I suspect that the word “dude” has never been uttered so many times in so few minutes. John Ware and William Brown, both drama students at UC’s College-Conservatory of Music, invite you to hang out in the cluttered dorm room that is the 40-minute play The Masculinity Index. This snapshot shows us two aimless, barely post-adolescent, middle-class white males waxing and whining introspective about the “space between boyhood and manhood” and pledging to be each other’s bros/wingmen, a la Top Gun.  

Paul Schuette, a grad student in composition at UC’s College-Conservatory of Music, assembled a cast of almost two dozen fellow music students to perform Music for Newspapers and Radios (Media Bridges, 100 Race St.), his nonlinear, multimedia program of performance, video, projection, spoken word and broadcast sounds.  

Kathleen O’Neill has spent the last eight years writing The God Blog, a corporate-satire-within-a-radio-play, set in heaven and staffed by Old Testament figures (performed at the Art Academy of Cincinnati). She and director Shawn Maus, who also plays the role of God, have assembled an enormous (by Fringe Festival standards) cast and crew to live-produce this radio drama.  

For the 2010 Cincinnati Fringe, Jimmy Hogg’s confessional storytelling and precocious, high-velocity comic delivery won him a Critic’s Pick award for his monologue A Brief History of Petty Crime. The Fringe-circuit veteran returns to the 2011 Fringe this year with Curriculum Vitae, a chronology of his humorous and humiliating experiences in the working world.  

She thinks quickly and speaks slowly. She divides equally her curiosity, speculation and certainty, interweaving them with her language, which unfolds gradually like a brightly colored brochure.   

Simply put, DESIGNSMITHGALLERY is stylish and cool. It's unassuming, airy and absorbed with a kind of vintage vivacity that makes you feel like making a martini and chilling in your '60s New Yor  

Covington gallery Eine Kleine Photograph -- inspired by the German-style village of MainStrasse as well as Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik -- means "a small photo." It's a small gallery, too.   

Classical collections line the ornate walls of this stately, historical mansion. The Taft Museum of Art, as well as the works of art housed within, are as venerable, dignified and altogether erudi  

When you enter this quiet art space, your footsteps echo back at you, the gleaming wooden floor reflects you, and the art on the walls and easels surrounds you. You've stepped off the busy downto  

Almost 15 years ago, Shepard Fairey initiated a movement. The Obey Giant stickers, stencils and posters began to seep into the streets, growing in size and number, inspiring more questions. The c