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Sharity Holley: Or maybe make affordable food available so people don’t have to steal? Todd Marcum: STOP BREAKING THE LAW!!! Laura Stolk: The only reason to use force: Interns Lizzy, Morgan and Sami at Putz’s Creamy Whip imminent threat of bodily harm to self or others. They are not permitted to tase anyone, shoot anyone, or even body tackle anyone for imminent threat to stationary objects. So, unless this child was about to cut herself, shoot someone, run over someone with a car, throw a knife at somebody, etc., tasing was excessive force and the officer involved was ill-trained and should be fired and disciplined. Cory Beimesche: “Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman has said he will push to change the minimum age to 12 years old.” So 11 is not acceptable but 12 is? Jeff Montieth: I have no problem with this, based on the local news reports. Steal from a business and you will attract the police. Run from the police and you chance your life.

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NEWS Chasing Tent City Officials continually expanded prohibitions on tent cities until they were banned across Hamilton County BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

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Hollander said. “We’re real people out here.” Deters and Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley say the camps present a risk to public safety, citing what Cranley says have been incidents of drug use and hepatitis outbreaks. Advocates with the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition and camp residents have flatly denied this. “While I am sympathetic to the plight of the homeless, it is simply not healthy or desirable to have people living on the streets of Cincinnati,” Deters said in a statement about the prohibition on camps. “We are fortunate to have many resources in our area to help the homeless so that no one has to live this way and, in fact, social service providers in our area stand ready to help all of these people.” But that help comes in the form of overcrowded shelters and temporary assistance, advocates say. Inhabitants say they’re standing their ground for something more permanent. So far, no one has been arrested as the chess game ensues, though some inhabitants of the camp say they believe police used scare tactics, including implications that campers would be arrested, to get them to move. Police officials don’t see it that way, CONTINUES ON PAGE 09

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The move came a few hours after U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black declined to halt the removal of the camp ahead of an Aug. 20 court hearing over a lawsuit filed by camp resident Joe Phillips and the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition. The controversy over the camps has developed into a cat and mouse game between residents and local officials. When inhabitants pushed by Ruehlman’s restraining order moved from Third Street to Pendleton, the judge expanded the order to a much larger area bounded by I-71 and I-75 to the east and west and the Ohio River and the Norwood Lateral to the north and south. On Aug. 9, as camp inhabitants moved to places like Gilbert Avenue, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters pressed for a county-wide ban on the camps — a move Ruehlman approved. The inhabitants of the Gilbert camp then moved to another site at 13th and Republic streets. That tent city presents a tougher challenge — since it is on private land, police can’t simply order inhabitants to move. On Aug. 10, residents there filled out paperwork for housing assistance, spoke with doctors from a nearby clinic and tried to rest. “I’m tired of the city putting things on the back-burner,” camp inhabitant Stacey

belongings — including her ID, birth certificate and social security card — stolen on the street. The lack of those documents has made it hard to find a job, she says. Barnett hopes to get into a program through the Jimmy Heath House soon that will provide a place to stay. But in the meantime, she has been packing up her belongings and moving from location to location. Nearby, Demeta Good also wondered where she would go. Good was displaced by a fire at an apartment building in Spring Grove Village in June. The friend she was living with died in that blaze, she says, as did his grandson. “After the fire, I went out of town and tried to stay with some friends,” she says. “That didn’t work out, so I came back here. I’ve been on the streets since, in Avondale, in downtown. Never been homeless in my life until the fire. My whole unit was burned. I lost every damn thing. It was bad.” Some camp residents like Barnett headed to a spot on Gilbert Avenue just east of I-71, which had been set as a boundary for a prohibition on camps issued by Hamilton County Judge Robert Ruehlman. Others at the Pendleton camp planned to head west across I-75 to a location in Price Hill. Some took advantage of offers for spots in area shelters.

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olice officers and sheriff’s deputies arrived at the tent city pitched across the street from Cincinnati’s Jack Casino in Pendleton early on the morning of Aug. 9 and by 7:15 a.m. began issuing notices that its inhabitants had to leave. As police cruisers blocked off the short stretch of Reading Road that branches off of bustling Central Parkway, those staying in the camp scrambled to take down their tents and find places to put their belongings, bagging up their clothing and other items. Social service workers from various organizations talked to individuals, many of whom are experiencing homelessness, working to convince them to go to area shelters. City crews and inhabitants cleaned up. The occasional jogger zipped by. Young professionals wearing headphones and stiff leather shoes walked to work. Camp removal has become a familiar ritual in Cincinnati over the past two weeks as city officials try to remove the tent cities. But camp inhabitants and their advocates say the city’s approach simply sweeps the issue under the rug, and that not enough is being done to address an overall shortage of shelter beds and affordable housing. The move from Pendelton was the third time in two weeks camp inhabitant Jessica Barnett has packed up and moved. She was among the last to leave an earlier camp under Fort Washington Way for another camp on Third Street. The city has removed both. “Where am I going to go?” she asked before motioning to the empty tent next to hers in the Pendleton camp inhabited by a man named Dave, who woke early that day to go to work. “Where am I going to take his stuff? He’s going to come home from work and all of his stuff is going to be gone. I’m out here by myself and, as a female, that’s never easy. He helps me out.” Finding stasis has been hard for the 36-year-old since she lost housing she was staying in via a Talbert House program a few years back. She’s been to jail on misdemeanor charges. She’s had all of her

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City of Cincinnati Will Suspend Project to Narrow Liberty Street BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

A plan to slim down the size of Liberty Street as it passes through Over-the-Rhine that has been years in the making is on ice due to budget constraints and expected traffic from FC Cincinnati’s coming stadium, a memo from Cincinnati’s Acting City Manager Patrick Duhaney released Aug. 7 reveals. The project would have narrowed the seven-lane road down to five lanes during peak hours and three lanes (with parking on both sides of the street) during nonpeak hours. It would have also increased sidewalk widths up to 20 feet wide in some locations. But that plan was drawn up before FC Cincinnati’s West End stadium on Central Avenue entered the picture, city planners say. As such, a new traffic study is needed. The city also says it doesn’t have the money to complete the project. Original cost estimates put the price tag for the roadnarrowing at $2.3 million. But the city says the relocation of a water main will be more expensive than expected. “It is critical that we take the necessary time to ensure this $3.2 million project continues to make sense as designed, that the taxpayers are made aware of the true project costs, and that the project is the best use of valuable taxpayer dollars at this time,” Duhaney’s memo reads. Liberty is the commonly defined boundary between southern OTR, where development has taken off in recent years,

and northern OTR, which has until recently been slower to see rehabs, new businesses and residential construction. Boosters of the project say narrowing the road and widening the sidewalks would serve to increase pedestrian safety and tie the two parts of the neighborhood together. The OTR Community Council approved the plan in 2016 and 2017. The city originally said it had full funding for the project and had planned to take bids this fall and break ground on construction in spring 2019. “Some of us in #OTR spent years working on this safety plan,” said community council member Margy Waller in a Facebook post. “Meanwhile our neighborhood was excluded from negotiating for community benefits by City Council. Now we’re losing even more.” But the city says that the street, which runs between entrance and exit ramps to both I-71 and I-75, will see the most traffic from fans flocking to FC Cincinnati’s 21,000-to-30,000-seat stadium when it is completed by 2021. That means a new traffic study must be conducted to assess how Liberty and surrounding streets, including Central Parkway, will be affected by the change. “Since the OTR Community Council recommendation in 2016 and 2017, there have been significant changes to the project area,” Duhaney’s memo reads. “Given the circumstances listed above, the administration has determined that the

best course of action is to suspend this project pending further evaluation. That does not mean the project cannot be revisited in the future, just that we do not feel it is prudent to move forward at this time.” Cincinnati City Council members P.G. Sittenfeld and Chris Seelbach have asked that the project be continued. Seelbach said the neighborhood should get what it has worked on, despite changes in traffic patterns FC Cincinnati might bring. “Our neighborhood is going to have a road diet,” Seelbach said at an Aug. 7 city council committee meeting. “I don’t care if I have to draw up an ordinance to make you guys do this. Billionaires want something done in this city, they get it done.” In an email to the city manager and other city officials, Sittenfeld said, “I am fully in support of this initiative, and do not support the abandonment of this important project in any form. Fundamental safety and quality of life issues hang in the balance for many thousands of people. “City Hall must prioritize people who live, work and play here; the priority should never be to turn our urban neighborhoods into super-highways simply for the convenience of occasional visitors or those speeding through.”

Charges Dropped for 11-Year-Old Tased at Kroger

to the police is wrong,” Cranley said in a statement. “I’m sorry for the harm to her and her family. This evening I called and asked Prosecutor Deters to drop charges against the girl. I’m happy to report that he did and I thank for him doing so.”

wrong, though. Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 69 President Dan Hils says the outcry over the incident is blown out of proportion.

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An 11-year-old who was charged with theft and obstructing official business after an offduty Cincinnati Police officer Tased her at a local Kroger will not face charges, officials say.

The incident happened on Aug. 6 at the Kennard Avenue Kroger. The girl was in a group of minors who had been reported for stealing snacks. Officer Kevin Brown approached the children and asked them to stop. The 11-year-old continued moving away from the officer, and Brown deployed his Taser. She was taken to Children’s Hospital Medical Center and then released into the custody of her parents to face court proceedings at a later date. The girl admitted to stealing soda, chips and candy. An uproar on social media soon followed the incident, and Mayor John Cranley asked Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters to drop charges against the girl. “Tasing an 11-year old who posed no danger

Police are conducting an internal investigation into the use of the Taser. Some activists want more, however. The Black United Front’s Iris Roley, a key proponent of Cincinnati’s 2001 Collaborative Agreement police reforms, wants a board that was established by that agreement and designed to investigate complaints against officers to be able to compel officers to testify in a timely manner. A county judge ruled earlier this year that the Citizens Complaint Authority may not interview police about a complaint when a criminal case is proceeding related to the incident in question. Roley points to the recent Tasing incident as a reason that’s a bad idea. Meanwhile, some members of Cincinnati City Council have called for changes to police procedures around Taser use. Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman, for example, wants to see the use of Tasers on suspects younger than 12 prohibited. Not everyone agrees that Brown was in the

“Remember food deserts?” Hils wrote in a Facebook post. “When grocery stores close in the inner city they get criticized. When they try to reduce theft by hiring a security guard or a police detail this is what happens. Now some of our elected officials are getting the knee-jerk about this juvenile suspect and how she was apprehended. Oh please none of you every (sic) say anything about a food desert. Procedure allows use of a taser for suspects actively resisting lawful arrest from the ages of 7 to 70. What if the officer grabbed this suspect, she resists, they fall to the ground and she is injured? What would happen then? I can answer that; Kroger gets sued, the City gets sued and eventually Kroger’s in the city goes goodbye. Knee-jerk reactions like this hurt everyone involved. All uses of force by CPD are investigated. Allow this to be investigated.” While a set of CPD guidelines on use of force do allow for an 11-year-old to be Tased, they also state that “an individual simply fleeing from an officer, absent additional justification, does not warrant the use of the TASER.”

Cincinnati Issues Guidelines for E-Scooters, Including Those Beloved Birds BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L Last week, the City of Cincinnati’s Department of Transportation issued its preliminary guidelines for the use of electronic scooters after a flock of the rentable vehicles from the company Bird Rides descended on the city unannounced earlier this month. These are just interim guidelines; DOT will assess their effectiveness and make permanent policy recommendations to Cincinnati City Council next year. In the meantime, here’s how to follow the rules when you ride your Bird: • No sidewalks! But bike paths are cool. Per the city: “Riding small vehicles is prohibited on pedestrian sidewalks but permissible on multi-use (bike/pedestrian) paths. Riders must obey all traffic laws and are strongly encouraged to wear helmets.” • Do not bring a buddy or a date: Birds aren’t like the BMX bike you had when you were a kid, and you can’t give your crush a ride on your pegs. There are no pegs. One person per scooter, please. • Don’t get in peoples’ way with the dang things. Park them upright and out of the way of the normal flow of pedestrians. Per the city: “E-scooters may be parked on the sidewalk, but only in locations that do not impede the normal flow of pedestrian traffic, including access to and travel upon the sidewalk area by persons with restricted mobility such as wheelchair users.” Don’t block the following: • Bus stops • Loading zones • Accessible parking zones • Curb ramps • Driveways • Greenways and trails • Red Bike stations, because that’s just passive aggressive In addition to those rules, app-based rental services like Bird must stipulate the following rules on their apps when operating in Cincinnati: • Wear a helmet • Don’t ride on the sidewalk • Obey traffic laws The regulations come after Bird has caused a fair amount of controversy in other cities over users’ less-than-stellar sidewalk etiquette and other issues.

