Hebrew Union College vandalized with swastika
An employee at Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College today discovered a swastika on the school's main sign facing busy Clifton Avenue in Clifton. The inflammatory anti-semitic symbol, a calling card of Neo-Nazis and other hate groups, was scrawled large across the sign in white spray paint. The Cincinnati Police Department says officers are actively investigating and…
Morning News: Richardson joins mayoral race; Blackwell firing drama continues; U.S. House GOP hobbles ethics oversight office
Good morning all. Thank God 2016 is behind us, right? There’s no way 2017 can be anywhere near as bad, right? Haha. Right. It’s probably gonna be a shitshow, unfortunately. Anyway, on that happy thought, here’s your first update of the new year. This year’s mayoral race will officially get a new contender today. University…
Stage Door: It’s a Wrap!
This weekend is your final chance to see the last few 2016 holiday shows at local theaters. The Playhouse offers A Christmas Carol through New Year’s Eve; I always think Ebenezer Scrooge’s sell-by date has expired once Christmas has come and gone, but if you’ve never seen this lovely production (read Erica Reid’s CityBeat account of her first…
Your NYE Weekend To Do List
Check out our New Year's Eve listings for even more parties, events, dinners and drinks to wrap up a cringe-worthy year. FRIDAY 30 NYE: NEW YEAR’S EVE EVE AT CHRISTIAN MOERLEIN Can’t wait to get 2016 over with? Drink the year away a day early at the Christian Moerlein Malt House. Celebrate New Year’s Eve…
Morning News: City settled with former chief Blackwell; banks to pay redlining settlement; Kentucky’s and Indiana’s new Ohio River toll bridges
Hello all. I hope you’re all getting ready to bid 2016 farewell. The end couldn’t come soon enough. As you ice up those champagne bottles, let me hit you with one last blast of news before the New Year. The big revelation yesterday, dug up by the Cincinnati Business Courier, was that the city of…
Morning News: Councilman presents measure to save Dennison building; questions around Ohio medicinal marijuana; Kasich vetoes renewable energy pause
Good morning all. Here are some quick news bits for you today. Councilman Chris Seelbach has introduced a measure that could save the embattled Dennison Hotel, the 124-year-old downtown building owned by a real estate arm of Cincinnati car dealership magnates the Joseph family. The building, designed by the firm of noted architect Samuel Hannaford,…
Top Trends and TV Moments of 2016
POC POV — People of color, along with many other minority voices, have long been underrepresented on mainstream TV. In recent years, shows like black-ish, Jane the Virgin and Master of None have been great diverse additions to our screens, and in 2016, audiences were gifted with two very different but equally enlightening and entertaining black-centric comedies with HBO’s Insecure and FX’s Atlanta.…
Top Ten Films of 2016
There’s no better encapsulation of the year in film than the re-mastered 30th-anniversary print of David Lynch’s masterful Blue Velvet, which kicked off its arthouse engagement run in March at the Film Forum in New York City. I credit that film as the one setting me on the path to becoming a critic. I attended…
‘Fellow Travelers’ led a strong year in music
The year 2016 was a busy one for Classical music in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra took up residence in the Taft Theatre while Music Hall undergoes renovation. The Cincinnati Opera moved to the Aronoff for the same reason. The Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra named a new artistic director and new vocal and instrumental chamber groups…
The Year in Local Theater Productions
Cincinnati theatergoers had a lot to enjoy during 2016. Each of the following shows earned a 2016 CityBeat Critic’s Pick. The Cincinnati Playhouse continued to give women playwrights their due with a world premiere by a rising young playwright, Lauren Gunderson. The Revolutionists (February-March), commissioned by the Playhouse, was for me its best production during 2016. Gunderson’s scintillating…
The Year in Visual Arts
The FotoFocus Biennial of photography and the Cincinnati Art Museum dominated visual arts in 2016, but there were certainly additional distinguished exhibits at museums and galleries. And outside in the streets, there were notable new public murals, like ArtWorks’ Rosemary Clooney tribute in Over-the-Rhine. FotoFocus and the art museum overlapped on one key exhibition, Kentucky…
The Year in Local Recordings
Click here to listen to a playlist featuring tracks from 86 of these 2016 releases by Cincinnati area artists. • Wussy – Forever Sounds With Attica!, broadly-acclaimed Cincinnati band Wussy turned out a clattering, noisy evocation of the Psych Folk strum and twang it had crashed headlong into on its previous album, Strawberry. Two years…
What a Year!
Taking a Giant Trump on America Tycoon caricature Donald J. Trump — a guy who got off to people losing their jobs so much that “you’re fired” became his catchphrase, a once innocuous annoyance with hair so bad it carried a Letterman bit called “Trump or Monkey?” more than a decade ago, a dirtbag who literally said…
Cincinnati Music Releases of 2016: A Playlist
As we approach the fade out at the end of the song that was 2016, this week’s CityBeat takes a look back at what we saw, heard, tasted and thought about over the past year. For music, the Year in Review issue gives us a chance to look back at the recordings that caught our…
2016 in the News
Dear lord. What a year 2016 has been. Do we even need to remind you? So much has happened that, actually, we probably do. There’s a crazy space train zooming around downtown, a very divisive reality TV star will soon be president and Democrats run Hamilton County. There were many darker things afoot this year…
A Year in Reviews
27 Bar + Kitchen 720 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky., 859-360-5579, 27bar.kitchen Newport’s 27 Bar + Kitchen is a stylish brunch and dinner spot on Monmouth Street (aka Route 27, hence the name). The restaurant, which prides itself on being as farm-to-table as possible, is an extremely promising addition for this established stretch of the neighborhood’s…
