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Political Connections on Both Sides Aftab (Pureval) impressed me when he spoke at the Over-theRhine Community Council Meeting several weeks ago. He has my vote, but the Republican Party doesn’t have a corner on the “Good ’ol Boy Network.” Just look at the list of candidates with familiar and family names from both parties. Until you are caught in the swamp of abuse in the Hamilton County court system, you have no idea of its existence. Read the bios of the incumbents carefully. Based on my personal experience, I will never vote for a judicial candidate or incumbent who came through the ranks of the prosecutor’s office or is second or third generation politically. — DAVID MACEJKO, comment posted at citybeat.com in response to Oct. 17 story, “Calls for Winkler investigation intensify”
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This week kicked off on a sour note with the third and final presidential debates. (Editor’s note: CityBeat weeks run Wednesday through Tuesday, thanks to our production schedule, which means Wednesdays are kinda like Mondays and Tuesdays are a really bad time to call our office asking a staffer to Google something for you. #printmediaprobs.) The name-calling! The bullshitting! It was just what we all predicted. But remember: When our presidential candidates go low, we get high. To numb the pain and trick ourselves into thinking we’re watching a comical Saturday Night Live parody, the final debate served up nasty women, ripped-out babies, Trump swapping the word “yuge” for “bigly,” bad hombres and a pussybow in a pear tree. Fox’s Chris Wallace was the real MVP, holding both parties accountable and not taking any bullshit. Some thought Trump’s attempt at clinching the Latino vote by using the one Spanish word he learned that day was a reference to unfortunate ombré hair dye jobs, but perhaps Trump just really likes Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Any true fan (we like to call ourselves Paul Reubenators) will recall the show’s mini cartoon El Hombre!
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Once his term is up in January, President Barack Obama will finally get to kick back, relax, let his hair grow out, smoke cigs — maybe begin to resemble his cool, collegeaged self again. A new Netflix movie debuting in December will explore that time of his life, and it’s called… Barry! The man isn’t even out of the White House yet and already there’s been two major movies about him. Iconic. And speaking of post-presidency plans, we know what Joe Biden will be doing: driving like a fucking boss. Papa Joe loves his classic cars, which he revealed in the upcoming season of Jay Leno’s Garage (that’s what Leno’s up to now… OK, move along). On the episode, Biden takes his ’67 Corvette out for a spin — for the third time since his tenure as veep. He says not being allowed to drive, a strict rule for the first- and second-in-command, has been the worst part of the job. Really, Joe?
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The Walking Dead premiered on Sunday night, answering the question fans had been asking since the cliffhanger finale last spring: “Who did Negan kill?” It’s pretty much the “Who shot J.R.?” of this generation. Without ruining the surprise, we’ll just say fans were left pretty shaken up by the answer. If you’re still not caught up and are trying to avoid spoilers, go ahead and delete all social media apps and avoid the internet at all costs — just unplug until you see it. Refer back to Friday’s internet contingency plan.
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Former celebrity couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are selling their winery chateau in France. If you’ve got a spare 60 million bones, it’s yours! Brangelina-no-more purchased the property in 2012 and got married there two years later. So, in other words, it’s obviously cursed. You know during happier times they had sex in every one of the place’s 35 rooms, in its olive groves, in its moat, on each of its 1,200 acres…
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I’m not trying to be overly existential, but what are we doing here? Everywhere I look, I see dudes and sometimes other people wearing neckties. Because this accessory doesn’t seem to have any real functional purpose other than padding the sales numbers in the men’s section at Macy’s, I think it’s about time we rethink our relationship with this corporate leash we call a necktie. There are other reasonable garments that could bring a splash of color and function to business and formal attire. The necktie is a shroud over our pre-tool simian past selves, existing to hide the fact we cannot sew a button or spoon soup into our mouths without spilling it on our chests. It points directly (and vulgarly) at our genitalia, which we have, under our parents’ demands and God’s shame, covered with fig leaves and nylon. It is a garment that reminds us of our collective schizophrenia, concealing and reminding us of our primal motives.
I once saw Vince McMahon, CEO of WWE, donning a doo-rag with his business suit. He also had a tie on, so obviously, minus the tie, this was TUESDAY OCT. 25 a reasonable look. Currently, most people tend not Can the Notorious RBG do no wrong? Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to wear doo-rags to the office, weddings, awards has been a lifelong champion of women’s ceremonies and funerals, but McMahon did, and rights, she’s whip-smart and sassy, she’s the he is a top exec — a corporate executive officer! star of a comic book and at age 126 (approxiThis is precedent, people. Changes happen from mately), she can supposedly still do 20 pushthe top down. Trickle-down fashinomics can ups. Even when she missteps, like when she criticized the Colin Kaepernick-led national and will make suits and pantsuits great anthem protest, she educates and corrects again! Learn to sew a button, herself. Next up, she’s taking the stage. Ginsburg Cro-Magnon man, and will perform the non-singing role of the Duchess of choose a doo-rag Krakenthorp in Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti’s in 2016. comedy The Daughter of the Regiment. The woman who puts the supreme in Supreme Court will make her operatic debut in a one-night performance next month. CONTACT T.C. BRITTON: letters@citybeat.com
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A massive internet outage hit the East Coast Friday, preventing millions of hardworking Americans from enjoying their well-earned Friday Morning Fuck Around Time. The blackout was a result of what’s called a distributed denialof-service, or DDoS attack, which basically floods servers with so much information that users can’t get through to websites. Some real-life Mr. Robot shit. The cyberattack is a great reminder for everyone to create an internet contingency plan. What will you do if the net goes down? Watch The Intern for the fifth time (why is it so good?); see how many items from Taco Bell you can consume in one sitting; rank the Trump children in order of creepiness; paint your nails, accidentally smudge one, pick off the polish of that nail, then every other one until you’re sitting in a pile of polish confetti, repeat.
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Some of us — I daresay most of us — waited for Clarence Wilson to die. Whether it was so one among us could finally be free of the lies he had been telling himself about Clarence, or whether she merely wanted it over already or whether they were sick of the anxiety they heard each time the phone rang after a certain hour at night, we all wanted my father dead. Part of me — the humane part; my soulful part — did not want him in agonizing physical pain or mental turmoil anymore. I did not want him living confused, angry, helpless and undignified. I did not want him vulnerable, susceptible to whims or at the mercy of caretakers. I did not want him reliant. I did not want him to feel like a foreigner among his own things. So I did not want him alive. This other, darker, honest part of me is relieved. When the death rattle (yes, it is real) came and his heart stopped at last on Saturday, October 8, at 5:54 p.m., I was joyful. Finally. Free. Him. And me. I was overwhelmed by the sudden memory of our mother laid out in a white body bag in her room in the Intensive Care Unit of Mercy Hospital 11 springs ago. It hit me like a medicine ball to my chest: Both my parents are dead. I wailed before I could even fully process it: The people who knew me best, longest and made me so fitfully were both now dead forever and ever, amen. Just like I snapped that mental picture of my mother shrouded in white, her body still warm, I studied Clarence’s every line, every frozen furrow, every hair, mole and wrinkle. He looked weirdly triumphant; not at all beaten. His natural color returned. On Friday, October 7, I told him in his ear to go. “Stop fighting and let go. I do not know, Dad, what your relationship with Jesus Christ is like, and I hope you have made your soul right with Him. I cannot judge that. I hope you have some peace.” The hospice nurse had already told me he could hear, open his eyes and understand but that he could not speak. For once, I could have my say and he would be mute. While I spoke softly to him, he moaned, moved his mouth and rolled his eyeballs beneath his lids. He tried to reply. He fought to form words. He couldn’t. He coughed viciously and the nurse pulled phlegm from his mouth and gave him Morphine. I stepped back from his bedside,
happy I could see him and say what had hung on my heart for decades. He died the next evening barely 15 minutes after I’d come to his house and I knew he took with him every word I’d whispered. For decades I was leery of him while I figured out why his sexual deviances ruled him. I spent decades untangling and wrestling with his seemingly insatiable, whorish ways. I went to therapy to reconcile them with the bloated awkwardness of our own relationship. I couldn’t tell if he was capable of loving me healthily and normally since he kept mistreating women and girls the way he did. It was downright nasty. He was lascivious, predatory. I was once a girl. I am now a woman. I was spared and protected from the incestuous lechery of his touch by the prayers, advice and honesty of my mother who lived apart from me beginning when I was 12 years old. She told me who he was, what he was capable of and some of his past bad behaviors; yet, she always followed all that darkness with this: You must love him. He is your father. So I wiled away decades on a lopsided teeter-totter always aloft without the grounding of a “normal” relationship with him, because if I was supposed to hate him for his deeds, how, then, could I love him for simply being my father? I spent all those nights of my adolescence in a shallow sleep steps from my father’s bedroom wondering, worrying what I would do if he ever tried to rape me. And when my mother died, she took with her my last line of earthly defense against what I always thought was the inevitability of some kind of clash — physical, verbal, emotional — with my father. I was 40 years old when my mother died, yet I spent six straight days wired wide awake walking incessantly through my apartment checking windows and door locks safeguarding against Clarence trying to “get” me. I was afraid of him. Even if he’d tried to comfort my grief over my dead mother, I was wary of the sincerity. Would a fatherly hug be his excuse to squeeze, to be chest-to-chest? This is what secrets, lies and revisionist narratives do to the soul of a woman raised among the terror of male sexuality run amok.
During my formative years, no one was really checking for a lone girl in that landscape of brothers, half-brothers and stepbrothers. It was like living in a shit storm of penises. And I should not have to say how much and how deeply I love all these men — stepbrothers, biological brothers, half-brothers, my own father, especially — because they are partially responsible for every good thing I am. I affirm and defend the complexity of that love because they were in their own storms back then, too. We were a vastly blended family who did not know one another and were forced together at what looked like the last-minute rush of two lonely, needy, lost adults.
