North of Center Wednesday, AUGUST 11, 2010 Free TAKE HOME AND READ NOCLEXINGTON.COM Volume II, Issue 15 Fancy Farm with the anti-fascists By Danny Mayer singing along to the strong bluegrass it was the barbecue we had both just Fancy Farm Kentucky, USA Fancy Farm, KY band toiling away on the far side of eaten. Either way, I’m glad I starred it. Though reliably colorful, the stage from us. “It takes a worried I came to this small town in south- Kentucky politics doesn’t often com- It takes a worried man man,” Mudd continues along, “to sing western Kentucky as both a partici- mand a national stage, a fact reflected To sing a worried song. a worried song.” pant/contributor to the socio-political in the traditionally scant amount of — Woody Guthrie The whole moment was....quiet, the spectacle that is Fancy Farm in the coverage afforded to Fancy Farm by calm before showtime, a sort of queer fiery bowels of summer, and as a jour- outlets outside of the state. There are In my notebook, I’ve got this line subdued professional reflection on the nalist—an activist journalist—interested several reasons for this. On a national starred, maybe 2 pages into the notes events to come, maybe the only really in covering the unique state-wide event level the state’s elected politicians have for my trip to Fancy Farm, Kentucky, honest one I saw all day and certainly that officially marks the annual open- been reliably conservative (first for to attend the state’s symbolic begin- the most professional, and Mudd was ing to the year’s political electioneer- Dixiecrat Democrats, currently for ning to the political season. Part nine- singing along like he knew. Maybe ing mayhem. Regressive Republicans), which has teenth century stump speechifying, made for a political culture that is, part political family reunion time, part nationally-speaking, too predictably local civic celebration day, and part boring to cover. Things stay remark- picnic, Fancy Farm is really a politi- ably the same, change here happening, cal carnival, inflected with particular as Mark Twain (and Joe Sonka) has Kentucky seasonings: dull suburban pointed out, generally twenty years white jokes spoken in thick accents, after it’s happened anywhere else. And barbecue, no cussin’, no alcohol and then, too, being situated in middle- plenty of outlandish costumes. America, at the crossroads of the north I remember the scene quite well. and the south and of the south and the Standing at the edge of the shade, fac- midwest, Kentucky is geopolitically ing an empty podium, leaning against marginalized, located at the edge of all a bamboo stick freshly sliced the day these regions and also far from big city before from a friend in Southland media/culture centers (New York, LA, who, when I informed him that I Chicago, Atlanta). What takes place would be using the bamboo in Fancy here does not normally translate read- Farm to fight fascism, responded, ily into identifiable bellweather state- “Right on....I’m glad to help.” A whirl- ments about what “the south” or “the whind 24 hours later and next to me, midwest” or “the mainstream” will do. CRAIG CROWDER fuzzy in the strange halflight of my prescription shades, Martin Mudd is Author holding a scoreboard of fascist phenomena. continued on page 3 In search of the goat man Misadventures in the city

By Beth Connors-Manke was about it. On top of my utter lack Being as it was about 100 degrees, I with two older men sitting on the of goat knowledge, I didn’t have any didn’t find many people milling about front porch. I went looking for the goat man on strong leads on the goat man. on this Wednesday morning. I’d catch From the sidewalk, I kindof yelled what may prove to have been the hot- Rumors had been circulating that people who were walking to their cars or up to them, “Have you seen a man test day of the summer. Halfway up my there was a man on the north side who had stepped out for just a moment who walks a goat?” street, I realized the potential folly of my who had a pet goat. That was my most to yell across the street to a neighbor. “A GOAT?” One of the men yelled plan. Waves and waves of heat were rip- solid piece of information. Some sug- No, they hadn’t seen a man with a goat, back. pling from the sidewalk. It was almost gested that he only spoke Spanish; oth- they said, while they shot me a look that “A GOAT.” I yelled back, louder too hot for humans, so who would ers conjectured that his goat had been read something like What’s wrong with this time. walk their pet goat on a day like today? stolen for a while, but that goat man you, girl? I’d queried the manager at the I could see that you crazy, girl look I didn’t even know if goats could sur- had recovered his beloved pet. Several taquería. No luck. I had a feeling that coming over their faces. Then, the vive in urban heat like this. The more I reports said he walked the goat with a later neighbors would say to each other, front door opened and a woman came walked and the sweatier I got, I realized rope leash. I figured my best shot was Did you see that lady looking for the man out. She’d heard the end of the conver- that I probably didn’t know what a goat to start walking around and asking with the goat? I’d be part of the myth. sation. Yes, she’d seen the goat man. really looked liked. I had images from people if they’d seen the fabled man I was pretty convinced of my folly some book from childhood, but that who walks a goat. when I stopped in front of a house continued on page 7 and the brown color line Major League responses to SB 1070

By Troy Lyle superstars and tomorrow’s hall of fam- As a friend of mine put it, “It’s a bill Then: Latinos the Big Leagues ers. Earlier this summer Chicago White that affects everyone … the very future has a long Arizona Senate Bill (SB) 1070 was Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen objected of America and the Constitution on and storied history when it comes to created with but one goal in mind, to to SB 1070 saying he would not par- which it was founded.” men of color. A short walk through undermine the civil rights of Latinos in ticipate in next year’s All Star game if Before I continue let me take a Latino baseball history shows the facts Arizona. The odious and controversial it remained in Phoenix. He was imme- moment and state for the record that in horrific fashion. bill has been called a witch hunt, “the diately joined by San Diego Padres first I’m a white male born in Louisiana and From the early 1900s on through hate bill,” and racist to name a few. In baseman Adrian Gonzalez and a host reared in Virginia. My life has been the late 60s, little known Latino base- effect it provides blind provisions by of other Latino players including Albert fairly ordinary—safe. But having spent ball greats such as Jose Mendez, which Arizona police can approach, Pujols and Yovani Gallardo, as well as my formative years in the South, I have Cristobal Torriente, detain, report and in some instances several players of white and black heri- seen first hand the nasty side of racism. and Francisco “Pancho” Coimbre, imprison illegal immigrants—men, tage, Jerry Hairston Jr. and Heath Bell I played several sports throughout high along with numerous others, paved the women and children of color—based on to name a few, all of whom stated they school in the mid to late 80s. I’ve seen way for the modern Latino ballers who nothing more than suspicion of false would boycott next year‘s game. black and Latino players held to differ- today comprise more than a quarter status. Other prominent organizations ent standards all because some white of current MLB rosters. They endured The bill is far more convoluted and individuals have also spoken out coach thought he knew what was best racial slurs, inadequate pay and the pro- than my above description, though in against SB 1070. Major League Baseball’s for men of color. hibition of their native language to be general it must be said that it falls prey (MLB) players union and New York So I must be cautious here. The last spoken in their own clubhouses. They to man’s weakest sense, that of sight, Congressman Jose Cerrano and New thing I want to be is yet another white were forced to learn English, live with and uses it to justify a chain of discrim- Jersey Senator Robert Mendez came out man looking in from the outside, pon- white families and shun their heritage. inatory acts. Latinos are brown, they in direct opposition of the bill. Fans tificating as to how to solve the problems They endured numerous death threats speak another language, therefore they everywhere began showing up at venues of race relations in America. In reality I and the ire of many of their own fans are different, subject to things those from Boston to Los Angeles with ban- know very little. Nonetheless, it doesn’t and at times teammates. of us who are not brown would never ners and organized protests calling for take a rocket scientist or esteemed phi- In his book Playing America’s Game, allow to happen to us. MLB to reverse its position of support losopher to see SB1070 for what it truly Adrian Burgos Jr. outlines the numer- Being a sports writer, I immedi- for the discriminatory Arizona law. is … a hate bill aimed at Latinos every- ous hurdles Latinos endured through- ately think of the bill’s ramifications And that’s not to mention the countless where … one that spits in the face of the out baseball’s history and brings forth within baseball, a sport dominated by other Americans who’ve taken to the 28 percent of major league baseball play- Latinos, many of whom are today’s streets and polls to voice opposition. ers who are of Latin heritage. continued on page 6

