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Shelley Dumoulin I, for one, am very impressed with Kasich’s stand against Trump. He doesn’t believe Trump would make a good leader for this country, and he’s not allowing himself to be swayed by pressure to follow the crowd. That shows real strength of character.

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Crowdfunding pages are a great way to raise money for a charitable cause or creative endeavor. “Backers” who donate are often incentivized with prizes. So when a friend of pharma bro Martin Shkreli suddenly died and his family created a page to raise money for his sick son, Shkreli auctioned off an unforgettable experience for one big spender: the opportunity to beat the shit out of him. A Florida woman named Kelly donated $50,000 to the fund to punch Shkreli (who offered to match her donation) in the face. But does such a charitable act make Shkreli somewhat less punchable? Not so fast — the woman soon reneged on her offer, disappearing from Twitter.

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THURSDAY SEPT. 29

In Other Words, the Portland, Ore. bookstore/feminist cultural hub and real-life version of Portlandia’s Women and Women First, literally told Portlandia to fuck off this week, saying the show is responsible for transmisogyny, racism, gentrification, queer antagonism and the devaluation of feminist discourse — which is probably the most Portland critique ever. They also claim to have lost money by letting the hipster sketch show film there.

Now, we’ve never been to IOW, but something tells us the show could throw them 50 bucks and more than make up for any potential lost sales. Even regular massappeal bookstores are more of a place to drink coffee and use WiFi these days. RIP bookstores.

FRIDAY SEPT. 30

Fall lovers across the Tristate are freaking out over the calendar changing to October: Sip those PSLs! Pumpkin patches and apple orchards abound! Halloween costume planning mode in full effect! But like every holiday lately, some folks are celebrating too early and taking things too far. Enter attacks of the killer, vaguely creepy clowns! Clown sightings across the country have incited 911 calls over the past few months, and they’ve finally made their way to Greater Cincinnati. Reading and Mount Notre Dame schools closed Friday after a woman in the neighborhood reported being grabbed and threatened by a man in clown garb just outside her home. (She later admitted to lying about the incident because she was late for work.) The It guerilla marketing campaign gone rogue has reached peak cray!

Saturday Night Live’s 42nd season premiered this week, and it was actually really funny! New season, new cast changes, new writers — good job, SNL. Alec Baldwin, 16-time SNL host (he actually holds the record), made his debut as Donald Trump after it was announced earlier this week that he was tapped to take over the role. (Yes, we did report last week that Darrell Hammond would be continuing his roles as Trump (and announcer), but the Baldwin news didn’t drop until Wednesday, after the issue went to print, and “Stop the press!” isn’t a real thing. #PrintMediaProblems.)

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SUNDAY OCT. 02

Kim Kardashian was staying in a luxury apartment in Paris for Fashion Week when armed intruders robbed, bound and held her at gunpoint after gaining access to the building in the middle of the night. She was left physically unhurt but understandably sacred shitless, and the ski-masked crew made off with more than $10 million in jewelry. Kanye West found out about his wife’s situation during a New York concert Sunday, which he ended in the middle of a song, announcing a family emergency. Some say Kim’s constant self-documentation, often detailing what she’s wearing and her whereabouts, made her an easy target. But did the reality star really deserve such an attack? Judging by the internet’s response, folks are forgetting that just because she is 75 percent filler injections does not mean she’s not 100 percent human.

MONDAY OCT. 03

President Obama has been seeing all those before-andafter presidency photos you’ve been retweeting. And while it’s a hilarious way to explain how you feel on Friday night versus Monday morning, it probably stings a little for old Barry! Everyone in your country talking about how old and gray and tired and sullen you look, ya know? So he called on Malia, channeled his inner 22-year-old and threw what the kids are calling a festie on the White House’s South Lawn Monday. South

By South Lawn, a festival celebrating ideas, art and action inspired by Austin, Texas’ South By Southwest music festival, featured performances by Common and The Lumineers, a climate change chat with Leonardo DiCaprio and Barack and Joe friendship bracelet temporary tattoos. No word yet on whether the latest strain of Molly named Michelle made its rounds.

TUESDAY OCT. 04

As liberal media’s influence continues to seep into schools by making the Pledge of Allegiance illegal (not happening) and forcing children to adopt a vegan lifestyle (or simply no longer allowing ketchup to count as a fruit) some can take comfort in the fact that schools are still teaching children that Christopher Columbus discovered America — albeit by accident, nevermind the fact there there were already people here. But soon, the city of Cincinnati might not be able to say the same. A proposal this week encouraged the city to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a sort of protest celebration to promote Native American culture and history. Cincinnati could follow cities like Denver, Seattle and Minneapolis in celebrating the holiday, becoming the first city in Ohio to do so. If passed, the city would no longer recognize Columbus Day and replace it with IPD. “What about ICP Day?” a single Juggalo cried out in the distance.

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Clown Registration:

A Necessary Solution?

BY JEFFREY BEYER Creepy clowns continue to harass communities across the U.S., including neighborhoods in Cincinnati, leading to calls for regulation and even bans on clowns. Some believe first steps should include shutting down the sale of all rainbow wigs and polka-dot garments indefinitely. Others have been forced to reconsider the true nature of clowns, potentially adopting a clown registry so authorities can better ID friendly clowns with names like BoBo versus bad teenagers trying to scare the shit out of people.

Pro-clown arguments include statements like “Clowns don’t kill people, people kill people” and suggestions that it’s “nurture not nature” that determines the behavior of clowns.

They say sometimes it’s normal for a clown to act aggressively after years of being smacked across the face with pies and oversized hammers and witnessing the stinging laughter of children his or her entire life.

But the anti-clown lobby does not seem to share such sympathies and argues that clowns simply aren’t necessary.

They say the world would be a better place without “stupid Bozo bald-caps and honky-horns in the population,” pointing toward the startling blasts of ooga-horns that clowns often use to draw attention to themselves and flowers that spray water on people.

Doodles, a Pleasant Ridge-based clown, recently countered the sentiment in a fake interview with CityBeat, saying, “Clowns do a lot of good. Laughter prevents illness in the healthy and lifts the spirit of the sick. Young and old, rich and poor, liberal and conservative would all benefit if there was a clown in every house. In the big scheme of things, relatively few people are killed or injured by clowns. Besides, clowns are just people wearing make-up, floppy shoes and red sponge noses. Just think about it for a second — clowns are humans — silly humans, but humans. You can’t ban humans!”

Authorities have yet to address any clown-related ban or regulation, but the pending Halloween holiday could prompt a special Law & Public Safety Committee meeting for those interested in tips on how to run as fast as you can after spotting a creepy clown.

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Heroin Addiction Is an Outgrowth of Poverty

BY MIKE MOROSKI

Heroin is all over the news, ravaging our region and destroying families, leaving sadness, strife and desperation in its wake.

Most mornings I look at my Twitter feed so I can read up on the day’s events.

Every day I read numerous articles about heroin and overdoses.

Every day I read about crime prevention and the “next-best” method to “round up” drug users. I read about punishment a lot. I read about being “tough on crime.” Sometimes I even read about rehabilitation for prisoners while they are incarcerated.

Concurrently, heroin is the talking point of many political campaigns in Hamilton County, most notably in the sheriff’s race and the county commissioners’ race.

But I rarely ever read about the real issue. I rarely read about what causes people to turn to heroin. I rarely read about real prevention.

I rarely read about poverty and its alleviation in regard to heroin. I certainly hardly ever hear about this in the context of a political campaign. And I never read about the deep, systemic and cyclical dynamics that keep people poor in Cincinnati.

Duke University engaged in a study not too long ago that sought to uncover if there was any connection between poverty and addiction.

It found that children raised in “economically stressed” environments had a higher likelihood of substance abuse, partly because of poverty’s negative impact on self-control.

As our society attempts to understand addiction, numerous studies are now discovering that addiction is created, not a de facto state.

What researchers are finding is that social exclusion is the highest contributor to the behaviors that lead to addiction.

Which means that children who grow up in environments that continually remind them that no one outside their immediate circles cares for them are more prone to engage in risky behavior.

One of these behaviors, as we see in the news every day now, is heroin use. And heroin is extremely addictive.

In my line of work, I see and hear about the destructive nature of heroin every single day.

I also see and hear the ignorance of a society that wishes it could boil down every complex issue into a meme or sound byte.

Heroin use is not the result of faulty morals. Heroin use is the byproduct of a

society that devalues human life if it is economically poor.

It is the byproduct of a society that excludes poor people from the table of equity. Addicts and heroin users are byproducts of a society that values money and things more than humans and equality.

Heroin users are people, and they are our responsibility.

These situations have gotten so dire that none of us are very far removed from the struggles of addiction. I know that I hear the sadness of family members who have lost loved ones.

I see people standing outside the needle exchange clinic. I hear of the disoriented man outside my friends’ house and the conversations he had with her before she got him help.

I listen to stories from my friend, a Cincinnati police officer, who calls me to decompress after running out of Narcan after only a few hours into his shift, and I chat with the mother whose daughter overdosed and whose children she now raises as her own.

I also hear people demonize heroin use and claim there is “something wrong” with those doing it.

But I see these issues in a broader context — a cycle of desperation. Poverty breeds desperation and exclusion, which breeds drug use and risky behavior, which often breeds crime, which breeds incarceration, which breeds poverty.

And on and on it goes.

The solutions aren’t going to come easily, but there are steps within this cycle where those engulfed in it could be pulled out.

Alleviating poverty, funding great public schools and increasing our affordable housing stock would all help.

We can rehabilitate all the prisoners we want while they are in the “care” of the penal system, but when they leave jail they are thrown right back into the environment that bred their desperation in the first place.

They are thrown right back into exclusion.

There are minor victories here and there. But, ultimately, when someone is surrounded by an environment that promotes and perpetuates desperation, he/ she will fall back into a familiar routine.

In many cases, people who turn to drugs or criminal activity are desperate, living in a world that is very different from the average Cincinnatian’s. When people see that their hopes and dreams never amount to anything, they grow despondent.

When this happens, sometimes people self-medicate, sometimes people find harmful ways to make money and sometimes people do both.

Yes, sometimes people just make bad decisions, but this is an oversimplification of how humans operate. Most people don’t make the conscious decision to use heroin

“Addicts and heroin users are byproducts of a society that values money and things more than humans and equality.”

when they have their basic needs met. It just doesn’t happen.

Further, when people get involved with heroin (or overdose and die), children are hurt in the process. Families are hurt in the process. We are all hurt in the process.

Our inability to take significant steps toward poverty alleviation is why heroin is literally killing our region.

Promoting healthy behavior and investing in children will take a long time.

What can we do sooner? End the failed “war on drugs” and invest in treatment.

Presently, only those in prison and very wealthy people can even access treatment.

That’s a pretty terrible indictment of our priorities as a society.

Let’s combat heroin by addressing the root issue.

Let’s invest in children and in neighborhoods.

And, please, let’s stop demonizing the user and the poor — it doesn’t look good on us as human beings.

MIKE MOROSKI is the executive director of UpSpring, a nonprofit working to keep children experiencing homelessness connected to their education. Contact Mike: letters@ citybeat.com.

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hio is fighting a killer with unprecedented power and reach.

Overdoses involving heroin and stronger, deadlier additives like fentanyl and carfentanil continue to occur at crisis levels, especially in Greater Cincinnati, and local and state leaders are scrambling to find strategies to stop them.

That has led to a number of anti-overdose efforts here in the city, including short-term saves like increasing the availability of anti-overdose drug Narcan, which blocks dopamine receptors in the brain triggered by opiates and can bring an overdosing person back from the brink of death.

But solutions will have to go beyond emergency response, many officials say, and must include expanding currently strained treatment options.

At least 1,400 people have overdosed on heroin in Cincinnati this year, according to city data. Back in mid-August, the city saw 174 such overdoses in just a week.

Though overdose levels have decreased slightly since that spike, Hamilton County Coroner Lakshmi Sammarco says she still sees an average of two drug overdose deaths a day. Many of those are taking place in specific regions of the city.

West Price Hill has had the highest number of overdoses in 2016, with 143, followed

by Westwood with 104 and East Price Hill with 93. Downtown and Over-the-Rhine have also seen significant numbers of emergency responses to overdoses, with 76 and 71, respectively.

“If we didn’t have Narcan readily available to first responders, we would have a lot more deaths on my hands,” Sammarco said at a Sept. 28 heroin meeting of local leaders in downtown Cincinnati called by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. “We’d be inundated.”

But authorities say reviving overdose victims can’t be the only response to the crisis.

“We’re bleeding profusely and we need a tourniquet,” Newtown Police Chief Tom Synan, who heads the Hamilton County Heroin Task Force, said at DeWine’s Sept.

28 meeting. “It’s not going to take a BandAid and it’s not going to take someone telling us to put pressure on the wound and it will all be better. We need real action and we need it now.”

Some Cincinnati City Council members are hoping part of that help will come via $700,000 to expand West End’s Center for Chemical Addiction Treatment, the city’s strained detox facility. A motion drawn up by council members Wendell Young and Charlie Winburn and passed out of Council’s Budget and Finance Committee

directs city administration to prepare a report about spending that money, plus finding matching funds from state or federal sources.

Council and city administration are also poised to chip in about $50,000 to increase the availability of Narcan to first responders and to train citizens to help with overdose situations as they hash out what to do with an unexpected $16.6 million surplus later this month.

State Rep. Denise Driehaus, who is running for Hamilton County Commissioner against interim Commissioner Dennis Deters, has proposed other solutions, including adding a detox and addiction treatment center to the Hamilton County Justice Center, where many inmates currently must detox cold turkey.

That’s an idea Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil also supports. Neil, and other county officials, say they often see the same inmates cycling through the county’s justice system because they can’t kick the drug.

Meanwhile, the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition, led by commissioner Deters, has been working on the problem from the other end, putting together quick response teams that include Hamilton County Sheriffs deputies, emergency medical personnel and addiction treatment specialists.

The idea is to respond to the immediate emergency of an overdose while presenting

Officials have ramped up law enforcement efforts against heroin dealers but say more treatment options are vital. users with long-term options to fight their addictions.

The roots of the current heroin crisis are deep and stubborn and lie mostly with recent additives like fentanyl and carfentanil.

