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Contents 6 The Queen City: April Showers

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OFFICIAL CITY GUIDE

Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky VOL. 70

APRIL 201 3

NO. 4

KEY MAGAZINE CINCINNATI 320 Clay Street Dayton, KY 41074 513-708-3854 www.keycincinnati.com

Publisher/Editor Michele Roth

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Contributing Writers Michele Roth Sue Cunningham Thomas Bell © COPYRIGHT 2013. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form, including electronic and photocopy, without the permission in writing from the publisher. All ads designed by KEY Cincinnati Magazine may not be reproduced for publications elsewhere without written permission from the publisher.

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and the Cincinnati Ballet Come Alive 14 City Source 16 Metro Map 17 Southbank Shuttle Trolley Map 18 Support Local Music 20 Calendar of Events 22 KEY Dining: Part of the Family 25 Beer of the Month 26 KEY Entertainment:

Let It “RAIN” 29 KEY Nightlife: Shaking It Up On The Hill 30 Editor’s Pick: War Horse

Welcome!

On behalf of the citizens of Cincinnati, I am pleased to welcome you to our city. Our central geographic location and our picturesque setting along the Ohio River make Cincinnati an ideal destination for both leisure and business.

You will find that Cincinnati offers worldclass accommodations, award-winning restaurants, and diverse shopping opportunities. From our museums and galleries, to our sports and recreational activities, this truly is a unique city. Our residents and visitors alike mingle on Fountain Square, dine in our top-notch restaurants, and shop in our vibrant and lively downtown area.

Whatever your tastes, there is sure to be something for you to do and enjoy.

A stay in Cincinnati is the beginning of a lifetime relationship with one of the finest cities in America. I am confident that your first visit here will not be your last.

Sincerely,

Mark Mallory, Mayor

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Cincinnati

The Queen City

by Michele Roth

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incinnati, also known as the Queen City, is a city rich in history and culture with exceptional visual and creative arts, professional sports teams and top notch museums. Whether you are a resident or a visitor there is always something to learn, see and do in Cincinnati and our neighboring cities of Covington and Newport. For those reasons and many more, it’s no surprise that in 2012 Lonely Planet Travel Guide named Cincinnati number three of the top ten travel destinations in the United States. Cincinnati offers all the benefits of larger cities like Chicago and New York while maintaining the small hometown hospitality. In this section we like to bring interesting facts and opinions. This is what we have for you in this month’s issue:

April begins the Cincinnati Reds Baseball season and it’s also the start of April Showers. So who decides if a game is called due to rain or inclement weather? Well, the answer was easily found on the official Cincinnati Reds MLB website under Ballpark information A-Z. According to the website once both teams’ managers exchange the lineup cards with the home plate umpire it then becomes the sole discretion of the Umpire-in-Chief (or home plate umpire) to determine if the game is to be interrupted or terminated due to inclement weather or unfit playing conditions. He has the unquestionable authority to determine whether the game shall be interrupted, resumed or called.

“The city is indeed, justly styled the Queen of the West: distinguished for order, enterprise, public spirit, and liberality, she stands the wonder of an admiring world.”

- B. Cooke, The Inquisitor and Cincinnati Advertiser, 1819

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Cincinnati

Firsts

On September 1, 1869 the first weather reporting system began in Cincinnati which consisted of a published weather bulletin that contained the first weather forecast by Cleveland Abbe. He was hired the previous year by the Cincinnati Astronomical Society.

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Due to the organizations lack of funding he lost his job less than a year later.

He then began working in the field of meteorology and won approval to report and predict the weather. He hoped that the forecasts could be determined with little expense that could then earn him an income.

Cleveland Abbe was born in New York City to a prosperous family. He joined the U.S. Army when the Civil War broke out but due to poor vision he spent that time working with the astronomer and head of Longitude Department of the U.S. Coast Survey. He then studied in Russia and returned to the U.S to study astronomy before being hired by the Cincinnati Astronomical Society.

