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WEDNESDAY AUG. 02
So, WTF is this Sarahah thing everyone’s talking about? The anonymous messaging app launched in February with an English version arriving in June and has recently topped Apple’s App Store charts. The word “sarahah” roughly translates to “honesty” in Arabic (cue nationalists clutching their collective pearls), and the app was originally intended for employees to give anonymous workplace feedback without being judged by their bosses. But now it’s being used by just about anyone (masochists?) asking for open, nameless questions and comments. The internet is already a dumpster fire of trolling and hate without the aspect of total anonymity, now we’re just inviting folks to add a page to a digital Burn Book. Think about the children!
THURSDAY AUG. 03
A cannabis company this week announced its purchase of an entire California town to turn into a pot-friendly tourist destination. That’s right: Weed companies are banking so much, they’re straight-up buying entire cities. American Green, the largest publicly traded cannabis company in the country, looks to build “an energy-independent, cannabis-friendly hospitality destination” on the 80-acre site. They hope to feature a bed and breakfast, dispensaries, CBD mineral bath spas, art and culinary events. Sounds like a pot head’s version of Disneyland.
Think about it: endless amounts of baked goods, sweet scents being pumped into the air, trippy rides…
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Once a couple’s wedding day is over and the honeymoon has passed, some of that newlywed sparkle begins to fade as you get back to normal life sans floral arrangements and carefully crafted hashtags. That’s when wedding photos are so clutch. When you’re a few weeks into marriage and no one’s gushing over details or planning you brunches anymore, that’s the time to assault your social feed with perfectly captioned shots from your big day. And that’s probably what Andrew and Neely Moldovan wanted to do when they asked wedding photographer Andrea Polito for their pics before their agreed upon date. They channeled their inner Veruca Salt, demanding their photos now, and they didn’t want to fork over $125 for the Italian-leather-bound photo album, either. So, like anyone over 30 who’s ever had a marginally unpleasant flight, the couple went in hard on social media. The Moldovans flooded Polito’s pages with negative reviews, cried to local news stations and allegedly ruined her career. Well, hopefully those photos turned out decent, because they ended up costing the Moldovans $1 million thanks to a defamation suit filed by Polito. They could have saved some cash and done what everyone else does to stay social media-relevant after marriage — have a kid.
SATURDAY AUG. 05
In the age of premium cable giants like HBO and streaming platforms like Netflix, it’s easy to forget that television doesn’t have to come with a monthly bill. But good old-fashioned local channels really are still available — and free — today. In fact, according to a survey cited by the Wall Street Journal, nearly a third of Americans don’t realize they can get free TV with an antenna. But, as so many are wont to do lately, this story places the blame on millennial dummies — note the headline, “Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna,” dripping in sarcasm — when really, folks across the board are confused about broadcast TV thanks to the federally mandated shift to high-def in 2009. Remember when you either had to buy a new HD TV or get a converter box? Well you can still hook up some rabbit ears to get your ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW and PBS without paying for cable. Cut to millennials: “Why would we want those channels?”
MONDAY AUG. 07
It’s the best day of the year! No, not Treat Yo’self Day (that’s Oct. 13, Parks and Rec fans). Monday marked the conclusion of Crop Over, the day we all get to see unofficial Barbados queen Rihanna living her best life in an incredible costume. Crop Over is a three-month Barbados harvest festival that ends with a carnival parade,
Grand Kadooment. Imagine the Taste of Cincinnati lasting all summer long. Actually, maybe don’t. Anyway, for years RiRi has returned to her native island to celebrate and appear in the festival’s parade in epic bejeweled bikini with feathery accoutrements. A nearly “nakey, nakey, naked” Rihanna gets to party with her people, and we all get to watch in amazement. On second thought, maybe it was Treat Yo’self Day.
TUESDAY AUG. 08
This week in questionable decisions: A Norwegian anti-immigrant group mistook a photo of empty bus seats for *threatening* women wearing burqas; The Sun, New York Post report that “boobs are back in a big way”; Kevin Can Wait will kill off Kevin James’ TV wife to introduce former King of Queens co-star Leah Remini (take that, Scientology!); a Japanese chicken joint debuted a dipping sauce made from famous singers’ sweat; Caitlyn Jenner was spotted in a MAGA hat days after Trump’s transgender ban tweet, then claimed she didn’t realize what she was wearing and now hates Trump; Amanda Knox defended the woman convicted in the texting suicide case; True Love is a Lie: Chris Pratt and Anna Faris are separating; True love is a Lie, Part 2: The Bachelorette’s Rachel chose Bryan over Peter. CONTACT T.C. BRITTON: letters@citybeat.com
Grifters and Thugs Since January, we have had our first grifter presidency. Sure, you might argue that Warren Harding came close. But the grifting, though done on a colossal scale, was by his underlings, the “Ohio Gang.” Harding himself probably didn’t benefit. He was too busy foreshadowing a future president’s antics in the oval office. Grant, too, wasn’t perfect in supervising his minions, but he was not personally corrupt. But this administration is different. The grifting is from the top down. The grifter-in-chief and his family’s profit-taking is too pervasive to even be news anymore. From violating the emoluments clause, which he’s been doing from the day he was sworn in, to mixing his government and business roles, to his companies being granted favors by foreign governments, the grifting rolls on. But grifters, while thieves, are usually not thugs — think John Cusack, Annette Bening.
Now we also have our first thug presidency. Trump’s speech to a law-enforcement group encouraged roughing-up of suspects. Why guard their heads when putting them into the cruiser? A concussion is fine. Bounce them around a bit. And if someone is killed by not being secured in the paddy wagon, so what? A president of the United States encourages law-breaking by law enforcers. The same guy who encouraged his supporters to beat up protestors. Every day a new low. (Trump even appointed a guy with a thuggish name, “Mooch,” but he lasted just a few days.) A leader supported now by maybe 35 percent of the people. Blaming problems on those “not like us” (immigrants). Turning more thuggish by the day. Trying to destroy his enemies, who, in his paranoia, are everywhere, including his hand-picked attorney general. Munich on the Potomac.
MARK PAINTER served as a judge for 30 years. He is the author of six books. Contact him: letters@citybeat.com.
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In American sports today, there is nothing else going on like FC Cincinnati. Nowhere else but the Queen City is a minor league team stealing so much thunder in a market with major league competition. Very few of you, at this point, need to be told that FC Cincinnati is our local pro soccer team. And even if you haven’t seen them at Nippert Stadium, it’s likely you’re aware that they are regularly drawing crowds of 20,000 or even 30,000. This in a “second division” backwater known as the United Soccer League. Jeff Berding, FCC’s president and general manager, affirms it’s “100 percent right” that nothing similar is occurring any other major market. The former 17-year executive with the Bengals does so with evident — and entirely justifiable — satisfaction. But precisely because it is so unusual, the accomplishment can seem perilously fragile. In other major league cities, minor league clubs occupy niche markets at best. The big league teams swamp the little guys, just as the Reds and Bengals still do with the hockey Cincinnati Cyclones or the baseball Florence Freedom. And in other big league towns, just look how United Soccer League teams get ignored. A recent list showed Phoenix averaging a modest 6,356 in attendance, Tampa at 5,629, Saint Louis at 4,645 and Pittsburgh at an almost anonymous 2,697. The traditional divide between major and minor league teams in the same city is not hard to explain. Fans identify with the major league clubs because they regularly bring national attention. Fans take great excitement and pride in that, especially so in midlevel locales like Cincinnati — which is the smallest market in the country with an entry in both of the biggest leagues, the National Football League and Major League Baseball. Admit it: However much you tried to roll your eyes at Chad (occasionally Ocho Cinco) Johnson, you loved how he put those Bengals stripes on a Sports Illustrated cover and had millions monitoring his bi-weekly antics on the riverfront. (My personal favorite was when he dangled a dollar bill at officials huddling over a close call, only to later be issued a 20-grand NFL fine for the mock bribe.) And if you’re old enough, you’ll never forget the crack of the bat heard through all the baseball world when Eric Davis launched the Reds’ 1990 World Series sweep with that Game 1, first-inning homer against the mighty and monstrously favored Oakland A’s. Minor league teams bring virtually nothing in this realm. Granted, FCC (who else?) has cracked the barrier a bit this year with its success in the U.S. Open Cup, an odd but interesting tournament that includes clubs from all pro soccer leagues. FCC has posted wins at Nippert over the Major League
But MLS is hot now and holding all the Soccer clubs from Columbus and Chicago, cards. Sports Illustrated says the league’s and on Aug. 15, they’ll host the MLS New York Red Bulls in the tournament semifinals. expansion requirements of 10 years ago look Nippert will be a madhouse, and there will “impossibly quaint” in comparison with today. be national coverage on ESPN. Twelve cities are vying for four expansion The Columbus and Chicago games were spots, and FCC faces a daunting challenge also on ESPN, and after FCC’s particularly from the MLS stance that all new teams must tense conquest of Chicago, the electricity have their own stadiums. There is clearly inside Nippert was duly praised on the fierce resistance in Cincinnati toward public SportsCenter broadcast that immediately help, even for new darlings like these guys. followed. It was a primo moment for FCC And, paradoxically, it might hurt the local and its fans, and Aug. 15 could be even better. But alas, such notice will be rare at best — and fleeting — as long as FC Cincinnati remains in the USL, with its Rochesters and Harrisburgs and Bethlehems. Rochester is the only non-MLS club to win the U.S. Open Cup since MLS began play in 1996 — the 1999 Rhinos beat four MLS teams to take the title — but it didn’t change the Rhinos’ status as a club on no one’s radar outside Rochester, N.Y. And if you happened to watch any of FC Cincinnati is consistently outdrawing current MLS clubs. FCC’s locally televised road PHOTO : HAILE Y BOLLINGER game at Rochester earlier this season, you saw that the Rhinos aren’t on many radars even inside lust for a new stadium that Nippert’s urban, Rochester. It was a typical minor league university-campus location is so perfect as scene in all its non-glory, with mostly empty a soccer venue, in everyone’s eyes except seats in a funny-looking little stadium. those of MLS revenue hawks. Why Cincinnati is suddenly so different Addressing my concern, Berding offers: from other major league towns, I don’t “This has never been specifically about know. But it’s clear FCC has tapped a MLS. We’re working to give ourselves the hunger here for pro soccer, one that goes best opportunity for expansion, but this has beyond the action on the field. It’s a full buyalways been about being Cincinnati’s soccer in to a “Euro-style” soccer experience, with franchise, regardless of league. It’s about organized clubs of fans who meet before building it, growing it and connecting in ever and after games, march to the stadium and more ways to the community.” bang drums and sing chants. It’s largely a The report card thus far is all A-plusses, so younger-adult crowd, and FCC has deftly I’m not here to say they can’t sustain it. I agree fed that demographic with innovations like with observers who say FCC has bonded “The Bailey,” the section that encourages heart-to-heart with its fan base in a remarkparticularly spirited partisans in Nippert’s able way. And I’ve watched some soccer in north end zone. You won’t find anything as my life — the USL’s players pass the eye test lively, or infectious, at Great American Ball as skilled and mature performers. They give Park or Paul Brown Stadium. you an absolutely good show, at a price that But how long can this last in the USL? can be as low as a movie. And to all you sports With no national stroking of Cincinnati’s curmudgeons who gripe about low scoring, sports ego, will the novelty of this wear off? please know you’re a disappearing species, The obvious way to a secure future is for as soccer’s non-stop action and consistent FCC to join fast-rising MLS as an expantwo-hour game times score points against sion club. Berding and the owning Lindner the in-game delay problems that football and family are trying like crazy, and it could baseball are continuously wrestling with. seem an absolute no-brainer, as FCC curBut still I’m nagged and uncertain about rently draws comparably with, or ahead of, FCC’s future. I can’t help but be. This isn’t the majority of MLS clubs (including our happening anywhere else. Can it keep hapfriends up north in Columbus, who placed pening here, if the MLS doesn’t come? last in a recent MLS attendance listing at CONTACT JACK BRENNAN: letters@ citybeat.com under 15,000 per game).
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Tension mounts around Children’s Hospital’s proposed $550 million expansion in Avondale By Nick Swartsell
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physicians, nurses, support staff, parents, patients and industry advisors who provided thoughtful input and helped us to conclude that this project and location and its proximity and connectivity to our existing facilities are essential if we want to meet the needs of critically ill children. Yet, we appreciate the concerns by our neighbors and fellow citizens, especially in Avondale. We will work hard to minimize these issues.” Hillary Wagner is one of the hospital’s patients who came to City Council last week to support the expansion. In 2015, Wagner’s newborn daughter was diagnosed with a rare liver disorder that eventually required her to donate a piece of her liver to her child. Wagner turned to Children’s for the procedure, recovery and continuing treatment. She said the service at the hospital’s Avondale campus was excellent but that the facilities there were cramped and less than ideal. “We have the best doctors in the world at Cincinnati Children’s,” Wagner said. “I know that first hand. It’s time we give the care team and their patients the state-of-the-art space and safety they so desperately need.” But that expansion comes in a neighborhood that has seen alternating waves of disinvestment and rapid expansion of large, powerful institutions. Children’s
An expansion of Children’s Hospital could mean demolitions and displacement of families on Erkenbrecher Avenue. The hospital has purchased more than 100 properties in the area. has bought up more than 100 homes in recent years ahead of the expansion, and, just west, the Cincinnati Zoo has also purchased and begun to demolish other housing for its own expansion. Avondale, which is 90 percent black, has seen its median household income and life expectancy lag significantly behind citywide averages, mostly due to widespread disinvestment dating back to the 1960s. But even as jobs and economic opportunities have remained scarce for many black residents there, Children’s campus has gotten bigger. Trina Carter remembers living in apartments near the corner of Erkenbrecher and Burnet avenues from the 1970s until the mid-1990s, when her family moved after the building was sold and subsequently demolished. At the time, Children’s was working up to another large project — the construction of so-called “Location A,” a 447,000-square-foot patient tower there. That project started in 1998 and wrapped up in 2002. By that time, the hospital was operating more than 3.5 million square feet of building space, up from just 600,000 square feet in 1982. That total has continued to grow.
