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What a Week!

BY T.C. Britton

WEDNESDAY JAN. 18

Could Mr. Wonderful be the Donald Trump of the north? Canuck Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary announced his bid to lead the Conservative Party of Canada Wednesday. Let’s see: wealthy businessman, reality TV star, uses Twitter… sounds about right. Nice try, everyone planning to move to Canada! Meanwhile in the States, Trump revealed in a Washington Post article his next slogan for his 2020 re-election, interrupting the interview to call in a lawyer, requesting a trademark for “Keep America Great” — with and without an exclamation point. Cool. Take note, Mr. Wonderful.

Embrace only the highest level of delusion and you too can rule a country!

THURSDAY JAN. 19

Animal rights supporters have had a lot to celebrate as of late — the end of SeaWorld’s Shamu shows, the impending end of the circus — but a video from behind the scenes of the movie A Dog’s Purpose presented another cause for concern. It looked like a terrified stunt doggy was thrown into a pool and then went under, prompting trainers to jump in after the pooch. PETA is calling for a boycott of the movie, and its premiere was canceled

by Universal Pictures. Which is fine, but if you’re big on animal activism, you probably weren’t going to see a sappy movie in which (spoiler alert) a dog dies (OK, gets reincarnated) like seven times. And you thought Marley and Me was bad.

FRIDAY JAN. 20

All of last week’s Friday the 13th juju descended on Washington, D.C. today for

actual president Donald Trump’s inauguration. Festivities began on Thursday evening, when more people (around 20,000) showed up to Alec Baldwin’s protest in New York, which featured Mark Ruffalo and Cher, than Trump’s inaugural concert, which featured Three Doors Down and Lee Greenwood, in D.C. The numbers didn’t get much better for the incoming administration on Friday, either.

While there’s still much debate about just how many folks attended the ceremony Friday (more on that later), Trump’s crowd looked miniscule compared to Obama’s first inauguration in 2009, as evidenced by a side-by-side shot comparing the two that went viral. Elsewhere, the fuckery continued to unfold. Melania and Donnie seemed ice cold together in comparison to the #relationshipgoals that are the Obamas.

The incoming First Lady presented a customary gift to Michelle Obama, only it came in a large, conspicuously Tiffany-blue box. So relatable! Nothing says “First Family OF THE PEOPLE” like Tiffany & Co. The bleakest transfer of all, though, had to be the switching over of internet platforms from No. 44 to No. 45. Then it was really real. @POTUS and @FLOTUS are no longer the Obamas. The new administration Cloroxed away any mentions of LGBTQ issues, health care, civil rights and climate change on whitehouse.gov. Basically the only thing they decided to keep from Obama’s time in office was his inauguration cake. Trump’s people reportedly ordered an exact replica of TV chef Duff Goldman’s multi-tiered cake made for Obama’s second inauguration.

Pastry plagiarism as its finest.

SATURDAY JAN. 21

Following that hot mess of an inauguration, millions participated in women’s marches in Washington, here in Cincinnati and in cities across the globe. The streets ran pink with knit “pussy hats” and arguably the most clever protest signage ever. Pretty much all 99 percent of celebrities that wanted nothing to do with ushering in the Trumpresidency participated. And there was no denying the numbers: more marched Saturday than attended the inauguration Friday; the protests had more of a national and global presence; and it was possibly the largest demonstration in U.S. history. It bears repeating: There was no denying the numbers.

SUNDAY JAN. 22

Just kidding! Sean Spicer, in his first official news briefing as press secretary, totally denied the numbers, calling out journalists for reporting fake news. When fashion roadkill Kellyanne Conway was questioned about Spicer’s claim that Trump’s was the most watched inauguration in history Sunday, she defended it as an “alternative fact.” Alternative facts can be whatever you want them to be! I called in sick to work this week, and it had nothing to do with drinking too much while watching The Bachelor the night before.

Alternative fact! First the heave-worthy “alt-right,” now this? The world “alternative” has officially lost all meaning. Alert the Association of Alternative Newsmedia — we need to call ourselves something else.

MONDAY JAN. 23

Cut to Obama, smiling and flipping all of us off from the golf course on some luxury resort.

Not your problem, guy. We get it. But what will Barack Obama’s next act be? He’s on a wellearned family vacay now, presumably smoking cigs a little less secretively (but still on the down-low, because you know Michelle ain’t about it). But eventually Obama is bound to get back to work, and Cards Against Humanity has an opportunity: Become its CEO. A Chicago Craigslist ad reveals the company behind the dirty party game is in the market for a new leader, and the criteria was pretty specific. Candidates must have strong public speaking skills, be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, be willing to inherit the consequences of eight years of irresponsible spending and have a minimum eight years experience as president of the United States of America or equivalent nation.

TUESDAY JAN. 24

Academy Award nominations were announced Tuesday, and — no shocker here — everybody loves La La Land. After dominating the Golden Globes, the musical rom-com clinched 14 Oscar nominations, tying with Titanic for the most. On the other end of the scale of prestigious awards, the Razzies are out, too, and far more interesting.

If only the Golden Razzies were given out in a lavish ceremony. Picture it: the stars of Zoolander 2 alongside Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party…

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Public Relations Tips for Oppressed White Male West Chester Officials Nothing is more refreshing than a man telling a woman she’s crazy. Wait, no, that’s not true. Men have been telling women that for centuries as a baseless means for censoring them, and it’s actually pretty old. But lack of novelty hasn’t stopped West Chester Township Fiscal Officer Bruce Jones from taking to the internet to opine about the evil of last weekend’s Women’s March — and also to tell a lady she’s crazy for having a different opinion about an event geared toward her own gender in a city and county that Jones doesn’t live in.

“YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING TO CENSOR ME BECAUSE I’M A MAN! YOU are ILL!” Jones wrote to the woman. “Now be off — back to the asylum.”

Following this incident, we’ve drawn up a few public relations tips for Jones and others in prestigious elected offices like the fiscal something or other of one of Ohio’s most important townships.

• Actually, “ill” these days means “cool” among the kids (read: people who haven’t spent the past half-century in West Chester). Avoid the term if you’re going for an insult.

• It’s best not to instruct constituents to go “back to the asylum” since this reminds many that most mental health services have been defunded.

• Less a tip and more of a question: Are you related to a Richard K. Jones, also of Butler County? Just wondering.

• While we’re sure it is difficult being a man in suburban America and you are probably fighting a brave fight against some kind of mysterious and misandrous oppression, it might be best not to let that rebel yell ring too loud lest the eight-foot-tall Amazonian women who apparently run West Chester society hear your cries of freedom and lock you away. Quiet, subversive masculinity, like maybe some funky facial hair, is the watchword.

• There’s a button on the left side of your keyboard that says “caps lock.”

We know you’re uncomfortable straying from the far right, among the numbers pad and the arrow keys, but go on over to the other side for a minute and press that bad boy. See? All better. Now your typing looks like the thoughts of a reasonable individual instead of an enraged 12-year-old accusing some kid of cheating in an online multi-player Halo tournament.

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Why BuzzFeed Published the Trump Dossier

By Ben L. Kaufman

of the dossier contents. Trump’s responses reinforce decades of cynical GOP claims about what they call the lying liberal media.

When I went to the USSR as an aspiring photojournalist in 1960, I assumed any hotel room was bugged and the crone at her desk on every floor reported my comings and goings. I also assumed that nothing much would come of it unless, later in my career, the KGB thought the threat of some embarrassing youthful indiscretion might win my cooperation.

• I was kidding when I wrote that Trump was moving the White House pressroom to Washington’s Trump International Hotel. Instead, he moved farther afield. He gave his first press conference since the election — involving even his official press secretary-in-waiting — at Trump Tower in New York. How’s that for a self-serving and family-enriching commercial for his brand and properties?

• White House reporters spend careers waiting for the president to recognize them by name at press conferences. It could get worse. I don’t know if there will be “White House reporters” after Trump moves in. Twitter may have made them extinct.

• Trump preferred his personal bodyguards to Secret Service protection before inauguration. Most news media dropped the story with another “it’s just Trump.” What I haven’t seen is reporters asking why Trump received a highly classified briefing in his New York hotel headquarters instead of a secure location. Don’t intel officials remember the bugs Soviets placed in the U.S. seal on a wall in our Moscow Embassy?

• Cincinnati lawyer Dan Hoffheimer was shot near his Walnut Hills home Jan. 1 when he apparently drove into a crossfire. The Sunday Enquirer carried the story Jan. 8.

Have the Enquirer’s police sources and contacts in the legal community deteriorated so far that no one in the newsroom knew?

Did no one think it worth calling the paper?

Local lawyers knew and spread the word; one showed me an email he’d received. When I put Hoffheimer’s name into Google, nothing about a shooting appeared.

• NPR’s media reporter said presenter Megyn Kelly’s move to NBC left a “yawning gap” in the Fox News lineup. “Yawning” is the word; does anyone who doesn’t get their news from People Magazine care what happens to Kelly? Or any other presenter?

• Breitbart senior editor Milo

Yiannopoulos is an often offensive provocateur on the alt-right’s favorite website.

When Simon & Schuster agreed to publish Milo’s book, Dangerous, Chicago Review of Books said it would boycott that book and all of the publisher’s offerings.

That provoked the National Coalition Against Censorship to support the publisher.

The coalition protest included the American Library Association’s Freedom to Read Foundation, American Booksellers Association, Association of American Publishers, National Council of Teachers of English, Author’s Guild, Index on Censorship and Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Breitbart approvingly published the coalition statement, which said, in part, “Threats

“Trump’s responses reinforce decades of cynical GOP claims about what they call the lying liberal media.” to boycott publishers undermine intellectual freedom and harm readers and writers. … In the present case, the calls for a boycott stem not from the the content of a book, which has not been published, but because of previous statements by the author which critics characterize as hate speech.”

Days after the brouhaha over Milo’s new book, protests forced University of California, Davis Republicans to cancel a campus speech by Milo. University officials said the risk of violence was too great.

• On June, 27, 2014, Steve Bannon gave a rousing defense of Christendom to the Institute for Human Dignity at the Vatican.

Bannon should have been news, given his prominence at the nationalistic, xenophobic Breitbart News Network.

Only recently did the New York Times report the speech, and it was to fault his theology. My search of the Times database found no story from 2014.

Now, Bannon’s really big news: Trump’s chief policy advisor. It’s no secret that the Times disapproves of the far-right politics of Breitbart, Bannon and Trump in general.

I’m still puzzling if the Times bureau in Rome missed Bannon’s speech or if editors New York killed it.

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National news media can’t agree whether buzzfeed.com erred when it published the 35-page compendium of salacious rumors about Donald Trump in Moscow.

Hewing to traditional journalism ethics, many editors sat on the unproven smears even after intelligence agencies gave a summary to Trump, Obama and others.

However, buzzfeed.com saw that as justification for publishing the entire dossier with editor Ben Smith’s warning that it couldn’t verify any of the allegations.

The Guardian quoted Smith, saying, “They not just had it, they were starting to act on it. … When you have an object that is in play, that is having consequences for the way our elected leaders are acting, you do have to ask the question of why should I suppress that? There are then good reasons (to run it). Once it emerges in the public conversation that there is this secret document floating around full of dark allegations that we will not refer to, then I feel in this era you really have to show your readers what that is in an appropriate context.”

Unverified doesn’t mean false. The dossier was compiled by a former British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) officer who’d served in Moscow and MI6’s Russia desk. It says Russia’s FSB spy agency “has compromised Trump through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him.”

BuzzFeed editor Smith said his decision to publish the Moscow dossier “reflected how we see the job of reporters in 2017.”

He told MSNBC, “There was an era when you would be the gatekeeper for information and you would say to your audience: ‘Trust us, we are keeping things from you, we have lots of secrets we’re not telling you, but you should trust us.’ You could say that was a good era, that was a bad era, but that is not the present day.”

When MSNBC countered that “it is never acceptable to publish rumor or innuendo,” Smith replied: “We are now in an era when you have to engage in false statements. It’s an environment where you no longer have the luxury and where the legacy media has at times turned away from saying there’s all the crazy stuff on the internet and said we’re not going to touch it, we’re going to stay out of it, we’re just going to let it spread. I think this is a place where sunlight is a disinfectant.”

Various news media said the dossier initially was funded by anti-Trump Republicans and later by Democrats.

Trump says the news media lied when they reported the existence and purported contents of the Moscow dossier. He’s wrong.

The reporting was accurate: It said there is a potentially compromising dossier and a summary was presented to Trump and Obama.

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BY NICK SWARTSELL

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specks of blue in a deep red state, and election results here cut against the grain of national outcomes. Fifty-three percent of Hamilton County voters chose Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton, and voters also installed a Democratic majority on the county’s board of commissioners, electing former State Rep. Denise Driehaus and reelecting incumbent Democrat Todd Portune.

They also elected the first Democrat, Aftab Pureval, to the county clerk’s office for the first time in more than 100 years.

That’s a big contrast to the national political scene. Trump has taken office with a Republican majority in both houses of Congress and with a number of governors’ seats and state houses under the control of the GOP. The message to progressives delivered by city, county and state elected officials like Pureval and newly minted State Rep. Bridget Kelley: Get involved in local politics and keep voting Democrat.

“Yesterday we witnessed what happened when people don’t show up and don’t turn out,” Portune told the surging crowd at Washington Park about the inauguration. “But that didn’t happen in Hamilton County. And today, we’re here to stand with you, because today, we tell the rest of America what it means when you’re fired up and ready to go.”

Thousands gathered in Washington Park Jan. 21 for a sister march to the Women’s March on Washington.

The rally featured speakers representing groups Trump has singled out, including the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati’s Roula Allouch.

“I stand before you as a proud, American-born Muslim woman,” she said. “We must collectively embrace the freedom of choice that is at the heart of American democracy. I promise you I will fight for that right because my rights are interconnected with your rights.”

