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Netflix

Barnhill Chimney opened their new showroom.

LET THEM EAT CAKE Lexington Baker Brandi Romines lands a spot on Netflix’s Baking Impossible

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READ IT AND EAT IT If you caught Japanese Breakfast at Railbird, don’t miss her food memoir, Crying in H Mart

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HOME AND GARDEN Previewing the Tour of Remodeled Homes and more

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BUSINESS

Elwood Hotel invited guests for a “first look” at their new space off Broadway.

Barnhill Chimney celebrated their new showroom at 824 Winchester Road.

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Silent Guard hosted a ribbon cutting in September.

DEVELOPMENT

Commerce Lexington announced the 2021 Salute to Small Business Award winners in September. Crank and Boom Ice Cream received both the Business Success Award and the Small Business of the Year Award. Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream (C&B) is a premium ice cream maker in Lexington. What started as a simple dessert option in the back of Toa Green’s family restaurant, Thai Orchid Cafe, has since grown to a business with two scoop shops, 40-plus employees, nationwide shipping through Goldbelly, and recognition through national press including PEOPLE Magazine, the New York Times, and Cooking Channel. Crank & Boom’s mission is to Create Joy, Ignite Laughter, and Inspire Compassion. This has been accomplished through various community giving programs like FEED Backpack program and the popular Small Batch Club program that has raised over $56,000 since 2020 for local organizations. In addition to its location in the Distillery District, Crank and Boom recently relocated its second location from The Summit at Fritz Farm to a spot on Clays Mill Road in the Stonewall Shopping Center. Guide Realty received the Minority Business Award. Started by Phyllis Alexander and Raquel Carter, Guide Realty opened its doors in January 2008 with a vision of a small, familyowned, boutique-style real estate office. Entrepreneur Award: Peer House, LLC Founded in 2016 by Ozlem Eva Davis, CPA, CFE, CFF, Peer House, LLC is an accounting and consulting firm located in Lexington and serving clients around the nation. The business currently serves clients in 55 cities covering 29 states from diverse work sectors and varying industries, including nonprofit, technology, beverage distribution, construction, legal, and education. Non-profit Community Impact Award: Lexington Rescue Mission The Lexington Rescue Mission began in 2001 when Jim and Becky Connell started the ministry to the poor and homeless. On November 21, 2001, services started with a Thanksgiving banquet at Broadway Christian Church. The mission then opened its doors to anyone in need of food, clothing and financial assistance, and began offering Bible studies and chapel services for guests. Over the last 20 years, the mission has grown and changed to meet the needs of those who are hurting, including the addition of programs that help unemployed people learn workplace skills and get jobs. The organization now has four facilities (The Outreach Center, The Potter’s House, The House of Hope, and Grace Place), 25 full-time employees, 11 part-time staff and hundreds of volunteers.

Oak View Group Facilities will begin managing the day-today operations for the Lexington Center Corporation (Rupp Arena, the Convention Center and the Lexington Opera Bill Owen will retire summer 2022 House) on October 1. Bob Elliston, Chairman of the Lexington Center Board says, “Central Bank Center has been fortunate to have tremendous leadership from Bill Owen and his team for the past two decades. As we prepare for Bill’s retirement in the summer of 2022, the selection of OVG Facilities was the right choice to position the Center to achieve even greater heights as our nearly $300 million capital expansion comes online.” According to a statement released by Central Bank Center, “Oak View Group is the largest developer of sports and entertainment facilities in the world with $4.5 billion of deployed capital across eight projects.”

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Inside Rupp Arena’s new Club + VIP Experience

It most recently was envisioned in 2012 as part of the proposed Rupp Arena Arts & Entertainment District. A Request for Qualifications from prospective developers issued in 2016 was suspended pending an application to the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority for a tax increment finance district or TIF that was granted in late 2019. Detailed information about responding to this HS-Project RFP is available at www.centralbankcenter.com/rfp

PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES Aviation Maintenance opened its new consolidated headquarters operation at Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport, a project creating up to 47 full-time jobs over the next three years with an $800,000 investment. Founded in 1988 as Thoroughbred Helicopters, TAM has grown to include maintenance of aircraft from small Cessna planes to corporate jets, and helicopters from the helicycle to an AS365 N3 Airbus medium utility helicopter. Thoroughbred is excited about our consolidation and expansion at Blue Grass Airport, said Joe Otte, vice president of TAM. We are grateful for our partnership with Blue Grass Airport and Commerce Lexington, and the positive business environment they foster. We believe the greater amenities, business diversification and access to commercial flights will enhance our customers’ experience and help our business expand.”

SPIRITS

RFP near Rupp

The Lexington Center Corporation (LCC) announced that it will accept proposals to qualify a developer(s) to develop property in the heart of downtown Lexington. The specific site location of the High Street Development Project is currently utilized as a large surface parking lot located directly across High Street from the newly expanded Central Bank Center (CBC) and renovated Rupp Arena and is generally bordered by Lexington Center Drive, Maxwell Street and High Street. The site is approximately 17.5 contiguous acres. This project, planned to build out a site assembled in the 1970’s into an urban environment with greater density and higher utilization, has long been considered in the downtown long range planning process. Proposed development should support Central Bank Center activities, especially parking, but also add opportunities to contribute to a more vibrant downtown.

A new James E. Pepper Distilling Co warehouse broke ground in Midway, as the Lexington-based brand expands following the revival of its historic distillery after a 50-year hiatus. “We can’t bottle our whiskey fast enough,” said company owner Amir Peay. “By building our own warehouse, James E. Pepper can double production capacity at the historic distillery. We’re proud of the success we’ve experienced in revitalizing this iconic American brand.”

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SAT OCT 30

Happy Fall Y’all

Happy Halloween!

All dates and programs are subject to change. Check with individual venues to confirm.

FRI OCT 1 (THRU OCT 3)

SAT OCT 2

Oktoberfest Harrodsburg 2021 is celebrating its fifth year: free concerts on Main Street all weekend long; German fare and festival style treats; artists and vendors; family fun at the Carnival and Kinderland area. Mt. Sterling Fly-In/Drive-In Breakfast and Aviation Day. Breakfast starts at 7 am and ends around 11 am. Main activities start around 9 am and end around 4:00 pm. Airplane rides are offered for a minimal charge, plus a candy drop for the kids, food and other various vendors and many fun activities for the whole family. Bring your lawn chair. Free Parking.

SAT OCT 2

Wilmore’s 23rd premier arts and crafts festival celebrates “Meet Me at the Tracks.” with more than 50 vendors with an array of juried art and hand made crafts. Winchester Downtown Arts Festival, 9 am to 4 pm.

SAT OCT 9

South Elkhorn Fall Festival, 9 am to 4 pm, 4343 Harrodsburg Road, featuring arts, crafts, food, live music, and handcrafted goods.

FRI OCT 15 (THRU OCT 18)

Kentucky’s Oldest Festival is Court Days, dating back to 1794 in Downtown Mt. Sterling! Hundreds of vendors will offer a huge variety of merchandise and food for four days. Enjoy fun entertainment — including live music and the Mt. Sterling Mullet Contest. Vendor and Visitor information at mtsterlingtourism.com.

Adventure Theatre Presents: Frankie Stein’s Halloween Extravaganza (murder mystery dinner theatre) at Shaker Village. “After flunking out of med school, Frankie Stein is pursuing his passion for television by hosting a Halloween-themed game show with a Bill Nye twist and a dash of Martha Stewart.”

FRI OCT 15

Join the Lexington Paranormal Investigation Society as they dive into the spookier side of White Hall. Experienced investigators will guide you through the steps of completing your own paranormal investigation as you tour the mansion and learn more about its past residents.

SUN OCT 17

Trunk or Treat at Bi-Water Farm will include Hayrides, Mega Slide, Sunflower Field, Pumpkin Warrior Obstacle Course, Ziplines, Corn Maze and more.