“Even if he’d tried to comfort my grief over my dead mother, I was wary of the sincerity.” We were people who wouldn’t have known one another had our parents not married one another. So I sit here on a sun-drenched Sunday fresh from the freedoms of death, hunched over a sparkling new laptop that heretofore was only good for watching Netflix. I do not have any cares or worries. I am not sorrow-filled or worried about one thing I cannot directly change. The familiarity of my partner’s voice carries from the kitchen two rooms away where she’s on the phone ironing out some degree of her son’s teenaged melodrama. White people cheer some football game in the brewery across the street and loud car mufflers grow soft as they disappear in the distance on the street below. And I am fine; alone in the world and not at all. I am wobbly without the training wheels of my two parents; certain, just the same. Thank God I have a satisfied mind. I survived the evil my father wreaked without bitterness, malice, insanity or isolation. And I’m satisfied knowing he survived, too, longer than he probably should have. All these emotional calisthenics have made me tired, so now I’m going to sleep. Soundly. And when I wake I will still love my dad. CONTACT KATHY Y. WILSON: letters@ citybeat.com
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n a self-portrait, Steve Chabot would draw himself as an eagle or a hawk, keeping a sharp eye on federal extravagance and clawing it apart. His thriftiness carries over into his personal life. He drives a 16-year-old Ford Explorer in Cincinnati and a 22-year-old Chevrolet Cavalier in Washington, D.C. He lives in working-class Westwood in a house tax-assessed at less than $150,000. When Congress is in session, he crashes in his office instead of springing for an apartment or hotel. “Steve has consistently voted to eliminate wasteful spending and reduce the excessive tax burden on hard-working Americans,” Chabot’s website says. Yet Chabot, a 20-year Congressman, cages his budget-hawk self when it comes to travel. Since rebounding from his 2008 loss to Steve Driehaus and returning to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2011, Chabot has flown to 46 countries on 16 separate excursions, gracing the likes of Mongolia, Myanmar and Moldova with his presence. The tab to taxpayers? Almost $200,000. Double that if you count the House committee staffer, Kevin Fitzpatrick, who usually joins him. Chabot sits on the House Small Business, Foreign Affairs and Judiciary committees. His most prominent title, though, is chairman of the Small Business Committee. Its job it is to “protect and assist” small businesses. It oversees matters “related to business financial aid, regulatory flexibility and paperwork reduction” and the Small Business Administration. Somehow, that road leads to the Moldovas of the world. Since taking over leadership of the small business panel in early 2015, Chabot has traveled overseas five times on its behalf. His last trip, in August, was a one-week summertime jaunt through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. “The purpose of the mission was to assess the current status of U.S. relations with each of these nations, including economic, political, military and national security issues,” Chabot states in his Congressional blog entry of Aug. 17. “I learned a lot.” That he did. He says he was clued into Azerbaijan’s corruption and Georgia’s claim to be the “most pro-American nation on Earth.” He observed that Mt. Ararat can be seen from the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Chabot met with a number of government and business representatives during the trip. But what did he accomplish? His blog doesn’t say. Chabot, who faces challenger Michelle Young in the Nov. 8 election, declined to be interviewed by CityBeat. Instead, he and his
staff emailed statements explaining Congress’ responsibility of examining foreign policy decisions made by the White House. “Forming accurate assessments of these decisions requires a lot of research, analysis and fact-finding beyond the information provided to Congress by the administration,” Chabot wrote. “And a significant part of that effort is meeting with foreign officials, both here in the U.S. and overseas in their home countries. If members of Congress do not conduct proper due diligence and do not have knowledge, understanding and experience independent of the executive branch, then they cannot properly exercise their oversight responsibilities.” That due diligence work, he adds, extends to what he does for U.S. small businesses. “It would be highly irresponsible for Congress to take the administration’s word for it and approve a trade deal, without performing our due diligence.” He says this requires, in part, “gaining first-hand knowledge of the people, places and issues with which our nation is dealing overseas.” Chabot is fluent in no language other than English. Another conservative Congress member, Thomas Massie of Northern Kentucky, hasn’t traveled abroad at all on the taxpayer’s dime, based on reports filed with the House clerk’s office. Elected in 2012, Massie
Since 2011, Congressman Steve Chabot has flown to 46 countries on 16 separate trips, most recently on behalf of the House Small Business Commmittee. serves on committees overseeing transportation, infrastructure, space, science, technology and government reform. One of his prevailing views is that government, like businesses, should spend within its means. Brad Wenstrup, the Ohio Congress member from Cincinnati’s East Side, is an infrequent traveler. Now in his fourth year in office, the Republican took one major trip with the House Armed Services Committee, to Afghanistan, Chad, Cameroon, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates in March 2014. He spent two days in Thailand and Myanmar last December for the House Intelligence Committee. And he was part of a Congressional delegation that went to France for the 70th anniversary of D-Day. “In general, the Congressman participates in official overseas travel when necessary to provide first-hand, on-the-ground knowledge and insight into his work in the House of Representatives,” says Wenstrup spokeswoman Meghan Waters. Chabot views foreign travel as essential. Overseeing trade agreements, says spokesman Brian Griffith, requires “significant analysis, follow-up and groundwork.” “It cannot be done by sitting in an office,” Griffith says. “A member of Congress must
talk with his or her counterparts in foreign nations. These meetings take place both in D.C. and overseas.” As a result, Chabot takes an average of three trips a year. In March 2015, he went to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay for four days, at a cost of $14,263. Five months later he spent six days in Moldova, Hungary, Latvia and Estonia, for $16,995. Three months after that he was in Brazil, Panama, Ecuador and Peru for four days, for $12,841. Chabot did not blog about those trips, nor would he provide CityBeat with any accomplishments. The House Small Business Committee, which paid for the trips, disclosed neither their intent nor their outcomes. Aaron Scherb, director of legislative affairs for Common Cause, a Washingtonbased advocacy for open government, says more disclosure should be required. “We certainly think Congressman Chabot’s constituents and American taxpayers deserve to fully know and understand the purpose of these trips overseas, what was gained by them and how it relates to this small committee’s jurisdiction,” Scherb says. Foreign travel agendas filed with the House clerk’s office show that Chabot packed a healthy number of meetings with
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Total expenditure: $181,973.10+ months after his pilgrimage to Moldova, neither Chabot nor Moldova had any trade breakthroughs to report. Tatiana Solomon, chargé d’affaires in the Moldovan embassy in Washington, praises Chabot for his visit. “It helped a lot because with his background and experience, maybe he knows how to move forward some things and give ideas to small business in Moldova,” Solomon says. Taxpayers who wonder how their money was spent on Congressional travel overseas will be disappointed to learn that, for all the gains in governmental transparency, itemized travel expense reports are not publicly available. A House spokesman said it falls to individual members to disclose their travel spending details. CityBeat obtained copies of reports for four of Chabot’s most recent trips. But they contain summary costs and not the cost of hotel stays and meals, let alone attached receipts. Scherb says Common Cause advocates detailed travel reports that are searchable online by Congress members’ names. “While Common Cause sees an educational benefit for members of Congress conducting overseas, government-sponsored travel in many cases, we deserve to know how our tax dollars are being spent,” he says. “Without foreign travel spending being fully transparent and accessible, taxpayers should be questioning whether certain trips are junkets with little taxpayer value.” CONTACT JAMES McNAIR: jmcnair@citybeat.com, @JMacNews on Twitter, 513-665-4700, x. 142.
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economic ministers and business groups into his visits. CityBeat emailed a dozen of those. Most either didn’t reply or suggested contacting a U.S. embassy. Felipe Espinosa, executive director of the Ecuadorian-American Chamber of Commerce, says Chabot offered hope to Ecuadorian businesses looking to expand in the U.S. “As I recall, Congressman Chabot’s visit gave us the opportunity to put him in contact with our members who either have commercial interchange and/or were interested in increasing or starting one with the USA and particularly Ohio,” Espinosa said by email. Foreign affairs spokesmen in Hungary and Latvia confirm that Chabot dropped in and talked about two-way investment between their countries and the U.S. Another subject: the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the Euro-version of the controversial TransPacific Partnership. “Mr. Chabot and Mr. (Hungarian Deputy State Secretary Kristof) Altusz both agreed that, once in effect, the free trade agreement would pave the way for a future strengthening of bilateral trade and investment relations,” said Sajtó F˝osztály, a spokesman for Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. And Moldova? Trade between the U.S. and Moldova is so negligible that the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis can’t even put a dollar value on it. Chabot spent two days there. He met President Nicolae Timofti, other officials and some grape farmers. One of Chabot’s goals in visiting foreign countries is to open them to U.S. small business exports. Fifteen
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Audrey DuBose (right), mother of Samuel DuBose, marches with other protesters Oct. 22. P H O T O : N I C K S WA R T S E L L
As former University of Cincinnati Police officer Ray Tensing stands trial for murder, activists say they’ll keep pushing for justice for Samuel DuBose, the unarmed black motorist Tensing shot and killed in Mount Auburn last year. More than 100 people turned out Oct. 22 for a rally and march organized by Cincinnati Black Lives Matter ahead of Tensing’s trial, which began jury selection Oct. 25. The rally started at Mount Auburn’s Inwood Park, just two blocks from where Tensing shot DuBose July 19, 2015 after stopping him for a missing front license plate. The shooting was captured on the officer’s body camera, which shows him pulling the trigger after a brief exchange with DuBose. Tensing last year was indicted on murder and manslaughter charges and fired from UCPD. He has pleaded not guilty, saying he feared for his life. Organizers with Black Lives Matter say they’re pushing to make sure Tensing is convicted for the shooting. Activists say they’re planning future rallies and marches as the trial proceeds. “There is no other force capable of changing the outcome of the decision in this trial but us,” organizer Brian Taylor told the crowd. “You cannot get justice by sitting with your hands at your sides at home.” The rally drew a diverse coalition of groups and individuals, including faith leaders like Troy Jackson from the AMOS Project, advocates for the American Indian Movement, civil rights advocates from the NAACP, students with UC’s Socialist Students group, representatives from the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, Cincinnati poet Siri Amani and others.
Some spoke about police reforms, while others pushed back against larger socioeconomic disparities facing the black community in Cincinnati and beyond. Audrey DuBose, mother of Samuel, also spoke to protesters and read from the Bible before leading the march down Vine Street to the Hamilton County courthouse. “I want to thank you all over and over again. We all need this. I know that this situation with my son is going to make a powerful change,” she said before the march. “My child was murdered. This is my calling.” The march moved slowly down Vine Street through Mount Auburn and into Over-theRhine, passing near the spot where unarmed black 19-year-old Timothy Thomas was shot and killed in 2001, sparking days of unrest. Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach was tried and acquitted in that shooting. The neighborhoods have a lot in common with many other areas where law enforcement intertwines with poverty and racial issues — including those in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere that have seen controversial police shootings. Rice Street, where DuBose was shot, runs down the middle of much of the city’s Census Tract 23. Three-quarters of the tract’s residents are black, and the median household income there is half the city’s overall median. As the march moved further down Vine Street into Over-the-Rhine, a different story around racial inequality formed the backdrop. Development efforts in southern OTR have changed the economic, and perhaps the racial, makeup of the area. South of
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Liberty Street, the median household income for the once-impoverished neighborhood is $40,000 and rising, according to 2010 Census data. North of Liberty, where little development has occurred, the median income is just $11,000. The Census tract encompassing the neighborhood around southern Vine Street was nearly 60 percent black just a few years ago, according to the 2010 American Community Survey. But despite gaining overall population, the neighborhood has lost black residents, Census data suggests, who now make up less than 35 percent of its population. Rosemary Parker of Faye Apartments came out for the rally and march. She expressed little faith that Tensing would be convicted, but wanted to show solidarity. For her, the issue is personal. She says she saw her brother beaten by police when she was 10 when her family lived in Connecticut. “I came out to stand up for Sam DuBose and every other minority man who is subject to having that happen to them, as well as my grandbabies and my family,” she said, motioning toward her granddaughter as the two protested outside the courthouse. As the trial approaches, UC is working on big changes to its police department, but still has work ahead of it, a UCPD official said at a conference on police reform this spring. UCPD Director of Community Relations S. Gregory Baker called the DuBose shooting “an atrocity” and said the university is pushing to get a more diverse police force, change the training officers receive, add more front-line managers overseeing patrol officers and make a number of other changes in the coming months. The school doubled the 35 officers it had in 2013 to 70 in just a year and a half. It is now the third-largest law enforcement agency in the county behind the Cincinnati Police Department and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office. With that increased enforcement came huge racial disparities. Increased police activity led to a disproportionate number of stops and arrests of blacks. Traffic stops went up 300 percent to 2,000 in 2015. Arrests also tripled. During this time, stops of white individuals actually decreased. Black stops went way up, however. Tickets written by Tensing during the year before he shot DuBose went to blacks 81 percent of the time. In the wake of the shooting, UCPD was ordered to roll back its involvement in the communities surrounding the school, like Mount Auburn. The university has also created a 19-member community advisory council that will weigh in on ongoing reform efforts. That council is made up of students, neighborhood residents around the university and faith leaders. But activists say those reforms amount to little if Tensing isn’t convicted. “This will not stop with reforms,” said organizer Ashley Pennington. “This won’t stop with body cameras. It won’t stop with better training. It stops when cops are convicted for killing people.” ©
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The woman behind the unexpectedly edgy shop is Hoop & Needle owner Sarah Fisher, who picked up cross-stitching at the age of 10. “Most cross-stitch stores are just old-time samplers — very traditional,” Fisher says. “I’ve always loved it, but I never actually finished any of my projects because I just didn’t like what was available.” Traditionally, embroidered pieces portray sublime images and sayings — think flowers, birds and a butterfly or two fluttering around phrases like “Home is where the heart is.” So when Fisher picked up cross-stitching — a type of embroidery that uses partial and X-shaped stitches to create images — again as an adult, she began designing patterns of her own.
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At first glance, nothing seems out of the ordinary inside Northside’s The Hoop & Needle, an easily recognizable needlecraft supply shop nestled on Hamilton Avenue with a bright teal and playfully decorated façade. But it doesn’t take long for customers to realize that the store is a far cry from traditional. “Don’t be a douche,” an embroidered piece implores, written in thick purple font and surrounded by pink flowers and butterflies. “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” another reads. A third, inside a thick black frame, is situated beside the cash register: “Thomas Kinkade can suck my dick.”
