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Cue the Boy Scoutrage

The Boy Scouts of America will for the first time begin formally accepting girls this summer, and with that comes a change in name for the BSA’s flagship program. The Boy Scouts for kids in grades six through 12 will be known as “Scouts BSA” starting next February. But not everything is changing: The parent organization will continue to be called the Boy Scouts of America, and the Cub Scouts, which is for kids in kindergarten through fifth grade, will keep its title, too — however, all kids are welcome to join. The plan is for older kids to have separate troops for boys and girls, with both pursuing the same merit badges and enjoying outdoorsy adventures.

Somehow this turned into a conversation about transgender children in scouts, liberals trying to abolish gender and generally girls and women ruining everything.

Hey, some kids want to camp and make birdhouses, some kids want to craft and sell cookies. What’s the problem? Really, this comes down to the BSA struggling to retain members and trying to snatch away some new blood from the Girl Scouts.

People are fucking stupid. Leave me and my Thin Mints out of this mess.

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Khaled Mohamed Khaled, also known as DJ Khaled (and maybe Khaled Khaled?), is kind of an easy target (and no, that is not a fat joke). He’s on a ton of popular songs despite the fact that he doesn’t sing, rap, produce or even DJ anymore. He speaks in “major keys” and is desperately trying to make his baby son a brand (he and his wife have filed to trademark their son’s name, Asahd Tuck Khaled, on children’s products, fragrances, video games and clothing). He’s a Weight Watchers spokesman, reportedly looking to attract the young dad market to the weight loss program (he’s 42?).

But it’s a recently resurfaced 2014 interview that has just about everyone roasting Khaled. While appearing on The Breakfast Club radio show four years ago, Khaled said he never goes down on his then-girlfriend, now-wife Nicole Tuck, and that she should be fine with it because he gives her a nice home and clothes. However, when the tables are turned, she is expected to perform oral sex on him because he’s the king and there are “different rules for men.”

So, DJ Khaled is apparently not only obnoxious, but also a teenager who’s bad at sex (and rife with misogyny). As the video clip made its way across the internet, lots of celebrities chimed in to read Khaled, including Westworld’s Evan Rachel Wood, The Rock and even Smash Mouth.

But it was Dictionary.com that delivered the sickest burn in the form of a definition: Double standard. A code containing different provisions for one group of people than

This Week in Questionable Decisions…

1. Riders on a Universal Studios Japan roller coaster were stuck upside down for two hours after the ride stalled.

2. Trump last week teased the “Space Force,” a new intergalactic branch of the military.

3. A Dearborn, Mich. school offered a “modesty poncho” for girls attending prom. Hot! 4. Wisconsin man Don Gorske ate his 30,000th Big Mac this week at age 64. Since 1972, he’s gone about eight days total without eating one.

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for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. See also: DJ Khaled.

Congratulations, Khaled, you definitely just played yourself.

Poop Bandits in the News

Holmdel High School in New Jersey has been dealing with a stinky situation over the last few months. Specifically, human feces being left on the school’s track and football field, and it’s not just a one-time accident — we’re talking on a daily basis.

What many believed to be the crappy pranking efforts of some kids was revealed to be the work of an actual adult man.

The clincher: He’s the superintendent of a nearby school district. The issue had gotten so bad, Holmdel set up surveillance to catch the poopetrator and they finally did just that last week when they spotted Thomas Tramaglini running on the track in the early morning. The Kenilworth Public Schools superintendent has been charged for urination/defecation, dumping litter and lewdness. He’s also on paid leave. Is that what it takes to get PTO around here?

This reminds me of the “mad pooper” story of 2017, in which a Colorado woman regularly publicly popped a squat on her morning jogs, targeting on family’s yard in particular despite being close to public restrooms. Apparently, even though she was photographed, confronted by residents and covered by national media, they never ended up catching her!

Hey, when you got the runs… (I’ll see myself out.)

Celebs Save Blockbuster, Koalas

John Oliver is no stranger to strange stunts that are as random as they are generous.

See: his children’s book about the Pence family’s rabbit Marlon Bundo being gay, which has raised thousands of dollars for LGBTQ charities; and his “catheter cowboy” ads aired on Fox News aimed at educating the president. Oliver recently spent more than $10,000 at Russell Crowe’s divorce auction (sure, why not?) on various props, costumes and other mementos — including his leather jockstrap worn in Cinderella Man — as part of Oliver’s efforts to save one of the last remaining Blockbuster locations.

There are less than 10 Blockbusters still operating in the U.S., and Alaska is home to more than half of the surviving video stores. Oliver selected an Anchorage location as the recipient of this Crowe memorabilia, which he hopes will lure in more movie lovers. Crowe himself got wind of this charitable act and responded to Oliver by honoring him in the best way he knew how: By naming a koala chlamydia ward after the talk show host. In a video from the Australia Zoo with the famed Irwin family, it was revealed that Crowe used the money raised at auction to help save koala lives at the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward.

That STD is no joke in the marsupial world!

Big ups to Oliver and Crowe for combatting two important issues in the world: dying koalas and dying entertainment.

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5. French President Emmanuel Macron thanked Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his “delicious wife” for their hospitality during his visit to the country.

6. A Brinks armored truck spilled hundreds of thousands of dollars — up to $600,000 — onto an Indianapolis highway. Now the company is asking everyone to return the cash!

7. A North Carolina beekeeper drove 40 miles with 3,000 bees loose in his car when their crate opened en route.

8. The government in the Hubei province of China has started spraying mist at and publicly shaming jaywalkers in an attempt to deter them.

9. A Houston elementary school principal had to apologize after joking about a black special needs student trying to leave school grounds, saying, “We won’t chase him. We will call the police and tell them he has a gun so they can come faster.”

10. An art gallery in Paris opened its doors to nudists for a day. No touching!

11. Adele celebrated her 30th birthday with a Titanic-themed party complete with old timey life jackets. Fun? 12. Japanese monks hosted a funeral for old robot dogs, including more than 100 of Sony’s old generation Aibo robot dogs — the world’s first robo-pet capable of developing a personality. What about my old Tamagotchi?

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Corporation, has owned the building where the mural is since 2005. It was built in 1923 as an auto garage, but its last use about a decade ago was as a laundromat.

The building is in bad enough shape that the city has ordered it to remain vacant until a number of code compliance issues are addressed. The project that will create the new Senate space would mitigate those problems.

“Big things are happening on the corner of Race & Liberty and we couldn’t be more excited,” the restaurant’s original post about the building reads. “This beauty has been empty and alone far too long. We can’t wait to spruce her up. Details Coming Soon... #thisisotr #patio #construction #inlove #alwaysgucci @ Over-The-Rhine, Ohio.”

The post garnered positive reactions.

“Can’t wait for another amazing spot!

Love being a neighbor in OTR and having such amazing options,” one commenter wrote. “This will be like a one minute walk from my house! Keeping my fingers crossed the new patio will be dog friendly!”

But the announcement has also triggered some angst.

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more important.”

One person especially concerned about the mural’s fate is Mt. Airy Community Council Board member and transit activist Cam Hardy. For Hardy, the mural’s removal is personal. When he was 6 years old, his likeness was included in the painting, holding a sign reading “open on Sundays” behind the aforementioned giant sandwich.

Hardy’s family has deep roots in the neighborhood. His grandfather owned a pool hall just down the street from the mural, and his great aunt has worked in Over-the-Rhine most of her life.

Shortly after a family photo session 23 years ago, Hardy’s mother passed along a picture of Cam to Rankins, Jr., who incorporated his likeness — outfit and all — into the mural.

Hardy says the significance of being on the mural grew for him over time.

“I was pretty young,” he says of the first time he saw himself on the wall. “But as I got older, it dawned on me how cool it was. I would tell friends, and they wouldn’t believe me, so we’d have to go down and see it.”

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around the neighborhood, including a rendering of RoboCop on Vine Street that gained a cult following before it was painted over a few years ago. Rankins’ son, William Rankins III, says his father recently lost his eye sight due to a stroke and cannot paint anymore The mural’s west side is crammed full of action — a chef, presumably Smith himself, cooks on a grill near the dog, hoagie, TV star and other characters, all painted in surprising spatial relationship to each other. Further east, however, it gets sparser, almost lonely feeling. Toward the mural’s end, a lone Model T-like vintage car glides along an unfinished street.

Senate says the mural as it stands can’t be kept. At some point before it was painted, the restaurant says, someone applied a thin layer of cement — called parging — to the underlying bricks to shore them up, and that will need to be removed before the bricks can be restored.

Senate says they’ll try to save a portion of the mural, however, and will put a new one on the backside of the building when they’re finished.

“We agree it’s a great mural,” Senate wrote in response to questions on its Facebook page, “but preserving the structure is

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giant hoagie sandwich. An equally improbably sized but very cute dog.

A normal-sized likeness of 1990s TV star Steve Urkel of Family Matters ffame. A child in a sweet vintage sweater dropping french fries into the wind.

If you’ve walked around Over-the-Rhine much — or lived there for years — the above isn’t just an assemblage of random images: It’s an iconic mural on the southeast corner of Race and Liberty streets, right at the transition between the neighborhood’s northern and southern halves.

A new bar is coming to the lot where it’s located, and as it does, the mural — an advertisement for the 25-year-old West End institution Ollie’s Trolley, painted on the side of a vacant building — will come down.

The coming bar has generated excitement. But the removal of the mural has some people upset, and the bar has also received pushback from residents concerned about noise and parking.

In a Facebook post May 3, Over-theRhine-based Senate restaurant announced its new venture at the corner where the mural stands. The post included renderings of a fresh white building on the small corner lot, as well as the lot as it stands today, with the colorful Ollie’s Trolley mural surrounded by a chain link fence.

Ollie’s opened in 1993 after its owner, Marvin Smith, transitioned out of a career in real estate. The trolley itself still stands — slinging burgers, hot dogs and a host of other favorites — a few blocks away, surrounded by another assortment of epic murals featuring local and national black leaders. The OTR mural directing drivers on busy Liberty Street toward the West End, painted in 1995 by William Rankins, Jr., has become a neighborhood favorite, though. Rankins, Jr. was responsible for a number of other now-removed works

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FC Cincinnati gave an update — sort of — on its chances of grabbing a Major League Soccer franchise.

There’s still no final word on whether the team will get an MLS franchise, but league commissioner Don Garber and MLS executives will tour Cincinnati soon and meet with team owners, FCC says.

According to a statement released May 2, FCC’s president Jeff Berding, CEO Carl Lindner III and owner David Thompson met with MLS executives while in Los Angeles as guests of MLS for the opening ceremonies for the Banc of California Stadium, Los Angeles Football Club’s new facility.

“During the trip to Los Angeles, discussions about our expansion bid occurred with MLS executives,” the statement reads. “While extraordinary progress has been made, all of our work must be finalized — including various legal agreements with the city, port, county and CPS and an assessment of our interim MLS Nippert Stadium plan — before our bid will be 100 percent complete for final review.”

Cincinnati City Council last month voted to approve a roughly $34 million package to help with infrastructure costs associated with building the stadium in the West End. Earlier, Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education approved a deal to swap land where the district’s Stargel Stadium sits with the team so it can build its MLS stadium there. In exchange, FCC will pay fees equivalent to property taxes to the district and build a new stadium for CPS across Ezzard Charles Drive.

Other deals are also on the table and would need to be finalized. The Greater Cincinnati Redevelopment Authority, formerly the Port Authority, indicated it would enter into an ownership-leaseback arrangement with the team that would allow FCC to avoid sales taxes on construction materials and property taxes. The Hamilton County Commission voted to

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BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L A report from the Cincinnati Police Department on an internal investigation into the death of 16-year-old Kyle Plush that was slated to be released May 2 will be delayed by roughly a week, Cincinnati City Solicitor Paula Boggs Muething told a Cincinnati City Council committee.

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build a $15 million parking garage for the stadium.

There has been significant pushback to the stadium, including on the day of FCC’s recent announcement, when multiple antitax and housing advocate groups spoke before a Hamilton County Commission meeting to ask the county to reconsider its portion of the stadium deal given a looming $28 million deficit. FCC’s stadium has been opposed by many in the West End, those groups pointed out, but if the county is going to build a parking garage for the stadium, they said, the team should have to pay property taxes on it.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has subpoenaed all records related to Plush’s suffocation in his van last month and the two 911 calls he placed immediately before his death.

Police were unable to locate Plush, leading to questions about the city’s already struggling Emergency Communications Center and contributing to the departure of City Manager Harry Black.

It may not be all about the ECC, however. Body camera footage shows CPD officers did not leave their cruisers and drove through a single parking lot

“Cincinnati City Council’s stadium plan is exactly the kind of welfare for billionaires that voters despise,” said No More Stadium Taxes Chairman Jeff Capell.

“County Commissioners cannot sit back and allow billionaire owners constructing a $200 million building to cheat their way out of their County tax obligations.”

Commissioners have said that they’ll take stadium opponents’ feedback into consideration. The three-member board — Democrats Todd Portune and Denise Driehaus and Republican Chris Monzel — haven’t shown any sign of amending the county’s deal with the team, however.

during their roughly three-minute search for Plush. Fraternal Order of Police President Dan Hils says officers were not alerted to the urgency of Plush’s call and thought their run was routine.

Cincinnati City Council’s Law and Public Safety Committee met April 30 to hear progress reports on efforts to shore up the Emergency Communications Center. The 911 center has been the subject of numerous reports regarding understaffing, technology issues and management concerns.

At the meeting, acting City

Manager Patrick Duhaney laid out the city administration’s upcoming efforts to improve the center, which include hiring 30 more people to bring the call center up to full staffing, hiring more supervisors — currently 11 oversee a staff of 100 — touring high-performing call center facilities around the country for best practices, a possible external review of Cincinnati’s ECC and other fixes.

Council last week approved almost $500,000 to hire 11 new staffers and to make immediate technology upgrades to the call center.

Six out of the 10 most common jobs in the Cincinnati metropolitan area don’t pay enough to support a family without government assistance, according to a new study by progressive think tank Policy Matters Ohio. That’s similar to the situation statewide.

The study of new data from the U.S. Department of Labor looked at how many people worked in various employment sectors and the median wage for each of those industries. The research, completed by Policy Matters’ Hannah Halbert and Isaac Miller, compared those median incomes to income requirements for government food assistance programs. The median yearly earnings provided by the majority of the area’s most common jobs, the study found, would have a family of three eligible for those welfare programs.

