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Massie vs. the FBI Michael R. Jones: A diversion to keep us from noticing that the Trump clown car’s wheels are falling off.

April Keil: Massie doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground. How does this bozo keep getting elected?

Ken Klug: Just another crazy Republican.

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Local Budget Cuts, Prez Vacations Billie Holiday: Good job, Trump voters. Letting him take away more public jobs and polluting further Ohio’s already toxic water, soil and air. Oh, but we need to make sure there is $20 million available every week he goes on vacation. He is destroying our country.

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 15

ICYMI: All the celebrities got secret-married! Several famous couples recently tied the knot on the down-low and this week they all decided to announce it. RuPaul ru-vealed on Hollywood Today Live that he and his longtime boyfriend, an Australian rancher (get it!), got hitched in January, “really for tax breaks,” he said on the show; Dave Franco, James’ baby bro, and actress Alison Brie married on the hush at some point recently; Broad City’s Ilana Glazer and her guy, a scientist she met at NYU, wed in a City Hall ceremony last month; actors and soon-to-be-parents Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski also made it official; and Tyrese married his non-famous social worker bae in a surprise wedding on Valentine’s Day. Whew! Celebrity marriages are a sacred bond known to last a lifetime. Congrats to the happy couples on making what we’re sure will be a permanent commitment.

THURSDAY MARCH 16

Government cannabis is some straight-up shake. Dirt weed. Seeds-n-stems. Whatever you call low-grade bud, that appears to be what the feds give researchers for scientific testing. A researcher studying the effects of medical marijuana on veterans with PTSD is speaking out about the realities of cannabis studies: The stuff the government distributes for research resembles the baggie of dried-up kitchen herbs you’d buy from an older kid on

the school bus more than actual marijuana.

And not only does that take away from these scientists’ street cred, but it may be affecting their results. In other weed news, someone accidentally donated nearly four pounds of the stuff to Goodwill in a cooler. Employees of a Washington Goodwill discovered 60 ounces — 59 above the legal possession limit in the state — and called the cops, who are trying to track down its original owner. Maybe cannabis researchers should just scour thrift stores to find proper marijuana for testing.

FRIDAY MARCH 17

Ahh, St. Patrick’s Day. Green attire. Booze.

Flogging Molly on repeat. This is not just a scene from your local pub; it’s also the Trump administration’s take on the holiday.

Festivities kicked off Thursday with a bunch of Paddy fuckery and we’re still shook today.

The quick-and-dirty of it: Mike Pence said “Top o’ the mornin’,” Paul Ryan showed off a poorly-poured pint of Guinness, (blasphemy!) and Donald Trump’s longtime favorite Irish saying was carelessly plucked from a Pinterest page of inspirational quotes. When Trump met with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, he read his favorite Irish proverb “Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue, but never forget to remember those that have stuck by you.” Obviously this is an Irish proverb in the sense that “If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best” is a real Marilyn Monroe quote. Which is to say, FAKE!!! Had

it been a true Irish proverb, it would have began with “Always drink to forget…” Even better, it appears to be poem by a Nigerian man whose name alone would lead him to be detained at any American border.

SATURDAY MARCH 18

There was no Saturday Night Live on tonight, but major news came this week from the longtime sketch comedy show. The remaining episodes of the season will air live in all time zones for the first time ever, meaning while we’re watching at the regular 11:30 p.m. time, folks on the West Coast can tune in at 8:30. Looking into summer, “Weekend Update” will get the standalone treatment for four weeks in August. There’s also an A-list assortment of hosts lined up for the spring, including SNL alum Jimmy Fallon, Chris Pine, Sean Spicy (typo but it stays) herself Melissa McCarthy and Dwayne Johnson to close out the highest rated season in years. #ThanksTrump

SUNDAY MARCH 19

It’s hard out here for a successful white American male actor like Tim Allen. Basically like Nazi Germany. That’s what the Tool Man told Jimmy Kimmel on Live this week, saying “This is like ’30s Germany!” He wasn’t referring to Trump and Hitler’s shared hostility toward foreigners, minorities and the press — he was talking about his difficult experience as a Hollywood conservative.

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Th e Ro b ot s W e N e e d Robots are humans’ attempt to create an extension of ourselves through technology. But artists and movie-makers have promised a lot of robot stuff that, frankly, most people are not seeing improve their lives. Robocops were supposed to capture sadistic murderers, change our tires and give us all the speeding tickets we wanted. Look what happened in Elmwood Place a few years ago: In the end, not one dollar benefitting the small Hamilton County village was paid to their speeding ticket robot. That’s lame.

Ironman-robotic suits were supposed to revamp our weak and crumbling military-industrial complex. Instead of billionaire entrepreneurs directly fighting super-terrorists around the globe from inside their super-suits, we’ve still got a bunch of ordinarily clothed nerds in dark rooms crossing their fingers as they shoot missiles at bad guys from remote-controlled drones. This is very disappointing. But who is to blame?

Around the same time period as the Elmwood Place camera debacle, philanthropists were busy funding the return of Nam June Paik’s Metrobot, a giant friendly robot that attempts to present an optimistic view of our relationship with technology, but fails, because it serves only as a telephone and a weirdlooking sign. This is a perfect example of how charitable gifts from foundations use their tax-free status to fund robots that don’t even do anything cool for

Sounds like he’s being pretty sensitive, right?

Someone needs to talk some sense into this snowflake. Where you at, Wilson?

MONDAY MARCH 20

Britain plans to hand the European Union its two-year notice next week, officially starting the Brexit process March 29. How does a country prepare for a breakup after a 40-year relationship? Block the E.U. on all social media, delete its number and burn all their photos together while singing out, “Everything you own in a box to the left…”

TUESDAY MARCH 21

Fiona the hippo continues to bring people together in Cincinnati and beyond during polarizing times with her adorable smile, squishy little body and healthy milestones.

But there’s a new lil’ hippo in town. And by in town, we mean across the globe. Fiona came into this world prematurely as one of the tiniest hippos of her kind, but she wasn’t quite as small as a pygmy hippo recently born in Australia. Now some are saying this wee unnamed hippo, born at around 11 pounds compared to Fiona’s 29, is stealing our girl’s thunder. Pygmy animals are naturally much smaller than their traditional counterparts, but really, should we be comparing two young girls to determine their value — cuteness? Yet another example of unrealistic beauty standards for women!

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humanity. This is lost tax revenue that can be funneled to robots that actually shoot things and blow stuff up for the good of all humans in America. This is also exactly why Trump’s plan to defund endowments for the arts and humanities — each currently wasting .012 percent of discretionary spending — is a good idea.

We can’t ask coal miners in West Virginia and single mothers in Detroit to indirectly subsidize silly, smiley-faced robots through public endowments. However, we can ask them to donate to our anemic defense budget, which is currently only 54 percent of discretionary spending. Increasing defense spending will save our endangered military and also help struggling companies such as Northrup Grumman and Boston Dynamics produce robots that more closely resemble the heroic machines that artists have promised but failed to produce.

Tump’s proposed budget is one that all of humanity can benefit from. Instead of being disappointed by friendly robots like Metrobot, we will finally see a collective future where privately owned companies use public funds to trickle their technology down into our everyday lives. Not only will awesome, functional robots make waging war, fighting crime and giving out speeding tickets sexy again; as they surveil us from the depths of their infrared optical targeting sensors and microchip brains, we will stare intrepidly into a reflection of the oldest and most essential part of our human selves.

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Reporters Can’t Be Auditors

By Ben L. Kaufman

for business. ‘Most untreated sex offenders released from prison go on to commit more offenses — indeed, as many as 80 percent do,’ the article said, without evidence or elaboration.”

Liptak added, “That’s it. The basis for much of American jurisprudence and legislation about sex offenders was rooted in an offhand and unsupported statement in a mass-market magazine, not a peerreviewed journal.”

• More digging found the origin of Donald Trump’s unsupported claim that Barack Obama wiretapped him last year.

The Daily Beast and others trace it to an election-eve post on the new Heat Street website.

There, Louise Mensch said, “Two separate sources with links to the counterintelligence community have confirmed to Heat Street that the FBI sought, and was granted, a FISA court warrant in October, giving counter-intelligence permission to examine the activities of ‘U.S. persons’ in Donald Trump’s campaign with ties to Russia.”

She didn’t mention wire taps and no one paid much attention until Trump tweeted his accusation, but it didn’t take long for other news media to embellish her story.

“I was really thrilled,” Mensch told The Daily Beast last week about the president’s reaction, “because I thought he was simply admitting that my story was true.”

• Jill Abramson’s essay in The Guardian is worth a read. She’s a regular there and former executive editor of The New York Times. Her March 8 essay begins, “Fake news has morphed into something far more egregious, fake history. Donald Trump routinely lies about himself, his accomplishments, his businesses and his opponents. This is how he wins the political upper hand and dominates the news cycle. The lying is no longer surprising.

“It’s his willful ignorance of history, mirrored by members of his cabinet, that is astounding and, in some ways, even more demoralizing.”

• Faked research, alternative facts and false news continue to blame autism on childhood vaccinations. Some reporters continue to frighten parents and unvaccinated children continue to get measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). A few die.

Anti-vaxxers got an injection of hope when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters

at the National Press Club that Trump is considering naming him to head a commission to oversee vaccine safety and scientific integrity.

Trump and scientific integrity? If the possibility weren’t deadly, it would be hilarious.

Credulous coverage demonstrated news media addiction to clickbait even though the autism-vaccination link and its advocates have been discredited.

RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer. He brings minor celebrity to the cause. He told reporters his commission would be made up of “Americans of the highest integrity” who might include corporate CEOs and “doctors on television.”

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Writing in London’s Guardian, Paul A. Offit, physician and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said the commission would be filled by people “with no experience in the design, research, manufacture or testing of vaccines and no expertise in areas like immunology, virology, microbiology, statistics, biology or epidemiology.

“Ignorance, despite RFK Jr.’s enthusiasm for his personal vaccine commission, is never an advantage. … Nonetheless, RFK Jr. would be given yet another platform for more fake news that could cause more parents to avoid vaccines and more children to suffer — a federal commission working against the health of children.”

• Fox News offered a rare admission of faux news when anchor Bill O’Reilly said the “Swedish defense and national security advisor” he interviewed wasn’t anything of the sort. Sweden’s foreign and defense ministries said they’d never heard of the so-called expert.

“The criticism is valid,” O’Reilly said. “We should have clarified that he had no direct role with the Swedish government.” Forget facts. The guest was anti-immigrant and that was good enough.

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Skilled, full-time city hall reporters can’t keep up with lifers responsible for monitoring Cincinnati’s grants to dogooder programs.

It’s our local version of Too Big To Fail or Friend of Charlie, Friend of John.

Or former friend.

Mahogany’s? Kiddie contract at MSD? Park Board/Foundation? Center for Closing the Health Gap? The more reporters tell us, the more we wonder if seeming ineptitude reflects implicit or explicit directions to turn a blind eye to grant recipients and bills submitted for reimbursement.

To their credit, reporters continue to reveal administrative shortcomings when it comes to overseeing how taxpayers’ money is spent, but reporters aren’t auditors.

Put another way, why did it take reporters to motivate the mayor to call for an audit of former ally Dwight Tillery’s latest venture? He’d been getting city money for years.

The Enquirer and wcpo.com dug into Tillery’s nonprofit, Center for Closing the Health Gap, and reported lots to question.

So what’s new?

Meanwhile, bosses at WCPO and The Enquirer are arguing over credit for Cranley ordering an audit of Tillery’s spending.

It’s no secret that Tillery and lots of others — think Park Board senior staff — push acceptable limits on spending under their grants/budgets.

Convinced of their own virtue, what they do must obviously be virtuous.

That cast changes as opportunists see a chance to dip into the public trough or seek or grant favors. All of this is history. It will be repeated. We will learn nothing. Someone down the food chain will get tossed under a bus or streetcar — if it’s running.

What WCPO and The Enquirer can do is stay with the story.

Only they have the staying power and resources.

Meanwhile, Tillery’s allies already have played the race card in the pursuit of Tillery and his spending.

• A frightening story debunks the “frightening and high” risk of sexual offenders committing new crimes. There never was evidence for this omnipresent assertion although it has guided American courts for decades.

On March 8, New York Times’ Adam Liptak traced sexual offender fiction through Supreme Court decisions back to its origin, “a 1986 article in Psychology Today, a glossy magazine written for a general audience.

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An innovative effort looks to empower Cincinnati refugees and boost an underappreciated neighborhood

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who spent more than a decade in the camps weaving dresses, shawls and other items.

She still enjoys weaving, though her favorite medium these days is beadwork. Recently, Cincinnati art collector Sara Vance Waddell commissioned from Ghimire a blue and silver piece that reads “art matters.” It’s one of several pieces Ghimire has sold.

“It’s a good idea, because it’s bringing people together, and getting people from different countries talking,” Ghimire said of Welcome as she sat with other workshop participants, Cullen and Rajbhandari in Wave Pool last month mulling over logos for the project.

“Before, I just stayed in my house all day,” said another participant who will play an integral role in Welcome. She asked not to be identified due to anxieties about her status as an immigrant. “It feels like, at this time, people don’t really like immigrants.

I’m really happy I’ve gotten to know these people. Now I feel more free. Like I’ve made a lot of friends.”

Beyond the warm feelings the project has engendered, Cullen and Rajbhandari have been wrestling with the nuts and bolts of a project unlike anything else in the city.

They’ve been searching out grants that could better fund the endeavor long-term and hustling for donations of cash, kitchen

Sheryl Rajbhandari (second from right) admires wallpaper designed by refugee women alongside workshop participants and volunteers at Wave Pool gallery. equipment like an oven and refrigerator and tablet computers for the retail portion of the project.

