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What a Week!

BY T.C. Britton

WEDNESDAY MARCH 29

Everyone knows Comic Sans is the worst font there is. The childlike text popularized by Beanie Babies and family newsletters was mocked by designer types for years before it became common knowledge that the font is to be avoided at all costs, especially in the professional world. Use Comic Sans in a sign or advertisement, and it’s more likely to become a meme than sell a message.

But have you ever heard the Comic Sans origin story?

Creator Vincent Connare, a Microsoft typographer in the 1990s, spoke out this week about the oft-ridiculed font, and he stands by the monster he created. Connare was shooting for a comic book-type font (inspired by The Dark Knight Returns) that kids would be drawn to.

He thought the standard Times New Roman seemed too formal. And it turns out it’s also a particularly helpful font for users with dyslexia: the unique shape of each letter makes differentiating between letters easier for some. It’s even the recommended font by some dyslexia organizations. So hating on Comic Sans is ableist! Don’t discriminate: Hate on Papyrus instead.

THURSDAY MARCH 30

We here at What a Week! don’t know the most about soccer, but we’re pretty familiar with attractive humans.

And if there’s one thing Portuguese professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is known for off the field, it’s being hot. You wouldn’t know that by looking at the statue of him unveiled this week. Madeira International Airport in Ronaldo’s hometown changed its name to Aeroporto Cristiano Ronaldo (!) and threw in a sculpted bust of him to boot. Only it looks nothing like him, and everything like a giver of nightmares. This statue is worse than people who try to get a tattoo of their child’s face only to have their baby look like a ghoul (which is to say, every tattoo of a child). And like the Comic Sans guy, the artist behind this monstrosity should probably lay low for a while, too.

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FRIDAY MARCH 31

On National Crayon Day Friday, Crayola said R.I.P. to the color Dandelion. Apparently there’s no room for weeds in those fragrant, nostalgic boxes of crayons any more! The yellowy color will be replaced by a blue shade that, like everything from research vessels to Monopoly markers, will be named via an internet poll. We’re really starting to give the people too much power.

SATURDAY APRIL 01

This Saturday, it was necessary to employ the highest levels of skepticism before clicking any headline, social media post or text message. Not because of flagrant fake news, but for April Fools Day! What used to be the whoopee cushion’s favorite holiday has now been diluted to mildly annoying marketing ploys on the internet. Snapchat debuted a dumb filter that looked like Instagram posts; Google introduced Google Gnome, a fake outdoor counterpart to Google Home that resembled a lawn ornament; George Takei announced a bid for Congress; and Food & Wine posted a recipe for a hot dog flavored water slushie. What, no chocolate starfish?The April Fools win goes to College Humor and Sinbad for

making footage of Shazaam, a movie that stars the comic as a genie which is thoroughly not real, despite many internet kids having separate, distinct memories of its existence. (There’s even a Berenstain Bears book in the background of the clip — a nod to the Berenstain/Berenstein debate. Google “Mandela Effect” if you really want to get caught up in some alternate universe mindfuckery.)

Thanks for making dreams come true, Sinbad!

SUNDAY APRIL 02

Between Sunday’s seventh season finale of The Walking Dead and the final episode of HBO miniseries Big Little Lies, everyone tuned in to see who got kilt. On the former, war finally broke out, the garbage pail kids proved to be major fuckbois and one major character did the Magic Coffin Illusion G.O.B. performed in Arrested Development to epic results. There were lions and tigers and bears — OK, just one of those things. On BLL, which was more satisfying in seven episodes than TWD in its sprawling entirety, a looming death was certain, but details finally emerged. Always nice to see people gathered on a Sunday. To watch murder.

MONDAY APRIL 03

Melania Trump is serving Glamour Shots realness in her first official portrait as First Lady. Normally FLOTUSes play it safe in their offish ports (slang we’re making up), opting for traditional poses, but Michelle Obama had ladies clutching their pearls when she dared to bare her naked arms in her 2009 shot. Melania is now making waves by putting her own stamp on the portrait.

The close-up beauty shot depicts Mrs. Trump in black, airbrushed for the gods, with the fuzzy elegance of a soft-focus Barbara Walters interview. Basically, it’s a still from her lost Real Housewives intro reel.

TUESDAY APRIL 04

It’s been a minute since we’ve had multiple Beyoncé news items in one week, but never fear: Beyoncé is reportedly the top choice to voice Nala in Jon Favreau’s live-action Lion King remake. (Retracts all negative statements about reboots.) She has voiced a cartoon character before, in 2013’s Epic. Not only would she be an excellent strong lioness and counterpart to Donald Glover’s Simba, but this would also mean Beyoncé would be singing on a Disney soundtrack. “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?”! We can. (Prays to Beyoncé shrine.) In other Queen Bey news, an artist recreated Mrs. Carter’s pregnancy announcement shot, using 45 pounds of cheese. The piece is called Brie-once. (Obvs not created by a true member of the BeyHive because everyone knows it should be spelled Brie-Yoncé. But we digress.) We could go on and on listing some better Bey cheese puns than that, but we’ll leave you with just one: Cheddar call Becky with the Gouda hair. Somewhere Ted Cruz is heartbroken that his beloved butter cow has been outmatched again.

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BY JEFF BE YER A local man ate a whole habanero pepper at a trendy restaurant in an up-and-coming part of town over the weekend. The man was reported to be waving his hands in front of his mouth for several minutes during the incident.

This was presumably an attempt to cool his lips and tongue, which are believed to have been sending signals to the man’s central nervous system, causing the man to experience a burning sensation in his mouth region.

The man then ordered a water from a restaurant server, who, according to several witnesses, might have actually been a busser. Upon delivery of the water, the man paced back and forth in the dining area, as if he were a cartoon character that could somehow outrun the imaginary flames and plumes of smoke emanating from his mouth. He immediately tipped the glass and guzzled the water, while allegedly making a “gulp-gulp-gulp” noise that annoyed some of the other customers.

Experts say, in all probability, the water was ineffective in extinguishing the fiery sensation in the man’s mouth, as the man continued to wave his hands desperately in front of his pursed lips. This reportedly prompted one fellow diner to tell an anecdote about a recent trip he had taken to Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he was stung by a jellyfish and the only available remedy was to rub sand and urine on the affected area. The anecdote appeared to receive varying levels of interest and disgust around the table. However, the habanero man was apparently not amused at all by the jellyfish comment and walked outside to continue with his mouth-waving routine.

While outside, the man missed several amusing stories and clever quips told and received approvingly by his friends, who had not attempted to show off by eating whole spicy peppers. Witnesses also claim that in the man’s absence his friends agreed to call him “Doctor Pepper Popper” for the remainder of the evening. Eventually, the man returned to the table to finish dining.

It is assumed that while the man was outside the burning sensation slowly subsided, which is in all likelihood what prompted the man’s return to the table.

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Even Conservative Media Turning on Trump

By Ben L. Kaufman

mass shooting was on the Enquirer’s website, but WCPP’s story included its reporter and police quotes from ABC News.

A couple days earlier, widely viewed dailymail.com reported the lynching of a driver whose car struck a child in Walnut Hills. The driver was beaten, then shot in the street. The child survived.

• At the Rome Daily American, type used for the headline “Italian Gov’t Falls” was saved for repeated reuse. Similarly, this statement should be saved in newsroom computers after the latest deadly shootings in Cincinnati: “Police were having trouble getting witnesses to cooperate.”

• I may have wished then-young Constable Keith Palmer good morning when we entered the Houses of Parliament at the gate for guests, members and journalists.

He’s dead now, murdered by a rampaging home-grown Muslim convert turned radical Islamist.

And I can’t remember how many times I’ve walked or driven Westminster Bridge when I lived in London where pedestrians were murdered last week.

Yet there was none of the irrational/racist reactions to Islamist killers we see and hear in our country.

Public figures led by example with dignity. Initially, British news media that I follow online reported soberly, fully and accurately. It was the same after murderous 2005 London bombings by Islamists and years of deadly IRA attacks.

• This response to the Westminster murders goes beyond keeping a “stiff upper lip.”

Londoners still embody their government’s advice on the eve of World War II: “Keep Calm & Carry On.” Other World War II posters reminded Brits that “Freedom is in Peril/Defend it with all your might” and “Your courage/ Your cheerfulness/Your resolution/Will bring us victory.”

No one had to tell them to make Britain great again.

• Twitter enabled the antithesis to London’s calm and decency. Trolls abused a brown-skinned woman in a hijab photographed walking past wounded people on Westminster Bridge. Among them was @SouthLoneStar.

He wrote, “Muslim woman pays no mind to the terror attack, casually walks by a dying man while checking phone.

#PrayForLondon #Westminster #BanIslam.”

But photographer Jamie Lorriman told the Daily Mail, “I saw dozens of people walk past and the woman on the phone had just come from the part of the bridge where most of the victims were struck. That is why she clearly looks mortified and it is obvious that she is in shock. The woman would have seen people under buses — she had just walked past the worst of it. She wasn’t the only one walking past injured people and it looked like she just wanted to get off the bridge as quickly as possible. I took three photographs where you can see the woman and I think she looks distressed in all of them.”

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“The President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle.”

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Two days later, Huffington Post said the still-unnamed woman responded, “I’m shocked and totally dismayed at how a picture of me is being circulated on social media. To those individuals who have interpreted and commented on what my thoughts were in that horrific and distressful moment, I would like to say not only have I been devastated by witnessing the aftermath of a shocking and numbing terror attack, I’ve also had to deal with the shock of finding my picture plastered all over social media by those who could not look beyond my attire, who draw conclusions based on hate and xenophobia.

“My thoughts at that moment were one of sadness, fear and concern. What the image does not show is that I talked to other witnesses to try and find out what was happening, to see if I could be of any help, even though enough people were at the scene tending to the victims. I then decided to call my family to say that I was fine and was making my way home from work, assisting a lady along the way by helping her get to Waterloo Station.

“My thoughts go out to all the victims and their families, I would like to thank Jamie Lorriman, the photographer who took the picture, for speaking to the media in my defence.”

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Media magnate Rupert Murdoch — whose sleazy Australian and British tabloid journalism informs his creation and ownership of the Fox News Channel — is courted by politicians worldwide. They crave his support but fear his opposition even more.

Trump was not immune.

So far, however, Murdoch has not debased his Wall Street Journal as he has cable news.

For months, WSJ refused to join other national news media by calling Trump’s verifiably false assertions lies; WSJ’s editor said “lie” requires an intent to deceive and no one knew Trump’s intentions.

However, last week, the reliably conservative, Republican WSJ couldn’t take it any longer. Its editorial board said Trump is his “own worst political enemy” and he is damaging his presidency “with his seemingly endless stream of exaggerations, evidencefree accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods.”

WSJ’s editorial focused on his unproven charge that then-President Barack Obama tapped his phones. “The President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle.”

And he’s not alone, the paper said, “rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims. … Two months into his presidency, Gallup has Mr. Trump’s approval rating at 39 percent. No doubt Mr. Trump considers that fake news, but if he doesn’t show more respect for the truth, most Americans may conclude he’s a fake president.”

That’s similar to strong stuff we’ve been hearing from other right-wing pillars for more than a year: venerable National Review and neo-con Weekly Standard.

• Enquirer reporters pursuing finances at the Park Board and the Center for Closing the Health Gap demonstrate the staying power of veterans with their editors’ support.

WCPO.com reporters also are digging into Center for Closing the Health Gap spending.

Rather than argue numbers and contract issues, the Center’s Dwight Tillery and his allies are maligning the white reporters as racists.

For more than 300 years, observers have said that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

Today, race has replaced patriotism as a way to deflect legitimate interest in how taxpayer money is being spent.

• One of the joys of print is mismatched headlines. Both are correct, but stacked or next to each other, they’re a hoot. The latest is from a recent Enquirer opinion page: “Musketeer Madness takes hold; It’s time to support needle exchanges.”

• I awakened last week to news of the latest homicides in Cincinnati… on BBC’s World Service. Nothing about the nightclub

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Border Bluster

Sheriff Richard Jones’ ramped-up rhetoric is sparking increased fear among Butler County immigrants

BY JOHN LASKER

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utler County is home to thousands of Hispanic residents and an unknown number of undocumented immigrants whose family and friends feared the worst after President Donald Trump was elected on promises to clamp down on immigration.

After all, their county is also home to Sheriff Richard “Rick” Jones, a staunch Trump supporter known nationally for his desire to deport undocumented immigrants.

The sheriff may be as much about bluster as he is about busting immigrants, but his rhetoric and his policies have created an atmosphere of fear in the county just north of self-described sanctuary city Cincinnati.

Jones most recently grabbed attention for a March 30 letter he sent asking Trump to send federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Butler County to round up undocumented immigrants at businesses that employ them.

“Come to Butler County, sit with me and let’s devise a plan,” Jones implores Trump in the letter.

It’s not his first time raising eyebrows.

Jones once sent a $900,000 bill to the Mexican government for what Butler County has paid to help ICE detain undocumented immigrants. It earned him a spot on a Mexican drug cartel hit list, but didn’t yield any cash for the county.

“He says outrageous things, very stupid things, politically to just to sell himself,” says Cincinnati immigration attorney Deifilia Diaz of the Valencia & Diaz lawfirm. “I don’t think he puts these things into practice.”

Diaz has taken many cases from Butler County over the previous decade because Jones runs the Butler County Correction Complex, which has a partnership with ICE to detain undocumented immigrants arrested in Ohio.

The federal government has paid more than $8 million in taxpayer money since 2012 to detain undocumented immigrants there, according to the county.

Currently, about 150 reside at the jail, including at least one woman from China who has been there for two years, local media reports. Last month alone, the jail detained almost 70 undocumented people.

The number of detainees seems to be rising — in February 2015, just 23 were brought into the justice center, according to data from the sheriff.

