Jenny Burman

Author Keith Banner’s characters are waiting for that one big thing to break their way.

Covington native Mike Battaglia became the country’s youngest thoroughbred race announcer at 23. Since then he’s called 19 consecutive Kentucky Derbies. These days, the Turfway announcer also handicaps for Keeneland and Churchill Downs, broadcasts races for NBC, and serves as a tipster for Lexington newspapers.

A glorious exhibit to feed our fascination with the "People's Princess."

Rachel Kushner’s new novel, The Flamethrowers, is one of those books that moves so uniformly fast that you’re lulled by the high rate of speed.

Listen to Singer-songwriter Kim Taylor’s recent album, Love’s a Dog, and you might think it was a bad thing to be a dog: wildness, pain, and insomnia.

Christina Gao is a favorite to make the Olympic figure-skating team competing in Sochi, Russia, in February.

How Hanukkah turned Red, White, and Blue.

Neglect is bad, except...occasionally, in terms of architecture, it’s good.