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Arts Weekly

Weekly Arts Chat with Rich Copley

WEKU | By wendy barnett

Published September 13, 2018 at 4:44 PM EDT

In this week’s Arts Chat with Rich Copley and Wendy Barnett, they say Latin Culture is coming to the Bluegrass, an A-list British Comedy tour kicks off in Lexington, and Halloween comes early with Scarefest…

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