Literary: Word of Mouth at MOTR Pub
MOTR Pub hosts an open feature and poetry reading in the form of Word of Mouth, a monthly reading in the pub’s basement the first Tuesday of the month, hosted by poets Jim Palmarini and Mark Flanigan. Inspired by the late Aralee Strange, a former Cincinnati writer and artist who co-founded a Word of Mouth…
Class: Beginner’s Western Square Dance
Feeling footloose? Well make like Kevin Bacon and grab your cowboy/girl boots for some good old-fashioned square dancing lessons this Tuesday. Parky’s Farm in Winton Woods will host weekly square dancing classes until September, so there will be plenty of time to prepare for your next county fair performance. Whether you’re a seasoned square dancer…
Film: Lunafest Short Film Festival
Sponsored by Cincinnati World Cinema, the Lunafest Short Film Festival screens original, informative and entertaining short films from Australia, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway and America — all created by female filmmakers. The films address the universal issues that impact women, their families, relationships and careers. Selected from more than 800 entries, the winners of this…
Event: The King Legacy Awards Breakfast & Commemorative Civil Rights March
Experience the power, legacy and impact of the Civil Rights Movement as The Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition partners with the Freedom Center and Music Hall to celebrate King’s life through a variety of events. All are invited to honor King at the 39th annual King Legacy Awards Breakfast. With WLWT’s Courtis Fuller as emcee,…
Onstage: The Firebird
What could be more entertaining than a symphonic Russian fairytale brought to life through shadows and giant puppetry? Igor Stravinsky’s classic ballet The Firebird Suite was performed in 1919 and has since been adapted and performed in many different mediums — including Disney’s Fantasia 2000. Madcap Puppets Hats Off! program provides a theatrical and visually…
Acting City Manager Shakes Up Leadership Positions
Cincinnati’s city manager, law and budget offices will see major shakeups in the coming months, the city administration announced Tuesday, and one of the new hires is a former city retiree who might tap into his pension while receiving a salary from the city. Bill Moller is a city retiree who will be eligible to…
Event: Computer and TV Recycling Drop-Off Program
Hamilton County is sponsoring a one-day-only computer and TV recycling drop-off program in Colerain High School’s parking lot. Their previous drop-off program closed in October of last year and will not be resuming in 2014, so this is an opportunity to get rid of all the outdated tech devices taking up space in your home.…
Art: Cut: Windows to Eternity at Marta Hewett Gallery
Artist Eric Standley’s laser-cut paper drawings are inspired by geometry from Gothic and Islamic architectural ornamentation “in an attempt to capture a reverence for the infinite.” The associate professor of Studio Art and coordinator for the Foundations of Art and Design for the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech creates mandala-like drawings, cut from…
Event: The Cincinnati Travel, Sports & Boat Show
Get in a warm state of mind this winter by escaping the cold and attending The Cincinnati Travel, Sports & Boat Show. With a variety of boats, campers, ATVs, motorcycles, trail bikes and more, this show has all things outdoor to support your active lifestyle. The opening this Friday night is the best time to…
Event: Jungle Jim’s Barrel Aged Beer Bash
As the Queen City’s booming brewery scene continues to serve up brand new brews on what feels like a daily basis, Jungle Jim’s Barrel Aged Beer Bash is out to prove that good things come to those who wait. The festival will tap into the darker side of beer as buffs sample more than 30…
Literary: Jennifer Chiaverini
The ever-busy Jennifer Chiaverini follows up last year’s Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, which relayed the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and a former slave who gained freedom due to her skills as a seamstress, with the just-published Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival. Her latest historical fiction centers on Mrs. Lincoln’s rivalry with Kate Chase Sprague, a Cincinnati native whose…
Onstage: The Sound of Music
Did you see Carrie Underwood in the December telecast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music? You can compare her performance (thought to be a tad wooden by many viewers) with that of Abigail Paschke, as Maria, the singing nun who enchants the children of a stern, widowed father. She’ll perform with the Kentucky…
Comedy: Tony Woods
