From coffee gifts packs to vegan ice cream, we've got all your small, budget conscience gifts for your holiday needs. Try some award-winning goetta or hand-painted ceramic spice grinders.
  

From vases to jewelry. We've got all your high end gifts for your loved ones. Try a lace vace or a Thad Cline Art Deco ring.  

Nominees and winners of the 2010 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards for Music.   

Winners and nominees for 2011 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards for Music.
  

When it was announced that Wisconsin’s Bon Iver (essentially singer/songwriter Justin Vernon) had scored several Grammy nods (including Best New Artist and Record and Song of the Year), Indie music pundits declared Bon Iver this year’s Arcade Fire, the Canadian band that shockingly took home Album of the Year last time.  

When GOP candidate Michele Bachmann appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, music director/Roots drummer ?uestlove led the band through a version of a song Moore wrote when he was a teenager — the Ska/Punk burner “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” — as her “walk on” music. When the obscure tune’s title was reported, the Bachmann camp latched onto it as another example of the “lamestream” media’s bias, and also called it sexist.  

Last week we mentioned Jay-Z’s new $22 T-Shirt for his clothing company capitalizing on the Occupy Wall Street movement (the shirt manipulates the protest’s name so it reads “Occupy All Streets”). But co-opting a movement for your own gain isn’t just about making tons more cash.  

Enjoy the holiday events, attractions, music, theater and arts offerings Cincinnati has to offer.
  

Smiths fans probably don’t need more sadness in their lives but they are finally getting to experience the disillusionment fans of The Beatles, The Who and, well, practically any legendary artist who has sold their songs to corporations to sell product. A holiday commercial (or “advert,” as they so adorably say in the U.K.) for the John Lewis department store is using a cover version of beloved Smiths’ tune “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” and the song’s authors, Morrissey and Johnny Marr, approved the whole thing.  

On Saturday night (Nov. 12) after the 7:30 p.m. screening of Take Shelter at the Esquire Theatre in Clifton, CityBeat contributing editor Steven Rosen will lead a discussion into the film's meaning — and what really occurs at the mysterious ending.