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An unassuming giant of the Cincinnati music scene, Chuck Cleaver finally releases Send Aid, the first solo album of what he doesn't believe is a storied career

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Tax Incentives Kickstart Huge Developments — and Debate — in Cincinnati The incentives went to projects big and small, but some came with concerns about affordable housing and calls for changes to the city’s abatement policies BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

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31-story historic office building downtown that has been mostly empty for years could soon be home to 262 apartments. A spot near Cincinnati’s riverfront could see 344 apartments and commercial space after years of failed attempts at development. Another eightstory building further north on Main Street will be rehabbed to host 60 apartments. And a number of smaller rehab and new construction projects could soon launch in Mount Auburn, Price Hill, Walnut Hills, the West End and Columbia Tusculum. What do all of these projects, both huge and not-so-huge, have in common? Their developers all say they need some level of property tax relief from the City of Cincinnati. And Cincinnati City Council approved those requests late last month. But not everyone is happy about every one of those deals. Some activist groups have objected to the foregone taxes and the lack of affordable housing in the projects. Boosters, however, say they represent valuable opportunities to spur new construction and efforts to rehabilitate significant buildings in the city. The largest and most ambitious of the projects before council was the $103 million effort by Chicago-based City Club Apartments to convert the 31-story PNC Tower at 1-9 Fourth Street downtown into 262 apartments, including 26 that will go at a somewhat reduced rate designed to be affordable to a two-person household making $56,000 a year — 86 percent of the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area’s median income of $65,000 a year for two people. When it was completed in 1913, PNC Tower was the second tallest building in the world. Its architect Cass Gilbert also drew up the plans for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Today,

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the tower is more than two-thirds vacant, however, and its facade needs a full restoration. The city has offered a forgivable $2.5 million loan — $1.5 million upfront and another $1 million that will be released later, after the developer makes $9 million worth of facade restorations. Instead of property taxes, the developers would pay into a tax increment financing district created around the building. Eventually, the city would return more than $11 million from that TIF to the developer. The city would keep another $7.75 million. The project has also received federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits. City Club would pay Cincinnati Public Schools roughly $10 million over the course of the 30-year deal and would contribute another $5 million to the streetcar’s operating budget under the Voluntary Tax Incentive Contribution Agreement program. The deal won praise on city council, but some groups skeptical of the city’s commercial abatement programs have questioned it. “One more deal,” the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT) tweeted June 25 about PNC Tower. “Millions more in tax abatements, further shifting the burden of local services to the shrinking number of taxpayers paying ‘retail.’ ” CFT and others have argued that the

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city’s commercial property tax abatement policies — set by an agreement with Cincinnati Public Schools in 1999 — are too generous to developers, many of whom critics like CFT President Julie Sellers say could complete projects without them. The tax incentives cost taxpayers and Cincinnati Public Schools money, say the teacher’s union, the district and other critics of the city’s current abatement policies. The city’s Department of Community and Economic Development, which writes up those deals, disagrees, of course, saying that the tax breaks incentivize development that would not happen otherwise. According to the city, the deals actually increase — not decrease — money going to CPS and into the city’s coffers. The PNC Tower project’s below marketrate provision is unusual for a downtown redevelopment project, but it doesn’t meet a need for low-income housing some critics point to as they question the city’s abatement policies. And other projects seeking abatements don’t have any non-market-rate housing at all. There are no affordable units among the 344 apartments and 400-space garage proposed by Indianapolis-based Milhaus

in its seven-story project at Pete Rose Way called The Artistry. The city is offering a 30-year TIF deal on that $77 million project worth approximately $787,000 a year to the developer. Like PNC Tower, The Artistry presents a long-awaited and difficult project. A $93 million, 25-story luxury apartment tower at the location called SkyHouse was scrapped last year after Atlanta-based developer Novare Group couldn’t make the numbers work. The site is in a flood plain near the river, developers say, making the project more expensive and financing harder to secure. Other incentive deals for big projects also got council approval, including a $17 million, five-story, 62-unit apartment building in Columbia Tusculum seeking an abatement worth roughly $339,000 a year for 11 years and an abatement worth $195,000 a year for 15 years on a $7.3 million rehab of a historic building at 830 Main Street downtown that will result in 60 residential units. Council members didn’t object to those deals. However, another, much smaller development did draw some scrutiny, becoming a proxy of sorts for ongoing CONTINUES ON PAGE 07

