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So I was reading your column of all the amazing people we have lost in 2016, and it was a terrible year for everyone. But I found it a bit uncomfortable that you guys forgot to mention the G.O.A.T. — Arnold Palmer. He not only revolutionized the game of golf in the modern era, but he also gave us one of the best beverages of all time. I deeply enjoyed the article seeing everyone that we lost this year, but I was a bit taken back not seeing the best golfer of all time on there.

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WEDNESDAY JAN. 04

Bernie Sanders is the gift that keeps on giving. The senator spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday, calling for Donald Trump to veto any cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — something the presidentelect promised in a May 2015 tweet. Sanders came prepared with said tweet printed on a poster that can only be described as “yuge,” and said Trump should come out and ask Republicans to quit proposing cuts or admit that he was lying. Of course, we knew what he was doing with that poster — it was way too perfectly posed for the internet to Photoshop. Although there is no meme more ridiculous or funny than what follows the original statement in which Trump claimed to be the first and only potential GOP candidate to state that there will be no cuts: “Huckabee copied me.”

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THURSDAY JAN. 05

CityBeat is no stranger to the difficulties of maintaining a print publication — stressful deadlines, unruly freelancers (Hi!), the one-shot woes of actually printing something in ink that can’t be edited or corrected like an “8 of the Most Incredible, Amazing Things We Discovered Today” blog on a local digital lifestyle guide. Even something as obvious and important as a publication’s cover can be easy to mess up (we may or may not have printed the word “triangels” instead of “triangles” once). But Washington Post Express lowered the bar Thursday with its cover story on the Women’s March on Washington planned to protest Trump’s inauguration. The subject matter is certainly suited for The Post’s free daily component, but the cover was supposed to depict a group of people gathered in the shape of the women’s/ Venus symbol (circle with a cross)... only it didn’t. They’re in the shape of the men’s/ Mars symbol (circle with an arrow). The pub quickly acknowledged the error and tweeted a corrected cover image, and we feel for them, really. But maybe next week we can go over the idea of using outdated binary planet hieroglyphics to talk about something as varied and gray as gender.

FRIDAY JAN. 06

Tilikum, the killer whale that spent most of its life in captivity in SeaWorld, died Friday after being in poor health for about a year.

The orca was 35 years old. Tilikum was at the center of 2013 documentary Blackfish, which looks into the negative implications of keeping such whales in captivity — the aggressive whale was involved in the deaths of three humans. The death

coincided with the final weekend of Shamu show performances at SeaWorld. Following years of backlash stoked by the controversial documentary, the park nixed its longtime theatrical whale shows for what it says will be a more natural, educational “Orca Encounter.” So... can Tilikum replace Harambe now and take the heat off of Cincinnati Zoo?

SATURDAY JAN. 07

Can you imagine the furor of a show, ‘Whiteish’! Racism at highest level?” Sure, why not?! Hugh Laurie, who was awarded Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film for The Night Manager, predicted this would be the final Globes since a certain someone seems to be opposed to anything having to due with the words “Hollywood, “foreign,” and “press.” Queen Meryl Streep gave an award-worthy speech while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, pointing out all the outsiders and foreigners involved in these important works of art and called out for more

Wendy’s social media has taken a savage turn of late. The burger chain has been taking swipes at Burger King and McDonald’s, and it clapped back on Twitter this week when naysayer @NHride claimed the restaurant couldn’t possibly use fresh burgers, to which @wendys suggested he may have forgotten about the invention of refrigeration. Nice try, “Thuggy-D.” After Wendy’s owned him, he temporarily deleted his account, which is the 2017 equivalent of crying home to mommy. Never accuse the late, great Dave Thomas of freezing his meat.

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SUNDAY JAN. 08

Jimmy Fallon hosted the 74th-annual Golden Globes Sunday, although you’d never know it if you tuned in 15 minutes late. After a La La Land-inspired cold open with funny appearances by the stars of The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Arrival, Mr. Robot and Stranger Things (of note: Eleven rapping and a synchronized swimming tribute to Barb), Fallon went into his opening monologue sans teleprompter. He ad-libbed for a minute, joking about already experiencing a classic Globes gaffe, but the mishap ate up a good chunk of his time. And then... nothing. Seriously, did we ever see him again? It’s not his fault the teleprompter crashed and perhaps his bits were cut for time, but Fallon might go down as the least memorable awards show host in recent history. Romantic musical La La Land swept, taking home a record seven awards. New comedy Atlanta’s Donald Glover nabbed Best Series and Actor (Comedy). Tracee Ellis Ross won Best Actress (Comedy) for Black-ish, a show Trump once speculated as being the most racist thing ever in this 2014 tweet: “How is ABC Television allowed to have a show entitled ‘Blackish’?

empathy, referencing Donnie T. Trump fans were VERY OFFENDED by her digs at prez-elect, because celebrities should stay out of politics. Wait…

MONDAY JAN. 09

Once and for all: Dan Nainan is not a fucking Millennial. The comedian whose bit is as clean as the energy used by his Tesla, who has entertained the likes of President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump under the guise of being a 30-something poster child of the Millennia, was revealed

by The Daily Beast as actually being 55 years old. Clue No. 1: He referred to himself as a Millennial.

TUESDAY JAN. 10

After a week of “lasts” — Michelle’s final speech as First Lady Friday, some fancy White House party that, according to Instagram, every celeb was invited to that night — Obama was scheduled to give his farewell address in Chicago Tuesday. Pour out some malt liquor and sing along: It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday…

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Ripple or Tsunami? A panel discussion on post-election consequences for the trans community. 7 p.m. Jan. 12. Heartland Trans Wellness, 103 William Howard Taft Road, Mount Auburn.

NKY Unites! A demonstration against bigotry and oppression.

Noon Jan. 14. Florence Mall, 7800 Connector Drive, Florence, Ky. Martin Luther King Jr. Day march and events hosted by the MLK Coalition Jan. 16: 8 a.m.: King Legacy Awards breakfast at the Freedom Center 10:30 a.m.: Speeches and commemorative civil rights march beginning outside the Freedom Center to Fountain Square 11 a.m.: Interfaith prayer service at Fountain Square followed by march to Taft Theatre 11:30 a.m.: “Unequal, Unfair, Unacceptable” commemorative program begins at Taft Theatre, featuring speaker Dr. Adam Clark, associate professor of theology at Xavier University.

“Dream but Stay Woke” Black Lives Matter Cincinnati MLK event. Noon Jan. 16. Tower Room at Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

Stand Together for Public Schools Rally. 5 p.m. Jan. 19. CPS headquarters, 2651 Burnet Ave., Corryville.

Resist Trump! University of Cincinnati. Part of a national student walkout in response to Trump’s election.

1 p.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 20 at University of Cincinnati.

Bus trip from University of Cincinnati to Women’s March on Washington. Leaves 9:30 p.m. Jan 20 from 258 Calhoun St., Clifton Heights.

Women’s March on Washington Cincinnati Sister March. More than 1,000 have confirmed on Facebook event; multiple groups including BLM Cincinnati are planning to attend.

Noon Jan. 21 at Washington Park.

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Obama, Portman and Anti-Propaganda

BY BEN L. KAUFMAN

induct Third World journalists in the beliefs of Cold War host country. In Central Africa, I worked with journalists who returned from Moscow or East Germany where they spent a year learning the trade as practiced by their hosts. We did the same.

Americans continue to bring over journalists for advanced training; I don’t know if Russia does, but given the awful experiences some black Africans have with violent xenophobia, it would take a brave journalist to accept an invitation to Moscow today.

• “Propaganda” is not an epithet in my experience. It’s storytelling and can be adversarial (above). Effective propaganda

The Huffington Post cited a National Newspaper Association study, saying legal notices averaged 5 to 10 percent of newspaper revenues. With readership and ad revenues decline, public notices have provided a valued and comparatively reliable income.

• Diane Rehm concluded her career as a public radio host last month. Her show kept me abreast of conventional wisdom in the nation’s capitol.

Rehm picked Joshua Johnson as her successor. A 37-year-old radio journalist, he calls his show 1A for the First Amendment and tradition of putting major stories on the first page of daily papers, Page 1A. I

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“Overt and covert propaganda weren’t limited to the media.” usually is close enough to verifiable facts that it can’t be dismissed or blow back on the source. “White” propaganda declares its source; i.e., Voice of America, Radio Moscow. “Black” propaganda disguises its source or secret funding.

• When NPR’s Morning Edition featured Hanukkah, it introduced an a cappella singing group, The Maccabeats.

Their name is a play on Maccabees, the Jewish rebels who defeated Syrian Greeks in 165 B.C. The Maccabees’ re-dedication of the Jerusalem temple gives us the Hanukkah celebration.

NPR played Maccabeat lyrics to the songs of Broadway hit Hamilton. What caught my attention was the promo for an NPR sponsor as the Maccbeats music played: “spiral-sliced ham.” I hope someone at NPR had the wits to laugh at that face plant. A more likely Jewish delicacy during the eight days of Hanukkah is pan/deep fried potato pancakes — latkes — that Izzy’s serves daily.

• Not content with the fascist stiff-armed salute and chant, “Hail victory!”(Real American for Sieg heil!), some Trump supporters adopted another Nazi-era expression to express the president-elect’s loathing of fact-obsessed critical journalists: Lugenpresse (“lying press”).

• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s thirst for vengeance is larger than his belt line.

He wants to screw adversarial state dailies by ending the requirement that New Jersey governments buy ads for legal notices of public contracts, hearings, sales, etc.

Municipalities would be free to post the notices on their web pages.

hope his producers will venture beyond the Beltway for ideas, expertise and voices.

• Canadian Broadcasting Corp. columnist Saada Branker ridiculed British press handling of Prince Harry’s latest squeeze.

“You gotta hand it to the British tabloids: they resisted the urge to go completely brazen with their coverage of Prince Harry’s relationship with Suits actress Meghan Markle. I mean, they could have run with headlines such as ‘Prince introduces woman of colour to royal family’ or ‘Half-black actress infiltrates blue blood pedigree.’ ” Instead, tabloids stuck with “a winkwink, nudge-nudge approach in letting their readers know that Markle doesn’t quite fall in line with the fair-skinned, English-bred ladies previously escorted into Buckingham Palace on Harry’s arm.”

Not surprisingly, the reactionary Daily Mail carried a headline, “Harry’s girl is (almost) straight outta Compton: Gangscarred home of her mother revealed — so will she be dropping by for tea?”

Not to be outdone, Daily Mail columnist Rachel Johnson said Markle has a superior pedigree. “Genetically, she is blessed. If there is issue from her alleged union with Prince Harry, the Windsors will thicken their watery, thin blue blood and Spencerpale skin and ginger hair with some rich and exotic DNA.’ Added CBC’s Branker: “Perhaps the (British) media should just go big — ‘White Prince dates Interracial Commoner’ — to just get it out of their system.”

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Ohio’s Rob Portman introduced the bipartisan “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act” in May, and Barack Obama signed it Dec. 23.

Whether it nationalizes American news media or recreates American Cold War propaganda initiatives depends on who you hear/read. Starting with a kernel of truth, conspiracy-obsessed Alex Jones told his readers at infowars.com, “Breaking: Obama bans free speech in the dead of night.”

In Jones’ world, “American adopts Sovietstyle media controls. By slipping through the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, President Obama has signed the ‘Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act’ into law, effectively putting all speech under federal control. POWER GRAB: Obama Signs Bill Federalizing All Media.”

Fear of federal control of social media — with their abundant, toxic and partisan false news stories — is a persistent theme on websites run by Jones and fellow travelers.

For Alex Jones and other conspiracy buffs, Portman’s bill stinks of George Orwell’s 1984 and Ministry of Truth. Portman’s bipartisan bill recalls U.S. efforts to combat anti-American media since World War II. Here’s part of Portman’s statement on the Dec. 23 signing: The act “will improve the ability of the United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation from our enemies by establishing an interagency center housed at the State Department to coordinate and synchronize counterpropaganda efforts throughout the U.S. government. To support these efforts, the bill also creates a grant program for NGOs, think tanks, civil society and other experts outside government who are engaged in counter-propaganda-related work.”

Washington-sponsored or -supported scholars and publications here and abroad have long told America’s story in diverse ways. Some efforts were covert, like the Rome Daily American where I was journalist in the early 1960s. I learned of the CIA backing years later. We joked it might be CIA but were told it was the project of an American banker who’d hoped to be Nixon’s ambassador to the Vatican after the Republican won the 1960 election.

Other post-war efforts were overt: Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty and the U.S. Information Agency. Their anti-communism involved our national narrative and rebuttals of Radio Moscow, the news service Tass in various languages and other Soviet propaganda efforts.

Eastern European Communists and Soviet-supported Third World countries did much the same.

Overt and covert propaganda weren’t limited to the media. There were efforts to

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New 20-week abortion bans in Ohio and Kentucky raise ire from pro-choice groups and tough choices for women

By NICK SWARTSELL

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hen Heather Hyden and her partner found out they were pregnant, they were overjoyed.

But now, 14 weeks into the pregnancy, they’re facing a potentially heartbreaking situation. During a routine screening, Hyden’s doctor found fetal cystic hygroma, a condition in which extra fluid builds up as the fetus develops. The condition can go away on its own over the course of weeks, or it can get increasingly more severe, leading to fetal brain damage, death of the fetus or miscarriage.

Now, as Hyden waits to find out if she will be able to deliver a viable child, she’ll have an added level of stress: a law passed earlier this month in her home state of Kentucky prohibiting termination of a pregnancy 20 weeks after conception. The law means Hyden might have to make a terrible choice: have an abortion when her child could still be viable, or risk carrying a severely braindamaged or dead fetus to term.

