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Maverick Moves A surprise deal between conservative and liberal City Council members overrode two mayoral vetoes, underscoring the unpredictability of alliances within City Hall BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

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fter some bipartisan deal-making, a supermajority of Cincinnati City Council overrode two vetoes issued by Mayor John Cranley Oct. 17, illustrating the complex power dynamics and potential alliances possible among a relatively young council still settling in. But were the decisive veto overrides signs of some collaborative spirit in City Hall that could limit Cranley’s power, as some council members suggest? Or just a one-off situation? The deals involved Republican Councilman Jeff Pastor and Democrat Councilman Chris Seelbach effectively agreeing to vote on legislation each had voted against the week prior. Pastor had previously declined to vote for an ordinance that will fund narrowing Liberty Street from seven lanes to five, including a potential water main relocation costing nearly $1 million. Seelbach had held out on voting for a $5 million budget closeout ordinance funding a number of initiatives because he didn’t have the needed sixth vote to veto-proof the Liberty Street ordinance. Cranley last week vetoed both, calling them “reckless” spending and accusing council of raiding the city’s reserve fund. But after some slight funding reductions to both ordinances, Pastor agreed to vote for Seelbach’s ordinance, and Seelbach signed on to the budget closeout, providing enough votes to override the mayoral vetoes on both. Objection to the spending packages

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was also bi-partisan: Republican Amy Murray and Democrat David Mann voted against both. Independent Councilman Christopher Smitherman was excused from the session. Pastor argued that his support for the deal was driven by fiscal concerns. He pointed out that negotiations had trimmed about $400,000 from spending in both ordinances, that neither would raise taxes, and that council would put more money into the city’s reserves under the deal. The prior ordinances, funded by surpluses from last year’s budget and the sale of city-owned land under downtown’s Whex garage, contributed about 10.3 percent to the city’s reserve accounts — less than the 10.8 percent requested by the city manager and well below the city’s eventual goal of a 16 percent contribution. The new deals contribute a little more than 10.6 percent. “This is a great day for African-American Republicans,” Pastor said, calling the

ordinances “fiscally conservative.” “I’m getting 90 percent of what I want. Orphans and homeless students are going to be taken care of.” There were plenty of politics at play in the drama around the spending provisions — most prominently, the fact that the budget closeout included $700,000 for the Center for Closing the Health Gap, a nonprofit run by former Mayor Dwight Tillery, once a Cranley ally. Cranley oversaw big increases in funding for the Health Gap during his first term. The organization received $1 million from the city in the 2016 budget, up from just $200,000 the year Cranley took office. But a fallout between Cranley and Tillery over a Health Department hire and Tillery’s support for Cranley’s opponent in the 2017 mayoral election, plus media investigations that raised questions about the nonprofit’s spending, made the Health Gap a target for funding reductions the

past two years. The Center has received funding independent of the city’s United Wayadministered funding process for social service agencies. Cranley has argued that the Center should go through the same process that other nonprofits apply to for city funding. Supporters of the Health Gap piled into council chambers, as they have done during past fights over funding for the organization focused on health outcomes for black Cincinnatians. At least a dozen spoke in support of the organization. “As a black male, 68 years of age, I’ve benefited very much from their services,” Robert Humphries said, specifically mentioning efforts that engage black men about health issues and the organization’s yearly health expo. “I ask you not to take those services away.” CONTINUES ON PAGE 09

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ACLU Sues Judge Over Cincinnati Tent Cities Ban BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio has filed a lawsuit against the Hamilton County judge who issued a county-wide ban on tent cities this summer, arguing that the ban is an overreach. Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Ruehlman issued the ban in August after city officials played cat-andmouse with residents of a series of tent cities in downtown Cincinnati. That ban, instituted over a successively larger area over the course of roughly 10 days, effectively made it illegal to sleep outside or in a tent anywhere in the county. The lawsuit was unusual in that Cincinnati officials basically asked the county to sue the city so it could direct law

enforcement to begin clearing the camps. The ACLU filed what’s known as a Mandamus action on Oct. 18 in the federal First District Court of Appeals. That filing seeks to allow a party that wasn’t part of the original legal action — in this case, New Prospect Baptist Church — to challenge the decisions of a lower court. New Prospect offered to house people experiencing homelessness on church land in Roselawn. However, under Ruehlman’s order, the ACLU argues that action would have been illegal. Thus, the ban is “overbroad” and “illegal,” according to ACLU attorneys. “The injunction stands as a roadblock between New Prospect and its mission

to provide aid for people experiencing homelessness,” ACLU volunteer attorney Joe Mead wrote in a statement. “According to the ban, New Prospect’s religious mission, conducted charitably on private property, is now considered a criminal act.” The fight between the city, county and residents of the tent cities and their advocates began early this summer, when the Cincinnati City Manager ordered a camp on Third Street under a Fort Washington Way overpass to be cleared. The camp then moved onto another part of Third Street, where it was again eventually moved. From there, the camp moved to Pendleton, and then onto private property

New Cincinnati Program Will Aim to Prevent Evictions

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FC Cincinnati released the timeline for its coming Major League Soccer stadium, which roughly aligns with earlier statements from the team about the timing of the facility’s construction.

A new program Cincinnati City Council voted to fund could help residents facing the life-disrupting travail of eviction.

Turner Construction’s site preparation and demolition of buildings surrounding the stadium will begin with a block of Central Avenue on Nov. 12 and continue into January.

Evictions displaced more than 30 people a day in Cincinnati in 2016, according to data from Princeton University’s Eviction Lab, which tracks the legal removal of residents from rental homes. Fourteen Cincinnati Census tracts have an eviction rate higher than 8 percent — a huge five and a half points above the national rate. Those statistics don’t count informal evictions that don’t go through the courts, or evictions that are filed and not followed through because tenants leave before the eviction is complete. Overall, more than 11,000 evictions were filed in Hamilton County courts in 2016.

Businesses in the area have been notified that they need to be out by the beginning of November. Demolition of Cincinnati Public School’s Stargel Stadium will start Nov. 19, unless Taft High School football makes the post season. In that case, Turner will delay demolition until the season is over. CPS will build a new Stargel across Ezzard Charles Drive with $10 million provided by FCC. A water main will need to be relocated to make way for the construction and other site preparation work will also need to be completed. A portion of that work will be done using some of the $34 million the city pledged to infrastructure for the project.

Housing activist group Affordable Housing Advocates has put forward some suggestions for city policies that could help those vulnerable to eviction, and representatives from the Hamilton County Human Services Chamber also presented options to council earlier this year. Among the possibilities: • So-called “just cause” eviction rules. Those rules would mean landlords could only evict someone for not paying rent, materially violating a rental agreement, so the landlord or a relative can live in the property, to complete necessary repairs or to comply with a city order. Eviction for other reasons would not be permitted. • Pay-to-Stay rules that would require landlords to let a tenant continue residency if they pay what they owe.

• Rules restricting tax abatements on properties from which residents have been evicted without just cause in the past two years. • A rental assistance program that could provide low-income families with emergency funds to keep them in their homes. AHA estimates a $750,000 fund could prevent up to 500 evictions a year, preventing families from lapsing into (or sliding further into) poverty. Several nonprofits, including Our Daily Bread, St. Vincent DePaul, Christ Church Cathedral, Salvation Army, Mercy Neighborhood Ministries and the Interfaith Hospitality Network already provide some limited rental assistance, but the demand is greater than those organizations can fill on their own. Last year, United Way of Greater Cincinnati’s 211 hotline received more than 7,600 calls asking for rental assistance. • Longer-term, housing advocates say increasing the amount of affordable

housing in the city will help reduce the number of evictions city residents face. Currently, there is demand for 30,000 more units of housing affordable to low-income residents in Cincinnati, according to estimates from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency. The city has taken some steps toward this goal, including the recent creation of a Voluntary Tax Incentive Contribution Agreement fund that allows developers to get a tax break if they pledge to put a portion of what they would have paid in taxes into a city-wide affordable housing fund. But that fund alone likely won’t address all the needs. Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, who helped put together the funding, says council will decide on which steps to take and move toward them in the next six months to a year. One move the city is already making: funding legal representation for individuals and families facing eviction. While nearly all landlords bringing eviction filings in court have attorneys, very few tenants do. When tenants also have attorneys, they are much less likely to be evicted, experts say.

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The stadium is expected to be finished and ready for its grand opening on March 1, 2021.

But there is at least some help coming. Council’s move — part of a contentious $5.3 million budget closeout ordinance — sets aside $125,000 that can be used to prevent evictions. While it isn’t clear yet exactly what elements council will elect to pursue for the new program, there are some possibilities.

• Property protection for tenants that would require landlords to store a resident’s personal property for at least 30 days after an eviction has happened.

The official groundbreaking for FCC’s stadium will take place Dec. 19. Work on the foundations for the stadium will begin sometime after the spring of 2019.

Those numbers are a big deal because housing instability can cause any number of other problems with employment — studies suggest an evicted tenant is 15 percent more likely to lose a job — mental and physical health and lost social ties, and because eviction is often a dark mark on a person’s rental record, that can make a person ineligible for housing benefits and make finding housing in general harder in

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FC Cincinnati Announces Stadium Timeline

owned by housing nonprofit Over-theRhine Community Housing. As the camp was moving from place to place, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley asked Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters to intervene. Deters sought the injunction banning the camps from Third Street from Ruehlman. As the camps moved, Ruehlman expanded his ban until it eventually included the entire county. Camp inhabitants voluntarily moved from the final location in OTR under threat of arrest by Cincinnati Police. Some found housing, while others continued to experience homelessness.

New Health Clinic Will Serve CPS, Immigrant and Refugee Families BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

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Students and the community around a Cincinnati Public School in Evanston will have an easier time accessing vital health services via the school’s new Academy of World Languages Schiff Wellness Center, unveiled Oct 16. AWL, a K-8 CPS school specializing in language, offers Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Russian classes as well as English as a second language for students hailing from more than 40 countries. The school also functions as a Community Learning Center, a model that locates basic services for students, family and the wider community within CPS facilities. The $2.5 million, 5,500-square-foot addition to the school will be a significant expansion of the school’s current offerings. Chinetta Williams is the school-based health center medical assistant there. “This Wellness Center will allow us to serve our kids better than ever,” she said. “Having this collaboration of services under one roof allows us to improve our overall outcome for our kids and the community. We struggle every time we have to send

kids to vision and dental centers. We can only send a limited number of kids (to other clinics), so we must prioritize who gets the care first. But in reality, they’re all a priority.” The center was funded by private donations and will offer primary care, dental, vision and mental health services plus a community meeting space. Cincinnati Public Schools will partner with the Community Learning Center Institute, the Cincinnati Health Department, Interact for Health, the Delta Dental Foundation, OneSight and MindPeace. School staff, students, community leaders, city officials and donors attended an opening ceremony for the new center Oct. 16, which included emotional testimonials from students and teachers about the importance of access to health centers for students, their families and the community around AWL. A number of the students who attend the school come from immigrant and refugee families who have particular difficulty accessing health care. Others come

from Evanston and Walnut Hills, both predominantly low-income communities. After a brief ribbon-cutting that involved an outsize roll of dental floss, students led visitors on a tour of the new center, which is adorned with a mural commissioned by ArtWorks. The facilities include four dental chairs, four primary care exam rooms, three vision care stations and other amenities. Christine Erskine teaches English as a second language at AWL. She has also taken in immigrant children who now attend the school. Erskine recounted numerous obstacles to health care that exist due to long waits at other clinics and tangles of insurance complications. “With the Schiff Wellness Center, so many of our parents and families will not have to go to so many places and jump through so many hoops,” she said.

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CPD Chief Eliot Isaac, community leaders and representatives from Children’s Hospital outlined the effort Oct. 16 at a news conference in Pleasant Ridge. Isaac says the program will center around “three Es” — “education, enforcement and environmental” changes. Part of that effort will be a two-week enforcement blitz in some neighborhoods where more officers will be on the job watching for speeding and aggressive driving along problem streets. That won’t necessarily mean CPD officers writing more tickets — it will be more about increased visibility in areas where the city has received a lot of complaints about speeding and aggressive

driving, as well as efforts to teach and remind drivers about safe driving practices. “We are always looking for innovative ways and unique partnerships to focus on traffic safety,” Isaac said. “Many of our neighbors walk in their communities and business districts to get to school and to work each day. We want to make sure both drivers and pedestrians are equally as alert when they’re walking as when they’re driving, always following our traffic laws.” The effort comes after a number of high-profile pedestrian deaths in traffic accidents have happened around Cincinnati in recent years. That’s a national trend as well, CPD says, with 16 percent of traffic fatalities coming from accidents that involve pedestrians or cyclists. The number of pedestrians and cyclists involved and killed in those accidents across the country has risen in recent years, the department says.

