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Preparing for competition, dance teacher Alex Ioukhnel goes over a few steps with student Terri Fowler before a dress rehearsal at Bravo Dance Studio, while another student readies herself in the background. Ioukhnel and his wife, Svetlana, own the studio, where they both teach. See story, page 4.

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hen the champagne is all but a carpet stain and the confetti is swept, we can fully engage in moving forward. Right?

Welcome to January, or, as they say ‘round here, “Only four months till Derby!”

Philosophically speaking, I hope to enter 2014 with the tradition of looking back and looking forward – reflection and reinvention.

With the smoky wax fragrance from my birthday candles still lingering in the air, I’ve found this calendar start is less about who I am, and more about where I am.

In just a few years, I’ll go from a child of the ‘60s to a child who is 60.

My generation straddles an interesting gap that is in continuous flux. We’re in an age where we can be momentarily defined by a cell-phone “selfie” or forever cherished in a shiny black-and-white Kodak (a favorite of mine is me in a boomer-style snowsuit – with actual snow, which often covered the Commonwealth decades ago).

We’re in the middle of high-tech magic and retro-nostalgia. How I went from hi-fi to sci-fi is simply a blur.

If January were a turntable, imagine dragging the stylus across vinyl and swapping “Auld Lang Syne” for Bowie’s “Changes.”

One never knows. Recently, in nanny mode, while reading to a toddler I was asked to “pause” the book so she could go to the potty. Some little ones seem confused when I go to the trouble to turn the page instead of rubbing the image like on their parent’s touch screen – just a gentle reminder that, culturally, I’m trapped between a rotary dial and ID implants and there’s nothing I can to about it.

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All ages resonate with the tug-of-war that is January, with loss on one end of the rope and gain on the other. It proves our strengths and weaknesses as we cope with death, finance, romance, social standing and weight.

We sign up for athletic gym memberships with body and soul. Give of yourself, take the risk. Hold on tightly, let go. Expand, tighten up. I’m worn out by February!

As a scribe, I’m at my best when talking to people, so this year I’m taking some editorial and social direction from the Dalai Lama: “The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”

Criteria for 2014? Check! These are the kinds of folks I’d like to meet, follow and engage – in print and in life – throughout 2014.

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During a lesson, Nikita Madorsky, 15, and Maria Litvin, 12, perform a routine as teacher Alex Ioukhnel observes. Alex has been working with the two young dancers for years.

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elarus – pressed upon by Russia, Ukraine and Poland – is a landlocked crossroads, much like Kentucky.

And, like the Bluegrass state, the small country was a “dark and bloody ground,” with competing forces battling for control.

During World War II, Belarus lost between 25 and 33 percent of its population – a higher percentage than any other country. The Germans destroyed almost three out of every four cities along with 85 percent of its industry.

In Belarus’ capitol, Minsk – the home of Louisville ballroom dance teacher Alex Ioukhnel (pronounced Yook-nul) – the Jewish population, which once formed a thriving cultural center, was desolated. Since 1994, the country has been ruled by a president that many call “the last dictator in Europe.”

“People in Belarus by default have their living standard set on ‘hard,’” says Ioukhnel. “Leaving felt almost like escaping a prison.” Ioukhnel and his wife, Svetlana, found freedom by boat and by foot, but not in the usual sense.

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These days, life is just short of hectic for the couple, who own Bravo Dance Studio located just off Bardstown Road in West Buechel. Five nights a week they hold group classes or dance parties in the upstairs ballroom, and seven days a week – from 10 in the morning to 11 at night – they or staff are available for private lessons. “I’m a small-business owner,” Alex explains, almost apologetically.

Sunday mornings find Alex and Svetlana teaching side by side in the ballroom. Svetlana, a cheerful, blue-eyed woman who carries herself with a relaxed and natural grace, leads a class of 5-year-olds, who seem naturally inclined to fill large empty floor space with their discoveries of movement.

Sliding, jumping, spinning and hopping, however, are not recognized ballroom patterns, and she works hard to maintain their focus. As the class draws to a close, Svetlana scolds them. “None of you were dancing to the music, none of you kept the beat, none of you had good styling. Okay? What am I telling you guys?”

(The same problems were encountered by Louisville’s earliest known dance teacher, a hapless Frenchman, when he tried to teach frontier urchins the latest steps from Europe at a purported settlers’ first Christmas party. The story, as retold by historian Reuben T. Durrett, ended with the would-be students in open rebellion.)

“Kids are not used to working hard and they need to be pushed,” Svetlana says. “But the hard part is knowing who doesn’t understand and who is just being lazy.”

On the other end of the ballroom, Alex coaches a young teenage couple he’s been cultivating for several years. Taller than most ballroom teachers, Alex possesses a gallant charm and royal bearing, with a sharp intelligence and restless energy. Often shifting his weight from side to side while standing, this morning Alex watches motionless, arms across his chest and drill-sergeant tough, as the couple perform their cha-cha routine. They seem almost perfect, but almost is not good

enough for Alex. He interrupts frequently to demonstrate what he wants.

On average, Alex estimates he spends seven hours per day teaching and dancing on the hardwood floor. Before this particular Sunday ends, he will have danced with and coached Terri Fowler and four other women who are preparing to compete in the professional/amateur division of the Ohio Star Ball, the largest ballroom competition in North America.

“What’s the plan?” he asks Fowler at the start of her lesson.

Fowler has been focusing on her arm movement in the Viennese Waltz. Alex demonstrates the technique for extending her arms gracefully, but when they dance and he turns her away, Fowler throws out her left arm as if sowing seeds or making a turn signal.

For Fowler, lessons are about working on the basics. Arms, hands, rib cage, feet, shoulders, hips – every body part must be positioned to hit a movement crisply, with bold and dramatic styling. Fowler returned to ballroom dancing from a 20-year hiatus as a way to relieve stress from her 12-hour-aday job as a veterinarian. After one year, she was competing in the Ohio Star Ball with Alex.

