Sep 26 – Oct 3, 2018
Paying More, Getting Less: Proposed Department of Housing and Urban Development rent increases come as public housing struggles with long-term funding cuts
Get Your Felix Coffee Co. Fix at OTR’s Queen City Radio Throughout October
After a successful September-long pop-up at Queen City Radio's The Bullet (the outdoor trailer-bar located in the beer garden), Felix Coffee Co. has brought the party inside for the month of October. QCR welcomes the coffee pop-up into The Living Room, a relaxing lounge space with retractable garage doors. Logan Peele and Jessica Ufkes brought…
Riverbend Closes Out the 2018 Concert Season This Week with Another Sold-Out Show Headlined by Country Superstar Chris Stapleton
For many people, Chris Stapleton’s name might be a new addition to their list of favorite Country artists, but his voice and his resume tell a different story. Though relatively new to the spotlight, this ain’t his first rodeo. Before Stapleton’s deep, dark vocals cracked through speakers with “Nobody to Blame,” he’d already made a…
Alabama Funk/Soul Band St. Paul & The Broken Bones Returns to Taft Theatre in February
In 2014, Alabama Soul ensemble St. Paul & the Broken Bones was still somewhat early in the "blow people's minds" stage of their career when the band played at the Taft Theatre's Ballroom as part of the 2014 MidPoint Music Festival in Cincinnati. The group's remarkable reproduction of the spirit of vintage R&B was musically…
Minimum Gauge: Kanye Dresses Like a Giant Water Bottle and Calls for Abolishment of the 13th Amendment
HOT: West Goes South (Again)Kanye West’s appearance on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live was baffling and controversial, even by the rapper’s own standards. Kicking things off by performing a song dressed as a water bottle (he was Perrier to guest Lil Pump’s Fuji), West returned for a rare third song to close out…
The Inaugural Cincinnati Taco Week Features $2 Taco Specials at Eateries Across Cincy
Taco Tuesday is taking over the whole dang week during CityBeat’s Cincinnati Taco Week, seven days of $2 tacos from area eateries and taquerias including B&A Street Kitchen, Injoy, Lalo, Lucius Q, Slatts Pub, Taqueria Mercado, Tin Man Grill Food Truck and Veracruz Mexican Grill. Each location will be serving a special (or several special)…
University of Cincinnati Professor Emeritus Tom LeClair Releases his Final Novel with a Reading and Party on Friday
University of Cincinnati Professor Emeritus Tom LeClair has dedicated his life to the written word. Now, 48 years after he first started teaching literature at UC and several years after he relocated to Brooklyn, N.Y., LeClair says he is dropping his final novel, Passing Away. The fourth in a series following Passing Off, Passing On…
Trick-Or-Treat at the Cincinnati Zoo’s Annual HallZOOween
Get spooky with some wild animals at the Cincinnati Zoo’s HallZOOween event. Promised to be “so much fun, it’s scary,” the event will offer family-friendly events all day long like trick-or-treat stations (kids should bring their own trick-or-treat bags) and special animal encounters (see schedule below). Families will also have a chance to attend the…
Cincinnati Jazz Great Dan Karlsberg Returns with Piano/Drums/Sax Combo on ‘Tales from the Winter Solstice’
Pianist Dan Karlsberg has been working within the Cincinnati Jazz scene for more than a decade now, living the working-musician life with gigs of every stripe in a variety of local venues. Besides his inscrutable performance chops, the in-demand player also flashes his abundant arrangement and composition skills from time to time on studio recordings…
Jewel, Nick Lachey and Gavin DeGraw Play the Wellness Your Way Festival at Duke Energy Convention Center
A new wave of wellness is taking over the Duke Energy Convention Center. With three days covering everything fitness- and wellness-related, the inaugural Wellness Your Way Festival aims to be everything your inner wellness warrior needs. With an emphasis on the “your way,” this festival is meant to inspire guests to seek out their own…
‘Jackass’ Steve-O Does Two Nights of Stand-Up at Funny Bone Liberty
As a comedian, activist, TV host and stunt performer, Steve-O (aka Stephen Gilchrist Glover) wears many hats. Indeed, he once wore a jellyfish sombrero for bit on his YouTube channel that has since captured over 25 million views. “I was just such an attention whore by the time I was born,” he says, “I had…
Prepare Thyself for Selfies: The Gorman Heritage Farm Sunflower Festival Takes Place this Weekend
If you follow ‘hip’ folks on Instagram, they probably post an annual #candid of themselves in a field of sunflowers. And most likely, it was taken at Gorman Heritage Farm’s Sunflower Festival. Honestly: totally worth it for the cute pics alone. This autumnal celebration will put you in the seasonal spirit — crisp, early October…
Washington Park Screens ‘Hocus Pocus’ Just in Time for Halloween — and the Film’s 25th Anniversary
It’s not a true Halloween season unless you’ve watched Hocus Pocus at least once. Salem, Massachusetts’ infamous Sanderson sisters are back from the dead and ready to suck the souls of naive trick-or-treaters to gain everlasting life before the end of All Hallows Eve. They died in 1693, were raised from the dead on 1993…
After Success as a Traveling Pop-Up, The Bagelry Opens a Permanent Storefront in OTR
Richard Huff and Erin Davren, two Cincinnatians who met through college in Dayton, studied law and went to medical school, respectively. Shared time was at a premium when Huff, who had picked up his first law job, followed Davren to Louisville for her residency, but Saturdays were set aside for the duo to connect over…
OTR’s LouVino Offers More than 60 Wines by the Glass and Flavorful Small Plates
Take your taste buds on a journey from the marigold-lined pathways of Château Guiraud in France to the Alps-framed Castelfeder winery in northern Italy — all while dining at LouVino in Over-the-Rhine. The concept restaurant opened in late August on Main Street and offers 60 wines by the glass as well as small plates inspired…
Aftab Pureval Needs Warren County to Win Ohio’s 1st Congressional District. How’s He Doing?
