Six Cincinnati Picnic Spots
As the sultry, sticky summer days settle in with a vengeance, it might seem all too easy to meet your hunger and entertainment needs by hanging out on the couch in the air-conditioned comfort of your home and ordering pizza — nobody wants to be chained to a hot stove in this weather. But certainly…
Obama Administration to Join Ohio Early Voting Fight
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last week said the Justice Department plans to join a lawsuit against the state of Ohio seeking to restore early voting in the state. Holder revealed the DOJ’s intention to join the fight in Ohio over early voting during an interview about terrorism with ABC News in London July 11.…
CCM Alums Take on the Baritone Bad Boys of ‘La Calisto’
“Who told you Baroque operas are dull?” Andrew Garland says. “Who told you that?” He’s responding to a statement about operas characterized by long, florid arias and often-static staging. Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, written in 1651, defies that description. Based on a selection from the Latin poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the opera tells the story of…
New Company Brings “Short, Sweet, Cheap” Theater to OTR
In 2014 it requires equal amounts of energy, will and naïvety to single-handedly start a theater. But that’s what 22-year-old John Leo Muething is up to with Cincinnati’s newest company, Stone on a Walk. He seems to have all those elements readily at hand, as well as a supportive network of friends and family. Muething…
Wondering About ‘Buildering’ and Its Real-World Relevance
I’ve had a difficult time trying to write about Buildering: Misbehaving the City, the first show at Contemporary Arts Center that its curator, Steven Matijcio, has put together since arriving here last year from North Carolina. And now it is nearing its end — it closes Aug. 18. My resistance isn’t because I don’t admire…
An Open Red Door
E lectronic mood music and energetic art voices quaked out of the Crown Building during June’s Final Friday, providing a sharp contrast to the quiet rain blowing across Over-the-Rhine. That night, a miniature red door hung near the Crown’s entrance and stood out against the hues of Findlay Market across the street. But the woman…
Mixtapes Play Hometown Warped Show, Announce Hiatus
Cincinnati Pop rockers Mixtapes have been playing numerous dates on this year’s Warped Tour, including the local stop at Riverbend Music Center ( riverbend.org) on Wednesday. The band’s hometown fans should probably make plans to attend the all-day show, as it will be one of the last chances to catch the group locally for some…
Media Musings From Cincinnati and Beyond
New York Times in-house critic, public editor Margaret Sullivan, says the Times is re-embracing jingoism that supported America’s attack on Saddam Hussein 11 years ago. “The lead-up to the war in Iraq in 2003 was not The Times’s finest hour,” she wrote. “Some of the news reporting was flawed, driven by outside agendas and lacking…
Cincinnati vs. the World 07.16.2014
The group proswastika.org wants to reclaim the symbol from its legacy of Nazi hate for the peace symbol it still serves as in Asian cultures, so it flew a swastika banner over the Coney Island beach in New York on Saturday. The display didn’t track well with New Yorkers, not surprisingly. WORLD -1 Cincinnati got…
Gov. Candidates Kasich, FitzGerald Face Similar Legal Battles
Both Gov. John Kasich and gubernatorial hopeful Ed FitzGerald are fighting lawsuits over records related to scheduling and security. And while the press and opposing political parties push for disclosure, both are fighting to keep those records private. The Ohio GOP is suing FitzGerald, currently Cuyahoga County’s executive, over access to records detailing his comings…
Homelessness Rising After Federal Funding Cuts
More demand for housing aid and less money from the feds have combined to create a simple but brutal equation swelling the number of homeless individuals and families in the Cincinnati area and across the country. As more low-income people need affordable places to live, they have fewer housing options to choose from and less…
Sights Set
F orty-two-year-old Democrat David Pepper has already served two terms as a Cincinnati City Councilman and a term as Hamilton County Commissioner. Now he wants to be Ohio’s attorney general, and he’s hitting Republican incumbent Mike DeWine on multiple fronts to try and unseat him. Pepper has cast himself as the progressive alternative to DeWine’s…
You Meta, You Bet
L ast spring, singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson was overly anxious about the arrival of his debut album, High Top Mountain. He’s spent this year simultaneously anticipating the birth of his debut child and the reception of his just-released sophomore album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. And his mood couldn’t be more joyously relaxed. “They’re giving me…