To prepare for the six-day event, which happens the week before Thanksgiving in Columbus, Ohio, Fowler has taken three lessons per week and invested more than she cares to admit in ballroom gowns. “The Ohio Star is a very tough crowd, very competitive,” she says. With 13,000 entries and over 900 heats running from 7 a.m. to midnight daily, Fowler considers it a victory if she survives her first heats.

Alex is scheduled to guide his five partners through 96 heats – more if they’re successful. It’s a test of stamina and skill, which he has honed from over 25 years of competing, teaching and performing.

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gineering – Alex was dancing in ballroom competitions three and four times a month. “In Belarus, every school teaches ballroom dancing,” he explains. Military service was mandatory, but thereafter, he added a heavy schedule of teaching to competing.

Alex met Svetlana at a competition and they began dancing together. They married in 1991, the same year Belarus declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Svetlana was by then a practicing ophthalmologist, paid $40 monthly by the state.

“We left primarily for economic reasons,” Alex says. “Plus the security and arrests – it was an obvious choice.”

The Ioukhnels made contacts, and in 1995 were hired to dance on a cruise ship. An agent handled bookings, and Alex became the manager and coach of a troupe of showgirls.

During the next three years he produced over 2,000 shows.

After hours, he became Internet savvy and studied English.

Between bookings, the couple lived in Singapore, taking lessons from some of the world’s best ballroom dancers. “We never stopped learning,” says Alex.

The couple then spent a year dancing and performing in South Korea. By the time they returned to Belarus, everything was in place to immigrate, except authorization. The final barrier: a small green card, which they won in the government’s annual drawing.

After passing rigorous teacher-certification tests in both International- and American-style ballroom, they considered job offers from several dance studios in the U.S. They chose one from Louisville, and Alex signed a contract to be the studio manager. But the business soon restructured, and Alex was collateral damage. His students were told he had left town.

“No job, no contacts. It was super hard,” he says. Alex felt he had been wronged, “But in the end, it made us stronger.”

In 2001, with some support, Alex and Svetlana started their own studio in a little storefront next to a beer tavern on Bardstown Road. Alex marketed furiously, a loyal following developed, and within three years the couple had purchased and renovated their own building.

Bound on three sides by roadways, Bravo Dance Studio sits on a peninsula of land first owned by George Hikes, who ran one of the earliest and largest farms in Jefferson County. To the north, the Bashford Manor farm produced three Kentucky Derby winners. In the woods just to the west, African-American descendants of enslaved people who worked both farms inhabited ramshackle antebellum cabins well into the 20th century.

Inside the studio, on a dark, cold Friday evening, the party lights are flashing and the upstairs ballroom is crowded.

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dress rehearsal before leaving for Columbus. They wear gowns and glitter, pacing and primping like anxious teammates.

Alex, dressed in black Las Vegas cool and in high spirits, leads the charge up the stairs. He’s the emcee who teases up the crowd, then guides each of the women around the dance floor. Shoulders swooping, his long legs seem to glide, yet he is merely the frame that showcases his partner.

During the cha-cha, Fowler presents her left arm with a graceful flourish, and when applause ripples through the room she showers her audience with ‘Look at me!’ smiles. It’s game on, Ohio Star Ball.

With the competition now over, Alex says he is very proud of his dancers, whose performances led to a string of finals that produced first-, second- and third-place finishes. Fowler made it through nine heats, “an improvement over last year,” she says.

When asked what motivates her to excel, Fowler asserts: “This is what I love to do. It’s my little luxury. I get to pretend I am queen for the day and float around on a big beautiful ballroom dance floor on the arm of a tall, handsome, athletic Russian dancing dynamo. How cool is that?” R

During a dress rehearsal in the days leading up to the Ohio Star Ball, Terri Fowler flashes a smile as Alex guides her across the dance floor. The ballroom teacher danced with Fowler and four other women in the annual competition, held the week before Thanksgiving in Columbus, Ohio.

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THURSDAY, JAN. 2 WINTER BREAK DAY CAMPS Frazier History Museum, 829 W. Main St., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (extended care option is 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.), $35 per day for members, $45 non-members, $10 for extended care. The Frazier History Museum offers New Year full-day winter camps Jan. 2-3. Campers in grades K-5 will explore the traditional music, games, tastes and unique festivities of wintertime and New Year celebrations the world over. For more information or to register, visit www.fraziermuseum.org or call (502) 753-5660.

(Downtown) YOUNG HEARTS THEATRE AUDITIONS Middletown Christian Church Fellowship Hall, 500 N. Watterson Trail, 1 p.m., Free. Young Hearts Theatre, a self-funded seniors’ singing and performing group for women and men age 60 and over, is holding auditions for their spring show “USA, We Love You,” a patriotic reflection of our great American heritage.

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SPOTLIGHT: “TRANSFORMISTAS” Louisville photographer Ross Gordon’s latest series of large-scale photographs, “Transformistas,” is on exhibit at The Green Building Gallery, 732 E. Market St., third floor, through Feb. 7. This body of work grew out of Gordon’s month-long trip to Cuba. Transformistas are the local drag queens and transsexuals who often find themselves arrested and prosecuted if caught by police. Changes in cultural attitudes move at a snail’s pace in Cuba despite anti-discrimination laws that have passed. The strength, desires and energy of his subjects shine; Gordon captures their lives as they continue being who they are despite the continued harassment and persecution they face daily.

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Class size is limited; call early to reserve a spot. For more information, call (502) 458-1328 or visit www.louisvillenaturecenter. org/events.htm. (Audubon) DUNCAN PHILLIPS, KATE MACLEOD, JP WRIGHT, AND JOHN GAGE PERFORM The Rudyard Kipling, 422 W. Oak St., 7 p.m.-10 p.m., $10.