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though. “For the most part, I think they understand that there is a court order in effect, and that at some point we have to enforce the terms of that court order,” CPD Assistant Chief Paul Neudigate said. “I think we’ve been lenient. We came yesterday and tensions were high. It was not the time or the place, but things seem to be more calm and responsive right now.” Social service nonprofits have provided some help at the camps, including a jobs van provided by the GeneroCity 513 program that pays workers experiencing homelessness $45 a day to clean up litter. And more help is available, according to officials. “A lot of accommodations have been arranged,” Neudigate said, mentioning homeless shelters like Shelterhouse. “Some are willing to go there. Some say they have relatives or friends coming to get them. We’ll do whatever it takes to take them. We don’t want to leave them out on the streets.” That’s been a tricky subject. Some camp inhabitants are banned from some shelters after infringing on their rules. Others don’t want to stay in shelters for any number of reasons, including mental health issues like anxiety, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder. And advocates at the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition and other organizations point out the shelters are already over capacity. Strategies to End Homelessness (STEH), the nonprofit that coordinates many shelter options, says there were roughly 7,100 people experiencing homelessness at some point in the year in Hamilton County in 2016. To address that need, there are 675 permanent shelter beds, with more emergency shelter space available during the winter months. The men’s shelter on Gest Street in Queensgate is 130 percent full and a

women’s shelter in Mount Auburn has 78 people staying in its 60-bed facility. A debate has raged about the available space between advocates for those in the camps and officials hoping to get everyone into a shelter. STEH President and CEO Kevin Finn acknowledges the shelters are over capacity, but says that space is still available for those willing to take it. “The Shelterhouse men’s and women’s shelters serve as the safety net for the system, and in doing so have been over capacity since 2015,” he says. “But this does not mean they are turning people away. Quite the contrary, they bring people who show up at the door in and let them sleep on mattresses on the floor. So, everyone is correct: the shelters are over capacity and the people on the streets could go into shelter.” One area where Finn and activists like the Homeless Coalition agree: finding ways to get more affordable housing will be critical to addressing the issues raised by the camps long-term. Hamilton County needs 40,000 more units of housing affordable to its lowestincome residents, a study from Greater Cincinnati’s Local Initiatives Support Corporation found last year. “Affordable housing is the issue,” Finn says. “If we had more affordable housing, people wouldn’t stay in shelters as long, and we would actually need fewer shelter beds.” In the meantime, some inhabitants of the camps say they’re not going away. “We’re going to keep doing what we’re doing until we all get what we want,” said Leon “Bison” Evans as he helped inhabitants pack up for other camps or for shelters. “We need better housing, more programs, and land to stay on. You can even pick the land — but keep us around where we can get services.” Deters, however, says it is time for the camps to go. “Every time we make a new boundary, they just move,” he said when he requested the county-wide prohibition on camps.

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This is a story about an optimistic little engine that has managed to chug along for 43 years but now is in a race against time. Chances are you’ve been unaware of the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati and its collection of approximately 70 passenger and freight cars sitting in an old Louisville & Nashville (L&N) railyard in Covington’s Latonia neighborhood. It’s tucked away in a largely residential area a few miles from the interstate highways that supplanted the railroad system in the 1960s and ’70s. It’s open only on Saturdays during the summer and fall. There’s no grand Art Deco station like Union Terminal to awe you. There’s no dinner train to take you into the countryside. There’s no docent-led tour on a paved path. Instead, you drop your $4 admission ($2 for kids) into a locked mailbox, and then step out to survey a mostly gritty lineup of locomotives and railcars spread over a few acres behind a chain-link fence. “It’s modest,” acknowledges Tim Hyde, executive director of the nonprofit. “We know there’s not a lot here to look at.” But, at the same time, he knows that these cars have important

stories to tell — about wartime, black history and even the nation’s nutrition. Brian Hackett, director of the Public History Program at Northern Kentucky University, agrees. He calls the outdoor, all-volunteer museum “one of the greatest treasures of the area” and “a diamond in the rough.” The nostalgic site has been a mecca for local photographers over the years, and Hollywood filmmakers, too. The Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati is a destination that’s all about Americans’ shared journey. For a moment, ignore the weeds, the broken glass and the deteriorating hulks sitting way in the back of the property, and focus instead on the familiar names and logos on cars that hauled people and freight across the country: Pullman, New York Central, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio. For a moment, allow your imagination to turn back the clock. Yet, the reality is, age and rust are catching up with both the museum’s vehicles and its dozen active volunteers. Hyde’s father, CONTINUES ON PAGE 12

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who’s turning “a spry 90,” is part of the crew that sands, welds, paints and replaces whatever is missing on railcars that in some cases are older than he is. The next youngest helpers are around 75 and 60. Hyde, who is in his mid-50s, says it’s been apparent for years that there is not enough manpower or money to save everything here from the effects of rain, snow and sun. The volunteers fear that without some big changes, in another decade, there could be nothing left worth saving. Is this the end of the line? In the next month or so, Hyde and other board members will introduce a capital campaign to raise between $2 million and $2.5 million. The goal is to acquire more

land, put 35 of the most important pieces in the collection under cover, open five or six days a week year-round, add paid staff and properly tell the history of railroads in our region.

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Don’t fret if your knowledge of trains is limited to watching Thomas the Tank Engine. To survive and thrive, the museum wants to draw a general audience interested in American history, and not be seen merely as an attraction for railroading fans. Just three pieces on the site — a 1981 L&N red caboose, a 1950 diesel locomotive and a 1944 troop sleeper-turned-B&O baggage car that serves as the museum’s entrance, restroom location and office — are always open for visitors to climb

aboard during a self-guided tour. But if you approach one of the volunteers on the grounds, you might be treated to a personalized trip through the past, and a glimpse of what Hyde hopes will be the museum’s future. Hyde’s day job is a stagehand, working on productions like the Cincinnati Opera’s recent presentation of Another Brick in the Wall. His knack for setting a scene becomes apparent as he unlocks a World War II troop sleeper Pullman car where volunteers are wrapping up about five years of work. Fighting an enemy in both the Pacific and European theaters meant the U.S. quickly had to move tens of thousands of GIs to both coasts for assignment. But there were not enough passenger cars to

handle the rail traffic. To answer the call, boxcars were modified with windows, bunks, and a bathroom and sinks on either end. The ride was rough. There was steam heat, but no air conditioning. Lights ran on batteries for maybe only an hour a day. One cramped half of the Pullman car has been restored with 15 original metal bunks — stacked three rows high and painted government-issue green. The space originally accommodated 30 soldiers, but the museum has left the other side open. “This is how a bunch of 17- to 18-year-old kids were shipping out of their training bases,” Hyde says. “For a lot of these guys, this is how they saw America for the first time — through a car like this.” Opposite the bunks, the museum still

Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati executive director Tim Hyde (right) and his father, Charles, who is a museum volunteer PHOTO: HAILEY BOLLINGER

who was always an African-American, just sleep with the white GIs,” he laments. The black attendant’s cubbyhole was even wrapped in sheet metal to separate it from the other men. “That’s how extreme they were about segregation,” Hyde says, “even though he was just a mattress length away.”

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Indiana were thwarted, the leaders moved the collection to Sedamsville, then Lower Price Hill and finally to Covington, where they still sent cars out on rides. It wasn’t until the rail companies ceased running excursions in the 1990s that the group was forced to take its first hard look at a long-term plan. Recognizing all the stories the collection could tell, the nonprofit shifted its focus and changed its name to the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati. But to move forward with history, says Hyde, today’s volunteers will need to scrap at least half of the past. “That bothers some people to think that a museum would dispose of an artifact,”

When the nonprofit’s founders came together in 1975, they didn’t have a real plan or goal, Hyde says, “other than this desire to see something survive that was important to them.” Some were men of means; some were men with mechanical minds. All of them grew up romanticizing the railroads. As the nation’s transportation needs changed,

they didn’t want the past to be lost. “Their gut reaction was, ‘This stuff’s being scrapped left and right. It’s all being erased. We should save some of it,’ ” Hyde says. Now, as space runs out at the Latonia yard, it’s the museum that is talking about scrapping — whenever metal prices rebound. Hyde says that in their zeal to save history, the group’s first generation of rail enthusiasts overcollected, especially as like-minded railroad executives would just give cars to what was then known as the Railway Exposition Company. The founders had started out in Brookville, Ind., leasing out their cars to the main railroads for excursion rides led by steam locomotives. After efforts to establish their own tourist operation in

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wants to display the uniform of a WWII Marine from Kentucky. “We have his handwritten diary notes of everywhere he traveled, and, in the pocket of his uniform, his bus ticket from Augusta to Cave City,” Hyde says. “We have a nice way to tell a story about coming home.” After the war, most of these troop movers were scrapped or converted to baggage cars, like the one at the entrance gate. Hyde says this one had just enough original furnishings left inside to piece back together with the aid of photos and blueprints from the Pullman Co. Hyde then makes sure to point to a small cutout over one end of the troop car, and to an unflattering side of mid-century history. “They couldn’t let the Pullman porter,

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“We fell into the same trap as most railroad museums: We collected the ‘sexy’ stuff — the sleeping cars, the Pullman cars, the first-class stuff. That doesn’t represent how Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa got around. A lot of museums don’t have coaches in their collection. We do. I’m proud of that.”

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he says. “But these artifacts are so large. They’re not like a piece of pottery or a painting. You can’t just put it in a box and on a shelf.” A walk past the dozens of rusting cars sitting in the private work area of the yard indicates how much work will never get done. Without the perk of going on train rides, as in the old days, Hyde says it’s been hard to recruit volunteers willing to see a restoration through to the end. He compares the race against rust to triage. “You just try to make the rational decision. What’s going to live and what isn’t?”

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A few years ago, Hyde turned to NKU’s Hackett for guidance on being a museum not just in name only. The Public History Program’s graduate students helped develop a mission statement and collections policy. Interns catalogued the stacks of ephemera now stored in an office closet — everything from trade magazines to a railroad retiree’s suitcase full of paystubs, love letters and even an eviction notice he received while away. As the museum prepares its capital campaign so such materials can finally go on display, Hackett says it needs to do the virtual equivalent of a whistle-stop tour and promote the collection as a community asset. Seven major railways operated in our area in the early 20th century: the Louisville & Nashville, the Baltimore & Ohio (which was preceded by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway), the Chesapeake & Ohio, the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Norfolk & Western and the Southern Railway. “Railroads built this country,” Hackett says. “Bring people in on the adventure.” On a recent Saturday, Hyde does just that, greeting first-time visitors Roxiena and Mark Hanks of Ryland Heights and their grandkids. Roxiena shares that her grandfather was an engineer for the L&N at Covington’s Decoursey Yards. “I was just a little thing, but I’d walk to the bottom of the hill and I’d see when he came in and wave at him,” she says. Her mother would feed the hobos who rode the rails, asking them inside the house if Roxiena’s father and grandfather were around, and bringing food out to the rock wall in front of the house if they weren’t. Hyde then invites the family to tour a posh ride that hobos only dreamed of — a Pullman “hotel on wheels.” The century-old Jovita appeared in the Cincinnati-shot films Eight Men Out (1988) and Lost in Yonkers (1993). Before the museum acquired the car in 1979, it was used by the Royal American Shows circus to carry performers for 30 years, and then by a tourist railroad in Florida. Hyde explains how at night one of Pullman’s black porters would prepare the upper sleeping berth, push seat cushions together to form box springs for a lower

A 1988 group photo of museum volunteers and supporters PHOTO: HAILEY BOLLINGER

bed, insert partitions between the dozen compartments, and draw heavy green curtains shut so passengers could sleep. This was called a 12-1 car, Hyde says, pointing out the drawing room with its own toilet for passengers ponying up extra money. Milk glass light fixtures, some of them authentic replacements found on eBay, line the ceiling. Other than cosmetic changes by the movie and tourism companies, such as covering up the original sculpted mohair cushions and wall panels, the car retains much of its early-20th-century character and mechanical systems. Hyde calls it “a nice survivor” from 1914. The Jovita was never modified for air conditioning like Pullmans built a decade or so later, including the museum’s 1928 Overdale car. The museum’s rolling stock also includes a postwar B&O passenger coach, with seats and interior still intact. It’s a car

that carried the masses. “We fell into the same trap as most railroad museums: We collected the ‘sexy’ stuff — the sleeping cars, the Pullman cars, the first-class stuff,” Hyde says. “That doesn’t represent how Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa got around. A lot of museums don’t have coaches in their collection. We do. I’m proud of that.” He’d like to resume restoring the car and take people in it. “But we don’t do just passenger here,” Hyde adds. “Visitors want to see how people lived, but freight paid the (railways’) bills.” And refrigerated freight cars like the yellow one sitting across the yard from the Pullman cars changed the nation’s eating habits and health. “Before the turn of the (20th) century, if you lived in a city, you did not get vegetables out of season,” Hyde says. “Unless

you were wealthy, you really didn’t get a lot of fresh meat, unless you happened to live close to a butcher.” Home-canned produce (in the wintertime) and cured meats made up diets of the middle and lower classes. Through trial and error, growers, meatpackers and railroad men figured out the right combination of insulation, ice and salt for keeping shipments cool. Refrigerated cars meant someone in Cincinnati could enjoy California’s citrus year-round. The museum’s car, built in the 1920s, has a steel underframe, and the rest is wood. “The water and the salt were tremendously corrosive, so not many survive,” Hyde says. “And we’re sad that ours is still outside.”

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Above: Museum volunteer Bill Williams; Below: Inside the Jovita PHOTOS: HAILEY BOLLINGER

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The Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati is at 315 W. Southern Ave., Covington. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays, May-October. $4; $2 ages 10 and younger. More info: cincirailmuseum.org.

