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Contributors Jessica Caudill (“A Good Ol’ Time,” page 8) writes down words, and sometimes people read them. Coffee must be involved. Her work appears in Chevy Chaser, skirt! Magazine, Lipstik, Mour Magazine, and others. Jessica’s creative nonfiction has received funding from Kentucky Foundation for Women. Visit her website at jessicalnc. wordpress.com. Brooke Harris (“To Lexington, With Love,” page 23) is a Lexington mother, writer and dancer who loves the rolling hills of the Bluegrass. When she is not writing, reading or making up a recipe with leftover ingredients in the fridge, she is teaching at the McTeggart School of Irish Dance. Taylor Huber (“Drink of the Month,” page 29) is a CPA who enjoys mixing cocktails and subsequently drinking said cocktails. Conveniently, he owns Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. (www.jackrudycocktailco.com) along with his cousin, which provides a great excuse for cocktail recipe tinkering. He lives in Lexington with his insanely beautiful wife, son and daughter. Gerry Seavo James (“Cycling for a Cause,” page 6) is a visual story-teller, avid stand-up paddleboarder, and adventure enthusiast who moonlights as a photographer and writer for various publications. He is also the founder of Explore Kentucky, a movement created to inspire nomadic exploration of Kentucky’s wonderful land. Check out the adventures of Gerry and his team at GerrySeavo.com and ExploreKentucky.org.
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On June 1, Aaron Oppegard will begin a 70-day bike ride across the country. The trip will raise money for cancer and pay tribute to Jamie Robertson, a cyclist who was killed in Lexington last year on the same journey. PHOTO BY KYLE WOOTON
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or many people, scrolling through one’s Facebook newsfeed can be a part of a daily ritual and distraction. But this past summer, as Lexington native Aaron Oppegard scrolled through his newsfeed, he encountered a story that would significantly impact the immediate direction of his life.
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on bicycle to raise money for the Ulman Cancer Fund through an effort called 4K for Cancer, Robertson left behind a grieving family, fellow riders, teammates and classmates who were moved by her benevolent effort to make a difference. As it made its way to Oppegard’s social media, the news of her uncompleted mission struck a chord with him not only because of the tragedy’s closeness to home, but because of a connection to a small Montessori school in Maryland called Barrie School, which Robertson and Oppegard had both attended as kids. “It was so upsetting to read the story about Jamie’s death,” said
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Oppegard, who has lived in Lexington most of his life but attended Barrie School from second through fourth grade when his family lived in Maryland for a short time. “I can’t really explain how it felt to have seemingly separate worlds of mine collide in this way. ... I felt myself wanting to continue her mission.” Fueled by the connection he felt with Robertson, Oppegard instantly took to Google to find out more about her and how he could carry on her torch. He found that beyond the Barrie School, the two of them shared other things in common — both had been NCAA Division III athletes (Oppegard was a soccer player; Robertson was a trisport, starting in soccer, lacrosse and basketball), and they both shared not only an interest in traveling but also a desire to do something bigger than themselves. Oppegard also researched more about the Ulman Cancer Fund, the organization Jamie was riding for, which – through efforts like 4K for Cancer – raises money for research on leukemia and other forms of cancer, providing college funding and other support for young adults affected by the disease. “I applied to be a rider on the 4K for Cancer that very same night,” said Oppegard, adding that his intentions were not only to help raise money for a great cause but also to honor Robertson’s legacy. After a few months, he received confirmation he would be a part of a 70-day ride starting June 1, 2015, going from Baltimore to Seattle. “I can’t wait to dip my tire into the water of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor next summer,” said Oppegard, who added that traveling across the country by bike has long been a dream of his. The riders are each expected to raise a minimum of $4,500, which goes toward treatment costs and college scholarships for cancer patients; they rely on donated food, lodging, and kindness from the people and communities they encounter as they traverse the United States. A recent graduate from Iowa’s Coe College, Oppegard has eagerly put his business degree
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“I can’t wait to dip my tire into the water of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor next summer.” education to work to start raising his personal goal of $8,000, through fundraising jars at his jobs, posting fliers around Lexington community boards and sharing his donation page via social media. Thus far, he has raised over $1,500 dollars through donations from his family and the Lexington community; on Feb. 15, he will link up with favorite hangout spot, West Sixth Brewing, to host a fundraising party complete with a silent auction and raffles of gift cards he is collecting from local businesses. “I grew up watching Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France, and I can remember being blown away that those guys were biking the whole way through France,” Oppegard said. “This summer I’ll be biking across the U.S. at the same time as they are going across France, and that is even harder to believe.” cc
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A Good Ol’ Time INAUGURAL EVENT SEEKS TO ELEVATE LEXINGTON’S OLD-TIME MUSIC COMMUNITY
Lexington Old-Time Music Gathering organizer Brett Ratliff (front left) and his old-time string band The Railsplitters (Adrian Shepherd-Powell on fiddle, Julie Shepherd Powell on banjo and Stephanie Jeter on bass) gathered in Lexington for a jam session. PHOTO BY ESTILL ROBINSON
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Lexington musician Brett Ratliff sleeps to classical music, listens to trance in the shower and checks his emails to a background of world beats. He describes his band Giant Rooster Sideshow as a “strange fusion of folk, honky tonk, blues, classic country and psychedelic rock.” And this month, as a principal organizer for the inaugural Lexington Old-Time Music Gathering, Ratliff will do his part to advocate for a music genre that is especially close to his heart: traditional old-time music.
