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bright and piquant. When my family settled into our own home on the far side of the family farm, my parents took a more modern approach with our garden corn. Bacon fat wasn’t invited to the party. Picked BY TOM YATES fresh from the garden, it was either meticulously shucked and de-silked imagine we all have differing target before a quick steam or cut from the dates as to when summer officially cob, milked, and briefly sauteed. Salt. begins. Some folks might consider Pepper. Butter. Corn. Heaven. During the last day of school or the opening of peak season, the endless extra hauls pools as the start of summer. Then, of of corn got shucked, cut off, milked, course, there’s meteorological summer blanched, and frozen. and astronomical summer. In my book, Nowadays, I’m all over the place summer kicks off when roadside corn when the corn starts rolling in. I love trucks dot the rolling country roads it bacon-wrapped, chargrilled, boiled, and flat bed trucks, stacked high with steamed, creamed, pureed, pan fried, corn, back into stalls of the farmsauteed, or souffled, Few things can ers market. Tender, sweet, and fresh beat corn pudding, spoonbread, or enough to eat raw, few things top the ARCHIVE corn bread made with fresh peak arrival of locally grown corn. season And fried? I take it one Sharing 33 years of archives in our 2022corn. print editions further and toss whole ears Featured: archives profiling somestep of the artists included in of corn into a deep fryer. The intense heat the Bluegrass Portraits Series of the fryer quickly caramelizes the corn while simultaneously steaming the inside of the kernels. Slathered in butter, it takes me back to my grandmother’s table, sans the extreme crunch and leftover bacon fat. Deep Fried Corn. Simple. Quick. Fantastic. Lime Chive Butter. I brought 5 tablespoons of unsalted butter to room temperature before adding 1/2 teaspoon white pepper, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice, and 3 tablespoons snipped garden chives. I set the butter aside and cranked a deep fryer to 350 degrees. Typically, I fry whole ears of corn. ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT ACE EATS IN For more manageable smaller corn Back in the day, my grandmother bites, I cut them a notch. After One Hay atdown a Time Corn fried herDaze garden corn. She’d heap shucking and cleaning six ears of spoonfuls of leftover salty bacon fat Wayne County bi-colored corn, I in a large cast iron skillet and fry the trimmed the ends before slicing the cut off kernels until they caramelized ears into 1 1/2” discs. and crunched like popcorn. While Working in batches, to not she creamed a few batches from overcrowd the deep fryer, I carefully time to time, boiled whole cobs lowered the corn into the hot oil rarely hit the table. She was the fry for about 3-4 minutes. When they queen. As summer moved along, my started to crisp around the edges and grandmother instinctively morphed caramelize, I tumbled them onto a into her ‘depression era’ saving mode, parchment paper-lined sheet pan, canning the remaining bounty of corn slathered them with the chive-flecked for the leaner times. While her straight lime butter, and stabbed them with up canned corn lost its luster after toothpicks before finishing with overwintering in the dusty grim cellar, flaky sea salt, a splash of lime, and her preserved corn relishes survived additional chives.
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DEVELOPMENT Down to the River
In late May, the city announced plans to purchase 30 acres on the Kentucky River, the only public access to the river in Fayette County. The city has signed an agreement of sale for the property with John Kelley, whose family has owned the property for decades. The property is located off Old Richmond Road, near the I-75 bridge into Madison County. Mary Quinn Ramer, President of VisitLex, Lexington’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the new park will be an opportunity to establish a new kind of regional tourism with other river counties. “The growth in outdoor recreation and adventure tourism has been significant over the past two years,” Ramer said. “VisitLex believes that the Kentucky River will become a major driver in recreational opportunities for residents and visitors alike in our destination.” Councilmember Kathy Plomin, who represents the riverfront area, said, “My husband and I have a kayak and can’t wait for our inaugural voyage down this beautiful venue of the Kentucky River. To Lexington, Kentucky, another feather in our cap!”
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The Digital Access Project is focused on the digitization of Fayette County’s historical property records. This initiative is the result of a partnership between the Fayette County Clerk, University of Kentucky’s Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, the Lexington Black Prosperity Initiative, Blue Grass Community Foundation and its Knight Foundation Donor Advised Charitable Fund.
Hoops, Horses, and Healthcare
On June 23, Publix announced it had signed a lease for its first Lexington location in The Fountains at Palomar, at Man O War and Harrodsburg Road. The location will feature a
The holy trinity of ec dev in Lexington has long revolved around hoops, horses, and healthcare just expanded again, when UK Healthcare announced plans to enter a purchase agreement to acquire about 27 acres of property for approximately $20.3 million in the Hamburg development along I-75. Hamburg was also home to a June milestone in the construction of Baptist Health Hamburg with the placing of a commemorative steel beam signed by Baptist Health staff. Ground was broken in November of 2020 on Baptist’s major outpatient surgery and medical campus at 2000 Polo Club Boulevard in Hamburg. The plan includes an emergency department, outpatient surgery center, a cancer center, diagnostic services including breast imaging, and medical office building space.
