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WEDNESDAY AUG. 03

New emojis are coming with iOS 10, and if you think an announcement that innocuous can’t be politicized, you are obviously new here. Hi, welcome, take a seat. The 100 new and redesigned characters — coming sometime this fall — will feature more gender and race inclusivity (more skin color options, a lady cop, single-parent families and an awesome male version of the dancing bunny ear girls), a new rainbow flag (a symbol for LGBTQ pride) and a green squirt gun (which is replacing the current semi-realistic pistol). Emojis: proving that while Obama might not take your guns, Apple will. There are still a variety of weapons and other not-for-kids images including a bomb, swords, knife, pill, syringe, burning cigarette and several alcoholic beverages, so pick your poison! (Is there a poison emoji?)

Clearly Apple is not trying to censor out all of the NSFWish characters, though, because everyone can agree that the veiny eggplant, particularly paired with “splashing water,” is the most offensive of them all.

THURSDAY AUG. 04

Is there any food more accessible than pizza? Sure, some people wait hours for a crispy pie coming from a certain 1,200-degree Neapolitan oven in Over-the-Rhine, but when it comes to the path of least resistance, there are many options. You can pull any variety out of your freezer — be it pie, bagel or roll form — and bake that shit yourself; drive through Trotta’s on the West Side and enjoy a couple slices without getting out of your car; or literally build your dream ’za on the internet and someone will cook it and deliver it to your front door. It’s truly a great time to be alive. And now locals can enjoy yet another mode of pizza acquisition: via ATM (automated tasty machine, presumably). Xavier University is now home to the first Pizza ATM in North America, where the hungry masses can order from a kiosk that will dispense a fresh pie in about three minutes. Perfect for those who want to enjoy cheesy, carby goodness without interacting with a human. Because sometimes that 30-second encounter with the delivery guy is just too much to bear.

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All the ladies if you feel me, help me sing it out… Cincinnati Police has its first female K-9 patrol member. The Belgian Malinois named Sicaria — which seems quite intimidating if you’ve ever seen the film Sicario — graduated alongside three other dogs and their handlers Friday.

While most police dogs are male, Sicaria is in good company — in 2008, another female Belgian Malinois from New York won the National Police Dog Trials with the highest score ever recorded. So no shade to Hillary, but this bitch is really breaking that glass ceiling.

SUNDAY AUG. 07

If the idea of a white party conjures up visions of Puff Daddy’s annual monochrome Hamptons bash circa 1998, think again. All-white parties are a thing now — still a thing? — with multiple events happening locally. (Cue the “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati…” line often misattributed to Mark Twain). This week DC Enterprise — a company “promoting quality events to the mature crowd,” which sounds a bit raunchier than probably intended — hosted Grown Folks Weekend in Cincinnati. The event kicked off with an All-White Boat Ride on BB Riverboats’ Belle of Cincinnati. Earlier this summer, the fifth-annual Dîner en Blanc took over Union Terminal. That event encourages folks to courageously dress head-to-toe in the most easily stainable color for a chic outdoor picnic at a location that is only revealed last-minute. Let’s just say that one’s extra white. So are allwhite events becoming a trend? The phrasing is just a little cringe-worthy. They’re going for a classy affair-type vibe but right now it’s sounding like a very accurate description of the Republican party at best, or a KKK rally at worst.

MONDAY AUG. 08

Ever wonder how Jerry and friends would explore the topic of 9/11 on Seinfeld? Well, writer and comedian Billy Domineau did, and his script is taking the internet by storm. Without revealing too many spoilers — because you should go read all 44 pages of it immediately — Jerry is overwhelmed by the dust in the city (and the contents of said dust), George is mistaken for a first-responder, Elaine’s boyfriend is injured in the collapse (but no seriously it’s funny) and Kramer has an interesting connection to one of the hijackers. In perfect Seinfeld fashion, Domineau takes the focus off of the horrific act, away from political finger-pointing and onto our hilariously self-centered characters. Much ado about nothing!

TUESDAY AUG. 09

More than 7,000 people have signed a change.org petition to rename the Bengals the Cincinnati Harambes. We’ll leave you with this unedited description: “The Cleveland Browns named their team after a former coach who made a great impact on their city so why cant the Bengals do it as well in honor of a hero who made an impact on their city too!”

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Look at this dumb little dog, who can’t even take care of her teeth! If Cesar Millan — aka “The Dog Whisperer” — saw this, he would be none too pleased. On his website, Millan gives several solutions for improving doggy dental care, such as $pecial tootpa$te for brushing your dog’s teeth and taking your little friend to the vet to have her teeth cleaned.

However, most people have difficulty finding the money and motivation to floss their own chompers, much less their canine’s. So, here are some easy life hacks that will keep your dog smiling for years to come.

• Taking your dog to the vet every six to 12 months to have her teeth cleaned is expensive and time consuming. The next time you make a dentist appointment for yourself, consider bringing the pup with you. Hide your dog under the chair or in another easily accessible place. When the hygienist turns around to grab the water sprayer, switch places with your dog. Make sure you have time to replace the paper bib so the hygienist does not suspect anything unusual. Upon seeing the plaquey teeth, the hygienist will assume that he did a poor job and clean them again. Voilà!

A two-for-one teeth cleaning! Just remember to ask for fluoride-free products. Fluoride is poisonous to dogs.

• There are three things that dogs do instinctively: hunt, swim and gargle. Take advantage of your dog’s natural gargling ability. When your dog has her front paws pressed on your leg, begging for food, some petting or whatever sort of things dogs like, just pour a small glass of mouthwash (fluoride-free, of course) into her open mouth. She may look surprised at first, but her natural instincts will kick in almost immediately. Then you both can enjoy the natural rhythmic sounds of a dog’s gargling. Try as you might, I guarantee you won’t be able to keep from dancing.

• Have you ever noticed that if your friends have good habits, you develop good habits, too? This is also true for dogs. Try to find your dog new friends with clean teeth. Encourage her to spend time with her new clean-teeth friends, barking, pooping and riding their bicycles on the carpet. She will take notice of their pearly white smiles and fresh breath and adjust her lifestyle accordingly. This transition may be difficult at first, but the years spent together with good doggy dental health will be worth it!

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The 2016 Summer Olympics kicked off this week amid much controversy. Residents, athletes and spectators alike are worried about sanitation issues, ’roided up Russians, the thought of the city crumbling to ruins and, of course, the Ebola of 2016, Zika virus! How scary. Everybody knows the Olympic Village is basically an all-hours sex party and the athletes are always pretty careful to wrap it up — nothing fucks up your dismount quite like morning sickness or a growing baby bump. But with the threat of Zika, they’re handing out birth control like candy this year — an average of 45 condoms per competitor. Naturally, many of these concerns were swept aside during the opening ceremony, where Michael Phelps led the U.S. team into Maracanã Stadium. You gotta love that Brazil has a stadium tribute to the hottest ’90s dance craze that still lives on at boring wedding receptions. Sure, they could have named it after a Brazilian river or bird or fried chicken like in Louisville, but they chose something we can all relate to: synchronized choreography perfected at school dances. And no one was thinking about Zika at the ceremony once they spotted Tongan flag bearer Jonah Takalua Pita Taufatofua. This Polynesian competitor stole the show as he strutted across

the screen topless and oiled up. And besides being super hot, the self-funded Taufatofua is the first Tongan athlete to qualify in Taekwondo for the Olympic Games. Check him out in more ways than one when he competes Aug. 20.

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Presidential election commercials are the worst, especially if you live in Ohio.

But I recently noted a departure from the incessant fear mongering that Democrats and Republicans often engage in when I accidentally caught a slot from U.S. Senator Rob Portman drawing attention to the heroin epidemic and his efforts to combat the problem with his Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act (CARA) legislation.

It began with a statistic about the number of people who overdose on heroin each day. The commercial then introduced a mother who lost her young daughter to an overdose, a narrative that is unfortunately common nationwide.

For unsettling reasons, the commercial lingered with me long after his voice intoned, “I approve this message.”

While I approve of the rare bipartisan collaboration to tackle the overwhelming issue of heroin addiction, I am troubled and frankly bitter at the newfound compassion extended to disproportionately white drug users, because this sympathy has so long evaded people of color.

The empathetic tone often employed by politicians and the media when describing the heroin crisis is a profound shift from the condemnation and criminalization that black and brown communities have endured for decades.

Until fairly recently, mainstream American press typically painted addiction, particularly within poor communities of color, as proof of the absence of morality and discipline of shiftless nonwhites.

Take, for example, this passage from a 1999 Cincinnati Enquirer story about black Cincinnati Bengals player Stanley Wilson, who was addicted to cocaine.

“Ten years ago this week, Stanley Wilson ruined his life,” the piece begins, before offering up a graphic description of Wilson snorting coke before a pre-Super Bowl team meeting in 1989.

“The player was sweating and shivering.

White powder flecked his nose and upper lip.

The devil was back, for good.”

Wilson ended up being sentenced to 22 years in California state prison under the state’s three-strikes law after a burglary attempt. During his trial, his attorneys presented evidence that Wilson suffered from bipolar disorder.

Many media outlets picked up Wilson’s story, but few if any delved into his background or the possibility that he might have suffered from a mental illness.

In the popular narratives of the time, drug abuse among communities of color was not viewed as a consequence of persistent discrimination or trauma. The prevailing tale usually diminished the complex

issue of addiction into a self-imposed hurdle from an already undesirable population.

Many dog-whistling white pundits still enjoy evoking these coded ideologies and language today, with terms like “black on black crime” and “culture of poverty.” The labels of shame were not exclusive to drug users themselves, either. Their stigma also extended to children, sensationalizing and exploiting substance-addicted infants of color from the ’80s as “crack babies.”

Heroin users who are mostly white are now presented in a more nuanced manner.

Instead of branding people experiencing addiction as inherently bad, folks struggling with substance abuse who happen to be white are seen as people who fell victim to America’s prescription drug problem and white America’s fading economic and social security.

White people are even granted more dignity in their deaths when a cocaine overdose is the suspected culprit. Kiersten Rickenbach Cerveny was a mother of three who died tragically of an overdose. Her story was told with gentility and humaneness, often absent from media narratives of people of color who have died in similar unfortunate circumstances.

“A night of blowing off steam in Manhattan for a visiting mother of three ended tragically on Sunday morning,” a piece on Cerveny’s overdose published last year by The Daily Beast begins.

Others are noticing these nuances. Atlantic editor Andrew Cohen asked in an article about the heroin epidemic last year: “Are policymakers going easier today on heroin users (white and often affluent) than their elected predecessors did a generation ago when confronted with crack addicts who were largely black, disenfranchised, and economically bereft?”

It is possible that this newfound compassionate approach is an exercise in intense reflection and application of best practice.

But even if that’s true, the fact remains that people of color are still disproportionately arrested and convicted for drug use.

According to the NAACP, 12 percent of the total population of drug users are African American, but blacks represent 38 percent of those arrested for drug offenses and 59 percent of those in state prison for drug offenses.

The organization also notes that African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as

whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months).

To what can we attribute these stark realities? The phenomenon also reflects America’s pervasive racial empathy gap — studies have found that there is an overwhelming apathy to the literal pain blacks experience across the various levels of society.

Across the nation, task forces are assembling to provide creative, non-criminal, solution-based approaches to opioid addiction. First responders are being supplied Narcan to revive folks on the brink of death from overdose. Cities like Ithaca, N.Y. are shopping the idea of supervised drug use

“I refuse to concede to the notion that communities of color deserve punishment while white counterparts are entitled to preservation.” sites to provide safer space and medical assistance to drug users.

Arresting and jailing is not the call to action to solve these problems when they seem to befall whites. What if issues within communities of color were approached with such institutionalized imagination and resources?

The contrast between the response to drug addiction in mostly white communities and similar epidemics calls up a deeper question: Who do we deem worthy of social and systemic redemption?

My frustration with the prioritization of white people’s problems does not make me indifferent to the pain endured by these communities in peril. But I refuse to concede to the notion that communities of color deserve punishment while white counterparts are entitled to preservation.

Empathy shall not, and cannot, be a white privilege. Addressing the needs of marginalized people of color should not require society to view their struggles through the frame of whiteness. People of color, whether documented or not, receiving government benefits or not, employed or not, deserve the resources and ingenuity to improve their quality of life, too.

CHRISTINA BROWN’s columns will appear in this space the second week of each month. Contact her: letters@ citybeat.com.

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Fights over attendance data at Ohio’s largest online school could endanger its state funding. year, calls ODE’s audit and its attendance standards an “illogical, arbitrary and irrational attempt to deprive them of their right to school choice.”

The school has also re-upped a request for state correspondence about the ODE audit, which it originally filed last month.

Lawyers for the school accused the ODE of “dragging its feet” on delivering those records in a letter they sent to state officials Aug. 4.

ECOT has been locked in a bitter fight with the Ohio Department of Education since March, when a preliminary attendance audit by State Auditor David Yost’s office showed that students spent just one-fifth of the time they should spend on the school’s site.

Outside groups have recently joined the fray. The Ohio Coalition for Quality Education, a pro-charter lobbying group, wrote a letter to Ohio delegates at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last month tying the ODE’s effort to gain attendance records to Democrats.

“In the Ohio Department of Education — the last bastion of Democrat, pro-union thinking in state government — Democrats are trying to eliminate a core principle of Republican philosophy: school choice,” the letter read.

Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger spoke at a June graduation event for ECOT students. When Rosenberger was asked by online education news site StateImpact Ohio about the school’s audit while he was at the RNC, the Republican said lawmakers need to look at “the whole situation,” including other online charter schools that have attendance issues.

School founder and Columbus businessman William Lager has been heavily involved in funding political campaigns, most of them Republican. Last year, he gave $10,000 to the Ohio Republican Party, and in the past five years he has given more than $1 million to Republican lawmakers.

ECOT’s efforts to plead their case go beyond lawmakers. The school has aired ads asking the ODE to “Keep your word.

Keep ECOT open.” Those and other ad buys advertising ECOT, which feature students talking about the ways the online school has helped them, have cost about $280,000 of taxpayer money.

“What will happen to kids like me who depended on ECOT?” asks Rajah Morales, who the commercial says is a former student at the school.

