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108 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 3.16 ARTS Illustration by Rachael Sinclair RESIDENCE IN 40 "I love my hotel. There's pornography all over the walls." — Madonna onstage during her Yum! Center concert. OVERHEARD Photo by Kelli Goings The Humana Festival of New American Plays, running March 2-April 10 at Actors Theatre, turns 40 this year. See if you can match each of this year's titles with the words from the press release that jumped out to us. 1. For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday 2. This Random World 3. Residence 4. Wellesley Girl 5. Cardboard Piano 6. Wondrous Strange a. Extended-stay hotel b. American politics, circa 2465 c. Dying father d. Ugandan civil war e. Missed connections f. Kentucky ghost lore Answers: 1. c; 2. e; 3. a; 4. b; 5. d; 6. f COVER ART Pen-and-marker drawings on paper, by Douglas Underwood Maybe you've seen the marching unicorn-elephant and other hybrid animals on the side of Hilltop Tavern, or the meditating lotus women on Dragon King's Daughter, or the waterfall on an industrial building at 15th and Main streets. These giant, colorful murals are by Chris Chappell. How does he decorate his own walls? On the brownish living-room walls of his Highlands home — amid the stacks of National Geographic, skateboard decks and his daughter's toys — are three small, white-framed pen-and- marker drawings by local artist Douglas Underwood. "They're very symmetrical, kind of like studies," Chappell says. Two years ago Chappell traded a calligraphy portrait for the Underwood pieces. "He did a drawing a day for two years," Chappell says. "These are more meditative pieces than subject-matter based." — KM On March 3, Seven Counties Services is throwing its inaugural Roast and Toast to raise money to treat mental illness. This year's roastee is WHAS' Terry Meiners, and the roasters include U of L professor Ricky Jones, attorney Darryl Isaacs and, from the media, Bill Lamb, Angie Fenton and John Boel. "I'd say they'll all be ripping me about how old I am," says Meiners, who just turned 59. "I've somehow become this senior member of Louisville media." Lonesome No More!, by Nellie Pearl "We wanted a nude. Not in any erotic sense, but just a human in natural form. Clothes are a censorship of life," Jonathon Mitchell says of the cover to Lonesome No More!, the frst full-length album from his Americana band Nellie Pearl. Mitchell's longtime friend Claire Pupo did the artwork, which was inspired by a quilt made by Mitchell's great-grandmother: Nellie Pearl. "I liked the idea of incorporating the patterns somehow and, in a sense, having Nellie lead our art direction," Mitchell says. "The octagonal shapes are ideas that came from the quilt." Says Pupo: "My work has a celestial quality recently, which complements the spacey-ness of Nellie Pearl's recent music. The combination of celestial visuals with relevant, socially aware songs gives the listener a chance to look at our world from a higher perspective. We want this to affect people." — Katie Molck