Justin Townes Earle with Gill Landry
When you are Justin Townes Earle and you are the son of the famous musician Steve Earle, the bonus of name recognition soon gives way to overt scrutiny. And once in the public eye, if you are the son of a famous artist and you get strung out, it is hard to turn that image…
The Church with The Sharp Things
In the late ’70s, Australia exported a fair amount of bracingly unique Alternative Rock that rivaled anything produced by America or Great Britain. One of the Antipodean music scene’s leading lights in the subsequent ’80s was The Church, an aptly christened quartet that played with a hushed, psychedelic intensity and inspired an almost religious fervor…
The Life and Times with Ashes and Iron
Indie Rock power trios are as common as crime, but the ones that rise to the top of the form defy the limitations of their numbers by sounding more expansive than the standard guitar/bass/drums set-up. The Life and Times can certainly claim its place in that rarified collective, among similarly gifted triads like Nada Surf,…
Iris DeMent with Pieta Brown
In the Folk/Gospel/Country realm, few singer/songwriters are as acclaimed, respected and beloved as Iris DeMent by devoted fans as well as her adoring peer group. DeMent’s albums have been rightfully praised for their exquisite simplicity, emotional honesty and brilliant authenticity. She’s been roundly lauded for a catalog that is improbably slim yet infinitely satisfying. The…
Justin Townes Earle with Gill Landry
When you are Justin Townes Earle and you are the son of the famous musician Steve Earle, the bonus of name recognition soon gives way to overt scrutiny. And once in the public eye, if you are the son of a famous artist and you get strung out, it is hard to turn that image…
The Church with The Sharp Things
In the late ’70s, Australia exported a fair amount of bracingly unique Alternative Rock that rivaled anything produced by America or Great Britain. One of the Antipodean music scene’s leading lights in the subsequent ’80s was The Church, an aptly christened quartet that played with a hushed, psychedelic intensity and inspired an almost religious fervor…
Music: The Life and Times with Ashes and Iron
Indie Rock power trios are as common as crime, but the ones that rise to the top of the form defy the limitations of their numbers by sounding more expansive than the standard guitar/bass/drums set-up. The Life and Times can certainly claim its place in that rarified collective, among similarly gifted triads like Nada Surf,…
Music: Iris Dement with Pieta Brown
In the Folk/Gospel/Country realm, few singer/songwriters are as acclaimed, respected and beloved as Iris DeMent by devoted fans as well as her adoring peer group. DeMent’s albums have been rightfully praised for their exquisite simplicity, emotional honesty and brilliant authenticity. She’s been roundly lauded for a catalog that is improbably slim yet infinitely satisfying. The…
Event: Rising Woman Workshop
Harmonious Energies, “a community of metaphysical and holistic healers for body, mind and soul,” hosts an eight-week series of workshops exploring wisdom of the feminine, with approaches such as meditation, energy clearing and community building. Each week focuses on a different theme, and this week centers on the idea of spiritual truths. Activities will include…
Music: Gill Landry
If you’re heading to Southgate House for Justin Townes Earle, I cannot stress enough the importance of arriving early to check out opener Gill Landry. Landry’s been writing, playing and touring with Bluegrass bunch Old Crow Medicine Show for more than 10 years and everything OCMS does is perfection in my eyes. However, Landry’s solo…
Music: Hey Mavis
Great Northern Ohio Americana band Hey Mavis is headed to town to participate in UC Blue Ash’s “Rhythm ‘n’ Blue Ash” series this weekend, just ahead of the release of its new album What I Did. The group is led by the magnetic vocals, banjo and songwriting of frontperson Laurie Michelle Caner, who is joined…
Art: Brighton’s First Saturdays
At least one new gallery in Brighton will host its inaugural exhibition Saturday — i.e. Pear Gallery (2159 Central Ave., #8) — and no less than four exhibitions will be on view along the stretch of Central Avenue between the Ice Cream Factory and semantics gallery. semantics hosts the work of Cincinnati visual artist and…
Event: Macy’s Art Sampler Weekend
More than 100 free performances and activities for thespians and admirers of the arts are jam packed into a single weekend at venues across Cincinnati during the Macy’s Arts Sampler. Brought to you by ArtsWave, Greater Cincinnati arts organizations of all shapes and sizes will get their turn on stage and in the spotlight, with…
Sports: Men’s Roller Derby
