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Jim Crow & the Drug War My (white) son was told in high school by a then-City Council member that the Cincinnati citywide marijuana ordinance would not affect him and his friends. Uh, yeah. I think the heroin addicts are vilified plenty, especially around here, but, yes, Jim Crow is alive and kicking in the long Drug War on people of color (drug fact: Billie Holiday was shackled to a hospital bed for her heroin use, Judy Garland was told to go on vacation for hers!). The solution is to decriminalize drugs like in Portugal — enforcement of treatment, no jail time. And everyone who has been charged and incarcerated because of the Drug War needs to be let out, provided a job and not discriminated against for housing.

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Julia Abell Logically, you would think that anti-abortion protesters would also be protesting capital punishment and war, both of which are funded by tax dollars, but I haven’t seen much, if any, of that.

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Eilene Crow The people who want Planned Parenthood shut down clearly have never had politics interfere with their health care.

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All eyes were on Trump Tower last week when a man scaled the building, climbing for more than two hours before police finally isolated him and pulled him in through a 21st-floor window. Usually when people take over corporate buildings it’s in some kind of protest — lookin’ at you, Greenpeace — but this stunt was actually a demonstration of Trump support. The climber turned out to be Virginia teen Stephen Rogata (government name: Michael Joseph Ryan), who had posted a creepy video on YouTube detailing his intentions to draw attention to the Trump campaign. Oh, and he reportedly has a history of running away from home after fights with his parents over his incessant blogging on U.S. government. So, like most teens that have ever had their internet privileges taken away because they’ve become obsessed with their political conspiracy theory blog, Rogata/Ryan waited until his parents were out of the country, grabbed some rappelling gear, hopped in his Honda Accord and took off to the Big Apple. What can’t be ridiculed, however, are his mad climbing skills. Dude had some crazy suction cup apparatus straight out of a comic book villain’s arsenal. And you thought cupping was just big with Olympic athletes and Gwyneth Paltrow.

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Can we just be done with Snapchat now? The image-sharing platform briefly introduced a feature this week that many believe perpetuated offensive Asian stereotypes — aka a yellowface filter. This is some Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s level shit: The face-morphing lens created the illusion of slanted eyes and eyebrows, a rounded, blushing face and goofy buckteeth. Snapchat’s defense? The filter was inspired by anime, although the Japanese style of animation typically features large, round eyes. A shocking release from the app that offered a skin-darkening Bob Marley filter on 4/20.

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The true crime genre continues to take over, with MTV giving a show to a man wrongly imprisoned for 10 years and CBS cracking the JonBenét Ramsey case back open. The only thing American audiences love more than recounting, in vivid detail, the murder of another human being is when the events of these shows and podcasts spill into real-life current events. Serial’s Adnan Syed is awaiting a new trial; The Jinx’s star Robert Durst, in jail for gun charges in New Orleans, is about to be transferred to a California prison to await the Susan Berman murder trial; and now, a development in one of the Making a Murderer cases. A federal judge overturned Brendan Dassey’s case Friday in an epic move for armchair detectives everywhere. In case you yourself were behind bars last winter (the only viable excuse for not knowing the plot of Making a Murderer), the series followed Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man wrongfully convicted of rape only to be released and arrested two years later for the murder of a photographer. A major part of the prosecution’s case in the latter trial centered on Avery’s nephew Dassey’s coerced confession — one this judge ruled to be involuntary. The state has 90 days to retry Dassey, or he will walk free after almost a decade.

Could this mean good news for Nasir Khan in the Andrea Cornish case? The Night Of is a documentary, right?

SATURDAY AUG. 13

In a millennial twist on fireside chats, President Barack Obama has begun using the White House’s Facebook messenger to better connect with people across the country. Apparently Obama starts every day reading 10 of the thousands of letters sent to him by the American public, and since gifs just don’t translate well over print, you can now straight up I.M. the president of the United States.

So what would you chat about with Obama? You could ask him about the time he and Hillary founded ISIS (peep New Girl creator Liz Meriwether’s New Yorker piece for an amazing account of that night), or who he thinks should play him on Saturday Night Live now that longtime impersonator Jay Pharoah won’t be returning to the show. Some other options: What do you eat on your cheat day? Are you going to start smoking cigs on the down-low once you’re out of office? We won’t tell Michelle.

SUNDAY AUG. 14

OREO cookies with a Swedish Fish-flavored center are a thing, and they’re rolling out at Kroger stores across the city and country this week. Between this and Taco Bell testing Cheetos burritos in the Queen City (thanks for previewing that for us, Business Courier), Cincinnatians clearly have their fingers on the pulse of the culinary scene.

MONDAY AUG. 15

This week in cat news: New York’s Algonquin Hotel hosted its 10th-annual cat fashion show this weekend.

The historic hotel has boasted a resident feline since the 1930s, and current HBIC Matilda III watched over the event as others paid tribute on the catwalk to some of the many stars that stayed at the Algonquin over the years — the theme of the night: Through the Decades. Not too far away in Pennsylvania, a four-eared feline was quickly snatched off the market after the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society made him available for adoption. The genetic mutation that results in an extra set of ears has local roots — it was first documented in Ohio in 1938. Ah, the buckeye state: producing astronauts and mutant cats since the 1930s.

TUESDAY AUG. 16

Rio Rundown: The Olympics continue through Aug. 21, and the U.S. teams are raking in gold like Scrooge McDuck.

Olympians named Simone had a great week, with Biles and Manuel killing it in gymnastics and swimming, respectively. Michelle Carter became the first U.S. woman to win gold in shot put. Becoming a dad apparently gave professional merman Michael Phelps superpowers because he’s performing even better than in 2012. And Middletown’s Kayla Harrison won gold in Judo. USA! USA! But it hasn’t been all spandex and gold medals. Safety concerns continue to intensify in Rio as it’s being reported that Ryan Lochte and three other swimmers (sorry guys, it pays to be a douche with a catchphrase when it comes to name recognition) were robbed in Rio — no, not like snubbed, but actually held up at gunpoint by people posing as police officers. Is everyone OK? Jeah. No word on whether Lochte’s irritating seafoam hair made them a target.

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Yvette Simpson announces her mayoral candidacy amid a rift in the city’s Democratic politics

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City Councilwoman Yvette Simpson promised a more collaborative approach to city government during an Aug. 10 event announcing her mayoral candidacy.

But Cranley says Simpson will be a throwback to the administration of Cincinnati’s previous mayor, Mark Mallory, a mentor of sorts to her. He’s called Simpson an “insider” for her close ties to the Mallory administration, which Cranley has often derided during his tenure.

Cranley himself has spent more than a decade and a half in various political roles, sometimes under the wing of former Cincinnati mayor Charlie Luken. Despite that, he argues that his administration has benefitted everyday Cincinnatians by focusing on basic services like road repairs and increasing the number of police and firefighters on the city’s payroll instead of special projects.

“She wants to take City Hall back to the way it was,” Cranley said during an Aug. 10 news conference in Mount Auburn. “We’ve been fighting to change City Hall to make it work for everyday Cincinnatians. The previous administration was focused on major projects like the streetcar at the expense of paving roads and putting cops on the street and reducing crime.”

Crime is one area where the two candidates diverge noticeably. Violent crime has been a big political issue this year. Though the city’s 33 homicides as of the end of July represent a 12 percent decrease over the city’s three-year average, gun crimes have risen 16 percent this year from the level they were at during the same time frame in 2014.

Cranley has made his push for increases in both the number of police officers the city employs and how much they are paid a centerpiece of his time in office. That’s a push he’s continued with his proposal to give unionized city employees, including police officers, two five percent raises in the next two years and a four percent raise in 2018.

That move comes as the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #69, which represents Cincinnati police officers, negotiates its next labor contract with the city.

The push for that raise has caused contention within City Hall from City Manager Harry Black as well as Council members like Simpson and former Cincinnati police officer Wendell Young.

During her time on Council, Simpson has framed violence prevention somewhat differently. While she says she’s supportive of law enforcement and isn’t against more officers, there’s a deeper root she argues the city should do more to address. Earlier this year, she unveiled an initiative that frames neighborhood violence as a public health issue through her Violence Prevention Working Group, which convened 36 leaders from nonprofits, community groups and local government at meetings in the city’s most troubled areas. That, she says, is just the start.

“It’s about changing the mind frame to

say it’s not about getting the bad guys,” Simpson says of past and upcoming initiatives around violence as a public health issue. “It’s about realizing the bad guys are people. They weren’t born wanting to be bad guys. This is a communicable disease.

People who are impacted by violence are more likely to commit violence. We want to intervene — inoculate, vaccinate.

“Look, law enforcement is important, and for the type of policing we’re doing, we need more officers than most places if we want community policing,” she continues. “But even they would say they would feel much more comfortable in their jobs if we could see the types of results we want to see.”

Another issue likely to make a prominent appearance in the coming campaign will be the region’s transit systems. The defining issue of 2013’s mayoral election between Cranley and former mayor and councilwoman Roxanne Qualls was the city’s streetcar project. Qualls supported it, while Cranley was dead set against the 3.6-mile rail loop through downtown and Over-the-Rhine.

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wo-thousand-sixteen is shaping up to be an intense year for politics. But if you’re a Cincinnatian looking for a respite come Nov. 9, you’ll have a while longer to wait. As you cast your ballot in a historic and strange presidential election, one of the most interesting and potentially competitive local races in recent memory will just be getting started.

Cincinnati’s 2017 mayoral primary will pit incumbent first-term Democrat Mayor John Cranley against party mate and secondterm Cincinnati City Council member Yvette Simpson. That battle illustrates not only the candidates’ different styles when it comes to politics, but also a wider ideological schism in the city. Simpson’s challenge to Cranley underscores a rift between the mayor and more liberal progressive Democrats who want increased emphasis on transit, different approaches to tackling poverty and new ways to address violent crime in city neighborhoods.

Simpson kicked off her campaign with an Aug. 10 event at the Carl Solway Gallery in the West End, where she lives. The 38-year-old, who grew up in public housing in Lincoln Heights before winning a scholarship to Miami University and becoming an attorney, was surrounded by transit and historic preservation boosters, advocates for the poor and racial justice advocates, a show of her support among progressives.

Cranley has been a polarizing figure with that group — a bare-knuckle brawler of a mayor unafraid to fight for his sometimescentrist policy priorities, express occasionally unpopular opinions and engage in competitive political maneuvers.

Simpson, meanwhile, has often led pushback from Democrats on Council to many of Cranley’s moves — from his attempt to block the city’s streetcar project in the opening days of his term to efforts to change the way the city sets funding for human services organizations to a recent push to give the city’s unionized employees pay raises outside the usual collective bargaining process.

As she campaigns to take the big desk at City Hall, she has stressed what she says will be a more collaborative approach to overseeing city government.

“I certainly have things that I value,” Simpson said during an hour-long sit-down with CityBeat the day after the announcement of her candidacy last week. “Council members have things they value. The community has things they value. But more important than any initiatives we might advance is the idea that we’re going to be an administration that listens to people and that their vision will become a part of ours in a real way.”

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BY JAMES McNAIR

When it comes down to it, you should be able to read court documents in the raw.

Naked, that is. From home.

You can in many places. But not in Hamilton County, unless you’re a lawyer, a reporter or work in law enforcement. Here you have to get dressed and hump down to the county courthouse downtown.

If you want to nose into a cousin’s disorderly conduct charge, gawk into a neighbor’s divorce case or read about an employee’s shoplifting spree, those are all public records.

But without a lawyer’s help, you’ll need to take time off from your job, get yourself downtown, pass through a metal detector, trek up to the third floor and either find what you want on a computer or at a counter.

“Anyone can come down to the courthouse and make copies,” says Mark Waters, administrator for Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Tracy Winkler.

But who would want to? Think of all the public records you can read online: home sales on the county auditor’s website; campaign contributions to politicians. Federal court docs are available for online perusal, too. You have to set up an account and pay 10 cents a page, but you can do it in bed.

Twenty years ago, the court clerk’s office was at the forefront of posting records online. Then-clerk James Cissell snagged the domain name courtclerk.org and Hamilton County’s court records became online fodder in 1996. But because records weren’t scrubbed of data like Social Security numbers, identity thieves had a field day. In 2006, Cissell’s successor, Greg Hartmann, lowered the portcullis and set up the password system in place today. You can run names through the website and find cases. You just can’t open the docs.

Some people would like to change that. One is Aftab Pureval, a Procter & Gamble attorney running for Winkler’s job as Hamilton County clerk of courts this Nov. 1. He sees the clerk’s office as ripe for modernization.

“Accessing the courts can be a hassle and it places an undue burden on working families and the poor,” Pureval says. “Think about people who work by the hour or who work multiple jobs. You have to take time off. You have to find time to go downtown, which either means driving and paying for parking or coordinating public transportation. You have to wait to be served, then you get hard copies of what you need and often have to pay for prints. It disproportionately encumbers the people who often need the courts the most.”

The courthouse — actually three courthouses, with traffic and family courts nearby — is a very busy place. More than

50,000 traffic cases, 40,000 criminal cases and 35,000 civil cases are filed annually, Waters says. If you’ve ever been involved in a criminal case or lawsuit, you might know that case files mushroom in size with the addition of charges, claims, motions, rebuttals and such. Winkler’s office will offer 10 pages of copies for free. After that it’s 10 cents per page.

