Some pics from the #Lexington #Pride Parade with March Madness Marching Band.

#marchingband #music #queer #brassband

Last gig with March Madness Marching Band, at least for a while. Love that I’m going out with the Pride parade! 🏳️‍🌈 🎺 (yes, it’s weird that #Lexington is running it in May, but I get it)

#music #marchingband #pride #pride2026 #kentuckymusic #communitymusic #brassband

Fast-casual Italian restaurant chain founded in Lexington closes more locations.

Two more Central Kentucky locations of Fazoli’s, a fast-casual restaurant chain that began in Lexington, appear to have closed for good. …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #FineDining #Italianfinedining #HarrodsburgRoad #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy #lexington #NicholasvilleRoad #restaurantchain
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2661019/fast-casual-italian-restaurant-chain-founded-in-lexington-closes-more-locations/

Adnkronos - ultimoratop: Milan, Cassano contro Allegri: "Fossi tifoso mi vergognerei. Iraola? Scelta giusta"

(Adnkronos) - L'ex attaccante ha criticato l'ormai ex tecnico rossonero dopo il flop Champions

Reports to the Carabinieri using the IO app, without going to the barracks.

Soon it will be possible to file complaints via the IO app without going to the barracks: the announcement from the General Commander of the Carabinieri.

Sonny Rollins has died, the “greatest improviser”: farewell to the jazz legend saxophonist.

Just as we are celebrating around the world what today would have been the 100th birthday of Miles Davis, another giant of jazz music passes away. Sonny Rollins was the last great representative of bebop, a sacred monster of that fantastic era of improvisers between the 1950s and 1960s. But he had been much more, much more, an innovative and fantastic live musician until the early 2000s. He was 95 years old and died in Woodstock, New York. He had become the “best living improviser” in the scene.

He was born in Harlem, New York, in September 1930, Walter Theodore Rollins by name, the son of a couple originally from the American Virgin Islands. A family of musicians: his father played the clarinet, his brother the violin, and his sister the piano. He had also started with the piano before being fascinated, at the age of 11, by the saxophone. He initially chose the alto, later the tenor like his idol Coleman Hawkins. He was still very young when he began to record with Bud Powell and Miles Davis, before joining the formation of Thelonious Monk, with whom he recorded Brilliant Corners. With John Coltrane he recorded Tenor Madness: they were those to give him the scepter of the most influential and popular saxophonist in jazz music.

From 1956, Saxophone Colossus, a fundamental album for hard bop in which, with the standard St. Thomas, he honored the origins of his parents, inspired by calypso. In Way Out West and A Night at the Village he experimented with the formula with the trio without piano, in 1959 he temporarily withdrew from the scene, spending 14 or 15 hours a day improvising on the pedestrian walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge, in New York. This is how the album The Bridge (1962) was born. The 1960s were the years of free jazz, of contamination with Asian culture, the discovery of Zen Buddhism and a new retreat until the 1970s.

When he returned, he received a Guggenheim fellowship and began to perform in major concert halls. He had achieved the status of a living legend, an icon with his afro hairstyle and sunglasses. He also recorded three solos on the Rolling Stones album Tattoo. He has recorded over 60 albums, he was awarded two Grammys for This is What I Do in 2001 and for the solo in Why Was I Born? from the live album Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert. The President of the United States, Barack Obama, awarded him the National Humanities Medal. Rollins, in a very long career, had recovered the bebop tradition of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and that of African American music between blues and gospel.

He had married Lucille in 1965, who became his manager, dying in 2004. Rollins, like many artists of that time, also suffered from abuse and heroin addiction, which almost compromised his career at the beginning of the 1950s, with a dramatic setback. He was arrested, twice, for armed robbery and violation of probation. He detoxed in a health facility in Lexington, Kentucky.

His spokesperson, Terri Hinte, announced the death, stating that Rollins had been forced to stay at home for some time due to pulmonary fibrosis. He had given his last concert in 2012 – one of the last at the popular Italian festival Umbria Jazz – and stopped playing in 2014. For that phase of his free and obsessive outdoor improvisation in New York, also captured in the character “Bleeding Gums” from The Simpsons, for years a movement asked that the Williamsburg Bridge be named after him.

#SonnyRollins #100th #MilesDavis #Woodstock #NewYork #Harlem #ColemanHawkins #BudPowell #TheloniousMonk #JohnColtrane #TenorMadness #SaxophoneColossus #ANightat #Asian #Guggenheim #theRollingStones #Grammys #theUnitedStates #BarackObama #Rollins #CharlieParker #DizzyGillespie #AfricanAmerican #Lucille #Lexington #Kentucky #TerriHinte #Italian #UmbriaJazz #BleedingGums #Simpsons

https://www.unita.it/2026/05/26/morto-sonny-rollins-miglior-improvvisatore-sassofonista-leggenda-jazz/

#WWE #SmackDown airs live next on #USANetwork (in the U.S.; streams live internationally on #Netflix) from the #RuppArena in #Lexington, #Kentucky!

#WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (#SNME) is tomorrow and #WWEClash in Italy is one week from Sunday!

https://youtu.be/84E9mgRL1ec?si=NRKlQgcCXEpmo3qc

FoodChain’s Neighborhood Green Grocery opens in Lexington food desert

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — FoodChain has opened its Neighborhood Green Grocery on Lexington’s north side, bringing fresh, local and affordable food to a neighborhood long considered a food desert. The Neighbo…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #FayetteCounty #FoodDesert #FoodChain #lexington #NeighborhoodGreenGrocery
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2634075/foodchains-neighborhood-green-grocery-opens-in-lexington-food-desert/

Today is the #UKY College of Engineering Capstone Design Showcase. If you're in the #Lexington, #KY area, come see what our students were up to over the last year.

3pm-6pm in the Student Center Grand Ballroom

https://engr.uky.edu/capstone/capstone-design-showcase

Teens in two states arrested over threat that shuttered Houston synagogue
Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, North Carolina, and an unnamed 16-year-old boy, of Houston, Texas, were arrested in relation to a planned attack against Congregation Beth Israel.

#Mazeldon #Antisemitism #Terrorism #Houston #Texas #Lexington #NorthCarolina #Teenagers

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-894080