Contents In forthcoming issues 2 — The Neighborhood 5 — Film & Media 7 — Opinion More Fancy Farm. Can’t we all just get along? Shootings in the Gorge. Letters to the editor. Yoga for green thumbs. 6 — Sports 8 — Comics ROCK returns. 4 — Music How to eat your trout. I’m Not From Here. New album reviews. River Rats. Thursday Night Live first-person. Music calendar. 2 North of Center

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North of Center is a periodical, a The right hook place, and a perspective. Keep reading to find out what that Out on the streets, that’s where we’ll meet means. By Captain Comannokers sure most cars in town aren’t equipped • Move further out into the travel Editor & Publisher NoC Transportation Czar with turn signals. Throw in all the dis- lane before intersections to deter Danny Mayer tractions we keep adding to our daily vehicles from passing and making Despite the growing support commutes (calling, texting, checking a right hook. for alternative transportation in e-mail, singing, righteous air-guitaring, • If cars do not have their right turn Features Lexington, we are not suddenly applying make-up, eating, drinking, signals on, look and listen for Beth Connors-Manke going to find ourselves in a Norman kid patrolling, and knitting some sort overtaking vehicles slowing and Rockwellesque utopia where everyone of hat or scarf), and it’s amazing we moving to the right. Film & Media waves, tips their caps, and rings their aren’t all in a tangled mess by the side • Always be prepared to slow down. Colleen Glenn bicycle bells. It’s a nice idea, but the of the road. (C-note: yes, riding with no hands reality is that sharing the road can be I do my best out there, but I’m no makes you look like a real bad ass, Music a frustrating, tricky, and dangerous expert. Therefore, I will consult with but if you are about to be right Megan Neff proposition. people in the community who have hooked then you will end up a real The simple goal of this column is the knowledge to guide us. I’d also ass, and that’s bad). Sports to create dialogue between everyone like to give them one giant “thanks” • Never approach a large vehicle on Troy Lyle who shares the road. I invite you, as a in advance for contributing their time the right at or near an intersection. pedestrian, cyclist, or motorist, to send and knowledge. I’m a cyclist the major- The driver’s rear view vision is Design in specific concerns related to the flow ity of the time, and many of the issues often obstructed, and you are plac- of traffic or laws of the road. If you’ve ing yourself in a vehicles’ blind Keith Halladay that I’ll initially look at may be from given a hand gesture or were forced to that perspective. That being said, I spot. yell a curse word or two because of a highly encourage motorists and pedes- • At intersections that include a Contributors traffic predicament, let me know—let’s trians to have their say in this forum. right turn lane, do not ride in the Michael Benton see if we can clear the air on what went We need to break any “us vs. them” turn lane if proceeding through Andrew Battista down. In turn, hopefully readers will mentalities that exist because when the intersection. Take the path Kenn Minter learn something they didn’t know and they exist the number of injuries and that serves your destination; in Captain Commanokers take the corrective measure next time even deaths only increases—and no one this case, ride in the rightmost Amber Scott they’re out and about. wins in that case. third of the through lane. Stan Heaton Our road habits are flawed enough • If making a right turn, establish a Tim Staley as it is—pedestrians don’t always use the The Right Hook position in the middle of the right crosswalk, plenty of cyclists magically A situation I see often, and have turn lane and signal your inten- Please address correspon- don’t see stop signs, and I’m pretty been a victim of too many times, is tion to turn by crooking your left dence, including advertising what is known as “the right hook.” arm up at the elbow. (C-note: I’d inquiries and letters to the Enter Michael Galbraith, League of also give the OK to the straight editor, to: American Bicyclists Cycling Instructor out right arm signal. Michael may who will guide us through the situation. disagree with me on that one, and A right hook is the term used to we can break it down in a future [email protected]. describe when a car makes a right turn column perhaps. I understand that in front of, or into, a cyclist traveling signaling with your left arm makes Unless otherwise noted, all in the same direction. it easier for motorists to see, but material copyright © 2010 KY Revised Statute 189.300 in my general experience, a good North of Center, LLC. addresses passing on Kentucky roads. number of people are so discon- nected from proper hand signal techniques that they have no idea that an L-shaped left arm signifies Want to advertise a right turn — sad, but true. So, I usually use the right arm signal, in North of Center? because I feel it’s the best choice for letting the motorist know my Email [email protected].

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The statute recommends at least three feet of space between the overtaking vehicle and the slower moving vehicle. It goes on to state that the overtak- ing vehicle should move back to the right only when well clear of the slower moving vehicle. $15 off first visit with mention of this ad. The right hook, though, usually occurs when the passing vehicle makes How we travel the roads together is a right turn immediately after passing, very important so please, please, please placing the cyclist in danger. Often, send any transportation quandaries Gardener’s yoga this is the result of the motorist mis- or questions to ShareTheRoadLex@ judging the cyclist’s speed. (Captain’s gmail.com. Also feel free to continue NoC Advertiser’s Notes yoga to keep my back strong and note: many motorists have the mindset the transportation conversation by supple enough to deal with the back that once they pass a cyclist they no posting, in good cheer, on our web- This man clearly needs some yoga strain that usually comes with hard longer have to think about the cyclist— site at noclexington.com. Captain work to aid his gardener’s back. gardening. hence the many right hooks that take Comannokers over and out. I don’t know about you, but I’ve If you’re experiencing gardener’s place. A motorist makes a pass and is been out in my yard lots this sum- back, why not join me for Happy & no longer aware that the cyclist, who is mer, pulling out kudzu, getting poison Healthy Backs yoga? Classes meet travelling at a pace only slightly slower, ivy, and keeping my perennial garden Wednesday evenings from 7-8:15 p.m. will be cut off). Castlewood weeded. I really enjoy how the fresh air and Sunday afternoons from 11-12:15 As a cyclist, here are some sugges- and physical labor calms the body and p.m. at Lexington Healing Arts Academy tions to avoid the right hook: quiets the mind for a bit. (272 Southland Drive, 859.252.5656, Neighborhood Unfortunately, I usually have an www.lexingtonhealingarts.com). Enjoy • Always scan for overtaking traffic achy back the next day. I need my your garden! over your left shoulder. • Look to see if intersections or park- Association ing lanes are located ahead where vehicles may bear right into your path. (C-note: this is particularly Meeting helpful if you have a daily route and know of an area that can be problematic. When travelling down Euclid Avenue, I find that Thursday, August 26 the entrance to Kroger is always a right hook danger. Once a car 6:30 pm passes a cyclist, it often slows down to nearly a complete stop because Grace Baptist Church of the angle of the turn, the bump entering the lot, and the congestion that often awaits it. So, it helps to DANNY MAYER be alert and take precautions in Join us! This man clearly needs some yoga work to aid his gardener’s back. known trouble spots like this one). North of Center 3