Other speakers stressed a more grassroots approach focused on coalition-building outside traditional electoral politics.

Black Lives Matter’s Ashley Harrington tied women’s issues to struggles for justice in black and native communities and encouraged those at the rally interested in one issue to get involved in others.

“We must stand together on all these issues, because they are all women’s issues,” she said. “We fight sexism with solidarity. This can’t be the last time we come together; we need each other to build a movement for women’s liberation.

Because we must remember that presidents never have and never will set the people free; the people set ourselves free by rising up.”

City Councilwoman Yvette Simpson threaded a middle ground between calls for populist, grassroots action and more formal political involvement, echoing calls for solidarity many speakers touched on. She’s running for mayor against incumbent and fellow Democrat John Cranley. It was easy to read Simpson’s speech as a reiteration of her campaign themes, but also as a larger call to action.

“Far too many women and children in our city are living in poverty,” she yelled to the crowd. “We have to deal with the issue of family homelessness. Forty percent are unemployed in some of our neighborhoods.

We have to do something about that. I look at this sea of strength and I know together we can. And we won’t let anyone — not Mr. Trump and not anyone else — stop us.”

The enormous Jan. 21 rally and march was a big-tent, coalitional kind of event where traditional political operatives shared a microphone with grassroots activists and nonprofit leaders. Other inaugural response events were more targeted, however.

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group of about 50 people sat in Saint Michael’s church in Lower Price Hill Jan. 20, grimly watching a live-stream of President Donald Trump delivering his inauguration address in Washington, D.C. The weather outside vacillated between rain and sunshine, alternately filling the church’s sanctuary with gloom and light as a number of speakers representing various progressive organizations advocating for immigrants, Cincinnati’s Muslim community and beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act urged hope and action.

“For the next four years, we’re going to have to look behind our backs because our president might take that freedom away from us,” said Jose Cabrera, an immigrant advocate at the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center, which helped put on the event.

The group convened at nonprofit Community Matters for an event called “We the People: United in Diversity, Pursuing Peace and Justice,” one of a number of gatherings put together in Cincinnati in response to Trump’s nascent presidency. Many progressives here and across the country see the Trump administration as a grave, even unprecedented, threat to their values.

Protests and discussions critical of Trump’s presidency here ran that gamut from small gatherings like the one at Community Matters to the Cincinnati Women’s March, a sister event to a protest in Washington, D.C. and many other cities across the country that drew more than 3 million.

Cincinnati’s event saw several thousand protesters fill Washington Park and march onto streets downtown in one of the city’s largest rallies in recent memory.

Trump’s campaign was characterized by revelations he had bragged about sexually assaulting women during the taping of a reality TV show, statements he made equating Mexican immigrants with rapists, him calling for a registry for Muslims due to concerns about terrorism, promises to appoint judges who would roll back abortion’s legality and pledges to strip away President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. As he officially took office and supporters celebrated his victory, a question hovered over the diverse local events organized in protest: What now?

The answer to that question depends on who you asked. Even at individual events, ideas for how best to resist the proposed policies of the forthcoming Trump administration varied.

At the Women’s March the day after the inauguration, Cincinnati and Hamilton County Democrats underlined local politics and voting as the best way to push back.

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BY JAMES MCNAIR

Less than two months after voters renewed his job as Hamilton County prosecuting attorney, Joe Deters renewed his status as a part-time public official.

Deters, 59, began moonlighting in 2009 through lucrative affiliations with law firms that have earned him at least $2 million in salary and lawsuit settlements.

Because he practices law on the side, he forfeits the $130,661 full-time salary dictated by the state for 2017. Instead, he costs taxpayers a discounted $91,877.

Deters asserted his statutory right to carry on in private practice in a Dec. 27 letter to the county’s Board of Commissioners. He stated no reason for exercising that option. He didn’t disclose for whom he will be working. He didn’t provide a breakdown of how much time he will spend for the county versus his outside legal ventures. His spokesperson, Julie Wilson, did not respond to CityBeat’s request for an interview with Deters.

As CityBeat reported Sept. 9, Deters received $200,000 a year — from 2009 through 2013 — while working for the now-defunct Waite Schneider Bayless & Chesley, according to his 2013 divorce papers. That gravy train ended when Stan Chesley was disbarred in Kentucky and retired, but Deters capped that five-year run with a $990,000 payout from a lawsuit settlement. He now works for another Kentucky-disbarred lawyer, the unrelated Eric Deters, appearing as counsel in Deters’ avalanche of civil cases against Abubakar Atiq Durrani. A former Mason doctor, Durrani fled the country in the wake of criminal charges of performing unnecessary surgeries and billing federal health programs for his work.

As prosecuting attorney, Deters supervises a staff of about 187 employees, including the full-time equivalent of 118 lawyers. Not only does the office prosecute crimes in court, it serves as legal counsel to all offices of county government and to individual county officials, for example, when they are named in lawsuits in the course of performing their official duties.

Of the elected prosecutors in Ohio’s 10 most-populous counties, Deters is the only one who splits his time between public office and private practice.

“It’s an extremely demanding job,” says Mike Allen, the Cincinnati lawyer who preceded Deters as Hamilton County prosecutor for seven years. “The prosecutor supervises a staff of 180 or something like that, and if you try cases, like Joe has done lately, you’ve got trial prep, too.

I don’t know how you do it, with all the Durrani cases and all the normal duties of the prosecutor. I would not have had time

to engage in the private practice of law when I was prosecutor.”

Others look askance at Deters’ penchant for moonlighting.

Denise Driehaus, who just started a four-year term as one of Hamilton County’s three county commissioners, points out that the prosecutor is involved in the county budget process and other matters.

“I think the county deserves a full-time prosecutor,” she says. “As commissioners, we have no control over that, but it’s frustrating not having the prosecutor available full-time for the county.”

Fellow commissioner Todd Portune feels likewise.

“Already we are seeing how attorney Deters’ election to go part-time is affecting the administration of justice in the county,” Portune says. “Joe’s election to withdraw from the Tensing (murder) prosecution because he lacks the time to prepare is a case in point where the administration of justice in Hamilton County is being placed in potential jeopardy because of his desire to make more money as a private practitioner rather than to work full time for the people that elected him.”

The third commissioner and only Republican on the board, Chris Monzel, is in Washington, D.C., for the Trump inauguration and could not be reached for comment.

Alan Triggs was Deters’ Democratic opponent in the Nov. 8 election. He received almost 46 percent of the vote in spite of a campaign warchest one-eighth the size of Deters’. Informed that Deters had extended his part-time status, Triggs reiterated his opposition to the practice.

“I tried to let people know during the campaign that he’s a part-time prosecutor and that I would work full-time. People were shocked, but that’s what they apparently want,” he says. “They have over 100 attorneys working in that office. I don’t see how someone can manage over 100 attorneys part-time.”

Ohio law allows elected prosecutors to engage in private practice and contains separate pay scales for those who do and do not. It does not require moonlighting prosecutors to disclose the amount of time they spend on either job.

“That statute was written for small and medium-sized counties,” Allen says. “It’s obviously up to the prosecutor to decide whether it’s appropriate, but it’s not something I would do for the size of the Hamilton County prosecutor’s office.”

CONTACT JAMES McNAIR: jmcnair@ citybeat.com, 513-914-2736, @ JMacNews

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to protest Trump’s nominee for secretary of education Betsy DeVos. A litany of speakers at that event, which drew about 200 people, zeroed in on DeVos’ history privatizing public schools, her lack of experience in public education and ways to resist a DeVos-led Department of Education.

“She’s anti-public school,” CFT President Julie Sellers said of DeVos. “When they were interviewing her, she didn’t understand anything about how the entire department works. On the other hand, we have people here in Cincinnati who fully support public schools. We’re not going to let the department of education come in and tell us we have to undercut our schools and privatize education in Cincinnati.”

Other attendees at local events came to satisfy curiosity, to find catharsis after Trump’s inauguration, or conversely, to stand behind the new president.

At a Jan. 20 Trump protest on the University of Cincinnati’s campus organized by groups like the UC Socialist Alternative, speakers struck a chord similar to ones Black Lives Matter’s Harrington would the next day: Local grassroots organizing and radical solidarity are the keys to resisting the Trump administration. The event also drew a few hundred, but saw some vocal Trump supporters waving signs that read “Build the Wall” and debating the president’s critics.

UC alumnus Jeffry Smith stood quietly among the fray in the hour after Trump’s inaugural address, wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and other Trump paraphernalia. Slung over his shoulder was an FN PS-90 submachine gun. Smith also had two Glock handguns holstered on his waist. As he spoke to student Trump supporters, he said he’d come to counterprotest the president’s detractors and to advocate for open carry on UC’s campus.

“I like his positions and his willingness to challenge the status quo,” he said. “I’m thrilled. I was thrilled on election night. I haven’t seen the address because I’ve been here, but I’m recording it.”

In Lower Price Hill earlier that day, attendees at the “We the People” gathering talked about ways to bridge divides while standing up for the immigrants, Muslims, women and other groups feeling threatened

by Trump’s administration.

“There’s no easy way to get to a more just and peaceful America,” said Allie Wilson, one of the event’s organizers. “But acknowledging our differences and accepting them is a good place to start. Most importantly, we need to protect each others’ rights and freedoms, despite each others’ ideological and theological differences. If this time inspires even one of us to act, to pursue or protect justice, it’s not wasted.” ©

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C. Smith stands near a portrait of his younger self.

Rev. Lewis Griffin (center), pastor of Revelation Baptist Church, leads the congregation’s men in a 1968 march for justice.

Right: On October 20, 2010, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center presented His Holiness the Dalai Lama with its International Freedom Conductor Award for his leadership of the non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet.

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or more than 60 years, C. Smith assembled the photo album of the city’s African-American experience. He created a visual history of everything from civil rights protests to family celebrations and everyone from Miss Black Cincinnati to Barack Obama.

Now those moments come together in Better Than Good: The Photography of C. Smith at the Main Branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

The exhibit title, borrowed from motivational speaker Les Brown, refers to how Smith feels, and how he has made African-Americans feel, by documenting what matters to them.

The 81-year-old Bond Hill resident is uneasy with attention, but as a child of the Jim Crow era, Smith saw the respect a photographer could command and knew he wanted to be one.

It was 1949, and Smith was watching Cincinnati’s homecoming parade for boxer Ezzard Charles, who’d won the heavyweight championship. A police officer was holding back people who wanted to shake the hand of their black hero.

“Then Amos Hardy, a black photographer, stepped forward, and the officer cleared the crowd to let him through,” Smith says. “But only because he was a photographer — not because he was black.”

Curated by librarian Brian Powers, Better Than Good is the largest survey of work by Smith, whose pictures have appeared in Jet, Ebony and Essence magazines and the James Brown biopic Get On Up. Several hundred images are displayed on three floors.

Smith’s subjects are a who’s who of civil rights figures (Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Shuttlesworth, Stokely Carmichael), performers and writers (Richard Pryor, Nat King Cole, Nikki Giovanni), athletes (Oscar Robertson, Jackie Robinson, Tiger Woods) and religious leaders (Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Louis Farrakhan). The local NAACP sent him to cover the 1963 March on Washington and the 1967 riot.

His portraits of 100 prominent local African-Americans were displayed around town as part of Cincinnati’s

bicentennial in 1988. In 2008, the Westin hotel exhibited his photography in its lobby. Smith’s long career wasn’t about getting exposure for himself, though, but serving other African-Americans as he took pictures in the community and at the Avondale studio he operated from 1983 until his retirement in 2015.

“His only job was to do a good job and get people to come back,” says his wife, Jenny Laster. “He knew how to work the camera and the people. ‘You’re looking good,’ he’d say.

He knew how to make them feel most important.”

Jymi Bolden, director of Over-the-Rhine’s Art Beyond Boundaries gallery, calls Smith an unsung treasure and “Cincinnati’s James Van Der Zee,” referring to a salon photographer of the Harlem Renaissance who practiced the same neighborhood brand of commercial photography.

Van Der Zee, who died in 1983 after a 70-year career, was the subject of a 1995 show at the Cincinnati Art Museum, but he wasn’t discovered by the art world until 1969.

“The best way to approach the magnitude of C. Smith’s work is the volume. Here’s a guy who’s been a working photographer for 60 years,” Bolden says. “Anyone with that kind of a portfolio is deserving of an archival acknowledgement.”

When he was 14, Smith’s mother bought him a Ricohflex camera at a pawnshop. He already was working in a darkroom outside the Cotton Club in the West End, where he grew up.

Smith had mentors in Ruth Coleman and her husband, Ed, a black entrepreneur whose businesses included the Super Speedy Photo Studio inside the Sterling Hotel, which housed the Cotton Club. As musicians and patrons arrived at Cincinnati’s only integrated nightclub, “camera girls” took their pictures and brought the slides to Smith for developing. “I’d be fascinated by the images as they came up,” he says.

Smith became a young entrepreneur, taking photos of children around Laurel Homes and Lincoln Court in their Easter clothes. He rushed to the darkroom so he could deliver the pictures that night for $2 each.

After graduating from a graphic arts program in 1953, Smith took a job at a printing company where he’d apprenticed. But because he was black, a degree made no difference in his pay.

“They hired a delivery boy at $1.25 an hour who was out of jail and white, and I’m making 75 cents,” Smith says.

“So I quit, in the middle of a catalog run.”

Smith, who later worked at General Electric, committed himself to being an entrepreneur like photographer and publisher Fred Suggs, another black mentor. “I walked into his shop with my bag, camera and lights,” Smith says. “I was impressed because he was working for himself. He allowed me to work in his studio for no charge.”

Though shy, Smith had spunk — and he used it in the late 1960s to develop Ghetto magazine.