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Enter Purple Hippo Stitches, a modern line of cross-stitch patterns, kits and completed pieces Fisher established in 2009. The pieces, all designed by Fisher, are a far cry from the embroidery of old: Pink flowers flank the words “nature is bullshit,” men and women hold hands above the statement “I hate people” and ostentatious orange letters spell out the word “hussy.” Incorporating colorful pop culture references and an array of four-letter words (the store’s best-sellers), other phrases include “treat yo self” and “riding dirty,” the latter scrawled beneath the image of an old-fashioned car. Fisher created Purple Hippo Stitches as a graduate student at Indiana University, where she says she picked up cross-stitching as a way to cope with stress. “It’s really de-stressing to just hold something and work on it,” she says. “It can get really repetitive, but in a good way.” Soon, friends and acquaintances began asking Fisher about purchasing kits of her designs that they could cross-stitch themselves — a frequent request that led to the brick-and-mortar Hoop & Needle opening in Overthe-Rhine in 2014. In June of last year, the store moved to a larger space in Northside within a former bank building, complete with a prominent old vault to the left of the cash register. The shelves of the shop are lined with instructional books, finished pieces and kits containing everything you need — excluding basic tools like scissors — to complete a project at home: instructions, fabric, needles, embroidery floss and a full-color pattern. The store stocks a rainbow of embroidery floss and its name-sake needles and hoops, the latter of which are essential tools used to stretch the fabric that serves as the basis of a project. It also hosts frequent classes for crafters of all skill levels and features printable PDF patterns online. Not all pieces available are of Fisher’s design; the aformentioned Thomas Kinkade piece, for example, is
by local designer Disorderly Stitches. Work by other local artists like consignor Anna Donnell are available both in store and online. Donnell, assistant director of the University of Cincinnati’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning, became familiar with Purple Hippo Stitches through Fisher’s involvement with local craft show Crafty Supermarket. When Fisher put out a call for artists to create Christmas ornaments for The Hoop & Needle, Donnell jumped at the opportunity. “My mom taught me how to cross-stitch when I was in second grade, and I have always created art for fun and a way to relax,” Donnell says. “I am currently working on a few geometric and colorful designs as well as a Cincinnati series.” Two of Donnell’s kits are currently available at The Hoop & Needle: the “Queen City Mascot” depicting a flying pig and the “Music Hall Mandala” inspired by Music Hall’s characteristic rose window. In October of last year, Donnell taught a class at The Hoop & Needle on her “Music Hall Mandala” design — a natural step, she says, because education is her passion. “We all had a blast, and the participants enjoyed having a bit of freedom in the pattern to choose the colors to fill in the window,” she says. She plans on teaching a “Queen City Mascot” class in 2017 as well as a session on a new design yet to be announced. Class participants range from embroidery experts to those brand new to the craft like Krystan Krailler, who picked up the needle for the first time during Donnell’s Music Hall class. “I had never done a stitch of embroidery before that night, but I have always appreciated it and wanted to see if it was something I’d enjoy doing as a hobby,” Krailler says. “We left the class with partially complete pieces to continue on our own, but were told to stop in
any time if we had any questions or needed help. I was able to complete the piece on my own and loved every second of it.” Krailler says she enjoyed the class so much she quickly signed up for another — this time with several friends in tow. “Handmade items are rare today, and it is always thrilling to be able to create a piece from start to finish and have the satisfaction of knowing you created something no one else has done,” Krailler says. “It’s even more special to be able to give those gifts to others and know that they were given something they couldn’t get anywhere else.” One of the store’s most popular classes, Fisher says, is the Color Wheel Sampler, a multiple-week course in which participants experiment with 10 different types of stitches. Each stich is done in a separate color, creating a filled-in color wheel. “By the end, you have something that tells you all the stitches that you learned, but also looks good enough to hang up,” Fisher says. Other events include Stitch ’N Sip, a themed evening held every month during which participants can bring in their own knitting or embroidery projects — plus booze — or opt to buy a new kit to work on. Friendly cats and canines are invited to accompany their people. The most recent installment, held on Oct. 25, had a Stranger Things theme — aka “Stranger Stitchings.” With the holidays approaching, the store is turning its attention to an enticing new endeavor: a pop-up shop situated within the old bank vault — a contraption that looks straight out of Fallout with a 2,000-pluspound door. Dubbed the Maker Vault, the consignment shop will run throughout November and December and feature handmade items from artists in and beyond Cincinnati. Fisher, who participates in local art shows like Crafty Supermarket and Cincy Summer Streets,
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sees the pop-up as a way to bring artists together while harkening back to her roots. “Before I did the (Hoop & Needle), I was mainly doing shows, especially around the Christmas season,” Fisher says. “It’s really just kind of where I started meeting all the people who are my friends today.” About 20 artists working in a variety of categories will participate in the Maker Vault, with products ranging from needlecraft and fiber to jewelry, wax products and paper goods. Donnell will showcase what Fisher has dubbed “aggressive embroidery” — she characteristically uses a thinner canvas for her work and six threads of floss as opposed to the typical two. “I have never been one to like patterns very much, so I enjoy creating designs that allow people to add a bit of their personality and make it their own,” she says. Other participating local makers include Jessica Wolf of Paper Acorn, purveyor of handmade paper goods and DIY crafting kits; Leslie Hiller of baby toy and clothing shop The Huggable Hedgehog; and nature-inspired illustrator, designer and sculptor Ryan McNeely of Ryan McNeely Art. Each week throughout the vault’s run, one to two makers will be featured in The Hoop & Needle’s prominent window overlooking Hamilton Avenue. The shop will also have extended holiday hours: 2-6 p.m. Tuesday, noon-7 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. The vault officially opens Nov. 1. “I’ve always kind of wanted to have my own little hand-made store to show off all kinds of offbeat artists,” Fisher says, drawing ties to the store’s nontraditional approach to embroidery. So, to quote one of Fisher’s many eclectic pieces: “Let’s get this party started.”
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Co-curated by Anne Thompson and Steven Matijcio, with Tyler Cann The I-71 Project mimics and critiques the theater now through 2016 ofOn redview versus blue politicsNovember during this 6, election season utilizing billboards and public signage. Visit contemporaryartscenter.org/I-71 for info. Sponsored by Jennie Rosenthal Berliant
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WEDNESDAY 26
ONSTAGE: August Wilson’s gypsy cab drama JITNEY at the Playhouse in the Park is make-you-believe theater. See review on page 25.
FILM: THE WOODS THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF The University of Cincinnati’s Center for Film and Media Studies begins a Wednesday-night series of free screenings of experimental film/video/media at Over-theRhine’s new Mini Microcinema in order to highlight the work of artists and filmmakers outside the mainstream. Tonight’s feature is Le bois dont les rêves sont fait or The Woods that Dreams are Made Of, a 2015 documentary by Claire Simon that explores the people who come to the largest public park in Paris, Bois de Vincennes, during the course of a year. Future screenings are Trees in Trouble and A Crack in the Pavement by local filmmaker Andrea Torrice (Nov. 2); Chad Freidrichs’ documentary on a St. Louis housing project, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (Nov. 9), and Ella Reidel’s Double Happiness (Nov. 16). Screenings 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Free. Mini Microcinema, 1329 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, mini-cinema.org. — STEVEN ROSEN
THURSDAY 27
MUSIC: Far-reaching guitarist/vocalist DEX ROMWEBER plays MOTR Pub. See Sound Advice on page 34.
MUSIC: YELAWOLF deftly mixes Southern Rock with blazing Hip Hop at Madison Theater. See Sound Advice on page 34. MUSIC: PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS By combining the best elements of a variety of hard and heavy styles of music (Metal, Hardcore, Classic Rock, Punk,
THURSDAY 27
HALLOWEEN: MOONLIGHT MASQUERADE AT THE MOCKBEE Looking for a lavish Halloween ball? The Moonlight Masquerade adds a little formal mystique to holiday hauntings with a dress code that recommends gowns, tuxedos, suits, costumes or tasteful gothic lingerie — plus a mask. Drinks, entertainment and hors d’oeuvres are included with admission. Entertainment for the night will be provided by DJ Ricky Dennis, mentalist Chad Collyer and gogo dancers. VIP and “princess” ticket options are available with upgrades like dessert, champagne and personal entertainment. 9 p.m. Thursday. $40; $60 VIP. The Mockbee, 2260 Central Parkway, West End, bit.ly/2eCwUVu. — KYLER DAVIS
etc.), Planes Mistaken For Stars’ uniquely powerful and creative Hard Rock helped the band build a loyal following with its first three albums and powerhouse live show. But a year after the band’s third album in 2006, the tremendous Mercy, the group called it quits. Within a few years, the musicians reteamed and began playing shows, and just recently, the “comeback” came full circle with the release of the first Planes Mistaken For Stars album in a decade. Those who appreciated the group’s disregard for genre expectations and rules will love the new Prey, which stands as the band’s most dynamic and impactful (not to mention its most melodically engaging) effort to date. For Planes’ local tour stop, Cincinnati’s Rive, Middletown, Ohio’s Dressed in Disaster and Dayton, Ohio’s Greet Death open. 8:30 p.m. Thursday. $8; $10 day of show. Northside Yacht Club, 4227 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub.com. — MIKE BREEN
FRIDAY 28
HALLOWEEN: ART AFTER DARK: INTO THE HALLOW’S NIGHT The Cincinnati Art Museum, reportedly the second-most-haunted museum in the country, offers an authentic Halloween celebration after dark. The ghostly evening will include live music from DJ DIAMOND, dance performances by Pones, Inc., food from Red Sesame and free tours of the exhibit Van Gogh: Into the Undergrowth. Who knows, maybe the ghost of Van Gogh will be there to check out the exhibit himself? 5-9 p.m. Friday. Free. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, cincinnatiartmuseum.org. — MAGGIE FULMER HALLOWEEN: HALLOWEVE BREW BASH AT AULT PARK Slip into your scariest costume to sip local craft beers and dance the night away. Food trucks and local brews from the likes of Rhinegeist, Fifty West and Braxton will be on
hand, accompanied by live music and ghoulish garb. Each ticket includes 10 tastings, and additional full pours are only $5. The event is coordinated and sponsored by the Ault Park Advisory Council, and all proceeds benefit the park. 6-10 p.m. Friday. $20. Ault Park, 3600 Observatory Circle, Hyde Park, aultparkac.org. — MADISON ASHLEY
SATURDAY 29
HALLOWEEN: THE OTHER RHINE Know Theatre is presenting the perfect artsy Halloween event for anyone looking for something beyond the predictable haunted house outing. It’s billed as a special tour of an abandoned brewery, utilizing the dark corridors and darkened stairwells of the Mockbee in the heart of Cincinnati’s Brewery District. Apparently, sometimes buildings are abandoned for a reason. Inspired by New York’s hit immersive theater experience, CONTINUES ON PAGE 20
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HALLOWEEN: JAPP’S VICTORIAN MASQUERADE SOIRÉE When you’re a kid, you trick or treat for candy. Now that you’re an adult, you get to trick or treat for bourbon. On Wednesday, Japp’s will transform into a hauntingly authentic Victorian-era ballroom, complete with period décor from Queen City Vignette. The infamous Hollis Bulleit will be serving her signature Bulleit Bourbon paired with chocolate treats, while Molly Wellmann and her bartenders serve up bourbon cocktails. Free tarot readings and fortune telling will be provided, along with complimentary snacks and spooky tunes. It’s a masquerade, so don’t forget your mask. 5-9 p.m. Wednesday. Free admission. Japp’s, 1134 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, wellmannsbrands.com/ japps1879. — KYLER DAVIS
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FRIDAY 28
ART: TRANSFER PROTOCOL AT IRL GALLERY IRL Gallery, a new contemporary art gallery on Main Street in Over-the-Rhine with a mission of “blurring the experience between viewing art in real life and seeing documentation online,” will host its first exhibition this Final Friday with a group show exploring the idea and practice of translation through digital means. Featured artists include Josh Anderson (Cincinnati), Ryan Duffin (New York City), Thorben Eggers (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Sol Hashemi (New York City). Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Friday. Through Nov. 16. Free admission. IRL Gallery, 1319 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, irl.gallery. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER
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Sleep No More, and the classic horror writing of H.P. Lovecraft, the one-hour walking tour is the work of Hit the Lights! Theatre Co. — actors and others who are largely products of the theater program at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music — which created the 2014 Fringe Festival hit, Dungeon. 7, 8 and 9 p.m. Saturday-Monday. $35. The Mockbee, 2260 Central Parkway, Over-the-Rhine, 513-300-5669, knowtheatre.com. — RICK PENDER HALLOWEEN: AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HAUNTED HOTEL PARTY Welcome to the Hotel Cortez — er, Covington. The hotel’s inaugural Halloween party channels American Horror Story, taking a page from the show’s hotel-themed Season 5 (unfortunately minus Lady Gaga and Evan Peters). The bash includes $3 specialty cocktails, music by DJ Druskii and a costume contest with prizes for best male, best female and best group. The best part? Admission is complimentary. Thankfully, the party doesn’t coincide with the blood moon, but watch out for the Butcher just in case. 9 p.m.-midnight Saturday. Free admission. Hotel Covington, 638 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., facebook.com/thehotelcovington. — EMILY BEGLEY
HALLOWEEN: HALLOWEEN GALA Halloween offers the opportunity to be someone new, silly, scary or creative, but this year’s Halloween also gives you a chance to support children across Cincinnati. The Halloween Gala is a benefit for the Children’s Dyslexia Centers of Cincinnati. After entry (and a free drink), the Halloween Gala is full of non-stop entertainment. The Cincinnati Civic Orchestra will begin the evening with carefully selected themed music in the auditorium, followed by appetizers prepared by students from the Midwest Culinary Institute at Cincinnati State. Party band The Naked Karate Girls will keep you dancing all night. 6 p.m. Saturday. $50. Cincinnati Masonic Center, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, halloweengala.org. — MADISON ASHLEY COMEDY: ROCKY LAPORTE Rocky LaPorte was supposed to be on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon back on Sept. 23. “About four days before I was supposed to be on, I got bumped,” he says. “They told me they were putting on the girl that won America’s Got Talent. The one that plays the ukulele.” LaPorte takes it all in stride though. “This is the only business that could happen in,” he says. “The first time I auditioned for Last Comic Standing I lost to a stripper, and the next year I lost to a guy
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SATURDAY 29
HALLOWEEN: REAL WITCHES OF NORTHSIDE Bring your broom, black hats and wicked boots for the Real Witches of Northside celebration at Urban Artifact. Witches, warlocks and magical dogs are welcome to dance by the light of the moon. This family-friendly event in the beer garden includes hourly broom performances. One dollar from every pint of either of Urban’s two pickle beers sold — Pickle Gose and Spicy Pickle — will benefit the Sarah Cole Education Foundation, established by the family of Sarah Cole, owner of restaurant Tickle Pickle who was killed by a car in Northside earlier this year. Children must be accompanied by adults. Includes after-party and silent auction from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. 8 p.m.-10 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Urban Artifact, 1660 Blue Rock St., Northside, artifactbeer.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO
MONDAY 31
MUSIC: Celtic Folk legend LOREENA MCKENNITT plays the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 35.
