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Facts Can Solve Problems? Ben Kaufman’s column (“All the News That’s Fit to Ignore,” issue of May 17) raises troubling facts about motivated learning and humans’ relationship with facts and truth. It seems we don’t really care about and seek truth so much as we build our cases to persuade others of our beliefs. Realizing this emerging perspective may shake our identity a bit, I suggest it supports the premise of democracy — that our collective wisdom is ultimately more reliable than individual dictates no matter how clumsy and fatuous the group-think process often seems. Founders of a bi-partisan effort to bridge the increasing and crippling ideological divides — Beyond Civility (beyondcivility. org) — have been experimenting with program designs aimed at opening rather than changing minds. Modest success has been found in two programming methods. First is to offer a very personal connection with one’s political or ideological nemesis by talking about early family history and experiences that helped form their world view. A second is to invite highprofile advocates on opposite sides of controversial issues to present their ideological opponent’s point of view so well that the other can say “I couldn’t have said it better myself.” (Think David Singleton and Joe Deters talking about the death penalty or Chris Finney and Jennifer Branch discussing the SCOTUS Hobby Lobby decision.) Facts do matter… a lot. The challenge posed by this emerging understanding of human thinking, I think, is to find ways to present and relate to facts as tools for problem solving rather than weapons to be resisted. — Robert Rack Co-Founder, Beyond Civility
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WEDNESDAY MAY 24
ABC’s Dirty Dancing TV adaptation premiered Wednesday, and you don’t need to have seen it to know it was a hot mess. These TV musical reboots are generally SAD, especially when they try to recreate the magic of Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze/comment on 1960s underground abortions. And it didn’t even have the benefit of being live (like the recent Grease and Hairspray specials) as an excuse. At the end of the day, Little Miss Sunshine is no Baby, the classic “I carried a watermelon” line was botched and the ’60s soundtrack consisted of all covers by contemporary artists like fucking Karmin. Let’s just say people did not have the time of their life watching. Someone put this movie in the corner! OK we’ll stop now. But the TV musicals won’t — look forward to a liveaction/animated Little Mermaid coming in October.
THURSDAY MAY 25
There are many ways to champion marriage equality — voting for politicians who support it, donating to LGBTQ organizations, hell, remember when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie said they wouldn’t get married until everyone in the U.S. could? (They ended up getting hitched about one year before the Supreme Court decision… is that why they were doomed?) We’ve got this right in the States for now (side-eye to the Trump administration), but Australia is another story. To protest this, ~enlightened~ ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s is banning two scoops of the same flavor until same-sex marriage is legal down under, encouraging customers to write to members of the parliament. The trivial move got plenty of support — more than 70 percent of Australians support marriage equality — but it wasn’t without critique. “Keep politics out of my dessert!” cried one unaffected American who’d never even tasted Phish Food.
FRIDAY MAY 26
Well, cicadas are fucking back. The buzzing, red-eyed bugs have emerged from their underground lair four years ahead of their anticipated 2021 return. Thanks, global warming! The insects are mostly a mild annoyance, but make sure your dogs don’t eat them — cicadas are NSFP (not safe for pets). But that doesn’t mean you can’t chow down on them! Westside ice cream joint Putz’s Creamy Whip is serving up cicada cones topped with candies shaped like the infamous creatures. Now that’s so Cincinnati.
Happy Birthday, GIF! The short, looping animated images that provide perfect reactions when words fail turned 30 years old this week. Steve Wilhite, the granddaddy of the GIF, created this format while working at Compuserve as a way to display sharp images over slow connections that would work on any computer. Early GIFs include “Under Construction” banners and the dancing baby made famous by Ally McBeal. Today we have GIF keyboards on our phones. They’re a bonafide method of communication today. And while Wilhite might insist on pronouncing it like “jiff,” GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format and, thus, must be pronounced with a hard G, less you be perceived as a monster.
SUNDAY MAY 28
Fiona the hippo and other cute Cincinnati Zoo babies like the flamingo that recently hatched on Facebook Live have provided such positive zoo narratives they got us like, “Harambe who?” (Cut to Thane Maynard invoking a Simpsons Mr. Burns GIF: “Excellent...”) But that can’t stop us from paying respects to the big guy on this, the one-year anniversary of Harambe’s death. As if it bears repeating, last year on May 28, a child fell into the zoo’s gorilla enclosure, drawing the attention of the 17-year-old gorilla, Harambe. He began flinging the child around, so zookeepers shot Harambe and saved the little boy’s life. The event prompted reactions from animal activists and parent-shamers, and even more faux-outrage on social media, elevating Harambe to viral meme status. One year later, the only thing more shocking than this story is the fact that Harambe didn’t become an alt-right symbol like Pepe. At least some things are still sacred. So pour one out (or pull your dick out) for Harambe on this solemn day.
MONDAY MAY 29
Lifetime aired its long-awaited (jk) Michael Jackson biopic on Monday. If there’s anything more uncomfortable than looking back on MJ’s sad fate and ever-changing looks, it’s watching someone else try to recreate his Silly Putty face (we’re still personally victimized by the 30 seconds we saw of Joseph Fiennes’ performance as Jackson in that canceled British miniseries earlier this year). But Lifetime’s Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland stars Navi, the self-proclaimed best Jackson impersonator in the world and the only one who has actually worked for his idol. It comes from the perspective of the King of Pop’s two bodyguards and closest friends. You probably think you know everything about MJ, but there were some interesting nuggets served in this steaming plate of Why?: Jackson liked hot sauce on his popcorn and would bring his own to movies (the original “hot sauce in my bag swag”?); like Britney and JLo today, he was in talks for a Vegas residency that could revive his career and get him out of debt, but he felt such a performance schedule would kill him; and he carried a Gone With the Wind Oscar statue and a briefcase with $200,000 and passports in case of emergencies. That’s our kind of bug-out bag.
TUESDAY MAY 30
Still recovering from your #MDW? Veterans and their families are upset that Memorial Day has turned into a party-drinking holiday (cue the “millennials ruin everything” rant!) when it’s supposed to be a day of somber reflection, but that isn’t stopping people from boozing it up on a three-day weekend. No matter how you celebrate, there’s no excuse to drink and drive. Unfortunately, Tiger Woods missed that memo when he went and got himself a DUI this weekend. (Pro tip: Holiday weekends are prime DUI-gettin’ time. Don’t drive!) And, dayum, he is looking RUFF. Police spotted Woods in his Benz, asleep behind the wheel with the engine running and his turn signal on. While he wasn’t drunk, he was reportedly on a mix of prescription pills that effed with him. Apparently even golf champions forget Uber exists. CONTACT T.C. BRITTON: letters@citybeat.com
Last week was a particularly bad week for politicians trying to fend off attacks from the swarming plague that is the left-wing media. On the eve of his congressional election, wealthy Montana businessman Greg Gianforte had to defend himself from an offensive question about the Congressional Budget Office’s score on the repeal of Obamacare, and he did so by body-slamming Guardian nerd-boy and glasseswearing reporter Ben Jacobs. Earlier in the week, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was forced to lash out via Facebook Live, appropriately referring to some journalists from the CourierJournal as “cicadas” for reporting about a suspiciously low-priced property Bevin bought possibly with the aid of someone he appointed to the Kentucky Retirement Systems Board Bevin’s very legitimate financial dealings. In a time of the right-wing elite’s such valiant and dauntless courage, one must ask, what further steps can politicians take in order to protect themselves from attack? Go Fund Me some bushes: While a Go Fund Me page to help Jacobs get new glasses might restore his eyesight to a still impotent 20/50, a page to fund a cluster of portable hiding-bushes, à la Sean Spicer’s White House setup, would help politicians avoid questions that make them uncomfortable. Many reporters aren’t tall enough to see over bushes. Learn better insect analogies: “Cicadas” are pretty harmless. They appear every 17 years, have sex and die. How about some more potent ones, like spiders spinning webs of lies and devouring their prey only after they’ve trapped and paralyzed them with their poison fake-news mandibles? Or lazy jellyfish, floating opportunistically about the beaches of Mar-a-Lago and the Hamptons, only to sting your bare ass when you’ve been caught skinny-dipping with the wrong campaign contributor? Develop new wrestling moves: A body slam is like the most basic move you can do in wrestling. Politicians need to spice this shit up. Rowdy Roddy Piper had his signature sleeper hold. Ravishing Rick Rude had the Rude Awakening. And Stone Cold Steve Austin had the Stone Cold Stunner. Why can’t we have the Mitch-McConnell Get-off-My-Lawn Piledriver? Or the Paul Ryan Drop Kick-the-Poor-and-Elderlyin-the-Balls (which can also be used on journalists)? Ban Glasses: Glasses have been the thorn in the side of politicians this year. There are too many people trying to see clearly. They also make people look like pussies and evoke a sentiment of empathy for nerds trying to get information about things. Besides, glasses are a gateway device to more serious societal problems, such as critical thinking, creativity and analysis. Eat more spicy food: If the Go Fund Me bushes fail to materialize and reporters happen to come up with some sort of tiny undetectable lens that fits directly onto the eye, then politicians have one last recourse: “Level 10.” They can go to their nearest ethnic food place and order that shit at spice level 10. Any time they’re attacked with questions they don’t want to answer, they can just take a spicy bite and claim oral incapacitation. Note to Greg Gianforte and others with ethnic food allergies: Buffalo wings can be considered ethnic food in this case.
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Three years ago, when my wife Kathy and I decided to move out of our apartment in Hyde Park and buy a home in a more urban neighborhood, we looked at places in Covington, Northside, Columbia-Tusculum, downtown Cincinnati and Over-the-Rhine. But it was only in OTR, just moments after emerging from our car on Main Street, that a middle-aged black man on a bike approached us and asked if we’d heard the sad news. A beloved local businessman, whose name we didn’t recognize, had died the night before. The man delivered the news as though it was something we would want to know. After all, he assumed, we were residents of the neighborhood and vested in its fabric and fate. That small moment left a lasting impression on my wife and me. In the end, we bought a third-floor unit in a 120-year-old renovated apartment building overlooking Main Street, just feet from where the messenger on the bike, whom we would come to know as Mark Anthony, had given us the news. At the time, my wife was commuting to work in Dayton. I still commute to Miami University’s Oxford campus twice a week. But we decided we wanted to live in OTR — not because of the increasing property values, not because of the nascent streetcar project, not because of the bustling bar and restaurant scene — because we wanted to live in a diverse, inclusive neighborhood where people knew about and cared for each other. We have not been disappointed. We seldom walk down Main Street without engaging at least one of our neighbors, black or white, in conversation. What is disappointing is that City Council appears to be losing its commitment to keeping OTR the special place it has become and could continue to be. The 8-1 council vote on May 10 to approve the $26 million, 110-apartment Freeport Row complex at Liberty and Elm streets might be a sign of more to come. Though it had to approve the sale of land owned by the city to make the project feasible, Council made no attempt to extract a single concession for low- or median-income residents. It gave the green light despite multiple votes against it by the Over-the-Rhine Community Council and objections from nearly every other OTR neighborhood group, including the Over-the-Rhine Foundation, Over-the-Rhine Community Housing and the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition. Only Vice Mayor David Mann had the guts to vote against the giveaway.
Source 3, of course, says it’s open to discussing affordable housing options in the future. But anyone who has lived in Cincinnati long enough knows how unreliable those promises can be. Seven years ago, the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) planned to redevelop the historic Dennison Hotel in partnership with The Model Group into 63 affordable apartments for those with mental health and substance-abuse issues. When financing on the project fell through in 2013, 3CDC sold the Dennison to the Columbia Group, which recently demolished the building and has plans for
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erecting a gleaming, oversized office tower that has about as much place in the Main Street historic district as Godzilla stomping through Tokyo. Between 2002 and 2015, OTR lost 73 percent of its affordable housing, according to Xavier University’s Community Building Institute. Purists could argue that my wife and I are part of OTR’s housing challenge. After all, we bought a condo that low- and median-income families could never afford. (Full disclosure: We paid $206,000 for 1,600 square feet, with two bedrooms, one bath.) The purists may be right. But my wife and I are committed to making the neighborhood work for all of its residents. We maintain a community garden on Liberty Street that was formerly just weeds and trash. Our condo association is making plans for fixing up the dog park at Melindy and Clay streets. And we support Overthe-Rhine Community Housing, a leading advocate for affordable housing in OTR. Somewhere there’s a reasonable middle road between the purists and handing over OTR to high-end developers to do whatever they please. In their last vote, eight members of Cincinnati’s City Council failed to find that middle course. JIM DEBROSSE is a visiting assistant professor of journalism at Miami University. Contact him: letters@ citybeat.com.
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After an eight-year run, the percentage of Taft seniors passing the state’s required math and reading tests dropped below the district average then to last in the district. schools, she says she looks at broader indicators beyond OGT passage rates. “Keep in mind that what I look at is 55 total schools,” says Mattei-Smith, a former associate director of ODE. “It’s not a matter of being aware or not, but a year after the fact, it’s not on the top of my head. I am so immersed right now in this year that I can’t answer questions about this without going back and pulling my files for last fall.” CityBeat provided Mattei-Smith with Taft’s comparative OGT math and reading data, which are posted on ODE’s website, and awaited a callback. It never came. Instead, CPS sent a six-paragraph statement that offered no explanation of Taft’s 180-degree reversal. The statement says Taft has improved discipline, added two guidance counselors, opened a full-service health center and begun offering mentalhealth services. It says Taft is recruiting “top-notch” teachers, adding technology and now offering Advanced Placement and College Credit Plus classes. Taft students still receive tutoring from employees of Cincinnati Bell. “At Taft IT High, as at other schools, the leadership and teaching staff are working hard to raise test scores and prepare students for success in college, careers and life,” the statement says.