The fight over ECOT’s attendance comes as larger questions about Ohio’s

online charter schools continue to heat up. Concerns first came to wide public attention last year, when then-ODE School Choice Director David Hansen resigned after it was revealed that he had omitted low-performing online charter school data from major charter school evaluation reports. Hansen is married to Beth Hansen, who was Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s chief of staff before running his presidential campaign.

Many of the schools omitted were sponsored by a nonprofit called Ohio Council of Community Schools. That organization was paid $1.5 million last year by the state to oversee Ohio Virtual Academy and OHDELA, an online school run by big charter school company White Hat Management. The latter company is owned by high-level GOP donor David Brennan, who helped push for the original charter schools established in Ohio in the late 1990s.

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hio taxpayers have been paying $100 million a year to send 15,000 students to a school that has no books, no classrooms and, according to recent state efforts to get to the bottom of its attendance records, little proof that it is providing educational opportunities required by the state.

Critics, including state lawmakers, say the continuing battle between the Ohio Department of Education and privately run but publicly funded online charter school Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) underscores problems with the state’s lax oversight of its charter system, especially embattled online schools. Officials say ECOT must prove it is providing at least 920 hours of learning opportunities a year or risk losing millions in state funding.

But the school’s leadership says it is providing an invaluable service for students who can’t attend a brick and mortar school and that a 2003 contract between ECOT and the state stipulates that it cannot be held accountable for its actual attendance rates. Officials say if the state holds it to those standards and strips some of its funding, it may have to close.

“ECOT’s failure to educate its students and continued wasting of tax dollars cannot go on any longer,” Ohio Senate Minority Leader Joe Schiavoni, D-Boardman, said in statement after a judge’s order to ECOT directing the school to turn over attendance records.

But the school says its contract with the state doesn’t stipulate that students log in the full five hours a day the state requires, only that the school provides that many hours of educational opportunities.

State officials have asked for proof that ECOT students are spending significant time learning offline — documentation that the school says does not exist.

The fate of the online charter school may rest in the 50 boxes of student log-in and log-out records, more than 25,000 pages in all, it delivered to ODE Aug. 3 and 4 under orders from Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

ECOT tried to block the agency’s oversight efforts with a lawsuit there in July and continues to press on with an amended suit that seeks to block the state from holding the school to the attendance standards.

ECOT and two parents of students at the school have filed and updated a lawsuit to keep the state “from purposefully discriminating against them.” That suit, which will go to court sometime next

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A proposal that would raise wages for up to 6,000 union-represented city employees

by Mayor John Cranley has set off a continuing political tug-of-war between the mayor, Cincinnati City Council, unions and the city administration. Now, one prominent Cranley critic has put forward alternatives to the mayor’s plan.

Cranley wants to give workers represented by the Fraternal Order of Police, Cincinnati’s firefighters union, Cincinnati Organized and Dedicated Employees union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and others a five percent raise this December, another five percent raise next year and a four percent raise in 2018. The raises would happen outside the normal collective bargaining process that the city and several of the unions have already finished this year.

City Manager Harry Black and Democrats on Council — including Cranley’s potential primary challenger in the 2017 mayoral race, Yvette Simpson — have balked at the move, saying that it undermines the city’s collective bargaining process and will create budget deficits in coming years.

Simpson is proposing alternatives to Cranley’s plan, attempting to thread the needle between opposing the mayor and still providing pay boosts for unions.

On Aug. 8, she called Cranley’s plan “reckless” and “shortsighted” in a social media post outlining other possible ways to go about boosting city employees’ pay.

Her suggestions: Amend this year’s budget to make room for wage increases, then send unions back to the negotiating table with Black. Most unions have already bargained with the city and come to an agreement before Cranley’s proposal, although the Fraternal Order of Police was still wrangling with the city.

Simpson’s second proposal: Allow the FOP and another union, CODE, which is also still negotiating, to complete those talks with the city, then wrap other unions up in the agreements they reach.

That idea would also mean that the city budget would need to be amended.

While the first pay bump can be covered by a budget surplus, the additional increases over the next two years in the proposal could send the city into $5.5 million and $7 million deficits, respectively, City Budget Director Chris Bingham told Council when Cranley first made the proposal two weeks ago.

In a letter to Council, Cranley claimed that his ordinance “proposes exactly what

you described in your post,” addressing Simpson’s alternatives. “I would love to work on this issue with you and invite you to meet with me to discuss further.”

Even some of Cranley’s critics on Council say the raises are the right thing to do. And unions that would benefit from the raises have been vocal in pushing for the boost. That has put Council Democrats who rely on union support in an awkward position.

Cranley has received significant support from organized labor as he looks toward 2017. Through its political action committee, AFSCME, one of the unions representing city workers, gave Cranley $2,700 in the first half of this year. Another PAC it contributes to, Turnaround Ohio, gave the mayor another $2,500 this spring.

“The choice for city council couldn’t be more clear,” Pete McLinden, executive secretary-treasurer for Cincinnati’s AFL-CIO, said at a news conference about the mayor’s wage proposal last week. “Is it more important for you personally to attack our mayor and his leadership? Or is it more important to stand up for your workforce, which makes this city great?”

(Nick Swartsell)

Deters: No Charges in Police-Involved Shooting An officer involved in the shooting death of a man in downtown Cincinnati won’t face charges because he acted in selfdefense, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters announced Aug. 8.

Two Cincinnati police officers shot and killed 25-year-old Jawari Porter near downtown’s Government Square the morning of Aug. 7 after authorities say he pulled a knife on an officer and tried to attack him in his cruiser.

According to a 911 call placed by a Kroger employee, a man stole “four or five” items from the store, and when confronted by a security guard, pulled a knife on him. The security guard relented and the suspect fled, the employee said.

Officers Anthony Brucato and Patrick Galligan were responding to that call when they spotted Porter, who authorities say fit the description of the robbery suspect, downtown. After Porter approached the cruiser with a knife, Brucato drew his weapon and fired six times, according to Isaac, killing Porter.

“It’s important to recognize, based on what we just heard, that we could have been in a situation where an officer could have been killed,” Mayor John Cranley said during an Aug. 8 news conference.

Video footage released by the Cincinnati Police Department shows Officer CONTINUES ON PAGE 13

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historically under-performed compared to public schools.

Brennan has said that his schools have low performance because they’re working with low-income students who face many challenges. But in 2010, the boards of 10 schools that White Hat operated in Cleveland and Akron sued the company. They alleged that in order to turn a profit the company was shortchanging the schools on public money it collected. It took three years for courts to order White Hat to show financial records.

Meanwhile, a study commissioned by the Thomas Fordham B. Institute and released earlier this month suggests that the state’s 24 online schools like those run

by White Hat and ECOT aren’t providing their 35,000 students with a satisfactory education. While the institute generally supports charters, it found online schools in Ohio lacking.

“Online students are not achieving at the same level as their peers in brick-andmortar schools,” the report said, noting that the online schools are dragging down the ratings of other charters. Online charter advocates have shrugged off the report, saying that students who enroll in such schools often start out at a lower performance level. ©

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Burcato pointing his weapon at Porter while opening the driver side door of the police SUV. The video then shows Porter coming close to Burcato and Burcato shooting him. Officer Galligan is then seen coming around to the driver’s side and attempting to pull Porter out of the car, apparently after he had been shot.

An earlier video taken within Kroger shows a man holding a knife up to a security guard’s throat as the guard attempts to block him from exiting the store.

The shooting comes during continued frustrations between police and black communities across the country around inequities in law enforcement.

Activists and advocates for the homeless in Cincinnati have decried the shooting, citing witnesses who say Porter was suffering from mental illness and that police may have needlessly escalated the confrontation.

“There are not nearly enough resources and proper treatment for people with mental illness,” representatives from Black Lives Matter Cincinnati and the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless said in a statement released Aug. 9. “Our society and our system in general failed Jawari Porter.”

Porter’s shooting is the third death involving on-duty Cincinnati police officers this year, with a fourth involving an off-duty CPD officer. (NS)

JOHN FOGERTY

The

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DONUT TRAIL Every stop and can’t-miss treat along the Butler County Donut Trail

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These sweet selections are all delicious on their own. But when these words are being used to describe the flavor of a donut, we’re talking about an entirely new level of delectability.

These donuts aren’t the stuff of fairytales — every morning, these magical flavors grace the shelves of nine mom-and-pop shops in Butler County, a measly 45-minute-drive north of Cincinnati. But that’s not all — these shops recently converged to form the Butler County Donut Trail, a sugary machination of the Butler County Visitors Bureau which challenges hungry humans to get a passport stamped at each of the nine locations in a quest for total donut domination.

Official Butler County Donut Trail passports are available at each stop along the trail, and a printable version is also available online. Those who successfully get their passport stamped (and eat a donut or three) at every stop along the way are eligible to claim a well-deserved prize: an official Butler County Donut Trail T-shirt.

Don’t set out unprepared: These stores close up shop as soon as their inventory runs out, which can happen as early as 10 a.m. daily.

Night owls, fret not: The self-guided trail can be completed at your own pace, so you don’t necessarily have to wake up early enough to hit every stop in a day.

If you do intend to visit them all in a day, however, plan on beginning around 7 a.m. Although Oxford Doughnut Shoppe is an optional stop — the only elective destination on the list — the popular store near Miami University frequently cleans out their shelves by 8 a.m., necessitating a particularly early start if you plan to include it. And you should — its donuts make the grogginess worth it (and there’s coffee!).

With your completed passport in hand, swing by the Butler County Visitors Bureau to claim your T-shirt (available small through XXL). Passports can also be mailed into the bureau (8756 Union Centre Blvd., West Chester, OH 45069), which will send your T-shirt to you in return.

So grab a traveling companion, make room in your stomach and hone your sweet tooth: The Donut Trail is calling your name.

For more information on the BUTLER COUNTY DONUT TRAIL and to download an official trail passport, visit gettothebc.com/donut-trail.

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Kelly’s Bakery

1335 Main St., Hamilton

Mart in’s Donuts

4 W. State St., Trenton

Milton’s Donuts

3533 Roosevelt Blvd., Middletown

Mimi’s Donuts & Bakery

Ross Bakery

1051 Eaton Ave., Hamilton 4421 Hamilton Cleves Road, Hamilton

Stan The Donut Man

2267 Millville Ave., Hamilton

7967 Cincinnati Dayton Road, West Chester

Oxford Doughnut Shoppe

The Donut Spot

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1. Jupit er Coffee & Donuts

5353 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, 513-829-7674, jupitercoffeeanddonuts.com

For donuts that are absolutely out of this world, try the homemade goodness of Jupiter Coffee & Donuts. Located in Fairfield near Jungle Jim’s, this family-owned bakery whips up fresh batches of donuts every morning alongside brownies, danishes, muffins, cookies and cupcakes. Enjoy a delicious treat, a cup of fresh-roasted coffee with beans from Guatemala, Papua New Guinea and Colombia, free wi-fi and a friendly, bright setting. Ask about their waffle donuts or real Ohio maple syrup donuts, plus the perfect houseroasted coffee pairing. They also make a great cup of hot cocoa — perfect for a casual morning (the French drink it with breakfast) or a sweet break from your day.

ASK FOR: the Red Storm Roll, a raspberry-filled donut with cream cheese frosting.

5. Mimi’s Donuts & Bakery

4. Milton’s Donuts

2267 Millville Ave., Hamilton, 513-280-1911, facebook.com/mimisdonutsandbakery

3533 Roosevelt Blvd., Middletown, 513-422-8612, facebook.com/miltonsdonuts

For the past year, Mimi’s Donuts & Bakery has been testing the limits of donut experimentation, with selections like a rich Funfetti cake donut, a warm, fresh-from-the-oven cream cheese and raspberry croissant and a gluten-sensitive morning muffin. A goofy “donuts must be leashed” sign greets visitors on this trail stop, and eager customers fill up the pub-style tables and chairs each morning. The energetic, creative ownership is always looking for new donut dreams to turn into realities, whether that’s a handheld pineapple upside down cake or a Creamsicle-flavored donut with real orange zest. A real family affair, the store accommodates its loyal followers with decorative mugs, holiday specials and diet-sensitive desserts.

If this little shop with a spot in a Middletown strip mall looks unassuming, don’t be surprised by the long lines at the counter. This hidden treasure is a local favorite and too good to miss. Long-time owner Dan Milton’s parents put their life savings of $5,000 toward some used donut-making equipment, and the result is today’s shelves of exciting, sugary delights.

When the shop first opened, donuts cost a nickel, but even today you can find totally unique choices for affordable prices. Find everything from a summery orange chiffon cake donut to a cream-filled OREO donut (with an actual OREO inside) to a strawberry pie smothered in whipped topping.

ASK FOR: the Cherry Confetti donut, a cake donut with cherry icing and sprinkles.

ASK FOR: a Little Chicago donut, an apple-filled donut rolled in cinnamon and sugar.

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7. Ross Bakery

1051 Eaton Ave., Hamilton, 513-894-9016; 4421 Hamilton Cleves Road, Hamilton, 513-738-3129, searchable on Facebook

If you happen to bump into a few of Ross’ regulars along the trail, chances are they’ll talk up the bakery’s flaky, best-selling apple fritters. But don’t limit your selection — the little shop is also known for coffee, bagels and an assortment of treats like holiday-themed iced cookies.

Look for unique creations like a dirt cake donut, slathered with white icing, sprinkled with OREO crumbles and garnished with a gummy worm.

ASK FOR: the Crème Horn, a flaky, puff y pastry stuffed with whipped cream, made the old-fashioned way.

2. Kelly’s Bakery

3. Mart in’s Donuts

If you’ve got a big appetite for a super-sized donut, Kelly’s Bakery is the place for you. It’s on the west side of town, but it’s worth the trip from anywhere in the Greater Cincinnati area.

These unique treats range in size, shape, color and confection, with everything from bacon and glaze to chocolate-frosted logs and heart-shaped delights to donuts twisted to spell out things like “I <3 U MOM.” A fun array of toppings and extras appeal to kids and kids-at-heart: popular cereals, colorful frostings and sprinkles and scrumptious cream fillings. Make sure to scan their selection of cinnamon rolls, pastries, danishes, cookies and more, served with a fresh coffee, cappuccino, milk or juice.