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Which Path (Or Lane) Should Cincinnati’s Future Bike Infrastructure Take? BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

Cincinnati could push ahead on installing new bike infrastructure. But there is still plenty of controversy about which path (or lane) that infrastructure should take. In 2010, Cincinnati City Council passed a citywide bike plan heavy on bike lanes. But Mayor John Cranley, who took office in 2013, much prefers bike trails, and the city’s administration has generally prioritized the latter. That debate hasn’t gone away. On June 25, Department of Transportation and Engineering Interim Director John Brazina presented an update on the city’s bike program to council. That update calls for completion of more paths and trails, but also highlights the funding challenges inherent in installing the more expensive off-street infrastructure, which can cost between $1 million and $3 million a mile. On-street bike lanes are much cheaper, supporters say — about $2,000 a mile. They cost even less when roads are already being repaved by the city. Further, bike lanes are vital in some parts of the city that aren’t well-served by bike paths but need better accessibility options, according to lane advocates. Many of those communities are low-income, says Queen City Bike President Katie Vogel. “Only building trails and expecting them to encourage cycling would be like only building interstates and expecting people to be able to navigate to their houses without side streets,” Vogel told council June 25. Bicycle advocates like Vogel and some council members want the city to install lanes on six streets in Queensgate

— Eighth Street, Dalton Avenue, Freeman Avenue, Gest Street, Liberty Street and Linn Street — already slated for repaving. Installing the lanes while the streets are being rehabbed saves much of the cost that would otherwise be involved. “The cost is paint and the implementation time is rapid,” Vogel said. DOTE is considering only two of those streets — Eighth Street and Linn Street — for bike lanes as they get repaved, however. That’s because the others haven’t met several criteria, including community engagement and traffic studies and coordination with Metro buses when applicable. Council member Greg Landsman says those steps can still happen and shouldn’t totally disqualify a street that is about to receive repaving from receiving a bike lane. “We shouldn’t lob these streets off the list if not all the things have happened,” Landsman said. “Most of these are in communities where we’re trying create greater accessibility for everyone. If the community isn’t engaged yet, it will happen.” Bike lane boosters are also questioning whether a proposed $3.5 million bike path on Central Parkway between Ludlow and Marshall avenues couldn’t just be a bike lane. DOTE applied for a $750,000 grant through the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Council of Governments to build that path, which would complete the Central Parkway Bike Lane laid out in the 2010 Cincinnati Bike Plan. Completion of that lane has stalled since its downtown to Marshall Avenue portion was completed in 2013. “For years we’ve worked on the Central

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Parkway Bike Lane,” council member Chris Seelbach said. “All of a sudden, this is the very first time I’ve heard that we’re ditching the plan we spent years on for bike trails. If we were to just stick with the plan, it would be absolutely less than a million dollars… a third of the cost, probably less than that. Who made that decision?” Over the past nine years, Cincinnati has installed 14 miles of bike lanes and seven miles of bike trails. The lanes have gone in at Spring Grove Avenue, Delta Avenue, Woolper Avenue, Central Parkway, Bank Street, Riverside

Drive, Blair Avenue, Langdon Farm Road, Madison Road, East Mitchell Avenue, Ludlow Avenue, Martin Luther King Drive and Beechmont Avenue. The trails have gone in along the Mill Creek, Eggleston Avenue, Wasson Way, MLK Drive, Dana Avenue and the Ohio River Trail along the riverfront. “I want to go forward as a city that is doing both bike trails and bike lanes,” Seelbach said. “But bike trails are significantly more expensive than bike lanes. I don’t understand why we would be doing bike trails when we could be doing lanes.”

Cincinnati Projects Win State Historic Preservation Tax Credits BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

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A sprawling mixed-income development in Over-the-Rhine, a brewery and event space in the northern part of that neighborhood and Walnut Hills’ historic Manse Hotel are among the 13 local projects that have won Ohio State Historic Preservation Tax Credits, the Ohio Development Services Agency announced June 25.

