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WEDNESDAY JULY 12
The American Dream has been crushed by fancy restaurants. Folks without a college education who don’t know their Italian meats have been shunned by society. In a New York Times editorial dramatically titled “How We Are Ruining America,” columnist David Brooks points out the societal divides between the college-educated upper middle class and the lower middle class that often don’t have a higher education. As the rich get richer, the less fortunate are being more excluded from valuable opportunities and cultural experiences. OK, you had us so far, Brooks, but you lost us when you started patronizing your uneducated friend for not knowing the ingredients on an Italian restaurant menu. “Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop,” Brooks recounts, explaining how the sandwich names on the menu apparently freaked his friend out. Thankfully, he was able to rescue her by suggesting a Mexican restaurant instead, because somehow queso and guac are more accessible than cured pork to simple folk. The real question isn’t whether restaurants or society at large exclude the less educated, but rather: Can we find a way to blame this on millennials?
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Sometimes a type font can be a dealbreaker. Apply for a design position with Papyrus on your resume, and you may miss out on a new job. Send a friendly email in Chiller, and it could be interpreted as a menacing message. This week we learned: Never use Calibri. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is currently facing legal troubles stemming from the 2016 release of the Panama Papers. An investigation into his family’s wealth revealed a 2006 property deed typed in Calibri. The issue here has nothing to do with design aesthetics — this Microsoft font did not debut until 2007, leading some to believe the documents were forged and backdated. Understandably, the prime minister and his family are facing major scrutiny. And we thought using Comic Sans was a crime!
FRIDAY JULY 14
In the early hours of the morning, Beyoncé finally shared a photo of her newborn twins, confirming that the holy ones were born one month ago and their names are
Sir and Rumi. Praise be! This had all been reported last month but we never mentioned it because none of it was confirmed by Beyoncé, JAY-Z their reps or even Blue Ivy. All reports were based on super credible facts like a paparazzi shot of someone showing up to an L.A. hospital with boy and girl balloons and a card addressed to “B & J” and a report that the couple filed legal docs to secure rights to the names Rumi Carter and Sir Carter. So yeah, you could say we’re the most reliable source for verified news! The on-brand photo shows Queen Bey holding the tiny babes, complete with a blue veil, silk skivvies and a floral arch. Clearly Beyoncé’s 2017 vibe is Michael’s-fakeflower-section realness and we’re feeling it! Congrats to the entire Carter family, and condolences big sis Blue, who you know is already over this mess and ready to drop some bars about it for her dad’s next album. Track title suggestion: The Big Sis Blues?
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Apparently Disney has its own comic con? The D23 Expo, an Official Disney Fan Club biennial event, descended onto Anaheim, Calif. this week. Fans got a sneak peek at upcoming Disney flicks like the live-action remakes of The Lion King, Dumbo and Aladdin — the last of which featured a cast announcement. Newcomer Mena Massoud and Power Rangers’ pink ranger Naomi Scott will star as Aladdin and Princess Jasmine, respectively, with Will Smith portraying the Genie. The casting follows reports that the studio couldn’t find a good fit, even after considering talented actors like Riz Ahmed and Dev Patel — and people worried they’d whitewash the film. For context, Scott Weinger voiced the title role in the 1992 animated original. That’s right, Steve from Full House, the textbook definition of a Caucasian man, played Aladdin.
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“Party game for horrible people” Cards Against Humanity released a new collection this week: Cards Against Humanity for Her. It includes the exact same cards as its original pack, only it’s in a pink box and costs five bucks more. Et tu, CAH? First it’s razor and pens, now this? Hold up: You know with these trolls (they sell a card game for $25 and everyone keeps buying it!) it’s not that simple. Proceeds from the game benefit EMILY’s list, an organization that works to get pro-choice Democratic women elected to office. So technically, it really is “for her.” The announcement is hilarious, clearly satirizing products that shamelessly market to women. And since they already offer CAH expansion packs like the Weed Pack, the Jew Pack and the Your Shitty Joke pack (literally blank cards for you to fill out), now there’s the Period Pack that contains “30 brand new cards written while we were all on our periods.”
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Speaking of periods (sorry), BBC shocked the nerd world by announcing Doctor Who’s 13th Doctor: Jodie Whittaker, a real, live woman! For those out of the Who loop, The Doctor is a time-traveling alien who regenerates into different looks, which is why there have been 12 different actors to fill the role since 1963. Many applauded the casting of a woman, saying it’s a great role for girls to look up to, but of course there was some PCfearing pushback a la Ghostbusters. Cue the meninist violins and take a look at #NotMyDoctor if you want to hate humanity!
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This week: spider webs! RESEARCH BY JEFF BEYER
What are spider webs made of?
Spider webs are made of stuff that is processed by the digestive system of the spider. Spiders eat a lot of things. Scientists are still researching the arachnid diet, but the work is not easy. Spiders can be picky eaters, but even stingier when the bill comes. This frustrates scientists who often must write grants in order to secure a paycheck. Luckily, spiders don’t like movies, either!
Do all spiders produce the same type of web?
No, but most are very similar. Spiders do have the biggest brains amongst arthropods. Most of the time, however, a spider will copy off of another spider in order to get its web done more quickly. The spider will then claim that it is working on its novel or thinking about new ideas for clean energy production, but most of the time it is just thinking about what it wants to eat for dinner or what flavor Bud Light-rita is the best. Spiders pretend to be creative, but this is mostly a front to impress people that don’t know them very well.
Spiders have oily coatings on their bodies. These are usually just common types of oils, but spiders with more expensive tastes might use Sunday Riley or Josie Maran. Some say there is no difference between the economy brands and the premium brands, but this is a question only time can answer.
Yes. Spiders spend a lot of energy spinning their webs in order to catch food and have a place to lounge around thinking about trivial things. When you walk through a spider web, you are not only causing a lot more work, and therefore upsetting the spider, but also the web can stick to your hair, mimicking gray or unkempt follicles. Many people are afraid of aging or losing their looks, so this can cause quite a shock if they catch their reflection in a window or mirror. And let’s not forget that some employers think that older workers are slower to learn and expect higher salaries than freshhaired young people who are willing to work for less. Age discrimination is no joke.
This week in questionable decisions: While a committee is pushing for The Rock to run for president, Kid Rock is actually running for Senate — and apparently people are taking “Rock the Vote” literally; PETA made a photographer go broke by suing him over the rights on a monkey selfie; President Trump told French First Lady Brigitte Macron that’s she’s “in such good shape”; and a former NASA engineer used his expertise to build the world’s largest Super Soaker. JK, that’s not a questionable use of engineering — it’s awesome. CONTACT T.C. BRITTON: letters@ citybeat.com
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ifteen years after Hamilton County voters rejected the ambitious MetroMoves transit plan by a 2-to-1 count, another regional plan is brewing. Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune wants one transit authority to rule them all — a system that spans three states, eight counties and more than 200 local governments. But big roadblocks stand in the way, including a tangled knot of seven existing transit authorities, various funding sources and state, county and municipal governments. “We need to have one operating transit authority or commission, so that if I live in Warren County and I want to get to the airport, I can buy a ticket and get there directly without having to stop,” county commission president Portune, a Democrat, says. Greater Cincinnati’s transportation woes have been well documented. According to a 2015 report by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the Greater Cincinnati metro area ranks last among its peer cities in the share of jobs in neighborhoods accessible by transit. The area’s two largest transit agencies — Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) and Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky (TANK) — face serious budget crises and declining ridership. SORTA’s struggles have received the brunt of the media’s attention, but TANK has also had to cut several routes recently. Next year’s proposed sales tax levy in Hamilton County would stabilize SORTA and possibly improve transit service. But Portune has asked the transit authority to hold off on passing the hat among taxpayers, worrying that a tax hike will jeopardize funding for his future regional authority. He wants the beleaguered agency to wait until at least 2020, by which time it will have accrued more than $44 million in operating and capital budget deficits. This isn’t Portune’s first call-to-action on regional transit. In 2008, he helped rewrite the original 1968 charter, charging SORTA to expand and enhance its network. Critics say SORTA didn’t make much progress over the next several years — inaction that makes Portune wary of next year’s levy, even as a stop-gap measure for his regional system. SORTA Board Chair Jason Dunn understands these frustrations, but also notes that high turnover on the SORTA board coupled with a severe drop in annual ridership crippled the agency’s ability to plan longterm. “If we wait three years, there will not be a system to build upon to support a regional
SORTA, which runs Metro, is struggling financially, as are other transit agencies in the region. system,” Dunn says. “We’re focused on sewing up the core. Once we are shored up, then I think we can move forward to a regional system.” Some local transit advocates side with SORTA, saying the time is now to make transit options better in Greater Cincinnati. “It sounds great on paper, something that if the plan was ready today, I wouldn’t oppose it,” says Cam Hardy, president of a Cincinnati-based public transit group called the Better Bus Coalition. “But this man has been in office for almost my entire lifetime, and I don’t want to continue to harm bus riders while we wait for (Portune’s) plan to come into fruition.” If Portune’s mad gamble pays off, Greater Cincinnati could possess a 21stcentury transportation network rivaling the nation’s best. But the risks are high. The hypothetical body would govern public transportation in Hamilton County and its seven neighboring counties, absorbing SORTA, TANK, the Butler County Regional Transit Authority (BCRTA) and several on-demand, dial-a-ride bus services. Based on current ridership data, the regional transit authority could expect around 20 million annual riders. That estimate relies on the existing networks, which Portune wants to expand.
Commuter rail, light rail or bus rapid transit (BRT) would connect the major population centers — Cincinnati, Hamilton, Covington, etc. — while buses would move people around within those cities. Metro, SORTA’s bus system, relies on an outdated 0.3 percent earnings tax within the city of Cincinnati, even though jobs and riders have fled to outer-ring suburbs like Blue Ash. While poor transit access has hurt the local economy, it has also made public transportation more salient politically. John Schneider, who was the campaign manager for MetroMoves, believes the region is finally ready to expand the system via new options. “I can’t tell you how many people have told me since 2002 that they didn’t vote for MetroMoves, but if light rail ever came up on the ballot again, they’d be really interested,” Schneider says. Leaders in other counties are also increasingly interested in expanding transit options. Some, like Dearborn County Commissioner Kevin Lynch, think communities need reliable public transportation to attract young professionals. Others see it as an economic growth engine.