You can spot Martin’s Donuts from all the way down the street — its bright pink exterior, located in the heart of Trenton, is difficult to miss. And the cheery, bright atmosphere you’re greeted with once you step inside is hard to forget. Handmade fresh donuts are the game and Martin’s is a winner with more than 28 years of family experience. Flavors such as banana pudding, red velvet and maple bacon line the bakery cases, and if you’re lucky, you can even take a peek inside the kitchen and tasting room adjacent to the shop.

1335 Main St., Hamilton, 513-285-4040, facebook.com/kellysdonutsandmore

4 W. State St., Trenton, 513-988-0883, facebook.com/martinsdonutshop

ASK FOR: the cronut. If you’re the t ype to read up on New food crazes, you’ll spot the uber-popular treat from a mile away, a unique combination of donut and croissant that embodies the flavor of the former and the texture of the latter.

ASK FOR: the s’mores donut, a cake donut with chocolate, graham cracker and marshmallow drizzled with chocolate syrup.

6. Oxford Doughnut Shoppe 120 S. Locust St., Oxford, 513-523-9911, searchable on Facebook

Although this little shop is an optional stop on the trail — its popular donuts sometimes sell out as early as 8 a.m. — it’s well worth waking up a little early to get your hands on some treats from this local favorite. With a prime location near Miami University, the shop is a popular destination for students looking for a quick caffeine and sugar buzz. The shop is easily identifiable thanks to Sir Doughnalot, the store’s cheerful donut-headed mascot — look for him on a red sign above the building. (You’ll also find him posing with the latest donut creations on the shop’s social media pages.) Inside, the store is bright and colorful, with a donut-devoted mural and large chalkboard menu.

ASK FOR: the Fruity Pebbles donut, a white-iced cake donut topped off with the popular crunchy cereal.

8. Stan The Donut Man

7967 Cincinnati Dayton Road, West Chester, 513-759-0016, searchable on Facebook

ASK FOR: the best-selling Bowtie, a twist y glazed donut.

5148 Pleasant Ave., Fairfield, 513-863-7033, searchable on Facebook

The Donut Spot is a bustling hub of sugar and caffeine — the smell of freshly roasted coffee permeates the air as the shop buzzes with the queries of regulars ordering their favorites. If you’re feeling extra hungry, put in a special request for a giant, sprinkled donut that’s bigger than your head. The shop has also been enlisted for help with endeavors like sweet dance proposals, with glazed treats shaped to spell out “PROM.” ASK FOR: a simple but scrumptious vanilla iced donut with rainbow sprinkles.

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With a bright, open space and multiple tables, Stan’s is a perfect place to take a respite from your devoted donut hunting. The shelves here are stocked with an overwhelming array of colorful treats; rainbow sprinkles, Fruity Pebbles and M&Ms top white-iced donuts, and surrounding trays contain things like chocolate yeast rounds and twisty glazed tiger tails. Look for tempting seasonal flavors like cherry and pumpkin, plus fun holiday-themed flairs like red, white and blue sprinkles.

9. The Donut Spot

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WEDNESDAY 10

EVENT: Eat your way along the BUTLER COUNTY DONUT TRAIL and get ready to poop sprinkles. See cover story on page 14.

EVENT: HAMILTON COUNTY FAIR Amid a sea of industry and commerce is 30 acres of Carthage green space, home to the Hamilton County Agricultural Society. For five days this oasis will be transformed into the hustle and bustle of the Hamilton County Fair. Take a lesson in “Agriculture 101” and try your hand at milking a cow, or ride a donkey in the donkey races. If you’re here to stuff your face, Graeter’s is holding an eating contest, but there are also belly dancers, professional wrestlers, the famed demolition derby and bull riding, classic fairground rides and much, much more. Around 30,000 visitors are expected to partake. 4-11 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

Saturday; noon-10 p.m. Sunday. $7; $5 parking. Hamilton County Fairgrounds, 7700 Vine St., Carthage, hamiltoncountyfair.com. — KAT TENBARGE ONSTAGE: CHICAGO John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote some of the greatest musicals of the late 20th century, and Chicago might be their best. Set in the Windy City in the Roaring ’20s, it’s the satirical tale of chorus girl Roxie Hart who offs a faithless lover and convinces Amos, her nebbish of a husband, to take the rap — until he wises up. But she knows publicity could be her ticket off Death Row and lead to fame and fortune if she can outdo another “Merry Murderess,” Velma Kelly. The show brims with iconic tunes, including “All That Jazz,” “Mr. Cellophane” and “Razzle Dazzle.” Through Sept. 4. $29 adults; $26 students and seniors. Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, 801 Matson Place, East Price Hill, cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com. — RICK PENDER

EVENT: GREAT INLAND SEAFOOD FESTIVAL A miracle of modern refrigeration: a smorgasbord of seafood miles away from an ocean. The 29th-annual Great Inland Seafood Festival features whole Maine lobsters for $10.95 (while they last) plus tons of dishes featuring shrimp, crawfish, crab legs, oysters and more from area food vendors. Also expect cold beer and live local music all weekend. 6-11 p.m.

Thursday and Friday; noon-11 p.m.

Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Festival Park, Riverboat Row,

COMEDY: BRIAN SCOLARO “My stuff is universal with an edge,” says comedian Brian Scolaro. “I grew up watching George Carlin, and I liked the way he divided his set into blocks. ‘Here’s a block that’s serious, here’s one that’s silly, here’s a block about farts.’ There’s a part of my show where I talk about how to kill someone and get away with it and also a bunch of one-liners.” Though he can be dark, Scolaro doesn’t consider himself particularly edgy, nor is he a family act. The closest he gets to being political, for example, is when he tells an audience how society and businesses treat overweight people like they’re dumb. “There’s no Fat Rights leader,” he says. “There’s no Martin Luther Burger King coming to defend us.” ThursdaySunday. $8-$14. Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, gobananascomedy.com. — P.F. WILSON

FRIDAY 12

MUSIC: THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND brings Blues to Fountain Square with Buffalo Wabs & The Price Hill Hustle. See Sound Advice on page 34.

EVENT: POKÉMON GO BACK TO SCHOOL BATTLE AT CONEY ISLAND Vying to be the very best? If so, travel not so far across the land to Coney Island this weekend, where local Pokémon trainers of all ages will coalesce for a special Pokémon GO event. The park is a hot spot for the insanely popular mobile game, which uses augmented reality to allow users to “catch” Pokémon in the real world. The grounds contain 10 PokéStops, areas at which users can collect items like Pokéballs, and a gym where players can battle one another. Dubbed the “Pokémon Go Back to School Battle,” the event includes Pokémon-themed meals, contests and giveaways. “Lures” — in-game items that attract Pokémon to a specific location — will be active throughout the day. Noon-4 p.m. Friday.

Free with park admission: $25.95 ages 5 and up; $13.95 kids 2-4. Coney Island, 6201 Kellogg Ave., California, coneyislandpark.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

SATURDAY 13

CLASSICAL MUSIC: The Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s SUMMERMUSIK festival takes over area venues with imaginative programming through Sept. 1.

See feature on page 22.

THURSDAY 11

ART: SUMMER SHOW AT MILLER GALLERY Miller Gallery in Hyde Park hosts an opening reception for their Summer Show, featuring a selection of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from the gallery’s inventory — many of which are new acquisitions as well as consignments from notable private and corporate collections on view for the first time. The show will touch on the various themes important to the gallery’s programming including contemporary abstraction, landscapes and contemporary realism.

It includes artists from the gallery’s roster such as Julian Stanczak, Deborah Bigeleisen, Matthew Metzger and Tyler Shields. Opening reception 6-8 p.m.

Thursday. On view through Sept. 10. Free. Miller Gallery, 2715 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, millergallery.com. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER

ONSTAGE: SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK brings the Bard’s works to area parks and community venues for free performances, including Romeo and Juliet today at the Dunham Arts Center. See feature on page 24.

MUSIC: Renowned Blues guitarist WALTER TROUT headlines Cincy Blues Fest’s main stage. See interview on page 32.

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Newport, Ky., 513-477-3320, searchable on Facebook. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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SATURDAY 13 MUSIC: ZIG ZAGS Los Angeles trio Zig Zags came together in 2010 and crafted a magnetic sound that blends classic Punk, Thrash and Stoner Rock ideals, but doesn’t really fit neatly into any one of those categories. The band has come far in a relatively short period of time — the threesome collaborated with Iggy Pop on a cover of Betty Davis’ “If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up” for the Light in the Attic label’s 10th-anniversary single releases, recorded its self-titled debut full-length for In the Red Records with Ty Segall helping as producer and, earlier this year, released its excellent new album, the grinding, grimy Running Out of Red, for Castle Face, the label founded by John Dwyer of the popular Rock crew Thee Oh Sees. The fact that the band has been supported by so many other quality artists with very good tastes in music should be enough to draw you to the group’s show this week, but the compellingly heavy sound of Zig Zags will have you downloading everything you can find by the trio as soon as you get home after the gig. Cincinnati bands RIVE and Head Collector open this weekend’s show. 9 p.m. Saturday. $5. Northside Yacht Club, 4227 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub.com. — MIKE BREEN

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MUSIC: Scorching Blues rocker TINSLEY ELLIS plays Cincy Blues Fest at Sawyer Point. See Sound Advice on page 34.

EVENT: STARLIT PICNIC Wine and cheese under the stars. Head to the Cincinnati Observatory for an incredibly romantic evening of al fresco dining, live music from Jake Speed and the Freddies and dessert by the light of the moon. You bring the blanket, food and drinks; the solar system provides the stars and other heavenly bodies; and the observatory provides tours of their historic buildings and a chance to view the night sky up close through the oldest telescope in the western hemisphere.

7-10 p.m. Saturday. $30; RSVP required.

Cincinnati Observatory, 3489 Observatory Place, Mount Lookout, cincinnatiobservatory.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO EVENT: WAVE POOL POOL PARTY Camp Washington’s Wave Pool gallery celebrates summer with its annual fundraiser, the Wave Pool Pool Party. Do you like wearing swim trunks in public?

What about drinking Rhinegeist and

eating Eli’s BBQ? Then this is the party for you. Dance, drink and eat your way through Saturday with music from local bands, a dunk tank, a pool installation from Working Girls Co. and an auction of art (which has been underway since Aug. 1 and will be finalized at the end of the night) from the likes of Amanda Checco, Wave Pool owners Skip and Cal Cullen, Andy Marko, Michael Stillion and more.

Funds raised go to support the mission of Wave Pool. 3-7 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Wave Pool, 2940 Colerain Ave., Camp Washington, wavepoolgallery.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

SUNDAY 14

EVENT: BRIDALRAMA In reality, it’s not always easy to track down something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. The Bridalrama showcase is here to help. This event is designed to help you design your dream wedding in one day. With panel topics ranging from cake toppers and bridal registries to wedding insurance and photobooths, there will be an array of experts on hand to make the

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EVENT: NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER DAY/STRICKER’S GROVE FAMILY DAY Fun fact: National Roller Coaster Day is celebrated every year on Aug. 16, the day Richard Knudsen and J.G. Taylor received a U.S. patent for the wooden roller coaster in 1878. The holiday is commemorated by amusement parks across the country, including Kings Island, which offers behind-the-scenes photoshoots and exclusive nighttime rides to active members of the American Coaster Enthusiasts and other coaster-related groups. Thankfully, thrill aficionados without such membership cards have another way to celebrate: Stricker’s Grove, the family-owned and -operated private amusement park, is opening its doors Sunday for its annual Family Day. Admission includes access to all rides — like the park’s two wooden coasters, the Teddy Bear and the Tornado — plus free soft drinks and parking.

Park hours: 1-9 p.m.; ride hours: 2-5 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. Sunday. $12.50; free kids 2 and under. Stricker’s Grove, 11490 Hamilton Cleves Road, Hamilton, strickersgrove.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

EVENT: SECOND SUNDAY ON MAIN This month, Over-the-Rhine’s eclectic street festival’s theme is MAINevent, which celebrates merchants past and present that make Main Street a vibrant place to live, shop and play. More than 100 vendors will descend on the street with all manner of arts, crafts, jewelry, plants, produce, clothing and accessories, plus live music and food trucks throughout the day. Noon-5 p.m. Sunday.

Free admission. Main Street between 12th and Liberty streets, Over-the-Rhine,

secondsundayonmain.org. — EMILY BEGLEY

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MUSIC: Punk legend ALICE BAG brings brash and dynamic sonic fireballs to the Woodward Theater. See Sound Advice on page 35.

ONGOING SHOWS ONSTAGE Girlfriend Know Theatre, Over-the-Rhine (through Aug. 27) VISUAL ART Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt Cincinnati Art Museum, Mount Adams (through Sept. 11)

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biggest day of your life a breeze. Two runway fashion shows will also be on display throughout the afternoon. This groomfriendly, parent-friendly and even in-lawfriendly afternoon has been the area’s premiere wedding and bridal planning event for the past 12 years. 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sunday. $10. Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Downtown, bridalrama.net. — KAT TENBARGE

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Summermusik in the City

The innovative Classical music festival returns to area venues for its second year

BY ANNE ARENSTEIN

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n one of the more notable recent attempts to find new audiences for Classical music, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra last August introduced Summermusik, a multi-week festival featuring imaginative programming and some unusual settings.

Designed to fill a gap between the end of the Cincinnati Opera season and the start of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s, it offered traditional concerts, featuring the full chamber orchestra, at Corbett Theater in the School for Creative & Performing Arts. But it also offered casual variations — “chamber crawls” with small ensembles in area bars and afternoon performances in more intimate venues. They were all well attended, and there was buzz that the orchestra might be turning a corner in its four-decade history.

“We had tremendous growth in new attendees,” says Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra general manager LeAnne Anklan.

“And even better was that many former subscribers returned. It was a lot of events in a compressed time, but we had people who came to every performance.”

Now the orchestra hopes to continue that momentum with its second Summermusik festival, which begins Saturday and continues through Sept. 1. There are a lot of events — 14 in all — and several are already sold out.

The lineup includes Classical music, Jazz and Rock and features outstanding soloists and trendy locales. It also offers opportunities to sample beer, wine, coffee and pastries along with the listening experience.