But one piece of the puzzle locally may be declines in enforcement. An investigation by WCPO found that traffic stops by CPD declined 60 percent between 2012 and 2016. That investigation also found spotty enforcement. For example, CPD didn’t issue a single ticket for speeding in 2017 along a particularly busy stretch of Hamilton Avenue through Northside, a location that has drawn numerous complaints from residents following the death of neighborhood business owner Sarah Cole in 2016, who was killed after being hit by a car. The issue of pedestrian safety has rattled around City Hall over the past year, with battles playing out over a street-narrowing project in OTR and over funding for street improvements across Cincinnati in the city’s budget. CPD says its effort comes after consultation with community leaders across all five districts it serves. The

Cincinnati’s first bus-only lane will launch midway into November, city officials announced Oct. 18. The lane on Main Street between Government Square and Central Parkway will be closed to cars during morning and afternoon rush hours except for vehicles turning off the street and entering and exiting parking lots. Officials have yet to release specific hours for the lanes. The idea, first pushed by transit activists with the Better Bus Coalition earlier this year, will create a pilot program to test out the bus-only lanes. Better Bus Coalition President Cam Hardy says he hopes the pilot lane will lead to more throughout the city. The dedicated bus lane is an attempt to boost ridership for the city’s Metro buses by improving timeliness. Generally, busonly lanes allow buses to move more quickly and efficiently by removing other traffic from the lane they are using. Cincinnati City Councilmembers Tamaya Dennard, Greg Landsman, David Mann, Chris Seelbach, P.G. Sittenfeld and Wendell Young passed a motion asking for a report on the feasibility of the lane in March.

Cincinnati Police Launch Increased Traffic Enforcement Efforts Cincinnati Police have launched a new initiative to increase traffic enforcement in problem areas around the city after numerous concerns involving pedestrian safety have surfaced over the past couple years here.

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neighborhoods it is focusing on were decided based on a survey administered by the city’s Department of Transportation and Engineering and include: • Avondale • Bond Hill • Clifton • College Hill • Downtown • East Price Hill • Hyde Park • Lower Price Hill • Mount Airy • Mount Washington • Northside • Over-the-Rhine • Paddock Hills • Pleasant Ridge • Roselawn • Walnut Hills • West End • Winton Hills

“This is a pretty big deal,” said Sittenfeld, who introduced the motion, when it was approved. “It’s something we’ve never had before.” Sittenfeld said he hoped that the lane would reduce delays and snags throughout the bus system. It can take more than 20 minutes for a bus to get out of downtown under current arrangements. Boosters hope that could be cut down to as little as five minutes under the pilot program. Metro will test on-time performance with the lane and compare that data with performance before it was instituted. More than 600 buses a day traverse Main Street, which is the main exit from central bus hub Government Square. Both the city’s Department of Transportation and Engineering and the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority recommended adoption of the pilot program, according to a memo from Acting City Manager Patrick Duhaney. The Downtown Residents Council and Downtown Cincinnati, Inc. both support the pilot program, though DRC says it has concerns about the short duration of walk signals for pedestrians at Eighth and Ninth streets.

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committed $8 million from the sale of the Blue Ash airport that had been in a rainyday fund, most of it to infrastructure for FC Cincinnati’s coming Major League Soccer stadium. Landsman pushed that line of thought further, pointing out that a similar water main will need to be relocated for FC Cincinnati’s stadium, and that the city will pay for that relocation with part of the $32 million in infrastructure funding it is providing. Cranley, however, stood firm in his opposition to the spending ordinances, accusing council of dodging hard decisions at the expense of fiscal responsibility. “You can’t say yes to everything,” he said, noting he would make the same decisions again in giving police and fire pay increases. “There are choices you have to make.” In the wake of the veto overrides, Seelbach touted the collaboration between himself and Pastor. “I am not perfect,” he said. “Mr. Pastor is not perfect. We are not saints. Going forward, we can all do better in working together in ways that are productive.” Pastor’s help was significant and something of a surprise. During his short council tenure, he’s been a generally reliable ally of Cranley and council conservatives like Christopher Smitherman. A long-term shift by Pastor toward the coalition of council progressives who backed the recent spending package would mean a veto-proof six-member majority for that group. That’s something the embattled “gang of five” could use after a bruising battle with the mayor over former City Manager Harry Black led to the embarrassing publication of text messages among the five — and a lawsuit by conservative activists alleging that those texts amount to a violation of open meetings laws under the city’s charter. But Pastor has said he has no intention of joining the gang of five in the future — he asserts he’s still a conservative ideologically opposed to many of their ideas. Joining up on the budget closeout and Liberty Street, he says, simply serves his priorities this time around. “Sometimes we have to put aside our partisan differences,” he said after the vote. City Hall isn’t finished yet with the ordinances it passed. Minor adjustments to the spending plan and future changes to the Liberty Street project mean council will have to approve final versions of those items in the future — something that could again subject them to a Cranley veto if the items lose the support of one council member.

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In addition to the Health Gap, the budget ordinance provides funding to an eviction prevention program, homelessness prevention efforts, startup incubators and an earlier police recruit class, as well as installation of ShotSpotter technology by Cincinnati Police in Price Hill. There were also tangles around the Liberty Street ordinance. Cranley pointed out that the legislation only stipulates funding for the project, does not nail down the design and includes provisions for more input. Cranley has backed a lessextensive version of the safety measures that include curb bump-outs at hightraffic intersections along Liberty Street, preserving 85 parking spots. “I’m glad to see we’ll get another bite at the apple” for the design, Cranley commented. Seelbach responded by saying that the deal meant to fund a design presented by the city’s Department of Transportation and Engineering after six years of studies and community input, and that legislation would be introduced to further lock that commitment in. Seelbach said the DOTE design is a “launching pad” from which stylistic changes such as green space can be made over the next couple months. “What we’re voting on today is DOTE’s design for Liberty Street,” he said. “I want to make it clear that the design we’re voting on is from our own experts.” Cranley says his opposition comes from the fact that a 100-year water main installed just 15 years ago would need to be relocated for the safety improvements. That will cost almost $1 million, according to city administration. He pointed out that, under the compromise ordinance, Bethany House, a nonprofit that serves the homeless, would only get $350,000, down from the $500,000 originally provided. “Money for Bethany House is going to be cut to move a water main,” he said. “Don’t cut from the homeless on a one-time capital investment.” In a committee meeting the following week, council restored the rest of the funding for Bethany House, as well as upping funding for efforts to prevent evictions to $227,000. Council members ignored Cranley’s charges that the supermajority was being “reckless” in “raiding the city’s reserves.” The debate led to a momentary exhumation of old arguments around spending. Pastor brought up the pay increases doled out to Cincinnati police and firefighters in 2016 outside the city’s normal collective bargaining process — a move pushed by Cranley and passed by council. Seelbach pointed out that the city has

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Ask any person what their favorite food is, and one of the top answers is likely to be “pizza.” Not only because pizza is delicious, but also because it’s ubiquitous in the American diet, has many subsects from which to choose (New York-style, Neapolitan, pizza rolls, etc.) and can please just about every diner from babies to foodies and college bros to paleo people (there are now cauliflower-crust pizzas in your grocer’s freezer). Pizza is a great equalizer. It’s round. It’s shareable. It’s a communal convenience food and one of the first innovative meals to be delivered directly to your home; before UberEATS, there were pizza delivery guys saving dinnertime for busy families and babysitters everywhere. This Pizza Issue is an ode to the dish as extolled by CityBeat staffers, as well as readers. In addition to our favorite pizza picks, we have listed the Best Pizza winners from the 2018 Best Of Cincinnati issue as chosen by readers. So, like pizza itself, this publication is a communal experience. And if you happen to hate pizza (you weirdo), we also have a list of pizza alternatives — other round foods with stuff on them.

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Brick Oven Loveland

Harvest Pizzeria

MidiCi

43 W. Seventh St., Covington, Ky., alto-pizza.com.

390 Loveland Madeira Road, Loveland, brickovenloveland.com.

1739 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, harvestpizzeria.com.

595 Race St., Downtown, mymidici.com.

The Columbus-based Harvest Pizzeria finally opened a location in Over-theRhine last year. What makes Harvest stand out from other local pizza shops is their unusual pies. Almond pesto acts as a base for a pizza topped with spinach, mozzarella and artichokes. The fennel sausage pizza not only contains sausage but also fennel pollen. And for $12.75, you can get “creative” and add toppings like chipotle-spiked tomato sauce, clams, vegan sausages and truffled mushrooms. Eat more than just their pizzas, though. They also offer apps — pimento cheese, buffalo cauliflower, pickle chips — burgers, cocktails, draft beers and dessert like butterscotch budino. Come for an early or late lunch (11 a.m.-4 p.m.) and get a nineinch pizza for $8.50.

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The national chain MidiCi opened in Cincinnati at the end of last year and joined Race Street’s eclectic lineup of Tokyo Kitty, Americano Burger Bar, Mita’s and the ever-popular Maplewood Kitchen. MidiCi’s sprawling space contains an elongated bar where you can sit and watch the Neapolitan pizza carbonize in the wood-fired oven. Jars of Nutella and containers of other Italian foods line a shelf near the entrance. They offer more than pizzas — they’re a full-fledged Italian restaurant, serving kale salads, gelato, espresso, cocktails, Italian beer, Italian sodas and housemade meatballs. They even make their own salad dressings and spicy chili oil, which you should dab on your pizza. One caveat: on the menu they list the calorie count per item, which will either be helpful or will steer you away from fattier foods, like the 1520-calorie Egg N’ Bacon pizza. But this isn’t Olive Garden, so load up on the pizza and healthful salads.

Marion’s Piazza

Multiple locations including 6176 Soundwave Blvd., Mason; 241 N. Main St., Centerville, marionspiazza.com.

Mio’s

ALTO Pizza Kitchen + Bar is the place for any Kentuckian — or Cincinnatian visiting from across the river — to grab a cocktail and pizza without breaking the bank. (They also have an ordering kiosk inside the nearby taproom of Braxton Brewing Company.) Their affordable Italian menu has oven-baked linguini, arugula salad and a brisket sandwich — but their pizza is, of course, the star. The crust is crispy yet substantial; you may need to use a fork, which is a plus to me. Their specialty pies include a gooey mac and cheese pizza sure to delight both adults and kids, a vegetarian pizza with eggplant and artichoke hearts and, my favorite, the Charcuterie Pizza. best bite: The Charcuterie Pizza is a culinary masterpiece at $15 for a 12-inch pie. ALTO features a charcuterie board as an appetizer option, so you know that this is not a meat-laden pizza that's seen fresher days. It's topped with roasted tomato sauce, mozzarella, pecorino, stag white cheddar, pepperoni, salami and mortadella.

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Betta’s Italian Oven 3764 Montgomery Road, Norwood, facebook.com/ bettasitalianoven.

Best bite: This place is a regular in mine and

The Gruff 129 E. Second St., Covington, Ky., atthegruff.com.

This pizzeria-deli hybrid serves up some of the freshest pizzas around. If you want a more artisan slice without feeling too pretentious, this local haven is a good bet, with options that range from a classic Margherita (a holy combo of basil, roasted tomatoes, olive oil and mozz cheese) to Smoked Brisket (with olive oil, pickled jalapeños, red onion, smoked cheddar and drizzled with cilantro and barbecue sauce). Their whole schtick is health-conscious grub, so no need to dab grease off your 'za before diving in here. Best bite: Full disclosure: I'm a vegetarian. So, my pick is heavily biased. Their vegetarian option includes artichokes, which I dig. On the untraditional side, the sauce is a white wine garlic spread with crumbly goat cheese and mozzarella on top. Sundried tomatoes and spinach seal the deal.