Waters says there is no move afoot to restore online access to case documents.

The problem, he says, is finding computer software that will identify and remove every Social Security number and date of birth.

“Even the best systems are only 95 percent effective in removing that stuff,” he says.

Pureval doesn’t see that as an insurmountable hurdle.

“This is like something out of 1985,” he says. “Certainly in 2016, a modern court system should be able to empower its citizens with documents that are publicly available online. Technology is the great equalizer.”

Without online access to case filings, Pureval says people are often forced to hire an attorney.

“Say you’re a small business owner and you want to do a background check on a prospective employee, or you’re a young couple and you want to make sure your babysitter doesn’t have a criminal record,” he says. “You can’t do those things, because you don’t have online access to the records. That’s not serving the public and, frankly, it’s not the way the most modern clerks’ offices operate.”

It’s not the way Butler County Clerk of Courts Mary Swain operates. Her office has provided online access to Court of Common Pleas civil and criminal case docs since 2005, six years before she took office.

Online access is a money- and time-saver.

“With our filings increasing all the time, if we didn’t have that service available for the public and they all had to come into the office to look up documents, I would have to increase my staff by half a dozen employees,” Swain says.

The Butler County site does not require user registration and passwords. One click, for instance, opens up a 202-page petition filed by the city of Middletown against AK Steel Corp. on July 30.

“The public is very pleased with being able to search for cases that affect them or that they’re involved with,” Swain says. “They don’t have to come into this office or call into the office to get the information they need or to have my staff pull files and go through files docket by docket to see what’s here.”

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decisive vote blocking Cranley’s attempt to shutter the project.

Simpson was a vocal proponent of the streetcar, a potential liability for her among moderate voters and African-Americans who backed Cranley in 2013. Black voters have shown a general dislike for the streetcar, which is seen as a factor in Over-theRhine’s shift toward a whiter and more well-to-do demographic.

But Simpson says her focus is bigger and more inclusive these days.

“My frame now is around, ‘Let’s talk about regional, multi-modal transportation,’ ” Simpson says. “I don’t want to talk about the streetcar anymore.”

Black voters could be big deciders in the contest. Cranley won their vote decisively in 2013 and has remained popular with them.

He has fronted a number of initiatives that look to address income and racial disparities, including the creation of the Office of Economic Inclusion, which looks to extend more city contracts to minority businesses, and a push to provide $2 million to preserve affordable housing in Over-the-Rhine and another $2 million for similar projects elsewhere in the city.

But Simpson, who is African-American, also has strong ties with the black community and has done prominent work on the city’s poverty problems. That work has included continuing to fight Cranley over the city’s United Way-overseen human services funding process as well as money for neighborhood-level community development in the city budget. In the past, Cranley has worked to move money from those funds toward other projects both related and unrelated to poverty initiatives.

Simpson’s announcement is just the start of what looks to be a long contest leading up to the city’s May 7, 2017 open mayoral primary. That won’t be the only political tussle between the city’s urban progressives and more moderate candidates, however.

All nine City Council seats — including those held by urban progressives like Councilman Chris Seelbach and P.G. Sittenfeld — go up for re-election next year, meaning the overall direction of city government will hang in the balance. ©

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Hamilton County’s, offers online access to court docs. Court Clerk Michele Mumford says the court has been online since 2009.

“The public really appreciates being able to look something up online and save themselves a trip to the courthouse,” she says. “It definitely frees up the time of the office. We don’t have the phones ringing off the hook like they used to.”

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“There is no mention of any particular abortion provider in this legislation,” she said just before the House passed the bill back in November of last year.

Funding that had gone to Planned Parenthood contracts would have been diverted to other health care and sex-ed providers, supporters of the move said.

Planned Parenthood argued that the law, HB 294, infringed on its First Amendment rights because it strips public funding based on the fact the group provides legal, constitutionally protected abortions. The group also argued that the prohibition of state funding violates the 14th Amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection clauses because it discriminates against an organization that is providing a legally allowed service. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision declared abortion a constitutionally protected right.

Planned Parenthood says 75 percent of its clients in Ohio are low-income women who would be heavily burdened without access to the services they provide, often free of charge.

Attorneys for the state of Ohio argued that the group has no constitutional right to state contracts. Because it is legal to pass laws prohibiting the use of state and federal funds for abortions, it is also legal to withhold those funds for other purposes performed by organizations that provide them, the state’s attorneys argued. Ohio also argued that it has the right to withhold funding for things like sex-ed programs that may contradict the state’s own programs, including sex-ed programs that stress abstinence and prenatal programs that stress childbirth over abortion.

The court sided with Planned Parenthood.

“Plaintiffs maintain that if (the law) were to go into effect, they would no longer be able to offer free of charge some of the services under the programs impacted,” the court’s decision reads. “Plaintiffs maintain that the requirement to pay even a reduced fee will deter patients from seeking these potentially life-saving services.

“Plaintiffs would also no longer have access to the juvenile justice and foster care systems to teach teenagers about healthy relationships as part of the PREP program. Based on this evidence in the record, the Court finds the irreparable injury is continuing and there is a lack of an adequate remedy at law because monetary damages could not compensate Plaintiffs for this injury.”

Planned Parenthood operates 28 clinics in the state, three of which provide abortions. ©

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A federal court on Aug. 12 blocked an Ohio law passed by pro-life state legislators that stripped the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics of funding used for reproductive health and other services.

Judge Michael R. Barrett of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court in Cincinnati granted a permanent injunction sought by the health care provider against an Ohio law that prohibits the organization from receiving more than $1.4 million in Ohio Department of Health funding it used to provide sexual education services, screenings for cancer, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, as well as other health services.

“Today’s ruling is a win for the Ohioans who rely on us for care,” Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement.

“Planned Parenthood will not stop fighting until every person can receive the essential health care they need. Momentum is on our side — these attacks on reproductive health care will fall one by one. We are not going back.”

Republicans in Ohio’s legislature passed that law in February after a national controversy surrounding videos released by an anti-abortion group that claimed they showed fetal tissue being sold by Planned Parenthood representatives. The videos drew criticism and were later shown to be heavily edited. No Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio were found to be selling fetal remains.

State lawmakers have been open in acknowledging that they seek to strip funds from Planned Parenthood because the organization provides abortions, even though the public money given to the organization goes to other health services.

Conservatives in the state house have said they’re opposed to abortion for moral and safety reasons, and have described their crackdown on abortion providers like Planned Parenthood as a way to protect women.

But Planned Parenthood claims these clinics aren’t immediately in a position to fill the health care gaps it would leave, which would include 70,000 free STD screenings it provides through a Centers for Disease Control program and 5,000 free HIV tests for populations at high risk for the virus.

Proponents of the bill in the State House said the move was about keeping taxpayer funds away from abortion providers. Many pushed back at the idea that it would harm women.

State Rep. Margaret Conditt, a Republican, said the bill wasn’t just about Planned Parenthood, but was about helping women.

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nce upon a time, Comic-Con International: San Diego, as a brand, conjured up images of devoted geeks rifling through dusty crates of comic books in plastic protective sleeves as they debated the relative contrasting merits of their favorite superheroes.

The focus in the early days, which go all the way back to 1970, was not strictly limited to comic books. Science Fiction and film shared the spotlight, certainly in the hearts and minds of the faithful attendees.

As a film critic who makes what is now an annual pilgrimage to a major film festival, I can understand and appreciate the spirited fervor among those who pledge allegiance to Comic-Con, which held its most recent gathering in late July.

What those on the outside might not be as aware of is how Comic-Con, like the premiere film festivals in Sundance, Cannes and Toronto, has transitioned into a massive industry gathering.

While comic books continue to dominate the proceedings, film has become the emerging genre god on the scene, seeking to steal the thunder and lightening of the event. For all the workshops, educational programming, masquerade costume competitions, autograph areas and even the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards presentation, the most talked-about draw outside the hallowed halls of the convention is the rollout of major Hollywood studio productions targeting this captive congregation of Pop art adherents.

Leading up to this year’s Comic-Con, the two industry giants seemed locked in an epic skirmish, offering up thematic mirror-image avatars in an effort to literally see which one could deliver a knockout punch. Marvel swung first, on the antihero front with Deadpool, the raucous R-rated fourth-wall-breaking adventure of their Merc with a Mouth, who dominated during the doldrums of February.

Things intensified when over the course of a couple of months DC released Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which was followed by Marvel’s intra-hero feud Captain America: Civil War. The critical and box office verdict in this punch-out gave the decision to Marvel, but DC still had Suicide Squad, its antihero sucker punch in reserve (the scorecard is, again, not looking good on either the critical or ticket sales front).

With so much at stake, the unveiling of trailers at

Comic-Con takes on an unimagined degree of significance.

Marvel enjoyed the advantage of being able to tease Doctor Strange, a fall release, one-upping DC, which doesn’t have another movie in the chamber for this year. Its trailers look to the future, with the arrival of Wonder Woman, the first female superhero to command center stage in a solo adventure, and early footage of the DC team-up Justice League.

These two comic book rivals have laid out what amounts to a multi-year plan with several competing titles dotting the release landscape, promising — some would argue threatening — an epic onslaught of graphic mayhem.

In the song “The Future,” late Pop icon Prince offered up the lines, “Hollywood conjures images of the past/New world needs spirituality that will last.” Maybe he was onto something back in 1989.

At the time, the tune wasn’t merely another from his Paisley Park hit-factory production process. It was a specifically targeted creation, penned as part of his personal soundtrack to Tim Burton’s Batman, the first major studio superhero release, since the 1978 Richard Donner classic Superman and its 1980 sequel by Richard Lester. That double feature should have marked the real beginning of the superhero trend, but lackluster follow-ups stalled the franchisement of comic book gods and heroes.

But here was Prince, like some purple oracle, telling us, “I’ve seen the future and it will be/I’ve seen the future and it works.” One could argue that this future was all about the rise of the superhero.

That Batman, with Michael Keaton in the title role, faced its share of challenges from a core comic book fan base that couldn’t imagine the comedic actor as the grim dark knight of Gotham. Audiences wondered whether Burton’s gothic penchant would coalesce with the beloved graphic frames and just couldn’t overcome fears about past kitschy presentations of the character.

But the blueprint for the future did indeed work.

Burton’s Batman spawned a sequel (Batman Returns in 1992) and, let’s be honest, a cottage industry with a host of other actors donning the cowl in live-action features — Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale and now Ben Affleck — plus a plethora of animated adaptations and

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serialized works all over the stylistic and narrative map.

Why, you might ask? What is it about this Batman that makes him so special?

Well, to understand this hero and the future he has wrought, you have to look into our misty, mythic past to ascertain our seemingly urgent need for gods and heroes.

We have always found different ways of sharing our thoughts and fears — our stories in which we sought to define ourselves against the larger unknown backdrop of existence. It could be argued that this is what makes us quintessentially human.

Cat Power encapsulated the hubris of this notion in her song “The Greatest: “Once I wanted to be the greatest/No wind or waterfall could stall me.”

It is true — once upon a time, we did gaze up at the heavens with wonder and attempt to define its vast expanse. We felt the heat of the sun, the sweeping breezes (which we could not see) and a host of emotions that set us off — to appease self-interests, in pursuit of love, into conflict with others. At first, we found gods everywhere, in all of our ignorance. We labeled these sensations, crafted elaborate stories and, over time, retold these tales, expounding and expanding upon them, recreating the narratives and ultimately our own images.

This is when and where heroes were born, from cave drawings and paintings to epic poems passed down by griots to sacred texts to bedtime stories to comic books to big screen adaptations to streaming serials. We speak of scripted mythology, describing the norms and documented histories of the fictional and virtual worlds we’ve called into existence.

We rally around the tagline — a hero will rise — but that figure has evolved. He’s no longer a mere man. To be the greatest, he has to be more. He has to be super, which means he’s rushing ever close to being a god. But what happens when our “gods” are no longer gods at all?

It is time to face the future, which rises and falls every weekend upon the box office receipts. Burton’s Batman was a summer release, a hit that formulated the notion of

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am chasing strange/And I will rearrange/To be a part/Of every change that you make.”

That’s what I want to hear when you invoke the name of Doctor Strange or speak of magic. There have always been rules to these kinds of things, but now there is an overarching adherence to logic or order being imposed on our sensibilities. We know more than previous generations.

We have conquered the notion of our complete ignorance, mastering science, bending logic to our collective wills.

What is there left to fear, to truly be in awe of?

Maybe there’s hope on the horizon, though. Comic-Con, remember, does not exclusively limit itself to comic books, so the film studio teasers boldly span the genre-map as well.

The Harry Potter-spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Nov. 18) from director David Yates (more than familiar with the Potter-verse, having helmed the final four installments in the franchise run) and author J.K. Rowling (taking on the task of adapting her own work), dips into an old-school bag of magic tricks, weaving an alternative America that is both surreal and recognizable with an Academy Award winner front and center (Eddie Redmayne).

Hero worship, when it works, traffics in folklore, the telling of tales that spring from somewhere close to what defines us, and it should be no different with our superheroes.

