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If you work in an office, near an office or you’re just aware of offices, you may have noticed a new trend among office dudes (and some ladies) centered on an unlikely garment: the fleece vest. The ubiquitous khakis and button-up combo is now often accompanied by what was once considered casual winter wear. What gives? Thankfully the Wall Street Journal did some research on this fashion breakthrough. The office vest seems to be embraced by the same folks who wear salmon shorts on the weekends — bros who can’t resist dressing alike. The outfit even has a dedicated instagram account, @MidtownUniform. WSJ attributes the popularity of the fleece vest to casual Fridays giving way to a more comfy business-casual dress code, notoriously chilly office spaces and the innate need for corporate bros to fit in. Twenty-five-year-old investment banker Will Crowley told the Journal, “There are times where I can’t just wear a shirt. I kind of have to wear a vest.” Others cited in the story at least had the self-awareness to be embarrassed by their fleece obsession and requested anonymity. But even though these folks catch flack for adopting this quintessentially Caucasian uniform, the trend persists. Basically, “Regina George wore chinos and a Patagonia vest, so I wore chinos and a Patagonia vest.”
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Move over Bic For Her pens (yes, I know that joke is like six years old now) — there’s a new product being needlessly marketed to dainty women. Introducing: special drops to make your lady eyes prettier! While watching a Total Bellas marathon recently (don’t judge), I saw an ad for some eye drops called Lumify that were clearly marketed to young women. And because I was watching E!, I saw it 42 times since they cycle through the same five commercials hour after hour, so I really gave this a lot of thought. *Stefon voice* This ad had everything: a irritatingly catchy theme song, choreography, models in matching ensembles and the promise of whiter, brighter, more radiant eyes! SMH, yet another unrealistic beauty standard for women…’s eyeballs. A story from Elite Daily describes Lumify as a Snapchat filter for your eyes. Dreams really do come true! The idea of turning ocular health into a beauty treatment is gross, but what really bugs me here is how eye drop companies continue to ignore their most loyal customers: stoners! You can keep your bright-eyed dancers, Lumify. Show me some drops that can clear up your eyes on the fly after a post-Thanksgiving dinner “walk” and then I’ll be interested.
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As a voracious TV/movie consumer, I am very wary of reboots, sequels and spinoffs. Don’t touch what’s sacred, you know? (I’m lookin’ at you, millennial Daria reboot.) But every once in a while, a reimagining of a classic actually gets it right. Dreamy goofball daddy Ryan Reynolds will produce an R-rated comedy film inspired by Home Alone (don’t grab your pitchforks quite yet), about Eye drops for ladies! a weed grower who misses PHOTO: LUMIF YDROPS.COM his flight for a ski trip, gets high at home to console stars teased a forthcoming project around himself, then gets paranoid that people are the show; Roswell will return to the small trying to break into his house and concocts screen next year as Roswell, New Mexico; elaborate traps to stop them. It’s called a Magnum, P.I. reboot is in production; Stoned Alone. Brava. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is getting a sequel In other reboot news, a 9 to 5 sequel is in series; basically everyone (except Steve the works; Kristen Stewart (and two who?s) Carell) is down for an Office reunion; and will star in a new Charlie’s Angels flick; the long awaited Deadwood movie is Arnold Schwarzenegger is filming a sixth officially a go! Terminator movie; it’s looking like Frasier will be revived but All in the Family won’t Royal Rules (Sidebar: What’s up with all the recent Now that we’ve got an American waltzing Frasier love? Multiple people have recently around Buckingham Palace — or whatever mentioned to me that they’re giving the Meghan Markle’s doing — we’re learning show “another” binge, meaning they regumore about some of the rules of being a larly watch the entire series in full. Why? royal. Spoiler alert: They suck. And what is up with that tossed salad and There’s a lot of food rules, and not just scrambled eggs? End rant.); Living Single surrounding etiquette at the dinner table.
This Week in Questionable Decisions… 1. R. Kelly released a 19-minute song called “I Admit,” touching on everything from his sexual assault allegations to his child bride Aaliyah to being illiterate. More like “I Deflect.” 2. A Massachusetts man was arrested for stripping naked at a Planet Fitness. In his defense, he said he thought it was a “judgement-free zone.” Well played, sir. 3. Color Me Badd may be down to two members, but the ’90s band still performs. And at a recent show, Bryan Abrams capped off a performance of “I Wanna Sex You Up” by shoving bandmate Mark Calderon and sending him to the hospital. 4. An Italian photographer staged poor Indian children in front of tables of prop food for a photo series some are calling “poverty porn.” 5. Someone at Washington, D.C.-based burger chain Z-Burger thought it would be a great idea to tweet an ISIS-themed burger
Shellfish is a no-no for all royals because of the risk of foodborne illness. And you’ll never see fancy pasta on the menu at the palace because Queen Elizabeth is basically keto and forbids all starchy foods. She also hates garlic. The thought of their family dinners makes my taste buds fall asleep. Oh, and fun fact: The Queen eats her bananas with a fork. (She must subscribe to the same banana beliefs as Wiz Khalifa.) When it comes to hanging out with your royal boo, Duggar family rules are in place, meaning no PDA, not even hand-holding. Prudes! But it’s not all boiled chicken and pantyhose — the royals know how to party, too. QE2 loves her booze. She reportedly starts drinking before noon with a gin cocktail (how very British!), then enjoys wine at lunch, a dry gin martini after that and champagne for dessert. And if you manage to keep up with her drinking, you better crack open a Red Bull or two because falling asleep before the Queen is another faux pas. The 92-year-old is a night owl, too, regularly staying up until midnight. Get it, Liz! Contact T.C. Britton: letters@citybeat.com
promo. The text (now deleted) read, “When you say you want a burger and someone says okay lets hit McDonalds” with a photo of slain journalist James Foley moments before he was murdered in Syria. Guys. 6. What’s this year’s hottest back-to-school trend? Bulletproof everything. Ugh. 7. Mayonnaise ice cream is a thing. *heave* 8. Ving Rhames shared a story about the time police held him at gunpoint in his own home after a neighbor called the cops about a “large black man” breaking into the house. White people ’bout to lose their 911 privileges indefinitely. 9. Everyone on the internet is doing the #InMyFeelingsChallenge, based on a viral dance video set to the recent Drake track. Celebs and normies alike have jumped on board, acting out the moves in various situations. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t take long for things to get out of hand, with folks jumping out of moving cars to dance on public roads. At least one person has been hit by a car now. The National Transportation Safety Board had to put out a warning that people could bust their asses or wind up in jail if they pull this stupid shit on the street. 10. This L.A. Times headline: “They don’t own homes. They don’t have kids. Why millennials are plant addicts”
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he said, referring to a successful tax levy to support expanded preschool opportunities for Cincinnati Public Schools that district voters overwhelmingly passed in 2016. City-appointed board member Brendon Cull, however, said SORTA already had a good plan in front of it. He implied some of the division on the board came from opposition from Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune, a Democrat who is an outspoken opponent of the levy ask. Portune would like to see a more regional approach to transit upgrades involving eight counties in three states. “We’re not here to represent one elected official who happened to appoint us,” Cull said, seemingly taking a swipe at county appointees opposed to the levy ask and Portune. Transit activists and others reacted CONTINUES ON PAGE 09
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earnings tax, an unusual mechanism that has existed since 1973 that is widely thought to be unsustainable at its current levels. Hamilton County does not contribute financially to the system, though a number of routes extend outside Cincinnati’s city limits. “The county has done nothing but take from the city,” city-appointed board member Heidi Black said. “If they want to help, they need to put their money where their mouth is.” Other city appointees expressed support for the levy ask. But county appointee Peter McLinden said the political climate is too fraught to ask county voters for the money now. He noted that SORTA should have a better consensus about what it is asking for and a broader coalition of groups behind it before asking for a sales tax levy. “We need Preschool Promise on steroids,”
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neighbors Louisville, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus and Pittsburgh, as well as cities like Denver and Austin, Texas. Ohio ranks among the lowest spenders of public dollars per capita on transit. In 2015, Ohio, the nation’s seventh-most populous state, spent just 63 cents per person on public transit, making it one of the most tightfisted in the country. In contrast, every other one of the nation’s 10 mostpopulous states spent much more. Keesee says a committee he will chair, which will include board members Blake Ethridge, Mary Miller, Robert Harris and Rod Hinton, will work on the future initiative. Ethridge and Harris are county appointees, while Miller and Hinton were appointed by the city. The board was divided, largely between city and county appointees, on whether it was taking the right course. The city pays for bus service through a .3 percent
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uly 25 was supposed to be the day that the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority voted on a Hamilton County sales tax levy. Had voters approved it on the November ballot, the tax would have shored up the region’s struggling bus service and plugged a $184 million deficit over the next decade for the transit agency. But the vote to ask taxpayers for the money didn’t come. Instead, at the board’s meeting, age-old fissures between Cincinnati and Hamilton County presented themselves — as did clues about what will happen next. SORTA Board Chair Kreg Keesee cited a tough political climate for a tax levy and lack of agreement and buy-in from board members and other stakeholders. He says the board could ask for a levy as soon as May next year, likely starting at the .7 percent level that would fund increased bus routes, service frequency and 24-hour service on certain routes. That’s the amount stipulated in a now-abandoned plan that also included .3 percent for road repairs designed to entice county voters. “We cannot be cavalier about the current financial situation,” Keesee said. “The capital operating deficits are real, and we’ll feel the impacts of those deficits even greater in the next year.” An independent report released by consultants AECOM in January found Metro would need at least $1 billion in upgrades over the next 10 years to make it more functional and get more county residents to the region’s jobs. A 2015 study of Metro’s reach commissioned by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the Urban Land Institute and other organizations found that only 23 percent of jobs in the city are easily reachable by public transit. Many others take more than 90 minutes to reach by bus. And about 40 percent of jobs in the city — some 75,000 — aren’t reachable by transit at all. All told, the city ranks lower than 11 other peer cities when it comes to job accessibility via public transit, including regional
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Third Street Camp: We’re Not Moving BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L
The cleanup crews came in at 7:30 a.m. July 25 to clear out the camp used by those experiencing homelessness under downtown Cincinnati’s Fort Washington Way and disperse any remaining campers there once and for all. By the time the crews in masks and disposable gloves came with trucks to begin throwing away tents and other belongings and pressure wash the concrete, those who had been staying there were gone: six people left with housing certificates, a couple went into job programs, a few others into detox facilities. A dozen or so followed the camp’s “mayor,” Leon “Bison” Evans, to another new camp at an undisclosed location nearby. That nearby camp does not have the city’s blessing, said Acting City Manager Patrick Duhaney. A few others scattered to an already-existing camp nearby on Third Street. Jessica Barnett was one of the last ones to leave the Fort Washington Way camp, where she had been staying since April. “I didn’t have anywhere to go,” she said. When she woke up before city crews began arriving, she was at a loss. She walked out from under the cool, shaded overpass up onto Third Street, where she sat on a concrete bench for a while. Below, city crews were preparing to put up fencing to keep camp residents from returning. Eventually, a man named Desmond approached her. He and several others had weeks ago pitched tents alongside the barrier overlooking Fort Washington Way on Third Street. Would she like to join them? Yes, she would. Those staying in the spot say they do not want to move again. But they feel the city crews, with their legally-mandated 72-hour notice forms, are likely to come for this camp next. City officials seemed to confirm that during a July 30 meeting of Cincinnati City Council’s Law and Public Safety Committee, where Duhaney promised action “soon” on the other camps downtown. The Fort Washington Way camp was actually slated for removal a week prior to July 25, but advocates and Cincinnati City Council members pushed for a sixday delay to help those staying there find places to go. Following complaints from the Downtown Residents Association and various business groups, Acting City Manager Duhaney three weeks ago issued a memo calling for the camp’s removal, citing public health and safety concerns. Mayor John Cranley has echoed those concerns, saying that police believe drug use and human trafficking have occurred at the camp. Recent media reports detail the search for a drug dealer operating near the camp. But if there have been other serious crimes in its vicinity, they aren’t reflected in the city’s crime stats. Though the Central Business District has seen 568 reported crimes
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since the beginning of February, only a few minor incidents have been reported in the blocks around the camp, according to city data initiative CincyStats. A map of downtown crime complaints shows nearly all since February have taken place in other parts of the Central Business District. At a noon news conference the day the Fort Washington Way camp was cleared, those living on Third Street — backed by the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition and Maslow’s Army — made their stance clear: They feel they’re being swept under the rug, and they’ve resolved to stay at the camp until the city addresses deeper issues. Dale Edmonds, one of the residents at the camp, held up a piece of paper listing systemic reasons why people become homeless, from health crises to low wages to lack of mental health care or addiction treatment. Edmonds has been homeless for more than three years. “If I’ve got a mental issue, or a social issue, or a disease, help me with that,” he said. “Don’t kick me to the curb. That’s not fair.” Federal counts in recent years have tallied roughly 8,000 people experiencing homelessness in Cincinnati — well more than the roughly 1,000 shelter beds and 2,500 units of permanent supportive housing available. Shelters are temporary solutions anyway, say advocates with organizations like the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition. They point out that Hamilton County needs thousands more units of affordable housing available to low-income residents. A study from LISC of Greater Cincinnati released last year suggests that gap could
be as high as 40,000 units. Solutions to bridge that deficit — for example, an affordable housing trust fund recently established by the city — could take years to bear serious fruit. The aforementioned Barnett wants simple things, she says: an affordable apartment where her three daughters can visit her and a job she can do that provides enough money, so she can get by and take care of her kids. “I’ve been living in a home all my life up until the last three years,” she says. “I want that back. I want my girls to have a place to come back home to with me.” Finding stasis has been hard for the 36-year-old since she lost housing she was staying in via a Talbert House program a few years back. She’s been to jail. She’s had all of her belongings — including her ID, her birth certificate and her social security card — stolen on the street. The lack of those documents makes it hard to find a job, she says, and she hasn’t been able to get new ones. “I know there’s the van, but they have 10 spots for all the homeless people in Cincinnati,” she says, referring to a new program called GeneroCITY 513 sponsored by the city and social service organizations that pays those experiencing homelessness $45 a day and lunch to do jobs like picking up trash around the city. “People are literally fighting for these spots. People want to work. They want to do things that are useful. It’s not that we don’t want to do for ourselves, it’s that where we don’t know where to start again.”