CPS would take no further questions. “The statement is all we’re going to provide,” says spokeswoman Christine Wolff. With one exception, members of the CPS Board of Education wouldn’t touch the subject of Taft’s decline. Three — Melanie Bates, Eve Bolton and Chris Nelms — were on the board when Taft achieved celebrity status. None responded to CityBeat emails sent to them by the board office. Of the other four, only Daniel Minera responded, and since he joined the board in 2014, he wasn’t as familiar with the school. Still, Minera says he was “absolutely” concerned about whatever happened at Taft. “I think it’s a matter of looking at the schools, not only what’s happening at the classroom level but also at the community level,” he says. “We also have to look at the students and the families living around the school and the kind of support systems they have. Are they involved or engaged?” Fisher, the educational consultant, says Taft’s dropoff on the OGT raises a host of questions. “If scores decrease over time, it naturally would be necessary to determine what factors led to such declines,” he says. “Did the
teaching staff change? Did the composition of the student body change? Did the curriculum change? Did the school administration change? Did the student/teacher ratio change? Did the local curriculum drift away from the state curriculum expectations? Did financial resources decrease?” CityBeat called Taft to get the names of members of the school’s Local School Decision Making Committee (LSDMC) and Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) for parent feedback. Calls were forwarded to Principal Michael Turner. CityBeat left four voicemails for Turner but did not hear back from him. How could a school have gone from abject deficiency to eight years of brilliance then back into the cellar? Some questioned its rise at the very beginning. In 2006, the contractor that scored OGT answer sheets for the state reported a high erasure rate on the Taft tests that spring. The state asked CPS to investigate. Deputy Superintendent Laura Mitchell, who was just named superintendent for the 2017-18 school year, told the CPS school board that concerns about test improprieties were not substantiated. CPS pursued it no further. CONTINUES ON PAGE 13
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hat was a supernova on the Cincinnati educational scene in the mid2000s now looks like a flameout. From 2006 to 2014, Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School became a nationally celebrated beacon for urban public schools overcoming poverty and crime. From the bottom of the pack, Taft soared past the city’s other mostly black schools on the Ohio Graduation Test. More than 95 — sometimes 100 — percent of its students passed the math and reading tests required for graduation. Parents who shopped for regional high schools rated “excellent” could choose from Walnut Hills, Sycamore, Indian Hill and, among others, Taft. That was then. In the last two years of the OGT, Taft seniors had the lowest passage rate of the math and reading tests of every high school in Cincinnati Public Schools. Forget Walnut Hills and the School for Creative and Performing Arts; Taft is now behind Oyler, Aiken and Virtual. On its last Ohio report card, for 201516, the West End school scored straight Fs. Fewer than 70 percent of its students passed the OGT math test. “If it’s a technology school, you would think they’re doing pretty good at math,” said Tom Fisher, an educational consultant in McMinnville, Tenn. “That’s challenging content, and math goes hand in hand with technology. I don’t know how they could succeed in their mission if they don’t have people who are more proficient in mathematics.” Taft was awash in accolades at the turn of the decade. The Ohio Department of Education gave the school its first-ever “excellent” rating in 2010. Taft was hailed on the major news networks and American Public Media. It made the Christian Science Monitor, Education Week and at least two books, including Tom Brokaw’s The Time of Our Lives. Former principal Anthony Smith was invited to speak at Harvard University. The cherry-and-whipped-cream topper came from the federal government itself when, in 2010, the U.S. Department of Education made Taft a National Blue Ribbon School. So what happened? How did a school go from best-in-class to worst-in-class in a mere two years? CPS won’t say. Outgoing Superintendent Mary Ronan, who called Taft a “classic comeback story” in 2010, refused to take questions from CityBeat. CPS instead offered up the district’s director of performance and accountability, Barbara Mattei-Smith. In a telephone interview, she expressed no awareness of Taft’s overnight collapse on the OGT. She says her focus is generally on district-wide data. On individual
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Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Leslie Ghiz ruled May 26 to allow testimony from a new defense witness in the retrial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, despite prosecutors’ objections. Scott Roder says he has worked as an expert doing forensic animation on more than 500 court cases. But a federal judge last year faulted Roder for opining on areas outside his expertise. Tensing’s defense, led by attorney Stew Mathews, hired Roder as an expert witness in Tensing’s murder and manslaughter retrial for the shooting death of unarmed black motorist Sam DuBose during a traffic stop in Mount Auburn in July 2015. A previous trial ended in a hung jury in November last year. Ghiz ruled that Roder’s testimony as a video analyst expert would be allowed in the trial, though Roder admitted he is not certified specifically as a video analyst. Roder says he’s unbiased and scientific and has worked with video for years, taking a “common-sense” approach to such evidence. Ghiz also allowed prosecution video expert Grant Fredericks to again appear as an expert after his credentials were reviewed in court. Tensing said he feared for his life when he shot DuBose. He initially claimed he was dragged by DuBose’s car, though footage from the officer’s body camera showed that did not happen. Roder will be allowed to testify that, according to his analysis, Tensing felt justifiable fear for his life when he drew his gun and shot DuBose once in the head within a second of DuBose’s car lurching forward. But animations of the shooting Roder made for the defense are off-limits. “The best evidence is the video itself,” Ghiz said. Roder is the founder of The Evidence Room, an Independence, Ohio-based forensic animation company. In court, Roder said he has testified in more than 500 cases over the course of 24 years, including 50 officerinvolved shooting cases. But in at least one of those cases, Roder presented his opinions as facts, according to the federal judge. In a March 2016 ruling about a case involving a police-involved shooting in Columbus, Roder testified for plaintiffs claiming excessive use of force by an officer who shot an armed man. In a ruling siding with the defense, U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost cited Roder’s “proclivity for offering opinions” and noted multiple times when Roder offered speculation as fact on issues where he was not qualified to offer expert opinion.
Frost, who presides over the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division. faulted Roder for offering “assumptions conflated with data, all of which he is interpreting,” and of “not being an expert capable of asserting several of the opinions he offers.” (Nick Swartsell)
Protesters Outside Sen. Portman’s Office Decry GOP Health Care Bill A day after the Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of a bill by GOP members of the U.S. House of Representatives replacing former president Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, health care advocates and protesters on May 25 rallied outside the downtown Cincinnati office of Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, asking him not to support the legislation. Portman is one of the 52 GOP Senators who will have to modify and vote to pass the American Health Care Act — a tall order given the bill’s contentious nature. The legislation would decrease the federal deficit by about $119 billion, but at a steep cost. The CBO estimates that 23 million Americans could lose health coverage over the next decade under the bill the GOP passed out of the House May 4. That includes 14 million people next year alone, many of them losing health care coverage as $800 billion is slashed from Medicaid over time. The bill would roll back an Obama-era expansion of Medicaid, which states like Ohio accepted. About 700,000 Ohioans benefited from the Medicaid expansion, all of whom would lose coverage under the new bill. An additional 293,000 on private health care could also lose coverage under the AHCA, according to the office of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat. The bill also provides means for states to seek waivers allowing insurance companies to charge more for coverage to health care consumers with pre-existing conditions — something that has raised ire from groups representing health care providers and congressional Democrats. Carrying signs and chanting in opposition to the AHCA, representatives from Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, the Human Rights Campaign, the Universal Health Care Action Network and about twodozen speakers and protesters gathered outside the Scripps Building on Walnut downtown where Portman has an office. Portman was in Washington, D.C. for Senate hearings about the nation’s opiate crisis. Among those gathered downtown were Portman constituents who had personal stories about the ACA. “When the ACA was passed, insurance companies could no longer dictate whether CONTINUES ON PAGE 13
But CityBeat gave the erasure analysis a closer look in 2012 (“Miracle or Mirage,” issue of Feb. 21, 2012). It found that, of 1,707 instances where students had erased one multiple-choice answer for another, 88 percent went from wrong to right. Of the 26 erasures on one social studies question, all 26 went to the right answer. Of the 18 social studies test erasures by one 10th grader, all 18 went from wrong to right. Smith told CityBeat at the time that the school told students to lightly pencil in answers when they weren’t sure, then go back and try them again. But two national testing experts said it was statistically
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Drive-worthy destinations for film buffs, music enthusiasts, sports fans and young wizards Summer in the conveniently located Midwestern city of Cincinnati
means that with just a couple of hours and a tank of gas, you can spend the weekend somewhere else — Nashville, Chicago, Red River Gorge or, like, Dayton, depending on your interests. We’ve curated a few quick trips for resident film buffs, music enthusiasts, sports fans and young wizards to drive to this season; there are even a couple road-trip-worthy destination hotels which are adventures in and of themselves, like a replicated African safari near Cumberland, Ohio or a haunted jail. Read on to discover how you can spend the summer hitting up Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley in Kent, Ohio, drinking bourbon at a Louisville Bats game or even stopping by the Cleveland corner Bone Thugs-n-Harmony made famous. All you need is a GPS, set of wheels and some clean underwear.
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Fairly Close Fests
Destination festivals full of quirky, midwestern charm – and wizards B Y E M ILY B EGLEY
Banana Split Fest ival
When: 4-10 p.m. June 9; 10 a.m.-10 p.m. June 10 Where: 1326 Fife Ave., Wilmington, Ohio Drive Time: 1 hour Which state is the birthplace of the classic banana split? Well, it depends on who you ask — Ohio and Pennsylvania have both vehemently claimed the title since the early 1900s. Wilmington, Ohio refuses to back down, and they mean business: They’ve gone so far as to provide photographic evidence of local restaurateur Ernest Hazard serving up the dish to some eager-looking patrons circa 1907. Enter the Banana Split Festival, a silly themed bash with ’50s-era food, carnival games, a classic car show and a make-your-own banana split booth. The event — now in its 23rd year — is the only banana split festival in the nation. Look for split-eating contests, banana-themed games and festgoers clad in banana costumes, plus crafts, live music and a new youth baseball tournament. bananasplitfestival.com.
Washboard Music Fest ival
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When: 5-10 p.m. June 15; noon-11 p.m. June 16-17 Where: Main Street at Worthington Park, Logan, Ohio Drive Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
If one thing sticks in your mind from this fest, it’ll be duct tape’s astounding potential. From enormous Duck Tape sculptures to entire outfits made with the stuff, the festival is a creative and colorful mecca held every Father’s Day weekend. The theme of this year’s 14th-annual fest is “Circus Spectacular,” featuring circus-themed Duck Tape parade floats, live entertainment, fair food, rides and attractions. New this year is an interactive Duck Tape creation station
Downtown Kent’s Acorn Alley will transform into Diagon Alley (for the uninitiated muggle, that’s the magical shopping district in London). The day includes costume contests, potion classes, scavenger hunts, vendors and magic shows with plenty of surprises in store. This year, the event also includes a non-competitive Kent Potterfest 5K Fun Run at dusk. It’s definitely worth the drive (because Floo Powder sadly doesn’t exist). mainstreetkent.org.
WAG! Fest ival
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 19 Where: Prairie Oaks Metro Park, 2755 Amity Road, Hilliard, Ohio Drive Time: 1 hour 45 minutes Summer fests aren’t just for humans. WAG! is the largest dog festival of its type in the region, offering an entire day of pup-friendly fun. Accompany your canines on walking trails, let them take a swim off leash in Water Bark Beach and have them cool off in an ice castle filled with 2,500 pounds of ice. There’s also plenty for pet parents — head over to the WAG! Marketplace to browse pet-focused products and services, meet veterinarians, groomers and photographers and grab samples from a host of animal retailers. Other activities include disc demonstrations, dog agility demos, dock diving and more. Those looking to add a new furry friend to their family can meet adoptable dogs onsite from various rescue groups throughout the day. wagfest.com.
Ah, the washboard. Once used in nearly every American home as a tool for hand-washing clothes, only one washboard manufacturing company remains in the country today: the Johnny Appleseed Fest ival Columbus Washboard Company in When: 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Sept. 16; Logan, Ohio. The eclectic Washboard 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Sept. 17 • Peep t his 15-foot-ta l l ea gl e at t he Duck Tape F est iva l . Phot o: Prov ide d Music Festival celebrates a different Where: 120 N. Market St., aspect of the tool — its continued use Lisbon, Ohio as an instrument in contemporary Drive Time: 4 hours 30 minutes led by University of Cincinnati DAAP fine arts graduate Jake Jug bands and Dixieland groups. Draped over the shoulBrinkmann, who created a 15-foot-tall eagle sculpture for last For 50 years, Lisbon, Ohio has been honoring Johnny Appleders to form a sort of vest, washboards were first used as year’s event. Head over to the station to help him complete seed’s memory with a celebration of all things apple. Organizinstruments in rural America in the mid-1800s and were another towering creation. Pro tip: The first 500 guests each ers explain that although Appleseed is largely considered a frequently accompanied by empty jugs and metal tubs. Hear day receive a free roll of Duck Tape, so arrive early to tap into mythical hero, the moniker is actually the nickname of a real it in action all weekend long as more than a dozen bands your own adhesive artistry! ducktapefestival.com. man, John Chapman, who traveled westward across the U.S. take two stages throughout the fest; performers include in the late 1700s with nothing but an axe, a short-handled hoe, Spyder Stompers & Sugar Pie, the Ohio River Minstrels Kent Pot t erfest a Bible and a bag of apple seeds. Although Chapman died in and the aptly named Washboard Hank and the Washboard When: Noon-9 p.m. July 29 1845 while tending to his trees, his spirit remains very much Players. Festivities kick off June 15 with a concert by Arnett Where: 138 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio alive in Lisbon — there’s even a statue of him, hoe in hand, Howard & Friends alongside free amusement rides and Drive Time: 4 hours standing sentry in front of the town’s sign. The celebration food and drink vendors. Don’t miss tours of the Columbus takes place every September and features apples as far as Your eyes aren’t deceiving you, Potterheads — this is an Washboard Company 9 a.m.-7 p.m. June 16 and 17.. washthe eye can see; expect apple pressers, blacksmiths and entire festival devoted to the world of Harry Potter. Estabboardmusicfestival.com; columbuswashboard.com. old-fashioned crafts like yarn-spinning, vendors, World War lished last year to coincide with the release of Harry Potter II re-enactors and the crowning of a new festival queen. The Avon Heritage Duck Tape Fest ival and the Cursed Child, a manuscript of the play written by highlight of the fest, however, is the food, which includes When: 4-11 p.m. June 16; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. June 17; J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, the fest overa little bit of apple-flavored everything: dumplings, fritters, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. June 18 whelmed Main Street Kent board members with its popularbutter, cider, ice cream and even dog treats. New this year is Where: 3701 Veteran’s Memorial Parkway, Avon, Ohio ity; this year, 3,200 people have already indicating they’re Drive Time: 4 hours a free scavenger hunt for kids. lisbonareachamber.com. attending on Facebook with another 16,000 interested.
Offbeat Accommodations Wild, weird and possibly haunted hotels that are attractions in and of themselves BY MAI J A Z UMM O
T he Wilds
Where: 14000 International Road, Cumberland, thewilds.columbuszoo.org Drive Time: 3 hours
Climb more than 200 steps up a steep tree-lined ascent — elevated above the ground to reduce the impact on the forest floor — to the Observatory’s gear room, which has instructions for how to operate the solar power and hoist up food and coolers, plus some information about the swaying host trees in which you’ll be staying. It’s a lowimpact indoor/outdoor rustic retreat with excellent views of flora, fauna and the Red River Valley. Additional amenities
door, original bunk beds and shower, you and a friend can play inmate for the night — with the added bonus of cable, a full breakfast and complimentary tours of the nationally registered historic locale. For non-complimentary tours, opt for a Bardstown Ghost Trek, which includes info on the apparitions supposedly haunting Jailer’s Inn and other area businesses. The most popular paranormal visitor at the inn is purported to be Martin Hill, who died in the jail while waiting to be hanged for murdering his wife. Fun!
local tree care company that also happens to build custom tree houses — has just the solution: The Observatory tree house in Red River Gorge. This rentable “arboreal abode” is for able-bodied adventurers and romantics looking to refresh and reset. Set 50-feet above the forest floor, this funky, angular space features three tiered rooms, including a glass-ceilinged master bedroom for two, connected by floating walkways, ladders and various decks. “After living in a tree house in the Red River Gorge for three years, I realized how special spending time up in the canopy was,” says Canopy Crew owner Django Kroner. “When I had friends over, it totally blew their minds and inspired them, which was really satisfying for me. The bottom line is waking up in the tree tops offers a refreshing perspective.”