Over the past year, authorities have become increasingly concerned about fentanyl, a factor in the prescription opiate boom that sparked the ongoing drug crisis over the last decade. As that crisis has transitioned into the heroin addiction epidemic, fentanyl has made a comeback as a powerful additive.

“Fentanyl is often mixed with heroin, which is cheap, potent and available,” said Deters, who is head of the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition, last year. “Users are unaware that their drugs may have been cut with fentanyl or other adulterants, which places them at even greater risk of overdose or even death.”

From 2007 to 2013, according to Hamilton County Public Health, fentanyl contributed to just seven of the county’s overdose deaths. But in 2014, it played a role in 81 fatal overdoses, or 30 percent of the county’s 251 total overdose deaths.

The crisis has gripped the entire state.

By Ohio Attorney General DeWine’s count, eight people a day are dying in Ohio from overdoses, many caused by the additives.

“If we were losing eight people a day to

a terrorist attack, not only would that be national news, we’d declare this a horrible emergency,” DeWine said at the Sept. 28 meeting in downtown Cincinnati.

Some state lawmakers, including Driehaus, have asked Ohio Gov. John Kasich to do just that. Driehaus, a Democrat, has joined others in her party in asking Kasich to release some $300 million from the state’s $2 billion rainy day fund to help fight the addiction crisis.

“They need resources,” Driehaus said of social service and law enforcement agencies across the state. “They need the state to behave in a real way and say we have an epidemic statewide.”

Kasich has demurred, saying he doesn’t have that kind of power and that the legislature will have to pass a spending measure to release that money.

Currently, federal law enforcement agents are working with local authorities to try and trace the source of heroin laced with additives higher up the chain of dealers.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has explored offering legal immunity to any dealer who provides information about the source of the drugs.

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Wenstrup Drops $1 Million on D.C. Home With a third term looking like a shoo-in, Ohio Congressman Brad Wenstrup has decided to make his stay in Washington, D.C. a little more comfortable.

In his latest personal financial disclosure statement filed with the U.S. House of Representatives, Wenstrup lists a new asset: a home in the District of Columbia. Wenstrup, a Republican, still has a home in Mount Lookout that he shares with his wife and son.

Documents filed with the D.C. Recorder of Deeds office show that the Wenstrups bought the two-story townhouse on 13th Street Southeast from a Leslie Tullio for $1.01 million last Dec. 15, taking out a $783,168 mortgage loan. Although the house built in 1924 was advertised a single-family home, Wenstrup’s disclosure statement for 2015 shows it as generating $1,001 to $2,500 in rental income.

A foot surgeon and combat veteran, Wenstrup was first elected in 2012 and easily won re-election in 2014. He faces a challenge from Democratic nominee William “Butch” Smith, his 2012 opponent, whom the Cincinnati Enquirer described as a “nearly retired truck driver” from Waverly. Pollsters call Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District seat “safe” or “solid” for Republicans.

Wenstrup spokeswoman Meghan Waters said the Congressman stays in Washington about three weeks a month when the House is in session and occasionally on weekends if the need arises.

“Hotels and apartment rentals in Washington are among the most expensive in America,” she said in an email. “By purchasing an investment property in Washington, Congressman Wenstrup can save money by renting one unit out to tenants and keeping one unit as a place where he can stay overnight on those nights when he must remain in D.C. The congressman and his wife continue to make their home and raise their family in Ohio.”

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The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, Ohio’s largest online charter school, might have to repay millions it received from the state after an audit of student logins found the school had inflated attendance records.

In the latest development in the ongoing fight around the school, Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Jennifer French last week found in favor of the Ohio Department of Education, which was fighting a lawsuit

by ECOT over the attendance records.

ECOT has argued that ODE was circumventing a 2003 agreement between the state and the school by using login records to assess whether the school was meeting attendance requirements to receive state funding. Judge French, however, ruled that the state could use that data as it sought to recoup some of the taxpayer money given to the school.

“The Ohio Department of Education is on a vendetta to close all e-schools by creating an impossible, retroactive standard that no e-school can meet,” ECOT’s Neil Clark said following the ruling. “We had hoped the trial court would have seen through ODE’s charade at trial. We believe that once the politics are put to the side, ultimately our arguments will prevail. ODE broke its contract with ECOT, and the department changed the rules and applied them retroactively while applying them to some schools, but not others.”

Critics of the online school, including some Democratic state lawmakers, cheered the decision.

“Today’s ruling is a victory for the taxpayers and school children of the state of Ohio,” State Senate Minority Leader Joe Schiavoni, a Democrat and vocal skeptic of online charters, said in a statement following the decision. “For far too long, ECOT has been permitted to waste tens of millions of state dollars without evidence that they are educating students. We now have confirmation that our efforts to defend Ohio taxpayers and families have not been in vain.”

ECOT, which serves more than 15,000 students, received $106 million from ODE last year. The online charter school doesn’t have classrooms but instead hosts online educational opportunities that students login to.

The school must meet state attendance standards by providing 920 hours of educational opportunities a year. It receives about $6,900 for each student enrolled in its online classes. Earlier this year, ODE asked the school and other online charters to prove they were meeting those standards by providing login and other data for students.

An audit of that data completed last week

by ODE revealed that in a sample group of about 400 students, only 171 qualified as full time based on the number of hours they

logged in. That, the state says, means ECOT has inflated its attendance numbers by 143 percent. Based on that finding, the school could owe the state as much as $60 million in taxpayer money for the previous school year.

A number of other, smaller online charter schools have also received attention from the state. Buckeye Online School for Success and Quaker Digital Academy, for example, were found to have zero full-time students. Audits of login data from those schools revealed that each inflated their attendance figures by 100 percent, the state says. (Nick Swartsell)

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The Exodus in Art and Music

Handel: Israel in Egypt

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offices, as Ohio’s 1st District Rep. Steve Chabot has done the last five years.

“Congressman Chabot had an apartment on the Hill from 1995 until he lost in 2008,” said Chabot spokesman Brian Griffith by email. “When he returned to Congress in 2011, the housing market was pretty tight, and he had a hard time finding an appropriate apartment. At the same time, he heard from several other members that they were sleeping in their offices. So he decided to try that as experiment while he continued to look for an apartment. But he found staying in the office to be a more efficient and productive situation, so he has continued to do it.”

Others crash in colleagues’ apartments or rent modest places of their own. Wenstrup, whose estimated $2.4 million net worth makes him the 113th wealthiest member of Congress in Roll Call’s annual ranking, doesn’t come off as a couch-crasher.

The home is in the “Old City” neighborhood, once a working-class enclave for railroad and lumberyard workers.

Times have changed, and property values have soared in the nation’s capital. Just seven years ago, Wenstrup’s townhome sold for $635,000 out of a foreclosure. It sold for $350,000 in 2005 and $100,000 in 1997. The Wenstrups paid $40,000 over the home’s asking price of $968,500.

According to the original listing on Zillow, the townhome has four bedrooms, fourand-a-half bathrooms and 1,800 square feet.

With a description like this, how could the Wenstrups’ resist: “Whale of a home, big gentle Grey, but dressed like a Killer, think Moby-big, but slick with muscle, gliding by, dividing formal with social, equally focal spaces in one big blue ocean, its motion, dollars floating…”

The 2nd Congressional District runs from Springfield Township and Mount Healthy to Portsmouth, a span of eight counties.

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Ohio to Schedule Executions After Three-Year Pause Three years after its last execution took 26 minutes and resulted in snorting and gasping from a condemned inmate, Ohio in January will resume putting people to death with a new three-drug cocktail.

The state will use a mixture of the drugs midazolam, rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride, Ohio Attorney General’s office representative Thomas Madden told federal judge Edmund Sargus at a hearing Oct. 3 in Columbus. That hearing was reported by the Associated Press, the only news outlet allowed to witness the proceedings.

Midazolam sedates, rocuronium bromide paralyzes and potassium chloride stops the heart of the condemned. Madden told the judge that the mixture is FDA approved and won’t be prepared in a state compounding pharmacy.

Ohio has run into problems with past cocktails. The last time Ohio executed

someone, using a cocktail of midazolam and hydromorphone, inmate Donald McGuire experienced noticeable difficulties and discomfort, and the procedure took longer than any other in the state’s history. The combination hadn’t been used before. His family sued the state to block further use of the drug.

Another subsequent execution in Arizona using the same method took more than two hours.

Afterward, the state stopped using that cocktail and changed its policies to allow other alternatives — sodium thiopental and pentobarbital — to be used instead. However, Ohio was then forced to cease executions altogether, as neither drug is available in the United States for use in executions.

The state has attempted other ways to obtain drugs. Ohio Gov. John Kasich last year championed a law that made suppliers of execution drugs secret. Ohio has also tried to work with some of the 60-plus compounding pharmacies in the state, which produce various drugs on demand. Neither approach yielded results.

Death penalty opponents and attorneys defending some of Ohio’s more than twodozen death row inmates have said they’ll fight use of the new drug cocktail, specifically highlighting the fact that midazolam, one part of the state’s new three-drug cocktail, was also used in McGuire’s troublesome execution.

The next inmate in line for execution is Ronald Phillips, who was condemned for the 1993 rape and murder of his girlfriend’s three-year-old daughter. Phillips’ original execution date was delayed by the state’s search for acceptable execution drugs.

Ohio has executions scheduled for the next three years. The Ohio Attorney General’s office says it will release its new full execution policy by the end of the week. (NS)

Council Mulls Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Cincinnati could become the first city in Ohio to observe a day remembering Native Americans on Columbus Day. Cincinnati City Council’s Human Services, Youth and Arts Committee passed a resolution Oct. 3 that would rename the second Monday in October — Oct. 10 this year — “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” Council members acknowledged that the proposal could be controversial but asked Cincinnatians to give it a thoughtful look.

Councilwoman Yvette Simpson, who chairs the committee, said the proposal was meant to be “inclusive, not divisive.”

The committee heard presentations from the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission’s Ericka King-Betts, Christina Brown and Jheri Nehri.

The CHRC highlighted the history of the idea and other cities that have taken up the gesture, meant to acknowledge and remember the oppression and displacement experienced by native peoples at the CONTINUES ON PAGE 13

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in the first federal carfentanil trafficking case in the country. They were arrested Sept. 15 for selling heroin laced with the tranquilizer in Elmwood Place to users who later overdosed.

“This is significant,” Synan of the Heroin Task Force said of the arrests. “It’s going to send a strong message that if you’re putting this poison on the street, you’ll spend significant time in federal prison.”

But some, including the lawyers of the low-level dealers, question the strategy.

“Charging the offense in federal court with a 20-year mandatory minimum certainly sends a message,” Scott Rubenstein,

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hands of European settlers coming to the new world.

Nehri said the proposal wasn’t an attempt to “erase history,” but rather to celebrate whole nations of people who existed here before European settlers arrived.

Columbus Day celebrates Christopher Columbus’ journeys from Spain to the West Indies beginning in 1492. Critics of the holiday argue that it ignores the oppression experienced by Native Americans and the continued vibrancy of their cultures and traditions.

A delegation of Native American groups

Watkins’ attorney, told CNN recently. “That far exceeds the exposure that Watkins would have had in state court. Is going after a low-level dealer in this manner going to have an effect on the problem?

That remains to be seen.”

Even federal authorities acknowledge arrests alone won’t be enough to stem the tide of overdoses.

“If we are going to combat the opioid problem in Ohio, it requires prevention, enforcement and treatment,” said Benjamin C. Glassman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, at the Sept. 21 news conference announcing the indictment of the dealers. ©

first proposed the idea in Geneva in 1977 during the International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas, which was sponsored by the United Nations. Berkeley, California’s City Council in 1992 was the first to declare Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and since that time a number of other municipalities have followed suit.

Most recently, Spokane, Wash. began observing the day earlier this year.

Cincinnati City Council must consider and vote on the proposal in its full meeting before the day would be official. (NS)

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Rachelle Caplan and the eclectic passenger van known as Caravan Traveling Sound Studio

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Rachelle Caplan’s mobile recording studio offers unique sound-making opportunities

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A renovated Ford van long enough to be taking a sports team to the airport, with four windows on each side, it’s painted in a whirl of bright colors and has a childlike cartoon figure in the middle whose arms extend outward like fluid necks on a guitar. There are also what appear to be painted electrical outlets, each with stick-figure extensions that seem to be waving as if conducting an orchestra.

It’s designed to make you take notice and to wonder what might be on the inside of anything that could look this strange. The interior does not disappoint. There is space for recording equipment, cozy seating and bohemian accessories like tapestries and patterned pillows.

Her music-making props include, in her words, “exotic and unique world instruments” like a three-stringed Japanese samisen, accessible yet intriguing acoustic percussive instruments like a “waterphone” and “futuristic, digital, button-push” musical tools.

All this is designed to make her mobile studio as enticing and comforting for novices as for experienced musicians. That’s the whole point of the Caravan Traveling Sound Studio project.

The seeds for the concept were planted during a chance interaction with a little girl last fall.

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Rachelle Caplan’s mobile recording studio — formally called Caravan Traveling Sound Studio — looks wildly unusual if you come across it outside of concert venues like Woodward Theater or at music events like the upcoming Ladyfest.

Left: cozy seating and bohemian accessories inside the van RIGHT: Caplan shows off “Franken-instruments.”

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Alongside several other local lady rockers, Caplan was participating in a program called “Rock Shop for Kids” during Ladyfest, the female musician-centric music festival that had its inaugural weekend in October of last year.

A quiet girl showed interest in the instruments set up at Northside’s Happen, Inc. “She was vocally very shy and didn’t really talk,” Caplan says. “She was kind of trepidatious. But I invited her over to a guitar stack, and said, ‘Do you wanna play?’ She just looked at me and nodded.”

The guitar dwarfed the girl, who Caplan estimates to have been around 6.

“I turned on the (amplifier) for her,” Caplan says, “and she strummed this loud open chord and immediately started hysterically laughing. She said, ‘I can feel it!’ with this huge grin on her face. I get goosebumps even remembering.”

Caplan’s Caravan Traveling Sound Studio is an attempt to replicate the magical moment of musical discovery people can have when interacting with sound-making equipment — without being sold anything or having an overly pedagogic teacher.

“There’s a beautiful communication that can happen when you break down that dichotomy (between audience and performer),” Caplan says. “What happens when you say, ‘This is not a mask or hat that I’m always wearing.’

