Morning News and Stuff
Good morning all! Here’s the news today. It looks as if the city’s streetcars will arrive a month or two behind schedule, though the delay probably won’t push back the transit project’s start date next fall. CAF USA, which is building the cars, anticipates needing at least another month past its Sept. 17 construction deadline…
Morning News and Stuff
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend! I know I tried to spend as much time outside as possible, but now it's back to work, and here are your morning headlines. Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell spoke to City Council today about his plan to bring body cameras to the University of Cincinnati police…
Hundreds Gather for Vigil, March Remembering Sam DuBose
Hundreds gathered at the Hamilton County Courthouse on Friday night for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Samuel DuBose, who was shot July 19 by University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing. The vigil and subsequent march were peaceful, though Cincinnati police arrested six after the march moved through a concert on Fountain Square. Tensing…
Your Weekend To Do List (7/17-7/19)
FRIDAY COMEDY: JERRY SEINFELD AT THE ARONOFF Yada, yada, yada, y’all. Jerry Seinfeld, comedy icon and everybody’s favorite sitcom star who helmed a TV show about nothing, is coming to Cincinnati to perform his signature stand-up at the Aronoff for one night only, drawing on his uncanny ability to find sharp humor in ordinary observations.…
Morning News and Stuff
Good morning all. Here’s the news today. The Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation has announced its plans for the site of the former City Gospel Mission in Over-the-Rhine. The non-profit social service agency, which had occupied the spot on Elm and Magnolia Streets since 1927, recently moved to a new facility in Queensgate. That move…
Stage Door
On Wednesday evening I took a bunch of kids (four elementary-school-age nieces and a nephew in town for a visit) to see a bunch of kids (high schoolers, average age 16) in Hairspray, this summers’ Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre production at the Covedale Center. The verdict: “We loved it.” One of them said, “They did…
MidPoint Music Festival Adds More Acts, Venues
The 2015 edition of the MidPoint Music Festival (owned and operated by CityBeat) is less than two months away, returning to various venues in Over-the-Rhine and Downtown Sept. 25-27, and this morning organizers announced the release of the schedule and a few additional performers. New artists added to this year’s 14th annual event include The Besnard…
Carol Release Date Moves Up
Indiewire is reporting today that the Weinstein Company, distributor of Todd Haynes’ Cincinnati-shot drama Carol, will move up its theatrical release date to Nov. 20 from the originally planned Dec. 18. It will start out in limited release and then go wider. That means the company believes the adult-oriented film, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney…
Your Weekend Playlist: Throwing it Back
Even if you weren’t around for Mick Jagger when he became a Rock & Roll legend, or to hear Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower” at Woodstock Music Festival, you still most likely know about it. The '60s and '70s were two of the most influential music decades of all time — a time we…
Afternoon News and Stuff
Hey everyone! As you probably know, there's lots going on in the city. So our morning news has morphed into the afternoon news! Here's a rundown of the today's top stories. Former UC police officer Ray Tensing's has pleaded not guilty to the July 19 fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose. Tensing's bond has been set…
Photos: Response to Samuel Dubose Shooting Indictment
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters yesterday announced that University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing has been indicted by a grand jury on murder charges for the shooting death of 43-year-old Cincinnati resident Samuel Dubose. Deters also released body camera footage of the shooting at a news conference yesterday. Hundreds took to the steps of…
Event: Global Water Dances at Paddlefest
A clean, accessible and sustainable water supply is essential to life. Global Water Dances-Cincinnati showcases the vision and choreography of Fanchon Shur set to original World Beat music composed by event director Shari Lauter, MEd. Dancers and musicians pay homage to the Ohio River as a historic gateway to freedom from slavery and Cincinnati’s source…
Music: Rich Robinson
Rich Robinson formed The Black Crowes when he was 17 with his older brother Chris, launching a group that would become a foundational band of “modern Classic Rock” radio. Robinson announced at the start of this year that the Crowes were done for good, but the guitarist/songwriter isn’t done with music — in 2014, he…
