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Portune Not Hearing MLS? Michael Finnigan: Portune sounds clueless on this. He may lose my vote in the future if he insists on continuing with this nonsense. I don’t care if he opposes a specific deal but to act like Nippert is an option for MLS is just dumb.

Marcus Johnson: “Why doesn’t Nippert work?” Simply put, the MLS says it doesn’t. Whether you are for or against the stadium is fine with me, IF you have logic behind it. But to say “Nippert’s fine, why can’t they just use it” shows his ignorance Bryan Ganulin: Then put it in Newport. Problem solved.

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What a Week!

BY T.C. Britton

WEDNESDAY JULY 26 While Uber offers food delivery in many cities, Lyft has changed the ride-sharing game by teaming up with Taco Bell. Much like how many Lyft users request service after a night of drinking, T-Bell’s consumers are largely made up of intoxicated individuals. Available for a limited time in Orange County, Calif. the next couple of weeks, Lyft riders can request “Taco Mode” and a driver will pick them up and take them to the nearest Bell. These cars — outfitted in a special taco-themed vinyl wrap (talk about employee commitment) — are filled with Taco Bell swag and feature incar menus for ordering. The fast food joint even offers free Doritos Locos tacos for “ride-through” orders, because why not add another brand into this cross-promotion fiesta? Taco Mode will roll out nationwide next year if all goes well.

THURSDAY JULY 27 Larry David might be the biggest Bernie Bro of all time, because it turns out the comedian is actually related to Sen. Sanders. David was the perfect stand-in for Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live, culminating in the genius mashup sketch, “Bern Your Enthusiasm.” “They laugh alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike…” Patty Duke Show, anyone? No? Well it turns out David was a prettay, prettay, prettay good choice to play Sanders because they’re cousins — “identical cousins all the way!” David discovered the familial connection while filming an episode of PBS’ genealogy series, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., he revealed (prematurely) at a Television Critics Association event this week.

The two have a lot in common: They are both in their 70s, born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. and take zero shits from schmohawks. Plug: Curb Your Enthusiasm returns to HBO next month. We smell a cameo!

Scathing book and movie critic Michiko Kakutani is stepping down from the New York Times after 38 years. Kakutani often wrote her reviews from the perspective of a character (her review of The Catcher in the Rye came from the perspective of Holden Caulfield), but she was mostly known for dropping the sickest burns of all time. She called Bill Clinton’s 2004 book My Life “sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull,” Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others “belated and common-sense statements of the obvious” and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest “a big psychedelic jumble of characters, anecdotes, jokes,

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the spotlight. Last year we saw him pouring one package of M&Ms into another package of M&Ms, and between 2010 and 2011 Christie reportedly spent $82,000 on concessions at MetLife Stadium.

MONDAY JULY 31 So this is turning into a junk food-heavy week but, real talk: Does Outback Steakhouse have satanic ties? Not unless the devil loves a Bloomin’ Onion®! Web sleuths revealed many cities’ Outback locations form a pentagram when connected on a map, and Cincinnati is no exception. In all fairness, it’s super easy to pick five random

Can we talk about the #RealIsRare hipster diamond commercials on TV? They’re basically a direct response to the report that millennials aren’t buying diamonds, a.k.a. Things Millennials Killed No. 46. The edgy, ethereal and oh-so-Instagrammy ads featuring cooler-thanKay-Jewelers couples come from the Diamond Producers Association trade group.

It’s basically a PSA to trick 20-somethings into overvaluing an arbitrary stone!

The commercials highlight diverse ~real~ couples — including two women in the Your next Bloomin’ Onion® could cost you your soul. latest one, #representation I m a g e : S ata n — frolicking around with narration like, “I don’t know if I believe in the institution of marriage, I locations of a chain restaurant and connect don’t know if we’re gonna be together forinto a star. Outback joked about the conspirever but I do know that I love you…” The acy theory on social media, saying its only DPA’s slogan is, “Real is Rare. Real is a Diaplot is to bring Aussie-inspired steaks to the mond,” but we think they should get really masses. OK, then why is the restaurant now real and just change it to “Even though I’m promoting Wiccan Wednesdays? woke, I still expect a fucking diamond.”

SUNDAY JULY 30 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was at a Cubs-Brewers game in Milwaukee Sunday when he began to get heckled by the crowd.

When one Chicago fan told him he sucked, Christie got all up in his grill, calling dude a “big-shot.” This isn’t even the first time he’s been booed at a baseball game this month: Just last week, Christie drew the ire of a crowd at a Mets-Cardinals game after catching a foul ball. This week’s intense (?) moment — predictably caught on camera for all to see — became an instant meme, and one element stood out: the gigantic clear bowl of nachos he clutched while yelling at the guy. Even when Chris Christie causes a scene, pants hiked up to his tits, his snack choice always manages to steal

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This week in questionable decisions: After Trump tweeted about a potential ban on transgender people in the military, The Washington Post revealed that the Pentagon spends five times more on Viagra than transgender medical services; Tomi Lahren admitted to benefitting from Obamacare during a debate with Chelsea Handler at Politicon; the St. Louis Cardinals hosted “Christian Day” at Busch Stadium; 12 inmates used peanut butter to escape an Alabama jail; and Snopes might die in a messy legal battle over a contract dispute.

It would make sense that a fact-checking site would meet its demise in these times of #fakenews.

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Summertime is in full swing. Naturally, everyone is avoiding uncomfortable human interaction so as to avoid any extra sweating. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We categorized some of the most successful and timeless small talk openers and conversation starters to help readers enjoy all-around fantastic interactions with other humans this summer.

Weather

Nice weather today, innit? Fancy a spot of tea? Me neither.

Ever wonder why they’re called windbreakers? Don’t you think throughthe-wind cutters is more suitable?

Transportation

Nice bike. Was it expensive? Mind if I take it for a spin?

How many steps have you taken today? (Good for Fitbitters, but avoid asking ultra-orthodox on Shabbat as this can be construed as accusatory.)

Nice stance! Are those shoes real?

Architecture

Have you seen that building with the big window? That’s a big window!

Food and Drink

What do ya think bout them restaurants?

Mom, what time is supper?

Philosophy

Why do good things happen to bad people?

If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound or is this question just based on pedantry and semantics?

Don’t you think that scrubs are just boring pajamas?

Arts and Leisure

Do you have one of them selfies?

Should I go with bangs or au naturel?

Can you explain photosynthesis to me? I am thinking of buying a plant.

Mind and Body

Shhh. Do you hear that ringing sound?

So there you have it. Use any of these conversation starters when encountering other humans and you’re guaranteed to win the lottery of friendship and romance.

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soliloquies, reminiscences and footnotes, uproarious and mind-boggling, but also arbitrary and self-indulgent.” Thus, her reputation led to the verb-ization of her name: “getting Kakutani’ed,” and she was frequently referenced in pop culture, from Sex and the City to Girls. But the cutting columnist received her share of harsh critiques as well.

Wallace once referred to Kakutani as “a very charming Japanese lady from the New York Times,” while author Norman Mailer called her “a one-woman kamikaze (who) disdains white male writers.” Problematic much?

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Ranting Against Reality

By Ben L. Kaufman

It is a traditional August-type of story; that is, something when nothing else is happening.

That annual summer doldrum, which can trace its lineage to ancient Romans, blew up in 2016 with the presidential race.

Nothing in recent weeks suggests any kind of quiet will be resumed in the world of journalism.

But in the Good Old Days, a reporter would retype the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, frame it as a proposed law, and ask passersby, “Should this be legal?” or something like that.

Too many, maybe even a solid majority, had an opinion but failed to recognize the “proposed” law as a vital part of our Constitution.

Depending on the national mood, freedoms of the press, speech and religion drew the most comment. Lots of respondents to this inter-generational on-thestreet poll were hostile to adding any of that to the national laws.

And if under-30s or minorities were demonstrating for this or that, freedom of assembly could draw negative responses.

This sticks in my mind because of the failure to recognize the First Amendment.

The whole exercise usually ended up as a Sunday feature with graphics and an editorial tut-tutting.

My guess is that the ability to identify key laws and to accept freedom embedded in the First Amendment has declined.

Public discourse — if the cacophony can be called that — reinforces my gloom.

As before, press, speech and religion provoke today’s most heated arguments and least invocation of the actual amendment or modern court decisions affecting our understanding of those freedoms.

All of this came to mind when NPR drew a blizzard of hostility by reading the Declaration of Independence on July 4. I haven’t been able to shake the vitriol and its implications for free speech, free press, free religious practice and the increasingly porous “wall of separation” between church and states.

From what I’ve read online, most of the anger aimed at NPR seemed to come from the political right who encountered it on Twitter.

Not on NPR. It’s probably not on their dial.

It was plain that the complainers didn’t recognize the Declaration of Independence and heard the list of colonial grievances at George III and his agents as attacks on Trump.

This was the first year NPR tweeted the document, line by line, in 113 consecutive posts. It also NPR’s 29th year with the staff reading it.

Some tweeters took down their tweets when they realized they’d made fools of themselves. Others, not so.

• “Propaganda is that all you know how?

Try supporting a man who wants to do something about the Injustice in this country #drainingtheswamp,” wrote @JohnLemos11.

• “Seriously, this is the dumbest idea I have ever seen on twitter,” Twitter user Darren Mills said after NPR had only gotten as far as the Declaration’s dateline. “Literally no one is going to read 5000 tweets about this trash. This is why you’re going to get defunded” — @darren_mills • One user wondered if NPR’s social media accounts had been hacked, and the network lost at least one follower who called the tweets “spam.” “In case you’re missing it, looks like @NPR has been hacked, tweeting like crazy!” — @Trackerinblue • “This is spam I get alerts for NPR tweets because they are important My device is alarming nonstop. unfollowing.”

—@btravan_IT Another user tweeted, “Please stop, this is not the right place.” A user named @BitterDickery tried to clear things up by posting: “Unfortunately people didn’t know it was quoted from the Declaration Of Independence! Our education system is lacking…” @ JustErafel tweeted, “So, NPR is calling for revolution. Interesting way to condone the violence while trying to sound ‘patriotic.’

Your implications are clear.”

The sum of the reactions indicated that most writers were politically conservative if not tragically ignorant. My partisanship aside, how do you reach people with what should be vital political and economic information when there is this astounding lack of appreciation for what used to be called “civics”?

Trying to tell people they’re not as wellinformed as they believe only drives them back into belligerent ignorance: “Who you calling stupid?”

profitable. Otherwise, it would have followed others into history.

It took the internet and online vendors to impoverish The Enquirer and most American dailies. Loss of further ad revenues to the internet put tens of thousands of journalists on the streets and left most readers with shrunken dailies.

A recent Wall Street Journal column said Google and Facebook “account for more than 70 percent of the $73 billion spent each year on digital advertising, and they eat up most of the growth.”

Much of that was ad revenue on which American news media were built.

“The sum of the reactions indicated that most writers were politically conservative if not tragically ignorant.”

Curmudgeon Notes Years ago, The Enquirer watched as Auto Trader and similar startups grabbed its longlucrative classified ads for cars and trucks.

The secret was photos. Auto Trader ran them; The Enquirer didn’t.

It was over before the paper could respond.

The loss of classified ads — the most lucrative in the paper — had begun.

That hurt, but the paper remained

Finally, the newspaper industry is rallying around a strategy that might provide a lifeline, if not robust health.

They want an exemption from anti-trust restraints so they can jointly confront Google and Facebook and regain a larger share of ad revenues. Of course, such open, joint action will bring howls from partisans who’ve always suspected or accused the news media of being in cahoots.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, David Chavern said a united front would allow the news media to push for “stronger intellectual-property protections, better support for subscription models and a fair share of revenue and data — they could build a more sustainable future for the news business.”

Chavern is president and chief executive of the News Media Alliance, a trade association representing approximately 2,000 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. He said the News Media Alliance is proposing a solution: a new law granting a limited safe harbor under antitrust for publishers to negotiate collectively with dominant online platforms.

I love it. Traditionally anti-union publishers want to negotiate better economic terms collectively because they’re too weak individually.

Sounds familiar, but just don’t call their whatever “a union.”

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Cincinnati’s Fraternal Order of Police headquarters in Over-the-Rhine oversight mechanisms for the department, including a Citizen Complaint Authority. The New York Times, The Atlantic and other high-profile publications have applauded the effort, especially as police accountability issues tied to race have exploded into the public consciousness again.

The refresh, according to officials, will measure the progress of the Collaborative and attempt to build upon it. It will also look to ramp up efforts in the community, the city says, including boosting the Citizen Complaint Authority’s role in engaging community members. Those efforts will be monitored by a team of experts, which will deliver a set of action steps the city should take to continue improving policing in Cincinnati.

The CCA and other parts of the Collaborative have struggled with funding cuts, leadership changes and other impediments since federal court oversight of the program ended in 2008. That’s caused consternation from activists.

“Sixteen years later, we have seen improvements in public safety in our city, but there is still much work to do,” Roley said when the refresh was announced. “This evaluation of the Collaborative Agreement will tell us what work needs to be done.”

Policing data shows that CPD has improved in some aspects since 2001 but

that large racial disparities remain in police stops, arrests and officer-involved shootings. The department also hasn’t become much more diverse.

Use of force by CPD has dropped nearly 70 percent in the past 15 years. But disparities in arrests and police shootings have proven stubborn. Seventy-seven percent of felony arrestees were black in 2014 — the same as 2001. And since 2010, 28 black individuals have been involved in officer-involved shootings, while seven white individuals have been involved in similar incidents. The city’s population is 46 percent black.

The FOP’s vote to withdraw from refresh efforts stems from criticism by Hamilton County Prosecutors against CPD Sgt. Shannon Heine during the Tensing trial.

During his closing statement, Hamilton County Prosecutor Seth Tieger accused Heine of treating Tensing with kid gloves and suggested she might be part of a “good old boys network” of cops protecting other cops.

The FOP was not enthused by this suggestion.

“I hope that Mr. Tieger realizes the recklessness of his suggestions about the integrity of CPD Homicide and the work they did on this difficult case,” Hils wrote in a statement following Tieger’s closing

arguments. “I pray that his statements do not inflame more hostility against police.”