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Developers can use the credits to raise capital for rehabbing historic buildings. In Cincinnati, the awards went to a number of ambitious projects. Clyffside Brewery won $1.3 million in credits for an effort to renovate the former Hamilton Brewery building at 244-246 West McMicken Ave. Brewing occurred at the site beginning in 1846 and continued for more than 110 years through a succession of companies, ending in 1957 when Red Top Brewery closed. Clyffside’s redevelopment plan calls for three event spaces, a brewery, offices, a taproom

and an outdoor beer garden. The $13.5 million project has also secured $2 million in federal historic tax credits and other financing. The building is at the heart of one of Cincinnati’s most recent local historic districts, the Sohn-Mohawk District. A large redevelopment effort by the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation and Model Group called “Willkommen” scored $5 million in credits for a $50 million project rehabbing 17 historic buildings in three clusters in Overthe-Rhine near Ziegler Park, 15th and Walnut and at Liberty and Race streets. One of the buildings in that last location is home to neighborhood mainstay restaurant Alabama Fish Bar, which 3CDC says will continue on there. The project will also include construction of as many as three new structures. The developers say the project will be

mixed-income, with 40 percent of the residential units renting at 50 percent to 80 percent of the Area Median Income, or about $40,000 to $65,000 for a family of four. The project also includes 30,000 feet of retail space. Another project by Model Group looking to rehabilitate the Manse Hotel in Walnut Hills won $1.2 million in credits. The $12.7 million project will renovate the building for 60 apartments for seniors and families available below market rate. The landmark black-owned hotel won local historic designation earlier this year. The original building, first constructed in 1876 as a single-family house, became a vital gathering place for black Cincinnatians and a stopover for black visitors to Cincinnati when a black businessman named Horace Sudduth purchased it in 1931. At the time, accommodations in the city were still segregated, and black

residents of Cincinnati had few places where they could celebrate weddings, hold meetings of social and professional groups or put up distinguished out-oftown guests. Sudduth converted what was then a boarding house into a full-fledged hotel, adding what he called the Moderne Wing not long after he purchased it. It’s hard to overstate the cultural significance Sudduth’s new hotel would come to have for Cincinnati’s black community. Before its closure in 1973, the hotel hosted Ezzard Charles’ first press conference after his heavyweight boxing title victory in 1950, famed Cincinnati Reds first baseman Frank Robinson, James Brown and Duke Ellington. The projects were among 13 awarded throughout Southwest Ohio and 28 across the state worth $28 million.

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discussions about affordable housing, development and tax incentives. The debate about housing affordability and tax incentives was triggered by a 12-year tax abatement agreement worth $205,000 for a $1.5 million rehab project at 722-724 E. McMillan St. in Walnut Hills, a neighborhood that has seen swift development and some displacement of long-term residents. That project by developer Samir Kulkarni will create eight apartments — two of them at “workforce housing” pricing affordable to households at 80 to 120 percent of Metro Cincinnati’s Area Median Income. The project will pay $85,000 to Cincinnati Public Schools and $50,000 to the city’s affordable housing trust fund during the 12-year duration of the deal. The developer has said units in the building will range from $850 to $1,200 a month. By HUD standards stating that families should pay no more than one third of their income to housing costs, that is affordable to families making between $31,000 and $43,000 a year. Even that, however, wouldn’t address the needs of a large number of families in the city struggling with poverty or near the edge of poverty. The Ohio Housing Finance

Agency has said that the city needs roughly 28,000 units of housing affordable to Cincinnati’s low-income families making less than $24,000 a year. Council member Tamaya Dennard, who was the only member to vote against the deal, says that such price levels don’t represent real affordability for most Cincinnatians, given the city’s high poverty rate. Dennard has advocated changing the way the city does tax abatements and other deals like TIFs so that housing at rents affordable to those making lower incomes is more incentivized. “We did a project near Findlay Market that was $1,000 a unit and people were saying that is affordable,” she said of a previous abatement deal. “Affordable for whom?” Council member Chris Seelbach, however, said that the workforce apartments’ rent was affordable to many people in the city, and that efforts to shore up affordable housing should come in concert with incentives for market-rate development. Other council members, including David Mann, expressed discomfort with pulling abatements from projects renovating empty buildings. “I feel some concern about saying we’re going to stop here and say no more,” Mann said, noting that the vacant buildings