with roots in sacred music and ballads about daily life for mountain folk, mountain music was first coined “old timey” during the 1920s, when it was commodified as a niche of Appalachian culture by the burgeoning recording industry. As swing, bluegrass, and rock and roll surged from the 1920s to the 1950s, old-time music became old fashioned, with square dances, hoedowns and frolics starting to fade out along with those who played at them.
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But the music didn’t die. According to University of Kentucky professor and acclaimed Appalachian music scholar Ron Pen, old-time music has continued to flourish under the radar in the Bluegrass region – even today. “Despite the perception, there has always been a culture of traditional music and dance [in the region],” Pen said, citing noteworthy regional performers that include Clark County’s Kentucky String Ticklers and Bill Livers, an African-American fiddler living in Owen County who Pen calls “remarkable.”
Despite old-time music sharing a strong surface resemblance to “its better known cousin,” bluegrass music, Pen is quick to point out the distinction.
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University of Kentucky music professor Ron Pen (left) and Lexington Old-Time Music Gathering organizer Brett Ratliff jammed at the Boone Center on UK’s campus last month.
Ratliff, who also helped found the popular Morehead OldTime Music Festival in 2006, hopes the event will not only provide something for the region’s old-time music community to look forward to in the winter months, but that it will also bring a wider audience to that community. “Without these traditions, we lose a large piece of our history,” Ratliff said. The four-day gathering kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 12, with an old-time music showcase at Al’s Bar, which also serves as Kentuckians For The Commonwealth’s eighth annual “I Love Mountains Day Old-Time Music Showcase.” On Friday night, Lexington Old-Time Music Gathering moves to ArtsPlace for a concert, square dance and jam session. Saturday will host a full day of workshops, jams, academic presentations, master’s showcases and youth activities, followed by a Saturday Night Square Dance event that will feature professional callers and musicians from around the state. Sunday closes out with an old-time “cabaret” at Willie’s Locally Known; impromptu jam sessions for all skill levels are expected and encouraged throughout the weekend.
The festival is designed for maximum participation to promote and preserve the traditions of Appalachia. Organizers were intentional in creating a variety of activities geared toward children, recognizing that whereas kids used to pick up the music from their elders by being around it on a daily basis, special efforts now have to be made to keep mountain traditions alive and make the music accessible. “The stakes are pretty high for those working to promote cultural heritage in Kentucky, to create as many opportunities for this music to be passed down orally as we can,” Ratliff states. He added that it’s important not to “lose the human aspect of these traditions – and to show that we still value what our elders have to teach us.” “Only through the ‘keepers’ of our most enduring mountain traditions can we achieve a deeper understanding of and connection to our ancestral past,” Ratliff said. “To play these tunes in what we believe to be much the same way as they were played back then – well, that’s a pretty powerful connection to the past and to our ancestors.” cc
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hen Will Pieratt, a Lexington native who was living in Indianapolis, was approached 11 years ago by a co-worker about opening a New Orleans-style restaurant together, he agreed, but under one condition: They’d do it in Lexington, and to be more precise, they’d do it in Chevy Chase.