Jailer’s Inn Bed & Breakfast
Where: 111 W. Stephen Foster, Bardstown, Ky., jailersinn.com Drive Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
The Jailer’s Inn Bed & Breakfast is situated in downtown Bardstown, right in the heart of bourbon country and directly on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail — conveniently nearby Heaven Hill, Jim Beam, Four Roses and Willett distilleries. Aptly named, the inn operated as the Old Nelson County Jail from 1797 until 1987 and was the oldest operating jail in Kentucky when it closed. Constructed of 30-inch-thick stone with a quaint colonial wooden stocks and pillory out front, the seven-room B&B has maintained its penitentiary charm by allowing guests to stay in an authentic jail cell. With a steel
of one man’s dream — is one of only three remaining motel communities modeled after Native American dwellings. Frank A. Redford started constructing a chain of Wigwam Villages in the 1930s, with an original location in Horse Cave, Ky. and five more across the U.S. Purposely incorrectly named — the guest houses are actually shaped like teepees and not domed wigwams — Redford’s idea was so popular he patented it. Today, two villages still survive on Route 66 and one — the oldest standing — is located in Cave City, Ky., close to Mammoth Cave National Park. Fifteen small concrete teepees are situated in a semi-circle around a larger teepee (“the largest wigwam in the world,” which doubles as an Indian gift shop) and each contains a bedroom and bathroom and is furnished with period-style 1930s hickory and cane décor.
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If seeing animals on exhibit at the zoo isn’t close enough for you, The Wilds — a 10,000-acre nonprofit conservation center located on reclaimed mining land — brings the African (and Asian) safari experience to southeastern Ohio. Created in partnership with political, civic and Ohio zoo organizations — and curRavenwood Castle rently operated by the Columbus Zoo Where: 65666 Bethel Road, New and Aquarium and approved by that Plymouth, ravenwoodcastle.com organization’s famed Jack Hanna — Drive Time: 2 hours 30 minutes this savannah is home to animals rangLive your princess and the pea dreams ing from giraffes and wild horses to at Ravenwood Castle in Hocking Hills. zebras, rhinos and cheetahs. Divided Built in 1995 but modeled after British into five different themed pastures, the and Welsh castles dating back to the park offers unique visitor experiences, 12th and 13th centuries, the structure including daily open-air and guided is a Game of Thrones dream home safaris (May-October), behind-thecomplete with a moat, drawbridge, scenes tours and overnight stays in house pub, plenty of displayed suits of well-appointed, on-premise yurts. The armor and zero white walkers. Built adults-only “glamping” accommodaby Anglophiles Sue and Jim Maxwell tions at Nomad Ridge feature a variety — and now owned by former frequent of bamboo-floored yurts with their guests and husband and wife Jim and own bathrooms and climate control. Pam Reed — the aesthetic is classic “Nomad Ridge is located on a ridge British with Medieval charm and a overlooking the expansive grasslands of dash of fantasy. Castle accommodaThe Wilds,” says Patty Peters, vice presitions include Rapunzel’s Tower, a dent of community relations for the third-floor suite with a fireplace, and Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. “While the Duke’s Dungeon on the lowest level, there is no direct interaction with the with a door leading to an outdoor patio. animals from this vantage point, guests There are even cozy little cottages staying in the luxurious canvas-covered sprinkled throughout the property yurts fall asleep to the sounds of the and a rural Huntsman’s Hollow. Play a animals calling from the valley below.” giant game of outdoor chess or take in Bring binoculars to search for themed events, from murder mystery animals off your own private wooden dinners to gaming conventions. deck or opt for a specialty horseback Ge t a new perspect ive at T he O bservatory T ree Ho use. • Photo: Pe t er McDermott safari at sunset — two hours of rustic Wigwam Village No. 2 riding after a buffet dinner. Where: 601 N. Dixie Highway, include a gas range in the kitchen, gravity-fed water supply, Cave City, Ky., wigwamvillage.com T he Observatory T ree House mudroom with hammocks, a fire pit, composting toilet and Drive Time: 3 hours Where: Red River Gorge, Stanton, Ky., thecanopycrew.com a high-powered telescope for some excellent stargazing. Drive Time: 2 hours 20 minutes “I want to make an impression,” Kroner says. “I also hope A classic and kitschy (and probably not PC) Americana that adults will be reminded how to play.” roadside attraction, Wigwam Village No. 2 — a manifestation Looking for a way to get off the grid? Canopy Crew — a
Reds-Ins pired Roadies
Minor league ballparks and MLB road games are a good reason to leave town this summer B Y D ANNY C ROSS There are times when someone you know wants to go on an out of town trip during the
summer even though Cincinnati has everything you could ever want. The best thing to do in this situation is to plan the excursion loosely around watching baseball. The easiest way to do so is to check out one of the Reds’ nearby minor league affiliates or to schedule some sort of Chicago museum tour on the same day the Reds play the Cubs at Wrigley Field. On the minor league side, there are ample opportunities for day trips to watch some of the Reds’ best prospects working their way toward the majors. The Louisville Bats, in fact, have several guys on their roster who either started the year with the Reds or who’ve been called up and sent back down for various reasons. Just up the freeway in Dayton, the Reds’ single-A affiliate showcases some of the team’s younger prospects — more recent draft picks who might be a little further away from the majors but are still among the organization’s most intriguing talents. And if the cultural panache of downtown Milwaukee is calling your name, there’s also a perfect weekend to cash in those hotel points and cram about 10 brats during a conveniently scheduled BrewersCubs road trip.
Dragons had 32 wins on the year, among the most out of more than 100 minor league teams in the country. The organization counts among its alumni current Reds Joey Votto, Zack Cozart, Homer Bailey and Devin Mesoraco. Something to see: Outfielder Taylor Trammell entered the season ranked as the Reds’ No. 4 prospect. The 19-year-old was also a high school football star who scored 36 touchdowns his senior year.
Something to see: On June 3, the Bats will host Muhammad Ali Night on the anniversary of the Louisville native and iconic boxer and civil rights icon’s death. Players will wear special Ali jerseys and hats, which will be auctioned off to benefit the Muhammad Ali Center.
Milwaukee Brewers/ Chicago Cubs
When: Reds @ Milwaukee: Aug. 11-13; Reds @ Chicago: Aug. 14-17 Where: Miller Park, 1 Brewers Way, Milwaukee; Wrigley Field, 1060 W. Addison, Chicago Drive Time: 6 hours; 4 hours 45 minutes
Dayton Dragons (Reds Single-A affiliate)
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When: Home games: June 1-4, 13-15, 22-25 and 30; July 1-3, 7-10, 19-24; Aug. 2-8, 14-17, 22-24 and 30-31 Where: Fifth Third Field, 220 N. Patterson Blvd., Dayton Drive Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
The Dayton Dragons’ stadium, Fifth Third Field, is located just a few blocks from Dayton’s Oregon District, where you’ll find bars, restaurants and live music before and after games. The team boasts the longest sellout streak in the history of North American professional sports — it broke the Portland Trail Blazers’ record in 2011 and is still going strong. The Dragons began this season at 1,177 consecutive sold-out games. (Remember to call ahead for tickets!) Inside the 7,230-seat stadium, the Dragons are dedicated to entertaining families and even the most screen-obsessed children. There’s a brand-new hospitality area called the Dragon’s Lair — a picnic area beyond the outfield fence where large groups can congregate. The team has five mascots, performs on-field singalongs and keeps things lively on its $1 million video board between innings. Tom Nichols, the Dragons’ director of media relations, says the organization is hugely committed to family entertainment. “The whole idea is to create a Disney-style environment that is fun for everyone,” he says, “whether you’re a baseball fan or not.” The baseball isn’t half-bad, either. As of this writing, the
The Bats’ in-stadium offerings, like the Dragons’, are extremely family-friendly. There are two playgrounds, a merry-go-round and lawn seats available. The team is known for bringing in circus acts that typically run the NBA halftime circuit. Ballpark Digest actually named Louisville Slugger Field the top Triple-A park in America last year. “There’s not really a bad seat in the place,” says Greg Galiette, the team’s senior vice president. “And the best thing about our product is it’s only $10 for a field reserve ticket — the cheapest Triple-A tickets in the country.” Adults in attendance will appreciate the vast selection of food options — the park staple is fried bologna — along with Angel’s Envy Distillery and Against the Grain microbrewery. And the Evan Williams Bourbon Experience is right down the way on Main Street.
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Louisville Bats (Reds Triple-A affiliate)
When: Home games: June 14 and 9-11 and 19-25; July 4-9 and 17-23; Aug. 1-6, 15-20 and 28-31 Where: Louisville Slugger Field, 401 E. Main St., Louisville, Ky. Drive Time: 1 hour 30 minutes It’s easy to make a day out of a Louisville Bats game. The team’s stadium, Louisville Slugger Field, is just a block from the city’s huge riverfront lawn park and near the NULU entertainment district, home to galleries, specialty stores and fancy restaurants. The 25-story Galt House hotel has a rooftop garden and terrace with views of downtown and the river. If you’re up for a short drive — or longer walk — you can hit up the Louisville Slugger Museum for a factory tour and even hold game-used bats by legends like Mickey Mantle and Johnny Bench. The museum also has a LEGO exhibition titled Big Leagues Little Bricks on view the rest of 2017 featuring sculptures, portraits and stadium replicas built out of LEGO bricks.
Every baseball fan should visit Wrigley Field during his or her lifetime, and why not do double duty by hitting up Milwaukee’s Miller Park on the same trip? The Reds’ late-summer schedule offers the perfect chance to cross two of MLB’s best stadiums off your list” Miller Park has a retractable roof and a giant yellow slide the team’s beer-maker mascot tumbles down after home runs. The iconic Wrigley Field, with its ivy-covered outfield fence and seating atop buildings on the other side of Waveland Avenue, is more than a century old. Until last season it was the home of the “Lovable Losers,” America’s nickname for the team that hadn’t won a World Series title since 1908. It seemed inevitable that the Cubs would never win it again, especially in 2003 when they were five outs away from winning it all only to have a poor guy named Steve Bartman interfere with a catchable foul ball, extending an opponents’ at-bat and basically being blamed, forever, for the team losing the game and series. Unfortunately, the Cubs did in fact win last year’s World Series and now everyone expects their horrible fans to become even worse. Chicago is a fantastic city to visit. Something to see: Bernie Brewer’s home run slide; Cubs fans drinking during the day.
Sites Behind the Sounds
Cruising some of the spots behind Ohio’s large and ongoing contribution to the fabric of American music BY MIKE BREEN Cincinnatians hopefully know about their city’s rich musical heritage thanks to the rise in
grassroots and even civic efforts to memorialize things that had a big impact on the music world, like the groundbreaking King Records. Taken as a whole, Ohio’s contributions to music are indispensable. Besides going to a concert or festival, when you think “roadtrip,” “Ohio” and “music,” you probably think of Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. That’s a good plan, if you’ve never been, but if you have, besides a few rotating exhibits, you’ve seen it all before. So this summer, whether you’re up for a very strange cross-state drive or maybe you’re just in a particular area of the state and want to impress a friend, we’ve gathered some sites behind some celebrated Ohio music and musicians. These aren’t typical tourist attractions — you won’t find a gift shop — but at the very least you can Instagram a photo of you standing at a locale and make all of your friends think you’re pretty cool… or incredibly strange.
an Oscar. Legend posted a shot of him visiting and standing in front of the house a few years back on Facebook, but it’s just a standard, slightly worn suburban home (please don’t bother the people who live there now!).
Twent y One Pilots T yler Joseph’s High School Where: 6675 Worthington Galena Road, Columbus Drive Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Bone T hugs-n-Harmony’s Neighborhood
Where: Saint Clair Avenue and E. 99th St., Cleveland Drive Time: 4 hours
T rout man Sound Labs
Where: 1835 Catalpa Drive, Dayton Drive Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
John Legend’s Childhood Home
Where: 2339 Lexington Ave., Springfield, Ohio Drive Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
In Springfield, Ohio you can see where it all started for a more contemporary hit-maker. In 1978, John Roger Stephens was born in Springfield, growing up in the humble two-story abode at 2339 Lexington Ave. By 2005, the world knew that kid as John Legend, as he proceeded to win 10 Grammys and
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Known for the breakout success of 2015 album Blurryface, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun of AltPop/Rock/Rap duo Twenty One Pilots have always paid respect to fans in their Columbus hometown. Singer/multi-instrumentalist Joseph got his first taste of putting on an athletic show in front of adoring fans at Worthington Christian High School, in a northern suburb of Columbus. Joseph was the “sharp-shooting” point guard for Worthington Christian’s basketball team. In 2008, Joseph took team to the Division IV state finals, which were played at Columbus’ Schottenstein Center. Joseph had a scholarship offer to play college ball, but decided he wanted to pursue music instead, forming Twenty One Pilots by the following year. It paid off. Joseph returns this June to the Schottenstein Center, where Worthington Christian lost those finals, to play a sold-out concert.
T he Black Keys’ Basement Where: 54 Metlin Ave., Akron Drive Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
Five miles northeast of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame sits the intersection of Saint Clair Avenue and E. 99th St. and the corner that Ohio’s biggest Hip Hop export made famous. Cleveland’s Bone Thugs-n-Harmony broke through in 1995 with E. 1999 Eternal and the group’s lyrics often referenced the scene around the St. Clair/99th corner in Glenville, the largely poor, African-American neighborhood in which the members grew up. Their big hit “1st of tha Month” captures the party atmosphere caused by welfarecheck-cashing-time in the neighborhood and “the 99” and St. Clair are name-checked frequently. Glenville isn’t quite the neighborhood Bone Thugs wrote about — it’s lost a lot of population, resulting in many abandoned buildings and houses.
Art Tatum Landmark
Where: 1123 City Park Ave., Toledo Drive Time: 3 hours In terms of music, Jazz pianist Art Tatum is Toledo, Ohio’s most important native. Tatum (born in 1909) had a huge influence on the evolution of Jazz and is widely considered the genre’s greatest pianist. In downtown Toledo sits a small two-story home at 1123 City Park Ave. with some peeling paint, boarded-up windows and an official historical marker in the yard. The home that Tatum lived in as he accumulated his early musical knowledge is over 100 years old and looks its age. According to Toledo City Paper, the house is owned by Tatum’s last living heir, his niece Lucille Johnson, who is in her mid-80s and unable to fix up the house, though she’s willing to sell it to anyone interested in preserving Tatum’s legacy.
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Dayton, Ohio was home to a Funk scene in the ’70s/’80s that was rivaled by none, producing bands like Lakeside, Slave, Ohio Players, Heatwave and Zapp, creators of hits like “More Bounce to the Ounce” and featuring the Troutman brothers. Sadly, Zapp’s legacy ended in Dayton — in 1999, Roger Troutman (who also had success as a producer and solo artist) was shot and killed by his brother Larry outside of Troutman Sound Labs at 1835 Catalpa Drive, northwest of downtown in the Triangle Park neighborhood. While Troutman’s studio (where Roger produced albums like Zapp III) and business buildings at the site are gone, you can pay your respects at the the corner of Salem Avenue and Catalpa, which features a cool sound sculpture. Erected in 2012, the artwork is named for the Zapp & Roger hit “I Can Make You Dance” — it’s also tuned to the song, with the tower “tune rods” playing wind-activated notes. A plaque also sits at the spot, with a colorful Zapp mural facing the memorial.
In Akron, Ohio’s Highland Square area, there’s a nice but non-descript house that played a key role in the career of another Ohio duo now playing arenas — The Black Keys. In 2001, drummer Patrick Carney invited fellow Akronite Dan Auerbach’s band over to record some songs in the unfinished basement of his home at 54 Metlin Ave. The “band” didn’t show up, but Auerbach did, and the two started jamming and recording. The duo crafted a raw demo tape from their jams and sent it to a handful of labels. Alive Records showed interest, so the duo returned to the basement to record what became the band’s first album, The Big Come Up, in 2002. When Carney eventually sold the house, the realtor used the Black Keys connection in the listing, declaring it “a piece of musical history!”
