Regional Filmmakers Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside’s Documentary ‘América’ is Intimate, Empathetic
Warmly intimate and authentic, América hones in on the lives of three Mexican brothers — Diego, Rodriguez and Bruno — who become caretakers for the documentary film’s namesake, their 93-year-old grandmother. This comes after their father, Luis, is jailed for accusations of elder neglect, América having fallen from her bed while he was away. From tense conversations…
Cincinnati Taco Week Returns this October to Over 20 Local Restaurants
Cincinnati Taco Week returns this Oct. 14-20, bringing $2 tacos to 24 participating restaurants across the city. Each restaurant will be offering their own unique tacos, ranging from Drunken Taco's Buffalo chicken tacos to Frida's brussels sprouts tacos and even brisket or pulled pork tacos from Lucius Q. Cincinnati Taco Week passports will be available…
Did You Get Knocked Off Ohio’s Voter Registration Rolls? Check This List to Find Out
Efforts to purge Ohio's voter rolls of inactive voters have drawn a lot of attention. Now you can see if you're one of the roughly 183,000 voters who have had their registration canceled by the state. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, Sept. 27 released a list of those eliminated from the voting…
Blondie’s Debbie Harry on Just-Released Memoir ‘Face It’ Ahead of Cincinnati Book Tour Stop
There was a time, from the late 1970s through the early ’80s, when Debbie Harry was one of the most transfixing and recognizable human beings on the planet. As lead singer and co-songwriter in Blondie, the New York City New Wave sextet that became a Pop juggernaut, Harry’s sleek visage and devil-may-care attitude embodied a…
Northside’s Cambodian Eatery Mahope is Closing its Restaurant
Cambodian eatery Mahope announced on Tuesday, Oct. 1 that it will be closing its doors. "With a heavy heart, we would like to announce: We will be closing our restaurant after this month of October," the post read. The restaurant opened its brick and mortar location last August at 3935 Spring Grove Ave. Moving forward,…
DeWine: Ohio Lawmakers Should Ban Vape Flavors
State lawmakers should pass a ban on flavored electronic cigarettes and vaporizer products, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said today. The call to end the sale of the products comes after a dozen people have died and more than 800 have fallen ill across the country from lung conditions alleged to be associated with vaping. It…
In ‘A Night With Janis Joplin’ Actress Mary Bridget Davies Takes on a Legend
As a child, Mary Bridget Davies’s father owned a video store. Among his selection was Janis: The Way She Was, a 1974 documentary that explored the life and music of iconic singer Janis Joplin. “My mom would be like, ‘Sing to this’ — literally into the hairbrush in our living room,” Davies says with a…
Key Cincinnati City Council Vote for Music Venue at The Banks Could Come Tomorrow
If you've been following the saga of the planned music venue at The Banks, you know there is nothing simple about the development. There's been a complicated land-swap needed to make it happen, negotiations with the Cincinnati Bengals, tensions between the city and Hamilton County and other issues. But a vote by Cincinnati City Council…
Ohio Abortion Rates Decline
Abortion rates have declined in Ohio once again. A new report released by the Ohio Department of Health found that 20,425 women had abortions last year, down 2 percent from the year prior. This is the fewest number of abortions performed in the state in the last 40-plus years, after the procedure was legalized nationwide.…
Spend New Year’s Eve with Intergalactic Metal Monsters GWAR at Bogart’s
This New Year's Eve will have the best novelty NYE eyeglasses ever, perfectly designed for human eyeholes. So why waste your "2020" eyewear at an average Dec. 31 get-together, with champagne and some weak-ass sparklers or balloons or some shit? This New Year's Eve, Cincinnatians will be blessed with the ultimate New Year's Eve party…
Legends of Hip Hop 8Ball & MJG, Scarface, Bun B and More Come to Cincinnati This Week
The Legends of Hip Hop tour is like a living Spotify playlist made up of some of the more influential Rap artists of the past 30 years. It also serves as a great exhibition of localized Hip Hop scenes from that same time period. Representing the Bay Area are E-40 and Too Short. Too Short…