In Butler County, BCRTA annual ridership has skyrocketed from 10,000 to 579,700 over the last 10 years. “We have to look at a bigger vision of how we’re going to support economic development in this region,” says Dan Bates, Hamilton Chamber of Commerce CEO. “I think public transportation is a major piece of that.” While a regional transit system will need grassroots support, consolidating the region’s seven existing transit authorities will not be easy. Add three states’ respective policies and politicians to the mix, and the task becomes herculean. The Port Authority of New York, which runs trains across the Hudson River into New Jersey, was only possible through an act of Congress, and it only spans two states. “All of the systems in this region, they all have different cost structures, different overhead considerations, different labor agreements,” says Andrew Aiello, TANK’s general director. “Until you put all that on the table and figure out how you would approach those questions, it would be hard to tell if there’s significant efficiencies to be gained.” CONTINUES ON PAGE 11
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No Third Trial for Former UCPD Officer Tensing Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters announced July 18 that his office would not seek a third trial for former University of Cincinnati Police officer Ray Tensing in the shooting death of black unarmed motorist Sam DuBose. Tensing, who is white, says he feared for his life and was dragged by DuBose’s car during that stop. Footage from his body camera does not appear to show he was dragged, but two juries could not reach a verdict in the case. One jury deadlocked on the murder and manslaughter charges prosecutors indicted Tensing on in November last year, another this June. “After vigorously prosecuting Ray Tensing twice, speaking to some of the jurors and consulting with my assistant prosecutors, I do not believe there is a likelihood of success at trial,” Deters said in a statement about the decision. “I don’t like it,” Deters said during a news conference announcing his decision, “but two juries haven’t been swayed.” CityBeat was not permitted into that news conference, though a reporter watched outside via a live feed. DuBose’s family said they are devastated by the decision. “We’ve got to stand up and say ‘enough is enough,’ ” Audrey DuBose, Sam DuBose’s mother, said immediately after the announcement. “Our people are not just going to die by the hands of cops or anyone else. Our system doesn’t give a black man a chance.” Racial justice activists also expressed anger about the announcement. “What does this say to us? What does this say to our children?” activist Iris Roley asked immediately after the decision was announced. Roley was instrumental in Cincinnati’s 2003 Collaborative Agreement, which came after the April 2001 shooting of unarmed 19-year-old Timothy Thomas. Cincinnati NAACP Vice President Joe Mallory decried the decision and laid heavy blame on Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Leslie Ghiz, who ruled that certain evidence — a T-shirt Tensing was wearing under his uniform that featured a Confederate flag and statistics showing Tensing pulled over a much higher percentage of black drivers than other UCPD officers — would not be admitted into the second trial. An hour after Deters’ news conference, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Glassman announced that the Southern District of Ohio U.S. Attorney’s office will investigate DuBose’s shooting for possible federal civil rights violations. (Nick Swartsell)
Deters Used Forfeiture Funds to Pay for Friend’s Tech Consulting Services Two thirds of the $2.1 million paid by the Hamilton County prosecutor’s office to a former employee’s technology companies for no-bid consulting work came from the prosecutor’s criminal forfeiture fund. The companies are owned by Dennis Lima, who worked full time for prosecutor Joe Deters during Deters’ first stretch in office from 1992 to 1999. His work as an information technology consultant to the office began in 2005 after Deters began his second stint as prosecutor. Lima has had an unbroken run of one-year contracts ever since. CityBeat reported last month that those contracts were never put up for bid. State law exempts public agencies from seeking competitive bids when hiring consultants and other professionals, such as lawyers and engineers. But Lima was more than just a consultant. He replaced and installed entire IT systems, software and databases. Hamilton County offices such as the Board of County Commissioners, the auditor and the sheriff routinely seek bids for such work. The prosecutor’s office had given CityBeat copies of the Lima contracts, worth $2.2 million in all, but would not explain why only $694,129 was paid to Lima, his LimaCorp and his OnLine Business Solutions by the county’s Purchasing Division. Following another public records request, Deters’ office last week supplied the documents that explained the disparity. Those documents — itemized listings of checks — showed $1.39 million going from the office’s Law Enforcement Trust Fund to the Lima companies. State law allows for the seizure — or forfeiture — and sale of vehicles, computers and other assets used in committing crimes. Part of the resulting cash goes to county prosecutors. For the most part, the money is supposed to go to law enforcement purposes. A portion of it must go toward “community preventive education programs.” But computer consulting? While Lima helped build an evidence tracking system and a sexual offenders database, much of his work went toward employee benefits systems, website improvement and tracking civil cases. Still, Ohio law says forfeiture money can be spent on “other law enforcement purposes” that the prosecutor “determines to be appropriate.” The brunt of the work done by the Lima companies for the prosecutor’s office took place before 2010, when Lima filed personal bankruptcy. Since then, his OnLine Business Solutions has received contracts valued at $95,000 per year for maintenance, software updates, system integration and “minimal new development,” all on an “as directed” basis. (James McNair)
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make something like this happen without defeating it before it ever begins.” The longtime politician at least has a friendly political climate. Newly elected Denise Driehaus gives Democrats control over Hamilton County, and the region’s business community is united on the need for reliable public transportation. Portune’s best shot might be to first combine SORTA and TANK and link the region’s largest urban centers. Transfers between the two systems are already free, and some routes overlap downtown. That’s something Portune says he’s open to as a starting point. Whatever plan emerges, it seems likely Portune will be the one pushing it. Only counties can create transit authorities, and he is the only commissioner advocating comprehensive reform. “This is our steamboat moment,” Portune says, referring to Cincinnati’s infamous rejection of railroads in favor of river travel. “At the time, Cincinnati was the sixth, seventh-largest city in the country. Now we’re the 65th-largest city in the counAd Media Type Trim / Flat width x height try. It’s not about size or population, but this definitely is about growth and quality City Beat Pub / Vendor Live Area width x height of life and having an economic future for Finish / Fold future generations, and it all comes backwidth to x height Qty x depth transportation.” © CMYK Bleed Overall Color
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If municipal, county and state barriers do not stop Portune’s grand proposal, state funding mechanisms, or lack thereof, could. Ohio and Kentucky rank near the bottom in transit spending per capita, and the latter prohibits local-level sales tax increases. TANK has to ask its counties for money — rather than drawing from an independent, regional funding source — which hinders longterm planning and big capital projects like a downtown-toairport rail line. Further, commuters with little transit experience are less likely to adopt it later in life, and the plan’s rural counties — Clermont, Warren and Dearborn — lack robust transit networks. Clermont County Commissioner Ed Humphrey says his support will depend on the funding mechanism. Rural voters might not be the only skeptics. A 2015 University of Cincinnati Economics Center study revealed that only 3.7 percent of Hamilton County commutes via Metro. And according to a poll recently released by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, only a narrow majority of the BPC Client county supports a 0.5 percent sales tax. These barriers don’t discourage Portune. 89834 Job # “This is where we need to go as a region,” he says. “We can all Crusin’ naysay and critique Title out of the gate, or we can work on trying to Version
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It’s 9 a.m. on a drizzling, sizzling Friday as we pull up to the East Sixth Street curb outside Sotto downtown. The streets are eerily quiet for a workday, a fact that sets something of a Will-Smith-in-I-Am-Legend-type vibe. Or maybe that’s just the spooky mood we’re looking for. After all, we’re on the hunt for that singular feeling you get when, despite the warm breeze and tranquil view from behind drugstore shades, a strange and sudden awareness that something is super off blows a chill through your bones. We’re on a creepy summer field trip. Our tour guides for this first leg, Sara Bedinghaus and Anthony Palazzolo, are sipping lattes and peering from beneath dripping umbrellas. As 3CDC employees, they hold the keys to much of the city’s urban stock — both its celebrated development projects and the lonelier, hidden spaces that are yet to be loved. It’s the latter we’re after today. Following their lead, we duck down the aptly named Time Street, an unassuming alleyway populated by delivery carts, trash bins and restaurant workers having a morning smoke. Unexpectedly, this weird shortcut dips between downtown buildings, takes a turn and empties abruptly upon another hulking structure — a building as substantial as its street-facing brethren, but squirreled away within the shadows, stealthily hidden from pedestrian view. “As far as we know, it’s only ever been a power station, and most people just call it The Gano,” Bedinghaus tells us as we slip through a side door. “The real entrance is actually here. You have to watch your head.” She’s pointing to a (small) person-sized hole near the ground. We eyeball it skeptically, but shimmy through nonetheless, avoiding the jagged concrete and broken bricks that grasp for our hair and claw at our windbreakers.
Once inside, the space opens up in spectacular fashion. True to description, it was clearly built for industry; it’s basically one cavernous room with expansive steel-frame windows and enormous I-beams — the type designed for passing heavy machinery from station to station. The building shows up on a 1904 insurance survey, but there’s no record of when or by whom it was actually built. And, sadly for our purposes, no record of horrific human tragedies either. Bummer. Today, it’s listed among 3CDC’s for-sale properties. “We’ve had some interest,” Bedinghaus says. “One guy talked about turning it into a private residence. Another person wanted to make it an event space or a club. He said something about having a DJ swing around the ceiling on those beams.” The notion of a swinging DJ is mildly intriguing, but on the creepy scale, this place barely registers — aside from the fact that nightly visitors to Igby’s patio revel without a clue that a quiet giant looms in the darkness just yards away. Time to move on.
An evil sun has burned off any trace of morning haze by the time we slither back through the rabbit hole and make our way uptown.
We land in front of 1313 Vine St., the current home of Cintrifuse’s Union Hall entrepreneurial hub and coworking space. The adjoining buildings at 1311-1315 are but one example of impressive 3CDC redevelopment, but as creepy goes, the scene is pretty meh. (Unless, of course, you were among the Goth/Punk club-goers who frequented this place when it was The Warehouse in the late 1990s, in which case you may well recall a few harrowing stories.)
Union Hall sub-basement
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That street-facing serenity begins to erode, however, as we descend past the friendly doorman and into the building’s historic sub-basement catacombs, where the temperature immediately plummets. Long before tech entrepreneurs made it their home, Union Hall — the building’s original and current name — served a variety of purposes. As a beer garden, it hosted weddings, prize fights and other events, and it was often a gathering place for nationality groups from all over Europe. The labyrinthine sub-basement yawns beneath ground from Vine Street to Republic, with dirt floors and barrelvaulted stone arches that give it a distinctly subterranean feel as well as a humid, earthen aroma.
Our tour guides point out that prior to recent renovations, the only access to this sub-basement was via a steep ladder teetering dangerously close to an abandoned elevator shaft. No tragedy has befallen anyone here on 3CDC’s watch (that they know of), but like so many visitors to the catacombs, they’ve felt their neck hairs stand at attention down here for seemingly no particular reason and sensed panic gnawing gently at their spines when they’re last in a single-file line. It’s not the sort of place most people would want to spend time alone. The sub-basement will no doubt soon be sold — hopefully to someone with plans that involve wine, prize fighting or both — and the space can continue softly beseeching regular folks to descend to its depths and drink away the paralyzing mortal fear that chuckles cruelly just beneath the surface.
We’re halfway across the Ohio River on the Anderson Ferry — a creepy ride in its own right by virtue of being a boat that carries cars across the river — as the mercury staggers past the 90-degree mark.
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What ’s Up wit h Weilert ’s? Boasting a 40-piece house band — the beginnings of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra — and an open-air biergarten that occupied an entire city block, Wielert’s Cafe and Pavilion was once Cincinnati’s premier social establishment. And that’s saying something in a city that once prompted the famously axe-wielding prohibitionist Carrie Nation to exclaim, “My goodness, child, if I had undertaken to break all the windows of all the saloons on your Vine Street I would have dropped from exhaustion before I had gone a block.” German transplant and Civil War veteran Heinrich Wielert might have been the owner, but his saloon at 1410 Vine St. was presided over by a man named George “Boss” Cox. Born in Cincinnati in 1853, Cox did various stints as a butcher, delivery boy and shoe-shiner before opening a bookmaking operation he ran from his own rowdy saloon in the West End. By the 1880s, he had become the most powerful person in Cincinnati. Cox built a business empire that included dozens of taverns, but he often held court in the beer garden at Wielert’s, meeting with associates like August “Garry” Herrmann, baseball’s first commissioner. It’s even rumored that the idea for the World Series was schemed up over beer and wienerschnitzel at Wielert’s. The saloon closed in 1919 and became Gildehaus Funeral Home, followed by a cab company, church and, most recently, a daycare center. Today, Wielert’s stands vacant, one of Over-the-Rhine’s most visible blighted properties. The Wielert building’s owners, 3CDC, have no immediate plans for its sale or renovation, but that could soon change, with Kroger’s forthcoming development expected to spark renewed interest in the 1400 block of Vine where the grocer’s sole downtown store is currently located. ©
Approaching the Kentucky shore, we start to hear it. Rollercoaster wheels grinding against an unrelenting track. Ringleaders barking out the next sideshow. Banjos and brass bellowing songs of the day. Children shrieking with laughter… or are those screams? In its heyday between 1895 and 1917, the Ludlow Lagoon Amusement Park drew enormous crowds — reportedly up to 70,000 visitors in one weekend — via trolleys leaving Fountain Square every two minutes. Featuring rollercoasters, vaudeville acts and an 80-acre namesake lagoon that contained five separate islands, it was one of the biggest attractions in the nation.
“This place was absolutely crazy,” says Matt “Catfish” Williams. Catfish is a Ludlow city councilperson and owner of Folk School Coffee Parlor. Luckily for us, he’s also well versed in Ludlow’s creepy history. “There were regular folks, sure,” he says. “But there were plenty of bad people who hung out there, too. There were gangsters and mistresses and murders and disappearances. There were gun fights. There were donkeys and horses jumping off the high-dive. It was like Vegas, or more like the Wild West.” That is until a series of disastrous events brought operations to a screeching halt. Two of those disasters were unavoidable: a flood in 1913 and two years later, a tornado. But the motorcycle veering into the stands, knocking over a gas lamp and sparking an inferno that killed nine people and incited full-on panic? Well, folks maybe should have seen that one coming. Even relying on historical photos, it’s hard to picture the park’s magnitude, since only two major structures remain. By 1930, even the lake had been filled in and the land covered over with crisscrossing streets and craftsman-style bungalows. But a large clubhouse still remains, and we aim to explore it today. Navigating thick underbrush full of ankle-biting fauna, we traipse — with permission, it should be noted — beyond the building’s rather ordinary façade, whose spires and gazebos have been removed and covered at some point in generic vinyl siding. But as we round the property’s southwest edge, the building begins to reveal its true face, the one we’ve seen in the postcards of the day, with signature gables and a sprawling “front” porch where a full Dixieland band reportedly played on hot summer nights. Gazing at it from this angle, with the buried lagoon at our backs, we can almost see the throngs of families streaming
Ludlow Lagoon clubhouse
So, sure. It’s fun to joke about Fort Thomas being creepy — with its perfectly manicured lawns, perfectly toned power-walkers and perfectly polished Range Rovers — but isn’t that really just a cover for jealousy and saltiness because their high school teams are better than many professional ones?
Real talk: The Fort has some legitimately upsetting history. In fact, scenic Tower Park might just be the creepiest stop on our list today. The picturesque greenspace is home to historic buildings, meandering
Ludlow incinerator exterior
The Ludlow incinerator is, in a word, dank. It’s desperate and disconcertingly angry. Like someone dropped a pin in a Nirvana song. Here’s the boring backstory the incinerator itself wants to sell you: It was built in 1940-something and used to burn trash (not bodies; don’t be crass) until 1960-something and then they closed it down and now it’s just part of a bike trail where teenagers sometimes get high or whatever and it’s fine.
Ludlow incinerator interior But here’s what our gut instinct, our new friend back the bar and a 1967 Cincinnati Enquirer article tell us: The body of a Covington waitress, discovered one August evening near the incinerator, had been “…strangled with her own stocking knotted around her neck.” Um. Come again? The jury is still out on a link between this very real, actual murder case and a spate of serial murders that took place between Cincinnati and Michigan back in the ’60s. But even removing stocking murders from the equation: The incinerator is indeed creepy as hell. The pervasive odor is legitimately unsettling — mostly because there is no way that decades-old, cremated trash is emitting that smell — but furthermore, one accesses this place via gravel path that meanders into the woods under a 200-foot railroad trestle straight out of Stand By Me. There’s been talk between Ludlow and Covington groups of eventually removing or renovating the incinerator, but as it stands today, Earth is vying with skinheads and stoners for dominance in this place that is full of crumbling, graffitied brick, used condoms, empty beer cans and, honestly, god only knows what else.
trails, volleyball courts, children’s playgrounds and a converted armory that now houses basketball courts. But in 1977 it served as a temporary morgue for more than 100 unidentified victims of the infamous Beverly Hills Supper Club fire. Wait… what? Seriously, that’s a horrible tragedy that totally happened, but we can’t focus on that right now because we have to talk about the fact that there’s no signage to prepare visitors hiking along the park’s northwestern edge for what they are about to encounter. With a feeble last gasp, the dying sun sinks into the river as we crest the ridge and, completely out of nowhere, find ourselves smack-dab in the middle of Alexander Circle, an abandoned Victorian cul-de-sac, where nearly a dozen century-old mansions face one another around the commons, like a gorgeous clique of old friends mingling at a party that time forgot. The residences at Alexander Circle, with their now withering gables and flagging verandas, were built in the 1880s and reserved for ranking officers and their families when Tower Park was an active military post. One day soon, Fort Thomas’s city administrator Ron Dill tells us, a developer will restore these homes to their original beauty. In that process, they’ll undoubtedly unearth a treasure trove of oddities and artifacts that prompt more questions than answers. The transformed structures will sell for half a million or more, and the echoes of voices from a long and complicated past will recede another notch in volume as the circle begins anew. Smirking stars begin dotting the sky as we make our way back to the car. Passing the largest house, the anchor property that would have been reserved for nothing less than a commandant, we glance up in time to see a faint light glimmering in a third story window. Almost on cue, it winks out, and then there is nothing but total darkness. ©
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down the broad front staircase, cotton candy on their lips as they clutch their tickets and jockey for line position. Today, refuse clutters the property. A slumping brown Laz-E-Boy greets visitors in the portico. A four-foot snakeskin has been lazily draped across a once-proud wrought iron fence. Transfixed as we are by this intersection of haunting beauty and vulgar modernity, we’re startled when a voice suddenly barks, “Hey, no more pictures! You have to leave.” It’s the property owner, who has apparently had a change of heart in the five minutes since we last spoke. “You have to get out. I have shit everywhere. Come back another time and I’ll show you whatever you want.” Reluctantly, we retreat, stopping a block or so farther down on Lake Street to scout the amusement park’s only other remaining structure: a pool house. It just looks like a house. The heat is veritably murderous now as we pack up and head for a nearby mom-and-pop saloon to rehash the day’s adventures over ice-cold rum and cokes. A local seated at a neighboring table eavesdrops unstealthily. “Nah, the lagoon isn’t much to see,” she interjects loudly after a moment. “If you want creepy, you have to go to the incinerator just down the road. I heard they’re reopening it as part of a crime scene or cold case or whatever.” We gulp our drinks and head for the door.