FRI OCT 22

The Kentucky Castle will host a Murder Mystery dinner on Halloween Eve. The evening begins in the Grand Ballroom with a cocktail reception and the opening act of “A Deadly Journey,” the evening’s entertainment, which tells the story of the murder of Victor Marshall, a 1940s Hollywood Film Director. Dress up in your favorite costume and join White Hall State Historic Site for a Halloween High Tea — an evening of thrills, chills, and tea refills. Enjoy a high tea complete with Halloweenthemed food, spooky stories, and maybe a surprise or two.

Halloween Fun Runs OCT 23 OCT 29 OCT 30

Run for the Pumpkins 4-miler, Harrodsburg The Black Cat Chase 5k, Frankfort Kiwanis Halloween 5k, Shaker Village

Scarefest returns to Lexington Center for the weekend.

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SUN OCT 24

Scary Movies

Thriller Halloween Parade returns to downtown Lexington.

THU OCT 28

Wildside Winery will present an evening of wine and cookies with The Cheerful Baker. Each ticket includes a glass of wine or beer or soft drink and everything that you need to make and take home a set of cookies.

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Monster Dash 5k, Danville

Hocus Pocus, 6 pm, Masterson Station Park Young Frankenstein, 6:30 pm, Cross Keys Park Frankenweenie, 6 pm, Masterson Station Park Gremlins, 6 pm, Masterson Station Park

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Lexington baker Brandi Romines is ‘baking impossible’ on Netflix BY RHONDA REEVES

aker Brandi Romines grew up in Harlan County and moved to Lexington at the age of 18 with “literally $20 dollars” in her pocket. “I wasn’t born into wealth,” she says, “but I was born with creativity and also a lot of grit and determination.” These days, she’s famous for high profile work for high profile clients — like creating a cake replica of UK’s Gatton Center, sculpted mermaid cakes, and nearly life-size bourbon barrel cakes with spigots that actually dispense bourbon. The Gatton project alone was “1,123 servings of cake. 378 eggs, 4 lbs of cocoa, 6 bags of lemons, 68 pounds of sugar, 64 pounds of flour, 54 pounds of butter, 54 pounds of powdered sugar, 24 pounds of fondant, 16 pounds of modeling chocolate, 6 gallons of buttermilk, 1/2 gallon egg whites, 1 quart vanilla extract,” (not to mention over 100 hours of labor), but who’s counting? Arguably Lexington’s number one Cats fan, she has a hard time narrowing down a favorite big blue memory, “Every single time I deliver an order to campus,” she says, “I feel an immense amount of gratitude and I am so very humbled. The first year I got to bake for the Catspys will always stand out in my mind. The day they called me, I’ll never forget that feeling or emotion. Obviously my replica of the championship trophy for Cal and my cakepops of the 2014 team making it on CBS. But above all, the things I treasure most are the people I have met and gotten to become friends with. There are some pretty cool people running the show, and I am thankful to know them.” And those well-publicized creations are just the tip of the iceberg. What about the wildest or strangest or craziest cake she’s ever undertaken? She’s not saying. “I actually can’t tell,” she confesses with only minor elaboration, “Not all of my clients

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want their projects out there. I do a lot of things that never make it on social media or in the public.”

n October 6, she’ll be even more famous when Baking Impossible makes its debut on Netflix. This time last year, she was in California filming as a cheftestant, describing “two months away from home” as “just about unbearable.” But in some ways, the timing was perfect. The last year and a half has not been kind to the hospitality and special events industry. She says, “During the pandemic I had no idea of the direction I’d go. Should I find another job? Should I go bag groceries at Kroger? (no shame in my game! A job is a job).” It was a challenging time. “It’s been difficult,” she says, “Having events cancel, reschedule, constantly having to move things around to

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accommodate my clients. Luckily, my client base has been absolutely amazing and has supported me in any and all possible ways. And I will always be humbled and grateful for that.” This summer, she made her first celebration of life cake. For as long as she’s lived in Lexington, she’d always noticed the iconic orange Herb Geddes Fence signs. When owner Doug Geddes died, his son reached out to her to create the cake for his memorial, which was held on what would have been the elder Geddes’ 70th birthday. She says, “Doug was an avid singer in his church choir. He owned the fencing company and was also an avid scuba diver. If you zoom in on the underwater photo his son sent, you can see him smiling so big. As I applied it to the cake and I stared at his picture, I started to cry. Doug’s adventurous life was cut short by Covid-19. So much loss, so much devastation, so much heartbreak in the last year and a half.” Throughout it all, she was able to keep her business open, and found more unexpected and inspiring moments when she offered cake and cupcake kits. She provided ingredient kits, and then filmed videos of herself decorating the projects, so customers could follow along at

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home. One woman sent an appreciative email, “She said that sometimes connecting with her teenagers is hard, but that it was something they all did together. I will never forget that. My mom passed away when I was 10 years old. Being with my kids is the most important thing to me. So, to know that the legacy of my mom’s cake decorating is blessing someone like that is very special. When you lose someone, your biggest fear is them being forgotten. Knowing she is still living on through me is indescribable.”

omewhere along the way in all of the shutdowns, she posted a photo of a thank-you cake she’d made for a friend to look like a bowl of (his favorite) Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, and the rest, as they say, is history. “That crazy little cake got noticed by a casting agent, and a week later, I was on a Zoom.” Engineer and baker, Andrew Smyth (The Great British Bake-Off), executive produces, but the average home cook may not be familiar with what he calls “the art of bakineering.” It all came naturally to Romines though, who says, “ I have always been an extremely curious person. As a kid, I got in an immense amount of trouble for taking apart every toy I ever received. I deconstructed my Strawberry Shortcake bicycle when I was four, just to see if I could rebuild the thing. I taught myself to use a soldering iron at the age of 11, and soldered anything I could. Bakineering is implementing engineering feats into baked projects. Making a boat cake that floats, building an edible building that has to withstand an earthquake simulator. So that was something that really drew me to the show.” She laughs, adding, “It’s very different. And it’s not for sissies.”

“During the pandemic I had no idea of the direction I’d go. Should I find another job? Should I go bag groceries? (no shame in my game! A job is a job).” The grit and determination — and the flour and sugar — are all in the family though. She explains, “My mom was an extremely talented cake decorator, both of my Mamaws as well. I grew up watching them pipe all of those crazy Wilton designs....As a kid, we didn’t have grocery store cakes, not like today. We also didn’t eat out a lot. Every single Sunday, we ate supper after church at my Mamaw’s house with my entire family. Cooking and baking for people is all I ever knew.” The inspiration stuck. She recalls, “When I was in college, my roommate at the time loved

the 101 Dalmatians movie. It was her birthday and I decided to try to make a cake for her that looked like a dog. I bought a Wilton 101 kit in the middle of the night, which was two piping tips, a decorating book, and a basic buttercream recipe. It was as if I immediately knew what to do. I was hooked. So I slowly started baking, and building and pushing myself.” Now, she says, “My best selling cake —my old fashioned buttermilk cake—actually started at the bread portion of my Mamaw’s blackberry cobbler. I loved it so much I kept playing around with the recipe until I got it to a good cake form. Now it’s my go to for all of my builds.” (It was also the base of the cake she used for the Geddes celebration of life, and in a moment of serendipity, she found out later from the family that blackberry cobbler was what Doug Geddes had always requested on his birthday.)

hat’s next for Romines —aside from the fact that she is not allowed to divulge the outcome of the show’s competition as we go to press? It’s hard to tell if she’s more excited about the possibility of a $100,000.00 victory… or Halloween. She’s the kind of woman who can barely get to sleep from all the excitement of counting down the days to October 31… starting at 76 days out. She posts about it year-round and her decorations are legendary. One of her fans tells her, “Everything you touch is beautiful (unless it’s close to October... then everything you touch is creepy).” She is especially proud of the newest item added to her Halloween collection this year, “I managed to snag one of the 12’ tall skeletons from the Home Depot! Eeeeeek!” Asked to forecast baking trends in general, she says, “Right now buttercream is continuing

to make a huge comeback,” and she’s glad to see it. “People are kind of over fondant,” she says, adding, “You can’t beat the look of fondant, and sometimes I require it on certain things. So, I love seeing all of the buttercream piping making a comeback,” admitting (in a confession sure to generate heated controversy in pastry kitchens everywhere) “I am not a fan of the boho brown/nude color cakes. I like color.” Win or lose, she’s living the sweet life no matter what. After spotting one of her confections in a magazine this past summer, she kept it all down to earth when she said, “Now excuse me while I go cry tears of joy, and have a Whiteclaw to celebrate.” ☐

