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Fewer Joseph Autos for New Parking Lot? Eric Avner: This letter explaining where and why I’m spending money as an individual consumer reflects my personal belief, and in no way reflects any official position of People’s Liberty or the Foundation. I want to make that clear.

Diana Macku: Just when I was proud of you Cincinnati for your commitment to preservation and culture, you do shit like this. #sadcincinnati Mike James: Joseph Auto Group wipes their butt with the kind of money they will lose from boycotts.

Jim Brooks: The rest of the block is really nice and worthy of restoration. But that is just one fugly ass building. Good riddance.

Noel Prows: A little TLC and it could have been the best looking building on Main Street.

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What a Week!

BY T.C. Britton

WEDNESDAY MARCH 01

Think you had a rough week? Film academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs told the Associated Press Wednesday that the two accountants responsible for the envelopes and, thus, Sunday’s monumental fail, Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz, will never return to the Oscars show. Cullinan is being blamed for the iconic flub — he handed Warren Beatty a duplicate of the Actress in a Leading Role envelope and did not notice the error as it unfolded onstage… because he was tweeting during the show. PricewaterhouseCoopers has been the official accountancy to the Oscars and has tabulated votes for the academy since 1934, and now that relationship is up in the air. Meanwhile, Warren Beatty put a bounty out on Faye Dunaway, who despite being the one to actually wrongly announce La La Land for Best Picture, escaped unscathed and hasn’t been seen since.

THURSDAY MARCH 02

A Scavenger hunt for the Republicans’ Affordable Care Act replacement descended onto Capitol Hill Thursday. Oregon Rep. Greg Walden made a draft of the bill available for some Republicans, but they had to read it in private and couldn’t make copies.

Rumor spread that the legislation was being held in a meeting room in the House of Representatives, sending reporters, Democrats and Republicans alike on a wild goose chase for the mysterious bill. As Vox’s Ezra Klein noted, the scene was straight out of Veep. Details on the conservative answer to Obamacare were finally revealed Monday.

Clearly, Washington reporters have a tough job — now more than ever. Thankfully, Tom Hanks keeps the White House press corps

juiced up on caffeine with the espresso machine he recently gifted. That’s right, the Academy Award winner has been buying coffee makers for White House reporters since the Bush administration, just ’cause.

They don’t call him T-Hanks for nothing!

FRIDAY MARCH 03

In his bio on the Iowa State Republicans website, Sen. Mark Chelgren stated that he received a business degree from Forbco Management school. Don’t recognize that university? That’s because it’s actually a company that operated a So-Cal Sizzler franchise — remember those buffet-style steakhouses? — and that “business degree” he received was actually a certificate from a management course he took while working at a Sizzler. The notation has since been removed from the site. Why is this information relevant now? The Iowa Senate’s Education Committee is currently considering a bill that would force the state’s three public universities to hire faculty based on applicants’ political-party affiliations. If this measure passes, universities would need to gather voter-registration data to ensure that the number of Democrat and Republican instructors are within 10 percent of one another. There would be a hiring freeze until these numbers were reached. You get where this is heading. In his promotion of the bill, Chelgren cited his own experiences with liberal professors. And while university faculty might not seem like Sizzler’s target consumers, an affordable all-youcan-eat meal is certainly appealing to an underpaid, overworked adjunct professor.

TL;DR: Don’t fuck with higher ed when you got your fake degree from the Sizzler.

SATURDAY MARCH 04

The Beauty and the Beast live-action remake is coming out soon, and so is one of its characters. LeFou, Gaston’s bumbling toadie whose name literally translates to “The Fool,” is gay, a realization he’ll make in the film. This is the first openly gay Disney character (yay), but they picked a most ridiculous character for the distinction, to pine for the uberstraight Gaston (boo). Of course there’s no way this is actually the first unofficial LGBTQ Disney character: Who could forget Toy Story’s Ken doll? And odds are at least one of the seven dwarfs identified as queer. A quick Googling reveals even more speculation about Lion King’s Timon and Pumba, Frozen’s Elsa and Brave’s Merida.

Suuure, portray a princess that isn’t chasing after a guy and she’s automatically a lesbian, right?

SUNDAY MARCH 05

Easter is six weeks away. Typically the White House celebrates by inviting children to participate in an egg roll the following Monday, a tradition started by Dolley Madison in 1814. A family of Easter bunnies are also present — costumes that have been provided by Cincinnati’s own Schenz Theatrical Supply since 1981. No word yet on whether Trump will continue this tradition (lol why would he support anything harmless and wholesome), but we now know his press secretary Sean Spicer suited up in the Schenz costume in the past, thanks to some recently resurfaced photos. People like to debate the scariness of Easter Bunny costumes over the years — much to Schenz’s chagrin

— but the idea of an overheated Spicer greeting children as a giant rabbit is just downright terrifying.

MONDAY MARCH 06

Oprah Winfrey 2020? OK, why not? The Queen of All Media joked about the idea this week on Bloomberg TV about eyeing the presidency since the question of experience is a moot point now that we’ve elected a former Domino’s spokesperson as commander-in-chief. Trump himself even joked about running alongside the Almighty O back in 1999. Oprah’s best gal pal and presumable running mate Gayle King crushed our dreams on CBS This Morning, saying “It was clearly a joke…

That ain’t never happening. N-E-V-A-H.” Oh, well. There’s always Wendy Williams.

TUESDAY MARCH 07

What did millennials ruin this week?

According to Cesar Millan, adopting dogs!

Twentysomethings are filling their baby voids with puppies, Millan says, and they shouldn’t be allowed to adopt them because much like the Oscars accountant, they’re too busy tweeting. “They are always on their phone and have no idea how to relate on a personal matter,” Millan told The Daily Mail. “A lot of millennials feel independent and can do their own thing, but they have no idea how to relate with other human beings. They’ve been given everything, how are they going to maintain a dog?” So millennials not only suck at having puppers, but any type of interpersonal relationships.

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Things the Poors Don’t Need if They Want Health Insurance OK, we all get it. Health care costs keep going up. Even though the U.S. has been out-pacing the rest of the developed world in amount spent as a percentage of GDP for the past 30 years, the current Republican Congress believes the best way to bring down costs is to get rid of the individual mandate, thereby letting companies sell across state lines.

This would give consumers a choice, as Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz recently condescendingly explained: “Americans have choices, and they’ve got to make a choice, so maybe instead of getting that new iPhone that they just love, and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care.”

This seems extremely reasonable, but foregoing that new iPhone purchase is only going to save the almost-poors a couple months’ worth of health care premiums.

Here are a few other luxury expenses that you can get rid of in order to invest in your health care.

Pet food and medicine: Do you have a pet? Why? Please take it to the local shelter immediately. It will surely live a happy life playing and enjoying the company of other people’s former pets until a generous person who can afford both pets and health insurance comes along and adopts your pet... or whatever it is that shelters do with used and old pets.

Refrigerator: Go to your kitchen right now. Open the refrigerator. Is it cold? If yes, then you are feeling the cold reality of wasted health care money. Refrigerators cost, on average, 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. Not to mention the fact that perishable goods such as milk, eggs, cheese, meat and vegetables are often the most expensive things at the grocery. Plus, buying a refrigerator often costs even more than an iPhone.

Orange Juice: Did you even know there was an alternative?

While you might think orange juice is a good source of Vitamin C, it also costs four to five times as much as orange drink. The lack of vitamins and nutrients in orange drink are compensated by supplemental corn syrup and access to a variety of colors.

Orange drink is available in red, orange, green, purple and blue colors. Check label for refrigeration requirements.

Vitamins: Taking vitamins is simply a precaution against not getting all your daily nutrition or whatever. It’s like an extra luxury protection you pay for instead of having health insurance. Your doctor might have recommended taking them, but have you ever asked your doctor if vitamins even work? She has no idea, and doctors are one of the reasons health care costs so much. Why listen to someone who is just making the problem worse?

— JEFF BE YER

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Neil Gorsuch and Freedom of the Press

BY BEN L. KAUFMAN

including the right of citizens “to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

That clause, he wrote in a 2007 case involving an unhappy taxpayer, “does not pick and choose its causes. … The minor and questionable, along with the mighty and consequential, are all embraced.”

Gorsuch seems unlikely to use his skills to advance Trump’s agenda in libel cases, said Volokh, who has known the judge for decades. “To the extent people are worried that President Trump has an anti-libel-protection project,” Volokh said, “there’s nothing to suggest Neil would share that project.”

• Press secretary Sean Spicer excluded out-of-favor news media from a White House briefing a couple weeks ago. What’s worse, telling your editors you were excluded from Spicer’s soiree or explaining why you were invited?

• As far as real news goes, news media don’t expect press secretary Spicer to tell the truth.

As his colleague Kellyanne Conway put it, Spicer offers “alternative facts.”

I liked the Los Angeles Times’ editorial take on not being invited: “Trump’s White House press office just put up a velvet rope in front of the media.”

That’s even more painful than Trump staff penning “lying,” “dishonest” and “false” journalists at his campaign rallies. That was everyone except sycophants. Velvet ropes hold back only the unworthy, unattractive or badly groomed and dressed.

• Milo Yiannopoulos is a full-time narcissist and gay/rightwing provocateur. Popular among conservatives, he achieved ultimate celebrity: one name. Milo was a key editor at white racist and anti-semitic Breitbart News during the reign of Trump buddy Steve Bannon. Milo finally went too far. In an older video clip, he appears to endorse sexual relations between adult men and young boys.

Simon & Schuster’s rightwing Threshold Editions canceled his book contract.

CPAC (the American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference) canceled his speech at its Washington, D.C. convention last week. He did not go too far for Breitbart News, but Milo resigned, saying he’d become the story at his colleagues’ expense.

• Trump should quit invoking his son-inlaw, daughter and grandchildren as “go-to” Jews when reporters ask about anti-semitism. If they ever did, they no longer deflect

hostile questions and accusations.

• Trump knew about National Security advisor Mike Flynn’s contacts with Russians for weeks but asked for Flynn’s resignation only when details began to leak into the news media. Then, to prove he’s the savviest guy in the Oval Office, Trump damned the leaks and leakers, not reports of his cavalier inaction on national security.

• My activist and news junkie wife — daughter of an intensely political family — says chaos in Trump’s retinue is not evidence of incompetence. Rather, she says, it’s designed to heighten reliance on The

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“Judge Gorsuch’s decisions in libel and related cases show no inclination to cut back on protections for the press.”

Leader; only he knows what’s going in and can ease fears he has generated.

• As Trump goes about repopulating the Swamp with crony capitalists, Bloomberg News says that Kellyanne Conway’s corporate lawyer husband, George, is being considered for solicitor general. That would make him No. 3 in the Justice Department and the first Asian-American to hold that rank. He’d report to anti-immigrant Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and argue federal cases in the Supreme Court.

CNN said George Conway “was part of the team of lawyers in the 1990s who represented Paula Jones in her sexual harassment lawsuit against then-President Bill Clinton. He helped write the Supreme Court brief in the case that would establish a legal precedent for a sitting president to be sued in civil court.”

• Bemoaning the popularity of the French Bulldog among Brits, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams took a skeptic’s look at the new top 10 breeds in the U.K. “The German shepherd, at number seven, is known for its intelligence, though I think maybe that is relative to its police handler.”

• Mayor Sam Liccardo in flooded San Jose, Calif.: “If the first time a resident is aware that they need to get out of their home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, that’s a failure.”

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Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is strong on the First Amendment’s protections for the press, according to New York Times’ Adam Liptak.

It’s a wonder that Trump nominated him.

This, after all, is a president who says news media are “the enemy of the American people” and who pledged “to open up those libel laws” to make it easier to sue.

On this score, Liptak wrote, Gorsuch “seems destined to disappoint his patron.

Judge Gorsuch’s decisions in libel and related cases show no inclination to cut back on protections for the press.”

Libel law, Gorsuch wrote in a 2011 appellate opinion, is “about protecting a good reputation honestly earned,” but minor inaccuracies can’t be the basis for a libel suit. He called the freedom to report “a First Amendment imperative.”

Eugene Volokh, an expert in First Amendment law at UCLA, told Liptak that Gorsuch’s commitment to free speech was not guarded or grudging. “Sometimes when judges apply the rules, you can see that they’re holding their nose,” Volokh said. “He didn’t seem to be.”

Gregg Leslie, the legal defense director for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told Liptak that Gorsuch “consistently applied established First Amendment protections when he did get them. He also showed a willingness to uphold protections for speech rights even in controversial cases. It’s always good to see a judge do the right thing in tougher circumstances.”

Philadelphia news media lawyer Gayle Sproul said Judge Gorsuch voted in favor of news organizations in invasion-of-privacy cases, even when they involved “classically sympathetic plaintiffs, like a victim of sexual assault and by cops cleared of wrongdoing.”

In a 2007 case concerning the broadcast of a videotape of a rape, Judge Gorsuch joined an opinion dismissing a lawsuit by the victim, saying the story concerned “a matter of legitimate public interest.”

Liptak said Gorsuch joined a second 2007 decision dismissing a case brought by undercover police officers on similar grounds.

“Courts have generally treated allegations of police misconduct as worthy of public interest,” the decision said, refusing to carve out an exception for disclosing the identities of police officers working undercover.

“We can find no precedent for such an exception, and we are not inclined to create one here merely on policy grounds,” the appellate court said, “despite our concerns about the safety of undercover officers and the need to avoid disincentives for entering their profession.”

Liptak said Gorsuch read other protections of the First Amendment broadly,

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Can any of this year’s mayoral candidates actually address Metro’s troubles?

By NICK SWARTSELL

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the past but have placed a greater emphasis on bus service in the neighborhoods in their mayoral campaigns.

Simpson called public transit the “civil rights issue of our time” in a recent public forum between the three candidates in Avondale. She has advocated moving away from the hub-and-spoke system that Metro currently employs, in which all buses converge downtown, in favor of a system that better connects neighborhoods across the city.

“It takes two hours to get from Walnut Hills to Mount Airy on a bus,” she said at the Feb. 28 forum.

Simpson and Richardson have called for expanding bus service and reviving a region-wide initiative akin to MetroMoves, which in 2002 sought a 0.5 percent countywide sales tax increase to build out Greater Cincinnati’s transit system over three decades. Perhaps scared by the project’s overall $2.6 billion price tag, 68 percent of voters said no to that plan.

Are more ready now? It’s unclear.

Richardson has pointed out that Cranley didn’t support MetroMoves when he was a Councilman. He says that’s a sign that he’s posturing now in his support for public transit.

“You can look it up,” Richardson told attendees at the candidate forum in

Improving the city’s Metro service has become a major talking point during the city’s 2017 mayoral election. Studies suggest it will take more than $1 billion to modernize.

Avondale. “He’s always been against transit.”

Cranley’s more moderate plan, which hinges on the current transit tax passing, would have mixed implications for bus funding. While he endorses a countywide sales tax, he has also proposed cutting twothirds of the portion of the city earnings tax that currently funds the transit system and diverting the remaining third to road and other infrastructure spending.

As the candidates battle, data suggests fixing the situation facing Metro will be very challenging. A January study by AECOM Consultants, which was hired by SORTA, found that the system needs between $1 billion and $1.5 billion in improvements over the next decade to be effective.

That’s more than the proposed 0.5 percent countywide sales tax hike would raise.

In fact, it would take a 0.75 percent tax raise to get the necessary money — a proposition that has dubious political prospects.

Hamilton County’s current sales tax rate, 7 percent, is on the low end for counties in the state. But a tax hike sufficient to make the necessary improvements to the bus system would take the county up to 7.75 percent. Only Cuyahoga County’s 8 percent sales tax rate would be higher in Ohio.

SORTA has yet to formally declare it is placing the tax increase on the ballot. It can present up to a 1 percent sales tax increase without approval from Hamilton County Commissioners. The county currently doesn’t have a dedicated transit tax, though Cuyahoga, Franklin and six other Ohio counties do.

Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune, a Democrat, advised SORTA late last year not to put even the 0.5 percent tax hike on the 2017 ballot, saying it’s “the wrong time” to ask voters for more money.

Metro has already begun making cuts to administrative staff and is staring down a $170 million deficit over the next decade if its funding doesn’t change. Meanwhile, it’s struggling to serve the region’s workers.

A 2015 study of Metro’s reach commissioned by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the Urban Land Institute and other organizations found that only 23 percent of jobs in the city are easily reachable by public transit.

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earing her pink chef’s hat and neatly pressed kitchen uniform, Whitney Harmon rides the Route 43 Metro bus for an hour almost every day as it snakes its way from Winton Hills, where she lives, toward downtown, where she works as a cook.

As the sun comes up, her bus picks up riders and passes lines of public housing in Winton Terrace, the green turf of Roger Bacon High School’s football field on Mitchell Avenue, the Abraham Lincoln statue on Reading Road in Avondale and the Horseshoe Casino on Central Parkway before making its way to Government Square, the city’s central transit hub.

“The bus where I live doesn’t run that often,” Harmon says. The 43 comes once every 40 minutes; her backup bus, Route 20, once an hour. Sometimes, the bus doesn’t show up on time, leaving her waiting in the cold and scrambling to get to work. “I wish they would come more often. I have to time it just right, and sometimes it’s late.”

Thousands like Harmon face long, convoluted commutes, some riding for more than an hour and taking transfers to get from one Cincinnati neighborhood to another just a few miles away (see “Long Wait,” issue of Nov. 18, 2015).

The challenges facing the city’s bus service have become a major talking point in Cincinnati’s 2017 mayoral race. Incumbent Mayor John Cranley, Cincinnati City Councilwoman Yvette Simpson and former University of Cincinnati Board Chair Rob Richardson, Jr. are wrangling over who will best serve Cincinnatians depending on public transit in the run up to the city’s May 2 primary. But can any of the three make a big difference in the region’s bus woes?

During his re-election campaign launch Feb. 21, Cranley endorsed a potential 0.5 percent countywide sales tax increase the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority could put before voters in November. That money could be used to boost bus service throughout the city.

“Our region is far behind our peers in making bus transit a real option for most people who are trying to get to and from their jobs,” he said at his campaign kick-off in Price Hill.

Simpson and Richardson say they have bigger visions — different in their details but both recalling an ambitious regional transit plan voters torpedoed 15 years ago.

Cranley has tied both his opponents to the streetcar and claimed that either would boost spending for that project over bus service for the whole region. Richardson and Simpson have come out in support of expanding streetcar service into uptown in

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When you’ve fought in a foreign war and your feet were mangled by a homemade land mine, the last thing you want to see at a Veterans Administration hospital is a foot doctor who’s grumpy about his pay.

For decades, the VA has paid podiatrists less than other kinds of medical doctors, a phenomenon that has baffled many in and out of the profession. Podiatrists complete four years of postgraduate education and undergo training and residencies like most other doctors. With a lower pay scale, the VA struggles to recruit and keep foot doctors.

One of two members of Congress from Cincinnati wants to change that. Brad Wenstrup, who happens to be an actively licensed podiatrist, is co-sponsoring legislation to put podiatrists on equal footing with other doctors in the VA. Wenstrup served as an Army Reserve combat doctor in Iraq in 2005 and 2006. He says the VA needs to raise the standing of podiatrists, especially pay-wise.

“Of your veteran population, a lot of them develop a lack of feeling in their feet,” he says.

“You can get that from diabetes, from alcohol and the effects of Agent Orange. There’s a great need within the VA for this type of care and there’s really no other group that treats it quite as well or as often.”

It will be a second go-around for Wenstrup’s resolution. The House passed it a year ago, but it didn’t rate sufficient priority to make it out of the Senate’s Veterans Affairs Committee.

Wenstrup says he became interested in the measure as a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, not as a member of the American Podiatric Medical Association or on behalf of the podiatrists’ lobby. As his resolution is titled, he says he just wants equity for podiatrists in the VA’s eyes.

“What I hear from them out there is, you may get somebody out of residency who’s just getting started, but once they get boardcertified, they tend to want to go out on their own because they’ve got loans to pay back and it’s more lucrative in the private sector, especially under this status in the VA,” Wenstrup says.

And just how underpaid are VA podiatrists? In November 2015, the Congressional Budget Office noted that the VA would ordinarily have hired 400 such doctors during the 2016-20 span at an average annual salary of $195,000. The resolution would bump them up to $210,000 and would allow the VA to recruit 420 podiatrists at that higher rate.

But frugality is a prevailing theme in the Republican-controlled Congress. The CBO estimates that the changes will cost $34 million over five years. Wenstrup, though, says that cost doesn’t account for the money the VA would save by reducing the number

of patients referred to outside foot doctors. (James McNair)

Ohio GOP Lawmakers Push Back Against ACA Rollback Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives March 6 revealed key components of a plan that would replace President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. But the plan, which would scale back the ACA’s Medicaid expansion providing health coverage for low-income people, has sparked resistance — even from some Ohio Republicans.

Hesitancy about the plan from those within the GOP signals potential difficulties House Republicans might face getting the repeal and replace law passed.

The plan, if passed, would roll back much of the federal funding flowing to the 10 million recipients in 31 states who gained access to Medicaid under the ACA, as well as prohibiting states from enrolling new recipients into the expansion after 2020. More than 700,000 Ohioans gained coverage under the expansion, which Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, battled the conservative-dominated state legislature to accept.

Democrats blasted the House plan, as expected. But enough GOP Senators also oppose the proposal, at least as currently written, casting doubt on its ability to clear that chamber, where Republicans have a slim four-seat majority.

U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and three other GOP senators on March 6 sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expressing concern about a draft of the plan written Feb 10. While they say Obamacare should be repealed, they don’t like the way in which the draft the House released does so.

“We are concerned that any poorly implemented or poorly timed change in the current funding structure in Medicaid could result in a reduction in access to life-saving health care services,” the letter reads, noting that one-third of those covered under the Medicaid expansion have mental health or substance abuse issues.

Kasich himself has not yet commented on the House’s health care plan but in the past has warned against rolling back Medicaid without providing a replacement. He vowed he wouldn’t watch passively as the expansion got “ripped out” by members of his party.

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and fellow conservatives in the House also oppose the plan, though they do so for other reasons.

Jordan says the measure doesn’t roll back Medicaid quickly enough and also contains entitlements in the form of tax credits that staunch conservatives oppose.

In addition to the Medicaid expansion, the House’s plan would strip away the ACA’s individual mandate — which penalizes those CONTINUES ON PAGE 11

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by transit at all. All told, the city ranks lower than 11 other peer cities when it comes to job accessibility via public transit, including regional neighbors Louisville, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus and Pittsburgh as well as cities like Denver and Austin, Texas.

“SORTA is at a crossroads, and we’re nearing the time when we need to decide which path to take,” Jason Dunn, SORTA Board Chair, said at a Jan. 17 SORTA board meeting. “Either way, we are reinventing Metro — for the better with more service and amenities, or for worse with decreased access to jobs, school and health care.”

Even though Cranley, Richardson and Simpson have made improving transit a main part of their campaigns, key portions of the funding puzzle are beyond a mayor’s control. It will be up to county voters to approve any sales tax hike, and the state doesn’t look likely to pitch in much.

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who do not have health insurance — as well as requirements that employers provide fulltime employees with health insurance.

It also does away with subsidies for lowincome people who cannot afford to buy insurance, though it replaces those subsidies with tax credits that increase as individuals

In the last two decades, state lawmakers have cut spending on public transit in half, and the Ohio House of Representatives on March 5 passed an $8 billion transportation bill that doesn’t boost that funding.

In 2015, Ohio, the nation’s seventh-most populous state, spent just 63 cents per person on public transit, making it one of the most tight-fisted in the country. In contrast, every other of the nation’s 10 most-populous states spent at least $50 per person on public transit.

As officials look for solutions to Metro’s mounting woes, the situation is especially tough in neighborhoods like Harmon’s. Winton Hills has a median household income of just $12,000 a year, and many other outerring neighborhoods on the 43 and similar routes are also places where more residents are likely to have low incomes and not own their own vehicles. ©

get older. These tend to benefit more well-off recipients than assistance offered under the ACA. The plan does keep provisions that stop insurance companies from barring applicants due to pre-existing conditions, as well as a measure that allows young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance until the age of 26.

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Debra Pinger seeks to reinvent ReelAbilities as the major film festival Cincinnati is missing

The current trend in the film industry is the reboot — taking an old formula or beloved classic narrative and reconfiguring it with contemporary updates. The more difficult task, however, is the reinvention, because to truly make something new again — whether a movie or a film festival — there has to be an appreciation for the past and a willingness to incorporate the best of that history into the new iteration.

ReelAbilities Film Festival Expands the Notion of Diversity It is fitting that as we turn the page on the recent Academy Awards season, which has been seen as a model for recognition of diverse representations onscreen, Cincinnati plays host to the 2017 ReelAbilities Film Festival, a four-day series of screenings and events dedicated to truly expanding the practical definitions of ability and diversity. It occurs Thursday through Sunday at the Duke Energy Convention Center.

The scale of the festival aims for Hollywood-style epic grandeur, with 24 features and about 40 short films, star-studded parties, workshops, special events, speakers and lounges all revolving around spotlighting the stories and lives of people who experience disabilities. Seeking to break out of the marginalized notions we have of the “disability” label, the overall event will shift the paradigm, revealing a new focus on abilities and the various ways people contribute to the social and cultural landscape.

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That’s the attempt being made this Thursday through Sunday when the ReelAbilities Film Festival occurs at the Duke Energy Convention Center. The schedule is available at reelabilities.org. The festival is presented by Cincinnati’s Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled (LADD).

From the start nationally, ReelAbilities has organically embraced reinvention. According to Susan Brownknight, LADD’s executive director, the ReelAbilities NY Disabilities Film Festival was initiated at the JCC Manhattan in 2007 as a first-of-its-kind event to present award-winning films by and about people with disabilities.

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Cincinnati was the first city to follow when a trustee of the Saul Schottenstein Foundation B — a nonprofit dedicated to “changing perceptions, fostering acceptance and promoting oneness” — arranged for it to be held at the Mayerson JCC in 2011. The following year LADD was approached to take over the management of the Cincinnati ReelAbilities Film Festival and, in 2013, one occurred here under the co-sponsorship of LADD and Visionaries + Voices.

The festival kicks off at 10 a.m. Thursday in the lobby of the convention center with a Welcome to Cincinnati: Meet the Stars event that is free and open to the public. Then, at noon, there is a ticketed luncheon featuring RJ Mitte, best known for playing Walter “Flynn” White Jr. on AMC’s Emmy-winning series Breaking Bad. He will be the first of a parade of performers and highly visible personalities on hand throughout the festival.

Mitte serves as a prime example of that inspiring statement Viola Davis made during her acceptance speech following her Best Supporting Actress win for Fences. She talked about being part of “the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.” While Mitte has cerebral palsy, his is less severe than his Breaking Bad character’s, meaning he had to adjust to crutches and slur his speech for the role. He then assumed the lead role in the film Dixieland, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, portraying a character without a disability. (It is not in this festival.) In addition, Mitte took to the runway as part of Men’s Fashion Week in Milan, Berlin and New York City.

For a film festival, such celebrations of life, diversity and ability tend to zero in on the reflections found on the screen. While that aspect will command its fair share of attention, audiences should take advantage of the opportunity to interact with and be engaged by performers like Mitte and Jamie Brewer, who played Adelaide “Addie” Langdon on American Horror Story and will also be at the luncheon and elsewhere. An actress and model, she also has Down syndrome and is an advocate for others with that disability.

Another guest, Lauren Potter (Becky Jackson from the television series Glee), uses her platform as a successful actress with Down syndrome to raise awareness both for disability causes and serve as a staunch anti-bullying advocate. President Barack Obama appointed her to his Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities back in 2011, and four years later she served as an ambassador for the Special Olympics World Games. She’s appearing at the festival in support of her role in the short film Guest Room.

The 2017 ReelAbilities Film Festival fulfills its mission of promoting “awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities” by creating a forum where its guests can step off the screen and into our communities and lives. Over the course of this action-packed weekend, we all get to participate in this celebration of life and see ourselves within a diverse and ever-expanding community.

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In 2014, LADD took over management of ReelAbilities nationally. It helped other cities establish festivals as well; there are now ReelAbilities Film Festivals in 15 North American cities, including Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City. Each of the other festivals is run by a local nonprofit organization that is supported

by LADD. This weekend’s festival will be LADD’s third in Cincinnati; there was one in 2015 using multiple locations over an eight-day span.

Entering a transitional phase, the Cincinnati team tapped Debra Pinger as the new director of the Cincinnati film festival. She has roots in the region, but more than that, she has an appropriate background. In a recent interview, she describes herself as being “on that edge between entertainment and meaningful content.”

“I’ve been in television news, where we had to have that entertainment side,” she says. “We had to be fun. I was always a feature news reporter with an interest in how the pictures and the sound went together because it’s all like a minifilm.”

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In 2010, Pinger answered a calling in Nashville when she joined the Nashville Film Festival, first as the development director and then as the managing director. “When I found the film festival, it was just where I belonged,” she says.

She took on one of the nation’s largest film festivals in Nashville, managing sponsors, media and government relations in addition to festival marketing. Nashville’s festival spans 10 days and screens over 200 films — from a pool of more than 4,000 submissions —with three competitions (film, screenwriting and music). It draws in guests and filmmakers from around the world.

As Pinger considered moving here, she quickly realized that Cincinnati doesn’t have a major film festival.

“It’s hard to believe, to me,” she says. “We live in a time when there are 4,500 film festivals, and almost all

of them started in the late 1960s or the early 1970s. So where is Cincinnati’s major film festival?”

Pinger made the case, to herself, that Cincinnati had a solid regional base in terms of festivals, but no major national or international focus.

“We have a passionate community of filmmakers here,” she says. “We have the 48-Hour Film Festival. We have the Jewish Film Festival that’s very well put-together and very well attended. And then we have the ReelAbilities Film Festival.”

And it is on the ReelAbilities Film Festival foundation that Pinger aims to build Cincinnati’s premier event. To that end, ReelAbilities embarked on an ambitious plan to develop a network of sponsors and hosting agencies for each festival screening.

Sponsorship entails everything “from funding to venues to in-kind donations,” she says. That makes every screening and event possible. The 28 local hosting agencies provide services to people experiencing differences and disabilities.

Critic’s Picks CUERDAS (STRINGS) (9:15 a.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday) This 10-minute animated short from Spanish writer-director Pedro Solís García illuminates a friendship that develops between María and a new student at her school named Nicholas, who has cerebral palsy. Featured as part of the Family Fun shorts program.

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THE CASE OF THE THREE-SIDED DREAM (4:30 p.m. Friday) Those outside the world of Jazz probably have no idea about the life of the late Rahsaan Roland Kirk, a legend to those who love the music. Born blind and then paralyzed by a stroke as an adult, music became his resource for connection and communication, as well as his means of “seeing” and appreciating the world. Documentarian Adam Kahan’s 2014 film highlights how everything around Kirk held the potential to be used as an instrument and how sound helped him define the rhythms and cadences of life. The Case of the Three-Sided Dream will be paired with the seven-minute short Chimes for Tyler, which explores the story of Tyler Doi, an autistic savant with a love of wind chimes. His highly evolved aural senses allow him to distinguish the sounds of the entire inventory of Woodstock chimes. the case of the three- sided dre am

GUEST ROOM (4:30 p.m. Saturday) Included in the Coming of Age shorts program, this film from writer-director Joshua Tate captures the journey of Amber (Lauren Potter, from Glee), a young woman with Down syndrome who must make tough choices after an unplanned pregnancy with her boyfriend (Michael Iovine). guest room

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In keeping with the collaborative partnership goals, the festival has insured that 90 percent of the revenue from ticket sales will be channeled back to those agencies. That means the festival will have a tangible impact on organizations like 4 Paws for Ability, which is dedicated to the placement of assistance dogs; Building Blocks for Kids, which links products and services to children with physical, emotional and developmental challenges; and a host of others.

If reinvention truly is the name of the new game, with Pinger at the helm, ReelAbilities hopes to be in position to build a long-term film festival that has a sizeable impact on the city.

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HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO (4 p.m. Sunday) Alexandra Shiva’s 2015 Columbus-set documentary focuses on a group of teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum as each prepares for a spring formal dance, organized by their clinical psychologist. Over the course of 12 weeks, they work with Dr. Emilio Amigo to face the challenges of traditional prom-night events such as choosing dates, outfits and the prom’s king and queen. The real tests, however, involve overcoming the anxieties of first dances, kisses, etc., while appreciating the magic of this adulthood rite. How to Dance in Ohio was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. how to dance in ohio

ENDLESS ABILITIES (4:15 p.m. Sunday) Directors Harvey Burrell and Tripp Clemens hone in on four best friends who set off on a cross-country journey seeking out adaptive sports for individuals with physical disabilities. Moving beyond organized events like the Paralympics, they focus on the commonality of achievement and competition that drives each and every one of us. The quartet climbs rocks with blind climbing enthusiasts, plays soccer with quadriplegics and hits the pool with swimmers with muscular dystrophy, proving how sports truly level the playing field. endless abilities

GEORGE SMITH (7:15 p.m. Sunday) This five-minute short from director Chris Ashwell spotlights the inspirational story of George Smith, a 1980s-era professional baseball player rendered permanently disabled after an auto accident who, rather than giving up on his dream, continues to share his knowledge and expertise with new generations of kids in the Walnut Hills community. It’s part of the Local Films shorts package. g eo r g e s m i t h // ALL s t i l l s c o u r t e s y o f r e e l a b i l i t i e s f i l m f e s t i va l ta l e s o f t h e g o l d e n s a n d s

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The REELABILITIES FILM FESTIVAL takes place ThursdaySunday at the Duke Energy Convention Center. Tickets/more info: cincyra.org.

This feature from Len Collin dramatizes the harsh realities in Ireland, where premarital sex between people with developmental disabilities is outlawed.

Larry (Kieran Coppinger), a young man with Down syndrome, and Sophie (Charlene Kelly), a young woman with epilepsy, fall in love and challenge the accepted norms. The film displays all of the breezy and idiosyncratic charm of an indie rom-com.

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ART: POSITIVELY 4TH STREET: DOWNTOWN’S NEW LOOK features avant-garde fashions exhibited in elaborate window displays in the former T.J. Maxx location downtown. See feature on page 20.

ART: REMBRANDT AND THE JEWS: THE BERGER PRINT COLLECTION is on view at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s campus through April 30. See feature on page 21.

ART: The Weston Art Gallery’s current exhibits THE WIRED, THE THREAD IN THE RIVER and CALLING form a rich dialog about what is real in the digital age. See review on page 23.

MUSIC: MOVING UNITS plays from its album Collision with Joy Division at MOTR Pub. See Sound Advice on page 32.

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FILM: The REELABILITIES FILM FESTIVAL expands the practical definitions of ability and diversity. See cover story on page 12.

MUSIC: American Folk/Pop duo JOHNNYSWIM plays Bogart’s. See Sound Advice on page 32.

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ONSTAGE: RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY’S CIRCUS XTREME No matter how you feel about circuses, there’s no denying that the shuttering of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus is the end of an era. After 146 years of performances, the circus is in the midst of its final tour, Circus XTREME, which is scheduled to conclude in New York on May 21.

According to parent company Feld Entertainment’s chief executive Kenneth Feld, the decision to close was made because of

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FILM: REVOLUTION: NEW ART FOR A NEW WORLD You say you want a revolution? Well, Russia certainly had one in 1917 when the Communists took over. It sent shockwaves throughout the nation and the world and many responded with hopefulness that progressive innovation — avant-gardism in life and art — would sweep out the cruelties of capitalism, organized religion, parochial nationalism and class oppression.

Within about 15 years, those dreams were crushed by the repressive Social Realism of Joseph Stalin, but before that happened there was a flowering that allowed such artists as Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and others to change art forever with their explorations of Abstraction, Constructivism and other startling experiments. Margy Kinmonth’s documentary Revolution: New Art for a New World, which will have a special screening Wednesday at the Mariemont Theatre, looks back at the time and makes us wonder when and where it will happen next. 7 p.m. Wednesday. $12. Mariemont Theatre, 6906 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, mariemonttheatre.com. — STEVEN ROSEN

declining ticket sales, which plummeted even further after elephants were phased out of performances last year — a result of ongoing protests and concerns over animal rights. Regardless, this is your last chance to experience “the greatest show on Earth” one final time when it swings by U.S. Bank Arena. Through March 19. Tickets start at $15. U.S. Bank Arena, 100 Broadway St., Downtown, ringling.com, usbankarena. com. — EMILY BEGLEY ONSTAGE: MAMMA MIA! If you need a dose of feel good, Broadway in Cincinnati is offering a three-day fix with the farewell tour of Mamma Mia!, a collection of ’70s Swedish supergroup ABBA’s greatest hits. Sure, they’re strung together with a funny story about love and friendship, but much of the show’s amusement lies in

just how hit numbers like “Dancing Queen,” “Take a Chance on Me” and “Super Trouper” are woven — sometimes implausibly — into the narrative. This show has entertained more than 45 million people worldwide, and it’s been performed at the Aronoff 56 times.

People keep coming back to the lighthearted musical because fun is “the name of the game.” 8 p.m. Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. $39-$94.

Aronoff Center for the Arts, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-621-2787, cincinnatiarts. org. — RICK PENDER EVENT: THE BILL MURRAY BAR CRAWL: STREETCAR EDITION Bill Murray — master of ’80s screwball comedy, Sofia Coppola’s deadpan wunderkind and Wes Anderson darling — has inspired his own bar crawl. The Bill Murray

Bar Crawl: Streetcar Edition, presented by Keep Your Shirt On Covington, will offer a ride on the “Bill Murray Express” for a night of costumes, cocktails and prizes. Dress in your best Murray-movie-inspired garb for a chance to win a $100 gift basket. Each stop features trivia. Register online for an exclusive Bill Murray event shirt, a two-day streetcar pass, a wristband that unlocks access to drink specials at participating bars — including Arnold’s, Japp’s and The Drinkery — and a chance to win prizes throughout the night. A portion of proceeds benefits The Women’s Crisis Center. 7-11 p.m. Friday. $30. Starts at The Banks, Downtown, keepyourshirtoncovington. com. — MONROE TROMBLY CONTINUES ON PAGE 18

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MUSIC: PINK MARTINI Get ready for an evening with the biggest little orchestra around when Pink Martini takes over Memorial Hall on Thursday with a blend of Jazz, Pop and Classical music. Founded more than 20 years ago in order to provide an inclusive musical soundtrack for fundraisers for causes ranging from civil rights and affordable housing to public broadcasting and education, Pink Martini has performed in 22 different languages around the world.

The band’s latest album, Je dis oui!, was released Nov. 8 p.m. Thursday; the show is currently sold out. Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, memorialhallotr.com. — CHRISTINA DROBNEY

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ART: LIGHTLY SALTED AT LEDGE GALLERY Ledge Gallery, on a windowsill of Your Friends & Neighbors homegoods shop in East Walnut Hills, is a silly/serious venture with a knack for examining tiny objects and big questions — like why Cincinnatians freak out over changes to Skyline’s oyster crackers.

Thankfully, Team B Architecture & Design of Over-the-Rhine understands that details are important to chili connoisseurs. For Lightly Salted, it has created 3-D-printed versions of oyster crackers and drawings that highlight the crimps, folds and air pockets that capture every drop of hot sauce. The show is presented as an “amuse-bouche” during Walk on Woodburn. Down the street, Manifest (2727 Woodburn Ave.) opens exhibits about space and place, plus a Kentucky showcase. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Friday.

Through April 19. Free. Ledge Gallery, Your Friends & Neighbors, 2803 Woodburn Ave., East Walnut Hills, ledgegallery.com. — KATHY SCHWARTZ

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ART: THE NOTHING THAT IS: A DRAWING SHOW IN FIVE PARTS AT THE CARNEGIE The Carnegie exhibitions director Matt Distel and North Carolina-based curator Bill Thelen have curated a selection of more than 90 artists who explore drawing in vastly diverse ways — from the very traditional two-dimensional approach to more conceptual practices as a community-based activity. The two curators present talented artists from their respective regions alongside artists with major international acclaim. A previous iteration of this exhibition was presented at CAM Raleigh.

This version has been modified to include selections from local Tristate artists and collections. Opening reception 5:30-9 p.m.

Friday. Through April 15. Free. The Carnegie, 1028 Scott St., Covington, Ky., thecarnegie.com. —MARIA SEDA-REEDER

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MUSIC: Excellent songwriters SEEPEOPLES play Stanley’s Pub with Kumasi. See Sound Advice on page 33.

SAINT PATRICK’S DAY: CINCINNATI SAINT PATRICK’S DAY PARADE This parade laughs in the face of Cincinnati’s testy weather patterns. Come rain or shine, you can count on seeing the Cincinnati Saint Patrick’s Day Parade snaking its way through downtown. Rummage through your dresser to secure your greenest getup and come out to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland with your fellow Cincinnatians.

The parade kicks off at noon at the corner of Paul Brown Stadium and ends on Freedom Way and Rosa Parks Street. Whether Ohio decides to give parade-goers a sunny day or a blizzard of biblical proportions, the spirit of the holiday — and the green beer — is sure to keep you cozy. Noon Saturday. Free.

Downtown Cincinnati, cincystpatsparade. com. — LAUREN MORETTO FILM: CINCINNATI WORLD CINEMA PRESENTS OSCAR SHORTS & MORE If you prefer your entertainment in bitesized chunks, Cincinnati World Cinema’s presentation of Oscar Shorts and More should be right up your alley. The Academy Award-nominated live action and animated short films will be showcased in separate

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There’s a camp to fit every kid in the Tristate. Whether you’re looking for a traditional, overnight camp that includes cabins, canoes and horseback riding or a specialty music or arts camp, it’s here. The pricing listed below is the basic rate for a week of camp unless otherwise noted. Add-ons, such as horseback riding, are typically available for an upcharge. Need-based scholarships are available at many camps, so it’s important to ask if you have a need or contribute to the scholarship fund if you are able.

DAY CAMPS Anderson Township Park District

A co-ed camp that aims to enhance creativity, selfesteem and social skills while celebrating culture and diversity. The program features traditional camp activities like sports, swimming, field trips and arts and crafts in addition to weekly off-campus field trips.

Ages 5-12. May 31-Aug. 4. $185 per week; childcare vouchers accepted. The Children’s Home of Cincinnati, 5050 Madison Road, Madisonville, 513-272-1725 ext.

3258, thechildrenshomecinti.org.

Camp at the J

Good, old-fashioned fun at the Mayerson JCC of Cincinnati. Kids will enjoy swim lessons, archery, arts and crafts, presentations of Hebrew culture and more.

The camps welcome children of all faiths, abilities and age groups. Camps are offered in two- or three-weeklong sessions. Ages 4-grade 10. June 12-Aug. 11. $250-$875 per session. Mayerson JCC of Cincinnati, 8485 Ridge Road, Amberley Village, 513-761-7500, mayersonjcc.org.

OVERNIGHT CAMPS Camp Kern

Every day, kids choose in which activities they participate; options include swimming, rock climbing, digital photography, drama, arts and crafts and more. Teen programs feature canoe trips and field trips to Lazer Kraze and Ozone Zipline Adventures. Ranch Camp provides horseback-riding lessons and trail rides for riders of all experiences. For young first-time campers, Camp Kern offers Taste of Kern and First Camp programs, with day camps followed by overnight experiences. Age 7-16.

June 18-Aug. 12. $595-$695 Camp Kern, 5291 OH-350, Oregonia, 513-932-3756, campkern.org.

Camp Livingston

Nestled deep in the rolling, wooded hills of beautiful southeastern Indiana, Camp Livingston has offered an unmatched summer experience for Jewish children and teens for over 90 years. Camp Livingston has always provided a safe and nurturing environment where campers gain self esteem and confidence, and form lasting friendships with their cabin and unit friends, all within a fun and exciting atmosphere. Within this unique environment, campers come to know and love themselves, their community and their place in the greater world.

Grades 2-12. June 11-Aug. 13. $1,300-$7,3985. Camp Livingston, 4998 Nell Lee Road, Bennington, Ind., 812427-2202, camplivingston.com.

From fishing, farming and kayaking to horseback riding, painting and storytelling, Great Parks Summer Day Camps offer a little bit of everything for children and teenagers. Options include camps focused on archery, horseback riding, hiking, ecology and conservation and more. Ages 2-17. May 30-Aug. 9.

Prices vary per camp; early bird pricing available before March 31. Camps for small children require a parent to be present. Various Great Parks locations, 513-521-7275, greatparks.org/discovery/children/ summer-day-camps.

Greenacres Summer Camp

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“Edutainment” is key in Greenacres’ various summer camps, which incorporate aspects of S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) into activities like hiking, fishing and art. With so many options, there’s something for everyone, whether it’s horseback riding, water activities, drawing and painting, music, care of livestock and more. Ages 6-13. June 12-Aug. 4. $200-$375. Greenacres, 8255 Spooky Hollow Road, Indian Hill, 513-891-4227, green-acres.org.

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Mountain biking, horseback riding, rope courses, sports and crafts are just some of the many activities campers participate in during Camp Campbell Gard, which has been giving kids unforgettable experiences since 1926 with the mission to “put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.” Choose from Traditional Overnight Camp and Overnight Horse Camp, during which campers care for and ride their own horses. Day camps are also available. Ages 7-15. June 4-Aug. 4. $565. Camp Campbell Gard, 4803 Augspurger Road, Hamilton, 513-867-0600, testsiteccgymca.org.

YMCA Camp Ernst

During this weeklong camp, the backyard becomes 365 acres of woods, fields, creeks and a lake. Built upon the YMCA values of caring, honesty, responsibility and respect, camp activities include ziplining, banana boating, horseback riding, a giant swing and a 100-foot-long waterslide. The newest sports include nine square in the air. There is a free open house 1-4 p.m. April 2, May 7 and June 4 at which prospective

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Campers will explore creativity, teamwork and leadership in physically active programs that encourage a lifetime of healthy living. Preschool camps (ages 2-5), with full- and half-day options, include traditional camp activities like swimming, singing and crafts; sports camps (ages 3-12) have campers learning the fundamentals of a new sport each week; specialty camps (ages 9-14) focus on particular programs like arts, music, sports specialties and enrichment; and teen camps (ages 11-15) include challenging camp activities tailored to older age groups. Ages 2-15. June 18-Aug.

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Falcon Camp

Recognized throughout the Midwest as Ohio’s premier private camp, Falcon has been chosen as a “Top Ten Camp in USA” and selected as the “Coolest Camp in Ohio.” Falcon offers a beautiful lakefront setting, a talented staff and a wide variety of activities. Program includes horseback riding, sailing, mountain biking, canoeing, drama, video arts, crafts, riflery, archery, nature, tennis and more. Boys and girls ages 6-16 are separate with planned co-ed events in 2-8 week sessions. Special one week intro program for 6-9.

Ages 6-16. June 18-Aug. 12. $1,200-$7,425. Falcon Camp, 4251 Delta Road, Carrollton, 800-350-5090, falconcamp.com.

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Daily swimming at Coney Island’s Sunlite Pool, games and crafts are just some of the activities campers will participate in. Weekly field trips are also held. Also offers separate options for mini camp (ages 3-5) and a travel camp (ages 10-12) that includes daily field trips to local recreation spots including Kings Island and a skating rink. Ages 5-12. June 5-Aug. 18. Prices vary per camp. Beech Acres Park RecPlex, 6915 Beechmont Ave., Anderson, 513-474-0003, andersonparks.com.

12. Prices vary per camp. Various YMCA locations, 513362-YMCA, cincinnatiymca.org/camps#day_camps.

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campers can experience some of what Camp Ernst has to offer. Ages 6-15. June 11 –Aug. 12. $610.

Camp Ernst, 7615 Camp Ernst Road, Burlington, Ky., 859-586-6181, myycamp.org.

ART & MUSIC Camp Art Academy

This award-winning camp balances technical instruction with the freedom of self-expression. Each weeklong session has a different theme, including Artful Antics, Imaginarium, Art of Egypt and Comic Jam. The curriculum includes fundamental visual art skill-building activities, 2- and 3-D hands-on experiences and creative problem solving. Guest artists will also stop by for visits. Choose from half- and full-day options. Ages 5-12. June 12-July 28. $255 full day; $160 half day. Clifton Cultural Arts Center, 3711 Clifton Ave., Clifton, 513-562-6262, artacademy.edu.

Cincinnati Art Museum Summer Camp

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The Cincinnati Art Museum hosts eight weeks of summer camp, with a different theme each week. Topics include Welcome to the Jungle, Inside Impressionism, Fashion Week, Comic Creators, Art Lab and more. Led by highly skilled educators and museum staff, kids will create art projects and participate in gallery games.

Ages 6-12. June 12-Aug. 11. $170 members (family level or higher); $225 non-members. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, 513-7212787, cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

Cincinnati Boychoir SongFest Music Camp

A camp for boys looking to begin a lifelong journey in music. Campers will participate in choral rehearsals, music classes, piano, games and recreation — there’s even a daily African drum circle. The schedule also includes a night out at a Cincinnati Cyclones game, where the Cincinnati Boychoir’s Tour Choir will sing the national anthem. Grades 2-12. July 31-Aug. 4. $315.

Xavier University, 3800 Victory Parkway, Evanston, 513396-7664, cincinnatiboychoir.org.

School of Rock Mason

School of Rock Mason — “where students learn to rock their worlds” — offers several music-centric summer camps for kids and teens. Camps offered in 2017 include Songwriting & Recording Camp, Rock 101 Camp, Alt Rock Performance Camp and Hard Rock Performance Camp. Ages 7-18. $340-$765. June 12-Aug. 4. School of Rock Mason, 755 Reading Road, Mason, 513-770-1257, mason.schoolofrock.com.

Taft Museum of Art Summer Art Day Camp

Themed workshops for kids and teens at the Taft Museum of Art. Youngest campers (grades 3-5) will experiment with a variety of paints and painting styles.

Students grades 6-8 will build their own canvases and learn intermediate painting techniques. The Taft’s High School Art Workshop (grades 9-12) will work with classical portraiture and scenic landscapes and on rendering horses. Grades 3-12. June 5-July 14. $290.

Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown, 513-2410343, taftmuseum.org.

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CenterStage!

If your young, aspiring actor also can identify with classroom angst, CenterStage! is the best of both worlds. Campers will work to prepare for a performance of Alan Haehnel’s Wendy’s Tale. With an emphasis on acting, the schedule also has students designing costumes, sets and lighting. Auditions required. Ages 9-15. July 31-Aug. 12. $390. University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, 3860 CCM Blvd., Clifton, 513-281-2865, ccm.uc.edu.

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July 21 & July 22

Cincinnati Ballet Kids Dance Camp

Young dancers’ imaginations will come to life as they dance through a Jungle Safari, Arctic Safari, and Ocean Safari. Each week will focus on one of these themes as

students participate in age-appropriate ballet classes let by the company’s professional faculty. No ballet would be complete without costumes, but not to fear: daily crafts allow dancers to create their own outfits and accessories. Ages 4-8. June 5-9; July 24-28; July 31-Aug. 4. $225-$555. Cincinnati Ballet, 1555 Central Parkway, Downtown, 513-621-5219, cballet.org.

Cincinnati Circus Summer Camp

Kids will learn skills like hand-eye coordination, balance and teamwork working alongside professional performers and camp counselors. They’ll try their hands at being tightrope walkers, balloon makers, aerial acrobats, jugglers and more. Half-day and full-day sessions available. Ages 5-14. June 5-Aug. 11. $175 half day; $225 full day. Cincinnati Circus Company, 6433 Wiehe Road, Bond Hill, 513-921-5454, cincinnaticircus.com.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

Each week, students participate in acting and improvisation; additional classes focus on topics like Shakespeare, circus training, puppetry, stage combat, playwriting, theatre design and more. Grades 1-10.

June 5-July 28. $295. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams, 513-4213888, cincyplay.com.

Cincinnati Shakespeare Summer Camp

Cincy Shakes offers four different camps divided by age. For example, camp I (grades 6 and 7) includes acting and combat classes, set and costume construction, text analysis and movement; students also create an original production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. And Camp II (grades 8 and 9) is an intermediate study of Shakespearian text, during which students explore acting methods and stage combat; participants will be placed in different scenes from Shakespeare’s canon (auditions required). Grades 4-12. June 5-23. $275. Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, 719 Race St., Downtown, 513381-2273, cincyshakes.com/summercamp.

Lachey Arts Camp

A faculty of working performers lead students in customized training in vocal music, dance and dramatic arts, with a focus on current and classic musical theater. Camp culminates in a main stage showcase.

Ages 12-19. July 31-Aug. 11. $1,250. School for Creative and Performing Arts, 108 W. Central Parkway, Downtown, lacheyarts.com/camp.

The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati

Week-long themed summer day-camps — no audition required! Sessions are available for different ages with different topics. Camps range from Dino Rock (ages 6-7), where kids become part of the Dinosaur Jam Band, to Earn Your Wand (ages 8-10), where Harry Potter fans take wizarding lessons to earn their Sorcerer’s Badge, to Showtime (ages 11-14), where kids learn and perform popular musical numbers and choreography from Broadway shows. Ages 6-14. June 12-July 21. $250 per week. The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, 4015 Red Bank Road, Madisonville, 513569-8080, thechildrenstheatre.com.

INSTRUCTIONAL Cincinnati Museum Center Museum Camps

From science and technology to hands-on activities and games, there’s something for every camper to get excited about at the Cincinnati Museum Center. There are dozens of topics to choose from, including Crazy Chemistry, Harry Potter, LEGO Master Builder, Dinosaurs, Amusement Park Science and more. Grades K-8. May 30-Aug. 11. $230 member; $255 non-member. Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate, 513-287-7000, cincymuseum.org.

Drake Planetarium Summer Camp

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camps divided by age. Themes include Young Builders, Junior Inventors, Flight Adventures, Ooey-Gooey Chemistry, LEGO Creator Camp, Rockin’ Rockets, Bits to Minecraft and more. Grades K-12. June 5-July 28. $185-$300. Drake Planetarium, 2020 Sherman Ave., Norwood, drakeplanetarium.org.

iSpace Summer Day Camps

This camp transforms participants into rocket scientists and robotic engineers, placing a focus on S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

Themes include Mars Rover design, Smart Cars and Build a Zoo. Grades K-12. June 5-Aug. 11. $250.

Scarlet Oaks, 300 Scarlet Oaks Drive, Sharonville, ispacescience.org.

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum

Pyramid Hill’s summer series are designed by local educators, artists and staff members to offer interactive and educational experiences. Topics include An American Indian Trail, Cool Critters and Let’s Make Music. Ages 5-12. June 7-July 26. Free with paid admission; free for members. Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum, 1763 Hamilton-Cleves Road, Hamilton, 513-868-1234, pyramidhill.org.

Rosie’s Girls

Like Rosie the Riveter, girls learn non-traditional trades. A summer program for girls focusing on hands-on S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities. Campers will practice the skills of engineers and carpenters while inventing, building and designing. Ages 11-13. July 10-28. Pricing varies. Holmes High School, 2500 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., ywca.org.

Seven Hills School Summer Program

From wakeboarding and architectural modeling to space exploration and top-secret science, this program has more than enough to keep the fun flowing.

Children and teens of all ages are invited to explore their interests with Seven Hills’ seasoned staff, which provides individual attention and support. Ages 7-18.

June 19-Aug. 11. Prices vary per camp. Seven Hills, 5400 Red Bank Road, Madisonville, 513-728-2380, 7hills.org/summerprogram.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS Bear Paddle Swim School

Bear Paddle offers swim camps for beginners all the way to competitive swimmers all year. Ages 6 months11-plus years. Check online for dates and details.

Eight-day swim camps start at $180. Bear Paddle Swim School, 9376 Mason Montgomery Road, Mason; 3099 Disney St., Oakley; 4012 Seligman Drive, Florence, Ky.; 513-285-8855, baerpaddles.com.

Camp WAVE

This Newport Aquarium day camp includes up-close animal encounters, behind-the-scenes glimpses and activities tailored to specific themes, including ancient oceans and animal ecosystems. Campers will touch sharks and penguins, make crafts, play games and more. Grades K-8. June 5-Aug. 11. $170 aquarium pass-holder; $200 non-pass-holder. Newport Aquarium, 1 Aquarium Way, Newport, Ky., 859-2617444, wavefoundation.org.

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Camp

Cincinnati Recreation Commission Summer Day Camps

Themed activities include arts and crafts, swim lessons and pool time, outdoor sports, trips and more.

Gorman Heritage Farm

Barnyard animals abound at Gorman Heritage Farm.

Campers will interact with animals, explore onsite woods, hike, craft and more. Themed camps are offered for topics including cooking, science and veterinary work. Ages 4-15. June 5-Aug. 4. Prices vary per camp. Gorman Heritage Farm, 10052 Reading Road, Evendale, 513-563-6663, gormanfarm.org.

Imago for Earth

Participate in themed camps including Animal Neighbors, Go Wild, Adventure Camp, Green Leaders, Water World and In the City. Each week, campers will learn new skills as they hike, explore, play games and do arts and crafts. Ages 4-14. June 5-July 28. $85-$350. Imago Earth Center, 700 Enright Ave., E. Price Hill, 513-921-5124, imagoearth.org.

TriHealth Sports Camp

TriHealth offers all kinds of sports to keep kids active and having fun. Choose from Olympic Camp by Jump Start Sports, Camp Crazyfood, Games Galore by Laffalot Camp, Beginning Golf Camp by Skyhawks, Wacky Wilderness Camp by Young Rembrandts and so much more. Ages K-12. May 30-Aug. 4. Prices vary per camp. TriHealth Fitness & Health Pavilion, 6200 Pfeiffer Road, Blue Ash, 513-246-2647, trihealth.com.

CAMPS FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS Camp Joy

These programs create a safe place for undeserved youth and families to learn new skills and enhance self-esteem. Campers will experience healthy challenges like tackling high ropes and living in cabins.

Specialty camp themes camps for children with diseases, from cancer and HIV to diabetes and heart disease; children of military personnel; amputees; bereavement camps; and more. Ages 5-18. June 3-Aug. 12. Many camps are provided at no charge.

Camp Joy, 10117 Old 3 C Highway, Clarksville, 937289-2031, camp-joy.org.

Cincinnati Children’s

Camps for children with specific healthcare needs.

Cincinnati Children’s sponsors camps for children with conditions including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hemophilia, juvenile arthritis, sickle cell and tuberous sclerosis. Ages, dates, price and location vary per camp, cincinnatichildrens.org.

Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones’ camps have supported teens with disabilities since 1963 with the goals of helping them form pathways to independence and making lifelong friends. Highly trained staff members will work alongside campers with moderate to severe disabilities as they swim, fish, boat and more. Session themes include pirates, art, outer space and more.

Ages 13-22. June 5-Aug. 4. $48 per day; overnight sessions are $800 for 6 days. Locations vary per camp, 513-965-5108, steppingstonesohio.org.

YMCA Camp Campbell Gard Day and Overnight Camps

The YMCA hosts overnight and day camps for children and teens with and without physical and cognitive disabilities. Campers with and without disabilities participate in events and stay in cabins together. Campers choose their own schedules, participating in activities like horseback riding, swimming and zipline. Individuals who have graduated high school are not eligible to attend camp. Ages 7-22. June 4-Aug. 4. $295 day camp; $565 overnight.

Camp Campbell Gard, 4803 Augspurger Road, Hamilton, 513-867-0600, testsiteccgymca.org.

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Hikes, animal encounters, wild crafts, train rides, keeper talks and much more await campers during full- and half-day zoo camps. Kids also attend animal feedings and shows. Grades K-8. May 29-Aug. 18. $225 full-day members; $240 full-day non-members; $110 half-day members; $125 half-day non-members.

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale, 513-281-4700, cincinnatizoo.org.

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EATS: CHEESE AND MACARON PAIRING If you’re not hooked immediately by the name “The Rhined,” we suggest you look elsewhere — this event is not for you. The Rhined is a new artisanal cheese and provision company soon to open a brick-and-mortar shop following the wild success of their retail pop-up markets, gift boxes and infamous donut and cheese pairing nights, which often end when they inevitably sell out. Joined by Cincinnati staples Macaron Bar, The Rhined presents a cheese and macaron pairing. This is one of the few times when playing with your food is actually encouraged, so take full advantage of this opportunity to sample delectable macarons paired with their appropriate cheese counterparts, and some sparkling vino. Space is limited, so RSVP is highly encouraged. 6-7:30 p.m. Saturday. $35. Macaron Bar, 1206 Main St., Overthe-Rhine, macaron-bar.com. — MONROE TROMBLY

programs, with each program running under two hours. For more on the event and recommended films, see Onscreen on page 24. 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday; 3 and 6 p.m. Sunday.

Single program tickets start at $10; double program tickets start at $18. Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, memorialhallotr.com. — LAUREN MORETTO

MUSIC: ANCIENT WARFARE Lexington, Ky.’s unique foursome Ancient Warfare is a regular visitor to Cincinnati, performing multiple times at the MidPoint Music Festival and appearing at the most recent Ladyfest event in Northside. Guided by the haunting vocals of band founder Echo Wilcox, Ancient Warfare released its mesmerizing debut, The Pale Horse, though the independent label Alias Records in 2015. With its dusky, dusty soundscapes and cinematic scope, the band both matched and transcended its self-described “Southern Gothic/Drone Rock” sound. 8 p.m. Sunday.

Free. MOTR Pub, 1345 Main St., Over-theRhine, motrpub.com. — MIKE BREEN

EVENT: END OF SHOW PLANT SALE As the Krohn Conservatory’s Creoleinspired floral show Blooms on the Bayou comes to a close, the public has the opportunity to snatch up formerly featured plants during the Krohn End of Show Plant Sale. Hand-reared by Krohn staffers, these plants — everything from camellias and tulips to hyacinths and French Quarter ferns — will help you get a jump-start on your spring landscaping. Doors open 10 a.m. Tuesday; 8:30 a.m. for Friends of Krohn members. Free admission.

Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, cincinnatiparks.com.

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or fashion aficionados looking to be inspired by new trends or the work of late great textile artists, you might think to visit the Cincinnati Art Museum or Contemporary Arts Center. Really, you’d think to go anywhere but the blustery streets of downtown Cincinnati in March.

But for fans of fashion designers like Prada, Céline, Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Moschino and more, look no further than the display windows of two vacant businesses from 14 to 18 W. Fourth St. Once home to the upscale Gidding-Jenny department store (which closed in 1995), the location has been empty since T.J. Maxx left in 2015.

Unveiled Feb. 8, the new Positively 4th Street: Downtown’s New Look exhibit is an interactive homage to the history of both the buildings it lives in and the fashion of Cincinnati — even if some of the outfits on display are decidedly avant-garde. The exhibit is vibrant and lit-up and seems to spill out of the windows and onto the sidewalk. The mannequins behind the long glass panels strike manic poses and sport neon mohawks; some are flanked by televisions flickering vaporwave visuals.

Behind the display are Tony Tiemeyer, proprietor of Northside’s Evolution Fashion Studio, an appointment-only studio specializing in rare modern and vintage pieces; high-end fashion and beauty photographer Annette Navarro; and designers Kelsey Wing and Tyler Billman, who applied their creative energy to the video and set-design elements.

The mannequins wear designs from both last year and decades ago.

A Punk military-style 1990s Maison Margiela outfit stands proud in a display case wallpapered with editorial photographs taken by Navarro. And nearby is one of Jean Paul Gaultier’s 1996 jersey bodysuits with printed body contours. The pieces on view are as culturally significant as they are beautiful: the iconic Dolce & Gabbana “SEX” choker circles the neck of one of the mannequins, as attention-grabbing now as it was during the Spring/Summer 2003 fashion season.

In fact, the entire exhibit is flashy and eye catching. When I visited, I was joined by curious Cincinnatians who slowed their quick paces to take a second — or more — to feast their gaze on the joy of impeccable design.

Collector Tiemeyer often works with museums, stylists and other fashion connoisseurs, but this time, for the downtown display, he worked with Jim Tarbell, the former Cincinnati Council member and vice mayor. As Tarbell explains it, the Fourth Street property’s owner hired him to be the

Tony Tiemeyer ‘s fashion collection is on display at the site of a former T.J. Maxx store. “building whisperer” and to try to find ways to preserve and reuse the space.

The story behind Positively 4th Street is one of serendipity. “The way it all developed, I was going to lunch at Maplewood, and I was walking by the old T.J. Maxx space,” Tiemeyer says. “I see the doors opening, and there’s Jim Tarbell. I said to him, ‘What’s going on with these windows? They’re such great windows and it’s almost half the block. Why don’t you let me come up with something creative?’ Jim was receptive and said, ‘Bring it on.’ ” Tarbell tells the story slightly differently.

He remarks that, one fateful day, he saw Tiemeyer poking around the buildings for inspiration and told him to get in there. The two began discussing the empty window displays of a building that once housed two of the most important fashion stores in Cincinnati history — J.M. Gidding & Co. and Jenny Co. — and Tarbell says he told Tiemeyer to “have at it!”

“He put his team together, and it’s so stunning,” Tarbell says. “The fashion exhibit is reminiscent of what was there a generation ago.”

In 1907, Charles P. Taft, brother of William Howard Taft, lured sophisticated New

York fashion retailer J.M. Gidding & Co. to West Fourth Street and commissioned the rich Rookwood pottery façade that is still a vibrant addition to the modern downtown streetscape.

Gidding & Co. helped transform that block into the “women’s square,” as it became known. “There were clothing stores and jewelry stores,” Tarbell says. “It was the biggest deal in the Tristate and Gidding was there.”

Jenny Co., a store similar to Gidding, moved into the adjacent building in the 1930s. In the 1960s, they merged and the renovated, combined space became known as Gidding-Jenny. It closed in 1995.

Gidding-Jenny had a signature color: a lush, deep purple. “The hat boxes, the clothing bags, the shopping bags — it was that Gidding-Jenny purple,” Tarbell says.

Remembering the importance of the Gidding-Jenny store, Tarbell stepped in to aid in the building’s preservation when he had a chance. He tells of walking by the store as a child to visit his father’s nearby law office and smelling the perfume piped into the street to create atmosphere. “It was like wonderland for me as a kid,” Tarbell says. “So when they called me to help this

building, I ran to help.”

The fashion on display now is, without much of an argument, much different than what once lit up the Gidding-Jenny windows.

The neon colors, bright lights, fishnets and spiked shoes are a stark contrast to the ornate burgundy, green, yellow and purple exterior cornucopia of Rookwood fruit and sculpted faces. However, the contrast works.

It tells the story of a city with much history that is growing new life while simultaneously discovering its roots.

“The fashion is here in Cincinnati,” Tiemeyer says. “People just don’t realize it.

We’ve just created a little bit of energy in a beautiful building.”

When the weather warms up, plan to walk along this block of West Fourth Street.

Or, do what I did and go on a particularly chilly day. Seeing the exploding riot of fashion as I huddled near the windows, in my scarf, was like sitting by a roaring fire.

Neither Tarbell nor Tiemeyer could say how long the display would be up, or what it may turn into in the future. “No one knows where this display is going,” Tarbell says.

“And isn’t that a hoot? I’d like to see what Mr. Tiemeyer and his team does next.” ©

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Rembrandt’s Close Relationship with the Jews

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an invitation to visit England’s University of Oxford, he was permitted to go. He was desperate to avoid returning to Germany.

Fortunately, Julian Morgenstern — HUC’s president — came to the rescue. With some difficulty, he was able to get Landsberger a U.S. State Department visa. Landsberger came, established the campus art museum and stayed in Cincinnati. He died in 1964.

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“It was amazing because the college was not as large an institution as is today, and times were tough,” Meyer says. “To hire a bunch of individuals who (HUC) didn’t really need in terms of teaching, and to make that financial commitment, was really a remarkable thing.” And it saved lives.

As important a milestone as Landsberger’s book was in encouraging awareness of the affinity Rembrandt had for the Jews of his time, the author may have overstated the connection. Some of the etchings in this show once believed to depict Jewish life of the times are now being questioned. This show explains how that came about. “(Landsberger) fits within the German Jewish art historians who, during and after the Nazi regime, came to America because of the Holocaust and were longing to find an artist who loves Jews,” says Shelley Perlove, a University of Michigan professor emeritus of art history who will speak on the subject at HUC’s Mayerson Hall on March 20. “It became almost a plea — it created a romanticized view of Rembrandt and the Jews.”

REMBRANDT AND THE JEWS is on display through April 30 at Cincinnati Skirball Museum, 3101 Clifton Ave. More info: huc.edu.

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Rembrandt and the Jews: The Berger Print Collection, the new exhibition at the Skirball Museum on Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s campus, features etchings that show how this Dutch Master portrayed Jewish and biblical subjects.

As such, it is fascinating on several fronts.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, who lived from 1606-1669, is recognized as one of the greatest painters ever, but he was also highly accomplished at getting detail, texture and subtly dramatic shadowing from the difficult skill of etching.

In this show featuring 22 of his etchings from the Berger Print Collection, you can see that talent on display in such works as “Abraham and Isaac,” “Abraham’s Sacrifice,” “The Triumph of Mordecai” and “Jews in the Synagogue (Pharisees in the Temple).”

Howard and Fran Berger of Los Angeles donated their collection of Rembrandt prints to the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, Calif. in 2014. They wanted there to be a traveling exhibition and catalog.

The show also teaches about Rembrandt’s time and place — and how a progressive environment allowed great art to flourish. He lived in a relatively enlightened nation with a thriving merchant class that bought art and was accepting of immigrant groups, including Jews, escaping discrimination elsewhere.

Rembrandt had Jewish friends and patrons in Amsterdam, although he was not Jewish.

But the exhibition also has another element to it. It is about the history of scholarship into Rembrandt’s relationship to Jews.

And this is especially pertinent because the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has played an important role in shaping it. So, too, did the Holocaust.

Along a wall in the center of the museum’s gallery is a section devoted to Franz Landsberger, who had a teaching position at HUC in 1946 when he published Rembrandt, the Jews and the Bible — the influential first book of its kind in English.

Landsberger was lucky to have gotten to Cincinnati to write it. A German Jew, he was teaching art at the University of Breslau in 1933 when the Nazis took over Germany and banned Jewish teachers. “They didn’t want Jews to be in any positions of authority over non-Jews,” says Michael Meyer, HUC’s Adolph S. Ochs professor emeritus of Jewish history. He has studied his institution’s role in helping Landsberger and 10 other Jewish European scholars (and also five students) escape the Nazis and come to Cincinnati.

Landsberger had been able to get a position directing the Jewish Museum in Berlin until 1938, when the Nazis shut it down and sent him to a concentration camp. Such places were not yet extermination camps, Meyer says, so when Landsberger received

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Does ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Really Foretell Trump’s Rise?

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BY JASON GARGANO

J.D. Vance seems to be everywhere these days. The baby-faced 32-year-old has parlayed his uncommon story — small-town Ohioan transcends troubled childhood to graduate from Yale Law School — into something of a cultural phenomenon.

Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, published last June, is being hailed as a decoder ring to the reasons voters in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan supported Donald J. Trump in his improbable run to become the president of the United States.

Ohio’s own U.S. Sen. Rob Portman called Vance’s memoir “one of the most important books of 2016.” Portman insists, “This isn’t just Mr. Vance’s story. It’s the story of many other people across rural America who have lost hope.”

Many seem to agree: Vance has been summoned by everyone from television talking heads like Hardball’s Chris Matthews to The New York Times opinion page to explain why working-class white males, most of whom but not all are conservatives like Vance, voted for a man who seems to be the antithesis of everything they know and hold dear — a billionaire businessman and reality TV star from New York City.

The most curious aspect of Vance’s book is that Trump’s name is not mentioned anywhere in its 261 pages. Hillbilly Elegy wasn’t intended as anything more than the intimate story of how Vance’s upbringing in Butler County’s Middletown made him the man he is today — a self-described “hillbilly” who beat the odds to serve in the military and become an Ivy League-educated lawyer and dedicated husband to an equally successful wife. And while he does try to address how the white working class he grew up with is losing its grip on the American Dream, he does so by relaying first-person anecdotes instead of broad generalities. He’s as perplexed and frustrated about the situation as anyone and he isn’t afraid to criticize those who use the so-called “Obama economy” as an excuse to not work hard.

He doesn’t shy away from telling the messy story of his family and how it has impacted his life — his mother has struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol and moved from man to man for as long as he can remember, and his biological father has largely been absent from his life.

Enter Mamaw Blanton, his beloved grandmother, the most steadying presence in his life. “My grandparents — Mamaw and Papaw — were, without question or qualification, the best things that ever happened to me,” he writes. “They spent the last two decades of their lives showing me the value of love and stability and teaching me life lessons that most people learn from their parents.”

Mamaw and Papaw came from a long line of hillbillies from eastern Kentucky who eventually moved north in an effort to find a better life and the America Dream. They chose Middletown due to its proximity to Armco Steel (later known as AK Steel) and the stable, well-paying jobs that surrounded the industry — jobs that now aren’t as plentiful for a variety of reasons.

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Vance’s portrait of Mamaw — a tough, foul-mouthed woman who cherished family, especially her grandson, above all else — is occasionally critical but never less than loving. Likewise, Vance’s description of his mother’s problems and how they have impacted him and his older sister Lindsay are among the most moving and incisive passages in the book.

“There is room now for both anger at Mom for the life she chooses and sympathy for the childhood she didn’t,” Vance writes late in Hillbilly Elegy.

Vance effectively ties the struggles of the community he came from with those of his mother, a woman seemingly forever marked by a turbulent childhood — Papaw had a serious drinking problem for many years, which led to a fracturing of the family unit.

Yet Papaw got sober in time to have a positive impact on his grandson. Vance always knew his grandparents would be there for him.

Many have held up Hillbilly Elegy as a dissection of the political climate that has given us a President Trump, but it’s really the coming-of-age tale of a man and his yearning to simultaneously transcend and celebrate his “hillbilly” roots. ©

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Seeing Is (Maybe) Believing at Weston Gallery

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How do you know what you know? crisscross in The Wired. But downstairs, Through the internet? A photo? A dream? retired University of Cincinnati photography Three separate shows now at the Weston professor Jane Alden Stevens uses only Art Gallery form a rich dialogue about what stark black-and-white pictures of telephone we think is real and what is really real as we wires and a few short questions and answers move through time and space. to deliver her message. The Thread in the Right away the street-level exhibit The River posits that even in the internet age, Wired blurs the line between actuality and there is a need for an old-fashioned means artifice as it seeks to undo the dichotomy of sharing and documenting. In an effort to between the physical world and the digital know family members and herself better, realm. Curator C.M. Turner chose to build Stevens posed questions such as, “How many the show around an installation from places do you feel at home?” and “How many Katie Parker, Guy Michael Davis and Jordan Tate titled “Façade.”

Mimicking an English garden, “Façade” is a pretense of pretentiousness. And the more you think about that premise, the more you start questioning everything, which is kind of the point of The Wired. A mazelike hedge stands before us, and entering is the equivalent of going down the rabbit hole (or signing on to the internet).

We are able to walk about this green space, yet at the “Facade” by Katie Parker, Guy Michael Davis and Jordan Tate same time it’s all an illusion.

P H O T O : c o u r t e s y o f th e w e s to n a r t g a l l e r y The water flowing into the ceramic urn is real, but the ivy is a downloaded image printed on fabric. people do you wish you had never met?”

The Greek goddess statue is a plastic cutEach answer is limited to a number, which out; her pedestal is a shipping box. she’s written above a telephone line along If the ivy isn’t real, then that mound of with the respondent’s relationship and age. grass on the floor is also fake, right? “A The lack of additional information only adds Line Made by Growing,” from Casey James to the photos’ universal and timeless appeal.

Wilson and Georgia-based Justin Hodges Upstairs, The Wired represents a new (the only non-local artist in the exhibition), wave of Cincinnati artists bringing virtual upends our thinking again. reality and other digital technology to the The pair’s installation subverts the fore. All are under 40 years old, including common experience of viewing the digital curator Turner, and all have ties to UC. Yet, documentation of an artwork rather than as members of the show observed during the original, physical piece — in this case a gallery talk, their generation’s work rests Richard Long’s “A Line Made by Walking.” upon their mentor and former colleague The Englishman created Land Art in 1967 Stevens and another pillar of the city’s arts by repeatedly trampling over a field. He then community — Kate Kern, who rounds out documented his act with a photo. In placing the Weston’s trio of exhibits. a strip of natural grass under a print of Kern’s Calling explores the seen and Long’s image, Wilson and Hodges — whose unseen through drawings referencing the own collaboration depends on online combiological world, religion and domestic munication rather than in-person interaclife. She then lets go of all that’s familiar, tion — reclaim some of the physical from sending the icons floating through darkness the digital world. in an immersive, dreamlike animation that The physical and digital merge again in a perfectly complements both The Wired’s virtual reality experience from Ian Anderconcepts and Stevens’ more traditional son and Caroline Turner. At the Weston, exploration of identity. visitors don goggles to visit a server farm, Could a deeper reality exist? Kern sugan overlooked but real place that stores all gests that first we have to believe it to see it. the bits of info we mindlessly upload to an Exhibits THE WIRED, THE THREAD IN THE RIVER imaginary cloud. While the virtual reality and CALLING are on display at the Weston Gallery headset is wrapped around you, wrap your of Art through April 2. Gallery talk with Kate Kern head around that.

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In My Life as a Zucchini, one of this romantic lurking inside the most convenyear’s Oscar nominees for Best Animated tional of hearts. For proof, look no further Feature, audiences are introduced to a than The Ottoman Lieutenant from young boy known as Zucchini (voiced by screenwriter Jeff Stockwell (Bridge to TeraGaspard Schlatter), the nickname given bithia) and director Joseph Ruben (Sleeping to him by his mother. The film is a Swisswith the Enemy). We know we’re in for a French production from director Claude passionate tale because golden-haired Lillie Barras.

(Hera Hilmar) handles the voice-over narraIt’s the last of this year’s Best Animated tion, affirming her position as the romantic Feature nominees to open theatrically in and moral compass, the true-north focal Cincinnati. The others are Kubo and the point in this story from the dawn of the 20th Two Strings, Moana, The Red Turtle and century. winner Zootopia.

Zucchini is a bit of a dreamer, in part because he’s largely left to his own devices as his mother spends most of her time drinking beer in front of the television.

After her accidental death, the 9-year-old Zucchini is initially befriended by Raymond (Michel Vuillermoz), a kind police officer who sees something in the boy worth nurturing, before being placed in a foster home with a ragtag collection of orphans.

It takes time for Zucchini Characters have big eyes and equally large hearts in Zucchini. to settle in, and there are the PHOTO : courtesy of GKIDS, INC. requisite moments of teasing that will leave audiences As a young nurse in a Philadelphia anxious. Despite the fact that Barras’ film hospital, Lillie dares to challenge authority employs stop-motion animation techniques, and the social codes by bringing a wounded there is a willingness to confront Zucchini’s black man into the emergency room, only to life as a fully realized human tale that tranhave the attending doctors and nurses, as scends technique. well as the administration, refuse to treat The escapist fantasy normally presented him and have him physically removed from in animated features, where social and the premises. To make sure we register her cultural realities get softened through the outrage over the situation, she informs us use of animal stand-ins or an exclusive that this affront shakes her to the core. child-centric perspective, never emerges.

When she attends a lecture by a handThis is a PG-13 film. Barras puts complete some doctor (Josh Hartnett) working in an faith in the audience to embrace Zucchini’s American medical mission in Istanbul that experiences as a sadly common situation in is willing to treat all patients regardless everyday life. of skin color or religion, she immediately By offering up characters like Raymond, decides to book passage there.

Camille (a late arrival at the orphanage She lands in the Ottoman Empire just as and Zucchini’s first crush) and Simon (the the world stands on the brink of World War I. bully who transforms into someone far She receives a curiously muted awakening to more meaningful), My Life as a Zucchini the social mores of the region from a dashing morphs into a reflection of the flesh-andarmy lieutenant named Ismail (Michiel Huisblood world. It’s full of characters with big man), a Muslim warrior with a conscience eyes that look right through you, while their and Universalist tendencies. The attraction equally large hearts are capable of bursting stirs between Lillie and Ismail, with the good with well-earned lessons of love. doctor brooding on the sidelines.

A word to the wise: Audiences who That makes for a predictable story, but attend screenings of My Life as a Zucchini there’s a small saving grace in watching Lilshould hang around for a hilarious postlie pursue her twin passions — to heal and credit sequence that, in and of itself, might be worth the price of admission. The world to love Ismail — without compromise. Lillie of this Zucchini will certainly take on a life as a character holds the film together with a of its own. (Opens Friday at the Mariemont resolve we rarely see in protagonists, male Theatre) (PG-13) Grade: Aor female. (Opens Friday at AMC Newport Love and war expose the idealistic on the Levee) (PG-13) Grade: C+

ON SCREEN More Oscar Shorts

BY T T STERN-ENZI

The short film, in all its glory, will be back at Memorial Hall this Saturday and Sunday when Cincinnati World Cinema presents this year’s package of Oscarnominated Live Action and Animated Shorts. Earlier, it had screened Oscarnominated Documentary Shorts.

Forget the small matter of winners and losers at the Academy Awards. We’re the beneficiaries of this bountiful crop of filmmaking, which easily rivals the narratives found on the feature slate.

On the animated front, despite the presence of Piper, a Pixar selection audiences will likely recall, it is time we acknowledge that this format doesn’t have to cater strictly to the kid-centric family-friendly crowd. There is a rich maturity in titles like Borrowed Time, a Western tale about a tragic event in the early years of a lawman; Pearl, a moving musical ode to a father-daughter relationship that could give La La Land a run for its money; and Blind Vaysha, a fable about a girl with one eye that sees only the past, while the other eye sees nothing but the future. But the showstopper might be Pear Cider and Cigarettes, which tells a rambling Rocknoirish story about the life and times of a legendary figure. In its hand-drawn glory, Pear Cider and Cigarettes captures the hazy feel of bingeing on sex, drugs and fantasy that puts adults back in touch with their wild youth.

The live-action nominees traffic in global experiences, with a willingness to drift into the surreal. Two films — Silent Nights and Ennemis Intérieurs (Enemies Within) — tackle immigration head-on.

Sing, the story of a new student who joins a children’s choir and helps to upend an authoritarian choral director, goes for the heartstrings in the broadest sense. Along similar lines, La Femme et le TGV follows an aging baker who engages in a daily correspondence with a passenger on a train, but injects the tale with a sense of whimsy.

My favorite, though, is Timecode, from Spanish director Juanjo Giménez Peña, which uses motion and dance to establish connections in lonely times, but playfully tips its hat to the Netflix series The OA. For information, visit memorialhallotr. org or cincyworldcinema.org. Grade: A

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The Other ‘American Crime’ Show

BY JAC KERN

In the past year, the “American crime” on subject matter includes immigration, everyone’s minds was the murders of Nicole human trafficking and forced labor in North Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and Carolina. The premiere finds Luis Salazar the epic trial and media blitz that followed.

(Martinez), a father from Mexico, illegally It seemed like 2016 was all about reliving entering the U.S. in an effort to find his the O.J. Simpson trial, as evidenced by the missing son. Across the border he finds heavily decorated debut of the FX anthology slavery is very much alive in America today American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. on farms, where undocumented workers Simpson (and Oscar-winning ESPN “30 for are promised jobs but forced into servitude.

30” documentary O.J.: Made in America).

These workers become stuck in poverty The ’90s nostalgia, the lure of another with mounting debt and no legal rights.

Ryan Murphy-created anthology, the reliving of a public trial that served as a precursor to today’s reality TV boom — audiences couldn’t get enough.

But FX’s American Crime Story has yet to prove itself as an ongoing miniseries. And we’ll have to wait until 2018 to see if the show can replicate its success in season two — which will be about the fallout from Hurricane Katrina and star Matthew Broderick and Annette Bening — even though seasons 3 (the murder Benito Martinez (red hat) contributes to the top-notch acting. of Gianni Versace) and 4 (the PHOTO : nicole wilder/courtesy of abc Monica Lewinsky scandal) are already being mapped out.

Meanwhile, John Ridley’s similarly titled We also meet Jeanette Hesby (Huffman), anthology miniseries American Crime who has married into a farm-owning family (Season Premiere, 10 p.m. Sunday, ABC) and discovers some alarming business — now in its third season — centers on practices, and Kimara Walters (King), a fictional but familiar crimes, studying them social worker who’s trying to help a young through the lenses of religion, race, class sex worker testify against her abuser and and other societal divides. start a new life.

The fictional element gives American While these stories might not be ripped Crime an edge over American Crime from the headlines, the subject matter and Story, because the writers are free to create performances feel all too real. a unique story that still feels real, like a mashup of news reports. The stories in each American Crime season are vast, lookThe Bachelor (Season Finale, 8 p.m. ing at all of the implications that led to the Monday, ABC) – Serial Bachelor franchise crime and all of the far-reaching consecontestant Nick Viall gives out his final rose quences instead of just replaying a famous/ — or does he? Either way, if you’re not sick noteworthy crime in a vacuum — and the of Nick yet, he will continue to grace ABC acting is just as top-notch. Felicity Huffman, on Monday nights as a competitor on DancTimothy Hutton, Regina King, Benito Martiing with the Stars. nez, Richard Cabral and Lili Taylor make up The Mindy Project (Tuesday, Hulu) – the strong ensemble cast that transforms Mindy encounters an unfair work experiinto new characters in different situations ence, takes a nap and dreams she’s a white with each season. King won an Emmy for man. This is not a drill: Blonde-haired, blueher roles in both seasons 1 and 2. eyed Ryan Hansen (Veronica Mars, Party Season 1 explored drug addiction and Down) plays Mindy Lahiri this week. gun violence ripping families apart in California, while last year’s second season This Is Us (Season Finale, 9 p.m. Tuesday, delved into sexuality, consent and bullying NBC) – Jack travels to Cleveland to meet within an Indiana high school. There’s never Rebecca and make things right on the night just a single crime committed or an easy of her first big show with the band, while guilty verdict. Instead, American Crime Randall, Kate and Kevin have major life explores the environment that fosters crime, decisions to make. Bring on the waterworks. its many factors and cycle of victims.

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Indi-Go offers a healthier take on Indian favorites — without sacrficing flavor or carbs. stuck with my tried and true chicken tikka ($7.99) for my protein with the tikka masala sauce, basmati rice, tomatoes, pickled onion and a drizzle of the medium chutney in a naan wrap. My friend opted for paneer ($7.25) in a naan wrap with tikka masala sauce, basmati rice, tomato and the sweet and sour chutney. We each got a mango lassi ($2.99) and shared a side of samosas ($3.99).

Beneath the tin foil — in which the naan wraps had been tenderly swaddled — the bread was warm and plush. Tender chunks of chicken doused in tikka masala sauce were cradled inside mine. Pai had proudly told us before we ordered that all of her sauces are vegan and made without cream or ghee, a clarified butter traditionally used in Indian dishes. The result was a tikka masala with a mellow heat that boasted flavors reminiscent of squash or pumpkin.

The complexity of the dish came from the pickled onions, which were pleasantly sharp, and the green-hued medium chutney, which carried the heat for the rest of the meal. Cool notes of mint made for a chutney that was both spicy and refreshing.

Sipping on a sweet mango lassi between bites took me to summer days long past, with turmeric, ginger and lemon.

My friend’s paneer wrap ($7.25) was also good, but if you’re a meat eater, it isn’t worth passing up the tender chicken offered at Indi-Go. If you’re looking for something more adventurous, the sweet and sour chutney paired with the tikka masala is a worthy voyage. As someone partial to heat, I would suggest testing Indi-Go’s hot chutney option; the medium might be too mild for spice lovers.

In addition to bread, I’m a sucker for samosas, so when Pai prepared our side order (two for $3.99) and set the basket down at our table, I experienced emotional distress convincing myself to share. I was pleased to see that the fritters were served with medium and sweet-and-sour chutney for dipping. Inside the samosa shell were piping-hot spiced potatoes and peas. While samosas are sometimes fried, Pai takes a

healthier approach and bakes hers — no grease and all the goodness.

As a yoga teacher, Pai’s background in Ayurveda, an ancient medical system from India, influenced her decision to strive for healthy options on Indi-Go’s menu. She incorporates fresh ginger, cumin seeds — which Pai powders herself — and turmeric, all of which have purported benefits as antioxidants and digestive aids.

After sucking down the last of our mango lassis and paying for our meal (Pai insisted we pay after we ate), I felt light yet satisfied. This was a pleasant surprise — Indian tends to leave me feeling bogged down and lethargic. If you’re in the mood for Indian but don’t want to feel weighed down, Indi-Go is a healthy option that doesn’t sacrifice any flavor.

Indi-Go Go: 3392 Erie Ave., Hyde Park; Call: 513-954-5850; Internet: indi-gogrill.com; Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

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f her long-standing passion for cooking was the seed, the call Sujata Pai received from her son six months ago was the push she needed to help cultivate Indi-Go, Hyde Park’s destination for fastcasual Indian dining.

Nick, then a senior at Ohio State University, called his mom looking for suggestions for fast and affordable Indian food. When Pai could offer none, Nick urged her to open her own restaurant.

In September of last year, the Symmes Township resident did just that. Today you’ll find Indi-Go in the company of a nail salon and dry cleaner nestled in a quaint stripmall minutes from Hyde Park Square.

During a recent afternoon visit with a friend, I didn’t see the Indi-Go storefront and blew past it and the towering Hyde Park Keystone Bar & Grill next door. (Pro tip: Drive slowly and keep your eyes peeled once you turn onto Erie Avenue.) True to Ohio weather, it was much chillier than the day before and I was ready to eat my weight in carbs, go home and slip into a comatose state.

We pulled into the cramped parking lot out front and entered Indi-Go, finding ourselves in a small, purple-walled dining area with a few tables, refrigerators for beverages and a selection of herbal powershots ($1 for turmeric or beet root). There were a handful of tables to choose from, but I imagine the lack of seating might cause some to take their food to go during busier hours.

Smiling cheerily behind the counter was a woman I later learned was Pai, chef and owner, sporting a black apron and purple foam sun visor. She immediately greeted us and offered details and advice on the menu, giving us samples of available sauces. Her enthusiasm for the food was infectious.

Like many restaurant ventures of late, Indi-Go follows the same fast-casual, assembly-line approach as Chipotle. Options range from basmati rice bowls and naan wraps to pizzas and salads, which can be dressed with protein, a signature sauce, veggies and chutney to control the spice level. I sometimes struggle with ordering at Indian restaurants, but the ability to build my dish step by step made it a straightforward process.

When adopting this approach, Pai kept in mind that some people are unfamiliar with Indian offerings.

“This way they walk in and everything is there on the line so they can look at things and they can pick what they want,” she says.

“That’s making it easier for them to go and get Indian food.”

Bread is my cardinal sin, so I specifically scouted the restaurant for its naan wraps. I

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1313-1315 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-0287, findpanino.com At the end of last year, Nino Loreto expanded his Italian-style charcuterie and meat-sandwich food truck Panino, which he established in 2013, into a full restaurant on Vine Street. Having more space to cure his meats is ideal for an operation that literally uses the entire animal — from snout to tail — and stores the meat in the basement at a controlled 55 degrees.

By day, Panino is more of a lunch spot in which hungry customers can order sandwiches to go, but at night the place lights up with a table service, a full menu, cocktails and beer.

For dinner, my dining companion and I were presented with a two-sided menu: food on the front; drinks on the back. Our waitress told us the menu changes weekly, sometimes daily. That’s a testament to the hyper-localness of Panino. Loreto sources animals from Kentucky farms and grows vegetables down the street. Even the wine is exclusively sourced from Skeleton Root, less than a mile away.

We devoured the charcuterie board while we waited for our sandwiches—it was Dutch’s-level good. I ordered the dried tomato pesto and local cheddar panini ($8), and my friend ordered the weekly sausage sandwich ($10), which was a Reuben made with goetta instead of corned beef.

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2437 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills, 513-954-8541, gomezsalsa.com Gomez Salsa Cantina, located in Walnut Hills, pays homage to the original OTR location with a single walk-up cash register where you place your order (inside the restaurant).

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, along with Diablo, Baja and Southwestern. Owner Andrew Gomez assured us that customers can always build their own combinations.

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.

I went for an 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. 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.

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.

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Please 1405 Clay St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-405-8859, pleasecincinnati. com Tucked away on Clay Street in Over-the-Rhine, Please is serving modern and artful small plates — multiple courses of food you might not immediately recognize when you look at them. Thankfully, the helpful staff explains each dish as it arrives.

Diners can choose from a vegetarian, pescetarian or omnivore menu, although gluten-free options are always available and Please’s website does say that vegan menus can be created with advance notice.

All of the menus change with the seasons — sometimes more frequently as ingredients run out. Once you make your selection, each dish is brought out and carefully spaced to make for a long, lingering meal. My and my partner’s first course, in fact the same dish for all three menus, was spaghetti squash — two spoonfuls mounded on top of an almond beurre blanc sauce and topped with lemon zest, almond slivers and cured egg yolks.

My second course (pescetarian) was again the same as my partner’s (omnivore), and it was our favorite: a piece of perfectly cooked fluke on a bed of pomelo and avocado with a vibrant green sauce made from local watercress. The plates are deceptively small but the food is rich and filling, which is partially why the final dish of the night, an icy sweet concord grape granita, tasted so good.

The restaurant just added an à la carte menu, leaving the menu up to the diner.

Even so, next time I go, I think I’ll trust the chef. (McKenzie Graham)

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Tranche and Corliss Wine Dinner — La Petite Pierre hosts a paired wine dinner, featuring boutique wines from Walla Walla, Wash. Some of the wines included in the dinner are hard to get your hands on, and La Petite Pierre will have some allocations reserved for purchase at the event. 7-10 p.m. $95. La Petite Pierre, 7800 Camargo Road, Madeira, lapetitepierre.com.

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Favorites from Marilyn’s European Travels — Marilyn Harris leads this class on creating her favorite dishes she’s enjoyed on her European vacations. Dishes include parsnip risotto and Berlin potato pancakes.

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All Saints Church Fish Fry — Go for the fish tacos and stay for the beer. Fried cod, grilled salmon or tilapia, fish tacos, pizza, fries (sweet potato available) coleslaw, baked potatoes, mac and cheese. And to finish it off: Beer and wine. Fridays through April 7. All Saints Church, 8939 Montgomery Road, Kenwood, allsaints.cc.

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Lehr’s Prime Market Fish Fry — Every Friday during Lent, Milford’s Lehr’s meat market hosts a fish fry featuring a haddock sandwich basket (beer-battered haddock no marble rye with tartar sauce), shrimp basket (jumbo shrimp with hushpuppies) and a la carte options including hushpuppies, mac and cheese and extra tartar sauce. Take home or dine in. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Fridays during Lent. $10 baskets. Lehr’s Prime Market, 740 Main St., Milford, facebook. com/lehrsprimemarket.

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Taste the Streetcar Tour — Travel from OTR through the Central Business District to the Banks on the 3.6-mile streetcar loop.

Step on and off four times and take a short walk to popular restaurants and bars. 1 p.m. $50. Leaves from Daisy Mae’s Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, cincinnatifoodtours.com.

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Pi(e) Day at Artichoke — Celebrate 3.14 by rolling, filling, crimping, fluting and baking your finest pastry. Teeny Morris will be in the Artichoke kitchen demonstrating pie tips and tricks. 6:30-7:30 p.m. $35. Artichoke OTR, 1824 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, artichokeotr.com.

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Greater Cincinnati Metal foursome Lucis Absentia moves beyond basic Thrash on its forthcoming full-length

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f there were any justice in this world, the members of Lucis Absentia would’ve shown up to our interview drunk and/ or hungover, with the stench of cheap beer, cheaper pizza and cigarettes still hanging from their all-denim outfits. Or, better yet, not shown up at all because they were too busy raging at their trashed practice space like the Thrash forefathers of old.

But, alas, that was not to be. Instead of conducting this interview in a posteradorned practice space, the meeting was held in a quiet Applebee’s to ensure the recorder didn’t have any issue picking up their inside voices. Instead of cases of PBR, Colton Deem (guitars/vocals) and Mitch Pegg (guitar) enjoyed a sensible lager and basket of mozzarella sticks. And in perhaps the biggest affront to the Metal gods, the boys were not just on time, they were early.

While it’s true that the band doesn’t tick off too many Thrash Metal image boxes, all you have to do is spin the 2013 EP, To the Depths (which was released on Static Tension Records) or catch a live show to hear Lucis Absentia’s new material to realize that, thankfully, looks can be quite deceiving.

To the Depths packs a ton of Thrash into its trim 29-minute runtime. The songs hit fast and furious with little breathing room, leaving the listener gasping for air under the weight of the dual guitar dueling, Pegg’s massive double bass and Deem’s throaty snarl. But nestled amid the chaos are the beginnings of expansion into the more expressive subgenres found on Lucis Absentia’s forthcoming full-length, Gehenna Gate, currently slated for a summer release.

Pegg’s and Deem’s road to the lofty heights of a chain restaurant’s choicest of tables began back in grade school when Pegg and his brother Cody (Lucis Absentia’s drummer) started their first bands. Originally from Missouri, the Pegg brothers and Deem played in several bands together with several different styles prior to moving to the Queen City in 2011.

The first iteration was called Haunting Kensington. “I’ll take credit for that. Terrible name,” Pegg says. They then transitioned into Metalcore with new band The Harrowing before scrapping everything and starting fresh in Cincinnati with what was originally known as Gomorrah before becoming Lucis Absentia.

The transition from their high school Metalcore influences to today’s mix of Thrash speed, Death Metal brutality and Progressive intricacy was a natural one, primarily born from the members’ increased exposure to new and varied forms of Metal and also from moving to a

Gehenna Gate, Lucis Absentia’s follow-up to 2013’s To the Depths EP, is due this summer. new town, not knowing a soul and practicing relentlessly.

After cycling through multiple bass players, they landed on current bassist Nick Holderbaum six months ago. (“It only took two years of begging,” Holderbaum jokes.)

“When we wrote To the Depths, we were all into the Thrash bands,” Pegg says. “We just started listening to Sepultura and all the Bay Area Thrash bands and newer bands like Sylosis, who are actually a fairly big influence on us as players, and they’re all balls to the wall for the most part.

“Then we started listening to all these other bands and realizing that we don’t have to play fast all the time,” he continues. “I think we were trying to push our boundaries, technically, on To the Depths. We were trying to prove that we could play aggressively and that was the mission. Then when we started writing these new songs it was like, ‘There’s all these other cool elements that we could incorporate that wouldn’t destroy us, because you don’t have to write as technical as possible to write a good song,’ and I think before we weren’t as aware of that.”

While To the Depths was rooted in bands like Cannibal Corpse, Trivium, As I Lay Dying and Death, Gehenna Gate takes its cues from acts that Deem discovered as he began to dig further into Metal’s less BPMfocused genres.

“I like a lot of Opeth, Mastodon — progressive things like that,” Deem says. “So we’ve taken a decent amount of influence when it comes to the structuring of songs, trying to do things that we’re not necessarily comfortable with, things we attempted on the EP that we wanted to expand on even more. The songs take you on a journey: there’s ups and downs; there’s a climax. I’m trying to do that with our stuff because that’s what I enjoy.

Honestly, if it wasn’t for Cody, I’d be playing pretty stuff all the time. He keeps us heavy.”

Fans of To the Depths needn’t worry that Lucis Absentia has lost its Thrash edge. The members have just developed their skills to include other genres that intensify the speed metal base they’ve built. The song “Phantom Sun,” for example, weaves Doomlike drone interludes into the main riff, which loops and layers in on itself through

the majority of the track. None of Lucis Absentia’s intensity is lost; the different approach propels the strength of the central riff by giving it room to evolve via breaks in the sonic narrative.

In many ways, Lucis Absentia’s stylistic shifts are an archetypal road map for young bands. With the average age of the members hovering around the mid-20s, it’s easy to see how the quartet transitioned from aping its high school idols to adopting a focus on Thrash’s speed and technicality to finally realizing the value in slowing down and letting the songs take root in more than one style. While To the Depths is a lean and mean chunk of Metal, Gehenna Gate is poised to push both Lucis Absentia’s artistic boundaries and its impact on the local Metal scene.

It is this growth that even the Thrash forefathers would be proud of… as long as they weren’t passed out in the tour van already.

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Mad Anthony Wraps Song-a-Week Project BY nick grever

to contribute on all aspects of many of their songs, it’s easy to see how this project could’ve run into any number of roadblocks.

Musicians aren’t always known for their abilities to share or work on a strict deadline, but the Mad Anthology collaborations were a complete success. Sherlock was especially excited to meet and work with so many outside artists and grow his skills through the experience.

“I thought it was awesome,” he says. “I didn’t know probably about half of the people; I met them when they came in to sing,

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so that was a ride for me — you had no idea what to expect. I got to meet a lot of people and we got to write a lot of cool songs that I normally wouldn’t see myself getting fired up about, and that’s pretty exciting.”

A major reason the band wanted to focus on collaborations was to connect their fans with artists they considered friends, as well as reach out to fans of their collaborators. It ended up working out beyond expectations.

“The people who were once casual fans before are now super fans,” Jones says.

“And our super fans before are now, like, in the band. We were going for width and we got depth, and that’s actually better. I’d rather have 100 super fans who I know their first name and I see them at a bar and we can actually talk about things than 1,000 casual fans.”

Mad Anthony’s next local show is a freebie at Northside Tavern (4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsidetav.com) on March 31. All 52 Mad Anthology songs can be streamed at madanthony.bandcamp.com.

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SXSW’s Immigration Problem South By Southwest, the annual music industry conference/ showcase/schmooze-a-rama in Austin, Texas, inadvertently found itself in the middle of the immigration debate created by our current president. When a performer closely examined his contract to play the event (SXSW attracts musical acts from across the globe), he noticed a clause that seemed to indicate that organizers would notify U.S. immigration authorities if an invited artist played a “non-sanctioned” event (the fest often demands exclusivity, forbidding acts from playing within a certain radius of the event).

When several musicians signed an open letter in protest, organizers said they’d review the language in the clause, which they admitted was confusing.

Rod’s Head Games Just as talk that could be seen as condoning ratting people out to immigration officials should be considered carefully these days, performing a “fun” mock beheading in the desert should probably not go beyond the “wouldn’t it be funny if…” phase. Rod Stewart’s wife posted a video of Stewart’s crew goofing around in Abu Dhabi, but the “good fun” turned dark when Stewart appeared to mimic an ISIS-style beheading with a crewmate.

Sir Rod (yup, he’s a British knight!) apologized to anyone who was offended and said they were just “larking about.”

Wasting Away in Margaritaville His music may suck, but Jimmy Buffett certainly knows how to take advantage of his aging fan base from a business standpoint.

In the twilight of his career, the 70-year-old has gotten into the vacation resort and restaurant businesses and he’s created a musical based on his songs. Now he’s looking to be there for (and collect money from) his Parrothead fans during their final stages of life with a chain of Margaritaville retirement villages for older Buffett fans. The first village is being built in Daytona Beach, Fla., and will feature spas, live entertainment, beach access and, presumably, a 4 p.m.

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It’s amazing what a difference a year can make. Instead of piles of snaking cables, Ringo Jones’ living room now has a sensible couch and walls lined with framed show posters. The dining room is no longer the practice space for Cincinnati Rock band Mad Anthony, as it was when the group was interviewed for a CityBeat cover story this time last year; now it’s home to an honest-to-goodness dining room table. And instead of crowding around a kitchen table, taking shots of Jameson and discussing the beginning of their ambitious Mad Anthology project, wherein Jones (guitar/vocals), Adam Flaig (guitar) and Marc Sherlock (drums) set out to release a new song every week for an entire year, the trio is sitting on the aforementioned couch, sipping on water and talking about the success of a project that, by all accounts, should’ve been impossible. The series wrapped on Feb. 24 with the release of the final new song, fittingly titled “It Never Ends.”

To the surprise of no one who’s familiar with Mad Anthony’s work ethic, the trio isn’t taking any time off. While the writing and recording is over for a while, there’s still plenty more to be done: namely preparing for their first batch of post-anthology live shows.

“It feels like we’re kind of shaking the rust off a little bit,” Flaig says.

“I’m relieved because rehearsing is way easier than writing and recording,” Jones says. “That’s part of the thing about this band is that it never really stops. It’s like, ‘Alright, we did that, we accomplished something and it was amazing,’ but we haven’t really sat down together since the end and said, ‘Hey, good job! High fives all around!’ More than anything, I’m like, ‘Alright, the pressure’s off; no song this week.’ But at the same time, the pressure’s on, because we have the live dates coming up and we want to make them special. We want to come out guns blazing.”

The live shows, with Mad Anthology songs mixed in with old favorites in the set, are just one aspect of the post-project reality. Another is preparing a physical release for the 52 new anthology tracks, which more than doubles the band’s previous recorded output. While still hammering out details, the initial plans are to release a batch of 22 songs spread across two volumes, but there’s an abundance of options and possibilities available to the guys.

They’re taking their time and enjoying the freedom the project helped instill in them.

“We’ve got no strings, ever, and we can see where that takes us,” Jones says.

“We don’t have anyone telling us no,” Flaig adds.

Mad Anthony’s monumental accomplishment is impressive enough at face value. But when you factor in the band’s desire to involve dozens of special guests

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Moving Units with Viktor Fiction and Soviet Wednesday • MOTR Pub Since launching their rhythmic Dance Punk outfit 16 years ago, Moving Units has had something of a tangled history.

The Los Angeles quartet began in 2001 when guitarists Chris Hathwell and Blake Miller decided to work together after the breakup of their previous bands, Festival of Dead Deer and Spectacle, respectively. In relatively short order, the band released its eponymous debut EP and secured opening slots for the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Pixies and Blur, which sparked a good deal of label interest. Island imprint Palm Pictures signed the band and released its first full-length, Dangerous Dreams, in 2004.

Within three years, Moving Units had shifted to indie label Metropolis for their sophomore album, Hexes for Exes, which marked Moving Units a shift to a more PHOTO : Jeff Jacquin Electronic/Synth Pop-based sound, as evidenced by the album’s first single, The Fall-tinged “Pink Thoughts.” It would be another four years before the band’s next release, the Tension War EP, a self-issued affair featuring three new songs, a reinterJohnnyswim pretation of “Pink PHOTO : Darren L au Thoughts” as “Pink Redemption” and a pair of remixes.