“I loved Chevy Chase as a kid, and I wanted my son to grow up there, too,” said Pieratt, who’s now been a co-owner of Bourbon n’ Toulouse for more than a decade. “Besides, there’s no better location for a good restaurant – it’s a hub area, where people come from all over the city.” Just across the street from Bourbon n’ Toulouse, Dave Fuller is a veteran compared to Pieratt. His iconic Charlie Brown’s restaurant has been in business for more than three decades. He located in the area because of its appeal to customers with traditional taste. “Chevy Chase has been a real classy area, and many of the businesses have been here a long time,” he said. Rosa Plage, a hairdresser who opened her Simply Blue Salon just months ago, said she picked Chevy Chase because it’s a “cool, hip part of town.” “Our mission is to give a very unique, wholesome experience to our customers, not just a haircut, and I felt that this part of town is the best for a business like us,” she said. Bourbon n’ Toulouse, Charlie Brown’s and Simply Blue Salon are three out of more than a hundred businesses that thrive in the district, which lacks many of the modern shopping mall amenities but possesses different and unique qualities that more and more customers are seeking. Danielle Montague, the owner of Mon Tea shop and the founder of Chevy Chase Business Association, chalks up the district’s longstanding popularity with both
business owners and customers to its unique features. It’s walkable; it’s historic; there’s a great mix of businesses; and “everyone is passionate about what they do.” “We truly have it all,” she said. “Chevy Chase is becoming the Lexington place to shop and hang out.” Bill Farmer, who owns Farmer’s Jewelry, said that when Chevy Chase was first developed in the 1930s, the area was on the outskirts of Lexington. “That was the last street light, the edge of town,” he said, referring to the street light at the intersection of Euclid, High and Fontaine. The land that was to become the present 20-acre, business-zoned Chevy Chase was originally owned by Henry Clay; part of it was his estate, and the rest was his adjoining horse farm. Started as a residential area, Chevy Chase slowly transitioned into a business district. “Houses gave way to shops,” explained Farmer, who also serves as the Fifth District city councilman and who edits the district’s newsletter. He said that in the early days of the business district, many people opened businesses in their residences and continued living upstairs. “Chevy Chase wasn’t planned. It happened.” Part of the appeal, according to Farmer, whose father, William Farmer Sr., first opened his jewelry business in January of 1950, is the blend of “new and old.” One of the patriarchs of the area is Fred Moore, the owner of Ashland Avenue’s Fred Moore Music. Moore reminisced about places long gone and those still standing after many years. “There were three service stations in Chevy Chase, and they’re all gone. The IGA Grocery store was torn down. [Local drug store chain] Bagley Drug Store went out of business, and so did The Saratoga restaurant near the corner of High and Euclid,” he said. The Saratoga was a legend, Moore said.
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“They had great food, and by 4 p.m. on weekdays, everyone was there, a mayor, the city council, the judges and the lawyers,” he said. Moore added that “some serious card game” was going on in the back of some businesses at the time. “Things were different back then,” he said. Moore grew up in Lexington, and while he didn’t live in Chevy Chase, friends from his Boy Scout troop did, and he often rode his bike to the area from his parents’ house on Westgate Drive off Versailles Road, another edge of town at the time. Moore went into the Air Force after graduating from high school, and when he returned in 1967, he helped his father, who previously ran his music instrument rental business out of his car, to open a brick-andmortar shop on South Ashland Avenue, between Ecluid and Ashland Terrace. Nearly 50 years later, Moore feels that being in Chevy Chase helps him to withstand the competition from the bigger chain music stores in town.
“I have my own customers, and they stay loyal,” he said. Brittany Stephenson, who came to the Moore’s store with her three children, Lendon, 13, Callie, 8, and Beckett, 10 months, said that she’s a thirdgeneration customer. She said that she doesn’t mind driving all the way from Hamburg to shop at Fred Moore’s and other places in Chevy Chase.
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“You get excellent service, and everyone is willing to go out of their way to make you happy,” she said. “Plus, there’s a lot of history is in this place, and it makes every trip here interesting and educational for the children.” While Farmer’s and Moore’s businesses are 65 and 47 years respectively, they are not the oldest in Chevy Chase. Just a few doors from Farmer’s Jewelry is Chevy Chase Inn, a bar that opened in 1933, at the end of Prohibition, under the original name of Grey Goose. Next door is Oram’s Florist, the oldest flower shop in Lexington and one of the oldest businesses in the city. First opened on Main Street in 1877, Oram’s moved to its Euclid Avenue location in 1948.
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Anne Oram, the great granddaughter of the founder who now owns and runs the store with her sister, Susan Baker, said that times are tough for local florists due to increasing competition with Internet sellers, but she is not going to give up. “My ancestors worked their behinds off to keep this business running. During the Depression, my grandfather sold fish, birds and even his own furniture to be able to pay salaries to his employees,” she said. Oram said that being in a community like Chevy Chase helps her succeed, with a loyal client base that ranges from University of Kentucky departments to local residents. “We have customers who have known us for years, and we continue getting business from them,” she said. “I wouldn’t trade this location for the nicest place in the mall.” John Sensenig, the owner of the popular John’s Run/Walk said that when he was first starting out in 1999, he picked the Chevy Chase location over a few attractive downtown spots that were available because of its “unique feel.” “It has a nice neighborhood feel to it,” he said. Sensenig was a UK psychology professor for 13 years before opening his shop in 1999.