Last week, CPD said it was investigating a threat made against Hils after he wrote about Black Lives Matter on Facebook. The source and specific nature of that threat have not been released. BLM organizers say the group hasn’t made any threats and doesn’t advocate for harm to anyone.

Some other CPD officers echoed Hils’ sentiments.

“Shame on you Mr. Tieger,” CPD officer Michael Ammann wrote in an open letter to the prosecutor. “I understand you have a difficult job to do just like us cops, but for you to question Shannon Heine of her integrity in open court is unprofessional.”

A CPD investigation found Heine didn’t commit any wrongdoing during her testimony. Roley and Gerhardstein filed with the CCA asking it to look into Heine’s treatment of Tensing during her investigation into DuBose’s death. Shortly after, the FOP voted to leave the refresh efforts.

Even before the recent rift over Tensing, Hils and the FOP had a tense relationship with police accountability efforts. In January, Hils posted a picture of himself CONTINUES ON PAGE 13

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chain of events stemming from the Ray Tensing trial has put efforts to strengthen the city’s much-lauded 15-year-old police reform efforts on thin ice with one of its major players — Fraternal Order of Police Queen City Lodge 69.

The controversy has the potential to hobble the historic Collaborative Agreement that has made Cincinnati a national touchstone for police reforms. It could also have political ramifications.

The FOP represents the more than 1,000 officers serving with the Cincinnati Police Department. On June 2, FOP president Dan Hils stood at City Hall with police reform activists like Iris Roley, as well as CPD Chief Eliot Isaac, Mayor John Cranley, City Manager Harry Black and others, to announce a refresh of the Collaborative.

But by July 24, FOP members had voted to withdraw from those efforts.

CPD spokesman Eric Frantz stressed the department’s commitment to the refresh, but did not elaborate on CityBeat questions about ways the FOP’s exit could hamper those efforts. But another police group representing CPD’s roughly 300 black officers, The Sentinels, say the FOP’s actions put the Collaborative at risk.

Sentinels President Eddie Hawkins has slammed the FOP’s refusal to cooperate in the refresh.

“Collaborative policing has worked in Cincinnati and it is now in danger,” he wrote in an open letter in which he pointed out that many of the FOP members who voted were retired officers. “All of us should be concerned — officers and citizens alike.”

Hils says he’s working with the FOP’s executive committee to get another vote on rejoining the refresh efforts, but doesn’t know when — or if — that will happen.

“I think the process is only legitimate if we are at the table,” Hils told CityBeat in an email. “Hopefully we can find our way back there.”

Cincinnati has received big plaudits for the 2002 Collaborative Agreement, a set of police reform efforts put in place under federal court guidance. The agreement was hammered out by the city, its police department, activists like Roley of the Black United Front and civil rights attorney Al Gerhardstein. It arose after racially charged police shootings here, including the 2001 police shooting of unarmed 19-year-old Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati Police officer Stephen Roach. That shooting caused days of unrest in Over-the-Rhine.

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As the only known candidate to become the U.S. Justice Department’s top lawyer in the southern half of Ohio, Greg Hartmann has a lot going for him.

Hartmann, a former assistant Hamilton County prosecutor, Board of County Commission member and clerk of courts, is first and foremost a Republican, and the path toward becoming U.S. attorney in Ohio is controlled by Republicans. The seeming clincher, though, came when he was recommended not only by Ohio’s Republican senator, Rob Portman, but by Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown as well.

But that was almost six months ago.

Justin Herdman, a Cleveland lawyer whom the senators recommended as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, was nominated by President Donald Trump in June. He breezed past the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 20 and faces what will undoubtedly be a friendly confirmation by the full Senate.

Since June 12, Trump has nominated 29 U.S. attorneys in all and is announcing nominees in “waves” every week or two, most recently July 21. Through four such waves, Hartmann’s name has yet to turn up.

The holdup on Hartmann, who is now in private practice in Cincinnati, has spawned whispers that the White House might be looking at a Candidate B. Hartmann is tight with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a 2016 Republican presidential primary challenger who was and remains a Trump irritant. Hartmann was a Kasich delegate at the Ohio GOP convention and twice — in 2010 and 2014 — led Kasich’s gubernatorial campaign in Hamilton County.

Yet Hartmann’s future on the Trump map could come down to his own public utterances. In December 2015, when the Republican nomination was still wide open, Hartmann made it clear that he wasn’t for Trump.

“He’s the most offensive public figure I’ve seen,” The Cincinnati Enquirer quoted him as saying. “I couldn’t support him. I don’t support anything he says.”

In the same interview, Hartmann disputed Trump’s standing as a Republican.

As late as mid-July 2016, after Trump won the Republican primary, Hartmann was still nauseous at the prospect of a Trump presidency.

But just one month later, in August, Hartmann did a full about-face. He joined the Hamilton County Republican Party executive committee’s endorsement of Trump in the general election against Hillary Clinton. By January, Hartmann had trained himself to pay homage to Trump.

“That is the beauty of the 2016 Trump election: Hope does not only wear blue,” he wrote for the Enquirer. The reversal of loyalty earned Hartmann a spot at Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C. Hartmann, who has been silent on his Twitter account about his U.S. attorney prospects, did not return CityBeat’s phone calls for comment. Alex Triantafilou, chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party, did not respond to emails. A Portman spokeswoman would not say if the senator is aware or not of any unexpected delays in the Hartmann nomination.

One not reluctant to weigh in on the slow-mo nomination was Tim Burke, the Hamilton County Democratic Party chairman. “It is at best curious,” he says. “Perhaps he hasn’t passed the Trump loyalty test, but, then again, neither apparently does the attorney general.” (James McNair)

Library to Decommission Building at Downtown Location The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Board of Directors voted last month to close the north building at its downtown location and consolidate services in its south building at Ninth and Vine streets.

The Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation will help the library find a buyer for the property, which is located on valuable downtown real estate.

A committee of the board approved the move in fall 2016 as part of a larger $54 million facilities plan.

Among its recommendations: moving forward on a central and separate operations center for the Library and around $18 million in maintenance work for some of the library’s branch facilities.

Employees were notified via an October 2016 email that the north building would be decommissioned.

“At today’s Board meeting the library Board of Trustees took initial steps toward the library’s most significant Facilities Plan ever,” the email reads. “The result of 18 months of work by members of Senior Leadership and architects, the plan will address many facilities needs of our library. The final piece then is what to do with the north building. ” The plan does not involve layoffs, according to those emails and documents from the library’s board.

The library’s north building is just 20 years old. The property could be purchased to develop condos, apartments or commercial space.

It cost the library $7.7 million in 1997 to buy the block of land and another $31.4 million to construct the building and renovate the neighboring south building.

Appraisers say the structure is worth $8.48 million today. (Nick Swartsell)

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to Facebook standing in the dark. One of Hils’ fists is balled up around a lighter. In his other hand, he holds a burning copy of The Cincinnati Enquirer that featured an investigative story on police use of force.

“Another story designed to create mistrust between community and police,” Hils wrote.

Hils has also been critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, including Cincinnati’s BLM group, which is independent from other chapters. Last week, he made a post to pro-police Facebook group Support the Blue suggesting BLM focus on the 32 unsolved murders of black Cincinnatians this year and pointed out that none of them involved police. Law enforcement supporters cheered the sentiment — the post received hundreds of likes and shares — but it further inflamed tension between the FOP and the Sentinels.

“To tell black people that they must remain quiet, even if they feel a police-involved shooting is unjustified, until Cincinnati Police solve all cold-case murders is absurd,” Sentinels head Hawkins wrote in his letter.

The situation means that Cincinnati’s two Democratic mayoral contenders, Mayor Cranley and his challenger, Councilwoman Yvette Simpson, must navigate the tensions between advocates for racial justice — a big election year issue — and the city’s police union, a powerful political force in Cincinnati.

Cranley, who pushed through a pay raise for police outside the city’s usual collective bargaining practices and won an endorsement from the FOP, has been fairly quiet following the dismissal of charges against Tensing.

Cranley has actively promoted the refresh of the Collaborative and expressed disappointment in the lack of a conviction for Tensing. The mayor’s office did not reply to a request for comment on the situation between the FOP, the Sentinels, racial justice activists and CPD. City Manager Black released a statement following the FOP’s vote expressing City Hall’s disappointment but promising the refresh would go forward regardless.

Simpson, meanwhile, released a statement praising the work police do and also imploring the FOP to come back to the table.

“The Cincinnati Police Department does an extraordinary job,” Simpson wrote in a statement following the FOP’s vote.

“For 15 years, the community’s improved relationship with our police department has come with the full support of the police union, which represents all officers, including the rank-and-file. This is not the time to leave the conversation. I sincerely hope the FOP reconsiders its position and agrees to do what is best for our community and our officers.” ©

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The thought of trying something new entices your foodie cravings and warrants constant ventures to new and eclectic restaurants. But how far does your fascination with food really extend?

A host of local eateries pose a question to the city’s most adventurous diners: Can you consume a humorously large dish in an insanely short amount of time? These (frankly foreboding) food challenges are worthy of only the most voracious patrons — think 7-pound pizzas, 11-patty burgers and an 8-pound plate of chili. If you succeed, you’ll get your enormous dish for free and a coveted spot on that restaurant’s Hall of Fame (and maybe even a T-shirt!). But if you fail, expect too many leftovers to fit in your fridge, a high probability of some embarrassing pictures on social media and what’s likely to be the worst stomachache you’ve ever encountered.

Brave eaters, read on (and maybe stock up on some TUMS): These local restaurants are calling your name. Ask your server for specific rules and make sure to call 24-48 hours in advance so staff has time to prepare.

BARDZILLA CHALLENGE The Place: Bard’s Burgers (3620 Decoursey Ave., Covington, Ky., 859-866-6017, facebook.com/bardsburgers1) The Feat: Take on the 11-patty Bardzilla burger, plus a pound of fries and a shake ($40) The Time Frame: 60 minutes The Bardzilla is back and bigger than ever. When Bard’s Burgers reopened after a two-year closure in October of 2015, owner Jordan Stephenson resurrected the previous iteration’s Bardzilla Challenge, but with a twist. “When we reopened Bard’s, we figured people would come in bragging they had beaten it back in the day, so we knew we had to make it slightly tougher,” he says. “So we added the extra patty.” That’s right: If 10 cheesy patties weren’t difficult enough to consume, you now have to finish off 11 — each weighing a third of a pound — to champion this endeavor. Complete with extra cheese, lettuce and pickles, plus a pound of fries and a 16-ounce shake, the beast of a burger was even featured on the Food Network’s Ginormous Food, with host Josh Denny visiting the restaurant to check out the challenge himself. One hundred people have attempted to tackle the Bardzilla, but only three have been successful — although some have come painfully close, such as one heartbroken diner Stephenson recalls in particular. “He smashed the whole thing down really hard and there was an insane explosion of juice out the sides. It was like nothing I had ever seen,” he says. “Then he smashed the whole burger in 10 minutes and came one fry short of victory.”

NO FREAKIN’ WAY CHALLENGE The Place: Blue Ash Chili (9565 Kenwood Road, Blue Ash, 513-984-6107; 4200 Aero Drive, Mason, 513-492-9650; 11711 Princeton Pike, Tri-County, 513873-4663, blueashchili.com) The Feat: Conquer an 8-pound plate of Cincinnati-style chili ($39.99) The Time Frame: 60 minutes Two and a half pounds of spaghetti. Two and a half pounds of premium chili.

Two pounds of shredded cheddar cheese. A pound of jalapeño caps. That’s a lot of chili, and you’ll need to clean your plate to conquer Blue Ash Chili’s No Freakin’ Way challenge. The restaurant is known just as much for its eclecticism — the flagship Blue Ash store channels an old-fashioned diner with classic records lining the walls — as it is for its Cincinnati-style chili served 3, 4, 5 or 6 ways; the latter was even featured on Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-ins & Dives in 2010. But if six ways (a standard serving of spaghetti, chili, cheese, onions, beans and sliced jalapeños or fried bottle caps) just doesn’t cut it, the No Freakin’ Way Challenge takes things to the next, larger level. Eighty-three people have attempted the challenge — including Josh Denny of the Food Network’s Ginormous Food — but only five have won. Not even Denny was victorious.

LEGEND OF THE DRUNKEN FIREMAN

Behold the Fireman Pizza: a behemoth of a pie measuring 20 inches in diameter and weighing in at a whopping 7 pounds. Co-owner Greg Routhier says the dish is inspired by a gargantuan pie once ordered up by four hungry firemen. “The legend came to be when four off-duty firemen, enervated by their rigorous but heroic duties, stopped by to enjoy a few cold beers and some hot, fresh pizza,” he says. “The four heroes, unable to agree on toppings, boldly chose every single one available.” That extensive list of 20 toppings includes pepperoni, Italian sausage, ham, beef, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, olives, pineapple, extra cheese and green, jalapeño and banana peppers; when plopped on a pizza, all those toppings measure nearly 3 inches high. The staff was flabbergasted when the firemen finished off the pizza completely, inspiring the restaurant to challenge hungry patrons to do the same. Seven have attempted the feat, but only one has succeeded. “This challenge is not for the faint of heart or those with a sensitive palate,” Routhier warns. “Choose your beverage wisely…”

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The Place: Giuseppe’s Pizza (2607 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., 859-814-8444, eatattheg.com) The Feat: Finish an entire 7-pound Fireman Pizza ($50) The Time Frame: 59 minutes

INTERN CHALLENGE: RAMUNDO’S PIZZERIA The Place: Ramundo’s Pizzeria (3166 Linwood Ave., Mount Lookout, 513-321-0978, ramundospizzeria.com) The Feat: Two people team up to finish off a 26-inch pizza ($50) • The Time Frame: 10 minutes One-and-a-half pounds of dough, 1 pound of sauce, 2 pounds of cheese and a choice of two toppings stand between two teammates and victory in this cheesy challenge.

To win, participants have to eat every last crumb, strand of cheese and “floater” — any stray pieces of food that break off into your glass if you soften a slice by dipping it in water. Yum. Only an estimated 10 percent of those who attempt the task prevail, according to general manager Brian Seibert. “A lot of people get about halfway,” he says.

