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What a Week!
Confused as to whether you are a white nationalist? Take this quiz and find out!
BY T.C. Britton
WEDNESDAY AUG. 09
These days, there’s a cruise experience for everyone. Fans can sail away with New Kids on the Block, the Dancing with the Stars cast or Star Wars characters. And lest we forget about the Rob Gronkowski cruise of 2016, Gronk’s Party Ship. Now, finally, adventurers can embark on a Mike Huckabee Bible cruise! Set sail to Israel for The Greatest Trip — that’s what they’re actually calling it — and prepare to swim in the Dead Sea, get baptised in the Jordan River and follow the path that Jesus walked (Kanye West songs prohibited). And for a cool six grand, “you’ll hear from top Israeli officials about the strategic place Israel holds today and why America is such a valuable ally to her,” the website reads, in a not-at-all-creepy way.
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This has been the Summer of Celine. Canadian diva Céline Dion kicked off her European tour earlier this summer, setting up a home base in Paris. Since then, she’s treated the fashion capitol of the world like her own runway, serving edgy, dramatic lewks, posing for the gods and generally just living her best life. Thighhigh suede boots instead of pants? Check. Leather overalls? Check. Marie Antoinette couture? Check. Well, much like summer itself, all good things have to come to an end and Dion departed this week, which means our vicarious vacation is also over. :( But she left in epic fashion, receiving a sparkly send-off outside her hotel! Silver confetti rained from the heavens in her honor and we can’t even get a text back.
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The youngest spawn in the Kardashian koterie, Kylie Jenner, allegedly turned 20 years old this week. And she doesn’t look a day over 40! Ha ha, you’ve heard it all before — the barely adult appears to have underwent a number of plastic surgeries over recent years, dramatically changing her appearance from head to toe (or eyelid to buttcheek). Meanwhile, the reality
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2017 has taken away a lot from us: underrated drama The Leftovers, O.G. Batman Adam West, #couplesgoals Anna Faris and Chris Pratt… But sometimes goodbyes are necessary, and with a patent left in limbo, we may soon see the end of the foam clog fuckery that is Crocs. The shoe brand has been pursuing a lawsuit against knock-off clog company USA Dawgs for years, and now the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected Crocs’ argument. This could mark the end of their patent, coming at a time when 160 Crocs stores are shutting down across the country. Honestly, the idea of companies ripping off this hideous design is inconceivable. If you’re going to give up on your feet/life by wearing fluorescent foam slides, at least spring for the name brand. R.I.P. (rest in plastic) Crocs: Because dorm shower shoes have no place in everyday life.
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A pop-up restaurant devoted to Cheetos is coming to New York City this week. Celebrity chef Anne Burrell (who you might know from Food Network and/or her silver Jimmy Neutron hair) created the menu highlighting the orange-dusted snack, including Purrfectly Fried Green Tomatoes, Flamin’ Hot Limón Chicken Tacos and Cheetos Sweetos Crusted Cheesecake. Someone please make sure Britney Spears gets a table at this gem. The Spotted Cheetah will only be open for three days, which just happen to coincide with the dangerously cheesy Donald Trump’s return to his New York home. Coincidence?
TUESDAY AUG. 15
This week in questionable decisions: A Japanese company created a $157 “Rolls Royce of fidget spinners”; the popular FaceApp introduces “Asian, black, Caucasian and Indian” filters; one man tweets the joke “hold my avocado” and TIME dubs it the “Viral Catchphrase Millennials Have Been Looking For”; Taco Bell is testing a red tortilla-wrapped Firecracker Burrito served with “poppoing crystals,” aka sweet-n-spicy Pop Rocks; a Missouri high school removed students’ yearbook quotes for being too gay; VICE is getting in the travel market with Punk Rock vacation packages; and Willa Ford blamed 9/11 for her failed Pop star career. CONTACT T.C. BRITTON: letters@citybeat.com
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Are you white?
If yes, then continue to question No. 2. If no, then most likely you are not a white nationalist, as it generally does not serve one’s best interest to be excluded from the system that determines one’s civil rights and existence as a human in general. Although, if your white friends introduce you to their other white friends as “one of the good ones,” then it is possible that you are a non-white white nationalist and should continue to No. 2.
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Are you wearing khakis and a white polo shirt?
Examining the pictures from Charlottesville, it appears that the new white nationalist uniform is a sort of bloatedDonald-Trump-at-the-golf-course-fascio-casual look. The original German Nazis loved a very specific baby-poop brown color that is difficult to find today. Khakis serve as a sort of poo-proxy uniform color. If any of this appeals to you, then proceed to No. 3. If it doesn’t, then congratulate yourself on having slightly better fashion smarts than the Wal-Mart employee dress code.
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Are you offended by the removal of a statue that celebrates a general who fought for states’ rights to own and dispose of humans as property?
This is a tough question considering how we should not forget our country’s history. If you believe the statue could easily be displayed in a museum under the right context, you are probably just a reasonable person with very bad fashion sense. However, if you insist that the statue should not be removed from a public place of veneration because it is “our” history, then go on to No. 4.
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Are you constantly projecting your fears, frustration and self-loathing into a bumbling stream of hate toward an entire group of humans based on race?
This is not always noticeable from the first-person perspective, especially if your brain doesn’t work very well or you are not used to thinking very much. If you often blame minority groups for stealing your jobs, women or dignity, then move on to No. 5. If none of these theories sound realistic, you probably are just a person who has bought into some contradictory conceptions about the Civil War and/or are just too lazy to find a symbol that defines you more than the Confederate flag patch on your Lynyrd Skynyrd jean jacket.
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Do you want to live in a country that excludes all races other than whites?
If you answer “Yes” to this question, then you are a white nationalist. Unfortunately for you, the Constitution guarantees equal treatment to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” and does not consider religion, blood or soil. So, your best bet is to move to somewhere in Eastern Europe where there is the highest percentage of whites in the world. Don’t forget to learn the local language and customs, though, as some of these countries are not very tolerant of outsiders. Thanks for taking the quiz! — JEFF BEYER
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Before there was Game of Thrones, HBO’s Sunday night stunner featured a fairy waitress in love with a 110-yearold Civil War-era vampire at a time when synthetic blood has allowed for vamps to “come out of the coffin,” so to speak. Yes, True Blood was a hot mess, but it was our hot mess. Although the show premiered almost a decade ago, some people are just now learning the good word of all things Lafayette and Fangtasia, as evidenced by the show’s recent newscast photobomb (videobomb?). As an anchor on BBC’s News at Ten reported on England winning a cricket series — how British! — one of the newsroom monitors showed a woman taking her top and bra off. News at Ten? More like Nudes at Ten! (Sorry.) If there’s one thing to know about True Blood, it’s that the show was essentially soft-core mythical creature porn. And if there’s a second thing to know about True Blood, it’s that its fans are as thirsty as a parched vampire and they were quick to point out that those boobs belonged to none other than Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin — who found the whole ordeal hilarious). Now that’s some real investigative journalism.
star has merely klaimed to attain a Magic Eye level of makeup optical illusion sorcery. The only procedure she’ll kop to is getting temporary lip fillers. And according to Kylie’s kosmetic dermatologist, the girl is doing God’s work. Occasional Kardashian/Jenner lip plumper Dr. Simon Ourian credits Kylie with empowering other young brave souls to buy new faces, citing an increase in younger women deciding to “enhance” themselves. Feminist of the year! If Kylie kould move her face, she’d just roll her eyes because the joke’s on us. Her makeup empire Kylie Cosmetics (missed K opportunity) has raked in serious kash: $420 million in the last 18 months, and it’s projected to become a billion-dollar brand. Kongratulations, Kylie.
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Hate in the Buckeye State
Ohio and surrounding areas are a hotbed for hate groups and white nationalist leaders BY NICK SWARTSELL
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daughter of a man who founded the Traditionalist Youth Network. He resides about two-and-a-half hours outside the city in Indiana but also keeps a Cincinnati address in College Hill, court records show. His group has staged a number of protests here. In 2015, Traditionalist Youth Network ran Tony Hovater for a city council seat in New Carlisle, Ohio. Hovater, who hosted a radio show for the Daily Stormer, has claimed on that show that he “has always been a white nationalist.” The Daily Stormer has billed itself “the world’s most genocidal Republican website.” It is perhaps the country’s most influential outlet for hateful, neo-Nazi and white supremacist material. Anglin built the Daily Stormer from an unassuming office building that also houses his father’s Christian counseling service in Worthington, Ohio, launching on July 4, 2013. In just four short years, the site has grown to attract more than 10 million page views and half-a-million visitors a month, riffing on news stories and current events with a youth-centered, meme-heavy approach that is violently racist and anti-semitic in tone. Earlier this week, internet service companies GoDaddy and Google both denied hosting services to the Daily Stormer after Anglin published an article calling Charlottesville
White nationalist leader Matthew Heimbach speaking at a rally last year in Pennsylvania. He has been heavily active in the Cincinnati area. victim Heyer “a drain on society” and making comments about her weight and appearance. The site, which is reader-supported through donations, was still down as of press time. Anglin grew up in Worthington but his current location is unknown. Over the past two years, federal investigators have concluded he has lived in Germany, and Anglin himself told CNN last month that he was living in Nigeria. Not all those caught up in white supremacy hailing from Ohio are leaders of the movement. An effort on Twitter to identify attendees at the Charlottesville rallies has linked photos of several marchers to online profiles of Ohio residents. In one case, online commenters tied a former resident of Mason to video of a man in a hard hat bearing Nazi symbols brutally beating Deandre Harris, a black resident of Charlottesville, during a chaotic confrontation in a parking garage there. At least five men are seen in videos beating Harris with sticks, shields and other weapons as he lay on the ground. He required eight staples to close a gash in his head as a result of the incident. A Facebook account bearing the alleged attacker from Mason’s name and likeness
has sent virulent, violent messages to other users. “Go see if those west side niggers will treat you the same as the kids in Mason,” Harris’ accused attacker allegedly wrote to another Facebook user earlier this year. “If I could round up people to shoot I’d start right in that town. Black don’t do shit but biych and moan and collect welfare (sic).” CityBeat is not naming the former Mason resident until it can verify his identity, but law enforcement officials say they’re working to figure out if he was involved in the assault. “We are aware of the social media posts and the allegations made against a former Mason resident,” Mason Police Chief Todd Carter told CityBeat. “The city of Mason and the Mason Police Department are cooperating with the City of Charlottesville, Va. and other agencies in response to these allegations.” It’s unclear why so many active white supremacists come from Ohio and surrounding areas. But it’s likely that more tumult is on the way nationally as those groups plan rallies in Texas, Virginia and elsewhere related to cities removing confederate monuments. As those rallies happen, locals will likely be involved. ©
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y midday Aug. 12, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe had already declared a state of emergency and a large white supremacist rally had dispersed when a silver 2010 Dodge Challenger barreled down the streets of Charlottesville, Va., plowing into a group of anti-racist protesters. Thirty-two-year-old Heather Heyer was killed and another 19 people injured. A 20-year-old named James Alex Fields was quickly arrested and charged with second-degree murder for the act. Fields lives in Maumee, Ohio, near Toledo, and until recently resided just across the river from Cincinnati in Florence, Ky. Social media accounts Fields kept, now deleted, were rife with alt-right memes, and teachers at his high school in Florence say he had an intense fixation with Nazism and radical views about race. But Fields wasn’t the only Ohio resident at the white supremacist rallies that drew thousands Friday night and Saturday in Charlottesville, nor is he the state’s most prominent purveyor of hate. Ohio is home to 35 organizations the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as hate groups — the fifth-most in the country behind much more populous states like Texas and California. Kentucky has 23 and Indiana 26, which include six in the immediate Tristate area. A few are what the SPLC calls “black separatist groups,” but most are some variety of white supremacist or neo-Nazi organizations. Several high-profile national leaders of those groups have lived in or operated from the Buckeye State. They include Traditionalist Workers Party founder Matthew Heimbach, who was also in Charlottesville last weekend, and Andrew Anglin, who founded the nation’s most popular neo-Nazi website. The SPLC has called 26-year-old Heimbach “the face of a new generation of white nationalists.” He has stated beliefs supporting a separate, entirely white state and would like to expel all immigrants and African-Americans from the United States. “The ‘freedom’ for other races to move freely into white nations is nonexistent,” Heimbach wrote in a 2013 missive for white nationalist group the Traditionalist Youth Network. “Stay in your own nations, we don’t want you here.” Heimbach has also spoken to and worked with numerous violent white supremacist groups and was charged with misdemeanor harassment last year for repeatedly pushing a black woman at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Louisville. The white nationalist leader came to the Greater Cincinnati area after marrying the
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The Day the Earth Stands Still
Local astronomers say the upcoming solar eclipse is the most amazing thing you’ll ever see
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By Stephen Novotni
The total eclipse of the sun, coming to a sky near you on Aug. 21, is said to be the most spectacular astronomical event one can experience. The last time a total eclipse was visible from coast to coast across the United States was 99 years ago. This time, the sweep of the moon’s shadow will cross through Paducah and Bowling Green, Kentucky and Nashville, Tenn., within a half-day’s drive of Cincinnati. About 91 percent of the sun will be covered in Cincinnati skies, and locals who stay put will miss out on the big show, as the sky goes dark and a ring of fire frames the moon. But, what will be visible — crescentshaped projections on the ground and the queer passage of the moon blotting out most of Sol — promises to be amazing. Cincinnati Observatory Astronomer Dean Regas says the moon will make its appearance known around 1 p.m. when it starts to cover over the sun. “We call that first contact,” Regas says. “Then the moon will slide in front of the sun, covering more and more of it until about 2:29 or 2:30. That will be the maximum eclipse right around then. For the next hour, hour and a half, the moon will slide on its way and leave the sun’s disk around 3:52 to 3:53.” Presuming Cincinnati is fortunate enough to have clear skies — the show will be a bust if it doesn’t — the change in the dapples of light on the ground are the first things most people will notice. Normally, these are circular projections, streaming through breaks in the leaves. During the eclipse, these take on the shape of the fingernail moon. “The light coming through the trees will make little crescents on the ground,” Regas says. “The leaves will act like little pinhole cameras. It will let the light come through and you’ll actually see the eclipse on the ground. It’s very cool.” Local and national interest in the eclipse has been growing steadily for the past year. Regas and his colleague, Cincinnati Observatory Outreach Educator Samantha Pepper, have recently been giving public presentations on the eclipse about every other day. More than 200 people, adults and children, crowded into the basement lecture room of the Pleasant Ridge Library on Aug. 8 to hear Pepper explain how to safely view the eclipse and how exactly it works. Several dozen of the people in attendance raised their hands when Pepper asked how many were travelling to see the total eclipse. Journeying to the eclipse
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presents a number of challenges. Hotel rooms along the path of totality — the technical name for the narrow path of the moon’s umbra shadow that runs from Oregon to South Carolina — are running north of $500 a night. Most are already sold out. And making it to that path doesn’t mean you’re going to get to see it. As in Cincinnati, if there’s cloud cover, the show’s over. You have to be willing chase the clear skies as far west or east as needed. Regas says he is prepared to do just that. And if it takes driving all night or a lastminute airline ticket, he says he’ll make it happen. It’s just that amazing. “There are cool astronomical sights and then there’s this,” Regas says. “This is off-the-charts awesome to experience. I’ve only seen one in my lifetime and that was in Greece and it just blows your mind. The effects of the light around you and you can see the stars in the daytime. You look up and the sun’s gone. “It’s one of these guaranteed awesome events. I think people are starting to get the fever for it. A total solar eclipse is, trust me, pretty much the most amazing thing you’ll ever see.” Regas describes the sky turning darkblue velvet and stars being as apparent as they are a half an hour after sunset. It’s real Book of Revelation stuff, and you can understand why it brought the ancients to their knees. “You look up where the sun is and it’s just gone,” Regas says. “There’s a perfect black hole where the sun used to be. There’s this halo around the moon called the corona that’s part of the sun, but it looks like it’s around the moon. The temperature drops. The winds change. The birds and the animals get confused and the humans go crazy.” Pepper says the most important thing to keep in mind is not going blind. Even when the sun is 90 percent blocked, it’s still very bright and can do permanent damage to your eyes within moments. She says the only time you can stare directly at the sun is while the sun’s face is completely occluded by the moon and all that is visible is the sun’s corona. To see the partially eclipsed sun safely, you can use special eclipse glasses, number 14 welders glasses or you can make a pinhole projector and let the sunlight come through the pinhole onto the ground. But you can’t safely use sunglasses, look through CDs, mylar balloons or any other makeshift lenses as people have actually and unfortunately done.