At the library, Smith shuffles through copies of Ghetto with Everett Cork, the former radio host for WCIN, one of the nation’s first black-oriented stations. The digestsize publication featured a foxy woman on the cover and musician profiles inside, along with ads for black-owned businesses.

Smith says he was broke when he began Ghetto.

Another photographer had published a magazine like it before leaving Cincinnati. Smith saw an opportunity to fill a void.

“I went around to businesses and gave them a free advertisement,” Smith says. “My girl was on the cover, and (once they saw her) they wanted to be a part of it. The first issue was free and 32 pages. The second issue was 64 pages.”

“Did you charge for that?” Cork interjects.

“Absolutely!” Smith says.

Issues of the 25-cent periodical grew to 100 pages. He published monthly for three or four years.

When James Brown sang at Cincinnati Gardens, Smith leveraged Ghetto’s popularity to gain backstage access.

“There were all these white photographers around, and they (Brown’s handlers) let them in,” Smith says. “I had a press pass, but they wouldn’t let me in. So I showed them the book and said, ‘I’m going to put him in this.’ They

Ralph Byrd, guitarist for The Students Left: Local vocal group The Drivers performing at the Cotton Club in 1954

“Peanut” Jim Shelton, who sold peanuts at Cincinnati Reds games, at his place of business on Liberty Street near Crosley Field in the West End

Comedian Richard Pryor surrounded by female fans after a 1969 performance at the Living Room supper club on Walnut Street

L-R: The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, poses for the photographer in the 1960s.

In the late 1960s, C. Smith created his own magazine on black life in Cincinnati called Ghetto, which was published monthly through the early 1970s.

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James Brown backstage at Cincinnati Gardens in the mid-1960s

Clockwise from top left: Larry Donald, a Cincinnati boxer who as an amateur won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the 1991 World Championships and represented the United States at the 1992 Olympics before having a professional career Reds shortstop Leo “Chico” Cárdenas with his son in Silverton H-Bomb Ferguson, Cin­ cinnati Jump Blues singer and pianist, was known for his colorful wigs and playing in a flamboyant performance style.

Candy Jamison, Cincinnati boxer, training at the West End Boy’s Club in the 1950s

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Black History Month Events at the Main Library Every Saturday in February, the Main Library will hold events to explore photo­g raphy, music and theater in Cincinnati’s black community. All events are free and take place at the Reading Garden Lounge, unless otherwise noted.

Feb. 4: C. Smith discusses his six-decade career taking pictures at 1 p.m.

Feb. 11: Genealogist Thomas Jordan shares how to find clues to family history in photo albums at 11 a.m. At 1 p.m., visit the MakerSpace to learn how to preserve photos using the library’s free scanning and storage technology.

Feb. 18: Musicians and fans talk about Cincinnati’s Jazz heritage at 1 p.m.

Panelists include pianist/ composer Pat Kelly, singer Kathy Wade, photographer Melvin Grier, promoter Arzell Nelson and Laura Gentry, president of the nonprofit Jazz Alive. The panel discussion is in the Huenefeld Tower Room.

A concert by the Hank Mautner Quintet follows at 3 p.m. in the Reading Garden Lounge.

Feb. 25: Tony Darnell Davis, a professor emeritus of theater at the University of Cincinnati, looks at efforts to establish dramatic arts programming, including the founding of Cincinnati Black Theater in 2001, at 1 p.m.

L-R: Sugar Ray Leonard outside Cincinnati City Hall in 1980 Larry Turley, professional jeweler for the black community C. Smith, known as “your personal photographer,” with his camera in a vintage shot

Actor Danny Glover meets Lisa Marie Miree, Miss Black Cincinnati 2000.

Mark Mallory in 2005 became the city’s first directly elected black mayor.

Sugar got the best of him. Aaron was so upset; he wanted to go again. Janks said, ‘Are you crazy?’ ” Smith says he himself nearly went a few rounds when white people threatened him as he photographed a protest against a doctor’s segregated waiting rooms. He’s not a violent person, but he’d faced racism since childhood. Smith’s family fled Tennessee as the Klan came after his father.

After years of injustice, Smith liked photographing progress. He pauses before a picture of the swearing-in of Judge Leslie Isaiah Gaines to the Hamilton County Municipal Court bench in 1993. The late icon’s then-wife, Judge Deborah Gaines, did the honors.

Smith points to the spectators in his photo — especially other photographers who are aiming their cameras at the couple.

“I didn’t want that shot” of just the Gaineses, he says.

He hopped on a desk behind them. “I got the impact — the audience and how big it was.”

Wife Jenny says Smith has used a camera just once or twice since retiring, but he’s always watching others. “He’ll say, ‘Oh, they’re not doing it right.’ His bar of

excellence is so high,” she says. “I’ll remind him, ‘Not everyone is the same sort of photographer as you were.’

He’ll say, ‘Yeah, but they ought to be.’ ” In 2003, Smith started a local association of black photographers to unite and support one another the way his mentors helped him. When Smith retired in 2015, more than 360 people attended the party. Friends came from as far away as Florida for the Better Than Good opening reception on Jan. 14.

Though he prefers to deflect attention, Smith wears his status as black Cincinnati’s longtime personal photographer with obvious pride. In a vintage portrait with his camera, he sports a fedora, some glittery jewelry and a big smile.

He is feeling better than good.

BETTER THAN GOOD: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF C. SMITH is on display through March 12 at the Main Library, 800 Vine St., Downtown. Free. Discussion with Smith 1 p.m. Feb. 4. Find more Black History Month events at cincinnatilibrary.org.

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showed it to James, and he asked what the circulation was.

I said, ‘5,000.’ I had no more problems with him.”

Smith was the photographer for WCIN. His studio was on Reading Road. “When artists came through Cincinnati, C. Smith was their first stop,” Cork says.

When the stars didn’t find Smith, he found them — and good stories, too. Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard beams in a 1980 street portrait taken downtown.

Leonard stopped in town on the way to his fight in Montreal against Roberto Durán because his trainer, Janks Morton, was from here. Leonard wanted to stay sharp, and Morton knew Cincinnati native Aaron Pryor rented a gym at Ninth and Plum streets.

“Janks asked Aaron’s manager if Sugar Ray could work out,” Smith says. “Aaron was still pissed off that Sugar Ray wouldn’t fight him, so he said, ‘He can work out, if he goes three rounds with me first.’ ” Leonard and Pryor never met in a professional match, but Smith witnessed the unofficial bout.

“Sugar was so smooth,” leading Pryor on, Smith says.

“Then Janks motioned and Sugar went on offense, and

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ART: BETTER THAN GOOD: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF C. SMITH documents six decades of the African-American experience in Cincinnati, capturing everything from civil rights protests and family celebrations to celebrities and famous musicians. See cover story on page 13.

ONSTAGE: The regional premiere of the musical FIRST DATE at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is contemporary and realistic with a dash of zany humor. See review on page 24.

ONSTAGE: Broadway in Cincinnati’s touring production of DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID has new music, effervescent scenic design and a storyline that incorporates a bit of feminism. See review on page 25.

THURSDAY 26

MUSIC: Nickel Creek’s SARA WATKINS brings her solo act to Live! at the Ludlow Garage. See Sound Advice on page 34.

ONSTAGE: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS This campy musical from 1982 tells the story of a dweeby floral assistant who unleashes a monstrous bloodthirsty plant on an unsuspecting populace — while making a Faustian bargain for fame and the heart of the girl he loves. Director Bill Fennelly calls it “a morality play for a modern audience,” but it’s told with an infectious score that blends Motown and Broadway with a lot of humor, horror and satire. Playhouse Artistic Director Blake Robison calls Little Shop of Horrors a perfect distraction for audiences “in the middle of the winter doldrums” and adds, “I just love this show!” Through Feb. 19. $40 (prices subject to change). Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams, cincyplay. com. — RICK PENDER

EVENT: FEEDING OTR The Over-the-Rhine Museum presents a Three Acts Program — a lecture series featuring three short talks in each installment — revolving around the theme “Feeding OTR,” with speakers sharing expertise in the food and restaurant businesses. Speakers include Marvin Smith, owner of Ollie’s Trolley; Joe and Carla Tucker, owners of Tucker’s Restaurant; and Kate Zaidan, second-generation owner and operator of Dean’s Mediterranean Imports. Drinks and light appetizers will be served before the lectures begin. 6 p.m. doors; 6:30 p.m. lectures Thursday. $5 suggested donation. People’s Liberty, 1805 Elder St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook. com/OTRmuseum. — EMILY BEGLEY

FRIDAY 27

MUSIC: Cincy Indie Rockers THE YUGOS celebrate the release of their new album, Weighing the Heart, at Woodward Theater. See feature on page 32.

EVENT: ART AFTER DARK: QUEEN CITY ROYALS Act like a king or queen for the night at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Art After Dark: Queen City Royals event. The after-hours party offers guests guided tours, live music from local band Wilder, food and many activities, including floral-crown making and a Shakespeare selfie stand in honor of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s current production, Henry VI: The Wars of the Roses, Part 2. Costumes from the play will also be on display, and a wine and cheese sampler from Corkopolis will be available for purchase. 5-9 p.m.

Friday. Free admission. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

— CHRISTINA DROBNEY

SATURDAY 28

MUSIC: SOUTHERN AVENUE brings some fiery Soul to the Cincy Winter Blues Fest. See Sound Advice on page 34 and more details about the fest in Spill It on page 33.

EVENT: GARAGE BREWED MOTO SHOW Both motorcycle nuts and non-motorcycle enthusiasts are encouraged to attend this event for bikes and beer. Now in its third year, the Garage Brewed Moto Show is a free, curated motorcycle show that features more than 50 custom, rare, oddball, antique and collectible bikes from both the surrounding Midwest and the entirety of

FRIDAY 27

ART: A GLOBAL GATHERING AT 21C MUSEUM HOTEL Contemporary art exhibit A Global Gathering opens Friday at 21c Museum Hotel and “reflect(s) how we live and die, work, play and dream in the 21st century.”

Eighty works on display — ranging from paintings and sculptures to photographs, videos and installations — have been culled from the artworks owned by 21c founders Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson. The exhibition will explore the major themes of the art the two collect, including identity, politics and the environment, through works by such artists as Elena Dorfman, Zanele Muholi, Carlos Aires and more. Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites will give a tour of the exhibition at 6 p.m. followed by a reception in the museum. Opening reception 6 p.m.-midnight Friday. Through October. Free. 21c Museum Hotel, 609 Walnut St., Downtown, 21cmuseumhotels.com/cincinnati. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER

North America. Bikes are nominated by their owners to be in the show and then invited to participate in four categories: Pro Custom, Garage Custom, Classic Bikes and Race Bike, each with their own expert panel of judges. Hosted by the Cincinnati Café Racer Club, Garage Brewed takes

place at Rhinegeist, which will be releasing Apex red lager, brewed for the show. Noonmidnight Saturday. Free. Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, garagebrewed.com. — MONROE TROMBLY CONTINUES ON PAGE 20

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COMEDY: BENGT WASHBURN “I’m talking about what I’m noticing and how I’m feeling about the world — except for the election,” says comedian Bengt Washburn. “People are so tired of hearing about it.” The election did get him more interested in human behavior, though.

“One of my new bits is about how easily we humans believe stuff,” he says. “Like how we believe anything we hear three times. … People will hear or read something and if it lines up with what they’re already thinking, watch out. A lie you want to believe is so powerful. We have such an incredible instinct for confirmation bias. It gets us through the day.”

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MUSIC: NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE Taking his unique heritage and cultural experiences and mixing them with his musical gifts, singer/frontman Nahko Bear and his band Medicine for the People create a literal hodge-podge sound, borrowing elements of everything from Hip Hop to Reggae to numerous strains of World music, built around sturdily constructed AltRock songs. Organic and soulful, Nahko and Medicine for the People has fostered an ever-expanding following since its formation in 2008, particularly in the past few years, with albums like 2013’s Dark As Night and last year’s HOKA (issued on Indie/Post Punk label SideOneDummy) making a big splash. It’s easy to hear in Medicine for the People’s music how the band is likely headed toward even greater success — Bear’s lyrics have that rare and valuable ability to connect with the listeners’ own personal experiences, and the group’s style would make it an ideal addition to a festival tour featuring Dave Matthews Band and Mumford & Sons. 8 p.m. Saturday. $22 advance; $25 door. Madison Theater, 730 Madison Ave., Covington, madisontheateronline.com. — MIKE BREEN

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EVENT: THE BEEFSTEAK CLUB DINNER This year’s Bockfest marks the 25th anniversary of Cincinnatians coming together to celebrate the city’s brewing heritage, bock beer and the coming of spring. And the annual free fest — the largest Bockfest in the United States — relies on events like the Beefsteak Club Dinner to raise funds. The Beefsteak Club Dinner, with a name coined by members of Cincinnati’s political and social elite, who first came together in the spring of 1896 at the Windisch-Mulhauser Brewery to dine and drink their fill, ironically features no beefsteak, but will include roast goat and pig, greens, mac and cheese and plenty of Christian Moerlein beers. Held in the historic Kauffman Brewery malt house, now the Christian Moerlein Malt House Taproom, the night will feature Bockfest-themed artwork by artist Jim Effler, live music, tours, special giveaways and food prepared by Ronda Breeden and Arnold’s Bar & Grill. All proceeds go to support Bockfest and the Bockfest Parade. 6:30 p.m. Saturday. $55.

Christian Moerlein Malt House Taproom, 1621 Moore St., Over-The-Rhine, bockfest. com. — MONROE TROMBLY EVENT: LUNAR NEW YEAR PARTY Let out a cock-a-doodle-doo and head to the Transept on Saturday to nibble on tasty Asian cuisine at the annual Daspo Lunar New Year Party. A street food night market featuring food from across Asia will be available to peruse, with food stalls serving kebabs, tofu soup and more. There will also be live DJs, multiple bars and VIP access.

