Sesame Street Live “When Elmo Grows Up” is this Friday – Sunday (5 Shows) and the Rupp Arena Blog has a family four-pack of tickets to give away! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post with what your kid [or kids] wants to be when they grow up. Be sure to leave the email address you would like for us to contact you at, should you win. Tomorrow, October 22nd at 3:00pm EST we will choose one random winner out of all those who commented and they will win a family four-pack to the show of their choice. For details about show times, check out the event page on the Rupp Arena website. Good luck!

The first annual Kentucky Proud Incredible Food Show took place a couple weeks ago, and we have already scheduled next year’s show for October 23rd & 24th, 2010! This year we had approximately 5,000 people come through the doors and sample anything from beer cheese to ice cream. We hope everyone enjoyed the show, and wanted to give you another chance to get a signed copy of Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill Cookbook. Read the rest of this entry »

Rupp Arena was host to Casting Crowns and Matt Redman last night. It was the first of 3 events in five days here at the arena (with Kings of Leon on Saturday, and WWE on Tuesday). Stacy Hicks attended the concert and guest blogged the show for us. Hit the jump to read his thoughts about the concert.
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Dierks Bently is coming to Rupp Arena on November 14th, and will be joined by Gloriana. More details will be available soon and can be found on the event page on the Rupp Arena website. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10:00am.

* We are no longer accepting RSVPs. We look forward to seeing those of you that did RSVP there. Anyone who missed out this time around, keep your eyes peeled, as this will hopefully be the first of many blog parties to come. *

Hello reader! Are you going to the Kings of Leon concert? Well then we have an extra special treat for you! Cosmic and the Rupp Arena Blog will be hosting the very first blog party before the Kings of Leon concert. All it takes to get into the party is a ticket to the concert and your name on the RSVP list. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you have a Twitter account? C’mon, I know you are one of the 750,000 people following Coach Calipari. We just recently created a twibbon for you to show your support of Rupp Arena. For those who don’t know, a twibbon is an icon, logo, color or a variety of other things that can be added to your profile picture on Twitter to show your support for something. In our case, it’s the Rupp Arena logo, on top of a blue fade from the bottom. Show your support by clicking on “support this” below and add your name to the list of our supporters!

Scarefest starts today at the Lexington Center. We went down and did a quick walk through of the exhibit hall before it opened up and took the camera with us. Check out the video below (click here to watch in high definition) to see a quick rundown of the setup from this year. For more information on Scarefest, visit their website by CLICKING HERE.

Congratulations to Caroline Nuss, who is our winner for the Jonas Brothers banner giveaway. Thanks so much to everyone who entered! I really enjoyed checking out the concert from so many view points by looking at all the fan photos. In addition, MANY of you tagged yourself in our photos we took at the show. Many of the shots (like the one above) have nearly 25 people tagged in them, who traveled from all over the region to come to the concert. It’s pretty cool to look through and see all the people tagged throughout the crowd. Since I am feeling pretty guilty that there could be only one winner, I have decided to make the PDF file [of the banner] available for anyone to download.

You can print it out on your printer at home, or if you want to print your very own banner, you could take that file to a printing shop and have one made. Enjoy, and congrats again to Caroline Nuss!

Did you go to the Jonas Brothers show this past Sunday? If so then you could win the Jonas Brothers banner that hung on High Street leading up to the show. The process is simple, but requires a Facebook account. Do one or both of the following to enter:

 • Check out our photo album on Facebook from the Jonas Brothers pre-show and concert by CLICKING HERE. If you see yourself in any photo, then tag yourself. You can even tag your friends to enter them into the giveaway as well. Parents, if your kids don’t have accounts, then feel free to tag pictures of them with your account.

 • Aren’t in any of the photos? Don’t fret! Upload your own photos from the show to our fan photos section. CLICK HERE and click on “Add Photos” at the top left to add photos you already have on Facebook, or upload them. Pretty simple huh?

Although it won’t give you an advantage in the giveaway, we would love for you to upload all your photos from that day, and be sure to tag yourself in all of them. At noon on Friday, September 4th, we will compile a list of people who are either tagged in a photo, or who added a photo, and randomly select a lucky winner who will win the 2 foot by 6 foot Jonas Brothers banner. Keep an eye out for a message from Paul [that's me!] since there is no way to send a message from Rupp Arena. So what are you waiting for? Add your photos and tag yourself!

If you couldn’t tell from the roar of the crowd outside, the Jonas Brothers were at Rupp Arena this past Sunday night. The stage was amazing, the lighting and effects were jaw-dropping, and the house reached a new decibel level with their cheering. Given their young ages, you would think the Jonas Brothers might be a bit overwhelmed by everything. In fact, they seem more comfortable headlining their own in-the-round world tour than most artists who are twice their age playing much smaller venues. Regardless of whether you like their music or not, it is hard to deny that they know how to work the stage, engage the crowd, and exceed all their fans’ expectations.
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