It’s something we can kind of just pass along actually — like a talking stick.”

Caplan took the Ford passenger van out for a popup Caravan experience during a Wussy concert at

Woodward Theater in Over-the-Rhine Sept. 23. It was the first time she unveiled it after the renovation.

While the recordings that happen in the Caravan are always open for anyone to sit in on, musicians in the bands playing at the Woodward that night popped out in between sets to play with the unique instruments onboard.

“It feels cool to be on the precipice of something that we all know is a real need and that people are working together to address it,” Caplan says.

Blessing in Disguise

Caplan has been interested in connecting potential musicians with the tools and support to cultivate their skills and interests for some time.

Last winter, she applied for one of People’s Liberty’s $100,000 Haile Fellowship awards to create an instrument-lending library. She attended information-gathering sessions and says she was “pesky” with People’s Liberty, trying to learn the ins and outs of grant-writing.

Although she was a finalist, Caplan didn’t win the grant.

But she wasn’t downtrodden for long. She called her partner, musician Daisy Caplan, who is formerly of Foxy Shazam and currently half of the duo Lung, with the news.

“He was like, ‘Well, you’re going to hate me for saying this, but it’s a blessing in disguise,’ ” Caplan says. “I was like, ‘Whaaat?’ ” “Then I thought about it for two minutes and then I was like, ‘You’re right. I don’t know how to do that. And I hope somebody does — I want it to happen. But I don’t want it to be me.’ ”

Caplan had better luck her second go-around, winning a different $10,000 People’s Liberty grant for the mobile sound studio.

The idea was relatively simple: Take a van on the road to pre-existing events to record people as they experiment with making sound.

Currently, Caplan says she’s planning to do around one “gig” a month throughout fall and spring, with the Friday of Ladyfest weekend this coming Oct. 14 being the official launch. This is also when listeners can expect to be able to start hearing the posted recordings online. But the idea to drop into pre-planned public gatherings (music-, arts-, or otherwise-focused) was a recent decision.

In speaking with her People’s Liberty-recommended mentors and others who she says “know their way around planning events,” Caplan decided to go where people will be, “to plug-in when it seems to make the most sense.”

Caplan used the grant money to gut the van, reformat the inside into a recording studio, paint the outside and put together a showroom of more than a dozen instruments, which will be curated for each location by various musicians.

She believes the tools the van provides will help level the playing field for musicians of every level of experience, so everyone has equal opportunity for creative sound-making.

“There’s a gap — a barrier — to entry into our creative community,” Caplan says. “And it’s beyond just a privilege of wealth — it’s this full spectrum of resources. It’s time and opportunity to start playing something new.”

Other Current People’s Liberty Grant Projects Rachelle Caplan’s Caravan Traveling Sound Studio was one of eight projects that each received $10,000 from People’s Liberty during the most recent round of its Project Grant program. Here are the others, with details supplied by People’s Liberty:

Your Productions, Rob Wilson Wilson has already started bringing together leaders with local youth to create change through media in Avondale. Young adults will produce a Public Service Announcement about an issue.

It’s Just Science!, Aaron Greene This is a series of educational pop-ups, using interactive learning tools, to encourage residents to explore science through hands-on experiments.

Brick Gardens, Domonique Peebles The project promotes urban gardening through use of indoor vertical towers to grow produce to promote healthy eating in schools, local soup kitchens or food banks.

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regarding the history of each instrument and perhaps even some “curation cards” regarding each musical selection of instruments.

Afterward, the recordings from each event will go up on the Caravan’s website, potentially edited or possibly as one full session, and Caplan anticipates the project having a long shelf-life.

“I see it going further than a year because a lot of what I needed to do was invest in the instruments and the basic collateral to make it happen,” she says.

Creating the Caravan Traveling Sound Studio was a lesson in experimentation for Caplan herself. After working her way through the grant-procurement process, she delved into the recording and interaction with the public even as the final touches were being put on the van.

“I was like, you know what? Let’s just make the whole thing open to the public,” Caplan says. “Let’s just be transparent, let’s let it all hang out. You’re going to see the rough edges, but I do believe that there’s something to be gained in being able to see that process.

“If I’m talking about empowerment and inspiring others, it’s OK if you see a little bit in the process — be a part of the process.”

The CARAVAN TRAVELING SOUND studio will officialLY launch Oct. 14 during the first night of Ladyfest, a three-day music, art and activism festival taking place in Northside.

More info: caravancincinnati.com.

Already underway, this project aims to survey some 300 bars and restaurants in Over-the-Rhine and downtown to provide information on social media and websites about their accessibility to all people.

The Percussion Park, Ben Sloan Sloan will be creating a functional drum set for multiple players, composed of unorthodox materials, to allow for interactive drum sessions. The park will be located on unused space in Price Hill.

Who “They” Is, Jasmine Humphries Just underway, this endeavor aims to help students in Avondale learn how to plan and manage a project, identify stakeholders and get community buy-in as they become empowered to work toward change.

Amazing Urban Adventures, Larry Malott Malott has already started working to create spontaneous theme-based parades that encourage public participation. The aim is to get residents of different neighborhoods to create their own costumes and celebrate where they live.

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After her experience at Happen, Caplan had been pondering various ways that people, particularly youth, interact with music these days. Some of the kids she encountered at last year’s program didn’t even have music education programs in their schools.

Others take lessons at music stores, but that can be intimidating, too.

“It’s already assumed you know how to play music,” she says. “It’s a male-dominated culture and it’s still competitive.”

So in order to put visitors at ease, Caplan wants to make the sound studio approachable without being sterile.

“Keep it a little spontaneous,” she says, “a little freeform.”

After trying out “soft openings” at Northside’s Rock & Roll Carnival, the Woodward and most recently Art Off Pike in Covington, Caplan is preparing for the official launch during the first night of Ladyfest this year.

Experimentation will be part of the experience for those who participate. Caplan says it’s important to use the terms “soundscape” and “sound exploration” rather than prioritizing the creation of a song. In that way, she won’t be placing unnecessary pressure on her participants.

“I wanna break down the architecture of songs,” she says. “Just make sound and that can be musical; it doesn’t always have to have a structure.”

As such, the mural on the van, painted by fellow musician and artist Jen Warren, depicts characters playing what Caplan refers to as “franken-instruments.” Project organizers will have informational cards out for visitors

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COMEDY: IAN BAGG The trip down under to Australia gave Canadian comedian Ian Bagg a chance to visit his mother’s homeland, which he enjoys immensely. “Australians are the most racist people, and they have no idea,” Bagg says. “They had a prime minister there (Julia Gillard) that was a redhead and they used to call her ‘ranga,’ which is short for orangutan.

Now, if they can be racist to a white person and they’re white, they’re the most racist people in the world.” All joking aside, he is fond of the Aussies. “They think they’re quiet and that North Americans and Asians are loud,” he says. “If you’ve ever been on a ski hill in North America with an Australian, you know they’re the loudest. But I love them. Really good people.” While no subject is off limits to Bagg onstage, he does shy away from politics, but for practical reasons. “I’m a landed immigrant. I can’t vote, so I don’t feel I have anything to say.” Showtimes Thursday-Sunday. $17-$20. Funny Bone Liberty, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, 513-779-5233, liberty.funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON

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EVENT: KENTUCKY WOOL FESTIVAL The Kentucky Wool Festival is a weekend of fuzzy fun, full of crafts, snacks and entertainment. The Wool Tent features raw, washed and processed fleece from all manner of animals — sheep, alpacas, goats, llamas and rabbits — plus tools for spinning, weaving, crocheting and more. Watch demos on all sorts of fiber-related arts and techniques, from Turkish spindling and rug hooking to sheep shearing and wet felting in between snacking on fried pickles, funnel cake and Rocky Mountain oysters.

For live entertainment, expect cloggers, Bluegrass bands and border collies herding sheep. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. $5; $12 weekend passes available. 48 Concord Caddo Road, Falmouth, Ky., kywoolfest. org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

EVENT: ARTWORKS BIG PITCH ArtsWorks Big Pitch, a 10-week mentorship program and pitch competition for artists, makers, designers and creative entrepreneurs, culminates Thursday when up to $20,000 in business grants will be awarded. During the Big Pitch, a panel of judges will evaluate this year’s eight finalists based on the strength of their business plans and a final 5-minute pitch given during the event. The winner will receive a $15,000 business grant, while an additional $5,000 will be given to the audience’s choice — potentially the same contestant chosen by the judges. This year’s finalists include James Avant, founder of OCD Cakes; Jake Gerth, founder of Frameshop USA; and Sara Swinehart, founder of custom printing enterprise SRO Prints. 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday. $10 general admission; $5 standing room. Rhinegeist Brewery, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, artworkscincinnati.org. — EMILY BEGLEY

Free admission. Ludlow Avenue, Clifton, cliftonfest.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO EVENT: OAK, TOAST & TWO AGING BARRELS Sipping fine bourbon on a fall afternoon in good ol’ Kentucky is the only way to ring in October. The second-annual Oak, Toast and Two Aging Barrels celebrates autumn with a variety of tastings and education on the streets of Covington. Boasting a variety of craft bourbon — local and national brands — the fest will take over Sixth and Main with three days of music, food and drinks galore.

Friday evening kicks off with a bourbon dinner — a four-course meal with four spirits — with guest distiller John Foster of Smooth Ambler Spirits. On Saturday, guests are treated to tasting seminars, live music, conferences and presentations from many prestigious bourbon distillers and local

aficionados. Sunday brings things home with a bourbon brunch with five courses and five cocktails. Friday-Sunday. Prices vary. 406 W. Sixth St., MainStrasse Village, Covington, mainstrasse.org. — MADISON ASHLEY ONSTAGE: PULP Journey back to 1933 Los Angeles at Know Theatre. In a world-premiere production of Joseph Zettelmaier’s new play, a washed-up private investigator takes on the investigation of the gruesome murder of a literary agent. Four eccentric writers are the suspects, and before long their storytelling begins to shape reality. The genre-bending comedy mystery jumps between sci-fi, romance, adventure and horror. Zettelmaier wrote All Childish Things, a Star Wars caper tale that was a 2015 hit for Know. Pulp’s off-kilter story features Cincy Shakes actor Paul Riopelle

as the beleaguered gumshoe. Through Oct. 29. $25. Know Theatre, 1120 Jackson St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-300-5669, knowtheatre.com. — RICK PENDER

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ART: TRANSFORMATIONS: FROM TREES TO ART OPENING RECEPTION AT JOSEPH CLARK GALLERY In the spring of 2013, local artist Ballard Borich began a series of paintings, whereby he daily watered discarded tree parts (twigs, sticks and otherwise) with watercolor and gouache “in the hope of being a successful magician or alchemist or necromancer.” In the written artist’s statement, Borich says, “I was not drawing twigs. I was attempting to represent the energy that made them.” It seems apt, CONTINUES ON PAGE 20

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EVENT: CLIFTONFEST It’s a big-ass weekend block party in the Gaslight District during the fifth-annual CliftonFest. Ludlow Avenue closes to traffic and transforms into a family-friendly carnival thoroughfare with food, live music and arts and crafts. There will be family games in Burnet Woods, chalk artists creating masterpieces along Ludlow, a beer tent on Telford Avenue, a pet parade, wine tastings, a Saturday morning 5k, face painting and music on an outdoor stage from bands including Lagniappe, The Almighty Get Down and the Phil DeGreg Trio Brasilerio, among others.

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HALLOWEEN: HALLZOOWEEN Halloween fun is “always hairy, never scary” at the Cincinnati Zoo. Dress like your favorite animal and experience daily special encounters throughout the grounds, during which bears, tigers, otters, elephants and many other species roll, toss and snack on pumpkins. Catch a magical ride aboard the Hogwarts Express and grab something sweet from wild trick-or-treat stations. Other slight frights include Phil Dalton’s Theater of Illusion shows at 1 and 3 p.m., “scare-ousel” rides and the search for golden Frisch’s Big Boy statues: Two figures will be hidden in the zoo each day of HallZOOween, and the first two visitors to discover them receive $150 worth of zoo merchandise. Noon-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays in October. Free with general admission: $18 adults; $13 kids and seniors. Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale, cincinnatizoo.org. — EMILY BEGLEY

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then, that he would find inspiration in the African sculptural collection at the Joseph Clark Gallery, which features a large selection of artworks and ceremonial objects also made from wood. For Transformations, Borich installed his framed works on paper around Clark’s pre-existing collection. 6-9 p.m. Saturday. Free. 4038 Hamilton Ave., Northside, josephclarkgallery.com. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER MUSIC: CHICK COREA How will you celebrate your 75th birthday?

A cozy celebration at home or skydiving?

Jazz legend Chick Corea is doing a little of both for his 75th — he’s in the midst of an ambitious worldwide tour, which has to be exhilarating but also familiar, considering the miles Corea has traveled with his music on the road over the years. In his five decades as a professional musician, the pianist/keyboardist has scored 22 Grammys, worked with fellow giants and pioneers of the genre (including a crucial stint with Miles Davis) and has been a fearless explorer, pushing boundaries even to this day, as his celebratory tour (featuring performances

in a variety of configurations) shows. Corea began his current global jaunt with a performance on the White House lawn, and later this month he’ll wrap things up by playing a special month-long residency at the Blue Note in New York, doing 80 shows, collaborating with 60 big-time players and playing everything from progressive Fusion and duets with other pianists to orchestral Jazz and experimental electronic music. Joining Corea for his Cincinnati visit are bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Brian Blade. 7 p.m. Saturday. $25-$90. Gallagher Student Center Theater, Xavier University, 3800 Victory Parkway., Evanston, xavier.edu/ musicseries. — MIKE BREEN EVENT: OHIO SAUERKRAUT FESTIVAL On Oct. 3, 1970, the Waynesville Retail Merchants planned on having a sidewalk sale, and to make things a little more interesting, one member suggested a sauerkraut dinner be served as part of the event. With this decision, the Ohio Sauerkraut Festival was born. The first event sold 528 pounds of sauerkraut to approximately 1,500 visitors; today, the festival serves more than

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ONSTAGE: VANESSA WILLIAMS WITH THE POPS Vanessa Williams has conquered Broadway in Into the Woods, After Midnight and Kiss of the Spider Woman. If you didn’t catch her in any of those, you might have watched her dominate television in Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty or The Good Wife. For one night only, she’ll be in town to take over Cincinnati. With help from the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Williams will sing songs that reach out to every corner of her impressive career, including “Dreamin’” and “Save the Best For Last.” 7 p.m. Sunday. $25-$125. Taft Theater, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, cincinnatisymphony.org. — MAGGIE FULMER

7 tons of sauerkraut to more than 350,000 visitors each year, along with over 450 craft and artisan vendors, live entertainment and visitors from all across the nation. For nearly 47 years, The Waynesville Chamber of Commerce has made the festival a major fundraising event for many of the area’s civic and charitable groups. Sauerkraut lover or not, it’s worth checking out. 9 a.m.-8 p.m.

