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What a Week! BY T.C. Britton

WEDNESDAY JUNE 21

You know the old phrase, “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach?” It seems Bill Cosby is taking that to heart. The man who has been accused of sexual assault by more than 60 women throughout his life — whose court case recently ended in mistrial, with 10 out of the 12 jurors wanting to convict — will be touring the country to host “town halls” where he will teach people… wait for it… how to avoid being accused of sexual assault. These events will reportedly be geared toward college athletes. Let’s be clear. The only topics Cosby is qualified to lecture young people on are Jell-O pudding recipes, how to rock a heinous sweater for every occasion and creating your own zippity-boop-wop language.

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Barbie received something of a makeover early last year, when Mattel launched a line of dolls with different shapes, sizes and looks. Now, in addition to the blonde, slim original, folks can find tall, petite and curvy sizes. There are black, Latina, Asian and multicultural Barbies. Shoppers can pick hairstyles from short, brown and curly to long pink locks. It was a small but nice step forward for a product mostly marketed to young, impressionable girls. And now, it’s Ken’s turn. Barbie’s BF got an injection of diversity this week, with 15 variations in hairstyle, skin color and body shape. It’s great to see the company consider Barbie’s male counterpart. But, as the internet was quick to point out, from the Bachelor-patented white boy fade and man-bun ’dos to the dad-bod-esque “broad” build, these Kens look like some real fuckbois. And while Mattel is clearly trying to embrace more realistic representations in their dolls, it is unlikely Ken will get an upgrade to his flat mooseknuckle crotch any time soon.

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The 29th-annual World’s Ugliest Dog Contest was held in Petaluma, Calif. this Friday. A 3-year-old Neapolitan Mastiff named Martha took top prize, winning the judges over with her giant flopping jowls, her ample 125-pound frame and sleepy, gassy disposition. Martha resembled a dark gray puddle as she accepted her prize onstage, clearly giving zero Fs about the distinction. Apparently ugly is in the eye of the beholder, because most humans would probably agree that Martha is a beaut. And come to think of it, is “World’s Ugliest Dog” really the message we want to be putting out to our little loved ones? Perhaps in an effort to be more inclusive and sensitive, the contest should consult with Mattel on a rebranding.

SATURDAY JUNE 24

While Pride celebrations in New York, Chicago and here in Cincy painted the town rainbow, one other local event took a less colorful approach. The sixth-annual Dîner en Blanc descended onto the Cincinnati Art Museum (parking lot) Saturday. The event, started in Paris in 1988, is pretty much a fancy pop-up picnic. Guests must dress in all-white and bring their own folding table, white chairs, white container with your food, white tablecloth and napkins, cutlery, dishware, glassware and a garbage bag.

One of those events we’d have wanted to attend when we were fun and spontaneous in our early 20s. But now? Not so much. The dress code goes against all rules that have been ingrained in the minds of everyone partaking in #WeddingSeason. It’s an outdoor food event, so you gotta keep 5 Clorox pens on deck. You have to prepare your own “gourmet meal.” Is there a single person under the age of 40 out there that owns a tablecloth (do never-used white bed sheets count)? The location isn’t unveiled until the last moment, and to avoid waste and pollution, you’re encouraged to either take the Metro (in white!!!) or charter a coach ($$$!!!). We’re having a panic attack just thinking about it. If we’re gonna be donning all white and convening in public, we’d prefer to join the Guilty Remnant.

SUNDAY JUNE 25

The BET Awards were Sunday. Saturday Night Live’s Leslie Jones yelled a lot as first-time host. Beyoncé — who was not present presumably because she recently gave birth to twins, though she’s yet to confirm their arrival — won big, five times over. Her sister Solange (Solange’s least favorite three consecutive words) nabbed her first BET Award, along with Chance the Rapper, Migos and Bruno Mars, who appeared to be napping in the audience after his performance. Remy Ma snatched the Best Female Hip Hop Artist crown from archnemesis Nicki Minaj, breaking her seven-year streak. Most adorably, DJ Khaled’s baby son Asahd and Gucci Mane wore matching teal Gucci tuxes and stole the show. TL;DR: Basically, the opposite of Dîner en Blanc.

MONDAY JUNE 26

Tinsel Town inducted a new class of stars into the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week, and reactions are a mix of “Oh, yeah, that makes sense,” and “How the hell is this just now happening?” Among those receiving an iconic star in 2018 are RuPaul, Shonda Rhimes, Simon Cowell, Kirsten Dunst, Jack Black, Jennifer Lawrence, Minnie Mouse, Weird Al Yankovic, Mary J. Blige, LinManuel Miranda, Snoop Dogg and the late Bernie Mac and Steve “the Crocodile Hunter” Irwin — a list that feels awkward and confusing if you misread the lede “Hollywood Walk of Shame” as we did.

TUESDAY JUNE 27

This week in questionable decisions: Middletown council member Dan Picard wants public safety services to stop responding to overdose calls; police forcibly removed disabled protesters from their wheelchairs during a protest outside Mitch McConnell’s office after the release of the new health care bill draft; the L.A. Times accidentally tweeted about an earthquake that happened 100 years ago; Kim and Kanye got little North West a puppy for her birthday and she is considering naming it Baby Jesus; a “new Mac” scented candle exists; Italian luxury fashion house Prada is selling a $185 paperclip; Kelly Osbourne blamed a NYC Starbucks for making her pee her pants at Pride. CONTACT T.C. BRITTON: letters@ citybeat.com

Brent Spence Detour Tips! BY JEFF BEYER

Those accustomed to a daily automotive crossing of the Ohio River already know that life will be much more difficult for the next 60 days. In order to give motorists a taste of the bitter pain and frustration to come if a companion bridge to the Brent Spence is not built soon, officials have shut down two lanes in each direction of the long, functionally obsolete bridge pretending like they’re repaving some shit and doing something with drainage or some other contrived excuse. To mitigate the suffering of our motorists, auto-friendly experts have paged through extensive topographical depictions of the area with aims of relieving some of the congestion. Suggested detours include using I-471 and I-275 to get to Hyde Park, Mason and the Kenwood Towne Centre and doing some sort of rope-a-dope onto Ezzard Charles to get on I-75 south. For those who are not going south on I-75 or to The Cheesecake Factory, there are these available detours: Anderson Ferry will transport you for $5 cash between Riverside, Ohio and Hebron, Kentucky. Pass the time by pointing out fish and logs. Amazon Prime is a convenient solution to the cash-poor among us. For just $99 charged to your credit card, you get free two-day shipping. With a little creative trespassing and packaging at the Hebron location, you can stowaway with a few useful inexpensive things like garden gnomes and Christmas lights and then be home every other day. Canoes are a great solution for those who do not need to travel to or from Hebron. Like the Brent Spence, legs are becoming ever-more functionally obsolete. With a hoverboard stored on each bank, it is ridiculously convenient to paddle across the Ohio and glide to your place of business or leisure. Just think how sexy your bulging upper-body will look atop your stick legs embellished by fashionably obsolete skinny jeans this fall! Take your own detour, Walter Mitty. Life is short. Before you know it, you’ve spent the best parts just figuring out how to live in your comfort zone. Who cares about a stupid bridge? Quit your job. Climb a mountain. Get drunk, sing karaoke and jump into a helicopter! Make the mundane your road not taken. This will make all the difference. Elon Musk is funding a hypertube, isn’t he? While the first stage of this pioneering transport system is proposed between San Francisco and Los Angeles, this shouldn’t stop you from contacting Mr. Musk about our transportation woes. Why not ask him to carpool? When it’s your turn to drive, you’ll probably have to listen to boring stories about SpaceX rocket crashes, but Musk probably drives a late model car, so when it’s his turn you can watch just about any DVD you want!

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Uncertainty in the City

A second trial, a second hung jury: Tensing case puts Cincinnati at an impasse By NICK SWARTSELL

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The day of the verdict, DuBose’s family, including his mother Audrey DuBose, pushed through a throng of reporters without comment. Tensing’s family likewise avoided the public, and his lawyer, Stew Mathews, has said only that he is “frustrated” by the results, which leave open the possibility that Tensing will once again face murder, manslaughter or other charges in a third trial. In the moments after the mistrial was announced, a contingent from the Countdown to Conviction Coalition — made up of Black Lives Matter Cincinnati, faith group the Amos Project, the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, University of Cincinnati’s Students for Survivors and other groups — wrestled with what to do. Would a crowd show up in the miserable weather? Should a rally be postponed? They settled on a demonstration at 4 p.m. followed by an organizing meeting the following week. Then, the crowd started coming. “We have to organize,” said Pece Marshrri, who came with his son on his shoulder and an umbrella in his other hand. “For the people who are out here in the rain, this isn’t a pastime. This is real.” Marshrri was especially interested in a petition pushing Deters to retry DuBose

Countdown to Conviction organizers discuss plans for protests after a mistrial is announced in the Ray Tensing retrial June 23. again. The usually conservative prosecutor, who called DuBose’s killing “chickenshit,” has said he will decide the week of July 10 whether to retry Tensing. Councilwoman Yvette Simpson, who is vying to become mayor this year, was at the post-trial rally in a raincoat, speaking with organizers and veterans of Cincinnati’s 2001 reforms, including Collaborative Agreement project manager Iris Roley. While Roley gave out a kind of focused calm, Simpson wore a more obvious sense of urgency. “I think the people here want elected officials with them,” she said. She would later tell reporters that DuBose’s killing presented a “clear case” and that lack of a conviction was a tough moment for the community. On the other side of downtown, a dry Mayor John Cranley, City Manager Harry Black and Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac addressed a largely dry group of reporters, assuring everyone that the city is safe and “open for business.” Cranley noted his deep consternation with the outcome of the trial while assuring citizens that the city would carry on as usual. He would be taking his wife out for dinner in Over-the-Rhine, he said, and

hoped he could serve as an example that the city is safe. “Just because we don’t like the way things happened in this case today doesn’t mean that Cincinnati is not going to move forward,” he said. After Cranley spoke, Pastor Peterson Mingo also called for peace, saying DuBose’s family doesn’t want violence or destruction. But activists draw a distinction between nonviolent, non-destructive protests and the concept of peace. They say they are aiming for the former while hoping to disrupt the latter. At an organizing meeting hosted by the Countdown to Conviction Coalition at the downtown branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County June 26, about 70 attendees worked through ideas for ways to disrupt business as usual in the city to call for a new trial and conviction for Tensing. “Unless we’re out making Cincinnati uncomfortable, none of that will happen,” Black Lives Matter organizer Brian Taylor told the group. CONTINUES ON PAGE 11

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he rain kept coming June 23, starting around the same time Hamilton County Judge Leslie Ghiz announced at 2:15 p.m. that the jury in the retrial of Ray Tensing could not reach a verdict. It steadily gathered force from there as the angry ghost of Tropical Storm Cindy glided over Cincinnati, dousing protesters and police alike gathered at the Hamilton County Courthouse. Nine white and three black jurors voted 8-4 against murder charges for Tensing and 7-5 against manslaughter charges in prosecutors’ second attempt to convict former University of Cincinnati Police officer Tensing for shooting unarmed black motorist Sam DuBose. The crowd waiting at the courthouse for the decision that day was small at first. But it grew in number and intensity even as the rain did the same, eventually reaching 150 soaked and shivering people chanting, holding signs and flat-out yelling for a resolution to the case. The question on their minds, and no doubt on the minds of city leaders and those watching the trial elsewhere: What now? It was the third such case that week nationally in which a jury did not convict a police officer for shooting an unarmed black citizen. Tensing’s second mistrial leaves Cincinnati, and America, little comfort in the face of burning questions around justice system reform and killings of unarmed black citizens by police. Will Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters seek a third retrial? Will the federal government, through the U.S. Department of Justice, get involved in the case, as it did following civil unrest here over a series of officer-involved shootings in 2001? What course will activists take as the number of people angered by the issue, and DuBose’s killing in particular, seems to grow? The answers to those questions are just starting to emerge. “We want the Department of Justice to review this case and to charge Tensing with violating Sam’s civil rights,” DuBose’s sister Terina Allen said during an emotional news conference June 27. In addition, the family is calling for Deters to undertake another retrial at the state level. “This is not over,” Ebony DuBose, a cousin of Sam DuBose, told reporters previously. “This is just the beginning. My family has been sentenced to a life without probability of peace because your opinion in this case proves to be greater than the evidence brought forth.”

