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Forecastle Music Festival Returns to Louisville Waterfront for Forecastle X
BY EVAN ALBERT After taking a breather in 2011, Forecastle Music Festival is coming back to Louisville’s scenic Waterfront Park. The Festival spent 2011 as a building year, hosting the Halfway to Forecastle Festival last July and joining forces with …
Bonnie Prince Billy plays Appalshop benefit at Cosmic Charlie’s Saturday
BY KAKIE URCH Two things very Kentucky Proud (though not edible) come together this Saturday at Cosmic Charlie's as Will Oldham, best known as "Bonnie Prince Billy," plays a
Author Ed McClanahan’s new Kickstarter project
Kentucky author Ed McClanahan (The Natural Man, Congress of Wonders, Famous People I Have Known, I Just Hitched In From the Coast) has a new project hitting Kickstarter
March Madness Marching Band heads for HONK again
Road to Honk MAD MARCHERS ON THE ROAD AGAIN by John Malloy This time last year, the talented oddballs of March Madness Marching Band (MMMB) approached loyal local audiences—shako hats in
Catching up with Lexington Theatre Vet, Robert Parks Johnson
Around the Bend in 2012 "2011 was the year my Doc told me I don't have cancer any more" by Robert Parks Johnson In some ways, 2011 was a hard
The Ace Eleven Project: Lexington thinks global, shoots local
By Kakie Urch Time. Space. Community. And Pappy. One week before 11.11.11 we asked Ace readers to set their iPhone alarms for 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. and capture a
A look back at the year in Food by Tom Yates
OCTOBER 2010: WEG's James Beard Celebrity Chef Series at the Horse Park On a warm autumn Saturday early evening, 80 guests gathered on the lawn of the The Farmhouse
Lexington Fall Music Preview
Are the organizers of Boomslang making a play for regional music dominance? Lexington’s premier indie music festival is scheduled for the fourth weekend in September - which happens
Why We Bought a Bookstore, by Crystal Wilkinson
This guest essay by author Crystal Wilkinson appears on page 4 of the Aug 25 print edition of Ace. Photo by Kakie Urch.Brick. Mortar. Ink. Paper: Why
UK Theatre onstage in NYC
The transition from the battlefield to life back home is a long road for our war veterans. The documentary drama “civilian,” based on oral history interviews of veterans















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