“I loved it there,” Carter says of her apartment. “A lot of families lived there who we knew really well. It was a bummer to have to move.” Carter says her family briefly moved a little farther up Burnet to a rental house before that property was also demolished. After that, most of the family left Avondale. Carter’s aunt stayed behind before finally folding in 2015 to pressure to sell the house she owned near Burnet and Erkenbrecher, caddy-corner to Children’s. The only thing standing in the way of breaking ground on Children’s massive new project is City Council approval of city zoning code variances and the sale of right-of-way of city-owned land. Council could remove those last hurdles at its Aug. 9 meeting. If it does, it will be the second time this year that the city has given the green light to a major development opposed by predominant community groups in a neighborhood. In May, Council approved the sale of city-owned alleys for a development at Liberty and Elm streets in Over-the-Rhine despite staunch, if not unanimous, opposition from the CONTINUES ON PAGE 13
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ne of the city’s largest hospitals has proposed an expansion that would serve hundreds of young patients and represent the city’s biggest development deal since the turn of the millennium. But not everyone loves a $550 million plan by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to add a 625,000-square-foot patient tower, 1,100car parking garage addition and helipad to its Avondale campus. The plan requires the demolition of single-family homes and the relocation of six households as well as the rerouting of Erkenbrecher Avenue. It has awakened old tensions in the neighborhood from residents fatigued by the growth of large institutions there. Children’s says it has been working on the plan for years, and Cincinnati’s Planning Commission gave its unanimous approval in June. But, even then, there were rumblings that some residents in Avondale weren’t happy with the idea. The Avondale Community Council opposes the plan, saying Children’s didn’t do enough to engage residents in the planning process and that the large parking garage and increased volume of patients will draw much more traffic to the neighborhood. The council also protests the demolition of the houses along Erkenbrecher, saying residents who sold them were pressured or misled into letting the hospital buy them. “The impact of this project on the Avondale community — that question has not be answered,” community council president Patricia Milton said after hospital representatives and patients came before Cincinnati City Council lobbying for the development. “Children’s Hospital is a great institution. We have heard from many of their patients. That’s what they’re supposed to do — take care of patients. But it’s not right that Children’s Hospital is trying to change the story here. No one from our community participated in the plan for this project. We would like very much to be very included in what’s going on in our community.” Representatives from Children’s say they’ve made outreach efforts and that there simply is not another way to respond to the booming need for their services. Children’s CEO Michael Fisher says the hospital serves more than 21,000 families and children a year, 3,000 of them from Uptown neighborhoods like Avondale. Hospital leadership says the new facility will serve emergency patients and that quick access to existing facilities is critical. “As we planned this major investment,” Fisher says, “we had dozens and dozens of
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MSD Deal Hits Political Hurdles By NICK SWARTSELL
City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County officials late last month announced they had reached an agreement that would restructure a 50-year-old operating agreement for the region’s Metropolitan Sewer District just months before it expires. But plans for MSD’s new operating structure aren’t out of the woods yet, even as Council is poised to vote to approve the deal as soon as Aug. 9. Mayor John Cranley, facing re-election this year, has touted the agreement that would create a five-member MSD oversight board appointed by city and county officials as a historic win for the city. “The average ratepayer just wants their rates to go up slower and their sewers to get fixed and running properly,” Cranley said at a news conference announcing the plan July 26. But the deal has gotten significant criticism from Democrats on Cincinnati City Council — including Cranley’s mayoral opponent Yvette Simpson — and Republican Hamilton County Commissioner Chris Monzel. Critics on Council say the deal cedes too many city assets to the county and that the proposed unelected board, of which the city appoints two members, isn’t democratic. “Our sewer system impacts the daily lives of every resident in the city,” said Councilmember Chris Seelbach in a statement following the announcement of the deal. “Installing an unaccountable board to decide rate increases, environmental cleanup and construction contracts won’t improve the lives of Cincinnati residents. We’re giving away billions of dollars in assets for nothing in return and without any kind of meaningful feedback from the people we represent.” While some on Council decried the level of county control in the arrangement, Monzel said the city should give up more say in how MSD is run. “I was hopeful that the county would finally have full control of the sewer district and protect ratepayers from overspending and mismanagement,” Monzel wrote in an editorial in The Cincinnati Enquirer. “On the contrary, this is a bad deal for the ratepayers for the following reasons.” The complexly structured 45-year deal comes after protracted bickering between the county and city over control of the utility, as MSD works on a $3 billion courtordered repair effort and not long after a contracting scandal in which investigations revealed the sewer district had awarded no-bid contracts totaling millions of dollars. Ohio Auditor David Yost continues to audit the sewer district after those revelations. Sewer rates have climbed drastically for MSD ratepayers — more than 125 percent in the last decade.
Hamilton County Commissioners Todd Portune and Denise Driehaus, both Democrats, worked on the arrangement and are ready to give the county’s commitment to the restructuring. The board that would oversee MSD would have the power to hire and fire the district’s director and assistant director, but would need a four-member supermajority to do so. That arrangement guarantees that the county can’t have unilateral control over those decisions, but Monzel has warned that it could cause gridlock. A key detail of the agreement deals with pensions for MSD workers. Under the deal before Council, employees with the sewer district would become county employees, but would continue to pay into the city’s pension fund. That’s a critical detail — the pension faced an eventual $800 million gap before it was restructured during Cranley’s tenure, and payments from sewer employees are key to the fund’s continued solvency. The agreement would also make the county responsible for odor problems at MSD’s processing plant in Lower Price Hill, a situation that has generated a good deal of protest from residents and business owners in the area. Council members opposing the deal are holding fast — something county commissioners say could be costly. If the city and county don’t strike a deal soon, they say, it could affect the county’s financial health. Commissioners must turn in a report on the county’s finances by Aug. 15, Driehaus says. That will be the final report before the current agreement between the city and county, written up in 1968, expires. Without a new agreement in place, the county risks a credit downgrade, county officials say. “This agreement becomes very important to that document,” Driehaus told WCPO. “The instability is a real problem. And I do think there will be an impact to our ability to borrow money. In the end, somebody pays for that.” Despite exhortations by commissioners, critics on City Council have called for more time to vet the proposal and make adjustments. So far, three council members — Simpson, Seelbach and Wendell Young — oppose the deal. Another three are undecided. At least two of them would need to vote yes to move the agreement forward. One, P.G. Sittenfeld, says he won’t make a decision until Aug. 14. Even if Council approves the restructuring, the MSD deal faces other hurdles. State legislators must approve the deal, since county employees contribute to Ohio’s retirement fund, OPERS. It’s unclear whether lawmakers in the State House will go for the deal. ©
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neighborhood’s community council and other prominent groups. Not everyone on Council is sold on Children’s plan, however. “This will impact Avondale for decades,” Councilwoman Yvette Simpson said during an Aug. 7 neighborhoods committee meeting aimed at moving to a full Council vote legislation approving a zoning change. “I want to support this development, but I’m not willing to do it at the cost of the residents.” She’s not the only one. Councilman Wendell Young is also against the zoning change as it’s been presented to Council. Simpson and Young submitted a counterproposal: Children’s must invest five percent of the value of the tower development — about $27.5 to $32 million — into Avondale over the next decade. That’s more than the $11.5 million Children’s is investing in the neighborhood to improve housing there, but less than a $100 million investment the Avondale Community Council once asked for, according to an Avondale Community Council powerpoint about the plan. The Simpson/Young proposal also calls for a commitment from the hospital to improve health outcomes in the neighborhood by 10 percent over the next decade and for the city to reinvest back into Avondale
the $562,000 it would gain from selling the right of way on Erkenbrecher. Children’s zoning request faced gridlock in Council over the last two weeks after three council members — Simpson and Young as well as Charlie Winburn — who oppose the deal were absent from multiple committee and Council meetings. Simpson’s longtime partner experienced a severe medical emergency, and Winburn suffered from eye problems that required the attention of an optometrist. Young says he had personal matters that required him to drive out of town during the days the meetings took place, but he was in the city in the evenings. Critics say Young skipped the meetings to avoid a vote — a charge he denies. All council members were present at a committee meeting Aug. 7 but couldn’t agree on a way forward on the project. Two members of the neighborhoods committee, David Mann and Kevin Flynn, balked at Simpson and Young’s Aug. 7 proposal. Both the amended motion and original proposal for the zoning change will go before Council Aug. 9. Mann and Flynn, as well as other supporters like Mayor John Cranley, say Children’s has done plenty for Avondale. “I don’t think it’s fair for Children’s Hospital to be responsible for all things that challenge our neighborhoods,” Mann said. ©
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Her Own Private IOWA
The remastered edition of Nancy Rexroth’s landmark photo book revisits the small towns of 1970s Appalachian Ohio BY STEV EN ROSEN
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n the early 1970s, as a young photographer studying for a master’s degree at Ohio University, Nancy Rexroth found her inspiration in the small towns and rural homes of Appalachian southeast Ohio. There, she used her Diana plastic camera — considered a toy, really — to take intentionally blurry, black-and-white dream-state pictures of people and places. And in 1977, she self-published a book of that work. She called it, strangely, IOWA. The result has slowly become a body of work that fans consider a landmark, but is still relatively unknown to the larger public. Now, Rexroth is about to see University of Texas Press release a handsome new edition of the out-ofprint IOWA, treating it like a classic worthy of a 40th-anniversary celebration. Rexroth has not had another photography book since then, other than a 1977 pamphlet on how to make contemporary platinum prints. On Aug. 23 at 7 p.m., Rexroth will have a talk/ book signing at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in the Rookwood Pavilion. This has been a long time coming. Rexroth has been preparing for a new edition for the past eight years, going over her 1,300 rolls of film, and wanting a new IOWA well before that. She had shown several new prints of recently discovered IOWA images during the first FotoFocus exhibition in 2012. This writer talked to her then for a story, and this article draws on quotes from 2012 as well as recent interviews and email exchanges. “My whole experience has been that I’ve been treated so well in this process,” says Rexroth, who has lived in Cincinnati for approximately the past 20 years. “My first book was just, ‘Oh well, here’s this book.’ Now everybody has treated me very diplomatically and patiently. I’ve been through the process of a modern publication of a photography book.” It’s amazing what Rexroth’s long-ago, original foray into using plastic cameras has turned into. It seems a long way from when she first discovered the Diana camera at Ohio University. “I got bitten by the bug,” she says. “You couldn’t say that a person is getting a good photo because they have an expensive camera. And you find yourself being much more spontaneous. When you advance the film, it makes this ratchet sound like a wind-up toy. But I never thought of it as being a toy, ever. It was as worthy as any camera. What I could do with it is why I stuck with it. I wasn’t just snapping away — I was doing something I cared about.” Rexroth grew up in Arlington, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C., where her father was a technical director of research and development for the Naval Air Systems Command. Her parents used to visit her father’s family in Iowa — the real Iowa — every summer.
“My father had such close ties with his family,” Rexroth says. “There were 14 children and they were very tight knit. And my mother grew up in Iowa, too — (my parents) met in Iowa.” Rexroth remembers these trips fondly because, she says, everything felt so bright, shiny and clean. It was a favorite memory. Such a good one that she thought of it when photographing in such Ohio towns near Athens as Malta, Pomeroy, Chauncey, Nelsonville, Stewart, Logan, Creola, Guysville, Glouster and more. There was a feeling that the Ohio she photographed seemed behind the times, still living in the 1950s. Perhaps because she called her project IOWA, it has seemed as if her camera’s viewfinder was looking at her state of mind, her subconscious, her childhood memories, as much as her subjects. She, herself, seemed to make that connection in our 2012 interview. “I think I was showing people a longing to want to go back and be that child,” she said then. But it’s more complicated than that, she believes. Rexroth certainly didn’t find the landscape here as shiny and clean as she found The Hawkeye State during her youthful visits there. She felt it was the opposite. “In southeast Ohio, it was like everything was decaying and you hardly ever saw people,” she says. Calling her project IOWA, she says now, added to the mystery of her work. Perhaps it served as a manifesto of her freedom to be an artist already defying the conventions of art photography — few if any used toy plastic cameras for their work. “I thought, wait a minute, if I call it IOWA, it will be stressing that photographs don’t have to be at all about the subject matter at hand,” she says. Rexroth received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to continue her project after school. For her resultant book, she included 70 photos, one to a page and each a 4-by-4-inch or even smaller reproduction. (Anything larger threatened to break down the image.) And there were, actually, some photographs from outside the region — including Iowa. Among those of her generation interested in photography, the book became a landmark publication — not just for channeling or perhaps foreseeing the quiet loneliness, the sadness, of a Rust Belt America before that term became familiar, but for doing it with an “unprofessional” camera that, just maybe, captured the truth better than something fancier. The book didn’t stay in print long, but it had a growing impact. Those who knew her at Ohio University, which has a good program in photography, talked about her work. With time, its haunting, blurry images came to be seen, it their way, as evidence of an “old, weird America,” a term that writer Greil Marcus once coined to describe the roots of the somewhat “unprofessionally” produced Basement Tapes recordings by Bob Dylan.