The first buildings at Baptist Health Hamburg are projected to open in spring of 2024. Partners supporting the design and construction on the project include Congleton-Hacker Co., CMW Architects & Engineers, HKS Architects, and CMTA Consulting Engineering.
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The 20th annual Lexington Bluegrass Area Minority Business Expo (MBE) will return to an in-person format on August 4-5 in Central Bank Center. A networking mixer is open to the public on Thursday from 5:30-7:30, with the full-day expo slated for Friday from 7:00-4:30.
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McBrayer Managing Member James H. Frazier III trotted downtown to visit with Sweet Cerulean, McBrayer’s sponsored horse in HorseMania, designed and painted by Wyllie Caudill.
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FROM THE ACE ARCHIVES
Bluegrass Portraits In their Own Words, from the Ace Archives
22 YEARS AGO IN ACE December, 2000
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hile Ace celebrates our 33-year relationship with the best readers in town, we’ve been sharing archives in every print edition throughout 2022. Long before the subjects of 21c’s commissioned series, Bluegrass Portraits, graced the walls of the hotel’s Lockbox restaurant, many of them had profiled extensively over the past three decades in Ace Magazine. As a companion to this week’s coverstory interview by Kevin Nance with artist and UK professor Rob Southard on the Bluegrass Portrait series, we’re sharing a few moments from thirty years of features with a few of the subjects, including Kentucky poet laureate Crystal Wilkinson, preservationist Lucy Jones, and Kentucky author Silas House.
July, 2000
CRYSTAL WILKINSON Kentucky Poet Laureate One of Crystal Wilkinson’s earlier Ace covers was when she was profiled as one of Lexington’s “Model Citizen,” for the year 2000. At the time, Wilkinson was “Assistant Director of the Carnegie Center for Learning and Literacy, award-winning author, creative writing teacher, and omnipresent volunteer. Asked her what drove her those projects, she told Ace writer Phyllis Sargent, “I have to be happy, and I have to be connected to people in some way.” The profile outlined Wilkinson’s early jobs as LFUCG Public Information Officer, then into Public Relations at the Hope Center and Midway College. In addition to her tenure at the Carnegie Center, the profile detailed the author’s work as “faculty chair for the Governor’s School for the Arts, run by her friend Frank X Walker (last year’s Model, 1999). Since a reading at Alfalfa’s Restaurant, the two worked together on the Roots and Heritage Festival, and are members of the Affrilachian Poets group, where Wilkinson feels she found a home. ‘Even after I left college, I still felt there was nobody like me (black or white); I didn’t fit in. I wasn’t meeting other country black folk who knew the value of homemade biscuits or rhubarb pie.’”
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Blackberries, Blackberries cover In this longform 2000 interview with Ace’s editor, Wilkinson described the Affrilachian poets “as ‘a family,’ adding, ‘I think there has been no other writing group since the days of the Harlem Renaissance that is as connected as we are.’” Also interviewed for the profile, author Gurney Norman described Wilkinson as “the godmother of creative writing in Lexington.” She returned the favor in her interview, saying “if I’m the godmother, then he’s the grandfather.”
“I have to be happy, and I have to be connected to people in some way.” Crystal Wilkinson
7 YEARS AGO IN ACE April, 2015
LUCY JONES Founder of Lexington’s Harry Dean Stanton Fest
Design Star Kentucky native Harry Dean Stanton was born in Irvine; he attended Lafayette High School and then UK, where he studied journalism and performed at the Guignol Theatre under the direction of Wallace Briggs. On the occasion of the five-year anniversary of Lexington’s Harry Dean Stanton fest, founder Lucy Jones sat down for an Ace cover profile by Atanas Golev. Although she cited Paris, Texas as her favorite Stanton movie (one that will be highlighted in this year’s fest), she also admitted, “Repo Man still appeals to the 15-year-old punk rocker in me who first saw it at a midnight screening at the Kentucky Theatre. I’ve probably watched that film more times than any other. When I see it with a crowd I have to make a conscious effort to not recite every line. I take no such pains when I watch it privately.”
Jones later contributed to an Ace 2017 cover on a resurgence of MidCentury Modern in Lexington. As founder of the Mid Century Society of Lexington, she said, “I was deeply heartened by the overwhelming community
13 YEARS AGO IN ACE April, 2009 support for the Peoples Bank building and its plight. There is a dedicated community of like-minded people who are interested in the preservation of mid-century modern architecture and design in Lexington. I wanted to create a forum to connect these people as well as to provide educational opportunities for those who might be less familiar with the design aesthetic.”
