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Music: Anthrax

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 3, 2013
With lead guitarist Rob Caggiano’s recent and seemingly sudden departure from Anthrax to join Danish metalheads Volbeat, many fans of the group, like me, wondered what the future would hold for the   

Art: Up, Up, Up and Up at Visionaries & Voices

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The current exhibition at Visionaries & Voices showcases the drawings of Kathy Brannigan and Rob Macke and smartly incorporates elements of installation. Up, Up, Up and Up features Brannigan’s a  

Film: Tattoo Nation

0 Comments · Tuesday, April 2, 2013
First-time director Eric Schwartz teams up with producer and writer John Corry to document the tumultuous rise of the black-and-gray tattoo culture, from its gang/prison roots to a global art form tha  

Onstage: Parade

1 Comment · Tuesday, April 2, 2013
In 1913, a tragedy of many aspects happened in Atlanta. Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager, was wrongfully accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl who worked in the pencil factory he oversaw and he w  

Art: Modern Makers' The Big Dinner

0 Comments · Tuesday, April 2, 2013
One of the many joys of spring (besides baseball’s Opening Day) is the seasonal produce obtainable by local chefs who, inspired by the available raw materials, concoct specialty dishes to feed your   

Event: Wildflower Festival

0 Comments · Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Flowers and plants and crafts, oh my! The Western Wildlife Corridor Wildflower Festival is back for its seventh year and blossoming into something huge. Spring will be in full swing in the College of   

Event: Guided Ghost Tours of Music Hall

0 Comments · Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Do you happen to be someone who can be described as one of the following types of people? 1) Obsessed with all four (and counting) Paranormal Activity films; 2) Can’t get enough of Casper, the Frien  

Events: Monster Jam

0 Comments · Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Ah, there’s nothing quite like the smell of crushed car chassis and burnt diesel in the quiet hours before dusk. What, you agree? Good. Then come on down to U.S. Bank Arena this weekend to watch the  

Event: Taste of the World Food Tour

0 Comments · Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Not only can Findlay Market provide you with an eclectic taste of Cincinnati, they now offer a Taste of the World food tour. This 20-person tour leads you around the market on a little foodie adventur  

Art: Capturing the Essence: The Work of Gordon Baer

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Handsomely composed, deeply moving, timeless or inextricably of their time and place; Gordon Baer’s photographs, now on view at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center in a career-spanning exhibition, are a  

Onstage: Pete Rose Live

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Ask a non-Cincinnati native of a certain age what they know of the Queen City, and inevitably Pete Rose and the Big Red Machine will come up.  Cincinnati is a baseball town — a fact never more  

Music: Lady

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Even on a muddy-signal, three-way conference call between Cincinnati, Atlanta and London, it’s clear that modern Soul duo Nicole Wray and Terri Walker of Lady share an affirming bond.  Raised   

Lit: Lauren Groff

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Lauren Groff’s engrossing second novel, Arcadia, centers on the first child born in an upstate New York commune where utopian ideals inevitably clash with the darker side of human nature. The boy’  

Music: Divine Fits

0 Comments · Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Divine Fits sounds pretty much as you’d expect of a band that features Spoon’s Britt Daniel and the Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner. The band’s debut, the aptly titled A Thing Called Divine Fits,   

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