Cincinnati will witnesses the solar eclipse from around 1 to 4 p.m. Aug. 21. Remember to protect your eyes! Pepper says that when they started the presentations in early June only a handful of people said they were leaving town to witness the path of totality. “Now, it’s like, we’re all going!,” she says. “More and more people are getting excited about it and wanting to go.” Pepper will be stationed at the Cincinnati Observatory on Aug. 21. If it’s a sunny day, she says, there could be 1,000 people in attendance. “We’re going to have two food trucks set up. We’re going to bring in some extra
porta-potties, but, as long as you have a safe way to view the sun, you can see it equally well from anywhere,” she says. “You don’t necessarily have to be at an observatory. You can just walk outside on your lunch break and watch through your eclipse glasses.” The CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY will host a solar eclipse viewing event noon-4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21. More info: cincinnatiobservatory.org.
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Prosecutor’s Office Internships Have Political Ties BY James McNair
fiancee DeShonda Reid. DuBose was the unarmed motorist killed by then-University of Cincinnati policeman Ray Tensing during a controversial traffic stop in 2015. Deters’ office prosecuted Tensing for the shooting, but two juries would not convict him. CityBeat asked Wilson how the prosecutor’s office had spread word about the availability of its student helper jobs. She would not answer the question and, in a separate letter, says there are no records reflecting that. She would not say how many people applied for the jobs. She says there are no records specifying qualifications of applicants. Reid, in an interview with CityBeat, says a family acquaintance in the prosecutor’s office, whom she met “in passing” last fall, encouraged her to apply for an internship. She says she was not interviewed. “I did not meet with anyone until my first day,” she says. Other county offices posted their internships widely. The clerk of courts office posted its openings on the county website, LinkedIn, Glassdoor and Indeed.com, as well as with local schools, says Nia Baucke, director of external relations. She says the office received applications from more than 200 students at 36 schools. After a rigorous review, nine were selected. The county administration office had one internship to offer. It posted the $12-anhour gig on the county website, the county Facebook page and two other websites. It received 38 applications, says county Human Resources Director Cheryl Keller. Annie Straka, an assistant professor of experience-based learning and career education at UC, recommends that employers cast as wide a net as possible to strengthen the pool of internship candidates. “By focusing only on personal referrals, you’re likely missing out on some really strong candidates who don’t have the social capital to get their foot in the door,” she says. As depicted in a CityBeat cover story on April 12, of 186 employees in Deters’ office, at least 31 were related to past or present county officials or employees or had political or business linkages to Deters. But the hiring of a judge’s son — at the judge’s written request — offers bald proof that connections are prized in the prosecutor’s office. “It may be that some of the interns are doing very good work, but there are myriad other people out there who could do very good work and not be the son or daughter of an Ohio Supreme Court judge,” says Dem Chairman Burke. Burke also lamented the chances of attorneys opposing the Hamilton County prosecutor in cases going before DeWine. “It’s convenient for the county prosecutor to have done a favor for a member of the Ohio Supreme Court,” he says. ©˙
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When the college-aged sons of three powerful Hamilton County Republicans sought paid, resume-boosting summer internships this spring, they found a willing taker in Republican prosecutor Joe Deters. “Joe, can you find a spot in your internship program for my son Matt this summer?” Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine asked Deters in an April 23 email obtained by CityBeat in a public records request. “It would be a great experience for him. If you can, I would really appreciate it.” Within an hour on that Sunday night, Deters emailed instructions to his executive assistant Janet Roedel. “Another… for sure,” he wrote. Voila! Matt DeWine reported to the prosecutor’s office and his $11-an-hour internship on May 16, according to county personnel records. Eleven days later he was joined by his older brother Richard Michael DeWine, who was starting his third summer internship in the office. Both are grandsons of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. By mid-June, the sons of two other prominent Hamilton County Republican Party officials also came on board: Michael Triantafilou, the son of county GOP Chairman Alex Triantafilou, and Henry Gerhardt, the son of former GOP Vice Chairman Charles “Chip” Gerhardt, one of two Republicans on the Hamilton County Board of Elections. Neither Deters nor his spokeswoman Julie Wilson would take questions about the internships. DeWine did not respond to an email sent to him through an Ohio Supreme Court spokesman. Triantafilou and Gerhardt did not respond to emailed requests for comment. Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, expressed alarm at the temporary hirings. “I’ve got no problem with an internship program, but if it is only open to folks who are well connected to the Republican Party and for whom the prosecutor can do favors — particularly when he’s doing favors for judges — that’s a problem,” Burke says. Ohio State Sen. Cecil Thomas, D-North Avondale, believes the arrangement crossed a line. He says criminal charges should be filed against both DeWine and Deters. Thomas planned to hold a press conference in front of the county courthouse Aug. 16. Hamilton County government offered 65 paid internships this summer, and 29 were in Deters’ office. All but one of his “student helpers” work 35 hours a week and are paid $11 or $13 an hour. Among the 29 are three who are sons of assistant prosecutors Jocelyn Chess, Philip Cummings and Charles Thiemann. At least two other interns are the children of courthouse employees. Another intern, Na’Kiima Reid, is the daughter of Samuel DuBose’s
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very couple years, a swarm rolls through Cincinnati, knocking on doors, descending on community council meetings and sweeping through church festivals from Mount Adams to Carthage to shake hands and nurse beers in plastic cups. Yes, it’s that time again: The race for City Council has returned. Thanks to a change in 2013 that doubled council members’ two-year terms, it’s been four years since Cincinnati last saw the swarm. But it’s here — and with more than 40 people petitioning to get on the November ballot and out interviewing for the job, it’s as big as it’s ever been. With the crowded field and a number of returning incumbents, first-time candidates are realizing they’ll need more than a party endorsement or a good fundraising haul to grab a seat. From bartending, brew tours and kickball to whirlwind tours of Cincinnati’s farflung neighborhoods, candidates are getting creative as they make their cases to voters. Some of the swarm are familiar names — incumbent Democrats P.G. Sittenfeld, Wendell Young, David Mann and Chris Seelbach are all in the mix vying for re-election, as are independent Christopher Smitherman and Republican Amy Murray. Most of them are doing well in fundraising and protecting relatively safe seats — though there could be some surprises. There are opportunities for a first-timer, especially one with an endorsement and some fundraising prowess. Councilwoman Yvette Simpson won’t run for re-election because she’s busy running for mayor — the charter won’t let a candidate run for both. Charterite Kevin Flynn is bowing out of political life after his single council term. And Republican Charlie Winburn is term-limited after completing his third term on council. That means new candidates must vie for three empty seats vacated by council members from across the ideological spectrum or try to topple an incumbent. So, how to stand out? Here’s how some first-time candidates with key endorsements from local parties are making their pitch.
Amy Murray
$259,000
Greg Landsman
$204,000
Chris Seelbach
$114,000
David Mann
$94,000
Derek Bauman
$90,000
Tamaya Dennard
David Mann
Christopher Smitherman
P.G. Sittenfeld
$54,400
Chris Seelbach Wendell Young
$49,000
Ozie Davis
Wendell Young
Tamaya Dennard
$45,000
Lesley Jones
Tamie Sullivan
Greg Landsman
$29,000
Ozie Davis
$28,000
Jeff Pastor
Michelle Dillingham Hamilton County Republican Party:
$25,000
Amy Murray
Michelle Dillingham
Seth Maney
$21,000
Henry Frondorf
Jeff Pastor
$13,000
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Lesley Jones:
David Mann
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Brian Garry
Amy Murray
$6,150
Derek Bauman
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Tamaya Dennard Henry Frondorf
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If you happened by Fairview Park a few Saturdays ago, you might have seen Democrat council candidate Tamaya Dennard campaigning — though it probably didn’t look like a political event you’ve seen before. Dennard and a couple dozen supporters, volunteers and curious onlookers were engaged in a high-stakes game of kickball in the midday sun. Dennard, who has a tenacious competitive streak, was putting everything she had into the game. “We’re trying to change what political events are a little bit,” she said as she waited her turn to kick. “A lot of them can feel a little dressed up and stuffy. There’s no fundraiser today, no stump speech. We’re just out here to meet people.” The crew included Dennard’s campaign manager Kevin Tighe — who helped lead Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus’ recent electoral win — and a number of supporters in red “Tamaya for Cincinnati” T-shirts. Local comedians provided commentary about the game, occasionally making light of a CityBeat reporter’s drifter-like appearance as he lingered awkwardly near the sidelines.
Shawn Braley organized the event. He isn’t formally associated with Dennard campaign but met her at a Cincy Stories event. Braley co-founded the citywide storytelling project, and after hearing Dennard’s speak about her life experiences, he says he felt drawn to support her campaign. “I like her authenticity,” he said when asked what sparked his desire to host the kickball event. “She really cares about helping people and about fairness.” Dennard was raised by a single mother in a low-income household in College Hill. After she graduated from Aiken High School and the University of Cincinnati, she got her start at Duke Energy before joining Councilman Sittenfeld’s office and subsequently working on his 2015 campaign for U.S. Senate. Now, she lives in Camp Washington and works at Design Impact, a downtown nonprofit that works to build inclusivity and address complex social issues. Her background and her current work touch the core of what Dennard is running on: finding ways to bridge the gap between what she calls “two Cincinnatis” divided along socio-economic lines. One-third of the city lives below the poverty line, including half of the city’s black residents. Addressing the issues that arise from that poverty and racial division will take new perspectives, Dennard says.
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“As we see more and more, there’s a lack of understanding between the two,” she says. “There are people who are on Council now who don’t understand the everyday things people are grappling with in the city.” To that end, Dennard’s vision for her time on Council revolves around policies she believes could help increase equity in Cincinnati. She wants the city to work harder to address neighborhoods without access to grocery stores and to put more money into its struggling Metro bus system, human services budget and initiatives like one that puts psychological professionals on emergency first-responder teams. She says she’ll push to have City Hall reassess the way it doles out tax incentives to developers, especially those who don’t build affordable housing. “We give too much money away in tax abatements,” she says. “They’re a great tool to draw people to the city. But there are certain communities where they’ve hit their tipping point. I’d like to see us weight them. You have to tell some developers you can’t just
Right: FAIRVIE W PARK KICKBALL Photo : NICK SWARTSELL
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“There are people who are on Council now who don’t understand the everyday things people are grappling with in the city.”
Dennard’s perspective and focus on equity can sometimes put her at odds with her party, she says. “The barometer for being progressive has been the streetcar,” she says. “The barometer is whether you’re opposed to the demolition of the Dennison Hotel. Of course I want
practicing politics from Behind the Bar Democrat Derek Bauman, a former suburban police officer and well-known transit activist who lives in Over-the-Rhine, has decided to tap for his council bid an ancient force known to bring people together: beer. On a recent weeknight, he stood behind the bar at C&D Tavern in Northside, slinging the cold stuff to a packed house of supporters and others curious about his campaign. “This is kind of an un-campaign, as we like to call it,” Bauman says. “I’m really into meeting people in a one-on-one kind of way.” As he handed out PBRs and Budweisers, Bauman discussed approaches to addiction treatment and homelessness with a social worker curious about his campaign after seeing his Facebook posts. Other attendees were also drawn to the C&D event by Bauman’s social media presence. Bauman’s a consistent voice on Facebook political forums, where he’s not shy about sharing his political views.