More recently, in 2021, she appeared on Ace’s February cover when she was brought in as the midcentury design consultant for the Harmon Room at 21c Museum Hotel Lexington, an homage to the hit Netflix series ‘The Queen’s Gambit, based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel about a Kentucky chess prodigy named Elizabeth Harmon, who stays in a series of swanky hotels rooms on her way up the world chess rankings in the mid-to-late 1960s. She told Ace contributing writer Kevin Nance, “When they told me it was about creating this time-capsule experience of the 1960s at the 21c, it felt like my whole life had weirdly been leading toward that moment,” who ended up loaning most of the midcentury furniture in the room from her collection.
“Repo Man still appeals to the 15-year-old punk rocker in me who first saw it at a midnight screening at the Kentucky Theatre.” Lucy Jones
SILAS HOUSE Author and Playwright In celebration of Kentucky Writer’s Day, and the staging of his play, Long Time Travelling, author Silas House was profiled by Ace contributing writer in April 2009. He described the hymn he drew the title from, “This song has been around in the mountains at least since the early 1900s but I first heard it performed by the great contemporary group, The Wailin’ Jennys. Their cover of it is pretty amazing, with the most beautiful vocals you’ve ever heard, but it was the words that drew me in. When they sing ‘I’m a long time travelling here below/I’m a long time travelling away from home,’ it’s so melancholy and hopeful, and those are two things that this play is, too. I think it’s a song about the troubles of life and the hope for something better to come along eventually. That’s what these characters are hoping for. I’m interested in the darkness of life — God knows I’ve lived through that, like anyone else — but I’m even more interested in the light, and how we’re all just trying our best to be good people and keep traveling on. The characters sing some of the song in the play and that’s probably my favorite moment in the play, these two voices coming together into one, brought together by music.” Later that fall in 2009, Thomas interviewed House again before he joined Kathy Mattea and Jean Ritchie at a pre-show discussion when the documentary, Coal Country, opened the Kentucky Theatre.
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From the cover: Lucy Jones
Bluegrass Portraits No ‘boring headshots’ for 21C series BY KEVIN NANCE
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hen Lexington’s 21c Museum Hotel commissioned photographer James R. Southard to create a series of portraits of artists, writers and other creative types in Central Kentucky last year, he knew right away that he wasn’t going to produce “boring headshots,” as he puts it, or straightforward environmental portraits with the subjects posing simply in their homes or workplaces. Instead, Southard — a Louisville native and lecturer at the UK’s School of Art and Visual Studies (SAVS), known to his friends as Rob — used Photoshop and other digital tools to create elaborately constructed, deeply personal photo collages that stitch together multiple images including elements of the subjects’ identities and stories, past and present. The effect is similar to Old Master and neoclassical portraiture, in which painters sometimes indicate who their sitters are through their costumes and surroundings, or by including some of their personal items in the picture.
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what I wanted. I had originally thought of doing something sort of glamorous, but it turned out to be something more earthy and directly related to me.” In the finished portrait, Wilkinson appears, holding a copy of her book Perfect Black, at the center of a collage created in something like the style of a religious triptych from the Renaissance, surrounded by items evoking her history on a farm in rural Casey County: fresh produce from her cousin’s farm there; her grandmother’s patterned dress, folded in a way that suggests stage curtains; her grandfather’s hat; and part of an antique mirror from the farmhouse that becomes the frame for the overall composition. House’s portrait incorporates Southard’s portrait of him in his writing studio, while House’s own photo of a favorite lake is superimposed outside the window. Tharsing’s portrait combines numerous elements including the studio and paintbrushes of her late father, Lexington painter and UK professor Robert Tharsing, and the tablecloth of her late mother, gallerist Ann Tower. In Gregory’s portrait, she pours concrete in a way that mimics the pose in an archival photograph of one of her idols, the late painter Helen Frankenthaler. Only Beatty’s hand appears in his portrait, and Goodlett, who died during the planning stages of his, is missing from it entirely, represented instead by examples of his sculpture. “Rob is very intellectual in the way he composes all of his images,” says Alex Brooks, 21c’s regional director of museum operators, who supervises the chain’s art projects at its locations in Lexington, Nashville and Durham, N.C. “His work is amazing.” One of the most intriguing portraits features Jones, who Southard photographed at a window at her home in a pose reminiscent of a scene in her favorite film, Paris, Texas, a 1984 drama about a father and son starring Harry Dean Stanton (Jones is the founder of the Harry Dean Stanton Fest).
