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What a Week! BY T.C. Britton
WEDNESDAY APRIL 19
Kid Rock, Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin walk into the White House… It’s no joke: The hillbilly trifecta descended onto Washington this Wednesday after Donald Trump invited Palin to dinner and asked her to bring her best buds. Together they chilled in the oval office with Trump and took childish selfies in front of Hillary Clinton’s official portrait, which surprisingly wasn’t scrawled with a sharpie mustache and devil horns. This is exactly the type of stunt we’d get in trouble for on a grade school field trip. The Nuge spoke with Detroit Free Press about this get-together — perhaps a protest against this week’s March for Science? — and his description of the group’s conversation topics is richer than any joke we could write, so here you go: “Rock ’n’ roll and hunting and guns and venison and energy and borders and military strength and Supreme Court justices and good food and pretty girls.”
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Thursday was 4/20, or International Cannabis Appreciation Day, and boy did everyone get in the smoking spirit this year. The High Holidaze has officially gone corporate. Multiple police departments across the country took to social media to show off “weed traps” that included chips, donuts and video games to catch any potheads celebrating 4/20. Rapper and pot aficionado Wiz Khalifa dropped a “Weed Farm” mobile game. Spotify celebrated with a 4/20 playlist. And always ones to capitalize on chronic, Ben & Jerry’s served up “CHILLacos” — basically a Choco Taco
on crack, err, weed — in their Scoop Shops Thursday. The Most Woke on Weed Day award goes to Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That), who offered a modern take on the iconic “This is your brain on drugs” PSA. The original debuted 30 years ago, likening a frying egg to drugs’ effects on the brain. In 1997, an 18-year-old Cook smashed eggs — and en entire kitchen — with a frying pan to depict the effects of heroin. Twenty years later, Cook returned for another PSA, only this time calling out how the shitty war on drugs targets people of color (brown eggs). Shoutout to the poor eggs that have been compared to druggy brains for 30 years now!
FRIDAY APRIL 21
Serena Williams accidentally revealed that she is pregnant this week. A photo she posted on Snapchat and then deleted revealed the tennis star sporting a muscleencased baby bump (or, how we look after eating a burrito, minus said muscles) with the caption “20 weeks.” Her rep later confirmed that Williams and her Reddit cofounder fiancé Alexis Ohanian, are expecting a tiny human. Days later, the Women’s Tennis Rankings announced Williams was yet again ranked No. 1 in the world. Oh, and if you do the math, she won her 23rd grand slam at January’s Australian Open while pregs. Everyone bow down. That’s amazing. Even more so: Beyoncé’s twins will have a lemonade-sipping friend for life!
SATURDAY APRIL 22
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gathered in Washington, D.C. and hundreds of cities across the globe for the March for Science on Earth Day. Because we live in a world where The Big Bang Theory is considered a humorous sitcom but a dangerous idea to teach in schools. Bill Nye “The Science Guy” was essentially king of the day. He, along with many other doctors, engineers and climate change activists, spoke about the importance of science-based education, research and policy. In fact, Nye dropped a new Netflix show Friday. Wait a minute… Do we sense a conspiracy? Was this all a plot to promote the Science Guy 2.0 show? Alex Jones, where you at? (Oh yeah, in family court, claiming his rightwing host persona is nothing but a performance art character.)
SUNDAY APRIL 23
Unless you’re colorblind and without internet access (sucks to be you), you definitely know that Starbucks served “unicorn Frappuccinos” Wednesday through Sunday. The color-changing blended beverage looks like Lisa Frank barfed into a plastic cup, but it’s really just cream base, sparkly sprinkles and a shitload of fruity syrups. And — shocker! — people apparently have OPINIONS about the drink. Foodies and health nuts shunned the highly artificial calorie bomb while others were merely annoyed at the persisting “unicorn” trend, which covers everything from rainbow hair to multicolored toast toppings. The real crime here is that there are Starbucks drinks with no fucking coffee or caffeine in it.
MONDAY APRIL 24
America’s ex that we’ll never get over (and forever be creeping on his latest vacation pics) Barack Obama made his first public appearance post-presidency Monday, speaking at the University of Chicago on public service and community engagement. Not surprisingly, Obama avoided talking Trump, instead turning his attention to inspiring future leaders and delivering some dad jokes. We miss you, bb!
TUESDAY APRIL 25
When political analyst Mark Halperin found himself in an odd seating situation on a Delta flight this weekend, he did what any reasonable person in 2017 does — politely request a flight attendant and, since it was in no way a big deal whatsoever, contact customer service upon his landing he tweeted about it. But Halperin wasn’t bumped to coach or given the stressful duty of sitting in an exit row (so much pressure!). He was seated next to an adorable doggo! If he was tweeting the posts as a means to publicly complain — which he later said he wasn’t, he just felt bad that the pup was separated from its owner — Twitter wasn’t having it. Apparently, most folks would trade a human flying companion for a canine one in a heartbeat. Lesson learned: Don’t act like flying next to a sweet pup is anything but a luxury, or the internet will shame you. Elsewhere on Delta, Kenny G this week surprised his fellow passengers with an in-flight performance. See? Things could be much worse, Mr. Halperin. CONTACT T.C. BRITTON: letters@ citybeat.com
And let’s I’m sure it was all Also, spit some truth about the rage for scientists shout out to the methane while we’re at it. Beef and commoners alike to put my second-baddest and lamb have caused 37 percent of the name in a negative light as they paced element in the whole two-and-a-half-fold increase in anthropogenic up and down the National Mall this past wide universe, mah atmospheric methane since 1750. Let’s see, the Saturday. Earth Day? Sure thing. Let’s do it boy Potassium. symbol for methane is CH : one little carbon sur4 Rememagain! Yes, we can! Let’s celebrate protecting this Peace. rounded by four hydrogen, burped and flatulated by ber the good old days? Earth and all her carbon-based species including your future double bacon cheeseburger and whisked Back in elementary school, when humans. But what’s all this crap about reducing away into the atmosphere — and who gets the carbon had that smooth-ass reputayour carbon footprint?!! Fuck you, you arrogant blame? Pendejo cabron here. Ain’t no one heard, tion? “Carbon is the building block of life,” your bastard! This is a bullshit piece of propaganda. Well hello there Carbon dioxide not even those spoiled Jungletown snowflakes, science teacher said. “It makes life possible,” she It throws shade on one of the great elements again! Remember me? has twice the oxygen anyone calling for you to scale back your hydrowould gush while you doodled UFOs and kittens on on the periodic table. And for the benefit Your old buddy carbon? The atoms as ole carbon here. No gen footprint — or hoofprint — now have your folder. And let’s never forget that carbon copies of what? Some cheap buzzword that element with extremely diverse one ever talks about reducing your they? All everybody says is hydrogen made the tedious work of filling out forms in triplicate no sounds good to the scientific characteristics able to form an incredoxygen impact, do they? So, when y’all is number one. That’s it. longer necessary. The CC in your email honors this great layperson? ibly wide variety of structures? Essential burnin all y’all fossil fuels, gassin’ up the Whatever. achievement, yet you probably don’t even acknowledge element in carbohydrates, proteins, greenhouse, melting the icecaps, starving carbon’s namesake as such. Some say that more peristeroids? Ahem… yes steroids have a polar bears and acidifying the Great Barrier odic correctness will only inhibit communication. But beneficial function, too. Ever had poison Reef, why don’t you do me a favor and being aware of truth is what enhances communicaivy or other easily preventable rash? get off my back? Cuz I already got two tion. Let’s march for science, let’s march for Steroids to the rescue... but you’d oxygens squeezin up on it! Ain’t rationality and let’s march for carbon godbetter believe not without the no room for negativity in this dammit! Let’s change the game. magic of carbon, chico. valence shell bruh! Carbon Day 2017!
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21st Century Media Clichés By Ben L. Kaufman
includes lobbying to change laws, allocate money, etc. It’s the people speaking when you do it, “special interests” when they do. • “Boots on the ground.” Macho military jargon used by people likelier to wear running shoes. Verbose for “there” or “here.” • “Alternative facts.” Evidence-free fantasies perpetuated by Tooth Fairies. • “Facts.” Verifiable information. If alternatives are verifiable, prove it. Otherwise, they’re frauds. • “Fraudulent.” Euphemism for government lies. Possibly “bullshit” if speaker really believes fraudulent, alternative facts. • “Inoperative.” Earlier version of alternative facts or yesterday’s real facts being denied today. For instance, in 1973, Time magazine complained how “The Nixon Administration has developed a new language — a kind of Nix-speak. Government officials are entitled to make flat statements one day, and the next day reverse field with the simple phrase, ‘I misspoke myself.’ White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler enlarged the vocabulary last week, declaring that all of Nixon’s previous statements on Watergate were ‘inoperative.’ Not incorrect, not misinformed, not untrue — simply inoperative, like batteries gone dead…” • “Objectivity.” Usually invoked by critics to assert news media aren’t objective. Journalists seeking this holy grail share all sides’ arguments and supporting evidence without revealing partiality for any side in a controversy. • “Bias.” Imagined motivation of reporters writing critical or embarrassing stories. Bias shows a preference for one side in a controversy at the expense of fairness in reporting. Commentary invites taking sides. • “Backing away.” What Republicans do when they can’t fulfill campaign promises. See “flip flop.” • “Flip-flop.” What Republicans charge when Democrats accommodate new facts. • “Enemy.” Formerly “the opposition.” • “Opposition.” Formerly “mainstream news media.”
• “Enemy of the American people.” See “opposition.” • “Mainstream news media.” Dailies, weeklies, network TV news and a handful of websites that offer verifiable information. Formerly “the media.” • “Post-truth.” The belief that all information is equally valid, regardless of source and evidence. See Fox News. • “Fox News.” Change channels.