In the metro area, the most common job is in the food preparation field, where the median annual salary is about $19,000 a year. About 32,000 people in the area do this kind of work.

That salary is 7 percent below the federally defined poverty threshold of $20,420 a year for a family of three.

Some other very common Cincinnati jobs pay much better. Fueled by the area’s numerous hospitals, registered nurses were the area’s third mostfrequent occupation. About 23,500 people work as nurses and make a median annual salary of $64,000 a year, according to Policy Matters’ study. But others, including waitstaff, janitors and cashiers, make under $25,000 a year, an income that would generally qualify a family for government assistance.

The unemployment rate in Greater Cincinnati is the lowest it has been since 2001, according to data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The rate in the 15-county area around Cincinnati stands at 3.5 percent.

That’s better than Ohio’s 4.3 percent unemployment rate, where Cincinnati was a year ago.

The number of people finding employment is higher than the number entering the workforce, meaning that wages in some sectors should begin to rise, some economists say. That would be a welcome reversal of a long-running trend: nationally and in Ohio, pay has been stagnant in the years since the Great Recession.

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the dawn of the Great Recession — many of those jobs don’t pay as well as they used to. As higher-paying industrial jobs have evaporated, the jobs that have filled the void aren’t nearly as secure or well compensated.

In fact, according to the study, Cincinnati has moved backward in some ways.

“In 2000, five of the 10 most common occupations paid so little that a family of three was left dependent on food assistance to get by — now it’s six,” the study reads. “Some occupations paid less as a share of poverty in 2017 than they did a decade and a half ago.”

That increase comes as officials look to winnow down various forms of public assistance for lower-income Americans. A recent proposal from the Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, for example, would triple the amount many of America’s lowestincome families in subsidized housing would need to pay toward their rent.

Similar deep cuts have also been proposed to federal food aid programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. One potential plan making its way through Congress could slash as much as $20 billion from the program nationally.

“Is there really no way for the mural to just be restored and the patio built around it? Seems like it would fit in more with the neighborhood,” another commenter wrote. Others expressed similar sentiments.

The plans for the bar project, which include two patios and an indoor area encompassing about 4,400 square feet from 1536-1540 Race Street, required exemptions from city parking and zoning requirements. Normally, the two patios totaling about 2,100 square feet would require the business to provide 16 parking spaces, though none were provided in the original plan. The bar will also be within 500 feet of a residential district, triggering requirements that the bar close at 10 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends, earlier than the requested 2 a.m.

Cincinnati Urban Conservator Beth Johnson initially recommended 3CDC’s request for those exemptions be declined, citing the parking demand the concept would generate and the fact that almost half of the proposed development would be outdoor patio space — well above the zoning limit. Johnson recommended 3CDC lease parking spots in the 50-space surface parking lot it is developing across

the street at 1545 Race Street.

3CDC replied to Johnson’s concerns by pointing out that much of the traffic to the new bar will be pedestrian or coming via the streetcar, which stops right outside the building. It also says that one of the two outdoor areas will face Liberty Street — not near any residential buildings — and that the other space will be screened and more “low-key.”

The Over-the-Rhine Community Council chimed in with its opposition to the project in a March 12 letter to the Historic Conservation Board, citing many of the same concerns. In that letter, council president Maurice Wagoner said that OTRCC heard a presentation from Senate owner Dan Wright and subsequently voted against supporting the project.

Others also oppose the bar. The HCB received 31 letters about the project from neighborhood organizations and residents. Two supported the project, and one letter, signed by several residents, had concerns about its operating hours but expressed enthusiasm for the bar overall. The rest, however, including a number of churches and nonprofits nearby, opposed the bar and its late operating hours.

“Our master bedroom and our daughter’s nursery are the closest proximity residents to the proposed bar, just a few feet away across Goose Alley,” resident

Chad Brizendine wrote the HCB. “I’ve lived in OTR for almost 10 years, and we’ve chosen this location on residential Republic (Street) to raise our family because it’s a quiet residential street with no bars.”

After 3CDC arranged eight parking spaces to be leased to the bar 600 feet away, the HCB recommended approval for the variances.

In 2017, Cincinnati City Council approved standard commercial real estate tax exemptions for the project worth about $140,000 over the 12-year life of the abatement on the assumption that the roughly $800,000 plan would create 16 temporary and five permanent jobs.

Meanwhile, some see the departure of the familiar mural as an upsetting sign of OTR’s further shift from a low-income neighborhood to a higher-income one.

Those changes have seen buildings rehabbed and businesses popping up, mostly in the neighborhood’s southern half. But redevelopment is moving north now, and the changes haven’t always been kind to long-term residents.

“We’ve seen a lot of change in OTR, but this one really hits home,” Hardy says. “It just so happens to be me this time, but on a wider scale, people are slowly chipping away at the diversity of the neighborhood.

It’s very disappointing to me.”

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hese days, the phrase “Let’s get brunch” is basically a euphemism for “Let’s get drunk before noon.” People be lovin' brunch, amiright? It’s a Bacchanalian breakfast celebration that doubles as an excuse to mainline mimosas and stuff bacon into foods where it does not belong.

The brunch zeitgeist of the new millennium is real. There are mood boards dedicated to what to wear to brunch, restaurants with strictly brunch menus, brunch-only Instagram feeds (@bitcheswhobrunch, @brunchboys) and we have an entire event devoted to it (Brunched: June 23 @ the American Sign Museum).

Why do Americans love a meal that doubles as breakfast and lunch and basically turns into an ongoing commitment to day drinking? Is it part of the self-care indulgence movement? A genius marketing campaign by egg companies or the avocado illuminati? Whatever the reason, our country is literally obsessed with brunch, so CityBeat dining writers made a list of their favorite places to drink and dine on the weekends for all types of moods.

Whether you want to get sloppy drunk in your atheleisurewear, have a fancy family outing or dip into some dim sum, we’ve got you covered.

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Brunch: 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday

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Brunch: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday

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aturday is the only day for brunch at The Anchor-OTR and that’s just fine with us, because after a Friday night of tying one on, the Anchor’s bloody mary is the “hair of the dog” we would welcome any day of the week. Yes, we here at CityBeat did name it 2015’s “Best MultiTasking Cocktail,” and with good reason.

Where else will they stuff a glass full of vodka, bloody mix, housemade pickles, a giant lobster claw, an oyster and shrimp?

It’s a meal and an adult beverage all in one drink. But the food at The Anchor is also perfect for that day-after kind of eating — with a bonus view of Washington Park.

Tuck into creamy Weisenberger grits with shrimp and a sunny side egg or a smoked salmon omelet if you’re feeling breakfastey. Or go straight for the lunch with a cheeseburger and fries or a trout BLT. Must Try: Any one of chef Steven Shock Shockley’s specials. He recently debuted a spring dessert menu featuring seasonal choices like a rhubarb tart with chantilly cream and strawberry sugar, perfect for enjoying on the Anchor patio: one of our favorite places to see and be seen. 1401 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, theanchor-otr.com. — ILENE ROSS

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ster’s brunch vibe is an elevated version of its more well-known restaurant sibling the Sleepy Bee. The social sippery sunlights as a brunch spot for the first half of Sunday, serving a small but tasty menu of sweet and savory dishes. Avocado toast, the dish that launched a million

think-pieces about Millennials, gets a fresh twist here — ember oil toast is topped with a poached egg, slices of avocado and dukkah — as does the classic yogurt and fruit combo, updated with tahini, apricot purée and hemp granola. Savory dishes are served with a simple side salad and fingerling potatoes, and there’s also a variety of breakfast cocktails with cute names and intriguing ingredients, like Scottish coffee with, you guessed it, Scotch. Don’t get your heart too set on any one item, though. The menu rotates frequently, in accordance with the season and the chefs’ moods. That kind of unpredictability is exactly why I so enjoy brunch here.

Must Try: The Marksbury sausage stratta, which is kind of like a quiche but more bread-y and not quite as egg-y but still plenty cheese-y and delicious. (This one is a menu staple, so get as attached as you want.) 8 E. Fourth St., Downtown, asteronfourth.com. — LEYLA SHOKOOHE

Commonwealth Bistro

Brunch: 11 a.m.–2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

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ommonwealth Bistro brings the principled sensibilities of farm-to-table dining to the treat-yo-self spirit that so often accompanies brunch. This quaint spot on Main Street in Covington puts their own spin on each and every brunch classic, whether it’s the arugula salad with berries, ricotta and spiced pecans, or a Scotch egg wrapped in Flattop Farms goetta. They put a twist on their day drinks as well: the Pink Mimosa is made with orange-Campari sorbet and the bloody mary features “garden” vodka and pickled vegetables. Here, menu choices are indulgent yet approachable, much like the atmosphere itself. The main

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dining room is lined with windows, with a clear shot to the open kitchen, and when weather permits, the second story rooftop allows for brunching al fresco.

Must Try: The Fried Chicken and Cornmeal Waffle, served with a scoop of buttermilk ice cream, is a non-negotiable and worth the trip itself. So is the goetta sandwich with pimento cheese and a fried egg — for that true Southern splurge. 621 Main St., Covington, commonwealthbistro. com. — KATIE HOLOCHER

Butcher, is upping the already present Louisiana/Southern flair. Think ingredient additions like Gulf shrimp and andouille with grits, or pimentadew cheese with egg and chorizo.

Must Try: Oreilles de Cochon. French for “pig’s ears,” these New Orleans-inspired fried pastries are almost as classic as a Café du Monde beignet. Crunchy, sweet fritters are folded into an ear shape and topped with cane syrup and pecans. 638 Madison Ave., Covington, hotelcovington.com.

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Coppin’s at Hotel Covington Brunch: 10 a.m.-2 p.m Saturday and Sunday

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CWC The Restaurant

Brunch: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday

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rom chef Caitlin Steininger of Cooking with Caitlin and her family, CWC The Restaurant is the next evolution of Steininger’s popular catering business. She and her sister, Kelly Trush, are in charge,

but everyone from mom, dad and Trush’s teenage daughter pitch in. Located in a charmingly renovated former carwash in Wyoming, dinner is only served Friday and Saturday with brunch on Sundays. The brunch menu is small but mighty with an eclectic selection of eats including ricottafilled blintzes topped with blueberry sauce, a kimchi and avocado omelet, homemade yeast donuts served with blackberry, vanilla and peanut-butter honey cream and a couple of bloodies and mimosas.

Must Try: The Breakfast Nachos.

People freak out about them because they are nachos, for breakfast. The novel dish tops chips with charred tomato-chipotle salsa, homemade queso, crumbled goetta, fried egg and a dash of cilantro.

1517 Springfield Pike, Wyoming, cwctherestaurant.com. — MZ

Django Western Taco

Brunch: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday

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Queso fresco adds a layer of warmth and salsa verde tinges the dish with sourness.

Not a carnivore? Ask your waiter to swap the meat for their vegan protein, seitan.

Must Try: Chiliquiles: two sunny-side up eggs ooze into crispy tortillas that pack a crunch. Underneath, a layer of black beans and spicy salsa rojo coexist in perfect, heated harmony. Cilantro, radish and cotija are scattered throughout, creating textures that differ with each bite — and keep you coming back for more.

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Top 10 Cincinnati Brunch Spots as voted on by readers in CityBeat’s Brunch: 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. daily

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upporting locally produced anything is an undeniably effective way to ensure your city remains unique, sustainable and independent and that dollars circulate around town rather than racing up to far-off corporate headquarters. But sometimes we sin. Just as it’s difficult to kick monthly Target runs, the various First Watch franchises across Greater Cincinnati won’t let us quit ’em. Even though First Watch has a wide-ranging menu of colorful omelets, flavorful frittatas and eco-friendly veggie burgers, I usually opt for the largest multigrain blueberry pancake known to womankind; but in the spirit of adventure — and needing to not

pass out for three hours following brunch — I decided to give the restaurant's seasonal menu a try. This spring’s specials include Multimillion Dollar Bacon, Matcha Latte Pancakes and Chicken Chimichurri Hash.

Must Try: The Ancient Grains Protein Bowl. Filled with fresh grilled chicken, poached eggs and avocado on top of quinoa, farro, brown rice, kale, super seed crunch, watermelon radish and onion slices drizzled with lemon white balsamic vinaigrette, the meal is most accurately described in three words: warm, sweet and filling. I skeptically ordered the joint’s biscuits and mediumthick gravy as backup, but unless you’re training for a marathon, the delicious protein bowl is more than enough for one sitting.

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not keep you from collapsing into a food coma. 4172 Hamilton Ave., Northside, djangonorthside.com. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

Grand Oriental Restaurant Dim Sum: Saturday and Sunday

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uring the week, Grand Oriental serves delicious, classic Hong Kong-ese fare for lunch and dinner, but on weekend mornings, the real magic begins. Dim sum is a Chinese meal served with tea and comprised of savory and sweet dishes, including a variety of steamed and fried buns, dumplings and rolls. The term "dim sum" translates to “touch the heart.” Grand Oriental’s dim sum experience is done in a traditional setting with diners choosing dishes off of carts that parade through the restaurant, sort of like appetizers on wheels. Each cart carries an array of bamboo or metal steamer baskets or platters filled with fragrant goodies, and diners order by pointing to the ones they want.

Each table gets a check that’s updated every time a dish is ordered, and you pay when you leave. Favorites include shrimp dumplings, stuffed eggplant, egg custard tartlets, steamed pork dumplings and soybraised chicken.

Must Try: Congee. This traditional, super-simple rice porridge is the Chinese answer to soul food, and if you’re feeling the least bit under-the-weather, it’s guaranteed to make you feel all warm and cozy inside. 4800 Fields Ertel Road, Sharonville, grandorientalonline.com. — IR

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Brunch: 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

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il’s Bagels opened a walk-up window this past winter cleverly called The Windough, located in the alleyway of the old Piccolo Casa/Greenup Café space.