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‘Raintree County’ in Danville A Kentucky town still remembers a long-ago Hollywood visit BY ST E V E N ROS E N signed by Clift) and newspaper articles of the day. It’s an illuminating chronicle of how one small Kentucky town in the 1950s handled Hollywood at its most glamorous, and vice versa. The fascination with American film history is such that the Among photos in the Playhouse’s collection are one of concept of “location vacations” — visiting places where Taylor arriving in Kentucky to an enthused waiting crowd at movies were filmed — is gaining in popularity. A new book Lexington’s airport, and Marvin and Clift (back to camera) by Joey Green, called Vacation on Location, Midwest, taking directions for a scene outside the stately mansion has information on seeing such sites as the old Ohio State in which Taylor’s character lived. Reformatory in Mansfield (the prison (That house, at the corner of Third in 1994’s The Shawshank RedempStreet and Lexington Avenue, still tion) and two picturesque ballparks looks much as it did in the 60-yearin Evansville and Huntingburg, Ind., old movie.) The exhibit, which is a where the Rockford Peaches of the curated display of items in the overall All-American Girls Professional Basecollection, was assembled for a 2007 ball League played in 1992’s A League Raintree County festival organized of Their Own. by the late Holly Henson, Eben and “The idea came about because I was Charlotte’s daughter. The family still traveling with my family and we went runs Pioneer Playhouse. to Salzburg, Austria and took The The playhouse also has a living Sound of Music tour,” Green says in link to the days of Raintree County — an interview from his Los Angeles Charlotte at age 86 remains active in home. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice its operation and shares her memories to do a book on film sites all across with visitors. During a recent tour, America, picking smaller towns and she posed next to a large cardboard focus on them?’ ” cutout of herself in costume for a And it can be. For an especially film scene, reminiscing as daughter rewarding visit to a nearby town Heather listens approvingly. with a fascinating movie history, “People here loved Eva Marie Saint head to Danville, Ky. — about 35 — they liked Elizabeth Taylor a little miles southwest of Lexington. That’s less,” she says. “And everyone wanted where, in 1956, key scenes were shot to talk to Lee Marvin.” for 1957’s Raintree County, one of Her most striking remembrances the more fascinating if ill-fated bigcenter on Clift, who at one time was — budget American movie projects ever along with Marlon Brando and James attempted. (It’s not in Green’s book Dean — part of the “holy trinity” of because he doesn’t consider KenHollywood method actors. But while tucky the Midwest.) filming Raintree County in Hollywood, A short trip to Danville in summer before the production came to Danville, also is a chance to see a play in an A ctress Eva Marie Sa int on t he set of “Ra intree Co unty ” • Photo: Prov ide d he had an auto accident that caused outdoor theater — Pioneer Playhouse facial injuries requiring plastic surgery — that is itself a veritable work of folk to correct. When he arrived in Danville, art. It’s so distinctive it is considered Further, for Raintree County’s Civil War scenes, MGM he used alcohol. (He also reportedly needed painkillers.) a state landmark by the Kentucky Heritage Council. It also debuted its gigantic new Camera 65, a 65-millimeter wide“They rented whole houses for the stars, and he got one has a campground and an antique village on its 50-acre screen process getting its first use in Danville. The camera with tall shelves to line up his whiskey bottles,” Charlotte site just outside of town. (The theater season starts June 9 itself was nicknamed “The Monster” on the set. says. “And he would hold his liquor in teacups in restauand runs through Aug. 26.) The Pioneer Playhouse’s founder, the late Eben C. Henson, rants because we were a dry county.” The Playhouse’s history is intertwined with Raintree was instrumental in getting the production to come to DanThat is just one element that made Raintree County ill County’s and it has a sizeable permanent exhibit devoted ville, saying the uncluttered nearby countryside would be fated. The Bloomington, Ind. author of the 1948 novel on to the filming of it in Danville. Also, its box office is the perfect for Camera 65’s panoramic battle scenes. His wife, which it’s based, Ross Lockridge Jr., committed suicide train station that was built for the movie and is featured in Charlotte, was an extra in the production. shortly after its publication. While MGM had purchased several of its more memorable scenes. Besides the train station, pretty much everything else rights at the time of the book’s publication, it took years Based on a 1,000-plus-page novel and designed to be about the playhouse campus was built by Henson or to mount the expensive production. And then there was MGM’s “Northern version” of its classic 1939 Gone With recycled, salvaged or gifted. As a result, it’s quite unusual — the tepid response. It received but four Oscar nominations the Wind, Raintree County starred some of Hollywood’s the floor of the Indian Room is cut-up telephone poles, for — costume design, art direction, score and Taylor’s acting. biggest stars — Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva instance. The playhouse has been at this location since 1957 That’s compared to Gone With the Wind’s 10 wins out of 13 Marie-Saint, Lee Marvin — plus such character actors as — having started in a mental institution’s theater in 1950. nominations. Nigel Patrick and Rod Taylor. All of them and more came The playhouse also has a permanent Raintree County “They were replacing Gone With the Wind and it didn’t to the small but lovely and historic Kentucky city for filmexhibit that is well researched and filled with interesting work,” says Robert A. Powell, a Danville historian who has ing during a hot summer long ago. photos from the shoot. There are also correspondence, written Pioneer Playhouse: A Kentucky Treasure. Clift played a cocksure Indiana youth with abolitionist memorabilia (a postcard from the elegant Gilcher Hotel But it still is a big winner in Danville. beliefs who falls for an emotionally troubled, pro-slavery Where: Pioneer Playhouse, 840 Stanford Road, Danville, Ky., pioneerplayhouse.com Drive Time: 2 hour 15 minutes
Southern woman (Taylor) in the years before the Civil War. Later, the war’s effect on their relationship becomes the focus of this three-hour melodrama. It’s not considered a classic by any means, and in truth never found a way to satisfactorily translate its sprawling source material. But it has developed a growing following among buffs — for its politics, tragic backstory, superb production values and the acting by Taylor and Clift.
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ONSTAGE: Baseball-themed musical DAMN YANKEES is an almost literal grand slam at Warsaw Federal Incline Theater. See Onstage on page 29.
ONSTAGE: CINCINNATI FRINGE FESTIVAL Do you consider yourself kinda weird? If so, the next two weeks belong to you during the 14th-annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival, with the overarching banner of “Kinda Weird, Like You.” Starting Wednesday and continuing through June 11, you can find 50 productions of 60 minutes or less across 13 days — theater, dance, comedy, music, stand-up, monologues and lots of stuff that defies categorization — at 13 venues across Over-theRhine. If that’s not enough, there are also visual art experiences, free street performances, impromptu busking and offbeat nightly after-parties. It’s a riot of creativity bringing hundreds of people together. You want to be there, don’t you? Through June 11. $20. Know Theatre, 1120 Jackson St., and elsewhere across Over-the-Rhine, 513-300-5669, cincyfringe.com. — RICK PENDER
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ONSTAGE: Comedian HENRY PHILLIPS, whose parody cooking videos led to a recurring role on HBO’s Silicon Valley, performs Thursday-Sunday at Go Bananas. See interview on page 28.
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MUSIC: The massive BUNBURY MUSIC FESTIVAL descends on Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove with three days of diverse headliners and local acts. See Sound Advice on page 38.
MUSIC: Cincinnati trio THE DOPAMINES host a release party for their new album, Tales of Interest, at Northside Yacht Club. See feature on page 36.
MUSIC: OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW In late April, modern Americana giants Old Crow Medicine Show returned with its first album since 2014’s Remedy. For its new release, the band — embraced by Roots music long-timers (OCMS is an official member of the Grand Ole Opry) and newcomers alike — turned to one of its biggest influences, Bob Dylan, and his landmark album, Blonde on Blonde. The 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde recording is the result of Old Crow Medicine Show’s live performance of the album last year at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville in honor of its golden anniversary (the album is culled from that presentation). It’s far from the first time OCMS has re-imagined vintage material (the band has long covered a variety of “old-time” music), but the full-doublealbum-cover feat is wildly impressive, as the band adds its own perspective, yet still manages to stay true to the original’s vision. The group is playing two full sets on its current tour — one of OCMS favorites and one featuring Blonde on Blonde in its entirely. 8 p.m. Thursday. $29.50-$49.50. Taft Theatre, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, tafttheatre.org. — MIKE BREEN
grand prize of $7,500) and a recreated piazza. All proceeds go toward the Saint Catharine of Siena Parish and School in the Westwood community, San Antonio Italian Church and scholarship funds of the Italian societies. 6 p.m.-midnight Friday; 3 p.m.-midnight. Saturday; 1-9 p.m. Sunday. Free entry. Harvest Home Park, 3961 North Bend Road, Cheviot, cincitalia.org. — MACKENZIE MANLEY COMEDY: LIL DUVAL Lil Duval comes out of the Atlanta comedy scene after moving there from his hometown of Jacksonville, Fla. Born Roland Powell, he took his stage name from his birthplace: Duval County. In
2001, while competing in a comedy competition in the Bay Area, he was noticed by Cedric the Entertainer’s road manager and invited to join that veteran stand-up’s tour. “I can’t hold my liquor,” he tells an audience. “You ever get so drunk you have to hold on to the grass so you don’t fall off the edge of the Earth? No? Just me?” In 2005, Duval was a finalist on BET’s Coming to the Stage comedy competition and is a series regular on the MTV2 shows Guy Code and Hip Hop Squares. He has also served as host of the viral video show Ain’t That America on MTV2. Showtimes FridaySaturday. $22. Funny Bone Liberty,
7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty. funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON EVENT: SUMMERFAIR Stretching along Coney Island, Summerfair Cincinnati is set to return for its 50th year, making it one of the oldest ongoing art fairs in the country. The art showcased comes in an array of forms, textures and styles ranging from photography to ceramics to painting. While perusing, you can enjoy four stages featuring local entertainers or munch on gourmet food, including Miss Kylee’s Funnel Cakes, Cosmic Kettle CONTINUES ON PAGE 24
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EVENT: CINCITALIA This three-day event is a celebration of authentic Italian heritage. Weave between booths, carnival rides and vendors from local Italian restaurants and unwind to music acts like The Rusty Griswolds, Mickey James and the Queen City Crew, Sal Ventura & Dr. Zoot and Ray Massa’s EuroRhythms — all while clutching a garlic knot. Don’t miss an open-air wine garden in an atmosphere infused with the scent of simmering marinara, lasagna just like ma made it and craft beer. The festival also features cooking demos, raffles (with a
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ART: SOS ART OPENING RECEPTION AT ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI SOS ART, a ten-day art show founded and organized by University of Cincinnati Professor Emeritus Saad Ghosn that seeks to give a platform for creative expressions for peace and justice, will hold its 15th-annual exhibition opening, which will include introductory notes by artist and educator Matt Reed, artist talks and a potluck reception. Other evenings throughout the following week will feature music, documentary screenings, poetry readings, dance performance and a panel discussion regarding “Our Environment and How to Protect It.” Opening reception 6 p.m. Friday; on view through June 11. Free. Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson St, Over-the-Rhine, sosartcincinnati.wordpress.com. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER
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Corn and Mountain BBQ. Summerfair has ultimately created a niche in which artists can seek support for their talents by showcasing both regional and local artists. Beyond providing a platform for exposure, all proceeds go toward providing scholarship and exhibit opportunities to students, professional artists and art organizations. Take a day — or a full weekend — to immerse yourself in trails of color, concepts and art. 2-8 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. $10 (cash only at gate); kids 12 and under free. Coney Island, 6201 Kellogg Ave, California, summerfair.org. — MACKENZIE MANLEY
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EVENT: UNDER THE MARKET TOUR Walk in the footsteps of Cincinnati brewing legends, Johnny Cash and an American Legacy tour guide in the new Under the Market Tour. This bona fide adventure will uncover Cincinnati history from below the city’s surface. First, guides and guests will travel through the hub of the 19th-century Linck brewery and learn about the two brothers who shaped those tunnels and, in turn, a piece of local
brewing history. Other stops include the location of a Johnny Cash movie, the historic Bellevue Incline and the original Christian Moerlein Brewery complex — all unearthed in this rediscovery of Overthe-Rhine’s past. 11:30 a.m. Saturday. $25 general admission. Tour begins at 1818 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, americanlegacytours.com. — GRACE HILL EVENT: CHARM AT THE FARM GRAND OPENING Located on a 56-acre Clydesdale farm in Lebanon, Ohio, Charm at the Farm is a brand-new open-air market brimming with rustic and vintage finds. More than 70 local shops and artisans will coalesce to sell everything from furniture to home goods, including custom lighting and repurposed décor. The market’s grandopening celebration includes food trucks, a fashion show and a vintage photo booth, with proceeds from the event benefitting Matthew 25: Ministries. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. $5. 4953 Bunnell Hill Road, Lebanon, charmatthefarm.com. — EMILY BEGLEY EVENT: BACON & CHEESE FESTIVAL There’s really nothing better than a little bacon and cheese (well, unless you’re
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EVENT: BRUNCHED Cure your Friday night hangover (or get a brand new one) with CityBeat’s Brunched event, a boozy breakfast club at The Phoenix downtown, presented by Tito’s vodka. Like any good brunch, we’ll be serving up plenty of restorative libations, including delicious drinks from an uber competitive Bloody Mary War and Mimosa Off — sip, contemplate and then vote for your favorites. There will also be beverages from the likes of BLOC Coffee Company, Smooth Nitro Coffee, Revel OTR Urban Winery and plenty more. And if you’re looking to eat some actual food, tickets include unlimited samples from vendors like Wild Eggs, Keystone Bar & Grill, Maplewood, 27 Bar+Kitchen and Macaron Bar, to name a few. This event is for weekend warriors 21 and older. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Patty Brisben Foundation. 11 a.m.2:30 p.m. Saturday. $25 Early Bird; $30 general; $35 day-of. The Phoenix, 812 Race St., Downtown, citybeat.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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EVENT: TRI-STATE ANTIQUE MARKET From collector’s items to unique home furniture pieces, there’s something for everyone at the Tri-State Antique Market. Every first Sunday of the month through
October, nearly 250 vendors display early American artifacts, mid-century modern memorabilia and everything in between at “Indiana’s largest antiques and vintage market.” Common findings include vintage jewelry, military relics and pop culture collectibles. The market, which attracts almost 20,000 visitors each season, will go on rain or shine with over half of the vendor displays covered or indoors. 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. $3. Lawrenceburg Fairgrounds, US 50 at Argosy Casino Parkway., Lawrenceburg, In., queencityshows.com. — AMANDA WEISBROD
ONGOING SHOWS VISUAL ART Star Wars and the Power of Costume Cincinnati Museum Center, Queensgate (Through Oct. 1) VISUAL ART Signature Scheurer Weston Art Gallery, Downtown (Through June 18)
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a vegetarian, but still, cheese — and alcohol!). Jungle Jim’s massive Bacon & Cheese fest is back for its second year of celebrating “some of the most palatable pork products you’ve ever had the pleasure to partake in.” The Eastgate location’s parking lot will be filled with bacon and cheese creations, beer and special events like a S’Wine Tasting: That’s a wine pairing event with — you guessed it — cheese and bacon. Other activities throughout the fest include balloon animal making, face painting, some friendly food competition and live entertainment. 4-8 p.m. Saturday. $10 adults; $4 kids. Jungle Jim’s, 4450 Eastgate S. Drive, Eastgate, junglefests. com. — EMILY BEGLEY
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Connecting Creatives with Clients
Tamia Stinson’s Tether will be a sourcebook for local image makers BY JUDY GEORGE
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amia Stinson is all about networking. The Cincinnati stylist and recent recipient of a $100,000 People’s Liberty fellowship knows the image making community — photographers, stylists, creative directors, hair and makeup artists, wardrobe and fashion designers and models. She also knows the advertising agencies, branding companies, design firms and others that hire them. “I’m a spreadsheet nerd,” Stinson admits. “I have one spreadsheet of about 250 image makers in town and another spreadsheet of agencies and clients.” Stinson also knows that these two sides — the “creatives” (as they’re called in the ad industry) and their potential clients — can’t always find each other. As a result, local photographers and stylists frequently travel to get top assignments. Local agencies and design firms often bring in talent from out of town. “There is plenty of opportunity for work in the city,” she says. “Cincinnati has a lot of talented people and I want to keep them here.” So when Stinson pitched to People’s Liberty her idea to connect creatives and clients, the philanthropic lab in Over-theRhine took notice. People’s Liberty, part of the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, believes the $100,000 fellowship it awarded Stinson this year will strengthen Cincinnati’s creative community and foster work for local talent. “Tamia saw a problem she wanted to fix,” says Jake Hodesh, vice president of operations at People’s Liberty. “She envisioned an opportunity to build something new that will make Cincinnati a better place.” Since 2009, People’s Liberty has funded civic and cultural projects that aim to transform the city. “We want to make dynamic investments in Cincinnati,” Hodesh says. “We look for great ideas but, more importantly, we look for interesting people to invest in. We want people who could do something new and different for the city if they could quit their jobs and try something big and bold.” Each year, People’s Liberty bestows three different types of awards: 16 project grants of $10,000 each, three $15,000 Globe grants and two $100,000 Haile fellowships. “We award the $100,000 fellowships to individuals who identify a local problem and see a way to solve it, or who seek out a unique opportunity in the city,” Hodesh says. Fellows take a year-long sabbatical from their jobs and receive mentoring, marketing support, a network of local
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and national contacts and work space to develop and implement their ideas. Stinson’s project, called Tether, started in April. Inspired by the international publication Le Book — a guide to creative talent in Paris, London, Berlin and New York — Stinson plans to develop and curate a collective portfolio of local work. “We’re soliciting photo shoot concepts now,” she says. “On June 26, the concepts will be presented to the creative community, so people can sign on to be part of a crew and start to collaborate on the images that will be in the book.” The Tether sourcebook will not only showcase talent for prospective clients, but will serve as a resource to educate local creatives about each other. “I want to make sure we show the breadth of what Cincinnati’s image makers can do, from commercial and lifestyle shoots to beauty and fashion photography,” she says. “If you’re a photographer tasked with pulling together a shoot for a client, you’ll be able to build the team you need — the stylists, the models, the hair and makeup artists — from our book.” Stinson also plans to give Tether a robust social media and web presence and will host networking events to bring the creative community together. “I held a forum with a group of independent image makers recently and learned the most important thing they wanted was to connect face-to-face with others in the business,” she says. “It’s one thing to like someone’s work on Instagram. It’s another thing to actually talk with the photographer as an individual.” Stinson brings marketing, networking, styling and social media skills to the project. After earning a marketing degree from Ohio State University and interning in fashion journalism in London, the Forest Park native moved back to Cincinnati, relocating to the West End. In town, she’s worked as a corporate marketer, a project manager and a magazine stylist. During that time, Stinson developed a blog called Style Sample to showcase local shopping and style ideas and her personal fashion sense, which she calls “downtown disco housewife” — glam rock meshed with urban chic. “My fashion blossoming happened during the supermodel era in the early to mid-’90s,” she says. “I like Daryl Kerrigan and some of the other New York-type designers, but I throw in a dash of my mom’s style, too.” In addition to Style Sample, for the past four years Stinson has hosted Creative City, a podcast for Cincinnati artists to discuss
Tamie Stinson received a $100,000 fellowship from People’s Liberty for her project. their work, influences and visions. It was recognized with a CityBeat Best of Cincinnati staff pick this year for being the “Best Way to Eavesdrop on Your Favorite Local Creatives.” Her show has featured guests like photographer Josh Anderson, digital video director Brandon Faris, music producer Kick Lee and designer Chris Glass. “I often encounter people in town who are working on really cool and interesting projects, but I can’t explain them because I’m a terrible storyteller,” she says. “I decided to record my conversations with them and the Creative City podcast was born.”