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• “Thoughts and prayers.” Mindless mutterings of public officials and figures when faced with demand for comment on tragedy or disaster. I’m waiting for some heroic reporter, with career alternatives, to ask what the speaker is thinking and to whom the speaker is praying. • “Jeff Sessions.” Full name of this Alabaman is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. Trump’s choice to protect civil rights, voting rights, police reform and other essentials as attorney general. I’m waiting for a local talk show host to use white AG’s full name as he unfailing used Barack Hussein Obama’s full name to deride the first black president. • “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions.” Current U.S. attorney general from Alabama who lost a chance for federal judgeship amid credible accusations of racism. As a recent dinner companion said, “No one named Jefferson (president of Confederacy) Beauregard (Confederate general) ever did anything good for black folks.” • “Sexual harassment.” What aging white men at Fox News consider mentoring. We’re not done hearing from past and current female employees about quid-proquo offers by men who can hire, end or advance their careers. CONTACT BEN L. KAUFMAN: letters@citybeat.com
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I’m taking a break from trying to keep up with the past fortnight’s news. Instead, this is an exercise in lexicography, as in words that can make us crazy. “Populism/populist” — People you disagree with; Trump, Bernie Sanders. Not long ago, bitter, angry populists included Huey Long, Father Coughlin and George Wallace. Optimistic populists were Teddy Roosevelt, “Fighting” Bob La Follette Sr. and Hubert H. Humphrey. Before the rise of Trump and his admiring alt-right models/admirers, I thought of myself as a populist. Last year, however, commentators’ and reporters’ careless language meant I was in bed with populists I can’t stand. That kind of sloppy thinking and writing got to me. Populism is my heritage in the Upper Midwest. My passbook account was at the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank. My political home was the DemocraticFarmer-Labor Party. Both were heirs to an older populist movement and party, themselves reactions to exploiting money lenders and gouging railroads. Today, journalists use “populism” to describe anything and everything, but it needn’t mean democracy: recall where “Ein volk” and “Great Satan” populism led. Journalist John Judis distinguishes populisms this way: liberal/progressive populists “punch up” at Wall Street and others who hold ordinary people down; rightwing populists punch up and down, striking at the very wealthy and the poor with equal vigor. Here are more words and cliches for reporters to avoid like the plague: • “Challenges.” Archaic euphemism. Not a synonym for problems. Don’t call anything a “challenge” unless someone is slapped with a glove and is given a choice of weapons. • “Issues.” Mistakenly used for people who have problems. Real issues require resolution, ideally through civil argument and agreement. • “Swamp.” National capital populated by Other Party’s influence-peddling financiers, buddies, relatives and former federal officials and members of Senate and Congress. It’s called The Administration when these money-lenders and hacks belong to your party. • “Special interests.” Groups you disagree with. As the First Amendment says, “Congress shall make no law … prohibiting … he right of the people … to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” That
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uring the evening hours of May 16, 2016, 23-year-old Earl Jones drove more than 20 minutes from Hamilton to Colerain Township, ostensibly to pick up his 5-year-old son from his ex-girlfriend, 21-year-old Cyerra Prather. According to a police report, he pulled out a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson after he arrived and shot 19-year-old Kevin Neri, Prather’s boyfriend at the time, in the front yard of the house Neri was living in with Prather. Jones fired multiple times, then climbed back in his white Acura, drove away and dialed 911. “I have left the scene,” Jones says in the emergency call, claiming he had shot Neri in self-defense and indicating that those left at the house had already called an ambulance. “I’m on my way to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department to turn myself in.” The tragic situation seems straightforward on its face: Neri was unarmed, and the shooting occurred in front of more than a dozen witnesses over the fact Neri was dating Jones’ ex-girlfriend. But as the situation in court has slowly progressed, Neri’s family has grown concerned that Jones might end up with lesser charges than the aggravated murder count he was indicted on. The Neri family and their attorney, Michael Begovic, say Hamilton County prosecutors last month indicated that they were considering a plea deal for Jones, possibly offering him manslaughter charges in exchange for a guilty plea. Complicating matters further, racial tension runs through the incident, at least according to the Neri family. Neri was black. Jones is white. Jones used racial language, including the word “nigger,” in text messages to his exgirlfriend in which he indicates he doesn’t want the child the two had together raised by a black man. Jones also sent racially charged texts, also including the word “nigger,” to Neri during mutually heated exchanges between the two. “I think the text messages speak for themselves,” says Begovic, the Neri family lawyer. “It’s pretty clear from the messages that Earl Jones was harboring racial animus toward Kevin Neri. I can’t speak to his motivation — obviously they were involved in a really contentious dispute — but I think anyone reading the messages would conclude that racial animus was part of it.” Some controversy around the potential plea deal built in the days before the April 5 court date. An April 2 rally organized with the help of Black Lives Matter Cincinnati drew more than 100 to the Hamilton County Courthouse to protest the possibility of a
plea deal, and subsequent letters and calls to the prosecutor’s office urged Hamilton County Prosecutor Amy Trainter to rethink any plea deal that might be in the works. During the rally, Neri’s mother made an impassioned plea for justice for her son. “Our son was a kind, loving, generous and intelligent young man who had a heart of gold,” Deneal Neri said. “This happened in broad daylight in front of several witnesses. Manslaughter is an accident. Unloading a gun on someone is murder. To the courts, Kevin doesn’t matter. He’s just another folder to push through their stack.” The Hamilton County prosecutor’s office declined to comment on whether a plea deal was under consideration. The prosecutor’s office said it does not keep data about how many times it has offered plea deals in murder cases like Jones’, a spokesperson said. The prosecutor’s office shrugged off the possibility that the killing could lead to hate crime charges. Ohio law allows enhanced sentencing if a crime is determined to be motivated by race, religion, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation or disability. But hate crimes are hard to prove, and the designation is rarely applied in murder cases. Begovic says he would like the texts between Neri and Jones and Prather
Holding signs with his photo on them, family and friends of Kevin Neri protest outside the Hamilton County Courthouse April 2. and Jones on the record, leaving open at least the possibility of hate crime charges, however. Jones’ family and lawyers say there’s more to the story. Bill Gallagher, one of Jones’ attorneys, wouldn’t discuss whether Jones will claim he acted in self-defense at trial, but says another side of the incident will come out in court and that the racial aspects of the case have been blown out of proportion. “I’m troubled by the fact that Earl Jones, who has African-American family members, is being portrayed as a racist when he is absolutely not,” he says. Gallagher claims that Neri used the same particular charged racial term Jones used during text message exchanges. “Do I think that someone who uses the N-word is necessarily racist if the word was just used to provoke a response? No. I understand the hurt and the anger the Neri family feels, but I think this incident is more about interpersonal relationships — an ex-girlfriend — than it is about race.” Two witnesses at the scene of the shooting who happened to be nurses attempted to render medical aid to Neri, but he died later that night at the
University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Jones was taken into custody after surrendering at the sheriff’s office. He was indicted May 20 on aggravated murder charges, pleaded not guilty and is being held on a $3 million bond at the Hamilton County Justice Center. Documents from the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts list 15 witnesses to the shooting. Depositions collected by investigators from those witnesses are sealed, and none listed on the initial report from Colerain Township police returned calls asking for comment about the story. The Neri family and Begovic say at least some of the eyewitness accounts tell a story that cast serious doubt on Jones’ initial self-defense claim. They say Neri had a defensive wound in his hand and was turning to run when he was shot. Jones’ attorney Gallagher said earlier this month prosecutors hadn’t approached him about a plea deal. Originally, Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Leslie Ghiz was set to sit in a hearing on the case — and possibly to hear about a plea arrangement from prosecutors — April 5. But that hearing was rescheduled for May 8 to allow more time to investigate the killing. ©
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Richardson Outraises Mayoral Opponents Behind Union, Out-of-Town Donors Cincinnati’s three mayoral candidates filed pre-primary campaign finance reports April 20, giving the public a look at what those candidates will be working with in the final weeks before the May 2 primary and who is supporting their campaigns. Former University of Cincinnati board chair Rob Richardson Jr. had the largest haul, raking in $264, 512 since the beginning of the year. Mayor John Cranley was close behind, raising $253,600 in that time. Cincinnati City Councilwoman Yvette Simpson raised $85,575. Cranley still has a commanding lead in overall fundraising — he has reported $931,813 raised in his last two filings. Add that to money that was already in his campaign war chest, and Cranley just surpassed the previous record for most money raised in a mayoral race. Then-City Councilman David Pepper raised $1.2 million for his mayoral bid in 2005, an amount Cranley narrowly surpassed with this filing. Money isn’t everything, of course — Pepper lost that bid to Mark Mallory, who raised significantly less than that. Cranley raised about $85,000, or 34 percent of his total, from donors with addresses outside Cincinnati, mostly from surrounding suburbs like West Chester and Fort Thomas, Ky. Cranley got some union contributions, including one from the local firefighter’s union, as well as some donations from local corporate leaders, including multiple members of the Lindner family, which runs United Dairy Farmers. Labor unions turned out big for Richardson, whose father, Rob Richardson Sr., is a major labor leader. Union chapters from Akron, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Lima, Mansfield, Marietta, Marion, Middletown, Newcomerstown, North Kingsville, Steubenville, Toledo, Youngstown, Westerville and Zainesville all gave to his campaign, as did chapters from Lawrenceburg, Ind., Lexington and Louisville, Ky., Sacramento and Los Angeles, Calif., Portland, Ore., and other out-of-state chapters. All told, union chapters from across the state and the country contributed more than $81,000 to Richardson’s campaign — 31 percent of his total haul. About $186,512, or 70 percent, of Richardson’s contributions came from donors listing addresses outside Cincinnati, many also outside the state, according to information in his filing. Simpson’s donations came mostly from small donors. She raised $18,650, or 22 percent of her total, from donors listing addresses outside Cincinnati. Those were mostly small contributions following an
endorsement from national grassroots group Democracy for America, which backed U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid. Cranley, who has poured money into two TV ads, has about $350,000 on hand at this point. Richardson, whose campaign is poised to launch its second TV spot, has $96,571. Simpson, who hasn’t spent any money on TV ads yet, has $72,000 on hand. Cincinnati’s mayoral primary is May 2. The two candidates receiving the most votes will advance to the November general election. (Nick Swartsell)
Ohio Supreme Court Orders Halt to Liquidation of Defunct Chesley Firm For the second time in a year, the Ohio Supreme Court has blocked an attempt to use Ohio courts to derail collection of a $42 million civil judgment from the disbarred attorney Stan Chesley. On April 17, the high court ordered the emergency stoppage of the liquidation of the now-defunct law firm Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley in Hamilton County Probate Court. The firm’s trustee, Thomas Rehme, sought the court’s oversight last September, even though a Boone County court had already ruled in 2014 that the firm’s assets and income belonged to the 382 people who received a $200 million civil settlement from the makers of the fen-phen diet supplement, only to be shortchanged by Chesley and three other lawyers. Boone County Circuit Judge James Schrand held Chesley personally liable for $42 million. The fen-phen victims’ lawyer, Angela Ford of Lexington, says Chesley has been using Ohio courts to dodge collection ever since. In 2015, Chesley persuaded Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman to block collection of the $42 million judgment. A year later, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that Ruehlman had no business interfering with the matter. With Hamilton County Probate Judge Ralph Winkler allowing the liquidation of Chesley’s former law firm to proceed, Ford last year asked the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati to intervene. A year before Chesley was ordered to pay $42 million, her federal lawsuit contends, he transferred $59 million from his personal accounts to the law firm, then assigned his sole ownership of the firm to Rehme. Ford calls the assignment a sham and that Chesley still controls the firm. She is asking the federal court — where Chesley’s wife Susan Dlott is a judge — to give the firm’s assets to the fen-phen plaintiffs. A visiting judge from Michigan, Robert Cleland, is hearing the federal case. Cleland acknowledged the fishiness of Chesley’s financial and legal maneuvers in a temporary restraining order last October.
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ike Mark Twain, the news of Brian Olive’s demise was greatly exaggerated. Well, not Olive exactly, but his highly regarded Northside studio, The Diamonds, and not demised so much as damaged, relocated and reinvented. Or at least well into that process. So maybe not like Mark Twain at all. In any event, as Olive conducts a walking tour of the 112-year-old house perched on a bluff in the foothills of Mount Airy where he is building his new studio — which he has christened Mount Saturn — it’s clear that the multi-instrumentalist/producer/singer/songwriter has a long-range vision for the facility as well as its surrounding property. Although Olive notes that the studio won’t be fully operational until this summer, Mount Saturn has already notched its first production as both a studio (at least in spirit) and a record label (Mount Saturn Sound) with the imminent release of Olive’s stunning third album, Living On Top, coming nearly six years after his equally impressive sophomore effort, Two of Everything. Quite a lot has transpired in Olive’s life during the gap between albums. Just as Two of Everything was on the verge of release, he was busy learning a 20-song setlist in order to guest in music legend Dr. John’s band for his SuperJam set at Bonnaroo in 2011. Olive had already done the sessions for Dr. John’s then-imminent new album, Locked Down, which was being produced by Black Keys guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach, who had also co-manned the console with Olive for Two of Everything. Two years later, Dr. John took home a Grammy in the Blues album category, and everyone associated with Locked Down was recognized for that
achievement, including Olive. This clearly begs the Carmen Sandiego question: Where in the world is Brian Olive’s Grammy? There’s a catch.“That’s a funny thing. Because he’s a solo artist, they gave the statue to Dr. John and I spent a year and a half explaining to people, ‘I don’t actually have a Grammy; I have a certificate,’ ” Olive says from the rehearsal/chill loft above Mount Saturn. “Then we were down at Dan’s studio mixing the last Electric Citizen album, and I looked up and Dan
escalated at an alarming rate and few were resolved to his satisfaction. “There was an ongoing series of calamities,” Olive says. “The landlord wasn’t happy with the situation, I wasn’t happy with the situation and we were kind of stuck there, waiting for the bank to come up off the new place so I could buy it. We were still working; I did another Electric Citizen album and (You, You’re Awesome’s) Yusef Quotah solo album, so in the last year we were
2015 album, Yours, Dreamily, but believes the only thing that survived from those sessions was a live vocal take of Olive and Auerbach on what became the last song on the album, “Searching the Blue.” Olive accepted the invitation, cleared his schedule and waited for further details from Auerbach. “He’d told me that he wanted to have me come on tour for this Arcs thing, so I made all the arrangements to do that and then I wasn’t hearing anything,” Olive says. “So I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, yeah, so-and-so’s doing it because he’s already in New York.’ And I was like, ‘Thanks for telling me.’ ” Olive was understandably miffed as he attempted to restore his schedule to some semblance of order. But Olive is now happy the tour gig didn’t happen — had had hit the road with The Arcs, it’s likely he would have missed the opportunity to obtain the house that will soon be the new address for Mount Saturn Studio. “I would have been on the road with (The Arcs) when this came on the market,” he says. “So that’s why I was like, ‘OK, fine, don’t worry about it.’ ” After looking over the property in December of 2015 and seeing its potential, Olive put in a bid; in the throes of a desultory holiday season, he received the good news on Christmas Eve that his offer had been accepted. A little subsequent detective work by Olive and his girlfriend, Helen Smith, revealed the adjoining parcels were also up for grabs, so they acquired all of them, utilizing one to install a driveway up to the house. One of the plots also had an existing home on it, but the structure had been condemned, so Olive and Smith were obligated by ownership to pay for its demolition. Their eventual goal is to build a new house on the now-vacant site, which will be a 30-second walk from the studio when it’s completed.
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Brian Olive’s new Mount Saturn recording facilities should be up and running later this summer.
has a statue, and Collin (Dupuis), the engineer, has a statue. And I was like, ‘I don’t care anymore, I’m tired of explaining about the certificate — I’m just going to tell people I have a Grammy.’ I’m not sure about this but someone was saying if you talk to the right people and pay for it, you can get one. I’m happy with the certificate. You don’t have to worry about someone stealing it.”
