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Event: Cincinnati Entertainment Awards

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Anybody who’s made a trip or two to other midsized cities around the country knows that this town has its fair share of musical variety and originality, so it’s really no surprise that such   

Event: Bombs Away! Comedy Open Mic

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Open Mic Comedy at Mayday promises to keep “Cincinnati funny.” Taking place every second and fourth Monday of the month, Open Mic Comedy is open to all comics who think they have what it tak  

Art: ARTiculate: Jimmy Baker

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Ever look at a work of art and think, “What’s going on here?” Or, “How does he/she do that?” Museum directors might have similar questions, and Cincinnati Art Museum Director Aaron Betsk  

Music: Plume Giant

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Combining some of the idiosyncrasies of modern Indie Folk with uplifting Pop melodies, Chamber music arrangements and an Americana grab-bag of various other influences, the trio Plume Giant make  

Comedy: Keith Alberstadt

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Comedian Keith Alberstadt has always been sarcastic. “I was in a wine store,” he tells an audience, “and I couldn’t see the label very well so I asked the woman who was working there, ‘W  

Event: Friends of the Public Library Winter Warehouse Sale

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
When you’ve got a library system like ours, there’s absolutely no reason to spend your hard-earned cash on brand-new books, music and movies at big-box stores. It’s best to support the littl  

Event: CityBeat's New Music Showcase

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Rewind to high school. You and your friends are sitting in the car in the parking lot outside of Bogart’s, waiting for Battle of the Bands to start. Two water bottles are being passed around the  

Onstage: Red Light Winter

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Playwright Adam Rapp has a pretty bleak outlook on life, and that plays out in his tale of two buddies who end up in an Amsterdam apartment and contest over a mysterious young woman who shows up  

Event: CCM's "A Moveable Feast"

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The popular CCM fundraiser, “A Moveable Feast,” returns for a night of music, dance and theater for you to sink the sensory organs besides your teeth into, this year celebrating the theme “A  

Art: Friends With Benefits Silent Auction

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
With few (exceptional) exceptions, to say that it’s financially challenging to work in the arts is an understatement. And unless one works for an organization or company that can afford medical   

Film: Reveal the Path

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 15, 2013
During my time at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, I took up what became a personal motto to go “where the frames took me” over the course of my weeklong viewing experience.   

Comedy: Eddie Ifft

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Eddie Ifft is one of America’s most popular comedy exports. Perhaps that has something to with the political science degree he earned from the University of Pittsburgh. “I didn’t really cons  

Event: Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! with Biz Markie

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Apparently “The Sillies” are not only a Detroit Punk Rock band formed in the ’70s that no one knows about. It seems that “The Sillies” are also little creatures that live inside of us an  

Onstage: Richard II

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 8, 2013
 England’s first King Richard, “the Lionhearted,” spent much of his 12th-century reign away from home on Crusades. The third of that name is famous as the murderous, 15th-century hunchb  

Event: 2013 Cavalcade of Customs

0 Comments · Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Cars aren’t just a means of transportation, and at the Cavalcade of Customs, cars meet lifestyle. You’ll find yourself in the middle of all sorts of automobile fanatics with enough vintage car