But Tether — the network, web site and sourcebook — will be Stinson’s primary focus until April 2018. “The biggest thing I can do in the next year is connect people in the creative community with each other,” she says. “I will lay the groundwork for an established network that can grow into something bigger.” Photographers, stylists, designers and others who want to be part of the premiere edition of the TETHER sourcebook can submit a photo shoot concept at tethercincinnati.com by June 11. More info about People’s Liberty: peoplesliberty.org.
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If you detect a certain urgency to the Two filmmakers, who are unrelated, join programs that comprise the Contemporary forces to present at Memorial Hall short Arts Center’s 2017-18 Black Box Performance films in a live context that allows for music, Series, it’s intentional. The performance improvisation and anecdotes to make it less curator, Drew Klein, had a theme in mind. of a passive experience. Sam Green, who “A big part of this year is about the directed the Oscar-nominated documentary assembly of people — I wanted to have The Weather Underground, has also worked people come together,” he says. “We’re curwith Yo La Tengo and the Kronos Quartet. rently in this incredibly divisive landscape, • Kaneza Schaal, JACK&JILL and I wanted to see what power we have (Feb. 15-16): as a group to share a moment with the A world premiere of another commisunderstanding that there’s a bond between sion made with the National Performance audience and artist.” Network’s assistance, this features direcHe also wanted diversity. With that in tor Schaal working with performer Cornell mind, here is the upcoming season: Alston on a piece that considers “the • Bouchra Ouizguen, Corbeaux (Sept. 16-17, 2017): The Moroccan choreographer and her Marrakech dance group present this show (translated as “crow” or “raven”) in which the women allow their white headscarves to dip and swoop like birds as they make sounds that build in intensity. They will be joined by local women in their performance. • Tiago Rodrigues, By Heart (Sept. 28-29): The Portuguese theater director, whose company January’s Live Cinema will mix films with music and anecdotes. specializes in modern PHOTO : provided remakes of classical works, has developed something different and intimately personal with By damages of being in prison — not the time Heart. Inspired by reading poetry and prose one has served but the measure of one’s to his grandmother as she was losing her dreaming that is given to the state.” sight, he asks 10 people to come onstage • Poliça & s t a r g a z e, Music For The and memorize a poem. As they work to do Long Emergency (March 2): This program, so, he tells stories about himself — and developed by the Saint Paul Chamber about the importance of poetry and prose. Orchestra through a “virtual residency” of • Shasta Geaux Pop (Oct. 26-27): Poliça, a Minneapolis Dream Pop band, A scripted performance as well as the and the Berlin New Music ensemble name of a character played by Ayesha fronted by conductor André de Ridder, will Jordan, Shasta Geaux Pop is described be the Performance Series’ major musical as a wild, uncensored dance party that program. “Some of the live music you’ll reccelebrates 1980s-90s Hip-Hop culture. ognize from Poliça or s t a r g a z e, but with • Takahiro Yamamoto, Direct Path the other group influencing the way tracks to Detour (Nov. 9-10): play out,” Klein says. “But the rest will be The CAC commissioned this new dance new music that they’ve created together.” work from the Portland, Ore.-based cho• Kate McIntosh, In Many Hands reographer through the National Perfor(April 12-15): In this U.S. premiere, McInmance Network. It features four dancers tosh will get the audience to “test, touch, who seek to form relationships despite listen, search and sniff” objects to sensisocietal barriers. tize themselves. • Mithkal Alzghair, Displacement Also, two artists with strong Cincinnati (Jan. 11-12, 2018): connections — visual artist Sheida SoleiThis Syrian choreographer/dancer, based mani (March 29-30) and musician Ofir in France after attending school there, uses Klemperer (April 27) — will be developthree male dancers to explore how a body ing performance programs for the series. responds to the kind of war, migration and For more info, visit contemporaryrevolution experienced in Syria. artscenter.org. • Brent Green & Sam Green, Live CONTACT STEVEN ROSEN: srosen@citybeat.com Cinema (Jan. 27):
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Sometimes truth is stranger than ficof effort. You and Your Fu*king Coffee, tion, and then there are times when fiction for instance, requires much more time to influences truth. Such has been the case produce. “There are eight episodes of Coffee with comedian Henry Phillips. In 2009, he and they require a little bit more in terms starred in and co-wrote a feature film called of production values and a bigger budget. I Punching the Clown. Playing a fictionalmight do another episode this year. I defiized version of himself, he delivered a film nitely have the scripts for them.” that drew critical praise. Amazon Prime The most recent episode is a period piece members currently can stream it, while the based on the 1937 Hindenburg dirigible sequel called Punching Henry was just disaster. “The whole thing is, I’m supposed released this spring. to be manning this mooring tower and I The two films, however, are only one go get coffee and that causes the whole facet of Phillips’ comedy. Another is live tragedy,” he says. performance — he’ll be at Montgomery’s Go Bananas Comedy Club Thursday through Sunday. For years, he was most widely known as a comedian who sang funny songs, but these days he’s concentrating more on straight stand-up. “I tell stories and throw in a few one-liners,” he says in an interview. “I’ve always liked a good one-liner. I’ve just had more of a craving to tell interesting stories lately.” Songs are still a big part of his set, though. “There are a Humorous songs are a big part of Phillips’ live shows. couple of new ones I’ve done PHOTO : provided on the (radio) Bob & Tom Show within the last year.” Older songs receive the occasional update, Dean Cundey, a veteran cinematographer like his popular “Oops.” who worked on Jurassic Park and Back to “I think at the time I wrote that, the big the Future, worked on that episode. “There story was the BP oil spill,” he explains. “It’s was a solid month of going back and forth like, ‘Hey, if you mess up, just pick yourself with props and special effects,” Phillips says. up, dust yourself off and move on.’ Sounds “The idea is so silly, but the amount of work like a positive message.” In the past few that went into it is crazy. If you saw what years, he’s rotated in verses about reading the set looked like, you would have thought the wrong name at the Oscars and losing an we were shooting Transformers.” entire Malaysian airliner. The cooking show, on the other hand, Another endeavor Phillips has also takes less time to complete since, by its very become involved in is creating web videos. nature, it’s comparatively low-tech. “There’s He currently produces two different a full day of research, getting a shot list, series, Henry’s Kitchen and You and Your figuring out what physical gags there are Fu*king Coffee. The former was inspired going to be,” he says. “I usually go through by the plethora of YouTube cooking videos my old tweets and try to pull something out hosted mostly by single men. Phillips of there that sounds like a funny thing to stumbled onto these and decided they were say while I’m stirring our whatever.” ripe for parody. In Coffee, he destroys the The shooting is hard work. “That’s a lives of various people with his need for real mess,” Phillips says. “I kind of dread it java. It was the cooking videos, though, that because I’m like ‘Man, there’s going to be a led to his recurring role on the hit HBO lot of cleanup after this. Then there’s a day sitcom Silicon Valley. “They were fans of of editing, and sometimes I’ll put a new song my kitchen videos,” he says. “A few of them on there as well.” went viral, and it turned out to be one of the The types of videos he parodies continue smartest things I ever did by accident. All of to inspire him. “What you’re watching is a sudden, the phone started ringing.” real. You’re watching human failure in its He continues to produce both web series. purest form.” “They’re really fun for me to make,” he says. HENRY PHILLIPS performs Thursday-Sunday at Go “Like stand-up, there’s no one telling you how Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery. to do it.” Tickets/more info: gobananascomedy.com. The two series require different levels
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Cincinnati Landmark’s producers have University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservaexcellent instincts about shows to please tory of Music. He has the clean-cut, honesttheir “Summer Classics” audiences — guy stage presence that made audiences people they once drew to the Showboat swoon back in the days when shows like Majestic. They’ve scored a grand slam — Damn Yankees were hits, especially with the almost literally — with the production of poignant number “A Man Doesn’t Know.” a 62-year-old musical, Damn Yankees, at Damn Yankees has three juicy roles for Price Hill’s Warsaw Incline Federal Theater. women. As Meg Boyd, Joe’s steadfast wife, It’s a musical about baseball and a darn Michelle Wells is pitch-perfect, plain and good one. It’s less frequently staged than devoted — even if she initially begrudges some of its peers from the “Golden Age Joe’s obsession with baseball (“Six Months of Musicals,” but it has appeal similar to Out of Every Year”). Renee Stoltzfus plays Guys and Dolls and The Pajama Game. In perky, persistent sportswriter Gloria Thorpe, baseball-crazy Cincinnati, it pays to have heart — as the show’s best song, “You Gotta H Have Heart,” expresses. CRITIC’S That’s the feel-good appeal of Damn Yankees. H The story is set in the era when the New York Yankees routinely dominated the American League. Joe Boyd, a middle-aged real estate salesman and a fan of the hapless Washington Senators (which played in the nation’s capital until 1960), is so obsessed with his team’s lack of success that he Washington Senators sing, dance and play winning ball. swears he’d sell his soul for a P H O T O : ta m m y c a s s e s a photo g r a ph y long-ball slugger to give the team a championship season. His exhortation is all it takes to conjure who wants to dig into Hardy’s undocuup Mr. Applegate, the Devil himself, who mented past — she’s an athletic dancer extends a Faustian bargain: He can become (“Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo.”) and renJoe Hardy, a studly young player who is just ders Gloria well as a hard-working journalist. what the team needs to change its forThe showiest role for a woman is that of tunes. It’s fun for a few weeks, but he’s still Lola, played by Rachel Perin, the bewitchaverage-guy Joe Boyd in his heart and soul. ing hussy (“A Little Brains, A Little Talent”) Eventually he misses his devoted wife and who Applegate conjures up to keep Joe his comfortable life in suburbia. Luckily he’s preoccupied. Perin vamps her way through built an escape clause into his agreement. the show’s over-the-top distraction number, It’s a silly, magical story, to be sure. But “Whatever Lola Wants,” and she makes a it’s told with such humor, colorful characters sweet transition from a cold-hearted minx to and a tuneful score that it’s just the kind of a woman touched by Joe’s devotion to Meg. show that brings out audiences in force. The six guys who constitute Joe’s This production offers some special fun baseball teammates — Stephen Welch, with local connections. Marty Brennaman Drew Simendinger, Nick Godfrey, Chris provides some pre-recorded play-by-play for Logan Carter, Cian Steele and Cameron the Senators’ big game. And Pete Rose gives Nalley — are a highly entertaining and voice to the baseball commissioner (now energetic ensemble of singers and dancers, there’s an ironic touch) who questions Joe’s joined occasionally by Tyler Gau as the honesty. Cincinnati Landmark’s longtime team’s coach. artistic director Tim Perrino is put into the Director Matthew Wilson might have role of middle-aged Boyd; Rodger Pille, a spent some time with choreographer Kate member of the company’s management Stark to trim several dance numbers (“Shoeteam, brings the smarmy, manipulative less Joe,” “Who’s Got the Pain,” “Two Lost Applegate to devious life, especially with Souls”) that go on longer than necessary. But “Those Were the Good Old Days.” each contributes to the show’s high energy Perrino’s earnest number, “Goodbye, Old level. Damn Yankees is a home run, for sure. Girl,” provides a cover for his quick fogDAMN YANKEES continues at Price Hill’s Warsaw bound change to the Senators’ savior, played Incline Federal Theater through June 18. Tickets/ by William Jackson, a handsome, big-voiced more info: cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com. student from the musical theater program at
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To live a life of willful obscurity seems Dickinson only had a handful of poems impossible in today’s reality. Who would published, and we see in A Quiet Passion dare avoid having a social media preshow that bothered her. Dickinson longed for ence, a place where every uttered word or acceptance, a greater awareness and appreimpromptu selfie offers proof of life and ciation from publishers and readers. the very act of living — especially when Davies gives us a stunning moment, we are all poets and philosophers (in 140 making this case. We watch, as Dickinson characters), photographic chroniclers of does, while Reverend Wadsworth (Eric the times and curators of culture, thanks Loren) reads a few choice pieces she gifted to the internet? to him, and this amazing scene unfolds with A Quiet Passion, from writer-director the camera zeroed in on Nixon’s face. In Terence Davies (The House of Mirth), that excruciating moment, Nixon displays doesn’t so much directly challenge this notion as offer an alternative reflection, a glimpse into an age when the ideas of what was “public” or “social” might have barely registered in conversation. Passion documents the story of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon), the highly regarded American poet who lived from 1830-1886. We get the immediate sense that Dickinson, played as a young schoolgirl by Emma Bell, definitely felt a call to action most would Cynthia Dixon plays the great American poet. have considered out of place P H O T O : © a q u i e t pa s s i o n / h u r r i c a n e f i l m s / c o u r t e s y o f m u s i c b o x f i l m s and character for her times. Seen as a student at Mount a swirling stew of emotions. She gives us Holyoke Female Seminary and later on a glimpse of how breathless anticipation (following her early withdrawal from the matures into what could only be underschool), Dickinson dared to question the stood as abject horror. Dickinson’s fear of heavy-handed evangelical bent of her times, having her work rejected by someone she the nation’s adherence to slavery and even admires coalesces into a later retreat from the second-class status of women. But she the world at large. We come to realize that it did so without being able to have her voice is likely after this that Dickinson resolves to merge with other likeminded rebels outside keep to herself, enjoying nothing more than her family. Dickinson had only her father the embrace of family, and never leaving the (Keith Carradine), brother Austin (Duncan security of the family home. Duff) and sister Vinnie (Jennifer Ehle) to Nixon seizes the opportunity here. She stoke her social and cultural passions. shakes off previous associations, especially Davies crafts a stunning recreation of the her memorable run on Sex and the City. mood and tone one might associate with She takes to A Quiet Passion’s period as if the spirit of this somewhat dark age. His realizing she, herself, was born in the wrong film is austere in setting and bereft of action time and should have rightfully lived in this in any traditional sense. This is a narrative earlier age. That she captures the chafing devoted to ideas, principles and words. We that Dickinson felt isn’t because she as get snippets of poetry from Dickinson, proan actress is a modern woman fighting to vided as voiceover narration by Nixon, but merge contemporary sensibilities with the the idiosyncratic detail comes in the renderperiod, but rather she seems to be coming of the silence within the scenes, where pletely at one with the world the film depicts. Davies holds steady, forcing us to watch Davies and Nixon work in perfect tandem and wait, sometimes dissolving and moving in A Quiet Passion, penning a letter from to scenes mere moments ahead. The jumps the past that refuses to draw parallels to come to approximate the advance of poetic our current situation. Instead, it presents lines, with the visual shifts approximating the routines of the day and allows us to fill commas or line breaks. Davies feels no need to etch the screen in the beats that make up the rest of what with Dickinson’s poetry, the odd punctuation Dickinson bemoaned as “a minor life,” but and phrasing that epitomizes her work — a what should be celebrated as a discovery body of work, we must remember, that was for the ages. (Tentatively opening June 9.) largely undiscovered during her lifetime. (PG-13) Grade: A-
