show for literature, art and culture on WRFL, 88.1 FM, Lexington. In January 2010, Katerina launched Accents Publishing – an independent press for brilliant voices. Accents has published or announced books by local, national and international authors. Katerina holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and is the recipient of the 2010 Eileen Egan Graduate Student Leadership Award. She serves on the advisory board of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference.

Carrie Green earned her MFA at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Stream, ABZ, Saw Palm, Kestrel, Georgetown Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Limestone, and the Journal of Kentucky Studies. She received a 2005-2006 Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and received professional development funding from the Kentucky Arts Council to attend a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.  Recently, she was named a finalist for the 2010 Arts & Letters Poetry Prize.

Tina Andry was born in uptown New Orleans. She was eleven when she was uprooted and transplanted to Burgin, Ky far removed from anything familiar. The stark contrast in environments was the catalyst for her to pick up a pen. She joined Lexington’s writing community in 2009 by sharing her poetry at the Holler Poet’s Series open mic and in turn will be a feature this October. Since then she has participated in the opening of the 2009 Gypsy Poetry Slam, was a guest reader on Accents- a radio show for literature, art and culture on WRFL, and put herself out on a limb in the University of Kentucky’s 2009 V-Day production of the Vagina Monologues, moaning her way into infamy. She is a poet and mother who loves her dog Jada only slightly less than her two children Kennedy and Miles.

by: Bianca Spriggs

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08.09.10 - The Sisters Provocateur Are Coming For Your Pantyline

“We make the The Vagina Monologues look like The Sound of Music,” Donna Ison smiles into her Makers.  We’re enjoying a cold one at Sidebar and talking all things provocative, including the upcoming performance, “Panty Raid: a pajamarama of epic proportions” by the Sisters Provocateur at Natasha’s, this Thursday, August 12, at 8:30 PM (tickets are $8). 

For Ison, author of The Miracle of Myrtle: Saint Gone Wild and Flirtini With Disaster, turning heads on and off-stage is nothing new.  The actress, novelist, and historical dramatist (I could go on), is no stranger to raising eyebrows.  Her writing and personal style are known for being candid, humorous, and risque, and rivaled only by her savvy stage presence. 

Ison is a founding member of the new all-woman theater troupe, The Sisters Provocateur.  Through poetry, dance, song, and games, the Sisters’ mission is simple: “to promote the idea that poetry doesn’t have to be pretentious, sexy doesn’t have to be skinny, and brainy doesn’t have to be boring.”  Funded in part through a Kentucky Foundation for Women “Arts Meets Activism” grant, the troupe is comprised of local writers and performers along with Ison, Sunny Montgomery, Kate Hadfield, Renee Rigdon, Kirstin Preston, and this performance’s special guest, Jessi Fehrenbach.  The pastel posters for the performance can be spotted all over town, including Lexington’s resident Hustler store.

Art enthusiasts who attended the Lexington Art League’s Fourth Friday event in June, had the pleasure of a peek at the Sisters’ debut performance, “Maidenform Mayhem,” a 50’s-esque dating game which included a dance number and a scene where each woman stripped down, quite literally, to who their characters really were.  “It went wonderfully,” Ison says, “We did two shows that night, one inside and one out in the courtyard.” 

When describing what the audience can expect, she runs down a list that starts to sound like a combination of what you learned in high-school Health class, what you heard about in the locker room, and what you find out in the back of your first boyfriend’s car.  “It starts out as a slumber party.  There will be games, quizzes, educational facts about sex.  We play ‘Never Have I Ever.’  Whoever makes a statement that no one can drink to wins a gift basket of sexual aids.”

Where does a troupe get fodder like this for their performances?  Ison says they harvest material from their personal lives.  Though their writing styles and topics are varied, the Sisters have one perception in common,  “Nothing can be gratuitous.  Everything has to be empowering and enlightening.  Everything has to be honest.”  A script like “Panty Raid” comes about through conversations over their individual material.  She can’t help but laugh when recalling some of the informal conversations in her living room that make it onstage, “Our scripts are kind of like Dr. Ruth meets cabaret.  Sometimes I have to stop to ask, ‘can we really say this, can someone Google that to make sure it’s not outlawed in some states?’” 