Proceeds from the event will support future Asian cultural events in Cincinnati. 9 p.m.2 a.m. Saturday. Free admission; $30 street food night market. The Transept, 1205 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, godaspo. com. — LAUREN MORETTO EVENT: POLAR BEAR PLUNGE PARTY Fans of frigid activities and ice-cold vodka should head to the Polar Bear Plunge Party at Hotel Covington on Saturday, when the hotel’s courtyard will transform into a wintertime pool party featuring an ice luge

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DANCE: DANCING WITH THE STARS: LIVE! Dancing with the Stars: Live!’s nationwide “We Came to Dance” tour makes a stop at the Aronoff Center on Tuesday. The production features Mirrorball Trophy winner and Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez — the show’s youngest winner at just 16 years old — and her dance partner Val Chmerkovskiy, with a slew of other Stars favorites showcasing dance styles from ballroom to modern, including romantic duets, sizzling group performances and original pieces created especially for the tour. 8 p.m. Tuesday. $48.50-$68.50. Aronoff Center, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, cincinnatiarts.org. — CHRISTINA DROBNEY

Fabulous (faux) Furs in the heating station and prizes for most creative “swimsuit” — plus a body of water in which to take a polar bear plunge. The event benefits the Cedarhill Animal Sanctuary. 5-9 p.m. Saturday; plunge at 8 p.m. $10 jump fee. Hotel Covington, 638 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., hotelcovington.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

SUNDAY 29

FILM: The documentary BEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED, a bittersweet story of the young cast of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, screens at the Esquire Theatre. See On Screen on page 26.

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which will be donated to the Over-the-Rhine Soup Kitchen. 12:15-2:30 p.m. Sunday. $6 adults $3 children; $16 maximum per family. Isaac M. Wise Center, 8329 Ridge Road, Amberley Village, chickensoupcookoff.org. — LAUREN MORETTO

TUESDAY 31

EVENT: Each Tuesday, the podcast TALES, TUNES AND TOMFOOLERY — helmed by Jerry Springer, Jene Galvin and Megan Hils — discusses politics in front of a live audience at Folk School Coffee Parlor. See feature on page 22.

MUSIC: Singer/songwriter MARGARET GLASPY opens for The Lumineers and Andrew Bird at U.S. Bank Arena. See Sound Advice on page 35.

ONGOING SHOWS VISUAL ART Thunder Snow: Artists Remember the Blizzard of 1978 Thunder-Sky, Inc., Northside (through Feb. 4) ONSTAGE Henry VI: The Wars of the Roses, Part 2 Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Downtown (through Feb. 11)

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Jerry Springer Takes on Trump

Springer’s locally produced podcast will warn about the dangers of the new president

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n the surface, Jerry Springer and Donald Trump seem oddly similar.

Both are wealthy white men in their early 70s. Both grew up in the New York City borough of Queens. Both rocketed to fame through reality TV. But Springer, an ardent Democrat and former Cincinnati mayor and council member, grew up embracing the legacy of New Deal politics. His parents escaped Nazi Germany fascism and settled in London before moving to the United States when he was 5 years old. In fact, Springer was born in London’s Highgate subway station in 1944, when it was being used as a civilian shelter during German air strikes in World War II. Politically active all his life, and with a first-hand knowledge of the horrors that intolerance can produce, Springer is now on a quest to warn the country about what the election of Trump as its 45th president means.

Each week, Springer flies to Cincinnati from Stamford, Conn. to host Tales, Tunes and Tomfoolery, a liberal political podcast he created with longtime friend Jene Galvin and Megan Hils, a 30-something theater grad from Northern Kentucky University.

Tales, Tunes and Tomfoolery is a variety show, with Springer’s political commentary at its center, recorded every Tuesday evening before a live audience at the Folk School Coffee Parlor in Ludlow, Ky. (The show can also be seen in real time at facebook.com/jerrypodcast, and archived podcasts are available at jerryspringer.com.)

The podcast is punctuated by riffs and bits that have included Hils’ brilliant impersonations of Melania Trump. Each show ends with a live musical performance from a Roots, Bluegrass or Folk artist.

Almost exclusively since the election ­— and many times before Nov. 8 — Springer’s weekly political commentary has focused on Donald Trump.

“What’s your greatest fear with Trump now?” asks Galvin during a recent podcast.

“Simply that he doesn’t take the job seriously,” replies Springer. “And that is mainly an issue with national security. By his own admission, he doesn’t read books; he doesn’t read newspapers. He doesn’t have a particular philosophy or ideology. He’s just not that interested.

“But most scary, particularly with all the headlines that are going on in the world today, he doesn’t want the national security briefings that a president gets every morning. He says, ‘No, I know what all that stuff’s about and I’m a smart guy. If there’s a crisis, I’ll figure something out.’ ”

L-R: Jerry Springer and Jene Galvin talk as Dinah Devoto and Patrick Kennedy look on.

“Whoa,” Springer says to the rapt audience of some 30 people in the coffee house.

“No one — ever — is prepared for their first year as president.”

In Springer’s eyes, Trump threatens core American values.

“America is first and foremost an idea,” Springer says in an interview with CityBeat. “We were an idea before we were a country. This is supposed to be a place where all humans are created equal with inalienable rights. That’s the concept.

That’s the ideal.

“But Trump is against this,” he continues.

“He’s a misogynist. He belittles people. He wants to ban, to deport. He sees America as white and male. If you try to find any consistency in his whole life, it’s that he likes rich white men. But there are not enough rich white men for him to win the election, so he had to bring angry white men with him.”

Unlike his predecessors, Trump is a master of dynamic communication tools like Twitter, Springer observes.

“He’s excellent in social media,” he says.

“He convinced people to get out and vote with tweets that inspired fear, or real anger and hate.”

On his flight to Cincinnati from Stamford, where he still hosts The Jerry

Springer Show — now in its 26th season — Springer sets out his thoughts on yellow legal paper. A voracious reader, Springer often draws historical parallels in his weekly analysis.

“Only when you have a sense of history can you know whether something makes sense or not, and where it’s going,” he says.

If Springer sees an upside to the 2016 election, it’s that more people are aware of civic affairs.

“We’ve had a shock to our system,” he says. “Everyone is paying attention because Trump could be dangerous. His tweets could be dangerous. We used to be scared to have his finger on the button. Now, we’re scared to have his finger on the iPhone.”

Since Tales, Tunes and Tomfoolery started nearly two years ago, its audience has grown significantly. Westwood One, one of the nation’s largest radio networks, now carries the show. Every Saturday, it’s broadcast on talkRADIO in the United Kingdom.

While the show’s reach is global, its venue is intimate. Why here?

“Cincinnati is where I started my career, met my wife, and where my daughter Katie was born,” Springer says. “I love this place.”

He was mayor of Cincinnati in the 1970s after serving five terms on city council,

and also a nightly news anchor for WLWT until 1993. Cincinnati is also where he formed a life-long friendship with podcast producer and co-host Galvin.

The latter promotes Tales, Tunes and Tomfoolery as “Your beacon during the Trump storm.” It’s a calling Springer takes seriously.

“Being vigilant with our values is the single most important thing we can do right now,” Springer says. “We can argue about political policies — which is a better plan; who should pay for what. There’s a conservative point of view — not one that I agree with — that has a legitimacy. I get that. It has an intellectual basis.

“But we cannot accept an abuse of our value system in America,” he continues.

“We need to pay attention and not let things happen to our country that are against our fundamental values. That’s one of the reasons we have this podcast. It’s one small thing people can latch onto to keep the conversation going.”

Jerry Springer’s TALES, TUNES AND TOMFOOLERY podcast is recorded 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at the Folk School Coffee Parlor, 332 Elm Street, Ludlow, Ky. To reserve a free audience seat, visit folkschoolcoffeeparlor.com.

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Shedding Light on CAM’s Secret Tower

BY STEVEN ROSEN

The lighting also, perhaps, addresses the fact that the art museum’s 1886 building has been left out of the celebration of older Cincinnati structures like Music Hall, the Cincinnati Museum Center, Memorial Hall and much of Over-the-Rhine. Over the decades, the original building has become but one of nine. The historic 1886 front entrance — already relegated to secondary status — was permanently blocked by construction of the

An old chimney finds new use at the art museum.

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Adams-Emery Wing in 1965, an attractive Modernist building in its own right but not stately. And while the 1906 Schmidlapp Wing did have an impressive entrance, it faces a parking lot and lacks an impactful approach.

Kitchin is trying to make the Schmidlapp entrance more noticeable to all — fundraising has begun on a $7 million project to have a new roadway run past it. And he wants to make the illuminated tower a symbol for all Cincinnati. (Additional lighting will follow.)

“The elegance of the uplighting is exactly what we want in order to give greater knowledge to all as to where the art museum is and how accessible it is,” he says.

Meanwhile, the museum is continuing to leave on display a “temporary” 2014 neon sculpture by Tony Luensman, “CAMPGROUND,” sponsored by ArtWorks and is attached to an exterior wall. And Kitchin sees plenty of future opportunities to use the building as a “canvas” for art installations.

So who knows? If one day you see a long trail of hair falling from the top of the secret tower down to the courtyard below, you’ll know the museum has a new Rapunzel artwork to go with Jim Dine’s signature “Pinocchio (Emotional)” outdoor sculpture.

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“You can’t get there from here.”

That’s what Cameron Kitchin, the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum since 2014, was told — in so many words — when he first spied the secret tower that’s part of the museum’s complex.

“I asked on my tour, seeing all the various spaces created by these buildings, if I could get to the tower and see it,” he says. “And they said, ‘There’s just no way.’ They said the only way would be to construct a ladder on the exterior of the tower and enter it from above.”

He investigated that option, but ultimately decided to illuminate the mysterious tower’s exterior with LED lights shining from other buildings. That started last year, and with the leafless trees of winter you can now notice it from miles away. It’s the highest point on a building that rests atop a hillside in Mount Adams/Eden Park. But it’s been virtually unknown — until recently.

According to museum archivist Geoff Edwards, the tower is a stone-clad cast-iron chimney that was used with the old coal boilers in the museum’s original 1886 building. But by the 1950s, when the museum campus had grown, a new boiler room was created elsewhere and used a shorter “stumpy” stack. The old one became defunct.

It also became impenetrable. There is no entrance or opening — an elevator shaft blocks it on the main floor; other obstacles surround it elsewhere. There’s no access from the outdoor courtyard. And skylights from the third-floor Contemporary gallery prevent rooftop access.

Where some might see a problem — even an embarrassment — in this useless structure, Kitchin saw an opportunity. Light it up! (At one time, it was illuminated, but that stopped long enough ago that the lighting implements were in a decayed state.)

“Within our strategic plan for the museum, we call out that the entire site is a beacon to all of Cincinnati about the importance of arts, culture and education,” Kitchin says.

“So it was a simple move to create better visibility and illumination at the highest point of the museum. It’s a small action with a large impact.”

In a separate interview, David Linnenberg, the museum’s chief administrative officer, provided some overview.

“I think Cincinnatians just love history around old buildings,” he says. “Cameron is not trying to add large wings to this building.

We’re trying to use the space we have the best we can, including the site. Once we do that, we’ll open people’s eyes to just how old and beautiful the (original) building is.”

Another innovation to making the art museum a nighttime destination is new evening hours: The museum is open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, with free admission to otherwise-ticketed exhibitions from 5-8 p.m.

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First Date has a simple L-R: Sarah Hoch, Michael Gerard Carr and Jared D. Doren premise: It follows the arc P H O T O : r ya n ku r t z of one evening of potential romance. Aaron (Michael Gerard Carr) is an inexperienced guy on a director DeGeorge. Carr ably captures blind date with Casey (Sarah Hoch), who’s Aaron’s tentative, apologetic nature. Hoch, done this a lot. This one has been set up by a newcomer to ETC’s stage, has a veneer her sister and brother-in-law, who’ve proof haughty arrogance trying to hide a vided some advance notice that, naturally, heart that’s yearning for something more isn’t quite accurate. (The show’s first two profound. Farhat’s coy portrait of Aaron’s numbers, “The One” and “First Impresromantically recalled fiancée slips on and sions,” address expectations and reality.) off with just the right degree of humor, and Casey has ended up as a “serial dater” who’s Pecchia’s bad-boy moments, rendered as he impatient and never satisfied. wears a cocky fedora, are pitch-perfect.

Five additional actors fill the roles of servJeremy Parker is a caricature of a Jewish ers and other restaurant guests, frequently grandma, but she also becomes a caring transforming into momentary incarnations mother and Casey’s matchmaking, pushy of grandmas, exes, bad-boy boyfriends, sister. Maloney’s bitchy protective friend to best friends — and figments of Aaron and Casey has some very funny moments, and Casey’s imaginations. They are Maya Farhat Doren always has a twinkle in his eye as he as Aaron’s self-centered ex-fiancée, Jeremy endeavors to keep the couple on a navigable Parker in several key female roles, Nathan course toward a happy ending.

Robert Pecchia as Aaron’s darker angel, First Date plays out on another stylish Andrew Maloney as Casey’s gay friend and set by Brian c. Mehring; a silhouetted New Jared D. Doren as a solicitous waiter.

York skyline behind a sleek wine bar with The ensemble of five also fulfills the role bottles neatly arrayed. of a latter-day Greek chorus, popping around This is a show that keeps you waiting corners to react to awkward moments in for what’s coming next and fulfills your Casey and Aaron’s conversations and hoverhopes in ways you didn’t entirely expect. In ing behind the pair as their evening teeters fact, it has some things to say about lookon the brink of catastrophe. They often ing beyond veneers and first impressions. provide humorous commentary and subtext.

