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Attractions: Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk

The Cincinnati Museum Center’s latest Omnimax extravaganza, Grand Canyon Adventure, makes you feel like you're there. Greg MacGillivray’s documentary follows anthropologist/author Wade Davis and longtime environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. (and each of their college-age daughters) on a trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Runs daily through Feb. 12, 2009.

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Events: Autumn Floral Show

Flowers are in full bloom at the Krohn. Cincinnati Parks and Munich Parks have teamed up for the 15th year by giving each other gifts of gardens and sculptures. Celebrate the 850th anniversary of Munich with a stroll through the gardens. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Through Nov. 2.

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Art: The Weston Art Gallery

It hasn’t yet been a year since Publico, the non-commercial, artist-run exhibition space on Clay Street, closed its doors. Nonetheless, the Weston Art Gallery has already pulled together the collaborators again for its current show, Since You’ve Been Gone. The exhibition sweeps Publico’s Over-the- Rhine vibe into the mainstream — the Weston is part of downtown’s Aronoff Center for the Arts — and infects it with an impulsive nostalgia. Tuesday-Sunday. Through Nov. 8.

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Art: Contemporary Arts Center

It is astonishing that Maria Lassnig, whose work is presented in an impressive solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), is widely unknown in the United States. She is an influential force throughout Europe, working in Vienna for the past few decades. Closed Tuesdays. Through Jan. 11.

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Censored Again...and Still

Project Censored tracks the top stories the mainstream U.S. news media missed in the past year

The daily dispatches and nightly newscasts of the mainstream media regularly cover terrorism but rarely discuss how the fear of attacks is used to manipulate the public and set policy. That's the common thread of many unreported stories last year, according to an analysis by Project Censored.

Editorial

He's Got Nothing, Jerry

Nov. 4 can't get here soon enough. I'm writing this column before the second McCain-Obama presidential debate, exactly four weeks until Election Day. I can't wait for it all to be over and for Barack Obama officially to be president-elect.

Worst Week Ever!

Another Seven Days of Bad Parenting and Free Bacon

Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby's terrible parenting skills might have resulted in a child dying a slow and excruciating death this summer, but that didn't stop her from accepting an invitation to kick it with a sympathetic talk show host.

Music

MidPoint Central

It's all over but the memories and the clean-up. Relive MPMF right here!

It's come and gone: the 2008 MidPoint Music Festival. Remember the bands, the clubs, the performances, the Scions and the crowds at this headquarters site for CityBeat's coverage of MPMF.

News

'No One Owns Water'

Ohio Senate makes an issue out of property rights and water

Most people believe that government shouldn't control how you use your property, including water that runs under or through land you own. And most would agree the only role government ought to have is making sure one property owner doesn't use, pollute or damage those resources in a way that limits the rights of other property owners to them too.

Music

Brave New World of Jazz

Master Percussionist Jose Rosa heats it up on Jazz congas

Though a less common instrument in Jazz than saxophone or drum set, congas are nevertheless an important ingredient of a form of music that bears the dubious moniker, Latin Jazz.

Movies

The Duchess (Review)

Keira Knightly dons period duds once again, but to little effect

Georgiana (Keira Knightley), the Duchess of Devonshire, is reported to have been a progressive woman during her lifetime. The personal and the political realms of her life took center stage and the world was seemingly aware of her every move and thought on any and all subjects, again both personal and political.

Art

Who Owns the World? (Review)

Ohad Meromi takes over Country Club Gallery

Ohad Meromi is part of a group of Israeli artists who migrated from Tel Aviv to attend Columbia University's graduate program. Matt Distel previously made us aware of this group when, while working at the Contemporary Arts Center, he brought Guy Ben-Ner's work there in 2005.

The Dish

It's Just Crepes (Lunch Review)

Fast and tasty are the operative words at new downtown spot

I don't believe I've written a restaurant review while I was still eating, but it's the perfect indicator of how fast our world moves. Going to It's Just Crepes (39 E. Court St., 513-63-CREPE) downtown was a big reminder of that: This place really caters to our busyness.

 
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