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What a Week! BY T.C. Britton
WEDNESDAY MAY 17
The 70th-annual Cannes Film Festival kicked off this week, bringing Hollywood elite to the land of berets and baguettes to screen and promote upcoming films. This is the first year streaming-only movies like Netflix flicks were eligible, but apparently the Frenchies in charge immediately regretted that decision because they’ve already announced that this will be the last time. Only films actually opening in French cinemas will be eligible for the prestigious Palme d’Or award from now on. What snobs! The crowd went so far as to boo the two Netflix offerings and many other screenings — apparently it’s something of a tradition. But who boos at movies? Honestly! And at a prestigious French film festival no less. We’ve never heard a single boo at our local theater, and it’s far from the classy joint Cannes is. It’s a hotspot for bored teens, no more than 50 percent of the toilets work at any given moment and people regularly sneak in flasks to spike their soft drinks (spoiler: we are those people). We’re curious what wooing prohibition proponent Paul Daugherty has to say about booing.
THURSDAY MAY 18
Work SNAFUs happen. Here at CityBeat, we’re bound to let a typo slip into print. But this week, the mayor’s office printed more than a typo when staffers approved a proclamation declaring June 1 as “Tre Day.” Staffers sign off on these types of proclamations all the time, but these particular employees didn’t realize that Tre Day was in honor of Trepierre Hummons, who two years ago murdered Cincinnati Police officer Sonny Kim before being shot and killed himself. *Insert grimacing emoji* John Cranley quickly retracted the proclamation, which was submitted by Hummons’ father, and issued a tearful apology. Reportedly no one will lose their jobs since watching Cranley weep is punishment enough.
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Saturday Night Live wrapped its noteworthy 42nd season this week with host Dwayne Johnson and musical guest Katy Perry. The good: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson announced his bid for the 2020 presidential election with running mate Tom Hanks. Drag queens and a dance master now known only as Backpack Kid upstaged the hell out of Katy “The New Miley” Perry. The bad: Trump
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You think you have it rough this #weddinngseason? Try being a guest at Pippa Middleton’s wedding. Duchess Kate’s little sis and 2011 butt of the year (that’s before people discovered squats) got hitched to multimillionaire hedge fund manager James Matthews this weekend. Couples were not allowed to sit next to one another at dinner and the wait staff was comprised of models, which is a scandal ready to happen. No photos were allowed at the reception — Pippa was not about to have her drunk just-married ass all over Instagram. And they served trout for dinner! Good thing our invite got lost in the mail. Sounds like a drag. Ooh, and fun fact: Celebrations took place at Berkshire’s Englefield House, which was also the site of 2014 reality show I Wanna Marry Harry, in which 12 Americans competed to date (a) Prince Harry (lookalike), not knowing he wasn’t royalty.
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Willamette Week, an alternative newsweekly in Portland, Ore., recently ran a story on the women behind a happening burrito joint, Kooks Burritos. The owners, who happen to be white, traveled to Mexico and learned how to make tortillas — sort of. They talked to local makers in broken Spanish and peeked in their windows when they were hush-hush about the recipe. Since Portland is the woke capitol of America, readers were quick to point out the thievery and cultural appropriation of the whole story. (Also, comically, fauxoutrage: “Not enough: Anyone white who even touches cilantro ought to be set on fire.”) Within days, Kooks was closed. White people are now relegated to getting burritos at Taco Bell.
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You remember Carol, the Todd Haynes movie filmed in Cincinnati that stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Well apparently there is a serious cult fandom surrounding the film and even its connection to our fair city. As a recent Wired article points out, there are Carol fan pages on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr; loads of fan art, gifs and memes. Fans celebrate Carol Day on April 17, the day Carol and Therese reunite in the movie (which also happens to be Mara’s birthday IRL). New York’s Metrograph movie theater regularly screens the flick more than a year after its original run. It’s great to see such a fantastic and underappreciated movie about two women in love in the 1950s get some well-earned love, but Cincinnati should really capitalize on this! One Instagram user documented their “Pilgrimage to the Holy City of Cincinnati,” taking shots of locations seen in the film, like spots around downtown, Maury’s Tiny Cove in Cheviot and Alexandria’s Sparetime’s Belly & Soul Diner. Cincinnati USA: Get on this! Let’s make Cincinnati the premier lesbian vacation destination. CONTACT T.C. BRITTON: letters@citybeat.com
The orb to end all orbs, and terrorism.
Trump contradicts past Views on saudi arabia, uses magic orb to reverse them BY DANNY CROSS, ORB Expert
Twitter is a fun place to read about how huge of a dick America’s president is, whether you’re reading his personal tweets on Easter that reference haters and losers or just checking out screenshots showing what a hypocritical monster he has always been. In this week’s edition — maybe it was a double or triple edition, IDK — Trump visited Saudi Arabia, whose people he once tweeted “are nothing but mouth pieces, bullies, cowards. They have the money, but no guts.” Trump did some weird curtsey to King Salman while awkwardly accepting a medal even though in 2012 he criticized Barack Obama’s bow to King Abdullah. Melania Trump declined to wear a headscarf during the visit even though Trump in 2015 tweeted, “Many people are saying it was wonderful that Mrs. Obama refused to wear a scarf in Saudi Arabia, but they were insulted. We have enuf enemies.” The strangest part of the trip was some type of ritual involving three men touching a glowing orb in a dark room full of dudes, an act Trump had previously described as only “locker room talk.” Images of Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt creepily touching the glowing globe made the rounds on the internet, with the most appropriate comparisons involving villains from science fiction films. The demonstration was actually the opening of a new Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology based in Riyadh. To help with that, Trump sold Saudi Arabia $110 billion worth of weapons it can point at terrorists or Iran or whomever else. The trip was reportedly cut short due to Trump’s “exhaustion,” which the administration suggested was a result of the orb taking some of Trump’s awesome power to be used to fight terrorism. (Made him tired.) Insiders say Trump actually wanted to go home after becoming displeased that his magic orb séance was overshadowed on social media by videos of Steve Bannon getting trapped in a Muslim mosh pit.
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Real Housewife and Skinnygirl founder Bethenny Frankel might not be an actual housewife, but she is certainly a skinny girl and the bitch knows how to sell the shit out of her line of diet beverages, snacks, books, shapewear, appliances… Skinny everything! Frankel swung by the only local Kroger fit for a Bravolebrity, the Oakley Marketplace, Friday to hawk her latest Skinnygirl product: lunchmeat. Skinnygirl margaritas taste like if you added an eyedropper full of tequila to a bottle of water with a paper-thin slice of lime. Which is fine if you’re not trying to drink a load of sugar, but they also cut calories by dropping the alcohol content, so you end up drinking an entire bottle to get a buzz. Or is that just us? If the meat’s similar, it’ll likely leave you hungry after downing an entire pack and taste like honey-roasted air.
administration impressions go on hiatus until the fall. It was the finale episode for departing cast members Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer and Sasheer Zamata. The ugly: There was a child-molesting robot sketch.
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As some Cincinnati residents face jail time over home repairs, the city searches for a fix BY NICK SWARTSELL
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After the city informed him the house needed repairs due to the code orders, Starr began a series of back-and-forth exchanges with the city’s Building and Planning Department. Starr says during this stretch of time last year, building inspector Kevin Rhodes failed to show up for scheduled inspections multiple times and that he was unable to get documentation related to the orders he needed to comply with. The city acknowledges that Rhodes missed one inspection, but says that Starr has missed several himself. Starr denies this. Eventually, Starr had his chimney tuckpointed and got his downspouts up to code. He was also able to get Cincinnati nonprofit the Home Ownership Center to replace his windows. He thought he was in the clear, he says. But inspectors wrote up more orders related to permits for the house’s plumbing, HVAC units, an uninstalled Jacuzzi the previous owners left on the third floor and other issues. “You’re putting so many violations on me, and I have to call contractors when I can’t afford to,” Starr says. “And then I’ll lose my house. I’m scared. I’ve got a kid to worry about, and my own future.”
Earl Starr wears an electronic monitoring device and faces jail time due to repair orders on his home in Evanston. CityBeat first reported in early March on difficulties some Mount Auburn residents faced with code compliance following the city’s Neighborhood Enhancement Program (see “Code Complaints,” issue of March 1). That neighborhood saw more than 1,400 code orders issued last year. Eighty percent went to out-of-town landlords, but others went to low-income homeowners. Some of those orders were for serious structural issues, while others tagged flaking paint on porches and missing stair railings on sets of a few steps leading up into front yards. Due in part to the deep socioeconomic divisions in Cincinnati and many other cities, code enforcement often falls heavily on neighborhoods where many lowincome, predominantly black residents live. Neighborhoods like Mount Auburn, Evanston and others receive hundreds of code violations a year, while similarly sized, higher-income neighborhoods receive far fewer. Hyde Park, for example, a neighborhood of 13,000 people with a median household income of almost $75,000 a year, saw only 169 code orders last year. Mount Lookout, another wealthy
neighborhood similar in size to Mount Auburn, got 111. In the worst-case scenarios, those orders can escalate to the point where residents and other small-time property owners end up owing thousands of dollars and face foreclosure or jail time. In 2014, the city cited Stanford Poole, a retired Cincinnati firefighter who owns two small rental properties on Rice Street in Mount Auburn, for siding damage on one of his houses and issues with a porch on another. Court documents reveal Poole went around with the city several times on those properties, eventually getting a year’s probation and a $3,500 fine. He fixed the siding issue, but never resolved the issue with the porch to the satisfaction of inspectors. A Hamilton County Sheriff’s deputy picked the Madisonville resident up on Feb. 14, and he spent the night in jail before posting bond. Since the dustup over code orders in Mount Auburn, more high-profile cases involving code compliance have popped up. Those include Starr’s situation, first reported by WCPO earlier this month, and CONTINUES ON PAGE 09
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s it stands, Cincinnati residents can face steep consequences — big fines and even monitoring devices or stays in the Hamilton County jail — if their houses aren’t in order. Multiple Cincinnati residents face serious criminal penalties for propertyrelated problems even as city officials say they’re trying to find solutions to ease the burdens posed by home repairs facing low-and moderate-income homeowners. “The people that we are continuing to hear from are people who won’t qualify for a loan,” Councilman Wendell Young says. “So if a lending institution isn’t likely to give them money, but they need repairs to stay in their homes, then I’m concerned about what happens to that group of people.” Young and other Cincinnati City Council members have called for boosts to nonprofit programs that help low-income people make home repairs. Mayor John Cranley has asked the city to pursue code orders as civil cases, not criminal ones. And a partnership between the city, a nonprofit and area banks looks to extend loans and grants to low-and moderateincome homeowners. But while the city works on solutions, some residents still face the prospect of going to jail for code violations. On a recent Monday, Earl Starr stood outside his house in Evanston, trimming bushes and sweeping up yard waste. On his right ankle, he wore an electronic monitoring device — one of the conditions of his ongoing fight with the city over his code orders. After a protracted wrestling match with the courts and the city’s Building and Planning Department, Starr faces six months in jail if he doesn’t resolve his code issues in the next month. He’s permitted to be away from home up to 60 hours a week to work as a barber and to take his kids to school and daycare, but otherwise must stay at his house. In early 2015, Starr purchased his twofamily house in Evanston for about $8,000. His son’s mother was dying of cancer, and Starr, who was bouncing back from a stint in prison and who has engineering knowledge from eight years working at Hamilton’s Smart Papers, thought he could fix it for his son and himself to live in. It had standing code orders related to the structure’s windows, chimney and downspouts, which Starr says he was unaware of. Starr began fixing up the house and soon moved into its second and third floors, working on the first so that it could someday generate rental income.