ON SCREEN ‘Wonder Woman’ Returns By T T Stern-Enzi
After decades of fitful starts, the DC Comics cinematic universe may finally gain traction if the early buzz surrounding Wonder Woman, the new release from director Patty Jenkins, is to be believed. This Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot, the Israeli actress) had what amounted to an extended cameo in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which itself was a sequel of sorts to his lackluster reimagining of Superman in 2013’s Man of Steel. Gadot earned praise for her quietly invigorating effort, capitalizing on the promise of her earlier charismatic work in The Fast and The Furious franchise. In contrast, Jenkins seized our attention by helming the 2003 film Monster, based on the life of convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos (played by Charlize Theron, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance), before settling into television work on Entourage and The Killing. While plotting a return to feature films in 2011, she snagged a plum assignment in the Marvel realm, taking on the second Thor installment, before being dismissed by the studio. Her hiring at the time seemed to signal a new day for female directors, an opportunity to prove themselves worthy to command comic book franchises. Now Wonder Woman marks her second chance at that, and advance word solidly supports her effort. DC Comics and studio partner Warner Bros. certainly need a hit in light of the less-than-overwhelming response, both from critics and the fanboy demographic these adaptations so slavishly chase, to past tries. The decision here to tell yet another superhero origin story just might work because the targeted younger ticket buyers have no connection to the 1970s Wonder Woman television series, starring Lynda Carter. In addition, it appears that the studio wisely decided to inject some much-needed warmth, genuine romance and humor into the mix. During these precarious times, when we desperately need a hero we can celebrate, I say we should ride or die with Gadot and Jenkins as they take control of Wonder Woman’s destiny and seek to breathe new life into the universe of graphic novel and comic book adaptations. (Opens wide Friday.) (PG-13)
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As the last-ever episode of The Leftof Kevin. His father, Kevin Sr. (Scott Glenn, overs (Series Finale, 9 p.m. Sunday, HBO) another showstopper), believes his son approaches, fans are left with endless quescan stop an apocalyptic flood he thinks is tions, many of which have been lingering coming on the impending seventh anniversince the very first episode. sary of the Sudden Departure. But when On Oct. 14, 2011, 2 percent of the human given the chance in last week’s episode, he race — 140 million people — vanished into chooses instead to ride out the storm. thin air in a mysterious worldwide event. I’d argue the true star of The Leftovers is Where did they go? Did they join an afterlife Nora (Carrie Coon). No one was affected by shared by all those who have died — is the Departure quite like Nora, who lost her heaven real? Are they in another place children and husband — her entire family — specifically for the “departed”? Why were in that ominous event. She’s tried to fill the they chosen over everyone else? Can this phenomenon be explained by religion or science? At the same time, anyone who’s followed this show or is familiar with creator Damon Lindelof and his past works like Lost knows by now that we’ll probably be left with even more questions. This spiritually shaking psychological drama promises more existential crises than enlightened answers. As unsatisfying as that Carrie Coon and Justin Theroux in The Leftovers. may sound, you don’t watch P H O T O : va n r e d i n The Leftovers to have life’s mysteries solved. This show has never really been about the departed, void with work (investigating departures but who remains — the Guilty Remnant, as for the government), relationships and one emerging cult calls itself — and how risky behavior (remember when she used they cope with losing loved ones or being to pay people to shoot her while wearing a left behind. bulletproof vest?). It seemed like she was at The Leftovers is based on the titular book her best early this season, but when given by Tom Perrotta, which provided much of the dubious opportunity to reunite with her the story explored in Season 1. The second family, she cannot resist. The final episode, and third seasons depart (no pun intended) “The Book of Nora,” will at least give us a from the source novel, allowing Lindelof glimpse into where she ends up. to weave an even more intricate, strange, Coon is fantastic, and between her mind-blowing tale that takes us from suburperformances here and in FX’s Fargo, we ban New York to Texas to, finally, Australia should definitely be seeing her on the — the almost-literal end of the world. awards circuit later this year. With a storyline so complex and crazy Finally, there’s the music. A lot of series — last week’s episode saw Kevin (Justin these days have excellent scores and Theroux) kill himself (something temporary soundtracks, but this one in particular is that he can “come back” from) to enter an noteworthy as it plays almost as big a role alternate universe/limbo where he is both as do Theroux and Coon. Composer Max the Guilty Remnant-approved President of Richter creates a moving and otherworldly the United States and the assassin tasked score, which is often mashed up with with killing him — you really count on the popular tunes from ABBA to the Wu-Tang characters to make it work, and this cast Clan, creating a whimsically weird musical does a lot of heavy lifting. landscape that perfectly mirrors the story. Over the course of three seasons, we’ve At its core, The Leftovers looks at belief seen Theroux play Kevin as a father and — religious and spiritual ones, trusting in husband, a police chief and the son of a an afterlife or that lost ones are in a “better mentally ill (or perhaps enlightened) man place,” believing in one’s state of mind even who might be exhibiting similar behaviors if it might be insane. There’s room for all himself. He’s evolved into a reluctant Jesus types of belief in The Leftovers, under one figure, with friend and reverend Matt (an condition: They’re all subject to question. always excellent performance by ChristoCONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern pher Eccleston) penning the biblical Book
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Court Street Lobster Bar offers both Maine- and Connecticut-style lobster rolls. Appetizers, Soups and Salads, Rolls and Sides. Clearly, the rolls are the star of the show, and a lot of thought and effort went into developing the bread to hold the seafood, chicken salad or veggies. Swormstedt commissioned Sixteen Bricks bakery to create a bun thick enough to keep its shape under a lot of melted butter and a heavy pile of shellfish, which tastes good toasted or not and has a chewy texture that makes it more than just a neutral vessel for the toppings. In this, Sixteen Bricks has succeeded spectacularly. Tempting as it was to go straight for the rolls, we did try a couple of the starters. We skipped the lobster bisque ($9 cup; $14 bowl) and ordered a cup of charred corn chowder ($5 cup; $8 bowl). It was a thin but flavorful broth with bits of corn, leeks, red pepper and a hint of jalapeño. The Kittery Salad ($7), named after a town in Maine, was mostly greens and didn’t have enough of the other ingredients — snow peas, beets, grape tomatoes and Pecorino cheese — to make it very interesting. It also was too heavily dressed, even after I sent it back once. With our apps, I tried one of the house cocktails, again named after a town in Maine: the Kennebunkport Morning ($13). It was a bourbon-based concoction with blood orange juice and other citrus flavors, tasty but a little pricey.
Enough fooling around — it was time for the main event. We knew we wanted the warm lobster roll instead of the chilled “Maine Style.” That night, they had two choices of warm lobster roll: the standard Connecticut ($19) with four ounces of meat, hot butter, pea tendrils and a bed of lettuce on the toasted bun; and the “roll of the month,” Lobster BLT ($19). We ordered one of each. We liked the Connecticut roll better because the bacon in the BLT was actually bacon-flavored butter and I was expecting (and would have preferred) pieces of real bacon. But the overall yumminess factor was excellent in both sandwiches, thanks to high-quality lobster and the custom buns. White wine off the list of six choices by the glass ($8-$10) made for a perfect accompaniment with the lobster. I had a Spanish verdejo and George went with the
California chardonnay. There’s another six red wine choices by the glass as well as a dozen bottle-only selections ($50-$75), a couple of rosés and two sparklers. If you’re craving something sweet, you might want to order a cocktail because dessert isn’t much of an option. They have a housemade Whoopie Pie ($2.50) and we tried one, but we thought the cream-filled chocolate cookie was too crumbly. The restaurant has an arrangement with Queen City Exchange, the beer bar next door, where on Friday and Saturday nights after 9 p.m. the Lobster Bar offers a limited menu to the beer drinkers. The menu includes lobster grilled cheese and a few other items priced at $10 or less. They’ve also added Saturday brunch with special dishes that sound intriguing, such as lobster/gouda biscuits and a pain perdu (like French toast) with dolce de leche and caramelized bananas.
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few years ago while visiting Boston, relatives offered to take me out for lobster. After all, it’s one of New England’s chief attractions in my opinion: plentiful, affordable “lobstah.” I put on a nice dress and we went to a place on the ocean in Plymouth. But then imagine my dismay when the only lobster they served was a whole crustacean encased in a virtually impenetrable shell — messy (my dress!) and way too much work. Try as I may, I never dug out enough meat from that creature. This scenario will not be repeated at the new downtown Court Street Lobster Bar, where nary a bright-red shell is in sight. Instead, there are several ways to enjoy tender, buttery lobster meat — in a creamy bisque or as an ingredient in poutine; as part of the decadent lobster mac and cheese; or in one of two styles of lobster rolls. The prices may not be as affordable as those along the north Atlantic coast, but for Cincinnati, trust me: This is lobstah heaven. The two styles of lobster roll available will be familiar to any New Englander, where fans of each are fervently convinced that theirs is the “right” style. The Lobster Bar menu lists them as “Maine Style” and “Connecticut Style,” although you definitely can find many examples of the latter along the coast of Maine. So what’s the difference between the two rolls? The Maine roll is a chilled lobster salad with mayonnaise while the Connecticut roll has warm lobster meat drizzled with hot butter. I frankly can’t imagine why anyone would choose the cold version, but perhaps that’s because I married a Connecticut native. Well no, it’s probably because lobster with melted butter is the food of the gods. We went to the Lobster Bar for the Connecticut lobster roll but had fun trying other food and drink, too. The place is in a significantly renovated and updated building on Court Street that had sat vacant for at least 10 years, and owner Dan Swormstedt spent a couple of years getting it up and running. “I wanted an environment unlike anything else in the region, with a casual-chic, laidback feel that’s cozy and inviting,” he says. The interior includes a long bar, half of which is taken up by cooks working on food orders, and the other half has stools for patrons who want to drink and/or eat there. Along the facing wall are several booths which are roomy for two and a little cramped for parties of four. By the front windows sit several low tables suitable for parties of all sizes as well as anyone arriving in a wheelchair. Court Street Lobster Bar’s menu is a model of conciseness, with four sections:
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Groceries & Grilling: Celiac Awareness — Head to Findlay Market for late-night market hours and special Wednesday grilling parties. Guests will get the recipe and list of ingredients so they can shop and then grill the recipe on-site, on grills provided by the market. 5-8 p.m. Free admission. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, findlaymarket.org. Summer Café in France — Feel like you’re in Paris as you prepare butter-braised sea bass and balsamic and cremini mushroom rice at your own cooktop. 6-8 p.m. $75. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.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. 1600 Montague Road, Covington, Ky., bcmuseum.org. Party on the Purple — A weekly party featuring food trucks, drinks, bands and more to raise funds for bridge maintenance. 5-10 p.m. Free admission. Purple People Bridge, Newport, Ky., purplepeoplebridge.com.
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Super Salads that Make a Meal — Learn to make colorful, hearty salads full of seasonal veggies and creative ingredients. Menu includes corn salad with lime-marinated green salmon, romaine and shrimp salad and avocado and ham salad. 6:30-9 p.m. $60. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harper’s Point, cookswaresonline.com.
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CincItalia — A celebration of Italian heritage featuring authentic cuisine, live music, cooking demonstrations, carnival rides, games and wine. 6 p.m.-midnight Friday; 3 p.m.-midnight Saturday; 1-9 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Harvest Home Park Fairgrounds, 3961 North Bend Road, Cheviot, cincitalia.org.