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Cover Story

Peter Frampton

& Cincinnati Ballet Live!

by Michele Roth

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n April 26th and 27th the Aronoff Center for the Arts COMES ALIVE with the collaboration of Cincinnati Ballet and legendary recording artist Peter Frampton. The down-to-earth and humble Peter Frampton generously gave of his time to discuss the collaboration, other upcoming projects and some interesting questions.

MR: How were you approached and what did you find most intriguing about your collaboration with the Cincinnati Ballet?

PF: “It all got started when I moved to Cincinnati in 2000 from Nashville, it must have been around when I released the 2006 Fingerprints. The Ballet asked me if I wouldn’t mind them using a few of my recorded songs and instrumentals for Pas De Deux (one man, one woman ballet dance) for a short piece they were doing and I said fantastic.

Well, I then got incredibly busy and never saw and was not in town when they did it and it sort of got forgotten. Until, I think Victoria Morgan or someone made available to me an in house DVD that they had of the performance and it just blew me away. And I was so honored that they had wanted to use my material to do this piece too. So, it was about four or five songs and instrumentals and I was just showing it to everybody.

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Then Victoria and I sort of had been missing each other and she wanted to talk and I wanted to thank you and all this and then finally I was at a New Years Eve Party and one of the dance instructors from the ballet, Susan Autran, wonderful lady, was at a friend’s house and she told me Victoria is wanting to get hold of you and I said yes, we’ve been missing each other and whatever.

So that reinvigorated me to lets go see what she’s up to and what she would like you know having seen this DVD so I called her up and she said, “ Oh my goodness come down we are rehearsing Carmen right now. Come down, I’ve got something I would like to ask you.

So I went down and saw these amazing dancers from all over the world. Um, top notch you know, just phenomenal. Blew me away; my jaw was on the floor. And then she said, “What do you think of an evening of Peter Frampton music?” And I said of course, please be my guest, what do you want to use? And she said well that will be up to you because you would be playing it. And I said what? She said we don’t want to use just recorded music. Would you and your band play on the stage? And I said oh my god that’s scary (as he laughs) I mean what a challenge that would be to do that. Because I had performed with dancers once before with David Bowie and there were a lot of dancers, not quite as many as the ballet.

But there were a lot of exchanges, physical exchanges by accident I remember (again laughter) so my experience was mixed on this, my thoughts were mixed on this.”

Dancers Sarah Hairston and Zack Grubbs Photo by Peter Mueller

MR: Once you made the decision, how did you decide what music to perform and will there be new music as well as familiar pieces?

PF: “She asked what I thought about it so I instantly thought right there on the spot I don’t want to do all old music, I want to do some new music. So I said why don’t I do some old music to start, old music to end from my catalog, songs people know. And then in the middle I’ll give you 20 minutes of brand new music I’ll write for the ballet. You know, still with my band, still Peter Frampton music.

I’m not going to do an orchestral piece but knowing how well they choreographed to my music that I wasn’t writing for dance I thought that this would be a wonderful chance. So that’s how it ended up that it will be old and new music and we’re doing three shows.”

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MR: How different are the new compositions from your classics? Do the new pieces that you’ve written for this performance still have familiar elements or are they totally different?

budget. So, we’re trying to do this with as much quality but bearing in mind the budget. I just did a DVD and I know how much it costs, and I put a lot of my own money into making that because I wanted it to be as good as possible, so it’s just not possible to do this.

Whether we’re going to audio record a performance or something I don’t know at this moment. That’s what I’m looking to do right now is to at least get it on audio, yeah.”

PF: “No, it’s not totally different, it’s just different. It’s just new music from me. One of them is totally instrumental and others of them have vocals in places but not all the time. When you’re writing for something like MR: Will the performance this I’m not writing be available for purchase? for the radio; I’m writing for dance.