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MUSIC: AltCountry originators THE JAYHAWKS play Madison Theater. See interview on page 32. EVENT: PIZZA WEEK Pizza lovers (read: everyone) rejoice: CityB eat is bringing you a full week of $8 ’zas from some of Cincinnati’s most popular eateries.
With more than 30 participants including 15 North, Taglio’s, Martino’s on Vine, Goodfellas and Pomodori’s, hungry diners can fill up on a nearly endless variety of pies, ranging from signature concoctions to secret menu specialties. Make sure to grab a Cincinnati Pizza Week passport at your first destination — restaurants will provide a stamp for each pie ordered. Eligible pizzas are 10 inches and larger, and offers are dine-in only unless otherwise stated. Through Nov. 7. $8. For a full list of restaurants, visit cincinnati pizzaweek.com. — EMILY BEGLEY
ONGOING SHOWS VISUAL ART The I-71 Project Contemporary Arts Center, Downtown (through Nov. 6)
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in a gorilla suit.” On Saturday, LaPorte will feature for Ron White at JACK Casino. 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday. General admission sold out; VIP packages available. JACK Casino, 1000 Broadway St., Pendleton, jackentertainment.com. — P.F. WILSON
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‘Hamilton’ Triumphs in Chicago
The Broadway sensation, lauded for viewing history through a contemporary musical filter, comes to the Midwest BY RICK PENDER
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ast Friday, I was in Chicago to see the recently opened second production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hip Hop historical musical Hamilton. The show, based on a 2005 biography by Ron Chernow about Alexander Hamilton, a lesser known but influential Founding Father who died in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804, has been a phenomenon in New York for two years. Now it was ready for Chicago, and I was eager for it, sitting near the stratosphere of Chicago’s 110-year-old PrivateBank Theatre. Using Hip Hop and Rap melodies and rhythms familiar to America in the 21stcentury, Miranda populated his production with African-American and Hispanic actors. Hip Hop’s rapid-fire language proved to be the perfect vehicle for Hamilton’s nearly 50 numbers, creating a fitting portrait of Hamilton, himself a prolific writer. The musical’s acclaim began with a sold-out run at New York City’s Public Theater in early 2015, followed by a Broadway engagement that captured the whole nation’s attention. President Barack Obama had something to do with that; he took his daughters to see the Broadway production while it still was in previews in July 2015. The show, with Miranda in the lead role, officially opened in early August of 2015 and tickets instantly became scarce, often being scalped for as much as $1,000. (I had hoped to see it during a trip to New York last November, but tickets were beyond my means.) It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 11 Tony Awards, including best musical, score, book, orchestration, direction and choreography. Many of its performers were honored individually, including Miranda. Hamilton will be on Broadway for years (it’s already sold out into 2017), even with Miranda departed from the title role. And its fame is growing through additional productions (Chicago now; London in Oct. 2017) and a national tour launching in San Francisco in March. So far, 18 cities have been announced, the closest being Cleveland. Only three have dates, and those are relatively long engagements. So if you want to see it anytime soon, you’ll have to travel. When my son’s wife told me that her work as a Girl Scout leader in Chicago gave access to surprisingly affordable tickets, I jumped at the opportunity. In fact, my son’s family, including my grandchildren, ages 8 and 11, and my wife and I all went together. Three generations, all excited about seeing the same show. That felt rather unprecedented. The 175-minute soundtrack played in the car for my trip to
Miguel Cervantes plays Alexander Hamilton in the just-opened Chicago production. Chicago, and it was on at my son’s house when we arrived. So that’s how I ended up at the Chicago production, just two days after Hamilton opened there. From the top of the second balcony, one row from the theater’s back wall, I had a bird’s-eye view of the stage, far below. The audience was buzzing, taking selfies, clearly jazzed about catching an early performance. When the theater darkened for the opening number, shrieks and cheers rivaled those at Rock concerts by world-famous musicians. I’m amazed at how the show has permeated American culture with amazing speed. Everyone around me at the theater — including my 11-year-old grandson — seemed to know some of the lyrics. My perch provided a view of the show’s inventive choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, who graduated from Cincinnati’s Saint Xavier High School. The performers moved constantly on a kaleidoscopically lit stage featuring concentric revolving platforms. Characters from American history entered and exited the action, leaping from pools of light to mesmerizing grids and patterns. The dancing ensemble, male and female, wears neutral 18th-century base garments — sleeveless buttoned vests and breeches — and boots, occasionally slipping on a dress or an 18th-century military uniform for a specific scene. But
such costumes are shed in a flash, with the dancers cartwheeling back to movement in support of the vibrant storytelling. Miguel Cervantes plays the loquacious, impetuous and brilliant Hamilton, contrasted against his nemesis and opposite in a fatal duel, the cautious and jealous Burr, played by Joshua Henry. Chris De’Sean Lee is the Marquis de Lafayette, the brave French military officer, in Act I; Lee returns in Act II as arrogant, dismissive Thomas Jefferson. Ari Afsar is Eliza, Hamilton’s devoted wife (her song “Helpless” beautifully describes love at first sight). Karen Olivo (trained at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music in the 1990s) plays Eliza’s devoted sister Angelica, who has a profound intellectual and emotional attachment to her brother-in-law. Especially memorable is Alexander Gemignani playing a bejeweled, erminetrimmed King George III of Great Britain. His tongue-in-cheek songs, more BritPop than Hip Hop, are Hamilton’s comic relief. He royally proclaims to the bumptious Americans that “You’ll Be Back,” singing, “And when push comes to shove/I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love.” Gemignani’s voice resonated with bemused petulance and a patronizing confidence that had everyone giggling.
I’ve followed composer-lyricist Miranda for nearly a decade. He’s just 35. In 2009, his first show, In the Heights, about New York’s Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won four Tonys. That show’s success led Miranda to the White House early in President Obama’s first term. At a 2009 “Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word,” he was invited to perform something from his award-winning show. Instead, he offered a number from his new project, The Hamilton Mixtape, a Hip Hop tune about Alexander Hamilton. The elite audience in the East Room was amused, then amazed — as has been everyone with Miranda’s accomplishment, once Hamilton the musical became reality. Last Friday evening, PBS’s Great Performances aired Hamilton’s America, a documentary tracing the creation of Miranda’s show and providing such comments from politicians and historians about Hamilton as “young, scrappy and hungry” and a true founder of America. First Lady Michelle Obama has called the show “the best piece of art in any form that I’ve ever seen in my life.” I include myself among the 1,800 people in Friday’s sold-out audience who rapturously echoed that assessment. Hamilton is a theatrical milestone, be it in New York or now Chicago. ©
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Eleven years after playwright August up. Douglas says he loves this play and its Wilson’s death in 2005 at age 60, his reputaensemble of characters, noting its simpliction continues to grow. He will be most ity: “It allows the characters to really riff off remembered for his trailblazing Amerione another. It’s a cleaner journey compared can Century Cycle — 10 plays about the to the rest of the cycle.” African-American experience, one for each Another early Wilson script, Ma Rainey’s decade of the 20th century. Two of his Black Bottom, was the first to gain broad plays won Pulitzer Prizes: Fences (1987) public notice and remains one of his bestand The Piano Lesson (1990). known plays. It is onstage at Northern Wilson’s remarkable talent for capturing Kentucky University now through Oct. 30. the voices of often-forgotten people is a Set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 hallmark of his writing. But while happen(the only one of Wilson’s plays not taking ing at specific moments in time and place, place in Pittsburgh), it’s about a battle of his plays have lasting resonance, because wills. Wilson imagined this story about they reveal the timeless themes of love, honor, duty and betrayal, matters understood and felt by people regardless of their ethnicity. “Confront the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness,” Wilson once said, adding, “Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” Capturing the nobility in the struggles of everyday life is another constant in his plays. Playwright August Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes. In case you need a P H O T O : C O U R T E S Y O F C I N C I N N AT I P L AY H O U S E I N T H E PA R K refresher course in Wilson’s achievements, you have opportunities now to see Jitney at the Cinreal-life Blues legend Ma Rainey, who was cinnati Playhouse in the Park (see review a true force of nature. We see her locked in in this section) and Ma Rainey’s Black a titanic struggle over control of her music. Bottom at Northern Kentucky University. She’s hell-bent on recording her best-known Playhouse Associate Artist Timothy song, “Black Bottom,” her way. But her Douglas, Jitney’s director, is well acquainted band’s hotheaded, ambitious young trumwith Wilson’s work, having been personally peter, Levee, is eager to launch the group involved as a young actor at Yale Repertory into the Jazz Age, and the record producers Theatre, where several of his plays were first are leaning in his direction. staged. Today, Douglas is a veteran director Critic Frank Rich praised Ma Rainey’s with an impressive portfolio of productions “claustrophobia, a slow-fuse dramatic strucof the Century Cycle plays. ture, meaty arias, a devastating dramatic Douglas’s production of Jitney is at the pay-off and (a) profound identification Playhouse through Nov. 12. with those who are betrayed by the gaudy It’s the fourth time he’s staged the script. promise of the American dream.” It’s a His third production of Jitney convinced great piece of theater. Wilson that Douglas was the director he In December, you can see Wilson’s 1987 wanted to stage the world premiere of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences in movie thefinal play, Radio Golf. That happened in aters. It’s a cinematic rendition of the play’s 2005, just months before Wilson’s death. Tony Award-winning 2010 Broadway revival. Wilson stepped over from poetry Denzel Washington will repeat his awardto drama in 1977; Jitney was his first winning performance as Troy Maxson, a attempt at playwriting. After several small one-time standout baseball player who productions and a lot of rewriting, it saw a never made it to the major leagues. In 1957, polished production in Pittsburgh in 1982. he’s an embittered garbage truck driver. An inveterate reviser, Wilson continued Viola Davis plays his stalwart wife Rose, a to tinker with it until its Off-Broadway role that won her a Tony, too. production in 2000. Jitney, Ma Rainey and Fences within Jitney portrays a group of men in 1970 two month’s time: That’s a blessing. running an unlicensed car service in PittsCONTACT RICK PENDER: rpender@citybeat.com burgh’s Hill District, where Wilson grew
