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Music: Lee Fields & The Expressions

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
In this age of disposable music and equally ephemeral careers, longevity of any kind should be celebrated. And Lee Fields should be the grand marshal of that parade.  A Soul shouter with the pas  

Music: Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
When Ed Williams and his half-brother James “Pookie” Young started the Blues Imperials in 1975, they were considered young Blues turks. Mentored by their uncle, Blues legend J.B. Hutto, who took h  

Music: Ryan Bingham

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
As the old adage says, “preparation meets opportunity” is often the path to success in the music world. However, a little luck doesn’t hurt, either. When you talk about the career of Ryan Bingha  

Music: The Cliftones

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Eclectic Cincinnati Reggae crew The Cliftones — one of the best Reggae outfits in the region — will be celebrating the release of their latest single, “Hold Steady,” this Saturday with a show   

Music: Grey Host

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Saturday at Downtown club Mainstay, progressive Doom/Drone Metal act Grey Host will celebrate the release of its latest, Dawn for Vultures. You can pre-order the six-track release (as a CD, download o  

Music: Gabriel's Hounds

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Saturday at Covington’s Madison Theater, local Death/Hardcore/Thrash Metal crew Gabriel’s Hounds host a release party for their latest effort, The Struggle Between … EP.  You can sample the  

Music: SHADOWRAPTR

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The quartet known as SHADOWRAPTR has made a great name for itself. Granted, it’s an inexplicable-yet-wonderful kind of name. Heck, that could also be said about their music, too.SHADOWRAPTR, as a wh  

Onstage: War Horse

1 Comment · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
In 2007, a friend from London told me about the “most amazing show ever” at the National Theatre of Great Britain. The show was War Horse, the story of a horse named Joey, the boy who raised him a  

Art: Alexi Natchev: Hand-Colored Block Prints from The Elijah Door

0 Comments · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Elijah Door, a book by award-winning Cincinnati children’s author Linda Leopold Strauss, tells the tale of feuding next-door neighbors in an Eastern European village  

Comedy: Tyrone Hawkins

0 Comments · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
"I’m a comedian, so I’m never anywhere permanently," Tyrone Hawkins says, chatting on the phone from Seattle. He has spent the past few weeks there visiting family and friends and performing  

Art: Get Up: An Urban Ballyhoo of Artistic Expression

0 Comments · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Cincinnati has a history with graffiti. Being the birthplace of ScribbleJam, “America’s Largest Hip Hop Festival” (which included a graffiti competition during the 13 years the festival ran)  

Event: Free Kids' Portraits at Krohn Conservatory

1 Comment · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
On Saturday, March 30, and Sunday, March 31, photographers Nicholas Viltrakis and Megan Koabel of Robots and Rainbows Children’s Photography will be at the Krohn Conservatory snapping free portraits  

Event: Easter Egg Hunt in Washington Park

0 Comments · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
While Easter is primarily a religious holiday predicated on the resurrection of Christ, we like to celebrate it by decorating and hiding eggs — some hard-boiled, some filled with candy   

Music: Happy Chichester

0 Comments · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Columbus, Ohio, music veteran Happy Chichester is no stranger to Cincinnati audiences, from his early years as bassist for Royal Crescent Mob   

Class: The Bird & The Beer

0 Comments · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Come celebrate the creative communities of Cincinnati and learn about our burgeoning (or re-emerging?) beer culture with Bryant Goulding, co-founder of the future Rhinegeist Brewery