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Plea Deal Offered, Trial Date Set in Neri Killing By NICK SWARTSELL

A court date has been set for the trial of 23-year-old Earl Jones, who is accused of killing 19-year-old Kevin Neri last year after an ongoing argument via text messages regarding Neri’s relationship with Jones’ ex-girlfriend Cyerra Prather, with whom Jones has a child. Jones will stand trial Oct. 10 for shooting Neri, who was unarmed, outside the house Neri shared with his girlfriend — unless Jones takes a controversial plea deal offered by prosecutors first. CityBeat first reported on Neri’s killing this spring (see “Waiting for Justice,” issue of April 26). Jones is charged with murder in the May 16, 2016 incident but has been offered a deal for manslaughter charges by Hamilton County prosecutors, CityBeat has learned. The potential deal for Jones has angered Neri’s family. Jones, who is white, shot Neri, who was black, after using the word “nigger” in text messages to his ex-girlfriend in which he indicates he doesn’t want the child the two had together raised by a black man. Jones also sent racially charged texts to Neri during mutually heated exchanges between the two. Neri’s family points out that Jones drove from Hamilton to Colerain Township, ostensibly to pick up his son, before he shot Neri, and that he took a gun out of a locked safe and brought it with him. That means Jones had time to think about his actions, the family says — a key factor in charging a defendant with murder. “If this case is properly presented, there’s no doubt in my mind that a jury will find him guilty of premeditated murder,” Neri’s mother Deneal Neri says. “He made a decision to get a gun out of a safe, he made a decision to drive 20 minutes. If he was so scared of my son, the moment he saw him walk out of that door, he should have taken off. Who goes with a loaded gun to pick up their son? My son was inside eating a bowl of cereal.” After shooting Neri several times, Jones called 911, told operators he was turning himself in and said he acted in self-defense. Jones’ family, however, says that’s not possible, and that there was no physical altercation between the two before Neri was shot and killed. Documents from the Hamilton County clerk of courts list 15 witnesses to the shooting. Depositions collected by investigators from those witnesses are sealed, and none listed on the initial report from Colerain Township police returned calls asking for comment by CityBeat. Jones’ attorneys have declined the county’s plea offer, but it will likely stay on the table for now, a prosecutor told the

Neri family outside Judge Leslie Ghiz’s courtroom June 26 while a CityBeat reporter was present. “This is the kind of situation where it will probably stay open,” Hamilton County assistant prosecutor Gus Leon told Neri’s family about the plea deal. “Sometimes when we have a very strong case, we don’t leave it open. We tell the defendant it’s now or never. But that’s not the case. There’s a serious risk at trial. There’s always a risk, but in this trial there’s a serious risk.” CityBeat reached out to Leon for further information about the case, but got no response. The Hamilton County prosecutor’s office declined to comment on the case for CityBeat’s original story in April. Neri’s mother believes it’s the contentious text messages exchanged between the two and the fact that Jones turned himself in that have prosecutors aiming for lower charges. “They’re thinking because the two had a history, because Earl turned himself in immediately, that that’s going to look great to a jury,” she said. “But Earl had a problem with Kevin the moment he found out he was dating Cyerra (Prather, Jones’ ex-girlfriend).” According to a police report, he pulled out a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson after a brief argument and shot Neri in the front yard of the house Neri was living in with Prather. Some controversy around the potential plea deal built in the days before an April 5 hearing in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. An April 2 rally organized with the help of Black Lives Matter Cincinnati drew more than 100 to the Hamilton County Courthouse to protest the possibility of a plea deal, and subsequent letters and calls to the prosecutor’s office urged Hamilton County Prosecutor Amy Trainter to rethink a plea deal. Meanwhile, Jones’ defense team has pushed back at accusations that Neri’s killing had anything to do with his race. During an interview with CityBeat in April, Bill Gallagher, one of Jones’ attorneys, wouldn’t discuss whether Jones will claim he acted in self-defense at trial but said another side of the incident will come out in court and that the racial aspects of the case have been blown out of proportion. “Do I think that someone who uses the N-word is necessarily racist if the word was just used to provoke a response? No,” he said. “I understand the hurt and the anger the Neri family feels, but I think this incident is more about interpersonal relationships — an ex-girlfriend — than it is about race.” ©

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There, too, uncertainty lingered. Was the best course to focus on one massive march? Or to work on a number of events that might draw fewer people but diversify the group’s efforts? In that moment, younger, newer activists — some coming to a Black Lives Matter event for the first time — sometimes butted heads with seasoned organizers who have been with the group since before Tensing shot DuBose in July of 2015, as well as activists whose involvement in police accountability issues date back to the days of 2001. Those disagreements brought some tough moments, activists say, but also encouraging signs that their movement is growing. “There needed to be a youthful presence here,” said Siri Imani, 22. “They do a great job, but because there are a lack of youth that come to support, there’s a lack of our voice and our opinions. We’re not going to have a bigger effect than they are, and they’re not going to have a bigger effect than us. We all have the same goal, it’s just how we go about it.” Eventually, the diverse group settled on a multi-faceted course of action starting with a 6 p.m protest June 28 at the University of Cincinnati during an FC Cincinnati soccer game. After that, subgroups will picket at Deters’ office and flyer and

canvas to boost attendance for a July 7 mass rally. The UC protest was among the ideas younger activists like Imani and Azizia Love, 21, brought to the meeting, along with longer-term efforts to address the trauma that comes with confronting incidents like DuBose’s death. They might work with a contingent of black psychologists the Coalition has relationships with toward that end, giving activists times and places to process their experiences. “We want to bring a holistic view to fighting the ugliness we see in our community,” Love said. “We’re breaking down here. We’re mad. There will be people who say, ‘These are the times and dates.’ And then there has to be another group of people who say, ‘This is how we move forward from this emotionally.’ ” It wasn’t just youth coming for the first time. Reggie Hill says he was close to DuBose and that he came out to the June 26 meeting as a way to grapple with his feelings over the loss of his decades-long friend. “All of his friends are fired up, angry,” he says. “They’re pissed off and they don’t know how to vent their frustrations. Sam was the kind of person who cared about everybody. He bought people groceries when they were in need. That’s why I came out here. I wanted to show my support.” ©

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A plan to link Cincinnati’s scattered cycling infrastructure could Empower low-income riders BY NICK SWARTSELL

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A grant from Interact, the Health Department and Groundwork created Boyd’s position as project manager for the bike path last year. She hit the ground running, organizing planning sessions and trips to scout out possible trail routes last summer. “It almost feels unfair,” Boyd says of the disconnect Winton Hills faces. “People want to get out into other neighborhoods, go to parks and trails, see other parts of the city.” Working with Perryman and other Winton Hills residents, including a number of bike-obsessed neighborhood youth, Boyd and her crew plotted an ideal path and worked with experts to design the trail. Now they’re waiting for a final report from Groundwork and funding to fall into place. “Basically, we wanted to see how best to connect our neighborhood with trails to make the grocery store and other places our neighbors need to go more accessible,” Steele says. “We want to connect our neighborhood the way every other neighborhood connects, and we want it to look as nice as any other neighborhood.” To fully grasp Winton Hills’ need for a bike path, you have to understand the neighborhood itself. Sitting at the northern crown of Cincinnati between Carthage and College Hill, the neighborhood is mostly made up of Winton Terrace and Findlater Gardens, both Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority developments. Those developments were first built in 1940s as white-only subsidized housing. By the 1960s, however, those racial separations were lifted and Winton Terrace quickly became majority black.

Today, the neighborhood is a prime example of Cincinnati’s pervasive racial and economic segregation. It is 90 percent black with a median household income of less than $11,000, Census data shows. It’s also an illustration of the environmental and transportation barriers lowincome people often face. Just 15 percent of Winton Hills’ 4,787 residents own their own cars, according to a report by the Cincinnati Health Department. On an average weekday, residents must make a 45 minute to one-hour bus ride to get to downtown, just six-and-a-half miles away. The feeling of isolation residents can face is compounded by the neighborhood’s surroundings. A heavy fence of smoke stacks and industry, including chemical plants, auto salvage yards and fuel refineries, line the southern border of the neighborhood along with the clipped, unnatural hills of a shuttered landfill. The Mill Creek itself has been something of an environmental hazard due to the industry around it. In 1997, the waterway was named the most endangered urban river in America by national conservation organization American Rivers. “Winton Hills is high-density public housing,” Groundwork Cincinnati’s Tanner Yess says. “It’s isolated geographically, it’s isolated by its physical environment. It’s right across the street from a landfill, right across the street from two or three chemical companies that are spewing whatever odorous gasses into the community.” But it’s not all gloom in Winton Hills. The neighborhood’s community center buzzed on a recent weekday as Perryman sat out in the sun talking about bicycles. He has become something of a community hub for all things two wheels. Steele, the community council president, would like to start a bicycle club with Perryman at the helm — but in many ways, he’s already there. Perryman is Winton Hills’ resident bike mechanic, working from his apartment to fix flat tires, change out seats and work free of charge on anyone’s bike who might happen to come by. He has a big bin of extra parts and a couple bikes of his own he tinkers with. He’s “old school,” he says, and brags that he can fix three or four flats with a single inner tube patch. His role as community bike doctor started seven years ago, he says. At the time, he was between homes, riding everywhere and carrying everything he needed, including bike tools, in his backpack. “One day I caught a flat down the street at a friend’s house, and next thing I knew, here come five kids with their bikes. So I had five bikes plus mine sitting upside down waiting to be fixed,” he says, laughing. “Then I ended up getting a place here, and they come through to my house to get their bikes fixed now. It makes me feel good to see them riding. As long as they’re riding, I feel good.” Perryman says he likes to pass along his excitement for biking to younger generations. He leads youth rides at nearby Spring Grove Cemetery and sees the potential trail as a way to extend healthy, safe recreation options for kids in a neighborhood without very many. CONTINUES ON PAGE 15

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ick Perryman is a bike mechanic, bike infrastructure advocate and hardcore cyclist. That description might make you picture a guy of a certain income, maybe even of a certain race, in spandex, advocating for a trail in Hyde Park, or a fixie-riding Millennial pushing bike lanes in Over-the-Rhine. That’s not Perryman. But he is definitely a cyclist. “It’s the best way to get around,” says Perryman, who lives in Winton Hills and goes by the nickname Yo. “I didn’t start driving until I was 29, but I’ve always had a bike.” For years, he rode back and forth 10 miles between Winton Hills and his job at Bakery Craft, a cake decoration factory in Glendale. Bakery Craft shut down last year, and Perryman, in his late 50s, doesn’t ride as much these days because of asthma and other breathing issues. But he has found other ways to stay involved in cycling. Perryman and others — like Winton Hills Community Council President Nikki Steele and community engagement coordinator Dazree Boyd — are working to get a bike and walking trail built in their neighborhood. They’ve gotten help from the Cincinnati Health Department and nonprofits Interact for Health and Groundwork Cincinnati, which has done extensive work to bring trails to the Mill Creek Valley. The segment of trail would fill a 1.3-mile gap between bike lanes on busy Este Avenue and the Mill Creek Greenway Trail near Spring Grove Cemetery, giving Winton Hills residents better connection to groceries, jobs and recreation. “I see a group of riders riding down Este all the time,” Perryman says. “The bike lane just kind of ends. Where could we go from there?” For groups like Groundwork advocating for the trail, that question is part of a larger, more ambitious plan called Cincinnati Connects that could give residents in low-income neighborhoods better access to the city as a whole. Discussion around bike paths and lanes usually centers around the idea they’re amenities for recreational cyclists or drivers of urban revitalization designed to lure young professionals who want to commute to their downtown jobs. But those aren’t the only people using bicycles in Cincinnati and other cities across the country. According to 2015 Census data, about half of the people who commute to work by bike make below $25,000 a year. Granular data for Cincinnati isn’t readily available, but cyclists like Perryman will tell you low-income riders are more common than most people realize, especially in places like Winton Hills where levels of car ownership are far lower than average. Adding cruel irony to the hurt of economic disadvantage, neighborhoods where people would be most likely to need to rely on bicycles are often the least likely to be served by bike infrastructure. “Walking or biking to work for some people is something extra, but for others, it’s a necessity,” Megan Folkerth of Interact for Health says about her organization’s interest in bike paths in the Mill Creek Valley and Cincinnati Connects generally. “Our focus and real interest is in making sure that, for people for whom that is their main form of transportation, we make it safe and accessible for them.”

