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Cher and Meryl: Vigilante Heroes Cher and Meryl Streep will soon be onscreen in the Mamma Mia! sequel, so prepare all the awards now. I mean, the concept of the first movie (based off the musical of the same name) is basically a Maury Povich “Who’s the Daddy?” episode set to the musical stylings of ABBA. What the world needs now is a sequel! Cher recently went on The Late Late Show with James Corden to promote the film, but the story she shared is what really deserves to be adapted for the silver screen. Cher and Meryl — let’s call them Cheryl — go way, way back. More than 30 years ago, the gals were out for ice cream in New York City (simpler times) when they heard a scream. Cher says they saw a man ripping off some poor woman’s clothes, and then come running right at them. The two split so he ran between them (no word on if there was an Acme anvil involved), and they went to help the woman. Apparently she was practically thankful for getting assaulted because she got to meet her idols. I guess that’s one way to turn your #MeToo moment into a happy memory?
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This Week in Questionable Decisions… 1. On her Fox News show, Laura Ingraham described the border detention centers as “essentially summer camps.” 2. One of the Bachelorette contestants is a convicted sex offender and flat-earther who reportedly poops on toilet paper-lined floors instead of the toilet. 3. A 2016 song called “American Pharaoh” by NYC rapper Jase Harley has resurfaced and it sure sounds a lot like inspiration for Childish Gambino’s “This Is America,” despite Harley getting zero credit or shout-out. 4. Melania Trump wore a Zara jacket that read, “I REALLY DON’T CARE DO U?” on the back on her way to visit children in Texas migrant detention centers. Look, I think it’s sexist and dumb to criticize a First Lady’s fashion choices, but this felt like some real “Let them eat cake” shit. 5. MTV announced it’s rebooting a bunch of its once popular shows, including Daria. Daria Morgendorffer was my angsty teen queen back in the day, but I’m not so sure about a revision of the classic. It will follow Daria and Jodie (not Jane?!) tackling issues of today. 6. United Airlines announced this week it is discontinuing stroopwafels, the fancy caramel cookie from the Netherlands that made you feel like you were on a luxe international flight even if you were just traveling to Phoenix. People are pissed.
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For years, the Philadelphia Phillies have combined some of the best parts of watching baseball — highly processed snack foods, launching prizes into crowds, Muppety mascots and the excitement of making a big catch in the stands — by shooting hot dogs from the field to hungry fans in the stands. During each home game, the jolly green Philly Phanatic jumps on an ATV equipped with a hot dogshaped pneumatic launcher and makes it rain duct tape-wrapped dogs into the crowd. It’s always been a hit. (Look up the Hatfield Hot Dog Launcher Documentary on YouTube for its hilarious backstory.) This week, however, tragedy struck — literally — when Phillies fan Kathy McVay was pelted in the face with a frankfurter. OK, so it wasn’t exactly tragic — McVay is going to be fine. As a true Phillies fan, she does not plan to sue, and the team offered her free tickets. McVay can even see the humor in attributing her black eye to a hot dog. Now that’s what I call a good sport! (Sorry.) In more disturbing hot dog news, a guy was spotted selling Hot Dog Water outside a Vancouver festival last week. No, the guy wasn’t Fred Durst (he was performing at an Ohio Sunoco). Actually, his identity was concealed by a hot dog onesie, but his “keto-friendly” product — some of those fancy glass water bottles with an organic beef sausage floating in unfiltered water — promised amazing health benefits like weight loss and increased brain function and vitality. At a steep price even for overpriced festival fare, Hot Dog Water
Fallon got emotional talking about all ran $37.99 a pop (or $28 USD). Of course, a the backlash, saying, “What do you want quick look at the bottles’ fine print (and an me to do? You want me to kill myself? ounce of common sense) revealed HDW What would make you happy? Get over was merely a stunt, a Canadian Banksy it.” Ultimately, he expressed regret for this moment, so to speak. Douglas Bevans, “mistake.” the incognito self-proclaimed CEO of the Of course, Trump had his own thoughts brand, created this living installation as a on the matter, shared on Twitter Sunday. commentary on pseudoscience and snake He claims Fallon called him up after the oil salesmen. And yet, he still managed to show to brag about “monster ratings,” and sell around 60 bottles. that the host “seriously messed up” his hair. And when it comes to the kinds of dogs (My eyeballs just rolled out of my head.) you pet and don’t eat, wonderfully weird Fallon responded by donating to the Refupups were on display at Saturday’s World’s gee and Immigrant Center for Education Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin and Legal Services (RAICES) in Trump’s Fair in Petaluma, Calif. Zsa Zsa, the name. My money’s on Trump clapping glamorously named English bulldog, back with a Kanye West-produced diss won and I get that it’s counterintuitive to track called “Good Time Jimmy.” try to explain how busted this dog looks without using a photo, but print journalism has its limits so just bear with me and Google her later. Her aggressive underbite completely engulfs her upper lips. Her tongue hangs out of the side of her mouth by at least half a foot. Her stature can best be described as if the characters from the cartoon Street Sharks walked on all fours. And Rose Leslie (left) and Kit Harington on GOT — not at their wedding I thought it was hard to shop for PHOTO: IMDB.COM my body shape! Basically, Zsa Zsa is a vision and I will forever campaign Jon + Ygritte 4-ever against calling exquisite beasts like her A Game of Thrones wedding that didn’t “ugly.” end in bloodshed? What sorcery is this? Fallon vs. Trump In some steamy fanfic come to life, Jon Trump is now beefin’ with his former Snow and Ygritte — aka Kit Harington and bestie in late night, Jimmy Fallon. Fallon is Rose Leslie — got married this weekend one of the few nightly talk show hosts that in a freaking castle owned by the brides’ doesn’t really get too political, and when family (she’s a descendant of King Charles he welcomed Trump to his show prior to II!). GOT castmates in attendance include the election in 2016, a lot of folks felt like he Sophie Turner (Sansa), Maisie Williams normalized the future prez. I mean, who (Arya), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion), Emilia could forget the hair tousle seen ’round the Clarke (Daenerys) and John Bradley (Sam). world? The two twee lovebirds are presumably Well, two years since the interview aired, off on some equally perfect honeymoon. I Fallon went on the Hollywood Reporter don’t know if I want to be them, want to be podcast to discuss. He’s still catching shit with them or want them to adopt me. This for it. He says he wishes he would have really should have gotten royal weddinghandled things differently and he wasn’t level coverage. trying to humanize America’s version of Contact T.C. Britton: letters@citybeat.com Mad Max’s Immortan Joe. At one point,
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Pictures of Egyptian pharaohs share wall space with portraits of Muhammad Ali. The south facing wall, to customers’ backs as they walk in, is the most intense in its honesty. A number of historical photos of Jim Crow-era lynchings hang here, along with obituaries of once-regular customers whose lives have been lost to neighborhood violence. “This is reality,” Watson says as she points out the photos. “People need to see this. People on all sides need to see it.” Not one to sugarcoat anything, Watson admits that many of her customers don’t yet share her optimism about the coming stadium. “I see most of the same people every day,” she says. “A lot of them live in the CONTINUES ON PAGE 11
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it’s a good thing.” Watson grew up in the neighborhood’s Lincoln Court, a Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority project, but moved to Westwood after a program called Hope VI was launched in 1999 and resulted in the apartment complex’s removal. Years later, she returned to live in a townhouse in City West, the mixed-income development built as part of the Hope VI project. Fueled by her love for the neighborhood, Watson started Just Cookin’ six years ago. At first, she did her favorites — lasagna, hot wings, salads. Those didn’t take off like she wanted them to, but the neighborhood spoke, and, as she says, designed the menu for her. Now the lines are out the door. The interior of her take-out spot is a lot like Watson herself — warm, welcoming and at the same time, no-holds-barred.
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building. Lately, their son, former Cincinnati mayor Mark Mallory, has been taking Just Cookin’s Watson around town to find a new spot for her restaurant. FC Cincinnati hired Mallory last year to do community engagement for their stadium plans, which became a certainty after the team was granted a Major League Soccer expansion franchise last month. The day after one of those trips, Watson stands out in the afternoon sun to escape the brutal heat of her kitchen and says she remains hopeful that the coming change will be positive. “Right now, I’m being optimistic and I’m hoping for the best for the community and for my business,” she says. “There’s a lot of potential there. We need change in the West End. If this change includes us, then
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n a stretch of Central Avenue just west of Over-the-Rhine, there’s a dense half-block of the West End surrounded by a couple of vacant fields, Taft High School’s Stargel Stadium and some parking lots. At the moment, it’s a microcosm of the predominantly African-American neighborhood’s past and present. It’s also a place where you can hear varying opinions about its uncertain future, which will see this block removed to make way for a new $175 million soccer stadium sometime next year. On any given weekday, the spot where Central meets 15th Street hums with life. More than 100 people a day file through Just Cookin’ for Monica Watson’s ribs, meatloaf, grilled salmon, greens, cornbread and any number of other hearty favorites depending on the day. Around the corner, folks stream in and out of Community Barber Shop. There, Jason Briers cuts hair under the approving eyes of his father, present in the form of a black-and-white photo on the back wall. Briers’ father started the shop more than five decades ago. Next door, his brother tends a busy convenience store. On Sundays, the pale blue and white building containing the barbershop and store — once the Beaux Arts-style State Theater — comes alive with the congregation of Lighthouse Ministries, led by Rev. Patrick Winkler. Two residential buildings, both constructed around 1900 and currently vacant, round out the small outcropping of structures, which ends abruptly in a vacant lot that spans the rest of the block. As a bookend, the last building sports a mural of West End magnates Fannie and William L. Mallory Sr. The mural isn’t quite finished — Mallory Sr., a prominent state lawmaker who passed way in 2013, is painted only down to the shoulders of his hunter green coat, and Fannie only to her knees. Below that, both are just ghostly outlines fading into thick-lined graffiti. A patch of blue sky crowns the Mallorys, the parents of one of Cincinnati’s most storied political dynasties, at the upper edge of the
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City Funding Affordable Housing in Multiple Neighborhoods BY N I C K SWA R T S E L L
City of Cincinnati officials June 22 announced $2.5 million in funding for five projects around the city that will create a number of new affordable housing units. Those projects will receive money from various federal and city sources through the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) program, a competitive process in which developers submit bids for financing covering up to 40 percent of their project’s costs. The city’s Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) picked the winning projects located in Walnut Hills, Pendleton, Over-the-Rhine, Avondale and Madisonville. All together, those projects will have 107 units of housing, with 86 percent of those units affordable to those making 60 percent of the region’s area median income. That means a family of four making roughly $46,000 a year would have to spend no more than 30 percent of their income on those units. Some of the units in the project will be more affordable. The funding comes as Cincinnati and Hamilton County face a big gap in housing affordability. A 2017 study by Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the Community Building Institute found that there are roughly 91,000 households in the county making
less than 50 percent of the area median income, but there are only 52,000 units of housing affordable to them. The situation gets direr the further down the income spectrum you go, including levels lower than those addressed by the projects announced by the city. There are more than 55,000 families making less than 30 percent of the area median income in the county but only 15,000 units affordable to them, the LISC study found. Many of the DCED’s picks are in neighborhoods that have struggled to maintain affordable housing as real estate prices and development interest have soared. The city is making affordability an increasing priority, officials say. During the last round of NOFA funding, 80 percent of units funded were affordable on some level. “Over time, I think if you look at our NOFA award projects, they’re getting more affordable, that is, a higher percentage are affordable units, and they’re getting more deeply affordable at lower percentages of AMI,” DCED Director Phil Denning said. “That shows our response to our community’s growing needs for affordable housing.” The specific projects the city will fund:
• The Walnut Hills Senior Campus in Walnut Hills, which involves the renovation of two vacant buildings and construction of a third. The result will be 60 affordable, LEED-certified housing units for local seniors. The project will be led by Model Group and Episcopal Retirement Service. That project will be funded by both federal HOME and Community Development Block Grant funds. • 15th and Vine in Over-the-Rhine, which will build 32 affordable housing units and 7,000 square feet of first-floor commercial space. The project is a partnership between Over-the-Rhine Community Housing and the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation. It will receive HOME funding. • A scattered-site project in Madisonville that will build five new homes spread across five vacant lots. Each home will feature three bedrooms and a two-car garage. Madisonville Community Urban Redevelopment Corp. and Titan Builders have teamed up for the project, which will receive funding from the city. • Another scattered-site project in Avondale featuring custom modular homes. That project involves three plots of land on Bogart Avenue and one on Glenwood Avenue. All the homes will have two levels and feature either two or three bedrooms.