The space that will soon hold Welcome needs work. On a gloomy Monday morning in February, Cullen and Rajbhandari took stock of the defunct corner store on Colerain Avenue that will soon feature the women’s art. Peeling paint, fading soda bottles and other holdovers littered the store, and an odd poster or two still clung to the walls. But the two see beyond the cleanup needed to a bigger vision informed by the years of work they’ve already done.

Rajbhandari began working with refugees in 2008 and founded Heartfelt Tidbits as a nonprofit in 2010. The almost entirely volunteer group has helped hundreds of refugees since then. Heartfelt has focused on Bhutanese refugees, who have been coming to Cincinnati for about a decade, but also works with any refugee family in need, focusing on what it calls the long welcome — the months after the U.S. State Department’s 90 days of financial aid runs out, but before a family has reached self-sufficiency in their new country.

While Rajbhandari brings her wealth of experience working with various refugee communities, Cullen and her husband Skip

bring a track record of frenetic work in Camp Washington.

The two have been moving seemingly nonstop since they bought and renovated the old firehouse on Colerain Avenue and opened the gallery in early 2015. Since then, Wave Pool has hosted a dizzying array of programs — from standard gallery shows to forums on the intersection of art and community issues to an artist in residency program.

The Cullens in late December bought the building that will house Welcome, envisioning it as a place to expand Wave Pool’s mission of mixing art with community work.

Camp Washington leaders have taken notice and say they’re excited to watch the pair’s latest endeavor take shape.

“Cal and Skip have been amazing partners,” says long-time Camp Washington community organizer Joe Gorman, who currently acts as director of the Camp Washington Community Board. “Wave Pool has been very good about bringing new people into the neighborhood, and subsequently they’ve really inspired some people to invest here.

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nce a week, Krishna Ghimire goes to a gallery in a converted Camp Washington firehouse to make art with other women from around the world.

Ghimire came here eight years ago from refugee camps in Nepal. Other women in the group came from countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Congo as refugees or immigrants. Refugee aid organization Heartfelt Tidbits and Camp Washington art gallery Wave Pool organize the group of 20 women and about as many teens in a separate workshop to celebrate skills they bring from their home countries, help build friendships and empower them to express themselves across language barriers.

Now, as political uncertainty and harsh rhetoric surround immigrants and refugees in Cincinnati and across the country in the age of Trump, the two nonprofits are taking their partnership to the next level — and boosting activity in a sometimes-overlooked Cincinnati neighborhood in the process.

A storefront across the street from Wave Pool run by two Guatemalan immigrants will open April 30, giving refugees like Ghimire a place to sell their art and keep the proceeds. In the building’s other storefront, a café run by a Syrian refugee will begin serving tea, pastries and lunch sometime later this year. Above both, Wave Pool and Heartfelt Tidbits are working together on a long-term plan to offer affordable apartments for refugee families.

Heartfelt Tidbits founder Sheryl Rajbhandari and Wave Pool’s Cal Cullen have a simple name for the endeavor — “Welcome.”

The idea is to provide those coming to the city from fraught, often war-torn places a place to feel valued and work toward self-sufficiency. The café, for example, will employ refugees and immigrants through a training program that will feed into permanent jobs at area restaurants, utilize produce from Turner Farm, where many refugees garden, and provide an after-hours incubation space for those looking to start their own catering businesses and restaurants.

“It won’t really be a Heartfelt Tidbits thing or a Wave Pool thing,” Rajbhandari says. “It will be its own business, and we’ll just be heavily engaged.”

Since 2014, more than 800 refugees have come to Cincinnati, resettled via a partnership between the U.S. State Department and Greater Cincinnati Catholic Charities. Like Ghimire, about half of those refugees have been Bhutanese.

Ghimire came to Cincinnati from refugee camps in Nepal, fleeing ongoing oppression in her native country. She knows her way around a loom — she’s an expert weaver

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The Kentucky Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld a $42 million civil judgment against disbarred lawyer Stan Chesley of Indian Hill, the latest turn of affairs in a slow-moving legal battle that dates back to the early 2000s.

The 36-page opinion was handed down March 10 and ratified a summary judgment issued by Boone County Circuit Judge James Schrand in October 2014. It represents another vindication for the lawsuit’s 382 plaintiffs who were first harmed by the effects of fen-phen weight-loss pills in the 1990s, then duped by Chesley and three other lawyers who negotiated a $200 million out-of-court legal settlement, only to keep $42 million more than they were entitled to.

Of the $200 million settlement, plaintiffs received only $73.3 million, the Court of Appeals opinion says. The attorneys kept $106 million and put $20.5 million into a sham nonprofit they created.

Chesley, whose conduct in the case led to his 2013 disbarment by the Kentucky Supreme Court and his retirement from practicing law, has the option of appealing to the state Supreme Court. His lawyer in the case, Sheryl Snyder of Frost Brown Todd in Louisville, could not be reached for comment Friday.

Although the Court of Appeals opinion says Chesley received $20.5 million — and should have been paid $12.8 million — he was held jointly and severally liable for the full $42 million. Ford said that the amount due continues to grow.

“Because Chesley chose to fight his former clients for so many years, the interest owed is significant,” she said. “The outstanding judgment, with interest, is now over $70 million.”

The 382 plaintiffs are scattered across dozens of states, including Ohio, but Kentucky has the most, Ford said. For now, she is focusing her collection effort through the federal court in Cincinnati. Last week, she said, she filed a motion for a partial summary judgment against Chesley.

Meanwhile, an outstanding warrant for Chesley’s arrest remains to be served.

Schrand issued the warrant in October 2015 after Chesley did not appear at a showcause hearing related to the $42 million judgment. The Boone County Sheriff’s Department said that Hamilton County authorities refused to serve the warrant.

Chesley filed suit against Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil to block service, and Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman issued a temporary injunction. Ruehlman, though, withdrew from the case without saying why.

His replacement, Judge Megan Shanahan, dismissed the suit in January. That means

the 17-month-old warrant against Chesley can now be served in Hamilton County.

“It leaves it where it was under any other circumstance,” said James Harper, an assistant prosecuting attorney in Hamilton County. “The sheriff should treat whatever warrant is served on (Chesley) in the normal fashion.”

Hamilton County Sheriff spokesman Mike Robison said Boone County would have to file notice asking Hamilton County to serve the warrant. Apprised of that requirement, the Boone County Sheriff’s director of extradition, Jim Beach, replied, “We have, and they wouldn’t do it. I’ll call them again Monday and see.” (Jim McNair)

CPS to Evict CCAC from Clifton School The Cincinnati Public School Board voted March 20 to terminate its lease with the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, meaning the latter will have to leave its home at the old Clifton School in a year.

The decision puts an end to a year-pluslong fight between the two over the building.

CPS owns the school, but the CCAC has put millions into rehabbing since moving more than a decade ago. The arts center leases the building from CPS for a dollar a year.

“My initial reaction, much like many of yours may be, was to feel sadness, disappointment, frustration and anger,” CCAC Director Leslie Mooney wrote in a March 20 email to the center’s supporters. “So much energy has been put into making this vision a reality, and I empathize with anyone who may feel betrayed by this decision.”

CPS says the move comes as increasing demand for space in its neighborhood schools necessitates making the 25,000-square-foot Clifton School back into a neighborhood school. The CCAC’s lease doesn’t expire until 2038, but there is a provision in the contract that allows CPS to take the building back if it needs it for classroom space.

CPS Superintendent Mary Ronan says the district is well above enrollment projections from the state, which estimated 29,000 students would attend CPS schools. Rowan says CPS is on the cusp of having 36,000 students — and that number looks to keep growing.

CCAC leaders say they expect to be reimbursed — to the tune of $2 million — for the work they put into the building. Ronan said that even given that expense, taking back Clifton School is still cheaper than looking elsewhere.

“To build a new school would cost us about $14 million, so $2 million is significantly less,” Ronan told WVXU after the vote. “And honestly, I don’t know where we’d get property in Clifton to actually build a school, or in CUF.” CONTINUES ON PAGE 11

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of the future Welcome space. “Through this project, they’ll renovate the apartments for refugees, who will come in and work.”

Cal Cullen says the housing portion of the plan is “more of a long-term project.”

The building has eight studio or one-bedroom apartments, which will be renovated over time.

Gorman says the Board could become the fiscal agent for the project if necessary. Both Heartfelt Tidbits and Wave Pool are nonprofits, but the goal is for Welcome Home to become a stand-alone, self-sustaining entity.

Gorman sees the lower-level storefronts as a way to boost Camp Washington’s business district along Colerain Avenue and views Welcome, as well as Wave Pool, as part of a larger resurgence in the neighborhood of about 1,500 mostly urban Appalachian residents. Gorman cites other big efforts around Camp Washington — the work to renovate

the historic Crosley building, more galleries popping up and a coffee shop coming soon — as signs that more people are starting to take an interest in the neighborhood.

The project’s impact will extend beyond Camp Washington. The nonprofits are setting up a separate workshop at Tikkun Farms, near where many of the refugee women live in Mount Healthy, so they can work on their art beyond Wave Pool’s Monday morning sessions. Art made by English language learners and other students at Education Matters, a nonprofit in Lower Price Hill, will also be featured in the store, Cullen and Rajbhandari say.

The core of the effort, they say, circles back to the mission of the original Wave Pool art workshops.

“The friendship building and the language learning are the key parts,” Rajbhandari says. “And making people feel good.” ©

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The district purchased the nearby Rawson Estate for $700,000 last week and looks likely to offer it to the CCAC as a new home.

But there’s a snag: The Clifton School has five times as much space as the Rawson mansion, and CCAC leadership says it needs every bit of that space.

“CCAC will continue in a new location,” Mooney says. “We plan to engage the community throughout the transition process and will be looking for volunteers to assist with site selection, program planning, community engagement, fundraising and more.”

(Nick Swartsell)

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Faith Restored

How the Rabbit Hash community rallied to rebuild its general store

BY ADAM SIEVERING

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et’s go back to November 2016: a turbulent time for millions of Americans, who fiercely stormed the frontlines of Twitter and Facebook to flex their freespeech muscles, argue politics with estranged relatives and wage hyperlink warfare against their ideological opposition.

This was a time we all, perhaps regrettably, remember.

But amid the blitzkrieg of alternative facts, incendiary memes and celebrity spitfire, another election was taking place in America. An election that, in many ways, seemed more like the ones we’re used to in the developed world.

No flag burning. No angry protests. No damn emails. Just a true-blue demonstration of democracy. This, of course, was Rabbit Hash’s mayoral election — a non-partisan tradition more commonly known as The Indawguration.

Yes. Last November, the people of Rabbit Hash, Ky. elected their fourth canine mayor — a 3-year-old pit bull named Brynneth Pawltro. Or Brynn, for those who know her on a first-name basis.

Brynn’s victory was announced on Tuesday, Nov. 15.

She ran a clean, issue-focused campaign, according to Don Clare, president of the Rabbit Hash Historical Society.

“Brynn is the first female mayor to take office here in Rabbit Hash,” he says. “She’s also a rescue, which makes her a minority on multiple levels.”

Clare’s reverence for the new mayor is a glowing testament to the eccentric, open-minded and remarkably down-to-earth spirit on which Rabbit Hash thrives. Since 1847, this 3.5-acre river town has always risen with the tide — surviving more than a few contentious presidential elections, not to mention a few massive floods and the threat of suburban sprawl.

For those yet to take a trip down the Rabbit hole, the town is located approximately 30 miles southwest of Cincinnati in Boone County. New housing developments and construction are part of the landscape along the way. But by the time you see signs for Rabbit Hash Historic District, you’re well en route to a place where time appears to have stood still.

The Unique Soundtrack of Rabbit Hash

BY BRIAN BAKER

Music’s most important qualities are conveying specific emotions, imparting palpable feelings and connecting distinctly to a misty past. Similarly, there are certain physical places that evoke that sense of timelessness and contentment.

veteran Cincinnati vocalist/guitarist became so enamored of Rabbit Hash that he and wife Bobbi Kayser, who he met at an early foray to town, built a home just down the road from the store. Brown’s first Rabbit Hash performance cemented his feelings.

The Rabbit Hash General Store was the connective link between the feeling the store itself exuded and the emotions generated by the music presented within and beyond its walls.

“(The Stardevils’) Lance Kaufman and I invented a little group called the Queen City Kings and we started these barn dances,” Brown says. “On Sundays, we’d pair up with another band and have like a Rockabilly set and this old Hank Williams Sr. stuff. The first time I played that old Hank stuff at that barn dance, and we had people 8 to 80, clog dancing in front of us, I said to myself, ‘For a guy who’s done (more than) 200 nights a year for 10 or 12 years, this has got to be my first real gig.’ ”

When fire leveled the store last February, many feared that connection was lost forever, but the dedication of Rabbit Hash’s residents, store operator Terrie Markesbery and the area’s music community proved to be an immeasurable constructive force.

In just over a year, the Rabbit Hash General Store has risen Phoenix-like from its ashes, and music will once again fill its cozy confines on April Fool’s Day, officially reopening with performances by area groups like The Stardevils, Cadillac Catfish and the Rhythm Gang, Pappy’s Jam Band and The Modified, a stripped down version of the venerable Cincinnati band The Modulators.

“It had such a fury behind it,” says Markesbery of the fundraising efforts, which included various music-affiliated endeavors. “The momentum of that train was unstoppable.”

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It began the afternoon after the fire, when a community member suggested Markesbery move the store and its music into the adjoining barn until the store could reopen. She has operated in that manner since last spring.

