“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ~ Carl Jung
Meet Lexington’s oldest, and best, art film house: The Kentucky Theater. Opening in 1922, the cinema ran major releases for decades. Around 1979, they began showing art and foreign films. When I first moved to Lexington a few years later, one of the coolest things in town was The Kentucky Theater’s monthly calendars. There was something very artsy and big city about it. You’d see them plastered everywhere, from street poles to kitchen refrigerators. Then the theater suffered a fire sometime in the 1990’s, I think. The city rallied, and it was restored better than ever with one exception: they did away with the calendar. <insert sad trombone> Despite that, all these decades later and The Kentucky is still in operation. And it’s still one of my favorite places in Lexington.
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