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make lots of money on these neighborhoods. There needs to be mixed-income housing.” She’d also like to make the inner workings of City Hall more accessible by holding at least one Council meeting in each of the city’s 52 neighborhoods over the coming four years.
to preserve history, but it’s hard to explain that focus to the people in North Fairmount or South Fairmount who don’t have access to a grocery store and have to be on the bus for hours a day to get to and from work.” Dennard has pulled endorsements from both the county Democratic Party and the Charter Committee. And she’s raised the seventh-most money of any candidate in the race, bringing in almost $61,000 — ahead of incumbents Young and Smitherman. She has also drawn devoted supporters like Braley who work to get her name out there. “We won’t have enough money to go on TV, and I’m OK with that,” Dennard says of her campaign strategy, which includes “wine and postcard” nights and a planned tour of speaking engagements on citizens’ porches. “But we’ve budgeted a strong radio presence and a strong digital campaign. I think the ground game is the key. We’ve been knocking on doors for a few months now. I go myself, with my clipboard. I don’t really talk a whole lot, I just introduce myself and ask what people care about.”
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(He also wrote a series of columns for CityBeat in 2016.) Bauman has been a longtime activist supporting Cincinnati’s streetcar, opposing the recent demolition of downtown’s historic Dennison Hotel and other issues that are hallmarks of progressive-leaning Democrats like Councilman Chris Seelbach, with whom Bauman sometimes holds campaign events and shares a campaign office. They often find themselves opposed to fellow Democrat Mayor John Cranley. Bauman’s campaign manager Eddie Davenport says informal community events are where the candidate really shines. Davenport helped run Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval’s victorious underdog campaign last year and says he believes Bauman has a similar gift for engaging voters personally. “When I met Derek, I knew I wanted to run his campaign,” Davenport says. “When we get this guy out meeting people, it’s just natural.” Bauman has also booked two brewery tours via bus — one to East Side breweries like Mad Tree and Woodburn Brewery and
RIGHT: Derek Bauman Photos: PROVIDED
“This is kind of an un-campaign, as we like to call it. I didn’t want to just host the typical dry, happy hour fundraisers.”
Bauman says his goal on Council would be to help move Cincinnati toward adding 25,000 new residents to the city by 2025, though he acknowledges that’s a very ambitious target. Nearly everything he touts on the campaign trail ties into a vision of Cincinnati as a series of connected neighborhoods with strong business districts and thriving small businesses centered around
a strong urban core. His pitches include better transit access, rethinking the way zoning and tax abatements work while providing increased financial support from the city for neighborhood development and supporting historic preservation. “If we can get to firing on all these cylinders, it just makes for an amazing, vibrant city,” he says. Democrats like Dennard, Bauman and Charter-endorsed first-timer Henry Frondorf — who launched his campaign with an eye-catching single-day mad dash through all 52 Cincinnati neighborhoods — have the challenge of standing out in a crowded field. Twenty-five of the 40 or so who requested petitions necessary to appear on the ballot identify as Democrats. The Hamilton County Democratic Party has endorsed nine contenders — including all Council incumbents running for re-election, plus Dennard, Dillingham, Landsman, Pastor Lesley Jones and prominent Avondale community organizer Ozie Davis.
Smaller crowd, big ambition Republican candidates don’t have the problem of oversaturation. The Hamilton County Republican Party has endorsed just three people for Council thus far: incumbent Murray, high school teacher and self-described “new age Republican” Jeff Pastor and Seth Maney, a real estate agent and developer. The child of two staunch Republicans who also love cities, Maney grew up in Oakwood, a suburb of Dayton. After moving to Cincinnati in 2013, Maney found he had a front-row seat for OTR’s rapid changes as a developer with Urban Sites and as vice president of the Over-the-Rhine Community Council. He moved on to Clifton and left Urban Sites earlier this year, but he’s looking to parlay his experience and civic engagement into a Council seat. So far, his campaign has been more conventional — hitting up events like the Northside Fourth of July parade and the
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another for more westward spots like Brink Brewing Co. and West Side Brewing. The outreach goes beyond beer. Bauman recently brought campaign volunteers to a number of neighborhood clean-up events in Northside, Bond Hill and Price Hill. “That’s how I’ve approached the campaign,” he says about those efforts. “I didn’t want to just host the typical dry, happy hour fundraisers,” though he notes he’s done some of those as well. Davenport says radio and digital campaign efforts are also well underway. Bauman has raked in more than $70,000 in campaign contributions, campaign finance records show. Those plus a $20,000 loan he gave to his campaign place him sixth-highest among candidates. He has also scored some organized labor endorsements as well as a nod from the influential Charter Committee. Bauman grew up in Warrensville Heights in Cleveland. His family had a single car, and while his mother drove to her factory job, his father would take the train into downtown Cleveland to work as a travel agent. The experience molded his lifelong interested in public transportation. He moved south after getting a business degree at the University of Akron and spent more than 20 years as a police officer, most recently in Mason, before a knee injury ended his law enforcement career.
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Church of the Immaculata’s festival in Mount Adams while throwing fundraisers. But Maney will tell you he’s still an unusual candidate. “I’m not hyper-partisan, but I am a lifelong Republican,” he says. “I’m also a lifelong gay man, and I care about places of density, which haven’t been places where Republicans have been competitive in my lifetime.” To wit, there are few other rooms in the city where you might find Hamilton County Republican Party Chair Alex Triantafilou, transit activist Cam Hardy and longtime urbanist and former City Councilman Jim Tarbell rubbing elbows, but that was the scene at Maney’s campaign launch at the Woodward Theater in OTR. Maney says the city could use some Republican representation when it comes to wrangling with the state around increased transit funding — something he supports — and other big issues. “I think it would do us some good to have some pro-city, pro-transit, pro-
RIGHT: SE TH MANE Y Below: Cam Hardy, Maney and Jim Tarbell (L-r) PhotoS: PROVIDED
“I think it would do us some good to have some pro-city, pro-transit, pro-growth, urbanist representation from my party,” and they want it to work as quickly and responsively as possible. There are different ways that the private sector can help without being forced to do something that isn’t our specialty.” Like other first-time council candidates, Maney frames himself as an outsider to politics as usual. “This isn’t the mission of my life,” he says of holding political office. “But it’s an important thing to be an active and assertive citizen. I think everyone will be better off if more people get involved and aren’t afraid to call out BS when you see it — in your own party or not.” He also acknowledges the city has an affordable housing problem — one he thinks the market can fix. “I think it’s a supply problem,” he says of a recent study that found that the Greater Cincinnati has a 40,000-unit gap in affordable housing. “What developers want is consistency, predictability; they want to know how the system works
Second Acts First-timers like Maney, Dennard and Bauman aren’t just contending with incumbents and each other. There are also returning candidates who have built their name recognition up over time. Democrat Landsman, who narrowly lost a bid in 2013, is leveraging his
recent success leading the effort to pass the Preschool Promise levy. He has scored endorsements from the Hamilton County Democratic Party and the Charter Committee and has raised more than $200,000 for his campaign — third-most of any candidate in the race including incumbents. Progressives Brian Garry and Dillingham, who also ran aggressive campaigns in 2013, are back at it again as well. Dillingham has raised about $21,000 for her bid this time around, campaign finance disclosures show, and also scored a nod from the county Democratic Party. Democrat Laure Quinlivan had two terms on Council from 2009-2013. After falling short of re-election in 2013 by just 900 votes, she’s now looking for her third and has hauled in almost $50,000 to help her in that effort. On top of all of those candidates, there could be a few more surprises before the Aug. 24 filing deadline. Stay tuned — the swarm is just starting to intensify ahead of November elections. ©
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growth, urbanist representation from my party,” he says. Maney jumped into the race earlier this summer and quickly drew attention with controversial statements in The Cincinnati Enquirer aimed at incumbent Councilman Seelbach, Cincinnati’s first openl gay councilmember and an ardent LGBTQ activist. That drew swift rebuke from some in the city’s LGBTQ community, including a sharply worded op-ed from Steve Newsome, who sits on the Human Rights Campaign’s Board of Governors. Maney has also taken his sometimesblunt approach directly to City Hall, using a public input session before a Council meeting to chastise council members for missing meetings before pivotal votes. But he says he’s ready to work with anyone, inside or outside City Hall, on tackling big problems that he sees as obstacles to the city’s growth. Maney says he sees the city as an ecosystem of connected business districts around the urban core. A self-proclaimed “infrastructure Republican,” he’s quick to talk about the need to reimagine the city’s transit systems and find ways to get more resources to neighborhood business districts.
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EVENT: It’s NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER DAY and Kings Island is offering card-carrying American Coaster Enthusiasts an extra 30 minutes of ride time on The Beast and Mystic Timbers. See feature on page 28.
ART: The Contemporary Arts Center features two separate solo shows about immigration and identity: NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY: PREDECESSORS and JANE BENSON: HALF-TRUTHS. See feature on page 29. MUSIC: GUIDED BY VOICES plays the Woodward Theater. See Sound Advice on page 38. SPORTS: WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN The oldest tennis tournament in the country continues through Sunday. Established in 1899, the Western & Southern Open — formerly known as the Cincinnati Open and Tri-State Tennis Tournament — pits men and women against each other tournament-style. But the Open isn’t just for sports lovers: The event also includes a full lineup of food, drinks and live music every day. Through Sunday. Tickets start at $25. Lindner Family Tennis Center, 5460 Courseview Drive, Mason, wsopen. com. — EMILY BEGLEY
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MUSIC: Badass Blues guitarist ANA POPOVIC plays the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 38.
MUSIC: QUEEN CITY KINGS: LOVE SONGS & THE BLUES Celebrate the legacy of King Records with Queen City Kings and an intimate performance series that relives the history of the record label through stories about the musicians, music and its impact on American song. The first concert, Love Songs & The
FRIDAY 18
EVENT: HERE CHANNEL, a streaming public radio platform, launches at People’s Liberty Globe Gallery. See feature on page 26.
ONSTAGE: THE FULL MONTY at The Carnegie is full of good intentions and a male strip show. See review on page 27. ONSTAGE: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM Stephen Sondheim’s 1964 musical was the first time he composed the score and wrote the lyrics for a Broadway musical. He hit home runs on all counts — and after a halfcentury, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is still a surefire hit with audiences, a farce from start to finish with non-stop laughter. Based on a Roman comedy, it’s the story of Pseudolus, a crafty slave seeking to win his personal freedom by carrying out a zany plot of matchmaking for his young master and a dim-witted courtesan. The Drama Workshop kicks off its 2017-18 season with “something for everyone — a comedy tonight.” Through Aug. 27. $18. The Glenmore Playhouse, 3716 Glenmore Ave., Cheviot, thedramaworkshop.org. — RICK PENDER MUSIC: LOGIC In less than a decade, Hip Hop artist Logic has risen to astronomical heights in the music industry, enjoying both critical acclaim and mainstream commercial success. The artist born as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II released the first of several mixtapes in 2010 and has been on a steady path to the top of charts ever since. Logic’s first studio album, Under Pressure, hit No. 4 on Billboard’s album chart, and after 2015’s successful The Incredible True Story, the MC returned earlier this year with Everybody, an album on which he more directly explored serious social issues, as well as personal ones, such as mental illness (the title of his hit “1-800-273-8255” is a national suicide prevention hotline). The album became his biggest yet, debuting at No. 1 on the album charts. While his lyrical skills and delivery (and success) put him on a level well beyond the “Nerdcore” Rap
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ART: MANIFEST GALLERY’S SOMETHING SPECIAL PREVIEW EVENT Manifest Gallery celebrates the final shows in its 13th season with a sneak public preview of four exhibitions: Monochrome, as the name implies, features works that share a common, single color palette; the 9th Annual Nude exhibition explores the human form in current art; Animal Nature is a solo show of prints by Tennessee-based artist Ralph Slatton; and A Quiet Mind is a series of drawings by North Carolina-based artist and professor Tamie Beldue, Manifest’s first solo exhibitor from 2005. The exhibits are on view through Sept. 15. Something Special 6-9 p.m. Thursay. Free. Manifest Gallery, 2727 Woodburn Ave., East Walnut Hills, manifestgallery.org. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER
scene, Logic is proudly nerdy — one of Everybody’s “features” is from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Logic made his own cameo on the most recent episode of cult-favorite animated series Rick & Morty. Also appearing at Logic’s Cincinnati
show are Joey Bada$$ and Big Lenbo. 7:30 p.m. Friday. $39.50-$132. PNC Pavilion at Riverbend, 6295 Kellogg Ave., California, riverbend.org. — MIKE BREEN CONTINUES ON PAGE 24
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EVENT: WILD ABOUT WINE Loving wine is human nature, right? Embrace that boozy instinct at the Cincinnati Zoo during its Wild About Wine tasting event. Grab wine samples at different locations throughout the zoo, accompanied by food-by-the-bite from local restaurants like Parker’s Blue Ash Tavern, Taste of Belgium, Holtman’s Donuts and City Barbeque. Live music and up-close animal encounters will also take place all evening long. (As of press time, this event was sold out; check cincinnatizoo.org for updates.) 6:30-9 p.m. Thursday. $50; $40 designated driver. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale, cincinnatizoo. org. — EMILY BEGLEY
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Blues, will feature the Queen City Kings performing famous songs you may or may not know were recorded at King Records in Cincinnati. Audience members can sit in among the musicians while listening to the concert’s studio mix through headphones. 7 p.m. Thursday. $19.43. Contemporary Arts Center, Black Box, 44 E. Sixth St., Downtown, facebook.com/queencitykingscincinnati. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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FILM: CINEMA IN THE CITY: THE PRINCESS BRIDE Head to Mount Adams’ Seasongood Pavilion to see a screening of 1987’s The Princess Bride, possibly one of the greatest romantic comedies — and most quotable films — ever made. Cary Elwes stars as farmhand Westley and, later, the Dread Pirate Roberts, in love with Buttercup, a beautiful farm girl played by Robin Wright. Buttercup is slated to marry a gross dude named Prince Humperdinck, when she’s kidnapped by a rowdy gang of outlaws (featuring Mandy Patinkin as fencing expert Inigo Montoya and André the Giant as Fezzik, also a giant). Then comes the Fire Swamp, the Six-Fingered Man, Rodents of Unusual Size, blah, blah, blah and The Dread Pirate Roberts, who vows to save Buttercup from the kidnappers and her fate as the future lady Humperdinck. Comedy, beautiful landscapes and quotes ensue, including: “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die;” “Mawage is wot bwings us togethar today;” and “As you wish.” Features pre-show live music from The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars and food from Calle and streetpops. 7 p.m. music; film starts at dusk. Free. Seasongood Pavilion, 950 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, mtadamscincy.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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COMEDY: ALONZO BODDEN Comedian, actor and TV presenter Alonzo Bodden is fresh off the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, where he was quite busy. “I hosted the ethnic show, which is one they would never allow in the United States because they’d be too politically correct and scared of it,” he says with a laugh. He also hosted the Just for Laughs Awards. On stage, Bodden still likes to do what he calls social commentary. “It’s political issues of the day,” he says. “Obviously with Donald Trump in the White House, you can’t not talk about that, but my whole show is not going to be about him.” There will also be some talk about Congress. “The people with the best health care plan on the planet, voting against us getting health care,” Bodden muses. “How does John McCain get free brain surgery, then vote on whether or not we should get health
care?” Showtimes Friday-Sunday. $15$18. Liberty Funny Bone, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone. com. — P.F. WILSON
SATURDAY 19
EVENT: BUCKEYE BEER BASH Celebrate Ohio’s abundance of brews at Jungle Jim’s Buckeye Beer Bash. Breweries from Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Hamilton and more — including local favorites like MadTree and Rhinegeist — will coalesce under one roof, offering a boozy metaphorical trip throughout the state. Imbibe dozens of samples while listening to live music from Cincinnati Country/Rock group Ron Fletcher & the Southern Edge. Don’t worry: Food trucks will also be onsite to soak up all that alcohol. 7-11 p.m. Saturday. $30 advance; $35 day-of. Jungle Jim’s International Market, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com. — EMILY BEGLEY
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EVENT: THE CITY FLEA AND KIDS MARKET The City Flea is back for its first fall market of the season (where did summer go?!). The urban curated flea market takes over Washington Park with dozens of vendors selling a little something for everyone — clothes, pet supplies, home goods, sewn goods and so much more. This particular installment includes the second-annual Kids Market, which gives children ages 4-14 the opportunity to showcase and sell creative wares of their own. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, thecityflea.com. — EMILY BEGLEY
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EVENT: SOLAR ECLIPSE VIEWING AT THE CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY Have you heard: There’s a solar eclipse happening on Monday. It’s true; that’s why everyone you know has been buying those weird sunglasses. There hasn’t been a significant solar eclipse — aka when the moon goes in front of the sun and blocks the light, except for the sun’s atmospheric corona — viewable in this area since 2000. The entire event will last about three hours, with about two minutes of total blockage. Unfortunately, from Cincinnati, we’ll only
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MUSIC: Singer/songwriter LILLIE RAE plays the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 39.