OliVe’S TwistS Not long after his Grammy win, Olive began setting up his studio space in the basement of a Northside jewelry store. The ancient sign above the storefront inspired him to dub his facility The Diamonds. In that increasingly cramped locale, Olive produced a number of great releases by area artists, including every Electric Citizen album to date and recordings by The Tillers, Royal Holland, The Perfect Children, Ohio Knife and Wonky Tonk, among many others. As Olive’s star as a producer began to rise, tensions began to mount with his landlord. The basement space was always somewhat problematic, but issues
doing good things. But in my mind, I was already up (at the new space). It was just one thing after another, a general bad vibe.” The final straw for Olive was a plumbing concern that resulted in a fairly substantial leak over his studio piano (which he’s since repaired). After this incident, Olive was resolute that remaining in the space was not an option. “I was right in the middle of doing overdubs for Living On Top,” he says. “We were starting to feel the cramped space, too. It was always a small space, but it felt like it was getting smaller and smaller and pushing me out. And it did. But I’m trying to remember only the good things.” When Olive had been in the initial phases of what would eventually become Living On Top, production jobs and occasional touring opportunities naturally interrupted his work flow. At one point, he got a call from Auerbach, who was looking for a saxophonist to accompany him on the road with his latest side project, The Arcs. Olive had actually tracked some of The Arcs’
In the midst of his real estate wheeling and dealing, Olive was intermittently putting the finishing touches on Living On Top. The 10-track album is a culmination of all of his varied musical experiences, from the raw Garage Rock shamble and shake of The Greenhornes (the Cincinnati Garage Rock juggernaut of which he was a founding member) to the visceral Blues swagger of The Soledad Brothers (the popular Detroit-viaNorthern-Ohio band he left The Greenhornes to join) to his exposure to Auerbach and his broad circle of influence. Living on Top exhibits a slinky, soulful mood, a brilliant and exuberant mash-up of the ’60s Pop/Rock of The Kinks and The Beatles and the ’70s Soul/Pop ethic of Memphis, Tenn. in general and Stax Records in particular, jolted with a heart needle of contemporary Indie Pop verve. The new album bristles with the excitement of Olive’s long personal history, as well as his eclectic musical tastes. The scorching Rock-and-Soul revue of “Somebody Stole That Song” could have been a mid ’60s hit for Otis Redding; the loping “A New Day Begins” has the Carnaby Street sound of the Davies brothers intertwined with Traffic at its poppiest; and “Sideways” sounds like Steve Winwood and Traffic in their transition from Prog/Folk to Jazz, as they attempt to charm a snake out of a New Delhi basket. Olive’s impassioned vocals have the gritty smoothness of Winwood or Paul Weller, and his sax solo on the title track sounds as if he’s holding a séance and conjuring the spirit of the late Bobby Keys at the height of his powers, namely his iconic work on The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers and his pervasive presence on “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking.”
One of the major shifts on Living On Top was a reliance on computers during the recording and production process, something the tape/analog-loving Olive had yet to experience. Since he was essentially learning on the job, the higher-tech experiment ended up being another big factor in the new album’s lengthy gestation period. “I decided to embrace the computer, which, by the way, I’ll never do again,” he says with a laugh. “I feel like I’ve done my time. I’m not saying I’ll never record on a computer again, but I felt like I should learn how to do this so I have an educated opinion. So I tracked everything to tape pretty much, but I ended up removing the bass and drums from the original recording of (the song) ‘Living On Top’ and adding in the percussion and redoing the bass, and it wasn’t done to a click track so it was a pretty serious undertaking. That took a long time to do, but I’m glad I did it because it gave it a feel I couldn’t get otherwise.” Still, Olive prefers the old-school analog style of recording to tape much more and for numerous reasons. “I do appreciate the computer… but I love the sound of tape. And it’s so much more relaxing; it’s less frustrating, you can talk to people while you’re doing it, you don’t have anybody peering at this little thing. In this new place, I might have a (computer available), but I just want to record analog because I enjoy it.”
they write. Working on a production will help me with my album and experience with my own music I might be able to apply. It’s symbiotic.” Another aspect of Olive’s latest work is a fresh, creative anger, which he readily admits was present prior to the last election cycle, though that heightened and sharpened it. It may have been the culmination of the situation that ended The Diamonds and the frustrations he encountered in rehabbing a structure with poor drainage and significant damage. Whatever the source, Olive’s outrage is channeled through some of his new songs. He cites the title track from the new album as being representative of his current state of mind, even though it was written four years ago. “‘See what you’re doing, living on top,’” Olive says, quoting the opening line of “Living On Top.” “See what’s happening to people. Do you see it? Do you care? I’ve heard stories from countries like Nigeria, where the government does whatever it feels like and the people are
a number of European dates in June and some summer festivals as well, and work will continue apace on the Mount Saturn complex. Once the studio is complete, Olive has big plans for the surrounding grounds, including proposed cabins to house visiting bands and development of existing paths that could connect with municipal trails further up the hill behind the studio. Of course, the primary focus is on finishing the studio so work can resume on recording the kind of music that Olive loves. On the surface, the name he chose for his new studio would seem to relate to Cincinnati’s Seven Hills, or even the planet itself, but Olive had something completely different in mind when he envisioned Mount Saturn. “I saw this palmistry chart and the Mount of Saturn is at the base of the middle finger and it has to do with the need for solitude,” Olive says. “I saw that and I thought, ‘That’s all the shit I’m looking for.’ It was one of those kismet kind of moments. But it could be the Eighth Hill. The Eighth Wonder of the World.” Brian Olive’s Mount Saturn Studio will be an amazing
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Olive says recording other Cincinnati-area artists is a big creative influence on his own work.
so oppressed that the only way they can make a point and come up with any money is to abduct someone and hold them for ransom. So the rich have flamethrowers on their cars to catch people on fire if they try to get into their car. And I’m thinking, is that what we want around here?” Olive will likely be channeling that righteous indignation into a musical fury when he presents the album in its entirety at the release show/listening party at The Woodward Theater this Friday. His calendar is a groaning board of activity after Friday’s festivities. He’s playing sax with Barrence Whitfield & the Savages on
facility when it comes to fruition later this summer, but the real wonders will occur when artists come to the studio and the man behind the glass helps to realize their musical dreams. The music, whether it’s his own or someone else’s, has always been the most important part of the equation for Olive, and that formula isn’t likely to change anytime soon. What’s good for him is good for them and vice versa. Like Olive said, it’s symbiotic. BRIAN OLIVE’s release party for Living on Top is Friday at Woodward Theater. Tickets/more info: woodwardtheater.com.
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Six years ago in an interview for CityBeat, Olive spoke to me about his musical influences and the way they had an impact on the outcome of Two of Everything, saying he felt as though he had focused his inspirations into his own distinct musical identity. Now, he says he largely feels the same way about Living On Top, but admits that his musical persona can be something of a shifting center point. “I think that’s kind of a fluid, flexible place in my mind,” Olive says. “Each time I do something, I’m like, ‘Now I’ve got it figured out. I’ve got it.’ But it changes. At (the time of recording Two of Everything), I’d been in The Greenhornes for five years and The Soledad Brothers for six years, and that was a lot of touring around and ‘Rock, Rock, Rock’ every night. I think I just got burned out. I’ve always loved certain Pop music and I wanted to do something kind of mellow, so I really feel like the first two solo albums were me trying to do all the things I felt like doing. “But then I didn’t feel mellow anymore. I started doing a show here and there with The Soledad Brothers and I got that bug; I came from the Rock & Roll and R&B world, and my confidence as a singer had grown to the point where I was like, ‘I’m going to sing however I feel like singing,’ and I really liked it, even more than before. This is how I sound. So I think I could say the same exact thing now (about finding myself musically). I feel like I’ve figured out who I am, again.” Part of Olive’s evolution over the past six years has also come from his exposure to the artists he has produced at The Diamonds. He has become that rarest of entities — a musical producer, a studio technician who understands a musician’s heart and muse almost as well as the equipment required to translate it. “I feel like I’m offering the services of a producer without the producer’s price tag,” Olive says. “Everyone wants to make more money, but I enjoy doing this and if I can earn a living, I’m happy. And I get something more out of it. I get inspiration from the players and the songs
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ONSTAGE: Know Theatre’s premiere of LISTEN FOR THE LIGHT is weird, dark, sad and funny. See review on page 19.
EVENT: STORYCORPS AT THE FREEDOM CENTER We’ve discovered time travel — well, sort of. The national story-gathering project StoryCorps will be recording interviews between family members and friends in a mobile booth outside the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The project centers around creating an archive for future generations and reminding one another of our shared humanity. Your 40-minute conversation will then be sent to the Library of Congress to be archived, meaning you’ll be able to relive those conversations again and again. If you can’t make it to the mobile booth, you can use the StoryCorps app and make a plan to record anywhere. Through May 19. Free. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 E. Freedom Way, Downtown, storycorps.org. — LAUREN MORETTO
THURSDAY 27
MUSIC: SoCal femme Punkers BLEACHED open for THE DAMNED at Bogart’s. See an interview with Bleached on page 28 and Sound Advice on page 30.
FRIDAY 28
ONSTAGE: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company ends its time at its Race Street theater with a staging of THE TEMPEST. See feature on page 18.
MUSIC: Bassist extraordinaire CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE plays the Xavier
ART: DEMOLITION MAN AND WORDLY AT THE CARNEGIE The beloved artist Raymond ThunderSky drew demolition and construction sites while dressed in a clown collar and construction hat. When he passed away in 2004, he left behind more than 2,000 drawings, costumes, hats and toolboxes, which will be featured in the first major survey of Thunder-Sky’s artwork in the United States, Demolition Man at The Carnegie. Additionally, an exhibition co-organized by artist Peter Huttinger entitled Wordly will feature the work of John M. Bennett, Fred Ellenberger and Avril Thurman — all of whom employ language in their work — with an opening reception the same night. Opening reception 5:30-9 p.m. Friday. Through June 10. Free. The Carnegie, 1028 Scott St., Covington, Ky., thecarnegie.com. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER EVENT: ART AFTER DARK: SPRING FLING Zap some Latin flavor into your Friday night at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Salsa dance Spring Fling. Immerse yourself in the passion and fun of Latin dancing with Midwest Latino and enjoy performances by SalsAires and Casino Real. Not ready to break out your dancing shoes? There will be plenty of entertainment for non-dancers, such as after-hours access to some of the museum’s exhibitions including Dressed to Kill and Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color & Light. Food from Red Sesame Korean BBQ will be available for purchase as well as specialty cocktails. 5-9 p.m. Friday. Free. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, cincinnatiartmuseum.org. — LAUREN MORETTO ONSTAGE: THE CIVIL WAR Cincinnati community theater Showbiz Players is closing down on a high note after a 30-year run by restaging one of its best productions (previously presented in 2002 and 2006). Frank Wildhorn’s moving musical presents views of the “War between the States” from Union, Confederate and slave perspectives featuring a large, diverse cast of top-notch amateur actors. The company has presented many of Wildhorn’s Broadway shows, and he has provided a new song, written specifically for Showbiz’s production — one that will add another dimension to the show’s varied score that includes Gospel, Folk, Country, Rock and Rhythm & Blues numbers. Through May 6. $24 adults; $21 students/seniors. Showbiz Players at The Carnegie, 1028 Scott St., Covington, Ky., showbizplayers.com. — RICK PENDER
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ART: HILTON BROTHERS AT MILLER GALLERY New York-based photographers Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg, aka the Hilton Brothers, are performance artists as much as they are visual artists. These renowned globetrotters pack personalities that are as colorful as their tailor-made matching suits. Makos previously worked with Andy Warhol, and his early mentor was Man Ray. In addition to gorgeous still lifes, Solberg is known for his portraits of servicemen and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Hear the pair’s stories Thursday when they return to Miller Gallery for the opening of Spring, an exhibit featuring Solberg’s flowers, plus juicy photos of apples that Makos took for a Bergdorf Goodman campaign. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday. Through June 10. Free. Miller Gallery, 2715 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, millergallery.com. — KATHY SCHWARTZ
EVENT: DISNEY IN CONCERT: TALE AS OLD AS TIME Disney fans rejoice! All those hours spent singing along with your favorite movies will finally pay off. Disney in Concert:
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MUSIC: THE DISTRICTS Philly’s The Districts are a little under the radar. It’s not that the group — which formed in 2009 while the members were still in high school — hasn’t received a fair amount of press/web buzz for its releases; it’s just that the level of buzz is insufficient for the brilliance of the group, which writes some of the best songs in all of Indie Rock. On 2015’s A Flourish and a Spell (their first for Fat Possum Records), The Districts’ ability to write instantly memorable songs without giving into Pop clichés was blaringly evident, as was the musicians’ talent for creating an imaginative and engaging sonic backdrop with plenty of depth while working within traditional Rock & Roll parameters. The group’s forthcoming Popular Manipulations (due in early August) is one of the more anticipated releases of 2017. 8 p.m. Wednesday. $13; $15 day of show. Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, woodwardtheater.com. — MIKE BREEN
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EVENT: CRAFTY SUPERMARKET Get ready to get crafty: Mega indie craft show Crafty Supermarket descends on the Clifton Cultural Arts Center Saturday with kaleidoscopic goodies from more than 50 local and out-of-state makers. New and returning crafters participating in the show’s spring edition include eclectic gift and stationary aficionados Handzy Shop + Studio, snarky T-shirt purveyors Keep Your Shirt On Covington and natural laser-cut gifts and décor pros Lucca Laser Workshop. Expect sizable crowds: More than 2,000 shoppers are expected throughout the day, so show up early, grab some food from local vendors and get lost among the wares. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday. Free. Clifton Cultural Arts Center, 3711 Clifton Ave., Clifton, craftysupermarket.com. — EMILY BEGLEY
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classic movies including Frozen, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and many more childhood favorites. The performances include a quartet of young singers and high-resolution movie clips shown above the orchestra. 8 p.m. Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets start at $15. Taft Theatre, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, tafttheatre.org. — CHRISTINA DROBNEY COMEDY: ANDREW SCHULZ “I never knew I was going to do stand-up,” says comedian Andrew Schulz. Like so many of his generation, he grew up watching Eddie Murphy’s Delirious and other comics but had no idea how you got to be a comedian for a living. But he had confidence. “Stand-up is a weird thing,” he says. “You have to be insecure enough to be funny, but confident enough to believe you can do it. It’s a really weird collection of abilities. It’s like being a centaur. That top half has to feel so pathetic but you can still trot around all day as a horse.” Onstage his material is what he calls pseudo-political. FridaySunday. $12-$15. Liberty Funny Bone, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty. funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON
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ART: DOUBLE VISION 8 Visionaries + Voices hosts their eighthannual fundraising auction, which brings together regional artists and those from the V+V studios to create collaborative artworks for both live and silent auctions. In addition to artwork made by paired artists such as Courttney Cooper and Antonio Adams, Braxton Thomas and Tory Keith, and J.R. Bradshaw and Diane Fishbein, the auction will also feature items from FC Cincinnati, the Reds and the Cincinnati Zoo. 6:30-10 p.m. Saturday. $75. Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, visionariesandvoices.com. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER EVENT: LEBANON BREWHAHA The third-annual Lebanon BrewHAHa will be an epic celebration of all things beer with steins, lederhosen, food trucks, live music and more than 95 Ohio craft brews to sample. This is an event to help expand your beer knowledge and palate while also raising money for the Lebanon Symphony Orchestra. Tickets include 20 tastings, a tasting guide, souvenir glass and even more if you opt for VIP. Designated drivers will also have their own booth full of soda and water. This
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EVENT: SPCA FUR BALL Spend a night among bone-afide furry celebrities at “Hollywoof,” the SPCA’s 15th-annual Fur Ball. The black-tie-encouraged celebration kicks off with a silent auction and cocktails at the Sharonville Convention Center, followed by fine dining, an open bar and a red carpet pet parade starring adoptable cats and dogs. The ball is the SPCA’s biggest fundraiser of the year, benefitting the organization and the care of its animals. New to the event this year is a wine wall, which allows guests to select a wrapped bottle of wine that may exceed its fixed price donation (so drink up!). 5 p.m. cocktails and silent auction; 7 p.m. dinner and program Saturday. $200. Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road, Sharonville, spcacincinnati.org. — EMILY BEGLEY
event is 21-plus. 4 p.m. Saturday. $10-$55. Warren County Fairgrounds, 665 North Broadway, Lebanon, lebanonbrewhaha. com. — CHRISTINA DROBNEY
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ART: 9X18: THE PARKING LOT ART EXPERIMENT Wave Pool, the innovative Camp Washington nonprofit gallery, presents an alternative art fair in a parking lot at 2927 Colerain Ave. Participating artists receive a 9-by-18-foot parking space to present performances, experimental art actions and other activities and displays; the typical art-fair displays of works for sale will be missing. Among the participants will be Marc Governanti, Nina Caporale, POPP=D Art, Pam Kravetz and others. Other related activities include a studio sale in Wave Pool’s upstairs space and the grand opening of Welcome Shop at 2936 Colerain Ave. devoted to crafts made by refugees and immigrants. 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Free. 2927 Colerain Ave., Camp Washington, wavepoolgallery.org. — STEVEN ROSEN
EVENT: MISS NORTHSIDE DRAG COMPETITION Since 1987, Caracole has existed as a vital organization in the Southwest Ohio region striving to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS through housing, preventative care and assistance services. Support Caracole and their programs Sunday night at the annual Miss Northside Drag Competition, where staff members, board members and volunteers of Caracole and the members of the Imperial Sovereign Queen City Court of the Buckeye Empire will be dressing in drag and performing to raise money, one dollar at a time. 7-9 p.m. Sunday. Free. Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, caracole.org. — MONROE TROMBLY
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Curtain Closing on Race Street
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company opens The Tempest, its final show before moving to a new OTR home BY RICK PENDER
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incinnati Shakespeare Company has generated theater buzz for the past two years with the announcement and subsequent construction of its new Otto M. Budig Theater at 12th and Elm streets in Over-the-Rhine. Its first play there, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is set for September. But first, it has to say goodbye to its home of the past 18 years. This week, the 23-year-old company opens the final production at its longtime venue at 719 Race St. in downtown Cincinnati. It had moved into a space operated by The Movies, a onetime repertory cinema and art house. That became its base after preliminary stops at Gabriel’s Corner in Over-the-Rhine, The Carnegie in Covington and the Aronoff Center’s Fifth Third Bank Theater. For nearly two decades, the adapted space has hosted plays by Shakespeare and other renowned playwrights. The last work staged by Cincy Shakes at Race Street will be Shakespeare’s The Tempest (opening Friday and playing through May 20). “I write down my first draft of the potential new season the day after we announce the upcoming season,” says Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips. “We announced our 2015-16 season on Feb. 1, 2015. On Feb. 2, I wrote down my ideas for what 2016-17 would be. The first thing I wrote was ‘Tempest, last show. Nick Rose as Prospero.’ The idea of having a founding company member say goodbye to this space using Prospero’s language — asking the audience to release him at the end — was the way to go.” Rose was one of a group of actor friends who launched the company in 1994 as the Fahrenheit Theatre Company. He has been a mainstay as a leading actor. In the news release about The Tempest, co-director Jeremy Dubin, another veteran artist with the company, commented, “The Tempest is considered to be the last of Shakespeare’s great solo plays. It’s both about remembering the past and looking forward to the horizon, and so it felt like a fitting and poignant acknowledgement of our history as a company and a wonderful expression of our excitement about what’s coming next.” The role Rose is taking on is that of the magician Prospero, unjustly exiled to a deserted island with only his books and his daughter Miranda. As the story opens, his years of plotting revenge culminate when his enemies venture near the island. He conjures a storm — the “tempest” of the title — that crashes them on his shore. As it turns out, the island is not deserted at
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all, but a place of magic and monsters, love and liquor, retribution and redemption. The play is believed to be Shakespeare’s last before retiring; several speeches are often read as his final words about the magic of theater. “Since some of the play’s text feels like Shakespeare’s farewell to playwriting and his company, it felt like the right way to say farewell to this theater space,” Phillips says. Phillips and several other actors joined the acting company during Cincy Shakes’ sixth season, 1999-2000. His first production was The Tempest. “The Tempest was the first production many of us did together — Corinne Mohlenhoff, Jeremy Dubin, Giles Davies, Paul Riopelle, Sylvester Little Jr.,” he says. Phillips is now married to Mohlenhoff, and the others still appear regularly in productions there. Riopelle and Little are in this season’s The Tempest. As the final curtain comes down on Race Street, Phillips recalls a few things he’ll miss. “I’ve spent more time in this building than anywhere in my life,” he says. “I know the stage and the offices backward and forward. It’s been more of a home than any home has been when you think of length. “I’m going to miss opening nights. I rarely actually sit in the theater. Instead I tend to stand outside the door (to the auditorium) and watch the show through the glass. I’ve put more miles on the carpets outside those doors over the years than anywhere else. I’m going to miss being able to peer in in that way. When something would go wrong or something would go right, I would run downstairs and either freak out or celebrate. That’s unique to this space, something I’ll definitely miss.” At the same, Phillips can enumerate specific moments when Race Street’s limitations hit home personally. He was acting in a production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir in 2000, before access was enabled from the stage to the rest of the building. Actors were stranded backstage for the duration of a play. “There was a lot of drinking involved in that show and no intermission. We were provided with empty water jugs just in case we couldn’t make it through the entire performance,” Phillips says, adding quickly they were never used. Phillips will be grateful to leave behind a stage with “no backstage space, no wing space, no height… especially the large foundation beam in the center of our rehearsal room.” “Those things will not be missed at all,” he says. “We’ve been growing so much — our artistic ambitions, our audience size,
Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips (left) with Jay Woffington, executive director our place in the community, our status nationally and internationally.” The Tempest’s nautical imagery reminds him of a memory about the necessity to evolve. “Every time we would run into a problem because of the space, we would say, ‘We need to get a bigger boat,’” he says. The Tempest offers a fine metaphor for the magic involved in moving on from one venue to the next. The production’s scenic design will leave audiences with an indelible final image revealing the challenges faced to bring to life plays by Shakespeare and other renowned writers. “We have created a lot of magic in this building over the years, including doing
The Grapes of Wrath in a space that was never meant to handle that much story,” Phillips says. Shakespeare’s moving valedictory play is a perfect capstone for this momentous transition. “The Tempest is a great way to celebrate the magic that has been in here — and send us sailing to our next adventure.” Cincinnati Shakespeare Company stages its final production at its Race Street theater, THE TEMPEST, through May 20. Tickets/more info: cincyshakes.com.
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‘Listen for the Light’ Is Dark, Funny and Touching BY ERICA REID
The opening sentence of playwright doorways. The complexity arises instead Kara Lee Corthron’s website states: “I write from lighting (Andrew J. Hungerford) and weird, dark, sad and often funny plays.” It’s a sound (Doug Borntrager). The lighting cues perfect way to describe Listen for the Light, are complicated and surprising, including a her world-premiere historical drama being fire that seems to engulf the audience. produced at Know Theatre through May 13. A large screen produces characters’ memListen for the Light is dark. Know’s ories, ideas and fears for the audience to see description of the play grounds it in “a little(occasionally distracting from more tender known and bloody moment in American hismoments happening on stage). The productory.” Set in 1844, the story focuses on a time tion is rife with Mormon hymns (recomposed of great tension within a Mormon enclave in by Borntrager), gunshots and the voices of Illinois as members clash with non-believers. unseen characters. The overall gestalt is It is sad. There is more loss than love in quite beautiful and nuanced, but sometimes this story of an ex-slave, a doomed Mormon prophet and his barely literate teen bride. It is weird. The show is rife H with literal deus ex machina CRITIC’S as an unseen God directs the fates of each character, someH times with smoke bombs. But oh, is it funny. Corthron’s dialogue is clever, but it is the young character Lula — and more specifically, actress Tess Talbot — who breaks the tension in Listen for the Light. Lula is 17, a hardheaded tomboy who loves to hunt and is too Tess Talbot plays Lula in Know Theatre’s world-premiere play. impatient for prayer. She may PHOTO : Dan R. Winters be young and uneducated, but Lula knows a thing or two about the world — it is her bratty tirades that at war with the simple, cedar-toned set and Talbot molds into hilarious, fresh and touchNoelle Johnston’s understated costumes. (I ing moments. Talbot seems unrehearsed, will say: No one can replicate a candle being with a natural sense of pace and energy that extinguished like Andrew Hungerford.) keeps our eyes glued to her. One element of the production design Josh Katawick’s Joseph Smith, the Morthat flummoxed me was the decision to mon prophet, is an intriguing foil (and potenpantomime certain objects, but not all. For tial future husband) to Lula. Where Lula instance, we see Eli sitting on a physical chatters mile-a-minute, director Tamara stool while carving an imaginary chair. Or Winters has allowed Katawick time and whittling a real doll with an invisible knife. space to chew his words pensively, methodiLula carries an actual gun and a pretend cally. It gives Katawick the confident air of a blanket. While I suppose the amount of posprophet. Listen for the Light is monologuesible props could overwhelm the production, heavy and Katawick’s are some of the best, the imaginary ones are at odds with the othdisplaying both a roiling, human fury and the erwise wildly detailed production. If there patient arrogance of a man with God’s ear. was a metaphor behind this, it missed me. Rounding out this three-person cast is The show is also incredibly ambitious, Darnell Pierre Benjamin as Eli —a teacher, making for a very dense two-and-a-half-hour carpenter and former slave. We meet Eli at production. The play tackles race, gender the top of the show, reminiscing about his and faith — throw in plural marriage and newborn daughter who died during his bid sexual compulsion and it’s a lot to take in. for freedom. Eli is yet another foil to Lula — That said, Know Theatre takes big risks with educated where she is not, focused where each world premiere from up-and-coming she is restless and black where she is white. playwrights that it champions and should be Having lost both his daughter and his wife, commended for its dedication to the future of Eli wonders why he has been spared and is theater. Listen for the Light could possibly eager to put that good fortune to use. use a trim — both in content and production I might describe the production design as — but the story it tells and the smart way it “complexly simple.” At first, the audience sees tells it makes this a production worth seeing. only scenic designer Sarah Beth Hall’s sparse, LISTEN FOR THE LIGHT runs through May 13 at neatly built set consisting of a few partial Know Theatre. Tickets/more info: knowtheatre.com. walls, a few sticks of furniture and three
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Four New Concertos by Women Composers BY ANNE ARENSTEIN
Young composers in Cincinnati and elsewhere are creating exciting new sounds that you can hear by attending a Cincinnati Soundbox concert. Now in its second season, Soundbox is a New Music concert series that presents works by living composers with no boundaries as far as style or genre. Its cofounders and co-artistic directors are Rachel C. Walker and Ivan Alexander Moscotta. On Tuesday at the Leapin Lizard Event Space in Covington, Soundbox will present its long-planned New Concerto Project, featuring the world premieres of four concertos by four women composers. Two are from Cincinnati, all have been active in past Soundbox events and all will be present for the concert. One of the composers is Walker, a 2016 graduate in composition from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. She and another of the night’s composers, Laura Harrison, coordinated the New Concerto Project. A concerto historically is a three-movement work for a solo instrument or a group of instruments accompanied by an orchestra, but for this event Walker and Harrison were looking for creative uses of the structure. “We wanted to include composers we’d worked with on previous concerts,” Walker says. “It turned out that Cristina Spinei and Stephanie Ann Boyd were in the process of writing concertos, so it all came together.” The composers are in their mid-20s to early-30s, and each has an impressive body of work spanning orchestral, chamber and vocal music. Walker’s New Concerto Project work for percussion and string orchestra, entitled “On a paper nautilus,” was inspired by the rhythmic swaying of an ocean pier. “It’s a palindrome, rhythmically, so it’s the same piece twice, offset by 90 seconds backward,” she says. “The soloist is CCM alumna Colleen Phelps. She’ll be playing various percussion instruments, including seven triangles, three bowed cymbals, a Chinese wooden temple block and Tibetan tingsha cymbals.” Harrison, pursuing a doctoral degree at CCM where she teaches composition and orchestration, will present “Corners of the Sky” for piano and orchestra. It will be performed by Kristofer Rucinski. “The title is from a poem by Federico García Lorca,” Harrison says. “The first movement is melancholy, the second is a contrast with more whimsical and fastpaced music, and then it comes back to the original material but it’s reframed in a more reflective context.”