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Would you pay an extra dollar every time you go see your favorite band or sports team so that Cincinnati could keep its winter shelter for individuals experiencing homelessness open, or help pay for addiction treatment? Or do recent tax increases have you feeling tapped out? Voters will likely get to decide on that question in November, when a proposed city charter amendment by Cincinnati City Council members P.G. Sittenfeld and David Mann looks to be on the ballot. The rest of city council will still have to vote on Sittenfeld’s and Mann’s proposal to raise the city’s admissions tax from 3 to 5 percent to fund human services and neighborhood groups, but all six Democrats on council have indicated they support it. The idea comes as Cincinnati once again struggles to scrape together enough money to approach a commitment it made in the 1980s to fund human services organizations at 1.5 percent of the city’s overall discretionary operating budget. The city hasn’t achieved that ratio in years. A budget proposal from Acting Cincinnati City Manager Patrick
Duhaney cut that down to .69 percent, and adjustments by Mayor John Cranley brought the amount to .93 percent. Sittenfeld and Mann say their proposal would bring the funding levels up to council’s commitment. “Here’s what we know we can’t continue to do,” Sittenfeld said during an announcement at the Center for Addiction Treatment, which was left out of the city manager and mayor’s budget proposals this year. “Allow worthy organization to be pitted against worthy organization, each vying for the final chunk of the budget which is discretionary. Our city is smart enough and prosperous enough to offer a better way. And we think that’s exactly what we’re sharing here today.” Sittenfeld went on to say that the funding represented a floor, not a ceiling, for future human services spending. As council and voters mull the proposal, Sittenfeld says Democrats on council will continue to pursue funding of 1 percent of the city’s budget for this fiscal year ahead of a June 30 deadline. The city charges admissions tax on tickets to events like football and baseball
games as well as concerts and other entertainment events. Most nonprofits like the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, as well as high school and college events, are exempt from the tax. In 2014, the ticket tax raised about $5.6 million. About 40 percent of that money comes from visitors to the city. The proposed boost would mean an extra 50 cents on a $25 ticket or an extra dollar on a $50 ticket. Some cities like Columbus don’t charge an admission tax. Cleveland, on the other hand, charges 8 percent, and Monroe charges 5 percent. About two-thirds of cities in Ohio that charge an admissions tax have set it at the same 3 percent rate currently charged in Cincinnati. The move would raise about $3.6 million annually, Sittenfeld says. Under the amendment, $3 million of that would go to human services funding and the other $600,000 would fund community councils and community development corporations. Sittenfeld’s and Mann’s proposal could face some stiff competition at the ballot box, however.
Avondale Development Corp. and Unibuilt Custom Homes are building that project, which will receive city funding. • Complete renovation of two currently distressed historic residential buildings at 509 E. 12th St. in Pendleton. Both buildings will have three one- and twobedroom units. The project will be led by 8K Construction Co. and will receive Community Development Block Grant funding. “Any of us in this room could be in a situation where we need affordable housing,” Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman said during the funding announcement today. “So we really have to keep our eye on that ball. If it’s not one of us, it’s our grandmother or grandfather, or it’s one of our siblings, or our uncle or our aunt. Making sure people have really solid housing that has dignity is incredibly important to the structure of all 52 of our neighborhoods.” The city will award another $2.4 million in NOFA funds later this year. Denning says the city hopes to focus on mixedincome projects, especially ones that utilize federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits, in that round of funding. The city is hosting an information session for interested developers July 10.
The Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority is expected to ask for a countywide sales tax increase of between .5 and 1 percent to shore up the region’s lagging Metro bus system. Passage of that levy could reduce the city’s earnings tax, however, which is currently used to fund Metro. Hamilton County Job and Family Services is also expected to put a levy on the countywide ballot, though it’s unclear how much that levy will ask for. In addition, Hamilton County Commissioners this month passed a .2 percent hike on the county’s sales tax. And other property tax increases over the past couple years — for the Public Library of Greater Cincinnati and Hamilton County and Cincinnati Public Schools — could also fatigue voters. Calling Cincinnati a “city of compassion,” Sittenfeld expressed confidence that voters would approve the proposal. “There’s one final thing we need to be clear about,” Sittenfeld said. “Your City Council — as well as the human service agency leaders and clients and neighborhood folks who are all with us — are letting you know how we feel about this important issue. But we’re not the ones making the final decision. Ultimately this will be up to the residents and voters of the City of Cincinnati.”
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neighborhood. Fear is what they feel. They’re scared, because the neighborhood is changing, and they don’t know if it’s changing for the better, or if it will exclude them out. They just want to know that they’ll have somewhere to live.” That’s a big deal in a place where the median household income is around $15,000 a year and where 84 percent of the residents rent their homes. Rising housing prices in quickly redeveloping Over-the-Rhine next door, which has lost 72 percent of its most affordable housing units over the past decade, have stoked fears that something similar could happen here. Even before talk of a soccer stadium landed squarely in the neighborhood, there had been a wave of investment in real estate around the West End. The neighborhood has roughly 1,000 units of housing locked into long-term affordability by virtue of their status as Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority offerings or because developers used government funding like Low Income Housing Tax Credits to build them. But Census data suggests at least 3,000 people in the neighborhood — roughly half of its population — need sub-market rate housing. As part of a community benefits agreement signed between West End Community Council representatives and FC Cincinnati, the Greater Cincinnati Redevelopment Authority will perform a housing inventory of the neighborhood to determine what kind of housing to build on some 60 parcels of land west of the stadium site left unused after the Hope VI project. Briers of the Community Barber Shop identifies with those worried about the neighborhood’s future. “I don’t want to leave,” he says. “My clientele is here. I don’t understand how they did us like this. CPS, West End council, city council, I don’t know why they did this.” Briers’ small, rectangular shop is lined floor to ceiling with warm wood paneling and silvery mirrors. For the 49-year-old, leaving it will be deeply personal and difficult. “I have an apartment upstairs,” he says. “I’m losing a place to live and a place for business. I’m being displaced.” The spot is close to most of the people who have been coming into the shop for years, Briers says, and within walking distance to Chatfield College, where he is taking business courses. Briers’ father started the barbershop here in the 1960s, when this strip of Central Avenue was bustling. At that time, the State Theater, built in 1915, was still operating, drawing a steady stream of people coming to watch the shows. Restaurants and stores lined the streets. Time, along with economic and racial isolation, changed the area. Jobs at nearby industries became harder to find and lower-paying. Lack of investment toppled buildings.
The State, next to the barbershop, closed in 1989. But Briers’ father — and then Briers and his brother — stayed, providing a vital place for connections and community. “It’s like home here,” Briers says. “We talk about all the topics in the world here: sports, news, everything. Some people can’t talk to other folks at home, but they come here and can’t shut up. Kids come here and learn a lot. This is their spot. I gave some kids their first haircut, and now they’re grown and they’re bringing their kids in.” The shop has a number of regulars, including William Mallory Jr., a municipal court judge, and other members of the Mallory family who haven’t been as amenable to the stadium as their brother Mark has been. Both Joe Mallory, a vice president of Cincinnati’s NAACP chapter, and Dale Mallory, a state lawmaker, appeared at protests against the stadium this spring. The latter invoked his father in remarks about the demolition of Stargel Stadium, named for prominent West End athlete and coach William Stargel. “They’re destroying our history,” he said. “And that’s one thing my father told me, ‘Do not let anybody destroy your history.’ ” Former mayor Mallory says FC Cincinnati is sensitive to the challenges relocating will cause. “From our standpoint, we want this to be a net positive,” he says. “We don’t want to come into the community and cause a disruption for the people who have been there. We’ve gone around and have looked at some spaces that may or may not work. That process continues. I’ve been looking at several spaces for the barber shop and the convenience store.” Mallory says the timeline for those relocations is uncertain, but that he’d like to find new places for all the businesses in the area as soon as possible. Watson and Briers believe they will need to be out by December at the latest. There are still questions to be answered. Hamilton County auditor records show Winkler hasn’t sold his building yet. Much of the other land needed for the stadium, including the vacant plots under the steady gaze of the larger-than-life, but unfinished, mural of Fannie and William L. Mallory Sr., aren’t yet owned by FC Cincinnati either. The building hosting the mural is owned by West End Ventures LLC, which is associated with owners of LISNR, a fast-growing tech startup that has long had its eye on the West End for a headquarters. Briers sits in a barber’s chair as a few folks wander into the shop early one recent morning. He sounds resigned about his impending move, but still upset. “The thing is, I can’t say anything about my landlord,” he says of Lighthouse Church’s Rev. Winkler, who owns the building. “He’s working with me, making sure I find something. We’ve looked at other spots. He’s a good man. Right now, I’m just going on what they say they’re going to do. I can’t see the future.
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Dismissed as “not real music” by many in the ’80s, the resurgence of Synth Pop and bands like Cincinnati’s Moonbeau are proving its endurance
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hen Synth Pop broke through in the early ’80s, there was a large, vocal contingent of music fans that despised it. Like Rap and Disco, the electronic and unfamiliar sounds were deemed “not real music” by many hardliners. Heard by most in the early ’80s when MTV started squeezing in Synth Pop clips by The Human League and Soft Cell next to Rod Stewart, REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar videos, one of the most common complaints was that this synth-driven New Wave music was cheating — all of that electronic noise was just pressing a button, not playing a real instrument. A Flock of Seagulls was one of the first lightning rods. Beyond the swooping, outlandish haircuts, when A Flock of Seagulls’ “I Ran” became an MTV hit in 1982, detractors railed about singer Mike Score’s keyboard skills, which appeared to be limited to holding down one key at a time with his index finger. It was an “ah-ha” moment (not the band — they came later) and proof that these artists were just singing haircuts, not actual musicians.
Of course, for a whole other faction of the listening public, hearing Synth Pop for the first time was revelatory. Those who dismissed it helped legitimize it in the eyes and ears of many in the younger generation. It was electronic and unfamiliar, but it was intriguing for those reasons and many others. Today, while taste schisms obviously still exist, people seem less concerned with how their music is made and more with how it makes them feel. Songs without a single “real instrument” are regularly massive hits. Hip Hop just had its first Pulitzer Prize winner. EDM DJs are among the biggest music superstars on the planet. And Synth Pop pioneers Depeche Mode seem a sure bet to soon get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Synth Pop has endured and prevailed. In 2018, the popularity of that distinctly ’80s sound might be higher than it has been since 1985. Though building since the start of the 21st century, in the 2010s, a brand of Synth Pop with a very ’80s focus has seen a major resurgence and has seeped into the mainstream. While superstars like Katy Perry and even Drake have dabbled, other massively successful acts have more deeply and sincerely embraced Synth Pop, including Arcade Fire, Tegan and Sara, Paramore and Cincinnati’s Walk the Moon (who scored a No. 1 hit with “Shut Up and Dance,” a song that would have fit in perfectly on MTV in the early ’80s). CONTINUES ON PAGE 14
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Claire Muenchen and Christian Gough, aka Moonbeau P H O T O : D E V Y N G L I S TA | S T. B L A N C . S T U D I O S
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In the Indie music universe, Electro Pop has become a dominating force, with Synth Pop disciples like Chvrches, The Naked and Famous, Bleachers and M83 among the biggest bands. And that’s not even mentioning the numerous other popular groups that, while perhaps not so directly descendent that they fit into that exact category, certainly have the neon streaks of the sound in their music. There are also scores of Synth Pop acts bubbling up and finding enthusiastic audiences thanks to streaming services, social media and old-fashioned touring. And those audiences aren’t aging, wistful Generation X-ers nostalgic for the music of their youth — they’re young music lovers drawn in by the upbeat, quirky and somewhat mysterious sound and ear-grabbing melodies. Just as it was in the ’80s. Cincinnati Synth Pop duo Moonbeau is making some of the best music of the new wave of New Wave. Led by Claire Muenchen and Christian Gough, Moonbeau has been regularly winning over fans that see them in concert with their infectiously energetic and joyous live presence, including at this year’s huge Bunbury Music Festival on Cincinnati’s riverfront.
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Moonbeau’s take on Synth Pop is boosted by the pair’s magnetic vocals and Gough’s rich songwriting, which is draped in swaths of the synthesizer sounds heard in classic Electro Pop, as well other electronic flourishes and electric guitar. The band has received online attention for the four digital singles released over the past nine months, and now Muenchen and Gough are preparing for the release of their selftitled debut album through Cincinnatibased Old Flame Records. This Friday, hometown fans will get first crack at the new album during the band’s special release celebration at Over-theRhine’s Woodward Theater. The album will be available at the show on CD and vinyl, which is being pressed in conjunction with Cincinnati’s Soul Step Records. Following the local release, Moonbeau’s debut LP will get a national rollout with the CD, vinyl and digital versions available to all on Sept. 7. On Moonbeau, Muenchen and Gough offer 10 tracks of powerful Pop potency that transcends the instrumentation. If the album were simply their vocals and an outof-tune piano, it would still be a melodic tour de force. The songs are instantly memorable — by just the second listen, it feels like you’ve known them for years. The resplendent Synth Pop presentation is highly enchanting in its own way; wrapping it around an impeccable Pop core makes for an exhilarating combination. Laced with Gough’s New Order-like guitar leads, fluctuating background vocal textures and an array of vintage-styled Electro ticks, “In Love” is a perfect album opener, distilling Moonbeau’s appeal down to one 5-and-a-half minute song. Celestial synth arpeggios swirl to set the ’80s
mood, as Muenchen and Gough’s voices wrap around each other elegantly over warm digital pulsations. The lyrics have a post-quarrel broken-heartedness that is tempered with optimism and faith in the power of love (“They say love is like a fire/ But you can’t put it out once it ignites/And I know you’re sorry/But that doesn’t make things alright”). Together, the elements create an aura of romance and nostalgia, making it the kind of song that would soundtrack a scene in a movie where someone is flashing back to the last night of an intense summer fling spent on a bonfire-lit beach. Another highlight is “Say What You Want Me To Say,” which bounces on a bubbling bass-synth groove and has perhaps the most unshakable chorus hook on an album overflowing with tenacious hooks. The road to Moonbeau’s first album has been circuitous. Gough, a native of Northern Kentucky, is also the songwriter/ frontperson for The Yugos, the band he started with his brother when he was in his early teens. He created Moonbeau around the same time as an outlet for the songs he was writing that weren’t the right fit for The Yugos, which has grown to be one of Cincinnati’s top Indie Rock outfits. (The band put out their outstanding Weighing the Heart album last year through Old Flame.) Initially, Moonbeau was just Gough and an acoustic guitar. “Then I started listening to New Order and older Pop stuff and I thought, ‘Oh, I should just do this,’ ” he says matter of factly. After taking shape as an Electronic Pop project, Moonbeau took on various forms, though it has always centered around Gough’s writing and home recording. He performed solo shows with a laptop and guitar, but he says there was also a fullband version of Moonbeau about five years ago that simply didn’t work out. Gough also brought on individual Cincinnati musicians to play live shows — Young Colt singer/guitarist Benjamin Hines played bass for a stint, and drummer Alex Murphy-White of Season Ten made up the Moonbeau live duo for a while as well. (Murphy-White is still the live drummer, while former Modern Aquatic member Kyle Kubiak currently plays bass.) But it was when Claire Muenchen entered the picture that the Moonbeau of today began to come into focus. After initially meeting Gough at a Yugos show, Muenchen unintentionally found herself at a Moonbeau show. Playing as a “one-man band” that night, Muenchen remembers Gough somewhat hectically moving between guitar, keyboards and computer during the performance. “I mean, he’s doing OK, but it looks like he needs a band,” Muenchen recalls thinking. Muenchen was singing and playing guitar with her own project at the time, Lipstain, for which Gough briefly played drums. The two began dating afterward, and soon Gough asked if Muenchen would sing on the Moonbeau recordings he’d been making. Eventually, she was coaxed into joining
Gough on stage at a Cincinnati show. The couple cites the next show as solidifying Moonbeau’s status as a duo: Both were working at Urban Outfitters at the time, and Gough was offered a gig to play at a corporate UO event in Phoenix. Gough suggested Muenchen be in the band “for real” so that they could both go on the trip for free. She’s been onstage at every Moonbeau show since. While having your romantic partner also be your creative partner sometimes puts stress on one or both relationships, it seems to have had the opposite effect in Muenchen’s and Gough’s case. They got engaged a year ago and are planning to get married next year.
