Cranley’s Latest Attack on Qualls Deemed Invalid
City Solicitor John Curp and Ohio Ethics Commission Executive Director Paul Nick said in an Oct. 22 email exchange that it was OK for Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls to retain her job as a realtor and vote in support of the streetcar project, even though the project could indirectly benefit Qualls by increasing property values…
REVIEW: Dark Colour – ‘Prisoner’
In Electronic music, the punkish encouragement to “just jump in and see what happens,” regardless of proficiency, resulted in the creation of Krautrock, Hip Hop, Synthpop, New Wave and many other styles. Some of the top innovators of those genres were driven by a “naïvite” that added a more “human” element (going against the common…
Please Moving from Carriage House Farm to Pallet23
As the weather starts to change, chef Ryan Santos and his unique, local farm-to-table dinner series Please is relocating from its summer home at Carriage House Farms to pallet23 in Northside. "We chose pallet23, in reality, because it has eletricity, water and equipment — very much unlike the farm," Santos says, "but it also allows…
Brown County Dogs in Urgent Need of Homes
The Brown County Animal Shelter, which mostly houses strays saved from the streets, has issues with overcrowding due to limited funding. This means that many of the dogs at the shelter have uncertain futures unless adopted by area residents. There is an “urgent list” determined by seniority. Dogs that most recently came into the shelter…
Film: The Hunger
If you’re hungry for an adult way to celebrate Halloween, Cincinnati World Cinema presents a screening of 1983’s The Hunger, directed by the stylish Tony Scott and starring David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. The erotic thriller was a pioneering venture into the modern-day vampire movie, a genre so popular today. There will be…
Film: Moonstruck
The award-winning Cher- and Nicolas Cage-centric Moonstruck has been recognized as the eighth best romantic comedy of all time by the American Film Institute. Before the screening, School Amici will perform some live Italian-style music for the audience and teach some Italian phrases through their songs. The Quarter Bistro next door will serve dishes inspired…
Halloween: MainStrasse Village Dog Pawrade
Make sure your favorite four-legged friend is dressed to impress and head down to MainStrasse Village for its 12th-annual dog parade. This year’s theme is “Dancing with the Dogs,” so create a great costume for you and your doggie dance partner and join the pawrade — your pup might just win one of three prestigious…
Event: Gears & Beers
Let your imagination run wild as you don your best neo-Victorian inspired getup, grab your best pair of beer goggles, grab your most outrageous gadget and head down to the Cincinnati Museum Center for the Queen City’s first Bavarian steampunk microbrew event. It will undoubtedly be the most eccentric, original addition to your Oktoberfest season…
Music: Mt. Adams Music Affair
The inaugural Mt. Adams Music Affair is a new sampler platter for your listening pleasure. Some of the hottest spots on the hill will open their doors to live music, offering a lineup of both regional and local acts including We Are Snapdragon, Tracy Walker and the Tigerlillies. With performances scheduled at seven different Mount…
Halloween: The Malice Ball: OTR Brewer’s Masquerade
Relive the dark, gothic feel of historic masquerade balls as you descend into a frightful underworld of Christian Moerlein’s decorated brewery. MUJO Studios will provide traditional masquerade masks and bartenders from Bakersfield and Japp’s will serve your favorite drinks. Other attractions include a dance floor with music from DJ Matt Joy, a spooky photo booth,…
Halloween: Art After Dark
The Cincinnati Art Museum’s Art After Dark series gets spooky with a special screening of the 1922 film Nosferatu. Athens, Ohio Folk band The Ridges will provide the dark, string-based score for the silent film, and the museum will offer ghost tours, which end in the new exhibit Realm of the Immortals: Daoist Art in…
Art: Superunknown: The Neo-Folk Impulse at Thunder-Sky, Inc.