BONUS LIGHTNING ROUND WHAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT CAKE TOOL IN YOUR ARSENAL? My level QUICK: NAME 5 THINGS IN YOUR FRIDGE RIGHT NOW. Buttermilk, eggs, butter, blackberries, strawberries QUICK: IS LEXINGTON THE SOUTH OR MIDWEST (AND WHY?) The south! Because I said! WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE BAKING SHOW? (RULING OUT Baking Impossible) Probably ‘Nailed It!’ [on Netflix] Because it makes me laugh FAVORITE DESSERT IN A LEXINGTON RESTAURANT? The coconut cream pie from Malone’s IF YOU WANTED YOUR CLIENTS TO SUM YOU UP IN ONE WORD, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Kind

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Fixer Upper What will Stephen Taylor fix next? BY KEVIN NANCE

oon after Stephen Taylor Jr.’s family moved from Florida to Rowan County in the mid-1970s, his father, a professor of education and later a vice president at Morehead State University, bought a farm in West Virginia that included a ramshackle old house covered with weatherboarding. The elder Taylor’s initial thought was to tear down the house, perhaps just burn it to the ground. But when he began to pull off the siding, he found a vintage log cabin underneath. Instead of demolishing it, he decided to restore it. And for the next three years, the family would drive every weekend from Morehead to Pennsboro, WV — 212 miles each way — to work on the cabin. “He had to jack it up, put in a new foundation, re-chink all the logs with cement,” recalls Taylor, now 54. “As a little kid, eight or nine years old, I couldn’t do a whole lot, but I could run around and burn things or clean things or pick things up.” He smiles at the memory. “At the time, I may have dreaded some of those trips, and was happy to get back to Morehead. But it did give me an appreciation for old houses and the need to preserve them.”

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Nearly half a century later, Taylor is still preserving houses. While maintaining his day job as a financier — he manages the Taylor International Fund, an investment firm specializing in turning around small companies in trouble — the Princeton graduate has devoted much of his time over the past 25 years to buying and restoring historic, often dilapidated homes, including several 1920s-era Spanishstyle houses in Los Angeles, where he lived until moving back to Kentucky in 2019 to be near his elderly parents. Taylor now lives and works in the famous farmhouse on the 42-acre estate he purchased a few years back, once occupied by the mother of movie star Johnny Depp on Versailles Road in Lexington. (Coincidentally, he once met the actor while the two of them were on their knees on the floor of Depp’s Hollywood nightclub, the Viper Room, looking for a friend’s lost contact lens. “He was nice,” Taylor says.)

ow he’s taken on perhaps the most highprofile preservation project of his life. In May, Taylor won a foreclosure auction (with a bid of $800,000) of the Miller House, a modernist architectural marvel in southeastern Lexington designed in the late 1960s by José Oubrerie, a former dean of the University of Kentucky College of Design and a protégé of the famous French architect Le Corbusier. While not a fixer-upper like the Los Angeles houses — although it does have some rainwater drainage issues that Taylor is addressing — the Miller House has

About “Betty Sue’s Family Farm” Kentucky native Johnny Depp first picked up the iconic Versailles Road farm in 1995 for $950,000, sold it in 2001 for $1 million, and then bought it back in 2005 for $2 million. Depp’s mother, Betty Sue Palmer, lived at the property until her death in 2016. Guy Martin wrote about the estate in Forbes Magazine in October of 2018, when the listing attracted national attention during that year’s Breeders’ Cup, held at Churchill Downs. “During a Breeders’ Cup week, it sometimes pays to take a glance at the local real estate, especially when, as this year, the race is staged in Kentucky. Betty Sue’s Family Farm, as Johnny Depp’s mother’s place is called, includes forty-two acres, stable capacity for a dozen horses, and could hardly be located any closer to the beating heart of American Thoroughbred breeding and racing. The six-bedroom, six-bath neo-colonial ranch, with a four-columned portico fronting its 6600 square feet, lies two miles west of Keeneland race course on Versailles Road, which is to say, smack in between the site of the Keeneland Thoroughbred Sales and the central Bluegrass clutch of the world’s winningest breeding farms.” Current owner Stephen Taylor still refers to it as “Betty Sue’s Family Farm,” as do most of the neighbors. —staff

As a little kid, eight or nine years old, I couldn’t do a whole lot, but I could run around and burn things or clean things or pick things up...It did give me an appreciation for old houses and the need to preserve them. —Stephen Taylor Jr. recalls childhood memories of his dad’s vintage cabin restoration project been considered an endangered property because of its lack of historic designation and protection and its awkward position as the only structure of its kind in Lochmere Place, a large subdivision with dozens of traditional homes on small lots. At 5,000 square feet above ground, the Miller House is also considerably larger than most of the homes that surround it on all sides, which further accentuates its startling difference from its neighbors. And if the three-story glass-and-concrete exterior — views of which shift “like a Rubik’s cube,” Taylor says, depending on where you stand — is notably out of sync with the overall design ethos of the area, the interior is even more so. “It has lots of nooks and crannies,” Taylor points out, with considerable understatement, during a recent tour of the home. Oubrerie’s design leads the visitor through the labyrinth of rooms along a winding path of gleaming wood stairways, metal railings and concrete slabs that connect in a way that recalls the mind-bending visions of the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher. Many rooms open onto interior landings that overlook a central atrium-like space and abstract fireplace on the ground floor; others have outward-looking balconies, a few of which lead to jutting, gangplank-like decks. “There are 14 doors leading to the outside,” says Michele Nolan, a Taylor staff member who is currently living in the house as a temporary caretaker. “I counted.” Most of those doors, along with the ones on the interior, have operable doors and/or windows within them, allowing for ventilation and/or peeking into the adjacent spaces. Almost every room is equipped with some fascinating built-in feature — a cabinet here, shelves there, often so hidden that a visitor has to spend considerable time just to spot them. The Miller House would be an excellent place for a treasure hunt. Or perhaps an outpost for an architecture school. Although Taylor hasn’t ruled out living and working in the Miller House himself — “It might be a bit big for just one person,” he says, “but I can envision it” — it’s more likely that the house will become an auxiliary space for UK’s College of Design, with which he’s developing

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a relationship. He’s in early discussions with Mitzi Vernon, the college’s current dean, about making the house available to UK as a place for lectures, offices, meeting rooms and/or a residence for visiting scholars. “We were delighted that Steve was interested in this house and that he wants to preserve it,” says Vernon, who notes that she tried to convince university officials to buy it when it came on the market in 2017; that plan fell through because the College of Design would have had to pay for the off-campus property’s maintenance. “We love the idea of using it not just as a museum, but as a working facility for our preservation faculty and for research for the students. We’re just beginning to explore those ideas with Steve, who would love it if the house could be useful to us.” For Taylor, that prospect would be just the latest chapter in a lifetime of preservation work that began so long ago with that log cabin in West Virginia. And he’s not done yet. What’s next? He recently purchased the 256-acre farm next door to the former Depp estate and is considering what to do with the main house and a smaller home in the back of the property. (In the short term, he says, he may raise cattle on that farm, its main function in recent decades.) He also has a hankering to get involved in some other real-estate ventures in Lexington —

