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Honored to be honored at Arts Day in the General Assembly
Governor’s Arts Award winners stood in the back of the Senate Chamber (above) and the front of the House chamber to be honored by their legislators Tuesday during Arts Day in Kentucky. Photos by Tom...
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Lecture highlights camera club that produced photography stars
Van Deren Coke (1921-2004) made this photo in 1952 in Lexington’s old Union Station, which was on Main Street where the Helix garage, Lexington Police Department and Fayette County Clerk’s office are...
View ArticleCreating a city where people want to move, natives want to stay
In a 21st-century economy where jobs often follow people instead of the other way around, what assets help a city prosper? That question has led researchers, civic and business leaders to focus on...
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Irvine festival celebrates wild and tasty morel mushrooms
Jen Collins scans the forest floor for tiny, tasty morel mushrooms in Estill County. The 24th annual Mountain Mushroom Festival in Irvine is April 26-27. Photos by Tom Eblen IRVINE — “I found one!”...
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Kentucky Derby’s little sister has her own style
A giant, new video screen at Churchill Downs emphasizes the feeling that the 140th Kentucky Oaks on Friday is like one big reality television show. Photos by Tom Eblen LOUISVILLE — Whenever friends...
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Derby Day at Keeneland: all that was missing was live horses
Derby Day at Keeneland was a laid-back affair. Photos by Tom Eblen Billy Hargis of Danville got to Keeneland early on Kentucky Derby Day to stake out a bench and start studying the program in the...
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Story magazine founder wanted to tell Kentucky stories
Julie Wilson is founder, publisher and editor of Story magazine. Photo by Tom Eblen How does a woman born in Detroit become the founder, editor and publisher of a magazine dedicated to telling...
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New Lexington radio station to focus on community engagement
If Lexington were to have a small, community-oriented radio station, what should its programming be? What roles should it play? Whose voices should be heard? Those are some of the questions being asked...
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Scholars, curators get close look at early Kentucky art history
Robert Leath, chief curator at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C., held a drawer from an early Kentucky chest so he and students in MESDA’s Summer Institute could see...
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Revenue Cabinet employee a finalist for Ireland’s Rose of Tralee
Claire Curran, left, of Frankfort, is as one of 23 finalists in the Rose of Tralee pageant, a 55-year-old competition next month for young women of Irish ancestry. Lexington’s Irish community threw a...
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‘Lost Lexington’ a reminder of great buildings and people
The cover of Lost Lexington explains why Peter Brackney’s new book is so timely: It shows a mothballed old courthouse in desperate need of renovation beside the gigantic crater that has replaced the...
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Artists must learn business skills to make a living from their art
John Lackey at his studio at North Limestone and Sixth streets. Photo by Tom Eblen Lexington is starting to become a city where an artist can earn a living, but it requires almost as much focus on...
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The story behind Gratz Park’s bronze kids, soon headed for repairs
Author James Lane Allen’s will left the city $6,000 to build a fountain dedicated to Lexington’s youth. Installed in 1933, it will get a much-needed makeover this winter. Photos by Tom Eblen Like...
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Lexington curator bringing Kentucky artists to New York gallery
Lexington native Phillip March Jones poses inside the gallery he now manages in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The founder of Institute 193 in Lexington renovated the space for Christian Berst Art...
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Lexington artist, poet has made big career with tiny paintings
Miriam Woolfolk holds a painting she did of Loudoun House. Photos by Tom Eblen When the street artist MTO came to Lexington’s PRHBTN festival last fall to paint a mural on a Manchester Street...
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Wendell Berry: Ky. writers have too little impact on public discourse
After becoming the first living author inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame on Wednesday night, Wendell Berry, right, talked with Julie Wrinn, director of the Kentucky Women Writers...
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Despite moves from Argentina to Alaska, writer rooted in Kentucky
Nearly 40 years after he left Lexington in search of language, literature and academic adventure from one end of the Americas to the other, Johnny Payne said he still gets emotional each time he flies...
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New crop of ‘community supported art’ on sale this week
Central Kentucky’s farmers are just getting their plants in the ground, but a new crop of local art is ready for harvest. For the fifth season, the Lexington Art League is selling 30 CSA “shares” of...
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Would a better flag boost Kentuckians’ pride in their state?
Kentucky needs many things: better health, more education, less poverty, less political corruption, a more-prosperous middle class, a less-polluted environment. And a better state flag. I have...
View ArticleConvergence of gay rights, civil rights complex for black churches
Like other conservative churches, many historically black congregations are unhappy with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. And for many of them, there is an additional...
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