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of legendary folk icon Utah Phillips, will sing and tell stories about his father, with Kate MacLeod on fiddle. Locomotive engineer and labor singer JP Wright will sing about railroading and the culture of the rails.

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(Highlands) TUESDAY, JAN. 7 INDOOR FLEA MARKET American Legion Iroquois Post, 800 W. Woodlawn Ave., every Tuesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Free.

Lunch available for $2, table rental $5. For more information, call Paul at (502) 968-2593.

(Iroquois) THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Actors Theatre of Louisville, Bingham Theatre, 316 W. Main St., Jan. 7-Feb. 4, times vary, $35 -$49 with discounts available.

See Gilbert and Sullivan’s musical re-imagined with delicious humor by Chicago theatre rebels The Hypocrites – along with guitars, banjos and beach balls. For more information or to reserve tickets, visit www. actorstheatre.org or call (502) 584-1205. (Downtown) WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8 COMIC JAM The Rudyard Kipling, 422 W. Oak St., 7 p.m.-10 p.m., Free.

This open-mic event, hosted

by The Rud’s funny man Jacob Thomas Emmanuel Reber, takes place every Wednesday

and provides a place for new comedy, improvised music and more. Visit www.therudyardkipling.com or www.facebook. com/comicjamlouisville for more information. (Old Louisville) THURSDAY, JAN. 9 PATRICIA K. TULL TALK Carmichael’s Bookstore, 2720 Frankfort Ave., 5:30 p.m., Free.

Louisville Presbyterian Seminary’s Professor Emerita of Old Testament Patricia K. Tull will discuss her new book “Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis.” For more information, visit www. carmichaelsbookstore.com/ event. (Crescent Hill) LOUISVILLE WONDERLAND The Vernon Club, 1575 Story Ave., doors open at 7:15 p.m., early stage show at 8 p.m., intimate shows at 9 p.m., late stage show at 10 p.m.; arrive at least 30 minutes prior to ensure seating for the shows, Free with two-drink minimum. The evening begins with a stage show featuring magicians, comedians, and other variety acts from around the area and around the world. Following this, shows begin in The Close Up Parlor where groups can experience

SPOTLIGHT: AN EVENING WITH “DOWNTON ABBEY” Dress in period finery and gather at The Brennan House Historic Home on Jan. 5 from 8 p.m.-11 p.m. to watch the Season 4 premiere of “Downton Abbey” in a true period setting! The Brennan House, at 631 S. Fifth St., was built in 1868. This historic mansion parallels the elegance and style of Downton Abbey itself, and is the perfect place to enjoy Photo: JACOB ZIMMER the new season. The evening begins with a tour of the one-of-a-kind house, which has over 7,000 original artifacts. Enjoy a silent auction along with Downton Abbey-inspired hor d’oeurves and spirits. After the show, vote for the best-costume prize winner. Tickets are $20 in advance or $15 for Preservation Louisville members. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www/preservationlouisville.org or call (502) 540-5145. (Downtown) sleight-of-hand magic in an intimate setting. In the Tea Leaf Room, watch as your life is read from the palm of your hand.

Live music is provided on stage.

For those who prefer to socialize, dancers fill the stage with inspired go-go dancing. The late stage show features world-class magicians, jugglers, dancers and poets. Wonderland takes place on the second Thursday of each month. For more information, visit www.louisvillewonderland. com. (Butchertown)

SATURDAY, JAN. 11 BASEBALL, SOFTBALL & TEE BALL SIGNUPS Germantown Meeting Room, 1537 Poplar Level Road, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., ages 4-16, $85$120 per player plus concession fee or buy-out, discount for players from the same household. Germantown Baseball is gearing up for the 2014 season.

For sponsorship opportunities, contact Stephanie Disney at sdisney91@gmail.com or call (502) 553-2707. For registration forms and more information, visit www.germantownbaseball. com. (Germantown)

RESOLUTIONS SOLUTION FAIR Rainbow Blossom, 3738 Lexington Road, Noon-4 p.m., Free.

This annual fair gathers local businesses, practitioners and nonprofits to help attendees find the right support for New Year’s goals such as smoking cessation, fitness and weight loss, becoming organized, volunteering, and improving money management. There will be raffles and giveaways. More info at www.rainbowblossom. com. (St. Matthews) BOBBI BUCHANAN TALK Carmichael’s Bookstore, 2720 Frankfort Ave., 4 p.m., Free.

Local author and former editor of “The New Southerner” Bobbi Buchanan will discuss her new book “Listen: Essays on Living the Good Life.” Buchanan’s essays exemplify her dedication to environmental stewardship. For more information, visit www. carmichaelsbookstore.com/ event. (Crescent Hill) JASON WILBER AND TYRONE COTTON Clifton Center Eifler Theatre, 2117 Payne St., 8 p.m., $10 at the door. In addition to being John Prine’s guitarist, Jason

Wilber is an outstanding singer and songwriter in his own right.

Wilber shares a double bill with beloved local troubadour Tyrone Cotton. For more information, visit www.cliftoncenter.org.

(Crescent Hill) SUNDAY, JAN. 12 A LOOK AT LOUISVILLE’S PAST TOLD THROUGH HISTORIC POSTCARDS St. Matthews City Hall, 3940 Grandview Ave., Historical Society Room, second floor, 2 p.m., Free. John Findling, local author and history professor emeritus at Indiana University Southeast, will speak about historic postcards and Louisville’s past.

