Nov 23-30, 2016
To Boldly Glow: A star trek installed along the Mill Creek trail brings to light the vastness of the universe and our place in it
Your Weekly To Do List (Nov. 30-Dec. 6)
WEDNESDAY 06 HOLIDAY: FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS One of the Tristate’s most beloved holiday traditions — the PNC Festival of Lights — is back and brighter than ever. For the 34th year in a row, the Cincinnati Zoo has been transformed into an elaborate and festive “wild wonderland” with the help of 2.5 million LED lights.…
Cincinnati Financial Corp. employees pony up en masse for two GOP Ohio Supreme Court candidates
Through no prompting that their company would admit to, employees of Cincinnati Financial Corp. and its affiliates donated more than $125,000 to the campaigns of Ohio Supreme Court justices-elect Pat DeWine and Pat Fischer — an amount far exceeding the contributions of any other company or group to high court candidates. Contributions compiled by CityBeat…
Minimum Gauge: Joel Sabotages Springsteen?
HOT: Joel Sabotages Springsteen? It could have been an honest mistake, but maybe it was a vengeful act of professional jealousy? Bruce Springsteen made the news when, on Veterans Day, the motorcycle he was cruising on broke down and some surprised fellow bikers (who happened to be veterans) gave him a ride. Now Billy Joel…
Hops for the Holidays
The holidays are in full swing, which means a plethora of winter-themed beers. And this holiday season you’re probably going to need a few of the following brews to keep yourself sane. MadTree recently released Pilgrim, a seasonal pale ale brewed with cranberries, walnuts and vanilla beans. It’s not yet in cans but can be…
Prosecutor’s office reneges on promise of legal opinion on controversial clerk of courts hire
The Hamilton County prosecutor’s office has backed out of a pledge to render a legal opinion on Clerk of Courts Tracy Winkler’s transfer of a recently reprimanded employee into a new, $70,000-a-year job in October. The opinion was requested Nov. 2 by County Commissioner Todd Portune. He expressed concerns about the move’s impact on the…
Stage Door: Comics, a Miser, a Haunted Bar and a Haunted Opera House
If you’ve slept off your overdose of tryptophan from yesterday’s meal, perhaps now you’re ready for some theater. Here are a few options to consider for this weekend: The Cincinnati Playhouse has productions on both stages, as of tonight. Continuing at the Shelterhouse is The Second City’s Holidazed & Confused Revue. Chicago’s legendary improv comedy…
Review: ‘The Edge of Seventeen’
Teen dramedies, as a genre, focus exclusively on the plight of privileged kids who seem to exist and operate in a world somehow divorced from the problems and concerns of the adults they share space and time with. To its credit, The Edge of Seventeen seems to understand and address that. Its focus is Nadine (Hailee…
What a Week! Nov. 16-22
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16 The American Dream is often defined by working your way up the socioeconomic ladder, maybe starting your own business and providing a better life for your children. But what aboot about the Canadian Dream? For some, that has meant working at a Labatt brewery, living out a Laverne and Shirley fantasy until…
Cincinnati is getting its progressive on
Donald Trump is our president. These words are striking fear in the hearts of many across the country. Progressives, after we sober up, get out from under the covers and reconsider all the threats of moving to Canada, are going to have to come to terms with it. While the election of an unqualified narcissist…
Giving thanks for guilty pleasures
Thanksgiving is a time to be with family, be grateful and, best of all, revel in unadulterated indulgence. So while you’re gobbling down your third helping of mashed potatoes, why not binge on some trashy TV, too? It’s a long weekend. Treat yo’self to these guilty pleasure picks: Nickelodeon, the kids’ network that shaped Millennials,…
‘Loving’ defends the American family
Through its ruling on Loving v. Virginia in 1967, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the state of Virginia’s prohibition of interracial marriages by deeming it a violation of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection. The case, which occurred toward the end of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, occupies a unique place in…
Branford Marsalis brings his cool to the CSO
Branford Marsalis uses the word “cool” a lot in conversation. He also projects the essence of cool, even over the phone speaking from his home in Raleigh, N.C. A master of Jazz and the Classical saxophone repertory, Marsalis performs with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Friday and Saturday, returning after an appearance in 2013. Marsalis is…