That’s a formula for great theater.

The show feels a tad long (it’s 90-plus FIRST DATE, presented by Ensemble Theatre minutes, no intermission) as it careens Cincinnati, continues through Feb. 5. More info: through the course of an evening from “First ensemblecincinnati.org.

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The Broadway touring production of seem to be completely new concoctions, Disney’s The Little Mermaid has several including numbers to give brand-new backhigh bars to leap. First, it adapts the wildly stories to King Triton (Steve Blanchard) and popular 1989 movie of the same name, from Ursula the Sea Witch (Jennifer Allen). The which certain 30-somethings (ahem) have originals remain the catchiest numbers in the every lyric etched into their brains. Secshow — but that might be a purist talking. ondly, Mermaid follows a spate of successThe story has changed in subtle but ful Disney theatrical adaptations, including important ways as well. As a role model for Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, young women, the character Ariel often has each of which have set high-water marks for taken flack as not being much of a feminist — their artistry (and profitability). after all, this is a story about a young woman The Little Mermaid, running at the trading her talent and identity for access to a Aronoff Center for the Arts through Sunday, man. The theatrical version clearly endeavchecks many of the right boxes. At the very top of this list is Diana Huey as mermaid Ariel. I simply could not get enough of this star with the honey-dripping Disney Princess voice. Huey’s Ariel is charming, plus as silly and rash as the teenager she is supposed to be.

Huey manages to be a quadruple threat: she can sing, she can act, she can dance and she can swim. In this production, a mermaid can swim in two ways: through aerial stunts on wires (such Little Mermaid’s cast during the big “Under the Sea” number as during the “She’s in Love” P H O T O : P H O T O : M . K I TA O K A number, when a smitten Ariel backstrokes through the air), and through a constant full-body ors to give Ariel more strength. Prince Eric undulation that must give these actors chooses Ariel, voice or no voice, after getting aching abdominal muscles for days. Other to know her better. Onstage, Ariel takes care actors use Heelys skate shoes or skateof Ursula with a little help from her friends, boards to glide across the stage. unlike in the movie, where Eric saves Ariel The effects work, but they seldom tap into from Ursula. And when Eric asks for her the level of imagination of the live-action father’s blessing in the musical, Triton steps stampede scene of The Lion King or the aside because “Ariel can speak for herBeast’s transformation into a human in self.” Mermaid is likely still missing Gloria Beauty and the Beast. Both of those shows Steinem’s seal of approval, but these edits employ stage trickery and scale to make their are a step toward contemporary feminism. effects feel supernatural, magical. Mermaid Kenneth Foy’s scenic design is effervesrarely takes our breath away, including in its cent and bright, with creative use of blackwould-be-showstopper “Under the Sea.” Mellight and neon. Amy Clark and Mark Ross’ vin Abston gives an incredible performance costume designs leap straight out of the as Sebastian the Crab, but this number never movie, right down to the golden epaulets on gets big enough. The scene is entertaining, Prince Eric’s jacket. There were hundreds but falls short of magical. It does not help of turquoise sequined mermaid tails on that the “touring orchestra” for Mermaid display on opening night — a dozen onstage, consists of a keyboardist and a drummer. It gads more in the tween-packed audience. often sounds as though the actors are singIf this rapt and giddy crowd is any indicaing along with a CD. tion, kids won’t care that Ursula’s story arc More than half the songs are new additions has changed or that Triton has been given by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn a slight Aquaman makeover. However, the Slater, including a few that have borrowed adults in the audience might not be quite so formerly instrumental music and added enchanted, and devotees of Disney’s The new context. For instance, the lively movieLittle Mermaid movie will wish this prosoundtrack tune “Jig” has been transmuted duction had stayed closer to its roots. into “One Step Closer,” a piece for Prince Eric DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID is onstage at the (Matthew Kacergis) and a voiceless Ariel Aronoff Center through Sunday. Tickets/more in which the couple learns to communicate info: cincinnatiarts.org. through dance and gesture. Other songs

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As a man raised almost exclusively in the company of women, I recognized a certain kinship with Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), the young man at the center of writer-director Mike Mills’ sentimental yet whip-smart 20th Century Women. A bright and inquisitive teenager, Jamie has a mother named Dorothea (Annette Bening) who is intent on preparing him to be more than just another prototypical provider in a patriarchal culture. Jamie was a few years ahead of me in 1979, the year the film is set, but that and the obvious differences in race and geography matter little in the overall scheme of things.

In 20th Century Women, Jamie surfs the long wave-like hills of suburban Southern California, while I cautiously walked the streets of Asheville, N.C., a couple of decades before its sweepingly progressive transformation, when the city was still caught up in the quietly segregated mindset of the post-Civil Rights Era South. He enjoyed the privilege of living in a cocoon where stepping outside the guidelines and laws (underage drinking, smoking and promiscuity) conferred a brand of cool. I, however, was taught that to stray off the beaten path could result in a lifelong dead end.

But what we both share are mothers with eyes on our future; women with hearts and minds trained on capably delivering us into adulthood with a unique set of skills that would transcend the old definitions of what it meant to be not just men, but human.

In the case of 20th Century Women, this sets us up for a radical narrative that dares to draw the focus away from Jamie to Dorothea and her would-be partners-incrime — Abbie (Greta Gerwig) and Julie (Elle Fanning). Dorothea owns a sprawling work-in-progress home, which comes to feel a bit like a slightly more stable post-hippie commune. There, she hosts gatherings for Jamie’s benefit — dinners and parties — that morph into freewheeling intellectual affairs. She wants to expose him to cultural and critical debate, opportunities for him to listen and learn and, when he proves ready, to engage.

Abbie rents a room in the house and she brings a punkish artistic energy to the space. You sense that Dorothea sees a bit of her younger self in Abbie and she wants to expose Jamie to this faded fragment.

Julie, on the other hand, is just a couple of years older than Jamie. She’s the archetypal girl next door, the crush that he’s working toward acknowledging despite the potential loss. She’s the first heartbreak that Dorothea knows will shape him into a more sensitive soul.

And it is intriguing that Dorothea makes no attempt to hide her grand scheme from either Abbie or Julie. In fact, she pointedly

lets them in on the plan. She explains that they are vital surrogates because they get to see him in the world in ways that she knows she can’t. Dorothea embraces the notion that she can’t and probably shouldn’t shield Jamie from the full spectrum of life and the consequences of his choices, so she seeks to guide him via her carefully chosen guardian angels.

ON SCREEN Sondheim’s ‘Best’

BY RICK PENDER

A new documentary, Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, that screens at the Esquire Theatre at 1 p.m.

Sunday, is the bittersweet story of the young cast of Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 musical, a show initially deemed a flop that closed abruptly after just 16 Broadway performances. That was a shock to all involved after Sondheim and producer-director Hal Prince’s success with five innovative, admired Broadway musicals during the 1970s, including Company, Follies and Sweeney Todd.

Merrily told a show-business story of idealism and disillusion in reverse chronological order, beginning with three central characters at angry, distracted middle age, and then rewinding to their earlier days of ambitious, idealistic dreams to be musical theater hit-makers. Despite a glorious score, the show’s first audiences had a hard time following the story.

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This sets the stage for the narrative to displace Jamie, and as the shift occurs, the movie takes on a novelistic feel. We start to appreciate that it has been a long-distance relay, with the baton being passed from runner to runner on this ensemble-like team.

Dorothea kicks things off, with years of accumulated experience and steely intelligence as her strengths. When she hands things off to Abbie, we see her facing adult challenges head-on with the fearlessness tempered by the first hint of fallibility.

Then, 20th Century Women gives us the full bloom of potential awaiting young Julie. She already has a healthy cynicism in the hierarchal structure of society and its willingness to shame the burgeoning independence of women, but there’s no stopping her.

Each performer gets to shine during their leg, carrying the burden for a time before handing it off. And at the end, it is Jamie who brings us to the finish line, providing a loving testament to the marvelous women who defined his life and a generation nearing the end of a tumultuous American century. (Now playing) (R) Grade: B+

The production’s young performers, ages 16 to 25, were idealistic and starstruck.

They were convinced that stardom was almost theirs. So when Merrily crashed and burned, it was painful. Sondheim and Prince’s artistic partnership was over. You might imagine that for all involved it was the “worst thing that ever could have happened.”

But that wasn’t the end of their story.

Lonny Price, one of the young actors, stayed in touch with everyone. In 2002, two decades after Merrily’s flop, he organized a one-night reunion concert of the performers. In the interim, their cast recording became a cult favorite, actor Jason Alexander achieved stardom as George Costanza on Seinfeld, and numerous Merrily stagings tinkered with and worked on fixing the show.

Price decided a new story could be told.

He located film shot by ABC-TV during auditions and rehearsals in 1981.

He interviewed actors at the 2002 concert and across the next decade.

He assembled it all for a documentary released last fall at a film festival in New York City. It’s a touching, nostalgic piece about young idealists involved in creating theater and how it shaped their lives — much like the characters in Merrily We Roll Along.

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Sister Solidarity Shows

BY JAC KERN

Keep the spirit of the recent Women’s When movies and TV aren’t vilifying the Marches alive in coming months with these trans community, they often conversely badass lady-leading series. swing in the other direction, canonizing Since 1999, Mariska Hargitay has near-perfect trans characters. Here, Maura portrayed kick-ass detective Olivia Benson (Jeffrey Tambor) is just as flawed as every on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. other character, making her even more Passionate, strong and empathetic, Benson relatable and realistic. Season 3 (and previoften serves as a voice for victims of violence. ous seasons) is now available on Amazon.

Benson is now a lieutenant and mother and Feminist hero Gloria Steinem travels the Hargitay is the only original cast member world to explore wide-ranging women’s still present on the show. In real life, Hargitay issues — from sexual assault in the U.S. supports survivors of sexual assault, domesmilitary to female FARC soldiers in Colomtic violence and child abuse as the founder of the Joyful Heart Foundation. Now in its 18th season, Law & Order: SVU runs 9 p.m. Wednesdays on NBC. In a sea of Jimmys and Jameses, be a Samantha.

Daily Show alum Samantha Bee is killing the talk show game as the only female host on late night. While it’s yet to run nightly like its malehosted counterparts, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee features the big-name interviews (Barack Obama), Hillary Clinton with the ladies of Broad City news mockery and pop culP H O T O : c o u r t e s y o f c o m e dy c e n t r a l ture humor that audiences have come to expect from bia to the tradition of child brides in Zambia late-night talk shows. New episodes air — in VICELAND docuseries Woman. Check 10:30 p.m. Wednesdays on TBS. out Season 1 on demand.

Crowned at age 18 in 1837, Queen Victoria Broad City features Abbi Jacobson and reigned over the U.K. for more than 60 years.

Ilana Glazer (and their fictionalized counVictoria, which airs 9 p.m. Sundays on PBS, terparts), who prove you can fight the power stars Jenna Coleman as a neglected teen even as a broke Millennial stoner. Season 4 turned into an overnight queen through her premieres this August on Comedy Central. relationship with Prince Albert, thus solidifying her status as an early “It Girl.”

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was a 1920s icon, an artist and writer in her own right alongThe Path (Season Premiere, Wednesday, side husband F. Scott Fitzgerald. Together, Hulu) – After a solid 2016 debut, this drama they formed a tumultuous power couple. about a cultish hippie religion (that is defiZ: The Beginning of Everything tells nitely not Scientology) returns with its stellar Zelda’s (Christina Ricci) story. Z’s pilot cast for a second season. Hugh Dancy stars first debuted in 2015; the first season will as the leader of the mysterious Meyerist be released on Amazon on Friday. movement, intent on taking the ministry in a For better or worse, Lena Dunham’s at new direction. Aaron Paul returns as a husthe center of today’s feminist movement. band and father who’s left the problematic Using her Girls fame as a public platform, group while his wife (Michelle Monaghan) Dunham has spoken out about women’s and children remain committed to Meyerism. issues like sexual assault and abortion to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (10 mixed reviews. But it’s her fictional self, p.m. Wednesday, FXX) – The gang focuses Hannah Horvath, that invites audiences to on two previously introduced beverage busilaugh with/at and then relate to her. The nesses this week when Wolf Cola becomes sixth and final season of Girls premieres the official drink of Boko Haram and Mac Feb. 12 on HBO. and Charlie promote Fight Milk.

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Popular OTR taqueria expands with a second cantina location in Walnut Hills REVIEW BY BRIAN CROSS

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Gomez Salsa Cantina serves up customer favorites — and margaritas — in a sit-down setting. order of tacos with chicken, Diablo style, the hottest option. The $9 buys you three tacos.

The tacos come on flour tortillas by default, but you can request corn tortillas like I did. The tacos are standard in size and come individually wrapped in foil. Chunks of tender chicken made up the bulk of the filling, and they were topped with lettuce and a little soft crumbly white cheese. The numerous other ingredients were present in smaller quantities (note: rice and beans are omitted from tacos); however, the zingy pickled jalapeños stood out. They were sweet-hot, reminiscent of a hot cinnamon candy. I think it was the jalapeños that made these delicious tacos almost too hot for me to eat. Almost.

If you can handle the heat, the Diablo style doesn’t disappoint. I dipped a chip in some guacamole every so often to extinguish the fire in my mouth. The chips and guacamole ($4 small; $6 large) had a lightness to them. The flavorful, fresh chips were somewhat thin and crispy, as opposed to crunchy, and the guacamole was smooth and deceptively full-flavored. I almost finished it before my tacos arrived. That said, the small is pretty small. If you’re sharing, go for the large.

The girlfriend ordered a Turtle Shell, which is a burrito tortilla stuffed with rice,

beans and the ingredients of your choice, plus a crunchy tortilla right in the center and a layer of crispy melted cheese on top.