“This year, the number of subscribers has already doubled,” Anklan says. “A lot of our subscriptions are from people who got closed out of concerts last year and wanted to make sure they got in.”

You have to admire the inventive high-spiritedness and risk-taking of the programming choices. For instance, the closing-night performance at Corbett Theater opens with Miguel del Águila’s “Conga-Line in Hell,” described as a “catchy piece featuring Cuban rhythms.”

The Aug. 26 Chamber Crawl at Mount Lookout’s Redmoor club mixes Rock with Classical music and was co-curated by acting concertmaster Amy Kiradjieff and Rock guitarist Roger Klug. The Fab Five — a string quartet augmented by Klug plus a few others — will play music by Brian Wilson, David Bowie, Smokey Robinson, Yes, The Left Banke and The Divine Comedy.

In another Chamber Crawl on Aug. 19, MicroBrass — a small ensemble of brass musicians that played a sold-out concert last year at Newport’s York St. Café — will perform at Over-the-Rhine’s Below Zero Lounge.

The event also features Kenny McNutt, a

The MicroBrass concert at York St. Café was a highlight of the first Summermusik festival. co-founder of Cincinnati’s MadTree Brewing, leading a beer-tasting session to accompany MicroBrass’ fanfares, marches and dances.

Amping up the overall excitement level will be the fact that the more traditional concerts with the full chamber orchestra will feature guest conductors who — along with Kelly Kuo, last year’s interim music director — are candidates for the still-open position of music director. Their full-orchestra programs, most of which occur on Saturday nights, feature highly regarded soloists and collaborations with local artists.

The candidates have also curated second smaller concerts, most of which take place on Sundays and are part of a series called A Little Afternoon Musik.

This Saturday’s opening program at Corbett Theater is “Paris, Piano & Pirouettes,” led by music director candidate Daniel Meyer, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

It includes French-inspired music as well as American composer Aaron Copland’s Music for Movies, a chamber orchestra premiere that will feature dancers from CCM’s Modern Dance department.

Also part of this program is Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Concerto in D” with featured soloist Joyce Yang, a Van Cliburn Competition silver medalist. The concert opens with Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 85, inspired by Marie Antoinette’s residence

at Versailles; Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite closes the evening.

The French theme continues Sunday at the Wyoming Fine Arts Center with the “C’est Si Bon-Bon” event. Yang and a string quartet will perform chamber pieces by French composers, plus George Gershwin’s haunting “Prelude No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor.”

Wyoming Pastry Shop will provide desserts.

Here are the other concerts by the music director candidates: • Christopher Zimmerman leads the orchestra on Aug. 20 in a program that brings dance to the stage, with violinist Chee-Yun performing an arrangement of the late Argentine Tango composer Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The program also features Edward Elgar’s “Introduction and Allegro for String Orchestra and Quartet” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.

For the Aug. 21 Afternoon Musik concert at Indian Hill’s Greenacres Arts Center, CheeYun teams up with orchestra members for an afternoon of duets curated by Zimmerman.

• On Aug. 27, Sarah Ioannides, a former assistant conductor with the CSO, will conduct “Caribbean Rhapsody,” written by Grammy-winning composer Roberto Sierra in a world-premiere arrangement for chamber orchestra and saxophone. James Carter, a major figure in Jazz, will play soprano, alto and tenor sax. The Aug. 28 Afternoon

Musik program that Ioannides has curated at the Cincinnati Art Museum features the orchestra’s woodwinds with Carter on soprano and tenor sax and a Jazz trio from Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra.

• Eckart Preu leads the final two Summermusik performances, starting on August 30 with his curated Chamber Crawl program of Viennese-inspired music at Newport’s The Sanctuary. It will have cellist Joshua Roman team up with Hip Hop dancers from Elementz on a Beethoven remix created by Scot Woolley. Preu also will play piano on two selections.

On Sept. 1, Preu conducts the festivalclosing Sonic Odyssey program that features, in addition to “Conga-Line in Hell,” Roman performing Camille Saint-Saëns “Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op.33” and — on electric cello — Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason’s “From Bow to String.” Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony and Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite will also be heard.

As for next year’s Summermusik? “What we do in 2017 will be interesting, because we’ll have somebody new in the music director position then,” says Ann Stewart, the orchestra’s communications manager.

SUMMERMUSIK begins Saturday and continues at multiple venues through Sept. 1. More info/ tickets: ccocincinnati.org.

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Collecting Can Be an Act of Art-Making

BY STEVEN ROSEN

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Ever since Impressionism, and probably An unknown artist called “MM” is credited earlier, many people have looked at new with the wrenchingly powerful selection of work in art museums and galleries and — pencil drawings from The Sketchbook from sometimes contemptuously, sometimes Auschwitz, first-hand depictions from 1943 perplexedly — asked, “Why is that art?” of the horrors of the Nazi concentration It isn’t traditional enough, it isn’t crafted camp. These are reproductions of the actual enough or it doesn’t look finished, they say. drawings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State With each new contemporary movement Museum. So the New Museum’s purpose — Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expresin offering this particular exhibit is to sionism, Minimalism, performance art, emphasize the importance of collecting and installations — you hear those complaints. preserving — of bearing witness — rather But now there’s a question emerging that than to show an “original” work of art. even those who understand the definition At the same time as the New Museum’s and look of art change with (or ahead of) show, Museum of Modern Art is presentthe times may have to stop and ask: Is collecting in and of itself an art form?

I found myself pondering that recently after seeing a mindblower of a new exhibit at New York City’s New Museum, its most cuttingedge art museum. Called The Keeper, it is, at least on first study, an exhibition devoted to things people have collected or saved, as opposed to objects specifically made by artists for exhibition in this show. (It’s on display through Sept. 25.)

Ydessie Hendeles’ “Partners (The Teddy Bear Project)” Its show-stopping work is P H O T O : R obert K e z iere Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) “by” the Germanborn Canadian artist-curator Ydessa ing Imponderable (through Jan. 8), a new Hendeles and bearing a 2002 creation feature-length film by the surrealist video date. It consists primarily of more than artist Tony Oursler. Using a hologram-like 3,000 photos she has collected of tedvideo effect he calls 5-D, Oursler’s film shows dies throughout the 20th century — with the impact that professional magicians and children, with adults, with the famous and spiritualists, as well as the strange illusions the anonymous — that fill the walls and they conjure, have had on him. vitrines of two large galleries.

But while the film is the work of art in the The dedication and commitment that exhibit, there’s a gallery featuring objects went into amassing this particular collecthat Oursler has collected as part of his tion and designing the way to show it are own research — for instance, a pamphlet truly remarkable. And it is interesting to titled Houdini Exposes the tricks used by look at. But does that make it art? the Boston Medium “Margery.”

Obviously, collecting is what art museums From what I could see on a busy weekday, do in order to have work to display, to exist people spent far more time with this mateas museums. That’s part of the process. rial, which Oursler didn’t create but did give But can it also be the product? (History context, than in watching the movie. MOMA museums, library museums, curio museums classifies this material as “archival ephemand others do sometimes show collections era.” (At the same time, Bard College’s because they are collections — they can Center for Curatorial Studies is presenting present objects based on their unusualness Oursler’s The Imponderable Archive as an rather than their artistic value.) exhibit through Oct. 30.)

The other 20 presentations in The Keeper MOMA is still fairly traditional about the don’t fit neatly into any category; through its line between art and the supporting matevariety, the large show is designed to make rial/documentation. But other art museums you think about the nature of collecting. are increasingly showing what people collect One of the “artists,” for instance, is Vladimir as art, because it has meaning. And if everyNabokov, who collected butterfly specimens thing has meaning, are we moving to a time while traveling the U.S. during summer. He when there is no such thing as “ephemera?” could have written Lolita while amassing CONTACT STEVEN ROSEN: srosen@ citybeat.com some of the very specimens on display here.

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Free Shakespeare Performances at Area Parks

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Back in the late 16th century when confused muddle resulting from feuding fairShakespeare was the toast of the Elizabeies that mess with human couples in a forest than theater world, performances of his outside ancient Athens. The show is full of plays at London’s Globe Theatre and other mistaken identities, and one of the highlights stages were essentially outdoors. Those theis a laugh-out-loud play-within-a-play featuraters evolved from inn-yards — inexpensive ing Nick Bottom and his inept, talentless spaces where rowdy audiences gathered, co-workers, the “Rude Mechanicals.” drank, cheered heroes and booed villains.

Their attempts to rehearse and perform Shakespeare’s plays were written for such a play for a royal wedding are the show’s venues, so perhaps that’s why “Shakespeare comic core. This production’s next perforin the Park” has become a popular way to mance will be Tuesday at Keehner Park in present the plays.

West Chester.

New York impresario Joseph Papp launched the modern concept in 1954 with performances on that city’s Lower East Side. In 1959, Papp’s productions moved north to Central Park; in 1962, that park’s Delacorte Theater opened, an amphitheater specifically designed for summertime open-air Shakespearean productions. Papp’s idea of free performances in outdoor settings established the model that’s been replicated in more than two-dozen Shakespeare in Cincinnati parks is a summertime tradition.

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Cincinnati Shakespeare A feud between families is the fuel that Company pushes the idea even further, with its free Shakespeare in the Park tour, now drives Romeo and Juliet, staged by Cincy in its 10th season. Rather than limiting perShakes veteran actor and director Jeremy formances to one park, Cincy Shakes tours Dubin. He’s updated the story to modern three productions to more than 30 locations times, bringing the young lovers together across the Tristate. for the first time at a superhero costume Performances of Romeo and Juliet, ball where they meet and fall instantly in Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, love. The play from the 1590s is the most featuring six actors in streamlined rendiromantic tragedy that Shakespeare wrote. tions, began July 29. They’ll travel around Dubin’s modern interpretation of the Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and play underscores its continued relevance.

Southeast Indiana until Sept. 1. (After the Upcoming performances of Romeo and late-summer tour, productions are booked at Juliet happen Saturday at the Dunham Arts local schools, community centers and other Center (2 p.m.) and Eden Park’s Seasongood locations through May 2017. Nearly 10,000 Pavilion (7 p.m.). people attended performances in 2015-16.)

In Macbeth, an envious lord and his ambiThis year’s shows have new costumes tious wife, spurred by an ominous prophecy, and scenic designs. Using body microseek to kill the king of Scotland and usurp phones, actors’ voices are amplified so the throne. It’s perhaps Shakespeare’s most audiences can hear them in non-acoustic, elemental tragedy. Director Kristin Clippard open-air spaces. Shows have been trimmed sets her production in a Scottish wilderto be less than two hours and made suitable ness, inspired by the Pict warrior tribes of for families and children of all ages. Actors medieval Scotland. Macbeth will be perplay multiple roles, carefully defining each formed on Wednesday at Clifton Cultural one with costumes, wigs and voices that Arts Center, on Thursday at Boone Woods make it clear who they are.

Park in Burlington, Kentucky, on Friday at All three shows are driven by feuds and Vinoklet Vineyard in Colerain Township arguments. The most lighthearted work this and on Sunday at the Harry Whiting Brown summer is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lawn in Glendale. Most performances start staged by actress Caitlin McWethy. Her proat 7 p.m.; there are a few 2 p.m. matinees. duction incorporates original Hip Hop music Find SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK’s full schedule by digital producer Kick Lee in collaboraand locations at cincyshakes.com. tion with Elementz. The comedy is about a

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“I want to be clear — this is literally a meet up at a bar,” Drozdz says. At the end ledge in my apartment.” of May, she hosted #tinytownaf, an exhibit With that Facebook message, Maya Droshe pretentiously subtitled tiny objects in zdz lets another person in on her little joke. dialogue with their portraits. (She’s giving Drozdz serves as director, curator, away the remaining photos at her “annex,” a graphic designer, social media editor, smaller molding strip named L’Edge.) installer and caterer at the new Ledge Once they shook off their mild shock, Gallery in Over-the-Rhine. Evil genius is an members of the Tinytown community additional title she’s given herself. raised their 1-ounce plastic cups of wine to “Evil” is another joke, though Drozdz celebrate Drozdz’s artistic vision. She had admits to fostering confusion online, such originally planned the evening as a one-off, as suggesting there really is a staff behind but friends including ArtWorks muralist each Final Friday opening. As for “genius,” that part seems true. Drozdz is successfully elevating the everyday — household items, overlooked buildings, worn-out shoes, friendship — and she’s doing it on a narrow, 5-foot-long ledge that’s best viewed from the spiral staircase of her 400-squarefoot loft.

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Like her apartment, DroMaya Drozdz’s new Ledge Gallery is aptly named. zdz (pronounced drohsh) is PHOTO : JES SE Fox petite, but again there’s more here than meets the eye. Her Scott Donaldson and his wife, Mary, encourPunk persona suggests indifference, but the former New Yorker and native of Poland is aged her to keep going. engaging, energetic and happily obsessed June’s gathering, Lost Souls’ Lost Soles, with detail. featured found shoe leathers from the “DonDrozdz, who has a bachelor’s degree from aldson Family Collection.” Arts patron Sara Cornell and a master’s in design from MichiVance Waddell was among the 50 people dongan’s progressive Cranbrook Academy of ning miniature nametags. “For a fledgling art Art, developed her marketing skills nearly a gallery, her presence was so validating, even decade ago as co-founder of VisuaLingual, a though this is a joke,” Drozdz says. design studio known for the garden starters Going forward, Drozdz wants to validate called Seed Bombs. Now proudly on her her own friends’ artistic pursuits and ultiown, she refers to Ledge as her “client.” mately open a store. The gallery is booked “It’s constantly toeing the line,” Drozdz through March, 2017. For the current exhibit says about the gallery’s social media. “Is it (closing Aug. 22), Drozdz chose the literary for real for real, or a big joke?” title Lilliputian Landscapes to showcase She’s imitated traditional galleries’ slick Phil Armstrong’s 3-by-3-inch gray-tone materials by creating logos for fictitious paintings of small Downtown buildings. sponsors. But Ledge’s bookmark-size postWhile creating maps to accompany Armers and website omit her address. When strong’s works, the ever-inspired Drozdz outsiders point out the apparent oversight, dreamed up an upcoming tour past those Drozdz blames a nonexistent intern. She sites with Armstrong and her next Final Friwants press but faces a conundrum. “One of day artist, designer and PhotoCorps project the many absurd aspects of this gallery is leader Chris Glass. Drozdz is promoting this that I’m now (privately) giving my number Sunday’s free 4-6 p.m. photography walk as to everyone in Cincinnati!” she says. great for corporate team-building exercises, When Drozdz moved into her apartment bar mitzvahs and quinceañeras. Watch for a in March, friends responded with miniature Groupon and mobile app — or not. gifts. Drozdz started photographing the “It’s evil genius building upon evil genius,” objects and then thought about utilizing Drozdz says of this collaboration. “this dumb ledge,” which appears to be the LEDGE GALLERY is open 5-7 p.m. during Final remnants of a baseboard and wood floor.