Maxwell
Although Soul singer Maxwell has enjoyed stratospheric success as a silky and powerful R&B artist since the mid-’90s, there’s an argument that his career has suffered from classic mismanagement and a slight case of squandered potential. Since ’96, his output has consisted of just four studio albums and a live EP. In fairness, that catalog…
Bailiff with Near Earth Objects
Legend has it that Josh Siegel, frontman for dynamic Chicago Post Punk trio Bailiff, left behind his studies at Berklee College of Music and returned to his Chicago home to form a Rock band, immediately posting a Craigslist ad looking for other musicians that asked, “Do you consider Radiohead to be soul music? Do you…
Black Label Society with Wovenwar
Though the concept of a musician becoming a “guitar god” — a guitarist who not only has a strong fan base, but is also almost universally revered by his or her peers -— may seem like something that only happened decades ago, with players like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan rightfully earning such distinction,…
Billy Joe Shaver
Even the Outlaw Country community considers Billy Joe Shaver to be an outlaw. The Texas native learned to play guitar at 11 and dropped out of school in the eighth grade to pick cotton but returned sporadically to play sports. After a Navy hitch, Shaver married Brenda Tindell in 1960; she divorced him six years…
Event: Burlington Antique Show
More than 200 vendors spread across Boone County Fairgrounds during this once-a-month treasure trove of a shopping situation, now in its 33rd year. Venture only 10 minutes south of Cincinnati (near the CVG airport) to “the Midwest’s premier antiques and vintage collectibles-only show” for large doses of fun, history and bargain buys on furniture, pottery,…
Event: MainStrasse Village Classic Car Show
Antique car enthusiasts will want to be in Covington, Ky., this weekend for MainStrasse Village’s annual classic car show on Sunday. Hot Rods, Kustoms and Classics will decorate the tree-lined walkways of MainStrasse Village and Goebel Park under the shadow of the Carroll Chimes Bell Tower. Admission is free and if you’re lucky enough to…
Event: Schutzenfest
All weekend, the Kolping Society of Cincinnati will host Schützenfest, a traditional German festival dating back to medieval times. Traditionally, the festival celebrates a marksman saving a small child’s life from a vicious eagle attack — commemorated annually with a hand-carved eagle, perched on a pole and used as a target for marksman. Whoever shoots…
Event: Suicide is a Drag
The Cincinnati chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Cincinnati are shedding light on America’s youth suicide rates — particularly among members of the LGTBQ community — during their third annual “Suicide is a Drag” celebration. Enjoy food and drinks, a drag show and dress contest…
Event: Cincinnati T-Shirt Market
Fountain Square shows off its hometown pride with a “T-shirt mini-market” offering a variety of Cincinnati-themed shirts. The market will offer dozens of T-shirts crafted by, for and about the Queen City. In addition to small, local designers and printers, Fountain Square’s Cincy T-Shirt Market will offer unique shirts featuring favorite Cincinnati landmarks and “locals-only…
Literary: Steven J. Rolfes and Douglas R. Weise
Downtown’s Booksellers on Fountain Square is celebrating this week’s publishing of the new Cincinnati Art Deco book, part of Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series, by having authors Steven J. Rolfes and Douglas R. Weise attend a signing/reception in the store and discuss the topic. Noon Friday. Free. Booksellers on Fountain Square, 505 Vine St.,…
Food Trends from NYC’s Fancy Food Show
Pushing your cart down the aisle of the grocery store, staring at the same old boxes of cereal and pasta, it might be hard to imagine that manufacturers could come up with something new in the world of food each year. But imagine being a wholesale buyer faced with more than 760,000-square-feet of merchandise shown…
Death Cafe (Feature)
N o one knows what happens to us when we die, which is why death is such a compelling topic. Compelling enough that in 2011 in England, Jon Underwood and Sue Barsky Reid formed the Death Café, a meeting place for people to convene and discuss such heavy matters over pleasant things like tea and…
Event: St. Cecilia Festival
If you haven’t been to a Cincinnati Catholic parish festival this summer, you’re running out of time. But you can plan for St. Cecilia’s festival this weekend. Enjoy all the festival staples — funnel cakes, blackjack and booze. Parents can gamble, drink craft beer or peruse the nightly flea market while kids play games, ride rides…
Music: Wesley Bright & the Hi-Lites
Playing a retro brand of R&B dubbed Northern Soul, which developed around the Mod scene of late ’60s Northern England, Wesley Bright & the Hi-Lites fittingly hail from Northern Ohio (Akron to be exact) and have been developing a following in Cincinnati with frequent shows (something the group has repeated across the region). The group’s…
Comedy: Ryan Singer
Dayton native Ryan Singer, who started his comedy career in Cincinnati, returns to Southwest Ohio this week as part of a three-month tour. In addition to his stand-up dates this week at Go Bananas, he will bring his Flick My Clip short film festival to Dayton in August and Cincinnati in September. Meanwhile, he’s getting…
Art: CAC TV
As part of the CAC’s 75th anniversary season, museum administrators have been looking for new and unexpected ways to engage with the public. With that aim in mind, they’ve enlisted artist Pam Kravetz: a one-woman whirlwind of charisma and creativity who worked as a docent at the museum in the early ’80s and has her…
Events: Macy’s Kids, Cultures, Critters & Crafts Festival
The Cincinnati Zoo will be abuzz with music, dance and puppets during Macy’s Kids, Cultures, Critters & Crafts Festival. Hosted by Learning Through Art, Inc., admission to the family-friendly festival — and the zoo itself! — is only $1. Travel the zoo’s neighborhoods for face painting in the Serengeti, crafts in the Maasai Mara and catch…
August MidPoint Indie Summer Show Adds New Act
If you were excited to catch New Jersey Indie Pop duo Brick + Mortar at last weekend’s Bunbury Music Festival, you were probably also disappointed that the twosome’s set was cut short due to bad weather. But next month you’ll have another chance to see the band. And it won’t cost you a penny. When…
Morning News and Stuff
Morning, y'all. It's only Tuesday and there is already lots and lots going on. Here we go. A Hamilton County Common Pleas judge has allowed troubled charter school VLT Academy to stay open and ordered the Ohio Department of Education to help fund it. In a decision yesterday, Judge Nadine Allen ordered ODE to become…
Bouquet Restaurant & Wine Bar Open Mondays
Chef Stephen Williams' Bouquet Restaurant & Wine Bar in Covington, Ky., is now open for dinner — 5-10 p.m. — on Mondays. Founded in 2007, the menu features locally sourced ingredients from more than 30 farmers, purveyors and Findlay Market, along with an extensive wine list. Current hours are 5-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 5 p.m.-1 a.m.…
Third Thursday at The Palace
Chef Joe West at the culinary team at The Palace restaurant at The Cincinnatian hotel (601 Vine St., Downtown) are hosting a monthly third Thursday cookout. From 5-9 p.m. on July 17, Aug. 21, Sept. 18 and Oct. 16, the team will put together interactive chef stations featuring dishes like baby kale salad, compressed cucumber…
REVIEW: Bunbury Music Festival Day 1
A perfect day, hot enough but not so hot as to suggest the idea that the ghosts of dead ants broiled by sadistic children with magnifying glasses were somehow exacting their revenge from beyond the veil of ant Valhalla. Why, yes, the '70s were good to me. Why do you ask? At any rate, the…
Morning News and Stuff
One year ago today, the city signed contracts to start construction on the streetcar. Fast forward 365 days, and the new transit loop through downtown and Over-the-Rhine is quickly taking shape. Roads are closed as major sections of track go in. Workers are constructing concrete slabs for the passenger stops. The cars themselves are being…
WATCH: The Afghan Whigs’ “Matamoros” Video
The Cincinnati-spawned Afghan Whigs have unveiled the compelling music video for its latest single, "Matamoros," one of the highlights of the band's excellent comeback album, Do to the Beast. The video premiered on the sites of The Fader in the U.S. and The Guardian in the U.K., but you can also watch it below. The…
Maribelle’s eat+drink to Host Fourth ‘Food Fight’
The fourth round of Food Fight at Maribelle’s eat+drink is coming up at 6 p.m. on July 14. This live, Chopped-style competition was started by Maribelle’s chef/owner Mike Florea to create and maintain camaraderie between restaurant professionals and the public alike. Anyone is welcome to participate. If you would like the opportunity to compete, simply…
Stage Door: Opera, Dinner Theater and More
I saw Cincinnati Opera's production of Silent Night on Thursday evening. It's the regional premiere of a work that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for music, and our local opera is doing a bang-up job of presenting it. And "bang-up" is the operative term: This opera is set during some of the darkest days of…