If you’re missing your weekly chance to watch dudes beat the tar out of each other now that football season is over, we may have found your replacement. And, no, it’s not hockey. It’s way too freaking cold to go sit around an ice rink. It’s not too cold, however, to huddle up with your…
Art: Canstruction
Canstruction, the annual design/build competition to benefit the Freestore Foodbank, features unique and creative sculptural constructions made with non-perishable canned and packaged food built by area design and architecture firms, plus a group of UC students. On Friday, the Aronoff Center will host a ticketed awards gala to honor the sculptures with Best Use of…
Event: Cincinnati International Wine Festival
If wine gets better with age, it makes sense that the Cincinnati International Wine Festival would too. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the three-day fest is made up of winery dinners at local restaurants and grand tastings, plus a Saturday charity auction and luncheon at the Hall of Mirrors. The fest, which is a nonprofit, has…
Event: Bockfest
Bockfest, the oldest and largest German-style bock beer festival in the United States, is back to host a weekend of beer drinking, live music, German games, dancing, a 5k run and tons of sausage. The party kicks off 6 p.m. Friday with a parade led by a majestic bock — or to the non-German speaker,…
Event: After Hours Bridal Show
Held at Great American Ball Park, the After Hours Bridal Show certainly throws a unique curveball into the average bridal event. While brides-to-be and their grooms and families preview the latest wedding trends from more than 75 of Cincinnati’s finest wedding vendors, a special surprise is in store. Brides will have a chance to win…
Event: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Come one, come all! The famous family entertainers Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey proudly present their show “Legends.” With spectacles to inspire awe in kids and the kid within, you’ll see English big cat trainer Alexander Lacey and his majestic cats, the Thundering Cossack Warriors perform stunts on horseback, the Torres Family ride motorcycles…
Event: Beer and Beethoven
After a day of work, unwind with the charming and soothing melodies of Classical music. Join the Cincinnati World Piano Competition for its first Beer and Beethoven, a casual Classical music experience for young professionals. Enjoy a craft beer at Rhinegeist as piano music from throughout the ages fills the space, with a special performance…
Comedy: Bengt Washburn
“I grew up Mormon, devout Mormon,” Bengt Washburn says. But he married a Catholic girl. Washburn’s relationship with his wife, who is in the Air Force, is a case of opposites attracting, he says. He was smitten right from the start. “It was a blind date,” he says. “I didn’t have a house. I was…
Onstage: Peter Pan
Don’t let the disappointing TV production of Peter Pan in December keep you away from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music’s production of this delightful show, where it will be populated by performers on their way to Broadway careers. The story of a mischievous boy who can fly and refuses to grow up will…
Onstage: Little Women
Cincy Shakes production of Little Women captures the vivacity of Alcott’s stories about the March sisters and their lives. With Clark as its thoughtful director, the show offers an insightful glimpse into an earlier era and how young women navigated their courses toward adulthood. When Jo’s initial efforts at publication are rejected, she is advised…
Watch: Electric Citizen’s “Light Years Beyond” Music Video
Local Rock crew Electric Citizen (winners of a 2015 Cincinnati Entertainment Award in the “Hard Rock/Metal” category) just unleashed a new music video for its delicious slab of trippy heaviness, “Light Years Beyond.” The clip, which features some cool throwback visual stylings and was directed by David Brodsky, premiered on Vice’s music site, Noisey, today.…
Morning News and Stuff
Morning y’all. Here’s what’s up today. First, I have a couple previews of stories that will be in the print issue tomorrow. We’re taking a deeper look at these issues, but here’s the teaser: I skipped doing the morning news yesterday so I could check out council’s Law and Public Safety Committee meeting. The committee…
Jean-Robert’s Le Bar a Boeuf Opens Today
Jean-Robert de Cavel's latest venture, the whimsically titled Le Bar a Boeuf (literally translated to "beef bar"), opens today in East Walnut Hills' Edgecliff building (2200 Victory Parkway). The neo-French bistro will only be open for dinner to start, with lunch and brunch service following shortly after. “It’s taken us a little longer to open than we anticipated," says de…
Macy’s Music Festival Becomes “Cincinnati Music Festival”