He has written several books including “Louisville” in the “Post Card History Series,” and “Louisville’s Crescent Hill.” For more information, visit www. stmatthews.org. (St. Matthews) WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15 THE FRESH BEAT BAND The Louisville Palace, 625 S. Fourth St., 6:30 p.m., $37.50$42.50 (lap-sitting children under age 2, Free). The Fresh Beat

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Band started on Nickelodeon in 2009 and has become one of TV’s top shows for preschoolers.

The show features music that parents and children can enjoy together. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.louisvillepalace.com/ event/16004A85901F502E. (Downtown) THURSDAY, JAN. 16 DEAR MR. MANDELA, DEAR MRS. PARKS: CHILDREN’S LETTERS, GLOBAL LESSONS Muhammad Ali Center, 144 N. Sixth St., exhibit is included with regular admission through Feb. 28.; Tuesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, Noon5 p.m., $4-$9 (Free for members and children age 5 and younger). This exhibit displays letters

written by children from all over the world to the late human rights leaders Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks. The exhibition includes videotaped welcoming comments from three Nobel Prize awardees: President Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Obama. Visitors of all ages can write letters to people they feel have made a change in their lives, their communities or the world. For more information, visit www.alicenter. org/exhibits-galleries or call (502) 584-9254. (Downtown) FRIDAY, JAN. 17 VOCAL VARIETY SHOW Youth Performing Arts School, Mainstage Theater, 1517 S. Second St., Jan. 17-18, 7 p.m., $10, $5 for students with ID or

SPOTLIGHT: WALDEN THEATRE’S “JANE EYRE” Alec Volz directs Walden Theatre performers in Christina Calvit’s adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte novel “Jane Eyre.” A young governess rises from an unforgiving childhood to find stability and love at the unsettling Thornfield manor. But a terrible revelation burns it all away, forcing her to salvage her life and expectations from the ashes. The YUM! Family Series Cornerstone Classic will be performed Jan. 23-Feb. 1. Performances will be Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. (and Saturdays at 2 p.m.), at Walden Theatre, 1123 Payne St. Tickets for evening performances are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and students; matinees are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and students. Tickets are available at the Walden Theatre box office, (502) PHOTO: COURTESY, WALDEN THEATRE 589-0084. For more Jane Eyre is played by Jordan Lee, a information, visit junior at YPAS/duPont Manual High www.waldentheSchool who is in her sixth year with atre.org. (Irish Hill) Walden Theatre.

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children. Choirs will perform music from Mozart’s “Le nozze de Figaro,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance,” the Broadway hit “Les Miserables,” and choral arrangements of movie songs such as “Hallelujah” from “Shrek,” and “Song of the Lonely Mountain” from “The Hobbit.” For more information, call (502) 485-8355 or visit www.ypas.org. (Old Louisville) SATURDAY, JAN. 18 MUSIC & MOVEMENT WITH SHINE STUDIO AT LNC Louisville Nature Center, 3745 Illinois Ave., 10 a.m.-Noon, $15.

Part of the Living Lively Program, each class in this series includes healthy movement, so dress for outdoor fun. For more information or to register, call (502) 458-1328 or visit www. louisvillenaturecenter.org/ events.htm. (Audubon) HISTORIC PRESERVATION TAX CREDIT WORKSHOP The Brennan House Historic Home, 631 S. Fifth St., 10 a.m.Noon, $30 for non-members, $20 for Preservation Louisville Members. This workshop, held quarterly, guides property owners through the process associated with the historic preservation tax credit. Preservation Louisville and the Kentucky Heritage Council will work with participants on how to properly finish the three-part application for the tax credit.

For more information, visit www.preservationlouisville.org.

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SPOTLIGHT: ELLIS HALL WITH THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA Ellis Hall is often labeled “genius.”

A quintessential performer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist with a five-octave range, he is the only artist other than Ray Charles to be signed to Charles’ label Crossover Records.

In a Pops concert with the Louisville Orchestra on Jan. 25, Hall will perform a tribute to Ray Charles including “Georgia on My Mind,” “Hit the Road, Jack,” “Unchain My Heart” and more of Ray’s rocking and soulful smash hits. The show starts at 8 p.m. at Kentucky Center for the Arts, Whitney Hall, 501 W. Main St. Ticket prices start at $26. To purchase tickets, visit www. kentuckycenter.org or call (502) 5847777. (Downtown) To reserve a ticket, visit www. actorstheatre.org or call (502) 584-1205. (Downtown) SUNDAY, JAN. 19 DICK SISTO-STEVE ALLEE SPIRIT OF LIFE QUARTET Clifton Center Eifler Theatre, 2117 Payne St., 7 p.m., $10.

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trane in an intimate setting with audience members joining the musicians on stage. Tickets are available at www.cliftoncenter. org or Carmichael’s Bookstore, 2720 Frankfort Ave. (Clifton) MONDAY, JAN. 20 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY OF SERVICE Olmsted Parks Volunteer Event, project location TBD, 1 p.m.,

Free. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service was created to encourage people across America to come together to improve lives, bridge barriers and move the nation closer to the “Beloved Community” Dr. King envisioned. Working together, we can improve the park environment we all know and love. Gloves, tools and refreshments are provided. Dress for CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE *

BEHIND-THE-SCENES TECH EVENT: OUR TOWN Actors Theatre of Louisville, 316 W. Main St., 7 p.m., Free, but tickets are required. Enjoy delicious appetizers from Orange Clover Kitchen & More as you learn about the rehearsal process for “Our Town.”

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SPOTLIGHT: VOCALIST KIRAN AHLUWALIA Expressing her muse through ghazals and Punjabi folk songs, Kiran Ahluwalia explores the language of the heart with beautiful artistry and smoldering intensity. Born in India, raised in Canada and now living in New York City, her enchanting and seductive music has garnered glowing praise from critics around the world. Ahluwalia will perform at Clifton Center Eifler Theatre, 2117 Payne St., Jan. 25, 8 p.m.