ONGOING shows ONSTAGE Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood Know Theatre, Over-the-Rhine (through Aug. 19) VISUAL ART Ugo Rondinone: let’s start this day again Contemporary Arts Center, Downtown (through Aug. 20)
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EVENT: BURLINGTON ANTIQUE SHOW We’re coming up on the final Burlington Antique Show dates of the season (the last show is Oct. 15). This third-Sunday extravaganza features more than 200 unique antique and vintage collectible dealers spread out across the Boone County fairgrounds. Find everything from ad ephemera to whiskey barrels and farmhouse industrial furniture to historic quilts. Early bird hours are 6-8 p.m. 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. $4; $6 early bird. Boone County Fairgrounds, 5819 Idlewild Road, Burlington, Ky., burlingtonantiqueshow.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO
be able to see a partial eclipse — to view the total eclipse, you’d need to travel to a city in the path, which stretches from Salem, Ore. to Charleston, S.C. But! If you head to the Cincinnati Observatory between noon and 4 p.m., you’ll be able to view what we can see of the astronomical event (weather permitting). The maximum viewable eclipse happens here at 2:29 p.m., and you’ll need eclipse glasses to safely see it. See news story on page 10 for more. Noon-4 p.m. Monday. Free admission. Cincinnati Observatory, 3489 Observatory Place, Mount Lookout, cincinnatiobservatory.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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Radically Free ‘Radio’ Comes to Cincinnati
Over-the-Rhine’s Here Channel gives everyone a chance to create streaming audio programs BY MACKENZIE MANLEY
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ere Channel, a project by Caroline Creaghead that launches Friday, will enable anyone to be a content creator and host of his or her own audio program. It merges aspects of both radio and podcasting into a streaming format that can be heard online or through listening stations at an Over-the-Rhine studio across from Findlay Market. “I want to encourage as many different people as possible with different levels of experience,” Creaghead says. “I say that meaning technical experience, but also just varieties of experience: people who want to share their ideas, people who want to interview other people or people who just like a type of music. We have all the licensing and royalties taken care of, so you can come in and just say, ‘Here’s my record collection!’” It may be, she says, that Here Channel serves as a community response to the pending loss of WNKU-FM, which owner Northern Kentucky University is selling to a programmer of religious music. WNKU has served as an advocate and outlet for hearing new and Roots music, especially local, that is overlooked by area commercial radio stations. “I think this is one of many responses to losing WNKU,” Creaghead says. She adds that start-up stations like the inhailer.com broadcast platform and Radio Artifact, Northside brewery Urban Artifact’s upcoming AM station, are attempting to do similar work. “Here Channel, if not a permanent fixture, is at least some celebration and encouragement of the response to losing that resource in our community,” she says. Creaghead received a $15,000 People’s Liberty Globe Grant from the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, which allows her to use the nonprofit’s Globe Gallery at 1805 Elm St. as Here Channel’s base through Sept. 24. There will be a pop-up recording booth there — people sign up at herechannelradio.com to schedule time to use it, although some hours will be kept open for walk-ins. Those able to home-record can also drop off their files or deliver them online. After Sept. 24, the website will provide access to the online playlist of archived material at least through year’s end. While many of the programs will be available from that playlist, there will also be some live-streaming, such as special Globe Gallery-held events like stand-up comedy, performance art and avant-garde music. The only rule is that content can’t be hurtful to anyone.
Caroline Creaghead’s studio near Findlay Market welcomes all would-be deejays. “Cincinnati has a lot of different performing art groups and opportunities,” Creaghead says. “I don’t by any means think this is the only venue, but I’m excited to have Here Channel be added to the fabric of the venues supporting that work.” After working in New York as an intern for both The Colbert Report and The Onion, then working as a producer for stand-up shows in the city, Creaghead moved back to Greater Cincinnati in 2014. A year ago, she applied for a Globe Grant. “I thought, ‘I don’t have to be in New York to be doing creative things.’ And in fact, I’m killing myself trying to keep my head above water (there),” she says. “Why don’t I go somewhere where I can relax a little and not necessarily turn a profit right away?” Here, she works for a tax company that helps artists sort out their finances. Through that, she spun her own idea for a podcast, None of Your Business, which educates creative people on how to pursue their craft and be financially stable. She plans to relaunch it on the opening day of Here Channel. “Through doing a podcast, I was like ‘Oh, people like content delivered this way because it’s so intimately delivered,’ ” she says. “It’s right in your ears and, largely, audiences have gone away from ‘At this
time I’m going to tune in to this show.’ People want content to be on demand. Podcasts are.” When she first applied for the grant, Creaghead says, she was asked why she preferred an online format versus terrestrial radio. Having worked on radio in college, she said she knew that it costs more money and its space is limited to time slots. With online radio and podcasting, that bar fades away. The physical space for Here Channel’s studio, designed by Team B and fabricated by Branden Francis, will be sleek with a modern air. The actual recording area is to be right in front of a large glass window and faces Findlay Market. That should help gain attention, as people from all over the city shop there. In fact, the studio will be open to anyone — no reservations needed — from 2-5 p.m. on Saturdays, peak visiting hours at the market. Here Channel’s online landscape is clean with elements of intrigue. The website was a collaborative effort between Californiabased Duck Brigade and designer Josh Jacob of Cincinnati firm Cosette. Andrea Tomingas and Gabe Danon of Duck Brigade knew Jacob through the podcasting world. They had helped
Creaghead build the website for None of Your Business. “Caroline is the big idea person and Josh is the design person,” Tomingas says. On every podcast website that Duck Brigade has worked on, they integrate a static player. Thus, as a listener navigates through the site, the audio will continue to play and not buffer or redirect. Here Channel’s site builds on this idea. Bringing all of these professionals together is a dream for Creaghead. Here Channel, completely free both from cost to users or commercials, allows the creators to do what they want. Craighead says she hopes to find a few gems along the way. “Being that radically open means that we’re not going to have some curator squashing some idea they don’t get,” Creaghead says. “So, nobody has to fear not being good enough, because it’s about experimentation and trying things out.” HERE CHANNEL launches Friday with a 6-9 p.m. party at People’s Liberty’s Globe Gallery, 1805 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. Portions will be streamed live at herechannelradio.com. It will be active through Sept. 24; check the website for studio hours and/or to hear programming.
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Going ‘Full Monty’ at The Carnegie BY Rick Pender
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Back in 1997, The Full Monty, a British points of characters’ backstories. The Full film about unemployed steelworkers in Monty touches on some serious matters — Sheffield, England, was a surprise success. A unemployment, fathers’ rights, depression few years later, it became an Americanized and suicide, impotence, homosexuality musical and had a successful two-year run and body image — but these issues tend to on Broadway from 2000 to 2002. The Carnbubble up momentarily and then evaporate egie in Covington has mounted the show as as the story turns back to the comedy. its late-summer musical. I attended opening The central character, Jerry (Zachary night last Saturday in a full house at the Otto Huffman), is separated from his wife Pam M. Budig Theatre, where the audience had (Sara Kenny) and feeling guilty about not a good time watching a bunch of down-andbeing a better dad to his adolescent son out guys with good intentions but not much Nathan (Peanut Edmonson). Jerry’s friend talent try to make a buck by going “the full Dave (Sean Mette) worries that his own marmonty” — stripping down to nothing at all. riage is at risk. Jerry hatches the ill-advised This British slang term from the 1980s plan to strip and raise enough from the show didn’t originally refer to stripping. Its broader meaning was something like going “the whole nine yards” or “the whole kit and caboodle.” The movie sharpened the phrase to its current usage. It’s a bit odd when applied to a story about Buffalo, N.Y., but it’s a concise way to sum up a show about good intentions. Of course, those are the pavers on the road to Hell. (One character’s wife says their plan is “funny, scary,” but definitely “not sexy.”) That’s more or less what The game cast of the stripped-down musical comedy happens to six out-of-work PHOTO : provided steelworkers with serious financial obligations and no prospects. Witnessing their wives’ reaction to catch up on his child-support payments. to a male stripper, they decide to follow They recruit four more guys: Malcolm suit and pick up some fast cash. They’re a (Kelcey Steele), a depressed one-time secumismatched bunch with virtually no experirity guard who lives with his domineering ence as dancers (one guy has taken ballroom mother; Harold (Brian Anderson), an uptight dance lessons). Nevertheless, faced with former manager at the steel mill who fears self-consciousness and their wives’ doubts, his materialistic wife will see him as a loser; they become a supportive ensemble. They Horse (R. DeAndre Smith), an arthritic guy become striptease act Hot Metal and pull it with startling dance moves who happens to off. Literally. And, I should add, tactfully. be a “Big Black Man” that the others feel will The Carnegie’s cast is full of good intenbe an attraction; and Ethan (Robert Breslin), tions, too. They’re talented singers and a klutzy but enthusiastic fan of movie musiactors who convincingly play awkward, cals whose singular “endowment” seems like overweight, uncoordinated men. The actors a valuable asset. They’re joined by Jeanette surely experience some of the same chal(Sherry McCamley), a hard-bitten but encourlenges as the characters they play. Much of aging showbiz veteran and piano player. the show’s humor is rooted in discomfort, These capable local players can sing, framed in unvarnished blue-collar attitudes. dance (using Jay Goodlett’s seriously There’s a lot of crude language that’s probathletic choreography) and entertain. Their ably typical for how these men talk and think. good intentions evoke a lot of laughter, I’m sorry to say that delicate ears might but I never felt the underlying pain that miss such material, however, because the should make The Full Monty an evening of Carnegie’s muddy sound system, pushed at poignant theater. Maybe titillating, off-color high volume, constantly blurs the show’s humor is enough for summer entertainment. lyrics (by composer David Yazbek). You But I’d hoped for more. certainly get the gist of what’s going on, but THE FULL MONTY is playing Friday and Saturday it doesn’t come easily. evenings and Sunday matinees through Aug. 27 That’s compounded by Matthew Wilson’s at The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington. direction of Terrence McNally’s script, Tickets/more info: thecarnegie.com. which doesn’t spend much time on the finer
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Riding and Rating Wooden Coasters BY MACKENZIE MANLEY
At the start of the summer season, Kings Island debuted Mystic Timbers, a 109-foot-tall wooden coaster whose construction allowed the park to reclaim the title of having the world’s largest collection of wooden tracks — almost 19,000 feet. The new addition solidified the park’s holy trinity of wooden thrill rides, which include The Beast and The Racer. (There is a fourth wood coaster, the “kid-friendly” Woodstock Express.) I headed to Kings Island, a true staple among Midwesterners, in advance of Wednesday’s National Roller Coaster Day to sample the trifecta. To celebrate the holiday, Kings Island is offering cardcarrying American Coaster Enthusiasts 30 minutes of exclusive ride time on The Beast and Mystic Timbers after the park closes.
see. Afterward, Mystic Timbers waddled to an end. Essentially, it lacked a denouement.