A lot of people still call it “Jazz Fest” (a hold-over from some of its early names, like the Kool Jazz Festival) and more recently (as of last year) it went by the name of Macy’s Music Festival, but Cincinnati’s popular, long-running celebration of classic and contemporary R&B and Soul is now cutting to the…
Media Gotcha! Games Here and Abroad
News media games of Gotcha! turned nasty on both sides of the Atlantic. If embarrassing the other guy were only adults behaving badly, the affairs would be entertaining. It’s that and more… Here, serial exaggerations or lies by Brian Williams, Bill O’Reilly and others erodes confidence in what we report about politics, politicians and public…
Leftovers: What We Ate This Weekend
Each week CityBeat staffers and dining writers tell you what they ate this weekend. We're not always proud — or trendy — but we definitely spend at least some money on food. Mike Breen: I’m 74 years late to the party, but I had a late breakfast at the wonderful Sugar n’ Spice restaurant (which…
Little Women (Review)
Let’s hear it for the girls! Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s excellent female performers are showcased in the regional premiere of Emma Reeves' stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. There is, in fact, nothing “little” about their performances. The diminutive qualifier Alcott pertained to girls growing up — perhaps as patronizingly described by their more…
Your Weekend To Do List (2/27-3/1)
After fans were teased by its brief availability online two weeks ago — a “bug,” they say — the next chapter of House of Cards is finally here. Since some of us are guilty of binge-watching both previous seasons, it’s been more than a year since many viewers have spent some quality time with the Underwoods.…
Film: Paris
Director Cedric Klapisch's Paris is the final movie in the Cinema in the City series that University of Cincinnati's new Center for Film and Media Studies is presenting at Clifton's Esquire Theatre. The 2008 French film, with a cast that includes Juliette Binoche and Roman Duris, explores a cross-section of middle-class Parisian life. Michael Gott, UC…
Freekbass Signs with Ropeadope
Veteran Cincinnati Funk bassist/singer/songwriter Freekbass announced this week that he has signed a deal with the esteemed Ropeadope Records. Freekbass’ next album — the follow-up to last year’s self-released Everybody’s Feelin’ Real (which you can stream/purchase here) — is currently slated for release on the label early this fall. “I grew up listening to artists…
Music Killer
Very casually over the phone, my friend told me how he laid his Martin Guitar on the floor in his living room and in a fit of frustration and rage and with the boots on his feet, smashed his acoustic guitar into bits and pieces. After he told me this tale, I asked him to…
Morning News and Stuff
Hey all! It’s Friday. I have work to do. Let’s keep this brief, shall we, while avoiding a stupid debate about the color of any pictures of women’s wear that might be floating around the Internet. (I see both blue and black and white and gold depending on when I look. Yes, I am special).…
Stage Door: Cincinnati Theaters Generating Heat, Despite Cold Weather
Last weekend's snowstorm canceled performances at several local theaters (including the Cincinnati Playhouse), so you might have had several days without theater. Is it time to make up? I finally caught up with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Little Women last night, and I'm glad of it. While the weather is still cold and sidewalks…
Locally Based Project Seeks Musician Input
Late last year it was announced that Brad Schnittger (member of the great local band The Sundresses) was selected as one of two "Haile Fellows" for 2015 by People’s Liberty, which provides $100,000 grants to local projects in an effort to “uncover opportunities to accelerate the positive transformation of Greater Cincinnati.” The grant will allow…
Forgotten Classics: Hook
On Aug. 11, 2014, the world lost one of its greatest entertainers of the last century — Robin Williams. I can remember where I was when I heard about his passing. I just got home from my day job as a security guard at King’s Island, logged onto Facebook and the first thing I saw…
Morning News and Stuff
Hey all! Here’s the news today. A well-known former attorney has filed a federal lawsuit against the Kentucky Bar Association to get his license back after it was suspended. Eric Deters has served three suspensions over his career for making false statements in court, failing to return a fee to a client and other infractions.…
Bunbury Music Festival Announces 2015 Lineup