It’s no secret that it continues to get harder to find places to park in Overthe-Rhine as redevelopment continues. That’s especially true for residents of the neighborhood. Now, a task force made up of staff from various City of Cincinnati offices has recommended a residential permit program in OTR to address that difficulty. The task force also has another recommendation — eliminating minimum parking space requirements for developers in downtown, OTR and Pendleton as well as in parts of the West End and Mount Auburn. That recommendation, however, was batted down by the Cincinnati Planning Commission July 27, but Cincinnati City Council could consider it with the approval of six of its nine members. Under the permit plan, the city would set aside 500 parking passes for OTR residents south of Liberty Street. Two hundred and fifty of those would cost $150 a year, while another 250 would be available to low-income residents at a cost of $25 a year. The $150 annual rate would be one of the most expensive parking permits in the country. “Often, residents are forced to park at meters or find other parking options that are sometimes financially burdensome,” a report released by the taskforce reads. “This has worsened in recent years with the redevelopment of key corridors of the neighborhood. There are now more parkers, both transient and workers, competing for the limited amount of spaces OTR can offer.” The 1,290 spaces in the neighborhood would be divided between 365 permitonly spots, 602 metered spaces and 323 flex spaces free for permit holders but metered for others. Parts of Clifton, Columbia Tusculum and Pendleton already have permit programs, but those cost $30 a year. The city says the other prong of the plan — removal of minimum parking requirements — will encourage more pedestrian-friendly development and eventually decrease the number of cars in the neighborhood. The task force cites the removal of parking minimums in parts of Cleveland, Nashville and Kansas City, Mo. as examples of the concept elsewhere. However, residents who came to the July 27 planning commission hearing expressed deep concerns about the idea, saying it would likely make parking in downtown and OTR more difficult. However, the task force doesn’t think so. CONTINUES ON PAGE 09
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“Parking minimums are well-intended, but they are an unnecessary regulation that violate their own stated goals of reducing traffic, threaten walkability, and lead to blight in our cherished urban fabric in Over-the-Rhine,” the report from the city’s task force states. In February 2016, Cincinnati City Council directed city administration to create the task force on parking in OTR, which is made up of staff from the offices of the city manager, the department of community and economic development, the city’s parking division, the transportation and engineering department and city planning. The task force also tapped Walker Parking Consultants, community groups in OTR and development organizations as well as held public input sessions. Either part of the plan could prove controversial. Cincinnati City Council has twice tried to pass a permit plan before, only to have their attempts swatted down by Mayor John Cranley. The city’s latest suggestion is similar to those plans. And critics of removing mandatory parking minimums for developers say the move amounts to another concession to developers who are already getting tax abatements and other incentives from the city while making parking in OTR more difficult to find.
strongly to the board’s decision. Better Bus Coalition President Cam Hardy, long a presence at SORTA board meetings, said he felt “extremely disrespected as a bus rider” and said the group is working on its own plan centering around raising the city’s earnings tax and focusing on service inside the city limits. “I don’t believe for one minute that you’re going to go to the ballot next year,” Hardy said. “You said the same thing last year about this year. We want the bus service to be city-centric. It’s obvious that there is no consensus around a county-wide solution, although that’s the best solution. We won’t accept any service cuts to city routes. If you’re going to cut service, it needs to start with express service into the county. If you’re going to raise fares, raise it in the county. It’s unacceptable that we would have to pay more for less.” Former Cincinnati City Council member and SORTA board member Jim Tarbell also made remarks supporting a “significant” boost to the city’s earnings tax to pay for bus service, highlighting a similar move by Columbus’ transit agency. The underlying question remains: without a levy on the ballot, how will
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of transportation. Riders aren’t the only ones who could feel the pinch: SORTA union president Troy Miller says the union’s employees are worried about layoffs from possible service reductions. “This afternoon I got nine new employees starting orientation,” he said. “I’m going to have to hand them this news release and tell them that most likely, they’ll be laid off. What are service cuts? Layoffs.” Keesee, however, said the push for funding isn’t over. “We have a unique opportunity to do something big for the region,” he said. “I do want to double down on our efforts.”
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SORTA address a $38.4 million shortfall next year? A report last month from Ernst & Young found few inefficiencies or opportunities for easy money saving in SORTA’s operations. Many worry that the already-lean Metro bus service will have to be pared back with cuts to routes, fare increases or both. Keesee said those measures were the board’s “last resort” for closing funding gaps. But should they come, they could hit low-income riders especially hard. Gina Marsh of the Human Services Chamber of Hamilton County said onethird of 700 clients it surveyed said they could not afford a 25-cent fare increase; two-thirds said bus was their sole means
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The mystery surrounding the 1918 death of Price Hill sniper George Budde still haunts his family today
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Curled snug in a corner of the West Side, St. Joseph Cemetery
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By Mackenzie Manley
molds to a niche of suburbia — specifically, Price Hill. Among its nearly 20 acres of graves, grown green with age, exists a slice of unresolved family lore. George Budde: a Cincinnati native, decorated Marine sniper and America’s final foot-soldier to perish under live enemy fire during World War I. He died circa 10:15 a.m. on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918. The last place he stood was near Villemontry, an otherwise sleepy French village. His whereabouts now? Some believe his body never made it back to Price Hill, even if he has a headstone on plot No. 485 in St. Joseph’s. Still deeper, questions ensnare his death: Why did George run into live enemy fire when peace was only an hour away? Was it suicide — heartbreak mangled with trauma? Did the news of WWI’s end never reach him? Or was it something more sinister — perhaps someone on his own side shot him in those last moments, knowing that war was the perfect alibi for murder? No one knows for sure. But a century later, the Budde descendants are still searching for nuggets of truth amid the rubble left behind by the first Great War. And now they have a scribe: Felix Winternitz, a retired editor who is currently working on a novel that explores George’s story. From a browned newspaper clipping, an obituary recounts George’s death. “To some of us who knew him well, the death of George W. Budde during the last hour of war, when the silencing of the guns was momentarily awaited, seems to a certain extent futile, and consequently more deplorable.” But as the tribute says, perhaps he was a “predestined soul” selected among millions to “seal the peace of the world.” “During any global conflict where 17 million people perish, somebody’s got to be final to die,” Winternitz says. “The riddle is, ‘Why George?’ ” A sniper, the circumstances around George’s death left questions. And those questions were brought to light in a story first published in Xavier Magazine, where Winternitz, a former Cincinnati Magazine and Ohio Magazine editor and CityBeat contributor, served as a journalism professor. Xavier is also the college from
of WWI which George graduated in 1917. But an article didn’t do George justice, Winternitz decided — a book was in order. Winternitz set out to speak to every relative (“every Budde,” he jokes) he could. First, he interviewed Anderson Township’s Bill Budde, a family detective of sorts, according to Winternitz’s book manuscript. Within his unassuming suburban home exists a wealth of information that recounts George’s story, fragments of a family mystery that will turn 100 in November. Research for the novel grew from there: Letters, diaries, poems penned by George, newspaper clippings, faded photographs, personnel files, emails from historians, scribbled notes and pictures of memorials. George’s life reverberates through the present day. Family still visits his grave on holidays to lay flowers and American flags, even though no living Budde has ever met him. He’s an archetypal ancestor with strong familial loyalty. They peek through slats obscured by time, hoping to bring peace to the Marine long after peace was supposedly declared. “We’ve struggled over the decades to find some sort of closure to this whole chapter,” Louis Meiners, George’s great-grandnephew, told Winternitz. “But the more we unearth, the less blessed we feel.” Meiners died in September 2016 at 102. He was the last person to remember George, but faintly. Born in 1914 (the same year World War I began), Meiners’ life only physically overlapped with George’s for a couple of years. “None of the Buddes alive today have met George. And yet they still talk about him — in a very passionate, personal way,” Winternitz says. “He’s very much on their minds. I don’t expect that in 100
years that my great-grandchildren will talk about me.” The elements that have kept George alive in memory are the circumstances of his death — a speck embroiled within the modern world’s first great skirmish — that are likely mysterious enough to warrant a Netflix documentary. Left: George in a portrait taken while he was at Xavier University Upper right: George and fellow WWI soldiers from Cincinnati pose for a photo PHOTO: PUBLIC LIBR ARY OF C I N C I N N AT I A N D H A M I LT O N C O U N T Y; P R O V I D E D
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The question that drives this Cincinnati-historical-nugget narrative is, again, out of the nearly 17 million that perished during WWI, why was George the last to die? And that fact is up for debate, too. “Other people were probably the last to die — certainly, if there were people that died later that day they were a casualty,” Winternitz admits. “There were people that died years later (from effects of the war) — so it’s an artificial line to cross.” A Baltimore man also has a claim on the “last” title. As history tells it, Henry Nicholas Gunther, 23 at the time, died merely seconds before the armistice took effect. According to The Baltimore Sun, he “died of a machine gun bullet to the temple.” In an archival Cincinnati Times-Star news clip, in response to a story about George, someone claims that the last to die was, instead, a Michigan priest named William Frederick Devitt. So Winternitz has arrived on a more specific concept for his manuscript: America’s final foot-soldier to perish under live enemy fire in WWI. George was a Marine sniper, tucked away above the fray. His job was to be out of the way, removed from the blitz of enemy fire. So how did he die from a gunshot wound on the front lines of a dying battle? “He survives all the major battles of 1918… but he chose to throw himself in the line of fire during the last hours of war?” Winternitz questions. “Now, me, if I was sniper I wouldn’t get near the battle line. Suddenly, he’s leading the battle line.” Winternitz recounts the moments leading up to George’s death, creating an image of George encamped with his fellow men on a “muddy creek embankment inside France’s Argonne Forest.” At this point, he has endured nine months of feverish battles and shoddy conditions. He has heard the constant grind of war and endured violence and death at all sides. “Here he stands, alive, and still sucking oxygen,” Winternitz writes. But George would never witness the daybreak of peace.
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A week prior to Armistice Day, the German Emperor/King of Prussia, Wilhelm II, resigned. The War to End All Wars unraveled as the Germans and their allies fell — Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. But it wouldn’t be until Nov. 11, 1918 that the armistice was officially agreed upon. As for George, a singular man caught in a massive political tangle, he should have been celebrating the apparent nearing end. Several newspapers recount his last moments. George, according to the official citation, advanced in front of the line “upon his own initiative” in order to determine if a machine gun position was “hostile or friendly.” Then he was shot. Note: This was “after the general fighting had ceased.” If George did go to investigate the machine gun position on his own volition and ignored orders to stay in place at the war’s end, Winternitz says the move feels strange for the marine. His records show no “erratic behavior” before those fleeting moments. But, it’s possible he didn’t flee into the fog “upon his own initiative,” as the official records state. Theories, which will be expanded upon later, include the possibility he was a spy, committed suicide or was murdered either accidentally, by friendly fire, or on purpose. The Buddes held a solemn requiem mass soon after the news arrived that George had died in France. A headline from that time reads: “MOTHER MOURNS HERO’S DEATH.” A catafalque draped in an American flag represented George’s coffin. At the service, Rev. Wm. Grace said that George was a gentleman and “an example to all who knew him.” As “khaki-colored” candles flickered in Price Hill’s Holy Family Church, George’s mother knelt in mourning — her son’s body still some 4,000 miles from home. George’s body wouldn’t be delivered home until three years later. To get to Cincinnati, it travelled six days on a steamer ship. And some sources recount his mother, Eliza, wasn’t sure if her son ever actually arrived. “We know George’s body was buried at the French farm where he fell on November 11, 1918, two hours after ceasefire,” Winternitz says. “No coffin reported, no embalming. Years later, at the family’s insistent behest to the War Department, a body was exhumed and sent home on a steamer ship back to Cincinnati. His mother, not surprisingly, could not begin to recognize the corpse, but decided to go ahead with a much belated memorial service.” In the aftermath of WWI, bringing bodies home was a “logistical nightmare,” according to Bodies of War, a nonfiction novel by Lisa Budreau that explores how the dead made it back to America post-WWI. In that time, when beloved family members finally came back, cases of mistaken identity were common (and there was little way to confirm identities for certain).