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involved in the project would likely be hard to develop. Council member Greg Landsman said he believes at least part of the answer lies in the city helping developers apply for incentives like Low Income Housing Tax Credits, which are administered by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency. Those federal tax credits can be used to attract investment worth up to 70 percent of a project’s cost. In exchange for getting a LIHTC award, the projects developers build must remain affordable to low- or moderate-income residents for as long as 30 years. “We’re submitting fewer applications because more and more people are doing market rate,” Landsman said of those credits. “I think for any affordable housing opportunity that comes to the city, we should have some visibility on that so we can help along the way…so it doesn’t die or we don’t apply for funding.” Last year, only one application from a Cincinnati developer — Model Group — won the low-income housing credits worth about $1 million. Those credits will go toward about 60 units of affordable housing for seniors. By contrast, OHFA awarded $4.5 million in credits for 333 housing units to Cleveland and more than $6 million for 513 housing

units to Columbus. That had been a continuation of a trend: Over the past three years, developers in Cincinnati have applied for about $12.5 million in credits, while developers in Columbus have applied for $22 million and those in Cleveland have applied for more than $31 million. This year has been better, though. Three projects in Cincinnati won credits this time around, compared to three from Cleveland and seven from Columbus. The debate over the abatements summed up a back-and-forth about development policy that has continued to resonate in Cincinnati: how to incentivize rehabilitation and new construction while also addressing a deepening need for affordable housing. “When you have a building that has been vacant for years and you’re trying to bring it back online, it’s hard to say no to that,” council member Wendell Young said in committee. “But when we bring these buildings back online, we’re not really making room for people who can’t afford to pay $1,100 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. We have a responsibility to not only look out for those who can afford to pay market rate, but for those who can’t afford it but live in the neighborhood and want to stay there.”

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Leave it to An unassuming giant of the Cincinnati music scene, Chuck Cleaver finally releases Send Aid, the first solo album of what he doesn't believe is a storied career

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huck Cleaver is persistently and unfailingly selfdeprecating. In the mutative, spider-bitten Marvel Universe, it could be considered his super power, as he deflects praise with an ursine growl and a dismissive wave of his paw (“I always quote R. Crumb,” he says, “it's just lines on paper”). Despite being one of the most acclaimed singer/songwriters to ever emerge from the Cincinnati music scene, this has been his tactic since his first band of note, Ass Ponys, trembled on the edge of some form of stardom in the 1990s. It has continued through his decade-and-a-halflong tenure as co-frontperson of Rock band Wussy. And it will likely characterize the promotion of Send Aid, his first solo album after a giveor-take 40-year career in music. OK, maybe “career” isn’t the best word, at least in Cleaver’s opinion. He’s not comfortable with the idea of identifying what he's been doing all this time as some sort of “profession.” “I don't consider what I have as a career,” he says without a trace of irony. “I think it's a passion that sort of went haywire.” The only thing more unlikely than Cleaver's band life is his solo work, which begins with the release of Send Aid on July 19. He has always been content to display his songwriting and performing acumen through his notable band affiliations, and the idea of seeing his own name on an album has been uncomfortable at best, abhorrent at worst. But against all odds, Cleaver has caved in to peer pressure. “Billy Carter from (Cincinnati-based record store/label) Shake It has been on me for years,” he says. “(Shake It founder) Darren (Blase) has suggested it — other people, too. I just like working with a band. It's my natural habitat.” Even though Send Aid (which is being released through Shake It, also the label home of every Wussy album) has Cleaver’s name on it, the album was recorded with a loose, band-like collective of Cincinnati musicians from various local groups. “It was a fun record to make,” Cleaver says. “There are people from Vacation and Mardou and Lung and Swim Team and Dawg Yawp, and some of Wussy is on there. We were going to make up a band name; I think we were going to call it The Also Rans. I pitched it to the guys at Shake It and they were like, 'Pussy, call it by your own name. Quit being a dink and own it.' ”

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It’s fair to say that Ass Ponys Chuck Cleaver is not startlingly different from Wussy Chuck Cleaver, and solo Chuck Cleaver follows that same general pattern — lightly twangy, fairly slanted and penetratingly offbeat Indie Rock that leaves a mark. He understands the qualities that link all of those creative personas, but he also understands what differentiates them from one another: an elevation in his guitar technique; his improvement as a singer; his constant pursuit of a higher standard of songwriting. But in some ways, Send Aid represents Cleaver rolling back the clock to a time when he did whatever he wanted musically. “If you take the stranger aspects of Wussy and ramp them up to 100, you’ve got my solo record,” he says. “This record is probably going to remind people more of the Ass Ponys than Wussy, to tell you the truth. What interests me are words and shitty sounding records.” Cleaver says longtime producer and colleague John Curley (also bassist for The Afghan Whigs, peers who once covered the Ass Ponys’ “Mr. Superlove”) has told him that if it were up to Cleaver alone, all of his albums would sound like they were “recorded in a tin can.” “Thank goodness there are other people in the band who prevailed,” Cleaver deadpans. Clocking in at a crisp 27 minutes and featuring songs that individually average around two minutes, Send Aid hearkens back to Rock’s earliest days, when a new Beatles album was typically 14 or so minutes per side. It’s a concrete example of Cleaver’s love of both brevity and simplicity as well as his loathing of specific songwriting pitfalls. “I don’t like clumsy phrasing and putting an accent where it doesn’t belong. That bugs the shit out of me,” he says. “The one that always comes to mind in a song I really love is Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White

