Morning News: Music Hall walkway replacement unlikely, but something bigger may be coming; suit alleges civil rights violations by Columbus police
Good morning all. Here’s your news today. A replacement walkway over Central Parkway to Music Hall is looking more and more unlikely despite City Council support. But is something bigger on the way? While detailing the costs of replacing a deteriorated walkway the city removed between a parking garage and Music Hall, Cincinnati City Manager…
Officials on plans for library’s north building: wait and see
Some of the biggest points of contention around a controversial plan to potentially sell the north building of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s downtown campus didn’t come up during a meeting between Hamilton County Commissioners and Public Library officials today. Commission President Todd Portune last week called the meeting after what he…
Morning News: Mayoral debate focuses on affordable housing; some Bengals want team to consider Kaepernick
Hello Cincy. Hope you got down to Oktoberfest this weekend and ate too many bratwursts and drank just enough dunkel (or whatever your brew of choice may be). Now it’s time to shake off our bleary sausage hangovers and get to some news. Mayor John Cranley and Councilwoman Yvette Simpson squared off again Friday in…
Potential sale of city-owned land in OTR raises familiar questions
A recent item on Cincinnati City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee has continued a long-running debate about how the city considers input from neighborhood groups and how it goes about selling city-owned land in neighborhoods where development is hot. The item, originally from June but appearing on the committee’s agenda earlier this week, seeks to…
On Screen: ‘Menashe’
Director and co-screenwriter Joshua Z. Weinstein’s quietly insightful drama Menashe, set within the ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, is a rarity — an American movie with dialogue in Yiddish, a language spoken by Eastern and Central European Jews before the Holocaust decimated their numbers. To hear it spoken as part of someone’s everyday contemporary life is…
Stage Door: Magical Fairies, Witches, Playwrights and Teachers
I wholeheartedly agree with Eric Reid’s assessment of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the opening production at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s new Otto M. Budig Theater. She gave it a Critic’s Pick and wrote, “As directed by Brian Isaac Phillips, it shows off all the impressive technical capabilities of the new building as well as all the energy its…
Cincinnati Opera releases ‘Fellow Travelers’ recording
Cincinnati Opera’s eagerly awaited recording from last year’s world premiere of Fellow Travelers, the opera about the persecution of gays in the government during the 1950s era of McCarthyism, is finally here. The opera has announced that it will be available digitally tomorrow through online retailers; two-disc physical copies will be released on Sept. 29. Cincinnati…
Your Weekend To Do List (Sept. 15-17)
FRIDAY 15 EVENT: OKTOBERFEST ZINZINNATI Don your lederhosen or dirndl and enjoy some gemütlichkeit at the second-largest Oktoberfest in the world. For three glorious days, you can celebrate the Queen City’s German roots with our beverage of choice: beer. If the hearty libation isn’t up your alley, there are plenty of other aktivitäten to partake…
New Salazar GM to lean on his crew to continue restaurant’s success
Amid a transition in the general manager position, Salazar’s longstanding employees have kept things running as smoothly ever, giving the restaurant’s new GM Josh Appleman every reason to enjoy the ride. “One of the reasons I’m excited about going to Salazar is that I know that it’s a place staffed with professionals and career professionals,”…
Morning News: Councilman Young recovering after heart trouble; Deaconess development gets city tax abatement
Good morning, all. Here’s the news today. Councilman Wendell Young is in the hospital after experiencing sudden heart issues last week. His family said yesterday he’s expected to make a full recovery from an acute aortic dissection, a potentially fatal condition. Young is running for re-election to Council, where he’s served since he was appointed…
Make Your Own Autumn Odyssey
This is obviously not a comprehensive list of the city’s copious fall events; check CityBeat’s online calendar for more theater, arts, music and spooky seasonal events. ART Swoon The first major survey of pioneering street artist Caledonia Curry is coming to the Contemporary Arts Center for an exhibition featuring restagings of past landmark projects, site-specific installations and…
Look Who’s Eating: Jimmy McLaughlin and Andrew Wiedeman of FC Cincinnati
Like a fine-tuned machine, the body of a professional athlete requires the correct fuel to deliver an optimal performance. To gain knowledge about healthy eating, as opposed to the gluttonous consume-anything-and-everything diet we food writers normally follow, CityBeat recently sat down for lunch at Taft’s Ale House with FC Cincinnati soccer players and relative Cincinnati newbies Jimmy…
What a Week! Sept. 6-12
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 06 When you think about Honey Bunches of Oats, two things may come to mind: a sweet and crunchy breakfast cereal that’s a great source of whole grains and the enthusiastic bespectacled hair-netted woman from the commercials. We’ve grown up with Honey Bunches of Oats Lady, memorizing her classic lines, from “We gotta…
Fall Guide 2017
The unmistakeable smell of pumpkin spice is in the air, which means it's time for cooler weather, comfy clothes and a host of fun fall activities. This year's Fall Guide has you covered no matter how you plan to spend your season: sipping seasonal brews, getting cozy in front of the TV, sampling pumpkin-flavored sweets…
Pick Your Own Pumpkin
It’s harvest time. Grab your family, a friend or take yourself on a date to some fruit-loving, pumpkin-picking, apple-cider-making local farms. Blooms & Berries Farm Market What’s better than a seven-acre corn maze, pumpkin patch or homemade apple cider? Well, this farm is bringing out their Flemish giant bunnies for the kids (and adults) to pet.…
Lost in the Supermarket: Fall Flavor Finds
Not everyone can afford a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. A tall PSL is $4.25 before tax, which is almost as much as I pay for 11 ounces of Folgers Medium Classic Roast. And I know — the PSL is a treat. As the air outside begins to chill and my sinuses battle Cincinnati’s humidity frosting over,…
Fun Fall Fests
Old West Fest Put on a Clint Eastwood snarl and mosey over to the Old West Fest. Walk through antiqued storefronts or chat up an actor dressed in period clothing. Young ’uns can chase manifest destiny by panning for gold or the whole family can pose for an old-time photo before hopping on a covered…
Seasonal and Pumpkin Brews
It’s Oktoberfest Zinzinnati this weekend — the nation’s largest Oktoberfest celebration — and local fall beers started hitting the shelves in August. After asking a swath of breweries what to expect beer-wise this fall, it’s clear there are some amazing pumpkin brews (made with real pumpkin), Oktoberfest lagers and innovative barrel-aged fare on the horizon. Bad…
Chicago’s NE-HI continues to show a different side of its hometown’s buzzing Rock scene
Back when The Sex Pistols played Manchester, England in 1976, their audience famously included future founders of Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, The Fall, Magazine and The Smiths. “They say everyone who was at those gigs went out and formed a band,” Johnny Rotten would later remark, “but that wasn’t our plan — or our fault!”…
Fall TV Preview
Fall marks the return of primetime TV, but there’s also a lot to look forward to on cable, premium and streaming platforms. New series and seasons are rolling out across our screens in the coming weeks. Here are a few worth checking out. Star Trek: Discovery (Series Premiere, 8:30 p.m. Sept. 24, CBS) – Set roughly 10…
Film Cincinnati celebrates 30 years of spotlighting the city
On the evening of Sept. 23, Film Cincinnati celebrates its 30th anniversary of supporting local film production. The organization will transform Over-the-Rhine industrial alleys and side streets into a mock movie set for a party called Backlot 30. The plan is to use the party as a way to showcase the technical expertise of the behind-the-scenes film crews.…
Passionate encounters in two new plays
Overcoming obstacles is a common theme onstage; we admire characters who won’t give up. They are central to two season-opening shows, Shakespeare in Love at Cincinnati Playhouse and The Miracle Worker at the Covedale. The humorous fiction of young Will Shakespeare (Nicholas Carrière) suffering from a serious case of writer’s block is the starting point of an entertaining tale…
Something ‘Wicked’ this way comes
There’s no questioning the immense popularity of Stephen Schwartz’s musical Wicked, the prequel to The Wizard of Oz. The new tour arriving at the Aronoff Center Wednesday brings with it 40 performances through mid-October. Since opening in October 2003, the show has broken attendance records at Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre. Grossing more than $1.6 million weekly, it’s one of…
8 Fall Films to Watch For
Break out the fuzzy socks, slip on a hoodie and escape the autumn chill with these upcoming fall films that exude thrills, warmth and some that will probably make you cry — including one indie favorite filmed in the heart of Cincinnati. Here’s a few we’re looking forward to (in no particular order). Mother! — Directed by Darren…
A New ‘Hayride!’
Local musical power plant Cameron Cochran isn’t old enough to have experienced firsthand the Cincinnati-based Midwestern Hayride, the incredibly popular radio/television Country music and variety show that ran on WLW radio and WLWT television stations from 1937 to 1972. It featured the talents of Willie Nelson, Tex Ritter, Grandpa Jones, Hank Penny, Homer and Jethro, Kenny…
Grand Central Delicatessen: An Art Deco Deli
Pleasant Ridge is in the midst of a boom. Montgomery Road has seen an inundation of new places in the past couple of years, including the Shining-themed Overlook Lodge, Nine Giant brewery, Share: Cheesebar and now Grand Central Delicatessen, a bar and deli that blends an Art Deco speakeasy with modern touches. Jeff Strong and his…
Ohio’s exercise in pointless paperwork
Once again, state and local officials across Ohio have filed what the state calls “financial disclosure statements.” And, once again, the forms contain almost no financial information — that is, dollar amounts. This year’s statements were due at the Ohio Ethics Commission by May 15. State law requires mayors, city council members, county commissioners, state…