Tickets are $12 for adults; $6 for students with ID. Tickets are available at www.cliftoncenter.org or Carmichael’s Bookstore, 2720 Frankfort Ave., (502) 896-6950. (Clifton)

non-perishable items will be collected at the door for Dare to Care Food Bank. More info at www.cliftoncenter.org. (Clifton) THURSDAY, JAN. 23 SUGAR BLUES: THE TOXIC WORLD OF SUGAR Rainbow Blossom, 3738 Lexington Road, 6 p.m.-7 p.m., Free.

Learn to recognize hidden sugars in products and understand the potential hazards of artificial sweeteners. Look at previous habits and find strategies to balance your health. The class will be taught by Betty Greaver, R.N., L.M.T. For more information, visit www.rainbowblossom.com or call (502) 896-0189.

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working outdoors. Projects may include trash pickup, mulching landscaped areas or planting large native trees. For more information, meeting location, or to register, visit www.olmstedparks.org/events, email info@ olmstedparks.org or call (502) 456-8125. (Olmsted Parks) DINNER AND DEMOCRACY League of Women Voters, Lang House, 115 S. Ewing Ave., informal dinner at 5:30 p.m., program 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m., Free (donation optional). “Breaking Bad: Tackling Unethical Behavior in Elected Officials,” panel discussion. A look at Metro and Kentucky Ethics Commissions: What power and authority do they have? How can the public register complaints, and what happens to those complaints?

For more information, visit www.lwvlouisville.org or call (502) 895-5218. (Crescent Hill) TUESDAY, JAN. 21 OUR TOWN Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pamela Brown Auditorium, 316 W. Main St., 7:30 p.m. (show runs Jan. 21-Feb. 9, times vary), $24-$59, discounts available.

Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” is a great American play celebrating the magic that makes a community. Day in and day out, Grover’s Corners is Any Town, USA. The paper is delivered, the

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milkman visits, time passes and life continues. It is only when such routines are interrupted that the fleeting beauty of the everyday is brought more clearly into perspective. Artistic Director Les Waters directs this elegant portrait of the ordinary yet remarkable joys and sorrows that define our lives. For tickets or more information, visit www. actorstheatre.org or call (502) 584-1205. (Downtown) WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22 THE WOOD BROTHERS & SMALL TIME NAPOLEON Clifton Center Eifler Theatre, 2117 Payne St., 7:30 p.m., Free, with preferred seating for members of WFPK and/or Friends of the Clifton Center.

The Wood Brothers, an Americana and blues band, features real brothers Chris and Oliver Wood. They will perform along with Louisville band Small Time Napoleon. The Winter Wednesday series is presented by WFPK in partnership with the Clifton Center. Canned goods or other

THE HISTORICAL BALL Historic Locust Grove, 561 Blankenbaker Lane, 7 p.m.-10 p.m., $20, $15 for Friends of Locust Grove or children age 14 and under (accompanied by an adult), reservations required.

Celebrate winter with a dance for all ages! Dress in period clothes from the era of your choice – ancient Rome, Elizabethan, Revolutionary or Civil War, Regency, “Downton Abbey” or swing era. The Historical Ball will feature live music, plus light refreshments, wine and ale for purchase. A free dance practice will be offered on the day of the ball. For more information and to make reservations, call (502) 897-9845. (Blankenbaker) FRIDAY, JAN. 31 COLLEGIATE HOSTS “A TASTE OF THE WORLD” Louisville Collegiate School, Auditorium, 2427 Glenmary Ave., 6 p.m.-8 p.m., Free.

Collegiate will host its fourth multicultural dinner, “A Taste of the World,” designed to celebrate the diverse cultures represented in the school and community. Attendees are asked to bring an authentic dish to share from around the world.

Local restaurants will also prepare great foods. The event will feature interesting artifacts on display, while performers from different cultures entertain guests. RSVP at www.loucol. com. For more information, call (502) 479-0376. (Highlands)

LIBRARY CORNER NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION DROP-IN Shawnee Branch Library, 3912 W. Broadway, Thursday, Jan. 2, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., for teens. Receive a New Year’s resolution booklet to fill with goals throughout the year, and enter your name to win a teen novel. For more information, call (502) 574-1722. (Shawnee)

MEETING OF THE MINDS Crescent Hill Branch Library, 2762 Frankfort Ave., Wednesday, Jan. 8, starts at 7 p.m. Join members of the community as they think about and discuss current topics. For full details, call (502) 574-1793. (Crescent Hill)

NEW YEAR, NEW CAREER Main Library, 301 York St., Tuesdays, Jan. 14 and 28, starting at 2 p.m. Presenters from KentuckianaWorks will discuss ways to prepare for interviews and avoid stress. On Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2 p.m., they will present ways to customize your resume as a selling tool to highlight your skills, education and experience as related to the job you are seeking. For more information, call (502) 574-1611.

At the Western Branch Library, 604 S. 10th St., Monday, Jan. 27, 12:30 p.m., a KentuckianaWorks presenter will discuss tips on dealing with an employment gap and recognizing work you may have done while technically unemployed. For more information, call (502) 574-1779. (Downtown/Western)

THE MAYOR’S BOOK CLUB Main Library, 301 York St., Wednesday, Jan. 15, Noon-1 p.m. (brown-bag lunches are welcome). This book club meets on the third Wednesday of the month and is part of the Read Your Way Around the World program, which explores books with roots in different countries and cultures. This month’s book is “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. For more information, call (502) 574-1611. (Downtown)

FOOTBALL MASCOTS Fairdale Branch Library, 10616 W. Manslick Road, all-day event for ages 11-19, Tuesday, Jan. 21 through Saturday, Jan. 25 and Monday, Jan. 27 through Saturday, Feb. 1. The Super Bowl is coming! Do you know what city the Seahawks are from? How about the Chargers? Demonstrate your football knowledge and enter your name for a prize drawing! And on Wednesday, Jan. 29, the library will host a Pre-Super Bowl party for ages 4-8, starting at 6:30 p.m. Get ready for the big game with stories and a craft – all about football! For more information, call (502) 375-2051. (Fairdale)

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CHANG-RAE LEE Main Library, 301 York St., Thursday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m., Free, but tickets are required. From the beloved award-winning author of “Native Speaker” and “The Surrendered,” comes a provocative and deeply affecting story of one woman’s legendary quest in a shocking future America. “On Such a Full Sea” takes Chang-Rae Lee’s long-standing interests in identity, culture, work and love, and lifts them to a new plane.