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Unable to unload scrap without taking a loss, the museum draws its income mainly from fees charged to storage tenants, portrait/commercial photographers and filmmakers, from donations and from grants of about $10,000 and less. Hyde understands that for the board’s capital campaign to succeed in raising more than $2 million, it needs to see an extra zero or two behind some numbers. Once that happens, he envisions buying some neighboring property, extending the museum’s tracks, and constructing a partially enclosed train shed for the core collection. The roofed structure would include platforms, making it easier for older visitors and those with disabilities to get around. “The human story” of the railroads could finally be told in a climate-controlled building with changing exhibits of artifacts. Hyde would like to set aside workspace for history interns from NKU and add educational staff who could accommodate the school groups that the museum now has to turn down. The museum could then look at selectively adding more cars, like hoppers and tankers that would represent the region’s farming, coal and manufacturing sectors. Even when there’s more to offer visitors, the museum board wants admission to stay low, so families can continue to come no matter their income. The museum currently draws no more than 2,000 visitors a season. Most guests have little children in tow. Of course, the smallest ones don’t understand the history here; they just want to be in the surroundings. “I’ve watched young children get no farther than the first rail they come to,” Hyde says. “It’s big, and it goes out of sight in either direction. And they’ll just grasp the rail and grin. And that’s all they care about. I don’t know what’s going through their minds, but it just fascinates them.” Perhaps they are hearing the mantra of the museum and The Little Engine That Could: “I think I can. I think I can. …”

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ART: The Lloyd Library & Museum’s Pharmacognosy Illustrated: A History of Natural Pharmaceuticals exhibits medicinal plant artifacts and archives. See feature on page 21. ONSTAGE: Dreamgirls tells the story of 1960s girl group The Dreams onstage at The Carnegie. See review on page 23 MUSIC: Utah Folk singer Timmy the Teeth plays MOTR Pub. See Sound Advice on page 34.

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Orchestra’s music director Eckart Preu and a Q&A session with the real violin’s owner, Elizabeth Pitcairn. Held in conjunction with the CCO’s Summermusik festival, you can even catch a sneak peek of the famed instrument at the Esquire, as it makes a visit to the Queen City during the fest for Aug. 18’s Voyage of the Red Violin talk and concert. 7:30-10 p.m. Thursday. $12. Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, esquiretheatre.com. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

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MUSIC: Richard Lloyd of Television plays the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 35. EVENT: Black Family Reunion The Black Family Reunion is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Founded in 1989 by Dr. Dorothy I. Height,

president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, the fest focuses on bringing together communities, performers, small businesses, health organizations and more to celebrate the values and strengths of the black family. This year’s fest kicks off on Friday morning with a heritage breakfast and opening ceremony at 8:30 a.m. at The Word of Deliverance Ministries for the World in Forest Park. On Saturday, the annual Black Family Reunion Parade steps off from the Avondale Town Center at 10 a.m., followed by a big festival at Sawyer Point. The fest will feature activities for everyone, including children and seniors, plus live Jazz, bingo, a basketball tournament, food vendors and more. The party continues on Sunday with a church service at 10 a.m. on the park’s lawn,

followed by more activities, including headliner Marvin Sapp, a Grammy-nominated Gospel singer, songwriter and pastor. Find a full list of vendors and associated events online. 8:30 a.m. Friday; noon-8 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Sawyer Point, 705 E. Pete Rose Way, Downtown, myblackfamilyreunion.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO COMEDY: Bill Bellamy Parents giving kids a time out is source of amusement for comedian Bill Bellamy, a former MTV VJ. “My Mama didn’t know nothing about a time out,” he says. “She had a knock out. My mama would knock your ass out wherever you committed the crime. ‘He’ll be out for 20 minutes. I do this all the time.’ ” Simply going from town to town can provide inspiration as well. “I talk

about my life on the road,” he says. “Like when I went to Nashville. They are so Southern and they really are nice people. When you’re in (most cities) people don’t really talk to you. But everybody in the South is like ‘Hi, how are you? Welcome to Nashville!’ ” Bellamy’s TV credits include Last Comic Standing, Hot in Cleveland, Chelsea Lately and Bill Bellamy’s Who’s Got Jokes? 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday; 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday. $25$55. Funny Bone Liberty, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone. com. — P.F. WILSON EVENT: Vintage Chic Fashion Show Celebrate National Thrift Shop Day with a vintage fashion show showcasing garments from Mannequin Boutique, a resale clothing

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FILM: The Red Violin In 1720, a legendary violin was crafted by Antonio Stradivari in Italy: the “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius. Stradivari went on to become the most famous violin maker, still renowned today. Soon after the violin was made, it went missing, prompting a search that spanned centuries until it was found in Germany in 1930. The instrument’s rich history inspired the 1998 Academy Awardwinning film The Red Violin, which takes some poetic license when telling its intriguing tale. In the film, a violin maker paints an instrument with the blood of his dead wife to keep her memory alive. Much later, it’s auctioned off by an appraiser played by Samuel L. Jackson. The film follows the violin through those who own it. This screening includes commentary from Cincinnati Chamber

ONSTAGE: Jesus Christ Superstar Almost 50 years ago, a young musical theater composer burst on the

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FILM: Black Panther at Washington Park Wakanda forever! Nearly six months after its initial release, Marvel’s Black Panther is still breaking records. It’s the third film to earn over $700 million in the U.S. theater market. And the film is well-deserving. It’s the first in the Marvel franchise to feature a predominantly black cast, including Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o and Michael B. Jordan. Set in fictional Wakanda (located in subSaharan Africa) — depicted with lush forests, clear waterfalls, jagged rocks and incredible technology — T’Challa (Boseman) returns home after the death of his father only for an enemy to reappear that puts Wakanda in danger of changing forever. Grab a blanket, pack some snacks and see it for free at Washington Park as part of the Summer Cinema Series. 9 p.m. Wednesday. Free. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-theRhine, washingtonpark.org. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

scene with his first show — this now-legendary Rock Opera based on the life of Jesus Christ. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s composition was a flash of unexpected contemporary music and a startling portrait of Jesus as a “superstar.” The elements of the story, of course, are familiar, but they’re told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, Jesus’ imminent and ultimate betrayer. The anthem “Superstar,” Mary Magdalene’s “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and the gently swinging “Everything’s Alright” are some of this show’s best-known numbers. You’ll be humming along. Through Sept. 9. $29 adults; $26 students/seniors. Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre, 801 Matson Place, East Price Hill, cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com. — RICK PENDER

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and accessories shop whose proceeds go directly to benefit seven local service agencies. Held at the Krohn Conservatory, the evening includes snacks, sips, pop-up shops and more to fête the launch of Mannequin’s new online store and raise funds for The Friends of Krohn. 6-9 p.m. Friday. $10-$30. Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, vcfs18.eventbrite.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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ART: SkateABLE Vs Non, Pt. II Ten years since SkateAble Vs Non debuted at the nowdefunct Feralmade Gallery in Northside, the multimedia skateboard installation returns for its long overdue sequel. Arranged by the four members of Cincinnati’s SkateAble collective — a team of scientists, creatives and community organizers who just happen to appreciate skating as an art form — the exhibition’s opening centers around its open skatepark, inviting attendees to skate on the installation or check out a skateboard-deck art show, a basketball goal with a batshaped backboard (dubbed “BATsketball”) and live music by John Hays, Tweens and Ampline. Whether you’re a seasoned skate veteran or you prefer to keep your feet firmly planted on the ground, there’s something

for everyone at SkateAble vs Non. There’s no such thing as a poser here. 2-11 p.m. Saturday; open skate 2-5 p.m. Free. People’s Liberty Camp Washington Globefront, 2840 Colerain Ave, Camp Washington, skateablevsnon.com. — JUDE NOEL MUSIC: Pedro the Lion Pedro the Lion came together in the mid-’90s, guided by mastermind David Bazan’s thoughtful and emotionally resonant Indie Rock songs, which seemed to connect with the band’s cultishly loyal followers on a cellular level. After nearly a decade of critically acclaimed albums and EPs — plus side-projects like the Synth Pop group Headphones — Bazan powered down Pedro (which always featured a rotating lineup of players) in 2006 and embarked on a successful solo career (perhaps slightly stigmatized by being labeled “Sadcore”). Performing genuinely solo, Bazan toyed with the mechanics of touring and releasing music, like traveling with a string quartet and releasing two new songs a month, which would later become the Bazan Monthly albums.

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EVENT: My Furry Valentine Summer Event My Furry Valentine is hosting its first-ever summer adoption extravaganza featuring more than 700 available animals — dogs, cats, kittens, puppies and other little critters — under one roof. As Greater Cincinnati’s largest adoption event, different rescues and shelter groups will gather in this single location to make finding your perfect new companion as easy as possible. Adoption fees and application processes will differ for each adoption group. Preview available animals

online at myfurryvalentine. com. 10 a.m.-noon early bird and noon-5 p.m. regular hours Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. $5 regular admission; $25 early bird. Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road, Sharonville, myfurryvalentine.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: City Flea and Kid’s Market It’s just like the normal City Flea but with kiddos vending their arts and crafts along with the grown-ups. In the heart of the city, local and regional makers will spread across Washington Park to showcase their work, as will kids ages 4-14. Peruse handmade items, vintage collections and other crafty wares from all age groups while noshing on snacks from on-site food trucks. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, thecityflea.com. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

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SPORTS: Hamilton Dragon Boat Festival Head to Hamilton, Ohio for the annual Dragon Boat Festival. Hosted by the Great Miami Rowing Center, this fest features racing teams of 22 paddlers, a steerer and a drummer going head-to-head in traditional Chinese dragon boats. Watch the races, play in a water recreation zone and learn about Asian culture via activities and food. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Free admission; teams must register. RiversEdge, 116 Dayton St., Hamilton, greatmiamirowing.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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MUSIC: Country Pop star Kelsea Ballerini opens Keith Urban’s show at Riverbend. See interview on page 32.

EVENT: Canoe and Brew Join Clermont County Park District Naturalists for a guided tour down the Little Miami River. This five-mile canoe ride will teach boaters about the river’s history, vegetation and ongoing maintanence, spearheaded by Clermont County Parks. The tour starts and ends at Fifty West Production Works. Tickets include a beer and grill item of your choice from Fifty West’s Roadside Grill. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday. $30 per person. Fifty West Production Works, 7605 Wooster Pike, Columbia Township, facebook.com/ fiftywestbrewingcompany. —MAIJA ZUMMO

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ART: A Circus of One (Act II) at the CAC Alison Crocetta’s A Circus of One solo exhibit at the CAC is a collection of costumes and tools the artist has used in her past performative work, which examines identity and indulgent circus-like experiences. The centerpiece of the exhibit’s run are her 30-minute performance actions, called A Circus of One (Act II). The description on the CAC website reads, “This performance runs the gamut from absurd to tranceinducing as she interacts with a large, shape-shifting wooden horse in her 20-foot-wide center ring. For this project, she has joined forces with composer/ musician Zac Little of the

band Saintseneca.” The exhibition is on display through Aug. 19 and this will be the final of seven performances. 3-4 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Contemporary Arts Center, 44 E. Sixth St., Downtown, contemporaryartscenter.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

EVENT: An Afternoon with the Beer Barons Drink to the Queen City brewers of decades past during the fifth annual Spring Grove An Afternoon with the Beer Barons. Docents will lead guided tours on air-conditioned motor coaches to see the final resting places of famous brewing kingpins and their families, with facts and history lessons along the way. Then head to the Rose

Garden for beer tastings and food trucks. Local brewers including Braxton, Brink, Christian Moerlein, Rivertown, Streetside and Urban Artifact will be on hand to provide beer samples. For ages 21 and older. RSVP is required. 4-7 p.m. Saturday. $20-$30. Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, 4521 Spring Grove Ave., Spring Grove Village, springgrove.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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Last year he announced the return of Pedro the Lion, saying he missed the energy of collaborating with other musicians. The “new” Pedro has been working on songs, which will be released by the Polyvinyl label. Bazan says the revival of Pedro the Lion has been a “reawakening.” “It’s reconnected me to parts of myself and my history (both sonic and personal) that I had lost touch with,” he wrote on pedrothelion.com. Earlier this year, Bazan told NPR that the album, Phoenix (due early next year), draws musically from the breadth of Pedro’s previous output, while lyrically it is a conceptalbum homage to Phoenix, Ariz., where he grew up. 9 p.m. Saturday. $20. Southgate House Revival, 111 E. Sixth St., Newport, Ky., southgatehouse.com. — MIKE BREEN

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ARTS & CULTURE The Fascinating Roots of Modern Drugs Lloyd Library & Museum chronicles the history of natural pharmaceuticals in its current exhibit BY J U DY G EO R G E

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On Sept. 21, Eric Tepe, curator of the University of Cincinnati Herbarium, will present “Mosquitoes, Jesuits, and Botanical Expeditions: The Cinchona Tree and the Fight against Malaria” at the Lloyd, a discussion about the anti-malarial properties of quinine, made from cinchona bark. Quinine, which gives tonic water its bitter taste, may have changed the course of the British Empire. “The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire,” Winston Churchill once declared. In that spirit, the Lloyd Library will serve G-andTs before the lecture, which is open to the public. Reservations are required. Pharmacognosy Illustrated is on view through Sept. 21 at The Lloyd Library & Museum (917 Plum St., Downtown). More info: lloydlibrary.org.