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November Ballot Issue Could Lower Drug Prices
A conservative Ohio lawmaker has introduced a bill that would reduce criminal charges for concealed carry of a firearm in state-designated gun-free zones like college campuses, law enforcement offices, courthouses, churches and other spaces. Republican State Rep. John Becker’s Decriminalization Effort for Ending Notorious Deaths, or DEFEND Act, would make it a misdemeanor for concealed carry license holders to bring guns into the gun-free zones. Becker says the bill is intended to give some leeway to state residents lawfully carrying a concealed firearm in case they forget they have their gun on them when entering a restricted area. “People who carry guns inadvertently go into a gun-free zone not even thinking about having the gun on them,” the Clermont County Republican told cleveland.com. “If you’re wearing a watch or a ring, you don’t realize it’s there.” The proposed legislation, House Bill 233, would stipulate that those carrying weapons first be asked to leave the gun-free zone, and if they didn’t, they would be charged with a disorderly conduct misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of 30 days in jail and a $250 fine. Currently, concealed carry in restricted areas is a felony subject to up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine. Becker says his bill has the support of Republican leadership in the Ohio State House and has attracted more than 50 co-sponsors. The proposal comes as Ohio has rolled back restrictions on concealed carry, to the dismay of gun control advocates and even some business groups. One recent law that expanded where concealed carry license holders can take their guns went into effect in March. That legislation allows concealed carry in daycare centers and certain parts of airports such as baggage claim locations. It also allows employees to bring licensed firearms in the parking lots of their workplaces, even if their employers had forbidden that practice in the past. The law also keeps employers from getting sued for gun-related violence that happens on company property. The Ohio Chamber of Commerce opposed that law, though gun rights groups cheered the legislation. Another law recently went into effect giving public universities the right to allow concealed carry on their campuses if they chose to do so. Ohio has been issuing concealed carry permits since 2004 and issued a record 159,000 last year. (Nick Swartsell)
and Planning Department Director Art Dahlberg told Council May 15. “If (residents) find that they really can’t take an additional financial burden on, then we’d be looking at a deferred payment loan purely for the cost of doing the repair work related to the orders.” Some loans would be forgivable and others wouldn’t be due back until after the homeowners sold a house to its next owner. HOC will evaluate applicants on their financial status and recommend programs fitting that ability. “This is unlike anything else in regard to interaction with a bank,” HOC Director Rick Williams told Council. “We’re very much aware that a lot of the homeowners we’ll be working with don’t have relationships with banks at all.” While the new program is limited to Mount Auburn and other neighborhoods that have recently undergone the Neighborhood Enhancement Program, Williams hopes it will “open the floodgates” and be extended citywide eventually. In the meantime, HOC is looking to help Starr secure ways to fix up the rest of the orders on his house. That could be vital — though after what he’s been through, Starr says he’s waiting before he gets too optimistic. “I’m scared,” he says. “I bought this with my own hard work and money, and I put two years of work into it. My house and my life are at stake here.” ©
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This November, Ohio voters will decide on a referendum that sounds like a sure thing for passage: lower drug prices. No, this isn’t a follow-up to last year’s marijuana measure, which failed anyway. The discount would only apply to drugs purchased by state employees and retirees and through state programs like Medicaid. An estimated 3.7 million Ohioans, close to a third of the state’s population, would directly benefit. “If the voters approve this, it would not only lower prescription prices, it would save the state of Ohio a minimum of $400 million and up to $750 million a year for prescription drugs that they presently buy,” says Rick Taylor, a Los Angeles-based consultant to the group that put the measure on the ballot, Ohio Taxpayers for Lower Drug Prices. The proposed savings would come from tying the state’s prescription drug purchases to rates paid by the Veterans Administration. The VA gets at least a 24 percent discount on the drugs it buys. Members of Congress have tried for years to leverage the government’s buying power for drugs in Medicare, but the pharmaceutical lobby is too strong. Supporters of the so-called Ohio Drug Price Relief Act have been bankrolled by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has offices in Columbus and Cleveland. They originally submitted their petition for a referendum in 2015. Big business decided it didn’t like it. The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America asked a state court to invalidate many of the petition’s signatures. Secretary of State Jon Husted did so on his own. But last September, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered Husted to count 20,830 signatures that had been invalidated. Husted certified the petition that month. From there it was headed to the November 2017 ballot. A similar ballot measure in California failed 54 to 46 percent last November. The drug industry spent heavily on lobbying and advertising to defeat it. Backers of the referendum in Ohio expect Big Pharma to wage a comparable campaign here. An opposition group, Ohioans Against the Deceptive Rx Ballot Issue, has already filed registration papers with the state. Ohio residents, like many Americans, have encountered extremely high prices for prescription drugs in recent years. About 3 million Ohioans on Medicaid would be the biggest group to benefit from newly discounted prescription drugs. Others would include active and retired state employees, public university employees, workers’ compensation recipients and participants in the Ohio’s Best Rx program. (James McNair)
Bill Would Reduce Penalties for Concealed Carry in Restricted Areas
the May 9 arrest of Rev. Peterson Mingo, a well-known faith leader and Cincinnati Human Relations Commission employee. Mingo was briefly arrested after a court hearing over ordered repairs to a retaining wall at his property in Evanston. Mingo had been going back and forth with the city over those repairs, which could cost up to $10,000, since late 2014. Mingo’s arrest drew immediate attention from the media and city officials. The pastor was quickly released from jail after Mayor Cranley intervened on his behalf, and a contractor offered to fix his wall free of charge following the arrest. The attention to code violations has some elected leaders looking for ways to ease the burden on homeowners. Council members like Young and mayoral candidate Yvette Simpson would like to boost groups like People Working Cooperatively, which helps low-income people with certain home maintenance work. Meanwhile, nonprofit the Home Ownership Center is touting an effort to extend financial help to homeowners caught up in code compliance efforts. Partnering with lending institutions that are required by federal anti-discrimination settlements to extend lending opportunities in lowincome communities, HOC is working to make sure that those cited by the city get money to fix their properties. “Based on that ability to pay, various tools will be brought together,” Building
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ttending Cincinnati’s annual Fringe Festival can be an arduous task. It’s fun, to be sure, but it can be a big challenge to identify which shows to see and navigate your way through during the 13 days of performances at 13 venues across Over-the-Rhine. Is it possible to see all of the 41 shows in the primary lineup for the 14th-annual Cincy Fringe, May 30 to June 11? Or even just the 21 from producers based in Greater Cincinnati? Maybe there’s a slightly better chance of seeing the 19 productions coming here from coast to coast — from New York City and Washington, D.C. to San Francisco and Seattle, plus out-of-the-way locales in between: Iowa City, Iowa, Vermillion, S.D. and Cashiers, N.C. One international participant comes from Liverpool, England. Is your head spinning yet? Know Theatre, the Fringe organizer, has made some changes this year to make attendance a bit easier and less frenzied. “Welcome to a brand-new version of the same ol’ Fringe,” says Fringe producer Chris Wesselman. “Some of this year’s changes have been years in the making; others are brand-new concepts we’re trying for the first time.” New this year is a 60-minute time limit for each show, enabling a more standardized schedule. There’s also 15 minutes between sets of shows, “eliminating the need to run in a full-out, flush-inducing sprint to make it in time,” says the Fringe news release. “Save your breath for all the post-show hooting and hollering!” Audience members eager to experience as many shows as possible can now see three each evening — but that still means choosing which ones. Believe it or not, there could have been more. Applications came from 111 potential performers. That record number arrived in late 2016 and was reviewed by 37 local theater professionals and educators, including actors Darnell Pierre Benjamin, Maggie Lou Rader and Torie Wiggins; Know Theatre’s producing artistic director, Andrew Hungerford; D. Lynn Meyers, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati’s producing artistic director; and Joshua Steele, Memorial Hall manager. Each juror received an eight-page guide and a set of applications slotted into categories: theater, dance, musical, solo performance or interdisciplinary. Presenters could add more tags, such as “play with music,” “women’s themes” and “clowning.” A 10-word description was required, plus a fuller sketch, a script or a detailed proposal. Experience could be considered, as well as reviews of
prior work. Aspiring artists could submit music and videos (up to 10 minutes), especially if their show is unscripted — dance or improv, for example. Fringe organizers gave jurors some simple criteria, hoping their assessment would go beyond mere commentary on perceived quality. Three aspects were not scored, but they can help jurors evaluate shows: Will this work be unique to our region? Can the project be produced within the Fringe’s simple parameters? (Because shows share venues — ranging from genuine theaters and stages to churches, classrooms and storefronts — technical capabilities must be kept to the essentials.) And, finally, does the work fulfill the Fringe’s goal to present diversity, innovation and passion? In addition to the 41 primary productions, there is an array of other attractions — three FringeNext shows by high school students, a work in development and a series of special one-time events. There’s also the nightly Fringe Bar Series at Know Theatre’s Underground Bar, offering post-performance fun and games.
Thanks to jurors and guidelines, the avalanche of potential shows has narrowed, but it’s still a lot to take in. Brian Griffin, a longtime Fringe enthusiast, annually maps out a “See-It-All” program of attendance for hardy souls who are eager to catch every performance. Doing so pretty much involves treating May 30 to June 11 as a vacation, attending three shows every evening and more on the weekends and buying a “Full Frontal All-Access” pass ($250). If you’re not quite ready for Griffin’s marathon, you need to do some homework. Study the Fringe guide (published in last week’s CityBeat and available online). Once performances begin, you can read reviews posted on citybeat.com. Reviewers attend each opening night performance and write commentaries for the website, posted by noon the next day. Armed with those insights and some trusted word-of-mouth — from friends who’ve seen shows and others you might connect with at the Underground — you can easily see a half-dozen shows with a “Voyeur” pass (six tickets for $75). Or you can buy tickets one at a time for $15. For a taste of the staggering range of shows available during the 2017 Cincy Fringe, here are some productions that will be offered. By the way, there’s one more innovation for 2017: an extra day — Sunday, June 11 — designated for encore performances of the six “Pick of the Fringe” winners, announced on Saturday evening. If performers are still in Cincinnati — those who travel from one festival to another sometimes depart for their next gig — their shows will be presented on Sunday afternoon and early evening. The following shows sound good on paper, but none have actually been seen. Part of the fun of Fringe is stumbling into something you didn’t expect and being charmed. And part of the risk is going to see a show that sounds great only to find that it wasn’t what you expected. Once more: We recommend some advance study using your own filters.
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The category of theater has more shows than any other. But don’t think there’s much similarity to be found. For instance, the Cincinnati-based Performance Gallery has assembled bed (a fever dream) (opening 9 p.m.
June 1) described as “funny, surreal theater exploring the world of our beds.” People are born in beds and die in beds, and do a lot of messing around in bed. This company — the only presenter to have earned a spot in all 14 Cincy Fringe Festivals — is a collaborative of local theater artists. Another set of local creators, writer-actor Trey Tatum and director Bridget Leak, also known as Queen City Flash, will present The Disappearance of Nicole Jacobs, part 1: The Sister (opening 7:45 p.m. May 31). The drama’s summary description: “The town searched for Nicole. Her sister searched for strength.” Last year this team presented The Midnight Express, and in 2014 they were the creators of Slut Shaming, a powerful work that Xavier University restaged last fall. Fairy tales often inspire creators. Gideon Productions from Queens, N.Y. will present God of Obsidian (opening 9 p.m. May 31). A dark tale about a psychologically abusive relationship, it’s about a woman who seeks a
story that will take her back across a bridge to freedom. Gideon Productions’ playwright Mac Rogers’ two podcasts, The Message and LifeAfter, have been downloaded 6 million times. In Cait Robinson’s kates (opening 6:30 p.m. June 2), two sisters accidentally given the same name keep getting confused until their mother turns one of them into a sheep. The plot is rooted in a tale from Ireland’s Orkney Island, but the story has been reimagined as an Americana Rock dreamscape. If you’re seeking more traditional theater, you might consider Nine Short Plays for the Theatre by Joe Stollenwerk (opening 7 p.m. May 31). He was the artistic director of Cincinnati’s Ovation Theatre Company for nine years; now he teaches theater at the University of South Dakota. He says his short pieces comprise a wide range of styles, from meta-theater, autobiography and absurdism to parody and poignancy. Some Fringe pieces are rooted in real life. Samara Lerman’s Where There Were Woods (opening 9 p.m. June 6) is about a journey of survival, courage and storytelling. The Seattle-based writer based her script on stories her Ukrainian grandmother told her about escaping from oppression in the 1930s.
Dance
Dance is a component of every Fringe, and the local company Pones Inc. has been a regular participant. It’s an interesting group — they say they “use
Musicals
If musicals are your thing, Cincy Fringe will have some choices, including a family-friendly piece by Dr. Dour & Peach called The Monster Songs
Solo Performances
Solo shows have provided some of the most memorable Fringe performances over the years. They are often works by artists who showcase their piece at multiple festivals, which means they are veterans. People still recall 7(x1) Samurai, an incredibly energetic re-enactment of a classic film from 2009.
Another Cincy Fringe veteran, Paul Strickland, first charmed local audiences with his one-man show, Ain’t True and Uncle False, in 2013. He’s been back with award-winning works since then (in fact, he now lives in Greater Cincinnati and tours his creations to Fringes in Canada and elsewhere in the U.S.). For 2017 he’s created a new piece, Balls of Yarns (opening 7:45 p.m. June 1); you can be sure it will be full of puns, original songs and tall tales. Strickland calls this one “a weird-larious one-man musical adventure. Songs! Yarns! Balls!” His work has also been described as “David Lynch meets The Wizard of Oz.” Many of the solo shows that show up for Cincy Fringe from elsewhere are humor-based, but they can also have serious content. The group Solitary Project’s 8x10 (opening 7 p.m. May 31) is about the horrific effects of solitary confinement. Howard Petrick’s Fight for 52¢ (opening 7:45 p.m. May 31) also covers a serious topic: It’s the story of V. R. Dunne, the organizer of the most influential strike in U.S. history, and a major moment in the history of worker solidarity: the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike of 1934. Of course, there are dozens of other shows to explore before June 11. Keep in mind the guidelines that the jurors used to make their selections to ensure that these shows will be unique, simple to produce and full of diversity, innovation and passion. And weirdness. That’s what makes the Cincy Fringe endlessly entertaining. T h e C I N C I N N AT I F R I N G E F E S T I VA L r u n s M ay 3 0 J u n e 1 1 at va r i o u s v en u es i n d ow n tow n a n d Ov er t h e- R h i n e . T i c k e t s/m o r e i n f o : cinc y fringe . c o m.
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their bodies to speak their minds.” For Place/Setting (opening 7 p.m. June 1) they held four workshops with 14 immigrants from around the world. Their true stories have been woven into a piece about how food connects us all, and it includes an opportunity to share a meal and learn more. The show’s description says it “changes from family dinner to art gallery, cooking show to dance.” Pones’ shows are always thought-provoking and engaging. If dance appeals to you, you might also check out Lakshmi Sriraman’ Rumi’s Field (opening 6:30 p.m. June 1). Based in Lexington, Ky., she uses sacred movements from a traditional Indian dance form, Bharatanatyam, to weave stories about humans’ relationship with the elements of nature — earth, water, wind, fire and space. Sriraman, an award-winning teacher of dance, is a solo performer. The Fringe also routinely offers opportunities to teens to present FringeNext productions. Usually these come from Cincinnati-area high schools, including this year’s productions from Fort Thomas’ Highlands High School (Play for Now) and Cincinnati’s Notre Dame Academy (Reagachev). But for the first time, an out-of-town company from Lexington’s Blackbird Dance Theatre is one of the FringeNexters. It will present Reaper (opening 9 p.m. June 1), an original dance concert about facing fears and chasing desires. It’s set in Lexington and features a script by a Lexington student, music from local composers and a cast of students from Lexington high schools.