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Fancy Farm (cont.) continued from page 1 instant national attention, running non-Republican black president—as back in return for an obedient popu- in a conservative state sympathetic to with its use of other descriptors of lace. Fascism was perceived as an anti- This year’s edition of Fancy Farm, the right-inflected populism that the him like socialist and communist—is dote to the evil creep of communism however, the 130th such gathering movement espouses, win a seat as a intended to operate as “derogatory and socialism. here, had come to assume a greater federal lawmaker? It was a real riches labels that have come to represent But fascism doesn’t just operate national importance. Among oth- to riches story, Horatio Alger tailor That Which is Un-American, and economically. As a specific political ers, CSPAN was on hand to cover fit for the new millennium. That was Threatens Democracy.” This is not to belief system, it historically arises the event for the first time, Newsweek their story, anyway: document and say that Obama has not exhibited any through a far-right populism extol- writer Ezra Klein reportedly flew in gauge the power of a grassroots move- fascist elements as president. Like his ling extreme nationalism, intolerance to report on it, and a variety of NPR ment through the charismatic (or at predecessor in office, he certainly has of democratic processes, and the use stations swooped down for interviews least known and bankable) entity of done just that. of intolerant and hateful rhetoric and soundbites from both the politi- Rand Paul. It is instead to point out that the to scapegoat “outsider” minorities: cians on the stage and we lay people Me, I had a slightly different set Tea Party definition of fascism—as a immigrants, ethnic and religious grunting and sweating on the ground of questions to ask as I navigated my highly regulated system of state laws minorities, labor unions, progressives, in the sun, participant spectators way through the Saint Jerome Catholic and taxations on private business, feminists, homosexuals and socialists. walking around with our signs and Church grounds, passing the putt-putt and seemingly that action only—is not One only needs to think of Adolph our literature and our endorsement and soda-ring toss tents and enter- based in reality, or historical reality at Hitler’s fascist Third Reich to see how t-shirts. ing the throng of Teabaggers, Young least. It is also to point out that the fascism mobilized the volk, the peo- The increased coverage and impor- Democrats and camera-toting journal- intended effect of calling Obama a ple. It was largely energized through tance placed on Fancy Farm owes itself ists, bedecked in a spray-painted white fascist or socialist or communist is to militaristic and atavistic appeals to a to one single recent phenomenon: the UFK t-shirt and carrying a large hand- “out” Obama as un-American. “they” that were to be both feared and rapid rise of the Tea Party as a political painted “fascist scoreboard” folded These tag lines, fascist particularly, demonized. movement within the United States. around two eight-foot tall Kentucky operate similarly to the “terrorist!” line Hitler rose to power promising a Kentucky’s race to fill the soon-to-be- Damn Proud cuts of bamboo, on the much preferred by the same people sev- return to national greatness after the eral years ago, back in the early Aughts. German loss of World War I, which Whether called terrorist or fascist, the had left the nation’s infrastructure claim’s basis in reality is subordinate to destroyed and its economic self-suf- its chilling effect on emotional public ficiency crippled under the historical perception. weight of military-induced debt. “It is not necessary for something Hitler based his vision of a strong to actually be socialist or fascist (by German state arising from the ashes any historical definition) to have these on a mythic German master race. He labels applied,” Teramis continues. mobilized his power by scapegoating “What is necessary is a threat to the not only Jews, a religious minority in status quo, and an action proposed or the state, but also academics not toe- implemented that makes some people ing the state line of German cultural uncomfortable about what it portends. power, gypsies (a state-less, and there- At this point, the bogeyman terms fore perpetually immigrant, class), apply.” gays and labor unions. The outcome of all this bogeyman- Only the name of Hitler’s politi- ism is some pretty wild—and if you cal party, the Nationalist Socialist know anything about fascism, hilari- German Worker’s Party, had any con- ous and head-shaking—semantic gym- nection to socialist or communist ten- nastics. One writer, Don Frederick, dencies—and it was in name only. Far actually took time to point out that from being lefty-socialist, Hitler rose

CRAIG CROWDER fascism, while bad, was actually par- to power through a right-wing move- tially redeemable when compared to ment that embraced nationalism, Spectacle at Fancy Farm. socialism because “[t]he fascist at least capitalism and an enforced cultural has enough sense to recognize that homogeneity. vacated seat of Jim Bunning, the state’s lookout for some Western Kentucky some capitalism is needed to create Of course, Hitler was not the only long-serving conservative fiscal hawk barbecue pork. the wealth he wishes to confiscate.” fascist dictator of the last century. senator, features Republican candidate Fascism, for this writer, is bad, but One might also look at the populace Rand Paul, son of Texas libertarian Fascism in the U.S.A. not as bad as socialism—simply on the that supported, say, Mussolini’s fas- Republican congressman Ron Paul, Since the election of Barack basis that at least it endorses and uti- cist Italian government, or that of running against the Democrat Jack Obama to the presidency, the term lizes capitalism. Spain’s General Franco, or that of the Conway. fascism has enjoyed a resurgence in Taking many of the anti-govern- popularity, predominantly used by ment conservative libertarian positions commentators on the political right as that are the hallmark of his father, Rand a description for the policies of center/ Paul has both courted and received the left Democrats (so-called progressives). support of Tea Partiers. Thus far, the As early as April 2009, Glenn Beck courtship has paid dividends. In the began using the F word in conjunction state’s republican primaries, Paul’s out- with Obama, telling his viewers that sider candidacy utterly horse-whipped the president is no mere socialist, but the establishment Republican candi- that in actuality he is a fascist in social- date (and current Secretary of State ist’s clothing. for Kentucky) Trey Grayson, who was Rush Limbaugh followed suit endorsed by Kentucky Senator Mitch several months later in August 2009, McConnell, by a margin of over 20 rebranding Obama the evil dark social- points. (Paul secured nearly 59% of the ist as Obama the evil dark fascist. primary vote.) “We’ve gotta stop calling it socialism, National news outlets driving up to folks,” Limbaugh told his Dittoheads, the sweltering western Kentucky farm “cause socialism’s lost its bite.” Taking metropolis of Fancy Farm (population a slightly more conservative tack, one 1700) last Saturday did not come here observer, Scott Lazarowitz, has even

to cover Mike East, Republican candi- gone so far as to tag Obama as a CRAIG CROWDER date for Kentucky’s Second District in “socialist fascist communist.” Better to the state Senate, or to hear about the cover all bases, I suppose. KFTC members politic for felony voting rights at Fancy Farm. brand spanking new school opened Before I go on, I should make up just beyond the homes out yonder one thing clear. You can’t really be a Frederick’s understanding of fas- several U.S. supported fascist regimes past stage left here in Fancy Farm. No, socialist fascist communist. I’ll explain cism is partly right, of course. As a spe- in South America. All emanated from they came here to cover one thing: the why below, but for those slow on the cific economic belief system, fascism the right. This doesn’t make the lefty larger national story of the Tea Party’s uptake, not hep to your history, being aims to merge the interests of the state socialists politically blameless, but political power. a fascist communist is sort of like and corporations, often in the name in terms of fascism, it’s generally This nationally-scaled story being a dogcat. of efficiency. None other than Benito opposed to it. mainly posed a variation on the As the writer Teramis observed Mussolini, the fascist Italian dictator, If there is a fascist movement same general question and storyline. in the online article “Socialism, noted that “[f]ascism should more coalescing in the United States, its Could a Tea Party candidate with a Fascism and Obama,” the Right’s use properly be called corporatism because source is not emanating from left- political pedigree that commands of the term fascism to describe our it is the merger of state and corporate wing communists. History suggests power.” instead that fascism arises through In the U.S., it was this fealty to right wing populist movements. In the capitalism—the state’s interests merged U.S. today, the face of this populism— with their own—that intrigued many and the group most readily anointing of our nation’s wealthy industrialists, liberal groups as fascists—is the Tea people like Henry Ford (developer of Party movement, which uses rhetoric the capitalist production model we that suggests they want to “take back now call “Fordism”) and Prescott Bush our country” from the gay black and (grandfather to Bush II), to back the brown socialist immigrants who have Fuhrer right on up to the beginning unsettled the status quo and led the of WWII. country to the brink of economic and As an economic system, fascism military disaster. was viewed by big businessmen in the U.S. such as Ford and Bush as a more In the next issue, part two will return to efficient running of national govern- Fancy Farm and the anti-fascist group ments. Fascism wasn’t over-regulation, United Front Kentucky, a group with it was the state scratching big business’s which the author affiliates. 4 North of Center