Music: Lebanon Blues Festival
Sometimes the cure to the summertime blues is, well, more Blues. The Lebanon Blues Festival has just the thing, offering a free event with eight Blues bands, food, a car and motorcycle show, and a deluxe beer garden at their historic downtown location. After listening to some slow-burning Blues from bands like Brown Street Breakdown…
Event: Wild About Pets Festival at Jungle Jim’s
Jungle Jim’s is known by many as an amusement park for food — a well-deserved moniker — but on Saturday it will turn into an amusement park for pets during their Wild About Pets Festival. More than 20 vendors will be offering free samples and coupons for their wares, and several pet experts (like a…
Grand Jury Indicts Officer in Death of Samuel Dubose
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters today announced that a grand jury has indicted University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing for the killing of Samuel Dubose during a traffic stop on July 19. Tensing will be arrested and charged with murder. If convicted, he will face life in prison. Deters had harsh words for Tensing,…
Event: The Porkopolis Pig & Whiskey Festival
Saturday, CityBeat is partnering with Horseshoe Casino to bring all of the Queen City’s best barbecue offerings to one place for a day of pork, beer and whiskey at the inaugural Porkopolis Pig & Whiskey Festival. Restaurants, including Eli’s, Velvet Smoke, Barrio Tequileria and Huit Craft BBQ, will be featured, along with more than 40…
Dance: de la Dance Company
Aside from those who become marketable marquee stars, it’s not all that common for dancers to find a sustainable living in their art form. Or long-term romance. Or family. It’s a hard-knock life, being a dancer. But through talent, hard work and astute planning, Meridith Benson, former Cincinnati Ballet and Joffrey Ballet of Chicago principal,…
Event: Salmon Swim of OTR
The Salmon Shorts of OTR is basically a Facebook page dedicated to posting photos of people in salmon-colored shorts in Over-the-Rhine, poking a bit of fun at the preppy clientele who now visit the gentrified bars and restaurants of the urban neighborhood. Salmon shorts: good for golfing as well as drinking at Rhinegeist. Saturday’s Salmon…
Event: GOODS Presents Bike Night
Adventure is out there, and it turns out it’s closer than you’d think. GOODS on Main, a thematic retail store currently serving up “Adventure,” is calling all bike-curious folks to come together on Final Friday and celebrate everything that runs on two wheels. Whether it’s bikes, mopeds, scooters, café racers or cruisers, GOODS digs it…
Comedy: Seinfeld at the Aronoff
Yada, yada, yada, y’all. Jerry Seinfeld, comedy icon and everybody’s favorite sitcom star who helmed a TV show about nothing, is coming to Cincinnati to perform his signature stand-up at the Aronoff for one night only, drawing on his uncanny ability to find sharp humor in ordinary observations. Feel free to break out your urban…
Art: Likeness at 1305 Gallery
For Main Street’s Final Friday at 1305 Gallery, photographer and installation artist Molly Donnermeyer — who also runs Live(In) Gallery in Brighton — and poet/visual artist Sidney Cherie Hilley joined forces to create an exhibition entitled Likeness, in which they investigate themes related to one’s internal relationship to their external physical realities. Donnermeyer’s photographs, installations…
Onstage: Shakespeare in the Park
Make your midsummer night a dream and experience the Bard in the great outdoors this summer as Cincinnati Shakespeare Company stages Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream throughout Tristate parks. The full-length plays shalt show at Washington Park, President’s Park, Linden Grove Cemetery and 20 others. All productions are free, beginning with Romeo…
Comedy: Mike Stanley
“My parents were always really good about not censoring things,” says comedian Mike Stanley. “So I grew up watching a lot of stand-up comedy and I always knew it was something I could do.” Today he splits time between L.A. and his hometown of Detroit. “I would never get a hair transplant or plugs,” he…
Film: Wet Hot American Summer
Director David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer (2001 but set in 1981) translates the swirling madness of human existence into a hilarious and surreal summer-camp film, where the biggest problem faced by Camp Firewood campers is the dread of going home at the end of the season without scoring a single kiss (or the casual…
Growing — and Learning — Green
I f you drive north on East Liberty in Over-the-Rhine and take a right onto McMicken Avenue, you’ll pass a building whose glass-paneled front doors stand out slightly from the semi-dilapidated storefronts that line the rest of the street. It is neither imposing nor opulent, and you could be forgiven for not giving it a…
What’s the Hops?