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Standing on a street corner in Over-theRhine and trying to locate the studios of Inhailer — a music and community broadcast platform where I’m to interview Muenchen and Gough— I spot them immediately as they walk up the sidewalk on the other side of Sycamore Street. Though we’ve not met before, I’ve seen them perform and they’re a striking pair. Gough is tall, at least 6-foot-3, while Muenchen is petite. I’ve also seen recent Moonbeau promo photos, and though they’re not in full stage outfits — which can sometimes be ’80s-inspired to the extreme, like the angular, colorful graphics on the suit Gough wore for their 2017 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards performance — he is sporting ’80s-cut jeans that just might be acid washed and his sandy blonde hair is chiseled into a New Wave mullet. (While Muenchen also favors ’80s fashion, today she’s in business casual after cutting out of work early for our interview.) Being aware of their relationship status, the other giveaway was that they were the only two people gleefully holding hands while walking down the street during an exceptionally sweltering mid-afternoon heatwave. Once inside and into our conservation, their dynamic remains that of a young couple deeply close and still in the twilight of their love (they’ve been dating for three years), which is befitting given the passionate and romantic aura evident in Moonbeau’s music. Having the band to bond over seems to be a part of their closeness. Gough is the primary artistic engine behind the band, having written and constructed all of the backing tracks for the songs, but Muenchen handles a lot of the non-musical activities that keep the project together and moving forward. Both complement each other — during our chat, they share knowing smiles when talking about an upcoming, unannounced show and the split personalities that go into writing songs for Moonbeau and for The Yugos. When Gough starts talking about how he’s anxious to perform his newer material for people but can’t because Moonbeau’s debut album (completed two years ago) is just now being released and they have to play those songs to support it, Muenchen gently steers him back to the practicality of the situation.
“You have spent a lot of time with (the new album’s) songs,” she says, “and others have not.” “It helps to be engaged, to be in a relationship, and be in the band, because we both know how much we want what we’re trying to do,” Gough says. “We just talk about everything.” Muenchen has been working on the business side by trying to book out-of-town shows and taking on social media duties, which has become especially important for artists on the way up who want to boost and maintain their fan base. She says she loves engaging with fans and building a persona for the group. While that persona has a bit of mystique (there’s never anything too personal or day-to-day and Moonbeau’s Twitter is currently tracking the cycle of the moon leading up to album release day), it’s also very personable and approachable, something followers appreciate. “We have direct-messaged with people where we’ve been like, ‘Yeah, let’s go thrift shopping’ or ‘Let’s hang out after the show,’” Muenchen says. “We’ve hung out with people we’ve only met through Moonbeau.” A more mysterious side of Moonbeau’s image manifests itself somewhat in the artwork and imagery associated with the group. As with the earlier singles, the cover art for the new album uses the aesthetics of Synthwave, a musical subgenre based on ’80s video game music and movie soundtracks. (Moonbeau has found some like-minded artists and fans among the music’s hardcore online community.) Synthwave (and Vaporwave) graphics sometimes veer into detached irony or vintage digital iconography, but for the cover of Moonbeau’s album, Andrew Walker (who has done other cover art for musical acts in the same realm) used pale blue and purple, with the band’s name written in the brushed font of an ’80s movie poster. In the center of the breezy cover is a Patrick Nagel-adjacent image of a woman’s eyes peering through pulled-down window blinds. To mark the occasion of the album’s imminent release, Muenchen and Gough got the image tattooed on their arms.
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Moonbeau’s live appearances have been what has made the band a popular draw in the Cincinnati area and earned it a loyal local following. It’s part dance party, part mood elevator, as the mix of dance beats, the musicians’ joyous performance and the music’s colorful exuberance combine to create the kind of experience that is hard to leave in a bad mood. Early on, though the music was essentially the same and Gough had always received positive feedback for it, when he played solo shows, he felt a kind of backlash reminiscent of the anti-Synth Pop animosity of yesteryear. Perhaps because he was playing some of the same “Rock” venues as The Yugos, where audiences were used to the force of a live band, he remembers hearing things like, “It’s one of those laptop bands,” in response to his shows.
Gough and Muenchen with drummer Alex Murphy-White at the 2017 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards PHOTO: CHUCK LOF TICE
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So how do two musicians born in the ’90s wind up not only carrying the torch for a style of music popularized during the Reagan Administration, but also accurately capturing the spirit of the era’s imagery and fashion? Musically, it’s a testament to the Synth Pop revival of the past decade. Like how The Rolling Stones once had people searching for the source material and falling in love with American Blues originators like Howlin’ Wolf, Gough’s favorite contemporary Electro Pop artists had him tracing back their steps. “I listen to a lot of modern bands like The Drums that are in the style of New Order,” says Gough, who is also a big fan of Cut Copy, The Naked and Famous and the aforementioned Bleachers. “Someone
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then if you have a full band, and it sounds like a full band, they look at you and are like, ‘Oh, it’s a full band. Cool band. I’m gonna get into it now.’ ” “We don’t do it to try and trick anyone!” Muenchen clarifies. Though he seems to accept the ‘full band on stage’ audio illusion and enjoys what having other musicians brings to his own performance energy, Gough still seems somewhat perplexed by the disconnect. When he went to see Bleachers in Columbus, Ohio, he says he noticed a similar moment of stagecraft from the opening band. He saw a prominent synth on stage that seemed to be going unused despite the sound it would make being clearly audible throughout a song, and he watched as the singer briefly went over to it and played it for a few seconds. Like having more people on stage, he believes it was an effort to draw attention from the programmed backing tracks. A visit to the Bunbury festival a couple
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He also had his own built-in expectations from playing regularly with The Yugos, which led him to bring in additional players. Besides dousing some of his insecurities about audience reaction, when he began performing with drummer Murphy-White, he could feel the boost in power while playing. “Having a live drummer adds a lot of energy to the show,” Gough says. “Having a drum kit behind you, you can really feel the drums.” He also thinks there is something about the optics of having more musicians on stage. When Murphy-White and Kubiak play with Moonbeau, they’re basically layering the drums and bass sound. The backing tracks that Gough recorded when creating the songs are the same ones that run through the speakers now as they were when he was alone, including all of the drums and bass. “When someone comes to see you and it’s just a guitar and laptop, everybody just kind of looks at you,” Gough theorizes. “But
of years ago made him less concerned with “getting caught” playing with tracks. “Every single band we saw was using tracks,” he says. “I think everyone who’s using tracks should not feel self-conscious about it because it just helps with the textures (of the live sound). You still get to see the band.”
pointed out that all these bands I was listening to kinda sound like New Order. So, I checked them out and loved it.” But his initial exposure to ’80s Synth Pop goes back to when he was even younger, though the memory of it was repressed temporarily. As a child, his brother had checked A Flock of Seagulls’ first album out of the library and they listened to it regularly. Years later, he listened to the album again and the memories flooded back. “I was like, ‘I remember all of these songs!’ ” Gough says. Everything that has been written about Moonbeau references the ’80s, for obvious reasons. Gough understands it and is a party to it, but he says he sometimes finds it odd and tiring to be constantly referencing the decade when talking about Moonbeau. “It’s kind of funny how you can just put a decade on something — like, ‘That’s ’80s’ — and it puts an image in your head,” he says. “I kind of hate saying it over and over again — we do interviews and I’ll keep saying ’80s over and over. I wish I could just stop talking about it.” Quickly realizing the contradiction of what he just said, Gough softly adds, “But I guess it does kind of define our music though.” “And your fashion, my fashion and the artwork,” Muenchen pointedly reminds him. Though they didn’t experience it in person, the ’80s seem to mean something deeper to both musicians, and it’s not simply that some of the bands they like borrow from the music of the era. Or even that they’re entrenched in creating and performing their own music in a style that originated from that time period. Like Sha Na Na was to the ’50s or Steampunk participants are to the 19th century, Moonbeau’s members are drawn to the culture of the ’80s because it makes them feel good. “I grew up watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, because we had it on VHS and it played all the time,” Gough says. “I just loved it. That’s what makes me happy. And I kind of got away from it for a long time. But like with Flock of Seagulls… and the fashions… I don’t know.” “It just makes me feel a certain way,” he says contemplatively. “I could cry, thinking about it.”
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STUFF TO DO Ongoing Shows VISUAL ART:
Mark de Jong: Swing House Contemporary Arts Center, Downtown (through Sept. 2)
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MUSIC: Pop/Rock quintet The Neighbourhood plays Bogart’s. See Sound Advice on page 34.
LIT: Elizabeth Garber, daughter of Modernist architect Woodie Garber, reads from and discusses her book Implosion: Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter at the Mercantile Library. See an interview on page 21. ONSTAGE: Cincinnati Opera’s The Coronation of Poppea continues through Sunday at the SPCA’s Corbett Theater. See a review on page 26.
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MUSIC: Soul singer Bettye LaVette brings her interpretations of Bob Dylan songs to the 20th Century Theater. See an interview on page 32. for some giveaways. 7:30-9 p.m. Thursday. Free admission. Up, Up & Away, 5885 Pfeiffer Road, Blue Ash, facebook.com/uuablueash. — P.F. WILSON EVENT: Make Someone’s Day People’s Liberty’s Globefront gallery hosts a new grantee: Bethany Pelle and her Make Someone’s Day project. During Make Someone’s Day’s tenure at the Globe, everyone is invited to a collaborative ceramics workshop to create flowers to honor and celebrate local nominees. Participate by: nominating a local for a ceramic flower arrangement, creating ceramic flowers or connecting with the community through hands-on special events. Thursday night special events (6-9 p.m. each week) include activities like Japanese flower arranging, still-life drawing,
scent-making, edible flower tasting, a floral cocktail workshop and more. Grand opening 6-9 p.m. Thursday. Through Aug. 12. Free. People’s Liberty Globefront, 1805 Elm St., Over-theRhine, make-someones-day. com. — MAIJA ZUMMO MUSIC: Andy Frasco and the U.N. Though born and based in Los Angeles, Andy Frasco doesn’t spend a lot of time there. For more than a decade, he has lived on the road, touring incessantly with his group, The U.N. A Jam-band circuit favorite who has also traveled across Europe and even played in China, Frasco and the U.N. play a partystarting mix of Soul, Funk, Americana, Rock and Blues that draws from core influences like Buddy Guy, Otis Redding, Dr. John, Van Morrison and Ray Charles.