Friday and by appointment. More info: Contact “I thought it would be a silly catalyst for Drozdz via ledgegallery.com. hanging out with my friends, so we don’t all

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‘Indignation’ Quietly Builds and Resonates

BY TT STERN-ENZI

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in a string of Young Adult fiction-inspired How many times have we seen the efforts (two Percy Jackson franchise gigs coming-of-age story of a young man, a quiet and The Perks of Being a Wallflower), comoutsider, set in the academic world? It is pletely submerging himself in the gifted head certainly a literary and cinematic staple. and restrained body of this introverted manWith the new film Indignation, writerchild. Knowledge is the key and Lerman’s director James Schamus’ adaptation of a unfussy acting opens the lock.

2008 novel by Philip Roth, we have a most In contrast, Gadon’s job might seem far worthy addition to that body of work. It is easier, but her performance is full of charm. the story of Marcus Messner (Logan LerHer extroverted character, Olivia, picks up man), a Jewish butcher’s son from Newark, on the iconoclastic beacon emanating from N.J. who is attending a small conservative Marcus, appreciating that he is unlike their college in Ohio in the early 1950s.

Quite possibly the finest example of a coming-of-age story set in academia is the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Also worthy is the film School Ties, which took us down the path of anti-Semitism with Brendan Fraser as a workingclass prep school student who seeks to conceal his Jewish identity.

I find real resonance in such tales as a prep-school graduate who, as a child of the Civil Rights generation, struggled with issues of Sarah Gadon and Logan Lerman in James Schamus’ Indignation acceptance in the dawning P H O T O : A l ison C ohen R O S A days of political correctness. My literary touchstone peers. She spots his drive and determination, was Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, despite but also the deeper philosophical conviction, the fact that so little of that narrative is and she wants to discover its roots. set in an actual school. Ellison’s unnamed Olivia reacts impulsively, lavishing Marnarrator gets the ultimate socio-politically cus with a sexual favor that astounds him in charged education from life itself. its unconditional offering. It sets up a series What Schamus weaves out of Roth’s of quid-pro-quo exchanges. After much Indignation is an intimate study of how prodding, she reveals crumbs of her own Marcus’ experiences are informed by quesbackground, a series of emotional and psytions of identity politics, with strands of chological failings that have left her scarred religion seamlessly interwoven. but still somewhat hopeful. She isn’t looking Marcus is the gifted boy from the neighfor a savior, just an example to follow and borhood, the one with a chance to make Marcus seems to be the perfect choice. something of himself. Diligent and disciIndignation, much like Woody Allen’s plined, he cannot imagine doing anything Café Society, evokes a sense of F. Scott that will deviate from the overall plan laid Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby. Complex, idealout in his utilitarian good book. He arrives at ized women prove capable of irrevocably his Ohio college with blinders on, not noticaltering the fates of foolish young men. Yet ing either a campus administration seeking Olivia, despite the attractive radiance about to prove itself open and inviting to all or the her, is no simplistic manic pixie dream. tiny, insular community of Jewish students Marcus certainly sees in her an alluring seeking to carve out a haven for themselves. (and quite confusing) sexual fantasy, but Marcus dares to walk alone, refusing even she also symbolizes the dream he has for to maintain a dutiful connection to his parhimself, one that he resolutely fights to ents. No man is an island, but Marcus sets achieve against the odds. out to prove himself an exception. But then Schamus documents Marcus’ inevitable he crosses paths with Olivia Hutton (Sarah fall from grace, carefully balancing a degree Gadon), the troubled blinding light that will of detachment with a knowing reflection of alter his trajectory. Schamus clearly estabthe period. Indignation resolutely remains lishes that the attraction is definitely mutual. a solitary character study, and it challenges The terribly sheltered Marcus cannot explain viewers to look inward for a glimpse of their the hormonal swell that overtakes him. own quiet redemption. (Opens Friday at In a truly measured performance, Lerman Mariemont Theatre) (R) Grade: A leaves the blank slate he carefully cultivated

IN THEATERS PETE’S DRAGON – It has taken almost 40 years, but Hollywood has finally gotten around to remaking the 1977 fantasy-adventure Pete’s Dragon, the story of an orphan boy with a very special companion (a dragon named Elliott) seeking to escape from his abusive adoptive parents. Writer-director David Lowery teams a new Pete (Oakes Fegley) up with a majestic computer-generated creation and a cast of heavy hitters (Bryce Dallas Howard, Wes Bentley, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Robert Redford) in order to give the movie equal doses of wonder and gravitas. Lowery certainly cherrypicks from the Spielbergian playbook by spotlighting the wide-eyed joy of kids confronting the fantastic, but there are also smartly humanized references to Tarzan and even fleeting nods to last year’s indie treat Room. Pete’s Dragon seeks to offer an alternative to the purely mindless indulgences we typically spoon-feed our kids in summer. (Opens wide Friday) – tt stern-enzi (PG) Grade: BFLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS – There’s a sly stroke of genius in the casting of Meryl Streep as the titular character of the latest film from director Stephen Frears (Philomena), which also is the feature debut of veteran British television screenwriter Nicholas Martin. Jenkins is a New York heiress with a typically inflated ego who believes she has what it takes to become an opera singer, despite a complete lack of vocal talent. Streep, a supremely talented actress (and more than passable singer), gets to channel her abilities to make us believe that she can’t do something well. (Opens wide Friday) – tts (PG-13) Watch for review Friday at citybeat.com GLEASON – I believe that we can never have enough inspirational stories, so Gleason certainly arrives right on cue.

It’s from documentarian Clay Tweel, a scavenger for seemingly oddball human dramas like Storage and Finders Keepers. The film highlights the efforts of Steve Gleason, a former NFL defensive back and New Orleans favorite who, at the age of 34, was diagnosed with ALS and given less than five years to live. He decided to go all out like any good athlete and to be the best father, husband and supporter for the ALS-treatment cause that he could be. (Opens Friday at Esquire Theatre) – tts (R) Not screened in time for review

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It might still feel like we’re in the thick of Mr. Robot (10 p.m., USA) – Mr. Robot shows his usefulness to Elliot; Angela and summer, but — like the changing of leaves Darlene’s plan goes awry. and return of pumpkin spice — highly anticipated autumn programming is right around the corner. Here’s a look at some highlights: Atlanta (Series Premiere, 10 p.m. Sept.

The Get Down (Series Premiere, Aug. 12, 6, FX) – Donald Glover created and stars Netflix) – Netflix sees HBO’s Vinyl and in this comedy about two cousins in the raises them director Baz Luhrmann. The Atlanta Rap scene. artistic mind behind Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Better Things (Series Premiere, 10 Rouge! and The Great Gatsby explores the p.m. Sept. 8, FX) – You know Pamela from origins of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk music Louie? This is her Louie. in 1970s New York. The series stars Shameik South Park (Season Premiere, 10 p.m. Sept. 14, Comedy Central) – Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman’s 20th run. And they don’t look a day over 10!

High Maintenance (Series Premiere, 11 p.m.

Sept. 16, HBO) – Following a nameless pot delivery guy in Brooklyn, N.Y., each episode of this web-turned-TV series focuses on a different set of diverse buyers.

The Good Place (Series Premiere, 10 p.m. Sept. 19, Donald Glover (left) and Brian Tyree Henry in Atlanta NBC) – Kristen Bell was hilarious on Parks and RecP H O T O : G uy d ’a l ema / F X reation, so it’s great to see her teaming up again with Moore (Dope), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking creator Mike Schur. This new comedy finds Bad), Jimmy Smits and Jaden Smith, with Bell navigating the afterlife, where she’s Grandmaster Flash, DJ Kool Herc, Afrika mistaken for someone much more deservBambaataa and Nas serving as musical coning of her spot inside the pearly gates. sultants. Six episodes premiere today with Speechless (Season Premiere, 8:30 p.m. the second half of the season coming in 2017.

Sept. 21, ABC) – Minnie Driver stars as the matriarch of a family affected by cerebral Outcast (Season Finale, 10 p.m., Cinemax) palsy, and joins returning favorites The – The Reverend takes drastic measures in Goldbergs, Modern Family and Blackorder to save the town from evil. ish for ABC’s Wednesday night family comedy lineup.

Reboot Roundup: Time warp! Lethal The Night Of (9 p.m., HBO) – As prosecuWeapon (8 p.m. Sept. 21, Fox), MacGuyver tor Weiss preps for the trial, Naz’s bond (8 p.m. Sept. 23, CBS) and The Exorcist (9 with Freddy strengthens. p.m. Sept. 23, Fox) all make their 2016 TV Ballers (10 p.m., HBO) – Spencer avoids debuts. dealing with health news by mentoring Special Showdowns: Two mononyTravis; Joe and Reggie go all out to try and mous mamas — Beyoncé and Adele — lead cheer up Vernon; Ricky pushes Charles to in nominations for the 2016 MTV Video assert himself.

Music Awards (9 p.m. Aug. 28, MTV); The Roast of Rob Lowe (10 p.m. Sept. 5, Vice Principals (10:30 p.m., HBO) – Comedy Central) pits the ’80s heartthrob Dr. Brown forces Gamby to ease up on (OK, forever heartthrob) against a gaggle of his discipline style; Russell takes on a riffing comedians; Jimmy Kimmel hosts the pesky neighbor.

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Tams took a break from serving lunch and started taking their truck to various locations nearby to see how a more lunchcrowd-friendly menu would fare.

The sushi burritos and rice burgers were so popular that they even opened the brick-and-mortar restaurant back up for lunchtime, serving those specialty items there as well.

I knew I’d have to come back soon to find out what these mysterious sushi burritos and rice burgers were like. A week later I returned with my friend, CityBeat photographer Jesse Fox, in tow to try out the food truck menu and its creative options.

We shared a spicy tuna sushi burrito ($9) and a vegetarian rice cake burger ($8).

The sushi burrito was just like tearing into a large un-cut sushi roll. A seaweed wrap encased rice, cucumber, avocado, lettuce, tomatoes, spicy mayo, lime juice, cilantro and a generous heap of spicy tuna meat. It’s a little tough to tear through the seaweed with your teeth, but it was tasty and definitely easier to eat on the go than sushi rolls.

The rice burgers consisted of two rice patties, lightly fried to hold their shape,

Sushi Monk’s food truck serves ramen, sushi burritos and rice burgers — cheese, cucumber, avocado and your choice of protein sandwiched between two lightly fried rice patties. which acted as buns. Sandwiched between the rice buns was American cheese, cucumber, avocado, lettuce, tomatoes, spicy mayo, lime juice and cilantro. Jesse joked that it was the perfect way for an Asian menu to cater to our American palates — fry it and put cheese on it and we’ll eat anything.

It was tasty and unlike anything I can easily describe regardless of country of origin. The patties reminded me a bit of the Korean rice stone-bowl dish dolsot bibimbap. If you leave the rice against the sides of the hot stone bowl, it creates a crispy, chewy treat very similar to the rice used for the bun of the burger. (If you haven’t

done that before, add it to your bucket list.)

There were several other options for fillings for both the burger and burrito, including crispy chicken, ginger chicken teriyaki, shrimp tempura, spicy crab and salmon.

Even if it’s from a strip mall or off the back of a truck, Sushi Monk proves that it’s not all about where you get your sushi, it’s the quality and the people serving it up that matter.

You can find Monk Express by following its Facebook page or at Friday’s Food Truck Ralley at The Square at Union Centre in West Chester from 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.

Sushi Monk Go: 8268 Princeton Glendale Road, West Chester; Call: 513-881-1889; Internet: facebook.com/sushimonk and facebook.com/monkexpress; Hours: 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. Friday; 5-11 p.m. Saturday.

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ext time you find yourself in West Chester near Union Center, pass all of those glossy new restaurants and keep driving, past those establishments with cloth napkins, hostesses, plastic chopsticks and mood lighting. Don’t blink.

Go to a strip mall off of State Route 747, into the Marathon gas station-adjacent, nondescript mom-and-pop sushi restaurant, Sushi Monk. Trust us.

On a recent Friday night, I found myself at said strip mall, heading into said restaurant. I was feeling a bit perplexed by the sharp contrast between the image in my mind of “sushi in West Chester” and the tiny, casual space before me. Good thing I left my fancy pants at home, because this place was charmingly no-frills.

The owner Calvin Tam greeted my boyfriend Brian and I warmly when we entered; his wife was waiting tables. They directed us just a few steps to one of the only empty tables in the small eatery.

Looking over the menu, there were a lot of things we wanted to try. Brian has a gluten allergy, so he couldn’t order anything with breading or tempura flakes; I do not have a gluten allergy.

To start, I ordered the aptly named Fantastic Mushroom Tempura ($7), which I had no trouble devouring on my own, and some standard edamame ($4.25). I don’t know if ordering a lychee sake ($9) to drink was the best pairing decision, but it was still tasty and sweet.

For our entrées, Brian ordered several types of nigiri ($2.50-$4), which were quite large, and a Trio Roll ($11), which consisted of tuna, salmon, yellowtail, avocado and spicy mayo. I opted for a bowl of noodles. The Sho-Yu Ramen ($11.95) has a soy-sauce-flavored broth with seaweed, scallions, crabstick and tofu. It was tasty and filling and such a large portion I ended up taking half of it home.