Co-founder Julia Keister makes some of the best bagels and spreads in the city from scratch. Order any combo of carbs and schmear — we like the za’atar and the cranberry cardamom bagels — or get the bagels in sandwich form (our recommendation). Favorites include the Gawd Father with pastrami bacon, pimento cheese, house-pickled green tomato and bibb lettuce, and the Notorious RBE, with super tasty egg salad, pickled beets, lettuce and wasabi roe cream cheese. Besides the Jewish/NYC-style bagels, the Windough also sells goods from local purveyors Teeny Pies (literally tiny pies) and Smooth Nitro Coffee. If you want hot coffee, go next door to Roebling Point Books & Coffee.

Must Try: The Good Judy. This is a vegetarian’s dream: two kinds of spreads — Judy Garden (beet, roasted veggies and goat cheese) and Tahini Bikini (tahini, cucumber, mint and labne) — on a za’atar wheat bagel, piled with spicy greens, turmeric pickled jicama and radish. The

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pickled veggies add a crunch, and even those who dislike beets will appreciate the subtle, earthy flavor. 308 Greenup St., Covington, lilsbagels.com. — GARIN PIRNIA

The Littlefield

Brunch: 11 a.m-3 p.m. Sunday

in some ways to traditional goetta, and the fact it contains no meat is a pretty great selling point to a whole lot of people. If you’re a carnivore who cannot be swayed, definitely give the biscuits and gravy a chance, extra points if you have bacon on the side. 3934 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, littlefieldns.com. — SEAN M. PETERS

with both Kahlua and tequila. Ay dios mio!

Must Try: Eggs Goettadicto, because what is a brunch in Cincinnati without something goetta-fied? And a Tequila Sunrise cocktail because now is as good a time as any for a nap. 600 Walnut St., Downtown, eatdrinknada.com.— KH

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Brunch: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday

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orthside is lucky to have The Littlefield. The restaurant has claimed its place in the neighborhood as a solid destination for both date night and brunch. One of the benefits to the restaurant’s location is its immediate proximity to Arcade Legacy: Bar Edition, which is the perfect holdover zone for diners waiting on available tables. The kitchen consistently delivers exemplary dishes, while the bar offers a very good variety of quality drinks to suit all palates. The most instagrammable drink is likely their Fleur de Bee, which contains a hibiscus flower everyone loves to photograph themselves munching.

Must Try: VGLT. The Vegan Goetta Lettuce and Tomato sandwich will win over the Ron Swanson in your life who would never dream of substituting something else for their bacon, much less something vegan. The texture and flavor are superior

Brunch: 10:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

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hile a taco joint might appear to be a wild-card option for traditional brunchgoers, it is definitely a perfect pre-siesta pit stop. While all the Nada classics are on the menu — the chips and salsa trio, the O.G. guacamole — there are also Mexican brunch offerings: poutine with barbacoa, fried egg and charred tomato salsa, and huevos rancheros with frijoles charros, ancho salsa and diablo sauce. Or, if you head in thinking when in Nada, get a taco, but try one like the fried avocado with chipotle bean purée, or the always-tasty al pastor with pickled pineapple. And then, because everyone loves a boozy brunch, there are sparkling blood orange mimosas, made with rosé cava, and drunken coffees

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t’s never too early for Punk Rock brunch at Northside Yacht Club — as long as it’s after 11 a.m. Known to many patrons as a spot to catch cool touring bands late at night, NSYC has continually proven itself to have a quality kitchen staff that provides excellent food no matter what time the clock says. It’s not unusual to hear The Buzzcocks on the speaker while you study the massive beer cooler for your order. If you decide on their bloody mary, know it contains enough food to count as an entrée to some appetites, including a pulled pork sandwich, bacon, a chicken wing and — oh, yeah — celery. Have you checked out their rad new patio tables? Good for groups.

Must Try: Breakfast Poutine. Anything served with Kennebec french fries should

ideally be washed down with a pilsner or dry sparkling wine, especially if goetta gravy is involved. This incredible brunch poutine comes complete with rich cheese curds that contrast nicely with the crispy potatoes and fried egg. It’s smooth sailing for Yacht Club’s gravy boat. 4231 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub. com. — SMP

Otto’s

Brunch: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

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erving American home cooking with a flair of haute couture, Otto’s is a strong brunch spot in Covington. The restaurant fills up quickly — even though the interior maximizes its seating capacity in such a way that Tetris gamers would approve of — so it would behoove you to make a reservation. Really, it’s worth the extra effort. The décor alludes to a passion for circus performers and includes a collection of antique seltzer bottles associated with clowns' water shenanigans, but Otto’s isn’t kidding around in the kitchen.

By taking a simple Southern treat like fried green tomatoes and introducing them to a BLT croissant sandwich, Otto’s made the B.L.F.G.T. — though an “E” should be added to the acronym because there’s also an egg in there.

Must Try: Benedict Otto’s — the poached egg is a litmus test for many brunchers and Otto’s passes with flying colors. However, the main attraction is actually what is served beneath the egg: a fried grit cake with a crisp outer layer and decadent inside, exponentially enhanced by the egg’s pierced yolk. Enjoy with a local Skinny Pig Kombucha if you’re looking for something softer than the common brunch cocktail, though their bloody mary includes Swiss cheese, an olive, thinly sliced cucumber and citrus. 521 Main St., Covington, ottosonmain.com. — SMP

Red Feather

Brunch: 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Sunday

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f you’re feeling fancy (and like you can eat $39.95-worth of crab legs), head to the Hilton Netherland Plaza for Sunday brunch at Palm Court. The giant display takes over the stunning Art Deco bar and grill space in the hotel with carved roasted meats, madeto-order omelets, salads, seafood, some version of eggs benedict, potatoes, breakfast meats, pastries, fancy cheeses, plenty of shrimp and crab claws and a 20-foot dessert spread. The offerings change weekly, but it’s always seasonally inspired, super fresh and real classy.

Must Try: You don’t have to pick just one thing here — it’s literally a room-sized buffet — but recent reports suggest the appearance of delicious fried fish cakes. If you see one of those, grab it. And a serving of warm bread pudding (you pour the creme anglaise on top yourself). 35 W. Fifth St., Downtown, hilton.com. — MZ

Grand Finale

Brunch: 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Sunday

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The buffet highlights restaurant hits with a gravy and sausage links, scrambled eggs, cheese, bacon and a sampling of crepes, crunchy fried chicken livers, eggs, breakfast tomato. It’s served in a skillet with a side of grits or delicious, meats, biscuits and gravy, hot cinnamon apples, chicken a la crispy potato wedges. 2500 Dixie Highway, Fort Mitchell, greyking and a spread of Grand Finale desserts.

Must Try: The Bubbling Ruby breakfast cocktail with grapehoundtavern.com. — MZ fruit juice, sloe gin and sparkling rosé. Effervescent and fresh, it’s a fun upgrade from a typical mimosa — especially for fans of Parkside Café both pink grapefruit and pink wine. 3 E. Sharon Road, Glendale, Brunch: 8 a.m.-3 p.m. daily; Buffet 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and grandfinale.info. — MZ Sunday

Greyhound Tavern

Brunch: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; Buffet 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday

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he Greyhound Tavern has offered down-home comfort food to Northern Kentuckians since the 1920s. The atmosphere is pleasantly country-fied, with wood paneling, vinyl tablecloths and multiple fireplaces, and so is the menu.

The tavern is known for its herbed secret-recipe fried chicken, available daily with family-style specials on Mondays and Tuesdays and a starring role on the Sunday brunch buffet, which also features a carving station, casseroles, goetta, biscuits, mashed potatoes and other hearty fare. The Greyhound’s Saturday non-buffet brunch menu is more streamlined, with a focus on house favorites (chicken livers, fried green tomatoes), breakfast items, salads and sandwiches, plus a nice menu of cocktails: a Kentucky sunrise with Bulleit bourbon and orange juice, a pitcher of mimosas or bellinis, spiked coffee and a bloody mary with garnishes like pickled asparagus and bacon.

Must Try: The Breakfast Hotbrown. This morning take on a Southern staple features a base of biscuits topped with sausage

arkside Café is like the BMV of brunch spots, and I mean that in the best way possible. The assortment of folks seated in the low booths of this repurposed Frisch’s ranges widely, from a group of large-hatted church ladies to a cop eating a steak on his lunch break to an older couple patiently trekking toward the outrageously inexpensive weekend breakfast buffet ($7.99) to the Cheers-reminiscent gang of best married friends.

The menu ranges widely, too. You want pancakes? Walnut Hills Pancake Stack, coming right up. Steak and eggs? Check.

Delightfully varied omelets? Southern-style biscuits and gravy?

Parkside has you covered (for lunch, too, but I always get breakfast). The service and the restaurant are uber-chill, sometimes to the point of negligence, but the overall lack of pretension, quirky charm (it has a drive-thru!) and inexpensive nature of this little eatery is enough to cut through almost anything.

Must Try: Parkside Breakfast: two eggs; bacon, sausage, goetta or ham; toast; and your choice of Parkside potatoes or tater tots for FIVE DOLLARS. Are you kidding me? And, trust me, the tots should be your potato of choice. 1024 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, parksidecafe.info. — LS

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The Grille at Palm Court

Brunch: 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sundays

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Must Try: The buttermilk pancake: this is a really ridiculously good-looking pancake. Or the Red Feather Omelet,with

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f there’s a group of Americans who has a real laid-back laissez faire attitude toward the weekend, it’s our Creole cousins down South in New Orleans.

And BrewRiver’s brunch menu (and the restaurant’s entire vibe, actually) is a nod to NOLA, with dishes like baconinfused cake donuts (think porky and powder-sugared beignets), barbecue Gulf shrimp and Weisenberger grits and creole poutine, with house-smoked chicken-and-sausage gumbo and local cheese curds over fries, topped with two eggs. Chef Michael Shields trained under Emeril Lagasse, so he’s not afraid to kick it up notch, especially with $20 bottomless mimosas and strong cocktails like a Hurraine and Sazerac. Live music adds to the Bourbon Street vibe on Sundays.

Must Try: Eggs Sardou. This Creole dish is a kind of modified eggs benedict, with poached eggs, artichoke hearts, creamed spinach and sourdough toast points covered in a bernaise sauce laced with beer. 2062 Riverside Drive, East End, brewrivergastropub.com. — MZ

The Comet

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e’re sticking this under "drinking destinations" because The Comet is generally considered a bar first — one with big-ass burritos, yes, but a bar nonetheless. Though its Sunday brunch menu changes weekly, it has some of the hippest dishes in the city — like shakshuka with poached eggs and feta in a Moroccan-style tomato and pepper stew; eggs Florentine; and a crepe cake with orange crepes, pastry cream, toffee sauce and berries. There’s even a ruby red grapefruit brûlée with toasted pistachio for dessert. A full bar and one of the city’s best beer selections are available to accompany anything you pick.

Must Try: Whatever’s new that week.

Could be anything from a spicy buttermilk fried catfish po’boy to a Monte Cristo sandwich or shrimp and mango ceviche.

Surprise yourself! 4579 Hamilton Ave., Northside, cometbar.com. — MZ

Cozy’s Café

Brunch: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday

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e’ve got three words for you: bloody mary bar. This locally focused café’s build-your-own bloody mary bar features two tomato bases — mild and spicy — to which you can add accoutrement such as olives, pickled red peppers, bacon, citrus and more than a dozen hot

sauces. Complement your cocktail with Southern eggs benedict with grilled bologna and fried green tomato or an Allen Brothers beef burger topped with cheddar, bourbon-bacon jam and an egg.

Must Try: The Grilled Bologna sandwich. Bologna is a thing here, and on this sandwich, a German version of the lunch meat is grilled with aged cheddar cheese, fried egg, tobacco onion and moustarde aioli on a Sixteen Bricks brioche bun. It’s like middle-school lunch, but a whole lot better. 6440 Cin-Day Road, Liberty Township, cozyscafeandpub.com. — MZ

Keystone Bar & Grill

19 somehow stuffed crisp bacon inside of buttermilk pancakes, and topped off the creation with raspberry liquor and powdered sugar. 2701 Vine St., Corryville, ladder19.com. — MZ

jalapeño relish. If your life is an ode to carbs like mine, opt for loaded tater tots on the side. 1200 Broadway St., Pendleton, nationkitchenandbar.com. — LAUREN MORETTO

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f you go to Nation during peak brunch hours, it can feel like an extension of the night before — the restaurant is packed to the brim and music blares at a decibel higher than your typical break-

Revolution Rotisserie

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t any given time on a weekend morning (or afternoon), Keystone is likely packed. Friends pile in as groups, some nursing headaches, some ready to start their day. Nonetheless, it’s a Covington staple. Aside from mac and cheese fame (yes, there’s a “morning mac” with goetta and an over-easy egg), their brunch is a hot commodity, too. The selection is wide: potato crisps, frittatas, “wake-up calls” and platters. Order a classic biscuits and gravy combo or opt for something a little funkier like Keystone’s huevos rancheros or their goetta skillet.

Must Try: Keystone serves up some fresh takes on bloody mary’s and mimosas. Add a twist to a classic mimosa by making it with guava, strawberry, peach or mango. For bloody fans, Keystone has you covered: select a classic take, make it “angry” (infused with Tabasco and garnished with a jalapeño) or channel your inner Irish with a splash of stout beer. Since it’s on ol’ Kentucky’s side of the Ohio River, try a “Bourbon Breakfast,” which combines Bulleit bourbon with Ale 8, lemon and orange juice. Multiple locations including 313 Greenup St., Covington, keystonebar.com. — MM

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Ladder 19

Brunch: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

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hether you’re in college or just want to feel like it again, Ladder 19’s boozy Sunday brunch has all the alcohol and indulgent dining options to make that dream come true. For $19, you can have one menu item and bottomless bloody marys or mimosas; if you just want the booze and not the food, it’s only $15.

Lay down a base layer before drinking with half-pound burgers (veggie options, too); a Captains Skillet with goetta, bacon and sour cream; and a Fireman’s BELT, with bacon, two eggs, lettuce and tomato.

Must Try: Pancake Dippers. Ladder

fast/lunch stop. Their Boozy Brunch deal ($30) lets you choose one food item from the brunch menu along with bottomless mimosas, screwdrivers or “bloody carries” until 2 p.m. on the weekend. And if cocktails aren’t up your alley, they also have an extensive selection of craft beers.

It’s a high-spirited atmosphere coupled with inventive takes on brunch classics, making it the ideal destination for nursing away the night before or starting your day delightfully buzzed.