“Thanks to that technology, I don’t have to think like a photographer — I can think like a painter.” Southard, 39, says in an interview in his studio in the SAVS complex on Bolivar Street. “I don’t want to see what’s in front of me, snap it and then tweak it a bit and that’s the end of the story. I like to start with a sketchpad and imagination, asking what can I make? I’ve got the camera to help me produce whatever I want.” In “Bluegrass Portraits,” as the series is called, Southard collaborated closely with his subjects, soliciting their input and giving them approval over each iteration of the portraits as they developed. In the process, the subjects — writers Crystal Wilkinson and Silas House, visual artists Lina Tharsing, Crystal Gregory, Robert Beatty, Natalie Baxter and Mike Goodlett, curator Brian Frye, and design preservationist and film enthusiast Lucy Jones — became co-creators of the finished images. They now hang in the lounge of 21c’s restaurant, Lockbox, alongside portraits of Kentucky luminaries by other commissioned artists including 21c co-founder Laura Lee Brown, a painter. “I loved the process because it was different from how one usually imagines a portrait being made,” says Wilkinson, the current Kentucky Poet Laureate. “Rob didn’t just take agency on his own; instead, he made it a true collaborative process in which I had to think about Southard by Kevin Nance
The superimposed view outside the window was shot from a high floor at 21c, where Jones helped create the design of a special guest room in the style of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit in 2021. Jones is holding an old cassette tape player that belonged to her mother, Elizabeth, and that contains a recording made years ago by her for reasons she can’t recall. “I wasn’t entirely sure what the image would look like at first, but once the process began happening so organically, I started realizing how imbued with meaning the image was,” she says. “I’m wearing my mother’s dress in it, and the recorder still has a tape in it of her voice that I still have not listened to, because there should be some surprises in life. As I thought about what the image meant, I realized I was making a statement about the concept of legacy and my own choice not to have children.” Southard rounded out the series with a selfportrait at his recently purchased house in Lexington, his remote shutter clicker clearly visible through a window. “Me and my camera,” he says now. “Simple, right?” This year’s Harry Dean Stanton Fest, founded by Lucy Jones, is scheduled for July 15-17, 2022. A spinoff event, Character Fest, runs July 22-24.) Silas House’s forthcoming novel is Lark Ascending, on stands this fall.
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Lexington Challenger Tennis Tournament
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Ballet Under the Stars, Woodland Park
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Chris Kattan and Friends, Rock House Brewing
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Midsummer Night’s Run
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Picnic with the Pops (Motown), Keeneland
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Woodland Art Fair, Woodland Park
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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! RUN/WALK Bluegrass
10,000, 7 am, Downtown
MUSIC Annual
BIG BAND/ JAZZ Miles
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Osland Little Big Band w/ Vince DiMartino, 7 pm Ecton Park
Yappy Hours, 6:30 pm, Coldstream Park
MOVIES Summer
Philharmonic Patriotic Concert previewing the 4th, 5 pm, Gratz Park
Classics Series The Big Sleep 1:30 and
FEST Fourth of July Festival and Parade, 10 am, Downtown
EAT Kick off the holiday weekend with an Ice Cream Social, 11:30 am, Pavilion
SHOP “Explore Lex” Block Party, 5 pm, Greyline Station MUSIC Summer Nights in Suburbia, Bedford Band 7 pm Moondance
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ARTS Moondance Arts Festival, 6 pm Moondance
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ARTS Berea Craft Festival, Indian Fort Theater
pm Pavilion
Southland Jamboree, Maddie Murray and Darren Wasson Band, 7 pm Moondance
RUN Nothing Bundt Fun
3K, 8 pm, Wellington Dog Park
MUSIC Northside Nights,
Benny J and Friends, 7 pm, Castlewood
2 MUSIC Lexington’s first annual International Reggae Music Day festival, Rockhouse Brewing MUSIC Red, White, and Blues, 5 pm, Moondance Amphitheater
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TOSS Free Trash Disposal Day, 6 am, Old Landfill Pad, Old Frankfort Pike BALL Bluegrass Barons
v. White River, 1 pm, Waveland State Historic Site
READ Danni Quintos
signing Two Brown Dots, 1 pm, Joseph-Beth
Booksellers
SPORTS BARBASOL CHAMPIONSHIP, CHAMPIONS AT KEENE TRACE (JULY 7 – 10)
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Kentucky RiverFest, 9 am, Proud Mary BBQ
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NETWORK 2nd Annual
Women’s Summit, 8:30 am, Central Bank Center
HORSE Lexington Junior
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League Charity Horse Show, Rolex Arena (thru Saturday)
wraps up today, Lexington Center
SPORTS BARBASOL CHAMPIONSHIP
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MOVIES Harry Dean Stanton Fest wraps up with Paris, Texas followed by Q and A with Allison Anders, moderated by Silas House, 7 pm Kentucky Theatre
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READ Elizabeth Kilcoyne
discusses her first novel, Wake the Bones, with Gwenda Bond, 7 pm Joseph Beth
BIG BAND/JAZZ
Brett Evans Trombone Jazz Ensemble, 7 pm Ecton Park
MOVIES Summer Classics Series
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American Werewolf in London 1:30 and 7:15 pm
Kentucky Theatre
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Wednesday Yappy Hours, 6:30 pm, Jacobson Park
TNL The
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Ranahans 5 pm Pavilion
STAGE Appalachian
Shakespeare Center presents Measure for Measure, Woodland Park (thru Sat)
MUSIC Southland
Jamboree, Hammertowne, 7 pm Moondance
ART Gallery
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Hop. Ace Pick: Hunt, Gather, Emerge at Downtown Arts Center, including the work of Ace Art Director Alum, James Shambu.