(opening 7:45 p.m. June 2). Toby and Rachel Mulford are from Washington, D.C., where they’ve done theater, storytelling, teaching, clowning and more. In this show they sing about lovesick mummies, giant lizards, bargain-hunting zombies and other creatures of the night, accompanying themselves on guitar, cello and banjo. They like to say, “The mysterious is scrutinized. The strange is eternalized. And the dangerous is epitomized.” For something completely different, consider Romeo + Juliet + Anybodys by The Functional Shoes (opening 8:30 p.m. June 6), an artistic collective from New York City. They make plays and music and put them together. Playwright Genevieve Simon, an Ohio native, played the character of Anybodys (the overlooked tomboy who is one of the Jets) in her high school’s production of West Side Story. Now she’s back in Ohio to perform her play that gives that minor character her say. Featuring original Grunge Folk music, publicity says, “This play will make you wanna laugh, squirm, dance and burn the patriarchy to the ground.”
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ART: SIGNATURE SCHEURER at the Weston Art Gallery showcases the collage art of Michael Scheurer. See review on page 25. MUSIC: Nashville Rock & Roll quartet SOUND & SHAPE plays Southgate House Revival. See interview on page 32. ONSTAGE: ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT’S END “If life is a bowl of cherries,” Erma Bombeck asked, “what am I doing in the pits?” Her witty, down-to-earth column about the grind of everyday life as a mother and housewife entertained newspaper readers three times a week for more than 30 years and she became a featured personality on TV and in national magazines. But she also crusaded for equal rights for women. “She managed to be extraordinary by being ordinary,” say playwrights Allison and Margaret Engel. Bombeck is being reincarnated at the Playhouse in the Park in this entertaining one-woman show, featuring a warm-hearted, genuine performance by actress Barbara Chisholm. Through June 18. $35-$85. Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams, cincyplay.com. — RICK PENDER EVENT: PARTY ON THE PURPLE Do your part to help maintain the Purple People Bridge by drinking and dancing at the Party on the Purple series this summer. Every Wednesday evening through Aug. 2, live bands and food trucks kick off the party, while beer, spirits and wine keep things going. Party on the Purple even has a signature purple vodka cocktail. This week, find live music by local ’80s cover group Naked Karate Girls and food from Korean barbecue favorite Red Sesame. A portion of proceeds will go toward maintaining the 120-year-old Cincinnati landmark. 5-10 p.m. Wednesday. Free. Purple People Bridge, Pete Rose Way and Third Street, Downtown, purplepeoplebridge.com. — AMANDA WEISBROD
EVENT: FUTURE SCIENCE THREE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY Local sketch comedy troupe and completely unqualified guys in lab coats, Future Science, celebrate their three-year anniversary at Woodward Theater on Friday like the noted professionals they are. With 32 shows and more than 400 sketches under their collective, singular belt, Karl Spaeth, Logan Lautzenheiser, Andy Gasper, Chris Weir and Wayne Memmott will entertain and amaze with their multimedia comedy act. A division of the Monolith Corporation, Future Science shows feature scientists and industry professionals presenting data-driven research topics, including previous explorations of chemistry, food and cryptozoology. Friday’s show, however, has no theme other than “funny.” If you aren’t interested in humor, there will also be live music from local Rock duo Suck the Honey. 8 p.m. Friday. $5. Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/futurescienceshow. — MAIJA ZUMMO
the suburbs. 6-8 p.m. Wednesday. $10; $12 at the door. Clifton Cultural Arts Center, 3711 Clifton Ave., Clifton, cliftonculturalarts.org. — MACKENZIE MANLEY
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MUSIC: The LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS play Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 34.
EVENT: BEER & BOARD GAMES More than 500 board games plus provided beer and snacks equals a good night. Come to Beer & Board Games Night at the Play Library for a fun, competitive way to spend your Thursday evening — but only if you’re 21 or older. Play favorites like Cards Against Humanity and The Settlers of Catan or choose something you’ve
never played before from their massive collection. You can also BYOB and BYOD (bring your own well-trained dog), so grab a six-pack and your furry friend on your way down. Make new friends, enjoy some brews and try not to flip the board if things get heated. 6-9 p.m. Thursday. $5. Play Library, 1517 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, playlibrary.org. — AMANDA WEISBROD
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ONSTAGE: Queen City Opera presents DON GIOVANNI with bonus pre-performance discussions about the opera’s sexual assault. See feature on page 24. MUSIC: Heart’s ANN WILSON brings her tour to UC Health Stadium in Florence, Ky. See Sound Advice on page 34.
EVENT: ART AFTER DARK: CIN CITY Peel back the veil of time and travel to the 1890s “Cin City” via the Cincinnati Art Museum as part of their Art After Dark series. Traverse Queen City streets rife with gambling, booze and prostitution, all set to a Ragtime soundtrack. At 6 and 8 p.m. local author, blogger and historian Greg Hand will present an illustrated tour of the “Naughty Nineties,” when Cincinnati was a cesspool of crime and intrigue. The event will also feature music from The Hot Magnolias, a screening of Rita Hayworth’s The Strawberry Blonde and dance performances from Pones Inc. 5-9 p.m. Friday. Free admission. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, CONTINUES ON PAGE 16
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EVENT: SUNSET SALONS: GARDEN & LANDSCAPE At the crossroads of conversation and community, Sunset Salons have found their place at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center. In Season Four, this week’s session will focus on giving your plants the love and respect they deserve, be they seeds, sprouts or succulents. The session will pool knowledge from five area garden and horticulture specialists. Mingle with attendees and specialists at 6 p.m. before the panel discussion and group activity commences. Leave armed with new tips and tricks, whether your garden is draped across an apartment deck or snuggled in
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EVENT: TASTE OF CINCINNATI This three-day fest serves up the best eats Cincinnati has to offer. With more than 100 delicious dishes, you won’t go hungry. Jamaican jerk chicken, Cajun stew and slaw, Southern barbecue, Mexican tacos, tostadas and more are on the menu. Guests can also grab beer and other booze to pair with their meals. This year will be the first ever to feature a Taste of Cincinnati cocktail: the Fifth and Vodway, made with citrus vodka, triple sec, cranberry and Sprite. Rhinegeist Food Truck Alley will bring local trucks from the Fifth Street ramp to Columbia Parkway, and Taste of Findlay Market will offer up Findlay faves on the ramp to I-71. Rock your way down Fifth to catch live performances on five stages at the longest-running free food and music festival in the nation. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday. Free admission. Fifth Street between Main and Sentinel streets, Downtown, tasteofcincinnati.com. — GRACE HILL
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Eden Park, cincinnatiartmuseum.org. — MACKENZIE MANLEY EVENT: SAAP ON TAP The Stray Animal Adoption Program, a local foster-based rescue organization, is hosting their inaugural SAAP on Tap fundraiser Friday at the Listermann Brewing Company. Pups and people are both on the guest list — dogs can enjoy treats from Brewhaus Dog Bones and Pet Wants, while their humans can indulge in bites from Renegade Street Eats, plus a silent auction of pet-friendly swag. Don’t hold back on the alcohol: A portion of proceeds from all beer, wine and cider sales will benefit SAAP. 4:30-9:30 p.m. Friday. Free entry. Listermann Brewing Company, 1621 Dana Ave., Evanston, adoptastray.com. — EMILY BEGLEY EVENT: MEMORIAL DAY DOG SHOW Does your pup have what it takes to wow a panel of expert judges? Find out at the Memorial Day Dog Show, a series of four all-breeds competitions hosted by the Warren County Kennel Club and Cincinnati Kennel Club of Ohio, Inc. For more than two
decades, the Butler County Fairgrounds have gone to the dogs for this special event, which also includes obedience trials, pet supplies and grooming equipment vendors, fair-style food and more. Best-in-show winners are crowned each day. Through Monday. Free admission. Butler County Fairgrounds, 1715 Fairgrove Ave., Hamilton, wckcohio.com. — EMILY BEGLEY COMEDY: MIKE ARMSTRONG Onstage, former Louisville police officer turned stand-up comedian Mike Armstrong likes to say things he thinks other people are thinking but are too polite to say. Inspirations run the gamut from work to family, with a fair amount of embellishment. “My son just graduated from high school,” he says. “He’s going to college at the University of Texas; he’s very smart. (Onstage) I make him sound like he’s lazy. I say ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do with him. He wants to be a garbage man because they only work one day week.’ ” Through Sunday. $20. Liberty Funny Bone, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON
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MUSIC: DIET CIG With poppy melodic instincts and punky swagger, Indie Rock duo Diet Cig was a buzz band in more ways than one when its Over Easy EP was released in 2015. The band took its fuzzy, effervescent sound and adrenaline-rush live show on the road and made good on the hype one gig at a time before decamping to the studio for its follow-up, Swear I’m Good at This, which was released this spring on Frenchkiss Records. The album offers more of what fans came to love on Over Easy, but singer/ guitarist Alex Luciano and drummer Noah Bowman also show a bit more depth in the material. While a more-than-satisfying listen, Diet Cig is best enjoyed in a live setting. The twosome is joined by Philly quartet SPORTS for its Cincinnati stop. 8 p.m. Tuesday. $12; $15 day of. Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, woodwardtheater.com. — MIKE BREEN
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MUSIC: CITY AND COLOUR plays Bogart’s. See Sound Advice on page 35.
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ONSTAGE: THE CINCY FRINGE FESTIVAL kicks off today. For tips on navigating this year’s 41 theatrical offerings, see the cover story on page 13.
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ART: OUTDOOR DUCK TAPE EXHIBITION AT UC Fine arts students and faculty members from the University of Cincinnati’s DAAP will host an opening reception for the school’s annual outdoor duct tape exhibition. Shown in various locations around campus, participants utilized thousands of rolls of Duck Tape to create three-dimensional enlargements of work on this year’s theme of “circus.” Nearly a dozen works of art will be displayed outdoors on the plaza near Nippert Stadium, UC’s REC Center and the Meyers Gallery on campus before they move to the Annual Avon Heritage Duck Tape Festival outside of Cleveland. Opening reception 3-7 p.m. Saturday. Through May 30. Free. University of Cincinnati, 2700 Bearcat Way, Clifton, uc.edu. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER
summer while supporting their city. Small businesses, artists, farmers and customers will come together on Oakley Square to sell and shop local. Find upcycled flatware and gemstones from Spoons & Such, curated vintage looks from Down to Mars Vintage and metal works from Oberaw Industries at this month’s market. Guests can even grab a bite to eat from specialty food vendors such as Five One Three Bagel Co. or Cate’s Cookie Kitchen. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Free. Oakley Square, Oakley, theoffmarket.org. — GRACE HILL
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Located in the heart of historic downtown Mariemont, Dilly offers a sizable, two-level patio resembling a quaint English courtyard — wrought-iron furniture sits on partially shaded pavestone, bordered by wood fencing and landscaped shrubs. The bistro and bottle shop serves lunch and dinner daily, with entrées such as Grilled Salmon, Crab Cakes, Ribeye and Pork Shank. Paying tribute to their start as a deli, Dilly also offers a variety of satisfying sandwiches and housemade soups, including a Bourbon Burger, Ahi Sandwich, Pulled Pork BBQ and the classic BLT. A craft beer champion, Dilly has 16 rotating beer taps, more than 100 bottles and cans, and a full list of handpicked wine selections by the glass, along with four wines on tap. Guests can also choose a bottle of wine from their in-house bottle shop for retail price plus a small $5 corkage fee. On Monday and Tuesday, there’s no corkage fee on any non-list wine from the bottle shop. There’s music six nights a week, a Prime Rib special Tuesday, Wing Night on Wednesday and wine and Jazz on Thursday. Delivery via UberEATS. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. MondayThursday; 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday. 6818 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, 513-561-5233, dillycafe.com.
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Hofbräuhaus’ large rectangular patio seats up to 350 guests. A relaxed atmosphere is established with lighting, a gravel floor, tables and benches. A portion of the patio is covered, and trees provide additional shade. The outdoor space is the largest biergarten in the area and features cornhole, giant Jenga and Hammerschlagen, a nail-driving game that originated in Germany. The restaurant is known for GermanAmerican cuisine, and customers come for the beer, wursts and schnitzels. Hofbräuhaus specialties include Sauerbraten, Braised Classic Pork Shank and Dunkel Bourbon Salmon. Kitchen hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday-Tuesday; 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday; 11 a.m.11 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Hours of operation: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday; 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Thursday; 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. 200 E. Third St., Newport, Ky., 859-491-7200, hofbrauhausnewport.com.
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Jekyll
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Jekyll’s 1,200-square-foot covered patio — the largest patio in the Central Business District — overlooks Fountain Square and accommodates more than 100 people. The Square’s massive jumbotron is visible from all seats, whether you choose a picnic table, high top or a place at the full-service bar. Live music takes place Thursday through Sunday. Jekyll Hour — “it’s just happy hour the Jekyll way” — takes place 4-8 p.m. seven days a week. Order favorites like tacos, sliders, mac and cheese, Chipotle braised chicken and short rib. 3 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-2:30 a.m. Sunday. 28 Fountain Square, Downtown, 513-621-6968, jekyllcincy.com.
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K aze Kaze’s quaint, private outdoor patio is perfect for both large parties and couples or groups seeking a happy hour refuge from the hustle and bustle of OTR. The covered section includes a bar and high-top table seating, while the beautifully landscaped open-air half includes even more seating, some around fire pits. The patio, which seats 100, has a retro-modern feel, plays a variety of hip music and is private from the Vine Street sidewalk. Kaze offers happy hour specials on its Japanese izakaya-style menu, and patrons can enjoy half-priced sushi for Saturday lunch and halfpriced wine all day Sunday on the patio as well.
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4-10 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday (dinner); 4-11 p.m. Friday (dinner); noon-11 p.m. Saturday (lunch and dinner); noon-9 p.m. Sunday (lunch and dinner). 1400 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-898-7991, kazeotr.com.