Boyd, a New York-based teacher as well as composer, has contributed the bassoon concerto “Rituum,” featuring Chicago musician Andrew Marlin. “Stephanie has a minimalist background,” Harrison says. “Her piece is full of rhythm and energy and shows off the bassoon’s range in a really playful way.” Spinei, whose “Clarinet Concerto” will be performed, composes for dance groups, film and musicians. The Juilliard graduate now resides in Nashville and frequently
“We shop local and have local theater, and we’re proud of that, but there are also amazing composers here.” — Rachel C. Walker collaborates with CCM alumna Phelps and clarinetist Emily Tyndall — the latter will be the soloist for Spinei’s concerto. Each composer sought to make the concerto form relevant to her audience. “Relevancy comes from repeated performances,” says Jon Noworyta, who will conduct Spinei’s and Harrison’s concertos. (Alexander Colding Smith will conduct the other two.) “The idea of our project is that someone out there will want to program one of these pieces with their orchestra. If a soloist really likes it, she can make a strong case for future performances. “We have four young women who have written four great pieces of music,” Noworyta continues. “What’s vital is what the song in their heart is and how are they going to sing it.” Walker is proud of Soundbox’s contribution to Cincinnati’s arts so far. “I felt there was a gap in the opportunities for Cincinnati composers to be heard,” she says. “We shop local and have local theater, and we’re proud of that, but there are also amazing composers here. At the same time, it’s hard to hear composers from outside Cincinnati. And we’ve been able to build relationships with young composers and performers from all over.” Cincinnati Soundbox’s NEW CONCERTO PROJECT takes place 7 p.m. at Leapin Lizard Event Space, 724 Main St. in Covington. Cocktail hour at 6 p.m. Tickets/more info: cincinnatisoundbox.org.
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It’s not often that a story in a press release we filmed The Last Shot,” Campbell says. strikes such a personal chord, but a recent After that, he decided do another movie, message sent by Tom Sparough about this so he wrote The Trap in 2012 with the Sunday’s local premiere of The Trap — a intention of providing an inside look at the new film by writer, director and star Joe challenges of life in his community. Prather Campbell — gave me pause. Eleven “I was using personal situations that I years ago, Campbell and a group of other and other people I grew up with had been African-American teenagers at the Findlay through,” he says. “During the time of filmStreet Neighborhood House in the West End ing, things started to fall apart. I lost my faced a seemingly innocuous question: “How brother in 2012. He was murdered while many of you expect to live past 30 years old?” attending college at Wright State UniverOnly a few hands went up. sity. Going through a tough time like that, I More than a decade later, Campbell — now 30 — has navigated a modern odyssey of urban life and offers up The Trap as a fictional take on the experience. The film is a locally set urban thriller centering on the efforts of a group of young men to step off the inevitably violent road leading toward either incarceration or death. While The Trap is certainly Campbell’s story, it belongs to the young black men of the Queen City. As a nation, we would love to believe that Joe Prather Campbell wrote, directed and stars in The Trap. such stories should not exist P h o t o : t o m s pa r o u g h anymore, but sadly they do. I reached out to Campbell to discuss his project. As an Africanhad to take a break from the film. Then, in American critic, I was immediately drawn to less than a year, I lost my cousin, who also the story behind the film. I remember, as a starred in the movie. It was tough to finish younger man, wondering at times whether I this film without two of the people I started would reach 30, even though I was seemingly with, but I knew I had to get it done. on a solid path. So I wanted to know what “Shortly after 2015, another one of my was weighing on Campbell at the time the close cousins was killed,” Campbell continquestion about the future was introduced. ues. “That really made me feel like I had to “At the time, I honestly didn’t know where get this film done because I wanted to dediI would be or if I would even make it to 30,” cate making it to them and do something he says. “Growing up in the West End, we positive for my community. Losing them just live day by day, praying we make it to was my biggest influence because I knew I see the next day. I had already been workhad a purpose for why I was still here, and I ing on music and writing a script, trying to used that as motivation to better myself.” find a way to escape being in poverty and Campbell also is a singer-songwriter under wanting more for my family. Being the oldthe name “Jose,” and his music is in the film. est of eight at the time — now it’s nine — I “Music is my passion,” he says. “When I’m always knew I had to be a leader and make making it or performing, I feel like that’s a way for my family. Growing up, I was what I was put on this Earth to do. It makes always a creative person but I was just so me feel alive and it has always been my way shy I would never share my ideas.” of expressing myself. Filmmaking is also a So Campbell went to a program at the passion of mine. It’s always been a way to Findlay Street Neighborhood House, which help me bring my creative visions to life. So is part of the Seven Hills Neighborhood they complement each other.” Houses social services agency, and was He is currently writing another script and taught by Michael and Joan Hoxsey and waiting to see what happens with The Trap. Tom and Geralyn Sparough. “I’m not sure if I’m going to remain in the When the program was up, they wanted region,” he says. “I’m just going to continue to to give the youths a summer job doing a work and see where my journey takes me.” documentary about their neighborhood. THE TRAP premieres at the Woodward Theater “But one of my friends insisted on doing the 5 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are available at script that I wrote because a documentary woodwardtheater.com. would be boring. So in the summer of 2007
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Our screens are littered with adaptations of written stories of all types and genres, from graphic novels and plays to fiction and memoirs, and the crowded scene faces constant questions of authenticity and fidelity. Audiences want movies and serialized shows that confirm the characters and narratives they have drawn in their minds from the texts. Such considerations make the Amazon Prime series Bosch an intriguing curiosity. This Los Angeles crime procedural, now in its third season, follows the ongoing exploits of homicide detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver), the dark yet principled creation of writer Michael Connelly. The detective exists in an ever-expanding universe of novels, which serves as the foundation of the series. What separates Bosch from most other adaptations, however, is the intricate reconfiguring of the novels. For instance, each 10-episode season draws inspiration from several of Connelly’s novels, allowing the series to emerge as a version of “Frankensteinian noir.” There is never simply one criminal investigation to solve; instead, cold cases bump up against several current investigative assignments, producing a never-ending narrative patchwork of sin and redemption. Season 3 weaves elements from the novel A Darkness More than Night into the novel The Black Echo. The two previous seasons chopped and screwed pieces of City of Bones, Echo Park, The Concrete Blonde, Trunk Music, The Drop and The Last Coyote. As a fan of Connelly’s novels, I find the series to be a true revelation because it is supremely faithful to the spirit of the character and his world but trusts the audience to appreciate that it is a wholly separate piece. There is a miraculous fidelity, though, in the experience of watching Bosch, which transcends mere bingeing to become an accurate sense of what it feels like to read these stories for the first time. Pick up Bosch and you will have a hard time putting it down. (Currently streaming on Amazon Prime.) Opening in Theaters This Week: The Circle // Graduation // How to Be a Latin Lover // My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
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A Great Week to Mock Trump BY JAC KERN
The White House Correspondents’ Premiere, 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Comedy Association annual awards dinCentral). The show takes the format of the ner (9:30 p.m. Saturday, C-SPAN) is a usual late-night talk show, with monologues, longstanding presidential tradition. The field interviews, special guests — all from annual event started in 1921 as a typical the Oval Office. gala with multi-course dinners, movies Atamanuik has been perfecting his Trump and performers. Presidents and vice impression since the 2016 presidential campresidents have been attending since Calpaign. He doesn’t quite look or sound exactly vin Coolidge in 1924. Comedians began like the Donald, but he’s managed to nail his hosting and roasting the administration mannerisms and deliver a more restrained during the dinner in the 1980s. Trump impersonation. I know, it sounds like Today it’s more of a friendly lampoonan oxymoron. But then, so does the whole ing of the sitting president, known among notion of a President Trump. attendees — which include news commentators, comics and celebs — as “nerd prom.” The Daily Show’s “Muslim Correspondent” Hasan Minhaj will host Saturday’s event, so it’s no surprise that Donald Trump and friends checked “No” on the RSVP. Trump will be the first president to skip the WHCA dinner since 1981, when Ronald Reagan missed out while recovering from a gunshot wound (legit excuse) — and even he called in from Camp David Anthony Atamanuik is Donald Trump on The President Show. to joke about the assassinaP H O T O : g av i n b o n d tion attempt! It’s unlikely Trump will call in from the “BIG” rally he’s hosting in Pennsylvania Saturday to celebrate his 100th day in The Handmaid’s Tale (Series Premiere, Mar-a-Lago office. Then again, he has Wednesday, Hulu) – Based on Margaret already been the center of a roast before Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel, this highly — on Comedy Central in 2011. anticipated drama takes place in a nearMost just watch the highlights after future Christian-fundamentalist totalitarthe WHCA dinner (humans are genetiian U.S. The story centers on Offred (Mad cally predisposed to falling asleep while Men’s Elisabeth Moss), one of the few young, watching C-SPAN), but you can get in the fertile women who serve as “handmaids” — political mockery mood with two new sex servants and surrogates to elite families offerings this week. who increasingly cannot bear children. Along with some media outlets, late-night host Samantha Bee pulled out of the event Beerland (Series Premiere, 10 p.m. Thursmeant to honor the media, since the Trump day, VICELAND) – Los Angeles’ Golden Road administration doesn’t appear to respect Brewing founder Meg Gill travels across the journalism. So she’s throwing her own country visiting breweries and meeting home party “to toast the free press,” she says in brewers from New York to Hawaii. a promo, “while we still have one.” Not the Dear White People (Series Premiere, FriWhite House Correspondents’ Dinner day, Netflix) – If the “alt-right” is protesting (10 p.m. Saturday, TBS) will certainly fill it, it’s got to be good! Like Justin Simien’s any Trump-roasting void, with attendees 2014 film by the same name, this new Netflix that include actor and former White House satire explores race relations and identity staffer Kal Penn, feminist activist Gloria on a fictional Ivy League college campus. Steinem, comedian Keegan-Michael Key and many others. And while Sean Spicer American Gods (Series Premiere, 9 p.m. won’t be present at either event, Matt Walsh Sunday, Starz) – Bryan Fuller returns, follow— who plays Selina Meyer’s former press ing his underrated Hannibal, with a modern secretary in Veep — will be! Fair trade. mythological epic that follows a newly Elsewhere this week, comic Anthony Atareleased ex-con who unknowingly agrees to manuik looks to give Alec Baldwin a run for serve as bodyguard to a powerful old god. his money as he portrays the prez as a talkCONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern show host in The President Show (Series
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Queen City Radio is leading a charge against sexual harassment in bars BY MADGE MARIL
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what kind of help you need without alarming the person you are with or escalating the situation. “When we were thinking about our bar outreach campaign here in Cincy, I wanted to create something that was recognizable and easy for patrons to use, even if they might be intoxicated,” says Em Joy, community educator and program coordinator for Women Helping Women. “The name Lexi means ‘protector,’ which is what we are asking bar staff to become when a patron uses the code for help.” Reckman is familiar with the potential darkness lurking in every bar — even the one she owns. QCR is a welcoming place, to be sure, but that alone doesn’t eliminate the social and safety issues that can happen below the surface at any nightlife destination. “My goal as an owner is to do everything in my power to prevent these situations from escalating by educating my staff to identify this specific behavior and react appropriately,” Reckman says. “That starts with a no-tolerance policy of any type of sexual harassment and continues with
Queen City Radio owner Louisa Reckman is confronting sexual harrassment in bars by providing assistance to patrons (and employees) and training for staff. training from Women Helping Women and It’s On Us (a national organization aimed at helping keep men and women safe from sexual assault). “The message being that we will not allow or tolerate such behavior from anyone at Queen City Radio, and if someone needs our help they know how to bring it to our attention discreetly.” Safety in a bar is not just a concern for patrons, but for the staff as well. Reckman has helped design a new initiative at Women Helping Women dedicated to protecting those who work at bars from harassment by holding management accountable. “Some management can put guests’ needs in front of employee’s needs,” she says. Reckman cites seeing sexual harassment occur toward barstaff, such as groping, during her time in the service industry. She has also hosted open dialogues for members of the local service industry in concert with Women Helping Women on how to make the Cincinnati bar and
restaurant scene a safe and conscious environment. Women Helping Women was founded as a rape crises program in 1973. It grew to address issues such as intimate partner violence and stalking and now serves more than 15,000 clients annually. That statistic is as frightening as it is necessary to hear. “There is sometimes a sense of, ‘This doesn’t happen here,’ ” says Kendra Massey, the organization’s vice president of programming. “With the current political climate and recent media attention focused on sexual assault such as the Stanford rape case, we’ve experienced an increase in support and interest in our services and programs. “I think there is a huge need for this type of work in every community.” QUEEN CITY RADIO is located at 222 W. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine, qcrbar.com. To learn more about WOMEN HELPING WOMEN or contact the organization for help, call the 24-hour crisis line at 513-381-5610 or visit womenhelpingwomen.org.