The Racer The Racer is simple and classic with two tracks and trains meant to “race” one another. I slid into the blue car — victory was already ours as the red racer was closed. Like a true thrill-seeker, I opted for the front seat and fixated on the track splayed out before me. The legendary ride first went upward. For a moment, our train teetered on the tip of the manufactured hill before plummeting
Mystic Timbers Mystic Timbers’ greatest draw (as it was advertised) is its abandoned lumber yard theme and what lurks in the mysterious shed at the end, where no two Kings Island’s new Mystic Timbers wooden coaster encounters are alike — the PHOTO : don helbig animations and soundtrack rotate. Observing the videos downward. Though the 82-foot drop isn’t as set up throughout the sprawling waiting steep as other coasters, the thrill remained. line, I thought something in the realm of But it’s more of a starter course than an Blair Witch Project seemed likely. entrée, however. I took a seat in the middle of the coaster’s train, designed like a baby-blue 1960s Chevy pickup truck. As it crept up the first hill, a crackling, frantic voice warned: “Don’t go Though I’ve visited Kings Island throughout in the shed.” Strapped into my seat, the my youth, and The Beast is arguably one of ominous foretelling came too late. its most iconic rides, this was the first ride Like its predecessor The Beast, the experience I can remember on this particucoaster snakes through thick foliage in a lar coaster. The famed Beast first takes an blur, but has fewer trim brakes — a feature 180-degree turn before veering left and climbthat makes for a smoother ride (I prefer ing 110 feet into the air before descending 135 wooden coasters to be on the rough side). feet into a dank underground tunnel. True The views screamed and shook past me to its name, it felt as if towering creatures through 16 tumultuous hills before screechwere playing catch with my body. As the ride ing to a halt and inching into the shed where made multiple sharp turns, I began to feel a the voice returned. I heard, “What’s hapsense of weightlessness — as if I, a real-live pening?” Lights flickered overhead. “I see a woman, were nothing but a mere Raggedy radio. I see blades.” The voice was omniAnn doll. And there was more to come. scient — a narrator who couldn’t spare us Once we finally pulled back into the stafrom the horror we were about to witness. tion, I fumbled out of my seat and picked the Gary Numan’s synth-heavy “Cars” shards of my psyche off the dusty floor. Out abruptly began playing as the train of all the coasters, it left me the most rattled stopped momentarily. Projector screens and with the most amount of adrenaline. made the walls awash in unsettling green, Despite its age, The Beast is still a rollickswirling light. The ambiance gave off ing time and doesn’t need the gimmicks campy ’80s horror flick vibes, which were employed in Mystic Timbers. cool to take in. However, the shed visit has KINGS ISLAND is located at 6300 Kings Island a pacing problem; the train lingers just a bit too long without there being enough to Drive, Mason. More info: visitkingsisland.com.
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Foreign-Born Artists Explore Identity at CAC BY KATHY SCHWARTZ
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The Contemporary Arts Center has her face. The images appear almost alien. arranged a harmonious visual duet about “Of all the pieces, they fascinate me the most, immigration and identity, accompanied by because I have less control,” she says. the haunting strains of string instruments “A sense of displacement is definitely at that have been cut in half. In separate solo my core,” the New York-based artist adds. shows, Jane Benson and Njideka Akunyili Though Benson grew up in Manchester, Crosby, foreign-born artists who now live in England, she says she doesn’t identify with the United States, explore what it’s like to being English at all. It wasn’t until age 17, be a stranger in a strange land. when she moved to Scotland, the onetime The second-floor galleries are filled with home of her Irish father and English mother, music from a dual-channel video of two that she experienced a feeling of belonging. Iraqi brothers, one now living in Germany An unsettled spirit also guides the art of and the other in Bahrain. “Finding Baghdad Nigerian-born Akunyili Crosby. But, unlike (Part A)” is the centerpiece of Half-Truths, the exhibit from the British-born Benson. As part of her artistic practice, Benson saws apart mass-produced versions of violins, guitars and other strings to turn them into new instruments for collaboration. To achieve a full musical scale, the halves must be played together by more than one person. One of the Iraqi brothers performs on half of an oud, a type of lute popular in the Middle East, while his sibling Artwork from Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Predecessors joins him via Skype on half P H O T O : b r i a n f o r r e s t/ c o u r t e s y o f v i c to r i a m i r o g a l l e r y, l o n d o n a djoze, another instrument from their homeland. Their faces reveal satisfaction at this virtual Benson, Akunyili Crosby chooses to insert reunion a dozen years after escaping their herself into her works, via a dark-skinned war-torn nation. Yet we know that when surrogate, and invites us into personal the music stops, they will have to retreat to moments and spaces. their separate new lives, presumably still The Los Angeles-based artist combines feeling less than whole. To illustrate the multiple techniques — drawing, painting, brothers’ in-between existence, Benson has photo transfer and collage — to better shredded flags from the eight nations where represent her multifaceted life. She’s been their family is now scattered and used the in America since 1999, but her homeland is strands to weave new banners. always on her mind. Images transferred from As Benson breaks down and reconNigeria’s pop culture magazines spread over structs the familiar, she creates opportunithe surfaces in her works, including the skin ties for fresh points of view, much as the of her white American husband. Cubists did. Three still-life installations Her late grandmother’s table in Nigeria, from a series titled A Place for Infinite laden with religious and family portraits, Tuning bring to mind Pablo Picasso’s guidishes and a kerosene lamp, is a recurring tars. Benson’s hybrid musical instruments, character in her Predecessors exhibit. In including an oud married with a djoze and a diptych, we also see the artist’s own a cello paired with an Indian sarod, rest dining table, mostly bare and waiting for precariously on asymmetrical mirrored new memories to be made. Benches in the tabletops and invite us to consider every gallery space encourage us to take a seat at possible angle of not only her handiwork, one of the tables and think about our own but also our identities. Atop each table, legacies and family trees. “faux faux” bouquets of artificial flowers, For Akunyili Crosby, Benson and others their petals and leaves cut into unnatural caught between two worlds, their identity is rectangles, cascade from split vases. an unfinished symphony. Ironically, Benson draws in a viewer by NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY: PREDECESSORS maintaining a sense of detachment from is on view through Oct. 1 and JANE BENSON: her art, even in her self-portraits. To create HALF-TRUTHS is on view through Oct. 22 at the them, she drapes muslin over herself, then Contemporary Arts Center, Downtown. More info: reaches around and blindly rubs charcoal contemporaryartscenter.org. crayons over the surface as it rests against
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We never fully appreciate the fine and fake head with its blank expression, is just a distinct lines between genres and our emoshield protecting a fragile psyche. Frank is a tional responses to them until a filmmaker wounded soul, trapped and forced to hide. dares to firmly plant feet on both sides of Brigsby Bear offers James something the line of demarcation. more vital and necessary. The make-believe In Brigsby Bear, director Dave McCary, bear character, this creation of his captors, known for shorts and comedic television is an honest-to-goodness protector, a tool work, oversees a script from Kevin Costello directly linked to James’ imprisonment, and star Kyle Mooney that captures an but also the lifeline that opens doors in the awkward handshake between comedy and real world. James shares the Brigsby Bear drama. The film tells the story of James Pope tapes with Aubrey’s friends, in particular (Mooney), a young man raised in isolation Spencer (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), a would-be by Ted (Mark Hamill) and April (Jane Adams), believing that they are survivors of a post-apocalyptic event. His primary connection with the outside world is through a children’s television show called Brigsby Bear Adventures, which it turns out Ted and April have been producing on their own for years. The couple snatched James from the maternity ward and kept him in a scenario reminiscent of Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, minus the malignant intent Kyle Mooney as James in Brigsby Bear of the captor. Ted and April P H O T O : C o u r t e s y o f s o n y p i ct u r e s c l a s s i c s obviously love James and have treated him well, given film enthusiast who teams up with James to the circumstances. Once discovered by the extend the life of Brigsby Bear by creating a police, James returns to a home and family DIY feature film. he’s never known. His birth parents Greg A clear dilemma emerges for James’ (Matt Walsh) and Louise (Michaela Watparents, who worry about the potential kins) and his younger sister Aubrey (Ryan unhealthy psychological issues he might Simpkins) attempt to ease him into the new have because of his continued association dynamic and a completely unfamiliar world, with the bear. But everyone else seems less but James retreats to the one thing that guarded, even in some ways attracted to the sustained him all along — Brigsby Bear. innocence of the character. What this says He longs for more of those wide-eyed about us is that somewhere deep within we adventures, so he decides to create his own long to remain connected to the safety of version as a feature film and elicits help our fantasies. Frank, inside that big head, from Aubrey, some of her friends and even a and James, in the embrace of Brigsby Bear, kind police officer (Greg Kinnear) on hand each find peace and security from the preswhen James was found. sures and dangers lurking outside. The comparison to Room highlights yet Mooney’s James — bringing together another connection, in that Abrahamson the traits of both Frank and Jon from the also gave audiences an insightful look at film Frank — shows us how easy it is to another figure seemingly cut from a similar walk with one foot on either side of a divide cloth in Frank (2014), which presented (comic fantasy and psychological drama). Michael Fassbender as the titular character, James is wide-eyed, but quick to understand the lead singer/songwriter of a fringe band and appreciate the new situation he must who performs (and ultimately lives) inside settle into. a giant mascot-styled head. Audiences enter On the surface, Brigsby Bear will seem Frank’s world via Jon Burroughs (Domhsomewhat removed from the reality we nall Gleeson), an aspiring musician tapped might imagine from such serious subject to join Frank’s group. matter. But that distance gives the narrative There is a “magical mystery tour” vibe to Frank, allowing us to watch the wonderful and its characters life. They stumble along behind-the-scenes experiences granting us on their way to arriving at a safe space that complete and unfiltered access to the inner is touching and achingly funny. (Opening lives of dynamic stars. Of course, reality sets Friday at the Esquire Theatre.) (PG-13) in and we see that the Frank persona, the big Grade: B+
ON SCREEN Aubrey Plaza as Nun BY T T STERN-ENZI
Aubrey Plaza, a rising star known as an acerbic comic force in television (Parks and Recreation) and movies (Funny People), has embraced a daringly raw, primal sexual presence in films like Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and Dirty Grandpa. So often we relate to sex comedies from the male perspective, where we are expected to see and enjoy the juvenile antics of young men caught in states of arrested development, reveling in their bromantic banter with female bodies available and on display. However, her latest film, The Little Hours, finds her rushing heedlessly down an even darker path, waving her freak flag in an effort to send signals to the rest of us that it is more than acceptable to prowl around like a panther in heat. The story revolves around a group of nuns (including Alison Brie and Kate Micucci) in the Middle Ages who pounce on a young servant (Dave Franco) posing as a deaf mute while fleeing his master. The sisters entice him to satisfy their raw sexual urges. They all curse and snipe at one another with zeal and we’re supposed to chuckle and smile at the brashness of women of the cloth speaking and acting like pissed-off hookers. As the leader of this wild pack, Plaza lets us see that there’s more to this than a joke; in fact, sex is no laughing matter at all. Plaza is angry and raw and raunchy. There’s a darkness to her stare that’s a challenge. She’s got a bit of the old-school femme fatale in her (think Linda Fiorentino from The Last Seduction), but she’s arrived at the wrong time. We don’t get the kind of film noir that could take advantage of what she’s bringing to the table. The Little Hours is more than a little afraid of letting Plaza roam free. It would rather mimic the vibe of a sorority house indulging in familiar excess, which wastes the punch inherent in every single one of Plaza’s lines. (Opens Friday at the Esquire Theatre.) (R) Grade: BAlso opening: 13 Minutes // City of Ghosts // The Hitman’s Bodyguard // Lucky Logan // Wind River
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I’ve never been a big “sports person” in at one of the most successful under-theterms of what I like to watch on TV. A radar athletic programs in the country and story-driven fictional drama is far more hopefully transfer to a Division One school. compelling to me than the real-life strategy EMCC transfers more than 20 grads a year and athleticism displayed on a football into four-year universities on scholarships, field. When I do watch a game, I find myself has won three national championships and wanting to know who these players are — boasts nine former players now in the NFL. not just as athletes, but people. What’s their The man behind it all, coach Buddy story? That’s why the Emmy-winning HBO Stephens, is the classic Southern Christian docuseries Hard Knocks has kickstarted man of a certain age who believes young my football fan status. people are coddled and too distracted to Hard Knocks: Training Camp with understand anything but “direct” — volathe Tampa Bay Buccaneers (10 p.m. Tuesdays, HBO), the series’ 12th installment, takes viewers behind the scenes as the Florida team prepares for the upcoming season. It’s a football fan’s fantasy — beautiful, up-close action shots from preseason games; unprecedented access to the players in camp, at the team’s living quarters and with their families; and a ridiculously quick turnaround of footage. Episodes air days after the action was shot, meaning Jameis Winston of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Hard Knocks you can catch a preseason P H O T O : e d m u l ho l l a n d / c o u r t e s y o f h b o game on Friday — like when the Bengals played the Bucs Aug. 11 at Paul Brown Stadium — then tile — orders. He cusses at his staff, fights watch it play out on Hard Knocks the folreferees and snarls at injured, concussed lowing Tuesday. players to get back on the field. The show is also consistently entertainIn a series about redemption, this season ing to a general audience, thanks to a great represents somewhat of a second chance balance between on-field action and a look for Stephens as well. He’s dealing with fallat the personal lives and backstories of the out from his last football season —which players and coaching staff. We explore the ended in a mid-game brawl that disqualified other roles they play as husbands, fathers the winning team from playoffs — as well and even Game of Thrones fans. These as from the first season of the show, which athletes are so larger than life that to see left many viewers with a sour impression of them do anything average, like visiting their the coach. At first he attempts to be more humble childhood home, putting their kids self-aware, by doing push-ups every time to bed or going lobster harpooning (OK, he curses on the field — a sort of Christian maybe not totally average), is so satisfying. hypocrisy of eliminating a few cuss words There’s a buzzing excitement when the when really he needs to reevaluate the way season begins: rookies getting their first he speaks to people. As one player points brush with NFL fame, coaches strategizing out, Stephens is a great coach, but he fails for a more successful season, undrafted to relate to the players. players on the “roster bubble,” eager to Sometimes the only person to help them earn an official spot on the team. But not in this respect is team academic advisor Briteveryone’s going to make it — there will be tany Wagner. She’s tasked with keeping these cuts and injuries that take players out of the guys on track to graduate and does so with game. The stakes get higher with each passmotivation and compassion. Her impact on ing episode — and there are only five total. these students is incredible — they adore her Moving from the NFL to a little-known — but without reciprocal support from the community college, Last Chance U athletic side, Wagner comes to a professional (Netflix) offers a different kind of sports crossroads this season. docuseries narrative. East Mississippi ComHard Knocks and Last Chance U both munity College is essentially a final shot for offer compelling insights into the American student athletes with potential who have phenomenon that is football. lost out on major opportunities due to their CONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern grades or conduct. Here, players get to train
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FOOD & DRINK
Expansion of a Northside Classic
New Melt Eclectic Café offers its familiar baked sandwiches and a fresh cocktail list REVIEW BY PAMA MITCHELL
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New cocktails complement classic Melt dishes, like the Rachel, a tangy take on a Reuben. on the rocks and pretty much ruined it when the ice melted so fast in the heat. Next time I will drink it as intended: up. As a friend we ran into that night quipped, the menu at Melt consists of “sandwiches… and more sandwiches.” That’s pretty close to the truth, although the bill of fare features medium- and large-sized salads along with a short list of housemade sides. Most of our table chose one of the 10 fresh-baked sandwiches ($10-$11), the grilled ones that I think of as Melt’s signature style. They consist of a protein (roasted chicken, smoked turkey, brisket of beef or tempeh strips, mostly), various additions and something cheesy. I’ve always loved the Artichoke Melt — served open-faced with a garlicky artichoke-spinach spread, tomatoes and white cheddar — but somehow nobody I was with ordered it that night. I had the Verde Chicken, a grilled sandwich with a pleasing flavor profile of pesto, artichoke, other veggies and melted provolone cheese. Another hit was the East Village, topping smoked turkey with lots of creamy goat cheese surrounded by grilled sourdough bread. (Wellmann told me that this sandwich is her personal favorite and that as soon as the kitchen was up and running, she asked the staff to make her the very first East Village of the new Melt.)