Chuck Cleaver Photo: Anna Stockton

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Cleaver and his Wussy bandmates in 2016 Photo: Jesse Fox

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Rabbit’ — I can’t stand the ‘hookah-smoking caterpillar’ line. It’s too goddamn many syllables. I understand you want to get that imagery in there but, goddamn, find another way. “I like my songs to be really compact. There are no long songs on the new record. There are songs that are less than two minutes. I like that economy. Say it and get it over with.” One of Send Aid’s great moments in that regard comes on the album’s lead track, the short and shambling electric Folk ode “Terrible Friend,” which offers further evidence of Cleaver’s gift of wordplay with its opening volley: “If it looks like a mountain, it’s probably a mountain/If it looks like a hole, it’s probably a hole.” It’s a line that could be construed as a political observation. “There are a lot of veiled political statements on the album,” Cleaver says. “These are some trying times, but I maintain that it’s probably magnified by the internet. There have been times that were just as trying, if not worse, and we just didn’t know about it.” Before anyone gets the impression that Send Aid is somehow Cleaver’s great philosophical manifesto, consisting of songs he’s been secretly laboring over in his writing garret for decades, he’s quick to note that most of these new songs were originally written for Wussy and deemed by him to not be right for the band. He wrote the remaining songs to fit the tone of the album as it was shaping up. “I took the ones I thought would work the best and then I wrote others to fi ll the gaps,” Cleaver says. “I don’t think a lot about that kind of stuff. I just write. Most of it’s kind of downtrodden because that’s where my head is most of the time. I’m not bi-polar; I’m just depressed. I have never had a plan, never once. I don’t dream. I dream at night, but I’m not one of those ‘I’m going to climb Mount Everest.’ I just do stuff and sometimes it turns out.” What is evident throughout Send Aid is Cleaver’s masterful ability to extract high drama and poignancy from life’s overarching banality. “Anything” is a soundtrack to doomed relationships. “Bed” is a rumination on the fleeting nature of life. “The Weekend That It Happened” is compelling crime fiction. And it all unfolds in less that 30 minutes. That briskness was reflected in the brief time it took to create the album. “The last Wussy album took us almost two years,” Cleaver says. “This record took about three weeks.” Recorded mostly in the basement below the space that formerly held Northside vintage clothing and campy curiosities shop Chicken Lays an Egg, Cleaver then tweaked and mixed the tracks at Curley’s Ultrasuede studio. He credits engineer/producer John Hoff man for helping to get the kind of sound for which he so often has strived. “I don’t know the specifics of this, but (Hoff man) ran the entire mix through a cassette deck and got that (makes garbled tape drag sound) and I love that,” Cleaver says.

The album’s cover image, taken by Cleaver’s daughter, Anna Stockton, time-machined Cleaver back to his childhood in tiny Clarksville, Ohio, long before the idea of making music was even a remote possibility. The photo of a storefront from his hometown also conjured up a memory from his teenage years that will remain lodged in his head for the rest of his life. “Anna went to my hometown and took a bunch of pictures and sent a bunch to me, and the very fi rst one in the folder was the picture that’s on the cover,” Cleaver says. “And I was like, ‘Anna, that was the step I was sitting on the morning I found the dead guy,’ and she was like, ‘Aw, no way!’ ” Cleaver then spins the tale with the kind of somewhat dark, somewhat folksy eccentricity that has been a trademark of his songwriting since the Ass Ponys days. “I was sitting on that step, waiting for the bus to take me to high school out in the country,” he says. “That (storefront) was a used furniture store at the time, and the woman that owned it came out and said, ‘Hey, could you go up the street and check on this guy?’ He was our former town barber. I went up the street and found him dead. He was laying in bed, eyes wide open, looking at me. His arms were up in the brass railing of his headboard, he was bloated and he’d turned gray. And no amount of anything makes (that image) leave.” The album’s title came from the same photograph. As far back as Cleaver remembers, whatever commercial operation has been installed in that storefront, there’s been a small sign nailed to the top of the left-side door that reads “Send Aid.” Whatever it was originally meant to convey is lost in the fog of time, but Cleaver saw it as the perfect banner for the album. “It all happened the way I love things to happen,” he says. “It was just happenstance. Boom, there’s the cover. Boom, ‘Send Aid,’ there’s the title. Boom, done.” For her part, Stockton knew the tale of her father’s corpse adventure well but had no idea she was documenting the spot where the story