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was too small to see. With its new name and larger size, it has more impact. It shows two children; a boy in a sheet shows off on a house porch that is a veritable battlefield between sunshine and shadow, while a rough triangle-like outline of bright light forms around a nearby girl’s head. In a way, IOWA has a muse — a Puck-like older man named Emmet Blackburn, a railroad worker, seen dancing a jig near an uninhabited wooded area in the first edition. It became a favorite, a touch of joy in a work that otherwise saw mortality omnipresent in southeast Ohio. The new edition adds several more photos of him, plus one of the bed in his home in Pomeroy. “He loved being photographed and he introduced himself to me,” Rexroth says. “So I started photographing him. He never saw this book. I was sure he wouldn’t like it because they were ‘out of focus.’ What I should have done was take regular photos with my Nikon and give him copies.” The University of Texas Press-published IOWA honors the first one’s cover, with its lavender color and minimalist typography, Hamrick says, but also is a slightly smaller format to reduce the white space around the small photos. There is also, for the first time ever, a hardbound edition with a jacket. Among other changes, Rexroth and photographer Mark Power have written postscripts to their original introductions, and two new contributors have written essays. One is Alec Soth, the prominent Minnesota-based photographer whose “Rexroth’s Strawberries” essay compares IOWA to Ingmar Bergman’s classic film Wild Strawberries. “When I reflect on IOWA, why do I find myself thinking of cinema?” Soth begins. “Is it because the jittery monochromes remind me of film racing past a projector’s lamp? Or is it the fictional quality of the work, given that nearly all the pictures were made outside Iowa? Mostly, I think, I am reminded of cinema because Rexroth’s images seem not to set the hard facts of place but instead to evoke the world of dreams.” All this praise, and all the recent hard work of looking at her past, has Rexroth thinking back to when she started her project. “What was I doing?” she says. “Well, I was just exploring with the camera. I’m so glad I didn’t ask myself those questions then. I felt like it was my secret and people could see the photographs and either like them or hardly be able to look at them.” She also admires her chutzpah then. “To get into houses, I would say I was working on a project for school,” she says. “It was very strange — people looking out of their houses and seeing me as I would go into their backyards and on their porches. I don’t remember people asking me to leave or anything. ” All that was a long time ago. “I was so young,” she says. As this new edition reaches bookstores, Rexroth realizes she’s had a chance to return to her IOWA and see it with more mature eyes. “Going back after 40 years and re-evaluating the thing, I found ‘new’ images I had not noticed before,” she says. “I just had to be older to expand my view of what IOWA was.” In an email, she explains her views of IOWA in 2017 further: “IOWA is now its own country, with its own space in the world of feelings,” she says. “It is a place we all go to, sometime, and we recognize it when we do see it on our arrival. It is a part of the human zeitgeist and has always been there, morphing away on the dark side of things, sad and joyful, and filled with incredible longing.” Nancy Rexroth will sign IOWA 7 p.m. Aug. 23 at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in the Rookwood Pavilion. IOWA is available from University of Texas Press.
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You could also see, in the images featuring the exteriors and interiors of the wooden houses of the region, an echo of Edward Hopper’s lonesome America. At times, they were frightening in their prescience — “A Woman’s Bed,” a 1970 photograph from Logan, Ohio, caught white sheets on a dark bed frame so perfectly smooth that you see the absence of the woman as much as the presence of the bed. In that and other photos, IOWA knew the losses ahead. It was also noteworthy for what was not included — nostalgia and sentimentality. “I just had this enormous grip on what was Iowa and what was not Iowa to me,” Rexroth says. “What it wasn’t was barnyard activity and retro trucks from the ’50s. I didn’t want clichéd stuff; I didn’t want signs and cars.” Rexroth went on to teach at Antioch College and Wright State University. A photography student at the latter was Tad Barney, now of Milford, who sought out her work and discovered IOWA. Much later, in 2013, he started a Nancy Rexroth appreciation page on Facebook. “I decided she needed some recognition,” he says. “I was this young photography student who had been taught to make sure everything in your image was sharp and clear and in focus — no blurring. It was about getting as much information into your image as you could. And then along comes her book and it just broke all the rules. All of a sudden, photographs to me were shown to be more about a feeling, an emotion, than just information.” Barney was especially taken with the last photograph in IOWA, “White Sky,” taken in Chauncey, Ohio. It is, indeed, just whiteness, framed in a slightly concave manner that lets the sepia border form a soft, playful edge. “A photograph could even be something as basic as nothing,” Barney says, with amazement. “I just fell in love with that book.” In 2000, Rexroth found a Minneapolis gallerist, Martin Weinstein, willing to have a show of her work. He has stayed with her ever since and been a strong, eloquent champion of her IOWA work. “I think it is a compendium of one of the most magical bodies of work in the 20th century in photography,” says Weinstein, whose gallery has also shown Edward Burtynsky, Alec Soth, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe and Gordon Parks. The new edition of IOWA can be considered “remastered,” to use a musicindustry term for updated versions of classic albums. It’s not a straight republication. Some 20 of the original photographs have been replaced by 23 others not used in the 1977 edition. All are published at 4-by-4 inches. And she has used Photoshop to bring out more of the details and contrasts she feels were originally intended, but that she wasn’t able to accomplish at the time by using a dark room. She actually has been testing her IOWA updating for several years on Facebook. “When you do any reprint, the photographer has an opportunity to revisit and re-evaluate every aspect of the first edition — and to also go back and look hard at all of the images from that series and time period that were not included in the book,” says David Hamrick, University of Texas Press’ director, via email. “Nancy really wanted to add new photos and change the sequence slightly. She made a beautiful new maquette of how she envisioned the book should look, sent it to me, and then we went through every page together on the phone and agreed that a slightly revised version would be even stronger than the first one.” One addition in this new edition is the eerie “Clara in the Closet,” taken in Carpenter, Ohio in 1973 and showing, in blurred fashion, an elderly lady inside her bedroom closet. (It was published in CityBeat in 2012.) “Playing Ghost,” taken in Ironton, Ohio in 1974, was in the first book under the name “He Demonstrates,” but was printed in a 2-by-2-inch format that Rexroth now feels
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ONSTAGE: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE finds escapism in musical theater at the Incline. See review on page 24.
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 the Playhouse in the Park with local eateries serving up everything from cupcakes, ice cream and candy to donuts, coffee and pastries. Participating eateries 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 FILM: LA LA LAND This one’s for the fools who dream. Catch La La Land, the 2016 musical film that amassed 14 Academy Award nominations, at Washington Park as part of their Summer Cinema series. Spread out on the lawn with the inky night sky above you and equally dreamy movie stars on the big screen. You’ll swoon to this tale of an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and Jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) falling in love in the heat of Los Angeles, crafted to induce nostalgic, dreamy vibes with old Hollywood flair. 9-11 p.m. Wednesday. Free admission. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark.org. — MACKENZIE MANLEY
SPORTS: WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN The oldest tennis tournament in the country returns to Cincinnati with a week of face offs between some of the sport’s biggest stars. Established in 1899, the Western & Southern Open — formerly known as the Cincinnati Open and Tri-State Tennis Tournament — pits men and women against each other tournament-style through Aug. 20, with players including Roger Federer, who is vying for an unprecedented eighth Cincinnati title. But the Open isn’t just for sports lovers: The event also includes a full lineup of food, drinks and live music every day, including performances by local acts like Young Heirlooms and Jess Lamb. Through Aug. 20. Tickets start at $25. Lindner Family Tennis Center, 5460 Courseview Drive, Mason, wsopen.com. — EMILY BEGLEY
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COMEDY: MIKE STANLEY Comedian Mike Stanley liked the comedy scene in his native Detroit, but felt he needed to branch out and “get into a bigger pond with more opportunities.” He’s now based in Denver and travels frequently to L.A., where he works on a new Food Network program and does voice over work. Onstage, he had been talking a lot about the president but has recently dialed that back. “I was doing about 15 to 20 minutes on (Donald Trump) but got bored with it,” he says. He’s focusing now on quick set-up/punchline jokes as well as personal stories. Showtimes ThursdaySunday. $8-$14. Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, gobananascomedy.com. — P.F. WILSON
EVENT: GREAT INLAND SEAFOOD FESTIVAL Enjoy fresh seafood, cold drinks and live music at this year’s Great Inland Seafood Festival. Although the event runs Thursday through Sunday, be sure to get there early; otherwise you might miss out on the fest-favorite whole Maine lobsters selling for $11.95 each. More than 15 restaurants and local vendors will be on the scene selling the freshest premium seafood they can get their claws on. Live bands include My Sister Sarah, Hearsay, Swan, Robin Lacy and more. 5-11 p.m. Thursday and Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday. Free. Festival Park, Riverboat Row, Newport, Ky., facebook.com/greatinlandseafoodfestival. — AMANDA WEISBROD
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MUSIC: CINCY BLUES FEST Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Cincy Blues Fest is one of the longestrunning Blues festivals in the country. This weekend, the Cincy Blues Society’s event continues doing what has made it so successful and enduring, showcasing more than 30 diverse national and local Blues artists on three stages along the riverfront. Headliners this year include Ruthie Foster, Albert Cumming and Ronnie Baker Brooks (see Sound Advice on page 34), while Jay Jesse Johnson Band, The SoulFixers, Leroy Ellington Band, Ricky Nye, Johnny Fink and the Intrusion, Tempted Souls Band, Everett and Delta Storm and The Beaumonts are among the local artists scheduled throughout CONTINUES ON PAGE 20
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EVENT: HAMILTON COUNTY FAIR Join the circus performers, belly dancers, demolition drivers, pro wrestlers and livestock that call Hamilton County home. The Hamilton County Fair is in its 162nd year, promising yet another week of family fun. Watch a vintage baseball game, pet a barnyard animal or take a picture with a princess. Grandstands will cheer and engines will rumble as local celebrities, nobodies and law enforcement duke it out in multiple demo derbies. For a little less destruction, visit exhibits on antiques, arts, needlework, poultry and pies. Whether you’ve lived in the county for months or years, you’re sure to learn something new. 4-11 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-10 p.m. Sunday. $7 admission; $5 parking. Hamilton County Fairgrounds, 7700 Vine St., Carthage, hamiltoncountyfair.com. — GRACE HILL
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Workshops Live Painting Fire Spinners Anadono Illumination Station Daily Yoga Classes Fairy Village Daily Yoga Classes Children’s Activities Family Camping VIP/RV Camping BAnDS || Rumpke Mountain Boys ekoostik Hookah Jahman Brahman(x2) Subterranean Glostik Willy Blue Moon Soup Elementree Livity Project (x2) new Moon Rising (x2) Curious Camels Reverend Kris B’s Midnight Railroad Blood Simple Rob Dread and KMA Ed Mcgee Acrylic Grooves DJ Tronik Vision DJ Delta Bass Lemon Sky Pupils of Groove Something Involving a Monkey Evan Ray Bypass Circuit Cozmikspirit DJ Tangled Branches Chris B. & the Midnight Railroad Opposite Box Acrylic Grooves Conscious Pilot Krunk Town Boogie Your Favorite Sons Jericho Thyme Arrows of neon Drunken Sunday Johnson Brothers Blues Band Family Spirit Mike Discoman Shallo Psycic Relic Pupils of Groove Through the Red Creekdraggers Eyeris Wide Donnie Rose Juju Crow Vibe & Direct Bobby Hamblin & the Lawless DJ Skrat Dramatic Rhythms Jonny Dread and the Mystiks Jesse Barker Willy Clark Smiling Joe Clinton James The Saints of Heartbreak Delta Base More TBA
EVENT: 1940S DAY Pin curl your hair and pick up East Coast Swing. The 1940s are alive at Lunken, Cincinnati’s own Art Deco airport. The Cincinnati Museum Center’s 1940s Day will bring the past to the present as vintage airplanes and automobiles line the tarmac. You’ll hear stories from World War II veterans and a Holocaust survivor, as well as hits from Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day and The Andrews Sisters. Boogie-woogie with The Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance and get all dolled up with a makeup artist and hairstylist. You can even make a purchase from Casablanca Vintage to perfect your 1940s look. You’ll leave as pretty as a pin-up. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. $10 adults; $5 children; free World War II veterans and Cincinnati Museum Center members. Lunken Airport, 262 Wilmer Ave., East End, cincymuseum.org/events/1940s-day. — GRACE HILL
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the weekend (including performers on the unique Arches Boogie Piano stage). This year, the Blues Fest also spotlights some of the nation’s Blues young guns; Friday’s Youth Showcase Stage features performances by Dayton, Ohio’s Joe Tellmann Band and Kellen Wiilliams Trio; Glastonbury, Conn.’s Jake Kulak and the LowDown; and the Blues in the Schools Band, featuring participants from the Cincy Blues Society’s Blues in the Schools educational programs. 5 p.m.-midnight Friday; 4:30 p.m.-midnight Saturday. $25 per day; $45 weekend pass. Sawyer Point, 705 E. Pete Rose Way, Downtown, cincybluesfest.org. — MIKE BREEN EVENT: THE COV ABIDES 2 SCAVENGER CRAWL Channel your inner slacker-self and slip on your comfiest, rattiest bathrobe during the second-annual Big Lebowski-themed booze-fueled scavenger hunt through the heart of Covington’s bar district. You’ll be given a map with a list of challenges and drink specials and be asked to find objects, landmarks and art (which may or may not have been commended as being strongly vaginal, which bothers some men)
throughout the crawl. There’ll be prizes, and the night ends at Braxton Brewing Co., which will be tapping a White Russian firkin. Use an Uber at the end of the crawl with the code “grjwe.” Driving drunk is an aggression that will not stand, man. Can’t afford it? Check out the crawl’s pay-what-you-can option. And remember: The dude abides. 6-11 p.m. Friday. $15 early bird; $20 at the door. Check-in starts at MainStrasse Village, Covington, Ky., keepyourshirtoncovington.com. — MACKENZIE MANLEY
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MUSIC: The AMERICAN ACOUSTIC tour, featuring Punch Brothers, I’m with Her and Julian Lage, brings Jazz/Bluegrass awesomeness to the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 34. MUSIC: Alt Rock Nashville quartet FUTURE THIEVES plays Urban Artifact. See Sound Advice on page 35.