Lexington’s historic José Oubrerie’s Miller House, located off Chilesburg Road in Lochmere, was auctioned in late May of this year. Curbed described it in 2016 as “an under-recognized building that traces its lineage back to one of Modernism’s godfathers, Le Corbusier. Designed by his associate José Oubrerie, who was then the dean of architecture at University of Kentucky, the home takes Corbusian principles and modern design philosophies and amplifies them… But in both its locations and construction, it’s a building out of time. Finished in 1992, it’s a Modernist statement that may have come a few decades late.” It was on and off the market for years, with multiple preservationist efforts to save it, before Stephen Taylor Jr.’s winning auction bid of $800,000.00 in May. —staff perhaps including the Kentucky Theatre, where he has seen many movies over the years. “I’ve got a soft spot for movie theaters,” he says. “And the Kentucky, especially, is part of helping Lexington’s city-center traffic and nightlife, and I just hate to see it closed. I’d be happy to fund a portion of the operating expenses of that theater, or a portion of the losses, if that would help it reopen.” Stay tuned. ☐

We love the idea of using [the Miller House] not just as a museum, but as a working facility for our preservation faculty and for research for the students. We’re just beginning to explore those ideas with Steve, who would love it if the house could be useful to us. —Mitzi Vernon, Dean of UK’s College of Design

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Paper Shred

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Lauren Daigle, Rupp Arena

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Junior League Holly Day Market

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Thanksgiving

FEST Oktoberfest,

Harrodsburg (thru Sunday)

RUN Raven 10K Run

the trails at Raven Run! Proceeds benefit the Raven Run Education Program

WOODSONGS Paula Cole | Guy Davis, 6:45 pm, Lyric Theatre

SAFETY Fire Prevention Wellness Festival, 2-6 pm, Masterson Station Fairgrounds

SPORTS WWE Supershow, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

COMMUNITY CivicLex

Redistricting Workshop - Districts 3 & 10, 6 pm, Virtual

WOODSONGS Drew

Holcomb & the Neighbors | Jack Broadbent, 6:45 pm, Lyric Theatre

LIT Carnegie Center

Kentucky Great Writers Series: Angela JacksonBrown (When Stars Rain Down), Wesley Browne (Hillbilly Hustle), and Robert Gipe (Pop: An Illustrated Novel) read from their latest works. 7 pm, Virtual

HEALTH Free Flu Shot Clinic, 3 pm - 6 pm, Consolidated Baptist Church (1625 Russell Cave Rd). Walk-ins are accepted, and registration blocks can be made at lfchd.org/ flushots2021

TNL Final TNL of the season

Horse Park

MOVIES Retro Movie Night, Young Frankenstein, gates open 6:30 pm, Cross Keys Park

HORSE

Keeneland Fall Meet opens

MOVIES

Freaky Friday Flicks:

Kimberly Carter & Carrying On, 5 pm, Cheapside Park

ART Opening reception for

exhibit Art by Nature: Trees, 5 pm, Julietta Market inside Greyline Station

neighborhood yard sale

HORSE Equitana, Kentucky KIDS Shoyu Tell, 2 pm,

MOVIES Freaky Friday Flicks: Hocus Pocus, 6 pm, Masterson Station Park

SHOP Annual Bell Court

Frankenweenie, 6 pm, Masterson Station Park

FEST Mt. Sterling Court

Days, continues through the weekend

FEST Festival Latino, Downtown MOVIES Freaky Friday Flicks: Gremlins, 6 pm, Masterson Station Park BALL UK Basketball

Big Blue Madness, 7:30 pm, Rupp Arena

Lexington Children’s Theatre

BALL UK hosts University of Florida, Kroger Field

ART Arts & Crafts Festival, 9 am (Wilmore)

BALL UK Football hosts LSU, Kroger Field

CONCERT For King and Country, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

RUN Yes, Mamm! 5K race

RJ Corman racecourse (Nicholasville). Support from the race provides free mammography and cervical cancer screenings, diagnostic testing, and program support to underinsured and uninsured patients across Kentucky.

RUN Bourbon Chase

finishing in downtownv Lex

RUN Raven 10K Run

the trails at Raven Run! Proceeds benefit the Raven Run Education Program

WOODSONGS Paula

Cole | Guy Davis, 6:45 pm, Lyric Theatre

SAFETY Fire Prevention Wellness Festival, 2-6 pm, Masterson Station Fairgrounds

SPORTS WWE Supershow, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

COMMUNITY CivicLex

Redistricting Workshop - Districts 3 & 10, 6 pm, Virtual

LIT Carnegie Center

Kentucky Great Writers Series: Angela JacksonBrown (When Stars Rain Down), Wesley Browne (Hillbilly Hustle), and Robert Gipe (Pop: An Illustrated Novel) read from their latest works. 7 pm, Virtual

HEALTH Free Flu Shot

Clinic, 3 pm - 6 pm, Consolidated Baptist Church (1625 Russell Cave Rd). Walk-ins are accepted, and registration blocks can be made at lfchd.org/ flushots2021

TNL Final TNL of the season

HORSE

Keeneland Fall Meet opens

MOVIES

Freaky Friday Flicks:

Kimberly Carter & Carrying On, 5 pm, Cheapside Park

ART Opening reception for

exhibit Art by Nature: Trees, 5 pm, Julietta Market inside Greyline Station

WOODSONGS Drew

Holcomb & the Neighbors | Jack Broadbent, 6:45 pm, Lyric Theatre

Frankenweenie,

6 pm, Masterson Station Park

FEST Mt. Sterling Court

Days, continues through the weekend

FEST Festival Latino, Downtown MOVIES Freaky Friday Flicks: Gremlins, 6 pm, Masterson Station Park BALL UK Basketball

Big Blue Madness, 7:30 pm, Rupp Arena

HORSE 2021 Secretariat Festival wraps up today (Oct 15-17), Kentucky Horse Park

WOODSONGS Jimmie Vaughn, 6:45 pm, Lyric Theatre

GOLF Pumpkin Patch Classic, 9 am, Tates Creek Golf Course

at Temple Adath Israel has been canceled for this year. #Verklempt

FEST Thriller Parade,

downtown

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

WRITE Good Foods Coop and Carnegie Center present “Savoring Your Words: Writing Your Food Traditions” with author Ellen Birkett Morris, 7 pm, Virtual

CONCERT Chris Stapleton, Riverbend (Cinci)

FEST Scarefest, 4 pm, Central Bank Center (thru Sunday)

MOVIES Freaky Friday Flicks: Nightmare before Christmas, 6 pm, Masterson Station Park

LSU, Kroger Field

CONCERT For

King and Country, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

RUN Yes, Mamm! 5K race

RUN Bourbon Chase

finishing in downtownv Lex

HG Household Hazardous Waste Disposal, 8:30 am to 3 pm at 1631 Old Frankfort Pike (enter via Jimmie Campbell Dr.) CONCERT Jason Aldean, 8 pm, Rupp Arena

BALL UK Basketball Blue White Game, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

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EAT Jewish Food Festival

BALL UK Football hosts

COMMUNITY CivicLex

Redistricting Workshop Districts 4 & 9, 6 pm, Virtual

FEST PumpkinMania,

Transylvania University

READ Friends of the

Library Book Sale wraps up. Book Sale hours are 10 am to 5 pm at the Central Library.

FEST Jack-o-lantern Trail

at McConnell Springs (Oct 27 – 30)

SHOOT Sporting

Clays Event sponsored by Wiseway Supply, 11 am - 4 pm, Blue Grass Sportsmens League (Wilmore)

BALL UK Men’s

Basketball host Kentucky Wesleyan, Rupp Arena

HORSE Keeneland Fall

meet wraps up

RUN/WALK Monster Dash 5k, Danville

HEALTH

THINK PINK Concert for a Cure

The Lyric Theatre will host Concert for a Cure on Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m., presented by Lexus of Lexington. The all-ages, acoustic concert featuring American Authors, Wrabel and Forest Blakk aims to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Proceeds will benefit CHI Saint Joseph Health Foundation’s Yes, Mamm! Yes, Cerv! programs. Tickets can be purchased at The Lyric Theatre box office Monday through Friday from 1 pm to 5 pm.

Komen MORE THAN PINK Walk

The 2021 Susan G. Komen Kentucky MORE THAN PINK walk is Saturday, October 30. This event will be virtually held. No matter where you are, set out on the sidewalks of your own neighborhood to earn your Virtual Finisher Medal by walking 6,000 steps for your commitment to end breast cancer. Register online at komenkentucky.org. Walk begins at 10 am.