But thus far, Diaz says Jones and the ICE agents he works with in Butler County have not amplified their enforcement of federal immigration law as Trump promised during his presidential campaign.

The Butler County Correctional Center currently holds about 150 undocumented immigrants.

“If you are trying to see whether the Trump administration has exponentially detained undocumented immigrants in Butler County, we have not seen that,” Diaz says. “Just a little bit more, not exponentially as you might think.”

Diaz’s law firm recently reached out to the local ICE Cincinnati field office, trying to gauge the level of enforcement regional ICE agents may or may not unleash.

“They told us they do not have guidelines as of yet for mass arrests,” she says. “They are arresting fugitives who have been deported before and have come back illegally and those with a criminal background.

From what we know, they (local ICE agents) are not arresting non-criminals.”

Sometimes, Jones’ words are followed up with action. In 2007, nearly 300 ICE agents, with help from Jones, raided Koch Foods Inc., a chicken processing plant in the city of Fairfield, and arrested 160 undocumented employees.

Jones is rumbling loudly about illegal immigrants once again, and if he gets his way, non-criminal undocumented immigrants and those who employ them could face raids by the sheriff’s department.

Jones recently told the Dayton Daily News he wants to reinstate a program that will allow ICE to train his officers

so they can investigate local companies suspected of employing undocumented immigrants — a call he repeated in his letter to President Trump.

The defunct program deputized local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws, but ended three years ago during the Obama administration.

Jones has said his officers don’t question Butler County residents about their immigration status. But some residents say that’s not true.

“They see you are Hispanic and stop you, find something to put you in jail, to make you guilty for something,” Butler County resident Maria Rodriguez told Al Jazeera in 2015 about sheriff’s deputies. “If you are driving, the police will stop you and ask you for your documentation.”

Being racially profiled by law enforcement is “normal for us,” says one Hispanic business owner of this tight-knit community who asked not to be identified.

Jones does sometimes have sympathy for undocumented immigrants, Diaz says. Her firm has asked Jones’ office to approve and sign U Visa applications, which are set aside for undocumented immigrants who are victims of serious crimes and have to come forward to law enforcement for protection

even though it could mean being deported.

The office has never said no, she says.

But there’s another, harsher reality in Butler County as well, critics say.

The jail Jones oversees has held an undocumented Chinese immigrant for the last two years, according to a recent report

by WCPO. ICE has kept Li Li Chen in Butler County’s justice center — though she has no other criminal charges against her — as she fights in court to stay in the U.S. She entered the country via California with a fake passport in 2004, when she was 17, and, after multiple deportation orders and appeals, waits in Butler County, separated from her husband and two children.

The jail also has a harsh solitary confinement policy for undocumented immigrants, according to a 2014 report by the John Marshall Law School in Chicago and its International Human Rights Clinic.

In a nationwide study of more than 200 ICE detention facilities, the Butler County jail was one of three they believed used solitary confinement for punishment. The report stated one detainee was placed in solitary for 30 days for playing cards during church services.

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Mayoral Candidates Trade Barbs, Grab Endorsements as Primary Nears

By NICK SWARTSELL

The city’s three-way mayoral race is heating up as Mayor John Cranley, former University of Cincinnati Board Chair Rob Richardson Jr. and Councilwoman Yvette Simpson trade barbs and roll out policy proposals.

The aftermath of the city’s worst mass shooting in history, new research showing the city has a serious deficit in affordable housing and other recent events have kicked the candidates’ campaigns into overdrive ahead of the May 2 mayoral primary.

Simpson’s campaign got a boost March 31 when she won nods from the city’s Charter Committee, an influential player in local politics, and from national progressive group Democracy for America.

Simpson is playing catch-up to Cranley in the endorsement game: The mayor has grabbed big nods from the city’s police union and major public employee labor unions, which represent thousands of Cincinnati workers.

Democracy for America backed Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary bid, raising more than $2 million for the Vermont senator. The group says it has more than 3,000 members in Cincinnati and almost 40,000 in Ohio.

The Charter Committee, sometimes called Cincinnati’s third political party, doesn’t usually run its own candidates in election.

The self-proclaimed good governance group, founded in 1924, came out of reform efforts following the tenure of George “Boss” Cox in Cincinnati politics, a time rife with corruption and political favoritism. Simpson is a former member of the committee’s board.

“Yvette will work hard to renew

Cincinnatians’ trust in our government by strongly protecting the independence of administration officials, by keeping politics off limits in the appointments to the city’s boards and commissions and by holding public employees and elected officials to the highest professional standards,” Charter spokesperson Bob Dehner said in a release March 31.

The endorsements come as the mayoral primary race intensifies between Cranley, Richardson Jr. and Simpson, all Democrats.

Last week, the three squared off at a forum in Bond Hill hosted by the NAACP — the local chapter of which is led by Richardson’s father — and the Prince Hall Masons.

Affordable housing and development were the major focuses of that forum.

During the event, Cranley said he wants to tie tax abatements developers receive to requirements that they build a certain amount of affordable housing. Simpson said she wants to leverage the city’s capital budget to push private developers toward mixed-income housing across the city in the hopes of desegregating low-income housing.

Richardson touted a plan for mandatory inclusionary zoning in which developers would be required to make 20 percent of the housing they build affordable.

Cincinnati, like a lot of major cities, has a big gap between the number of housing units available that residents can afford using that guideline and demand for those units — something like 40,000, according to a recent study by the Community Building Institute. What’s more, one in four Greater Cincinnati residents is what is known as “cost burdened,” paying half or more of their

income in housing costs.

The candidates also debated food deserts and the city’s yawning $25 million budget deficit during the debate, which lasted more than two hours.

Following that forum and the March 26 shooting at Cameo Nightclub, Simpson called a news conference in Mount Auburn March 30 to detail her proposals for addressing the city’s gun violence problem.

Simpson said her plan involves a threepronged approach that would treat violence as a public health issue. She also expressed support for maintaining or strengthening current programs and practices, including “a well-staffed police force.”

That last bit was probably in response to barbs from Cranley, who has questioned Simpson’s commitment to the city’s police force.

Later that day downtown, Cranley had his own news conference, where he appeared with Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police President Dan Hils, touting his support for the city’s police force and blasting Simpson for her “soft approach” to crime.

“She is not credible or believable in prioritizing public safety,” Cranley said at the event. Cranley went on to tout his record shoring up the city’s police force, including his push through the city’s budget process to add 100 more police officers to CPD.

He also hit Simpson over statements she made during the mayoral forum. When asked what three departments candidates would shield from cuts looming under the coming budget deficit, Simpson indicated she would protect parks, pools and recreation centers but didn’t mention police or other first responders. Both Cranley and Richardson listed safety as a top priority.

Simpson clarified her remarks later in the forum, saying she thought the question was only about departments currently on the chopping block in budget discussions.

City Manager Harry Black earlier this month asked all departments except for police and fire to propose 10 percent cuts to their budgets.

Richardson also jumped into the fray with a news release later that day outlining his safety proposals, which included increased security requirements like live security cameras for clubs with liquor licenses and histories of violence, boosting the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence, more programs re-integrating citizens returning from prison, strengthening witness protection program CCROW and other initiatives.

Early voting in the primary started April 4. The next mayoral debate featuring Cranley will be May 10, hosted by WCPO. A forum featuring Richardson and Simpson will take place May 6 in Mount Airy. ©

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the pews are jammed with more than 400 immigrants, some undocumented.

The church’s pastor, Father Michael Pucke, says “without a doubt” his congregation’s deportation anxiety of late is palpable.

That’s why the only document he asks for is a baptism certificate, he says.

He has visited the ICE jail weekly for nearly a decade, seeing his own detained parishioners and others whose families call him from across the state. The greatest concern he has about the immigration debate is the rhetoric being used.

“It has the potential to stir up anti-immigrant feelings, whether that be in a school setting or through social media. People are hearing this rhetoric day in, day out,” he says. “First of all, I believe all people have the right to find a dignified life in their own country. Secondly, if that is impossible, they have a right to go look for what they need to have a dignified life.” ©

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In media reports following the study’s release, Jones and his department denied the findings.

Sarah Dávila-Ruhaak, director of the International Human Rights Clinic and author of the study, says it was the jail’s own documents, after she filed for them through public records requests, that showed they were using solitary confinement as a punishment.

“The sheriff was outraged we reported that,” Dávila-Ruhaak says. “It’s not uncommon that when human rights organizations report on such things that there is a denial or different narrative they want to deliver.”

Whether or not Jones and Butler County officials engage in those practices, fear remains among the county’s Hispanic community.

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The Reds’ Forgotten Role in Integrating Major League Baseball Pe n na nt- w i n n i ng 193 9 te a m sp oke out i n supp o r t of Af r i can -A m e r i ca n ba llpl aye r s y e a r s b e f o r e J ac k i e R o b i n s o n b r o k e t h e c o l o r b a r r i e r

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hen it comes to the history of ending racial segregation in Major League Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds would appear to have an unexceptional past.

When the Reds brought two Latino players into Major League Baseball in 1911, they were light-skinned Cubans.

As a 1984 article on Cuban baseball by Bruce Brown in The Atlantic pointed out, the Reds “had affidavits prepared to ‘prove’ that only Caucasian blood flowed in the veins of Cubans Armando Marsans and Rafael Almeida, who were referred to by the Cincinnati press as ‘two of

the purest bars of Castille soap that ever floated to these shores.’ ” For those African-Americans who hoped some darker-skinned Cubans would soon be accepted in baseball because of this, it was not to be.

It wasn’t until 1947 that Brooklyn Dodger rookie Jackie Robinson became the first African-American in Major League Baseball. And it took the Reds seven years after that breakthrough to introduce their first black ballplayers, Chuck Harmon and the Puerto Rico-born Nino Escalera. According to Greg Rhodes, Cincinnati Reds team historian, management in 1952 and ’53 acquiesced to the

manager, Rogers Hornsby, who didn’t want them.

Even so, the Reds did play an integral role in the integration of baseball, dating back to the 1939 pennantwinning team. Players from this team were actually proponents of integrating the game, and their contribution is just coming to light.

So what was that great Reds team’s role in possibly hastening integration? They spoke freely and supportively about it when interviewed by a critically important sportswriter, for a critically important newspaper series at a critically important time.

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The banning of black players by Major League Baseball was a “gentleman’s agreement” among owners, and enforced from 1920-1944 by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. And one rationale was that the white players and managers, some from rural and Southern backgrounds, would refuse to play otherwise. Fans, too, might oppose it. Besides, there already were black players on the teams of the Negro leagues, including such legendary talents as Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson. Even if they had no formal professional interaction with Major Leagues, they existed within their segregated milieu.

For many white fans and writers, the issue was “out of sight, out of mind.” But to some sports writers in the nation’s thriving if segmented African-American press, this was a major issue well before Robinson finally took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. And they — with a few allies elsewhere, such as Washington Post writer Shirley Povich and Lester Rodney of the Communist Party USA’s Daily Worker — set out to pressure for a change.

One of the most important sports writers of the AfricanAmerican press was Wendell Smith, a Detroit native and West Virginia State College graduate who in 1937 started covering sports for an influential black paper, the Pittsburgh Courier, which today publishes as the New Courier and maintains an archive. Smith worked to establish that Major League Baseball’s rationale for segregation was a falsehood promulgated by team owners. In early 1939, he had interviewed National League President Ford Frick, who explained that rationale. Smith decided he would survey those very players whom he was told opposed integration. When they came to Pittsburgh to play the National League’s Pirates, he asked what they thought.

The resultant series started on July 15, 1939. In the first article, Smith announced that in the past two months he had tracked down all the managers and 40 “outstanding” players from the National League’s eight teams. And the team he chose to begin with was the Cincinnati Reds.

Smith described them as “the once bed-ridden ball club of unwanted castoffs who, under the shrewd management of crafty Bill McKechnie, are now winging their way toward the National League pennant.”

Besides McKechnie, Smith talked to catcher Ernie Lombardi, first baseman Frank McCormick, pitcher Bucky Walters, team captain and shortstop Billy Myers, Johnny Vander Meer (who pitched back-to-back nohitters in 1938) and a player that Smith conceded was “not a star,” the “seasoned outfielder” Earl Cook. All the interviewed Reds had positive things to say about black ballplayers. (Reds Hall of Fame curator Chris Eckes, checking on Cook’s record for this story, said he was actually a pitcher who meets the definition of a Reds “ghost player” — someone who traveled with the team but appears to never have gotten into a game.)

Smith was right in his estimation of that team’s quality, says Reds historian Rhodes, who had not previously seen this article until shown it by CityBeat. “Before the Big Red Machine, the 1939-40 Reds were the greatest team in Reds history,” he explains. “They won back-to-back National League pennants, and in 1940 won the World Series (against the American League’s Detroit Tigers).

That was only the second World Series win the Reds had, and the 1919 win was somewhat tainted by the Black Sox team.” (The 1919 Chicago White Sox, whom the Reds defeated, were accused of having conspired to intentionally lose the World Series.)

Rhodes continues: “And the 1939-40 team was outstanding. They had three MVPs in a row in 1938-39-40 — Ernie Lombardi, Bucky Walters and Frank McCormick.”

As a sportswriter, Smith had a reputation as a wordsmith. That shows in the introduction of the series — an article headlined “Cincinnati Reds’ Manager, Players Laud Negro Stars.” Before he got to the immediate subject at hand, he passionately explained what was at stake, first pointing out that baseball was celebrating its centennial

year — as was widely believed at that time but not now — and then alluding to the perils facing the world beyond the U.S.’s borders.

Smith told his readers how lucky Americans were to have the freedom to get excited about baseball while a nervous Europe was worried about the murderous aggressions of Nazi Germany. (World War II began on Sept. 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. The U.S. would become a combatant in 1941.)