Tony Woods is a comic with global appeal, regularly performing throughout the English-speaking world. The security-guard-turned-comedian got his big break appearing on Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam on HBO and has since done his own Comedy Central Presents, Showtime at the Apollo, the prestigious Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, as well as all…
O’Bryonville’s eat well cafe & takeaway to Close
eat well cafe & takeaway, the restaurant portion of chef Renee Schuler's successful eat well celebrations & feasts, will be closing Friday, Jan. 17, according to a post on their official Facebook page. Lovely friends, January 9th we marked the one year anniversary for eat well cafe and takeaway. The cafe was a lifelong dream…
Morning News and Stuff
In the third month of open enrollment, Obamacare failed to hit key demographic targets for young adults in Ohio and across the nation. White House officials say about about 39 percent of those who sign up for health insurance through HealthCare.gov and state-run marketplaces must be young adults. The idea is to get enough young,…
Meatball Kitchen Opening on Short Vine
Similar to street tacos and gourmet hot dogs, meatballs are the latest food trend out of big 'ol cities like New York and former New York restaurant and bar owner Dan Katz is bringing them to us. You may have tried Katz's meatballs at any number of his Meatball Kitchen's pop-up dining experiences around town…
Last Day for Cincinnati Entertainment Awards Voting
Voting for the 17th annual Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, celebrating the best of the Greater Cincinnati music scene, ends TONIGHT at midnight. Click here to cast your ballot for your favorite nominated local artists. The CEA ceremony is set for Sunday, Jan. 26, at Covington’s Madison Theater. The show/party will feature performances from CEA-nominated artists Honey…
Obamacare Misses Demographic Target in Ohio
In the third month of open enrollment, Obamacare failed to meet crucial demographic goals for young adults in Ohio and across the nation. Prior to the launch of HealthCare.gov, the Obama administration said it needs to enroll about 2.7 million young adults out of 7 million projected enrollees — nearly 39 percent of all signups…
Conflict Kitchen Serves Food from U.S. Geopolitical Enemies
Pittsburgh, Pa.'s Conflict Kitchen (221 Schenley Drive, Pittsburgh, Pa., conflictkitchen.org) is a new kind of "pop-up" dining experience. The restaurant serves only cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict, according to their website, and rotates the country of food based on current geopolitical events. Each iteration of the kitchen is complemented…
Breadsmith Hyde Park Opening to Benefit ArtWorks
Breadsmith, a chain of independently owned retail bakeries, is opening a new shop in Hyde Park (3500 Michigan Ave., breadsmith.com). And before they open their doors, they'll be hosting an open house and preview to "raise dough" for ArtWorks — the local nonprofit organization that empowers and inspires the creative community to transform our everyday environments through employment,…
‘Downton Abbey’ Season Four, Episodes 1-2
Downton Abbey Season Four is here, guys. Well, at least for those of us who live on this side of the pond and refuse to download PBS illegally. It’s here, and Masterpiece Classic has delivered that beautifully crafted stiffness that can only be described as “English” once again. Two episodes into the season and we’ve…
Morning News and Stuff
Ohio officials will appeal a court ruling that blocked tougher requirements on minor political parties and allows them to run in the 2014 primary and general elections under previous rules. The Republican-controlled Ohio legislature and Gov. John Kasich approved the stricter rules last year. Democrats and Libertarians argued the new law, which they labeled the…
Music Tonight: Instrument Recovery Benefit
Just after Christmas, multi-instrumentalist Justin Todhunter, who performs with the Folk/Americana band Jake Speed and the Freddies and the Bluegrass group Rattlesnakin’ Daddies, was the victim of a home invasion that resulted in the loss of most of his valuables, including the tools of his trade — his instruments. The instruments taken are likely making…
Hamlet (Review)
When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet around 1600 he could not have imagined it would become one of the great dramas of all time. The tale of “carnal, bloody, unnatural acts” was for audiences at London’s Globe Theatre, some erudite, some illiterate, where plays needed to fascinate, engage and amuse using memorable characters and powerful actors. Most…
Drug History Scholar Touts Alternative to War on Drugs