The band has gained its reputation with a live show that is outrageous and high-energy, with Frasco — funny stage banter at the ready at all times — leading the shenanigans. The frenetic frontman isn’t just all over the stage, he also spends time among (and on top of) the audience (his bandmates have also been known to find their way into the crowd). But the insanity whipped up at the group’s live show doesn’t mean they skimp on the musical end; the tight, high-quality musicianship can be heard all over last year’s Songs from the Road, a live album the band recorded during a special three-hour show in Germany. Frasco and Co. were recently announced as part of September’s Big River Get Down, an annual festival in Hamilton, Ohio presented by David Shaw, a Hamilton native and leader
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MUSIC: Cincy New Wave Synth Poppers Moonbeau celebrate their album release at Woodward Theater. See cover story on page 12. MUSIC: Gobbinjr brings “mean pop” to The Hub. See Sound Advice on page 34. ATTRACTIONS: Chocolate: The Exhibition Discover the story behind chocolate, from its beginnings as a Mayan royal drink and favorite of the Aztec god Quetzacoatl to the first time it was mixed with sugar, which transformed it into the mass-produced and widely CONTINUES ON PAGE 18
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COMEDY: Bang! Pow! Comics & Comics! “It’s comics in a comic book shop,” says Comics & Comics host Tabari McCoy. It’s not an open mic but a showcase of regionally based stand-up comics. “I host and do five minutes,” McCoy says. The show at Up, Up & Away Comics gives the comedians a chance to work on new material. Of the venue, McCoy insists it is the best comic book shop within a four-hour drive of Cincinnati. “And I should know, because I’ve been everywhere within a four-hour drive of Cincinnati,” he says. The show, which occurs the third Thursday of the month (at least through August), this month includes comedians Tyrone Hawkins, Leslie Battle, Luke Capasso, Anna Mazza and headliner Kelly Collette. McCoy has also partnered with a local movie theater
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EVENT: Crown Jewels Of Jazz Overture Jazz, cocktails and wine tastings — sounds like a perfect night. Come to the historic halls of St. Aloysius Orphanage for a night of hot New Orleans Jazz and zesty drinks without a trip to the Big Easy. Delfeayo Marsalis, internally acclaimed trombonist, composer and producer, will present The UpTown Jazz Orchestra,
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EVENT: Hard Candy with Yuhua Hamasaki On Friday and Saturday nights, you can expect to see resident emcees and show gurls on stage at The Cabaret (upstairs from Below Zero Lounge), sending the audience into fits of laughter. But this week, there’s a new reason to head to Cincinnati’s premiere drag show lounge. Avant-garde goddess Yuhua Hamasaki will grace the stage in Cincinnati for a night of comedy, glamour and some serious shade. Expect her to look damn good, too — the Ru Paul’s Drag Race Season 10 queen is a professional seamstress, so you know her outfit’s going to be on point. Come on your own or reserve a table with your fiercest of friends for the ultimate night out. Yuhua gonna remember her. Tables and tickets are limited. 9 p.m. doors; 10 p.m. showtime Wednesday. $15 general admission; $20 front seating; $40 table for two; $75 table for four; $100 table for six. The Cabaret, 1122 Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine, yuhuacincy.eventbrite.com. — MORGAN ZUMBIEL
performing a concert full of smooth, soulful and lively jams. The event benefits the Bond Hill Roselawn Collaborative, Learning Through Art and St. Aloysius Orphanage. 6 p.m. Wednesday. $150 per person; $1,500 for table of 10. St. Aloysius Orphanage, 4721 Reading Road, Bond Hill, facebook. com/learningthroughartinc. — LIZZY SCHMITT
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available guilty pleasure it is today. Learn about the cacao bean and “follow the history of chocolate culture and science from the 10thcentury rainforest to the modern-day corner store.” Chocolate: The Exhibition includes more than 100 objects on display, like a life-size cacao tree, vintage chocolate molds, early advertisements, European silver and porcelain servers and more. Through Jan. 6, 2019. $14 adults; $12 seniors; $10 child; $7 member adult; free member child. Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate, cincymuseum.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO ONSTAGE: O Beautiful Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre has produced some fine musicals for several summers featuring high school actors and technicians. This summer they’re expanding their palette with Theresa Rebeck’s O Beautiful, a theatrically inventive mash-up of contemporary American life and the history that delivered us to this politically polarized age. C.A.S.T. seeks to bring together teens from various high schools and produce shows not typically presented at
their schools. Rebeck is a Cincinnati native whose plays have been presented nationwide, including at the Cincinnati Playhouse; this is the first local production of O Beautiful. Through July 8. $15 adult; $12 student/ senior. The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, caststages.org. — RICK PENDER
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MUSIC: Maps & Atlases plays the Fountain Square Music Series. See Sound Advice on page 35. EVENT: Shakespeare in the Park: A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company will travel to a park near you to put on some of Shakespeare’s most memorable works this summer including Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet and, this week, A Midsummer’s Night Dream. “Oh, what fools these mortals be,” amiright? The beloved play, among others, will run through Sept. 1. Lean back in your lawn chair and experience one of the largest free outdoor Shakespeare programs in the nation. Find a full list of venues and dates at cincyshakes. com. 7 p.m. Saturday. Free. Northwoods Park Lawn,
5444 Northwoods Lane, Norwood. 1 p.m. Sunday. Free. The Carnegie Center of Columbia Tusculum, 3738 Eastern Ave., Columbia Tusculum. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Free. Smale Riverfront Park, 100 E. Mehring Way, Downtown, cincyshakes.com. — SAMI STEWART EVENT: The Big Lebowski Blast at Jungle Jim’s Dude man, the Coen Bros really know how to make a film, huh? Well Jungle Jim’s knows how to throw one mean Big Lebowskithemed party, complete with a screening of the cult classic movie — quoting is encouraged. Jungle Jim’s head chef will serve themed finger foods — Donny’s In N Out Sliders, Walter’s Show Dog (braised pork belly corn dogs), Bunny’s Toe (pigs in a blanket) and more. Come prepared to pound White Russians from sponsors Kahlua and Absolut until the after-party starts. At 7 p.m., you can hit the outdoor afterparty, with a full bar and a Lebowski look-alike contest. And if you don’t care for The Dude-themed parties, well, you know, that’s just like, uh, your opinion man. 4-11 p.m. Saturday. $35. Jungle Jim’s International Market Eastgate. 4450 Eastgate South Drive, Eastgate, junglejims. com. — SAMI STEWART
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EVENT: Art After Dark Summer Shakedown Kick off summer by attending Art After Dark at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Enjoy live Reggae jams from The Cliftones in the Alice Bimel Courtyard while you sip on specialty cocktails or enjoy a bite from Eli’s BBQ and Graeter’s Ice Cream. Guests have full access to the museum, including to Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China. Tours of Terracotta are during assigned times between 5 and 8 p.m. due to expected crowds. Admission to the exhibit is free, but visitors must pick up tickets at the visitors’ service desk. 5-9 p.m. Friday. Free admission. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, cincinnatiartmuseum.org. — DAVID DESSAUER
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(and parades). Hang out at historic Jacob Hoffner Park for two days of food, talent and sweet, sweet music from local favorites like The Harlequins and Leggy as well as a few out-of-towners like NYC-based The Paisley Fields. The Carnival kicks off with music starting at 4 p.m. Tuesday. Get out early on the Fourth of July for Kegs and Eggs at 10 a.m. and the Northside Fourth of July Parade at noon with live music starting right after. In between sets, enjoy spoken word pieces showcased by Wordplay Cincinnati and family-friendly activities provided by Happen Inc. As always, the Carnival is free for all ages, so even the littlest Punks-in-training can hang with the rest of us. 3 p.m.-1 a.m. Tuesday; 2-10 p.m. Wednesday. Free. Jacob Hoffner Park, 1618 Blue Rock St., Hamilton Ave., Northside, facebook. com/northsiderocks. — MORGAN ZUMBIEL
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has a reputation among Modernists as a controversial visionary whose advocacy of an uncluttered openness in design — in line with a more optimistic, democratic society — grows more influential every year. It’s time for a book that celebrates
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acupuncturist and former poet laureate of Belfast, Maine.) She will be at the Main Library (whose much-admired 1955 building her father designed) at 7 p.m. Wednesday and at the Mercantile Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. (On Tuesday, she was scheduled to speak to the Glendale Heritage Preservationists about the Garber family home, a “glass house” that was built in 1965 and influenced by the French architect Le Corbusier.) The appearances will provide a chance to learn and hear inside details about Garber’s Modernist projects, some still standing and others demolished or significantly altered — UC’s 27-story Sander Hall, which was imploded in 1991, and the college’s Procter Hall; a Frisch’s Mainliner building on Reading Road; downtown’s Ninth Street
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that, supporters have long thought. Now there is one — but it may not be the pure celebration some had expected. “He was the most experimental Modernist in Cincinnati in terms of planning, composition of his buildings, their structural systems, their material — he was always experimenting with something new, he was always right out there on the cutting edge,” says Patrick Snadon, an associate professor of architecture at University of Cincinnati who has studied Garber’s work. “Cincinnati being a rather conservative Midwestern city, he was always running into trouble, always running into opposition.” The author of the new book — Garber’s 64-year-old daughter, Elizabeth — comes to Cincinnati from her home in Maine this week in connection with the recent publishing of her Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter. (She is an
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Fire Station; and some of the breathtaking “glass house” residences he built for progressive clients. It’s also a chance to learn about his radical 1944-45 proposal to build perhaps the nation’s first glass-andsteel office building for Schenley Distillers across from the Taft Museum. It received national publicity. The book reflects the love and empathy Elizabeth has for her father, especially as she looks back on his struggles. It also shows her admiration and pride in his legacy and in his belief in the promise of Modernism. But those who go to the author talks without having read the book should be forewarned: It isn’t entirely positive. Her father had a very dark side — one that was all too evident to his family. “It’s sort of a tortured, abusive genius kind of story,” she says in a phone interview. “He was brilliant and extraordinary, but he was also emotionally abusive to a lot of people around him. And he wrestled with being bipolar. So it’s a portrait of someone who was really struggling and still did remarkable work, but also caused a lot of hurt.” The book is full of troubling remembrances about the tough time Elizabeth and her two brothers, as well as their
mother Jo, had living with him. He could explode with anger, such as when Elizabeth called him “controlling” for refusing to let her get her ears pierced. When her mother decided the marriage was so hard she wanted to leave, it unleashed a dangerous fury in him. That prompted Elizabeth to even consider killing him. Her father could be full of surprises and maddening contradictions, she remembers. When an African-American group came to the family’s Glendale church to read a manifesto asking for national reparations for the cost of slavery and racism, some congregants were outraged. But Garber stood up in support and said, Elizabeth writes, “We have no idea the kind of violence that Negros face everyday. This is important for us to understand.” Yet he also tried to thwart a relationship Elizabeth had with an African-American boyfriend who was her first love. “It was so shocking when he reacted because I had a black boyfriend,” she says. “He said it was all about fear for my safety. And he also wanted to be in control of his kids.” And his open attitude toward his nudity in the home — an offshoot, perhaps, of his belief in the healthfulness of a more open way of living — troubled Elizabeth when she turned 14, she recounts in the book.
“The irony is that it fits into the story of Modernism,” she says during the interview. “He was reacting to a Victorian age where he never saw more than his mother’s ankles or wrists, so he was really into how important it was to be (aware of) your body and to be nude. “In a way, there’s a part of Modernism that was about overexposing, and we weren’t allowed to have boundaries in the house and around ourselves physically. But teenagers need to have privacy; they need to have their own space around their body.” The book’s title specifically recalls the destruction of his most ill-fated project, Sander Hall. But it also has a greater metaphoric meaning, since the problems with Sander Hall created such great anguish, and financial loss, for him. In a way, the project represented the slow implosion of his career. Garber was excited about the possibilities for Sander Hall, built in 1971 as a UC co-ed dorm so large it could be a landmark. (Numerous sources say it was designed to hold 1,300 residents.) It was a tower with mirror glass panels, and Garber couldn’t wait to see what color they would reflect once installed. As Elizabeth remembers, he was pleased when he learned it would be a golden-rose tint. However, she says,
that started a struggle with UC, which didn’t like that color and forced him to turn many panels inside out at his own expense. He was also forced to reduce the size of individual living suites as an economic measure. But additionally, Sander was just plain ill-suited for its occupants. “They put very young students in it in the early 1970s,” Snadon says. “Putting them in a tower didn’t work, and they were rebellious anyway. It was a perfect storm. It was a disorienting experience to young students who were not used to that kind of urban living.” As much as there’s a tragic undercurrent to Implosion, Elizabeth says she is grateful to her father for introducing her to Modern art and architecture at a young age. “There’s something about clean lines and the beauty of the form in Modernist architecture that makes it look like sculpture,” she says. “It makes you pay attention to the light, to the shape of things. It’s beautiful. I learned as a child to just feel my appreciation for it.” Elizabeth W. Garber’s Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter is available at shewritespress.com.
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A show that might include live animals is one of the highlights of the Contemporary Arts Center’s 2018-19 season. Also among the offerings are a new lineup of programs for the Black Box performance and events series and plans for an inaugural contemporary performance festival in April 2019. Creatures: When Species Meet, scheduled for April 26-Aug. 18, 2019 and curated by the CAC’s Steven Matijcio, looks at the way artists collaborate with animals and insects in both allegorical and anthropomorphized settings. It will be a group exhibition that brings together artists and academics that often work with this “untamed, ‘wild’ other as partners in the production of art,” according to the CAC. The museum’s press announcement also explains that “there have been numerous artworks and exhibitions that position animals and insects as subjects, but considerably fewer that enlist these same creatures as collaborators. What does it mean when an animal or insect has agency within the creative act?” “This show has the most potential to get me arrested, but I’m really excited about it,” Matijcio says. He has yet to decide whether to include live animals in the exhibition, acknowledging that doing so and attracting negative attention might distract from the message of the exhibition. If he goes ahead, Matijcio says he plans on convening a panel with representatives from the Cincinnati Zoo and the SPCA, among others, to decide the most humane way to incorporate the animals. Other exhibits in the 2018-19 season include: • As previously reported in CityBeat, the new season begins with exhibits connected to this fall’s FotoFocus Biennial. No Two Alike: Karl Blossfeldt, Francis Bruguière, Thomas Ruff is organized by Ulrike Meyer Stump and is up Sept. 21-Jan. 13, 2019. On display Oct. 5-Feb. 10, 2019 are two additional FotoFocus-related exhibits — Mamma Andersson’s Memory Banks, curated by FotoFocus Artistic Director
Kevin Moore, • The final and Akram trio of shows Zaatari’s The for the season Fold — Space, are solo exhibiTime and the tions from Image, curated artists Alicja by Matijcio. Kwade, Saya “This is the Woolfalk and first time that Bubi Canal. the entire They open building will on July 12, be devoted 2019 and run to FotoFocus through Nov. 3, exhibitions,” 2019. Matijcio says. Kwade will “This year we be redesignwanted to ing the second embrace the floor, Matijcio biennial in a says, to create more comprea site-specific hensive way.” installation, • Archive looking at the as Action, space itself as running Feb. a sculptural 8-June 16, material. 2019, features Woolfalk’s Cincinnati artwork, which ists Cal Cullen, incorporates Amanda Curelements of reri and LindAfro-Futurism sey Whittle and neo-triband is curated alism, looks by Matijcio. at the way the Saya Woolfalk’s “Four Virtues: Prudence” The exhibihuman form tion can be will transform PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LESLIE TO N KO N OW AR T WO R KS + PR O J ECTS , N E W YO R K considered in in the future many ways while still a response maintaining to the Open Archive theme of this year’s a number of different historical traditions. FotoFocus. Matijcio is curating both these shows. • Paired with Archive as Action will be The Canal show, curated by Maria the first solo exhibition for VietnameseSeda-Reeder (a CityBeat arts contributor), born, L.A.-based painter Julien Nguyen. features photographs by the Spanish-born, Highly influenced by Renaissance and New York-based artist that are “very playMannerist painting, Nguyen uses that lens ful and almost hedonistic,” Matijcio says. to look at contemporary political situations, Running concurrently with the finding parallels between the way things exhibitions are performances curated by were historicized in 15th-century Italy and Performing Arts Director Drew Klein in contemporary Los Angeles. the CAC’s Black Box series, which began in
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2011. The series this year has been pared down to just six performances instead of the usual 11 or 12, Klein says, because he will be creating a new contemporary performance festival in April 2019. That still-unnamed festival will prominently feature local artists, giving them the full spotlight and expanded exposure. Klein says the CAC is trying to become an “even stronger place for the exchange of ideas between disciplines and between cultures, and we’ll see how that can move the dial here locally.” The announced Black Box performances focus on national and international artists, and open Sept. 6 with Collection of Lovers. It features “collector of rare things” Raquel Andre, who gathers experiences with various individuals through photography and video. Blind Spot, presented at Memorial Hall on Oct. 6 in partnership with FotoFocus, features Jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and author/photographer Teju Cole. The “filmic portrait” Zvizdal [Chernobyl–So Far So Close] comes from the group BERLIN and will be presented Jan. 18-19, 2019 at Lightborne Communications’ offices in Over-the-Rhine. Norwegian choreographer and performer Ingri Fiksdal returns in February 2019 after her hugely popular 2015 offsite performance Night Tripper. Her new work Diorama will occur offsite Feb. 18-19 and incorporate movement and sound. And on Feb. 21-22 she will present STATE, “part dance performance and part live concert,” that derives from research into ritual dances at different places and times. Leeds, England-based artist Selina Thompson presents Race Cards from Feb. 25-March 2, 2019, posing (literally) 1,000 questions about race on cards and inviting attendees to leave their answers on the back. Both Thompson’s and Andre’s works will contribute to larger, individual staged productions in the future.