The perennial debate over what constitutes “outsider” art is thrown out the window for Thunder-Sky’s upcoming exhibition Superunknown: The Neo-Folk Impulse. Guest curated by Leigh Cooney of the Cooney Brothers, Irish self-taught artists and brothers who live and work in Toronto, the group show features seven artists from across North America including Leigh and brother…
Event: Rise of the Cool Kids
Washington Park transforms into style underground for a night of fashion and music. Rise of the Cool Kids — a roundtable of Cincinnati creatives and retailers — will curate a digitally projected fashion show combining the city’s up-and-coming talent, fashion experts, bloggers and artists into, as the press release elaborates, “a mind-blowing exploration of ownable…
Halloween: Shillito’s Abandoned Tour
Cincinnati’s Shillito’s was once one of the largest and grandest department stores in America. And its 19th-century building, now home to Landor Associates among others, is open for an evening of spooky lost-in-time tours. This one-night-only event takes you beneath the historic department store for a walk through Shillito’s showrooms, Santaland and former cafeteria. The tours…
Literary: Dan Smith
The site where Bobby Mackey’s nightclub sits in Wilder, Ky., has a long and often nefarious history. In fact, Dan Smith, author of the new book Ghosts of Bobby Mackey’s Music World, was shocked to find out that “every incarnation of the building, or whatever was there, included death and dark matters,” as he recently…
Art: Harper Ever After at the Art Academy of Cincinnati
The Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC) invites the public to a reception for the exhibition Harper Ever After, honoring Charlie and Edie (McKee) Harper, two 1947 AAC graduates who first met on the steps of the old Art Academy building and whose art would become known far beyond Cincinnati. The exhibition reflects the years 1940…
Music: Gungor
Dynamic Denver-based Indie Folk collective Gungor is a perfect example of why modern Americana doesn’t appear to be headed in the same faddish direction as, say, the Ska or Swing revivals of yesteryear. Instead of swimming in clichés, being a caricature or trying to adhere to any sort of Roots music blueprint, as the group’s…
Comedy: Isaac Witty
Isaac Witty is taking a break from the comedy troupe he’s been working with in Minneapolis to take the stage here in the Queen City. “We’ve been putting on these shows around Minneapolis to raise money to make a web series,” he says. The troupe, called The Turkeys, has been alternating between live performances and…
Onstage: Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!
NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! is an opportunity to hear the news with an interactive twist. Each week, listeners can call in to test their knowledge about current events against a panel of handpicked shining stars in the entertainment and news world. And this week, the Peabody Award-winning weekly news quiz program is coming to…
Onstage: Cabaret
In 1966, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical was way ahead of its time. Although it’s nearly a half-century old, the show still feels like a piece of ultra-modern experimentation. Set in a sleazy 1930s Berlin nightclub, Cabaret’s story is based on two novels from that era. The Cincinnati Playhouse has recruited Broadway veteran Marcia…
Dracula (Review)
Cincinnati Landmark Productions recently announced plans to focus its productions on the West Side’s Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, adding a new, smaller venue in the Incline District and foregoing the riverfront Showboat Majestic. For those who haven’t ventured west for theater, reconsider swiftly. A “night at the theater” speaks to a certain liveliness…
Morning News and Stuff
A seven-member legislative board yesterday accepted federal funding made available through Obamacare to expand Ohio’s Medicaid program to cover more low-income Ohioans for the next two years. Gov. John Kasich went through the Controlling Board, an obscure panel that typically handles less contentious budget issues, to get the federally funded Medicaid expansion after months of…
Music Tonight: Neko Case and Built to Spill
• The first time I saw Neko Case was a complete accident. I was in Chicago around the most recent turn of the century and went to see Indie Rock singer/songwriter Edith Frost at the small (but popular) club Lounge Ax and Case and her “Boyfriends,” as her backing band was then called (really Canadian…
Board Expands Medicaid Without Legislature’s Approval
A seven-member legislative board on Monday accepted federal funding to expand Ohio’s Medicaid program to cover more low-income Ohioans for the next two years. Republican Gov. John Kasich originally attempted to get the Medicaid expansion through the General Assembly, but he ultimately bypassed the legislature after months of unsuccessfully wrangling with members of his own…