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He found his passion for bike trails a few years ago when he rode from Warren County to Yellow Springs with a friend. He says the trip opened his eyes to the possibilities of bike trails. “I really enjoyed that ride,” Perryman says. “It feels disconnected here because of how far we have to go to connect to other trails, like the Lunken Trail. Every community needs a trail, I think. I see a lot of older people riding their bikes, and we need to be connected.” ”

the Mill Creek — it’s been a struggle. Those communities that have higher incomes have money to advocate.” Wade Johnston, director of Tri-State Trails, an advocacy organization run by nonprofit Green Umbrella, agrees. Johnston hosted a session on equity and bicycle infrastructure June 9 during Green Umbrella’s Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit at Xavier University. He says lower-income communities often don’t get as much of a say in decisions around cycling infrastructure because their opinions aren’t sought out enough — even though that infrastructure could help those communities the most. “A safe, strong biking and walking community produces significant social gains, reducing health disparities, lowering household transportation expenses, creating jobs, lowering air pollution, reducing mental health problems and reducing violence by increasing community cohesion,” he says. “But often, communities that could most benefit from those kinds of projects and infrastructure are the communities being neglected in the planning process.” Beyond the equity questions, Wasson Way illustrates the difficulties facing bike paths. Securing land rights from the myriad property owners along a trail’s path can be challenging, and trails are much more expensive to build than on-street bike lanes — between $500,000 and $1 million per mile, as opposed to just a few thousand dollars a mile for on-street bike lanes. Johnston says both are necessary to really create an efficient, sustainable cycling system that can allow riders access to the whole city. Advocates admit that linking up four major city trails — which themselves need more work — with six smaller connectors to create their 42-mile loop is a major lift. They’re looking toward federal grants, perhaps Transit Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, funds administered by the Federal Department of Transportation, as a possible way to provide much of the more than $21 million needed to complete the connector trails alone. CONTINUES ON PAGE 17

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Winton Hills’ disconnected, often-industrial landscape typifies Cincinnati’s Mill Creek Valley from north of the neighborhood south through Millvale, North and South Fairmount to Lower Price Hill near the Ohio River. The area’s health, economic and connection challenges are something Groundwork has been working to address. The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Park Service founded the organization as an urban-centered community engagement effort. Cincinnati’s Groundwork branch started in 1994, and the program is now in 23 mostly post-industrial cities. Groundwork Cincinnati started focusing on bike trails in 2004, Yess says, building a small section of trail northeast of Winton Hills at Caldwell Park in Carthage. Another portion, the Mill Creek Greenway Trail, was created in 2008 and 2009. That trail now runs in segments — including a portion north of Winton Hills and a southern portion near Spring Grove Cemetery. The latter segment of trail runs all the way down to Ethel Taylor Middle School in Millvale. Much of the funding for those portions was provided by state grants associated with the Ohio Clean Trail fund, with Interact for Health or the city providing local matches. Now, Groundwork, Interact, the Cincinnati Health Department and other groups are working on filling in the gaps in the trail, including the one going through Winton Hills. Eventually, they envision a 14-mile continuous path along the Mill Creek.

Neighborhood activists in Northside are working to fill another gap in bike lanes between that neighborhood and the southern part of the trail along Spring Grove Ave., an effort that has picked up momentum in recent months as the city works on redesigning the segements of the road near the I-74 overpass. But beyond filling the gaps in the Mill Creek Trail is an even bigger vision that will take years to attain. In 2015, the organizations involved in the Mill Creek Trail, plus other local trail initiatives, Queen City Bike, the city and county parks departments and other groups released a blueprint for a comprehensive bike trail system called Cincinnati Connects. The plan would eventually create a 42-mile loop around Cincinnati, passing through 33 of the city’s neighborhoods and putting 81 percent of the city’s population within a mile of a bike path. The plan looks to link together major bike trails underway or in the planning stages across the city. Those include the Mill Creek Trail, the Ohio River Trail and Wasson Way, an effort to eventually build a 7.6-mile trail from Avondale to Newtown. That proposal is a good example of what can happen when cyclists advocate for bike paths— and also the need to link that infrastructure. The city of Cincinnati recently paid $12 million for a 4.1mile stretch of railroad right of way between Montgomery Road and Wooster Pike and plans to start construction on that portion of the trail in August. As much as another $11 million in construction costs are expected for that project. Wasson Way, which will run through several affluent suburbs and Cincinnati neighborhoods like Hyde Park, has momentum behind it, a fact that illustrates both the potential for trails and the challenges they present. “We notice the difference between amenities in neighborhoods where people are living until 80 versus neighborhoods where people are living to 66,” Folkerth, from Interact for Health, says. “It’s our responsibility as a community to do something about that. Wasson Way’s a great project. I think it’s fantastic. But what we as a community have spent on the Wasson Way, versus what we’ve spent on

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But cities closer to home might be better comparisons, Groundwork’s Yess says. “I think it’s more effective to look at places more like us that do this well. We can all look at Portland, but that’s not really realistic for Cincinnati.” Yess cites Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Minneapolis as cities that have taken big strides in their bicycle infrastructure. Indianapolis is a good example of the kind of connectivity Cincinnati Connects advocates are striving for. Its widely acclaimed Cultural Trail isn’t huge — just an eightmile loop through the city’s downtown — but it connects to other trails that run farther out as well as the city’s 75 miles of bike lanes. The trail took six years and a $20.5 million TIGER grant secured in 2008 to complete. Minneapolis, Bicycling Magazine’s sixth-best city for bicycling last year, is on track to complete a 30-mile network of protected bike lanes throughout the city by 2020 and already has 40 miles of bike trails it began constructing in the 1990s. Despite harsh winters, the city

has among the highest percentage of cyclists commuting to work in the country. Even if Cincinnati were to get to the level of Minne apolis or Indianapolis in the near future, it wouldn’t solve all of the problems in neighborhoods along the Mill Creek, Yess says. But it would help empower residents there. “I think it’s useful to say that trails aren’t the answer, necessarily,” Yess says of inequities facing places like Winton Hills and Millvale. “Trails aren’t going to put food on your table. But they’re part of a system that can improve your quality of life. When you’re able to let people take the lead in these communities, then they can see the value in that and decide if it’s something they want to support. It’s always helpful to say, ‘Don’t you deserve that?’ ” For cyclists like Perryman, the answer is a resounding “yes.” “If we could have our own trails, quick access to where we need to go, we wouldn’t even need to be on the main roads,” he says. “I think we need it. I don’t know how long it will take, but I think it’s really worth it.” ©

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The federal government has turned down applications by the city for TIGER funds for Wasson Way twice — but, advocates point out, it isn’t a city-spanning, comprehensive project, which the feds usually prioritize. Linking the paths will allow the trails to go from recreational amenities to truly transformational opportunities for city residents, Folkerth says. “It’s great that we have these amenities, but if the Wasson Way has four miles that doesn’t connect to anything, and the Ohio River Trail doesn’t connect to anything and the Mill Creek Trail doesn’t connect to anything, how are people going to get around our city?” Other cities have completed similar comprehensive loops. One of the most notable is Portland, Ore. That city’s greater metropolitan area has more than 550 miles of off-street bike trails, and the city itself has more than 90 miles of on-street bike lanes and bikefriendly streets, according to Oregon Metro, the area’s regional government.

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ART: The Taft Museum of Art’s TREASURES OF BRITISH PAINTING 14002000 features six centuries of British painting. See Big Picture on page 23. ONSTAGE: BLITHE SPIRIT Noël Coward’s tried-and-true fantasy/comedy from 1945 has entertained audiences for generations — a 2009 Broadway production featuring Angela Lansbury won a Drama Desk and a Tony Award. It’s the kind of fun-filled summertime show we’ve come to expect from the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater. Madame Arcati, a not-so-competent medium, conjures up the spirit of Elvira, the ghost of Charles’ annoying and temperamental first wife. His new spouse Ruth can’t see or hear her “rival,” which makes things spin way out of control. Through July 23. $29 adults; $26 students/seniors. Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, 801 Matson Place, East Price Hill, cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com. — RICK PENDER

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ONSTAGE: Cincinnati Opera’s FRIDA is a vivid, boundary-crossing and slightly R-rated production. See review on page 25.

COMEDY: GEOFF TATE “My dad recently found the Tea Party’s Facebook page and the share button and that is a problem for me,” Geoff Tate tells an audience. The Tea Party is Tate’s favorite political movement because they don’t stand for

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ART: DPMT7: UN TEATRO DEL NUOVO AT WESTON ART GALLERY Cincinnati-based architecture/design collective DPMT7 will transform both levels of the Weston Art Gallery in an architectural intervention that aims to “reimagine the urban landscape.” Led by the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning professors Vincent Sansalone, Whitney Hamaker and Nicholas Germann, along with contributions from Ryan Ball, Sean Cottengim and Joseph Kinzelman, the installation contends that the distinction between past, present and future is a persistent illusion. Graduates of the Weston’s award-winning Docentitos program (for children ages 9 to 12), now in its 21st season, will be on hand to give tours and share their knowledge of the exhibit. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Friday. Through Aug. 27. Free. Weston Art Gallery, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, cincinnatiarts.org. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER

anything; they’re simply against everything we have, he says. He cites an example: “Their platform is ‘fuck schools!’ Then what? ‘Don’t know! But I’m tired of paying for schools!’ Really? People are dumb and we have schools. You get rid of school it’s gonna be Thunderdome in a month. I don’t care if kids are learning anything, just keep ’em busy until four o’clock.” Tate, a Cincinnati native, continues to headline clubs across the country while also making regular appearances on the podcasts Doug Loves Movies and Getting Doug with High. Showtimes ThursdaySunday. $8-$14. Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, gobananascomedy.com. — P.F. WILSON

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MUSIC: Positive-vibed Hip Hop artist MOD SUN plays Fountain Square’s Indie

Vol. 2017 series. See Sound Advice on page 34. MUSIC: Prolific dark psych rockers THE CHURCH spend an evening at the Woodward Theater. See Sound Advice on page 34. EVENT: PARADISE ON THE POINT Celebrate America’s birthday early this weekend as Taft’s Brewing Co. hosts the inaugural Paradise on the Point, a free music festival complete with food trucks, vendors and local craft beer. Friday night, Trevor Hall headlines with a blend of Roots, Folk and Indian inspiration. Lettuce takes the stage Saturday night with Hip Hopinspired New Wave beats. Other bands include The Infamous Stringdusters, The Almighty Get Down and Peridoni. With a snack in hand, grab a friend and a beer, sit back, relax and enjoy the music. All ages.

4-11 p.m. Friday; 1-11 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Sawyer Point, 705 E. Pete Rose Way, Downtown, paradiseonthepoint. com. — AMANDA WEISBROD EVENT: ART AFTER DARK: CAM CARNIVAL Run away with the circus at the art museum. The Cincinnati Art Museum’s family-friendly Art After Dark fête features carnival games to entertain the children while adults enjoy specialty cocktails during happy hour. For one night only, the museum will be transformed into the vintage glamour of Water for Elephants as Well Seasoned performs in the background. Step right up to win prizes and see the fantastical performances that can only be found at the circus — including special exhibit A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in CONTINUES ON PAGE 20

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MUSIC: MARSHALL CRENSHAW AND LOS STRAITJACKETS The men of Los Straitjackets long ago established themselves as the top instrumental Rock band in the land, using the “Surf Rock” format as a jumping off point to explore Rockabilly, Roots, Blues, Country, Christmas music and any number of other styles, all while sporting their trademark Mexican wrestling masks. But the group has nothing against singers; seven years after its official formation in 1994, Los Straitjackets began to collaborate with various vocalists. Touring with singer Nick Lowe over the past few years actually inspired the Straits’ latest album, What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets, a collection of Lowe songs rendered as instrumentals. Perhaps the group’s current tourmate Marshall Crenshaw — another great, melodically inspired singer/songwriter — will lay the groundwork for a like-minded follow up (Someday, Someway, Some Straitjackets?). Opening the co-headlining local stop is Cincinnati’s own Pop Rock juggernaut psychodots. 8 p.m. Thursday. $22-$30. Southgate House Revival, 111 E. Sixth St., Newport, Ky., southgatehouse.com. — MIKE BREEN

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EVENT: RHINEGEIST’S FOURTH ANNIVERSARY Boogie to the Bee Gees with a bitchin’ brew in hand. It’s Rhinegeist’s fourth anniversary, and you’re invited to celebrate under a shimmering disco ball. It will be a night of funky vintage-style madness with limited-edition beer releases, the best Disco tunes and plenty of bell bottoms. So whether you’re reliving the ’70s or making an appearance for the first time, it’s sure to be groovy. Bring yourself, your friends and even your family — kids are welcome until 8 p.m. It’s the next best thing to a party at the moon tower. Noon-2 a.m. Saturday. Free admission; RSVP online. Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, rhinegeist.com. — GRACE HILL

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America. Cotton candy and other eats will be available. 5-9 p.m. Friday. Free admission. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, cincinnatiartmuseum.org. — ELISABETH DODD

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ART: POP PRESS at Thunder-Sky, Inc. finds beauty in the bizarre. See review on page 24. MUSIC: THE MOUNTAIN GOATS support its latest album, Goths, at Riverbend Music Center with JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT. See Sound Advice on page 35 and an interview with Isbell on page 32. FOURTH OF JULY: 4TH OF JULY JAM Bring a blanket, lawn chair, a few koozies and celebrate America in classic Cincinnati style at Washington Park’s 4th of July Jam. Grab a brew from Christian Moerlein, MadTree, Rhinegeist, Taft’s or — the beer choice of a true patriot — Bud Light and mosey around the park to try your luck at a round of cornhole, jenga or carnival games. Have kids or want to feel young again? The festival includes balloon artists and face painters. Plus, there will be food trucks

like Chicken Mack, The Chili Hut, Quite Frankly and Harvest Mobile. Music will play throughout the day, with Subterranean headlining at 8:30 p.m. As the last notes play, look to the sky for fireworks. 3-10 p.m. Saturday. Free. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark. org. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

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EVENT: DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES There’s no better time than Fourth of July weekend to celebrate one of Britain’s greatest artistic achievements ever — the classic 1960s albums of The Beatles. At 1 p.m., the Deconstructing the Beatles film series at the Esquire Theatre takes a close look at the Fab Four’s 1966 Revolver album, which extensively used sophisticated, sometimes experimental production techniques to create such landmark songs as “Yellow Submarine,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “Tomorrow Never Knows” and the non-album songs “Paperback Writer” and “Rain.” Producer/composer Scott Freiman is the cinematic host. Sgt. Pepper from 1967 follows on July 9 with 1968’s “The White Album” on July 16. 1 p.m. Sunday. $7.50. Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, esquiretheatre.com. — STEVEN ROSEN