“There’s at least one Budde that believes that George is not in that grave,” Winternitz says, adding that he checked with St. Joseph Cemetery’s director of operations, Phil Ober. “He pulled out the records and said that there was no record of interment.” But the murkiness runs even deeper.
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There are a few theories surrounding George’s death: Maybe his unit wasn’t told the war was over. After all, communication was more arduous and long-to-travel. Or, Winternitz speculates, maybe his commander was “looking for some medals” and sent his men into the line of fire, knowing that peace was imminent. Still, George was a sniper. Not a footfall soldier. “Every family member had a different theory, and I quote them,” Winternitz says, referencing his manuscript. “There was at least one Budde who thought it was suicide by going into battle — leaving when the war was over.” Though Winternitz couldn’t find any paperwork to back the theory, one relative thought that George might have known about his fiancée Regina Brown’s death back home. She died 30 days prior to him after contracting influenza (while serving as a Red Cross nursing volunteer). From a Budde scrapbook, one photo is outlined by a vignette, showing Regina and George playing croquet. They laugh, Regina’s head bent looking down at her smiling lover. He wore a suit and tie and she a billowy just-above-the-ankle dress. A fuzzy trim of trees stands behind them. A year after the photo was taken, both of them would be dead despite their youth, claimed by different pandemics. In an old family scrapbook, a handwritten message from George’s dad reveals that his parents didn’t inform George of Regina’s death. “We did not tell him because he was soon to go into battle. We didn’t have the heart.” The couple had bought a house together, Meiners recounted to Winternitz — one they would never live in. Still, one Budde postulated that George did know that Regina died. In an act of despondency coupled with grief, he theorized that George crossed the line into German territory. Another family member thinks George was a spy on a mission to locate an ammunition dump so that it could be shut down. “They did not want the Germans packing up and taking all their weapons with them,” Winternitz says of the theory. “And they did blow it up. It’s in the records. About that exact moment in time, 10:15 in the morning — (there was) a huge explosion.” Or, perhaps most sinister, George’s death was dealt by his own side. In the ticking mania of war, did someone use combat as an alibi for murder? Maybe George received a dispatch-turned-sabotage. “There are a couple theories that an American officer shot him,” Winternitz says. The latter theory is what Winternitz
Regina and George enjoy brief happiness before the war and both of their deaths. PHOTO: LOUIS MEINERS COLLECTION
himself leans toward. “I believe that he was shot by someone from his own side,” he says. “And I believe that because it’s so bizarre to think that after a year of being at a distance as a sniper — never getting near a bullet except for (one) wound — and then 45 minutes before the war is over, that’s when you’re going to choose to be a hero?” Winternitz’s unpublished work catalogues every theory carefully, often circling back to each. Speculation hangs between the lines and no real truths are ever found.
THE FEW, THE PROUD
To compound peculiarities, George was awarded a Purple Heart with a Gold Star 48 years after his death in an oval office ceremony. But why so late? And if the records are true and George died disobeying orders, then why was he awarded? The late Marine is heavily decorated, having been given the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross as well. Despite this, records are sparse — a point of confusion for Mark Budde, the son of Bill Budde. “Well certainly he was brave. But what George did sounds like Russian roulette,” Bill says in Winternitz’s manuscript.
“When my son heard about (George), he wanted to shed some light on it as well.” And so the torch was passed from the Queen City to the West Coast, where Mark, a retired Marine major, lives. (Winternitz was able to interview him over the phone.) “It’s a little crazy to be poking around the front lines in front of the German machine. I do not understand,” Mark says of George. Mark wonders what those in command were trying to accomplish. Why didn’t George sit in his trench and await the war’s end? These questions of George’s demise — and the reasoning for his numerous medals — puzzle Mark; no personnel file includes a full list of his honors. He filed a records request with the National Personnel Records Center, which wrote back that they “were unable to locate any records.” Later, another Budde — Vincent — stumbled upon records that revealed more information about George’s death, but the line that likely revealed his final rank at death was scratched out. Gaps and questions remain, and perhaps always will — free-floating clouds of memory that will exist as long as another Budde picks up the family trade.
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hile attending Xavier University, George was a literature major who doubled as a peace poet. That he wrote of peace was a point of interest for Winternitz, who says that in letters home George was “so proud to be killing Germans and so proud to be fighting behind.” George himself was German-American, like many families that settled in Cincinnati in the late 1800s. His “grandfather was born in Germany — and this guy is writing home about killing Germans,” Winternitz says. But on all accounts, it was a weird time to be in. The world was eaten up by war, and young people were called to lay down their lives. Writing poetry on the battlefield wasn’t an oddity, however. George’s musings were joined by dozens of other bleeding hearts. According to the Poetry Foundation, “the horror of the war and its aftermath altered the world for decades and poets responded to the brutalities and losses in new ways.” As did George. “He was already a poet in a very iff ysense. He published poetry in the Xavier newspaper,” Winternitz says. “Something sparked him (when he went to war) and he started to write. I’m not a poet, but I thought it was eloquent.” In the trenches, on scraps of paper, George’s poetry was scrawled via a pencil stub — all that he had left while penning letters home. “Writing it, he didn’t know he was going to die,” Winternitz says. “It’s possible he thought he might.”
A letter home from George and an envelope from Regina, addressed to him
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lean their heads toward one another with fuzzy smiles. Nearly a century has lapsed since these photographs were taken. To the modern world, neither face is known except through second-hand stories and archives. Via a letter back home, George recounts the imagery of his last months that were taken by war. “Believe me, I never realized what a shelling was or could be. On two occasions in particular the gunfi re was tremendous and indescribable. In fact, this letter cannot show you what the whole thing was really for,” George writes. “I feel myself overwhelmed when I think of some of the things I have seen, and words fail me.” His voice stands as one among millions, still rumbling on in the minds of his contemporaries in search of posthumous justice, evidenced by the swarm of Buddes still troubled by their own kin’s unresolved mystery. “It’s their George. He’s the star of the family,” Winternitz says. “They still talk about him.” But closure was never found for the sniper or his family, who unknit the fabric of history in hopes of revelation.
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war, a fallen man among millions of others who died in battle. For George, as a Cincinnati Enquirer headline reads, peace came “45 minutes too late.” It’s a story that Winternitz is grateful to
“Hideous beauty, terrible infatuation, tarnished wonder; this place, these select yards, spilt by one audacious line. Hollow promises forever, dubious ‘Godspeeds’ turn asunder; the faces I’ve but yet to kill, on march to The Rhine. No right, no wrong, havoc reigns regal as monarch here; properly mortified, the best of us to succumb, everlasting near.” — From an untitled verse mailed home September 1918
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Comb through the theories strewn from house to house, documented through pieces that may never come entirely together, and the message is clear: Whatever happened on that day, air swollen with mist, no one alive can attest in absolute certainty what happened to George. His story lives on in scrapbooks and dusty, worn pages. Flip through and photographs peer back: he nearly escaped the
“Beauty and mirth they flee Even small joys depart: At invincible outposts. We stand indivisible, cold heart. Heaven’s hid in ragged olive. Rifles play a frantic ragtime. And relentless Maxims. They only speak of duty…and sometime.” — From Xenophon, written at the Western Front
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tell. Before budget cuts, the creative nonfiction novel was slated to be published under Kent State Press. It had gone through two revisions before Winternitz was told they had to kill it. Currently, he remains hopeful that this slice of Cincinnati lore will fi nd a publishing home. “It was a journalist’s dream. I can’t imagine that I would have started this story if the family was tight lipped or not helpful,” Winternitz says. “It just overwhelmed me, their passion for this story.” On holidays — particularly Veteran’s Day, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July — the Buddes still make the trek out to St. Joseph’s. Not necessarily together, Winternitz says, but in trickles throughout the day. By nightfall, the site brims with symbols of familial affection. It’s their way of remembering, not unlike the symbolic gesture of George’s own mother leaving a space for him at the dinner table during some holiday get-together years after his death. George’s face is memorialized in fading, vintage photographs. In one, he stares sternly at the camera, a glint in his eyes. In another, even blurrier, rare photo he stands with Regina in what appears to be swim clothes. One arm around her back, they
At least one of his letters was confiscated, caught by censors. “Certainly, I think generally the censors were making sure you didn’t give a location away inadvertently,” Winternitz says. “But there was one time that there was censor that said ‘I can’t send this letter out. I’m sorry. It’s a pacifist poem; that’s not we’re here for.’” So, some letters may have never made the voyage home. Still his words live on, emblazoned by smudged lead.
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STUFF TO DO
Ongoing Shows ONSTAGE: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, OTR (through Aug. 11)
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ART: Mark de Jong: Swing House and Chris Larson: Function Is Redundant exhibit different and surreal looks at architecture at the Contemporary Arts Center. See review on page 20.
P H O T O : J U L I E TA C E R V A N T E S
grassroots herbal medicine and healing practices among a forest of rosemary and echinacea. Through Aug. 19. $4 adult; $2 ages 5-17; free 4 and under. Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, cincinnatiparks.com. — SAMI STEWART
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COMEDY: Lily Tomlin brings her classic characters to the Taft Theatre. See interview on page 19.
FRIDAY 03
MUSIC: Sunny Sweeney embraces contemporary modes of Country expression at the Southgate House
Revival. See Sound Advice on page 31. COMEDY: Marlon Wayans One might call the Wayans family the Jacksons of comedy. Of the 10 Wayans siblings, over half are in show business including Dwayne, Keenan Ivory, Damon, Kim, Shawn and Marlon. The latter will perform at the Liberty Funny Bone this weekend. Marlon is probably best known for collaborations with his brother Shawn on such projects as the sitcom The Wayans Brothers, as well as the Scary Movie films and Little Man. Earlier this year Marlon released a Netflix special called Wokeish. On stage these days he talks about his personal life, including thoughts on growing older and being a father. He also dabbles in politics, but not too deeply. “Donald
Trump is the Flavor Flav of white people,” he tells an audience. He follows that up later with, “When Barack Obama was elected, it was the first time we as black people felt we won — well, that and the OJ trial, but we knew he was guilty.” 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday; 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday. $35-$45. Liberty Funny Bone, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON EVENT: Price Hill Creative Community Festival The Price Hill Creative Community Festival takes over East Price Hill for two days for a collaborative celebration of this creative and inclusive community. Hear from local musical favorites like Triiibe, talented out-oftowners like Lauren Elyse,
and watch and learn from Classical musicians, Jazz pros, poets, rappers, dancers, singers, performers and storytellers of all kinds. Enjoy art installations, get involved at DIY workshops and work up an appetite for all the food trucks on site. As a special feature for 2018, five of the festival’s artistsin-residence will be creating an original work with MYCincinnati, Price Hill’s free youth orchestra program. 5 p.m. Friday; 3 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. The Warsaw Avenue Firehouse, 3120 Warsaw Ave., East Price Hill, creativecommunityfestival. org. — MORGAN ZUMBIEL EVENT: Delhi Skirt Game As one of West Side’s staple events, the Delhi Skirt Game is something truly special. This year marks CONTINUES ON PAGE 16
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EVENT: The World’s Longest Yard Sale Calling all antique enthusiasts, estate sale scavengers and flea market aficionados: this one’s for you. It’s time for the best, biggest, greatest and most awesome yard sale ever. The World’s Longest Yard Sale (more formally known as the 127
Yard Sale) starts in Addison, Mich. and follows scenic State Route 127 nearly 700 miles down to Gadsden, Ala. Lucky for us, it runs right through a quaint little part of Northern Kentucky we call MainStrasse. For four magical days, MainStrasse will transform into a yard sale wonderland. As with all yard sales, pretty much anything goes, so prepare to sift your way through other people’s basement clutter and vintage collections and score a treasure or two to take home. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. ThursdaySunday. Free admission. MainStrasse Village, Main St., Covington, 127yardsale. com. — MORGAN ZUMBIEL
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EVENT: An Apothecary Soul Garden at Krohn Conservatory Krohn’s beloved butterfly exhibit has flown the coop and now healing herbs and mossy rocks have taken its place. The summer seasonal exhibit has switched over from a fluttering flurry of butterflies to an exhibition that explains the history and handicraft of apothecary in An Apothecary Soul Garden. Expand your knowledge of
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ONSTAGE: The Book of Mormon There’s not much that’s sacred about this crazy musical comedy that pokes fun at the earnest, whiteshirted religious recruiters from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — aka Mormons — who get sent to Uganda and start making things up about their beliefs. Here’s a tip about the 2011 Tony Awardwinning show’s creators: They are the guys behind South Park and Avenue Q. It’s eye-poppingly crass and overtly profane, yet at the same time it’s laugh-outloud funny and never meanspirited. Along the way it satirizes a couple of Broadway shows with witty, catchy tunes. Even Mormons have enjoyed the show, saying it’s like looking at themselves in a fun-house mirror. Through Sunday. Tickets start at $39. Aronoff Center for the Arts, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, cincinnatiarts.org. — RICK PENDER
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EVENT: Glier’s Goettafest It’s not a successful summer in Cincinnati without the chance to gorge yourself on the most “Cincinnati” food item that isn’t Skyline. Imagine a county fair centered around a crispy, creamy meatloaf — that’s what you’re getting yourself into at this weekend’s Glier’s Goettafest. People travel great lengths to get their hands on the strangest, most inventive goetta creations from Cincinnati’s most beloved vendors. To keep the playing field even, each vendor must stick to a strict 3-2-1 rule: three goetta items, two non-goetta items and one dessert. You won’t find two of the same dish here. There will also be live entertainment, goetta games, a goetta vending machine, a beer garden and more. 5-11 p.m. Thursday and Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Free admission. Newport on the Levee, 1 Levee Way, Newport, goettafest.com. — SAMI STEWART FROM PAGE 15
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the 41st annual skirt game, a tradition started by the Delhi Athletic Association and Delhi Fire Department to raise money for those in need in Delhi. Still going strong, men of all sizes, shapes and ages dress up in their best skirt and wig and play their hardest in a friendly softball competition to win big for charity. Each year, the guys are asked to dress in a theme. This year’s theme is local and national broadcasters, with real-life broadcaster Bob Herzog acting as the master of ceremonies. Along with food, beer, kid rides, gambling, games and a fireworks show, the Delhi Skirt Game is always one unique fundraiser and rollicking neighborhood party. 5-11 p.m. Friday. Free. Delhi Park, 5125 Foley Road, Delhi, delhiskirtgame.org. — LIZZY SCHMITT
COMEDY: The Jesse Miller Talk Show Jesse Miller is bringing his talk show to MOTR Pub. Miller — aka Cincinnati-born Andre Hyland — is a “selfproclaimed mogul and Hollywood insider” who chugs energy drinks while leading a show that mixes stand-up, competitions and in-depth, slightly bizarre guest interviews. Past guests have included comedians Bob Odenkirk, Nick Kroll and Eric Andre. This time, Miller will be interviewing musician Yoni Wolf from the band WHY? and more TBD. An L.A.-based filmmaker, comedian and actor, Hyland is also the head writer for the Adult Swim show Mostly 4 Millennials. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday. $10. MOTR Pub, 1345 Main St., Overthe-Rhine, facebook.com/ motrpub. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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ONSTAGE: The fourthannual Cincinnati OneMinute Play Festival takes place at Know Theatre. See feature on page 21.