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Best bite: Truffle pizza. Anything with truffle cream, mozzarella and olive oil is going to be good.

Ask anyone who grew up in Dayton or its ’burbs what the best pizza in town — or the region —is, and they will unanimously scream “Marion’s!” In Dayton, Marion’s Piazza — which opened its first location in 1965 — is an institution. Over the years, the Glass family has stuck to their formula of cracker-like crust (aka Dayton-style pizza), canned sauce and vegetables and bagged cheeses. Yet despite the lack of some fresh ingredients, their pizzas taste damn good. You can even order the crust extra crispy, or god forbid, less crispy. A nine-inch pizza (most cost around $8) is a personal size and can be eaten in one sitting — no shame there. Besides pizza, they also offer subs, pasta and dinner salads (for only $2.49). You don’t have to visit Dayton to get Marion’s, as they thankfully have a location in Mason. Dine-in or get pizza to go. Best bite: The deluxe pizza, heaped with crumbly sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, onions and green peppers. But if you don’t eat meat, their vegetarian pizza is a good substitute.

Multiple locations including 6930 Madisonville Road, Mariemont, miospizza.com.

Mio’s has been around since 1975, making “stuffed pizzas” for more than 40 years. What’s a stuffed pizza, you ask? Good question. Basically a deep-dish pizza with a strange name — some of the restaurant’s menus actually list “deep dish” instead of the “stuffed crust” moniker to be less confusing. Whatever you call it, Mio’s thick crust pie is a delicious substitution for an actual deep-dish Chicago-style pizza that one can eat in Cincinnati. You can get thincrust pizzas here (and calzones, salads, etc.), but why would you? Sure, the deepdish pizzas take a little longer, but they’re worth the wait. Best bite: I will order any and all deep-dish pizzas from any pizzeria; I’ll even buy whatever weird bakein-its-own-pan deep-dish frozen pizza contraption DiGiorno comes up with. I’m a die hard. And Mio’s satisfies any craving I have for that baked and buttery and cheesy and kind of weirdly wet on top deep-dish creation. I just get a plain cheese and tomato sauce pie or throw on a veggie or two — nothing wild; maybe just green pepper and onion.

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onion, roasted red peppers, artichokes and feta cheese. It’s like a flavor punch in your mouth: salty, garlicky, feta-y. Worth the drive.

to pesto tastes better than pine nuts, and it seems healthier than your typical pesto pizza.

my husband’s dining-out rotation for its ability to please pretty much anyone we’re eating with. A must-order on every visit is Betta’s take on a classic Pizza Margherita, topped with hand-squeezed, chunky San Marzano tomatoes, homemade fresh mozzarella, fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil. Simple. Delicious.

Best bite: The Veggie Pesto pizza with pesto sauce,

Best bite: Almond pesto pizza. Adding almonds

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Will de Luca opened his family-run trattoria — named after his mother, Betta — in 2003. The casual wood-fired pizzeria has framed photos of de Luca and his family on the wall, a deli case with housemade daily salads (think artichoke salad, marinated olives, antipasto, etc.) and a menu featuring easy red-sauce Italian: everything from meatball subs and homemade lasagna to veal parmesan and spaghetti marinara. But the wood-fired oven takes center stage in the kitchen, producing perfectly singed, rustic and bubbly thin-crust pizzas. Favorite house creations include the Pizza Diavolo — a spicy pepperoni and sausage pie — and the Quattro Stagioni (aka “four seasons”): a classic topped with fresh mozzarella, Kalamata olives, prosciutto, tomatoes and basil divided into quarters (representing each season: spring, summer, fall, winter) by strips of dough.

Full disclosure: This 1-year-old pizza joint is owned by CityBeat’s office manager Sam and her husband, which is actually great news for staffers — especially those of us who usually wouldn’t make our way out to Loveland for dinner (aka me) because Sam sometimes brings carryout to work for everyone. Brick Oven Loveland makes their own dough and sauce, and covers their pizza in a blend of provolone and mozzarella cheese. You can create your own pizza with toppings ranging from pepperoni and mushroom to capers and Kalamata olives, or order from their list of specialty creations, like the Loaded Spud (an olive oil and garlic base with potatoes, onion and mozzarella and cheddar cheese with bacon, chives and sour cream), Wild Honey (barbecue sauce, onion, pineapple, ham and bacon topped with honey drizzle) or one of Chef Joe’s “unique” creations like the Flame Pizza (spicy marinara, three cheeses, hot sauce and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos). They also have Stromboli, baked pasta, hoagies, cheesy breadsticks topped with a seasoning blend that makes them freakishly delicious and a Sammy’s pizza dough-sandwich creation stuffed with cheese and toppings.

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Ramundo's

111 Main St., Milford, padrinoitalian.com.

3166 Linwood Ave., Mount Lookout; 2210 Beechmont Ave., Mount Washington, ramundospizzeria.com.

Milford’s Padrino, from the owners of neighboring 20 Brix, is the kind of place to frequent when you love yourself a classic, while also being enticed to think a bit outside the pizza box. Here, the crusts are more thin and the toppings more artisanal. On the traditional side, you’ll recognize the red-based pies, topped with any and all veggies and meat for when you know you need some good, old-fashioned pizza. But when you’d rather have a different kind of meal, you’ll find pizza specialties ranging from Thai to Toscano and Dark Star BBQ to The Britters. And either way you go, you really can't go wrong. Best bite: The Britters is my go-to because I love the garlic-butter base, the savoriness of the spinach and sundried tomato, and the sweet taste of the goat cheese and balsamic.

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Grab an East Side slice. Ramundo’s classic by-the-slice, NYC-formula is an overlooked cheesy wonder with zesty sauce underneath. It’s not fancy. There’s no overly gourmet or hip pies here. But, according to them, it’s the closest thing to New York City pizza you’ll get in the Queen City. And I concur (but maybe I’m biased because I live right down the hill from their Mount Washington storefront) — it’s crispy and greasy and cheesy: everything a pizza should be. Plus, I like to imagine if Peter Parker lived in Cincy, he’d work here. Best bite: I always get it by the slice. Lots of regulars fold their pizzas before taking a bite, but the reigning method is up for debate. Get whatever toppings you want on your slice and make it a combo with a side and drink. Their side salad is basic, but that’s why it’s good.

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Taft’s Brewpourium

Two Cities Pizza Company

4831 Spring Grove Ave., Spring Grove Village, taftsalehouse.com/brewpourium.

202 W. Main St., Mason, twocitiespizza.com.

Best bite: The BBQ Pork pie, featuring a barbecue

Best bite: Get New York-style pizza if you’re a moron. If you aren’t, get their deep dish. I am a noted deep-dish pizza fanatic (see Mio’s entry on page 11) and this is some good deep dish. I always opt for a basic cheese deep dish, with chunky red sauce. It really allows the flavor and texture of that buttery crust to shine.

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sauce made with Taft’s Cherrywood amber ale, the pizza includes pulled pork, red onion, jalapeño and smoked cheddar.

New York City and Chicago are well-known for several things. But most importantly, each city is known for a particular style of pizza. New York pizza is hand-tossed with thin, wide slices and deliciously greasy cheese. Chicago style? You’re talking deep dish — a super thick round pie covered in chunky tomato sauce with a crunchy, flaky pan crust. Now, you don’t have to travel further than Mason to get a taste of both. Two Cities Pizza Company, a dining destination housed in Mason’s former city hall — with a bit of an Art Deco nightclub rebrand — closes the chasm between the dueling pizza metropolises. Go classic and grab a deep-dish Windy City with sausage, onion, green pepper and chunky tomato; and the Marathoner NYC-style margherita. In addition to pizza, they offer tempting best-of-both-worlds street food from each city, like a Chicago dog with all the fixings (no ketchup; add celery salt) or a New York dog with brown mustard and sauerkraut.

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New Haven “apizza” is a crispy, coal-fired version of Neapolitan pizza bearing the name of its origin: New Haven, Conn. The juxtaposition of the crust’s crunchy exterior and soft center separates apizza from the traditional pies served in the Queen City, as does the Brewpourium’s attention to detail. Owner and managing partner Dave Kassling, a graduate of Tony Gemignani’s International School of Pizza in San Francisco, is the man behind the magic that is Brewpourium’s apizza, and his expertise is easy to taste across the menu. In addition to its new spin on the prestigious Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria Napoletana, a white clam pizza fitted with extra virgin olive oil, parmesan and garlic, Kassling & Co. tend to Cincinnati’s meat-lovers with their Roebling (meatball, pepperoni, ricotta) and the BBQ Pork Pie.

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Favorite Vegan Pizzas One of the best parts of pizza is the cheese and whether you forgo diary for ethical or medical reasons, plenty of pizzerias offer options to mimic that melty magic.

Mac’s Pizza Pub Multiple locations including 205 W. McMillan St., Clifton, macspizzapub.com.

Mac’s was an early adopter of vegan cheese. The local chain makes its own dough and sauce in house daily, cuts its own veggies and has vegan pizza options — two of them on the menu, in fact — like the Natural Vegan (mushrooms, tomato, red onion, green pepper, Kalamata olives, vegan mozzarella and tomato sauce) and the Tree Hugger (garlic butter and olive oil base with spinach, red onion, artichoke hearts, sundried tomatoes and vegan mozzarella). You can also create your own and even opt for a gluten-free base.

The Kitchen Factory 1609 Chase Ave., Northside, kitchenfactorynorthside.com.

This Northside pizzeria does sandwiches, salads, pizzas and a late-night menu from its walk-up window. They have two types of pizza: handtossed New York-style pies with housemade dough, baked in a stone oven, or artisan Neapolitan pies. Opt for by-the-slice (vegan slices are $4) or get a whole pie. Sub vegan cheese on any creation or create your own with topping options including barbecue tofu or tempeh.

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Favorite Gluten-Free Pizzas If you can’t or don’t want to eat a gluten-y crust, these offer gluten-free substitutions.

harvest Pizzeria 1739 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, harvestpizzeria.com.

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See a full listing for Harvest on page 13, but the big news is you can make any crust here gluten-free for a $3 upcharge.

Incline Public House 2601 Eighth St. W., Price Hill, inclinepublichouse.com.

IPH is not specifically a pizzeria but the pizzas coming out of their Price Hill kitchen are damn good. For $3, you can substitute a gluten-free crust on any of their pies, like the Prosciutto Fig with fig jam, prosciutto. caramelized onions and goat cheese, finished with an arugula topper.

Dewey’s Pizza Multiple locations including 3014 Madison Road, Oakley, deweyspizza.com.