The cover of Send Aid Photo: Anna Stockton

began. She also shot the back cover, a photo of the reputedly haunted Valley Steel Mill. Stockton had decided to shoot in Clarksville as part of her ongoing fine art photo series, Lohio: Things We’ve Loved and Lost, christened after the title of Ass Ponys’ final release, 2001’s Lohio. (You can view the photos at annastocktonphoto.com.) “I went there February of last year because my grandparents lived there and my dad grew up there, and I live 15 minutes away. My kids go to school in that district, the same place my dad graduated from,” Stockton says. “I had a few things in mind that I wanted to photograph, but that building wasn’t one of them, but as I was driving along, I decided to stop and shoot that one. I knew the story, it’s part of family lore, but I wasn’t aware it was that stoop he was sitting on. I just thought it was visually interesting, and the ‘Send Aid’ thing on the door, because that town looks like a bomb went off.” Stockton shares Cleaver’s wry sense of humor and incisive wit. When asked about her perception of her father as a musical entity in his early days, her response could have been scripted by the old man himself. “Sure, I didn’t live under a rock. I sort of knew what was going on,” she says. “At the same time, he was just my dad, eating cereal in his underpants. He was never this figure that he was to other people. I respected his talent and knew he was something cool. And it got me a lot of cool kid cred in middle school, because he had signed to A&M (Records) and they had a video on MTV. I went from being a dork to being relatively cool within that time frame. I stopped loving marine mammals and discovered Nirvana and became cool and so did everybody else. It was a pivotal time. It worked out really well for me to have my dad in the music industry. That was a score for a 12-year-old.”

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or five years, and I think we played out a half dozen times. Not much. I think I’ve consistently been in a band of some sort since 1978, and usually they just morph into another one. So I’ve been in a band for 40 years, it’s just been different bands.” It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when Cleaver’s almost pathological cynicism bubbled to the surface, but it was likely early in life. By the time Ass Ponys were signed to major label A&M and riding a wave that crested all too soon, Cleaver was already leery of the trappings of success and the people who make a lucrative living by dangling brass rings. “We kind of gave (the label) the side eye and looked at each other and said, ‘Yeah, this is temporary.’ But we took advantage of it,” he says. “We got to tour the country a couple of times and we got to make a couple of records and we got a song or two on MTV and we were on a couple of soundtracks. It was an experience. I’d never flown before. I made it to my mid-30s without ever having been in an airport.”