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Keystone Bar & Grill Keystone Bar & Grill has three locations. The patio in Covington wraps around the side and front of the establishment, with umbrella tables to accommodate 65-plus people. Keystone Clifton’s patio can seat around 50 people with large canopies overhead for cover and a great view of the lively U Square @ the Loop quad and the hustle and bustle of Clifton. Keystone Hyde Park is the largest patio of the Keystones and sits directly on Erie Avenue. The tables have umbrellas and can seat approximately 75 people. For an elevated view of Erie Avenue, ask our hostess to seat you on the second-story balcony, which accommodates 20. Keystone Bar & Grill specializes in made-from-scratch items, including our famous mac and cheese. Brunch is served every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-2.p.m., and features $14 mimosa pitchers, making our patio an ideal spot to relax on a leisurely weekend. Keystone Covington: 313 Greenup St., Covington, Ky., 859-261-6777. Keystone Clifton: 249 Calhoun St., Clifton Heights, 513-221-5397. Keystone Hyde Park: 3384 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-321-2150. For kitchen hours and other specials, visit keystonebar.com.
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McCormick & Schmick’s
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McCormick & Schmick’s offers a smaller, quaint covered patio with seven tables, comfortable seating and a street-side view across from Fountain Square. Twenty-eight guests can be accommodated at a time. The restaurant is known for its fresh seafood and steaks, and happy hour takes place on the patio 4-6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 4-10 p.m. Sunday. Because of its proximity to Fountain Square, there tends to be a lot of energy, and the Square’s entertainment is also McCormick & Schmick’s. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday. 21 E. Fifth St., Downtown, 513-721-9339, mccormickandschmicks.com.
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The National Exempl ar The National Exemplar offers a perfectly sized patio on the brick sidewalk outside the historic Mariemont Inn Best Western, right in the heart of Mariemont Square. Each table has its own large umbrella to provide shade as needed so guests can enjoy the hustle and bustle of our picturesque town square. Five tables of four are available for guests to enjoy, as well as seating around a fireplace, soft seating for six and cocktail seating for four, ensuring guests can enjoy outdoor dining for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks or weekend brunch. Guests enjoy a bit of privacy with beautiful planters and a clearly defined patio area, while still being able to enjoy the neighborhood. Wrought iron tables and chairs are shaded with oversized umbrellas, and soft, comfortable communal seating is available around a fire pit. Guests enjoy the fire pit, tiki torches and the perfect amount of lighting after the sun goes down. 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. daily (breakfast and lunch); 5-9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday (dinner); 5-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday (dinner); 5-9 p.m. Sunday (dinner). Southerby’s Bar hours: 4 p.m.-close daily. 6880 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, 513-271-2103, nationalexemplar.com.
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Pompilios Restaur ant Pompilios is a casual, family, Italian-American restaurant specializing in Italian-American cuisine: pasta and meatballs, Italian sausage, lasagna, fettuccine alfredo, chicken parmigiana, risotto balls, toasted raviolis, etc. We also have sandwiches and a kids menu, and a specialty bar menu with flatbreads and specialty burgers. We offer music outside on Friday and Saturday nights, weather permitting. The outdoor scene is intimate in parts, spacious and energetic in others. A beautiful tree spreads over some of the dining area and offers shade on warmer days. The covered dining area is a great place to take in a bocce game or a sporting event on TV. We have a weekly happy hour 3-6 p.m. Monday through Friday with discounted food and drinks. On the patio, we have a specialty drink menu and a three-tap beer system featuring our Bocce Brew by Braxton Brewing and seasonal beer by Braxton Brewing and other local brewers. We work hard to replicate the warm, family atmosphere that has been our restaurant’s trademark for nearly 85 years. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday. 600 Washington Ave., Newport, Ky., 859-581-3065, pompilios.com.
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Prime Cincinnati Prime Cincinnati’s rectangular, street-side patio is an extension of the Prime experience — enjoy a cigar and some cocktails or a full dining experience. The sophisticated patio seats 50 people at woven seating and lounge options with a contemporary concrete floor and umbrellas for shade. Enjoy steak, seafood and wine from the lounge menu while listening to atmospheric music outdoors. It’s also a perfect place for a glass of wine or bite before or after a show at the Aronoff Center, which is basically right across the street.
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For happy hour, from 4-9 p.m., enjoy $5 cocktails, including a blood orange cosmopolitan, old fashioned and gin chiller, plus $5-$7 pours of house red and white wines and discounted domestic and craft beers. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday; 3-11 p.m. Saturday. 580 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-579-0720, primecincinnati.com.
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The Pub at Rookwood Mews
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The Pub at Rookwood Mews offers traditional British cuisine in addition to wraps/sandwiches/burgers. We are best known for our fish and chips, shepherd’s pie and bangers and mash. We also serve brunch on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Happy hour is 3-7 p.m. Monday through Friday. The patio is completely covered and open rain or shine with a 75-person seating capacity and plenty of standing room and flexibility for large parties. There are 12 low tables and five high-top tables, a brick floor with sliding doors to the outside and two couches for a relaxed comfortable seating option. The patio is surrounded by plants. We have two smart TVs we can run with or without sound. There is live music outside, mostly on the weekend. Overall, it is an upbeat, fun vibe that matches the inside of the restaurant. Hours: 11 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Friday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday (kitchen closes 1 hour prior to closing daily). 2692 Edmondson Road, Norwood, 513-841-2748, experiencethepub.com/rookwood.
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Sammy’s Cr aft Burgers & Beers While not specific to the patio, the owner Sammy has a great “American Dream” story. After an injury cut short Sammy’s professional soccer career in his home country of Mexico he moved to the United States at 25 and opened his first restaurant within three years. Sammy’s Craft Burgers & Beer offers great burgers and a large selection of craft beers in bottles and on draft. A best-selling favorite is the “Bacon Jelly Burger,” which includes onions marinated in wine, spring green mix, gouda and a housemade bacon jelly. Sammy’s offers a burger of the month, which features a rotating burger at a discounted price. Tom Bemmes performs magic tricks at Sammy’s every Thursday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. P H O T O : K ho i N g u y e n
Blue Ash hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. 4767 Creek Road, Blue Ash, 513-745-9484. Mason hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-midnight FridaySaturday; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. 6691 Western Row, Mason, 513-486-3772, sammyscbb.com.
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Taste of Belgium at The Banks
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Taste of Belgium at The Banks has two patios. One sits along Rosa Parks, facing the Freedom Center. The smaller of our patios is sunny during the morning/early afternoon but offers a nice break from the heat in the evening. The second patio runs the length of the bistro along Freedom way — sunny for most of the day and heated for those chilly evenings, it offers a terrific view of the Roebling Bridge. We play music on the patio, but the atmosphere of the bistro is consistent inside and out. The glass walls of the bistro actually slide open, so we can create a more open/outdoor feel to the inside space! We strive to provide a comfortable yet cool and hip vibe for our guests. We have the best seats for viewing the Friday night fireworks at the Great American Ball Park — a great way to end a late dinner or enjoy one of our house-made desserts. 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday; 7 a.m.-10 p.m. TuesdayThursday; 7 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday; 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. 16 W. Freedom Way, Downtown, 513-396-5800, authenticwaffle.com.
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In a Museum Very, Very Nearby
Cinematic wardrobe exhibit Star Wars and the Power of Costume arrives this week BY SEAN M. PETERS
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he Cincinnati Museum Center has always exhibited artifacts from a long time ago, but starting this week they’ll also have items from a galaxy far, far away. Star Wars and the Power of Costume opens Thursday. The exhibit features original props, costumes and concept art from the celebrated film saga, including fan favorites such as the golden bikini worn by Princess Leia on Jabba the Hutt’s barge in Return of the Jedi and an original Chewbacca costume made with yak hair. The original C-3PO costume worn by Anthony Daniels in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, along with the R2-D2 controlled by Kenny Baker in the first Star Wars movie, 1977’s A New Hope, will also be on display. The traveling exhibit comes to Cincinnati after an incredibly successful run at the Denver Art Museum, which added an extra week to the show and extended its operating hours to accommodate demand. “Families in America today are looking for ways to entertain and educate kids, so it’s great to go to an exhibit at the museum with Star Wars; it’s a win-win,” says Laela French, director of archives for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The Lucas museum, founded by George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, has developed the exhibit in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The costumes are on loan from the museum. Items included in the exhibit showcase the exceptional artistry needed to create beloved characters such as Princess Leia, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker — characters that have remained pop culture icons for 40 years. “This tour is about the creative process,” French says. “Costume doesn’t just come out of thin air. How does George create a character and how do you dress that character to reflect who it is? Back in the day, Darth Vader was menacing. Some kids think he’s cute now, but when he first walked onto the screen, people were scared. Why were they scared? Two reasons: the music and his outfit. That’s costume design. How do you get there? How did they know how to do that? That’s the creative process.” Darth Vader’s costume is highly influenced by samurai armor from Japan’s feudal era — an era that was the setting for Akira Kurosawa’s classic films Seven Samurai and Hidden Fortress. “George was directly inspired by Kurosawa’s films, by samurai,” French says. “What is a samurai? In many cases they’re going out to defend people. But then there’s Darth Vader, the samurai who’s gone bad.”
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Lucas was such a fan of Kurosawa that he tried to cast Toshiro Mifune, the samurai protagonist in many of Kurosawa’s films. Lucas offered Mifune the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi and also Darth Vader before the first Star Wars was filmed, but the Japanese actor declined both. Padmé Amidala, played by Natalie Portman in the 1999-2005 Star Wars prequel trilogy —The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith — wore a different costume for every scene. All of those designs were derived from a wide range of cultures and, as a result, her wardrobe was one of the most visually striking aspects of the series. The attention to detail on her costumes is a major draw to fans of this exhibit. “Each outfit is telling a miniature story within itself,” French says. “I think, especially with a costume exhibit, you might get a slightly older demographic, maybe folks who aren’t as versed in the science-fiction world, coming through. They see the artistry of the costumes — the level of detail put in is astounding — and we’ll get some converts in that way.” French says one of the delightful results of the incredible work put into the costumes is that some attendees — like costume players, aka “cosplayers” — linger for hours in the same room as they attempt to document every unique detail of a costume. As cosplay gains more recognition, it’s not uncommon to see designers spend a lot of time in the exhibit, looking for inspiration in the garments to take home and recreate. Han Solo’s iconic outfit was directly borrowed from Western gunslingers. By dressing him as such, his gruffness and cocksure personality were immediately established before he even said a word. “Han’s pants are right off of the (19thcentury American) Union soldiers,” French says. “They’re identical. His shirt is an old Western-style shirt called ‘The Custer’ after General Custer. Han really is straight from the Old West.” The exhibit contains items from the first seven Star Wars films and fans of the series should be satisfied with the variety. The humble robes of Obi-Wan Kenobi, worn by Sir Alec Guinness in A New Hope, make a dramatic contrast to the elaborate senate gowns worn by Amidala and Palpatine in the prequel trilogy. “In the exhibition, there’s a section on Palpatine — we call it the ‘Devolution of Palpatine,’ ” French says. “He starts off like a normal senator; then he morphs into the Emperor. You see from the timeline of his costumes how the mannequins get more
Harrison Ford’s iconic Han Solo costume was borrowed from Western gunslingers. and more hunched over, they’re more creepy as his inner-self comes out.” There’s no denying the ubiquitous influence Star Wars has over us. With the franchise back in cinemas after the Walt Disney Company’s relaunch of the brand (The Force Awakens, Rogue One, et al), fans have much to absorb. Star Wars and the Power of Costume gives audiences a chance to appreciate the finer aspects of the craftwork — details that might be missed in the frenzy of a battle scene.
“What makes this exhibit fun is that it’s like pressing pause on the movie and being able to just walk up and look all over these outfits, to see the detail put into them,” French says. “It’s like a fashion exhibit. It’s exquisite.” STAR WARS AND THE POWER OF COSTUME is on display at the Cincinnati Museum Center Thursday through Oct. 1. Adult tickets are $24; $16 for children ages 3-12. Member and senior discounts available. For tickets and more info, visit cincymuseum.org/star-wars.
