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CONFERENCES Alltech Conference Registration Opens

The Alltech ONE Conference is expected to return in-person to Lexington, Kentucky, on May 22–24, 2022. Virtual options will also be available, including live-streamed keynote presentations and on-demand track sessions, which will be released after the in-person event. Registration is now open.

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Lexington that was scheduled for January 27 at Central Bank Center has been postponed. In the notice provided to members, they announced, “By moving the event to Wednesday, April 6th, we are more assured of the opportunity to fully socialize and engage with each other during this large premier event. We owe that to you, our sponsors, as well as to our members and the community.” All existing reservations and sponsor commitments will be moved forward to the new date.

Emerge 2022

The 2022 Commerce Lexington EMERGE Conference is scheduled for Tuesday, March 8th, in person at Central Bank Center. This full day of programming for the region’s emerging leaders is designed to provide community education and professional development opportunities on a variety of topics through keynotes, panel discussions, and activities. Headlining this year’s conference will be Chris Clews, a speaker and author of the book series What 80s Pop Culture Teaches Us About Today’s Workplace. The morning speaker is Colene

Elridge (aka Coach Colene), the CEO of Be More Consulting and founder of the EmpowHer Conference.

Kentucky WorkForce Summit

The Kentucky Workforce Summit will focus on what is happening right now in Kentucky — and what needs to happen going forward — to ensure the quality of the state’s workforce and improve the state’s economic position at home and around the globe. Experts from industry and government will share insights and information about building a talent pipeline of workers, creating employer-led collaboratives to address specific workforce needs, using data to make decisions about training and hiring, and developing programs that let people learn new skills while gaining experience on the job. The conference is scheduled for February 15 and February 16 at Griffin Gate Marriott.

UK’s Economic Outlook

UK’s 33rd Annual Economic Outlook Conference is set for Tuesday, February 8, 2022, from 8 a.m. to Noon EST, at the Central Bank Center. This year’s conference is in-person,

requiring pre-registration. Mark E. Schweitzer, Senior Vice President of Research of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, will be the featured speaker of the conference. Dr. Schweitzer’s own research has focused on the macroeconomic impact of labor market developments and the identification of factors contributing to regional economic growth. The event is hosted by UK’s Gatton College of Business and Economics’ Executive Education Center.

SPIRITS Kentucky Bourbon pours $9 billion into the Bluegrass economy every year and generates more than 22,500 jobs with $1.23 billion in payroll. Distilling also contributes more than $285 million in local and state tax revenue.. The news comes from the biennial report conducted by economist Dr. Paul Coomes and commissioned by the non-profit Kentucky Distillers’ Association trade group. This is the sixth report since 2009 that charts growth and challenges facing Bourbon and distilled spirits. KDA President Eric Gregory said the study highlights how the industry has effectively

transformed itself into a global and economic powerhouse over the past 12 years. “Leadership, partnership and a focused mission on working together and growing the pie,” he said. “We’re thrilled that Bourbon is at an all-time high since the glorious Repeal of Prohibition, but we can’t let success or complacency curtail this strong momentum,” he said. “We have more jobs and distilleries than ever before, but we also have more competition from all 50 states.” The study notes there are now more than 2,200 distilleries in the U.S. due to the booming craft movement. Ten states have more licensed distillery operations than Kentucky.

High Street from the Lexington Convention Center and Rupp Arena, bordered by Lexington Center Drive, Maxwell Street, and Poplar Alley. Designed by architecture firm Gensler, the 6,000+ seat Lexington Pro Soccer multi-use venue and soccer stadium would feature 45,000 square feet of entertainment-focused retail with patio views overlooking both the stadium and Rupp Arena. A 160-room hotel, a 250-unit upscale, multi-family residential development, and integrated parking garages onsite in excess of the current available parking. Lexington Pro Soccer’s inaugural season will begin Spring 2023. The club will play initially at a local collegiate facility.

SPORTS Lexington Pro Soccer, the USL League One soccer club awarded to the city of Lexington in October, has released a series of renderings of its proposed downtown stadium. The renderings, which were included in a submission by the club’s ownership team to the Lexington Center Corporation’s High Street Development Project, have been designed to the area directly across

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hitney Pannell’s recent Tik Tok Ace story was not Whitney Pannell’s first appearance on an Ace cover.

JULY 6 2012 INSTAGRAM CAPTION “We have found a kidney match for my mother! God willing one more test on July 20th and it’s full speed ahead. Thanks to the article in Ace Weekly for making this possible. #kidneynow”

The January 2022 issue of Ace featured an interview with Whitney Pannell and son Parker prior to their Tik Tok presentation at the Professional Women’s Forum.

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Ten years ago in Ace, in 2012, Whitney made a direct plea to the Ace readers, penning an Ace cover story, in search of a kidney donor for her mother. She had fully intended to donate her own kidney, but after discovering she was a match, she was ruled out as a donor due to a benign tumor, which was removed on January 5, 2012. Leaving her mother still in need of a Type A or Type O kidney donor. On February 9, 2012, ten years ago, Whitney reported eloquently on her own rocky recovery in a followup article, but she shared an amazing story too: “Thanks to the article I wrote in Ace last month, we have had two total strangers come forward and offer to donate to her. These were just people who had made a life decision to become an organ donor. They read the article and realized that there was someone here locally in need. We were truly touched and are praying that one of them will be a match for my mother.” We reported at the time, “Although two readers have come forward — so far — as prospective kidney donors for Whitney’s mother, the testing process is long and exhaustive. For more info about Kentucky’s organ donor registry, go to donatelifeky.org and www.kyorgandonor.org.” In a 33-year relationship with the best readers in town, it was never more apparent how special those readers are than the time two perfect strangers came forward to offer to donate a kidney — inspired by a story about a woman they’d never met.