“This would be our first child,” Hyden says.

“We’re trying to give it every chance — it could clear up. But when you have these 20-week bans, it puts you on this conveyorbelt timing that’s very terrifying. The simple truth is that women don’t want to carry a baby that’s going to be dead around their whole pregnancy.”

Hyden’s dilemma comes as conservative legislatures in Ohio and Kentucky have rammed home some of the most restrictive anti-abortion legislation in the country.

The result: Pro-choice women’s health advocates in those states face their biggest fights in decades as access to abortion procedures erodes. The most recent bans in the Buckeye and Bluegrass states are part of a larger wave: 18 states, including Indiana, have similar bans, though federal courts have blocked those laws in Iowa, Georgia and Arizona for being unconstitutional.

These restrictions could be just a prelude of coming challenges for pro-choice advocates. Republican president-elect Donald Trump has promised, over time, to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that declares bans on abortion unconstitutional.

Supporters of the new legislation in Kentucky and Ohio say the bills are designed to prevent fetuses from feeling pain and to continue challenging the legality of abortion.

“I agree with Ohio Right to Life and other leading, pro-life advocates that SB 127 is the best, most legally sound and sustainable approach to protecting the sanctity of human life,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich said in a statement after signing Ohio’s 20-week ban.

Ohio Right to Life’s Mike Gonidakis praised Kasich for signing the bill and framed it as part of a larger fight.

“As science continues to develop and as public opinion continues to change, we’re going to continue to chip away at Roe,” he said.

But pro-choice advocates say the laws are unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade, will disproportionately affect low-income women and will have unintended consequences for women like Hyden.

“The 20-week abortion ban callously disregards the unique circumstances that surround a woman’s pregnancy,” NARAL Pro-Choice Executive Director Kellie Copeland said last month in response to new Ohio restrictions. “Kasich’s actions today will fall hardest on low-income women, women of color and young women.

History will not judge Gov. Kasich’s disregard for women’s health kindly.”

Only about 1.5 percent of abortions are performed after 20 weeks, research suggests, and most of those happen due to medical issues like Hyden’s. What’s more, science is far from conclusive that fetuses can actually feel pain at 20 weeks.

“Evidence regarding the capacity for fetal pain is limited, but indicates that fetal

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin made signing the state’s 20-week abortion ban a top priority this month. perception of pain is unlikely before the third trimester,” researchers writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded in 2005.

Later studies have generally confirmed this belief, placing the time when pain can be sensed somewhere between 26 and 30 weeks — when the cerebral cortex begins functioning. A few scientists cited by antiabortion activists theorize that the cortex may not be necessary to feel pain, but most researchers reject that theory. The general consensus is that ability to feel pain begins well after a fetus is viable (generally at 24 weeks) and no longer legally allowed to be aborted.

Despite that evidence, Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly last month passed SB 127, or the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the ban on abortions 20 months after conception. Tucked within another bill, State House Republicans also passed a bill that would have banned abortions after the detection of a fetal heart beat — often as early as six weeks.

Kasich vetoed the more restrictive fetal heartbeat bill over concerns it was

unconstitutional. But conservatives in Ohio’s General Assembly, who have gained a bigger majority in both the state House and Senate this term, look likely to try again — this time with a majority that could overturn Kasich’s veto.

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky, newly emboldened by recent elections that delivered them control of the state House for the first time in 95 years as well as control of the Senate and governor’s mansion, passed similar restrictions Jan. 7. Both states’ bans make no exceptions for cases of rape, incest or mental health concerns and draw very narrow standards for abortions allowed due to concerns for the mother’s health.

The legislation has caused big pushback from pro-choice advocates. Hundreds representing Planned Parenthood, the Kentucky ACLU and other groups gathered in the Kentucky state House earlier this month to protest the restrictions as lawmakers heard testimony on the bills.

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More than a year after a Kentucky judge million judgment when he had “no legal ordered the arrest of high-profile former authority” to do so. Ruehlman later dislawyer Stan Chesley, it appears less and missed that case and, in September, relieved less likely that the Ohio criminal justice himself of the Chesley arrest warrant case. system will have anything to do with his “For the reason that this is in the interest of apprehension. justice,” he wrote in a one-sentence sendoff.

The arrest warrant, issued Oct. 29, 2015, It was the last entry in what remains

by Boone County Circuit Judge James an open proceeding. But more than three Schrand, has become something of a loose months later, the court’s assignment comskunk in the Hamilton County courthouse. missioner still hadn’t “rolled” the lawsuit to The warrant is still active, and the Boone another judge. Only after CityBeat brought County Sheriff’s office would like it to the orphan case to the attention of Court be served. But Hamilton County’s top law enforcers have circled their wagons to protect Chesley, an Indian Hill resident, from the shame of being booked in Burlington.

As detailed by news outlets all the way up to the Wall Street Journal, Schrand issued the contempt-of-court warrant after Chesley failed to show up for a hearing on an unpaid $42 million civil judgment. About $25 million of that remains due to fenphen scam victims who were further scammed by Chesley Neither judge, prosecutor nor sheriff in Hamilton County show and three other lawyers who any interest in detaining Stan Chesley. represented them. Kentucky i l l u s t r at i o n : T H IN K STO C K barred Chesley from further plying his trade as a lawyer in Administrator Patrick Dressing was it the state. He then retired. re-assigned last week, and it went to Judge Soon after he became a wanted man, Megan Shanahan, who is on maternity leave.

Chesley filed suit in Hamilton County to stop Jim Beach, in charge of extradition at the Sheriff Jim Neil from arresting him. Boone Boone County Sheriff’s Department, says County was not a party to the suit and wasn’t Hamilton County routinely detains people able to defend the warrant. On Nov. 19, 2015, on Boone County warrants. But Deters, as Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge RobCityBeat detailed in September, has a speert Ruehlman declared the warrant “ambigucial relationship with Stan Chesley. ous concerning the nature of Chesley’s When Deters opted to make himself a purported contempt.” He wrote that Chesley part-time prosecutor in 2009, it was to is “entitled to preliminary relief holding that partake of the more lucrative paydays in the warrant needs extraordinary treatment private practice. At the time, Chesley and and handling in Ohio.” He ordered that any his former firm were still racking it up from attempt at arrest go through him first. class-action lawsuits and other litigation. He The Boone County Sheriff’s office, three hired Deters for $200,000 a year. Between his criminal lawyers and a judge told CityBeat five years with the dethroned King of Torts that Ruehlman’s action was unusual. Mark and his $990,000 slice of a big civil settlement, Godsey, a former attorney and federal prosDeters grossed at least $2 million during that ecutor now on the faculty of the UC College run.Chesley also gave $2,500 toward Deters’ of Law, was gobsmacked by it. “In nearly 25 re-election campaign in 2012. years in criminal law, as both a prosecutor Angela Ford, the Lexington, Ky., attorney and defense attorney, I have never seen an who represents the fen-phen victims, is order like this, where a court does not accept appalled by Hamilton County’s refusal to a warrant from another state,” Godsey says. serve the warrant. “Judges are not empowThe matter is at a standstill today. Neil has ered to selectively enforce the law,” she said. not filed any objection to Ruehlman’s injunc“Joe Deters has received a great deal of money tion, and a spokeswoman for Neil’s attorney, from Stan Chesley and his office clearly has a county Prosecutor Joe Deters, won’t answer conflict of interest. Governor Kasich should CityBeat’s questions about the case. give some attention to this level of lawlessRuehlman was the same judge who was upbraided by the Ohio Supreme Court in ness. What if Kentucky decides not to honor June for derailing the collection of the $25 arrest warrants from Ohio?” ©

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to fight the new laws. “We’ve been here before, and we’ll be here again.”

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pledged to sign the 20-week ban bill into law first as a flood of conservative legislation hits his desk. Among other bills that Bevin looks likely to sign: legislation requiring women to receive an ultrasound, and, if possible, listen to the heartbeat of a fetus before they undergo an abortion.

“The one that, frankly, I think is worthy of getting the first signature, the first one signed in this new legislature, is one that protects human life beyond 20 weeks of gestation,” Bevin said in a video after the bill passed.

Democrats pushed back against both the Ohio and Kentucky bills as unproductive during a time when both states should be focused on other problems, including pervasive poverty among individuals, families and children.

Kentucky Sen. Reginald Thomas, a Democrat from Lexington, asked why the legislature didn’t put priority on addressing those problems instead of limiting abortion.

“If we truly want to be pro-life and we truly want to be pro-child, then let’s be pro-life and pro-child in every sense of the word,” Thomas said during testimony on the restrictions.

More than 25 percent of children live in poverty in both Ohio and Kentucky, according to Census data. That’s an increase since 2008, during the Great Recession, when 20 percent of Ohio children and 23 percent of Kentucky children were poor.

As poverty levels rise, more women have depended on clinics like Planned Parenthood for general health needs, pregnancyrelated care and pregnancy termination, advocates say.

But the number of clinics has dwindled in recent years. Closures have come after successive waves of regulations on clinics over the past few years have reduced the number of facilities open to women. There are only nine clinics left in Ohio — including one in Cincinnati — and only one in all of Kentucky. In 2011, Ohio had 16 providers and Kentucky had three.

As both pregnancy care and abortions become harder to obtain, opponents of abortion restrictions worry low-income women will be the hardest hit.

“We’re very lucky,” Hyden says, explaining that she was able to get extra screenings some women find unobtainable.

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BY ANNE ARENSTEIN

Bryce Dessner PHOTO : Shervin l ainez

“Bryce is Back! ” a ppe a rs now h ere on a n y a dva nce pu bl ici t y f or M usicNOW, the annual festival exploring a vast

Matthias Pintscher “This year, we’re focusing on the importance of the European tradition and how it’s evolved in the 21st century,” Dessner says. “Matthias is a good example. He’s versed in orchestral literature in such a profound way and the passion that he brings is really infectious.”

Pintscher’s Cleveland Orchestra-commissioned idyll for orchestra, which will be performed on Friday, premiered in 2014.

It’s an immersion into a sound world that Dessner describes as

PHOTO : felix broede

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spectrum of new music that is now an annual event presented by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. However, there’s obvious pleasure and relief that Bryce Dessner — the now-Paris-based Cincinnati native who has found international success as a member of Rock band The National and as a solo New Music composer, performer and creative entrepreneur — is on hand for this year’s three-day event. It occurs Thursday-Saturday. He wasn’t here last year, the first time he’s missed a MusicNOW since he started it in 2006.

Dessner is bemused by any hype. “I planned to be here last year,” he says, speaking by phone from Massachusetts the day before returning home to Paris. “But there was a last-minute conflict with (The National) that came up. Last year was the only one I missed in 12 years.”

CSO President Trey Devey sounds positively jubilant about Dessner’s return. “It’s phenomenal to have him back,” he says. “He has such presence and gravitas and having him here and on the ground is so important.”

Dessner, who is MusicNOW’s artistic director, put together a program for the final two nights of the festival at the Taft Theatre — Friday and Saturday — that has a sense of seriousness but also a sense of exciting adventure. It even has a sense of “Play.” (See sidebar.) On Thursday, the first evening of MusicNOW features Classic Rock/Americana hero Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and The Campfire Band at the Aronoff Center for the Arts.

At the age of 40, Dessner commands respect across the music scene as a critically acclaimed composer, as a guitarist for The National and as a featured soloist on numerous recordings. He is also a sought-after curator for boutique festivals that create unique cultural experiences for a broad group of performing and visual artists. This burgeoning aspect of his career started in Cincinnati with a very modest MusicNOW in 2006.

The first MusicNOW was sponsored by Chamber Music Cincinnati and held at the Contemporary Arts Center. Dessner established the format for future series: new works by young composers, performers from across the musical spectrum, commissions and even works in progress. The lineup included Clogs, pianist and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music faculty member Awadagin Pratt, The Books, Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, percussionist David Cossin and Burmese musician Kyaw Kyaw Naing.

The following year, MusicNOW took up residence at Memorial Hall, often attracting sold-out houses for the eclectic schedule.

Subsequent festivals drew increasing national and international attention as Dessner was evolving as a sought-after composer.

Five years after MusicNOW’s debut, representatives from London’s The Barbican arts center, the Sydney Opera House and Knoxville, Tenn.’s AC Entertainment were checking it out for inspiration.

And so was the CSO. “They expressed interest early on but they didn’t have a music director to make artistic decisions,” Dessner says. “When Louis Langrée came along (in 2013), we met about it and found we had ideas in common.”

Devey adds that there was an immediate bond between the maestro and Dessner. “In addition to them both speaking French, there’s a friendship and mutual respect that grew exponentially with their collaboration over the past two festivals,” he says.

Langrée was unavailable for this year’s festival, which was not scheduled for March like previous ones. But German conductor and composer Matthias Pintscher was.

In addition to the wide spectrum of music presented, there’s also what Devey diplomatically refers to as the spontaneity of the Indie Rock world when it comes to lining up the schedule, which wasn’t announced until mid-November. “It’s moved us into a new space in how we think about artistic planning and that’s had a profound influence on our organization,” he says.

Pintscher is a leading proponent of contemporary music as well as an interpreter of the Classical canon. He’s thus a perfect match for MusicNOW. Pintscher directs Ensemble InterContemporain, the Paris-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of 20th- and 21st-century music. He also holds conducting gigs with several European orchestras. He and Dessner have collaborated on several projects.

having “aglistening feeling with surprising surface textures and vertical chords.”