For all the doom and gloom of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, it seems as if he might have finally stumbled, albeit blindly, upon a way to employ the foreboding to advance the narrative and engage us on some deeper level. The Comic-Con Justice League (Nov. 17, 2017) trailer introduces an element of folklore into the mix.

Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), off camera, speaks to a bar full of downtrodden but proud folk, telling the familiar tale of a man from the sea who brings fish to feed them at a time of great need. “He comes on the King Tide,” Wayne says. And with that, a broad shouldered figure turns to face him — Arthur Curry/Aquaman (Jason Momoa) — and beckons him to continue.

There is discussion of an enemy coming and the need to unite. Even with the modern musical elements

accentuating the proceedings, the scenes are steeped in the mythic drawing of power and calls to arms.

Where has this been in all of the other outings, DC? We’ve been looking and waiting for warriors, and thus far you’ve given us video game skirmishes.

Speaking of video games, the Wonder Woman (June 2, 2017) trailer, which is full of ancient slow motion backed by wordless chorales and battle scenes that toggle between the earnest feel of soldiers in the trenches and the whipsmart action choreography of thoroughly modern frames, wears the same well-worn CGI effects. But underneath the costume garb, it feels like this Patty Jenkins adventure will have the heart of a champion from the days of yore.

Could it be because Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) descends directly from the Amazonian realm, with a father who was a god, and there is no attempt to distance her origin from mythic roots? Better still, maybe it is because we get to watch in wonder as she interacts for the first time with the world of Man, and there is none of the contemporary ironic winking at the cultural clash? I would say that certainly makes up for the expected lapses into 300-styled hijinks.

Let’s go back to the future once more, the one not seen at Comic-Con, but already on the horizon, where the heroes are something more than the mythological super friends we’ve become accustomed to.

Prior to Comic-Con, teasers alerted those in the know of director Justin Kurzel’s follow-up with his Macbeth star Michael Fassbender, a splashy entrance into gamescape that is Assassin’s Creed (Dec. 21). Fassbender’s protagonist discovers that he’s part of a secret line of master assassins that extends throughout history.

Could it be that with the fall of the gods, the stars might now be forced to roam this new frontier to find worthy avatars? If so, then this must bode well for the anticipated reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise, toplined by newly minted Academy Award-winner Alicia Vikander as the adventure-seeking Lara Croft. With a March 16, 2018 release date already locked in, the Comic-Con flock already has a miraculous revelation to look forward to in 2017.

The next gen awaits. ©

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the tentpole — a major seasonal event picture that could dominate screens for weeks at a time, force other titles to bow before its glory and re-establish or re-shape the Hollywood firmament.

Who needs gods anymore when you can have stars?

Along came the Marvel Cinematic Universe, picking up the mantle abandoned by DC Comics, which had been unable to successfully elevate its fallen cinematic Superman or build upon its Dark Knight iteration of the Batman.

Marvel seized the opportunity to unify its core heroes to re-create The Avengers for the screen. Iron Man was a longtime role player in the comic book stable until Robert Downey, Jr. gave him a smirkingly marketable face. Suddenly the character was full of swagger and social media credibility. A star was born.

But the powers-that-be made the decision early on to downgrade their resident deity Thor (Chris Hemsworth), the Norse God of Thunder. You can’t have a god, the logic went, in a world of advanced technology. This is the world of tomorrow, so Thor and his heavenly home of Asgard — and the whole of the nine realms — became a place of science populated by aliens with long lifespans.

The rationale divorces us from our past, rendering the extraordinary something far less worthy of our devotion.

And once you start mucking about with gods, magic must be redefined as well. The soon-to-be released Doctor Strange (Nov. 4), based on the trailer from Comic-Con, strips away the trippy psychedelics of the character’s origin.

We hear The Ancient One (the almost too perfectly cast Oscar winner Tilda Swinton) lecturing the would-be mystic warrior (everybody’s favorite Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch): “You think you know how the world works.”

But the line addresses us too, and it informs us that what passes for magic today is a dream world folding in on itself — a la Christopher Nolan’s Inception — albeit with an even more diverse cast (featuring race-bent performances from the aforementioned Swinton to Chiwetel Ejiofor as eternal Doctor Strange antagonist Baron Mordo).

Chocolate Genius, in his downbeat anthem “Chasing Strange,” dared to speak of “The liquid daughters and their liquid sons/They disappear in thin air/Every single breath and every single sigh/Is holier than it needs to be/When I

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ONSTAGE: The solid cast of CHICAGO at Incline Theater captures the essence of the classic musical. See review on page 24.

MUSIC: Original Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna brings new band THE JULIE RUIN to the Woodward Theater. See Sound Advice on page 34.

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COMEDY: GREG WARREN It’s the return of one of Cincinnati’s favorite adopted sons. St. Louis native Greg Warren started doing stand-up right here in the Queen City while working for Procter & Gamble. He has since become a top-headlining comedian with appearances on all the late-night shows and his own Comedy Central half-hour special. Onstage, he still talks about what he knows best: Greg Warren. “I have a new bit about my cat allergies that seems to be doing well, and I’ve recently been talking about my fledgling cross country career in high school,” he says. “Definitely not hard-hitting, very self-deprecating.

Vintage Greg Warren.” Thursday-Sunday. $10-$15. Funny Bone Liberty, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, 513-779-5233, liberty.funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON

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MUSIC: Celtic supergroup THE HIGH KINGS brings Irish Folk to Live! at the Ludlow Garage. See Sound Advice on page 34.

EVENT: MIDWEST REGIONAL BLACK FAMILY REUNION The Midwest Regional Black Family Reunion — one of the city’s largest familyfocused events — returns for its 28th year with three days of festivities. Events kick off with a heritage breakfast and opening

EVENT: WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN If the Olympics just isn’t your thang, opt for some local sporty action this week at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. The Western & Southern Open — the oldest tennis tournament in the country — is a prestigious ATP Masters 1000 event on the men’s tour and a Premier 5 event for the Women’s Tennis Association, with 67 million people expected to view the televised event worldwide. Get in the spirit 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when the Open hosts the Somm Slam Prequel, which pits nine of Cincinnati’s top sommeliers against each other in blind taste tests to identify wines and their origins. Four winners will advance to the Cincinnati Food + Wine Classic on Sept. 25. Through Sunday. Open: $15-$125 single-session tickets; Somm Slam Prequel: $40 (with valid match ticket). Lindner Family Tennis Center, 5460 Courseview Drive, Mason, wsopen.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

ceremony featuring keynote speaker Rev. Otis Moss Jr., pastor emeritus of Cleveland’s Olivet Institutional Baptist Church.

Afterward, head over to the Sharonville Convention Center with résumé in hand — more than 50 organizations will be onsite for a large-scale job fair, including Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Great Parks of Hamilton County, LexisNexis and Time Warner Cable. The Black Family Reunion Community Parade steps off at 10 a.m. Saturday, led by grand marshal and Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac. Other highlights of the weekend include Family Feud-inspired competitions on the lawn at Sawyer Point, an R&B concert 6 p.m. Saturday headlined

by Cameo and a Sunday morning outdoor service and 5 p.m. Gospel concert. FridaySunday. Free admission. Various locations; visit myblackfamilyreunion.org for a full schedule. — EMILY BEGLEY

ONSTAGE: LAST POET STANDING A head-to-head spoken word competition featuring some of the best poets from across the Midwest. Slam poet, teacher and activist Just Greg Corbin hosts the proceedings — a production of Dayton, Ohio’s Oral Funk Poetry Productions — as poets take to the stage to perform an original work with melody, artistry and synergy. The last poet standing wins $1,000. “The production serves as an homage to the spoken word genre and will be a night of exciting, fastpaced, engaging and spontaneous fun,” says Sierra Leone of Oral Funk Poetry Productions. 8 p.m. Friday. $25. Aronoff Center, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, cincinnatiarts. org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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MUSIC: Local Thrash Metal stalwarts

WAR CURSE play Everybody’s Records as part of the store’s Metal Saturday celebration. See interview on page 32.

MUSIC: Legendary Rock & Roller TOMMY STINSON — of The Replacements and Guns N’ Roses fame — plays Northside Yacht Club. See Sound Advice on page 35.

EVENT: ROWAMERICA HAMILTON DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL Bring me my dragons! You don’t have to be Khaleesi to control these 40-foot-long, 20-person boats (which, yes, actually do look like dragons, complete with a decorative head and tail). RowAmerica Hamilton hosts Butler County’s first-ever dragon boat festival this weekend, and everyone — regardless of experience — is CONTINUES ON PAGE 20

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ONSTAGE: ROCK OF AGES “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” might be the anthem for this show, opening The Carnegie’s theater season, but it’s only one of two-dozen big-hair band tunes from the ’80s performed during the likeable but silly musical. The love story of nerdy Drew and sexy Sherrie is just a thread to string the hits together. But it’s great fun. In 2009, it received five Tony nominations (though no winners). Nevertheless, it was an audience favorite and lasted on Broadway for six years — more than 2,000 performances. So it’s sure to be entertaining in this production with tons of talent from Northern Kentucky University. Through Aug. 28. $21-$28. The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, Ky., 859-957-1940, thecarnegie. com. — RICK PENDER

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EVENT: CURIOSITY SATURDAY AT WASHINGTON PARK Curiosity Saturday, a free, weekly summer program at Washington Park, offers kids and families the chance to participate in creative activities hosted by a variety of area organizations. This Saturday — which is also coincidentally the same day as the monthly City Flea and right after Washington Park’s free, weekly rotating fitness class — Curiosity Saturday will be hosted by Cincinnati’s award-winning nonprofit, Happen, Inc., which uses art as a means to build bonding experiences between parents and their children.

Given the various events for parents as well as kids, you could probably spend most of your Saturday morning and afternoon at Washington Park without needing to come up for air. Curiosity Saturday: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. City Flea: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark.org. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER

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encouraged to participate. Teams of 15 to 25 people will compete in a series of races throughout the fest, with optional practice sessions available on Thursday and Friday.

The Chinese tradition of dragon boating began in China circa 278 B.C.E., when a court official named Qu Yuan committed suicide in the Miluo River after learning about the upcoming devastation of his state. When citizens learned of his intentions, they rushed onto the water in fishing boats in an attempt to save him, splashing water with their paddles to keep fish and evil spirits from his body. Dragon boat festivals are held every year on the anniversary of Yuan’s death — a Chinese national holiday. 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday. Free to attend; $80 individual rower registration. RiversEdge Amphitheater at Marcum Park, 116 Dayton St., Hamilton, rowhamilton.com. — EMILY BEGLEY EVENT: KENTUCKY COLLECTIBLES APPRAISAL FAIR Just how rare and valuable is that doll from grandma’s attic, the vintage guitar

on your uncle’s shelf or the thrift-store find that your sister swears is a Rookwood vase? Bring your family’s mysteries and memorabilia to the Kentucky Collectibles Appraisal Fair in Covington and get enlightened. Art and antique detectives from KET’s popular show will evaluate up to two items per ticketholder. Practice your shocked reactions, because cameras will be filming for the program’s fifth season. Tickets benefit Kentucky Educational Television. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. $60.

Northern Kentucky Convention Center, 1 W. Rivercenter Blvd., Covington, Ky., ket. org. — KATHY SCHWARTZ EVENT: ROW BY ROW DINNER AT GORMAN HERITAGE FARM Gorman Heritage Farm hosts an on-farm dinner featuring produce and poultry sourced onsite, prepared by Raffel’s Catering, with bread from Blue Oven and beer from Rivertown. Indulge in thoughtfully prepared, farm-fresh cuisine, followed by music from Jake Speed & the Freddies and a live and silent auction. Event tickets include admission to the 122-acre

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MUSIC: WHITNEY ROSE Canadian native (and current Austin, Texas resident) Whitney Rose is a part of the “neo-traditionalist” movement in Country, where artists eschew the slick radiofriendliness of modern Country for something more classic and pure. Rose’s melodic “Countrypolitan” sound has made fans out of Dwight Yoakam and Raul Malo of The Mavericks, who have said she has the songwriting chops and stage presence to one day be “one of the greats of the genre.” Rose began garnering worldwide attention with last year’s Malo-produced Heartbreaker of the Year. This year, Rose signed a new recording contract with the Six Shooter label, which is well-distributed by Universal (in Canada) and Thirty Tigers (everywhere else), so the best appears yet to come for the young singer/songwriter. 8 p.m. Tuesday. $10; $12 day of show. Southgate House Revival, 111 E. Sixth St., Newport, Ky., southgatehouse.com. — MIKE BREEN

working farm, where visitors can explore the gardens and farmyard and walk a network of hiking trails. 6 p.m. Saturday. $60. Gorman Heritage Farm, 10052 Reading Road, Evendale, gormanfarm. org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: SUGAR RUSH Is your pancreas ready to party? Are you prepared to gorge a smorgasbord of sweets? Sugar Rush brings more than a dozen of the area’s favorite confectioners together in once place for samples to satisfy the sweet tooth of every Princess Lolly and Lord Licorice. Indulge in ice cream, cupcakes, cookies, donuts and more, and then vote for your favorite. The winning bakery will receive an award and bragging rights for a full year. A special panel of expert judges will also be on hand to dole out additional awards for the most creative treats. The evening includes performances from the Cincinnati Ballet, and a portion of proceeds will go to benefit that organization plus the Playhouse in the Park. 5:30-8 p.m. Wednesday. $20.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams, citybeat.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: VISITOR APPRECIATION DAYS AT THE ZOO If you’ve been looking for an excuse to check out the new Hippo Cove exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo, look no further: This Saturday and Sunday are visitor appreciation days at the park with half-price admission.