MUSIC Summer Nights in Suburbia, Brother Smith 7 pm Moondance MOVIES Harry Dean Stanton Fest, thru July 17
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LIT GonzoFest, Louisville HORSE Breyerfest thru
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CARS Keeneland
Concours d’Elegance, 9 am, Keeneland
HORSE LEXINGTON JUNIOR LEAGUE CHARITY HORSE SHOW, ROLEX ARENA (JULY 11 – JULY 16)
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Ozmosis, 7 pm Ecton Park
CONCERT Pat Benatar,
EKU Center for the Arts
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Yappy Hours, 6:30 pm, Masterson Station
TNL Boogie G and the Titanics 5 pm Pavilion
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Jamboree, Cane Run Bluegrass, 7 pm Moondance
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Christmas in July at Waveland Barn, 2 pm, Waveland State Historic Site
CONCERT Steve Earle and the Dukes, outdoor show, The Burl
CONCERT Mary Chapin Carpenter 7 pm, Equus Run
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Allegro Dance Project’s HeadSpace, Moondance
KIDS Harry Potter Birthday Celebration, 11 am, Joseph-Beth Booksellers
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Encore of Lexington 5 pm Pavilion
MUSIC Southland Jamboree, Alan Bibey and Grasstowne, 7 pm Moondance
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Fight the Bite
This summer, the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department plans to control mosquito populations in the community by bringing increased focus to eliminating standing water and preventing mosquito larvae from hatching. This includes free mosquito larvicide, available by visiting the Environmental Health office on the second floor of the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department, 650 Newtown Pike, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Supplies are limited. Educational materials will be provided. The department will also use mosquito trapping to identify areas where spraying for adult mosquitos would be most useful. The health department has surveyed Lexington neighborhoods to identify and treat large areas of standing water that can serve as prime
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locations for mosquitoes to lay their eggs. Elimination of standing water is the ultimate goal, but in places where puddles exist, the water can be treated to kill mosquito larvae with a chemical called a larvicide. The health department will no longer conduct routine mosquito spraying for adult mosquitoes throughout the city on a regular cycle. Instead, mosquito traps will be placed in potential problem areas. If a certain threshold of mosquito activity is reached, the department will conduct targeted spraying in the appropriate areas. Those areas will be announced via the health department’s website, www.lfchd.org, and social media pages. For spraying, the health department uses Duet, an EPA-approved agent that features a component that stimulates resting mosquitoes in trees and foliage, causing them to fly into the air and come into contact with the spray’s mosquito-killing agent, sumithrin. Duet has been rigorously tested for human and animal safety and is registered for outdoor residential and recreational areas. To report a standing water problem in your neighborhood, please call the health department’s Environmental Health section at (859) 231-9791.
HEALTH CALENDAR
FRI JUL 1
A&W Restaurants will partner with the American Red Cross to host a Blood Drive on July 1. All donors will receive a free Root Beer Float, 10 am - 2 pm at A&W HQ at 1648 McGrathiana Pkwy.
RUN FOR IT JUL 4
Bluegrass 10k and Fun Run
JUL 8
Nothing Bundt Fun 3k
JUL 18
BreyerFest Strudel Sprint 5k
JUL 22
Crank & Boom Sprint for Scoops
AUG 13
Midsummer Night’s Run 5k
FRI JUL 22 Headspace is a dance performance that focuses on mental health and expressivity, with a special emphasis on community outreach, 8 pm, Moondance in Beaumont.
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of the family farm, my parents took a more modern approach with our garden corn. Bacon fat wasn’t invited to the party. Picked fresh from the garden, it was BY CHEF TOM YATES FOOD by Tom either meticulously shucked and Yates Shared via Tom Yates’ Ace Archives. de-silked before a quick steam bright and piquant. or cut from the cob, milked, and Chef Tom died Feb 9 at the age of 63. When my family settled into our briefly Pepper. own homesauteed. on the farSalt. side of the family imagine we all have differing Butter. Corn. Heaven. During peak farm, my parents took a more modern target dates as to when summer approach season,with the our endless extra garden corn.hauls Baconof officially fatcorn wasn’t invited to thecut party. got shucked, off,Picked milked, BY TOM YATESbegins. 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or many years, January and July were Lexington’s sleepiest months for eating out — quite a few restaurants used those months for deep-cleaning and vacations and riding out some of the least-hospitable weather Kentucky has to offer. July is busier now than in past years, thanks in no small part to annual celebrations like Lexington Restaurant Week — which actually lasts ten days. Lively summer programming like Barbasol, the Junior League Horse Show and the Challenger Tennis Tourney also encourage more fun staycation time, helping to keep dining dollars at home for the summer.