Rabbit Hash’s musical identity was forged

by Markesbery’s late husband Richard Young, whose Texas upbringing and affinity for songwriting storytellers was his yardstick for determining the town’s eventual soundtrack. He related that musical wisdom to Markesbery, who has booked the general store since his passing. “I think it’s just years of listening and watching and learning that’s brought the music to this point,” she says. “It’s just pretty intuitive that way.”

Markesbery doesn’t have clearly defined memories of specific shows over the years.

Instead, her musical experiences constitute a stream of consciousness flashback that forms a singular sense of purpose and joy.

“It’s about the interaction between the musicians and the audience,” she says. “To be the catalyst for that interaction, that’s what feeds my soul. I remember standing on the counter and taking a picture of the crowd, and I don’t know who they were watching but it was just smiling faces. I can’t wait to get that back.”

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Brown was one of many local music figures that became the tip of a critical fundraising spear for the store’s resurrection. His 100 Bands for Rabbit Hash campaign, where groups donated one night’s proceeds from their best shows to the rebuilding fund, was a large monetary component.

Another vital musical cog in the fundraising community was local singer/songwriter Kelly Thomas, whose career is inextricably linked to Rabbit Hash. She almost immediately turned her personal devastation into action, booking over 30 bands for a two-night benefit at Newport, Ky.’s Southgate House Revival last May. “Everybody wanted to play that show,” Thomas says. “I was tiptoeing, not wanting to hurt anybody’s feelings, but it got booked up so fast. ... The event itself (had) a very connected community vibe.” Thomas’ association with the general store dates back prior to her own musical pursuits, and her memories of it are strong and uniquely personal.

“I’ve seen tons of great music in both the store, where you hang around the stove in the winter, and outside and in the barn in the summer,” Thomas says. “I always laughed because where they had the music in the store was in front of the pharmacy — so like tampons and stuff — and I always wanted to ask a musician, ‘Hey, could you hand me a box of… ?’ I’ve never gotten up the guts to do it.”

Markesbery notes that the new store, while architecturally identical to the original, doesn’t possess quite the same ambiance as its predecessor. Of course, the first building had 186 years to get that lived-in feeling.

“It feels like an old soul,” Markesbery says. “I put on my webpage, ‘Help us welcome back the old girl,’ because it feels like an old friend. I’ve missed her so much. It’s feeling like it’s supposed to be feeling.” ©

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He’s not the only one who thinks so. In fact, hundreds of people were quick to rally on social media as a means to kick-start a crowd-funded restoration effort that continues to gain traction.

Terrie Markesbery, current proprietor of the Rabbit Hash General Store, launched a GoFundMe campaign the following day that has received over $65,000 in contributions from more than 1,100 donors. As of today, her campaign has been shared approximately 17,000 times on social media, reminding us all of the internet’s potential to unite communities, not just inflame their divisions.

In addition to an overwhelming response online, supporters have organized a number of local fundraisers, including music events, motorcycle rallies and art gatherings. Clare reports that approximately $300,000 has been raised for the General Store’s restoration so far, enabling them to make rapid progress throughout the past year.

In accordance with requirements by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, restorations were made using materials that date back to around the same time the General Store was originally built. Ed Unterreiner, owner of Rivertown Construction, was contracted for the job soon after the fire.

“The boards we used on the interior walls are boards that came off a barge that they floated down river to Rabbit Hash,” Unterreiner says. “Some of these boards still have the original barge lettering printed on them.”

Along with the lumber they salvaged from the boat, Unterreiner and his small crew of builders meticulously deconstructed two entire buildings in town to repurpose their materials. Clare was a daily participant in the process, spending countless hours removing nails, cleaning, storing and painting the old wood in preparation for it to finally be used. “It took a lot of extra time, money and labor,” he says. “But that’s how we were able to make it look like it did the day before the fire.”

Unterreiner elaborated on the unique challenges of a project like this. In the 25 years he’s been in business, no other restoration effort has required so much attention to preserving the details. “In a typical remodel, you always have something to go by: architectural drawings; homeowners who can tell you exactly what they want,” he says.

“With this, we took it down to dirt and the only plans we have were based on photographs. It’s hard to determine dimensions just by looking at a photo. But with enough of them, we’ve come up with something that’s really, really close to the way it was.”

As a Rabbit Hash native himself, Unterreiner even remembers the building’s little imperfections, like the crooked front porch. These, too, were an intentional part of the restoration process.

“I want it to be as if nothing happened,” he says. “This is a personal thing. All these little details are important to me.”

With the help of volunteers and local business sponsors, the Rabbit Hash General Store is standing once again. To a visitor, the store is indistinguishable from its former self. Even the Coca-Cola sign has been restored — and that’s not all.

“This whole thing just restores your faith in humanity,” Clare says. “Especially in this political atmosphere, it’s good to be in a place with decency, love and respect.”

As they put on the finishing touches inside the store, which now includes a new fire suppression system, they’re still in need of antiques and novelties that can recreate the old vibe. “If anyone has something laying around in their garage or barn and think it would look good in the General Store, we’d gladly accept it,” Clare says.

The RABBIT HASH GENERAL STORE will reopen on April 1 after a 9:30 a.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony, with live music, wine tastings and other festivities noon-8 p.m. 10021 Lower River Road, Rabbit Hash, Ky. More info: 859-586-7744 or rabbithash.com.

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“You drive 20 minutes from Cincinnati and you feel like you’ve gone back 200 years,” says Clare, who first took interest in preserving the town’s legacy in the late ’70s with his friend, Louie Scott.

Scott halted the seemingly inevitable bulldozer effect by purchasing every property in Rabbit Hash, piece by piece. By 1979, he owned every landmark in town — including the infamous General Store, built in 1831. In Clare’s words, “(Scott) won the Rabbit Hash Monopoly game. And if he hadn’t stepped in when he did, this place wouldn’t be here today.”

In essence, Scott was the sole proprietor of Rabbit Hash in its entirety until 2002, when he sold his bundle of properties to the Rabbit Hash Historical Society — a local organization created to ensure long-term preservation of the town and its history. This transaction was made possible by a single donation of $250,000, as stated on the historical society website. It was one of many significant individual contributions aimed at keeping Rabbit Hash alive, just as it was.

The old, wooden buildings in town required dedicated upkeep to withstand the elements — most notably floodwater. But on Feb. 13, 2016, the historical society faced an unprecedented crisis. Around 9 p.m., a fire erupted inside the Rabbit Hash General Store, claiming more than a century’s worth of antiques, artifacts and mementos, in addition to causing critical structural damage.

According to Clare, the fire started in a Coca-Cola cooler.

He called it “ironic,” given that one of the store’s most iconic features was a huge Coke sign that hung above the entrance.

Burning into the early hours of the morning, the fire left only three walls standing and an entire community in mourning.

“Ever since it was built, (the General Store) has been the pulse of the community,” Clare says. “It’s where you got your news, socialized and connected with people. It’s kind of like the 19th-century Facebook.”

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Painting with Color and Light Organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, New York

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Conventional Floor Lamp (detail), circa 1905, Tiffany Studios (1902–1932), United States (New York), leaded glass and bronze, The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, NY, N.86.G.8a; N.86.B.47; N.86.P.2

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WEDNESDAY 22

EVENT: Protest photographer LARRY FINK delivers the FoftoFocus Lecture at the Cincinnati Art Museum. See Big Picture on page 21.

MUSIC: Katie Crutchfield aka WAXAHATCHEE brings an intimate, lo-fi sound to Woodward Theater. See Sound Advice on page 32.

THURSDAY 23

LIT: NATHAN HILL, author of The Nix, presents the Mercantile Library’s Modern Novel Lecture. See interview on page 23.

MUSIC: WHITNEY ROSE Though she is a Canadian native, singer/ songwriter Whitney Rose has whole-heartedly embraced the culture and vibe of her adopted homeland of Texas. With a sound based in traditional Country and marked by an endearing but not pandering vintage Pop streak (she covers Hank Williams and The Ronettes, as if to drive this point home), Rose’s music was on glorious display on her Heartbreaker of the Year album from last year and the more recent EP follow-up, South Texas Suite. While Heartbreaker was a successful collaboration with The Mavericks’ Raul Malo, the EP was helmed entirely

by Rose and more succinctly showcases her love of both classic Country and Pop. 8 p.m. Thursday. $25-$30. Southgate House Revival, 111 E. Sixth St., Newport, Ky., southgatehouse.com. — MIKE BREEN

FRIDAY 24

COMEDY: Comedian KATHY GRIFFIN takes the stage at the Taft Theatre for an evening of all-new comedy (and to promote her new book, Kathy Griffin’s Celebrity Run-Ins). See interview on page 20.

MUSIC: Rock singer/songwriter/guitarist CHUCK PROPHET plays the Southgate

MUSIC: Indie rockers COLD WAR KIDS head to Madison Theater. See Sound Advice on page 32.

ONSTAGE: A RAISIN IN THE SUN Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is not just about the Bard. Case in point: This week the classic theater opens a production of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play about the Youngers, a working-class African-American family in 1950s Chicago. Their unexpected financial windfall creates family tension that eventually shatters their chances of attaining the American Dream of home ownership.

Hansberry was the first black female playwright with a show produced on Broadway; it received four Tony Award nominations.

Guest director Christopher V. Edwards has a cast of excellent local actors, including Torie Wiggins, Burgess Byrd and Cincy Shakes’ own Geoffrey Warren Barnes II. Through April 15. $41 adults; $37 seniors; $25 students. Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, 719 Race St., Downtown, 513-381-2273, cincyshakes.com. — RICK PENDER FILM: RIVERREEL FILM FESTIVAL A certain politician/baked cheese snack may not care about the arts, but we know you do. International, national and local feature and short films, documentaries and music videos will be on display at The Mockbee for the multi-day RiverReel all-genre film festival, created by the Cincinnati Film Society. Event passes include the Tito’s Vodka Red Carpet opening reception with light bites and a vodka tasting and access to after-parties with a photobooth and live performances from local bands like Jess Lamb and the Factory, JetLab and Marjorie Lee. Friday and Saturday. VIP pass $65; Day pass $20; Brunch pass $10. The Mockbee, 2260 Central Parkway, Brighton, cincinnatifilmsociety.org. — LAUREN MORETTO EVENT: OVER THE MOON VINTAGE MARKET Join the revolution! The reuse and renew revolution, that is. Thirty-five-plus vendors offering antique, vintage and new goods will be in one location for the Over the Moon Vintage Market. From artisan jewelry to salvaged items to shabby chic styles even Fixer Upper’s Joanna Gaines would fawn over, you’re sure to find that one-of-a-kind item you’ve been searching for. Forms of payment may vary between vendors, so be sure to bring some cash just in case. 4-9 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Lawrenceburg Indiana Fairgrounds, U.S. 50 and Hollywood Blvd., Lawrenceburg, Ind., facebook.com/overthemoonvintagemarket. — LAUREN MORETTO CONTINUES ON PAGE 18

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FILM: INTIMATE REALITIES OF WATER For World Water Day, three University of Cincinnati professors will present a new documentary they made about the everyday struggles that residents of two Nairobi, Kenya slums have attempting to find clean water and proper sanitation. After the special 7 p.m. screening of Intimate Realities of Water at Esquire Theatre, the three — Adrian Parr, Jon Hughes and Sean Hughes — will hold a Q&A session.

Parr is director of UC’s Charles Phelps Taft Research Center as well as a co-chair of the Water Access and Sustainability division of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Jon Hughes is emeritus professor of English and journalism and Sean Hughes is an associate professor of journalism.

7 p.m. Wednesday. $10; $7 seniors and children. Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, esquiretheatre.com. — STEVEN ROSEN

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COMEDY: ANDY WOODHULL Andy Woodhull has never felt more at ease in front of audiences. “I think I’m more comfortable writing on stage,” he says. “It’s just that muscle you build in your brain that comes up with jokes.” That muscle was flexed last year in a Comedy Central special called The Half-Hour. The goal now of course is to build an hour, which Woodhull is currently doing.

“After 13 years, I feel like I’m finally good,” he says. And even though politics is very much on everyone’s minds right now, don’t look to Woodhull to comment on any of it. He laughs and cautions: “Don’t come out if you’re looking for political comedy.” Thursday-Sunday. $8-$14. Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, gobananascomedy.com.

— P.F. WILSON

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House Revival. See interview on page 30.