“They start out fast and then get slow. People last week started out super fast and I thought that they were going to finish in time, and they threw in with a minute left.”

Our (understandably tentative) interns were the first all-female participants to attack the massive pies; they split off into two teams, pitting Team Meat-Eaters against Team Vegetarians. Despite a valiant effort, we weren’t surprised — or disappointed — when they returned to the office with a few hefty to-go boxes.

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Waiting outside of the restaurant scared and unprepared, the four of us discussed our methods: I would take small bites and spend less time chewing, Elisabeth would stack her slices and Mackenzie would rely on the method of prayer. Grace just laughed; she knew this Herculean task was beyond any trick she could pull out of her sleeve. One slice was the length of my forearm and about as wide as my skull. Two minutes in, I finished my first slice, leaving the other girls in the dust. But by the time I finished my second, they were catching up. On the third, I said how disgustAdvice: Choose light toppings and an ing I felt for eating the most pizza so far. With 30 experienced teammate. Eat breakfast seconds left, I couldn’t do it anymore — when the and don’t drink too much water! timer went off, I felt nauseous, bloated and heavy.

Although neither team finished in 10 minutes, Elisabeth and I ate the most pizza, so I guess we’re sort of the winners? But we still lost to our own stomachs. A food-eating contest is fun in theory, but unless you train your stomach in advance, there’s no way you’re winning this thing. — AMANDA WEISBROD The idea seemed pretty easy at first: Finish a 26-inch pizza, totaling 3 pounds of cheesy, bready goodness, in 10 minutes. I had very few doubts about my ability to eat something 1/45th my size. But two minutes into the challenge, with my mouth full of pizza and listening to a chorus of glutinous groans from my fellow interns, I realized I was very, very wrong. Amanda and I split our toppings. Pepperoni and olives for me; pineapple and ham for her. Three minutes until our time was up and I was only one-and-a-half pieces in. Pitiful. I attempted to fold the Advice: It’s important to start slow and pizza in half, but it did nothing to outsmart eat before to stretch out your stomach. I came my body. The colossal amount of cheese in starving, but it caused me to start fast and and grease it resulted in was the last fill up even faster. Also, don’t put pineapple on straw. In the end, I happily took the L and your pizza — it works for flatbread but has no a Pizza Challenge T-shirt to commemorate place on this savory monstrosity. the experience. — ELISABE TH DODD

The Vegetarians

My average time for eating one slice of pizza is 10 minutes (the same as our time limit).

I eat slow, and like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, I believe steady wins the race.

Hell, I should have bought miniature turtles to hand out at Ramundo’s. The pizzeria was compact, but the 26-inch pizza was not. I peered down at the gulf of cheese beneath me with banana peppers and spinach tangled in pockets of grease. The massive pizza was Goliath, but I am not David. No, I couldn’t tame it, but I did beat my own Advice: Make sure you have a average: I downed approximately 1.5 slices place to take a nap afterward; a (in my defense the slices were the size of my food coma is sure to commence. forearm) by rolling the slices up like a burrito.

Afterward, my head swimming because of the sudden intake of carbs, I grimaced for a photo. My failure will forever be marked on the wall of Ramundo’s Pizzeria. Sorry, Ma. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

I was never confident in my ability to complete this challenge, but until this behemoth of a pizza was placed in front of me, I had no idea what I was up against. I’m talking a pizza of biblical proportions — the behemoth that made an example of the power of God. It was fitting that Mackenzie chose prayer as her primary tactic. We needed it.

My main approach was folding slices in half — a tip that comes straight from Ramundo’s website. They recommend folding, stacking and dipping your slice in water. But I could have done a bit more research to prepare. I opted for no breakfast; just coffee.

The caffeine could be to blame for my shaking hands… or maybe it was the fear.

Either way, I shouldn’t have gone into an eating competition on an empty stomach. I had nearly a whole slice down in two minutes, but by piece two I hit a wall. My remaining time was spent Advice: Don’t go in half-heartedly attempting a second slice. In a shameful expecting to win. display, I didn’t finish it. — GRACE HILL

UBER TERMINATOR CHALLENGE The Place: Mecklenburg Gardens (302 E. University Ave., Clifton, 513-221-5353, mecklenburgs.com) The Feat: Consume a “super hot” 2-pound mettwurst measuring over 30 inches long ($25) The Time Frame: 60 minutes More than 100 challengers have faced The Terminator since Tom McKenna, a regular customer and longtime friend of the restaurant, came up with the idea for it about 10 years ago. “Tom was part of the first Terminator Challenge with professional eater Jammin’ Joe LaRue,” says Grace Harten, Mecklenburg’s marketing and events manager. “Jammin’ Joe managed to rise to the challenge twice, finishing the entire entrée within 6 minutes.” Because few stomachs are as ravenous as LaRue’s, The Terminator can also be ordered sliced and be split to share in-house or for carryout. Since the mettwurst was featured on the Food Network’s Ginormous Food in February, Harten says the restaurant has prepared 10 Terminators: six for challenges and the rest for carryout. Every challenger to date has been a man, but, according to Harten, the future is female. “No female has yet mustered the courage to face the Terminator, but we are confident she is out there,” she says. The Terminator comes topped with 2 pounds of grilled green and red peppers, sweet onions and sauerkraut, all on a 2-pound bun.

The Place: Izzy’s (multiple locations) The Feat: Finish off a gargantuan 110 Reuben and side of pickles ($19.99) The Time Frame: 30 minutes Izzy’s is celebrating 110 years of serving up their “world’s greatest Reubens” by concocting a sandwich of epic proportions. A super-sized potato pancake, a pound of Izzy’s Famous Corned Beef, crispy sauerkraut, Izzy’s special dressing and melty Swiss cheese are all smushed between a baked poppy seed loaf and situated alongside a jumbo helping of sliced kosher pickles. Less-adventurous eaters, fear not: The 110 Reuben is also available for parties and events or simply to share with some friends. Izzy’s will slice it up and provide it for $29.99 (the price is reduced $10 for anyone taking the challenge). Don’t miss out on this appetizing beast: The competition only runs through the restaurant’s 110th year. ©

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ONSTAGE: Know Theatre’s MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD bends gender roles. See Curtain Call on page 23.

MUSIC: TEGAN AND SARA play Madison Theater. See Sound Advice on page 34.

ONSTAGE: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE How to raise your spirits when you’re feeling blue? A musical-theater lover might listen to a favorite cast recording. That’s what a “Man in a Chair” does in this send-up of a jaunty, made-up Jazz Age musical. As he listens, the show comes to life around him with a madcap story of an impending wedding, complicated by gangsters, a Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone. Delightful song-and-dance numbers make this fine summer entertainment. As the man, Van Ackerman reprises a role he was born to play, one he knocked out of the park for another company three years ago. Through Aug. 27. $29 adults; $26 students/seniors.

Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre, 801 Matson Place, East Price Hill, cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com. — RICK PENDER

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MUSIC: Rock duo ROYAL BLOOD plays Bogart’s. See Sound Advice on page 34.

EVENT: WORLD’S LONGEST YARD SALE Shop the most impressive yard sale of the year! Covering more than 690 miles from Addison, Mich. to Gadsden, Ala. along Highway 127, this is truly the world’s longest yard sale. Locally, the sale has a hub in Covington’s MainStrasse, but see more vendors along Hamilton Avenue in Northside and at the Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in North College Hill. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. ThursdaySunday. Free. Sixth Street Promenade, Covington, Ky., mainstrasse.org, 127sale. com. — ELISABETH DODD

Festival Park, Riverboat Row, Newport, Ky., goettafest.com. — MACKENZIE MANLEY MUSIC: HANS ZIMMER LIVE The famous composer — only a Tony short of an EGOT — is coming to Cincinnati.

Missed his much-lauded performance at Coachella? No worries: Zimmer is bringing a similar show to U.S. Bank Arena, sans flower-crowned audience. Enjoy a twopart concert presenting classic Zimmercomposed film scores from Gladiator, The Lion King and Pirates of the Caribbean with newer reimagined versions of music from Inception, The Dark Night and more.

And, like a Taylor Swift concert, you never know what famous musical guest Zimmer will bring out next. See Sound Advice on page 35. 8 p.m. Thursday. $45-$125. U.S. Bank Arena, 100 Broadway St., Downtown, usbankarena.com. — ELISABETH DODD

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EVENT: The free PRICE HILL CREATIVE COMMUNITY FESTIVAL celebrates the accomplishments of MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra with the CAC and artists-in-residence. See feature on page 25.

EVENT: ROCK N’ ROLL AGAINST DIRTY COAL LIVE BAND KARAOKE CHALLENGE Friday night, watch 13 performers sing their hearts out at Northside Tavern’s Rock N’ Roll Against Dirty Coal karaoke challenge with band Sexy Time (from the bar’s infamous Sexy Time Live Band Karaoke nights).

This contest pits singers against each other to raise funds and votes via a crowdrise. com fundraising page. Winners — based on monetary sponsorships and karaoke performance — receive bragging rights and a homemade trophy. Proceeds from all votes/

donations will benefit Ohio Citizen Action’s campaign to break Ohio’s dependence on coal plants and promote clean, efficient and renewable energy usage. 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

Friday. $20 donation; $10 to karaoke bewteen competitors. Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsidetav. com. — AMANDA WEISBROD EVENT: DELHI SKIRT GAME Feast on brats, metts, hamburgers, hot dogs or LaRosa’s Pizza and wash your food down with a cold beer while raising money for families with special needs in Delhi Township. In its 40th year, the charity softball game — this year’s theme is “What was old is now new again” — is played by men comfortable enough in their masculinity to don a wig, put on some lipstick, slip on a dress and head to the ballpark for charitable fun.

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EVENT: GLIER’S GOETTAFEST Where there’s goetta, Cincinnatians are sure to gather. Made with pinhead oats, pork and beef scraps and formed into a patty, this sizzling favorite is rooted both in German ancestry and Queen City history. Since 2001, Newport on the Levee’s Festival Park has transformed into a maze of goetta variants: goetta pizza, goetta egg rolls, goetta burgers, goetta donuts, goetta grilled cheese and even a goetta vending machine (perfect for a quirky photo-op). Aside from food, the festival boasts live music, a mechanical bull, a kids’ zone, face painting and more. 5-11 p.m. Thursday-Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday. Free admission.

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ART: WORK SURFACE AT THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER’S UNMUSEUM Matt Lynch, associate professor of sculpture at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, and Curtis Goldstein, a Columbus-based painter, sculptor and muralist, joined forces to create more than a dozen large-scale murals out of Formica laminate inspired by Winold Reiss’ iconic heroes of industry murals from the 1930s (formerly installed at Union Terminal and now on view at the convention center) but with a contemporary approach. For this installation at the CAC’s UnMuseum, the artists created figures and objects that attach to the scene via magnets to encourage visitors to create their own “industrial drama.” Moveable pieces include a mop and bucket, a worker in a hazmat suit, a box of donuts and even some small fires. Opening reception 1-2 p.m. Saturday. Free. Contemporary Arts Center, 44 E. Sixth St., Downtown, contemporaryartscenter.org. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER

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EVENT: OHIO RIVER PADDLEFEST Last year, more than 1,800 paddlers took to the Ohio River for the annual Paddlefest. Be a part of the new record and bring a kayak, canoe or stand-up paddleboard of your own.

The 9-mile course leads from the East End’s Schmidt Recreation Complex to Gilday Riverside Park on the West Side. Register and stage your boat at Schmidt Friday, then stick around for an all-night camping party and take off the next morning. When you make it to Covington Landing, you’re halfway there with a Half Way Celebration complete with music, refreshments and porta potties. When you’ve had your fill of that fun, get back in your boat. The Finish Line Festival promises more live music, food, beer, refreshments and vendors. 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Registration $15-$45. Schmidt Recreation Complex, 2944 Humbert Ave., East End, ohioriverpaddlefest.org. — GRACE HILL

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CLASSICAL MUSIC: SUMMERMUSIK presents bagpipes, Beethoven, Bowie and bar crawls. See feature on page 22.

Workshops  Live Painting  Fire Spinners  Anadono  Illumination Station Daily Yoga Classes  Fairy Village  Daily Yoga Classes  Children’s Activities Family Camping  VIP/RV Camping

MUSIC: Locals HARBOUR present Sunfest at Madison Theater and Madison Live.

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MUSIC: NAPPY ROOTS There has been some talk recently about how the concept of a “group” in Hip Hop is a thing of the past, with the most successful artists of the genre today being solo performers. Someone forgot to tell Nappy Roots, which formed in Bowling Green, Ky. in the late ’90s and hasn’t stopped. Nappy Roots’ Southern-flavored sound earned them a Platinum debut album in 2002 with Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz, and though they haven’t experienced the same mainstream success of early singles like “Po’ Folks,” the group has made the most of its independent status. Another 40 Akerz, the group’s latest, shows not only a lyrical maturity,

but also continues the crew’s growth as a musical unit, dropping elements of modern Electronic music into the mix. 9:30 p.m.

Saturday. $15; $18 day of show. Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, woodwardtheater.com. — MIKE BREEN EVENT: MILFORD STREET EATS Milford is the place to be Saturday when midday hunger hits. Join the city for its fifthannual food truck rally. This time around, nearly two dozen trucks will make their way to downtown Milford. Grab gourmet grilled cheese, gumbo, cupcakes, crepes and so much more. Local favorites in attendance include C’est Cheese, Chicken Mac Truck, Texas Joe, Kimmer’s Italianette, SugarSnap! and LeCreParis. Old Firehouse Brewery, Mt. Carmel Brewing Company and MadTree will bring the brews. 3-10 p.m. Saturday. Free Admission. 701 Chamber Drive, Milford, milfordstreeteats.com. — GRACE HILL EVENT: OTR COMMUNITY FESTIVAL Celebrate Over-the-Rhine’s diversity of residents, community organizations and businesses at the 32nd-annual OTR Community Festival. Enjoy food, drinks, games, free entertainment and each other’s company as you build friendships and relationships with your fellow OTR neighbors. Get there by 3 p.m. to watch the talent contest, which will

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EVENT: SUGAR RUSH You don’t have to be a child to feel like a kid in a candy store. CityBeat’s sweetest celebration returns to Playhouse in the Park with local eateries serving up everything from cupcakes, ice cream and candy to donuts, coffee and pastries. Participating vendors include Nothing Bundt Cakes, BLOC Coffee Company, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Holtman’s, Tres Belle Cakes and many others. Vote for your favorite treat of the night — the winner will receive bragging rights and an award to display at their shop.