It’s not hard to envision the “Panty Raid” content if you’ve ever caught a snippet of the Bourbonista Blog on Ison’s website: http://www.donnaison.com.  The Sisters also keep a website up where they regularly blog http://www.sistersprovocateur.com.  Imagine being in a slumber party with these ladies and you get the idea: 

Donna Ison
When we scheduled this show back in early April, I told myself I had plenty of time to drop fifteen pounds and tone up. I was going to do yoga every morning in my sunroom at 6:30am. I was going to eat like a fruit bat. I was going to rejoin Jazzercise. I was going to cut out carbs. I was going to drink less booze and more water. I was going to do calf raises when I did the dishes and squats while I brushed my teeth. I was going to go organic. I have done none of these things.

Kate Hadfield
You know, I’ve had a few people in my life (ok, so maybe more than a few), that have really urged me to find that traditional life.  They haven’t understood that I am an artist, that I will always be an artist, and that I’m going to lead an artistic life.  This means I’m probably going to have several menial kind of jobs over my lifetime.  Dinner’s going to be around 9 p.m., if I even get to it, because honestly, I might just smoke a few cigarettes instead while I’m praying that the muses find me.

Renee Rigdon
Once, long ago, I bought a pink bathrobe.  I am not typically a “pink” girl, but the idea of a fuzzy pink bathrobe to wrap up in on days when I was feeling low seemed perfect.  And, it was marketed using my third favorite word of all time:  Clearance.  At first, the bathrobe was just fine.  I’d put it on for morning coffee, and promptly change into my day clothes after.  As winter turned to spring, I found the robe was too warm for daily wear, and it gradually fell out of use.  As close as I can tell, this is when the robe developed some sort of revenge complex.  I had abandoned it, and it would make damn sure that any time I cast eyes on it, it would make my life hell.

Sunny Montgomery
Let me begin today’s blog by saying that I am in a super foul mood. And so my random weekly confession will be appropriate: I hate babies. And by babies I mean any child under the age of 8. Okay, I hate 99% of babies. My best friend, Steph, just had a baby a few weeks back and I don’t hate him…yet…Anyway, babies suck. They ruin everything fun. Even grocery shopping which isn’t that fun to begin with. Seriously, I hate parents that let their children push the grocery cart as much as I hate babies. I hate how babies are always staring at you… it makes me really anxious. I hate how parents bring babies out on restaurant patios and then evil-eye you for smoking a cigarette at the next table. I hate how babies don’t have the neck strength to hold up their big heads and so you have to do it for them.

Dear Babies: Please grow up already so I can stop hating you. And seriously, stop staring at me.

Kirstin Preston
At 3 AM this morning, I was startled by dudes in the church parking lot next to my bedroom window, loading firewood in the back of a truck.  And by loading, I mean they were chucking massive logs onto the metal surface of the truck’s bed…I don’t even know if they work at that church.  Were they stealing?  I don’t know.  When you live in Castlewood, you don’t ask questions unless you want to get hit in the back of the head with a log.

To reserve tickets by phone call: (859) 259-2754 or online at http://www.beetnik.com/reservations/

by: Bianca Spriggs

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08.06.10 - Gigs & Concerts August 5 - 12

Thursday, August 5
THE BARRY MANDO PROJECT 9pm. Natashas.
JUSTIN WELLS 10 pm Lynagh’s.

Friday, August 6
CHICO FELLINI 9 pm Natashas.
DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND Cosmic Charlie’s.
MIRIAM LIGHTFOOT, 6 Friends Café.
THE WALDEMERE REVIVAL 10:30 pm Lynagh’s.

Saturday, August 7
THE BATS 9 pm Natashas.
R.E. OTHERSON BLUES 7 pm Giuseppe’s.
GAYLE LYNN AND THE HIRED HANDS 10:30 pm Lynagh’s.
BIG MARACAS 9 pm, Al’s Bar
BORN CROSS-EYED Cosmic Charlie’s.
THE TORQUES 6 pm, Talon Winery.

Sunday, August 8
ADLER’S APPETITE Cosmic Charlie’s.
THE TALL BOYS 10 pm. Lynagh’s.
ALMIRA FAWN BENEFIT Buster’s.

Monday, August 9
MUNNELLY; BUTCH ROSS Woodsongs, 6:45 pm, Kentucky Theatre.
STEVE SNYDER TRIO, 8:30 pm, Natasha’s.