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Until recently, if you happened upon First Lutheran Church at 1208 Race St. in Overthe-Rhine, there’s a chance you never saw the building itself. Since September 2016, it had been hidden behind scaffolding set up to protect passersby from the falling pieces of red limestone that were breaking off from the façade. And that tower of scaffolding only rose higher as renovations began. The historic Over-the-Rhine church, dedicated on May 12, 1895, was far from its glory days. Half of the limestone would need to be replaced and sanded to match the original stone. The south entrance facing Washington Park would need repairs, too, including new stone lettering above the entryway and a fresh stain on the doors. Plans were made to restore the 1948 lighted sign. Rotted woodwork needed to be replaced, and the flat roofs needed either to be patched or replaced completely. The main stained glass window would need to be shipped to Minnesota for repairs and cleaning. This month, the
$750,000 restoration project was finally completed. The towers of plastic and metal were lifted away to reveal … a beautiful old church. The folks at First Lutheran Church didn’t want to dramatically change anything about their 121-year-old home, so everything is improved but not necessarily new. “Just as Music Hall had many details brought back to life from old pictures, so too did our façade come back to life,” says Pastor Brian Ferguson. Newer downtown and Over-the-Rhine residents have been quick to notice the changes. For many of them, it’s the first
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time really seeing First Lutheran Church. Its prominent location, right by the streetcar’s southbound Washington Park stop, makes it a very visible presence. And with so many other churches in the city being repurposed, they’re also surprised to find out that it is still an active church rather than having been changed into a concert venue or an upscale apartment building, Ferguson says. When he looks at his church now, he is glad to know its appearance is so appealing. It is working to serve the ministry, instead of being a disincentive to attend. “During the restoration years we were able to grow our ministry, but there was definitely a drop-off in wedding requests,” he says. “Who would want to get married in a shrink wrap church?” The faithful remained believers in the future for First Lutheran Church during the process. “The people who could see past the façade — pun intended — recognized that the restoration effort was an indicator that something exciting must be going on to enable a downtown church to tackle such a big project,” Ferguson says. The exterior may now look pictureperfect, but there’s still work to do inside — another $350,000 worth of work, actually. During the façade renovation, First Lutheran Church worked to secure funding and finalize plans to restore the building’s 2,000-square-foot second-floor gallery. It will be restored in full, adding 200 balcony seats for services and creating room for the area to serve as an event space. Seven more stained glass windows were sent for repairs in April, and installation of a new HVAC system will begin in early July. After a few more months of work, First Lutheran Church plans to hold an event in November to celebrate the new interior. Then, First Lutheran Church will look ahead to the next year. There are plans to add a street-level welcome center in 2019 in a building just north of the church that they already own. That building will get an estimated $1.1 million makeover. The exterior will be restored to its original 1940sera appearance, and it will have glass doors. The welcome center will also serve as an accessible entrance to the church itself, with an elevator so that all three levels of the church can be easily reached. For First Lutheran Church, all this is about more that aesthetics — it’s a sign that it’s still a working part of the Over-theRhine community. “A great deal of our restoration work is being driven by our desire to continue to be a vibrant faith community in the urban core of Cincinnati,” Ferguson says.
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‘Poppea’ Has a Standout Young Cast BY A N N E A R EN S T EI N
Political intrigue, unabated sexual passion, hushed, but without a loss of sweetness or megalomania. This isn’t Game of Thrones; accuracy. it’s Claudio Monteverdi’s 1643 Baroque Mezzo Sarah Mesko brought tragic opera The Coronation of Poppea, as depth to Nero’s long-suffering first wife presented by the Cincinnati Opera with a Ottavia, and soprano Melissa Harvey was superb cast of young singers. a sweet-voiced Drusilla, the serving maid Poppea is based on the woman who who falls in love with Ottone. Countertenor became the infamous Roman Emperor Daniel Moody in two roles as a valet and Nero’s second wife through a series of Seneca’s friend brought a gravitas to both. political maneuvers and marriages. Tenor Andrew Owens and bass-baritone Director Zack Winokur and his producChristian Pursell navigated multiple roles tion team made wise decisions to create a with consummate skill. Classical look for the minimalist set and In the pre-performance talk, the opera’s costumes. It is sung in Italian with projected English translation. The School for Creative and Performing Arts’ Corbett Theater is an ideal performance space for Baroque opera; every voice is powerfully served by the hall’s intimacy and terrific acoustics. Everyone in the cast is under 40, many making their Cincinnati Opera debuts. And there are three outstanding countertenors. Star countertenor Anthony Anthony Roth Costanzo and Sarah Shafer in Poppea Roth Costanzo created a frightening and compelPHOTO: PHILIP GROSHONG ling Nero. He caressed notes and phrases with an exquisite attention that was never pretenArtistic Director Evans Mirageas noted tious. He was forceful when Nero erupted that performing a Baroque opera presin maniacal fury, hurling out vocal runs ents a unique challenge for the orchestra and high notes as breathtaking as they because only a melodic line is written and were chilling. His lithe presence and catthere are few, if any, hints of orchestration. like grace endowed Nero with even more Instrumentalists must create the score. menace. Under the leadership of Gary Thor Playing Poppea’s spurned lover Ottone, Wedow, members of the Cincinnati 24-year-old countertenor phenom Aryeh Symphony Orchestra and the Early Music Nussbaum Cohen sang and moved with ensemble Catacoustic Consort provided the assurance of a veteran performer. The a full, enchanting realization of Montecharacter’s frustration and anger were verdi’s music. palpable in Cohen’s purity of tone and Winokur’s staging was seamless, dramatic expression. enhanced by three set pieces and minimal As the scheming Poppea, soprano Sarah props. Winokur is also a choreographer, Shafer matched Costanzo’s Nero for lyric and he made great use of his cast’s moveelegance and steely determination. As the ment skills. They were never clumsy or love scenes morphed from tender intimacy false. I was delighted to see that Winokur to calculating cruelty, Shafer navigated the allowed the music to lead the action, creatvocal demands with ease. The final duet ing performances that were frequently with Nero was absolutely gorgeous. riveting. Bass Alex Rosen brought a gorgeous There was one gratuitous move at resonance to the role of Seneca, Nero’s the opera’s end that didn’t work, unless tutor and the lone voice of reason. Rosen’s Winokur was going for a Psycho conclusion. performance seethed with Seneca’s righAlthough jarring, it was the only false note. teous anger, his pitch-perfect low notes Overall, this was a performance of a timearticulating the sense of loss. less work by a cast you’re likely to see and Mezzo Rebecca Ringle Kamarei should hear more of in the future. be singing major roles. Her lustrous tone The Coronation of Poppea will be and extraordinary range elevated the role performed at the School for Creative and of Arnalta, Poppea’s companion, into a Performing Arts, Over-the-Rhine, Thursday memorable performance, especially of the at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets: lullaby “Oblivion Soave.” It was sung just cincinnatiopera.org as one would sing a lullaby: softly, almost
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Two seasons in, Desus & Mero (11 p.m. weeknights, VICELAND) has proven to be a standout in the overpopulated pool of late night talk shows. Hosts Desus Nice and The Kid Mero (government names Daniel Baker and Joel Martinez) were among the first comics to parlay Twitter fame into showbiz careers, starting with the Complex podcast/web series Desus vs. Mero and MTV’s Guy Code and transitioning into their popular Bodega Boys podcast and current Desus Nice (left) and The Kid Mero use a modest but hip studio. VICELAND gig. The guys routinely refer to the latter PHOTO: PROVIDED as the “No. 1 show in late night.” “The numbers are there,” Mero says. “Don’t Google them.” 11:30 p.m. post-Daily Show spot is really a From the jump, Desus & Mero has been death sentence.) quintessentially VICE — set in a modest Desus & Mero met a different kind of yet hip studio in Brooklyn, the hosts swap fate. After two years of delivering fresh and boring suits for an enviable collection funny content Monday through Thursday, of sneakers and the standard desk and the boys are ending the show to move on to sofas for a couple of leather armchairs, a (what I hope is) a bigger, better opportunity. graffitied table and taxidermied bear. The Desus and Mero just signed a series deal loose, improvised vibe is like watching two with Showtime to begin sometime in 2019. buddies chilling in a den cracking jokes, The final VICELAND episode airs Thursday, busting each other’s balls and talking and I’m sure they’ll go out in a can’t-miss, about whatever’s going on in their lives. wild fashion. And those topics can range from daily It will be interesting to see how Desus news and politics to animal videos, music and Mero’s Showtime series will compare and pop culture — all of which get equal to HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John play. Throw in a mix of brief, fascinating Oliver — also a weekly premium-cable talk and varied interviews (previous guests show. Oliver’s show is superb, and hits the include New York Senator Kirsten Gilnail on the head when it comes to covering librand, comic Hannibal Buress, actress serious issues with intelligent wit. Whereas Melissa McCarthy and the Sacramento Desus & Mero offers quick hits on a variety Kings’ Iman Shumpert) and you’ve got of hyper-current happenings, Last Week something truly unique — a talk show Tonight mostly delves deep into one story. that’s unpolished and irreverent, yet whip Both shows have done what they do very smart and hilarious. Which is why it was well. surprising and unfortunate to learn that As Showtime’s first foray into the lateDesus & Mero will soon come to an end. night world, I hope this new gig allows While late night talk shows have always Desus and Mero the freedom to keep their covered some newsy subject matter, audibrand of humor and the laidback nature ences have lately become inundated with that made the VICELAND show so great. perpetual political comedy that relies too When the world is a dumpster fire, it’s much on the former rather than the latter. I hard to talk about current events in a expect show hosts and comedians to tackle fresh, funny way. As two men of color from current events, but I’ve been let down humble beginnings in the Bronx, Desus recently by the Jimmys and even Saturday and Mero have a different perspective on Night Live at times. the world than the mostly white hosts that Tough topics are either essentially dominate late night. ignored in favor of celebrity pie-eating conMany of those other hosts are so tests or ranted about without any thoughtdetached from some of the atrocities provoking observational commentary. unfolding in the country right now that What was once political satire or comedic they’re rendered speechless or incited to critique has become merely a regurgitation rant. Desus’ and Mero’s unique points of the day’s or week’s most troublesome of view are what set them apart from the news. pack and at the same time make them so Even Comedy Central’s alt-right news relatable. Hopefully this new opportunity spoof The Opposition with Jordan Klepper allows them to soar. Congrats, fam! failed to get around this increasingly comContact Jac Kern: @jackern mon issue. It was cancelled last week. (That
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Superb Veggie Burgers A list of local creative and satisfying meatless patties BY M A I JA Z U M M O
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hat makes a burger a burger? Is it the patty? The toppings? The fact that it’s a food item stuffed in a bun? This entire checklist comes into play when you’re talking about finding a good veggie burger (probably meat burgers, too, but I don’t eat those). First off, the patty. There are several types of humans interested in veggie burgers: there are vegetarians/vegans, those who want to decrease their carbon footprint and then those with health issues like high cholesterol. Within those categories there are also people who want a meatless patty to look and taste just like meat, and then people who really, really (really) don’t. Restaurants tend to serve either a frozen branded meat substitute as the base of their veggie burger, or play roulette by making a patty in house. The inherent danger in housemade veggie burgers is that they can either turn out to be fantastically delicious or a plate of bland, damp papertowel pulp. Finding the correct wet to dry to spice ratio is imperative. Whether a restaurant goes handcrafted or heat-and-eat, the patty is a canvas upon which colorful toppings can be placed. And the bun, well, it’s generally pretty boring. But if it’s a fancy bun, that just adds to the overall effect. The following veggie burgers capitalize on all of these aspects to varying degrees to create some of the most creative and satisfying meatless burgers in the city.
