A new year-long series from Murray State's College of Humanities and Fine Arts is aimed at helping people understand a little bit more about what makes us human.

The community theater tabbed Benjamin S. Grimes to take charge of the nonprofit organization in April – following the retirement of longtime executive director Michael Cochran after more than four decades with Market House Theatre.

Paducah-based hard rock band Black Patch Revival makes its Live Lunch debut on Friday, September 5.

Jeremy and Della Marie Marshall of local band Hollerhead stopped in for an hour this Saturday to share some new songs and talk about the creation of their new album "Never Gonna Leave You". Listen here!The new album is out now. Learn more at: https://hollerhead.net

Walker – who was the first African-American to hold the post of poet laureate in the state – spoke with WKMS ahead of two programs he’s scheduled to be a part of in western Kentucky.

The 2025 Eighth of August festivities in Paducah will run through Sunday, several of them hosted by the W.C. Young Community Center. Erika Hudson, president of the center’s board of d, said that there’s going to be new events, as well as classic traditions like the annual parade.

Southern Illinois rock band Family Bags performs on Live Lunch for the first time on Friday, August 8, to promote their self-titled full-length debut, out that day.

West Kentucky alt-rock band King Kaiju returns to Live Lunch on July 18 ahead of their EP release party at Wits' End Records in Murray.

July 10 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, when science and religion was put on trial in a small town in rural Tennessee. Paducah Film Society is screening “Inherit the Wind,” a film inspired by those events at Maiden Alley Cinema Thursday evening.

At a McCracken County Public Library talk set for Thursday, Mayfield Mayor Kathy O'Nan will reflect on the process of rebuilding the town. She said she will highlight the city's initial focus on debris removal, which delayed rebuilding for a year, but will discuss efforts to rebuild and revitalize the Graves County seat.