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LCD Soundsystem Cage the Elephant • Pixies

The XX • Nick Murphy X Ambassadors

Phoenix The Shins • Ryan Adams

Portugal.The Man • Highly Suspect Fidlar • Wolf Parade • The Growlers Car Seat Headrest • Modern Baseball Twin Peaks • Temples • Pup Preoccupations • Pinegrove • Lo Moon The London Souls • Margaret Glaspy Cymbals Eat Guitars • Zipper Club Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes Songs For Kids Daily Performance

Moon Taxi • Sylvan Esso • Dr. Dog Catfish and the Bottlemen Shovels and Rope • The Revivalists Anderson East • Bishop Briggs The Record Company • Lewis Del Mar Run River North • Family and Friends Fantastic Negrito • Mariachi El Bronx Foreign Air • Mondo Cozmo Quaker City Night Hawks Public Access TV • Flagship Songs For Kids Daily Performance

Third Eye Blind • Bleachers J. Roddy Walston & the Business Saint Motel • Warpaint Hamilton Leithauser • Cloud Nothings Whitney • Pond • Fruit Bats • Arkells • Hoops • Con Brio • Ron Gallo Great Peacock • Amythyst Kiah Songs For Kids Daily Performance

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ART: DAAP MFA THESIS SHOW AT THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER As the only local art school that offers an advanced degree in fine art, the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning’s MFA program has long been part and parcel of the area’s arts scene. Several years ago, the Contemporary Arts Center began exhibiting the thesis work of DAAP MFA grads — a demonstration of commitment by the art institution to engage the city’s artistic community, as led by CAC curator Steven Matijcio, who consistently models collaboration over competition. This Friday, 15 artists from the graduating class of 2017 will exhibit their thesis artwork inside the only museum in town that was built expressly for showing and fostering the work of living artists. Opening reception 6-10 p.m. Friday. Through April 9. Free. Contemporary Arts Center, Fourth Floor, 44 E. Sixth St., Downtown, contemporaryartscenter.org. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER

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SATURDAY 25

EVENT: BRAXTON BLOCK PARTY Celebrate Braxton Brewing Company’s second anniversary at their taproom on Saturday. The Covington-based brewery is releasing two new bottled beers — Mentor, a Belgian Tripel, and Mentee, a Belgian table beer — and hosting live music on an outdoor stage with bonus food trucks including Cuban Pete Sandwiches, Empanadas Aqui and Texas Joe. The two new bottles will be available in 22-ounce bombers; pricing, limits and availability TBD. The Mentor features flavors of Belgian candi sugar, while Mentee was brewed with guava and pomegranate. A new dry-hopped sour called Tinker will also be tapped. Noon-11 p.m. Saturday. Free. 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, Ky., braxtonbrewing.com. — CHRISTINA DROBNEY

EVENT: UCAN’S SPAY-GHETTI & NO BALLS FUNDRAISER Getting spayed or neutered isn’t exactly at the top of your dog’s or cat’s to-do list. But the procedures don’t just help reduce the number of homeless animals, of which more than 2.7 million are euthanized in shelters every year; they also improve your pet’s health, greatly reducing the risk of certain cancers and curbing bad behaviors like urine-marking. This Saturday, nonprofit spay and neuter clinic the United Coalition for Animals is hosting their third-annual (and fabulously named) Spay-Ghetti and No Balls dinner, a major fundraiser that enables the organization to provide these surgeries at low costs and provide vaccine recommendations for low-income families in the community. The party includes a pasta buffet, silent auction, live music by The Doug Hart Band and plenty of hair of the dog. 5:30-9 p.m.

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ATTRACTION: THE MAJESTIC MONARCH BUTTERFLY SHOW AT KROHN CONSERVATORY Get in touch with your inner entomologist. This year’s butterfly show at the Krohn Conservatory, The Majestic Monarch, is all about learning more about butterflies and how to attract them to your home garden using specific plant colors, shapes and scents. Purchase a Butterfly Show field journal to help navigate your way through clusters of warm-colored marigolds, celosia and hydrangeas and towering fir trees, all while hundreds of butterflies flutter throughout the room — and maybe right onto your jasmine-scented butterfly landing pad. Go online for a schedule of special events focused on the importance of preserving butterfly habitats. Through June 18. $7 adults; $4 kids 5-17; free children 4 and younger. Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, 513-421-4086, butterflyshow.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

Saturday. $60. Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, ucancincinnati. org. — EMILY BEGLEY

SUNDAY 26

EVENT: HOME RUN DERBY FOR A CAUSE If you’re nervous about showing off your mad (or non-existent) baseball skills in front of your friends, just remember everything is better with beer. The third-annual Home Run Derby for a Cause will be held Sunday at Rhinegeist to benefit the YMCA of Greater

WITH ADULT BEVERAGES.

Cincinnati. A $10 donation gets you 10 swings — points will be awarded based on the zone in which your ball lands. Home runs get you the most points, of course, but not every hit has to be a bona fide homer; other hits that land in high-point zones will still earn you points. Prizes, including Opening Day tickets, will be awarded to the first-, second- and third-place winners. Come armed with your best The Sandlot quotes. Signups will be onsite. 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Free.

Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, rhinegeist.com. — MONROE TROMBLY

TUESDAY 28

MUSIC: ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS supports his latest album, Zombies on Broadway, at Bogart’s. See Sound Advice on page 33.

ONGOING shows ONSTAGE Heavier Than…

Know Theatre, Over-the-Rhine (through April 1) VISUAL ART The Wired Weston Art Gallery, Downtown (through April 2)

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MUSIC: WELL-STRUNG New York-based singing string quartet WellStrung — violinists Edmund Bagnell and Chris Marchant, cellist Daniel Shevlin and violist Trevor Wadleigh — mix Pop songs like Lorde’s “Royals” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” with parts of such classical compositions as Mozart’s “A Little Night Music” and Bach’s Double Violin concerto in D minor. They perform Saturday as the guests of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s CSO Spectrum group to raise funds for the CSO’s presentation of LGBTQ artists and programs. 8 p.m. Saturday. $35-$50 concert only; $75 VIP package. 20th Century Theater, 3021 Madison Road, Oakley, cincinnatisymphony.org. — STEVEN ROSEN

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Kathy Griffin Tells All

Comedian brings stories of celebrity run-ins — including with “buffoon” Trump — to the Taft Theatre

By P.F. Wilson

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“I

love TV, I love that I have won Emmy awards, I love that I have a Grammy for best comedy album,” says comedian/actress/author Kathy Griffin, who appears at the Taft Theatre on Friday.

“I’m a feminist. I feel like I have to list out my achievements every five minutes.”

Those accomplishments aside, Griffin is currently fascinated by how America is reacting to the fact that Donald Trump is now president of the United States.

And she’s not alone in that. She finds her audiences are following him, too — often with concern. “Everyone is saying ‘Oh, my God, we need to laugh,’ ” she says. “It’s definitely a different time out there. I’ve been doing this for a long time and I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Known for the celebrity-inspired humor that was featured on her Bravo network reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Griffin uses the fact that another celebrity reality-TV host is actually occupying the White House in her material.

“And (with) a cast of characters,” Griffin says. “Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and the rest — they look like the final scene of Intervention.”

Griffin has a theory about Steve Bannon, the inelegant-looking assistant to the president and chief strategist who previously headed the far-right extremist Breitbart News. She notes it is only a comedic theory, so it’s under First Amendment protection.

“I need someone to tell me that Steve Bannon isn’t doing meth, because I see so much more than booze,” she says. “I don’t just mean the Time Magazine cover. This guy is a hot mess.”

The twist in all this is that Griffin knows Trump, having met him several times over the course of her career. “I’ve known him off and on since 1995,” she says. “I feel very privileged to be able to bring my own personal run-ins with ‘The Cheeto’ to audiences all over, but most importantly to Cincinnati. The Taft Theatre audience needs to hear from someone who has met him several times.”

Griffin does not have a high opinion of the man. “I found him to always be a buffoon,” she says. “But honestly, and I think unfortunately, a lot of people just thought he was harmless. I just thought he was an orange version of one of those idiots on (Bravo’s) Million Dollar Listing.”

To Griffin, Trump was just an eccentric realtor. “Every city, it seems, has this kind of character,” she says. “He was the wacky New York realtor dude that wanted to be famous.”

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What surprised her most about him, she says, is how vulnerable he seemed in past meetings with her. “Almost every time I’ve run into this fool, he comes up to me and says, ‘Uh, oh, don’t be too hard on me. I know you’re going to be funny, but you can be tough.’ I find that fascinating.”

Trump was friendly with Griffin’s late friend and mentor Joan Rivers. “I think she got a kick out of him, but I don’t think she knew this (other) side of him,” she says. “I don’t know if anybody knew he was this racist and stupid, because I think you assume that people who have done well in one area or another have a certain acumen or certain talents.”

When Griffin started doing stand-up in the 1980s, she mostly talked about her family and relationships. However, when she was cast in the sitcom Suddenly Susan in 1996, as one of star Brooke Shields’ co-workers, her career moved into a different direction.

“I started being around a lot of famous people,” she says. “And, as you know, I couldn’t keep my mouth shut.”

That show lasted four seasons and was a fantastic experience, Griffin says. “It was a very middle-of-the-road show, but there I was finally getting my overnight success at the age of 36, and in an environment where, for four years, these incredible people came on the show as guest stars. Joan Rivers played my mom, which was heaven.”

Today Griffin lives next door to the very upper echelon of the celebristocracy: the Kardashians. Well, Kim and hubby Kanye West. To prove that fact during a phone interview she opens her door and gives a shout out to Kardashian. “She’s not out there,” Griffin says upon returning to the call. “But if she was, she would easily hear me. It’s wonderful. I live next door to my act.”

Griffin also has become one the last faces we see at the end of each year, as a result of co-hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper for 10 years running. Her often-outrageous antics on that show frequently make her one of the first things people talk about in the new year.

Her current tour is primarily a vehicle to promote her book, Kathy Griffin’s Celebrity Run-Ins, which she describes as a complete index of the people she has met over the course of her career. “A lot of these run-ins or meetings may not be appropriate for my act,” she says. “They might be weird or jaw-dropping.”

While writing the book, she realized she had forgotten meeting some very big

Kathy Griffin’s break came co-starring with Brooke Shields in the sitcom Suddenly Susan. names. “I was looking back at my own IMDb page and I did not realize Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) was a guest star on Suddenly Susan,” she says. “I can’t remember that for the life of me. I had to call up the casting director and ask, ‘Who did Jesse Pinkman play?’ ” Her tales of celebrity run-ins and meetings are unending. However, Griffin wants to reassure those attending her performance at the Taft that, “If you paid your hard-earned money for the book and you

come to see the Celebrity Run-Ins Tour, don’t think I’m going to stand on stage and read from it.

“It’s all new material. How could it not be? I’m not saying I could do a whole new show every day, but with everything going on, I feel like I almost could.”

KATHY GRIFFIN will perform at Taft Theatre, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, 8 p.m. Friday.

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A Humanist Photographer Finds Reason for Hope

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Larry Fink, the longtime photographer Making pictures for their own sake wasn’t who will deliver a FotoFocus Lecture at the anything she was interested in. And that’s Cincinnati Art Museum on Wednesday, was the way I’ve taught for 55 years. I’m trying working at the big anti-Vietnam War and to keep that legacy alive.” anti-Nixon protest marches and gatherings Working primarily in black-and-white, of the 1960s.

Fink began an active career that saw a And on Jan. 21 of this year, he photonotable breakthrough occur in 1984 with graphed for Vanity Fair the massive Womhis book Social Graces, which paired phoen’s March on Washington, a startlingly tographs taken in the 1970s of New York’s large show of resistance to the just-begun wealthy, sophisticated partiers and socialextremist administration of President ites with the less stylish working-class Donald Trump. (The magazine’s website residents of rural Martin’s Creek, Penn. hosts a slideshow of Fink’s black-and-white He has shot in color occasionally, but portraits from the march.) finds black-and-white truer for his intentions He sees similarities and differences between the protests of the 1960s and now. “In the 1960s, the marches were attended by very good and magnanimous people, but also by those with a ruffian rage based on the fact the Vietnam War had been going on for many, many years and had no apparent rationale,” he says in a phone interview.

“Plus, there was a kind of revolutionary activity with the Weather Underground and some left-wing students,” he continues. “I’m a leftist “Vietnam Moratorium, 1969,” taken at a New York protest myself so I had no problem PHOTO : ©l arry fink with it, but it became their focus to use a peace march for those kinds of ideological ambitions.” because he doesn’t have to take color into This time, he says, that element was gone. consideration. “Palette is a promiscuous “In this particular march, Trump had just gotelement, especially if you’re working extemten into office and, while he is a ruffian and poraneously,” he says. “Black-and-white is a vagabond of ill-tempered ethics, we hadn’t reductive. It leaves you up to the moment, the suffered from him yet,” he says. “The march emotions, the form and the light.” was the result of their (concern) at what we Fink’s latest published project, due in would become subject to. So the women who April, is a book called Fink on Warhol: New came to this march, for the most part, came York Photographs of the 1960s, based on with a sense of their own empowerment, his rediscovery of work for a 1966 magazine based on the fact their love was ever present assignment. The magazine commissioned a and omnipresent. It was a magnificent event.” fashion shoot of Andy Warhol’s arty entou“I was crying,” the 76-year-old Brooklynrage on the streets of the Lower East Side, born photographer continues. “I was interacting with the grittier environment. overwhelmed by the positive emotions. This “We did a lot of locales — butcher shops, march personified love in the highest.” parking lots, schoolyards and God knows Fink started taking photographs at age 12, what,” Fink says. “And then also, I went up but says his real education came while studyto Factory and hung out there. ing at New York’s New School for Social “I didn’t like Andy Warhol particularly,” he Research with Lisette Model, the Austriancontinues. “He was very distanced and not a born photographer whose explorations of particularly deep guy. However, I had a good everyday life in the big city and elsewhere time photographing those characters.” have been heralded as soulful, insightful Fink is eager to continue photography. work brimming with authenticity.

“Life is my project,” he says. “I seem not to “Lisette put me in touch with what it give up on it. My pictures keep being vital. meant to photograph through your experiI don’t seem to burn out on it.” ence and through your deep humanity,” LARRY FINK’s lecture takes place 7 p.m.

Fink says. “She was a purveyor of the notion Wednesday (March 22) at the Cincinnati Art that without an experience going on in front Museum. Free; reservations not needed. More of your camera to which you’re passionately info: cincinnatiartmuseum.org. attached, there’s no photograph to be made.

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John Irving compared The Nix to works

by Charles Dickens. Like Dickens, Hill has created an engaging tale of modern culture that’s profound, sad and intensely funny. The story of a man and the mother who abandoned him, The Nix is rich with inventive ideas and comic characters. The 625-page novel took Hill, an Iowa native, 12 years to produce. A former newspaper and magazine journalist, Hill is on leave from the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minn., where he teaches literature and creative writing.