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Krueger’s Tavern is part of the rapidly expanding Thunderdome empire, which also owns Maplewood, Bakersfield, Currito and The Eagle. And Krueger’s has legit the best veggie burger — possibly ever. The housemade patty is a blend of beets, breadcrumbs and other binding ingredients, all mushed together into a sort of disc, then dropped in a fryer. Deep frying anything is a good idea, especially vegetables, and this is no exception — a friend recently noted that the end result is falafel-like in texture. The burger is crispy on the outside and super flavorful on the inside, with a nice reddish hue. Topped with melty provolone cheese, pesto mayo, mixed greens and housemade pickles on a challah bun, it’s got substance, tang and crunch. 1211 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, kruegerstavern.com.
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Zip’s Zip’s has been around for more than 90 years, and the café’s claim to fame — besides the little toy train that runs along the ceiling — is having some of the best burgers in town: fresh, flame-broiled Avril-Bleh beef patties on a Klosterman honey-egg bun. If you have a friend/ spouse/significant other/enemy that enjoys burgers and wants to eat them in your company, you will most likely end up at Zip’s at some point in your life. If you do, order their Gardenburger (just like the ones you get in the grocery freezer) with cheese. It comes topped with lettuce, tomato, pickle, mayo, etc., and it’s very comforting and classic. If you’re feeling wild or really hungry, you can double up and get a two-story Gardenburger. Zip’s onion rings are also freakishly good — crunchy, kind of sweet and the onion doesn’t fall out of the breading when you bite into them — so order those, too. 1036 Delta Ave., Mount Lookout, zipscafe.com.
Gordo’s Pub & Grill At Gordo’s, you can sub in a black bean patty on any of their themed specialty burgers. The black bean burger itself is fine — like a standard BBB with a chunk of corn in it — but the gourmet topping combos are where things get exciting. The black beans don’t play well with every option — avoid the BPJ, with fried banana, chunky peanut butter cream cheese and jam — but they do go exceptionally well with the Mexican burger (avocado, jalapeño, lettuce, tomato and housemade cilantro mayo) or IPA burger, with MadTree’s Psychopathy IPA fondue and sautéed mushrooms. Most burger styles come with bonus meat, so remember to ask for no smoked bacon, Applewood bacon, Canadian bacon, etc. This Xavier pub also has a bunch of sports on TV and a great beer list, if you’re looking for a meatless bro down. 4328 Montgomery Road, Norwood, gordospub.com.
Arthur’s In a similar vein as Gordo’s, Arthur’s veggie burgers get uber decadent during Burger Madness, Sunday through Tuesday. During Madness nights, you pay a $9.49 flat rate for a burger and then pile on basically unlimited toppings for no additional charge (unless you opt for something “gourmet,” like boursin cheese or a fried egg). Arthur’s black bean veggie patty is housemade with corn, cheese, breadcrumbs and seasoning, and it’s pretty good on its own — it’s not crumbly or wet — but during Burger Madness, it’s exceptionally exciting. Cover that black bean base with a buffet of goodies, from chipotle barbecue sauce and sautéed green peppers to pineapple salsa and blue cheese. Note: You do have to limit your cheese selections to six, so calm down on the dairy. Pour a side of Arthur’s pink salsa on top (is it ranch + salsa? Mayo + salsa?), and you’re in flavortown. 3516 Edwards Road, Hyde Park, arthurscincinnati.com.
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BurgerFi OK. This is a chain, but BurgerFi is great because it offers not one but two types of veggie burgers: a quinoa blend patty and a Beyond Burger. Decisions, decisions! BurgerFi is the first national chain to serve Beyond Burgers — a soy-free, gluten-free super beefy looking veggie patty that people are stoked about because it looks just like ground cow. The Beyond option comes topped with American cheese, ketchup, mustard, mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickle and onion — it’s as close to a good ol’ American burger as a vegetarian can get. The VegeFi burger, a deliciously crispy quinoa thing, comes topped with white cheddar, lettuce, tomato and BurgeFi sauce (like Arthur’s salsa, this is also pink) on a multigrain bun or “green style” (aka when your burger is wrapped in an iceburg lettuce leaf instead of a bun). Also worth noting that you can get a Cry+Fry side, which is a pile of onion rings and French fries. 161 Freedom Way, Downtown, burgerfi.com.
The Takeaway 1324 Main St., OTR, 513-8731157, facebook. com/takeawayonmain Business at The Takeaway is split between the deli — with sandwiches and cut-to-order meats and cheeses — and a tidy grocery. The deli offers an assortment of sandwiches, sides, daily soups, salads and a kids menu — a rarity in to-go shops. Among other sandwich options, you can chow down on the Reuben, featuring house corned beef layered on rye bread from Allez; the northeast-Ohio
staple, Trail & Swiss, featuring Troyer’s Genuine Trail bologna; or one of three variants of The Salad Sandwich, with egg, chicken or tuna salad. Vegetarianfriendly options include the Caprese with housemade basil pesto on Allez sourdough or one of three salads — the Caesar, kale apple and house. On the first visit, a BLT felt like a safe choice. It proved to be that and more. The bacon was the thickest cut I’ve had on a sandwich in a long time (the slicer is set to 26), the aioli was creamy, but not overpowering, and the wheat bread sufficiently held it all together. (I also added a slice of cheddar.) I tried the tuna salad on a Mainwood Pastry croissant on a subsequent visit, and it only served to further my belief that any “salad” sandwich should exclusively be served on flaky bread. The croissant lasted to the very last triumphant bite — no soggy bottom slice here — and the housemade mayonnaise sets the trio of salads apart. (Leyla Shokoohe) Boomtown Biscuits & Whiskey 1201 Broadway St., Pendleton, 513-381-2666, boomtownbiscuitsandwhiksey.com This Pendleton restaurant is inspired by the American frontier and California’s 19th-century gold rush. The whiskey menu is extensive, given its presumed importance in the diet of frontier prospectors, but at Boomtown, the true delight comes plated. The signature biscuit isn’t a run-of-the-mill thousand-layer flaked baked good. It’s a buttery, soft disc with a close crumb and a browned, lightly bubbled top. The food menu starts with “Pick & Shovel Sandwiches.” All of these options feature fillings like fried chicken, barbecue short ribs or mush cakes with chimichurri tofu, stuffed between biscuits. The most popular sandwich is the Yukon ($11), with fried chicken, gravy, smoked cheddar and thick-cut bacon. The option to add an egg is, theoretically, optional (and a $2 upcharge), but better thought of as an intrinsic part of the dish. This sandwich was sumptuous. Besides the sandwiches, the menu offers “Prospector Plates,” which are more entrée-style than the sandwiches; “Bowls of Gold,” which are the requisite beans and grits but gussied up; “Sundries,” aka the sides you’ll want at least a few of; “Nuggets of Gold,” for condiments and dips; and “Sweet Fixins” for dessert. (McKenzie Graham)
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Sacred Beast 1437 Vine St., OTR, 513-2132864, sacredbeastdiner.com Before I had the chance to eat at Sacred Beast, I had heard so much buzz — about the concept, the owners and their impressive pedigree, the physical design and the “simple food, taken seriously” motto — that my expectations were over the moon. It took me two tries to understand the raves, but then I became a believer. It was hard to tell which of the food choices might qualify as a main course, but our server said that the bottom portion of the “Now Serving” column could be considered entrées. Those entrées include king salmon, steak tartar with french fries and an egg, chicken thighs, hash browns (yes, in the main course section) and the cryptically listed “ham and cheese,” all priced between $13.95-$18.95. Descriptions of these and other presumably lighter dishes are sparse, and you might want to ask before you order. It wasn’t easy to decide what to eat, but I’m happy to report that my choice of the Diner Breakfast hit the jackpot. It’s a truly great plate of food and I’d be hardpressed to order anything else upon a return visit. Soft scrambled eggs, a short stack of ricotta pancakes topped with two strips of maple-glazed pork belly and a small grilled tomato make up this scrumptious meal. Clearly, this kitchen knows how to get the very best out of the humble egg: My husband had the equally delicious omelet filled with a simple combo of goat cheese and sweet peppers. (Pama Mitchell)
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Wyoming’s Phish-themed Tela Bar & Kitchen is another restaurant with a freaky fake meat burger — called the Impossible Burger — which is very, very exciting for vegetarians and other non-meat-eaters who miss that beef texture. The Impossible Burger features an Impossible Foods patty, lettuce, roasted tomato, shaved red onion, housemade pickles and sundried tomato ketchup on a Sixteen Bricks Cubano bun. The burger, created in Silicon Valley, is a more sustainable plant-based burger option that has the same flavor, mouthfeel, aroma, color and sizzle of ground beef. It even “bleeds.” You can find these burgers at some other local pubs, including Bru
Mount Adams Bar & Grill This former George Remus speakeasy is now a cozy little pub nestled on Hatch Street in Mount Adams. Fun fact: It was the first bar in Ohio to obtain a liquor license after the repeal of Prohibition. With some kitschy flair and autographed photos of celebrities and actors from the nearby Playhouse in the Park, it’s got a neighborhood vibe, which plays well with the casual eats. The food here is easy and solid and the menu boasts multiple veggie options (like a veggie sandwich with tofu and Thousand Island dressing), including a housemade veggie burger. The burger itself is a “combination of oats, tofu, wheatgerm, sesame seeds and a variety of seasonings” and tastes kind of like a Gardenburger. It comes served with lettuce, tomato, pickle, red onion, mustard and Monterey Jack cheese, and you should definitely order a side of housemade ranch dressing to dip or spread on top. It’s technically listed under the “sandwich” category, so the burger will come on bread unless you specify. You can get it on plain or toasted white, 15-grain wheat or Jewish rye bread or on a grilled bun. 938 Hatch St., Mount Adams, mtadamsbarandgrill.com.
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Burger, Unwind and Flipdaddy’s. If you ain’t bout that synthetic beef, they also have a SoCal-style quinoa burger with alfalfa sprouts, roasted red pepper hummus and roasted tomato. 1212 Springfield Pike, Wyoming, telabarandkitchen.com.
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Summery beers, beer festivals and upcoming brewery anniversaries are here to enhance the sweltering heat. Rhinegeist just turned 5 with a big bash last week, and Nine Giant in Pleasant Ridge turned 2 with a full week of events. West Side Brewing will celebrate its 1-year anniversary with a weekend-long shindig starting June 29. And on July 21, Bellevue’s Darkness Brewing hits the 2-year mark with a party featuring live music, beer releases and food. As for new beers, Rhinegeist released Cloud Five, a hazy imperial IPA. MadTree’s gin-like Joon is back on shelves, and their pilsner Mad Pils is now in cans. Urban Artifact’s Love Letter, a puckering peach beer, can be found in cans and on draft in their taproom. If you visit, you can even pen your own love letter via postcard. Rivertown just released a watermelon imperial gose called I Carried A Watermelon, and FigLeaf now has 9 Red on draft, named after Butler County, Ohio’s ninth county. March First Brewing and Aglamesis Brothers ice cream just made summer sweeter with their red raspberry cider, inspired by the creamery’s red raspberry Italian ice.
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• On June 30, Fretboard hosts Strawberry JAM! It’s part music fest and part celebration of strawberries. They will have several variants of their Reba Strawberry Blonde Ale — name after redhead Reba McEntire — including Reba Strawberry Kiwi and Reba Strawberries & Cream. Made By Mavis will provide some strawberry jam, and Wyoming Pastry Shop will sell something with strawberries in it. • Wiedemann — which just reopened in Saint Bernard after 35 years — is throwing a charity boxing event at Yeatman’s Cove on June 30. The beer part starts at 2 p.m. and features brews from Darkness, Bad Tom Smith and Woodburn. At 6 p.m., the United States Color Guard Ceremony will commence the boxing exhibition. Tickets range from $18-$55 and benefit the Semper
Fi Fund. • What could be more fun than throwing an axe at a non-human target? Covington’s new Flying Axes venue wants you to find out when they open on July 7 with free admission and Braxton beer. If you want to throw, it costs $5 for 15 minutes. You must wear closed-toe shoes and not be intoxicated in order to throw axes. • With the addition of 3 Points Urban Brewery, Pendleton is becoming a happening place. On July 7, wander around 12th Street during the aptly named the
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Punch You in the EyePA. Tickets are $20 in advance or $30 for ringside seats. • On July 12, Mt. Carmel pairs up with Inter Parish Ministry to host Christmas in July. From noon-6 p.m. those who feel charitable — and want to wear a Santa suit in the middle of summer— can bring a toy and also participate in a trivia contest. Registration costs $15 and includes two drink tickets. • On July 15, Fibonacci wants to educate people about solar power through Solar ‘n’ Suds. Based in Milford, Icon Solar is one of the largest providers of solar power in the Midwest. They’ll teach you about solar, and Fibonnaci will buy your first beer. • Crafted Food, Beer & Music Festival hits Sawyer Point on July 21. Local restaurants will provide the food, and local breweries — including 13 Below, Brink and DogBerry — will provide 40 types of craft suds. Tickets range from $35-$85 and benefit the League for Animal Welfare. • Pendleton’s Danger Wheel, aka a chance to get drunk and drive a Big Wheel down a hill, returns on July 28. It costs $100 per team of three, including “one ballsy driver that is willing to risk life and limb.” If you don’t want to risk your life, hang out, drink beer and watch others do so. Contact Garin Pirnia: letters@citybeat.com
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Lobstapalooza at Washington Platform — Craving crustaceans? Get your fix at Washington Platform during Lobstapalooza. Enjoy seafood specialties like lobster bisque, lobster curry, lobster pot pie and classics like a whole Maine lobster, steamed and served with a side. Through June 30. Prices vary. Washington Platform, 1000 Elm St., Downtown, washingtonplatform.com.
