Earlier this week, we looked around the Kentucky for Kentucky office and realized that something was missing, something essential. We looked at the prints on the walls and the shirts on the racks and the booze in the cabinet, and we felt, well, not quite at ease. We needed something classic, we needed something handmade…we …

The "no-tell motel," America's slightly repressed version of the Asian love hotel, is the accidental product of two seemingly unrelated trends of the 1960s and '70s (it's always preferable to have unrelated parents). In generous terms, the no-tell is the lovechild of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Helen Gurley Brown:  President Ike began the Interstate Highway …

As lovers of the strange and mystical, Kentucky for Kentucky is getting pumped to revel in the glory of Harry Dean Stanton, a man known for his long, versatile acting career, musical abilities, and status as a kick-ass Kentuckian.
June 13th – 15th marks the fourth annual Harry Dean Stanton Fest, a celebration started by …

Last April, we launched an epic print celebrating the most exciting two minutes in sports – the motha freakin' Kentucky Derby. We collaborated with Louisville artist Rachael Sinclair on this decadent and depraved print. Not just any print, an infographic of kick-ass Kentuckian Hunter S. Thompson's famous essay on the 1970 Kentucky Derby – …

Sometimes here at Kentucky for Kentucky we like to settle in with a good read, and when we do, it's always something unique and inspiring about our favorite state. When a copy of Kiran Bhatraju's Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia found its way to our door, we couldn't …