2012 Ace Archives Nancy Wiggins 1936-2016

hitney Pannell’s mother lived four more years after the Kidney, Now! coverstory was published. Her obituary read, “Nancy Renegar Wiggins, aka ‘Yummy’, age 80, died on September 21, 2016 as a result of a miscalculation while sky-diving over the great pyramids in Egypt. Nancy was the widow of Stanley Robb Wiggins, a local Realtor who passed away in 1996. She is survived by her only daughter, Whitney Wiggins Pannell, her son-in-law Rick Pannell, and two grandchildren Lucy Boone Pannell and William Parker Pannell, all from Lexington. She attended Centre College and the University of Kentucky where she received a Bachelor’s degree in English and Art. Her Masters work was done at the University of Kentucky in library science. After teaching for 12 years in Woodford County, she retired to become a full-time housewife and mother. As a devoted Christian believes, she asked that her epitaph should read ‘I’ll be seeing you.’” Her funeral service was held Thursday, September 29, 2016.

“Thanks to the article I wrote in Ace last month, we have had two total strangers come forward and offer to donate [a kidney] to [my mother]. They read the Ace cover story and realized that there was someone here locally in need. We were truly touched and are praying that one of them will be a match for my mother.”

For more info about Kentucky’s organ donor registry, go to donatelifeky.org and kyorgandonor.org

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exington artist, musician, and filmmaker Patrick McNeese died in December 2021 at the age of 68. McNeese was an alum of Christ the King, Lexington Catholic, and the University of Kentucky and was well known for decades of art and music in Lexington. In 1994, Brad Becker interviewed Patrick McNeese about his role as production designer on the movie version of Ed McClanahan’s Congress of Wonders, filmed in Lexington. (McClanahan died in November 2021, at the age of 89.) Becker introduced the piece saying, “It turns out that my first project in Kentucky was not going to be just about a local author getting famous, or an award-winning director coming to town. It was about a cast of talented people who stopped what they were doing, ventured into new worlds, and, in the process, learned about themselves and the crafts to which they had given their lives.” An excerpt of the archive follows:

…Taking a Dramatic Turn BY BRAD BECKER, ACE 1994 Since it was raining, I wondered if anything would be going on that first night a year ago when I headed out to find The Congress of Wonders at Spindletop. A guy with a flashlight met me on the driveway below the water tower, said they’d moved everything into a barn, and offered me a lift out there…

hough his passions were for paint and piano, Patrick McNeese wrote and co-produced training videos for Clark Equipment after he finished his Fine Arts degree at UK. He also earned the independent film grant money in 1992 to produce a documentary about local jazz musician Duke Madison. He met with Ed McClanahan at Alfalfa’s restaurant in spring of 1993, and they talked about the film. McNeese sent his resume and a calling card — his Duke Madison video — to Wagner. By early summer, he was handed the production design job. “Though I hadn’t done exactly this sort of thing before, The Congress of Wonders provided for me this great amalgam, which was a perfect dovetail

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Remembering Lexington Artist Patrick McNeese

“It’s this kind of thing that makes me call this production ‘blessed.’ Somehow, problems seemed to work for us. The Congress of Wonders was about the great things that happen when so much human spirit is being poured into something.” —Patrick McNeese, Ace 1994

for some of the things I have done before. Sometimes being really experienced and seasoned works against you. You lose your receptiveness.” McNeese’s task was to spend three months — and very little money — conceiving, collecting, and constructing the rope and canvas carnival world of 1944, where the lens would be focused most of the time. “Any period piece is hard. If you miss a little, you miss a lot. In the end, there were precious few holes poked in the 1944 illusion. And though we weren’t blessed with a big budget, we were blessed with time — time to borrow and beg everything possible, time to talk about the world we wanted to create. I even found time to paint.” (An accomplished artist, McNeese’s forays into music and video projects had kept him from his painting for five years. He painted the carnival posters which became the signatures of the film set.) One of McNeese’s biggest challenges was scouting for the main set piece: a carnival tent. But once he finally found a tent he could borrow, he didn’t have any place to pitch it. Until twelve days before the cameras arrived, the filming had been planned for Cynthiana, but the owner of the property balked at the money they offered, and there was no time for dickering. McNeese and Mike Brower, the line producer for the film, who’d set up his office at Video Editing Services as a sort of “Wonders Central,” drove out to explore a spot at the Kentucky Horse Park. “But the Horse Park sites we had in mind turned out to be too pristine, too Bluegrassy. So we’re on our way, wonder-

ing where we’ll go next, and we see this big water tower at Spindletop, UK’s agriculture farm, on the horizon. The water tower had become for us an important set icon when we’d been planning on the Cynthiana site. We pulled into the driveway, still fixed on that water tower, and as we approached, we could also see this grassy knoll descending from there, and aside from this pie slice of incongruous space which was the Spindletop Estate tennis court, we knew this had everything we needed. There was even a tobacco barn.” A couple of days before cast and crew were to show up, McNeese and a friend hauled the tent out to Spindletop, hoisted it up, staked it down, and revelled in their first glimpse of the film set. Then, Paul Wagner arrived. “Paul looked at it and said in no uncertain terms that this tent just wouldn’t work, that it looked too good, too new, that either we’d have to rough it up somehow, or get another one. I called the guy who lent it, and he told me that if I got so much as a drop of paint on it, I’d buy it. Now, I’m sweating at this point, because I have to assume any tent this size is going to cost more money than we have. But I’ve got to ask him his price, because I’m out of time. I’m ready as I can be for this guy to tell me one or two thousand bucks; and he says, adamantly, ‘I’ll need two hundred dollars.’ ‘We’ll take it,’ I said, and within an hour after that call, we were rubbing it down with brown paint.” Then there was rain, but there was a barn. McNeese rattled off a list of names of willing and gracious Lexingtonians who lent everything from costumes and cars to the Teslacoil device — who pounded nails and slopped paint, who put their jobs on hold to be a part of a new venture. “It’s this kind of thing that makes me call this production ‘blessed.’ Somehow, problems seemed to work for us. In the close quarters of the barn, eating together, up late and half asleep, the group bonded. The Congress of Wonders was about the great things that happen when so much human spirit is being poured into something.” A memorial is planned for McNeese in the Spring.

Photo by Austin Johnson for Ace 2018

Remembering Joe B. Hall

ormer University of Kentucky men’s basketball coach Joe B. Hall died January 15, 2022 at the age of 93. Current UK men’s basketball coach John Calipari had visited with his mentor earlier in the week and wrote, “Coach Joe B. Hall – my friend, my mentor, and an icon in our state and in our profession – passed away this morning. Coach Hall took over a program and carried on the winning tradition and legacy of excellence of Kentucky basketball. He made it the job it is today with his hard work, his ingenuity and his great basketball coaching.” Hall, who’d served as assistant under Adolph Rupp, took the Wildcats to three final fours and the 1978 championship during his 13 seasons as head coach.

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Give and Take

The secret to success for longtime Lexington power couple, Elvis and Geneva Donaldson STORY AND PHOTOS BY KEVIN NANCE

eneva Donaldson remembers the first time she heard about a certain dashing, recently widowed Lexington physician. In 1989, a mutual friend of theirs mentioned that the wife of Dr. Elvis Donaldson, an oncologist at the University of Kentucky Hospital, had recently passed away. “You know how it is,” the friend said. “The women are arriving at his house with the casseroles.” It took nearly a year for the friend to get them together at a dinner party. After the party, Elvis—named for his father and greatgrandfather, not that other Elvis—walked her to her car in the rain, and they talked for a while, standing close together under his umbrella. Not

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long after that, he invited her to a performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats at the Lexington Opera House, which the musically-inclined Geneva especially loved. He drove her home and they talked until 2 a.m. in her kitchen while he drank six four-cup pots of coffee. “I was smitten with him,” she recalls, and he with her. But he was absorbed in his work, traveling a great deal for conferences—and was also by nature a deliberative man who “likes to sit and think,” as Geneva has been known to put it—and didn’t call for a while. Geneva, then a divorced second-grade teacher in Woodford County, waited rather impatiently for a time, and then, as is her style, took action. “I’m a

doer,” she says in a recent interview at their Gratz Park home. “I always say, ‘I’ve got to do something, right or wrong, today.” To jog his memory of their theatrical evening together, Geneva found his address and mailed him a copy of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot’s 1939 poetry collection that inspired the musical. So reminded, and taking the hint, Elvis began to call, then take her out to dinner and performances, and finally invited her to join him on a work-related trip to Utah. And about a year after they met, they got married at Calvary Baptist Church—Geneva radiant in a custommade, off-white wedding dress stained with tea—before 200 guests.

“They recognize each other’s talents and play off each other.” —Lendy Brown

Three years after that, they bought the historic mansion at the corner of Third and Mill streets on the northwest corner of Gratz Park, across from Transylvania University. (The house was built in 1841, facing the park, and was significantly expanded with a north-facing portico in 1898, giving it its reputation as “the only house to turn its back on Gratz Park.”)

hirty years later, Elvis Donaldson is still a deliberator, Geneva Donaldson a doer. Their unique personal and professional partnership—after he went into private practice in gynecology/oncology, she was his office manager for more than a decade, in charge of everything from personnel to the choice of wallpaper—has made them one of Gratz Park’s leading power couples. Along the way, they’ve turned their spacious home and garden into the historic district’s flagship and social hub, known for throwing large, elegant parties on the Fourth of July and Christmas. “They’re the ultimate host and hostess— mostly hostess, although Elvis does help,” says their friend and Gratz Park neighbor Carol Martin. “It’s just that Geneva can run circles around all of us. She’s a dynamo.” Another longtime friend, Lendy Brown, says, “They recognize each other’s talents and play off each other.” A third friend, Nancy Potter, says with a laugh, “Geneva tells him what to do and he does it. Not really, of course, but she’s the one who takes the initiative.” Elvis, an affable, somewhat reserved Southern gentleman from Bowling Green with a strong Kentucky accent, was a driven professional, concentrating on the practice of medicine, and left most other matters, including the management and decoration of his office and their home, to his wife. Retired since 2018, he’s now relaxed and easygoing, retaining a touch of his reassuring bedside manner; he still sleeps in surgical scrubs, and gives the impression of being ready to step back into the operating room at a moment’s notice. Geneva—vivacious, energetic, strongwilled and rather a perfectionist—is known for her keen eye for design, detail and what she calls “creating an atmosphere.” In her husband’s medical office, she saw to it that the wallpaper and fabrics in the waiting area were soothing to his often quite ill patients. The magazines in the lobby were kept current; there was art on the walls and books in the examining rooms. “It worked because I had my realm

and he had his,” she says of that period. “I didn’t advise him about medical matters and he didn’t advise me about the management of the office.” She also devoted considerable thought and energy to creating their richly appointed home, an eclectic, light-filled showplace full of antique and contemporary furniture and art. (Their art collection, acquired together over many years, includes works by Cezanne, Chagall, Henry Faulkner, former Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and Irina Ilina, a Russian artist whose large oil paintings on crumpled paper are prominently displayed.)

ut Geneva’s great masterpiece is their garden. Designed and nurtured over the past quarter-century, it’s a series of distinctly defined areas—“rooms,” she calls them—that burst with interest, variety and color yearround. Classical garden statuary give some parts of the garden an Italianate feel; metal heron sculptures guard the koi pond from hungry actual herons. “We’re just passing through,” she told me last spring, referring to their stewardship of the historic estate. “It’s our responsibility to see that this property is passed on in as good or better shape as it was when we got it. I think we’ve done OK with that.” And through the years, the Donaldsons have maintained the fun-loving intimacy they shared on their first date in the presence of Mr. Mistoffelees, Rum Tum Tugger and Grizabella. “If you watch them together, there’s a complete adoration and respect for each other,” Martin says. “That’s also peppered with lots of laughter.”

For his part, Elvis seems entirely at ease in his marriage to his powerhouse spouse. “As relationships mature, you either have an overall level of comfort and love or you don’t, and I think we’re in pretty good shape there. We’re two different personality types, so there’s some give and take, or”—here he smiles at his wife— “just give.”

Drinking the Air

The Secret Garden Accessories

Kevin Nance is currently nearing the end of a year-long photography project, scheduled for publication as a book later this year, documenting the Donaldsons’ garden during all four seasons.

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AROUND THE CORNER UK Opera Theatre presents La Boheme, Lexington Opera House

MAR 12

Lexington’s St. Patrick’s Parade

MAR 26

MAR 4

Gabriel Iglesias, Rupp Arena

Avett Brothers, Yum! Center

APR 7

MAR 5

Katt Williams, Rupp Arena

Lucinda Williams, new date

MAR 3

Basketball vs. Auburn, 4 pm, Memorial Coliseum

RESCHEDULED

COMEDY Greg

Fitzsimmons, 7:15 pm and 9:45 pm, Comedy Off Broadway

HEALTH AND OUTDOORS IN MEMORY: Baptist Health President Bill Sisson

ayor Linda Gorton writes, “I am sad to hear our community has lost Baptist Health Lexington President Bill Sisson. He was a great advocate and partner for Lexington, making important contributions to the healthcare of our citizens. He was integral in our City’s fight against COVID-19, making sure Baptist Health Lexington was working together with other healthcare providers to make sure we were doing our best to battle the virus. We will keep his family, friends, and the Baptist Health Lexington team in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.”

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Feeling Flu-ish in Fayette?

You can get your free flu shot by sameday appointment every Monday, Wednesday or Friday in Lexington Fayette Health Department’s Public Health Clinic, 650 Newtown Pike, by calling 859-288-2483. Lab-confirmed cases only reflect a small percentage of flu cases actually in Lexington. Many providers use rapid testing, which is not required to be reported to state/local health departments. The flu is expected to continue to spread throughout the winter.

City Seeks Input from Community on Healthy Food Access

Mayor Linda Gorton is asking Lexington residents to share their thoughts and ideas on the accessibility of affordable, healthy food throughout the city. “As a nurse, I know just how important a healthy diet is,” Gorton said. “Too many of our residents face food access barriers, and my team and I are trying to make food — particularly healthy food —more accessible and affordable for our most vulnerable residents.”

Following a recommendation made in late 2020 by the Commission for Racial Justice and Equality, the City has placed more emphasis on improving food access and healthy food options. “We are working our way through each recommendation made by the Commission for Racial Justice and Equality,” Gorton said. “The Health Disparities Subcommittee identified food access as an area of needed improvement for our city. We want to hear from community members on ways we can make food more accessible, and how we can encourage folks to eat healthier.” Residents can share their opinions in two ways – by participating in one of five focus groups, and by completing an online survey. Residents are welcome to attend any of the five in-person focus group meetings listed below. All participants will be required to wear a face mask for in-person meetings. • Black & Williams Neighborhood Center, 498 Georgetown Street, at 5:30 p.m. on February 15 • Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center, 300 East Third Street, at 5:30 p.m. on February 22

• Virtual Zoom Meeting at Noon on March 8. Zoom link will be made available at a later date. As the new City’s Equity and Implementation Officer, Tiffany Brown is implementing the recommendations made by the Commission. “Food insecurity is a challenge that Lexington is facing head on,” she said. “We need input from the community on how to make nutritious food more accessible in our neighborhoods.”

CALENDAR FEB 3

Friends of Red River Gorge First Thursday Meeting, 7 pm, West Sixth

FEB 6

Kentucky Health and Wellness Expo, Noon to 5 pm, Beaumont Gym on Georgian Way

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aby, it’s cold outside, but registration is now open for Lexington’s July 4, 2022 Bluegrass 10,000 and Fun Run. The 46th annual races will use the updated courses rolled out last year that proved popular with runners. Last year, University of Kentucky track stand-out Katy Kunc set a new women’s course record in the race. Parks & Recreation is exploring ways for racers to train together and build community leading into July’s race, with more information to be announced later.

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ACE EATS IN

Wine, Cheese, and Quarantines BY TOM YATES

e all want something special, romantic, and memorable for Valentine’s whether we’re locked down, quarantined, or out on the town. I totally get the hype and the hope. And while I’m down with the glitz, glam, and hoopla of a big night out, I’m also perfectly content with a simple low key riff on wine and cheese at home.

Drunken Red Wine Spaghetti With Gorgonzola Mousse.

Spaghetti cooked in red wine brings sexy to the table. Whip It Up. After bringing 6 ounces gorgonzola and 3 ounces cream cheese to room temperature, I used an old fashioned hand held mixer to whip them together until fully combined and set the mix aside. Working with a chilled bowl and whisk on a stand mixer, I whipped 3/4 cups heavy whipping cream until soft peaks formed before adding 1 tablespoon sherry. When the whipped cream formed stiff peaks, I gently folded the creamed gorgonzola into the whipped cream until it almost floated off my spatula, covered the mousse with plastic wrap, and set it aside.

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Lady And The Tramp. Spaghetti. Plain old dried spaghetti. That’s the happy dance here. As much as I love making fresh pasta, scratch made pasta doesn’t work with this method. It cooks too quickly. Dried spaghetti needs time to absorb the wine as it cooks while remaining al dente. Total win. With a bit of pot-juggling, drunken spaghetti is simple and quick. Little effort. Big payoff. Working over a medium flame, I sauteed 2 minced shallots in 2 tablespoons olive oil in a wide high-sided saute pan. When the shallots turned translucent, I added 2 minced garlic cloves, a pinch of dried red pepper flakes, 1 teaspoon dried oregano, salt, and cracked black pepper. After letting the garlic release into the oil, I hit the pan with a full bottle (750ml) of CabernetSauvignon. While the aromatic wine did its thing, I filled a large stock pot with water and brought it to a rolling boil before adding a handful of salt and 1 pound dried spaghetti. After 3 minutes, I drained the pasta, reserving 1 cup of pasta water, and feathered it into the simmering red wine. Once added to the wine, I cranked the heat to high and boiled the pasta for 6-8 minutes until tender (yet, still al dente) and

the pasta absorbed the wine. After adding 1/4 cup of the reserved pasta water and 1/4 cup freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese, I pulled the pasta from the heat and downed a glass of comforting Cabernet. While the pasta was still warm, I used a large carving fork to twirl it into shape, piped the gorgonzola mousse to the side, and nestled prosciutto-wrapped fresh Bartlett pears into the mousse before finishing with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, fresh parsley, and flaked sea salt. Infused and stained with red wine, the pasta popped with robust earthy undertones. The creamy mousse softened and swirled through the drunken spaghetti, tempering the tinge of heat from the red pepper flakes. While the parsley and olive oil added fruity grassiness. The prosciutto-wrapped pears provided a salty fresh crunch. A little wine and cheese. A little unexpected.

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ACE EATS OUT

ebruary is one of those little-sung months made better by food. There’s Mardi Gras and pancake suppers and Valentine’s with all the sweet and savory indulgences your hearts desire. And best of all, Spring is right around the corner.

TRANSITIONS Azur has reopened after a brief hiatus for remodeling. Life just got twice as nice for fans of Bourbon n Toulouse who announced they are expanding to add a second location at the former Gumbo YaYa location on Broadway, keepin’ it Cajun. Dodd’s Corner in Nicholasville has announced winter hours. They will be “opening on Fridays and Saturdays with fresh milk, local farm eggs, deli, bakery, and pizza” until “Spring gets here.”

Enough Already nearby. In a 2012 Ace interview, he says, Kentucky might not have inspired the zombie apocalypse, but he agrees it does inform the distinct southern culture of both the comic and the series. “You see a lot of stories set out in Los Angeles and New York,” adding, “I thought it would be a lot more interesting to tell a story about Middle Americans. The cast of The Walking Dead is from places like Kentucky and Georgia and places like that. They are very much more trying to survive than solve the problem. I think that made the story that much more interesting.” (Actress Melissa McBride who plays Carol on the series is a Lexington native.)

COMING SOON The opening for Bruster’s Ice Cream in Brighton in Hamburg was slowed down by supply chain issues in the construction process, but is expected to open soon. KPot Korean BBQ is coming soon to the Richmond Road corridor. Nic and Norman’s is the restaurant brainchild of Walking Dead producer Greg Nicotero and Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon on the show. Their locations feature art/photography by Reedus (big bald head on instagram). Lexington is a logical choice for the opening, as Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman is a Kentucky native and grew up

The menu reads, “As artists, we are passionate about creating special moments. Beyond the screen, we recognize that this often happens while enjoying a great meal in the company of family and friends.” It’s never too early in the season to start thinking about food trucks and West Sixth has announced their Cantina Food Truck, specializing in burritos and tacos. It will be stationed at the West Sixth Farm in Frankfort, but you can expect to see it on Lexington’s streets too.

By Valerie Bertinelli (Mariner Books) Eddie VanHalen is dead. He died October 6, 2020 after many decades of off and on battles with cancer. His ex-wife, Valerie Bertinelli, writes movingly of their relationship with each other and with food in her new memoir, Enough Already. She describes her former mother-inlaw, Mrs. Van Halen (Alex and Eddie’s mother) as a “tough, demanding woman who wasn’t easy on her boys, rock stars or not.” As a young mom, when she learned to make bami from Mrs. Van Halen, for Ed, she discovered, “there is no difference between little old Indonesian women and little old Italian women,” and the way her own grandmother had taught her to make gnocchi. Everything was “a little of this and a little of that.” Much like 2021’s best book, Crying in H-Mart, Bertinelli’s book is equal parts grief and food memoir, with a few recipes thrown in. She reflects, “I lost my dad in 2016, then, after doing my best to take care of my mom, she passed away this past June. And now I am worried about Ed and concerned about Wolfie [their son]. How am I coping? By trying to perfect my sausage and peppers recipe.” Her memories of her pilgrimage to Italy have echoes of Stanley Tucci’s 2021 Taste: My Life Through Food. You can learn how to make the “world’s best soft-scrambled eggs” (“take your time. Go slowly. The day is ahead of you”); a Sicilian Chocolate Love Cake (spoiler alert, it’s based on a box mix); and you can even master Mrs. Van Halen’s Bami Goreng with Ketjap Sambal As a lapsed Catholic, she still prayed for her boy when he hit the road playing with his dad and uncle, “I asked God to watch out for my baby. He’s the bass player. The others are on their own.” Having battled her weight her entire life, she has resolved to stop, observing “before I incorporated a monkish regiment of restriction and punishment, I thought food was the way you expressed love.”

—RR

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LIVE MUSIC

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT LISTEN The 8th Lexi Music Awards will be held Sunday, February 6, 2022, at the historic Lyric Theatre at 6pm (with after-party to be held at Goodwood Lexington at 8pm). Venue of the Year nominees include Austin City Saloon, The Burl, Manchester Music Hall, and the Twisted Cork. Music Store nominees include the Doo Wop Shop, the Drum Center of Lexington, Willcutt Guitars, and Willis Music of Lexington. The Lexington Chamber Chorale will welcome the Kentucky State University Concert Choir in “Unity Through Music,” on February 20, a celebration of Unity during Black History Month. Each choir will sing a set of songs and then join to sing a few selections together. They will also use a repertoire based on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and a celebration of recovery from COVID-19.

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mile along the way. The railroad track, which once ran from New Orleans to Chicago, lies parallel to the highway. In 1896, a set of quintuplets was born near the feed mill. The quints were such a phenomenon that every train stopped there so that passengers could see them. I once wrote a novel inspired by the tragedy of those babies. They were part of my world, my landscape, my history.” Silas House

Silas House’s latest short story, “Neon Moon,” has been published in the new issue of Tri-Quarterly. (He writes, “The boy is seventeen and works at the Neon Moon, a dance hall way out in horse country, while he gets his GED. Fox has dropped out of school because people made too much fun of him there.”) House’s next novel, Lark Ascending, will be published in September 2022.

Strawberry Mansion, in theaters February 18 and available digitally February 25, is what Hollywood Reporter calls “an intentionally light respite from the painful times that we’re living in right now. As other independent films try to capture this cultural and political moment, Audley and Birney are more interested in presenting a tale that is timeless. It’s a candy-colored storybook that wants nothing more than to put you at ease.”

WRITE Applications are now being accepted for the 2022 Appalachian Writers’ Workshop at the Hindman Settlement School. Faculty has been announced for poetry, creative nonfiction, and novel alongside afternoon session leaders and Keynote Address presenter, journalist and author Beth Macy. The 45th annual gathering at the Forks of Troublesome is July 24-29.

All programming is subject to change in accordance with community guidelines. Confirm all dates and times with the venue.

TUE FEB 1

Brooks Giles, 7 pm, Base 249

THU FEB 3

Jeremy McComb & Dan Olsen, 7 pm, Tin Roof

FRI FEB 4

Big Chills Nights, 8 pm, Girls Girls Girls Burritos

SUN FEB 6

Lost Dog Street Band, 8 pm, The Burl

WED FEB 9

Kyle Tuttle Band with Arkansauce, 8 pm, The Burl

THU FEB 10

Lauren Mink, 8:30 pm, Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse Langhorne Slim, 8 pm, The Burl

FRI FEB 18

Walker Montgomery, 8 pm, Manchester Music Hall

SAT FEB 19

Lucinda Williams, Manchester Music Hall (RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 7)

WATCH Bobbi Ann Mason. Photo by LaNelle Mason. Kentucky author Bobbie Ann Mason’s essay, “Mayfield, Before and After,” has been published in The New Yorker. She writes, “When I imagine the tornado’s path, I can’t help picturing the area as it was when I lived there. The twister started in Arkansas, to the southwest, traveled to the candle factory, and then ripped along U.S. Highway 45, the same route we always took into town. The feed mill where my father and my grandfather did all the farm business was less than a

Variety calls Kentucker Audley’s new movie, Strawberry Mansion, a low-budget, lo-fi fantasy with a high-concept. Audley, née Andrew Nenninger, grew up in Lexington, attending Mary Queen and then Lexington Catholic. “When I left Kentucky, I wanted to keep the state with me,” he says, hence the name change.

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SUN FEB 20

Drew Baldridge, 8 pm, The Burl

FRI FEB 25

The Local Honeys, 8 pm, The Burl

SAT FEB 26

The Wooks Album Release, 8 pm, The Burl

AROUND THE CORNER Mar 25

Ian Noe, The Burl

Mar 27

Buddy Guy, Lex Opera House

Apr 5

Leo Kottke, Lyric Theatre

Apr 9

Elton John, Rupp

Apr 23

Robyn Hitchcock (solo), The Burl

Apr 23

Chris Stapleton, Commonwealth Stadium

Apr 25

Son Volt, The Burl

Apr 28

Los Lobos, The Burl

ROB BREZSNY’S FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Helen Hunt Jackson said that one component of happiness is “a little less time than you want.” Why? Because you always “have so many things you want to see, to have, and to do” and “no day is quite long enough for all you would like to get done before you go to bed.” I propose you experiment with this definition in the coming weeks. According to my astrological analysis, you will have even more interesting assignments and challenges than usual as well as a brimming vitality that will make it possible for you to accomplish many but not all of them. Your happiness should be abundant! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Born under the sign of Taurus, Ethel Smyth (18581944) had considerable skills as a composer of music, an athlete, an author, a passionate lover, and an activist working for women’s rights. She was successful in all of them. I propose we make her one of your role models for the coming months. Why? First, because she did more than one thing really well, and you are now primed to enhance your versatility, flexibility, and adaptability. Second, because she described a formula for high achievement that would suit you well. She said, “Night after night I went to sleep murmuring, ‘Tomorrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!’” (PS: I suggest you make “supple” your word of power in 2022.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to author Olivia Dresher, “Feelings want to be free. Thoughts want to be right.” Well, then, what about intuitions? In a sense, they’re hybrids of feelings and thoughts. They’re a way of knowing that transcends both feelings and thoughts. When intuitions come from the clear-seeing part of your deep psyche rather than the fearprone part of your conditioning, they are sweet and fun and accurate and humble and brisk and pure. They don’t “want” to be anything. I’m pleased to inform you, Gemini, that in the coming weeks, your intuitions will be working at peak efficiency. It should be relatively easy for you to distinguish between the clear-seeing and fear-prone modes of intuition. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it,” wrote humorist Leo Rosten. I offer his counsel to you right now because I want you to have fun if you wander away from your usual upstanding behavior. But may I make a suggestion? As you depart from normal, boring niceness, please remain honorable and righteous. What I’m envisioning for you are experiments that are disruptive in healthy ways, and dares that stir up interesting problems, and rebellious explorations that inspire beauty and

truth. They’ll be “wrong” only in the sense of being mutinies against static, even stagnant, situations that should indeed be prodded and pricked. Remember Bob Dylan’s idea: “To live outside the law, you must be honest.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo actor Anna Kendrick bragged, “I’m so humble it’s crazy. I’m like the Kanye West of humility.” I’d like to see you adopt that extravagant approach to expressing your magnificence in the coming weeks. I hope you’ll add another perspective to your repertoire, toothis one from Leo actor Mae West. She exulted, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!” Here’s one further attitude I encourage you to incorporate, courtesy of Leo author Rachel Pollack: “To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Sammy Davis Jr. (19251990) was multitalented: an actor, singer, comedian, and dancer. One critic described him as “the greatest entertainer ever to grace a stage.” He didn’t think highly of his own physical appearance, however. “I know I’m dreadfully ugly,” Davis said, “one of the ugliest men you could meet. But ugliness, like beauty, is something you must learn how to use.” That’s an interesting lesson to meditate on. I think it’s true that each of us has rough, awkward, irregular aspects if not in our physical appearance, then in our psyches. And yet, as Davis suggested, we can learn to not just tolerate those qualities, but use them to our advantage. Now is a favorable time for you to do that. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways,” wrote the mystic Saint Teresa of Avila. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re due to discover new and different ways to wield your love magic in addition to the many you already know and use. For best results, you’ll have to be willing to depart from old reliable methods for expressing care and tenderness and nurturing. You must be willing to experiment with fresh approaches that may require you to stretch yourself. Sounds like fun to me!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If you are drilling for water, it’s better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 six-foot wells,” advised author and religious scholar Huston Smith. He was using well-drilling as a metaphor, of course as a symbol for solving a problem, for example, or developing a spiritual practice, or formulating an approach to psychological healing. The metaphor might not be perfectly applicable for everyone in every situation. But I believe it is vividly apropos for you and your current situations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A well-worn proverb tells us, “All good things come to those who wait.” There’s a variation, whose author is unknown (although it’s often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln): “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left behind by those who hustle.” I think that’s far more useful advice for you in the coming weeks. I’d much rather see you hustle than wait. Here’s a third variant, which may be the best counsel of all. It’s by author Holly Woodward: “All good things come to those who bait.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote, “To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.” I agree, which is why I authorize you to add “Saint” to the front of your name in the coming weeks. There’s an excellent chance you will fit the description Stowe articulated. You’ll be at the peak of your power to elevate the daily rhythm into a stream of subtle marvels. You’ll be quietly heroic. If you’re not fond of the designation “Saint,” you could use the Muslim equivalent term, “Wali,” the Jewish “Tzadik,” Buddhist “Arhat,” or Hindu “Swami.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Since the iconoclastic planet Uranus is a chief symbol for the Aquarian tribe, you people are more likely to be dissenters and mavericks and questioners than all the other signs. That doesn’t mean your departures from orthodoxy are always successful or popular. Sometimes you meet resistance from the status quo. Having offered that caveat, I’m happy to announce that in the coming weeks, your unique offerings are more likely than usual to be effective. For inspiration, read these observations by author Kristine Kathryn Rusch: “Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.”