Animal encounters throughout the weekend give guests an opportunity to learn more about the animals with fun interactions — watch hippos Henry and Bibi snack on special treats, see elephants get their morning bath and cheer on a cheetah as it runs at full speed. There’s also a new baby at Giraffe Ridge named Cora and cheetah cubs Cathryn, Redd and Willow are still snoozing away with their companion dog Blakely in the zoo nursery. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday. $9 adults; $6.50 kids. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden,

3400 Vine St., Avondale, cincinnatizoo. org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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Digital Beer

Online and on the street, Cincinnati brewing artifacts are going public to honor our history of drinking

BY GARIN PIRNIA

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uch of Cincinnati’s 200-year-old brewing history has been lost to both the neglect and renovation of the industry’s old buildings, but a lot is still out there in the hands of collectors and others.

There is a two-part effort going on right now at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County to honor that beer history.

The library is actively seeking out brewing artifacts to scan for digital copies, and it currently has an online exhibit, Cincinnati’s Brewing and Drinking History, to collect and display beer ephemera, which is available by searching the “digital library” drop-down window at cincinnatilibrary.org.

The library teamed up with the Over-theRhine Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation on this project.

The district’s executive director, Steven Hampton, and curator Mike Morgan have helped compile such artifacts as black-andwhite photos of men standing outside the original Christian Moerlein Brewing Company with their horses (1887), a letter written on Jung Brewing Company letterhead (1903), an ad for Lion Brewery (1877) and a blueprint for Sohn & Company’s brewing facility (1887). The library itself has also been collecting this type of paraphernalia for a long time.

Patricia Van Skaik, the library’s manager of genealogy and local history, says they’ve been collecting for the library’s archive since the late 1800s. “Something that was created in 1870, that is in all likelihood when we started collecting it,” she says. “One of the things we do as a library, and particularly in the history and the special collections here, is try to think about what someone would be interested in 50, 100 years from now, and we acquire it at that time. We try to collect things at the moment of conception, so to speak, because you just increasingly run the risk of something happening to it.”

The second part of this project occurs next spring when the Brewery District breaks ground on its Brewing Heritage Trail in Over-the-Rhine. It will use images from old photos, augmented-reality experiences and interactive signs posted outside of historic buildings to tell Cincinnati’s role in regional —and global — beer history. It has funds for the first phase of the twomile-long trail but is seeking donations for further development.

As curator for this Brewery Heritage Trail (and founder of walking-tour company Queen City History & Education), Morgan has the tedious job of sifting through people’s collections.

“My job is to do all of the primary research

Cincinnati Library’s digital collection includes this photo of the early Christian Moerlein plant. and to bring it all together in a way that tells a story — to lay it out on the signs and online and to find these images,” he says.

Morgan wants the visual images to demonstrate to trail-goers what the city looked like back in the day, and to make the “experience of the past real to people,” he says.

He joined the Brewery District when it began in 2005, when Over-the-Rhine was just starting revitalization efforts.

“The idea of the time wasn’t really to do so much literally with brewing,” he says. “Our interest was more with the revitalization of Over-the-Rhine. We weren’t necessarily interested in seeing breweries return to being breweries. We were more interested in using that history as a way to make people appreciate the neighborhood.”

German immigrants settled in Cincinnati in the early 1800s and started brewing beer, especially in Over-the-Rhine. In 1829, Jackson Brewery became OTR’s first brewery. Today, Rhinegeist resides in the 1890s Moerlein bottling plant, and a new Christian Moerlein Brewing Company operation (with a taproom) lives inside the old 19th-century Kauffman Brewing Company malt house.

At the apex of beer production, Morgan says the city was churning out a lot of beer: In 1880, Cincinnati brewed 25,645,711 gallons of beer, which equates to 218,851,200

glasses — and 1890 had even higher numbers. “A lot of people were drunk a lot of the time,” he jokes.

Last weekend, in an event called Digital Brew, the Brewing Heritage Trail and the library asked the community to come out to the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company taproom in Over-the-Rhine and bring old photos and collections to be digitized.

Linda Ziegler, who came with her collection, focuses on the old Schmidt Brothers Brewery, formerly located at 135 and 138 E. McMicken Ave. and once run by Friedrich and Heinrich Schmidt. She has spent a few years compiling hundreds of pages of documents on four different branches of Heinrich’s family, and she has a comprehensive binder that is several inches thick.

Whereas Ziegler’s binder is plump with text, Carl Grohs brought five photo albums filled with meticulously preserved beer labels from 35 different breweries, some of which date back to the 1800s. He’s been collecting — or “male scrapbooking” — solely Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky labels for five or six years, including Burger, Big Jug Malt Liquor, Schaller Brewing Company and Red Top Brewing labels. He even includes brand new labels from MadTree and Moerlein in his books, and says he

stops by Moerlein once a week to pick up unused labels.

“That’s what I love about the labels,” he says. “You put them in photo albums and take your whole collection with you in a backpack.”

Besides the labels, he brought a John Hauck Brewing Company beer bottle, Weidemann coasters and a Foss-Schneider Brewing Company golden serving tray.

Some of his labels had what’s called a U-Permit code on them, a mandatory tax code printed on labels from 1933-1935.

It remains to be seen what other troves the library’s online archives and the Brewing Heritage Trail will unearth, but what is clear now is how vital Cincinnati’s brewing history is to the city — and beyond.

“Many people think about Porkopolis, but there were more people engaged in the beer industry (here) than ever in the porkpacking industry,” Van Skaik says. “It’s just so tied culturally, historically and economically to who we are. I think it’s really important in understanding our city’s history.”

Find out more information by visiting the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY or BREWING HERITAGE TRAIL websites: cincinnatilibrary.org and brewingheritagetrail.org.

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Where Are They Now? Alan Patrick Kenny

BY RICK PENDER

at The Carnegie in Covington as his thesis project for UCLA. Asked what he learned from his overall time in Cincinnati, Kenny replied, “What it means to be part of an artistic family and community, something that I miss and long for on a daily basis. I evolved from starting as a budding artist rebelling against a lot of things — personal, academic, the rest of the

Alan Patrick Kenny co-founded New Stage Collective in 2003.

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world — and used the wonderful opportunity of having New Stage as my artistic home to find my voice, build my technique and, most importantly, to test my limits and experiment, trying new things every time I picked a story to tell.

“As hard as it was sometimes to keep New Stage going, I look back on our work with great fondness and pride,” he continues.

“I’m so grateful for each of the artists that gave their time, talent and heart to our work.

It certainly wasn’t because of the money.

The trust they gave me as a young, brash artistic leader was something I will always be grateful for.

“I’m not sure what I did to gain their trust, but I know I worked as hard as I could to keep it.”

Asked for advice for today’s Cincinnati theater scene, Kenny said, “You’re a deeply special and unique place, with tremendous opportunities all around. Make theater that is vital to your community, telling stories that matter to you and your audience in ways that are surprising and eye-opening. Almost all good art has a degree of danger to it.

That’s part of what makes it not only essential to our lives , but also what makes it fun.”

CONTACT RICK PENDER: rpender@citybeat.com

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Unlike the other past Cincinnati theater professionals I’ve caught up with for this series, Alan Patrick Kenny grew up as a Cincinnatian. His family moved here in 1996 and he graduated from Sycamore High School in 1998. From there, he attended New York University, majoring in vocal performance for musical theater.

Kenny is an energetic polymath who could not be contained by one artistic discipline. Trained as a singer, he excelled as a music director. But he also staged serious dramas with equal flair. Back in Cincinnati after finishing at NYU, he launched New Stage Collective in 2003 with his friend and fellow Sycamore grad Joshua Steele. Kenny was its artistic director.

That summer, in a high school auditorium, they staged their first show, a production of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along — the story of ambitious young theater artists. I was there to witness that promising start.

After moving from venue to venue — including a stop at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center in 2005 for another Sondheim show, Sunday in the Park with George — New Stage relocated to the upper floor of a Main Street building in Overthe-Rhine. Between 2007 and 2009, Kenny staged such musicals there as Caroline, or Change (2007) and Jerry Springer: The Opera (2008). And he did equally standout work with dramatic plays, including Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2007) and Tracy Letts’ Bug (2008).

His productions won numerous Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, and he was City­ Beat’s “Person of the Year” in 2008.

But the 2008 economic downturn doomed New Stage and Kenny regretfully pulled the plug in April 2009. His final production was Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, presented on Know Theatre’s stage in May-June 2009, featuring actress Amy Warner and outstanding regional actor Bruce Cromer.

Then he left, pursuing a master’s degree at UCLA and subsequently teaching and directing at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. He occasionally escapes the world of academia aboard a cruise ship, sailing much of the world in show bands.

His principal reason for launching New Stage, he told me in a recent email, was to see if he could actually be a director. “Little did I know that we would survive and thrive through many iterations — seven seasons of productions, (with) so many wonderful artists joining the fray and contributing to the work,” he says. “I’m proud of the consistency of fearlessness and bold thinking that led to so much exciting and explosive work on our stage.”

Kenny returned to town in the summer of 2012 to stage the campy musical Xanadu

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Good Old Days: ‘Chicago’ and ‘Rock of Ages’

BY RICK PENDER

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The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater bumps and detours provides the framework has finally stepped up to the potential of for this 2009 jukebox musical as it resurits facility for 2016 with its production of rects two-dozen classic Glam Metal Rock Kander and Ebb’s Chicago. This is a classic numbers plugged into the storytelling. musical that debuted on Broadway 40 years Drew (Kelcey Steele), a busboy and aspirago; its still-running 1996 Broadway revival ing rocker, falls for Sherrie (Ellie Chancelhas set records there. A 2002 film version lor), a hopeful actress. He gets her a job at won the Oscar for Best Picture. The show, the Bourbon Room, a Hollywood club, but set in the Roaring ’20s, is a vaudevillian he’s not bold enough to convert a night in satire on corruption; its “celebrity criminals” the Hollywood hills with a four-pack of — the murderesses Roxie Hart and Velma wine coolers into a serious relationship.

Kelly — elbow one another for headlines.

When Sherrie has a fling with Hard Rock The Incline’s cast, solid from the top of the bill all the way through the dozen or so H comprising the ensemble, is CRITIC’S led by Hannah Gregory as Roxie and Alex Caldwell as H Velma. Each captures and projects the essence of her character: Gregory handles the multiple levels of Roxie, from posed innocent to scheming manipulator, with winking aplomb. Caldwell, a fantastic dancer, gives ice-cold Velma a razor-sharp edge. Their solo numbers are polished and pitch-perfectly Hannah Gregory and Dave Wilson in Chicago sardonic, and their “NowaPHOTO : MIKKI SCHAFFNER PHOTOGRAPHY days/Hot Honey Rag” duet is a jazzy finale. musician Stacee Jaxx (Tyler Kuhlman with Chicago uses a series of step-up solo numbers by secondary cast members, and these outrageous blond tresses), who demands are well done, too: Lesley Hitch’s Mama the club owner fire her, she and Drew go Morton delivers a tour-de-force “When You’re their separate ways.

Good to Mama”; as oily Billy Flynn, Dave WilIn the meantime, a father-son pair of son’s “All I Care About” captures his sleazy urban developers from Germany (Matt character; and as Roxie’s hapless husband Hudson, Spenser Smith) are buying up the Amos, Tyler Gau’s “Mr. Cellophane” is simply strip occupied by the Bourbon Room for heartbreaking. Sean Mize turns in a humorurban redevelopment. A lot of protesting ous rendition of “A Little Bit of Good” as the and pushback by club regulars stalls this bleeding-heart journalist Mary Sunshine. process, and eventually everything works Solo numbers aside, this show requires out — to a big contagious ending featuring a coherent, disciplined ensemble. That’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” precisely what director Matthew Wilson If you didn’t live through the ’80s, there has put together, augmented by choreogis humor, especially in the club’s cheeky rapher Angela Kahle. She uses elements of sound guy, Lonny (James Jones), who serves Bob Fosse’s iconic “jazz hands” dancing, as a very tongue-in-cheek, self-conscious but with a sinuous, organic approach that narrator steering Drew and Sherrie toward makes the whole production feel fresh. an eventual happy ending. Lonny’s funny One more thing: The construction of the coming-out duet with gonzo club owner DenIncline usually situates the orchestra in nis Dupree (Daniel Cooley), “Can’t Fight This another room, connected by video to the Feeling,” does provide a comic highlight. stage with the sound piped in. But not for This production, directed by Lisa Bodollo, Chicago. The six-member band is onstage leans on Northern Kentucky University’s with two of them — pianist Scot Woolley and Commonwealth Theatre Company (NKU’s music director John Slate (with a keyboard Jamey Strawn is music director), so there’s and a banjo on his knee) — completely visa lot of young talent. But it’s ultimately a lot ible. The live sound is great, and I hope this of sound and fury, signifying not very much. musical configuration is used more often.