Spring Grove Removes Murder Victim’s SpongBob Headstone
Twenty-eight-year-old army sergeant and Ohio native Kimberly Walker was found dead in a Colorado hotel room earlier this year, allegedly murdered by her boyfriend, a soldier, on Valentine's Day. Walker loved SpongeBob SquarePants, so her family had Walker's headstone carved to resemble the bepantsed sponge. She was buried at Spring Grove cemetery with plans to…
REVIEW: The Frankl Project – ‘Standards’
With its first three releases and about a decade worth of live shows across the region, The Frankl Project has honed a sound that has earned notice for its crafty blend of Rock, Pop, Punk and Ska. But the Cincinnati trio’s recent album, Standards, showcases the sound of a band finding its own unique voice…
Cincinnati Rollergirls to Hold Tryouts and Bootcamps for 2014
The Cincinnati Rollergirls, our local badass babes on wheels/internationally ranked women's flat-track roller derby team, is recruiting skaters, referees and non-skating officials for its 2014 season at the Cincinnati Gardens. If you've ever wanted to push people around while wearing fishnets and roller skates, now is the time. The team is holding informational sessions, skill…
Butler County Sheriff Supports Tougher Animal Cruelty Laws
Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones announced that he is in favor of altering Ohio’s law to make cruelty to animals a felony offense rather than a second degree misdemeanor. As it stands, animal cruelty in Ohio is punishable by 90 days in jail at most. Jones took over the official duties of dog warden…
Music Tonight: strangewave and Garage Voice
Ohio Dream Pop/Rock group strangewave performs tonight at The Comet in Northside. J. Trenton Crace and Katrina Eresman formed the compelling group in Dayton not long ago and released their ear-grabbing full-length debut, Pop Noir, earlier this year. It's a fantastic first effort full of hypnotic songs that hover in the same realm as classic…
Of Mice and Men (Review)
Critic's Pick John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella Of Mice and Men is a classic of American literature. The same year, Steinbeck adapted his sad tale of ill-fated migrant farm workers as a play that ran on Broadway for more than 200 performances. It’s a fine choice for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, a company that goes beyond the…
Morning News and Stuff
Early voting for the 2013 City Council and mayoral elections is now underway. Find your voting location here . Normal voting hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., although some days are extended. On Oct. 29, local residents will be able to give feedback to Cincinnati officials about the city budget — and also nab…
Rusko
With his shorn sides/unkempt mop top haircut and defiantly Punk energy, Rusko has the period look of one of Ian Dury’s Blockheads circa New Boots and Panties. But his birth in 1985 places him in a different musical context entirely. Born Christopher Mercer in Leeds, England, Rusko’s musically curious family life led him inevitably to…
Tech N9ne
Rolling Stone recently dubbed Tech N9ne “the hardest-working rapper,” and this calendar year is potent proof of that assertion. In August, Tech dropped the blazing Something Else, which debuted at No. 4 on Billboard’s Rap charts and gave the Kansas City, Mo., music mogul his highest charting album to date. Tech N9ne will cap 2013…
Dopapod
Even a cursory spin through Dopapod’s third album, 2012’s Redivider, is a jaw-dropping exercise in suspending disbelief. When the album was recorded earlier that year, Dopapod had only been together since 2009, a relative blink of an eye considering the quartet’s technical sophistication and stylistic diversity. Redivider was made even more impressive by the fact…
Valerie June
If you think of Americana music as a delicious home-cooked stew of Blues, Soul, Country, Folk, Gospel, acoustic-guitar meditation and funky Rock reverie, then you’ll have an idea of what to expect from Valerie June. A native of Tennessee, she is steeped not just in the Blues, Gospel and Appalachian Country music of her home…
Q&A with Abigail Washburn
At the heart of even the darkest of music, it’s love that made it possible. Love of singing or escapism. Love of an instrument or a sound. A flourishing love or a dissipating love. That love is especially present in absolutely everything Abigail Washburn does. It’s a love for the banjo, a love for China…
NKY Wine Festival Takes Over MainStrasse on Saturday
Take a break from Oktoberfest brews with something a bit more grapey. Saturday, pour yourself a glass of wine (or two or three) as MainStrasse Village gives you the chance for a little weekend wining and dining. The festival features tastings from more than 15 local wineries — including Baker-Bird Winery, Elk Creek Vineyards, Purple…
Morning News and Stuff