ONSTAGE: THE FULL MONTY How far would you go to make ends meet? Guys laid off from a Buffalo, N.Y. steel mill are struggling to cope with tough times and supporting their families. Desperate times
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ART: THE MASTER OF LOYALTY IS IN THE GALLERY TONIGHT AT THUNDER-SKY, INC. If ever there were an artist interested in elevating the people around him to celebrity status, it is the inimitable, ever-prolific, constantly evolving, Cincinnati-based Antonio Adams. To return the favor, Adams’ sometimes-collaborator, Pique Gallery co-owner and curator Lindsey Whittle, has reached out to friends, family and actual celebrities to turn the tables on Adams and celebrate him with a show of work created in his honor. The brilliantly titled The Master of Loyalty is in the Gallery Tonight features participating artists David Mack, Tony Dotson, Cedric Michael Cox, Cate Douglas and others. Opening reception 6-10 p.m. Saturday. Through Oct. 6. Free. Thunder-Sky, Inc., 4573 Hamilton Ave., Northside. raymondthundersky.org. — MARIA SEDA-REEDER
EVENT: GET A CLUE COVINGTON: MURDER MYSTERY PUB CRAWL Six suspects, six possible murder weapons and six local bars that may have been involved; solve the mystery of the murdered Covington goose girl this Saturday during the Murder Mystery Pub Crawl, hosted by Braxton Brewing Company. Modeled after the popular board game Clue, pub-crawlers can join a team of four and travel to different bars around the area. Order a Braxton or New Belgium beer and the bartender will give you a clue. Through the process of elimination, solve the mystery and earn
yourself a “mediocre prize” at the site of the murder. 6-10 p.m. Saturday. Free. Braxton Brewing Company, 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, Ky., facebook.com/braxtonbrewingcompany. — AMANDA WEISBROD
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EVENT: SECOND SUNDAY ON MAIN Eclectic urban street festival Second Sunday on Main returns to Over-the-Rhine this weekend with the theme “It Takes a Neighborhood.” The fest will celebrate the organizations, resources and creativity that make OTR a diverse and tight-knit community. Rain or shine. Noon-5 p.m. Free admission. Main Street between 12th and Liberty streets, Over-the-Rhine, secondsundayonmain.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO
ONGOING SHOWS VISUAL ART Ugo Rondinone: let’s start this day again Contemporary Arts Center, Downtown (through Aug. 20)
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call for desperate measures: What starts as a lark — a strip show to raise some bucks — becomes a big deal when they have to learn to dance while dealing with body issues and telling their wives what they’re up to. But they are committed to pulling it off. Literally. It’s a lot of laughs and some spirited music, as well as a heartfelt story about doing what needs to be done. Through Aug. 27. $30; $27 Carnegie members; $23 students. The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, Ky., thecarnegie.com. — RICK PENDER
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ori and Jeff Lewis’ storefront at 6818 State Route 128 looks like the real-life manifestation of a weddingthemed Pinterest board. Succulents peek out of a miniature wooden cabinet embellished with wooden hearts, flowers in a weathered watering can provide a shock of color and multiple chalkboard signs sport terms like “Mr.” and “Mrs.” in jovial handwriting. The married couple owns and operates two businesses out of the space: Hocus Focus Photo Booths, which supplies a variety of rentable photo booths, and Rustic Rentals, rustic items and antiques available for all sorts of events — everything from weddings and birthdays to graduations and family reunions. Hocus Focus was the couples’ first endeavor, established five-and-a-half years ago. “Jeff had always wanted to start his own business,” Lori explains. “We went to a wedding, we saw a photo booth and he thought, ‘What a great idea. I think we could do it.’ He built our very first photobooth and we quickly added a second one.” The original photo booth — the business’ most popular — is a lightweight standard booth that can fit up to eight people inside. Hocus Focus also rents out themed booths — a rustic décor booth, an open-air booth and one specifically for kids — in addition to what is perhaps their most unique offering: a mint-green camper appropriately named the Julep, which they initially found on Craigslist. “Of course it didn’t look like that,” Lori says, laughing. Jeff is currently in the midst of renovating camper No. 2. “When we started looking for the second one, we realized that we got lucky the first time, because they’re really hard to find,” she continues. They eventually tracked one down in Frankfurt, Ohio — but because it had old tires on it, they had to drive the back way all the way home, Lori adds. The Julep is air-conditioned and draws electricity from its own generator, meaning that it can be taken just about anywhere as long as the terrain is accessible and the venue allows it. Its interior, complete with a bench and thoughtful decorations, draws inspiration from the ’50s — the camera is even situated inside a vintage television set. It’s a vibe the couple knows a thing or two about, stemming from their own rustic wedding three years ago. “Lori wanted to have a rustic wedding,” Jeff says. “We got a few things — we bought a lemonade stand and some other stuff — and we had that at our wedding. Then we thought, well, we’re already in the wedding business.”
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“It literally started with three or four items — a cute little cart, the lemonade stand, an antique peanut cart — in a storage unit,” Lori adds. Then, the owners of the building next door to their current storefront offered to share their space. They moved into their present building about two years ago; it’s a historic structure built in 1845 that formerly housed Miami Savings and Loan before the bank moved across the street. Its old bank vault now contains a treasure trove of baskets, jars, vases, wood and other crafting materials. Rustic Rentals offers products ranging from the aforementioned carts to worktable displays, vintage buffet tables and rustic doors, popularly placed at the end of a wedding aisle for the bride and groom to walk through, as well as all sorts of decorations like candle holders, decorative vases and personalized chalkboards. Customers can hire the Lewises to provide a full wedding setup or opt to have them deliver select items to their event. The only other employees of Hocus Focus and Rustic Rentals are people the Lewises know, the majority of which are family members. Lori works with her mother and sister to set items up while Jeff “provides the muscle,” arranging products and setups. The storefront is open by appointment for customers to browse products and select which ones they would like to incorporate. “I’m not a wedding planner, because I don’t want to be there to tell everyone, ‘You’re here and you’re here,’ ” Lori says. “I just want to go in and decorate it and then we leave. “It’s really hard because I don’t even care about decorating my own house anymore,” she continues. “When I go out looking for something, everything I do is wedding in my mind.” Some of the items, like the lemonade cart, are from the Lewises’ own wedding ceremony. Others are purchased from brides or discovered at local antique shops. “I love antiques,” Lori says. “I’ve met a lot of antique dealers that are now friends, and when they get things they know I would like, they’ll send me pictures.” Most of the time though, she just happens upon something she loves, or — if she’s “on a mission” — she’ll “see something on Pinterest and think, ‘I’m going to find something exactly like that.’ ” Although weddings do comprise the majority of business, both Hocus Focus and Rustic Rentals are available for any type of occasion. One of Lori’s favorites is called Witches’ Night Out, a Halloween-themed
Jeff and Lori Lewis show off photobooth pics outside their mint-green camper called Julep. fundraiser held in conjunction with the Caring Closet, a nonprofit serving underprivileged children in Hamilton City Schools. Held at local bars, women of all (drinking) ages dress up as witches for the event — a perfect photo-op made all the better by the Julep, which the Lewises provided last year complete with Halloween decorations and Zombie baby dolls for props. Lori also planned last year’s Miamitown Christmas Walk, Miamitown, Ohio’s annual holiday festival, which ended up being the most widely attended to date.
“The photo booths are so social,” Lori says. “We get to meet and talk to so many people. I love hearing them cracking up laughing inside the booth and peeking to see what they are doing. “I get emails and calls all the time from people asking if I can replace the photo strip for them from an event because it got ruined,” she continues. “It’s nice that people love those photos so much.” To learn more about HOCUS FOCUS PHOTO BOOTHS and RUSTIC RENTALS or to set up an appointment, visit hocusfocusphotobooths.com.
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History museums in small cities have school board authorized $4,000 for repairs. their charms — a chance for residents to see Around Hillsboro, this story isn’t exactly how their hometown grew and changed, an secret. There is a historical marker placed at opportunity to glance at artifacts from the the school site (the building is gone). There’s homes and businesses of former prominent even been a play about it, Susan Banyas’ The residents. The Highland House Museum in Hillsboro Story, and it’s been in books, like Hillsboro, Ohio fits that bill — besides old Carol Cartaino’s It Happened in Ohio. dental equipment, it has the childhood desk But the new Lincoln School Story exhibit, of Milton Caniff, who went on to fame as supervised by Kati Burwinkel of the Highthe cartoonist for Steve Canyon and Terry land County Historical Society, raises the and the Pirates. And the building, itself, is visibility and general awareness. It is being special: It’s a former tavern and stagecoach heavily promoted on the website, hchistoristop in the heart of this old Highland County calsociety.weebly.com. The display includes city of some 6,600 people (according to a 2010 census), 57 miles east of Cincinnati in southern Ohio. But a new permanent exhibit up since June — the first major one in years — could well bring this museum, and Hillsboro, some attention far outside the immediate area. That’s because The Lincoln School Story tells of Hillsboro’s strange history (considering it was an underground railroad stop) as the first Northern test case of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landMarching to integrate Hillsboro schools in the 1950s mark 1954 decision, Brown P H O T O : c o u r t e s y o f th e h i g h l a n d c o u n t y h i s to r i c a l s o c i e t y v. Board of Education, which ordered an end to sanctioned school segregation. In the South, state-sancthe nameplate of Paul Upp, school supertioned segregation was the norm. intendent at the time; the petition signed Hillsboro’s school board had been placing by the Lincoln School mothers requesting its African-American elementary students integration; some books from the school; in Lincoln School, built as a “colored school” wall-mounted photographic images of the in 1869 and which had aged resources. In marches and more. some cases, its students even had to walk by The centerpiece is a new film that uses a better-equipped elementary school to get to archival material and features interviews Lincoln. (The high school was integrated.) with those involved. One subject is Elsie The school board gerrymandered the Steward Young, one of the “Marching Mothelementary school districts to keep black ers,” who also was one of the five mothers students going to Lincoln. A group of Linto file the lawsuit against Hillsboro’s school coln School mothers and children started board. Two of her daughters also are interboycotting and marching to one of the white viewed, as are the daughters of four other schools in protest. During the two years that mothers, including Eleanor Curtis Cumberthis continued, the children were taught by land, whose mother — Imogene Curtis — Quaker teachers from Wilmington College. organized the protest. Concurrently, five Lincoln School mothThe film was made by Andrea Torrice, a ers and children filed suit in federal court Cincinnati filmmaker who has made docuagainst the school board, with NAACP mentaries shown on public television. This support. Eventually, courts found Hillsboro’s one has already had a special screening at system contrary to the Supreme Court’s 1954 the National Underground Railroad Freedom decision. By 1957, the school system was Center here, with interview subjects present. fully integrated and Lincoln School was sold. At just 17 minutes, its impact beyond As dramatic as all that is, the Lincoln museum viewing probably is limited. But School Story even had a radical figure, Torrice reports that one of the original County Engineer Phillip Partridge. He was funders — Ohio Humanities — has shown so opposed to segregation that in July 1954 interest in providing a grant for a 30-minute he broke into Lincoln School and set it on fire, version. If so, you might see The Lincoln hoping to destroy it and all it represented. School Story film on public television. He later surrendered so the black residents CONTACT STEVEN ROSEN: srosen@citybeat.com wouldn’t be suspected. He went to jail; the
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It is human nature to find comfort in George (Nick Wasserbauer) share a tap duet doing the same things we have done dozens (“Cold Feets”) impressive enough that we of times before. It’s why we watch It’s a can forgive the occasional flat note. Lesley Wonderful Life around Christmas or order Hitch has great fun stumbling around as the the exact same burger at the corner bar unnamed and unreliable Drowsy Chaperone. time and again. The familiar rut helps us But make no mistake: The show hinges shut out the rest of the world when life on Van Ackerman as Man in Chair. Interbecomes overwhelming. views suggest this is Ackerman’s dream role For “Man in Chair” — we never learn — he portrayed Man in Chair in 2011 with the name of The Drowsy Chaperone’s lead Cincinnati Music Theatre and was eager to character in Cincinnati Landmark Producreturn to it — and it wasn’t until after intertions’ latest — the cozy security blanket mission that I truly understood the draw. comes in the form of a gramophone and a well-worn stack of musical theater cast recordings. He knows each album to a pedantic level of detail, and takes no greater pleasure than sharing the listening experience with you, the audience. Man in Chair saves his very favorite album, The Drowsy Chaperone, for nights when he is feeling melancholy. He treasures the escapism the music provides, and he cannot tolerate distractions that drag him back to reality. Van Ackerman is Chaperone’s Man in Chair. “Let’s disappear for a while PHOTO : PROVIDED into the decadent world of the 1920s, when the champagne flowed while the caviar chilled and all the This unconventional character is fascinatworld was a party,” says Man in Chair. ing. At the start we are tempted to write him As Man in Chair drops the gramophone off as a mousy theater dweeb. He sports a needle, his bare apartment erupts with tawny cardigan and paces around the stage, the cast of The Drowsy Chaperone — a shrugging in half-apology for his snarky fictional musical which proceeds to poke comments. Gradually, however, Man in Chair fun at countless musical theater cliches. drops hints about his life and the reality from Man in Chair acts as our tour guide as we which he is hiding. “I’m a very complicated meet a Latin lothario (Rick Kramer), a boozy, person,” he offers toward the end, and we past-her-prime flapper (Lesley Hitch), a pair believe him. We want to know more. of cartoonish mobsters (Chris Logan Carter, The mousiness begins to look more like Tyler Gau) and half a dozen other Broadway loneliness, the escapism looks like avoidance. stereotypes. Midway through Chaperone’s His sadness feels relatable in contrast to the performance there is a piece of “degrading campy drama of his beloved Chaperone. chinoiserie,” perhaps mimicking The King It is Ackerman’s obvious connection to and I. Its yellowface is difficult to watch this character that makes Man in Chair loveeven as an intentionally outmoded pastiche. able and, ultimately, hard to forget. In fact, Cincinnati Landmark Productions has Ackerman and Man in Chair (honestly, they peppered its cast with students from Kent are difficult to separate — Van in Chair?) are State, Northern Kentucky University and the best reasons to see this otherwise genermore — the energy helps sustain a show ally likable, if sometimes clunky, production. that has its slow moments. Of these young As Man in Chair narrates before the stage actors, Merrie Drees is notable as the dim is illuminated, “I just want a story and a few but oh-so-pretty Kitty. She brings a bizarre, good songs that will take me away.” Cincinelastic physicality to the role that keeps nati Landmark Productions’ The Drowsy drawing our eyes in her direction (someChaperone ticks these boxes, and sneaks in times to the point of distraction). a heartfelt story while we are distracted by Western Kentucky University’s Hope Pauly the flashy spectacle. is Janet Van De Graaff, a glittering starlet Cincinnati Landmark Productions’ THE DROWSY turned bride-to-be — Pauly displays a pleasCHAPERONE runs at the Warsaw Federal Incline ant Broadway voice in songs such as the Theater through Aug. 27. Tickets/more info: pouty “Show Off.” Her handsome groom Robcincinnatilandmarkproductions.com. ert (Drew Simendinger) and his best man
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Roxane Gay’s ‘Hunger’ to Tell the Truth BY ELISABETH DODD
At the same time, she also treads the tightrope between how a body-positive feminist should feel and the realities of this world. “I hate that I am letting down so many women when I cannot embrace my body at any size,” she writes. “On my better days, when I feel up to the fight, I want to change how this world responds to how I look because intellectually I know my body is not the real
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problem. On bad days, though, I forget how to separate my personality, the heart of who I am, from my body. I forget how to shield myself from the cruelties of the world.” Her confessional writing style allows her to make what has happened in her life apply to others. Despite the heavy subjects that Gay relates, she entertains with her dry wit and a blunt voice that cuts through the bullshit. Her revelations and shrewd observations can make some readers uncomfortable, and they should. Growth requires discomfort. And yet, there is a resonance in Gay’s journey to rehome her body that is universal and intimate. For women who’ve had similar experiences, her book is a comfort that says, “I’m struggling, too. But look at how we can grow together.” There’s a hunger on display here to be more than the expectations placed on her, more than the perfect student her family pressured her to be and more than her experiences. “My father believes hunger is in the mind,” she writes. “I know differently. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.” Consume Hunger and your spirit will feel fully whole. ©
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Author Roxane Gay’s latest book — after her essay collection Bad Feminist became a New York Times bestseller — is Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, in which she reveals the largest piece of herself yet. A Purdue University professor, feminist commentator and voice of reason on social media, she here challenges society once again, but also reveals much about herself and how her life has shaped her views of society. Using her body as a memoir, she shows how our stretch marks, cellulite, scars and tattoos bear the weight of the life we’ve lived. Gay’s body has survived trauma, loved and been loved, experienced adoration and persevered in the critical spotlight. Through her memoir, she shares experiences and addresses race, relationships, feminism and body prejudice. A huge revelation is Gay’s experience as a rape victim (her preferred terminology). The story is heart-wrenching and warped Gay’s formative years as she entered her teens. That violence forever changed the way she views her body and how she interacts with the world. Indirectly, Gay connects two important feminist issues: body prejudice and the victim blaming and sexism that persist in rape culture. “When I was 12 years old I was raped and then I ate and ate and ate to build my body into a fortress. I was a mess and then I grew up and away from that terrible day and became a different kind of mess — a woman doing the best she can to love well and be loved well, to live well and be human and good,” she writes. Since Bad Feminist was released, Gay has been an important and intersectional voice in the Feminist movement — a voice that is unafraid to point out hypocrisies or to venture into gray areas. Hunger has only been out since June, but with the problematic depictions of bodies in films (Feed, To the Bone) and television, from eating to sexual assault, we need to know about a nonfiction narrative that is raw, authentic and self-aware. It’s time to see other bodies and the complicated relationship between self-love, societal pressure and personal health. Gay’s memoir and voice guide us through a new narrative where people can find support and bear witness to her journey. She opens up about how she wears society’s binding corset without letting it shrink her personhood. Gay reclaims the word “fat,” and she argues that people don’t need to be conventionally beautiful to earn humanity and avoid harassment. And she acknowledges that self-love is a battle fought against internalized notions of beauty, well-meaning family members and strangers.