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Women’s Hospital at Saint Joseph East Receives Grant

The Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation, on behalf of the Women’s Hospital at Saint Joseph East, has received a $24,000 grant from WHAS Crusade for Children. The grant will be used to purchase new Panda™ Warmer equipment to benefit newborns in the Lexington area. The advanced technology of the Panda™ Warmer helps to keep newborns’ bodies warm through temperature regulation during possible resuscitation, which ensures the medical staff at the Women’s Hospital at Saint Joseph East can quickly respond to the smallest changes in the infants’ health and needs.

Yes Mamm!

The Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation will bring together and celebrate cancer survivors during its upcoming Yes, Mamm! Yes, Cerv! 5K race in Nicholasville, on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 9 a.m., at the RJ Corman racecourse. The Yes, Mamm! Yes, Cerv! 5K, presented by RJ Corman Railroad Group, is open to runners of all ages. Support from the race provides free mammography and cervical cancer screenings,

diagnostic testing, and program support to underinsured and uninsured patients across Kentucky. Every dollar raised will support Yes, Mamm! Yes, Cerv! programs statewide.

PEOPLE

RUN FOR IT!

Frontier Nursing University Department Chair of Psychiatric-Mental Health Jess Calohan will be formally inducted into the 2021 Class of Fellows during the American Academy of Nursing’s annual Health Policy Conference, October 7-9. Fred Odago, MD, has joined CHI Saint Joseph Medical Group in Lexington as a neurologist.

OCT 2

Chrysalis House 5k run/ walk, Nicholasville

OCT 3

Raven 10K (Run the trails at Raven Run!)

OCT 10

Fall 21 Thru Hike, 10 am Raven Run

OCT 15-16 Bourbon Chase OCT 16 Chalk It Up!

Yes, Mamm! Yes, Cerv! 5K, RJ Corman (Nicholasville)

CHI Saint Joseph Health launched a chalk art challenge, aiming “to paint local communities with positivity.” The “Chalk It Up to Humankindness’’ event began internally as an opportunity for employees and their families to share images and words of kindness and has now transformed into a community-wide initiative, running through October 4, with three winners selected each week.

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Pumpkin (sp)Ice Cream

two halves onto a baking sheet cut side down, and slid them into a preheated oven to roast for one hour before pulling them from the oven to cool. When they were cool enough to handle, I scraped the soft yellow flesh into a food mill and turned it into a delicate puree. After a quick whisk, I slid it into the refrigerator to chill for a couple of hours.

BY TOM YATES

ake no mistake about it, we are ice cream people. Big time ice cream people. One year, in lieu of exchanging anniversary gifts, we pooled our money and bought a mack daddy tabletop ice cream maker. At any given moment on any given day, we’ll have some form of ice cream tucked away in the freezer. I can practically make it in my sleep. Some folks might think that ice cream is a seasonal treat. Seasonal, as in the summer season. Sure, there’s nothing better than bellying up to a cooling cone, bowl, or carton of ice cream on a blistering hot day. That said, it doesn’t have to be relegated to summer. Kicking through the gravel paths at the farmers’ market, stacks and stacks of sugar pumpkins lulled me into daydreaming about the upcoming holidays. Or, most importantly the food associated with the holidays. Thinking about the usual suspects, I zeroed in on pumpkin ice cream. Why not? There’ll be pies galore wherever we turn. Pumpkin soup might even enter the picture. Pumpkin scones. Pumpkin biscuits. Pumpkin rolls. Pumpkin muffins. Pumpkin everything. Still, surrounded by pumpkins smack dab in the middle of an urban pumpkin patch, I drifted back to ice cream. Pumpkin

ice cream. Eaten on its own, scooped onto warm pumpkin pie for a holiday double whammy, or dolloped into steaming hot coffee for a sweet creamy boost, pumpkin ice cream could possibly be the white-canvas flavor bomb of the season. Because I’m not a baker, I’ve never given much thought to the debate surrounding the use of canned pumpkin versus fresh pumpkin. I have given a lot of thought to knowing where my food comes from as well as the faces behind the food. So, canned or fresh? Although it probably wouldn’t have mattered, it’s pumpkin season right now, for pity’s sake. Why waste the riches? Fresh Pumpkin. It was probably as simple as opening a can. I halved a smallish Madison County sugar pumpkin (sometimes referred to as pie pumpkin), scooped out the seeds, reserved the seeds, plopped the

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Custard. Using an electric hand held mixture (old school), I whipped 5 egg yolks with 1 cup light brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, and 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg. After heating 1 1/2 cups heavy cream combined with 1 1/2 cups whole milk to a low simmer, I gradually mixed the warmed dairy with the egg mixture to temper the eggs before adding the combined mixture back to the simmering cream. When the custard was thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon, I strained it through a fine mesh strainer, and added 2 teaspoons of thick Madagascar Bourbon pure vanilla bean extract before blending it with 1 1/4 cups of the chilled fresh pumpkin puree. Thinking it was still a bit grainy from the puree, I passed it through the mesh strainer again for a smoother consistency and slid it into the refrigerator to chill. Churn. The easy part. I poured the pumpkin custard into the chilled ice cream canister, clamped on the lid, and let rip for 25 minutes before scooping the ice cream into a plastic container and tossing it into the freezer to set up.

Gilding the Lily. I rinsed the seeds under warm water to release them from the fibrous pulp and dried them with a clean dish towel before tossing them with 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 heaping tablespoon sugar, a dusting of cinnamon, and a pinch of sea salt. After a quick mix, I slid the seeds into a 350 oven for about 8-10 minutes to toast and caramelize. Maple Spun Sugar. I might not excel at sweets, but I can spin sugar. Although it can be dangerously tricky, it’s actually quite simple and fun. Now, I didn’t want to go all croquembouche, spinning fine delicate sugar threads all over the kitchen like a whirling dervish. I wanted sturdy shards of shatteringly crunchable spun sugar. Edible sugar glass. I combined one cup sugar with half cup water, 1 tablespoon corn syrup, and one teaspoon pure maple syrup in a small cast iron skillet. After cranking the heat to medium, the sugar and corn syrup slowly dissolved into the water. Without stirring, I let the mixture bubble and rip until it reached the hard crack stage, 300-312 degrees on a candy thermometer. Working quickly and very carefully, I drizzled and twirled the molten maple sugar concoction over a non-stick silicone mat. It was a one shot deal. Spun sugar has a mind of its own. It waits for no one. Just before the melted amber sugar solidified into maple stained glass, I scattered a few candied pumpkin seeds into the lacy shards. Cheers to quiet daydreams in the pumpkin patch.

ACE EATS OUT

hankfully, Fall is all about far more than pumpkin spice as Lexington welcomes new restaurants and transitions to the scene, and bids sad farewells to veteran mainstays.

BIRTHS

Condado Tacos opened in The Summit at Fritz Farm in September. DV8 has opened its second location in the Met. Hola Havana Cuban Cuisine is coming soon to N. Locust Hill. Kenwick Table coffee shop and wine bar has opened on Owsley Ave.

Ace’s Read It and Eat It shared together have meant more to me than you know.” West Main Crafting announced their closure in September.

TRANSITIONS Owner Kathy Lyons announced her retirement from FatKats Pizzeria (Georgetown) with a welcome to the new owners, “It is a great mix of melancholy and excitement that I announce my pending retirement from FatKats. The business will go on without me under new ownership. The new owners are a great family, Mr. Earl Brady, his wife Sharlene and their son Michael….I know you will welcome the Brady family with open arms. Oh what a wild, sometimes bumpy, and most often wonderful, ride the last 16 and a half years FatKats has been for me and my family…Thank you to all that have made FatKats the amazing little pizza shop that it is today.”

Manchester Coffee opened in the Met at the corner of Midland and Third in September.

Great Bagel announced in September that their Woodland location would return to being “open all seven days of the week!”

