Derby: Once a Cat …
The University of Kentucky Wildcats spotted one of their Big Blue bretheren on the red carpet and tried to wave him into the picture with them. But the ol’ pro waved them on. Patterson, who now plays...
View ArticleAlbum review: The Portland Cello Project and Ben Sollee
The cello isn’t just for classical music anymore, if it ever really was in the first place. This month started with new releases from Lexington’s own Ben Sollee and Northwesterners The Portland Cello...
View ArticleOld school Kentucky Theatre week
The Beatles 1968 classic "Yellow Submarine" will be shown June 17 at the Kentucky Theatre. With the Kentucky Theatre hosting a very rare Saturday night concert by Bruce Hornsby on June 16, booker Larry...
View ArticleLyric Theatre summer movie series starts Saturday
Ted Ross, Diana Ross, Nipsey Russell and Michael Jackson in 'The Wiz.' The Lyric Theatre will launch its summer movie series this Saturday (June 23, 2012) with two showings of The Wiz, the 1978 Wizard...
View ArticleReview: Frank Ocean, Channel Orange
Before we get into what Frank Ocean‘s Channel Orange is, let’s say what it isn’t. It is not the gay hip hop/R&B album. Ocean, born Christopher “Lonny” Breaux, caused a sensation earlier this month...
View ArticleSummerFest: Comparing Streetcars
It occurred to me Tuesday watching the final dress rehearsal of SummerFest’s production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire that this is the first time in 14 years covering theater in...
View ArticleHistoric No. 1 for TobyMac’s Eye On It
TobyMac headlined the second night of the 2012 Ichthus Festival in Wilmore. Just over two months later he has the No. 1 album in the country. © Herald-Leader staff photos by Rich Copley. TobyMac’s...
View ArticleAudio Adrenaline reboots with dc talk’s Kevin Max
The rebooted Audio Adrenaline featuring former dc talk member Kevin Max (fourth from right) as frontman. Photo via audioa.com. Audio Adrenaline has taken a page from the Newsboy’s playbook enlisting a...
View ArticleTwo UK singers already have advanced in Met Auditions
Reginald Smith Jr. sings the catalog aria from “Don Giovanni” at the 2009 Kentucky District round of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. © Herald-Leader photos by Rich Copley. The...
View ArticleAppreciation: Roger Ebert
Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert works in his office at the WTTW-TV studios in Chicago. © AP photo by Charles Rex Arbogast. Growing up in the late 1970s and early ’80s, I did not realize...
View ArticleHard to believe: our town without Sears
Sears at Fayette Mall, on a gloomy day in 2011. On July 1, 2013, Sears Holdings announced the Lexington store will close. (c) Herald-Leader file photo by Charles Bertram. Really, I don’t want the first...
View ArticleNew Ben Sollee from Institute 193
Lexington contemporary art outpost Institute 193 continues its forays into music with a new album of covers by Lexington cellist Ben Sollee. As anyone who has followed Sollee knows, he is not a cellist...
View ArticleFall break
With highs now dipping into the 60s and leaves starting to turn, it seems like a good week to take a little fall break. Have a great week, and I’ll be back on the beat Oct. 14. In the meantime, make...
View ArticleacoUstiKats’‘Sing-Off’ journey ends
The acoUstiKats sang what would ultimately be their final performance on ‘The Sing-Off,’ Bob Seger’s ‘Old Time Rock ‘n’ Roll.’ NBC photo by Tyler Golden. The University of Kentucky’s acoUstiKats fell...
View Article‘Justified’ recap: Season 5 premiere
Edi Gathegi as Jean Baptiste and Timothy Olyphant as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in ‘A Murder of Crowes,’ the Season 5 premiere of ‘Justified.’ © FX photos by Guy D’Alama. The Season 5 premiere...
View ArticlePicasso ain’t originating from Lexington anymore
Matt Jordan, operator of You ain’t no Picasso, at the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tenn., in 2006. © Herald-Leader staff photo by Mark Cornelison. For a decade, Matt Jordan has been chronicling...
View Article‘Justified’ recap: ‘Over the Mountain’
Timothy Olyphant as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. © FX photos by Prashant Gupta. If you were doing something else at 10 p.m. Tuesday, like watching the Cats or the President’s State of the Union...
View ArticleAlert: Lexington Brass Band concert moved
The location for Sunday afternoon’s Lexington Brass Band concert has been changed from Calvary Baptist Church to Centenary United Methodist Church. Show time is still 4 p.m. Here is the Brass Band’s...
View ArticleKentuckian Brandy Neelly eliminated from ‘Idol’
Brandy Neelly. Photo via Brandy Neelly’s Music on Facebook. Eastern Kentucky University student Brandy Neelly never made it to the American Idol stage to sing for her future on the show Tuesday night....
View ArticleKET’s ‘backSTORY’ will go behind the scenes at Kentucky magazine
Fans of print media and journalism — a group I am proudly a part of — have enjoyed watching the last couple years as a new Kentucky magazine has launched and grown in this era where print publications...
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