Advocates and Nonprofits to Hold March on City Hall for Affordable Housing
A group of nonprofits and housing advocates will hold a march to Cincinnati City Hall tomorrow to urge city elected officials to set aside more funds for affordable housing. Those groups include nonprofit service organizations like Caracole, Tender Mercies, Lighthouse Youth and Family Services, Bethany House Services, Shelterhouse, Over-the-Rhine Community Housing, Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Cincinnati, advocacy groups like the Greater Cincinnati…
Jerry Garcia Cohort Melvin Seals Headlines Cripple Creek Music Festival Benefiting Greater Cincinnati ALS Org
This weekend sees the return of Northern Kentucky’s Cripple Creek Music Festival, a daylong outdoor concert that features touring and local acts and raises money for a good cause. The idea for the festival sprung from the formation of the nonprofit Winning With ALS, which Tom Miller established in the wake of his own ALS…
Parody and Provocation in Robert Colescott’s Contemporary Arts Center Retrospective
Equally satirical and shocking, Robert Colescott’s paintings look cunningly back at their observer, awaiting a response. Art and Race Matters, which runs at the Contemporary Arts Center through Jan. 12, is the first retrospective to span the artist’s career from 1949 to his death in 2009. The first African-American artist to receive a solo exhibition…
Graeters’s Black Raspberry Chip Pie Named Best Pie in Ohio by ‘People’ Magazine
People magazine published a recent round-up of the best pies in every state. Many fruit pies oozing with sweet berries were represented on the list, as well as pecan, sweet potato and so on — but Ohio's best pie was a slight (but pleasant) surprise. Graeter's Black Raspberry Chip pie was recognized as the top…
Beef Up Your Book Collection at This Week’s Friends of the Public Library Used Book Sale
The Friends of the Public Library, which is an independent organization supporting the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, is putting on its annual fall book sale. The warehouse holds over 100,000 titles, but thousands more will be available to purchase so make to check your shelf and your wallet. All of the books…
Kick Off October with a Trio of Family-Friendly Scary Movies at Washington Park
Washington Park hosts film screenings Thursday, Friday and Sunday night to start October off with some family-friendly frights. First up for the park's "Fright Night Weekend" is Hocus Pocus, the Disney favorite featuring the witchy 17th-century Sanderson sisters, who are brought back from the dead after a virgin lights the black flame candle. On Friday,…
Developer Named for Former Save-A-Lot Site in Northside
Northside's community development corporation has tapped a developer for the former Save-A-Lot site at 4145 Apple Street, a location that has long been floated as the future home of cooperative grocery effort Apple Street Market. Philadelphia-based Pennrose, LLC will develop an affordable or mixed-income residential project at the site after Northsiders Engaged in Sustainable Transformation…
Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival Marks Ya’Ke Smith’s Cincinnati Debut
The Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival that runs Oct. 2-6 serves as the Cincinnati debut for filmmaker Ya’Ke Smith, Taft Museum of Art’s 2019 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence. The residency program, established in 1986, honors the fact that arts patron Nicholas Longworth in the mid-1800s commissioned the African-American painter Robert S. Duncanson to create murals for his home,…
UC Explores Artificial Intelligence in Film Series at Esquire Theatre
If you were born after 1991 the World Wide Web has been available your entire life, which makes you part of the first generation of humans with the breadth of our species' knowledge instantly available at the tip of your fingers. The next big step for humanity, therefore, is the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI),…
SORTA Board Approves Bus Tax Plan
The board of the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority today voted 12-1 to approve a plan for a Hamilton County sales tax increase to fund improvements to the region’s Metro bus system. If voters approve, about 75 percent of the projected $130 million from the tax increase would fund a plan called Reinventing Metro. The…
Can Collaboration Among Hamilton County Agencies Reduce Juvenile Justice Disparities?