PF: “If it’s not available live Gordon Kennedy, from the ballet, they will be my long time writavailable at a later date ing partner, and Dancers Sarah Hairston and Zack Grubbs when I go in and finish myself realized this Photo by Peter Mueller recording them.” and we could start MR: When you were creating the off instrumentally, have a little vocal pieces were you envisioning the here, go on and do more instrumovement of the dancers or were mental and maybe not even have you strictly concentrating on the anymore vocals. Just have a quick musical elements? statement and make it and get on with more instrumental music. There’s PF: “Seeing as I’m not a choreoga couple that are more format songs, rapher, I couldn’t really write movement as they will so wonderfully do, but they’re still in a mood that I think because I’ve seen it already to my will lend themselves to being a choreographed performance for 20 to 25 music. There is one song called Hummingbird in a Box, which as soon as minutes in the middle.”

I played back, I collect all my ideas MR: No one captures a live perforlike a notepad but on a digital mance as well as you. Will any of recording when I’m on the road, at your performances be recorded? home, in the bathroom, wherever PF: “We’re working on that. We want- I am I collect my ideas and they ed to film everything, but because of are little 30 second ideas, maybe a the incredible cost-- it’s not the cost minute, maybe 5 seconds of a riff of doing, its all sorts of other costs that you know, and when I get it ready come in-- I’m not doing this to make to write those will either inspire me money. I’m doing this because I’m to either finish those or to go on and up for the challenge and the ballet Cover Feature continued on page 12... obviously doesn’t have a super, super

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write something else. There was this one riff that I had written in a dressing room bathroom on the Frampton Comes Alive 35 tour, I remember exactly where I was, not the city but the place (again laughing) because the echo sounded good in the bathroom.

So I came across this piece and that was the first one that I thought I can see dance to this. And that was the first piece I believe we worked on and that sort of set the tone for the rest of the pieces to come.”

MR: What do you hope the audience takes from this performance?

PF: “Whatever they wish to. My job is to give them something that I feel is something I enjoy. If I enjoy what I’m writing--and I have to enjoy what I’m writing, otherwise I don’t finish it-- so the seven new pieces that I have written with Gordon Kennedy I really enjoy and I can’t wait to rehearse with the band to play them. Therefore, my enjoyment is up there in performing them. I have no idea how the audience will take them. I hope they like them; that’s everyone’s goal. It’s like you go and look at a painting you might love it, I might hate it. So you know everyone’s got their own ears and their own eyes and they make their own decisions.”

MR: You’ve had other collaborations here in Cincinnati like the one with King Record’s session drummer Phillip Paul with Play it Forward, how did that come about?

MR: Is there another organization or musician would you still like to collaborate with?

PF: “Yes, I always say the same thing and I’ll be damned if I don’t get it to happen someday. Steve Winwood.

He was in Spencer Davis Group before I was even in The Herd, I think and had the first with Keep on Running. I always look to him as the all around phenomenal musician, and of course he still is today, and probably even better than he was. We jammed at his house many years ago. I’ve seen him and had dinner with him at various people’s houses but we never actually got to play something together. And if he wants to sing, I’ll play guitar behind him while he plays that Hammond organ.

Oh my god, that would be a dream.”

MR: Are there any other projects in the works you are ready to share?

PF: “Yes, there’s one thing that I’m working on that’s going to mastering right now. Jerry Shirley and I are the two remaining Humble Pie members on the planet and we are releasing the complete Fillmore tapes, all four shows unedited from the gold album Rockin’ the Fillmore, what the double album was called, and it hasn’t been heard in 42 years. Also the complete box set to Humble Pie, so that’s all going to be available. Pie fans will be happy.”

PF: “Yes what a wonderful man. He’s a great player. That was a tremendous session. Hideaway was a classic.

I was very nervous about doing that track (laughing) seeing as Eric Clapton and every other great guitarist has done a rendition of that. It was just phenomenal to do that with the original drummer and he’s a wonderful man. “

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Part Of The Family By: Thomas Bell

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Hofbräuhaus “Kunzel Schwarzbier” (5.5% Alc. by Volume)

A German dark lager with an opaque, black color, and a full, chocolaty flavor. A rich blend of caramel & chocolate malts creates a malty, sweet flavor with moderate to low hop character. Named for Cincinnati POPS Maestro Erich Kunzel.