A panel of expert judges will also dole out special recognitions for the most creative concoctions. Proceeds from the event benefit the Playhouse and the Cincinnati Ballet.

5:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday. $20; free children 8 and under. Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams, citybeat.com. — EMILY BEGLEY

feature acts by kids ages 4 to 18. Noon-6 p.m. Saturday. Free. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark.org. — AMANDA WEISBROD

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COMEDY: TRUTH SERUM: COMEDY GAME SHOW “I wanted to do a show that would encourage comics to think of something that’s not typically in their act,” says comedian Kelly Collette, who hosts the Truth Serum game show at MOTR Pub. “I really wanted to encourage them to think of an outrageous true story that happened that seemed like no one would believe. Or they could make a story up that seemed believable.” From there, the audience decides what’s true and what’s not.

Once the audience makes its decision, the host and comics reveal the answer. The person who guesses the most correctly wins a prize. Collette, a touring stand-up, never fancied herself a game show host, but wanted to create a show that would allow comics to stretch their legs. 7-9 p.m. Monday. Free.

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been an uncommon, often curious ride from teenage Metal head to newspaper reporter to acclaimed memoirist (2001’s Fargo Rock City) and cultural critic to magazine profiler (at Spin and Esquire, among others) to New York Times Magazine’s “The Ethicist” columnist to novelist. No matter the topic or forum, Klosterman’s prose is clear and conversational, shot through a nimble and often unconventional mind. The North Dakota native’s latest non-fiction book, But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, investigates how those in the distant future will view our contemporary world. Klosterman discusses the book and likely more when he visits the Mercantile Library for the organization’s 2035 Lecture.

(As of July 24, the event was listed as sold out on the Mercantile’s Facebook.) 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Free for members; $10 for nonmembers. Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut St., 11th floor, Downtown, mercantilelibrary.com. — JASON GARGANO

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Summermusik: Bagpipes, Beethoven and Bowie

Eckart Preu, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s new music director, takes over the popular Classical series

BY Anne Arenstein

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ast October, shortly after the conclusion of its popular Summermusik programming, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra announced the appointment of Eckart Preu as its fifth music director. Days later, Preu (pronounced “proy”) began planning for the CCO’s third year of Summermusik, which offers Classical music with a contemporary twist. The results of that effort begin Saturday and continue through Aug. 26.

This year’s lineup reflects Preu’s eclectic approach, featuring the familiar and the unexpected performed at venues large and small. “Unpredictability is really important to me,” he says, speaking by phone from his home in Spokane, Wash. “You know you’ll be hearing something off the beaten path when you come to us.”

And he wants everyone to have a good time. “Much of this music was written to entertain,” he says. “Having fun at a concert should be the rule, not the exception.”

Overall, Summermusik has 13 concerts — a complete schedule is at ccocincinnati. org. It kicks off on Saturday with Scottish Landscapes at Corbett Theater inside the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

“I really wanted to do this program because it’s so weird!” Preu says with a laugh. “It isn’t the first country that comes to mind when you think of Classical music.”

This concert features Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op.56, known as the “Scottish”— the 19th-century German composer was inspired by the Scottish landscape. As for the unexpected, there will be Peter Maxwell Davies’ 1985 composition “An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise.” It includes bagpipes, with Karen May, pipe major of the local Caledonian Pipes & Drum Band, as the featured soloist. Also, Mozart’s Violin Concert No. 3 will be performed by Angelo Xiang Yu. The following weekend, on Aug. 12 at the Corbett, Summermusik’s Celestial Voyage concert will feature Dean Regas, outreach astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory, as commentator for NASA images from space, which will be shown throughout the concert. The program’s music will feature Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C Major (“Jupiter”), Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor performed by University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music faculty member Ran Dank and a section from Les Élémens, an eerily contemporarysounding work composed in 1737 by the aptly named Jean-Féry Rebel.

Kepler’s Cosmos by Preu’s brother, HansPeter, will also receive its world premiere; it is inspired by German astronomer

Eckart Preu will conduct, program concerts and even play harpsichord during Summermusik.

Johannes Kepler’s treatise Harmonices Mundi (ca. 1618).

“Kepler created scales based on planetary movements and those really interested me, ” Preu says. “I asked my brother to compose this piece because I could communicate with him exactly what I wanted.”

The concert concludes with David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” arranged by Scot Woolley.

The Venetian Madcap Musica concert takes place at the Corbett on Aug. 19, with pieces by Venetian-based Baroque comp­ osers and works inspired by the city’s sensual aura.

“It’s a really weird mixture of composers, but they all relate to each other,” Preu says. “I think we’ve created an interesting program by putting them in context.”

Venetian composers Tomaso Albinoni, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi are featured in the first half, followed by Gustav Mahler’s luminous “Adagietto” his from Symphony No. 5 and Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite, featuring life-size puppets from longtime CCO collaborators Madcap Puppets.

“As far as I know, Pulcinella has never been done with puppets,” Preu says. “I don’t know what will happen. It’s scary but it’s also freeing because that’s what art is all about — going with the moment.”

The final Summermusik concert, at the Corbett Theater on Aug. 26, is called Immortal Beloved and features “musical longing for love.” It opens with the third movement from Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 3, with choreography from MamLuft&Co. dancers. CCM faculty member Alon Goldstein then performs Mozart’s Piano Concert No. 20, and later returns with MamLuft for The Messenger by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov.

“After I watched some of MamLuft’s videos online, I thought this would be perfect for free-spirited, unscripted dance (with) the Glass and Silvestrov pieces,” Preu says.

“Both are narrative in a way and yet very free.”

The program concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F major, a work closely linked with Beethoven’s famous “Immortal Beloved” love letter, impassionedly written but never delivered. Excerpts will be read.

Summermusik’s popular (A Little) Afternoon Music series is already partially sold out, and Chamber Crawls, curated by CCO musicians, are close to capacity. Preu looks forward to playing harpsichord with the CCO for the (A Little) Afternoon Music concert The Vivaldi Effect, at The Barn Art Gallery in Mariemont on Aug. 20, for reasons beyond performing. (A 2 p.m. show was added after the 4 p.m. one sold out.)

“It connects us. I’m more part of a team and it frees them to work with me in a different way,” Preu says. “We don’t really know each other, and there’s no better way than actually playing with them to make that happen. I hope for more opportunities to do this.”

Preu says that the orchestra’s spirit and resiliency were major factors in his decision to accept the music directorship.

“I led the final concert last year and I expected them to be tired and stressed,” he says. “Seeing the pride and enthusiasm in what they do really impressed me. I expected a high level of musicianship, but their spirit was amazing.”

Preu has a three-year contract with the CCO. He also leads orchestras in Spokane and Long Beach, Calif., and is winding down his tenure with the Stamford Symphony in Connecticut.

Working with multiple ensembles provides opportunities that he hopes to bring to the CCO. “I find it enriching to have more than one community to take care of,” he says. “I learn so much from each orchestra that I can bring to the others.”

SUMMERMUSIK 2017 runs Saturday through Aug. 26 at multiple locations. Tickets/more information: ccocincinnati.org.

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Girl Power in Sherwood Forest

BY Rick PEnder

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Every year around this time, Know Geoffrey Barnes is the treacherous Sheriff Theatre gets a head start on the local theater of Nottingham and the randy Friar Tuck. The season with light-hearted summer entertainshow’s multiple roles can get a tad confusing ment. In 2015 and 2016, the Over-the-Rhine as several actors switch from one part to company that produces the annual Fringe another, although that’s not too far removed Festival staged contemporary musicals. This from the fluidity of characters whose emomonth, it’s offering a show that’s rooted in a tions and behavior bely their gender. traditional tale, but has very contemporary Chris Wesselman plays the dimwitted values. While what it has to say isn’t terribly giant Little John. He worries, “Am I being too profound, it’s a lot of fun to watch. merry?” but there’s no mistaking his gender.

Know is presenting Adam Szymkowicz’s It takes him a while to sort out Robin/MarMarian, Or the True Tale of Robin Hood, ian, both of whom he loves and admires as giving the work only its second staging. Its separate individuals. Wesselman, who has world premiere happened in New York City brought zany energy to other roles for Know, earlier this year with an Off-Off Broadway actually turns in a sweet, affecting perforproduction by the Flux Theatre Ensemble. Szymkowicz wrote Hearts Like Fists, a tongue-in-cheek script about super-heroine crime fighters that Know staged in 2015.

Powerful women are also the central characters in this new work. In fact, in Szymkowicz’s retelling, Maid Marian is Robin Hood and the majority of the “Merry Men” are feisty women. Maggie Lou Rader, who has turned in performances as spunky women for Know and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Greg Mallios and Maggie Lou Rader in Marian takes on the scrappy title P H O T O : d a n r . w i n t e r s photo g r a ph y role — robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, as the legend has it — with the added twist of girl mance as a gentle man trying to sort out a power. The spirit of necessity in carrying world that doesn’t always make sense to him. out the mission of Robin Hood keeps MarIn the play’s final 20 minutes or so, ian focused and she ensures that the legend Szymkowicz superimposes some themes will be perpetuated. about love and constancy that are decidThat continuity falls to Alanna Dale. (Sevedly modern and feel rather superficially eral characters have female names derived applied. There’s amusement in this overlay from the legend’s outlaws, such as Alanbut, despite the humor and occasional a-Dale.) Leah Strasser plays an ambitious bewilderment, it takes the action around and accomplished archer who yearns to an unexpected and rather far-fetched bend become part of Robin’s band, not immediwith the sentiment that “everyone should be ately realizing that most of her partners-inallowed to be in love.” knavery are, like her, women posing as men.

Director Alice Flanders has staged Mar(She doubles as the show’s witty narrator, ian with inventive energy and given her cast delivering frequent asides to the audience.) a lot of room for comic moments, so the Alanna is the source of numerous amusing production is always engaging. Jonn Baca’s and gender-bending moments, especially fight choreography provides several chaotic when her combative relationship with Will scenes of humorous combat. Andrew HunScarlet (Candice Handy) turns the corner gerford’s clever scenic design provides a lot to something decidedly different, with each of horizontal space for raucous combat. one thinking the other is a man, but not But the play’s message is intended to be really minding when the truth is revealed. about love, “the true tale” as the title would Marian is as much comedy as advenhave it. It’s a modern interpretation of the ture. From its opening moments, this tale’s classic — a pleasant lightweight story for a tongue-in-cheek storytelling is evident. Cal midsummer show, the zany brand of theater Harris plays the regent Prince John, the that’s Know’s stock-in-trade. story’s villain, as a foppish, self-indulgent MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD, twit; his guards, Sir Lenny the Observant presented by Know Theatre, continues through (Brandon Burton) and Sir Theo the PuncAug. 19. Tickets/more info: knowtheatre.com. tual (Greg Mallios), are silly fools.

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New Gallery Weaves Its Vision in Westwood

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The new Basketshop Gallery in Westwood into April 2018, when they’ll host Michael found the perfect icebreaker for its opening: Corris, who in the 1970s was a member of Maker’s Mark with a generous slice of (Home New York’s Art & Language collaboration, a Depot) orange. The bourbon bottle, part conceptual art group that challenged mainof an exhibit titled How to Make Enemies stream critics and practices.

Friends, sits empty now, but gallery found“He understands what community ers Eli Walker and Kelly Kroener pledge that means,” Walker says. “He helped us form they’ll keep the conversation and hospitality an idea of how important hospitality is.” flowing in a working-class neighborhood not Claiming authorship of an individual piece accustomed to alternative art practices. is secondary to everyone being involved The couple moved here in October from in a bigger project.

Dallas’ rising Cedars neighborhood, where After Corris’ visit, the couple would like for four years they ran Homeland Security to work with Cincinnati artists. Kroner, Domestic Gallery in their “shotgun shack” house. Inviting people inside their living room to look at art quickly became a way of life. Now, as they shift to operating in a Harrison Avenue storefront, Walker and Kroener say they want Basketshop (which doesn’t sell baskets) to be as woven into Westwood as the nearby bake shop and Henke Winery.

“There’s nothing really intimidating about art that I know of,” says Walker, a painter and basketmaker.

Ryder Richards’ “American Sculpture: Maker’s” But he and Kroener, who PHOTO : ryder richards creates art with textiles, understand that other people have preconceived notions about contemwho grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, says she had porary art and galleries, so they are taking wanted to return to this region and make baby steps as they introduce themselves to a difference here. In Walker’s hometown the West Side and try to fit in in their own of Dallas, the couple co-founded S.C.A.B. way. Recognizing Cincinnati’s traditions of (Socialized Contemporary Artists Bureau) quality craftsmanship, they chose the laborin response to being shut out of whitethemed art of Ryder Richards for their first cube galleries that wouldn’t host so-called show, which will be up through Sept. 9. “emerging artists.” Members showed one Richards, of Dallas, has combined another’s work in living rooms, lofts and sophisticated ideas with utilitarian building even floating in a swimming pool. materials for an exhibit that is contemplaThe couple, who graduated from the tive yet doesn’t take itself too, too seriously.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, cite His beautifully drawn portraits of orange the influence of their instructor Michelle clamps, vises and buckets rest on sawGrabner, who for years exhibited artists horses. The Maker’s Mark bottle sits atop from around the world in The Suburban, wood-and-foam “cinder blocks.” During a her 9-by-9-foot garage in Oak Park, Ill. In conversation on opening night, Richards Cincinnati, they’ve sought out Maya Drozdz, explained that as he worked beside builders who started Ledge Gallery on a shelf in her on various projects, he recognized that he apartment before moving it to a windowsill was guilty of making assumptions about of her shop in East Walnut Hills. their cultural tastes, education and politics, Though Kroener’s studio is in the back of just as they passed judgment about his Basketshop, she and Walker say they don’t being an artist. But the common experience intend to show their own art in their gallery. of a trip to the hardware store, plus a shot of To do so would go against their hospitality hard liquor, can help turn foes into friends. ethos and the basket-weaving metaphor.