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artenders are required to be a jack-of-all-trades. First, they’re culinary mathematicians who mix flavor profiles and textures to highlight (or disguise) the taste of liquor. On quieter nights, bartenders are attentive therapists. On rowdier nights, they can become combination bouncers/pro-wrestlers. Recently, the bartenders at Queen City Radio have added one more skill to their toolbox: lifesavers. Over-the-Rhine’s favorite new indoor/ outdoor hangout has partnered with nonprofit Women Helping Women to better prepare its staff — and regulars — for instances of sexual harassment and potential assault. According to a study published by the National Institutes of Health, estimates suggest that 25 percent of American women have experienced sexual assault, and approximately half of those cases involved alcohol consumption by the perpetrator, victim or both. “Being in the service industry over the past decade, I have experienced and witnessed countless incidents where management have not enforced policies to keep their guests and staff safe from sexual harassment,” says Queen City Radio owner Louisa Reckman. Queen City Radio has a zero-tolerance policy for any kind of sexual harassment. The staff has been trained on how to sensitively handle these types of situations. Information for patrons who need help now — or may need help in the future — is detailed on posters, signs and coasters around the bar. They’ve now also added a local version of the “Angel Shot” that went viral earlier this year. The “drink” was advertised in the women’s bathroom of a bar/restaurant in Saint Petersburg, Fla. with a simple sign that said: “Is your Tinder date not who they said they were on their profile? Do you feel unsafe or even just a tad bit weird? We’re here to help. Just go to the bar and order an Angel Shot.” The shot was actually a code for the bartender: If you order an Angel Shot neat, the bartender will escort you to your car. An Angel Shot with ice signals to the bartender to discreetly call a taxi or Uber for you, allowing you to exit an unsafe situation. And if the Angel Shot is ordered with lime, the bartender will call the police. Women Helping Women aided Queen City Radio with tweaking the viral concept to apply to patrons in need locally. Just ask for “Lexi” at the bar — the person, not a shot — and the staff will discreetly find out
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released their first-ever lager, named Walk in The end of April and the beginning of May bring Earth Day, the Kentucky Derby the Park, a Czech-style pilsner. They describe and Star Wars celebrations. Which means if it as “light, crisp and refreshing with a touch you like animals, the environment, thorof lemony bitterness and herby pepperiness.” oughbred racing and intergalactic battles, • The Queen City Brewery of Cincinthere are plenty of beer events for you. nati recently unveiled their latest beer, Did you know only 30 vaquitas exist in the Arthur St. Clair wheat ale. It was brewed wild? They’re cute, little porpoises and they with galena and mosaic hops and has notes need your help. Listermann hosts a trivia of pear and black currant. It’s named after night on Wednesday to bring attention to the the heroic governor of the Northwest Terriworld’s most endangered cetacean. For every tory who changed Cincinnati’s name from pint sold that night, Listermann will give $1 Losantiville to Cincinnati in 1790. toward vaquita conservation. What could be better than dogs, beers and trivia? On Thursday, Washington Park hosts Pup Quiz Yappy Hour. The humans — and maybe dogs? — can play trivia while sipping on brews from MadTree, Taft’s, Moerlein and Rhinegeist. The event will take place every Thursday through May 23. Bellevue’s Darkness Brewing seems like the type of brewery to geek out on Star Wars Day, aka May the Fourth (aka May the Fourth Drink with your dogs during Yappy Hour at Washington Park. be with you…). The brewery PHOTO : 3CDC will host a three-day Star Wars extravaganza May 4-6 • On May 6, Listermann releases two new with new beer releases — including a Star beers as part of their Hip Hop series. Yoda Wars-themed brew — cosplay contests, Potato is a New England double IPA brewed games, food and an appearance by Jar Jar with citra hops. Only 50 cases will be sold. Binks himself (no, that’s a lie; mesa joking). They also have Ms. E (Missy Elliot, get it?), The Kentucky Derby takes place May 6, brewed with citra and jarrylo hops. Both and Braxton Brewing Company gets into beers will be sold on draft and in bottles. the spirit with their Kentucky Home beer, infused with fresh mint — like a mint julep — and barreled aged in bourbon barrels. The strong golden ale will be on tap during Derby • Moerlein’s flagship OTR Ale turns 10 day. Braxton will also show the race live, folyears old on Friday. To commemorate the lowed by live music and some surprises. occasion, a keg of the stuff will be tapped in front of Findlay Market’s Market Wines at 5:30 p.m. On Saturday, the brewery hosts a daylong pub crawl to celebrate the little • MadTree has a new release in their High guy’s birthday. People can take an OTR Series: Azacca High, brewed with azacca TrAle Pub Tour throughout participating and zythos hops. The citrusy beer is only locations in Over-the-Rhine, where each available on draft at their taproom. establishment will have a different style of • Exculpatory IPA comes from Middletown OTR beer on tap. If you collect six or more brewery FigLeaf. It contains flavors of stamps, you get a Moerlein T-shirt. orange citrus and peach skin. Try one on a • Rhinegeist kicks off Nice Little Monday Thursday during their FigSix night, in which this week, which takes place the first Monyou roll a die and pay what you roll. day of the month. They’ll have rare Rhine• For Record Store Day, Rhinegeist once geist beers on tap, including 2015 and 2016 again teamed up with Northside’s Shake Double Oaked Mastodon and Wild Fiction. It Records for an annual themed beer. • Triple Digit/Listermann celebrates This one is called Slow Jam. Rhinegiest Chickow! releases May 17-20. They’ll begin describes it as “dank, rhythmic IPA, humtapping Chickow! variants at 10 a.m. May 17 ming with chords of citrus and pine.” You and they’ll tap at least 20 types of the beer can find the beer on draft throughout Norththrough May 20, including Chickow! aged in side bars and at Rhinegeist’s taproom. • Municipal Brew Works in Hamilton maple bourbon barrels. ©
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Culture Bites: Northern Kentucky Food Traditions — An exhibit on the impact of food from diverse immigrant populations on Northern Kentucky’s social and cultural development. Spotlights NKY restaurants including Dixie Chili, La Mexicana, Wunderbar, Oriental Wok, Pompilios and more. Through Aug. 31. Included with museum admission. Behringer-Crawford Museum, 1600 Montague Road, Covington, Ky., bcmuseum.org. Derby Party Apps & Mint Julep Mastery — Ensure your Derby party leads the pack with chef-inspired appetizers and master how to make a mint julep cocktail. 5:45-7:15 p.m. $20. Colonel De Gourmet Herbs & Spices, 18 N. Fort Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas, Ky., facebook.com/ coloneldeftthomas. Rosé Season Wine Dinner — Chefs will construct a five-course menu to pair with five rosé wines. 7-10 p.m. $95. La Petite Pierre, 7800 Camargo Road, Madeira, lapetitepierre.com.
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Darjeeling Limited — Travel in India is all about trains, on which street vendors peddle snacks. Learn to make chole bhatura, a combination of spiced chickpeas and deep-fried rolled bread, served with masala chai. 6:307:30 p.m. $35. Artichoke OTR, 1824 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, artichokeotr.com. Eighth & English: Dining for a Difference — The restaurant will donate 35 percent of proceeds from dinner to charity. 5-9:30 p.m. Price varies. Eighth & English, 2038 Madison Road, O’Bryonville, 8thandenglish.com. Johnnie Walker Whiskey Dinner — A five course dinner paired with whiskey. 6:30 p.m. $115. Ruth’s Chris, 100 E. Freedom Way, Downtown, ruthschris.com.
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Savoring Syria — Support local Syrian refugee Ibtissam Masto while enjoying delicious Syrian cuisine. Masto, her husband and six children recently resettled in Cincinnati after fleeing Lebanon, and at this event she is highlighting her catering business. 7 p.m. $30. First Unitarian Church of Cincinnati, 536 Linton St., Clifton, facebook.com/savoringsyria. OTR Ale’s 10th-Anniversary Weekend — Christian Moerlein’s OTR Ale celebrates
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Hope for Henry: A Children’s Organ Transplant Association Fundraiser — Born six weeks premature with End Stage Renal Failure, Henry spent his first days fighting for his life in the NICU. All proceeds from the event will assist with transplantrelated expenses now and throughout his lifetime. Admission includes two beers, unlimited pizza and a silent auction. No tickets will be sold at the door. Adults only. 5-9 p.m. $50. MadTree Brewery 2.0, 3301 Madison Road, Oakley, madtreebrewing.com.
Witches Night at QCR — Legend has it that April 30 is the night witches meet to celebrate spring on the Harz Mountains in Germany. Don your best witch wear and head to the bar for cheap Jell-O shots to benefit Sweet Cheeks diaper bank. 8 p.m. Free admission. Queen City Radio, 222 W. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine, qcrbar.com. Lebanon BrewHAHa Craft Beer Festival — Features more than 95 craft beers, food trucks and live music. 4-9 p.m. $30-$55. Warren County Fairgrounds, 665 N. Broadway, Lebanon, lebanonbrewhaha.com.
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Brunch, Beers & Breweries — This event includes brunch at the Moerlein Lager House, two brewery tours, a quick history lesson about the brewing culture in Cincinnati and lots of beer. Starts 10 a.m. $35-$45. Meet at Christian Moerlein Brewing Co., 1621 Moore St., Over-theRhine, facebook.com/christianmoerlein.
1 Night, 12 Kitchens — Mingle with the region’s top chefs, dine on gourmet fare from Midwest Culinary Institute students, explore the education kitchen at the school, sample beer and wine and bid on a silent auction. 5-9 p.m. $125-$200. Midwest Culinary Institute at Cincinnati State, 3520 Central Parkway, Clifton, cincinnatistate.edu.
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Wheeling and Dealing
Hard-touring SoCal rockers Bleached confront the banal “women in Rock” pigeonhole BY JASON GARGANO
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ed by sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin, Bleached is a Rock & Roll band from Southern California with a soft spot for fuzzed-out Punk and Power Pop. The quartet — which currently includes Jennifer on vocals and guitar, Jessica on lead guitar, Micayla Grace on bass and Nick Pillot on drums — dropped its second full-length, Welcome the Worms, last year. An extensive U.S. and European tour followed, which was accompanied by a round of press interviews to promote the record. Frustrated by the types of questions she was getting — like “How does it feel to be a girl in a band?” — Jennifer decided to write a new song to address the gender issue. “Can You Deal?” appears on Bleached’s recently released four-song EP of the same name. It also inspired her to put together a ’zine called Can You Deal?, which opens with her own essay in which she writes, “Why is gender pointed out in nearly all coverage of our band? Labeling me as a woman in a band just puts me in a box, and doesn’t allow everything else I am to be seen and heard.” She recruited a host of fellow musicians to contribute essays on the topic, from Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino and Paramore’s Hayley Williams to Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s and Liz Phair. CityBeat recently touched base with Jennifer to discuss everything from the band’s current gig opening for The Damned’s 40th anniversary tour to the importance of speaking out.
CityBeat: You guys have been on the road for most of the last year… Jennifer Clavin: I’ve been thinking about that too lately. An exact year ago we just started our U.S. tour for Welcome the Worms, and since then we have been touring nonstop. It gets a little bit tiring. It’s nice that we have a van. We all have our spots in the van. And we get hotel rooms every night, so it’s cool. It becomes part of life and we get used to it. But then when you go home for a second, you remember how much you love your home and then all of the sudden you have to leave. It has its ups and downs. For this tour we’re opening for The Damned, and it’s really different. When you’re headlining, everyone is there to see you play and the majority of the room is singing along with you. But when you’re opening for The Damned, everyone is there to see The Damned, except for the three superfans we have in the crowd every night. And I’ll find them because they will be like singing every lyric and have their arms in the air.
Frustrating interviews led to Bleached’s Can You Deal? EP and ’zine full of essays. CB: What is it like writing songs with a sibling? Is she more honest with you than someone who might not be as close personally about what is working and what isn’t working? JC: Jessica never judges anything I write or sing. We get along really well and we understand each other. I just feel so comfortable around my sister. There are some people who say, “I don’t know how you could be in a band with your sister,” but I think we are just really compatible. We’re only two years apart. We can almost read each other’s minds sometimes. A band is like a family, so there is going to be drama, but we don’t fight ever. We used to when we were kids but not now. CB: The EP has a lot of seemingly personal, first-person lyrics on it, but it’s done with a lot of pronouns, which allows listeners to place themselves in the songs. One exception is near the end of “Dear Trouble” when you sing, “Poor Jennifer, I’ll be crazy all of my life.” Why were you interested in injecting that very specific reference in there as opposed to the way you approached the rest of the lyrics?