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Former Vice President Al Gore has potential solutions to the crisis. From that, been on a burning crusade to wake this they planned their film. country and the world to An Inconvenient “We basically came up with this idea that Truth, to use the title of his 2006 Academy it would be an amazing opportunity to Award-winning documentary. We are facing follow Al around, kind of a fly-on-the-wall climate change/global warning and it is a approach, to see him go about the work that serious threat to our existence. he does,” Shenk says. You might have thought that film’s impact That decision led to an 18-month comwould have done the trick. In that documenmitment. “We were probably both surprised tary, directed by Davis Guggenheim, we and wide-eyed about Gore’s relentless saw Gore deliver a PowerPoint presentation energy to this subject,” Cohen says. “He is intended to raise awareness about global truly someone who gets up every day and warming and explain the immediate steps that could curb this escalating danger to the environment. It was a lecture sounding an alarm. But the climate change deniers have proved surprisingly strong. So, 11 years later, we now have An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, from directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. In it, Gore continues to constantly update the message with new data: up-to-the-minute tracking of glacial melting, annual temperature fluctuations, Al Gore returns for a sequel to 2006’s An Inconvenient Truth. rising tides and ocean swells P H O T O : j e n s e n wa l k e r /© 2 017 pa r a m o u n t p i c t u r e s during storms. The waters are reaching further inland, thinks to himself, ‘What can I do to push the clawing away more of the shoreline and needle forward on the climate crisis?’ coast, resulting in shrinking acreage for our “We, like many Americans, were probably cities, states and, ultimately, our nations. thinking, ‘I wonder what Al Gore’s been up Gore again inspires. This is so much more to over the last 10 years?’ What we discovthan mere “talking points.” This is truth ered was that this is what he’s been doing, speaking. You can’t help but hear what Gore every day of his life, for all these years.” is saying now. You’re forced to acknowledge An Inconvenient Sequel, it should be that what his An Inconvenient Truth told noted, isn’t the only film now in theaters us over 10 years ago really is happening. It out to start a discussion on an issue of wasn’t a scare tactic, a mad prophecy of contemporary concern. Many see Detroit as gloom and doom of the kind that once was a conversation starter about race and comdelivered by a bearded guy with a sandwich munity policing. But with An Inconvenient board on the street corner. Sequel, it’s apparent Gore is tirelessly trying Yet, his Inconvenient Sequel isn’t some to build a sustainable movement. He’s pushfinal bell signaling the arrival of the end of ing beyond the initial steps of dialogue and times. It isn’t an “I told you so.” Not yet. He engagement. The film shows him training delivers some good news: We can still do people globally to be informed and dedisomething. He’s out there trying to spark cated activists in their communities. action. He’s speaking truth to power. Toward the end of the film, there’s a To use a science fiction reference to show statement from Gore that Cohen sees as just how powerful Gore is here, he brings an acknowledgement that the former vice to mind the pyrokinetic character in the Stepresident doesn’t see climate change/global phen King novel Firestarter. Gore (figurawarming as a political issue. “It is much tively) can start a fire with his mind, such is more an emotional issue,” Cohen says. “And his ability to make global warming a timely the environmental movement, with Gore as issue again for everyone, as it once was. one of its leaders — and there are many — It’s fortunate that someone had the sense is in line with the other social movements to bring him back for a sequel. How did that happen? After being approached by Particiof our time. We are at a point where these pant Media, which produced An Inconvevery conversations can tip us over the edge nient Truth, directors Cohen and Shenk into solving this crisis. That’s why we made met Gore in Nashville. There, they got an the film.” (Opens Friday at the Mariemont all-day briefing on the climate crisis and the Theatre.) (PG) Grade: A
ON SCREEN ‘Step’ Right Up By tt stern-enzi
Tough inspirational inner-city documentaries tend to find themselves lined up alongside 1994’s Hoop Dreams, in which Steve James presented the lives of two Chicago teens (William Gates and Arthur Agee) as they stared down the long odds of transitioning from high school to collegiate basketball on the way toward their ultimate goal of one day playing professionally. That film documented the perilous realities kids face when they invest so much in an elusive dream that countless others are constantly pursuing at the same time — every day and week of the year. The latest iteration of this truly American story arrives courtesy of Amanda Lipitz, whose Step captured a Special Jury Prize (Inspirational Filmmaking — Documentary) at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Her film tracks several female students as they enter their senior year at a Baltimore inner city high school where they perform and compete as part of a step dance team. The elder team members, fiercely competitive and ferociously talented, want to exit this phase of their step careers as winners. But they must also overcome challenges as they seek to establish clear pathways toward the future. One of the poignant differences between Hoop Dreams and Step has to do with outside focus. Baltimore finds itself caught up in the issue of police practices that threaten to rip apart our nation. The suspicious death of Freddie Gray, while in police custody, and the resulting trial (and acquittals) have strained relations between the police and the community to the breaking point. As elsewhere across the country, it has sparked ongoing protests and media debates there. The girls of the step team don’t shy away from tackling the issue in their performances. They create routines that defiantly address the Black Lives Matter movement. They embrace roles for themselves as advocates, seeing themselves as citizens with personal stakes in the realities of life on the streets. They dance as if their movements can and should provide fuel for a righteous fire that is bigger and more meaningful than their individual situations. (Opens Friday at the Esquire Theatre.) (PG) Grade: A
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Lost in the Mystery of ‘The Mist’ BY JAC KERN
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Based on the 1980 Stephen King novella The show exploits sexual assault for and the 2007 film by Frank Darabont, The the sake of suspense — Alex is literally Mist (10 p.m. Thursdays, Spike) centers on trapped in the mall with her accused a mysterious heavy fog that descends onto rapist, while dangling clues pave the way a New England town and brings a host of toward the idea that she might be lying murderous monsters with it. about the whole thing. Elsewhere, the Of course, like in most apocalyptic narwriters fumble with topics like bullying, ratives, The Mist pays more attention to the mental illness, religion, LGBTQ characcharacters’ reactions to the crisis than the ters and relationships. details of the crisis itself. When the rules Oh yeah, and there’s a mysterious of everyday life are abandoned and people cloud of doom filled with smoke monsters, begin to panic, the killer creepy-crawlies roided-out insects and other psychoaren’t the only dangerous predators at bay. Unfortunately, the show goes too far in trying to prove that point, scattering a growing number of flat, unsympathetic characters across various locations and failing to manage the swath of social issues it attempts to tackle. Never mind the remaining questions of what this mist is, where it came from and how it might be defeated. Most of the action in the book and film occurs within and around the confines of Frances Conroy as Nathalie a grocery store. In contrast, PHOTO : courtesy of spike t v the series splits up its time between neighbors stranded in a church, a hospital of horrors, a police logically rendered demons enveloping the station, a mall and more. That piqued my town. That’s not to say a horror show can’t interest at first — the series format allows confront real-world social issues, but this the story to bounce around instead of feeling one has proven it can’t do that successfully. stuck in one place. But the sheer amount Frances Conroy’s Nathalie is the one of characters makes it difficult to dive past real pleasure here for me. Conroy (Amerisurface level and, thus, care about them. can Horror Story, Six Feet Under) is So let’s focus on just one family at the always a joy and she shines in typical center of this madness: dad Kevin (Morgan kooky fashion as a woman who embraces Spector), mom Eve (Alyssa Sutherland) this anomaly as a sort of natural rebirthing and daughter Alex (Gus Birney). Before the of earth. She becomes an eco-philosopher mist rolls in, they’re dealing with a host of when others (she’s with a group in a church problems already. Eve has just been ousted after the mist kills her husband) turn to from her high school teaching job for offerreligion to explain the event. ing realistic sex ed. Alex has been sexually There’s an interesting Nature vs. God assaulted while blacked out at a party. Her debate that erupts with the church’s priest best friend Adrian (Russell Posner) identifies challenging Nathalie to walk into the mist the school’s football star, Jay (Luke Coswith him. If one survives, their theory grove) — who happens to be the police is right. Spoiler Alert: The literal Four chief’s son — as her rapist. Neighbors begin Horsemen of the Apocalypse show up and to turn on the family, snarling at Eve for darbrutally snatch the priest away. Nathalie, ing to include condom use in her curriculum naked and eyes closed, is spared. (It plays and vandalizing their home after Jay is called out just as ridiculously as it sounds.) in for questioning. Clearly, this town has Perhaps in The Mist, whatever you some troubling opinions on sex. believe comes to fruition, making each Thick fog rolls in as Alex and Eve run person’s experience different. That’s the errands at a shopping center and Kevin files a closest I’ll come to theorizing about a show police report about the harassment at the stawith such poor character development and tion, and the story finds its mission: to reunite feeble attempts at “edgy” storylines. the family. But seven episodes later I’ve nearly Beware The Mist: It’ll suck you in, but forgotten about that goal, not unlike how the you may get lost in the fray. show treats its mixed bag of characters and CONTACT JAC KERN: @jackern conflicts — with reckless abandon.