Dewey’s also does gluten-free with a 12-inch-only option for each of their specialty pies or create your own. That means you can get a 12inch Dr. Dre — olive oil, mozzarella, green peppers, red onion, chicken, bacon, house-pickled jalapeño, tomato and ranch — sans gluten. Harvest Pizzeria

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Best Of Pizza Each year, CityBeat’s Best Of Cincinnati issue recognizes the best in the city in categories including Eats, Shops & Services, Music & Nightlife and more. The responsibility of selecting these exceptional entities is divided between our readers and staff. In 2018, more than 900,000 votes were tallied to determine our Reader Picks — and readers logged on to the ballot site to vote for their favorites in a slew of categories, including Best Pizza. Here are the winners:

Non-Chain 1. A Tavola 2. Adriatico’s 3. Catch-A-Fire Pizza 4. Fireside Pizza 5. Strong’s Brick Oven Pizzeria 6. Camporosso 7. Mac’s Pizza Pub 8. Trotta’s Pizza & Drive Thru 9. Two Cities Pizza Co. 10. Newport Pizza Company

Chain 1. Dewey’s Pizza 2. LaRosa’s Family Pizzeria 3. Goodfellas Pizzeria

Neighborhood Pizza Joint (Downtown/OTR) 1. Goodfellas Pizzeria 2. A Tavola 3. Pies and Pints

Neighborhood Pizza Joint (Central) 1. Dewey’s Pizza 2. Adriatico’s 3. Fireside Pizza

Neighborhood Pizza Joint (East Side) 1. Dewey’s Pizza 2. LaRosa’s Family Pizzeria 3. A Tavola (Madeira)

Neighborhood Pizza Joint (West Side)

Neighborhood Pizza Joint (Northern Kentucky) 1. Goodfellas Pizzeria 2. Dewey’s Pizza 3. Strong’s Brick Oven Pizzeria

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1. Dewey’s Pizza 2. LaRosa’s Family Pizzeria 3. Trotta’s Pizza & Drive Thru

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A Cincinnati-born artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizza obsession prompts him to open a Chicago pizza museum

Kendall Bruns at the U.S. Pizza Museum

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While his appreciation for the culinary arts deepened, so did his knack for creative expression. Earning his BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2000, he spent the better part of the aughts churning out a prolific body of work: cartoon-y sculptures, album artwork, music and short films released by his own indie production company, christened — wait for it — Pizza Infinity. It was perhaps pizza’s divine light that led Bruns to Chicago. “I started making short films, and my writing partner Josh Flowers and I started working on projects,” Bruns says. “I had an idea for a short that takes place in an all-you-can-eat pizza place buffet, but the premise of the sketch was someone who was living there to eat pizza all the time. My idea was to call the sketch ‘Pizza Infinity.’ ” Though the sketch never came to fruition, the idea was enough to inspire the duo’s name. Bruns and Flowers produced a number of satirical DIY short films for the 48 Hour Film project, an annual contest that challenges directors to produce a short movie over the course of the weekend. Garnering local success (like recognition in CityBeat’s 2008 Best of Cincinnati issue) and international attention (Cannes screened a short titled “Robot Love from Another World” in 2009), Bruns moved to the Windy City in 2010 to tap into a larger pool of acting talent. A year earlier, while still living in Cincinnati, he stumbled across an article in GQ Magazine titled “American Pie,” food writer Alan Richman’s list of the best pizza parlors in America. Spanning 25 entries and the width of a continent, the article overflows with fanaticism, reined in by Richman’s intense attention to detail. He’s as dedicated to the dish’s taste as Bruns is to the culture that surrounds it. “I’d been to a couple of the places listed and they were great,” Bruns says. “If there’s 25 on the list, why would I not want to go to all of them?” His pizza quest began with a stop at Great Lake in Chicago, Richman’s top-ranked restaurant. The nowdefunct eatery was known for its impeccable creations and hot-blooded owners, infamous for ordering customers to leave over requesting substitution — a

scenario that bore an eerie resemblance to Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi” episode, according to Bruns. Luckily, he avoided the boot. The food was amazing, and so was Great Lake’s brand of what Bruns calls “Pizza Theater.” “It’s when you go to a pizzeria, and beyond (the food), there’s all this other stuff that happens, whether it’s watching them make the pizza in the kitchen, or even the choreography of walking through the restaurant with a pie, and the stands when they put them on the table. Eating at the pizzeria is the ultimate experience” he says. Sold on Richman’s list, Bruns started to keep a spreadsheet of his own, documenting his pizza outings and making road trips just to try pies in other states (he still eats pizza an average of three times a week). He recalls a trip he took over the Fourth of July weekend in 2013 to New Haven, Conn. for the sole purpose of sampling slices at Frank Pepe Pizzeria and Sally’s Apizza. On trips like these, he made it a point to collect as much memorabilia and pizza lore as he could bring back home with him on the flight: boxes, menus and knowledge of pizzerias past. He first hatched the idea for using his collection to establish a pizza museum in 2012, but the opening of Philadelphia’s Pizza Brain (a restaurant with a pizza museum of its own) just a year earlier gave him pause. Bruns couldn’t quite shake the concept, though. In 2015, he launched the U.S. Pizza Museum as an online gallery that featured photos and background information about his collection, which then included plush versions of the animatronic musicians that took the stage at Chuck E. Cheese’s and Showbiz Pizza, a pair of Vans slip-ons adorned with little pies and a set of triangular dinner plates shaped like slices. It garnered some initial buzz, enough for friends and family to start sending him their own collectibles to house in the museum, but it wasn’t until 2016 that the U.S. Pizza Museum really took off. Bruns landed space at the first annual Chicago Pizza Summit that year, curating a pop-up exhibit. The story was picked up by local media, and eventually even Smithsonian. com published a piece on the collection.

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ounding a museum dedicated to all things pizza-related seems like the kind of scheme you’d dream up while letting your thoughts drift into absurdity, 20 minutes deep into a hot shower. For U.S. Pizza Museum founder Kendall Bruns, however, doing so feels like the end of a natural progression — a prophecy foretold by the gods of Italian food. The Chicago-based museum is a monument to the fast food staple’s rich history, yes, but also to its persistence in popular culture. Scan the U.S. Pizza Mueseum’s collection and you’ll find a VHS copy of Mystic Pizza, LEGO pizza boys toting plastic pies and even a vinyl record of The Fat Boys’ self-titled debut, which features a cover photo of the Hip Hop trio’s members digging into a levitating delivery box. This mecca for pizza aficionados — a treasure trove of vintage menus, boxes and historical documents — may currently reside in a Chicago shopping center, but its story begins in Cincinnati, where Bruns first developed his passion for the dish. “I didn’t connect with any other food as a kid like I connected with pizza,” Bruns says. “It was always a fun, special food that I had. My mom used to cook a lot of our meals at home, and my dad was in the Air Force. We didn’t go to restaurants or order food a lot, but she would make these Chef Boyardee pizza mixes with, like, ground beef as the topping. And that would always be my favorite meal she’d make at home.” As Bruns reached adolescence, he began to discover the variety of pies that the fast food world had to offer. He fondly remembers the pairs of HotN-Ready Little Caesars pizzas his mom would bring home on special occasions, or rarer trips to Pizza Hut. As fate would have it, Bruns landed his firstever job at the LaRosa’s on Rapid Run Pike on the West Side when he turned 16, bussing tables before working his way up to kitchen duty. “It was just a summer job, but it did get me to see how a pizzeria worked,” he says. “I was really proud of how I made pizzas, you know? There are a lot of different ways to make them, but in the way LaRosa’s made pizza I felt like I was good at it. I cared what they looked like — the presentation, evenly distributing the toppings.”

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“As a creative person who does a lot of different things, you never know what people are going to latch onto,” Bruns says. What started as a website evolved into a series of pop-ups, podcast appearances and events at local pizzerias. Bruns pushed himself to expand a little more with each exhibition but felt hesitant about going all in to establish a permanent location. He still had a full-time job and was also working on an equally obsessive mission to write a song inspired by every national park he visited. It wasn’t until this year that Bruns was ready to commit, receiving an offer to open the museum at the Roosevelt Collection shopping center. The location was perfect, within walking distance from Chicago’s Museum Campus, and it allowed him to stay open on weekends. He couldn’t refuse. The free museum is Bruns’ most buzzed-about venture yet, earning write-ups in Food & Wine and Time Out London, and for good reason. It’s a cleanly arranged testament to the sense of fun pizza brings to any occasion. Come for the inflatable pizza rafts and stuffed Noids, stay for the origin stories of local parlors. And, inevitably, he’s encountered a few detractors — many are New Yorkers who refuse to recognize the validity of Chicago deep-dish pizza. “New Yorkers may not agree on where to get the best local slice, but we do know that deep dish is not pizza. Case closed,” read a tweet fired off by the NYC Mayor’s Office, linking to a piece about the U.S. Pizza Museum. Bruns, however, has no desire to get wrapped up in any argument about pizza supremacy. His museum is meant to celebrate pizza in all its forms. “Pizza’s one of those things that comes up in listicles all the time — articles about regional styles,” says Bruns. “There’s a number of books that talk about the history of pizza. But a lot of it’s very fragmented. I specifically made this the U.S. Pizza Museum to focus on pizza in America, in communities all over the United States.” The U.S. Pizza Museum is located at 1146 S. Delano Ct. W., Chicago. More info: uspizzamuseum.com.

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An homage to the late-night, grab-and-go pizza slice

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he pizza slice is the real MVP of pizza, IMHO. The “goat,” if you will. Think about it: slices take the guesswork out of pizza, they are (usually) ready instantaneously, and there’s something (usually) for everyone. This is an ode to the convenience of a grab-and-go piece of hot dough, slathered in sauce and cheese. It might not be pretty, but it gets the job done. Oftentimes, getting a late-night slice of pizza is synonymous with “soaking up alcohol after imbibing too much.” Just so the science is clear here, that’s not actually how it works — but just so we’re clear, I’m an equal opportunity slice consumer and will eat them with as much fervor whether I’ve just consumed two draft beers or gotten out of a dance class. If the former, I have found Goodfellas (1211 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, goodfellaspizzeria.com) on Main Street and the Kitchen Factory (1609 Chase Ave., Northside, kitchenfactorynorthside.com) in Northside to be cheesy saviors. Both of these offer up some delicious specialty slices and are open until 3 a.m. on weekend nights. Goodfellas makes a behemoth New York-style pizza slice — thin, hand-tossed, bigger than your head and baked until the crust is chewy and golden. Plenty of slice shops just do a standard cheese or

pepperoni but Goodfellas caters to the OTR crowd by offering a smorgasbord of slice options. Go in for lunch, dinner or late-night and find the basics (which are delicious) and also pieces of specialty-topped pies sprinkled with assorted meats and veggies. Their gigantic breadsticks are also fantastic. Northside’s Kitchen Factory does late-night bythe-slice pizza starting at 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday (slices are also available during normal hours). You can get a whole pie if you’re really hungry or feeding several humans, or opt for a slice of cheese, pepperoni, spinach and feta or vegan cheese to go. Also nearby is the Chameleon (4114 Hamilton Ave., Northside, chameleonpizza.com), which is a bar with a pizza operation inside. Slice toppings are simple: cheese, pepperoni or the veggie of the day. But the real magic here is the optional crust seasoning with little flavor flakes ranging from garlic and Greek to cooler ranch. I’m old enough to remember when Lucy Blue had a walk-up pizza window on 12th Street in OTR, and while I’m convinced the magic of the night air made the slices even better, their full-fledged brick-andmortar space, also on Main, gets the need-a-slicenow job done just as efficiently. At the Lucy Blue (1126 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/lucy-

bluepizza) storefront, you may have to walk through a door now, but you can still grab pizza and go. A note: slices here are just cheese or pepperoni; none of your fancy banana pepper nonsense. Basic. Fast. Good. They also have a lunch pizza buffet during the week. For more slice times, Mac’s Pizza Pub (205 W. McMillan St., Clifton, macspizzapub.com) in Clifton offers the same pared-down slice options as Lucy Blue, and their hours are a bit more random. The kitchen technically closes at 11 p.m. but the bar itself is open until 2 a.m. with late-night slices. If you’re not in the city center, fear not: places like Catch-a-Fire Pizza (3301 Madison Ave., Oakley, catchafirepizza.com) in the MadTree taproom does late-night slices at its café from 10 p.m.-midnight on Friday and Saturday or large cheese or pepperoni pizzas. If you come during regular hours here and order a full pizza, they have inclusive options like gluten-free crust and cashew ricotta vegan cheese. And Ramundo’s Pizzeria (3166 Linwood Ave., Mount Lookout, ramundospizzeria.com) offers regular hours and late-night New York-style slices topped with cheese or pepperoni (extra toppings cost 50 cents) or any of their specialty pizzas for less than $4 a slice.

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Riffs on Pizza Tired of the cheesy, tomato-y pie? Or maybe you’d like to consider other types of flat, shareable foods with toppings or fillings? Here are a few ideas to broaden this whole pizza conversation.

BY pama mitchell Japanese Pancake (Okonomiyaki) at Quan Hapa 1331 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, quanhapa.com.

Three variations of this fragrant, baked pancake include one with bacon and a fried egg, another featuring fried cauliflower and onions, and a spicy pie with marinated shrimp and jalapeño.

Casadilla at Casa Figueroa 6112 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, casafig.com.

From the “appetizers to share” menu section, a toasty quesadilla with a housemade cheese blend, salsa and crema. Add beans, veggies, chorizo, pork or steak for a couple dollars more.

Crostini with Dipping Oil at Unwind Wine Bar 3435 Michigan Ave., Hyde Park, unwindhydepark.com.

Simple but plentiful, these are crispy toasts with herbs de Provence and top-quality olive oil, perfect to accompany any white, red, rosé or sparkling wines from the long list of options here.

Artisan Flatbread at Zula 1400 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, zulabistro.com.