CLASSICAL: Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s Summermusik series continues with British Invasion, featuring Cincinnati native and cellist Coleman Itzkoff. See interview on page 22.
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EVENT: Art on Vine Art on Vine takes over Fountain Square with more than 70 local artisans hawking fine art and handmade goods. What started as a school project has grown into a monthly maker fair connecting customers directly to Cincinnati creatives. Noon-6 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Fountain Square, Fifth and
Vine streets, Downtown, artvinecincy.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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MUSIC: DIY singer/ songwriter (Sandy) Alex G brings some bedroom pop to Woodward Theater. See Sound Advice on page 31.
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MUSIC: Band of Horses plays Bogart’s with Bonny Doon. See Sound Advice on page 32.
MUSIC: My Bloody Valentine Night Does music sound better to you when heard from outside the venue? Do you sometimes let the vacuum run just to appreciate its distinct whirr? Have you ever been asked to leave
Guitar Center due to your blatant overuse of the store’s effects pedal demos? If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions, you’re likely a disciple of seminal ’90s rock band My Bloody Valentine, whose daring experimentation and blatant disregard for the eardrums of their audiences has inspired generations of Shoegazers — guitarists permanently hunched over their pedalboards, leaving whirlwinds of psychedelic feedback in their wake. Featuring The Comet’s current artist-in-residence Slow Glows and members of local acts like MARR, Comprador and Sarn Helen, this special night seeks to pay tribute to one of Indie Rock’s most name-dropped bands. 9 p.m. Tuesday. Free. The
Comet, 4579 Hamilton Ave., Northside, cometbar.com. — JUDE NOEL
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EVENT: Sugar Rush Calling all kids and kids at heart — or those with a really serious sweet tooth — CityBeat’s Sugar Rush is back at the Cincinnati Art Museum for an evening of all-you-can-eat sweets samples with donuts, pies, pastries, cookies, candy and more from area restaurants and vendors. Vote for your favorites and the winner will receive some saccharine bragging rights for an entire year. This event is all ages. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $20. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, sugarrushcincy.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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ARTS & CULTURE Pictures of Lily Lily Tomlin’s characters continue to have opinions on the human condition and the state of the world BY B R I A N B A K ER
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Frankie, which earned Tomlin an Emmy nomination (she’s won six to date), and she’s currently combining two of her creative disciplines — film and voiceover work — with her portrayal of Aunt May for the new animated Spider-Man movie. Tomlin has no other film projects on the horizon, which is too bad because she needs an Oscar statuette to obtain EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) status. However, she shouldn’t worry. She’s earned some of the most prestigious accolades in entertainment, including the 2003 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors and a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild last year. And she and wife Jane Wagner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame five years ago. Tomlin insists she isn’t leaving the road; she’s only backed away recently to accommodate her busy schedule. “I have done a little bit every year. I haven’t pulled out completely,” she says. “I love to perform, and I think my show is cohesive and good. My characters are timeless and I guess I’ll stop when they get bored.” Lily Tomlin appears 8 p.m. Aug. 2 at the Taft Theatre (317 E. Fifth St., Downtown). Tickets/more info: tafttheatre.org.
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running through the other “cast members” of her current show. “I do Mrs. Beasley and Lud and Marie, the Rubber Freak, and Chrissy at the gym. I do stories and talk to the audience; I use some video to satirize the show or me or the characters, in some way. It comments on the proceedings. It’s contextual.” As with most causes in Tomlin’s life, her benefit performance for the PDRI has a personal slant. Her friends Allan and Sharon Marks, who she introduced to each other in junior high, have had their lives impacted by Parkinson’s and have used the services of the institute. It emphasizes strenuous exercise over more passive physical therapy. Hopefully, Tomlin’s return visit to Cincinnati will turn out better than when she toured here with her Tony Award-winning show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Then, she got food poisoning from hotel shrimp and needed daily shots that were administered by a nurse with a piranha-skeleton necklace. “That would put a person off normally, but I have an inclination for quirky things,” Tomlin says, understatedly. She’s also pursuing half a dozen career trajectories at the moment; she recently wrapped production on the fifth season of her popular Netflix series Grace and
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lights of producer George Schlatter’s revolutionary television comedy program, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. “I almost didn’t do it,” Tomlin says. “I didn’t get a bid to go on the show until the third season, and I was already obligated to ABC to go on Music Scene, (a TV series) which was short-lived. My agent persuaded me to take the Laugh-In job. When I met George, he seemed to get me. Everybody I’d gone to before would press a button on their desk, and then someone would come in and say they had an urgent call.” While Laugh-In was stocked with good comedians, Tomlin was clearly a comedic actor, someone who had a facility for creating vivid characters and inhabiting them rather than merely portraying them, speaking their outlandish truths with absolute conviction. Schlatter allowed her to develop a number of identities on Laugh-In, particularly her aforementioned signature characters, the officious and bureaucratic Ernestine and Edith Ann. They have become inextricably woven into the fabric of Tomlin’s career during the half century since their debut. She doesn’t mind a bit. “Edith and Ernestine are sort of required, but I like to do them. I want to do them and I have decent material,” says Tomlin,
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t might seem logical to assume that the rise of the Trump administration is what pushed Lily Tomlin to return to the road with her entourage of characters and personas, allowing her to express and translate her shock and outrage at the current state of affairs. And it’s clear the president’s agenda, with its reverse momentum on progressive issues, rankles Tomlin, particularly his threatening moves toward eroding the rights of the LGBTQ+ community specifically and women in general. And yet, while this has affected Tomlin, just as it has the majority of the country, it hasn’t made a significant impact on her stage show. For a rather familiar reason. “There’s a lot of topical stuff, in sort of a universal way, but I don’t do incredibly topical/political stuff,” says Tomlin — with her instantly recognizable laugh — in a recent phone call. “It’s hard to get something that doesn’t have a short shelf life. I watch Bill Maher every week, and I love his commentary on almost everything. And I always think, ‘Well, that’s good he did that. I don’t need to.’ ” Tomlin and her beloved characters — such as the haughty telephone operator Ernestine and the precocious 5-year-old Edith Ann — will all be on hand for her Thursday (Aug. 2) appearance at the Taft Theatre, a benefit for the Parkinson’s Disease Rehabilitation Institute. Her comedy career might never have happened as we know it if she had been more dedicated to her first passion during her Detroit childhood: magic. “I went to school with one of (former Detroit Tigers pitcher) Dizzy Trout’s kids,” she says. “I don’t remember his name, but he used to do magic tricks, and I immediately fell into the world of magic and loved it. I spent all my money going to Abbott’s Magic Shop and buying illusions. I didn’t spend any time training myself to do sleight of hand, it was just totally gratuitous. I’d just buy a trick.” Tomlin’s early forays into magic may have ignited her interest in performing for an audience, but her instincts might nearly have derailed the biggest break of her nascent career in the late 1960s — joining the cast and becoming one of the shining
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Surreal Carpentry and a ‘Swing House’ at the CAC BY S T E V EN R O S EN
Mark de Jong’s “Stair House Ephemera (Circle Grid)”
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You’re forgiven if you follow the Cincinnati arts scene but are unaware that local artist Mark de Jong has a current exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Center. That’s because the show, up through Sept. 3, is called Swing House — the same name as his architectural transformation/art installation project at an old house in Camp Washington. Since being officially completed earlier this year to coincide with the opening of his museum exhibit, de Jong’s site-specific achievement has won widespread acclaim and become a local tourist attraction. Whenever he holds an open house there, he attracts throngs. (There are three remaining — on Aug. 18 and 25 and on Sept. 1, all from noon-4 p.m.) But Swing House the museum show definitely shouldn’t be overlooked. For the
most part, de Jong is working with material salvaged from his renovation of the house. But he isn’t displaying it as mere documentation, even if several of the most artistically memorable pieces have “ephemera” in their name. “Stair House Ephemera (Circle Grid),” for example, dominates a gallery wall, and some might say the show. It consists of 338 circular “core samples” extracted from the interior walls of his current Camp Washington project, Stair House, located adjacent to Swing House. They are displayed in a neatly lined-up grid. When you look at them and see their varied snatches of well-worn paint and wallpaper, or their chipped or peeled surfaces, it is possible to think about their past function and thus see them as ephemera — footnotes to the main event. But looking
at all their textures and colors, and their relationship to one another, I saw a beautiful and monumental abstract painting — or abstract wall sculpture. For the exhibit’s “Swing House Ephemera (towers),” de Jong has piled the 19th-century ceramic landscape gutters — which once ran horizontally along the building — into two vertical columns, one 14 feet high and the other 16 feet. He uses steel rods to support them. On the ground between the two, he has arranged pieces of old patio bricks on the floor in a kind of barbell shape that brings everything together. Toward the top of the columns, light from windows above create the illusion of a glaze. It’s transformative. De Jong’s other “Ephemera” pieces work equally well; he even has reassembled Swing House’s old interior staircase and
placed it on its side with its rail and pickets intact — it becomes playful, an odd thing for a staircase to be. Also, he has displayed some of the objects from past occupants found in Swing House during his work — for example, children’s drawings and an old toy — in a way that is unsentimental. But he does stumble when he tries to work with the museum’s own architecture: “You and I,” an attempt to use sanded paint to “see” remnants of past exhibitions on a gallery wall, feels too conceptual. But overall, this is an exhibit that is successful on its own artistic terms, independent of Swing House the place. Chris Larson, whose show Function Is Redundant is running concurrently with de Jong’s, is a Minneapolis-based artist who practices what the CAC describes as “surreal carpentry.” He recreates and manipulates recognizable architecture, like his own studio or a Louisianastyle wooden shack, into something wildly, weirdly different that is then captured in videos and photographs. Several of his mesmerizing videos are on display: In 2015’s Reservoir Drawing, I found myself watching pencils slowly float in a flooded, mysteriously tilted indoor studio as closely as I recently watched the clever CGI effects in Ant-Man and the Wasp. Yet I’m assuming he actually somehow flooded and tilted this construction and it isn’t all cinematic magic. Larson’s showstopper for this exhibit is his new “Untitled (CAC Curatorial Office, Relocated),” which is an exact-sized replica of said office, only arranged vertically, top to bottom, so everything’s turned topsyturvy and sideways. You can almost see these two shows’ curator, Steven Matijcio, working here and planning upcoming exhibits — if he was free from the laws of gravity and could just float about. Mark de Jong: Swing House and Chris Larson: Function Is Redundant are both up through Sept. 3 at the Contemporary Arts Center (44 E. Sixth St., Downtown). More info: contemporaryartscenter.org.
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The Traveling One-Minute Play Festival Takes Over Know Theatre BY JAC K I E M U L AY
A scene from a recent OneMinute Play Festival in Chicago PHOTO: HIGH FIVE FOTO
The One-Minute Play Festival takes place Aug. 5-7 at Know Theatre in Over-theRhine. Shows are at 8 p.m. each night. Tickets/more info: knowtheatre.com.