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FOURTH OF JULY: NORTHSIDE ROCK & ROLL CARNIVAL Since the early ’80s, Northside has shown off its American pride and independent neighborhood spirit with an annual Fourth of July festival. As an extension of that, the Northside Rock & Roll Carnival was born. Local beer, food, vendors and free live music make this two-day carnival the perfect way to start off your week with a patriotic bang. Monday evening features music from the likes of Diane Coffee, Tweens, John Bender, Kate Wakefield and Swim Team, while Tuesday brings sounds from Lung, The Yugos, Leggy, The Ophelias, Deadly Vipers, Mardou and more. Also on Tuesday, make sure you skip breakfast to make room for kegs and eggs starting at 10 a.m. before the neighborhood’s historic and excellent Fourth of July Parade at noon. 4 p.m. Monday; 10 a.m. Tuesday. Free. Hoffner Park, 4101 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsiderocks.com — AMANDA WEISBROD

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FOURTH OF JULY: RED, WHITE & BLUE ASH God bless America and god bless Blue Ash: Rockers REO Speedwagon are heading to Summit Park to headline the annual Red, White & Blue Ash Fourth of July festival. A gigantic fireworks display from Arthur Rozzi Pyrotechnics will light up the sky at 10 p.m., but, before that, spend the evening imbibing and dining on local favorites and singing “Can’t Fight This Feeling” at the top of your lungs from your lawn chair. 4

p.m. gates Tuesday. Free. Summit Park, 4335 Glendale Milford Road, Blue Ash, blueashevents.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO FOURTH OF JULY: STRICKER’S GROVE FOURTH OF JULY This Independence Day, breeze into the picturesque Stricker’s Grove, a family-owned amusement park that is only open a few times a year. Ride winding wooden coasters and classic carnival rides from a merry-goround to a swinging pirate ship. The park includes an arcade, minigolf and other games. Tucked into the outskirts of Cincinnati, Stricker’s Grove feels like a niche of a time gone by, doused in childhood nostalgia. Conclude the day with an American favorite: fireworks. 2-11 p.m. Tuesday. Free admission; $15 unlimited rides; $5 parking. Stricker’s Grove, 11490 Hamilton-Cleves Road, Hamilton, strickersgrove. com. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

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FOURTH OF JULY: LAROSA’S BALLOON GLOW Fireworks and sparklers come to mind on the Fourth of July, but this Cincinnati tradition puts a different kind of glow in the sky: hot air balloons. A rainbow of colors and patterns will illuminate Coney Island’s Moonlite Mall. The glow begins at 8 p.m., and a shimmering display of Rozzi’s Famous Fireworks will follow at 10 p.m. 6-10 p.m. Monday. Free; $9 parking until 2 p.m.; $12 parking after 2 p.m.; standard rates apply for rides. Coney Island, 6201 Kellogg Ave., California, coneyislandpark.com. — GRACE HILL

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t’s the trend that will never die. But it is certainly preoccupied with dyeing. With more than 80 colors at their fingertips and an assortment of products, Funky Sunshine’s three proprietors are reinventing the tie-dye fad. Since tie-dyeing was such a fad of the 1960s and early 1970s, we’ve all seen its bursting colors and spiral patterns, the corners of stain that don’t exactly blend well and the random spacing of untouched fabric. Many of us have tangled our fingers in rubber bands, struggling to secure a cotton T-shirt in different angles to maximize a multi-color dipping strategy. Funky Sunshine’s co-owners have worked to bring tie-dyeing into the new millennium, creating such designs as a sparkling geode, a seascape, a Grateful Dead bear and a serene Om symbol. And they can’t seem to keep their top-selling tapestries in stock at their Anderson Township store. Stephanie Zier, her boyfriend Casey Short and his sister Holly Short have been working for four years to perfect such intricate designs, practicing the craft on everything from underwear to crop tops and sweatshirts to bedsheets. “We don’t make basic tapestries, we make art,” Zier says. “We really like to make unique, individual items that, when you see it and it speaks to you, you know it’s yours and no one will ever have anything quite like it.” Funky Sunshine started in 2013 with a pair of white leggings and an Etsy account. At that time Zier, who studied graphic design at Miami University, was selling paintings through Etsy. After Holly gifted Zier a pair of leggings, they dyed them together, gauged interest from friends and family and decided to start selling. Zier’s Etsy account morphed into Funky Sunshine, which today reaches customers around the world and ships products to at least 10 different countries, Casey says. “Sunshine is spreading light to the world,” Zier says. “And being funky is just kind of who we are,” Holly adds. A store at 6448 Sherman Ave., in a building with a few retail spaces on an otherwise residential street on the Anderson Township/Mount Washington border, opened in 2014. Its hours are 3-7 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, or by appointment. Today, clothes and accessories line the walls and fill the racks while handmade goods from nine local consigners add to the inventory. When the doors aren’t open, the trio is liable to be inside adding to that inventory, since they now have begun

Holly Short (left) and Stephanie Zier with some of their tie-dye goods vending at craft shows and festivals in addition to selling in-store and online. “We made a bear mandala yesterday but I know we aren’t coming back with that one, so I’m making another one now,” Zier says, planning ahead for a weekend of vending. Excess dye drips from the tabletop in streams of blue and purple as Zier carefully folds a 7-by-8-foot tapestry. Ensuring the ends meet evenly, she places it in the middle of the room and begins the pleating process. Although most would like to attribute tiedye to hippies, it actually has Japanese roots. A centuries-old technique called shibori employs a resist-dyeing method in which fabric is pleated or folded and secured. During the dyeing process, the folds prevent color from reaching certain areas, which yields complex patterns — a tactic the Funky Sunshine entrepreneurs have diligently cultivated and made their own. The shibori way is mainly limited to indigo and shades of blue, but the Funky Sunshine way embraces as many colors as possible. “I like to think we bring a certain ambiance to shows and festivals when we show up and turn our lights on at night,” Casey says. “It’s a certain atmosphere like nowhere else.” Zier with Casey and Holly curate a tie-dye universe at every event they vend.

Vibrant tapestries enclose the space while others hang from the ceiling among hats, socks and scarves; sometimes they leave room for specially made pieces that cater to themed occasions, like custom Pikachu and Super Mario T-shirts and tapestries that hung front and center at a June event called Geek Out 4.0 at Hannon’s Camp America in Butler County. Funky Sunshine’s dedication to the grassroots music and arts scene is matched only by the traditions of the festivals themselves. For the past three years, the trio has attended about 15 shows per season and have gained such opportunities as making the official festival T-shirts for Ohmstead, an Ohio-based music festival. In September, the three will host a tie-dye workshop at the Laniakea Transformational Arts Festival, also at Hannon’s Camp America. They will pre-fold and dye the name of the festival into a 24-foot-long banner, Zier said, and then allow anyone to add to it. This will be the longest tie-dye piece they have attempted thus far. Funky Sunshine frequently hosts workshops and community events at the store, some tied to holidays like a recent Father’s Day event, and others designed to contribute to charities. Each month, its owners

pick a local nonprofit to receive a donation of 15 percent of Saturday sales. This effort has benefited Keep Cincinnati Beautiful and the Freestore Foodbank, among others. “It started right around our one-year anniversary of the storefront, and we were feeling really grateful for everything,” Zier says. “We wanted to give back for all the love we were receiving.” The three decided giving back should involve more than monetary donations. So they started an effort to provide mats for the homeless. Using recycled plastic bags, volunteers gather at the store every third Saturday and crochet pre-cut strips of bags into mats. Once a few are complete (Zier says it takes about 40 hours to hand-stitch each mat), the trio and sometimes the volunteers find people in need of them. They deliver the mats personally to homeless people rather than donate to shelters or other places to make sure they get used immediately as intended. “We are about spreading our love further and wider to more people than making quick cash,” Zier says. “For us it’s about impacting people’s lives.” For more information about FUNKY SUNSHINE, visit funkysunshine.com.

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British Art at the Taft Museum BY STEVEN ROSEN

VIII from about 1513 and in its original frame, for instance. Timothy Standring, a longtime Denver Art Museum curator whose current position is Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture, worked with the Bergers closely in the 1990s. Sharp said, for instance, Standring especially helped bring some 20th- century paintings into the collection, such as Howard Hodgkin’s forcefully

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abstract 1996 “Storm” and Sir Claude Francis Barry’s gorgeously Pointillist “Victory Celebration” from 1919. By email from Italy, Standring — also a trustee of the Berger Collection Educational Trust — shared observations. He said, in part, “It was interesting to see how fast they learned not only about the artists of works they collected, but — coming from the world of managing stock portfolios for the Berger Funds — also about their understanding of the art market. But this was not unexpected since they assembled collections of objects not unlike portfolios of stocks. While they were keen to acquire works that were thought of as out of fashion and hence undervalued, I often told them to stick to ‘blue chips.’ Or, following the basic rule of real estate: location, location, location. “As one learned playing Monopoly, I urged them to ‘Buy Park Place instead of Baltic (Avenue),’ ” Standring wrote. “They started with Baltic and ended up scoring with some prize examples of Park Place. And, as a result of their brief collecting sprint, their legacy is the collection of work now shared with the broader public of Cincinnati at the Taft Museum of Art.” CONTACT STEVEN ROSEN: srosen@citybeat.com

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The temporary exhibition at the Taft Museum of Art through Oct. 1, Treasures of British Painting 1400-2000: The Berger Collection, provides a fascinating glimpse into one way that a museum — in this case, the Denver Art Museum — can build an important new collection in contemporary times. As such, it provides a striking contrast with the history of the Taft’s permanent collection. Anna Sinton Taft and Charles Phelps Taft lived in the mansion that is now the Taft Museum from 1873 until their deaths in 1931 and 1929, respectively, bequeathing to Cincinnati the home and the 690 artworks they had amassed between 1902 and 1927. It opened to the public in 1932. Collecting at their considered pace, and in their era, allowed them to slowly acquire choice examples of art, including works of British or British-related art by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, John Singer Sargent and J.M.W. Turner. For William and Bernadette Berger, the approach was different. Their collection of some 300 British artworks primarily was built in just three years — the effort was tragically cut short when William Berger died in 1999. (She died in 2015.) As a successful financier with considerable enthusiasm and resources, he wanted to quickly build a large museum-worthy collection. And he wanted the Denver Art Museum — he was a Denver native — to be a partner in the development of that collection. That museum today hosts and sometimes travels the collection, which is owned by the Berger Collection Educational Trust. “Bill was a fascinating guy,” says Lewis Sharp, who was the Denver Art Museum’s director in the 1990s. He is now retired and spoke to CityBeat by phone. “With his success in the business world, he decided to build a collection of British painting. It was really motivated by his belief in the values that England brought to the world and contributed to democracy. He really thought building a collection could represent those values. And when Bill got started on something, he was a missile. He took off.” The show at the Taft features 50 of the Berger Collection’s works. The exhibition has been thoughtfully chosen and designed so that the art provides a historical survey into the development of painting in Great Britain, even when a particular artist is not well known to the public at large. It’s also good at explaining how and why painters from other countries came to England to work. There are well known names in the show — Gainsborough, Sargent, John Constable, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and others. And there are some engrossing surprises — a British artist’s portrait of a young Henry

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Before weird news was something to click, it was something to clip. Graphic designer Scott Bruno’s collection of offbeat but absolutely real articles, photos, advertisements, TV listings and fliers is the inspiration for Pop Press, the new Thunder-Sky, Inc. exhibit. It riffs on truth being stranger than fiction and recognizes that some oddity runs through each of us. Bruno started saving unusual items from community newspapers, circulars and other sources in the 1980s and continued until he could no longer keep up with the internet’s ability to dispense weirdness. His ephemera include an article reporting the mood-boosting properties of old women’s body odor, a tract about the Freemasons, a picture of a man who could happily crack walnuts all afternoon and a classified ad offering 100 “perfectly harmless and loveable” African hissing cockroaches for free to a good home. Seventeen artists, including first-time curator Bruno, selected a prompt from his files. Their responses to the strangeness are surreal, satirical, political, laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly sweet. Thunder-Sky regular Emily Brandehoff chose an article about a disturbed Hamilton man who pleasured himself with an inflatable Halloween pumpkin, and she treats his tale with both sensitivity and humor. “Rubber Ducky, You’re the One” depicts him as sort of an innocent storybook character, proposing to a jack-o’lantern pail on bended knee while wearing a flamingo pool toy. With similar tenderness, Bruno honors the walnut-loving senior citizen with a screen print of 87 gray and golden walnuts, “one for each year of his life.” Stop the (pop) presses for Tom Strohmaier’s “Concise History of Crispy Hexagons.” In 12 hilarious panels, Strohmaier leads visitors through the making of the oddly named generic breakfast cereal. He begins with mathematician Pythagoras, because “the mere mention adds credence and prestige to the concise history.” The tongue-in-cheek tour continues with truffle pigs sniffing out the right grains, NRA members shooting each hexagon out of a grid and fashion models overseeing quality control. The artist concludes that eating Crispy Hexagons means “better living through geometry.” With no pun intended, Thunder-Sky cofounder Keith Banner described the entire show as “crisp” during the opening reception. Along with Thunder-Snow, the Blizzard of 1978 tribute that opened this year’s season, Pop Press represents an intentional shift in the Northside gallery’s programming. After seven years of some sprawling and loosely defined shows built around Outsider Art, Banner and co-founder Bill Ross are refining what’s next.