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Your choice of toppings on a fried corn tortilla — enough for two to share, with meat, cheese or veggies and fresh spinach, pickled onion, avocado salsa and queso fresco.

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ONSTAGE: Lauren Gunderson’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley is a romantic comedy starring middle sister Mary from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. See review on page 34.

ONSTAGE: Know Theatre’s The Man-Beast is a grim tale about the murderous Beast of Gévaudan, a creature stalking the wilds of 18th-century France. See review on page 35. MUSIC: Matthew Perryman Jones plays the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 42.

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basically a town that is a mall and Nordstrom is mayor.” However, Porter notes, there are other areas that are the complete opposite of that. “You can find a downtown, or a bohemian area, or a historic neighborhood where people are still connected to the city’s history. There are a lot of people who are scared of things that aren’t P.F. Chang’s or The Cheesecake Factory. But the people who are a bit more cultured and curious will find those unique areas.” His latest album, Lost & Alone, came

out last September and this past March he appeared on the hit Comedy Central series This Isn’t Happening. Through Sunday. $8-$16. Go Bananas, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, gobananascomedy.com. — P.F. WILSON COMEDY: Anthony Jeselnik Pittsburgh-born comedian Anthony Jeselnik brings his Funny Games tour to the 20th Century Theater for an evening of dark, snarky and ironic comedy. “If something made me uncomfortable, I would take it as a challenge

to try and make a joke about that,” Jeselnik told NPR’s Ophira Eisenberg about why no topic is off limits for him. “That’s my only goal: to find things that you shouldn’t joke about, and find a way to make a joke.” Jeselnik created and starred in his Comedy Central show the Jeselnik Offensive and has appeared in shows including IFC’s Garfunkel and Oates, The Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump and The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen. He’s also written for Late Night with CONTINUES ON PAGE 30

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MUSIC: MC5-inspired group MC50 brings their tour to Bogart’s. See feature on page 39.

MUSIC: Cincinnati Metal Halloween Weekend Halloween is the metalhead’s Christmas, so you’ll have to excuse local headbangers for their extended autumnal ritualistic observance of all things sonically subversive during Cincinnati Metal Halloween Weekend in Northside. Organized by Transplant Productions, this three-day music festival spans the neighborhood between Urban Artifact, Northside Tavern and the Northside Yacht Club, shredding heady riffs for all the ghouls and boys. Fourteen different bands are slated to perform, including Subtype Zero, Nithing, Trash Knight and Raaaaalph. There are so many subgenres to metal now — Speed, Death, Doom — but Metal matters, especially this time of year. So, go to Northside and get spooky, get tipsy, stay metal and, most importantly, tip your bartender. Happy metalhead Christmas, hail Satan. 9 p.m. Thursday with a $5 cover at the Northside Yacht Club, 4231 Spring Grove Ave., Northside,

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EVENT: TrueHEROIN The opioid epidemic has ravaged communities across the country, including our own. Last year, The Cincinnati Enquirer published “Seven Days of Heroin,” a long-form multimedia feature that aimed to show what the epidemic really looks like, from homes to court rooms to overdoses to recovery. The piece — worked on by over 60 reporters, photographers and videographers — went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. Now, True Theatre is hosting a night to meet the subjects within this powerful story. Hear the stories firsthand, by the people who lived them. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Thursday. $25. Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-theRhine, memorialhallotr.com. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

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EVENT: Taft Museum of Art Halloween Bash Ghost stories from and about the Taft Museum will come to life during this Halloween Bash. InBocca Performance group will be on the front lawn acting out spooky Taft tales; inside, self-guided tours will highlight collection paintings. There will also be trick or treating, wine-glass decorating, palm reading, music from DJ Shabba, food from members of Findlay Kitchen, beer, wine and a special Dark and Stormy cocktail. The dress code? Wear all black so “as not to scare the ghosts.” 6-9 p.m. Wednesday. $20; $15 members. Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown, taftmuseum.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

DANCE: The Cincinnati Ballet celebrates Music Director Carmon DeLeone’s 50th anniversary this week with a production of Peter Pan at Music Hall. See interview on page 33.

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Jimmy Fallon and his hourlong special Caligula got critical acclaim. 6 p.m. doors; 7 p.m. show Thursday. $51. 20th Century Theater, 3021 Madison Road, Oakley, the20thcenturytheatre.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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DANCE: Heroes Rise: Street Dance Experience features local street dancers at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. See feature on page 36.

EVENT: Art After Dark: Diwali The Cincinnati Art Museum turns Art After Dark into a festival of lights with a Diwali theme. Diwali is a Hindu fall festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil, light over dark, and the museum’s new The Fabric of India exhibit taps into that theme by showcases historic clothing, heirloom fabric and new fashions, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in JAKE SPEED &

London. Take a docent-led tour of the exhibit, purchase snacks from Bombay Brazier and Amma’s Kitchen, imbibe specialty cocktails and listen to live music from DJ Vikas. There will also be henna tattoo stations and Indian dance performances. 5-9 p.m. Friday. Free admission. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, cincinnatiartmuseum.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO EVENT: Buried Secrets Ghost Tour Who you gonna call? Er, yourself actually. On this ethereal tour of downtown Cincinnati’s most haunted sites, you’re the ghost hunter. Don’t fret: You’ll be armed with all the paranormal tools you’ll need to catch Casper and his comrades. Scour sites like Memorial Hall, Music Hall and more for fiendish ghouls. But beware: It’s an outdoor tour, so dress warm and cozy or you might just catch a cold (uber spooky). 6:30-8:30 p.m. and 9-11 p.m. Friday.

Tour dates through Nov. 10. $22.95. Tour starts at the gazebo in Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, facebook.com/ hauntedcincytours. — MACKENZIE MANLEY EVENT: Rhinegeist Halloween Party Let your competitive spirit shine like a haunted full moon as the Halloween weekend festivities begin. Show up in your best costumes and get ready to dance to monster mash-ups by DJs “Macabre” Matty Joy and “Wicked” Will Ross at the Rhinegeist Halloween party. Of course, there will be costume contests for best couple costume, group costume, scariest costume and character costume. Costumes had to be submitted online by Oct. 19 to qualify for the contest, but you can still watch the wardrobe wonders show off for prizes. 8 p.m. Friday. Free. Rhinegeist. 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/rhinegeist. — MARLENA TOEBBEN

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EVENT: Fall Fest Weekend Washington Park transforms into a fall festival with live music, craft vendors, artisan eats, baked goods and more this weekend. Bands start playing at noon on Saturday, with a performance from Jake Speed & the Freddies, followed by sets throughout the weekend from acts including Ma Crow & Co., Jeremy Pinnell, Comet Bluegrass All-Stars and The Tammy WhyNots. Kids can expect their own activities from Happen, Inc. and the Red Balloon Café + Play. In between listening to music and getting your face painted, shop local vendors and eat tasty treats — probably something pumpkin flavored. Noon-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Free. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: Secret Garden Redux: Creatures of the Night Downtown’s 21c Museum Hotel gets in the spooky spirit this season with its second Secret Garden-themed Halloween party: Secret Garden Redux: Creatures of the Night. This dance party — “inspired by other-worldly animalia” — will feature a mystical garden theme with music from DJs Planet Venus and CJ Wood and pop-up dance performances by Pones and DANCEFIX, as well as performances from Elevated Aerials aerial artists. There will be a photobooth (from Floyd Johnson of Ohio Against the World) and free costumey makeup touch-ups from local makeup professionals. Costumes are highly encouraged and the winner(s) of the costume contest will receive a prize. The hotel’s bar and restaurant Metropole will be creating themed creepy cocktails and a Halloween punch. Party is 21 and up. Admission is free with a suggested $10 donation to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. 9 p.m. Saturday. Free; $10 donation suggestion. 21c Museum Hotel, 609 Walnut St., Downtown, facebook.com/21ccincinnati. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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Lodge, Nine Giant, Share: Cheesebar, The Gast Light Café, The Red Balloon Café + Play and Revolution Rotisserie. Enter the costume contest by checking in to Revolution on social media by posting a photo of yourself and/or yourself and your friends with the hashtag #PRPubCrawl2018. The winner will be announced at 10 p.m. 4-10 p.m. Saturday. Revolution Rotisserie, 6063 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, facebook.com/ revolutionrotisseriepr. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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Carmon DeLeone is Cincinnati Ballet’s Music Man

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relationship because he really knew how to put me in my place and my request for tempos,” says Sarah Hairston, who danced with the company from 2001 through the start of the 2016-2017 season, and now serves as the director of academy training for the ballet’s Otto M. Budig Academy. Hairston danced in Peter Pan a number of times, taking on the lead role of Tiger Lily in two separate productions. She cites the role as challenging, calling it “deceivingly exhausting.” Frequently, she would look to DeLeone to both calm her nerves and feel more secure. “He challenged me when I needed to be challenged and always was there for me when I needed him to be,” she says. “One of the main reasons why I never wanted to go and dance for another company was because I couldn’t imagine dancing without Carmon in the pit.” At every production, after the lights dim, a spotlight shines on the orchestra pit. DeLeone pops up in his signature jaunty style, takes a brief bow, and guides the wild applause to the musicians. Then he settles into doing what he does best, what he’s been doing for the last 50 years and plans to continue doing for as long as it feels right: conducting. Cincinnati Ballet’s Peter Pan will kickoff Carmon DeLeone’s 50th season as Cincinnati Ballet’s Music Director Oct. 25-28 at Music Hall. Tickets and more info: cballet.org.

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Peter Pan as well as Tchaikovsky’s famous “Nutcracker Suite” and score for The Sleeping Beauty. More music from DeLeone comes later in the season, with a new composition (as part of season-closing Bold Moves) entitled “Dancing to Oz,” which premieres in April and is created by the ballet’s artistic director Victoria Morgan. “I think the very act of being a ballet conductor (is that) it almost launches you into the position of being good at communicating and collaborating,” says Morgan, who has worked closely with DeLeone since she came to the Cincinnati Ballet in 1997. Their first opportunity for collaboration was in 1998, when Morgan choreographed Princess & the Pea, a short, one-act ballet based on the classic tale, for which DeLeone composed the score. “He listens and he is rational,” Morgan says. “Part of our love and attraction for him is he brings the history of our ballet company and music to us. He is our connection to the past.” Conducting for a ballet company necessitates one more type of collaboration: with the dancers themselves. Before a performance, DeLeone studies the music inside and out so he knows the cadence and the flow of the notes as they trip across the stage, through the instruments and into the audience’s ears. But he watches the dancers, too — he notices if they are getting too tired too quickly and if the music is pushing or pulling them in tempo. “I think Carmon and I had a very special

musical Bye Bye Birdie. Conducting performances began to stack up, from his professional gig for dancer Juliet Prowse on a West Coast tour to a series of Jazz concerts at CCM, where he played the drums. “I’m kind of proud of the fact that we kind of broke the glass ceiling if there was one for Jazz,” DeLeone says. “It was not really accepted at that time, and now of course there are Jazz study programs in every university.” It’s a strong résumé to accumulate in such a short period of time, and one to which DeLeone kept adding. He conducted for the Illinois Philharmonic and the recently closed Middletown Symphony Orchestra, he taught at Miami University, hosted a Sunday morning radio show and would occasionally play drums for nighttime Jazz gigs. And there was Cincinnati Ballet. For many years, DeLeone also hired and rehearsed musicians to form the Cincinnati Ballet’s orchestra for the other productions on the bill. Following an endowment from the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund in 2009, the CSO is now the regular performing orchestra for Cincinnati Ballet. They are enlisted by the company for five weeks out of the year — three one-week engagements and one two-week engagement for the Nutcracker run. “It’s terrific that we have the advantage of having that wonderful orchestra in the pit to play some very difficult pieces of music such as this season’s program that includes Firebird and Rite of Spring,” says DeLeone. “It’s wonderful.” Other orchestral music for the current season includes DeLeone’s own score for