In a phone conversation in advance of his appearance here, he told CityBeat the story behind The Nix.

and order, but to the student radicals they were fascist. Everyone was reduced to their worst stereotype. In 2004, it happened again.

Americans weren’t speaking very clearly to each other. Maybe this year’s election is the quintessence of that problem.

CB: One character in The Nix is addicted to gaming. Another can’t stop checking her “iFeel” app. Why did you give digital devices so much prominence?

NH: Video games portray what happens when people adopt monolithic systems of thought. We live in a very diverse time with global communication and a multi-cultural society, yet our response seems to be to

CityBeat: Where did the spark for The Nix come from?

Nathan Hill: One of my first impulses was to tell a story of two generations. I had just moved to New York in 2004, about the time the Republican National ConvenNathan Hill worked on his new 625-page novel for 12 years. tion was held in Madison P H O T O : m i c h a e l l i o n s ta r Square Garden. It was (for) Bush-Cheney’s second term and I went down to watch the protests. double-down on prepackaged systems of I heard people wondering whether this thought: “My political philosophy is right convention would get unruly like the 1968 and yours is wrong.” I wanted to experiment Democratic National Convention in Chicago with that. I gave one character a philosophy (where thousands protested in opposition to that came from video games. Another charthe Vietnam War). That was the first inspiraacter can’t see past the electronic world she tion to have two generations of protest — has created with her devices.

Samuel’s in 2004 and his mother’s in 1968.

CB: In Scandinavian mythology, a nix CB: You’re only 40, so I assume you had is a water spirit that sometimes appears to do quite a bit of research about 1968. as a majestic white horse. It entices NH: I didn’t know much about the 1968 children but when they hop on, the horse protest when I first started writing. I saw gallops into the river and drowns them. the ’60s through rose-colored glasses. Then I Why did you include this folklore? went through seven or eight boxes of letters, NH: My mother’s family emigrated from handbills, underground newspapers and phoHammerfest a few generations back, but tographs from the convention week at the we lost contact with Norway long ago. In Chicago History Museum’s research library. the book, I decided to invent my own family I had thought of the counterculture protest history and included a character who told movement as a monolithic thing. But I came old Norwegian stories. It wasn’t until I was to see it as the combined effort of different a good way through the novel that I realized groups, each with a slightly different agenda. the moral of the nix was happening with all my characters. They all were being CB: How did that connect to the 2004 undermined by the very things that meant election? the most to them.

NH: In 1968, we had two sides of a political divide who were not communicating. We NATHAN HILL speaks at downtown’s Mercantile had well-meaning activists, but cops and Library 7 p.m. Thursday; 6:30 p.m. reception. Lipoliticians just saw “hippie.” We had police brary members free; non-members $10. Reservaofficers who were trying to protect law tions required. More info: mercantilelibrary.com.

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Gallery 708 Sees Its Future in the New Downtown

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The tagline for Gallery 708 is “fine art, Steakhouse had most recently housed a boxfine craft,” a signal that it embraces what’s ing studio on its ground floor. hip while maintaining old-school quality.

The old gym’s black and red walls were Open since November at 708 Walnut St., it’s transformed into 3,700 square feet of gleama bright, new artist-run gallery that reflects ing display space. After securing three times a bright, new Cincinnati — especially the room they had at 5th Street, Sadler and downtown’s core.

Inglert recruited Pearce to fill it with nearly In addition to showcasing oil still lifes, three times the number of artists. In addition prints of Cincinnati landmarks, porcelain to committing to downtown’s rebranding, vases and bronze sculptures, the space sells the three women declared a strong allefused glass pieces, sleek wooden stools, giance to their fellow creatives, especially Jewish mezuzahs (door hangings), handcrafters who have never had the chance to dyed scarves and wire-wrapped jewelry. show in a gallery before.

The curated inventory from 30 emerging As an artist-run and -juried collective, and established names taps into a growing Gallery 708 is able to show what Sadler calls appreciation for makers and broadens the hidden treasures on its own terms. Surdefinition of what a fine art gallery can be. Staid white walls have met the fun, colorful shops of Etsy.

The leaders of Gallery 708 — jewelry maker Lisa Inglert and textile artist Phyllis Sadler on the business side and collage artist Sara Pearce on the curatorial and promotional side — see potential for discovery inside and outside their doors.

“One of the good things about being in the core business district is the city has a new focus on (it),” says Downtown’s Gallery 708 has curated inventory from 30 artists.

PHOTO : sara pe arce Pearce, a former arts writer at The Cincinnati Enquirer.

“I’d kind of thought of it as prises include artist books (works of art in the black hole between The Banks and Over-the-Rhine.” book form) by Judith Serling-Sturm, whose Downtown’s center is suddenly a place to “Unarmed in America” looks like an entire live as well as work. Pearce wants to reach museum exhibit on race relations shrunk to condo residents along the streetcar route shelf size. Inglert marvels at being able to see with happy hours, scavenger hunts and demGlenna Adkins’ paintings — big, appealing onstrations from the likes of painter Cedric abstracts dominated by geometric patterns Michael Cox, as well as Constella Festival — anytime, without waiting for Final Friday concerts this Thursday and Saturday. She at Pendleton or the Hyde Park Art Show. plans to market a visual arts corridor Response was strong during the holidays with the Weston Art Gallery, Main Library, — the gallery held its grand opening Dec. 1.

YWCA Women’s Art Gallery, Contemporary Pearce says sales dropped significantly in Arts Center and 21c Museum Hotel.

January but rose in February with a ValenThough they are the new kids on the tine’s Day-themed event. The gallery, open block, Pearce, Sadler and Inglert have been until 7 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, is seeing a witnessing downtown’s transformation only pickup in foot traffic with daylight saving a couple blocks away as members of the 5th time. The challenge is to keep them coming.

Street Gallery cooperative in Carew Tower.

5th Street Gallery depended on traffic But at the end of 2015, the tower’s new owner from the convention center. Inglert says one told those artists they would need to exit. survey showed over 70 percent of its buyers Inglert did check the East Side and Overcame from out of town. “We’re no longer in the-Rhine, but the members’ goal always was the location where every tourist in town is to stay in the city core. (Some have contingoing to trip over our doormat,” she says. ued 5th Street Gallery as a pop-up in Macy’s.)

But these are new days downtown. Condo As word of the artists’ search spread, real dwellers are putting doormats on the floors estate investors started approaching them. and, Gallery 708 hopes, art on the walls.

One was Mike Besl at 708 Walnut, who told 708 GALLERY is located at 708 Walnut St., Sadler and Inglert that he had longed for an Downtown. More info: facebook.com/708gallery. art gallery. His building next to Jeff Ruby’s

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When we think of comic book adapClose to Me.” He’s the desperate creep. tations, the superheroes of franchise But when he tracks down his ex-wife behemoths tend to come to mind first and Pippi (Laura Dern), who walked out on him foremost, replete with padded muscle suits, years ago and has fallen on hard times, he loads of computer-generated mayhem and discovers that she gave up their child for obviously ironic quips signaling alleged hip adoption. The idea of having someone out wit. In addition, there are seemingly never there to remember him and carry on his enough stories supposedly about “men” and legacy inspires Wilson to reach out as only “women” identified as such by their funche can. His now-teenage daughter Claire tional names — Batman, Superman, Iron (Isabella Amara) is a sullen kid being raised Man and Wonder Woman — even though no by financially secure but emotionally distant one would be out of bounds questioning not parents, which makes her susceptible to only their gender affiliations but by what Wilson’s brand of obtrusiveness. right they should be considered part of the human race.

Superheroes are seen as modern-day stand ins for the mythic gods of old, but they bear far fewer recognizable foibles than either the GrecoRoman or the Norse pantheons of our cultural roots.

That’s what makes the work of graphic novelist Daniel Clowes so relevant and downright necessary. His framed narratives — longform comic books like Ghost World and Art School Confidential that capture the desWoody Harrelson plays an oddball eccentric in Wilson. perate lives of idiosyncratic P H O T O : c o u r t e s y o f f o x s e a r c h l i g ht p i c t u r e s folks on the margins — have served as the basis for films Director Johnson has an affinity for born about oddball eccentrics with the unnervlosers. His 2014 feature The Skeleton Twins ing ability to live pathetic lives. While that revealed the melancholic turmoil faced by sounds like a punishing put-down, it should a pair of estranged siblings (Bill Hader and be appreciated as a world-saving badge of Kristen Wiig) who reconnect after surviving honor, worthy of our attention. separate suicide attempts on the same day.

Take, for instance, Wilson (Woody HarIt would have been easy to fall back on the relson), the titular subject of director Craig comic sensibilities of the film’s leads, but Johnson’s new film based on a Clowes Johnson pushed them to plumb the depths graphic novel and with a screenplay by of the despair that the two characters Clowes. Wilson is a man out of time, stuck in struggled to bravely face. a sick joke of an existence where everyone He relies on Harrelson to tap a similar vein spends far too much time FaceTiming rather in Wilson. Fortunately, Wilson as a character, than engaging in real face-to-face encoundespite having an uncanny ability to accentuters. He’s sad and frustrated about this state ate the negative in everyday life to epic levels, of affairs, but we quickly realize that because remains curiously hopeful. He never fails to Wilson is such a socially awkward fellow, it cross the divide, winding up nose-to-nose wouldn’t matter if everyone put their phones with anyone who strays into his path. and devices down — he would still be outAnd the role fits Harrelson perfectly, playside the human community looking in. ing to his outsized performance style. There His attempts to connect are stubbornly has always been a daring openness to his off-putting to the point that he pushes everyportrayals, going all the way back to Woody one away at the very moment he’s trying his Boyd, the loveable dim bulb of a bartender hardest to ensnare them in his version of a he played on Cheers. Harrelson surrenders warm embrace. He is the very definition of fully to whatever traits have been defined an antihero — both the would-be hero and on the page, never simply reading the the despicable villain — in one sad sack of scripted lines. Instead, he gleefully seeks skin. Always claiming the space directly next to someone on an otherwise empty bus out the outer limits, pitches his tent and or train, or choosing to saddle up next to a makes himself at home, proving that if you stranger at the line of urinals and striking can live that far out, you haven’t lost touch up a conversation, Wilson recalls the urgent with what makes you human. (Opens Friday command of the Police song “Don’t Stand So at Esquire Theatre.) (R) Grade: B+

ON SCREEN ‘Fire at Sea’ Gets Local Screening

BY T T STERN-ENZI

Amid the heated rhetoric of building walls which dominated campaign rallies leading up to the presidential election, and the now two failed attempts at enacting travel bans to stem the flow of immigrants into the United States, films officially released in 2016 have been offering us a window into a few of the ground-level human stories beyond the data and behind the headlines.

Much like Daphne Matziaraki’s Academy Award-nominated short-subject documentary 4.1 Miles, another nominee this year for Best Documentary, Fire at Sea, examines the overwhelming refugee crisis faced in Europe. It focuses on the small Italian island of Lampedusa, the site of an influx of hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants, many of whom were on the verge of drowning at sea before reaching the island. The immigrants tax the island’s meager resources and the psyches of its inhabitants.

Writer-director Gianfranco Rosi (Sacro GRA), who shared story credit with Carla Cattani, laid down roots for several months on the Mediterranean island, documenting its history and culture before zeroing in on the current situation where its 6,000 locals struggle with the onslaught of refugees arriving every week.

Fire at Sea narrows its focus down to a 12-year-old boy named Samuele Pucillo, who serves as a first-hand witness to the international drama, allowing us to see and hear how such events touch the lives of the citizenry. What Rosi does here is open up the perspective, creating the opportunity for a human conversation.

And thanks to the University of Cincinnati’s Center for Film and Media Studies, audiences in the Greater Cincinnati region can see this film and engage in dialogue about this timely issue. A one-time-only screening of Fire at Sea is set for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Esquire Theatre, with a discussion led by Dana Renga, an Ohio State University professor who is a specialist in contemporary Italian cinema, and local documentary filmmaker Andrea Torrice, whose films cover a range of social and environmental concerns. Tickets are $10; $7.50 seniors/children.

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Clean Comedy in ‘Crashing’

BY JAC KERN

Tune into an HBO comedy and odds are burn. But with each mediocre set that he you’re in for some F-bombs, occasional survives and each established comic he drug use and a hilariously awkward meets (via humorous interpretations of sex scene or two. The network’s newest real comedians like Artie Lange and T.J. comedy, Crashing (10:30 p.m. Sundays), Miller), Pete starts to find his groove and has all of that, too. But there’s a differlearn that maybe he can make it without ence — it’s through the perspective of Pete compromising too many of his own values. (creator/star Pete Holmes), a novice clean In this week’s episode, Pete is invited comic and overall wholesome dude who is as a guest on Artie’s podcast, finds a job just trying to survive the seedy underbelly opportunity and meets Sarah Silverman, of New York comedy. who lets him crash at her place alongside And Pete is definitely crashing — both other random comics. in the colloquial sense of couch-surfing and the more literal sense of his life falling apart around him.

When we first meet Pete, he’s struggling to establish himself as a stand-up comedian, married to his longtime sweetheart Jess who begrudgingly supports them both as a teacher while Pete scrounges up various unpaid gigs (where, even worse, he has to spend money on the twodrink-minimum in order to perform).

Pete Holmes is the creator/star of the new HBO series Crashing.

When Pete catches his P H O T O : m a c a l l b . po l ay/ h b o wife having an affair with a man she plans to run off with, he’s devastated. But it just may be the catalyst he needs to shake up his stagnant RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season Premiere, approach to comedy (and his life).

