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oxes for the distribution of free news and advertising content that have occupied public rights-ofway in Over-the-Rhine and downtown Cincinnati for decades are on the way out, the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) said last week. But CityBeat, a news and culture weekly that has maintained such boxes for almost a quarter century, says it will fight the change in court if necessary. The private nonprofit development corporation removed at least nine of the publication’s boxes near Cincinnati City Hall and other locations around downtown. 3CDC initially said it would remove the rest of those boxes over time. However, as of press time, the nonprofit has verbally promised to replace the boxes after the city said 3CDC did not have the authority to remove them. “Our downtown/OTR distribution is a crucial part of our business for both our readers and advertisers,” CityBeat publisher Tony Frank said. “We feel this is a direct violation of our First Amendment rights and are willing and prepared to fight and defend these rights. CityBeat is a free-of-charge news and cultural institution that has been a vital part of this community since 1994. Our readers trust us to share the best Greater Cincinnati has to offer and we strive on a weekly basis to create meaningful conversations and champion the local businesses that make our city a great place to live, work and play. The timing of these removals is especially unfortunate, as it directly affects the distribution of our Pride issue — one of the most important issues of the year to us.” In an emailed statement, 3CDC spokesperson Joe Rudemiller called the boxes “visually unappealing and often

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covered in graffiti.” Rudemiller also said newspaper boxes and their contents are bad for the environment, “which we find to be in conflict with a city as progressive as Cincinnati.” “Earlier this year, 3CDC merged with Downtown Cincinnati, Inc.,” Rudemiller’s statement reads. “The combined organization is responsible for certain aspects of safety, cleanliness, and beautification in the Central Business District. Our goal since taking on these responsibilities has been to maintain the public space on behalf of the building owners, investors and stakeholders of downtown. This includes maintaining and improving lighting, fixing deteriorating sidewalks, improving the quality of surface parking lots, introducing flower pots and plants to make the (Central Business

District) more visually appealing, and removing structures placed in the public right-of-way by private individuals, who do not have a legal right to place these structures in the right of way.” Some federal courts have disagreed on that last point when it comes to news outlets, however, routinely upholding the rights of publications to place distribution boxes in public places. CityBeat’s sister paper, the Cleveland Scene, won a settlement in a May 2017 First Amendment lawsuit against a similar private nonprofit development entity, Downtown Cleveland Alliance, which removed 26 of the publication’s boxes from that city’s downtown district. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but the paper won the right to continue placing its boxes downtown. In 2014, Oregon State University

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Cincinnati Adopts Budget Boosting Human Services, Neighborhood Group Funding BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

Cincinnati City Council June 19 approved the city’s $1.6 billion Fiscal Year 2020 budget, boosting spending for basic public services, some human services organizations and neighborhood groups. Council made several changes to Mayor John Cranley’s proposed budget, including restoring funding to several outside organizations, creating a new funding category for legal aid organizations, restoring funding for the director of the city’s Office of Environment and Sustainability and the city’s bike program, and other additions. A veto-proof majority and, many times, all council members voted for the ordinances, adding $1.5 million for those groups on the budget’s operating side. Some of that spending, including $750,000 for nonprofit Center for Closing the Health Gap, was opposed by Cranley and City Manager Patrick Duhaney. The money for the additions and funding restorations comes from roughly $881,000 left over from this year’s budget, plus adjustments to holiday pay for incoming police recruits (totaling about $220,000) and other sources. The votes effectively close out the city’s budget process, which also included a series of public hearings, ahead of the end of the fiscal year June 30. “I don’t think anyone is happy with everything, but I do think it’s a good structurally acceptable budget,” council member David Mann said June 19. Mann chairs council’s Budget and Finance Committee. Council member Greg Landsman said the budget boosts several key priorities for the city, including basic public services, pedestrian safety, eviction prevention and other vital services. “What this budget isn’t is where we need to be long-term,” Landsman said. “I don’t think anyone is comfortable with the amount of revenue coming into the city and the fact that we’re under-investing in key infrastructure…we’re under investing in our departments. I do believe that in the next year or so we’re going to have to make some difficult decisions about transforming this budget, because we can’t keep doing what we’re doing, which is cutting and cutting and cutting.” Part of the shortfall comes from long-running cuts to the state’s Local Government Fund, which have cost the city tens of millions of dollars over the past decade. The Ohio Senate has suggested boosting somewhat the state’s contributions to that fund, and the city expects to see roughly $2 million more from the state this year.

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Groups and offices receiving funds under council’s budget changes:

• The Center for Closing the Health Gap: $750,000

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• Office of Environment and Sustainability: $175,000 • Economic Inclusion Wage Monitoring: $140,000 • Office of Aging and Accessibility: $111,000 • Bethany House: $100,000 • Hillman Accelerator: $100,000 • Chemical Addiction Treatment (CAT) House: $41,250 above the $46,250 in Cranley’s proposal • Cincinnati Human Relations Commission: $20,000 • Urban Agriculture Program: $20,000 • City Clerk’s Office funding restoration: $19,000 • Invest in Neighborhoods: $12,500 above the $37,500 in Cranley’s proposal • Neighborhood games: $10,000

As in past years, there was some debate about the way the city funds human services. The United Way’s Human Services Advisory Committee oversees much of that funding, but other groups, including the Center for Closing the Health Gap, get money outside of that process.

The city still vets those organizations, some council members say, but others, like council member Amy Murray, say the city should move all human services funding into the United Way’s wheelhouse. Council did move to create a new category for legal help under the United Way-administered funding process. That category would include Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati and the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, both of which currently get funding from the city. Council added the Immigrant and Refugee Law Center to that category and provided $50,000 in funding for the nonprofit.

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Council also added $663,500 in spending on the budget’s capital side funded by extra money from closed-out projects and tax increment financing district proceeds. That money would go to restore cuts in funding to:

• City of Cincinnati bike program: $251,000 • Neighborhood Business District Improvement Program: $112,500 • Neighborhood Transportation Strategies: $111,000 • Electric vehicles for city departments: $96,000

• Over-the-Rhine Museum: $75,000 • ArtWorks mural funding: $18,000

Among the biggest winners in council’s budget changes is the Center for Closing the Health Gap. As it was last year, the group’s funding was cut under the city manager’s and the mayor’s budgets. Council also restored its funding last year. The nonprofit, which saw a large number of supporters turn out to advocate for restoration to funding during the city’s budget hearings recently, works to bridge health disparities experienced by Cincinnati’s black residents. The Health Gap has been in the news recently after texts released by the city showed that former Cincinnati mayor and Health Gap founder Dwight Tillery was communicating with five Democratic Cincinnati City Council members about the ouster of City Manager Harry Black, FC Cincinnati’s West End stadium, Health Gap funding and other city business. Cranley has said that the Health Gap should go through the same process overseen by the United Way of Greater Cincinnati that other nonprofits apply to in order to get city funding.

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Streetcar Budget Passed; Critics Skeptical BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

Cincinnati City Council June 19 passed a measure bridging a $1.4 million funding gap for the city’s streetcar system. The fixes avoid a controversial admissions/ticket tax for nonprofits like the Cincinnati Zoo and other popular attractions proposed by city administration. The proposal by council members Greg Landsman, David Mann and Chris Seelbach would create a long-term plan for streetcar funding, its creators say. Council members P.G. Sittenfeld, Wendell Young and Tamaya Dennard also voted for the budget fix, giving it a veto-proof majority. The proposal would cover streetcar operations by doing the following: • Increasing fines in no parking zones from $50 to $65 • Increasing fines for blocking the streetcar from $50 to $100 • Moving forward with digital ad kiosks at streetcar stops to raise an additional $500,000 a year. Those kiosks have already been purchased, but have yet to be deployed. • Cutting $50,000 from the current streetcar budget The city administration proposed two possible solutions to the budget crunch: the aforementioned ticket tax or hikes to parking fees, an increased residential parking permit fee for Over-the-Rhine and a car booting program for cars with

outstanding parking violations. Council member Sittenfeld indicated he wouldn’t support the former option, however, and a number of popular groups, including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, expressed their displeasure with the idea as well. Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman, an independent, and council members Amy Murray and Jeff Pastor, both Republicans, opposed the plan from Seelbach, Mann and Landsman. And Mayor John Cranley, long a critic of the streetcar, warned of increasing deficits over time under the current plan. “I don’t want people to think that we’re not warning them that these numbers are only going to get worse,” he told council. Council member Landsman said that he hopes the changes are part of a larger shift toward sustainability for the streetcar. Landsman laid out several points he said should get the streetcar to increased ridership and overall success experienced by other systems like the one in Kansas City. The first step — hiring a streetcar CEO — has already happened. The city pays Travis Jeric, who formerly worked in the city’s law department, $105,000 a year to lead the transit project. The city’s Department of Transportation and Engineering pays that salary, and the change is where the $50,000 reduction in the streetcar’s operating costs come from.

Landsman said the streetcar should also be overseen by an independent nonprofit entity. Efforts are already underway to make that happen, Landsman says. Currently, the streetcar is run by a complicated collaboration between the city, the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority and contractor Transdev. The streetcar also needs to be reliable, something that the system has struggled with in the past. But Landsman said things are getting better on that end and work continues to clear blockages in high-traffic areas downtown. The project also needs to be fareless to ride, Landsman says — something the city says will cost an extra $100,000 in security costs. One of the biggest changes Landsman is championing could also be the most challenging — a special taxing district in downtown and Over-the-Rhine in which property owners are assessed extra fees to help operate the streetcar. That would need approval from those property owners, however. “We’ve obviously inherited a bit of a mess in terms of the project, both financially and otherwise,” Landsman said earlier this month when a version of the budget fixes passed out of council’s Budget and Finance Committee. “I think the only way forward is to try and fix what’s broken.”

Roebling Will Reopen to Cars by August, Kentucky Officials Say

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Officials have selected a contractor to fix the crumbling sandstone that shut down the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in April, and work should be completed and cars flowing across the historic span by August, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced June 18. The state will pay Structural Systems Repair Group $77,998 to install netting that will catch any other pieces of sandstone that might fall between now and the time the bridge is permanently repaired. Because the 152-year-old span is a national historic landmark, the Kentucky Historic Preservation Office must approve the plan “This is good news,”

Covington City Manager David Johnston said in a statement. “Our businesses — especially those located near the bridge — have felt a substantial negative impact every day that bridge has been shut down, and we’ve been eagerly awaiting this announcement. Now we look forward to this work being finished as quickly as possible.” The 1,057-foot span was the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time it opened in 1866. Its architect, John A. Roebling, went on to design the Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883. Before it was closed to automotive traffic April 17, the bridge carried roughly 8,000 cars a day.