Must Try: The Brunch Wrap Supreme.

This pressed-tortilla dish is filled with smoked sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, pepper jack cheese, queso, tater tots and

also signals the start of Mimosa Madness: Buy a wine glass full of mimosa for $15 and get each refill for just $1. They also have three different bloodies, a mulemosa with ginger beer and a Super Cereal Cocktail with Cinnamon Toast Cruchinfused almond milk, Bulleit bourbon and Ancho Reyes, garnished with a toasted marshmallow.

Must Try: The Rotisserie Chicken & Waffles. Get anywhere from a quarter to half of a bird — white or dark meat — topped with spicy syrup and served with two buttermilk waffles. 6063 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, revolutionrotisserie. com. — MZ

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goetta, boursin and cheddar, because omelets are always a yes. 3200 Madison Road, Oakley, redfeatherkitchen.com. — KH

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Must Try: Landjunge fruhstuck, a German-style countryman’s breakfast with two poached eggs, bacon, housemade sausage, goetta, corned-beef hash and a biscuit. It’s basically all the meat. 1132 Lee St., Covington, facebook.com/wunderbar. covington.3. — MZ CONTINUES ON PAGE 16

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hef Jose Salazar, the James Beard Award semi-finalist, drew more attention this year when he announced weekend brunch at his namesake restaurant — and also when he named chef Erin Wilshire as his chef de cuisine. The brunch menu features some of the same items from Salazar’s lunch and dinner menus — little fried oyster sandwiches, a farm greens salad and a burger — but brunch also offers granola and Greek yogurt, challah French toast, a frittata and a mimosa with an edible flower floating in it. There’s also Deeper Roots coffee and the restaurant’s full dinnertime cocktail menu.

Must Try: Falafel. A lot of restaurants serve falafel, but Salazar takes it up a notch by using seasonal ingredients like winter squash or English peas to compose the fried balls. The warmth from the housemade sesame pita complements tangy feta cheese and lemon yogurt. And no brunch meal here is complete without ordering a side of patatas bravas-esque home fries.

1401 Republic St., Over-the-Rhine, salazarcincinnati.com. — GP

four brick-and-mortar bistros and an additional market location. Along with its locally famous sweet, sturdy and caramelized Belgian waffles, the brunch offerings have piloted the restaurant’s rapid ascent. Under the “Brunch Like a Belgian” menu category, there is a fresh berry parfait with chia seeds; a McWaffle with egg, bacon, gruyere and maple syrup; and a messy goetta hash, with Eckerlin Meats’ goetta and two eggs. This is in addition to staples like a strawberries-and-cream-topped waffle or a savory buckwheat galette. Try the crepe-like galette filled with turkey, bacon and housemade ranch dressing or Speculoos biscuits and cookie butter.

Must Try: The Brunch Burger. This indulgent dish consists of havarti cheese, bacon and egg stashed between two waffles instead of buns. Multiple locations including 1133 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, authenticwaffle.com.— AUSTIN GAYLE

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( EVERY DAY ) Boomtown Biscuits & Whiskey

Brunch: 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday

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The Yukon sandwich comes squished with fried chicken, sawmill gravy, smoked cheddar and bacon (add an egg for $2); the Gold Shoes has two biscuits with a flight of gravies; and the Fool’s Gold combines two biscuits, local ham, bacon and sawmill gravy with an up-charged egg. Basically, anything you can top with an egg for an additional $2, do it.

Must Try: The Campfire Greens. Listed under “Sundries,” these green ain’t a biscuit but they are peppery, savory and pack a punch. 1202 Broadway St., Pendleton, boomtownbiscuitsandwhiskey.com.

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Brunch: 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday

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he line leading out of The Echo on weekend mornings doesn’t discriminate. It’s a sampler platter of Cincinnati demographics: Hung-over college kids, grandparents with family members and business executives all congregate waiting to get into the longstanding diner.

The Echo’s all-day offerings balance sweet and savory with unicorn-like skill. There are seasonal features, breakfast classics, healthy items (denoted by a leaf illustration), sandwiches, pan-friend chicken on the weekends and $6 brunch cocktails. Or just throw in for a mimosa pitcher. Plus, if the line seems too tedious for a lazy Sunday, you can always get take out.

Must Try: The Flying Pig Sandwich.

When you can’t decide between pancakes or a cheesy omelet, you get the Flying Pig — a sandwich with French toast for bread, stuffed with ham, bacon and Swiss cheese and topped with powdered sugar and syrup. It’s listed under “hangover helpers” for a reason. 3510 Edwards Road, Hyde Park, echo-hydepark.com. — MG

French Crust Café & Bistro

Brunch: 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday

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indlay Market is home to Jean-Robert de Cavel’s French Crust Café & Bistro, where chef de cuisine Carla Heiert delights diners with a touch of Paris in Over-the-Rhine. For classic French fare, try one of the traditional quiches — savory egg

tarts filled with luxurious combinations such as the Duo of Salmon with asparagus and mushroom, or the traditional Loraine, with ham, gruyere and leeks. Heartier lunch-seekers will enjoy a choice from Les Casseroles “Le Creuset,” hot dishes like the incredibly rich Medley of Seafood Crepes with béchamel, or the totallyfor-grown-ups mac-and-cheese medley with mushroom, leek and celery. Those in search of a more local breakfast will not be disappointed — the menu does include a few American favorites such as buttermilk pancakes and Cincinnati’s own meaty regional staple, goetta, served in a puff pastry with a poached egg, hollandaise and piperade.

Must Try: Do not leave French Crust without trying at least one of executive pastry chef and chocolatier Jean-Philippe Solnom’s creations — especially the croissants. Flaky and full of butter, don’t stop to count the calories. We highly recommend heading to the pastry case and selecting something before you order your meal.

They go fast on the weekends. 1801 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, frenchcrust.com. — IR

Hang Over Easy

Brunch: 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday; 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

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ang Over Easy is in a perpetual state of brunch, offering breakfast and lunch options alongside a full bar every day of the week. Filling a breakfast void in Corryville, it now plays host to many young University of Cincinnati students experiencing their first ever hangover (they grow up so fast!). The menu doesn’t take any radical risks, plating up dependable diner fare found on most American breakfast and lunch tables. Bloody marys and mimosas are nothing fancy here, but are priced to fit collegiate budgets and expectations.

This spot is not for the old at heart, as your server will likely be just old enough to rent a car, but Hang Over boasts a pretty decent beer menu for a restaurant that closes before dinnertime.

Must Try: Frog Eyes. These fluffy homemade biscuits are smothered in sausage gravy and topped with two eggs. If you get the yolks over easy, it kind of looks like the bulging eyes of a bullfrog, especially if you’ve taken advantage of the Jameson Irish whiskey on tap. We also recommend their classic grade-school cafeteria tater tots. 13 W. Charlton St., Corryville, hangovereasycincinnati.com. — SMP

Maplewood Kitchen and Bar

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mainstay. However, if you draw the lucky card and pick the right spring morning to visit, you get the patio experience of the season, with overhead sun, pretty trees and just enough foot traffic from the quiet neighborhood for quality people watching. With lots of egg dishes, pancake variations, a “Good for You” breakfast menu and a variety of hashes, this brunch spot covers all the bases.

Must Try: Strawberry Mascarpone Toast. Thrilling Millennials everywhere since the introduction of their “crafted toast” menu section, this worthy avocado toast companion boasts a slab of thick-cut raisin challah bread topped with creamy, swirly mascarpone, local honey, sweetened strawberries, mint, balsamic glaze, black pepper and toasted almonds. Whew! The only appropriate addition to this kind of perfection is your pick from the restaurant’s Juice Bar menu, including options like the Kale Tonic and Beet & Blueberry.

6800 Wooster Pike, Mariemont, nationalexemplar.com. — MG

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but just as importantly, they have a superefficient operation that moves you along quickly. While you wait, you can ponder your many excellent choices, and even start with a brunch cocktail thanks to the drink stand they’ve set up just inside the front door. I’ve tried some of the toasts — such as avocado with chopped pistachios and honey, or roasted mushrooms with caramelized onions and whipped goat cheese — and an egg dish or two. But wait, there’s more. How about something with a little kick, such as Chicken Tinga (chipotle chicken provides the spice)? Or you can go lunch-like with a salad or sandwich. The cocktails include good versions of a bloody mary, margarita and mimosa, but I prefer the cucumber sangria, made with Sauvignon Blanc, dry vermouth, juices and prosecco.

Must Try: The dish that haunts my dreams is the Lemon Ricotta Pancakes, with seasonal fruit, berry compote and local syrup. Go ahead and add a side of Daisy Field Farms bacon if you’re in an indulgent frame of mind. 525 Race St., Downtown, maplewoodkitchenandbar. com. — PAMA MITCHELL

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The Longshoreman’s Bloody Mary consists of tomato juice, horseradish, pickle and olive juice, four different hot sauces, citrus, spices and a touch of umami with Old Bay seasoning. The garnish showcases the restaurant’s fresh seafood, with the option to add a lobster claw, shrimp, an oyster — or all three — for an upcharge. 1401 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, theanchor-otr.com.

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Crazy Fox Saloon

The Crazy Fox bloody mary changes every Sunday, but always features outrageous garnishes like cinnamon rolls, sliders, sushi and falafel (though, sadly, not all at once). The mix is made with San Marzano and fire-roasted tomatoes, and the horseradish, hot sauce and Worcestershire are added based on personal preference. 901 Washington Ave., Newport, 859-261-2143.

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The Eagle

This bloody mary is made with Tito’s vodka, a bit of Guinness stout and housemade mix. The garnish feels pleasantly light in comparison to other big bloodies, with kale, a slice of candied bacon, olives, pickles and peppers. 1342 Vine St., Overthe-Rhine, theeagleotr.com.

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The 21c’s Metropole offers a take on "healthy" breakfast cocktails with its Detox/Retox menu, which combines gin, tequila or vodka with fresh fruit, veggies and electrolytes. The Killer Tofu has vodka, beet juice, lemon-rose-lavender simple syrup and Greek yogurt — like a booze smoothie. The Wascally Wabbit features tequila, Cappelletti (the apertivo, not the pasta) and carrot-apple-ginger shrub. And the Just Argula Guy has a gin base with argula and citrus. The restaurant also offers a build-your-own mimosa option with flavors and toppings including orange blossom water and sparkly liquid mercury. 609 Walnut St., Downtown, metropoleonwalnut.com.

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Served only during Sunday brunch, the Ultimate Mary uses a housemade mix as a base and comes topped with bacon, jumbo shrimp, a pickle, an olive, a cherry tomato, celery and housemade crispy onions. 2601 W. Eighth St., inclinepublichouse.com.

If you want to detox without the alcohol (but you want to add caffeine), Rooted’s downtown location has a line of espresso drinks made with house-pressed nut mylks and boosters like activated charcoal, plus drinkable latte “remedies” featuring turmeric and ashwagandha, tulsi moringa tea, goji berry, matcha or dandelion. 17 E. Sixth St., Downtown, rootedjuicery.com.

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Maplewood Kitchen and Bar

Maplewood’s Roasted Tomatillo Bloody switches it up by going green. Tito’s vodka is blended with housemade roasted tomatillo bloody mary mix and house-pressed, earthy Super Green juice (spinach, pineapple, romaine, kale, parsley, celery), served with a garnish of kale, an olive, a cheese cube, tomato and celery. 525 Race St., Downtown, maplewoodkitchenandbar.com.

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The bar’s secret bloody mix is infused with Tito’s vodka and citrus juices and then topped with an obscene smörgåsbord of meat: a house breakfast sausage slider on a Sixteen Bricks bun, American hickory bacon, a house-smoked Amish chicken wing and a piece of celery, obviously. 4231 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub.com.

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egg yolk, shaved over the top like blessings from brunch heaven. With patio season underway, Pleasantry is an ideal location for classy day drinking accompanied by top-notch cuisine. It would be quite easy to stay until dinnertime when the menu changes into its evening attire (just be sure to tip out your server if you stay past shift-change). Not into traditional brunch drinks? Pleasantry has the best curated wine menu in the city, offering an array of red, white, orange, sparkling and rosé, along with a formidable cocktail and beer selection. Also a fine spot to enjoy a wellmade espresso, as the staff are trained by 1215 Wine Bar & Coffee Lab’s head barista on all things coffee.

Must Try: The Michelada. There’s no finer bloody mary mix in the city than Pleasantry’s house concoction, which needs no distractions or gimmicks to be enjoyed. Wonderful in a traditional cocktail or with Miller High Life for a Michelada, pair it with jowl bacon and their cornmeal pancakes and prepare to feel mighty pleasant. 118 W. 15th St., Over-theRhine, pleasantryotr.com. — SMP

Sacred Beast

Brunch: 11 a.m.-midnight Monday; 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-2:30 a.m.

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Brunch: 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

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f you’re trying to schedule a group brunch with your vegan cousin, your neatnik aunt and your meat-and-potatoes husband, casually suggest Sleepy Bee in Oakley and become the family favorite overnight. With a focus on local non-GMO foods and bee-friendly practices, this bright, cozy space has all the classics, like omelets, pancakes and bacon (seriously, try their bacon), and it also has some dressed-up options if you want to step outside the box: a tofu scramble, vegan sausages and the most social-media-friendly ROYGBIV fruit plate in the city. Don’t forget that Sleepy Bee is on the Nowait app, so you can put your name in ahead of time, skip the wait list and get right to the coffee.

With additional locations in Blue Ash and downtown, you’re bound to find seating at one of them.

Must Try: The Queen City Bee. Don’t eat this one on a first date. With a messy broken egg yolk for sauce, this sandwich on ciabatta has goetta, apple, arugula and “nectar” sauce. Roasted sweet potatoes make the perfect side with a hint of sweetness, served with an apple butter dip that perfectly complements the sandwich. 3098 Madison Road, Oakley, sleepybeecafe.com.

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or over 75 years, this family-friendly Paddock Hills diner has been serving up “Wispy Thin” pancakes, breakfast sandwiches, steak and eggs, corned beef hash, breakfast quesadillas and much more to one of the most diverse clienteles in town. From the after-church crowds to college students to doctors heading off to work at nearby hospitals, folks from all over the economic spectrum continue to start their day at this cozy counter or crammed into the precious few booths.

