Aug 3-10, 2016
Drawing on the Walls: ArtWorks murals pay colorful tribute to Cincinnati’s history and act as a ‘force for good’
Minimum Gauge: Ronnie James Dio ressurected in Germany (as a hologram)
HOT: This Week in Holograms Another day, another music star brought back from the dead…in hologram form. In what is becoming one of the oddest trends in music, deceased heroes continue to make appearances at concerts and festivals, and full worldwide tours starring late artists throughout appear to be imminent. The latest holo-cameo came at…
Concerts and Clubs Calendar (Aug. 10-16)
Wednesday 10 Arnold’s Bar and Grill – Todd Hepburn. 7 p.m. Blues/Jazz/Various. Free. Bella Luna – RMS Band. 7 p.m. Soft Rock/Jazz. Free. Century Inn Restaurant – Paul Lake. 7 p.m. Pop/Rock/Jazz/Oldies/ Various. Free. * Esquire Theatre – Live n Local with Ricky Nye and Ethan Leinwand. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. $5. Fountain Square -…
Morning News: Video released in downtown police shooting; Cranley, Simpson feud over union raises; needle exchange temporarily halts
Good morning all. Hope you like changing T-shirts 10 times a day or staying inside all the time, because those are your two options right now. So maybe turn the air conditioner up, tilt that fan toward your face and let’s start this news party as we all try not to melt. Cincinnati Police yesterday…
Your Weekend To Do List (Aug. 5-7)
FRIDAY 05 EVENT: LUMENOCITY The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s über-popular light and music show returns this weekend for its fourth and final year, and organizers are promising “a fully immersive experience unlike anything audiences have seen before.” For the first time, the show, which combines dazzling visual effects with live performances from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra…
UPDATE: Video Released in Downtown CPD Shooting
UPDATE: Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters today said that he will not seek charges against officers involved in the shooting death of Jawari Porter Sunday morning, and that videos related to the shooting should be released. The video footage (contained in pages four and eight of this document provided by Cincinnati Police) shows Porter approaching…
Morning News: Simpson counters Cranley’s city wage idea; Pence hits Cincy for a chili stop; Kasich says Trump offered him VP position
Good morning all. Here’s your news today. Cincinnati Police shot and killed a man Sunday morning downtown at Government Square after they say he pulled a knife on officers. Witnesses say the man, who was shot multiple times, was well-known downtown and may have been experiencing homelessness. Authorities have not released the man’s name, but…
Fight against Republican-hatched ballot rules heating up
Hours before their case would be argued Thursday before the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, advocates challenging state election rules that absentee and provisional ballots be filled out free of errors made their points in a less formal setting — on the courthouse steps. An Ohio law passed in 2014 led many county election…
Morning News: Are Cincinnati cops paid enough?; finally, we have a pizza ATM; employment up in new jobs report
Good morning all. Here’s the news on this gloriously humid Friday. As you might have seen in our story yesterday, the hubbub around Mayor John Cranley’s plan to boost pay for city workers represented by big unions continues. Cranley held a press conference where he, labor leaders, elected officials and political candidates touted the move…
Stage Door: Mostly new shows, plus a clutch of classics
On a hot August weekend evening, a show in an in an air-conditioned theater might be just what you need I gave Know Theatre’s production of Girlfriend a Critic’s Pick in my CityBeat review. Playwright Todd Almond, who’s a University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music grad (he was a voice major there, but he’s also…
Cranley, union leaders push back on wage proposal criticism
Mayor John Cranley today officially unveiled his proposal to offer city union employees raises above those negotiated by city administration, jabbing back at questions from some Cincinnati City Council members about the move. Joined by local labor leaders as well as a number of elected officials and Democratic candidates for local office and the state…
Trump, Clinton and the News Media
Our next president openly loathes reporters. It doesn’t matter who wins. Nothing in their public careers suggests Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton has any desire for the kind of symbiotic relationship that traditional politicians nurture with the news media. They don’t schmooze. Clinton avoids the news media to the point where she shies away from…