There were some missteps. Our server brought food for five of us, and told our friend Paul that his sandwich would be right out. We were halfway through our meal when his brisket-based, grilled-onrye showed up, with no apologies and no offer to comp him for the wait. On top of that, he thought the sandwich wasn’t very good — the meat dried out, with too little of the promised wild mushrooms and horseradish cream, and after he shared a bite I had to agree. Sandwiches come with tortilla chips, but for another dollar you can add one of the housemade sides, and most of us did. The Superfood Slaw had a nice crunchy freshness, and the Buffalo Mac pleased the mac and cheese fans. A few of the salads ($10-$14) sounded interesting, although we only managed to try one of them. Donna couldn’t decide until
the last possible minute between the Apple Beet (greens, beets, apple slices, walnuts and goat cheese with balsamic) or the Inverted Spring Roll (spinach, scallions, cilantro, carrots, bean sprouts, red pepper, cucumbers and almonds with ginger hoisin vinaigrette). She went with the latter and asked for added chicken ($2 upcharge). The chicken was dry and strangely flavored. Donna couldn’t decide whether the kitchen had mistakenly added tuna, and the rest of us weren’t sure, either. Our server assured us it was chicken, though. Despite a few glitches on our visit, I’m excited to see what Melt might become. If the past is a prologue to the future, anything that Wellmann puts her heart and soul into has turned out fine. She’s solidly behind making this new venture a success, which is great news for the neighborhood.
Melt Eclectic Café GO: 4100 Hamilton Ave., Northside; CALL: 513-818-8951; INTERNET: wellmannsbrands. com/melt-cincy; HOURS: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday.
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aving moved from a cramped space in a crowded block on Hamilton Avenue to the ground floor of the Gantry building, funky little Melt Eclectic Café debuted brand-new digs this summer. The vegetarian-friendly eatery now dominates a prominent corner in what owner Molly Wellmann calls “the heart of Northside.” With more than twice as much space, a completely different vibe and a new, full-service bar overseen by Cincinnati’s unofficial cocktail queen, the new Melt is poised to become a dominant neighborhood hangout. And yet, when it comes to the food menu, the new Melt is very similar to the old Melt. I’ll admit I was expecting something a little different, but so far at least, the only notable menu changes emanate from Wellmann’s bar, not from the kitchen. Melt’s niche has been top-notch sandwiches, especially grilled ones filled with oozy cheeses. Judging by the activity I’ve noticed on my frequent drives up Hamilton Avenue, that fare is attracting plenty of patrons not from just Northside but also from adjacent neighborhoods such as Clifton and College Hill. Melt opened in early July with dinner only, but added lunch hours by the end of the month. Wellmann said they are going one step at a time until the finished product looks just like she and her team envision. That vision includes a front-porch-style patio dining area, Sunday brunch and the eventual addition of more entrée-like dinner options. Getting the patio up and running is on the front burner now, with the best weeks of the year for outdoor dining just ahead. While patrons can eat at an outdoor table now, the liquor license for that space hasn’t come through yet. My husband and I went with four friends on a Friday night just a couple of weeks after Melt opened its doors. I was sorry to see that Wellmann wasn’t behind the bar that night; she told me later that she was participating in a charity event. Naturally, the first thing our table wanted to try were some of the special cocktails created especially for Melt ($8 each). We sampled three of the four “Molly’s Signature Cocktails,” most of which were tall, refreshing and relatively light, which seemed appropriate not only for the hot summer weather but also for the unfussy food. Our consensus favorite is called BlueBell, a pretty drink made with vodka, lime, lavender syrup, blueberries and sparkling water. Lime in the Coconut was a hit, too: white rum, lime, cilantro, a little coconut syrup and sparkling water. I ordered the exotic-sounding Smoking Jacket, with bourbon, cedar-cherry syrup, tobacco bitters and black iced tea, but I asked for the drink
F&D THE DISH
Where Breakfast is Beautiful
Revolution Rotisserie Expands into Pleasant Ridge BY AUSTIN GAYLE
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Revolution Rotisserie & Bar has come far since its early days as a chicken-andpita-sandwich pop-up in Findlay Market. After expanding into a full restaurant on Race Street in 2015, Revolution is extending its reach with a second location in Pleasant Ridge. Revolution will replace what was formerly Emanu East African Restaurant at 6063 Montgomery Road. “We are just incredibly excited about the community (in Pleasant Ridge),” says coowner Nick Pesola. “It’s very engaged with their restaurants. There’s a nice balance of urban-suburban authenticity to it.” The current trajectory has the new restaurant opening its doors in September. However, Pesola is well aware that unforeseen obstacles could bump the opening to October. “I’m definitely known for pushing the limits and getting things done quickly, but at the same time, we also want to make sure that when we open our doors in Pleasant Ridge, we’re ready to go,” Pesola says. Having signed the lease for the new location in June, Pesola is now working to perfect the restaurant’s interior so it features a similar atmosphere to the Over-the-Rhine location, which mixes a Southern farmhouse feel with metropolitan accents. He is also putting a substantial amount of resources and effort into renovating the restaurant’s exterior. “We’re going to do some painting, new signage, lighting and really pretty up the exterior,” he says. “I think it’s really going to pop.” The “pop” Pesola speaks of won’t be limited to the outside — with an updated menu and new chef in the kitchen, Pesola plans for the food to pop as well. With the recent addition of Executive Chef Dana Adkins — formerly of Eli’s BBQ, Cooper’s Hawk and The Eagle OTR — Revolution will continue the restaurant’s highly regarded and artful approach to rotisserie and decadent meat-focused dishes, but with a new focus on refining already popular dishes. “Nick and I have the same mentality, ideology on food and people and how we embrace the current environment,” Adkins says. “We really give people an experience that’s different because we’re not trying to do too much; we’re actually kind of simplifying it. My focus really is polishing what we’re already doing and doing it better.” Despite having joined Revolution less than two months ago, Adkins has already added his own flair to the preparation of Revolution’s roasted carrots and is bringing in locally grown produce from neighboring farms. He has also had a worthwhile impact on the baby back ribs with his dry rub, which general manager Scott Johnson has seen result in gleaming reviews from customers.
“I think we’ve gotten a lot of good compliments on even the minor tweaks we’ve already done,” Johnson says. Similarly to Adkins, Johnson joined Pesola’s team at Revolution less than two months ago. He is expected to manage the second location. While Johnson takes the helm as manager in Pleasant Ridge, Adkins will oversee all culinary operations at both of the locations.
Dana Adkins is Revolution’s new executive chef. PHOTO : haile y bollinger
The Pleasant Ridge location is expected to boast a similar menu to the OTR space, but Pesola plans to place a stronger emphasis on Revolution’s dinner menu to tailor to the family-driven Pleasant Ridge community. To meet the demands for the dinner crowd, Pesola will lean on Adkins to keep creative in the kitchen. “We started doing baby back ribs, porchetta, churrasco steak and Dana is working on developing a bunch of other rotational meats like prime rib, duck, lamb and some fish items,” he says. While Adkins’ carnivorous creations are expected to change seasonally, Pesola’s expanding franchise should have no problem meeting the needs of both the OTR and Pleasant Ridge communities regardless of season. Having worked in restaurants since he was 15 years old, Johnson is convinced both Revolution’s fare and general concept are sound and worth investing himself in. “It’s what I like,” he says. “It’s not finedining. It’s a little bit more causal and definitely a neighborhood place.” REVOLUTION ROTISSERIE & BAR is slated to open in September at 6063 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge. More info: revolutionrotisserie.com.
F&D classes & events Most classes and events require registration; classes frequently sell out.
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Groceries & Grilling: African-American Celebration — Head to Findlay Market for late-night market hours and special Wednesday grilling parties. Guests will get the recipe and list of ingredients so they can shop and then grill the recipe. 5-8 p.m. Free admission. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, findlaymarket.org.
WingFling at Washington Platform — Discover more than 40 different flavors of wings — from bulgogi Korean to honey bourbon — all available either boneless or bone-in. Through Sept. 3. Prices vary. Washington Platform, 1000 Elm St., Downtown, washingtonplatform.com. Start Your Fall and Winter Garden Now — Head to Turner Farm to learn how to grow cooler-weather crops like carrots, broccoli, kale, cilantro and more. 6:30-8 p.m. $15. Turner Farm, 7400 Given Road, Indian Hill, turnerfarm.org.
THURSDAY 17
Summer Chefs Series at 20 Brix — Five courses of thoughtful and themed dishes paired with wine, spirits or beer. Seating is limited to 12. The theme of this dinner is Bourbon for Breakfast. 6 p.m. $75. 20 Brix, 101 Main St., Milford, 20brix.com. Wild About Wine — Enjoy wine samples, food by the bite from local restaurants, live music, animal encounters and more as you wander around the zoo. 6:30-9 p.m. $50. Cincinnati Zoo, 3400 Vine St., Avondale, cincinnatizoo.org. Shrimp Three Ways — Prepare pankocrusted shrimp with lemon and shaved asparagus at your own station. Menu also includes shrimp tacos with creole seasoning and chili- and paprika-rubbed shrimp over cheesy bacon polenta. 6-8 p.m. $65. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.
FRIDAY 18
Brewing Heritage Trail Gilded Brew Tour — Enter subterranean lager cellars, trek through the Moerlein Brewing Co. complex and listen to stories of those who built this city’s brewing empire. 1 p.m. $20. Leaves from the OTR Biergarten, Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, brewingheritagetrail.org.
SATURDAY 19
Buckeye Beer Bash — Celebrate local breweries like MadTree, Rhinegeist and
Eat Your Veggies — Learn how to cook vegetables so they taste great. Use a spiralizer and Japanese mandolin to make fresh slaw and prepare sauté of bok choy, kale, garlic and roasted Brussels sprouts. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $50. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com. Gypsy Fortune Tellers’ Tea at Glendower — Guests will enjoy a tour of the mansion, tea sandwiches and cookies. Noon-5 p.m. $30. Glendower Historic Mansion, 105 Cincinnati Ave., Lebanon, wchsmuseum.org.
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A Very Fine Filet — In this hands-on class, learn tips and techniques to perfectly grill a filet mignon and vegetables. Menu includes gruyere potato gratin. 6-8:30 p.m. $75. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.
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Surf and Turf Stir Fry — Prepare fried shrimp over rice noodles and a grass-fed beef stir fry over snow peas and rice. 6-8 p.m. $65. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.
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Groceries & Grilling: Cheesy Celebration — Head to Findlay Market for latenight market hours and special Wednesday grilling parties. Guests will get the recipe and list of ingredients so they can shop and then grill the recipe onsite. 5-8 p.m. Free admission. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, findlaymarket.org. Margarita Madness — The fifth-annual Margarita Madness features a margarita throw-down as participating vendors compete to make the best margaritas. 5:308:30 p.m. $35; $40 day-of. Newport on the Levee, Newport, Ky., citybeat.com. Back to School Dinner — Take a trip down memory lane with a themed dinner featuring five courses inspired by favorite school lunch items. Dishes include fish sticks, grilled cheese and tomato soup and a watermelon freeze pop. 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. seatings. $75. The Presidents Room at The Phoenix, 812 Race St., Downtown, facebook.com/presidentsroom.
Wild: A Summer Gin Cocktail Contest — Six local cocktail bars compete in a gin cocktail contest to benefit Lighthouse Youth & Family Services. 6-9 p.m. Free admission, New Riff Distillery, 24 Distillery Way, Newport, Ky., newriffdistilling.com.