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Blue Jay owner Souli Brunson (right) with her father Danny Petropoulos, the diner’s founder. Brunson’s mother and father often stressed the importance of education and encouraged her to get good grades and pursue a college career, which she did. Originally, it was not in her plan to return to the restaurant, but she appreciated the product of her parents’ hard work and purchased Blue Jay in 2005 — a move which pleased her father, who preferred to keep it in the family. “Being that my parents are both immigrants, it’s really important. They essentially are the American dream,” Brunson says. “The fact that they were able to open this up and still have it going to this day is pretty amazing. I find myself extremely, extremely lucky to be able to be in this situation and be handed down such a successful, amazing place.” Though retired, Petropoulos still comes to the restaurant three days a week to make the soups and help out. For father and daughter, the opportunity to work alongside family and employees who’ve become like family is an experience they’ve cherished. The history of the restaurant, however, extends beyond its doors and into the community where it has flourished. While Cincinnati as a whole has seen a number of filmmakers interested in giving the Queen City screen time, Blue Jay has been featured in two movies as of late: The Old Man
and the Gun, a forthcoming film slated for release in 2018 starring Elisabeth Moss, Robert Redford and Casey Affleck; and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the 2017 psychological horror film starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell. But Hollywood buzz is only a small sliver of Northside, one of the city’s most eclectic neighborhoods and one that appreciates its local diner. “I’ve seen the neighborhood change dramatically in all sorts of ways and shapes and colors,” Brunson says. “I can say that right now is the best it’s ever been since I’ve been here and since I can remember.” As the demographic shifted and new customers and regulars kept venturing in, Blue Jay made a point to expand its menu, which now features vegetarian options and other new dishes alongside the original fare. “The residents of Northside are amazing and they’re loyal, and we know them very
well — we know them, their families, their children,” Brunson says. And when you take a stroll down Hamilton Avenue, you discover the connection runs even deeper: Designs by Dana tattoo parlour, owned by Brunson’s inlaws, is just a block away from the restaurant. There, you’ll find Brunson’s husband, Jason, a second-generation tattoo artist, at work. For the neighborhood, Petropoulos holds immense gratitude. “They’ve been great to us; they made us be there 50 years,” he says. “Northside and the people and the community, they liked us, we like them. And we made our living together. I thank them a lot, I appreciate them a lot.” With a promising future on the horizon, Blue Jay plans to stay the course. “I think as long as we can continue to make everyone happy and be the family kind of place that we are,” Brunson says, “we’ll still be OK.”
Blue Jay Restaurant Go: 4154 Hamilton Ave., Northside; Call: 513-541-0847; Internet: searchable on Facebook; Hours: 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday.
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ear the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Medill Alley in Northside sits a piece of the American dream. Since its opening in 1967, the Blue Jay Restaurant has, for the most part, remained the same, boasting a nostalgic image and homestyle eats that keep regulars coming back and draws others in to experience the food for the first time. The walls are still adorned with dark wood paneling, the booths are covered in forest-green vinyl and the tables and lunch counter are topped with vintage teal and white Formica. And, as with any good local diner, there’s Cincinnati-style chili in bowls, on coneys and 3-ways, plus classics like all-day breakfast, double decker sandwiches and homemade pie. The story behind this neighborhood staple has origins in the small Greek village of Variko, from where two of its founders, Danny Petropoulos and his wife Tina, immigrated in the 1950s. After settling in Cincinnati, Petropoulos took a job making golf clubs at MacGregor Sporting Goods. When the company announced it was relocating to Georgia, though, he decided he would not follow, prompting the couple to secure a different future. Petropoulos spent his childhood in Istanbul, Turkey, at his father’s seafood restaurant, which became the perfect inspiration. With the help of partner Tom Mihou, the three set their sights on Northside to open their eatery: Blue Jay Restaurant. The name was taken from Petropoulos’ old bowling league. ”I said, ‘This is the location, this is the community, this is the area that I’m going to be successful,’ ” says Petropoulos, who lives in Bridgetown. And he was right — on July 31, Blue Jay celebrated its 50th anniversary. The milestone was something he hoped for, but did not expect. “Anytime when we open up the door we were nervous,” Petropoulos says. “How (are) we going to succeed? And the more time was going on, that’s year by year, business was getting better and better. We put (a) lot of hours in. But we didn’t count the hours.” For daughter Souli Brunson, the celebration means a continuation of family tradition. Days off school and sick days were spent with her parents at the Blue Jay. So when it came time for Petropoulos, who is now in his 80s, to sell the restaurant, she jumped at the opportunity. “I literally pretty much lived there my whole life. There was no way that I could see it go to anyone else,” she says. “I didn’t realize until that moment how important it was to me — how I had such an attachment to it, from just being here my whole life.”
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The word “Doritos” means many things to many people. It’s a chip that all of us ’90s kids grew up eating (fun fact: the chips were actually introduced in 1964), and it has grown with us. In Spanish, “doritos” translates to “little golden things.” To me, Doritos are a hallmark of innovation that has changed with the times. Long gone are the ’90s-rific Doritos bags with neon lettering and Star Wars advertisements printed by the nutritional info. It’s 2017, baby, and Doritos knows what millennials want: mock-deepfried Dorito-crusted cheese sticks. Officially known as DORITOS® LOADED® Nacho Cheese Breaded Cheese Snacks (whew), Doritos Loaded emerged gracefully upon the food scene. There was none of the Taco Bell Doritos Locos Tacos fanfare. I would not have known about this culinary creation were I not a woman who spends most of her days wistfully walking up and down the frozen single-meal section at Kroger. The concept of an entire eight-serving package of Doritos Loaded ($4.99) being a meal for a single person is the most flattering compliment that Kroger has ever bestowed upon me. I recently grabbed a box, as well as the Velveeta Original Cheesy Bites ($4.76) next to them. The Cheesy Bites looked like a frozen version of the ever-popular deep-fried macaroni and cheese that has become a darling of TGIFriday’s everywhere. I skipped over the Doritos Cool Ranch Loadeds and the Velveeta Salsa Con Queso and Grilled Cheese flavors, not sure if I dared to tempt the universe so boldly at this time. I settled into my evening with a glass of whiskey on the rocks and my oven preheating. The cooking directions are simple; you don’t even need to grease the cookie sheet for either of the frozen dairy foods. I emptied half the bag of Loadeds and half the bag of Cheesy Bites onto a tray and stuck it in the oven. I turned on Ghost Adventures while the cheese products cooked, as nothing could be more terrifying than what I was about to put into my body. Both Doritos Loadeds and Velveeta Cheesty Bites take 10 minutes to cook. Due to the time-sensitive nature of the scenario, let me give you a minute-byminute rundown of how the consumption of these “foods” went down: Minute 1: Upon taking the tray out of the oven, I see both Doritos Loadeds and Cheesy Bites have exploded all over my cookie sheet. I mourn having to wash the tray later, but the glistening cheese reels me back in. I transfer the cheese sticks onto a tray and go back to my sofa, as these are not foods to be eaten in a chair at a dinner table. Minute 2: Both Loadeds and Cheesy Bites are breaded molten lava pockets. I try to eat a Doritos Loaded and a tear runs down my cheek as my mouth scorches.
Minute 3: Finally, the Cheesy Bites are ready to be eaten. If you are a fan of neonyellow Velveeta cheez, you will love Cheesy Bites — they are just deep-fried Velveeta rounds. I’m both disgusted in the lack of macaroni noodles and disgusted at my own disappointment over the lack thereof. Minute 4: I’m now able to eat a Doritos Loaded without weeping. The triangles are thicker, the cheese a bit chewier. The Dori-
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tos crust accents the cheddar/mozzarella/ whatever cheese on the inside — a sentence that I never thought I would write. Minute 5: The cheese of both Loadeds and Cheesy Bites is hardening. I am now in a race against both my body and time to finish. Minute 6: The Ghost Adventures crew swears that a possessed doll on Doll Island actually giggled, and I lose a whole minute that the cheese sticks are edible watching the rewound footage of the doll. Minute 7: Both Doritos Loadeds and Cheesy Bites now have the interior texture of a cup of refrigerated grocery store snack pudding. I try, meekly, to nibble at the corner of a Loaded and am now crying for another reason entirely. Minute 8: I dump the rest of the Loadeds and Cheesy Bites into the trash. The next 30 minutes are spent scrubbing the cheese explosions off my cookie sheet. Do I regret it? No. Not even when, an hour later, it felt like I had swallowed an entire bottle of Elmer’s Glue. In the words of Frank Sinatra: “Yes, there were times, I’m sure you knew/When I bit off more than I could chew/But through it all, when there was doubt/ I ate it up and spit it out/I faced it all and I stood tall/And did it my way.” ©
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Sugar Rush — CityBeat’s sweetest celebration returns to Playhouse with local eateries serving up everything from cupcakes, ice cream and candy to donuts, coffee and pastries. Vote for your favorite treat of the night — the winner will receive bragging rights and an award to display at their shop. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $20; free children 8 and under. Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams, citybeat.com. Hamilton County Fair — The 162ndannual fair kicks off today and runs through the weekend with a demolition derby, bull riding, horse show, family circus, pig racing, livestock displays, Midway rides, vintage baseball games, a Houdini tribute show, dog adoptions and all the fried food you can handle. Through Aug. 13. $7 admission; $5 parking. Hamilton County Fairgrounds, 7700 Vine St., Carthage, hamiltoncountyfair.com. Groceries & Grilling: Farm to Table Presented by DIRT — Head to Findlay Market for late-night 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 onsite. 5-8 p.m. Free admission. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, findlaymarket.org. Abundant Tomatoes — This Civic Garden Center class features a taste test of heirloom tomatoes at the height of the season. Discover which varieties you want to grow next year and how to use them in the kitchen, plus how to save seeds to create your own heirloom plants. 6-8 p.m. $15; free for members. Civic Garden Center, 2715 Reading Road, Avondale, civicgardencenter.org. WingFling at Washington Platform — Discover more than 40 different flavors of wings — from bulgogi Korean wings to honey bourbon — all available either boneless or bone-in and with a heat rating of mild, medium or stupid. Through Sept. 3. Prices vary. Washington Platform, 1000 Elm St., Downtown, washingtonplatform.com.
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Great Inland Seafood Festival — While not a sea, the Ohio River is a body of water, and you can enjoy fresh fish and lobster while staring at it at this festival. Whole Maine lobsters have returned and generally sell out quickly. If you aren’t in it for the lobster, more than 15 local and national vendors will be selling fresh seafood to eat
Murder on the Menu — A historic crime. A multi-course meal. Beer pairings. Murder on the Menu guests will take a tour and hear the history of a past grisly murder scene, then head to Washington Platform to hear the rest of the story while they dine. 6 p.m. $45. Washington Platform, 1000 Elm St., Downtown, queencityhistory.com. Bacchanalian Society Summer Tasting — Bring three bottles of the same rosé to Findlay Market for the Bacchanalian Society’s summer tasting event. One hundred percent of ticket sales will be donated to Strategies to End Homelessness. 7-10 p.m. $15 pre-sale; $20 door. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, bacchanaliansociety.com.
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Union Centre Food Truck Rally — This all-day rally features eats from area favorite food trucks including Bones Brothers Wings, Quite Frankly, streetpops, Texas Joe, Packhouse Meats and more. The event also includes fireworks, beer and live music. 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Free admission. Union Centre Square, 9285 Centre Pointe Drive, West Chester, ucbma.com. Pours Four Paws: Craft Beer, Bourbon & Wine Festival for Pet Charities — Support local pet charities, rescues and shelters while sampling unique alcohols. Tickets include 15 drinks. Select a charity at check out to benefit, including AdoreA-Bull Rescue, Pets for Patients, the SPCA Cincinnati and more. 6 p.m. Friday; noon and 5 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. $40 per session. Highlander Event Center, 90 Alexandria Pike, Fort Thomas, Ky., facebook.com/whisperpet. The Cov Abides 2 — This Big Lebowskithemed hybrid crawl brings together a scavenger hunt and a bar crawl. Get a map with drink specials and challenges. Prizes will be given to teams with the most points and best costumes. The event ends at Braxton, where they’ll be serving a White Russian firkin. 6-11 p.m. $15 advance; $20 door. Check in at MainStrasse Village, Covington, Ky., keepyourshirtoncovington.com.
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Rob McAllister’s multiple personalities create one of Cincinnati music’s most entertaining live shows BY NICK GREVER
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felt something tickle the back of my neck, telling me it wasn’t a good idea to meet Dead Man — of the Kentuckybased, one-man band Dead Man String Band — in a cemetery for our initial interview. He has a bit of a reputation for speaking his mind, getting up close and (very) personal with his fans and generally doing what you’d expect from an undead ghoul brought back to life and handed a guitar. Still, I soldiered on and did my best to ignore that tickle. I awoke tied to a tree, my own bandana shoved into my mouth. A necrotic musician was stroking my cheek. I realized the tickle came from his shovel. Luckily for me, Rob McAllister, Dead Man’s alter ego, sent the musician a message (who knew zombies could text?) and cleared the whole thing up. After some stitches and apologies, I sat down with McAllister and Dead Man at a Covington watering hole to learn more about the man with and without skin. The genesis of the music project came in 2014 through a fluke and a desire to not lose out on a show opportunity. “The name is deceiving enough because originally it was supposed to be a string band,” McAllister explains of Dead Man String Band’s origins. “Then a week before the first show, the band portion bailed, so I just showed. The poster was made, so I kept the name and showed up with a kick drum and it just kept snowballing from there. It was actually supposed to be a gypsy-style string band and it turned into… this. I don’t know how that happened.” The project evolved when the Dead Man visual aesthetic was introduced. What started with a coffin intro and white face paint was fleshed out (for lack of a better term) when a friend of McAllister — Tyler Pasquale of Wicked Corpse Designs — created a one-of-a-kind mask to give Dead Man his face. “That was where I started doing a character for the show instead of, ‘This is me. I’m dead.’ Then it became this pervy, Beetlejuice-type character,” McAllister says. But McAllister’s remembrance clashes with Dead Man’s recollection. “Basically, I died in the ’30s via angry mob and was resurrected by some witch doctors,” the beast insists after giving McAllister a playful smack with a roadkill raccoon. “Then I was around in the ’80s and I couldn’t stand the culture so I killed myself again and got brought back just recently by an old-timer. Luckily, the scene is more me, so I slid into it.”
