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Quake coverage turned novelty into disaster
Growing up in Virginia Beach, I always thought the biggest disasters that could befall my hometown were hurricanes or nuclear war – it was the 1970s and ’80s, and we were sure that the Navy base in...
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Appreciation (from a PC): Steve Jobs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds a new iPhone at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco in June 2010. (c) AP photo by Paul Sakuma. I’m a PC. Today, my computers are PCs, my phone is an...
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PBS Fall Arts Festival – Miami City Ballet
The Miami City Ballet performs George Balanchine's "Western Symphony." © PBS photo by Kyle Froman Photography. To most of us, fall arts means getting out in the crisp weather to attend shows and visit...
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George Clooney on the cover of Rolling Stone
Getting on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine is a time-honored dream of rockers. But as Kentuckians like Johnny Depp have demonstrated, RS also puts its fair share of movie stars on its treasured...
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Feminist artists, groups awarded grants
Bianca Spriggs, shown here in a 2000 photo, was a recipient of an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. © Herald-Leader file photo by Sam Richie. The Kentucky Foundation for...
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Central Library’s renovated theater is ready for its debut
Lexington Public Library media relations coordinator Doug Tattershall, director Ann Hammond and Lexington Public Library Foundation Executive Director Bill Watts in the newly renovated Will Stamps...
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Summer Snow: Making this film becomes family affair
Sibling writers/directors Jeremy White (blue t-shirt) and Kendra White talk to first assistant director Justin Tolley as actor David Chisum (far left) listens on the set of "Summer Snow." ©...
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Not-so-super memories of the Super Bowl halftime shows
The first Super Bowl I watched on TV? That’s easy: the 1980 matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. The Rams were my first favorite football team, thanks in large part to it...
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Barnstable Brown Gala celebrates 25 years
Dallas star Josh Henderson will be one of the new faces at the Barnstable Brown Gala. (c) AP photo by Jordan Strauss. Louisville’s Barnstable Brown Gala will celebrate its 25th edition with plenty of...
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Live blog: Barnstable Brown Party
Everybody loves a hometown hero. UofL basketball star Peyton Siva could barely do interviews for all the fans cheering SIVA! SIVA! as he entered the Barnstable Gala. He said he was enjoying the love...
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Tsarnaev cover: Poorly played, Rolling Stone, poorly played
The cover of the Aug.1 issue of Rolling Stone magazine fails because it simultaneously broke the magazine’s traditions while being typical of them. Yes, I am a little late to this party as the release...
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Picasso 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...
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Farewell to WEKU’s Charles Compton
Listeners to NPR’s Morning Edition often joke that they have to have a box of tissues ready Friday mornings for the often moving Story Corps segments, which present real-life conversations between...
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KET’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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