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in 1905, Congress banned opium in the United States. At the Lloyd, the stunning 17 blackand-white poppy images by Curtis create a sharp mental contrast to the horrors of opiate abuse. “One reason we included these beautiful images is to remind us that any drug — and this is true even with natural pharmaceuticals — can have both very positive benefits and danger,” Van Skaik says. References to medical marijuana are in the exhibit, too. Marijuana also was part of the Lloyds’ armamentarium. “We don’t have samples of the Lloyd brothers’ specific medicines (derived from) cannabis, but we did find their promotional material — the actual brochures they distributed in their quest to sell their version of that specific medicine,” BennettJones says.

“The pharmacists of the era were really most similar to compound pharmacists today,” Van Skaik says. “Like doctors of the time, they made house calls; they would come to you to address your medical needs.” The Lloyds excelled in making not just medicinal compounds, but also equipment pharmacists could use. “John Uri Lloyd was an inventor, a pharmacist, a teacher and a chemist,” Van Skaik says. “He developed apparatuses, like a traveling drug kit, and patented it. It was sold widely in the U.S. and abroad, and we have a sample of it here.” Other artifacts are botanical illustrations from the late 19th and early 20th century including renderings of foxglove, the plant that forms the basis of the modern-day drug digoxin that is used to treat congestive heart failure. Also, old prescription records, antique microscopes and memorabilia from the Cincinnatibased Eclectic Medical Institute are on display. Alongside rare books and relics, the exhibit showcases dried specimens borrowed from the University of Cincinnati Herbarium including lily of the valley, from which convallatoxin — another substance used to treat heart failure — is extracted. A kit showing the chemical compound of the drug atropine, which has a variety of contemporary uses including treatment for insecticide poisoning, is a highlight of the show. First isolated in 1833, atropine is lauded by pharmacognosists as one of their most significant contributions to medicine. The photographs by horticulturalist Arthur E. Curtis, who grew and hybridized poppies at his farm and greenhouse on Argus Road in College Hill in the 1920s and 1930s, are featured in the library gallery. An avid gardener and member of the Cincinnati Men’s Horticultural Society, Curtis grew the flowers and photographed them for their beauty. But poppies, which ancient Sumerians called Hul Gil (the “joy plant”), had a long history as both a painkiller and euphoria drug — heroin, morphine and other opiates can be derived from opium poppies. By the end of the 1800s, heroin addiction had risen to alarming rates;

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rom opium in poppies to the digoxin from foxglove and quinine from the cinchona tree, modern drugs are rooted in ancient plants. Pharmacognosy Illustrated: A History of Natural Pharmaceuticals, an exhibition at the downtown Lloyd Library & Museum, chronicles the role plant-derived treatments have played throughout history and today. The Lloyd’s exhibit, which showcases some of the earliest written evidence of medicines, runs until Sept. 21. The term “pharmacognosy” — the knowledge of drugs — was made popular in 1815 by a German medical student named C.A. Seydler, says Lloyd Library Executive Director Patricia Van Skaik. Pharmacognosists were practitioners who prepared crude drug substances, diagnosed and dispensed medicines made from plants, fungi and animals. At the Lloyd, a research library and museum devoted to works of botany, pharmacy and medicine, visitors can see natural drugs throughout history, including a book with images of the Ebers Papyrus, the scroll in which Egyptians documented 70 drugs around 1550 BCE. “The main piece in the collection that affects the United States is the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906,” says Lloyd archivist Devhra BennettJones, the exhibit’s curator. That statute radically changed early pharmacy practices by regulating food and drugs that moved through interstate commerce for the first time. The cornerstone of the exhibit is work from the past 200 years, including artifacts from the library’s founders, brothers Curtis Gates Lloyd and John Uri Lloyd. The Lloyds were successful Cincinnati pharmacognosists in the 1800s: John was twice named president of the American Pharmaceutical Association and advocated for pharmacists to keep their traditional role of preparing drugs, not just dispensing them. “You can see the tools of the trade in this exhibit,” BennettJones says. “We have several crude drug kits, collections of substances a pharmacognosist would use to develop medicines for patients.” Crude drugs — dried, unprepared materials made from plants, animals or minerals — were the foundation of pharmacognosy.

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Mark Chalifoux Debuts Comedy Album BY P. F. W I L S O N

Mark Chalifoux has become one of Cincinnati’s most promising stand-up comedians, and he’s reaching a career milestone Friday (Aug. 17) when his first album, Talk Fast, is released. It was recorded this spring at Go Bananas in Montgomery. His career began with what started out as a fun weekend getaway to New York with his then-girlfriend, now wife, Amanda. However, that 2006 trip would change the course of his life. “We had tickets for Mark Chalifoux a Broadway show on Saturday, but didn’t have PHOTO: PROVIDED plans for Friday,” he says. A barker convinced them to go see a stand-up show at New York City in 2010. Several other local the famous Comic Strip Live comedy club. comics, including Dave Waite, Sam Evans “That was my first time ever seeing live and Alex Stone, had just made the move, so comedy and seeing that opened my eyes the timing seemed right. and put that spark in me.” “I spent the next year doing some of Unfortunately, Chalifoux had no idea the worst open mics imaginable and I how to become a stand-up comedian. loved it,” Chalifoux says. “That’s a special “There’s no playbook like in journalism,” he time for comics, when you’re full of hope, says, which is what he studied in college. running around one of the greatest cities After graduating, he followed the in the world, spending your night going journalism path, working for newspapers to any type of show imaginable, all while and eventually landing a radio gig as a devouring one-dollar slices of pizza.” producer for Mo Egger’s ESPN sports talk Waite was the first person to take Chaliprogram. foux out on the road as a feature act. A frequent guest on that show was “It was at a better-than-you’d-expect club comedian Josh Sneed, a Cincinnatian. in Wilmington, North Carolina,” he says. When Chalifoux expressed his interest “The shows went well and I learned a lot. in stand-up comedy, Sneed was very After the first night, we went to an arcade encouraging and suggested trying and I got locked into an intense air hockey open-mic night at Go Bananas. That was game with the club owner.” a success and open-mic nights gave way Waite suggested letting the other guy to paid performances; Chalifoux has win if Chalifoux ever wanted to work that continued his stand-up career ever since. club again. On the eve of his record’s release, “I take a fall for no man, so I annihilated Chalifoux reflects on some of the most him,” he says. “I never worked there again.” memorable gigs of his career so far. CD recording, Go Bananas, April First hosting weekend, February 2010: 2018: “I wasn’t nervous for the recording,” “In less than a year, I had progressed all the Chalifoux says. “The work had been done way from wild-eyed open-mic comic to just in dozens of cities over the last six months. adequate,” Chalifoux says. The jokes were ready. I was more worried The next step for a comic after doing about filling the club on an off-night, so I open mics is hosting a show at a local compromoted the show relentlessly and probedy club. The host does a few minutes of ably checked the reservation numbers stand-up, points to the exits, makes other every day for two weeks before the show.” announcements and then introduces the Chalifoux compares the night of the feature, or opening, comic. The host will recording to a wedding, with a mix of often return to introduce the headliner. friends, family, fans and other comics in “Sneed gave me my first break when he the crowd of almost 200. “I spent years asked me to host at Go Bananas for his working to get to the place where I could headlining weekend,” Chalifoux says. “I deliver that hour, which made it so much fully lived up to my status as adequate, sweeter.” which translated into pretty solid sets in Talk Fast will be released digitally on front of Josh’s forgiving audience.” Aug. 17 and is available via amazon.com. First road weekend, January 2012: More info: markchalifoux.com. Chalifoux and his young bride moved to

Dreams of Stardom Reflected at The Carnegie BY R I C K PEN D ER

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Dreamgirls continues through Aug. 26 at The Carnegie (1028 Scott Blvd., Covington). Tickets/more info: thecarnegie.com.

10-member ensemble in numerous small roles (especially as dancers). Beyond Wiggins’ able, spot-on direction and Benjamin’s inventive choreography for The Carnegie’s cramped stage, Dreamgirls is well supported by Doug Stock’s simple but effective scenic design, using flowing drapes and a few small set pieces. The show’s fluid action is especially enhanced by Erik McCandless’ subtle but always supportive lighting design. Helen Anneliesa Raymond Goers’ extensive costuming — especially gowns and jewelry for The Dreams — fully evokes the look of women stepping into the spotlight in the 1960s. Mike Flohr conducts six musicians who provide all the support required for the show’s dynamic score. Truth to tell, there’s a lot going on in Dreamgirls, and it takes awhile to sort out the characters, discerning the good guys from the troublemakers. In fact, just like in life, those designations aren’t fixed in this story: No one is all good or all bad. That keeps the show exciting and thoroughly entertaining.

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The musical Dreamgirls has a storied history: A Broadway hit in 1981 (winning six Tony Awards) and a major motion picture in 2006 (nominated for eight Academy Awards), it’s the story of three African-American female singers from the 1960s starting out as “The Dreamettes” in Chicago, finding their way to New York’s Apollo Theatre and then to national stardom. When they become “The Dreams,” their stories resemble Pop stars such as The Supremes and The Shirelles; other characters reflect Soul singers James Brown and Jackie Wilson. Staged on Broadway by Michael Bennett, best known for A Chorus Line (1975), it was the director/choreographer’s final production. (He was a victim of AIDS, dying in 1987 at age 44.) Given reputation and skills, it’s no surprise that the show is both ambitious and full of (L to R): Lormarev Jones, Sharisse Vernelle Santos and Tia Seay physical movement. With music by Henry Krieger PHOTO: MIKKI SCHAFFNER PHOTOGRAPHY and lyrics by Tom Eyen, Dreamgirls is mostly sung and danced, with little spoken dialogue — “(And I Am Telling You) I’m Not Going,” as most of the dramatic action is conveyed well as the second-act comeback number, through sung numbers. That means it’s a “I Am Changing.” Seay’s performance all demanding show to recreate, especially but stopped the show both times. for a theater with the physical limitations Brandon Burton is Curtis Taylor Jr., the of The Carnegie in Covington, where it’s hard-driving and often manipulative mancurrently onstage. ager of the group. He covertly romances Such challenges have not been an Deena while leading Effie on (and fatherimpediment to Torie Wiggins, a veteran ing a child with her), all in his pursuit of local actor and director, who assembled a his own dream, a more broadly appealing remarkable cast of African-American taldirection for Pop music. Along the way he ent: The story involves eight well-defined intersects with and reshapes James “Thuncharacters, requiring performers that can der” Early, played with exceptional energy sing, act and dance. Wiggins recruited and presence by Dedrick Weathersby of another local theater professional, Darnell San Francisco, whose star turn is initially Pierre Benjamin, to choreograph the show, backed by the Dreamettes but eventually which seldom employs blackouts for scene spirals down to a manic — yet constantly changes, but rather flows cinematically watchable — washout performer. from one moment to the next, sometimes Reginald Hemphill plays C.C. White, juxtaposing backstage and onstage Effie’s good-natured songwriting brother, moments simultaneously. and Ernaisja Curry is Michelle Morris, the Wiggins’ cast features three fine singers back-up singer Curtis brings in for the as The Dreams: Sharisse Vernelle Santos thankless task of replacing Effie when is Deena Jones, who becomes the group’s she becomes too difficult to manage. As lead singer; Lormarev Jones is Lorell Marty, James’ conservative manager and Robinson, the group’s peace-making backthe persistent guy who helps Effie restore up singer; and Tia Seay (a powerhouse her career, Javon Cameron (from Dayton), singer imported from Dayton) takes on the brings solid support to several scenes. daunting role of Effie White, the lead singer These capable regional performers are who is rudely supplanted and who sings repeatedly assembled in scenes featuring several of the show’s star-making numthree to six of them in unison; they are bers, especially the iconic heartbreak song, constantly augmented by a hardworking

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A Visit to London’s Lively Stage Productions BY R I C K PEN D ER

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Headed back from a summer vacation in France, I took a side trip to London to see three unique theater productions. London’s Gay Pride weekend made for a crowded arrival at my hotel near Trafalgar Square. My first show, at Islington’s Almeida Theatre, three miles north of the hotel, required a cab ride. Dinner at a cozy Vietnamese diner preceded the performance of Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal. The Almeida is a 325-seat venue reminiscent of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, refurbished for comparable expense and with similar style to ETC’s recent physical upgrade. The production of a modernized version of the American writer’s 1928 script was about a docile young woman backed into an unhappy marriage. She eventually snaps and murders her husband. The opening scene was attention-grabbing: a dozen stenographers rhythmically clacking away at typewriters, seated in isolation Aidan Turner in The Lieutenant of Inishmore in pools of light, complaining about work and gossiping about PHOTO: JOHAN PERSON their missing co-worker. Played by Emily Berrington, the young stenographer shows up late and bar of harsh fluorescent light, splitting and is scorned by her colleagues: She’s having separating to cinematically reveal the next an affair with the boss. He presses her into moment. marriage, and then forces her to have an Two days later, at the Noël Coward unwanted child. We leapfrog chronologiTheatre in London’s West End theater cally across time and locales, witnessing district, I watched The Lieutenant of her sensational trial. (The story is based on Inishmore, a revival of Martin McDonagh’s an actual murder trial.) dark comedy from 2001. He’s the Irish Fine performances by several actors playwright of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, kept this production engaging, espeThe Pillowman and several other horrific cially Berrington and Denise Black as her tales of domestic violence from the late stern, grasping mother. Director Natalie 1990s. More recently he has written and Abrahami gave the show a hurtling pace directed several noteworthy films: In from office to house to hotel to hospital to Bruges (2008) and the recent Academy bar to courtroom to prison as the young Award-nominated Three Billboards Outside woman’s life spirals out of control. Quick Ebbing, Missouri. darkness ended each scene, then a jarring Inishmore featured darkly handsome

