Worst Week Ever!: March 19-25
North Carolina School Treads on Brony Rights Bullies can be such a predictable bunch, always going after nerdy kids and people who are quiet or can’t run very fast (although, word to the wise — some dorks know karate). Administrators in a North Carolina middle school last week tried to step in and help a…
Strauss Troy Market Vendor Application Due Friday
Are you looking for a place to sell your crafts, produces, snacks, etc.? Vendor applications for Fountain Square's Strauss Troy Market are due by 5 p.m. Friday, March 28. The market, produced by 3CDC, happens Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., April 29-Oct. 28. 3CDC will be accepting applications from three types of vendors: 1. Non-food or…
Buffalo Killers Tease Forthcoming Release
Local faves Buffalo Killers are gearing up for the May 13 release of Heavy Reverie, the trio’s first record for Warner Music Group subsidiary Sun Pedal Recordings. Today the band revealed the new album track “Poisonberry Tide,” a delicious slice of Pop Rock that is reminiscent of Guided By Voices and Superdrag and is one of…
Q&A with Lavomatic’s New Executive Chef, Cameron Serrins
There’s a new face in the kitchen at Over-the-Rhine eatery Lavomatic. The restaurant's former executive chef, Josh Campbell, recently left to pursue another opportunity, leaving his position in the kitchen open. And Cameron Serrins — a Cincinnati native — stepped in. “I'm Cincy born and raised," Serrins says. "So many people close to me have…
Ash American Fare (Review)
Cincinnati was recently named one of the “six small cities with big food scenes” by USA Today. I’m sure there are people here who don’t think of us as a small city, but why quibble? Once upon a time, Cincinnati’s food scene wouldn’t have gotten a mention. And one of the best things about our…
Taste of Belgium is the Official Waffle of the Cincinnati Reds
Taste of Belgium has announced that it's partnering with the Great American Ball Park to become the "Official Waffle of the Cincinnati Reds." (Do any other teams have an official waffle? Didn't think so.) Starting on Opening Day, fans can now grab a Belgian waffle with toppings such as sweet cream, fruit or chocolate during a game,…
Event: Reds Opening Day Celebrations
Baseball season is finally upon us and downtown is the place to be for Reds Opening Day festivities. Give Back Cincinnati is partnering with Christian Moerlein and Local 12 for Rally on the Square. The event is a great way to enjoy the excitement before the game with food, drinks and music, all while supporting…
Event: Findlay Market Opening Day Parade
Opening Day is probably the coolest thing about Cincinnati. What other city has its own self-proclaimed, sports-related holiday respected by Fortune 500 companies, public school systems and private businesses alike? No one should have to do anything on Monday, March 31 except celebrate the upcoming Reds season and the fact that in 1869 some smart…
Event: Gorilla Run
The third annual Gorilla Run run/walk/ride to benefit the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund will begin at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Montgomery Inn Boathouse. Presented by the Gorilla Glue Company, the event begins with a Little Gorilla 1K, followed by a 5K and the “Silverback” after-party at the boathouse. Festivities include food, live music and…
Art: I Fell So Sad at the Art Academy of Cincinnati
The Art Academy of Cincinnati thesis exhibit, I Fell So Sad, is a comedic and profound examination of existence, featuring a broad range of art including photography, sculpture and poetry — plus work from CityBeat photography interns Marci Rhodes and Catherine G. Viox. On view March 31-April 4. Closing reception: 5-8 p.m. April 4. Free. The…
Literary: Kostya Kennedy
Pete Rose is probably Cincinnati’s best known export, which is a blessing and a curse — the all-time MLB hit king is also the only player to never appear on the Baseball Hall of Fame’s ballot, the result of Rose’s banishment from baseball 25 years ago. Sports Illustrated assistant managing editor Kostya Kennedy’s new book,…
Art: Masked/Unmasked Exhibition Opening
Visionaries + Voices artists Barb Riddle, Dale Jackson, Romando Love and Jennifer Crowe will provide visitors to Niehoff Urban Studio with their own inspired interpretations of the fluidity of identity this Friday in their exhibition Masked/Unmasked in conjunction with Modern Makers interactive art and design space. A recent graduate of V+V’s Teaching Artist Program, Crowe…
Event: Boone County Animal Shelter Baby Shower
Get your best “awww” ready for Boone County Animal Shelter’s second annual baby shower, showcasing adoptable pets from cuddly kittens to playful pups. It wouldn’t be a true baby shower without a present for the guests of honor, though. Check the animal shelter’s “baby” registry at Walmart, Target or Amazon for gift ideas such as…
Art: 199c Exhibit Opening at BLDG
As a baseball town heavily populated with artists and creatives, Covington, Ky.’s BLDG seeks to celebrate two of Cincinnati’s greatest loves: rooting for its home team and appreciating art, so it’s hosting the art event 199C. The exhibit will showcase work from more than 40 artists with local and international backgrounds. Each piece’s theme will…