Early voting for the 2013 City Council and mayoral elections is now underway. Find your voting location here . Normal voting hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., although some days are extended. On Oct. 29, local residents will be able to give feedback to Cincinnati officials about the city budget — and also nab…
Stage Door: Choices, Choices
My best recommendation for this weekend is Ensemble Theatre's staging of Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn. This is an ultra-natural piece of writing with several generations of women arguing and contesting over the ways women should behave. (CityBeat review here.) It's focused on two women, once friends, one married to the other's ex college boyfriend.…
Audit Slams Former County Sheriff
A scathing audit of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) suggests former Sheriff Simon Leis crippled technological developments, stacked leadership positions with political cronies and still kept his staff fiercely loyal during his 25-year reign over the sheriff’s office. According to the Oct. 15 audit, the result was an agency “largely frozen in time” that…
Sweet and Sexy Edibles
Find Queen City Cookies' new line of Bettie Page-printed shortbread cookies at this week's City Flea (10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the American Can Building in Northside) and at the bakery. See (and eat) the "Queen of the Pin-ups" in classic Page poses. Queen City Cookies also has special Halloween-themed treats with black cats, skeletons, spiders and…
513{eats} 2014 Culinary Calendar to Benefit SIDS
The de Cavel Family SIDS Foundation is an organization and philanthropic effort founded by chef Jean-Robert de Cavel, his wife Annette and a dedicated group of volunteers and the culinary community. The de Cavel's lost their daughter Tatiana to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in 2002, and have since used the foundation to raise funds for research, education,…
Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Heist
According to station WKYT in Frankfort, Ky., around 65 cases of rare, 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle bourbon have been stolen from the Buffalo Trace Distillery. The Frankfort-based distillery produces the coveted brand, bottling only about 7,000 cases per year of Pappy, which is the No.1-rated bourbon whiskey in the world (according to their website). The…
State Could Force Local Abortion Clinic to Close
The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) could order the Lebanon Road Surgery Center, a Cincinnati-area abortion clinic, to shut down after a hearing examiner upheld ODH’s decision to revoke the clinic’s license because the clinic failed to establish a transfer agreement with a nearby hospital. Abortion rights advocates touted the closure as another example of…
REVIEW: Man Man at the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio)
Man Man is a band that thrives on live performances, aka circus-themed Halloween parties sprinkled with confetti and a touch of grotesqueness. The five-piece experimental group has an insatiable flair for the dramatic and is never short of kooky stage props. This held true at Tuesday’s performance at the Wexner Center of the Arts, where…
Music Tonight: The Spits, Red Bull Thre3Style U and More
• Originating in Michigan and now based in the Pacific Northwest, Punk Rock trio The Spits pattern "their own new-millennial take on Punk after heroes like NOFX and The Ramones, but also tapping into the ‘70s Synth Wave dissonance that distinguished bands like Wire and Spizzenergi and presenting a theatrical component as engaging as Devo…
Morning News and Stuff
Early voting for the 2013 City Council and mayoral elections is now underway. Find your voting location here . Normal voting hours will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., although some days will be extended. Congress last night voted to end a partial government shutdown that lasted for more than two weeks and avoid defaulting…
Homeless Sue County Over Courthouse Eviction Policy
Homeless advocates gathered in front of the Hamilton County Courthouse on Wednesday to speak out against the county sheriff’s attempts to evict homeless people sleeping at the courthouse and Hamilton County Justice Center with the threat of jail time. The press conference came on the same day that four local homeless filed a lawsuit in…
Requiem Project Wants UC to Give Up Emery Building
When Mary Emery donated the money to build the Ohio Mechanics’ Institute in 1908, she stipulated that the building would contain an assembly hall available to the public. Her charitable trust has been tasked with ensuring that The Emery Theatre, located in the basement of the building at the corner of Walnut Street and Central…
Baby DJs, Kanye’s Fluke and a Costly DJ Request
HOT Start ’Em Young Forcing music lessons on your kids is a good way to turn them off of music forever. But babies can’t say no (well, they can, but it means nothing). Still, a baby is going to have a hard time learning piano or guitar with their little fingers and tiny brains, so…