Left: Mexican cantina Rincon (top) and Morris Book Shop (below) are two of the neighborhood’s most colorful and beloved local establishments. Right: High Street Japanese and sushi restaurant Tomo (top) and specialty tea shop MonTea (bottom) are two of the locally-owned businesess that make the area unique.
“I thought I can learn about shoes, and I did,” he said. His added that being in a busy area with diverse client base helped his business grow. “Our customers stay loyal,” said Sensenig. “Some of them would move to another state and ask me to send them their shoes.” First-time business owner Plage (Simply Blue Salon) was surprised to find supporters instead of competitors among neighboring businesses in Chevy Chase. “When we first opened, we got goodies from Donut Days, Danielle [Montague, from Mon Tea] sent us tea, and we kept getting flowers from Oram’s,” she said. “It was very sweet. People came in, introduced themselves, they were very supportive.”
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Pieratt said even though everyone is in business for themselves, “the whole area is more like a co-op.”
“We have genuine interest in each other, and we help each other as much as we can,” he said. The examples of the mutual help are endless. “If we are out of plates or forks or, even, onions or flour, we go to Charlie Brown’s. When our fridge broke, we got ice from Tomo, the sushi restaurant around the corner,” he said. Employees of the iconic Chevy Chase Hardware store are always willing to fix things or lend the tools, Pieratt added. “We truly share our lives,” he said. cc PHOTO BY ZOYA TERESHKOVA
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To Lexington, With Love NEW EUCLID AVENUE KROGER INTRODUCES A PLETHORA OF NEW FEATURES, INCLUDING LOCAL ART PHOTO BY RYAN FILCHAK
STORY BY BROOKE HARRIS AND SARAYA BREWER
fter much anticipation, the new Kroger on Euclid Avenue – a 63,000-square-foot multi-level complex replacing the iconic Chevy Chase grocery store that was originally built in 1976 – opened its doors to the public in late January. Customers of the new Kroger will notice a number of changes and features that not only set the grocery apart from its predecessor (affectionately referred to as the “disco Kroger”) but that also set it apart from any other Kroger in the nation. In addition to several expanded specialty sections that include a cafè with seating for 70, a Murray’s cheese shop and walk-in beer cave, the store boasts a rooftop parking lot, an underground food storage and prep facility, and the addition of “food carts” featuring items from local restaurants Athe-
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nian Grill and La Petite Crêperie in the deli section. Another noteworthy and potentially precedent-setting feature of the store is the inclusion of three locally commissioned large-scale murals. The commissions were a collaboration between Kroger and LexArts, which put out a call to local artists and received more than 50 submissions. After review from a selection committee comprised of local arts and community leaders, Lexington residents and artists John Lackey, Liz Swanson and BroCoLoco (an artistic duo consisting of brothers Aaron and Jared Scales) were chosen to create the murals and paid a total of $45,000 for their work. According to Maury Sparrow, communications director for LexArts, increasing the livability for artists is a priority of LexArts. The organiza-
Detail from Liz Swanson’s mural, which hags over Kroger’s dining section. Lexington and its unique features served as a muse for Swanson’s 36-foot-wide mural.
tion’s partnership with Kroger, and others – such as its longstanding partnership with the Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation, which helped facilitate the hospital’s purchase of over $250,000 of local artwork – help the organization meet this end. For Lackey, who received a $25,000 commission to create Kroger’s fivepanel exterior mural, the commission enabled him to “get on top of everything” for the first time in many years. “Trying to be an independent artist, this has gotten me some breathing room,” Lackey said. “Lexington is finally becoming a place that will support art.” Sparrow said that the partnership between Kroger and LexArts could potentially be used as a prototype that would enable future Krogers to commission local art in their stores.
“We all know what [Kroger] went through to get the ideas approved for this,” Sparrow said, referring to the Euclid Kroger’s lengthy zoning appeal process. “They wanted to be very sensitive to the neighborhood, to be a good neighbor. The more they can introduce ‘local’ to that location, the better.” Tim McGurk, Kroger’s public affairs manager, said that the commissions help allow Kroger to “reflect the unique neighborhood that it will serve” and to create a store unlike any other. “We could think of no better way to accomplish this than by the local arts community.” On the following pages, learn about the Lexington artists behind the murals and their process and inspiration.
MURAL ARTWORK BY LIZ SWANSON | PHOTO BY RYAN FILCHAK
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Liz Swanson Liz Swanson is a professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky, but she spent most of her mornings during November and December working at ArtsPlace on the mural commissioned by Kroger and LexArts, before going to work at the university. Arriving recently at ArtsPlace Performance Hall, Swanson wore sweat pants and a warm sweater with her curly hair pulled back to avoid the paint. She looked like the quintessential artist: her pants brushed with thin strokes of paint, as if she had used the cotton material as a palette to take the excess off her brush.