BIRTHS Florida-based Publix’s announcement that it will enter the Lexington market set local hearts afire at the prospect of pub-subs being available outside of Spring Break trips.
and activities for all ages to enjoy! With a farmto-table brunch made by Moody Mike’s with fresh ingredients sourced from Black Soils KY from 11 am to 1 pm.
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July is National Parks & Recreation Month, and a local business will release a collaborative tasty treat each Friday in July. A portion of proceeds from each will fund planting trees in local parks around the city!
Jul 1
Rayann’s Popcorn Co.; Strawberries & Cream Popcorn; funding trees in Castlewood Park
Lexington Restaurant Week is ten whole days of participating local restaurants celebrating with delicious specials and prix fixe menus.
Jul 8
West Sixth Brewing; Oakaged Prickly Pear Wild Sour Beer; funding trees in Coolavin Park
Jul 15
The Futile Bakery; Blackberry Jam Doozie; funding trees at Elizabeth Street Park
Join The Void for an evening of learning about sake and sushi. During the beginner sushi class, the instructor will teach guests how to make the perfect sushi rice and sauces, where to shop/ what to buy, and how to safely and confidently serve raw fish at home. Guests will also make their own California roll during class.
Jul 22
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Jul 29
A Cup of Common Wealth; Unique Coffee Blend; funding trees at Northeastern Park
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OBITS Oscar Diggs, a popular brewpub located near the busy corner of Limestone and Short for the past five years, recently announced “As of July 9, 2022, Oscar Diggs will be closing its doors. This has been an extremely difficult decision for us! Oscar Diggs has continued to be successful through it all — pandemic, staffing and the many other issues — all beyond our control.” The proprietors will continue their plans “to build in our community of Paris, through our
Presented by Pivot Brewing and powered by Black Soil KY and Moody Mike’s, Solharvest is a local vendors and makers market from 11 AM - 4 PM on July 10. There will be local food trucks
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT take part in the judging process, narrowing the finalists to Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners that truly represent the best in independent publishing. Whitney Collins took home the bronze for her short story collection Big Bad, and Jayne Moore Waldrop snagged the Silver in general fiction for Drowned Town.
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Kentucky Authors scored big wins in Foreword’s Indie Awards. Thousands of books are entered each year, and more than 100 librarians and booksellers
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ROB BREZSNY’S FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her poem “Two Skins,” Bahamian writer Lynn Sweeting writes, “There is a moment in every snake’s life when she wears two skins: one you can see, about to be shed, one you cannot see, the skin under the skin, waiting.” I suspect you now have metaphorical resemblances to a snake on the verge of molting, Aries. Congratulations on your imminent rebirth! Here’s a tip: The snake’s old skin doesn’t always just fall away; she may need to take aggressive action to tear it open and strip it off, like by rubbing her head against a rock. Be ready to perform a comparable task. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Imagine a world 300 years from now,” writes Japanese novelist Minae Mizumura, “a world in which not only the best-educated people but also the brightest minds and the deepest souls express themselves only in English. Imagine the world subjected to the tyranny of a singular ‘Logos.’ What a narrow, pitiful, and horrid world that would be!” Even though I am primarily an English speaker, I agree with her. I don’t want a world purged of diversity. Don’t want a monolithic culture. Don’t want everyone to think and speak the same. I hope you share my passion for multiplicity, Taurus—especially these days. In my astrological opinion, you’ll thrive if you immerse yourself in a celebratory riot of variety. I hope you will seek out influences you’re not usually exposed to.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Imagine you’re not a person, but a medley of four magical ingredients. What would they be? A Gemini baker named Jasmine says, “ripe persimmons, green hills after a rain, a sparkling new Viking Black Glass Oven, and a prize-winning show horse.” A Gemini social worker named Amarantha says she would be made of “Florence and the Machine’s song ‘Sky Full of Song,’ a grove of birch trees, a blue cashmere kneelength sweater, and three black cats sleeping in the sun.” A Gemini delivery driver named Altoona says, “freshly harvested cannabis buds, a bird-loving wetlands at twilight, Rebecca Solnit’s book *Hope in the Darkness*, and the Haleakalā shield volcano in Maui.” And now, Gemini, what about you? Identify your medley of four magical ingredients. The time is right to re-imagine the poetry of YOU. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard believes there’s only one way to find a sense of meaning, and that is to fill your life to the bursting point; to be in love with your experience; to celebrate the flow of events wherever it takes you. When you do that, Godard says, you have no need or urge to ask questions like “Why am I here?” or “What is