CHICAGO, presented at the Warsaw Federal • The only things classic about the noisy Incline Theater, continues through Sept. 4.

Rock of Ages, onstage at Covington’s The ROCK OF AGES, at The Carnegie, will be onstage Carnegie, are Hard Rock tunes from the through Aug. 28. ’80s. The boy-meets-girl story replete with

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A Lost TV Classic, ‘Lou Grant’ Returns on DVD

BY STEVEN ROSEN

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which interview with Asner). Season 2 is due this lasted from 1970-77, was a landmark sitcom. week; the third in November.

So strong were the writing and acting, and The first season holds up very well. so vivid and true-seeming were the characThere are some dated elements — Robert ters, that it spun off not only two other CBS Walden’s Joe Rossi, the brash hot-shot sitcoms named after supporting characters reporter who is too impetuous for his own (Rhoda, Phyllis) but also a drama based on good, comes off as an excessively comic a third, Lou Grant. character. And the writing occasionally lets That starred Ed Asner, who had played Lou pronounce something in the now-dated, Grant for laughs on The Mary Tyler Moore lesson-learned way of old “serious” TV, as Show. A news director for the Minneapolis when he consoles Linda Kelsey’s reporter, TV station that employed Moore’s Mary RichBillie Newman, when she discovers her ards, he was frumpy, cynical, gruff and foul-tempered. But he had a romantic streak that made him loveable. In his early forties, Asner was such a natural for the role that he frequently stole the show.

James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, producers of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, had a brilliant idea for Lou Grant.

They moved the single Grant from Minneapolis to Los Angeles and made him city editor for a powerful daily.

(They worked on the series with Gene Reynolds.)

Ed Asner played Lou Grant in a newsroom-set drama.

They let the program be P H O T O : C O U R T E S Y S H O U T ! FA C T O R Y infused with the spirit and sense of mission of All the exposé of that Jewish Nazi led to his suicide.

President’s Men, the Woodward and BernBut there’s much that rings true. Kelsey’s stein account of how the Washington Post Newman was then and remains today a uncovered Watergate that had been turned strong female character. As the smart maninto a hit film in 1976. But they also kept their aging editor Charlie Hume (who knew Grant nuanced, understated touch to portraying previously and has hired him for the paper), relationships that had been the strongest eleMason Adams communicates decency ment of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. and even sweetness — he needs Grant to Further, they let the show tackle conprotect him from his vulnerable side. troversy with strong writing that largely Best of all, Nancy Marchand as the paper’s eschewed sensationalism. The very first widowed owner memorably upstages Asner episode involved L.A. police officers trying in the scenes they share. (And that’s not easy to cover up having sex with underage girls. to do, so good is he.) Her Mrs. Pynchon sits Another episode was about an American in her office with her small dog and radiates Nazi Party leader who was secretly Jewish. a fluty-voiced, snobbish intimidation to The result was a very successful hour-long anyone who dares approach her. But it slowly drama that lasted for five seasons — 1977-82 subsides to reveal her hard-won wisdom and — and won 13 Emmys during its run. It also protective dedication to her staff. offered one of the best Hollywood depicIn one first-season episode, when the tions ever of how a daily newspaper works, paper collects donations for a homeless carefully and entertainingly demonstrating family that is traveling the country scamhow such elements as deadline pressures, ming newspapers, Mrs. Pynchon learns the ego clashes and simultaneous impulses to be truth from her social network of other arishurriedly reactive and slowly deliberative in tocratic women newspaper owners. As she covering stories all serve to unite rather than delivers her revelation to Grant, she wryly divide the staff. This newsroom feels real. prefaces it by explaining that this group’s Yet, strangely, Lou Grant fell into “simple pleasure in the twilight of our lives obscurity after the show ended. It’s taken is to control the press in major cities and until now — the year that a film about newspaper journalism, Spotlight, won a wield ruthless power.”

Best Picture Oscar — for the series to get a Marchand’s Mrs. Pynchon may just be DVD release. Shout! Factory has a five-disc one of network television’s best supporting package of the complete first season on the characters ever. And Lou Grant one of its market (with just one special feature, a new best dramas. ©

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Just Say Yes to ‘Don’t Think Twice’

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Merriam-Webster’s simple definition of mind and the group will follow your butt comedy (as it pertains to entertainment) right off the cliff. reads, “Things that are done and said to I loved the idea of Don’t Think Twice make an audience laugh.” Complexity presenting these guides to improv upfront, enters the consideration when you factor because they are the commandments not in the dueling approaches — stand-up only for comedy but also for life. The 2008 versus improv. The intention to garner Jim Carrey vehicle Yes Man toyed broadly laughs remains the same, but how you go with the idea that you should walk through about it changes. life saying yes to any and all offers that The introduction of writer-director Mike come your way (as long as they don’t lead Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice, a comedyto danger for yourself or others), but saydrama hybrid that is his follow-up to the ing yes here is a more universal notion, an popular Sleepwalk With Me, schools us on the three rules of improvisational comedy, and what emerges amounts to a philosophical model for living. Improv demands participants to 1) say yes, 2) maintain focus on the group, and 3) do not think.

To illustrate the real-life application of these guidelines, Don’t Think Twice breaks into the inner circle of The Commune, a sixmember troupe living and working as an organic whole Mike Birbiglia and Kate Micucci in Don’t Think Twice until, of course, the threat of P H O T O : C o u r t e s y j o n pa c k individual success takes root.

Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) acceptance of another’s worldview without plays well with the group, especially with passing judgment. his girlfriend Samantha (Gillian Jacobs), The film gets tricky, though, when the but you see his eyes light up whenever focus shifts from individuals to the group. someone mentions the possibility of scouts As individuals, there is always a more selffrom the Saturday Night Live-like Weekend ish urge driving us and propelling actions Live. Troupe members share an elitist for personal gain, and it rubs up uncomstance toward the show, based on how it fortably against the goals of the group. infects the free and loose spirit of comedy.

Jack’s predicament highlights the personal But Jack sees it as a means to making a real conflict — we see and appreciate how one living, and possibly to lifting the group up. person, in one key moment, can imagine Birbiglia captures the elusive magic of seizing an opportunity for something more.

The Commune’s live performances as only That urge, which I just labeled “selfish,” is a a born comedian can (he has a background fundamentally American trait. We celebrate in professional comedy). He also plays rugged individualism, right?

Miles, the de facto leader who ekes out Key dazzles in scenes he shares with just a meager living as an improv workshop one other performer, showing us how he facilitator. Miles is not one of those guys breaks all of the rules with the best of intenwho teaches because he lacks the talent tions. We are used to seeing him buzz and to succeed on his own, but his problem is smash up against the television frame during that his success (and realistically everyone his Key and Peele comedy show in a variety else’s) is dependent upon the group. of sketch roles, so this is a nice change.

Each performance, they walk out In some ways, that also explains my reaconstage and say “yes” by positively buildtion to Birbiglia’s movie as a whole. Don’t ing upon the reality of the moment. If your Think Twice has comedy as its subject, but it partner says the sky is purple, you say, “Yes is a far more dramatic and perplexing affair it is” and then follow that up with your own than a comic one. Without a doubt there are spin. You never deny your partner’s reality, moments built for laughs, but not the kind because the second rule maintains that of belly laughs that sketch comics pursue in it’s all about the group. Saying “no” breaks mainstream movies or on television shows. the second rule by forcing a solo perspecWhat Birbiglia presents here serves as gospel tive into the mix. You live and die up there document (with a small “g”) detailing how together. And, finally, you don’t think. Life serious a life in comedy can really be. (Opens boils down to what happens in the moment, Friday at Esquire Theatre) (R) Grade: B+ and you have to live impulsively. Free your

IN THEATERS FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS – Director Stephen Frears has a knack for creating semi-biographical films starring eccentric female leads and their multi-dimensional male counterparts. His Florence Foster Jenkins, a whimsical portrayal of the early-20th-century American socialite, praises its titular character (Meryl Streep) for her devotion to the craft of opera, despite her one major drawback: She can’t carry a tune. Nor can she sing on-pitch, or keep a beat or hold a note.

And yet, her bizarre, lavish lifestyle and devoted partner St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) allow her to perform without that reality setting in. Jenkins’ ambition lends itself to bigger and better crowds, but Bayfield’s ability to shield her from critics is shrouded in deceit. In a cast of veteran faces, Simon Helberg (best known for his recurring role of nerdy Howard Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory) has a breakout performance as the soft-spoken, unendingly loyal piano accompanist Cosmé McMoon. As Jenkins’ timid cohort, McMoon’s nervous hysterics and developing appreciation of his eccentric muse repeatedly steal scenes. (Now playing) – Kat Tenbarge (PG-13) Grade: B HELL OR HIGH WATER – Taylor Sheridan’s on track to make a real name for himself as a feature-film screenwriter.

Last year, he laid down the intricate plot for Sicario, and now he’s back with director David Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water.

The narrative starts off focusing on the exploits of Toby Howard (Chris Pine) and his brother Tanner (Ben Foster).

The brothers stage early-morning bank heists, a series of small-time strikes with the intention of raising the cash they need to settle their debts without hurting anybody along the way. Toby supplies the cunning and more than enough sense to cover their tracks, while Tanner is all about the execution. Sheridan sets up a parallel duo equally as compelling: Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges) is a tall-tale-spinning Texas Ranger counting down his final days on the job. His partner Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham) is younger, but a strong, silent type. Hell or High Water alternates between these two pairs, highlighting the humanity of both the crooks and the cops. What also emerges is a defining of the sociopolitical landscape of the region and a real microcosm of the country. (Opens wide Friday) – tt stern-enzi (R) Grade: A

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The ‘Serial’ Effect

BY JAC KERN

MTV jumps on the serialized true-crime a Murderer or even the Serial podcast bandwagon with Unlocking the Truth remains to be seen.

(Series Premiere, 11 p.m. Wednesday, MTV), a docuseries hosted by Ryan Ferguson, a Missouri man wrongfully imprisMr. Robot (10 p.m., USA) – Elliot tries to oned for almost 10 years until he proved get along with Mr. Robot; Dom confronts his innocence, as he meets other convicts Angela; Darlene acts on a feeling from her fighting their charges and investigates past. And just in time for the Fourth of July, their cases. fsociety releases a video for Uncle Sam. But In 2001, when Ferguson was a 17-year-old can we talk about that amazing slice of ’90s high school junior, Columbia Daily Trisitcommery that was the first 20 minutes bune sports editor Kent Heitholt was found of last week’s episode? Has any show ever beaten and strangled in his work parking lot. Ferguson and his friend Charles Erickson had been partying in the area, and as a result of being heavily intoxicated neither had any memory of the night.

While there was no physical evidence to tie the young men to the murder, Erickson grew paranoid as the case went unsolved for two years.

Eventually the police were tipped off about two guys who were in the area at the time who couldn’t account for their whereabouts.

MTV’s new Unlocking the Truth features Ryan Ferguson.

While Erickson could proPHOTO : Courtesy MT V vide little details about the crime, investigators led him into a false confession that implicated Fercommitted so much to a twisted nostalgic guson. At age 19, Ferguson was convicted theme — down to the retro USA logo and of second-degree murder and robbery and faux old-school commercials? Mr. Robot sentenced to 40 years in prison; Erickson never fails to keep us guessing. was sentenced to 25 years in exchange for the testimony against his friend.

Ferguson spent the next decade working Fearless (Series Premiere, Netflix) – This to prove his innocence with the help of six-episode documentary follows a group high-profile wrongful-conviction attorney of Brazilian professional bull riders as they Kathleen Zellner. Both Erickson and a wittrain for the Las Vegas championships. ness recanted their statements, admitted they lied on the stand and were coerced by investigators. On top of that, it was found that the prosecution withheld evidence Fear the Walking Dead (Midseason Prefrom the defense. Ferguson was exonermiere, 9 p.m., AMC) – Nick’s quest leads him ated and released in 2013. down a deadly path, where details about his Ferguson’s story is a perfect storm of dark past are revealed. Followed by Talking popular crime drama elements — the lack Dead at 10 p.m. of memory is right out of The Night Of, The Night Of (9 p.m., HBO) – The defense while his attorney Zellner this year joined makes its case in Naz’s trial. the Steven Avery case featured in Making

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A Wispy-Thin Diamond Anniversary

Iconic Paddock Hills diner Sugar n’ Spice celebrates 75 years of serving all walks of life

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n 1941,the Cincinnati Reds played baseball at Crosley Field, the streetcar was a popular form of transportation and mobsters were running rampant across the river in Kentucky. It was also the year that Mort Keller opened a breakfast restaurant called Sugar n’ Spice in Paddock Hills. Seventy-five years later, Sugar n’ Spice remains one of the city’s most popular places for people of all ages and socio-economic groups to enjoy breakfast and lunch.

We recently asked Steve Frankel, Sugar n’ Spice’s present owner, via email to discuss a bit of history, the secrets to the restaurant’s longevity and what it’s like to own a beloved local landmark.

CityBeat: Sugar n’ Spice’s founder Mort Keller went trough a fascinating career change. Please start by giving us a bit of history.

Steve Frankel: In the beginning, back before opening Sugar n’ Spice, Mort Keller was a barber. As the story goes, in 1939, Mort was on a trip to California. He happened to stop at a restaurant for breakfast and was so impressed with the pancakes that he asked about the recipe.