As the disco ball in the corner turned slowly to the wordless dance music filling the deep-red room, we patted our satisfied bellies and struck up a conversation with the sweet, smiling waitress. She told us about the restaurant’s food truck, Monk Express, and some of the specialty items it serves — food-trend-of-the-moment sushi burritos, rice-cake burgers, ramen and “The Crack,” salmon-wrapped crab with jalapeño, avocado, spicy mayo and eel sauce.

The Tams started Monk Express as a creative way to amp up their five-year-old business. The lunch rush at Sushi Monk had apparently been hit-or-miss — good sushi takes time and money, which isn’t always ideal for lunch crowds. So the

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3501 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-873-9181 Owners Shelly and Kwan Choi have worked magic, transforming a former unassuming grocery store on Erie Avenue into a sweeping open space with a patio, generous bar and a dining room with high ceilings and subdued lighting.

As with all Korean restaurants, rice and noodles figure largely on 3501 Seoul’s menu.

I honed in on the bibimbap ($25.95), literally mixed rice and a signature Korean dish, choosing, on this steamy evening, the fresh bibimbap, a mixture of raw salmon, red snapper, tuna, flying fish roe, octopus and maguro-tataki (minced tuna pounded with the blunt edge of a knife). Like all bibimbaps, the protein was complemented by a tasty array of pickled and fresh vegetables, including shredded daikon, avocado, shredded cucumbers and seaweed salad, all topped with the crunch of tempura-batter crisps. At the restaurant’s sister Montgomery location Korea House, this dish is served in a stone bowl. Here, it was presented in a white ceramic bowl, which took away some of its beauty.

While 3501 Seoul is a Korean bistro, not a barbecue with tabletop grills, the kitchen does offer several grilled choices. The Kal-Bi ($25.95), hand-filleted beef short ribs, arrived on a bed of lightly grilled onions and was served with a delicious — and new to us — purple rice.

With its outdoor seating, generous happy hours, specialty drink menu and late-night hours, it’s the perfect setting for drinks and small plates. 3501 Seoul also offers a full sushi menu with a wide choice of specialty rolls, as well as nigiri and sashimi, which I look forward to sampling on a future visit — maybe happy hour on that patio. (Judith Turner-Yamamoto)

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A slight breeze, mood lighting and food are most of what I need on a summer night,

but a cold drink never hurts. Your options here are limited to nonalcoholic ones, but the restaurant serves glass-bottled soda, bottled tea and the like, including artisan root beer and cream soda. They also carry the locally made Hopwater.

There are a lot of dining choices to consider when you walk in. If you don’t want pork, brisket, chicken or ribs, you can get wings, rib tips or even do a platter of sides, since each one is only two bucks. Tray meals always charm me like a moment of real food flirtation. And each “plate” comes with a meat entrée, two sides and a slice of cornbread.

The mac and cheese delivered, and so did the coleslaw. Anything with macaroni and also with cheese is likely to be edible, but Just Q’in’s version is truly delicious.

Similarly, the slaw was a pleasant change from the standard-issue coleslaw. It’s vinegary, sweet and has the most satisfying crunch. I’m sure Just Q’in will find its stride in a community ready for its partnership.

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Maplewood Kitchen and Bar 525 Race St., Downtown, 513-421-2100, maplewoodkitchenandbar.com The upscale “California-style” Maplewood Kitchen and Bar focuses on healthier foods, like cold-pressed juices, somewhat nutritious cocktails, organic superfood salads, egg-white omelets and buzzword ingredients like chia and quinoa.

During a recent lunch, my dining companion and I ordered the chopped salad ($13), the spicy chicken sandwich ($10), sticky ricotta toast ($5), a side of hash browns ($3), a side of roasted romanesco broccoli ($4), Brainstorm Coffee ($5), Sweet Greens cold-pressed juice ($10) and a roasted tomatillo bloody mary (made with Tito’s vodka, roasted tomatillo and Super Green juice), served in a foot-tall glass.

Something like a green bloody made with cold-pressed juice would be the norm on the West Coast, but not in the Midwest.

The salad — charred corn, green beans, purple cauliflower, goat cheese, pecans, figs and beets; I held the bacon — came with a ton of veggies and chunks of whole pecans and figs, drizzled with a light dressing and accompanied by a couple pieces of toasted bread. The spicy chicken sandwich, which featured rotisserie chicken, piri piri sauce, pickles, cheese and slaw on Sixteen Bricks bread, got its spiciness from African piri piri pepper — yet another innovation for Maplewood. (Garin Pirnia)

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WingFling — More than 40 different wing flavors are available, bone-in or boneless, with heat levels ranging from mild to “stupid.” Through Sept. 3. Prices vary.

Washington Platform & Saloon, 1000 Elm St., Downtown, washingtonplatform.com.

Hearth and Home International Dining Series: The Anchor-OTR — Native of Brazil Derek Do Anjos heads to the Mercantile Library to share samples of food from The Anchor, while discussing his favorite books from growing up and how they influenced his cooking. 7-9 p.m. $25; $15 members.

The Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut St., Downtown, mercantilelibrary.com.

National S’mores Day — Celebrate National S’mores Day with Grateful Grahams and Pizzeria Locale. Local vegan graham cracker company Grateful Grahams will be offering free s’mores at both locations of Pizzeria Locale with the purchase of a pizza. 11:30am-1 p.m. and 5:30-7 p.m.

Free with purchase of pizza. Pizzeria Locale, 7800 Montgomery Road, Kenwood, 513-745-0147; 9540 Mason Montgomery Road, Fields Ertel, 513-339-0063, pizzerialocale.com, gratefulgrahams.com.

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Great Inland Seafood Festival — Seafood in Kentucky! Yup. The 29th-annual seafood fest features whole Maine lobsters for $10.95 and vendors selling shrimp, crawfish, crab legs, oysters, salmon, red fish and more.

6-11 p.m. Thursday and Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Festival Park, Riverboat Row, Newport, Ky., searchable on Facebook.

Summer 2016 Wine Down — The Bacchanalian Society of Greater Cincinnati hosts its summer gathering at Findlay Market to benefit the Ohio Innocence Project. Teams of up to three must bring three bottles of the same varietal of malbec for a contest — the team that brings the best wine will win a bunch of bottles to take home. 7-10 p.m. $15 per person. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, bacchanaliansociety.com.

Izzy’s Beer Dinner — Head to Izzy’s in Fort Wright for a paired dinner with West Sixth Beer. 7 p.m. $25. Izzy’s, 1965 Highland Pike, Fort Wright, Ky., 859-331-4999.

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Union Centre Food Truck Rally — This day-long edible adventure features more than 30 food trucks, live music, cold beer and fireworks. 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Prices vary. Union Centre Square, 9285 Centre Pointe Drive, West Chester, facebook.com/ unioncentrefoodtruckrally.

Taste of Colerain — Find out what Colerain tastes like at the 27th-annual Taste of Colerain, featuring food from Colerain vendors, games and live entertainment.

Includes dishes from Woot’s Barbecue, Walt’s BBQ and Riches. 5-11 p.m. Friday; 4-11 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. 4200 Springdale Road, Colerain, 513-385-7500.

Stonebrook Winery Sunset Cruise — A buffet dinner and live music on a cruise along the Ohio River, complemented by Stonebrook Winery’s award-winning wines. 7:3010 p.m. $60. BB Riverboats, 101 Riverboat Row, Newport, Ky., bbriverboats.com.

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Light and Fresh Summer Chicken — Work at your own induction stove to prepare pan-roasted chicken with cumin and garlic-mango-honey pan sauce. 6-8 p.m. $70. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.

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The Party Source: Burgers and Beers — Avery brewing comes to The Party Source for an evening of paired burgers and beers.

Enjoy samples of Raspberry Sour, Vanilla Bean Stout and Oak-Aged Samuels, plus an IPA and White Rascal. The evening includes a pizza burger and live music from Hayden Kaye. 6-7:30 p.m. $15. The Party Source, 95 Riviera Drive, Bellevue, Ky., thepartysource.com.

Taste to Remember — The third-annual Taste to Remember is a fundraiser featuring tasting stations from top area restaurants, with live entertainment and a chef competition, where chefs go head to head to win the Golden Spoon award. Featured, competing eateries include Alfio’s Buon Cibo, Ruth’s Parkside Café, Gorman Heritage Farm, La Soupe, Presidents Inn and more. Proceeds will benefit the Children’s Hunger Alliance and the scholarship of the Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the American Culinary Federation. 7-9 p.m. $25. 20th Century Theater, 3021 Madison Road, Oakley, childrenshungeralliance.org.

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Walter Trout’s new lease on life is the power source for his new concert album, Alive in Amsterdam

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hen renowned Blues guitarist Walter Trout toured Europe last year, he was playing with a palpably renewed vigor. Trout’s rejuvenation almost seemed like a physical presence within the band, and for good reason — in 2013, after a long period of fatigue and balance problems, he was diagnosed with hepatitis C, leading to a liver transplant, a horrifying parade of complications and a long, painful rehabilitation.

By 2015’s European tour, Trout was fully recovered and bursting with energy, clearly evident from his incendiary performance on Alive in Amsterdam, recorded on the tour’s Amsterdam date at the venerable Royal Theatre Carré.

Despite Trout’s fiery playing and his excellent band’s thunderous backing, the guitarist is typically self-deprecating about it.

“I remember thinking, ‘That wasn’t my best night but I don’t think anybody knows but me,’ ” Trout says. “It was a very stressful evening. It was, ‘OK, we’re going to record, you’ve got one shot at it.’ It’s very formal, it’s like the Royal Albert Hall of the Netherlands. It’s not like a Blues fest.

When I listen to it sometimes, I think, ‘God, I wish I hadn’t played that at that moment.’

Then I don’t listen to it for a week or two, and put it on and go, ‘Well, it’s pretty good.’

A lot of bands would take those tapes into the studio and fix them, but I’m not into that. If there’s a few warts, it’s a true representation of what we did.”

Warts and all, Alive in Amsterdam is Trout in his most electrified glory, enraptured by simply being alive. The album — recorded at the direction of Provogue Records president Ed van Zijl, perhaps the world’s biggest Walter Trout fan, to whom Trout gives full credit and infinite respect — hums with the energy of a dynamo running at full capacity and glows with the passion of a man reborn against long odds.

Famously opposed to set lists, Trout maintained that position for the Amsterdam date, perhaps his most important gig ever.

“We walked out there and I thought, ‘What the fuck are we going to play?’ ” Trout says with a laugh. “The light’s on, they’re recording and… I’m thinking, ‘What would be a good starter?’ We just went.”

Trout’s epic post-diagnosis survival tale reveals his personal strength, the crucial bond between Trout and his wife Marie and their three sons (Marie, also his manager, introduces him at the theater on Alive in Amsterdam, and oldest son Jon accompanies him on guitar) and the life-and-death importance of organ donation.

Walter Trout has made a remarkable comeback after nearly dying just a few years ago.

“I pretty much died three times in the hospital and they brought me back; I had brain damage, I couldn’t speak, I didn’t recognize my wife and kids,” Trout says. “I was on life support with a hose in my nose for nourishment. I was in and out of ICU for months. And I think the reason I was brought through this is I now have a public forum that I can be an advocate to become an organ donor and to get checked for hep C before it gets to the point where I got. I talk about organ donation every night from the stage. I direct people to the Donate Life website (donatelife.net), where you can sign up and be in the national data base.”

Even after Trout’s life-saving transplant, there were terrible surgical complications.

Doctors had to reopen Trout three times to successfully reattach his bile duct, which had leaked to the extent that his internal organs were being dissolved, creating an almost inconceivable amount of pain.

To counteract the brain damage, Trout spent four months in live-in therapy in Omaha, learning to walk and speak again.

Once back home in California, he did daily physical therapy, graduating from wheelchair to walker to cane. On top of everything else, Trout lost the ability to play guitar.

“I continued with a little weight training and then spent maybe four hours a day teaching myself how to play guitar again,” Trout says. “The first time I was able to do

a gig was the following June when I played the Royal Albert Hall. I only did two songs — it took me about a year to get to where I could do two songs — but it was a hell of a place to start. No pressure. Most guys, it’s, ‘I think I’ll go down to the corner bar and see what happens.’ Not me. ‘You want to play the Royal Albert Hall with Van Morrison?’

Yeah, put me up there.”

Alive in Amsterdam is not Trout’s first album back from the brink. That honor goes to last year’s Battle Scars, a raw, powerful musical journal of Trout’s long and ultimately successful campaign to survive his myriad health issues. Battle Scars won the 2016 Blues Music Award for top Rock Blues Album, while the track “Gonna Live Again” won best song honors.

But to Trout, the most important recognition for the album came from a young music fan and guitarist who was injured in the terrorist attack last year in Paris at concert venue the Bataclan.

“He was shot and almost died, and he didn’t want to live. His father gave him (Battle Scars) and it gave him hope and inspired him,” Trout says. “He actually sent me a message and my wife wrote a piece on The Daily Beast that you can look up and read. It’s him talking about how that album helped him emotionally and spiritually recover from his experience. Something like that means more

to me than any review or chart position. The fact that you create this little piece of art and actually help somebody in their life, that’s a beautiful and meaningful thing.”

Trout has reached a point, and gone through a near-death situation, that would have most men stopping to smell the roses.

Instead, he’s mowing them under for mulch and heading on to the next adventure with the zeal of someone half his age.

He just finished a successful European tour and he’s kicking off his U.S. tour in Cincinnati this weekend. After that, Trout and his wife will take a second honeymoon for their 25th anniversary, then it’s another European tour, a holiday break and a return to the studio to record what Trout describes as Full Circle Vol. 2, a sequel to his acclaimed, star-studded 2006 album.

Trout’s health scare has made him deeply appreciative of where he is now in life.

“I just want to keep playing,” he says, emotion welling in his voice. “I want to be a musician and a husband and a dad and keep doing what I’m doing. I’m in the best part of my life. I feel like I’m starting over at 65.

This truly is the best time of my life.”

WALTER TROUT headlines the Cincy Blues Fest’s Main Stage on Saturday at Sawyer Point.

More info (including ticket links and the full schedule): cincybluesfest.org.