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Whichever side you believe, Dead Man String Band has since made itself known around the area with near constant performances, playing shows of all kinds in front of crowds ranging from old-school Honky Tonk fans and crust punks to college kids just looking to dance (which, according to Dead Man’s rotting brain, was one of the weirdest crowds Northside hangout The Comet has ever seen). With a guitar, several drums, a massive pedal-board and a traditional Appalachian picking style, Dead Man crafts old-fashioned Honky Tonk tunes, warps them through a Heavy Metal rig and sprinkles in some macabre humor to make the outcome truly a Dead Man production. “I don’t try to make (the lyrics) personal, even though they are,” McAllister explains of his approach to writing for the project. “I make it personal, then flip it to the character’s perspective afterward. I never want it to be from Rob’s perspective; I want it to be from his.” (Dead Man was unavailable for comment, as he was hitting on a waitress at the time.) Onstage, the Dead Man conceit gives McAllister a freedom other projects couldn’t. “I have completely separated from it — I’m sweating, I’m dehydrated after the show and I don’t recognize ’til I’m offstage and I’m like, ‘Oh, I can’t walk right now,’ ” he says of his onstage transformation. “I’ve collapsed after shows and realized I didn’t drink anything during the show. It’s more of an honest version of me — of how I’d want to do it.” At this point, Dead Man stops staring at butts and chimes in. “Oh Rob, he sucks, he can’t pull off the physical prowess that I possess to pull off a show like that. He can’t keep his cardio intact, really,” he says. “He’s kind of a fat guy. I’m only fat because I’m in the bloated part of my necrosis. I’ll have that surfer’s bod soon. Rob has too much care for what other people think. I will spit gin into the crowd, not really thinking if they want to be covered in gin. I will climb on the bar and drink from their tap, which has gotten me kicked out of a few bars. Rob keeps it showman-like; I keep it show.” At a Dead Man String Band live show, the eyes and ears from everyone in the room can’t help but be drawn in. Between the high-gain blasts of guitar and drums (with nary a break in between songs to take a drink or tune a string), Dead Man’s hilarious banter and the sideshow intrigue of a one-man band playing traditional-style songs in a dead skin mask, spiked vest and patched pants, a Dead Man String Band show is compelling. After all, it takes great
Dead Man (left) of Dead Man String Band’s pre-interview meeting with the author. skill to get a crowd to come back to fill their noses with that sweaty, old-meat smell. As our meet-up is winding down, Dead Man asks to give the last word. But since that word was “bitches,” McAllister gives it a go, saying, “When I put the mask on, it became completely free expression.” And in many ways, that sums up why Dead Man String Band has been able to make such a mighty splash in a relatively short amount of time. For all the theatric, exaggerated presentation, Dead Man String Band brings a lot
of heart (pumping or otherwise), creativity and earnestness to the stage. The mask may physically hide who is beneath it, but it also gives a clearer picture of what’s inside the wearer. McAllister was able to find a way to shed his corporeal form and shift it into one with a little less flesh and more gusto, enabling him to truly embody something new that is inviting to fans of all kinds. Not bad for a guy whose jaw detaches when he burps. For more on DEAD MAN STRING BAND, visit facebook.com/deadmanstringband.
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Jeremy Pinnell Unveils ‘Ties of Blood and Affection’ BY MIKE BREEN
MPMF Announces More Local Acts Some local bands — like headliners Walk the Moon — were previously announced for next month’s MidPoint Music Festival (marking the event’s 17th anniversary), but the latest batch of performers released includes numerous artists from the Greater Cincinnati area. The festival returns Sept. 23-24, this year taking place on four stages — two at the Taft Theatre, one at the nearby Masonic Cathedral and an outdoor stage at Fifth and Broadway streets.
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The latest MPMF announcement also included which artists would be performing on which day — Sept. 23 headliners include The New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, Filthy Friends and Valerie June, while Walk the Moon, BADBADNOTGOOD, Dan Deacon and Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 are Sept. 24’s bill-toppers. Local performers slated to appear on Sept. 23 are Ampline, Mad Anthony, Kid Stardust, Even Tiles, Lemon Sky, Saturn Batteries, Blossom Hall, Rachel Mousie and Lo, The Loyal Conscripts. The Greater Cincinnati acts scheduled for Sept. 24 are Harbour, Jeremy Pinnell, Young Heirlooms, Automagik, Daniel In Stereo, Edward & Jane, A Delicate Motor, Moonbeau, Current Events and Coastal Club. Single-day MPMF tickets go on sale Wednesday at 11 a.m.; weekend passes are also still available. For ticket info, the complete lineup and more, visit mpmf.com. CONTACT MIKE BREEN: mbreen@citybeat.com
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Trump May Have Killed Journey The members of recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Journey are currently squabbling, and if the group breaks up over it, they’ll only have themselves to blame. Oh, and Donald Trump. After photos of three current Journey members visiting Trump in the Oval Office surfaced, guitarist (and sole original member) Neal Schon went on an extensive Twitter tirade; he wasn’t angry because it was Trump, but rather because there was an understanding that Journey would never associate itself with anything political. Schon hinted that he might rebuild the band with different members, even suggesting that he may get estranged singer Steve Perry involved, which could end up being the biggest success of Trump’s presidency (presuming he is unable to get The Smiths to reunite, of course).
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Fan Nails It What would you do to prove your dedication to your favorite musical artist? A young fan of K-Pop boyband BTS told a friend one of the singers was so attractive, she could shove a hammer into her mouth. After a dare, the fan did just that, but the (toy) hammer got stuck and the resulting photos made her briefly internet famous/infamous. To save you some search time — no, BTS does not have a song called, “Girl, Shove a Hammer In Your Mouth.” Yet. Profiting on Tragedy The tragic passing of Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington is making people money. The band members have already decried the proliferation of bootleg “R.I.P.” merchandise, but some vultures have gone even lower, attempting to sell lanyards and service programs given to those who attended the singer’s funeral on eBay. After fans reported the auctions, the site removed them (they violated rules against profiting off of “human tragedy and suffering”). For a more positive way to remember Bennington, there will be a memorial at Riverbend Music Center at 6 p.m. this Saturday, the same day Linkin Park was scheduled to perform at the venue.
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While Country music’s mainstream is still littered with disposable Pop pap (do not google “Trap-Country” unless you are looking for a stomach-pump alternative), it has been refreshing to see the rising success of so many artists who’ve allowed their traditional Country influences to shine through and don’t water down their music with overproduction or gimmicks. Ten years ago, Chris Stapleton would never have become the superstar he is today (unless he shaved that beard and limited his Country accouterments to a low-in-the-mix pedalsteel riff). Today, Stapleton is a champion of the genre, and the continued success of performers like Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Maren Morris and Zac Brown suggests that the welcome sea change in the sometimesmuddied waters of Country isn’t a fluke. That makes it the perfect time for acclaimed Greater Cincinnati singer/ songwriter Jeremy Pinnell to release his second album, Ties of Blood and Affection. Not that Pinnell is a newbie jumping on the trad train; he’s a Cincinnati music veteran who has been exploring Americana music for over a decade with various band projects, all of which were highlighted by his signature reflective and honest lyrical style and stunning, soul-drenched vocals. With 2015’s OH/KY album, his first solo effort, the music became more focused and his songwriting carried a new confidence that helped it become recognized by the national (and international) music press as something truly special. Ties of Blood and Affection continues in that vein, but steps things up to a new level, as Pinnell sounds even more comfortable and poised. The songs are as honest and contemplative as ever, but there’s less darkness on Ties, as Pinnell moves away from pain and regret and toward a sense of redemption and joy. Those themes and a growing self-assuredness make Ties feel less introverted, but just as introspective and self-examining as anything on OH/KY. Backed by a band that beautifully captures the spirit of the best of vintage Honky Tonk and Outlaw Country and buoyed by unfussy production that presents the music nakedly, Ties of Blood and Affection more than proves that Pinnell deserves to have his name added to the list of artists who are fueling the current “real Country” resurgence. Pinnell kicks off a nationwide tour in support of the new album (which releases Friday) this Saturday with a hometown celebration at Woodward Theater (1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, woodwardtheater. com). The show begins at 9 p.m. with an opening set from Daniel Martin Moore. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. Visit jeremypinnell.com for more info.
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Ronnie Baker Brooks Saturday • Cincy Blues Fest (Sawyer Point) Chicago has spawned its share of Blues legends, including Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy, Luther Allison and the late, great Lonnie Brooks, who passed away just four months ago at age 83. Lonnie left behind a legacy of 16 amazing albums, a press kit bulging with glowing praise for his searing yet soulful style and an undeniable influence that will ripple through the Blues community for decades to come. But the most potent examples of Lonnie’s influence can be found in his sons, Wayne Baker Brooks and Ronnie Baker Brooks; the trio often toured as the Brooks Family Band. Ronnie began playing guitar alongside his father on stage when he was just 6 years old. Eventually he learned to play bass and officially joined Lonnie’s band when he Ronnie Baker Brooks was 21, but his guitar PHOTO : provided skills were on full display on Live From Chicago: Bayou Lightning Strikes, his father’s scorching concert set. At 31 and on advice from his father, Ronnie went solo in the biggest possible way; 1998’s Golddigger, produced by Jellybean Johnson, I’m With Her was one of the first PHOTO : Lindse y Byrnes albums to find the connective tissue between Blues Rock, contemporary R&B/Funk/Soul and Hip Hop without losing the passion and authenticity of its pure Blues roots. Over the next decade, Ronnie toured relentlessly and released two more acclaimed albums, 2001’s Take Me Witcha, which featured an acoustic duet with his father, and 2006’s The Torch, which earned Ronnie a Best Album nomination from the Chicago Music Awards and a Contemporary Blues/Male Artist of the Year nod from the Blues Music Awards. Since The Torch, Ronnie has started his own family, maintained his constant road presence and worked studio sessions for Elvin Bishop, Billy Branch and Todd Park Mohr (aka Big Head Todd), as well as produced legend Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater’s West Side Strut in 2008. For Times Have Changed, his first album in over a decade, Ronnie enlisted
drummer-to-the-stars Steve Jordan as his producer; Jordan advised Ronnie to shelve his pedal board and play straight through his amp for the first time. The result is one of the most incendiary and thrilling albums in Ronnie’s short but potent catalog, which, like his previous recordings, features a stellar guest list, including Steve Cropper, Felix Cavaliere and Lee Roy Parnell, among other luminaries. At 50, Ronnie is just getting warmed up, still learning about a craft he’s qualified to teach and always most concerned about establishing the commonalities between his father’s generation, his contemporaries and the generation that follows. (Brian Baker) American Acoustic featuring Punch Brothers, I’m With Her and Julian Lage Saturday • Taft Theatre Rarely has the name of a tour more accurately described what you’re getting when you go to the show than American Acoustic. Featuring sets from — and collaborations between — Punch Brothers, I’m with Her and Julian Lage, the tour’s name actually kind of undersells what’s in store. Avid fans of Bluegrass might already be familiar with what it sounds like when Punch Brothers’ mandolin maestro and A Prairie Home Companion host Chris Thile teams up with I’m With Her’s Aoife O’Donovan — they collaborated (with Yo-Yo Ma, no less) on 2011’s Goat Rodeo Sessions. Pair Thile with a second member of I’m with Her, Sara Watkins, and suddenly you’re looking at two-thirds of Nickel Creek — and who doesn’t want to witness some of that goodness onstage yet again? The men of American Acoustic promise a good live experience. What’s not to love about Punch Brothers’ fantastically odd and wonderful version of whatever you call their Jazz/Bluegrass/Rock/Awesomeness? They are perfection. Every. Single. Time. They. Play. Then there’s guitar virtuoso Lage, who’s not even 30 but has already performed alongside the likes of Béla Fleck and Doc Watson, making him a great fit for a tour with the Punch fellas. The showstopper on the American Acoustic tour is I’m With Her, though. Watkins
and O’Donovan are amazing. Watkins has proven herself an accomplished musician on her own every time she’s come to Cincinnati (and she’s been here quite a bit, including an arena show opening slot for The Lumineers earlier this year). And O’Donovan became a Folk music darling during her time with Crooked Still and now as an acclaimed solo artist. But it’s utterly shocking how many people still seem clueless about I’m With Her’s Grammy-winning third member, Sarah Jarosz. She signed a major record deal when she was a senior in high school and made her Austin City Limits debut when she was only 22 years old. Rarely does she pick up an instrument and not completely own it (mandolin, banjo and guitar are her main tools), while her vocal range can go anywhere from angelic to earthly and innocent to wise beyond her years. From the moment Watkins, O’Donovan and Jarosz first started touring together (as solo artists) to their first collaboration to the announcement that an album was on the way, I’m with Her held nothing but promise. And nothing can trump what these ladies bring to a show. (Deirdre Kaye) Future Thieves PHOTO : provided
FUTURE SOUNDS ANA POPOVIC – Aug. 17, Taft Theatre (Ballroom) LOGIC – Aug. 18, PNC Pavilion at Riverbend JOE LOUIS WALKER – Aug. 20, Southgate House Revival GREEN DAY – Aug. 20, Riverbend Music Center LIL UZI VERT – Aug. 25, Madison Theater BETTY WHO/GEOGRAPHER – Aug. 30, Woodward Theater DADA – Sept. 6, Southgate House Revival HERE COME THE MUMMIES – Sept. 8, Bogart’s PROTOMARTYR – Sept. 10, Northside Yacht Club SEU JORGE – Sept. 15, Taft Theatre THE QUEERS/THE ATARIS – Sept. 16, Southgate House Revival CONOR OBERST – Sept. 16, Taft Theatre SYLVAN ESSO/HELADO NEGRO – Sept. 21, Bogart’s JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA – Sept. 27, Taft Theatre THE AFGHAN WHIGS – Sept. 28, Bogart’s PINBACK – Oct. 13, Woodward Theater IMAGINE DRAGONS – Oct. 21, U.S. Bank Arena THE STRUMBELLAS – Oct. 23, 20th Century Theater A PERFECT CIRCLE – Nov. 19, BB&T Arena
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Future Thieves with Hello Luna and Talk Mouth Saturday • Urban Artifact Some musicians are born in Nashville, but the overwhelming majority of the ones there are drawn in. And so it was with the four talented members of Future Thieves. Guitarist Austin McCool (by birth or imagination, that is a name destined for Rock & Roll greatness) and bassist Nick Goss grew up in Evansville, Ind. and were together from grade school through college before moving to Nashville at different times and winding up in different bands (though still hanging out and making music of their own). When their respective bands broke up, McCool and Goss made their musical partnership official in 2013 with the addition of Goss’ friend, drummer Gianni Gibson, a Nashvillian by way of Los Angeles, New York and London who left his existing band to cast his lot with the nascent new group. Vocalist/guitarist Elliot Collett, a native Kentuckian, was invited to join shortly thereafter, bringing with him a band name he had conceived during his stint in Los Angeles. At the start, Future Thieves was a quintet featuring a Blues guitarist, but with his departure in early 2015, the remaining foursome devised a new sonic direction in
less than a week, completed construction on a studio and assembled demos into their debut album, Horizon Line. The quartet claims influences like The Killers, Ryan Adams, Delta Spirit and My Morning Jacket, and it’s not hard to connect those dots to Future Thieves’ sound — heartland Alternative Rock made with soulful vocals, sinewy guitars, a solid yet supple rhythm section and a discernible edge. Although they were not actually a part of any official showcases, Future Thieves was a big hit at last year’s South by Southwest festivities, which the band capitalized on with incessant touring. Earlier this year, Future Thieves released its sophomore album, Live at Blue Rock, and then headed back to South by Southwest, this time in an official capacity. Two months later, the band embarked on its first European tour. In a further example of Future Thieves’ incredibly fast evolution in a mere four years, the band recently debuted the video for a new song which will appear on its third album, slated for release later this year. “Sucker” maintains the band’s heartland Rock vibe while incorporating a few slinky ElectroPop grooves into the mix. (BB)
music listings WEDNESDAY 09 BREWRIVER GASTROPUB - Old Green Eyes and BBG. 6 p.m. Standards. Free. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Phil DeGreg Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Reggae Wednesday with Talking Dreads. 7 p.m. Reggae. Free.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (LOUNGE) - Jeff Conner, Mark Brasington and Dave Purcell. 7 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. Free.