8 p.m. Friday, VH1) – From standardOne of the most interesting things definition reality show with a niche cult about Pete (based on Holmes’ younger following to well-known Emmy nominee, self) is that he’s a clean comic — no major Drag Race is a bona fide crossover hit. For cursing or vulgarities in his work. Now, eight years, fans have tuned in to watch there are plenty of legendary comics who drag queens compete in singing, dancing, keep it clean: Think Jim Gaffigan, Jerry costume and comedy challenges — what’s Seinfeld and even Ellen DeGeneres. But not to love? Some would even say it influPete’s PG-rated sets and general good-guy enced the latest lip-sync craze. But hey, nature place him in stark contrast to the imitation is the greatest form of flattery, smarmy, foul-mouthed comics with whom right? In this Season 9 opener, the queens he works and crashes. compete in the Miss Charisma UniqueIt’s a rare point of view for a contemness, Nerve and Talent pageant and Lady porary TV comedy, especially in that it Gaga stops by. doesn’t vilify Pete for being religious or make him preachy. He’s just a “regular Big Little Lies (9 p.m. Sunday, HBO) Christian,” as he tells someone who asks if – Madeline worries about Jane, who he’s Mormon. Even in real life today, when confronts Renata. Bonnie informs Nathan Holmes has found success and no longer about Abigail’s secret project while Ed identifies as a staunch Evangelical Chrisand Madeline work through their lack tian, he maintains a sense of silliness and of passion. positivity you can see in Crashing’s Pete.

Girls (10 p.m. Sunday, HBO) – How meta That’s not to say there aren’t some is Adam and Jessa’s film project?! This downer moments in the show — not week, Elijah decides to audition for a unlike other HBO comedies, like Girls — new musical on Broadway; Marnie tries that can take a dramatic turn in an to pawn a family heirloom and Hannah otherwise funny situation. reaches out to Paul-Louis.

In Crashing’s exploration of the early years of stand-up (when most people suck), CONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern there’s a lot of trial and error onstage. We see Pete’s first few comedy bits crash and

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Nepalese in Northside

Bridges transitions from a Findlay Market food stand to a brick-and-mortar restaurant

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Bridges puts a Nepalese spin on dishes like chicken tikka masala.

Cincinnati lacks access to basic ingredients that are readily available in Kathmandu. Mustard oil, for example, was the typical cooking oil Rose used in her recipes; it’s an influential ingredient used by the Nepalese Newar tribe, to which the Chipalus belong.

“Nepal is a small country but it’s very diverse,” Rose says. “In the valley of the Newari tribe, many have migrated there, but the natives of the valley are Newars and they have different kinds of foods not similar to the other people who have come to the valley. We use a much more balanced diet than the other peoples.”

Chipalu concurs with his mother’s assertion.

“Nepali food is very balanced,” he says. “(It’s a) balance of green vegetables, chicken, yellow lentils and a kind of salsa we call achar. Every meal is served with achar on the side, a roasted tomato achar, that goes really well with everything we offer. We serve it on the side to be used as a palate cleanser.”

On a menu behind the counter, diners will find options to build their own bowls or combos, with additional soups, sides and samosas — all for under $15.

To build the bowls, lentils are poured on top of basmati or a brown rice base before a stew-like entrée is added, acting as a creamy, flavorful emulsifying bond between starch and protein. Diners can choose from meat options like grilled chicken tikka masala or haku chuala (smoked chicken) or vegan dishes including cauliflower and potatoes or aloo wala.

The vegan food here is not an afterthought.

Chipalu is mindful that Bridges occupies a spot formerly held by arguably the city’s most popular vegetarian and vegan restaurant.

“We have cauliflower with potato, carrot, peas and South Asian spices,” Chipalu says. “We’ll definitely have other veggie dishes as well; we’ll do specials. We have this authentic bean curry soup with black eyed peas, sour bamboo shoots, potato and tomato and serrano peppers — slightly on the spicier side and very, very good.”

Bridges is also known for its unique and wide-ranging samosa selection, including a bacon and cheese samosa. The potato, carrot and pea samosas — not unlike those served in Indian restaurants — are hearty and flavorful with just enough spice to make your brow sweat, but not too hot for

sensitive palates. The chicken tikka masala, which is grilled and then simmered with a tomato and cream curry, is so popular it’s served in both the aforementioned rice bowl and stuffed inside samosas.

“It’s not spicy,” Chipalu says. “If you want, we’ll make it spicier, though.”

No formal spice level has been established at Bridges, unlike many local Indian restaurants that grade the spiciness on a scale typically from one to six or 10. With that in mind, if you tell the Chipalus that you like a little burn in your meal, be prepared to back up that statement. Like with all things in their restaurant, the Chipalus are generous with peppers.

Order your food at the counter and it will be plated before you pay. The milk chai is a wonderful counterbalance to spicier dishes. The leftovers, if any survive, reheat quite well in the microwave but should be sampled cold as well, since the flavors are slightly more pronounced. The restaurant is currently BYOB until further notice.

BRIDGES is located at 4165 Hamilton Ave., Northside. More info: 513-374-9354 or facebook. com/ashchipalu.

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he streets of Northside remind Nepal native Ashak Chipalu of home. When he looks out the front window of his new restaurant, Bridges — situated in the space that once held neighborhood mainstay Melt Eclectic Café — he sees similarly diverse inhabitants, tightly packed buildings and free space used to its maximum.

And now, thanks to Chipalu, Northside has its own Nepalese restaurant to add to the list of parallels.

For the past couple of years, Chipalu, his mother Rose and his father Manoj have served Nepalese cuisine from a food cart at Findlay Market, the Northside Farmers Market and other local venues. Rose and Manoj moved to Cincinnati in the wake of the earthquakes that devastated much of Nepal in 2015; Chipalu was already in Cincinnati studying medicine. Being reunited with his family prompted him to join his mother, who had been a restaurateur in Kathmandu, in the kitchen.

At the end of February, Chipalu opened Bridges in its first permanent spot at 4165 Hamilton Ave. Rose has guided all of the restaurant’s recipes, but chances are you’ll see the entire family when you visit. Manoj typically runs the cash register and assists his family as they work alongside several hourly employees.

After some light renovation — including the installation of a cafeteria-style serving system in the front where you order food — Chipalu made the former Melt space his own.

The interior seats 48 people, split between the front and back of the building, and the backyard seats 30 when weather permits.

Upon walking into the restaurant, you see a vibrant mix of colors. Nepalese Folk music plays through speakers and photos of the Chipalus’ homeland, along with depictions of Hindu deity Ganesha, adorn the walls.

“The colors are really influenced by South Asian interiors,” Ashak Chipalu says. “We use a lot of red, green, yellow, orange — colors that make you feel good, feel happy.

Colors of nature, like flowers.”

The restaurant name — Bridges — encourages diners to use food as a means of connecting to new cultures, which makes sense because Bridges is the first full Nepalese restaurant in the area. Cincinnati is inundated with various styles of Indian and Chinese. Though a different type of cuisine, the Nepalese food served at Bridges will strike a similar chord to those familiar flavors — ginger, garlic, cumin, chili pepper and cilantro — while imparting concentrations of smoky spice that elevate the simple ingredients. Still, it’s been difficult for the Chipalus to fully adjust to cooking here.

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The glass list is pretty short for a wine bar — I hope it will expand and include flights.

For now, there are four whites ($7-$9), five reds ($9-$12) and a prosecco ($8). The room started to fill up by 8 p.m., with most other patrons ordering drinks and maybe one food item. But we were planning to make it our dinner and kept our server busy bringing out platters of meat, fish and veggie offerings.

Although there’s a full kitchen for food prep, almost all the dishes come to the table cold or room temperature. Portions are almost universally generous and easily can be shared by two, three or four people.

We agreed on two favorites: Modern Fondue ($14) and Northside Charcuterie ($15). The cheesy fondue came in a ceramic pot above a tiny flame. Along with crostini for dipping or spooning the cheese onto, it came with apple slices, lightly fried artichoke and apricot compote. The charcuterie featured an impressively stacked array of goodies, from cheeses to cured meats and house-brined olives to babba ganouj, ciopinni onions soaked in balsamic vinegar and various pickled vegetables.

Another hit was Calamari & Potatoes ($13) — seared squid with fingerling potatoes, roasted corn, sundried tomatoes and bits of spicy chorizo. Dotted around this plate, and on a few others, were creamy cloves of roasted garlic. (Pama Mitchell)

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While it’s an OTR version of a dive bar, the menu showcases the life of the owner, Mike Stankovich. Stankovich has a Southern and Italian background — he grew up eating cornbread and rolling out homemade

ravioli. Combine that with his experience traveling through Europe and Japan and his stint in New York bartending, and you have Longfellow’s menu.

The menu manages to offer something traditional yet refreshingly new, with classic sandwiches, a selection of cheese, fresh vegetables, hand-sliced meats, crostini, marinated Mediterranean olives and, of course, Cincinnati’s own Grippo’s barbecue chips. Each simple dish is delivered without much fuss; I ordered the tomme ($4) and goat cheese ($5), the radishes and butter ($4) and three Babuska Pierogies ($5).

The radishes are served raw and still a tad wet, and I did what the dish invited me to: I dipped the radishes in the chilled butter like a piece of bread and dug in. Longfellow’s butter is the kind of butter that no one would judge you for eating with a spoon.

The cocktails enhance the menu. I ordered the Spruce Goose ($11), St. Joseph’s Sour ($10) and the Classic Daiquiri ($10).

The Spruce Goose is a wicked mix of gin, tonic and other almost undetectable ingredients like lime and honey. The Classic Daiquiri was my favorite drink of the evening, especially when paired with the European menu — the tart lime-infused cocktail cut through the creaminess of the cheeses. (Madge Maril)

Indi-Go 3392 Eerie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-954-5850, indi-gogrill.com Like many restaurant ventures of late, IndiGo follows the same fast-casual, assemblyline 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.

Bread is my cardinal sin, so I specifically scouted the restaurant for its naan wraps. I 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. All 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. (Lauren Moretto)

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Chicken Never Tasted So Good! — Leigh Barnhart Ochs leads this class to change up your poultry routine. This demo class includes recipes for stuffed peppers with chicken, chorizo and rice and quick chicken cassoulet with sausage and beans. 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday; 6-8:30 p.m.

Thursday. $55. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.

Good Food, Good Drinks, Good Books — A meet and greet with the authors of Barrel Strength Bourbon: The Explosive Growth of America’s Whiskey and Love Brunch: Great Chefs Share Their Passion for Good Food and Gathering on Sundays.

Includes a silent auction, live Jazz music, gourmet food and signature beverages.

Proceeds benefit NKU Library Informatics scholarships. 7-10 p.m. $100. New Riff Distillery, 24 Distillery Way, Newport, Ky., bit.ly/2o0Ph8N. Parisian Couscous Evening — Coucous became popular in Paris in the 1950s and ’60s after Moroccan immigrants began settling in France. This dinner features couscous platters, served family style, with a selection of add-on wine pairings. 7-9:30 p.m. $40. La Petite Pierre, 7800 Camargo Road, Madeira, lapetitepierre.com.

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2017 George Remus Dinner — This private three-course dinner — designed by chef John Tomain — is paired with craft beer from Fifty West and bourbon from George Remus bourbon. Dishes include smoked pork loin and pecan-crusted chocolate cheesecake. 6:30 p.m. $35; includes snifter. Fifty West Brewing Company, 7668 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, fiftywestbrew.com.

Homeless to Hopeful — Head to Oriental Wok for a buffet dinner to benefit The Emergency Shelter of NKY. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $50.

Oriental Wok, 317 Buttermilk Pike, Fort Mitchell, Ky., orientalwok.com.

Deep Sea Dinner — Learn how to prepare Italian brodetto (aka fish stew). 6:30-7:30 p.m. $35. Artichoke OTR, 1824 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, artichokeotr.com.

Dining with the Stars — A dinner at Rhinegeist to benefit the National Kidney Foundation. Twelve local chefs will recreate their signature dishes for guests to sample and local celebrities will help chefs distribute

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Spirit of Ohio Dinner at Golden Lamb — A five-course dinner made with Ohiosourced ingredients and paired with Valley Vineyards’ wine. 6:30 p.m. $75. Golden Lamb, 27 S. Broadway St., Lebanon, 513-932-5065.

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It’s Greek to Me — Learn to cook a feast bursting with Greek flavor. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $65. Artichoke OTR, 1824 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, artichokeotr.com.

Spay-Ghetti and No Balls Dinner — Nonprofit spay and neuter clinic the United Coalition for Animals is hosting their third-annual (and fabulously named) Spay-Ghetti and No Balls dinner, a major fundraiser that enables the organization to provide these surgeries at low costs and provide vaccine recommendations for low-income families in the community. The upscale party includes a pasta buffet, silent auction items, live music by The Doug Hart Band and plenty of hair of the dog. 5:30-9 p.m. Saturday. $60. Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, ucancincinnati.org.

Braxton Brewing Company Second Anniversary — Celebrates two years of brewing with Braxton. Party features live music, food trucks and the bottle release of Mentor, a Belgian Tripel, and Mentee, a Belgian table beer. Noon-11 p.m. Free admission. Braxton Brewing Company, 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, Ky., braxtonbrewing.com.

Breakfast: It’s Worth Getting Up For! — Get to Jungle Jim’s early for mimosas, hot coffee and hands-on recipes for dishes including huevos rancheros, homemade biscuits and sausage gravy and grilled pineapple. 9-11:30 a.m. $75. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.

Celebrate Spring! — Diane Phillips leads this class featuring a menu of spring dishes, including pea, mint and spring onion soup, roasted salmon and individual strawberry rhubarb crumbles. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $70.

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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.