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This Week in Holograms Another day, another music star brought back from the dead… in hologram form. In what is becoming one of the oddest trends in music, deceased heroes continue to make appearances at concerts and festivals, and full worldwide tours starring late artists throughout appear to be imminent. The latest holo-cameo came at the end of a German music festival, when a hologram of Metal icon Ronnie James Dio joined various former (living) bandmates to perform Dio’s “We Rock.” The creator of the hologram says the concept of holograming full concerts by living artists and beaming them anywhere in the world is being explored.

Drums Make the Band?

In an interview with Ultimate Guitar, Butch Vig made a comment while discussing producing Nirvana’s watershed album Nevermind that just might make Courtney Love’s head explode. Vig said the band came into the sessions very prepared, but said drummer Dave Grohl was “90 percent” responsible with the big sound of the album. Grohl, as the band’s “new” drummer at the time, certainly boosted the power of Nirvana’s sound, but even a drumming heavyweight like John Bonham doesn’t deserve that much credit for Led Zeppelin’s output.

Overpriced Band T-Shirts Concertgoers sometimes complain about the cost of artists’ T-shirts sold on tour. Sometimes they’re almost as much as tickets. But a new line of retro band shirts sold at luxury department store Barneys makes those look like a bargain.

You can by a 100-percent cotton shirt emblazoned with the famed logo of Punk legends Black Flag on Amazon for about $14. But if you’re the kind of person who insists their T-shirts be made of “brushed Japanese cotton cashmere,” Barneys has you covered for a mere $250. The company that designs the costly shirts — others feature imagery swiped from Joy Division, Run DMC and David Bowie — seems to use logos and artwork that either aren’t under copyright or are tied up in legal battles over ownership.

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The Cincy Blues Fest — which presents its 24th-annual event this Friday and SatEarlier this summer, local guitarist/singer/ urday on three stages along the riverfront songwriter Maria LeMaster passed at Sawyer Point — always brings in some away unexpectedly. She was only 29 and, nationally known touring Blues acts to of course, her sudden loss hit her many headline. But it has also been the place to friends hard, including many from the sample Cincinnati’s best artists in any given local music community. So those musician year. If you look back at the local musicians friends are doing what local musicians so in past lineups, you’d see snapshots of what often do when a member of the community the local Blues scene looked like in each passes away or suffers a serious hardyear the fest has been presented. This year ship — they’re banding together to support is no exception.

LeMaster’s family and celebrate her life.

Music begins at 5:45 p.m. Friday on the Local Stage, where you can catch Tempted Souls Band, The SoulFixers, The Leroy Ellington Band, John Redell & the Company He Keeps and Dudley Taft.

Saturday, the Local Stage kicks off at 4:45 p.m. and features The Magic Lightnin’ Boys, Chuck Brisbin & the Tuna Project, The Doug Hart Band, The Beaumonts, Ralph & the Rhythm Hounds and The Blue Birds.

You can find more local The Magic Lightnin’ Boys play Saturday at Cincy Blues Fest. acts on some of the other PHOTO : Provided stages. Johnny Fink earned his 5:30 p.m. Main Stage slot on Friday by placing first in the Cincy Blues Friday night at the Southgate House Challenge’s “Solo/Duo” category, while Revival (111 East Sixth St., Newport, the Challenge’s “Band” winner, Jay Jesse southgatehouse.com), numerous local Johnson Band, plays the Main Stage on acts will perform in LeMaster’s memory Saturday at 6 p.m. Both will represent Cinand raise money for her family. Local cinnati at the International Blues Challenge artists scheduled to appear include SS-20 in Memphis early next year.

(LeMaster once played rhythm guitar for Elsewhere, a staple of the unique Arches the veteran Punk group), The Tigerlilies, Boogie Piano Stage (which features Boogie Lovecrush 88, Dead Man String Band, Woogie pianists from all over the world), BoozeLords, Tiger Sex, Tommy Grit & Ricky Nye, performs again this year on The Pricks, Two Inch Winky, New Third Saturday at 5:20 p.m.

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There will also be bands featuring particiFrance, Hammered with Jesus, The pants from two local educational programs Cousin Kissers, Killer Looks And Noise at the festival. On Friday, players from the and Android 86, plus DJ Bryan Dilsizian. local Guitars4Vets program Six Strings Massachusetts Punk legend Gang Green for Solace — which gives lessons and gear (which has featured players from Cincinnati to military veterans to help them cope with in recent years) also performs. T-shirts will issues like PTSD — opens the Women’s be available to raise more money.

Showcase Stage at 5:45 p.m. And students The all-ages benefit concert begins Friday from the Blues in the Schools program — at 9 p.m. and admission is a $10 donation. which sends accomplished area Blues playOn Oct. 9, another benefit show in ers to local schools to educate young people LeMaster’s honor is scheduled to take place on the music’s history — again perform at at Southgate House Revival, featuring many the Blues Fest this year, this time at 5 p.m. artists who are playing Friday’s event. The on the Main Stage Saturday evening. concert will raise money for a planned Tickets for the Cincy Blues Fest are $20 scholarship in LeMaster’s name, which is per day, or $35 for a two-day pass. Tickets to be given to a woman studying music may be purchased in advance at brownannually. You can donate now at gofundme. papertickets.com. For the full lineup and com/mlmscholarship. complete info on the festival, visit cincyCONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@ citybeat.com bluesfest.org.

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Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band with an album on the venerable historical label Buffalo Wabs & The Price Hill Hustle Yazoo Records (last year’s So Delicious.)

Friday • Fountain Square This year, The Rev and Breezy welcomed Josh “The Reverend” Peyton is the poster its latest new drummer Max Senteney, the boy for second medical opinions. The Rev Rev’s former guitar tech, after Ben “Bird learned guitar at 12 in his central Indiana Dog” Bussell decided to leave to road to to hometown, then formed a band with spend more time with his family. younger brother Jayme on drums. He was So if you want to witness a miracle of the made aware of his Bluesy playing style and universe — and experience one of the most began absorbing the work of electric and compelling live shows you’ll ever see — get acoustic Blues masters, particularly the right with the Rev and the biggest, damnedcatalog of Charley Patton, whose fingerpickest band you’ll ever love. (Brian Baker) ing technique he loved but couldn’t emulate.

Tinsley Ellis at Cincy Blues Fest After a high school graduation gig, searSaturday • Sawyer Point ing pain in Rev’s hands sent him to a doctor, Georgia born and Florida raised, Tinsley who told him he’d never fret his guitar with Ellis was attracted to his left hand again.

Blues/Rock by way of He abandoned music the British Invasion for a year, but was bands he heard as a eventually recomteenager. But it was mended to a hand a B.B. King show specialist in Indiana that lit the fuse on who removed a knot his Blues ambitions. of scar tissue in his Ellis played in a band left hand. After the while a student at operation, not only Atlanta’s Emory Unicould he play guitar versity, but stepped Reverend Petyon’s Big Damn Band again, he discovered up to the next level PHOTO : T yler Zoller he was able to play in with The Alley Cats, a the elusive fingerrambunctious Blues picking style he so outfit that included admired. future Fabulous During his recovThunderbirds bassist ery, he met his future Preston Hubbard. wife Breezy. Their After college, Ellis shared love of the formed The HeartBlues led her to learn fixers and released to play washboard three well-received and inspired them albums. The group’s to form a new band final album, 1986’s with Jayme on drums.

Cool On It, was credWithout that second ited to “Tinsley Ellis medical opinion, RevTinsley Ellis & the Heartfixers.” erend Peyton’s Big PHOTO : Provided Around the time Damn Band wouldn’t Ellis decided to dishave driven two days solve The Heartfixers, to California to open for the Derek Trucks Alligator Records approached him about Band and Susan Tedeschi, a moment that signing with the label. Ellis’ debut solo helped cement the trio’s decision to attempt album, 1988’s Georgia Blue, made a huge to make a living playing music. impression on the national Blues commuThe band also wouldn’t have adopted nity, as did his next four Alligator albums, its approach to Country/Blues — think including 1992’s Trouble Time (featuring Primus playing Charley Patton songs at R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and The Allman BrothRobert Johnson’s crossroads — or recorded ers Band’s Chuck Leavell) and 1997’s blisterits independent debut album, The Pork n’ ing Fire It Up. Reviews comparing him to Beans Collection, and the subsequent three Stevie Ray Vaughan sparked major label releases that helped sustain the band’s interest, leading Ellis to sign with Capricorn relentless 250-gigs-per-year pace. The for 2000’s Kingpin, but the label collapsed group wouldn’t have signed with indie label not long after the release. Ellis moved to the SideOneDummy and expanded its audience Cleveland, Ohio-based Telarc label for his exponentially with its next four albums next two albums, then returned to Alligator for the label. The Big Damn Band wouldn’t for his triumphant and hugely successful have opened for Clutch, Flogging Molly or concert recording, 2005’s Live! Highwaythe Dirty Dozen Brass Band, or played the man, and its studio follow-ups, Moment of Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Warped Truth and Speak No Evil.

Tour, nor would they have become the After nearly four years of consistent first contemporary Blues artist to release touring — a hallmark of Ellis’ career from

the start — the guitarist made the decision to form his own label in 2013, nostalgically dubbed Heartfixer Music. Since then, Ellis has self-released a quartet of excellent albums at a rate of one per year — the allinstrumental Get It!, 2014’s Midnight Blue, 2015’s Tough Love and his most recent, Red Clay Soul.

Ellis’ love of scorching electric Blues was forged in the ’60s and he’s been offering up his own visceral take on the genre for the past four decades with a voice that smokes like Delbert McClinton, a guitar that shrieks and soothes like the Vaughan brothers and a soul that understands pain and redemption.

His road consistency and the passion his loyal fans have for the music seems to be referenced on Red Clay Soul’s “Circuit Rider,” as Tinsley sings, “I’m a circuit rider, I go from town to town, healing peoples’ sickness, as I make my rounds.”

The doctor is in, but you don’t need an appointment — just a ticket and a heart full of Blues-soaked hallelujah. (BB)

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Alice Bag with Leggy and Birdie Hearse Tuesday • Woodward Theater Before it was possible to hear almost any song ever made in an instant via the interAlice Bag net, finding music PHOTO : Provided that didn’t receive mainstream exposure could be a difficult task. You could perhaps find a “cool” record store that might mail order an underground record for you, but the process of discovering new music was what took the most work. And for die-hard music fans, it was always worth it and became a fun part of the experience of loving new and cutting edge music. Word of mouth was key, but suburban kids (or people in towns without a legit record shop) who were curious about, say, that crazy Punk Rock stuff in the late ’70s and ’80s could also devour the pages of magazines that covered the music for tips.

Another less obvious method of discovering Punk and New Wave back then was the neighborhood video store. Cult-classic films with Punk themes and soundtracks, like Repo Man and Suburbia, were key in gradually spreading Punk throughout America in the ’80s. But before those movies, there was 1991’s The Decline of Western Civilization, which explored the burgeoning Los Angeles Punk scene of the late ’70s.

The film had live performances by bands like Black Flag, Germs and Fear, but the movie (which also included cringe-inducing

interviews with Punk fans and musicians, many of whom came off like dumb, unapologetic misogynists) also crucially featured at least some footage of the women making waves in the male-dominated scene. The performances of X singer Exene Cervenka and The Bags (credited in the film as the Alice Bag Band) were inspired, and the fact that they weren’t separated into a “ladies of the scene!” segment and played with as much or more intensity and confidence as their male counterparts undoubtedly provided additional inspiration to many young female music adventurers. There’s no way to know how many people picked up an instrument after watching Decline, but one has to imagine many girls and women formed bands as a direct result of seeing those artists show it was possible. Watching The Bags slot now, it’s almost jarring how timeless they sound and how you can hear echoes of the band in a lot of Punk groups that have popped up over the past 35 years.

The Bags (which formed in 1977) folded in 1981, but singer/ songwriter Alice Bag (born Alicia Armendariz) has continued to make music in various groups since.

She has also carried some of Punk’s more positive philosophical tenets with her in other endeavors — she’s been an activist, educator (including a stint teaching in Nicaragua), a lecturer and an author. In 2011, her memoir Violence Girl - East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage: A Chicana Punk Story was widely praised. Last year, she selfpublished Pipe Bomb for the Soul (about her time in Nicaragua).

In June, Bag became a first-time solo artist with the release of her self-titled album through Don Giovanni Records. The album has been praised for its less-expected, more dynamic musical moments, as well as its intriguing socio-political lyrical content, which offers creative commentary and perspective on things like genetically modified food, date rape, the U.S. education system and immigration.

Bag’s Cincinnati show is, appropriately, also the launch party for a new Cincinnatibased music magazine, Women In Rock.

An extension of the blog/website of the same name (at rocknwomen.avidnoise. com), the first edition of Women in Rock Magazine (featuring interviews with Bag, Scrawl’s Marcy Mays, Screaming Females and more) will be available at Tuesday’s event. (Mike Breen)

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Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Todd Hepburn.

7 p.m. Blues/Jazz/Various. Free.

Bella Luna - RMS Band. 7 p.m.

Soft Rock/Jazz. Free.

Century Inn Restaurant - Paul Lake.

7 p.m. Pop/Rock/Jazz/Oldies/ Various. Free.

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Esquire Theatre - Live n Local with Ricky Nye and Ethan Leinwand. 7 H p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. $5.

Fountain Square - Reggae Wednesdays with Positive Mental Attitude.

7 p.m. Reggae. Free.

The Greenwich - Adventures in Post Coltrane. 8 p.m. Jazz. $5.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Steve Thomas. 6 p.m. Sax/Piano/Vocals.

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MOTR Pub - Bob Log III with All-Seeing Eyes. 10 p.m. Rock/ H Various. Free.

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Newport on the Levee - Live on the Levee with Glory Days. 7 p.m. Rock.

Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - The Company. 9:30 p.m. Pop/Dance/ Various. Cover.

Northside Yacht Club - The Spiritual Bat with Lung, Sour Ground H and DJ Inhuman. 9 p.m. Rock/Gothic/

Knotty Pine - Pandora Effect. 10 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

New Wave/Alternative/Various.

Plain Folk Cafe - Open Mic with Crystal Judge. 7 p.m. Various. Free.

RiversEdge - Crowded Streets: Dave Matthews Experience and Elementree Livity Project. 6 p.m. Dave tribute/ Reggae/Rock/Various. Free.