Larry Malott 1948-2013
The local music scene lost one of its veteran players this past weekend. Larry Malott — also a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War — suffered a brain aneurysm Oct. 9 from which he never recovered. Malott passed away on Oct. 12. A gifted bassist, Malott (who was 65) was the low-end…
I Just Can’t Get Enough
Britney Spears’ infectious single “Work Bitch” has the singer using a Madonna-esque faux accent to bring the Jesse Pinkman-inspired message that if you want the finer things in life (a Lamborghini, martinis, to look hot in a bikini, etc.), they won’t just be handed to you. You better work for it. Bitch. But just how…
Fighting Through
T he title of Neko Case’s latest album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, is as revealing as it is head-scratching, yet another reminder of how this fearless lady has channeled a turbulent childhood into a singular career as a singer and songwriter. A…
Golf Legends and the AriZona Beverage Company
A recent study found that athletes who endorse unhealthy food and beverages create the illusion (especially for kids) that those products are far healthier than they actually are. LeBron James is in almost super-human shape, but plugs McDonald’s and Bubblicious gum. Peyton Manning will go into the football Hall of Fame, so it’s doubtful he…
Relaunching Short Vine
Between now and early next year, a score of new restaurants are slated to open on Short Vine in Corryville, something that’s unprecedented for the business strip, which has been fallow for so many years. Bogart’s, The 86 Club, Dive Bar and a few others have been the exceptions, but there has mainly been a…
Morning News and Stuff
Early voting for the 2013 City Council and mayoral elections is now underway. Find your voting location here . Normal voting hours will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., although some days will be extended. Cincinnati yesterday laid down the first two streetcar tracks , putting the project on a clear path to completion after…
Building Preservation Group Scrutinizes Transitional House
A Ludlow, Ky., branch of a local entity operating transitional housing facilities for recovering addicts across the Greater Cincinnati area is facing criticism from the Ludlow Historic Society, a small advocacy group that works to promote and preserve the neighborhood’s historic buildings. New Foundations Transitional Living (NFTL), a for-profit, private transitional housing operator founded in…
ACLU Sues Ohio Over Anti-Abortion Restrictions
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio on Oct. 9 announced it will sue the state of Ohio over anti-abortion restrictions enacted as part of the 2014-2015 state budget. “To put it simply, none of these amendments have any place in the state budget bill,” said Susan Scheutzow, ACLU cooperating attorney, in a statement.…
Port Authority Reduces Parking Plan Payment
The parking plan’s lump sum payment is being reduced to $85 million, down from $92 million, and the city could be on the hook for $14 million to $15 million to build a garage, according an Oct. 9 memo from City Manager Milton Dohoney to council members and the mayor. Dohoney wrote that the Greater…
Governor Bypasses Legislature for Medicaid Expansion
After months of wrangling with legislators from his own political party to support the federally funded Medicaid expansion, Republican Gov. John Kasich decided to bypass the legislature and instead ask a seven-member legislative oversight panel to consider expanding Medicaid eligibility to more low-income Ohioans. Kasich’s decision to go through the Controlling Board means he no…
Governor Finally Accepts Federal Funds
If anyone knows what it means to lose federal funds, it’s Gov. John Kasich. For the past year, the governor has aggressively pushed state legislators to accept the federally funded Medicaid expansion. Kasich’s argument is simple: Whether he approves of Obamacare or not — he doesn’t — the money was already allocated to states to…
Defriending COAST
M ayoral candidate John Cranley says he would reject an endorsement from the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), a conservative group formed in 1999 with a history of anti-LGBT causes. “I don’t want it. I’m not a member of COAST,” says Cranley, who’s running against fellow Democrat and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls…
The Summit
Director Nick Ryan (writer and director of A Lonely Sky and The German) and writer Mark Monroe (writer of The Cove and The Tillman Story) dare to take audiences on a quest to discover what happened on the day when 11 mountain climbers perished (either killed outright or simply vanished) on K2, the world’s most…
Inequality For All
As Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, Robert Reich was the lone voice raging against the madness of the economic machine. He knew the system was rigged and had been for some time; that was why Clinton hired him in the first place. They had been Rhodes Scholars together, familiar with one another, but obviously…
