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ProfKakie
@profkakie.bsky.social
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Professor of Multimedia. Practitioner of multiple media. WRFL alum. LPFM enthusiast. Kentucky-Penn State-Clemson (NOT for football) ("Khaki" like the fabric.)
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Love to see alumna Samantha Valentino of @wkyt.com talking to up-and-coming broadcast journalists at today’s Richard Wilson Memorial Alumni Panel @universityofky.bsky.social School of Journalism and Media. Super to see RJ, Sal, Nailah, Eric and Derek share experience, advice in Wrigley Auditorium.
Samantha Valentino, weekend anchor, producer and reporter for WKYT CBS Ch. 27, a white woman w long brown hair wearing a maroon patterned dress and brown knee high boots stands in conversation a young female Journalism student after the Richard Wilson Memorial Alumni Panel. The student is tall, with long blonde hair and wears black jeans and black jean jacket. The two women are u. The Wrigley Auditorium in Pence hall, standing on the blonde hardwood floors. They are illuminated by the overhead project which is project a photo of Samantha on the WKYT news desk behind them.
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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28 years ago, this gal, then a teen intern, walked into my newsroom in PA. “Thank goodness you’re here because there’s a hell of an issue over at Ferguson Township Planning Commission.” Today, runs a 5k a block from her KY home w husband, 2daughters, foster dog. Get you a demi daughter.
A young White woman with dark hair in a pony tail and glasses runs with a golden retriever mix on a leash. She’s wearing a Royal blue quarter zip, black running tights and is smiling. She’s running in the fall in the roadway with leaves fallen on the yards and sidewalk to her right. She’s in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Lexington, Kéntucky, where 1930s brick bungalows with covered porches line the street. A Classic rainbow gay pride flag flies from a porch roof flagpole to her right, while the last of tall stalks of cream colored flowers bend , arced in wither.
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Cue Die Kreuzen “Seasons of Wither”
Three white pumpkins in the foreground of a night time scene on Halloween. A bricked curved sidewalk flanked by fallen leaves illuminated lit candle jars w a Japanese maple in molt in the background. An unevenly shaped large orange pumpkin with a thick stems sits on the bricked path.
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Happy Halloween!
A front stoop of a brick ranch house with a bricked curved sidewalk with large stemmed pumpkin orange and white candles lit along the brick wall orange lights slung on a Red leaved Japanese maple in molt.
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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And, ZOMBIES! The Lexington Thriller Parade, will thousands of undead dancers doing the video choereograohy down Main Street in front of the historic Kentucky Theater is off. Cue @wrfl. Cue Zombies. Thx Parks & Rec, Bert, TT, Mel and Amber!
A dancer dressed as Thriller Michael Jackson awaits the cue in front of the Kentucky Theater to lead thousands who have learned the dance and dressed as Zombies down the Main Street of Lexington, Kentucky. Your LFUCG Parks and Rec Culture office for the win. Again. Mecca Dance. Teresa Tomb.
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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No photos/vidéo at Ebony Patterson talk but get an eye load of this Arturo Sandoval. My first story for the Kentucky Kernel was coverage of one of his early faculty shows w sculptor Garry Bibb.
A large colorful, sculptural woven and iridescent fabric work by Arturo Sandoval in the lobby of the Singletary Center for the Arts on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington Kentucky hangs 14 feet by 25 feet from the ceiling against the interior brick of the modern design as attendees to an Ebony G. Patterson Artist talk sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities exit the concert hall and mill around the lobby like so many human aunts dwarfed by this depiction of some some of planetary system. (The next two photos on this skeet show same shit, slight different angles and crops.) Arturo Sandoval Al’s massive fabric work of a planetary system hangs in its commissioned space in Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington, KY.) Arturo Sandoval’s large fabric sculpture of a massive planetary system hangs in its commissioned space in the Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington, KY.