Morning News and Stuff
We're mere hours from freedom, folks. I'll be quick today and give you the morning news rundown in short order so you’re ready for the weekend. If you’re a gay or bisexual man, the Food and Drug Administration won’t let you give blood. A blood drive today at UC’s Hoxworth Blood Center in Corryville is…
As Federal Funds Go Down, Homelessness Goes Up
More demand for housing aid and less money from the feds have combined to create a simple but brutal equation swelling the number of homeless individuals and families in the Cincinnati area and across the country. As more low-income people need affordable places to live, they have fewer housing options to choose from and less…
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Expands Access to LumenoCity Series
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has announced expanded access to their forthcoming LumenoCity series at Over-the-Rhine’s Washington Park after initial tickets sold out in 12 minutes. At last year’s inaugural LumenoCity, a total of 35,000 spectators were dazzled over the course of two nights as Music Hall was lit up with three-dimensional graphics, bringing OTR to…
Morning News and Stuff
Whoa, tons of news happening right now. Here's a brief rundown of what's up today. Homelessness has spiked in Hamilton County, social service providers say. It’s a trend that’s happening across the country as federal spending cuts hit programs aimed at aiding the homeless and preventing homelessness. That trend has hit Cincinnati-area families hard, the…
From The Copy Desk
Welcome to another edition of your weekly array of vocab words. This blog is only on CityBeat's website, but I would strongly recommend you pick up the paper this week for our Double Down cover package of back-to-back festivals Bunbury and Buckle Up. I'll be at Bunbury all three days. If you want to say…
Event: Bridalrama
For the past 13 years, Bridalrama has been the largest bridal show in Greater Cincinnati — and if you’re getting ready to say, “I do,” this is the place to start looking for vendors. The Duke Energy Convention Center will be packed with everything you need for your dream big day, including tailors, jewelers, musicians,…
Event: Civil War Weekend
This weekend, the Heritage Village Museum features 300 soldier, citizen and cavalry re-enactors to tell the story of the American Civil War. Battles will take place at 2 p.m. on both days, with Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis on the scene. Mid-1800s camp and village life will be portrayed and all participants will be in…
Event: St. Rita Fest
Mock turtle soup is back and ready to be purchased for education’s sake. During St. Rita Fest, a weekend-long fundraiser festival made possible by local businesses and volunteers, every dollar spent on raffles, funnel cakes and tummy-churning rides is used to provide tuition assistance to St. Rita School for the Deaf students. Live entertainment (from…
Art: Four CSO Musicians … The Visual Side at 5th Street Gallery
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is between seasons and the summer break provides some musicians a chance to explore other interests. A quartet from the CSO presents works in pottery, painting and photography at the 5th Street Gallery. Violinists Drake Ash and Anna Reider, cellist Dan Culnan and bassist Matthew Zory each have mastered another form…
Event: Roadkill Cafe
Here’s an event for both daredevils and foodies alike: The deliciously friendly Washington Platform Saloon & Restaurant is serving up “roadkill” alongside its main menu. From July 11-24, the downtown eatery will serve appetizers like turtle bites (chicken-fried turtle meat), duck quesadillas and alligator fritters, while kangaroo and BBQ rabbit will replace their beef or…
Event: Queen City Sausage Festival
Blending Cincinnati’s love for German brats and local beer, the Queen City Sausage Festival takes over Newport on the Levee for a weekend boasting more than 27 delicious ways to gorge on local craft sausage. The Queen City Sausage Company produces brats, metts, Italian sausage, Andouille, chorizo and more. Other festival fare includes roasted corn,…
Onstage: The Addams Family
There’s a new opportunity for young performers happening this summer — Commonwealth Artists Summer Theatre (C.A.S.T.). Director Jason Burgess, a theater instructor for Fort Thomas Independent Schools, will bring to life the musical tale of Charles Addams’ ghoulish cartoon characters — Gomez and Morticia and their dark daughter Wednesday, who’s fallen in love with a…
Event: JulyFest
Head east to St. Thomas More parish in Withamsville, Ohio for their annual JulyFest. This year, the focus of the church festival is on live music, and the strong band lineup includes The Brian Keith Wallen Trio and The Doug Hart Band & Friends on Friday’s “Blues, Brews and BBQ” night; Tana Matz and The…
