Editing Corbin, Kentucky (section)

==Culture==
Each year in early August, Corbin hosts a festival called NIBROC (''Corbin'' spelled backward) featuring open-air concerts, carnival attractions, a beauty pageant, parade, and other events. The festival is featured, if anachronistically, in the play ''Last Train to Nibroc'' by [[Arlene Hutton]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/theater/reviews/11tril.html?_r=0|title=Three Plays Portray a Couple Bound by Love and Conflict|newspaper=New York Times|first= Ginia |last=Bellafante|date=April 11, 2007}}</ref> (Though the play is set in the 1940s, the festival itself only dates to 1952.) NIBROC often features free performances by popular musical acts such as [[38 Special (band)|38 Special]], [[Foghat]], [[Joan Jett and the Blackhearts]], [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]], [[The Marshall Tucker Band]], [[Percy Sledge]], [[Rick Springfield]], [[Starship (band)|Starship]], [[Styx (band)|Styx]] and [[The Turtles]]. In episode 10 of the American reality-documentary television series ''[[On the Road with Austin & Santino]]'' on [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] entitled "We Love a Parade", the fashion designers visit Corbin to custom-design a dress for a local woman participating in the NIBROC parade.

Despite being in [[Dry county|dry counties]] ([[Knox County, Kentucky|Knox]] and [[Whitley County, Kentucky|Whitley]]), like many southern cities, the city of Corbin allows full retail alcohol sales, following a successful local option election on February 14, 2012. The city had previously voted in 2004 to allow sales of alcohol by the drink in larger restaurants.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thetimestribune.com/x913137168/Corbin-says-Yes |title=Corbin says 'Yes' |first=Jeff |last=Noble |newspaper=[[The Times-Tribune (Corbin, Kentucky)|The Times-Tribune]] |location=Corbin, Kentucky |date=February 15, 2012 |access-date=April 8, 2012}}</ref>

Corbin has an association with [[Kentucky Fried Chicken]], having been the location of the chain's first restaurant, opened in 1930. Corbin appears in the animated cartoon ''South Park''{{'}}s episode "[[Medicinal Fried Chicken]]", wherein [[Eric Cartman]] visits the town to meet with Harland Sanders. Corbin is depicted as located in a lush rain forest in a parody of the 1983 film ''[[Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface]]'', wherein [[Tony Montana]] and Omar Suarez visit [[Bolivia]] to meet with [[Alejandro Sosa|a drug kingpin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetimestribune.com/features/x993485348/Corbin-gets-mention-in-South-Park-episode|title=Corbin gets mention in 'South Park' episode|work=The Times-Tribune.com|date=April 2, 2010 |access-date=July 22, 2015}}</ref>