topical archive There In The Darkest Times By Tom Martin Writer’s note: This is the story of a brave woman, a misunderstood horse and how each brought courage and happiness to the... Why Not? By Tom Martin What would Lexington’s future look like if the city more deliberately organized our local economy and culture around something deep within our DNA? With... The Longest Walk By Palmer Tolly The search for answers to some of life’s more extraordinary difficulties can sometimes require extraordinary effort. Drug abuse and domestic violence, for example.... No Place Like Home By Tom Martin Nope. Not doin’ it. Hitting 65 at the rate of 10,000 every day, the Baby Boom generation isn’t budging. Excerpted from recent interviews by UnderMain’s... Distracted Healers By Campbell Wood Scores of doctors serving patients across Kentucky are from the six Muslim-majority countries under President Trump’s revised temporary travel ban. Those doctors,... An Experiment in Love By UM The way of nonviolent resistance … is ultimately the way of the strong man. It is not a method of stagnant passivity…... Post Truth or Post Trust? By Tom Martin What a mess we’re in. We seem to have entered a strange new era in which we no longer know who or... Limbaugh Sidebar By Tom Martin I was once in a fly-on-the-wall position to monitor the behind-scenes workings of Rush Limbaugh’s then-budding radio talk show when it operated... Hey, Big Announcement From UnderMain! By Staff UnderMain is now a 501(c)(3)! That means your donations to UnderMain are tax deductible. Every donation will help us do more. Every... More Context By Art Shechet John Hunt Morgan, “Thunderbolt of the Confederacy”, is safe in his construction cocoon. Protected from debris and damage during the much-anticipated renovation... Green’s Guide to Safe Refuge By Tom Martin For African-Americans, travel by car through Lexington and across the USA during the Jim Crow era was a harrowing experience. Some whites,... In search of another way By Tom Martin We can’t pass the course on humanity if we keep failing the lessons on harmony and until we unlearn fear and hate.... Friendship in Troubling Times By Tom Martin Affection, trust, sympathy, empathy, honesty, compassion, altruism, mutual understanding, enjoyment of each other’s company, and the ability to be oneself, express one’s feelings, and... McNeese Interviews Scorsone on Evolution of LGBT legal rights in Kentucky By Tom Martin Polar opposites somehow manage a fragile co-existence in Kentucky. It’s a place where the mayor of one of its most dynamic cities is openly... Water Spurts By Art Shechet A just-published report by the folks at Food & Water Watch found in a survey of water rates of the 500 largest... Lexington Philanthropist Makes Huge Gift to Facebook By Art Shechet In an unprecedented act of generosity during the season of giving, Lexington philanthropist and artist Dmitry “Dima” Strakovsky, announced that he is... The Living Building Challenge: Visionary from the Start By Clive Pohl Designers and builders have long looked to rating systems for “how-to” guidance on green building. From the early days of the current... Cheapside Statues: An Opinion By Van Meter Pettit Editor’s Note: The Urban County Government Art Review Board (UCARB) has held several special meetings to consider the status of the statues... Cheapside: A Call to Action By Art Shechet Hey! Remember the issue of those statues in Cheapside Park and the near-forgetting of its history as a major slave auction site?... Is a picture any longer worth a thousand words? By Tom Martin (Illustration: Venice multi exposure by Stephen Wilkes) With apologies to the written word, there may be no more powerfully influential medium of... Of Levees, Lagniappe and Lexington By Lillie Ruschell Full disclosure: I am a New Orleanian. No matter where I live, or how long I live there, I will always call... Racial Divide Creates Convenient Amnesia By Julie WIlson The Chinese Whispers Game. Broken Telephone. It goes by many names, but you know the one: you tell the person sitting next... Climate Change Radicals Issue New Manifesto By Art Shechet Those well-know climate radicals at the Risky Business Project, including former New York City mayor and founder of Bloomberg, L.P., Michael Bloomberg,... Congratulations, Humans! By Art Shechet Yes, we are a species capable of utter depravity, cruelty, shortsightedness, and self-absorption. But today we celebrate how creative, imaginative, inventive, and... Visions of Cheapside- An Updated Update! By Art Shechet In our recent piece on UnderMain about the history of slave auctions at Cheapside and the statues of heroes of the Confederacy that... What it’s like to be homeless in Lexington, Kentucky By Josh Nadzam Everyone seems to have explanations of the homeless. “They are just lazy bums who don’t want to work.” “I heard that some... Our own tarnished legacy By Art Shechet Since we seem to be having, in the wake of hate-filled murder, this moment of national conversation about symbols and meaning and... White Ring: Reflections on the words of Wendell Berry By Christine Huskisson ‘The survival of literacy in an age of illiteracy may require us to remember how physical, how much of the senses, the... Gov. Beshear on Kentucky’s Heroin Crisis By Josh Nadzam In October, 2014 I wrote a piece for UnderMain in my attempt to understand what led to the heroin explosion in Kentucky,... Holiday Greetings from UnderMain By Art Shechet Peace on Earth, (insignificant) Earthlings! Photograph by JPL/NASA Curiosity Rover Nothing Blue Can Stay: The Platoons of Kentucky Men’s Basketball By Julie Kuzneski Wrinn How long can the platoons last? Each year it is with some reluctance that I transfer my affections from the University of... 9/11 By Art Shechet In a time when the word “hero” is gratuitously overused, when politicians pose as heroes for doing their job, or not, this... Is it “Christian” to turn away vulnerable children? By admin Guest opinion by Lyman Stone ~ “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall... Tripping over tipping By Celeste Lewis Do you make it a point to tip your server when you dine in a Lexington restaurant? Judging by the results of... I Might As Well Bathe In Cheese By Christine Huskisson Oh, if only I had made that deadline for Lexington’s first ever Flash Fiction Contest, here is what I would have submitted.... The Rise of ISIS and Why You Should Care By Tom Martin In the wake of two Gulf wars costing thousands of American lives and billions in U.S. treasure, Iraq is now rapidly being... Too Much of a Good Thing? By Tom Martin By Tom Martin – If 15 years ago you had suggested to many in Lexington that there was just “too much going... 25 Years After Tiananmen Square By Art Shechet I remember watching the coverage on television, mouth agape, at the sudden exuberant explosion of peaceful protests in Beijing. The crafting... No Easy Answers By Art Shechet After another horrific mass killing the renewed seeking of answers, solutions, proposed interventions is understandable. Mental health intervention is almost always proposed... UK President Capilouto Fires Back in Letter to Rupp Task Force Chair By Art Shechet Kentucky Sports Radio has just published UK President’s letter dated May 20, in response to Rupp Arena Task Force Chairman’s April 25th... Water, Water Everywhere By Art Shechet Zoe Strecker’s feature article on the promising future of hydro power in Kentucky, http://www.under-main.com/water-power-the-low-hanging-fruit-of-energy-alternatives/, highlights a resource which is plentiful in the Commonwealth. In... Your thoughts, please: The Rupp Redesign By Art Shechet Will Rupp Arena and the Lexington Center undergo major transformation? What do you think of the proposed design? And a projected price-tag...