JC: Yeah, that was a little bit of an experiment. We were like, “Is it cool if we do this?” because obviously I’m singing about myself in the song. It was actually from an old demo from before Welcome the Worms that we were able to rework for Can You Deal?. I was in a specific state of mind when I wrote that song. I live in Los Angeles but I was housesitting in New York for a week and drinking every night and going out every night and partying. I felt like I was away from home and I could do whatever I wanted because I was in this apartment in the city for a week, and that’s when I wrote that song. When it came to that part, I could have said, “Poor me, I’ll be crazy all my life.” But we thought, why not make a little bit of a joke out if it and have me sing to myself? At the same time we were referencing something like the Rancid song when Tim Armstrong says, “My name is Tim and I’m a lesser-known character.” I thought that was so cool when I was growing up. When I heard that I was like, “Whoa, why don’t more people say their names in their songs?” It’s kind of a bold move to make, but why not just go for it?
CB: The EP also inspired a ’zine that you put together about gender issues in Rock & Roll. Injecting politics and other cultural critiques into music can be a tricky thing; you don’t want to come off as preachy or didactic. Why were you interested in delving into that realm so directly? JC: I think we all, as Americans, have to speak up about the state of the world and what we believe. It seemed like in the ’80s and ’90s people were always speaking out, and that was so cool. I remember as a kid that TLC were wearing condoms on their outfits when they were on MTV, which was a bold statement. I feel like we just got too comfortable and thought, “Oh, it’s 2017, things are going well.” And then Trump was elected. It was like a slap in the face. Everyone needs to keep speaking their minds. For me, there was no question that I wanted address what’s going on in some way, and the ’zine was just one way to do that. And Bleached is a Punk band — we should be speaking out. BLEACHED opens for The Damned Thursday at Bogart’s. Tickets/more info: bogarts.com.
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Tim Goshorn 1954-2017 BY MIKE BREEN
Local School of Rock Turns 5 It was five years ago this month that the School of Rock branch in Mason opened.
The education center has since taught kids and adults about not only the technical aspects of playing music, but also the elements of performance, organizing regular shows for student bands both at the School of Rock complex and at working venues around the area (including Northside Tavern and Southgate House Revival). The school has also involved (and been involved with) the Cincinnati music community, hiring local musicians for its staff, performing at big events like the MidPoint Music Festi-
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val and covering songs by local artists like Wussy, The Tigerlilies and Walk the Moon. Current and former students have also further ingrained themselves into the local music scene by forming their own bands, including Blank Slate, Sonarray, BACKdoor, Hot Zombie and Freak Mythology. To celebrate School of Rock Mason’s fifth anniversary, current and former students and staff members are performing a special concert at 20th Century Theater (3021 Madison Road, Oakley, the20thcenturytheatre. com) this Friday. The musicians will play songs from past School of Rock shows, as well as tunes slated for upcoming performances, which include concerts dedicated to the music of The Who, Eric Clapton, Panic! at the Disco, The Cars and many others. Tickets are $10 in advance through cincyticket.com or $15 at the door. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit the Ovation Music Fund, which provides scholarships for lowincome youth to participate in programs like School of Rock. For more on School of Rock Mason, visit mason.schoolofrock.com. CONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@citybeat.com.
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Murray Goes Classical Bill Murray has a rare legacy of bulletproof cool bolstered by some classic comedy films, epic appearances on talk shows and tales of random hangouts with everyday folks across the country. Not even playing the voice of Garfield put the slightest dent in Murray’s reputation. That also means that many people who couldn’t tell a cello from a viola are getting pumped for an upcoming chamber music tour. Murray is reportedly touring with a classical trio for a show created with cellist Jan Vogler that includes music ranging from Bach to Van Morrison, and literary readings from the works of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and others. Fittingly, the project came about when Murray and Volger met when they were seated across from each other on a transatlantic flight in 2013 (aka Lost in Translation 2).
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Another Reason to Never Fly As if airlines weren’t having enough PR nightmares in regard to treatment of passengers, musical cloud puff Kenny G recently sashayed up and down the aisles during a Delta flight, subjecting other passengers to his sax torture without being dragged off the plane. Like getting a tooth pulled, it was ultimately for a good cause — G agreed to play if passengers collectively ponied up $2,000 for a cancer charity. How much to make it stop? Also, You’re Never a Stripper’s Fave Customer Pop duo The Chainsmokers have been maligned as an EDM version of Nickelback, but at a recent show in Pittsburgh, the twosome had an onstage moment that more resembled an EDM Spinal Tap. While the ’Smokers were performing their encore at an April 22 concert, the backdrop behind them displayed their love for Pittsburgh by spelling the name of the city wrong. The big “Thank You Pittsburg” message came after the duo had reportedly told its audience that Pittsburgh’s crowds were better than most other city’s, which is quite disillusioning for anyone who believes big touring acts legitimately prefer certain flyover cities to others.
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A true Greater Cincinnati music legend, Tim Goshorn, passed away on April 15. He was 62. A celebrated guitarist and songwriter, the Fort Thomas, Ky. native was a part of a musical family that has left a big imprint on the local music community. The musical lives of Tim and his brothers Larry and Dan seemed to revolve around or near the others over the past several decades. Larry and Dan were in popular Cincinnati psychedelic Rock band The Sacred Mushroom, which split up in 1969 and led to Larry and Tim performing around the area as Mushroom Jones. A few years later, Larry joined (and became the main songwriter in) Ohio-spawned Country Rock favorite Pure Prairie League (which had cut its teeth as a popular club band in Cincinnati and featured other local residents in its regularly revolving lineup over the band’s lifespan). Tim, who wrote a couple of songs for the band’s 1976 album, Dance, joined Larry in the group in 1977 and wrote several songs for the band’s 1978 album, Just Fly. Eventually, Larry and Tim left the group to form The Goshorn Brothers Band, which released a few albums in the ’90s and ’00s. Tim rejoined PPL for a few yeas in the early ’80s, while both brothers appeared on the 1987 album Mementos 1971-1987, a collection of re-recorded PPL favorites. With constant shows in the area, The Goshorn Brothers Band became one of Cincinnati’s favorite club acts. Larry and Tim also performed acoustically as The Goshorn Brothers, which last released an album in 2012. In recent years, Tim maintained a strong presence in the local scene and continued to play out regularly, including with his bluesy Tim Goshorn Band. In 2015, Tim joined the current version of PPL onstage when the band played the Sharonville Convention Center. That same year, the Tim Goshorn Band recorded a self-titled album (released as an “official bootleg”) and Tim and Larry joined artists like Adrian Belew, Bobby Mackey and Rosemary Clooney in the Northern Kentucky Music Legends Hall of Fame. Not long ago, Tim was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. On April 13, a crowdfunding site was set up at gofundme.com/ timgoshorn to help with the mounting costs of medical treatment. According to the GoFundMe site, Tim died after being admitted to hospice care on April 15. (The site is still accepting donations to assist his family.) A memorial concert celebrating Tim’s life is reportedly in the works.
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The Damned with Bleached and Red Hot Rebellion Thursday • Bogart’s As far as Punk is concerned, there’s The Damned and then there’s everything after. The band’s list of firsts reads like the genre’s Book of Genesis: the first Punk single, “New Rose,” recently cited by Kerrang! Magazine as the greatest Punk single of all time; the first full-length Punk album, Damned Damned Damned; the first British Punk band to play in the U.S.; the first Punk band to consistently cover classic Rock/Pop artists (The Beatles’ “Help!,” The Rolling Stones’ “Citadel,” Love’s “Alone Again Or,” Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” Barry Ryan’s “Eloise,” among others); the first Punk band to have an alter-ego side project (Naz Nomad and the Nightmares); the first Punk band to break up and reunite (again and again); the The Damned first Goth Punk band; P H O T O : Do d M orr i s o n and the first active Punk band (accounting for breaks and new personnel) to celebrate its 40th anniversary, an event commemorated with a show at the Royal Albert Hall, holes and all. Over the course of The Damned’s fourdecade run, various versions of the band Christian McBride — 25 permanent and P H O T O : R . A n d r e w L e pl e y touring members along the way, with Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible anchoring the current lineup, which has been solid for the past 13 years — has recorded 10 studio albums, including their most recent, 2008’s So, Who’s Paranoid?, but adding in live albums, compilations, EPs and singles pushes the band’s discography to nearly 90 recordings. The band was also the subject of an extensive but very Punk-structured documentary, The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead, from renowned filmmaker Wes Orshoski. The Damned’s groundbreaking and seminal debut album was recently reissued in a remastered deluxe 40th-anniversary package, featuring exhaustive liner notes by John Ingham, the first British music writer to review the band. Perhaps the best news of all is the imminent release of The Damned’s crowdfunded (and as yet untitled) new album, the band’s first set of new material in 11 years. It’s all living proof that Punk may
never have gotten off the ground if it hadn’t been for those Damned kids. (Brian Baker) Christian McBride & Tip City Friday • Gallagher Student Center Theater (Xavier University) Among the contemporary stars of the current Jazz scene, very few (if any) players have had the kind of prolific and diverse career bassist/composer/arranger Christian McBride has had. Outside of a few living legends from the music’s golden eras and the dean of Jazz, Wynton Marsalis, McBride is practically the king of the genre, a virtuoso with an unusually high profile for a Jazz musician. And though throughout his career he has regularly explored other realms of music, McBride didn’t have to resort to Smooth Jazz or pander to mainstream audiences to earn his lofty place at the center of the Jazz universe. He follows his creative instinct instead of expectations, helping to keep Jazz tradition alive (and push it forward) with his forays into Fusion, Big Band Jazz and particularly Bebop/Post Bop. While those styles are at the core of McBride’s musical persona, he doesn’t limit himself in his creative pursuits — even under the Jazz umbrella, he has pursued more abstract and experimental projects. The bassist is incredibly versatile and has an encyclopedic knowledge of music from the inside out, regardless of style. He has collaborated or done sessions with artists from seemingly every genre, including James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Sting, The Roots, D’Angelo, Kathleen Battle and Sonus Quartet (the roster of Jazz artists he’s worked with is basically “everybody”). Host of NPR’s Jazz Night in America and SiriusXM’s The Lowdown: Conversations With Christian (so you know his banter game is strong), McBride has also served in various roles for numerous music and arts organizations, most recently becoming the artistic director of the legendary Newport Jazz Festival after taking the reins from fest founder George Wein. Despite having such a formidable résumé, 1/100th of which would be considered a great lifelong career for most musicians,
Real Friends Sunday • Bogart’s The seeds of Real Friends were sown seven years ago when bassist Kyle Fasel became discouraged with the music he was creating and invited guitarist Dave Knox to contribute his ideas to the woodshedding process. The pair began Real Friends with vocalist Dan Lambton and drummer Aaron Schuck and self-released their debut EP, This is Honesty, while moonlighting with The Fastest Kid Alive. Almost immediately they became disenchanted with their raw Punk sound and decided to start over,
replacing Schuck with Brian Blake and adding rhythm guitarist Eric Haines, who were both featured on their sophomore EP, Everyone That Dragged You Here. Over the next year and a half, Real Friends honed in on a more sophisticated Emo/Pop Punk direction, self-releasing three more EPs — 2012’s Acoustic Songs and Three Songs About the Past Year of My Life and 2013’s Put Yourself Back Together — before signing with Fearless Records for the More Acoustic Songs EP and a debut full-length, Maybe This Place is the Same and We’re Just Changing, both in 2014. With each successive release and the subsequent touring opportunities, the band’s popularity and profile rose exponentially, and with Fearless’ increased distribution and resources, the suburban Chicago quintet found themselves playing to increasingly larger and more diverse audiences. After months of touring behind Maybe This Place, which hit No. 24 on the Billboard 200 album chart and the Top 10 of four other Billboard charts, Real Friends began writing new material, which resulted in a batch of new songs that was embraced by the band as the best work they had done to date. Early last year, just after Fearless had announced a new Real Friends album sometime in 2016, the band sequestered themselves with producers Steve Evetts and Mike Green without alerting anyone to the fact that they were actually recording the new album. Five months later, Real Friends unveiled The Home Inside My Head and the album’s first single, “Colder Quicker,” which the band had been inserting into its live sets since 2015. Although reviews were generally mixed — some praised the band for consistency and others faulted the group for not offering an advance on its previous work — fans new and old still nearly pushed the album into the Top 50 of the Billboard 200. But Real Friends will tell you, it’s not about the numbers, it’s about the passion, and they’ve got that by the metric ton. (BB)
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McBride could still qualify as a “young lion” in the Jazz world, if you’re going strictly by age — he’s just 44. Born in Philadelphia, McBride began playing electric bass at 8, developing his skills to the point where, by the time he was 17, he moved to New York City to study at Juilliard but was promptly plucked from school to tour with saxophonist Bobby Watson’s band. After becoming a top sideman, McBride released his first album as bandleader, Gettin’ To It, when he was 22, showcasing a fairly traditional approach. But after that (maybe in part due to criticism that he was playing things too straight), he started blending Jazz with Rock, Funk and Soul on albums for labels like Verve and Warner Brothers. Perhaps satiated by his various other projects, around the start of this decade, McBride’s band Inside Straight marked a recommitment to the acoustic Jazz traditions he’d been gradually hinting at more and more. In 2013, the bassist continued in the Post Bop vein with the Christian McBride Trio, featuring pianist Christian Sands and drummer Ulysses Owens. The trio released the wellreceived Out Here album in 2013 and, Real Friends two years later, Live P H O T O : M eg a n L e e t z at the Village Vanguard, which earned McBride his fifth Grammy and featured a fresh take on the theme from the 1976 movie Car Wash. The trio format suits McBride well — he is currently on tour introducing his new project, Tip City, which includes young celebrated pianist Emmet Cohen and guitarist Dan Wilson, an Akron, Ohio native. McBride is hosting a master class presentation Friday afternoon for the Jazz department at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, after which he’ll bring Tip City to Xavier’s campus for an 8 p.m. show. Visit xavier.edu/musicseries for tickets. (Mike Breen)
music listings Wednesday 26 Bogart’s - Mayday Parade with Knuckle Puck and Milestones. 7:30 p.m. Pop Punk. $35.50. Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Phil DeGreg and Friends. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free. Crow’s Nest - Steve Dirr. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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Knotty Pine - Dallas Moore and Lucky Chucky. 10 p.m. Country. Free. The Liberty Inn - Stagger Lee. 6:30 p.m. Country/Rock. Free. The Mockbee - John Bender, Timeghost, Pod Blotz and Kevin Frey. 8:30 p.m. Experimental/ Various. $6. MOTR Pub - K Phillips. 9 p.m. Americana. Free. Northside Tavern - The Midwestern Swing. 9 p.m. Western Swing/ Jazz. Free.
