Kentucky State Fair opens

The Kentucky State Fair opened in Louisville on Aug. 20 and will run through Aug. 30. For 11 days, Kentucky’s biggest city becomes the capital of rural Kentucky, with livestock shows and competitions from everything from quilts and antiques to hay and ale. It’s where Kentucky products are marketed and improved, and a place where the next generation of Kentucky farmers shows what it can do. Photographs by Tom Eblen

Vaulting 101

A review of the six required maneuvers in individual compulsory competitions, and the specific criteria by which they are judged.

Way Up High

The math alone will give your stomach butterflies. 12 ladders each with 25 rungs. Climb those 300 steps and you’re in Ernie Begley’s office–the top of the 300-foot tall tower crane being used to construct the new University of Kentucky Hospital. Photos by Charles Bertram | Staff

It’s A Grand Night for Singing

It’s late summer at the University of Kentucky, which can only mean one thing: It’s A Grand Night for Singing.

For 17 years, UK opera singers have joined voices with leading singers and dancers from the Lexington community to give music lovers ringing renditions of Broadway classics, exuberant performances of pop hits, and vice versa.

This year’s edition will take you all the way back to classics such as George M. Cohan’s Give My Regards to Broadway and Roger Miller’s Worlds Apart from Big River to recent hits such as Mel Brooks’ rousing Transylvania Mania from Young Frankenstein. The show runs the next two weekends at UK’s Singletary Center for the Arts.

UK Theatre presents As It Is In Heaven

HARRODSBURG — For the second consecutive spring the University of Kentucky Theatre is presenting Arlene Hutton’s As It Is In Heaven at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill. The play is set in the village in 1838, at a time known as the “Era of Manifestations,” when many Shakers were experiencing visions and receiving spiritual gifts. The play by Hutton, whose family hails from Corbin, examines jealousies that arise when members of the Pleasant Hill group start experiencing these visions and gifts.

This is director Rhoda-Gale Pollack’s third time directing Hutton’s play, which is being presented in a tobacco barn that was renovated for the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass. Donna Phillips is the music director. The UK production runs May 15-24, 2009.  By Rich Copley | staff.

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