Swanson’s mural will hang above the dining area inside the new Kroger. She is excited it will be lit and hung so that it will be visible from Euclid Avenue. “It was an amazing opportunity to do something large scale,” Swanson said about the nine-paneled, 36-foot-wide piece. With eye-catching layers of bright colors, fields full of greens and yellows, skies moody with deep purples and blues, it looks like a kaleidoscope of Lexington and the surrounding area. Her mural contains images of the Kentucky palisades, horse barns, downtown buildings, the University of Kentucky and, of course, the Chevy Chase neighborhood where the supermarket is located.
“It’s different scenes that zoom in and out of various slices of Lexington life,” Swanson explained. The mural is reminiscent of Swanson’s background in urban planning and landscape projects. Currently she is working on a project on community identity, using the Lyric Theatre as a subject. With the project, she aims to answer the question: What makes a place specific and unique? This mural responds to that question in terms of Lexington. With extreme thoughtfulness, everything in the mural points to unique features of the city and state, from a patch of native wildflowers to an abstract map of Man O’ War and New Circle roads circling around the city.
The mural itself is a collaboration with the community. Swanson used donated paints from Deco Art Paint from Stanford, Ky., and invited 18 energetic kindergartners from her son’s class at Sayre School to make their own mark on the painting. Each child from the class participated by stamping his or her thumbprint as a fossil in the palisade river rocks. Collaboration is something the Chicago native enjoys, and she sees this mural as a part of the bigger scope of local arts in the city. “There is such a street art and mural renaissance in Lexington,” she said. “To be a part of that energy is exciting.”
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Aaron & Jared Scales Aaron and Jared Scales are excited to do a project for their hometown. Two years ago, the brothers-turned-business partners opened up a company, BroCoLoco, in which they help corporations share their story through art and architecture. BroCoLoco mainly serves large national and international corporations, but this mural is one of the brothers’ few local projects.
square feet of international newsprint; for other installations, they have used half a billion tribal beads and six miles of Peruvian Alpaca yarn.
The business hinges on the idea of bringing art to the masses, not by making art and trying to sell it, but by working with developers in the early stages to incorporate installations in a cohesive and powerful way. For example, for a German coffeehouse that values creativity and helping developing countries, BroCoLoco designed and installed inspired art pieces including a mural stitched from 300
Aaron’s background in architecture and Jared’s expertise in street art make this duo dynamic. Behind closed doors, Jared first started experimenting with spray paint five years ago. He was drawn to the grit of street art but wanted to do something bigger and better than vandalism. He has painted several murals from Lexington to Berlin.
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“It’s about being for the community. If the general audience can’t understand the piece, that’s not really public art. It’s just art that’s public,” Aaron Scales said.
While working in Washington, D.C.,
with embassies, Aaron was intrigued by the idea that a building could be an ambassador for a culture. When he realized that the buildings were more security-focused than designfocused, he turned to art to make that idea possible and partnered with his artist brother to design and create art for unique spaces. The brothers set out to enliven spaces and bring the soul of architecture to life, and that’s just what they did with the mural they were commissioned to create for the produce section of the Euclid Avenue Kroger. The mural consists of a cart and horse with a variety of fruits and vegetables. One of the wooden boxes topples free, and brightly colored citrus, apples (Kentucky’s largest fruit crop) and corn (Kentucky’s largest vegetable crop) explode to the forefront of the painting; the flesh of the fruit swirl in an almost palatable pattern. With the
brothers’ forethought and planning, the mural is installed at a 45-degree angle, spanning two walls and creating a dramatic effect, as if the fruit is jumping out at the surprised viewer. The brothers both grew up appreciating other cultures and have traveled to 30 different countries for business, leisure and humanitarian efforts. Aaron Scales is influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, and his brother, by street art (think intense stenciling, not spray graffiti). Both styles are evident in the mural, from the swirling, darkly outlined citrus fruit to the stencilinspired wheat field. “This project is exciting because we were asked to submit for a part of town that we really wanted to impact,” Aaron said, adding that both brothers lived in the Chevy Chase neighborhood at different periods in their lives. “We wanted to leave a piece of what we are doing here in Lexington – not just exporting.”