Friday’s opening performance of Andrew Norman’s Play, a three-movement symphony embodying the meanings of the word “play,” captures what Dessner believes is the essence of the festival’s focus.

“Play seems to be where we are in terms of musical forms we inherited from Europe, and Andrew is a distinctly American voice writing for orchestra in such an interesting way,” Dessner says.

“You hear a sound world you couldn’t have imagined existed, with this playful energy and his own musical vernacular.”

It also may be one of the more challenging works on the program.

“It just won a major award and got great reviews but it doesn’t get played that much because it’s long — 45 minutes — and hard to play,” he says. “But I thought the opportunity to do Play in Cincinnati was just too exciting to pass up.”

Bob Weir Reunites with The Campfire Boys

BY MIKE BREEN

Though Bob Weir worked with some popular contemporary artists on his latest album, Blue Mountain, the material within was in no means a ploy to win over a new, young, hip audience.

In fact, the songs on Blue Mountain go back to a time before Weir himself was a young, hip artist creating one of American Rock & Roll’s most colorful legacies with The Grateful Dead.

Blue Mountain, only Weir’s third truly solo album and his first since 1978, is an atmospheric Country/Americana album released last year that features what the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer calls “cowboy songs,” reflecting a style he occasionally brought to the Dead’s canon.

The new material — which, in an interview with Dan Rather, Weir said was inspired by a summer job he had at a ranch in Wyoming when he was 15 years old — was crafted with acclaimed singer/songwriter Josh Ritter (who performed last year at Cincinnati’s MidPoint Music Festival) and musician/producer Josh Kaufman, who has worked with artists like Craig Finn and The National as both a producer and sideman. Musicians on the critically acclaimed album include Joe Russo (of Jazz/Rock ensemble the Benevento/Russo Duo, among other projects) and Folk legend Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, plus Indie rockers like Walter Martin of The Walkmen and The National’s Aaron Dessner and Scott Devendorf.

Weir’s ties to The National, the internationally renowned Indie Rock band of Cincinnati natives, run even deeper. The musicians revealed that they were longtime Dead fans when three of them first joined Weir for a one-time-only concert/webcast in 2012 that featured largely material from The Grateful Dead; Weir has since joined The National onstage during Bay Area gigs, jamming on the band’s “Terrible Love” and the Dead’s “I Know You Rider.”

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Last year saw the release of Day of the Dead, a Grateful Dead tribute compilation put together by Aaron and his brother, bandmate and MusicNOW founder Bryce Dessner, that benefits Red Hot, a nonprofit organization dedicated to using pop culture to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. Though the Jam band icons haven’t always been a “cool” group to name drop as an influence, the album features Dead covers by a wide range of respected Indie artists, including Wilco, Courtney Barnett, The Flaming Lips, The War on Drugs, Real Estate, Fucked Up, Jenny Lewis, Jim James, Stephen Malkmus and Angel Olsen.

For Weir’s tour behind Blue Mountain last year, his backing band — dubbed “Campfire Boys” — featured Kaufman, Scott Devendorf and Bryan Devendorf. Aaron Dessner was also supposed to be on the tour, but had to pull out due to a family emergency. But he will be a part of the band when Weir performs Thursday night’s kick-off event for this week’s MusicNOW festival, making the show — the only non-Classical/Neo Classical performance of the fest — a truly unique occasion.

Bob Weir performs Thursday at the Aronoff Center for the kick-off of 2017’s MusicNOW festival. Tickets/more info: musicnowfestival.org.

The evening concludes with Irish singer/songwriter Lisa Hannigan and Aaron Dessner, Dessner’s twin brother as well as a member of The National, performing songs from their recent collaboration At Swim, with orchestral arrangements by Dessner and another MusicNOW guest, Timo Andres.

Saturday’s concert opener, Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Reflections, is for violin, viola and cello. It just premiered in October. The 2015 recipient of the New York Philharmonic’s Kravis Emerging Composer Award, Thorvaldsdottir’s work has been performed throughout Europe.

“I love featuring chamber music because it gives a different sense of scale and architecture to the program,” Dessner says.

“Anna creates compositions existing almost like installations, with beautiful surface qualities and complex orchestration and organization.”

The festival’s compositional touchstone is the violin concerto by György Ligeti, whose works are considered among the most influential for modern composers. “He’s one of the giants, a gateway into this different kind of music,” Dessner says. “This concerto was written late in his life (1990-94) and it’s brilliant.”

Aaron Dessner PHOTO : shervin l ainez

Described by a critic as “a wild collage of atmospheres and colors,” the concerto incorporates Balkan dance rhythms, Hungarian folk tunes, alternative tunings for strings and breathtaking changes in tone and texture. Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto, the soloist, has performed the piece several times.

Another aspect of Saturday’s program is that composers are performing their own pieces. Andres’ piano concerto The Blind Banister was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in composition.

“I was looking for an opportunity to present this great piece inspired by Beethoven,” Dessner says, “and I think this will be the first time he’s performed it.”

The evening ends with Dessner taking the stage to perform Wires, a chamber concerto for electric guitar and orchestra commissioned by Ensemble InterContemporain. Pintscher conducted the world premiere in Paris last September. Dessner took inspiration from Spanish guitarist Tito Romero, Elliott Carter’s clarinet concerto and one of Ligeti’s pieces, as well as from the Ensemble itself. “These are pieces they play all the time and I was really excited to be onstage with the musicians,” Dessner says. “It’s a fun piece with a lot of new colors and uses the guitar in surprising ways.

“Our very first collaboration with MusicNOW led to our programming works by Nico Muhly and David Lang.”

Chris Pinelo, CSO’s vice president for communications, adds that in 2014 those composers were represented on Hallowed Ground, Langrée’s debut recording with the CSO. Looking ahead, Dessner hopes MusicNOW will continue to grow with full-day offerings, more new artists and new works.

He’s working with Big Ears Festival producer Ashley Capps, of AC Entertainment, to explore new opportunities. That has led to widespread rumors that Capps will be taking over MusicNOW in 2018; he has been handling Thursday night’s concert at Aronoff Center with Bob Weir.

Dessner insists that’s not the case. “Ashley Capps and I have collaborated on many things together but (MusicNOW is) not going to be under the auspices of his company. He’s been working with me to think about where I could go.”

Clearly, there seems to be a long future for MusicNOW in Cincinnati, which would mean the frequent return to town of Dessner.

“I’m passionate for it and I’m obviously optimistic,” he says.

“There’s dedication on every level here that’s so infectious.” ©

Lisa Hannigan PHOTO : rich gilligan

PHOTO : michael wilson

MusicNOW 2017 begins on Thursday night with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead performing music from his recent solo release Blue Mountain at Aronoff Center for the Arts. The Campfire Band, featuring The National members Aaron Dessner, Bryan Devendorf and Scott Devendorf, along with others, accompanies him.

On Friday, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will perform Andrew Norman’s 21st-century composition Play, followed by guest conductor Matthias Pintscher’s idyll for orchestra, originally commissioned for the Cleveland Orchestra. Finally, Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan will perform works from her new recording, accompanied by Aaron Dessner.

On Saturday, the CSO performs contemporary Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Reflections. Soloist Pekka Kuusisto debuts with the CSO playing György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto.

Composer Timo Andres performs his work for piano and orchestra, The Blind Banister, a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. And then Bryce Dessner performs the U.S. premiere of his chamber concerto for electric guitar, Wires.

For more information and tickets, visit cincinnatisymphony.org/musicnow.

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“This orchestral program is the most exciting one we’ve done,” he continues. “It’s a fascinating meeting point of themes intersecting in Cincinnati: a great American orchestra with a great European conductor. It’s going to be really interesting.”

MusicNOW is now an established part of the CSO’s schedule.

But Devey (who this year is leaving the CSO to become president of Michigan’s Interlochen Center for the Arts) still calls it an experiment, although one that’s working. The audiences draw a noticeably young crowd along with followers of New Music who don’t usually frequent a CSO concert.

But an even more profound impact has been on the orchestra’s programming itself. “Bryce has exposed us to important musicians who we might not have known otherwise. These are relationships that we have and can cultivate in other parts of our organization,” Devey says.

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ART: Khalilah Birdsong’s exhibit AMALGAMATION at Cincinnati Art Underground brings to mind the abstract work of painter Gerhard Richter. See Big Picture on page 21.

EVENT: PENGUIN DAYS AT THE ZOO While hibernating currently seems like a viable option to many local humans, polar bears, snow monkeys, penguins and more at the Cincinnati Zoo are loving the subfreezing temps. Bundle up for special animal encounters, events and feedings during Penguin Days, including Emperor penguin parades Friday through Monday. The best part? Admission is half-price daily. Catch other special events on Saturdays and Sundays, including fish-cicles for polar bears and fruit frozen in ice blocks for elephants.

Through March 10. $8 adults; $6 children and seniors. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale, cincinnatizoo.org. — EMILY BEGLEY

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MUSIC: The annual MUSICNOW festival kicks off Thursday with a performance from Bob Weir and The Campfire Band, followed by two days of creative compositions accompanied by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. See cover story on page 12.

FILM: WILD: ANDY MARKO AT THE MINI MICROCINEMA If Cincinnati has maintained an underground art scene in the past several decades — weathering storms of paltry financial support and the ever-changing trends of national moral indignation — it is largely thanks to the consistent efforts of long-term stakeholders like conceptual media artist Andy Marko.

Marko co-ran the all-volunteer semantics gallery for nearly 25 years, chaired the city of Cincinnati’s Arts Allocation Committee and currently serves as a grant writer for Visionaries + Voices. The multimedia artist

EVENT: SHOW AND TELL The Cincinnati Museum Center and Arnold’s Bar & Grill invite adults to find the child inside and revisit the glory days of show and tell. The museum will bring some of its strangest and most obscure items to the bar to see if you can guess what they are. Luckily, curators will be on hand to do the “telling” part of the exercise, along with spoken word artists and poets who will be demonstrating the power of object-focused storytelling. 7 p.m. Thursday. $10; $7 Cincinnati Museum Center members. Arnold’s Bar & Grill, 210 E. Eighth St., Downtown, cincymuseum.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO COMEDY: RALPH HARRIS Comedian Ralph Harris’ first show business ambition was to be a clown. His thoughts later turned to acting and stand-up after watching Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live. After high school, Harris joined the army and later worked for UPS, where he was fired after six months. When Harris asked his boss what he was supposed to do after losing a decent-paying job, his boss replied: “This is the best thing that’s ever happened to you. You’re funny and you’re going to be a star.” After that, Harris started doing stand-up full time. Thursday-Sunday. $12-$15. Liberty Funny Bone, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone. com. — P.F. WILSON

FRIDAY 13

MUSIC: Hip Hop heavyweight AESOP ROCK heads to the 20th Century Theater.

See interview on page 30.

MUSIC: WHISKEY DAREDEVILS bring some rafter-dusting AltCountry/ Punkabilly twang to the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 32.

EVENT: PHOTOS Á LA CARTE Feeling young? How about professional?

This YP happy hour program at the Taft Museum offers a final look at Picturing the West, the popular exhibition of 19th-century landscape photography that documents the rugged and natural wonders of the American West. Socialize with peers while enjoying Western-themed drinks, music and light bites before trying your hand at creating your own original artwork. RSVP required.

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ART: ZANELE MUHOLI: PERSONAE AT THE FREEDOM CENTER We’re in the final week or so to see the powerful photographs of South African artist Zanele Muholi at the Freedom Center. Muholi’s exhibit, Personae, features two distinct bodies of work: Faces and Phases, which explores and documents the lives of women who identify as lesbians in South Africa; and Somnyama Ngonyama (translated as Hail, the Dark Lioness), a series of self-portraits that explore historical stereotypes through costume, pose and gesture. The Freedom Center exhibit, part of FotoFocus 2016, also includes repeat portraits and videos.

Muholi, who refers to her work as visual activism, co-founded the Forum for Empowerment of Women, the first black lesbian rights organization in South Africa, in 2002 and Inkanyiso, a forum for queer and visual activist media, in 2009.

Through Jan. 23. $15 adults; $13 seniors; $10.50 children ages 3-12; free kids 3 and under. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 E. Freedom Way, Downtown, freedomcenter.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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LIT: PUBLIC LIBRARY WINTER WAREHOUSE SALE There’s no better time than winter to stay inside, drink (spiked?) hot chocolate and curl up with a good book. Find some new material at the Friends of the Public Library’s Winter Warehouse Sale, where an overwhelming array of gently used hardback and paperback books in every genre will keep you rifling through selections for hours. Special discounts apply to all graphic novels and large-print books. 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. The Friends Warehouse, 8456 Vine St., Hartwell, friends.cincinnatilibrary.org. — EMILY BEGLEY

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and filmmaker will finally have a solo show of his smart, absurdist-leaning work at the Mini Microcinema on Thursday featuring film, video, media installations and performances. 7-10 p.m. Thursday. $5 suggested donation. The Mini Microcinema, 1329 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, mini-cinema.org.