Rises in heroin and prescription painkiller abuse have languished lawmakers in Ohio and across the country in the past year, with some calling it an epidemic and others blaming it for an increase in crimes and deaths. The issue has taken particular root in Ohio, where lawmakers have joined a chorus of advocates to prevent…
Streetcar Supporters Oppose Oasis Rail Line
At first glance, it might seem like a rail line between downtown Cincinnati and the city of Milford would earn support from the same people who back the $132.8 million streetcar project, but streetcar supporters, including advocacy group Cincinnatians for Progress, say they oppose the idea and its execution. Critics of the overall project, called…
Your Weekend To Do List: 1/10-1/12
German composer/musician Volker Bertelmann, aka “Hauschka,” performs at the Contemporary Arts Center Friday. Hauschka performs on a prepared piano, placing foreign objects on the strings, dampers and hammers to create a unique sound. The CAC show begins at 8 p.m. Go here to read our interview with Hauschka. Souped up car show Cavalcade of Customs…
Morning News and Stuff
Councilman Charlie Winburn, City Council’s new budget and finance chair, suggested selling the Cincinnati Southern Railroad to help pay for the city’s $870 million unfunded pension liability. But other city officials, including Mayor John Cranley, Councilman Chris Seelbach and Councilwoman Amy Murray, voiced doubts about the idea, saying it would cost the city annual revenue…
First Northern Kentucky Flu Death
The Northern Kentucky Health Department just received report of the area's first seasonal flu death this flu season. A middle-aged Kenton County man, with a history of chronic health problems, died from complications of the flu. “The loss of someone to the flu is a tragedy, and our thoughts go out to the individual’s family,”…
High School Hosts Donkey Basketball Game
If you were getting bored watching humans play basketball, Batavia High School has the solution for you: Donkey basketball. Yup, donkeys playing basketball aka "Donkey Ball." Batavia's class of 2016 is hosting the second annual Batavia Donkey Ball game, a fundraiser to support their class activities including prom and graduation, on Saturday, Jan. 11. Donkey Ball…
Morning News and Stuff
Ohio's weakening economy could hurt Gov. John Kasich and other Republican incumbents' chances of re-election in 2014, even if they don't deserve the blame for the state of the economy, as some economists claim. For Republican incumbents, the threat is all too real as groups from all sides — left, right and nonpartisan — find…
Book of Mormon (Review)
Critic's Pick Have faith. That’s the hilarious lesson of The Book of Mormon, crusading for laughter in its current missionary effort, er, touring stop, Cincinnati’s Aronoff Center. While a few local bluenoses might be initially offended by the show’s sacrilegious language and actions (one song has natives in Uganda flipping the bird to the almighty)…
Bunbury Announces Three Acts for 2014
This morning, the annual Bunbury Music Festival, coming up July 11-13 and returning to Sawyer Point/Yeatman’s Cove along the Ohio River, announced the first acts for this summer’s event. Fall Out Boy, which won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Alternative Band last night, will be joined at the fest by consistent Pop/Rock hit makers…
Good Hair Day
I s The Art of Hair, returning Sunday to The Carnegie in Covington, Ky., a quiet beauty compared with the hungry beast that is the center’s highly anticipated annual show The Art of Food? Nope. It’s a monster, too. It’s an imposing, demanding yet magnificent monster with colorful curls piled up to here and eyelashes…
Cranley Continues Anti-Streetcar Rhetoric
Despite promising to move on after he failed to cancel the $132.8 million streetcar project, Mayor John Cranley continues criticizing the project in interviews and social media. Most recently, Cranley appeared on Local 12’s Newsmakers program and threatened to eventually replace the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) board, which manages local Metro bus services,…
I Just Can’t Get Enough
The Internet is a scary place, and anyone who’s browsed 4chan can attest to that. But this creepy technological web can connect strangers and answer questions, often with unexpected results. The latest example: Jenna Jameson exchanged an unverified story and super sad, semi-nude pics for information about her former agent who Jameson said turned out…
Worst Week Ever!: Jan. 1-7
Bill Nye Vs. Crazy Guy There are plenty of good reasons to visit the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. — maybe you like animatronic dinosaurs (most people do) or your home-schooled kid is acting like a real dick in class and needs to take a field trip. Whatever the case, you can strike Feb. 4…
Findlay Market Cookbook in the Works
This fall, keep your eyes peeled for a new farm-to-table Cincinnati-centric cookbook: The Findlay Market Cookbook: Recipes & Stories from Cincinnati's Historic Public Market. Scheduled to hit shelves in October, this release from Farm Fresh Books, "an independently-owned specialty publisher of cookbooks for the nation's most enlightened public markets, farmers markets, and farm-to-table restaurants," will feature profiles of Findlay…
Event: The Art of Hair
Is The Art of Hair, returning Sunday to The Carnegie in Covington, Ky., a quiet beauty compared with the hungry beast that is the center’s highly anticipated annual show The Art of Food? Nope. It’s a monster, too. It’s an imposing, demanding yet magnificent monster with colorful curls piled up to here and eyelashes out…
Eats: Food Fight
Cooking competition shows are all the rage on TV. You can’t turn on the television without landing on a food-related spectacle that pits chef against chef. And if you need that culinary adrenaline closer than your screen, catch it live and local at Food Fight, Maribelle’s eat+drink chef Mike Florea’s creation. Based on the popular…
Maribelle’s Food Fight (Profile)
Cooking competition shows are all the rage on TV. You can’t turn on the television without landing on a food-related spectacle that pits chef against chef. And if you need that culinary adrenaline closer than your screen, catch it live and local at Food Fight, Maribelle’s eat+drink chef Mike Florea’s creation, born of the desire…
Music: Weekend
There are a lot of aphorisms about second albums: “It takes 20 years to make your first album and nine months to make the second;” “the first album is about life’s big issues; the second is about how it sucks to be in a band.” Those, and many more, are cheeky ways to define what…
Music: Hauschka
Thanks to the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), concert:nova and MusicNow, New Music progressivism is alive and well — and building a devoted following — in Cincinnati. That’s especially true as downtown’s CAC presents German prepared-piano composer Hauschka on Friday night for its first concert…
Music: Justin Todhunter Fundraiser at MOTR
Just after Christmas, multi-instrumentalist Justin Todhunter, who performs with the Folk/Americana band Jake Speed and the Freddies and the Bluegrass group Rattlesnakin’ Daddies, was the victim of a home invasion that resulted in the loss of most of his valuables, including the tools of his trade — his instruments. The instruments taken are likely making their way around the…
Music: Driftwood
In its bio, on-the-rise Americana quartet Driftwood is described as “a band with a Rock & Roll soul and a Folk art mind.” The group utilizes instruments traditionally associated with Roots music — banjo, fiddle, upright bass and acoustic guitar — but the members strive to write songs that transcend any one specific genre. With…
Art: Grammatical Errors at the Weston Art Gallery
Melissa Vogley Woods's Grammatical Errors currently occupies the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery handily. Woods is deeply involved in relationships of what she calls “the form and materials of the common house,” and how those elements in her hands can become “messy, malignant, hazardous and bad." She is a gleeful deconstructionist, accomplishing things one hardly knows…
Music: In This Moment with Butcher Babies
Metalcore quintet In This Moment has crafted their best effort to date, the heavy-yet-melodic Blood, which also reached Billboard’s Top 20. The stage show for Blood is an incredibly complex affair, with props, costume changes and dancers, all of which was documented for a live DVD, Live at the Orpheum, included in the recent deluxe reissue of Blood. Through the struggles and…
Music: The Jim Jones Revue
The Jim Jones Revue is a swaggering gene splice of Garage, Glam, Punkabilly and foundational Hard Rock. As Jones spits out his lyrics with the gritty histrionics of David Johansen, Tom Waits and Lemmy singing into a single microphone, his stellar band pummels and pulsates with the visceral heartpunch of the early New York Dolls…
Ohio’s Latest Abortion Restrictions Follow Nationwide Trend
Ohio was among various states in the nation that passed more abortion restrictions between 2011 and 2013 than the entire previous decade, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Between 2011 and 2013, states passed 205 new restrictions on abortion. Between 2001 and 2010, states passed only 189 new restrictions. The trend is unsurprising for Ohio, which…
Class: Chickens in Your Backyard
Flying pigs step aside: Chickens are the new ruler of the roost in backyards across Porkopolis — and yours might be next. Gorman Heritage Farm is hosting local backyard chicken advocate Becky Johnson, who will prepare you to join the coop of Cincinnati backyard chicken farmers. She will share information and advice on keeping chickens…
Police Attribute Increase in Homicides to Gang-Related Activity
Heads of the Cincinnati Police Department testified in front of City Council’s Law and Public Safety Committee on Jan. 6 to address the local increase in homicides. The city’s homicide rate hit 25 per 100,000 residents in 2013, compared to the U.S. rate of 4.7 per 100,000 in 2012, following a spike in homicides in…
State Cuts Contribute to Local Budget Gap
Cincinnati might not be facing an operating budget gap in 2015 if it were not for Republican-approved cuts to state aid for local governments. Following cuts approved by Republican Gov. John Kasich and the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature, Cincinnati officials estimate the city is getting $26 million less in state funding in 2015 than the city…
Literary: Isabelle Stamler
Isabelle Stamler moved to Cincinnati in the 1950s after an eventful childhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., a journey the retired schoolteacher mines plentifully in her first novel, Sarah’s Ten Fingers. Set in the early 1900s, the story traces the life of Sarah, a single mother of six who is unavoidably impacted by the upheaval in her…
Idiot Glee with Tweens and Mardou
Idiot Glee is the guise of Lexington, Ky.-based musician/singer/songwriter James Friley, whose passionate Pop sound has garnered attention from all over the world. Though he largely uses electronic instrumentation, Idiot Glee’s recordings can hardly be described as “Synth Pop,” showing a more classic sensibility inspired by the likes of Harry Nilsson and Roxy Music. In…
Bengals Loss Reminds of County’s Terrible Stadium Deal
Perhaps more than any other time, the past week showed just how bad of a deal Cincinnati and Hamilton County got when voters approved a sales tax hike just so locals can watch the Cincinnati Bengals lose year after year inside a publicly funded stadium. While television stations closed the Jan. 5 game with sky-high…
Sports: Cincinnati Rollergirls Tryouts
Looking to add some serious badass cred to your life and don’t mind getting (more than a few) bumps and bruises along the way? If you’re 18 or older, the Cincinnati Rollergirls want you. Whether you’re looking for an excuse to lace up some old-school roller skates or never miss an opportunity to blow the…
Economic Effects
Ohio’s weakening economy could damage Gov. John Kasich and other Ohio Republican incumbents’ chances of reelection in 2014, even if state officials are not to blame for the downturn, as some economists claim. For Republicans, the economic threat is all too real as groups from all sides — left, right and nonpartisan — cast increasingly…
The Jim Jones Revue with The KillTones
Jim Jones was doing loud in London at about the same time Kurt Cobain and Mark Arm discovered their amps went to 11 in the Pacific Northwest. Jones invested his first big-name band, the baroquely mantled Thee Hypnotics, with his sacred love of The Stooges and the MC5, swirled with Psychedelic dashes of Cream and…
Butcher Babies
Rule No. 1 of success in the music industry: Anything can be marketed, especially genres. In an increasingly noisy world, artists have promoted themselves as Pony Thrash, Doom Gaze, Doom Wop and Punk Rap. Whether this tactic is used seriously or in tongue-in-cheek fashion matters little since the subject is still floating a new catchphrase…
Lone Survivor
Writer-director Peter Berg (The Rundown and The Kingdom) knows a thing or two about framing high-testosterone action sequences. The camera is always right in the middle of the live-action set pieces and he’s astute when it comes to presentation. All of which is why Lone Survivor feels like a misstep, a minor loss of footing,…
The Legend of Hercules
The first of two movies detailing the myth of Hercules — the demigod and hero — played here by Twilight strong guy Kellan Lutz. Director Renny Harlin seeks to outline the origin story in broad epic strokes — a warrior betrayed, sold into slavery, fighting to regain his claim to glory — that, on the…
Spike Jonze Binds the Artificial and the Human in ‘Her’
Astra Taylor’s 2008 documentary Examined Life turned the spotlight on a collection of modern philosophers — including Cornel West, Judith Butler, Peter Singer and Michael Hardt — walking and/or riding along city streets while riffing on the human condition in contemporary times. One of the segments focused on the relationship between man and nature, specifically…