Art: Patti Astor in Cincinnati
After graduating from Walnut Hills High School in 1968, Patti Titchener went to New York and reinvented herself as the celebrity Patti Astor — a colorful underground film star featured in the landmark 1983 Hip Hop and street-culture movie Wild Style and founder of the East Village’s famous FUN Gallery, home in the 1980s to such young artists as…
Event: Art After Dark
This month’s Art After Dark, the Cincinnati Art Museum’s final Friday happy hour event, is themed “Rococo Vibrations.” Docent-led tours of Genius and Grace: François Boucher and the Generation of 1700 occur hourly, starting with a members-only tour at 5:30 p.m. and a final tour at 7:30 p.m. Then, at 6 p.m., local Neo-Soul Folk…
Music: Corina Corina with Abiyah, Mahogany Reign and Lionesque
Veteran, multifaceted Cincinnati Hip Hop artist/promoter Abiyah has teamed up with Brooklyn, N.Y.’s R&B/Hip Hop vocalist Corina Corina (whose latest album, The Free Way, was just released) for a two-week jaunt through the East Coast and Midwest, which began on Corina’s turf in mid-March and comes to Abiyah’s home base this week. Playing off the…
Comedy: Robert Hawkins
Robert Hawkins doesn’t play a lot of clubs anymore, but when he does, he makes sure one of those is Go Bananas. Hawkins has been playing bigger venues recently, as well as opening for Blue Collar Comedy Tour’s Ron White. “I don’t want to be on the road all the time,” he says. “But if…
Onstage: Men are from Mars — Women are from Venus LIVE
This one-man fusion of theater and stand-up is a light-hearted comedy that examines how men and women deal with everything from dating to marriage to the bedroom. Based on the New York Times best-selling book, this show (which premiered in Paris in 2007) is sure to leave you laughing at stereotypical dating roles and uncomfortable…
Onstage: Midori and The Ring
Superstar solo violinist Midori will perform with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a concert event conducted by Jun Märkl. The show features some of the most challenging pieces in Classical music, including Wagner’s Orchestral Suite from The Ring operas, which are based on stories from ancient German and Icelandic mythology, and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.…
Onstage: A Delicate Ship
The Cincinnati Playhouse is about to deliver its third world premiere of the season; this time, it’s a brand-new memory play by award-winning playwright Anna Ziegler that is humorous and heartbreaking. A Delicate Ship is about a complicated love triangle that unravels in unexpected ways. Veteran director Michael Evan Haney calls the show “realistic with…
Attractions: Zoo Blooms
For proof that warmer spring weather is on its way, head to the Zoo Blooms flower display at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (one of only two accredited botanical gardens in Ohio), featuring more than one million daffodils, hyacinths, flowering trees and one of the largest tulip displays in the Midwest. Although the Cincinnati…
The National Film Opens in Cincinnati
C incinnati native Tom Berninger’s film that follows his older brother Matt’s band, The National, on tour, Mistaken for Strangers , is finally opening in Cincinnati this weekend, after making the film fest rounds and racking up mounds of positive press (it currently has an impressive 92 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes). The movie…
How to Eat Like a Chef … After Hours
So, here’s the good news: You’re a badass chef in Cincinnati and you’ve just served dinner to a few hundred people. Your crew was on top of its game and the night flew by sans flaws. Now for the bad news: Your back hurts. Your feet hurt. Everything hurts. Worst of all, nary a bite…
LumenoCity Returns this Summer with Three-Day Festival in Washington Park
Five years ago, Over-the-Rhine was considered one of the most dangerous and dilapidated neighborhoods in the United States, a title earned through a controversial analysis of the area’s crime statistics. Today it’s a different story, with Over-the-Rhine at the forefront of community revitalization, and Washington Park at the core of that progress. At last year’s…
Colerain Oil Pipe Back in Operation as Cleanup Continues
A pipeline that burst in a Colerain nature preserve last week spilling thousands of gallons of oil is back in operation after crews repaired a 5-inch-long crack in the bottom of the pipe. Colerain Township Fire Department Captain Steven Conn says officials shut the pipe down shortly after the spill on March 17 and have…
The Mountaintop (Review)
Critic's Pick In the nearly half-century since the passing of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., he has been increasingly characterized as saintly. This profound respect is surely warranted, but it’s a certainty he had flaws and weaknesses as well as doubts about his mission and what it meant. Katori Hall’s award-winning 2011 play, The Mountaintop,…