Brush Factory goes retail on Main Street
After primarily designing and manufacturing furniture for commercial clients like boutiques, restaurants and creative agencies, local custom furniture maker Brush Factory is set to open a new storefront in Over-the-Rhine. The new location, at 1417 Main St., will devote 2,300 square feet of space to both Brush Factory’s bff line of solid-wood residential furniture and…
Know offers ‘gnarly’ stories and songs
Know Theatre’s Underground bar is quite the place for storytelling. Last fall it became Andy’s House of [blank], a new show by Paul Strickland and Trey Tatum that was spawned during Know’s adventurous, episodic Serials! (also presented in the below-street-level bar). The Underground is the quarterly home for True Theatre, where everyday people give voice…
Bear Market, Bull Market and Now: Beer Market
Like many brothers and groups of close friends, Patrick Daffin and his brother Nick talked of one day opening a bar. However, their conversation that started two years ago became reality when Queen City Exchange opened its doors just four weeks ago. Queen City Exchange is Cincinnati’s first and only stock exchange-themed bar. With 41…
LPH Pizza Co. offers creative carbs without the frills
There is a reason why the market of comfort food has skyrocketed in 2016. The phenomenon flies in the face of kale and other trending vegetables you wouldn’t have noticed in the grocery store a year ago. Restaurants serving fried chicken (like The Eagle in Over-the-Rhine) or cream cheese-frosted donuts (like Holtman’s) are the talk…
Morning News: Ohio to chip in $10 million toward Western Hills Viaduct; white nationalist posters pop up on Miami U’s campus; federal judge pauses Obama overtime changes
Hey hey. Let’s do a final morning news update before everyone breaks out the turkey tomorrow. This will be my last morning news update for a while — I’ll be gone until late December — so I’ll try to make it a good one. In case you missed the news yesterday, former UCPD officer Ray…
A star trek installed along the Mill Creek trail brings to light the vastness of the universe and our place in it
It’s late November in Cincinnati, which means some of us have pulled the covers over our heads and surrendered to months of barely glimpsing the sun. But there’s now a place to catch the orb shining even at night and feel connected to the universe, and other people, again. SPACE WALK is a three-quarter-mile installation…
Contemplating contributions to Cincinnati culture and themes for future ArtWorks murals
ArtWorks, which celebrated its 21st birthday last week with a big party/fundraising event at Lunken Airport, has reason to be proud. The public murals it has debuted recently, especially downtown and in Over-the-Rhine, have shown the nonprofit organization has found its groove with its choice of subject matter. It has brought us somewhat surprising and…
Sound Advice: The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band with Cari Ray (Nov. 26)
Josh “The Reverend” Peyton should add a cover of The Beatles’ “Yesterday” to the Big Damn Band’s set list, just for the irony of singing the line, “I’m not half the man I used to be.” He’s not exactly, but there is a whole lot less of Peyton within the past couple of years since…
Sound Advice: In Flames with Hellyeah (Nov. 29)
For the past 26 years, Swedish Alternative Metal outfit In Flames has been less a band and more a state of mind. Early on after its formation, In Flames utilized numerous session musicians to accompany permanent members, not even gelling as an actual unit until the band’s second full-length, 1996’s The Jester Race. The only…
Local music gets in on the Black Friday action
Although Record Store Day — the annual celebration of independent record shops that has resulted in an annual onslaught of exclusive releases from artists big and small — is in April, the folks behind the RSD movement have also been coordinating a nationwide “Record Store Day Black Friday” event since 2010, playing off of the…
Reconnecting the ‘Dots
When is a band not a band? For Cincinnati’s psychodots, the answer is a resounding “Never!” Although guitarist/vocalist Rob Fetters, bassist/vocalist Bob Nyswonger and drummer/vocalist Chris Arduser stopped playing regularly in their psychodots configuration two decades ago, save for their annual Thanksgiving-time soirees in Dayton, Ohio and Cincinnati, they’ve been together in numerous bands over…
Cincinnati mulls addition of mental health professionals to emergency response personnel
The murder of 25-five-year-old Kejuan Master happened just feet from a daycare center on Colerain Avenue in Mount Airy. Six shots rang out at about 1 p.m. on Sept. 2 in front of the daycare, according to witnesses, hitting Master and an unidentified woman. The woman, who survived, crumpled in a neighboring driveway. Master ran…