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Excited to be here —with a sold out 1300 person Singletary Center— to see MacArthur Fellow 2024 painter Ebony Patterson and UK Art Museum Curator Stuart Horodner in Conversation for the Gaines Center for The Humanities season kickoff.
An ETix printout for the « Origins » 40th Gaines Anniversary event at UK Singletary Center for the Arts Ebony G. Patterson 2024 MacArthur Fellow Multimedia Artist in conversation w Art Museum Director Stuart Horodner.
October 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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For the most common of Commonwealth reasons. Keeneland is in and it would scare the horses.
A screenshot of WLEX18 TVv digital post showing the outer wall of Blue Grass Airport w the Call to the Post Bugler logo and an inset photo of.m Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem. « Blue Grass Airport refuses to display Homeland Security Secretary’s Shutdown Video » reads the headline.
October 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Screenshot of the Indiana Daily Student social announcement.
October 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Sunday Night on @WRFL www.wrfl.fm is always “Generations of Jazz” w Sarah Schmidt, former station manager and jazz programmer at WKCR-FM NYC. She’s at WRfL.jazz.director@gmail.com
A screenshot of the WRFL.FM webpage which shows what is/has been playing and streaming on this Lexington, Kentucky based student-run Class D FM alternative station w 7900 watts reaching 9 counties, including all of the Lexington metro. It shows the last three tracks from Generations of Jazz, a Sunday night show from 6-8 pm. Don Cherry, Charles Tolliver and Thelonius Monk are last three played. Streaming at WRfL.fm radio at 88.1 fm.
October 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Seasonal nephew. Do Some Contractor Meetings For Mom, Then Do a 14er Season.
Neohew Duncan stands holding a sign on Quandary Peak, a 14er in Colorado. He is in a black top and bottom climbing gear, whir ball cap, standing on the top of a Rocky peak with two ranges of Rocky Mountains behind him. The peaks are snow topped but pine green covers most of the mountains. Duncan is the orignal Seasonal Nephew first posted 16 years ago in October as a Seasonal Nephew in Small Boy Massive Overgrown Pumpkin Season at the pumpkin patch visit. He is a good boy.
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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The alums report from the Pantheon in Paris as the induction of Robert Badinter, the man who rid France of the death penalty under Francois Mitterand’s government, is formally laid to rest, pantheon used as they say. UKJAMSchool alums Sarah Ladd and McKenna Horsley photo credit.
A black and white photo of Robert Badinter, the man who fought to end the death penalty in France is mounted on a larger white illuminated slab in a street square in Paris, France, near the Pantheon, where he was formally laid to rest. Badinter, who was orphaned by the Holocaust, died in 2024 of a heart attack. The Pantheon in Paris, France is illuminated in cerulean blue light in the evening dark as a crowd fills the square to honor Robert Badinter, who fought to abolish the death penalty in the French justice system.
October 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Ten years ago, but she’s still kicking, still the apple of my eye. Banjo Ann Mandolin. Woodford Humane rescue off the streets of Marion County.
A white and fawn Jack Russell terrier mix named Banjo Ann Mandolin appears to be suspended in midair with her shadow beside her to the left as she runs toward the camera on a ground of green fescue in Kentucky. (Masterson Station Dog Park in the shadow of the Narco Farm Lexington FMC.)
October 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Back to the Future. By Cicero. Circa 86 B.C.E. It was a good run.
A passage from Book 1 2 II of De inventions, by Cicero, circa 86 B.C.E. “II. For there was a time when men wandered at large in the fields like animals and lived on live fare; they did nothing by the guidance of reason, but relied chiefly on physical strength…”
October 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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“I dunno, that’s what Werner Herzog told me. If you want to be an artist, you have to read. A LOT.” -Michael Shannon at 12 LIONS Film Festival in Lexington, Kentucky. (To an 8th grade girl in a Dragonslayer t-shirt interested in animation directing.)