AUGUST 11, 2010 Music Music you need to hear: August 11 - 24 Friday, August 13 Saturday, August 14 Tuesday, August 17 Delilah Why The Hot Seats Turbo A.C.’s w/ The Loaded Nuns and Cheapside Bar & Grill, 10:00 P.M. 21+. Al’s Bar, 9:00 P.M. All ages. Corsairs Nashville’s three-piece southern Why, just the other day I was Buster’s, 9:00 P.M. $5. 18+. rock outfit Delilah Why warms my returning from Hanson’s Drug, fresh At turns as menacing as Iggy heart, because I am a southern man from bolting down an ice-cold sarsa- Pop and as degenerate as Sid Vicious, who adores the early Black Crowes, parilla and full with sugar and gaiety, New York’s Turbo A.C.’s scorch their who won’t turn off a Skynryd song when I thought I’d look in on the amplifiers in a cheap Buster’s show. when it comes on the radio, and who is old boys at the club. After some jokes Lexington’s Loaded Nuns, on the other pretty damn sure the Faces were a bet- and tomfoolery a friend burst in with hand, are as menacing as Sid Vicious ter British blues band than the Stones. a bottle of corn liquor, another fella and as degenerate as Iggy Pop, and also That last point is controversial, but if withdrew a banjo from who-knows- scorch their amplifiers. —BE you share at least one of the above attri- where, and the ensuing racket was just butes, don’t miss this gig. They’re know about the most perfect song I’d heard Thursday, August 19 what they’re doing. —Keith Halladay in my young life. —Buck Edwards Michelle Malone Me, I hear more of a classic southern Natasha’s, 9:00 P.M. $8. All ages. rock vibe—more Allman Brothers The title track from Malone’s than Iggy, and more hard booze than latest release, Debris, opens with the cosmic love—but I like it nonetheless. lament, “kids: they grow up to be like —Northrup Centre you.” If your child grows up to be like Michelle Malone, then your child Saturday, August 21 plays intelligent country-tinged rock O-Zone and sings with freshness and honesty. Natasha’s, 9:00 P.M. $10. All ages. Congratulate yourself, parent: you’ve O-Zone is a Lexington quintet done well. Celebrate with a trip to playing soft jazz in the Spyro Gyra Natasha’s. —KH vein. This is adult contemporary terri- tory, and not my particular strong suit, Friday, August 20 but O-Zone plays their part well. The Business Time w/ Chakras laid back sax and mellow keyboards are Buster’s, 9:00 P.M. $5. 18+. sure to melt the ice in your bourbon. Business Time is a more than com- One gets the sense, after hearing their petent cover band from Lexington cover of Al Jarreau’s “We’re in this that has a knack for veering into some Love together,” that the band might be

COURTESY THE HOT SEATS seriously hard grooves. The band able to pull off a version of perhaps the describes its sound as the cosmic love The Hot Seats. child of Keith Richards and Iggy Pop. continued on the next page Reviews: new from Chakras, Best Coast it. The songs are playfully nostalgic, to flesh everything out. Lyrically, no we’re honest, this record has been in Best Coast relentlessly upbeat and never more boundaries are being pushed. The our blood since junior high. It swelled than a short-but-sweet three minutes. subject matter deals mainly with boys, with our first kiss and soured at the Crazy for You The midtempo “Boyfriend” opens TV, cats and smoking weed. There are first taste of unrequited love. And the album before easing into the fre- a few rhyme schemes repeated more with the help of Best Coast it has fer- By Megan Neff netic ode to universal longing in than once. mented into a bitter sweet mash of “Crazy for You.” Bruno lays out simple But it’s within the unaffected sim- 60s flavored nostalgia good to the last Bethany Cosentino has effectively beats on the drums that remain some- plicity that the appeal lays. Because if oohing ahhing drop. traded in her psych-drone robes after what in the background of Cosentino’s leaving Pocahaunted. Since 2009, alternately jangling guitar hooks and she and bandmate Bobb Bruno have foggy reverb. released a slew of breezy summer singles “Honey” marks the only time the on various labels under the Best Coast album lagged, feeling weirdly melan- moniker. The full length release on choly in that drunk before noon sort the Mexican Summer imprint finds a of way. A gorgeous hyperactive Beach couple of those old tunes sporting some Boys doozy by way of “Happy” (kinda) hi-fi spitshine, plus 11 new and “Each and Everyday” resuscitates tracks that easily live up to all the hype. the album before the grand finale, The sunshine state duo blend girl however, which ends on the hopeful group harmonies and surf rock with overtones of “When I’m With You.” what’s good about modern indie pop. Cosentino’s crisp vocals lie at the While they might be keeping time with heart of Crazy For You. Think a throat- a fad for beachy throwback music, they ier Linda Scott. She stays within a do it so well you can’t help but like comfortable but strong range, layering

appeal, but the expressive range of the Cedric’s opening track, “999,” Two of the stronger cuts on Cedric Chakras bad-girl snarl is rather limited. begins with a rolling guitar riff, remi- are the metal-tinged “Under God” Cedric Then, in 2004, came a band called niscent of Soundgarden’s “Jesus Christ and the punk-flavored “Split Lip,” Evanescence and a song called “Bring Pose”, that soon gives way to Simler- each of which find a healthy balance Me to Life,” which was notable for DeGolier, in snarl mode, lament- between the tendencies of the guitars By Keith Halladay being as terrifyingly inescapable as any ing “a world that sends youth out to toward heavy riffing and the power- radio hit of recent memory, and for fight / Regardless of the wrong.” The pop leanings of Simler-DeGolier’s In the hard rock genre, those sing- the quality of Amy Lee’s vocals. Gone aggression of the verse in turn yields vocals. Likewise “First Footings,” with ers who happen to be women tend to was the hard-rock snarl; in its place Lee to a soaring, reconciling chorus that puts a radio-ready sheen on chugging, choose vocal styles that fall into one of sang plaintively and with real power, as exhorts, “you will make us proud and Zeppelin-esque rhythms. In fact the two categories: the bad-girl snarl and though someone had plucked a fresh- end the suffering.” entire album sounds a bit familiar, like the earnest, love-besotted belt. faced mezzo-soprano from a college It isn’t clear, in “999,” who will be something you’ve already hummed One immediately thinks of Cherie women’s a cappella outfit and plunked ending the suffering, or whether the along with in the car. That isn’t to say Currie with the Runaways or of Lita her down in the middle of a Slipknot song is to be taken as an anti-war dia- it’s derivative music, but merely that Ford and Joan Jett, both in that band rehearsal. tribe, an expression of solidarity with the influences are clear and traceable; and in their solo careers, as classic Lee was no innovator: Christina U.S. troops and their allies, or some Chakras play heavy pop of the sort examples of the first approach; their Scabbia has given Lacuna Coil a combination of both, but the ambigu- that’s a staple of “rock alternative” radio voices were of the sort that seemed to powerful melodic voice since the late ity seems intended; Simler-DeGolier’s these days, and they play it very well. announce to the world, “yes, we’re avail- nineties, but with “Bring Me to Life” lyrics often address tangible topics They do stick to the formula: brooding able, but you’d better be as tough as we Evanescence seemed to make strong, obliquely, using metaphor and abstrac- verses followed by power-chord cho- are if you want a chance.” Later prac- feminine singing over hard rock and tion to provide her the words with a ruses followed by still-more-brooding titioners of the style include Donita metal riffs the right thing to do. Even touch of universality. It’s a tried-and- bridge sections, making the final cho- Sparks with L7 and Courtney Love better, more recent bands such as true rock technique, though it doesn’t rus just that much more triumphant. with Hole, who each have undeniable In This Moment (featuring vocalist always work on Cedric. In “BDSM,” for But it works, and they do it in earnest. Maria Brink) showcase a bit of both example, the psychological starkness Cedric is, of course, only the first styles, meaning that it may finally of “Harnesses whips and chains / All record by a new act, and a self-released be culturally acceptable for a female the while in pain / I will ask that you one at that, and as such it’s a remark- hard rock singer to have range. How plead / I will do the same” is fuzzied able achievement. While listening I liberating. by a vague refrain: “Set your boundar- did begin to wonder what business a Into this new world struts ies wide / You may need to run and Chakras record made with the assis- Cincinnati’s Chakras, whose debut hide.” Reznor wouldn’t settle for that. tance of a big-budget producer, and full-length album, Cedric, was released Yet the lyrics are more frequently brave, with more consistently clean engineer- in June. The band’s sound is domi- emotional, and compelling, no more ing, might do; the answer is that it nated by the strong vocals of Andrea so than during the driving power bal- would probably do quite well, given Simler-DeGolier and the twin-guitar lad “Souvenir,” when Simler-DeGolier the band’s smart songwriting sensibili- attack of Bill Menke and Mark Szabo, sings, “I will crawl on my knees across ties. But you be the judge: Chakras is while Steve Kolonski (drums) and Jeff your floor / It never mattered because opening for Lexington’s Business Time Conner (bass), propel the rhythms. you always wanted more.” at Buster’s on the 20th. North of Center 5