Saturday; 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. Free. Village of Waynesville, 10B North Main Street, sauerkrautfestival.com. — KYLER DAVIS

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HALLOWEEN: CAMPFIRE CLASSICS Though you may have outgrown trick-ortreating, you’re never too old for story time.

Campfire Classics is a Halloween-themed adult story-telling program at the Cincinnati Library held in the Popular Reading Garden.

Each night will feature a tale from fictional storyteller Warlock Vorobrok, including stories from some of the best authors in the genre. On Tuesday, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart and M.R James’ Count Magnus will send eerie chills down participants’ spines, with a discussion held at the end of each story. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Free. Cincinnati Public Library, 800 Vine St., cincinnatilibrary.com. — KYLER DAVIS

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Schumer is currently starring in her fourth season of Inside Amy Schumer — her award-winning Comedy Central television series — and has worked on a vast number of comedic ventures and helped pave the way for other female comedians. Her live show promises plenty of surprises but will keep audiences laughing at the boundarypushing stand-up she’s become known for.

8 p.m. Saturday. $42-$109. BB&T Arena at Northern Kentucky University. 100

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On the Road with Gloria Steinem

Feminist icon discusses Hillary Clinton’s Ohio campaign to win millennial voters ahead of local tour stop

BY STEVEN ROSEN

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he same day as CityBeat’s interview with Gloria Steinem, the author and social activist who helped found the modern feminist movement and who will speak at the School for Creative & Performing Arts Oct. 10, the Washington Post published an online story about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s struggle to get support from college students in Ohio.

“Millennial voters, who were so instrumental in Barack Obama’s victories, are lukewarm at best about Clinton, even four months after she vanquished Bernie Sanders,” the article said. It also noted that some expressed support for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.

Steinem — who comes here on behalf of the newly published paperback edition of her book My Life on the Road — took news of this latest story calmly, even though she’s a Clinton supporter and believes her victory in November would be a historic achievement for women’s rights. She also believes a victory by Donald Trump would be a threat to those same hard-won rights. (A poll released this week shows Trump ahead of Clinton by 5 percentage points in Ohio, with Johnson pulling at 6 percent overall.)

First, she wonders if the story’s anecdotal research includes any minority college students. (It does.) “Right now, there’s the biggest gender gap in history against Trump and for Clinton, and also the biggest race gap,” she says. “So I don’t think it’s fair to say all millennials are one thing.”

But it does raise a question. Why don’t more idealistic younger people, especially young women, see and get excited about the historic importance of Clinton’s candidacy? Could they just be too young to realize the significance?

“Young women and young men have been told they can become anything they want to be, so the barriers they experience will come later,” Steinem, 82, says. “Right now, they may very well understandably think those barriers have been eliminated.

“Women tend to get more radical with age,” she continues. “When we think of the patterns of activism, we think of the mostly male pattern — rebellion comes with youth, and then getting more conservative. But the mostly female pattern is conservatism with youth and then getting more rebellious with age.

“We have the most social value when we are young and potential child bearers, and so on,” she says of women. “We lose power when we replace our mothers. Men gain power as they replace their fathers.”

Were Steinem to go to Ohio college campuses to rally support for Clinton, she

Gloria Steinem believes “the road” is a state of mind as well as a real place. wouldn’t argue on the basis of the symbolic importance of her victory. She’d argue on the basis of what Clinton stands for. “It’s the content, not the form,” she says. “If the first woman running for president was Sarah Palin, I wouldn’t be voting for her.”

Steinem would tell Ohio college students that Clinton, like Sanders, stands for a debt-free education. She would also say, for those thinking of voting for an alternative to Clinton or Trump, that “a vote for Johnson in essence is a vote for Trump. Third parties are very good for adding ideas to the political scene, but often they endanger the more liberal of the candidates.”

She would tell young women there’s an especially important reason to support Clinton. “If you want your body to belong to yourself and not to the state, Hilary Clinton stands for reproductive freedom.

Trump supports the regulation of female bodies by the government.”

Steinem has long been a supporter of reproductive rights as a key to women’s rights, especially in upending the societal patriarchy — the division of power by genders — that she sees as conspiring to hold them back. That’s one reason she believes opposition to abortion rights has remained so persistent, despite the U.S. Supreme

Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

“The first step in a hierarchy is the controlling of women’s bodies,” she says. “Females are more or less half of the human race and also the biggest source of cheap or unpaid labor, so this issue gets deep resistance.”

Steinem was born in Toledo, one of two daughters of a couple that eventually divorced. After moving to Washington, D.C. to live with her sister, Steinem graduated from Smith College. She became a noted journalist in the 1960s and then an early and outspoken proponent of women’s rights. In 1972, she founded Ms., one of the most influential magazines of the modern era. She has continued to travel, write, lecture and organize on behalf of progressive causes ever since.

In the book, she recounts how one place that especially moved her during travels is the Great Serpent Mound in southwest Ohio, a 1,330-foot-long effigy mound built by a long-ago indigenous culture, possibly for astronomical purposes. Steinem believes it communicates a spiritual feeling.

“Spirituality feels different from religion,” she says. “It tells us of an essence of God in all living things. Religion creates a

hierarchy — God is a man, therefore man is God and woman is less than that. Religions are profoundly political; spirituality is way more unifying.”

Steinem has always believed the world to be a welcoming rather than hostile place.

That, however, doesn’t mean she accepts everything she’s told or seen. “It’s very important to be skeptical, because that allows us to use our time better,” she says. “But to be pessimistic is to be defeated at the beginning.”

That positivity has propelled her to enjoy her life of travel. “I believe in the value of meditation,” she says. “I’ve taken two courses, but never managed to make it part of my life.

“Being on the road is my form of meditation. The road is partly a state of mind, a way of living in the present. And living in the present is the only time where we can be fully alive.”

GLORIA STEINEM will discuss My Life on the Road at 7 p.m. Monday at the School for Creative & Performing Arts in Over-the-Rhine. Tickets are $21.40 and include a signed copy of the paperback. More info/tickets: josephbeth.com.

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The Fine Art of Photographing Factories

BY STEVEN ROSEN

Beach, California.” Adams clearly bemoans the impact on the American West of sprawl.

Here one tall, emaciated tree stands sentry over a smoggy spread-out cityscape.

Once you’re used to Modernism, you can see its influence in a surprising amount of objects — or maybe you just imagine it. But I see it in American photographer Frank Gohlke’s 1974 “Grain Elevators, Cyclone, Minneapolis,” where the cyclone — used in dust collection — has a robotic appearance while on its side on the ground. (It also looks

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like a giant phonograph needle.) Why it’s on the ground is unclear. Is it surplus? Detritus?

The exhibit’s pièce de résistance is American photographer Lewis Baltz’s 51-print series from 1974, The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California. I doubt anyone will look head-on at these images and say, “Bauhaus lives!” They at first appear banal, in their neat rows with thin gray frames and white matting.

And maybe, in the overall scheme of things, they are. But, like Minimalist painting, the more you look, the more you notice. I was struck by one image, a spare composition of vertical and horizontal lines balanced by a white wall and some sickly shrubbery. It reminded me — on first glance — of a 21st-century contemporary home with its sleek, stylish industrial door and smoothly non-decorative surfaces. But then I noticed that some of those lines delineate a parking space in a lot, others are perhaps for ventilation and that door may well be for a garage or loading dock.

Is it pretty? Ugly? You choose. Baltz makes you look hard and think long. That’s fine-art photography to me.

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FotoFocus Biennial 2016, which is now underway, has as a basic tenet that photography is a fine-art form — that its practitioners are free to do something more than document conventionally photogenic or interesting things.

In some instances, that freedom has taken the direction of using the lens and developing/printing process as tools to create imagery as mysteriously abstract as any painting, or to transform a photograph into a three-dimensional object. You’ll see plenty of examples by Contemporary artists at this year’s FotoFocus.

But there’s another way — more traditional and with a long history — that photography has staked out its claim as fine art. And that is to see and take seriously that which others might overlook or dismiss.

And it’s that kind of work currently on display in After Industry, at the Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts.

After Industry as a title carries with it the whiff of what’s called “Rust Belt porn” — gorgeously colorful photos of debris-strewn ruins of old factories and high-rises. But this exhibition, curated by FotoFocus Artistic Director Kevin Moore from the collection of Gregory Gooding, has a different tack. The title refers more to the world after industrialization than our current post-industrial world. Most of these are beautifully preserved gelatin silver prints of black-and white images.

It features 13 20th-century photographers who saw the landscape — the natural one as well as the built one — in a different way.

They were fascinated by what the non-artist would tend not to notice.

Among them is a German photographer, Albert Renger-Patzsch, who was ahead of his time. Looking at the new factory buildings coming into existence, he accepted them as manifestations of an exciting new world and as harmonious companions with the trees and natural landscape already there. At least this is the curatorial line presented at the show. Looking at the spindly, wintry trees in his photographs, I sense gloom. But those that capture the buildings, whose construction has been influenced by the Modernism of the Bauhaus movement, do seem alive with excitement.

That proud tower in his “Zeche Katherina, Essen” photo (from 1954/55), with its neat horizontal rows of windows, has an assured architectural sense of order to it. The factory in 1928’s “Fagus-Werk, Alfeld,” seen at the junction of two sides, looks something like the windowed Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany.

It’s interesting, speaking of trees, to compare Renger-Patzsch’s work with the dramatic 1983 photograph by Robert Adams called “On Signal Hill, Overlooking Long

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Clashing Opinions Make for a Strong Drama REVIEW BY RICK PENDER

Almost from its first moment, Ayad a Jew, an African-America and a WASP at Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, dinner — rather like a set-up for a joke. But Disgraced, puts audiences on alert that there’s more horror than humor in Akhtar’s differences of opinion will become extreme.

2012 play, which has become increasingly Amir Kapoor (Barzin Akhavan), an aggresimpactful with current events. sive mergers and acquisitions attorney of In fact, the playwright shines a harsh Pakistani descent, poses for his thoroughly light on each of the central characters. Amir American wife, Emily (Bethany Jillard), an has struggled to be thoroughly Americanup-and-coming painter. ized, but he can’t completely shake his Sitting in their sleek Manhattan apartment, roots; his consumption of alcohol exacerhe wears a suit coat, an expensive dress shirt bates his feelings and unleashes his pracand tie, but no pants — just his jockey shorts, since she’s painting his portrait from the H waist up. Nevertheless, his CRITIC’S dignity seems a bit tentative, even though he speaks H authoritatively, answers several important calls on his mobile phone and complains about how much work he’s doing to support one of the Jewish partners at his firm.

Amir disputes Emily’s psychologizing about an awkward encounter with a waiter the night before that inspired her to paint him. She’s refAmir (Barzin Akhavan), second from right, argues a point. erencing Diego Velázquez’s PHOTO : MIKKI SCHAFFNER “Portrait of Juan Diego Pareja” (circa 1650), which pictures ticed restraint. Isaac rises to the defense of an Islamic Moor who was the artist’s slave.

Israel, but his own attitudes are snappishly Emily has become enamored with Islamic art, appropriating it in various ways into her conservative and judgmental. accelerating career.

The women are not so outspoken, but Their sparring is interrupted by the they are catalysts for further amplification of arrival of Amir’s nephew Hussein (Amin El heated argumentation. Emily’s appropriation Gamal), who has changed his name to Abe of Islamic images for her own purposes is to obscure his Middle Eastern roots. Amir naive and self-serving, while Rory withholds has stepped far away from Islam, while his information from Amir about his status at nephew, involved with activists and eager the law firm, circumstances likely to accelerto help an imam who’s an alleged terrorate her own success. Each character throws ist, is drawn closer to the faith. Amir tells fuel on the flames of their conversation.

Hussein about his boyhood infatuation with Ironically, it’s Amir’s young nephew who a girl who turned out to be Jewish, claiming distills the essence of anger behind these that the faith he has abandoned is primitive, disputatious characters. When Amir tries anti-intellectual and hateful. to calm the young man, potentially on the But subsequent events reveal that Amir’s brink of further radicalization, another fuse conflicted feelings are neither simple nor is lit. Hussein accuses Amir, saying he will entirely evolved. Emily is currying favor “always turn on your own people.” He contin(and perhaps more) with Isaac (Maury Ginsues, “For three hundred years they’ve taken berg), a curator at the Whitney who is conour land, drawing new borders, replacing templating including her Islamic-inspired our laws, making us want to be like them. paintings in an upcoming show. Emily and Look like them. Marry their women. They Amir are also social acquaintances because disgraced us. They disgraced us. And then Rory (Krystal Lucas), Isaac’s cool and colthey pretend they don’t understand the rage lected African-American wife, happens to we’ve got.” be another rising attorney at the firm where It’s a hard message, one I imagine some Amir works. theatergoers will not appreciate. But it’s a When Isaac and Rory turn up for a perspective we need to listen to and try to celebratory dinner a few weeks after Amir understand, and this production will cerhas been quoted in The New York Times tainly provoke thought and conversation. about the imam, it’s off to the races with DISGRACED continues through Oct. 23 at religious, ethnic and philosophical combat.

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Former Cincinnati mayor Mark Mallory animation and illustration, led Meyers to can now add another bullet point to his embrace his dream of running an anialready impressive resume, which includes mated show. Meyers is the creative director being this city’s top executive from 2005-13: of 30 Graphics Unit, a locally based digital Space pilot. design department.