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Northside Yacht Club - Gaffer Project, Zijnzijn Zijnzijn! and Evolve. 9 p.m. Experimental/Rock/Various. Pit to Plate - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. $2. Silverton Cafe - Bob Cushing. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free. Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Lost Coast and Motel Faces. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Roots/ Various. Free. Southgate House Revival H (Revival Room) - The Hooten Hallers and All-Seeing Eyes. 8 p.m. Rock. $8, $10 day of show.
Urban Artifact - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10. U.S. Bank Arena - The Chainsmokers with Kiiara and Emily Warren. 7:30 p.m. Pop. $31-$81. Woodward Theater - The H Districts with Abi Reimold. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. $13, $15 day of
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Crow’s Nest - Ray Vietti. 9 p.m. Americana. Free. The Greenwich - Apollo Open Mic. 8:30 p.m. Various. $8. Horse & Barrel - Sonny Moorman. 6 p.m. Blues. Free. The Hot Spot - Bob Cushing. 7 p.m. Acoustic. Free. Knotty Pine - Chalis. 9 p.m. Rock/ Pop/Blues/Various. Free. The Mockbee - Malcolm H London and special guests. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. $5-$8. MOTR Pub - The Stash! Band with Unwed Sailor. 9 p.m. Bluegrass/ Punk/Metal. Free. Plain Folk Cafe - Open Mic with Jeremy Francis. 7 p.m. Various. Free. PNC Pavilion at Riverbend H Snoop Dogg with Flatbush Zombies and Berner. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. $43-$66.
Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Keith Rea. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free. Urban Artifact - Founding Fathers, Waterfall Wash, Kuber and Chris Click. 8 p.m. Indie/Rock/Pop/ Various. Free. Westside Venue - Color Blind. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.
Friday 28 20th Century Theater School of Rock Mason Fifth-Anniversary Concert. 7:30 p.m. Rock/Various. $10, $15 day of show.
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Arlin’s - Heavy Hinges. 9:30 Hp.m. Rock/Soul/Various. Free. Arnold’s Bar and Grill - The Grey Dogs. 9 p.m. Blues. Free. Blue Note Harrison - Naked Karate Girls. 9 p.m. Rock/Dance/Various. Cover. Bogart’s - Silversun Pickups with Kiev. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. $29.50.
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Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Steve Schmidt Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free (solo at 6 p.m.; trio at 8 p.m.).
Bogart’s - The Damned with H Bleached. 7:30 p.m. Punk/ Rock. $33.
College Hill Coffee Co. - Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.
Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Todd Hepburn and Friends. 6 p.m. Various. Free.
The Comet - Cough It Up and Hissing Tiles. 10 p.m. Punk. Free.
Celeberties - Rick Ross. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $40-$150.
Common Roots - Macknificient. 7 p.m. Jazz. $5.
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden - Tunes and Blooms with Jake Speed & the Freddies and Shiny and the Spoon. 6 p.m. Folk. Free.
Crow’s Nest - Kristen Ford. 9 Hp.m. Indie Rock. Free. Gallagher Student Center H Theatre - Christian McBride and Tip City. 8 p.m. Jazz. $25-$28.
Common Roots - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
Grandview Tavern & Grille - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. R&B/Funk/Soul. Free.
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The Greenwich - Sonny Moorman Group. 8 p.m. Blues. $5.
Jag’s Steak and Seafood - My Sister Sarah. 9 p.m. Dance/Pop/ Rock/Various. $5. Knotty Pine - Brownstones. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. Live! at the Ludlow Garage Natural Progression. 8 p.m. Jazz/ Neo Soul. $10. Madison Live - Motel Faces. 8 p.m. Rock. $8, $10 day of show. Madison Theater - Resonance: Reconstructed with Papadosio and Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. 9 p.m. Jam/Various. $22, $25 day of show ($30 for two-night pass). Mansion Hill Tavern - Tickled Pink. 9 p.m. Blues. $4. Mercantile Library - “All Day Permanent Red” featuring Knee Play & Foundlings’ Voices. 8:30 p.m. Experimental. Free. The Mockbee - Killstation, RiverKinn, Novakeng, 93FeetOfSmoke, Velvetears, Joei Razook, Ryan Willen, Zac Ali, Audley, Dipso and Bricker. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. $5-$10. MOTR Pub - Young Heirlooms with Emily & the Complexes. 9 p.m. Indie/Folk/Rock. Free. Northside Tavern - The Grove, Jim Trace & The Makers and Jim Castro & Company. 10 p.m. Rock/Various. Free. Northside Yacht Club - Karen Meat, Dana T, Googly Eyes and Amanda’s Scanner. 10 p.m. AltPop/Various. Free. Plain Folk Cafe - Hey Mavis with John Ford and Scott Carnder. 7 p.m. Americana. Free. Rick’s Tavern - My Girl Friday with Hot Zombie. 10 p.m. Rock. $5. Silverton Cafe - Unmarked Cars. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop. Free. Southgate House Revival H (Lounge) - The Night Divided with Kid Stardust. 9:30 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.
Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Punk Rock Night with The Jericho Harlot, The Underpass Overtones, Doubtlets and A.M. Nice. 10 p.m. Rock/Punk. $5. Stanley’s Pub - Perfect Norm with Moonshine & Wine. 9 p.m. Jam/ Roots/Various. $5. The Underground - The Embodies, Soul Butter, High School Dance and Young Will Stone. 7 p.m. Rock/ Blues/Various. Cover. Urban Artifact - Suck the Honey, North by North, Spoiled Milk and Period Bomb. 9 p.m. Rock/Various. Free. Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Rob Allgeyer Trio with Dan Drees. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).
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Woodward Theater - Brian H Olive (album release party) with Pop Empire and Royal Holland.
The Mockbee - Blake Lipper, Ellen Stone, Tyrel Thompson, Tiffany Tran and Ariel Vivanco. 9 p.m. Various. Free.
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MOTR Pub - Jess Lamb with Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands. 9 p.m. Rock/Alt/Various. Free.
9 p.m. Rock. $7, $10 day of show.
Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Catfish and Cadillac. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. Bogart’s - Testament with Sepultura and Prong. 6:30 p.m. Metal. $35.50.
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Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Steve Schmidt Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.
Northside Tavern - Los Honchos. 10 p.m. Rock/Soul/Dance. Free. Northside Yacht Club CaveofswordS, Skeleton Hands, Playfully Yours and Bary Center. 8 p.m. Electronic/Various.
College Hill Coffee Co. - Betsy Lippett. 7:30 p.m. Various. Free.
O’Neal’s Tavern - Trailer Park Floosies. 10 p.m. Pop/Rock/Rap/ Country/Various. Cover.
The Comet - Comprador and Pills. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.
Pirates Cove Bar & Grille - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. R&B/Funk/Soul. Free.
Common Roots - Common Roots Peace Meal and Art & Music Festival featuring Job Aur, zefsLifegarden and Liquid Hologram. 5 p.m. Various
Plain Folk Cafe - The Rattletraps. 7:30 p.m. Rock/Jump Blues/ Various. Free.
Crow’s Nest - Josh Moringstar. 9:30 p.m. Americana. Free. DownTowne Listening Room Christine Havrilla and Mama’s Black Sheep. 7:30 p.m. Folk/Rock. Sold out. Eastgate Brew & View - Encore Duo. 6:30 p.m. Acoustic Classic Rock/Americana. Free. Fairfield Community Arts Center - John Hammond. 8 p.m. Blues. $25-$30. The Greenwich - Reverse Wave. 9 p.m. Fusion/Jazz. $10.
Rick’s Tavern - Dangerous Jim and the Slims. 10 p.m. Rock. $5. Rising Star Casino - The Charlie Daniels Band. 8 p.m. Country. Sold out. Silverton Cafe - Metro All Stars. 9 p.m. Various. Free. Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Cougar Ace and The Royal Hounds. 8:30 p.m. Rock. Free. Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Astronoid. 8 p.m. Metal. $10, $12 day of show.
Madison Live - Anilyst and Slo Pain. 6:30 p.m. Hip Hop. $10, $12 day of show. MOTR Pub - Crown Larks. 8 p.m. Psych/Rock/Jazz/Various. Free. Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Urban Pioneers with Moonshine District and Barnyard Stompers. 8 p.m. Roots. $8, $10 day of show. Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Kinky Friedman. 8 p.m. Country/Rock/Comedy. $25, $30 day of show. Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s Open Jam. 10 p.m. Various. Free. Urban Artifact - Different Clones, Jess Lamb and The Exit Strategy. 8 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.
Monday 01 Mansion Hill Tavern - Acoustic Jam with John Redell and Friends. 8 p.m. Acoustic/Various. Free. McCauly’s Pub - Open Jam with Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues/ Various. Free. Northside Tavern - The Qtet. 10 p.m. Funk/Jazz/Fusion/Various. Free.
Arnold’s Bar and Grill - John Redell. 7 p.m. Blues. Free. McCauly’s Pub - Stagger Lee. 7 p.m. Country/Rock. Free.
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Thompson House - Birth of RA II Key’s Birthday Celebration with It Lies Within, Blessing A Curse, Grave Friends, Under Everything, The Earth Laid Bare, Ocean Grid, No Home, Saving Shemiah, The Obnoxious Boot, Verses and Carried By Six. 6 p.m. Metal/ Hardcore. $10.
The Mad Frog - Joe Lynn Turner. 6 p.m. Rock. $30.
Trinity Gastro Pub - Bob Cushing. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
The Redmoor - Johnny A. 8 p.m. Rock/Jazz/Blues. $25-$30.
Madison Live - Argyle Goolsby and the Roving Midnight with Shriek and Saint Pickle. 8 p.m. Horror Rock/Darkwave/Psychobilly/ Various. $10, $12 day of show.
The Underground - Mask of the Charlatan, Sonarray, Samuel Day and Dear Old Friend. 7 p.m. Rock/ Pop/Various. Cover.
Southgate House Revival H (Revival Room) - Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes with Royal
Live! at the Ludlow Garage H Talking Dreads. 9 p.m. Reggae Talking Heads tribute. $12, $15
Madison Theater - Resonance: Reconstructed with Papadosio and Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. 9 p.m. Jam/Various. $22, $25 day of show ($30 for two-night pass). Mansion Hill Tavern - Doug Hart Band. 9 p.m. Blues. $3. McCauly’s Pub - Six Strings Down. 8 p.m. Blues/R&B. Free. Mercantile Library - “All Day Permanent Red” featuring Knee Play & Foundlings’ Voices. 8:30 p.m. Experimental. Free.
Urban Artifact - Beat Faction with DJ Troll, Mindcandy and Mr. Ballistic. 10 p.m. DJ/Dance/Alt/ Various. Free. Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Mandy Gaines Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
Sunday 30 Bogart’s - Real Friends. 5:30 Hp.m. Rock. $20. The Comet - The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.
4/26 the hooten hallers, all-seeing eyes; lost coast - april artist in residence, motel faces 4/27 keith rea 4/28 the night divided, kid stardust; punk rock night: the jericho harlot, the underpass overtones, doubtlets, a.m. nice 4/29 astronoid; hackensaw boys, the tillers; cougar ace, the royal hounds 4/30 kinky friedman - the resurrected tour; urban pioneers, moonshine district, barnyard stompers
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The Mockbee - Brillo Boys, Vanity Creeps and Run Believers. 9 p.m. Rock. Free. Northside Tavern - The Stealth Pastille. 10 p.m. Psych/Pop/Rock. Free.
Republic and The Skulx. 8 p.m. Rock. $13, $15 day of show.
Taft Theatre - Herb Alpert & Lani Hall. 8 p.m. Pop/Brazilian/Jazz/ Various. $29.50-$48.50. Urban Artifact - Spitwad Angles, Amnesiac Mnemonist and Randy Trent. 9 p.m. Experimental. Free.
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