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John Lackey John Lackey, owner of Lexington gallery and studio Homegrown Press, is a writer, painter, woodblock artist, filmmaker and musician – but he says if he could choose just one art form, it would be painting. “It’s like conducting an orchestra, playing an instrument and dancing all at once,” Lackey said of the art form, adding that the physical act can be both liberating and healing. “You’re standing up straight, you’re moving – and if you screw up, you can paint over it.” Of the three murals commissioned by Kroger and LexArts, Lackey’s is the largest, with five 12-by-7-foot panels spanning the exterior Kroger wall facing Marquis Avenue. The mural’s location carries special significance for the self-taught artist, who has been painting for about 12 years – he spent many of his formative years in a family home on Marquis (back when it was called Lafayette) and found out recently that his ancestors used to live in a house sitting precisely where the mural will be hung. The large-scale commission is a challenge Lackey was humbled and excited to address. “How often am I going to get to make a 60-foot-long public painting?” he noted during the painting process. “I have an opportunity to make something special for people, and I’m going to do it.” After meditating on a subject that would carry special meaning for Euclid Avenue Kroger patrons, Lackey ultimately decided to focus his mural on scenes from a popular Chevy Chase epicenter a block away from the grocery store, Woodland Park. “For people who have a soft spot in their hearts for that Kroger, there is a good chance they also had at least a fling with Woodland Park,” he said. The mural includes imagery from the skate park, the pool’s iconic pirate ship, gypsy dancers during the Woodland Art Fair and 1980’s punks with mohawks headed down to the softball field. Drawing creative inspiration from his own youth melded with contem-
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John Lackey worked on his five-panel mural from his North Limestone studio nearly every day for three months.
porary scenes, Lackey worked on the mural for over two months from his North Limestone studio – seven days a week, sometimes for 10 hours a day.
bering the first coloring markers his mother gave him, Lackey said he drew the family cat and the Beatles, but his grandmother inspired him to do more.
“This is the hardest one to do,” Lackey said, pointing to the pool panel, and one can clearly see why. The panel embodies the classic spirit of summertime childhood memories and the whimsical psychedelia of “Alice in Wonderland” all at once: A tree trunk morphs into a diving board for a joyous woman in a red bikini to make her spirited splash, and the blue of the sky and pool water are one and the same, the cerulean shade welcoming viewers to dream and decide their own reality.
“She gave me some pencils and paper and said ‘try to draw these models in this magazine,’” Lackey said. “There was a lot of shading; that really broke through.”
At the top of the painting, a cardinal sitting in a tree nods to the favorite bird of Lackey’s grandmother, who encouraged his art at a young age (UK fans are not to worry – a wildcat is present in the mural as well). Remem-
Speaking of breakthroughs, a recent one for Lackey is the new stop motion film project he has in the works, “The Great Miss Fortune.” Using the north Lexington neighborhood as a backdrop, he wants the film to ultimately tell a vivid story utilizing local actors, musicians and technicians, as well as painting, collage and photography. The project, which received more than $20,000 in crowd-sourced funding last year, has been put on the back burner these past couple months as Lackey focused on the mural, but he’s excited to dive back into the film now
that the mural project is wrapped up. Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of Lackey’s career, however, is giving new meaning to community by opening his studio doors to anyone who wants to come in and watch his process. Lots of people drop by with a doughnut in hand from the neighboring North Lime Coffee and Doughnuts, curious about Lackey’s curlicue trees and bright flowers. He also gives paints and supplies to the neighborhood kids to foster their own creativity. He points to the mural, where the pool and the flowerbed morph together in fantastical harmony. “People love their rules. I’m trying to show all the other stuff,” Lackey said. “I’m trying to show people how to have their own rules and guidelines. “Some kids come in and see it right away.” cc
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Winter White Velvet Soup with Peppercorn Candied Bacon RECIPE BY RANADA WEST-RILEY, LEXINGTON DINER
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With a thick, velvety texture and hearty winter vegetables, this soup is a wonderful remedy for a cold winter day. Served sometimes as a special at the downtown restaurant Lexington Diner, the soup is a longtime Southern favorite, according to chef Ranada West-Riley; this particular recipe was inspired by her mother.
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INSTRUCTIONS Heat olive oil in a pot over medium heat. Add onions, leeks, shallots and garlic. Reduce heat and let simmer for about 10 minutes until everything is nice and soft. Add chicken broth, heavy cream, cauliflower, potatoes, parsnips, salt and white pepper. Bring mixture to a boil, then cover and reduce to a simmer. Cook until all veggies are tender, approximately 20 minutes.
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A riff on the traditional French 75 cocktail, which infuses gin, champagne, fresh lemon juice and simple syrup, the Kentucky 75 was created by Jack Rudy Cocktail Co., a Lexington and Charleston, South Carolina-based company that specializes in handcrafted bar mixers. Created for a Garden & Gun brunch at Keeneland a few years back, the use of Jack Rudy Elderflower Tonic water – a product inspired by the wild growth of elderberry in Kentucky – gives this cocktail a unique local twist. INGREDIENTS • Gin of your choice • Champagne • Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. Elderflower Tonic • Lemon twist (for garnish) INSTRUCTIONS In a shaker tin with ice, combine: • 1.25 ounces gin • .75 ounces Jack Rudy Elderflower Tonic • Strain into champagne flute, top with champagne and garnish with a lemon twist. Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. products are available locally at L.V. Harkness and Wine + Market, and online at jackrudycocktailco.com. If Elderflower Tonic is not available, Jack Rudy Small Batch Tonic can be substituted. cc
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My Brother the Bear and Tyler Childers. Feb. 6. Cincinnati native Daniel Bayer, who performs under the moniker My Brother the Bear, takes an introspective and often autobiographical approach to songwriting. A musician from childhood, Bayer’s emotionally driven songwriting pulls from an eccentric life history, ranging from literary influences to his experience in the Army. Lexington singer/songwriter Tyler Childers will open. 8 p.m. Willie’s Locally Known, 805 N. Broadway. www.willieslex.com. PHOTO FURNISHED
Evan Dando Feb. 3. Musician Evan Dando is best known for fronting the iconic alternative rock band The Lemonheads, which formed in 1986. His most recent solo album, “Baby I’m Bored,” has been called an “eclectic and affecting collection of songs, which ranges from bittersweet country rock to pure pop pleasure, dashed with a little indie-rock noise.” 10 p.m., Cosmic Charlie’s, 388 Woodland Ave. www.cosmic-charlies.com. Sign up to receive our weekly “tadoo list” in your email at tadoo.com/tadooweekly. To submit a live music, theatre, film screening, festival or other arts and culture event to tadoo.com, email the following information to info@tadoo.com with “TADOO EVENT” in the subject line: time, date, venue, address, cost, contact info and a brief description of the event.
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Gregory Porter. Feb. 7. Grammynominated jazz and soul singer Gregory Porter boasts one of the most captivating baritone voices in contemporary music. 7:30 p.m. EKU Center for the Arts, Hall Drive, Richmond. www.ekucenter.com. The Apache Relay. Feb. 12. Nashville-based folk-rock outfit The Apache Relay began in a Belmont University dorm and have since found themselves opening for Mumford & Sons and hitting such festivals as Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival, Firefly Music Festival, Voodoo Music Experience, among others. 10 p.m. Cosmic Charlie’s, 388 Woodland Ave. www.cosmic-charlies.com. Sundy Best. Feb 23. The Billboard chart-topping Lexington-based band Sundy Best crafts music that reimagines timeless classic rock of the ’70s and ’80s, modernizing it in their own unique way by borrowing hints of country, Appalachian folk, bluegrass and R&B. 8 p.m. Lexington Opera House, 401 W. Short St. www. lexingtonoperahouse.com.
Soulful Space: The Soul of Cash feat. Brian Owens and the Northside Sheiks. Feb. 26. An evening celebrating the music of Johnny Cash, reimagined by St. Louis R&B/soul singer Brian Owens and a cast of local contributors that includes Willie Eames, Lee Carroll, Ray Smith, Robby Cosenza and more. 7 p.m. Good Shepherd Church, 533 E. Main St. www.soulofcash.bpt.me. Tim & Myles Thompson. Feb. 26. Nashville-based father-and-son duo Tim and Myles Thompson not only bring to the table the unique chemistry of father and son, but also a rare unbridled talent in finger-picking guitar, mandolin and bluegrass-inspired songwriting. Now celebrating their fifth release (with son Myles just at the ripe age of 19), the duo has performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival, Walnut Valley Festival, and the Chet Atkins Festival, among others. 9 p.m. Natasha’s, 112 Esplanade Alley. www.beetnik.com.
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Tanya Habjouqa. Through April 12. Tanya Habjouqa’s photographs focus on gender, social, and human rights issues in the Middle East. Approaching her subjects with sensitivity but also with an eye for the absurd, Habjouqa won a World Press Award in 2014 for her series “Occupied Pleasures,” in which she documents many of the ludicrous moments of everyday life that the 47-year occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem has created. Habjouqa will speak as part of the Robert C. May Lecture series on Feb. 27 at 4 p.m. in University of Kentucky’s Worsham Theater. UK Art Museum, 405 Rose St. Gallery hours, noon-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun., noon-8 p.m. Fri. www.finearts.uky. edu/art-museum. The Lexington Tattoo Project. Through April 12. A collection of photographs of participants in the locally organized collaboration between artists Kremena Todorova and Kurt Gohde and poet Bianca Spriggs, whose poem “The ____of the Universe: A Love Story” inspired numerous residents to have their bodies tattooed with suggestive fragments of text, punctuation
marks, and small design elements. UK Art Museum, 405 Rose St. Gallery hours, noon-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun., noon-8 p.m. Fri. www.finearts.uky. edu/art-museum. Texture and Line. Through February. Operated by a new department of the LFUCG, the new City Gallery (located on the first floor of the Downtown Arts Center, in the downstairs space formerly occupied by Ann Tower Gallery) opens with an inaugural exhibition featuring the work of Jim Shambhu, Lennon Michalski and Marjorie Guyon. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Downtown Arts Center, 141 E. Main St. www.lexingtonky.gov. Room with a View. Through February. Curated by Institute 193’s Phillip March Jones, “Room With a View” features a selection of paintings by Robert Tharsing centered on the Lexington skyline and scenes of downtown life in the 1990s. Never before exhibited in public, the paintings were the result of visions outside Tharsing’s downtown studios. UK Chandler Hospital, East Gallery, 1000 S. Limestone. ukhealthcare.uky.edu/arts/.