It’s cut into halves, and you eat it sort of like a sandwich. Turtle Shells are large and filling and everyone who eats one raves about it. Being a vegetarian, she chose tofu as her protein and also opted for Diablo style. The tofu is cut into small cubes, marinated and flash fried, so it’s flavorful and crispy. Like I did with my too-hot tacos, she chomped right through the heat, eyes watering, still singing the Turtle Shell’s praises.

At the bar, I asked about the Fire Margarita ($6) infused with jalapeño. I’m a big fan of the actual flavor of jalapeños, if the heat is tempered enough that I can taste them without experiencing pain. The Fire Margarita delivers just that: good jalapeño flavor, balanced by the sweet and sour of the margarita.

It’s not spicy, just delicious. I’d choose it over

the standard margarita, which was good but a little sweeter than I prefer.

On another visit, I ordered the bowl with barbacoa. The cashier suggested I go with Southwestern style. The generously sized bowl of goodness was on par with the taste and quality of other dishes we tried. The slow-roasted shredded beef was very good — juicy and well seasoned. The verde salsa was fresh and tangy, but not spicy. The bowl only had a sprinkling of cheese, but that didn’t disappoint me, especially after taking a bite. Next time, I’ll add a side of one of the spicy sauces to give it some kick.

Like the mural on the exposed-brick wall of the dining room declares, Gomez Salsa Cantina is “keeping it fresh” with both their ingredients and ideas. If you’re tired of the chain and chain-like Mexican options, Gomez is a refreshing departure from the norm.

Gomez Salsa Cantina GO: 2437 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills; CALL: 513-954-8541; INTERNET: gomezsalsa.com; HOURS: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.

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ith the redevelopment of Over-theRhine has come a slew of independent restaurants, keeping diners — and dining reviewers — busy over the last few years. With some success under their belts, a handful of proprietors have doubleddown and opened more than one restaurant in OTR, and some have expanded their concepts into completely different neighborhoods. The latest OTR establishment to follow this trajectory is Gomez Salsa.

In case you’ve been living in an abandoned subway tunnel for the last two years, Gomez Salsa is a walk-up window on 12th Street that shares a space with bar HalfCut. It’s incredibly popular with the late-night crowd and downtown lunchers alike. The eatery serves tacos, burritos and burrito bowls, but it’s known for its signature menu item, the Turtle Shell. More on that later.

The new location, dubbed Gomez Salsa Cantina, is located in Walnut Hills — an area that has seen its own resurgence as of late. Owner Andrew Gomez is excited to be part of the renewal of the neighborhood he’s lived in for a long time. “I’m thrilled we made the choice to go through with everything and we could help be a catalyst to its new era,” he says via email.

The cantina pays homage to the original OTR location with a single walk-up cash register where you place your order (inside the restaurant, of course). There’s no paper order form to fill out here, just a big printed menu on the wall. The menu makes it easy to order by featuring four distinct “styles”— pre-designed combinations of ingredients, including the standard “Gomez” style (rice, black beans, crema, corn, Gomez pico salsa, lettuce, cheese), along with Diablo (rice, pinto beans, crema, habañero hot sauce, pickled jalapeños, kowabunga hot salsa, lettuce and cheese), Baja (rice, pinto beans, Baja sauce, pickled onions, pineapple salsa, lettuce, cheese) and Southwestern (rice, black beans, spicy crema, fajitas, verde tomatillo salsa, lettuce, cheese).

Gomez assured us that customers can always build their own combinations and noted the current styles are still being tweaked. “We talked about the different styles and ingredients in our meetings over the last couple months to get to where we are now. It’s almost finalized,” he says.

All the items — tacos, bowls, burritos or Turtle Shells — are $9. You select your item, then your protein, then your style. Chips, salsa and guacamole are also available, along with a full bar featuring signature margaritas, sangria and a good beer selection.

On a weeknight not long after their opening, the place was buzzing. I went for an

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Brewing will host a two-hour Paint and It’s a new year, and one of the only things Pint night on Jan. 31. For $25, the brewery that will get us through this bizarre winter is will supply the paint, canvases and beer. beer. Luckily, Rivertown and MadTree have Whatever you create you get to take home. bigger spaces in which to drink, and Cincy • On Feb. 4, the day before Super Bowl Winter Beerfest is right around the corner.

Sunday, the Christian Moerlein Malt House On Feb. 11, MadTree will officially open Taproom will host Super Firkin Saturtheir new brewery in Oakley, MadTree 2.0, day, featuring cask-conditioned beers from to coincide with their annual Winter Bonanza Moerlein and other local brewers, including and the brewery’s fourth anniversary. This MadTree, Listermann, Blank Slate and more. event will feature rare MadTree brews, guest Moerlein will also introduce Pacer, a citra breweries, food trucks and live music from 11 pale ale. Free admission; $10 sample tickets. a.m.-1 a.m. But before Cincinnati celebrates MadTree’s new path, kiss MadTree 1.0’s taproom goodbye on Feb. 4 — its last day of operation on Kennedy Avenue.

On Feb. 17 and 18, Cincinnati will celebrate the 10th-annual Cincy Winter Beerfest at the Duke Energy Convention Center. Beer drinkers will have three sessions to choose from, including a new Saturday afternoon session, and ticket prices range from $45 to a $95 connoisseurs reception, with access to super premium draft and large format beers, The 10th-annual Cincy Winter Beerfest takes place Feb. 17-18. appetizers and a private P H O T O : B y r o n photo g r a ph y restroom. Over the years the fest has grown from just 700 attendees to 16,000.

• Streetside Brewery did not exist last In collaboration with Beerfest, Rhineyear for the big game, so they’re going all out geist has released Rood, a red Belgian-style this year. On Feb. 5, they will host a salsa/ wheat ale. They also just introduced Hans, guacamole competition in which the winner a Vienna-style lager, to complement Franz, will receive a $25 gift card to the brewery. their Oktoberfest/Märzen-style brew. Both Besides the snacks, Streestside will also tap are available in cans and on draft in the tapa special keg of their Café Con Leche beer. room, and at various bars around the city.

• Also on Super Bowl Sunday, hit up Fifty West for an all-day party. Pay $35 for two beers and an all-you-can-eat buffet.

• The Ohio Craft Brewers Association’s • Nanobrewery Mash Cult will unveil a annual Ohio Craft Brewers Conference Belgian-style ale called Rummin with the will take place Feb. 7-9 at the Duke Energy Devil on Feb. 4 at Party Town in Florence, Convention Center. Registration fees run Ky. They aged the beer in local distiller $100-$250 and include access to more than Second Sight’s rum barrels and bottled it in 20 seminars, breakfast and lunch, a trade October. The beer is strong — 13.75 percent show and evening receptions. Visit ohio— and because of the limited amount, you craftbeer.org for more. can only purchase two bottles per person.

• To coincide with the Ohio Craft Brewers • Braxton has a new beer, Tropic Flare.

Conference, Taft’s Ale House will host Ohio It’s a double IPA with “notes of citrus, peach Rare on Feb. 8, during which nine Buckeye and passion fruit” and a high 100 IBU. It’s brewers will pour nine rare beers from their available on draft at the taproom (bottles stash. These include Yellow Springs Breware sold out). ery’s Maxxout Stout, Fat Head’s Sorcerer and Taft’s Old Wooden Tooth.

• On Feb. 9, Listermann taps Roots Ginger • On Jan. 20, Rivertown opened their Beer, a collaboration with Blank Slate and Brewery & Barrel House expansion in MonArtsWave. It will be available on draft at their roe. The taproom and restaurant offers Rivertaproom. In other Listermann news, last town beers and guest brews on tap, cocktails, week they released their first cans: Brass wine, soda and a full menu, including dishes Monkey IPA and Brass Monkey Junkie, the like jackfruit tacos and smoked wings. same IPA but with the addition of mangoes.

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Taste the World Food Tour at Findlay Market — 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 Daisy Mae’s Market, 1801 Race St., Overthe-Rhine, cincinnatifoodtours.com.

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Meat and Potatoes — Learn to prepare an old-fashioned, stick-to-your-ribs meat-andpotatoes meal featuring a nice piece of beef and steakhouse sides. BYOB. 6:30-7:30 p.m. $35. Artichoke OTR, 1824 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, 513-263-1002, artichokeotr.com.

The Five Master Skills — Build your basic cooking techniques with this class on mastering the use of salt, managing heat, making simple sauces, using the right tools and cooking with the proper ingredients. 6-8 p.m. $75. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com

Wander Walnut Hills — A tour through redeveloped Walnut Hills that features stops at three sit-down stops and two samples from specialty shops or bakeries in and around Madison Road and Woodburn Avenue. 1:30 p.m. $45. Tour leaves from Fireside Pizza, 773 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, cincinnatifoodtours.com.

CAIN Silver Summit Sampler — A foodie fundraising event for Churches Active in Northside. Sample special happy hour appetizers, prepared by tomorrow’s culinary stars, at The Summit. CAIN celebrates 25 years as a nonprofit organization that transforms lives and inspires hope by providing nutritious food, crisis assistance, resources and more. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $40. The Summit Restaurant, Midwest Culinary Institute, 3520 Central Parkway, Clifton, cainministry.org.

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Venezuelan Arepas Dinner — Ruth Zanoni leads a class on authentic Venezuelan recipes, including how to make arepas, gluten-free grilled bread. Make dough, grill it, stuff it with traditional (and non-traditional) fillings and serve it. BYOB. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $65. Artichoke OTR, 1824 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, 513-263-1002, artichokeotr.com.

Maple Syrup Making and Guided Sap Collecting Hike — Experience the process making maple syrup from maple sap. Bask in the warmth of the evaporator and its maplescented steam. Drop by the sugar house near Krippendorf Lodge and join in an interactive sap-collecting maple hike. 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. $9 adults; $6 seniors/military; $4 children; free for members. Leaves from the sugar house in Rowe Woods, 4949 Tealtown Road, Milford, cincynature.org.

The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show — Death and dinner. 6 p.m. $59.95. Embassy Suites Cincinnati Rivercenter, 10 E. Rivercenter Blvd., Covington, Ky., thedinnerdetective.com.

Burns Night Rabbie Burns Supper — The Caledonian Society of Cincinnati celebrates poet and author of “Auld Lang Syne” Robert Burns, the national poet of Scottish culture. His birthday (Jan. 25) is celebrated

by Scots around the world with food, drink, song, poetry, dancing and bagpipes. Cocktails start at 6 p.m. 7 p.m. $26 adults; $13 ages 5-12; free 5 and under. Receptions Loveland, 10681 Loveland Madeira Road, Loveland, caledoniansociety.org.

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Lunar New Year Party — Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a themed night market full of food from various Asian countries.

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Sweet Petite Desserts with Taren Kinebrew — As we get closer to Valentine’s Day, learn to make unique confections, including salted chocolate macarons, cake pops and brownies. 6:30-9 p.m. $45. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harper’s Point, cookswaresonline.com.

Food Network Favorites — Learn recipes from Food Network chefs like Ina Garten, Giada and Emeril. 6-8 p.m. $75. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.

Soothing Soups for Winter Days — Add these classics to your repertoire, including roasted tomato and fennel soup, chicken velvet soup and Arizona mountain soup. Demo class. 6-8:30 p.m. $55. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.

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Beefsteak Club Dinner — Support the 25th-annual Bockfest with a dinner that, interestingly enough, does not involve steak.

In 1896, the Windisch-Muhlhauser Brewery threw a party for Cincinnati’s political and social elite, paired with beer, in a brewery setting. People loved it so much it became a regular occurrence. 6:30 p.m. $55. Christian Moerlein Malt House Taproom, 1621 Moore St., Over-the-Rhine, bockfest.com.

Sweet Stroll through OTR — Explore the bakeries and specialty shops of OTR on a walking tour that includes six sweet samples and one glass of wine, beer, coffee or tea. 10 a.m. $45. Leaves from Daisy Mae’s Market, 1801 Race St., Over-theRhine, cincinnatifoodtours.com.

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Four Hearts and a Heavy Feather

Cincinnati band The Yugos brace for the impact of an impressive third album, Weighing the Heart

BY BRIAN BAKER

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Google search of the phrase “weighing the heart” reveals a myth from Egypt’s Book of the Dead. After a pharaoh’s death, the monarch’s heart was measured against a feather in the underworld. If his heart was lighter than the feather, signifying his purity of being, he was elevated to the next level to meet god Osiris. If the scales betrayed a heavy heart, he was devoured by a demon, which is kind of a bitch after you’ve already died.

Cincinnati Indie Rock group The Yugos didn’t name its brilliant third album, Weighing the Heart, after that ancient Egyptian rite by mere happenstance. After coming across the story on television — “Probably (TV show) Ancient Aliens,” notes vocalist/ guitarist Christian Gough — the quartet found enough parallels to justify dubbing its new album after a dead pharaoh’s judgment.

“I was wanting to go borderline Metal with the title, with the ‘heart’ and everything,” Gough says. “So people would look at it and go, ‘What’s going on? Is this the same band?’ I also thought it was a really cool concept, taking a person’s heart and putting it on a scale with a feather and (then) you go to heaven or hell. I’m not religious, but I thought it was a badass concept.”

“To me, our last album was super lighthearted and was kind of our mission statement,” says drummer (and Christian’s brother) Jordin Gough. “This is like we’re taking a step to remain lighthearted, but also trying to balance it with being more mature.”

Therein lies the significant difference between Weighing the Heart and its predecessors, 2013’s Life is Awesome and Then You Live Forever and the band’s eponymous 2011 debut. The group, by proxy, is also different. The Yugos’ first two New Wave/Indie Rock albums were exuberant expressions of four young men bursting at their creative seams with positive energy, which was reinforced by their live presentation, as the quartet bounded around every stage like puppies on trucker speed.