Aidan Turner (familiar to PBS Masterpiece fans as the title character in Poldark) playing Padraic, the madly violent leader of an IRA splinter group who’s too volatile for the “regular” terrorists. Informed that the only being he truly loved, a black cat named Wee Thomas, has been killed on a highway, he roars back to Inishmore to ferret out and punish the guilty parties. Following an eye-popping array of winceinducing torture and an unbelievable amount of bloodshed, the show is capped off with a very funny last-minute “nevermind” twist. Especially good in addition to Turner were Denis Conway as Padraic’s fearful, befuddled father and Chris Walley as a

hapless young neighbor who tries to pass off another cat covered with black shoe polish as Wee Thomas. This searingly memorable show evoked both shocked gasps and awkwardly bewildered laughter from the audience. My theater tour concluded at the replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, on the north bank of the Thames, for a spirited rendition of As You Like It. Bench-seating on three levels was sold out, so I was a “groundling,” standing for the nearly three-hour afternoon performance of Shakespeare’s woodland romantic comedy on the traditional open-air stage. New artistic director Michelle Terry is also a respected actor. This production and one of Hamlet in revolving repertory are the first under her tenure. She’s playing Hamlet as well as a small role in As You Like It. Apparently her regime has encouraged more collaborative work by the actors; this production didn’t have a directorial concept so much as a company of “gender-blind, race-blind, disability-blind” actors, as characterized by Terry. The roles of Orlando and Rosalind were gender-switched, with petite, spritely and feisty Bettrys Jones as Orlando and lanky Jack Laskey as the demure Rosalind. The story is about the latter dressing as a man for much of the tale, while the former pines for the “lady” he met after a wrestling match. Nadia Nadarajah, a deaf actress, expressively and engagingly signed her performance as Rosalind’s confidante Celia. The three plays were a fine, brief sampling of London theater. Contact Rick Pender: rpender@citybeat.com

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people who find comfort in more traditional values. There’s a clear objectivity in his moral code, the kind of openness that society preaches, but rarely lives up to, in everyday life. We see this most plainly in his relationship with his current wife — they’ve been together for over 30 years — who didn’t know about his wild life until he wrote his book. Had she known, would she have made a different choice? Bowers, without a doubt, would do it all over again, exactly the same way. He lives without regret, and now without secrets. (Opens Friday) Grade: B+

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Fairly early on in Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, the engaging and entertaining documentary from director Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor), we hear its subject, the now 95-year-old George Albert “Scotty” Bowers, make a reference to “squares” — the quaint post-World War II slang term for straight-laced conservative types. It would be easy, if you only saw the photos of Bowers from his days in the military (he saw combat during World War II and lost his older brother in the war), to imagine that he was one of those “squares.” He had that clean-cut Midwestern look about him, with an unfailingly sunny disposition despite surviving the horrors of war. When you hear him speak of George Albert “Scotty” Bowers in uniform the camaraderie of his brothers-in-arms, he’s P H O T O : C O U R T E S Y O F G R E E N W I C H E N T E R TA I N M E N T the poster boy for the Golden Age myth of Americana. and salvation so completely. He never But instead of coming home and returnsuccumbed to the dark temptations to ing to the heartland where he was born, become a vicious pimp. Despite running Bowers set his sights on Hollywood and an elaborate operation out of the gas the promise of opportunity. He took a job station (and a rented trailer in the back, at a gas station and applied his insatiable along with expanding his business to work ethic to getting ahead. He became a include available rooms in a motel across hustler, in every sense of the word. the street), he refused to take a cut from Before long, Bowers was doing more any of his escorts. He was only there to than pumping gas at the station. He facilitate and participate in his own trysts. encountered the Academy Award-nomiHe also maintained the secrets of a connated actor Walter Pidgeon, who invited stellation of stars — from Cole Porter and him for a swim in his pool and a roll Clark Gable to Spencer Tracy and Kathabetween the sheets. A connection emerged, rine Hepburn — and high-level public figbut also the seeds for a life-altering side ures (J. Edgar Hoover, the Duke and Duchactivity. Through Pidgeon, Bowers met a ess of Windsor). That is, he maintained host of hungry stars and starlets eager to them until penning a memoir (2012’s Full find and pay for sex. Service). And that starts to muddy the Bowers recognized the need within this waters a bit. The film only lightly touches market and created a service, enlisting a on the inherent contradictions of “outing” number of his old military comrades. They celebrities, even after their death, for profit. were not bothered by the possible shame of Is it fair to the loved ones left behind, who engaging in illicit same-sex acts and counow must read about these never-beforeplings. To this core group of men, whom revealed exploits? And what about the right Bowers drew into his informal escort Bowers has to share his own history? service, what they did behind closed doors Tyrnauer isn’t overly concerned with at his request was not so different from the the ethics of telling this story. By focusing things done as favors for one another in the so exclusively on Bowers’ perspective, he foxholes during the war. In fact, it was part wants us to appreciate the good intentions of what kept them alive and sane. It’s what behind the man, himself, in telling his made them “buddies.” history. When I mentioned earlier how What makes Bowers so fascinating, as Bowers uses the term “square,” I left out his recollections emerge in this film, is how there’s no sense of judgment from how he defined the yin and yang of sin him when he says it. He’s not belittling

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OTR’s Maize bridges a Latin American cuisine gap with a creative fusion menu BY L E Y L A S H O KO O H E

aize, a new Over-the-Rhine eatery which opened in early July, specializes in a unique fusion menu that honors traditional recipes from across Latin America, with an emphasis on Venezuelan cuisine. “It’s hard to find real dishes that actually originated in (Latin America) and are being served the way it’s supposed to be and honored the way it should be,” says Maize co-owner Louisa Reckman. She’s been in the restaurant business for more

than 14 years, most recently as the owner of Queen City Radio. “I don’t think there are many restaurants that do that in Cincinnati, and I think that was missing — especially Venezuelan and Puerto Rican (offerings).” Fellow co-owner Angel Batista is a native of Puerto Rico and, in his first foray into the restaurant business, is adamant about maintaining tradition. He grew up surrounded by various culinary influences, including Venezuelan fare. (Puerto Rico is

due north of Venezuela, separated by the Caribbean Sea.) “We do that by really keeping these recipes, the actual authenticity brought out by using a base of tradition,” he says. “The plating and way we’re bringing things to the table, everything is very traditional, not processed.” The restaurant takes its name from maize, a corn flour dating back some 10,000 years and first utilized by indigenous Mexicans. The flour serves as the

basis for the arepas, cachapas and empanadas served at Maize, and indeed, Batista looks at the stuff as the starting point for the restaurant’s whole concept. He calls it Maize’s “delivery system,” acting as an access point for the rich world of Latin American cuisine. To that end, the menu is colorful and varied, with dishes from across the region that complement one another while retaining their traditional roots. Batista rattles off the geographically-assorted origins of

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such dishes as the Peruvian ceviche, Mexican street corn and Venezuelan cachapas and asado negro. “There’s a lot of work that went into this concept,” he says. “How do we bridge things to make somebody for the first time

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chicken salad, red onion slivers, queso de mano (think mozzarella but saltier) and cilantro. It was filling and very, very good. Empanadas and traditional Venezuelan cachapas, a sweet corn pancake, are also available. I also tried the ensalada jardinera — romaine with grape tomatoes, fireroasted corn, queso fresco, carrots and serrano peppers — which was good, but definitely needed the kick from the crema de cilantro dressing served on the side. My pal ordered the asado negro de costilla de res ($22), which was just lovely. A true fusion dish, it’s a traditional Venezuelan braised short rib with a panela base (raw sugar that when caramelized has a natural barbecue flavor), served on top of Puerto Rican mofongo (plantains, sofritos and vegetable broth, mashed and seasoned) with heirloom carrots and a sorghum foam. The traditional recipes married to authentic presentation was well-received by this diner, and Batista hopes everyone comes away with that feeling. Other restaurants in the city have opened the door to trying new cuisine — he and Reckman mention Salazar, Abigail Street and Please, among others — and they want to open it even further. “We are not out there making changes to food and recipe in order for it to be OK and accepted by someone,” says Batista. “We’re trying to make sure there’s a bridge. It’s more about giving that food the respect it deserves.” The team at Maize also has plans to roll out brunch and lunch soon.

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trying things comfortable, and how do we also keep the traditional aspect that when a Peruvian walks in, they feel like we did justice to their dishes and their traditions?” In addition to adhering to tried-and-true recipes (“From the beans to the pork to the chicken to the chicharrones, a lot of that stuff is straight from my mother,” Batista says), Maize utilizes high-quality ingredients. They source their meat from Eckerlin in Findlay Market and their produce comes from Lasita Joe & Sons, Inc. on Fourth Street. Maize’s executive chef, Curtis McGlone, brings his own insight as well, after stints at the ItalianArgentinian Alfio’s Buon Cibo and contemporary Southern Hotel Covington. I stopped by on a Tuesday night with an 8 p.m. reservation, which I at first thought was merely a formality, but when I stepped inside the buzzing restaurant on Race and 14th streets, I was glad I had called ahead. The bright blue accents of the restaurant lend to the tropical vibe, as do the multitude of rum options on the drink menu. With more than 30 rums in house, Batista and Reckman believe the spirit will be the

next bourbon in terms of popularity and widespread, appreciative consumption. I ordered the Tembleque cocktail to start, an homage to a traditional Puerto Rican pudding dessert. Bacardi black rum, Don Q, coconut milk, vanilla, egg, cinnamon and bitters produce a perfectly sweet sipping cocktail that reminded me of eggnog, in the best way possible. For appetizers, my friend ordered the ceviche ($9) and, on our server’s recommendation, I tried the guasacaca gruesa ($8), which is a chunky Venezuelan avocado dip, similar to guacamole, but prepared with olive brine for acidity instead of lime. I appreciated the saltiness, but I missed the bite of lime. Both were served with an unbelievable abundance of mariquitas, or plantain chips. We munched on airy yuca fries ($4), too — yuca is a potato-like tuber, with more inherent flavor and less guilt. Allow me, briefly, to exalt the ceviche: it was perfect. Crisp, bright, tangy, fresh; it tasted like the ocean — as Batista says it should. The mahi, snapper and shrimp were plump and plentiful and the diced mango and serrano pepper (tossed in after the acidity of the lime cures the seafood) were complementary pops of flavor. At the bottom of the glass lingered the leche de tigre, or “tiger milk,” which you can drink right out of the container. Batista and Reckman both say the tiger milk is considered an aphrodisiac. (I refrained from drinking it, so I can’t attest to this, but let us know.) For my main dish, I ordered the reina pepiada arepa ($9), stuffed with avocado

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Wiedemann Beer is Back with a New Recipe and New Location BY S E A N M . PE T ER S

Wiedemann’s beer came back from the dead inside a former Saint Bernard funeral home. The Geo. Wiedemann Brewing Co. trademark was acquired by Jon and Betsy Newberry in 2012 when Jon, a journalist who covered local beer news, became intrigued at the prospect of bringing back the beer that was synonymous with Cincinnati family gatherings. Jon saw that the Wiedemann brand, which had been operating out of Newport, Ky., had gone into bankruptcy; the last company to own it was Pittsburgh Brewing, who dropped their trademark rights for the brand. The Newport facility closed in 1983. Jon asked a lawyer what he needed to do to get the Wiedemann trademark and learned he could apply for it, which cost $250. So he did. And he got it. “He started brewing with Listermann on a contract basis and did small batches. From there it snowballed,” Betsy says. She and Jon are sitting at a table in the sunny front room of the brewery. Jon drinks his Royal Amber Ale while Betsy sips a “half & half” of Royal Amber and Blonde Ale. “It is Jon’s idea, his vision, but he couldn’t do it alone while working full-time,” she continues. “I started doing things here and there while I had time to help him, but one thing led to another and it’s now full-time. It’s been six years and we’re finally open thanks to a wonderful, wonderful crew helping us get the building renovated.” The taproom makes great use of the bottom floor of the elegant building, originally the Imwalle Memorial Funeral Home. Vintage Wiedemann signs wash the inner rooms with that comforting barroom glow only attainable from neon luminescence. Regarding the vintage signs, Jon says they’re easy to come by, but not cheap. “The more publicity our brand gets, the higher the prices go,” he says. “I think there’s people in Newport who still have basements full of this stuff.” “We’ve had so much interest and support from people around the country, we get calls and emails with stories about growing up with Wiedemann, that their parents and grandparents drank it at family gatherings,” Betsy says. “There are tons of people so loyal to the brand; it brings back good memories. It’s a nostalgic thing.” The original Wiedemann recipes did not come with the trademark acquisition, meaning the new owners had to come up with their own approach to the iconic beers. “Royal Amber Ale is the first Wiedemann recipe our brewmaster came up with,” Jon says. “I really wasn’t all that interested in the old recipes because people’s taste in beer has changed so much in the past 15 or 20 years. It’s a whole new ballgame and I didn’t want to just bring back the old Wiedemann. “It’s completely different, our recipe. The ingredients are much better, I’m not sure