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A lot of the theater we see is fanciful makewho frequently needs a lift and Rena (Stori believe, aimed at entertaining, but someAyers), Youngblood’s clear-headed girlfriend times lacking soul. That’s not what happens and the worried mother of his son. with the current Cincinnati Playhouse in the Finally there’s Booster (Shane Taylor), Park production of August Wilson’s Jitney, Becker’s son, and the source of Jitney’s most although some raucous Rhythm & Blues heartbreaking tale: Found guilty of a pasmusic might make you momentarily expect sionate murder, Booster comes out of prison something light. In fact, as the production’s after 20 years. During that incarceration, his nine actors enter individually, they step disappointed father has never visited him, right up to the thrust stage’s apron, backed bitter over Booster’s wasted potential. by scenic designer Tony Cisek’s run-down Every member of Douglas’ cast is a stellar inner-city storefront and looming historic performer who has several moments to urban buildings; they look at the audience step forward and tell his story. Shealy’s and they dance. Director Timothy Douglas has imbued Wilson’s often sad and sometimes tragic H tale of hardworking men CRITIC’S scraping to get by with a sense of humor. (Jitney was H Wilson’s first play, written in 1979, before he conceived of his monumental cycle of 10 plays set in the various decades of the 20th century.) Douglas’ Jitney has an undercurrent of joy, despite the desperate straits of many of its characters. Lost loves, quick tempers, questionable The ensemble cast of Jitney brings the characters to life. motives and broken families P H O T O : m i k k i s c h a f f n e r photo g r a ph y are all represented. But stories are often told with as much good nature as sadness, and Douglas monologue about a long-lost love who’s has coached his excellent cast to allow the now his standard of comparison is the first full humanity of the stories to blossom and long story in Wilson’s script, but many more soak in. Subsequent audiences will likely follow, including Turnbo’s dissertations respond as warmly as they did on opening on Youngblood’s errant ways and Booster’s night, smiling and chuckling as yarns are crime and Fielding’s reminiscences about spun. Rather than make-believe, Wilson’s the wife he abandoned 22 years earlier but play with Douglas at the helm is two-and-astill dreams of. These vivid characters are half hours of “make-you-believe.” drawn with detail and humanity; the actors Jitney offers eight men and one woman bring each one to believable life. in the orbit of a gypsy cab station run by Wilson spins these tales out under the stolid, conservative Becker (Raymond umbrella of threatened existence. Becker Anthony Thomas). Although unlicensed has been notified that the city intends to cabs were fly-by-night, he explains that this demolish the block that includes his jitney is a “car service” for people living in Pittsstation. He’s not certain what to do next; he burgh’s downtrodden Hill District — with might be too old to start over and his troops an emphasis on service. are not the most reliable. Booster’s return Becker’s drivers range from hotheaded exacerbates his emotions. But each man is Youngblood (Michael Kevin Darnall), in his uneasy in the face of change. They decide to 20s, to Doub (Michael Anthony Williams), a rally against the closure, while it’s evident Korean War veteran and Becker’s longtime that the tide is running against them. friend. Turnbo (Dion Graham) is a loquaDespite that, the desire to overcome fuels cious busybody, always nosing into the the end of the story and the coherence of business of others. these disparate characters is heart-warmFielding (Doug Brown), once a tailor with ing. The show ends as it began, with the a high-end clientele, has been reduced by performers dancing and then taking their alcohol to an unreliable driver who talks bows. On opening night, the audience was too much. quick to provide a genuine standing ovation. In and out of the office are Shealy (JefJITNEY, presented by Cincinnati Playhouse in ferson A. Russell), who uses the station’s the Park, continues through Nov. 12. More info: payphone to take numbers; Philmore cincyplay.com. (Kenneth Early), a local hotel doorman
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At this year’s Toronto International Film that she writes such silence into her film. Festival, I enjoyed a miraculous moment “I do think that the story lies between the during a journalistic function — a meaningdialogue and the characters and not what I ful conversation rather than a formalized write,” she acknowledged. “That’s what I’m interview — with Kelly Reichardt, whose drawn to in filmmaking — sort of the craft film Certain Women opens at the Esquire of it. I can use the image, where the camera Theatre this week. goes and how people move through a scene Reichardt has emerged, over the course to reveal things and keep it happening, of the six features she has made since 1994’s so that (the movie) doesn’t just sit in the River of Grass, as one of the most thoughtdialogue. But, even though it’s a quiet film, ful and truly independent of all American there’s a lot of sound design going on.” directors. Her films especially leave room for quietude. Her 2006 Old Joy, about two men whose camping trip causes them to examine their souls, has become an indie classic; her work with Michelle Williams in 2008’s Wendy and Lucy and 2010’s Meek’s Cutoff has been heralded. Certain Women features Williams, Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart as women living in Montana. I had seen the film a couple of days before my sit-down Director Kelly Reichardt on the Certain Women set with Reichardt and was moved by how intimately it P H O T O : J ojo W h i l d e n / c o u r t e s y o f i f c f i l m s delved into the lives of its characters, and how its three I shared a belief that, in today’s world, distinct narratives found ways to bleed into we as a people, a film-going society, are not one another, probing and exposing the inner thoughts that inspire the kind of secret used to that. We’re used to dialogue, even if movements that occur far from prying eyes. it’s inane dialogue, filling that space. As I made my way to Reichardt’s table at Later in our conversation, we drifted back a hotel restaurant, among a mid-afternoon to this idea of a sense of discomfort that can lunch crowd, she greeted me with a firm emerge among viewers when a film carves handshake and a question — really more of out space for its characters, its world, to be a comment — seeking to open a doorway quiet. They might respond to it as an abyss. into my headspace, my philosophical and “It’s OK for people to be a little uncomfortpolitical heart. The question was, more or able,” Reichardt said. “At times, I want my less, “What’s going on?” It wasn’t specifically escapism, also. But if I’m going to spend a a judgment about Trump and his presidential couple years of my life making something, I campaign, but was about a concern that his want it to be interesting to me.” supporters didn’t question the inaccuracies Certain Women is based on a short story and the blatant inconsistencies in his posicollection by Maile Meloy. “I am starting with tions. And I answered without reservation. a foundation,” Reichardt explained. “(The Reichardt instinctively knew or sensed stories) have room where I can come in and a degree of commonality, but she would spread things out, and make room for the have been ready, if we had been on opposite day-to-day chores where the small twists of sides, to still talk and reason her way life come in. It’s amazing how you can really through the ideological space between us. use quiet, and just changing the pace, to We spoke off the record about that for reveal tension. Sometimes, it feels like some almost 10 minutes. She wasn’t trying to hide radical act to be pulling against the way time from or avoid the task of promoting her film. wants us to react to something right now. I No, this felt like two people slowly building think that’s all based on commerce.” trust before the work of professional comReichardt is in filmmaking for something munication could begin. other than commerce, but she navigates When I finally turned the recorder on, you through the industry with her eyes, ears and could hear a quiet laugh that we shared, a mind wide open, attuned to every character resigned willingness to surrender, at last, to and story before her. The industry would be the task that brought us together. I asked wise to take note. her about the silence that surrounds the CONTACT TT STERN-ENZI: letters@ citybeat.com action in Certain Women and how it seems
ON SCREEN ‘Certain Women’ (Review) By Jason Gargano
Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women aligns nicely with the cinematic aesthetic she’s developed and nurtured over a career that now spans more than 20 years and six full-length features: stylistically spare, elliptical, emotionally nuanced and told from a distinctly female perspective. Reichardt specializes in small-scale stories about everyday people. Curiously, Certain Women is also something of a departure for Reichardt. Instead of focusing on one central narrative, it ties together three loosely connected stories based on the work of Montana-based author Maile Meloy. Certain Women opens with an extended, uninterrupted shot of a lonely train moving down the tracks, a sequence that sets the tone from the get-go. The first third centers on Laura (Laura Dern), a lawyer dealing with a client (Jared Harris) who’s certain he should be compensated for a workplace accident that has left him physically and emotional altered. The second third focuses on Gina (Michelle Williams), a bread-winner wife and mother whose preoccupation with some rare sandstone that she wants to use in the construction of the family’s new home seems a metaphor for what might be missing from her personal life. The final and most emotionally engaging third centers on a pair of young women who strike up an unlikely friendship: a nameless Native American horse rancher (Lily Gladstone) and Beth (Kristen Stewart), a law graduate with limited social skills. Certain Women is shot matter-of-factly on location amid rural Montana’s no-frills small-town locations (including a drab law office, an ill-lit classroom and a typical ranch house adorned with an eternally blasé tan-based color palette), a production choice that no doubt aids in building the story’s low-key authenticity. The actors’ performances are stellar across the board. But the triptych approach mutes Certain Women’s overall impact, yielding a facinating character study of curiously little narrative thrust. (Opens Friday at Esquire Theatre) (R) Grade: B Also Opening This Week: The Handmaiden // Inferno // Harry & Snowman
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attitudes encapsulate the expectation of the evening: relaxed yet indulgent. And indulge is just what my husband and I did. We opted for the Grand Tasting ($195), a six-course meal with wine pairings. It was an over-the-top move, but we both love fine-dining experiences as much as we do attending concerts. With both, we pay some serious cash, but more often than not, it is time and money well spent. We began our night with a surprise first course of champagne and caviar. I’ve never known the aristocracies of caviar, but having my first taste with a glass of 2006 Laherte Frères Le Millésime Deux Mille Six was my own personal Arc en Ciel. The silky saltiness of the Jerusalem caviar melted blissfully with each bite, spooned atop a tiny mound of miniature gnocchi. Rich and fluffy, the two elements felt gratifying yet light. The second course was the Arpège salad, inspired by chef Falk’s visit to the world-renowned, three Michelin-starred L’Arpège restaurant in Paris. This salad was comprised of fresh arugula, dandelion and fines herbes, and each petal and leaf tasted unique. Each bite had its own identity, complemented by a shallot vinaigrette and crouton crumbles. This dish was paired with Pascal Janvier Jasnières, a chenin blanc, which was as light, crisp and refreshing as the stripped-down salad itself. The next course was one of my favorites of the evening — truffle pasta with a trio of shrimp, scallop and crab and a black truffle emulsion. Like the gnocchi, the pasta was light and airy while also being densely creamy and satisfying. The flavor of the truffle was present but balanced and divine combined with the sweetness of the shellfish. A Riesling called Schlossgut Diel Feinherb “Von der Nahe” did exactly what a riesling should do — tartly balance and pair beautifully with pasta. Following the pasta was halibut, served with duck jus and celery root foie gras hash. This, paired with Marcel Lapierre Morgon, started the transition toward depth and density. While the fish was fresh and flaky, and the gamay was crisp yet subtle, this dish made it clear the evening was beginning to ramp up. The fifth course was a Colorado rack of lamb and bean ragu. Served on the bone, the cut was not compromising or overwhelming. Given that each course was a tasting portion, this cut felt achievable and delicious coming so late in the evening. It was championed by the Riecine di Riecine, a sangiovese that presented itself seriously but accessibly — like the lamb, it was hearty and satisfying.
Boca’s first palate performance, Arc en Ciel, achieves the perfect pairings of food and wine. The final course, beef wellington, was by far the most impressive of the evening — a warm and hearth-like dish. Beef tenderloin was wrapped in prosciutto and baked with an outer layer of pastry. Even though we’ve been experiencing an 80-degree October, this dish wrapped me in a plaid pashmina and had me sitting next to a crackling fire. I’m not typically a beef appreciator, but I savored this one as if it was the delicacy of dreams. Its pairing with a Château Gombaude-Guillot Pomerol, a Bordeaux that was as savory as the wellington, brought me to the end of the rainbow, a stuffed and satisfied belly my personal pot of gold.
From the dishes themselves to the service and intimate and intricate thought put into every detail of the cadenza, the Arc en Ciel is a near-complete reconceptualization of what it means to dine at Boca — beyond a food challenge, beyond a wine challenge, beyond just a new experience. For this performance, I believe they captured their unicorn. The Arc en Ciel will continue through Nov. 5. The second performance is slated to run from Jan. 16-Feb. 11, and the third will run March 9-April 8. Tickets ($75-$195) and the theme for the next BOCA CADENZA will be made available Dec. 16. For more info, visit bocacincinnati.com/cadenza.