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* UK College of Pharmacy students will be hosting a screening event at Wheeler’s on Saturday, February 14th from 10am to 2pm. Stop by to have your blood pressure and glucose checked to stay Heart Healthy! Woodford Theatre: “On Golden Pond.” Jan. 30-Feb. 1; Feb. 6-8; 13-15. Written by Ernest Thompson and directed by Joe Ferrell, this warm and witty love story follows the elderly couple Norman and Ethel Thayer as they return with their divorced daughter and her fiance to their summer home on Golden Pond, and encounter a summer filled with the dramas, crises and, ultimately, the love that can only be experienced with those closest to us. 8 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Woodford Theatre, 275 Beasley Dr. Versailles, Ky. 859-873-0648. www. woodfordtheatre.com. tadoo Lounge Session: “Western Movies” release party with Chris Sullivan and Kelly Richey. Feb. 12. tadoo’s monthly Lounge Session welcomes Lexington singer/songwriter Chris Sullivan, as he performs from his newest album “Western Movies” on the tadoo stage. DJ Leroy will be spinning retro hits and blues guitarist Kelly Richey will open up the night. Food by the one and only “culinary evangelist” Dan Wu, serving up his trademark fusion fare. 6 p.m. Smiley Pete Publishing, 434 Old Vine St. www.tadoo.com. LexPhil: Tchaikovsky & Crouching Dragon. Feb. 13. Contemporary Chinese composer Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto for cello and orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 cross paths in the surprising “Tchaikovsky and Crouching Tiger.” Dun’s Crouch-
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KCT Winterfest: “Hamlet.” Feb. 2-6. Kentucky Conservatory Theatre (KCT), known for its celebrated outdoor theatre festival SummerFest, is excited to announce a new tradition in the Lexington theater scene: WinterFest. This dynamic one-man adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” will take place in the intimate setting of the Barrel House, with food and cocktails available for purchase. 7 p.m. The Grand Reserve, 903 Manchester St. www.mykct.org. SCAPA: “42nd Street.” Feb. 26 -28. A heartwarming tale about the search for stardom, “42nd Street” captures the hopes of everyone pursuing a dream. Young aspiring actress Peggy Sawyer moves to New York City to make her mark and lands her first job, but the director isn’t having an easy time producing a large-scale musical in the midst of the Great Depression. When the star breaks her ankle, Peggy is suddenly pushed center stage with only 36 hours to learn her lines and 10 dance numbers. 7 p.m. Fri, 2 and 8 p.m. Sat., 8 p.m. Sun. Lexington Opera House, 401 W. Short St. www.lexingtonoperahouse.com.
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40502
316 Culpepper Rd.
$290,000
281 S. Ashland Ave.
$1,400,000
1992 Shadybrook Ln.
$275,000
247 S. Hanover Ave.
$804,000
815 Cramer Ave.
$267,000
3605 Hidden Pond Rd.
$500,000
320 Desha Rd.
$265,000
636 Tally Rd.
$460,000
660 Mt. Vernon Dr.
$259,900
2377 The Woods Ln.
$450,000
132 Owsley Ave.
$250,000
936 Chinoe Rd.
$443,000
1108 Chinoe Rd.
$234,900
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$425,000
315 Leawood Dr.
$223,000
401 Clinton Rd.
$415,000
458 Oldham Ave.
$178,000
3005 Shirlee Dr.
$415,000
629 Summershade Cir.
$174,050
1001 Cramer Ave.
$375,000
7 Richmond Ave.
$125,000
906 Tates Creek Rd.
$365,000
1968 Blairmore Rd.
$365,000
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$320,000
357 Glendover Rd.
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$295,000
266 Albany Rd.
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342 Garden Rd.
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125 Ransom Ave.
40503
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Highest Price Property for December 2014: 281 S. Ashland Ave.$1,400,000
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