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Clay Wallace
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It's our job to keep you in the know - sun, rain, or snow! (It's snow!) Stay safe today.
View from the front gate of WUKY Studios. Snow covers the rolling hills, with bits of grass poking through. Power lines hang over the road. The gate is open. View from the back of WUKY Studios. Rolling hills covered in snow. One large tree sits a few feet away from the sidewalk.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Our reporting on today's winter weather didn't begin today or yesterday - it started ten months ago, when the City of Lexington assessed last season's weather response. Throughout the year, we've kept you informed about the city's updated snow plan, reporting even back when it was warm and sunny!
Radio tower outside WUKY studios. It's snowy, the sky and ground the same gray-white.
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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CHEERS (not gravy)
A hand holds up a blue mug tilted slightly toward the camera to show a little bit of creamy coffee. The background is the board at WUKY Studios, screens and sliders lit up. The mug says 91.3 WUKY WHERE NPR ROCKS.
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Heading out. Anybody need anything?
A little gas station market with a few pumps and cars in front of it. The name across the front reads “MI-DEE MART” in three locations. On the steep slant up to the roof, the letters “DE I” with a space between the “E” and “I” where the faint outline of the “L” spelling “DELI” once was.
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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In Morehead today for a concert and dipped into MSPR to steal a quiet spot to record a news thing. Greetings Fiona Apple Dream Machine.
A Sony Dream Machine (vintage radio alarm clock) on a wooden desk. The Dream Machine is a creamy off-white with blue branding on top reading “FIONA APPLE SLEEP TO DREAM”
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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⛈️
Rolling gray clouds over a BP gas station. On the left side of the screen, the clouds are wavy and bubbly, while the right side shows a clear line of dark gray, like a pleat in fabric.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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💚❤️💚❤️💚
Four people smile at the camera. Three of the people (my mom, me, and my grandfather) are dressed in cold-weather clothes - sweaters and jackets. The fourth is dressed as Father Christmas, with a white beard and fur coat. Large Christmas tree on the Frankfort Old Capitol lawn glowing with bright white lights. Behind it, the Old Capitol.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Come on down if you’re around! Anabel and I will be chilling at Jim’s shop all day. Open jam at 2, then classes (mostly banjo, some fiddle) from 3-7, concerts from 7-9, then close with another jam!
Yellow poster with dark teal and black text. Monochrome yellow background image of old-time Appalachian banjo players. A smaller black-and-white image of a man playing a banjo thumbnailed on top of it. Text: SECOND ANNUAL DAY OF THE BANJO SATURDAY NOV 1, 2025 2-9PM JAMES WEBB MUSICAL REPAIR & SALES 1213 S. Milo Rd. Tomahawk, Ky 41262 WORKSHOPS AND CONCERTS FEATURING JOHN HAYWOOD, JESSE WELLS, LEVON HARVEY & KARLY DAWN MILNER. Tickets: hts:/james-veb-musical-sales-and-repair.kit.com/products day-of-banjo-ticket?
November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Your @wuky.org news team:
- Neo
- a hippie
- guy who either bowls or is into ska
- Alexander Hamilton
Four people pose for a photo. They are wearing costumes. From left to right, Josh as Neo from The Matrix (black shin-length coat, tiny shades), Karyn as a hippie (leather fringe vest, sparkly headband, bell-bottom jeans), Clay as a 1950s bowler (teal bowling shirt with white off-center accents, red bowling shoes), and Alan as Alexander Hamilton (blue coat with gold buttons, full frilly-collared shirt). A sign in the background to the left reads: 91.3 FM WUKY WUKY.ORG with the UK (University of Kentucky) logo.
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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You can join the party from home! Interview and performance happening NOW on 91.3 WUKY. Joslyn and the Sweet Compressions!
Inside of WUKY Studios, where Joe stands to the left wearing a suit. Joslyn stands in front of her band (drumset, saxophone, bass in view).
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Today’s my grandpa’s birthday! Happy birthday Poppie! 🥰🎉
Five people sitting outside on a restaurant back porch smile at a camera.
October 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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[ominous Latin chanting]
A picture taken inside a grocery store of a print Starbucks sign advertising new drinks. The sign-holder has “Come Visitus” chalked on it.
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Hello from DFI’s Thriller Trick-or-Treat! Come see Eva and I at the Capital City Museum booth! 🎃
OP in white clown makeup and blue accents meant to resemble the cornflower Corningware design. He wears a silver tinsel bob wig and a white sweatshirt with blue florals around the neck. He is holding out a corningware dish filled with candy. OP (dressed as cornflower Corningware clown) and coworker Eva dressed as a witch. Both are seated and smile at the camera.
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Guess the source of this sound!
Partial screenshot of audio waveform in Adobe Audition. The waveform looks like successive, clear strikes against a ringing object (hard start, then long and gradual fade). At other points of the waveform, it looks like stacked ovals growing in volume.
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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My photos didn’t post for some reason. Bah!