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oca Cadenza: a dining experience inspired by Classical music and the short, intense instrumental solos that captivate both the artist and audience alike. Much like the impression left after a musical cadenza, the inimitable Boca aims to create a series of dining performances that hone in and focus on an individual theme, designed to stand out and shine, leaving patrons speechless. During the restaurant’s 15th anniversary, Boca has raised the bar and set out to push the limits of its already high standards. Chef/owner David Falk was not satisfied with being complacent in his success — “coasting,” as he puts it — so he came up with the concept of the cadenza to hit this anniversary in full stride, pushing harder and challenging the restaurant’s already notable craft and craftsmanship. “What would it look like if we took that idea (of a cadenza) and injected it into our genre?” Falk asks in a promotional video. “This idea of a small window of time and we just drive hard at something — high risk, high reward — for us and for the guests. What would that look like?” Over the course of the next nine months, Falk will present three “high-flying, heartthrobbing” dining performances, the first of which is titled Arc en Ciel — a rainbow. In this wonderfully manic quest for the perfect pairings, Falk and his team consciously and simultaneously match exceptional food with exceptional wine to truly elevate the experience of each. The wine sings more with each bite of the dish, and the dish dances more with each sip of the wine. While I feel unqualified to deliver a true sommelier’s perspective of the wine pairings, I can confidently and comfortably speak to the accomplishment I believe Arc en Ciel achieved. I entered into the meal acutely conscious and prepared so that my seemingly untrained palate could both experience and evaluate the quest. And I believe, for the first time, I understand what it means when wine and food pairings do what they are truly designed to do — enhance, elevate and intensify. The cadenza performances take place on the more fluid and relaxed second floor of the restaurant. With limited seating and required reservations accommodating parties of two, four and six, everything appears intimate yet inviting. Even the servers have an air about them, operating in a way that makes the title of “server” feel inaccurate. Managers perhaps? The staff was a group of knowledgeable and impassioned adults, donning blazers and denim with fabric flowers pinned to their lapels. Their presentation and
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Halloween parties take place this weekend, during which a few breweries will try to spook you with costume contests and haunted mazes. And apparently donut beers are now a thing — in fact, there’s an entire local event dedicated to them. On Nov. 3, Yelp gifts Cincinnatians with the best pairing ever — donuts in beer — at the Baked & Brewed event, happening at Urban Artifact. It’s a celebration to close out Yelp and Holtman’s Donuts National Donut Month events, during which breweries released donut-infused beers throughout October. Special donut beers available at the event include Urban Artifact’s Operation Plowshare, a black raspberry jelly donut ale; Braxton’s Toaster, a Cinnamon Toast Crunch beer; and Listermann’s Lateral Gone Nuts, a barrel-aged oatmeal sweet stout brewed with Holtman’s chocolate and toasted coconut donuts. Event admission is free.
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• They don’t call themselves Darkness Brewing for nothing. From 6 p.m.-midnight on Oct. 28 and 29, the Bellevue brewery hosts a haunted maze through their front lounge, with food trucks, tarot readings, live music and pours of their new beer, Witch Head, a red IPA. Costumes welcome. • On Oct. 28, Rhinegeist gets in the spirit with a party featuring DJs Kenneth Wright and Matt Joy spinning creepy tunes, food from Gomez Salsa and seasonal brews. At 10 p.m., those in costume (Ken Bone? Barb from Stranger Things?) get to strut their stuff down the runway for a costume contest.
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Crab Carnival — Soft-shelled, Alaskan King, Dungeness and more — crabs of all shapes and sizes will be available to eat at the 17th-annual Washington Platform Crab Carnival. Through Nov. 12. Prices vary. Washington Platform, 1000 Elm St., Downtown, washingtonplatform.com. The Art of the Empanada — Chef Alfio Gulisano, owner of Alfio’s Buon Cibo and Che, leads this class. 6-9 p.m. $75. Midwest Culinary Institute, 3520 Central Parkway, Clifton, culinary.cincinnatistate.edu. Pumpkin Carving and Beer Tasting — The Mercer hosts an interactive evening featuring a local beer flight and all the tools and supplies necessary to carve a master jack-o’-lantern — including the pumpkin. Prizes for most creative pumpkin. 5-10 p.m. $25. The Mercer, 1324 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, bit.ly/2dWikYu.
Japp’s Victorian Masquerade Soiree — Celebrate Halloween with a themed soiree, featuring special guest Hollis Bulleit. The event includes a Bulleit Bourbon tasting, adult trick-or-treating, bourbon cocktails and a Victorian theme. Don’t forget a mask. 5-9 p.m. Free admission. Japp’s, 1136 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, wellmannsbrands.com/japps1879.
THURSDAY 27
Nectar Dinner Club — A dinner with the theme “braised low and slow,” prepared by chef Julie Francis. 6:30 p.m. $47 for four courses; $40 for three. Nectar, 1000 Delta Ave., Mount Lookout, dineatnectar.com. Cooking with Spirits with Ilene Ross and Molly Wellmann — Halloween isn’t just for kids. Plan a party and spook your guests with simple snacks and drinks. Recipes include vodka-infused shrimp cocktail, witches’ brew punch, chocolate spider web cake and more. 6:30-9 p.m. $55. Cooks’Wares, 11344 Montgomery Road, Harpers Point, cookswaresonline.com.
Murder Mystery Dinner Train — Take a ride on the historic Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad as a mystery plays out before your eyes. The crime will be solved during dinner at The Golden Lamb. 6:30 p.m. Oct. 28 and 29. $89.95. Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad, 127 S. Mechanic St., Lebanon, bit.ly/2d36agp. HallowEve Brew Bash at Ault Park — Local craft beer tastings, food trucks, live music and optional costumes. Each ticket includes 10 beer tastings from breweries including Blank Slate, Rivertown, Fifty West, Urban Artifact and more. 6-10 p.m. $25. Ault Park, 3600 Observatory Circle, Hyde Park, aultparkac.org.
Symphony Hotel Halloween Party — The hotel will transform into a Halloween haunt. The bar will feature a bubbling cauldron of spirits, the restaurant will feature a themed five-course ghoulish meal and resident ghost Molly will reveal herself. Includes live music, a 1973 hearse and a costume contest. 5 p.m. Free admission. Symphony Hotel & Restaurant, 210 W. 14th St., Over-the-Rhine, symphonyhotel.com.
American Horror Story: Haunted Hotel Party — Hotel Covington transforms for an evening of cocktail specials, live music, a costume contest and a special all-day menu from in-house restaurant Coppin’s. 9 p.m.-midnight. Free admission. Hotel Covington, 638 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., facebook.com/thehotelcovington. Fall Family Meal for Kids and Parents — Chef Kristen St. Clair leads this class for parents and children. Work side by side to create dinners for the entire family. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $50 child; $50 adult. Midwest Culinary Institute, 3520 Central Parkway, Clifton, culinary.cincinnatistate.edu.
SUNDAY 30
Tillie’s Chili Cook-Off for CAIN — Tillie’s Lounge hosts a chili cook-off to benefit Churches Active in Northside. Bring your most impressive pot of chili to enter to win a $50 prize. 6-8 p.m. Free admission; $10 entry fee. Tillie’s Lounge, 4042 Hamilton Ave., Northside, 513-541-1414.
MONDAY 31
HalloWINE Dinner — Ghosts, goblins witches and warlocks are invited to a fourcourse tasting menu from the Tela kitchen paired with wine. Costumes encouraged. RSVP required. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $60 without costume; $50 in costume. Tela Bar + Kitchen, 1212 Springfield Pike, Wyoming, telabarandkitchen.com.
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Cincinnati Pizza Week — Join CityBeat and area pizzerias in a weeklong celebration of all things ’za. Participating restaurants will be offering $8 pizzas all week. Grab an official passport and get it stamped at more than three locations to be entered to win an ultimate pizza party for 20 from MadTree and Snappy Tomato Pizza. Nov. 1-7. cincinnatipizzaweek.com.
World Vegan Day — Happy 72nd-annual World Vegan Day! Celebrate at Park + Vine with special free autumn soups. For walkin customers only. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Park + Vine, 1202 Main St., Over-theRhine, parkandvine.com.
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hat are the expectations of a band three decades into a music career infused with Pop hooks, Rock classicism and understated tenacity? The Rock & Roll blueprint would suggest features like dealing with the ecstasy and toll of relentless road work, inevitable breakups, intermittent reunions and substance abuse issues, but also the will to keep on keeping on and somehow producing some career-best music. Behold The Jayhawks. The longtime Minneapolis band, formed in the mid-’80s and often acknowledged as one of the godfathers of AltCountry — for whatever that’s worth (less than you might think) — just released its ninth record, the enthralling Paging Mr. Proust, an exuberant echo of past glories swirling in fresh sonic textures that dip into new genres, with hints of Krautrock and looped, synth Electronica, along with their more familiar Pop Rock. Co-produced by Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Tucker Martine, Paging Mr. Proust stands as one of the best records of 2016. On their current tour, the band spends two hours lifting singer/guitarist Gary Louris’ bittersweet Pop nuggets with Rickenbackerdriven crescendos, playing songs that should have been bigger “hit” contenders in a better world. They play Minnesotan twang-andcrunch classics from 1992’s Hollywood Town Hall, like “Waiting for the Sun,” which put The Jayhawks on the Roots map in the early ’90s, to a heartfelt encore singalong of Grand Funk Railroad’s “Bad Time.” And they play the Beatlesque soul-swoon testifying of “Trouble” from 1997’s Sound of Lies, the first album without cofounder/singer/songwriter Mark Olson and still possibly their best — a psychedelic dream of disillusion awash in jaded poetry and majestic chords stacked sky-high with melancholy. In speaking by phone with cofounder Louris, now the main songwriter and lead singer/guitarist of the band, from his Minneapolis home, he sounds relieved to have survived the last decade of personal and professional upheaval with his band’s support intact. “At this time in my life I needed structure in a band with these particular people,” he says. “I think going through the stuff I went through — like rehab — you find a new appreciation for things you have, instead of always thinking of what you don’t have. I realized this band is fantastic and they’re my home.” Between releasing solo records, songwriting for Dixie Chicks and Nickel Creek and producing records for bands like The Sadies, Louris consistently delivers with his veteran’s grace and distinctive sound. The
The Jayhawks continue to show their evolution on Paging Mr. Proust. Jayhawks are his first love, and there’s an inherent pride in his voice as he discusses Paging Mr. Proust. Isn’t it just like The Jayhawks to name their new project after a brilliant but anachronistic 19th-century French author hardly read in today’s comics-literate America? In fact, the whole record shines with literary references, subtle but evident, imbuing nuance and depth to a master songwriter’s craft. Blue guitars foretell remembrances of things past. “The Proust reference came from a friend of mine who knew our material,” Louris says, “and she’d been traveling and happened to be in the Amsterdam airport and says she heard Marcel Proust being paged. I’ve since read his stuff, and there’s a thread between John Updike, David Foster Wallace and Proust — writers I admire — who dig deep, uncovering details you would never see if you just skimmed along the surface. I think that became part of the concept of the record, after some reflection that the world has kind of lost its thread.” Proust, after all, like the best literature and music, demands an attention span, something we’ve largely lost through our dopamine addiction to gadgets. It’s easy to make the analogy with The Jayhawks’ music, a vintage band too often neglected by commercial concerns. Like many pioneer bands — Big Star, The Velvet Underground,
Uncle Tupelo — The Jayhawks’ influence trumps record sales by far. “I’ve come to the acceptance that we’re a cult band and probably always will be, which means we have just enough fans to keep us going,” Louris says. “It seems like the people who love us really love us, and other people don’t know who the hell we are.” “I always felt like we would be huge if it was 1970,” he continues. “I am drawn to a certain song structure, a certain sort of melody scale used in older music. An uplifting sound with money chords, chords that turn your head a bit, but mixing the triumphant with somewhat darker lyrics is the right chemistry. I like to do a song that is somewhat cathartic and allows you to purge a little bit, so you walk away feeling better instead of worse.” Incandescent, lush harmonies still ring out through Louris’ new tunes. Keyboardist Karen Grotberg’s and drummer Tim O’Reagan’s elegant vocals shade Louris’ voice on the anthemic album opener, “Quiet Corners and Empty Spaces.” Cofounder Marc Perlman’s bass ripples melodic lines to open the plaintive “Lies in Black and White,” while Louris’ Neil Young-like ragged guitar coda closes “Devil in Her Eyes.” “Comeback Kids,” a loping electronic mantra, tumbles out like some infectious, Art Rock overture, all dissonant lead guitar and synth-swirl bliss.
With Olson’s embittered exit once again after 2011’s uneven Mockingbird Time reunion, The Jayhawks left behind some of their twangier, Roots-driven style. “We felt we could explore some other territory,” Louris says. “I mean, none of us grew up in the country, and I never listened to Country music till my mid-20s. I was in this British cover band and listened to The Buzzcocks, The Vibrators, Bowie, The Kinks and The Beatles… before I got into Elvis’ Sun Sessions.” This band cut its teeth in the competitive Minneapolis scene back in the ’80s, one of America’s greatest Indie music cities. “The Jayhawks tapped into a period where Olson and I both came upon all this American music,” Louris says. “What was going on in our city with The Replacements and Hüsker Dü, we loved that stuff, but we defined our own little pocket and found our own voice. But it was always a little restricting.” The Jayhawks embody a Midwestern band that is still somehow deep in its prime. Undersung or not, the group has been simply one of America’s finest for decades now. Paging Mr. Proust, with its resplendent Pop melodicism and bold reinvention, just confirms it yet again. THE JAYHAWKS play Madison Theater on Tuesday. Tickets/more info: madisontheateronline.com.
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Award Shunning Rock legend Bob Dylan was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, but the Prize committee has said it has been unable to reach the noted curmudgeon about accepting the award. The award won’t be rescinded should Dylan remain silent, but the $900,000 prize money could be (under the rules, he must give a “lecture” or concert related to “literature” within the next six months to get the money). Meanwhile, inventive R&B star Frank Ocean — whose album Blonde was a lock for an Album of the Year Grammy nomination — is ineligible for any Grammy nominations this year because his work was not submitted for consideration, reportedly on purpose.
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“Nasty” Trump Bump Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been good for comedians and cable news ratings, and the music world has also benefited from the Trump bump. Spin recently rounded up all of the good, musically speaking, that has come from Trump’s campaign, including new songs from Le Tigre and YG. Janet Jackson is also reaping benefits — her song “Nasty” saw a 250 percent streaming increase on Spotify after Trump couldn’t resist calling Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” during the final presidential debate. Jagged Little Phil Phil Collins must have felt that simply coming out of retirement to play concerts wasn’t enough of a punishment for music fans this year. He also has a new memoir to sell, and he’s doing his best to shill a few extra copies by making headlines for saying stupid things. Collins whined to a U.K. newspaper about being “mistreated” by Paul McCartney; after asking for an autograph, according to Collins, McCartney had the nerve to say, “Our little Phil’s a bit of a Beatles fan.” Which, if said in your head with an affable McCartney accent, is kinda cute, right? Collins says his immediate response, in his head, was “You fuck, you fuck,” and he still hates the former Beatle for it.
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This year, the Devil played a mean trick southgatehouse.com), excellent radio station and decided to have Halloween fall on a WNKU is hosting the Catfish Ball, which Monday. While some bars and venues will features nearly a dozen local artists performstill celebrate the holiday that day, mostly ing the songs of iconic musicians on all three it will be during the weekend when you’ll of the venue’s performance stages. The show see clubs decorated with spider webs and begins at 8 p.m. Admission is $15 in advance patrons dressed as witches, zombies and through ticketfly.com or $20 at the door. Ken Bones. On the Southgate’s Lounge stage, Young Many musicians working this weekend Colt will play the music of Elvis Preswill also likely perform in costume, but a ley, The Pine Box honors the songs of few special shows will feature local artists Jeff Buckley and local Folk singer Jake performing in bands that pay tribute to Speed will pay tribute to American icon other musical acts by playing a full set’s worth of their songs. It’s a trend that’s been happening for a while now, and this weekend features a few great chances in Greater Cincinnati to catch some of your favorite musicians who normally play original music having some fun and performing as tribute artists. • Friday, local musician/ promoter Adam Stone brings his Halloween tribute shindig, The Fifth Requiem, to Northside Tavern (4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, The Tigerlilies play T Rex at WNKU’s Catfish Ball this Saturday. northsidetav.com). The show PHOTO : provided is free and kicks off at 9 p.m. Music will be featured in the Woody Guthrie. In the Revival Room, The venue’s back room and front entry room. The back-room fun starts with The Tigerlilies tackle the catalog of Glam Cloaks, a tribute to the music of The Strokes Rock legend T Rex, Lovecrush 88 crushes that features members of Pop Empire, songs by Motorhead, Mad Anthony takes Mardou, The Never Bird and Nanny. Our on the music of The Doors and Psych/Folk Name is Jonas follows, with a group featurduo Dawg Yawp honors the legacy of The ing members of The Slippery Lips, The Beatles. In the club’s Sanctuary, Modern Pinstripes and Know Prisoners playing Aquatic plays The Ramones and The “Blue Album”-era Weezer. Ghostin’ Against Yugos cover Joy Division, while two of the Your Mind plays the songs of Indie Rock legbiggest music-world losses of 2016 — David ends Built To Spill; the band features memBowie and Prince — will be celebrated by bers of Build Us Fiction, Comprador and Just Strange Bros and The Almighty Swoops. The back-room lineup ends with Get Down, respectively. a midnight performance from Beck From • The Northside Yacht Club (4227 Spring the Grave, which, as you probably guessed, Grove Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub. is a tribute to Beck. The Beck band appears com) hosts a fun twist on the “Halloween the be the largest of the night, with members cover band” motif Saturday at 9 p.m. Playing of WHY?, Dawg Yawp, The Ridges, Toon the event are Cranblossoms, a live-band Town, Newport Secret Six, DAAP Girls, mash-up of the music of The Cranberries The Tillers, Lazy Heart, Krystal Peterand Gin Blossoms; Bryan Ryan Adams, son & The Queen City Band and A Mile which features Ryan Adams songs perStone teaming up for the project. formed in the style of Bryan Adams and The front-room fun begins at 10:30 p.m. led by Chris Robinson of local Folk great with Pink Flag, a tribute to Post Punk Young Heirlooms; and something called legends Wire headed up by Steve Schmoll gHOTh Topic, which is fronted by local (formerly of bands like Lazy and The Tigerlilsinger/songwriter Dan Mecher (Denial, ies and currently the proprietor of the Black Turnbull ACs) and features spooky versions Plastic record stores). At 11:30 p.m. in the of songs by artists you’d likely find emblafront room, Little Fury Things, a tribute to zoned on T-shirts at everyone’s favorite Dinosaur Jr. put together by longtime local mall store, Hot Topic (Danzig, My Chemical musician Jason Hounshell, is slated to appear. Romance, Alkaline Trio, Misfits, etc.). • Saturday night at the Southgate CONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@citybeat.com House Revival (111 E. Sixth St., Newport,
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MUSIC sound advice Dex Romweber with One Trip Little and The Stealth Pastille Thursday • MOTR Pub It’s hard to imagine a musical landscape untouched by the far-reaching influence of guitarist/vocalist Dexter Romweber. The Batesville, Ind. native was certainly one of the innovators of the guitar/drum duo concept, launching Flat Duo Jets with his man-mountain drummer Crow in 1985. Jack White has said that the Jets sent him into paroxysms of six-string ecstasy, filling him with thoughts of creating his own similarly structured two-piece band in the not-toodistant future. Romweber enjoyed a long and sadly hit-free run with Flat Duo Jets although the band was a critical darling, particularly with 1992’s Jim Dickinson-produced Go Go Harlem Baby and 1998’s rollicking and polished Human Eye, the last album Romweber did Dex Romweber with Crow. In 2001, P H O T O : K e n n Eth B a c ho r Romweber connected with drummer Sam LaResh and released his debut solo album, Chased by Martians, which was ultimately short-circuited by the label’s demise in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Three years later, Romweber signed with Yep Roc and Yelawolf dropped the stellar PHOTO : Provided Blues That Defy My Soul and in 2007, Romweber filled the recently vacated drum chair with Let’s Active/Snatches of Pink beatkeeper Sara Romweber, his older sister. The freshly conceived sibling iteration of the Dex Romweber Duo moved over to Bloodshot Records and cranked out a formidable trio of albums, 2009’s melancholy Ruins of Berlin, 2011’s Is That You in the Blue? and 2014’s blazingly diverse Images 13, featuring flashes of visceral Blues, stomping Rockabilly, cool Jazz, muscular Surf and finger-snapping Pop. For his latest solo project, the recently released Carrboro, Romweber has followed the sonic template of Images 13, with some fascinating tweaks. There are guests aplenty (including Sara and Southern Culture on the Skids guitarist Rick Miller), interesting originals and covers (like “Smile” and “My Funny Valentine”) and tracks where he plays the piano and sings, plus a few where he plays every instrument.
After 30 years and a variety of configurations, you might think you’ve got Romweber figured out, but he’ll have little trouble proving that you don’t know Dex. (Brian Baker) Yelawolf with Bubba Sparxxx, Jelly Roll and Struggle Jennings Thursday • Madison Theater At 36, Michael Atha — aka Yelawolf — is one of Hip Hop’s elder statesmen by virtue of his age, not necessarily his tenure. Although Yelawolf has recorded three studio albums, seven mixtapes, three EPs, over a dozen singles and a ton of cool features and guest appearances (and he has collaborated with Eminem, Ed Sheeran, Lil Jon, Travis Barker and other musical giants), his career only began a little over a decade ago. Born in Gadsden, Ala., Atha spent much of his childhood in Tennessee and was attracted to Hip Hop as a cultural and musical signifier at an early age. After a West Coast epiphany, Atha assumed his performing identity — he adopted his name from his father’s Cherokee heritage, with “yela” relating to the sun and light and “wolf” denoting strength and ferocity — and earned a spot on UPN’s reality show The Road to Stardom with Missy Elliott in 2005. He was bounced from the competition, but quickly capitalized on the exposure by recording his debut album, the independently released Creek Water, and his first mixtape, the irresistibly titled Pissin’ in a Barrel of Beez, within months of his elimination. In 2007, Yelawolf was signed by Columbia and released his first single, “Kickin’,” but they dropped him almost immediately, never releasing the album he’d recorded for them. After a pair of under-the-radar mixtapes and his debut EP, Arena Rap, Yelawolf dropped his masterpiece, 2010’s Trunk Muzik, which led to an Interscope contract and then a deal with Eminem through his imprint Shady Records. Yelawolf’s Shady debut, 2011’s Radioactive, which cracked the Top 30 of Billboard’s 200 on the strength of two singles, “Hard White (Up in the Club)” and “Let’s Roll,” featuring vocals from Lil Jon and Kid Rock, respectively, was somewhat creatively
haNdMade For 111 yearS compromised but did well. After that, Yelawolf retained a tight grip on creative control, collaborating with drummer Barker on the Psycho White EP and with singer-songwriter Sheeran on The Slumdom Bridge. Yela dropped his Heart of Dixie mixtape in 2012, followed in 2013 by the much-anticipated Trunk Muzik Returns. A ruptured spleen suffered during a stage dive initially delayed the recording of his Love Story album, but it finally came out last year. It was worth the wait, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. Almost immediately, Yelawolf announced his next album would be titled Trial by Fire; it’s now slated to be released before the end of this year. As a tease, perhaps, Yelawolf recently pushed out Hotel, an atmospheric new seven-track EP that’s gotten a lot of buzz since its release three weeks ago. Yelawolf is a compelling songwriter, deftly mixing Southern Rock/Country traditions with blazing Hip Hop passion, elements that are amplified to critical mass in their live presentation. (BB)
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Loreena McKennitt Monday • Taft Theater Beyond her Scotch/ Irish parents, Loreena McKennitt was neither culturally nor environmentally predisposed to Celtic Loreena McKennitt music, and yet she’s P H O T O : A n n E . C u tt i n g become one of the legends of the form over the past three decades. Blending foundational Celtic Folk with Middle Eastern elements, Gregorian chanting and a veritable kitchen sink of musical ideas from around the world, McKennitt has created a catalog with the powerful impact of a hymnal for a non-specific religion. With a clear and ringing soprano reminiscent of New Age Celtic diva Enya, Renaissance’s Annie Haslam and Steeleye Span’s Maddy Prior, McKennitt has become a global phenomenon on her own terms; each of her nine studio and five live albums, accounting for nearly 15 million in sales, has been released on her Quinlan Road label, meaning she has retained complete control over her image and output from the very start of her career. The Manitoba native intended to explore the veterinary arts, but after discovering Celtic music, McKennitt learned the Celtic harp, moved to Ontario and busked on Toronto streets for the money to record her first album, 1985’s Elemental. One of the unique aspects of McKennitt’s songwriting process is in her preparation to create new material, which typically involves a good
deal of inspirational travel that informs both the theme and the content of the resultant songs. She also draws on literature as an influence and source material, quoting William Blake, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare and Dante, among many others, in her lyrical passages. McKennitt took an eight-year hiatus after her fiancée’s drowning death in 1998, playing only sporadic live shows until the 2006 release of An Ancient Muse, her first studio recording since 1997’s The Book of Secrets. Since her return to active performing, McKennitt has released two studio albums and three live albums, the latest in each category being 2010’s The Wind Shakes the Barley and 2012’s Troubadours on the Rhine, respectively. Over the past quarter century, McKennitt’s work has shown up in numerous films and television shows, and she has received several awards, nominations and honorary titles, including a couple of Juno Awards, a Billboard Music Award, a Western Canadian Music Award and a pair of Grammy nominations, and she continues to administer the CookRees Memorial Fund for Water Search and Safety, which she created in response to the death of her fiancée, Ronald Rees, his brother and their friend. If you’re looking for a spiritual experience and not necessarily a church, Loreena McKennitt is happy to be your choirmaster. (BB)
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REBELUTION w/ Hirie
NOVEMBER 10
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NOVEMBER 16
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Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Todd Hepburn. 7 p.m. Blues/Jazz/ Various. Free.
Bella Luna - RMS Band. 7 p.m. Soft Rock/Jazz. Free. Blind Lemon - Brian Goins. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free. Century Inn Restaurant - Paul Lake. 7 p.m. Pop/Rock/Jazz/ Oldies/Various. Free. Esquire Theatre - Live ’N Local with Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. $5.