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during August. Merry Wives, with the comic braggart Falstaff as its central character, will be this summer’s new production. Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, which stages its big productions at downtown’s immense Taft Theatre during the school year, is doing something new this summer. Using the 152-seat theater in its new office/classroom building on Red Bank Road in Hyde Park, they’ll present Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat between June 2 and July 9, includ-
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ing 10 a.m. performances on Fridays, as well as matinees on Saturdays and Sundays. Community theaters, produced by enthusiastic, talented volunteers who love to put on shows, are busy in the summer. Here’s a list of local productions to consider at various neighborhood venues: It’s Only a Play (June 2-10) by Middletown Lyric Theatre; The Music Man (June 8-17) by East Side Players at the Blue Ash Amphitheatre; Seven Deadly Sins (June 30-July 2) by Village Players in Fort Thomas; Godspell (July 7-23) by Mariemont Players at its Walton Creek Theatre; The Toxic Avenger (July 7-22) by Sunset Players at the Dunham Recreation Center; The Wizard of Oz (July 14-22) by Mason Players; the regional premiere of Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach (Aug. 4-12) at Beechmont Players at Anderson Center Theatre; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Aug. 10-19) by East Side Players at the Blue Ash Amphitheatre; and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Aug. 11-27) by The Drama Workshop at its Glenmore Playhouse in Cheviot. That’s a full slate of summer theater! CONTACT RICK PENDER: rpender@citybeat.com
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Wondering where to get your theater fix when several Cincinnati theaters go dark over the summer? The annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival, produced by Know Theatre, offers an avalanche of theatrical creativity to keep you occupied during early June. And the Over-the-Rhine company actually keeps at it during the summer, with a full-scale production of Marian: The True Story of Robin Hood (July 29-Aug. 19), a gender-bending reinvention of the legend. Know’s zany Serials! will also be around on Monday evenings in August. For more standard fare, head to Cincinnati Landmark Productions’ Warsaw Federal Incline Theater in East Price Hill for its Summer Classics Season, kicking off this week with the 1955 baseball-themed musical Damn Yankees (through June 18). Besides the regular cast, featuring William Jackson and Rachel Perin, both Pete Rose and Marty Brennaman have recorded cameos — Rose as the voice of the baseball commissioner; Brennaman as a sportscaster. “If you’re doing a musical about baseball on the West Side of Cincinnati, you had better get the baseball parts right,” says Rodger Pille, communications/development manager for Cincinnati Landmark Productions. “So who better to infuse the show with Cincinnati baseball credibility than the Hit King and the Hall of Fame voice of the Reds?” Also at the Incline are Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, a light-hearted ghost story from 1945 (June 28-July 23), and the delightful tongue-in-cheek musical The Drowsy Chaperone (Aug. 2-27), a 2006 Broadway hit spoofing a fictional extravaganza from 1928. At the Otto M. Budig Theater at The Carnegie in Covington, you can see another audience-pleaser, The Full Monty (Aug. 12-27), about some laid-off steelworkers who decide to do a strip act at a local club to make ends meet. Based on a popular 1997 film, the musical was an award-winning Broadway show in 2001. Northern Kentucky University’s summer dinner theater, Commonwealth Theatre Company, presents two shows (preceded by meals). First up, the hilarious retelling of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (June 7-25), enacted by four frenzied actors. It will be followed by Burgertown (July 5-23), a musical about the fast-food world written by NKU theater professor Ken Jones with music by his colleague Jamey Strawn. These productions often sell out well in advance, so reservations should be made early. Cincy Shakes is not staging a summer show, but it will present its annual Shakespeare in the Park Tour. Outdoor performances of trimmed-down, portable productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor will be performed for free in parks all across the Tristate
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The character of Don Juan as a sinful womanizer with a sparkle in his eye, a beautiful lady at his side and a seductive way with words that makes any woman swoon is well established in the arts. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the famous opera Don Giovanni about him. It premiered in 1787 and has remained popular. The Don Juan legend, penned originally in Spain in the 17th century, always ends with the libertine paying a spiritual price for his sexual rampages and playfully rude ways: He’s doomed to eternity in hell. And in the opera, Don Giovanni faces the same fate. At his worst, Don Giovanni has always been portrayed as a character that shows us our brutal but true selves — how badly we lust, how much we trick others to get what we want, how we sweet-talk those we desire. At best, Don Giovanni is the character we love to hate and hate to love, the epitome of the phrase “boys will be boys.” But Isaac Selya, artistic director and conductor of Queen City Opera’s fully staged performances of Don Giovanni Friday and Sunday at the Arts Center at Dunham Theater, summarizes the plot differently. “The opera deals with a rich young nobleman who uses his money and influence to manipulate and take advantage of women,” Selya says. Holding a doctorate of musical arts with specialization in orchestral conducting from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music — his lecture-recital was “Fingi la Voce Mia: Mozart’s Baritone Roles as Depictions of Lechery” — Selya talks about the characters of Don Giovanni as old friends that he knows, unfortunately, all too well. “The opera’s been around for a long time and the music is popular,” he says. “After reading through, it became very clear to me that the original intention of the authors was that this is not a hero. This guy is not seducing women with his charm. He may be nice, he may be good-looking, but it is clear he is using status, money and the threat of force. After all, at the end he’s dragged down to hell.” Queen City Opera, founded in 2012 to provide professional opportunities for emerging talent, advertises the opera online as, “A dark comedy about a sleazy young nobleman who receives a supernatural punishment for committing rape and murder. Featuring the best music ever.” Introducing the word “rape” to the plot of Don Giovanni is a bombshell when compared to how the opera has often been presented. “If you market an opera as the sexy young guy seducing sexy young women, that sells tickets — but it does a disservice,” Selya says. “If you strip away the marketing and traditions and look at what the opera is about, you see the violence.” When Queen City Opera first considered
putting on Don Giovanni this season, it took into consideration the current cultural climate of the United States. “We knew how we presented this opera in this culture would be very important,” Selya says. “What rich men can do and say about women is front and center in politics right now.” It was this thought that led Queen City Opera to pair with the education depart-
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ments of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio and Jewish Family Services to make its presentation a teaching opportunity. An hour before Friday’s 8 p.m. performance, as well as an hour before Sunday’s 3 p.m. show, agency representatives will present discussions about consent and sexual assault, preparing operagoers to notice red flags and non-consensual situations in the opera. With the help of a health educator, Queen City Opera has already lead advance workshops titled “Seduction? Or Rape?” These included explanations of what constitutes consent, followed by excerpts of Don Giovanni performed by the cast. After the excerpts, viewers were asked if what had happened was consensual or not. “We had a fascinating discussion with people that weren’t your regular opera-going crowds,” Selya says. “They got really into the opera in a way people frequently don’t. “Don Giovanni has universal truths. It’s sad that they’re still relevant, but you can still parse it with our modern viewpoint.” DON GIOVANNI will be performed 8 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Arts Center at Dunham Theater in Price Hill. Pre-concert discussions are an hour earlier. Tickets: giovanni.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006. More info: queencityopera.com.
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Michael Scheurer’s Keen Eye for Collage BY KATHY SCHWARTZ
finds purpose again. The result is an abstract that means nothing and absolutely everything at once. “He’s playing with the immediate perception of what collage should be,” O’Donnell says. “And that, to me, is signature Scheurer.” Scheurer is mostly self-taught. He took classes as a youngster at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, but studied textile design at
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the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. He gained notice with a solo show at the Contemporary Arts Center in 1988 and in the past eight years has been exhibiting more frequently. He works amid piles of stuff in his apartment. “I care about the art like crazy, like a religious kind of devotion,” he says. “I see old work and I want to change it and I can’t.” Sometimes he takes his “babies” with him when away from home, just to make sure he is ready to let them go. Childhood pen-and-ink drawings included in the retrospective suggest that as far back as 1970 Scheurer recognized he was an artist. His “Ziggy”-like cartoon character from those days sits befuddled amid arithmetic problems. Scheurer cleverly initialed and dated his work with an equation, but he wouldn’t follow in his dad’s footsteps as a math professor. “It’s not like I’m going to be deprogrammed and become an accountant,” Scheurer says. “When you are visual like that, you cannot go back.” SIGNATURE SCHEURER runs through June 18 at the Weston Art Gallery. Free. Gallery talk with Michael Scheurer 7 p.m. May 24. More info: westonartgallery.com.
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From his early ink drawings to his bulbous-nosed paintings, his quirky girl portraits and sublime mixed-media collages, Michael Scheurer’s creative output has been marked by ingenuity, wit, detail and balance. Again and again, the Cincinnati native has proven he has the artist’s eye. “I’m always telling people, ‘Check that out. Look at this,’ ” Scheurer, 62, says in a phone interview. “As an artist, you’re pointing out things that might be subtle and they wouldn’t have noticed.” Now, the Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center downtown has created its own collage from nearly 50 years of material. Signature Scheurer is a retrospective curated by assistant director Kelly O’Donnell, who has been archiving Scheurer’s work. All-seeing eyeballs — glass beads, cutouts from medical texts and old portraits, even stand-ins like a seashell, a compass and lures — are prominent in Scheurer’s art. There is so much to take in — from the big-picture view of the artist’s evolution to the little treasures hidden in plain sight — that you owe it to yourself to see the exhibit twice. Immediately, you meet the gaze of a big blue eye staring from a surreal collage that’s been reproduced as wallpaper. Then you see another eye protruding from a framed assemblage that’s hung against this unsettling motif. It wasn’t until a second visit that I noticed the numbers on the frame — perhaps remnants of a clock — and the faded work of a previous artist on Scheurer’s makeshift canvas. The Clifton resident sees possibilities others don’t as he collects castoffs in his work as an antiques dealer and specialist in tribal art. Scheurer bought file cabinets from a Northside monument maker because he was drawn to a special feature of their contents — the linen backing on old pictures of sample tombstones. He flipped the photos over and gave the mounts a second life as canvases for his Paint Series, with the headstones’ manufacturing specifications peeking between black splatters and becoming part of his art. “I think nothing makes Michael Scheurer happier than to play with expectations,” O’Donnell says. Eyes glued onto a Girl Series portrait might glance in the “wrong” direction, so they appear to follow the viewer. During the show’s installation, gallery director Dennis Harrington learned that he had hung one ink-covered collage incorrectly — yes, Scheurer did intend for the boys’ faces on a bit of ephemera to be upside down. As happenstance (or the appearance of happenstance) guides Scheurer in making a collage, he might paste an animal snipped from a coloring book next to an exquisite botanical drawing, both atop a torn page of foreign 19th-century handwriting. Each piece loses its context for a moment, then
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Who’s Afraid of ‘The Lovers’?
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BY T T STERN-ENZI
Michael (Tracy Letts) and Mary (Debra There’s no such fear or concern in the Winger) have been married for decades, and case of The Lovers, and it even finds the bluesy, sensual thrill is most definitely ways to address very contemporary gone. Forget the look of love; these two relationship challenges. The idea of the can barely stand to look in one another’s Me Generation takes a giant leap forward direction. They get by solely through time in the social-media age, allowing us to spent with their respective lovers, Lucy actively pursue self-fulfillment at a touch (Melora Walters), a volatile dancer, and or swipe of a screen, which we tend to do Robert (Aidan Gillen), a frustrated writer. on a perpetual basis. It is curious that each of them sought out On one hand, Michael and Mary take artistic types for their assignations, a sign advantage of texting to set up their trysts maybe that they were looking for that truly with their adulterous partners, and eventucombustible spark that could ignite their bone-dry embers. But somewhere along the way, even those relationships evolved. Longings for comfortable routines emerged as the new flame leads to that familiar warm glow. And soon, Michael and Mary believe it is only a matter of time before they build up the nerve to ask each other for a divorce so that they can move on with their lives. But writer-director Azazel Jacobs (Terri) pulls the rug out from under them by having them Debra Winger and Tracy Letts are the reluctant Lovers. embark on an emotionally P H O T O : r o b b r o s e n f e l d / c o u r t e s y a 24 dangerous affair — with each other. With such an ally to tempt and tease each other. But they obvious sitcom premise, The Lovers surprisare also holdovers from an earlier, less techingly rips off that surface sheen to reveal a nologically impersonal time, unwilling to let sharply drawn complex human drama about go of their lingering sense of commitment the ebb and flow of adult engagement. to their shared past and its quaint familial There are moments, captured in a mores. We see it in their similar decisions lingering, slightly menacing glance from for having that fateful discussion about endeither Michael or Mary, where you start ing their marriage. They want to wait until to wonder if their disinterest might turn after their son Joel (Tyler Ross) and his sour and deadly. We’ve seen that onscreen girlfriend Erin (Jessica Sula) visit. before, of course. Times when the night Things become much more complicated was far from tender between George (Richwhen, somehow, their passion for one ard Burton) and Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) another returns. Letts’ and Winger’s characin Mike Nichols’ classic 1966 Who’s Afraid ters express not only surprise at the thoughts of Virginia Woolf, where they bickered and and stirring sensations but a palpable fear. sank their teeth into their softest and most Their characters see their plans on the verge vulnerable parts. of being usurped by…rekindled love. That film — a tour de force that seized The delicious irony just might be that their five Academy Awards out of 13 nominations quite organic reacquainting period isn’t all —was, without a doubt, a sign of its times; that different from the way social media the uneasy transition from the cool façade of can also become a tool or a sensual aid for the 1950s into the tumultuous, roiling social people of a certain age. It starts with a desire upheaval that was the 1960s (which came to to reconnect with old friends and leads to a head in the early 1970s). In terms of examitheir thinking of each other with intensified nations of marital discord, we didn’t see fascination until they boldly reach out. Soon, another generation-defining moment in film their unease gives way to acceptance and until Danny DeVito’s The War of the Roses in the chance to start anew. There is less fear in 1989, but that movie focused on the waning crossing the same river twice. days of the greed-is-good era. There was certainly a potent and compelling wedge The Lovers dives headlong into these established between Oliver Rose (Michael tricky waters, showing us that passion Douglas) and his wife Barbara (Kathleen can make strong and fearless swimmers Turner) in that film, but at times it felt like of us all. (Opens Friday at the Mariemont we lost touch with the characters. Theatre.) (R) Grade: A-
ON SCREEN Tower of Food BY T T STERN-ENZI