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MUSIC: THE NUDE PARTY With a band name that offers music-related publication fact-checkers a Google search experience that falls somewhere between The Naked and Famous and Perfect Pussy on the “fired for accidentally looking at porn at work” scale, the six members of North Carolina Rock crew The Nude Party perform mostly clothed. But they understand and don’t mind if their dirty, stripped-down Garage Pop and white-hot live fervor compels audience members to spontaneously disrobe at their shows. After drawing attention for its endearingly retro British Invasion/Nuggets/Velvets-inspired debut EP, Hot Tub, at the start of last year, the group recently issued the single (and video for) “Water on Mars,” a shimmering, jangly ear-worm slated for The Nude Party’s forthcoming first full-length, due later this year. 9 p.m. Saturday. Free. MOTR Pub, 1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, motrpub.com. — MIKE BREEN

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5-8 p.m. Friday. $20; $10 members. Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown, taftmuseum.org. — EMILY BEGLEY ART: BETTER THAN GOOD AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY C. Smith led the way in documenting the civil rights movement while experiencing Jim Crow’s injustice himself. The Cincinnati photographer also recorded celebrations in the black community for more than 60 years, from private weddings to appearances by Richard Pryor, Jackie Robinson and then-Senator Barack Obama. His work has appeared in Jet, Ebony and Essence magazines. Now the Main Branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County opens Better Than Good, a survey of Smith’s pictures, ahead of Black History Month. Through March 12. Free. 800 Vine St., Downtown, cincinnatilibrary.org.

— KATHY SCHWARTZ EVENT: CINCINNATI TRAVEL, SPORTS & BOAT SHOW Get your towels ready: The massive Travel, Sports & Boat Show returns for eight days of

all things boating, backpacking, biking and even spelunking. Get a feel for kayaks and paddleboards in a 17,000-gallon demo pool, hang out with some athletic canines during hunting dog seminars and face off in the 11th-annual turkey-calling contest. 5-9:30 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday; Jan. 18-22. $12; free kids 12 and under. Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Downtown, cincinnatiboatshow.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

SATURDAY 14

MUSIC: Broadway stars who look good in their underwear, Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina, perform as THE SKIVVIES at the Fitton Center. See feature on page 22.

EVENT: BARREL-AGED BEER BASH Like many things in life — wine, cheese, toddlers — beer gets better with age. And if you love good beer, head to Jungle Jim’s annual Barrel-Aged Beer Bash, an evening of exploring and drinking more than 80 rare and limited brews, aged in a variety of barrels (whiskey, wine, rum, etc.). Many beers will be coming straight from the brewer’s cellar and many won’t even make it to a bottle.

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EVENT: PARK + VINE FINAL CHILI COOK-OFF After nearly a decade in business, everyone’s favorite OTR green general store is closing its doors with an apt send-off: the final Park + Vine chili cook-off. Chili can win in two different categories — People’s Choice and Judge’s Pick — voted on by guests and a handful of local culinary star judges, including Colonel De of Colonel De’s Gourmet Herbs & Spice, Rachel DesRochers of Grateful Grahams, Mark Frommeyer of Blue Oven Bakery, Ilene Ross of CityBeat and 513{eats} and Amy Hunter of the Mercantile Library.

Chili entries are limited to 20 spots and must be completely vegan. If you don’t feel like making any chili, you’re welcome to come eat some, hang out and celebrate the impact Park + Vine had on the local community. 3-5 p.m. Sunday. $10 tasting ticket; $10 entry (registration available online until 6 p.m. Saturday); $15 admission. Park + Vine, 1202 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, parkandvine.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

Admission includes a commemorative glass and a giant pretzel from Servatii. 7-9:30 p.m.

Saturday. $40; $15 non-drinker. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

SUNDAY 15

MUSIC: Psych/Surf/Pop/Punk/Prog quintet MUUY BIIEN plays MOTR Pub with Leggy. See Sound Advice on page 32.

MONDAY 16

MUSIC: Indie Pop duo THE HOTTMAN SISTERS head to Urban Artifact. See Sound Advice on page 33.

ONGOING shows VISUAL ART Glenn Brown Contemporary Arts Center, Downtown (through Jan. 15)

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EVENT: ART ON VINE The holidays may be over, but Art on Vine is keeping the gift-giving spirit alive — whether you’re shopping for others or treating yo’ self. The monthly boutique art fair features unique, handmade goods from more than 60 local artists, ranging from pottery and photography to jewelry and home goods. Take a break from shopping for pizza from Taglio.

Noon-7 p.m. Sunday. Free admission.

Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, artonvinecincy.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

EVENT: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY CELEBRATION The Martin Luther King Jr. Coalition hosts its 42nd-annual celebration of MLK Day, focusing on the theme “Unfair, Unequal, Unacceptable.” Dedicated to keeping Dr. King’s legacy vibrant in the community, this year’s event features keynote speaker Adam Clark, associate professor of theology at Xavier University, who will discuss Dr. King’s messages and how they pertain to the challenges we face as a nation in 2017. The day begins with breakfast at the Freedom Center, followed by a commemorative civil rights march at 10:30 a.m. from the center to Fountain Square, where an interfaith prayer service will be held. Breakfast 8 a.m. Monday; celebration begins at 11:30 a.m. Free. Taft Theatre, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, mlkcoalition.org.

— EMILY BEGLEY

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West Side Gripped by ‘Doubt’

The provocative drama about faith and hypocrisy at a Catholic school opens at Covedale theater

BY RICK PENDER

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n 2004, John Patrick Shanley wrote Doubt, A Parable, a powerful, provocative drama. The play depicts a battle of wills between a young priest and an opinionated nun who believes he might have had an improper relationship with a student at the Bronx school where she serves as principal.

It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as that year’s Tony Award for Best Play. The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park staged the show in 2008, the same year Shanley’s script was released as a movie with Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn, with additional performances from Amy Adams and Viola Davis; it was nominated for four Academy Awards.

Now it has reached Cincinnati’s heavily Catholic West Side.

The gripping story of Doubt, about a boy who might or might not have been molested by a priest, explores nuanced questions of moral certainty. It’s a work that, at first glance, seems an unlikely candidate for production by Cincinnati Landmark Productions (CLP), a purveyor of usually family-friendly shows at its theaters in West Side neighborhoods.

But that’s precisely where it will be later this month, opening on Jan. 19 at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts and continuing there through Feb. 12.

While the Covedale’s bread and butter has been musicals and comedies, CLP’s artistic director Tim Perrino points to several serious dramas presented there, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, both by Tennessee Williams.

“Despite the subtlety of complex issues in those ‘large’ dramas, our audience took them to heart and enjoyed them,” he says.

“We have an element in our audience base that wants a little more gravity.”

Perrino knows his patrons well, in part because he’s a born-and-bred West Sider.

“As a Catholic young man who grew up in Catholic schools on the West Side, I saw a lot in this play,” he says. “If Doubt wasn’t done well, I wouldn’t present it. If it was just a screed against the practices or the teachings of the Catholic church or even the problems thereof, just tearing down and criticizing it, I wouldn’t want to do it.”

Perrino says Shanley’s play is definitely not a condemnation of Catholicism. “It’s such a great piece of writing and the issues are so deftly handled,” he says. “Shanley himself said you should come out of the play with doubt. It’s not about a verdict; it’s not about a judge and jury. It’s about that place where the world really is, where having

L-R: Maggie Lou Rader, Rory Sheridan and Martha Slater in the new production of Doubt doubt leads to change and growth. Doubt leads to more light and more understanding and fewer closed, scary places where we don’t know what’s going on.”

The show’s subtitle, “A Parable,” suggests that it’s about a lesson to be learned, perhaps an admonition about jumping to conclusions.

“The play is so specifically unspecific,” Perrino says. “In the battle of wills between Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn, you are constantly witnessing Christ’s message of seeing the speck in your brother’s eye and not the great beam in your own.

They can each see the flaw in the other, but not their own fatal flaws.”

The story is set in 1964, just before the Roman Catholic Church became more open to examining and updating its structure and many traditions. Perrino feels that’s significant, but he also believes the show is extremely pertinent to today’s world. He says Shanley’s purpose is to evoke conversation and thought.

“It’s amazing how timely it is,” Perrino says. “(Shanley’s) central premise is that we’re shouting at each other all the time anymore, but not communicating. People talk ad nauseam. There’s a kind of game of proving a point, of trying to shed light and force a better way to move ahead. We’re

all going to live in doubt all our lives. That space between faith and doubt is where we all live. If we can just learn to shine a little light on things then we’ll be better off.”

The “District Series” at CLP’s second stage, the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater in East Price Hill, usually presents harder-hitting plays between September and May than does Covedale’s mainstream “Marquee Season.” Asked if he considered putting Doubt onstage at that new East Price Hill theater, Perrino says, “That series is more explicit. Doubt is so subtle. There’s no explicit depiction or discussion. It’s all about a suspicion that catches fire and then exposes in many ways the struggles of the Church just before Vatican II.” Perrino has engaged Lindsey Augusta Mercer to stage the show. She’s worked with a broad array of Cincinnati theater companies — Cincinnati Shakespeare, The Carnegie, Falcon Theater and New Edgecliff Theatre. She recently staged Girlfriend and Darkest Night at the Gnarly Stump for Know Theatre. Her cast of actors are Martha Slater as Sister Aloysius, Rory Sheridan as Father Flynn, Maggie Lou Rader as the impressionable young nun Sister James and Joy Rolland-Oba as Mrs. Muller, the mother of the boy who might or might

not have been molested. It’s a solid set of veteran performers from Cincinnati’s acting community who are recognizing that CLP is producing shows that afford serious acting opportunities. Perrino calls Doubt “big, high-level stuff” that attracts actors and, he hopes, people “who might not be viewing us as their outlet for theatrical entertainment.

Now they might, because of shows like this.”

Perrino likes the way Shanley’s engrossing script challenges those who see it performed.

“When I walk out of this play, I have to make some conclusions in my mind — but I doubt them,” he says. “Shanley says when he started the play he had just one word on a piece of paper: ‘Doubt.’ He wanted people to learn that when you are in that unstudied moment of doubt between faith and hypocrisy, that’s when you have to learn who you really are and what you believe.”

Perrino believes Doubt is certainly a play for big people. “But we have plenty of big people who come here,” he says.

“I think they’ll find it fascinating and a worthwhile night at the theater.”

The Covedale Center for Performing Arts stages DOUBT Jan. 19-Feb. 12. More info: cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com.

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A New ‘Underground’ Gallery in OTR

BY STEVEN ROSEN

The large painting “11:11,” for instance, has acrylic paint applied in a roller-like way and then scraped to create a textured appearance. But then she has put the canvas under a large roller that inks a mysterious symbol onto the finished work — it looks a little like a freeway interchange gone mad. It is, as Moore says, “a twist on some strand of Contemporary art.”

Khalilah Birdsong’s “11:11” painting PHOTO : provided

In the painting “Frayed Edges,” Birdsong has applied remnants of old scripts and call sheets, used in her entertainment industry job, to her canvas. It’s novel.

Cincinnati Art Underground is a work in progress still. The appealing Richter-like acrylic painting that initially interested me, “The Myth of Significance,” never actually made it to Cincinnati. Birdsong sold it in Atlanta before the show. (A smaller one with a similar hypnotic approach, “Into the Hollow Feigns 3,” is on display.)

There is the issue of whether Cincinnati has the collectors to support the artists Moore wants to show. But she is continuing onward with her dedication to her approach.

Opening Jan. 27 and continuing through Feb. 4 is an exhibit of paintings by David Gerena, who established himself in 1980sera New York as a street artist. The opening will feature a DJ. “I thought maybe being on Main Street might be a way to get some of the younger people living downtown who really want to be connected to cool things to do,” Moore says. “I want to give them a chance to engage with the visual arts world and maybe connect with the artists we’re showing.”

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I had heard of Cincinnati Art Underground, an Over-the-Rhine commercial gallery that opened in late 2015, but not yet visited it when I received a press release in November announcing the current show, Khalilah Birdsong’s Amalgamation.

It impressed and surprised me because it came with a photo of a colorfully abstract painting that had a striking similarity to the work of Gerhard Richter. It had that look of paint engagingly applied, perhaps rolled, onto canvas and then carefully scraped to achieve a sense of movement, of action, to make it seem alive.

That probably would have been enough to interest me. You don’t see that much work by Richter around here (although the Cincinnati Art Museum has a lovely small painting, acquired during Aaron Betsky’s tenure as director), so a show by an artist influenced by him gets my attention. It shows sophisticated taste. But it also could be called “derivative,” not a word that the Contemporary art world likes to use, although artists are naturally influenced by others.

So I was further intrigued that the email about the show acknowledged and addressed the Richter similarity head-on.

“Many of her works remind people of Gerhard Richter, but she is inspired by different circumstances,” it said. “Further, she has been branching out in her experimentations with materials and in her juxtapositions of different techniques.”

Having now attended the show, which is on display through Jan. 21 at the gallery at 1415 Main St., I can see that. I can also see beyond that — this is a commercial Contemporary gallery trying to make an impact by offering coherent, focused shows by artists local and national. As the gallery owner Rachael Moore, who is working with artist/creative director Andrey Kozakov on programming Cincinnati Art Underground, explains in an interview, she wants this to be a place that presents shows in a serious way. That means they have a limited number of artists — even just one — and also firm opening and closing dates. The work is presented like a cultural event, not as inventory in a showroom.

“Maybe an artist working in a studio is coming up with a new philosophy or a twist on some strand of Contemporary art,” Moore says. “This gives them a chance to showcase ideas and engage people. When you have too much art going on in a gallery, or on display for too long, it becomes more about the visual (presence) than the ideas.

Nothing really strong comes through.”

Birdsong has strong ideas that come through in her work. A resident of Atlanta who took up painting as a diversion from her job as an executive with Tyler Perry’s film and television business, she has deep talent.

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Stripped-Down Music from The Skivvies

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Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina have as well as Dylan Mulvaney, a junior musical Broadway acting careers and they joke theater major at CCM from San Diego. about spending time onstage wearing very Cearley plays guitar and melodica, a little: She was a stripper in the Broadway kind of mix between a pump organ and a production of Rock of Ages; he wore not very harmonica. Molina is mostly on cello, but much in the Elvis musical All Shook Up. So she picks up a ukulele occasionally. “We dressing down for their “alt-cabaret” musical are kind of like adults living a childish life,” act The Skivvies, in which they strip down to Cearley says. their underwear and sing, isn’t a problem.