This story is part two in the series Youth, Trauma, Trials, Time: a Deep Dive Into Youth and the Justice System. You can read the centerpiece story here and additional coverage here. Like many counties across the country, Hamilton County faces a large, high-stakes challenge: how to serve and educate young people even as racial, ethnic and class…
The Lodge To Host Front Porch Concert and Block Party in Dayton, Kentucky This Weekend
Northern Kentucky arts and music hub The Lodge is bringing the party to the streets of Dayton, Kentucky for their upcoming front porch concert and block party. The event will take place on Oct. 5 from 6-11 p.m. and will be located on the front porch of The Lodge, as well as the neighboring Vine…
White Castle Is Going to Start Selling Beer — This is Not a Drill
Most White Castle fans know that the only true way to enjoy the fast-food chain's burgers is after a long night of alcohol consumption, capping off an evening of horrible decision-making with a final blow absolutely assured to render the following morning an exercise in gastrointestinal distress. It's unclear exactly why "blind drunk" is the ideal state of mind in which…
Symmes Township’s Silver Spring House Goes Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Popular Symmes Township chicken joint Silver Spring House is going all out in honor of October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The restaurant received a new paint job, courtesy of Sherwin Williams, transforming the restaurant, sign and parking lot with donated pink paint. "Join us as we celebrate breast cancer survivors, pay tribute to loved ones…
‘Joker’ is a Punch-Drunk Clown in a Punch-Drunk World
Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a clown. Seriously. He slaps on the white face paint, a baldpate with frizzy tufts of hair on the sides and a button nose and attempts to make people laugh. He works at the local children’s hospital, entertaining sick kids and their families. He wears sandwich boards or twirls signs…
Walnut Hills’ Video Archive to Transform into ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ Halloween Town All October
It's Halloween every day for some of us, which means there's no seasonal expiration date on spooky movies and fun-size candy bars. If that sounds like you, you'll be glad to know that for the whole month of October The Video Archive will transform itself into Halloween Town, straight out of Tim Burton's classic The…
Cincy Flags’ Unveiling Party Premieres Flags for All 52 Cincinnati Neighborhoods
The Cincy Flags team knows the power of community pride as well as any loyal Queen City resident. Led by Cincinnati Neighborhood Games founder Henry Frondorf and graphic designers Joshua Mattie and Chris Cliff-Perbix, they’ve spent the past year-and-a-half designing unique flags for all of Cincinnati’s 52 neighborhoods. Tonight they’ll premiere the results of the…
SORTA Board Will Vote on Hamilton County Bus Levy Monday
The board of the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority will hold a special meeting Sept. 30 to decide whether it will pursue a Hamilton County sales tax increase in 2020 to fund improvements to the region's Metro bus system. The meeting will take place at 5 p.m. at Metro's downtown office at 602 Main St. …
Haunted Hustle Four Mile Race Spooks Cincy’s Riverbanks For a Good Cause
If you're on an afternoon stroll down by The Banks on Oct. 19 and happen to see a horde of zombies, Pennywise the killer clown and the Super Mario Brothers jogging in unison, don't rush to the psych ward: it's just the Haunted Hustle 4 Miler. This costumed four-mile run is put on by 4EG…
Telescope Network at The Ohio State University Shows a Star Being Torn Apart in the Grips of a Black Hole
A network of telescopes based at The Ohio State University helped researchers there and elsewhere around the country record an astonishing and rare sight: a star being shredded by a black hole. Scientists, including some at OSU, published their findings about the event in The Astrophysical Journal yesterday. Images captured by the National Aeronautics and…
Cincinnati Singer/Songwriter Elsa Kennedy Releases Spellbinding New Single, ‘Redwoods’
Today (Sept. 27), Cincinnati singer/songwriter Elsa Kennedy released her latest single, the spellbinding "Redwoods." The goosebump-inducing piano ballad spotlights Kennedy's expressive, stop-you-in-your-tracks vocals and her viscerally emotive writing gifts, and offers a perfect example of why she is one of Greater Cincinnati's most compelling young singer/songwriters. The track is available on Spotify, Apple Music and…
Cincinnati’s Kings Island to Close Vortex Roller Coaster After Fall Season