“A war-frightened audience sits in the stands of Europe these days waiting for the inevitable to happen,” Smith wrote. “Some time soon, guns will roar and men will march. The vigorous young blood of Europe will paint a picture of horror, pain and death across a sky that is foggy with lethal dust.”

But quickly, boldly, Smith moved on to his next point — the inconsistency, the hypocrisy, of an allegedly free country keeping black players out of the Great American Pastime.

“This closed-door policy of organized baseball could easily be called the great American tragedy!” Smith wrote.

“Its existence is a blot on the Statue of Liberty, the American flag, the constitution … and all this great land stands for!”

After that buildup, Smith introduced his readers to the individual Reds who were at Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field, or nearby, on April 29 to play the Pirates. He entered the dugout just before the game to talk to the manager, “Wilkinsburg Bill” McKechnie, “regarded by baseball critics as the best pilot in the big leagues today.” McKechnie was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.

When Smith asked him if he’d ever seen any black ballplayers good enough for the majors, McKechnie responded he had seen at least 25 and named some — Paige, Gibson, Oscar Charleston, Lefty Hamilton and more. “Some of the greatest ballplayers I have ever seen were Negroes, and those who I have named would have been stars on any major league team in the country,” the manager said.

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Smith then asked McKechnie a question that, he confessed to the reader, he was nervous to pose: Would the manager be willing to use a black player on the 1939 Reds?

“Yes, if given permission, I would use a Negro player on my team,” McKechnie said. He also cautioned that it was up to league officials and owners to allow that. “I’m just a manager paid to run this club and win a pennant if possible.”

Smith was ecstatic and hit on that reply as if he had lofted a grand slam home run. “And there it was,” he emphasized. “The shrewd Cincinnati skipper had answered our volley of questions and without hesitating planted the question right back in the laps of those who had sent it to him — the owners and officials.” (The Reds owner at the time was Powel Crosley Jr.)

“They’re basing their views on things they had seen,” Rhodes says. “Guys would play on their own after the season was over, with no affiliation with Major League Baseball, to pick up pocket money. And certainly the Negro League players had a number of exhibitions against Major League players and fared very well.

“I’m so taken with the attitudes and opinions expressed by these guys,” Rhodes continues. “It’s very telling. You can see the groundwork being laid here — a lot of players already were accepting. Clearly, people were starting to move in that direction well before it happened.”

Crusading writer Smith did very well as integration belatedly arrived, according to archives at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He encouraged Major League owners to try out black ballplayers — including recommending Robinson to Dodgers owner Branch Rickey in 1945. He then worked for the Dodgers helping Robinson in 1946, when he was assigned to the Dodgers’ Montreal farm team, and in the big leagues in 1947.

Smith subsequently continued in sports journalism, dying in November 1972 of pancreatic cancer at age 58.

Robinson died of heart disease that year at age 53.

In 1993, Smith was posthumously awarded the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the group’s highest honor. And his widow donated his papers to the Hall of Fame where they are an ongoing resource of study.

The 1939-40 Reds also have an ongoing legacy. “When the Reds’ own Hall of Fame got going in the 1950s, many of the players elected the first few years came from those teams,” Rhodes says. “They’re not as well-remembered now because generations come and go and memories fade, but those guys were without question one of the great teams in Reds history.”

Now we know their greatness extended beyond the way they played, but also to their outspokenness as to who should be able to play the Great American Pastime. ©

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Following McKechnie’s comments, Smith wrote about his conversations with the players. Myers said he had played against black teams while appearing in offseason play in Puerto Rico in 1936. “I saw any number of Negroes there who played good enough to make the majors,” he said.

Lombardi talked of once playing against an all-star team of black players in Oakland and facing pitcher Paige. “I said right then that he was as good as Dizzy Dean,” Lombardi told Smith, referring to a top Saint Louis Cardinals pitcher.

“He’s as fast as Dean, maybe faster. When he whipped that fast one in there, you could barely see it.” Indeed, Lombardi confessed, he struck out facing Paige. Lombardi, who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, had an impressive career batting average of .306.

McCormick, too, remembered playing against black players and being impressed. Walters recalled watching black players as he grew up in Philadelphia. “I saw any number of Negroes who should have made the big leagues,” Walters said. “They had some of the best players I have ever seen on those teams.”

And Vander Meer gave a ringing endorsement for

integrating the Reds in 1939 — and Major League baseball — even while hinting that some players might disagree. “I certainly wouldn’t object to a good Negro ballplayer on our team,” he said. “I was born and reared in the North. I have a different viewpoint than some of the other boys. Although it’s none of my business, I don’t see why they’re barred. I wouldn’t care who we played on our team as long as we won ballgames and I received my paycheck on the first and fifteenth of each month.”

Not only were the Reds who Smith interviewed strongly in favor of allowing black players, but ultimately 75 percent of everyone he talked to felt the same way.

It was a groundbreaking series that received coverage elsewhere, says Brian Carroll, a journalism professor at Georgia’s Berry College who wrote a book titled When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball.

“It really was that survey that enlightened white baseball fans that there even was a color line,” Carroll says. “The survey — the series — in parts and in whole was picked up by newspapers across the country. Even in its own market, the Pittsburgh Gazette picked up the results of that survey and made its readers aware of this unspoken rule, this unacknowledged color line. That was huge in activating public opinion.

“And what’s lesser known about that survey is the other 25 percent weren’t really actively opposed,” Carroll explains. “They either didn’t have an opinion or were neutral on the subject. Very few were opposed.”

Rhodes, the Reds team historian, says that, in hindsight, a great revelation of the series is that the Reds interviewed by Smith were basing their opinions on experience. While Major League Baseball was segregated, its players were finding ways to watch, and often play with, black players long before 1947. And the truth of what they saw trumped the prejudice of the day. The wall of segregation already was porous.

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ete Rose hasn’t lived in Cincinnati for more than a quarter century, but is it really a surprise that the local native, baseball’s all-time hit king, topped CityBeat’s annual Best of Cincinnati poll in the category of Best Cincinnatian?

It’s pretty clear that Rose won’t be entering the Hall of Fame anytime soon, but Major League Baseball has loosened its reins in recent years, giving him the OK to take part in more MLB-related activities. One such endeavor is his analyst duties with Fox Sports, where he swaps knowledge with Alex Rodriguez and Frank Thomas; should it also come as any surprise that Pete is the most amusing guy on broadcast? Sure, his old-school baseball beliefs sometimes come off as out of step, but it’s clear his enthusiasm and interest in the game is as strong as ever.

CityBeat recently touched base with Rose by phone to get his thoughts on everything from the current state of the Reds to his favorite stops when he’s back in his hometown.

winning this year, so if you have no chance of winning, you’re rebuilding.

I know the guy who owns the Reds, Mr. (Bob) Castellini. He’s got a long pocketbook. He’s put a lot of money into team without results, so it’s not the owner’s fault by any stretch of the imagination. If you told Mr. Castellini, “You go do this, you go do that, and we’ll win,” he would go do that and do this. So it’s up to the people who are putting this team together to get off their ass and make things happen. It’s all about knowing personnel and knowing what the team needs.

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CB: What do you think of the rise of sabermetrics and its influence in baseball today?

Pete: I don’t care about that stuff. The number one thing you should teach young players that are in the Reds organization — I don’t know if they do it or not — is how to win. You know what we did every year when I was in the Reds organization? We CityBeat: Were you surprised you won won. We won the Florida State League Best Cincinnatian given that you haven’t Championship. We won the Sally League lived here in so long?

Championship. When we got to Cincinnati, Pete Rose: I wasn’t surprised, because you we expected to win. have to understand, and I think you do — I All they talk about is teaching developdon’t know if baseball really understands this ment in the minor leagues; they don’t worry — but my name will always be synonymous about winning. You got to teach these kids with the Cincinnati Reds, because I played to win. There’s a difference between being there so long and we did so well. I was born a winner and being a loser. There’s a difthree miles from Crosley Field and the (new) ference between being positive and being ballpark is right down there on Pete Rose negative. I want winning, positive people. I Way. My high school is there. Everywhere I go want guys with big hearts. I want guys who I wear a white Cincinnati Reds hat on all the have enthusiasm. I want guys who have programs I’m on. People associate me with work ethic. I don’t give a shit if you can Cincinnati more so than any other place in the throw a ball 102 miles an hour. I don’t care country, and I’m always going around talking if you can hit the ball 600 feet. The fence is Y o u n g P E T E R O S E • P H O T O : N a t i on a l B a s e b a l l H a l l o f F a m e a n d L i b r a r y about Cincinnati. Baseball started there in 375. If they gave you two runs for a 600-foot 1869, the first night game in 1935, and I can home run, then I’d be for a 600-foot home remember when Opening Day was the biggest run, but they only give you one run. Those the Boathouse for dinner so I can see my buddies Dean tradition in sports because we were the only game on that (sabermatrician) guys are smarter than me, but you can’t and Tom Gregory. I do that every time I go to Cincinnati. Of day. The rest of them played on Tuesday. We have a lot of put all this computer stuff ahead of good old hard work, course, I was raised on Skyline — over by the Holiday Inn tradition in Cincinnati, and I spread that tradition around sweat and vinegar. You can’t do it. you have a Skyline and a Gold Star. I usually get Gold Star the country — around the world, actually. because I did their commercials when they first started way, CB: Is the analyst gig with Fox something you see yourway back. And if you’re going to get ice cream, you got to get self doing into the future?

CB: How often do you get back to Cincinnati these days?

Graeter’s. There are certain things we were raised on. Those Pete: I enjoy it. I enjoy working with A-Rod and Frank Pete: I’m usually there about once a month. I always have are primarily the two restaurants that I go to when I’m there.

(Thomas). It’s easy to do whip-arounds because you’re events around there. If I have an event within driving disright here in L.A. at the Fox studios. It’s a little tougher tance of Cincinnati, I always come in to watch the Reds if CB: The Reds are obviously in a rebuilding phase right when you have to travel to the playoffs, but everything’s they’re in town. I always stay at the Covington Holiday Inn. now. Do you feel they are on the right track? first class. Listen: I enjoy it, it’s a lot of fun, but when you That’s my home away from home.

Pete: I can’t assess that right now, but I think you’ll agree ask about my broadcasting future, and though I don’t look with me, one thing we Cincinnati Reds fans don’t want to it and don’t act it, don’t forget that I’m 75. You have to put CB: Are there certain places you like to go to when hear about is rebuilding. The Phillies are rebuilding, too. that into the equation. As long as I can remain alert and you’re in town?

In my eyes there are about 20 teams in baseball rebuilding, get around and go through the airports and stuff like that, Pete: That’s an easy one. If I’m there two days or three I’ll continue to do it. I feel good. © days, I’ll go to the Montgomery Inn for lunch and I’ll go to because there’s at least 18 teams that have no chance of

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ONSTAGE: SMALL ENGINE REPAIR at Clifton Performance Theatre is not for the faint of heart. See review on page 22.

COMEDY: LEWIS BLACK brings his Rant, White and Blue tour to the Taft Theatre. See interview on page 23.

EVENT: Jisun Kim’s CLIMAX OF THE NEXT SCENE screens Thursday and Friday at the CAC. See Big Picture on page 21.

ONSTAGE: EVACUATED Erika Kate MacDonald was a strange girl in a strange land in 1998 as an exchange student in Jakarta, Indonesia. When the city erupted in riots triggered by food shortages and student unrest, more than 1,000 people died. She had to make a hurried, chaotic departure dodging tanks and gunfire. Her experience became a 2016 Cincy Fringe monologue called Ice Candle. It was a Critics’ Pick-ofthe-Fringe winner and it’s getting an encore this weekend with a new title — Evacuated — as MacDonald gears up for summer Fringe festivals in Florida and Canada. Thursday evening’s show is a pay-what-you-can performance to benefit RefugeeConnect. 8 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday. Pay what you can Thursday; $15 Friday and Saturday. Know Theatre, 1120 Jackson St., Over-the-Rhine, knowtheatre.com. — RICK PENDER

FRIDAY 07

MUSIC: Country singer/songwriter BRANDY CLARK brings a whole lot of heart to the 20th Century Theater. See Sound Advice on page 32.

MUSIC: MILES NIELSEN & THE RUSTED HEARTS play MOTR Pub. See Sound Advice on page 32.

EVENT: MONSTER JAM Monster Jam, the world’s largest touring entourage of monster trucks, makes a stop at U.S. Bank Arena this weekend. Featured trucks to race, pop wheelies and smash other vehicles include Pirate’s Curse, Megalodon, Alien Invasion, Monster Mutt Rottweiler and

the ever-popular Grave Digger. With each truck clocking in at approximately 10.5-feettall, 12-feet-wide and 17-feet-long, weighing around 10,000 pounds, this is an impressive show of power. 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 7 p.m.

Saturday. $15-$60. U.S. Bank Arena, 100 Broadway St., Downtown, usbankarena. com. — MONROE TROMBLY ART: ERIC STANDLEY: STRATA AT MARTA HEWETT GALLERY Virginia-based artist Eric Standley creates intricate laser-cut stacked paper sculptures that explore visual archetypes. His newest compositions on view at Marta Hewett Gallery are derived from geometry that occurs on a molecular level. According to the artist, “Fractal geometry has a self-similar replication that creates visual rhythm. These

rhythms are found at a cosmological scale in the ever-expanding universe, across culture and time in Gothic and Islamic architecture as well as at the profoundly fundamental building blocks of life.” Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Friday. Through June 3.

Free. Marta Hewett Gallery, 1310 Pendleton St., Over-the-Rhine, martahewett.com.