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Bacon and Cheese Festival — A fest featuring some of the city’s best bacon, cheese and beer, plus a S’Wine Tasting. 4-8 p.m. $8; $2 kids. Jungle Jim’s, 4450 Eastgate Drive, Eastgate, junglejims.com.
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Carriage House On-Farm Dinner — Chefs visit the farm for a series of dinners using seasonally available ingredients, prepared on a wood-fired oven and grill. Features chef Jared Bennett. 5 p.m. $95. Carriage House Farm, 10251 Miamiview Road, North Bend, carriagehousefarmllc.com. Cincinnati Pepper Club Sale — Head to Krohn to grab some of hundreds of peppers on sale, including some very hot ones. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Included in admission: $7 adults; $4 ages 5-17. Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, cincinnatiparks.com. A Taste of Lebanon — Saint Anthony of Padua hosts this Mediterranean food festival featuring Lebanese favorites, live entertainment, shopping and games. 3-9 p.m. Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Saint Anthony of Padua, 2530 Victory Parkway, Walnut Hills, staparish.org.
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Carriage House On-Farm Dinner — Chefs visit the farm for a series of dinners using seasonally available ingredients, prepared on a wood-fired oven and grill. Features chef Patrick Hague. 5 p.m. $95. Carriage House Farm, 10251 Miamiview Road, North Bend, carriagehousefarmllc.com.
Taste of Newport — The fifth-annual Newport street festival features samples of food from area eateries plus live music and a sidewalk sale. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free admission. Monmouth Street, Newport, Ky., newportky.gov.
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Hands-On: A Magnificent Meatball Meal — Catrina Mills teaches this hands-on evening featuring an Italian-themed meatball menu. 6-8:30 p.m. $75. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.
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Streetcar Brewery Tour — Cincy Brew Bus uses the Cincinnati Connector to visit three local breweries, incorporating tastings, tours, history and architecture. 1 p.m. Friday. $20-$35. Meets at Taft’s Ale House, 1429 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, cincybrewbus.com.
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Why Do You Think They Call It Dopamines?
Cincinnati’s The Dopamines bring old spirit and a new maturity to Tales of Interest BY BRIAN BAKER
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t’s been a momentous seven years since my last official conversation with Cincinnati’s The Dopamines. The band won a 2011 Cincinnati Entertainment Award, released its third album, 2012’s blistering, blustery Vice, and did two European tours. Bassist Jon Weiner partnered with DAAP Girls’ Stuart MacKenzie as owners/operators of the Northside Yacht Club, touring guitarist Josh Goldman became an actual member, vocalist/guitarist Jon Lewis got married and both Lewis and Goldman became fathers. Now the band is about to release its fourth and best full-length, Tales of Interest, and, given some of the above, the musicians have backed away from their road-warrior status, limiting performances to a few local shows. “All you have to do is play for a half hour, everyone expects you to play wasted, so here’s free beer and a couple of bucks to spend on other nefarious things,” Lewis says of the live routine of late. “How else do you party and still get paid a little bit?” notes drummer Michael Dickson. It’s been almost exactly five years since Vices, but its follow-up has been in progress almost that long. The gap was lengthened by everyone’s day job schedules, particularly those of engineer Lewis and serial employee Dickson, and while The Dopamines’ previous albums took weeks to create, the recording of Tales of Interest stretched out over a year, the longest the band has ever deliberated over an album. “After Vices, we toured with Teenage Bottlerocket, and after that I started writing shit,” Lewis says. “The songs were being written, we were just a little less active. I started writing demos differently; I was doing it all — programming drums, putting on guitar tracks and doing vocals at my house.” With Goldman’s 2013 arrival, there was a shift in The Dopamines’ internal dynamic. While they had long employed a second touring guitarist, Goldman became the band’s first actual fourth member (as well as the first to join the band in the studio). And while most of the new songs had been written, Goldman’s effect on the band was palpable. “It was more of an impact on the fact that we buckled down and actually did it,” Lewis says. “Josh really was a champion for ‘You gotta do this.’ There was always such a lack of consistency in getting together and Josh was always reminding us that we should be a band. We started getting together more often, and the second half of the album snowballed from there. I would say there was like a year’s worth of solid work put into the album, on and off. And it was the least I’ve been involved as far as songwriting and lyrics.
The Dopamines return with a new full-time member and their best album to date. (Weiner) kind of took the bull by the horns on this new record, which is why it’s our best one. But everyone stepped up; you can hear everyone putting their own shit on it.” The time The Dopamines took before going into the studio and their deliberation once there has paid a tremendous dividend in the sound and structure of Tales of Interest. The album is sonically amazing, even as it retains the band’s signature passion and raw fury, all in the service of some of the best songs in its catalog. “This is probably the most prepared record we’ve ever done,” Dickson says. “The other ones, we’d get the songs done in a couple of months and go, ‘We gotta record right now.’ This one had time to evolve and solidify itself, where the other ones weren’t done before we took them out of the oven.” Beyond friendship, encouragement and being a great guitar foil for Lewis, Goldman also provided a home for Tales of Interest. He started his own label, Rad Girlfriend, six years ago in his native Dayton, Ohio and has released a number of full-length and 7-inch records for a variety of artists. He would have put out Tales of Interest even if he hadn’t been a bandmember. “As a fan and friend of theirs before joining, the thought of The Dopamines not putting out another record and doing stuff
was unacceptable,” says Goldman. “It would have been a heartbreak. It may sound corny, but I’m honored.” “Boo!” Weiner catcalls. “Nerd!” In an effort to reduce the honor, Lewis announces that he has several hours of video footage from their last tour perpetrating what he describes as “total debauchery.” From his account, they are not Zeppelinesque golden gods. “It’s not like there’s a bunch of other people, or hot chicks — it’s literally us, alone in the middle of nowhere, drawing on each other with Sharpies,” Lewis says. “Screaming and throwing beer bottles at each other.” Ever the fan, Goldman responds, “Still, definitely worth a watch.” As for the album’s title, Lewis’ own nerddom comes to the fore; it’s a reference to an episode of his favorite TV show, Futurama. And when the album is praised as a perfect summer release, he self-deprecatingly notes, “I hope seven or eight other people think so. It’s the blue ’82 LeBaron summer record, where the seal coat is chipping off and all you can see is the flat color.” But when the “breakthrough” concept is suggested, he reveals an interesting perspective. “That’s kind of a buzzkill, because I don’t really want to do anything,” Lewis says with
wry weariness. “If this record did real well and it forced us to make considerations in terms of activity, it’s kind of a bummer. I wish we’d written this back then. Every new thing is the best you’ve done, but this one feels open and raw.” “It sounds like professional musicians wrote parts of these songs,” says Dickson. “It’s weird.” Obviously, The Dopamines would accept success if it came along; maturity dictates they would simply have different definitions for that elusive outcome. Weiner sums up the band’s decade-long run thusly — “For 10 years, we’ve been professionally maladjusted, degenerate garbage humans. I’m 30 now, so I’ve essentially spent one-third of my life being an idiot in this band.” “I think it’s more fun to look back on all that shit than it was experiencing it,” Lewis says. “The stories could definitely be a small book that no one would want to read,” Weiner says, “and would make my mom never talk to me.” THE DOPAMINES host a release party for their new album Friday at Northside Yacht Club. More info: northsideyachtclub.com.
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Swim Team’s Debut Album Gets Vinyl Release BY MIKE BREEN
Local Bands in Bunches • When the Bunbury Music Festival returns Friday-Sunday to the riverfront’s Sawyer Point, it will once again include a few
Cincinnati acts in earlier time slots. Flying Underground, the evolving Pop Rock project formerly known as Brian Lovely’s Flying Underground and now featuring singer Kelly McCracken, kicks off the festival Friday at 1:30 p.m. on the Sawyer Point Stage, while passionate, melodic rockers The Upset Victory (which recently released a great new album, Life Like an Anchor) play Friday at 2 p.m. on the CVG River Stage. Saturday, Cincy Indie Rock foursome Current Events starts the day off at 1:30 p.m. on the Sawyer Point Stage and classic-styled Rock crew Lemon Sky rumbles onto the Southwest Sound Stage at 3:30 p.m. On Sunday, Hamilton, Ohio
AltRock band Circle It (a recent winner of The Underground’s Battle of the Bands competition) plays at 2:30 p.m. on the Southwest Sound Stage. For the full Bunbury lineup and more, visit bunburyfestival.com. • The Cincy Blues Challenge, an annual, locally focused preview of the summertime Cincy Blues Fest, returns to Germania Park (3529 W. Kemper Road, Pleasant Run) this Sunday for a full day of area Blues talent. Performers are scored, with many earning slots at the Blues Fest, while top winners go on to represent the Cincy Blues Society early next year in Memphis at the International Blues Challenge. Artists playing Sunday include Misterman and the Mojo Band, Brownstreet Breakdown, Chuck Brisbin & the Tuna Project, Ben Levin Duo (featuring Ricky Nye on drums), Sell Out, Dick & the Roadmasters, Snake Farm, Six Strings Down, Tempted Souls Band, The Beaumonts, The SoulFixers, Rhythm Jones, Everett and Delta Storm, Leo Clarke Band, Jay Jesse Johnson Band, Strum n’ Honey, Leroy Ellington Band and more. The Challenge begins at noon and runs until 9 p.m. Admission is $15. Visit cincyblues.org for details. CONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@citybeat.com
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Roger Waters, Political?! Roger Waters kicked off his “Us and Them” tour recently and, as expected, the concert included a lot of political commentary. Well, “as expected” by anyone familiar with Waters and a big, important chunk of his Pink Floyd’s discography. Reports from the tour’s opening dates said that several audience members were so outraged by the flood of anti-Trump imagery and messages during the show, they walked out. Google is hard sometimes, but you’d think someone paying to see Waters would have heard a song or two. Ticket Buyer, Beware Perhaps Waters should have done what Todd Rundgren did and offer a flagrant warning to thin-skinned fans. After drawing lots of “I used to like you, now I hate you” fire from social media after telling an interviewer that Trump fans should not come to his shows, Rundgren went into the belly of the beast — Fox News — to play a video shown during his sets that mocks Trump and his team and has reportedly led to some arguments amongst fans. The host, richly, accused Rundgren of “discrimination.” Say What? Everyone knows the liberal elite industrial complex destroys anyone expressing a conservative opinion. Just ask Tim Allen (but not Tom Selleck, who still has a TV show and therefore ruins the argument). A pair of Hard Rock heavyweights are likely “on notice” after recent comments. Glenn Danzig told fake-news outlet The Los Angeles Times he was cool with Trump’s “travel ban,” but earned points back by saying he is pro-choice… then promptly lost those points by saying he wasn’t cool with Planned Parenthood selling baby parts. Meanwhile, Maynard James Keenan said a few words in concert that at least got the libs reaching for their SJW armor. The Tool singer praised law enforcement and the military for defending the rights of “whining, entitled snowflake assholes,” but seemed to include himself in that group. He ended his speech on a note of unity, though, so he’ll probably at least only be put on the “we’ll-end-your-career” watch list.
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Last year, Cincinnati foursome Swim Team released its debut album through respected indie label Infinity Cat Recordings, but the release came with a catch — it was released on cassette, a part of a limitededition subscription series from the label. The series sold out, but those who missed it get another crack at owning the album, this time on vinyl, as Swim Team gets a fresh release through Bloomington, Ind.’s Let’s Pretend Records this Friday. Before the group heads off on tour, it will host a hometown release show Friday night at Northside Tavern (4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsidetav.com). The Fairmount Girls and Slugsalt open the 10 p.m. show. Founded by singer Lillian Currens and guitarist/producer John Hoffman, Swim Team creates a cyclonic whirl of noisy guitars, pulsating, primal rhythms and addicting melodies, hovering between whatever lines are left between Punk, Post Punk, lo-fi Indie Rock and fuzzy, fierce Indie Pop. The group’s debut is impressively diverse — just when you think you have Swim Team Swim Team figured out, PHOTO : Provided the album switches gears dramatically. Opener “Dirty Work” is a hyper-catchy, almost sugary nugget of strutting Punk Pop, but by the second track, “I’m Fine,” Currens steps her vocals up to a full snarl and the band explodes into a more ominous slash-and-burn approach. Elsewhere, “Cherri Girls” has a shoegazer-meets-’60s-girl-group vibe; “Everything Went Wrong” is what Enya might’ve sounded like if Guided By Voices had guided her career; “Teenage Mind” is more sweetened, slanted Pop (featuring only Currens’ voice and a distant guitar); and the album closer, “Closest Thing,” is a chugging slice of soulful basement Rock. Several highlights are of a more straightforward variety, though that’s relative when it comes to Swim Team. Even when the songs are more direct — like “Reanimator,” “TV” and “Crash Life” — there is always something interesting and unique between the grooves that catches the ear. While the songwriting is consistently compelling, Swim Team is a great piece of work taken as a whole. Hopefully LP No. 2 will be out sooner than later, no matter what format.
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For this week’s Sound Advice, we offer a few reasons to arrive early to this year’s Bunbury Music Festival, which returns to the riverfront’s Sawyer Point this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The big attractions include headliners as diverse as Muse, Wiz Khalifa, The 1975, Death Cab for Cutie and Bassnectar, but the following are just a few reasons not to wait until nightfall to roll into the fest grounds. Tickets and full details are available at bunburyfestival.com.