Kroener calls the exhibit a nice lead-in “This is us working as gallerists,” Walker to Basketshop’s programming, which will says. “We want to be the gallerists that we continue to weave community and craft. “I would want to work with as artists.” think art builds up from craft, and not down BASKETSHOP GALLERY is located at 3105 from style,” she says, adding that she feels Harrison Ave., Westwood. Hours and more info: at home in Westwood. facebook.com/eli.walker.director.

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Growing Ambitions for Price Hill Creative Festival

BY Leyla shokoohe

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As the free Price Hill Creative Comfestival, was inspired by these students’ munity Festival returns this Friday and and her own struggles.

Saturday for a second year, its scope has It addresses feelings of being overlooked broadened. It will again be hosted by Price by older generations through dance, music, Hill’s MYCincinnati youth orchestra, but poetry and visual art. A handful of Imani’s this year the festival occurs in partnership students are featured, performing explorawith the Contemporary Arts Center and tions of issues important to them like will feature performances by MYCincinmental health, sexuality, homelessness, nati’s five artists-in-residence, who work bullying and more. with the student musicians.

An ensemble of MYCincinnati musicians The festival’s core goals of embracing will perform music for Lost Generation inclusivity and showcasing the talents of composed by Kwon and Blvck Seeds memMYCincinnati musicians remain, according ber Aziza Love. to MYCincinnati director and festival creator Eddy Kwon.

“The idea of the festival is that if we can embody an empathetic community within performance, we can open up the walls of the community to embrace everyone in that space,” he says. “Those core values can radiate.”

The partnership made sense to CAC Performance Curator Drew Klein. “We’ve worked with MYCincinnati on several projects over the last several years, and have MYCincinnati orchestra head Eddy Kwon is the festival’s creator. been consistently amazed by PHOTO : Jes se fox the students’ musicianship, the vision of the organization and their dedication to the community in Greenberg’s project explores protest Price Hill,” he says via email. songs from around the globe, with original One of the five artists-in-residence is New lyrics and verses created and performed by York City-based Kaneza Schaal, who will MYCincinnati musicians. Daniel’s project present an in-progress version of a work investigates the idea of reconnecting with titled JACK&JILL. Schaal’s piece, examinfamily as an adult, with recorded teleing a former inmate’s transitional experiphone conversations and a performance by ences after re-entering society, will have its the student musicians. world premiere on Feb. 15-16, 2018 as part For Intermedio’s contribution, MYCinof the CAC’s Black Box Performance Series. cinnati students are coupled with a lightThe CAC commissioned JACK&JILL. based sculpture and outfitted with contact “Kaneza fully believes in assembling a microphones on their instruments for an performance with many hands and voices improvised, immersive audio and visual involved,” Klein says. “We always intended experience. to have her come to Cincinnati in advance In addition to these projects, a number of the premiere to strengthen the bond and of additional performers and artists will the relationship to the community here.” be featured at the festival. The festival Rounding out the roster are Cincinnatiheadquarters is at MYCincinnati’s Warsaw based artists, including poet and musician Avenue Firehouse (3120 Warsaw Ave.), but Siri Imani, musician Jordana Greenberg, there are events at three other locations, poet Elese Daniel and interdisciplinary including the Price Hill branch of the Public artist trio Intermedio.

Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County “My mom’s a poet, so I grew up in the — part of Kwon’s outreach attempt. poetry scene,” says Imani, who is also a “This year and in the years to come, I want member of a four-person creative collecto make sure we are trying to more intentive, Blvck Seeds, that seeks to promote tionally engage our non-MYCincinnati Price positive urban culture. “So I always had all Hill neighbors,” Kwon says. this influence. I had multiple outlets that I The PRICE HILL CREATIVE COMMUNITY could use to express myself.”

FESTIVAL occurs 5 p.m.-midnight Friday and With Blvck Seeds, Imani visits area 4 p.m.-midnight Saturday. More information: schools to work with students. Her project creativecommunityfestival.org.

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“A real conversation starter” is one of the police officer who instigates the vicious and phrases likely to be used in discussions highly illegal interrogation and coerces his of Detroit, the new feature from director fellow officers to follow his lead. In truth, the Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, who Krauss character is not based on one specific previously collaborated on The Hurt Locker individual; rather, he reflects the racist and Zero Dark Thirty. It opens here Friday. behavior of the officers involved and is based In fact, many viewers will go into Detroit on first-hand accounts and testimony. with heightened expectations, thanks to That portrayal was a harrowing challenge the procedural-like approach of Zero Dark that Poulter did not take lightly. I asked him Thirty, which examined the 2011 raid that about the behind-the-scenes conversations killed Osama bin Laden. during the filming to ascertain what the I, for one, wanted Bigelow and Boal to atmosphere was like as they attempted to take a similar approach to the timely horror of urban policing, using the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit riots as the starting point for a bracing exposé on how the political and social unrest of the 1960s triggered escalating confrontations. Looking back at it now might allow us to recognize the same pitfalls today.

During the recent junket screening of Detroit in Detroit, I found myself wandering down the dark streets of recent American history, Police brutality during a 1967 riot is the subject of Detroit. checking off the 25-year PHOTO : courtesy of annapurna pictures marker of the 1992 Los Angeles riots that followed the Rodney King trial and remembering the recreate such tense exchanges. He spoke of 2001 civil unrest in Cincinnati sparked by the the difficulty, since he had such respect for police shooting of Timothy Thomas. The day the actors playing Krauss’ victims. before heading to Detroit, I attended the lat“It was incredibly difficult to convince est rally at Fountain Square for Sam DuBose. yourself to hate another person based on When we mention starting a conversation such a fictitious mythological basis, which on race relations or urban policing, there I think all racism is based on,” he said. “It’s is something disingenuous in the claim. It even harder when you have genuine love assumes starting fresh, as if none of these and respect for the person playing the (vicpast situations are linked together to form a timized) character. So, you have to embrace chain of events that, for those oppressed and (Krauss’) ignorance and block out any of terrorized by these deadly encounters with your instincts. For the recipients of the authority figures, has never been satisfactoabuse, I imagine, it was a great deal harder. rily settled. In truth, this discussion should As trying as it was for me, it must have been go back to the founding of the nation.

10 times harder for the individuals on the Bigelow’s film concentrates on the secother end of what I was doing.” ond night of rioting in Detroit, at the Algiers Conversations on the set “were informed Motel, when reports of sniper fire led the by a sense of responsibility and a great Detroit Police Department, the Michigan deal of importance,” Poulter said. “And State Police, the Michigan Army National the only way for us to do it was to do it as Guard and a local private security guard a group, building genuine relationships of to storm the Algiers and subject a group trust and friendship. Then, we could go to of black men and white women to a “death the extremes we went to and confidently game” in pursuit of a confession. At night’s portray our characters without losing sight end, three unarmed young men were dead that we were all on the same side. We were and several others were victims of brutal all doing this for the same cause.” and senseless beatings.

For us who see Detroit and are prompted During my interviews with cast memto talk about race in America, that’s good bers, I asked about their conversations with because we can never stop talking about it.

Bigelow concerning playing their characters.

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ON SCREEN A New Lady Macbeth

By Mackenzie Manley

Directed by William Oldroyd and written

by Alice Birch, Lady Macbeth is adapted not from Shakespeare but rather Nikolai Leskov’s 19th-century Russian novel Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and transplanted to Northern England in 1865. It’s a film that explores the treachery of dominance and oppression, concepts that are laced into each character. The viewer finds Katherine (Florence Pugh) in an arranged marriage with an older man, Alexander (Paul Hilton), that’s void of intimacy. Rather, a power struggle remains where she’s expected to be the “angel in the house.”

In the beginning, we have sympathy for the young woman. But as the film unfurls and we watch her engage in an affair with Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis), a workman on the estate, and commit three subsequent ghastly murders in order for them to be together, sympathy begins to lose its grip. When her husband and father-in-law are out of town, she starts their affair, but Sebastian feels more like an avenue of release than love.

Pugh is a force that demands our attention, even in her character’s passive moments. Only 19 at the time of filming, she dominates the screen with restrained chaos. She feeds off the other characters, drawing energy from Katherine’s oppression and privilege as a white, upper-class woman. A housemaid, Anna, is portrayed

by Naomi Ackie with haunting subtlety. A selective mute, her silence is explored through forced utterances of “yes, ma’am” and “no, ma’am.” She becomes a scapegoat, like a limb that Katherine controls.

Through the film’s exploration of dualities of power as it is related to class, it becomes a bleak reflection of society’s morality. Though oppressed as a woman, Katherine is unaware her use of power on those also oppressed by the system is both startling and telling of the time.

Lady Macbeth ends with little sympathy for its main protagonist, because of the blood she spills. But that’s precisely the point. The societal chains that bind and repress the characters, including Katherine, are never completely shed.

They leave each one grasping for some sense of being. (Opens Friday at The Esquire.) (R) Grade: B+

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‘Bachelor’ Franchise Struggles to Get Woke

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teens, he and his family drifted apart. He now has a fractured relationship with his father, who Dean described as “eccentric.”

Dean’s dad was dramatically revealed to be a Sikh, the two failed to make amends on camera and the entire debacle was unnecessarily exploitative.

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Paradise is a total train wreck. The AN IRISH WHISKEY, SCOTCH ANd cRAFT BEER TASTING EVENT booze is flowing, the bikinis are mandatory and it’s basically a revolving door of hookups, breakups and sloppy seconds. What could go wrong?

This summer we all found out, when AN IRISH WHISKEY, SCOTCH ANd cRAFT BEER TASTING EVENT sexual assault allegations in Paradise halted production. While an internal investigation cleared the show and its producers of any misconduct and production eventually resumed, the entire situation casts a serious New Riff Distillery shadow on an otherwise silly show. “All will be explained,” teases host Chris Harrison.

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When The Bachelorette (Season Finale, 8 p.m. Monday, ABC) selected Rachel Lindsay — Texas attorney and third-place finalist on Nick Viall’s season of The Bachelor — as its 13th leading lady, it was significant for a show with a longtime lack of diversity.

Rachel is the first black Bachelorette, and with that comes the most diverse cast of men, both of which the show boasts about in a gross, self-congratulatory way. Choosing a woman of color for this role shouldn’t be revolutionary. But having a reality datingcompetition show thoughtfully examine race, diversity and identity could be.

One major storyline revolved around the white, Southern Lee antagonizing Kenny, an African-American pro-wrestler, denying it and labeling him as “aggressive.” Another black contestant genuinely attempted to educate Lee on his problematic behavior, offering a thoughtful moment. But ultimately Lee and Kenny’s final showdown resulted in a cringeworthy display of the male ego.

Elsewhere, we saw one white guy open with the line, “I’m ready to go black, and I’m never going to go back” (which he seemed to regret, though Rachel thought it was funny), and another introduce Rachel to his friends, all suspiciously in interracial relationships.

In the end, The Bachelorette probably handled the topic of race as well as a show of its nature possibly could. Visibility is crucial, so it’s nice to see a woman of color on center stage. At the same time, it’s not Rachel’s burden to represent all black women or address deep societal issues every Monday night. She doesn’t seem too keen on flaunting her “historic” role as much as she is intent on finding love — race aside, you come on this show to “date” 31 men and find a husband!

And there is so much more to Rachel than her skin color. She’s intelligent, funny and actually has a verifiable real career — a rare find on a show where “Tickle Monster” and “Twin” are acceptable professions. She also has the distinction of being the oldest Bachelorette, which is refreshing. At 32, she’s mature enough to have real relationship experience, know what she wants and, you know, maybe get married — a contrast to the swarms of early-20-somethings that swell The Bachelor’s ranks.

In the apparent interest of beating spoiler gossip blogs to the punch, it’s already been revealed that Rachel ends up engaged to a final suitor. This week, we’ll find out if it’s the sketchy but sexy Colombian chiropractor Bryan, the dopey, immature underdog Eric or the swoon-worthy salt-and-pepper Peter, whose gap between teeth matches Rachel’s.

Interestingly, the most unsettling moment from the season had nothing to do with race.

While preparing for the guys’ hometown visits, Dean disclosed some major family issues. After losing his mom to cancer in his

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Chef John Caldwell uses produce grown in the restaurant’s garden in his seasonal recipes.

“Last night we picked 20 or 25 pounds of tomatoes,” he says. “Probably in another week or so we’ll be picking 30 pounds of tomatoes a day, 20 to 30 pounds of squash a day, cucumbers, kale, bok choy, peppers, onions, garlic and lots of basil.”

Lallathin says it’s mostly organic, but “there’s a little cheating in there.” Marigolds line the path through the garden to keep small animals away from the plants.

To Caldwell, the garden part of Through the Garden is the core of their identity. “A lot of people ask about it and walk through our garden,” he says. “It’s out here and it’s a centerpiece. It’s nice while they’re waiting for their lunch and dinner to walk through.

We let some of the customers have some of the produce, too, to take it home for weekend dinners.”

Besides being fresh, the food is also well crafted. Dressings, sauces and spices are all prepared on-site. Caldwell says this is key to the quality of the food they serve.

The texture of the vegetables is noticeably firm and springy — dishes like the zucchini pasta, which substitutes shaved strips of zucchini for grain pasta, offers a lively fresh feel in the mouth that makes diners forget that their meal is both vegetarian and carb-free. The gazpacho is excellent as well, made with tomatoes and

cucumbers that were cut free from their plants just hours before serving.

“When the kale comes in, it’s just so fresh and ready to go,” Lallathin says.

“The best is when there’s a lot of something, John makes a special out of it,” Rinaldi says. “He has his zucchini noodle going on because there’s so much zucchini right now. And he’ll make these power wrap sandwiches with chicken, but also kale and beets. Whatever we have a lot of ends up being on the plate as a special.”