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hen Carmon DeLeone walks down the halls of the Cincinnati Ballet building, his stride is akin to a jazzy tap-dance. It’s to the rhythm he’s been hearing for the past 50 years not only as music director for the company, but also in every way he’s made music a part of his daily life. A production of Peter Pan, a ballet complete with DeLeone’s original score, will mark his ceremonious 50th anniversary with the Cincinnati Ballet. Guests can take in the classic tale — based on author J.M Barrie’s work of the same name about a boy who never grew up — Oct. 25-28 at Over-the-Rhine’s Music Hall. Fitting for a 50th celebration, the ballet in two-acts is DeLeone’s best-known work, renowned even across the seas — he conducted its debut in London’s Royal Festival Hall during a 28-performance tour with the Atlanta Ballet. But his career with the Cincinnati Ballet began circa 1968, when he was a member of the conducting staff at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. One of his first assignments was to conduct a program with the ballet. The burgeoning organization was a guest of the CSO, where he met thenartistic director David McLain, who asked DeLeone “right on the spot” if he wanted to become their music director. Fifty years down the line, DeLeone says that the ballet flourished because McLain “was looking into the future.” DeLeone’s tenure in Cincinnati had begun not too long before, in 1960. Following an audition near his hometown of Ravenna, Ohio, he received a full scholarship to study French horn performance at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. He became an assistant to Erich Kunzel — who led the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for 32 years — who introduced him to the CSO, and Max Rudolph, the then-music director of the CSO. DeLeone says these experiences were invaluable in setting the course for his conducting career, as well as his first official gig: a CCM production of Broadway

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To be transported to Georgian England, all one needs to do for the next few weeks is walk into the Cincinnati Playhouse’s Marx Theatre, where you’ll find the Pemberley estate’s airy library with a parquet floor and tall windows opening onto a countryside view. A glittering crystal chandelier hangs overhead and the Wedgwood-styled ceiling Ayana Workman (left) and Andrew Fallaize in Miss Bennet decoration completes the picture-perfect image. PHOTO: MIKKI SCHAFFNER PHOTOGRAPHY John Coyne’s scenic design makes for easy entry (Maribel Martinez), attended to by her into Jane Austen’s world — except for the solicitous, sentimental husband Charles jarring Christmas tree, a German tradition Bingley (John Ford-Dunker). that was not yet commonplace in England. Things proceed pleasantly until the The lord of the estate, Fitzwilliam arrival of Mr. Darcy’s one-time fiancée, the Darcy (John Keabler) is questioning the imperious and disdainful Anne de Bourgh judgment of his wife Elizabeth (Marina (Kathryn Tkel), who announces that her Shay) regarding bringing a tree indoors. late mother has ordered her engagement to Fans of Austen will immediately know her distant cousin Arthur. No need for furthese sparring partners from her 1813 ther explanation: Patented ups and downs novel Pride and Prejudice. But things have familiar to Austen fans ensue, contort and changed: Two years later, Lizzie and Mr. settle neatly into an orderly happy ending. Darcy are married and settled. Jumping back to that Christmas tree: Lizzie has invited her family to visit for It’s the first sign that things are changing. Christmas, and Mr. Darcy announces that There’s ample evidence that Gunderson he’s extended an offer of hospitality to his and Melcon’s 21st-century feminist distant cousin, Arthur de Bourgh (Andrew perspective brims just below the surface. Fallaize). We meet several Bennet sisters. Mary offers up that her family tires her But the focus for Miss Bennet: Christmas with constant banter about relationships; at Pemberley is plain and bookish she is interested in deeper, more far-flung Mary (Ayana Workman), who remains places and people. She knows what she unmarried but is more or less happy wants, and she only finds it in books — with her existence. Playwrights Lauren until she meets meek Arthur, who actually Gunderson and Margot Melcon have shares her perspective about exploring the extended the world of the colorful Bennet world beyond. But he needs to break free. family with this newly invented tale. Blond, bespectacled Fallaize makes Gunderson is one of America’s most Arthur just geeky enough to be loveable, currently produced playwrights; in 2016, but he’s totally lost when it comes to The Playhouse debuted The Revolutionists, wooing. He seeks advice from Darcy her French Revolution fantasy about and Bingley, but their insights are rather Marie Antoinette and three other women useless. Their best recommendation: Ask in custody and awaiting execution. Know her opinionated and often meddlesome Theatre has staged three of her works, most sisters. The resolution comes swiftly, recently Ada and the Engine. Her scripts thanks to fine acting by all and fluid and often focus on strong female characters. choreographed scene changes staged by This time it’s previously unobtrusive Mary director Eleanor Holdridge. Bennet, whose nose is constantly in a book This frothy, witty show has vivid, — unless she is obsessively rehearsing at engaging and amusing characters and a the piano. meaningful message about women’s role When Arthur de Bourgh arrives it’s obviin society and the need for them to have ous he’ll be matched with Mary. In short choices. Miss Bennet is one of the most order, they start comparing notes and produced shows on American stages this exploring topics that everyone else finds season. (It could become an alternative to tedious. However, the course of true love Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.) The never did run smooth, despite the hilariPlayhouse’s glowing, heartfelt production ous machinations of romantic manipulator will surely please audiences. Lydia Bennet Wickham (Mia HutchinsonMiss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Shaw), Mary and Lizzie’s flighty young sispresented by Cincinnati Playhouse in the ter who’s trapped in an unhappy marriage. Park, continues through Nov. 10. More info/ Also in the mix is the pragmatic, grounded tickets: cincyplay.com. and immensely pregnant elder sister Jane

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Inspired by a gory remnant of French the proximity of the performers to the folklore, The Man-Beast is the second audience to heighten the show’s tension, offering of Know Theatre’s season-long upping both the wow-factor and the exploration of “fear itself.” Sexy, surprising fear-factor, although certain sightlines and bitingly funny, The Man-Beast is a are frustratingly underwhelming at peak chilling rendering of the werewolf, drawn moments of the show. The set is small and straight from the legend’s origins. tight and nearly filled with a long table. Written by Know Theatre favorite Joseph At first, it is easy enough to underesZettelmaier (of 2016’s Pulp and 2015’s All timate — how scary could a two-person Childish Things), The Man-Beast begins in show played in this tiny space really be? 18th-century France where helpless mounBut Russell uses the claustrophobic cubtain villages are menaced by a bloodthirsty byhole like a pressure cooker, forcing Jean C creature that kills freely. Reported to be and Virginie to collide and combust. massive and unstoppable, M the animal has earned Y a nickname: the Beast of Gévaudan. Some in CM the mountains say that the Beast is more than a MY hungry wolf — they say it CY is a loup garou, a werewolf infected with a sickness CMY that can be passed on to the humans it bites. Even K the King, safely ensconced in far-off Versailles, is desperate to end the slaughter; he has offered a lavish reward hoping to incentivize hunters to shoot the Beast. Over the course of its two-hour Jim Hopkins and Jennifer Joplin in The Man-Beast run time, this production ensnares its audience by PHOTO: DAN R. WINTERS luring viewers deep into a wilderness where the story finally reveals a dark and shocking heart. Andrew Hungerford, the scenic The two main characters are Jean and lighting designer, wields expert Chastel (Jim Hopkins) and Virginie (Jencraftsmanship that invites the audience nifer Joplin). After bursting into her home right inside Virginie’s rustic life, where she uninvited, Jean’s booming, fearsome bluseats, sleeps and stuffs foxes and pheasants. ter is immediately matched by Virginie’s The fire in her hearth is the only warmth no-nonsense, homesteader grit. When she for miles and miles of violent, oppressive levels her long rifle at him, the stage is set dark. Hungerford fully succeeds in for the two. They spar with words and wit conjuring a riveting atmosphere. and not even a little bit of wooing. Noelle Johnston’s costuming is not Hopkins’ Jean is a rugged hermit turned only period appropriate and specific, but boorish by decades spent alone in the beautiful and subtle in how it evokes the woods. Joplin’s Virginie is a bitter outcast individuals inside the clothing: Jean is a with a strange assortment of talents: herbslob; Virginie is never far from her knife. craft, healing and taxidermy. Virginie is Johnston is as talented a storyteller as she rumored to be a witch, although villagers is a seamstress. And though the entire are not above visiting her when in need — story takes place within the relative safety or when a beloved pet has died and they of Virginie’s cabin, Douglas Borntrager’s want it stuffed. Both Jean and Virginie chilling soundscape will have you sleeping crave connection, but are too savvy, too with the lights on. seasoned and too wounded to be vulnerIt’s not easy to scare a live audience, able, or to truly trust one another even as but the Know pulls it off by letting the they embark on a dangerous, high-stakes audience relax into the script’s humor and endeavor that binds their fates. Jean and Virginie’s scheming. Devilish and The volume and force of Hopkins’ delicious, The Man-Beast is a near-perfect performance is appropriately overpowHalloween fairy tale with meaty questions ering, tempered only by Joplin’s acidic at its core: Who are we, really? Who can be pragmatism and fearlessness. The pair has trusted? Are there monsters among us? Or a magnetic partnership on stage: two pros worst of all: Are there monsters inside us? sinking their teeth into juicy material. The Man-Beast, presented by Know Staged in Know’s Underground lobbyTheatre of Cincinnati, continues through bar, director Brant Russell’s production Nov. 10. More info: knowtheatre.com. uses the intimacy of the space and

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Cincinnati Street Dance Gets the Spotlight BY M AC K EN ZI E M A N L E Y

Julius Jenkins has honed his craft — street style dance — for nearly two decades. An ’80s baby, he was first enamored by the movements via the wiles of Michael Jackson and MC Hammer. (For the uninitiated: “Street dance” is an umbrella term encompassing several dance styles related to Hip Hop, including popping, locking, krumping and breaking.) Flash forward to present-day, and he says he’s the only one in the region to make street style dancing a full-time gig through performance, teaching and organizing events, the latter of which will come to fruition Oct. 26 and 27 at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The event, dubbed Heroes Rise: Street Dance Experience, began because Jenkins wanted to create a platform for other talent in the region to showcase their skills. The two-day event will be the first of its kind in Cincinnati and is backed by a People’s Liberty project grant; it includes a head-tohead freestyle street dance battle, a street dance theater showcase and workshop opportunities. But the roots of Heroes Rise date back to 2013, when Jenkins first put together a street culture festival at Cincinnati State. “The whole point was to fill that void, that gap, because street dance in Cincinnati is so underrepresented, but we’ve got so much talent here,” Jenkins says. “Street dance is a valid art form and something that I do professionally and feel very passionately about.” But he didn’t start pursuing the craft until he was 18. The summer after his senior year of high school (he attended Forest Park’s Winton Woods), his cousin Jamal called him up and told them they were going to start breakdancing. The rest: history. With a few friends, they ate, slept and breathed “everything that had to do with breaking,” Jenkins says. (Now, his preferred style is popping.) They would train at dance clubs across the city. “We lived through VHS tapes that the younger guy in our friend’s group would somehow get his hands on,” Jenkins says. “We were like ‘You is, like, 13. How are you getting these tapes? You don’t drive. Your parents—’ and he would look at us like ‘Don’t ask questions. Just enjoy.’ ” With Heroes Rise, his short-term goal is to raise awareness for street-style dancing in Cincinnati, so people know there’s a thriving community. “My other goal is to put more opportunities into these dancer’s hands,” he says. In short: He wants to get dancers paid. As he looks forward, Jenkins also looks to others who have worked to keep street dance culture alive in Cincy, like local dance legends Kasib Hasan and Des Odom. Along with being a dance instructor at Elementz Urban Arts Youth Center, he is also the creative director of dance group The Millennium Robots and is an adjunct

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professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. He credits snagging the latter job to John Martin, the assistant dean of the preparatory department. “So, for the first time in history there is a street dance course at the University of Cincinnati. It’s huge,” Jenkins says. “This is something that’s just now happening across the country...And (for UC to) be able to see and to know that’s a need for their students — that’s amazing.” The dance style has recently been gaining traction and evolving on city streets, with each neighborhood coining their own flair. “The rubric doesn’t exist. There’s no structure that supports a professional street dance career in the United States,” Jenkins says. In part, he says the reason it’s underrepresented is because the pioneers weren’t able to represent themselves to the mainstream market in an authentic way. “You know, originally we were all kids from the hood. And weren’t necessarily going to take speech classes or any kind of public speaking. They had to rely on other people to kind of get what they were doing and push them,” Jenkins says. “In the ’80s that happened, but after it died and came back, it was just all underground.” Heroes Rise: Street Dance Experience will also include special guest choreographer Baskoty Djonze, a highly-successful dancer out of Central Africa. The event is also partnering with the UC Office of Equity and Inclusion and Cincinnati Public Schools to give students opportunities to attend or perform at the show. Heroes Rise: Street Dance Experience will unfold Oct. 26-27 at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (50 East Freedom Way, The Banks). More info: heroesrisecincinnati.com.

