The Contemporary Arts Center has joined the national movement to mark the holidays with an Unsilent Night procession. Participants bring boomboxes and play cassettes of New Music/Experimental composer
Celebrate a fantastic year for Over-the-Rhine as family, friends and neighbors light up more than 2,000 luminaries. This year, the jubilee will be centered in the newly renovated Washington Park
Students from DAAP’s Master of Fine Arts Program will take over various pop-up spots along Short Vine and its off-streets to showcase their work. Thirty-eight graduate students will exhibit wor
The John Ganis: Consuming the American Landscape photography show of “over-developed/under-respected lands” at Iris BookCafé will have a knowledgeable interpreter when Sam McKinley, chair of the
A Mall of America security guard arrested a 29-year-old man in Minnesota for using the last $1,000 to his name to make it rain on shoppers from a fourth-floor balcony. Serge Vorobyov says during the past year he lost his job, fell behind on his bills and
Enjoy an exclusive holiday concert from globally recognized a capella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, a group that celebrates various faiths and religions through singing rooted in the African Honey
Eat, drink and be Santa! Even Santa Claus needs a break from the madness of the holiday season, so if your best colors happen to be red and white and you need a reason to “ho, ho, ho,” meet a
Ring in the holiday season with a festive parade and costume contest for you and your trusty canine companion(s). Dress your dog in holiday gear, antlers, a cheery coat or let them wear their own fur
Ladies and gents, grab your boas, dust off your suspenders and don your 1920s best as Covington Arts raises a glass to bourbon, Prohibition and the 21st Amendment. BLDG will be transformed into a
Writer-director Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart, with a winsomely scraggly performance from Jeff Bridges, tapped into a raw, living-on-the-edge vibe that obviously would have inspired a Country son
Christmas music aficionados won’t want to miss America’s top holiday celebration, Mannheim Steamroller Christmas. The show, created by Grammy Award-winner Chip Davis, spotlights the renowned Chris
Though baseball season is long gone, it’s never too late to indulge in the fan frenzy of Cincinnati’s favorite pastime. This year’s Redsfest offers its annual winter warm-up with games, activiti
Semantics, Cincinnati’s oldest continuously operating nonprofit art gallery, is currently celebrating its 20th season of serving as a training ground for experimental and/or inexperienced artists.&n
Fred Hersch is one of the top pianists in the modern Jazz world, his deft and often innovative playing, arranging and compositional skills earning him boatloads of acclaim and numerous awards over the
The CAC is screening the new documentary Medora, about a high school basketball team’s 2011 season in a once-booming rural Indiana industrial town. Like the town itself, the team is fighting fo
Featuring one-mile of holiday-themed light displays, strung over the trees and through the woods. You’ll see Santa, his elves, toy soldiers and more from the comfort of your car during Sharon W
Falcon Theater knows its way around offbeat musicals. For the holidays, they offer one with a Rock score and puppets. Music trio Groove Lily created this concert event off-Broadway in 2004 with a
Join the Cyclones for their Ugly Holiday Sweater Party this year as they face off against the Kalamazoo Wings with hopes of keeping up their winning season (the ’Clones are 11-6 so far). Ugly s
Design and create your own blown-glass holiday ornament. Learn basic glassblowing technique alongside a Brazee Street Studios glassblowing instructor and then work independently to create your own orn
Mount Lookout celebrates 38 years of its annual luminaria event, during which the streets and shops of Mount Lookout Square are lit with candles in paper bags. The Cincinnati Observatory is participat
The Drake Planetarium turns its full-dome planetarium into a virtual snow globe with this animated laser light show, choreographed to classic holiday songs. The 32-minute show features Christmas
It took less than 30 minutes for it to become very clear on Dec. 2 that change had come to City Hall, but it likely wasn’t the change Cincinnati voters were expecting.