Hofbräuhaus and KEY MAGAZINE remind you to please drink responsibly.

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Entertainment

Let It

By: Sue Cunningham

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xperience the Beatles with RAIN direct from Broadway! This multimedia experience includes a full range of The Beatles’ songs performed by extremely talented musicians that look and sound like the lads from Liverpool. The vision and dedication of Mark Lewis has given the opportunity for early Fab Four fans to relive the experience and new fans the chance to experience the phenomena that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

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The show includes 5 sets, each consisting of their own scene and corresponding costume changes with great attention to detail. The first is the recreation of the 1964 Ed Sullivan show and includes the hair styles, the tailored suites and boots.

The second includes songs from the movie era with performances from “A Hard Days Night” before transporting the audience to Shea Stadium. The technology pulls the audience into the illusion with live video of the audience projected onto the main screen along with close-ups of the band for a complete interactive experience.

The third set is the Sgt. Pepper era; with the album cover in the background, colorful costumes and mix of sophisticated lighting effects creating an electric atmosphere. Pay close attention to the album cover though because the band has also cleverly included their own photos to recreate the iconic album cover.

After a brief intermission the fourth set opens with the influence of Indian music and flower power as the band performs music from 19671968. The costumes and hair styles along with the music will take you back to the “Summer of Love” and also includes an acoustic set that will give the audience a taste of what the actual song writing process may have been like.

Set number five brings the show to an end with The Abbey Road period from 1969-1970. A recreation of the famous “Abbey Road” album cover provides RAIN with the visual to accurately represent this period with yet another costume change as they perform the selection of songs including the “Golden Slumbers” medley through “The End”.

“The Beatles music/career had so much depth, as does our show. The Ed Sullivan era, Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, etc.

It was all a wonderful time in history, and I believe our show does a great job of capturing those times, and bringing them to life on stage.”

- Mark Lewis, Founder

All photos courtesy of Cincinnati Arts Association

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Nightlife

Shaking ItUp Photos by Suzanne York

By: Sue Cunningham

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On TheHill

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arlier this year when The Sweetest Things opened in Mt. Adams; the residents and visitors alike welcomed the independently owned cafĂŠ to Hatch Street. Offering breakfast all day, delicious homemade desserts, lunch wraps and soups to accompany their wide variety of coffees and teas; it was warmly received. Patrons liked what they had to offer including free Wi-Fi and an array of artwork throughout.

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But some of the patrons wanted something more. Mt. Adams has always offered a vibrant nightlife with crowded dance floors and pulsating music; which tends to attract a younger crowd.

Heather Turner decided to take her quaint café and expand it into the chic martini bar which so many of her patrons told her they would like to see on the hill.

A place you could kick back and have a glass of wine or the beverage of your choice; a place where the music is well chosen and low enough so you can still carry on a conversation easily.

Heather listened and even went beyond everyone’s expectations, they have succeeded in creating a place that could be appreciated by the younger patrons but cherished by the more sophisticated clients. The bar area with its exposed brick and brown walls creates the perfect ambience to enjoy one of the signature martini cocktails made with fresh squeezed juices and they change weekly. The wine list consists of choice selections; beer and mixed drinks are also available.

Don’t get the wrong idea; the Abbey is laid-back not asleep.

They offer live music on the weekends in the main area right off of the bar so you can still carry on a conversation. So, even if you like your martini stirred, things will still be shaking at the Abbey in Mt. Adams.

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Editor’s Pick

Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Cincinnati

War Horse

This powerfully moving and imaginative drama, filled with stirring music and songs, is a show of phenomenal inventiveness that is currently playing to packed houses in London and New York. At its heart are astonishing life-sized puppets created by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, that bring to life breathing, galloping, charging horses strong enough for men to ride.

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Sarah Hairston THE

Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund

Rosemary & Mark Schlachter

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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