And little has changed since Mort Walker founded Sugar n’ Spice in 1941. Wait time is often long for the popular spot, but Steven Frankel, fifth owner of the landmark restaurant and self-proclaimed “caretaker of an historic icon,” soothes hangry patrons by passing out nuggets of fried macaroni and cheese as well as gooey chocolate brownies. When those coveted seats finally come available, Frankel rewards younger diners with rubber duckies in addition to their meals.

Must Try: Football-size fluffy omelets, the most popular menu item besides the pancakes. When Frankel purchased the restaurant in 2010, fresh vegetables like spinach and mushrooms replaced frozen and canned versions, so they’re better than ever. 4381 Reading Road, Paddock Hills, sugar-n-spice-restaurant.com. — IR

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his new breakfast/brunch/lunch/dinner/late-night destination in OTR has a solid menu of both diner-inspired dishes and Francophile favorites, like matzah ball soup, a double-burger with American cheese and steak tartare and frites. Strong, classic cocktails — an Old Fashioned, Hemingway daiquiri and violet-hued Aviation are all $10 or less — round out the menu, but it ain’t all fancy.

The late-night Happier Meal gets you a cheeseburger, shot of Evan Williams and a Hamms beer for $15. The restaurant says they’ll be introducing an official brunch menu soon.

Must Try: The omelet. As someone who’s been a vegetarian most of my life, I have a somewhat contentious relationship with eggs. On the one hand, they’re gross; it’s a bird ovum with a gooey center.

One the other, they’re a super versatile protein. Scramble them. Make a frittata.

Torch them in a crème brûlée. One of the most classic preparations is the omelet, specifically a French-style omelet. Eggs are cooked slow and on a low heat to make them impossibly fluffy and delicious. The omelet at Sacred Beast is honestly one of the best I’ve had in my life — with a slightly wiggly center, an airy, soft texture and no burnt brown skin. The yellow bit o’ heaven comes filled with a ton of goat cheese and bright piquillo peppers, served with a lightly dressed bibb salad.

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ART: Saul Steinberg: Prints 1948-1996 is on display at the Carl Solway Gallery. See feature on page 28.

EVENT: Zoo Babies at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden The people of Cincinnati are forever indebted to our queen, Fiona, who made our Midwestern alcove a bit more magical with the jiggle of her fat rolls. But Cincinnati Zoo’s annual #ZooBabies will show more than just the hippo by highlighting some underrated cute lil’ faces.

Six-foot-tall stork statues will guide visitors to exhibits to welcome the new(-ish) additions. Meet Winsol the aardvark (not related to Arthur), Kendi the black rhino, Asher the duiker, four adorably round manatee babes, Taffy the flamingo and more. Keep an eye on Lessnau, Bennie and Jerrie at Lemur Island — they like to move it. Twizzler and Tito are just penguin bros bein’ bros. Get yer cuteness quota here. Moms get in free on Mother’s Day (aka this Sunday). Through May 31. $19 adult; $13 kids/seniors.

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, 3400 Vine St., Avondale, cincinnatizoo.org.

— MACKENZIE MANLEY

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MUSIC: Todd Rundgren brings his cult band Utopia’s Prog/Pop Rock to the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 32.

EVENT: Pop Arf Yappy Hour Washington Park’s weekly Yappy Hour dog-friendly happy hour gets an artful upgrade with this event featuring partner Happen, Inc. Dogs will be invited to make their own paw print art from 5-7 p.m. with the nonprofit, and Pet Wants will be on hand with treats and goodies for purchase.

Humans get treats, too, with beer, wine and mixed drinks available for sale at the Southwest Porch. 5-8 p.m.

Thursday. Free. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, washingtonpark. org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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MUSIC: Swedish Black Metal band Ghost brings some dark humor and theatrics to the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 32.

MUSIC: Funk/Pop outfit Boulevards plays Friday and Saturday at Octave. See Sound Advice on page 33.

EVENT: The new Sew Valley flexible fashion workspace and scalable sewn product manufacturer hosts its first fundraiser and party.

See feature on page 25.

DANCE: Dance Theatre of Harlem brings diverse dancers to the Aronoff Center.

See feature on page 27.

COMEDY: Julian McCullough Julian McCullough is a frequent guest and fan favorite on fellow comic Doug Benson’s very popular podcast Doug Loves Movies.

With permission, he lifted the idea from Benson to create his own podcast, Julian Loves Music. “I’ve always wanted to be a musician,” he says. “My dad is a musician, but I didn’t get any of that talent, so it’s always been frustrating for me. Like a lot of music snobs, I’ve tried to make up for not being able to do music by knowing as much as I can about it.” On McCullough’s show, the guests play a variety of music-based games of his invention. Through Sunday. $15. Funny Bone Liberty, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone. com. — P.F. WILSON

EVENT: MeSseD Tunnel Tour: An Immersive Comic Book Experience Pissed about the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron? Me too, pal. To heal the burn, get lost in the basement

of Union Hall and explore a Cincinnati-born comic, MeSseD. The comic follows Lilliput, a tour guide to what lies beneath our feet, battling creatures and clogs to make sure the city’s wastewater continues to flow. Here, the seemingly disparate worlds of sewer management and science fiction collide in a mixed-media art exhibit and immersive visual/aural experience. The odd-but-cool exhibit, which has multiple dates through May and June, makes reading a comic book into a social moment — you’ll walk through the world with other attendees, while learning about MeSseD and the city’s Metropolitan Sewer District.

It’ll be better than 3-D. 6-9

p.m. Friday. Tours through June 16. $6; $4 ages 17 and under. Union Hall, 1311 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, messedcomics.com/tunneltour. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

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EVENT: Cincinnati SneakerBall Dress in black tie attire but leave your dress shoes at home. Cincinnati SneakerBall offers attendees the rare chance to pair their favorite sneakers with a tuxedo while raising money for a good cause. Local philanthropic organization Bigger Than Sneakers will use the event’s proceeds to help Cleats for Kids Ohio purchase footwear for over

600 kids participating in the Reds Rookie Success League — a free, co-ed summer baseball program.

The SneakerBall, powered by local streetwear shop Corporate, will feature art, music, a silent auction and the chance to network with local professionals and sports figures. 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Friday. $50. 21c Museum Hotel, 609 Walnut St., Downtown, facebook.com/ biggerthansneakers.

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EVENT: The Hearth and Home Lecture The Mercantile Library’s annual Hearth and Home lecture features cookbook author and New York Times food columnist Melissa Clark. She’ll chat with Cincinnati Enquirer’s Dining Editor Polly Campbell about everyone’s fave pastime: food. They’ll talk homecooking trends, Clark’s massive catalog of cookbooks (she’s published nearly 40) and more. This event was so popular, the library had to move it to the larger Phoenix downtown. Worried about getting hungry? Don’t fret.

The Phoenix’s Presidents Room restaurant opens at 5 p.m., with happy hour deals.

6-7 p.m. Thursday. Free to Mercantile members; $20 non-members. The Phoenix, 812 Race St., Downtown, mercantilelibrary.com.

— MACKENZIE MANLEY

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ONSTAGE: Treasure Island Yo-ho-ho and a barrel of fun! That’s what’s in store for you with the Playhouse’s family-friendly adaptation

by Ken Ludwig of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel about Jim Hawkins’ adolescent adventures with pirates and buried treasure. There’s a boatload of breathtaking swordplay in this production, not just onstage but up and down the Marx Theatre aisles. The ever-changing set magically transforms from the Admiral Benbow Inn to the good ship Hispaniola and a fortress on a desert island. Long John Silver, Billy Bones, Blind Pew and Ben Gunn keep

theatergoers young and old laughing — and on the edge of their seats. Through May 19. $35-$100. Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams, cincyplay.com. — RICK PENDER

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EVENT: The O.F.F. Market The first Oakley Fancy Flea Market of the season will be held at MadTree’s indoor Barrel Warehouse. The monthly neighborhood marketplace features artisans, makers, small businesses, farmers and specialty food and beverage vendors, all with items for sale. Drink a local MadTree brew while you stroll for locally made goodies. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday. Free admission.

MadTree, 3301 Madison Road, Oakley, facebook. com/theoffmarket. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: Asian Food Fest Where else can you grab sushi, poke, pho and craft barbecue, all in one easy stop? The annual Asian Food Fest held at Washington Park dishes out a cross-continental culinary experience, featuring

signature menu items from local spots like Roll On In, Stone Bowl and Kung Fu Tea. While you’re slurping on ramen or sipping some bubble tea, stick around Saturday evening to catch a set by Korean rapper Dumbfoundead, who Hip Hop fans might remember from his verse on Keith Ape’s viral hit, “It G Ma.” Noon-10 p.m. Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday.

Free admission. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, asianfoodfest.org.

— JUDE NOEL MUSIC: The Devil Makes Three For more than 15 years, California’s The Devil Makes Three has been luring music fans with its uniquely spirited mix of the earliest of Americana sounds, from Blues and Folk to Bluegrass and even Ragtime Jazz, which is held together cohesively by strong songwriting chops.

For their latest album, last year’s Redemption & Ruin,

Pete Bernhard, Cooper McBean and Lucia Turino offered up a sort of “behind the music” reference guide for their rootsy concoctions, giving those songwriting skills a rest and presenting Devilled-up arrangements of songs by their core influences. The tunes by the likes of Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Robert Johnson, Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams and Bill Monroe are split into two sides, one for the songs about giving in to vices and one for the “I’ve seen the light” salvation songs. Other TDMT’s inspirations joined them in the studio for Redemption & Ruin’s recording, including Emmylou Harris, Jerry Douglas and Duane Eddy.

The trio is equally beloved by their ever-growing fanbase for energetic, live-wire performances, which they’ll bring to Greater Cincinnati audiences again this weekend on their way to another headlining gig at Colorado’s PHOTO: PROVIDED

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EVENT: Appalachian Festival Still looking for that perfect, last-minute Mother’s Day gift? The 49th-annual Appalachian Fest at Coney Island has you covered. Browse booths stocked with handmade clothing, stoneware and jewelry while enjoying Bluegrass and Folk music or some home-cooked snacks. The fest is a great learning opportunity, too. Living history demonstrators will simulate student life in a one-room schoolhouse, teach you how to churn butter and exhibit the art of soap making. Don’t miss live storytelling and dancing presented by local artists, including Mark Twain impersonator Stephen Hollen. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. $10; $5 seniors; $2 kids ages 2-12. Coney Island, 6201 Kellogg Ave., California, appalachianfestival.org. — JUDE NOEL

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EVENT: Crafty Supermarket Crafty Supermarket takes over Music Hall’s ballroom with more than 90 handselected makers, artists and designers selling everything from jewelry and greeting cards to knits, ceramics, screenprints and more. One of the Midwest’s largest craft events, along with vendors, there will also be snacks from local food truck favorites, a live DJ, a photo booth and hands-on activities. The first 100 shoppers get a free swag bag. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday. Free admission.

Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, craftysupermarket.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

Red Rocks Amphitheatre (which they sold out in 2016). 8 p.m. Saturday. $25. Madison Theater, 730 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., madisontheateronline. com. — MIKE BREEN

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MUSIC: Tune-Yards brings its eclectic sound to the Taft Theatre. See an interview with singer Merrill Garbus on page 30.

EVENT: Jurassic Geist Brews and prehistoric Jurassic artifcts: an unlikely combination, but a pairing that’s coming to Rhinegeist’s Over-the-Rhine taproom Tuesday thanks

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EVENT: 100 Blacks on Bikes In a push for visibility, Cincinnati Bike Month is inviting all local black cyclists to a weekend ride that’s perfect for beginners. The ride starts at noon in Washington Park, heads east to Ziegler Park, south to Smale Park and then returns to Washington park at 2:30 p.m. There will be breaks along the way, and riders are encouraged to bring snacks, water and helmets. This community ride is reserved for those who identify as black, but there are plenty of rides and events open to all throughout the month of May. Visit cincybikemonth.com for a full calendar. 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Saturday. Free. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, cincybikemonth. com. — JUDE NOEL

EVENT: Clifton House Tour The Clifton House tour occurs every three years on Mother’s Day and takes guests through a handful of historic and architecturally interesting homes in the neighborhood. This year there will be seven homes on the tour, and busses will be available to take you to each — however, you can walk between some locations as well. An official tour guide pamphlet will be available on the day of the tour, listing which houses are included and the historical information and significance of each. Tickets are available online or at local retailers including Lydia’s on Ludlow, Hansa Guild, Ludlow Wines and Ace Hardware. 1-5 p.m. Sunday. $20; $25 day of. Parking is available at the Clifton Rec Center, 320 McAlpin Ave., Clifton, cliftoncommunity. org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

to the Cincinnati Museum Center’s Curate My Community initiative. To celebrate National Dinosaur Day, the Museum Center will unveil a never-before-seen, epic specimen from its collection — a preview of what’s to come from Union Terminal’s reimagined museum spaces. And all signs point to it being a dinosaur. In turn, Rhinegeist will unveil a brand-new beer: a fruity and slightly spicy Golden Ale called Brittlebrain, which registers at 8.6 percent ABV. The event, dubbed “Jurassic Geist,” is free, and a portion of Brittlebrain sales will support the Museum Center, particularly the space’s new dinosaur gallery, which features 7,000 square feet of dino specimens, including some that have never been exhibited to the public. The event includes a meetand-greet with Cincinnati Museum Center paleontologists Dr. Glenn Storrs and Dr. Brenda Hunda, a ticketed raffle, games and more.

6-9 p.m. Tuesday. Free admission; $5 raffle tickets.

Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, rhinegeist. com. — JUDE NOEL

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Piecing it all Together New non-profit business Sew Valley seeks to boost local interest in sewing

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she calls “non-hospitality” sewn products.

Introductions were made, and National Flag eventually offered Sew Valley space within its plant.

Friday’s fundraiser/member showcase coincides, not incidentally, with the deadline for Sew Valley to raise $3,000 on the CrowdRise website in order to be in the running for a $100,000 grant to nonprofits.

If it should win the grant, the money would help develop its educational component, part of the partners’ long-term plans.

“I think that’ll be a by-product eventually, because we’d really like to do workshops and have open sew hours and things like that,” Kovacs says. “But we’re focused on getting the production-contract side of it going first and getting our facility in operating order before expanding into the community.”