Art: Manifest Gallery Artists-in-Residence and Master Pieces 8 Exhibition Openings
Few local galleries do as much to cultivate the future careers of emerging artists or cast as wide of a net in their reach for those with talent as Manifest Gallery in East Walnut Hills. On Friday, the gallery will host a public reception for its two current artists-in-residence: Christina Weaver (Birmingham, Ala.) and Taylor…
Sports: National Volleyball League Pro Beach Volleyball Tournament
The National Volleyball League brings its pro beach volleyball tournament to the Midwest for three days of competition. The Ohio championships will include professional, amateur and junior competitions starting Thursday with qualifiers and ending Saturday with women’s finals at 8 p.m. and men’s finals at 9 p.m. The finals will be followed by a beach…
Film: Breadcrumb Trail
Breadcrumb Trail, a new documentary by Lance Bangs about influential Louisville Alt Rock band Slint, screens Thursday at downtown’s Contemporary Arts Center, followed by a discussion with two band members. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10. $5 CAC members; $7 others. Contemporary Arts Center, 44 E. Sixth St., Downtown, contemporaryartscenter.org.
Comedy: Geoff Tate
Local comedian Geoff Tate has relocated to Los Angeles because his star has been steadily rising since an appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in 2012. This weekend he makes a homecoming appearance at acclaimed Montgomery comedy club Go Bananas. Onstage, Tate is known for relating hilarious long-form stories about certain crazy…
Comedy: Riot in Northside IV
Northside’s gathering of the funniest people in Cincinnati is back again — this time with burritos. Catch Riot, Northside’s quarterly comedy event at the Comet on Thursday. No opening acts in this show; the entire lineup is headliners. Hosted by Kris Tanner, you’ll see local comedy all-stars including Spark Tabor (two-time winner of Go Bananas’…
Music: Zvuloon Dub System
The summer-long “Reggae Wednesdays” concerts on Fountain Square get multi-cultural in a big way this week as Israel’s Tel Aviv-based ensemble Zvuloon Dub System comes to town. The group began in 2006 as a ’70s-styled Roots Reggae band, but three years later Ethiopian native Gill Yalo became ZDS’s singer, bringing with him an element of…
Morning News and Stuff
Hey folks. The weather’s killer, the week is half over, and Beyoncé apparently loves Over-the-Rhine. It’s a great day to be in Cincinnati, so let’s talk about what’s going on, good and bad, in our fair city. As a wise group of sages once said, cash rules everything around us, and if you’re looking for insight…
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires
It’s easy enough to describe Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires in strictly musical terms. Hailing from Birmingham, Ala., former Dexateens guitarist Bains and his rip-roaring band of Dixie brothers scream through their sophomore album, Dereconstructed, with the ferocity of a Punk-fueled Drive-By Truckers, informed by early Rolling Stones, snotty ’60s Garage dervishes like…
Will Kimbrough with Brigitte DeMeyer
Will Kimbrough is one of those multi-talented artists that nearly anyone could build a band around, a diverse musician who has devoted his life to his craft since an early age. Over the years, Kimbrough, who performs at the Southgate House with the impressive Bridget DeMeyer on Saturday, has been hired to fortify bands for…
Scott Miller
Anyone that has driven on Route 11 through northwestern Virginia has encountered the beauty and history that is the Shenandoah Valley. It is there that singer and songwriter Scott Miller grew up on a 200-acre cattle farm. But along the way, the call of life as a musician grabbed him up, which led to years…
Braid with Pity Sex and Signals Midwest
Somehow, it seems we’ve ripped the pages out of 21 calendars since Braid roared out of Champaign, Ill., with a Post Punk/Emo sound that deftly combined dissonance and melodicism, thundering heaviness and lightning heat, stuttering time signatures and straightforward riffage. Between its birth at the University of Champaign-Urbana in 1993 and its first hiatus in…
Missy Werner Shines on Collaborative New Album
Gifted local Bluegrass singer/mandolin player Missy Werner’s latest album, Turn This Heart Around, was released July 1 through iTunes, Amazon and most other online stores. The album — which has already been garnering airplay and positive reviews nationally — gets the hometown release party treatment this Saturday at the Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center…
‘Dark’ Larceny?