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“Because they’re only one minute, it happens crazy fast,” Hungerford says. “At the end of the day, you have a show.” This rehearsal acts as the first and only run-through, but according to Wees, it offers much more than that. The rehearsals provide the opportunity for all of the directors and actors to network, swap stories and bond as a community. “It’s such a fun day,” Wees says. This year’s festival will see a small but impactful change as it moves from the Know Theatre’s MainStage space to the SecondStage. There were several reasons for this, Hungerford says. The current MainStage presentation, Whisper House, has a set that needs to stay in place during its nights off. But the change is also an effort to bring viewers more into the action. “Whenever we do shows in the downstairs space, it automatically feels like a party,” Hungerford says. “You get into the space and it’s instant community. The community aspect that comes out of it is really lovely.” As a result, he describes the One-Minute Play Festival as a sort of “barn raising” in which each play comes together for just a short, intense period, “and then it lives gloriously for just three short performances.” “You know, theater is ephemeral,” Hungerford jokes.
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them in groups of six to eight one-minute plays. “It’s kind of like 60 heartbeats of storytelling,” Wees says. It can seem inconceivable that the plays could be performed back-to-back and have any coherence as a whole. But they do. “When you put it together, there usually seems to be a rising theme that goes through all of them, which is super-fascinating,” Hungerford says. “When they say one minute, they really do mean one minute,” says Tamara Winters, associate artistic director for Know Theatre. She describes the clumps as rapidfire shots of theater that come together to form an hour-long performance. “You have a moment to catch up every time the clumps change,” she says. As for what audiences can expect to feel after the performance, Winters describes it as a party-like atmosphere. “There’s just this sort of electric vibe to it,” she says. To be clear, these thematic clumps for one-minute plays are not assigned or suggested by the festival in advance. They come from local voices. “It’s more interesting and more fun for our directors and our actors to draw their own inferences from the work,” Wees says. The week of the festival, Wees lands in each city to coordinate and shepherd the event into existence. The day before the festival opens, all of the directors, actors and technicians meet with Wees in the performance space to go through the entire show.
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Andrew Hungerford, producing artistic director at Know Theatre, refers to the upcoming three-day One-Minute Play Festival there as “this fantastic machine.” That’s because it has to be finely tooled to allow for nine directors and more than 70 actors to rehearse and perform 60 oneminute plays written just for Cincinnati. It sounds like chaos. But Know Theatre, presenting this event for the fourth year, knows how to transform it into a celebration of local talent. And it will indeed be that when it occurs Sunday-Tuesday (Aug. 5-7). Nationally, the festival is now in its 10th year. But even though it tours, each presentation is locally crafted. Founded by its artistic producing director, Dominic D’Andrea, it has its roots in New York City. Its mission is to “act as a catalyst for building community and to provide local artists with an artistic and theatrical outlet to explore the world around them and to build a body of work,” says Caitlin Wees, the festival’s associate producer. The “fantastic machine” to which Hungerford refers describes the way the festival operates in over 25 cities nationally, creating an instant collaboration with an arts group in each one. The collaboration here began with Know Theatre compiling a list of local playwrights and directors to send to the festival team. This year’s list includes over 30 playwrights, each of whom wrote two one-minute plays. The festival team then curated the play submissions and clumped
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Coleman Itzkoff at Summermusik BY A N N E A R EN S T EI N
When Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s fifth Summermusik festival opens Saturday (Aug. 4) with a program of music by British composers or about Britain, it will serve as a homecoming for 25-year-old cellist Coleman Itzkoff. He left Cincinnati eight years ago for college and a professional career and will return to perform Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85. For the cellist, this appearance marks his Cincinnati debut as a professional. He is now a highly acclaimed soloist, chamber musician and educator. There will be more than the usual family pride: Itzkoff’s mother, Heidi Yenney, will be playing in the orchestra, where she’s principal violist. “I’ll have to work harder to focus on my music while he’s playing,” she says. “But it is super exciting.” Itzkoff, speaking from Vermont where he’s participating in a chamber music festival, says, “There’s a joy in coming home and playing with this orchestra. I’ve been away for eight years and now I’m a different person.” Music has always been part of Itzkoff’s life. Besides his mother, his father Gerald is a first violinist in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Itzkoff began cello lessons at age 5 and explains he decided to make music his life when he was 9. “I heard a recording of the Schubert cello quintet’s second movement and I thought I could be happy doing this for the rest of my life,” he says. As a seventh-grader, Itzkoff landed the principal cello seats in Walnut Hills High School’s chamber orchestra and in the CSO’s Youth Orchestra, and he won the CSYO concerto competition twice. By the time he was in high school, he’d performed with the CSO, the CCO and area chamber ensembles. In addition to degrees from Rice University and the University of Southern California, Itzkoff participates in chamber music festivals around the world. It was while winning the concerto competition at the Aspen Music Festival that he first performed Elgar’s Cello Concerto. “It’s so powerful — it’s one of the deepest and most tragic works,” he says. Considered to be Elgar’s final work, the concerto — the composer’s response to the cataclysmic destruction of World War I — was not well received at its 1919 premiere. But it is now part of the standard cello repertoire, noted for the beauty of its reflective passages and intensely moving lyricism. Elgar’s response to the war is apparent in the famous opening chords, with the cello, anguished and mournful, subsiding into a low note of despair. “There’s this devastating passion followed by intensely reflective passages,” Itzkoff says. “When the original theme returns at the end, it’s overwhelming.” For CCO artistic director Eckart Preu,
Cincinnati-born cellist Coleman Itzkoff PHOTO: TINA GUTIERREZ
the Elgar concerto is a pivotal part of Summermusik’s opening program, and embodies a high point of English music development. “It’s one of the most recognizable pieces, and since there’s a chamber arrangement, it’s doable for us,” he says. The program at the School for Creative and Performing Arts also includes CCO premieres of William Boyce’s Symphony No. 5 in D Major and John Lunn’s “Downtown Abbey: The Suite,” plus Franz Joseph Haydn’s “London” Symphony, and “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” by George Frideric Handel. Both of Itzkoff’s parents supported their son’s decision to turn pro, and they continue to advise him as he navigates the Classical music world. “When Coleman received the CCO offer, he was committed to a chamber music festival in Vermont,” Yenney says. “I suggested he talk with the festival organizers. They were excited about the opportunity and they helped make it happen.” There will be a large family contingent in the audience at Saturday’s concert: Itzkoff’s father, brother and sister, plus members of Yenney’s family who are also musicians. Itzkoff acknowledges that this performance marks a dividing line for him. (He also plays two sold-out chamber concerts at the Taft Museum of Art.) “When I was a kid, these appearances were a novelty,” he says. “Now I hope I’m being treated as an artist who’s just beginning a career. This time it’s different.” Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra begins Summermusik by presenting British Invasion 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4 at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, Over-theRhine. Tickets/more info: ccocincinnati.org.
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Life Isn’t Easy When You’re in ‘Eighth Grade’ BY T T S T ER N - EN ZI
Kayla — the protagonist of comedian Bo Burnham’s new film Eighth Grade — is an awkward middle school student on the cusp of transitioning to high school. She has her own YouTube channel, which captures her life lessons as she makes her way through the last week of her eighth-grade year. From the very first moment we see her, as played by Elsie Fisher, we worry. When she’s addressing her audience (us), warning signs abound. Mainly, she’s trying too hard to get things right, and every single ounce of her effort shows. The evolution from middle school to high school — specifically the headlong dive into the teenage phase — is more difficult than going from the teen years into early adulthood. There’s no instruction manual, and no kid wants to hear feedback from their parents because there is absolutely nothing cool about any adults, especially Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade the ones you’re forced to live with. And fellow students can PHOTO: JOSH ETHAN JOHNSON /COURTESY OF A 24 be cruel. At best you hope for an older sibling who can offer attempts to achieve the up a little of their long shadow to shield recognition she earnestly you from the constant glare of the cliquish strives for. constellation of blinding stars. I found myself drawn But Kayla, lacking a brother or sister, to Kayla’s father, Mark seeks the sanctuary of the internet, where (Josh Hamilton). The actor she can pretend to be open and wise while succinctly embodies the searching for connection. But we plainly floundering impotence of see that she’s a ball of anxiety that’s a bit parenthood, but somehollow in the middle — she lacks any how continues to project experience to give her words real meaning. an indomitable spirit of It is obvious, while watching her struggle hopefulness. He is, in to come up with examples to prove her some ways, exactly like his simplistic points, that she has no foundadaughter. He struggles to tion to even make a statement of belief on maintain his good cheer the subject of her maturation. even while dark anxiety Then there is her actual existence in encroaches from all sides. the real world (rather than in the virtual We’ve seen this from him realm of social media). Here, Kayla is little previously in the Netflix more than a ghost, desperately haunting series 13 Reasons Why, where he plays the the hallways and classrooms of her school father of an emotionally beleaguered proin the hope that someone will feel and tagonist who seeks to avenge the reputaacknowledge her presence. She’s voted one tion of a friend who committed suicide. of the quietest students in her grade, but Parents in young-adult narratives like you wonder how anyone even noticed her Eighth Grade often share similarities with enough to deem her “quiet.” police and other authorities in Hitchcock Burnham (who got his start as a YouTufilms. They are seen as completely inefber) locks Eighth Grade into the heightened fective figures, detached from the events anxiety of Kayla’s perspective. But the film taking place and hopelessly unable to steers clear of the bleak chic of Kids (it also have an impact. But what I appreciate in lacks the gleefully headstrong exuberthe case of Hamilton’s work in both Eighth ance of The Florida Project). However, it Grade and 13 Reasons Why is how he finds does capture the palpable fears of kids ways to make sure that his presence is felt, like Kayla in the face of the oppressive whether he’s onscreen or not. We wonder indifference from her peers and her failing where he is and why his onscreen children
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fail to seek out his advice. He’s not hip or all-knowing, but he gives us the sense that he’s striving to connect and is available. That’s exactly what most parents hope their kids understand. We long to be there, during both the good and the bad moments, to listen, to hold our kids tight, to share the laughter and the tears along with the occasionally requested words of encouragement. In Eighth Grade, the heartfelt presence of Kayla’s father means that there is a chance she won’t fall prey to the countless nicks and cuts of life that might lead her to taping her own YouTube version of 13 Reasons Why. (Opens Friday) (R) Grade: A
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Orchids Stays Excellent The fine-dining restaurant in the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza remains committed to turning out simple yet memorable meals under its new leadership BY PA M A M I TC H E L L
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f you have an upcoming special occasion or would like to treat your sweetheart to a perfect dining experience, there’s nowhere within hundreds of miles likely to achieve the culinary heights of Orchids at Palm Court. And if your bank account permits, why wait for a birthday, anniversary or to pop the question? Yes, you’ll spend a few bucks, but the experience and the memory of it may well justify the indulgence. I’m hardly alone in loving this restaurant; beginning in 2014, Orchids has earned the coveted AAA five-diamond award for five straight years under executive chef Todd Kelly. To put that honor in perspective, consider that you’d have to go to Chicago or maybe Charleston, S.C. to find another five-diamond winner. But chef Kelly left Orchids a year ago and food service at the Hilton Netherland
is now under the direction of executive chef Maxime Kien, a native of southern France with deep experience at excellent restaurants from London to Las Vegas and New Orleans. The pressure to keep those five diamonds has to be immense. “It’s definitely a big deal,” Kien says, “like Michelin stars in Europe.” In some ways, getting the highest honor can be a curse as much as a blessing. In France, more than one chef has renounced a two- or three-star Michelin rating, saying they don’t want to play in that toodemanding and stressful league any more. Kien says he welcomes the challenge and is having a wonderful time settling into the leadership of what he described as a very talented team, most of whom have been with Orchids for at least a few years. They include chef de cuisine Tommy Slovacek, sous chef Wesley Rogers
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and pastry Palm Court supervisor 35 W. Fifth St., DownClare town; 513-421-9100, Mongenas, all orchidsatpalmcourt. of whom were com; Hours: 5:30-9 promoted p.m. Sunday-Thursday; from previous 5:30-10 p.m. Friday positions at and Saturday Orchids. If I’m lucky, I’ll get to Orchids once or twice a year, and I’ve almost always had a stellar meal. In June, I dined there with friends to see whether that level of wonderfulness is still attainable. In a word: yes. It was a weeknight and most tables went unoccupied, but that’s probably not uncommon for an establishment at this level, and in the traditionally slow restaurant season of mid-summer to boot. The sparse crowd didn’t keep the staff from providing truly impeccable service from the moment we arrived until the end of the evening. If I had to select one feature of the meal that we all agreed was over-the-top spectacular, it would be all of the “freebies” that accompanied the dishes we actually ordered. That bounty started with a delectable amuse-bouche consisting of a savory panna cotta topped with a bit of local caviar and a sprinkling of herb salad.
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Between the appetizer and entrée came a small portion of the freshest pea soup you can imagine, enhanced by a shaving of black truffle. (One of my companions said later that little cup of perfection was her favorite thing of the whole meal.) A pre-dessert treat centering on not-toosweet strawberry sorbet prepared us for the desserts we had ordered, but there was even more after that: petits-fours and
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Blackbird Eatery, 3009 O’Bryon St., O’Bryonville, 513-321-0413, blackbirdeatery. com Blackbird is the latest venture by longtime Cincinnati restaurateurs Mary and Mark Swortword, who closed their Columbia Tusculum restaurants Green Dog Café and Buz to focus on the new project in a more central neighborhood. (The Swortwords were also the original owners of Blue Ash’s Brown Dog Café.) Formerly a chicken joint called Son of a Preacher Man, the building had been vacant for over a year when the Swortwords began extensive renovations in January. While they were able to use a lot of kitchen equipment from their
previous restaurants, Mark told me they completely gutted the dining room and started from scratch to transform the single room into a more intimate, inviting space where guests might linger over drinks and dinner or Sunday brunch. My first visit — for dinner — turned out surprisingly quiet, even though we went on a Saturday night. For mains, the Nori Pesto Salmon ($17) with zucchini, pea shoots and green couscous sounded so good we al-most fought over who would get to order it. Not only was it lacking in taste, but the dish also arrived lukewarm. We had better luck with the grilled lamb tenderloins ($29), consisting of slices of medium-rare lamb over green lentils with pickled golden raisins and a yogurt sauce. Overall, while I think the cooking needs a few tweaks, there’s enough good stuff coming out of the kitchen to satisfy most diners who find their way to this little restaurant row on O’Bryon Street. (Pama Mitchell) Sacred Beast 1437 Vine St., OTR, 513-2132864, sacredbeastdiner.com Before I had the chance to eat at Sacred Beast, I had heard so much buzz — about the concept, the owners and their impressive pedigree, the physical design and the “simple food, taken seriously” motto — that my expectations were over the moon. It took me two tries to understand the raves, but then I became a believer. It was hard to tell which of the food choices might qualify as a main course, but our server said that the bottom portion of the “Now Serving” column could be considered entrées. Those entrées include king salmon, steak tartar with french fries and an egg, chicken thighs, hash browns (yes, in the main course section) and the cryptically listed “ham and cheese,” all priced between $13.95-$18.95. Descriptions of these and other presumably lighter dishes are sparse, and you might want to ask before you order. It wasn’t easy to decide what to eat, but I’m happy to report that my choice of the Diner Breakfast hit the jackpot. It’s a truly great plate of food and I’d be hardpressed to order anything else upon a return visit. Soft scrambled eggs, a short stack of ricotta pancakes topped with two strips of maple-glazed pork belly and a small grilled tomato make up this scrumptious meal. (PM)
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roasted scallops with artichoke, olive mashed potatoes and Niçoise tapenade was a bit of a misfire due to an overload of saltiness, although the scallops themselves were tender and of exquisite quality. Two of us had halibut with white asparagus and irresistible fresh morel mushrooms, another fine example of how Kien and his team can deliver a simple but memorable dish. The gold star of the entrées we tried probably would go to Joyce’s pan-seared lamb loin accompanied by sautéed seasonal vegetables and Macaire potatoes — kind of a super-elevated version of potato pancakes or hash browns. The lamb was meltingly tender, precisely medium-rare, and once again simply sauced with an intensely flavorful lamb jus. After all that — and glasses of wine selected by the wine steward to accompany our courses — it was hard to fully appreciate pre-dessert, dessert ($14) and the after-dessert treats. Our server’s top recommendation was a strawberry pistachio custard with fromage blanc ice cream, and since I’m always up for pudding, custard or panna cotta type sweet treats, that was an easy pick. It was good but not stellar, although I probably had already reached my limit by then. Nonetheless, I think Cincinnati can breathe a sigh of relief that the fivediamond bragging rights seem likely to continue under the new leadership at Orchids.
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a take-home granola bar. I suppose one might consider this an excessive amount of food — but in the best way possible. As you would expect, the seasonallyattuned menu takes advantage of midsummer produce and combines those ingredients with top-quality seafood and meat from a variety of sources. Kien says he has enjoyed teaching his mostly young kitchen staff how to handle and prepare whole salmon, or a lamb saddle. During his months at the helm, he’s started to share his knowledge and show his team his vision, he says. That vision produces dishes that are never overly complicated either in ingredient combinations or presentation. Case in point was the vichyssoise appetizer — a chilled potato-based soup that I haven’t encountered on a menu in decades but recall loving some versions back in the day. It was marvelous: a creamy purée without the tiniest of lumps, topped with a spoonful of local Big Fish Farms caviar, a sprinkling of fines herbes and melba toast croutons for the all-important crunchy contrast. My friend Joyce, who often orders foie gras, was equally delighted by her appetizer of Hudson Valley terrine simply presented with pickled vegetables, onion marmalade and toast points. Others at our table skipped an appetizer ($16-$20) and went straight to the entrée course, but if I’m fortunate enough to return before the seasonal menu changes, I’d like to try the smoked sturgeon or salmon tartare — or another helping of the vichyssoise. Our menu listed seven main course options ($40-$48), mostly meat based but including two seafood preparations. The
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If you wanted to try every flavor of gelato available at La Grassa Gelato in Madeira, you could. Entertain no fear of being too picky or taking too long to decide on a flavor, as you might at other dessert shops. Proprietor John Berman wants you to find your favorite; in fact, he’s determined to help you do so. “I can’t justify doing traditional advertising when my best advertising is for you to taste the product,” Berman says. He and manager Josh Clayton pass out at least 10 tastes of gelato during my visit to the shop on a weekday afternoon. (They serve sorbettos, or Italian sorbet, too.) I observed a pair of friends come in and ask to try one of the gelatos, and cross my heart, she actually said, “That’s incredible. That’s better than Italy.” Berman looked across the counter at me and smiled. After all, he trained in the art of gelato in Italy. La Grassa’s product origins can be traced to Gelato University, near Bologna, Italy, but the concept began in the basement of pizzeria/restaurant A Tavola, where the first batches of this creamy dairy treat were concocted for the restaurant’s dessert menu. Berman wasn’t always a gelatier; he spent his career working in the family plastics manufacturing business, Berman Industries. His pragmatism and business acumen are attributes that served him well when he decided to make a foray into the food industry. “I never wanted to be in the restaurant business or food business,” Berman says with a chuckle, “and I still try to convince myself that I’m not now; it’s a manufacturing business with a retail aspect.” Indeed, that was the original plan for La Grassa. After traveling to Italy to scope out the gelato world, pick up some training and gelato equipment, the A Tavola folks approached Berman, a longtime friend of the restaurant’s founding family, to see
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if gelato could make a good grocery store retail product. He did some research and told them it probably wouldn’t — but it could make a great venture on its own. Berman has been making gelato for them since 2014; the shop, located in a converted historic home, opened in December 2017 — just down the street from A Tavola’s Madeira location. Besides gelato, coffee is the other menu staple, with espresso, lattes, affogato, drip coffee, Chai, iced tea, lemonade and a few other beverages. A reminder: gelato is not ice cream. It is similar, in that both creations are dairy treats. But where ice cream is comprised of mostly cream and a little bit of milk, gelato uses even less fat (from the cream) and
more milk. Berman says the typical creamto-milk ratio for ice cream to be called ice cream necessitates 35 to 40 percent cream, and the rest is milk. In fact, the FDA says ice cream can contain no less than 10 percent fat, whereas gelato typically only has 4 to 9 percent. The reduced butterfat content of gelato means your taste buds aren’t coated by the fat, allowing the flavor to get all the way through and last to the final bite. La Grassa uses high-quality, local products to ensure the best possible flavor: Hartzler Family Dairy in Wooster, Ohio provides the milk, and the popular Snowville Creamery in Pomeroy, Ohio supplies the cream. The other secret to gelato is balance. “There’s a tremendous amount of science with gelato and sorbet,” Berman says. “The idea in quality gelato or ice cream is to eliminate ice crystals. The job of sugars in our product is to break down water molecules into their smallest form, so they don’t bunch up and create crystals, and we achieve that through balance... In gelato and sorbet manufacturing, balance is everything.” On a recent Sunday evening, I sampled a small cup of the gianduja (chocolate and hazelnut) and my mom got a cup of the salted caramel. Ordinarily, I don’t like too much hazelnut. But this was fantastic; smooth, creamy and perfectly wellbalanced. The salted caramel was so good it made me forget that I usually prefer to pair chocolate with caramel. I also had an affogato, featuring Intelligentsia espresso poured over a plain gelato base. The gelato base is just milk, cream and sugar, and so very good, I would order just a cup of that next time. I like to consider myself a frozen dairy
fanatic, if not aficionado, but of all the frozen confections out there, sorbet is my least favorite medium. I was intrigued by the more colorful sorbetto flavors La Grassa has available, though: mango, passion fruit, strawberry, blood orange, chocolate...wait. Chocolate sorbet? I tried it, and my tastebuds were blown away. It wasn’t icy and melty and SnoCone-like, as most sorbets I’ve had tend to be. It was smooth and creamy and tasted just like ice cream. Or gelato. The blood orange was tart, creamy and just sweet enough. But I found the other fruit flavors too tart. Berman spends a lot of time re-calibrating his recipes (handwritten, with lots of crossed-out numbers) so it’s possible the strawberry might be more mellow the next time I try it. Also worth noting: None of the gelatos or sorbettos stay in the Pozzetti display case for more than two or three days, so you’re guaranteed a fresh scoop every time. “For us, (it’s about) the simplest, plain, no toppings, no gimmicks, no booze, no rolling,” Berman says. “Because I’m using this expensive stuff, I want you to get the full taste.” That kind of simple, replicable business model means La Grassa is ripe for export as a retail front to other cities. We discussed the potential saturation point of frozen dairy treats in Cincinnati, but Berman doesn’t see the other local dairy players as competition. A high tide raises all ships is his loose motto, and the plan is to try to grow in town before expanding elsewhere. “We can coexist,” he says. “There’s Rhinegeist and MadTree, there’s Goldstar and Skyline; to me, it’s not a competition.” Lucky for us. La Grassa Gelato is located at 7014 Miami Ave., Madeira. More info: lagrassa.com.
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Montgomery Inn + Rhinegeist Beer Dinner — Rhinegeist and the Ribs King join forces for a paired beer dinner featuring four courses and five beers. Dine on dishes like blackened scallop salad with Cidergeist Bubbles, followed by a tilapia beignet and Puma pilsner and pork loin back ribs with Truth IPA. 6:309:30 p.m. $75. Montgomery Inn, 925 Riverside Drive, Downtown, call 513-7217427 for tickets.
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Kitchen Chemist: Laboratory Style Homecooking — Science and cuisine come together in this class that blends surreal concepts from the Contemporary Arts Center exhibits of Chris Larson and Mar DeJong with kitchen demos from Kris Ebeling. With these hands-on activities, learn some new skills in the kitchen. The evening includes cocktails and light bites. 6 p.m. $30; $25 member. Contemporary Arts Center, 44 E. Sixth St., Downtown, contemporaryartscenter.org.
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Stocking a Healthy Pantry: Back to School Edition — Get ready for the school year by learning how to stock a healthy pantry to make after-school snacks and midday munchies. Get tips on organization, what to purchase and hands-on instruction for how to make homemade fruit snacks, granola bars, hummus, oatmeal bites, egg cups and more. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $65. Turner Farm, 7400 Given Road, Indian Hill, turnerfarm.org. Cooking Demo Series at Memorial Hall — The catering team from The Phoenix, with executive chef Joey Hahn, head to Memorial Hall to teach you how to make an Italian summer meal. Watch Hahn prepare the meal with up-close cameras. Dinner includes a summer bean salad, tagliatelle pasta with artichokes and tomato
Most classes and events require registration and classes frequently sell out. and goat cheese lemon panna cotta. Enjoy wine pairings and samples of each menu course. 6-9 p.m. $65. Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, memorialhallotr.com. Floral Cocktails & Mocktails with Queen City Shrubs — Justin Frazer leads this class on using shrubs — a fruit-based mixer for cocktails or sodas — to make drinks like hibiscus coriander shrub with fresh, edible flowers. 6:30-9 p.m. Free. People’s Liberty, 1805 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/pplslbrty. Roebling Point Food Tour — Step back in time and explore the architecture of the Licking Riverside Historic District on foot and savor special food and drink tastings from five area restaurants like Molly Malone’s, Keystone Bar & Grill, The Gruff and more. 11 a.m. $59. Meets outside of Molly Malone’s, 112 E. Fourth St., Covington, riversidefoodtours.com. Taft House Party — It’s Thirsty Thursday at the Taft Museum of Art. Head to the museum for a happy hour featuring a cash bar, light bites, oversized bean bag chairs in the garden, a Wall of Affirmation and a performance from Triiibe. 5-8 p.m. Free, but register online. Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown, facebook.com/ taftmuseumofart.
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Botany and Brews — This event blends beer and stories about botany. Woodburn Brewery presents a limited-release beer made with a tropical ingredient from the Krohn Conservatory: rose Apple. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $12. Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, krohn.cincyregister.com/ botanyandbrews3
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mimosas. Glam on Wheels mobile nail salon will be on hand, as will Street Chef Brigade. Schedule your nail appointment in advance online: 1glamonwheels@ gmail.com. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission. Streetside Brewery, 4003 Eastern Ave., Columbia Tusculum, facebook.com/ streetsidebrewery. Made in Cincy at Marty’s Hops & Vines — Marty’s sixth annual Made in Cincy Beerfest features 16 taps of all local brews, Camp Washington chili, live music and fun. Tickets include beer, a souvenir tasting glass and all-you-can-eat chili. 5-11:30 p.m. $29.99 advance; $34.99 day of. Marty’s Hops & Vines, 6110 Hamilton Ave., College Hill, 513681-4222, facebook.com/ martyshopsandvines.