my purpose?” The richness of your story is the ultimate response to every enigma. As I contemplate these ideas, I say: wow! That’s an intensely vibrant way to live. Personally, I’m not able to sustain it all the time. But I think most of us would benefit from such an approach for brief periods now and then. And I believe you have just entered one of those phases. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I asked Leo readers to provide their insights about the topic “How to Be a Leo.” Here are responses that line up with your current astrological omens. 1. People should try to understand you’re only bossing them around for their benefit. —Harlow Hunt. 2. Be alert for the intense shadows you may cast with your intense brightness. Consider the possibility that even if they seem iffy or dicey, they have value and even blessings to offer. —Cannarius Kansen. 3. Never break your own heart. Never apologize for showering yourself with kindness and adoration. —Amy Clear. 4. At the moment of orgasm, scream out your own name. — Bethany Grace
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s your birthright as a Virgo to become a master of capitalizing on difficulties. You have great potential to detect opportunities coalescing in the midst of trouble. You can develop a knack for spotting the order that’s hiding in the chaos. Now is a time when you should wield these skills with artistry, my dear—both for your own benefit and for the betterment of everyone whose lives you touch. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One of my heroes died in 2021: the magnificent Libran author bell hooks (who didn’t capitalize her name). She was the most imaginative and independentminded activist I knew. Till her last day, she articulated one-of-akind truths about social justice; she maintained her uncompromising originality. But it wasn’t easy. She wrote, “No insurgent intellectual, no dissenting critical voice in this society escapes the pressure to conform. We are all vulnerable. We can all be had, co-opted, bought. There is no special grace that rescues any of us. There is only a constant struggle.” I bring this to your attention, Libra, because I suspect the coming weeks will require your strenuous efforts to remain true to your high standards and unique vision of reality.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You now have the power to make yourself even more beautiful than you already are. You are extraordinarily open to beautifying influences, and there will be an abundance of beautifying influences coming your way. I trust you understand I’m not referring to the kinds of beauty that are worshiped by conventional wisdom. Rather, I mean the elegance, allure,
charm, and grace that you behold in old trees and gorgeous architecture and enchanting music and people with soulful idiosyncrasies. PS: The coming weeks will also be a favorable time to redefine the meaning of beauty for yourself. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s the Season for Expressing Your Love—and for expanding and deepening the ways you express your love. I invite you to speak the following quotes to the right person: 1. “Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.” —E. E. Cummings. 2. “Lovers continuously reach each other’s boundaries.” —Rainer Maria Rilke, 3. “You’re my favorite unfolding story.” — Ann Patchett. 4. “My lifetime listens to yours.” — Muriel Rukeyser.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the coming weeks, make sure you do NOT fit this description articulated by Capricorn novelist Haruki Murakami: “You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.” If there is any goal about which you feel conflicted like that, dear Capricorn, now is a good time to clear away your confusion. If you are in some sense undercutting yourself, perhaps unconsciously, now is the time to expose your inner saboteur and seek the necessary healing. July will be Self-Unification Month. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A Tweeter named Luxuryblkwomen articulates one of her ongoing goals: “bridging the gap between me and my ideal self, one day at a time.” I’d love it if you would adopt a similar aspiration in the coming months. You’re going to be exceptionally skilled at all types of bridgebuilding, including the kind that connects you to the hero you’ll be in the future. I mean, you are already a hero in my eyes, but I know you will ultimately become an even more fulfilled and refined version of your best self. Now is a favorable time to do the holy work of forging stronger links to that star-to-be.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A blogger named Lissar suggests that the cherry blossom is an apt symbol for you Pisceans. She describes you as “transient, lissome, blooming, lovely, fragile yet memorable and recurring, in tune with nature.” Lissar says you “mystify yet charm,” and that your “presence is a balm, yet awe-inspiring and moving.” Of course, like all of us, you also have your share of less graceful qualities. And that’s not a bad thing! We’re all here to learn the art of growing into our ripe selves. It’s part of the fun of being alive. But I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will be an extra close match for Lissar’s description. You are at the peak of your power to delight and beguile us.
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HOME AND GARDEN 2022 Preservation Award Winners
The Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation (BGT) recently announced the 2022 Preservation Awards at its annual membership meeting. Awards are given for service in the field of preservation, innovative historical research, and saving Kentucky’s diverse cultural heritage. Individual winners received a Lexington Silver Barrel Beaker and Awarded properties were given a Blue Grass Trust Plaque. “For over 30 years, BGT has used the Preservation Awards to shine a light on the positive, far-reaching impact that preservation plays in Central Kentucky,” Executive Director Dr. Jonathan Coleman said. The Preservation Craftsman Award went to Adam Carmona of United Contracting. The Community Preservation Award went to the Bluegrass Heritage Museum in Winchester, KY. The Lucy Shropshire Crump Volunteer Award was presented to Jan Swauger, Immediate Past President of Town and Country Garden Club. The Barbara Hulette Award went to the Central Huntertown Community Interpretive Park in Woodford County, KY.