We live in a world dominated by an endless parade of contestants striving to become top chefs, iron chefs, stars on various food channels, cupcake bakers and cons scamming judges into thinking they’re cooks. And then there are the traveling road shows with cooks and chefs sampling exotic foods while offering cultural commentary straight out of a faded pocket guidebook. It seems quite unfair to lay the blame for the dawn of the celebrity chef on Jeremiah Tower, but a new documentary, Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, by Lydia Tenaglia (a four-time Primetime Emmy-winning producer of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown) more than flirts with this notion. More specifically, it lays out a narrative arc that’s similar in its nods to the sensational aspects of the story, to the trends at play all over current reality television shows. We see Tower, a mysterious and striking figure, alone against epic backdrops — in a random city or set before some wide expanse. Who is/was this dashing man? His story emerges through voiceovers and interviews with chefs who idolize him, colleagues, contemporaries and friends (all of whom wind up admitting that they never really knew him beyond the facts and details of his accomplishments). Tenaglia spices things up with re-enactments from his childhood (with Rocston Issock standing) as he enjoyed an upbringing in hotel luxury suites and on ocean liners where upscale food served as his sole lifeline. That exposure fueled his culinary passion. Leaping from preparing fine dining experiences for college friends to damned near taking over Berkeley, Calif.’s Chez Panisse restaurant from its renowned founder, Alice Waters, to leaving a defining imprint on the American food scene during the 1980s with San Francisco’s Stars (and its subsequent iterations across the globe), Tower was the first chef that people outside the food world knew about. But his story, at its core, is a cautionary tale. It is a reminder that what made him so special was his devotion to food. He was at his best when driven by an attention to the details of taste. (Opens Friday at the Esquire Theatre.) (R) Grade: B+
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‘The Americans’ Evolves into a Family Drama BY JAC KERN
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When watching this year’s premiere of the connect to her in any way, turning him into long-running KGB spy saga The Americans a distant stranger. Now Stan’s dating Renee (Season Finale, 10 p.m. Tuesday, FX), it (Laurie Holden, who appeared with Emmbecame immediately clear that this season erich in The Walking Dead’s first season), would be delving into new territory, literally a seemingly perfect woman he met at the and figuratively. Season 5 finds Philip (Matgym (and who has triggered the Jennings’ thew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri spy-dar). Stan has more luck opening up Russell), Russian spies posing as married to Renee, and Tuesday’s finale finds them travel agents with two children in suburban discussing the idea of him stepping away Washington, D.C., working with new people from the FBI. (a young Vietnamese agent posing as their The season also splits its time in the son — a first), taking on new missions (weaU.S. and in Russia more than ever before. ponized wheat!) and juggling more family drama. Of course, much of that at-home conflict comes from the Jennings’ teen daughter Paige. Unlike her increasingly absent younger brother Henry, Paige knows about her parents’ work with the KGB (to an extent). At first, she takes it as a hard blow, unwisely turning to her pastor Tim with the information as she struggles to cope with the news. But this season, we see a new strength in Paige. Traumatized by a mugging Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell are growing closer as a couple. last season (and by watching PHOTO : eric liebowitz/courtesy of f x her mom destroy the assailant), Paige agrees to some First, we follow Philip’s grown son Mischa, at-home self-defense. The scenes throughout the season of this mother and daughter kickwho he only recently found out about, on ing ass in the garage are exactly what fans a difficult and ultimately fruitless journey love about this show. Paige even begins to to the States to meet his father. Later, the redeem her previous pastor-confiding ways attention turns to Oleg (Costa Ronin), who’s by snooping on Tim’s family during babysitmoved home from the U.S. following his ting sessions. By season’s end, she’s poised to brother’s death. The latter storyline grows move on altogether from Tim and the church. laborious as the season unfolds. Between Ironically, as Paige becomes more clued the long scenes in Russia and the dark, in and comfortable with her parents’ work, dismal setting, Oleg is just too far removed Philip and Elizabeth consider walking away. from the action stateside to feel relevant. As an actual couple, the Jennings have grown The Americans is certainly a slow-burnleaps and bounds from their arrangement ing drama — this season especially — graduin Season 1. It’s clear Philip always loved ally moving away from action-packed scenes Elizabeth while she saw their partnership as and focusing more on internal drama. But a necessity of the job. Each season has seen Season 5 does end on a strong note, perfectly them getting closer as a real couple (mimicksetting up next year’s sixth and final season. ing their off-screen relationship), a sweet At its heart, The Americans is a study and welcome storyline that culminates in a of relationships: between spouses, work secret warehouse wedding complete with partners, parents and children. And despite a Russian Orthodox priest, new rings and the season’s plot missteps, strong acting by vows that reflect their real names, Mikhail the entire cast makes exploring these charand Nadezhda. This renewed connection acters’ relationships even more compelling comes at a time when complicated missions than a spy shootout. make them question everything. As Philip and Elizabeth consider their family’s future and plot a possible exit from House of Cards (Season Premiere, Tuesday, their dangerous work, Stan Beeman (Noah Netflix) – Season 5 picks back up amid a Emmerich), their FBI agent neighbor, is in tense presidential election between the a similar boat. Stan’s marriage fell apart Underwoods and Republican hotshot Will earlier in the series, mainly due to the fact Conway and fallout from a terrorist group. that he didn’t share with his wife. The secreCONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern tive nature of his job made it hard for him to
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Tacos, Tortas and Texas Toast
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B&A’s menu ranges from breakfast, burritos and hot dogs to Mexican-inspired munchies. gravy flight (one biscuit, three types of gravies), chilaquiles and pancakes. The best part about B&A is their focus on vegan and vegetarian items. We started off with the vegetarian Dia de Los Nachos ($10): tortilla chips smothered with black bean purée, refried beans, tomatoes, a scoop of dark green guacamole, pickled jalapeño and queso drizzle. Our server referred to them as a “boatload of nachos” but these were actually pretty manageable; we hoovered them up and were still hungry for our entrées. I tried the open-faced Viva Vegetales ($7), a vegetarian dish, but I added seared tuna for an extra dollar. You can also add housemade salsas and cheese, such as cotija and queso fresco. My veggies — roasted poblano, corn, black beans — thatched a hibiscus-corn tortilla, which I had not seen anywhere before. The pale violet-hued tortilla tasted slightly sweet, and I liked the idea of different flavors of corn tortillas. My one issue was with the tuna: it could have been fresher. Another innovation B&A offers is the Have 2 Half ($11), a choice of two halfsized menu items: a sandwich/torta, soup or salad. My guest chose half of the Inside Out Pimento Cheese sandwich and half of the Chi-Pollito sandwich. For the former,
cheese was melted on the outside of Texas Toast, giving the sandwich a crunch. For the latter, the chicken was spicy but not too spicy, and came topped with Swiss cheese, chipotle aioli and smoked bacon on a bolillo bun. We also tried the housemade potato chips: mandoline-sliced potatoes lightly fried and puffed. For dessert, I sussed out their counter pastry case filled with glazed donuts, sticky buns, Derby bars and scones. The Derby bar was leftover from Derby weekend and was similar to Derby pie (pecans, chocolate chips) in bar form. It tasted like a satisfying cookie. When we finished eating, owner Jim Kerns stopped by our table to pick our brain. He wanted an honest opinion of the food so he could improve customers’ experiences. He asked if the pricing of the
dishes corresponded to the amount of food received. (Yes, it did.) I told him the tuna could have been better and he took the comment to heart. Employees here take customer service so seriously that they respond to every Yelp review, whether it’s positive or not. Since I’ve eaten there, B&A has introduced weekly specials: Meatloaf Mondays and Taco Tuesdays, and BOGO craft soda happy hour 3-6 p.m. Monday through Friday. The walk-up window could benefit from staying open past midnight to satisfy the bar crowd. But until then, I would recommend grabbing a snack at B&A and then heading over to Pleasantry for a glass of natural wine. The restaurant is a welcome arrival to the blossoming neighborhood — even if it’s still figuring out some of the details.
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n April, B&A Street Kitchen quietly opened on Race Street, near Pleasantry and Taft’s Ale House. The menu consists of Mexican-influenced comfort food, everything from tacos and hot dogs on bolillo buns to 16 craft sodas on draft. From 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. daily, B&A operates as a counter-order daytime diner, and after hours Thursday through Sunday it opens its walk-up window until 8 p.m. so passersby can order a more limited menu of their Southwestern fare. Gomez Salsa (and before that Lucy Blue pizza in the same location) popularized the walk-up food window in Over-the-Rhine, and the concept proved to be so successful that other restaurants in the city, like Hotel Covington, have been installing them. But it remains to be seen if B&A’s window can draw crowds. Since opening, the owners — first-time restaurateurs Jim and Norma Kerns — have been tinkering with the menu and business hours. On a recent visit, my lunch companion and I were the only two patrons dining in. We arrived near the end of the lunch rush and it was rainy, but I’m guessing a lot of locals still don’t know about this place. The design of the dining area is minimal — gray-painted walls, gray booths, filament lights in sconces, no artwork. A communal table comprises their outdoor patio seating and big windows in the front dining room open up to Race Street. They don’t have a liquor license but they do serve an array of vegan and gluten-free sodas ($2.50-$3), Smooth Nitro Coffee products and Carabello coffee. For now, the sodas are not housemade, but they’re working with mixologists at Taft’s to come up with their own creations, which they did for Derby weekend. All of the sodas are “natural,” which means they’re made with organic ingredients and cane sugar, and are sourced from Colorado brand Rocky Mountain Soda Company and New York’s Boylan. I sampled a few sodas and thought the strawberry-rhubarb and blackberry were too sweet, so I settled on horchata, made with agave nectar. We also ordered something from their “caff on draft” section: a nitro unsweetened iced tea from Smooth Nitro. I enjoyed watching the nitro cascade down the inside of the tall glass. Both drinks cleansed the palate before we annihilated a plate of nachos. The menu is long — almost overwhelming with options. Did we want hot dogs? Tacos? Tortas? They also serve breakfast until 11 a.m., with options including a
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New York City has Dean & DeLuca, St. water bottles hanging next to the station. Louis has Straub’s and now Cincinnati Trombly really wants the emphasis to be has EMC — aka the Epicurean Mercantile on urban shopping. “We’ve hired most of our Company — an urban gourmet grocery staff from the OTR neighborhood,” she says. store that is both practical and beautiful And everything in the store is set up to supenough to be called glamorous. Depending port the concept of smaller shopping trips on your preferences and priorities, that more frequently. may not matter much, but that’s where the How does this translate to layout? Well, for practicality comes in. starters, there are only two checkout lanes, Sitting adjacent to Findlay Market, EMC and the groceries are registered on iPads. fills a gap. You’ll find vegan Toona next to There’s a third “mobile unit” for the busiest Vienna Sausages. There are small-batch, hours when someone has a few items that flavored marshmallows and an olive bar and there’s Dawn dish soap and Tylenol. There’s shelf-stable duck fat and Reynolds Wrap. And with a basement, a sub-basement and a sub-sub-basement (both previously used for brewing), EMC’s physical space fits in perfectly with Cincinnati’s treasured past and the history of Findlay Market itself. The food is just part of it, but that’s the part most familiar to co-owner and chef Meredith Trombly. The Findlay’s new EMC grocer blends gourmet goods with practicality. former natural and organic PHOTO : Haile y Bollinger buyer for Bigg’s grocery store and former store manager for Clifton Natural Foods currently also cocan be rung up fast. There are also many owns Findlay Market’s popular Fresh Table, more small grocery carts than big ones, and a ready-to-eat gourmet-to-go vendor, with since the carts aren’t allowed outside the business partner Louis Snowden. interior of the store, it makes sense. CarrySince Trombly and Snowden have been ing a full load would be difficult, especially so in tune with the customers at Fresh Table if you’re taking the streetcar, conveniently and the ebb and flow of Findlay, they soon stationed right outside the building. started hearing complaints about the overall Another part of the concept is the grocery experience. Customers wanted a one-stop shelves. They mostly consist of wheeled shop. They wanted to come to OTR, buy units with thick wire shelving that Trombly their farmers market produce, their Eckerlin intends to move at her discretion. She Meats and their toilet paper and head home doesn’t want things to stay the same inside with the week’s shopping complete. EMC the store. Customer preference will also answers that call 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily. ultimately decide what’s chosen to fit inside “It’s a 5,000-square-foot urban grocery the coveted four-door freezer. For now, store that encourages discovery with every there’s ice cream, pizza, vegetables, frozen shopping trip,” Trombly says. “The four fruit and a selection of veggie burgers. different rooms of EMC (once four separate The other big draw of EMC is The Counter stores) encourage the shopper to investicafé. Food will be made to order and seating gate the space and it will make for a more is varied. There are three big communal gratifying shopping experience.” tables and bar seats available, plus an outSome of that shopping experience comes side bistro area. The menu is written on big in the form of what Trombly calls “hooks.” sheets of paper with iPads to order underThey’re add-ons that don’t necessarily mean neath, and the production space is open to better food or better prices but, rather, more the dining area with a partial glass wall. satisfaction on the whole. For instance, Although Trombly and Snowden plan to 8-foot-tall living walls from Urban Blooms keep the offerings separate from their suchave been designed and installed, including cess at Fresh Table, one can only imagine an herb wall inside the 1,000-square-foot The Counter will be seeing rave reviews restaurant in the back of the building called when the food starts rolling out. The Counter. There’s also a “hydration staThe EMC is located at 1818 Race St., Over-thetion” with a tall mounted faucet to fill a large Rhine. More info: emcotr.com. water bottle — or you can buy one of the
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Margarita Madness — CityBeat’s fifthannual Margarita Madness party (sponsored by Milagro Tequila) features a margarita throwdown competition between local restaurants and vendors, plus a guac-off and music from local band Beloved Youth. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO AUGUST DUE TO WEATHER CONCERNS.
noodle and broccoli cheddar soup from scratch. Noon-1:30 p.m. and 6-7:30 p.m. $25. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harper’s Point, cookswaresonline.com. How to Properly Cook Scallops — Learn how to make sea scallops with spiced corn at your own stove. 6-8 p.m. $75. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.
20-Minute Pasta Dinners — Prepare and enjoy ziti with flank steak, crispy chicken over angel hair and linguini with roasted tomatoes and herbed panko. 6-8 p.m. $75. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.
Provençal Picnic with Daniel Tonozzi — Transport yourself to the South of France with a menu featuring a tapenade of olives and capers, pan bagnat and pêche cardinal. 6:30-7:30 p.m. $35. Artichoke, 1824 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, artichokeotr.com.
A Sweet Tooth’s Dreams — Make simple and fast desserts by adding herbal flavor and complexity. 6-7:30 p.m. $35. Civic Garden Center, 2715 Reading Road, Avondale, civicgardencenter.org.
FRIDAY 26
How to Make a Steak with Bryan Hopping — The executive chef at Eddie Merlot’s teaches guests how to butcher a steak and then demonstrates methods, techniques and recipes for cooking different cuts of meat. 6:30-9 p.m. $60. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harper’s Point, cookswaresonline.com. Signature Over-the-Rhine Walking Tour — This three-hour walking tour includes stops at three sit-down eateries in the Vine Street corridor and samples from one or two specialty shops or bakeries. 11 a.m. Wednesday; 1 p.m. Friday. $45. Leaves from Daisy Mae’s Market, 1801 Race St., Over-theRhine, cincinnatifoodtours.com. Culture Bites: Northern Kentucky Food Traditions at Behringer-Crawford Museum — 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 July 23. Included with museum admission. Behringer-Crawford Museum, 1600 Montague Road, Covington, Ky., bcmuseum.org.