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August Tea Dance — It’s Time for Another Tea Dance hosts a monthly LGBTQ+ dance and mixer at 3 Points Urban Brewery. There will be cocktail specialties, no cover and DJs Thaddeus and Bjorg. 4-7 p.m. Free admission. 3 Points Urban Brewery, 331 E. 13th St., Pendleton, facebook.com/ teadancecinci. Please Fried Chicken and Rosé Sunday — Please hosts this weekly summer fried chicken party featuring house fried chicken, fried tofu and a rotating selection of rosé by the glass. Noon-4 p.m. Free admission; food and wine prices vary. Please, 1405 Clay St., Over-theRhine, pleasecincinnati.com.
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Mardi Gras on Mars Wayne Coyne comes to Waynesville as The Flaming Lips headline southwest Ohio’s new Bellwether Music Festival BY G R EG O RY G AS TO N
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it as a way to lead fans further down the Flaming Lips’ rabbit hole. “This has been his dream for 10 years now,” Coyne says of Booker. “He thought if you liked one song then it would lead you to another.” Coyne himself is also just a fan of the concept in general. “Some of my favorite records by groups are greatest hits,” he says. “Like Tom Petty, for instance, I wouldn’t really know his albums, but I certainly know many of his hits. I like the idea that we’re sort of curators of a collection of songs. Even though I know virtually everything that The Beatles have done, I’m still a sucker for the latest rearrangement of their hits. In the Flaming Lips’ world, that’s enough of a reason.” If there’s an inherent Flaming Lips’ philosophy, it can be summed up by one of Coyne’s irrepressible song titles — “Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear Part 2.” He describes his band’s music as containing “optimistic melancholy,” and that paradox pumps the heart of The Flaming Lips. While the music pulses and aches with wistful, openhearted vulnerability, the live shows are such kaleidoscopically life-affirming marvels that you can’t help but be overwhelmed in the moment. The Flaming Lips headline night two of the Bellwether Music Festival on Aug. 11 in Waynesville, Ohio. Tickets/directions/more info: bellwetherfest.com.
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of how you can be — if there’s 1,000 of our fans in the front surrounded by 2,000 who just want to party, our fans will sort of say, ‘Here’s the way we’re going to be,’ ” Coyne says. “And it works and it brings that intensity which everyone is reaching for. “And I always try to remind people that (trying to be too) cool and to be too judgmental… everything in your life is going to be ruined. That’s never worked. You have to surrender to everything to really enjoy it. Love isn’t about you, it’s about what you’re giving. It’s not about us, it’s about the whole community.” From the parking lot experiments involving dozens of car stereos playing in sync to create a kind of junkyard symphony to covering both Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon and The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in full and collaborating with Miley Cyrus to piss off all the music critics, The Flaming Lips’ career is marked by several “outside of the box” milestones, as the band leapfrogs from one outrageous project to another. But the group’s major recent surprise is the release of the three-disc Greatest Hits Vol. 1 compilation. It’s a somewhat conventional move made less so by the generous inclusion of B-sides, obscure covers and unreleased demos. For a Flaming Lips fan, it’s a flush farrago of choice material. Compiled with producer Dave Fridmann, Coyne says the idea of issuing a “greatest hits” set originated with the band’s longtime manager, Scott Booker, who saw
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responsibility to get them more involved, because that will make it more fun. If we do that, this will really be a special moment,” Coyne says. “With (a concert), you’re building that crescendo for a minute and then we sort of do it again and again.” As we continue talking, Coyne wonders where the name of southwest Ohio’s new “Bellwether” fest comes from. I mention that my only experience in Waynesville, a skydiving hub, is jumping from a Cessna many years ago. With the thought of such a stunt, Coyne flashes his Achilles heel with a chuckle. “To be that committed to something seems insane, though it’s what we do in a different way,” he says when considering skydiving. “I’m sure it’s an exhilarating mindfuck of an experience, but looking around now, I like being flat on the ground.” Because of The Flaming Lips’ hardcore fans, Coyne can rely on them to help shape a festival’s tone. Even with a platinum and several gold records on a big major label like Warner Brothers, there’s still a cosmic cult vibe surround the band and its tribe. It’s an intense, reciprocal bond that most other bands don’t share with their fan base. Every Lips’ concert feels like Mardi Gras on Mars to a degree. Coyne revels in being the charismatic Pied Piper leading his band of fearless freaks, including Michael Ivins on bass and Steven Drozd on guitar/keyboard, to deliver yet another epic concert spectacle. “Our audience kind of set the example
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onsidering the surreal, carnivalesque world of psychedelic wonders The Flaming Lips — with frontman Wayne Coyne’s mad-hatter derring-do and the band’s singular, lysergic Pop, which bleeds bliss and transcendence in equal doses — can there be a better musical act to inaugurate the new Bellwether Music Festival in the small Ohio town of Waynesville (of all town names), one hour north of Cincinnati? An extravagant, extraordinary band for extravagant, extraordinary times, the Oklahoma veterans have been a subversive outfit for 35 years now. The Flaming Lips’ journey began modestly — young music freaks growing up a half-day’s dusty drive north of Texas in a flyover prairie town in the late ’70s/early ’80s, trying to entertain themselves in a garage with guitars. Within Coyne’s cracked, soulful voice and vision, you can practically hear how both goodwill and mayhem sparked his persona. And how he and his buddies translated those high school musical influences in various ways over the ensuing decades. After several albums of noisy, epic Post Punk psychedelia, The Lips crept up from the underground by honing a singular, slanted brand of AltRock that was shot through the damaged, hallucinatory lens of some mutant strain of prime Beach Boys and spiked with Pink Floyd in the coliseum of your imagination; they’re space age love songs for the disaffected. During a recent phone interview, Coyne sketches a scene from a day in the life of The Flaming Lips circa 2018. “We were working in the studio till about a half hour ago, and now I’m sitting in my Prius in my driveway in the shade in Oklahoma City,” he says. “My car is kind of my office — it’s quiet, has air conditioning and I got a phone charger. My house can be kind of crazy — people, dogs, lots of activity.” As go-to music festival poster-toppers since the turn of the century, the singer explains the Lips’ approach to such events. “We do embrace the day, the idea if you’re playing to 20,000 people or 100,000, half of them are there to party and it’s our
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Singer/songwriter/guitarist/ harmonica-ist and Greater Cincinnati Roots music hero Dave Gilligan celebrates the release of Watching the World Go to Hell, the latest album by his band Grey Dogs, Saturday (Aug. 4) at Mansion Hill Tavern (502 Washington Ave., Newport, facebook.com/mansionhilltavern). Showtime is 9 p.m. and cover charge is $5. Gilligan has played a variety of music over the past couple of decades with groups like The Flock, MC Blue and The Hiders, and Watching the World Go to Hell combines those ranging sounds — Blues, Folk, Rock, Celtic and more — into a strong Grey Dogs’ Watching the World Go to Hell package of songs marked by his endearing humor and obserPHOTO: PROVIDED vational insight. The musical performances are superb; besides Gilligan’s expressive harmonica all political/culturally-focused — songs work, he surrounds himself with some like “All I Ever Wanted” and “Hate to See excellent players, including stellar local You Go” are looks at interpersonal relationguitarist Mike Fair and keyboardist Jim ships that slightly dial back Gilligan’s Lindenschmidt poetic quirks, dial up the earnestness and Like many artists these days, Gilligan retain the overriding down-to-earth and can’t help but respond to the weirdness modest tone. of society in the Trump era, tempering For more on Grey Dogs, visit seething outrage with sly witticisms. (The daveandthedogs.com. back cover of the CD features a photo of a King Records’ 75th Birthday pickup truck that has “‘Just grab ’em by the pussy’ — Your President” emblazoned on Gala Coming Soon the side.) On Aug. 25, Memorial Hall in Over-theHe sets the tone bluntly with opening Rhine plays host to “Celebrate the King: track “I Don’t Like the President,” deliverThe Gala,” an event honoring the 75th ing the titular declaration in the chorus birthday of the pioneering Cincinnatiwith an amusingly dry matter-of-factness, based record label King Records, one of the while his conversational critiques are most historically important record labels made all the more biting by Gilligan’s of the 20th century. sing/speak vocal style (think John Prine or According to a press release for the event, Woody Guthrie). the “Gala” (which gets a jumpstart during Not everything is as on-the-nose, as GilSeptember’s city-wide “King Records ligan switches up lyrical motifs often. On Month” festivities) will “take a look back to the title track, he uses a relatable scenario remember the inventive talent, the many — being stuck in a traffic jam that appears genres of music created by all different to have no real cause — as a jumping off types of artists and musicians from around point for musings on everything from war America creating and leading the charge.” and environmental catastrophes to the Celebrate the King will feature panels, prenature and ancestors that controlled the sentations and live music, with key King land around the highways before “progplayers like Bootsy Collins, Philip Paul and ress” claimed it (with a chorus on which Otis Williams, plus many others, slated to Gilligan sings, “Here we sit engines idling/ participate. How long no one can tell/Stuck in the The event is being steered by innovagathering darkness/Watching the world go tive local design house We Have Become to hell”). Vikings. A portion of ticket proceeds will Elsewhere, Gilligan shows off his stobe donated to the efforts to revive the rytelling acumen on “You Can’t Get Into former King facilities in the Evanston Heaven (Til Yer Offa Facebook).” Over a neighborhood. clavinet riff that’s a cousin to Stevie WonFind ticket links and complete info at der’s “Superstitious” groove and lathered thekingcelebration.com. in weeping Blues guitar and harmonica riffs, the song’s tale about people dying but Contact Mike Breen: retaining a social media presence could mbreen@citybeat.com be the basis for a particularly comedic episode of Black Mirror. And the album isn’t
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Taylor Swift’s Dad is Not a Pumpkin Following Drake’s confirmation that the rumor he had a son with a former adult film star is true, another high-profile musician has made a paternity confession. Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan says he is not Taylor Swift’s dad. Corgan took to Instagram to write two posts denying that he was Swift’s pops after a side-by-side photo on the TotallyLooksLike meme generator went viral. Corgan laughed off the accusations, saying he was shocked by how many people had contacted him about it, and then wrote several hundred words about “image/self-esteem/God/and self-love.” The real question is — does his pal Alex Jones of InfoWars believe his denial?
UMG, Prince and Fair Use: Part 2 In 2007, a 29-second home video a mother took of her toddler dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” was forced off of YouTube by Universal Music Group for violating the music’s copyright. After outcry and court hearings, the video was restored and an extensive court battle resulted in a decree that rights-holders must consider good-faith “fair use” when issuing such takedowns. UMG is apparently still intent on testing the boundaries of protecting Prince’s music from seemingly “fair use,” though. Recently, a short video of a mass of people singing “Purple Rain” in the streets of Minneapolis right after Prince’s death in 2016 was pulled from Twitter after UMG issued a takedown claim. The video was restored a couple of days later, after the takedown news once again received widespread attention.
TRGT Hearts CBGB Punk Rock historical site/former club CBGB was recently “lampooned” in the name of capitalism by Target. To celebrate the opening of a new store in the East Village, the retailer recreated CBGB’s famed storefront, changing the awning to read “TRGT” in CB’s distinct font and touting “BANDS” (that turned out to be giveaway boxes of Target-brand BandAids) at the makeshift pop-up promotion. Next up: Walmart gives away “I Have a Dream” sleep masks to promote the new superstore opening at the site of the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.
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Along with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, Elizabeth Cook and Ashley Monroe, Sunny Sweeney represents a new traditionalism in Country music, one that adheres to the foundational heritage of the genre while embracing contemporary modes of musical expression and lyrical viewpoint. Over the past dozen years, Sweeney has recorded four well-received full-length albums and an EP that made inroads across a broad spectrum of sales charts and attracted fans in a variety of stylistic camps. A native of Houston, Texas, Sweeney obtained her degree in public relations from Southwest Texas State University in Austin, a process that was punctuated by an important period of reflection in New York City. After graduation, Sweeney remained in Austin, assembled a band and began playing locally and regionally, which eventually led to the recording of her 2006 self-released debut album, Heartbreaker’s Hall of Fame. That album tweaked the radar of indie label Big Machine, which had formed the year before in order to sign Taylor Swift; they inked a contract with Sweeney and reissued Heartbreaker’s, releasing a trio of singles that did well in her home state. In 2009, Sweeney became the first artist signed to Republic Nashville, a label formed by Big Machine and Universal Republic Records. Sweeney released “From a Table Away,” her first charting single, in 2010; nine months later, it hit the top 10 of Billboard’s Country Singles. Her sophomore album, Concrete, was released in late summer of 2011, featuring primarily original songs Sweeney had co-written with a variety of renowned songwriters, including Radney Foster, Tim Nichols and Monty Holmes. She had two more minor hit singles from Concrete before leaving Big Machine in 2012. In 2013, Sweeney signed with Thirty Tigers, and the following year saw the release of the single “Bad Girl Phase” and her third album Provoked, which showed an even deeper and more vulnerable aspect of her songwriting. The album was critically hailed, receiving an “A-” from the always-tough music critic legend Robert Christgau, and it hit the Top 20 of Billboard’s Country Albums chart. Sweeney’s most recent album, last year’s excellent Trophy, fared better on the Folk and Indie charts, and featured a quartet of co-writes with Grammy-winning singer/ songwriter Lori McKenna; Sweeney had covered McKenna’s “The Old Me” on Concrete. From the very beginning, Sweeney has gone from strength to strength, creating increasingly great albums and becoming a supremely confident stage performer.