“We appreciate the public’s patience while we explored options that would not compromise the integrity of this historic bridge,” The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge KYTC PHOTO: HAILEY BOLLINGER Department of Highways Northern Kentucky sandstone will start next Office Chief District Engineer year, necessitating further Bob Yeager said in a June closures on the bridge, 18 release. “We now have officials say. a plan and timeline in place and will work diligently to That project, still in the get the bridge back open to design stages, is expected to traffic.” cost roughly $8 million. A more permanent effort to fix the span’s crumbling

Cincinnati Applies for Grant to Build Bike Path Next to Central Parkway BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L A protected bike lane that runs from downtown to Clifton Heights along Central Parkway could get an extension connecting it to Clifton and Northside if the City of Cincinnati scores a $750,000 grant through the Ohio-Kentucky-IndianaRegional Council of Governments. But the connecting piece wouldn’t be another on-street bike lane under the city’s grant application — it would be a shared bike path running next to the west side of Central Parkway. City administration applied for the grant June 7. Cincinnati City Council approved an ordinance allowing Cincinnati City Manager Patrick Duhaney to accept the Transportation Alternatives grant should the city receive it. The city would need to find money to match that grant, as well as funds to maintain the path, should it win. The city estimates the total cost of the project would be roughly $3.5 million. The Central Parkway Bike Lane was constructed in 2014 in accordance with a comprehensive bike plan approved by city council. But it was never completed. The lane ends at Marshall Avenue between Clifton Heights and Camp Washington, about a mile from where a bike lane picks up at the Ludlow Avenue overpass into Northside. A separate, off-street bike path branches off Central Parkway about halfway between Marshall and Ludlow and runs up Martin Luther King Drive into Clifton Heights. The lane has been controversial. Detractors say it has snarled parking and caused more accidents along Central Parkway. Proponents say it adds a vital degree of separation between bike commuters and traffic along one of the city’s busiest arteries. Mayor John Cranley’s administration has focused heavily on bike path construction over protected lanes during the his tenure — something not all bike advocates have been happy about. Those advocates, and some members of council, have pushed for completion of the lane. Should the city win the grant, the plan could represent a compromise — a bike path that also finishes the long-incomplete lane.

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The city and publication later agreed to a $393,000 payment. Fights about newspaper boxes aren’t new to Cincinnati. In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a City of Cincinnati ordinance that called for removing 62 boxes on public property containing commercial handbills. Frank says 3CDC first notified CityBeat about the potential removal of plastic boxes for aesthetic reasons on April 5. Frank says CityBeat has worked with 3CDC on a compromise — removing some of the less-used boxes and refreshing a number of others with new labels. That compromise seemed to be satisfactory until the week of June 17, according to Frank, when it was clear some of the boxes had been removed. In an April 5 email, 3CDC’s Vice President of Operations David Vissman indicated 3CDC was not working with the City of Cincinnati on the removals. 3CDC did not answer a question about whether it has the authority as a private nonprofit to determine what is permitted in public rights-of-way. CityBeat has reached out to the City of Cincinnati for comment. While the city has not responded to CityBeat directly, Department of Transportation and Engineering City Engineer Don

Gindling wrote to 3CDC representatives June 19 asking the entity to stop taking the boxes. “If your staff is removing the boxes please stop,” Gindling wrote. “Please let us know if you have removed any of these, if so you may want to reach out to CityBeat and return them. If you have issues with any existing locations, let DOTE know and we can start the process for getting them relocated or removed.” Several Cincinnati City Council members weighed in with statements condemning the removals. “First, I do not think the city has the power constitutionally to remove the boxes, or at least the city must move very gingerly in light of the powerful protections of the First Amendment,” council member David Mann said in a June 21 statement. “We were told as much by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1993 decision of City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc., 507 U.S. 410.” “Second, I cannot understand how 3CDC has the authority to remove CityBeat’s distribution boxes for aesthetic purposes,” Mann continued. “Wonderful as 3CDC and its many contributions to our city have been, it is a private organization without direct accountability to our citizens. I have asked the city solicitor to explain

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how it can be that 3CDC is removing constitutionally protected publications from our public sidewalks. If, by some technicality, we have granted this authority to 3CDC, it must be revoked.” Cincinnati City Solicitor Paula Boggs Muething responded saying that 3CDC did not, in fact, have the authority to remove the boxes. “The city did not approve 3CDC’s actions or otherwise delegate authority to 3CDC that would have permitted it to engage in these actions,” Boggs Muething wrote. The city could grant 3CDC that authority if it created something called modular newsrack districts per a 2010 city ordinance. Cincinnati City Council has not done so, however. Council members P.G. Sittenfeld and Tamaya Dennard also expressed concern about the removals. “.@CityBeatCincy is a valued journalistic pillar of our community,” Sittenfeld tweeted June 19. “More importantly, they’re entitled to exercise their First Amendment rights. I 100% support their continued distribution in the way they’ve done for yrs. Further, these are not decisions City Hall should outsource.” Dennard told the Cincinnati Business Courier she was “not happy about (the removal) at all.”

After 3CDC’s initial messages in early April, Frank and Vissman discussed the situation back and forth via email. 3CDC at one point offered space for some CityBeat boxes in their garages, but that solution would not allow for the same level of distribution the paper has currently, publisher Frank says. On April 29, Vissman responded to a list of CityBeat distribution points with a message that seemed to indicate that boxes that are regularly filled with publications, such as CityBeat’s, would not be removed. On May 20, a representative from 3CDC emailed Frank to notify him that a box on Second Street would be moved temporarily to make way for the filming of TV program American Ninja Warrior. “We will place it back once filming and set breakdown is complete,” that email concludes. Frank says that box was never replaced, however. That email was the last communication from 3CDC until CityBeat delivery drivers noticed the missing boxes downtown, the publisher says. After emails from Frank, Vissman acknowledged that 3CDC removed the boxes.

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Abdoulaye Sow fled Mauritania for the United States in 2001. After scrimping by for a few years in New York to pay off the legal costs of getting asylum, he heeded advice from Mauritanians who came previously and headed to the Ohio State University. He received a degree that landed him a job in the banking industry, spent a few years in Texas, then came to Cincinnati to settle down. Now, he owns a home in the Cincinnati suburbs he shares with his wife and two children. Sow’s other job — after his full-time gig and role as a family man — is activism. He works for a group called the Mauritanian Network for Human Rights in the United States, where he advocates for the rights of people like Aissata. Sow says the cause has become ever more vital over the past few years. “Everything started to change when the Trump administration took office,” he says. “Arrests started increasing a lot. Under the previous administration, even if a judge didn’t grant you asylum, usually they would give you a work authorization. With that you could do anything anyone else could do. You could work, raise your family, do the important things.” Under the Obama administration, which generally prioritized the deportation of those who had committed crimes, people from Mauritania could check in roughly once a year, and as long as they steered clear of legal trouble, they were issued authorization to work in the United States.

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n 1987, when Aissata was 12, her father fled their native Mauritania to escape arrest by the government for his racial identity and political activism. He left quickly, without even the time to say goodbye. She didn’t see him again for 19 years as he hid — first in neighboring Senegal, and then in the United States, where he arrived in 2000 as a refugee. Aissata, who asked that we not use her last name, came to America later, in 2008, following one of her brothers to Greater Cincinnati. He was granted asylum. But because the process can be frustratingly arbitrary and hinges on an intricate succession of paperwork and appointments, Aissata never was. Others share her fate: sometimes because they relied on friends who were not immigration attorneys, sometimes because judges saw a series of similar stories about the conditions in Mauritania and got suspicious. Now, there is the distinct possibility that an ocean and politics will again come between Aissata and her father as she faces removal proceedings by United States immigration authorities enforcing strict new policies by the Trump administration. If she is picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, she will likely be deported back to the coastal west African country where she experienced menacing and beatings from government security forces, where black residents like her are still denied basic civil rights and where the United Nations says an estimated 10 to 20 percent of the population is held in hereditary slavery. Ohio has the densest population of people from Mauritania in the United States — roughly 6,000, by some estimates, including 3,000 in Columbus and another large population on the suburban fringes of Cincinnati. Many didn’t know each other when they came here, but they have knitted together a community, attending local mosques and sometimes celebrating at barbecues and evening get-togethers. They married, had children, started businesses, bought houses.

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But under the Trump administration, people without criminal records go to check in and get arrested. Even when they are not immediately detained, the message is often clear: You are not welcome. “I went to the ICE office in Columbus to try and renew my work permit, but I wasn’t treated well," Aissata says. "I was told I need to go back to my country, that they don’t want me here. Ever since I’ve been here, I’ve never been treated like that." The shift is easy to see in the numbers: Only 10 Mauritanians were deported by the federal government in 2016, the last year of the Obama administration. Last year, 98 were sent back to Mauritania, and many others were detained. Almost all were Ohioans. Many congressional Democrats blasted the detentions and deportations last year, but to little effect. Other Ohio-based groups, including a Columbus-based advocacy organization called the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, are working on advocating and providing legal help for black Mauritanians fearing deportation. "What Trump did was prioritize deporting those kinds of people," says Ohio Immigrant Alliance Director Lynn Tramonte. "It was an easy way to ramp up deportations. The way it works is, an officer makes a phone call and asks an immigrant to come into the office, and then slaps handcuffs on them. It’s easier to do that than it is to investigate drug cartels.”

Those who end up in holding facilities often face a torturous path back to a country where they may face violence or imprisonment. Many experts and activists like Sow and Tramonte say Mauritania often withholds identity and travel documents from black citizens, making it difficult for the U.S. to send them back. That, in turn, leads to months-long stays in detention facilities here. Attorneys have been able to help at least three Mauritanian men who were detained gain release by working to reopen their asylum cases. But those releases came only after they had been in holding facilities for between nine and 13 months. Aissata, too, has an attorney working to reopen her asylum case.

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Julie LeMaster is one of several local attorneys who have been representing Ohioans from Mauritania detained for months on end in various Ohio holding facilities. She says one of her clients has faced a punishing limbo as the U.S. has tried to deport him. “Unfortunately, under this administration, they’ve made it easier to hold people indefi nitely,” she says. The man, who has four children here in the U.S., was originally picked up by ICE last August when he went for his regular immigration check-in. Since that time, he’s been to Butler County, Morrow County and back, then up to a facility in Youngstown.

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country. What we’ve been hearing from people who have been sent back is that they have been arrested and thrown back in jail. They’re told to have no status.” Those jails are especially brutal in Mauritania. The central prison in the capital city of Nouakchott held 943 people last year, according to the U.S. State Department — almost three times its capacity. Ten inmates died in that facility that year. CityBeat reported last year on one case — the detention and eventual deportation of Issa Sao of Forest Park. Sao has a U.S.born child and a wife here. He was detained last May during an ICE check-in and sent back to Mauritania five months later. Another man who was deported recently briefly corresponded with CityBeat via an encrypted messaging service. He says he immediately ran into trouble when he returned to Mauritania and has since fled to Senegal. In effect, those detained and deported become people without a country, since Mauritania often does not recognize them as citizens. That puts them in grave danger, activists like Sow say — and leaves gaping holes in the communities they’ve helped establish here in Greater Cincinnati.

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“He seems very stoic about it,” LeMaster says about her client. “But it is hard. I know his kids are always wondering what is going to happen, what’s next in his case. They’ve been separated for a long time and it’s hard for families to get to visit, especially when you have to travel several hours to go and see parents who are detained. I think they’ve only been able to see him when he’s in Butler County.” When he was young, the man and his family were kicked out of Mauritania by armed troops who warned them not to come back to the country or they would be killed. They went to live in a refugee camp in Senegal before coming to the United States. Now, he may be sent back — depending on whether Mauritania will issue travel documents. The Trump administration has leaned hard on Mauritania to issue those documents, and the country seems to have found a workaround that allows them to appease the U.S. while keeping deportees as second-class citizens. “Mauritania won’t issue passports, but they’ll issue this other document (called a laissez-passer) for 90 days,” LeMaster says. “It doesn’t grant any status except allowing them into the

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Those who can have sold their businesses or houses, cashed in retirement plans, and fled to Canada, Sow says. Those who cannot hold their breath. “You really start to feel the hit,” Sow says. “A lot of the people who are being deported are family people. They have kids, American kids. They have mortgages and 401(k)s. They’ve been paying taxes for 10, 20 years. Those people have started to vanish. It’s really hurtful to see a dad put on a plane and not come back. We’re sorry to see them go, and I don’t know what we can do.”