Stepping from the realistic and historical territories Courtesy, LFPL of his previous work, Lee Chang-Rae Lee transports the reader into a world of his own creation. For more information or to order tickets, visit www. lfpl.org or call (502) 574-1644. (Downtown)

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Main Library, 301 York St., Wednesday, Jan. 29, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. For those working or volunteering for nonprofit organizations, this workshop explains the research process in seeking grants, resources available in finding the right grants to benefit your organization, and the essential elements of writing successful grant proposals. For more information, call (502) 574-1611. (Downtown) For information on these events, or any others at the Louisville Free Public Library’s 18 branches, visit www.lfpl.org or call (502) 574-1611.

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Even though I fly as frequently as the average cormorant, I confess that I’m a tad ambivalent about the issue.

On the one hand, I probably get annoyed more often than average since whole chapters of my life are spent in airports, where you’d think signs might be posted stating: “As a discourtesy to your fellow passengers, please talk as loudly and obnoxiously as possible on your cell phone, block the moving sidewalk, and take up three seats in the gate area with your carry-on luggage. Thank you!” As soon as somebody comes up with a device that can secretly be aimed at a cell phone, heating it up to 400 degrees in 10 seconds, I’m buying, price be damned.

On the other hand, if the airlines allow in-flight yakking, I’ll be a witness to that short but violent chapter of our nation’s history: “Enraged Passenger Flushes Cell Phone” – “Loud Talker Bombarded with Barf Bags” – “Cell Phone Brawl Erupts, Pilot Forced to Land.”

And of course every passenger would have his own story: “The guy’s right behind me, and he’s RELENTLESS, so finally I pop an Oreo into my mouth, unbuckle my seatbelt, turn around and prop my chin on the back of my seat. He squirms a little and gets about a half decibel quieter when he sees me glaring at him from 18 inches away. Then I start chewing with my mouth wide open – it’s SHOWTIME! – and gooey little drops start collecting on the top of the seat. He looks kind of nauseated and says, ‘Hey! You’re dripping on the seat!’ And I go, ‘It’s MY seat, Bullhorn Boy. I’ve got rights, too.

Wanna see what a half-digested turkey wrap looks like?’”

I aim to be a whistle-blower on the front lines – a Jeffrey Wigand for the movement, if you will. I’ll buy hundreds of whistles and give them out at airports with flyers telling like-minded folks to blow them when a cell phone abuser gets too loud – a new definition for Tweeting.

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Affordable Care Act. The expanded health center will be located at 834 E. Broadway, in a building that recently housed an antique mall.

Contributed by Readers / Compiled by The Highlander Occupying the first three floors of the five-story building, the East Broadway Community Health Center will significantthem in rehearsals on Tuesday evenings, ly expand FHC’s current operation, from 7:30 p.m., at the Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Pizza and Preservation 8,400 square feet to more than 30,000 St., beginning Jan. 7.

“If you love to sing, Preservation Louisville is a local nonsquare feet. The renovated site, which you will not believe the musical high you profit that is dedicated to the preservation will offer primary care integrated with will experience when you add your voice of the cultural, environmental and architecbehavioral health services as well as on-site to the beautiful harmony,” says Betty Lou tural heritage of Louisville. They have creradiology, dental and pharmacy services, is Coleman, Pride of Kentucky choreograated a program, “Pizza and Preservation,” scheduled to open in the fall of 2014. pher and associate director. which is geared toward educating resi “The Family Health Centers expansion

For more information about Pride of dents about the many benefits of historic on East Broadway is a key step toward Kentucky Chorus, call (502) 368-7464. preservation. The program offers an achieving our goal of ensuring that every opportunity for Preservation Louisville to Louisvillian has access to quality, affordinteract with the community and discuss Rep. Yarmuth, Family Health able health care,” says Yarmuth. “As tens the organization’s mission. Presentations of thousands of Kentuckians realize the Centers Break Ground on include the “Historic Preservation Tax benefits of the Affordable Care Act in their Credit Workshop” and “Hands on History: Expansion everyday lives, I am proud to support this Preservation Maintenance Workshop.”

On Dec. 6, Congressman John Yarmuth critical investment in health infrastructure Pizza is offered at the presentations.

(KY-3) and the Family Health Centers that will expand access and care in our Groups who are interested may call (502) Board of Governors broke ground on the community.”

540-5146 or email info@preservationlouisEast Broadway Community Health Center, Recent federal investments in communiville.org. the largest expansion project in the 37-year ty health centers are helping to build the history of the nonprofit agency. infrastructure to care for the more than

The $6 million renovation project is sup100,000 uninsured Louisville residents Pride of Kentucky Chorus ported through a $5 million federal grant, gaining access to coverage under the Wins Gold part of a series of capital investments made Affordable Care Act. The expanded FHCin community health centers through the East Broadway Community Health Center The Pride of Kentucky Chorus of Sweet Adelines International won First Place “Gold” in the barbershop category of the International “Sing‘n’Joy” Choral Competition held in late November in Louisville. “Sing‘n’Joy” is the signature series of INTERKULTUR Choral Events that celebrate the joy of singing. Like their “World Choir Games,” this competition draws non-professional choirs from around the world, bringing an Olympic ideal to the choral community. Pride of Kentucky Chorus, joined by guest singers, also entertained audiences at a Friendship concert, sang to welcome guests at the Galt House balcony and entertained at the hotel’s “KaLightoscope Christmas.”