THURSDAY 25
Cooking 101: How to Make Soup from Scratch — Joe Westfall leads this class on teaching guests how to make chicken
SATURDAY 27
Taste of Cincinnati — This annual food fest features more than 100 different dishes from a ton of area vendors, plus more than 60 live music performances and a Rhinegeist Food Truck Alley on North Broadway Street. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday. Free. Fifth Street between Main and Sentinel streets, Downtown, tasteofcincinnati.com.
Date Night: Homemade Carbonara — Work together at an induction cooktop to create a batch of homemade pasta and then prepare pasta carbonara with pancetta and plenty of parmesan. 5-7 p.m. $155. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.
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Carriage House On-Farm Dinner — Chefs visit the farm for a series of on-farm dinners using seasonally available ingredients, prepared on a wood-fired oven. Features chefs Dana Adkins and Jason Louda. 5 p.m. $95. Carriage House Farm, 10251 Miamiview Road, North Bend, carriagehousefarmllc.com.
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Chicken Marsala — Learn to prepare traditional chicken marsala. 6-8 p.m. $75. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com. Southern Heat: New Southern Cooking, Latin Style — Chef Anthony Lamas demonstrates a few of his signature dishes and signs copies of his cookbook Southern Heat. 6:30-9 p.m. $60. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harper’s Point, cookswaresonline.com.
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Streetcar Brewery Tour — Cincy Brew Bus uses the Cincinnati Connector to visit three local breweries, incorporating tastings, tours and history. 1 p.m. Friday. $20$35. Meets at Taft’s Ale House, 1429 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, cincybrewbus.com.
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ocalist/guitarist/songwriter Ryan Caudle doesn’t care for the term “Prog” when it comes to describing his Nashville-based quartet, Sound & Shape. And while a few of Caudle’s influences and elements of the band’s sonic fingerprint support the conclusion, albeit with the qualifying “Pop” suffix, he avoids strict classifications. “I never answer the question, ‘What kind of band are you?’ beyond saying, ‘Rock & Roll,’ ” Caudle says from his Nashville home. “Descriptors are misleading. If a person has never heard you and you say, ‘We sound like this and this,’ they’re going to go into it thinking, ‘They sound like this and this,’ and that’s going to be their frame of reference. Ambiguity when describing yourself is important.” Caudle’s unvarnished identification is accurate, especially on Sound & Shape’s latest release, the five-track EP Peasants. The band’s contemporary edge, honed over a decade-long history, is a potent blend of simple Pop directness and a thoughtful complexity. “I sent the demos to a booking agent friend of mine and he wrote back, ‘It sounds like Iron Maiden writing Pop songs,’ ” Caudle says with a laugh. “I love The Number of the Beast, but I’m not well versed in Iron Maiden. I sent the record to a journalist buddy of mine and he was like, ‘Who are your influences?’ And I told him The Beatles, Noel Gallagher, Billy Corgan, Ray Davies, Roger Waters, Neil Young. And he was like, ‘I don’t hear any of that.’ And I guess that’s good.” That’s fairly potent evidence that Sound & Shape has assimilated its influences well and incorporates them into a singular creative vision. It’s not like the band has strayed impossibly far off the beam since its 2006 debut, Where Machines End Their Lives. Since Caudle is the primary songwriter and Sound & Shape’s sole constant since its inception, the band’s sound naturally reflects his personal growth and journey. “Everybody gives their opinion but the artistic choices are ultimately mine,” Caudle says. “For me, there’s a clear before and after when my son was born. My perception of everything changed, and I knew it would, but I didn’t realize how profound it would be. On the first few records, the lyrics are kind of cosmic and positive, but when he was born, something shifted in my soul. Things I thought were important are not and things I never thought about mean the world to me. We’re in extremely uncertain times right now and it really has informed my writing.” Sound & Shape began in 2006 with the breakup of melodic Post Hardcore band Oliver’s Army. Caudle, Oliver’s Army’s drummer and two new members shifted direction
Artists from Yes to The Beatles inform Sound & Shape’s melodic, adventurous sound. significantly toward a Prog/Pop sound based on Caudle’s musical discoveries at the time. “I heard King Crimson and fell hardcore for that, and that’s all over the first record,” Caudle says. “We were hanging out with a friend of ours who was in a band called An Albatross, and I was playing him some stuff we’d recorded before the second (album) and he was like, ‘You guys sound kind of like Yes.’ And I was like, ‘I’ve never listened to them,’ so I bought Fragile and Close to the Edge. I remember pulling my van over about five minutes into Close to the Edge and just listening and it blew my mind. At the same time, The Beatles are my favorite band ever, and Noel Gallagher and Billy Corgan are my two idols, so I’ve always had the Pop thing in my brain. I thought I could marry the two because that’s what Yes is. They had melodies you could latch onto and hooks that were catchy. That’s what I envisioned for us, but it was a time in the industry when nobody was going to give a shit about that.” After losing its second guitarist early on, Sound & Shape operated as a three piece for nearly seven years, through the releases of 2009’s The Love Electric EP, 2011’s Now Comes the Mystery and 2012’s Hourglass EP, which inspired a preponderance of Rush comparisons. After 2014’s Bad Actors and its subsequent tours, drummer Allen Jones
departed and was replaced by Grant Bramlett, making a formidable rhythm section with longtime bassist Gaines Cooper. Early last year, Sound & Shape added second guitarist Chris Hurst, which changed the band’s dynamic. “It immediately opened up my writing because I was capable of orchestrating a bit more instead of covering so many bases myself,” Caudle says. “It’s definitely created more depth, and who doesn’t love guitar harmonies? But there’s a fine line; obviously, Thin Lizzy is the bar by which all two-guitar bands should be measured. It’s something I try to use sparingly. The tendency when you have two guitar players is to just wank your way around everything, and I’ve done my best to kind of go the opposite way.” The other major change for Sound & Shape in the past year was the acquisition of new management. In the three years since Bad Actors, Caudle signed a publishing deal and began churning out material, resulting in a backlog of more than 60 songs. The band was in the process of assembling a full album’s worth of material when its new managers advised the group to record a handful of demos to shop around. When Caudle felt the subsequent sessions needed some tuning up, he suggested Nashville’s
The Bakery Sound Studio and its engineer Josh St Moblo, who had previously worked on Bad Actors. St Moblo suggested that the band just come in and re-record everything, which resulted in Peasants’ five tracks. Rather than shop it around, Sound & Shape’s management decided to release Peasants in March under its own banner, although the group is still entertaining label offers. But Caudle is already looking ahead to what’s next. The band isn’t including anything older than songs from Bad Actors in its current setlist and has worked up songs from the slush pile of newer material to play live. “It kind of drives our management nuts, but I’ve got to keep myself entertained,” Caudle says. “We played the other night and the first three songs were all new and I was looking for one of our managers to watch the steam come from his ears, but I warned them beforehand. We didn’t play the single on the last tour. We all knew it, but we didn’t have it rehearsed up; I wouldn’t say I’m a perfectionist, but I want to make sure we know what we’re playing. We are playing the single now, so it’ll be fine.” SOUND & SHAPE plays Wednesday at Southgate House Revival. Tickets/more info: southgatehouse.com.
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How Do You Like Him Now? A “money trumps personal beliefs” theme was strong in Saudi Arabia this week. Toby Keith took a break from writing songs about boozing to show once again how much he loves America and stands up for its values by performing a concert in Saudi Arabia where women and alcohol were not permitted, recalling his most famous song, “Courtesy of Whoever is Signing the Check.” Coinciding with President Trump’s visit, though not connected to it (Trump reportedly watched a few minutes on a TV simulcast, but didn’t attend), Keith’s concert comes at a time of true cultural evolution in the country — just months ago, a religious-minded ban on all public performance of music was lifted.
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“Passports” Sell Out Live music fans with a lot of disposable income apparently didn’t waste all of their money on a trip to the Fyre Festival. Live Nation recently launched a “Festival Passport” offer, giving music festival die-hards entry to any of the 90 events around the world that the promoter produces (including Lollapalooza, Reading Festival and events in France, Germany and beyond) for $799, even if the event sells out. While ridiculed in some corners of the internet, the 1,000 passports sold out almost immediately. Tragedies Rock Music World Music headlines have been dominated by unexpected tragedy recently. On May 18, a godfather of the “Grunge” movement, Chris Cornell, hanged himself in Detroit following a concert by his band Soundgarden. The family of the singer/guitarist — who was just 52 — has suggested antianxiety medication (or other drugs) may have played a part in his suicide. On May 22, one of the worst concert tragedies ever occurred in Manchester, England, where an apparent suicide bomber killed at least 22 people and injured dozens of others (including many children) outside an arena where Pop singer Ariana Grande had just finished performing. The attack was still being investigated at the time we went to press; ISIS reportedly claimed responsibility.
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has often been compared to Iggy Pop and Legendary Shack Shakers with Jerry Lee Lewis due to his manic stage presJesse Dayton ence, but he’s as unique as a serial killer’s Thursday • Southgate House Revival thumbprint and just as hard to pin down. There is one band on the planet that can After 22 years, eight albums and close to exist comfortably — or at all — at the a dozen lineup changes, Legendary Shack center of a Venn diagram which imposShakers are still living up to every word in sibly includes Stephen King, Robert Plant, their name. (Brian Baker) Jello Biafra, Billy Bob Thornton, Reverend Horton Heat, Marty Stuart, The Mute Ann Wilson Comp Physical Theatre of Copenhagen, Friday • UC Health (Florence GEICO, The Far Side, The Jesus Lizard, Freedom) Stadium The Damned, The Black Keys and Rancid. What a difference a year makes. Last That’s the Legendary Shack Shakers. For summer, Heart released the gorgeous and the record: Author King is a big fan of the textural BeautiKentucky-based ful Broken, which Skronkabilly fourcracked the Top 10 some; Biafra and of Billboard’s Rock Thornton have both Albums chart, and sung with the band; then hit the road with GEICO used their Cheap Trick and Joan song “CB Radio” in Jett as undercard a year-long TV ad support. On that tour, campaign; Jesus LizAnn Wilson’s husband ard guitarist Duane allegedly assaulted Denison was a band Nancy Wilson’s twin member for four sons for leaving the years; frontman J.D. Legendary Shack Shakers door to their RV open, Wilkes occasionally PHOTO : Joshua Bl ack Wilkins and the sisters reportperforms a speaking edly haven’t spoken role for Mute Comp’s to one another production of the directly since the incidramatic gun-rundent. Earlier this year, ning play FUBAR; Nancy formed a new the band’s 29-second side project called intro song “Cow Roadcase Royale Tools” is named after with three fourths one of Gary Larson’s of the current Heart impenetrable carband and former toon panels; and the Prince/New Power Shakers have opened Generation vocalist for everyone else on Liv Warfield, while the aforementioned Ann Wilson her sister announced list. And that barely PHOTO : Jes s Griffin her new solo tour, begins to explore the Ann Wilson of Heart, complex and improbfeaturing Heart guitarist Craig Bartock and able cross currents contained within the bassist Andy Stoller — both members of Legendary Shack Shakers. Ann’s previous side project — and former Wilkes formed the band in Paducah, Ky. Heart drummer Denny Fongheiser. in 1995 and has been the only constant While the Wilsons insist this is merely member in the band’s long history. The curan indefinite hiatus, it’s an unfortunate rent lineup includes Garage/Blues guitarist hiccup after an incredible Heart resurgence Rod Hamdallah, who replaced Denison in that included the 2012 release of its Top 25 2012; Two Man Gentleman Band upright album Fanatic, a star on the Hollywood bassist Fuller Condon, who joined in 2015; Walk of Fame, an electrifying performance and Dirt Daubers drummer Preston Corn, of “Stairway to Heaven” at Led Zeppelin’s who replaced longtime beatkeeper Brett Kennedy Center Honors tribute, the 2013 Whitacre early last year. induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame The Shakers started off as a relatively and the follow-up success of Beautiful traditional Rockabilly outfit, but ultimately Broken. While Heart was still at work on its expanded its palette to include Country most recent album, Wilson formed the Ann Blues, carnival music, Roots, Swamp and Wilson Thing! with Bartock, Stoller and Southern Rock in a howlingly unique genre drummer Ben Smith, and released their first blend the band dubbed Southern Gothic, EP in 2015, with a second one dropping last which is defined by darkly compelling stoyear during the Beautiful Broken tour. ries and a soundtrack that can be as gentle For the new Ann Wilson of Heart tour, as a front-porch rocking chair or as frenetic Wilson cautions that fans shouldn’t expect as a tornado in a gun and knife shop. Wilkes
a full-on Heart show, although she has promised a handful of “reimagined” songs from the band’s storied catalog. What they can expect is a set of fresh Wilson originals, written over the past year or so, and a few of the covers that were featured on her 2007 solo debut, Hope & Glory, and her two Ann Wilson Thing! EPs, all set to a variety of video presentations. And they can most assuredly expect the amazing voice that has powered one of the most influential and successful Rock & Roll bands of the past four decades. (BB)
the riff for ‘Woman,’ and in my head I just thought, ‘Why not make this into something? It’s my record.’ It was a conscious decision to make a long song and put it on first. It’s one of my favorite songs to play live.” City and Colour’s recent singles, “Peaceful Road” and “Rain,” both cut in Nashville during the If I Should Go Before You sessions, are scaled back and intimate, coming off like Jeff Buckley crossed with Jimmie Dale Gilmore — which means moody, Country-influenced efforts that could lead to yet another stylistic shift in Green’s future. (Jason Gargano)
City and Colour with Noah Gundersen Saturday • Bogart’s Dallas Green is better known via his stage name, City and Colour. Green grew up in Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada, which LUKE BRYAN – June 1, Riverbend Music Center is about a 20-minute drive northwest of OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW – June 1, Taft Theatre Niagara Falls. If his name sounds familELECTRIC SIX – June 2, iar, especially for Southgate House Revival baseball aficionados, it should — born in LYNYRD SKYNYRD – June 2, Riverbend Music Center 1980, he was named for Philadelphia THE DWARVES – June 5, Southgate House Revival Phillies’ manager Dallas Green after LIL UZI VERT – June 7, Madison Theater the younger Green’s father placed a bet on ZZ TOP – June 7, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend the team to win that year’s World Series THE JOY FORMIDABLE – (which it did). June 8, Woodward Theater Fast forward two WARPAINT – June 8, 20th decades: City and Century Theater City and Colour’s Dallas Green Colour started in P H O T O : A ly s s e G a f k j e n SARAH JAROSZ – June 9, 2005 as a scaledMemorial Hall down side project THE WEEKND – June 9, U.S. Bank Arena from Green’s main band, a Canadian Post PAUL SIMON – June 10, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Punk five piece called Alexisonfire. City TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS – June 12, U.S. and Colour’s first album, Sometimes, Bank Arena featured little beyond Green’s expressive, THE HEAD AND THE HEART – June 12, PNC Pavilion at high-pitched voice and an acoustic guitar. Riverbend Sometimes drew more attention than Green anticipated, leading to additional albums JOE JACKSON – June 13, Taft Theatre every couple of years, each a more sonically DON HENLEY – June 15, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend ornate and commercially successful affair HA HA TONKA – June 16, Southgate House Revival than the last — his current backing band CHRIS STAPLETON – June 16, Riverbend Music Center includes former Greenhornes bassist Jack Lawrence — which eventually led to his YOUNG DUBLINERS – June 16, Live! at the Ludlow Garage departure from Alexisonfire in 2011. City and Colour’s fifth and most recent MIIKE SNOW – June 19, Bogart’s full-length, 2015’s If I Should Go Before BARNS COURTNEY – June 20, 20th Century Theater You, is the most textured and visceral MY MORNING JACKET – June 22, PNC Pavilion at effort yet, kicking off with “Woman,” a Bogart’s nine-minute mood piece rife with echoing LE BUTCHERETTES – June 22, Taft Theatre Ballroom guitars, booming drums and Green’s highPARKER MILLSAP – June 23, Southgate House Revival lonesome voice, which continually pleads that he is waiting to resurrect his love with OTEP – June 24, The Mad Frog the woman in question. MISTERWIVES – June 25, Bogart’s “Anyone who likes me has to appreciate LADY ANTEBELLUM – June 25, Riverbend Music Center that I like different styles of music,” Green TRAIN/O.A.R./NATASHA BEDINGFIELD – June 27, said about “Woman” and its sonic procliviRiverbend Music Center ties in an interview earlier this year with MARSHALL CRENSHAW/LOS STRAITJACKETS – June The Red & Black. “I’m not interested in 29, Southgate House Revival making records because certain people might like them. For me, I started writing JASON ISBELL – July 1, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend
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CityBeat’s music listings are free. Send info to MIKE BREEN via email at mbreen@citybeat.com. Listings are subject to change. See citybeat.com for full music listings and all club locations. H is CityBeat staff’s stamp of approval. Southgate House Revival Wednesday 24 H(Sanctuary) - Legendary Bromwell’s Härth Lounge Burning Caravan. 7:30 p.m. Gypsy Jazz. Free.