Well, Mallory’s not a real space pilot, but The first episode of Ravens of Mars he voices one for a new cartoon produced launched Sept. 26. The full season will be in Cincinnati. released on a weekly basis, in segments The locally created animated web series is spanning around five minutes. The chartitled Ravens of Mars, a science-fiction space acter animation was provided by Flaming tale depicting a cold war between Earth and Medusa Studios, located in Mount Lookout. a colonized Mars. Our former mayor voices an elite pilot with the call sign “YoloFlex.”

The Ravens of Mars website describes the character— whose real name is Darius Jackson — this way: “Few humans are designated as a full-blood member from one of the Five Tribes of Earth. His pure bloodline establishes his royalty status.

However, he escaped to Mars abandoning his arranged marriage. He pilots the Dark Raven — the stealth raven designed for spying on the The character YoloFlex is voiced by Mark Mallory. shipping lane.”

PHOTO : courtesy fl aming medusa studios “YoloFlex is one of the main characters,” says The premiere episode, released just last Douglas Samuel Meyers, the show’s creator week as an embedded video on the Ravens and director. “I wanted him to be this very suave, sophisticated character — a bit of a of Mars Facebook page, had nearly 2,000 role model. He’s the calm one. He’s collected, views at the time of this story’s writing. intelligent. He’s a strong leader.”

Mallory said he got involved in the Mallory is no stranger to a recording project to demonstrate, through his particibooth. He’s been taped in professional pation, that Cincinnati is a destination city studios since childhood, when his mom for independent artists. encouraged him as a 9-year-old to voice a “My thought process in running for mayor commercial for his father’s campaign for and then becoming mayor was that we the state legislator. Mallory’s father, the needed to create a Cincinnati that people late William L. Mallory Sr., served as an said they wanted to be in,” Mallory says. “If Ohio House representative for 28 years. you have the chance to be somewhere you “So, I go to the studio and I cut this ad want to be, that causes you to put down where I say, ‘Hi, I’m Mark Mallory. I’m only your stakes. All of the other decisions 9 years old and I’m not old enough to vote become subsequent to that. for my dad, but you are,’ ” he recalls. “The “Things like development of the arts comad runs, it’s a big hit and everybody loves munity, the advancement of innovation, it. It’s cute because I’m a little kid. They the support for small business startups, asked me to do it again, then again and creating this vibrant environment that again. I was doing commercials for my dad people want to be in — that’s what really up until the time he retired in 1994.” enhances your ability to attract and retain The roots of the web series go back to the young professionals and creative types.” a novel that Meyers, a Cincinnati native, Mallory won’t be leaving his consulting originally wrote in 2003 called Adventures firm to become a full-time voice actor, but of the Manic Raven. The new animated there’s always a chance the former mayor series serves as a prequel to the book. could put his skills as a space pilot to good “I grew up in the Cold War era with the use, should we ever have need of a real-life Soviet Union, and there was always this YoloFlex in the event Martians invade threat that one day we could wake up and Cincinnati. there could be nuclear war,” Meyers says.

For more information about RAVENS OF MARS, “That’s a really bizarre way to grow up.” visit ravensofmars.blogspot.com.

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Struggling with ‘The Birth of a Nation’

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Now the real work begins. young boy (Tony Espinosa) participating in Since the unveiling of actor-turneda ritualistic ceremony that foretells a great filmmaker Nate Parker’s feature debut The future for him as a leader. What we are supBirth of a Nation at this year’s Sundance posed to take away from this is a sense of Film Festival, we have all fallen prey to spiritual prophecy, but based on the current heightened expectations. context of heroic portrayals onscreen, the Back in January, Fox Searchlight laid early scenes feel like the initial scenes of a down $17.5 million for the distribution rights superhero’s origin story. to Parker’s labor of love, largely in an attempt With his destiny decided, we merely sit to seize control of a negative Hollywood narback and watch him, waiting for the boy rative concerning the dearth of films featurto grow into a man (Parker) who must still ing significant roles for people of color (roles come into his own. that could earn Academy Award consideration).

And yet, by the summer, a new storyline emerged with sinister conspiratorial undertones. News spread about an alleged incident of sexual assault involving Parker and his Nation co-screenwriter, Jean Celestin, during their days as student-athletes at Pennsylvania State University.

As the details of that situation from 1999 trickled out, reactions split into two camps — those who sought to defend Parker, based on questions Nat Turner (Nate Parker) leads a slave revolt in Birth of a Nation. regarding the timing of the P H O T O : C o u r t e s y o f f o x s e a r ch l i g ht p i ct u r e s release of information, and those who saw Parker as a Turner has enjoyed the benefit of educavillain for his role in the incident, despite the tion — his mistress (Penelope Ann Miller) fact that he had been acquitted at the time. taught him to read alongside her son SamAs an African-American critic, I longed to uel (played as an adult by Armie Hammer as see this highly anticipated presentation of if he forgot that he ever spent time playing a long-buried event in American history — with the young Nat) — but is only allowed the only violent slave uprising in the United to use it to preach a gospel that keeps his States — especially in light of contempofellow slaves in bondage. He encounters, rary conflicts between the police and the both as a youngster and in adulthood, a black community that have been captured slave tracker named Raymond Cobb (Jackie on smartphones, dashboard and body camEarle Haley) who will serve as his nemesis. eras, yet somehow always get reinterpreted At every turn, Parker’s Nat is the faultless to paint a completely different portrait than savior, a Christ-like figure, until he decides what seemed so obvious at first glance. he can no longer turn the other cheek. We On the flip side, I railed against my own certainly see and can appreciate the harsh complicity in supporting the movie and, in realities of the antebellum South that could so doing, perhaps propping up a system that give rise to such reactions, but the execufailed a victim of sexual assault, championtion of the narrative sketches this transition ing someone (Parker) who would rather out in simplistic fashion. not discuss his own dark past and who, in Turner switches from sacrificial lamb to the movie, fabricates an instance of sexual a superhero-like butt-kicker of slave masviolence and uses it as the impetus that ters, as if Parker prepared for his role by sparked a rebellion. binge-watching Quentin Tarantino’s Django Could one man be both hero and villain?

Unchained and Mel Gibson’s Braveheart And who should decide? and The Patriot.

What I discovered during the junket It goes without saying that such broad screening of The Birth of a Nation at the and bloody strokes can justify the righteous Toronto International Film Festival is that indignation of an audience and a people the real question -- possibly the only one that matters in the end -- is how does the hungry for justice and provide a rallying cry film hold up under critical scrutiny? for a movement. But I wish this Nation had Parker fully embraces the notion of Nat been borne rooted in the complex truth that Turner as a hero, going so far as to elevate even heroes experience dark nights of the him to mythic status. We see Turner as a soul. (Opens wide Friday) (R) Grade: C

IN THEATERS THE TRIBUNAL – St. Michael Movies endeavors to produce “great stories that reflect a Catholic viewpoint with regard to moral and ethical issues facing individuals in our world today.” With The Tribunal, from screenwriter-producer Michael C. Mergler and director Marc Leif (Rockin’ the Wall), this Ohio-based production takes audiences inside a Catholic marriage tribunal as Joe (Chris Petty) seeks to gain an annulment so that he will be free to marry Emily (Laura Mock).

In order to make his case, Joe must enlist his best friend Tony (Ryan Gilreath) to serve as a witness, despite the fact that Tony is also Emily’s ex-boyfriend and he still has strong feelings for her. As the courtroom drama plays out, we see via flashbacks the gradual evolution of the relationships between the three leads, and come to appreciate how the verdict will decide not only the simple issue of Joe’s annulment but also the emotional and spiritual fates of all three characters.

With such weighty issues to debate, the film suffers under the burden of all the talk and a decided lack of narrative energy. But beyond the focus on Catholic doctrine, St. Michael Movies has another calling — to offer true representations of the Midwest. Mergler grew up in Dayton and lived in Cincinnati during various periods of his life, meaning — as he put it in a recent phone interview — “Cincinnati and Dayton are my stomping grounds, so it was logical to want to shoot here.” We discussed Cincinnati’s recent emergence as a location of note for Hollywood productions. I lamented the fact that largely the Queen City has been relegated to a stand-in for old New York City. “I feel like Ohio should be its own culture,” Mergler offered in agreement. “Movies are Ohio’s calling card to the world. Governor (John) Kasich wants Ohio to be the cultural center of the Midwest, and so we’re trying to create that culture.” Besides The Tribunal, the upcoming slate of films includes Promises to Keep, Return to the Tribunal (a sequel to The Tribunal), Over-the-Rhine, A Brand New Kitchen (scheduled to shoot this month) and The Pope Drops In. (Opens Friday at Cinemark Oakley Station & Rave Cinemas Western Hills) – tt stern-enzi (PG-13) Grade: C+ ALSO OPENING THIS WEEK: The Girl on the Train // The Great Gilly Hopkins // Mia Madre // Middle School

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Now the real work begins. him to mythic status. We see Turner as a Since the unveiling of actor-turnedyoung boy (Tony Espinosa) participating in filmmaker Nate Parker’s feature debut The a ritualistic ceremony that foretells a great Birth of a Nation at this year’s Sundance future for him as a leader. What we are supFilm Festival, we have all fallen prey to posed to take away from this is a sense of heightened expectations. spiritual prophecy, but based on the current Back in January, Fox Searchlight laid context of heroic portrayals onscreen, the down $17.5 million for the distribution early scenes feel like the initial scenes of a rights to Parker’s labor of love, largely in an superhero’s origin story. attempt to seize control of a negative HolWith his destiny decided, we merely sit lywood narrative concerning the dearth of back and watch him, waiting for the boy films featuring significant roles for people of to grow into a man (Parker) who must still color (roles that could earn Academy Award come into his own. consideration).

Turner has enjoyed the benefit of educaAnd yet, by the summer, a new storyline tion — his mistress (Penelope Ann Miller) emerged with sinister conspiratorial undertaught him to read alongside her son Samtones. News spread about an alleged incident of sexual assault involving Parker and his Nation co-screenwriter, Jean Celestin, during their days as student-athletes at Pennsylvania State University.

As the details of that situation from 1999 trickled out, reactions split into two camps — those who sought to defend Parker, based on questions regarding the timing of the release of information, and those who saw Parker as a villain for his role in the incident, Nat Turner (Nate Parker) leads a slave revolt in Birth of a Nation. despite the fact that he had P H O T O : C o u r t e s y o f f o x s e a r ch l i g ht p i ct u r e s been acquitted at the time.

As an African-American uel (played as an adult by Armie Hammer as critic, I longed to see this highly anticipated if he forgot that he ever spent time playing presentation of a long-buried event in Amerwith the young Nat) — but is only allowed ican history — the only violent slave upristo use it to preach a gospel that keeps his ing in the United States — especially in fellow slaves in bondage. He encounters, light of contemporary conflicts between the both as a youngster and in adulthood, a police and the black community that have slave tracker named Raymond Cobb (Jackie been captured on smartphones, dashboard Earle Haley) who will serve as his nemesis. and body cameras, yet somehow always get At every turn, Parker’s Nat is the faultless reinterpreted to paint a completely different savior, a Christ-like figure, until he decides portrait than what seemed so obvious at he can no longer turn the other cheek. We first glance. certainly see and can appreciate the harsh On the flip side, I railed against my own realities of the antebellum South that could complicity in supporting the movie and, in give rise to such reactions, but the execuso doing, perhaps propping up a system that tion of the narrative sketches this transition failed a victim of sexual assault, championout in simplistic fashion. ing someone (Parker) who would rather Turner switches from sacrificial lamb to not discuss his own dark past and who, in a superhero-like butt-kicker of slave masthe movie, fabricates an instance of sexual ters, as if Parker prepared for his role by violence and uses it as the impetus that binge-watching Quentin Tarantino’s Django sparked a rebellion.

Unchained and Mel Gibson’s Braveheart Could one man be both hero and villain?

And who should decide? and The Patriot.

What I discovered during the junket It goes without saying that such broad screening of The Birth of a Nation at the and bloody strokes can justify the righteous Toronto International Film Festival is that indignation of an audience and a people the real question -- possibly the only one hungry for justice and provide a rallying cry that matters in the end -- is how does the for a movement. But I wish this Nation had film hold up under critical scrutiny? been borne rooted in the complex truth that Parker fully embraces the notion of Nat even heroes experience dark nights of the Turner as a hero, going so far as to elevate soul. (Opens wide Friday) (R) Grade: C

IN THEATERS THE TRIBUNAL – St. Michael Movies endeavors to produce “great stories that reflect a Catholic viewpoint with regard to moral and ethical issues facing individuals in our world today.” With The Tribunal, from screenwriter-producer Michael C. Mergler and director Marc Leif (Rockin’ the Wall), this Ohio-based production takes audiences inside a Catholic marriage tribunal as Joe (Chris Petty) seeks to gain an annulment so that he will be free to marry Emily (Laura Mock).

In order to make his case, Joe must enlist his best friend Tony (Ryan Gilreath) to serve as a witness, despite the fact that Tony is also Emily’s ex-boyfriend and he still has strong feelings for her. As the courtroom drama plays out, we see via flashbacks the gradual evolution of the relationships between the three leads, and come to appreciate how the verdict will decide not only the simple issue of Joe’s annulment but also the emotional and spiritual fates of all three characters.