Timmy Two Times is now open in the Keithshire Shopping Center near Clays Mill.

Sam’s Hot Dog Stand celebrated a Grand Re-Opening (under new management) in September.

OBITS

Whiskey Bear has announced that its last day at the Summit is October 3, in advance of their move to Beaumont, accompanied by the premiere of a new sister concept, Addie’s Stone-Fired Pizza.

Cha Tamura wrote a moving elegy to announce the closing of Tomo. “As most of you know, we first opened Tomo in Chevy Chase over 20 years ago. Over the past two decades I received an outpouring of support from this community during the best and some of the hardest times. I hope that you will pour this same support into the new tenant who will be taking over this special place and turning it into something new. The laughs and tears we’ve

EVENTS FRI OCT 1

The Second Annual Bourbon and Breeders’ Ball at the Kentucky Castle benefits Justin’s Place and features farm-to-table cuisine, bourbon, and live music.

SAT OCT 2

“Mini OktoberFest at the Grove” will include themed foods, boards, and local Oktoberfest beers.

SAT OCT 9

Take the Turkey Farm Tour: Behind the Scenes at Elmwood Stock Farm, focusing on the organic, pasture-raised turkeys at Elmwood, outside Georgetown, Kentucky. The Behind the Scenes tours are designed to educate adults and children alike about how food gets from the farm to your plate.

FRI OCT 15

“Taste of the Trace” at Buffalo Trace Distillery benefits CASA of the Bluegrass. The Taste features food and libations by Buffalo Trace and Purple Toad Winery, music, and a silent auction. Buffalo Trace will also offer VIP tour experiences of the distillery throughout the night.

SAT OCT 23

Bourbon on the Banks returns this year to historic Downtown Frankfort on the banks of the Kentucky River. Walk the banks, enjoy acoustic musicians, sample rare and unique bourbons, spirits, wine and beer.

SUN OCT 24

Sad news was announced via facebook that the 2021 Lexington Jewish Food Festival is canceled and won’t be rescheduled this year. The announcement reads, “As verklempt as it makes us to do this, we don’t see another option.” Mummy Cake decorating at Pivot brewing. Create four cupcakes in class; one drink ticket is included. No baking or decorating experience needed. All materials are provided.

Crying in H Mart By Michelle Zauner (Knopf)

hose who caught Japanese Breakfast’s set at Railbird in August might or might not be aware of Michelle Zauner’s award winning book, Crying in H Mart, a food memoir intertwined with the death of her mother, published by Knopf this past spring. In it, she writes of her Oregon roots, “Eugenians are proud of the regional bounty and were passionate about incorporating local, seasonal, and organic ingredients well before it was back in vogue… Local farmers gather every Saturday downtown to sell homegrown organic produce and honey, foraged mushrooms, and wild berries. The general demographic is of hippies who protest Whole Foods in favor of local co-ops, wear Birkenstocks, weave hair wraps to sell at outdoor markets, and make their own nut butter.” The book is an expansion of her 2018 New Yorker essay, “Crying in H Mart.” She has also just collaborated with Noona’s ice cream on a fall flavor, Persimmon Jubilee, in celebration of Chuseok (which translates to “Autumn Eve,” also known as Korean Thanksgiving, a three-day harvest festival). The ice cream is based on “Sujeonggwa, a chilled Korean sweet punch made with dried persimmons soaked in a tea of fresh ginger root and cinnamon sticks, then sweetened with honey.” —RR

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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT ARTS Arts Connect will host Open Studios Weekend on October 23. Kentucky Performing Arts, with support from Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet, Louisville Orchestra, PNC Broadway in Louisville, and StageOne Family Theatre, has announced that guests attending indoor performances at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, the Brown Theatre, and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall will be required to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test. “With the rise of COVID-19 cases and the increasing threat of the Delta variant, we are putting these protocols in place to create the safest possible environment,” says Kentucky Performing Arts President and CEO Kim Baker. “This is a necessary step for Kentucky Performing Arts to continue to deliver upon its mission of building lifelong relationships with the arts and remain an economic driver for our city and state.” The vaccine or negative test policy begins October 1, 2021. Mandatory masking is currently in place in all venues. Guests will be required to be fully vaccinated with the Moderna, Pfizer, or Johnson & Johnson vaccine and must show proof of vaccination at their time of entry into the theater with their valid ticket. “Fully vaccinated” means that on the date of the performance, a guest has received their second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, or their single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, at least 14 days prior. If a guest is not vaccinated, they must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance time. The negative test requirement also applies to patrons between the ages of 5 and 12. Patrons under the age of 5 will not be required to obtain a negative PCR test to gain entry. COVID-19 tests must be conducted by a third-party medical laboratory. Self-administered tests will not be accepted.

LexArts has announced the election of seven new members to its Board of Directors: LaShawn Barber; Angela Coleman, Unified Trust; Joseph Coleman, Kentucky League of Cities; Mark Johnson, Art, Inc.; Whit Whitaker, Lyric Theatre; Kim Ries, Maker’s Mark; and Dan Wu. Lexington Art League will host a closing reception for “What Endures?” a juried exhibit of work by members of the Lexington Camera Club at the Loudoun House on October 8. Participating photographers include Guy Mendes, Maryjean Wall, Patrick J Mitchell, Dobree Adams, Tom Fielder, Marcia Hopkins, Tom Eblen, and David Allen Fitts.

The Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard, a collection of his work and commentary from those who knew him, is due on stands in October. Hubbard (1900 - 1988) was a Kentucky writer, environmentalist, and artist. University Press of Kentucky will release Jayne Moore Waldrop’s Drowned Town on October 26, 2021. Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact surrounding a group of people bound together by western Kentucky’s Land Between the Lakes.

WATCH

READ

Kentucky author Silas House has a long-form piece in The Atlantic, “Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good.” Lexington-based author Margaret Verble’s new book, When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky, is set in 1926 Nashville and will be released October 12, 2021.

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SAT OCT 2

Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie, 11:30 am, Lexington Opera House

MON OCT 4

Fall Concert, 7 pm, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School

TUE OCT 5

Kyle Gass (half of Tenacious D), 8 pm, Manchester Music Hall

THU OCT 7

Moonshiner’s Ball, Mt. Vernon (continues through the weekend) Final TNL of the season Kimberly Carter & Carrying On, 5 pm, Cheapside Park Tapestry: A Tribute to Carol King, 7 pm, Lyric Theatre

FRI OCT 8

Bourbon Row Concert, 4 pm, Chenault Vineyards

LISTEN Rajant Corporation hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony and private VIP luncheon to celebrate opening the doors of its expanded facility. During the event, Rajant Co-founder and CEO Robert Schena, presented a “Hal Rogers Traditional Music Scholarship Endowment” award to a student studying at Morehead State University’s “Kentucky Center for Traditional Music.”

Live + Local Music

Organ Concert with Michael Messina, 7:30 pm, Good Shepherd Episcopal on Main

SAT OCT 9

For King and Country, 7 pm, Rupp Arena Gangstagrass, 8 pm, The Burl

THU OCT 14

Troubadour Concerts at the Castle: Doyle Lawson, 7 pm, Kentucky Castle

The non-profit Friends of the Kentucky Theatre have announced plans to re-open the Kentucky on Main. The Kentucky celebrated its 90th birthday in 2012, and was temporarily shuttered in 2020, mid-pandemic. Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton announced at the time, ““This is the last thing I would ever want to do. I love the Kentucky Theatre...But the management group that runs the theatre contacted us. COVID-19 has steamrolled the Kentucky. Their numbers are way down and they’re having trouble getting movies.” “The Kentucky will reopen as soon as possible” she said in 2020, pledging that the building would be maintained so that it could successfully reopen. The Kentucky Theatre originally opened on October 4, 1922, and wasn’t substantially renovated until the 1950s. Fire closed its doors “temporarily,” in 1987, but it remained dark until it re-opened in 1992, after Herculean efforts and a lengthy and arduous campaign.