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Given her precarious status, Aissata is afraid she could disappear, too. She recounts how she found herself in this position as she sits in her apartment at the center of a maze-like complex in suburban Cincinnati where a series of identical red brick buildings echo around a slightly overgrown courtyard. The inside of Aissata’s unit is simple and neat. An entertainment center stands in front of a table piled with a backpack and some books. An ornate mirror sits leaned against the wall, ready for hanging. A few photos adorn the walls, and two nice, plush couches frame the room. A silver tea set common in Mauritania sits, ready for use. It is a calm, quiet place to wait. “In Mauritania, I was treated much worse than I have been here," she says. "I’m just grateful for the time I’ve had here. I’m not angry at anyone or anything like that. I’ve been taken care of — my back pain, my injuries, my prescriptions. I can’t get those things in Mauritania. I just have to be patient.” Much of the pain and medical need Aissata has experienced comes from beatings she received by government security forces in the years after her father left Mauritania. The clouds that were gathering as he fled in 1987 darkened into a full-on storm of nationalism against black Mauritanians two years later. The French, who colonized Mauritania in 1903, handed over the keys to a group of Arab elites in 1960. The country of about 3.5 million people is about the size of Texas and New Mexico combined, and though roughly three quarters of it is desert, it holds considerable natural gas and oil deposits as well as lucrative fishing off its coast. After the French left, Mauritania passed from the hands of one strongman government to the next over the intervening years, with some promising, but never delivering, democratic reforms. Under those governments, black Mauritanians experienced a denial of civil rights, violence and sometimes slavery. Tension between the ruling class and black Mauritanians continued

to grow until a 1989 border dispute between the country and neighboring Senegal erupted into chaotic violence directed at Mauritania’s black population. Although estimates from organizations like Human Rights Watch and the U.N. differ, between 50,000 and 100,000 black Mauritanians were forcibly removed from the country. Others fled. Still others — it isn’t known how many — were killed. “What has happened there is unbelievable,” Sow says. “We don’t know how many mass graves are in my country. They are still finding them. People just disappeared. There are families still there asking for justice.”

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As tension built in the late 1980s, poverty crept into the void left when Aissata’s father fled. He had been a high-achieving engineer for a mineral extraction company, and active in political efforts to win more rights for black Mauritanians. With him gone, Aissata’s mother struggled on in the capital city of Nouakchott, finding it harder to make ends meet, to send her children to school, to live a normal existence. Soon, she had lost her government administrative job, perhaps in retaliation for her husband’s political activities. Security forces periodically began stopping by the family’s house to ask questions and root through their things. The government officers claimed Aissata’s father was still in Mauritania, still causing trouble for the government. The visits became violent. Aissata was beaten, injured, traumatized. “They would search our rooms to see if we were hiding anything,” she says. “We had real fear there. Because of that, I developed some mental issues. That fear is still following me.” Then it got worse as the government stoked mobs to violence against black Mauritanians in the wake of the border dispute with Senegal. Aissata witnessed the dark days, she says, including images that are burned into her memory forever. “Seeing the killings, the bodies in street during the violence of 1989, it really affected me,” she says. “I was a child at the time. Once, I saw a woman carrying a baby, and a mob took the baby by the head and killed it in front of her.” Aissata still exhibits signs of post-traumatic stress disorder from this time — facial tics and unbearable anxiety — as well as nerve damage caused by the beatings she received. Treatment in the U.S. has helped. But lately, the shadow of her potential removal has hung long over her. Compounding that is the fact she was stripped of her work authorization by immigration authorities, meaning she can no longer work the warehouse jobs that once gave her a source of income and a feeling of independence. Now, she says, she must depend on her brother for financial help.

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In many ways, geopolitics and human rights experts say the conditions in Mauritania have not improved much. A series of military coups has kept the country unstable and politically unpredictable, and, though the country said it was making moves to repatriate some expelled black Mauritanians beginning in 2008, that program ended in 2012. By the Mauritanian government's own numbers, roughly 24,000 moved back. Sow believes more than 300,000 people were forced out of the country over time after the violence of 1989. Most experts agree that slavery persists in Mauritania, mostly in the rural areas dominated by wealthy landowners who have ties to the government. Officially, the government declared slavery abolished in 1981, making Mauritania the last country to do so. The practice of owning other people, however, wasn’t made actually illegal until 2007, and since then, the government has successfully prosecuted only one slave owner. However, officials there maintain that slavery is a thing of the past. Meanwhile, the United Nations estimates that between 10 and 20 percent of the country’s population — between 340,000 and 680,000 people — are enslaved. The United States knows about the conditions in the country. “Conflict among White Moor, Black Moor, and Black African Mauritanian groups, centering on unequal access to power, government, education, and land tenure, continues to be a major challenge to national unity,” the U.S. State Department dryly notes in travel advisories about the country. “Slavery, and the repatriation and compensation of victims from the 89-90 purges of Afro-Mauritanians… are still sociopolitical issues awaiting resolution.” Another human rights report from the State Department clearly lines out the slavery practices that have made the country notorious in human rights circles. “Enslaved persons suffered from traditional chattel slavery, including forced labor and sexual exploitation," it reads. The Trump administration last year curtailed the country’s trade relationship with the U.S. over continuing slavery there, a move Sow and other activists have applauded. But that makes the push to deport Mauritanians all the more puzzling and infuriating, activists say. “It’s still a chaotic situation in Mauritania,” Sow says. “Hearing that the Trump administration is deporting people back there — I couldn’t believe it. And the administration acknowledged the problem there. How can you sanction a country for practicing slavery, but send people back there? It’s crazy.” As national and international geopolitical drama plays on, and as at least 13 of her countrymates sit in prisons in Ohio and elsewhere, Aissata waits. She recently risked a trip to a major U.S. city to visit her father, whom she talks about often. He is more than 80 now, and his eyesight is almost totally gone. “He’s getting older,” she says. “I try to see him as much as I can. I go there, and sometimes he comes here.” She desperately wants some kind of stability, she says, a sense she will be able to continue on with the life she has paused here. But the fear lingers that she will be thrown back into the chaos and discrimination she fled. “It’s really stressful,” she says. “But I feel like there is nothing I can do about it. Anything could happen when I go back. They could confiscate my documentation so I can’t go anywhere. They could throw me in prison. They could kill me.” For Sow, that is unconscionable. “These are people who do everything good citizens do,” Sow says. “The only problem is they haven’t been granted asylum.”

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libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, this tale of star-crossed lovers from dueling families is sung in French with projected translations. Soprano Nicole Cabell sings Juliet to her Romeo, rising opera star Matthew White, in his CO debut. Called “sparkling and stylish” with “captivating visuals” by the Twin Cities Arts Reader, this production — rated PG — features classic and opulent costuming. After Saturday’s performance of Romeo and Juliet, Cincinnati Opera is celebrating its 13th-annual Pride Night at 10:30 p.m. with a party featuring drinks, music, snacks and décor by Joe Rigotti; tickets for Pride Night are $30. 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday. $35-$190. Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, cincinnatiopera.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO MUSIC: Esham A pioneering figure in Detroit Hip Hop, Esham’s musical life began in the late 1980s, as he formulated a gritty,

dark and aggressive style that laid the groundwork for Motor City big-timers from Eminem to Insane Clown Posse, while providing inspiration for countless others in the broader Hip Hop underground. With a switchblade-sharp delivery and viscerally violent and raw imagery in his lyrics, Esham is the self-proclaimed originator of Acid Rap and he was also an early influence on the Horrorcore genre. The MC began as a successful DIY artist (starting his Reel Life Productions label when he was just 15) and his career has taken him through label stints with the TVTdistributed imprint Overcore and ICP’s Psychopathic Records. Through it all, Esham has been unwaveringly prolific in terms of recorded output, featuring with other artists (including Kool Keith and ICP) and rarely going more than a couple of years between his own releases. Beginning with 1989’s Boomin’

Words from Hell, his solo discography includes more than 30 albums, EPs, mixtapes and compilations. Last year Esham released the full-length Dead of Winter and just a couple of months ago he dropped the single “Under Surveillance,” on which he growls, “They want me dead but I am not/I can’t rock ice, I’m too damn hot.” On his current Afraid of the Dark tour, Esham is performing with a live Hard Rock band. 8:30 p.m. Thursday. $12; $15 day of. Northside Yacht Club, 4227 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub.com. — MIKE BREEN COMEDY: Bang! Pow! Comics & Comics It’s been quite a year for locally based comedian Tabari McCoy. “I was recently in Oklahoma and Kansas doing shows,” he says, “and I’m back home for a short stint before I hit the road to do shows in Little Rock.” Earlier this year he featured for both Tig Notaro

and Jen Kirkman at the Taft Theatre. He also continues to host Bang! Pow! Comics & Comics, the comedy show held once a month at the Up, Up & Away comic book store in Blue Ash. “We might have some promo items and such that comic book and movie fans might like as an enticement to come out to the show,” he says. “And, of course, you’ll hear six good comics from throughout the Tri-State.” With all this success, it may be harder for McCoy to keep up his guise as the “black Charlie Brown” — at least one would think. “Oh, if only you knew. It’s actually getting much easier, sadly.” But at least he can laugh about it. 7-9 p.m. Thursday. Free but tipping is encouraged. Up, Up & Away Comics, 5885 Pfeiffer Road, Blue Ash, facebook.com/ uuablueash. — P.F. WILSON

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EVENT: Five local artists create a Pop-Up Gallery at Brick OTR. See feature on page 32.

EVENT: Panegyri Greek Festival Spend the weekend in Greece without paying for an international flight. The Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Finneytown is hosting its annual celebration of this ancient culture, complete with exhibits, cooking demos, live music, carnival rides and folk dancing. You can also munch on myriad Greek eats. Get in line in the main hall to take home a box of baklava, kataifi, kourambiethes and melomakarona handmade by church patrons; or get your fill of Greek pizza, full Greek dinners, baklava sundaes, Yia Yia’s mezethakia and Skyline outside. Don’t skip the taverna, with Greek wine by the glass and bottle. 5-11 p.m. Friday; 3-11 p.m. Saturday; 1-8 p.m. Sunday. $2; free 12 and under. Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 7000 Winton Road, Finneytown, panegyri.com. — EMMA STIEFEL CONTINUES ON PAGE 26

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EVENT: Cincinnati Negroni Week Feeling thirsty? Have a cocktail for a cause. The Negroni is an Italian cocktail made of one part gin, one part vermouth, one part Campari and garnished with an orange peel. Negroni Week is an initiative launched by liqueur manufacturer Campari and Imbibe Magazine in 2013 to, yes, celebrate the cocktail, but also raise funds for a variety of charitable causes. Negroni Week is now hosted in more than 10,000 bars, restaurants, etc. around the world and has raised more than $2 million. Cincinnati Negroni Week takes place through June 30 and participating venues will be offering special Negroni variations for charities of their choice. For example, Sotto will have six different Negroni and Negroni-inspired cocktails to benefit Slow Food International, Lonely Pine Steakhouse will be slinging a mezcal Negroni to benefit the Arbor Day Foundation, LOCOBA by Platform will have four different Negroni variations to benefit Lambda Legal and so on. To find venues participating in the rest of Negroni Week, visit negroniweek.com/venues and search “Cincinnati.” — MAIJA ZUMMO

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MUSIC: Car Seat Headrest heads to Bogart’s on their Twin Fantasy Summer Tour with Naked Giants. See feature on page 39.

