Music: Hopsin
Marcus Hopson — the 28-year-old DIY rapper better known as Hopsin — got his start with legendary Hip Hop imprint Ruthless Records, but the relationship soured and the MC left the label under contentious circumstances (something he’s seemingly comfortable with, having dissed the likes of Soulja Boy, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Tyler the Creator and…
Event: Appalachian Culture Fest
Appalachian Culture Fest explores all things Appalachian through two days of food, handmade crafts, dance, storytellers and live music from the likes of Youth in Bluegrass, Goodle Boys, Randy Barger and Peas In a Pod. You’ll also get the chance to see a live clogging performance and the Crossroads dance team in action. There is…
Event: Galileo’s Birthday
Celebrate the life, legacy, scientific experiments and 450th birthday of Galileo Galilei at the observatory with a viewing of Jupiter and the Galilean Moons through the historic 1843 telescope. The observatory will also be doing some of his greatest experiments, including dropping stuff off of the side of the Observatory to examine the force of…
Onstage: Mickey’s Music Festival
Are you in the mood for a concert with the kids? Come rock out with Mickey and the gang at U.S. Bank Arena. Mickey Mouse and his friends will perform with the stars from Disney classics such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Toy Story. Your favorite Disney hits will be remixed to the hottest…
Event: Bridalrama
Congratulations, ladies. You’ve got the ring, now what? The Bridalrama Winter Showcase is here for you to make those wedding planning anxieties disappear. At Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky’s leading bridal and wedding planning event, you’ll get the opportunity to meet national and local business professionals with exhibits on bridal gowns, cakes, florists, photography and much…
Event: My Furry Valentine
My Furry Valentine, Cincinnati’s largest pet adoption event, will feature more than 500 adoptable pets (dogs, cats, rabbits, pocket pets, rats, mice, ferrets and amphibians) from more than 40 different rescue and shelter groups from around the Greater Cincinnati area. With everyone under one roof, it becomes easy to find your perfect pet. Every adopted…
Film: Pretty in Pink
Dinner and movie is de rigueur for date night, and a classic romantic comedy is the perfect way to end a Valentine’s Day night out. The Esquire Theatre will host a one-night screening of John Hughes’ Brat Pack standard Pretty in Pink, complete with all the asymmetrical pink satin dresses, New Wave music and young…
Love Is All Around (Local Venues)
In the late ’90s, reportedly inspired while watching a pianist play Stephen Sondheim songs in a New York City cabaret bar, singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt decided he wanted to get into writing for musical theater. As legend has it, Merritt decided he’d write a hundred love songs and present them as a musical revue performed by…
Onstage: L’Orfeo
The Cincinnati Chamber Opera closes its season with Claudio Monteverdi’s late Renaissance/early Baroque opera L’Orfeo, based on the legend of Orpheus, his descent into Hades and his attempt to return his bride Eurydice to the land of the living. The opera — in Italian with English subtitles — is presented in collaboration with the Cincinnati Early Music…
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. with Chad Valley
As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun, and that holds true for Electro Pop music. The genre has been around since the 1970s, with bands like Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk; you can even trace it back to the Theremin craze of the 1920s. Electro Pop really flourished in the 1980s, of…
Onstage: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Through January and early February, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s (CSC) production of Hamlet captivated audiences. Two minor characters, Hamlet’s college chums Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, watched from the sidelines. In Tom Stoppard’s 1967 play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the pawns become the central characters, while Prince Hamlet, Queen Gertrude, King Claudius, Ophelia and others wander by.…
Attractions: Diana, A Celebration
The Cincinnati Museum Center brings the legacy of Princess Diana to the Queen City in Diana, A Celebration. This traveling exhibition chronicles to life of the late Princess of Wales through nine galleries containing 150 objects ranging from her royal wedding gown and designer dresses to family heirlooms, personal mementos, paintings, home videos and movies. …
Art: Hollis Hammonds Worthless Matter Reception at the Reed Gallery
Kentucky-born, University of Cincinnati-educated artist Hollis Hammonds returns to her alma mater Thursday with an artist reception for Worthless Matter, an exhibition exploring consumerist culture. A former adjunct instructor at several area art schools (including the Art Academy, Northern Kentucky University and DAAP), Hammonds moved to Austin, Texas in 2007 to work at St. Edward’s…
Quadron with Mayer Hawthorne
Denmark has yielded a number of intriguing artists over the years, none more compelling of late than Lars von Trier, a provocative filmmaker whose latest effort, Nymphomaniac, is as graphic and emotionally caustic as its title would suggest. Yet Quadron, an Electro Soul outfit from von Trier’s hometown of Copenhagen, comes from the opposite end…
Comedy: Josh Sneed
“I kind of felt like I hit a plateau material-wise for a while,” comedian Josh Sneed says. “I was paying attention to too many other things and wasn’t writing enough.” Indeed, the Cincinnati native became a father, started a successful T-shirt enterprise (Look at Me Shirts and Cincy Shirts), and started doing social media for…
Film: Cover Girl at The Carnegie
Rita Hayworth was one of the most popular pinup girls during WWII — and her beauty is still appreciated today. Nominated for five Oscars, the musical film Cover Girl is a classic snapshot of romanticized America during wartime. On Valentine’s Day, join Cincinnati World Cinema and The Carnegie for a one-night-only viewing of the film,…
Event: MadTree Sprye Release
A new beer season is upon us and MadTree Brewing will celebrate with the release of their spring seasonal, Sprye, a citrusy and earthy flavored brew. Enter raffles, play Winter Olympics-themed games and tour the brewery. There will be MadTree merchandise, beer on tap and food from Maribelle’s for sale. Ten percent of all Maribelle’s…
Married to a Chef
If thoughts of a romantic dinner at a hot restaurant with your significant other are on your mind for Valentine’s Day, you are most certainly not in a relationship with a chef. Why? Because, like most other holidays, the love of your life will be in the restaurant kitchen cooking for everyone else in town,…
Mayer Hawthorne with Quadron
As a born-and-raised southern Michigan boy, I can vouch firsthand for the fact that the weirdest, coolest things happen in Ann Arbor. (Did someone say Iggy Pop? Yes, I did, now pay attention.) Somewhere along the line, A2 native Andrew Cohen turned his love of Detroit-inspired Soul/R&B/Hip Hop into an actual music career with young…
Cheap Time with Cha-Cha-Chachi
Eight years ago, ex-Rat Traps vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Jeffrey Novak envisioned a Garage-stained band that would nod toward Glam Rock and Power Pop influences, fueled by the Punk he’d been playing since his teenage years. Recruiting bassist Jemina Pearl and drummer Nathan Vasquez, on a busman’s holiday from Be Your Own Pet, the Nashville native formed Cheap…
Meatball Kitchen (Review)
If you haven’t visited Short Vine in Corryville recently, you might confuse it for that other revitalized part of Vine Street everyone’s been talking about down the hill in Over-the-Rhine’s Gateway Quarter. In just a couple years, Short Vine has come a long way from its tattoo-parlors-and-bars days to include several new restaurants and eateries,…
Sneaky Sneaker Drop
HOT Sneaky Sneaker Drop Following in the footsteps of athletes and other rappers, Kanye West released the greatest shoe of all time in the form of the Yeezy II Red October on Feb. 9. Despite zero promotion outside of a tweet from shoemaker Nike announcing their availability, the entire stash of the limited edition shoes…
Past and Presence
If you somehow find yourself waist-deep in the art and/or business of making music as an adult, chances are you encountered a serious moment of clarity through music as a kid. Hugo Manuel — the sole force driving the confusingly named Chad Valley — vividly remembers experiencing one of those moments when he was 15.…
Heavy Adventures
Sunbather, the second album from Deafheaven, is a true listening “experience.” Clocking in at just under an hour, it moves from the epic blast-furnace riffage and jackhammer drumming of “Dream House” to the pensive, piano-laced wanderings of “Irresistible” with uncommon grace and fluidity. And that’s just the first two songs in a dynamic, ebb-and-flow album…
Local Artist’s Cake Portraits Sold Through Anthropologie
The most common complaint I've been hearing from my friends during this ongoing Polar Vortex is some version of, "All I've been doing is sitting around on the couch eating carbs and getting fat." Well, I'm no different, but I think I might have found a delightful, if only temporary alternative to having my cake…
Morning News and Stuff
A federal court in Cincinnati could soon decide whether married same-sex parents should be recognized by Ohio on their children’s birth certificates. Civil rights attorney Alphonse Gerhardstein filed the lawsuit on behalf of four same-sex couples who married outside the state and an adoption agency that helped one of the couples adopt a child in…
Lawsuit: End Same-Sex Discrimination on Birth Certificates
A federal court in Cincinnati could get another chance to advance LGBT rights if it takes up a lawsuit filed Monday that calls on Ohio to recognize the names of married same-sex parents on their adopted children’s birth certificates. Civil rights attorney Alphonse Gerhardstein filed the lawsuit on behalf of four same-sex couples who married…
‘Downton Abbey’ Season Four, Episode Six
Upstairs: EDITH IS PREGNANT AND SHE’S KEEPING THE BABY, PEOPLE. But her significant other, Michael Gregson, is still mysteriously missing. If he ends up dead, the Grantham spawn will officially be cursed with forever losing their loved ones in freak accidents. Robert “went to America” (aka filming The Monuments Men) while Rose sat in a…
Morning News and Stuff
Mayor John Cranley yesterday announced a plan to add another recruit class to the Cincinnati Fire Department and effectively eliminate brownouts, but it remains unclear how the class will be paid for in the long-term. The Fire Department applied for a federal grant that would cover the costs for two years, but the city would…
Trending Topics
Each week our intern Amber will be exploring what Cincinnatians are interested in by scouring the local Twitter trends and reporting on what she’s found. From serious tweets to goofy hashtags, she’ll highlight what Cincy’s been buzzing about. So get to tweeting, folks. #PunxsuatawneyPhil So it’s official: There will, in fact, be six more weeks…
Your Weekend To Do List: 2/7-2/9
Cincinnati Beer Week is in full effect, bringing craft beer tastings, pairings and brewery nights to bars and restaurants across the city through Feb. 13 (followed by the popular Cincy Winter Beerfest Feb. 14-15). Go here for the week’s highlights and find all of today’s CBW events here. Balls Around the Block is a bar…
Seminar (Review)
Critic's Pick Falcon Theater’s production of Theresa Rebeck’s 2011 play Seminar opened strong in the small, charming Monmouth Theatre in Newport, Ky. Rebeck, a Cincinnati native now living in Brooklyn, N.Y., is a triple-threat writer who has had success as a novelist, playwright and TV writer. Ensemble Theatre presented her Mauritius in 2009 and the…
Winter Blues Fest Kicks Off Tonight
A satellite event to the Cincy Blues Society’s huge outdoor, summertime Cincy Blues Fest, the Winter Blues Fest — which returns to The Phoenix (812 Race St., Downtown, thephx.com) tonight and tomorrow — has truly grown into its own. This year’s lineup features two of the fest’s biggest national headliners yet. Celebrated Blues/Rock singer/guitarist Tinsley…
Stage Door: Choices Galore
Last evening I went to see Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses at UC's College-Conservatory of Music. You can read more about playwright Zimmerman in my column in this week's issue here, and you'll probably figure out that this is one of my favorite scripts. CCM's drama program has created a shimmering, playful production that's getting a brief…
Morning News and Stuff
Cincinnati officials and Cincinnati Board of Education leaders yesterday announced a new collaborative that aims to share and align the city and Cincinnati Public Schools’ (CPS) policy goals. The initiative will focus on five areas: population growth, workforce development, safe and livable neighborhoods, wellness and access to technology. City and school officials say the collaborative…
Tribes (Review)
Critic's Pick Nina Raine’s award-winning play Tribes is overtly — and creatively — about people living with deafness. But it’s also a story of families and the human need to connect. It sheds interesting light on how people cope variously with a deficit of hearing, but it’s also about how even those who are not…
Own a Piece of FB’s
The trippy, Alice in Wonderland inspired themed bar FB’s is temporarily closed down for remodeling and the revamping of its image. In the mean time, the owners are auctioning off their dramatic and glamorous interior décor and artwork. Now’s your chance to own that bar stool you fell off of, the mirror you checked yourself…
NVISION Hosts Vintage Wedding Dress Exhibit and Sale
Wedding gowns capture the imagination as fashion, romance and art. Our collective memory holds the image of Princess Diana's long train trailing behind her as she walked up the steps at St. Paul's Cathedral in London and, locally, people flocked to the Wedded Perfection wedding gown exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Currently, another local venue…
Cincinnati Beer Week Kicks-Off Today
Today is the start of our beer lovin’ city’s favorite event, Cincinnati Beer Week. Although advertised as “a week,” it’s actually eight days of fun and foamy shenanigans in restaurants, bars and stores all across the Greater Cincinnati area. The mission statement behind Cincinnati Beer Week states, “it aims to educate, inspire and celebrate well-crafted…
City, Schools Join Forces in New Collaborative
Cincinnati officials and Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) leaders on Thursday promised to work in greater collaboration through the Alliance for Community and Educational Success (ACES), a new joint operation that will attempt to align the city and school district's shared policy goals. ACES plans to focus on five areas: population growth, workforce development, safe and…
Morning News and Stuff
The Ohio Rights Group could get medical marijuana legalization on the ballot this November, but the group first must gather enough petition signatures. Although the campaign has medical research and polling in its favor, it’s also struggled to raise a significant amount of cash to support a statewide campaign. At the same time, many entrepreneurs…
Vaping
On September 22, 2013, around seven o’clock in the morning, I smoked my last Pall Mall cigarette. It was the last one in my pack and the last one I ever intended to inhale and exhale. I was going to give up tobacco for good. This was the morning after my daughter’s wedding. After the…
‘Guns & Ammo’ Columnist Was Right — and Paid the Price
When a magazine’s troubles make it to the front page of the New York Times business section, it’s officially a media story. By then, however, I already was writing this column. Guns & Ammo is a slick monthly that I flip through while I’m waiting for prescriptions to be filled. Conceal/carry pistols and assault-style rifles are…
Black Codes From Above Ground
Every single February of my column-writing life — coming up on 13 years, collectively, between a daily and a weekly newspaper — I’ve whispered to myself secret black promises that this February, this would be the one I wouldn’t write an obligatory lamentation about Black History Month; yet, here I am again still trying to…
Bosco Makes You Feel All Right
A few weeks ago, I was headed downstairs with a basket of laundry and when I got to our kitchen doorway, I automatically raised my right leg to clear the baby gate. We haven't had any babies in the house since Clinton's first term, but we wound up using our long-neglected toddler barriers as a…
Reminiscing in the Supermarket
In January of 2010, I wrote my very first Lost in the Supermarket column, investigating the weird little items I’d always seen at the neighborhood grocery store and wondered, “What the hell is that?” The editor of the paper at the time was convinced I’d run out of things to write about by the end…
It’s the Most Winter Blues-iest Time of the Year
Greater Cincinnati hasn’t had a case of the “winter blues” as bad as this year’s for decades. Fear not. The Cincy Blues Society (which celebrates its 24th anniversary this year) has a (mildly ironic) cure — the Winter Blues Fest. A satellite event to the Blues Society’s huge outdoor, summertime Cincy Blues Fest, the Winter…
Versatile Beauty
J ulianna Barwick, whose music consists of ethereal and largely wordless vocals looped and otherwise layered to achieve a haunting choral effect as she plays keyboards, has booked some unusual venues for the tour that brings her to Cincinnati this week. On her touring itinerary are museums and arts centers in Pittsburgh and Atlanta, churches…
Janiva Magness at Winter Blues Fest
Blues chanteuse Janiva Magness has channeled her tragedies into an impressive body of work that stands with the best the genre has to offer. That could be dismissed as press kit hyperbole, but considering her desultory lows (losing both parents to suicide as a teenager, trapped in an ineffective foster parent system, pregnant and forced…
The Black Angels and Roky Erickson & the Hounds of Baskerville with Golden Animals
The Black Angels’ tag-team with Roky Erickson for something called the Winter Psych Storm Tour is almost too obvious. The five-piece Psych Rock crew has long adored the era in which Erickson was a trailblazing figure with The 13th Floor Elevators. Throw in the fact that each hails from the musical mecca known as Austin,…
Blackberry Smoke with The Delta Saints
In 2009, Blackberry Smoke released its second album, Little Piece of Dixie, and buzz for the band began to grow. While I am an all-genre kind of cat, from Reggae to Punk to Mongolian Tuvan Throat Singing, I have always had a penchant for Southern Rock, going back to the days of the Allman Brothers…
I Just Can’t Get Enough
The Super Bowl may have disappointed Broncos fans (and nearly anyone who wanted to see a real football game), but the night brought plenty of entertainment for the rest of us. Joe Namath kicked off the fun, dressed for a late-night pimp stroll across the Arctic. Not that we’d expect anything less! After the Seahawks…
G. Love & Special Sauce with Kristy Lee
It seems like G. Love & Special Sauce visit the Cincinnati area a couple times a year; we can only assume that’s because they love us as much as we love them. This time, they’re coming ’round to promote the upcoming album Sugar, to be released April 22. Love and original Special Sauce members James…
Vampire Academy
Apparently modern teen vampire tales haven’t quite been put to rest, because Vampire Academy swoops in with its rigid divide between the peaceful Moroi, who live quietly among us, and the Strigoi, a bloodthirsty clan that wants to take over the world. Fortunately, the Moroi have half-human/half-vampire helpers called Dhampirs, like Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch),…
The Monuments Men
George Clooney’s latest multi-hyphenate effort skipped the over-crowded awards season of 2013, which means that its arrival now stands as a treat for adult audiences starved for something other than warmed-over Oscar fare and the disposable winter herky-jerky snacks that stock the multiplexes. The Monuments Men tells the tale of a ragtag collection of art…
The Lego Movie
Recently, a creeping bias has taken hold of me concerning the state of animated features. Because of the creative stranglehold of the Disney-Pixar model, I’ve cooled somewhat to the sterility of the form, but there’s something I can’t quite put my finger on in the trailers for The Lego Movie (from Phil Lord and Christopher…
The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza)
The Italian representative in the Best Foreign Language pool of nominees from writer-director Paolo Sorrentino (This Must Be The Place and Il Divo) sets its sights on Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo), a worldly lover of the Roman nightlife who must confront a secret of sorts from his past following his 65th birthday. This dramedy captures…
The Love List 2014
Google “What is love?” and Wikipedia will present you with at least nine different songs — including the one from A Night at the Roxbury, which is probably stuck in your head right now, sorry — and an album by the same title. Try to define it on merriam-webster.com and you’ll find it has roots…
Syfy Impresses with New Original, ‘Helix’
Syfy isn’t exactly known for its high-quality, critically celebrated programming. The Sci-Fi Channel, home to cult space drama Battlestar Galactica, effectively distanced itself from its science fiction roots in 2009 with the rebranding of “Syfy.” While the network continues airing a few genre classics (The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation), Syfy is now…
Love List: Dan Eves
Name: Dan Eves Age: 27 Title: Forward for the Cincinnati Cyclones Hometown: Lake Orion, Michigan Why we love him: He’s a 6-foot-2 hockey player with a special passion for his family and community service. Dan Eves grew up on hockey. “It’s the oldest thing I can remember doing,” he says. “My earliest memories are of running…
Love List: Blaine Krauss
Name: Blaine Krauss Age: 22 Title: Musical Theatre student at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Hometown: Saint Petersburg, Florida Why we love him: His humble attitude, incredible talent and uncanny ability to strip the meaningful from the material. Blaine Krauss is a Southern gentleman who radiates energy both onstage and off. His first…
A Critic’s Guide to the Thought-Provoking Bests of the 2014 Jewish & Israeli Film Festival
When the Mayerson JCC Jewish & Israeli Film Festival kicks off Saturday at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion with a screening of The Yellow Ticket, the event will signal an immersive merging of old and new — a silent film accompanied by a live, original score composed by Grammy Award winner and internationally…
Love List: Robert Inhuman
Name: Robert Inhuman Age: “301, going on 302” Title: Events Organizer for SoapBox Books & Zines; singer for No Slave to Tomorrow Hometown: Cincinnati Why we love him: For organizing SoapBox Books & Zines’ events, helping to revive Cincinnati’s DIY calendar and bringing Deathrock to Cincinnati. Robert Inhuman is one of the main volunteers at…
City Plans to Add More Cops
City officials on Feb. 3 announced a new public safety initiative that promises to put more cops on the streets, focus on “hot spots” of crime, restart the gang unit and do more to reach out to youth. The comprehensive plan comes after a rough start to the year, with homicides and violent crime ticking…
Cranley Talks Long-Term Unemployment at White House
Mayor John Cranley plans to address the city’s long-term unemployment problems with a set of new initiatives, some of which could get support from the White House, he told CityBeat on Jan. 30. One of the initiatives is in direct response to President Barack Obama’s call, heard by millions during the State of the Union,…
Love List: Jacki Jing
Name: Jacki Jing Age: Perfectly aged Title: Morning Anchor, FOX19 Hometown: Centennial, Colorado Why we love her: For being a leading lady on our morning news and being very interactive through social media, via Twitter and Facebook. At 6-foot-1 with a wingspan of 6-foot-4, Colorado native Jacki Jing is a little taller than your average…