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ONSTAGE: SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK brings the Bard to outdoor spaces this summer. See Curtain Call on page 21.
ART: Architects DPMT7 have transformed the Weston Art Gallery into a spatial collage with UN TEATRO DEL NUOVO. See review on page 22. MUSIC: Punk band PRIESTS plays Woodward Theater. See Sound Advice on page 34. EVENT: CINCINNATI BURGER WEEK Cincinnati Burger Week has returned with more than 50 eateries serving up $5 specialty burgers. From Mount Adams Pavilion’s Buffalo Chicken Dip Burger to Oakley Pub & Grill’s succulent Soul Burger, there’s no shortage of culinary concoctions to fulfill every meaty — or vegetarian — craving. Burgers available at each participating restaurant are listed on this year’s official Burger Week passport, including designations showing where vegetarian substitutes are available. Get your passport punched at at least three locations to be entered to win a grill-out party courtesy of the Ohio Beef Council. Through July 23. For a list of participating restaurants, visit cincinnatiburgerweek.com. — EMILY BEGLEY
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ONSTAGE: Cincinnati Opera’s multimedia production of Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE is surreally enchanting. See review on page 23. MUSIC: Post-Modernist composer and bass saxophonist COLIN STETSON plays Woodward Theater. See interview on page 32. MUSIC: The BLACKFOOT GYPSIES play RiversEdge Amphitheater in
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EVENT: PORKOPOLIS PIG & WHISKEY FESTIVAL With a nickname like “Porkopolis,” it’s no stretch to say that Cincinnati knows a thing or two about pork, and we’re celebrating the whole hog with two days of swine-centric eats, happily topped off by whiskey and music. CityBeat’s third-annual all-ages Pig & Whiskey Festival, presented by Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, takes over Summit Park on Friday and Saturday. Pair your barbecue bites from vendors like Eli’s BBQ, Pit to Plate and Sweets & Meats with pours from the likes of New Riff, Northside Distilling Co. and Maker’s Mark, then head to the Whiskey and Bourbon Tent to keep on samplin’. Friday’s local music lineup includes the Willow Tree Carolers, Wonky Tonk and the Jay Jesse Johnson Band, and Saturday features Ma Crow and The Lady Slippers, Royal Holland and the Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 5-10 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday. Free admission; food and drink available for purchase. Summit Park, 4335 Glendale Milford Road, Blue Ash, citybeat.com. — EMILY BEGLEY
Hamilton. See Sound Advice on page 34. MUSIC: STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES play the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 35. COMEDY: MIKE CRONIN “I felt kind of stagnant here,” says comedian and Cincinnati native Mike Cronin. “I saw people at my level moving away and I didn’t feel like I was getting motivated or pushed to do better. I thought a move would help that a lot — and it has.” It’s been two years since he packed his bags for Chicago to pursue stand-up, specifically improv. “Chicago is the home of that,” he says. Ironically, he’s been so successful booking stand-up dates he hasn’t had time to do other types of comedy. He still plans to work toward improv by calling on his experience with the live sketch show Underbelly, which
ran here for a number of years. Showtimes Thursday-Sunday. $8-$14. Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, gobananascomedy.com. — P.F. WILSON
FRIDAY 21
COMEDY: TIG NOTARO Tig Notaro, an Emmy, GLAAD and Grammy-nominated comedian, actor and writer from Mississippi, approaches comedy without fear of discomfort. She doesn’t stray from the honest or the personal; her work discusses everything from her bout with bilateral breast cancer — she’s now in remission — to her sexuality to being mistaken for a man at airport security. Notaro, who also stars in the semi-autobiographical Amazon series One Mississippi and Netflix documentary Tig, delves into the uncomfortable and makes it feel light.
She often teeters on the edges of absurd humor — particularly in her most recent HBO special Boyish Girl Interrupted, where her usual deadpan delivery is served along with a side of unabashed goofiness. And, according to Notaro’s special, “Every single show (she’s) done, (she’s) gotten a standing ovation.” See for yourself. Doors open at 7 p.m. Friday. $37.50. Taft Theatre, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, tafttheatre.org. — MACKENZIE MANLEY ONSTAGE: LES MISÉRABLES Victor Hugo’s epic story of Jean Valjean’s lifelong hunt for redemption — he is unjustly sent to prison, then relentlessly pursued for years by the vindictive Inspector Javert — is being presented this week and next by the Commonwealth Artists CONTINUES ON PAGE 18
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EVENT: NATIONAL VETERANS WHEELCHAIR GAMES Paralyzed and disabled military veterans go for the gold at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games. The largest annual wheelchair sporting event in the nation features more than 600 athletes from across the U.S., Puerto Rico and Great Britain competing in 18 events like swimming, softball, hand cycling and archery. Every year, the Wheelchair Games look a little different because of the community hosting them; this year, there is a subtle “Porkopolis” theme as a nod to Cincinnati’s early history. Find a full list of events and competitions online. Through July 22. Free admission. Main venue is the Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Downtown, wheelchairgames.org. — ELISABETH DODD
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FILM: ASBURY SHORT FILM CONCERTS Are you a movie buff? Want to actually know the short films that are nominated for awards at your next Oscar party? You’re in luck! The New York-based Asbury Shorts film fest is coming to Cincinnati as part of an annual tour screening the most significant shorts of this year and last. Watch these film festival darlings the way they were intended — on the big screen in a room full of people and anticipation. Since 1981, Asbury Shorts has been promoting these filmmakers’ important voices and vision by making the medium more accessible than ever. Enjoy a few laughs, shed a few tears and leave the festival with the satisfaction that you’re more cultured than your friends. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday. $12. The Mockbee, 2260 Central Parkway, West End, cincinnatifilmsociety.org. — ELISABETH DODD
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Summer Theatre. Les Misérables School Edition is the sixth summer musical production by CAST. The annual results have been impressive, using an all-student cast, designer team and backstage crew. It’s a big undertaking with kids from 19 area high schools, but theater instructor Jason Burgess has the formula for success. Through July 30. $12. Highlands High School Performing Arts Center, 2400 Memorial Parkway, Fort Thomas, Ky., castnky.com. — RICK PENDER EVENT: SCHÜTZENFEST As America’s longest-running German festival, Schützenfest celebrates its 151st anniversary this year. In 1866, German immigrants brought this Medieval tradition with them as a way to honor a marksman who saved a child from an eagle attack. Today. marksmen can compete for the yearly crowned title of “Schützenkönig,” or Shooting King, by shooting at a hand-carved wooden eagle. As for the food, Schützenfest will serve up authentic German cuisine like schnitzel, Bavarian goulash, spätzle and more. And, of course, there will be bier. 6 p.m.-midnight Friday; 4 p.m.-midnight, Saturday; 1-9 p.m. Sunday. $3. Kolping Society, 10235 Mill Road, Mount Healthy, schuetzenfestcincy.com. — AMANDA WEISBROD
SATURDAY 22
EVENT: TEQUILA FEST Tequila Fest brings more than 30 different tequilas to Fountain Square — and you can sample 12 of them with admission. Enjoy award-winning, 100-percent agave tequilas — el Jimador, Tres Agaves, Herradura, Jose Cuervo and more — plus a margarita competition and live entertainment. Mazunte will bring a taste of Mexico with its authentic street food, and stop by the taco, salsa and guacamole bars so you won’t be drinking on an empty stomach. Admission includes tequila samples, food and a T-shirt (while supplies last). 7-10 p.m. Saturday. $55. Fountain Square, 520 Vine St., Downtown, tequilafestcincinnati.com. — GRACE HILL
MUSIC: KOOL KEITH This weekend, Cincinnatians will have the opportunity to experience one of the most unique and innovative figures in Hip Hop history in an intimate club setting as Kool Keith comes to the Northside Yacht Club. Long established as one of the singular voices in underground music, Keith began blazing paths with his cohorts in Ultramagnetic MCs in the mid-’80s before torching the entire highway with his solo debut, Dr. Octagonecologyst, which was released under the name Dr. Octagon in 1996. Since then, Keith has remained remarkably
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Wellmann says once you smell it, you should consider what memories it conjures. Smell is one of the most powerful triggers for long-buried memories to resurface. “It’s all about paying attention,” Wellmann says. “And then we take a taste. I always ask people to take one taste first to let your palate get used to it. It will burn a little bit, but that’s just the initiation. Nobody’s going to die. The next taste, I ask them to really pay attention to what they’re tasting. Where do these different things land on your tongue? What does your mouth feel like? Is there a finish? So, really, when somebody is tasting whiskey for the first time, it’s about slowing down. It’s about paying attention.” Wellmann says just like anything else, appreciating whiskey takes practice. She says you’ll start to notice the notes of vanilla and caramel that come from the wood aging process. Then you may notice the grain flavors beneath this — corn or wheat notes. “If there’s a lot of rye in it, there could be a great floral scent,” Wellmann says. “Bananas, cherries, apples, pears, apricot. You get all these different things. There are some whiskies where I get leather, tobacco, earth or grass. Cedar, wood — I have people come up with all these different things when tasting, even a cassette tape when you peel off the plastic and you get that smell. I just find it fascinating.”
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The first thing you need to know about Northside Distilling Company is that only part of it is in Northside, and not the part you visit. Northside is where the products are aged. The main event — the distillation and production facility are inside the bar building downtown on Race Street. Master Distiller Chris Courts gives the tours of the facility. It’s sort of a steampunk Willy Wonka setup featuring bright copper and chrome pots and towers that are the flashpoint of the magic. Once upon a time, it took a biblical miracle to turn water into wine. The mechanized process, although slower, is no less amazing now than it was during the time of Christ. Courts says the process is similar to brewing beer. “A lot of the homebrewers who come in here, the first half of the process is the same thing they do,” Courts says. “They make a grain wash that has all these sugars and they’re fermenting it. They don’t know the distillation process. We always call brewers distillers who quit.” The Northside location is where the business started in an old horse barn. The downtown location pays homage to these roots with a lean-to, rustic wood and curios reminiscent of its humble beginnings. “In a nutshell, we’re making a mash,” Courts says while gesturing to the massive chrome still. “It’s all grain if it’s a whiskey or bourbon. If it’s a moonshine, it’s some
grain and some sugar. What happens is we’re extracting all those sugars so we can convert them to alcohol. After they convert, we distill the alcohol out of it. We put that wash into a still. Alcohol vaporizes quicker. Alcohol vaporizes around 173 degrees. Water is 212. If we keep the temperature in that flux, all the alcohol vapors will start to evaporate before the water.” The process sounds simple, but has a lot of moving parts. Courts enjoys explaining these to visitors and offers them small samples at the end of the tour so they can try the finished product. It’s more refinement than hillbilly engineering, but Courts says you can find both if you look hard enough. There are fun discoveries such as the notyet-distilled corn mix that could, if primed and carbonated, be served as a beer. And there are the various smells of pre-production liquor that give visitors unique insights into the origins of the spirits in their glass. “If people are from Cincinnati, they understand beer,” Courts says. “What’s interesting about distilling is that Cincinnati actually has a larger history of distilled spirits than it does beer. At the turn of the 19th century, Cincinnati was putting out more alcohol than any other place in the world. There’s so much cool history. And it’s another craft. At small distilleries, we have the ability to control all the fine elements of the process. We are so hands on. We touch on every aspect of the process.” ©
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ccording to local mixologist and bartender Molly Wellmann, whiskey and bourbon are about American heritage more than anything else. Though the spirit originated in Europe, it is intricately tied in to American entrepreneurship and puritanical struggles for temperance during the era of Prohibition. Wellmann says learning about the history of whiskey brings a deeper understanding of American history and that sharing this and passing on the joy of experiencing the beverage is something that thrills her. “It starts off with simple ingredients — water, grain, yeast and wood — that’s pretty much it,” Wellmann says. “It’s pretty simple and then Mother Nature takes over from there. It’s clear when it comes off of the still and then it’s put into a barrel and aged and that gives it flavor and color.” She says it’s best to start slowly when you are first experimenting with whiskey. “It’s best not to take it in a shot because all you’re going to get is the ethanol,” Wellmann says. “It’s going to burn, especially if you’re not used to drinking it. Going slow, looking at the color through the glass, give it a smell. I always tell people, if you smell whiskey over 80 proof, especially if it’s way over 80 proof, just stick the glass under your nose, part your lips, and inhale through your mouth. That way, you don’t burn all your nose hairs off trying to smell what’s in this whiskey.”
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CityBeat: It sounds like the life of The World’s Most Interesting Man. How close is that to the reality? Whiskey Pete: (Laughs) Everybody has their good days. I will say working for Brown-Forman has been a blessing. When you have brands like Woodford, Jack Daniels, Old Forrester — when you have these strong brands, it’s very easy to go in and speak to them. But there’s a lot of road time, a lot of lag time. Everybody has their paperwork and their quotas. I will say it’s pretty darn close. It’s a fantastic job. I get paid for my palate.