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CLASS: ART: Cincinnati Gateway Afghanistan: Revisited at Weston Art Gallery An Evening Discover the origin of Cincinnati’s of Cuisine, famous flying pigs. Sculptor Andrew Culture and Leicester’s “Cincinnati Gateway” Conversation sculpture was created in 1988 as the There’s more entry adornment to Sawyer Point’s to Afghanistan Bicentennial Commons. Controverthan the mostly sial at the time of its unveiling, the bad press it flying pig statue is marking its 30th gets in America, anniversary of inspiring a city’s and Dean’s identity. The Minneapolis-based Mediterranean Leicester has returned to the city Imports and to build a new installation at the Stir want to gallery, with photo documentation of share it with the Gateway project and others. On you. The Sunday, art historian Erika Doss will landlocked give a lecture about Leicester’s and country is other artists’ approaches to “public surrounded art and public space.” Read more by China, Iran on page 31. Opening reception 6-8 and the Indian p.m. Friday. Through Aug. 25. Free subcontinent, admission. Weston Art Gallery, 650 a location that Walnut St., Downtown, cincinnatihas made it arts.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO a nexus of trade routes and cultural EVENT: Urban Artifact exchange Pickle Eating Contest for years. Its position as a Urban Artifact is celebrating cosmopolitan crossroads the release of its deliciously has contributed to its briny Pickle Gose, a dill amazing cuisine, which you can try at this special pickle brew wherein every homemade dinner prepared 30-barrel batch is made by an Afghani family who with 1,000 pounds of recently immigrated to cucumbers, nine pounds Cincinnati. Enjoy an evening of sea salt, two pounds of of nuanced conversation fresh dill and 567 grams of and community building coriander. And yes, it tastes with a delicious meal. 6-9 like pickles. Brews went p.m. Saturday. Tickets on sale in six pack cans on start at $65. Ascension June 25, but the brewery & Holy Trinity Episcopal is marking the occasion Church, 334 Burns Ave., with a now-annual pickleWyoming, facebook.com/ eating contest. Starting culturecusineconversation. at 1 p.m. on Saturday, up — EMMA STIEFEL to 40 contestants will be competing to see who

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EVENT: Hyde Park Blast Join the fight against cancer by staying active. The Hyde Park Blast offers events for people of all running and cycling skill levels, opening with a four-mile run/walk at 7:30 a.m., followed by a kids’ fun run at 9 a.m. and a cycling race at 1 p.m. Celebrate a successful workout by indulging in the first ever Beer Wine Food Festival at 3 p.m. featuring live music, food and more than 60 types of beer and wine. Pro cyclers close out the day when they take on Hyde Park Square at 8:30 p.m. Proceeds benefit The Cure Starts Now. 7:30 a.m. Saturday. $20-$75 registration. Hyde Park Square, facebook.com/HPBlast. — NICK SULLIVAN

EVENT: Anime Ohio Anime lovers should do their best Naruto run and Pokémon GO to this event. Guests include voice actors from Pokémon, Yu-GiOh, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Naruto among other popular anime programs. There will also be workshops, panels and vendors, including comic artists. Cosplay guests will also be joining, so don’t be afraid to show up dressed as your favorite characters. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday. $15. Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road, Sharonville, animeohio.com. — NICK SULLIVAN

MUSIC: Newgrass masters Béla Fleck & The Flecktones head to the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 42. MUSIC: Dan Stuart of Green on Red supports his extraordinary The Unfortunate Demise of Marlowe Billings at MOTR Pub. See Sound Advice on page 42. EVENT: Adult Swim at Ziegler Pool Gone are the noisy kids and splashing — at least on Sunday night. Ziegler Pool hosts Adult Swim this weekend for those 21 and up. There will be a bar with brews from Rhinegeist and a DJ on-site so rest assured your night will go swimmingly. 7:30-10 p.m. $10. Ziegler Park, 1322 Sycamore St., Over-theRhine, zieglerpark.org. — ERIN GARDNER

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Inside Play Library’s New Main Street Storefront Started in 2016 as a pop-up in People Liberty’s Globefront gallery space, the Play Library just moved to a larger location in OTR BY M A R L E N A TO E B B E N

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her two daughters — ages 2 and 4 — to lead a craft class on Friday mornings. Adults can look forward to an evening macramé class with food and wine. Recently, the library also held their first Beer ‘n Board Games night, where for $15 you could hang out, drink brews and play games with friends and strangers alike. Since they’re still new to Main Street, Play Library’s Chairman of the Board of Directors Rick Ruskin says they’re still focusing on creating a solid base as an organization. (Ruskin has been on the board of directors for Play Library for about two years but was recently promoted to chairman.) It’s the outpouring of positive feedback from the community for Play Library that inspires him to help build it into an organization that will, hopefully, last well into the future. Ruskin has been working in the toy industry for nearly 20 years and has racked up experience at iconic Cincinnati toy companies like Kenner. He’s happy with the move and the continued goal of cultivating connection. “I think just anything that is going to bring people together (is important)” executive director Sherman says. “I think we’re really missing a lot of that connection these days.” The Play Library is located at 1306 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. For more info, visit playlibrary.org.

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Throughout the space, the walls are decorated like a giant yet-to-be-filled-in coloring book, with variations of the Play Library’s cartoon robot mascot chilling in different settings. Sherman notes that while patrons do come in and ask if the walls are ever going to be colored in, the black and white design is on purpose: the monochromatic walls and furniture allow the toys and games to be part of the room’s decor. “I wanted the space to be fun, but what was equally important to me was that it was clean,” founder Fischer says of the design. “I didn’t want it to look like some messy nursery.” If basic chairs and tables aren’t your thing, you can also take a seat on a swing or curl up in a dreamy window seat. Member Susan Angel has been bringing her granddaughter to the Play Library for about two years. “I would describe it as a wonderland for games and toys and make believe,” she says. “I doubt there’s one child that is able to be in here with a frown. My granddaughter never wants to leave.” Angel believes the space acts as a nice retreat for children where they can simply play and bond with others. Beyond the toys, Fischer emphasizes the library’s classes and extracurricular activities. For example, at Craft Time with Ruby and Frances, a mother comes in with

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she maintains her role as board vice chair while Joni Sherman oversees operations locally as the executive director of Play Library. Sherman says she has already seen an increase of foot traffic at the new Main Street space. There are three different levels of membership at the Play Library: $12 per month allows you to visit during normal business hours and play as long as you want; $15 takes it a step further, allowing you to borrow up to three games at a time. You can also opt to buy a punch card; for $20 you can take your family for five playdates. One unlimited family play date costs $5. The mostly volunteer-run library is for all ages and geared toward all socioeconomic levels. No one is turned away if they can’t afford a membership or they happen to forget their wallet that day — the “Play It Forward” program uses each paid membership to provide play tokens and access to those who can’t afford it. Upon entering the new Main Street storefront, you’ll see the adult board game section first, with games like Cranium, 5 Second Rule and Settlers of Catan. Walk further and you’ll enter the kids’ space, which boasts a variety of toys and games with classics including Payday, The Game of Life and Clue. There’s also a play kitchen, a dress-up section, a chair made of stuffed animals and more, like the Cincinnati Toy History Museum.

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2016 People’s Liberty Globe grantee project, the Play Library — which loans out and houses toys, board games and more fun — expanded this month, opening the doors to its new space at 1306 Main St. in Over-the-Rhine on June 9. The location represents a Cincinnati success story and the beginning of a new chapter for the nonprofit. The Play Library’s origins can be traced back to the woman behind the concept: Julia Fischer, founder and current board vice chair. After spending a decade working in the toy industry in Los Angeles, Fischer moved to Cincinnati with the seeds of a business plan for a toy lending library in the back of her mind. And when she caught wind of local philanthropic lab People’s Liberty and their efforts to invest in individuals with “bold ideas,” she applied for and received one of their Globe Grants. The grant awarded her $15,000 and the opportunity to set up the Play Library for two months inside of People’s Liberty’s Globefront gallery space across from Findlay Market. But when the time came to close up shop, an issue arose: people kept coming to the storefront thinking “PL” stood for Play Library, rather than People’s Liberty. It was then that Fischer realized there was enough support in the community to make the library permanent. “People were upset that (the Globefront) wasn’t the Play Library so I realized I should do it for real,” Fischer says. And she did. In 2017 she relocated the Play Library to a storefront at 1517 Elm St. in Over-the-Rhine. And after two years there, the library moved again to a new and larger location on Main Street, with a grand opening that coincided with June’s Second Sunday on Main event. Fischer has since moved back to Los Angeles to work for Bad Robot Studios, but

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Ask Curtis Davis what he’s into or what he put Davis on the map of international tries to convey through his art, and he’ll collectors. In 2017, four of his pieces were reply succinctly: “Everything.” He’s not displayed at the center of the summer being curt. The Price Hill-based artist’s exhibition for Belgian gallery Sorry We’re body of work really does seem to encomClosed. Perched on a large, white table, his pass the entire breadth of his imagination. cake-like assemblages never looked so In his studio space at Northside’s VisionInstagrammable, their dreamy pinks and aries + Voices, a nonprofit organization blues floating in space. that provides resources to more than 125 artists with disabilities, Davis opens a large manila envelope crammed with at least 50 pen drawings, all of which he says he’s produced over the last few days. “This is a Christmas tree,” he says. “This is a jellyfish. This is some flowers. This is the ghost.” He methodically introduces me to his work, piece by piece, patterns becoming apparent as they’re spread across the table. Davis is smitten with plant life, favoring logs and floral scenes. He draws portraits with uniformly mysterious expressions, eyes veering to the right as if there’s a secret being kept outside the confines of the page. He’s also compelled by certain numbers: 33 and 35 Artist Curtis Davis are lightly penciled through each PHOTO: COURTESY OF VISIONARIES + VOICES piece, adding subtle accents. More developed pieces surround us. Massive sculptures coated Cullen says that Davis changes the in countless layers of paint loom like color of his pieces every few days, often colorful shadows next to portraits housed after periods of contemplation in V + V’s in complex, collage-like frames. His output backyard garden. is a language of its own: a vast network “He comes in every day and kind of has a of familiar symbols that create surreal ritual,” Cullen says. “Some days he focuses dreamscapes when combined. on more 2D work, and — I don’t want to Come June 27, a select portion of this say he puts a layer of paint on every day — work will be featured in New York City’s but yesterday, for example, he painted a White Columns gallery and, thanks to a sculpture of a girl.” crowdfunding campaign conducted by “Hell yeah — I painted her blue, man,” V + V, Davis will get to come to New York Davis interjects, laughing. with it. After White Columns confirmed Davis’ When I first meet Davis for coffee, he upcoming solo exhibition, V + V board wears a paint-splattered Dallas Cowboys member Kate Harrow set up a GoFundMe cap and cuffed cargo pants. He’s joined by page on June 11 to help cover travel V + V’s exhibition director Skip Cullen and expenses in order for Davis to attend development director Jim Neidhard. opening night: $1,500 would mail his art to As of that Friday morning, V + V had New York City; $2,500 would be enough to crowdfunded more than $3,500 in order to board Davis and his independent provider; send Davis and others to the opening of his and the final goal of $3,500 would allow for solo exhibition in New York. His show will a staff member to go with them. By June add to White Columns’s 15-year history of 20, the page had already eclipsed all three collaborating with programs that supgoals. port artists with disabilities; the show will As the opening approaches, Davis focus on Davis’ sculptural work, which is continues to hone his craft, working from produced by gradually covering salvaged about 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on weekdays as he objects like logs, rocks and dolls with coats churns out sketches, creates glitter-coated of paint, each layer a different color. candelabras and teaches the occasional It was Davis’ found-object work in parclass at V + V’s storefront in Oakley. ticular that caught the eye of White Col“When I get started,” he tells me “I get umns director and chief curator Matthew finished.” Higgs in July 2016. Higgs initially made the Curtis Davis’ work will be on display at trip to V + V’s studio to meet visual poet New York’s White Columns gallery June Dale Jackson, but he was so intrigued by 27-Sept. 14. More info at whitecolumns.org Davis’ process that he made three Instaand visionariesandvoices.com. gram posts of the artist in action. Higgs’ sizeable following helped

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When Pigs First Flew in Cincinnati BY M O R G A N Z U M B I EL

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pigs resulted in a public hearing at city hall. Fierce supporters of the sculpture wore pig snouts and brought in piglets under their arms. Councilman David Mann even brought in a pig from the Cincinnati Zoo in a show of support. In the end, the pigs prevailed. “I never thought there’d be a referendum on it,” Leicester says. “It was a wonderful thing to witness. It was like the story of the ugly duckling. It was accepted by everybody. All the stores in town started selling flying pig paraphernalia.” “It’s still something that people cherish,” he continues. “It’s a real thrill to see a public artwork having that kind of longevity and being kind of embedded in the history of Cincinnati. It’s a quirky picture — the flying pig — but it was born from the history of the city.” Looking at it now, you’d never guess “Cincinnati Gateway” almost never stood. Fiberglass winged pigs still decorate many of the city’s street corners, and the farm animal was immortalized by the start of the Flying Pig Marathon in 1999. Three decades later, Leicester hopes that the exhibition will remind Cincinnatians of the sculpture’s legacy. “It’s gradually showing its age, but there’s still time to fix it” he says. “It needs a coat of paint in some areas. The smokestacks have faded… Like most outdoor public sculpture, this project is subject to the elements, and it’s been there a long time. It needs some tender love and care. I’m hoping that this exhibition will remind people of its value.”

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In 1988, Cincinnati celebrated its 200th anniversary with the construction of the 22-acre Bicentennial Commons at Sawyer Point along the Ohio River. When the commons were dedicated to the city’s citizens on June 4 of that year, the first Cincinnatians to enter the park already knew what they’d find there. The “Cincinnati Gateway” sculpture at the park’s entrance had been hotly debated in the months prior, but now it stood as the shining beacon of a proud Midwestern city. Marking the entrance to the park were four riverboat smokestacks. Out of those bronze towers rose a host of triumphant, winged pigs ready to take flight into the air above. The Weston Art Gallery will celebrate the 30th anniversary of this iconic sculpture — and the Minneapolis-based artist who made pigs fly — in the new exhibition Andrew Leicester: Cincinnati Gateway Revisited, which opens at 6 p.m. Friday, June 28. Noted art historian Erika Doss will present a free lecture in conversation with Leicester on Sunday at the 21c Museum Hotel. The sculpture is deeply rooted in the history of Cincinnati and harkens back to when the city was known as “Porkopolis.” As the largest pork packer in the world, pigs ruled the Queen City and the rest of the world took note. “Several European writers who came to visit Cincinnati complained about the godawful smell and the waste,” Leicester says over the phone. “The pigs were roaming free in the streets.” “Cincinnati Gateway” is in the same spot where the Miami-Erie Canal once connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River. The canal came through the northern part of Cincinnati, making its way down Central Avenue and turning right on Eggleston Avenue before flowing out into the river. “At the top of Eggleston (Avenue) were a large number of slaughterhouses along the canal,” Leicester says. “They would tip all the blood and the offal from the day’s proceedings into the canal. So the canal was literally red with the blood of these thousands of pigs. It got the nickname ‘The Red River.’ ” “The early prosperity of Cincinnati really hinges on the poor little pig,” he continues. So Leicester decided that the “Cincinnati Gateway” should honor the animal that made the city famous. “Popping out of the top are the spirits of the dead pigs with their angelic wings, standing on their hind legs, and they’re singing the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus to all their dead brethren,” he says. Not everyone agreed that it was the best way to represent Cincinnati. “There were some people on the (city) council that felt that highlighting this early prominence of the city with a pig didn’t fit with their idea of trying to brand Cincinnati as a high-tech city,” he says. The highly publicized debate over the

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Brick OTR Hosts a Pop-Up Art Gallery BY M AC K EN ZI E M A N L E Y

Over the span of three days, five artists will take hold of Brick OTR — a Vine Street storefront in constant evolution that houses shopping pop-ups — and transform it into the Pop-Up Gallery. An extension of MORTAR, a local nonprofit with the aim of enabling and empowering underserved entrepreneurs and businesses, Brick gives independent businesses and local artists the chance to test their products. And this isn’t the first time Pop-Up Gallery has set up shop in Brick; a gallery cropped up there last November consisting of work from mostly of the same artists. This time, artists include Matt Meyung, Ryan Hill, Sara Cole, Di Del Pilar Cendales and Linnoir Rich. “They were amazing with us,” Cole says of Brick. “And we’ve actually gone back a few times to see some of the other shops because they’ll have people with clothing or purses, or even people just teaching classes there. It’s right there in the heart of everything.” You can peruse the five artists’ work at Brick starting Friday, June 28 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; the shop will be open Saturday and Sunday during the same hours. Aside from Brick, the group hosted a pop-up gallery at Braxton Brewing Company last September — their first joint effort — and at Covington’s Roebling Point Books & Coffee this May. All Northern Kentuckians, each artist produces their own handmade and unique goods ranging in style and subject, from Cole’s reclaimed pallet and barn wood works detailed with cut aluminum — depicting everything from a cozy bonfire to the Roebling Bridge — to Rich’s dreamy yet realistic paintings. The thread running between all of their art? The use of recycled and reclaimed materials. Take the work of Meyung, for example; he makes furniture and decor from salvaged wood. Sift through his pieces and you’ll find tables and chairs with Midcentury Modern flair. Pink-and-purple-hued desert skies, mountainscapes, twee foxes and wide-eyed dogs populate his woodcut paintings. Much of his work employs the process of Lichtenberg, also known as fractal burning, which creates images on wood by using high-voltage electricity. Then there’s Cendales; through her business Wisdom Tree she sells handcrafted jewelry made from organic materials like dried fruit, nuts and leaves. “Actually, I’m probably one of her biggest clients,” Cole says with a laugh. “She’ll make pieces out of lemons or limes. She’ll even have pumpkin seeds; everything is seasonal and very colorful. And it’s all sealed so you don’t worry about anything breaking down.” Rounding out the group is local photographer Hill of Ryan Hill ImageNationS Photography, who crafts his own frames

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for each of his pieces. His photos often play with light, shadow and movement — sometimes seen through swirls of motion, other times crisp and clear — that capture everything from foggy Cincinnati mornings along the banks of the river to nighttime traffic and golden-hued farmland. According to Cole, the group first came together by meeting one another at local fairs and festivals. “You form a friendship because you do spend a lot of time standing around and a lot of us started collaborating,” Cole says. “That’s kind of how it went from there; we became friends, and the Pop-Up Gallery started because we thought, ‘Well, we’ve done enough of these. We’ll see if we can plan one on our own.’ ” All the promotion comes straight from the artists themselves and profits from the three-day pop-up will go completely back to the artists. Cole adds that — because they’re not attached to a larger brand — they depend on one another to get the word out about the events. In part, she says that, as an artist, it feels rewarding to interact with the larger community — both in terms of connecting alongside other creatives, but also with customers. During their previous stint at Brick last fall, Cole recalls that they would take turns standing outside encouraging passersby to walk in; each artist sold well that weekend. “It feels special knowing that you’ve made something with your own hands,” Cole says, “and that someone you just met that day is going to hang it at their house.” They’re looking to do more events in the future, alternating between a shop and a gallery format to give people a variety, and hopefully, Cole notes, their tiny group can expand to include more local artists. The Pop-Up Gallery will be open June 28-30 at Brick OTR (1327 Vine St., Overthe-Rhine). To stay updated on new popups, visit facebook.com/popupgalleryart.

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As the saying goes, it takes a village to raise new circle of favorite toys — and proves a child, but within our First World social instrumental in helping her adjust to order, Americans rarely subscribe to the her big first day. He provides her with notion as much as other communities the tools to create a brand new toy, Forky around the globe. I’m old enough to have (Tony Hale). Made of discarded pieces of grown up in a loving enclave of Southern plastic, wood and pipe cleaners, the latter black women linked by bonds of friendship struggles with his emerging role as a friend stronger than blood. My mother’s friends and protector because he only sees himself were her sisters and all of their kids as trash. merged into one big band of siblings. We loved, supported and held each other tight. I was somewhat surprised to find myself contemplating such ideas during the fourth installment of Pixar’s Toy Story series. Honestly, did we need another movie considering how neatly the trilogy had wrapped up? With an overarching narrative about the purpose toys have in the lives of children, the story can be traced back to co-writer and director Woody and Forky in Toy Story 4 John Lasseter’s first take P H O T O : P I X A R / W A LT D I S N E Y S T U D I O S on Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks in full Henry Fonda mode), the cowboy doll who is a young Thus, Woody becomes a parent to both boy’s —Andy’s — center of attention until Bonnie and Forky. It is the job of watching a spaceman named Buzz Lightyear (Tim over Forky that takes center stage in Toy Allen) enters the scene. Story 4. The movie explores the lengths The Pixar animation team showed us that Woody is willing to go to protect the evolution of the relationship between this wayward toy and to instill a sense of these two alpha dolls and how the everpurpose in Forky that will lead him into growing collection of toys in Andy’s room a fuller role in the village centered on formed a powerful and necessary family Bonnie. unit. By the third installment, the toys But at the heart of the movie is a lesson confronted fears of abandonment as Andy for Woody. In him, I see hints of myself as I had grown up and no longer needed them. prepare for my youngest daughter’s current The resolution achieved at the end of this transition as a high school graduate tale felt self-contained and complete. heading off to college. I’ve been a living Yet Toy Story 4 presents a unique and version of Woody — enjoying taking her to meaningful story of family and legacy. the movies with me, spending countless Woody and his crew have merged with hours playing board games at coffee the toys of Andy’s much younger neighbor shops or passing the time at the arcade. Bonnie (Madeleine McGraw), who is on I’ve lived a whole second life through the verge of starting kindergarten. Now, these exchanges with her, and while I will Woody faces a situation where he’s not always be her parent, I understand and the all-star or even a member of Bonnie’s appreciate that she is going to head off on starting five; rather, he’s the veteran on the her own adventures. More importantly, I’m end of the bench. prepared for a very real second life of my But he knows, through his years with own as an empty nester with my wife as we Andy, the impact a good toy can have. And pursue our own path together. when he speaks of that role, he sounds Toy Story 4 forces Woody to consider this like a parent. Woody desperately wants possibility for himself. When, if ever, do what’s best for his kid and nothing else; you start to think about yourself, your own because he’s such a dynamic force in this life and purpose beyond serving others? expansive toy family, he inspires everyone Forget whether or not androids dream of else to work toward the same goal. This toy electric sheep — can toys live on without collective is the ultimate village. connections to children? What happens to When Bonnie heads off to kindergarten the village when the children are grown? prep, Woody fears that she won’t be able All of us should watch and learn. (In to survive without an extra friend, so he theaters) (G) Grade: A stows away in her backpack — despite the warning from Bonnie’s parents and her

