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Attractions: Zoo Babies

0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Visit the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden through the end of May for a wholesome and family-friendly peek at the zoo’s newest (and youngest) arrivals. You’ll find these little ones throughou  

Literary: Sam Avery

0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from Canada to Texas, has been a controversial proposition. Some believe it will add thousands of jobs and create a needed source of fuel. Others believe it w  

Comedy: The Midnight Swinger

0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
It’s not often you get to see a comic who holds a world record. The Midnight Swinger, Dave Scott, recently broke the record for longest stand-up set: 40 hours and eight minutes. “I was celebrating  

Art: Brunch & Brilliant Brains at AEC

0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Your final opportunity to see photographer Peiter Griga’s QR-coded portraits of local entrepreneurs happens Friday at a closing reception for his exhibition QRtifacts at the Artisan Enterprise Cente  

Music: Reggae Culture Splash 2013

0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The annual food/music fest Taste of Cincinnati — Cincy’s unofficial “start of the summer” — doesn’t begin until Saturday, but Friday you can get an outdoor music fix that couldn’t be mor  

Event: Memorial Day Weekend Salute

0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Celebrate and commemorate those who have served our country with a weekend of activities at the Arlington Memorial Gardens in Finneytown. Remembrances start Friday and go through the weekend with  

Event: Taste of Cincinnati

0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Start summer off scrumptiously. The 35th annual Taste of Cincinnati will consume six blocks of Fifth Street on Memorial Day Weekend. The nation’s longest running culinary arts festival will feature   

Event: Betts Longworth Historic District Walking Tour

0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Architreks, a volunteer program of the Architectural Foundation of Greater Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Preservation Association, is leading a guided walking tour of the West End’s Betts Longworth   

Music: Summer Music Series on Fountain Square

0 Comments · Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Fountain Square’s multiple weekly summer music series kick-off Tuesday with the first American Roots show, featuring local performers who play everything from Bluegrass and Folk to Honky Tonk and Ro  

Onstage: Sunset Boulevard

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, created in the mid-1990s was his last big show to have some measure of success, including a two-year run on Broadway. Even at that, however, the musical versio  

Music: IsWhat?!

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Long gaps between albums aren’t unusual for IsWhat?!  In fact, it took Napoleon Maddox and his Cincinnati-based genre-defying Hip Hop/Jazz/Rock/Soul collective three years after their 1996 for  

Art: The Coral Sea

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Patti Smith's Contemporary Arts Center exhibition and concert, The Coral Sea, opens May 18 — also the date of her Memorial Hall performance.  It is a remembrance of and tribute to her close c  

Event: ReUse-Apalooza

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Re-purposing materials and fixtures intended for landfills has become de rigueur for on-trend designers and architects who wish to give their clients opportunities to utilize second-hand objects in ne  

Music: Wild Moccasins with of Montreal

2 Comments · Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Since taking shape circa 2007 as a duo hinged on the talents of Swann and vocalist Zahira Gutierrez (more personnel would be recruited from shows and house parties in Houston), Wild Moccasins have swi  

Music: The Killers

0 Comments · Wednesday, May 15, 2013
After close to six solid years of touring and a quintet of best selling albums (including a B-sides/rarities collection and a live CD/DVD set), The Killers began 2010 with the announcement that they w