WATCH: Buffalo Killers’ ‘Weird One’ Video
Earlier this year, Cincinnati’s Buffalo Killers released their finest album yet, Heavy Reverie, a stellar representation of the band’s increasingly melodic Rock & Roll sound. The album earned the group some of the best reviews of its career and landed them their network television debut — a full interview segment on Last Call with Carson…
MPMF 2014 Day 3: Last Dance, Last Chance for Love
The last day of MidPoint is like a lot of endings in life; the end of the day, the end of the week, the end of the year, the end of a piece of cherry pie, the end of the line. This is the end, my only friend, the end. And it had the chance…
Kathy Y. Wilson Named Library’s Writer-in-Residence
Published author, poet, teacher and long-time CityBeat columnist Kathy Y. Wilson has been named Writer-in-Residence for the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Wilson is the first person to take on this new position, which she will serve through November. As Writer-in-Residence, Wilson will conduct a writer’s workshop, speak at multiple community events and…
MPMF 2014 Day 2: Stuck in the Middle with View
The middle of the MidPoint weekend is like the middle of a lot of things; the middle of a movie, the middle of a book, the middle of life with an equal measure of glorious accomplishments and missed opportunities behind and the potential for great things still ahead, the middle of an exquisite jelly donut…
MPMF 2014 Day 1: The First Night of the Rest of the Weekend
The first night of MidPoint is like a lot of firsts; first date, first kiss, first sex, first beer, first rectal exam by a hot proctologist. Hey, you have your firsts, I have mine. Anyway, MidPoint Thursday is always a magical time of reconnecting with old friends, making a few new ones along the way…
Stage Door: Dirty Dancing, Laughing Dogs and More
To see some of Cincinnati's finest actors working together in close quarters, check out Clifton Players' production of Kevin Crowley's new play The Riverside, onstage through Saturday at Clifton Performance Theatre (located just west of the Clifton/Ludlow business district at 404 Ludlow). It's 1989 and the denizens of a fictional bar in a very real…
From the Copy Desk
Good afternoon, readers. I’ve got my coffee and a plethora of smart-sounding words from this week’s issue, which, by the way, showcases fabulous interviews with the most anticipated acts of MidPoint Music Fest this weekend. If you haven’t already, pick up the paper, and for all you die-hard festival fans, check out our entire page…
I Just Can’t Get Enough
Human grumpy cat Aubrey Plaza will provide the voice for actual Grumpy Cat (real name: Tardar Sauce) in a Lifetime Christmas special! Who knew people still cared about Grumpy Cat? Moreover, who knew Lifetime made intentionally funny programs? John Malkovich has portrayed a plethora of characters over the years and now he’s taken on the…
REVIEW: WolfCryer’s ‘The Prospect of Wind’
If Axl Rose announced he was planning the next Guns 'N Roses album as a tribute to Tony Orlando and Dawn, that would be only slightly more surprising than Matt Baumann's left turn from his Ambient Jazz saxophone tone poetry to the sparsely appointed Americana released under his reimagined guise as WolfCryer. Oddly enough, when…
Forty Years of “Live From New York”
Saturday Night Live (Season Premiere, 11:30 p.m. Saturday, NBC) has come a long way since its humble beginnings as NBC’s Saturday Night in 1975. The show has kick-started countless careers, welcomed movie stars, musicians, athletes and politicians to its stages and provided millions of night owls with laughs and quotable moments that can only come…
The Skeleton Twins
Death knocks on the doors of a pair of estranged twins (Saturday Night Live alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader), but they hold their ground (although Hader’s Milo makes the mistake of cracking the door and peeking out) and end up back together in their hometown, taking advantage of an opportunity to rebuild their fragile…
Siddharth
Mahendra (Rajesh Tailang, who co-wrote the script along with director Richie Mehta and Maureen Dorey) works as a chain-wallah, a person who repairs broken zippers on the streets. He believes his financial burdens have been lessened by his decision to send his 12-year-old son Siddharth away for work, but when the boy doesn’t return home,…
Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes
As a call to action, writer-director John Ennis (Wild Girls Gone and Free for All!) decides to track the cycle within politics (pay-to-play) that skews the system away from the common voters and the electoral process as imagined by the Founding Fathers to the highest bidders in the game. Ennis sets his sights on first-time…
The Equalizer
The Training Day tandem of director Antoine Fuqua and best actor Oscar-winner Denzel Washington reconnect for this adaptive reboot of the 1980s television series The Equalizer about a mysterious former covert ops specialist intent on leading a decidedly quiet life until he gets drawn into conflict with Russian gangsters (led by Marton Csokas) over a…
The Boxtrolls
The Boxtrolls (from the makers of Coraline and Paranorman) refashions a bit of the Tarzan mythos, taking an orphaned baby boy rechristened Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead Wright) who is delivered to a group of below-ground trolls for safekeeping, making him an honorary member until the fateful day when he encounters a human for the…
Local Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett Harnesses Deep Human Magic