A New York Times writer described The Cearley, who performed last season at Skivvies as “a glorified sandbox for grownEnsemble Theatre Cincinnati in the oneup children” and Molina says the sandbox is man show Buyer and Cellar, is back in a good analogy for the playful environment town to play nerdy Seymour in the Cincinthey create. nati Playhouse’s upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors (Jan. 21-Feb. 19).

Using an evening off before the opening, he and Molina will perform as The Skivvies at Hamilton’s Fitton Center for Creative Arts on Saturday evening. It’s already sold out.

(They did a pair of late-night shows at ETC in 2015.)

They met touring in a children’s theater production in 2003 (“We played in all the greatest cafetoriums in the land,” Molina says) and became fast friends who The Skivvies perform their music in their underwear. make quirky music. Molina, P H O T O : c o u r t e s y o f th e s k i v v i e s who plays the cello, performed in the Tony Awardwinning Broadway revival of Stephen “We’re using simple instruments to create Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, in which the new harmonic structures to over-produced cast accompanied themselves musically.

Pop songs or pieces that are usually lushly Cearley notified her about the audition that orchestrated,” she says. “It makes your ear led to her playing Johanna. kind of perk up.”

They both make their living in musiTheir collaboration has created a repercal theater. (She recently performed in a toire of more than 100 songs. “We’re very Chicago production of Wonderful Town.) twisted,” Cearley says. “Lauren will have But in 2012, they decided to put together a an idea in the middle of the night and text YouTube video to spread the word about me about it. In the morning when I see it, their musical act, featuring offbeat medleys I’ll say ‘Oh my God, that’s so funny.’ We’re and mash-ups of Pop tunes. always playing the ‘Yes — and what about “We were trying to figure out what to wear this?’ game.” for the video,” Molina says. “I was walking For instance, at the Fitton they’re likely around in my bra. Nick said, ‘Why don’t you to include a number inspired by “Three wear that? We’re stripping down the music, Blind Mice.” One mouse admits he’s not so we could just strip down our clothes, too.’” blind, but pretended to be, since he thought Their naughty video, “Hardbody Hoethe other two were cool. The number down,” went viral. For five years they’ve includes snatches of tunes including “I Can landed gigs from coast to coast, including See Clearly Now,” “Blinded by the Light” 13 performances of a recent holiday-themed and even “I once was blind but now I see” show in New York. from “Amazing Grace.” At the end, they use They both know Greater Cincinnati well. the melody of “Suddenly Seymour” from Cearley grew up in Hamilton, where he sang Little Shop — but with a play on words: “I in a show choir; as a teen, he was the Fitton suddenly see … more.”

Center’s first “Rising Young Artist.” Molina’s That’s the kind of stripped-down but parents graduated from the University of smart musical humor The Skivvies offer to Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music audiences. and her family frequently visited friends in THE SKIVVIES perform a sold-out show at the Southwest Ohio from their home in Detroit.

Fitton Center for Creative Arts on Saturday. More They like to share the stage with guests. info: fittoncenter.org.

At the Fitton, Drew Lachey will be featured

A Singular ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’

BY JASON GARGANO

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The first time I experienced Robert himself that he knows what he is doing.

Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller was via a Beatty, an admitted control freak, has well-worn VHS copy I rented from my local never been better than as McCabe, an Amerivideo store in the early 1990s. Despite the can dreamer who believes tomorrow will be less-than-ideal format projected through my better than today. Altman and Beatty reportold-school 27-inch Zenith, it was a revelation edly butted heads on set — the director, — an introduction to a unique cinematic notorious for his loose approach, preferred a universe that remains fresh in my mind a limited number of takes; Beatty, never satisquarter-century later. fied, wanted to keep going until he felt he got In fact, looking back now, Altman’s 1971 it right. Altman admits in a sometimes illumioff-kilter quasi-Western is in some ways well nating, sometimes perplexing commentary suited for the technical limitations of the track that accompanies the Criterion release day: Vilmos Zsigmond’s hazy cinematogra(it’s the same track that appeared on the phy, which perfectly captures the mood of 2002 DVD release) that he would do a few the movie’s setting (a dank mining town called Presbyterian Church in the late-19thcentury Pacific Northwest), and the overlapping and often incomprehensible dialogue don’t need a hi-def system to reveal their naturalistic, oddly hypnotic effect.

And the use of spare, melancholy Leonard Cohen songs — including “The Stranger Song” and “Sisters of Mercy” — is both anachronistic and perfectly suited.

All that said, don’t think I wasn’t first in line when Warren Beatty is at his best in this classic, now on Blu-ray.

Warner Bros. finally put out a P H O T O : c o u r t e s y o f th e c r i t e r i o n c o l l ec t i o n DVD version in 2002. McCabe & Mrs. Miller transports one to a world entirely its own, and its takes and then leave the set and let Beatty enveloping power is even more apparent as do as many more as he wanted. It’s anyone’s Zsigmond’s full frames and the rough-hewn guess which of the takes Altman eventually set design come more into view. And now, used — he says he used one of the first few 14 years later, we finally have the Blu-ray takes — but the result is Beatty’s most interversion, a lavish Criterion Collection release esting and vanity-free performance. that further reveals Altman’s singular vision.

Tender and unguarded, his acting is a tesThe story’s loose, barely there narratament to Altman’s nurturing, anything-goes tive centers on John McCabe (Warren creative atmosphere and to the presence of Beatty), a small-time gambler and would-be Christie, Beatty’s then-lover. Christie seems entrepreneur who travels to Presbyterian more at home amid the scuzzy frontier Church and almost immediately ingratiates surroundings than Beatty. Her introduction himself with the simple townsfolk. Sensing into the picture — a sequence in which she an opportunity, McCabe opens a modest charms McCabe while devouring a plate of whorehouse (which initially is housed in eggs — is a tour-de-force of naturalistic actramshackle tents) to cater to the various ing and ballsy character choices. builders who are at work expanding Presby“My job is to create an environment where terian Church from a tiny town to a slightly something real can happen,” Altman said more robust stop for those adventurous when I interviewed him upon the release enough to travel to its remote location. of his final film, 2006’s A Prairie Home McCabe’s plan changes when Constance Companion. An example of “something real” Miller (Julie Christie), an ambitious madam, is McCabe & Mrs. Miller, which remains comes to town — she wants to upgrade my favorite Altman creation, a movie so McCabe’s crude operation and, inevitably, unfathomably singular it’s a wonder it even wants her own cut of the profits to do so. Mrs. exists. It’s a pungent portrayal of ungraspMiller’s arrival reveals McCabe’s true nature able aspirations, the perfect encapsulation — he’s a bumbling con man who makes of Altman’s long career. things up as he goes along. He is intimidated The movie is as McCabe says to himself by her fast-talking, seemingly sophisticated at one point: “I got poetry in me.” ways, a fact betrayed to the audience every CONTACT JASON GARGANO: letters@citybeat.com. time he mumbles in an effort to convince

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Being Awed by Isabelle Huppert’s Talent

BY T T STERN-ENZI

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with Joan Shelley Friday, April 7

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As her superb Things to Come opens an actress and has become a director and at the Esquire Theatre on Friday, let the screenwriter for cinema — her other films record show that Isabelle Huppert is ready include The Father of My Children, Goodfor her moment in the spotlight. In the 2016 bye First Love and Eden. awards season, she is the dark horse — a In Things to Come, Huppert settles into performer who wanders into the frame and the familiar skin of Nathalie Chazeaux, a finds a way to hold our gaze long enough to philosophy teacher struggling to deal with give us reason to pause. mid-life transitional concerns like the loss The National Society of Film Critics of her mother and her husband’s announcebestowed its Best Actress prize to her, ment that he’s having an affair and wants to jointly recognizing her excellence in both leave her. Nathalie, despite all of these crises, Elle and Things to Come. She also snagged keeps her head up, ready to face the next Best Actress (Drama) honors at the Golden Globes for Elle (which also took the award for Best Foreign Language Film).

How is it that Huppert, whose stellar career includes performances in Benoît Jacquot’s The School of Flesh, Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher, François Ozon’s 8 Women and again with Haneke in Amour, has never, at age 63, even been nominated for an Academy Award? She has been nominated 15 times for the César Isabelle Huppert with Roman Kolinka in the new Things to Come Award (the French Oscar), PHOTO : ludovic bergery but even in her homeland has only claimed the prize challenge. Unlike the dramatic twists we’re once — a Best Actress award for The School waiting for in Elle, Things to Come focuses of Flesh. Still, Huppert is as much an acting on living day to day, dealing with the incontreasure as Meryl Streep, although she veniences and the trials that, in other films or operates on a lower frequency, with quiet serialized shows, spiral fantastically out of sexual tension and an uncanny ability to control. The usual escape we seek from the move effortlessly through the most absurd movies gets realized in the nature of these or surreal encounters. problems and the life-changing responses Take, for instance, her performance in undertaken by the protagonists. the French film Elle (also at the Esquire) as What Huppert fans have come to expect Michèle Leblanc, the successful and fiercely from her, however, is the measured and independent head of a video game company downright reassuring attitude she is in these attempting to stay one step ahead of an moments. Her characters never overreact. unknown assailant who sexually assaults And when, after the TIFF screening, she her one afternoon in her home. Director Paul emerged from the wings as the lights slowly Verhoeven (Basic Instinct), whose reputabrightened after the credits, I was struck tion leans toward a penchant for brazen by the unearthly sense of peace emanating titillation for its own sake, seems — at least from this tiny figure. Not a care in the world initially — to rein in his excessive tendencould seemingly touch her and she conveyed cies, crafting a taut thriller around Michèle’s that same spirit to everyone in the room. constant vigilance in both her personal and For those fortunate enough to catch Elle professional worlds. and Things to Come while they’re here, preOnce the shoe drops with the discovery pare for a pair of performances with starof the identity of the attacker, Elle slides tling similarities. Michèle and Nathalie are down a steep slope into sexual fantasy, with opposite sides of the same coin — women Huppert somehow maintaining a precaribeset at every turn by the sad banality of ous balance under the weight of Verhoeven’s everyday evils — but Huppert shows us that leering gaze. She’s earning praise for trustthere are many ways to rise above these ing her own exceptional instincts.

While I missed Elle during its Toronto concerns. And I have no doubt that there International Film Festival run, I was able will be more to come. With more than 100 to attend the public screening of writerfilms to her credit, she’s just getting warmed director Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to up. (Things to Come opens Friday at the Come. The French Hansen-Løve started as Esquire Theatre) (PG-13) Grade: A

ON SCREEN A ‘Sleepless’ Foxx

BY T T STERN-ENZI

I wish more audiences had been exposed to 2011’s Sleepless Night, Frédéric Jardin’s gritty French B-movie about a corrupt cop named Vincent (Tomer Sisley) attempting to rescue his son from the clutches of insidious and pervasive criminal elements, some even more institutionally entrenched than Vincent. It is not often that we get thrown into the midst of a chaotic world with no familiar crutches that we can latch onto for stability.

Jardin injected the harried feel of a ticking clock — a countdown in the corner of the screen’s frame — without literalizing its presence. With each passing encounter, we realize that Vincent is losing precious time and options are being removed from him. You could argue that Sleepless Night approximates the sensation of being trapped in a video game premise far better than any of the multiplex CGI-laden movie adaptations that come to mind and then just as quickly fade away. As a character, Vincent definitely loses noticeable steam after each pummeling exchange.

So why would Hollywood deem it necessary to recruit Baran bo Odar, whose moody The Silence happens to be a suspenseful thriller, to helm a remake of an already successful genre exercise that audiences can already find if they want to? Why, to completely remake it into something wholly unrecognizable!

Starting off by streamlining the title into Sleepless, Odar, working with a script from Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Andrea Berloff (Straight Outta Compton), fashions a familiar action vehicle for an Academy Awardwinning star (Jamie Foxx) looking to stroll through a paycheck role. In support, there are faces that are cast — David Harbour, Scoot McNairy, and T.I. — to remind us that this is supposed to be a walk on the wild side. But there’s never the threatening sense that anyone involved will miss a wink or a nod in this Sleepless knockoff. (Opens Friday at area theaters) (R) Grade: D Also opening this week: The Bye Bye Man // Live by Night // Monster Trucks // Patriots Day // Silence

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‘The OA’ Joins ‘Stranger Things’ on Netflix

BY JAC KERN

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On the heels of the wildly popular sci-fi mystery Stranger Things comes another Black-ish (9:30 p.m. Wednesday, ABC) – dark and fantastical Netflix original. In Tensions flare for Dre at work following the the vein of a surprise Beyoncé album, The election; class president Junior tries to work OA (Netflix) debuted last month with with a disenfranchised student body. little promotion. And for fans of filmmaking duo Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, Workaholics (Season Premiere, 10 p.m. the new series was just as intriguing as Wednesday, Comedy Central) – Kicking off new music from Queen Bey. the seventh and final season, Adam, Blake The OA follows Prairie Johnson and Ders take on a group of trainees in an (Marling), a young suburban woman who effort to clinch the distinction of best office has been missing for seven years, as she pranksters. emerges from a hospital after jumping off a bridge in New York. Blind at the time of her disappearance, she can now miraculously see.