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how they made it and what they put into it, although I drank plenty of the old stuff, no complaints there. I’d like to think that what we’ve got now is much more authentic to what George Wiedemann would have been making back around 1870.” Wiedemann’s Bohemian Special Brew, the beer older drinkers associate with the Wiedemann brand, was still in the tanks at the time of our interview, so much of our conversation revolved around the Royal Amber Ale, a smooth beer that drinks sweet thanks to roasted malt, but finishes with a pleasant dryness that makes the beer incredibly crushable. “The beer people have been demanding we bring back is Royal Amber, they’d say it was the best beer they remember having,” Jon says. “So, we needed to bring it back, but we didn’t have the old recipe for Royal Amber. Also, it was a lager, which takes considerably longer to make than an ale, so I told my brewmaster that we need to come up with a really good Royal Amber recipe. …So I said to come up with a really good, smooth ale recipe that’s really drinkable. He came up with this and knocked it out of the park.” Wiedemann’s brewmaster is Steve Shaw from Cellar Dweller at Valley Vineyards in Morrow. Approximately 2,000 barrels of

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beer are planned for production in the first 12 months of operation, including a variety of styles like lager, stout, ale and more. The brewery will self-distribute and a canning line is set to be installed in the former embalming room. In addition to beer, the taproom boasts a full food menu, offering fried barroom appetizers, hot sandwiches, burgers and basic salads. Wiedemann Brewing Company is located at 4811 Vine St., Saint Bernard. More info: wiedemannsfinebeer.com.

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Orchids at Palm Court, 35 W. Fifth St., Downtown, 513-421-9100, orchidsatpalmcourt.com If I’m lucky, I’ll get to Orchids once or twice a year, and I’ve almost always had a stellar meal. In June, I dined there with friends to see whether that level of wonderfulness is still attainable under the direction of new executive chef Maxime Kien. In a word: yes. If I had to select one feature of the meal that we all agreed was over-the-top spectacular, it would be all of the “freebies” that accompanied the dishes we ordered. That bounty started with a delectable amusebouche consisting of a savory panna cotta topped with a bit of local caviar and a sprinkling of herb salad. Between the appetizer and entrée came a small portion of the freshest pea soup you can imagine, enhanced by a shaving of black truffle. A pre-dessert treat centering on not-toosweet strawberry sorbet prepared us for the desserts we had ordered, but there was even more after that: petits-fours and a take-home granola bar. As you would expect, the seasonallyattuned menu takes advantage of midsummer produce and combines those ingredients with top-quality seafood and meat from a variety of sources. During his months at the helm, Kien has started to share his knowledge and show his team his vision. That vision produces dishes that are never overly complicated either in ingredient combinations or presentation. Case in point was the vichyssoise appetizer — a chilled potato-based soup. It was marvelous: a creamy purée without the tiniest of lumps, topped with a spoonful of local Big Fish Farms caviar, a sprinkling of fines herbes and melba toast croutons for an important crunchy contrast. (Pama Mitchell)

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Blackbird Eatery, 3009 O’Bryon St., O’bryonville, 513321-0413, blackbirdeatery.com Blackbird is the latest venture by longtime Cincinnati restaurateurs Mary and Mark Swortword, who closed their Columbia Tusculum restaurants Green Dog Café and Buz to focus on the new project in a more central neighborhood. (The Swortwords were also the original owners of Blue Ash’s Brown Dog Café.) Formerly a chicken joint called Son of a Preacher Man, the building had been vacant for over a year when the Swortwords began extensive renovations in January. While they were able to use a lot of kitchen equipment from their previous restaurants, Mark told me they completely gutted the dining room and started from scratch to transform the single room into a more intimate, inviting space where guests might linger over drinks and dinner or Sunday brunch. My first visit — for dinner — turned out surprisingly quiet, even though we went on a Saturday night. For mains, the Nori Pesto Salmon ($17) with zucchini, pea shoots and green couscous sounded so good we almost fought over who would get to order it. Not only was it lacking in taste, but the dish also arrived lukewarm. We had better luck with the grilled lamb tenderloins ($29), consisting of slices of medium-rare lamb over green lentils with pickled golden raisins and a yogurt sauce. Overall, while I think the cooking needs a few tweaks, there’s enough good stuff coming out of the kitchen to satisfy most diners who find their way to this little restaurant row on O’Bryon Street. (PM)

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Crown Republic Gastropub, 720 Sycamore St., Downtown, 513246-4272, crgcincy.com The newly opened Crown Republic Gastropub is located on the first level of the same building as Encore Apartments. I stopped by on a Saturday for a solo, pre-theater meal, and because my eyes are always, always bigger than my stomach, I ordered enough food for two: the octopus tabbouleh ($16), fried chicken gobbets ($8) and pappardelle ($16). The octopus was tender, served on a bed

of farro tabbouleh under creamy, zesty duck-fat hummus and loaded with fresh herbs and merguez. When I ran out of the four pieces of housemade pita (more akin to the kind gyros are served on than pocket-y pita), I shoveled the rest of that delicious food confetti into my mouth with a fork. Did you know the name “pappardelle” comes from the Italian phrase “to gobble up”? Well, it does, and that’s exactly what you’ll do. The housemade noodles are at least two-inches wide and curled in a winding nest under a nice Bolognese sauce, topped with a pat of green ricotta gremolata and sprinkled with parmesan cheese and parsley. Oh, and the gobbets. You’re probably wondering what those are. They’re basically adult chicken nuggets. The gobbets are soaked in the malt brine the crew makes their pickles in then fried and served with honey hot sauce on the side. (Leyla Shokoohe)

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It’s no secret that the Queen City loves dogs. One quick trip around the block and you’ll scratch more ears and witness more poop pick-ups than you can count on one hand. And according to a recent study conducted by WalletHub, there’s a reason for that: Cincinnati is the seventh most petfriendly city out of the top 100 largest cities surveyed. The study looked at three dimensions of petWhinnie the corgi at Washington Park’s Southwest Porch friendliness to determine the ranking — pet budget, P H O T O : P AT T Y S A L A S pet health and wellness and outdoor pet-friendliness — and criteria like veterinary care text, which means it will become effective costs, pet businesses per capita, dog parks after 90 days. So, gear up to dine out with per capita and more. your dog starting in October. Scottsdale and Orlando took the top two Note: This doesn’t mean that restauspots, followed in order by San Diego, Ausrants have to let your dog on the patio tin, Phoenix and Tampa. Behind Cincy? (unless it’s a service animal; there are legal Seattle, Las Vegas and Irvine, Ca. round requirements for that) but if they do allow out the top 10. dogs, there are still some rules to follow: Here’s a list of all of Cincinnati’s you must control your dog while in the outrankings: door dining area via leash or other method; you can’t take the dog through the interior Pet-Friendliness of Cincinnati of the restaurant to reach the outdoor part; (1 = most pet-friendly; 50 = average): and your dog must be properly vaccinated. If you can’t wait, here’s a list of some 8th – Veterinary care costs patios and bars where you can currently 26th – Dog insurance premium drink with your pooch. Braxton Brewing Co. and Braxton 6th – Veterinarians per capita Labs — Employees dole out treats and lots 22nd – Pet businesses per capita of belly scratches for any pup that visits the taproom. And nearby Braxton Labs has an 32nd – Dog-friendly restaurants per capita outdoor dog-friendly AstroTurf biergar44th – Dog parks per capita ten. Braxton, 27 W. Seventh St., Covington; Braxton Labs, 95 Riviera Drive, Bellevue, 32nd – Walk score braxtonbrewing.com. 19th – Animal shelters per capita Hightail Mount Adams — During their 4-7 p.m. Sunday Yappy Hour, you’ll get spe37th – Pet caretakers per capita cial drink deals and your pup will get some And the Queen City is about the be yummy treats. 941 Pavilion St., Mount more pet-friendly — especially in the dogAdams, hightailmtadams.com. friendly restaurants per capita category. Liberty’s Bar & Bottle — Dogs are welAt the end of July, Ohio Gov. John Kasich come and you’ll frequently find one or two signed House Bill 263, which allows “the sleeping under their owners’ stools at the owner of a retail food establishment or bar. 1427 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, searchfood service operation to allow dogs in an able on Facebook. outdoor dining area of the establishment Southwest Porch at Washington or operation.” Park — This almost 3,000-square-foot Basically, you will soon be able to legally space has a giant chess set, ping-pong hang out with your dog while you eat tables and cornhole, plus a selection of brunch/lunch/dinner/etc. outside. spirits, wine and local beer. Washington Prior to the passing of the bill, Ohio Park’s dog park is adjacent to the porch restaurant patios and other outdoor areas and owners can bring their drinks inside. with food service that allowed live animals 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonon the premises could be held in violation park.org. of certain health code restrictions. House Woodburn Brewery — Dogs are welBill 263 says that the health department come to chill inside the taproom — they and director of agriculture will now estabhave a couple of regular booze hounds, lish new health code standards regardincluding Myrtle the Brewery Dog — ing safe food handling and sanitation as where they will receive many pets. 2800 it applies to allowing dogs on site. The Woodburn Ave., East Walnut Hills, woodbill doesn’t specify an effective date in the burnbrewery.com.

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August Puzzle Crawl — This puzzle crawl is inspired by Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so grab some coconuts and get ready to pub crawl. Stop at different pubs to complete puzzles as you compete against other teams for a prize package. 6:30-9:30 p.m. $20 early bird; $30. Register and get location details at puzzlecrawl.com/the-next-crawl.

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Bacchanalian Society Summer Wine Tasting — The Bacchanalian Society’s summer wine party will benefit Ziegler Park’s Everybody In Program. Each team should bring three bottles of the same pinot grigio to the event for blind taste testing. The team with the best overall wine wins. 7-10 p.m. $20 advance; $25 at the door. Ziegler Lawn, 1322 Sycamore St., Over-theRhine, bacchanaliansociety. com.

Beer Styles + Food Pairing — Sample a variety of beers with foods that highlight the brews’ flavors and learn how the two can heighten the experience of eating and imbibing. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $60. Turner Farm, 7400 Given Road, Indian Hill, turnerfarm.org.

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The Tasting Room: Around the Wine World — Taste 10 different wines from around the world with bread and cheese. 1-3 p.m. $40. The Cooking School at Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com. Seize the Season: Quick Pickles — Learn how to quickly pickle seasonal produce with a variety of pickling bases and seasonings. Taste and learn about farm-pickled products including red onions, corn, cucumber, beans and tomatoes. A farm-fresh lunch will be served. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $35. Turner Farm, 7400 Given Road, Indian Hill, turnerfarm.org.

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Morsel & Nosh Cheese & Greet — Northside’s Chameleon is hosting a “cheese & greet” with the neighborhood’s new deli,

Baseball Themed Brunch Squared — Enjoy brunch from local food trucks, live music and baseball-themed family games on Fountain Square. Stop by before the Reds vs. Giants game at 1:10 p.m. There will also be beer, Coke products and a special cocktail made with Watershed Distillery products. 10 a.m. Free admission. Fountain Square, Fifth and Vine streets, Downtown, myfountainsquare.com. Second August Tea Dance — Head to Aladdin’s Eatery in OTR for a double dose of Tea Dance in August. This LGBTQ+ mixer features cocktails, DJs and dancing. 4-7 p.m. Aladdin’s Eatery + Lounge OTR, 1203 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook. com/teadancecinci.

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Morsel & Nosh, featuring a draft beer and cheese pairing, 11-inch slice of pizza with a featured cheese, a cheese wheel demonstration and 2 ounces of cheese to take home. 6-8 p.m. $12. Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave., Northside, facebook. com/morselandnosh.

The Original Findlay Market Tour — Learn about the history of Ohio’s oldest public market while taking a tour and enjoying samples and small bites from five specialty merchants. 11 a.m. $20; $5 optional wine tasting. Leaves from the information desk at Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, cincinnatifoodtours.com.

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An Afternoon with the Beer Barons — Spring Grove’s popular An Afternoon with the Beer Barons returns for the fifth year. Sample popular and unique beers from local breweries including Braxton, Brink, Fifty West, Fretboard, MadTree, Urban Artifact and more while Heritage Foundation docents educate guests on famous beer barons and their families via air-conditioned motor coach tours. There will also be food trucks and live music. For 21 and up. 4-7 p.m. $30; $20 designated driver. Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, 4521 Spring Grove Ave., Spring Grove Village, springgrove.org.

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Walk on Woodburn — East Walnut Hills’ Walk on Woodburn invites the public to drink, dine, shop and view art after work. The street party will also feature a vendor market. 6-10 p.m. Free admission. Woodburn Ave., East Walnut Hills, facebook. com/walkonwoodburn.