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Front Yard Friends
Art by Nature: Front Yard Friends is a celebration of our local environment. This exhibit brings attention to front yard landscaping. Eight sites from across Fayette
County are featured. Visual artists of all types —painters, photographers, fiber artists, jewelry makers, sculptors and more — are encouraged to participate. The deadline for artists to declare their intent to exhibit is Saturday, July 30. The Art by Nature program is in its fifth year. The initiative showcases local native landscapes as represented by local artists. The inaugural year focused on local greenways and streamside restoration projects. Native plants in medians, easements and mailbox strips were featured in 2019. In both 2020 and 2021 trees got their chance to shine. Now, in 2022, front yards have taken center stage. The topic was selected to bring attention to new Plant by Numbers plans for front yards. These plans make it easy for novices to design beautiful, low-maintenance, Earth-friendly landscapes. The plans were created by EARTHeim Landscape Design, and are available for free from the City. The exhibit is scheduled for Friday, August 26 through Saturday, September 24, at the Loudoun House. Works will be for sale, though an artist may choose to opt-out of that aspect of the program. Ten percent of proceeds will benefit Celebrate Lexington, formerly known as America in Bloom Lexington. Artists keep the remainder. “Front yards can be one of the most underappreciated spaces in urban environments, yet they provide a number of benefits,” says Nancy Albright, the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Quality and Public Works.
“The Art by Nature series always results in an amazing array of art, and I’m looking forward to seeing this year’s exhibit.” The City is planning a series of art and nature events in conjunction with the exhibit. Details on those events will be announced in early August.
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103 S. Limestone Unit 1020................................$2,050,000 350 E. Short St Unit 215.......................................... $308,000
40508
624 W. Short St......................................................... $767,000 355 S. Broadway Unit 301...................................... $415,000 510 S. Broadway...................................................... $387,000 435 N. Limestone.................................................... $315,000 549 N. Limestone.................................................... $220,000 366 E. Third St........................................................... $190,000 342 Wilgus Ave........................................................ $175,000 730 Bellaire Ave....................................................... $145,000
715 Price Ave............................................................ $140,000 458 Ohio St.............................................................. $125,001 313 Thompson Rd................................................... $125,000 136 York St................................................................ $118,500 625 Maple Ave............................................................$97,000 635 N. MLK Blvd.........................................................$90,000 365 Roosevelt Blvd.....................................................$42,100
40509
1149 Chetford Dr..................................................... $590,000 654 Gingermill Ln.................................................... $580,000 3225 Brighton Place Dr........................................... $495,000 561 Forest Hill dr..................................................... $475,000 601 Spadeleaf Park.................................................. $445,000 1113 Kavenaugh Ln................................................ $429,000 1113 Kavenaugh Ln................................................ $429,000 3329 Lawson Ln....................................................... $416,000 1764 Battery St........................................................ $400,000 1168 Brick House Ln............................................... $350,728 3064 Old House Rd................................................. $310,000 3028 Quaker Hill Ln................................................ $265,000 3213 Reuben Lane.................................................. $265,000 2441 Aristocracy Circle............................................ $245,000 812 Revere Run Dr.................................................. $243,800
317 Hannah Todd Pl #1104.................................... $238,000 837 Gerardi Rd......................................................... $237,000 214 Housas Way...................................................... $165,000 2507 Knightsbridge Ln........................................... $160,000 305 Bainbridge Unit K............................................. $155,000 2502 Woodhill Dr.................................................... $135,000 414 Darby Creek Rd Unit B..................................... $105,000 4033 Buttermilk Rd....................................................$89,000 4069 Buttermilk Rd....................................................$89,000 4073 Buttermilk Rd....................................................$89,000 4077 Buttermilk Rd....................................................$89,000 4085 Buttermilk Rd....................................................$89,000 194 Hedgewood Ct....................................................$88,500 1376 Angus Trail.........................................................$76,000 1380 Angus Trail.........................................................$72,000
40511
1371 Estates Hill Cir................................................ $495,000 2989 Our Tibbs Trl.................................................... $345,000 2773 Kearney Creek Ln........................................... $333,333 2775 Our Tibbs Trl.................................................... $317,775 1104 Griffin Gate Dr................................................ $310,000 2740 Mill Wood CV................................................. $285,000 1868 Lost Trail Ln..................................................... $285,000
Property sales info source: Fayette County Property Valuation office (www.fayettepva.com)
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