Boo, I mean.
Backside of Liberty Hall, a brick mansion in downtown Frankfort, Kentucky. The home is large, with a covered porch on the first story and a golf cart parked in front of it. One window on the second floor (top right window) has curtains - this is the one visitors are most likely to glimpse the Gray Lady at. Interior of Liberty Hall Historic Site. A simple coffin sits atop a black-draped table in an otherwise bright and lively parlor. This room is the one which would have been used for funerals through the mid-19th century.
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
Small crowd on brick street lined with old two-and-three-story storefronts. There are tents all down the street and sidewalk and people dressed festively for Pride. In the background is a stage decorated for Pride with the top of the Old State Capitol visible. Small crowd on brick street lined with old two-and-three-story storefronts. There are tents all down the street and sidewalk and people dressed festively for Pride. LGBTQ flags are visible, and smoke rises from a grill in the foreground.
October 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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GOOD MORNING it’s 55°, sunny, and a perfect day to come out and celebrate Capital Pride in Frankfort!!
Vendor setting up on a brick street (Saint Clair Street) in downtown Frankfort. There’s a large rainbow arch over the street. An outdoor stage decorated with rainbow banners and streamers. The banner reads Capital Pride Kentucky with a stylized rainbow Capitol dome
October 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
John Freeman from “Half-Life: Full Life Consequences” with the text: “It’s a good day to do what has to be done by me” The text jumbles up near the end.
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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This episode was recorded at the Paul Sawyier Public Library in Frankfort, Kentucky, and Ellie’s slideshow is linked in the episode description 👻
A photo of a person sitting at a round table speaking into a microphone as she reads from a stack of notes in her hand. Behind her is a slideshow presentation showing a vintage newspaper listing. Text follows: THE MYSTERIOUS LADY PHONE 1264 HOUSE NO. 205 ANN ST. ONE WHO KNOWS Palmist and Clairvoyant, has Just arrived in your city, giving Readings and daily telling your Past, Present and. Future, telling Just what you wish to know, without asking you one single question. Veil of Mystery removed, if in trouble call and consult this gifted Palmist. Tells business and love affairs; the Bible speaks of the power of the Palmist to predict the future and give warnings, removes all evil influences, tells you how to gain success in Buriness, in Love, Marriage, Health, Law-suits, Speculations. Has helped thousands and can help you. OFFICE HOURS FROM 9 A.M. TO 9 P.M. Read Your Entire Life Like an Open Book White and Colored PERMANENTLY LOCATED AT 205 ANN STREET, FRANKFORT, KY. Vintage newspaper clipping, text: Tough Going You can make a ghost walk? You can summon the spirits? You can read palms and tell fortunes? Good! But it will cost you an even 315 dollars per day to prove it in Frankfort. Like the practical business men they should be, the City Council has said that any ghost walking in Frankfort must pay that amount, or the spook's sponsor must pay it if any supernatural perambulating comes to pass. The city entered the medium control business Monday night when the council approved a $15 license fee for mediums, spritualists, mind readers, or palmists. Vintage newspaper clipping: Tax on Ghosts The city council of Frankfort has assessed a license fee of $15 for mediums, spiritualists, mind-readers and palmists. Good gosh! Even the ghosts have fallen victims to the tax racket! Oh, well, with liquor back we can cook up our own ghosts-but, there's the liquor-taxes. What a woild, what a woild!
October 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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3) A Rugged Plastic Desk Which Stole My Heart
Black plastic desk. Some sort of wire rack shelf storage underneath, plus an elevated monitor shelf on top. Looks to be made of rugged ABS or similar material.
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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2) This Blessed Fridge
A silvery double-door fridge with drawer underneath. On the left door is a progress pride flag sticker. Zoom in on the pride sticker. Text above and below the flag reads: “Blessed by The Episcopal Church - Fabulously Loved by God”
September 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Was looking for a desk at the ReStore this morning and found:

1) One Million Fancy Chairs
Like fifty identical chairs, some on the floor, some on shelves, three layers deep. The chairs are all wooden and painted ivory-white with a curlicue knot motif and magenta pillow seats.
September 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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photo of shelves stocked with mushrooms and other fresh produce. The top shelf has a pile of oyster mushrooms, with a little sign saying they’re 50% off. Another sign reads “Tear Me Apart if im Too Much!” Close up of “Tear Me Apart if im Too Much!”
September 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Fun fact courtesy of my grandmother - WUKY is five years older than the UN, which turns 80 this October!

Help WUKY continue being Lexington and central Kentucky’s window to the world - donate now at wuky.org! 💙
Cropped screenshot of a text message lock screen notification. The message comes from “Mommie Donna” and is sent to a group chat containing myself and “Poppie” Message reads: “If wuky is 85 years old it is older than the United Nations. The UN is only 80 years old!”
September 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Eatin’ Big Time
September 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM