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B est C h a - C hun k e r Outside Of N yc Mecca OTR, a new no-frills, local-artist-decorated bar in Over-the-Rhine, specializes in a cocktail called a Chunker. Basically, the drink involves taking a tiny airplane bottle of liquor and placing it upside down in the mouth of a full can of San Pellegrino sparkling water. A machine called an arbor press widens the mouth of a can so the bottle can slowly drip into it, allowing you to mix rum, gin, vodka or bourbon with flavored San Pellegrino. The idea came from Genuine Liquorette in New York City, which does a similar thing called a Cha-Chunker. Mecca OTR, 1429 Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/meccaotr.
to local music). But the story of the station on Northern Kentucky University’s campus took a turn that was a little too close to 97X’s eventually disappearing act when it was announced it had been sold off to another company. As was the case with WOXY’s second life (albeit as an online outlet), it even looked as if there would be a last-minute savior (Louisville Public Media) to rescue the station. But, despite the ensuing community outcry, the college’s original deal with a religious broadcasting company was already too far along to reverse course. Making things even sadder, the sale was initiated by cuts to the state’s higher-education funding budget forced by Kentucky’s new over-reaching governor, Matt Bevin.
B e s t K e n t u ck y B e e r L i n e u p Crafts & Vines, a great new wine and beer store, opened in Covington’s MainStrasse last fall. The shop has more than a dozen different beers and wines on draft, and all of the beer is from Kentucky and Cincinnati. It also features Mash Cult beers, making it one of the only places in the area to pour their drafts, plus beers from Paducah’s Dry Ground, Louisville’s
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B e s t C onc e r t C a nc e l at ion M a k e - Up G e s t u r e Just a few weeks before it was to occur, the Buckle Up Festival — a sister festival to the Alt-music-oriented Bunbury Music Festival that was also acquired in the purchase of Bunbury by Columbus, Ohio’s PromoWest — was canceled. The event had been put on hold for one year and slated to return to a new venue in Blue Ash in early August last year. PromoWest said the cancelation was due to “circumstances beyond our control.” The biggest headliner of the festival did Cincinnati fans a solid — instead of taking a night off, Brad Paisley played a free show at Riverbend (tickets for which “sold out” instantly). Thankfully, Bunbury has stood tall as one of the region’s biggest music festivals.
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