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with a favorite pro baseball player you affectionately refer to as “Scooter,” “Rusty” or “Chipper.” It’s also a reference to one of the first songs Giannascoli posted to Bandcamp more than seven years ago — a testament to the rich lore and continuity in his imagined world of witches, rebellious teens and pet dogs who seem to exist in the same social hierarchy as humans. “My name is Sandy, I’m 14 years old,” he sings on his self-titled single, whispering over frenetically strummed acoustic guitar chords. “My brother says he hates me and Satan is his master.” That’s the extent of what the lyric sheet reveals, despite the many other lines Giannascoli mumbles into the microphone, barely registering in the mix. But it’s somehow all you need to know. (Sandy) says as little as possible, sparking the imagination just enough to let listeners paint the missing details into their subconscious. His latest record, Rocket, is arguably his best yet, filled with water-logged Americana: droopy and saturated, but undeniably twangy. While speckled with Giannascoli’s familiar trademarks (vocals distorted beyond recognizability, guitar soundscapes that suggest a steady diet of Modest Mouse LPs), the new album features an impressive array Bonny Doon of sounds that PHOTO: CHLOE SELLS are totally new to Giannascoli’s catalog. When he’s not channeling the spirit of Elliott Smith, he’s rapping and/ or screaming over brutal drum breaks on “Brick” or layering autotuned squeals on “Sportstar” or trying his hand at Bluegrass songcraft on “Bobby.” And, somehow, (Sandy) pulls it all off seamlessly. While lo-fi Twee Pop is definitely Giannascoli’s sweet spot, exploration of new sounds is his default setting. It’s up to fans to brace themselves for the sonic curveballs and unknowns on the horizon. “Without fail, every time I’ve loved a song and looked it up to figure out what it’s about, I won’t care about it anymore,” (Sandy) told Stereogum. “It’s this personal magic… the reason you enjoy (music) is because of its unlimited potential, the inability to really understand it.” (Jude Noel)
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Bonny Doon is a band from Detroit, a place that when mentioned immediately evokes a certain kind of sound. Yet it takes less than a minute into the quartet’s 2017 selftitled debut to realize that this is a different kind of Rock City outfit. Led by the songwriting duo of Bill Lennox and Bobby Colombo, Bonny Doon’s laconic, Country-fied songs have more in common with The Band than The Stooges. More pointedly, the song “Summertime Friends” sounds like early Wilco informed by Levon Helm’s leftover whiskey and weed — its meandering organ and ramshackle rhythms back lyrics that repeatedly ask, “How do you feel?” The answer: zonked. When it came time to write songs for the follow-up, Longwave, released via Woodsist earlier this year, the band convened to a cabin in northern Michigan.
“The whole goal of this new album was to try and capture the band’s sound at its essence with everything stripped down and vulnerable,” Lennox told Noisey just before the album dropped in March. “We were trying to just capture the sound of the band in a room. We were happy to just kind of bare more of ourselves and be more open.” Sure enough, songs like “A Lotta Things” and “I Am Here (I Am Alive)” are refreshingly straightforward, as if they’re trying to resurrect the poetic Blues-infused Folk musings of Smog or Silver Jews. Choice lyric from “I Am Here (I Am Alive)”: “I just want to be where I’m going.” Well, boys, you’re almost there. (Jason Garagano)
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BLIND LEMON - John Frisch. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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BOGART’S - Tory Lanez with Davo and Flipp Dinero. 8 p.m. R&B/Hip Hop. $30.
CAFFÈ VIVACE - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8 p.m. Big Band Jazz.
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FOUNTAIN SQUARE Reggae Wednesdays with Talking Dreads. 7 p.m. Reggae. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Dallas Moore. 10 p.m. Country. Free.
MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Dave Hawkins and Peg Buchanan. 7 p.m. Celtic/ Folk. Free. MERITAGE - Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.
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MOTR PUB - Lunar Vacation with Modern Aquatic. 10 a.m. Indie Rock. Free.
MVP BAR & GRILLE Faster Pussycat with Paradise Kitty and Don Jamieson. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $19, $22 day of show.
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NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Motel Faces, The Turbos and Useless Fox. 9 p.m. AltRock. Free.
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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - El Escapado with GRLwood and Gnarkan. 8 p.m. Punk
STANLEY’S PUB - The Inturns. 8 p.m. Rock. Free.
CAFFÈ VIVACE - Greg Chako Trio. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.
The Nude Party – Sept. 12, Woodward Theater JEFF the Brotherhood – Sept. 16, Woodward Theater
THE MAD FROG - THWAP Thursdays. 6 p.m. DJ/Electronic/Dance. Cover. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Negative Scanner, Crime of Passing and Lashes. 9 p.m. Alt/Post Punk/Various. $10. SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB - Brandon & Carlos Double Jazz Guitar Experience. 8 p.m. Jazz. Cover. STANLEY’S PUB - Trevor Clark Trio. 9 p.m. Folk/ Americana. Cover.
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URBAN ARTIFACT Mom and Dad with Ample Parking and SolEcho. 8 p.m. Jam/Various. $6, $10 day of show.
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Reignwolf – Sept. 21, Madison Theater
HILTON CINCINNATI NETHERLAND PLAZA HOTEL - Ricky Nye Inc. 9 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - Pete Dressman. 9 p.m. Rock. $5. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Southern Saviour. 9 p.m. Country/Rock. Free.
WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT Jazz at Dusk. 5:30 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
MADISON LIVE - Vermont with Scarlet Street and Vandalia. 8:30 p.m. Alt/Pop/ Rock. $10, $12 day of show.
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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Buffalo Wabs and the Price Hill Hustle. 9 p.m. Americana. Free.
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BOGART’S - Old 97’s. 8 p.m. Pop/Rock/Roots.
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FOUNTAIN SQUARE - First Friday with DJ Diamond. 7 p.m. DJ/Dance/Various. Free.
BLIND LEMON - Dave Hawkins. 7:30 p.m. Folk/ Celtic. Free.
THE GREENWICH - Rollins Davis Band with Deborah Hunter. 9 p.m. Jazz/R&B. $5.
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NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Even Tiles and The Tigerlilies. 10 p.m. Pop/Rock. Free.
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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Cadaver Dogs, North by North and Filthy Beast. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.
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OCTAVE - Black Signal with Jess Lamb, Xzela and Luna Bruja. 8 p.m. Electronic/Alt/Soul/Pop/Various. $5. RADISSON CINCINNATI RIVERFRONT - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. Funk/R&B/Soul. Free.
THE REDMOOR - 2nd Wind. 9 p.m. Jazz/R&B. $10.
SILVERTON CAFE - Sonny Moorman Group. 9 p.m. Blues. Free.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Joshua Black Wilkins with Wilder and Nick Baker. 9:30 p.m. Americana/Roots. Free.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Hillbilly Casino with Whiskey Daredevils. 8 p.m. Rock/Americana/ Roots/Various. $12, $15 day of show.
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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - High On Honky Tonk Tour with Sunny Sweeney and Ward Davis. 9 p.m. Country. $15-$100. STANLEY’S PUB - The Honeysuckles, Anthony Wayne and The Fine Line. 9 p.m. AltRock/Folk/ Blues. Cover. SYMPHONY HOTEL & RESTAURANT - The Philip Paul Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. THOMPSON HOUSE Cincy Acoustic Showcase. 8 p.m. Acoustic. $10.
URBAN ARTIFACT - Soul Asylum (unplugged) with In Details, FAX and Mariela. 7 p.m. Rock. $15, $20 day of show.
THE VENUE CINCINNATI Saving Abel. 5:30 p.m. Rock. VINKOLET WINERY AND RESTAURANT - Terry Metcalf. 7 p.m. Blues. Free. WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT Pat Kelly Group. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Cincinnati Dancing Pigs. 9 p.m. Americana/Jug band. Free.
MADISON LIVE - Round2Crew. 7:10 p.m. Pop/Various. $15-$150.
BLIND LEMON - G. Burton. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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BOGART’S - Tribute to Queen, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. 8 p.m. Rock/Metal. $15. CAFFÈ VIVACE - Now Here This. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. DEPOT BARBECUE - Forest Hills Bluegrass Band. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.
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FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Fifth & Vine Live with Cowboy Mouth, JIMS and This Pine Box. 7 p.m. Rock/ Alt/Various. Free. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Whammies. 9 p.m. Pop/Rock/Dance KNOTTY PINE - Bad Habit.
MANSION HILL TAVERN - Grey Dogs (album release show). 9 p.m. Roots/Blues/Various. Cover.
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SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB - Shawn Maxwell. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.
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MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Wild Mountain Berries. 9 p.m. Americana. Free.
RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Charlie Puth with special guest Hailee Steinfeld. 7:30 p.m. $25-$69.
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FRIDAY 03
Roanoke – Sept. 25, Southgate House Revival
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WASHINGTON PARK - Roots Revival with Casey Campbell Band. 2 p.m. Americana/Roots. Free.
BLIND LEMON - Zack and Corey. 10 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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Orgy – Sept. 11, Bogart’s
KNOTTY PINE - Chalis. 9 p.m. Pop/Rock/Various. Free.
THE AVENUE EVENT CENTER - Money Man. 10 p.m. $30-$50.
WOODWARD THEATER School of Rock All-Stars. 5:30 p.m. Rock. $8, $10 day of show.
Strung Out – Aug. 27, Northside Yacht Club
FOUNTAIN SQUARE Salsa on the Square with Óscar Salamanca & La Fórmula. 7 p.m. Latin/Salsa/ Dance. Free.
TAVERN ON THE BEND Carl G. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free. URBAN ARTIFACT Heavy Hinges with Nancy Paraskevopoulos. 8 a.m. Rock/Various. Free.
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STANLEY’S PUB - Bucket. 9 p.m. Americana. Cover.
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THOMPSON HOUSE - Rap Showcase featuring The Away Teem. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $10.
URBAN ARTIFACT Sleepy Drums (album release show) with Slow Glows, TLAF and Fun Machine. 9 p.m. Indie Rock.
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WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - Cleber Campos with Rusty Burge. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
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20TH CENTURY THEATER - The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. 3 a.m. Rock. $25, $28 day of show.
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LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO - Blue Birds Band. 8 p.m. R&B/Rock. Free.
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MANSION HILL TAVERN Open Blues Jam with Deb Olinger. 6 p.m. Blues. Free.
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MOTR PUB - Sphynx. 8 p.m. Alt/Pop/Dance. Free.
NORTHSIDE TAVERN - The Qtet. 9:30 p.m. Funk/Jazz/ Rock/Fusion/Various. Free.
NORTHSIDE TAVERN Uncle Spudd and Motel Faces. 8 p.m. Alt/Rock/Various. Free.
PACHINKO - Open Mic. 9 p.m. Various. Free.
RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Rascal Flatts with Dan + Shay and Carly Pearce. 7:30 p.m. Country. $29.50-$93.75. STANLEY’S PUB - Stanley’s Open Jam. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
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URBAN ARTIFACT Eric Sommer. 8 p.m. Blues.
WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT - 2nd Line Jazz Trio. 11:30 a.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).
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CAFFÈ VIVACE - Dan Drees Organ Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. THE GREENWICH - Baron Von Ohlen & the Flying Circus Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $5.
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MADISON LIVE - Spirit Animal with Room For Zero. 8 p.m. Alt/Pop/Rock. $12, $14 day of show.
MANSION HILL TAVERN - Acoustic Jam with John Redell and Friends. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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MEMORIAL HALL Jazz at the Memo with Carlos Vargas. 7 p.m. Latin Jazz.
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WOODWARD THEATER - (Sandy) Alex G with Daddy Issues. 8 p.m. Indie/Pop/Rock. $15, $18 day of show.
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BLIND LEMON - Nick Tuttle. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.
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BOGART’S - Band of Horses with Bonny Doon. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. $40.
CAFFÈ VIVACE - Lynne Scott & Lee Stolar. 7:30 p.m. Jazz
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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Clearance, Dinge, Hateflirt and Orchards. 9 p.m. Indie/Pop/ Rock/Various.
PACHINKO - Acoustic Tuesdays. 9 p.m. Acoustic/ Various. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Zac Wilkerson. 8 p.m. Country/Blues/Soul/ Rock. $10.
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STANLEY’S PUB Grass Is Dead with the Rumpke Trio. 9 p.m. Bluegrass/Jam. $10.
URBAN ARTIFACT - Urban Artifact Open Jam/Mic Extravaganza Palooza Fiasco. 8 p.m. Various. Free.
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US 50, 1 mile west of Exit 16,I-275 (Cincinnati Beltway) 7am - 3pm EDST Rain or Shine (Earlybirds at 6am)
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513-353-4135 LawrenceburgAntiqueShow.com
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