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20 years ago when Andrew McKellar and Richard Wouters played guitars together as teenagers in South Africa. Wouters switched to drums, McKellar asked younger brother Steven to practice and he became the band’s powerful bassist and chief songwriter. Steered by Oasis, Blur, Nirvana, Jazz and township Jive, Civil Twilight’s regional success inspired a 2005 move to Los Angeles, and its 2007 eponymous debut resulted in tons of television and film placements. Civil Twilight’s second album, Holy Weather, was a big seller and keyboardist/guitarist Kevin Dailey joined in 2012, strengthening the band’s U2/Radiohead/Police vibe. The quartet was still touring on 2015’s Story of an Immigrant when it played here last summer, but within weeks, its Facebook photo reverted back to a trio shot and Dailey is absent in recent live footage. Is Civil Twilight back to a threesome? We shall see. (Brian Baker)
The Cordial Sins Friday (3:30) • Southwest Sound Stage AltPop/Rock quintet The Cordial Sins is one of several Columbus, Ohio acts booked for Bunbury this year, a practice that began when the festival was taken over by PromoWest Productions a couple of fests ago. While theoretically that practice may have taken slots away from Greater Cincinnati artists (Bunbury still features locals on par with how it was pre-takeover), bands The Cordial Sins like The Cordial Sins P H O T O : th ec o r d i a l s i n s . b a n d c a m p. c o m make it easy to forgive. The group’s 2015 debut album, Daze, is an endearing mix of alluring dreamscapes, ethereal ear-caressing melodies and progressive guitar work, bringing to mind a captivating collaboration between peak-era Lush and a younger, pre-Pop-abandonVHS Collection ment Radiohead. PHOTO : provided (Mike Breen) EDEN Friday (4:30 p.m.) • Sawyer Point Stage EDEN is the musical pen name of Dublin, Ireland-based musician/singer/songwriter Jonathon Ng, who, at just 21, has been making global waves with his distinct mix of Electronic sounds, interesting production and Pop instincts with some depth. Ng is a bit of a music veteran; he first attracted notice for his more EDM-styled tracks in his teens as “The Eden Project.” Now, with distribution through Astralwerks, EDEN’s more “Indie Pop/Rock” sound (think Hozier remixed by Calvin Harris and you’ll be on the right path) has shown his huge potential; don’t be shocked when you hear EDEN all over thr radio and see him flirting with the upper reaches of the mainstream singles charts. (MB) Civil Twilight Friday (4:45 p.m.) • CVG River Stage Bunbury veterans Civil Twilight began over
Frenship Saturday (3:30 p.m.) • Nissan Stage James Sunderland and Brett Hite of Electronic Pop duo Frenship first met while working retail in L.A., where both had migrated from different parts of the country. Their chemistry became evident when they began working on tracks together, eventually posting songs online that proceeded to go viral. Frenship’s career really took off last year when its breezy, good-vibes track “Capsize” found its way into “song of the summer of 2016” contention, one of the few independent tracks in the conversation, and became a hit on Pop radio. The song’s success (it currently has been streamed more than 360,000 times on Spotify) set the stage for Frenship to take advantage of this summer, which it’s doing on the road with appearances at big fests like Lollapalooza, Outside Lands and Bunbury, as well as tour dates with Bastille. This fall, the duo releases its first EP for Columbia Records. (MB) San Fermin Saturday (4:30 p.m.) • Sawyer Point Stage There isn’t anything conventional about San Fermin, the Brooklyn-based Chamber Pop/ Indie Rock octet. The band’s ringmaster, Ellis Ludwig-Leone, studied composition
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at Yale and had no designs on a Pop/Rock career, but he assembled a senior-year concert that featured his pieces for female vocalists up front and bombastic Pop songs to close the show, and he instantly understood he could marry the two concepts. Since its 2011 formation, San Fermin has released a trio of engaging albums — its infectious selftitled 2013 debut, 2015’s expansive Jackrabbit and the just-released Belong, which all exhibit hints of The National, Aimee Mann and Grizzly Bear, with a somber-yet-joyous Classical/Chamber underpinning. While San Fermin’s studio performances are impressive, the collective’s live shows swell to epic proportions; this could be one of the festival’s don’t-miss moments. (BB)
White Reaper Sunday (2 p.m.) • Sawyer Point Stage Say what you will about Louisville’s White Reaper — the quartet doesn’t suffer from a lack of confidence. After all, the band titled its third and most accomplished album The World’s Best American Band and, as it turns out, there’s not a molecule of hyperbole in that description. Lacing its basic Garage Rock sound with Cheap Trick’s anthemic Power Pop, The Who’s fist-pumping Rock, The Ramones’ jackhammer Punk and the
CA AMP Sunday (2:30 p.m.) • Nissan Stage Central Ohio duo CAAMP is a testament to the power of songwriting and delivery. The act is simple — two young dudes (Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall), singing and playing Folk music with an acoustic guitar and a banjo. But even the most sparsely ornamented songs in the band’s repertoire have a distinct lift, an almost spiritual boost that fills in the blank spaces with a soulful fullness, like Bruce Springsteen playing Gospel music in a church with just acoustic sound and that heart-twisting voice (Meier’s own gruff, lived-in vocals come off like a mix between Bruce and Ray LaMontagne). Those songs are showcased on a great 2016 self-titled album (CAAMP’s full-length debut), which helped attract a growing legion of fans thanks to official Spotify playlist exposure and old-fashioned word of mouth. (MB) Arkells Sunday (3 p.m.) • CVG River Stage Canadian quintet Arkells has hit some pretty impressive heights in its 11-year run. Named after the Hamilton, Ontario street where members lived while students at McMaster University, Arkells — think The Alarm and DelAmitri with a dash of U2 — has recorded four albums and two EPs and won several Juno Awards, including New Group of the Year in 2010 and Group of the Year in 2012 and 2015 (the band also won Album of the Year for High Noon that year). Last year saw the release of Arkells’ fourth album, Morning Report, which earned a couple more Juno nods, and in April, the band dropped a new single, the propulsive and horn-driven “Knocking at the Door,” which will be included on the imminent deluxe edition of Morning Report. (BB)
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Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Arlo McKinley and Randy Steffen. 8 p.m. Roots/Various. Free. Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Old Salt Union and Dead Winter Carpenters. 8 p.m. Americana/Various. $10, $12 day of show. Urban Artifact - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10.
The Greenwich - Mambo Combo. 8 p.m. Latin Jazz. $5. Horse & Barrel - John Ford. 6 p.m. Blues. Free. Knotty Pine - Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. Latitudes Bar & Bistro - Ricky Nye and Bekah Williams. 6 p.m. Blues/ Jazz. Free. Liberty Center - Summer Concert Series with Eden Park Band. 6 p.m. Rock. Free. Live! at the Ludlow Garage H Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra. 8 p.m. Jazz. $20-$45. The Mockbee - Hans Gruber & the Die Hards, The Z.G.s and more. 9 p.m. Punk. Free. MOTR Pub - Heavy Hinges with H Laurel & the Love-In. 10 p.m. Rock/Soul/Roots/Various. Free. Plain Folk Cafe - Open Mic with Dwight Smith. 7 p.m. Various. Free. Riverbend Music Center - Luke Bryan with Brett Eldredge and Seth Ennis. 7 p.m. Country. Sold out. The Show on 42 - Pam & The Boyz. 7 p.m. Rock. Free. Smale Riverfront Park H Cocktails and Crown Jewels with Blue Wisp Big Band featuring
Jim and Jack’s on the River - Whiskey Town. 9 p.m. Country. Free. Knotty Pine - Black Bone Cat. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. Mansion Hill Tavern - The Doug Hart Band. 9 p.m. Blues. $4. Marty’s Hops & Vines - Wild Mountain Berries. 9 p.m. Americana. Free. MOTR Pub - HandGrenades, Kid Stardust and The Last Troubadour. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/Pop. Free. MVP Bar & Grille - Dear Agony H (release party) with Life After This, Sever The Ties and Highball. 8 p.m. Rock. $5.
Northside Tavern - Swim Team H (album release show) with Fairmount Girls and Slugsalt. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/Pop/Various. Free.
Plain Folk Cafe - Everything’s Jake. 7:30 p.m. Jazz/R&B/Blues. Free.
Southgate House Revival H (Lounge) - CincyMusic Relaunch Party featuring Dead
Man String Band. 6:30 p.m. Rock/ Roots. Free.
Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary) - Birds of A Feather Music & Arts Festival
Taft Theatre - Old Crow Medicine Show. 8 p.m. Roots/Americana/Various. $29.50-$49.50.
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Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Todd Hepburn and Friends. 7:30 p.m. Various. Free.
Washington Park - Bandstand H Bluegrass with Ben Knight. 7 p.m. Americana/Roots. Free.
Burnet Woods - An Evening in Paris: Faux Frenchmen and CCO Winds. 6 p.m. French Classical/Jazz. Free.
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Fountain Square - Salsa on the Square with Óscar Salamanca & La Fórmula. 7 p.m. Salsa/Latin/ Dance. Free.
Japp’s - Burning Caravan 5:30 p.m. Gypsy Jazz. Free.
Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Freight Train Rabbit Killer, Lovecrush88 and Rock Bottom String Band. 9:30 p.m. Rock/ Roots/Various. Free.
Bogart’s - Colors presents: R&B Only with DJ Printz and Jabari. 8 p.m. R&B/DJ/Dance. $31.99-$50.
Common Roots - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
Jag’s Steak and Seafood - The Sly Band. 9 p.m. Dance/Pop/Various. $5.
Northside Yacht Club - The H Dopamines (release show) with Slow Death, Flesh Mother,
Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner and Wayne Shannon. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.
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The Greenwich - Kelly Richey. 8 p.m. Blues/Rock. $10.
Delfeayo Marsalis. 6:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.
Pre-Sale Extravaganza featuring Common Center, Restless Leg String Band, Adam Hill, Michael Colon, Thomas Hank Becker, Jeff Roades and Mark Miller. 8 p.m. Rock/Alt/Roots/Various. $10, $15 day of show.
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Young Heirlooms, Common Center. 7 p.m. Indie/Americana/Roots/ Folk/Various. Free.
Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Lagniappe. 9 p.m. Cajun. Free. Blue Note Harrison - Buffalo Ridge. 9 p.m. Country. Free. Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Steve Schmidt Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. Fountain Square - Indie Vol. H2017 with Swear and Shake,
Mikey Erg and The Raging Nathans. 10 p.m. Rock/Punk/Various. $5, $10 day of show.
Rick’s Tavern - My Sister Sarah. 10 p.m. Dance/Pop/Various. $5. Riverbend Music Center - Lynyrd Skynyrd with David Lee Murphy and Ashley McBryde. 7:30 p.m. Southern Rock. $23-$58. Sawyer Point - Bunbury Music H Festival with Wiz Khalifa, G-Ezy, Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Mutemath, Mike Stud, Eden and more. 1:30 p.m. Hip Hop/Pop/ Rock/Various. $89 (or three-day pass). Silverton Cafe - DJ Dave. 9 p.m. Dance/DJ. Free. Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Communications, Office Party and The Phasmids. 9:30 p.m. Indie/Alt/Rock. Free. Southgate House Revival H (Revival Room) - The Summit and Jess Lamb and the Factory. 9 p.m. Rock/Alt/Various. $5.
Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Electric Six with Northern Faces and Mad Anthony. 9 p.m. Rock. $12, $15 day of show. The Underground - Tyler Jarvis, The Cove and YoungFounder. 7 p.m. Singer/Songwriter/Various. Cover.
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Urban Artifact - ThunderTaker, Motel Faces, Hammered with Jesus and Scarecrow Sideshow. 8 p.m. Rock. $5. Washington Park - Friday Flow H with Cheryl Pepsii Riley. 7 p.m. R&B. Free.
Northside Tavern - Sexy Time Live Band Karaoke. 9 p.m. Various. Free. Northside Yacht Club - American Dischord, Jared Hart, The ZGs, Tommy Grit & the Pricks and DeathTuth. 9 p.m. Punk. Padrino - Sonny & Marty Duo. 8 p.m. Blues. Free.
Woodward Theater - Sylmar (release show) with Brianna Kelly and the Stoop Kids. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. $7, $10 day of show.
Plain Folk Cafe - Cookin’ Hearts. 7:30 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.
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Rick’s Tavern - Road Trip. 10 p.m. Rock/Pop/Country/Dance/Various. $5.
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Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Cincinnati Dancing Pigs. 9 p.m. Jug band/ Americana. Free. Blue Note Harrison - Knucklehead. 9 p.m. Rock/Various. Free. Bogart’s - Spirit and the Bride, The Earth Laid Bare, Pickwick Commons, Parental Petulance and Returning His Crown. 8 p.m. Rock. Cover. Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Steve Schmidt Trio featuring Mandy Gaines. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. Common Roots - Band of Pirates with The Dramatic Rhythms Experience. 8 p.m. Grog Rock/ Dance. $10. DownTowne Listening Room H - Gabe Dixon with Jonathan Cody White. 7:30 p.m. Pop/Rock. $15.
Elk Creek Vineyards - John Ford. 5 p.m. Blues/Roots. Free.
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Thompson House - Forrest Beats, Cleatis, Jetti and more. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. $10.
The Greenwich - Rollins Davis Band featuring Deborah Hunter. 9 p.m. Jazz/R&B. $5.
The Underground - Can’t Stop the HIP HOP @ The UG featuring Jeremiah Lewis, Kevin Ross, Trinity, Joshua Scales, No Kontrol and RJH. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. Cover.
Jag’s Steak and Seafood - The Good Hooks Band. 9 p.m. Pop/ Rock/Dance/Various. $5.
Urban Artifact - Peridoni and H Ernie Johnson From Detroit. 9 p.m. Rock/Progressive/Jam/Funk/
Fountain Square - FSQ Live with The Cincy Brass. 7 p.m. Funk/Dance/Soul/Pop/Brass/ Various. Free.
Japp’s - Ricky Nye and Chris Douglas. 6 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Jim and Jack’s on the River Jamison Road. 9 p.m. Country. Free. Knotty Pine - Black Bone Cat. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.
Mansion Hill Tavern - Jeff Bonta & the Tucker Boys. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.
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Sunday 04 BrewRiver GastroPub - Todd Hepburn. 11 a.m. Blues/Various. Free. The Comet - The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. MOTR Pub - Flat Duo Jets with Josh Dorsey Blues Revival. 9 p.m. Blues/Rock. Free.
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Mansion Hill Tavern - Acoustic Jam with John Redell and Friends. 8 p.m. Acoustic/Various. Free.
MOTR Pub - Andy Pratt. 9 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. Free. Northside Tavern - Northside Jazz Ensemble. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free. Southgate House Revival H (Revival Room) - The Dwarves with Decent Criminal, Kill City and The Nothing. 9 p.m. Punk. $15.
Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s Live Jazz Band. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free.
Tuesday 06 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - John Redell. 7 p.m. Blues. Free. Brew House - Dave Gilligan H with Bill Allezthauser of The Hiders. 9 p.m. Roots/Various. Madison Live - Mondo Cozmo. 8 p.m. Indie/Folk/Rock. $13, $15 day of show. The Mockbee - Vibrate Higher with BLVCK SEEDS, Aziza Love Music, PXVCE and more. 8:30 p.m. Hip Hop/Spoken Word/Various. Free.
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Northside Tavern - The Stealth Pastille. 10 p.m. Psych/Rock/ Pop. Free. Northside Yacht Club - Pony with Smut and Slow Glows. 10 p.m. Alt/Pop/Rock/Punk/Various. Free.
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Marty’s Hops & Vines - New Brew. 9 p.m. Classic Rock. Free.
Northside Tavern - Bulletville. 8:30 p.m. Country. Free.
Southgate House Revival H (Lounge) - Jake La Botz with Adam Lee. 8 p.m. Roots. $5.
McCauly’s Pub - Jagwagon. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.
Sawyer Point - Bunbury Music H Festival with Muse, The 1975, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Reverend
Southgate House Revival H (Revival Room) - Shannon McNally. 7 p.m. Rock/Country/
MOTR Pub - Muuy Bien with H Hissing Tiles. 10 p.m. Post Punk/Indie Rock/Various. Free. Mount Carmel Brewery - Encore Duo. 2 p.m. Acoustic Classic Rock/ Americana. Free.
Horton Heat, AFI, Jon Bellion, Flogging Molly and more. 2 p.m. Rock/ Pop/Various. $89 (or three-day pass). Sonny’s All Blues Lounge - Blues jam session featuring Sonny’s All Blues Band. 8 p.m. Blues. Free.
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Urban Artifact - Joesph, Damn H the Witch Siren, Swarming Branch and Betsy Ross. 8 p.m.
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Live! at the Ludlow Garage Aaron Buckley. 8 p.m. Country. $10-$15.
Woodward Theater - The Leeches, The Agoraphobes, The Thrifters and Fastplant. 5:30 p.m. Indie/Alt/Rock/Pop. $8, $10 day of show.
The Mockbee - OH jam! presents… OFF tha BLOCK Mondays with Stallitix, Goodword, DJ Noah I Mean, NonPlus, Chestah T, Gift of Gabi and Knifer. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.
Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Trapped On Earth with Watchfrogs. 7:30 p.m. Rock/Pop/Soul/ Funk. $10, $12 day of show.
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Silverton Cafe - The Last Caballeros. 9 p.m. Rock/Country/Latin/ TexMex/Various. Free.
Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Electric Cult Circus with Vampire Weekend at Bernie’s and Kuber. 10 p.m. Electro/indie/ Rock/Various. $5.
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