The Bunbury Music Festival will present its fourth annual three-day event on Cincinnati’s riverfront (Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove) June 5-7 this year (moved up from the usual July dates due to Reds/All Star Game activities). This morning, organizers of the festival — which was purchased by Columbus-based PromoWest Productions late last year — officially…
From the Copy Desk
Good morning readers. I hope you're all surviving the bleak, cold, dark days of February better than I am. I can't stop myself from browsing the "Getaways" section of Groupon — five night, all-inclusive stay in Punta Cana? Sign me up! I'll go anywhere the sun is shining and the heat is brimming. Someday, right?…
August: Osage County (Review)
Critic's Pick George Washington was known for never telling a lie. But telling the truth — even the so-called truth — can be a hazardous path, as evidenced by the meltdown of the Weston family, who populate Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage County. It’s the current production of Clifton Players. In the three-act…
Music: Rod Picott
Growing up in rural Maine, Americana singer/songwriter Picott became interested in music early. Even as he finished school and started work, he kept up his interest. He eventually left Maine for Boulder, Colo., and then Nashville in 1994, holding on to his construction-related work while trying to start a career as a songwriter. “I spent…
Music: The Contortionist with Revocation, Fallujah, Toothgrinder, The Requiem and Sea of Treachery
Although hints of growled dirty vocals sometimes form an undercurrent to the proceedings and even push to the forefront, The Contortionist seems detached from the Deathcore/Death Metal proponents with which it is often grouped. Based on its third full album, last year’s atmospheric and powerful Language, the Indianapolis quintet clearly shares more sonic and philosophical…
Music: American Aquarium with Ben Knight & the Well Diggers and Rod Hamdallah
T he cool thing about American Aquarium is that they have always been really good. Headed up by the band’s founder, guitarist, singer and lead songwriter BJ Barham, the group almost called it quits several years ago. The band was making great music, but not many were noticing, and life on the road for little…
Music: The Bunny The Bear with Released by Prayer and Time and Distance
While Matthew Tybor insists the naming of The Bunny The Bear was a random act of spontaneity, there’s an old joke about a bear and a bunny that may have burrowed into Tybor’s subconscious. (Reader’s Digest version: Bear asks bunny if he has trouble getting shit out of his fur. Bunny says “Not at all.”…
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Announces 22nd Season
As I wrote on Monday, season announcements from Cincinnati theaters are a sure sign that warmer days are ahead. The temperature cranked up a few more notches tonight when Cincinnati Shakespeare Company announced its 2015-2016 season. It’s no secret that CSC’s history and stock-in-trade are plays by William Shakespeare, of which they’ll offer four in…
Music: JJ Grey & Mofro with The London Souls
Coming from a former family chicken farm and pecan tree grove in Jacksonville, Fla., you’d expect JJ Grey to exude the flavor of the South, and that’s just what he does. Grey is the epitome of the passionate yet modest country boy, boasting a love for the land, concern for human troubles and a distinct…
Art: The Total Look
The star attraction of The Total Look, the new Cincinnati Art Museum exhibit that features fashion designs of the late Rudi Gernreich, is the one-piece topless bathing suit (or monokini) that he designed for women in 1964. It created as much controversy in its time as an Andy Warhol soup can or The Beatles’ long hair…
Song of the Sea
Co-writer (with Will Collins) and director Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells and a segment director of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet) presents yet another European myth; this time surrounding Saoirse, the last child of the selkies, a group of magical women from Irish and Scottish legends with the ability to shape shift from human form…
Red Army
Documentary director Gabe Polsky, one of the producers of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, conceptualized Red Army, it would seem, as a sly deconstruction of the Cold War politics between the United States and the former U.S.S.R. from the perspective of Russian hockey players. The film sets up the Communist propaganda machine for…
The Lazarus Effect
Imagine splicing together the filmic DNA of Pet Sematary with Flatliners and it seems like you would be in the right ballpark for monster mash-up from director David Gelb (who inexplicably gave us the richly satisfying foodie documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi prior to this outing). The Lazarus Effect centers on the work of a…
