Arts & Culture

News from the arts scene in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Founder and editor of the Hoptown Chronicle, Jennifer Brown, discusses Dean of Black Journalists Ted Poston on the WKMS program Sounds Good.
Tickets are for the Oct. 19 homecoming game, when Murray plays Eastern Kentucky University.
Poetry inspired by Kentucky author George Ella Lyon's "Where I'm From" will be read at the coffeehouse.
Tickets are $50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Alhambra box office and online.
Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" is the featured work for Hopkinsville's sixth Big Read.
Nominations for the Hal and Bettye Thurmond Award must be submitted to the Human Rights Commission by 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4.
Musicians Daniel Kelly and Fred Johnson mix lines from Shakespeare plays with jazz melodies in a performance that encourages audience participation.
The midday show, offered through the Pennyroyal Arts Council's smARTS program, is appropriate for all ages.
"Country Music," an eight-part Ken Burns series, kicks off by highlighting the lesser-known African influences on the origins of country music.
The two-volume set of essays from Kentucky farmer and author Wendell Berry shows the both the complexity and consistency of the writer who "has called himself an agrarian, a pacifist, and a Christian — albeit of an eccentric kind."
Hopkinsville has hosted the annual pow-wow for 32 years. It attracts Native American dancers from across the country.