Actor Michael Shannon does a Q &A on Directing at the 12 Lions Film Festival at the Kentucky Theater in Lexington, KY. Shannon, in a blue baseball cap, turquoise bowling shirt and jeans, sits on the edge of the stage as his questioner, an 8th grade girl in a black Dragonslayer t-shirt a ponytail in a white scrunchie.
September 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The cover of the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) educators’ union magazine American Educator feature an aerial photo of a swatch of tens of thousands of people in Chicago filling entire width of the Mile. Headline: FIGHTING FOR OUR DEMOCRACY. As Authoritarianism Rises, WE RISE UP. Union yes.
September 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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JAMFEST is today! Look for the big white tent on the lawn nearing Engineering and Whitehall. Drone demos, pizza, student orgs including WRFL-FM, Kernel Media, KRNL Lifestyle &Fashion magazine, SPJ, NABJ, AWSM. Meet the students, join the groups, meet the profs get the swag! 11am to 1 pm Eastern.
September 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Scrawl. « Nature Film » . All you need.
September 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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RIP Léna Lamb.
Storefront at night. Marquee reads Fallen Angel Tattoo Studio.
September 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Rock Chapter 2025 Gamma Iota University of Kentucky.
A framed cream colored and gold certificate in a burlesque wooden drama w a black matte States that the Gamma Iota Chapter of Sigma Nu at University if Kentucky is named a 2025 Rock Chapter by the SN national. Only the top 11 percent of chapters win this award of excellence.
September 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The Gamma Iota Chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity, which I advise here at University of Kentucky, won the “Rock Chapter” Award for Excellence from its Lexington, Va.-based national. Commander (President) Teague Howell and his Exec board updated me on the achievements — and the flowers.🖤💛🖤💛
Gamma Iota Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity at University of Kentucky Teague Howell, a blonde haired, blue eyed man in his 20s, gives a thumbs up from behind his laptop at the board table on a Sunday evening advisor update. He’s got a vase of autumn flowers w sunflower, Lily, rust color and purple mums on the table for the advisor. The Executive Board of the Gamma Iota Chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, seated and smiling around the board table on a Sunday advisor update. VP, Recruitment, Housing, Recorder and Treasurer. Sunflower dominant autumn vase sits in window of a University of Kentucky office, with red brick collegiate building with white trim and a sunny blue sky outside in the distance.
September 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Students have produced one of the best Football Preview sections since they turned tabloid. Congrats!
The tabloid newsprint “Pigskin Preview” football special issue of the “Kentucky Kernel” is pictured, lying on a gray mat. The cover photo is a tight shot of Coach Mark Stoops’ face, showing just his gray and Wildcat blue “UK” logo cap and his blue eyes focused in the distance.
September 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies. Only Rooks. #Spinaltap #Rider
A photograph of a white bag of Pepperidge Farm “Chessmen” cookies, sitting on a store shelf. There are 24 cookies per bag. Tap will allow only Rooks in the DR. That means 6 Rooks a bag. Catering: Plan accordingly.
September 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Ellen Venn and Groovalution play at the Jubilee celebrating 10
Years of RadioLex inLexington, Kentucky. This combo is TIGHT.
A short brunette white woman named Elle Venn holds a microphone and sings along with a taller black male in a yellow ball cap. Around them the Groovalution, a tight funk rock combo w guitar, bass, drums, congas, keys stays right in the pocket. This is on the outdoor stage at RadioLex Jubilee a Celebration of 10 years as the Voice of the People — in English and Spanish— on two low power fm stations, WLXU and WLXL.
September 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A variety of Jubilee activities at the Greyline Station at North Limestone and Loudon Avé to celebrate 10 Years of RadioLex, thé Voice of the People in Lexington Kentucky. A 4:30 pm Vintage Fashion Show a 12:30-4:30 pm Record Swap, bounce house, obstacle course (all shown in four photos).
September 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM