Two Newport High School students’ artwork was selected to appear in a traveling art exhibit on display at Newport High School. “Student Traveling Art Exhibit, A Matter of Perspective” features original artwork from students with disabilities across Kentucky. Ivan Tafolla and Lacyann Howard’s work will be on display as part of the exhibit until Feb. […]
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Local and national artists return to The Carnegie galleries
The Carnegie is welcoming patrons and artists back into the galleries on March 11, 2022, with two new exhibitions. “The first is ‘A Thought is a River,’ a group exhibition of artists from the Greater Cincinnati and Louisville areas,” a news release said. “These two locations are connected by the Ohio River. Much as that […]
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Florence author honored with prestigious writing award
N.V. Haskell began writing when she was about 8 years old. She wrote stories throughout high school, but in college she put away her metaphorical pen and paper to focus more on the sciences. As she took up a career in healthcare, her pen and paper collected dust for almost 30 years. In 2019, “during […]
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The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra to put on The Greatest ShowmenÂ
The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra will continue its 30th anniversary season under the “big top” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at the Drees Homes Auditorium (St. Henry District H.S.) in Erlanger. This circus-themed program features music from two films spanning nearly 90 years from Charlie Chaplin’s silent film — The Circus (1928) — and Hugh […]
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Comedy classic ‘You Can’t Take it With You’ comes to village players of Fort Thomas
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s You Can’t Take It With You is coming to Village Players of Fort Thomas with six live-and-in person performances from February 25 – March 5. About the show: “At first, the Sycamores seem mad, but it’s not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world […]
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Book Review: A measure of Kentucky justice for a freed slave in the Jim Crow era
Written by James P. Dady, LINK nky contributor A Shot in the Moonlight is Ben Montgomery’s history of a deadly confrontation in 1897 between two dozen heavily-armed white nightriders and a former slave named George Dinning in Simpson County, Kentucky. On the pretext that Mr. Dinning had engaged in some stealing in the neighborhood, the intruders […]
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Artist Gallery One of Six New Businesses at the Hiland Building in Fort Thomas
Timothy Lancaster has opened Lancaster Artworks in the heart of Fort Thomas’ Central Business District. His business is one of six new businesses in the historic Hiland Building. (photo provided) by Robin Gee Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the good news is new businesses continue to open up throughout the region. Earlier this […]
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Grant aims to fund projects for artists of color in Covington
Written by Kenton Hornbeck, LINK nky reporter The Eastern Neighborhood Vibrant Communities program is providing a great opportunity for up-and-coming artists of color to create pieces in Covington’s Eastern Neighborhoods that have been historically underrepresented with arts programming. The program will grant up to $5,000 in requests; the money will be used to pay for […]
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Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame unveils inaugural class at CVG
The Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame was unveiled Wednesday at the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Sign up for The Daily Link and get news just like this delivered to your inbox each weekday. 👇 https://linknky.com/newsletter-signup/ CEO Candace McGraw of CVG, who hosted the unveiling, said the display was created so the thousands of […]
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“The Last Five Years” hits the stage at Village Players, Oct. 8 – 9
“The Last Five Years” features the talents of local actors Amanda Marasch as Cathy and Jon Scheiding as Jamie. (Img: Tracy Moser) Village Players of Fort Thomas closes its production of Jason Robert Brown’s “The Last Five Years” this weekend with just two more live-and-in-person performances October 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 […]