Looking ahead, they have big plans for the future.

“We have a pretty big vision,” Kovacs says.

“I already see us needing a bigger physical space for more members. We’d also like to include complementary businesses, like visual-content strategists, stylists and branding.”

Sew Valley has a fundraiser/member showcase, with donations suggested, from 7-9:30 p.m. Friday in the National Flag Co. building (1010 Hulbert Ave., West End)..

More information: sewvalley.org.

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between graduation and Sew Valley’s start up, she and Hayes Shanesy built up Brush Factory, focusing largely on locally made and sustainable hard goods like furniture and home fixtures instead of fashion. (They now have a storefront on Main Street in Over-the-Rhine.)

That business has kept Kovacs very busy, but last year — helped by $50,000 in seed money from the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation — she and Maynard started Sew Valley.

Maynard first took a research trip to New York in 2016, where she visited a fashion accelerator and production facility.

“It seemed like something that might actually be needed here,” she says. (The two were unfamiliar with the Dayton Sewing Collaborative, a sewing makerspace and training facility that aims to make sewing a “viable career option in the Ohio Valley.”)

They did another research trip last summer to Chicago, and later talked to Detroit’s Urban Manufacturing Alliance, a national coalition of organizations and individuals that are building manufacturing economies for the 21st century.

“They’ve noticed that there are facilities like this popping up all over the country, and they’re trying to figure out how they can help them,” Kovacs says.

Finding space within National Flag came about indirectly. Kovacs says she requested a tour of that company — one of the few ones locally manufacturing what

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garment,” Maynard adds.

Sew Valley has six members who utilize the production space and machines, with room for a seventh. The members pay between $150 and $300 a month for 24/7 access to the studio and a discount on production services. They can either contract with Sew Valley to make a small-batch run of sewn products or learn to do it themselves. Non-members can also rent studio space by the hour, but not necessarily use the machines.

“Anybody can’t just come in and use the machines,” Kovacs says. “They (have to) come in and take a test.”

Because most prospective members are not trained on such specialized machines, Kovacs is vetting them first with sewing tests to see whether they are capable of using the equipment. Based on the assessment, aspiring users might need further training to be certified.

Sew Valley also provides sewing services, including sewists, on a contract basis to local businesses that have need for their services.

The big public debut for Sew Valley occurs Friday from 7-9:30 p.m. with a fundraiser/member showcase.

Kovacs could have used Sew Valley when she was just graduating from the fashion program at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, with an eye toward building a brand. In the intervening years

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hen designer/small business entrepreneur Rosie Kovacs opened up the first iteration of her Brush Factory fashion line nearly a decade ago, the U.S. was in the grips of the Great Recession. The country was in no mood for people to consider an upcharge on a necessity like clothing just because it was “Made in America.”

“It was really early; it would’ve been astronomically expensive, and no one would’ve understood what it was all about,” Kovacs says, in a conversation at the site of her newest endeavor, Sew Valley. It is a nonprofit incubator for designers and others working with sewn products and has been located inside the 149-year-old National Flag Co.’s headquarters at 1010 Hulbert Ave. in the West End since January.

Her partner in the project is artist/ designer Shailah Maynard, who owns Working Girls, a brand that describes itself as making “tongue-in-cheek accessories and clothing items often inspired by ’80s/ ’90s music, film and pop culture.”

The time is right for Sew Valley, Kovacs says, because lots of people who want to make small-batch apparel and related accessories need the training and a resource center to get them from idea to product. And there are more people than ever who want to do that in an economy that is encouraging all manner of start-ups and makers.

“Do you know how many people sewing for Etsy there are out there?” Kovacs asks.

“And plenty of Etsy people do it full time.”

But there may not be that many Etsyselling entrepreneurs with the resources for the kind of sewing machinery that Kovacs and Maynard have been busy acquiring. Sew Valley’s ground floor warehouse currently holds dedicated production implements, such as a Singer cobbler shoe patch, a Reece button hole and a Consew zig-zag machine. Kovacs recently went to Indianapolis to pick up a Kansai double-needle bottom cover stitch machine, which allows for flexible hemming of stretchy fabrics like T-shirts and athletic wear.

Kovacs explains that these industrial machines, which focus on one or two specialized tasks, allow for faster use and better-quality work.

“You need a ton of machines for just one

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Community Theater Preserves History

BY R I C K PEN D ER

Good theater is not limited to Cincinnati’s and Northern Kentucky’s professional and semi-professional stages. Our numerous community theaters use volunteer power and talent to present engaging shows featuring skilled actors, directors, designers and promoters — frequently with surprisingly good results.

Three of these groups own permanent homes in adapted facilities, rather than the standard community theater practice of renting at various locations: Footlighters Inc., The Drama Workshop and Mariemont Players have turned historic buildings into functional performance venues. Operating these facilities comes with added responsibility and expense, of course, but it also means that rehearsals can happen onstage and scenic construction can be done under the same roof.

Footlighters was established in 1963 and often presented shows at the Westwood Town Hall before moving to Northern Kentucky. In 1987, the company took over the onetime Salem United Methodist Church (802 York St., Newport), built in 1882 and named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Now called The Stained Glass Theatre, the building features several performance spaces, including a 163-seat mainstage that was once the church’s sanctuary.

Footlighters’ current production is Urinetown (through May 19), which was nominated for nine Tony Awards in 2002.

It’s a hilarious, satirical musical about a Gotham-like city where a water shortage — the result of a 20-year drought — has led to a government-enforced shutdown of public toilets. A malevolent corporation, Urine Good Company, charges exorbitant admission for limited access to such facilities. Bobby Strong (Robert Breslin IV), a charismatic hero, and mouthy Little Sally (Rebecca Mactaggart) are the spark plugs for a public revolt. Veteran director Bunny Arszman is staging the show. Tickets: footlighters.org.

On Cincinnati’s West Side, The Drama Workshop is offering The Sting (through May 20) at its Glenmore Playhouse (3716 Glenmore Ave., Cheviot). The company began producing shows in 1954 and also spent time at Westwood Town Hall for some years, then hopscotched to other rental spaces. In 2013, TDW took over the former Glenmore Bowl (built in 1928), where lots of sweat equity by volunteers has converted the venerable recreation space into a viable theater.

The Sting is David Rogers’ stage adaptation of David Ward’s screenplay for the Oscar-winning 1973 movie that starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford as a pair of small-time hustlers in 1936 Chicago.

Grifter Johnny Hooker (played by Nathan Henegar) joins forces with genuinely accomplished con artist Henry Gondorff (Chris Bishop) to exact vengeance

Rebecca Mactaggart in Urinetown PHOTO: MIKKI SCHAFFNER PHOTOGRAPHY

on powerful racketeer Doyle Lonnegan (Kevin Noll). Staged by director Fred Hunt, this production has nearly 40 actors, the largest cast ever for a TDW show. Tickets: thedramaworkshop.org.

Since 1960, Mariemont Players has presented its shows at a two-story schoolhouse built in 1910, now called the Walton Creek Theater (4101 Walton Creek Road, Plainville).

The second-floor auditorium (accessible by elevator) has been renovated with comfortable seating and a sound induction loop for those with hearing issues. Sight lines are excellent.

On Friday, the group opens Bruce Graham’s The Outgoing Tide (through May 27), a three-person drama directed by Dan Maloney. With dark humor and powerful emotion, it’s focused on the challenges of aging. In a home on Chesapeake Bay, Gunner (Harold Murphy), an opinionated elderly man suffering from memory loss and dementia, hatches an unorthodox plan to avoid moving into an assistedliving center.

But Peg (Barbara Karol), his wife of 50 years, and Jack (Michael Ireland), his son who’s going through a divorce, are resisting — and time is running short.

Mariemont Players has a history — dating back to 1936 — of producing six ambitious, dramatically satisfying shows per season, a fuller schedule than most community theaters. Tickets: mariemontplayers.com.

Tickets at community theaters are affordably priced. You can see The Sting for $18, The Outgoing Tide for $20 and Urinetown for $22. You’ll pay twice that much — or more — for seats at many of Cincinnati’s fine professional theaters. Of course, those need larger budgets to pay their designers and performers. But you’ll get a lot of satisfaction from the volunteers at our local community theaters.

Contact Rick Pender: rpender@citybeat.com

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Dance Theatre of Harlem Champions Diversity

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Such choices are what the Dance Theatre’s audience looks for, Johnson says.

“The word ‘Harlem’ in our name brings people to the theater with a certain expectation (of) a company unlike any other — an expectation that they’re going to see something that’s exceptional but also has a very particular flavor to it, a very particular mission,” she says.

Johnson says one of her favorite aspects of touring is the opportunity it provides presenting organizations, like the Cincinnati Arts Association here, to bring in diverse audiences to witness an ethnically diverse company. To that end, Dance Theatre will offer both private and public master classes during its time here.

This city has some close connections with Dance Theatre. Marcia Lynn Sells, a former dancer with Cincinnati Ballet and now associate dean and dean of students at Harvard University Law School, joined it in 1976 for four seasons. Current Cincinnati Ballet second company dancer Derek Brockington, an African-American, will join it for the 50th season.

“There’s not a lot of black dancers in big ballet companies,” Brockington says. “I’ve always looked for dancers of color whenever I’m looking at company websites (to see) if they will even consider me.’ ” Johnson is happy to bring him on board, as well as others who represent the next generation of dancers performing on stages across the country.

“This generation is much more grounded and aware of who they are as individuals,” she says. “They understand their role in the world — to actually be role models.”

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Performing at the Aronoff Center for the Arts on Friday and Saturday, Dance Theatre of Harlem is a company committed to using dancers of diverse backgrounds.

It also aims to educate audiences about dance through performances in Harlem and around the country.

When it was founded in 1969 by former New York City Ballet dancer Arthur Mitchell, Dance Theatre of Harlem was the first African-American classical ballet company in the country. Its dancers needed that opportunity. Today, when the African-American Misty Copeland can be the female principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, that may seem like ancient history. But while times are changing, problems persist.

“I was told that I would have a career, but that I would never be a ballerina because there weren’t any black ballerinas out there,” says Victoria Johnson, Dance Theatre’s artistic director. “People still think that, unfortunately.”

A dancer from childhood and the recipient of a scholarship to study at the Washington School of Ballet, Johnson eventually became a founding member of Dance Theatre. She danced with the company for 28 years. In 2010, Mitchell asked her to take over its artistic leadership and to have the company resume touring, which had stopped in 2004. She was able to reinstitute touring in 2012.

The company now features 16 dancers, who are, as Johnson says, “full of energy and vision.” The repertoire has shifted slightly by representing many different types of dance besides classical ballet.

“One of the things that’s important to me is we have a representation of many different cultures on stage,” Johnson says.

“We are the granddaddies of diversity,” adds Robert Garland, Dance Theatre’s resident choreographer and director of its school. “We’re taking you literally around the world (through programming), so people begin to understand how we’re all part of the same big picture.”

Four different works that showcase diversity will be performed in Cincinnati. “Valse-Fantaisie” opens the program and is a lesser-known piece by George Balanchine, the famed founder of the New York City Ballet. It is followed by “This Bitter Earth,” a pas de deux from choreographer Christopher Wheeldon set to the Dinah Washington song of the same name.

The middle work on the program is “Change,” from renowned modern dance choreographer Dianne McIntyre. Created for three women and set to Negro spirituals, Garland calls this a representation of the #metoo movement before the movement happened. “It’s about the power and community of the feminine idea,” he says.

Closing the program is “Harlem on My Mind,” choreographed by Darrell Grand Moultrie and set to Harlem Jazz tunes.

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Saul Steinberg and Carl Solway

BY S T E V EN R O S EN

We should be used to the fact that no significant visual-art event in the second half of the 20th century has happened here without some kind of connection to the gallerist Carl Solway.

That is the case with the Cincinnati Art Museum’s recent installation of Saul Steinberg’s “Mural of Cincinnati” in its newly renovated Schmidlapp Gallery, where it has swiftly become a fascinating highlight for visitors Saul Steinberg’s “Bleecker Street” print is at Solway Gallery. with its precisely and imaginatively drawn P H O T O : C O U R T E S Y O F C A R L S O L W AY G A L L E R Y A N D S A U L S T E I N B E R G F O U N D AT I O N depictions of city scenes and buildings.

Commissioned by the owner of the then-new, innovatively Modhave a gallery and would like to come visit ernist Terrace Plaza Hotel, the mural had you.’ ” been installed on a wall in the hotel’s SkyThat was the start of a productive line Room restaurant from 1948 until 1965, relationship. when it — and other Terrace Plaza artwork “He had a big file cabinet and he kept his

by Joan Miró and Alexander Calder — drawings inside,” Solway says. “When the were given to the museum. Because of the file cabinet filled up, he sent it to a waremural’s 75-foot-length and wear and tear, house and bought another. And I would go the museum has struggled to find a hopevisit him to buy drawings. He knew I was fully permanent home for it until now. This coming and he’d put out (about) 20 drawis its first long-time installation since 1982. ings on a table, and I would look through “I remember Steinberg from 1948,” Solthem. In those days, they were $200, and way says, during a tour of his current Saul a big drawing was $500. And I’d pick out a Steinberg Prints: 1948-1996 show, which few I would really like and then say, ‘Can corresponds with the museum’s recent I see some more drawings?’ And he’d say, action. All of the prints in the show at ‘No. That’s all your eyes can digest. Some Solway’s West End gallery come from the other time.’ ” Saul Steinberg Foundation and were in the Solway would then sell to collectors. artist’s personal collection when he died in The relationship grew strong enough 1999. (All are for sale.) that Steinberg designed a poster for a 1968 “That’s when I saw the mural for the first exhibit of his work at Flair Gallery in downtime,” Solway says. “I was 13 years old — it town Cincinnati. Solway has a copy in his was the year I was bar mitzvahed. My show, and others are for sale. It’s a clever, parents took me to the Skyline Room at the somewhat-meta vision of an art gallery — Terrace as celebration. It was the newest silhouetted visitors admire small sketches/ restaurant in town. Even as a child, I was markings, while concise and beautifully overwhelmed by that mural. I thought it fluid cursive writing fills in white spaces. was so great.”