Tuesday, August 10
CYPRESS HILL, Busters.

Wednesday, August 11
MICHAEL GARVIN & KENTUCKY MEMORIES
Red Barn Radio at ArtsPlace.
JARROD DICKINSON 9 pm, Natasha’s.

Thursday, August 12
BETTER OFF DEAD Thursday Night Live, Cheapside Park.
STORY OF THE YEAR Headliner’s (Louisville).

by: Matt Sparks

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08.06.10 - Film Flam August 5 - 12

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08.06.10 - Go.See.Do August 5 - 12

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08.06.10 - Corn Two Ways By Tom Yates

We have been enjoying fresh cucumbers and tomatoes from our garden all week. The garage Kirbys picked from the trellis and the Principe Burghese heirloom grape tomatoes plucked from their vines have worked their way into every meal as lightly dressed sweet sliced salads. A mother load of glistening fresh Silver Queen corn purchased from a roadside pickup truck has appeared, along with the cucumbers and tomatoes, in many forms during our nightly meals. We’ve had grilled corn on the cob, sauteed corn, and creamed corn. This particular Silver Queen haul was so sweet and fresh.  Beautiful to look at and delicious to eat.

Usually I have mentally planned, cooked, and eaten our dinner by 7:30 am, but felt a little free-spirited yesterday. What to cook? Let the refrigerator tell me. It was hard to not notice corn silks splayed from the vegetable bin as if I had planted them there as a reminder to use them.  Corn.  Again. Hmmm.

Michael’s fantasically crisp gooey grilled cheese sandwiches would pair beautifully with…...corn chowder.

Simple garden fresh corn chowder.

I diced carrots, onions, celery, new potatoes, and black bell pepper about the same size of corn kernels.  After heating butter and oilve oil in a dutch oven, I sauteed 3 thick-cut slabs of bacon and set aside on paper towels to drain and crisp up.  I tossed the vegetables into the sizzling bacon fat with salt and pepper to caramelize and soften. When translucent and sweet smelling, I deglazed the pot with white wine and let it reduce by half.  Once the wine had coated the vegetables with velvet acidity, I added chicken stock to cook the candied mirepoix/holy trinity, finishing it with heavy cream.

As the soup base simmered, I sliced the corn kernels off the cob into a large bowl. Using my dad’s technique, I cut the tops of the kernels off with a knife almost halving them and scraped the remaining corn with the back of the knife, milking the cob for all the precious juice trapped in each corn hole.  A large bowl ensured cob milk capture. 

Once the creamy wine and stock infused soup base had returned to a gentle simmer, I dropped the corn and corn milk into the chowder to cook briefly. Very briefly.

I ladled the chowder into soup bowls, topped it with the reserved crisp salty bacon, showered it with fresh chives, salt, and pepper.  Because it’s raining grape tomatoes in our back yard right now, I added quartered tiny tomatoes for a fresh burst of sweetness.

Cooking the corn for a short amount of time left it crunchy, firm, and full of natural sugar. That texture played into the utter fabulous fat of the cream and the sweet tender carrots, onions, celery, and potatoes. The bacon gave the expected crunch and saltiness while the chives jumped with grassy verdancy. The ever present tomatoes were fresh, juicy, and explosive. Cleansing and pleasing.

A final dollop of zested lime sour cream brightened the silken sleepy cream chowder.

Michael’s grilled onion dill pickled filled grilled cheese sandwiches sealed the deal. Dip or eat?  Eat or dip? Both.  Perfect.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Chowder on a 91 degree hot summer evening?  Why not?  It was so right. So delicate, soft, sweet and savory.
OR, FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Deep fried corn on the cob slathered in butter with salt, pepper, and fresh squeezed lime juice.  Crazy, right?  I heated our deep fryer to 350, carefully placed the Peaches & Cream corn cobs into the hot oil, and let them fry until the kernels were golden and caramelized.  While still hot, they were generously buttered and seasoned.  The texture of the corn was fantastic, almost as if grilled.  Crunchy, soft, chewy, and fresh.  The salt accentuated the sweetness of the corn while the lime cut through the fatty butter.  The flavored buttered bits and juices dripped from the fried corn and puddled onto the plate for licking.  It happened. I licked the buttery salty lime corn juice right off the plate.
Try deep frying fresh corn on the cob. Totally outrageous!

by: Matt Sparks

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