Things move fast in the Queen City, and summertime means a raft of new beers flooding the market, both locally and regionally. As they say, when it rains it pours … beer. New Local Beers • Every season, Blank Slate has been collaborating with Orchids at Palm Court on a special-release beer — one that’s…
Evolution of an Artist
C incinnati-based artist Jonathan Queen does not shy away from long-term commitments. His 20-month-long project with the Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation painting Cincinnati park scenes for Carol Ann’s Carousel in Smale Riverfront Park was unveiled last March, and Queen is also responsible for the highly visible 2012 “Fresh Harvest” ArtWorks mural on the side of the…
A Call for New Installation Art in Old OTR Buildings
Over-the-Rhine is alive with creative ideas to broaden and deepen the revived neighborhood’s — and the city’s — cultural offerings. Although temporary, the Mini Microcinema in People’s Liberty’s Globe Building seems to have awakened locals to the need for a nonprofit institution devoted to film. And a new group connected to the Over-the-Rhine Foundation is…
Life Is Just a (Dancing) Dream for Cincinnati Couple
Aside from those who become marketable marquee stars, it’s not all that common for dancers to find a sustainable living in their art form. Or long-term romance. Or family. It’s a hard-knock life, being a dancer. But through talent, hard work and astute planning, Meridith Benson, former Cincinnati Ballet and Joffrey Ballet of Chicago principal,…
Movies of My Mind
I simply can’t find the words (or the feelings behind the words) to describe the soulless hell that is this week’s reboot of Vacation. So instead, I’m daydreaming — thinking of movies that will never be. I’m talking about the kind of movies I wouldn’t even be able to make if I were somehow able…
‘Lachey’s Bar’ Lays on the Cincy Love
When word spread that brothers Nick and Drew Lachey — Cincinnati natives of 98 Degrees fame — were not only opening a bar in their hometown but also documenting the experience on A&E, the legitimacy of both ventures was questionable at best. Would the bar be a tribute to boybandom in the vein of another…
Prosecutor Declines to Release DuBose Shooting Footage
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has declined to release police body cam footage showing events that led up to the death of Samuel DuBose. The 43-year-old DuBose was shot and killed by University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing July 19 in Mount Auburn following a traffic stop for a missing front license plate. Deters’…
ADA Anniversary Rally Highlights Struggle for Disabled
Cincinnatians marked the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with a pride march July 27 designed to underscore the many issues that disabled Cincinnatians still face. The half-mile march started outside City Hall and ended at a festival at Fountain Square. The crowded square was packed with signs, walkers, wheelchairs and guide dogs.…
Morning News and Stuff
Good morning all. Here’s the news today. The biggest story is the possible release of a grand jury decision and/or body camera footage in the case of Samuel Dubose. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has scheduled a 1 p.m. news conference about the death of Dubose at the hands of University of Cincinnati police officer…
No Taxation Without (Oil and Gas) Representation
L ast month, Republican lawmakers axed a proposed tax hike by Gov. John Kasich that would have raised Ohio’s near non-existent severance tax on oil and gas drilling. Currently less than 1 percent, Kasich’s proposed increase — to 6.5 percent on natural gas and oil and to 4.5 percent on natural gas liquids — was…
The Dungeon Shook
Conspiracy theories are so intrinsically mired and ingrained in black culture because, first, America has made us, in toto, paranoid to live in our own black bodies. For evidence, do a Google search of “black unarmed killed by police” and see what the World Wide Web belches up about our worldwide terror. Secondly, conspiracy theories…
Acceptable Risks
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart understands his audience. After the murders at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., Stewart said Americans would look at our racism and gun culture and do “jack shit.” Beyond repeated and ritual hand-wringing, too many Americans see shootings as transient events that grab the attention of the news media…
This Week’s Food & Dining Events
Most classes and events require registration; classes frequently sell out. WEDNESDAY 29 Grilling with Ellen: A Tuscan Dinner — Italian sangria with Chianti and prosecco; shrimp, lemon and garlic bruschetta; sausage-stuffed mushrooms; steak panzanella; and pressed chocolate cake. 6-8:30 p.m. $65. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com. Burger Beer Wednesday at Fifty West —…
Grateful and Well-Paid
HOT: Grateful and Well-Paid The five 50th-anniversary/farewell concerts by the surviving members of The Grateful Dead (and that dude from Phish) in late June/early July turned out to be quite lucrative. The “Fare Thee Well” shows (in Santa Clara, Calif., and Chicago) made over $50 million in ticket sales. The pay-per-view broadcasts of the shows also…