Seasongood Pavilion - It’s Commonly Jazz featuring Marc H Fields Sextet with Steve Wilson. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Leah Blevins with Ethan Samuel Brown and Bird Name. 9:30 p.m.

Country. Free.

Silverton Cafe - Bob Cushing Acoustic. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) Willow Tree Carolers. 9:30 p.m. Folk/ Americana. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Jesse W. Johnson & Coyote Scream with Lost Coast and Calumet.

9 p.m. Rock/Americana. $5.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Denny Laine with The Cryers and The Newbees. 7:30 p.m. Rock/ Pop. $15-$30.

Stanley’s Pub - Yarn with Moonshine & Wine. 9 p.m. Americana/ H AltCountry/Various.

Yeatman’s Cove - 5:13 with Two For Flinching. 5 p.m. Nineties Pop/ Rock. Free.

Blind Lemon - Mark Macomber. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Chris Goins and Pat Hu. 9:30 p.m. Americana. Free.

Fountain Square - Salsa on the Square with Orquesta Kandela. 7 H p.m. Latin/Salsa/Dance. Free.

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The Greenwich - Radio Black. 9 p.m.

Jazz. $10.

Pit to Plate - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass.

7 p.m. Bluegrass. $2.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner and Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Jazz/ Blues. Free.

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The Mockbee - Courage Friends featuring Thelma, Puppy, Transurfer, Great Dane and Sex Snobs. 7 p.m.

Various. Free (donations encouraged).

Smale Riverfront Park - Cocktails and Crown Jewels featuring H Ingrid Woode and the Woode Tribe

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Fountain Square - Indie Vol 2016 with Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn H Band and Buffalo Wabs & The Price

The Mockbee - Vampire Weekend at Bernie’s, Audley, Noesis, Echo Of Silence and Rhythm and Booze.

7 p.m. Various. Free (donations encouraged).

Riverbend Music Center - Blink 182 with A Day To Remember and The All-American Rejects. 7 p.m. Pop/ Rock. $30-$90.

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MOTR Pub - Landlady with Lazy Heart. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/ H Various. Free.

The Greenwich - Mike Wade & BOSEDE. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5.

Jim and Jack’s on the River - Blair Carman & The Belleview Boys. 7 p.m.

Honky Tonk/Rockabilly. Free.

Knotty Pine - Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m.

Acoustic/Rock. Free.

Orchestra. 7 p.m. Soul/R&B/Various. Free.

Taft Theatre - The Steel Wheels. 8 p.m. Roots/Americana/Bluegrass. $16.50, $19.50 day of show.

Urban Artifact - The Z.G.s, Rhythm and Booze, Lockjaw and Killer Looks and Noise. 8 p.m. Rock/ Punk. Free.

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Village Green Park - Groovin’ on the Green with Parrots of the Caribbean.

7 p.m. Jimmy Buffett tribute. Free.

Washington Park - Bandstand Bluegrass with Dawg Yawp and H Truckstop Waterfall. 7 p.m. Indie/ Folk/. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Roots Cellar eXtract. 7 p.m. Americana. $10 (food/drink minimum).

Friday 12

404 - George Simon Trio. 8 p.m.

Jazz. $5.

Hill Hustle. 8:30 p.m. Americana/ Roots/Blues. Free.

Ludlow Bromley Yacht Club - Trailer Park Floosies. 9:30 p.m. Dance/Rock/ Pop/Rap/Country/Various. Cover.

MOTR Pub - Indigo Wild with Emily & The Complexes. 10 p.m. Indie Rock/ Indie Folk. Free.

MVP Bar & Grille - Vestring Hayes. 9 p.m. Acoustic Rock/Pop. Free.

The Mad Frog - Summer Never Dies featuring Devon Daugherty, Nieko Bedgood, Kuljo Savatez, Kane Lord Wolf Johnson, Bam Divinci and more.

10 p.m. Hip Hop. $5-$10.

Madison Live - Sawyer Fredericks with Kelsie May. 8 p.m. Folk/Country. $20.

Mansion Hill Tavern - The Medicine Men. 9 p.m. Blues. $4.

The Mockbee - Courage Friends featuring Jennifer Simone, Fycus, H Moral, Mint Leopard, Ruby Throat and Sweet Lil. 7:30 p.m. Various. Free (donations encouraged).

Northside Tavern - The Cliftones with Mighty Mystic. 10 p.m. Reggae. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Bury Your Dead and Denihilist with Justified Defiance and Deadbeat. 10 p.m. Metal/ Hardcore. $14, $16 day of show.

Plain Folk Cafe - P’s in a Pod and Elia Burkhart. 6 p.m. Bluegrass/ Americana. Free.

The Redmoor - 2nd Wind. 6 p.m.

R&B/Jazz. $10.

Rick’s Tavern - Party Town. 10 p.m.

Country/Pop/Rock/Dance. $5.

Riverbend Music Center - Josh Groban with Sarah McLachlan. 7:30 p.m. Classical/Broadway/Pop/Various. $32.50-$138.

Sawyer Point - Cincy Blues Fest with Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, H Albert Castiglia, Saffire Revisited, EG

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Greg Schaber Trio. 9 p.m. Blues. Free.

Kight, Tempted Souls, Johnny Fink and more. 5 p.m. Blues. $20.

Bella Luna - Blue Birds Trio. 7 p.m. Classic Rock/Jazz. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Memorial H Benefit for Maria LeMaster featuring

Blind Lemon - Everett Sings and Tom Roll. 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - The Yada Yada Yadas. 9:30 p.m. Nineties Rock/ Pop. Cover.

Century Inn Restaurant - Jim Teepen.

8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Clifton Plaza - April Aloisio. 7 p.m.

Brazilian Jazz. Free.

The Comet - Bucko, Go Go Buffalo, JetLab and EndlessH Nameless. 10 p.m. Indie/Alt/Rock/

Gang Green, SS-20, The Tigerlilies, LOVECRUSH 88, Dead Man String Band, BoozeLords, Tiger Sex, Tommy Grit & The Pricks, Two Inch Winky, New third worlds, Everyday Objects, France vs. France, Hammered with Jesus and DJ Bryan Dilsizian. 9 p.m.

Rock/Punk/Various. $10.

St. Lawrence Square - Concerts in the Square with Mark Utley and H Bulletville. 6:30 p.m. Country. Free.

Various. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Evan Ray, Three Man Dead Band and Solomon’s Cab. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Jam/Various. Cover.

Crow’s Nest - East of Vine. 10 p.m.

Bluegrass/Blues. Free.

Tap & Barrel Tavern - Bob Cushing.

9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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Thompson House - T-House with Manik Massacre Productions Presents: Underground Resurrection. 8 p.m. Rap. $10.

Plain Folk Cafe - Hickory Robot and Greg Short. 6 p.m. Americana/ Newgrass. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - LDNL. 10 p.m. Pop/ Dance/Various. Cover.

The Mockbee - False Light, Discomfort, Cold & Distant, Cough It Up, Headrush and Carev Dvor. 8 p.m.

Metal/Hardcore/Punk. Free (donations encouraged).

The Underground - x-Wave, The Bassless Chaps, The Ruffins, Jim Justice For Governor and Call Me Ghost.

7 p.m. Rock/Various. Cover.

Riverbend Music Center - Luke Bryan with Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch. 7 p.m. Country. Sold out.

Northside Tavern - Classical Revolution. 8 p.m. Classical/Chamber/ Various. Free.

Washington Park - Friday Flow featuring Syleena Johnson. 7 p.m. R&B/ Soul. Free.

Sawyer Point - Cincy Blues Fest with Walter Trout, Rod Piazza and H the Mighty Flyers, Tinsley Ellis, Chuck

Northside Yacht Club - Lil Wyte with Mark James, Too Much, Lantana Easy and P The Emcee. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $15, $20 day of show.

Woodward Theater - Motherfolk (album release shows). 9 p.m.

H Indie Rock/Various. $7, $10 day of show.

Saturday 13

404 - Ron Enyard Quartet. 8 p.m.

Jazz. $10.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - The Hot Magnolias. 9 p.m. New Orleans Jazz/ Various. Free.

Bella Luna - Blue Birds Trio. 7 p.m. Classic Rock/Jazz. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - The Yada Yada Yadas. 9:30 p.m. Nineties Rock/ Pop. Cover.

Bogart’s - RATM 2. 7 p.m. Rage Against the Machine tribute. $12.

Clifton Plaza - The Perfect Children. 7 p.m. Garage Soul/ H AltCountry/Blues/Various. Free.

The Comet - Brother Moses. 11 p.m.

Indie Rock.

The Cricket Lounge at The Cincinnatian Hotel - Phillip Paul Trio. 6 p.m.

Jazz. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Honeywise. 10 p.m.

Folk Roots. Free.

Eastgate Brew & View - Encore Duo. 6:30 p.m. Acoustic Rock/Roots. Free.

Indian Creek Amphitheatre - Bret Michaels with Final Order. 5 p.m.

Rock. $35.

JAX Tavern - Tone Yard. 9 p.m. Rock.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Know Prisoners. 9:30 p.m. Reggae/Dance.

Cover.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Southern Saviour. 9 p.m. Country/ Rock. Free.

Leavell, Bob Seely, Ricky Nye, Magic Lightin’ Boys and more. 4:30 p.m.

Blues. $20.

Smale Riverfront Park Bethesda Foundation’s Gourmet Melodies Fundraiser with Pipe Shop, Kenny Cowden, The Burning Caravan, Honey & Houston, Azucar Tumbao, My Brother’s Keeper and FrenchAxe. 7 p.m. Jazz/Americana/Various. $100.

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Southgate House Revival (Lounge) WolfCryer with Tony Hall, James Funk and Tim Caudill. 9:30 p.m. Folk. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Fade To Black hosted by Rocky Doll and Saphire featuring The Gothsicles, Hematosis, Relic, The New Void, BloodWerks and DJ STEPHEN29.

8 p.m. Alternative/Industrial/Electronic/Various. $13, $15 day of show.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Charlie Robinson with Ric Hickey. 8:30 p.m. Country/Acoustic/ Various. $20, $22 day of show.

Stanley’s Pub - Scientifick Adam, Love Alive and Ample Parking. 8 p.m.

Rock/Funk/Various. Cover.

The Celestial - Tom Schneider. 6 p.m.

Piano. Free.

Knotty Pine - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

MOTR Pub - Sweet Lil with Psychic Temple and Eamon Fogarty.

H 9:30 p.m. Indie Rock/Folk/Jazz/Classical/Various. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

Sunday 14

The Comet - Comet Bluegrass AllStars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

Fountain Square - Gospel Sundays with Tonya Baker. 4 p.m. Gospel. Free.

Knotty Pine - Randy Peak. 10 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

MOTR Pub - Animal Mother. 9:30 Garage Jazz. Free.

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Megan Miller. 8 p.m. Noise/Drone.

Free (donations encouraged).

Tuesday 16

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Cheryl Renée.

7 p.m. Blues. Free.

Bogart’s - Kesha. 7 p.m. Pop/ $25.

H Rock/Various.

The Comet - Super Oragami. 10 p.m.

Experimental/Electronic/Funk/R&B/ Various. Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Zack Shelly and Chon Buckley. 6 p.m.

Piano/Vocals. Free.

MOTR Pub - Writer’s Night. 10 p.m.

Open mic/Various. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Plebeian Grandstand, Pyrrhon, Clouded and Ethicist. 9 p.m. Progressive Metal/ Death/Noisecore/Various. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Trashgrass Night with members of Rumpke Mountain Boys. 9 p.m. Jamgrass/Bluegrass/ Jamgrass/Various. Cover.

Northside Tavern - Selectas Choice with Count Bass D. 10 p.m. Soul/ Funk/DJ/Hip Hop/Various. Free.

Madison Live - Friday Giants, Into the Skies, Don’t Wait Up and Where It’s At. 7 p.m. Rock/Pop Punk. $12, $15 day of show.

Woodward Theater - Alice Bag H with Leggy and Birdie Hearse

Northside Yacht Club - Zig Zags with RIVE and Head Collector. 9 H p.m. Rock. $5.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Open Blues Jam with The Ben Duke Band. 8 p.m.

Blues. Free.

(‘Women In Rock Magazine’ launch party). 8 p.m. Rock/Punk/Various. $8, $10 day of show.

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MOTR Pub - Vinyl Thief. 10 p.m. Indie Pop. Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Tim Goshorn Band. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.

Monday 15

Northside Yacht Club - Language, Big Bliss and Disaster Class. 9 p.m.

Indie/Rock/Post Punk. Free.

Bulletville and Young Heirlooms. 3 p.m. Soul/Pop/Funk/Brass/Country/ Folk. Free.

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Urban Artifact - mr.phylzz with Rich Wizard and Milkman. 9 p.m.

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The Underground - Joshua Scales (EP release showcase) with Dev da Disciple, Kendall Sullivan, TRiViAL, Angel Lane and Yung Marlew. 7 p.m.

Soul/Hip Hop. Cover.

Washington Park - OTR Block Party with The Soul Pocket Band, H The Cincy Brass, Mark Utley and

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Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Gangstagrass. 7:30 p.m.

Bluegrass/Hip Hop. $12, $15 day of show.

The Mockbee - Justice Yeldham with Evolve 23, Dromez, Alba H Cell, Ving & Robert Inhuman and

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Bobby Sharp Trio with Jennifer Ellis. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).

Madison Theater - Trapt with Tantric, Here Come Here, Danger Monkey and Secret Circle Society. 7 p.m. Rock. $15, $20 day of show.

Sonny’s All Blues Lounge - Sonny’s All Blues Band featuring Lonnie Bennett. 8 p.m. Blues. Free.

Thompson House - Today’s Last Tragedy (album release show) with Shudder Face, Two Seconds Too Late, Sleep Comes After Death, Hades in Olympus and 3rd Person Omega. 6 p.m. Metal/Various. $10.

Knotty Pine - Everyone From Nowhere. 10 p.m. Rock/Country.

Cover.

MVP Bar & Grille - Brandon Gibbs with Juju Crow and Mark Stacey White. 9 p.m. Acoustic Rock. $5.

Riverbend Music Center - Luke Bryan with Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch.

7:30 p.m. Country. $31-$79.75.

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