As they installed Thunder-Snow this winter, the pair described the process as bringing their basement upstairs. Last year the “Under-Sky” space hosted group shows from artists responding to calls to honor Prince and David Bowie. “They were just seen as ‘add-ons’ (or so we thought), little shindigs that were fun and sweet,” Banner wrote in a December email. “Now we’re going to utilize the concept of

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group shows and spiff that up a little bit, give a context and polish, but still keep the groove and funk.” The Prince tribute introduced Thunder-Sky to Jamie Pearson, a Punk-influenced artist who skewers the secrets of the Freemasons in the current show. Bruno brought in more new faces, including Christian Schmit and Michael Scheurer, who both recently had solo shows at the Weston Art Gallery, and Lola Dupre. A subject like a music icon, a blizzard or weird news helps that process, he said, “because it’s not focused on art about art, or art about status, but art about life — things everyone shares in, experiences that are then crafted through art into community.” At one time, the newspaper was the community’s place to reach out. But in her “Power of Makeup 2.0” video, Cincinnati native Rachel Rampleman builds a new community. Faces of women and men, half-done in makeup, flash on a screen, and we notice that they’re all attractive whether their flaws are covered or not. Pop Press and Thunder-Sky find beauty in the bizarre. POP PRESS is on exhibit through Aug. 4 at Thunder-Sky, Inc., 4573 Hamilton Ave., Northside. More info: raymondthundersky.org.

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‘Frida’: Color Her Vibrant BY RICK PENDER

Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Twenty years Kahlo’s senior and a notorious womanizer, he initially encourages her career as a painter. Before long they are married. His politics and beliefs are as passionate and opinionated as hers. Their tempestuous marriage simultaneously fuels and frustrates their creativity. Herrera, who strongly resembles Diego Rivera, forcefully portrays the painter, who comfortably navigates the

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Frida Kahlo lived a life of vibrant primary color. Virtually every moment of the Mexican painter’s existence was tempestuous. Her deeply personal images vividly expressed her passions, her fears, her anxieties and her joys. That made her the perfect subject for an opera, an art form in which characters are often larger than life. You can see the result by attending composer Robert Xavier Rodríguez’s Frida, the second production of Cincinnati Opera’s 97th season. Enter the Aronoff Center’s Jarson-Kaplan Theater and you’re immediately confronted with a brilliant red drape, a pair of red violins and a red squeezebox. Three performers skulk onstage wearing calaveras, masks that represent human skulls (frequently associated with the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead). Using the musical instruments, they weave through Frida — because her life constantly ping-ponged between highs and lows, joy and longing. A horrendous bus accident nearly killed the 18-year-old Kahlo in 1925. She suffered constant physical pain for 30 years (she died at 47). Death’s shadow was her close companion for the balance of her tumultuous life, but it never diminished her fervent spirit. Moníka Essen’s scenic design represents that spirit at center stage with an immense, crimson human heart topped with a tangle of arteries. Projected images show both Kahlo’s paintings and her emotions: a closeup of an eye occasionally sheds tears; a sensual shoulder and female breast are torn asunder and pierced with spikes following her accident. We see her in an immobilizing plaster “corset,” hospitalized for two years recovering from her devastating injuries — and beginning to paint. Essen’s intensely colored costume designs, especially Kahlo’s eye-popping redand-yellow Mexican dresses and ravishing floral headpieces, constantly and insistently reflect her passion for her homeland. But traditional dresses for dancers and evening wear for others also enhance visual impact. Frida requires a pair of larger-than-life singers. Soprano Catalina Cuervo delivers a high-voltage performance — acting, speaking and singing — as Kahlo. Much of the role is in English, with occasional snatches of Spanish. Cuervo is riveting as she delivers monologues of Kahlo’s powerful beliefs and sings Rodríguez’s complex score, featuring a libretto by Hilary Blecher and Migdalia Cruz and replete with Mexican and Spanish rhythms and even a few nods to Broadway show tunes. To underscore Kahlo’s singular personality, the composer wrote much of her music in three-quarter time, while others sing in double-time. Bass-baritone Ricardo Herrera plays Kahlo’s lover and husband, the eminent

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A sense of cool bordering on the exiswith material for a never-ending remix of tential fueled Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 sound and fury, signifying that we’re in for film Drive, about a stuntman and mechanic a wild summer ride in which we’re riding (Ryan Gosling) who also moonlights as a shotgun the whole way without a seatbelt. getaway driver. Anonymous and impossibly In the hands of an aural and visual DJ skilled, Gosling’s driver is straight out of like Wright, Baby Driver transforms into a urban mythology, a modern version of Clint thoroughly modern musical of the moment. Eastwood’s nameless gunslingers of old, It’s as if the film is sampling, or channeling, with even less to say about the sorry state of other films as well as songs — a scene of affairs around him. Baby sauntering along with coffee for the Gosling switched things up in Damien crew after a job is reminiscent of the innoChazelle’s 2016 hit La La Land, settling into cence in Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s morninganother familiar character groove; this time as an idealistic Jazz man struggling to make a living playing in cover bands and knocking out bland reinterpretations of holiday tunes. Also cool and driven, yet this time Gosling gets lifted by love, which Chazelle spotlights time and again via thrillingly ethereal, dynamic musical set pieces. Only British director Edgar Wright would dream of mashing up such a disparate pair of Gosling movies, and he does so with great verve in the new Ansel Elgort is the music-loving getaway driver Baby. Baby Driver. That’s because P H O T O : s o n y p i c t u r e s e n t e r ta i n m e n t i n c . he understands that the one thing — beyond the presence after strut in 2009’s (500) Days of Summer. of Gosling — that links Drive and La La But thanks to the zing supplied by Jon Land together is their genuine appreciation Bernthal, Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx as for propulsive action. standout members of Doc’s high-octane It is easy to look at Wright’s filmography robber team, Baby Driver also works as a and get lost in the comedic lunacy, rather crime thriller, albeit one that succumbs to than the mastery of momentum, on display. its own violently exaggerated urges. The His Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The supporting players perfectly exploit their World’s End featured a smart and fizzy partrecognizable natures, without upsetting the nership with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost delicate overall tonal balance. that gleefully tackled zombies, buddy cops Things get complicated once Baby and, ultimately, the end of the world. believes he has done his final job for Doc In Baby Driver, Wright shamelessly and starts wooing Debora (Lily James), a samples from Drive, introducing audiences cute waitress at his favorite diner. The to a savant-like getaway driver named youthful banter between the two budding Baby (an appropriately baby-faced Ansel lovers serves as a fitting contrast to the Elgort) indentured to Doc (Kevin Spacey), hardcore barbs and heightened tension a mysterious crime boss who assembles among the team of criminal rivals. Reservoir Dogs-inspired teams of robbers Wright has never pushed the violence quite for bank heists. Baby’s cool derives from his this far before, but thanks to his quicksilver reliance on music to drown out the ringing sense of timing, he never allows the bloody in his ears, caused by a childhood accident. excess to overstay its welcome. What he has The kid moves through the world aided and accomplished in Baby Driver deserves menabetted by a near-constant stream of hip tion alongside Quentin Tarantino’s efforts tunes from an assortment of iDevices. like Kill Bill and Jackie Brown. Baby certainly has the beat, which allows But Wright’s not slavishly copying the Wright the opportunity to create a dizzy and Tarantino playbook like so many filmengaging collection of musical moments makers did when Pulp Fiction became a that deliver a direct adrenalized rush to the audience. The cacophonous mayhem of cultural trendsetter. Instead, Baby Driver screeching tires, the delirious crackle and feels like Wright is elevating his own game, stutter of gunshots and the crystalized shatwhile tipping his hat to a host of his fellow tering of glass — along with a stream of Pop big-league players. (Opens Wednesday at Art-styled one-liners — provides Wright area theaters.) (R) Grade: A-

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Back in 1971, Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Dirty Harry) steered Clint Eastwood into The Beguiled, where the actor played an injured Civil War Union soldier brought to a Confederate girls’ boarding school with its ragtag collection of inhabitants, whom he attempts to tease and manipulate to get them to do his bidding. With the focus squarely on Eastwood, the narrative tips toward his blunt and violent masculinity. Enter Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) to revisit this story, placing her own decidedly white female-centric stamp on the proceedings, trapping a quite game Colin Farrell in this Southern henhouse with Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning as the featured female leads. Coppola doesn’t expand the narrative, based on Thomas Cullinan’s novel, but she insinuates deeper backstories for this collection of women. Coppola provides the setting for Kidman to lay bare the brittle nature of Miss Martha, the mistress of the boarding school; for Dunst’s teacher Edwina to escape her approaching spinsterhood fate via the arms of Farrell’s Corporal McBurney; and for Fanning to infuse young Alicia with an eerily contemporary teenage disdain and a willingness to push social and sexual boundaries. In its best moments, The Beguiled recalls the pristine hothouse drama of Coppola’s adaptation of the novel The Virgin Suicides. It is unfortunate that Coppola finds herself dogged by accusations steaming from her curious whitewashing of the narrative, drawing unwanted attention in this age of intersectionality. She removed one of the novel’s and earlier film’s characters, an enslaved AfricanAmerican woman. For a filmmaker noted for her ability to spotlight characters generally rendered either mute or invisible, that choice reveals a key misstep. Coppola could have used that character to her advantage. Instead, she surrendered the chance to illuminate another potentially fascinating (and equally beguiling) woman of substance. (Opens Friday.) (R) Grade: B

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Since Truman Capote’s 1966 non-fiction accounts of abuse at the school during and novel In Cold Blood established the genre, after Cesnik’s time there. Could her murder true crime media have remained popular be connected to an apparently evil priest? among the masses. For years, the trend was Furthermore, how was an abusive chaplain represented on the small screen as sensaable to avoid consequences? tionalized 24-hour coverage of salacious triPerhaps due to their unassuming, als and dramatized, lowbrow cable offerings. grandma-like manner, Hoskins and Schaub A prestige take on true crime emerged are able to access crucial figures involved. just a few years ago, however, with the Previously anonymous victims who were debut of a few key programs: The Serial once too afraid to go public with their stopodcast exploring the murder of Hae Min ries bravely come forward here, along with Lee, HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths persons of interest and relatives of murder of Robert Durst and — of course — Netflix’s Making a Murderer. The timing of these addictive series couldn’t be more perfect. Between the rising trend of binge-watching and ample opportunities to research case details and voice opinions online, it’s no wonder audiences get wrapped up in these stories. So why aren’t as many people talking about The Keepers? The latest Netflix truecrime docuseries explores the Newspaper clipping on Sister Catherine Cesnik’s murder unsolved murder of Catherine PHOTO : courtesy of netflix Cesnik, a nun and beloved teacher at a Baltimore allgirls Catholic high school in the late 1960s. victims. But make no mistake: These adorThe examination of this mysterious case, able ladies are sharp and relentless. still open today, quickly gives way to an The result is something of a grassroots investigation of sexual abuse at the hands women-led Spotlight. It’s haunting to think of a priest at the school during that time. so many women faced abuse from, in their The seven-part series seeks to establish a minds, an almost god-like figure who threatconnection between these egregious crimes ened them into submission for decades. and provide solace for those left in the wake. Many survivors suppressed the painful Like Making a Murderer, The Keepers memories for years. explores the murder of an innocent young The series jumps from 1969-70 to the woman, features surprising twists along the early 1990s — when two women came forway and exposes critical flaws in our justice ward (anonymously in all court documents) system. But where Murderer focuses on with abuse allegations to pursue a civil the whodunit narrative surrounding Steven suit against the priest, the archdiocese and Avery, Keepers pays more attention to the others — and to present day, as Schaub and process of the investigation. Hoskins continue to act as amateur invesThis is particularly intriguing because tigators. The scope widens from Cesnik’s the true investigators here are not detecmurder to a pattern of abuse and to the tives, lawyers or documentary filmmakers implications of the Catholic church. So who — they’re two retired women in their 60s. are the titular “keepers”? They’re Hoskins Abbie Schaub and Gemma Hoskins were and Schaub and also the many women who classmates and students of Cesnik — better bravely recount their abuse on camera — known as Sister Cathy — in the 1960s, but everyone keeping Cesnik’s name alive, prethey never forgot about her. They have dediserving her memory and continuing to fight cated their retirement to searching for what for justice. It’s a tough case to even begin happened to their favorite teacher. to crack open, let alone solve, because so The women started a Facebook group many people who may have been involved calling for “Justice for Catherine Cesnik” have died. Once these women are gone, in 2013, and began fielding questions, tips there won’t be anyone left to carry the torch. and rumors about Sister Cathy and her Thankfully, this powerful docuseries turns death from her former students. The page its audience into keepers as well. turned into something of a confessional, CONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern where women began coming forward with

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Hi, goats! Ambassadors Willow (left) and Rosie are part of the permaculture cycle at CWUF. plants and edible flowers. Restaurants including Mercer OTR and Kaze used them on their menus, but much of the produce was donated to Churches Active in Northside to be distributed to those in need or given directly to those who sought food at the farm. Some went to Madison’s at Findlay Market for sale and some went to a table Graef set up at Rhinegeist like a tiny farmers market. This year, with White’s infectious enthusiasm, they’ve added peas, beets, carrots, herbs and squash and pumpkins for a you-pick patch in the fall, plus two adorable Alpine goats — Willow and Rosie — and eight types of chickens. Eggs should be available in August and eventually milk from the goats will be transformed into added-value products like ice cream and cheese — “lots of cheese,” says White. They’ve also partnered with Gomez Salsa to provide hundreds of pounds of tomatoes for the restaurant. Willow and Rosie were CWUF’s first new attractions this year. The goats serve two main purposes: to be conversation starters and as cost-effective lawn mowers to graze and cut down invasive species like honeysuckle. When Willow and Rosie were babies, White was bottle-feeding them up to three times a day and inviting the public — neighborhood kids, volunteers, people at the gas station — to help and learn about the farm.

“It’s a great component for what we’re trying to do here,” Graef says. “Not only to give people nourishment in this community and in neighboring communities but also to teach those people that they can do this for themselves — that this can be duplicated on any scale, larger or smaller.” “Whether it’s goats or three chickens in your backyard,” White says. “You don’t have to rely on a food system to feed you.” The goal is to have four-season growing at the farm, which will be accomplished without traditional training. White and Graef are self-taught — two humans you’d definitely want with you in the Apocalypse. “There’s been a bit of a learning curve, but I’m certainly enjoying the art of research and learning rapidly and as much as you can in a very little amount of time,” White says. They built the chicken coop and goat barn by hand, and are aiding in the construction of permaculture rain gardens and natural watering systems, and there are photos on social media of White breaking down roosters for meat, a completely newfound skill. But they don’t do it alone. They view the farm as a public space and welcome any and all volunteer assistance and support. “Do you want to get your hands dirty? Great,” White says. “Do you want to just sit

and snuggle a goat and read a book? Do that, too. I just want it to be a peaceful place for anybody to come anytime you need it.” The community outreach extends beyond CWUF’s space. They operate the CAMP cart, which is essentially a mobile produce and art cart attached to a tandem bicycle. Constructed by SPUN Bicycles in Northside and operated in partnership with Camp Washington’s Wave Pool gallery, it carries fresh produce and crafty activities to educate the community about food awareness. Produce is offered based on monetary donations, “but if you need it, take it,” White says. “We’re able to bring the food to people,” Graef says of the CAMP cart. “People may not have a car to get to the Kroger on Mitchell or downtown, or maybe you’re just not as mobile as someone else and can’t leave the house, so we’ll ride it around or have one of our volunteers do so if we can’t.” “We’re changing lives,” he continues. “We’re feeding people and we’re teaching them to feed others.” The CAMP cart will be in the Northside Fourth of July parade, where the team will be handing out free seeds and plants. To learn more about the CAMP WASHINGTON URBAN FARM, visit cwurbanfarm.org or facebook.com/cwurbanfarm.

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estled in the industrial belly button of Camp Washington, equidistant from the I-75 on-ramp, River City Correctional Center and everyone’s favorite salt dome, is an unassuming and unexpected oasis: the Camp Washington Urban Farm. Since its inception in 2013, this little two-acre tract of land has been providing sustainably grown produce and agricultural education to neighborhood residents. Originally a project of the Camp Washington Community Board, executive director Joe Gorman established the nonprofit farm as a way to provide local, fresh produce within the Camp Washington food desert. It’s currently helmed by Samantha White and Kevin Graef, two neophyte homesteaders who are passionately committed to optimizing the productivity of the space despite coming on board only last year. Under the reinvigorated supervision, the farm is thriving like a mini garden of Eden, but with fewer naked people and more goats. “It’s the definition of urban farm,” Graef says. “It couldn’t have a better piece of property. I love that (the salt dome and correctional facility) are right next door. I love the challenges they present. I love the backdrop.” Partners both at CWUF and in life, White and Graef relocated from Michigan three years ago for White’s day job (she’s in automotive lending). Graef fleetingly worked on a squash farm and then “wiggled his way” into Rhinegeist’s packaging team, where he’s still employed. The duo serendipitously met Gorman while living in Over-the-Rhine. He was their neighbor and was impressed by how they transformed their deck and patio into a series of highly harvestable raised garden beds and “the hanging gardens of Babylon,” jokes Graef — so impressed, in fact, that he hired Graef as CWUF’s crop manager. “He hired me about a year ago,” Graef says before White pipes in. “I kind of just helped out, and late in the year I jumped on board as partner,” she says. “A full partner,” Graef adds. “She really took it on and jumped in more than just helping me out here and there.” It’s evident that White and Graef’s symbiotic relationship mirrors what they’re trying to do with sustainable permaculture; they finish each other’s sentences as naturally as a rain garden gathers water. Last year, the farm nearly doubled crop production. Graef calculates they had more than 120 tomato plants, 100 pepper plants that ranged from the hottest ghost peppers all the way down to candy-sweet peppers, 60 pounds of garlic, 30 pounds of lettuce, watermelon, onions, heirloom rosemary

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receive tickets to see a show at CSC. If you’re not Shakespeared out after trivia, stay for a screening of 10 Things I Hate About You on the lawn, which is based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. • A new fest takes over Sawyer Point this weekend: Paradise on the Point. The party features live music from the likes of The Infamous Stringdusters, food trucks and beer from a ton of local breweries, including sponsor Taft’s Brewing Co. More info: paradiseonthepoint.com.

Flash Lamp is one of several new canned Urban Artifact brews. P H O T O : U r b a n A r t i fa c t • Last weekend, Braxton Labs released its first four-pack of canned beer • On Saturday, the Cincinnati Zoo heads to — a New England-style IPA named #002 — Mt. Carmel Brewing Company to unveil exclusively sold at the Labs location. their collaborative Queen Bee, a blackberry• Urban Artifact recently released new honey blonde ale brewed especially for the beers in cans: Key Punch, a key lime gose; zoo. The event will feature zoo animals, reps Flash Lamp, a new perennial tart white ale; from Pollen Nation (the beekeepers who and four different versions of Fire Iron from manage the zoo’s hives), LaRosa’s and a their Midwest Fruit Tart series. One version raffle. After the release, Queen Bee will be was brewed with 1,500 pounds of guava and available at concession stands at the zoo. 500 pounds of banana, and other variations • On July 8, Fifty West Production Works feature additions like tamarind, habanero will transform their volleyball court into a and basil. All of these variants will be availboxing ring for Punch Out: Round 2, durable on tap and for sale at the brewery. ing which members of local breweries will • On Thursday, Wooden Cask will release pair up and beat the crap out of each other Ruby, a barrel-aged Irish ale, exclusively at during eight boxing matches. Each brewery its taproom. The beer was aged for four and will also bring two types of beer to tap. a half months in a whiskey barrel. Warning: Tickets cost $15 ($30 for ringside). Only three and a half barrels were made. • Cincinnati Nature Center’s popular • Streetside’s latest can is Chillin’ with Hoots and Hops event takes place on July Bob Ross, a New England-style IPA, which 14. Drink some beers from Great Lakes, will be released at the taproom on July 22. Bad Tom and Fifty West; snack on HoltThey’ll also introduce Rollin’ on Dubz, a man’s Donuts and Mazunte tacos; take a double IPA that was brewed with nelson self-guided hike; listen to live music; watch sauvin and hallertau blanc hops and blended birds from RAPTOR Inc.; or nap on an with sauvignon blanc and pinot grigio grapes. outdoor hammock. Tickets are $40. • For brunch on July 15, Darkness Brewing teams up with local bakery Mama C’s • Have you ever wanted to do Shakespeare Buttercream & Sprinkles to offer sweet in the Park? On Wednesday, the Washington and savory cupcakes paired with Darkness’ Park deck and Cincinnati Shakespeare beers. Tickets ($16) include four five-ounce Company host a Shakespeare trivia night. pours, a full pint of beer and four cupcakes. MadTree, Rhinegeist, Moerlein and Taft’s will sell their beers, and winners of trivia will CONTACT GARIN PIRNIA letters@ citybeat.com

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Lobstapalooza — A cavalcade of crustaceans. Dine on lobster curry, lobster rolls, lobster bisque, lobster mac and cheese and more. Through July 2. Prices vary. Washington Platform, 1000 Elm St., Downtown, washingtonplatform.com.

Breakfast of Champions with Ilene Ross — CityBeat dining writer Ilene Ross teaches kids ages 8-12 how to make easy breakfast dishes like triple berry smoothies, classic pancakes and cheesy scrambled eggs. Noon-2 p.m. $35. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harper’s Point, cookswaresonline.com. Groceries & Grilling: Fourth of July — 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 onsite. 5-8 p.m. Free admission. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-theRhine, findlaymarket.org.

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Riverfront Grill Out — Head to the event lawn by Moerlein Lager House for a grill out featuring music from DJ Etrayn, food including burgers, sausages and ribs, lawn games and beer. One dollar from every beer sold will go to the Cincinnati Parks Foundation. 5-9 p.m. Free admission. Moerlein Lager House, 115 Joe Nuxhall Way, Downtown, facebook.com/moerleinlagerhouse.

Cooking for a Crowd with Rhonda Marcotte — Personal chef and caterer Rhonda Marcotte has simple tips and tricks for cooking for a crowd. Menu includes artichoke and parmesan stuffed mushrooms, Maryland crab cakes, white sangria and lemon mousse. 6:30-9 p.m. $50. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harper’s Point, cookswaresonline.com.

Hands-On Mediterranean — Greek grill expert Ellen Mueller leads this class on preparing and assembling a meze platter and grilled kebabs. 6-8:30 p.m. $75. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.

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Dinner With History — This dinner combines a three-course meal and history with a lecture on Lebanon by the Warren County Historical Society historian John Zimkus. Reservations are limited. 6:30-9 p.m. $25.

Paradise on the Point — This free music, beer and arts festival features food trucks, local craft beer, music from The Infamous Stringdusters and more. 4-11 p.m. Friday; 1-11 p.m. Saturday. Free. Sawyer Point, 705 E. Pete Rose Way, Downtown, paradiseonthepoint.com. Strike Out Hunger Food Drive — The Cincinnati Reds partner with St. Vincent de Paul for a Strike Out Hunger food drive during their game against the Chicago Cubs. Fans who donate a minimum of three non-perishable food items will receive a free ticket to an upcoming game. 7:10 p.m. Friday; 4:10 p.m. Saturday. Great American Ball Park, 100 Joe Nuxhall Way, Downtown, svdpcincinnati.org. Brewing Heritage Trail Gilded Brew Tour — Learn about the humble breweries of 1840s Cincinnati, the evolution of our local brewing industry and the architectural grandeur of the buildings. 1 p.m. Friday; noon Saturday and Sunday. $20. Leaves from the OTR Biergarten, Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, brewingheritagetrail.org.

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Rhinegeist Fourth Anniversary — Get down at Rhinegeist’s fourth-anniversary party, “Right On, Right On.” It’s gonna be a far out fest with limited beer releases, slick grooves, a disco ball and a dance floor. Noon-2 a.m. Free. Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, rhinegeist.com.

One With Wanderlust — Head to Fifty West Brewing Company to talk outdoor adventure and bike rides. Benchmark Outdoor Outfitters will be on hand to talk gear, as will Fifty West Cycling. The Cincinnati Museum Center curators will be there to chat about wildlife. 1 p.m. $10-$17. Fifty West, 7605 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, fiftywestbrew.com.

SUNDAY 02

Madison Avenue Food Tour — A threehour walking and eating tour of Madison Avenue in Covington. Includes tastings from area restaurants like Coppin’s at Hotel Covington, Rima’s Diner and Kung Food Chu’s AmerAsia. 10 a.m. $59. Leaves from lobby of Hotel Covington, 638 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., riversidefoodtours.com.

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Cincinnati Streetcar Food Tour — Take the streetcar to tour and taste various area restaurants. On Tuesdays, visit Bru Burger, the CAC, We Olive and Findlay Market. 1 p.m. $59. Howl at the Moon, 145 Second St., Downtown, riversidefoodtours.com.

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The Art of the Real

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Jason Isbell continues his upward creative trajectory with The Nashville Sound INTERVIEW BY JASON GARGANO

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ason Isbell is on a serious winning streak. The Alabama-bred singer/ songwriter’s latest, The Nashville Sound, is his third straight next-level release following 2013’s Southeastern and 2015’s Something More Than Free. It can’t be a coincidence that Isbell’s creative evolution has coincided with getting sober — he was reportedly kicked out of the Drive-By Truckers in 2007 for his harddrinking ways — nor can it be overlooked that those albums have been the three created since he began a relationship with his now-wife Amanda Shires and started his collaboration with producer Dave Cobb. But that’s not to say The Nashville Sound isn’t a slight departure from those earlier albums, each of which was as somber and introspective as anything Isbell had done in his 20-year songwriting career. The new record — his first to officially name-check his backing band, the 400 Unit, since 2011’s Here We Rest — is more sonically diverse, artfully weaving hard-charging Rock & Roll (“Cumberland Gap”), Classic Country (“Tupelo”), Blues (“Hope the High Road”) and Folk (“If We Were Vampires”) with the affecting, detail-driven lyricism that has made Isbell one the most heralded songwriters in recent memory. Best of all is “Anxiety,” a genre- and emotion-spanning epic in which Isbell admits, “Anxiety, how do you always get the best of me?” Isbell recently took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to discuss everything from why he wanted to work with Cobb again to his need to inject politics into his songs.

CityBeat: Your songs have always come across as pretty personal, but this record seems even more personal than anything you’ve done previously. Was that intentional or did it just happen to come out that way organically? Jason Isbell: I think that may just be a sign of me getting better at it, you know? I think the better songs are the more personal songs. The reason I say “better” is that I mean higher quality. Songs that connect with people in a more serious way are usually the ones that seem the most personal to the lives of the songwriters. I think the reason for that is that’s the only way to tell a story that is unique, because every song has been written a thousand times before and every story’s been told over and over and over for years. So the only thing we have really is our own perspective, and I think the more personal you get the more your own perspective works into those stories.

Jason Isbell says his former not-sober self would be encouraged to know where he ended up. CB: A lot has changed in your life over the last 10 years. What do you think the Jason Isbell of 10 years ago would say about the guy you are today? JI: I don’t know. I didn’t think who I am today was possible 10 years ago. Ten years ago I thought I was always going to be drinking. I thought I was always going to feel like shit. I thought that I was never going to have a consistent relationship with anybody or a family to take care of me, so I would definitely be encouraged if I knew this is where I was headed. CB: Why did you want to work with Dave Cobb again? JI: Because I’ve had the most success I’ve ever had with Dave Cobb. He’s the best producer in the world right now, if you ask me. It wasn’t broke, so I didn’t want to fix it. The two (previous) albums with him are by far the best albums I’ve made in my career, and I still felt that we had more things to explore. Plus I enjoy being around Dave. He’s got great ideas. He doesn’t make the studio intolerable. Sometimes big, successful producers can treat you like you’re unimportant. Dave is not that way.

CB: There are songs on this record that some people could and probably will interpret as overt political statements. What do you say to those who criticize artists for making political statements in their music? JI: I don’t think those folks really want to hear artists at all. I think they want to hear entertainers. The word “artist” is way overused when it comes to the music business. Not everybody with a record deal is a recording artist. That’s a word that the record labels started overusing quite a few years ago. It made it seem like what they were doing was more important than just making money. Yes, if I’m listening to an entertainer, if I’m going to a Broadway show or if I’m going to see somebody in Vegas just simply for the entertainment of it and I’m not looking to be challenged, then, yeah, I might not want to hear about sad or dark things or any kind of belief systems from the person who is giving me the entertainment. But I’m not an entertainer. I set out to make something that I could call art, and for me to do that I have to

include my voice. That’s just how it’s going to be. CB: The title of the album, The Nashville Sound, can be taken in few different ways. Why did you want to call it that? JI: Part of the reason I did that was we recorded it at (RCA Studio B), which was originally called the home of the “Nashville Sound.” That was the nickname of the studio. That is what inspired me to consider that for a title, but the reason I really went with it is because I wanted people to understand that there is a lot more music being made in Nashville than just commercial Country music. There are a lot of things going on there that have a lot more to do with Rock & Roll or Folk music or even Hip Hop than there ever has been in the past. I think it’s important that people notice that Nashville is a music city; it’s not just a Country music city. JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT perform Saturday at the PNC Pavilion at Riverbend. Tickets/more info: riverbend.org.

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Vibrant Troubadours Rock Through ‘Cool Grass’ BY MIKE BREEN

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Not a Chance to Take After delivering a speech in which he called out the U.S. government after receiving the Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards, Chance the Rapper took on a tastier enemy. In response to a Hostess tweet that compared the greatness of “Chance the Snacker” (groan!) to that of the company’s Apple Streusel Coffee Cakes and featured a photo of the snack with the real Chance’s trademark “3” cap, the rapper tweeted “Give me my coin.” Not ready for an endorsement deal (or not wanting to do battle with Chance endorsee Kit Kat), Hostess deleted the original tweet. Chance recently donated $1 million to Chicago Public Schools, so if he did get some of that sweet Twinkie dough, at least it would likely go to a good cause. Music Stunt Bombs Just as it’s ill-advised these days to carry a pressure cooker down a dark street late at night, it’s probably not the optimal time to publicize your band’s new cassette release with a stunt involving randomly hanging it on a wall somewhere, particularly if the “cover art” features a typed note about firebombing and destroying buildings. A Noise band called LSD Fundraiser found out the hard way after a chunk of an entire New Zealand city’s downtown area was shut down for hours and the bomb squad was called. Police offered little comment, but reportedly are investigating someone related to the odd stunt. Tune or Tuning? Radiohead was the source of some recent “fake news” that went viral as true. Given the band’s experimental bent, few immediately questioned the validity of a prank screenshot that looked like the BBC’s news site and stated that thousands of fans mistook Radiohead members tuning their guitars at a festival as a new song. “Minimalist, but also complex, emotionally raw, but still able to push the boundaries of what music can be,” read a “fan” quote in the trolling tweet. Making it even odder: the original screenshot came from the account of a flower delivery service.

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Saturday at MOTR Pub (1345 Main St., more focused. The bi-polar nature of Cool Over-the-Rhine, motrpub.com), promisGrass is cool, but the core skills revealed ing Wilmington, Ohio rockers Vibrant are revelatory, suggesting the best is yet to Troubadours celebrate the release of come from Vibrant Troubadours. their second full-length, Cool Grass. The For more on the band, visit vibranttrouduo is joined by The Whiskey Shambles badours.bandcamp.com and vibranttrouand Maine’s When Particles Collide for the badours.com. free 10 p.m. show. Consisting of brothers Cullen Corcoran (vocals/guitar) and Myles Corcoran • Cincinnati producer/MC Juan Cosby (drums), Vibrant Troubadours specialize in is set to release his Inhospitable Planet, raw, gimmick-free Rock & Roll steeped in a dazzling exploration of progressive Hip Blues, Grunge and Pop and delivered with Hop, this Friday. The debut solo album uninhibited passion without sacrificing from the Counterfeit Money Machine musical proficiency. There’s an enjoyable member includes guest artists like Bluedynamic on Cool Grass that unabashedly print (featured on the stellar lead single, showcases the duo’s spectrum of contemporary Alt and Indie Rock influences. The thick distorted guitars, bleeding vocals and heavy rhythms of tracks like “In My Face” and “Don’t Buy Me Things” suggest a deep appreciation and admiration of Nirvana. Fans of Cobain and Co.’s pre-superstar album Bleach, in particular, will appreciate Vibrant Troubadours’ unfussy and direct approach, but the Corcorans also share a similar attention to the craft of songVibrant Troubadours writing, something that set PHOTO : provided Nirvana apart from its peers and likewise makes Cool Grass so much more than “Hard to Beat”), Eyenine, CJ the Cynic and just a riff-a-thon. Travis Touchdown of Raised x Wolves, Instead of the Punk Rock love that among others. A free album release show informed Cobain’s music, Vibrant Trougoes down this Friday at MOTR Pub, badours often shade their sound with where Cosby will be joined by special a Blues-like feel (though Grass’ primal guests WeirDose and Audley & Ronin, with “Let’s Go” is a great, full-throttle Punk Counterfeit Money Machine also performscreamer), while there are also several ing. Showtime is 10 p.m. Visit juancosby. highlights on the new album that are bandcamp.com for more on the new album simply crafty and melodically sound Rock (and check back with CityBeat in the next & Roll songs. “So It Goes” is a charming, few weeks for a profile of Cosby). buoyant slice of Indie Rock that recalls • One of the best albums to come out of another powerhouse duo (’90s faves Cincinnati in this century is Sunshine in Local H), while “Honey Don’t” is a wina Shot Glass, the watershed LP by local some ballad that sways with an alluring contentment that brings to mind The Roots Rock greats 500 Miles to MemCommodores’ slow-jam hit “Easy.” phis. The album turns 10 this year and in The only knock against Cool Grass honor of the anniversary, the band will is something that also makes it a good, perform songs from it (and probably from in-full listen — the diversity of the tracks. the group’s other great records) at a show Not that it would be better if everything Friday at The Southgate House Revival sounded more alike — as mentioned, (111 E. Sixth St., Newport, Ky., southgatethe variation is entertaining — but you house.com). Showtime is 9 p.m. and tickets sometimes get the feeling while listenare $7 in advance or $10 at the door. Dead ing that the duo is still searching for its Man String Band and GeeGee’s Punk Rock own distinct voice. The album shows that All Stars open. For more on 500 Miles to there is clearly a lot of talent between the Memphis, go to 500mtm.com. Corcoran brothers, and their gifts seemed CONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@citybeat.com destined to evolve into something a little

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There may be no more fascinating character in Hip Hop, or any musical genre, than Derek Smith, better known as Mod Sun. A child of divorce, the Bloomington, Minn. native was well traveled at a young age, between his mother’s frequent moves for work and his father’s relocation to Long Beach, Calif. As a child, Smith was diagnosed as being bipolar, but he resolved to manage his condition without resorting to medication. At 17, Smith was the founding drummer of Minneapolisbased Post Hardcore band Four Letter Lie, staying with the group through five years, three albums and extensive roadwork, including several Warped Tours. At 22, he announced his departure from Four Mod Sun Letter Lie to begin PHOTO : modsunmusic.com a Hip Hop career under the name Mod Sun, an acronym for “Movement On Dreams, Stand Under None.” He released a string of mixtapes in 2009 and the 2010 mini-album that helped define his place in the genre — The Hippy Hop EP — before dipping his toe back into the The Church Post Hardcore world PHOTO : provided as the drummer for the band Scary Kids Scaring Kids on its farewell tour. Inspired by the Jim Carrey film Yes Man, whose main character said “yes” to everything that was asked of him, Smith accepted lead vocalist Tyson Stevens’ offer of drum tech (which led to the actual drummer’s position when Tanner Wayne quit), with the stipulation that he be allowed to open the SKSK shows as Mod Sun. After wrapping up the SKSK tour, Mod Sun pushed out three more mixtapes and a couple of EPs; the latter batch included 2012’s philosophical statement, Happy as Fuck. That year also saw the publication of Mod Sun’s non-fiction book Did I Ever Wake Up?, a chronicle of his enlightened state after a transformative LSD trip that convinced him the key to happiness was simple positivity and dealing with life’s problems in a productive, constructive manner. In 2015, Mod Sun released his debut full-length studio album, Look Up, which

featured guests G-Eazy, Dizzy Wright and Blink-182’s Travis Barker. He followed it up with his sophomore studio album, Movie, released in early January and featuring guests like Rich the Kid, D.R.A.M. and Maty Noyes. Pharrell Williams might sing about being happy, but Mod Sun lives it. His Cincinnati show is part of Fountain Square’s free Indie Vol. 2017 concert series. (Brian Baker)

The Church Friday • Woodward Theater In the realm of bands that never managed to be the arenasized, global-scaled sensations they deserved to be, The Church looms fairly large. Formed in 1980 by bassist/frontman Steve Kilbey and guitarist Peter Koppes, the Australian quartet had Top 25 hits with its debut album, 1981’s Of Skins and Heart, and second single, “The Unguarded Moment,” which launched the band’s massively successful career at home and ultimately resulted in its induction into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 2011. During The Church’s nearly 40-year run, the band has had only four lineup changes, three of those in the drummer’s chair (Tim Powles has been the beatkeeper since 1994) and the latest occurring just four years ago when original second guitarist Marty Willson-Piper moved to Sweden and cut off communications with the band. His defacto resignation led to the hiring of former Powderfinger guitarist Ian Haug, who added a brilliant new facet to the band’s psychedelic Pop/Rock sound on 2014’s compelling Further/Deeper. The Church amassed a global fan base with critical acclaim and substantial album and ticket sales in North America and Europe, especially on early works like The Blurred Crusade, Seance and Heyday, but poor sales of the latter lost the band its EMI contract. After signing with Arista, the group recorded in Los Angeles and the alienation and discomfort caused by the living and studio accommodations translated into The Church’s first worldwide smash with 1988’s Starfish and its defining single, “Under the

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Milky Way.” The song was Australia’s Single of the Year for 1989 and wound up causing a resurgence in the group’s career when it was included in the soundtrack of cult classic Donnie Darko 12 years later. Although The Church has teetered on the brink several times during its tenure, the band has remained a consistent musical presence over the past four decades with an astonishing recorded output, including 24 full-length studio albums (counting outtake and acoustic remake collections), various hits compilations and one lone live album, 2014’s A Psychedelic Symphony, a recording of a 2011 show at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra. Throw in 14 solo albums from Kilbey, seven from Koppes and one from Powles (who’s working on a second) and The Church may well be among the most prolific bands of Australian musicians in history. (BB)

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The Mountain Goats’ The Mountain Goats newest album, Goths, PHOTO : Jeremy L ange does not set out to sound like something ravers would expect to hear at an underground club where everyone is dressed like they’re in The Matrix. Goths comes from a very intelligent songwriter who went through an influential Goth phase during adolescence but never fully committed. John Darnielle is that very intelligent songwriter. He has an ability to polarize grim subject matter with often-upbeat instrumentation courtesy of The Mountain Goats. His talent as a lyricist is a result of his keen attention to detail in crafting complex literary narratives inside danceable Indie Rock songs. By including simple set pieces to describe the scenes in which his characters interact, so many unspoken details can be appreciated as a result. “Nobody wants to hear the 12-bar Blues from a guy in platform shoes,” he sings in “Rage of Travers,” a song detailing an outsider’s perspective of Goth culture, someone who is confused as to why their old Blues Rock act isn’t as popular as the new people “dressed like corpses.” All of this is accomplished over a simple Reggaestyle bass and drum rhythm, accompanied by Darnielle’s Fender Rhodes electric piano and a soft, almost-too-smooth-to-becomfortable Jazz saxophone. “Andrew Eldritch is Moving Back To Leeds” is a song that details the mundane

transition made by Goth legend Andrew Eldritch, frontman of The Sisters of Mercy, upon his return home at the end of the band’s recording career. “Stench Of The Unburied” introduces classic synth tones that evoke a yearning for ’80s Goth simplicity, like staring at a black wall with rose-tinted glasses. “Wear Black” is anthemic and could possibly be the best introductory song for new fans. Most of The Mountain Goats’ song lyrics are so dense with articulate storytelling that not many are sing-alongs. “Wear Black” is, though, and Darnielle refuses to oversimplify what being “Goth” entails or how that lifestyle came to be embraced. From a literary perspective, the lyrics in Goths read like a Raymond Carver anthology. There are brief glimpses into fully imagined worlds where characters — including the likes of The Cure’s Robert Smith and Siouxsie Sioux — behave according to their briefly exposed lives. As writer and performer John Hodgman, a good friend of Darnielle’s, once said on his podcast Judge John Hodgman, “Specificity is the soul of narrative.” (Sean M. Peters)

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LIVE! AT THE LUDLOW GARAGE David Cook. 8 p.m. Pop. $25-$50. THE MOCKBEE - Off Black, Resonator and The Vims. 9 p.m. Rock. Free. MOTR PUB - Bi with Misnomer. 10 p.m. Rock. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H Wildspeaker with Ehticist and Perfidious Order. 9 p.m. Doom/

Punk. $5.

PIT TO PLATE - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. SILVERTON CAFE - Root Cellar Xtract. 8:30 p.m. Country Rock. Free.

THURSDAY 29 ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Dottie Warner and Wayne Shannon. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - 90 Proof Twang. 10 p.m. Country. Cover. LIVE! AT THE LUDLOW GARAGE - The Stranger: A Tribute to Billy Joel. 8 p.m. Billy Joel music. $25-$50. LUDLOW BROMLEY YACHT CLUB Trailer Park Floosies. 9 p.m. Dance/Pop/Rock/Rap/Country/ Various. Cover. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Mr. Man & the Mojo Band. 9 p.m. Blues. $4. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES Just Two Howlers. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Open Mic with Russ Childers. 7 p.m. Various. Free.

MOTR PUB - Juan Cosby H (album release show) with Counterfeit Money Machine.

RIVERSEDGE - Magic Lightnin’ H Boys with 500 Miles to Memphis. 6:30 p.m. Rock/Blues/ Roots. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (SANCTUARY) - Marshall Crenshaw y Los Straitjackets with

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H Nothington with Makewar, Joe McMahon and The ZGs. 10 p.m.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

Black/Hardcore.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - The H Midwestern Swing. 9 p.m. Western Swing/Roots/Jazz. Free.

URBAN ARTIFACT - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10.

psychodots. 8 p.m. Rock/Various. $22, $30 day of show. STANLEY’S PUB - Jeremiah Tall. 9 p.m. Folk/Rock.

10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

MT. CARMEL BREWERY - John Ford. 7 p.m. Roots/Blues. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN H Common Center, The Perfect Children and The Be Colony. 10 p.m. Roots/Rock/Garage/ Soul/Alt/Various. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Cross Country and Commercial. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. PIRATES COVE BAR & GRILLE Basic Truth. 8 p.m. Funk/R&B/ Soul. Free.

TAFT’S ALE HOUSE - John Ford. 8 p.m. Roots/Blues. Free.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Root H Cellar Xtract. 7:30 p.m. Country Rock. Free.

URBAN ARTIFACT - Porky’s Groove Machine with Ample Parking. 9 p.m. Funk/Jam. $5.

THE REDMOOR - Lakeisa Ealy. 8 p.m. Soul/Spoken Word/ Various. $10-$15.

WASHINGTON PARK H Bandstand Bluegrass with Krystal Peterson & The Queen

RICK’S TAVERN - My Girl Friday with Hot Zombie. 10 p.m. Rock/ Pop. $5.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Dan Conn & the Travelin’ Kind with The Matildas. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Roots. Free.

City Band. 7 p.m. R&B/Soul/ Various. Free.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - The Grey Dogs. 9 p.m. Blues. Free. BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Whiskey Bent. 9 p.m. Country. Free. THE COMET - Sad Baxter, Marr, The By Gods and Fourth Wife. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/Pop/Various. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Misunderstood, Evil Engine, Useless Fox and Hot Diggity Daffodil. 9 p.m. Punk Rock. $5. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (SANCTUARY) - 500 Miles to Memphis (10-Year Anniversary

FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Indie H Vol. 2017 with Mod Sun, Trademark Aaron and Raised x Wolves. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

Celebration of ‘Sunshine in a Shot Glass’) with GeeGee’s Punk Rock All Stars and Dead Man String Band. 9 p.m. Roots/Rock. $7, $10 day of show.

COMMON ROOTS - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

THE GREENWICH - Sonny Moorman Group. 8 p.m. Blues. Cover.

STANLEY’S PUB - Circus Siren Orchestra. 9 p.m. Jam/Rock. Cover.

FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Salsa on the Square with Afincao. 7 p.m. Latin/ Salsa/Dance. Free.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD The Company. 9 p.m. Dance/Pop/ Various. $5.

THOMPSON HOUSE - Brian Goins. 8 p.m. Acoustic. $10.

THE GREENWICH - Blvck Seeds with Lauren Eylise, Aziza Love, Siri Imani and more.

JAPP’S - Burning Caravan. 5:30 p.m. Gypsy Jazz. Free.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Todd Hepburn and Friends. 6 p.m. Various. Free.

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LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO Kelly/Simon/Gore Organ Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

MOTR PUB - RG Lowe. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

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KNOTTY PINE - Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Chalk Eye with Jaime Wyatt and Alex Culbreth. 8 p.m. Roots/Country/Various. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Moonshine & Wine with Warrick & Lowell and Stephen J. Williams. 8 p.m. Americana/Various. Free.

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8 p.m. Alternative/Spoken Word/ Various. $5-$10.

THE COMET - Jesus Vio, Sungaze and Halvsies. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.

URBAN ARTIFACT - One H Day Steady, A Boy Named John, John Bobinger, Bubble Tea

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Kitty and Brother Airborne. 7 p.m. Rock/Various. $5.

RICK’S TAVERN - Deuces Wild. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Country. Cover.

WASHINGTON PARK - Friday Flow with Howard Hewett. 7 p.m. R&B. Free.

RIVERSIDE MARINA BAR & GRILL - Trailer Park Floosies. 9:30 p.m. Dance/Rock/Pop/ Country/Various. Free.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Mandy Gaines Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum). WOODWARD THEATER - The H Church. 9 p.m. AltRock. $20, $22 day of show.

SATURDAY 01 ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Cincinnati Dancing Pigs. 9 p.m. Jug band/Old-Time. Free. BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Twistlock. 9 p.m. Rock. Free. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE The Kelsey Mira Band. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. CINCINNATIAN HOTEL - Philip Paul Trio. 7 p.m. Jazz. Free. THE COMET - Bi, Pop Empire, Fortune Teller and Uh. 10 p.m. Rock/Various. Free. FOUNTAIN SQUARE - FSQ Live with 2nd Wind. 7 p.m. Pop/Rock/ R&B/Dance/Various. Free. THE GREENWICH - Radio Black. 9 p.m. Soul. $10. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Sly Band. 9 p.m. Pop/Dance/ Various. $5. JAPP’S - Ricky Nye Inc. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Southern Savior. 9 p.m. Rock/ Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Final Order. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. THE MOCKBEE - Juel Anthony and guests. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free. MOTR PUB - Vibrant H Troubadours (album release show) with When Particles Collide and The Whiskey Shambles. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Fresh Funk! 10 p.m. Funk/Soul. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H The Dead Rabbitts and I Set My Friends on Fire with Set

To Stun, Northern Ghost and Two Seconds Too Late. 8 p.m. Hardcore. $10, $12 day of show. PLAIN FOLK CAFE - BearFoot Pickers. 7:30 p.m. Jamgrass. Free.

PNC PAVILION AT H RIVERBEND - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with The Mountain Goats. 7:30 p.m. Roots/Rock/ Various. $43-$57.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - KISS Off II featuring Smoke Healer, 4 Aces, Blood on the Blade, 95 Nasty, Red Beast, Boozelords, Charkas, Lovecrush 88, Dead Man String Band, Saving Stimpy and more. 8 p.m. KISS tribute. $10.

STANLEY’S PUB - Willow Tree Carolers. 9 p.m. Americana. Cover. URBAN ARTIFACT - Vibe & Direct, Love Alive and Soul Butter. 9 p.m. Jam/Various. $10. WASHINGTON PARK - Fourth of July Jam with Subterranean, Love Alive, Misnomer, Jones for Revival and more. 3 p.m. Rock/ Funk/Jam/Various. Free.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Mike Wade. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).

SUNDAY 02 BREWRIVER GASTROPUB Todd Hepburn. 11 a.m. Blues/ Various. Free. THE COMET - The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. THE GREENWICH - Baron Von Ohlen & the Flying Circus Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. $5 (or two canned goods). MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Blues Jam with Sonny Moorman. 6 p.m. Blues. Free. MOTR PUB - Ricky Nye and Chris Douglas. 8 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. PNC PAVILION AT H RIVERBEND - Megadeth with Meshuggah, TesseracT and Lillake. 6 p.m. Metal. $29.50-$75.

SONNY’S ALL BLUES LOUNGE - Blues jam session featuring Sonny’s All Blues Band. 8 p.m. Blues. Free. STANLEY’S PUB - Stanley’s Open Jam. 10 p.m. Various. Free. WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT New Orleans Jazz Brunch with 2nd Line Trio. 11 a.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

MONDAY 03 FOUNTAIN SQUARE Independence Day Celebration with STP2: A Tribute to Stone Temple Pilots and Josh McIntosh and Company. 6 p.m. Rock. Free.

Tweens, Stef Chura, Kate Wakefield, Swim Team, Flesh Mother, Bulletville, John Bender, Brianna Kelly and more. 4 p.m. Indie/Rock/Various. Free.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Acoustic Jam with John Redell and Friends. 8 p.m. Acoustic/Various. Free. MEMORIAL HALL - New Sounds of the Jazz Trio featuring Animal Mother and On a Limb. 7 p.m. Jazz. $6. THE MOCKBEE - OH Jam! presents OFF tha BLOCK Mondays Open mic with Stallitix, Goodword, DJ Noah I Mean, NonPlus, Chestah T, Gift of Gabi and Knifer. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free. MOTR PUB - Post Animal. 9 p.m. Rock. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Northside Jazz Ensemble. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free. STANLEY’S PUB - Stanley’s Live Jazz Band. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free. URBAN ARTIFACT - Deerhoof H with Us, Today and smut. 8 p.m. Rock/Indie/Pop/Various. $20, $25 day of show.

TUESDAY 04 ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL John Redell. 7 p.m. Blues. Free. CELEBERTIES - Money Bagg Yo. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $40-$75. JACOB HOFFNER PARK H Northside Rock N’ Roll Carnival featuring Lung, The Yugos, mr. phylzzz Leggy, The Ophelias, Deadly Vipers, Mardou, Eugenius and Joseph. 3 p.m. Indie/Rock/ Various. Free.

THE MOCKBEE - Ben Frank, HXXS, Rae Soleil the Sun Goddess, Candy Ambulance and Freedom Nicole Moore. 9 p.m. Various. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN - The Stealth Pastille. 10 p.m. Psych Pop. Free. RAKE’S END - Hallucination Realized, Witch Eater, Lx420 and Perfidious Order. 9 p.m. Grind/ Death/Hardcore/Various. RIVERSEDGE - Noah H Wotherspoon with Outta’ Here. 6:30 p.m. Rock/Blues. Free. STANLEY’S PUB - Trashgrass H Tuesday featuring David Gans and members of Rumpke Mt. Boys. 9 p.m. Bluegrass/Jam. Cover.

URBAN ARTIFACT - Lemon H Sky, Go Go Buffalo, Dead Man String Band, Talk Mouth, Fycus and more. 4 p.m. Rock/ Various. Free.

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