As a film critic, every time I settle into a theater seat I prepare myself for an experience that I liken to tapping into memory. The images that unspool before me may not be lived and processed situations from my own life but they approximate the sensation, and depending on the film, can recall the…
Comedy’s All in the Family for Pete Correale
Comedian Pete Correale and his wife tried starting a family, stopped trying and then wound up with one. “We’re that story you hear all the time,” he says. “We were trying. We didn’t do anything other than try and we said, ‘It’s not happening, we’re not spring chickens.’ ” Tired of New York City, the couple…
A Noble Cause
F inding the right pair of jeans may be one of life’s greatest challenges, especially finding a pair that fits well and is made of high-quality and ethically sourced materials. Despite selling his jeans for an above-average price, local designer Chris Sutton is not only banking on his talent, but also on America. Raised in…
Council Backs Tighter Regulations on Factory Farm Antibiotics
City Council sent a message to Congress Sept. 17 when it passed a resolution calling for a nationwide ban on the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock production. The widespread use of antibiotics on factory farm animals is linked to more antibiotic resistant infections in humans, according to Food & Water Watch, a consumer’s rights…
3CDC to Offer New OTR Units, Revise 15th and Race Plan
Demand for property in Over-the-Rhine is growing quickly, and the neighborhood’s biggest developer is ramping up its renovations to keep up. Cincinnati City Center Development Corporation (3CDC), the public-private partnership that has spent the past decade and hundreds of millions of dollars renovating properties in OTR, has announced that it will be investing more than…
City Council Passes Ordinances to Fight Sex Trafficking
Cincinnati City Council on Sept. 17 unanimously passed two ordinances to fight Cincinnati’s growing sex trafficking problem. Sponsored by Councilwoman Yvette Simpson, one ordinance increases civil fines for using motor vehicles in solicitation or prostitution from $500 to $1,000 for a first offense and up to $2,500 for each subsequent offense. The other ordinance funnels…
Need for Speedy
Speedy Ortiz has gone from basement shows in the quartet's native Northampton, Mass., to massive festivals like Bonnarro in whiplash fashion. Yet the band — singer/guitarist/main songwriter Sadie Dupuis, drummer Mike Falcone, bassist Darl Ferm and new guitarist Devin McKnight — has handled the transition deftly, delivering its slanted, guitar-driven ditties with the same offhanded grace…
Change of Heart
D ozens of times during his 30 years of service with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections, Terry Collins made the 45-minute drive from his home in Chillicothe to the prison at Lucasville to witness the state put a prisoner to death. Collins, who retired as director of the ODRC in 2010, says the…
Mondays, Hold the Meat?
HOT Mondays, Hold the Meat? Unless he likes his lasagna vegetarian and wants to make his Mondays even worse, Garfield isn’t going to like Paul McCartney’s new campaign very much. The former Beatle (and longtime vegetarian and animal rights activist) is asking meat enjoyers to give up chowing down on animals one day a week.…
Cincinnati vs. The World 09.24.14
Forbes ranked Cincinnati No. 19 in a new list of “19 Opportunity Cities.” Cincinnati’s low housing and unemployment rates, along with its high number of Fortune 500 companies, make it easier for young professionals to “make their mark,” according to the list. Cincinnati +2 The United Nations has warned that it will be forced to…
Worst Week Ever!: Sept. 17-23
Liz Rogers Backs off Threat to Sue City, City LOLs America is the land of opportunity. It’s even the land where you can blame others when your opportunity comes and goes without success. That’s what’s been happening in the turbulent relationship between the city of Cincinnati and Mahogany’s restaurant owner Liz Rogers as of late.…
CAM’s New Director Is Setting His Priorities
Not that I was expecting it, but I was hoping that during my first interview with Cameron Kitchin, Cincinnati Art Museum’s new director, he would floor me with his big, ambitious plans. Maybe an announcement that the time was right to revive departed director Aaron Betsky’s plan to have Dutch firm Neutelings Riedijk build a…
Kenwood Gets a Cucinova Fast Casual Italian
Cucinova, a new Italian fast-casual restaurant, opens its first Cincinnati location 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3 at 8060 Montgomery Road in Kenwood. The Columbus, Ohio-headquartered Cucinova offers create-your-own Neapolitan pizzas, customizable spaghettini pasta bowls and fresh salads, made from ingredients inspired by the flavors of Italy. The restaurant will feature 80 seats with a price-point of…
New Juice Bar to Open in OTR
Over-the-Rhine offers everything from a donut shop to a walk-up taco window, and soon it will be getting its first juice bar. We’re not talking smoothies — we’re talking nutrient-dense, cold-pressed juice funneled into a pint-sized glass container. Cincinnatian Cydney Rabe started juicing more than five years ago, back when “juicing” wasn’t even considered trendy.…
Salazar (Review)
T here is too much talent in the Over-the-Rhine restaurant scene to leave the doors closed until dinnertime. When chef Jose Salazar decided to serve lunch at his 14th and Republic bistro, however, his focus was hardly on what the various restaurants around him were doing. “We just kind of work from within and see…