Courtesy, FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS An architect’s representation shows Family Health Centers’ new facility, the East Broadway Pride of Kentucky Chorus invites any Community Health Center, scheduled to open this fall at 834 E. Broadway. woman or girl who likes to sing to join

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will provide capacity to serve an additional 10,000 individuals every year. At present, FHC-East Broadway serves approximately 5,800 patients annually.

Family Health Centers is funding the remaining $1 million of the project’s capital expenses through reserves and fundraising efforts, including online fundraising through Crowdrise.

“This expansion project is an important investment in the East Broadway corridor and an important step toward our goal of creating a much healthier city,” says Mayor Greg Fischer. “Providing access to timely preventive and primary care services is essential to keeping people healthy and keeping health care costs down.”

Family Health Centers is a nonprofit community health center established by the Louisville-Jefferson County Board of Health in 1976 to provide residents of Louisville and Jefferson County access to high-quality primary and preventive health care services without regard to the ability to pay. Family Health Centers is the largest safety-net primary care provider in the state, providing services to more than 42,000 individuals annually through a network of seven health center locations throughout Louisville Metro.

Free Laundry and New Restrooms for the Homeless Jefferson Street Baptist Center, 733 E. Jefferson St., has announced the opening of their newly renovated laundry and restroom facilities. Private funding for the $175,000 project will aid the 250 people JSBC serves daily.

Before the renovations, JSBC provided over 11,000 loads of laundry and over 16,000 showers per year to its guests and residents. As Kentuckiana’s only free laundry service for people over the age of 24, this vital service was in need of expansion. Previously, homeless guests waited for up to two weeks to wash their only clothes due to the overwhelming demand.

With the renovation, JSBC doubled the size of their women’s restrooms. Other services the mission offers for the homeless include Louisville’s only free storage facility, a mailing address for more than 3,200 people, and over 52,000 meals served per year.

Founded in 1881, Jefferson Street Baptist Center is one of America’s oldest rescue missions. To learn more, call (502) 584-6543 or visit www.jeffersonstreet.org.

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Nudes by James Russell May, from a prior exhibition at Kaviar Forge & Gallery

Biennial Spring Nude Show Call for Artists The Kaviar Forge & Gallery is accepting submissions for its upcoming biennial spring nude show. The exhibition, entitled “The Figure Revealed” will showcase the artistic interpretation and exploration of the human form. It is a juried show, but anyone is welcome to submit. The gallery is accepting all media and genre of art. The exhibition will be displayed at the Kaviar Gallery, 1718 Frankfort Ave., from March 28 through May 31.

To submit work, send up to three

JPEG image samples to Katie Moore at kaviargallery@gmail.com or mail to 1718 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206. The deadline is Feb. 15. There is no submission fee, and the gallery prefers that all works shown be available for sale.

Entries must include the size, media, technique and price of each piece, along with the name, home address, phone number and email address of the entrant.

Submissions without this information will be disregarded. Acceptance into the show will be provisional upon receiving the actual work. The Kaviar Forge and Gallery will reply to all submissions once the committee meets to jury the show. R

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magine finding a pair of glasses in the family attic.

Perhaps they belonged to a grandparent, or someone even further back – say, to the days of Queen Victoria.

Now, consider that the person responsible for leaving those spectacles has descendants who are helping people correct their vision to this day – and they are right here in Louisville.

For four generations, the Krebs family of opticians has been a Louisville mainstay, starting in 1897 with Charles C. Krebs’ flagship store, Southern Optical. Today, Krebs’ grandson, Charles D. Krebs – who goes by the name “Chuck� – and his daughter, Courtney Krebs McKinney, maintain the family name at Krebs Optical in St. Matthews. “I’ve been in the business for 42 years, my daughter for 10, and my two full-time opticians for 25 to 30 years,� says Krebs. “It’s very hard to find people who know what they’re doing anymore, so we’re very lucky to have them.�

Krebs’ wife, Janice, also knows a thing or two: She met her husband while working for his father, Charles H. Krebs,

and she continues to handle all things financial.

As opticians, Krebs Optical does not perform vision exams or treat eye ailments; their job is to help those needing vision correction find the best eyeglasses for their specific needs. “We do the manufacturing and the servicing and the designing of eyewear and contact lenses,� says Krebs. “You look at the prescription, how the glasses fit someone, how the prescription fits in the frames.� This means that the frames – some of which come from as far away as Denmark, Sweden, England and Spain, with technology Charles C. never dreamed of — are appropriate to the wearer’s requirements and face. Large lenses, for example, would not flatter a farsighted person, as the thickness in the middle creates a magnifying effect. It’s that kind of knowledge that sets Krebs Optical apart: “It’s having the knowledge, and that’s where our profession is surely lacking today,� Krebs says. “You have to get out there and talk to people and respect them and take care of them.�

Working for family was not a foregone conclusion for Krebs. “My dad didn’t want me to go into the business,� he says. “The first generation built it, the second gener-

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From left, Krebs Optical owner Chuck Krebs, his daughter, Courtney Krebs McKinney, and his wife, Janice, run the family business in St. Matthews. Krebs’ grandfather, Charles C. Krebs, started Southern Optical, a successful eyeglass chain that operated for decades in Louisville.