Sottolicious Lunch
Downtown’s best downstairs restaurant is now open for lunch. If you owe yourself — or a friend — a midday indulgence, well, Sotto is the place. My dining partner and I weren’t sure how Sotto’s atmosphere would adapt from dinner to daytime — the windowless space is intimate and romantic, words that most of us…
3501 Seoul offers varying degrees of accessible and authentic Korean food in welcoming surroundings
“They say that Korean restaurants should be judged by the quality of their banchan, the various small plates that land on the table to mark the beginning of a Korean meal,” write authors Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard in Koreatown, A Cookbook. “They also say that a restaurant should be judged by the pace at…
I Want My (Old) MTV
With Millennial pandering and ’90s nostalgia at an all-time high, it makes perfect sense that this week saw the start of MTV Classic, replacing the channel VH1 Classic (which was probably trying to do the same exact thing. Ouch). Launching exactly 35 years to the day after MTV first aired, the new network kicked off…
Maybe it’s time to retire Damon as Bourne
From the start, the question has always been, “Who is Jason Bourne?” With the new Jason Bourne film, the fifth in the series and featuring a returning Matt Damon after he wasn’t in 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, it’s a question that should be asked more than ever. It opened last weekend and quickly became the…
Lost and Found: Christian Schmit’s ‘Lost in the Making’ questions the reliabilty of memories
Christian Schmit’s current exhibition at the Weston Art Galley, Lost In the Making, is the work of an artist deftly demonstrating both his mastery of craft and conceptual concerns. It is the work of an artist who has conquered technique enough to focus on philosophical concerns: Why do objects appeal to us so much? What…
Sound Advice: Rob Zombie with Korn and In This Moment (Aug. 7)
If Rob Zombie had produced only his brilliantly brutal catalog with White Zombie, his place in Metal’s firmament would still have warranted a bronze statue. In fact, Zombie’s ambitions extended beyond merely making music, given his childhood fascination with horror movies and his stated desire to combine Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Bela Lugosi and Stan…
Sound Advice: Wye Oak with Tuskha (Aug. 7)
The guitar/drums duo has become a pervasive entity in Indie Rock in the new millennium, but, as in any musical endeavor, the important aspect is not necessarily the elements in the equation, it’s what they add up to create. In the case of Baltimore twosome Wye Oak, the elements actually do make a difference. The…
Sound Advice: The Claudettes (Aug. 5)
In his band oh my god — an AltRock crew that had a sizeable audience in Greater Cincinnati thanks to frequent tour stops and a high-powered live show — Chicago-based musician Johnny Iguana’s talents on the keyboard fueled the music, turning the organ into a lead instrument in a Rock band better than anyone since…
Foxy Shazam members continue to make waves
Since breaking up (or going on “indefinite hiatus”) in 2014, Cincinnati-based rockers Foxy Shazam’s local and nationwide fan-base undoubtedly misses seeing the band’s high-wire live shows and hearing new music from the eclectic, eccentric rockers. But fans can take solace in the various great musical projects launched by members of the band, a couple of…
Ohio’s U.S. Senate race ties into the larger fight between parties for the hearts of working class voters
Once, many Youngstown, Ohio residents made steel, enjoyed middle class job security and prosperity and voted Democrat. But over the past 40 years, those first two things have become less and less true for the city’s dwindling population, as well as for those in other Ohio cities that once served as hubs of high-paying industrial…
Council questions Cranley’s union pay raise proposal
Usually, Cincinnati’s city administration, led by its city manager, negotiates wages with city employees. But a proposal by Mayor John Cranley could change that, giving employees represented by five major unions pay raises larger than those agreed upon earlier by the city. That’s caused concerns from Cincinnati City Council, which must give the final go-ahead…
Find summer romance in ‘Girlfriend’ at Know Theatre
Like singer-songwriter Matthew Sweet, writer Todd Almond grew up in Nebraska. Sweet first found fame when he released the album Girlfriend in 1991, a set of tunes that powerfully influenced Almond, several years younger than the singer. Exploring the feelings of awkwardness and joy that are so prevalent in young love, its messages were firmly…