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Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) wields a great deal of power, and I’m not talking about untapped potential. As the title character of The Hate U Give — the young adult novel by Angie Thomas, which has been adapted by late screenwriter Audrey Wells (Under the Tuscan Sun) and director George Tillman Jr. Algee Smith (left) and Amandla Stenberg in The Hate U Give (Soul Food) — Starr tells her own story, PHOTO: 20TH CENTURY FOX exercising degrees of self and sociocultural awareness that marry the steely and two steal away during a crisis point in the defiant Black Power consciousness of her evening. Khalil whisks her to safety and parents Maverick ‘Mav’ (Russell Hornsby) reminds her of their shared childhood and Lisa (Regina Hall) with a post-racial, feelings for one another. It is a magical Obama-era millennial perspective. interlude that quickly turns tragic when She explains the dual-identity situKhalil gets pulled over by a white police ation she finds herself in. There is Starr officer and is then killed in what should no who wakes up each morning in the loving longer be classified as an accident. embrace of a family and community that The all too familiar situation triggers looks and feels like home — the place Starr to recognize that a change needs to where black folks, in pursuit of a fading come. middle-class American dream, struggle Continuing to mine this comic book to make ends meet and sometimes find aesthetic, the shooting awakens a sense of themselves making questionable choices greater responsibility in Starr. Although to get by. That might mean turning a blind she has been exposed to the rhetoric of eye to dirty deeds; others play a more militancy from her father and the example active role and pay the consequences, like of self-sufficiency from her mother, Khalil’s her father, a grocery store owner who was killing brings it all home. She starts to see previously involved in a gang but walked how the power of a voice can matter. away from that life. Along the way, as the police and a Then there’s a second version of Starr: community activist, April Ofrah (Issa An old-school striver who attends a private Rae), wage a war over Starr’s soul, this prep school where she’s one of only a few young woman begins to merge the two people of color; she’s constantly aware seemingly-disparate sides of herself. She of the race and cultural divide because, begins to integrate her black identity into in this world, her white schoolmates her prep school world and vice versa. The have the privilege of indulging in “perflashpoints create discomfort for the formances” of blackness — speaking in supporting players in her life on either side, culturally appropriated dialect, obsessing but what Wells and Tillman reveal — and over status markers like shoes, sports and perfectly embodied by Stenberg — is a entertainment-making abilities — that young woman ready, willing and able to set Starr understands that she cannot display the world aflame. in this setting. She needs to develop and The Hate U Give — THUG — incorpomaintain a cover of white “authenticity” rates gangster elements, social media and downplay her true self. controversy, and heavy-handed takes on It is not hard to equate this dynamic identity politics, but at its core is the story interpersonal conflict to that of superheof a young woman seizing control over roes as they don masks to battle evil but her narrative. In many ways, Starr, as a walk among us every day as regular folks. character, mirrors the journey of Stenberg, Starr actively seeks to be an “invisible” a rising star who has, thus far in her short woman at school. Like Clark Kent using career, balanced along a narrow cultural glasses to prevent everyone from knowing tightrope — more often than not seeking he’s Superman, Starr’s school uniform and to appeal to mainstream sensibilities. With proper English become a cover up. And, in this project, Stenberg gives voice to an truth, her disguise is as flimsy as his. As underexplored side of herself, which might she floats down the halls, viewers wait for send her blazing off into the heavens. (In her true self to be realized. theaters) (PG-13) Grade: B+ Her two worlds collide when Starr Contact tt stern-enzi: encounters an old friend, Khalil (Algee letters@citybeat.com Smith), at a neighborhood party and the

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world of Rock, and we met in the music, itself,” Kramer says. “He discovered I could actually play some of the material he was used to playing, and he liked me and was a very generous man. And he became my teacher and mentor. We also had drugs in common from two different perspectives. We became very close for those couple years we were together.” (Rodney died in 1994, at age 66.) Remembering how making music helped get him through his prison stint, Kramer in 2007 co-founded the nonprofit organization Jail Guitar Doors USA with British troubadour Billy Bragg, who earlier had started the organization in the U.K. (The name comes from a song by The Clash that mentions Kramer’s time in prison.) To date, the organization has placed guitars in over 120 U.S. prisons. “I see music as serving an important and fundamental purpose,” Kramer says. “It’s a way to express yourself, tell your story, contribute something to the world of beauty. Most people in prison never have that opportunity, and if we don’t do something to help people change for the better while they’re in our custody, they’ll most certainly change for worse.” MC50 performs 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at Bogart’s (2621 Vine St., Corryville, bogarts.com). Tickets/more show info: bogarts.com.

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“Our music was rooted in the fundamental Rock & Roll of Chuck Berry, Little Richard and the early instrumental Rock bands,” Kramer says. “But we reached for the future, and the planets, with Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor. We were striving to move forward. I could play what popular guitar players were playing, but my question was, ‘Where does music go next, and where could I take it?’ “The Free Jazz movement showed me, and that’s where I wanted to go — to leave Western thoughts of music behind and enter into a more pure sonic dimension, more visceral, more human, more expressive than scales and modes and chords would allow.” So Kramer found himself practicing for hours to play guitar in a style influenced by the great Free saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler — to “move from scales and modes and notes into pure sound.” With MC5’s demise, Kramer started dealing drugs and was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Agency and eventually sent to Lexington. The Narcotic Farm had a history of housing musicians as inmates, and one day the great Jazz trumpeter Red Rodney — who struggled with heroin addiction for much of his life — arrived. He and Kramer bonded, and began leading Sunday afternoon jam sessions for inmates. “I was much younger, coming from the

that includes marriage and parenthood. In the biggest step yet in his long, slow comeback, Kramer is currently touring with a group of MC5influenced musicians — Faith No More bassist Billy Gould, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty and singer Marcus Durant of Zen Guerrilla — dubbed “MC50.” The tour celebrates the 50th anniversary of the original live recording of Kick Out the Jams at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom on Halloween of 1968. The album will be performed in its entirety, with space allowed for improvisation. “I’m happy to report that Kick Out the Jams is holding up very well 50 years down the road,” Kramer says. The audiences have been shouting along on the title song’s defiant opening chant. “Usually, a fairly large contingent of the crowd will scream that back at us exactly like we do that,” Kramer says. “Those are people in their 40s and 50s, and some younger people. There aren’t many people who are my age — I’m 70, and 70-year-olds aren’t going out to Rock shows much. But I get a few every night who tell me, ‘I saw MC5 in ’68.’ ” When Kick Out the Jams first was released in 1969, it drew complaints from reviewers that it sounded messy. But what those early critics missed, and what seems ever more important now, was the influence of avant-garde Free Jazz, which had been introduced to the band members by Sinclair. Kramer has worked hard with his MC50 members to achieve that kind of playing now. It’s where the original MC5 wanted to ascend to in 1968.

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mong the immortal rallying cries of Rock & Roll — a list that includes “You gotta fight for your right to party,” “Sex and drugs and Rock & Roll” and “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” — the most raucously confrontational yet ecstatically celebratory is MC5’s “Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!” It’s the in-your-face opening exhortation to the title song from the Detroit band’s first album, 1969’s Kick Out the Jams. It made the group — which was into countercultural rebellion, Pre-Punk Rock, Free Jazz and sweaty dancing — revered by those who identified with them (especially in a pre-Rust Belt Midwest). It also made them the enemy of authorities — their politically-charged stance, fueled by manager John Sinclair’s leftist White Panther Party, was not appreciated in a tough city still recovering from a rebellion against segregation by African-American residents in 1967. But the quintet’s messily high-energy Rock never really translated to a wider youth audience. Two more MC5 albums followed, both showing growing ambition in the writing and performance, but the moment and momentum was gone and the band quit in 1972. MC5’s reputation has only grown, however, as new artists have come to revere the group’s hip, gritty street credibility. But the kids of MC5 did not have an easy time of adulthood. Three have died — guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith and singer Rob Tyner, both at 46, and bassist Michael Davis at 68. And while guitarist Wayne Kramer is still with us (as is drummer Dennis Thompson), his road to being here has not been easy: off-and-on work as a journeyman musician; struggles with drugs and alcohol; even a prison term in the mid1970s at Lexington, Ky.’s Federal Correctional Institution, famous as the nation’s “Narcotic Farm,” for housing junkies and other drug users. Yet, as Kramer’s new and thoroughly engrossing memoir The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5 and My Life of Impossibilities reveals, since the mid-1990s he has slowly emerged not just to reclaim some of MC5’s heritage, but to shape a principled and inspiring Rock & Roll life

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The ballot to vote for the 2018 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards is now live. The CEAs have celebrated and honored Greater Cincinnati’s original music-makers for the past 21 years. Leading nominees this year include Hip Hop/Soul/activism troupe Triiibe, Indie Rock/Post Punk duo Lung, Synth Pop twosome Moonbeau and Folk favorites The Tillers. The 2018 CEAs will be presented at a celebration on Nov. 25 at Memorial Hall, which will feature live performances by local artists (to be announced soon) and much more. Tickets to the event are $20 and available now at memorialhallotr.com. Check out this year’s CEA nominees below, then visit citybeat.com to find the link to cast your votes (and watch all of this

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year’s Best Music Video nominees while you’re there). The final three categories — Album, New Artist and Artist of the Year — are determined by the CEA nominating committee, not public voting. Contact Mike Breen: mbreen@citybeat.com.

Jazz

Chelsea Ford & The Trouble

Metal/Hard Rock

Brad Myers

Electric Citizen

Dan Karlsberg

Dear Agony

The Hot Magnolias

Lift the Medium

The Faux Frenchmen

Hickory Robot

Go Go Buffalo

Blue Wisp Big Band

Rumpke Mountain Boys

Life After This

Hip Hop

Indie/Alternative

Patterns of Chaos

Country

Knotts

Sons of Silverton

Jeremy Pinnell

A Delicate Motor

Raised X Wolves

Joe’s Truck Stop

Daniel in Stereo

Devin Burgess

90 Proof Twang

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Triiibe

Dallas Moore Band

The Ophelias

Electronic

Noah Smith

Punk

Flocks

Folk/Americana

Leggy

Passeport

Maria Carrelli

Vacation

Fritz Pape

Arlo McKinley and the Lonesome Sound

Swim Team

Moira

The Pistol Mystics

Moonbeau

The Z.G.s

Best Live Act

Blues

Lung

Wussy – What Heaven is Like

Noah Wotherspoon

Lauren Eylise

New Artist of the Year

Ricky Nye

Triiibe

Oids

J Dorsey Band

Go Go Buffalo

Patterns of Chaos

Ben Levin

Ernie Johnson From Detroit

Knotts

Best Music Video

Passeport

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Wonky Tonk The Tillers Young Heirlooms World Music/Reggae Baoku Jennifer Simone Queen City Silver Stars

The Cliftones Rock Freak Mythology Smoke Parade

Johnny Fink and the Intrusion R&B/Funk/Soul Lauren Eylise Freekbass JSPH

Wussy

Ernie Johnson From Detroit

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Matthew Perryman Jones wears two artistic hats: He’s an Indie Rock/Folk/ Pop singer/songwriter in the classic vein — introspective, reflective, literate, universally relatable. At the same, Jones is a sonic sculptor, shaping not just the words and melodies of his compositions but also the ephemeral and atmospheric soundscapes in which they reside. As a result, listeners react to Jones on multiple levels, from the actual intended message of his heartfelt lyrics to the underlying range of moods presented by his evocative and compelling music, the combination of which is vaguely reminiscent of David Gray, Jeff Buckley and mid-tempo Nada Surf. A Pennsylvania native, Jones began performing in Georgia in the late ’90s before relocating to Nashville in 2000, which led to the recording of his debut album, Nowhere Else But Here. After six years of gigging and surviving, Jones finally released his profile-raising sophomore album, Throwing Punches in the Dark, which was followed by 2008’s Swallow the Sea, both produced by former Living Hands guitarist Neilson Hubbard. Swallow the Sea’s first single, “Save You,” became something of a breakout hit for Jones, not due to radio airplay, but from significant television placement, particularly on the season finale of cult hit Kyle XY. In the intervening years, Jones has released a quartet of excellent albums, including 2012’s Land of the Living — influenced by Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo, Federico Garcia Lorca’s musical concept of Duende and the writings of Persian poet/philosopher Rumi — and his latest work, The Waking Hours,

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which was released late last month. For all of his incredibly broad literary inspirations, the source of The Waking Hours began a little closer to home; the album’s nine songs are ruminations on the time when Jones’ young daughters will fly the nest for lives of their own. Lyrically and sonically, The Waking Hours may be Jones’ most powerful and engaging album, an incredible feat for an artist with a catalog that is routinely powerful and engaging. There’s a line from The Waking Hours’ “Carousel,” propelled by a darkly beautiful Indie Pop carnival soundtrack, that perfectly encapsulates the emotional and aural impact of Matthew Perryman Jones — “Lost in the memories, lost in the sound.” (Brian Baker)

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WEDNESDAY 24

BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Mushroomhead. 7 p.m. Metal. $17, $20 day of show. BOGART’S - Puddle of Mudd. 8 p.m. Rock CAFFÈ VIVACE - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8 p.m. Big Band Jazz. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Jim Connerley Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Dallas Moore. 10 p.m. Country. Free.