CB: How much drink literacy or lack thereof do you find among patrons and bar staff? What do you teach them?
WP: Everybody is much more educated about drinking than they used to be. Both the consumers and some of the bartenders. I’ll go and I’ll find these bars out in the middle of nowhere that have these great culinary and drink programs. And then you’ll find a bar in an urban area that has been getting by with the same old drink list. The consumers are a lot more savvy. I tell people that the United States as a whole was really the cocky teenager of the world scene, with all the money and the power for so long. It’s only been recently that we’ve gotten into the small things in life — the food and the drink. People are becoming much more learned in their consumption. They are drinking and eating seasonally, regionally. The big thing for me is to know what the people want (to learn). That changes from bar to bar. You can’t do some crazy, high-end, molecular mixology for Joe’s bar down on the corner. But you can do your classic cocktails and train their staff on using fresh juices, on using a jigger.
CB: Are cocktails more art or science? WP: Recently, I heard someone say, “That’s a good person. I like to pour them a little extra.” But that should never be the case. Mixology is like baking. It’s a precise art. You want your measure-
ments exact. Those recipes are there for a reason. Just getting everyone on the same page and making sure everyone understands the math behind it.
CB: What are common misperceptions you find among bar staffs? WP: Underpouring or overpouring. A well-made drink is a balanced drink and that’s a combination of sweet, spicy and bitter. If you do that as a bartender, you’re going to create a person who wants two or three and, thanks to our friends at Uber, maybe four. When you overpour, people are getting intoxicated. BrownForman, one of the things we believe in is responsible consumption. To the same point, if you’re pouring weak drinks, then you have a consumer who is not getting a consistent product.
CB: What questions do you hear most often? WP: Predominately, I speak to the whiskies. One of the questions I am most asked is, “What is the difference between bourbon and whiskey?” Whiskey, by definition is a fermented grain alcohol that’s distilled and aged in an oak vessel. Whether it’s Scotch, bourbon, Tennessee, Irish, they are all whiskey. Where it is determines how it’s made. And there are certain laws behind Scotch, certain laws behind Ten-
nessee, certain laws behind bourbon. Once you break that down, you can figure out the regionality based on those laws. With Scotch whiskey, if there’s more of a peat profile to it, or more of an iodine profile, you can figure out where it comes from. Each whiskey lends itself to the crafting of a cocktail. With our products, we have the Tennessee whiskeys that have the charcoal mellowing, that’s the Lincoln County process, getting rid of some of the smoother notes from the grain. Our yeast strain has a banana profile — by bringing up these notes that naturally occur in the product, it allows better pairing.
CB: What do people find surprising about whiskey? WP: Whiskey has over 200 flavors to it. You can do certain tricks to play with your palate. I’ll have everyone take a sip of Woodford and then sample a dried cherry or a dried cranberry. The fruit juices, the sugars, will play off the spices of the rye and will soften the overall profile, showing Woodford’s silky mouth feel. So it’s getting around the alcohol and it’s all about mouth feel. We’ll do orange slices, which shows off its brighter, more effervescent side. If you eat toasted hazelnuts or almonds, they’re high in tannic acid. So are our barrels. You are compounding those tannic acids and it brings out smokier notes. ©
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ete Wagner II is a whiskey ambassador. He is paid to go to bars. But not as a barfly. His job is to fill in information gaps between the whiskey industry — specifically the company for which he works, liquor and wine distributor Brown-Forman — and the public and bar staffs around Ohio. So when a bartender or bar patron wants to really understand the subtleties of whiskey and how to fully exploit its pairings, they talk to Pete and he explains what makes America’s favorite hard liquor tick.
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Parkers blue ash tavern 50% ground applewood bacon topped with tomato jam and smoked gouda cheese on a challah bun. Black Bean Burger: Black Beans blended with rice, roasted vegetables, portobello mushrooms, aged cheddar cheese and Southwestern seasonings.
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Bread Zepplin: Regular non-GMO bun, beef burger, American cheese, ketchup, mayo, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle. Buns N’ Roses (vegan): Cuban bun, housemade black bean burger, spicy ketchup, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle.
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TV: IGBY’S GAME OF THRONES WATCH PARTY Maesters, brothers of the Night’s Watch and lords and ladies of the realm are all invited to stick Season 7 with the pointy end at Igby’s Game of Thrones watch party every Monday night for safe refuge from white walkers. Follow Robert Baratheon’s mantra and sip on specialty themed cocktails and exclusive Wildling Wildberry Ale from Woodburn Brewery. Rule like Daenerys Targaryen (titles, titles, titles…) and open a dragon egg for a chance to win gift cards and prizes or play drinking bingo like Cersei Lannister pwns the Game of Thrones. 8-11 p.m. Mondays. Through Aug. 28. Free. Igby’s, 122 E. Sixth St., Downtown, igbysbar.com. — AMANDA WEISBROD
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s I watch a grown man bake an imaginary cake in slow motion, I cannot help but think, without irony or sarcasm, “Well done, Cincinnati.” I’m taking in a ComedySportz match — a type of friendly scrimmage for improvised comedy. ComedySportz Cincinnati is a 6-month-old institution that, to me, acts as a symbol of a healthy local improv scene, a scene that even 5 years ago felt anemic. Now troupes are easy to find — OTRimprov, Improv Cincinnati, Highly Improvable — and, based on the enthusiastic audience I witnessed at Comedy Sportz, demand still exists. ComedySportz began in Milwaukee in 1984 and boasts such alumni as Saturday Night Live’s Jason Sudeikis and The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams. Cincinnati is the 23rd city to be awarded a ComedySportz license, a process that requires a sound business plan and strict adherence to the organization’s branding. Any city can host an improv troupe, but only this handful can wear the prestigious jerseys. The Cincinnati franchise, co-managed by Kirk Keevert and Eileen Earnest, has been in the works for years. Keevert also helped create OTRimprov, now a mainstay in our local theater scene, which acts as a bit of a farm team for ComedySportz Cincinnati. During the annual Improv Fest Cincinnati, produced by OTRimprov, Keevert had a chance to test audience reactions to the ComedySportz format when another improv team dropped out at the last minute. “The audience ate it up,” he says. “It was palpable how much they loved that match.” In a ComedySportz match, two groups of three improvisers form “red” and “blue” teams. Keevert and Earnest hand-select each match’s players from a roster of around 30, based on, as Keevert says, “availability, strengths, experience” and more. The red team always is called the Cincinnati Big Machine; the blue one is always the Northern Kentucky Grass. These teams take turns performing improv comedy in a style called “short form,” made popular by Whose Line Is It Anyway? For example, on the night I attended, improv games included Pick a Play (improvisers must converse using only lines from a randomly selected play script), Chain Murder (a “mime and gibberish” version of the board game Clue) and Replay at Bernie’s (players take turns acting as though another “dead” player is still alive, à la Weekend at Bernie’s). Most of the teams’ points are earned based on audience applause, but teams can earn extra points by involving willing
A member of the blue Northern Kentucky Grass team improvises as other players watch. audience members in their games. As someone who watches a good deal of improv, I can tell you that one of the lines between good improv and great improv is how a troupe treats audience involvement. In the case of ComedySportz Cincinnati, the audience is the star — in this match, and especially in the aforementioned cake-baking episode, I witnessed the players make buffoons of themselves to be sure that no audience participant felt hung out to dry. ComedySportz takes the sports metaphor pretty far. Performers are “players,” the stage is the “field” and, in lieu of a master of ceremonies, it uses a referee. The ref has the power to call fouls on improvisers and audience members alike — for instance, for breaking the event’s firm G-rating through innuendo or rough language. (In ComedySportz-speak, they “keep the comedy above the waistline.”) Memorial Hall’s ground-floor studio space, which can accommodate around 100 people, is festooned with pennants and streamers and pumped-up jock jams are played between games. “It’s a different approach to improv that I had never considered, this team dynamic,” says ComedySportz member Tatiana Godfrey. “Our practices are like you’re running drills in football or in soccer. We
get different suggestions and run them a bunch of different ways.” “It’s not comedy about sports, it’s comedy as a sport,” Keevert adds. Though the sports trappings are there, the competition itself is mostly for show. “ComedySportz is a sport, but at the same time you can’t have that fully competitive mindset or come at it aggressively. It’s in a collaboration and it’s fun,” says team member Andrew Ian Adams. Short-form improv comedy is light and fun, welcoming to even the most general audience. But while the audience comes first, it is also a great tool for the actors on stage. “Going into auditions, being able to bring an improv background has given me the edge in more than one instance,” Adams says. Outside of ComedySportz, Adams is a commercial and stage actor; he recently performed in Know Theatre’s Beertown and The Fisherman’s Wife, as well as the 2017 Fringe Festival. He says there are many directors who encourage actors to bring “your own input, your own impulses” to a role, and an improv background helps hone that skill. Each year, ComedySportz Worldwide hosts its World Championship, an event o
where members can meet, train and swap ideas. Keevert recently went to this year’s host city, San Jose, Calif. “It’s a big family reunion for me,” he says. Keevert has been performing at various ComedySportz locations for 18 years, since discovering the sport in Houston in 1999. “It was really special for me this year to go and represent a whole new city and be able to tell people that not only is there this new ComedySportz in Cincinnati, but it is here because the improv scene and the theater scene are so very lively throughout the rest of the year here,” he says. Keevert mentions that members from more established ComedySportz cities were impressed at how quickly Cincinnati’s team roster and audience numbers have grown. “As this ComedySportz has blossomed and more people have discovered us, it has become more and more clear to me that Cincinnati was the right place for Comedy Sportz,” he says. “It is on our radar, down the road, to bring that World Championship to Cincinnati,” he adds. “We have a beautiful city for it.” COMEDYSPORTZ CINCINNATI performs 8 p.m. most Friday nights at Memorial Hall. Tickets and more info: memorialhallotr.com.
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Spreading the gospel of the Bard of Avon with the “merry wives.” But they more than is what Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is best him when they decide to teach him a all about, and in July and August they make lesson. In particular, they hide him in a basmore than 30 performance stops across the ket of stinking laundry to avoid detection by Tristate to do just that. Six freshly minted one of their jealous husbands. professional actors, several of whom have Dubin points out the challenge this local roots and recently joined the theater’s moment presents for Cincy Shakes’ travelresident ensemble, are presenting two ing production: “How do you carry this basproductions — the rollicking comedy of The ket containing a pretty large man? Usually Merry Wives of Windsor and the classic it’s on wheels. We don’t know what kind of romantic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Perterrain we’ll be on from day to day — lawns, formances at parks, community centers and maybe gravel — so we have to be creative. other venues are free and open to the public. We have a little hole in the bottom that he Last summer these shows were attended by can put his feet through. In fact, we don’t try more than 10,000 people. Actors take on multiple roles in productions. Scripts are reduced to less than two hours, retaining important story elements. Simple portable sets are used, as well as sound systems that enhance the actors’ voices in outdoor settings. Merry Wives is a new summer touring production, adapted and staged by Cincy Shakes veteran Jeremy Dubin. The company’s first season in its new Over-the-Rhine theater opens in September A crowd at a local park enjoys a free Cincy Shakes production. with A Midsummer Night’s PHOTO : provided Dream, so another light, entertaining title was in order. It’s been suggested that Queen Elizabeth I to disguise it, which is funny, too.” was so entertained by the lecherous Falstaff Merry Wives will also tour to schools from Shakespeare’s Henry IV history plays this fall, as well as similar productions that in 1597 that she urged him to write a of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. Dubin play featuring the character. Whether or not expects Merry Wives will be popular with that’s true, Dubin acknowledges the lovable schools Cincy Shakes has visited in the past. fat soldier’s appeal. He’s a memorable comic “Some schools are eager for something new invention, especially in Merry Wives. and different,” he says. “What really grabs people is that this play is Cincy Shakes’ tour is one of the largest about common people,” Dubin says. “There programs for free outdoor Shakespeare are no royals; they’re all middle-class folks. in the nation, both in number of stops and It sounds very modern. This could be an epithe size of the region reached. There are sode of The Honeymooners. It’s a straightforno admission charges or advance reservaward, silly play that everyone can relate to.” tions for the park tour performances. It’s The production is enhanced with music. open seating, so lawn chairs or blankets are “We’ve tried to create a traveling, ‘Renaisrecommended. In order to be finished before sance Faire’ feel,” Dubin says. “Ten minutes dark, shows commence at 7 p.m. It’s a good or so before we start, the cast will be out idea to arrive a bit early for the best views. there for some songs. The raucous tone is For questions about weather or rules enhanced with an electric ukulele.” regarding bringing food and drink along, Playing Falstaff is a new company you should contact the specific park or member, actor James Alexander, a first-year venue. This week’s performances happen performer from New York City. Although at Linden Grove Cemetery in Covington he studied theater in college, Alexander (Thursday), Vinoklet Winery in Northgate spent several years recently with the New (Friday), Clovernook Country Club in North York Police Department. Dubin reports that College Hill (Saturday) and Upper Millcrest Alexander “was tired of bullying people” and Park in Norwood (Sunday). wanted to get back into theater. For a complete list of SHAKESPEARE IN He has landed one of Shakespeare’s most THE PARK’s shows, dates and venues, visit hilarious roles. Falstaff thinks he’s quite the cincyshakes.com/shakespeare-in-the-park. ladies’ man and that he can have his way