FRI OCT 15

Shaker Village Music on the Lawn, 2:30 pm, Shaker Village Pleasant Hill Keith McCutchen’s Latin Jazz Experience, 4 pm, Base 249

SUN OCT 17

Choral Evensong with Organ Recital, 3 pm, Good Shepherd Episcopal

MON OCT 18

Woodsongs: Jimmie Vaughn, 6 pm, Lyric Theatre

THU OCT 21 Chris Stapleton, Riverbend (Cinci)

SAT OCT 23

Jason Aldean, 7:30 pm, Rupp Arena

WED OCT 27

Troubadour Concerts at the Castle: Darrel Scott, 7 pm, Kentucky Castle

SAT OCT 30

Air Supply, 7:30 pm, EKU Center Stage Fright, 7 pm, Rupp Arena

ROB BREZSNY’S FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Blogger AnaSophia was asked, “What do you find attractive in a person?” I’ll reproduce her reply because it’s a good time to think about what your answer would be. I’m not implying you should be looking for a new lover. I’m interested in inspiring you to ruminate about what alliances you should cultivate during the coming months. Here’s what AnaSophia finds attractive: “strong desire but not neediness, passionate sensitivity, effortlessness, authenticity, innocence of perception, sense of humor, vulnerability and honesty, embodying one’s subtleties and embracing one’s paradoxes, acting unconditionally and from the heart.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus author Roberto Bolao confessed, “Sometimes I want greatness, sometimes just its shadow.” I appreciate his honesty. I think what he says is true about most of us. Is there anyone who is always ready for the heavy responsibility of pursuing greatness? Doubtful. To be great, we must periodically go through phases when we recharge our energy and take a break from being nobly ambitious. What about you, dear Taurus? If I’m reading the omens correctly, you will benefit from a phase of reinvention and reinvigoration. During the next three weeks, you’ll be wise to hang out in the shadows of greatness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having,” wrote religious writer C. S. Lewis. That advice is ten times more important right now than it usually is. For the sake of your body’s and soul’s health, you need to indulge in sprees of playful amusement and blithe delight and tension-relieving merriment. And all that good stuff will work its most potent magic if it stimulates pleasures that are unique to you and not necessarily in line with others’ tastes. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “It is one thing to learn about the past,” wrote Cancerian journalist Kenneth Auchincloss. “It is another to wallow in it.” That’s stellar advice for you to incorporate in the coming weeks. After studying your astrological omens, I’m enthusiastic about you exploring the old days and old ways. I’m hoping that you will discover new clues you’ve overlooked before and that this further information will inspire you to re-envision your life story. But as you conduct your explorations, it’s also crucial to avoid getting bogged down in sludgy emotions like regret or resentment. Be inspired by your history, not demoralized by it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you like to deepen and strengthen your capacity to concentrate? Cosmic rhythms will conspire in your favor if

you work on this valuable skill in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to make more progress than would normally be possible. Here’s pertinent advice from author Harriet Griffey: “Whenever you feel like quitting, just do five more five more minutes, five more exercises, five more pages which will extend your focus.” Here’s another tip: Whenever you feel your concentration flagging, remember what it is you love about the task you’re doing. Ruminate about its benefits for you and others. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What’s your favorite feeling? Here’s Virgo poet Mary Szybist’s answer to that question: hunger. She’s not speaking about the longing for food, but rather the longing for everything precious, interesting, and meaningful. She adores the mood of “not yet,” the experience of moving toward the desired thing. What would be your response to the question, Virgo? I’m guessing you may at times share Szybist’s perspective. But given the current astrological omens, your favorite feeling right now may be utter satisfaction, the gratifying sensation of getting what you’ve hungered for. I say, trust that intuition. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the English language, the words “naked” and “nude” have different connotations. Art critic Kenneth Clark noted that “naked” people depicted in painting and sculpture are “deprived of clothes,” and embarrassed as a result. Being “nude,” on the other hand, has “no uncomfortable overtone,” but indicates “a balanced, prosperous, and confident body.” I bring this to your attention because I believe you would benefit from experiencing extra nudity and no nakedness in the days ahead. If you choose to take on this assignment, please use it to upgrade your respect and reverence for your beauty. PS: Now is also a favorable time to express your core truths without inhibition or apology. I urge you to be your pure self in all of your glory.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Anne Sexton wrote, “One has to get their own animal out of their own cage and not look for either an animal keeper or an unlocker.” That’s always expert advice, but it will be extra vital for you to heed in the coming weeks. The gorgeous semi-wild creature within you needs more room to run, more sights to see, more adventures to seek. For that to happen, it needs to spend more time outside of its cage. And you’re the best person to make sure that happens. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian composer Ludwig van Beethoven could be a marvelous friend. If someone he cared for was depressed or feeling lost, he would invite them to sit in his presence as

he improvised music on the piano. There were no words, no advice, only emotionally stirring melodies. “He said everything to me,” one friend said about his gift. “And finally gave me consolation.” I invite you to draw inspiration from his example, Sagittarius. You’re at the peak of your powers to provide solace, comfort, and healing to allies who need such nurturing. Do it in whatever way is also a blessing for you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At age 23, Capricorn-born Jeanne Antoinette Poisson became French King Louis XV’s favorite mistress. She was not born into aristocracy, but she wielded her Capricornian flair with supreme effectiveness. Ultimately, she achieved a noble title as well as high prestige and status in the French court. As is true for evolved Capricorns, her elevated role was well-deserved, not the result of vulgar social-climbing. She was a patron of architecture, porcelain artwork, and France’s top intellectuals. She ingratiated herself to the King’s wife, the Queen, and served as an honored assistant. I propose we make her your role model for the next four weeks. May she inspire you to seek a boost in your importance and clout that’s accomplished with full integrity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The bad news is that artist Debbie Wagner was diagnosed with two brain tumors in 2002. The good news is that surgery not only enabled her to survive, but enhanced her visual acuity. The great news is that on most days since 2005, she has painted a new image of the sunrise. I invite you to dream up a ritual to celebrate your own victory over adversity, Aquarius. Is there a generous gesture or creative act you could do on a semi-regular basis to thank life for providing you with the help and power you needed?

Associate Veterinarian with Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital to perform primary equine veterinary ambulatory duties in Lexington, KY & surrounding area. Reqs Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and 1 yr of vet practice experience. Must be AVMA accredited vet w/ KY license. For details on specific experience rqmts visit: https://bit.ly/Rood-AV. To apply email resume to hr@roodandriddle.com Salesforce Workflow Develpr (Lexington, KY). Dsgn, devel, test, document, implement SW to support Salesforce app and related internal and third-party integrations in university environ. BS or higher, Computing and Info Systs or closely related; 2 yrs exp Salesforce devel, incl some solid exp in each: Apex; Visualforce; SOQL; SOSL; Salesforce Class and Trigger, Code Coverage and Changeset Deployment; Salesforce Process Builder, Workflow; Aura Framework for Lightning Component/App; Salesforce data import with DataLoader; OOPS; MVC Framework; C#; ETL with SSIS; SOAP with WSDL; RestFul Api; Entity Framework; ODBC; Entity Relationship; Bootstrap. Night and weekend availability required. MUST follow these specific application instructions in order to be considered: Mail CV, cvr ltr to Jordan Adler, University of Kentucky, 1052 Vero Ct, Lexington, KY 40509 within 30 days and mention Job #2021-003.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A selfdescribed “anarchist witch” named Lars writes on his Tumblr blog, “I am a ghost from the 1750s, and my life is currently in the hands of a group of suburban 13-year-olds using a ouija board to ask me if Josh from homeroom has a crush on them.” He’s implying that a powerful supernatural character like himself is being summoned to do tasks that are not worthy of him. He wishes his divinatory talents were better used. Are there any resemblances between you and him, Pisces? Do you ever feel as if you’re not living up to your promise? That your gifts are not being fully employed? If so, I’m pleased to predict that you could fix this problem in the coming weeks and months. You will have extra energy and savvy to activate your full potential.