In the nearly three-and-a-half-year gap between albums, The Yugos experienced evolution, growth and maturation — as individuals and as a band unit — much more than in the four previous years since their 2009 formation. Growth rarely comes without growing pains; The Yugos survived theirs by a slim margin.

“We had struggles as friends and as a band,” says guitarist Jeremy Graham. “For myself personally, it was like weighing the heart.

Am I doing what I need to be doing for my friends? Am I keeping up with what I want to be doing in this band and what I know they want to be doing? This album got deep.”

Indie Rock faves The Yugos’ latest album will be released nationally by Old Flame Records.

“We had to have a band-in-crisis meeting,” Jordin says. “We’re like, ‘We don’t communicate with each other and we internalize everything.’ We’d talk to someone in the band about what someone else in the band was doing. So it was like, ‘I think this shows that we all love each other. If we don’t like an idea, it doesn’t mean we don’t like you.’ “ “We’re all passive-aggressive but we’re getting better,” Christian says.

Although The Yugos never intended to wait this long to release a follow-up to Life is Awesome, the growing pains increased the gap. The group had actually tracked the entire album, following it with an extensive tour and playing many of the new songs night after night. But upon their return home, the musicians made a troubling discovery.

“We listened to the album again and we were like, ‘Uh oh, we’re going to have to re-record it,’ ” Jordin says. “The songs had gotten better.”

“We cut one song and then re-recorded five or six songs,” Christian says. “It’s definitely the longest time we’ve ever spent on an album.”

The band’s new direction was hinted at when the album’s first song was leaked last fall: Moody, vaguely psychedelic, infectiously energetic and darkly propulsive, “Andopolis” pinwheels through the band’s

’70s/’80s influences, touching on Echo & the Bunnymen, XTC and The Cure without ever sounding like any of them. It also signals a shift in The Yugos’ writing process. “ ‘Andopolis’ was one of the first songs we wrote as a complete band,” Christian says.

“I don’t think it’s the sound we planned, but it’s the sound we’re happy that happened,” says bassist Jackson Deal. “A lot of the structures and our parts were figured out live. Christian will come in with a skeleton of a song or a demo and if there’s something we want to add in, we’ll add it in.

For this album, we put our own stuff on it. “ As Weighing the Heart neared completion, the band played occasional shows, but there were still a few rough patches to smooth over.

“We let our lives get in the way of the life of the band,” Jordin says. “The band requires four people and the collective ‘us’ was dying.

The four of us weren’t talking and we were playing live shows as we were trying to figure out what we were doing. We all kind of forgot what we love about playing music together.”

“I was just mad for a long time,” Christian says. “I was like, ‘This band sucks. We’re never going to get this album out.’ Then we played a couple of shows and it was like, ‘I have so much fun playing shows but I hate

being in this band!’ It was like sex in a bad relationship.”

With those issues largely ironed out, the band is looking forward to 2017. Weighing the Heart will get to a larger national audience thanks to its March release through established indie label Old Flame Records (the album will be available at the hometown release show Friday). The Yugos also have a booking agent for the first time, and plan to tour a lot this summer. The musicians are excited to play the new material again, now from their rejuvenated perspective.

Like any band with a long enough history, The Yugos have become a family unto themselves, resulting in a unique set of tensions and methods for alleviating them. Jordin notes that Graham and Deal are like brothers, but he and his actual sibling don’t fit the stereotype of battling band bros.

“Christian and I are pretty close for brothers,” Jordin says. “I know a lot of brothers who fight a hell of a lot more.”

“No matter how much I hate him, I have to love him,” Christian says. “Or else I’ll get grounded.”

THE YUGOS’ album release show is Friday at Woodward Theater. Tickets/more info: woodwardtheater.com.

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The Grove Expands Its Approach on New EP

BY MIKE BREEN AND NICK GREVER

vastly different from the last, but they are all undeniably The Grove songs.

Through tight, professional instrumentation and vocal delivery, the quartet has a release worth far more than the sum of its (many) parts.

The Grove headlines a free, 10 p.m. release party celebration in honor of Coming to Terms Friday at the Northside Tavern (4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsidetav.com). 90 Proof Twang and Counterfeit Money Machine also perform. (Review by Nick Grever.)

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Cincy Blues Acts Showcased The Cincy Blues Society’s Cincy Winter Blues Fest returns Friday and Saturday to The Phoenix (812 Race St., Downtown, thephx.com). As usual, joining the touring headliners (this year it’s Davy Knowles and The Mike Wheeler Band on Friday and Michele Lundeen and Southern Avenue on Saturday) will be several of the top Blues-oriented acts in Greater Cincinnati.

Friday’s local roster includes The Medicine Men, The Whiskey Shambles, Brad Hatfield Band, The Magic Lightnin’ Boys, Ricky Nye Inc. featuring Bekah Williams, The Beaumonts, Jay Jesse Johnson, Sonny Moorman and Noah Wotherspoon. On Saturday, catch area acts like G. Miles & the Band of Helping Hands, The Heaters, Greg Schaber, Ralph & the Rhythm Hounds, Chuck Brisbin & the Tuna Project, Johnny Fink & the Intrusion, Leroy Ellington Band and The Tempted Souls Band.

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Teasing Strippers A new, very narrowly focused radio format launched recently in Florida… but it didn’t last too long. Calling itself “The Official Station For Latina Strippers Of Tampa Bay,” a channel called “El Booty” went live on the 106.9 FM frequency with a playlist featuring hyped, dancerfriendly Hip Hop. But the launch only lasted hours — turned out it was a stunt. The actual channel, Playa 106.9, went on the air the day after the “El Booty” announcement, playing a mix of classic Salsa, Merengue, Bachata and other Latin music stylings. And the Latina strippers of Tampa Bay wept.

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The new president didn’t, as of press time, fulfill his duties as Saturday Night Live critic for the long-running (and, people are saying, very overrated) TV show’s Jan. 21 episode. Though Alec Baldwin took a week off from impersonating him on the show, President Trump was still a prime target, particularly during host Aziz Ansari’s opening monologue. But since Ansari called Trump “the Chris Brown of politics,” the singer/ accused batterer subbed for the prez on Instagram, writing of the accomplished comedian (whose parents are from India), “Somebody tell Aladdin hop off my dick!”

Phil in the Exploitation The ever-exploitative Dr. Phil show recently featured a woman (called a “former model”) who allegedly stopped working and became homeless because she believed she was the subject of Michael Jackson’s song “Smooth Criminal.” Annie (the name referenced in the song) felt Jackson spied on her and then used her story of being in an abusive relationship for the song, therefore entitling her to the rights. The show brought on an engineer who worked on the track, who told Annie that Jackson actually got the name from a CPR dummy in the studio.

Then Dr. Phil got into his limo and went off to his mansion (presumably) as Annie’s face and story were plastered all over his show’s promos.

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To listen to The Grove’s newest EP, Coming to Terms, is to listen to a young band experimenting with some vastly different musical styles than its previous offerings. The four songs on the EP draw from wildly different points of inspiration as members of the Cincinnati-based quartet delve into their varied influences.

While the tonal shifts are unexpected, there’s one noticeable consistent during the 20-minute run time — these songs are really, really good.

The Grove, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Adam Forsthoefel, bassist/vocalist Matt Holt, drummer Jeff Voegele and keyboardist/vocalist Matt Forsthoefel, uses each of the four tracks to highlight the strengths of the members, with each song crafted to place a new element of the band in the limelight. EP opener “Anna Lee” is a slow, sultry ballad that is just begging for some Zippo’s to be held aloft, until about halfway through when Adam Forsthoefel lets loose with a powerful suite of riffs and solos and ends the song on a much louder note than it started.

“Bring You Up” follows as the boys shift gears into a heavily Reggae-influenced jam. Holt’s bass rhythms ring through the entirety of the track and anchor the proceedings, as the guitar and keys run a series of alternating auditory set pieces.

“Either Way” ups the tempo as the boys showcase their Blues and Jazz chops. In this instance, it is Matt Forsthoefel’s time to shine — his keys rise above all else to add a jaunty layer to the guitar’s, bass’ and drums’ already high-energy scales.

The EP’s finale, “What We Can Do,” is The Grove’s most organized track, with all of their disparate elements reined in and harnessed into a tight four-and-a-half minutes. The song begins with threeway interplay between strings, keys and drums. Each instrument takes its turn to craft a distinct pattern of rhythms before swirling together through the choruses to bring a sense of power and strength to Adam’s lyrics.

Adam’s vocals are another of The Grove’s musical treasures. With a powerful yet tender delivery, each track has his emotive and hopeful lyricism as a common thread. As a singer, Adam is intimately aware of molding his exertions to the songs themselves. “Anna Lee” features a pained and soulful sound, whereas “Either Way” highlights a singer willing to make his presence known and his voice heard to all within earshot.

Coming to Terms accomplishes what many EP’s attempt but few achieve, simultaneously letting the band stretch its creative boundaries while still keeping the core focus intact. Each track is

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Above all, Watkins has identified and refined her solo voice. Her eponymous 2009 debut established her post-Nickel Creek profile, earning her opening slots for Robert Earl Keen, Tift Merritt and others. With 2012’s Sun Midnight Sun, she took her tentative first steps toward a true solo persona, resulting in session/ touring opportunities with John Mayer, Jackson Browne and Sara Watkins The Decemberists.

PHOTO : Ma arten deBoer After four years of the aforementioned work, Watkins seriously considered her third album. Her deal with Nonesuch Records and management affiliation ended almost simultaneously, so Watkins drew inspiration from the uncertainty to create the magnificent and decidedly Southern Avenue different Young in All P H O T O : D av i d M c C l i s t e r the Wrong Ways.

“I had just started writing and I needed to record these songs soon, so label be damned, this is what had to happen,” Watkins says. “It felt good to be doing it without a big structure, instead just going to my producer (Gabe Witcher)’s house and trimming some of the fat off these songs and having someone to bounce ideas off of and talk about instrumentation and what kind of albums we love without a huge framework of time but feeling a sense of urgency to get this thing out.”

Perhaps the most important creative aspect of Young in All the Wrong Ways is that, for the first time, Watkins wrote or cowrote every song on the album. As a result, she feels invested in her new material in a way that she hasn’t yet experienced.

“We ended up with an album that’s more lyrically focused,” she says. “Being that it’s the first album that’s all original or

co-written from me, I think there’s more of a singular view to the end-all package.”

Watkins didn’t road test her new songs before taking them into the studio, so recent gigs have represented the live debuts of her Wrong Ways tunes. Whether in full-band or solo mode, she’s having a blast.

“It’s always satisfying to unveil something to people in different ways, so I’m still in that process and enjoying it,” Watkins says. “Songs from my catalog that didn’t fit the repertoire are fitting now. I’m changing the arrangements to older songs and I’m probably going to start putting in stuff like ‘When It Pleases You.’ It definitely is changing the whole picture.” (Brian Baker) Southern Avenue at Cincy Winter Blues Fest Saturday • The Phoenix This weekend’s Cincy Winter Blues Fest (Friday and Saturday at The Phoenix downtown; see Spill It, page 33 for more info) doesn’t only offer a hefty dose of winter Blues; it also offers an appearance on Saturday by potential next-big-thing Southern Avenue, that is dripping with deep, fiery Soul. The quintet, a sensation in its hometown of Memphis, Tenn., is well on its way to taking its deft blend of R&B and Southernfried Blues to the rest of the world.

Southern Avenue guitarist Ori Naftaly came to Memphis from Tel Aviv, Israel to compete in the International Blues Challenge in 2013 with an eponymous band, featuring fellow Israeli musicians. Naftaly’s group made it to the IBC semifinals and ultimately relocated to Memphis permanently.

While feeling the need for change and a more collaborative band project, Naftaly met Memphis singer Tierinii Jackson, and the seeds of Southern Avenue were planted.

After seeing Jackson sing for the first time, the guitarist says he thought, “This is why I came to America.”

With Tierinii’s sister, Tikyra Jackson, on board as drummer, Naftaly began writing songs with the vocalist, abandoning his solo venture and starting over. The chemistry made Southern Avenue an immediate hit on the Memphis club circuit, and the band began touring the U.S. and Europe. Within

a year, Southern Avenue landed a contract with the revived legendary imprint Stax Records, which is now a part of the Concord Music Group and has released recordings by Ben Harper, Melissa Etheridge and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. The group also found Naftaly back at the International Blues Challenge, where Southern Avenue made it to the finals.

Stax is the perfect match for Southern Avenue because, as Concord’s president John Burk says, the “young group embodies the spirit and sound of Memphis, both past and present.” The band’s self-titled debut for Stax, due for release Feb. 24 and featuring a guest appearance from North Mississippi Allstars’ Luther Dickinson, has some of the retro-Funk and Soul vibe of classic R&B revivalists like Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley, but it’s also full of youthful energy and features more Blues- and Roots-oriented material, offering something a little more eclectic and well-rounded. The album should raise Southern Avenue’s profile exponentially upon its release, so the band’s intimate appearance at the Winter Blues Fest may well turn into one of those “I saw Margaret Glaspy them back when” PHOTO : Ebru Yildiz opportunities for festgoers. (Mike Breen)

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Margaret Glaspy with The Lumineers and Andrew Bird Tuesday • U.S. Bank Arena Singer/songwriter Margaret Glaspy offered the best of all possible worlds on her recent debut album, last summer’s Emotions and Math. As the title suggests, the songs on Glaspy’s first full-length are simultaneously impassioned and cerebral, from the Kurt Vile-like Pop Grunge of “You and I” to the vulnerable-yet-electric Joni Mitchell-like Folk Pop lilt of “Somebody to Anybody” to the Suzanne Vega-meets-Richard Hell melodic dissonance of “Situation.” And Emotions and Math itself stands in stark contrast to Glaspy’s stripped-down and self-released EPs, 2012’s Homeschool and 2013’s If & When, which bristle with quirky bedroom Folk awkwardness and sincerity.