And instead of her given name Prairie, she refers to herself as “the OA.” Emotionally and physically scarred, Prairie has clearly been through trauma and is reluctant to disclose any details to doctors, the FBI or her devoted parents, who’ve been searching for her for years. But eventually she Alice Krige (left) and Brit Marling in The OA confides in an odd group of P H O T O : J ojo W h i l d e n / N e t f l i x neighborhood misfits.

This is the most simplistic, spoiler-free description of a very comCaraoke Showdown (Series Premiere, plex supernatural mystery that explores 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Spike) – In this mashthe impact of near-death experiences. As up of Cash Cab and James Corden’s popular viewers, we receive an almost omniscient “Carpool Karaoke,” Craig Robinson picks up look at Prairie’s mysterious journey that unsuspecting passengers to karaoke their few in her life truly understand. But can way to cash prizes. we trust her?

Like Batmanglij’s and Marling’s 2011 Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m. Saturday, film Sound of My Voice, The OA tests not NBC) – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story star only the other characters’ belief in the Felicity Jones hosts with musical guest protagonist (in both cases, Marling), but Sturgill Simpson. also the viewer’s trust in the narrative. In The Young Pope (Series Premiere, 9 p.m.

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Please’s creative multi-course menus are perfectly paced for a delicious, leisurely evening. ingredients run out. Once you make your selection, each dish is brought out and carefully spaced to make for a long, lingering meal; the best way to spend an evening.

My and my partner’s first course, in fact the same dish for all three menus, was the aforementioned spaghetti squash — two spoonfuls mounded on top of an almond beurre blanc sauce and topped with lemon zest, almond slivers and cured egg yolks.

The citrus shone through, and the beurre blanc was one of those sauces that you try desperately to very quietly scrape up every last drop of from your plate without other patrons or the waitstaff noticing.

My second course (pescetarian) was again the same as my partner’s (omnivore), and it was our favorite: a piece of perfectly cooked fluke on a bed of pomelo and avocado with a vibrant green sauce made from local watercress, topped with thinly sliced pieces of celtuce, a crunchy, mild vegetable.

It felt there might be too many pieces to the puzzle, but they all fit in a way neither of us questioned.

For our third courses, I had a piece of trout with a deeply flavored beet mole sauce and a roasted vegetable medley with beets, parsnips and several types of mushrooms, one of which was the bacon impostor — a

plant I’ll surely seek out when I cook for my vegetarian family.

My partner’s third course was a piece of Kentucky beef wrapped in turnip greens.

At this point, we were waiting for our final course — dessert — when the waitress asked if we’d like to try a new plate of pancake balls with apple filling, topped with a shaved, sweet cheese. “What the heck! We’ll take our chances,” I said, trying not to look too overwhelmed with joy. Two desserts is obviously the best way to end a meal.

One of the servers mentioned it was Please’s ode to Skyline, which became apparent when the dish came out piled high with dainty shreds of cheese. It was delicious. The cheese dissolved into a decadent creamy puddle and underneath were the softest pancake balls. We ate them with our hands, as recommended.

By this point I think we were both feeling the strain of four courses. The plates are

deceptively small but the food is rich and filling, which is partially why the final dish of the night, an icy sweet concord grape granita, tasted so good. It was a perfect closer.

The plate also came with a dense, nottoo-sweet whole-wheat cake, but the granita left my palate feeling so refreshed that I could hardly take a bite.

At the end of the meal, our cocktails, lovingly named after the people who donated to Please in its infancy, were long gone. Had we the funds leftover, I would have gladly sat around for another. Each carefully crafted cocktail is a flavorful $10 sipper.

Mine was a sweet lemon and golden beet number, a perfect pairing with a flapper dress. My partner’s was a warm bourbon and brandy mix.

Word on the street is that an à la carte menu is in the works, leaving the menu up to the diner. Even so, next time I go, I think I’ll trust the chef.

Please Go: 1405 Clay St., Over-the-Rhine; Call: 513-405-8859; Internet: pleasecincinnati. com; Hours: 5:30-10 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday; reservations recommended.

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ucked away on Clay Street in Over-theRhine, a new restaurant called Please is serving modern and artful small plates — multiple courses of food you may not immediately recognize when you look at them. Thankfully, the helpful staff explains each dish as it arrives — for instance, spaghetti squash with cured egg yolk. And at the end of the meal you realize you’ve just been introduced to a new kind of horn of plenty, one filled with truly delicious ingredients like mushrooms that taste like bacon, shavings of Scandinavian brown cheese that melt in your mouth and an enticing cocktail successfully made with beets.

Chef Ryan Santos has helmed Please as a gypsy pop-up concept since 2011, crafting creative multi-course meals in locations ranging from his former Prospect Hill apartment and Cheapside Café to Carriage House Farm, all the while working toward the dream of eventually owning a stationary restaurant. After private backing and a Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $35,000, the dream became a reality this past November.

One of the perks of eating at Please’s brick and mortar is the location. It’s situated a couple blocks away from OTR’s wellworn Vine Street corridor on an alluring clandestine side street that makes parking a feat worth undertaking and feels like you’re walking through a tiny European village when you start exploring the cobbled alleys.

With an indigo exterior and a restaurant build-out that was recently featured in architecture magazine Dwell, the design of the cozy space is note-perfect down to the very instagrammable bathroom (search #pleasepotty for guest selfies with the abstract hand-painted wall tile). And while the front dining room has plenty of big windows through which to watch hip passersby, my dining partner and I ate at the bar in the back (where they seat diners without reservations), and I don’t know that I’d want it any other way.

The exposed brick and long wooden bartop create an intimate and quiet ambiance, punctuated by the occasional suggestion or comment from the staff behind the bar, whom you nearly have to yourself. It feels like a first-class affair because it is one — each four-course dinner is $52 and served with fanfare and attention.

Diners can choose from a vegetarian, pescetarian or omnivore menu, although gluten-free options are always available and Please’s website does say that vegan menus can be created with advance notice.

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When my friend told me that in the span of ($9) and Cherry Bourbon Sour ($9) — it’s one year a Covington strip club called Club hard to pick a favorite. While I’m usually Venus had become The Globe, a slick modern one to skip the gin, The Globe Negroni’s bar serving high-end cocktails, I didn’t mix of Hendrick’s gin with grapefruit believe her. I had to walk into the minimalist was smooth and sinfully sip-worthy. And and rustic space and see it with my own eyes. the Cherry Bourbon Sour tasted hardly The meticulously clean bar still had that alcoholic. Served with an egg white, cherry, fresh paint smell, thanks to the extensive lemon and Bulleit bourbon, it’s a troubleremodeling done by owner and developer maker in a cocktail glass. I finished it before Tony Milburn and his family. realizing I’d even been drinking.

“In nine months, the Milburns completely The Amore Del Diablo balanced subdued redid everything,” says bar manager Darren habañero bitters with mezcal, grapefruit and Parr. “It’s amazing to see how they transformed the space but kept the original charm.”

The Globe is cool and industrial — it hits on every modern design aesthetic. The lighting is dim and candles are placed in glass terrariums on marble-topped tables.

The dancer’s stage has been replaced by a dip in the bar, where a man sat strumming an acoustic guitar and singing songs about his grandma’s dumpling recipe during my visit (it’s still Kentucky after all). Gruff bouncers have The Globe slings high-end cocktails at the former Club Venus. been replaced by smiling PHOTO : haile y bollinger bartenders who answered all of my questions about what’s orange juice. The drink has a dark, smoky in each cocktail. The Globe even has a drink named after the club’s former iteration: the coal flavor with an aftertaste of black pepper.

Venus ($8), a syrupy sweet sparkling cocktail My friends passed the Amore Del Diablo with tart orange flavor. around the table, each making the same The drink menu, with nods to local favorshocked but intrigued face after taking a sip ites like bourbon sours and on-trend addi— and then another and another. tions like mezcal cocktails, is Parr’s creation.

When the Milburn family purchased Club “The cocktail menu is my baby,” he says Venus in the hopes of transforming the genwith a smile. tleman’s club into a cocktail bar and commuEach unique drink is inspired by Prohibinity space, they couldn’t think of a name for tion-era classics and has been taste-tested the new joint. It wasn’t until they saw an old by the staff. photo of their great-great-grandfather A.L. And while The Globe’s kitchen is small, it Andrews on his boat, the Globe — which had is mighty, offering light bites like flatbreads a false bottom to conceal bottles of liquor to and savory creations like a classic Cuban transport across the water to a party — that sandwich. While I was there, I sampled they knew they had to name the bar after the the cheese plate, which had four different boat and the family tradition of bringing the kinds of cheese that were gone in about four party wherever they go. As you sip at the bar, seconds. My favorites were the smoked bleu Andrews’ photograph looks down. cheese and the brie, all served with warm In less than a year, the Milburns bread and honey. transformed a club that previously offered The Globe also makes it a point to offer “shower shows” into a top-notch cocktail regional craft beers and spirits. Parr cycles bar that rivals any of the luxury lounges through beers that celebrate Covington’s of downtown Cincinnati, all the while still brewing scene complemented by unique paying homage to family stories. And that’s selections such as New Belgium’s Ben & no easy feat. The cocktails lived up to how Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pale fancy I felt lounging on the gray industrial Ale, which yes, really did taste like chocolate sofa in the bar’s immaculately designed chip cookie dough mixed with pale ale. Parr interior — its offerings are as delicious as hinted that boozy beer floats, featuring cookthe location is beautiful. ies and ice cream, will be coming soon.

THE GLOBE is located at 12 E. Fifth St., Out of the cocktails I tried — The Venus, Covington. More info: theglobecov.com.

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A Deliciously Healthy New Year! — Marilyn Harris leads this class about healthy and light cooking. The menu features easy consommé, mushrooms in red wine, baked salmon, light and lovely almond cheesecake and more. 6:30-9 p.m. $65.

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6-8 p.m. $75. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.

Dollar Beer Night at the Cyclones — What goes better with hockey than hot dogs, nachos and on-ice fights? How about $1 beer? Fans 21 and older can enjoy $1 cans of beer at the Cincinnati Cyclones vs. Quad City Mallards game. 6:30 p.m. doors. Tickets start at $15. U.S. Bank Arena, 100 Broadway, Downtown, cycloneshockey.com.

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Food and Flavors from Around the World — A wine dinner at the Transept featuring catering from Funky’s. Discover five-courses of globally inspired dishes paired with international wines. 6:30-10 p.m. $95. The Transept, 1205 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-841-9999, januarywinedinner.splashthat.com.

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Jungle Jim’s Barrel-Aged Beer Bash — Imbibe more than 80 types of barrel-aged beer, many of which are special or secret recipes straight from brewers’ personal cellars. 7-9:30 p.m. $42; $16 non-drinker.

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Final Park + Vine Chili Cook-Off — Park + Vine celebrates the end of an era with their last chili cook-off. Get inspired, sample chili, show off your prowess and win prizes, while coming together to honor nearly 10 years of Park + Vine. Save your spot to enter or taste. Chili entries are limited to 20 spots (must enter before 6 p.m.

Jan. 14). 3-5 p.m. $10; $15 at the door; $10 chili entry. Park + Vine, 1202 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, parkandvine.com.

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Sensational Stuffed Lobster — Ellen Mueller leads this class on preparing stuffed lobster tails with duchess potatoes and chocolate truffle pie. 6-8:30 p.m. $75. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.

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Veteran Hip Hop artist Aesop Rock gets reflective and personal on his latest album release INTERVIEW BY JASON GARGANO

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an Bavitz is a man in transition. The rapper better known as Aesop Rock turned 40 last year. He moved to Oregon from his beloved New York City a couple years earlier. And he dropped his seventh studio album, The Impossible Kid, this past April, just his second full-length effort since 2007’s None Shall Pass.

That’s not to say Aesop hasn’t been busy — he’s been a part of three collaborative albums, including 2013’s crafty Hokey Fright with Kimya Dawson, since 2011. But there’s no denying he’s evolved since his productive period as a wordy, intriguingly slanted rapper for the adventurous Hip Hop label Definitive Jux beginning in the late 1990s. That evolution is on display throughout The Impossible Kid, another lyrically dense effort that also finds Aesop handling all production duties and revealing a seemingly more accessible personal angle.

CityBeat recently connected with Aesop to discuss everything from his thoughts on turning 40 as a rapper — a development he calls “terrifying” — to his admission that music is a “disease” he can’t help but fall prey to.

CityBeat: The Impossible Kid seems more overtly personal than your other records — or at least more accessibly personal. Was that intentional? Or did that arise organically?

Aesop Rock: Not really intentional, and not something I realized until I started playing it for folks after I had the music. They’re all personal, though; I just think the writing evolves as I get older. You make discoveries and the things that interest you change and adapt and grow and die. With that, the sound of the music kinda does the same.

Each record just reflects the phase I was in — sometimes I get really into the more cryptic side of things, while other times I want to be as direct as possible. I’m just walking down these avenues as they come to me and trying to do what feels right at the time. But I also never even consider that people are going to hear this music — it’s always an “Oh yeah” moment when all is said and done.

CB: How did relocating to Oregon influence The Impossible Kid? AR: It’s kinda hard to say. It’s just where my life has led me for the time being. My old environment had grown stale and I was ready for a change. Now I’m here — who knows how long? I don’t really feel settled anywhere these days, so it’s all just scenery changes and keeping it moving. When this stops being a place I feel motivated in, I’ll

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move on. I think I liked the idea of just being away from what I knew, so I dipped. Now I’m in a strange land, for better or worse.

Someday I’ll be in a different strange land.