Cincinnati Artist Shinji Turner-Yamamoto Attracts International Attention
Shinji Turner-Yamamoto's 2012 Global Tree Project: Hanging Garden — two trees suspended by wire inside Mt. Adams' deconsecrated (and crumbling) Holy Cross Church — is now generally recognized as one of the high points of public art in Cincinnati in recent years. In addition to proving inspirational for us in terms of what large-scale, site-specific…
Focus
Apparently eager to turn the page on a career slump (After Earth certainly qualifies, as well as that random “devilish” character cameo opposite Russell Crowe and Colin Farrell in Winter’s Tale), Will Smith has decided to venture into R-rated content, kicking things off with Focus from the writing-directing team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa…
Hail to the Chief
After fans were teased by its brief availability online two weeks ago — a “bug,” they say — the next chapter of House of Cards (Season Premiere, Friday, Netflix) is finally here. Since some of us are guilty of binge-watching both previous seasons, it’s been more than a year since many viewers have spent some…
David Cronenberg ‘Maps’ Out His Perverse History Onscreen
David Cronenberg’s biographic listing on IMDB refers to him as “the King of Venereal Horror” or “the Baron of Blood,” because in his oeuvre those elements are so in-your-face, and yet there is always the sense that Cronenberg understands and appreciates maintaining a necessary remove, a dramatic distance that allows for a potentially clear-minded examination…
Rudi Gernreich’s ‘Total Look’ Shows the Fashion Avant-Garde
The star attraction of The Total Look, the new Cincinnati Art Museum exhibit opening Saturday that features fashion designs of the late Rudi Gernreich, is the one-piece topless bathing suit (or monokini) that he designed for women in 1964. It created as much controversy in its time as an Andy Warhol soup can or The…
New Show at DAAP Captures ‘Liquid Light’
Joseph Marioni, the Cincinnati-born, New York-based artist who is showing relatively recent paintings at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, does not consider his single-color-dominated, non-representational canvases to be “monochromatic” or “abstract.” And he certainly doesn’t refer to the work as pictures. They are paintings, and he finds it unfortunate…
Asian Fusian Barbecue with Tobias Harris
Tobias Harris spent 23 years designing other peoples’ restaurants before he designed his own. “It was a perfect way for me to develop a sensitivity to what makes a restaurant work,” he says. “Why people come, what are the touch points they remember.” According to Harris, it also helped him build a love of eating.…
True to Life
Here’s a handy little mathematical equation to keep in mind when considering the state of popular music: Modern Country = lies. Americana = truth. To prove it, give a listen to a Modern Country radio hit like Lee Brice’s “Drinking Class,” a fantasy about blue-collar guys who celebrate workweek’s end with drinking and dancing. Just…
Thigh of the Tiger
R emember the old saying about prophets never being recognized in their home countries? It’s bitter wisdom that easily translates to certain local music environs where bands are neither nurtured nor respected. In the case of Tiger Sex, the band was clearly hailed for their visceral presentation within the Las Vegas scene, but the members…
The Contortionist with Revocation, Fallujah, Toothgrinder, The Requiem and Sea of Treachery
Although hints of growled dirty vocals sometimes form an undercurrent to the proceedings and even push to the forefront, The Contortionist seems detached from the Deathcore/Death Metal proponents with which it is often grouped. Based on its third full album, last year’s atmospheric and powerful Language, the Indianapolis quintet clearly shares more sonic and philosophical…
JJ Grey & Mofro with The London Souls
Coming from a former family chicken farm and pecan tree grove in Jacksonville, Fla., you’d expect JJ Grey to exude the flavor of the South, and that’s just what he does. Grey is the epitome of the passionate yet modest country boy, boasting a love for the land, concern for human troubles and a distinct…
American Aquarium with Ben Knight & the Well Diggers and Rod Hamdallah
The cool thing about American Aquarium is that they have always been really good. Headed up by the band’s founder, guitarist, singer and lead songwriter BJ Barham, the group almost called it quits several years ago. The band was making great music, but not many were noticing, and life on the road for little bank…
Morning News and Stuff
Morning y’all. Let’s talk about the news real quick. I think winter is getting to me, because this update got pretty opinionated pretty quickly. Can you think of anything useful, even vital, on which the county could spend $7.5 million? Maybe chipping in a bit more toward the Union Terminal renovation, or giving a bit…