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Step onto a 28-foot-high scaffold. Walk Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera that Cincinnati beneath a 360-degree projection of home photographer Bernard Silberstein took durmovies and Cincinnati sights and sounds. ing a 1940 visit to their home. The Mexican Contemplate groundbreaking artists and couple’s vibrant works are a stark contrast blank canvases inside a makeshift gallery. to four white paintings that Sansalone made Wind through a “graveyard” of monuments out of drywall compound and chalk over to wood, steel, plaster and bricks, plus childStyrofoam, yet we’re captivated by the idea hood toys and color slides. Finally, peer into of what’s “missing” from his pieces. The a peephole to try to glimpse the future — or temporary gallery’s floor is also a Minimalist are you seeing a remnant of the past? work of art. Sheets of particle board frame a The architects of the Uptown-based design “carpet” of dark coils of industrial felt. collective DPMT7 have taken over the entire DPMT7’s architectural exhibit doesn’t Weston Art Gallery to build a framework for strip away feeling and emotion, but rather considering time and space. Think of Un Teatro del Nuovo (Italian for “a theater of the new”) as a workshop that presents a rough outline and a few simple props and asks you to complete the script. When you see only the skeleton of a building, do you assume that construction is underway or that a teardown is in progress? Does a trip down memory lane signal an end or a beginning? DPMT7’s undertaking draws inspiration from an international competition DPMT7’s “Stela #13” consists of stacked cinder blocks. titled Post-Quake Visions. P H O T O : to n y wa l s h After an earthquake in northern Italy in 2012, contest organizers asked architects how they gives unfiltered sentimentality some would fill the gaps in historic cities. DPMT7 structure and context. The final installation co-founder Ryan Ball won an honorable explores how the things that make us human mention for his proposal that imagined (memories, relationships) help influence the performance venues rising among the things that humans make (buildings, art). centuries-old remains of Crevalcore, Italy. Twenty-four stelae — one column for each DPMT7’s collaborators, led by Vincent hour in a day — are lined up like pilings at Sansalone of the University of Cincinnati’s a worksite, or monuments in a cemetery. College of Design, Architecture, Art and Many seem to be memorials to construcPlanning, suggest that the distinctions tion materials like concrete, drywall and between past, present and future are illustone. But a few towers obviously contain a sions in a “spatial collage” that is shaped personal component. A vintage trike sports and connected by simple architectural lines an impossibly high seat. Obsolete slides fill a and frames. “Welcome to our world of expePlexiglas case. An animal skull tops a manriencing the (k)new,” they write. nequin wearing a dress made from the same The wondrous scaffolding in the Weston’s felt used in the mini gallery. street-level gallery is where visitors start to In the last row of stelae, a garden gnome gain perspective, whether or not they climb gazes upon a surreal scene. Sansalone has the metal staircase. As rails and poles interpasted a paper collage of a modern building sect, they direct our eyes to other architeconto a thrift store painting of an idyllic counture, indoors and out. tryside. The gnome can’t step out of his case Past and present also converge inside Un to explore, but we can try to check what’s on Teatro del Nuovo’s cyclorama. Viewers on the other side of Whitney Hamaker’s “Lens,” the street level gaze up at videos that include which resembles a door with no handle but a family outings, DPMT7’s old Lower Price Hill peephole. It’s up to you to decide what you’re neighborhood and a previous design project looking at. But, remember: The past is the involving a giant pelican sculpture and past… and the present and the future. 100,000 whiffle balls. Visitors downstairs see DPMT7: UN TEATRO DEL NUOVO is on view a live overhead feed from the 20-foot circle. through Aug. 27 at Weston Art Gallery, The lower level’s “gallery within a gallery” 650 Walnut St., Downtown. More info: is a study in the art of reduction, and thereby cincinnatiarts.org/weston-art-gallery. seduction; one wall features prints of artists
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Reimagined ‘Magic Flute’ Is Must-See Opera BY Sarah Viola
It is Saturday night at the Aronoff Center to marry these mediums. It is Mozart’s most for the Arts and the audience is buzzing with fantastical work, not set in any particular excitement and anticipation. It is the opening time. To echo Cincinnati Opera Artistic night of Cincinnati Opera’s The Magic Flute. Director Evans Mirageas’ sentiments, The This is no ordinary run-of-the-mill Magic Flute consists of some of the noblest, production of the Mozart opera, which highest ideals with “some of the silliest debuted in 1791. It has been re-imagined by shtick” of all theater. This makes a perfect the British theater company 1927 to use live concoction for the inventive and humorperformance in conjunction with projected ous images that play upon the stage at the animation, creating an entirely unique, scinhands of these brilliant creators. In true tillating operatic experience. This production silent-film style, one of the more ingenious premiered at Komische Oper Berlin in 2012. ideas of the team was to replace the spoken Set in the 1920s Weimar Republic of dialogue with title cards. Germany and performed in German with English supertitles, this retelling of H a beloved opera is modeled CRITIC’S after silent films, which the members of 1927 clearly H love. Essentially, there is no set. Without the projections, what the audience would see is a blank white screen with revolving doorways placed at different levels. The magic comes to life as moving images are shown on the screen around the singers, who then interact with them in surprising and carefully Screen projections animate Cincinnati Opera’s production. crafted ways under the P H O T O : ph i l i p g r o s ho n g masterful direction of Daniel Ellis (with Christopher Allen conducting the orchestra). Despite the cleverness of the animation, For example, as the curtain rises, we see there were a couple of instances when it the character Prince Tamino with comibegan to detract from the music, most especally flailing arms. His lower torso is hidden cially during the Queen of the Night arias. behind a small screen with projected legs All we see of Jeni Houser as the queen is her so that he looks as if he is running at an head at the utmost top of the screen while absurd pace from a giant serpent while he her body is projected to be an enormous sings his opening lines. At the top of the secskeletal spider. Her fearsome dagger-like legs ond act, there is a procession consisting of move around trapping those underneath her. such strange animated creations as Thomas The production is cast with highly Edison-esque devices and armed monkeys. accomplished singers across the board. The opera’s performers are carefully placed Most notable among them is Aaron Blake as at intervals along the screen, walking in Tamino. Blake’s warm, buttery tenor easily time to stay under the animated flying melts even the most stoic of hearts. Rodion lamps that hover above their heads. Pogossov plays a superb Papageno, singing The Magic Flute tells the story of Prince with an effortless and round lyric baritone. Tamino and Pamina (modeled in this proKim-Lillian Strebel plays an enchanting duction after silent film star Louise Brooks, Pamina. With a steely yet warm timber, she famous for her flapper bob), who is the sings the stunning aria “Ach, ich fülh’s,” daughter of the Queen of the Night. After fallperhaps the focal point of the opera when ing in love with a portrait of Pamina, Tamino the action finally slows for a few moments is led to believe by the Queen that the high of reflection. priest, Sarastro (who has abducted Pamina), In an ever-distracted world, it has been is evil. Tamino sets out to rescue her from difficult for opera houses to maintain him and marry her. He is given a magic flute subscriptions and fill seats. However, if any (or, in this production, an animated musical production could turn the tides of dwinfairy) by her three ladies-in-waiting to help dling audiences, it would be this one. It is protect him and is also accompanied by the not to be missed. bird-catcher Papageno, his comedic sidekick THE MAGIC FLUTE repeats Thursday, Saturday and and a Buster Keaton-like figure here. Sunday at the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble It is fitting that, of all operas, 1927’s Hall. Tickets/more info: cincinnatiopera.org. concept designers chose The Magic Flute
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When Winston Churchill addressed the desperation. We are stranded on the beach government and, by extension, the citizens among the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of England after the evacuation of Dunkirk, bravely waiting to escape, and then running France in the early days of World War II, he and ducking for cover as the Germans spray spoke of how this mounting war provided them with fire from land and air. Nolan unheralded opportunities for youth. British places us in the company of Tommy (Fionn and allied forces had to hurriedly retreat Whitehead), a young lad constantly attemptacross the English Channel in the face of ing to stay one step ahead of the next perilthe militarily superior Nazis. The Royal ous assault. Then we join Mr. Dawson (Mark Navy organized a desperate effort to bring Rylance), his son Collins (Jack Lowden) and them back to safety. young George (Barry Keoghan) as they race Churchill knew Britain still faced great off in their yacht to do their part. Finally, we risks and losses ahead. To his mind, this was not a mythic clash from the days of old involving the Knights of the Round Table or the Crusaders. Instead, this was a fight undertaken by young men who deserved respect. As he told the House of Commons in 1940, his first two sentences a paraphrase from the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “ ‘Every morn brought forth a noble chance. And every chance brought forth a noble knight.’ They deserve our gratitude, as do all the brave British soldiers evacuate by boat from France in Dunkirk. men who, in so many ways P H O T O : c o u r t e s y o f wa r n e r b r o s . p i c t u r e s and on so many occasions, are ready, and continue ready settle into the cockpit with Farrier (Tom to give life and all for their native land.” Hardy), an ace pilot with a busted fuel gauge And now is a chance, noble and fine, for us trying hard to defend his countrymen. to rediscover the inspirational power of the Are there arcs for any of these characters? story of Dunkirk. It’s a time to honor those Nolan proves it doesn’t matter in the slightwho were brave in retreat so they might est. What matters is that we see people doing fight again. That is what the British-born what is necessary in the darkest of moments. Christopher Nolan, who has become one of But if audiences find themselves longing America’s best-known directors as a result for a hero, then I would argue that Farrier of Inception, The Dark Knight, Batman earns the appellation best, because Hardy Begins, Memento and more, does with his expands upon his singular performance in typical immersive genius in Dunkirk. He Locke, where he dominated the screen from dispenses with the narrative architecture behind the wheel of a car, speaking rapidwe’ve come to expect from war films. He fire into his cellphone. Here, constrained foregoes backstories and training sequences even further by the tiny cockpit of his plane, employed to familiarize us with a select with dwindling fuel and the monumental group of soldiers preparing for the heat of task of being the last pilot standing between battle. We know nothing of their love lives, his troops and a torrential rain of German their families or their hopes and dreams for bombs, Hardy never raises his voice or life after the war. There is only “the now.” strains to show any emotion; he simply But, of course, this is still a Nolan film, does his duty. so he tinkers with the structure to grant Nolan, it could be argued, sets the us access to three distinct perspectives all standard from the top with his approach. rendered within a different time frame. The Dunkirk is a stunning cinematic achieveaction unfolds over the course of a week (for ment, skillfully and exactingly deploying the troops on the ground), a day (for one of music and sound to heighten drama, capitalthe cruising yachts speeding off to assist izing on every inch of the large screen to in the evacuation) and a single hour (for a document the looming horror and growing trio of aerial fighters dispatched to provide cover). It is only in the final moments of the desperation. The noblest feat of all from film that we begin to appreciate the precise Nolan is the appreciation he leaves us with period of time when these fragments overlap. — that even this horrific moment will pass Dunkirk strips away all superfluous and we will be better for having survived it. elements, leaving us with tension and (Opens wide Friday.) (PG-13) Grade: A
ON SCREEN Wild ‘Girls Trip’ By T T STERN-ENZI
On the heels of the tonally disjointed girls-gone-wild movie Rough Night, here comes director Malcolm D. Lee’s offering, Girls Trip, his own take on this kind of adult comedy. He’s seeking to match the outrageous escapades of The Hangover franchise blow by blow. He’s a surprising choice, when you consider that his filmography features polished black comedies like The Best Man and its Holiday sequel, the groovy nostalgia of Roll Bounce and the easy uplift of Barbershop: The Next Cut. Who knew he even had an interest in such low-hanging and free-swinging fare? In some ways, Lee seems like a kindred spirit to Ryan Pierce (Regina Hall), the Alpha girl in a quartet of college friends (Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and newcomer Tiffany Haddish) who gather together at the annual Essence Festival after years apart to get their freak on like they used to, before adult concerns came to dominate their lives. Ryan and her caddish husband Stewart (Luke Cage’s Mike Colter) are trying to sell themselves as the perfect power couple so that they can snag a lucrative multimedia deal, while the other girls try to watch Ryan’s back — in between episodes of wild behavior that include hallucinogenic drugs, golden showers and dangerous new sex acts involving, of all foods, grapefruit. While the character types on display and the hints of morality that sneak into the mix will be overly familiar to any moviegoer who has checked out a Tyler Perry-branded title recently, Lee and his winning leading ladies unnerve and upset our expectations by embracing the wild and trashy excesses of the genre. This Trip is an all-out celebration of the liberation of black female characters from the righteous fury and sexless piety of the most common presentations. Lee obviously doesn’t see anything wrong with bumping up against the norms and knocking over the pedestal. Girls Trip proves that these girls, especially the devilishly daring Haddish (who shows a game willingness to try anything), definitely want to have fun, and they are wiling to go harder than the fellas. (Opens wide Friday.) (R) Grade: B
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Emmy Talk: Surprises, Snubs and ‘SNL’ BY JAC KERN
lackluster showing at the Golden Globes, The 69th Primetime Emmy Award I’m hoping this heart-wrenching crime nominations were announced last week, drama garners a few awards from its 13 signaling the who’s who of the television nominations. Riz Ahmed’s transformation world. Leading the pack are Saturday Night from skinny, innocent college student to Live and Westworld (22 nominations each); buff, bona fide prison hustler still haunts me. Feud: Bette and Joan and Stranger Things The guest actress category for drama is (18 each); Veep (17); and Big Little Lies packed with fantastic performers, including and Fargo (16 each). It’s the most diverse Ann Dowd (The Leftovers) and Alexis Bledel collection of Emmy honorees ever (a trend (The Handmaid’s Tale), but I’m particularly for the show three years running) with 25 delighted to see Alison Wright up against actors of color recognized and minority-led Shannon Purser. Wright’s Martha in The programs like Master of None, 13th, Atlanta Americans and Purser’s Barb in Stranger and black-ish getting love, too. Women Things are two oddball characters that met writers and directors are seeing a bit more different forlorn fates, leaving fans lamenting representation, while actresses over the age “Poor Martha” and calling out for #Justiceforof 40 dominate across the board. But not Barb. Perhaps one will finally be vindicated! completely: Millie Bobby Brown is up for her Elsewhere, personal favorites Master role in Stranger Things at age 13. of None, Fargo, Stranger Things, The The Television Academy introduced two Handmaid’s Tale, Better Call Saul, Westnew categories this year: Outstanding Music world and Atlanta are all deserving of Supervision, which highlights those who their six-plus nods. create some of the great soundtracks on TV, and Outstanding Casting in a Reality Program. Meanwhile, Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series has been split in two to differentiate between one-hour and half-hour series. This distinction acknowledges the increasing number of visually rich, stylistic 30-minute shows, like Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle. So which programs and players deserve the nods and — more importantly — wins? With the current crop of talL-R: Kidman, Woodley and Witherspoon in Big Little Lies ent, even the most opinionPHOTO : hil ary bronw yn gale/courtesy of hbo ated viewers might have trouble narrowing down that very long nominee list. But the list reflects many merited accolades, a little bit of overkill, some straight-up snubs Saturday Night Live is tied for the most and lots of surprises. nominations with 22 after ranking fifth with
Academy is just straight-up trolling the SNLbashing Trump with this one. While I enjoyed Feud, the Academy’s love for Ryan Murphy has become obvious and, while worthy of nominations, I’d be disappointed if it swept the limited series circuit. And while both Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange are recognized for their roles, it’s unlikely we’ll get to see any competitive rivalry akin to their characters.
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Veep and Modern Family continue to serve as Emmy shoe-ins. While still hilarious several seasons in, both shows have garnered tons of praise, and I’d like to see some fresh meat get some love.
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Finally, while I adored the debut season of This Is Us, the talented cast clogs up many of the drama categories, including guest actor.
Snubs During a golden age of TV, with so many shows deserving of accolades, some people question if the idea of snubs might be obsolete. But there were a few solid shows and
Should Black Mirror episodes be considered TV movies? Yes, according to the Academy, which nominated the sweetest episode of the sci-fi mind-fuck, “San Junipero,” for Outstanding Television Movie and for its writing, while social media-centric episode “Nosedive” is up for cinematography. I’d argue Black Mirror is a series, even if each one-hour episode has a different story and cast, but it is so excellent that I’m just happy it’s finally getting some attention. The Emmy broadcast occurs Sept. 17 on CBS, hosted by first-timer Stephen Colbert. CONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern
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Big Little Lies has been one of my favorite shows of the year, so it’s no surprise that the HBO drama dominates the limited series categories. Everyone talked about Nicole Kidman’s performance as an abused wife and mother — which was fantastic, for sure — but I was blown away by her co-star Reese Witherspoon. The squeaky-clean Legally Blonde alum killed it as a bitchy meddling housewife. The two face off against the leading ladies of American Crime, Fargo and Feud: Bette and Joan, while co-stars Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley are represented in the supporting actress division. It’s been more than a year since HBO miniseries The Night Of first premiered, but I haven’t forgotten about it. After a
16 nods last year. Now, I am a die-hard SNL fan — a defender, even in its slumps. It’s a cultural institution! This season did have its high points: Melanianade, mechanic Drag Race fans, David S. Pumpkins, to name a few. And Kate McKinnon should always be nominated for everything she ever does (she and co-stars Leslie Jones and Vanessa Bayer are up for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy). But SNL’s 42nd season was far from its best, let alone the best show of the year, and shouldn’t be most decorated. Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression — which garnered him a nod, too — was a welcome surprise… at first. Eventually the gag felt less like a defiant act and more like poking the bear (a bear who happens to have nukes) without offering any solid humor or commentary. Pretty sure the
performances that were noticeably absent from the long list of honorees. Game of Thrones, which usually rakes in the nominations, received none this time — but it’s no snub. Season 7 just premiered this week, making it ineligible for this year’s Emmys (the previous season earned 23 nods and 12 wins in 2016). Those drama nominees are surely thankful not to have to compete with HBO’s giant this time around — although it’s clearly been replaced by Westworld. Now that’s a showdown to look forward to in 2018. I expected Issa Rae’s excellent HBO series Insecure to replace Girls in the comedy field, but the show was dismissed entirely. Lena Dunham’s passion project was also absent from the major categories after its final season. The Leftovers technically did get one nomination, for Ann Dowd as guest actress in a drama, but that masterpiece deserved much more. Carrie Coon should have been recognized for her performance in Leftovers over Fargo, but it would be great to see her win anyway (it’s doubtful). It’s also perplexing why the show wouldn’t be represented among the best dramas, or how Justin Theroux’s performance was once again entirely overlooked. Additionally, I would have loved to see Michael McKean nab a supporting actor nod for his role as the complex older brother to Jimmy in Better Call Saul (which otherwise has a decent showing with nine nominations).
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The Friendliest Place in Wyoming
The next evolution in the Cooking with Caitlin brand is a welcome addition to the suburbs REVIEW BY PAMA MITCHELL
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CWC might have limited hours, but it’s got plenty of good food and great hospitality. brews in cans or bottles ($3-$6) — and a couple of the house cocktails. Those were on the sweet side for my taste, but did show creativity while not being overly fussy ($9-$10). At about this time I flagged down a staffer and asked him to point out Steininger, who was working hard at the stove. He introduced himself as her father and pointed out the rest of the family, each working up a sweat around the dining room. A young bartender, additional cooks and a couple of servers rounded out the team. The menu isn’t extensive — we tried almost all seven of the items listed as “shareables” or “starters.” Just about everyone in the house was ordering the homemade baby biscuits with tomato jam and corn butter ($5), and we managed to grab the very last of the night’s batch. It wasn’t hard to see why they’re so popular — tender, buttery two-bite pastries that didn’t need the corn butter, but of course we added it anyway. A couple of the salads were great hits at our table, too. Harissa-roasted cauliflower salad ($8) had olives, oranges and raisins, while the green papaya salad ($9) with soy-lime vinaigrette and toasted peanuts might have been the best thing on the table, at least until dessert. Meanwhile, we also tried a few of the half-dozen “Mains.” My zucchini carbonara ($12) used strips of squash instead of pasta
as a base, dressed simply with a light roasted garlic cream sauce, a sprinkling of parmesan and the dish’s saving grace, crumbled bacon. Salt and pepper added at the table helped boost the mild flavors, and I felt good about the virtuousness (low calories) of this entrée. Pork tenderloin slices over delicious creamed corn ($12) was overcooked for my taste, but our friend who ordered it didn’t mind. We enjoyed grilled snapper ($14) over avocado purée with roasted salsa verde — a small portion, but with satisfying flavors. The Char Cheddar Burger ($9) came with a large pile of crispy fries and was covered in a housemade cheese sauce. Trush told me later that this burger is their biggest seller, although our table’s burger fan thought the topping tasted too much like Cheez-Whiz. CWC offers a short wine list, with three whites and four reds by the glass or bottle, and a few extras available only by the bottle.
There’s enough variety to get patrons happily through their meals. Dessert is a strong suit here. There were three choices ($6 each) and we tried them all. The standout was Rhubarb Gooey Butter Cake (with strawberry-basil salad), which turned out to be less decadent than it sounds. The rhubarb topping and fruit salad balanced the rich cake; not a morsel remained after we passed the plate around. Chocolate zucchini cake won points for its moist, dense texture and moderate sweetness. We were less crazy about the pudding-like Atlantic Pie. We agreed that Sunday brunch would be worth another visit, since Steininger’s best dishes at dinner seem right in the wheelhouse of typical brunch fare. But whenever you go, I’m sure you’ll feel more than welcome by the CWC family. They’re having so much fun themselves, you can’t help but catch the mood.
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o borrow from the tagline for the original Disneyland in California, CWC the Restaurant might just be the friendliest place on Earth — or at least in Cincinnati. Whatever else you experience at this new eatery in Wyoming, I can pretty much guarantee that you’ll be welcomed effusively by chef Caitlin Steininger and the rest of her family and friends that staff the place. CWC — from Cooking with Caitlin, Steininger’s longtime catering business — opened this summer on Springfield Pike in a building that used to be a carwash. Her sister and partner Kelly Trush runs the front of the house and makes sure each guest is satisfied, while their dad buses tables, among other tasks. Mom pitches in, too, as does Steininger’s 13-year-old niece — Trush’s daughter — who’s in charge of the busy pizza oven. Over the course of a bustling Friday evening, every one of these folks came by to check that we were having a wonderful time. And for the most part, we were. I’ll just dispense with the downside right away: The dining room was way too hot (that pizza oven blasts away in one corner) and incredibly noisy. One of our companions suggested that they needed to “crank the air” to compensate for the oven. As for the din, well, noisy restaurants seem to be a fixture of contemporary dining. Otherwise, everything was delightful. I really had no idea what to expect as we made the trek from Clifton to the suburb of Wyoming. All I knew was that Steininger and Trush have been catering, blogging, doing a radio show and otherwise making a mark on the local food scene for at least 10 years, and that the restaurant has very limited hours, only open for dinner on Friday and Saturday and brunch on Sunday. Working with a repurposed carwash, the family has done a good job of softening the concrete slab of a building. A whimsical mural depicting sunny-side-up eggs with a quote from Julia Child on the outside wall brought a smile to our faces as we negotiated the packed parking lot. Inside, family snapshots compete for wall space with antique dishware and abstract artwork. They have a separate bar area with about eight seats and a larger main dining room. Out back on a patio, they fire up a grill and serve a simpler menu on picnic tables, weather permitting. We had made a reservation for six, the minimum number of people for which they’ll reserve a table. Good thing, too, because there were no spare tables for a while after we arrived; we waited at the bar while enough seating freed up. That gave us a chance to try a beer — none on tap, but an acceptable variety of local and national
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Tamara Harkavy is the founding CEO and so fantastic and have given so much to the artistic director of ArtWorks, the nonprofit city, so those murals are very much client youth-employment organization responsible or partner driven. Then some of our murals, for covering our region with glorious works like we’re sitting across from the toy mural, of art, mostly in the form of murals. Now in which tells Cincinnati’s toy heritage, was its 21st year, there are 130 youths working on very much artist driven. The artist that we 18 projects, 11 of which are murals, mostly worked with grew up on Kenner toys. in the downtown and Over-the-Rhine area. CB: What are some of the murals being Harkavy is the mother of musician Ben worked on this summer? Sloan, who is a graduate of the University of TH: We have an Edie Harper mural, which Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music is this gorgeous image of this calico cat. It’s and founder of the East Price Hill Percussion called “Crazy Cat, Crazy Quilt.” That is probPark. She is married to artist, sculptor and real estate guy Matthew Kotlarczyk. Harkavy quickly agreed to an interview to update us on this year’s murals, but getting her to choose a place to dine was a bit more difficult. After strolling about OTR — ArtWorks is located on East Central Parkway — we stumbled upon Court Street Lobster Bar, conveniently located across from the “Cincinnati Toy Heritage” mural by local artist Jonathan Queen, and happily tucked into succulent ArtWorks CEO Tamara Harkavy talks about murals and motivation. lobster rolls served on SixPHOTO : haile y bollinger teen Bricks challah buns. CityBeat: Why so hard to pin down a location for lunch? Tamara Harkavy: This is going to sound terrible: When I eat lunch, I want to take a nap. I am not ambiguous about food at all. If you ask me “Do you want to eat,” yeah, but it’s got to be good, though, or why bother? CB: For the uninitiated, tell us a little about ArtWorks. TH: We started with the idea that we needed to provide meaningful summer employment for teenagers and use the arts as a vehicle very differently than had ever been thought of before to teach the kids about our city, to teach kids about social engagement and diversity, to teach all of us about how (to be) better citizens. When you’re working on a project in art, art uses math and science and logic and creative thinking and the mind’s eye and problem solving. All of those attributes not only make for a good artist, it makes for great work-force development. CB: How do the murals come to be? TH: Every mural has a different path, and certainly every mural has a different process and cost. So sometimes people come to us. Scripps and the Flying Pig came to us this year and said, “Hey, it’s the 90th anniversary of the Scripps Spelling Bee and the Flying Pig Marathon is 20 years old.” We love to make murals that celebrate Cincinnati’s heritage and the people who made this place
ably one of our largest murals this summer, and it’s a patchwork. … There’s a mural on Vine Street that is “Faces of Homelessness” that is beautiful and poignant and I think really expresses that Cincinnati can do this: We can solve some problems through art, we can make the community aware of the challenges of being homeless and the stigmas attached to being homeless. … We have (a) guest artist named Ralph Steadman. He’s about 80. He’s Welsh. He was the illustrator for all of the Hunter S. Thompson books. It’s his first mural. … And then there’s a RefugeeConnect project in Camp Washington, which is again another quilt which is called “The Fabric of Refugees.” CB: We would be remiss if we didn’t ask if you have a favorite. TH: I have a lot of responses to that, but my favorite mural is probably the one that hasn’t been done yet. … There are murals that I love because they sparked an entire movement for us, the “Cincinnati Strong Man” mural — the Henry Holtgrewe mural — there’s now a whole series of Cincinnati legends. I just gotta keep going so maybe a mural will lead to some kind of conversation or spark an artist to bring us an innovative idea that further pushes our community. Read the full interview with TAMARA HARKAVY at citybeat.com.
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Cincinnati Burger Week — Cincinnati Burger Week is back, all you meat-loving burger babies. From gourmet blends to offmenu specialties, more than 50 area chefs and restaurants will prepare $5 Burger Week burgers. Through July 23. More info at citybeat.com.
The Five Master Skills — Discuss how to use salt, heat management, simple sauces, tools and proper ingredients. 6-8 p.m. $65. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com. Groceries & Grilling: Family Night — 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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Cold Coffee Workshop — An in-depth look at Japanese iced coffee and cold-brew methods side-by-side with other various iced coffee and cold-brew styles. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $24. University of Cincinnati, Victory Parkway Campus, 2220 Victory Parkway, Walnut Hills, uc.edu/ce/commu.html.
Date Night: Couples at the Grill — A new type of date night. Bring your sweetie and make filet mignon at the grill while enjoying a glass of white wine. 6-8:30 p.m. $150. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com. Sweet and Savory Tarts — Suzanne Montgomery and Cherry Perlson lead this class on creating tarts like a lemon tart with seasonal fresh fruit, a savory roasted tomato tart and a free-form nectarine tart. Noon-2:30 p.m. $45. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harper’s Point, cookswaresonline.com.
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Porkopolis Pig & Whiskey Festival — The third-annual Porkopolis fest features two full days of barbecue bites, whiskey samples and live music. Presented by Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey. 5-10 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday. Free; samples for fee. Summit Park, 4335 Glendale Milford Road, Blue Ash, citybeat.com. Flavors of the Middle East — Chef Rania
Schützenfest — Dating back to Medieval times, Schützenfest is a shooting festival that celebrates a marksman saving a kid from an eagle attack. The Kolping Society’s fest features authentic German food, German brews and the shooting of a wooden eagle. 6 p.m.-midnight Friday; 4 p.m.-midnight Saturday; 1-9 p.m. Sunday. $3 admission. Kolping Society, 10235 Mill Road, Mount Healthy, schuetzenfestcincy.com.
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The Honey Harvest at Gorman Heritage Farm — Join beekeepers Sandra Murphy and John Cicmanec for a day of harvesting honey from the bee frames. 10 a.m.-noon. $15. Gorman Heritage Farm, 10052 Reading Road, Evendale, facebook.com/ gormanfarm. Tequila Festival — The fest will feature more than 30 different tequilas, beer specials, a taco bar and more. Tickets include 12 sample tickets, an open food bar, live entertainment and a margarita competition. 7-11 p.m. $55. Fountain Square, Fifth and Vine streets, Downtown, myfountainsquare.com.
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Bourbon & Bootleggers Dinner — A multi-course meal and tasting event featuring dishes like bourbon meatballs, pork tenderloin and chocolate cake paired with bourbon cocktails. Dinner includes stories about Newport’s bootlegging past. 7 p.m. $50. Gangster’s Dueling Piano Bar, 18 E. Fifth St., Newport, Ky., americanlegacytours.com.
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French Provencal Bistro Dinner — This express class teaches you to make an approachable and inviting bistro-style dinner with twice-baked spinach soufflés, roasted ratatouille chicken, polenta with two cheeses and blueberry galette. 11 a.m.12:30 p.m. $45. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.
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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.
Shteiwi will introduce you to Middle Eastern cuisine, beginning with fatoush and continuing with pistachio-crusted lamb. 6-8 p.m. $80. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.
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Saxophone Colossus
Dynamic composer/saxophonist Colin Stetson’s latest album showcases different horns and a rhythmic focus BY Steven Rosen
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f you happen to be on a plane and a nearby seat is occupied by a covered, seat-belted object that looks large enough to be a giant table lamp or even a full-bodied cadaver, there’s a good chance that it is a bass saxophone and Colin Stetson is probably on your flight. One of the largest of the horns first built in the 19th century by Adolphe Sax, the bass saxophone is capable of deep and lower octave sounds than the more popular but smaller alto, tenor and soprano saxes. (It can also hit high notes.) But its size and weight have made it somewhat rare — people often don’t know what to make of it or where to put it. And that has created problems for Stetson, who has made the bass saxophone his primary — although not exclusive — instrument since he began playing it in 2005. He performs solo at the Woodward Theater on Thursday to support his new album, All This I Do for Glory. “I always buy an extra seat for it so it travels with me on the plane,” says Stetson, an Ann Arbor, Mich. native, by phone from his Montreal home. “I do still technically own a flight case that the horn can go in, but basically I’ve retired it. It has been lost in the back of planes three times now. At some point, either on the plane or on the tarmac, somebody doesn’t want to touch it and just leaves it. So I got fed up. It now comes on the plane with me and it’s not out of my sight. I don’t want a repeat of knowing if that priceless, irreplaceable piece of history is going to be brought back to me or just left in Singapore.” While he is primarily a solo instrumentalist, Stetson isn’t really a traditional Jazz musician. He’s more a Post-Modernist whose work also incorporates New Music, Experimental, Rock and various hybrids. Live and in the studio, he’s provided horn for Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Feist, Laurie Anderson, The National and many other progressive acts. On his own, he has now released five solo albums and served as the bandleader for Sorrow, a reimagining of Henryk Górecki’s “Symphony No. 3.” If you’ve seen Stetson before — in Cincinnati, he has played events like MusicNow and as part Contemporary Arts Center’s Black Box Performance series — you know he’s as powerful a physical presence as a musical one when he holds and plays the bass saxophone during a solo concert. Stetson’s instrument of choice and his technique require a strong exercise regime, plus ongoing yoga and meditation, so that he can maintain the stamina and concentration necessary for his playing.
Primarily a solo instrumentalist, Colin Stetson takes a Post-Modernist approach to his music. Stetson’s intense presence while performing isn’t just about the notes he plays or the volume at which he plays them — it also encompasses the variety of overall sounds the musician is able to get from his instrument. Vocal-like moans and calls, electronic hums, bee-like buzzing, rhythmic pounding or clicking — Stetson can conjure all of that and more when he picks up his horn. When recording, takes a holistic approach to capturing the sounds he creates, placing microphones at various points around the instrument to pick up things that otherwise wouldn’t be audible using more traditional mic-ing methods. “When I first started recording this music 10 years ago, my problem was how you get around the fact that once you put one microphone on one part of the instrument and get a snapshot of that — say you put it on the bell — you’re getting a biased sound and no longer listening to all the separate elements,” he says. “So, this (microphone placement) was really just a means to an end, to not lose anything in translation.” For similar reasons, Stetson also doesn’t indulge in overdubbing while recording. “Those sounds resonate in my skull through the instrument and down to my teeth and into my head,” he says. “I’m just trying to capture the sounds that exist and
redistribute them in a way that is specific to the recorded medium. That’s how I make music, that’s how I hear the music — all of those sounds are aspects of the music. I don’t think in terms of separating things or adding in things later.” That said, All This I Do for Glory is something of a departure — Stetson sees it as a progression — from his other solo work. First of all, only two of the six tracks were written for and played on bass saxophone. For the others, he uses alto sax and contrabass clarinet. The sumptuous, sometimes darkly melancholy melodic sweep is still there on compositions with titles that connote a certain ominousness, like “Like Wolves on the Fold” and “Between Water and Wind.” But there is also at times an irresistible rhythmic catchiness to the album — especially on the under-three-minute “In the Clinches,” which might make you think of Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit.” Stetson laughs at the notion. “I hadn’t heard Herbie Hancock once when making that record,” he says. “In no way is that a dig on Herbie Hancock.” But Stetson does acknowledge, without exactly using the word, that this album rocks a little more than usual.
“The aesthetic is more of a rhythmically driven record in its entirety,” he says. “I suppose it still is a dark record, but in my opinion, there’s more swagger there, an ambitious bullheadedness to a lot of the tracks. I’ve tried to sew the threads of doubt through it in a very subtle way so they take a back seat to the confidence of things. This record has more of a homogenous feel, with emphasis on a rhythmic, more dance music-esque signature than has been on display in my other records. I don’t think it’s a total departure. It’s just me exploring that realm a little bit more exclusively than I have in the past.” Did he say “dance”? People usually sit or stand in awe of Stetson when they watch him play live — some have called his concerts a religious experience akin to experiencing great Free Jazz players of the 1960s and 1970s, like Albert Ayler. And Stetson is such a serious-looking, committed player when he’s on stage, dancing almost seems inappropriate. You might fear he’ll get mad. You could feel intimidated. But don’t be, Stetson assures. “I’m never insulted by dancing,” he says. COLIN STETSON performs Thursday at Woodward Theater. More info: woodwardtheater.com.
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PM Yawn Our cool stepdad to the north, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, recently offered a glimpse of what North American leaders were like in gentler times with his “PM Mix” on Spotify. Though not limited to Canadians, Trudeau includes plenty (The Tragically Hip, K-OS, Robbie Robertson, Drake, etc.), while also dropping in a couple of possible cry-for-help selections like R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts” and Gary Jules’ version of “Mad World” (you OK, buddy?). Though somewhat boring and predictable, the playlist is still fairly charming in the way it makes you imagine what it would be like if your main issue with the leader of your country was his taste in Sarah McLachlan songs.
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They Won’t Rock Us When the on-again/off-again movie about Queen and frontman Freddie Mercury was last in the news, it was revealed that the film is going to be really bad — like “just do it for Lifetime” bad — because the surviving band members expect the plot’s climax to be Queen’s post-Mercury rebirth with a new lead singer, a decision that led Sacha Baron Cohen to quit the project. A new Freddie — Mr. Robot star Rami Malek — was recently announced for the doomed flick, as well as a title: Bohemian Rhapsody. Make America Say “Fuck It” Again? In an attempt to see just how much lower voters are willing to go, Kid Rock seemingly verified his plans to run for a Michigan Senate seat next year. After launching a website to sell “Kid Rock for U.S. Senate” merchandise ($15.99 for a yard sign, y’all!), Rock posted a meandering “campaign announcement” with an image of a car’s fuel gauge doctored to indicate that Rock’s “fuck tank” is on empty. He also released two new songs/videos that he said were a part of his campaign messaging (one with the line “I’m a cyclone of shit wherever I roam,” so maybe?). Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a warning email to supporters reminding them about a certain other impossible candidate who was laughed off as a joke or PR stunt.
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A new endeavor initiated by a collective and Covington, Ky.) will offer a selection of of dedicated Greater Cincinnati music new and used equipment and do repair work boosters comes alive this weekend, as out of Herzog Music. For those wanting to Herzog Music opens its doors and hosts a start playing or buff up their skills, the new grand opening celebration. Queen City Music Academy — a partnership For the past seven years, the Cincinnati with Ludlow, Ky.’s Folk School Coffee Parlor USA Music Heritage Foundation has been — will have lessons and clinics at Herzog, headquartered downtown on the second covering a wide range of instrumental and floor of the building at 811 Race St. (also genre preferences. The space also offers home to CityBeat, among other tenants). vintage stereo equipment, as well as stereo It was a good fit for the organization — repair services, a big selection of used vinyl between 1945 and 1955, the space was home records and limited-edition posters and to a recording studio opened by a WLW radio prints created exclusively by local graphic engineer named E.T. Herzog where several designer Keith Neltner, who also designed crucial records were made. The studio Herzog Music’s visual brand elements. tracked everything from R&B to Bluegrass, resulting in seminal recordings by Bull Moose Jackson, Flatt & Scruggs and The Delmore Brothers, among others. In 1948, music icon Hank Williams came to Cincinnati to record at Herzog for the first time, laying down (among other songs) his breakthrough hit, “Lovesick Blues.” He later returned to record classics like “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” Thanks to CMHF’s efforts, an official historical marker honThe Tigerlilies play Herzog Music’s grand opening Saturday. oring Herzog’s groundbreakP H O T O : fa c e b oo k . c o m / T h e T i g e r l i l i e s U SA ing efforts now sits in front of the Race Street building. The site (which features photos and memoraThis Saturday and Sunday, Herzog Music bilia from the original Herzog era) has been officially opens with two days of free live visited by touring musicians like Patti Smith music from local artists, as well as special and Sufjan Stevens, and CMHF has hosted guest speakers and performers, an open jam, numerous events, programs, performances tours of the original Herzog space, food from and sessions featuring local artists like DalEli’s BBQ (founder Elias Leisring is one on las Moore, Jeremy Pinnell and many others. Herzog Music’s leading partners) and more. With its most recent tenants, the six-story Saturday at 11 a.m., drummer Philip Paul (a building will now be even more recognizCincinnati legend who was a session player able as an important musical landmark. for King Records) will be on hand for a Partnering with CMHF, the Herzog Music ribbon-cutting ceremony. Live music begins collective has taken over the building’s eyeat 1 p.m. on Saturday, with performances by catching first-floor storefront to not only The Hiders, Ricky Nye & Chris Douglas, keep a spotlight on Cincinnati’s musical Brianna Kelly, Tracy Walker and The contributions of the past, but also bolster Tigerlilies, who recorded the songs for the city’s current and next generations of their recent 7-inch single “Shipwrecked” in musicians and music lovers. Herzog’s original second-floor studio spot. Described as a “new music collective and The music picks up again at 1 p.m. on Sunday, emporium designed to bring together the with sets throughout the day by J Dorsey region’s music community and welcome visitBand, Chalk Eye, Andrew Hibbard, Aniing musicians to participate in our area’s rich mal Crackers and All-Seeing Eyes, whose and diverse music scene,” the members of 7-inch featuring a session recorded at Herzog the Herzog Music collaborative have brought in 2014 became the first vinyl release to come together their various areas of expertise and out of the new Herzog era. interests to create a multifaceted gathering Sign up for Herzog Music’s mailing list at place/shop/education center unlike any herzogmusic.com to be notified about events, other in Greater Cincinnati. classes and more. For up-to-the-minute inforRenowned for its vintage gear and instrumation, visit facebook.com/herzogmusic. ment selection, as well as its repair work, CONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@citybeat.com Mike’s Music (which has shops in Corryville
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roots to the Faces’ ale-soaked bluster to The Black Crowes’ Southern-fried revivalism. But the band’s guitar/drums origin also exhibits hints of the Black Keys/White Stripes brand of spartan translations of the same general form. The recent expansion of Blackfoot Gypsies from two pieces to four has naturally elevated the band’s sound to a raucous sonic hurricane of Category 5 intensity, which really is just an upgrade from the Category 3 of the original duo. The Gypsies formed in 2010 when guitarist/vocalist Matthew Paige and drummer Zach Murphy pooled their talents to create an explosive confluence of Southern Rock, Punk, Soul, Americana and Country. Although they utilized bassists in the studio for the band’s first two EPs, 2010’s Blackfoot Gypsies and 2011’s Dandee Cheeseball, and debut full-length, 2012’s On the Loose, they typically played live dates as a two-piece. Early in 2015, the band signed a contract with Plowboy Records, co-founded by Eddy Arnold’s grandson Shannon Pollard. The Gypsies’ first release for the label, Handle It, came out four months later and showcased its newly expanded presentation, with bassist Dylan Whitlow and harmonica wizard Ollie “Dogg” Horton joining as permanent members. The Gypsies’ latest album, the recently released and self-produced To the Top, is a swaggering, freewheeling collection of chugging, chest-thumping, fist-pumping howlers and oddly nuanced Country and Swing numbers that play up the band’s affinity for The Replacements’ back-on-itsheels ferocity, as well as Paul Westerberg’s reflective introspection. But forget the influences and reference points and genre tags — Blackfoot Gypsies reminds us, at the upper registers of aural tolerance, that Rock & Roll wasn’t intended to be perfectly crafted, produced and executed: It was meant to be played by sweating, staggering drunks in front of sweating, staggering drunks for the best possible time to be had by all. Thank God and the devil for Blackfoot Gypsies. (Brian Baker)
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NAPPY ROOTS – Aug. 5, Woodward Theater PENTATONIX – Aug. 6, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend
Andrea Cefalo feat. Napoleon Maddox 8-12
GUIDED BY VOICES – Aug. 16, Woodward Theater
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GREG HOWE – Aug. 16, Southgate House Revival ANA POPOVIC – Aug. 17, Taft Theatre (Ballroom) LOGIC – Aug. 18, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend JOE LOUIS WALKER – Aug. 20, Southgate House Revival
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THE WAILERS – July 27, Bogart’s
COLIN HAY – Oct. 29, Taft Theatre
NEGATIVE APPROACH – July 27, Northside Yacht Club
A PERFECT CIRCLE – Nov. 19, BB&T Arena
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Steve Earle & The Dukes with The Mastersons Thursday • Taft Theatre Waylon Jennings’ Honky Tonk Heroes is one of Steve Earle’s all-time favorite records. What better inspiration then for the singer/ songwriter and his crack band, The Dukes, to reference on Earle’s latest album, So You Wannabe an Outlaw? “What made Waylon different than just about anyone else of that era was that it was kind of the Country equivalent of Riff Rock — everything was built along a strong Country guitar line, which Waylon played himself,” Earle says by phone from a tour stop in Texas. “That’s kind of what I tried to do in writing most of these songs.” The title track opens with Earle playing a loose riff on the back pickup of a Fender Telecaster, employing the same low guitar tone Jennings favored in his 1970s Outlaw Country heyday. The second song, “Lookin’ for a Woman,” seems to overtly tackle the breakup of his marriage with singer Allison Moorer, who, according to an interview Earle did recently with The Guardian, left him “for a younger, skinnier, less talented singer/ songwriter.” So You WanSteve Earle nabe an Outlaw P H O T O : C h a d B at k a toggles back and forth between these two poles — from Telecaster-driven Country rockers like the rollicking “Fixin’ to Die” and more pensive tunes about heartbreak and loss like “The Girl on the Mountain.” In fact, ironically for a guy who has never shied away from controversial hot-button topics, the new album is Earle’s least political to date. “We started less than a month after the election,” Earle says. “I thought about banging together some songs that dealt with that, but then it was like, ‘You know what, let this record be what it is.’ Musically, it’s a look back, but also the future of this band and what we’re going to be doing for the foreseeable future. I kind of think we have one of the best Country Rock bands that’s ever existed. “So the next record is probably going to be just as Country as this one, and waaaay more political.” (JG)
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THURSDAY 20
BREWRIVER GASTROPUB - Old Green Eyes and BBG. 6 p.m. Standards. Free.
ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Dottie Warner and Wayne Shannon. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.
BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Phil DeGreg Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.
BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Todd Hepburn and Friends. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Reggae Wednesday with The Anthem Band. 7 p.m. Reggae. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Dallas Moore. 10 p.m. Country. Free. THE LIBERTY INN - Stagger Lee. 6:30 p.m. Country/Rock. Free. THE LISTING LOON - Ricky Nye. 8:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. MADISON LIVE - Winterhymn and Dreadnought. 8 p.m. Folk Metal/Various. $7, $10 day of show.
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MANSION HILL TAVERN - Losing Lucky. 8 p.m. Roots. Free. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Mike Biere. 7 p.m. Acoustic. Free. MOTR PUB - Bad Bad Hats. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.
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NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Shiny Old Soul. 9 p.m. Roots/Rock/Various. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB Detriment, Hangman, DMP, Bonehead and Outcast. 9 p.m. Metal/Hardcore. Free. PIT TO PLATE - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER H - 2017 Vans Warped Tour featuring Blessthefall, Hatebreed,
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GWAR, Anti-Flag, Valient Thor, Sick of It All, Barb Wire Dolls, War On Women, Memphis May Fire, Andy Black, American Authors, Neck Deep, Dance Gavin Dance, The Ataris, Municipal Waste, Suicide Machines, Save Ferris and more. 12:30 p.m. Rock/ Punk/Hardcore/Metal/Various. $40, $50 day of show. SILVERTON CAFE - Root Cellar Xtract. 8:30 p.m. Country Rock. Free.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Mark Becknell with Queen City Silver Stars and Jonathan Luck Spaulding. 8 p.m. Various. Free. URBAN ARTIFACT - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10. WOODWARD THEATER Priests with Swim Team and Blakkr. 8 p.m. Rock/Punk/Various. $11, $13 day of show.
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CROW’S NEST - Easy Tom Eby. 9:30 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free. FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Salsa on the Square with Kandela. 7 p.m. Salsa/Dance/Latin/Various. Free.
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KNOTTY PINE - Chalis. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/Blues/Various. Free. LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO Ricky Nye. 6 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. MOTR PUB - Filthy Beast H with We’re Witches. 10 p.m. Rock. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB Worriers with Camp Cope and Hateflirt. 9 p.m. Punk. Cover. PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Open Mic with Mike Lieser. 7 p.m. Various. Free. RIVERSEDGE - Wild Adriatic H with Blackfoot Gypsies. 6:30 p.m. Rock. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Eric Bolander, Adam Lee and Shawn Taylor. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free. TAFT THEATRE - Steve Earle & the Dukes with The Mastersons. 8 p.m. Americana/ Roots. $43.50-$48.50.
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URBAN ARTIFACT - ADDVantz, Toph, Sheldon Belcher, D Eight, Modus Operandi, Sess and Doughty Family. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. Free. WASHINGTON PARK - Bandstand Bluegrass with Joe’s Truck Stop and Arlo McKinley. 7 p.m. Americana/Folk/Various. Free. WOODWARD THEATER - Colin Stetson with Justin Walter. 8:30 p.m. Indie/Progressive/New Music/Various. $16.
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FRIDAY 21 ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Wilder. 9 p.m. Americana. Free. BLUE ASH SUMMIT PARK H The Porkopolis Pig & Whiskey Festival featuring Jay Jesse
BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE H - Andrea Cefalo Quartet. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. THE COMET - Mr. Russia, Tiger Sex and Lipstick Fiction. 10 p.m. Rock. Free. COMMON ROOTS - Blvck Seeds. 8 p.m. Alternative/Various. Free. CROW’S NEST - Bryan McPherson. 10 p.m. Americana/Folk. Free. THE GREENWICH - Brandon Meeks. 9 p.m. Jazz/Gospel/Soul. $10. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Fun Size. 9 p.m. Dance/Pop/ Various. $5. JAPP’S - Burning Caravan 5:30 p.m. Gypsy Jazz. Free. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Joey Said No. 10 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance. Cover. LAWRENCEBURG EVENT CENTER - Sublime with Rome. 8 p.m. Rock/ Pop/Ska/Punk. $35-$50. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Blue Ravens. 9 p.m. Blues. $4.
URBAN ARTIFACT - Red Idle Rejects, Wild Mountain Berries and The Vims. 8 p.m. Americana/Rock/ Various. Free.
BREWRIVER GASTROPUB - Todd Hepburn. 11 a.m. Blues/Various. Free.
MOTR PUB - Blossom Hall with H Smut. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/ Various. Free.
THE COMET - The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.
WASHINGTON PARK - Friday Flow with Calvin Richardson. 7 p.m. Neo Soul/R&B. Free.
NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H Kool Keith with Mr. Dibbs, RaisedXWolves, Nati Kid and
WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Eric Lechliter. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).
OCTAVE - Hyryder. 9 p.m. Grateful Dead tribute. $12.
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WOODWARD THEATER - Dawg Yawp with Caleb Groh and JSPH. 9 p.m. Indie/Alt/Folk/Pop/ Various. $12, $14 day of show.
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SATURDAY 22 ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Honey and Houston. 9 p.m. Americana. Free. BLUE ASH SUMMIT H PARK - The Porkopolis Pig & Whiskey Festival featuring Comet
Stallitix. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $15, $18 day of show.
PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Second Time Around (7:30 p.m.); Dave Sams (6 p.m.). 6 p.m. Various. Free. THE REDMOOR - Redmoor Summer Sessions: Side B featuring Here Come Here, Zebras In Public, See You In The Funnies, The Borderline Something, Anderson Ferry, Queen City Overdrive and The Grove. 5 p.m. Rock/Alt/Various. $10, $15 day of show (benefit for Breast Cancer Research Fund).
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MVP BAR & GRILLE - BulletBoys with Counting Stars and Mojo Rizin. 8 p.m. Rock. $16.
BLUE NOTE DELHI - Ambush. 10 p.m. Rock
SILVERTON CAFE - Chapter 4. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.
NORTHSIDE TAVERN - The Cliftones. 10 p.m. Reggae. Free.
BLUE NOTE HARRISON - East of Austin. 8 p.m. Country
OCTAVE - Strange Mechanics. 8 p.m. Psych/Funk/Jam/Various. Cover.
BOGART’S - Sinful Crow with Life After This and Signal the Revolution. 8 p.m. Rock. $10.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Hoosier Songwriter Roadshow with Jeff Byrd, Jeff Kelly and The McDonalds. 9:30 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. Free.
PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Francis & Kilburn (7:30 p.m.); Christina Schnetzer (6 p.m.). 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Phil DeGreg Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.
MOTR PUB - Coastal Club. 10:30 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.
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PNC PAVILION AT RIVERBEND - Tedeschi Trucks Band with The Wood Brothers and Hot Tuna. 7 p.m. Rock/Blues/Soul/Roots/ Various. $52-$79.
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RICK’S TAVERN - Empty Garden. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Pop. Cover. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Kid Stardust with Even Tiles, Lo and The Loyal Conscripts. 9:30 p.m. Indie/Rock/Various. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Krystal Peterson & The Queen City Band with Small Time Napoleon. 9 p.m. R&B/Soul/Roots/Various. $5.
BLUE NOTE FAIRFIELD - Chris Lee Acoustic. 9:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
SYMPHONY HOTEL AND RESTAURANT - Chris Comer & Will Toedtman Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.
SUNDAY 23
MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Greg Hines. 9 p.m. Americana. Free.
RICK’S TAVERN - Tuned Up Band. 10 p.m. Rock. $5.
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MANSION HILL TAVERN - The H Heaters. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.
Bluegrass All-Stars, Royal Holland, Taylor Shannon, Right Turn Clyde, The Rosetint Collective, Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers, Ethan and Joey and Joe Wannabe. 11 a.m. Roots/Bluegrass/Blues/Country/ Various. Free.
MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Doug Kreitzer. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.
Johnson Band, Justin Paul Lewis, The Missy Werner Band, Wonky Tonk and Willow Street Carolers. 5 p.m. Blues/Americana/Bluegrass/ Roots/Various. Free.
BOGART’S - The Dopamines and The Raging Nathans. 9 p.m. Rock/Punk. $10.
THE UNDERGROUND - Bryan Mohr, Kylie Miller, Nicholas Brehm, Casey Brenning and Spencer Anthony. 7 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. Cover.
CINCINNATIAN HOTEL - Philip Paul Trio. 7 p.m. Jazz. Free. THE COMET - Parlor Voice and Joesph. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free. COMMON ROOTS - Danbient. 8 p.m. Alternative/Various. Free. THE GREENWICH - Lavieena Campbell. 9 p.m. Jazz/Blues/ Various. $10. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Company Band. 9 p.m. Dance/ Pop/Various. $5. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Jason Owens Band. 9 p.m. Country. Free. LAWRENCEBURG EVENT H CENTER - Kesha. 8 p.m. Pop. $35-$60. MADISON LIVE - Wilson’s Reservoir with Cultural Vultures, Blueprints and Elements. 8 p.m. Alt/Indie/Americana/ Various. $10.
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RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER Jason Aldean with Chris Young and Kane Brown. 7:30 p.m. Country. Sold out.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Verment with Nithing, Bloodgate and Split The Abyss. 10 p.m. Metal. $5. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (SANCTUARY) - Split Lip Rayfield and The Tillers. 9 p.m. Roots/Folk/Bluegrass/Punk. $12, $15 day of show.
THOMPSON HOUSE - Draud Haus. 7 p.m. Alternative. $10. THE UNDERGROUND - Red Metafor with Launchpad and Kayleigh Bowen. 7 p.m. Rock. Cover. URBAN ARTIFACT - Electric Orange Peel, SolEcho and Conscious Pilot. 9 p.m. Rock. $5. WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - The Jim Connerly Group. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum). THE WOOD BAR - Chris Lee Acoustic. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
MADISON LIVE - Stone and Broken Teeth with Absolute Suffering, Treason, Concrete and Turncoat. 7 p.m. Rock. $10, $12 day of show. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Blues Jam with Sonny Moorman. 6 p.m. Blues. Free. MOTR PUB - Swoops with Dot.s. 9 p.m. Indie/Rock/Various. Free. SONNY’S ALL BLUES LOUNGE Blues jam session featuring Sonny’s All Blues Band. 8 p.m. Blues. Free. TAFT THEATRE - Three Dog Night. 8 p.m. Classic Rock. $29.50-$49.50. URBAN ARTIFACT - One World H Music & Cultural Celebration featuring Queen City Silver Stars,
Cincy Brazil Samba Dance, Keshvar Project and more. 2 p.m. World/ Various. $12, $15 day of show.
MONDAY 24 THE GREENWICH - Baron Von Ohlen & the Flying Circus Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. $5 (or two canned goods). MEMORIAL HALL - The H Original Farm League Big Band. 7 p.m. Jazz. $6. MUGGBEES BAR & GRILL Karaoke DJ. 8 p.m. Various. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN - The Qtet. 10 p.m. Fusion/Rock/Funk/Jazz/ Various. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H Terror Pigeon with Real Dom. 9 p.m. Indie/Dance/Electronic/ Various.
URBAN ARTIFACT - Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, Nancy P., Andrew Would and RALPH. 8 p.m. Indie/Rock/ Various. $5.
TUESDAY 25 ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Diamond Jim Dews. 7 p.m. Blues. Free. PNC PAVILION AT RIVERBEND Amos Lee and Lake Street Dive. 8 p.m. Rock/Roots/Soul/Pop/ Various. $33-$63. STANLEY’S PUB - Trashgrass Tuesday featuring members of Rumpke Mt. Boys. 9 p.m. Bluegrass. Cover. URBAN ARTIFACT - The Jared Presley Experience, Run Believers, Slow Glows and Season Ten. 8 p.m. Rock/Various.
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