Shortly thereafter, the band announced through a Facebook post that Miller had left the band, but within months, Miller returned with a new lineup and played shows as Moving Units. After some initial disagreement, the original band members relented and allowed Miller to continue with his new lineup as Moving Units.

With a rejuvenated vigor, Miller and the new Moving Units folded all of their Dark Wave/Dance/Synth Pop/Indie Rock influences into 2013’s Neurotic Exotic and returned to the road with a vengeance.

The band’s latest project is a straight-line connection to one of Miller’s earliest inspirations, the work of doomed vocalist Ian Curtis and his magnificent creation, Joy Division. After learning the band’s songs note-for-note, Miller and Moving Units began to play with arrangements and interject their own creative input, resulting in the

just-released Collision with Joy Division.

The shows on the band’s current tour are divided into an all-Joy Division set followed by an originals set. So if you long to return to the dark days of 1979, or you want to understand what your parents are always babbling about, or you’re an old fan of Hexes for Exes or a new fan of Neurotic Exotic, Moving Units has a danceable solution for all of you. (Brian Baker) Johnnyswim with Will Solomon Thursday • Bogart’s Of all the groups that ever came frontloaded with a surfeit of expectation, Johnnyswim could easily lead the pack. Essentially comprised of vocal duo Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano, the seeds of Johnnyswim were planted over a decade and a half ago when the pair met through mutual friends at a Nashville coffee shop while Sudano was visiting from New York.

Sudano returned a few months later and Ramirez invited her to his show, which led to their subsequent professional and personal partnership. Florida native Ramirez had graduated from the music program at Jacksonville’s prestigious Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and, with a voice hovering in the John Legend range, quickly embarked on a successful performing and songwriting career. Sudano is the scion of Pop royalty. Her father, Bruce Sudano, was mentored by Tommy James of the Shondells, played keyboards for the groups Alive N Kickin’ and The Brooklyn Dreams and became a renowned producer. Her mother was the legendary Donna Summer.

The pair officially launched Johnnyswim in 2005, playing local and regional shows before releasing their debut EP in 2008. In 2009, they solidified their relationship by getting married and later that year they appeared on Bruce Sudano’s album Life and the Romantic. Over the next three years, Johnnyswim toured constantly, independently released two more EPs and appeared on The Tonight Show and The Late, Late Show before signing with the Big Picnic label for its debut full-length, 2014’s Diamonds, which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s

Singer/Songwriter chart.

Since then, the duo has stayed perpetually busy, releasing a 2014 Christmas album, welcoming the birth of their son in 2015 and dropping both a live recording and a new studio album, Georgica Pond, in 2016.

Although Johnnyswim’s forte is clearly romantic Pop, there is an atmospheric undercurrent and soulful dynamism, not to mention a cauldron of actual emotion, that elevates its songs well above the simple clichéd lyrical and musical explorations of a well-worn condition everyone sings about.

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SeepeopleS with Kumasi Saturday • Stanley’s Pub Regardless of the era, keeping a band going for 17 years is an impressive feat. But keeping an independent band together since 2000 — as is the case with Maine-based rockers SeepeopleS — shows particular dedication.

SeepeopleS have endured a complete shift in the very way music is consumed by sticking to the foundation on which the band was built: writing good songs, constantly touring and building/ retaining a fanbase by repeating that simple, timeless formula.

It helps that SeepeopleS’ music is melodic, well-crafted Pop Rock that is unshackled by trends and fleeting tastes.

The group’s forthcoming EP, Hate (part of SeepeopleS a trilogy of EPs and PHOTO : provided the band’s seventh studio effort), is a great representation of frontman/guitarist Will Bradford’s strong, timeless songwriting skills. Opening track “The Burning Bridge” is a swaying but never meandering slice of Psychedelic Pop, a vibe that carries over to the more uptempo “Just Like the Animals” and the lush, ethereal “Scapegoat.” But the band can crank up the adrenaline and still maintain its captivatingly melodic allure. Buzzsaw rocker “New American Dream” brings the EP’s political themes to the forefront (SeepeopleS never shies from political outspokenness; the group played a rally in support of Bernie Sanders last year), with snarky (yet presently relevant and scary) lyrics about wanting to be president in order to have the power to kill everyone and use nuclear weapons.

Besides having the musical goods to buoy its durable career, SeepeopleS have been smart about their general approach.

They’ve had songs placed on film and TV soundtracks and have received a good number of positive reviews and features from a variety of press outlets, from Magnet magazine to High Times. But perhaps the most important aspect of the group’s longevity is its live show and ability and willingness to play with a diverse range of artists; SeepeopleS have toured with British rockers Kula Shaker and shared a stage with everyone from De La Soul to Death Cab for Cutie. Despite not having the profile of the stereotypical “Jam band,” the group has also managed to tap into the Jam circuit on tour. That SeepeopleS have been embraced by a scene that, above all, values a great live show should be all the testament you need to catch the band as it rolls through town this weekend. But if you’re a fan of excellent songwriting, just put on any of the group’s recordings for extra incentive.

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Wednesday 08 Blind Lemon - Sara Hutchinson. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5.

Knotty Pine - 90 Proof Twang. 10 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Horse & Barrel - Sonny Moorman.

6 p.m. Blues. Free.

The Liberty Inn - Stagger Lee. 6:30 p.m. Country/Rock. Free.

The Hot Spot - Bob Cushing. 7 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

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

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

The Mockbee - Mardou, Western Medication, Dinge and Drool. 9 p.m. Rock/Garage/Post Punk/ Punk. Free.

MOTR Pub - Moving Units: The Songs Of Joy Division with Viktor Fiction and Soviet. 9 p.m.

Post Punk. Free.

The Listing Loon - Elizabeth Devlin and Margaret Darling. 9 p.m. Indie/Folk/Various. Free.

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McCauly’s Pub - Strum n’ Honey. 7 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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Northside Tavern - Grace Lincoln.

9 p.m. Soul. Free.

The Mockbee - Mellow Cactus, Grant King and Joe Walla. 9 p.m.

Rock. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - The Tossers with Gallows Bound.

10 p.m. Celtic/Rock. $15, $18 day of show.

MOTR Pub - Dead Coast with Bucko. 9 p.m. Psych/Blues/ Rock/Pop. Free.

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

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

Southgate House Revival H (Lounge) - The Newbees with Kevin Fox, Easy Tom Eby and Chris Mack. 8 p.m. Rock/Pop/Roots.

Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Greg Rekus, Dead Man String Band, The Z.G.s and Folded Arms. 8 p.m. Rock/Punk. Free.

Trinity Gastro Pub - Carl Shepard.

7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Urban Artifact - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10.

Thursday 09 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner and Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m.

Jazz. Free.

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The Greenwich - Great Trumpet H Battle Vol. 1 featuring John Zappa and “Maddog” Mavridoglou.

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

Bogart’s - Johnnyswim with Will Solomon. 8 p.m. Pop/ Roots/Soul/Various. $29.

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Celeberties - Moneybagg Yo. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $35-$65.

The Comet - Blakkr, Looming, Twist and Leggy. 10 p.m. Rock/Punk/ Various. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Brandon Martin with Molly Morris and Dawn Weast.

9:30 p.m. Americana. Free.

Doc’s Place - Tom Kaper Acoustic.

Free.

Memorial Hall - Pink Martini.

8 p.m. Jazz/Pop/Various.

Sold out.

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

Queen City Radio - The John Ford Blues Society. 9 p.m. Blues. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Randy Steffen with Wilder and Chalk Eye. 9:30 p.m. Folk/ Americana. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - James Weston with Brian Dolzani and Andrew Hibbard. 8:30 p.m. Folk/Blues/Various. $7, $10 day of show.

Stanley’s Pub - Dr. Foxcroft with Tweed. 9 p.m. Rock/Jam. Cover.

Trinity Gastro Pub - Rick Stacy.

7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Urban Artifact - Earphorik with Mister F and Ample Parking. 7 p.m.

Rock/Funk/Jazz/Jam/Various. Free.

Friday 10 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - River City Roustabout. 9 p.m. Americana.

Free.

Blind Lemon - Charlie Millikin. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - Kyle LeMaster & The Honky-Tonk Heroes.

10 p.m. Country. Free.

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Bogart’s - Cal Scruby. 8 p.m.

Hip Hop. $15.

College Hill Coffee Co. - Venicia K. 7:30 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. Free.

The Comet - The Off White, Psychiatric Metaphors and Pop Empire. 10 p.m. Rock/Psych/ Garage/Various. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Andrew McPheeters.

10 p.m. Americana. Free.

Trinity Gastro Pub - Nicole Conrad.

7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Front Street Cafe - Ricky Nye and Rob Lumbard. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie.

Urban Artifact - Founding H Fathers, Fluffer and Zane and the Sway. 9 p.m. Alt/Dance/Rock/

The Greenwich - Push Play. 8:30 p.m. R&B/Funk. $8.

JerZees Pub & Grub - Pandora Effect. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

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

Knotty Pine - Naked Karate Girls.

10 p.m. Pop/Rock/Dance/Various.

Cover.

Live! at the Ludlow Garage - The Gibson Brothers. 8 p.m. Bluegrass. $20-$40.

The Mad Frog - The Black Ties with BACKDoor. 8 p.m. Dance/Pop/ Rock/Various. Cover.

Madison Live - The Borderline Something with Motel Faces and B.I.T.S. 9 p.m. Rock. $8, $10 day of show.

Madison Theater - Madison H Theater Band Challenge SemiFinal with Boxtrot, Conductor Jones

& The Hype Train, I.N.Y.A., Oak, Rose Lamp, Soul Butter, Tag. and Wicked Peace. 7 p.m. Various. $10.

Various. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Pamela Mallory Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).

Saturday 11 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - The Wayfarers. 9 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center - Ricky Nye with Rob Lumbard and Nick Lloyd. 7 p.m.

Blues/Boogie Woogie. Sold out.

Belterra Casino - Bret Michaels. 7 p.m. Country/Glam Metal. $60.

Blind Lemon - Warren Ulgh. 9 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - Stone Mountain Mafia, Sweet Revenge and Wize Guys. 9 p.m. Rock/ Various.

College Hill Coffee Co. - Bromwell Diehl. 7:30 p.m. Folk Pop/Various.

Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Noah Wotherspoon Band. 9 p.m. Blues. $4.

The Comet - Denim Gremlin, Me Time and the Raging Crush and Grotesque Brooms. 10 p.m. Rock.

Free.

MOTR Pub - Angela Perley & H the Howlin’ Moons with Ona. 9 p.m. Rock/Roots. Free.

Common Roots - The Spring H Forward Fundraiser Supporting Sayler Park Sustains featuring

MVP Bar & Grille - Jayme. 8 p.m.

Acoustic Rock.

Northside Tavern - Kuber, Moonbeau and Kid Stardust.

10 p.m. Rock/Indie/Pop/Various.

Free.

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The Tillers, Shiny and the Spoon, Warrick & Lowell and Part-Time Gentlemen. 7 p.m. Folk/Americana. $10 (suggested donation).

Crow’s Nest - HuTown Holler. 10 p.m. Roots/Bluegrass. Free.

Danny B’s Lounge - Bob Cushing.

8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Taboo, SOROS, Inbreeder, Ruined and Nature Was Here. 10 p.m. Noise/ Experimental/Various.

The Greenwich - Greg Abate. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10.

Plain Folk Cafe - Rabbit Hash String Band. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass.

Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - The Sly Band. 9:30 p.m. Pop/Dance/ Various. $5.

Rick’s Tavern - Throw It Down. 10 p.m. Country. $5.

JAX Tavern - Basic Truth. 9 p.m.

Funk/R&B/Soul. Cover.

Shady O’Grady’s - Bob Cushing. 9 p.m. Acoustic.

Jim and Jack’s on the River - Dan Varner. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

Silverton Cafe - Basic Truth. 9 p.m.

R&B/Funk/Soul. Free.

Knotty Pine - Final Order. 10 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Mudpies. 9:30 p.m.

Blues/Rock. Free.

Madison Live - Manic Focus with DJ Green Lantern and Alexander Alejo. 9:30 p.m. Dance/Electronic. $12, $15 day of show.

Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary) - Dead Meadow with The Flash Hits and Old City. 9 p.m. Rock. $15, $18 day of show.

Thompson House - Pickwick Commons and Grave Friends. 8 p.m. Metal. $10.

The Mockbee - Lantana, DJ HD, H Macho Means, Jaylii Got Juice, Insomniac Millz, Mundo, Turich Benjy, Skally and DJTHADJ. 10 p.m.

Hip Hop. $10.

MOTR Pub - Joshua Powell & the Great Train with Jim Trace and the Makers. 9 p.m. Rock/Roots. Free.

Northside Tavern - Calumet, Seasaw and Heavy Hinges. 10 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

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Northside Yacht Club H Skeleton Hands (EP release) with Relic, Hexadiode and

Cosmic Moon. 9 p.m. Electronic/ Darkwave/Industrial/Various. Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - Second Time Around. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - 3 Day Rule. 10 p.m.

Rock. $5.

Sharonville Convention Center Atlanta Rhythm Section. 6:30 p.m.

Rock. $40-$65.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Wild Mountain Berries with Judge n Jury and Evan Ray. 9:30 p.m. Americana/Various.

Free.

Stanley’s Pub - SeepeopleS and Kumasi. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/ Various. Cover.

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Thompson House - For the Fire. 8 p.m. Rock. $10.

Miami University-Middletown (Dave Finkelman Auditorium) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. 7:30 p.m.

Country Rock. $28.

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

MOTR Pub - Ancient Warfare. 8 Hp.m.

Alt/Rock/Various. Free.

Northside Tavern - DJ Pillo. 8 p.m.

Soul/Funk/Dance/Various. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs with Virginia Creepers. 9 p.m. Rock.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - The Blue Eyed Bettys. 4 p.m. Americana. $8, $10 day of show.

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

Urban Artifact - Rose Lamp, Rosedale, Dawn Drapes and ForestFox. 8 p.m. Alt/Indie/Rock/ Various. Free.

Monday 13 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.

Top of the Line - Ambush. 9 p.m.

Rock. Free.

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

Trinity Gastro Pub - Tracy Walker. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

MOTR Pub - Static Falls with HJason Snell. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

The Underground - City Rock Fest with Disciple, Project 86, Seventh Day Slumber, Random Hero and Scarlet White. 7:30 p.m. Rock.

Cover.

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

Urban Artifact - Vehicle and The Slam-Clickers Band. 7 p.m. Rock.

Free.

The Venue - Trailer Park Floosies.

9:30 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance/ Country/Various. Cover.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Mike Wade Quartet.

9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

Sunday 12 Blind Lemon - Jeff Henry. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Bogart’s - Ammm featuring Zach Myers from Shinedown. 8 p.m.

Rock. $15.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Prestige Grease. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.

The Comet - The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass.

Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Full Circle. 9 p.m.

Rock. Free.

The Greenwich - Radio Black. 7 p.m. Various. $10.

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

Tuesday 14 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Casey Campbell. 7 p.m. Blues/Roots.

Free.

Blind Lemon - Nick Tuttle. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

BrewRiver GastroPub - John Ford.

6:30 p.m. Blues/Roots. Free.

Christ Church Cathedral - Music Live@Lunch with Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers. 12:10 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

The Comet - Slugsalt. 10 p.m.

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 (Lounge) - Sarah Potenza. 8 p.m.

Rock/Americana. $10, $12 day of show.

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