— MARIA SEDA-REEDER MUSIC: MIKE MAINS Detroit-based singer/songwriter Mike Mains’ well-crafted Indie Pop/Rock songs have that special quality that enables listeners to hear themselves in the lyrical poetics. Loaded with thoughtful, searching introspection and laced with a consistent optimism, Mains’ loyal and growing fan base is evidence of his music’s intimate

power to touch and connect with people on a grand scale. In 2014, Mains (and his band, The Branches) released a sophomore album, Calm Down, Everything is Fine, which was crowd-funded by those dedicated fans, something that has allowed the group to operate on its own terms. Mains’ anticipated third album — songs from which are being previewed on this current tour — is set to be released later this year.

Cincinnati Indie Rock band Motherfolk is doing a few shows with Mains on his current tour, including Friday’s date at the Woodward. 9 p.m. Friday. $8 advance; $12 day of show. Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, woodwardtheater.com. — MIKE BREEN CONTINUES ON PAGE 18

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COMEDY: JIMMY PARDO While he’s still not quite a household name, Jimmy Pardo has a sizeable and loyal following. “I agree with that,” he says. “There’s a circle that knows me and knows me very well and either love me or have no interest in me. And then there are the people that don’t know I exist yet.” The latter is getting smaller thanks to his work on Conan and his own very popular podcast, Never Not Funny. 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. $16. Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, gobananascomedy.com. — P.F. WILSON

FRIDAY 07

ART: YOU ARE HERE AT THE GLOBE GALLERY Oversized, highly detailed hand-drawn maps of the streets and landmarks of Cincinnati are becoming quite a popular art form.

Visionaries + Voices artist Courttney Cooper has achieved widespread national acclaim for his large-scale works featuring pen on paper — he’s in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s permanent collection and has shown in Chicago. Now, People’s Liberty Globe Grant winner Phil Rowland takes the concept 360 degrees by creating a map on the walls, floor, stairs and even windows of the organization’s storefront gallery in Over-the-Rhine. Beginning Friday and continuing through May 20, visitors are invited to admire the project and even color in the spaces between the black lines. Opening reception 6-10 p.m. Friday. Through May 20. Free.

People’s Liberty Globe Gallery, 1805 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/youareherecincinnati. — STEVEN ROSEN

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FRIDAY 07

EVENT: CLUB B Don some leather, denim, lace and a pair of comfortable shoes: This year, the theme of the Cincinnati Ballet’s annual fundraiser/dance party is Grace + Grit, “a reflection of the nature of dance — a delicate balance of elegance with strength and determination.” Held at the newly opened MadTree 2.0, the party commemorates the ballet’s many performances and accomplishments throughout the year, from the completion of Artistic Director Victoria Morgan’s 20th season to the arrival of Executive Director Scott Altman. In addition to dancing throughout the evening, the night includes cocktails, dinner by the bite and live performances by the ballet’s Second Company choreographed specifically for the event and DANCEFIX. 8 p.m. Friday. $150.

MadTree 2.0, 3301 Madison Road, Oakley, cballet.org. — EMILY BEGLEY

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EVENT: The KENTUCKY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA accompanies a screening of 1984’s Academy Award-winning film Amadeus. See feature on page 20.

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MUSIC: Toronto’s CASPER SKULLS bring multifaceted Indie Rock to The Comet. See Sound Advice on page 33.

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EVENT: CITY FLEA AT 21C Head to the 21c on Saturday for a spring preview of the forthcoming City Flea shopping season. Browse and buy goodies from local vendors — from vintage finds and handmade textiles to wood and ceramics — and grab a special adult slushie from Metropole while sampling snacks from the likes of Fireside Pizza, Collective Espresso and Babushka Pierogies. While you shop, a special film will show artwork from Chris Doyle’s video animation Waste_Generation, and the current exhibit, A Global Gathering: The 21c Collection, will also be on display. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Free.

21c Museum Hotel, 609 Walnut St., Downtown, thecityflea.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

EVENT: EGG HUNT AT WASHINGTON PARK Easter is right around the corner, so spend the afternoon with the kids at Over-theRhine’s biggest egg hunt at Washington Park.

There will be 10,000 candy-filled eggs, face painting, photos with Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny and baby animals from Sunrock Farm. Each egg hunt lasts an hour, and there are four different groups: Kids ages 3-6 can chase after eggs at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; children 7-10 can hunt for them at noon and 2 p.m.

Participants must bring their own baskets.

11 a.m. Saturday. Free. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark.org. — CHRISTINA DROBNEY EVENT: CEILIDH 2017 You might remember the infamous scene in Titanic where Jack Dawson takes Rose Bukater to a “real party” with the Irish and Scottish third-class ship passengers? The official term for that gathering is a “ceilidh,” and the Cincinnati Caledonian Pipes & Drums Band is throwing its annual Ceilidh 2017 this Saturday. Founded in 1912, the organization seeks to spread awareness and appreciation of Scottish culture through traditional and celebratory music. This

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EVENT: POLLINATION FEST Celebrate intentional, creative and sustainable living at Northside’s Pollination Fest, an experiential and holistic fest that strives to create spaces to empower individual purpose and enhance communal livelihood. Live music from Eugenius, Eddy Kwon and others will follow a number of daytime workshops on topics including permaculture, meditation and Yoga somatics and sound. Partners include The Hive, which will host workshops, discussions and yoga, and brewery Urban Artifact.

The courtyard between the two venues will serve as a space for vendors, crafters and outdoor recreation. Noon-1:30 a.m. Saturday. $12-$40; free kids 12 and under. The Hive, 1662 Blue Rock St., Northside; Urban Artifact, 1660 Blue Rock St., Northside, pollinationfest.com. — LAUREN MORETTO

weekend, the Cincinnati Highland Dancers, McGing Dancers and more will join the Pipes & Drum Band, and there will also be Scottish cuisine, baked goods, whisky tastings and, most notably, a North American Haggis Eating Contest. 6:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday. $18; $25 with bottomless beer mug. American Legion Post 72, 497B Old State Route 74, Mount Carmel, cincypipesanddrums.org/ ceilidh-2017. — MONROE TROMBLY

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EVENT: BRAHMS FEST Classical Revolution Cincinnati presents the second-annual Brahms Fest at Northside Tavern. The music of Johannes Brahms will fill the air as members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra perform alongside other talented musicians. An official Brahms Fest beer will be on tap for you to enjoy — a winter hefeweizen created by Ei8ht Ball — along with fake Brahms beards fans can wear. Donations encouraged. 8 p.m. Sunday. Free. Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. Northside, classicalrevolutioncincinnati.com.

— CHRISTINA DROBNEY

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EVENT: VICTORY OF LIGHT FESTIVAL Inhale, exhale and make your way to the Victory of Light festival for holistic healing sessions, psychic readings, live music and educational seminars. This family-friendly event features 300 psychics, healers and exhibitors offering 90 seminars to festivalgoers; you can even attend a presentation

by Rhonda Manning, one of the country’s leading psychic mediums, and receive a personal reading. Swing by for a Thai massage, or attend the “Blessing of the Animals” by Tibetan Buddhist Monks with your furry friend. You won’t leave empty handed, either, thanks to vendors selling a wide array of crystals, art and more. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. $15

daily; $25 both days; free children 12 and under. Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road, Sharonville, victoryoflight.com. — LAUREN MORETTO

arts & culture

Sound and Vision

Kentucky Symphony to perform the first screening of restored film ‘Amadeus’ in the Midwest

BY JUDY GEORGE

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n Saturday, Greaves Concert Hall at Northern Kentucky University will play home to a live orchestra screening of the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus. The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra’s presentation will be only the second symphonic screening of the film in the United States, after Eugene, Ore. It premiered in London last October. After this screening, it moves to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Led by music director James Cassidy, the KSO will play the movie’s music onstage during a high-definition screening of the film, accompanied by pianist Sophie Wang and members of the Voices of the Commonwealth and Collegium Cincinnati’s SummerSing chorus.

Directed by Miloš Forman and written

by Peter Shaffer, 1984’s Amadeus tells a tale about the alleged rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) and composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham).

Live musical accompaniment is not new to the film industry. When silent movies were first shown, pianists or organists often played along to muffle the mechanical din of the projector. Once sound was added to film, musical scores became an integral part of storytelling — sometimes articulating action, other times haunting a suspenseful scene.

In 1987, John Goberman, creator of Live from Lincoln Center, invented yet another way to hear movie music: He stripped the soundtrack from a print of the film Alexander Nevsky for the Los Angeles Philharmonic to incorporate into a concert.

Symphonic cinema was born.

The process was crude in its early days. When the KSO performed a concert screening of Ben-Hur in 2001, the movie was shown on reel film. “We had to use a tachometer to change film speed as we performed,” music director Cassidy says.

Today, digital wizardry makes it easier to mesh music and movie. On Saturday, Cassidy will use a click track — a digital metronome — and visual cues on his conductor’s screen to sync the score with the screen to within a millisecond.

Amadeus was more difficult than most titles to produce. “We had to combine two versions of the film to arrive at our show,” says Maggie O’Herlihy, head of European and American operations for Avex Classics International, the London-based company that produced the print the KSO will use.

“We were determined to use the 1984 release, but it was not available in high definition,” she says. “We had to go to the 2002 director’s cut, which was released in HD, and re-cut it back into the original film.”

The conductor’s monitor allows the film and music to stay in synch during performances.

While the KSO will use a print of Amadeus with all its music removed, there is one exception. “In the opera scenes, we keep the singer soloists on tape and the live orchestra and choir accompany them,” says O’Herlihy.

“It would be a nightmare to lip-sync opera singers,” Cassidy adds.

The Amadeus print will travel to Northern Kentucky with an engineer who will bring the technical pieces of the show — the projection, sound, monitor and lights — and help balance the film’s dialogue and sound effects during the performance.

“The live music always must be at the service of the story, even when it’s Mozart,” O’Herlihy says.

This means that orchestras often have a very short window to rehearse. “We won’t get the film until Thursday,” Cassidy says.

“But we’re all pros. The music of Amadeus is very familiar to all of us.”

What is the allure of symphonic cinema?

For Chris Pinelo, vice president of communications for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Pops, it’s the way the two separate experiences — a film and a concert — add up to something new.

“Audiences are always drawn to their favorite movies,” he says. “Combining that with a live concert is something to behold.”

Film scores also have become more

recognizable in recent years, thanks in part to John Williams, the composer whose Stars Wars and Indiana Jones themes have become concert-hall staples. That popularity helps the draw for a symphonic screenings.

“Great orchestral music has been written for the silver screen,” Pinelo says. “Many of the millions of recordings the Pops have sold around the world feature film music.”

The Pops has been playing to films since the 1980s, Pinelo says. Later this year, it will perform to a screening of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at Music Hall. And next year, to honor Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, the Pops will show West Side Story with a live orchestra score.

In addition to the blockbuster scores and the appeal of combining two art forms, the rise of symphonic cinema reflects broader social changes in orchestras and audiences.

“There’s a trend toward more interactivity in the concert hall and films are part of that,” observes Dave Bukvic, chief marketing officer of the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, which includes the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. “But there’s also a need to preserve what’s great about art from the standpoint of mindfulness. The concert hall can be a safe cocoon for people who want to disconnect as well as a

stage for expanded experience.”

The DPO’s experience with The Wizard of Oz — which by far attracts the widest audience in Dayton — illustrates the unique possibilities of this hybrid art.

“In one version of The Wizard of Oz we screened, the ‘Winkie Chant’ track — the ‘O-Ee-Yah’ — was completely lost,” Bukvic says. “Our music director Neal Gittleman had the audience sing that part, conducting the orchestra with one hand and the crowd — people of all ages and generations — with the other. The acoustics of our performance hall let the audience be heard as beautifully as the orchestra. It was phenomenal.”

Saturday’s Amadeus Live celebrates the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Northern Kentucky-based KSO. Twentyfive years later, music director Cassidy still hews to his original mission: to make music attractive, affordable and accessible.

“Great music is a gift that needs to be shared with as many people as possible,” he says. “If there’s any movie that orchestras should play to, it’s Amadeus.”

AMADEUS LIVE will be performed 7:30 p.m.

Saturday at Northern Kentucky University’s Greaves Concert Hall in Highland Heights.

Tickets/more info: 859-431-6216 or kyso.org.

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Teletubbies in a World of Angst

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BY STEVEN ROSEN

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To me, Teletubbies rates with the greatpopular among players of a video game est of TV series. More cyphers than fully called Garry’s Mod. In that game, they developed personalities, the four Teletubbies manipulate props or “ragdolls.” “Most game are sort of alien-like teddy bears with antenplayers who play Garry’s Mod in Korea nae protruding from their heads. They are most often use the Teletubbies character,” minimalist creations, smiling and waddling, she wrote. “Since one very famous player muttering “uh-oh” at everything, and emitused Teletubbies first, many players folting unencumbered happiness in a landscape lowed that style, because simply it’s cute.” as minimalist yet inviting as they are.

A search of internet reference sites I occasionally watched the series — revealed Garry’s Mod (and also Minecraft) designed for young children — as an adult in to be a “sandbox game” because, like a the 1990s, probably as a form of pop-culture child’s sandbox, play is unencumbered by meditation, a blissful experience drained of any complicating thoughts. I also equate them with a pre-9/11 world, since they originated in the late 1990s. (After ceasing production in 2002, Teletubbies has recently resumed.)

If I could think of an ugly opposite in television/video to the Teletubbies, it would be a game like Grand Theft Auto — an excuse to let children and young adults not just vicariously commit violence.

Jisun Kim, the South Korean artist whose very Still from Jisun Kim’s Climax of the Next Scene strange and ultimately hauntPHOTO : provided ing video installation Climax of the Next Scene will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday traditional action-oriented goals. And that’s at the Contemporary Arts Center, seems to in a more passive way, that’s also what made have somewhat of the same feelings about Teletubbies such a burst of freedom. those two.