The Fifth Estate
Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) takes audiences behind the scenes of the start of WikiLeaks. Julian Assange (the enterprising and seemingly omnipresent Benedict Cumberbatch) and Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl racing off after his tightly coiled performance in Rush) join forces to bird-dog the authorities on the global landscape by creating an underground network to ensure some degree…
Building Bridges
W hen Aaron Kent graduated from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2009, he, like most artists, had few resources. “When you graduate, you have no studio; they pat you on your back, give you your diploma and say, ‘Good luck,’” says the former sculpture major. Today, Kent is one-third of DIY Printing, a screen-printing…
Escape Plan
In this mythic clash of the 1980s action titans from director Mikael Håfström (Derailed and 1408), Sylvester Stallone plays a prison consultant who breaks out of high-security facilities to test their systems. During his latest assignment, the specialist gets hoodwinked and locked away in a seemingly escape-proof zone without access to his team. His only…
Cincinnati vs. the World 10.16.2013
The residents of 90-percent white Dayton suburb Beavercreek have been trying to keep minorities out town for years by protesting the installation of a few new metro bus stops, but the federal government just ruled the rejection violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for discriminating against minorities who needed the stops to access medical…
Carrie
Although the idea of another version of Stephen King’s debut novel doesn’t inspire much hope for a dramatic re-imagining or a startlingly compelling departure, the pairing of Chloë Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore as Carrie and Margaret White, the mother-daughter combo at the heart of the story, gives me pause, enough to warrant a serious…
Saudi Arabian Film Shatters the Glass Ceiling
Sometimes a story, told simply and effectively, changes the way we as an audience see another part of the world, the experiences of others and/or ourselves, all reflected in the moving images before us. What’s more, it can be startling when the impact, so profound and likely unexpected, cracks our cynical natures through its very…
Kinda Like Crazy
No, we’re never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy. — Seal I remember when/I remember, I remember when I lost my mind/There was something so special about that place/Even your emotions had an echo and so much space. — Cee-Lo Green Used to be when public shootings, domestic terrorism and school massacres saturated…
Curmudgeon Notes 10.16.2013
Anything anti-Obama is too good to check at Fox News. Host Anna Kooiman is the latest Fox apparatchik to repeat a phony partisan story. She complained on Fox and Friends recently that it “doesn’t seem fair” to close the World War II memorial on the National Mall during the federal lockout “especially” because “President Obama…
Worst Week Ever!: Oct. 9-15
City’s New Police Chief Wants to Dress to Impress and Arrest Like all cities, Cincinnati is a place where crimes are committed. Strategies constantly evolve as law enforcement tries to thwart all sorts of criminal enterprises. In order to combat all the degenerates and scofflaws that call the Queen City home, it is necessary to…
Don’t Drink the Water
Last week’s fourth season premiere of The Walking Dead (9 p.m. Sundays, AMC) was the first offering from new showrunner Scott Gimple. He and others involved in the series have expressed a desire to incorporate more character development, leaving some fans worried that dull human storylines could get in the way of epic zombie scenes…
Nonprofit Produces Children’s Songs About Pro-Social Behavior
They sit parallel to one another, each in chairs of unique design, against a shared backdrop of a window-lit office. David Kisor wears his Chuck Taylors with pride; a T-shirt and jeans complete the ensemble. On the other side of the room sits Tom Lottman, in a suit and leather sandals. A composer and researcher,…
Learning Experiences: Cincy Shakes and Xavier Theater Collaborate
It’s been a long time since I graduated from Oberlin, but I vividly remember performing in a college production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. It was my last time onstage (I discovered my limitations early). As Baptista, I was the hapless father of strong-willed Katherine, played by Julie Taymor, then 17, who went…
The Pages Of History
I f you wanted to borrow a book from a library in 18th-century America, you might run into some problems. Back then public libraries didn’t exist. Instead, small private libraries served those who were members — mainly upper-class citizens who could afford the annual fees. The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCH), like…