The relationship didn’t end as well as Solway’s interest in Steinberg, who was Solway would have liked. By the late 1970s, born in Romania and came to the U.S. the gallery was having financial problems. in 1942 to escape anti-Semitic fascism, “I had a hard time paying Steinberg for continued as he grew up. For one thing, some of his drawings,” Solway says. “I his parents subscribed to The New Yorker Yorker, wrote him a letter and said, ‘I don’t know where Steinberg’s distinctively idiosynif I can finish paying.’ I finally (did), but he cratic and humorous drawings ran as was mad at me because I didn’t pay him memorable cover illustrations. promptly after buying drawings from him So when Solway and his first wife, Gail, over all those years. I was so embarrassed, started a gallery called Flair in the early I never really contacted him again.”

1960s and began seeking work, he found This show offers a reconciliation that we himself drawn to Steinberg. On a trip to all benefit from.

New York, he visited the artist’s apartment Saul Steinberg Prints: 1948-1996 is at Carl in Washington Square Village, an apartSolway Gallery (424 Findlay St., West End) ment community in Greenwich Village. through July 15. More info: solwaygallery.

“I think it was the same way I made concom. Steinberg’s “Mural of Cincinnati” is at nections with everybody,” he says of the the Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park original meeting. “You call them up and Drive, Mount Adams. say, ‘I’m a young dealer in Cincinnati and I

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This ‘Atlanta’ Season is Wonderfully Weird

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The Blaguards

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2:30 PM & 7:30 PM This two-man show is a bubbling stew of humor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor - NY Times A grand crowd pleaser whenever performed, with the sense of stretchstretch ing out a story, of building image upon image and verbal pattern upon verbal pattern to create folk art out of colloquial language - Chicago Reader “A Couple of Blaguards”; is a theatrical event that will find a place in the heart of every audience member – Goodreads.com

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This is Donald Glover’s moment — he’s uncomfortable yet irresistible levels. As fresh off his Saturday Night Live debut, more attention is given to the other charserving double duty as host and musiacters, sometimes you won’t even see Earn cal guest (under his musical stage name and an episode will focus on Paper Boi or Childish Gambino, who just released a Van instead. new single, “This Is America”). He’ll appear And sometimes you’ll unknowingly as a young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star sign up for a legit 40-minute horror film.

Wars Story Story, in theaters later this month, “Teddy Perkins,” a terrifying episode sure and is voicing Simba in the upcoming liveto be nominated across the board, follows action Lion King remake.

Darius — himself an odd bird — as he travBut it’s his work on Atlanta (Season els to buy a piano from an eccentric recluse.

Finale, 10 p.m. Thursday, FX) — a show Suffice it to say, things take a dark turn. he created, stars in, produces, writes and Think Get Out meets the sad real-life story sometimes directs — that best showcases what a talent Glover is.

The series is billed as a comedy, and there are certainly humorous moments throughout the show’s two seasons.

But if you’re familiar with Glover from his writing work on 30 Rock or his breakout role as Troy Barnes in Community this is a Community, whole different brand of funny — so much so that it’s questionable to label the show as a comedy.

(L to R): Lakeith Stanfield, Donald Glover and Brian Tyree Henry Atlanta follows Earn (Glover) as he begins to P H O T O : G U Y D ’A L E M A / F X serve as manager to his rising Rap-star cousin, Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles (Brian Tyree of the Jacksons (made all the more eerie Henry). Despite serious setbacks in Season since Stanfield appeared in the Jordan 1, the group of ATL friends, which includes Peele horror movie).

Earn’s on-again/off-again girlfriend VanEvery week, Atlanta uncovers a new essa (Zazie Beetz) and Alfred’s right-hand facet while exploring class, race and other man Darius (Lakeith Stanfield), sees some social experiences. It’s so exciting to tune success after Paper Boi’s music begins to in not knowing what you’re going to get. take off.

Glover displays excellent work on and This sophomore season is subtitled Roboff the screen, but he’s also supported by bin’ Season, which is described as the time a cast with serious talent. Beetz (combefore the holidays, specifically in Atlanta, ing to the big screen soon as Domino in when money is tight and many are put in Deadpool 2), Stanfield (Sorry to Bother desperate financial situations that lead You) and Henry (a Broadway alum recently You some to either steal or be robbed. There nominated for an Emmy for his guest role is a “robbin’ ” element in each episode — on This Is Us Us) master their complex roles, sometimes more literal than others. With shining whether they’re the star of an some amount of fame yet still living in episode or just a featured character. Even their hometown, the crew (and particuin the most ridiculous scenarios, the entire larly Paper Boi) has a target on their back. cast manages to make each story feel real.

They might have a little money, but they Atlanta offers a surreal, twisted look at still have to hustle hard. And that’s what life — specifically the contemporary black Robbin’ Season is all about: The struggle is experience in the South — that is at the real, even for a rapper on the radio. same time still so familiar, sometimes The first season pretty much focuses on depressingly so. To that effect, maybe this Earn’s story as he begins to manage Paper “comedy” doesn’t always elicit huge laughs Boi, scrapes to get by and raises his daughas much as it makes audiences think and ter while trying to make things work with perhaps laugh at life’s absurdities. More Van. There’s always a left-of-center funny and more, the best shows blur genre vibe in Atlanta — whether it be casting lines. Certainly worthy of that designaa “black Justin Bieber” or having an entire tion, Atlanta may just be the most original, episode play out like a public access talk inventive show on TV right now. show. This season cranks up the weirdContact Jac Kern: @jackern ness with every episode — sometimes to

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MUSIC Watching the Defectives Tune-Yards’ latest album draws inspiration from EDM and African music, as well as our current social/political climate

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errill Garbus is in a constant state of evolution and self-reflection, a process that can’t help but infect everything she does as the front woman and driving creative force behind Tune-Yards. What began as a one-person project more than a decade ago is now a full-fledged collaboration with bassist Nate Brenner (who also happens to be her significant other off stage) and a current live unit anchored by drummer/beat-master Hamir Atwal.

For the uninitiated, Tune-Yards employs a variety of musical and cultural elements — from Appalachian Folk and slanted Pop to African rhythms and Electronic music — into an eclectic, hook-heavy mix. At the center is Garbus’ voice, a versatile and improbably dynamic instrument that can move from low-key crooning to full-on wailing, often within the same song.

Tune-Yards first made an impression with 2011’s w h o k i l l, a groove-centric effort influenced by Garbus’ move from her native New England to Oakland, Calif., and that somehow, in the words of Robert Christgau, “contains in one person the finest attributes of Captain Beefheart and Phoebe Snow.” It deservedly topped The Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop poll and was followed by 2014’s Nikki Nack, a slightly more streamlined set of songs that grew the band’s fan base even more.

Now comes the freshly minted I Can Feel You Creep into My Private Life, a record influenced as much by the rise of Black Lives Matter and Trumpism as Garbus’ beloved African polyrhythms. The album’s most curious song is “Colonizer,” which features Garbus’ singular vocal delivery of lines like “I use my white woman’s voice to tell stories of travels with African men,” “I turn on my white woman’s voice to contextualize acts of my white women friends” and “I smell the blood in my voice” over EDM beats and catchy, pulsating bass lines from Brenner.

Garbus recently took a few minutes out of her busy schedule to discuss Tune-Yards’ latest release and how it couldn’t help but be impacted by our specific cultural moment.

CityBeat: How has your songwriting process changed over the years?

Merrill Garbus: It’s kind of a real mix.

I would say I live my life first, by which I mean that in the past few years I’ve come to accept that I’m a musician. I always feel like I’m living my dream and it can’t possibly last. But, finally, I thought I should probably act like this is my job: go to the studio every day to write songs and work on music and work on getting better and take voice lessons. For a while I was taking Haitian drum lessons and dance lessons.

I really wanted to work on my craft. So in that way, what happened with this album and the album before this was that I was living my life here in Oakland and being witness to and participating in what happens here and writing every day a lot of words on pages of paper. That’s really how it happens; it’s kind of like this big stew that gets stirred up and we work on it long enough and eventually we have an album.

CB: I read that you were influenced by various electronic acts that you played with on festival bills during your previous tour.

How did you incorporate that into the new record?

MG: For me it was like research. I found myself being really prejudiced against EDM — four-on-the-floor dance music — and it was great to go back into the history of that while working on this album. I guess the other thing I do a lot when we’re writing is just reading and doing research about what I’m interested in. I was really curious about how that style of music came to be, and that kind of gave me a deeper appreciation for it. The other part of the process is that very early on I involve Nate (Brenner) in what I’m doing. I’ll say, “I wrote this vocal line and this beat, do you want to come in and write a bass line?”

And what he’ll usually do is write 18 bass lines and I get to like cut and paste what he does and go back and forth.

It was something I had to sell him on: “I’m really getting into House and Techno.”

And he was like, “OK.” It certainly wasn’t what he was listening to, nor what he

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wanted to be listening to. That’s a lot of what influenced this album — a lot of push and pull against each other and what we were listening to and what elements were ending up in the music.

CB: You’ve talked about attending a sixmonth anti-racist workshop while you were writing the songs for the new album. Why did you feel that was necessary and how did it impact the songs?

MG: Because black people are being killed by the state at an alarming rate. The moment of making Nikki Nack was when these women of Black Lives Matter and many other talented organizers were saying, “Now is the time that this is an emergency and now is the time that you’re going to hear about this so it changes.” I’ve been aware of racial justice work and I’ve

been aware of white privilege and I’ve been aware of how my music troubled me because I’m a white person very influenced by black music of all kinds. That’s always been there for me, and I think this is just a deepening of that work for me.

CB: And that was before Trump’s election.

How did you react when he won?

MG: It raised an interesting question about what music even does or what it provides to people at times like this. For me I think a lot of it was, “What am I doing with my time and my day? Should I be making phone calls? Should I be in the streets?

What can I do to improve the situation?”

Tune-Yards performs Sunday at downtown’s Taft Theatre. Tickets/more info: tafttheatre.org.

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Local Music on the Square in May

BY M I K E B R EEN

This summer, Fountain Square’s free weekend music series returns every Friday and Saturday, along with the weekly Reggae Wednesdays showcases. But, while we know who’s playing throughout the every-Thursday Salsa on the Square music and dance series (which gets an early start, having kicked off May 3), the rest of the popular summertime concert lineups have yet to be released.

While waiting for the rest of the schedule to drop (touring Indie rockers Maps & Atlases revealed that they are playing June 30 on the Square), you can get in the mood by checking out the solid acts scheduled for Fountain Square’s Spring Concert Series, which begins this Friday and runs every Friday and Saturday through Memorial Day weekend (with a to-be-announced date held for Sunday, May 27).

The May concerts on Fountain Square run 7-10 p.m. and feature top-notch local headliners performing Country (Noah Smith on May 18), Reggae (Elementree Livity Project on May 19), Indie Pop (Bad Veins on May 26) and Hip Hop/Neo Soul (Audley this Saturday, joined by Jess (Audley Lamb and the Factory and Indie Pop band Coastal Club). The non-locals are Columbus, Ohio’s rootsy rockers Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons (who play this Friday) and grandson, a young Toronto artist now based in L.A. who has been making waves with his mix of Blues, AltRock, Pop, EDM and Hip Hop. Grandson performs on the Square May 25.

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Super-rich Hip Hop legend Dr. Dre finally suffered a loss recently, after his lawyers’ attempt to block Dr. Draion Burch’s efforts to trademark “Dr. Drai” and “Doctor Drai OBGYN and Media Personality” were dismissed. The trademark office apparently didn’t buy the argument that the flashy gynecologist’s use of the terms might confuse consumers so much that they’d buy Dr. Drai’s books like 20 Things You May Not Know About the Vagina and 20 Things You May Not Know About the Penis, thinking they were a part of Dre’s latest career move. Going from Hip Hop innovator to headphones tycoon was unexpected, but pivoting to “superstar OBGYN pundit” seems more like something Kanye would do.

Streaming Value

As music sales decline and streaming booms, charting and sales trackers have had to adjust to stay relevant. Billboard began weighing streaming numbers into the charting equation in 2014, and this summer marks the first major adjustment to the formula. Beginning June 29, songs and albums streamed by paid subscribers to services like Apple Music and Spotify will count more than those streamed for free. Previously, 1,500 streams would count as one album sale on the Billboard 200; once the changes kick in, 1,250 paid streams will equal one sale unit, but it will take 3,750 freetiered streams to equal the same.

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• Rootsy indie rockers Carriers are celebrating their first release — a cassette featuring the songs “Peace Of Mine” and “Daily Battle” that will also be available digitally — this Saturday with a free show at MOTR Pub (1345 Main St., Over-theRhine, motrpub.com). The National’s Bryan Devendorf and The Afghan Whigs’ John Curley played percussion and bass on the tracks (the pair also joined the group for its performance at last year’s Cincinnati Entertainment Awards).

Find more info at facebook.com/carriersband. And check out the premiere of “Peace of Mine” this week at citybeat.com.

• Musician/singer/songwriter Brianna Kelly is hosting a release party at 8 p.m.

Saturday at downtown’s Christ Church Cathedral (Fourth and Sycamore streets, cincinnaticathedral.com), performing in the church’s renovated Centennial Chapel.

Kelly is celebrating the release of her split EP with Utah Drone group Sympathy Pain, which came out earlier this year on the locally-based Whited Sepulchre Records.

Also performing are Indianapolis’ Wayne Robert Thomas and A Delicate Motor, the local Indie ensemble (of which Motor Kelly is a member) that performed at the recent Homecoming music fest. ADM’s stellar Fellover My Own album is being released later this year through the Northern Kentucky-based label SofaBurn Records. Visit citybeat.com this week to check out the music video for the band’s first single from the album.

Listen to Kelly’s recent solo release at briannakellywsr.bandcamp.com and find more info at facebook.com/ briannakellymusic.

Guns N’ Roses recently announced plans for expanded editions of their landmark debut album, Appetite for Destruction. But even the $999 Locked N’ Loaded version — which includes skull rings and temporary tattoo replicas of the band members’ ink — will be missing something. Along with unreleased demos and other rarities, every song from the 1988 G N’ R Lies EP is included, except the controversial “One in a Million,” which featured flagrantly racist, homophobic and anti-immigrant lyrics (graphic epithets and all) that now make it sound like a National Anthem for a certain emboldened segment of Trump’s America. Though obviously having second thoughts now, Axl Rose never completely backed off of his defense of the track.