Freedom and liberation are concerns In her hour-long animated piece, there of Kim in Climax, as she expressed in an are two Teletubby-like characters that seem interview with the Australian Centre for the adrift and at loss to understand a society, a Moving Image: “I attempted to reveal (in culture, with a video-game infatuation. One earlier work) the illusion of the current sysis identified as Jisun, a stand-in for Kim, and tem by penetrating into the cracks that exist she wants to know — by going inside their inside it. However, it occurred to me that worlds and interviewing — by what logic and such works might also be acts of providing games like Grand Theft Auto and Minecraft service to this system, failing to escape work the way they do. What do they mean from it. Climax is a first step that poses the and what do they say about life? She’s asking questions of, ‘Can we imagine the outside of about the differences between virtual life this system?’ ” and real life, virtual death and real death.

Climax ends on a deeply troubling note.

As a visual experience, Climax — with its Slowly at first, then like lemmings, red Teletriptych of screens and layers of interacting tubbies fall from the top of a sleek, modernist virtual worlds — gets very meta. It takes a skyscraper and tumble down. Many will see As an intellectual experience, it can get very it as a 9/11 World Trade Center-like image. melancholy, as when Kim’s Teletubby charac“During the production process, I was ter recounts a nightmarish vision: completely unaware that the scene of “Imagine an iron house having not a single Teletubbies leaping from the building could window and virtually indestructible, with be associated with the twin towers and the all its inmates sound asleep and about to incident,” she told the Australian museum. “I die of suffocation. Dying in their sleep, they was reenacting the suicide shows carried out won’t feel the pain of death. Now if you raise by players in the games, with no intention of a shout to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, suggesting a specific event.” making these unfortunate few suffer the Jisun Kim’s CLIMAX OF THE NEXT SCENE screens agony of irrevocable death, do you really Thursday and Friday at the Contemporary Arts think you are doing them a good turn?”

Center. Kim will talk after the Friday event. More As she explained in an email, she used info: contemporaryartscenter.org.

Teletubbies in Climax because they are

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Class Warfare at a Repair Shop

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BY RICK PENDER

John Pollono’s 2013 script, Small Engine territory. In fact, social media impact the Repair, will remind many theatergoers of story in several unexpected ways.

David Mamet’s terse, staccato plays, replete Clifton Performance Theatre, in the basewith macho male behavior, crude language ment of an apartment building on Ludlow and dark humor. But the play, produced Avenue in Clifton, is an extremely close

by Clifton Players and Untethered Theater, space outfitted with about 50 seats. Actor strikes a resonant chord in 2017 with a trio entrances are made through the same door of blue-collar guys weary of being pushed the audience comes through, and more than aside by people of privilege. once a guy heads up steps to the john that Not that Pollono’s three characters are also serves as the theater’s men’s room. especially admirable. Friends from boyhood Pollono’s sharp writing evokes a lot in Manchester, N. H., they’ve reached their of laughter before Frank’s anger and the later thirties (36) without achieving much. Frank (Nathan Neorr) operates a “small engine repair” shop where he makes a living fixing lawnmowers, weed whackers, snow blowers and such. A single dad, he’s struggled to save for college for his daughter. But alcohol and anger have been constant factors — in fact, more often than not, obstacles — in his life. The story unfolds in his shop, where he has enticed his longtime friends with fabricated invitations.

Nathan Neorr in John Pollono’s edgy, dark Small Engine Repair Packie (Charlie Roetting) P H O T O : k i r k s h e ppa r d arrives in a state of panic because Frank intimated he’s been diagnosed with cancer. Packie is unemcircumstances turn the play from a comedy ployed, unattached and largely unhappy. He to a thriller. People who have been laughing spends most of his time on Facebook, Fourat the snarky exchanges are suddenly inches square and other social media sites. He’s not away from events far tenser and highly disstupid, but he’s clearly aimless. comforting. There’s no escape. Small Engine Swaino (Carter Bratton) and Packie have Repair is not theater for the faint-hearted, had a falling out over a trivial disagreement so I can only recommend it for those with a and they’ve avoided each other for some time. high threshold for savage behavior.

Frank told Swaino that a few strippers might But the actors put on bravado perforshow up for the evening’s entertainment, and mances that are convincing and engaging. that was enough for the guy. The friction Neorr’s Frank is a decent man, pushed between Frank’s buddies is palpable and beyond the bounds of appropriate behavior hilarious as they spar with one another. by the cavalier and dismissive behavior They’re both irritated with Frank for of Spraul’s Chad. Roetting’s Packie is the bringing them together under false pretenses. story’s sad-sack comedian, a social misfit But when he pulls out the bottle of Jameson who wishes he were better, but just can’t find Irish whiskey, they’re appeased. When he the will to really step up. Nevertheless, his produces a second bottle — this one Johnnie monologue recreating a moment in the sixth Walker Blue Label scotch — tossing back game of the 1986 World Series between the shots and reminiscing create a guys’ night Red Sox and the Mets is an especially fine full of crude but good-natured banter. highlight. Bratton’s Swaino is convincing.

Frank tells them he’s invited a college-age Jared R. Doren has directed the 70-minacquaintance, a basketball player and frat ute production in an efficient and straightboy from Northeastern University who sells forward manner, enabling each actor room drugs on the side. Frank suggests they’ll to develop his character. There’s a spark share some Ecstasy when Chad (Rupert of goodness that glimmers through this Spraul) shows up. challenged friendship, but it’s a harsh path Chad, it turns out, is a privileged kid to resolution and one that will leave you whose influential lawyer dad has rescued wondering if it can last. him from several narrow scrapes. His condeSMALL ENGINE REPAIR continues through April scension toward Frank, Packie and Swaino 15 at Clifton Performance Theatre. Tickets/more takes the story around the bend into dangerinfo: cliftonperformancetheatre.com. ous, unexpected and very contemporary

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Trump Gives Lewis Black Plenty to Rage About

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Caravaggio’s Taking of Christ, commissioned in 1602.

poverty end of the spectrum,” he says.

“Trump himself said he gamed the system, but it doesn’t seem to bother people. It’s (as if it’s) fine for rich people to game the system because they worked hard and made all that money. It’s nonsense.”

Black finds it hard to believe that angry conservatives who overlooked Trump’s sense of privilege and entitlement would get mad when Sen. Bernie Sanders, the

Featuring student aria soloists and faculty artist Daniel Weeks as the Evangelist Earl Rivers, conductor Andreas Hager, stage director

Lewis Black vents about Republican views.

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progressive candidate for the Democratic Party nomination, would call for things like universal healthcare and free college tuition.

“They act as if it would have no return for them,” Black says of conservatives.

“Somehow, if there was universal healthcare, it would cheat them and they just can’t abide that.

“They’ve been so obsessed with nonsense.

They act as if they had a mandate to repeal the Affordable Care Act but they didn’t because half the country still wanted it.

What planet do you live on?”

As aggravating as the current political situation is, Black is calmed by one observation.

“This is the last gasp of dinosaurs,” he says of the old white establishment in this country.

“They’re going. Goodbye. They’re dying. The last group that was totally inseminated with the bullshit of the 1950s, with that kind of madness — this is the last gasp of it.”

Granted, he acknowledges, a few dinosaurs are hanging on for dear life — in and out of the White House. “But the ones who literally got the shot directly (to run the government) are going away, and hopefully that will make for a better world. I think it will.”

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“I was wandering around the country and saw that there are people out there that are really angry about shit,” says comedian Lewis Black, who brings his Rant, White, and Blue tour to the Taft Theatre this Thursday. “And I wondered, ‘What are they so angry about?’ It’s because nobody was paying attention to them. They disenfranchised a ton of people and those people rose up and said, ‘Go fuck yourselves!’ What do they expect?”

The current political climate, it would seem, would be great for Black’s brand of politically astute, sometimes-enraged comedy. But, he says, it hasn’t been, because it’s hard to satirize a situation — the Trump presidency — that already is a joke.

“I probably have the same business,” Black says. “Maybe in some places it’s increased the crowds, but it’s not good. I mean, this reality is satire. We’re living in satire. Why is it so weird every day? Because it’s something you should be reading about in a book; you shouldn’t be living it.”

Indeed, back at the start of the second Iraq War, Black wasn’t shy about saying that people in George W. Bush’s administration were out of their minds. How much simpler the world seemed then, Black believes.

“This is beyond drugs; this is totally beyond them,” he says. “I used to do my share of hallucinogens. This reality never occurred to me.”

But in retrospect, Black believes it makes sense. “Particularly since the Iraq War, we don’t want to do anything anymore, and we just keep finding new and more intriguing ways to not accomplish anything,” he says.

Black’s biggest question about that war, which hasn’t really ended, remains unanswered. “I was asking, ‘Has anyone checked to see if we have the money to do this?’ And we didn’t. How these people truly don’t realize the financial effect of that war is beyond my comprehension. The whole thing is really extraordinary.”

In a strange way, the Trump administration isn’t a total surprise to him. “You want to pick someone to go to Washington to shake things up and I get that, because I agree with it,” Black says. “But at least show the common sense to pick someone who knows where to put the dynamite.”

Instead, he believes we got a dog with different fleas, as Gordon Gekko says in the film Wall Street. “If we don’t have a war, then we spend our time trying to figure out who’s taking advantage of us within the country,” Black says. “And the fact of the matter is, every country has a group of people that game the system.”

Black is stunned that the angry Americans who voted for Trump direct their wrath so inappropriately.

“They focus on those who are at the

Clifton Players & Untethered Theater Present A Play By

JOHN POLLONO

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A ‘Raw’ Coming of Age

BY T T STERN-ENZI

Directed By Jared Doren

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Justine (Garance Marillier) is a typical but also sensual hormonal impulses. She second child — doted on by her loving has been cocooned in the cloistered realm parents (Laurent Lucas and Joana Preiss) of books and familial protection, and even and envied by her older sister Alexia (Ella during her first tentative steps outside Rumpf). Following the family line, Justine that enclave, as she reaches out to Alexia, enrolls in school to become a veterinarian.

Justine fails to appreciate how removed she As a legacy kid, she must endure a carnivohas been from the messier details of life. rous hazing ritual visited upon all hapless Ducournau shows us the emerging first-year students; but having lived her life internal conflicts in Justine as she watches as a strict vegetarian, Justine balks. She the more hedonistic surrender of her gay seeks protection and advice from Alexia, roommate Adrien (Rabah Nait Oufella) to but gains no special favors. his sexual cravings. Equal measures of envy Raw, the feature debut from French writerdirector Julia Ducournau, presents the set-up with a casual and almost offhand approach, but insinuates a hint of impending dread in the haunting score and soundtrack and in the deadeyed stare of Marillier. As well it should, for as the film develops it becomes a story about Justine submitting to meat eating in the extreme — cannibalism.

The obvious comparative references for Raw would be Garance Marillier has forbidden urges in the new French film Raw. the new brand of dramatic PHOTO : COURTESY OF FOCUS WORLD horror movies like It Follows, The Witch and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, but a more expansive and lust compete in actress Marillier’s eyes; take would incorporate the idea of how Ducournau dresses up the raw sensuality coming-of-age stories for young women with signs of a sticky ecstasy to come. speak to danger-prone transformations.

In Raw, Ducournau quietly exposes Another example would be last year’s the kink not just in Justine, but also in her Cincinnati-shot indie film The Fits, a voyeuristic audience — us. We see and feel coming-of-age drama that had strange, the frenzied call of Justine’s bloodlust and perhaps-supernatural elements. Justine may be surprised at how easy it is to idenin Raw and the young dancer in The Fits tify with it. When Adrien mercifully takes (Royalty Hightower) are the latest iterations her virginity, the sexual heat is scorching of female protagonists going back to the in ways that remind us of how empty and likes of the misunderstood young fictional meaningless porn really is by comparison. heroines of Stephen King’s Carrie and FireHuman hunger is alive onscreen in its starter, or the mutant Jean Grey from Chris nascent glory, in a form that many of us Claremont’s classic X-Men comic books. have buried in the dark recesses of our On the cusp of womanhood, terrible minds. secrets lurk in the burgeoning hormones Reports from around the world of and DNA of these characters, and all extreme audience reactions to Raw are around them are cautionary examples of spreading like urban legends. As Justine the miscues and mistakes that can be made. advances from that initial taste of meat to In Raw, power — both in terms of heightgreater ecstasies of the flesh, warnings of ened knowledge and/or self-awareness and waves of repulsion have been issued, but dawning sexuality — manifests itself and Ducournau isn’t interested in glorifying the threatens to overwhelm Justine. accompanying violence or the feeding frenIt would be easy to confuse the notion of zies. She and the film are merely seeking cannibalism on display here for the undead to answer the following question: How do hunger that drives the current zombie craze. you live with yourself once you’ve crossed a But there is a key distinction in Justine’s point of no return? Raw displays a haunting case — her awakening to the taste of flesh hesitancy in its reply, much like Justine’s is rooted in a full embrace of a new way of response to her predicament. (Opens Friday life. Prior to that first nibble during that hazat the Esquire Theatre.) (R) Grade: Aing ritual, Justine has been sheltered from CONTACT TT STERN-ENZI: letters@ citybeat.com not just the powerful allure of cannibalism,

ON SCREEN Vivid ‘Contemporary Color’

BY T T STERN-ENZI

Certain cultural activities speak to and represent regional or group-specific values. The rhythmic majesty of marching drumlines, fierce combativeness and athleticism of step teams and effortless precision of cheerleading come to mind, and these activities also share a competitive element that elevates the performances and transcends labels and categories. The art of color guard, which incorporates flags, rifles and sabers into synchronized dance routines, operates on a scale that impossibly ups the ante by integrating elements of drumlines, step teams and cheerleading.

So it is not surprising that such effort would attract the attention of David Byrne (Talking Heads), inspiring him to conceive of an event like Contemporary Color — the resultant film is playing at Dayton’s The Neon now through Sunday.