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oing into her second album, rising Country star Kelsea Ballerini didn’t know how the project would take shape. Coming off a successful debut, 2015’s The First Time, she had been writing and co-writing for some time, teaming up with such A-list collaborators as Ross Copperman, Shane McAnally, Ashley Gorley and Hillary Lindsey. The main thing she knew was she wanted a thematic thread for the album. Fortunately, that connecting idea was already there. She just had to fi nd it and develop it in the music she was accumulating. “I mean, I never stopped writing from the fi rst record,” Ballerini says. “I just kept on writing, and all of a sudden it was time to make the second record and I had over 200 songs and I had no idea of what to do with them.” She did know she wanted to put the songs together to make something cohesive. “I guess I’m old school because I love listening to actual like full albums,” she says. “I think as the music industry continues to change — continues to be more singles oriented — I wanted to think of a way that people would still want to listen to the whole thing.” She didn’t have to look much further to fi nd a connective thread. “I just figured I had already written all of these songs about my personal life and growth and breakup and falling in love and all of that, and I figured if I made it the story that it was and put it in order, maybe people would listen to the whole record,” Ballerini says. “That’s how you get to know someone.” The singer/songwriter had no shortage of topics she could have covered since the release of The First Time, including those that come with becoming a successful recording artist. Ballerini’s debut album produced four singles. The fi rst of those songs, “Love Me Like You Mean It,” became the first debut single from a female artist to go No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart since Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus, Take The Wheel.” “Love Me” was followed by another No. 1 hit, “Dibs,” which made Ballerini only

the fifth solo female Country artist to get back-to-back chart toppers with her fi rst two singles. Her third single, “Peter Pan,” topped both the Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts. But while Ballerini’s career was getting off to a terrific start, things weren’t going as well on a personal level for the now-24year-old native of Knoxville, Tenn. As the hits were coming, Ballerini was seeing things go sour with a boyfriend. The difficult breakup that resulted provided the starting point for Unapologetically, her sophomore album. The album opens with “Graveyard,” a delicate ballad on which Ballerini wrestles with the heartbreak and emotional bruises from the relationship, while resolving to pick up the pieces and move on. The next track, “Miss Me More,” laments the notion that she lost her identity and sense of independence while caught up in the romance and rush of love (“I forgot I had dreams/ Forgot I had wings/Forgot who I was before I ever kissed you”). “I think the best thing you can do after a breakup is just realize what you learned from it and realize the positives,” Ballerini says. “You realize what you do want to be like and what you don’t want to be like. And I think that was a really crucial relationship for me (for) learning that stuff.” As the album moves on, things shift from loss into the second chapter of the story: moving forward. Over the course of the tracks “Machine Heart,” “In Between,” “High School” and “End of the World,” listeners hear Ballerini rediscovering her sense of self and her confidence, rebuilding her life, moving into adulthood and fi nding the footing she needs for whatever comes next. The final four songs on Unapologetically introduce that next chapter: new love. In the spring of 2016, Ballerini traveled to Australia to co-host an awards show with Aussie Country artist Morgan Evans. Sparks flew and the two have been together since. The album’s title track pretty much tells the story of love re-entering Ballerini’s life and her fi nding herself willing to go all in with her new beau, ready to take their journey together, wherever it may lead. That’s exactly what Ballerini has done

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in real life, as she and Evans married late last year in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Life sounds pretty magical for the couple so far. “Everyone has been asking me like, ‘So what’s different?’ I’m like, ‘Nothing, that’s why we got married. I didn’t want anything to be different,’ ” Ballerini says. “I think that’s the best part. That’s the comfort. We’re so content in our lives separately and together, and we were both so focused on our careers (last year), it was amazing to take two months to just celebrate the holidays and celebrate getting married with all the people that we love and have nothing change.” Musically, Unapologetically fi nds Ballerini largely sticking to the template of The First Time to create a warm, mainly midtempo and ballad-oriented soundtrack to her stories. While several songs are rooted in Country, Unapologetically also has a Pop dimension, particularly on tracks like “Machine Heart,” “End of the World” and “I Hate Love Songs,” which incorporate electronic tones and rhythms into the mix. This musical approach, along with her ability to write songs that resonate with teens and young women, has earned Ballerini comparisons to Taylor Swift, who started out in Country before embracing the wider-ranging sound and modern

production of mainstream Pop; Swift has become a supporter and friend of Ballerini’s. Now Ballerini hopes those who catch her in concert will get to better know the music, messages and woman behind the new album as she continues her current tour with Keith Urban. Speaking before the tour had started, Ballerini sounds excited about teaming up with Urban again. “I opened for him for a few fairs and festivals when I was fi rst getting started, but never really got to spend any time with him or really watch his show,” she says. “I really think he’s just one of the best artists in music, not just Country music, but just music, and for me certainly, just one of the most influential artists and songwriters. “Honestly, it’s just really cool to be able to go do what I do for 45 minutes and walk off stage and absolutely fan girl every night.” Ballerina has been playing a good bit of Unapologetically, in hopes that it connects with the larger audiences on Urban’s “Graffiti U” tour. “I just invested so much heart in it,” she says. “(It’s) just really important… to see it connect, because it’s so close to my heart.” Kelsea Ballerini opens for Keith Urban Sunday (Aug. 19) at Riverbend Music Center. Tickets/more info: riverbend.org.

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A retired New Jersey substitute teacher decided to do a good deed while hitting up a Wawa convenience store/gas station, but it turns out that the man for whom she helped pay the bill likely had enough money to buy the entire store. Country star Keith Urban was reportedly filling up and getting snacks when he realized he was short on cash. In stepped Ruth Reed, who had previously made a resolution to help out Wawa shoppers down on their luck. She pitched in the few bucks to cover the man’s deficit and, though it took a minute, was shocked to discover it was Urban, who was in the area for an arena show later that night. Urban either forgot or doesn’t carry his credit/debit card — maybe he was maxed out?

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Cincinnati trio PUBLIC’s climb up the Pop music ladder hasn’t proceeded at “overnight” speed, but it has continued confidently and steadily over the past couple of years. In the year-plus since the group opened one of Twenty One Pilots’ pre-hiatus arena shows in Columbus, Ohio (the two acts had played together before Twenty One Pilots’ explosive success), John Vaughn, Ben Lapps and Matt Alvarado have continued to build upon an already large and rabid fanbase with regular coast-to-coast touring, including a recent five-week stint opening for Pop star Jesse McCartney that wrapped up late last month in Los Angeles. PUBLIC’s new single, “One That I Want” Also last month, PUBLIC released the latest entry into its discography PHOTO: PROVIDED of slickly produced, highly accessible singles and EPs: a new track titled Young Heirlooms Fire Up Their “One That I Want.” The ear-candy single is built around a smooth, circular guitar Americana Spotlight Again riff and a roof-raising chorus hook that is In January, phenomenal local Indie Folk built for Top 40 radio play. Teen/pre-teenensemble Young Heirlooms presented the oriented radio platform Radio Disney took first installment of their new bi-annual notice and added the track to its playlists, “Americana Spotlight” series, which they pushing the single into the ears of multicreated to highlight some of their favorite tudes of fans and fans-to-be through the fellow Roots acts. The first showcase at network’s vast online reach (iHeartRadio Northside’s Urban Artifact was a huge sucis a digital distributor). The single has also cess, packing the venue with fans eager to been getting terrestrial radio love from Top see the Heirlooms and Greater Cincinnati 40 stations across the country, including artists Arlo McKinley & the Lonesome Cincinnati’s Q102. (PUBLIC put together a Sound and the Eric Bolander Band. handmade, smart-phone-friendly “vertiFor this weekend’s second edition, the cal” music video for “One That I Want”; Heirlooms are expanding the spotlight to check it out at citybeat.com.) some acts from outside the region. The band’s signal is boosted by having Saturday night at 7 p.m. at Woodward support from some big industry names Theater (1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, behind them. Jonas Group Entertainment woodwardtheater.com), Young Heirlooms’ — formed by Jonas Brothers patriarch Americana Spotlight will include perforKevin Jonas Sr., who guided his sons’ rise mances by themselves, as well as Illinoisto fame — is PUBLIC’s management, and based groups Miles Nielsen & The Rusted the trio is booked by Paradigm Talent Hearts and Rebecca Rego & The Trainmen. Agency, a heavyweight international bookNorthern Kentucky’s Robert Lowell — coing company that works with artists from leader of the Country/Americana group various disciplines and levels of success Warrick & Lowell — kicks off the show at (Sara Bareilles, Sean Paul, Tame Impala 7 p.m. and Dave Matthews Band, are just a few of This weekend’s Americana Spotlight the artists on the agency’s massive music also introduces another component to the roster). series — visual arts. Saturday’s event will This Friday, PUBLIC will play for have an art installation featuring the work hometown fans for the first time in several of Heather Braunlin-Jones, who puts a months. Dubbed “The Deep End” (named modern spin on the distinctly Americana for a line in “One That I Want”), the group art of quilt-making. Jones’ work has been plays Madison Live (734 Madison Ave, exhibited all over the world; visit heatherCovington, madisontheateronline.com) jonesstudio.com to check it out. at 8 p.m. PUBLIC will be joined at the Doors open at 6 p.m. Saturday and show by fellow Cincinnati AltPop groups tickets are $8 in advance through 90’s Kids and Circle It. Tickets are $13 in cincyticket.com or $10 at the door. advance (available at ticketmaster.com) For more on Young Heirlooms and or — if any remain —$15 at the door on the the Americana Spotlight series, visit day of the show. On Twitter, the group has youngheirlooms.com. promised new music and new merch at the show, and also hinted at some surprises. Contact Mike Breen: For more on PUBLIC, visit mbreen@citybeat.com publictheband.com.

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Timothy George isn’t making his way through the hardscrabble world of Nashville gigs and hoping for someone on a higher rung of the musical ladder to cover one of his songs to get him spotlighted. He’s making his way through the hardscrabble world of providing for his family in Provo, Utah, while writing, recording and self-releasing great Folk/ Americana albums as Timmy the Teeth, playing as many local, regional and national gigs as he can while juggling sessions as a drummer and irregular stints as a carpenter in an effort to pay the bills. That’s a Country song in a thrift store frame, buddy. To date, Timmy the Teeth — his nickname comes from his mother’s instruction to deliver his older brother’s two front chicklets to their dentist after he’d knocked them out on a lowered basketball hoop — has released a trio of albums, including last year’s excellent Ain’t That Bad. While working incessantly to get his music distributed to an ever-widening audience, he’s certainly found an eager and loyal fan base within the Provo/regional Utah music scene. But the real challenge is spreading the word beyond the confines of the 10th least densely populated state in America. Although Timmy the Teeth self-identifies as a Country/Folk artist, his studio work reveals a singer/songwriter more aligned with the likes of Jeff Tweedy or Ryan Adams or anyone who understands the dynamics of Roots Rock as well as the emotional impact of Country and Folk. To that end, he’s found the perfect nexus within that triangulation to present his brilliantly observational songs about the

frustrations and triumphs in everyday life. George’s current tour is bringing him to the Midwest; check out his work on Bandcamp, throw some money in his jar and witness the guy that could easily be the next Chris Stapleton. (Brian Baker)

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Santoros is the unlikely outcome at the intersection of influence and execution. The Los Angeles quintet begs the unasked (and largely unanswerable) question, “What would happen if five Mexican Latinos merged a love of the Velvet Underground, the Moody Blues and the Ventures into their songcraft and then shoved that mash through a Farfisa-drenched psychedelic Garage Rock filter and distilled it into a wicked brew in the radiator of a ’59 Cadillac?” An educated guess might not even come close to the quietly scintillating sound that defines Santoros. Santoros assembled for the first time in the late ’00s and has had a fluid lineup since then. The quintet — now comprised of lead vocalist Jossef Virgen, guitarist/ vocalist Adolfo Canales, drummer Marco Rocha, keyboardist/vocalist Diego Pietro and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Carlos Precichi — self-released its debut album Ancestros in 2012. The band’s trashcanparty-in-a-basement vibe attracted a steady following and they reissued Ancestros on Butterlicious in 2013, which was followed by 2014’s Animal, a self-released four-song cassette that quickly sold out. In 2016, Santoros dropped El Perdedor, their sophomore full-length. Earlier this year, the group teased a potential new album with another four-song release, the blistering Bad Habits. Its first single, “Turn Your Back on Me,” is a pounding blend of “Sweet Jane” and early The Strokes demos. This latest iteration of Santoros may be the one that breaks through to a broader national audience, assisted by their new association with Burger Records and their latest coast-to-coast tour in the wake of

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the release of the all-too-brief Bad Habits. The band’s localized success to this point is evidence of how hard they worked Los Angeles and the drivable surroundings, and once the rest of the country gets wind of their south-of-the-border Surf/Garage stylings, love can’t be too far behind. There is a raw simplicity and a raucous elegance to Santoros that is irresistible and undeniable, and Bad Habits could be the first volley in a full-fledged SoCal Surf takeover. (BB)