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Date Night: Sriracha & Soy Pork — Work with your date to prepare Sriracha and soyglazed pork tenderloins. 6-8 p.m. $160. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.
more, plus other Ohio breweries big and small from Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo and more. 7-11 p.m. $30 pre-sale; $35 day of. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.
music
Beyond the Darkness
Punk Talks uniquely connects mental health resources to musicians and music fans BY MACKENZIE MANLEY
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unk Talks, a mental health organization that aims to provide free, professional therapy and services to touring musicians, music fans and music industry workers, was born of a quarter-life crisis. One day, in her last semester of college studying social work at Northern Kentucky University, Sheridan Allen was blow-drying her hair when she started thinking about how, though people in the Punk, Emo and DIY scenes were talking about their mental illness, there was little discussion about actual therapy or treatment. In that moment, Allen decided she would try to change that, ultimately founding Punk Talks in the Cincinnati area in January 2015. Through being open about her personal dealings with mental health, Allen hopes to be “living proof that you can be mentally ill and super cool.” It wasn’t until Allen received a diagnosis for borderline personality disorder and sought therapy that she was able to manage her mental illness. Punk Talks works to destigmatize seeking therapy by raising awareness and education. Allen and assistant director Hailey Lamb are joined in Punk Talks by a team of volunteers that includes licensed clinical social workers in various parts of the country who donate their time as therapists, as well as those who help with outreach and social media. Allen takes Punk Talks straight to those it would benefit by touring with bands and setting up tables with info at shows, while also talking to musicians and others. Allen met Lamb at Bled Fest, a music festival in Michigan (where Lamb lived) that had Punk Talks sponsor a stage and set up a table. Lamb became a volunteer after the encounter, and benefited from Punk Talks herself after joining the team. “Sheridan, both as Punk Talks and a close friend of mine, did my own therapy referral and it helped me unbelievably,” Lamb says. “I don’t know how I would have finished my last two years of college if I had not been referred.” When Lamb decided to move to Philadelphia, Allen took the opportunity to join her, becoming her roommate. Punk Talks became Philly based in July. “The goal to moving to Philly is to be more accessible to a community that needs us,” Allen says. “We’re planning to be more active. Now, no one lives in Northern Kentucky. A lot of bands tour through, but there’s only so much I can do when they’re (in town) for one evening. I get maybe 30 minutes with them, if that. (The move) will give me an opportunity to have a home base that’s accessible to a lot more musicians.” Sitting on her front stoop in Philadelphia, Lamb can see potential in their new
Sheridan Allen, founder of mental-health-advocacy organization Punk Talks. bustling new neighborhood. When she looks one way, the block is sprinkled with smaller bar venues. Peering the opposite direction gives a view of the larger Theatre of Living Arts concert venue. “Being so close to larger communities than there are in Michigan and the Ohio/ Northern Kentucky border where Sheridan is from is going to drastically improve the amount of people we’re going to be able to help,” Lamb says. The roommates look toward growth for the organization that Allen started with no contacts in the music industry. Since then, Punk Talks has worked with and received support (including through benefit shows and compilation albums) from many acts, including Pinegrove, Julien Baker, Tigers Jaw, La Dispute and Motion City Soundtrack. Currently, the group is looking into partnering with labels and venues directly to provide access to mental health resources. Within a culture that sometimes romanticizes negative emotions and depressed mental states exists an idea that being sad is a prerequisite to writing good music, according to Allen. She and Lamb agree getting musicians to dismiss such thinking would be huge for them and their community. “Being able to do something with that — taking that sadness or that discomfort
— and improve both as people and as musicians and recovering and being able to live more active and healthy lives is something that is really needed in this community,” Lamb says. At 26, Allen jokes that she’s basically a grandparent in the Punk community. But she believes those older in the scene can be crucial to illustrating to the youth the benefits of not having their artistry bogged down by sadness. “We as older people with a platform explain to them, ‘Don’t buy this shit that you have to be sad to be successful, don’t buy into that, because in order to be successful you have to be stable,’ ” Allen says. “If you are miserable, guess what you’re going to want to do? Nothing.” Punk Talks’ slogan is “You don’t have to be sad to make great music.” Allen says she wants to connect that message to every band possible. Last year while touring with Sorority Noise in Richmond, Va., Allen made the kind of connection that encompasses the immediate impact Punk Talks can make. Allen was moving through the crowd and handing out purple affirmation cards, as she always does during shows. Each card contained uplifting phrases like “I think
you’re important” or “I’m glad you exist.” Along with the phrases is a blurb about the organization. Moving through the bar, she tried to hand one to everyone she saw. She reached a man named Rob, who found Allen later that night and thanked her. The next morning, he sent her an email explaining how Punk Talks helped him realize he was experiencing depression and it was starting to affect his relationships. “ ‘You handed me a card last night and we didn’t really talk, but you were so impactful,’ ” Allen says, recalling the email. “ ‘You helped me put an end to my suffering… I’m going to try and make it to more of these tour dates.’ ” He ended up following the tour, which hopped between five states, before winding up in Columbus, Ohio. They’ve kept in touch since and through Punk Talk’s advocacy, Rob sought therapy. “This is literally my favorite thing to do. It makes me whole to really be able to positively impact people,” Allen says. “I am so, so grateful for people who listen and think what I’m doing is important and are willing to give therapy a shot. They are all so important. I truly love each person in this universe.” For PUNK TALKS’ mental health resources and ways to get help, visit punktalks.org.
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Near Earth Objects Prepare ‘Drift’ for Liftoff BY MIKE BREEN
Lift the Medium’s ‘Moment’ This Saturday, Cincinnati Hard Rock crew Lift the Medium returns with its second full-length album, Moment In Time. The release party is Saturday at Southgate
House Revival (111 E. Sixth St., Newport, Ky., southgatehouse.com), where the band will be joined by locals Dear Agony and See You in the Funnies. The show begins at 8 p.m. and admission is $10. Moment In Time is a staggeringly accomplished album, and not just when you consider the group has only been a band for four years. Lift the Medium pulls off a difficult feat with the album. Every song on the album has the kind of Hard Rock sound that would instantly be embraced by contemporary Rock radio, but there is also
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a level of progressiveness and imagination behind the music that most bands on those airwaves would envy. Along with being loaded with gigantic melodies and hooks, Moment In Time is also one of the most well-produced albums by a Cincinnati band you will ever hear — Lift the Medium certainly sounds like a major-label band. But the music is also impassioned and the group comes to its ear-friendly sound by liberally drawing from an expansive spectrum of Rock influences. While you can hear elements of epic Maiden-style Metal, just as often you’ll be reminded of modern Alt/Prog idols like Tool or Grunge/Post Grunge icons like Chris Cornell or current melodic acts like Stone Sour. The band can also be adventurous and provides unexpected moments — while not Dream Theater or Mars Volta progressive, even fans of those artists would appreciate the more idiosyncratic side of Lift the Medium. Moment In Time is a testament to the group’s talent for making something conventionally appetizing, yet full of complex flavors that linger. Check out liftthemedium.com for album info and more. CONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@citybeat.com
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Time for an Anthem Remix A fan of Hip Hop trio Migos’ Quavo has started a petition at change.org that, if it receives enough signatures, could be taken to the president, Congress and other government officials for a response. The petition asks that the U.S. national anthem to be remade “to get with the times” and include a feature from Quavo, who has guested on more than 20 tracks by other artists in the past year. The petitioner wants the upgrade to “The Star Spangled Banner” because, he writes, “Why not?” If Idiocracy is becoming real life anyway, it’s hard to argue. Metallica Gig News Roundup There was an unusual amount of Metallica-concert news this week. It was revealed that the 92-year-old father of former Metallica bassist Cliff Burton (who died in a bus accident in 1986) has gone to several shows on the band’s current tour and that he funds a music scholarship with his son’s Metallica royalties. Photos also surfaced of Dave Grohl forgoing the VIP treatment so he could rock out with the norms in the audience at a Metallica show in California. On the down side, a really drunk guy was arrested at Metallica’s Phoenix concert after peeing on a couple and their 10-year-old daughter during the show. Fruit Discrimination If you’re headed to the huge Reading and/or Leeds music festivals in the U.K. at the end of August, be sure to go through the list of items you can’t bring with you. Especially if you are a fan of the band Glass Animals, but especially especially if you’re the type of person who loves pineapple so much you carry a whole one wherever you go, just in case. Along with mundane items like glass and, uh, firewood, organizers were forced to include pineapples on the prohibited list due to Glass Animals fans’ tendency to wave them in the air during the song “Pork Soda,” which includes the line “pineapples in my head.” They also can be easily turned into bongs or set on fire and thrown at Muse.
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mouth sounds (early show) ornament (atl)
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redemptioners mark becknell
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perfect children hank & cupcakes
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near earth objects bailiff (chicago)
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valley queen, desert noises, liz cooper & the stampede
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dj scamp: sounds of the eclipse
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writer’s night w/ lucas feat. evan bartels free live music now open for lunch
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betty who, geographer
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cindy wilson
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electric guest
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Cincinnati Indie Rock foursome Near Earth Objects celebrates the release of its impressive full-length debut, Drift, this Saturday with a free show at MOTR Pub (1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, motrpub.com). Chicago’s Bailiff opens the night at 10 p.m. Drift is a compelling collection of wonderfully orchestrated Indie Rock songs that lean heavily to the psychedelic side while still retaining a strong melodic structural core. Hypnotic without being meandering, Near Earth Objects’ broad, soaring soundscapes showcase the band’s individual talents and how well those skills fuse together, the obvious result of the bonding chemistry between the musicians. Singer/guitarist Devin Clarke provides not only the dynamic, passionate vocals, but also the equally multifaceted guitar work, which frequently changes shades to provide colorful but never flashy textures. Drummer Richard Inman provides the anchor for Near Earth Objects’ (space)ship, but, more importantly, his expressive playing plays off the song’s direction with a musicality that gives the music so much more than just a sturdy backbeat. Likewise, Leland Davis’ bass is an indispensable rhythmic component, but, while he can lock into a groove, he’s never restrained by it. Davis also gives the sound extra flourishes with his imaginative keyboard/synth contributions. Daniel Walton was the last member to join Near Earth Objects, and it was a wise artistic addition — his majestic cello riffs give the band an even more unique personality. While such layering might suggest a busy, noisy, clamorous sound, Near Earth Objects’ arrangement style leaves a lot of pockets of space, which gives the music its atmospheric and ethereal character. That roominess also makes the movements within stand out more dramatically, so that each shift in tone and emotion has a greater impact. While the group has some similarities to Shoegazer bands, Near Earth Objects’ aesthetic is less “wall of sound” and more “chiffon curtain of sound elegantly fluttering in the wind.” The band certainly rocks, but it never strives to overwhelm, preferring to engage more cerebrally and seductively. If you have a space in your record collection between Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Secret Machines, The Arcade Fire, Pink Floyd, Explosions in the Sky, Swervedriver and Autolux, Drift is the perfect fit. For more on Near Earth Objects, visit nearerthobjectsneo.com.
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MUSIC sound advice Guided By Voices with The Dopamines Wednesday • Woodward Theater There is no logical, rational explanation for Robert Pollard. He creates constantly and consistently, whether it’s writing songs or crafting the collages that have graced the covers of a fair amount of his releases. April’s August by Cake, the first double-length Guided By Voices album, was characterized as Pollard’s 100th full-length release, which, in typical Pollard fashion, was followed almost immediately by last week’s release of the 25th GBV album, How Do You Spell Heaven. As a result, Pollard has been hailed in recent press as the most prolific songwriter in Rock history, although I would say he’s neck and neck with former Be Bop Deluxe guitarist Bill Nelson (look him up and be equally astonished at his extensive 36-year solo catalog). While Pollard’s output over the past three decades has encompassed a broad Guided By Voices sonic range — from P H O T O : P ro v i d e d ragged lo-fi basement recordings to high-end productions shaped by the likes of Ric Ocasek and Rob Schnapf — his areas of purest musical consistency are his erudite and often impenetrable streamof-consciousness lyrical musings and his devotion to The Who. Is Robert Pollard the Ana Popovic American Pete TownPHOTO : Ruben Tomas shend? There is a case to be made in that regard — the power chording, the energy, the volume and the traditional melodicism utilized in distinctly non-traditional ways all point to a singular Midwest talent steered by Hall of Fame classicism and skewed by his own funhouse prism of musical impulses. Although that thread essentially runs through all of Pollard’s work, he compartmentalizes his reactions to his influences in a variety of projects — Circus Devils, Boston Spaceships, his solo work, among them — but he continues to reinvent, dismantle and revisit GBV, his most revered entity. The band itself is an ever-mutating collective of gifted collaborators and provocateurs, and the end result of any given recording can be chalked up to the chemistry of the players involved as much as Pollard’s master vision for the songs he’s written for them. Where does How Do You Spell Heaven fit into this elaborate blueprint? It’s the latest
brilliant magic bus that Robert Pollard and his cohorts have launched onto a new route. If you miss it, sit tight — there should be another one coming along any minute. (Brian Baker) Ana Popovic with Noah Wotherspoon Thursday • Taft Theatre (Ballroom) With a little over 20 years of professional music experience on her illustrious résumé, Ana Popovic has been dropping the jaws of her audience as well as her peer group for more than half of her life. Picking up a guitar at age 15, the Belgrade, Serbia native’s personal connection to the Blues was fostered by her father and his love for the genre, but she quickly developed an affinity for Jazz, Soul, R&B and Funk. At 19, Popovic founded Hush, one of Europe’s premier Soul/Funk bands, which spent three solid years on the club/festival circuit before recording a debut album, 1998’s Hometown. It proved to be the only title in the band’s catalog, as Popovic left to study Jazz guitar in Holland and the band dissolved in the wake of her departure. While a student, Popovic assembled a band under her own name and scored a submission to Blue Haze, the renowned Jimi Hendrix tribute album, which was followed by the Memphis-recorded Hush! in 2001. The overwhelmingly positive response to Hush! was strong enough that Popovic left school and focused her energy solely on her career. After seven studio recordings and her 2005 live CD/DVD set Ana! Live in Amsterdam, a faithful document of her incendiary show at Amsterdam’s storied Melkweg, Popovic released her magnum opus, last year’s aptly titled Trilogy. Utilizing a host of all-star producers and guest musicians like Joe Bonamassa, Cody Dickinson and Robert Randolph, the album presented nearly two dozen tracks across three discs, with the songs shifting effortlessly between Blues, Rock, Jazz and Funk. Last year saw Popovic relocate with her family to Los Angeles before embarking on her first Australian tour, as well as her involvement in the prestigious Experience
Hendrix tour. This year marked her appearance at the Tampa Bay Blues Fest, where she jammed with Blues legend Buddy Guy and his band, as well as her third nomination for Contemporary Blues Female Artist at the Blues Music Awards. What’s next for Popovic? If there’s a God in a Blues-loving heaven, another 50 years of guitar-wrangling brilliance. (BB)
FUTURE SOUNDS DONALD FAGEN – Aug. 23, Taft Theatre LIL UZI VERT – Aug. 25, Madison Theater JOHN MAYER – Aug. 26, Riverbend Music Center BETTY WHO/GEOGRAPHER – Aug. 30, Woodward Theater TIM MCGRAW/FAITH HILL – Sept. 2, U.S. Bank Arena DADA – Sept. 6, Southgate House Revival YOUNG THE GIANT/COLD WAR KIDS – Sept. 7, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend CHRIS STAPLETON – Sept. 8, Riverbend Music Center HERE COME THE MUMMIES – Sept. 8, Bogart’s DEEP PURPLE/ALICE COOPER – Sept. 10, Riverbend Music Center PROTOMARTYR – Sept. 10, Northside Yacht Club SEU JORGE – Sept. 15, Taft Theatre BRANTLEY GILBERT – Sept. 15, Riverbend Music Center THE QUEERS/THE ATARIS – Sept. 16, Southgate House Revival MATCHBOX TWENTY/COUNTING CROWS – Sept. 21, Riverbend Music Center SYLVAN ESSO/HELADO NEGRO – Sept. 21, Bogart’s BOB SEGER – Sept. 21, U.S. Bank Arena CONOR OBERST – Sept. 16, Taft Theatre JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA – Sept. 27, Taft Theatre THE AFGHAN WHIGS – Sept. 28, Bogart’s GOGOL BORDELLO – Sept. 29, Bogart’s BETH HART – Sept. 30, Taft Theatre AGAINST ME! – Oct. 3, Bogart’s THE GROWLERS – Oct. 4, Woodward Theater ANDREW W.K. – Oct. 8, Bogart’s PINBACK – Oct. 13, Woodward Theater
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showcase of Rische’s deft ability to draw from a variety of styles and blend them together elegantly and seamlessly, as well as for her unique gifts as a vocalist, musician and songwriter. She says White was a good creative partner and credits him for providing the kind of open artistic setting that she likely wouldn’t have had recording another major-label album. “There’s so many situations where you’ve gone in to record and you don’t get your best product because you’re not comfortable,” she told Billboard in June. “(But) I’ve worked in Jack’s studio before so many times. It’s an incredibly creative space. He gave me the freedom to do what I wanted to do. He listened to all my ideas. For the type of person I am, that’s the best-case scenario.” (Mike Breen)
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BROMWELL’S HÄRTH H LOUNGE - Joe Policastro Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.