In This Moment
There have been a dizzying number of changes to In This Moment’s (ITM) lineup over the past eight years — five shifts in the bass position alone — but the Metalcore quintet’s twin constants since their 2005 formation have been frontwoman Maria Brink and guitarist Chris Howorth. Introduced by mutual friends, Brink and Howorth channeled…
‘True Detective’ Turns Popular Cop Drama Genre on Its Head
HBO kicks off its 2014 programming this week with a new murder mystery anthology, True Detective (9 p.m. Sundays). The show follows Louisiana detectives Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson) over the course of 17 years, with the story jumping across three time periods. The former partners (now retired), believed to have…
Driftwood with Part-Time Gentlemen and Red Beard’s Revenge
In its bio, on-the-rise Americana quartet Driftwood is described as “a band with a Rock & Roll soul and a Folk art mind.” The group utilizes instruments traditionally associated with Roots music — banjo, fiddle, upright bass and acoustic guitar — but the members strive to write songs that transcend any one specific genre. With…
Morning News and Stuff
A federal judge halted a controversial election law that limited minor political parties’ access to the ballot and ruled that the state must allow minor parties to participate in the primary and general elections in 2014. But by merely agreeing that only the retroactive restrictions for 2014 are too burdensome for minor parties, the judge…
A Lesson in Grammar
The gaping street-level space of the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, attached to the Aronoff Center for the Arts, is windowed on two sides, capped by two ceiling heights (high and higher), set with columns and interrupted by a staircase to the floor below and above. It’s a difficult space that moves…
Article Menswear Evolves From Lifestyle Blog to High-End Storefront
Located in historic Over-the-Rhine is the type of highly curated men’s clothing store previously unheard of in Cincinnati — one that would normally find its niche in a high-end fashion hotspot like New York City. Owner Anthony Graziani says that Article, a lifestyle blog turned shop, is for the classic man who possesses a sense…
Shakespeare and Stoppard: The Absurdity of Existence
Whether or not you’re a Shakespeare aficionado, you’ve certainly heard of Hamlet, generally considered one of his greatest plays, if not one of the greatest works ever written for the stage. It was first presented around 1600 and has been more or less constantly on stages and movie screens around the world for more than…
Foreign Objects
T hanks to the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), concert:nova and MusicNow, New Music progressivism is alive and well — and building a devoted following — in Cincinnati. That’s especially true as downtown’s CAC presents German prepared-piano composer Hauschka on Friday night for its first…
Proper (and Mistaken) ID
Proper (and Mistaken) ID Before Christmas, a TV reporter in San Francisco ran a story about a homeless man who claimed to be Carlos Santana’s former percussionist. Though skeptical, he found out Marcus Malone’s story was true, so a reunion between the guitarist and former conga player was arranged. But before reconsidering whether that guy…
Instruments Stolen, Friends Step Up
Just after Christmas, multi-instrumentalist Justin Todhunter, who performs with the Folk/Americana band Jake Speed and the Freddies and the Bluegrass group Rattlesnakin’ Daddies, was the victim of a home invasion that resulted in the loss of most of his valuables, including the tools of his trade — his instruments. The instruments taken are likely making…
Weekend State
There are a lot of aphorisms about second albums: “It takes 20 years to make your first album and nine months to make the second;” “the first album is about life’s big issues; the second is about how it sucks to be in a band.” Those, and many more, are cheeky ways to define what…
World-Class Media Screwups of 2013
Jaw-dropping stupidity Justine Sacco was head of public relations for a major American company, IAC. Responsibilities involved, among many, The Beast news/opinion website. Before flying on vacation to her native South Africa, she tweeted, “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white.” It was retweeted thousands of times while she was unaware…
Cincinnati vs. The World 01.08.2014
A new pilot program in New York City will use organic food waste to heat more than 5,000 homes as part of the city’s goal to reduce municipal greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2017. WORLD +2 The owner of a shopping center in Butler County sued the county GOP for breaking its lease…