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True Believer

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Chuck Prophet still believes in Rock & Roll

BY STEVEN ROSEN

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ne upshot of Boomers sticking with Rock & Roll and R&B as they get older is that it has allowed some artists to slowly develop a fan following long past an age where, at one time, they would have had to give up music to find a “real job.”

Such performers as Alejandro Escovedo (66), Willie Nile (68), Garland Jeffreys (73) and Bettye LaVette (71) are neither superstars nor nostalgia acts. They’re in it for the long haul, developing their careers with new recordings and touring — even if they qualify for Social Security.

San Francisco-based Rock singer/songwriter/guitarist Chuck Prophet is somewhat younger — just 53. But he’s been a Rock & Roll lifer since first recording with California-based neo-Psychedelic/ Alternative Rock band Green on Red in the mid-1980s. The band was never a big seller but was admired by enthusiasts, and Prophet was able to start issuing solo records in 1990.

Although the first was only out in England initially, he has subsequently released new work on a variety of better-distributed American labels — his brand-new Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins (on Yep Rock Records) is his 14th solo album. And he’s built a following as a “Rock true believer” with his tight combos, guitar work that sparks and shimmers with the riffs and chording of every old Rock song you ever loved and a Tom Petty-ish drawl singing through mysterious and cryptic but seductively eerie lyrics. What especially comes through is the unabashed enthusiasm — you never get the sense he’s making records out of necessity or obligation.

In fact, that enthusiasm is especially evident in an email (edited here) that Prophet wrote to fans while on a recent European tour. “Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins is out,” he wrote, “and it’s tearing up the charts. It’s No. 123 on the Billboard Hot 200. People are excited about the record.

And it feels good. I don’t recall ever being on the Billboard charts. Except Green On Red’s No Free Lunch might have grazed the top 200 back in 1986 or so? I’m not quite ready to call my mom and ask her where she wants them to drop off her new yacht, but it’s still pretty cool. You can’t see me, but my head is swelling up pretty good.”

Asked during a phone interview about that accomplishment, Prophet says, “I’m certainly not checking the charts, but I feel if it had happened before, I’d have some awareness of it.”

About the experience of still growing an audience as a 50-plus-year-old Rock musician, Prophet is circumspect. “I honestly

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don’t know why (it’s happening),” he says. “I hope I’m getting better at what I do. I feel things have built in a slow way. I guess that’s the way things need to build, if they’re going to build in any meaningful way.”

The latest album is a fine example of how Prophet inventively draws material from both Rock’s past and the world around him. The title song references a mid-1960s Buddy Holly-influenced Rock singer from El Paso who had moved to Los Angeles to make it big. He died mysteriously in his gasoline-permeated car just as his group, the Bobby Fuller Four, started to have hits like “Love’s Made a Fool of You” and “I Fought the Law.” The official cause, an accident, has long been questioned — and Rock buffs for just as long have wondered how, and why, Fuller died.

Prophet provides an answer, sort of, in “Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins.” The lyrics, by Prophet and poet/songwriter Kurt Lipschutz, have an impressionist quality that subverts easy narrative flow, as when Prophet sings, “A cop shoots a kid on a hot summer morn/Bobby Fuller died for your sins.”

“It came out of the air, that song,” Prophet says. “I was writing with my friend Kurt and I have a shoebox-size office. I remember we were listening to Bobby Fuller on my turntable. I picked up my guitar and said, ‘I hear the record’s crackles, skips and jumps.’ Kurt picks it up and says ‘Bobby Fuller died for your sins.’ We just followed that to its conclusion.”

Prophet also makes unusual connections and references in his song “Bad Year for Rock and Roll,” about the startling number of musician deaths in 2016.

Prophet (with co-writer Lipschutz) begins, logically enough, with a reference to David Bowie.

But at the chorus, when he turns introspective about the effect of that toll on his psyche, his thought process turns curious: “I’m all dressed up/In my mohair suit/ Watching Peter Sellers/Thinking of you/ Wondering where it’s all going to end.”

Peter Sellers? Where did he come from?

“Really, the song is about a guy trying to keep the faith (in Rock),” Prophet says.

“There are nights I want to go out and see a band, but I’m watching Peter Sellers. Being There is on cable TV and I can’t seem to pull myself away.”

The bittersweet ballad “We Got Up and Played,” solely written by Prophet, is a paean to the kind of Rock & Roll life he’s chosen — on the road constantly, playing the kind of weathered small- and mediumsize clubs that sustain a traveling musician,

Chuck Prophet’s recent Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins is his 14th solo full-length release. always nervous if he has enough drawing power in any given city to sell tickets: “We loaded in — couple hours ago/Now we’re standing around/Wondering who’ll show.”

“That song was written in the fall, when days are getting shorter and the nights longer,” he says. “Anybody who ever loaded gear into a dark empty club knows touring is as much about the mundane elements as anything else. And the loneliness. It’s standing around waiting to see if anyone will show. That’s what it means

to go out there and try to make it happen night after night. I think the sound (of the recording) also captures the feeling of emptiness and longing, and the promise that people are going to show up and it’ll be a memorable night. And you’ll somehow share communion with people.”

That’s what Prophet looks for every night.

CHUCK PROPHET & THE MISSION EXPRESS perform Friday at Southgate House Revival.

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He Did “Nazi” That Coming Punchable white supremacist Richard Spencer apparently loves music, but recent Twitter exchanges suggest the music world doesn’t love him back.

After jokingly claiming one of his favorites, Depeche Mode, was the “official band of the alt-right,” the group immediately released a statement denouncing Spencer, with singer Dave Gahan recently clarifying that he thinks Spencer is “a cunt.”

Then, after Spencer tweeted a clip from Cabaret of the song “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” in response to a news editor telling him to take his “trash philosophy back to the 1930s,” former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander gave Spencer some context. “That song you love was written by my uncle,” Kander tweeted at Spencer (referring to John Kander of composing team Kander & Ebb). “He’s been married to my other uncle for 40 years,” the tweet continued. “And he’s a Jew. Sing it proud.”

Bull Shirt In a bizarre twist on “cultural appropriation,” former Smiths singer Morrissey recently removed from his website a T-shirt reportedly slated to be sold on his upcoming tour. While surely meant as a tribute (or maybe a knowing PR stunt?), the shirt featured the face of legendary African-American writer/ activist James Baldwin surrounded by an unfortunate quote from The Smiths’ 1987 song “Unloveable” — “I wear black on the outside, ’cause black is how I feel on the inside” — which had previously made it an anthem for mopey, black-clad outcasts worldwide.

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That has a lot to do with guitarist Michael Hensley’s powerful, high-ceilinged voice, which delivers the melodies with a force and urgency that’s undeniable.

The vocal arrangements on Warpig are especially strong, fleshed out by guest vocalists Lauren Houston and Heather Turner (of local group Honey & Frontier Folk Nebraska’s new Warpig EP Houston).

PHOTO : provided The EP opens with “Girls Like Wine,” a perfect example of the band’s ragged glory, with mic Roots” band Shiny Old Soul (a Tavern guitars that swagger like vintage Stones regular) performs in the venue’s front or The Replacements at their bash-androom. The back room lineup features local pop best. “Song In A” puts the “power” in Rock greats The Tigerlilies (who’ve con“power ballad” and shows the emotional sistently played the Tavern since it opened), weight the band is capable of injecting as well as acclaimed rockers Lemon Sky into its songs (think “Tuesday’s Gone” if it and Garage Rock duo Toon Town. Music was written by Neil Young and covered by in the back begins at 10 p.m.

My Morning Jacket).

• Featuring some of the top names (and Speaking of power, EP closer “Cut You music educators) in local Jazz and noted Loose” is a Power Pop gem that would for its creative programming, the 17-memmake Robert Pollard smile like a proud ber Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz papa, complete with a shimmy-shaking Orchestra — the reigning Cincinnati British Invasion-like rhythmic bounce.

Entertainment Award winner in the Jazz Frontier Folk Nebraska recently category — and its smaller CCJO Chamreturned from a tour jaunt that took the ber Ensemble have explored the music of band to South By Southwest in Austin, everyone from Bill Evans, Duke Ellington Texas and included several other shows in and Frank Sinatra to The Beatles and Texas and throughout the South.

Radiohead.

The band — which is working with This Thursday, the Orchestra unveils Shake It Records on a forthcoming single new arrangements of songs by late music for Record Store Day next month — hosts legend Prince, with guest vocalist Adia an EP release party Saturday at The Dobbins of The Everyday People Band, Southgate House Revival (111 E. Sixth St., at a 7:30 p.m. show at The Redmoor (3187 Newport, Ky., southgatehouse.com). DayLinwood Ave., Mount Lookout, theredton, Ohio’s The New Old-Fashioned opens moor.com). Tickets ($10 for students; the show at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $10. $15 for adults 18 and up) and more Warpig will be available at the show information are available at artful.ly/ as a limited-edition cassette. The EP will cincinnati-contemporary-jazz-orchestra. also be available for download at frontierCONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@citybeat.com folknebraska.bandcamp.com beginning

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Waxahatchee with Kevin Morby and Mary Lattimore Wednesday • Woodward Theater Katie Crutchfield grew up in the DIY scene of her native Birmingham, Ala., a singular breeding ground she carries with her today as a restless writer of starkly personal songs.

Her 2012 debut, American Weekend, under the moniker Waxahatchee, is spare and intimate, the lo-fi sound of a Punk poetess emerging from a difficult breakup. The follow-up, 2013’s Cerulean Salt, is more expansive in multiple ways — including the addition of a full band behind her — but no less emotionally piercing. Think Rilo Kiley before their glossy Fleetwood Mac makeover.

Waxahatchee jumped to Merge Records for 2015’s Ivy Tripp, another leap forward in terms of sonic diversity but no less evocative in its preoccupation with intimate emotions.

Crutchfield and crew hit the road for the next year and a half behind its 13 songs, Waxahatchee which range from PHOTO : Michael Rubenstein the guitar crunch of “Under a Rock” to “Half Moon,” a moving, stripped-down piano ballad that wouldn’t be out of place on an early-era Cat Power record.

“The record is about directionlessness,” Crutchfield told Spin when Ivy Tripp hit two years back. “It applies Cold War Kids to a generational PHOTO : Dan Monick thing. A generational directionlessness of people wandering through life, or trying to find things that make them happy without (conforming to) the structure generations behind us have had.”

Crutchfield’s been writing the follow-up to Ivy Tripp, and she will unveil some of the new material during a brief solo tour that precedes a full-band Waxahatchee jaunt opening for The New Pornographers this spring. What can we expect of her latest ruminations? If Crutchfield’s Twitter feed is any indication, expect the following as a mission statement, which seems informed by our current political climate: “2017, the year we stop being polite and start getting real.” (Jason Gargano) Cold War Kids with Middle Kids Friday • Madison Theater The first seven years of Cold War Kids’

tenure found the prolific Southern California Indie Rock/Blues/Soul outfit dropping a trio of full lengths, including their acclaimed/ chastised debut, 2004’s Robbers & Cowards, and close to 20 additional EP and single releases, while deflecting reviews that cited Cold War Kids as a Christian band. The next six years of the band’s history were slightly less productive, with only two additional albums, two EPs and a half-dozen singles being added to the band’s catalog.

The good news was that the mixed reviews for 2011’s Mine is Yours were offset by the decidedly better notices for 2013’s Dear Miss Lonelyhearts and 2014’s Hold My Home which, despite more mixed press, featured the single “First,” the band’s highest-charting single to date (No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart). The bad news was that Cold War Kids was clearly a band in turmoil; founding guitarist/ vocalist Jonnie Russell left in early 2012 and was replaced by ex-Modest Mouse guitarist Dann Gallucci, while founding drummer Matt Aveiro departed in late 2013, with his spot being taken provisionally

by Modest Mouse beatkeeper Joe Plummer, leaving vocalist/ multi-instrumentalist Nathan Willett and bassist Matt Maust as the only remaining original members.

After the release of 2014’s Hold My Home, Plummer and touring multi-instrumentalist Matthew Schwartz were both announced as permanent members of Cold War Kids; three months before Hold My Home’s release, Willett and Maust dropped the debut album from their side project, French Style Furs.

Early last year, the band announced that Gallucci had left the band and that his place would be filled by We Barbarians guitarist David Quon. Last fall, the newly minted lineup recorded the single “Locker Room Talk” for the 30 Days, 30 Songs project organized to protest Donald Trump’s presidential campaign (which has since been expanded to further protest his election), and just last month, Cold War Kids premiered the first single from their imminent sixth album, L.A. Divine, their debut for the venerable Capitol label. The original cold

war may have thawed, but Cold War Kids are heating up all over again. (Brian Baker)

of “In the Wilderness” to his solo identity, which was followed by his self-titled debut in that form.

His latest Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness album, Zombies on Broadway, was released last month, maintaining his stylistic trend of anthemic Killers-esque Indie Rock blended with melodic Owl City-tinted Pop. Whether in the boardroom, the display window, the wilderness or on Broadway, Andrew McMahon has something for most musical tastes. (BB)

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness with Atlas Genius and Night Riots Tuesday • Bogart’s Most musicians are lucky to have one shot at widespread fame and a certain measure of professional success. Andrew McMahon has grabbed a couple of brass hula-hoops on the band carousel and he’s looking to snag another with his recently established solo career under the weighty moniker of Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness.