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HOME AND GARDEN Tour of Remodeled Homes Returns

Barnhill Chimney welcomed guests to their new showroom on Winchester Road with a September ribbon cutting. Owner Brion Barnhill says, “Thank you, Lexington, for your support over the years as we continue to grow and support the community. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be on Winchester Road in the heart of Lexington.” Visit BarnhillChimney.com to learn more, or call 859-219-8736.

Even if you’re not currently planning a remodel this year, odds are you will be after you take this year’s Tour of Remodeled Homes, scheduled for October 16 and 17, 2021, noon to 5 pm. Check in for updates via the builders’ facebook pages for in-person/virtual tour options. Below is just a sampling of highlights of what you can expect to see on the 2021 tour. Anderson and Rogers will be showcasing a property in one of Lexington’s favorite historic neighborhoods, on Barrow Road. Atchison Construction will also highlight the beauty of 40502 with a property on Mooreland Drive. BACK Construction will be featuring a stunner on Winding Wood Place. Earlier this year, BACK received awards for “Best of Houzz Design” and “Best of Houzz Service” for 2021. They described it as “a huge honor considering just 3% of the 2.5 million home design and remodeling professionals on Houzz receive a Best of Houzz award each year.” Conrad Construction will be featuring a Nicholasville Home this year on Native Trace in one of Jessamine County’s most popular neighborhoods, Legacy Estates.

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Griggs Homes also has a Nicholasville reno to show off, on West Brannon. Scan to view Keitz Construction is featuring Ace videos of two remodels on this year’s tour, past Tours of one on Watertrace Drive and Remodeled one on Wishbone Circle. Keitz Homes! Construction recently received two Home Builders Association of Kentucky (HBAK) Design and Remodeling Awards. Pickett will be featuring their work in the Chinoe neighborhood. Vimont will be highlighting an amazing transformation at Siesta Cove in the beautiful Island neighborhood.

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Hazardous Waste Disposal

Products that contain corrosive, toxic or flammable ingredients are household hazardous wastes (HHW). These materials include common household items such as paints, cleaners, oils, batteries and pesticides. Improper disposal can pollute air, water or soil and pose a threat to human health. The city offers a household hazardous waste collection. During these events, Fayette County residents can drop off the hazardous materials that have accumulated in their homes. The city will properly dispose of them, free of charge. The next Household Hazardous Waste event is Saturday, October 23, between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. at 1631 Old Frankfort Pike (enter via Jimmie Campbell Dr.) If you want to speed up your wait time, complete the event survey in advance at LexingtonKY.gov/HHWsurvey. Load materials in the trunk of your vehicle for easy removal by on-site staff and please stay in your car at all times. Common items to hold for a HHW event: • Acids • Acetone • Brake fluid • Calcium chloride

• Fertilizer that contains herbicides • Fungicides • Hydraulic fluid • Lacquer • Mercury • Paint and polyurethane • Paint thinner • Pesticides • Transmission fluid

LEAF COLLECTION

Leaf Collection time is coming. Lexington offers residents three ways to dispose of leaves. Use your gray “Lenny” yard cart. Lennys are picked up on the same days as your Herbies (green carts) and Rosie Recyclers (blue carts). You may also use paper yard waste bags. And don’t forget, the city’s leaf vacuum service begins Monday November 8.

Silent Guard celebrated their one-year Lexington anniversary with a ribbon cutting.

EVENTS OCT 2

Lansdowne Subdivision Tour, Solar Homes, 11 am (contact Synergy to RSVP)

OCT 9

Household Waste Disposal Day

OCT 16

Tour of Remodeled Homes, Admission $10

OCT 23

Household Waste Disposal Day

NOV 4-6

Tire Roundup

NOV 13

Paper Shred

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Sold In Lexington 40502

259 LINCOLN AVE.................................................$2,250,000 320 HOLIDAY RD...................................................$1,500,000 1900 LAKES EDGE DR...........................................$1,225,000 212 CHINOE RD....................................................... $996,000 300 ROMANY RD..................................................... $990,000 1048 FONTAINE RD................................................. $770,000 1359 STRAWBERRY LN............................................ $770,000 1213 INDIAN MOUND RD...................................... $750,000 716 LAKESHORE DR................................................ $750,000 2113 HUNTERS WOOD LN...................................... $750,000 412 RIDGEWAY RD.................................................. $732,500 3 LANSDOWNE ESTATES.......................................... $705,000 803 OVERBROOK CIR.............................................. $699,000 330 MCDOWELL RD................................................ $690,000 120 FAIRWOOD LN.................................................. $620,000 2032 SHADYBROOK LN.......................................... $600,000 125 S ASHLAND AVE................................................ $595,000 2129 WOODMONT DR............................................ $595,000 3142 MONTAVESTA RD........................................... $539,900 1307 RICHMOND RD.............................................. $534,900 408 HART RD........................................................... $510,000 3337 LANSDOWNE DR............................................ $510,000 404 LAKESHORE DR................................................ $490,000 170 COCHRAN RD................................................... $490,000 164 IDLE HOUR DR.................................................. $475,000

40503

1489 ELIZABETH ST.................................................. $570,000 1493 ELIZABETH ST.................................................. $570,000 1497 ELIZABETH ST.................................................. $570,000 806 CINDY BLAIR WAY............................................. $550,000

40504

2501 DRESSAGE WAY.............................................. $420,000

40505

177 ARCEME AVE..................................................$2,250,000 215 ARCEME AVE..................................................$2,250,000 235 CARLISLE AVE.................................................$2,250,000 1410 HIGHLAWN AVE..........................................$2,250,000 548 SHELBY ST......................................................$2,250,000 1984 GENERAL WARFIELD WAY.............................. $525,000 235 CARLISLE AVE.................................................... $524,400

40507

103 S LIMESTONE UNIT 1030..............................$1,515,000

40508

703 DONLEY ST.....................................................$2,250,000 407 S MILL ST........................................................... $840,000 604 SAYRE AVE......................................................... $835,000 411 W THIRD ST....................................................... $625,000 364 TRANSYLVANIA PARK........................................ $600,000

40509

3794 KATKAY DR...................................................$1,000,000 1644 VILLA MEDICI PASS........................................ $840,000 3601 BURNING TREE LN......................................... $725,000 2444 ROSSINI PL..................................................... $699,900 3653 BEATEN PATH.................................................. $685,000 3172 BRIGHTON PLACE DR.................................... $645,000 2593 PASCOLI PL..................................................... $625,000 3864 STILL MEADOW LN......................................... $600,000 928 STAR OF DANUBE WAY..................................... $571,000 1156 SHEFFIELD PL................................................. $540,000

2408 ROCKMINSTER RD......................................... $510,000 1092 KAVENAUGH LN............................................. $496,500 765 WINTER HILL LN................................................ $490,000 2565 PASCOLI PL..................................................... $485,000 1832 CATTLE PATH................................................... $475,000 1016 ANDOVER FOREST DR.................................... $456,500 681 MAIDENCANE DR............................................. $456,100 2473 ASTARITA WAY................................................. $450,000 2001 HADDRELL CV................................................. $440,000 280 JANE BRIGGS AVE............................................. $439,900 4193 STARRUSH PL................................................. $439,900 952 BELMERE DR..................................................... $438,000 749 MAIDENCANE DR............................................. $425,000 3532 ANTILLES DR................................................... $420,000 3517 POLO CLUB BLVD........................................... $420,000 1077 MARCO LN...................................................... $420,000

40510

2550 OUR NATIVE LN...........................................$1,199,999

40513

1208 RAEFORD LN................................................... $699,000 3252 RIDGECANE RD.............................................. $587,900 2409 SUNGALE PL................................................... $586,000 2213 WILMINGTON LN........................................... $579,900 2185 WESTMONT CT................................................ $540,000 2456 OLDE BRIDGE LN............................................ $540,000 3209 MANTILLA DR................................................. $510,000 3332 BEACON ST..................................................... $480,000

40517

1260 HOT SPRINGS CT.........................................$2,250,000

Property sales info source: Fayette County Property Valuation office (www.fayettepva.com)

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