The Mockbee - Wolf Eyes H with Pharmakon, Container and Twig Harper. 8 p.m. Noise/ Experimental/Various. $10.
MOTR Pub - Ben Miller Band. 9 p.m. Americana/Folk/Blues/ Various. Free. Northside Tavern - Chuck Cleaver and Jeremy David Springer. 9:30 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter. Free.
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Silverton Cafe - John B Kinnemeyer with Matt Holt. 7 p.m. Acoustic. Free. Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Arlo McKinley with Ray Vietti and Shane Smith & the Saints. 8 p.m. Roots/Rock/ Various. Free. Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Sound & Shape with JIMS and Near Earth Objects. 8 p.m. Alt/Rock/Various. $8, $10 day of show.
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Blue Note Harrison - The Critical Cheese, Cymatic Grooves and Spring Grove. 6 p.m. Rock/ Various. Free. Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Steve Schmidt Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. College Hill Coffee Co. - Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. The Comet - Anthony Retka with Mike Galbraith. 10 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter. Free. Crow’s Nest - East Of Vine. 9:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. Danny B’s Lounge - Bob Cushing. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
The Greenwich - Final Friday Blues with Sonny Moorman. 8 p.m. Blues. $5.
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Jim and Jack’s on the River Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free.
Fountain Square - Salsa on the Square with Kandela. 7 p.m. Salsa/Latin/Dance. Free. The Greenwich - “Stay Woke” with Blvck Seeds, Lauren Eylise and more. 8 p.m. Various. $5, $7 day of show.
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Arnold’s Bar and Grill - The True Believers. 9 p.m. Reggae. Free.
Urban Artifact - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10.
Crow’s Nest - The Lovers. 9:30 p.m. Acoustic/Folk/Pop/Various. Free.
The Mockbee - Infinity Spree, Roosevelt and The Last Troubadour. 8 p.m. Rock. Free. MOTR Pub - Ruby the Rabbitfoot with A Delicate Motr. 9 p.m. Indie/Rock/Pop. Free. Northside Yacht Club RVIVR, Swim Team, Sleep Over and Rubythroat. 8 p.m. Rock/Punk.
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Urban Artifact - Alliteration, Last Weekend, Francesca Shanks and Freedom Moore. 7 p.m. Various. Free.
Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - The Blasters with The Delta Bombers and Cougar Ace. 8 p.m. Rock/Roots/ Various. $18, $20 day of show.
Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner and Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.
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Shack Shakers with Jesse Dayton. 9 p.m. Rock/Rockabilly/Roots/ Various. $18, $20 day of show.
Plain Folk Cafe - Open Mic with Josiah Whitley. 7 p.m. Various. Free. PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Travis Scott with KHALID. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. Sold out.
Fountain Square - FSQ Flashback with New Kingston and Flex Crew. 7 p.m. Reggae. Free.
The Mad Frog - Deicide with Chambers of Chaos, Claircentient, Morning After, Prometheus, Eyes On Orion and Watch Them Rot. 5 p.m. Metal. $30.
Oxford Community Arts H Center - Wild Carrot and the Roots Band. 8 p.m. Folk/
Fountain Square - FSQ FlashH back with Cosa Seria and DJ Aikon. 7 p.m. Latin/Salsa. Free.
AUTOMATON, Stagecoach Inferno, Dethlehem and Split the Abyss. 9:30 p.m. Metal/Various. $10.
Plain Folk Cafe - Kevin Fox. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
Harmony Hill Vineyards & Winery - Encore Duo, Anna and the Deeper Well and more. 2 p.m. Various. Free.
Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Mandy Gaines. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
Americana. $15.
Rick’s Tavern - Throw It Down. 10 p.m. Country/Rock. $5. School of Rock Mason - School of Rock Mason: Panic! at the Disco and My Chemical Romance Show. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $6, $8 day of show.
Mansion Hill Tavern - Tickled Pink. 9 p.m. Blues. $4. Marty’s Hops & Vines - Greg Hines. 9 p.m. Americana. Free. The Mockbee - Porn and Chicken Dance Party with Chuck Diesel, Bit Flip, Andres Bautista and Vander. 9 p.m. EDM/Dubstep. $10-$15. MOTR Pub - My Gold Mask with Jane Decker. 10 p.m. Indie/Electronic/Pop/Rock. Free.
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MVP Bar & Grille - Rule of Thumb. 9 p.m. Rock/Various Northside Tavern - Young Heirlooms, Cookin’ Hearts and Whitfield Crocker. 10 p.m. Folk/Americana/Various. Free.
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Octave - Samantha Carlson. 8 p.m. Jazz.
Jim and Jack’s on the River Ron Fletcher & The Southern Edge Band. 9 p.m. Country/ Rock. Free.
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20th Century Theater - Madrigal: The Ultimate Santana Experience. 6:30 p.m. Santana tribute. $20, $25 day of show.
Silverton Cafe - Full Circle. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.
Knotty Pine - Bad Habit. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.
- Broods with Michl. H8Bogart’s p.m. Indie Pop. $22.
Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Chalk Eye and Billy Catfish. 9 p.m. Rock/Blues/ Roots/Various. Free.
The Lounge - Ben Levin and Ricky Nye. 8:30 p.m. Blues/ Boogie Woogie. Free.
The Comet - The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.
Madison Live - Vesperteen H with Circle It, Daniel In Stereo and Coastal Club. 8 p.m.
The Greenwich - Radio Black. 8 p.m. Soul/Various. $10.
Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Lockjaw with The Reppertons. 10 p.m. Punk/Rock. $5.
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Indie/Alt/Rock/Pop. $10, $12 day of show.
Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Antoine Dufour, Ian Ethan Case and Spencer Elliott. 7:30 p.m. Guitar/Acoustic/Various. $20.
Mansion Hill Tavern - Prestige Grease. 9 p.m. Blues. $4.
UC Health Stadium - Ann Wilson with Doghouse. 6 p.m. Rock. $20-$74.
The Mockbee - Blvck Seeds, Anissa Punchin, Sheldon Belcher, Von Claire, Nature Was Here + Fritz Pape, Angelle Peace Poetry and Alex Swango (5 p.m.); Relic Toph, Curse of Cassandra and Decide Today + Watabou (9 p.m.). 5 p.m. Various. Free.
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The Underground - Tethered Satellites, Launchpad and Dream Driver. 7 p.m. Alt/Rock/ Pop/Various. Cover. Urban Artifact - Primal Static, Fun Machine, Office Party and Sungaze. 9 p.m. Rock/Indie/ Various. Free. Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Chris Barrick. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
Madison Live - Great Good Saturday 27 H Fine OK with Morgxn. 8 p.m. Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Greg ElectroPop. $12, $14 day of show. Madison Theater - Touch. 8 p.m. Motown tribute. $12, $15 day of show.
Jag’s Steak and Seafood C-Ras Band. 9 p.m. Reggae. $5.
Schaber Trio. 9 p.m. Americana/ Blues. Free. Blue Note Harrison - Step Brothers. 9 p.m. Rock/Various.
Bogart’s - City and Colour H with Noah Gundersen. 9 p.m. Indie/Folk/Rock/Pop/Various. $35.
Bromwell’s Härth Lounge Steve Schmidt Quartet featuring Chris Barrick. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. The Comet - The Dummy Ups with The Whiskey Shambles and Judge & Jury. 10 p.m. Rock/Garage/Blues/Various. Free.
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Crow’s Nest - Willow Tree Carolers. 9:30 p.m. Folk/Rock/ Various. Free. Depot Barbecue - The Corncobs. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. Eastgate Brew & View - Encore Duo. 6:30 p.m. Acoustic Classic Rock/Americana. Free.
Marty’s Hops & Vines - Michael T and Friends. 9 p.m. Country Rock. Free.
MOTR Pub - Speaking Suns, Founding Fathers and Swoops. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/Pop/Various. Free. MVP Bar & Grille - The Billy Rock Band. 9 p.m. Rock.
The Mockbee - Lantana, H DJ HD, Cook Laflare, Oski Isaiah, Skally, Paydro, Hustlers
Club, Turich Benjy, Sweeten, Monty C Benjamin, Young Butta, DJ J Dough and Shony Parker. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $10.
MOTR Pub - Slackluster with Rubythroat. 8 p.m. Rock/Various. Free. Northside Yacht Club - Trash Knife, Pedal Strike and Spoiled Milk. 9 p.m. Rock/Punk/Various. Sonny’s All Blues Lounge Blues jam session featuring Sonny’s All Blues Band. 8 p.m. Blues. Free. Southgate House Revival H (Lounge) - Moonbow (show and video shoot). 4 p.m. Hard Rock. Free.
Octave - Chris Comer Jazz Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz.
Urban Artifact - Rye Davis and Kaitlin Morrison. 8 p.m. Country/Americana. Free.
Rick’s Tavern - Brother O’ Brother with That of Dreams and Filthy Beast. 7 p.m. Rock. $5.
Woodward Theater - School H of Rock Mason: Panic! at the Disco and My Chemical
Riverside Marina Bar & Grill Trailer Park Floosies. 9:30 p.m. Dance/Rock/Pop/Country/ Various. Free.
Romance Show (4 p.m.); The Cars and The Go-Go’s Show (7 p.m.). 7 p.m. AltRock. $6, $8 day of show.
School of Rock Mason - School of Rock Mason: The Cars vs The Go-Go’s Show. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $6, $8 day of show.
Monday 29
Silverton Cafe - Soul Quest. 9 p.m. R&B/Rock/Various. Free. Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Rookie (release/reunion show) with The Peaks, Queen City Silver Stars and Strange Charm. 8 p.m. Rock. $8, $10 day of show.
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Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary) - The Secret Sisters with Cheyenne Medders. 8:30 p.m. Americana. $12, $15 day of show.
Urban Artifact - Cincy Powerfest V with Lucis Absentia, Kingslayer, Others By No One,
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Bogart’s - Animals As Leaders with Veil of Maya. 7:30 p.m. Prog/Metal/Various. $20.
MOTR Pub - Xasthur and Johanna Warren. 9 p.m. Indie/ Acoustic/Folk/Various. Free. Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s Live Jazz Band. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free.
Tuesday 30
Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Ricky Nye. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.
Woodward Theater - Diet H Cig with SPORTS. 8 p.m. Indie/Rock/Pop. $12, $15 day of show.
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