Film & Media AUGUST 11, 2010 On the set of Red River Moon Local production shoots in Red River Gorge

By Lucy Jones against you when all you are trying to do is glorify her in the film, but we did Of all the myriad reasons that the best we could.” downtown Lexington is a desirable Of course, what the Gorge taketh locale for film shooting, one of the away, it giveth back tenfold. The pro- more rarely discussed is the relative duction utilized some of the most absence of bear attacks. But, for a beautiful and well-known sites in the largely local film crew assembled in Daniel Boone National Forest to weave the Red River Gorge this summer, the the film’s tale of two little girls lost in unexpected salience of this point was the woods and trying to find their way. fairly unavoidable. The exterior shots were richly crafted On location to shoot a feature to showcase the unparalleled splendor film for Lexington’s own Four B of the area. Barnett had written the Films, the cast and crew of Red River script for Red River Moon with just Moon found themselves in an unantici- these natural assets in mind. pated position late this June. After a “I decided to write a feature in the black bear attacked a hiker, the park Spring of 2007,” says Barnett. “I knew I

was closed indefinitely and the crew wanted it to be set in what I consider to LUCY JONES found themselves cut off from access be the most beautiful location in the to their planned locations. The shoot state, the Red River Gorge.” Barnett The cast and crew of Red River Moon on location in the Red River Gorge. was interrupted, and producers ulti- put to work his knowledge and experi- mately had no choice but to temporar- ence in the Gorge to scout a series of room I’m sure I would not hesitate happening throughout the state. “In ily cease production. locations that were maximized for their to use force to get rid of it; thus, if the last two years, Kentucky has made Writer and Director Bruce Barnett, narrative potential. Scenes included I were in its living room, metaphori- itself more appealing to larger budget co-founder of Four B Films, took the shots of Natural Bridge, Laurel Ridge, cally speaking, I suppose I would have films and productions through our interruption in stride. “The fact that Chimney Top, and Garfish Rock as to understand if it attacked me. The tax incentives program, where films the only Kentucky bear attack in mod- well as lesser-traveled (but equally spec- fact is, we want to have open space and like Secretariat were shot on location ern history shut our production down tacular) areas of the Gorge. parks preserved so that we can embrace instead of entirely in another state. for a couple of days tested our persever- Many of the crew members, includ- nature. Part of that nature comes with The Louisville Film Society’s Flyover ance, but that is what filmmaking is, a ing Forren and Assistant Director Kiley wild animals.” Film Festival produced a second year test of perseverance.” Lane, were also longtime visitors and Barnett agrees: “For the record, I of outstanding films, and Danville Kelsey Forren, Production Gorge enthusiasts who consequently was always for the bear getting away. has just announced their Lawn Chair Manager for the film, agrees: “Working understood and respected the balance Long live the bears!” Film Festival in September. Then, in an environment that is unpredict- of nature which exists in Kentucky’s Red River Moon is the second pro- of course, we have the Paducah Film able can sometimes create complica- parks. duction for Barnett’s Four B Films Society’s River’s Edge Film Festival in tions, so there was a lot of adjusting As Lane explains: ”We should which he formed in partnership with November to cap off our Kentucky we had to do. It can be frustrating coexist and understand that a bear is a Lexington native Ben Burke. Four B’s Fall, and we should all be aware of the sometimes when Mother Nature works wild animal. If a bear was in my living first production, Nobody in Particular, 40 plus years of Appalshop’s cinematic was shot in Lexington in the sum- and arts dedication, which has put mer of 2009 with Burke directing and Kentucky on the map internationally.” Barnett producing. The two partners Barnett continues to contribute to swapped roles for Red River Moon with Lexington’s growing film landscape Barnett at the helm and Burke serving with a number of projects that are cur- as his co-producer. Nobody in Particular rently in the pipeline, one of which has completed post-production and is is “a treatment…about an actor and currently in the submission process for a waitress who both are a part of an a number of film festivals. eclectic restaurant/music/theater venue When asked about the benefits called Natasha’s.” of filming in Lexington, Barnett Barnett is hopeful about responds: “There is a growing com- Lexington’s ever expanding cinematic munity of people working in film. community, and lauds the techno- Programs like the one at Bluegrass logical advances that have made the Community Technical College con- medium more accessible to local tinue to produce people with a variety filmmakers. ”With the continuing of skill sets necessary in filmmaking. development of digital filmmaking, They just need projects to work on.” more and more independent produc-

LUCY JONES Lane is heartened by the expand- tions continue to be shot in the area. ing number of productions, and Hopefully this trend will continue. I Neither rain nor heat nor threat of bear keeps Lexington film crew out of the Gorge. regards it as part of a larger trend know I will.”

Music calendar (cont.) continued from the previous page The taxonomy has sprawled into his own evolutionary history. To Roller Girls of Central Kentucky After such a mindboggling swamp that say- cut the story short, he began in New Party w/ Husky Burnette and Argo quintessential AM radio soft rock hit ing a couple of psych-rock bands will York with the freak-folk collective Lynn. Buster’s, 11 P.M. $5. of all time, Lionel Ritchie’s “Easy (Like be playing Saturday, Aug. 22 at Al’s Bar of Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Sunday Morning).” Coming from me, won’t work. We’ve got to dig deeper. Voice and ended up moving to Deadstring Brothers. The Green Lantern, that’s high praise. —NC Up first: Little Gold. These Lexington in 2010. Somewhere along 9 P.M. Brooklynites specialize in psychedelic the way, he garnered a curious pair of Sunday, August 22 tunes infused with southern swag- parentheses. Sunday, Aug. 15 Little Gold w/ Inoculist & (Wooden) ger and a head for pop harmonies. But here we are, mouths crammed Dylan Sneed w/Craig Ramsey. Al’s Bar, Wand Western grit meets smoke and a catchy with too many genres and ears primed 8 P.M. Al’s Bar, 8:00 P.M. $5. All ages. hook. for filling, however ambiguous the Psychedelic rock has grown Fellow New Yorkers Inoculist music may be. —Megan Neff Afroman w/ 28 North. Cosmic Charlie’s. increasingly complicated since its marry hazy pop songs with old-world heyday in the 60s. One genre was folk. Trading off on male and female Thursday, Aug. 19 born out of the ashes of whatever vocals, the four-piece recreates the Weekend gigs in Lex Tillers with The Rainjunkies. The Green preceded it, another came back sound of Peter, Paul and Mary for the Lantern, 9 P.M. to life by way of a seedy basement modern indie world. Thursday, Aug. 12 revival, another vanished in a puff of And then there is James Jackson The Bleats w/Chopper Brown and Unknown Hinson. Cosmic Charlie’s, questionable smoke. Toth of (Wooden) Wand, subject to Pinky Means. Al’s Bar, 9 P.M. 10:00 P.M.

Rough Customers with Swino. The Friday, Aug. 20 Green Lantern, 9 P.M. The Biters with The Booze and Swino. Al’s Bar, 9 P.M. Friday, Aug. 13 The NEC w/The Butchers and Blueberries with Rebel Without a Jovontaes. Al’s Bar, 9 P.M. $5. Cause. The Green Lantern, 9 P.M.

Englishman with Cheyenne Mize and The Yellowbelts with the Dirty The Spinning Leaves. Natasha’s Bistro, Socialites. Cosmic Charlie’s. 9 P.M. $5. Saturday, Aug. 21 Taildragger with Lost River Cavemen. Brown Sugar: A Devine Intervention The Green Lantern, 9 P.M. $5. and Disco Damie Production. Al’s Bar, 9 P.M. Ford Theater Reunion with The Seedy Seeds. Cosmic Charlie’s, 10:00 P.M. The Slagsmiths with the Sooners. Buster’s, 10 P.M. $5.

COURTESY LITTLE GOLD Saturday, Aug. 14 The Hot Seats w/The Sour Mashers Jug The Bleats w/ The Girly Girl Burlesque Little Gold at Al’s August 22. Band. Al’s Bar, 9 P.M. $5. Show. The Green Lantern, 9 P.M. 6 North of Center

AUGUST 11, 2010 Sports You’ve caught a few; now what to do? Shootin’ n snaggin’ with the Frugal Fisherman Over the last few months I’ve writ- easier to clean and prep than most fish each into the flour, then the egg • 8 sprigs fresh marjoram or oreg- ten about everything from worm beds with scales. mixture, then the cornmeal. ano, divided and pond fishing to various bait and Now don’t get me wrong, I love a 7. Sauté each trout until golden • 3/4 cup dry white wine tackle. During this time my approach crispy fried trout as much as the next brown on both sides. Directions: to fishing has changed. Where I used man. And there are few healthier ways 8. Transfer the four trout to a baking 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. to understand fishing as a mere sport, to eat fish, or any meat for that matter, sheet and place in the oven. Bake 2. Rinse fish well inside and out and I’ve grown to value it more of a means than baked. But if you’re eating trout for 5 to 6 minutes. pat dry with paper towels. of subsistence. three or four times a week, you need 9. Zest and juice both lemons, sepa- 3. Place a trout in the center of each An avid gardener in search of variety or you will burn yourself out rately reserving the zest and the square of aluminum foil. increasingly sustainable means of food quick. By no means is the following juice. 4. Rub each trout with 1 tablespoon production, somewhere in the past list of recipes indicative of the very best 10. While the trout are baking, melt of the olive oil on both sides, then year I decided I’d turn my hobby into ways to prepare and eat trout. They are the butter in a nonstick, sauté pan generously season each both inside a way of utilizing fish as an excellent simply a wide range of delicious ideas over medium-high heat. Watching and out with salt and pepper. source of protein. My plan was, and is, on how to add variety. carefully and lowering the heat 5. Stuff the cavities of each with to stock my freezer with as much fish if necessary, allow the butter to lemon slices, 2 cloves of the as I can catch, clean and freeze over Frying: a time-tested method with a foam and turn golden brown. sliced garlic, and 2 sprigs each of the next few months, thereby increas- twist or two added Immediately add the lemon juice the rosemary, parsley, mint, and ingly removing myself from the indus- Pan-Fried Trout w/ Pecans & Brown Butter and zest. Salt and pepper to taste. marjoram. trial food grid, all while eating better Ingredients for four people: 11. While the butter is still foaming, 6. Fold all of the edges of the foil food and saving a few pennies along • Sea salt and freshly ground black add the pecans and parsley to the upwards to create a bowl-shape, the way. pepper pan. Do not allow the butter to then drizzle each with 2 table- The only problem was I had no • 3 large eggs burn or it will be unusable. spoons of the remaining olive idea how to cook fish other than fry- • 2 cups flour (I use rice flour but 12. Place each trout on four dinner oil and 3 tablespoons each of the ing or baking them. So over the past you can use whatever you have at plates and pour the pecan-brown white wine. month I started to experiment with a hand) butter over the top. 7. Fold the top and side edges together myriad of different recipes. These are • 3 tablespoons milk Serve the pecan-fried trout with a side tightly so that each is enclosed in recipes for trout because I already have • 2 cups white cornmeal of sautéed garlic and swiss chard (or an airtight package. some 20 plus in the freezer, pulled • 4 whole rainbow trout, head on, whatever green is in season) and a fresh 8. Place the pouches on a large bak- from the cold waters of the Dix River. gutted baked baguette. Be careful to let your ing sheet and bake for 20 to 25 Of course, I also love trout’s gamey, • 8 tablespoons peanut oil (vegetable friends know there are bones still in minutes, or until the trout are just more intense fish taste.--and they are if you prefer) the trout. cooked through and flake easily • 2 lemons when pierced with a fork. • 2 sticks unsalted butter Baking: always a healthy option and Serve the baked trout immediately in • 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans (or a great way to free up time for other large shallow bowls with the collected almonds if you prefer) food items juices drizzled over the fish. A great • 1/4 cup finely chopped parsley Baked Trout with Fresh Herbs and Garlic side for this dish is scalloped potatoes Directions: Ingredients for four people: with rosemary, or some freshly sliced 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. • 4 whole rainbow trout, head on, tomatoes from the garden, and some 2. Place flour in a medium bowl and gutted toasted brioche or wheat bread. Be generously season with S&P. • 4 pieces aluminum foil about careful to let your friends know there 3. Whisk eggs and milk in a large 16x16 inches are bones still in the trout. bowl and lightly season with salt • 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil and pepper. • Sea salt and freshly ground black Grilled or smoked: in my opinion 4. Place cornmeal in a medium bowl pepper it’s hard to beat any meat grilled or and generously season with salt • 2 lemons, sliced crosswise smoked and trout is no different and pepper. • 8 cloves garlic, thinly sliced, Grilled Trout Hollandaise 5. In a large skillet pour and heat 8 divided Ingredients for four people:

TROY LYLE tablespoons of oil over medium • 8 sprigs fresh rosemary, divided • 4 whole rainbow trout, headless, heat until oil is almost smoking. • 8 sprigs fresh Italian parsley, gutted Four Dix River rainbow trout cleaned and 6. Lightly season both sides of each divided ready for the dinner table. trout with salt and pepper and dip • 8 sprigs fresh mint, divided continued on page 8 Brown color line (cont.)

continued from page 1 the fundamentals of hitting, catching many other Latinos, have brought to Now: Economic exploitation of and throwing. The sad thing is these their respective teams in terms of rev- many misconceptions about Latino’s Hispanic players kids jump at the chance to be enslaved. enues, nor to the MLB as a whole. But role in the game, like the fact that The exploitation hasn’t gotten That’s how bad their lives were before. most any baseball fan can remember very few players of Latin heritage par- much better in recent years, even for Some might call this a road to pros- the thrilling race between ticipated in the Bigs before 1947. Since now well known Latino players. In 1993, perity, but it should more accurately be Mark McGwire and Sosa in 1998. The most Latinos were considered “colored” the acquired the con- understood as exploitation. The Texas two single handedly saved what at the in the first place, their only opportuni- siderable talents of a 17-year-old named Rangers acquired Sammy Sosa in 1986 time was, in many sports lovers minds, ties to play the game came in the Jim Miguel Tejada for a mere $2,000. Tejada, for $3,500. True, it’s more than Tejada’s a floundering and irrelevant game. Crow Negro leagues at the early part of born in the miserable barrio of Bani in two grand, but look at it this way, $3,500 Four short years earlier the MLB the century. the , quit school is the exact same amount the Brooklyn shut down for 232 days in 1994 and 95. Writing in Far From Home: Latino to work full-time at the age of 11. That Dodgers paid to sign Jackie Robinson in Many fans gave up on baseball, tired Baseball Players in America, Tim Wendell decision came after nearly five years of 1946. 40 years for non-native Hispanic of yet another strike, the eighth in the describes the day to day struggles he and his family hopping from home- players to reach the economic exploita- leagues history. It’s not a stretch in my Latinos faced just to have a chance to less shelter to homeless shelter. His work tion of Jim Crow era blacks. mind to say MLB owes Sosa and the be a part of baseball. career began at the age of five when he (Big picture sidenote: When com- other 28 percent of Latinos like Albert “For all the racism and discom- shined shoes at a local market. He never pared to that of the average immigrant Pujols, Adrian Gonzalez and Udaldo fiture that African-American ball- received any formal education prior worker, $2000 and $3500 must seem like Jimenez, who thrill fans nightly, a whole players endured in the years follow- to his arrival at the Athletics baseball a fortune, for these workers risk their hell of a lot more than the audacity to ing Jackie Robinson’s debut in 1947, camp in the Dominican. life to get here and immediately seek support such a bogus and erroneous bill. Latino players had it even worse. In Compare Tejada’s $2,000 to that work, only to arrive at the desk of an addition to discrimination based of Ben Grieve, Tejada’s white American American employer who enslaves them Baseball in Arizona on the color of their skin, there was teammate, who received a $1.2 million in a system that neither recognizes their Currently, half of MLB hold their also, in many cases, a language bar- signing bonus from the Athletics in the humanity, nor pays a fair wage for their training camps in Arizona, known as rier. Black players, at least, plied their same year. Not to knock Grieve, who efforts. Unsurprisingly, nationally many the Cactus League. This means that trade on home soil, but Latinos not won the (AL) rookie immigrant workers are paid half or less a good portion of players coming to only had to acclimate to a new geog- of the year award in 1998, but he’s had of the standard minimum wage of $7.25 Arizona for the time-honored tradition raphy, they were also thrust into the a far less impact on the game than that nationally. Now back to baseball.) of spring ball may stand a reasonable middle of an often perplexing cul- of Tejada, who’s still going strong at the There are no hard figures to con- tural environment. Something as age of 36 with his recent trade to the AL vey what Sosa and Tejada, as well as continued on the next page simple as ordering food could pose central leading White Sox. Tejada’s won a challenge. Hall of Famer Orlando numerous awards of his own. In 2002, Cepeda has often spoken about how he was awarded the AL MVP award, the San Francisco Giants tried to pre- and he was the MVP of the 2005 All- vent the team’s Latino players from Star Game. Those pale in comparison speaking Spanish at the ballpark. to what I consider his most important Similarly, the media in Pittsburgh accomplishment -- 1,152 consecutive embarrassed Pirates superstar Roberto games played between 1997 and 2007. Clemente by publishing his interviews Tejada’s route to the Majors isn’t in “dialect.”” unique. Major League Baseball has a Most of us under the age of 70 number of Central and South American have little memory of such history. We baseball camps, as well as Caribbean immediately think of Robinson and camps, that mostly operate under the other black torchbearers when it comes radar. These camps recruit poor, unedu- to the game and racial barriers. But cated youths who display talent at play- make no mistake, Latinos are the ones ing the game. Prospects are expected to who truly endured the indignation and leave their families and attend camp, fury of baseball’s color line. where they are drilled all day long in North of Center 7

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continued from the previous page minor leagues, good luck. Good luck. I work in the food service industry. More than 10 players on the And it’s always going to be like that. It’s Most all of the back of house employ- Lexington Legends Single A baseball chance of getting pulled over simply on never going to change. But that’s the ees (cooks, dish washers, etc.) are Latino team have ties to Hispanic speaking the basis of their skin color. way it is.” immigrants, many of whom can’t speak countries. I’d like to ask them what If that isn‘t appalling enough, Guillen, a native Venezuelan, a word of English. Most are poorly edu- it’s truly like for a young Latino break- Arizona is scheduled to host next year’s knows full well how unfair it is for cated. They are paid nothing. They work ing into the game. I wonder what they All Star game at Chase Field, home of young Latinos entering the league. He’s like dogs. They never complain. And think of baseball’s treatment of Latinos the Arizona Diamondbacks. The game seen it first hand as he worked his way they are a drop in the bucket of Latino and specifically, SB 1070’s role in base- could feature as many as 40 percent of up the coaching ladder. Unlike other employees who daily undertake the types ball‘s future. I’ll get back to you. Stay its players of Latino heritage. Adding to Latino coaches he is unafraid to say it. of jobs whites and blacks refuse. tuned. the fire, Commissioner Bud Selig has Of course, Guillen has not been stated that he has “no intentions” of the only baseball manager to speak his moving next years All Star game out of mind. Earlier this summer St. Louis Goat man (cont.) Chase Field. Cardinal Manager, Tony LaRussa, came continued from page 1 of the London Ferrell Community “Apparently all the people around out in direct support of SB1070. Here’s Garden. I can move into another world and in minority communities think what he said as reported by Dave Zirin The men’s incredulity shifted from me there, even with cars racing by. The we’re doing OK. That’s the issue, in his E of S Nation column. to the idea of a man with a pet goat on second half of the morning was spent and that’s the answer,” he said in an “I’m actually a supporter of what the north side. on Seventh Street, a tight street with Associated Press interview in May. “I Arizona is doing. If the national govern- The woman told me that she hadn’t fenced-in front yards and porches near told the clubs today: ‘Be proud of what ment doesn’t fix your problem, you’ve seen the goat man since “they burned the sidewalk. The stretch where the we’ve done.’ They are. We should. And got a problem. You’ve got to fix it your- down his trailer.” I didn’t ask who “they” kids were selling their vegetables had that’s our answer. We control our own self. That’s just part of the American was, but I did find out that he’d been the intimate feel that downtown areas fate, and we’ve done very well.” way.” After which he praised the hand- living in a trailer behind a house in the can have since everything, and every- If by well you mean you—MLB, ful of Tea Partiers who attended that area. I thanked her, received blessings one, is so close. The kids were easily owners, commissioners—have done well week’s Cardinals/Diamondbacks game from the old men, and headed up the moving back and forth between farm from years of exploiting Latinos, then with banners and signs in support of street. If it were true that goat man had and market with no dissonance. They yes, Commissioner, you have done quite SB 1070. lived in a backyard trailer, that would just rode up the street. the job of reaping record profits over LaRussa manages superstar Latino explain, I thought, the pressing need to the last three decades. ballers Pujols and Yadier Molina. And walk the goat. The house lots on this Different urban models But Arizona’s role in baseball goes what was Pujols and Molina’s response? street were scaled to be urban so that Recently, in a conversation about far beyond the All Star game and spring No comment. There are repercussions there naturally wasn’t a lot of expanse how Lexington should plan and grow, league play. The Arizona Diamondbacks for a Latino when he speaks his mind. for a goat to frolic (or whatever goats Detroit came up. Like other ailing rust team owner, Ken Kendrick, has been Guillen’s comments regularly land him do to pass the time)—with a backyard belt cities, Detroit proper has to radi- reported in The Nation and New York in baseball’s dog house. Most recently trailer there would be even less. cally re-think city planning. The idea: Times as supporting SB 1070 in full. White Sox management went so far as My only other lead came from the country-urban. As Associated Press He’s even went so far as to schedule a to issue a statement refuting Guillen’s last guy I asked before heading back writer David Runk notes, Detroit wants fund raiser for State Senator Jonathon above quote and his perception of to my air-conditioned homestead. Legs to turn “large swaths of this now- Patton, a major cog in the introduc- MLB’s bias against Latin American dangling off his front porch while a blighted, rusted-out city back into the tion and implementation of the bill, at players. To the extent that Guillen can white kitten sidled up to him, my fields and farmland that existed before Chase Field¾a stadium built with $250 speak his mind, it’s mostly because he informant said he’d last seen the goat the automobile.” In other words, it’s a million in public tax payer dollars. has the privilege of being a coach with man a few weeks ago, over by Griffith revision of the idea of urban density. Gonzalez and Guillen, as well as a recent World Series title to his credit. Market. The cops had seen the man Instead of trying (fruitlessly) to persuade Latinos inside and outside baseball, Guillen isn’t the only Hispanic walking his goat and stopped him—to suburbanites to come back to the city should be outraged. They have every right player or coach to have stepped up to take a picture with man and goat. No, and relinquish their automobile depen- to boycott the 2011 All Star game. Who the plate over the years. Baseball great, the goat man wasn’t in trouble, my dence, Detroit figures that it needs to could blame them? I wouldn’t want to go consummate social advocate, Latino informant said, the cops just wanted a regroup its residents into viable neigh- somewhere I wasn’t wanted, much less a activist and hall of famer, Roberto picture with him. But surely it’s illegal borhoods and raze empty buildings. place where I was constantly demonized Clemente, said it best in his response to have a goat in the city, I thought Vacant lots would become orchards or and relegated to less than human status. to his friend and fellow Latino baller, to myself. Maybe the cops made one vegetable farms. “City” would mean The racist Arizona bill and the chang- Vic Power, then with the Kansas City of those on-the-spot moral decisions something else entirely. It would mean ing demographics of today’s baseball Athletics, who was being dragged off often required of them: they decided a patchwork of substantial green spaces players, in effect, have combined to do his team’s bus by Florida authorities having a goat was less of a crime than and reconstituted neighborhoods. something that rarely happens in sports: during the Jim Crow era for buying a having crack or beating your wife. Many planning and public pol- they’ve drawn traditionally apolitical Coke from a whites-only gas station. As it turns out, it’s not a crime to icy people are keeping a close eye on sports into the arenas of politics, social “They say, ‘Roberto, you better have a goat—or any farm animal—on Detroit’s model. It could be the wave justice, and human rights. keep your mouth shut because they will the north side. I called LexCall 311 to of the future for cities. But fortunately, ship you back.’ [But] this is something find out. As long as the animal has I would argue, not for Lexington. The Baseball and human rights that from the first day, I said to myself: shelter and is well cared for, there’s no reason Lexington should be glad that Of course, as a multi-billion dol- ‘I am in the minority group. I am from problem. In fact, I was told, someone Detroit isn’t an appropriate model for lar enterprise, Major League Baseball the poor people. I represent the poor around town keeps a pony. its future is because, well, Detroit had has never existed as an apolitical entity. people. I represent the common people to collapse before it could put forth Guillen was spot on when he com- of America. So I am going to be treated Downtown country such a radical change in American mented on league policies that assign like a human being. I don’t want to be So let me tell you why I went look- city design. In a 2007 Harper’s article, Japanese players translators when they treated like a Puerto Rican, or a black, ing for the elusive goat man: I’m baf- Rebecca Solnit speaks to the com- come to the U.S. to play pro ball, but do or nothing like that. I want to be treated fled by the fact that I’ve ended up liv- plexity of looking to Detroit as an not assign them for Latinos who like- like any person that comes for a job.’” ing in Lexington, close to downtown, exemplar: “This is the most extreme wise immigrate to the U.S. to chase the I don’t blame any Latino or anyone and it’s more country than anywhere and long-term hope Detroit offers us: Big League dream. else for that matter for boycotting the else I’ve been. the hope the we can reclaim what we “Why do we have Japanese inter- 2011 All Star game. I plan to boycott When I told our esteemed pub- paved over and poisoned, that nature preters and we don’t have a Spanish one. it myself. And that’s a huge step for me lisher and editor-in-chief about goat will not punish us, that it will welcome I always say that. Why do they have that because I love the game. I watch base- man, Editor Mayer wanted the goat to us home—not with the landscape that privilege and we don’t?” asked Guillen. ball all the time, despite my Washington come mow his lawn. (I consider that was here when we arrived, perhaps, “Don’t take this wrong, but they take Nationals historically horrific history. country, but maybe that’s just Danny but with land that is alive, lush, and advantage of us. We bring a Japanese But larger forces are at work here that I style.) Friends on our street raise chick- varied all the same.” While Solnit sees player and they are very good and they simply cannot ignore. These forces piss ens, as does a guy one street over, who, Detroit as “a stronghold of possibility,” bring all these privileges to them. We me off and are leading me to reconsider I am told, is the “chicken supplier” for she doesn’t ignore the reality: “It is a bring a Dominican kid ... go to the how I view sports outside the lines. this side of town. My better half and I harsh place of poverty, deprivation, are even part of what has been deemed and a fair amount of crime.” “The Chicken Summit,” which includes Lexington isn’t Detroit, just as Letters to the editor one family raising chickens, one woman the north side—despite its reputation— Criner scores, not Cornell criticisms Mr. Battista levels, but to keeping bees, and a few family units isn’t Compton (as my friend Christian I played on team Tater Tots, and it Lexington residents such as myself, (mine included) who are agricultur- reminds people.) Lexington needs to was definitely Will Criner that scored the hegemony of the Christian narra- ally worthless but can contribute lum- continue to stress urban density, mak- against Burbonic Plague, not Chris tive is in fact the dominant narrative ber and chicken feed. It seems that the ing housing close to our urban core Cornell. Just wanted to note that. locally, as it is throughout much of more urban I get, the more I end up affordable for people working full-time Great article! the country these days. We are every with people who understand urban as at McDonald’s, to young professionals, Zach W day inundated with the artifacts of the it probably was in immigrant enclaves to retirees. We need to support and Christian faith and of the social and in big cities at the turn of the twentieth improve “blighted” areas, not dream “Mall of God” ongoing moral attitudes of its followers. It is a century: people deep in the city living about knocking them down. We need In Jake Caldwell’s response (July defining characteristic of life in central like displaced farm folk. to tuck our gardens in wherever we 28) to Andrew Battista’s cover story Kentucky. It has never been my intention can, as In-Feed and Seedleaf (among of July 14, Mr. Caldwell makes a dis- As such, whether he accepts or to live country-urban, but we showed others) do. We need to think about tinction between Lexington’s “royal refuses membership, Mr. Caldwell is up in Lexington when the local food country-urban the way the goat man narrative” and the “narrative of God’s part of the “ruling elite.” His is the movement was gaining steam, and seems to: living in a small home on the reign.” While this distinction is use- narrative that Lexingtonians are told we’ve ridden along with the train— north side and walking a goat around ful for his purposes, it’s essentially ad infinitum, and it is the culture mostly as freeloaders. My point here town, maybe mowing people’s lawns empty, as are two other distinctions shaped by that narrative that we all is that the city—or the north side at along the way. Mr. Caldwell makes in his response, must live within. least—seems to be changing in char- But, you may say, it sounds like the between “Lexington’s ruling elite” and While it’s convenient to say, acter, and it’s taking us along with it. goat man is a poor immigrant. Why whatever class Mr. Caldwell purports “no, really, we’re not like those mega About a month ago when I spent a should he be a model? Well, why not? to represent, and between “mainline churches,” to those continually ostra- Saturday morning with the S.E.E.D.S. If urban living was, in part, pioneered liberal Protestant churches” and “evan- cized by religion as practiced in 2010 entrepreneurs, those kids raising and by barely surviving immigrants in gelical mega churches.” Lexington—by your perception of selling fresh produce on the north side, early twentieth-century New York and Mr. Caldwell uses these distinc- “how things really are”—you are one I was struck by the divided nature of Chicago, why shouldn’t the goat man tions to position himself, and his and the same. the morning. For a few hours, we were tell us something about how urban congregation, as somehow above the Keith Halladay in the relative peace and tranquility Lexington can work now? 8 North of Center

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Trout recipes (cont.) continued from page 6 11. Return each trout to grill placing them on their sides this time. The • 2 lemons, sliced crosswise idea here is to slightly crisp each • 1 stick salted butter trout’s exterior. • 1/4 cup chopped dried dill • Sea salt and freshly ground black Remove trout and immediately pepper place each skin side up on a plate. • 4 large, free range eggs Drizzle each one last time with the • 1/4 cup canola oil melted butter and dill mixture. Lean Directions: several grilled lemon slices on both 1. Start your coals out on one side of sides of each and allow trout to come your grill keeping the other side to rest, or cool. While cooling pour free for indirect cooking. Be sure remaining canola oil in a medium skil- to return grill grate and cover. You let over medium heat. Fry each of the want the grate searing hot. four eggs individually until over easy. 2. While the grill is heating melt You want the eggs to be able to run. your stick of butter. Place one fried egg on top of each trout 3. Add dill to melted butter and and crack the center letting the yoke whisk thoroughly. run over the trout and grilled lemon 4. Once coals are good and hot brush slices. In effect what you’ve created is the indirect side of the grill gener- a tasty, pseudo version of hollandaise. ously with canola oil. My favorite vegetable with this dish is 5. Place each trout belly side down grilled or steamed asparagus. But most making sure to butterfly the sides. any vegetable either steamed, sautéed 6. Brush each trout with melted butter or in a salad will do. I like a baked and dill mixture and recover grill. yeast roll with this dish so you can sop 7. Every two minutes or so refresh up the hollandaise. each trout with the melted butter Of course, in no way is the above and dill. list of three recipes exhaustive when it 8. Beside each trout grill each of your comes to preparing trout. There are lit- lemon slices until they are golden erally hundreds of approaches and tech- and slightly toasted on both sides. niques. Hopefully these provide a step- 9. After roughly four minutes or so ping stone to others. As a matter of fact, remove trout from grill and allow if you have any great recipes for trout each to come to rest and cool. or any other fish, please send them to 10. Reapply canola oil to indirect side [email protected]. Until of grill. next time.