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Several area Blues guitar players are teaming up for a good cause Friday at the Madison Theater (730 Madison Ave., Covington, madisontheateronline.com).

The Cincinnati Guitar Festival is a benefit for Play It Forward, the local organization co-founded by Cincinnati radio legend and music booster Gary Burbank that assists area musicians with financial and medical needs. Visit pifcincy.org for more on the “musicians helping musicians” group.

Guitarists scheduled to perform at this year’s fest (which debuted last year as Mackfest, in honor of the late regional guitar great Lonnie Mack) include Doug Hart, Marcos Sastre, Jimmy D. Rogers, Chuck Sullivan, Johnny Fink, Brad Myers, Tom Kaper Bob Hermann, Lance Boyd, Kelly Kaper, Walker Leo Clarke, Brian Tarter and Walker, Scotty Bratcher.

Craig Comer and Seth Forster will serve as the fest’s rhythm section, The SoulFixers’ horn section will provide horns and special singers include Leroy Ellington and Noah Hunt, longtime vocalist for the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band.

Showtime is 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Find more info at facebook.com/ cincinnatiguitarfestival.

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Whether it’s whim, impulse or the inability to remain still, Todd Rundgren has always been a multi-genre chameleon, effortlessly switching between Pop singer/songwriter, Philly Soul balladeer, Progressive rocker, avant-gardist and much in between. With Rock reunions being the order of the day, Rundgren has now brought back Utopia, the cult band he started in 1975. With his illustrious and successful solo output output, production projects with the likes of Badfinger, Meatloaf, New York Dolls and XTC and Utopia’s Prog/Pop Rock, Rundgren was one of the most prolific and eclectic musicians of the 1970s.

Beginning as a side project, Utopia rivaled Rundgren’s solo material in popularity. The band’s career and music can be divided into two eras. There was the original, exploratory ’70s phase, in which Utopia recorded complex concept records like Ra and epic, virtuosic synth-infused compositions upon which the sounds intertwined like aural Mobius strips. The later incarnation of Utopia in the early ’80s flirted with New Wave and embraced Beatlesque Power Pop. After 1985’s POV, POV Rundgren grew more interested in his solo work and has only returned to Utopia a couple of times since.

The current tour features Rundgren (guitar/vocals), Willie Wilcox (drums) and Kasim Sulton (bass/vocals), who performed together in Utopia in various configurations throughout the band’s initial run. Former Utopian Ralph Schuckett (keyboards) was initially announced for the tour, but backed out for health reasons and was replaced by newcomer Gil Assayas.

The current Utopia is playing two distinct sets per concert, offering a greatesthits retrospective of each era. In a typically obtuse statement, Rundgren told Variety, Variety “Even though we are paying tribute to the

past, we’re not going to talk about the past.”

(Gregory Gaston)

Ghost

Friday • Taft Theatre

Though there’s a point to those who bemoan the loss of mystery in music during our social-media/information-overload age, it’s not as though no one is trying.

Take theatrical Swedish Metal band Ghost, for example. After enrapturing audiences in their homeland, over the course of five years, the troupe rose to become one of the biggest Metal attractions on the U.S. touring circuit without the identity of the band members ever being known.

Ghost’s anonymity was built into the group’s schtick from the beginning, which uses a Catholic Church motif but switches out the Father, Son and Holy Ghost for Satan. Sporting costumes and masks, the band members — each known only as “A Nameless Ghoul” — were led in concert by a Satanic “Pope” singer, Papa Emeritus, who has been replaced (often forcibly) a few times over the past half-decade. For Ghost’s current tour and forthcoming album, Prequelle (due June 1), the group’s leader has been revealed as Cardinal Copia, though a promotional video suggests that all three Papa Emerituses would be joining them on the road — as embalmed corpses.

The obvious dark humor at play in Ghost’s persona makes for an entertaining stage show, but the music isn’t just an afterthought. The choral flourishes and compositional drama of religious music are just a part of the Ghost’s melodic sound, which also includes various strains of Doom, Prog, Death and Black Metal.

Ghost’s albums have consistently been praised by critics and sold well, and the band even won a Grammy for a track off of its third full-length, 2015’s Meliora.

Despite the valiant effort, the past year has not been kind to Ghost’s veil of

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anonymity, which was torn after a few former Nameless Ghouls went to court over financial concerns. Public court records outed the musicians, as well as Tobias Forge, the ever-changing frontman and overall mastermind of the project, who has since said Ghost has long functioned with a revolving membership and that he had no illusions that everyone’s identities would remain forever secret. While a bit of a bummer, it’s hard to imagine the unmasking will have many Ghost fans going, “Yeah, they still sound great, but if those guys on stage aren’t actual demonic clergymen, I’m out!” (Mike Breen)

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and performance arsenal.

After finishing art school and then joining a succession of local bands, Rashad returned to his root love of Funk and R&B; his 2015 eponymous debut EP as Boulevards was solid evidence of his intention to bring classic Funk into the new millennium. That sonic attitude coupled with a party-all-the-time and let’s-get-it-on lyrical stance was in full bloom on his full-length debut, 2016’s Groove!

Groove!, which folded more Jazz and Soul into the mix and yet retained and expanded the irresistible appeal of banging ’70s synth-and-guitar Funk.

Last year’s Hurtown USA was Boulevards’ hangover album, a measured and more mature set examining the realities and repercussions of the day after the night before. While not as immediate as its predecessors, Hurtown USA showed the depth and breadth of Boulevards’ musical and lyrical skills and proved that his love of the party scene is tempered with the knowledge of exactly what love has to do with it.

Boulevards is not just letting his Funk flag fly, he’s all in as far as reinventing the form as both aficionado and purveyor, student and teacher, lover and fighter. (Brian Baker)

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Jamil Rashad pounds out old-school Funk/ Pop at its ivy-walled finest. Performing as Boulevards, Rashad channels classic party Funk from the ’70s and ’80s and blends it with a contemporary wash of Hip Hop, Jazz and Soul to create a danceable solution that is fresh and yet eerily familiar.

The recent brace of Boulevards recordings are steeped in influences like Rick James, Prince, Morris Day & the Time, Eddie Murphy and Earth Wind & Fire, resulting in a sound that is firmly rooted in the sonic textures of a bygone era without devolving into simple nostalgic calisthenics.

A native of Raleigh, N.C., Rashad received an Future Sounds early education in music appreciation from his Saving Abel – May 25, father, a local radio DJ Blue Note Harrison who was well versed in Bunbury Music Festival R&B, Jazz and Blues and featuring Jack White, provided his son with a blink-182, Chainsmokdiverse foundation on ers and more – June 1-3, which to build his evenSawyer Point tual career. As a teenager, Rashad found himself Japanese Breakfast drawn into Raleigh’s Punk – June 15, Taft Theatre and Metal scenes as both (Ballroom) fan and band member, Luke Bryan – June 16, which would ultimately Great American Ball Park add another interesting wrinkle to his songwriting

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LISTINGS

CityBeat’s music listings are free. Send info to Mike Breen at mbreen@citybeat.com. Listings are subject to change.

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URBAN ARTIFACT - Go Go Buffalo with GILT, Daddy and Denim Gremlin. 9 p.m.

Rock/Various. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Rusty Burge and Dan Karlsberg. 7 p.m. Jazz MOTR PUB - Suck the Honey with Ghost Wolves. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Northbound Motion. 9 p.m.

Americana. Free.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Willow Tree Carolers with Andrew Hibbard, Dusty Bryant and Harlot. 9:30 p.m.

Americana/Various. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB - Maritime Law. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

THURSDAY 10

ARNOLD’S - Dottie Warner and Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m.

Jazz. Free.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Todd Hepburn and Friends. 8 p.m. Various.

Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Josh Kline Trio. 7 p.m. Jazz.

COMMON ROOTS - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

THE GREENWICH - Phil DeGreg & Brasilia. 8:30 p.m.

Latin Jazz. $5.

MEMORIAL HALL Naturally 7. 8 p.m. A Capella. $20-$35.

MOTR PUB - The Perfect Children with The Mutineers.

10 p.m. Garage/Soul/Rock/ Various. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Fixation with Spear and Burn Victim. 9 p.m. Hardcore. $6.

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OCTAVE - Broccoli Samurai.

9 p.m. Electronic/Jam/Funk.

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SCHWARTZ’S POINT Michael Cruse Trio. 8:30 p.m.

Jazz. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Ford Theatre Reunion with Dead Man String Band. 9:30 p.m.

Rock/Various. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Nicholas Johnson & The Same Old Strangers with Old News. 8 p.m.

Americana. $8.

TAFT THEATRE - Todd Rundgren’s Utopia. 7 p.m. Rock/Various. $39.50-$99.50.

FRIDAY 11

ARNOLD’S - Willow Tree Carolers. 9 p.m. Americana.

Free.

BB&T ARENA - Alabama with Montgomery Gentry.

7:30 p.m. Country BLIND LEMON - Charlie Millikin. 9 p.m. Acoustic.

Free.

BLUE NOTE HARRISON Moonshine Bandits. 8 p.m.

Country Rap. $20.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Five Little Bears. 8 p.m. Jazz.

Sastre, Jimmy D Rogers, Chuck Sullivan, Johnny Fink, Brad Myers, Tom Kaper, Bob Herrmann, Lance Boyd and more. 8 p.m. Blues/Rock. $15, $20 day of show.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Chuck Brisbin & the Tuna Project. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

MARTY’S HOPS & VINES Bob Ross Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz.

Free.

MOTR PUB - Ohmme with The Shack and The Lovers.

10 p.m. Alt/Rock/Pop/Various. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Beastie Boys & Run DMC Dance Party with DJ Lady Bandit. 10 p.m. Hip Hop/ Dance/DJ. Free.

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OCTAVE - Boulevards.

9 p.m. Funk/R&B/Soul/ Pop. Cover.

CHAMELEON - Bi and Howling Giant. 10 p.m.

Rock.

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PEECOX ERLANGER Saving Stimpy. 9:30 p.m.

Rock. $5.

COMMON ROOTS - Shiny Old Soul. 9 p.m. Roots/ Blues/Rock/Jazz/Various.

Free.

THE REDMOOR - The 2nd Wind Band. 9 p.m. Jazz/ R&B. $10.

GRAND CENTRAL DELICATESSEN - Ricky Nye Inc. 7:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

THE GREENWICH -Kathy Wade and The George Simon Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Whammies. 9 p.m. Pop/Rock. $5.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - PrizonWood. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

THE LISTING LOON Pedro-X Band. 6 p.m. Various. Free.

LUDLOW GARAGE - Glen Phillips with Jonathan Kingham. 8:30 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter. $15-$40.

MADISON LIVE - The Nasty Birthday Blowout with Murder Clique, Datmafaka and Thorazine and more. 8:30 p.m. Rap/Various. $10, $12 day of show.

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MADISON THEATER Cincinnati Guitar Fest with Doug Hart, Marcos

SCHWARTZ’S POINT - On A Limb. 9 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

SILVERTON CAFE - Slick Willie and the Kentucky Jellies. 9 p.m. Country/Rockabilly/Various. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Arlo McKinley & The Lonesome Sound, Wilder and The Matchsellers. 9:30 p.m.

Americana. Free.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Brother Smith (album release show) with Sean Whiting and Ross Livermore. 9 p.m. Country/ Funk/Soul/Various. $10, $15 day of show.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Joe’s Truck Stop (album release show) with Whiskey Bent Valley Boys and Maria Carrelli. 7:30 p.m.

Country Blues/Americana/ Various. $12.

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STANLEY’S PUB - The Last Troubadour with Freak Mythology. 9 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

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TAFT THEATRE Ghost. 8:30 p.m. Metal/ Various. $58.50-$33.50.

THOMPSON HOUSE - Elijah Campbell, Owen Glore, Ant Allik, James Ruthless, Austin Schreiber, Steven Turner and Melody K. 9 p.m.

Hip Hop. $10.

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URBAN ARTIFACT Black Signal, Founding Fathers, Lackluster, New Moons and Room for Zero.

8 p.m. Alt/Rock/Electronic/ Various. Free.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Greg Chako & Unity Quartet.

9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

SATURDAY 12

BLIND LEMON - Mark Macomber. 9 p.m. Acoustic.

Free.

BOGART’S - Sixteen Candles. 8 p.m. Pop/Rock.

Cover.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Art Gore Quartet. 8 p.m. Jazz.

THE COMET - Bathroom of the Future, Kate Wakefield and Breaking Glass. 10 p.m.

Pop/Rock/Indie/Various.

Free.

COMMON ROOTS - Chris Lee. 10 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

THE GREENWICH - Kelly Richey. 8 p.m. Blues/Rock. $10.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - My Sister Sarah. 9 p.m. Rock. $5.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Deuces Wild. 9 p.m.

Country. Free.

THE MAD FROG - Chuck Daniels. 9 p.m. EDM. $5.

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MADISON THEATER The Devil Makes Three with Zach Schmidt. 9 p.m.

Roots/Americana/Various. $25.

MANSION HILL TAVERN Johnny Fink & the Intrusion.

9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Just Two Howlers. 9 p.m.

Classic Rock. Free.

MAURY’S TINY COVE Ricky Nye. 8:30 p.m. Blues/ Boogie Woogie. Free.

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MOTR PUB - Carriers (cassette release show) with Turtledoves and Isaac Joel. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/ Roots/Various. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Dane Rousay, Michael Foster and Jennifer Simone (10 p.m.); MAUL with Mike Ingram and Pete Fosco (7 p.m.). 7 p.m. Various. Free.

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OCTAVE - Boulevards.

9 p.m. Funk/R&B/Soul/ Pop. Cover.

PEECOX ERLANGER Saving Stimpy. 9:30 p.m.

Rock. $5.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Rabbit Hash String Band. 7:30 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT Josh Strange, Terrell Montgomery and Josh Ross.

9 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) Mister Mann and the MoJo Band. 9:30 p.m. Blues. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB - Mike Holmes & Nick Sudbury. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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THOMPSON HOUSE Glassworld with Avanti, We Are As Ronin, Derailed, Break Up Lines, Darkroom Ignite and The Alexith Effect.

6 p.m. Rock/Hardcore. $10.

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