Mort ended up purchasing the pancake batter recipe from the restaurant with the idea of opening his own breakfast restaurant in Cincinnati, which he did in 1941. He named the restaurant Sugar n’ Spice and featured his secret recipe “wispy thin” pancakes. Sugar n’ Spice was a hit and soon became the go-to breakfast, lunch and dinner spot in this Paddock Hills neighborhood.

In the early days, Mort also continued to be a barber; there are current Sugar n’ Spice regulars who recalled as a child going to Keller’s for a haircut, then having breakfast at the restaurant.

CB: How did you come to own Sugar n’ Spice?

CB: To what do you attribute the longevity of Sugar n’ Spice?

SF: It’s always possessed a unique charm.

CB: Yeah, those little rubber ducks.

What’s up with those?

SF: I used to give away golden dollars to kids for birthdays on their first visit. They stopped producing them, but I didn’t want that piece to go away. I’ve always thought that it’s important that customers have memorable visits beyond the food. I wandered into Ace Toys on Reading, saw the ducks, thought they looked fun and started giving them away.

CB: Sugar n’ Spice is the place for people of all races and economic levels to eat.

Why do you think this is?

SF: It’s been here for so long at this point, everyone has a story here. We are in the center of the city. We don’t draw from one

segment of the population or section of the city. We aren’t considered an “East Side” or “West Side” establishment. We are just a Cincinnati establishment. People remember their first visit with us, enjoy it and come back.

CB: What’s the most popular item on the menu, and have you ever thought of changing it?

SF: The pancakes and the omelettes. We’ve changed it some since I took over. And every year we release a new menu — new pictures, some changes and some different items. We brought back some items from old menus we found in the basement. We improved some of the ingredients. They were obvious changes like moving from serving canned mushrooms to fresh, from frozen spinach to fresh. We’ve improved the final product by improving ingredients without losing the charm, the history and the idea of Sugar n’ Spice.

CB: The only thing that would make Sugar n’ Spice better is if you stayed open for dinner. Have you considered it?

SF: We have stayed open for dinner before.

One of the challenges of being established for 75 years is that people know that Sugar n’ Spice is open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. almost every day of the year. But right now we are cooking on our grills outside Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the summer from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., or whenever the smoked meat runs out. And starting Sept. 1, you’ll see our new Bear Trap BBQ food truck opened in our parking lot Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. It’s a barbecue spot, but it will be with a special Sugar n’ Spice twist.

SUGAR N’ SPICE is located at 4381 Reading Road, Paddock Hills. More info: sugar-n-spicerestaurant.com.

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SF: I was born on Bristol Lane around the corner, so I guess I’ve been coming here my whole life.

A friend owned it, and I had always been involved in his restaurants over the years. He moved on to other restaurants, but I was at a time in my life where I wanted to do something fun and give back to the community and invest in a local landmark. That was 2010, and I have owned and operated it ever since.

Sugar n’ Spice: Come for the wispy-thin pancakes and fluffy omelettes; stay for the rubber ducks.

It’s fun and funky, but everyone feels comfortable here. Whether it’s the huge fluffy omelettes, the retro toys that kids and adults play with or the rubber ducks, everyone seems to enjoy themselves here at Sugar n’ Spice.

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It appears Cincinnati is well on its way to surpassing Asheville, N.C. by aiming to have the highest brewery count per capita.

As a value, I believe every small town square should have a microbrewery to frequent; I know I would rather see one around every street corner than a Starbucks.

So in the spirit of supporting and trying out neighborhood breweries, a friend and I met for drinks at Nine Giant Brewing, a new establishment on Montgomery Road in the heart of Pleasant Ridge.

We found ourselves there on a hopping midweek night. Nearly every seat was taken and the place appeared to be filled with all sorts of patrons — guys in dress shirts presumably there after work, younger couples with kids, couples and trios in their twenties and thirties, and folks meeting up with old friends. Nearly everyone seemed polite, jovial and just happy to be there.

My girlfriend and I grabbed a small table for two to the right of the bar, near the kitchen. It was perfect for us, as my 1-yearold was our third-wheel, but we felt like we were both accommodated and out of the way. It was from there that we could take in the surroundings and get a real sense for how the place worked.

Now, before I get into the brew and the bites, let’s get to the main critique: The place is really loud. Visitors know it, owners know it, even the brewery mascot Nine Giant himself knows it. There are signs hung around the room asking for patience as sound-proofing is on the way. I was warned ahead of time by my friend who had visited once before, and while the noise was definitely present, it wasn’t deafening. I wasn’t constantly leaning in to repeatedly ask, “What?” but there was an unmistakable buzzing undercurrent.

Though rest assured there seems to be a plan in motion to resolve the problem.

Now, on to what we all came here for.

The first beer to catch my eye was the Nine Giant C.R.E.A.M. Described as crisp and light with notes of passion fruit, I figured it was a surefire option to start. However, with a name like C.R.E.A.M., I assumed it would be darker and, well, creamier in taste.

Even though that was not the case, this beer was definitely good in the most drinkable way. For someone who strives to be a beer snob but also needs to keep it easy with light options, this one served me wonderfully.

My gal pal’s first order was the Amnesiac, which is what I drank following my C.R.E.A.M. Amnesiac is an amber and red ale with the richness of coffee, cocoa and berry.

It was creamier than C.R.E.A.M. and drank more like a heavier after-dinner beer to savor and nurse. Even though I like my craft beers light, I also love a solid stout, and this seemed to be more like that; very satisfying.

Along with our beers, we tried a few key

items on the Nine Giant Snackery menu.

One thing I will say about the snack spread — it is not void of indulgent options. There are glutinous and fried items aplenty, so if you’re looking for something a little less sinful, you might be out of luck. Lucky for me, though, that night I decided to leave my diet at the door.

Nine Giant brings craft beer to Pleasant Ridge.

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We ordered fried pickles and a falafel sandwich. Of the two, the pickles stood out like rockstars. The best part was that they were sliced as opposed to solid spears, which kept the fried-to-pickle ratio in check. I might be one to say that I pay attention to healthconscious eating, but I am not strong enough to deny my love affair with good fried food.

Isn’t that why God invented cheat days (or cheat weekends or cheat whenever you’re out somewhere worthwhiles)?

The falafel sandwich was equally as tasty as it was guilty. It could have been eaten like a taco, but my friend and I were trying to be polite, so we ate it with a knife and fork. The falafel was rich and pretty yummy paired with a swipe of tomato, cucumber and tzatziki. Get all that in there with some soft and doughy pita and you’re on your way to something good.

My quick visit left me feeling like Nine Giant will live up to the fabled narrative detailed on its website. Introducing itself as the awakening of a giant, it is obvious that there is a life here bigger than the beer it is brewing. Something as big and as mythic as that should work out wonderfully in the center of a small town square.

Nine Giant Brewery and Snackery is located at 6095 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge. More info: ninegiant.com.

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

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Arts & Drafts — Braxton Brewing Company hosts an evening expo to showcase area arts organizations. Greater Cincinnati and Covington arts leaders come together to chat about upcoming events, programs and classes while you enjoy good beer. 4-7 p.m. Free admission. Braxton Brewing Company, 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, Ky., braxtonbrewing.com.

Mercantile Library Hearth & Home Series: Otto’s/Frida 602 — Paul Weckman and Emily Wolf of Otto’s and Frida 602 discuss the books that helped shape their MainStrasse restaurants. 7 p.m. $15 members; $25 non-members. Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut St., Downtown, mercantilelibrary.com.

Nectar Wine Pairing Dinner — The Wine Merchant heads to Nectar for a four-course dinner from chef Julie Francis, paired with wines in celebration of National Pinot Noir Day. 7 p.m. $85.

Nectar, 1000 Delta Ave., Mount Lookout, winemerchantcincinnati.com.

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Friday Night Grill Outs — Dine on a covered patio by the lake or in the airconditioned Chart Room, with food items a la carte. Live music by Katie Pritchard.

5-8 p.m. Prices vary. Lake Isabella, 10174 Loveland-Madeira Road, Loveland, greatparks.org.

Italian American Favorites — Learn to make family-friendly classics at home including shrimp scampi, fettuccini alfredo and skillet lasagna. 6-8 p.m. $75.

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An Afternoon with the Beer Barons — Many of Cincinnati’s most famous residents are interred at Spring Grove Cemetery, including many of the city’s historic beer barons. An Afternoon with the Beer Barons invites guests on a docent-led tour of the famous families’ final resting places, plus an afternoon of food, music and beer samples from local brewers including Blank Slate, Braxton, Christian Moerlein, Rhinegeist and more. 4-7 p.m. $40; RSVP required. Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, 4521 Spring Grove Ave., Spring Grove Village, 513-681-PLAN, springgrove.org.

Gorman Heritage Farm Row by Row Dinner — Enjoy a dinner prepared by Raffel’s Catering with the produce and poultry of Gorman Heritage Farms, accompanied by Blue Oven Bread and Rivertown Brewery beers. The evening includes live music from Jake Speed & the Freddies and a silent and live auction. 6 p.m. $60.

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A Taste of Mission — Learn about the worldwide work of the Comboni Mission Center and taste authentic eats from Italy, Mexico, Africa, Ecuador and more while watching live music and dance performances and enjoying international beer and wine. 5-10 p.m. Free admission. Comboni Mission Center, 1318 Nagel Road, Anderson, combonimissionaries.org.

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celebrates 160 years of family farming. The tour and tasting focus on the establishments the farm supplies in Greater Cincinnati. Tour the new barn that will house an on-farm market and honey processing area.

Local chefs and artisan producers will be onsite to provide samples of their goods.

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World of War Curse

With a dedication to the classic Thrash Metal sound, Cincinnati’s War Curse has risen in the local scene and beyond

BY NICK GREVER

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here’s something to be said for purity.

With many musicians meshing influences, styles and sounds into their output, it’s refreshing to see a band raise one single flag and wave it with all their might. War Curse, Cincinnati’s Thrash Metal stalwarts, has done exactly that by concentrating on crafting pitch-perfect Thrash-revival bangers.

With one release under their belts (Final Days, recently rereleased on CD via Static Tension Recordings) and a second in the works, the band has one goal — to write heavy songs that get young heads banging and old-school fans back into the pit.

One needs only to walk into War Curse’s practice space to realize that the quintet is genuine. Parked outside is the band’s tour vehicle, a reworked neon green school bus. The space’s bright orange walls are adorned with flags, posters, old show bills and a wall of guitars. Vocalist Tarek Puska, guitarists Joshua Murphy and Justin Roth, drummer James Goetz and bassist Eric Payne don’t agree on many musical genres, but Thrash is where the group’s tastes meet.

“There’s not many bands that I think we all agree on, but if you were to narrow it down and we had to decide on a song to cover or whatever… Testament, Exodus, Overkill, bands like that, that’s our common ground,” Roth says. “I think that’s why we’re a Thrash band — we didn’t set out to be a Thrash band at all.”

So, how did a band whose members have such disparate tastes as Entombed, Cinderella, Sepultura and Dale Watson come together to create Cincinnati’s premiere Thrash outfit? The answer, as it often is nowadays, is Craigslist. Goetz was moving back to town in mid-2013 and placed an ad to which Murphy and Roth, good friends and frequent bandmates, responded, as did Puska after quitting his former Death Metal band. Payne initially entered the picture as a replacement when, in the studio, War Curse realized that their former bassist couldn’t actually play the songs, and he eventually signed on fulltime. It was an easy choice to make, as Payne’s other band, Verment, practiced in the same building as War Curse.

“We were lucky that he was right across the hall. He wasn’t good looking or talented, he was just 10 feet away,” Roth jokes.

After the lineup was locked in, War Curse dove into writing and practicing, placing heavy emphasis on crafting a live show that was more than five guys standing in one place.

“We realized that we had to start letting loose at practice, because if you don’t

Cincinnati’s War Curse wants to satisfy young Thrash fans as well as old-school fans. do it at practice, you don’t do it onstage,” Murphy says.

Each member has taken steps to translate the energy of the songs directly into their performances. Murphy and Roth both have Punk Rock and Hardcore backgrounds, so they know the value of using every inch of stage space and getting the crowd involved.

“When you’re running around, and the fans know you’re having fun, and you’re hitting them with your guitar, sweating on them, it gets people fired up,” Roth says.

War Curse’s live show is ratcheted up by Puska’s onstage presence. Puska casts an imposing figure with his bald head, massive beard, patched battle vest and fingers adorned with massive silver rings. When he’s roaring into the mic, absentmindedly playing Pokémon GO at the bar becomes an impossibility. Puska, a former pro wrestler, has an intensity that comes easily.

“It’s kind of a persona, just flip the switch,” he says. “It’s all natural to me.”

“We all learned to flip that switch,” Roth says. “During the day, we’re boring. But you get on stage and you go into kill mode.”

An explosive live show doesn’t add up to all that much if the recorded material doesn’t have any staying power beyond the next day’s ringing ears, and that’s where War Curse’s songwriting comes in. Each song is

constructed music-first, with each member’s performance under a microscope by the others. There’s no room for ego in between Goetz’s precise rhythms (perfected through constant use of a metronome) and no solo, riff or vocal delivery is above reproach.

Once the song’s foundation is built, it’s up to Roth to create a very pissed-off temple to the Thrash gods of old. “Thrash Metal has always been political,” he says. “If you’re a Thrash Metal vocalist or songwriter right now there’s no fuckin’ shortage of material.

Goddamn, you’ve got material for days.”

Exploring themes of religion, police brutality, political corruption and the like is nothing new for Thrash, and Roth isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. He just wants to make listeners use their brains as they bang it around their skull.

“I just want to provoke a thought, that’s what it comes down to, even if you don’t agree with me,” Roth says. “I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind, but I am trying to tell a story of what’s happening in the world that makes you sing along even if you disagree with me.”

War Curse’s work ethic and dedication to crafting unrelenting, blistering Thrash ragers has earned the band slots onstage with old-school legends, including Havok, Raven and Anvil, as well as several tours with

Solstice. The band has built up a dedicated fanbase across the region. But the members aren’t even close to being satisfied. They want to lure old-school Metal fans back to the scene and show them that true Metal is alive and well in Cincinnati.

“I think a big focus of this band is bringing back the casual fan,” Roth says. “I would love to get these casual fans to see that there is real Metal happening in this city.”

That mentality is what fuels everything War Curse does: Every show played, every song written, every tour taken and album released is meant to draw in more and more fans into the world of War Curse. The world is loud, fast, heavy and evil. But most of all, it’s real.

“When you come to a War Curse show, you’re being treated to a fucking show,” Roth says. “We’re going to fire up Marshall full stacks, we’re going to run around onstage, we’re going to play the shit you want to hear in a style you grew up with and you don’t think anyone’s doing it anymore. We’re doing it and we’re doing it in your city.”

WAR CURSE plays Saturday at Everybody’s Records in Pleasant Ridge as part of the store’s Metal Saturday celebration. More info: warcursemetal.com.

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PsychoAcoustic Orchestra Returns with New LP

BY MIKE BREEN

Jazz world as a whole. And the impeccable chops on display are further testament to the incredible Jazz talent here in Greater Cincinnati. Here’s hoping we don’t have to wait another 20 years for a follow-up.

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The Fests Keep Coming • Stanley’s Pub (323 Stanley Ave., Columbia Tusculum, facebook.com/stanleys. pub) presents its 15th-annual Stanley’s Summer Music Fest this week, kicking things off Thursday with a special show by

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Jerry Garcia cohort Melvin Seals and Terrapin Flyer. Showtime is 10 p.m. and tickets are $20. On Friday and Saturday, music begins at 6 p.m., starring mostly local acts.

On Friday, catch Strange Mechanics, Spookfloaters, Jerry’s Little Band and SolEcho. Saturday’s lineup has Glostik Willy, Ernie Johnson From Detroit, Subterranean and The Grove. Tickets for Friday and Saturday’s shows are $12. You can purchase multi-day tickets in advance at cincyticket.com.

• The Broken Spoke Festival is a new two-day event that will showcase BMX and other biking activities and fun, as well as loads of solid local music. Presented by the nonprofit Riding Forward, the event is being held Saturday and Sunday at England-Idlewild Park (5550 Idlewild Road, Burlington, Ky.). Music begins Saturday at 2 p.m. and features Friday Giants, The Mighty, Undertipper, Alone at 3AM and 500 Miles to Memphis. Sunday’s lineup includes Young Heirlooms, Arlo McKinley, Wonky Tonk and Banjo Murman.

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POTUS and Veep Summer Tunes If you need reaffirmation of the generational gap that separates our current president and vice president, look no further than their recently released playlists of songs they like to jam out to in the hot season (because nothing else is happening in the world, right?). While the president’s list of songs makes it look like he’s angling for a job at Pitchfork in January (with tracks on the playlist by Chance the Rapper, Courtney Barnett, Charles Mingus and Wale), the vice president and his wife’s playlist is straight-up Dad Rock/ Mom Rock, with tunes by Coldplay, Tina Turner, Frank Sinatra and Joe Cocker.

Adele Says No to NFL It’s not often that a musician breaks news by announcing during a concert about a forthcoming gig that he/she will not play, but when the musician is superstar Adele and the forthcoming gig is the Super Bowl halftime show, headlines will be made. The singer told an L.A. audience she wouldn’t do the halftime show because it “is not about music” and noted that she doesn’t dance. Though Adele said she was offered the slot, the NFL responded by saying it had not formally asked her to perform. This is, of course, the same league that for years fought against the notion that repeated head trauma can cause devastating brain injuries, so…

Sheeran the Song Robber?

After the estate of Soul legend Marvin Gaye last year successfully won a court case against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke (to the tune of more than $7 million) because their song “Blurred Lines” kinda sounds like a Gaye song, Ed Sheeran is now being sued over his 2015 song “Thinking Out Loud.” In the suit, the composer of Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” says Sheeran’s song “copied the ‘heart’ of ‘Let’s’ and repeated it continuously” in his song. Sheeran was already being sued for allegedly stealing a lessthan-legendary song — a 2010 X Factor winner says Sheeran’s “Photograph” is a “note-for-note” copy of his track “Amazing” (it’s not).

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In the ’90s, two of the best albums to come out of Greater Cincinnati were by The PsychoAcoustic Orchestra, a progressive ensemble based in Jazz but unafraid of exploring any number of other stylistic enclaves. Formed by pianist, composer and arranger Patrick Kelly in 1990, the adventurous group released Supreme Thing in 1994, followed by Reactivation in 1996.

While the band didn’t exactly disappear — Kelly has kept the orchestra together for occasional live appearances — this week The PsychoAcoustic Orchestra celebrates its first full-length album in 20 years. Fun With Notes will be fêted during Sunday’s day-long Jazz Sunday show at Urban Artifact (1660 Blue Rock St., Northside, artifactbeer.com). The free event begins at 3 p.m. and will feature performances by Animal Mother, Adanya Stephens Quartet and Washington, D.C.’s Billy Wolfe Group.

The PsychoAcoustic Orchestra is slated to perform at 8 p.m.

Fun With Notes is another extraordinary entry into the orchestra’s flawless discography. Kelly deserves a lot of the credit for the album’s success — his arrangement skills have always been the hallmark of the group’s albums; he’s one of the best in the biz — but he has a dozen phenomenal topshelf musicians to thank for the dazzling execution of those arrangements. All of the players in the “big band” have extensive experience, many of them grads or faculty of the University of Cincinnati’s CollegeConservatory of Music or members of the beloved Blue Wisp Big Band.

The opening title track swings with insistency and sticks firmly to the ensemble’s Jazz roots, but by the following track, “Shades,” things begin to open up, as a Funk bass line and more atmospheric sounds provide the foundation for the other members to slinkily lay some great horn charts over top. The album moves like this throughout — just as you get comfortable with a relatively straightforward (but still compelling) Jazz composition, in comes something like the emotive, remarkably dynamic “Nebulous,” the swinging Blues of “The Blues That Never Ends” or the Latin groove of “La Ofrenda.” The closing track is one Kelly pulled from the archives. “Ornette” is an attention-grabbing freeform piece (named after the late Mr. Coleman, whose influence can be heard) recorded during sessions for the soundtrack of the 2002 nationally distributed film Artworks (all but one of the eight musicians on the session are still PsychoAcoustic Orchestra members).

Fun With Notes reaffirms that The PsychoAcoustic Orchestra is still one of the region’s best groups, regardless of genre, and that Kelly is a Jazz master who deserves much wider attention from the

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The Julie Ruin with Olivia Neutron John Wednesday • Woodward Theater Every musical generation produces a few visionary artists that not only define the parameters of their particular era but also continue to create relevant and thought-provoking work that sends ripples of influence through successive generations. Kathleen Hanna has been that kind of musical and cultural beacon for the past two and a half decades, from her role in launching the Riot Grrrl movement with Bikini Kill in 1990 to her self-avowed radical dedication to feminist principles to her ongoing pursuit of her creative ideals with The Julie Ruin.

Hanna’s tenure with Bikini Kill has been well documented. The band’s UK tour with Huggy Bear was the subject of the documentary It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill in the UK, and Hanna was featured in the docs Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl, which detailed her childhood conversion to militant feminism, and Who’s The Julie Ruin Afraid of Kathy PHOTO : Shervin L ainez Acker? More recently she was the focus of Sini Anderson’s 2013 documentary, The Punk Singer.

After Bikini Kill’s amicable 1998 breakup, Hanna recorded a lo-fi bedroom project under the pseudonym Julie Ruin, then co-founded Le Tigre, which expanded on the The High Kings PHOTO : Provided sampled Electronic aspects of the Julie Ruin recording. Le Tigre experienced significant acclaim and success, but Hanna left the band in 2005 after her advanced Lyme Disease diagnosis, shifting her attention to volunteering at the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls as well as teaching and studying at New York University.

Six years ago, Hanna revived The Julie Ruin as an actual band, featuring former Bikini Kill bandmate Kathi Wilcox on bass, cabaret artist Kenny Mellman on keyboard, Sara Landeau on guitar and Carmine Covelli on drums. The quintet performed intermittently before releasing the song “Girls Like Us” in 2012, and its debut album, Run Fast, the following year on Dischord Records (Dischord co-owner Ian MacKaye produced the first Bikini Kill EP in 1991).

The Julie Ruin’s proposed 2014 tour was canceled when Hanna’s health forced her into three months of intensive treatment.

Last year, Hanna announced she was finally asymptomatic, and began work on new material that would finally emerge as the latest Julie Ruin album, the just-released Hit Reset, which bubbles with the B-52s’ melodic effervescence and bristles with Public Image Ltd’s antagonistic joy. Hanna’s commitment and passion may be stronger today than it was two and a half decades ago, and The Julie Ruin is the latest musical manifestation of her indisputable dedication and brilliance. (Brian Baker) The High Kings Friday • Live! at the Ludlow Garage When The High Kings burst into the limelight the year they formed, the band was clearly destined for greatness. The Celtic supergroup assembled in 2008 and immediately recorded its selftitled debut album, which hit No. 2 on Billboard’s World Music chart and earned them an opening slot on Celtic Woman’s American tour. Three years later, the quartet released its sophomore album, Memory Lane, to similar success and acclaim; both albums notched platinum sales figures in Ireland and made significant in-roads on American and European charts.

Given the individual résumés of the members, who play upwards of 13 instruments between them in performance, The High Kings’ success was nearly a foregone conclusion.

Finbarr Clancy’s father Bobby was one of The Clancy Brothers, Ireland’s biggest and most influential Folk group, and Finbarr himself played bass and flute with the Clancys on their final tours in the ’90s.

Martin Furey comes from similar family circumstances; his father Finbar Furey and uncle Eddie backed the Clancys on tour in the ’60s, then formed The Fureys with brothers Paul and George in 1976. Martin formed Bohinta in 1992 and recorded a handful of albums before concentrating on production and writing. Brian Dunphy did a two-year stint in Riverdance, joined the Three Irish Tenors and the band Druid

and also released his own solo album. DNA also runs deep for Dunphy; his father was Ireland’s representative in 1967’s Eurovision Song Contest. And Darren Holden also had a lead role in the Broadway production of Riverdance, which led to his three-year run starring in the Broadway/touring musical Movin’ Out. Before and among all of that, Holden released three solo albums, the first of which, 1998’s Suddenly, spawned three Top 20 singles in Ireland.

To date, The High Kings have released four studio albums and two live sets, as well as a live DVD, which came out in the band’s inaugural year. The band performed on Live with Regis and Kelly for St. Patrick’s Day in 2011, and the following year played for Irish president Michael Higgins at his home and U.S. president Barack Obama at The White House. The High Kings’ latest album, Grace & Glory, will likely match the success of its predecessors but more importantly, the band has the skills to become as influential and iconic as the members’ impossibly talented family trees. (BB)

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Tommy Stinson with Alone at 3AM and Torn’d Up Dudes Saturday • Northside Yacht Club Should he choose to, Tommy Stinson will one day be able to write a fascinating book about his career in Rock & Roll, having been a Tommy Stinson member of two of P H O T O : S t e v e n C oh e n the most legendarily debauched bands in Rock history.

Stinson got his first bass guitar at the end of the ’70s when he was just 11, given to him by his older brother Bob. By the time the ’80s rolled around, Stinson joined his brother in The Replacements, one of modern Rock’s more influential bands. By the time the band broke up in 1991, Stinson and singer/guitarist Paul Westerberg were the only remaining original members (Tommy’s brother was booted from the band in 1986 and passed away in 1995). Stinson and Westerberg would reunite for a few Replacements shows between 2013-15.

Stinson took the skills he honed with The Replacements and started his own group, Bash & Pop, then later a band called Perfect.

Stinson also did studio sessions for artists as varied as Puff Daddy and Cincinnati’s Moth (he played bass on the local group’s major label debut, Provisions, Fiction and Gear). In the ’00s, he released a pair of solo albums (the last one being 2011’s One Man Mutiny), but, beginning in 1998, he spent much of his time as the bassist for Guns N’ Roses. He ended up being one of the longest

tenured members of GNR, and it was a position he maintained until Axl Rose reteamed with original members Duff McKagan and Slash for the current massive Guns N’ Roses stadium tour.