Summer of Sanders
F our weeks ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) became impossible to ignore. As 10,000 people cheered and chanted his name, the 73-year-old senator summited a stage in a Madison, Wis., arena and took his place behind a wooden podium. He raised his right arm to wave at a sea of supporters and embraced his wife,…
Packing in Music and Lives at Know Theatre
Critic's Pick Hundred Days, the first production of Know Theatre’s 18th season, defies categorization. Since Know is a theater company, of course, it’s a play. But the performance is as much an Indie Rock concert as it is a dramatic work. Settling into Know’s 100-seat auditorium, you’ll see a multi-level stage ready for music: microphone…
Music: Buke and Gase
If you like band names that are direct and to the point, you’ll love Buke and Gase, a New York Indie Rock duo with a singular style. The twosome — Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez — derived its moniker from the (primary) handmade/self-manipulated instruments each member plays. Dyer is on the “buke,” a baritone ukulele…
Sound Advice: Buke and Gase with Landlady and Dream Tiger
If you like band names that are direct and to the point, you’ll love Buke and Gase, a New York Indie Rock duo with a singular style. The twosome — Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez — derived its moniker from the (primary) handmade/self-manipulated instruments each member plays. Dyer is on the “buke,” a baritone ukulele…
Music: Coal Chamber
To hell with bachelors and bachelorettes dry-humping their way to faux decisions about potential partners for the rest of their lives (or the season). For real drama, we need a reality show about the travails of actual bands, and Coal Chamber would be a great featured act. Starting out an amazing 22 years ago, Coal…
Sound Advice: Coal Chamber with Fear Factory, Jasta, Saint Ridley and Madlife
To hell with bachelors and bachelorettes dry-humping their way to faux decisions about potential partners for the rest of their lives (or the season). For real drama, we need a reality show about the travails of actual bands, and Coal Chamber would be a great featured act. Starting out an amazing 22 years ago, Coal…
Music: Cracker
It’s been more than two decades since Cracker’s commercial apex, back when “Low” dominated MTV and the Internet was an oddity. Yet the band’s core duo, frontman David Lowery and ace guitarist Johnny Hickman, is still cranking out workman-like tunes, releasing its first new studio album in five years, a double-disc called Berkeley to Bakersfield.…
Sound Advice: Cracker with Happy Chichester
It’s been more than two decades since Cracker’s commercial apex, back when “Low” dominated MTV and the Internet was an oddity. Yet the band’s core duo, frontman David Lowery and ace guitarist Johnny Hickman, is still cranking out workman-like tunes, releasing its first new studio album in five years, a double-disc called Berkeley to Bakersfield.…
Music: The Old Ceremony
In 2004, when Chapel Hill, N.C. resident Django Haskins lifted the name of his new band from the title of one of Leonard Cohen’s most beloved albums — the ’70s classic New Skin for the Old Ceremony — it could have been viewed as foolhardy bravado or a case of brilliant foresight. Given The Old…
Sound Advice: The Old Ceremony
In 2004, when Chapel Hill, N.C. resident Django Haskins lifted the name of his new band from the title of one of Leonard Cohen’s most beloved albums — the ’70s classic New Skin for the Old Ceremony — it could have been viewed as foolhardy bravado or a case of brilliant foresight. Given The Old…
Jack Walker 1948-2015
Longtime Cincinnati artist/musician Jack Walker passed away on July 20. He was 67. Walker was a visual artist, poet and multi-talented musician, best known for his saxophone and flute playing. Walker had been a part of the area’s progressive Jazz scene for decades, performing with groups like The Healing System, The Last Boppers and Jazz…
Music: Eleni Mandell
W ith a fan base as loyal as a Marine battalion and a catalog littered with nine sparkling gems of diverse Folk/Pop/Rock, including the ebullient Dick Van Dyke parks-and-recreational swing of last year’s Let’s Fly a Kite, singer/songwriter Eleni Mandell had no desire or inclination to subject her creative methodology to any severe course corrections. …
Goin’ Up the Country
W ith a fan base as loyal as a Marine battalion and a catalog littered with nine sparkling gems of diverse Folk/Pop/Rock, including the ebullient Dick Van Dyke parks-and-recreational swing of last year’s Let’s Fly a Kite, singer/songwriter Eleni Mandell had no desire or inclination to subject her creative methodology to any severe course corrections.…
Art: From Studio to Carousel: The Whimsical World of Jonathan Queen
C incinnati-based artist Jonathan Queen does not shy away from long-term commitments. His 20-month-long project with the Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation painting Cincinnati park scenes for Carol Ann’s Carousel in Smale Riverfront Park was unveiled last March, and Queen is also responsible for the highly visible 2012 “Fresh Harvest” ArtWorks mural on the side of the…