University of Kentucky seeks a Research Cyberinfrastructure Architect in Lexington, Kentucky to perform Cyberinfrastructure design, implementation, security and support for our research user community, including designing and building high performance computer, network, storage and virtualized systems. This position requires a Master’s Degree in Computer Science; 2 years working with high performance computing systems, including the implementation, administration, and use of supercomputers and emerging cloud computing infrastructure in support of scientific research; 2 years of experience with the following: TCP and IP protocols, routing protocols and software defined networks; using conventional network services (DNS, NFS, SMTP) and routers; SDN network, schedulers and big data transmissions; cloud based systems and solutions, elastic computing, virtualization techniques and frameworks (e.g. OpenStack); public cloud providers (AWS, Google and Azure); OS programming knowledge, software design and distribution and parallel programming competency and Knowledge of schedulers and HPC resources. Qualified candidates should apply by sending resume and cover letter to Lowell Pike, University Of Kentucky, ITS Research Enablement; Outreach, 301 Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40506-0495

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean author Juansen Dizon tells us, “Don’t find yourself in places where people have it all figured out.” That’s always good advice, but it will be especially germane for you in the coming weeks and months. You need the catalytic stimulation that comes from associating with curious, openminded folks who are committed to the high art of not being know-italls. The influences you surround yourself with will be key in your efforts to learn new information and master new skills. And that will be an essential assignment for you throughout 2022.

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HOME AND GARDEN Take Out the Trash The City’s Free Trash Disposal Day — originally scheduled for January 8 — was postponed due to bad weather. Drop off a level pickup load of bagged household waste and up to four tires off the rim. Future dates are April 9, July 9, October 8. The City of Lexington offers Fayette County residents a free trash disposal day for non-hazardous household waste. The event will be 6 am to 1 pm, February 5, at the Bluegrass Regional Transfer Station, 1505 Old Frankfort Pike. Fayette County residents may dispose of up to one pickup truck load of household waste. Bulky items, such as mattresses, furniture, and up to four tires off the rim, will be accepted at this event. The guidelines for the free disposal day are: • Participants must present a valid Fayette County drivers’ license • All loads must be fit in a standard truck bed • All loads must be covered by a tarp • Only household waste will be accepted • No more than four tires will be accepted, and tires must be off the rim

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Neighbors are reminded that all LFUCG offices are closed in observance of Presidents’ Day on Monday February 21 2022. There is no trash pickup on President’s Day.

Bluegrass Sotheby’s hosted the 9th Annual Charity Bowling to honor the memory of Brian Mattone and benefit the Lexington Humane Society. The annual event has raised over $96,000 in the past 9 years.

Lexington-Bluegrass Association of REALTORS® (LBAR) stated housing sales in November 2021 surged 18% over last year with a new monthly high of 1,414 transactions .

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1751 SAHALEE DR................................................$2,251,800 2309 CASE WAY....................................................... $950,000 2400 FEATHERSOUND WAY.................................... $950,000 2709 HAILEY ROSE WAY.......................................... $950,000

2404 CREEKVIEW CT................................................ $505,000 4808 BRANCH DR................................................... $465,000 724 SUNNY SLOPE TRCE......................................... $435,000 4801 HICKORY BRANCH CT.................................... $425,000

40515

5866 ATHENS WALNUT HILL PIK............................. $620,000 912 TEA OLIVE WAY.................................................. $580,000 625 POPLAR SPRINGS LN....................................... $479,900 4252 RIDGEWATER DR............................................ $479,850 597 ALDERBROOK WAY........................................... $471,000 1129 ALDRIDGE WAY............................................... $471,007 4780 PLEASANT GROVE RD..................................... $460,000 1018 FOREST LAKE DR............................................ $450,000 241 SOMERSLY PL................................................... $432,000 448 SOUTHPOINT DR.............................................. $430,000 425 MADISON POINT DR........................................ $420,000 436 WHITFIELD DR.................................................. $415,000 672 POPLAR SPRINGS LN....................................... $401,025 3660 WALDEN DR UNIT A.....................................$1,700,000 455 PATCHEN DR..................................................... $915,000

Property sales info source: Fayette County Property Valuation office (www.fayettepva.com)

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