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Paradise Music & Beer Festival — Two days with two stages of live music, local food, arts, crafts and craft beer. Friday and Saturday. Free general admission; $30 VIP. Wooden Cask Brewing Company, 629 York St., Newport, facebook.com/ paradisemusicfest. Murder Mystery Dinner at Butcher and Barrel — Head to the Butcher and Barrel’s Backroom for a three-course plated dinner and cocktails, prepared by chef Alfio Gulisano and head chef Matthew Handleton, and a “real” murder. Someone’s been killed at the Billionaires’ Club’s annual masquerade ball; help determine which partygoer is guilty. 6-9 p.m. $50. Butcher and Barrel, 700 Race St., Downtown, facebook.com/ butcherandbarrel.
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Wiedemann’s Beer Boxing Championships — This boxing event at Yeatman’s Cove doubles as a beer festival to benefit the Semper Fi Fund. Hosted by The Punch House and Wiedemann’s Brewery, it features brews from Woodburn, Darkness, Bad Tom Smith and more. 2 p.m. beer festival; 6 p.m. boxing exhibition. $18 general admission; $40 VIP. Yeatman’s Cove, 705 E. Pete Rose Way, Downtown, cincyticket.com/ wiedemannboxing. Cellarman’s Tour — Learn about the 19th-century workers who built the dangerous lagering tunnels and the Beer Barons who built their fortunes producing local brews. Tour includes a visit underground into the lagering cellar of the Schmidt Brothers Brewery and a beer tasting at the Christian Moerlein Malt House Taproom. 12:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. $25. Leaves from the Christian Moerlein Malt House Taproom, 1621 Moore St., Over-the-Rhine, brewingheritagetrail.org.
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Gears and Beers — Visit MadTree’s taproom for a car show featuring Eastside Auto Spa and in support of Starfire Council. Check out cars, from exotics to garage projects, while enjoying brunch from Catch-a-Fire Pizza and coffee from Deeper Roots. Rain or shine. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. MadTree, 3301 Madison Road, Oakley, facebook.com/ madtreetaproom. Adult Field Day — Swine City Brewing hosts an adult field day with three-legged races, water balloon tosses and tug of war, plus a hot dog lunch and beer. 1-8 p.m. $30 for team of two; $15 single participants. Swine City Brewing, 4614 Industry Drive, Fairfield, facebook. com/swinecitybrewing.
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Vegan Cookout Potluck — Bring a vegan dish to share with fellow friends and animal-free eaters. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and grains, organic, gluten-free, raw and honey-free dishes are appreciated. 7:30-9 p.m. $9 or a plant-based vegan dish to share. World Peace Yoga, 268 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, facebook.com/ worldpeaceyogah.
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All-American Fundraiser at The Overlook Lodge — The Overlook transforms into a 1940s Bob Hope/Bing Crosby-style USO show to honor active military and veterans in advance of the Fourth of July. Hosted by Ray Anderson, there will be musical performances by Oddly OK and The Whiskey Shambles, and a portion of sales and raffle proceeds will benefit the local chapter of the USO and 22 to Valhalla. 7 p.m.-midnight. Free admission. The Overlook Lodge, 6083 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, facebook.com/overlooklodge.
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The Big Lebowski Blast — Jungle Jim’s is throwing a big Big Lebowskithemed party, complete with a screening of the classic movie. Jungle Jim’s head chef will be serving up themed finger foods — Donny’s In N Out Sliders, Walter’s Show Dog (braised pork belly corn dogs), Bunny’s Toe (pigs in a blanket) and more — to keep you prepared to pound White Russians from sponsors Kahlua and Absolut. 4-11 p.m. Saturday. $35. Jungle
Jim’s International Market Eastgate, 4450 Eastgate South Drive, Eastgate, junglejims.com.
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Findlay Eats — Every Friday at noon, Findlay highlights a market vendor via cooking demos and food samples. This week, prep for Fourth of July with Colonel de Gourmet Herbs & Spices. Noon-1 p.m. Free admission. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, findlaymarket.org.
Turner Farm Full Moon Feast — Enjoy a feast al fresco under the light of the full moon from Turner Farm’s chef Stephanie. There will be farm-fresh and seasonal dishes that reflect upon moon cycles. Held under the full rose moon, which celebrates the intensifying of summer heat and signifies a perfect time to pick strawberries. 7:30 p.m. $150. Turner Farm, 7400 Given Road, Indian Hill, turnerfarm.org.
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Cincinnati Streetcar Food Tour — Take the streetcar to tour and taste at various area restaurants. Stop and dine at three unique restaurants, enjoying a sample of beer and wine. The adventure concludes at Findlay Market. 1 p.m. $59. Leaves from Howl at the Moon, 145 Second St., Downtown, riversidefoodtours.com.
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Dylan, Changed Soul singer Bettye LaVette covers the music of Bob Dylan on her own terms on Things Have Changed BY S T E V EN R O S EN
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ettye LaVette doesn’t so much interpret the songs she covers as much as she psychoanalyzes them — and, in the process, herself. Seriously, that’s how much thought she puts into her artistry. Starting as a teenage Soul singer in 1962 with “My Man–He’s a Loving Man,” LaVette’s powerful approach has propelled her into a late-period reinvention that has netted a new, growing audience and three Grammy nominations. But there were hard decades between her debut and 2005’s I Got My Own Hell to Raise, the album that heralded her comeback as a bluesy interpreter par excellence and featured versions of songs by contemporary female singers and composers like Aimee Mann, Lucinda Williams and Fiona Apple. Before then, LaVette was fighting to be remembered and struggled to get heard and earn a living in music. To paraphrase a Ringo Starr song she did with utter conviction on her 2010 covers set, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, “It didn’t come easy.” On her latest album, Things Have Changed, she’s taking on a songwriter with enough depth and historic impact to be worthy of LaVette’s intense and wrenching vocal approach: Bob Dylan. Intimidating? Not to her. The idea came about when her friend Carol Friedman sold the concept of LaVette covering Dylan — with Grammywinning producer (and drummer with Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards’ band) Steve Jordan at the helm — to Verve Records. Where to start when finding songs to cover from a prolific artist who has been writing and recording for six decades? “He’s a brilliant writer, but I had no desire to listen to everything he had ever written,” LaVette says. “I just needed 12 songs I could interpret and put myself into.” As she’s done in the past, she turned to her music-loving husband to narrow Dylan’s catalog down to 50 songs he thought she might be able to relate to. She eventually chose 12. Because the songs were chosen free of their importance to Dylan’s career, but rather because LaVette could hear herself performing them, there are only three from his classic 1960s period and a number of songs that aren’t even that familiar. Things Have Changed includes songs like
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“Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others)” from 1979’s Slow Train Coming, “Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight” from 1983’s Infidels, “Seeing the Real You at Last,” and “Ain’t Talkin’ ” from 2006’s Modern Times. Other songs have altered melodies and radically changed arrangements from Dylan’s originals — “Political World” has a Reggae groove propelled by Keith Richards’ guitar, while “What Was It You Wanted” features a chill Jazz/Soul arrangement reminiscent of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” Just how deeply LaVette thinks about why she should record a specific Dylan song is revealed in her decision to interpret the title composition, a tough and cynical, poetically inventive composition that won Dylan an Oscar when included in the 2000 film Wonder Boys. Beyond presenting lyrics from a woman’s rather than a man’s viewpoint, she also decided to omit the line, “Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet/ Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street.” “My clothes are too tight and my heels are too high to put anybody in a wheelbarrow and go running down the street with them,” LaVette says of her reason for the edit, “so I had to change that line.” But other lyrics in “Things Have Changed” really resonated with her. “The line that really drew me in was, ‘I’m in love with a (wo)man who doesn’t even
appeal to me,’ ” LaVette says. “I directly associate that with my career — I apparently am in love with it, but it’s totally unappealing. For the last 30 years, whenever you hear me (sing that) something has hurt me, I’m talking about this business. So the song appealed to me strictly personally.” She felt the song also addressed why she can’t stop. “I’m 72 years old and look what it does to me,” she says. “But whenever it calls me, it calls me with something I can’t possibly turn down.” Her record company requested she include at least two songs from the 1960s on the album, something LaVette resisted at first. “I said, ‘My God, everybody has heard those in every fashion by now,’ ” she says. “So, when it came to doing those two, I told Steve (Jordan) that we have to think backward. I just can’t go forward with them the way they exist now.” Sometimes, the reworking led LaVette and Jordan to recast the musical approach. But other times, the meaning of the songs changed. For Dylan’s 1964 song “Mama, You Been on My Mind,” which is believed to be about his breakup with girlfriend Suze Rotolo, LaVette heard something completely different and delivered it with that in mind.
“When I heard that (song), I couldn’t think of anything else except my mom and what a thoughtless young person I was,” she says. “Now I’m thinking continuously, ‘Is my daughter OK?’ Or my grandchildren. My mother was a serious mother and I’m sure she worried more than I do. That’s what I heard the first time I heard the song.” As mentioned before, no one intimidates LaVette. And if she ever discusses her album with Dylan, she might have a few pointers for him on how to sing. For instance, she doesn’t feel his interpretation of his own “Emotionally Yours” — one of Dylan’s most straightforward and tender ballads, from 1985’s Empire Burlesque — is effective. She feels Dylan’s vocal on the original recording is too sing-songy, as if he was singing “Happy Birthday” to someone, and that it undercuts the lyrics, a dedication of unselfish, total devotion to a loved one. “When I slowed it down, I’m telling you it broke my heart,” LaVette says about understanding the emotion behind the lyrics. “And I was so glad to know that, because I wanted to know he could feel that way, even if he often likes to mask it. It did me good to know he could feel that way.” Bettye LaVette performs Thursday at Oakley’s 20th Century Theater. Tickets/ more info: the20thcenturytheatre.com.
