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There was at least one national political celebrity in the crowd when the group Exile held its reunion concert at the Kentucky Theatre on June 19.
Trent Lott, the 66-year-old Mississippi native who served as both Senate majority leader and Senate minority leader during a 35-year congressional career, is a long-time Exile fan.
“The whole family came,” [...]

 
Those who regularly pass Southside Church of Christ on Nicholasville Road are used to seeing Christian messages on the church’s sign.

“Jesus is ready for you,” it might say. “Are you ready for Jesus?”
Then, a couple of days ago, the secular replaced the sacred on Southside’s sign: “UK Football Parking Pass 278-9533.”
What happened?
In a word, prohibition.
The [...]

 
Those who regularly pass Southside Church of Christ on Nicholasville Road are used to seeing Christian messages on the church’s sign.

“Jesus is ready for you,” it might say. “Are you ready for Jesus?”
Then, a couple of days ago, the secular replaced the sacred on Southside’s sign: “UK Football Parking Pass 278-9533.”
What happened?
In a word, prohibition.
The [...]

We all love getting something for nothing, especially if the freebie is for something we are doing anyway — like shopping for a house.
Realtor Teresa Parks-Crumbie, for example, is marketing a new house at 188 Berkshire Lane in Georgetown’s Stonecrest Subdivision.
She realized that there is only one way into the subdivision, located off U.S. 25 [...]

So what do you do if you start a new MBA program, but not enough people apply?
You turn to the old media, of course.
Western Kentucky University is using billboards in Bowling Green, Glasgow, Elizabethtown and Owensboro as well as ads in various publications to recruit 25 to 30 students for its first executive MBA program, [...]

A rainstorm at the Cincinnati airport and the “community” that developed around her cell phone is the first installment in The Sylvia L. Lovely Blog that was launched this week.
To those who know her, the news here is that Lovely has time to blog.
Not only is the Frenchburg native executive director and CEO of the [...]

Mike Nalepa, editor of the first edition of “Fodor’s Essential USA” travel guide, was on CNN’s Your Money on Sunday to discuss less expensive road trips as substitutes for traditional vacations this year.
“You recommend Kentucky bluegrass country,” the program’s host, Ali Velshi, said to Nalepa.
“Kentucky is an overlooked — it’s flyover country for most people, [...]

Mike Nalepa, editor of the first edition of “Fodor’s Essential USA” travel guide, was on CNN’s Your Money on Sunday to discuss less expensive road trips as substitutes for traditional vacations this year.
“You recommend Kentucky bluegrass country,” the program’s host, Ali Velshi, said to Nalepa.
“Kentucky is an overlooked — it’s flyover country for most people, [...]

If you drove by Green’s Automotive Group on New Circle Road in Lexington this week and got a strange feeling something had changed, you were right.
Owner Clay Green sold his Lincoln-Mercury dealership back to Ford and very quickly expanded his Toyota dealership into the Lincoln-Mercury space.
Where nine new Toyotas once sat along the front of [...]

Bourbon drinkers like good books and Bob Kenney Eidson is hoping to give them one — or at least, the next best thing.
Eidson, 27, and two partners — Justin Thompson, 28, and Brad Kerrick, 24 — launched The Bourbon Review on Friday.
It is, Eidson says, “the first magazine about bourbon.”
The 84-page, full color first edition [...]