A California native, Glaspy’s early musical ambitions were quite different than her destination. She began playing Texas-style fiddle in the third grade and then picked up trombone in high school, but Glaspy eventually gravitated toward the guitar. Her personal taste came from her older siblings’ love of ’90s AltRock and her father’s inclination toward Jazz and Classic Rock. But Joni Mitchell’s Blue album sealed the deal in

determining Glaspy’s artistic path.

She secured a grant to attend Boston’s renowned Berklee College of Music, but the money only lasted a single semester. While working various odd jobs and honing her songwriting skills, Glaspy used her Berklee ID to attend seminars and other assorted classes to further her musical education.

After three years in Boston, Glaspy relocated to New York City and put her skills to practical use as a working musician. Still moonlighting to make ends meet, Glaspy pursued every opportunity to play, opening for a variety of artists, including Lake Street Dive, Rachael Yamagata and Thunderbitch, the side project for Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard.

It was the Thunderbitch gig at 2015’s CMJ festival that put Glaspy in the limelight and ultimately earned her a contract with ATO Records, which allowed her to finish her iPad-recorded new album in a proper studio. As a result, Glaspy is finding Emotions and Math attracting high critical praise and invitations for some high-profile opening slots, like her current arena jaunt with The Lumineers.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to see an artist on the verge of exploding, this is your shot. Margaret Glaspy is ready to pull the pin. Not sure how you get close and stand back at the same time, but you’ll figure it out. (BB)

music listings Wednesday 25 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Todd Hepburn. 7 p.m. Blues/Jazz/Various. Free.

The Phoenix - Cincy Winter H Blues Fest with Noah Wotherspoon, Davy Knowles, Mike

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - The Grey Dogs. 9 p.m. Blues. Free.

Wheeler Band, Sonny Moorman, Dudley Taft, Jay Jesse Johnson Band, The Beaumonts, Ricky Nye Inc., The Magic Lightnin’ Boys, Brad Hatfield Band, The Whiskey Shambles, The Medicine Men, Leo Clarke & Larry Bloomfield, Shorty & Cheryl and Ben Levin Duo. 6 p.m.

Blues. $22.50, $25 day of show.

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Blue Note Harrison - Naked Karate Girls. 10 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance.

Cover.

Plain Folk Cafe - Root Cellar eXpress. 7:30 p.m. Americana/ Roots Rock. Free.

Knotty Pine - Dallas Moore and Lucky Chucky. 10 p.m. Country. Free.

Bogart’s - Breaking Benjamin with Wilson and Mangrenade. 8 p.m.

Rock. $45.30-$323.

The Redmoor - 2nd Wind. 9 p.m.

R&B/Jazz. $10.

Miller’s Fill Inn - Karaoke with A Mystical Sound Sensation DJ Rob. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

Boi Na Braza - April Aloisio. 6 p.m.

Jazz/Bossa Nova. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - Carey Hunley Band and Amy Sailor Band. 9 p.m.

Country. $5.

MOTR Pub - Flying Underground with Sami Riggs. 9 p.m.

Pop/Rock. Free.

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Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Steve Schmidt and Five Little Bears. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free (solo at 6 p.m.; full band at 8 p.m.).

School of Rock Mason - School of Rock Mason: Roots of Rock Show.

7:30 p.m. Rock/Various. $6, $8 day of show.

Pit to Plate - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. $2.

Century Inn Restaurant - Jim Teepen. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Silverton Cafe - Kickstart. 9 p.m.

Rock. Free.

The Comet - The Dawn Drapes with Brianna Kelley and David Corns. 10 p.m. Rock/Alt/Psych/Folk/Various. Free.

Southgate House Revival H (Lounge) - Ford Theatre Reunion with Dead Man String

Blind Lemon - Sara Hutchinson. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Rob Allgeyer. 6 p.m. Piano. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Steve Dirr. 9:30 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

The Greenwich - Brasilia featuring Bruno Mangueira. 8:30 p.m. Brazilian Jazz. $5.

Silverton Cafe - Bob Cushing. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Open Mic/Singer Songwriter Night. 9 p.m. Various.

Free.

Thompson House - Villain of the Story with Glass Houses, I Hate Heroes, Dead In Paradise and Dressed in Disaster. 8 p.m. Metal. $10.

Talon Tavern - Bob Cushing. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

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Crow’s Nest - Jarrod Riley. 10 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Grandview Tavern & Grille - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. R&B/Funk/Soul. Free.

The Greenwich - The Turned Up Band. 9 p.m. Various. $10.

Band. 9:30 p.m. Alt/Rock/Various. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Punk Rock Night with The Z.G.s, Jasper the Colossal, The Nightbeast and The Nothing. 10 p.m. Punk Rock. $5.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner and Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m.

Jazz. Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - My Sister Sarah. 9:30 p.m. Pop/Dance/ Rock/Various. Cover.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Fade To Red with Rocky Doll featuring Red Beast, Holy Wood, The New Void and more. 9 p.m.

Rock/Alt/Various. $5, $7 day of show.

Blind Lemon - Mark Macomber. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Love Alive. 10 p.m.

Jam/Rock. Cover.

Bogart’s - Dashboard Confessional.

8 p.m. Rock. $25.

Knotty Pine - Black Bone Cat. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Todd Hepburn and Friends featuring Larry Bloomfield. 6 p.m. Various.

Free.

Madison Live - Madison Theater Band Challenge Round 2 with All Saints Fade, Oak, Samson, The Shaun Peace Band, The Alaskans, The Red Shift and Zack Lemons Band. 7 p.m. Various. $10.

Thompson House - Knockout Kid, Bad Case of Big Mouth, Friday Night Lites, Into the Skies, Sins of Motion and Innova. 8 p.m. Rock/ Various. $10.

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Crow’s Nest - Tony Hall. 9:30 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

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Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - JIMS with Sound & Shape and Calumet. 9:30 p.m.

Rock. Free.

The Greenwich - Apollo Open Mic at The Greenwich. 8:30 p.m.

Various. $8.

Horse & Barrel - John Ford. 6 p.m.

Roots/Blues. Free.

Knotty Pine - Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Live! at the Ludlow Garage H - Sara Watkins. 8 p.m. Americana. $20-$30.

Madison Live - EarthCry H with Aytiko and Alejo. 8 p.m.

Electronic/Jam/Various. $10, $12 day of show.

MOTR Pub - Advance Base with Lisa/Liza. 9 p.m. Indie Pop. Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - Open mic with Russ Childers. 7 p.m. Various. Free.

Hollywood Casino - Bob Cushing. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free (at Hops 99).

Mansion Hill Tavern - Tickled Pink.

9 p.m. Blues/Various. $4.

Marty’s Hops & Vines - Over Easy.

9 p.m. Soft Rock. Free.

The Mockbee - ARTBEATS featuring Liquid Hologram, Danbient and electrig0n. 8 p.m. Electronic. Free.

MOTR Pub - Coconut Milk with Super City. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

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Northside Tavern - The Grove (EP release show) with Counterfeit Money Machine and 90 Proof Twang. 10 p.m. Rock/Country/Hip Hop/Various. Free.

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Northside Yacht Club H Lockjaw, K.L.A.N., Off the Meat Rack, Slutbomb and Their Accomplices. 8 p.m. Punk.

Urban Artifact - A Night To H End Global Poverty featuring Dark Colour, Kerchief, ZOO, Master

T.C. and the Visitors, Michael Cruse, Build Us Fiction, Patsy, Northland Noise, Piperinthesky and Sean Kelley. 5 p.m. Alt/Rock/Various.

U.S. Bank Arena - Garth Brooks with Trisha Yearwood. 7 p.m. Country. $74.98.

The Village Troubadour - Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers. 7 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Pete Mills and Jim Rupp Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

Woodward Theater - The Yugos H with Modern Aquatic, Sylmar and This Pine Box. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. $7, $10 day of show.

Wurst Bar in the Square - John Ford. 7 p.m. Roots/Blues. Free.

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Saturday 28 20th Century Theater - AJA. 8 p.m.

Steely Dan tribute. $20.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Margaret Darling. 9 p.m. Folk. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - Buffalo Ridge Band, Krazy Fly and Bad Transition.

8:30 p.m. Country/Rock. Cover.

Bogart’s - Saving Shemiah (EP release) with Spirit and the Bride, Sacrifice The Sun, Sins of Motion, Homebound and Eternal Void. 7 p.m. Rock. $10.

Souls Band, Doug Hart, Leroy Ellington Band, Johnny Fink and the Intrusion, Chuck Brisbin and the Tuna Project, The BITS Band, Lil’ Red and the Rooster, G. Miles and the Band of Helping Hand, Greg Schaber, Ralph and the Rhythm Hounds, Chris Yakopcic, Brian Keith Wallen, Gregg Clark & James Higgins and The Heaters . 6 p.m. Blues. $25.

Plain Folk Cafe - Blue Rock. 7:30 p.m. Roots/Bluegrass. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - Naked Karate Girls.

10 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance. $5.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Steve Schmidt Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.

School of Rock Mason - School of Rock Mason: Arena Rock Show.

7:30 p.m. Rock. $6, $8 day of show.

The Comet - Useless Fox, Actual Italians and Misunderstood. 10 p.m. Garage Rock. Free.

Silverton Cafe - The Refranes. 9 p.m. Rock/Dance. Free.

The Cricket Lounge at The Cincinnatian Hotel - Phillip Paul Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Jaik Willis. 10 Hp.m.

Rock/Roots/Various. Free.

Eli’s Sports Bar and Grill - Pandora Effect. 9 p.m. Rock.

Fairfield Community Arts H Center - The Franz Klaber Orchestra. 8 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $15-$18.

The Greenwich - Jim Snidero Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $10.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - The Sly Band. 9:30 p.m. Pop/Dance/Various. Cover.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Radio Romance with Maddy Rose.

8 p.m. Country.

Knotty Pine - Black Bone Cat. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

Live! at the Ludlow Garage H Chely Wright. 8 p.m. Country. $17-$25.

Madison Live - Madison Theater Band Challenge Round 2 with Alive Amongst The Dead, Conductor Jones & The Hype Train, Cultural Vultures, Northbend, Off Black, Their Accomplices and Under Everything. 7 p.m. Various. $10.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - David Michael Fisher, Judge ’N Jury and Wonky Tonk.

9:30 p.m. Roots/Various. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Bedford&Co. 8 p.m. Rock/ Blues. $8.

St. Xavier Performance Center - Cincy Music Series featuring Sierra Hull. 7:30 p.m.

Bluegrass/Roots. $40-$45.

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The Phoenix - Cincy Winter Blues Fest with Southern Avenue, Michele Lundeen, Tempted

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Blind Lemon - Ben Armstrong. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Acoustic Jam with John Redell and Friends. 8 p.m. Acoustic/Various. Free.

Northside Tavern - Northside Jazz Ensemble. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Urban Artifact - “Beat Faction” (10 p.m.); Reincarnation Mvmt (5 p.m.). 5 p.m. Dance/Alt/DJ and Free Jazz. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s Live Jazz Band. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free.

U.S. Bank Arena - Garth Brooks with Trisha Yearwood. 7 p.m. Country. $74.98.

Urban Artifact - The Alaskans, The Wonderbuns and Graham Lang. 9 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Frenchaxe. 9 p.m.

Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

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Sunday 29 Blind Lemon - Jeff Henry. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

The Comet - Comet Bluegrass AllStars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

Miller’s Fill Inn - Karaoke with A Mystical Sound Sensation DJ Rob. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

MOTR Pub - Cough It Up with Dirtbike. 9 p.m. Punk. Free.

Northside Tavern - The Tillers. 10 p.m. Folk. Free.

The Redmoor - School of Rock Mason: Roots of Rock Show (1 p.m.); School of Rock Mason: Arena Rock Show (6 p.m.). 1 p.m.

Rock. $6, $8 day of show.

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Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Ricky Nye. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

Blind Lemon - Nick Tuttle. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Bogart’s - Badfish. 8 p.m. Sublime tribute. $16.62.

The Comet - Mardou. 10 p.m. Post Punk/Indie Rock. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Open Mic Nite. 8 p.m.

Various. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Stagger Lee. 7 p.m. Country/Rock. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - That 1 Guy. 8 p.m. Various. $15.

Stanley’s Pub - Gang of Thieves with Little Miami String Band. 9 p.m. Rock/Funk/Bluegrass. Cover.

Urban Artifact - Carriers, Actual Italians and Upper Peninsula. 9 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

U.S. Bank Arena - The LumH ineers with Andrew Bird and Margaret Glaspy. 7 p.m. Folk/Pop/ Indie/Americana/Various. $29.50.

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MOTR Pub - Brandon Coleman Trio.

9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - The Jeff Tones. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.

Northside Tavern - Benefit for Mónica featuring Boltcutter, Blakkr, Eugenius, Sir Imani and more. 9 p.m. Punk/Hardcore/Hip Hop/Various.

U.S. Bank Arena - Garth Brooks with Trisha Yearwood. 7 p.m. Country. $74.98.

Thompson House - Bobaflex H with Ferris & the Wheels. 7 p.m. Metal. $15-$20.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Open Blues Jam with Uncle Woody & the Blue Bandits. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

MOTR Pub - Ernie Johnson H from Detroit. 9 p.m. Funk/ Rock/Various. Free.

Urban Artifact - Marr, Frances and the Foundation and Vibrant Troubadours. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Open Jam with Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues/ Various. Free.

Knotty Pine - Randy Peak. 10 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

The Mockbee - K Slump, Mo Wavy, TO, Dem Dudes, Zander 2 Wavy and Hope. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $10.

Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s Open Jam. 10 p.m. Various. Free.

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