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One powerful man's nothing is a hundred men's lives.

T.D. Strange — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:51:48 -0800

Lexington’s Mayor, Jim Newberry, bristled at critical questions about The Dame block, “Nothing of consequence ever happened on that block.” Richie Wireman begs to differ. Wireman spent 4 months documenting the final stages of the long and controversial demise of one city block full of established local businesses to make way for a dubiously financed high-rise development. While no longer a gaping eyesore, today, the project is not exactly as advertised.

Amanda Palmer covers Neutral Milk Hotel

The Pusher Robot — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:18:56 -0800

Amanda Palmer, of Dresden Dolls fame, returns to her high school in Lexington, MA to assist with an original, student-written play. Running May 7-9th at Lexington High School, the play, entitled "With The Needle That Sings in Her Heart", is inspired by (and features live music from) Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, and is about "Anne Frank as imagined by an artist, and about how Anne uses her imagination and fantasy-mind to escape the horrors she experiences in a death camp." Video showing rehersal footage and an interview with Palmer. Seeing an article posted by Pitchfork on April 1, NPR posts about the greatest April Fool's Day joke ever, before realizing that it's actually for real. Neil Gaiman is sad that he's going to miss it.

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five; Hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year...

ericb — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:41:11 -0800

"We Nathaniel Mulliken, Philip Russell, [and 32 other men], All of lawful age, and inhabitants of Lexington, in the County of Middlesex...do testify and declare, that on the nineteenth [of April] in the morning, being informed that...a body of regulars were marching from Boston towards Concord...and soon found that a large body of troops were marching towards us...whilst our backs were turned on the troops, we were fired on by them, and a number of our men were instantly killed and wounded..."^* Thus "the shot heard around the world" [video | 10:01] led American colonialists (eventually with the help of the French) on the path to founding a new nation [video | 54:04].

To the library!

phrontist — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:45:08 -0800

Something about the library inspires one to jump.

Cops on Myspace

Lusy P Hur — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:01:26 -0800

Cops on Myspace

Zombies in the Streets of Lexington

kirkaracha — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:30:40 -0800

Zombies in the Streets of Lexington. Mecca dance studio and gallery's 4th annual resurrection of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video in the streets of downtown Lexington, Kentucky. flickr photos [via]