PIT TO PLATE - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER Nickelback with Daughtry and Shaman’s Harvest. 6 p.m. Rock. $25-$125.
WASHINGTON PARK - Bandstand Bluegrass with Buffalo Wabs & The Price Hill Hustle. 7 p.m. Roots/Americana. Free.
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SILVERTON CAFE - Root Cellar Xtract. 8:30 p.m. Country/Rock. Free.
WOODWARD THEATER H Sidewalk Chalk with Marcus Alan Ward. 9 p.m. Hip Hop/Soul/
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Adam Flaig with When Particles Collide and Gabe Molnar. 9:30 p.m. Various. Free.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - The Wild Reeds with Holy Ghost Tent Revival. 8 p.m. Indie Folk. $12, $14 day of show.
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URBAN ARTIFACT - Blue Wisp H Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10.
THURSDAY 10 BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Chris Comer Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. COMMON ROOTS - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free. FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Salsa on the Square with Grupo Tumbao. 7 p.m. Latin/Salsa/Dance. Free.
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p.m. Latin Jazz. Free.
URBAN ARTIFACT - The Bergamot, Goran Ivanovic Trio and Tori Kadish. 6 p.m. Indie Folk.
ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Dottie Warner and Phil DeGreg. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.
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Rock/Post Punk/Various. Free.
NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H Sweet Lil, Crime Of Passing, Dinge and John Hoffman. 9 p.m.
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RIVERSEDGE - Back in Black with Hollywood. 6:30 p.m. Rock. Free.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Action/Adventure with Tiny Kingdoms, The World I Know, Heart Means More, Don’t Call Me Punk and Home Sweet Home. 6:30 p.m. Pop Punk. $8, $10 day of show.
MOTR PUB - The Yeah Tones. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.
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RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER Brad Paisley with Dustin Lynch, Chase Bryant and Lindsay Ell. 7 p.m. Country. $28.50-$58.25.
THE GREENWICH - Natalie Brady Quintet featuring Mike Cobb. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5. KNOTTY PINE - Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. THE LOUNGE - Tye Dye. 8 p.m. Bluegrass/Americana. Free.
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THE MOCKBEE - Icaria, Make Me Forget and more. 8 p.m. Rock. Free.
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MOTR PUB - Young Heirlooms with Evening Darling and Rubyfruit. 10 p.m. Indie Folk. Free.
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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Spowder, Bilge Rat, Floral Print and Swoops. 9 p.m. Indie Rock/Various.
Pop/Rock/Various. $10, $12 day of show.
AMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM H - Signs and Songs: An Americana Music Series featuring
The Northern Kentucky Bluegrass Band. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. $15, $20 day of show. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Steve Schmidt Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. THE COMET - Toon Town and J. Burroughs. 10 p.m. Rock/Blues/ Garage. Free.
CROW’S NEST - The Kelvinators. 10 p.m. Bluegrass/Folk/Rock. Free. FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Indie Vol. 2017 featuring Delta Rae, Liz Longley and Nicholas and the Pessimistics. 7 p.m. Americana/ Various. Free.
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THE GREENWICH - Just Friends Friday with Kathy Wade featuring Brent Gallaher Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - 3 Piece Revival. 9 p.m. Various. $5. JAPP’S - Burning Caravan. 5:30 p.m. Gypsy Jazz. Free. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Wayward Son. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. LIVE! AT THE LUDLOW GARAGE - High South. 8 p.m. Folk/Roots. $12-$25. THE LOUNGE - Karaoke. 8:30 p.m. Various. Free.
THE MAD FROG - D-SPillz, Equation, Jarrel Young and Jouse. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $10, $12 day of show. MADISON LIVE - Patsy with H The Nothing, Bi and Slow Glows. 9 p.m. Rock. $6, $8 day of show.
MANSION HILL TAVERN - Jeff Bonta & the Tucker Boys. 9 p.m. Blues. $4. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Bob Ross. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. THE MOCKBEE - Molly Morris, Harlot, Liquid Hologram, Derek Garteiz and ReLynn and Deltaphonic. 7 p.m. Various. Free. MOTR PUB - The Harlequins H with A Drug Called Tradition and Son of Dribble. 10:30 p.m. Rock. Free.
MVP BAR & GRILLE - RoadTrip. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Country. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H Honeyspiders, The Skulx and Draculas. 9 p.m. Rock. PLAIN FOLK CAFE - No Sorrow. 7:30 p.m. Americana/Various. Free. RICK’S TAVERN - Kevin McCoy Band. 9:30 p.m. Country. $5. RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER Kings of Leon with Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. 7 p.m. Rock/Soul. $29.50-$79.50. SAWYER POINT - Cincy Blues H Fest with Albert Cummings, Davina and the Vagabonds, Dixie
Peach Band, Strum n’ Honey, Guitar 4 Vets, Kellen Williams Trio, The Joe Tellmann Band, Everett and Delta Storm, Johnny Fink and the Intrusion, The Beaumonts and more. 5 p.m. Blues. $25; $45 for Friday/Saturday pass. SILVERTON CAFE - Full Circle. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (LOUNGE) - Camp Sugar with 500 Miles to Memphis. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Punk Rock Night with The Z.G.s, Joey74, The Last Ones and Their Accomplices. 9 p.m. Punk Rock. $5. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - “CincyHop” with Noah Wotherspoon Band. 11:30 p.m. Swing/Blues. $10. STRASSE HAUS - Trailer Park Floosies. 10 p.m. Dance/Pop/ Rock/Country/Various. Free. THOMPSON HOUSE - In Dying Arms featuring Denihilist and God of Nothing. 7 p.m. Metal. $10. URBAN ARTIFACT - Jamwave H with Infinity Spree and The Dream Masons. 9 p.m. Alt/Rock/ Reggae/Various. $5.
WASHINGTON PARK - Friday Flow with Love Street and Rondell. 7 p.m. R&B. Free.
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WASHINGTON PLATFORM H SALOON & RESTAURANT Brad Myers and Michael Sharfe
Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).
SATURDAY 12 BLUE NOTE HARRISON - R.P. Coltrane. 9 p.m. Rock. Free. BOGART’S - Third Person Omega with Against Icarus, Call It Crisis, Hades In Olympus, Dead in Paradise and Watchfrogs. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $10. THE BRASS TAP - Hymn River Suite. 8 p.m. Americana/Country. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE Steve Schmidt Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. CINCINNATIAN HOTEL - Philip Paul Trio. 7 p.m. Jazz. Free. THE COMET - “Benefit for C” H featuring BLVCK SEEDS, Dinge, Xoh, Lemon Sky, Mardou, Sabas-
PLAIN FOLK CAFE - The Rattletraps. 7:30 p.m. Jump Blues/ Rock. Free.
NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Classical Revolution. 8 p.m. Classical/Chamber/Various. Free.
RICK’S TAVERN - The Everyday People Band. 9:30 p.m. Dance/ R&B/Funk/Motown. Cover.
NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Vein, Sanction, Buried Dreams, Headrush and Fail Me. 8 p.m. Hardcore. $10.
ROEBLING POINT - River City Jam featuring Chastity Belt, Joesph and Freedom Nicole Moore. 7 p.m. Indie/Rock/Pop/Various. Free.
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SAWYER POINT - Cincy Blues H Fest with Ronnie Baker Brooks, Ruthie Foster, Stacy Mitchhart, Doug Hart Band, Kenny Blues Boss Wayne, Bob Seeley, Rob Rio, Ricky Nye, Brownstreet Breakdown, Chuck Brisbin & the Tuna Project, The SoulFixers, Jay Jesse Johnson Band, Leroy Ellington Band, Dick and the Roadmasters and more. 4:30 p.m. Blues. $25 or weekend pass ($45). SILVERTON CAFE - Basic Truth. 9 p.m. Funk/R&B/Soul. Free.
tooge, Jennifer Simone, Dana Ward, Dro’s Midnight Army and Elese Daniel. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - The Truehearts. 9:30 p.m. Americana/Roots. Free.
FOUNTAIN SQUARE - WEBN Fireworks Countdown Kickoff Party with Thunderstruck. 7 p.m. Rock. Free.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (REVIVAL ROOM) - One Day Steady, Easy Roscoe, Zebras In
THE GREENWICH - Spoken.Word. Soul presents Tribe, Lady J, Siri Imani and Gifted. 9 p.m. Spoken word/Various. $10. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Company Band. 9 p.m. Dance/ Pop/Various. $5. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Kevin McCoy Band. 9 p.m. Country. Free.
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KNOTTY PINE - Naked Karate Girls. 10 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance. Cover. LAWRENCEBURG EVENT CENTER Kansas. 8 p.m. Rock. $35-$85.
Public and Sundae Drives. 9 p.m. Alt/Rock/Various. $5.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - “CincyHop” with Chelsea Reed and the Fair Weather Five and more. 8 p.m. Swing. $25. THOMPSON HOUSE - Vain Interior. 7 p.m. Rock. $10. THE UNDERGROUND - Men of Blues, Roberto and more. 7 p.m. Blues/Rock. Cover. URBAN ARTIFACT - Future Thieves with Hello Luna and Talk Mouth. 8 p.m. Indie/Rock/ Pop. Free.
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PNC PAVILION AT RIVERBEND H - The Chick Corea Elektric Band and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones. 7 p.m. Jazz/Various. $38-$68.
SONNY’S ALL BLUES LOUNGE Blues jam session featuring Sonny’s All Blues Band. 8 p.m. Blues. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Sarah Potenza. 7:30 p.m. Roots/Rock. $10, $12 day of show.
MONDAY 14 BOGART’S - Taking Back Sunday, Every Time I Die and All Get Out. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $27.50.
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JUNKER’S TAVERN - Needles// Pins. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.
8/10 action/adventure, tiny kingdoms, the world i know, heart means more, don’t call me punk, home sweet home; songwriters night: jeff conner, mark brasington, dave purcell (of pike 27)
8/13 sarah potenza 8/15 brian dolzani, joshua black wilkins
Phil DeGreg Trio 8-11
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MOTR PUB - Durand Jones and the Indications. 9 p.m. Soul. Free. MUGGBEES BAR & GRILL - Karaoke DJ. 8 p.m. Various. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Northside Jazz Ensemble. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free.
TUESDAY 15
WOODWARD THEATER H Jeremy Pinnell (album release show) with Daniel Martin Moore.
LOON - Stereo RV. H8THEp.m.LISTING Pop. Free.
MANSION HILL TAVERN - Blue Ravens. 9 p.m. Blues. $3.
9 p.m. Country. $12, $15 day of show.
THE LOUNGE - Karaoke. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Two Blue. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
SUNDAY 13
MOTR PUB - Us, Today with Hellnaw. 10 p.m. Post Rock/Progressive/Various. Free.
BREWRIVER GASTROPUB - Todd Hepburn. 11 a.m. Blues/Various. Free.
THE MOCKBEE - Aaron Cohen, Scareboys and T.K.G. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.
MVP BAR & GRILLE - Gashouse Guerillas. 9:30 p.m. Rock. Free.
MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Blues Jam with Sonny Moorman. 6 p.m. Blues. Free.
tronic/Pop/Various. Free.
ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL Cheryl Renée. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.
NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - The Funs, Cross Country and Xoh. 9 p.m. Rock/Various. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL H (LOUNGE) - Brian Dolzani with Joshua Black Wilkins. 9:30 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. Free.
STANLEY’S PUB - Trashgrass Tuesday featuring members of Rumpke Mt. Boys. 9 p.m. Bluegrass. Cover.
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Richard Cisneros and more. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
8/9 the wild reeds, holy ghost tent revival; adam flaig - august artist in residence, when particles collide, gabe molnar
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THE MOCKBEE - OH jam! presents 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.
WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Ron Enyard Quartet featuring Dan Drees. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/ drink minimum).
OCTAVE - DJ FurSur. 9 p.m. DJ/ Dance/Various. Free.
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THE MAD FROG - Get Dangerous. 9 p.m. EDM. Cover.
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URBAN ARTIFACT - Planet What, Run Believers, s/heep and Sarn Helen. 5 p.m. Garage/Punk/Pop/ Various. Free.
NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB H Matte, Party Days, Greenhaus and Nanny. 9 p.m. Indie/Elec-
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Balderdash, Haymarket Riot, Rob Fetters and Backbeat. 8 p.m. Rock/Various. $15.
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