Byrne brought together 10 high school color guard teams from across the U.S. and Canada to perform to new compositions created by top-notch musicians and artists like St. Vincent, Ira Glass, Nelly Furtado and Ad-Rock.

The focus and appreciation remains squarely on the color guard teams, with the celebrities serving as little more than admiring fans of the talented teens engaging in their final performances.

This showcase took place in the summer of 2015 in Brooklyn, and Byrne tapped Sidney, Ohio documentarians Bill and Turner Ross (who recently shared cinematography duties with Henry Adebonojo on the Academy Award-nominee I Am Not Your Negro) to capture not just the performances but the vibrant colors, necessary flavors and rich personal narratives that give America — the country, the ideal — its contemporary spirit.

Prepare to marvel at the large scale of individual talent and total commitment to group execution, because the film seamlessly weaves micro and macro strands together to stitch a moving visual tapestry that stands as the celebration the country needs at this very moment. It’s definitely worth a trip to Dayton to see. Visit neonmovies. com for details. (PG-13) Grade: A

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Is ‘Trial & Error’ the New ‘Parks & Rec’?

BY JAC KERN

Television audiences are constantly Something that does separate Trial & barraged with headlines about new shows Error from other comedies is, pending that promise to fill the void of old or disrenewal, the show plans to follow an antholcontinued favorites: Parks and Recreation ogy format with a new case each season. is the new Office; Girls is the new Sex So, maybe this column’s headline should be: and the City; Orange Is the New Black “Is ‘Trial and Error’ the new ‘Serial’?” (just kidding).

On one hand, certain shows definitely share similarities — some forget Parks Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Saturand Rec was originally intended to serve day, NBC) – Louis C.K. hosts with musical as an Office spinoff — but often it’s a copguest The Chainsmokers. out comparison. Nevertheless, I was drawn into new comedy Trial & Error (9 p.m. Tuesdays, NBC) in part thanks to its early connections to the much-missed Parks.

While it’s too soon to tell whether this workplace mockumentary has the legs to warrant such comparisons, it’s certainly a funny enough new offering worth checking out.

John Lithgow stars as poet and professor Larry Henderson (shout out to Harry and the Hendersons), accused of murdering his wife Margaret Nicholas D’Agosto (left) and John Lithgow in Trial & Error when she dies after falling PHOTO : t yler golden/nbc through a window. From Larry’s 911 call (which he puts on hold when his TV cable company The Son (Series Premiere, 9 p.m. Satbuzzes in) through the trial, and every step urday, AMC) – Pierce Brosnan stars as in between, Larry can’t stop incriminating Eli McCullough, a child who survives a himself. Margaret’s Southern family enlists Comanche attack in 1849, learns to live a good “Northeastern” lawyer (read: Jewish), among the natives and goes on to lead his and young Josh Segal (Nicholas D’Agosto) family’s cattle empire while pursuing an is sent from New York to South Carolina oil business in 1915. to take on the case — his first murder trial.

The local investigation team tasked with Crashing (Season Finale, 10:30 p.m. Sundefending Larry includes a disgraced cop day, HBO) – Artie joins Pete at a baptism, and a dyslexic intern, who share an office where he gets schooled on religion. Meanbuilding with a taxidermist. while, Pete runs into Jess and questions his Despite some annoyingly base Southfuture in stand-up. It’s a comedy! Stay tuned erner jokes — the term “brother-cousin” for Season 2, likely to air in early 2018. is thrown about — the real humor comes Better Call Saul (Season 3 Premiere, from Larry’s genuine, naïve self-implica10 p.m. Monday, AMC) – Chuck’s betrayal tion as he tries to clear his name, and from tests Jimmy and Kim’s new business watching Josh try to manage it all. (and romance), pressuring Jimmy like Outside of the obvious mockumentary never before. Elsewhere, Mike searches style in the vein of Parks and Recreation, to uncover the shadowy foe that knows Trial & Error similarly pokes fun at smallway too much. Hint: He’s from the town bureaucracy. There are Arrested Breaking Bad universe and he certainly Development vibes, too — Josh’s “straight isn’t “chicken.” You might say he’s a little man” juggling a collection of over-the-top two-faced. characters reminds me of Jason Bateman’s Michael Bluth. But one series that actuThe Americans (10 p.m. Tuesday, FX) – ally inspired Trial & Error is the 2004 Gabriel sends shockwaves when he reveals French 8-hour television documentary The troublesome news about Philip’s past; Staircase, about a North Carolina novelist, Stan and Aderholt make moves; Oleg and Michael Peterson, accused of killing his Ruslan ambush a suspect. own wife. Notice some similarities? (Any CONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern fan of Making a Murderer or The Jinx should also check out The Staircase.)

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Thomas McKenna is the master baker behind OTR’s new Alléz Bakery. business model. Chemicals are never utilized in the baking process, and their products are made using natural preservatives.

“Educating people is important, telling people why that’s important, so they don’t assume that all bread is the same,” McKenna says.

An avid cyclist, McKenna’s love for baking stems from a personal gravitation toward adventure.

“It’s kind of like cycling in the sense that you can keep going over the same route. If you live in an area you can kind of do the same route and get faster and faster, and you can learn the turns,” he says, adding that factors like rain or wind can alter each experience.

“Bread is a similar concept where you can do the same recipe over and over but every variable is going to change,” he continues. “The air temperature, the air humidity, the temperature of the water.”

This lack of control is a welcomed challenge for McKenna. While there may be signs along the way as to whether or not you did things correctly, he says that once

everything is mixed and shaped, the only control the baker has is time.

“You won’t know until the loaf comes out of the oven,” McKenna says.

Trust is at the forefront of Alléz’s dayto-day — trust that each batch will turn out, and in the businesses and individuals that help, and continue to help, make Alléz successful.

Much of the work leading up to Alléz’s opening was done locally. McKenna enlisted Over-the-Rhine’s Lucca Laser Workshop to create store signage, while Covington’s Handzy Shop + Studio designed the brand logo. McKenna hired his own brother-in-law as contractor for the space.

“I do a lot of stuff on instinct and trust in other people,” McKenna says. “I trust a lot of people, a lot of people have come through for me.”

Why, you might ask, is a sloth the logo?

Aside from being cute, the leisurely creature also ties into the store’s namesake, “Alléz.”

A French phrase commonly yelled by spectators when a group of cyclists pass during a race, McKenna refers to it as a call of encouragement.

“The sloth is the slowest climber and ‘Alléz’ is what you shout at the fastest climber, so you’re cheering them on to go really, really fast racing. It’s just a visual form of oxymoron.”

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sloth, a bakery and a bike. Can you guess what they have in common? If you said they all have something to do with Over-the-Rhine’s newest artisan bread spot, Alléz Bakery, you’d be correct.

Also, you should buy a lottery ticket.

The white-tile and natural wood storefront at 1208 Main St. opened March 14 right in the hub of the action (located next door to Macaron Bar and down the street from craft cocktail bar Japp’s).

Alléz owner and Walnut Hills resident Thomas McKenna graduated from the New England Culinary Institute before diving into Cincinnati’s food industry, securing baking gigs at both Blue Oven Bakery and Dutch’s, the latter of which now carries bread from Alléz.

Today, McKenna and his single employee are a small but mighty team, preparing and baking heaps of sourdough, ciabatta and rye on a three-deck Polin oven — an Italian import that dominates the front of house.

Stacked on a wood shelf beside the register you’ll find traditional breads with added flair, i.e. the cherry and sunflower sourdough loaf, which will be available on select Saturdays.

“With the sourdoughs I like to put a lot of stuff in it. I want to put more fruit, more seeds, more interesting flavors in there,” McKenna says. “I’m definitely not inventing anything — it’s the bread that I want to eat.”

For those looking to pop in for a bite, store hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and until 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

While the current menu focuses on a few choice breads, the bakery is looking to expand to lunch sandwiches, which will be served with a seltzer and a bag of chips. Those looking for a lunch spot in Over-the-Rhine can look to Alléz as soon as mid-April. And a license to offer beer and wine is in the works.

The crust of the bread found at Alléz works as a balance of aesthetics and functionality; parallel score marks in the sourdough crust are reminiscent of the patterns raked into the sand of Feng Shui gardens, though they also serve a purpose — allowing the baker to better control the loaf as it expands.

“I want it to look pretty, absolutely, but you have to get the oven spring out of it,” McKenna says. “A lot of it is personal preference.”

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Originally slated to open March 31, Buzzed If you’re hoping to spend the summer Bull has pushed the creamery’s opening date sipping on/eating alcohol ice cream, you’re as per this message posted on Facebook: in luck, because the Buzzed Bull Creamery “You deserve nothing less than our best. is slated to open shortly on Main Street in Especially with the support you have and Over-the-Rhine. continue to provide. With that said, we will Scrolling through Facebook, you’ve probbe postponing our March opening and will ably seen the video of Italian pasta being prepared in a giant wheel of melting cheese or the rainbow bagel trend still sweeping the boroughs of New York City. Unfortunately, Cincinnati isn’t where new global culinary crazes happen... usually. But Buzzed Bull Creamery is truly the first of its kind.

“We are a team of Cincinnati natives, born and raised,” says Kaitlyn Mounce, one of the seven people behind Buzzed Bull. “The concept of Buzzed Bull Creamery was Buzzed Bull will use liquid nitrogen to create alcoholic ice cream. built from our kitchens over PHOTO : haile y bollinger the course of three years. We thought, ‘How can we combine alcohol and ice cream?’ and, so they say, be releasing a specific opening date in the the rest is history.” very near future.” Regardless, there’s already After researching how to combine alcohol quite a buzz on social media; the creamery and ice cream — which happily involved has garnered more than 1,000 likes. quite a bit of taste testing — the team found Finding a central OTR location was a that using liquid nitrogen yielded the best blessing to the team behind Buzzed Bull, results, lending a smooth, creamy texture to who wanted to be a part of the artistic culithe alcohol-infused frozen dessert. nary boom of the neighborhood. However, While no one on the Buzzed Bull team is the search proved difficult — until they a scientist by trade, there is a bit of chemisstumbled upon a listing for a space on Main try taking place when each frozen dessert Street, next door to music venue Woodward is created. Liquid nitrogen is an odorless, Theater. colorless, safe-to-eat element that freezes “By the end of that business week, we had the ingredients it comes into contact with, fallen in love with the space,” Mounce says. including alcohol. But to someone who has “After we signed our lease for 1408 Main St. plenty of bottles of liquor in the freezer still and announced to the public we were comin liquid form, the chemistry behind Buzzed ing, the community has been so welcoming Bull’s frozen desserts seems like magic. to our concept, it has been overwhelming.”

The flavors soon to be available seem As the final weeks trickle by until the magical as well. The menu is under wraps for opening of Buzzed Bull, you can follow their the time being, but Mounce gave a few hints progress on social media with the hashtag as to what will appear. #KeepTheBuzzGoing — one that will most “Our most popular alcoholic flavors are likely be used by Cincinnatians posing with honey bourbon, margarita and bonfire,” she their alcoholic desserts once Buzzed Bull says. “The bonfire is one of our specialties opens its doors to the public.

— a combination of marshmallow-flavored “Being a team of seven born-and-raised base, Fireball whisky, graham crackers and Cincinnatians, it’s amazing how the city has chocolate chips.” teamed up and rallies behind us. It really And for the kids, Buzzed Bull will offer leaves us speechless most days,” Mounce non-alcoholic treats. says.

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Washington Platform Oyster Festival — Features 40-plus menu items, “Big Easy” oysters, oysters Giovanese, firecracker oysters and fresh-shucked oysters on the half-shell. Through May 13. Prices vary.

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

An Evening of Parisian Crepes — Take a journey through Paris via the vehicle of the crepe — sweet, savory and full of hearty, interesting flavors. 7-10 p.m. $40. La Petite Pierre, 7800 Camargo Road, Madeira, lapetitepierre.com.

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FSQ Eats — Every Thursday, head to Fountain Square for lunch from favorite food trucks. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Prices vary.

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Chocolat with Daniel Tonozzi — In the 2000 film Chocolat, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, a fascinating stranger cooks up scandal and delight in a small French village. Tonight, learn to make food that takes cues from this bittersweet fantasy, including short ribs braised in a cocoa-laced gravy and a rich, moist chocolate cake. 6:307:30 p.m. $35. Artichoke OTR, 1824 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, artichokeotr.com.

A Steakhouse Dinner at Home — Midwinter extravagance. A hands-on class with menu including grilled filet mignon with lemon butter crabmeat, three-cheese baked penne and apple dumplings. 6-8:30 p.m. $75.

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Pop-Up Restaurant: La Casa de Chako — A two-day pop-up restaurant serving traditional Japanese fare. Each guest will receive a complete Japanese meal with an entrée choice of pork in tea or agedashi tofu, a free taster of Japanese beer and option sake. 5:30 and 8 p.m. Friday; 5:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday. $45; $10 extra for souvenir sake glass. Hellmann Creative Center, 321 W. Martin Luther King Blvd., Covington, Ky., eventbrite.com/e/

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Fiddler on the Roof with Ruth Zanoni — The classic musical includes a touching scene with the Sabbath song, when the family prays before sitting down for a meal.

Learn to make comforting dishes like matzo ball soup, brisket and potatoes and challah.

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Rosé and Fried Chicken at Please — Please is celebrating its six-month anniversary with a party featuring Amplify rosé and koji fried chicken. New spring dishes and bar snacks will be rolling out as well. 2-7 p.m.

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Like Water for Chocolate — Mole is the quintessential sauce of Mexico. Learn to make your own from scratch with nuts, dried fruit and chocolate and serve it over poached chicken legs and farmer’s cheese. 6:30-7:30 p.m. $35. Artichoke OTR, 1824 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, artichokeotr.com.

