Mar 21-28, 2018
Magical Realism: 12 hours at The Mercantile Library, Cincinnati’s very own Room of Requirement
The Buzzword is ‘Archive’ for FotoFocus 2018
"Archive" has become a culturally fashionable term of late, the way “curation” did several years ago. And with good reason — they both speak to our need to save, prioritize and make sense of the vastly growing amounts of available information and visual imagery in our digital age. Open Archive is the theme for this…
Baseball, Brews and Opening Day Parties
Reds Opening Day celebration hits twice this year, with the first game of the season happening on March 30 against the Washington Nationals, and the annual Findlay Market Parade occurring on April 2 (followed by a home game versus the Chicago Cubs). MLB scheduling changes moved the upcoming season’s start date up a week and,…
Q&A with Cincinnati-Born Author Michael Nye
It’s no surprise that Michael Nye has a soft spot for Cincinnati — it’s where he was born and raised, where his interest in basketball and books emerged as twin loves. Nye’s recently published debut novel, All the Castles Burned, draws heavily from his Queen City childhood, an era just before cell phones became ubiquitous…
A Mesmerizing ‘The Visitors’ at CAM
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s nine-screen video installation The Visitors, which will be at Cincinnati Art Museum from March 30 through June 17, is just six years old and already a landmark of contemporary art. It’s both an installation and performance art and has been touring museums constantly. The artist and eight friends repeatedly perform a…
Cincinnati Doom group Beneath Oblivion goes deeper into the darkness on its bleak masterwork, ‘The Wayward and the Lost’
Before you enter Allen Scott’s home, you get a feeling of what has helped the guitarist fashion Beneath Oblivion’s most recent full-length, The Wayward and the Lost. The Cincinnati-based Doom Metal quartet has spent its time between 2011’s From Man to Dust and now constructing an album of sorrow, release, pain and grime — elements…
County could see sales tax increase; Young pushes mayoral recall provision; Roebling could be closed until June; more news
Hello all! Spring is here, and here’s how I know — Putz’s Creamy Whip opened yesterday. This is like the opening day parade of ice cream for me, y’all. I hope you went and got some. Now that we have the important news out of the way, here’s what else is happening. Does the county…
Here’s what a West End group could ask from FC Cincinnati
A committee of the West End Community Council will today present what it calls a "framework" for a community benefits agreement with FC Cincinnati should the team opt to build a soccer stadium there. But a couple of those committee members say that framework should not have been drawn up yet or at all. The…
West End group to deliver ask to FCC today; Cleveland man exonerated in 2002 murder; more news
Good morning, Cincy! Here’s some quick news for your Monday. More than 5,000 people attended Cincinnati’s March for Our Lives rally at City Hall on Saturday, and organizers report even more joined in a march afterward through downtown. The event, organized by students with the Young Feminists Coalition and activist group United We Stand, was…
Mick and Marvin
The first panel in the comic shows the blond-headed character Fred Jones, from the old Scooby Doo cartoon. As Fred and his teenage friends often did on that Saturday morning favorite, he has saved the world from a bad guy. He has the villain tied up, and it’s Mick Cronin. Mick’s oh-so-bald head, face filled with…
University of Cincinnati will pay Ray Tensing $344,000
The University of Cincinnati announced today that it has settled a legal dispute with former UCPD officer Raymond Tensing over Tensing's firing following the shooting death of unarmed black motorist Samuel DuBose in July 2015. According to a statement released today, UC will pay Tensing $244,000 in back pay and $100,000 in legal fees after…
Sedamsville landlord indicted in federal lawsuit; Sheriff Richard K. Jones endorses DeWine for governor; more news
Hello all. Let’s do some news real quick-like. Mayor John Cranley yesterday delayed a Cincinnati City Council vote on a severance package for City Manager Harry Black, citing a lack of votes to support the $423,000 deal. That agreement between Black and the city could end a grinding stalemate that erupted over controversy within the…
New SW Ohio music festival initial lineup announcement includes Flaming Lips, MGMT and more
Our region is getting a new music festival this summer. The Bellwether fest is slated for Aug. 10-11 at the home of the Ohio Renaissance Festival in Waynesville, Ohio, about 40 miles north of Cincinnati in Warren County. The event’s Facebook page describes Bellwether Music Festival as a “two-day, two-stage alternative rock and country music…
Massie Challenger Looks to Paint a Red District Blue
Bellevue’s Patti Piatt concedes she has at least one thing in common with U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, the staunch libertarian from whom she’d like to take Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District U.S. House seat in the upcoming November election. “We’re both carbon-based,” she quips. But beyond that, their political similarities are scarce. Will voters in Massie’s…
CPS holds fast — for the most part — on FCC stadium land swap
The Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education today passed a resolution setting the terms for a proposed land swap with FC Cincinnati in the West End. Those terms, very similar to those laid down in past correspondence and rejected by FCC, don’t seem to offer much opportunity for a new deal between the district and…
This Burger Makes a Big Impact
Since 2015, Pendleton’s Nation Kitchen & Bar has been giving back in a big way through its BIT burger promo — a special (and frequently decadent) burger of the month where a portion of proceeds goes to benefit a local nonprofit. Nation, which takes its name from axe-wielding Temperance warrior Carrie Nation, used a play…
West End Community Council votes against FCC stadium
The West End Community Council’s March 20 vote at the neighborhood’s Lindner YMCA took place the old fashioned way, with the council’s 10-member executive board calling out the names of each of the council’s 192 registered members. Membership in the community council has nearly tripled in recent weeks, council president Keith Blake has said, as…
JSPH on Netflix
A song by Greater Cincinnati singer/songwriter JSPH is featured in the new Netflix original series On My Block, which premiered March 16. In a scene from the third episode of the series — a high-school coming-of-age comedy that has been hailed for its music selections — a young women tells a young man at a…