HOT: ‘Dark’ Larceny? Superstar Katy Perry’s early days as a Christian music performer are a distant memory. But if you believe Christian rapper Flame’s current lawsuit against her, Perry (or one of her numerous co-writers) still keeps an ear tuned to the Christian music world and, at least in one case, steals what she likes…
Turn the Cage
B rad Shultz has had a good deal of time to live with Melophobia, the latest album from his band, Cage The Elephant. And some six months after its release, he’s still feeling more at home with Melophobia than the band’s first two albums. “This album has been an album where I have looked back…
We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Sex may still be considered a taboo topic in America today, but 60 years ago many were completely in the dark about what was going on “down there.” Researchers Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson pushed to relate activity between the legs to activity between the ears with the science of sex. This true story gets…
Paul Haggis Keeps ‘Third Person’ a Remote Exercise
“Watch me.” The line of dialogue is whispered during a couple of key sequences in Third Person, the new film from Paul Haggis, the Academy Award-winning director of Crash (Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay). As you might imagine, the phrase insinuates itself dramatically into the hearts of the characters who hear it, as they…
Freaks of a Feather Celebrate Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor could be as proud as a peacock about The Meanest of Them Sparkled, a show in her honor at Thunder-Sky, Inc. O’Connor, the Southern writer who died of lupus 50 years ago this summer at age 39, kept peacocks at her Georgia farm — and the birds appeared in her stories, too. They…
Singers Revive Roles for Cincinnati Opera’s ‘Silent Night’
Craig Irvin, Andrew Wilkowske and Gabriel Preisser are enjoying a career arc that any opera singer would kill for. All three performed in the world premiere of Silent Night, an opera that garnered rave reviews, a Pulitzer Prize, a PBS broadcast and subsequent productions, including this weekend’s from the Cincinnati Opera, in which the singers…
Actress Dale Hodges Keeps “Hanging in There”
While the rest of us kick back during a lazy summer, Cincinnati-based actress Dale Hodges is at work honing her craft. That might surprise some local theatergoers, who already think of her as one of our region’s best theater professionals; if Hodges is onstage with a Cincinnati theater, it’s a sure bet that audiences will…
Up in the Air
W ith its plain, light-brown brick and simple square design, Cincinnati Gardens is an unassuming building, out of the way from the hustle of downtown and the riverfront. Driving by on Seymour Avenue (or Langdon Farm Road), you wouldn’t think twice about the 65 years of history held within the building’s walls. To most, it’s…
Pepper Blames AG DeWine for Rape Kit Backlog
The race for Ohio attorney general is heating up, and Democratic candidate David Pep per last week slammed his opponent, current Attorney General Mike DeWine, over Ohio’s lag in testing rape kits, which are samples collected when a rape is reported. Those samples can help identify the rapist — one in three kits results in…
Federal Judge Strikes Down Kentucky Gay Marriage Ban
A federal judge on July 1 ruled Kentucky’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. But same-sex couples in the state can’t get marriage licenses just yet. U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II ruled that a 2004 amendment to Kentucky’s state constitution prohibiting same-sex marriage violates the guarantee of equal protection under the law found…
COAST Says It Will Fight Music Hall/Union Terminal Tax Plan
The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) says it will fight Hamilton County Commissioners’ proposed plans to raise either sales or property taxes to help pay for renovations to Music Hall and Union Terminal. County Commissioners are considering a ballot initiative for a .25 percent sales tax increase or a property tax increase…
Last Clinics Standing
A s the Ohio legislature continues to narrow the eye of the needle abortion providers must thread to legally provide services to women, the Cincinnati area’s two remaining clinics face the threat of closure. A judge recently ordered a clinic in Sharonville closed as it fights a court battle over its license. Meanwhile, the region’s…
OK Go, Many More Added to MidPoint Music Festival
The final MidPoint Music Festival headliner for the big stage at Washington Park has been confirmed. Pop Rock foursome OK Go, which releases its fourth album, Hungry Ghosts, on Oct. 14, will headline the Washington Park stage on Saturday, Sept. 27. The other Washington Park headliners are Chromeo (Thursday, Sept. 25) and Cincinnati-bred rockers The…