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Cincinnati Industrial duo Relic has quickly gained a foothold in the local scene

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alking into the living space of Relic’s Jordan Davis and Dan Dickerscheid, the Cincinnati band’s Industrial-style Electronic music is made corporeal.

Housed in an old factory, the building has steep steps, low ceilings, concrete and old tools strewn about, plus dirt, grime and at least three angry poltergeists gunning for revenge Dickerhscheid’s room features a halfsized door and ceiling brace that’s just about chest level, both of which are just begging to be absentmindedly slammed into. The rest of the area is filled with his stark black-and-white paintings and installation sculptures in varying levels of completion. Davis’ room is much smaller by comparison and brimming with instruments. A massive computer rig lords over the living room space.

The duo’s living arrangement, a creative space nestled within a decrepit bastion of industrialization, typifies the sound that Relic has produced in its one-and-a-halfyear run.

While the project has only been around for a short period of time, the members themselves are musical veterans. Davis (keys/vocals) has an especially colored history within the genre. “(Relic) was a project I knew I wanted to start for a while because I used to have an Industrial band and we used to play around here for four to five years,” he says. “We got signed to a label when I was 18. I was young, so I took it as a learning process. I ended up disbanding the project because I wanted to start something new, branding wise and sound wise, and (run) it as efficiently as possible.”

Between his former project and Relic, Davis continued to write songs, produce Industrial and Electronic music and play live and collaborate with Industrial Rock stalwarts Cyanotic.

When Davis was offered the chance to perform solo at the local Adjust Your Eyes Fest in 2015, he decided he wanted to debut Relic instead, but needed to add a missing piece.

“The first thing I knew I wanted was a live drummer; that was my priority because that’s the hardest thing to find for Electronic music,” Davis says.

He didn’t have to look far. He simply had to go to work.

Davis met and became friends with drummer Dickerscheid at Rake’s End, the local bar and performance space where he worked. He never knew of Dickersheid’s drumming talents until one fateful open mic

Self-described as “Industrial Cyberpunk,” Relic first came together in 2015. night, when Dickersheid played the hell out of a small drum setup on a whim. The two clicked, played their first show together at AYE Fest and have continued on ever since.

While their set initially began with songs that Davis had written, the addition of Dickersheid has added a new aspect to the songwriting process.

Davis describes their sound as Industrial Cyberpunk, but he isn’t attempting to jump on the Ghost in the Shell revival hype. He truly strives to capture a “hightech, low-living” ambiance in all of their tracks. And it begins with the drums.

“Drums are the important things.

They’re the most constant part of the track,” Davis says.

“It’s what drives it,” Dickersheid adds.

Most tracks come together with Davis pouring over minute details to make the drums and bass ominous and the guitars and synths punchy and making certain it all works together as one cohesive piece.

“Some tracks might be a night bender where I just sit down and experiment; usually things start like a sound design approach,” Davis says. “Very rarely will I be like, ‘I’m going to write the chords first, (then) the progression and the lyrics.’ I have done that a few times but it usually centers around me picking out the base

of the drums’ sounds — the kick and the snare. I’ll spend hours perfecting it.”

With Dickersheid’s help, Davis’ compositional duties are now shared, but the process still often takes place on Davis’ keyboard rather than in a rehearsal space.

Still, having two members has made “jam sessions” possible, and some material has come about that way.

“I’d say (about 30 percent of) the songs come traditionally, the way you’d assume you write music — you get musicians in a room, you jam out, then you make stuff,” Dickersheid says. “We’ve made a couple songs where we’ve just fucked around with the electronic (drum) kit.”

What results are tracks with a danceable Pop mentality buried underneath overwhelming layers of sledgehammer-strong drum and bass rhythms and married to Trip Hop keys and samples. Davis’ lyrical delivery harkens back to Trent Reznor in the early ’90s — eerie, sexy, hissed vitriol.

Relic has been able to translate the fury and aggression of its music into an equally explosive and charged live experience. Broken lighting rigs, thrown equipment and bottles of water that are spat more often than they are drank are all to be expected.

“As you play with another musician, you learn what you can and can’t get away with onstage,” Dickersheid says. “We definitely play off of each other. Like when I see (Davis) losing (his) goddamn mind, I’m going to push a little bit harder.”

The band has kept busy playing shows in and out of town and constantly writing and recording new material. The musicians have actually been so busy they have yet to complete a full-length release, something for which fans have been clamoring for quite some time.

That should be changing in the near future — while a release date has not been officially set, Relic’s first album, Pulse Code Misery, should be out soon, and they plan to release another batch of songs sometime this summer.

For such a young band, Relic has gained a lot of traction and earned the respect of its peers in a short amount of time.

This is one relic that didn’t need a great deal of history behind it to earn a place of honor in Cincinnati’s musical landscape.

RELIC performs at The Mockbee in the West End on April 15. For music and more info, visit relicofficial.com.

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D-List Metallers Thrash Disney In 2014, Walt Disney Records commissioned EDM artists like Avicii and Kaskade to turn songs from classic Disney movies into club bangers for its “Hey kids, we’re cool!” compilation album, DCONSTRUCTED. Last year, Disney similarly went after certain music fans in Japan with Metal Disney, a collection of Disney songs performed by the “D-Metal Stars” that was recently released in the U.S. The “D” stands for Disney, but it could also refer to the status of the musicians who recorded the album — “A-list” they are not. The band includes the singer and guitarist from the band Obsession (?) and an ex-Obsession drummer whose résumé also includes “occasional Dokken touring member.”

Prayer Remix A DJ’s well-intentioned remix played in the Tunisian coastal town of Nabeul caused government officials to shut down the club hosting the party. British DJ Dax J spun a mix that featured the Muslim call to prayer, which is about as acceptable as drawing a cartoon of Muhammad in a Muslim-majority country. The governor of Nabeul told Agence France-Presse that the club’s manager was being detained “for violation against good morals and public outrage against modesty.” Dax J did apologize, but it’s probably a safe bet that Tunisia is off of his tour itinerary for the foreseeable future.

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The New York Times reported on a weird new gig for producer Steve Lillywhite, who has worked with artists like U2 and The Rolling Stones. Lillywhite is the chief executive of a company in Indonesia owned by Kentucky Fried Chicken; the producer’s job is to find music to feature on CDs that are bundled with menu items at Indonesian KFC restaurants.

Lillywhite, who told the paper his job is like running a label that “also happens to sell chicken,” is apparently doing well; the company is selling about half-a-million CDs (featuring only Indonesian acts) a month through the KFC deal.

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The outdoor concert season doesn’t truly get started for another couple of months.

But with hints of warmer weather arriving, a couple of outdoor music series have • WoodyFest, a local celebration of launched for the springtime. the life and music of the iconic singer/ • The saying goes, “April showers bring songwriter Woody Guthrie, presents its May flowers,” but last year, the Cincin19th-annual event this Saturday. Local Folk nati Zoo’s great weekly Tunes & Blooms champ Jake Speed and his band, The Fredlocal music series was derailed by several dies, will again provide the music, performcancellations because its May flowers ing songs from throughout Guthrie’s career were drenched by too many April showers. and telling some of the stories behind the There’s no guarantee that this year’s Tunes songs. The show takes place at the Recital & Blooms — timed to the annual blossomHall at Mount Saint Joseph University (5701 ing of the flowers on zoo grounds and running every Thursday in April — won’t experience rain-related cancellations, but it doesn’t seem conceivable that it will be worse than last year’s especially soggy month.

The music kicks off this Thursday with an excellent Americana double-bill featuring Buffalo Wabs & the Price Hill Hustle and Hickory Robot. On April 13, New Orleans-style Jazz/Funk outfit The Hot Magnolias and traditional-style Country Buffalo Wabs & the Price Hill Hustle group Mark Utley & BulPHOTO : pricehillhustle.com letville perform, while local Bluegrass juggernaut The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars performs on Delhi Road, Delhi), with music beginning at April 20. Tunes & Blooms closes out its 2017 7 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door. season on April 27 with two of the event’s • Thursday at The Southgate House regulars — Folk groups Shiny and the Revival (111 E. Sixth St., Newport, Ky., Spoon and Jake Speed & the Freddies. southgatehouse.com), numerous musiThe Cincinnati Zoo (3400 Vine St., Avoncians will pay tribute to Country music legdale, cincinnatizoo.org) is free on Tunes end Merle Haggard on the first anniversary & Blooms Thursdays after 5 p.m. (The zoo of his death. A mix of Country, Bluegrass parking lot charges $10 if you choose to and other forms of Americana, Hagfest park there.) Music begins at 6 p.m. every features performances by touring acts like Thursday.

Maryland Country singer Joshua MornFor more on the series and the performingstar (who wrote and recorded the song ing artists, visit cincinnatizoo.org/events/ “Merle Haggard Died Today” last year) and tunes-blooms.

New Orleans acts Todd Day Wait’s Pigpen • The deck (and bar) near the gazebo at and Chris Acker and the Growing Boys.

Washington Park (1230 Elm St., Over-theLocal performers include Joe’s Truck Rhine, washingtonpark.org) has officially Stop, Straw Boss, Billie Gant, The Haropened for the spring, which also means the old Kennedy Trio, Maria Carrelli and return of the free Tiny Deck Concerts (a Thorn County. play on NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concerts” series).

The show begins at 8 p.m. and tickets A diverse selection of primarily local are $12 in advance (though ticketfly.com) acts performs every Friday through May or $15 at the door. A portion of the event 19 beginning at 7 p.m. This Friday, Folk act proceeds will be donated to the AppalaWild Carrot performs on the deck, while chian Prison Book Project, a nonprofit pianist Todd Hepburn plays a special organization that sends free books to peoSaturday Tiny Desk Concert. Upcoming ple imprisoned in West Virginia, Virginia, local performers in the series include Jazz/ Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Maryland Bossa Nova singer April Aloisio (on May (visit aprisonbookproject.wordpress.com 12) and Jazz artists Chris Comer & Will for more on the group).

Toedtman (May 19).

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rich with questionable characters, dicey Brandy Clark with Charlie Worsham situations and seedy circumstances, but Friday • 20th Century Theater all are well-told stories with an unbeatable Country singer/songwriter Brandy Clark combination of razor wit, a novelist’s eye for self-released her first EP five years ago, and detail and a whole lot of heart. (Brian Baker) has since recorded a pair of acclaimed albums, 2013’s 12 Stories, which placed Miles Nielsen & The Rusted Hearts high on many critics’ year-end lists, and with The Newbees last year’s Big Day in a Small Town, which Friday • MOTR Pub hit the top 10 of Billboard’s Country chart.

Singer/songwriter Miles Nielsen may well That slender discography, which includes be the scion of Cheap Trick six-stringer and five singles pulled from her two albums, Pop/Rock legend Rick Nielsen, but don’t would seem to justify calling Clark a Nashimagine that the son has any affinity for ville neophyte, but nothing could be further his father’s night-of-a-thousand-guitarsfrom the truth. and-baseball-caps If you think you shtick. Miles Nielsen don’t know Brandy is very much his Clark’s work, there’s own artist and has a better than average offered conclusive chance that you proof on a number do, given that she’s of releases, from his been a Nashville 2009 star-studded songwriter since 2005 debut, Miles, and his and has written or 2011 band introducco-written for some tion, Presenting the of Country’s biggest Rusted Hearts, to the names, including The band’s scintillating Band Perry (“Better 2014 concert set Live Dig Two”), Miranda Brandy Clark in Rockford and last Lambert (“Mama’s P H O T O : D av i d M c C l i s t e r year’s stellar Heavy Broken Heart”), Metal.

Kacey Musgraves Nielsen’s impres(“Follow Your Arrow,” sive output to date “Biscuits”), Reba — which now includes McEntire (“The Day an EP with his wife She Got Divorced”) Kelly Steward in a and Keith Urban side project they’ve (“Come Back to Me”), dubbed Weep & among many others.

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by Nielsen himself drew her earliest P H O T O : N e l s A k e r l u nd to Otis Redding and musical influences Jellyfish. It’s selffrom her parents’ described as “Beatlesque-Cosmic-AmeriCountry record collection, and applied cana.” But even as Nielsen carves his own those influences by learning guitar at age 9 initials into the family’s musical tree, he and displaying her vocal talents in school doesn’t ignore the paternal elephant in the musicals. In high school, Clark traded room; he often performs an acoustic ballad music for sports and attended Central version of “Surrender” that is absolutely Washington University on a basketball heart-stopping. scholarship, but she returned home and In addition to the unique experience of enrolled in community college. At 23, Clark touring with his father’s Hall of Fame band moved to Nashville to study in Belmont as a child, Nielsen studied voice and proUniversity’s commercial music program; duction in Illinois and Florida and worked upon graduation, she was hired at Leaderunder Steve Albini in the iconic producer’s ship Music, which eventually resulted in her Electrical Audio studio before embarkpublishing deal. ing on his performing career in earnest Clark’s performing career took an upward nearly a decade ago. He founded the band trajectory in 2012 when she opened shows Harmony Riley and served as bassist for for Sheryl Crow and played alongside Marty Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons while Stuart at his Grand Ole Opry anniversary doing solo gigs and assembling what would shindig. 12 Stories was released the foleventually become the Rusted Hearts. And lowing year, and 2014 saw Clark make her Nielsen even found time in his schedule for network television debut on Late Night with the Herculean task of scoring the Academy David Letterman and open for Jennifer Award-winning documentary Undefeated.