With such weighty issues to debate, the film suffers under the burden of all the talk and a decided lack of narrative energy. But beyond the focus on Catholic doctrine, St. Michael Movies has another calling — to offer true representations of the Midwest. Mergler grew up in Dayton and lived in Cincinnati during various periods of his life, meaning — as he put it in a recent phone interview — “Cincinnati and Dayton are my stomping grounds, so it was logical to want to shoot here.” We discussed Cincinnati’s recent emergence as a location of note for Hollywood productions. I lamented the fact that largely the Queen City has been relegated to a stand-in for old New York City. “I feel like Ohio should be its own culture,” Mergler offered in agreement. “Movies are Ohio’s calling card to the world. Governor (John) Kasich wants Ohio to be the cultural center of the Midwest, and so we’re trying to create that culture.” Besides The Tribunal, the upcoming slate of films includes Promises to Keep, Return to the Tribunal (a sequel to The Tribunal), Over-the-Rhine, A Brand New Kitchen (scheduled to shoot this month) and The Pope Drops In. (Opens Friday at Cinemark Oakley Station & Rave Cinemas Western Hills) – tt stern-enzi (PG-13) Grade: C+ ALSO OPENING THIS WEEK: The Girl on the Train // The Great Gilly Hopkins // Mia Madre // Middle School

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It’s rare to find a “dramedy” — you know, of a story with laughs and loss, perfect the rapidly growing category of programs to watch while cozied up with a loved that contain as much serious drama as one or just a box of wine tissues. Besides, silly humor — with strong writing, wellwhere else can you see the formerly developed characters and an impressive sweet-as-“Candy” pop star Mandy Moore ensemble cast. But when it works, you end in old-lady drag? up with excellent shows like Transparent, In this week’s episode, Rebecca crosses Parenthood and Friday Night Lights. paths with William, Kevin plans a move to It’s a little early to say whether This Is New York and we get a glimpse of Jack and Us (10 p.m. Tuesdays, NBC) belongs in that Rebecca’s first days as parents. company, but this new show seems to have all the elements of an effective family-centered dramedy. It even fills the old ParentUnlocking the Truth (Season Finale, 11 hood time slot! p.m. Wednesday, MTV) – Quite a departure This Is Us follows four storylines that from the Teen Mom-like fare typical of the eventually intersect: Married Pittsburgh couple Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) embark on the journey of parenting in a very big way; Los Angeles personal assistant Kate (Chrissy Metz) recommits to the tough job of getting healthy in one of the better TV depictions of obesity and the issues faced by people who struggle with their weight; hunky actor Kevin (Justin Hartley) begrudgingly stars, often shirtless, in primetime sitcom The Manny (which reeks of a Two and a Half Chrissy Metz (left) and Chris Sullivan in This Is Us Men vibe); and Randall P H O T O : R o n b at z d or f f/ n b c (recent Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown), a successful New York business/family man, decides to track channel, this debut series exposed some down his long-lost biological father. of the real injustices in America’s criminal The pilot, which premiered Sept. 20, justice system. As the series winds down, found Jack, Kate, Kevin and Randall each Ryan and Eva interview Anastasia’s father celebrating their 36th birthdays, but audiand close their investigation of Kalvin ences didn’t see just how much more they Michael Smith. had in common until a buzzed-about reveal Divorce (Series Premiere, 10 p.m. Sunday, at the end of the hour. (No spoilers!) The HBO) – SJP is back on HBO! More than episode used this thread of a shared birth12 years since Sarah Jessica Parker last day to weave the storylines together, and appeared on the network in Sex and the “four people who share a common birthday City, she returns as one half of a couple are connected in unexpected ways” is a (with Thomas Haden Church) forced to neat summary of what happened.

But don’t be turned off by the idea of reevaluate their marriage. some “spiritually linked strangers” gimmick.

Insecure (Series Premiere, 10:30 p.m.

It’s simply a show about families — the Sunday, HBO) – Created by recently ousted ones we’re born into and the ones we create, Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore and and the work that goes into keeping those star Issa Rae, based on Rae’s Awkward relationships afloat. Still, two episodes in, Black Girl web series, Insecure delivers an it’s clear the showrunner has a penchant for authentic view of the black female experitwist-endings. ence. It’s almost as if they scrubbed all the Creator Dan Fogelman wrote the film entitlement and white privilege off Girls.

Crazy, Stupid, Love — another heartstrings-pulling comedy whose characters Brooklyn Nine-Nine and New Girl (8 p.m. intertwine in a surprising turn of events.

Tuesday, Fox) – In back-to-back crossover (He’s also behind another new NBC show, episodes, New Girl’s Jess Day travels to Pitch.) He recently locked a full-season New York and helps Brooklyn’s Detective order of This Is Us, so we’ll get at least 18 Jake Peralta with a case. Why not? episodes. I anticipate a success.

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Swad India owners revamp one of Clifton’s Indian staples

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Saag paneer, garlic naan, navartan korma, chana masala and chicken tikka masala buffet, available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with more than 10 kinds of ice cream. Ludlow Graeter’s, you may have found your match.

I shoveled the multicolor rice, aloo choley, saag paneer, a vegetable samosa and a hefty slice of naan onto my plate. Usually, this isn’t enough for me — I once took a Tinder date to Dusmesh buffet and never heard from him again, presumably because he wasn’t as impressed with me finishing five plates. This time, I finished up my plate before my boyfriend’s aloo choley even got to the table, but I was actually full.

One reason the food went down so quickly is because Grill of India obviously uses extremely fresh ingredients. Saag paneer is an item I love to order but dread to eat from buffets — sometimes the saag seems to burn when left out. Grill of India’s saag still was delicately creamy, the paneer cubes retaining firmness. The aloo choley had a deep tomato base and tender chickpeas. The naan was actually warm and not overly greasy at all.

The vegetable samosa was a bit greasy, but I love that in a fried potato dish. Grill of India exceeded my expectations with each buffet element. The meal was half nutritious, loading me up with actual vegetables and spices, and half delicious.

My boyfriend’s aloo choley was fantastic, but not so much better than mine that I’d

avoid the buffet here. Our waiter offered more rice to us whenever we needed it, too, right when he put down the aloo choley — he knew what we were about from the get-go. The only disappointment at Grill of India was that I could actually eat my boyfriend’s level 5 aloo choley; the spice level was more of a 1 or 2. Nevertheless, he ate the entire dish. Once we inevitably become regulars there, he’ll know he has to order above their 6 limit.

I actually didn’t try the ice cream buffet; the mango lassi was everything I could want in a dessert. The rose water taste was clearer in Grill of India’s mango lassi than any I’ve had in Cincinnati. I grew up on rose water desserts, and having that flavor here is special.

I was able to chat with the owner of Grill of India for a few minutes as he surveyed the buffet selection, a big man named Singh with an even bigger smile. “People come in

once, then twice, then three times a week,” Singh said. “They like the food.”

Unlike my original presumption, Amol India hadn’t magically become Grill of India overnight. It is now operated under completely new ownership by the same family that brings North College Hill’s Swad of India to Cincinnati (which is a seal of approval for most Cincinnatians). Singh told me that each dish is a tried and true family recipe, which explains why Swad of India is one of the most popular Indian restaurants in town and why I’d put money on Grill of India rising to the same level of local fame.

This restaurant fills a local niche I didn’t know existed: It’s perfect for fans of Cincinnati’s Indian food scene and those who frequent Kentucky diners like the Pepper Pod and Anchor. Next time I go in, I’m bringing a book and sticking around for the entire buffet time to snack on samosas. See you there.

You won’t be able to miss the signs.

Grill of India Go: 354 Ludlow Ave., Clifton; Call: 513-961-3600; Hours: 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. daily (lunch buffet 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.); Internet: grillofindiacincinnati.com.

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udlow Avenue rarely sees abrupt change. I could walk that street from Dewey’s to CVS blindfolded at this point. When new businesses move in, the process is as follows: whispers for months, grumbles for weeks, then the eventual embrace of the change wholeheartedly, as if it has always been there. Take the Clifton Market co-op or the change in the library location. Cincinnati doesn’t go softly into that good night.

A pleasant addition to the Gaslight District recently bucked this trend, however, when Amol India, an established Indian restaurant on Ludlow, transformed into Grill of India.

Driving by, I was suddenly greeted with the bright blue Grill of India signage — and they are not messing around with this signage. Two neon signs announce that the restaurant is open, with their hours plastered onto the door. They also note a website on a sign tacked to the outside wall (grillofindiaoh.com) and list a phone number below with the invitation “TEXT ME” written above.

When an Indian restaurant asks you to text it, you don’t ghost them.

My boyfriend and I recently visited, parking near the back of the Habanero/Ambar India parking lot, assuming that this new Grill of India joint had reserved a few of the parking spaces in the lot (they did).

We entered through the side entrance — also decorated with not one but three Grill of India signs — and were greeted with a beautifully decorated but empty party room.

Turns out, everyone was just busy getting another plate at the buffet.

Our waiter sat us at a booth near the full bar, where dapper men with neat aprons tied around their waists were popping straws into mango lassis. The restaurant’s lighting is dim, with curtains drawn around the far-off front windows, creating a cozy Indian diner vibe.

I’m a sucker for what’s directly presented before me, so I ordered the buffet ($7.99) and the mango lassi ($2.99) I had been eyeing earlier. My boyfriend opted to order the aloo choley ($10.99) off the menu, as he prefers his Indian food spicy enough that I don’t pick half of it off his plate when he’s not looking. He ordered it spicy level 5 (out of 6). I grumbled and went to the buffet.

Grill of India’s daily lunchtime buffet offers not one but two buffet tables — the sandwich board outside advertised it as 36 items. While I didn’t count, there were more than 12 different types of entrée dishes available to pick and choose from on the right-hand buffet table. Luckily for this vegetarian, each entrée selection was marked clearly. There was also a free ice cream

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Every Taco Tuesday, I find myself wonaddition of cheese on the tacos. (Yep, in dering where the line blurs between authenMexico you will only find meat, onions and tic Mexican food and the Tex-Mex many of cilantro on your tacos). The spice level of us naively believe to be “the real deal.” the food is kept under control to please a However, a trip over to Gutierrez Deli variety of taste palates. in Covington opened up my gringo eyes Sergio says that while Mexicans are (and taste buds) to what real Mexican used to spicier food, here the salsa is food is like. served on the side so that a diverse array of At first glance, Gutierrez Deli can customers can enjoy the food and choose be misleading. When I drove past the their own spice levels. building on Lee Street during my daily Those who feel a bit overwhelmed commute, with its toy ponies outside, by choices when ordering from buildI thought it would be a good place to buy lunch meat and other deli necessities.

But Gutierrez doesn’t sell cold cuts; the deli actually sells a wide variety of Hispanic groceries as well as a menu of hot, made-to-order Mexican food.

The family-run business boasts that tacos aren’t just for Tuesday anymore — and with their prices, even college grads chin-deep in student debt can dine out any day of the week. While the menu is small, it offers Homemade tamales wrapped in banana leaves quick, friendly service and PHOTO : KHOI NGUYEN some great tacos.

The daily special includes your-own Mexican restaurants like three tacos — beef or chicken, with cheese, cabbage, loads of cilantro and Chipotle can finally relax. Gutierrez’s homemade salsa verde on the side — limited selection of fillings keeps the and a can of soda for $6.99. tacos and quesadillas simple.

For the same price you can opt for a And in this case, simpler is better — giant quesadilla with the same fillings and with meat and salsa this good, there’s no have a second meal leftover for later (my need to pile on ingredients. boyfriend, a voracious eater, could only Upon stepping into Gutierrez Deli, finish half his quesadilla). customers are quickly enveloped in the As a special treat, Gutierrez also offers family-run atmosphere with bilingual homemade tamales ($2) on Saturdays and banter going on behind the deli counter.

Sundays. If visiting during the weekend, Both Case and Sergio agree that working be sure to try one. The tamales come with their family means they can always with chicken and masa dough wrapped depend on one another, and the business in a banana leaf. The simplicity of the has brought the family closer. dish and flavor of the meat make these And if you’re looking to soak up some incredibly special. culture before Hispanic Heritage Month Claudio Gutierrez and his girlfriend ends Oct. 15 (or really any time of the year), Courtney Case opened the business in 2012. you should definitely try some authentic Opening a family business had always Mexican from Gutierrez Deli. been a dream for Gutierrez, and while he There are a few picnic tables outside had original plans to buy an old bakery in the building where you can enjoy the fall Lexington, Ky., he decided to stay in the weather, or make a short drive to Devou Cincinnati area when the building formerly Park or Smale Riverfront Park for a picnic. known as Sue’s Deli in Covington went up (Unfortunately, the word “picnic” is the for sale. Gutierrez currently lives in Mexico, same in Spanish and English, so there’s but the business is still run by Case and no room for me to show off my limited Gutierrez’s relatives.

Spanish vocabulary.)

The food is made using recipes GutiGUTIERREZ DELI is located at 1131 Lee errez learned growing up watching his St., Covington, Ky. More info: facebook.com/ mother cook. gutierrezdeli.

His son Sergio says the only thing “Americanized” about the selection is the

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Flavor Dynamics — Chef Julie Francis, owner of Nectar, teaches guests the secrets of successful flavor combinations, mastering the five basic tastes of salt, sweet, bitter, sour and umami. 6-9 p.m. $75. Midwest Culinary Institute, 3520 Central Parkway, Clifton, culinary.cincinnatistate.edu.

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A Casual Autumn Buffet with Marilyn Harris — Create an entertaining menu that screams fall. These hearty dishes are perfect for an autumn buffet: oven-roasted caponata bruschetta, coq au blanc, apple crisp and more. 6:30-9 p.m. $65. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harpers Point, cookswaresonline.com.

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Oak, Toast & Two Aging Barrels — A bourbon-focused festival in MainStrasse.

The event features education and tastingbased events celebrating bourbon from both major distillers and craft organizations, overseen by Molly Wellmann. There will also be a bourbon dinner and bourbon brunch event. Friday-Sunday. Prices vary.

MainStrasse Village, Covington, Ky., facebook.com/oaktoastandtwoagingbarrels.

Navy Bean Fall Festival — Set in historic Rising Sun, the Navy Bean Fall Festival features rides, games, food and signature navy bean soup and cornbread.

5-9:30 p.m. Friday; noon-9:30 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Rising Sun, Ind., navybeanfestival.org.

Beer, Wine and Food Festival — A twoday festival with more than 100 varieties of beer and wine, plus some of the city’s best eats and live entertainment. Includes chalk art and benefits The Cure Starts Now. 5-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. $30-$50. Village Green, Wyoming, thecurestartsnow.org.

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Heritage and Hops Brewery District and Craft Brewery Tour — Two tours in one day. Visit the Brewing Heritage Trail to see historic breweries and underground lagering cellars and then visit three modern local breweries for tours and tastings. 10:30 a.m. $75. Christian Moerlein Brewery and Malthouse, 1621 Moore St., Over-the-Rhine, cincybrewbus.com.

Ohio Sauerkraut Festival — The 47thannual Ohio Sauerkraut Festival. Features craft vendors from more than 25 states, plus a ton of cabbage-based culinary treats — cabbage rolls, ruebens, sauerkraut brownies, cookies, pies, pizza, cabbage soup and more. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Downtown Waynesville, sauerkrautfestival.com.

Lebanon Oktoberfest — Head to historic downtown Lebanon for food, craft beer, kids’ activities and more. 11 a.m. Free admission. Mulberry St., Lebanon, Ohio, millerecopark.org.