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Cincinnati rockers Heavy Hinges are back presents Heavy Hinges’ charm and perwith their latest EP, Lonely, which will get sonality exquisitely. the release-party treatment Saturday at For more on the band, visit MOTR Pub (1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, heavyhinges.com. motrpub.com). The free show begins at 10 p.m. with an opening set from Joe ADM Goes Wide Hedges, the former Cincinnati-area singer/ A Delicate Motor (aka ADM) began as songwriter and onetime frontperson with a songwriting outlet for CCM-trained the popular Middletown, Ohio band July Cincinnati musician Adam Petersen, who for Kings who currently lives in eastern released a self-titled debut in 2013 that Washington. showcased his ethereal sonic explorations Together as Heavy Hinges since 2012, the band’s Roots- and Soulinflected Rock sound has only gotten more sublime with time. A newcomer when the group started, Maya Banatwala has emerged as one of Cincinnati’s finest powerhouse vocalists, and Lonely again serves as a showcase for her elastic, soul-drenched voice. (Guitarist Jeremy Singer left the band after recording the new EP; Kirk Hunter has since been playing lead guitar in the group.) Lonely shows the continuing sharpening of Heavy Hinges’ writing chops, featuring some of the band’s most melodically memorable songs yet. On the hard-driving rocker “Stoned,” the slashing guitars and poundHeavy Hinges’ Lonely ing drums give way to a two-tiered chorus that’s a PHOTO: PROVIDED tilt-a-whirl of next-level Pop hooks. The shimmery glide using layered and looped vocals, keyof “Day to Day” also deserves a spot on boards, percussion and other instrumenany Heavy Hinges greatest hits collection, tation. While that first studio outing was with its the twinkling guitar rhythms and created entirely by Petersen, he decided Honky Tonk-ish guitar leads. The song to expand ADM for the follow-up, enlistalso provides a great example of guitarist ing drummer Ben Sloan and guitarist Dylan Speeg’s talent for background vocal Stephen Patota to help enrich his hypnotiarrangements, as he augments the track’s cally enchanting soundscapes. Petersen summer-breeziness with low-register dooself-released the results on the stunning woppy croons. Fellover My Own album last year and furLonely starts off in high gear, but shifts ther built up ADM for live performances, down after the early Rock & Roll sparks. adding Brianna Kelly, Libby Landis and By the last two tracks, the ace rhythm Rachel Mousie to the fold. section of Andrew Laudeman (bassist) and Since then, ADM was featured at the The Brian Williamson (drums) has eased into National’s big Homecoming festival in Cina serene sway. Closer “Ms. Right” begins cinnati and around the same time it was with just guitar and Banatwala’s bluesy announced that Fellover My Own would be bluster, then slowly rises with twangy issued through well-distributed Northern guitar, rolling drums and piano plinks that Kentucky label SofaBurn Records. create a desert-sunset mood. The album goes nationwide this Friday. While the incorporation of ingredients The band celebrates that night with a free, borrowed from other styles has always 9 p.m. album release show at Northside been a key part of Heavy Hinges’ appeal, as Tavern (4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, the foundational songwriting and arrangenorthsidetav.com). ments get stronger, so does the band’s own More info: sofaburn.com/adelicatemotor. distinct identity. And with a big helping hand from co-producer and engineer Matt Contact Mike Breen: Hueneman (who also adds atmosphere mbreen@citybeat.com with his diverse keyboard playing), Lonely
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It’s been an eventful seven years since The Neighbourhood formed in Newbury Park, Calif., a span that has seen the release of three full-length albums, six EPs, a mixtape and a clutch of infectious singles. The Pop/Rock quintet’s most visible entry in that last category would be 2013’s twiceplatinum “Sweater Weather,” which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart; to date, the track’s video has generated over 244 million views on YouTube. Predictably, The Neighbourhood has wedged an impossibly active touring schedule into its consistently busy studio regimen, playing some of the world’s biggest music festivals. The band — vocalist Jesse Rutherford, guitarists Zach Abels and Jeremy Freedman, bassist Michael Margott and former drummer Bryan Sammis — assembled in 2011 as The Neighborhood, but another American band was already operating under that name, so the quintet’s manager suggested a shift to the British spelling to avoid any legal issues. Within its first year, the group signed with Columbia Records, which led to the release of two EPs in 2012 and an invitation to Coachella on the eve of its 2013 debut full-length, I Love You. Early in 2014, founding drummer Sammis opted out for a solo career (he’s since released music and toured as Olivver the Kid) and his place at the kit was filled by Brandon Fried. Later that year, The Neighbourhood released The Love Collection EP and #000000 & #FFFFFF mixtape, which featured G-Eazy, Danny Brown and many others. The next year saw the release
of sophomore album Wiped Out!, which cracked the Top 15 of the Billboard album chart. Last fall, the band dropped the Hard EP, and followed it early this year with To Imagine, all of which led to the March release of The Neighbourhood’s self-titled third album and the charting singles “Void” and “Nervous.” They’re not the flavour of the month and they definitely colour outside traditional Pop/Rock lines. The Neighbourhood requests the favour of your company, guvnah. (Brian Baker)
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gobbinjr’s latest album, ocala wick, opens with this confession from Emma Witmer: “I’m going to work high/I’m sitting at work high/I’m smoking at work high/Nice to meet you.” Witmer (who records as gobbinjr solo but is joined by a band for live performances) projects these sentiments via a modest, almost childlike voice and an equally unassuming musical backdrop that resembles the raw, eccentric folksiness of The Moldy Peaches. The song is called “Afraid of Me,” and it’s the perfect primer for what’s to follow — 10 more vignettes that ride on Witmer’s unabashedly vulnerable lyrics, rudimentary sonics and whimsically oddball vibe. On Facebook, “mean pop” is how she fills out the “genre” tab. “Fake Bitch” commences with another vivid opening salvo: “I felt you press your dick against my thigh when we hugged/I didn’t ask for it/You’re not the one I
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simply because they have displayed so much creative diversity that they seem to evolve from track to track rather than between albums or tours. The once-quartet/now-trio has been variously described as Indie Rock, Math Rock and Alternative Rock, and their sound has elements of Electronic Pop, Prog Maps & Atlases and the numerous PHOTO: CHRIS HAINEY subsets of Indie Rock and Post-whatever. But genre tags serve to describe but not define Maps & Atlases. The band formed when its four original members — guitarist/vocalist Dave Davison, guitarist Erin Elders, bassist Shiraz Dada and drummer Chris Hainey — met as art students at Columbia College Chicago in 2004. As fans of the powerful nuance of Don Caballero and the indescribable tumult of Hella, the foursome was attempting to forge a sound that was precise and cerebral while remaining organic. Maps & Atlases’ first official release was the 2006 EP Tree, Swallows, Houses, which garnered a good deal of critical praise; the band toured for two years on the EP and eventually inked a contract gobbinjr with renowned management firm/record P H O T O : S O N YA B E L A K H L E F label Sargent House, which reissued the EP in 2007. While Maps & Atlases has been a want/’Cause you’re a fake bitch and you constant presence on the road, the band’s know it.” Acoustic guitar, a steady beat and discography is relatively slim; five official keyboards back Witmer’s tale of a music and unofficial EPs and three full-length club encounter gone bad, a seemingly albums, including the new Lightlessness ramshackle combination that, by the is Nothing New. After touring on 2012 song’s shimmering finale, brings to mind sophomore album Beware and Be Grateful, Grandaddy fronted by Sarah Vowell. the band went on an indefinite hiatus, a Witmer moved to Brooklyn from Wisperiod that was marked by the individual consin to attend college a few years back, members’ work on side and solo projects and a Midwestern modesty permeates the and the departure of Elders, who shifted thoughts of a woman who isn’t afraid to gears and has become an in-demand video reveal her flaws or yearnings. director. “One thing this project has shown me Reduced to a trio, Maps & Atlases is that there is so much power in vulnercontinued to play shows without replacability,” Witmer told Noisey in a recent ing Elders, which dramatically shifted the interview. “Once you take down your band’s onstage dynamics. Davison began defenses, no one can harm you. It seems working on songs for his Cast Spells solo like kind of faulty logic, but there’s sort of project, inspired partly by the passing of an inner armor that vulnerability provides. his father, and he asked Dada and Hainey It’s one that doesn’t shut out criticisms on to contribute, which led to the ultimate your work but considers it, embraces it and realization that they weren’t making a Cast lets it go.” (Jason Gargano) Spells album but a new Maps & Atlases record. Like its predecessors in the Maps & Maps & Atlases with Atlases catalog, Lightlessness has moments Currents and Daniel in Stereo of danceable inscrutability, much like Saturday • Fountain Square Talking Heads, but there are also the everpresent elements that have made Maps & It would be difficult to quantify the sonic Atlases a consistent critical and fan favorevolution of Maps & Atlases over the ite for two solid decades. (BB) course of their nearly 20-year history,
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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL–Todd Hepburn. 7 p.m. Blues/Jazz/Various. Free. BLIND LEMON–John Frisch. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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BOGART’S–The Neighbourhood with HEALTH and Field Medic. 8 p.m. AltPop. $31.
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FOUNTAIN SQUARE– Reggae Wednesdays with Gizzae. 7 p.m. Reggae. Free. KNOTTY PINE–Dallas Moore. 8 p.m. Country. Free.
MOTR PUB–The Meanies. 10 p.m. Rock/Various. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN–The Stapletons. 9 p.m. Rock/ Roots/Various. Free. RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER–Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers. 7:30 p.m. Classic Rock. $25-$199. SONNY’S ALL JAZZ LOUNGE–Karaoke. 7 p.m. Various. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE)–Frontier Folk Nebraska with The New Old-Fashioned. 8:30 p.m. Rock. Free. STANLEY’S PUB–Treehouse. 9 p.m. Reggae. Cover.
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20TH CENTURY THEATER–Bettye LaVette. 8 p.m. Soul. $28-$30.
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BLIND LEMON–Mark Macomber. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free. BREWRIVER GASTROPUB–Ricky Nye. 6 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE–Todd Hepburn and Friends. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
Tumblers. 9 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.
CAFFÈ VIVACE–Vintage Keys Project. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.
CROW’S NEST–Easy Tom. 10 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.
CROW’S NEST–Pete Jive and Jaik Willis. 10 p.m. Folk/ Americana. Free.
FOUNTAIN SQUARE–Salsa on the Square with Afinca’o. 7 p.m. Salsa/Latin/Dance. Free.
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THE GREENWICH–Now Hear This. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5. THE HAMILTON–Judy Tsai. 8 p.m. Jazz/Various. Free. KNOTTY PINE–Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. LUDLOW GARAGE–Funky Feat featuring members of Little Feat. 8:30 p.m. Rock. $30-$50.
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MOTR PUB–Noah Smith’s Crooner’s Circus with David Rhodes Brown, Joe Hedges, Michael Moeller, Brent James, Meaghan Farrell, Adam Lee and more. 10 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter/Various. Free.
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OCTAVE–Andy Frasco and the U.N. 9 p.m. Funk/R&B/Rock/Various. $10, $12 day of show.
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RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER–Logic with NF and Kyle. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. $25-$69.50.
SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB–Andrew Haug & Josh Strange. 8 p.m. Jazz. Cover. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE)–Black Mountain Throwdown. 9:30 p.m. Americana. Free.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM)–Sarah Shook & The Disarmers with Wonky Tonk. 8 p.m. Americana/Rock/ Various. $10.
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WASHINGTON PARK– Roots Revival with Whiskey Bent Valley Boys. 7 p.m. Americana. Free.
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CAFFÈ VIVACE – Mandy Gaines & Wayne Yeager. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.
BLIND LEMON–Warren Ulgh and Michael Babbitt. 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
COMMON ROOTS– Twig&Leaf and The
BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE–Emmaline. 9 p.m. Soul/R&B/Jazz. Free.
FOUNTAIN SQUARE– Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with Motherfolk and Sylmar. 7 p.m. Indie/Rock/ Pop. Free. THE GREENWICH–Sonny Moorman & Final Friday Blues. 8 p.m. Blues. $5. THE GREENWICH–Kevin Daniel, Victor Spoils, Chris Rawlins and Sherman Ewing. 9 p.m. Various. Cover.
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THE HUB OTR–Gobbinjr with Knotts and Molly Sullivan. 10 p.m. Indie Pop/Various. Free.
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JACK CASINO CINCINNATI–Melissa Etheridge. 8 p.m. Pop/Rock. $35.
JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD–The Company. 9 p.m. Dance/Various. $5. JEFF RUBY’S STEAKHOUSE–Grace Lincoln Band. 8 p.m. Soul/R&B. Free. KNOTTY PINE–Bloodline. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. LUDLOW GARAGE–Van Echo with A.M. Nice. 8 p.m. Alt/Indie Rock. Free. THE MAD FROG–Black Tractor, Day Needs Night, The Fine Line and more. 8 p.m. Rock. $5.
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MADISON LIVE–The Matildas, Kaitlyn Peace & The Electric Generals, The Kenton Lands Band and Alex VanWinkle. 7 p.m. Rock/Pop/Various. $10, $12 day of show. MANSION HILL TAVERN– Mistermann & the Mojo Band. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES– Bob Ross Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.
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MOTR PUB–Audley (album vinyl release) with Ronin and Brooklynnn Rae. 10 p.m. Soul/R&B/ Funk/Hip Hop. Free.
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NORTHSIDE TAVERN–A Delicate Motor (album release show) with
Goosebump and Grace Weir & Spencer Peppet of The Ophelias. 10 p.m. Indie/ Rock/Various. Free.
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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB–Cavernlight with Grey Host and Mollusk. 9 p.m. Doom/Ambient/Metal/ Various.
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OCTAVE–Andy Frasco and the U.N. 9 p.m. Funk/R&B/Rock/Various. $10, $12 day of show.
PLAIN FOLK CAFE–Squirrel Hillbillies and Megan Bee. 6 p.m. Acoustic/Americana. Free.
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WOODWARD THEATER–Moonbeau (album release party) with Coastal Club. 9:30 p.m. Alt/ Synth Pop. $8, $10 day of show.
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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL–Cadillac and Catfish. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. BLIND LEMON–Willow and Tom Roll. 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free. BLUE NOTE HARRISON– Charlie Farley with Katie Noel & Seckond Chaynce. 5 p.m. Country Rap. $20.
THE REDMOOR–Soul Pocket. 9 p.m. R&B/Pop/ Dance. $10.
BOGART’S–Maddie & Tae. 7 p.m. Country. $25.
RICK’S TAVERN–Everyday People Band. 9:30 p.m. Dance/Various. $5.
BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE–The Blue Hornet Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.
SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB–Max Gise Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.
CAFFÈ VIVACE–Jeremy Long Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.
SILVERTON CAFE–Off the Record. 9 p.m. Rock. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE)–Jeremy Porter and the Tucos, Bryan Minks and the Kentucky Sons, Arlo Mckinley. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Roots. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM)–Zephaniah Ohora. 8:30 p.m. Country. $10, $12 day of show.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY)–Cedric Burnside. 8 p.m. Blues. $12. STAGE FORTY-THREE– Chris Janson with Jacob Powell and Noah Smith. 8 p.m. Country. $24.50, $27 day of show. THOMPSON HOUSE–Cryptic Wisdom with Mix Fox and more. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. $10.
URBAN ARTIFACT– Kan’ten, Perfect Vagabond, GoodnightGoodnight and Zapruder Point. 9 p.m. Alt/ Rock/Pop/Various. Free. WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT– Marc Fields Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
COMMON ROOTS–Jerry’s Little Band. 10 p.m. Jam/ Rock. Free.
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FOUNTAIN SQUARE– Maps & Atlases with Current Events and Daniel In Stereo. 7 p.m. Indie/Alt Rock. Free.
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THE GREENWICH– Jess Lamb and The Factory. 9 p.m. Alt/Pop/ Rock/Soul/Various. $8.
JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD–Gee Your Band Smells Terrific. 9 p.m. ’70s Pop/Dance/Various. $5. KNOTTY PINE–Wayward Son. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.
Americana/Country/Roots. Free. THE PHOENIX–Chris Comer Trio with Dick Sorice. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free. PLAIN FOLK CAFE–Ronnie Vaughn & Co. and Joel Curtis. 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free. RICK’S TAVERN–Cherry on Top. 10 p.m. Pop/Dance/ Various. $5. SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB– Michael Cruse Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover. SILVERTON CAFE–Danny McCorkle. 6 p.m. Elvis tribute. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM)–Hex Bombs, Temporary Arrangement, The Nothing and Rat Trap. 9 p.m. Rock. $5.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY)–To the Faithful Departed: A Tribute to the Cranberries Benefit with Molly Sullivan, Scot Torres, Yusef Quotah, Margaret Darling, Sarah Gail Davis, Deja Vuey, Ally Hurt and Army Coach featuring Amber Nash. 9 p.m. Alt/Pop/Various. $10, $12 day of show.
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STANLEY’S PUB–Maui Pranksters. 10 p.m. Jam/Psych/Rock. Cover. SYMPHONY HOTEL & RESTAURANT–Ricky Nye and Bekah Williams. 8 p.m. Jazz/Blues. Free.
LUDLOW GARAGE–Jesse Colin Young. 8:30 p.m. Rock. $25-$65.
THOMPSON HOUSE–Code Vain, Change The Channel, Left Hand Black and Stones Throw. 7 p.m. Rock/Various. $10.
MADISON LIVE–Kenwood Avenue, Ferel Friends, Dark Harbor and Ample Parking. 6:30 p.m. Rock. $8, $10 day of show.
URBAN ARTIFACT–“Beat Faction” with Gerald Shell, DJ Troll and DJ Mindcandy. 9 p.m. Dance/DJ/Alt/ Pop/’80s/Various. Free.
MANSION HILL TAVERN– Prestige Grease. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.
WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT–Marc Fields Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
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