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Mark Babcock, one of two full-time opticians, helps a returning customer with a prescription for new lenses. Knowing how to fit the right product to the needs of the individual comes with years of experience; Krebs’ opticians have served customers for over 25 years.

ation saw it built. To the third, it’s always been there.” Likewise, daughter Courtney was taken by surprise at how much the optician business felt like home. “My parents never really put any expectations on us, which is nice,” she says. “I went to school for art, and then I decided to get my optician’s license.”

She cites two benefits to working at Krebs Optical: the opportunity to continue the family tradition, and the occasion to use her arts training every day. “She’s good with art, but she’s also good with people,” says her father. “She has the ability to help people design a good set of eyewear.”

As owner of one of the few independent optician companies left in the city – and one of only five opticians in the state to have earned the advanced designation of Certified Master Optician from the American Board of Opticianry A full line of affordable frames for adults — Krebs is determined to keep the perand children are available, along with sonalized practice alive. “We don’t sell designer frames, such as Etnia Barcelona.

Krebs Optical stands behind the manufaccheap eyewear, because it doesn’t last,” he says. “People won’t remember if they turing and servicing of all eyeglasses and contact lenses they sell. paid $50 or $500; they’ll remember if it lasts. My fear is that people will not come to an independent place to get a good optical experience. They’re going to get a second- or third-tier experience and think that’s the norm – until you go and experience it here.”

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smuggled our toy guns into the theater and joined the shootouts, helping our Indian friends.

Now, 30 years later, I found myself shaking the hand of

By Misha Feigin a Sioux Indian who called himself White Feather. The principal escorted me to the school cafeteria so I could set up y outstretched hand froze in motion for a moment. my program.

Did he really say “White Feather” or did I miss I played that morning for a group of 70 or so elemensomething? A handsome, dark-haired school principal tary school students and a dozen teachers. The going was with a regal, aquiline nose was smiling at me. His dark, not easy. From time to time, a student stood up and left almond-shaped eyes did not betray anything mischievous. the room. Others came in leisurely, chewing on candy I trusted him and shook his hand. bars or other food.

I felt both thrilled and uneasy that morning, driving The teachers paid no attention to the traffic in the through an arid, depressive prairie on my way to the room. Nor did they try to quiet any of the younger kids school. From a distance I spotted a school-like building who decided to start playing in the middle of a song. sitting in the middle of a small, dusty plateau surrounded I struggled for 40 minutes. I told them that being a by brown, sloping hills. A few trailer homes were scatRussian Jew, I understand how it feels to be part of a distered around. There were no trees in sight, only tufts of criminated minority. I strummed my balalaika and finally withered yellow grass shivering in the gusts of a cold made it to my “Children of the Rainbow” grand finale.

October wind.

The audience clapped some, and I was through.

A few minutes later, I walked into the office of a small The teachers invited me to join them for lunch. As we school, with no idea of what to expect in this dreamlike stood in the food line together, I noticed three good-looksetting. I was on a real Indian reservation, and the only ing young men passing trays of food to the students. One people I was to deal with for the next few days were of the teachers caught my eye.

Sioux Indians.

“There is no work around here. That is all they can do,” My childhood memories are of reading James Fenimore she explained with a bitter smile.

Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans” mixed with flash Soon we were sitting at a limp plastic table where I backs from East German Western-style movies. Both tried diligently to pierce slippery, green beans with a plaswere extremely popular in Russia in the ‘60s, especially tic fork. Chipping away at a dry chicken patty with the to a group of boys. Our entire yard gang would use any same tool was no easy job either. Instant mashed potaopportunity to watch these films toes, though, caused me very little again and again. trouble.

My childhood memories are of In the cool darkness of a During the dessert of milk and movie theater, we licked our ice- reading James Fenimore Cooper’s an ultra-sweet chocolate-chip “The Last of the Mohicans” mixed cream and gazed at the screen, cookie, another teacher commentwhere fearless and honorable ed on the students’ behavior at with flashbacks from East German Indian warriors fought their ene- Western-style movies. Both were the assembly: “You probably think mies. The Indians were played that the kids were rude. It is not extremely popular in Russia in the

by Yugoslavian actors with so. We just never force our chil‘60s, especially to a group of boys. reasonably dark complexions. dren to do things. We want them They looked quite authentic to growing free.” us, as did the German cowboys. Moreover, everyone on On the way back, White Feather was waiting for me the screen spoke perfect Russian; at that time, all foreign in the corridor. “I saw the first part of your program,” he films were dubbed to enhance the viewing pleasure of said. “It was good for the kids to see something that difmoviegoers. ferent. Most of them will stay here for their entire lives.”

To our unceasing pleasure, the Indians always had the Then, looking me straight in the eye, he asked bluntly, upper hand, finally defeating the sneaky, unshaven and “Are you a full-blooded Jew?” gun-crazy whites. We made passionate comments and Being aware of what a similar question (just replace argued possible developments of the plot even though “Jew” with “Indian”) might mean for any of these native we knew by heart every little detail. Sometimes we people 200 years ago, I braced myself for a possible harsh

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development and answered with some defiance: “Yes.” White Feather gleamed, opened his arms widely and pronounced joyfully, “Shalom!”

Now it was my turn to be thrilled. We shook hands vigorously, both feeling happy. The principal saw me off to my car, helping to carry some of my equipment.

He spoke a little more: “I was born not very far from here on the reservation. I spent a year in Oxford, England, in my college years as an exchange student. I saw the world a little bit. After getting my diploma, I decided to come back. I taught in this school for a while, and then became a superintendent.”

White Feather pointed to the school, the trailer homes and the naked hills all around.

“This is where I belong,” he said, smiling warmly.

I shook his hand again. Instead of a farewell, he said, “If you want to have a real talk with any of our people, ask ‘Do you accept both the light and the darkness?’”

In a few minutes I was back in my car, looking at the map and driving again. My heart was full, and I did not look back. R Contact the writer at mishafeigin@hotmail.com.

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