“He makes fried green tomatoes that are to die for,” Lallathin adds.

Caldwell says, on one hand, he has a greater degree of control over the result of his work as a chef because he is growing so much of the food. In another way, he says, there can be variance in the dishes due to weather conditions and what vegetables are in season. The consistency to the fare is

found in his preparation and recipes.

“The weather in Cincinnati, since it’s so different year to year, plays a big part in it,” he says. “You never know what you’re going to get.”

This summer has been wetter than previous years, so there hasn’t been as much watering needed. Still, it’s a lot of work to raise the plants, tend them and bring them to the plate. But it’s worth it.

Lallathin and Rinaldi smile often while talking about working in the garden. And it’s clear the most important thing the garden grows is joy.

“When you come to this restaurant it’s all so fresh and healthy,” Rinaldi says. “When I think about where I’m going to go to eat, I’m either thinking about the atmosphere, like at a bar where there’s a game on TV, or I think about the good, healthy food. That’s what I think about when I come here.”

Through the Garden GO : 10738 Kenwood Road, Blue Ash; Call : 513-791-2199; Internet: throughthegarden. com; Hours : 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 11 a.m-10 p.m. Friday; 5-10 p.m. Saturday.

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here is a very short distance between the farm and table — or at least garden and table — at Through the Garden Restaurant in Blue Ash. Offering casual American and Mediterranean fare, Through the Garden’s patio is flanked by 2,000 square feet of local produce that is tended by restaurant patrons and served to guests within hours or minutes of being picked.

John Caldwell and his wife Molly bought the restaurant 12 years ago. Before that, Caldwell was the chef at Applewood Bar & Grill in Aurora, Ind. He runs the kitchen and Molly, a full-time nurse, helps with the hospitality side of the business, everything from management to waiting tables.

Not all of the produce used is grown onsite, however. Caldwell explains that they grow as much as they can and supplement using standard local suppliers. The produce is seasonal, too, so in colder months, farmto-table fare is limited to what has been canned and preserved during the summer.

This summer has yielded a plentiful crop of tomatoes.

“We get so many, we start doing fried green tomatoes early,” he says. “From the middle of July to September we’re selfsufficient on tomatoes. Zucchini and squash, we’re self-sufficient from about June to September. Basil, eggplant, we do a lot of kale for salads and wraps. Strawberries. We have sage, thyme, oregano.”

You can see the garden for yourself from the patio or ask to be led on a brief tour.

Caldwell is proud of his plants and happy to pull up a beet or carrot and dust off the dirt so it can be admired. They also grow snow peas, green beans, pumpkins and more.

The gardeners who tend the fruits and vegetables that are destined to become next week’s lunch special are Jim Lallathin and Diane Rinaldi. They’re not employees; they do it for fun and the food.

“John takes care of us,” Lallathin says.

“We were sitting out here on the patio and the garden had been taken over by a lot of weeds,” Rinaldi says. “It hadn’t been tended to or kept for like a year and so we thought it would be a good project to clear it out, build the fences back up, put a path in and make it workable again.”

That was three years ago. Since then, the two friends have worked regularly at pulling weeds, watering and keeping pests away.

They laugh, referencing a protracted groundhog hunt from a past growing season. They won, but it was with a live trap, so they can reasonably claim no animals were harmed in the making of this meal. It’s a lot of work, Lallathin says — 20 to 25 hours a week.

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Now 24 years removed from baking his first baguette in Over-the-Rhine, Shadeau Breads owner and baker Bill Pritz is trading in his apron for a long-overdue break with his wife, Charlotte.

Parting ways with his only location at 1336 Main St., flour and all, Pritz recently sold Shadeau Breads to his accountant of 10 years, Brett Arnow, to fulfill a promise he made to Charlotte more than five years ago.

Now 64 years old, Pritz fell in love with baking when he was in his 20s, first as a baker’s assistant at the local Virginia Bakery and later as a student at Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis and the New York Restaurant School in New York City. He worked at bakeries, hotels, restaurants and pizzerias along the way.

In 1993, he opened Shadeau Breads in Cincinnati after “drifting” through the Midwest and East Coast for awhile. A frequent self-professed drifter, he met Charlotte while wandering through Minnesota, where they’ll return after he retires. Shadeau started as a direct-to-restaurant/market operation and eventually opened to the general public. Their current menu offers a variety of breads — French, rye and sourdough, plus brioche, croissants, focaccia and assorted pastries.

Though eager to spend some time away from the oven, Pritz admitted that making his last baked good at the storefront would be bittersweet.

“You know, it’s a good chance to take a break, but obviously, it’s emotional,” he says.

“I’ve become really attached to this space.

It’s really become a home for me.”

When asked what he’ll miss most about Shadeau Breads, he puts forth an answer only an honest baker could admire: “I’ll probably miss bread. I take bread home all the time. I don’t get tired of it; I like bread.”

Pritz’s days as a baker, however, are far from over. Once the dust settles from his move to Minnesota, he intends to don his apron once again to start a smaller bakery.

Brett Arnow, on the other hand, will waste no time in working to maintain Pritz’s evergreen traditions at Shadeau Breads.

“Bill has been a baker for a long time and he has a lot of experience,” Brett says. “My plans with Shadeau Breads are to continue on in a similar fashion, providing highquality baked goods and breads both to retail and wholesale.”

Lisa Arnow, Brett’s wife of 23 years, is also honored to take part in advancing Pritz’s legacy.

“His breads are delicious,” she says. “I think he has a great reputation. So when Brett mentioned to me continuing his work and the bakery, I just thought it was a wonderful idea. To be able to continue his traditions is an honor in a lot of ways.”

Long before Brett joined forces with Pritz as his Certified Public Accountant, Lisa would often make an effort to buy one of Pritz’s highly regarded baguettes before 8 a.m. “It was always special if I could get here to get the baguette before work,” she says.

Now working with the bakery for 10 years, Brett and Lisa have come to love much more than the baguettes. Tasked

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with preserving the oldest from-scratch bakery in OTR, Brett is well aware of the stakes at hand. Thus, he has every intention to lean on Pritz’s tried-and-true recipes in order to continue to do what Shadeau Breads does best.

“There are a lot of recipes that have been used for a long time that taste very good, so we are going to continue to do those same things,” he says.

To replace Pritz and another baker that recently retired, Brett is in the process of hiring three new employees to ensure the transition continues to run smoothly. The Arnows’ two boys, ages 14 and 18, are also expected to try their hands at the bakery business when possible.

Additionally, Brett emphasizes that the remaining employees at Shadeau Breads are fully committed to the new era. Trading in his calculator for a flour-ridden apron, Brett feels fortunate that he will have the support of his wife, two boys and employees. Support from the community is surely bound to follow.

SHADEAU BREADS is located at 1336 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. More info: shadeaubreads.com.

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Groceries & Grilling: Refugee Resettlement — Head to Findlay Market for latenight market hours and special Wednesday grilling parties. Guests will get the recipe and list of ingredients so they can shop and then grill the recipe on-site. 5-8 p.m. Free admission. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, findlaymarket.org

WingFling at Washington Platform — Discover more than 40 different flavors of wings — from bulgogi Korean to honey bourbon — all available either boneless or bone-in. Through Sept. 3. Prices vary.

Washington Platform, 1000 Elm St., Downtown, washingtonplatform.com.

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Potsticker Workshop — Learn how to make tasty and addictive potstickers at home using two different folding methods.

Fillings include shredded cabbage and scallions and mixed veggie. 6-8 p.m. $65. The Learning Kitchen, 7659 Cox Lane, West Chester, thelearningkitchen.com.

Glier’s Goettafest — From fudge to pizza, Goettafest features goetta-infused dishes to tickle any tastebud. Includes live music, entertainment and the world’s only goetta vending machine. 5-11 p.m. Thursday-Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m.

Sunday. Free. Festival Park, Riverboat Row, Newport, Ky., goettafest.com.

Hands-On: Sensational Tri-Tip — Learn how to make memorable sauces and tri-tip steaks. Menu includes grilled corn and mixed berry crisp. 6-8:30 p.m. $75.

Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.

Summer Chefs Series at 20 Brix — Five courses of thoughtful and themed dishes paired with wine, spirits or beer. Seating is limited to 12. The theme of this dinner is Ohio regional dishes with local wine pairings. 6 p.m. $50. 20 Brix, 101 Main St., Milford, 20brix.com.

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Dinner in the Fields — Enjoy a homecooked dinner made with local ingredients, prepared on-site at Beam Farm. The evening also features corn hole games, a homemade pie auction and more. 5:30 p.m. $35 advance; $40 door; $10 kids age 4-10.

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Dinner with History: Neil Armstrong — Historian John Zimkus discusses Lebanon neighbor Neil Armstrong and his connection to the area over a three-course meal.

6:30 p.m. $25. The Golden Lamb, 27 S. Broadway St., Lebanon, goldenlamb.com.

Pizza Train — The Lebanon, Mason & Monroe Railroad hosts an evening pizza train with Pizza Tower. The round-trip ride through Warren County includes a serving of pizza, conductors and a concession car.

7:30 p.m. $22; $20 seniors/children. Lebanon Station, 127 S. Mechanic St., Lebanon, Ohio, lebanonrr.com.

Holtman’s Pop-Up Donut Shop at Braxton — Wake up early and head to Braxton to pair their craft coffee with Holtman’s craft donuts. 7:30-10:30 a.m. Free admission. Braxton Brewing Co., 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, Ky., braxtonbrewing.com.

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Milford Street Eats Food Truck Rally — The fifth-annual food truck rally takes over downtown Milford with food and brews.

Trucks include C’est Cheese, Texas Joe, SugarSnap!, Renegade Street Eats and more, plus beer from Old Firehouse, Mt. Carmel and MadTree and live entertainment. 3-10 p.m. Free admission. 701 Chamber Drive, Milford, milfordstreeteats.com.

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Kosher BBQ Cook-Off and Festival — Local barbecue teams go head to head in a competition supervised by the Cincinnati Kosher Vaad Hoier. Includes live music, kids activities, a food court and more. 4:30-8:30 p.m. Free admission. Adath Israel Congregation, 3201 E. Galbraith Road, Amberley Village, cincinnatikosherbbq.com.

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Small-Batch Canning — This demo class teaches you how to preserve your produce for winter use. Learn to preserve and can whole tomatoes in juice and in marinara sauce, farmhouse bread-and-butter pickles, cinnamon blueberry jam and peach halves.

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Imminent Heatwave

Cincinnati AltPop band Harbour gets ready for a possible breakout album and its debut music festival

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s I descend the concrete staircase behind an American Family Insurance building in Lebanon, Ohio, sunny melodies and sweet harmonies dance around me, then float up toward the soft afternoon sky. With each step I take, the music gets louder and the air gets colder.

Finally at the bottom, I pause with my hand resting on the icy door handle. The music stops, and I enter the basement.

On any given Sunday afternoon, the members of Cincinnati band Harbour can be found underground writing new songs, jamming out or just laughing and drinking a few beers. Today, they’re doing it all. Lead singer Ryan Green leans over to set down his Magic Hat beer, then turns to Harrison Miller on the drum set.

Miller taps the tempo with a ting ting ting ting on the ride cymbal, and Matt Starcher begins strumming a few chords on his white Fender. Then Green enters the mix with the first chorus of one of the group’s latest songs, ”Oh No!,” singing “See ya, I wouldn’t marry me either/She’d be perfectly fine on her own/Me on the other hand girl I need ya/Oh no.” Bassist Levi Snyder and guitarist Marshall Sallee jump in to complete Harbour’s five-piece sound.

As their name suggests, for the next three minutes, beachy grooves and warm tones fill the concrete basement. Harbour’s new album HEATWAVE, set to release Saturday, “is going to be like a soundtrack of summer,” Starcher says. “It’s something you’d listen to while driving… I could just envision being in a convertible, driving past a beach with all the people I care about the most.”

To celebrate HEATWAVE’s release, Harbour is hosting Sunfest, a music festival featuring seven other local bands at both Madison Theater and Madison Live in Covington, Ky. this Saturday. Performances from CLUBHOUSE, Northbound, Pluto Revolts and others will lead up to Harbour’s set, featuring all of the tracks on HEATWAVE, plus a few from their previous EPs. As last chord bounces off the blanketcovered walls, all five members critique one the performance. For Harbour, writing music isn’t about individual egos. It’s about producing the best sound possible.

“Egos aside down here,” Green says. “If something doesn’t work, we don’t bullshit to each other. We really call it out and don’t waste time playing around with something that’s just not going to work.”

“We wouldn’t have gotten this far if we didn’t have this kind of system in place,” Miller adds.

With both Sunfest and HEATWAVE, Harbour’s sun-and-sand vision shines through.

Harbour’s album HEATWAVE and upcoming Sunfest promote a summery, beach-ready vibe.

Green says he wishes the album could’ve been ready in early June, but trips to record in Nashville were sometimes difficult to fit into the musicians’ busy work schedules.

Still, he has high hopes that the month of August will be enough summery time for fans to listen to HEATWAVE on repeat.

“When you first get a CD you kind of listen to it a bunch, and it’ll still be summer time while they’re doing that,” Green says. “So hopefully the idea is that every time they put that CD in in December, it takes them back to warm weather and feeling good.”

HEATWAVE opens with Green’s 1975equse vocals in “WAITTYN (Who Am I To Tell You No),” kicking the album off on level 10. The following tracks, “Get You High,” “Oh No!” and “Obvious” — which the band will release as singles before the album drops — will have fans singing along by the second chorus. Of the three poppy and adorable tracks, “Oh No!” especially will make you want to hug your significant other.

The first half of the album is driven more by melody than lyrics, with songs that have a bubblegum Pop feel, but HEATWAVE takes a turn with “Prolong.” Listeners get to see a more personal side of Green on the track, something that continues through the rest of the record. “It’s Gettin’ Better” has a distinctively folky vibe that sets it

apart from the rest of the album, especially when guest Ian Metzger from Dear and the Headlights jumps in halfway through.

Because its vocal harmonies are so intricate, final track “Judy You Hung The Moon” will rarely, if ever, be played live, which is a shame, because it’s one of the album’s standouts. Green says The Beach Boys- and Johnny Cash-reminiscent track was written about his grandparents. Lines like, “And by my side, my little honey at the drive-in Friday night,” conjure images of ’50s summers full of cruise-ins and jukeboxes.

Overall, HEATWAVE is a joy to listen to and defines Harbour’s warm, beach-ready sound, which the band has been working toward since its first album release in 2014.

If you like bands like Bad Suns or The 1975, you’ll love HEATWAVE. “This album was us finding our own sound,” drummer Miller says. “We’ve always had a sound that kind of binds us, but now it’s pretty defined.”

“Honestly it’s just the most proud we’ve been of any piece of music that we’ve ever put out,” Green says.

Although they won’t explicitly say it, the band members’ actions up until this point show that they all hope to make it big enough to support themselves as

musicians. Besides, as Green says, they don’t know how to do anything else.

Sallee dropped out of college to fully commit to Harbour after he realized how much potential the band has. Green lays down hardwood floors for a living. Miller delivers pizza. Snyder renovates homes.

Starcher works as a machinist. Each musician has sacrificed in order to put the band first.

“You can’t half-ass what we’re doing here,” Green says. “We have to put it first, otherwise we’re just not gonna get there.”

“It’s either all in or not in at all. It’s a team effort,” Miller adds.

“It’s easier to do because you have four other guys that are on the same page with you. It’s not like you’re by yourself completely,” Sallee says.

Regardless of where they’ve been or where they’re going, all five members agree that 2017 will be Harbour’s biggest year yet.

With the new release and Sunfest, plus the abundance of concerts to follow, they’re all hoping to break out from the underground and into the mainstream soon.

HARBOUR headlines Sunfest this Saturday at Madison Theater and Madison Live. Tickets/more info: madisontheateronline.com.

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PUBLIC Brings Home Some ‘Sweet Lemonade’

BY MIKE BREEN

Since forming near the beginning of the decade, Cincinnati Pop Rock trio PUBLIC has been on a gradual upward trajectory, opening shows for the likes of Walk the Moon and Young the Giant, playing festivals like Bunbury and Forecastle, releasing a steady stream of increasingly finessed, radio-ready songs and EPs and amassing an adoring fanbase and growing industry attention with every step.

On June 24, PUBLIC hit a new plateau when it played its biggest show yet, performing a well-received opening set for Columbus, Ohio’s Twenty One Pilots during the hit-making duo’s “Tour de Columbus.” Following PUBLIC’s performance at the soldout 20,000-seat Nationwide Arena, Twenty One Pilots singer Tyler Joseph noted how PUBLIC and his band had previously shared a bill in Cincinnati, referring to the 2013 edition of the Bunbury Music Festival.

The day before PUBLIC’s big Columbus appearance, the group released its latest EP, Sweet Lemonade, recorded locally at Moonlight Studios. The EP’s five songs are remarkably crisp and catchy, the most accomplished and ready-for-primetime yet for a band that has been major-label worthy since it came out of the gate. The dance-friendly, synth-drenched opener “4Her” was used in a national TV campaign for Truly Spiked & Sparkling Water earlier this year, another first in PUBLIC’s skyrocketing career.

The band is currently winding down a headlining tour and will play its first local show since late last year this Friday, returning to Madison Live (734 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky., madisontheateronline.com). The all-ages show starts at 8 p.m. with fellow Cincinnati acts Daniel in Stereo and Telehope. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door.

To hear Sweet Lemonade and more of PUBLIC’s music, visit publictheband. bandcamp.com.

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on see-through blue vinyl (only 100 copies are being pressed). The accompanying free show Saturday takes place at 8 p.m. at partner Braxton Brewing Company (27 W. Seventh St., Covington, Ky., braxtonbrewing.com), which is also offering a special brew in honor of the occasion that night.

Beyond the event, Young Heirlooms’ single is available to those on Soul Step Records’ subscription plan while they last. For details, visit soulsteprecords.com.

• Jackie Isaacs, bassist/songwriter for ’80s Cincinnati Punk band Musical Suicide (which was a regular at Newport, Ky.’s notorious Jockey Club venue, opening for bands like Black Flag and The Circle Jerks) passed away on July 26 after years of neurological and spinal issues. She was 54. A memorial for Isaacs (who performed as Jakki Repellent, a reference to her previous band, Indiana’s The Repellents) will be held Friday at 7 p.m. at Herzog Music (811 Race St., Downtown, facebook.com/herzogmusic). Jockey Club-era friends in The MudLarks and Public Figure are slated to perform. In her honor, donations will be collected for Animal Friends Humane Society in Hamilton, Ohio.

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VMAs Remove Gender Did you know that, after years ago turning its back on music videos, MTV still does an “MTV Video Music Awards” program?

Presumably to celebrate the music clips you can’t see on MTV anymore (therefore making it basically a commercial for YouTube), the show returns this month with a tiny progressive twist on the longtime trophies it doles out.

Previously known as the “Moonman,” the channel will spend absolutely no money to change the VMAs’ already faceless, genderless astronaut trophy to a “Moon Person.” The gesture follows a previously announced and much more substantial move — gender-specific categories like “Best Female Video” have been eliminated.

Cuts Like a Knife Not long ago, it seemed like singer/songwriter Ryan Adams had started to mellow out and develop thicker skin when it came to playful jabs or other criticism (fun fact: CityBeat’s music editor is one of many he has blocked on Twitter!).

But after apparently reading the New York Rock scene book Meet Me in the Bathroom (for which he was interviewed), Adams pulled a Trump and went on a tweetstorm to roast former pals The Strokes. Passages in the book insinuated that Adams was responsible for getting Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. hooked on heroin, prodding Adams to tweet, “(Strokes singer) Julian Casablancas: who got you strung out on lasagna tho?” Besides further weight-shaming for Casablancas, the former Mr. Mandy Moore also managed to insult The Killers and Hammond Jr.’s father.

D-Bag Blames Logic Star baseball player Bryce Harper seems like the kind of bro who’d listen to Florida Georgia Line or generic EDM to get pumped up for a game. But after getting ejected (again) for bitching about a call to an umpire during a game recently, he told reporters in a post-game interview that it was because he got “a little fired up” listening to “5AM” by rapper Logic.

Harper joked that he needs to mix some “Temptations and some of those Jazz bands” into his pre-game listening ritual.

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• Noah Smith has been splitting his time between Ohio and Nashville lately, but the on-the-rise Country singer/songwriter will make a special hometown return this Friday to celebrate the release of a new single, “We’re on Fire,” at Live! at the Ludlow Garage (342 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, liveattheludlowgarage.com). Nashville’s Meaghan Farrell and Greater Cincinnati’s Wilder open the 8 p.m. show. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. “We’re on Fire” is the first music from Smith since he joined the roster of Bigfoot Music & Outdoors, a project management/promotions company based in Georgia and Nashville. Smith is collaborating with the company as he works on

a forthcoming album project. Visit noahsmithmusic.com for more info.

• This Saturday, Cincinnati-based vinyl record label Soul Step continues its Cincinnati Brewers Series, which pairs an area brewery with a local band, resulting in a limited-edition beer and 7-inch single, as well as a free concert. The third edition of the series features excellent local Indie Folk group Young Heirlooms, which will have its “Bury Me (With My Hammer)” (backed with a cover of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s political anthem “Ohio”) issued

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MUSIC sound advice Tegan and Sara with Japanese Breakfast Wednesday • Madison Theater It hardly seems possible that we’re just two years away from the 20th anniversary of Tegan and Sara’s debut album, 1999’s Under Feet Like Ours, but it’s likely no surprise to them. The Canadian Quin sisters clearly had the long game in mind from their late ’90s start in Calgary, tooling their act to accommodate opening slots as an acoustic duo, as well as a full electric band presentation. This relatively simple performance adjustment allowed Tegan and Sara to play in front of a broad and diverse demographic and build an exponentially expanding fan base in a comparatively brief amount of time.

That strategy would seem to be the work of supremely confident artists Tegan and Sara taking a methodical P H O T O : Pa m e l a L i tt k y approach to industry domination, but the fact is that Tegan and Sara actually suffered from a crippling lack of self-assuredness in their musical abilities despite evidence to the contrary. In 1998, the identical twins won Calgary’s Garage Warz competition and the accompanyRoyal Blood ing studio-time prize.

PHOTO : Perou The following year, their debut album attracted the attention of Neil Young’s Vapor label, which signed the duo and released 2000’s This Business of Art. It wasn’t until 2004’s So Jealous that they began to feel as if they were as musically competent as their peers, which may have been exemplified when The White Stripes covered that album’s “Walking with a Ghost.”

The twosome’s pivotal album came with 2007’s The Con, which has been garnering widespread praise for its vast influence this year as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. On the album, Tegan and Sara explored a darker, more mature Indie Pop direction, fueled by relationship struggles and the death of their grandmother. It also found them incorporating more electronic elements into their sound. Those elements came to even greater prominence on 2009’s Sainthood and flowered into full bloom within the contemporary Pop expanse of 2013’s Heartthrob (a move they credited to Taylor Swift’s influence) and continued with

last year’s Love You to Death. In between those albums, Tegan and Sara threw in with The Lonely Island to perform the infectious “Everything is Awesome!!!” for The Lego Movie, which earned an Oscar nomination and performance featuring the two groups and co-producer Mark Mothersbaugh.

Just as importantly, Tegan and Sara have remained outspokenly politically active over the years. The openly gay twins have staunchly advocated for LGBTQ equality, earning them the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Artist in 2013. Last year, Tegan and Sara ignored the North Carolina boycott over House Bill 2 and played a show in Asheville, donating the proceeds to the advocacy group Equality North Carolina. Last December, the pair formed the Tegan and Sara Foundation to gain equal representation and benefits for LGBTQ girls and women. A recreation of The Con is set for release in October, featuring 14 artists covering the LP in full, with all proceeds benefiting the Foundation.

Great musical voices and a strong social voice — Tegan and Sara are the right artists at the right time. (Brian Baker) Royal Blood Thursday • Bogart’s Royal Blood’s rapid rise from broke blokes in Brighton, England to commercially successful rockers seemed almost too easy.

The duo of bassist/vocalist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher formed in early 2013. A year later, the twosome released its self-titled debut, which came on like Queens of the Stone Age by way of Death from Above, a bombastic, riff-heavy record that led to gigs opening for Arctic Monkeys, Pixies and Foo Fighters. Its own whirlwind headlining tour followed, as did a win for Best British Group at the Brit Awards in London. Jimmy Page presented the award to them, a surreal twist for guys who just a year earlier could barely pay rent; in fact, Kerr was still living with his mom when Royal Blood formed.

The duo’s recently released follow-up, How Did We Get So Dark?, largely follows the same formula as the debut: Thatcher’s

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booming beats provide a sturdy foundation for Kerr’s thick bass riffs and emotive, high-ranging vocals.

“The songs we felt really excited about didn’t involve having synths or guitars,” Kerr said of the duo’s songwriting approach in a recent interview with NME. “It’s funny, the moment we added anything like that, our songs went from sounding huge to really not that cool and small. It made it ordinary.

We’re a pretty tight-knit team. It’s kind of like bringing your mate on a date. They’re just going to kill the vibe.” (Jason Gargano)

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Hans Zimmer Thursday • U.S. Bank Arena Before movie composer Hans Zimmer was winning Grammys and an Oscar for his film-score work, he was a working musician.

In the ’70s, the German-born/Los Angelesbased composer got his start playing keyboards with British Hard Rock band Krakatoa before moving on to work with music video pioneers The Buggles (featuring future Yes and Asia members Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes), then Italian New Wave Hans Zimmer outfit Krisma, Helden PHOTO : Joe Ele y (with former Ultravox drummer Warren Cann) and Shriekback (with ex-Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen). His last notable Rock world project was The Damned’s song “History of the World, Pt. 1,” which was credited by the band as “Overproduced by Hans Zimmer.”

While in London, Zimmer wrote ad jingles before pairing up with veteran film scorer Stanley Myers to create the Lillie Yard recording studio. Zimmer and Myers collaborated on a number of movie scores, and it was here that Zimmer began exploring the combination of synthesized sounds he had used in the Pop/Rock realm with typical orchestration. Zimmer’s first solo score was for the American comedy Terminal Exposure in 1987, around the time he co-wrote the theme song for the long-running British game show Going for Gold.

Zimmer’s big Hollywood breakthrough came with his synthesizer-based score for Rain Man, earning him his first Academy Award nomination, followed by his similarly constructed but oppositional score for Driving Miss Daisy. Zimmer’s Rock leanings paid off on Thelma & Louise in 1991 when he tapped Climax Blues Band guitarist Pete Haycock to provide the soundtrack’s slide guitar signature. Zimmer’s first animated feature score was Disney’s The Lion King in 1994, for which he won an Academy

Award, a Golden Globe and two Grammys; his subsequent animation work has included all three Madagascar films, The Simpsons Movie, The Prince of Egypt and Megamind, among others.

Perhaps Zimmer’s greatest work has been in the live-action cartoon genre, including the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, the second Andrew Garfield Spider-Man film and the Superman reboots Man of Steel and Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which he announced would be his last superhero score. Other films with epic scores by Zimmer include Mission: Impossible 2, the Sherlock Holmes films, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Inception, 12 Years a Slave, the Da Vinci Code franchise, Hidden Figures and his most recent, Dunkirk.

Zimmer returns to his performance roots with his first North American tour, featuring 34 selections culled from 17 of his most famous scores.

With a full orchestra, an atmospheric choir, a Rock band and wildly evocative back projection, Zimmer mixes his most hairraising movie music interspersed with fascinating stories of how some of his greatest scores came to be.

Zimmer’s three-hour tour of his film career may turn out to be one of the most compelling music presentations of the year. (BB)

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BREWRIVER GASTROPUB - Old Green Eyes and BBG. 6 p.m.

Standards. Free.

THE MOCKBEE - The New Void, The Simple Pleasure, Ex American, Village Druids and Vampire Weekend at Bernie’s.

8 p.m. Various. Free.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Open Mic Night with Billy Larkin.

8 p.m. Jazz. Free.