THE GREENWICH - Epic H Trumpet Battle with John Zappa and Mike Wade. 8:30 p.m.
THE COMET - Spit Spewing Snakes and Dead Hour Noise. 10 p.m. Punk/Metal. Free.
Jazz. $5.
KNOTTY PINE - Chalis. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/Various. Free. LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO - Ricky Nye and Bekah Williams. 6 p.m. Blues/Jazz. Free. MOTR PUB - Redemptioners with Mark Becknell. 10 p.m. Americana. Free.
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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB Omega Tribe with Life Once Flourished Here, Nukehammer and Everyday Objects. 9 p.m. Punk. $8.
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PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Open Mic with Jeremy Francis. 7 p.m. Various. Free. RIVERSEDGE - Rumours with Strum N’ Honey. 6:30 p.m. Fleetwood Mac tribute/Country/ Rock/Various. Free. SEASONGOOD PAVILION It’s Commonly Jazz with Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.
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SMALE RIVERFRONT PARK Cocktails and Crown Jewels featuring Kathy Wade with Bill Cunliffe Trio. 6:30 p.m. Jazz. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Shane Smith with Michael Chandler. 9:30 p.m. Country. Free.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Adam Flaig with Rob McAllister and Arlo McKinley. 9:30 p.m. Various. Free.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Decryer with I Can Dream, Airways, Oakhaven, Riesenwolf and Junior Crime Fighters. 7:30 p.m. Progressive/ Metal/Rock/Various. $10, $12 day of show.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (SANCTUARY) - Greg Howe with Static Tension. 8 p.m. Rock/
TAFT THEATRE - Ana Popovic H with Noah Wotherspoon. 8 p.m. Blues. $20, $25 day of
SILVERTON CAFE - Root Cellar Xtract. 8 p.m. Country Rock. Free.
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FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Salsa on the Square with Zumba. 7 p.m. Latin/ Salsa/Dance. Free.
Progressive/Various. $18, $20 day of show.
TAFT THEATRE - Lifehouse and Switchfoot with Brynn Elliott. 7 p.m. Pop/Rock. $29.50-$56.50. URBAN ARTIFACT - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10. WOODWARD THEATER Guided By Voices with The Dopamines. 8 p.m. Rock. $29.50, $35 day of show.
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THURSDAY 17 ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Dottie Warner and Wayne Shannon. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Todd Hepburn and Friends. 6 p.m. Various. Free. COMMON ROOTS - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free. CROW’S NEST - Stephen Williams. 9:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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THOMPSON HOUSE - Cryptic Wisdom featuring C the Gray and Mix Fox. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. $10. URBAN ARTIFACT - Kyle Lacy and the Harlem River Noise and Mr. Clifford. 7 p.m. Rock/Dance/ Various. Free. WASHINGTON PARK H Bandstand Bluegrass with Willow Tree Carolers. 7 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.
FRIDAY 18
COMMON ROOTS - Blvck Seeds. 8 p.m. Alternative. Free. CROW’S NEST - Joshua Morningstar. 10 p.m. Americana/ Country. Free. EASTGATE BREW & VIEW - Encore Duo. 6:30 p.m. Acoustic Classic Rock/Americana. Free. FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Indie H Vol. 2017 with Stop Light Observations, Daniel In Stereo and more. 7 p.m. Alt/Rock/Various. Free.
GRAND CENTRAL DELICATESSEN - Cincy River Rats. 9 p.m. New Orleans Jazz. Free. THE GREENWICH - Brandon Meeks. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10. HARMONY HILL VINEYARDS & WINERY - Emerson and Hagerman. 5 p.m. Jazz. Free. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The SunBurners. 9 p.m. Tropical Pop. $5. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Southern Savior. 9 p.m. Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - The Martini Affair. 10 p.m. Dance/Pop/Rock. Cover. LIVE! AT THE LUDLOW GARAGE - The High Kings. 8 p.m. Celtic. $20-$45. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Doug Hart Band. 9 p.m. Blues. $4. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Rockin’ George LaVigne. 9 p.m. Classic Rock. Free. THE MOCKBEE - RELIC, Chuck H Diesel, Drew Simmons and Andres Bautista. 10 p.m. EDM/ Dubstep/Industrial. $5.
MOTR PUB - The Perfect H Children with Hank & Cupcakes. 10 p.m. Rock/Roots/ Soul/Various. Free.
MVP BAR & GRILLE - Jak’d Up. 9 p.m. Rock. NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Human People, Slow Glows and Hateflirt. 10 p.m. Rock/Punk/Pop/Various. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H New Rose with Carriers and Joesph. 9 p.m. Country Rock/ Indie/Pop/Various.
ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Willow Street Carolers. 9 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.
OCTAVE - Earphorik. 9 p.m. Jam/ Progressive/Rock/Funk/Various. $10.
THE AVENUE EVENT CENTER Young Scooter with DJ Major Leegue and DJ Fresh. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $25-$45.
PLAIN FOLK CAFE - White Line Fever. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass/Blues/ Roots. Free.
BOGART’S - American Sin, Pilot Around The Stars and Friday Giants. 8 p.m. Rock/Various. $10.
PNC PAVILION AT RIVERBEND H - Logic with Joey Bada$$ and Big Lenbo. 7:30 p.m. Hip Hop. $39.50-$49.50.
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RADISSON CINCINNATI RIVERFRONT - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. Funk/R&B/Soul. Free (in The Fifth Lounge). RICK’S TAVERN - Bloodline. 9:30 p.m. Rock. Cover. THE SHOW ON 42 - Pandora Effect. 9:30 p.m. Rock. SILVERTON CAFE - Root Cellar Xtract. 9 p.m. Country Rock. Free.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - The Punknecks. 9:30 p.m. Americana/Punk. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (REVIVAL ROOM) - In The Pines (album release show) with
MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Jason Erickson. 9 p.m. Various. Free. THE MOCKBEE - Queen City Soul Club all-soul all-vinyl Dance Party with DJ Grover and DJ Bryan Dilsizian. 10 p.m. Soul/R&B/DJ. Free. MOTR PUB - Near Earth H Objects (album release show) with Bailiff. 10:30 p.m. Alt/Rock/ Various. Free.
MVP BAR & GRILLE - The BillyRock Band. 9 p.m. Rock. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Ghost Bath with Alive Amongst The Dead, Hell Scorched Earth and Nithing. 8:30 p.m. Metal. $10, $12 day of show.
Cachico, Freak Mythology and Off Black. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $8, $10 day of show.
OCTAVE - Dizgo with Kaleidoscope Jukebox. 9 p.m. Electronic/Jam/ Various. $7.
URBAN ARTIFACT - Day Needs Night, V-Twin Sin, MCRNR and Junior Crime Fighters. 9 p.m. Rock/Various.
PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Electric Daydream. 7:30 p.m. Classic Rock. Free.
WASHINGTON PARK - Friday Flow with Urban Mystic. 7 p.m. R&B. Free.
THE PUBLIC HOUSE - The Pandora Project. 8:30 p.m. Rock.
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WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Ron Jones. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
SATURDAY 19 ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL H - The Tadcasters. 9 p.m. Americana. Free. BOGART’S - Simple Plan with Set it Off and Patent Pending. 8 p.m. Rock/Pop. $25. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Steve Schmidt Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. CINCINNATIAN HOTEL - Philip Paul Trio. 7 p.m. Jazz. Free. THE COMET - Abiyah and H Evolve (release show) with Dope KNife. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free. CROW’S NEST - Josh Nolan. 10 p.m. Americana/Rock. Free. FOUNTAIN SQUARE - FSQ Live with Leroy Ellington Band. 7 p.m. Blues/ Various. Free. GRAND CENTRAL DELICATESSEN - Wonky Tonk. 9 p.m. Indie/ Americana/Various. Free.
JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD The Fixx Band. 9 p.m. Dance/Pop/ Various. $5.
ROEBLING POINT - River City H Jam with Lowell Ford & Hanna Rae Mathey, Young Heirlooms and Aubrie Sellers. 8 p.m. Americana/ Folk/Various. Free.
SILVERTON CAFE - The Colour of Rhythm. 9 p.m. R&B/Dance/ Various. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Bashfest featuring John Walsh, Army Coach, Team Stray and Bloodgate. 9 p.m. Rock/ Punk/Metal. Free.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Noir. 10 p.m. Alt/Dance/DJ/Various. $5. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (SANCTUARY) - Lift the Medium (album release show) with Dear Agony and See You in The Funnies. 8 p.m. Rock. $10.
MOTR PUB - Desert Noises and Liz Cooper and The Stampede. 8:30 p.m. Alt/Rock. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Selectas Choice with DJ Pillo. 9 p.m. Hip Hop/Funk/Soul/Various. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H Unwritten Law with Lost In Society and The Raging Nathans.
7 p.m. Rock/Pop/Punk. $15, $20 day of show.
RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER H - Green Day with Catfish and The Bottlemen. 7 p.m. Rock. $30-$89.50.
SONNY’S ALL BLUES LOUNGE Blues jam session featuring Sonny’s All Blues Band. 8 p.m. Blues. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (SANCTUARY) - Joe Louis Walker. 8 p.m. Blues. $20, $25 day of show.
URBAN ARTIFACT - Sammus, H Leggy and Freedom Nicole Moore. 8 p.m. Indie/Hip Hop/ Rock/Various. $5.
WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Traditional New Orleans Jazz Brunch with Buffalo Ridge Jazz Trio. 11:30 a.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
MONDAY 21 THE GREENWICH - Baron Von Ohlen & the Flying Circus Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. $5 (or two canned-good donations for Freestore Foodbank). THE MOCKBEE - OH jam! presents OFF tha BLOCK Mondays with hosts Stallitix, Goodword, DJ Noah I Mean, Chestah T, Gift of Gabi, Christian, Toph and Preston Bell Charles III. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free. MOTR PUB - DJ Scamp: H Sounds of the Eclipse. 10 p.m. Various. Free.
THOMPSON HOUSE - Save The Lost Boys with The Second After, Something Better, Self-ish , Mister Mason, Vibrant Fiction and Efflorescence. 7 p.m. Alt/Rock/ Various. $10.
NORTHSIDE TAVERN - The Qtet. 10 p.m. Jazz/Funk/Fusion/Rock/ Various. Free.
URBAN ARTIFACT - Lackluster, Square Syntax, VISIT and New Moons. 9 p.m. Alt/Indie/Rock/ Pop/Various. Free.
TUESDAY 22
JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Dan Varner. 9 p.m. Country. Free.
WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Marc Wolfley Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
KNOTTY PINE - Final Order. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.
SUNDAY 20
MADISON LIVE - The Peaks with Zebras in Public and The Last Troubadours. 8 p.m. Rock. $5.
BREWRIVER GASTROPUB - Todd Hepburn. 11 a.m. Blues/Various. Free.
MANSION HILL TAVERN - Jay H Jesse Johnson (release party). 9 p.m. Blues. $3.
MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Blues Jam with Sonny Moorman. 6 p.m. Blues. Free.
NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Gravel and Cult Fiction. 9 p.m. Punk.
BOGART’S - The Magpie Salute. 8 p.m. Rock. $32.50. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons with Ona and Calumet. 8 p.m. Rock/Roots. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (SANCTUARY) - Lillie Mae with Moonbow. 8 p.m. Americana/ Roots/Bluegrass/Country/Rock/ Various. $12, $15 day of show.
STANLEY’S PUB - Trashgrass Tuesday featuring members of Rumpke Mt. Boys. 9 p.m. Bluegrass. Cover.
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RICK’S TAVERN - “Cincinnati’s Next Big Band” Finals with Rhythm & Booze. 7 p.m. Rock/Various. Cover.
THE MOCKBEE - Tabah, Violent Bloom, BUCKO and Honey Combs and Combo Slice. 8 p.m. Rock/ Pop/Various. Free.
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