Massachusetts-born and New Jersey/ HAYSEED DIXIE – March 30, Southgate House Revival Ohio-raised, McMahon began playing piano by ear at age 9, which led to songwriting MADELEINE PEYROUX – March 30, Live! at the Ludlow Garage and eventual lessons. As a high schooler in the Columbus suburb of Bexley, McMahon MARGO PRICE – April 2, 20th Century Theater formed his first group, won a local band LOCAL NATIVES – April 3, Madison Theater talent contest, recorded a solo demo when NEW FOUND GLORY – April 7, Bogart’s his band dissolved and started his next band, BRANDY CLARK – April 7, 20th Century Theater Something Corporate. The blazing Indie Rock quintet, fronted NOAH HUNT – April 8, Live! at the Ludlow Garage

by McMahon and his driving keyboard JUKEBOX THE GHOST – style, self-released a April 12, Woodward Theater full-length demo in SON VOLT – April 14, 2000 in their senior Southgate House Revival year, resulting in a KISHI BASHI – April 14, Drive-Thru Records 20th Century Theater contract. Something KEITH SWEAT/K-CI & JOJO Corporate’s first label – April 14, U.S. Bank Arena release, Audioboxer, DAVE MASON – 20th sparked interest from Century Theater MCA, Drive-Thru’s disFLUX PAVILION – April 19, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness tributor; their major Bogart’s P H O T O : B r e n d a n Wa lt e r label debut, 2002’s THURSDAY – April 22, Leaving Through the Bogart’s Window and its 2003 ERIC CHURCH – April 22, U.S. Bank Arena follow-up North, were commercially and HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF – April 24, critically acclaimed.

Woodward Theater When Something Corporate went on hiaEXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY – April 25, Bogart’s tus in 2004, drained after months of non-stop touring, McMahon took the song “Locked MAYDAY PARADE – April 26, Bogart’s Doors,” which he felt was too different to be THE CHAINSMOKERS – April 26, U.S. Bank Arena a Something Corporate song, and built a new THE DAMNED – April 27, Bogart’s solo project around it. Dubbed Jack’s ManTESTAMENT – April 29, Bogart’s nequin, McMahon produced three albums in that configuration, eventually shuttering the PIXIES – May 6, Madison Theater concept in 2012 with a series of shows that WHITE REAPER – May 6, Madison Live became the group’s swan song release, Live LANY – May 8, 20th Century Theater at the El Rey Theatre.

THE BLACK ANGELS – May 9, Woodward Theater During that stretch, McMahon battled leukemia, started the non-profit the Dear OLD 97’S – May 11, Southgate House Revival Jack Foundation as a cancer research EDWIN MCCAIN – May 12, Live! at the Ludlow Garage fundraising tool and filmed a documentary MASTODON – May 14, Taft Theatre about his experience.

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK – May 16, U.S. Bank Arena Before the El Rey shows, McMahon ADRIAN BELEW – May 18, 20th Century Theater hinted that Jack’s Mannequin was being phased out, and shortly after began work RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – May 19, U.S. Bank Arena on music under his own name. His first solo DIERKS BENTLEY – May 20, Riverbend Music Center EP, The Pop Underground, was released in THE BLASTERS – May 24, Southgate House Revival 2013; that same year he wrote three songs TRAVIS SCOTT – May 25, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend for the second season of NBC’s Smash, one of which was nominated for an Emmy. In THE SECRET SISTERS – May 27, Southgate 2014, McMahon announced the addition House Revival

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Wednesday 22 Blind Lemon - Sara Hutchinson. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Thiago Camargo. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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

Free.

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

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MOTR Pub - DTCV with Darlene.

9 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

Northside Tavern - Brian Olive DJ Night. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

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 (Lounge) - The Newbees with Daniel Van Vechten, Nick & Lauren and more. 8 p.m. Roots/ Bluegrass/Various. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Quiles & Cloud. 8 p.m.

Americana. $8, $10 day of show.

Stanley’s Pub - That Hot Cherry Vibe, Jack Romanov, Victor Spoils and Kyla Mainous. 9 p.m. AltRock.

Cover.

Trinity Gastro Pub - Tana Matz.

7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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

Woodward Theater - Kevin H Morby and Waxahatchee with Mary Lattimore. 7:30 p.m. Indie/

Rock/Roots. $18, $20 day of show.

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

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

The Mockbee - Tangled Branches, Aytiko, Meiosis and Vusive. 10 p.m.

Electronic. Free.

MOTR Pub - The Roomsounds with The Dummy Ups. 9 p.m. Roots Rock. Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - Open mic with Lars Noble. 7 p.m. Various. Free.

The Redmoor - “Cincinnati H Contemporary Jazz Orchestra Meets Prince.” 8 p.m. Prince Jazz

Lawrenceburg Event Center - America. 8 p.m. Soft Rock. $30-$55.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Honey and Houston. 9 p.m. Americana. Free.

Milk, Slugsalt, Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes, Catflaps, mr.phylzzz and more. 3 p.m. Rock/Punk/ Various.

Madison Theater - Cold War Kids with Middle Kids. 8 p.m.

AltRock. $25, $28 day of show.

Belterra Casino - Pam Tillis & Lorrie Morgan. 7 p.m. Country/ Folk. $25.

Plain Folk Cafe - Working Class Villain. 7:30 p.m. Country/Rock.

Free.

Blind Lemon - Jamonn Zeiler. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - Lt. Dan’s New Legs.

4 p.m. Pop/Dance/Various. $5.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Sonny Moorman Group. 9 p.m. Blues. $4.

Blue Note Harrison - StrangeLove.

9 p.m. Funk/Soul/Rock. Cover.

Silverton Cafe - Night Owls. 9 p.m.

Blues/Soul/Rock. Free.

The Mockbee - Kosmik Ray, Electrigon and DJ Sutle. 10 p.m.

Electronic. Free.

Bogart’s - Sixteen Candles. 7 p.m. ’80s Pop/Rock. $5.

Southgate House Revival H (Revival Room) - Frontier Folk Nebraska (EP release) with The

Madison Live - Infinity Spree with As You Like It and Mellow Cactus. 8 p.m. AltRock. $10.

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MOTR Pub - The Harlequins with Courtesy Tier and The Cowboys. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

tribute. $15.

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Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - David and Valerie Mayfield and Natalie Murphy. 9:30 p.m. Americana. Free.

Mount Carmel Brewery - John Ford.

7 p.m. Blues/Roots/Various. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives with Whitney Rose. 8 p.m. Country. $25, $30 day of show.

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Stanley’s Pub - Ty Cooper, Jonathan Cody Smith and Kevin Stokely. 9 p.m. Singer/Songwriter.

Cover.

Trinity Gastro Pub – Carl Shepard.

7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Friday 24 Arnold’s Bar and Grill Rattlesnakin’ Daddies. 9 p.m.

Americana. Free.

Blind Lemon - Warren Ulgh. 9 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - Templin Road.

9 p.m. Rock. Cover.

Boone County Public Library, Main Branch - Skylark. 7 p.m. A Folk/Celtic. Free

MVP Bar & Grille - Stephen H Pearcy with Counting Stars.

8 p.m. Hard Rock. $22, $27 day of show.

Northside Tavern - Suck The Honey, The Traveling Suitcase and Go Go Buffalo. 10 p.m. Rock.

Free.

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Plain Folk Cafe - David and Valerie Mayfield. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass.

Free.

Silverton Cafe - Soul Quest. 9 p.m.

R&B/Dance/Funk/Rock. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Coot Crabtree. 9:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary) - Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express with Chuck

Cleaver. 8:30 p.m. Rock. $18, $20 day of show.

Stanley’s Pub - Jamwave with Sylmar and The High Definitions. 9 p.m. Reggae/Rock/Soul. Cover.

Strasse Haus - Trailer Park Floosies. 10 p.m. Dance/Pop/ Rock/Country/Various. Free.

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

Jazz. Free.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Steve Schmidt Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

(Solo at 6 p.m.; trio at 8 p.m.

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

College Hill Coffee Co. - Anna Moderwell and the Deeper Well.

7:30 p.m. Folk/Pop. Free.

Thompson House - Break Up Lines with Cachico, Current Events, Home Plate and Jettison. 3 p.m.

Pop/Rock. $10.

The Comet - Filthy Beast, J H Dorsey Band and Salvadore Ross. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.

Top of the Line - Bob Cushing. 10 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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Bogart’s - Bobaflex. 8 p.m.

Rock. $12.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Todd Hepburn and Friends. 6 p.m.

Various. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Brandon Martin, David Sparks and Aaron Cordell.

9:30 p.m. Americana. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Bones Jugs. 10 p.m.

Americana. Free.

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

Doc’s Place - Tom Kaper. 7 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

The Greenwich - Melvin Broach’s The Back Story. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10.

The Greenwich - Gabrielle Stravelli.

8 p.m. Jazz. $5.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Brass Tracks Band. 9:30 p.m. Rock/ Dance/Various. $5.

Horse & Barrel - Sonny Moorman.

6 p.m. Blues. Free.

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

Acoustic. Free.

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

Knotty Pine - Flatline. 10 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

Saturday 25

Trinity Gastro Pub - ModernGroove.

8 p.m. Jazz. Free.

The Underground - Tethered Satellites, Ephesus, Acid Ears and AKA Faceless. 7 p.m. Rock/Various.

Cover.

Urban Artifact - Hello Luna with See You in the Funnies, Life Brother and Sundae Drives. 7 p.m. Alt/ Rock/Various. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - John Zappa Quartet.

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

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

College Hill Coffee Co. - Steve Leigh. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

The Comet - New Moons, Your 33 Black Angels and Peace Attack. 10 p.m. Alt/Rock/Various. Free.

Crow’s Nest - The Whiskey Chronicles hosted by Stephen J. Williams will with Casey Campbell and Ben Knight. 10 p.m.

Americana. Free.

The Greenwich - Samantha Carlson Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $8.

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

Jim and Jack’s on the River Radio Romance. 9 p.m. Country.

Free.

Knotty Pine - Flatline. 10 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

Live! at the Ludlow Garage - David Sanborn. 7 p.m. Contemporary Jazz. $40-$60 (shows at 7 and 9 p.m.).

Macadu’s - Basic Truth. 9 p.m.

Funk/R&B/Soul. Free.

New Old-Fashioned. 8:30 p.m.

Rock. $10.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - The Steppin Stones.

9 p.m. Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

Stanley’s Pub - Hyryder. 9 p.m.

Dead tribute. Cover.

Symphony Hotel & Restaurant The Philip Paul Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz.

Free.

Taft Theatre - Brit Floyd. 8 p.m.

Pink Floyd tribute. $36-$52.50.

Thompson House - Ratchet Ass Wooda featuring The Cheeks. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $15.

Trinity Gastro Pub - Bob Cushing.

8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

The Underground - Desmond J Fame EP release with Lamont Hill, Nue Breed, K HOPE and Philly TF. 7 p.m. Hip Hop/Various. Cover.

Urban Artifact - Stop Making Sense. 8 p.m. Talking Heads tribute. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Billy Larkin and Amy McFarland. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).

Madison Live - Trapt (unplugged) with Third Person Omega, Brian Goins, Grieving Otis, Crooked Rook and Lewi Kenwood. 6:30 p.m. Rock. $15, $20 day of show.

Sunday 26

Mansion Hill Tavern - The Blue Ravens. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.

Blind Lemon - Jeff Henry. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Brownstones. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

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

Free.

The Mockbee - Marjorie Lee, H Ouiwey Collins and the Funk Squad, Jess Lamb and The Factory and JetLab. 10 p.m. Rock/Alt/ Soul/Various. Free.

MOTR Pub - Forest and the Evergreens with The Rad Trads. 9 p.m. Blues/Rock/Funk/Jazz/R&B. Free.

Northside Tavern - Northside H Tavern 15th Anniversary with The Tigerlilies, Lemon Sky, Shiny Old Soul and more. 6 p.m. Rock/ Various. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Mean HJeans, Easy Habits, Spoiled

Westside Venue Venue - Wasted Charm. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

Madison Theater - Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. 8 p.m. Rock. $25, $28 day of show.

The Mockbee - Rotten UK, Cat Flaps, Room 101 and A B R A X A S. 9 p.m. Punk. Free.

MOTR Pub - Vanity Creeps. 9 p.m.

AltRock. Free.

Rake’s End - The Head. 9 p.m.

Rock.

Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary) - Dan Baird & Homemade Sin with Otis. 7:30 p.m.

Rock/Roots. $18, $20 day of show.

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

Thompson House - The Funeral Portrait featuring World War Me. 8 p.m. Rock. $10.

Urban Artifact - All of the Above and The Kraken Quartet. 6 p.m.

Chamber music. Free.

Woodward Theater - Legends H of Funk Benefit Concert with The Deele, Ed Sax, Aprina and

The New Royals. 5 p.m. Funk/ Soul. $49.50 (benefits Rosemary’s Babies Leadership & Legacy program).

Monday 27 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Arnold’s Old Time Open Jam. 7 p.m.

Americana. Free.

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.

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

MOTR Pub - Static Falls with The Phasmids. 3 p.m. Rock. Free.

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

The Mockbee - The OFF tha BLOCK Mondays Open Mic. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

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

Urban Artifact - Wacky Deli, Canadian Waves, Nelson Slater and Illusion Dogs and Graham Lang.

8 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

Tuesday 28 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Diamond Jim Dews. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

Blind Lemon - Nick Tuttle. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Bogart’s - Andrew McMahon H In the Wilderness with Atlas Genius and Night Riots. 8 p.m.

AltRock. $39.50.

The Drinkery - Kurt Baker Combo.

9 p.m. Rock.

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

Stanley’s Pub - Trashgrass Tuesdays with members of Rumpke Mountain Boys. 10 p.m. Bluegrass/ Jam. Cover.

Taft Theatre - Julian Lage H & Chris Eldridge with Aoife O’Donovan. 8 p.m. Roots/

Americana. $20, $25 day of show (in the Ballroom).

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