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• On June 27, come to Braxton’s loft for a three-course beer dinner featuring Braxton beers paired with New Orleansinspired dishes from neighbor Rich’s Proper Food and Drink. • Nothing beats Northside’s annual Rock N’ Roll Carnival featuring two days (July 3-4) of free local music in Hoffner Park. This year, local favorites Freekbass, Go Go Buffalo and Lung will play. On the morning of July 4, come to the park for kegs and eggs at 10 a.m. before the Fourth of July parade steps off at noon. The carnival is sponsored by Urban Artifact and MadTree, so expect some excellent beer to pair with the tunes. • On July 12 and 13, Braxton will present the Paradise Music & Beer Festival with headliners The Infamous Stringdusters and Keller Williams. The party will take place in a parking lot next to the brewery and include food vendors like Eli’s BBQ, plus crafters and artisans and Braxton brews. • If you don’t like running but you do like drinking beer, the Beer 5K & 1/4 mile Walk/Tasting on July 13 is for you. Run, walk or just drink beer — it’s up to you. The

race takes place first, followed by the tasting. For $20 (tasting only) to $50 (5k plus swag and tasting), sample beers from local breweries like MadTree, Streetside and Brink Brewing Co. • On July 17, the inaugural Glier’s Goetta Pub Crawl takes place around The Banks. The crawl starts at Moerlein Lager House, which will tap a Glier’s lager brewed with oats, malt sea salt and black peppercorn. The rest of the crawl will include beer and goetta specials at stops the AC Hotel, Jefferson Social, Galla Park and more. The cost is $10 and proceeds benefit the pediatric-cancer-fighting Dragonfly Foundation. • On July 19, Taft’s Ale House will throw a Christmas in July party replete with boozy Christmas drinks, Christmas cookies and an ugly sweater contest. Tickets are $12 and include a pint and a white elephant gift. • The Crafted Food, Beer & Music Festival returns to Sawyer Point on July 20. Sample more than 40 craft beers from the likes of MadTree, Bad Tom Smith, Rhinegeist and Fifty West and dishes from eight local restaurants including Essen, Mazunte and Money Chicken. Tickets ($15$60) benefit the League for Animal Welfare.

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• On June 18, Urban Artifact released Paperweight, an apricot Midwest Fruit Tart, in cans and on draft. • On June 20, Listermann released one of their best-labeled canned beers of all time. It’s called “I’ve had it with these Motherf*****g IPAs at this Motherf*****g brewery!” (But it’s an IPA.) Samuel L. Jackson — who is dressed as his Pulp Fiction character — holds a lightsaber while snakes slither on a plane. The beer should still be available in four-pack cans and also on tap. They also printed posters and shirts. • This week, Grainworks releases Pink Lemonade Stand, a Berliner Weisse with cherry and pineapple, and Helles Real, a Helles-style lager, in six-pack cans. They’ll be sold at the taproom. • June 28 is Social Media Day and 3 Points Urban Brewery is celebrating with a new Be Social Brew. RSVP for free on

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ummer is officially here and that means a plethora of beer events happening in late June and July — the height of beer season. These include anniversary bashes, music fests, craft markets, the return of Fifty West’s Punch Out and new beer releases. Fifty West’s Punch Out: Round Four will go down 4 p.m.-midnight July 13. The annual event is a series of brewery-onbrewery boxing matches where individuals from eight breweries beat the crap out of one another inside a professional ring. You can cheer on your favorite brewery while enjoying live music, local food vendors, and 80-plus local craft beers on draft. Tickets cost $15-$50. And in preparation for the annual event, Fifty West just released Pineapple Punch You In The EyePA. It’s available in cans and on tap at the brewpub and Production Works. On June 25, Urban Artifact released Pickle, a dill pickle gose brewed with 1,000 pounds of cucumbers, nine pounds of sea salt, two pounds of fresh dill and 567 grams of coriander in each 30-barrel batch. The beer is available in six-pack cans and on tap. To commemorate the release, the brewery is hosting a pickle-eating contest on June 29. Up to 40 contestants will compete in a series of heats and each contestant will have five minutes to eat as many pickles as possible. The contest starts at 1 p.m. and participants must arrive by 12:30 p.m. The winner will not only receive a trophy and an Urban Artifact gift card but also a spike in blood pressure. Also starting June 25, Nine Giant celebrates its third anniversary through Sunday. Every night they’ll feature a different beer infusion and the return of fan favorite foods. On June 29, they’ll release bottles of ImPeachMint Peach Apricot Mint Gose and limited-edition bottles of four variants. Starting June 28, West Side Brewing hits the two-year mark with a weekend-long celebration. They’ll release TIPA (Triple IPA), have food trucks, live music, brewery tours, a homebrew competition and raffle off a West Side Brewing cooler. On June 29, Rhinegeist celebrates six years with their Head in the Clouds party. They’ll launch Hang Six, a brut IPA brewed with fruit tea, and offer “a torrent of hot activations, cool treats, live bands and DJs,

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Meatless burgers are all the rage these days. If you haven’t tried an Impossible or Beyond Burger yet, you’d be pretty surprised at how well they emulate the taste and texture of a traditional beef patty, making replacing beef in your burger (and decreasing the impact of commercial cattle raising on the environment) less jarring than you’d expect. And since everyone’s starting to get hip to the modern veggie patty, it’s apropos to talk about its protein-packed Middle Eastern forefather: the falafel. Popular for its crunchy exterior and fluffy center, falafel is made with chickpeas (sometimes fava beans, depending on the region), spices, garlic, onion and herbs like parsley and cilantro. The raw ingredients are blitzed together and then deep fried. You’ll find the fritters are either spherical or shaped like hockey pucks, a giveaway that the kitchen is likely using a special device that presses and consistently portions the mix prior to cooking. Falafel can be served as a finger food, typically dipped in or drizzled with tahini (ground sesame seed paste), or wrapped in pita or flatbread with a variety of toppings. Tzatziki, a yogurt-based sauce, is also popular to serve with falafel. Once a recipe has been embraced by chefs around the world like falafel has been, it’s interesting to see how a neighborhood as culinarily diverse as Over-the-Rhine represents the dish. Let’s get to the table.

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It’s easy to shop at Dean’s for years, enjoying their wide selection of Middle Eastern groceries, without realizing that they also serve amazing food. If you frequent Findlay Market, start to incorporate Dean’s into your lunch ritual, because their kitchen puts out incredible dishes that not only fill you with nutritious ingredients, but also won’t put a strain on your wallet. For only $5, I was treated to my favorite falafel wrap in the city,

punctuated by a mind-bogglingly complex and satisfying cup of curry couscous. The falafel is smashed to make room for all the components as this sandwich is packed with pickled vegetables and a minty slaw, a splash of hot sauce and, if you want, additional hummus, baba ganoush or feta. 108 W. Elder St., Over-the-Rhine, mediterranean-imports.com.

Forty Thieves Helmed by Dan Wright and his wife Lana (of Senate, Abigail Street and Pontiac Bourbon & BBQ), with director of operations Mike Georgiton, Holiday Spirits and its in-house eatery Forty Thieves evoke the vibe of a dive bar and serve a menu of Middle Eastern street food. You can order your falafel either from a walk-up window facing Liberty Street or inside Holiday Spirits itself. Go for the falafel over hummus, which is worthy of an entire article dedicated to its deliciousness in its own right. The falafel — crisp with a pillowy center — is served with charred tomato and shishito peppers, red onion and pickled radish. Pair it with the tomato soup, some of the best I’ve ever had. This fast-casual restaurant is really hitting all the right notes in its opening number. Senate (1212 Vine St., senatepub.com) also offers a falafel variation via its sweet potato falafel tacos — fried fritters nestled in a tortilla and topped with Jerusalem salad, red chili sambal, lettuce, pickles and hummus. 1538 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/fortythievesgang.

Salazar Served in a supple housemade sesame pita, this lunch sandwich at chef Jose Salazar’s seasonally-minded kitchen is a free-for-all of flavor and texture. The falafel is smashed to make room for the lettuce, diced tomato, pickled onion and crumbled feta. Underneath it all is a slathering of lemon-tahini yogurt, freshly citric and indulgent. The cheese adds a welcome brininess and

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further refines each bite with its presence. A pickle spear is served on the side; your choice is whether it goes on the sandwich or directly into your mouth. 1401 Republic St., Over-the-Rhine, salazarcincinnati.com.

Revolution Rotisserie & Bar Vegetarians officially have a reason to give Revolution Rotisserie & Bar — a restaurant that predominantly serves chicken — a try. The crispy, rustically processed falafel is offered either as a side dish, aka “falafel bites,” or sandwiched in a pita with arugula, red onion, cucumber and tzatziki. Chunks of chickpeas are visible in each bite and there is a heavy garlic kick in the savory fritters. The accompanying tzatziki sauce is herbaceous and creamy, which helps to complement the spiceforward dish. 1106 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, revolutionrotisserie.com.

More Falafel Finds The Queen City Whip food truck in the Queen City Radio biergarten (222 W. 12th St., queencitywhip.com) offers a falafel sandwich on a toasted bun with tzatziki, lettuce, tomato, red onion and pickle; Pleasantry (118 W. 15th St., pleasantryotr. com) does a variation of falafel served with lentils, celery, hummus, buckwheat and fines herbes; another one of Dan and Lana Wright’s operations, Abigail Street (1214 Vine St., abigailstreet.com), offers crispy falafel with fire-roasted baba ganoush, mint, onion, tahini and chickpeas; and Aladdin’s Eatery + Lounge (1203 Main St., aladdins.com) has classic Middle Eastern falafel made with both chickpeas and fava beans served as an appetizers, in a rolled pita, on a salad or as part of a veggie combo. Which neighborhood do you think has the best falafel? Send your recommendations to eats@citybeat.com.

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Route 50 Beer Dinner Series — Fifty West is hosting a three-course dinner series inspired by Route 50, their namesake road, and the 12 states it travels through. This time, enjoy a meal inspired by Illinois with paired beers. 7-10 p.m. $50. Fifty West Brewing Company, 7668 Wooster Pike, Columbia Township, fiftywestbrew.com. Nine Giant Third Anniversary Week — Nine Giant turns three with a week-long celebration. Each day the taproom will be offering a special beer-infused dish, with a Mexican menu takeover on Saturday and their second ever bottle release: Double ImPeachMint. Events go through Sunday. Free admission. Nine Giant, 6095 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, facebook.com/ ninegiant.

Cincinnati Negroni Week — Negroni Week is an initiative launched by liqueur manufacturer Campari and Imbibe Magazine in 2013 to, yes, celebrate the cocktail, but also raise funds for a variety of charitable causes. Negroni Week is now hosted in more than 10,000 venues around the world and has raised more than $2 million. Cincinnati Negroni Week takes place through June 30 and participating venues will be offering special Negroni variations for charities of their choice. More info negroniweek.com.