Greater Cincinnati amusement park Kings Island announced in a press release this morning that its beloved Vortex roller coaster will be closed down at the end of the fall season. According to the release, Vortex opened in 1987 "as the tallest, full-circuit roller coaster with the highest drop in the world and the first roller…
Hamilton County Commission Votes to Provide $1.3 Million to Keep Millennium Hotel Sale Moving Forward
The potential sale of one of downtown Cincinnati's most important properties will continue to move forward for now. Hamilton County Commission today voted 2-1 to provide $1.3 million from hotel tax revenue as earnest money in a proposed sale of the Millennium Hotel to Oakley-based developer Vandercar LLC by current owner, an LLC held by…
Renowned Detroit-Based Artist Ouizi Brings Floral ArtWorks Mural Downtown
A new ArtWorks mural by Detroit-based artist Louise "Ouizi" Jones is abloom at the corner of Seventh and Vine streets, on the side of downtown's adult store Hustler Hollywood. Backdropped by black, a bundle of flowers — orange, purple, white, green — sprawl across the brick wall. Having begun work on the mural Sept. 23,…
In Conversation with Covington Design Firm BLDG
On a recent visit to Covington's design firm BLDG Refuge, the lower floor contained scattered in-progress projects and pieces from past work. Of the former were 8-bit foam renderings of classic arcade characters, most with a Greater Cincy twist and heavy on Super Mario references. That's for Bitland, an installation that runs Oct. 10-13, BLDG's contribution…
Cincinnati-Based Indie Pop Juggernaut WHY? to Play Free Hometown Show This Weekend on Fountain Square
If you are a fan of Art Pop juggernaut WHY? and for some reason need more initiative to go see Cincinnatian Yoni Wolf and his globally acclaimed bandmates play a free, outdoor, hometown show this weekend, consider what Wolf wrote on Twitter recently. Ahead of an L.A. concert earlier this month, Wolf tweeted about how…
Cincinnati’s Slice Night Brings All-You-Can-Eat Pizza to Yeatman’s Cove
A pizza party of epic proportions is making its way to Cincinnati's Yeatman's Cove on Sept. 26. Hosted by Cincinnati Magazine, the sixth-annual Slice Night runs from 5-9 p.m. and will offer unlimited pizza from local pizza restaurants, as well as beer, wine and cocktails. Q102 and Toad Productions will be providing the music for…
“Hey Man Nice Shot” Rockers Filter are Playing a Free Concert in Lawrenceburg This Weekend
Filter was formed in Cleveland, Ohio in the early ’90s by guitarist Brian Liesegang and singer Richard Patrick after he left his gig as touring guitarist with Nine Inch Nails during the Pretty Hate Machine years. The band’s sound — which was akin to NIN’s roaring Industrial angst — found an audience right off the…
Downtown’s Prime Cincinnati Named Best Steakhouse of the Year
Downtown's Prime Cincinnati was named "Best Steakhouse of The Year" at Certified Angus Beef's annual conference this week. The annual event was held Sept. 23-25 in Asheville, North Carolina and brought together meat processors, distributors, chefs, retailers and cattle rangers to discuss marketing, merchandising and other matters in the quality meat market. Prime Cincinnati is…
Police: Fifth Third Shooter Learned Lawsuit Had Been Dismissed Day Before Shooting
Authorities still don't have full insight into the motive for last year's devastating mass shooting at Fifth Third Bank on Fountain Square that killed three and wounded two. But there may be some clues. Cincinnati Police this week released a summary of their investigation into the September 2018 shooting by Omar Santa Perez. Among their…
Downtown’s Bay Horse Cafe Celebrates the 140th Anniversary of Its Name This Weekend
Downtown's historic Bay Horse Cafe is celebrating the 140th anniversary of its naming with a weekend-long party. The business dates all the way back to 1817 when it was located along the riverfront on Water Street. As the name may have foreshadowed, the bar had to move to Longworth Street due to frequent flooding, eventually…
Census Data: Cincinnati Poverty Falls Slightly, Still Fifth-Highest in Nation
More than one in four Cincinnatians lives in poverty, U.S. Census estimates released today reveal — giving the city the fifth-highest poverty rate in the country among cities with more than 250,000 people. Cincinnati's 25.2-percent poverty rate represents the lowest poverty level here since the onset of the Great Recession, but not a full recovery.…
Rhythm Brew Fest Brings Rumpke Mountain Boys, Chance McCoy, Badfish and Tons of Local Music to Riverfront Live This Weekend
The Rhythm Brew Art & Music Festival began in 2017 as a free two-day event in Northern Kentucky that was heavy on Americana. In its second year, Rhythm Brew expanded greatly, adding several touring acts, a broader stylistic spectrum and an extra day of music. The festival returns this weekend for its third annual event…