THE MAD FROG - Way Back Wednesdays with DJ BlazeWright. 9 p.m. ’70s-’90s/DJ. Free. MERITAGE - Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

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MOTR PUB - Vibe One with Phiyah. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Flesh Mother. 9 p.m. Punk. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) Michael Moeller with Veronica Grim and Noah Smith. 9 p.m. Americana/ Various. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Matthew Perryman Jones. 8:30 p.m. Indie/ Singer/Songwriter. $15. STANLEY’S PUB - The Rightly So. 8:30 p.m. Folk/ Americana. Free.

THURSDAY 25

BLIND LEMON - Kyle English. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Steve Allee Trio. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. COMMON ROOTS Common Roots Open Mic. 8 p.m. Open Mic. Free.

LUDLOW GARAGE Marin Barre. 8:30 p.m. Rock. $35-$60.

THE MAD FROG - EDM Thursdays. 9 p.m. DJ/ Electronic/Dance. Cover.

MAYERSON JCC PROJECT Trio. 7:30 p.m. Chamber/Rock. $10.

MCCAULY’S PUB JagWagon. 8 p.m. Rock. Free. MOTR PUB - Sean Marshall and Warsaw Falcons. 10 p.m. Roots/Various. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Subtype Zero, Nithing, HOSTiK and Raaaaalph. 9 p.m. Metal. $5. RIVERFRONT LIVE - Jon Langston. 8:30 p.m. $15, $18 day of show. SCHWARTZ’S POINT Braza Trio with Thiago Camargo. 8 p.m. Jazz/DJ. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Morning Teleportation and Desert Noises. 5 p.m. AltRock. $8, $10 day of show.

STANLEY’S PUB - moe. after-party with The Qtet. 10 p.m. Rock/Jam/Jazz/Fusion/ Various. Free.

TAFT THEATRE - moe. 7:30 p.m. Rock/Jam/ Various. $37.50-$44.50.

TOP CATS - “TCT Drake Night”. 9 p.m. Drake/Dance/ DJ. Free.

URBAN ARTIFACT Airpark, Covey and Awn Wren. 8:30 p.m. Indie Pop.

FRIDAY 26

Turkuaz plays Madison Theater on Friday PHOTO: PROVIDED

BOGART’S - Jack Russell’s Great White, Bulletboys and Enuff Znuff. 8 p.m. Hair Metal. $22.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Steve Schmidt Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE - Emmaline Campbell Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. THE COMET - Jeanne Vomit-Terror. 10 p.m. Electronic. Free.

MADISON THEATER - Turkuaz. 9 p.m. Pop/ Funk/Dance/Rock/Various. $18, $22 day of show.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Doug Hart Band. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Brad Myers/Brian Charette Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Jason Erickson. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Fun Size. 8 p.m. $5.

BLIND LEMON - Zack & Corey. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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

MADISON LIVE - Shadow of Intent. 8 p.m. Rock. $12, $15 day of show.

THE GREENWICH - Sonny Moorman and Final Friday Blues. 8 p.m. Blues. $5.

ARNOLD’S - Moonshine Drive. 9 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Bubba Sparxxx. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. $12, $15 day of show.

$40-$75. THE MAD FROG - The Fine Line, The Ape Tones, New Van Goghs, Dad Jokes and Sun Delay. 8 p.m. Rock/ Various. $5.

KNOTTY PINE - Black Bone Cat. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. LUDLOW GARAGE - John Lodge. 8:30 p.m. Rock.

MOTR PUB - Sharky Fest with Season 10, In Details, Rich Wizard and Ellyeahdehd. 10 p.m. Rock/ Various. Free. MVP BAR & GRILLE - 3 Piece Revival. 9 p.m. Rock. Cover.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - DCLXVI Halloween Soiree with My Incinerations,

The Marx Vignolta, Leonard Nimoy Afterworld, The Basket Cases, Cure for Pain and more. 8 p.m. Rock tribute bands. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB - Baccano. 10 p.m. Funk/Jam. Cover.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Mike Jones with Mr. Dibbs, Lantana and Sons of Silverton. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $20, $25 day of show.

THE REDMOOR - Soul Pocket. 9 p.m. R&B/Soul/ Pop/Dance/Various. Cover. RICK’S TAVERN - Turned Up. 10 p.m. Funk/Pop/ Dance/R&B/Various. $5.

RIVERFRONT LIVE The Summit with The Grove. 8:30 p.m. Rock/Blues. $12, $15 day of show. SCHWARTZ’S POINT - Ron Enyard Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

SILVERTON CAFE - Basic Truth. 9 p.m. Funk/R&B/Soul. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) Don Gallardo. 9:30 p.m. Americana. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Smooth Hound Smith with Honey & Houston. 8 p.m. Americana. $20.

TOP CATS - Ferris And The Wheels, Ethan and Joey, Brian Goins and Saving Escape. 8 p.m. Rock. $5. URBAN ARTIFACT Engraved Darkness, Gourmand, Splatter Pattern, Hallow Point and Riesenwolf. 8 p.m. Metal. $5. VINKOLET WINERY AND RESTAURANT - Anna & The Deeper Well. 7 p.m. Acoustic/Pop/Folk/Various. $5. WASHINGTON PLATFORM - FrenchAxe. 7 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

WOODWARD THEATER - The Cincy Brass Halloween Costume Party. 8 p.m. Brass/Funk/ Pop/Dance/R&B/Various. $10, $15 day of show.

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BREWRIVER GASTROPUB - Ricky Nye. 6 p.m. Blues/ Boogie Woogie. Free.

BOGART’S - MC50. 8 p.m. Rock. $34.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Steve Schmidt Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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VINKOLET WINERY AND RESTAURANT - Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 6:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

THE GREENWICH - Now Hear This. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5.

MADISON THEATER - The Werks with Hyryder. 9 p.m. Rock/Jam/Various. $15, $18 day of show. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Johnny Fink & the Intrusion. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES Working Title. 9 p.m. Steampunk. Free. MAURY’S TINY COVE - Ricky Nye. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. MVP BAR & GRILLE - Trailer Park Floosies. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance/ Country/Hip Hop/Various. Cover.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Viogression, FaithXtractor, Verment, Merciless Reign and Casteless. 8 p.m. Metal. Free.

RICK’S TAVERN - Naked Karate Girls. 10 p.m. Dance/Pop/Rock/ Various. $5. SCHWARTZ’S POINT - Charlie Shefft Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover. SILVERTON CAFE - Unmarked Cars. 9 p.m. Pop/Rock. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Rivertown Ramblers. 9:30 p.m. Country/Rockabilly. Free. STANLEY’S PUB - Jerry’s Little Band. 10 p.m. Grateful Dead tribute. Cover. TAFT THEATRE - Gordon Lightfoot. 8 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. $54-$63. THOMPSON HOUSE - Red Sun Rising and Smallpools. 8 p.m. Rock. $15-$20.

TOP CATS - Freshlist Halloween with Ghost Gardens, Meiosis, Bit Flip and The Example. 8 p.m. Electronic/Dance/Various

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(STAR) ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - The Hot Magnolias. 9 p.m. New Orleans Jazz. Free.

BLIND LEMON - Jake Walz. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. BOGART’S - Hobo Johnson and the LoveMakers. 8 p.m. Alternative/Hip Hop. $25. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Dixie Karas with The Steve Schmidt Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE - Brian Charette Organ Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

THE COMET - Vicious Blossom and Slow Glows. 10 p.m. Indie Pop/Rock. Free.

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THE GREENWICH - Vanessa Rubin and The Motor City Groove Collective. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $15.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Pamela Mallory Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

HILLSIDE GASTROPUB - Pandora Effect. 8:30 p.m. Rock. Free.

SUNDAY 28

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT Marc Fields Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - My Sister Sarah. 9 p.m. Dance/Pop/Rock. $5. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER Strangelove. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance/Various. Free. KJ’S PUB - Saving Stimpy. 9:30 p.m. Rock. Free.

COMMON ROOTS - Dreadful Wind and Rain. 9 p.m. Roots. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Black Bone Cat. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

LUDLOW GARAGE - Hollywood Nights. 8:30 p.m. Bob Seger tribute. $20-$35.

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URBAN ARTIFACT - “Beat Faction”. 10 p.m. Alt/Dance/DJ.

featuring Christian McBride’s New Jawn. 8 p.m. Jazz. $10-$35.

BLIND LEMON - Jeff Henry. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE - Angie Coyle Quartet. 2:30 p.m. Jazz. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT Jazz Brunch with Rob Alleger. 10:30 a.m. Jazz. Free. LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO - Blue Birds Band. 8 p.m. R&B/Rock. Free. THE MAD FROG - Change the Channel, Samson, Fabricated Freedom, Dionysus and the Ferrymen and Unrivaled. 6 p.m. Rock/ Various. $10. MOTR PUB - Bob Log III. 8 p.m. Rock/

Various. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Dusty Bryant. 8 p.m. Americana. Free.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT - Sunday Tea Time Jazz with Brandon Coleman and Josh Jessen. 3:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - SIMO with Brass Owl. 8 p.m. Rock. $15, $18 day of show. STANLEY’S PUB - Stanley’s Open Jam. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

TAFT THEATRE - The Mavericks. 8 p.m. Country/Western/Roots/Pop/Various. $48-$58.

MONDAY 29

CAFFÈ VIVACE - The Burning Caravan. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.

THE GREENWICH - The Flying Circus Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $5. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT Gemus, Fryer, Allgeyer Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

MOTR PUB - Oxymorrons with Bonelang. 9 p.m. Alternative/Hip Hop. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - The Qtet. 9:30 p.m. Funk/Fusion/Rock/Jazz/Various. Free. PACHINKO - Open Mic. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

TUESDAY 30

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Ricky Nye. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE - The Martini Project. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO - Latitudes House Band and Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various (open mic at 11 p.m.). Free.

THE MAD FROG - The Convalescence with My Own Will, A Feasting Beast, Grays Divide, Today’s Last Tragedy, The Human Tragedy and Sacrifice the Sun. 7 p.m. Metal/Various. Cover.

MADISON LIVE - Sure Sure and Wilderado. 8 p.m. Indie Pop/Rock. $15.

MCCAULY’S PUB - Stagger Lee. 7 p.m. Country/Rock. Free.

MEMORIAL HALL - Stephen Marley. 8 p.m. Acoustic/Reggae.

PACHINKO - Acoustic Tuesdays. 9 p.m. Acoustic/Various. Free.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT - Halloween Party with Ed Moss’s Society Jazz Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Kings Of Spade and The Perfect Children. 8 p.m. Rock/Soul/Various. $8, $10 day of show.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Peter Asher and Jeremy Clyde. 8 p.m. Pop Rock. $32-$35. WOODEN CASK BREWING COMPANY - Ballroom Thieves. 7 p.m. Americana. $12, $15 day of show.

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