Panegyri — Spend the weekend in Greece without paying for an international flight. The Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Finneytown is hosting its annual celebration of this ancient culture, complete with exhibits, cooking demonstrations, live music, folk dancing and tons of Greek food and wine. 5-11 p.m. Friday; 3-11 p.m. Saturday; 1-8 p.m. Sunday. $2; free 12 and under. Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 7000 Winton Road, Finneytown, panegyri.com. West Side Brewing Second Anniversary — The brewery turns two with a weekend’s worth of activities including the release of a triple IPA, food trucks, live music, brewery tours, a homebrew competition and more. Through Sunday. Free admission. West Side Brewing, 3044 Harrison Ave., Westwood, facebook.com/ westsidebrewing.

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Hyde Park Blast Beer Wine Food Festival — After the Hyde Park Blast, head to the Beer Wine Food Festival featuring more than 60 varieties of beer and wine plus food vendors from around the city. Proceeds benefit The Cure Starts Now. 3-11 p.m. $20 for a tasting cup and 10 tickets. Hyde Park Square, Hyde Park, beerwinefood.org.

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National Food Truck Day at Cove Food Park — June 28 is National Food Truck Day so head to the Cove Food Park for local trucks offering special discounts and menus, giveaways and more to honor the day. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Free admission. Cove Food Park, 4601 Kellogg Ave., East End, facebook.com/covefoodpark.

Urban Artifact Pickle Eating Contest — Urban Artifact is celebrating the release of its deliciously briny Pickle Gose with a pickleeating contest. Up to 40 contestants will be competing to see who has the stomach and the sodium tolerance to take down the most pickles in one sitting. Each contestant will have five minutes to eat as many pickles as possible. In addition to the contest, pickle fans can partake in fermented goods from the Pickled Pig, Fab Ferments and Skinny Piggy kombucha and/or a pickle pizza. Noon Free admission. Urban Artifact, 1660 Blue Rock St., Northside, facebook.com/ urbanartifactbrewing.

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off wanting to do something original and it ends up being something of a reflection to what you’re checking out. I don’t know if the final song ends up talking too much about that, but it’s there in the song and album.” Even though the remade Twin Fantasy gleams with a grander, streamlined sound, traces of his lo-fi aesthetic remain. After all, Toledo grew up on bands like REM, who often intentionally obscured lyrics and melodies beneath dense, roiled sonic textures. “I was going for a sound that I liked,” Toledo says of the less polished aesthetic. “It wasn’t a 100 percent ‘This is the way it is because I have no other sound options.’ I think growing up listening to older music from the ’60s leads you naturally into liking lo-fi stuff, such as Indie music from the ’90s, like Guided by Voices, where you can’t necessarily hear every detail but there’s a compelling energy to it. I tend toward that. “Really, I just work with the resources I have and go toward an interesting sound. Lo-fi is one of those, but not the only option.” Car Seat Headrest performs at Bogart’s on Saturday, June 29. Tickets/more show info: bogarts.com.

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my basic go-tos is Pink Floyd. I actually referenced their ‘Jugband Blues’ on the first version (of Twin Fantasy) and there’s a little hidden snippet that references The Wall on (the new version).” Like many a young artist, Toledo regularly borrows from his influences — sometimes in a rather exact manner —and he’s particularly good at illuminating the ways they are reflected in his own material. On Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror)’s “Cute Thing,” for example, Toledo incorporated melodies from They Might Be Giants’ song “Ana Ng.” Famously, on Teens of Denial’s “Just What I Needed/Not Just What I Needed,” Toledo quoted snippets of The Cars’ hit in homage; Cars frontman Ric Ocasek objected and Matador had to recall already-shipped copies of the album (at great cost to the label). On Twin Fantasy’s “Nervous Young Inhumans,” Toledo sings, “Art gets what it wants and art gets what it deserves.” He says the track’s subtitle is “A Song About Art Theft.” “The art theft title came from wanting the song to go more into the idea of influence vs. plagiarism, the way that artists feed off each other,” Toledo says. “That’s been interesting to me to see in other people’s work and in my own. You start

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The album is a personal tour-de-force and you can hear why Toledo wanted to go back and revisit it. “When I first wrote Twin Fantasy, I felt it was the best thing I’d done up to that point,” Toledo says. “But I was still just doing everything myself with no resources, so it turned out at the time to be a fairly lo-fi record. I just knew the way I heard it in my mind was a little more expansive than what it turned out to be. It just never seemed like the book was closed on it. When we signed with Matador, the idea of returning to this record was one of the first things I pitched to them.” Pink Floyd was a major influence on the album, which might surprise some, though it shouldn’t, considering the iconic band was one of the first to write thematically cohesive records with strong narratives. “Pink Floyd was one of my earliest influences,” Toledo says. “I probably started listening to them at 13. And I think they just kind of nailed the (art of the) album, maybe more than any other artist, just sort of their holistic structure and their concept albums. You could put it in a time capsule and as long as people are listening to music, they can dig it up again and it will feel good and will appeal just the way it does now. “Whenever I make a record, one of

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t’s not clear whether Will Toledo read The Great Gatsby as an English major at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. But there are at least a couple of lines from the classic novel with which the mastermind behind acclaimed Indie Rock group Car Seat Headrest would certainly agree. Namely, “You can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can.” With the release last year of the ambitious Twin Fantasy, a riveting re-do of his 2011 release under the same title, Toledo confirms his belief that you can not only repeat what’s come before — you can also definitively improve upon it. Using inspired packaging, Matador Records released the updated version with the original lo-fi, self-released Bandcamp version for contrast. Listening to both iterations is a compelling experience. It shows just how far Toledo has grown from the days of solitarily recording the original on a laptop in his car for privacy (inspiring the project’s name) to collaborating with a full band and producer Adam Stilson on the still emotionally intense upgrade. Now 26 years old, while still in college, Toledo prolifically self-recorded and mixed 11 full-length records, uploading them to Bandcamp and amassing a big following. Eventually signed by Matador, Car Seat Headrest’s Teens of Style, a collection of Toledo’s early material, and Teens of Denial quickly transformed Toledo into a heralded Indie Rock contender. His bristly, guitar-driven sound sizzles with scope and a strong sense of awareness — of self and of his Classic Rock forbearers. Twin Fantasy loosely follows the emotional arc of a teenage relationship and its aftermath, capturing all of its inherent angst, subtext and passion. For context, the original’s subtitle is Mirror to Mirror while the new one is Face to Face. With its intensely personal point of view, the release may feel autobiographical, but most of Toledo’s music shares a similarly intimate quality. He also adds lyrics and poetic monologues to the new incarnation. Toledo’s raw but melodic crunch resonates with overdubbed layers of kinetic guitar, ranging from short nuggets like the Beach Boys-inspired “My Boy” to cathartic, 12-minute epics like the frantic and fragmented “Beach Life-in-Death,” on which he boldly sings about coming out to his friends while pretending to be drunk.

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Groundbreaking banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck is coming back to Cincinnati, and fans of the 16-time Grammy Award-winning artist should be especially enthusiastic. Fleck is performing with the original Flecktones lineup to celebrate their 30th anniversary. For many, the Flecktones are unquestionably the highlight of Fleck’s remarkable career that has included multiple all-star collaborations, concertos and orchestral performances, Jazz and World Music projects and more — all with his trusty five-string banjo in hand. Béla Fleck & The Flecktones are a fantastical Jazz-Bluegrass hybrid that have won seven Grammy Awards. The genre-defying group has toured alongside the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt and the Dave Matthews Band. This tour is different, though. It’s their first in decades with original member (pianist and harmonica wiz) Howard Lev, who left the group in 1992. The full original lineup also includes bass virtuoso Victor Wooten and his brother, experimental percussionist and instrument inventor Roy “Futureman” Wooten. Fleck — who also produced an awardwinning documentary exploring the banjo’s roots in Africa — has helped shaped the evolution of acoustic music for his role in pushing forward the Newgrass movement. He also has the distinction of being nominated in more Grammy categories than any other instrumentalist in history, reflecting his tendency to push boundaries and embrace experimentation. It all began when a young Fleck heard the renowned Beverly Hillbillies theme, performed by Earl Scruggs. “People talk about a ‘Come to God’ moment and for most banjo players of note in the

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Bluegrass world, hearing Earl Scruggs is that moment,” Fleck told National Public Radio’s On Being in 2015. In 2011, he dedicated The Imposter, a concerto for banjo and orchestra, to Scruggs. That same tendency for acknowledgement of the past is reflected in the Flecktones anniversary tour. When asked by JamBase in 2016 about the likelihood of extending the then just-announced original lineup reunion beyond just a few appearances, he remarked, “It’s an open book. We all share a lot of history… Flecktones had been the center of our musical lives for decades, so we decided to give it a break. Four years later, we’re starting to miss each other!” (Bill Furbee)

Dan Stuart with Tom Heyman Sunday • MOTR Pub

Dan Stuart was the singer/songwriter/ guitarist with the band Green on Red, which started in Tucson, Arizona in 1979 (as The Serfers) but quickly moved to Los Angeles where it became part of the “Paisley Underground” movement of

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elegiac spoken-word remembrance of family life, recalling Guy Clark’s classic “Randall Knife” in approach. Stuart last year told the Houston Chronicle this will be his last album, since listeners no longer view the form as an artistic statement. One hopes the response he gets here and elsewhere on his tour makes him reconsider. (Steven Rosen)

Courtney Barnett with Quinn Christopherson Monday • Madison Theater

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supposedly neo-psychedelic Alternative bands. The group lasted until 1992 without widespread success, but a San Francisco guitarist who joined in 1985 — Chuck Prophet — has gone on to win acclaim as a writer and performer of poignantly gritty, romantically literary, sad but wise Americana songs. Judging from Stuart’s new solo album — which is titled The Unfortunate Demise of Marlowe Billings and accompanies his new novel of the same name — he is now ready to challenge Prophet as the most celebrated songwriter to come out of Green on Red. Since the end of Green on Red (there was a reunion in 2005), Stuart became something of a wanderer. He married and had a son and lived in Europe, Tucson and New York before moving to Mexico after a divorce. Occasional albums — archival and new solo and collaborative projects — emerged, but it wasn’t until this decade that he has really tried to revive his career by using the semi-autobiographical, noirish alter ego of “Marlowe” to unify two previous records, one previous “false memoir” and the recent Unfortunate Demise record and book. I haven’t read the Unfortunate Demise book yet, but the record is extraordinary. While made in Mexico City with some first-rate supporting musicians and Danny Amis of Los Straitjackets producing, it has the eerie intimacy, weather-beaten weariness and a vulnerable Roots-Rock honesty akin to heralded Tucson-based acts like Giant Sand, Howe Gelb and Calexico. And the subjects of his songwriting are memorable. “The Day William Holden Died,” for example, is about the aging movie star who in 1981 died after falling in his apartment while intoxicated and going undiscovered for four days. “Tucson,” with its Garage Rock-style farfisa organ pumping away, is a declaration of moving on from home. And the outstanding closer “Upon a Father’s Death” is a tough yet

Courtney Barnett combines the dexterous fingerpicking guitar style of Nick Drake with the wry songwriting humor and detached observational vocal delivery of Billy Bragg and folds it all into a blistering Indie Rock presentation that took America by total surprise five years ago with the 2013 release of The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas. A combination of the native Australian’s initial releases, 2012’s I’ve Got a Friend Called Emily Harris and 2013’s How to Carve a Carrot Into a Rose, the EP helped Barnett become a cult phenomenon and, ultimately, a Grammy nominee. After concluding her studies at the Tasmanian School of Art, Barnett was inspired to try her hand at songwriting by a lifetime of exposure to American music and her discovery of Australian legend Paul Kelly, among other home country icons. She began her music career a decade ago, balancing band work with delivering pizzas; she played guitar with Rapid Transit until 2011 and joined Immigrant Union, the side project for Dandy Warhols drummer Brent DeBoer, for a two-year stint. In 2012, Barnett borrowed money from her grandmother to self-release the Emily Harris EP and the following year released her sophomore EP. A month later, The Double EP was picked up as a global reissue and critical acclaim thrust Barnett into the spotlight. Barnett’s career exploded with the release of her 2015 full-length, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, the title taken from a poster in her grandmother’s bathroom. In addition to near universal praise, Barnett was included on a variety of annual best-of lists and was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2016 Grammys. The release of 2018’s Tell Me How You Really Feel, highlighted by standout track “Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence,” was met with similar enthusiasm. Bob Dylan and Tom Petty comparisons have been pervasive from the start, which are largely accurate, at least in spirit, because Barnett is a true original, an artist who uses familiar sources to craft her unique approach. (Brian Baker)

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BURNET WOODS BANDSTAND Wednesdays in the Woods with Mike Wade and the Nasty Nati Band. 7 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Organ-Eyes Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5.