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When he’s back in his hometown of Rockford, Ill., Nielsen pays his music gifts forward by visiting area schools and summer camps to teach kids about performing and songwriting, and he has started an internship through the band’s studio for college students who want an education on both sides of the glass. He also makes great music with a great band — so he’s a lot like the old man after all. (BB)

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Despite all of those touchstones, the imaginative way everything is put together and the vigor of Casper Skulls’ performances keep things from ever feeling retro or like a Xeroxed copy of things that have come before. Still, if loving a band that reminds you of the best parts of Proto Punk, Post Punk and classic Indie Rock is wrong, I don’t want to be right. (Mike Breen)

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Casper Skulls with Flea Bite, Sweet Lil, Crime of Passing and Sky Hank Saturday • The Comet If you’re a fan of Indie Rock and all of the music that led to it and you haven’t heard about the Canadian quartet Casper JUKEBOX THE GHOST – April 12, Woodward Theater Skulls, it’s time to fix that. You will not be SON VOLT – April 14, Southgate House Revival disappointed.

Upon its debut, the band immediately KISHI BASHI – April 14, 20th Century Theater caused a stir in its Toronto hometown, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY – April 25, Bogart’s hooking up with the city’s well-regarded MAYDAY PARADE – April 26, Bogart’s independent label, THE CHAINSMOKERS – Buzz Records, right April 26, U.S. Bank Arena out of the gate, and earning a reputation THE DAMNED – April 27, Bogart’s as a shit-hot live band. Casper Skulls TESTAMENT – April 29, Bogart’s released its debut EP, Lips & Skull, through NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK – Buzz last fall, within May 16, U.S. Bank Arena about a year and a ADRIAN BELEW – May 18, half of playing its first 20th Century Theater gig. (The band’s first RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – full-length is slated May 19, U.S. Bank Arena for release this fall.)

Casper Skulls DIERKS BENTLEY – May 20, P H O T O : C A S P E R S KU L L S . B A N D C A M P. C O M It’s not hard to hear Riverbend Music Center the appeal. Casper THE BLASTERS – May 24, Skulls takes elements Southgate House Revival from throughout the history of Indie Rock TRAVIS SCOTT – May 25, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend (or Alternative Rock or College Rock or THE SECRET SISTERS – May 27, Southgate House Punk; the nomenclature depends on what Revival era you’re looking at) to create something CITY AND COLOUR – May 27, Bogart’s distinct and captivatingly unpredictable.

Besides the fairly continual musical shifts, FUTURE – May 31, Riverbend Music Center Casper Skull’s two lead vocalists — Melanie TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS – June 12, U.S. St-Pierre and Neil Bednis — help to create a Bank Arena sonic profile that is so multifaceted, Lips & THE HEAD AND THE HEART – June 12, PNC Pavilion at Skull has the feel of a great mixtape (in the Riverbend classic “here are some of my favorite songs JOE JACKSON – June 13, Taft Theatre on a cassette” sense), even though there are CHRIS STAPLETON – June 16, Riverbend Music Center only five tracks.

Bednis’ delivery is often of the wideYOUNG DUBLINERS – June 16, Live! at the Ludlow Garage eyed speak/sing variety, akin to The Fall’s Mark E. Smith, Mclusky’s (and Future of BARNS COURTNEY – June 20, 20th Century Theater the Left’s) Andrew Falkous and The Hold MARSHALL CRENSHAW/LOS STRAITJACKETS – June Steady’s Craig Finn, but he also will remind 29, Southgate House Revival you of Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus at JASON ISBELL – July 1, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend times (check out the EP’s “Errands” for the FOREIGNER/CHEAP TRICK – Aug. 8, Riverbend Music best example). St-Pierre gives the tracks on Center which she sings lead a different hue, with a KINGS OF LEON – Aug. 11, Riverbend Music Center strong melodic allure and a gnarring purr Kim Gordon would be proud of. Meanwhile, PUNCH BROTHERS – August 12, Taft Theatre the guitar work ranges from wiry leads that GREEN DAY – Aug. 20, Riverbend Music Center sound like hotwired descendants of Wire, JOHN MAYER – Aug. 26, Riverbend Music Center Gang of Four and Television (the band’s name and the EP’s title are taken from TIM MCGRAW/FAITH HILL – Sept. 2, U.S. Bank Arena

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CityBeat’s music listings are free. Send info to MIKE BREEN via email at mbreen@citybeat.com. Listings are subject to change. See citybeat.com for full music listings and all club locations. H is CityBeat staff’s stamp of approval.

Wednesday 05

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

Northside Yacht Club - Ziemba, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, Dinge and Amnesiac Mnemonist. 10 p.m.

Indie/Pop/Various. Free.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - SingCinnati with Billy Larkin and Amy McFarland. 8 p.m. Open mic. Free.

Live! at the Ludlow Garage California Guitar Trio. 8 p.m. Adult Contemporary. $20-$50.

Woodward Theater - Mike H Mains with Motherfolk. 9 p.m.

Indie Rock. $8, $12 day of show.

MOTR Pub - The Claudettes.

H 9 p.m. Blues/Jazz/Roots/ Various. Free.

Apt 664, Forces of Nature, Watch Them Rot and Hellraiser. 5 p.m.

Metal. $15.

Plain Folk Cafe - Open Mic with Christina Schnetzer. 7 p.m. Various.

Free.

Madison Live - Detached with The World I Knew, Saint Christopher, Hopelessly Fryed and MCRNR. 8 p.m. Metal. Free.

Saturday 08

MVP Bar & Grille - Throw It Down.

9 p.m. Country.

The Mockbee - Leah P, Developer, Mass Comm, Ploughshare, MBD, Wasteland Jazz Unit and DJ Resin.

9 p.m. Noise. $5.

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

Free.

Southgate House Revival H (Lounge) - Big Little Lions.

9:30 p.m. Folk Pop. Free.

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

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

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Hagfest featuring Josh Morningstar & The Pickups, Todd Day Wait’s Pigpen, Joe’s Truck Stop, Billie Gant, The Harold Kennedy Trio, Chris Acker and the Growing Boys, Pat Hu & The Kentucky River Ramblers, Thorn County and Maria Carrelli.

8 p.m. Americana. $12, $15 day of show.

Marty’s Hops & Vines - Wild Mountain Berries. 9 p.m.

Americana. Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Losing Lucky.

8 p.m. Roots. Free.

Marty’s Hops & Vines - Dave Hawkins. 7 p.m. Celtic/Folk. Free.

The Mockbee - Luzcid & Jantsen, Chuck Diesel and DJ OBE-1. 9 p.m.

Bass/EDM. $10-$15.

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MOTR Pub - Reformed Whores.

9 p.m. Country/Comedy. Free.

Northside Tavern - Grace Lincoln.

9 p.m. Soul. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Cafe Racer, Anissa Pulcheon and Pills. 9 p.m.

Rock/Pop/Indie/Garage/Various.

Free.

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

Urban Artifact - JetLab, Brianna Kelly and Nancy Paraskevopolous.

8 p.m. Indie/Alt/Rock. Free.

Friday 07

20th Century Theater - Brandy H Clark & Charlie Worsham. 8 p.m. Country. $22.50, $25 day of show.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Lagniappe.

9 p.m. Cajun. Free.

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

The Avenue Event Center - Young Dolph. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $40-$60.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Lost Coast with Dead Man String Band. 9:30 p.m.

Americana. Free.

Bogart’s - New Found Glory. 8:30 p.m. Pop Rock. Sold out.

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

Thursday 06

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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Boone County Public Library, Main Branch - Keith Jones & the Makeshifts. 7 p.m. Rock. Free Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Steve Schmidt Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free (solo at 6 p.m.; trio at 8 p.m.).

College Hill Coffee Co. - Ripple Effect. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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

The Comet - Sleepy Drums, Emily McColgan, Run Believers and Bi. 10 p.m. Rock/Punk/Various. Free.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Todd Hepburn and Yvan Verbesselt. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

Drew’s on the River - The Refranes.

8 p.m. Rock.

The Drinkery - Talk Mouth Album Release Party w/Common Center & Infinity Spree. 10 p.m. Alt/Rock/ Various. Free.

The Greenwich - Mambo Combo. 8 p.m. Latin Jazz. $5.

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

Roots/Blues. Free.

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

Live! at the Ludlow Garage - Half the Animal. 8 p.m. Rock. Free.

The Mockbee - The Agoraphobes and Sweet Action. 9 p.m. Rock.

Free.

MOTR Pub - Honduras with Acid Dad. 9 p.m. Indie Rock.

Free.

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Fairfield Community Arts Center The First Ladies of Song with Helen Welch. 8 p.m. Various. $18-$20.

The Greenwich - Rollins Davis Band featuring Deborah Hunter. 9 p.m. Jazz/R&B. $5.

Jack Casino Cincinnati - Pandora Effect. 8 p.m. Rock. Free (in Margaritaville).

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - 3 Piece Revival. 9:30 p.m. Pop/Various. $5.

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

Knotty Pine - DV8. 10 p.m. Rock.

Cover.

Memorial Hall - Richard Thompson with Joan Shelley. 8 p.m. Acoustic.

Sold out.

MOTR Pub - Mike Nielsen & the Rusted Hearts with The Newbees. 9 p.m. Pop/Rock/ Various. Free.

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MVP Bar & Grille - The Gamut. 9 p.m. Rock.

86 Club - Test Flight, Tyler Jarvis and Sandcastles. 8 p.m. Rock.

Cover.

Northside Tavern - Selectas Choice. 10 p.m. DJ/Dance/Soul/ Funk/Various. Free.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - The Hot Magnolias. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - NRDC Benefit with Dead Man String Band, Sheldon Belcher, Covenator and Actual Italians. 8 p.m. Rock/ Various.

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Big Song Music House - The Tillers. 8 p.m. Folk. $20.

Blue Note Harrison - The Menus, Sullivan & Janszen Band and 1 Nite Stand. 9 p.m. Rock/Various. Cover.

Bogart’s - Tickle Me Emo. 8 p.m.

Emo tribute. Cover.

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

College Hill Coffee Co. - Kim and Dee. 7:30 p.m. Rock/Pop/Various.

Free.

Northside Tavern - Orchards H with Lemon Sky and Automatic.

College of Mount St. Joseph 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

H - WoodyFest 19 featuring Jake Speed and the Freddies. 7 p.m.

Northside Yacht Club - The Folk. $10 (in the Recital Hall).

H Full Counts with A.M. Nice, Old City and Knife the Symphony. 9 The Comet - Casper Skulls, p.m. Rock.

H Flea Bite, Sweet Lil, Crime of Passing and Sky Hank. 10 p.m.

Plain Folk Cafe - Russell Up Some Grub String Band. 7:30 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - Final Order. 10 p.m.

Rock. $5.

Silverton Cafe - String Theory. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - The Cousin Kissers.

9:30 p.m. Country. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - The New Schematics with Calumet and The Summit. 8 p.m.

Roots/Rock/Various. $10.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Reverend Petyon’s Big Damn Band with Joe Macheret and Maria Carrelli. 9 p.m.

Americana. $18, $20 day of show.

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

Thompson House - Blank State featuring DraudHaus. 8 p.m.

AltRock. $10.

Indie Rock. Free.

Common Roots - Mayan Ruins. 9 p.m. Psychedelic Tribal Music. $5.

Irish Heritage Center - The H Drowsy Lads. 7:30 p.m. Irish/ Celtic. $20, $23 day of show.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Gee Your Band Smells Terrific. 9:30 p.m. ’70s Pop/Dance/Various. $5.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Bourbon Road. 9 p.m. Country.

Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - Vernon McIntire’s Appalachian Grass. 7:30 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

Princeton High School - Mike Farris. 7:30 p.m. Roots/Blues/ Gospel/Soul. $35-$40.

Rick’s Tavern - Road Trip. 10 p.m.

Rock/Country/Dance/Various. $5.

The Show on 42 - Pandora Effect.

9:30 p.m. Rock. Free.

Smoke Justis - Sonny Moorman. 9 p.m. Blues. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Dan Tedesco with Ben Knight. 9:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Smooth Hound Smith with T. Lipscomb.

8:30 p.m. Folk/Blues. $17, $20 day of show.

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Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Bridget Kearney.

8:30 p.m. Pop/Rock/Americana/ Various. $12, $15 day of show.

Trinity Gastro Pub - Bob Cushing.

8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Urban Artifact - Pollination H Fest with The MYCincinnati Ambassador Ensemble, Sweet

Knotty Pine - Naked Karate Girls.

10 p.m. Rock/Pop. Cover.

Poison Victim, A Delicate Motor, Son Step, Eddy Kwon and Eugenius. 7 p.m. Various. $12-$40 (visit pollinationfest.com for full schedule/details).

Live! at the Ludlow Garage H - Noah Hunt. 8 p.m. Rock/ Various. $17-$35.

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

Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

Madison Live - Here Come H Here with Mangrenade and The Grove. 8 p.m. Rock. $10.

Westside Venue - The Weathered Feather. 9 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

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

Sunday 09

KJ’s Pub - Saving Stimpy. 9:30 p.m. Rock. Free.

Marty’s Hops & Vines - Working Title. 9 p.m. Steampunk. Free.

20th Century Theater - Jim Gillum (album release show). 5 p.m.

Acoustic. $25.

Blind Lemon - Jeff Henry. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

p.m. Rock/Alt/Roots/Various. Free.

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

Washington Park - Tiny Deck Concert with Wild Carrot. 7 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.

Memorial Hall - Marc Cohn with Tom Steele. 8 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter. $48-$75.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Marc Fields Quartet.

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

The Mockbee - DarkWave Dance Party featuring DJ X-IAN and DJ Will Ross. 10 p.m. DJ/Dance. Free.

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

Urban Artifact - Room for Zero, H Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robery and Watchfrogs. 9

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Monday 10

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Tuesday 11

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The Comet - Josh Kufeldt, Al Scorch and Geoff Tate. 10 p.m.

Various. Free.

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Northside Tavern - Jeremy David Springer and Richard Wasson.

9:30 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Thelma, Boony Doon, Brianna Kelly and Cross Country. 8 p.m. Rock/ Various.

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