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Cincinnati is smack dab in the middle of a major opioid epidemic. While some people might have a hard time recognizing it, those in the local music scene need look no further than their own extended circle of friends and acquaintances. Everyone knows someone who is struggling, has struggled or has succumbed to their struggle. It’s a downright depressing world out there right now and it’s one that Television’s Richard Lloyd wants to help change. Television didn’t just show up at the pinnacle of New York’s Punk scene — they were there from the very beginning. Having formed in the early ’70s, the band was artier and more practiced than some of its more primitive and rowdier peers. The group played Punk ground-zero CBGB before most of the other biggies who circled through the club and changed music (Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, etc.). They also put out music that showed an instrumental prowess — particularly in the guitar work of Lloyd and Tom Verlaine — that wasn’t always found in others’ music. Television was an influence on the influencers of the NYC scene, and remain so more broadly to this day (The Strokes wouldn’t have sounded like The Strokes

without Television). While the band never reached the kind of success some of their contemporaries enjoyed, no one doubts Television’s crucial place in “Alternative” music history. During Television’s time together, Lloyd’s youthful rebellion began to get out of hand. The guitarist owns up to every step and misstep in his life, including his days of alcoholism and slide into heroin abuse. It’s his relationship with heroin that cost him his original attempts at a post-Television solo career. At one point in his life, Lloyd even recalls falling asleep during a meeting with record executives which, no doubt, played a big part in how his first solo album, 1979’s Alchemy, was handled. Many of Lloyd’s best and most harrowing drug-influenced and substanceinduced stories can be found in last year’s memoir, Everything is Combustible. The book starts Lloyd’s story from the moment his parents met, then trails beautifully along his childhood and high school years (when he would show up to school with only his guitar and eventually dropped out — not once, but twice). The book then details his days of hanging with everyone from Jimi Hendrix (pre-Television) to Keith Richards (post-Television). And, of course, he walks fans through his time with Television and at CBGB, alongside stories of his addiction struggles and recovery. During his visit to Greater Cincinnati, Lloyd will make several stops. His first public appearance is his show at Southgate House Revival on Friday (Aug. 17). Saturday (Aug. 18), he’ll tell some of his amazing stories and sign books at Barnes & Noble at Newport on the Levee at 1 p.m. This time around, one of the main purposes of Lloyd’s visit comes in the form of a private talk to a select group of doctors that make up the Ohio Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. On Saturday morning, Lloyd will discuss his heroin use and its effects on his life during and after recovery at the organization’s three-day conference in conjunction with the Kentucky Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. (He’s also slated to perform on a riverboat cruise welcome reception Friday evening, open to conference attendees only.) If his discography (he’ll add to it this fall with a new album on Plowboy Records) and his gorgeous memoir are any indication, all three stops should be enlightening and enthralling for all who attend. (Deirdre Kaye)

LISTINGS

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Future Sounds Ian Moore – Sept. 13, Southgate House Revival James Leg – Sept. 17, Southgate House Revival Reignwolf – Sept. 21, Madison Theater Mayday Parade – Nov. 1, Bogart’s Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Nov. 3, Madison Theater John Hiatt – Nov. 13, Taft Theatre Carrie Underwood – June 15, U.S. Bank Arena

WEDNESDAY 15

BLIND LEMON - Charlie White. 7 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8 p.m. Big Band Jazz. FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Reggae Wednesdays with Lungu Vybz. 7 p.m. Reggae. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Dallas Moore. 10 p.m. Country. Free. THE LISTING LOON - Ricky Nye. 8:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. THE MAD FROG - Faze Wave, Quiet, Please, Sleep House and more. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. Cover.

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MARTY’S HOPS & VINES Mike Biere and Rick Boyer. 7 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

The Pink Spiders play the Northside Yacht Club Wednesday (Aug. 15) P H OTO : FAC E B O O K .C O M / T H E PI N KS PI D E R S

- Lost Coast with The Newbees. 9:30 p.m. Roots/Rock/ Pop. Free. STANLEY’S PUB - The Inturns. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

URBAN ARTIFACT Heavy Hinges with Darlene. 8 p.m. Rock/Pop/ Various. VINKOLET WINERY AND RESTAURANT - Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 6:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

THURSDAY 16

MERITAGE - Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Dottie Warner and Wayne Shannon. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

BLIND LEMON - RJ Comer. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

MOTR PUB - Timmy the Teeth with Jody Stapleton. 10 p.m. Folk/ Americana. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN Shiny Old Soul. 9 p.m. Rock/ Roots/Various. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Pink Spiders. 9 p.m. Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE)

BOGART’S - Yacht Rock Revue. 8 p.m. Soft Rock. $12. CAFFÈ VIVACE - The Burning Caravan. 7:30 p.m. Gypsy Jazz. CROW’S NEST - Easy Tom. 9:30 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free. FOUNTAIN SQUARE Salsa on the Square with

Afinca’o. 7 p.m. Latin/Salsa/ Dance. Free. FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - Ricky Nye. 6 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

THE GREENWICH Phil DeGreg & Brasilia. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5.

KNOTTY PINE - Chalis. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/Various. Free. THE MAD FROG - THWAP Thursdays. 6 p.m. DJ/Electronic/Dance. Cover.

MOTR PUB - Santoros with Judge & Jury. 10 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Karaoke Fantastic. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Harvey Pekar, Uncle Slammy and The Warlords and Off The Meat Rack. 9 p.m. Punk. Cover.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB - John Zappa, Brad Myers and Phil Burkhead. 8 p.m. Jazz. Cover. SOUTHGATE HOUSE

REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Jeff Kelly and the Graveyard Shift. 9 p.m. Roots. Free.

LOUNGE - Cybele with the Steve Schmidt Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - The Artisanals and Cicada Rhythm. 8 p.m. Rock. $10.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Kim Pensyl Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

STANLEY’S PUB - Nadim Azzam Band. 9 p.m. Acoustic/Hip Hop. Free. URBAN ARTIFACT - The Messenger Birds, Pop Empire and Pout. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

THE COMET - Pout, National Barks and Total Yuppies. 10 p.m. Pop/Rock/ Various. Free. THE GREENWICH - Push Play. 8:30 p.m. Dance/R&B/ Pop/Various. $8. HILLSIDE GASTROPUB Sonny Moorman Group. 8:30 p.m. Blues

WASHINGTON PARK - Roots Revival with Willow Tree Carolers. 7 p.m. Americana. Free.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - 3 Piece Revival. 9 p.m. Rock/Various. $5.

FRIDAY 17

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

50 WEST BREWING CO. Ryan & Brad from Freak Mythology. 7 p.m. Rock. Free.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - River City Roustabout. 9 p.m. Folk. Free. BLIND LEMON - Anna Applegate (9 p.m.) and Bill Otten (6 p.m.). 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH

KNOTTY PINE - Brownstones. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

MADISON LIVE PUBLIC with Circle It and 90s Kids. 8 p.m. AltPop/ Rock. $13, $15 day of show. MANSION HILL TAVERN Blue Ravens. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES Encore Duo. 9 p.m. Classic

Rock. Free. MCCOY’S PLACE - Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

MOTR PUB - Carriers. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

OCTAVE - Universal Sigh. 7 p.m. Rock/Various. Cover. PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Rabbit Hash String Band 7:30pm RABBIT HASH STRING BAND inside on the stage. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. RICK’S TAVERN - Road Trip. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Lynyrd Skynyrd with Hank Williams Jr., 38 Special and The Steel Woods. 6 p.m. Southern/Classic Rock. Sold Out.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB - Tomoko Omura Jazz Violin Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover. SILVERTON CAFE - Soul Quest. 9 p.m. R&B/Funk/ Pop/Various. Free. CONTINUES ON PAGE 38

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Rock. $20. STANLEY’S PUB - Wax Wings with Tommy and Ronjae. 10 p.m. Experimental Rock. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Matt Waters and Charlie Millikin. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Blues/Pop. Free.

URBAN ARTIFACT Human Circuit, See You in the Funnies and Saint Bernard. 9 p.m. Alt/Rock/ Pop/Various. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Peace Slam 2018 with Floyd and the Walkmen, Samsara Music Company, Dark Harbor and DraculaWolf. 8 p.m. Rock/Jam/Pop/ Various. $12, $15 day of show.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Jim Connerley Group. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Richard Lloyd. 11:59 p.m. Rock. $22, $25 day of show.

WOODWARD THEATER - Young Heirlooms presents Americana Spotlight with Miles Nielsen & The Rusted Hearts, Rebecca Rego & The Trainmen and Robert Lowell Ford. 7 p.m. Americana. $8, $10 day of show.

STANLEY’S PUB - Suede Jackets. 10 p.m. Various. Cover. URBAN ARTIFACT - Funk Night 3 featuring Water Seed. 9 p.m. AltFunk. Free.

SUNDAY 19

BLIND LEMON - Jeff Henry (8:30 p.m.) and Dan Walz (4:30 p.m.). 4 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

WASHINGTON PARK - Friday Flow with Radio Black. 7 p.m. R&B/Pop/Dance/Various. Free.

THE GREENWICH - PsychoAcoustic Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. $12.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Mambo Combo. 9 p.m. Latin Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO - Blue Birds Band. 8 p.m. R&B/Rock. Free.

SATURDAY 18

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Modern Groove Jazz Band. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. BLIND LEMON - Jake Walz (9 p.m.) and James Knight (6 p.m.). 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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BOGART’S - September Mourning and Kaleido. 8 p.m. Rock. $12.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - The Five Little Bears. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE FrenchAxe. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

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p.m. Pop/Rock. $5. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Heather Roush. 9 p.m. Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Flatline. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. MADISON LIVE - Wicked Peace, Stranger, Dead Humor and The Midwestern. 8:30 p.m. Rock/Pop/Various. $10, $12 day of show.

THE COMET - Radiator King and Tuff Sunshine. 10 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Tickled Pink. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

COMMON ROOTS - Hilary Hahn. 9 p.m. Violin. Free.

MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Two Blue. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

CROW’S NEST - Twig & Leaf. 10 p.m. Americana. Free. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - My Sister Sarah. 9

MAURY’S TINY COVE Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Blues/ Boogie Woogie. Free.

MOTR PUB - Us, Today with Build Us Fiction. 10

p.m. Indie Rock/Post Rock/ Various. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN Shiloh Hill and Calumet. 9 p.m. Roots/Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Cro-Mags with Killer of Sheep, By Force, Inclination, Spear and Time & Pressure. 7:30 p.m. Hardcore. $15, $18 day of show.

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with Lil Uzi Vert, Ty Dolla $ign, YBN Nahmir, P-Lo and Murda Beatz. 6:30 p.m. Hip Hop. $29.50-$79.50. SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB - Mambo Combo. 8:30 p.m. Latin Jazz. Cover. SHADY O’GRADY’S Sonny Moorman Group. 8 p.m. Blues.

OCTAVE - MONTU. 9 p.m. Jamtronica. $7, $9 day of show.

SILVERTON CAFE - Basic Truth. 9 p.m. R&B/Funk/Soul. Free.

OTR LIVE - R&B Day Party featuring Kelly Price. 6 p.m. R&B. $25.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Cincinnati Noir. 9:30 p.m. Alt/DJ/Dance/Various. $5.

RICK’S TAVERN - LDNL. 10 p.m. Pop/Dance/Various. Cover.

RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - G-Eazy

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Pedro the Lion with H.C. McEntire. 9 p.m. Indie

Various. $10. WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Traditional New Orleans Jazz Brunch with Buffalo Ridge Jazz Trio. 11:30 a.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

MONDAY 20

BLIND LEMON - Joe Porter. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE - Faux Frenchmen. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. THE GREENWICH - Baron Von Ohlen & the Flying Circus Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $5. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Acoustic Jam with John Redell and Friends. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

MEMORIAL HALL Jazz at the Memo: John Zappa’s Now Hear This. 7 p.m. Jazz. $8. MOTR PUB - Sam Pace & the Gilded Grit. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN The Qtet. 9 p.m. Funk/Jazz/ Fusion/Rock/Various. Free. PACHINKO - Open Mic. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

TUESDAY 21

MANSION HILL TAVERN Open Blues Jam with Deb Olinger. 6 p.m. Blues. Free.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Cheryl Renee. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

MOTR PUB - Sego. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

BLIND LEMON - Nick Tuttle. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Softstone Hearts with Impak, Phantom and Tome. 8:30 p.m. AltRock. Free.

RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Keith Urban with Kelsea Ballerini. 7:30 p.m. Country/Pop. $33.50-$101.50. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Sebastian Olzanski and Wes Stromberg. Noon. Pop. $15-$79. STANLEY’S PUB - Stanley’s Open Jam. 8 p.m. Various. Free. URBAN ARTIFACT Glasslands, Call Me King, Glassworld, Useless Fox, Daywalker, Colour Rise and Spectrvms. 6 p.m. Rock/

CAFFÈ VIVACE - The Martini Project. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Spherical Agenda. 9 p.m. Prog/Jazz. Free.

PACHINKO - Acoustic Tuesdays. 9 p.m. Acoustic/ Various. Free.

RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Deep Purple and Judas Priest. 7 p.m. Rock. $34-$159.

TAFT THEATRE - American Idol Live with Cade Foehner, Caleb Lee Hutchinson, Catie Turner, Gabby Barrett, Jurnee, Maddie Poppe and Michael J. Woodard, plus Kris Allen. 7 p.m. Pop/Various. $38.50-$58.50.

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