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Singular Body of Work Will Live On
“You have to make your reputation on being honest and unmerciful.” — Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous David Thomson’s New Biographical Dictionary of Film opens its entry on Philip Seymour Hoffman with this question: “Where do we begin, and where will he end?” Sadly, we now know where Phillip Seymour Hoffman ends,…
Love List: Drew Klein
Name: Drew Klein Age: 31 Title: Performance Curator for the Contemporary Arts Center Hometown: Findlay, Ohio Why we love him: He keeps Cincinnati’s music and arts scene cutting edge and is devoted to providing new surprises and experiences for the entire city. After studying electronic media at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, Drew…
Palladian Villas Age Gracefully in Library Exhibit
Architectural buffs, by and large, have only good words to say about the 16th century Italian architect Andrea Palladio. His influence can perhaps be seen in your own neighborhood, especially if you live in Indian Hill, Hyde Park or the choicer places on the West Side — classical porticoes, Roman columns, symmetrical design and pure…
Love List: Kelly and Kari Britton
Names: Kelly and Kari Britton Age: 27 Title: Co-Founders of CURE Cincinnati Hometown: Cincinnati Why we love them: Their creative reuse business, CURE Cincinnati, accepts donations of all shapes and sizes in order to keep scrap materials out of landfills. These twin sisters never turn down the opportunity to turn trash into treasure and they…
Budget Promises Spur Fears of Cuts
A new controversy seems to brewing in City Hall. As budget promises begin to pile up, local officials and media are starting to ask the big question: What is going to get cut? The concern comes as local leaders set two seemingly contradictory budget paths, with a collision increasingly appearing inevitable. On one path, Mayor…
Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance — Shows Coming Our Way Next Season
It’s that time of year when Cincinnati theaters begin to promote the shows they’ll present next season, kicking off in September. Of course, they hope you’ll subscribe — that’s the motive behind telling you what’s in store. And if you’re so inclined, you’ll make them happy. But we live in a world where fewer of…
Love List: Christina Getachew
Name: Christina Getachew Age: 45 Title: Founder and CEO of Substance Hometown: Columbia, Maryland Why we love her: She’s on a mission to create sustainable fashion sans burlap sack and crunchy granola stereotypes — and she gives back to the community in the process. To Christina Getachew, being fashionable isn’t just about the clothes —…
Growing Support
Ohioans could soon legally toke up if the Ohio Rights Group succeeds in its efforts to legalize medical marijuana and industrial hemp across the state. The 2014 ballot effort tackles the issue as Colorado and Washington move along with full-on marijuana legalization and President Barack Obama, a vocal skeptic of legalization, allows both states to…
Love List: Alex Solin
Name: Alex Solin Age: 22 Title: Lead guitarist for Archer’s Paradox Hometown: Dayton, Ohio Why we love him: For being a vital part of Cincinnati’s music scene and representing the Queen City beyond its borders via alternative Pop/Rock. For as long as he can remember, music has always been an integral part of Alex Solin’s…
Power of Storytelling
“I ’ve always lived with one foot in an imaginary world. I’ve never grown out of that,” Mary Zimmerman says. When she was a child, her academic parents took her along for stays in England and France. A British teacher read to her from Homer’s Odyssey, and Zimmerman, at age 5, was captivated. Returning home…
Love List: Allison Hines
Name: Allison Hines Age: “A lady never tells” Title: Owner of Butcher Betties Hometown: Kalamazoo, Michigan Why we love her: She celebrates women’s work in the male-dominated butchery industry by bringing the strength and femininity of the pinup girl to life in a female-forward butcher shop. After cooking up a storm in the Navy, Allison…
Morning News and Stuff
Mayor John Cranley appears to be working on another parking deal to upgrade Cincinnati’s parking meters, although the mayor’s office says this plan won’t give up control of the city’s parking meters to a private entity. At the same time, it seems the deal won’t produce a large lump-sum like the defunct parking privatization plan…
Ei8ht Ball Brewing (Profile)
Craft beer continues to flow out of Cincinnati by the barrel, there’s something new brewing just across the river. Ei8ht Ball Brewing, located at the rear of The Party Source (which already houses what is arguably the best beer selection in the area), is the self-proclaimed black sheep of the local brewing scene, on a…
