Tag Archives: Lexington

Lexington: H1N1 Capital of the Commonwealth

November 10, 2009 – 5:22 pm

Recently, we informed you that WLKY ran a story about how Louisville is the number-one city in these United States for dirtiest internet keyword searches: Because this information is useful. Now we are proud to report that we’ve managed to dodge another auspicious title, this time being the county with the second-most reported swine flu [...]

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Ross’ Murder A Too Common Fate Among Women

September 15, 2009 – 3:30 pm

MUNFORDVILLE — Former state Rep. Steve Nunn told state police hours after his former fiancée was shot to death that he “was at the end of his rope and wanted revenge” because of a domestic violence dispute with the woman, according to arrest records filed in Hart County.
Nunn also relayed his feelings in a seven-page [...]

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Filling A Hole

April 29, 2009 – 11:39 am

For all of Louisville’s short-comings and inadequacies (i.e. Derby), at least we’ve survived the fate of nearby Lexington, whose entrenched good old boy network has affected their mayor’s brain like an acute syphilis infection and resulted in a downtown that’s had more trouble finding itself than Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man.”
Like any good story of [...]

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The Subterranean Homesick Kentucky Theater Blues

March 19, 2009 – 3:58 pm

Ha ha ha, that’s just some Dylanese we’ve employed to inform you of a hilarious situation unfolding due east, in Wildcat country.
Here’s the score: Pompous and marginally-talented warrior poet Michael Johnathon (aka host of “Woodsongs,”  Lexington’s weekly A Prairie Home Companion knockoff) is at war with city-owned Kentucky Theater over… mechanical lifts? Semantic discrepancies over [...]

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