Heather Rose looks like a typical Mason mom, but she talks like a soothsayer. “No one’s coming to save us,” says Rose, talking about President Trump and the current political climate. “We have to save ourselves. One day my grandkids are going to look back on this and say, what did you do?” So, for…
Tracy Silverman Brings Electric Violin to the CSO for ‘The Dharma at Big Sur’
Tracy Silverman’s nonconforming approach to his music is an integral part of his psyche. He rejected a career as a classical violinist, switched to the electric violin and stopped listening to its two biggest exemplars, Stéphane Grappelli and Jean-Luc Ponty — turning to Rock and Soul giants Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Aretha…
Bad Behavior = Great Humor at CCM
Richard Hess, who heads the acting program at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) read Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 comedy The Government Inspector in a required theater history class when he was a college freshman. Though he recalls the class reading 60 plays that semester, it was Gogol’s hilarious script that stuck with him.…
‘American Vandal’ Strikes (and Shines) Again
American Vandal (Netflix) was one of my favorite TV surprises of 2017. We all knew The Handmaid’s Tale was going to be great, but who could guess a mockumentary about a high school prankster could be so compelling and hilarious — let alone go on to garner an Emmy nomination? Premiering last September with little…
We Asked Local Film Buffs for Their Fave Spooky Flick Recommendations
For those who partake in Halloween shenanigans, October — or "spooky season," as the kids say — is the ultimate excuse to curl up to creepy films all month long. If you’re like my upstairs neighbors, the shameless streaming binge of all things horror has already begun. (This isn’t me passively asking them to turn…
HopScotch is the Perfect Alcohol Event for Those Of You Burnt Out on Bourbon
Casual Scotch fans and snifter aficionados: CityBeat’s HopScotch event is taking over Newport’s New Riff Distillery for an evening dedicated to non-bourbon whiskey. There will be plenty of smoky, peaty Scotch from distilleries including Ancnoc, Balblair, Balvenie, Macallan, Tullamore Dew, Glenfiddich and more, as well as Irish whiskey, IPA pairings and light bites from area…
REVIEW: The Odd Couple Meets Bonnie and Clyde in ‘The Roommate’
“It’s Iowa!” is a phrase often uttered by Margaret Daly, the actress portraying Sharon in The Playhouse’s production of Jen Silverman’s The Roommate, which follows a woman who has recently opened her home to a new roommate — in the hopes of staving off an aggressive case of empty-nest syndrome. Sharon is the perfect stereotype…
Cincinnati AltRock Band One Day Steady Plays Their Final Show Tonight
After nearly a decade performing around the Greater Cincinnati music scene, local altrockers One Day Steady will play their final show tonight. The event at the recently reopened Top Cats in Corryville begins at 7 p.m. and tickets are just $5. The seeds of One Day Steady were planted in 2008 when guitarists Ryan Peters…
17 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Seinfeld Music Guy’ Jonathan Wolff, Who Performs in Cincinnati Next Week
Musician and composer Jonathan Wolff is an undeniable TV music legend, having written music for shows going back to the early ’80s (Square Pegs, Dynasty, Fantasy Island) through Married with Children, Reba, Will and Grace and, most famously, Seinfeld, for which he wrote the memorable (and memorably offbeat) theme music. The success of his Seinfeld…
Watch Cincinnati Band Heavy Hinges Bike Through the Streets of Northside in New Music Video, “Day To Day”
That was fast! This past weekend, on Sept. 22, Cincinnati rockers Heavy Hinges shot a music video for "Day To Day," a standout, smile-inducing track from the band's most recent release, Lonely. Yesterday, the video popped up, fresh out of the oven, on YouTube. The "Day To Day" clip features the band members and friends…
Bunbury Music Festival Owners PromoWest Acquired by Huge Concert Promotion Company AEG
The huge, worldwide concert promotions company AEG Presents announced this morning that it has acquired PromoWest Productions, the Columbus-based promoter that took over Cincinnati’s Bunbury Music Festival in 2014 and was in the running to build a concert venue on Cincinnati’s riverfront before the contract was awarded to the hometown MEMI. PromoWest began over 30…
Comedian and Native Cincinnatian Tom Segura is Coming to the Aronoff Center
Comedian Tom Segura, who was born in Cincinnati and now resides in L.A., will perform in his hometown on Feb. 15. Tickets for Segura’s show at the Aronoff Center go on sale Friday (Sept. 28) at 10 a.m. via cincinnatiarts.org or by calling 513-621-2787. Segura built his success in comedy through years of stand-up, performing…
Dawg Yawp, Cincinnati Entertainment Awards’ Reigning Artist of the Year Winners, Drop Two New Tracks of Psych Pop Bliss
This morning (Sept. 27), Cincy duo Dawg Yawp released a pair of new tracks, “Tearin’ Up” and “Why I’m Here.” The reigning Cincinnati Entertainment Award winners for Artist of the Year and Album of the Year (for their 2016 self-titled debut, which drew widespread acclaim nationwide) will be releasing two more two-song singles over the…
LISTEN: Cincinnati Musician Abiyah Releases Her Best Work Yet With Electro/AltPop Single “Crylike/Masked”
Adventurous Cincinnati artist Abiyah recently released a “double A-side” single featuring the tracks “Crylike” and “Masked,” representing the best work yet for the veteran local musician. The single is the follow-up to last year's "Boom," a "cassingle" collaboration with fellow Cincinnati music maverick Evolve. The songs — produced by Dave Rohs (formerly of Cincinnati Electro…