Even when I know 100 percent that where I am may not be “me,” I still find this all fascinating — people, cities, sticks, geography. I have a certain mindset from growing up on the East Coast for 30 years. I like seeing how others live even if it makes me uncomfortable sometimes. Many days I wake up like, “Where the fuck am I?” Who knows? But I have the ability to pick up and go, which is a luxury not many have, so I figured fuck it, let’s see how that affects my work. Sometimes comfort zones are the best. Sometimes discomfort is just what the doctor ordered.

CB: The song ‘Blood Sandwich’ namechecks your brothers. Do you consider how family, friends or even public figures will react when you mention them in a song?

AR: That one was funny because I set out to make an ode to them without really fully considering if they wanted that. They both had very different reactions, and I think I’d approach it differently next time. They both appreciated the sentiment, but having a song be so specifically about something in your life can be a bit heavy — even when the intentions are all love. I’m not really ever out there talking shit and name-dropping people — that’s not really my thing — but there is a weight there, and I think I learned a lot writing that one. Live and learn.

CB: That song also mentions the band Ministry. How do you think your exposure to underground ’80s music influenced what you do as a rapper?

AR: I was honestly exposed to everything. My brother was into a wide variety of music, and beyond that I grew up skateboarding, which brings all types of people together from different backgrounds, neighborhoods (and) interests… I heard it all and I will always be thankful for that.

More so than Ministry, specifically I think what I learned — and what I tried to get across in that part of the song — is the power of music. If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it’s everything. It’s bigger than school or family or anything else. Seeing the absolute power of all these forms of music was awe-inspiring and vital to me, and I disappeared down that rabbit hole and have yet to emerge.

CB: You’ve been making music for 20 years now. How do you keep things fresh and interesting for yourself and your listeners?

Reflecting on 20 years of making music, Aesop Rock says it’s just something he has to do.

AR: For myself, at this point this is basically a disease. I don’t have a choice here. It’s a compulsion, a passion, it’s a million things wrapped up in one. It’s just what I do without thinking because that’s all I know. Even if I’m trying something I’m not totally comfortable with, I’m still most comfortable within that zone, and those particular risks become comforting. I don’t have anything else, so I keep exploring and just try to keep myself entertained. Finding something new that I know I’ve never done before is the best feeling I know, and when I get there it’s all worth it.

As for the listeners, I don’t know. I kinda can’t believe anyone is still here listening.

It’s flattering and abstract and awesome and uncomfortable. But I also don’t really think about them much. I just make things and one day they hear it. I think if I considered the listener too much during my creative process, I’d be doing a disservice to me and them.

AESOP ROCK performs Friday at 20th Century Theater. Tickets/more info: the20thcenturytheatre.com.

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Heavy Hinges ‘Cause a Scene’ with New EP

BY MIKE BREEN

verve and shimmy before closing track “Bounce Back” concludes the proceedings like a James Brown cape-routine, extending into a seven-minute Rock & Soulrevue jam.

Most of the members of Heavy Hinges have a wealth of musical experience, so they were solid from the get-go. But Cause a Scene shows what can happen when great musicians spend extensive time playing together — the effortless musical intimacy and camaraderie makes the music jump from the speakers and grab the listener by the collar in a way it didn’t before.

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Go Go Buffalo Says “We’ll Do It Live!”

Great wild-eyed Cincy rockers Go Go Buffalo are going to try to bring the fun and fire of its live show to a “take-home” version with a planned upcoming album.

This Thursday, you can be a part of the project when the four-piece records a live album at Urban Artifact (1660 Blue Rock St., Northside, artifactbeer.com).

The band is joined at the show by fellow locals mr.phylzzz and Dynamite Thunderpunch, as well as Dayton, Ohio bands Yardboss and Abertooth Lincoln.

The fun starts at 9 p.m. and there is no admission charge.

Get more information on Go Go Buffalo at facebook.com/gogobuffaloband, and get in shape for your live-album-recording participation Saturday by going to go-gobuffalo.bandcamp.com and cranking the volume knob up as loud as it goes.

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Moby to Dick: Seriously?!

The man whose campaign rallies featured music by artists that despised everything he represents reportedly is unable to attract bigly musical acts to perform at upcoming presidential inauguration events (although Country act Big & Rich has recently signed on!).

And Donald Trump’s team apparently isn’t above trying to hire artists almost violently opposed to him. The best example yet is Moby, an Electronic music legend and writer of op-ed pieces warning of the danger of Trump who expressed bewilderment recently after being asked to DJ at an inaugural ball. That’s like Obama asking Ted Nugent to play a vegetarian dinner party at the White House.

POTUS Scores Job Offer Speaking of the president, Obama has scored a pretty cushy job offer for which he’s uniquely qualified. After allegedly joking that he was waiting for a job at Spotify (because “I know y’all loved my playlist”), the streaming service posted a jokey help-wanted ad on its website for the “President of Playlists” position, with requirements like a Nobel Prize and eight years of experience “running a highly-regarded nation.”

He should act fast; that “highly-regarded” part might not be true much longer.

Call It Shamilton Soft Rock champ and drunkenblack-out soundtracker Jimmy Buffett is good at finding new ways of cashing in on his old songs and beach-bum image, creating a “Margaritaville” restaurant chain and more recently releasing what blog.margaritaville.com calls a “hilarious” new Christmas album, featuring “Twelve Days of Christmas (Parrothead Version)” and Buffett-as-surfin’-Santa cover art.

Now Buffett will somehow be able to add “Broadway show visionary” to his resume, after it was announced that his musical Escape to Margaritaville, about a group of 65-year-old friends drunkenly looking for their car in the parking lot after a Buffett concert (or something) and built around Buffett’s “classics,” is headed to the Great White Way in 2018.

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Entertaining Cincinnati Rock/Soul/ Roots quintet Heavy Hinges is set to issue its latest recording, the six-track Cause a Scene, this weekend in conjunction with a release party performance. Saturday’s free event at Northside Tavern (4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsidetav.com) begins at 10 p.m. Local singer/songwriter/cellist Kate Wakefield also performs.

Heavy Hinges came together five years ago and honed its craft with energetic live shows on the local club scene before releasing its first debut, Mean Old City, in 2014. Cause a Scene displays an even tighter chemistry between the talented musicians, who still roam around musical styles without ever losing their own distinctive band personality.

Described in a CityBeat review of Heavy Hinges’ debut as a “secret weapon,” singer (and ukulele player) MayaLou Banatwala emerges on Cause a Scene with more confident guidance. She matches the charisma of fellow singer (and guitarist) Dylan Speeg, a veteran local artist and musician (Rottweilers, Buckra) who anchors the band, with her perfect mix of Soul music’s expressiveness and Punk Rock swagger and sass. The other musicians (drummer Brian Williamson, bassist Andrew Laudeman and guitarist Jeremy Singer) are flawless throughout, providing both the precision and feel needed for a sound largely based on classic R&B, as well as a bit of Rock & Roll flair.

All six tracks on Cause a Scene are superb. The EP opens with the smoldering groove of “Another Minute” (aided by great electric-piano ornamentation from recording engineer Matt Hueneman) before gliding into an impressive cover of “Valerie,” originally by British band The Zutons but made famous by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse’s version from 2007.

Hearing Banatwala sing a song so closely associated with one of the current millennium’s most revered Soul singers is a great method to show how fantastic of a singer she is, in the same way that a painter recreating a famous van Gogh piece freehand is going to give a good sense of the artist’s unique identity and depth of natural talent. Banatwala definitely lives up to the weighty comparison that presents itself.

Elsewhere on Cause a Scene, the Hinges show their versatility on the buoyant, swinging Country burner “Long Time,” a greatly constructed song that if one was told was also a cover of a classic tune, there’d be no reason to doubt it. The musicians indeed turn to a classic with their spin on the traditional “Jericho,” making it their own and allowing Speeg to fully showcase his charming vocal gifts. “Too Hot Handle” rocks with a bit of New Wave

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A little over five years ago, Ken Miller relocated to Austin, Texas. His bass slot was filled by Sugar Wildman, formerly with Lords of the Highway, and the Whiskey Daredevils have been in that stable configuration ever since. Well, stable by its own yardstick.

Entering their 13th year as a band, the Whiskey Daredevils have hit the road and the studio with a frequency and abandon that rivals their previous incarnation.

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Nearly 20 years ago, in an interview for a Cowslingers story, Greg Miller told me his thoughts on the band’s Country/Punk dichotomies with this bit of wisdom: “No matter what we do, speed and volume have always been our friends.” That same tattoo would easily fit on the shoulder meat of Whiskey Daredevils. (Brian Baker) Muuy Biien with Leggy Sunday • MOTR Pub Muuy Biien is one of those rare bands that somehow forces its listeners to remember and revel in the past while simultaneously planting them firmly in the ever-present now and also making them think furtively about a future that seems to have been revealed only to them.

It would be a pretty impressive feat for a road- and studiohardened band that has been plying its trade for a decade or more, but Muuy Biien has been performing this musical sleight of hand for less than half that time.

In the Athens, Ga.based quintet’s fiveyear history, it has recorded a trio of EPs and an equal number of full-lengths, including Age of Uncertainty, its recently released Psych/ Surf/Glam/Pop/Punk/Prog masterwork.

The band lurched to life in 2012 under the guise of a raw lo-fi Hardcore outfit; the first four songs on its five-track EP Knife Fights were each less than a minute long, and the fifth sounded like Brian Eno making an Ambient recording with the Dead Kennedys. Muuy Biien took a giant leap forward on This is What Your Mind Imagines, recorded just five months after Knife Fights.

Although it was still steeped in careening Hardcore fury, new sonic possibilities were being explored as melodicism and deliberation were added to Muuy Biien’s arsenal. On 2013’s No One is On My Side, frontman Joshua Evans expanded on the Ambient drone idea from the first release; although Evans was the only one to appear on the EP, it was still released under the band’s name.

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The beauty of Muuy Biien’s presentation is that the band members are too young to claim any of those reference points as firsthand influences, so the sounds Frankensteined into existence have been filtered through completely contemporary sensibilities that combine for a singularly compelling soundtrack that leaves the astute listener begging for more. (BB)

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music legend (see: The Kinks, The Black Crowes, Oasis, etc.). Perhaps it’s just another example of how men are better than women.

Those tales of conflict may make the music history books, but the artists wouldn’t have gotten that far if it wasn’t for the more productive first part that resulted in the initial art their bond created. That’s the phase in which Nebraska’s Jessica and Heather Hottman appear to be. Music has been a part of the Omaha-based sisters’ relationship all of their lives; growing up, there was church singing and musicals, a shared love of ’90s Pop and harmonizing for fun with Mom and their other sister. After forming a band in college, the pair developed a desire to pursue music as a career, leading to the post-collegiate birth of The Hottman Sisters, which is not a duo act but a band, featuring Jessica on guitar/vocals and Heather on vocals/keys, plus a rotating rhythm section.

The group’s sound is self-described as Indie Pop (and the Sisters scored a nomination for “Best Indie/ Alternative Band” The Hottman at the 2016 Omaha Sisters with ADM Entertainment and and Brianna Kelly Arts Awards), but Monday • it also has a rootsy Urban Artifact Americana streak Music history is The Hottman Sisters running through it. littered with popular P H O T O : fa c e b oo k . c o m / th e hott m a n s i s t e r s Their strongest suits bands featuring are more proof of the siblings, and the aforementioned chemistry unique to siblings duality of that faction of groups has the — sturdy songcraft and the atmospheric makings of an interesting psychological ambiance created by the sisters’ impeccable case study. The innate chemistry between and imaginative harmonies. The Hottman brothers and/or sisters often becomes more Sisters built a reputation and fanbase by perintense when coupled with a deep, shared forming regularly in their hometown, drawpassion for music, resulting in a natural and ing frequent coverage in the area’s local press. sometimes fruitful creative relationship.

That coverage picked up last summer with But there is also the possibility of contenthe release of debut EP This Two, and it will tion within that relationship, which can lead likely spread now that The Hottman Sisters’ to the fracturing of familial bonds and also have begun touring across the country. the self-destruction of the shared project.

And since there are sisters running the Maybe getting irritated by people you spend show, the chances of the band imploding so much time with pursing creative endeavbefore their Cincinnati visit after a drunken ors — mixed with stubbornness, pride, ego fistfight in Lexington the night before are and greed — isn’t exclusive to siblings, but extremely low. (Mike Breen) looking at high-profile examples (which have to deal more with the added pressures of money and success), it sometimes seems like the odds of falling out with your bandmates are higher when you’ve literally THE DEVIL MAKES THREE – Jan. 18, 20th Century known them all of your life.

Theater Another interesting aspect of this imagiMS. LAURYN HILL – Feb. 2, Aronoff Center nary case study is the difference between JOYCE MANOR/AJJ – Feb. 6, Taft Theatre (Ballroom) musical partners who are men and ones that VALERIE JUNE – Feb. 14, Southgate House Revival are women — the majority of prominent instances of high-drama, band-destroying K.FLAY – Feb. 17, Madison Live sibling rivalry in popular music are attribRUTHIE FOSTER – Feb. 17, Southgate House Revival uted to musicians who are brothers. Heart’s WE THE KINGS – Feb. 18, Taft Theatre (Ballroom) Ann and Nancy Wilson or the sisters in Dixie LILY & MADELEINE – Feb. 22, Southgate House Revival Chicks probably don’t always get along, but battles between brothers are the stuff of DELBERT MCCLINTON – Feb. 25, Madison Theater

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Wednesday 11 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Todd Hepburn. 7 p.m. Blues/Jazz/ Various. Free.

Blind Lemon - Sara Hutchinson.

8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Phil DeGreg. 6 p.m. Jazz piano. Free.