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Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Steve Thomas. 6 p.m. Sax/Piano/ Vocals. Free. Knotty Pine - Dallas Moore and Lucky Chucky. 10 p.m. Country. Free. Mic’s Pub - Karaoke with A Sound Sensation/DJ Heather. 8:30 p.m. Various. Free. Miller’s Fill Inn - Karaoke with A Mystical Sound Sensation DJ Rob. 9 p.m. Various. Free. MOTR Pub - Holy Ghost Tent H Revival. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.
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Madison Theater - Yelawolf H with Bubba Sparxxx, Jelly Roll and Struggle Jennings. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. $23, $35 day of show.
MOTR Pub - Dex Romweber with One Trip Little and The Stealth Pastille. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.
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Northside Yacht Club - Planes H Mistaken For Stars with Rive, Greet Death and Dressed In Disaster. 8:30 p.m. Rockcore. $8, $10 day of show.
Plain Folk Cafe - Open Mic with Josiah Whitley. 7 p.m. Various. Free. Stanley’s Pub - Snuggleween PreParty featuring Fletcher’s Grove and National Headliner with members of RMB. 9 p.m. Jam/Rock. $5. Urban Artifact - Busdriver H and Metasota with Counterfeit Money Machine, Audley and Nanny. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. $10, $12 day of show.
Woodward Theater - The Sidekicks with Cross Country. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $5, $8 day of show.
Friday 28
Arnold’s Bar and Grill - River City Roustabout. 9 p.m. Folk. Free.
Pit to Plate - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. $2.
Bella Luna - Blue Birds Trio. 7 p.m. Classic Rock/Jazz. Free.
Silverton Cafe - Bob Cushing Acoustic. Free.
Belterra Park Gaming - Ricky Nye Inc. 8 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie.
Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - The Honey cutters with The Howlin’ Brothers. 8 p.m. Country/Roots. $10, $12 day of show.
Blind Lemon - Donna Frost and Bob Beckstedt. 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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Stanley’s Pub - The Neverhawks with Drop The Sun and Where It’s At. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. $5.
Thursday 27
Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Dottie Warner and Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free. Blind Lemon - Drew Rochette. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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Bogart’s - Rockers 4 Knockers with Thunderstruck. 7 p.m. AC/ DC tribute. $10 (some proceeds benefit Pink Ribbon Girls).
Blue Note Harrison - Pandora Effect and Heather Roush Band. 9 p.m. Rock and Country. Cover. Bogart’s - Attila with Chelsea Grin, Emmure and Sylar. 7 p.m. Rock/ Metal. $19.50. Century Inn Restaurant - Jim Teepen. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
Marty’s Hops & Vines - Just Two Howlers. 9 p.m. Classic Rock. Free. The Mockbee - Bump in the Night with DJ Nick Bradley. 10 p.m. DJ/ Dance/Various. $10. MOTR Pub - Ford Theater Reunion with Automaton. 10 p.m. Steam Punk/Rock/Various. Free. MVP Bar & Grille - Halloween H In Ruins III with Lying In Ruins, Dear Agony, Shadow of Shepard, Ferris & The Wheels and more. 7 p.m. Rock. $10.
Northside Tavern - The Fifth H Requiem Halloween Party with The Cloaks, Our Name is
Jonas, Ghostin’ Against Your Mind, Beck from the Grave, Pink Flag and Little Fury Things. 9 p.m. Tribute bands. Free.
Plain Folk Cafe - Troubadours of Divine Bliss. 7:30 p.m. Folk/ Americana. Free. Rick’s Tavern - Party Town. 10 p.m. Pop/Rock/Dance. $10. Silverton Cafe - The Night Owls. 8:30 p.m. Blues. Free. Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Jerry King & the Rivertown Ramblers. 9:30 p.m. Rockabilly. Free. Southgate House Revival H (Revival Room) - Punk Rock Night with Kill City, Machine Guns
Stanley’s Pub - Sassafraz with EGi and Foto. 9 p.m. Funk/Jam. $7.
Fairfield Community Arts Center Lisa Biales: History of the Blues. 8 p.m. Blues. $18-$20.
Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Pam Mallory (9 p.m.); John Ford (5:30 p.m.). 5:30 p.m. Jazz and Blues/Roots. $10 (food/ drink minimum).
The Greenwich - Sonny Moorman & Final Friday Blues. 8 p.m. Blues. $5.
Madison Live - Crunkasaurus Rex, Pseudo Future, Surrenderson and Softspoken. 8 p.m. Rock/Progressive/Post Hardcore/Various. $8, $10 day of show.
Mansion Hill Tavern - The Blue Ravens. 9 p.m. Blues. $4.
Crow’s Nest - Kiel Grove. 9:30 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.
Fort Mitchell Sports Bar - Karaoke with A Sound Sensation/DJ Heather. 9:30 p.m. Various. Free.
Live! at the Ludlow Garage - Eric Krasno. 8 p.m. Jazz/Pop. $20-$45.
Madison Theater - Pink Talking Fish with Ernie Johnson from Detroit. 9 p.m. Bowie tribute/ Rock/Various. $18-$30.
& Motorcycles, Tiger Sex, Patsy and 13Pagan Holiday13. 10 p.m. Punk. $6.
Grandview Tavern & Grille - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. Funk/R&B/Soul. Free.
Knotty Pine - Mitch and Steve. 9 p.m. Blues/Pop/Rock/Various. Free.
Noah. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $10, $15 day of show.
The Comet - Racing Heart with Arlo McKinley. 10 p.m. Experimental Pop/Americana. Free.
Crow’s Nest - The Newbees. 9:30 p.m. Pop/Rock/Various. Free.
The Greenwich - Rusty Burge Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5.
Madison Live - Tash and H BPos with Sons of Silverton, Mistar Anderson, Stallitix and DJ
Hollywood Casino - Bob Cushing. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free (in Hops House 99). Jag’s Steak and Seafood - The Sly Band. 5 p.m. Pop/Dance/ Various. Cover. Jim and Jack’s on the River Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free.
Woodward Theater - The Cincy H Brass undead. 9 p.m. Brass/ Funk/Pop/Rock/Soul/Various. $7, $10 day of show.
Saturday 29
Arnold’s Bar and Grill - The Hot Magnolias. 9 p.m. Cajun. Free.
Bella Luna - Blue Birds Trio. 7 p.m. Classic Rock/Jazz. Free.
Knotty Pine - Black Bone Cat. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.
Blind Lemon - Warren Ulgh and Evan Uveges. 6 p.m. Acoustic and Jazz. Free.
Live! at the Ludlow Garage Red Wanting Blue. 8 p.m. Rock. $17-$35.
Blue Note Harrison - Gen X, Everyone From Nowhere and MAMB. 9 p.m. Rock/Country. Cover.
CityBeat’s music listings are free. Send info to MIKE BREEN via email at mbreen@citybeat.com. Listings are subject to change. See citybeat.com for full music listings and all club locations. H is CityBeat staff’s stamp of approval.
Bromwell’s Härth Lounge H Brent Gallaher (album release show). 8 p.m. Jazz Cock & Bull Public House - Glendale - Jon Aiken. 8 p.m. Pop/Jazz/ Blues/Country/Various. Free. College Hill Coffee Co. - Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. College of Mount Saint Joseph - 1964 The Tribute. 7:30 p.m. Beatles tribute. $40-$45. The Comet - Casino Warrior, Jeremy Pinnell and Porter and The Bluebonnet Rattlesnakes. 10 p.m. Rock/Roots/Country/ Various. Free.
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The Cricket Lounge at The Cin cinnatian Hotel - Phillip Paul Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free. Crow’s Nest - The Tadcasters. 9:30 p.m. Progressive/Blues/Jazz/ Various. Free. Crow’s Nest - Aaron Cordell. 9:30 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.
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Fries Cafe - John Ford (release party). 8 p.m. Blues. Free.
Fort Mitchell Sports Bar - Karaoke with A Sound Sensation/DJ Heather. 9:30 p.m. Various. Free. The Greenwich - Bob Ross Quartet featuring Natalie Brady. 8 p.m. Jazz. Cover. Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Why So Serious. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Pop/ Dance/Various. Cover. Jim and Jack’s on the River - Rodney Alan Combs. 9 p.m. Country. Free. Knotty Pine - Black Bone Cat. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. Legends Nightclub - Saffire Express. 9 p.m. Rock/Country/ Dance/Various. $5. Live! at the Ludlow Garage Aaron Carter. 8 p.m. Pop. $20-$45.
The Show on 42 - Pandora Effect. 9:30 p.m. Rock. Cover.
Celtic/Roots/Alt/Various. $15, $18 day of show.
Silverton Cafe - Witch Doctors. 8 p.m. Rock
Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - All the Little Pieces with Phourist & the Photons. 8 p.m. Rock/Country. $5.
Southgate House Revival H WNKU’s Catfish Ball featuring Dawg Yawp, Mad Anthony, Just
Strange Bros, The Almighty Get Down, Lovecrush 88, The Tigerlilies, Young Colt, The Pine Box, Jake Speed, The Yugos and Modern Aquatic. 8 p.m. Tribute sets. $15, $20 day of show. Stanley’s Pub - Stanley’s Halloween Party and Costume Contest featuring Jerry’s Little Band. 9 p.m. Dead/Jam. $5.
Thompson House - I, Apollo with Plagues, Dressed in Disaster, Era of Machines, Sleep Comes After Death, Saving Shemiah, Eyes on Orion and Planetary Cataclysm. 7 p.m. Metal. $10. The Underground - The Underground Presents Battle Of The Bands with Lily Isabelle and Izzy Olaore. 7 p.m. Variuos. Cover. Washington Park - Fall Fest H with The Tillers, Rabbit Hash String Band, Comet Bluegrass
All-Stars and David Kisor. 12 p.m. Roots/Bluegrass/Various. Free.
Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Mambo Combo. 9 p.m. Latin Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum). Woodward Theater - MC LongH shot with Counterfeit Money Machine and Eugenius. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $5.
Parrish Auditorium - The Milk Carton Kids with Vance Gilbert. 7:30 p.m. Americana. $27.
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Backstage Cafe - Scythia, Auto maton and Necro Coitus. 7 p.m. Metal. $5, $10 day of show.
The Celestial - Tom Schneider. 6 p.m. Piano. Free. Knotty Pine - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free. McCauly’s Pub - Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues. Free. The Mockbee - Charlie Millikin, Infinity Spree, The Last Troubadour and Master T.C. and the Visitors. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop. Free. MOTR Pub - The Phasmids and Lo the Loyal Conscripts. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/Prog/Various. Free.
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Northside Tavern - The Qtet. 10 p.m. Jazz/Fusion/Rock/ Various. Free.
The Greenwich - Brent Gallaher Quintet featuring Alex Norris. 7 p.m. Jazz. $7. Knotty Pine - Randy Peak. 10 p.m. Acoustic. Free. Mansion Hill Tavern - Open Blues Jam with Uncle Woody & the Blue Bandits. 7 p.m. Blues. Free. Miller’s Fill Inn - Karaoke with A Mystical Sound Sensation DJ Rob. 9 p.m. Various. Free. MOTR Pub - Grey Host. 10 p.m. Progressive Metal. Free.
Plain Folk Cafe - Blue Rock. 7:30 p.m. Americana. Free.
Northside Tavern - Grace Lincoln. 8:30 p.m. Soul. Free.
Rick’s Tavern - Final Order. 10 p.m. Rock. $5.
Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Gaelynn Lea. 7:30 p.m.
Taft Theatre - Loreena McKennitt. 6:30 p.m. Celtic/Various. $35-$65.
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Northside Tavern - The Stealth Pastille. 10 p.m. Psych Rock. Free. Shaker’s - Open Mic/Open Jam with TC and Company. 7:30 p.m. R&B/Funk/Jazz. Free. Stanley’s Pub - Trashgrass Night with members of Rumpke Mountain Boys. 9 p.m. Jamgrass/Bluegrass/ Jamgrass/Various. Cover. Urban Artifact - Nelson Slater and Illusion Dogs, Vampire Weekend at Bernie’s, Daddy and Graham Lang. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
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MOTR Pub - Pop Empire and The Harlequins. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.
Urban Artifact - Lovecrush 88, Native Alloys and New Moons. 8 p.m. Rock. Free.
Sunday 30
The Carnegie Center - Columbia Tusculum Community Costume Party with Pedro-X Band with Steve Hayes, Stan Ginn, Kendall Davis and Donovan Schlu. 4 p.m. Various. Free.
Madison Theater - The Werks. 9 p.m. Rock/Jam/Various. $18-$30.
Taft Theatre - Kansas. 8 p.m. Classic Rock. $29.50-$64.50.
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