The Bunny The Bear with Released by Prayer and Time and Distance
While Matthew Tybor insists the naming of The Bunny The Bear was a random act of spontaneity, there’s an old joke about a bear and a bunny that may have burrowed into Tybor’s subconscious. (Reader’s Digest version: Bear asks bunny if he has trouble getting shit out of his fur. Bunny says “Not at all.”…
See-Through
Watching the Oscars Sunday night was fun and fanciful because there’s nothing like watching wealthy, accomplished white people “acting” racially guilty when they’re really quite comfortable in their homogeneous groupings. I felt invisible watching for other invisible Negroes. The Academy Awards are reverting to the days when “white” sports like tennis and golf and, for…
Cincinnati vs. The World 2.25.15
A rare leopard is back from the brink of extinction in Russia thanks to recent conservation efforts. At least 57 Amur leopards now exist in Russia’s Land of the Leopard National Park, up from just 30 in 2007. An additional eight to 12 leopards were counted in adjacent areas of China. WORLD +2 Oxford and…
Worst Week Ever!: Feb. 18-24
Former NYC Mayor Who No One Liked Prior to 9/11 Hearkens Good Old Days of McCarthyism Not too long ago, the school of thought espoused by those who liked George W. Bush when he was giving speeches that sounded as if Ricky from Trailer Park Boys wrote them was that people who don’t like the…
Beyond Idol Chatter: Life After the Show Begins
While Jess Lamb’s American Idol journey may be over, the show is still very much a part of her everyday life. Fans of the show know that the performers often leverage their appearances into work on other projects, such as backup singing or working with national acts in collaborations. It is a process that takes…
3CDC Plan Would Bring 21 New Liquor Licenses Downtown
A plan proposed by the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation and backed by most members of City Council and Mayor John Cranley could pave the way for as many as 21 new liquor licenses downtown. 3CDC has proposed creating two new community entertainment districts downtown. One, called Downtown West, would encompass the areas around the…
Attorney General Rejects Initial Weed Legalization Language
An effort to legalize marijuana in Ohio hit an obstacle Feb. 23 as Attorney General Mike DeWine rejected an early draft of a legalization group’s potential ballot initiative. ResponsibleOhio filed the summary of its plan Feb. 13 along with 1,000 valid signatures from Ohio voters. DeWine cited several missing details in the plan, including a…
County Commissioners: No to Mount Airy Morgue, Crime Lab
Hamilton County Commissioners announced Feb. 23 that they do not intend to continue pursuing a plan to move the county’s morgue, crime lab and other offices to the former Mercy Hospital in Mount Airy. Mercy had offered the building to the county for $1, but commissioners say retrofitting it would simply be too expensive, costing…
Slow Ride
P icture an epic trip on a dedicated bike trail from downtown Cincinnati to the shores of Lake Erie in Cleveland. Or, if you’re less ambitious, visualize a Saturday jaunt from Milford to downtown. Both are surprisingly close to reality, and the city’s effort to pave an unused set of railroad tracks to make a…
Feeling the Flow
Ken Katkin has built several careers out of his love for adventurous music and freeform radio. Katkin, host of the Saturday afternoon Trash Flow Radio broadcast on listener-supported community station WAIF, has had radio shows in New Jersey, metropolitan New York, Illinois, District of Columbia and now Cincinnati for more than 30 years, always at…
New Local Release News
Derek Stinson (guitars/vocals) and Mark Karapondo (bass) of local band Cletus Romp have started a new group with drummer Brian Moeller (also of The Hiders and Liquid Hologram) called 40lbs of Lye. Earlier in February, the trio released the first taste of its dark, swampy, soulful Rock with The Hillbilly Deathtrap Demos, a five-track EP…
Good Eggs
I f you consider yourself to be a creative person in Cincinnati and haven’t heard of People’s Liberty yet, get thyself to Google. Or at least walk across the street next time you’re at the Dojo Gelato/Colonel De end of Findlay Market to check things out at The Crown building — People’s Liberty’s temporary home…
Get Your Grape On
In 1991, a group of wine lovers, including founder Russ Wiles, partnered with public radio station WGUC to create the Cincinnati International Wine Festival, an event aimed at raising money for the public radio system and to promote wine culture in Cincinnati. Flash forward 25 years and the festival has become a huge three-day juggernaut…
