More than 120 artists have put down roots and blossomed at Essex Studios for the free BLOOM Art Walk. Many painters, photographers, jewelers, graphic designers and sculptors will showcase vibrant colo  

Influenced by his work as a stylist for Amazon.com, artist James Schenck’s retail-like installation of clothing and accessories, Buy Me, demonstrates his interest in “devaluing the cult of persona  

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with CityBeat during our fourth annual Cantina Crawl. Bars throughout the city will be participating and our roving band of senoritas will be at select cantinas throughout the   

The Tri-State Antique Market opens this weekend at the Lawrenceburg Fairgrounds for its 28th season. With an average of nearly 3,000 shoppers and more than 200 dealers at each show, the market is the   

This weekend marks the 15th annual Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon. What began with a group of local runners, a dream and a marathon route scrawled on a bar napkin has transformed to a 30,000-some-odd-  

Chris Charlton will be busy this weekend on Free Comic Book Day on May 4 and at the Cincinnati Public Library’s first Comic Con on May 5, but Charlton’s interest is not simply as a comics aficiona  

One national arts trend which Cincinnati lags behind is the rediscovery of silent movies — especially the public screening of them to live musical accompaniment.   “I would say there’s  

Lucero frontman Ben Nichols seems destined to be a Rock & Roll lifer, a guy who revels in playing 200 shows a year for a relatively small but passionate fan base. The Memphis-bred band Nichols lea  

Wikipedia describes Goatwhore as “blackened Death Metal.” Apparently absolutely nothing escapes being blackened in New Orleans. The band began in 1997 with Acid Bath guitarist/vocalist Sammy   

The musically obsessed often make fun of music-based television talent shows. Rightfully so, too. Any scheme that lands Taylor Hicks and Kelly Clarkson in our faces deserves all the scoffing possible.  

Back in the 1970s, acoustic music began to expand and evolve. Bluegrass music morphed into many different genres, from Jamgrass and Newgrass to even more esoteric fare. One exciting new offshoot at th  

Tracy Walker has been such a consistently popular presence on the live music scene, it’s hard to believe the Cincinnati singer/songwriter hasn’t put out a new release in a decade. Ten years after   

Hip Hop sensation Richard Colson Baker, better known as Machine Gun Kelly (or MGK), announced his current Lace Up tour in novel fashion; he became his own street team. Armed with a cardboard sign with  

It is always a fun endeavor to go to a smaller venue and see a band on the rise, to take in a group that has the potential for bigger and better things. That is the scenario for this week’s concert   

Billed as primer for the Chicago quartet Disappears’ fourth full-length, to be released later this year, the freshly minted three-song EP Kone is a hypnotic dose of psyched-out Post Punk, an ominous