Stinson is far from bitter about leaving his nearly 18-year stint with GNR, repeatedly praising Rose and expressing his gratitude for the opportunity. But Stinson isn’t one to remain idle for too long — just as GNR began making the stadium rounds, Stinson went back on his own tour, a decidedly low-key affair. He has been playing small clubs, record stores and other intimate spaces (he even did a “backyard show” behind a record shop in Nashville with free beer) on a tour under the name “Cowboys in the Campfire,” road-testing songs from a forthcoming new album (reportedly due next year under the Bash & Pop banner) and playing some other tunes from his solo catalog. Reports from earlier shows on the tour suggest Stinson is playing mostly acoustic, stripped-down versions of the songs in a duo format with cohort Chip Roberts.

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Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Todd Hepburn. 7 p.m. Blues/Jazz/Various. Free.

Bella Luna - RMS Band. 7 p.m. Soft Rock/Jazz. Free.

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Blind Lemon - Dave Hawkins. 8:30 p.m. Celtic/Folk. Free.

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Century Inn Restaurant - Paul Lake.

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

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Esquire Theatre - Live n’ Local with Boutique. 7 p.m. Pop/Standards. $5.

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Fountain Square - Reggae Wednesdays with New Kingston. 7 p.m.

Reggae. Free.

Fraze Pavilion - The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, Chuck Negron, Mark Lindsay, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, The Cowsills and The Spencer Davis Group. 8 p.m. Classic Pop/ Rock. $32-$42, $37-$47 day of show.

The Greenwich - Apollo at The Greenwich featuring Standing Room. 8 p.m.

Various. $5-$7.

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

Free.

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The Listing Loon - Ricky Nye. 8:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

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MOTR Pub - The Dawn Drapes with Tooth Lures a Fang. 5 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

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Mansion Hill Tavern - Losing Lucky. 8 p.m. Roots. Free.

The Mockbee - Paradelic, Zach Slump, Jay Duprae, $TEPHEN KING and Ponytail Rell. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

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Northside Tavern - Shiny Old Soul.

9:30 p.m. Folk/Rock/Various. Free.

PNC Pavilion at Riverbend - The Beach Boys with The Four Tops. 7 p.m.

Pop/Rock. $23.50-$63.

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

7 p.m. Bluegrass. $2.

Silverton Cafe - Bob Cushing. Acoustic. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Willow Tree Carolers. 9:30 p.m.

Roots/Americana. Free.

Blind Lemon - Kyle Hackett. 9 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Bogart’s - The Only Way Is Up H Tour with Sweeten, Devin Burgess, Tae Da Yee X Benzoo, Turi$h Benjy, LV,

Blue Note Harrison - Kevin McCoy Band. 9:30 p.m. Country. Cover.

Polowhoyou, Exquisite and more. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. $20, $25 day of show.

Crow’s Nest - Dan Bayer. 9:30 p.m.

Folk/Americana. Free.

Fountain Square - Salsa on the Square with Son del Caribe. 7 p.m.

Latin/Salsa/Dance. Free.

The Greenwich - It’s Commonly Jazz After Party with Adia Dobbins. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5.

Horse & Barrel - Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

Knotty Pine - Mitch and Steve. 9 p.m.

Rock/Pop/Blues/Various. Free.

Newport on the Levee - Live at the Levee featuring The Sunburners. 7 p.m.

Tropical/Pop/Rock/Various. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - The Cell Phones, Slugsalt and Black Planet. 9 p.m. Rock/Punk/Various. Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - Open Mic with Franklin Crow. 7 p.m. Various. Free.

Riverbend Music Center - Darius Rucker with Dan + Shay and Michael Ray. 7 p.m. Country. $28.50-$48.25.

RiversEdge - Back In Black: A Tribute to AC/DC and Lift The Medium. 6:30 p.m. Hard Rock. Free.

404 - Jacoustic. 8 p.m. Rock/Folk/ Blues. $5.

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Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner and Wayne Shannon. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

The Comet - Beloved Youth, Neiv, Never Setting Suns and Fycus. 10 p.m. Indie/Alt/Rock/Pop. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Little Spooky. 10 p.m.

Americana. Free.

Fountain Square - Indie Vol. 2016 H with We Are Scientists and Saturn Batteries. 8:30 p.m. Rock/Pop. Free.

The Greenwich - William Menefield. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10.

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

Knotty Pine - Final Order. 10 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

Live! at the Ludlow Garage - The H High Kings. 8 p.m. Celtic/Various. $20-$30.

MOTR Pub - Abiyah, Brenda and Darlene. 10 p.m. Indie/Hip Hop/Pop/ Rock/Various. Free.

Martin’s Someplace Else Tavern Bob Cushing. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) Slick Willy & the Kentucky Jellies. 9:30 p.m. Country/Rock/Rockabilly. Free.

Maury’s Tiny Cove - Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s 15thH Annual Summer Music Festival with Terrapin Flyer featuring Melvin Seals. 10 p.m. Rock/Jam/Various. $20.

Urban Artifact - Tyler Christopher. 8 p.m. Elvis tribute. Free.

Washington Park - Bandstand Bluegrass with Casey Campbell. 7 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.

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Clifton Plaza - Buffalo Wabs H and The Price Hill Hustle. 7 p.m.

Folk/Americana. Free.

Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and Mzuri Moyo. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Singer/Songwriter Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

Yeatman’s Cove - 5:13 featuring Naked Karate Girls. 5 p.m. Pop/ Rock/Dance. Free.

Century Inn Restaurant - Jim Teepen.

8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Tickled Pink. 9 p.m. Blues/Various. $4.

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

Woodward Theater - The Julie H Ruin with Olivia Neutron John. 8 p.m. Rock. $16, $20 day of show.

Bogart’s - My Brother’s Keeper H with Maria Carrelli and Andrew Hibbard. 8 p.m. Bluegrass/Folk. $10.

Seasongood Pavilion - It’s ComH monly Jazz featuring Big Band Jazz Orchestra Sound with Cincinnati

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - The Show Ponies. 8 p.m.

Indie Folk. $8, $10 day of show.

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Blind Lemon - Charlie Milliken. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

404 - Samatha Carlson. 8 p.m.

Jazz. $10.

86 Club - Samuel Day, Break Up Lines and Garret Liette. 8 p.m. Rock/ Pop. $8.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Margaret Darling and Hayden Kaye. 6 p.m.

Folk. Free.

Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center - The Henhouse Prowlers. 7 p.m.

Bluegrass. $16.

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

Northside Tavern - Pop Empire, H Psychiatric Metaphors and Orchards. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/Pop. Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - Kismet and Dave Sams. 6 p.m. Folk/Rock/Various. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - Road Trip. 10 p.m.

Rock/Country. $5.

The Show on 42 - Pandora Effect.

9:30 p.m. Rock. Cover.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - The Cousin Kissers. 9:30 p.m.

Country/Americana. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s 15thH Annual Summer Music Festival with Strange Mechanics, Spookfloaters, Jerry’s Little Band and SolEcho. 6 p.m. Rock/Jam/Various. $12.

The Underground - Ephesus, Freak Mythology and Sunset Alley. 7 p.m.

Alt/Rock. Cover.

Urban Artifact - Back to School H Charity Concert for the Whiz Kids Music Program featuring Ryan Fine & the Media, The Interns, Greeze and Anna Kline. 8 p.m. Blues/Rock/Pop/ Various. Free (donations encouraged).

Village Green Park - Honor and H Remember Music Festival with

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Sonny Moorman Group and You, Me & Him. 6:15 p.m. Blues/Rock/Various. Free.

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Washington Park - Weathers. 7 p.m. Alt/Rock. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Steve Hoskins, Rusty Burge, M. Sharfe and John Taylor. 9 p.m.

Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

Woodward Theater - The H Almighty Get Down with Krystal Peterson & The Queen City Band and The New Royals. 9 p.m. Funk/ Rock/R&B/Soul. $7, $10 day of show.

Alone at 3AM. 8 p.m. Rock/Roots/ Various. $15.

Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s Sunday Night Open Jam. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - Second Time Around and Bob Briscoe. 6 p.m.

Rock/Blues/Various. Free.

Urban Artifact - The PsychoH Acoustic Orchestra (album release show), Animal Mother, Billy

Rick’s Tavern - Cherry on Top. 10 p.m.

Pop/Dance/Various. $5.

Riverbend Music Center - Counting Crows and Rob Thomas with K Phillips.

6:45 p.m. Pop/Rock. $26-$80.50.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) Mudpies. 9:30 p.m. Blues/Rock. Free.

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Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - “Noir” dance night. 10 p.m.

Alt/New Wave/Industrial/Goth/ Dance/Various. $5.

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

Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s 15thAnnual Summer Music Festival with Glostik Willy, Ernie Johnson From Detroit, Subterranean and The Grove.

6 p.m. Rock/Funk/Jam/Various. $12.

Blind Lemon - Jamonn Zeiler and Evan Uveges. 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Symphony Hotel and Restaurant April Aloisio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - Buffalo Ridge Band and Heather Roush Band. 9:30 p.m. Country. Cover.

Tap & Barrel Tavern - Bob Cushing. 9 p.m. Acoustic.

Beer Sellar - Trailer Park Floosies.

9:30 p.m. Dance/Pop/Country/ Rock/Various. Cover.

Bogart’s - Nirvana’s Nevermind: 25th Anniversary Show with Orchid in the Ivy. 8 p.m. Rock. $10.

Boone Woods Park - Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

Clifton Plaza - Honey & Houston.

7 p.m. Americana. Free.

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

Jazz. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Jordan Hull. 10 p.m.

Americana. Free.

England-Idlewild Park - Broken H Spoke Festival with 500 Miles to Memphis, Alone at 3AM, Undertipper, The Mighty and Friday Giants. 2 p.m.

Rock/Various. Free.

Fountain Square - FSQ Live with H The Upset Victory and The Civics.

8:30 p.m. Rock. Free.

JAX Tavern - Gee Your Band Smells Terrific. 9:30 p.m. Seventies Pop/ Rock/Dance/Various.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Cin City Band. 9:30 p.m. Pop/Dance/Various. Cover.

Knotty Pine - Naked Karate Girls. 10 p.m. Pop/Rock/Dance/Various. Cover.

MOTR Pub - Automagik, Pseudo Future and A Brilliant Lie. 10 p.m.

AltRock. Free.

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Madison Live - The Getaway. 8 p.m.

Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

Mansion Hill Tavern - The Soul Pushers. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.

Northside Tavern - The HarleH quins, The Venus Fly Traps and Birdie Hearse. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.

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Northside Yacht Club - Tommy Stinson with Lydia Loveless and

University of Cincinnati Medical Center Stadium - Eddie Money. 8:30 p.m. Rock. $30-$75.

Urban Artifact - Spookfloaters. 9 p.m. Rock/Jam. Free.

Village Green Park - Honor and Remember Music Festival with Brass Tracks, Deuces Wild, TIm Tegge, Gerhard Albinus and Streetwise. 10 a.m. Rock/Various. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Frenchaxe. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

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Blind Lemon - Jeff Henry. 8:30 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

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

England-Idlewild Park - Broken H Spoke Festival with Young Heirlooms, Arlo McKinley, Wonky Tonk and Banjo Murman. 1 p.m. Roots/ Americana/Folk/Various. Free.

Woodward Theater - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad. 10 p.m. Reggae/ Jam/Various. $10.

Monday 22

20th Century Theater - Damien H Escobar. 8 p.m. Classical/Jazz/ Pop/R&B/Hip Hop. $35-$50.

The Celestial - Tom Schneider. 6 p.m.

Piano. Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Jeff Henry.

6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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

MOTR Pub - Hotbed with Fycus. 10 p.m. Psych Pop/Rock. Free.

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

Northside Tavern - The Qtet. 9:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Throat Culture, I Disappear, Vein, By Force and Near Death. 9 p.m. Hardcore.

Wright State University Nutter Center - KISS with The Dead Daisies.

7:30 p.m. Rock. $36.50-$122.

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20th Century Theater - Lucinda Williams with Buick 6. 8 p.m.

Roots/Americana. $35-$50.

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Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Diamond Jim Dews. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

Blind Lemon - Nick Tuttle. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

The Comet - Super Oragami. 10 H p.m. Experimental/Electronic/ Funk/R&B/Various. Free.

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

Piano/Vocals. Free.

MOTR Pub - Calliope with mr.phylzzz.

10 p.m. Rock. Free.

MOTR Pub - Writer’s Night. 10 p.m.

Open mic/Various. Free.

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

Blues. Free.

Madison Theater - SOJA with Fortunate Youth. 8 p.m. Rock/Reggae. $25, $27 day of show.

Northside Tavern - DJ Pillo. 9 p.m.

Soul/Funk/Dance/Various. Free.

Northside Tavern - Marmalade Brigade. 9:30 p.m. Roots/Jazz/Various. Free.

PNC Pavilion at Riverbend - Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs. 7 p.m.

Rock. $42.50-$85.

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

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Nick Moss. 7:30 p.m. Rock/Soul. $10, $15 day of show.

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Blind Lemon - John Walsh. 8:30 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Knotty Pine - Randy Peak. 10 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Olden View Park - Foley Road. 4:30 p.m. Celtic. Free.

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

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