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nterviewing Bucko is like herding meth lab cats. During the Cincinnati band’s guest spot on Eddy Mullet’s Kindred Sanction show on radio station Class X, drummer Brian Kitzmiller dropped a “bullshit” bomb almost immediately, bassist Josh Pilot peppered the interview with stingers from the sound effect app on his phone and vocalist/guitarist Brandon Losacker went in and out of an Italian/Hispanic accent, sometimes interviewing himself.

For this feature, we met at the Gaslight Cafe in Pleasant Ridge on a packed Thursday night, so imagine the aforementioned interview, but with the threat of FCC sanctions removed and glazed liberally with a couple of gallons of alcohol.

On this go-round, Kitzmiller got up to use the restroom and sat back down with strangers in the booth directly behind us, Pilot randomly broke into his spot-on Borat impression and complained he was too young to get our Pop culture references (which is true; I have concert T-shirts older than him) and Losacker did his karaoke version of Chad Kroeger and spoke in what sounded like a lost Babylonian dialect. It was way more fun than work is supposed to be.

The reason for this controlled psychotic break from reality is the emergence of Bucko on Cincinnati’s music scene and the release of the band’s eponymous debut, a nine-song full-length that finds Losacker forsaking his longtime sideman role and reluctantly moving to the front of the stage.

It’s also forced him to draw on different, more personal influences.

“I listen to so many different things, and then (try) to play into what these guys do,” Losacker says of finding a sound. “My roots are still in Hard Rock, like Slayer, but I’ll listen to Duran Duran too. It’s a very scattered time in my life and I’m all over the fucking place. Duran Duran. Fugazi. It’s very schizophrenic.”

Local players are always getting together in new forms, but Bucko’s lineup has an alchemical feel. Losacker and Kitzmiller played together in Jody Stapleton’s Generals and The Black Owls, which also featured Bucko guitarist/vocalist Ed Shuttleworth.

Former KillTones guitarist Josh Pilot, who led his own band when he was a teenager, joined up, but only on the stipulation that he could switch to bass.

“It took me a year and a half to get decent at it,” Pilot says.

“He plugged in and we played a song,” Kitzmiller says. “It was like, ‘Whoa, I think this is it.’ ” The magic that occurred when Losacker and Kitzmiller began jamming together in

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the wake of The Black Owls’ dissolution a little over two years ago is woven into Bucko’s debut album.

The process of simply figuring out what they were aiming for took a bit of time, detective work and a succession of area guests, including Mad Anthony’s Ringo Jones, The Sundresses’ Brad Schnittger, former Black Owl Mike Brewer and The Ass Ponys’ Randy Cheek, among others. The KillTones’ Clinton Vearil (who’s now with mr. phylzzz) also gave Losacker some much appreciated support.

“I reached out to Clinton because I needed some kind of validation,” Losacker says. “I was like, ‘Check this out, what do you think?’ Clinton was like, ‘It’s great!’ That made me a little more confident because I was never the frontguy and I still didn’t want to be the frontguy, at all. I remember Ringo would sing, and I’d go, ‘How about like this?’ He’d go, ‘You can sing. Why don’t you just sing?’ I just wanted to play guitar.”

After lots of jamming on Losacker’s demoed songs, Kitzmiller decided to contact Pilot about jumping into the process. Pilot had heard the demo of the track “Flowers” through Vearil and thought it was incredible.

With his bass demands met, the three began shaping Losacker’s riffs and ideas into songs.

“I was going through the shit I was going through, holed up in the attic doing this (holds up shot glass) — probably not good — and writing songs,” he says. “I’d bring them to these guys. Before, I’d record something and think it was great at the time, then the next day be like, ‘This is shit.’ But this stuff, two days later, I’d be like, ‘This is pretty good.’ We did this two or three times, and it worked, and I was like, ‘We’ve got to get Ed. He’s the only guy that can make this work.’ Ed and I have crazy chemistry.”

Former Black Owls guitarist/vocalist Shuttleworth may well be Bucko’s secret weapon. A Glam-era influenced six stringer with a strong Punk ethic and an infinite power train warranty, Shuttleworth nailed the whole package together.

“Ed is one of those guys who knows exactly what to do and when to do it and then can do it,” Pilot says. “The stuff he added to the recordings is just amazing, especially all his backup vocals.”

“He’s got the sweetest high voice I’ve ever heard,” Kitzmiller says. “He sounds like a ghost, really. You know, I’d played in a lot of bands, and they told me to play behind the beat. Ed was like, ‘Play on top of the beat.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’

And he said, ‘Like the fucking Clash, man!’

And it worked.”

Perhaps the biggest surprise after checking out Bucko is when you realize that

Cincinnati Rock squad Bucko finds its voice through growing confidence and collaboration.

Losacker has never fronted a band. Given his emotional delivery and vocal resemblance to the likes of Eddie Vedder, Waylon Jennings and Matt Berninger, he would seem a natural choice, but his confidence issues had to be addressed first.

“I had all these songs but I’d never played them with anyone,” Losacker says. “I’d bring in one, and they’d be like, ‘That’s cool,’ and I’d go, ‘No, we can’t do that. It’s my song.’ ” “Brandon was a big fan of it being a group thing,” Kitzmiller says.

With everyone’s input, Bucko has become a very strong group thing, a dynamic that may be helped by the fact that each member has remained in other groups. Losacker drums with The Tongue and Lips and plays guitar with Royal

Holland, Kitzmiller drums with The Ready Stance, Pilot plays guitar with The Skulx and Shuttleworth plays guitar in Pretty Mugs, his project with Black Owls frontman David Butler, and also has recorded a solo album under the banner Red Skylark.

“We’re hoping to incorporate some of that into what we’re doing, especially with the new stuff,” Losacker says. “I also do a puppet show.”

Another round, barkeep. This is all starting to make sense.

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Thursday at Southgate House Revival (111 E. Sixth St., Newport, southgatehouse. com), several local musicians are teaming up to raise money for Melodic Connections, a Norwood-based “community music therapy studio” that offers music-based lessons and programs for area residents of all ages and abilities (including those with developmental disabilities). The nonprofit organization, which has been steadily growing since its 2008 inception (visit melodicconnections. org for more details), suffered major damage during the late August rainstorms that left parts of unexpected communities like Norwood flooded. The flash flooding extensively damaged the group’s studio space and destroyed much of the equipment and instruments used by the hundreds of people who benefit from Melodic Connections’ services.

To help replenish the equipment and find a new location (the org has found a temporary space), a crowd-funding campaign was launched (gofundme.com/mcfloodrelief).

The campaign has raised more than $45,000 in just over a month, but that’s only half of the $100,000 goal. Thursday’s Music > Water: A Benefit for Melodic Connections concert will assist with the fundraising, with all proceeds going to help the group secure a permanent new home.

The benefit event begins at 9 p.m. and features music on both the Southgate’s Sanctuary and Lounge stages. Artists scheduled to appear include The Ready Stance, Wussy’s Chuck Cleaver, Wonky Tonk, Patsy, endless-nameless, Wolfcryer, Carriers, JIMS, Nanny, M. Moncrieff, Dead Man String Band, Vampire Weekend at Bernie’s, Boilersuit (featuring members of Old City, Royal Holland and The Turkeys) and Bucko (see interview on page 32). Tickets for the all-ages show are $10 in advance or $15 at the door.

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northsidetav.com). Kicking off at 7 p.m., the free event features nine artists on three stages, including Jeremy Pinnell, Honey & Houston, Tyler Randall of Dawg Yawp, Arlo McKinley, Wonky Tonk, The Hiders and Ally Hurt.

• Eighties Cincinnati Metal giants CJSS played a show “one last time” at Bogart’s (2621 Vine St., Corryville, bogarts.com) last fall that went so well, the band is doing it again this Saturday! The group’s “Last Show on Earth 2” will be opened by former Cincy guitarist Chris Dunnett and Leather Leone, who sang on several albums by guitar wizard David Chastain’s post-CJSS band, Chastain.

The doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20.

• Local bar, restaurant and music venue Northside Yacht Club (4227 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub. com) celebrates its first anniversary this Saturday with an all-day party/luau/ pig-roast that kicks off at noon. The fun includes DJs, carnival games, specials and live music by staff members’ bands like Tweens, The Dopamines and a reunited Lions Rampant.

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Animal Collective Is for the Children Avant Garde Indie rockers Animal Collective prefer to play all-ages venues while on tour.

So the members were bummed when they found out at the last minute that a show in Edmonton, Canada was only open to fans 18 and up. The band unsuccessfully tried to find a different venue and offered refund info for underage ticket buyers on Twitter. Two people who responded received a very cool and rare treat — AC invited the youngsters to the venue for an intimate pre-show set, exclusively for them.

Tool Preaches Patience Legendary modern progressive rockers Tool know fans are eager for them to finish their first new album in more than a decade.

But bitching about it online and “disavowing” the group over the wait isn’t going to help. In a recent newsletter written by the band’s webmaster (but signed by each band member), such passionate “Tool trolls” were taken to task for spreading negativity online. The newsletter tried to point out the upside of positive thinking with an apparently true-life parable about getting served the wrong food at Arby’s and, instead of complaining, eating the mistaken order and finding out it’s even better!

Point taken — but does anyone “eagerly anticipate” eating at Arby’s?

Don’t Phase Me, Bro Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher was the star of the news section of the website for British music publication NME during the week leading up to the U.K. premiere of a documentary about his former band. Like in Oasis’ heyday, the site turned endless quotes from the singer (mostly about nemesis/bandmate/ brother Noel) into full-page stories. Highlights include Liam saying that he will release a solo album that will put certain people in their place (but if it fails, he will “fuck off forever”), that he’d cut his kids off financially if they went to a Noel concert and that he’d patch things up with his brother for his mom’s sake (and all that sweet Oasis reunion cash).

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• Indie/Synth Pop trio DYAN, featuring Cincinnati-based singer/songwriter Alexis Marsh and pianist/keyboardist Dan Dorff Jr., will make its local debut Thursday at MOTR Pub (1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, motrpub.com). The group is rounded out by L.A.’s Samuel Jones, who does film-scoring work with Marsh as “Alexis & Sam.” The free show with Fee Lion is part of the touring behind DYAN’s debut album, Looking for Knives, which has caught the attention of music press outlets like PopMatters, American Songwriter and Billboard.

• A benefit to help establish a scholarship in the name of Maria LeMaster (to be awarded annually to a woman studying music) is set for Sunday at the Southgate House Revival. The show — which kicks off at 3 p.m. — is scheduled to feature

performances by Android 86, The Z.G.s, SS-20, The Fairmount Girls, Darlene, Everyday Objects, Jim Trace and the Makers, Wonky Tonk, David Berry, Carbomb, Dynamite Thunderpunch, France vs. France, Public Figure, Sagermen, The Summit and others. Admission is $8.

• Several local acts largely from the local Folk/Americana and Indie Country scenes will take part in the inaugural Helltown Harvest Festival this Saturday at Northside Tavern (4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside,

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Prophets of Rage with AWOLNATION and Wakrat Wednesday • Riverbend Music Center Two of the more recent Rock supergroups — usually formed by members of different bands that are not active at the time — to experience great commercial success are Velvet Revolver (with three Guns ’N Roses members and a late Stone Temple Pilot) and Audioslave, which featured Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell and what was left of Rage Against the Machine after frontman Zack de la Rocha stepped away from the band. Though both found commercial success with a Rock-radio-ready sound, each ’00s sensation was rather bland and generic, especially when compared to the groups from which they sprung.

So Rage Against the Machine’s creative guitarist Tom Morello and powerhouse rhythm section of bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk know a thing or two about Prophets of Rage creating a band featurP H O T O : D a n n y C l i n ch ing established musicians that can draw a lot of attention. This time around, though, the trio’s latest project, Prophets of Rage, includes a trademark Rage ingredient missing from Audioslave — the Hip Hop power of de la Rocha’s fierce lyrics and commanding delivery. And they Deerhunter found a pair of ringers P H O T O : R ya n S ta n g to add that ingredient who just happen to be two of the finest Hip Hop MCs of all time.

When you talk about smart, powerful rappers, you can’t get much better than Chuck D, whose booming vocals and brilliant lyrics made Public Enemy Hip Hop legends and no-brainer Rock and Roll Hall of Famers. Teaming with PE’s main man in Prophets of Rage is B-Real, the deft if somewhat more laidback lead MC of Cypress Hill. The rappers have two of the most distinct styles in Hip Hop history, with Chuck D’s bassheavy wallop and B-Real’s sinewy, piercing style being instantly recognizable upon the first syllable.

While Audioslave was focused on original material (because who wants to hear Chris Cornell rap, really?), Prophets of Rage has the ability to not only present some new songs with the vibe of all of the members’

stylistically compatible previous output, but also perform songs from the Rage, PE and Cypress Hill catalogs. While that formula certainly plays into nostalgia, it’s also an opportunity to hear classics like “Take the Power Back,” “How I Could Just Kill a Man” and “Miuzi Weighs a Ton” in a new context.

Though the sets on the band’s current tour rely heavily on Rage’s discography, it should be especially interesting to hear how Morello and Co. creatively interpret the MC’s classics.

Given that Rage and PE, in particular, are two of the greatest socio-political-minded groups in modern music, the new band’s presence on the road in the run up to such an important and bitterly fought battle for the White House — as well as during the rise of voices in movements like Black Lives Matter — seems almost like destiny. The band’s creation seems less about selling a million albums and more about amplifying some important ideas in a time when it’s needed. If you’re a music lover who feels as if we’re in an era where artists sadly no longer speak up about vital societal issues, Prophets of Rage’s Make America Rage Again tour (see what they did there?) offers a litany of socially conscious ideas set to an explosive soundtrack.

The band’s concert might not help you make sense of today’s nonsensical political climate and contentious social problems, but it will almost certainly offer some catharsis and a chance to rage against it all with like-minded citizens. (Mike Breen) Deerhunter with Jock Gang and Aldous Harding Wednesday • Madison Theater Bradford Cox, frontman for the sonic explorers known as Deerhunter, is a unique guy. He does things on a different frequency, and he isn’t afraid to state his opinions about a variety of things, both on stage and off. Then there’s the fact that he looks as if he might have come from another planet — his long, reed-thin frame and large, often haunting eyes bring to mind a praying mantis in human form.