MOTR PUB - Harpooner with Carriers with Dove & Wolf. 5 p.m.

Pop/Rock. Free.

CINCINNATIAN HOTEL - Philip Paul Trio. 7 p.m. Jazz. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - The Coathangers with H Residuels and Swim Team.

FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Reggae Wednesday with Ras Bonghi Allstars. 7 p.m. Reggae. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Dallas Moore.

10 p.m. Country. Free.

THE LIBERTY INN - Stagger Lee. 7 p.m. Country/Rock. Free.

MADISON THEATER - Tegan and Sara with Japanese Breakfast. 8 p.m. AltPop. $35, $37 day of show.

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MANSION HILL TAVERN - Losing Lucky. 8 p.m. Roots. Free.

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MOTR PUB - Mt. Joy with Trevor Sensor. 9 p.m. Indie Folk. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Ofir and Loathing and Abiyah.

9 p.m. Experimental/Pop/ Electronic/Hip Hop/Various. Free.

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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB Heavy Pockets, GASH, The Touch and Commercial. 9 p.m. Rock.

PIT TO PLATE - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

SILVERTON CAFE - Root Cellar Extract. 3 p.m. Country Rock.

Free.

URBAN ARTIFACT - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10.

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Dottie Warner and Wayne Shannon. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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BOGART’S - Royal Blood with Welles. 8 p.m. Rock. $25.

10 p.m. Rock. $10.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Open Mic with Russ Childers. 7 p.m.

Various. Free.

PNC PAVILION AT RIVERBEND Graceland presents Elvis: Live In Concert. 7:30 p.m. Elvis tribute. $24.50-$72.50.

QUAKER STEAK & LUBE FLORENCE - Pandora Effect.

6 p.m. Rock. Free.

SEASONGOOD PAVILION It’s Commonly Jazz featuring H Bruce Menefield BM3 Band featuring Mike Wade. 6 p.m.

Jazz. Free.

SMALE RIVERFRONT PARK Cocktails and Crown Jewels featuring Trilogy. 6:30 p.m.

Jazz. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - The 9th Street Stompers with Lucky Holler Boys.

9:30 p.m. Americana. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - MileHigh Congress, High Rollers, Q. Easy, BIGG HENN, Kane Lord Wolf, YB, HEEMDOLLA$, ALLEN4PRESIDENT and DJ Kennedy. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $5-$10.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Faster Pussycat with Chakras and V-Twin Sing. 8 p.m. Rock. $15, $18 day of show.

U.S. BANK ARENA - Hans Zimmer. 8 p.m. Orchestral/ H Rock/Pop/Various. $45-$125.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Todd Hepburn and Friends. 6 p.m.

Various. Free.

WASHINGTON PARK - Bandstand Bluegrass with Whiskey Bent Valley Boys. 7 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

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

FRIDAY 04

FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Salsa on the Square with Óscar H Salamanca & La Fórmula. 7 p.m.

Latin/Salsa/Dance. Free.

THE GREENWICH - Mambo Combo. 8 p.m. Latin Jazz. $5.

KNOTTY PINE - Chalis. 9 p.m.

Pop/Rock/Blues/Various. Free.

LIVE! AT THE LUDLOW GARAGE - The Earls of Leicester. 8 p.m. Bluegrass. $30--$65.

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Lagniappe. 9 p.m. Cajun. Free.

FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Indie Vol. 2017 with Jacob Banks, H Krystal Peterson & The Queen City Band, Freedom Nicole Moore. 7 p.m. Indie/Soul/R&B/ Various. Free.

GREAT AMERICAN BALL PARK - Flo Rida. 10 p.m. Pop/Hip Hop. Free (with Reds game ticket).

THE GREENWICH - Kelly Richey.

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

HARMONY HILL VINEYARDS & WINERY - Bob Ross and Natalie Brady. 5 p.m. Jazz. Free.

JAPP’S - Burning Caravan.

5:30 p.m. Gypsy Jazz. Free.

JERZEES PUB & GRUB Pandora Effect. 9 p.m. Rock.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Whiskey Town. 9 p.m. Country.

Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Partytown.

10 p.m. Rock/Country/Pop/ Dance. Cover.

LIVE! AT THE LUDLOW GARAGE - Noah Smith H (single release party) with

Meaghan Farrell. 8 p.m. Country. $12-$15.

MADISON LIVE - PUBLIC with Daniel in Stereo and H Telehope. 8 p.m. Alt/Pop/Rock. $12, $15 day of show.

MANSION HILL TAVERN Misterman and the Mojo Band.

9 p.m. Blues. $4.

MOTR PUB - Heavy Necker with Filthy Beast and Vibrant Troubadours. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

MOUNT ADAMS PAVILION DJ Kronik. 10 p.m. DJ/Dance/ Various.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Rockn-Roll Against Dirty Coal with Sexy Time Live Band Karaoke.

8 p.m. Various. $20 (suggested donation).

OCTAVE - Pete Dressman & The Soul Unified Nation. 9 p.m.

Rock/Various. Free.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Middle Age Man Band. 7:30 p.m.

Rock/Country. Free.

RICK’S TAVERN - The Whammies.

9:30 p.m. ’80s Pop/Rock/Dance.

Cover.

BOGART’S - L.A. Guns with Jack Russell’s Great White and Junkyard. 8 p.m. Rock. $22-$75.

RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Rod Stewart with Cyndi Lauper. 7:30 p.m. Rock/Pop. $30-$149.50.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Steve Schmidt Trio with Mandy Gaines. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Ricky Nye Inc. 9 p.m.

Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

THE COMET - Knife the Symphony and Nonagon.

H 10 p.m. Post Punk/Indie Rock.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - SIMO with The Magic Lightnin’ Boys. 9 p.m.

Free.

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Blues/Rock/Roots. $12, $15 day of show.

MAURY’S TINY COVE - Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) H Supersuckers with Tommy Grit &

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TAFT THEATRE - Tesla with Voices of Extreme and Red Reign.

8 p.m. Rock. $29.50-$75.

MOTR PUB - Sweet Knives with Mardou and Crime of Passing.

10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

THOMPSON HOUSE - Home Sweet Home with Old Flames, Bright Lights, Dream Driver, Five Eyes and more. 8 p.m. Post Hardore/AltRock. $10.

MOUNT ADAMS PAVILION DJ Scene. 10 p.m. DJ/Dance.

the Pricks. 9 p.m. Rock/Roots. $12, $15 day of show.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Max Gise. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Cincinnati Dancing Pigs. 9 p.m.

Americana/Jug band. Free.

MEMORIAL HALL - Lynne Fiddmont’s Lady: A Tribute to Billie Holiday. 8 p.m. Jazz. $20-$100.

MVP BAR & GRILLE Indie Rock Night with H Flying Underground, Salvatore

Ross and Lovecrush88. 9 p.m.

Rock. $5.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Sexy Time Live Band Karaoke. 8:30 p.m.

Various. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Arlo Mckinley & The H Lonesome Sound with Wallace

Woods and Adam Lee. 9 p.m.

Roots/Americana/Rock/Various.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Steve Schmidt Trio.

8 p.m. Jazz. Free.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Kismet. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic/Folk/Rock. Free.

CINCINNATIAN HOTEL - Philip Paul Trio. 7 p.m. Jazz. Free.

RICK’S TAVERN - Top This Band.

10 p.m. Soul/R&B. Cover.

THE COMET - Royal Holland, Elizabeth Devlin and H Margaret Darling. 10 p.m. Indie/

ROEBLING POINT - River City Jam Concert Series featuring H JSPH, Marcus Alan Ward and

Rock/Folk. Free.

FOUNTAIN SQUARE - FSQ Live with Deuces Musik. 7 p.m. R&B/ Soul/Hip Hop. Free.

THE GREENWICH - Rollins Davis Band featuring Deborah Hunter.

9 p.m. Jazz/R&B. $5.

HARMONY HILL VINEYARDS & WINERY - Anna and the Deeper Well (5 p.m.); Nighthawk (2 p.m.). 2 p.m. Rock/Folk/Pop/ Various. Free.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD Brass Tracks Band. 9 p.m. Rock/ Pop/Various. $5.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD London Street. 9 p.m. Dance/ Rock/Various. $5.

KNOTTY PINE - Southern Saviour.

10 p.m. Country/Rock. Cover.

MADISON THEATER Harbour (album release H show) presents Sunfest featuring

Northbound, Pluto Revolts, Cinema Century, Clubhouse, Break Up Lines, The Dugongs, Label Me Lecter and more. 6 p.m.

Alt/Pop/Rock/Various. $15-$40 (shows at Madison Theater and Madison Live).

MANSION HILL TAVERN Prestige Grease. 9 p.m.

Blues. $3.

SILVERTON CAFE - The Apples.

9 p.m. Pop Rock. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - QIET with The Lovers.

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

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Brother Smith with Magnolia Boulevard and Josh Nolan. 9 p.m. Country/ Rock/Funk/Soul/Various. $8, $10 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Souvenir: A Tribute to Billy Joel by The Shirt & Tie Stiffs with Michelle Hemmer. 7:30 p.m. Billy Joel jams. $10-$15.

THOMPSON HOUSE - Sacrifice the Sun with Against Icarus, Third Person Omega, Hell Scorched Earth, Sleep Comes After Death, Blindside Drop, Others

by No One and Type 1. 7 p.m.

Metalcore. $10.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Jack Broad. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).

WOODWARD THEATER Nappy Roots with Doughty Family. 9:30 p.m. Hip Hop. $15, $18 day of show.

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BREWRIVER GASTROPUB Todd Hepburn. 11 a.m. Blues/ Various. Free.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Blues Jam with Sonny Moorman.

6 p.m. Blues. Free.

THE MOCKBEE - Don’t Call Me Punk, Aiming for Average, So Yesterday, Conway and Sagerman. 8 p.m. Rock/ Punk. Free.

MOTR PUB - Sphynx. 9 p.m.

Free.

HAlt/Pop/Rock.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Bulletville. 8:30 p.m.

H Country. Free.

PNC PAVILION AT RIVERBEND Pentatonix with Us The Duo. 8 p.m. A Capella/Pop. $33-$93.

SONNY’S ALL BLUES LOUNGE Blues jam session featuring Sonny’s All Blues Band. 8 p.m.

Blues. Free.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT Traditional New Orleans Jazz Brunch with 2nd Line Jazz Trio.

11:30 a.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).

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THE GREENWICH - The “G” Jam. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. $5 (or two canned-good donations for Freestore Foodbank).

THE MOCKBEE - Off Tha Block Mondays with hosts Stallitix, Goodword, DJ Noah I Mean, Chestah T, Gift of Gabi, Christian, Toph and Preston Bell Charles III. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

MUGGBEES BAR & GRILL Karaoke DJ. 8 p.m. Various.

Free.

TUESDAY 08

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Casey Campbell. 7 p.m. Blues.

Free.

THE MOCKBEE - Heavenly Creatures, Angry Planet and more. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER Foreigner with Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience. 7 p.m. Rock. $29.95-$99.95.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) H - R. Ring with Jerry Queen. 9 p.m.

Indie/Rock/Various. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB - Trashgrass Tuesday featuring members of Rumpke Mt. Boys. 9 p.m.

Bluegrass. Cover.

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Band of Helping Hands. 8 p.m.

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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 August 15th, 2017 on or after 9:30 am. Joshua Beekman, 03304, boxes and misc. items; Daniel York, 02209, Household goods; Thereada Hunter, 04611, house hold items; Erica Batton, 04122, 3 dressers, couch, chair, table, futon, tvs, older box tvs, radios, fridge and mothers items as well..; Donna Collins, 02327, house hold items; Rodney Jackson, 03325, personal items; Kim Hensley, 03242, queen bed, W/D and other misc items; Jason Conn, 04210, Furniture; Derek Farmer, 06107, love seat, entertainment center, bed.; Carole Robinson, 02321, Furniture; Carole Robinson, 03352, clothes and dishes. 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

Unit 454, Household Good. 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: Extra Space Storage, 8080 Steilen Dr. Florence, KY 41042 on August 15, 2017 at or after 10 am. Michael Kersting, Unit 150, Household; Deborah Eversole, Unit 161, Household Items; Tredrion Brooks, Unit 609, 3 couches, entertainment stand, table; Brier Riggs, Unit 617, Extra furniture and some boxes; Sierra Turner, Unit 722, Clothes; Dina Anness, Unit 810, Household furniture, boxes; Nancy Passafiume Varra, Unit 1110, Household; Jason Jewell, Unit 1111, Refrigerator, headboard, mattresses, coffee table; Charles Sherman, Unit 1119, Bike, bags; Jami Gilbert, Unit 1130, 2 bedroom house with appliances; Whitney Feck, Unit 1221, Clothes, bags, car seat, bassinet; Taylor Bowman, Unit 1509, Table, couch, cabinet, boxes; Ronald Hopper, Unit 2116, Household; Elbert Skip Eubank, Unit 2122, Household; Chelsie Axe, Unit 2227, Couch, chair, bed, totes; Jeremy Knutson, Unit 2617, Household; Tamarie Welsh, Unit 2633, Household; Cindy Edwards, Unit 2702,Household ; John Barker, Unit 2809,Furniture, dryer; Jonathan Farmer, Unit 2905,Household items.

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.

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individuals listed below at location indicated: Extra Space Storage 2526 Ritchie Ave Crescent Springs Ky, 41017 August 15, 2017 at or after 1130am. John Busch, Unit 709, Household; Tammy Inman, Unit 820 C, china cabinet, various household items, bed, clothing; Kevin Summe, Unit 345, Household items. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

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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, August 15th, 2017, 10:30 am. Kathy Wolfe, 108, Household items; Kimberly Fight, 539, Kitchen table, household items, boxes. 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, August 18th at 11:00 AM. Scott J Yunker, Unit 153, Household; Benjamin Lozier, Unit 330, Household Goods; Suzanne O Linstruth, Unit 427, Household Goods; Regina A Garrett, Unit 328, Household Goods; Janet Brown, Unit 352, Household Goods/Furniture; Mary H Straub, Unit 289, Household Goods; Robert Gabbard,

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