Unrivaled and Lay Low. 8 p.m. AltRock. $8.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Marc Wolfley Quartet. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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KNOTTY PINE - Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Todd Hepburn. 7 p.m. Piano/Various. Free.

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20TH CENTURY THEATER - Delta Rae with Lucette. 8 p.m. Americana/ Roots/Rock. $20, $25 day of show.

BLIND LEMON - Tom Roll. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

MEMORIAL HALL Jimmie Vaughan. 8 p.m. Blues. $30-$45.

MOERLEIN LAGER HOUSE - Tyler Moore Band. 6 p.m. Country/Rock/ Pop/Various. Free (on Schmidlapp Event Lawn).

URBAN ARTIFACT Sadistik with Trizz, Kno and Rafael Vigilantics. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $12, $15 day of show.

FRIDAY 28

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Ben Levin and the Heaters. 8 p.m. Blues. Free. BLIND LEMON - Michael J. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. BOGART’S - August Burns Red, Silverstein and Silent Planet. 7 p.m. AltRock. $25.50.

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CAFFÈ VIVACE - Jeff Hamilton with Blue Wisp Big Band. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

MOLLY MALONE’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT Missy Werner Band. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

THE GREENWICH - Josh Kline Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5.

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KNOTTY PINE - Dallas Moore. 10 p.m. Country. Free. ORCHIDS AT PALM COURT - Braza Trio. 6 p.m. Brazilian Jazz. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Night Owl and Brianna Kelly. 9 p.m. Indie/Various. Free. STANLEY’S PUB - If Walls Could Talk with Before Sunday. 9 p.m. Pop/Punk. Cover.

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Philip Paul Trio. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free. BLIND LEMON - Mark Macomber. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - El Ritmo De Mañana. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover. COMMON ROOTS - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Esham with Treason, Lyric and DJ Noah I Mean. 8:30 p.m. Hip Hop. $12, $15 day of show. PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Open Mic. 7 p.m. Various. Free.

FIBONACCI BREWING COMPANY - Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. THE GREENWICH - Sonny Moorman’s Final Friday Blues. 8 p.m. Blues. $5.

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HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Jim Anderson Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Sly Band. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance/Various. Cover.

RIVERFRONT LIVE Mykal Rose with Sly & Robbie. 9 p.m. Reggae. $25, $30 day of show.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT Society Jazz Orchestra 8-Piece Big Band. 8 p.m. Jazz. $10. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - John R Miller & the Engine Lights with Pat Reedy & The Longtime Goners. 8 p.m. Americana. $10.

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STANLEY’S PUB Moriah Haven & Nick Giese Duo with Sam Burns & the Orchard Circle. 9 p.m. Folk/Bluegrass. Cover.

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THOMPSON HOUSE Feral Friends, Forestfox, Leopold The Ghost,

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Joey Said No. 10 p.m. Pop/Rock/ Dance/Various. Cover.

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THE MAD FROG Ardalan. 9 p.m. EDM.

Acclaimed Country crew Delta Rae plays the 20th Century Theater on Wednesday. P H OTO : DAV I D M C C L I S T E R

MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Just Two Howlers. 9 p.m. Classic Rock. Free.

THE REDMOOR - Soul Pocket. 9 p.m. R&B/Dance/ Pop. $10.

STANLEY’S PUB - The Stolen Faces. 10 p.m. Grateful Dead tribute. Cover.

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RICK’S TAVERN - Deuces Wild. 10 p.m. Country. Cover.

THOMPSON HOUSE - Ray Volpe and Ubur. 9 p.m. Electronic/Dubstep. $20.

MOTR PUB - Speaking Suns, In the Pines and New Moons. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free. MT. HEALTHY CITY PARK Linus. 7:30 p.m. Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Street Limes and Ghost Man on Second. 9 p.m. Rock. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN Zoo. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

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MANHATTAN HARBOUR MARINA - Josh Wilhoit. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Pelican with Cloakroom, Casino Warrior and Mouth of the Architect. 9 p.m. Rock. $15.

MANSION HILL TAVERN Blue Ravens. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Ky Myle. 7:30 p.m. Country. Free.

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SCHWARTZ’S POINT Down Home Collective. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) Kyleen Downes, Paige Beller and Charlene Davis. 9:30 p.m. Rock/Various. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Matt Woods, Adam Lee and Weston Harris Hill. 9 p.m. Country/Americana. $10, $13 day of show.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - NRBQ. 8 p.m. Rock/ Various. $22, $25 day of show.

URBAN ARTIFACT - The Katawicks with Electric Indigo and Sovereign Being. 9 p.m. Indie/Rock/Folk/Soul WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Pamela Mallory with the Wayne Yeager Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum). WESTSIDE VENUE - DJ Beat Box. 8 p.m. DJ/Various. WIEDEMANN BREWERY AND TAPROOM - Ricky Nye and Chris Douglas. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free. WOODWARD THEATER Guided By Voices. 8 p.m. Rock. Sold out.

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NORTHSIDE TAVERN Bronte Hall. 9 p.m. Pop Rock. Free.

THE COMET - Adjust Your Eyes Festival with GRLwood, Wonky Tonk, Honorable Demons and more. 10 p.m. Indie/Various. Free.

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FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Cincinnati Benefit with Tracy Walker. 5 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

NEWPORT ON THE LEVEE - Summer Music on the Levee with Soul Pocket. 7 p.m. Pop/R&B/Dance. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - The United States Jazz Ambassadors. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

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BREWRIVER CREOLE KITCHEN - Ricky Nye. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

MOTR PUB - Noah Smith’s Crooner Circus. 10 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. Free.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Phil DeGreg Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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Angelo, Talia Stewart and Chandler Carter. 8 p.m. Electronic. $8. URBAN ARTIFACT - Beat Faction. 10 p.m. Alt/Dance/ DJ/Various. Free. WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Marc Wolfley Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum). WESTSIDE VENUE - Ben Turner and Bo Honebrink. 8 p.m. Acoustic.

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BLIND LEMON - Kyle English. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Shooting Star with Bad Habit. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $20-$27.

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BOGART’S - Car Seat Headrest with Naked Giants. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. $22.50.

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FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - The Whispering Beard Preview with The Harmed Brothers, Maria Carrelli and Ben Turner. 8 p.m. Americana. Free. THE GREENWICH - Push Play. 8:30 p.m. R&B/Pop/ Dance/Various. $8.

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HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Brandon Coleman Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - The Burning Caravan. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Fun Size. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/Dance/Country. Cover.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Ron Jones Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

JERZEES PUB & GRUB Pandora Effect. 9 p.m. Rock

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THE COMET - Adjust Your Eyes Festival with Blakhï, Old Boy Nick, D-Eight, VXCE and IN2ITIV3. 10 p.m. Hip Hop/Electronic/ Various. Free.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Deuces Wild. 9 p.m. Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Michelle Robinson Band. 10 p.m. Country. Cover. MANHATTAN HARBOUR

MARINA - Elastic Waistband. 8 p.m. Rock. Free.

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MANSION HILL TAVERN - Jay Jesse Johnson. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - The Mood Rings. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

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MOTR PUB - Jeremy Pinnell. 10 p.m. Country. Free. NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Oso Bear with Human Heart. 10 p.m. AltRock. Free.

PADRINO - Chris Comer Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free. PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Sam Burns and the Orchard Circle. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. RICK’S TAVERN - Stratus. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

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RIVERFRONT LIVE Dark Star Orchestra. 5 p.m. Rock/Jam/Various. $25, $30 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) Endive and Anna Applegate. 9:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Tijuana Hercules and The Tigerlilies. 9 p.m. Rock/Roots/Various. $8, $10 day of show.

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STANLEY’S PUB Stanley’s Reggae Fest with The Cliftones, The Ark Band, Elementree Livity Project and Queen City Silver Stars. 6 p.m. Reggae. $12, $15 day of show.

THE SYMPHONY HOTEL - Ricky Nye and Bekah Williams. 8 p.m. Blues/Jazz. Free. THOMPSON HOUSE - Alex

MADISON THEATER Courtney Barnett with Quinn Christopherson. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. $28, $30 day of show.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Acoustic Jam with John Redell & Friends. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO - BlueBirds. 8 p.m. Rock/R&B. Free.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT Erwin Stuckey Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

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BLIND LEMON - Jeff Henry. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Randy Peak. 10 p.m. Acoustic/Various. Free.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Aaron Hedrick. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Open Mic. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

MCCAULY’S PUB - Open Jam with Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues/Various. Free.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Rob Allgeyer. 10:30 a.m. Jazz. Free.

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Warrick and Lowell. 8 p.m. Americana. Free.

THE COMET - The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

Chicago “Hillbilly Trance” band Tijuana Hercules plays the Southgate House Revival on Saturday.

and Lil Al Thomas. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

MANHATTAN HARBOUR MARINA - Lucky. 1 p.m. Acoustic. Free. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Jam with Deb Ohlinger. 6 p.m. Blues

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MOTR PUB - Dan Stuart with Dan Heyman. 8 p.m. Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Dusty Bryant. 8 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter. Free. STANLEY’S PUB - Open Jam. 9 p.m. Improv/Various. Free.

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TAFT THEATRE - Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. 8 p.m. Bluegrass/Jazz/ Newgrass/Fusion/Various. $35-$55.

URBAN ARTIFACT - Shawan Rice with Kyla Mainous and Brooklynn Rae. 8 p.m. Acoustic/Soul/Singer/ Songwriter WESTSIDE VENUE - Blues Jam with Jimmy D. Rodgers

MEMORIAL HALL Mike Wade plays ‘Straight Ahead’. 7 p.m. Jazz. $8. MOLLY MALONE’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT Open Bluegrass Jam. 8 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

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MOTR PUB - Hillary Hahn with The New Materials. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - The Qtet. 9:30 p.m. Funk/Rock/Jazz/Fusion/ Jam/Various. Free. STANLEY’S PUB - Jazz Jam. 9 p.m. Jazz/Improv. Free. THOMPSON HOUSE Carousel Kings. 8 p.m. Rock. Cover.

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BLIND LEMON - Nick Tuttle. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

BREWRIVER CREOLE KITCHEN - The Twirlers. 7 p.m. R&B/Classic Pop/Standards. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE - Lynne Scott, Lee Stolar and Lou Lausche. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free. CROW’S NEST - Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Various. Free. RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Dave Matthews Band. 8 p.m. Rock. $45.50-$115. THOMPSON HOUSE - Crazytown with Spoken. 8 p.m. Rock. $18.

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