Best of all, the guy writes fascinating, earworm-worthy Art Pop songs. Deerhunter,

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The Record Company Monday • 20th Century Theater The Record Company is one of those rare bands that are far removed from their own time and place and yet somehow are firmly anchored in the here and now. The contemporary Blues trio from Los Angeles first formed in 2011, coalescing around a mutual love of the electric reinvention by authentic players like John Lee Hooker, the British Rock translation by the likes of the early Rolling Stones and raw first-generation Punk bands like The Stooges.

The threesome — guitarist/vocalist Chris Vos, bassist/vocalist Alex Stiff and drummer/vocalist Marc Cazorla — isn’t interested in retro revivalism. The members want to make their own unique mark with original songs steeped in history, but forged in the new millennium.

For the past four years, The Record Company has toured relentlessly, including opening slots for B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Brian Setzer and Social Distortion, and released a consistent string of singles and EPs that have raised the band’s profile immeasurably.

The Record Company’s Blues/Rock version of The O’Jays’ “Love Train” was used in a Coors Light commercial that same year, and the band’s No. 1 Billboard Adult Alternative hit, “Off the Ground,” was tapped by Miller Lite last year. The trio’s presence on television shows has been beneficial and varied as well; CSI, Shameless, Suits, Nashville and Orphan Black have all utilized Record Company songs on their soundtracks.

It’s not too hard to draw a line between The Record Company and late model Blues translators like The Black Keys and Morphine. Vos plays impressive slide guitar runs that are reminiscent of Dan Auerbach, and he often sets his guitar aside to concentrate on vocals, leaving Stiff as the lone guitarist, which leads to Mark Sandman comparisons. The Record Company’s debut full-length, Give It Back to You, was released early this year and made an immediate impact at radio and on the charts. This is one Record Company you can absolutely trust. (Brian Baker)

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which he formed in Atlanta with drummer Moses Archuleta in 2001, has released seven albums since its little-heard 2005 debut (the provocatively titled Turn It Up Faggot). The best of the bunch was 2010’s Halcyon Digest, a melody-infested fever dream that contains multitudes — a mini-epic that grows more beautiful and immersive over time. It’s a record on which it’s hard to make out what Cox is saying half the time, which allows his high-pitched harmonizing to accent the chord progressions all the more easily.

If Halcyon Digest is Deerhunter at its apex, the band’s most recent album, 2015’s Fading Frontier, is its most accessible, a welcomed entry point in a diverse discography that’s rapidly becoming one of the most interesting and vital of the new century.

The album’s centerpiece of sorts, “Living My Life,” is a gorgeous, elegiac number layered with electronic quirks and elegantly strummed guitars. Cox’s vocals and lyrics are delivered with newfound direction, as he sings about amber waves of grain and what seems to be pointed personal introspection (“Will you tell me when you find out how to conquer all this fear?/ Will you tell me when you find out how to recover the lost years?/I’ve spent all of my time chasing a fading frontier”).

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Crow’s Nest - The Newbees. 9 Hp.m.

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The Greenwich - Mambo HCombo. 8 p.m. Latin Jazz. $5.

Bogart’s - Switchfoot and Relient K. 7 p.m. AltRock. $35.

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

Knotty Pine - Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Blind Lemon - Sara Hutchinson. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Latitudes Bar & Bistro - Ricky Nye and Bekah Williams. 6 p.m. Jazz/ Blues. Free.

Cock & Bull Public House Glendale - Chuck & Gina. 8 p.m.

Blues/Various. Free.

The Comet - Hestina with Brittany Gillstrap. 10 p.m. Soul Folk. Free.

The Listing Loon - Macknificent. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Grandview Tavern & Grille - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. Funk/Soul/R&B. Free.

The Mockbee - Hat Goblin, Off The Meat Rack, Bobby Peru, Little Critter and Amnesiac Mnemonist. 9 p.m. Hip Hop/Rock. Free.

The Greenwich - Rollins Davis Band. 9 p.m. Jazz/R&B. $5.

Century Inn Restaurant - Paul Lake. 7 p.m. Pop/Rock/Jazz/ Oldies/Various. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Steve Dirr. 8:30 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Esquire Theatre - Live ’N Local H with Ricky Nye and Bekah Williams. 7 p.m. Jazz/Blues. $5.

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

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Live! at the Ludlow Garage - Dawn Landes. 8 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. $12-$25.

Madison Theater - Deerhunter H with Jock Gang and Aldous Harding. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. $20.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Losing Lucky.

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Marty’s Hops & Vines - Dave Hawkins and Peg Buchanan. 7 p.m.

Folk/Americana/Celtic. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Immortal Bird with FAITHXTRACTOR, Floodwater and Bloodgate. 8 p.m.

Black Metal.

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

Quaker Steak & Lube Florence Pandora Effect. 6 p.m. Rock. Free.

Rake’s End - The Black Black. 8 p.m. Post Punk.

Miller’s Fill Inn - Karaoke with A Mystical Sound Sensation DJ Rob. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Hellbound Glory with Stump Tail Dolly and Mack McKenzie Band. 8 p.m. Country/ Roots/Rock/Various. $10, $12 day of show.

MOTR Pub - Adia Victoria with H Swim Team. 10 p.m. Rock/ Punk/Various. Free.

Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary and Lounge) MUSIC > WATER - A Benefit for

Northside Tavern - Paper Doll H Scissor Fight and Billy Catfish & The Broken Werewolves. 10 p.m.

Rock/Various. Free.

Pit to Plate - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. $2.

Riverbend Music Center Prophets of Rage with AWOLNATION and Wakrat. 7 p.m.

Rock/Rap/Various. $20-$69.50.

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Silverton Cafe - Bob Cushing Acoustic. Free.

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MOTR Pub - Fee Lion with H Dyan. 10 p.m. Electronic/ Synth Pop/Post Punk. Free.

Melodic Connections featuring Patsy, endless-nameless, The Ready Stance, JIMS, Nanny, Carriers, Bucko, Down Strange Charm, WolfCryer, Chuck Cleaver, M. Moncrieff, Wonky Tonk, Dead Man String Band, Vampire Weekend At Bernie’s and Boilersuit.

9 p.m. Various. $10, $15 day of show.

Taft Theatre - The Steeldrivers. 8 p.m. Bluegrass. $25, $30 day of show (in the Ballroom).

Urban Artifact - Let’s Be Leonard, Ample Parking, Calendar Girls and ZiG. 9 p.m. Rock/Funk/Various.

Free.

Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - Assemblage 23 with Hexadiode, Jess Lamb and The Factory, Relic and Dark Machine Nation. 8 p.m. Industrial/ Electronic/Various. Cover.

Woodward Theater - Flynt H Flossy and Turquoise Jeep with Abiyah. 8:30 p.m. Hip Hop. $12,

Urban Artifact - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10.

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Thursday 06

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

$15 day of show.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Nicholas & The Pessimistics. 9 p.m.

Americana. Free.

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

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

Blind Lemon - Warren Ulgh. 9 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Bogart’s - Ingrid Michaelson. 8 p.m. Pop. $30.

Blue Note Harrison - Flipside. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/Various.

Century Inn Restaurant - Jim Teepen. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Brass Tracks. 9:30 p.m. Rock. Cover.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Stagger Lee. 9 p.m. Country/Rock.

Free.

Knotty Pine - Flatline. 10 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

The Listing Loon - Danbient. 9 p.m.

Electronic/Ambient. Free.

Madison Live - Synergy with Kaleidoscope Jukebox, Spankalicious, Magnetic, Indigo Child and Ab-Life. 10 p.m.

Electronic/Dance/Various. $12, $15 day of show.

Madison Theater - Goldfish H and jackLNDN. 10 p.m.

Electronic/Dance/Various. $12, $15 day of show.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Blues Express. 9 p.m. Blues. $4.

Marty’s Hops & Vines - Wild Mountain Berries. 9 p.m.

Americana. Free.

MOTR Pub - Alanna Royale with Mutts. 10 p.m. Rock/Roots/ Various. Free.

MVP Bar & Grille - String Theory. 9 p.m. Rock Northside Tavern - Build Us H Fiction with Kate Wakefield, mr. phylzzz and Soraia. 10 p.m. Indie/ Alt/Rock/Various. Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - My Brother’s Keeper. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass/ Folk. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - Road Trip with DJ X-Tina. 10 p.m. Classic Rock/ Various. $5.

RJ’s Sports Pub - Sonny Moorman Group. 8 p.m. Blues Rohs Street Café - Mitch Klein and Ryan Fine. 8 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter Silverton Cafe - Danny McCorkle. 8 p.m. Elvis tribute. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Ricky Nye Inc. 9:30 p.m.

Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

Southgate House Revival H (Revival Room) - Chicago Farmer (album release show) with

Ian Mathieu & Scott Risner and Andrew Hibbard. 9 p.m. Americana. $10, $12 day of show.

CityBeat’s music listings are free. Send info to MIKE BREEN via email at mbreen@citybeat.com.

Listings are subject to change. See citybeat.com for full music listings and all club locations.

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Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary) - Southern Culture on the Skids with The Split

Squad. 9 p.m. Roots/Rock/Varous. $18, $20 day of show.

Tap & Barrel Tavern - Bob Cushing.

9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Thompson House - Shallow Side with The World I Knew and Under Everything. 7 p.m. Metal. $10.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Mandy Gaines. 9 p.m.

Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

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

Blind Lemon - Michael J (9 p.m.); Evan Uveges (6 p.m.). 9 p.m.

Acoustic and Jazz. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - DV8. 9 p.m.

Rock.

Bogart’s - CJSS with Leather Leone and Chris Dunnet. 8 p.m. Metal/Hard Rock. $20.

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Cock & Bull Public House Glendale - Matt Capps. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

The Comet - Kal Marks, Hissing Tiles and Cross Country, plus Basement Reggae Night. 10 p.m.

Noise Punk. Free.

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

Crow’s Nest - Jesse Johnson. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Americana. Free.

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

Gallagher Student Center Theatre - Chick Corea Trio. 7 p.m. Jazz. $25-$90.

H

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Brass Tracks. 9:30 p.m. Rock. Cover.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Radio Romance. 9 p.m. Country.

Free.

Da Disciple, LGi, Josh Thrasher and The M.O.O.N. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $3.

MOTR Pub - Left Lane Cruiser H with Bailiff. 10 p.m. Blues/ Rock. Free.

Northside Tavern - Helltown H Harvest Festival with Jeremy Pinnell, Arlo McKinley, Wonky Tonk,

Honey & Houston, Tyler Randall,The Hiders, Sligo Road, Mike Fekete and Ally Hurt. 7 p.m. Folk/Country/ Americana/Various. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - One H Year Anniversary Luau, Pig Roast and Christening Celebration with Tweens, The Dopamines and more. 12 p.m. Rock/Various.

Plain Folk Cafe - Ronnie Vaughn & Co. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Rick’s Tavern - Second Wind. 10 p.m. Rock/Soul. $5.

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ilverton Cafe - Balderdash.

9 p.m. Rock/R&B. Free. H Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Frontier Folk Nebraska with Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robbery, Royal Holland and My Brother’s Keeper. 9 p.m. Indie/ Rock/Roots. $10.

Strasse Haus - Trailer Park Floosies. 10 p.m. Dance/Pop/ Rock/Country/Various. Free.

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

Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary) - Maria LeMaster Memorial Scholarship Benefit with

Android 86, David Berry, Carbomb, Darlene, Dynamite ThunderPunch, Everyday Objects, The Fairmount Girls, France vs. France, Jim Trace and the Makers, Public Figure, Sagermen, SS-20, The Summit, Wonky Tonk and The Z.G.s. 3 p.m.

Rock/Various. $8.

Urban Artifact - The Fainting Goats, Wax Astro and Acid Ears. 9 p.m.

Rock/Pop/Various. Free.

Monday 10

20th Century Theater - The H Record Company. 8 p.m. Rock. $15, $17 day of show.

Blind Lemon - Joe Rollin Porter. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Knotty Pine - Open Mic. 8 p.m.

Various. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Sonny Moorman.

7 p.m. Blues. Free.

The Underground - Battle of the Bands with Mask Of The Charlatan, Crooked Sticks, Seth Canan & The Carriers and Waveshapes. 7 p.m.

Various. Cover.

Tuesday 11

Blind Lemon - Jeff Henry. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Blue Agave - Chris Dunnett.

1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Guitar/ Various. Free.

Knotty Pine - Naked Karate Girls.

10 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance/Various.

Cover.

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The Listing Loon - Disaster H Class, umin and Below Between. 9 p.m. Electronic/Dream

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

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Casey Campbell. 7 p.m. Blues/Roots.

Free.

Blind Lemon - Nick Tuttle. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

The Comet - Abiyah and H friends. 10 p.m. Hip Hop/ Electronic/Various. Free.

Crow’s Nest - Open Mic Nite. 8 p.m.

Various. Free.

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

Piano/Vocals. Free.

Live! at the Ludlow Garage H John Scofield, John Medeski and Bill Stewart. 8 p.m. Jazz. $35-$65.

The Listing Loon - Jennifer Hall, Claire Timmerman and Brianna Kelly. 9 p.m. Singer/Songwriter.

Free.

The Mad Frog - Hammer Fight and Product of Hate. 7 p.m. Metal. $10, $12 day of show.

Madison Live - Sheevaa with Jynx, Isolator and Plagues. 8 p.m. Rock/ Metal. $8, $10 day of show.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Open Blues Jam with Uncle Woody & the Blue Bandits. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Prestige Grease. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.

Miller’s Fill Inn - Karaoke with A Mystical Sound Sensation DJ Rob. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

The Mockbee - Nick Gnarly and The Good Company with Smokey & Slim Beezy, Sonny, Just Jake, Dev

MOTR Pub - Ricky Nye & Chris Douglas. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

MOTR Pub - Writer’s Night. 10 p.m.

Open mic/Various. Free.

Northside Yacht Club - Adictox Hand Arabio. 8 p.m. Punk Rock.

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R&B/Funk/Jazz. Free.

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

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9 p.m. Classic Rock. Free.

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Pop/Various. Free.

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Northside Tavern - Northside Jazz Ensemble. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Southgate House Revival H (Sanctuary) - Bronze Radio Return with Air Traffic Controller. 9

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