Comedian John Evans is no stranger to Cincinnati comedy fans; the Tulsa native recorded his album, High Plains Thrifter, at Go Bananas back in 2011. You may have also seen him on Comedy Central
Walden is the superb Indie Folk project of singer/songwriter Ethan Samuel Brown, who was born in eastern Kentucky, grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati and, when he was 18, moved to Nashville. Th
What stirs up more holiday spirit than a good murder? According to the folks at Mayhem & Mystery Dinner Theatre, nothing. So gather up the family for a night of murder, mystery and mayhe
Choose your favorite tribute to a tabby or homage to a Himalayan when Thunder-Sky Inc. gallery hosts a silent auction of cat-themed paintings, photography and sculpture for the benefit of Ohio Alleyca
Bring your friends to this year’s final City Flea urban curated flea market, with 45 vendors, including names such as Secondhand Fancy and Chestnut Street Studios, to find the perfect holiday gifts.
American Legacy Tours, the group responsible for the Queen City Underground tour and The Spirit of Christmas tour, are sponsoring a traditional German Christmas Saengerfest, showcasing 14 church choir
Be prepared to enter hog heaven during an evening of pork and booze tastings. Notable local restaurants — from Walt’s Hitching Post and Eli’s BBQ to City Barbeque and Camp Washington Chili
A true winter wonderland, as seen on Good Morning America and HGTV. This massive holiday ranch features 500,000 dancing Christmas lights synchronized to holiday music, unique Christmas craft gift
Drew Hastings started his comedy career in Dayton, Ohio after running several companies, including a document shredding concern. “I was better at selling the service than doing the actual shred
The United States Olympic Committee invites you to help pave the way to the next Olympic Games. The Road to Sochi Tour began in New York’s Times Square and has made its way to Cincinnati’s ow
Ring those nostalgic, silver bells with Taft’s annual holiday display, Antique Christmas, filled with antique toys, ornaments and decorations. This year’s display also includes a German nativ
Get in the Christmas spirit with an entire weekend of festive activities for the whole family in Price Hill. From watching the tree lighting while sipping on hot cocoa to singing with carolers to
What more can you ask for in a Christmas-themed event than a classic ballet paired with a contemporary lunch? The 2013 Nutcracker Luncheon is a family-friendly event with lunch and excerpts from
Cincinnati Shakespeare brings back — for the eighth consecutive year — a non-stop holiday romp through everyone’s favorite Christmas stories. They do it with four actors and in 90 minutes, skewe
Just because Jim Borgman retired from The Cincinnati Enquirer doesn’t mean his wit-infused pen is going dry. The Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist remains busy these days with his syn
Cincinnati Health Commissioner Noble Maseru said the city intends to work toward greater equity in life expectancy among races, though he refused to admit that reducing the life expectancy of whites would make this happen sooner.
When Cleveland and Lisa Cox returned their 9-year-old adopted boy to Butler County Family and Children Services Oct. 24 they didn’t tell him he wasn’t coming back home with them.
The turning of the calendar page to 2014 will mark the 25th anniversary of Steven Soderbergh’s breakthrough Sex, Lies, and Videotape, so it is somewhat fitting to end 2013 with a review of a new video-on-demand release.
Cincinnatians love seeing this city on-screen — in Rain Man, The Ides of March, Traffic, Bar Rescue, etc. — and there’s no greater film that encapsulates the spirit of the Queen City (plus the awesomeness of early ’90s Rollerblading
Composer Rick Sowash has a simple idea: Anyone can buy any of his CDs for any amount they want to pay and he promises to give half to the St. George Food Pantry. The other half goes to cover the cost of producing the albums, which is considerable.
It’s early December and time for you to decide which hip holiday show you want to take in. Of course, you just missed last weekend’s tour stop of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, a musical adaptation of the famous Dr. Seuss tale about
The Cincinnati Art Museum lately has been concentrating on what it calls “node” shows — small-to-medium-size exhibitions and gallery changes highlighting its collection or local angles. The bigger shows with a national/international focus will return in
Last month, Lance Bowman, mixologist/bar director of the Over-the-Rhine Japanese restaurant Kaze, received good news: He had won the Ohio portion of the fifth annual Esquire magazine-sponsored Woodfor
The mix of salty snacks and sweet snacks is one of the latest food fads the marketing departments of major food corporations have been trying to convince consumers they should be engaging with.It’s