The Greenwich - Karaoke with DJ DynoMike. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

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

Knotty Pine - Dallas Moore. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

Madison Live - Alex Meiner with BG Gwopo, Mazkt Mentality, CR$ Tha Villain and Lil G Walla. 8 p.m.

Hip Hop. $10, $12 day of show.

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

The Mockbee - Vesperteen, Daniel In Stereo and Room For Zero. 6:30 p.m. Indie Alt/Rock. $8-$10.

MOTR Pub - Acid Dad with Ian Sweet and Ruby Throat. 9 p.m.

Indie/Rock/Punk/Various. Free.

Northside Tavern - Grace Lincoln.

9:30 p.m. Soul. Free.

Northside Yacht Club Jesus Piece with Absolute Suffering, Vein, By Force and Homebound. 8:30 p.m. Metal/ Hardcore. $10, $12 day of show.

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

Bluegrass. $2.

Silverton Cafe - Bob Cushing. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Tiny Kingdoms.

7:30 p.m. Post Rock. $8, $10 day of show.

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Thursday 12 Arnold’s Bar and Grill - Ricky Nye and Dottie Warner. 7:30 p.m.

Jazz. Free.

Aronoff Center for the Arts - MusicNOW featuring Bob Weir & the Campfire Band. 7:30 p.m. Americana/Rock/Jam

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Blind Lemon - Marc Macomber.

8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge - Todd Hepburn and Friends. 6 p.m.

Various. Free.

Fireside Pizza - John Ford. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

The Greenwich - Lucas Kadish & Tundra featuring JD Allen. 8 p.m.

Jazz. $7.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country.

Free.

Horse & Barrel - Sonny Moorman. 6 p.m. Blues. Free.

Knotty Pine - Bad Habit. 10 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

The Hot Spot - Bob Cushing. 7 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Madison Live - Madison Theater Band Challenge Round 1 with Alexis Gomez, Conductor Jones & The Hype Train, Judge n Jury, One Trick Pony, Tag, The Shaun Peace Band, Wicked Peace and Yirf.

7:30 p.m. Various. $10.

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

MOTR Pub - Brian Sauer and Joe Walla. 9 p.m. Singer/Songwriter.

Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - Open Mic with Aaron Hedrick. 7 p.m. Various.

Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Xela, Marisa Moore, Austyn Noonan, Jimmy & Thomas (of See You in The Funnies) and Bubbleteakitty.

9:30 p.m. Acoustic/Alt/Pop/ Various. Free.

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Urban Artifact - Go Go Buffalo with mr.phylzzz, Dynamite Thunderpussy and Abertooth Lincoln. 9 p.m. Rock/ Various. Free.

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Mansion Hill Tavern - Mister Man & the Mojo Band. 9 p.m.

Blues. $4.

Marty’s Hops & Vines - Bob Ross Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

MOTR Pub - Qiet. 9 p.m. Rock/ Dance/Alt/Various. Free.

Mount Carmel Brewery - John Ford. 7 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - River City Roustabout. 9 p.m. Roots/ Folk. Free.

Belterra Park Gaming - Ricky Nye Inc. 8 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

Blind Lemon - Donna Frost. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Blue Note Harrison Southbound Sound. 9 p.m.

Country. Free.

Bogart’s - No Remorse II featuring 21 Savage, Lamb$ H and more. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. $40.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge Steve Schmidt Trio with Dan Radank. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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

College Hill Coffee Co. - Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

The Comet - Tooth Lures a Fang, Actual Italians and Jared Presley Experience. 7 p.m. Rock/Various.

Free.

Jag’s Steak and Seafood - Gee Your Band Smells Terrific. 9:30 p.m. ’70s/Dance/Pop/Various.

Cover.

Arnold’s Bar and Grill - The Dirty Shirleys. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

The Avenue Event Center Moneybagg Yo. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $30-$50.

Blind Lemon - John and Corrina.

9 p.m. Various. Free.

Blue Note Harrison - DV8 with Excalibur, Visual Kaos and Bob Cushing. 9 p.m. Rock/Various.

Cover.

Bogart’s - Dylan Scott and Drew Baldridge. 8 p.m. Country. $13.09.

Bromwell’s Härth Lounge Steve Schmidt Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz.

Free.

The Comet - Bi, Fun Machine and Service the Band. 10 p.m. Rock/ Indie/Post Punk/Various. Free.

Northside Tavern - The Phasmids, Carriers and Lo The Loyal Conscripts. 10 p.m. Indie/Alt/ Progressive/Various. Free.

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

Plain Folk Cafe - Nolan Taylor.

7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Depot Barbecue - The Corncobs.

7 p.m. Bluegrass/Old-Time/Folk.

Free.

The Redmoor - Throw It Down. 10 p.m. Country/Rock. Cover.

20th Century Theater School of Rock Mason Aesop Rock with Rob Sonic, H School of Rock Mason: H DJ Zone and Homeboy Sandman.

Women Who Rock. 7:30 p.m.

8 p.m. Hip Hop. $20, $25 day of show.

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The Greenwich - Kelly Richey.

8 p.m. Blues/Rock. $10.

Rock. $6, $8 day of show.

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

Silverton Cafe - Full Circle. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

Jim and Jack’s on the River Dan Varner. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Scotty Karate. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

Knotty Pine - Bad Habit. 10 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Punk Rock Night Goes Solo featuring Dead Man String Band, Raaaalph (Sam Eisert of The Rabid Badger Blowjob), Brad Fowble (of Hell In A Hand Basket), Hellcat Matt, JIMS and more. 8:30 p.m. Rock/ Punk. $5.

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Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary) - The Krank H Daddies with Whiskey Daredevils and Saint Pickle. 9 p.m. Rock/ Roots/Various. $10, $12 day of show.

Thompson House - Vesta Collide with Curses, Against Icarus, Infinite Entity and Necro-Coitus.

8 p.m. Metal. $10.

Trinity Gastro Pub - Bob Cushing.

8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Urban Artifact - “Subculture” featuring BLVK SHLD, DJ Home Alone 2 and Riites. 10 p.m.

Electronic/Various. Free.

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Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - The Pan Vibe Group featuring Chris Tanner. 9 p.m.

Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

Live! at the Ludlow Garage - Natural Progression. 8 p.m.

H R&B. $10.

Macadu’s - Basic Truth. 8 p.m.

Funk/R&B/Soul. Free.

Madison Live - Madison Theater Band Challenge Round 1 with Blindside Drop, EpiKist, I.N.Y.A., Oak, Retro, Rose Lamp, The Peonies and Wasted Charm Band. 7:30 p.m. Various. $10.

Mansion Hill Tavern - Johnny Fink & the Intrusion. 9 p.m.

Blues. $4.

Marty’s Hops & Vines - Working Title. 9 p.m. Steampunk. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Open Jam with Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues/ Various. Free.

MOTR Pub - The Nude Party.

9 p.m. Indie/Garage/Pop/ H Rock. Free.

Northside Tavern - Heavy Hinges (EP release show) H with Kate Wakefield. 10 p.m.

Rock/Soul/Blues/Various. Free.

Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen The Heaters. 6 p.m. Blues. Free.

Plain Folk Cafe - The Matchsellers. 7:30 p.m.

Americana/Various. Free.

MOTR Pub - Muuy Biien. 9 p.m. Indie/Rock/Various.

H Free.

The Redmoor - Rock Your ALS IV featuring Killer Star H Effect, Hunting Agnes, Mandy

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Post Nothing with Lockjaw and Their Accomplices.

8 p.m. Punk. Free.

Watts, Lost Coast and DJ Mowgli.

7 p.m. Rock/Dance/Various. $10.

Rick’s Tavern - Cherry on Top. 10 p.m. R&B/Hip Hop/Rock/ Various. Cover.

Thompson House - Earth Groans with Hell Scorched Earth, Hades In Olympus and Sleep Comes After Death. 8 p.m. Metal. $10.

School of Rock Mason School of Rock Mason: H Music From Left Of The Dial.

Urban Artifact PsychoAcoustic Orchestra H with Eugene Goss. 7 p.m. Jazz.

7:30 p.m. Indie/Alternative. $6, $8 day of show.

Silverton Cafe - Disorderly Conduct. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Lounge) - Ben Knight and Dan Cohn & The Travelin’ Kind. 9:30 p.m. Roots. Free.

Southgate House Revival (Revival Room) - Static H Tension (EP release show) with

Motel Faces, The Past and Hemp Noose. 8 p.m. Rock. $5, $8 day of show.

Thompson House - Seven Circle Sunrise with Lying In Ruins, DangerMonkey, Grieving Otis, R.I.N.D. and Eversole. 8 p.m.

Rock. $10.

The Underground - Tethered Satellites, The Thrifters, Garret Liette and more. 7 p.m. Alt. Cover.

Urban Artifact - Flying Underground and The Boxcar Suite. 9 p.m. Pop/Rock. Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Brent Gallaher.

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

Sunday 15 Blind Lemon - Jeff Henry. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

The Comet - Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass.

Free.

Knotty Pine - Randy Peak. 10 p.m. Acoustic. Free Madison Live - Madison Theater Band Challenge Round 1 with Acid Ears, Boxtrot, Resonator, Shock Relief, Soul Butter, The Embodies, The Vims and Written in Red. 6:30 p.m. Various. $10.

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.

Free.

Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant - Traditional New Orleans Brunch with Buffalo Ridge Jazz Trio. 11:30 a.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

Woodward Theater - School of Rock Mason: Women Who H Rock show (4 p.m.); Music from Left of the Dial show (7 p.m.). 4 p.m. Rock/Alternative. $6, $8 day of show.

Monday 16 Blind Lemon - Ben Armstrong. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Knotty Pine - Open Mic. 8 p.m.

Various. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Open Jam with Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues/ Various. Free.

MOTR Pub - JC Brooks with New Royals. 9 p.m. PostH Punk Soul. Free.

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

Free.

Urban Artifact - The Hottman Sisters, ADM and H Brianna Kelly. 8 p.m. Indie/Pop/ Various. Free.

Tuesday 17 Blind Lemon - Nick Tuttle. 8 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

Comet - Mardou. 10 p.m.

Post Punk. Free.

H The Crow’s Nest - Open Mic Nite. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

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

Piano/Vocals. Free.

McCauly’s Pub - Stagger Lee. 7 p.m. Country/Rock. Free.

MOTR Pub - Writer’s Night. 10 p.m. Open mic/Various. Free.

Stanley’s Pub - Trashgrass Night with members of Rumpke Mountain Boys. 9 p.m.

Jamgrass/Bluegrass/Jamgrass/ Various. Cover.

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Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 525 W 35th St Covington, KY 41015 (859) 261-1165 on January 17, 2017 at or after 9:30 am. Stephanie Farias: 4313, household items; Darren Baker: 3216, Household items; Amanda Prater: 2330, Household items; 5126: Lisa Wells: 5126, furniture; Unit 2306: Ada Pritt: 2306, Household goods, furniture, appliances; Unit 5105: David Hunt: 5105, tools; Unit 6123: Liane Hillner: 6123, Household items, tools; Unit 2317: Daniel York: 2317, Household Goods; Lakisha Phipps: 3235, living suit.

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Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 2526 Ritchie Ave, Crescent Springs, KY, 41017, 859206-3079, January 17, 2017 11:30 AM. Jessica Ray: 266, General home goods; Ashley Smithson: 406, Household goods; Lenora Wheeler: 413, Misc.

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Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 5970 Centennial Circle, Florence, KY 41042, 859-408-5219, January 17th, 2017, 10:30 am. Anthony Fields: 407, Household items; Michael Harmon: 615, Household items; Shawnee Steinbock: 741, Household items; Kenneth Carter: 931, Chairs, boxes; Robert Gruen: 1049, Household items; Fredrick Stevens: 953, Sofa, table, chairs, dresser. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 2900 Crescent Springs Rd, Erlanger, KY 41018 on Tuesday, January 17th at 11:00 AM. Benjamin Lozier: 330, Household Goods; Rick Taylor: 562, Household Goods; Regina Ruth: 228, Household Goods; Sherry Bristow: 431, Household Goods; Charlene Hollon: 115, Household Goods; Angela Davis: 529, Household Goods; Taz Bowman: 165, Household Goods; Vicki Davidson: 348, Household Goods; Miles Nickell: 1111, Household Goods; Jimmy Kilpatrick: 503, Household Goods; Megan Myatt: 827, Household Goods. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 8080 Steilen Dr. Florence, KY 41042 on January 17, 2017 at or after 10 am.

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IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF WILLS OF DELEWARE COUNTY, PA ESTATE OF PATRICIA A. WEAVER, DECEASED IN RE: PETITION FOR CITATION TO SHOW CAUSE WHY LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION SHOULD NOT BE ISSUED TO GENEVIEVE LANNING AND DIRECTED UPON ALL HEIRS, WHO HAVE NOT RENOUNCED, ALLOWING GENEVIEVE LANNING, TO SERVE AS THE ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA A. WEAVER, DECEASED. RULE AND NOW, this 16th day of December, 2016, upon consideration of the aforesaid Petition for Citation, it is hereby ORDERED and DECREED that a Rule is issued and directed upon: Yvonne Bugar Barlow, William Bugar, Jr., Mary Bugar Thullen, Robert Kita, Walter Kita, Judith Bugar Rice, Joseph Ross, Jr., Joan Kozacheson McLaughlin, Janet Bugar Kilgore, Jerry Bugar, Jacki Bugar, Maria Kita Hart, Father Roman Kozacheson, Dolly BugarBailey, Edward Bugar and Connie Kita Alferez, to show cause why this Petition should not be granted.

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