USA Today Names Cincinnati a Top “Small City” with a “Big Food Scene”
For those of us lucky enough to call Cincinnati home, we know you don't have to travel to either one of the coasts to get some of the best food in the nation. And USA Today agrees. They recently named Cincinnati one of the nation's top six small cities with big food scenes. We probably…
Sotto Named at Top 100 Restaurant by OpenTable
Chef David Falk's Sotto* restaurant was recently named one of the "Top 100 Hot Spot Restaurants in America" by OpenTable's Diners’ Choice Awards. According to a press release, the winners were chosen after sorting through more than 5 million reviews of more than 19,000 restaurants in all 50 states. All restaurants with a minimum number of…
Health Insurance Deadline Approaching
Enroll America, a nonprofit designed to help citizens who are uninsured wade through the insurance process, stopped by Cincinnati on Monday during a four-city Ohio tour meant to educate citizens on their health insurance options ahead of a March 31 deadline to sign up for coverage. The Get Covered America campaign visited the Word of…
Louis Langrée Talks MusicNOW
Louis Langrée is well aware of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's rich history. The CSO's freshly minted music director also knows part of that history includes the nurturing of contemporary composers and their often unconventional works. Enter MusicNOW, Bryce Dessner's 9-year-old festival of adventurous sounds. (Read our conversation with Dessner here.) This year's sonic extravaganza includes…
Stage Door: Excellent Options
The three-week run of the tour of Wicked wraps up this Sunday at the Aronoff Center. It's a faithful reproduction of the Broadway hit, with performers who can give you the experience of seeing the original, a kind of prequel to The Wizard of Oz. (Tickets, $38-$188: 513-621-2787, but each performance has a pre-show lottery; if…
Pride and Prejudice (Review)
Jane Austen’s familiar characters in Pride and Prejudice have all but taken on the status of real people. Everyone who loves this 1813 novel of love and manners “knows” Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, to be sure, as well as her meddlesome mother and her long-suffering father, plus her four sisters and various suitors. So well…
Worst Week Ever!: March 12-18
Joel Osteen’s Prosperity Gospel Inspires Someone to Steal $600K from Megachurch After you live a couple of years on this earth, it becomes clear that religious people who do not doggedly seek profit or self-glorification from religion are doing it right and that the Joel Osteens of the world are the ones who get all…
A Warm Gun
Boone County Constable Joe Kalil got shot down early last month. To much media fanfare, Kalil attended a Boone County Board meeting where he got three minutes to convince board members that classroom teachers needed background checks and five-and-a-half days’ training through his Protecting Our Students and Teachers Tea Party-endorsed gun training program to become…
HealthSavor (Profile)
Driving past the sign that says “Big Sky Diner” on Old State Route 74 in Batavia, you’d think the building is home to an unbeatable greasy spoon breakfast special. However, it houses quite the opposite. HealthSavor — the Tristate’s only organic, gluten-free and vegan-optional meal delivery service — took the diner’s place in May 2013. …
On the Road Again
T he sun’s morning gaze provided clear visibility as Wes Crout navigated his bicycle across the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge on March 6, a route he often takes to work in Covington. Crout hugged the right boundary of the road to give cars room to pass by, and several did, some veering slightly into the…
Sloppy Reporting Mars Interesting Ark Questions
Whatever it is, the Ark planned by Answers in Genesis (AiG) won’t be a “replica.” This local Ark story is going to be around for a while, so it’s time for reporters and editors to check their biases. The Ark is back in headlines because the confrontation between AiG president Ken Ham and Bill Nye…
I Just Can’t Get Enough
Cincinnati is now a temporary home for Cate Blanchett (this year’s winner of the Best Actress Oscar for Blue Jasmine), Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Side Effects, Her), Sarah Paulson (The American Horror Story anthology, 12 Years a Slave) and Kyle Chandler (The Wolf of Wall Street, Zero Dark Thirty, the Friday…
Early Start
Two years ago, Xavier’s Semaj Christon and NC State’s T.J. Warren were roommates. On Tuesday night, they were rivals. Christon and Warren lived and played together for one season at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire, notching a 33-1 record and a National Prep Championship. The NCAA Tournament’s First Four game in Dayton Tuesday night put…
Mission: Defense
Despite the impressive resuscitation job Mick Cronin has performed on the University of Cincinnati basketball program since he took over as head coach before the 2006-07 season, there have been times of disappointment — embarrassment, even — with Cronin in charge. Most of that occurred at the front-end of his term, as he rebuilt a…