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Cleaver’s own childhood in Clarksville was relatively idyllic by his account. By the time he started school, his brother and sister, 15 and 13 years his senior, respectively, were out of the house and he had the run of the place. “My parents were never overabundant with praise, but they never put me down,” Cleaver says. “I’m pretty sure I was a mistake. My brother and sister always insisted, ‘God, you got to do whatever you wanted.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, they were old and tired by then.’ The whole upstairs of the house was my domain, and I liked it. I liked being by myself. I don’t like being by myself as far as not having a mate. I’m way into having a mate, but I’m very comfortable on my own.” Cleaver’s path to Cincinnati began with a year at Wilmington College, followed by meeting his ex-wife, who was headed to the University of Cincinnati. Wanting to attend the same school as his new love and encouraged by a Wilmington instructor who had enjoyed her time in the university’s grad program, he transferred to UC’s Fine Arts department in the late ’70s. Cleaver began playing guitar at Wilmington, where a friend taught him to fingerpick. He was a fairly rudimentary player until moving to Cincinnati, where he received guidance from a well-known fixture on the local music scene. “I’d written songs ever since I could remember, and I thought, ‘I should probably learn to play something,’ ” he says. “I didn’t know any chords, but I could fingerpick old Bluegrass and fiddle tunes and some Blues stuff. I didn’t play chords until Walt Hodge from (Cincinnati College Rock faves) The Libertines taught me some chords. I was tuning all the strings on the guitar to the same note and just sliding my finger up and down, and he was like, ‘Jesus.’ He tuned my guitar and showed me a few chords and I went from there.” His first band experience was a noisy instrumental trio dubbed Men Without Bones, which featured Cleaver on guitar, future BPA/ Wolverton Brothers sparkplug Tim Schwallie on organ and a classically trained violinist named John Smith. The group would practice in a lecture hall at UC and record their sessions. “Me and Tim would make this unearthly racket and John would play these lilting melodies over the top of it,” Cleaver says. “It’s so horrible that it’s actually great.” From there, Cleaver made his way into a band called the Lunch Buddies, who went unrecorded but managed to play out a good deal, performing in studio on Michael Riley’s WAIF program and opening for some cult-favorite underground acts. The drummer in the Lunch Buddies was Dan Kleingers, who joined Cleaver in Gomez, his first recorded band (Kleingers was also Ass Ponys’ first drummer). “Gomez didn’t play out a lot,” Cleaver says. “We were together four

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Anyone who knows Cleaver well enough is aware of his role as the reluctant frontman early in his career and his relief at being able to share the Wussy stage with co-writer/guitarist/vocalist Lisa Walker. In going back over his own history, Cleaver ultimately reveals the depth of his discomfort in his early band days. “Being in a band with Lisa, a frontperson who is more forward than I am, is so much better for me,” he says. “In every band I was ever in, up to and including Ass Ponys, I looked for a singer to sing the songs. I couldn’t find anybody to sing them the way I kind of wanted them to be sung. Technically, I’m not much of a singer — I’m used to being an acquired taste — but I’ve gotten better over the years from being in a band with an amazingly great singer. “And I made her worse, and she was happy for it. Lisa had always been in choirs and she had that sort of singing voice. She always says that I showed her how to put dirt in it.” Wussy’s origin myth has been explored at great length over the course of their decade and a half run, but even (and perhaps especially) in casual conversation, new and interesting details come to light. On the subject of bands that made Cleaver want to form one himself, he offers something of a revelation. “Literally, everything,” he says of his band influences. “With me it was always the writing. Whether it was the Trashmen’s ‘Surfin’ Bird’ or the Who’s ‘My Generation’ or The Kinks or The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. ‘Satisfaction’ is still a mainstream song that you hear hundreds if not thousands of times a year, and I’m still not tired of it. That guitar line is the shit. I wanted to make something like that; it’s that kind of passion. It’s in me and I think it always will be, but I actually was almost ready to give it up at the end of Ass Ponys until I met Lisa. She’s so naturally good at writing songs, singing and interpreting and arranging them. It’s her passion for it.” Walker is equally revelatory in her remembrances of her nascent partnership with Cleaver, coming as it did toward the cessation of activity for Ass Ponys, who never officially broke up. She had become acquainted with Cleaver on the message boards of the website for WOXY, the beloved Oxford, Ohio-based Alternative music radio station that Walker credits with blowing her musical mind and introducing her, as a recent Cincinnati resident at the time, to the music listening and performing community. After meeting Cleaver online, Walker found herself at the old Southgate House in Newport, where Ass Ponys were installed on the tiny Parlour stage upstairs, playing to a packed room. With the capacity crowd, she was forced to stand in the hallway and by chance found herself standing next to Cleaver’s best friend from kindergarten.

As the band kicked up, he said to Walker, “This is the best song about morbid obesity ever written.” “And that was ‘Azalea.’ I wasn’t familiar with their catalog, just a couple of singles, and I was blown away,” she says. “I hadn’t really gotten into a lot of the artists I listen to now, like Randy Newman or Tom Waits, who can put these little details in and you don’t expect your heart to break and then it does. And that’s the impact that ‘Azalea’ had when I heard that in that moment. It was devastating. “So I became an Ass Ponys fan. And because I’d already communicated with Chuck online, I was like, ‘How cool that I’m getting to know someone who’s that level of an artist.’ ” From there, during a post show mini-jam, Cleaver’s Martin guitar was passed around and Walker played him one of her songs for the first time. He complimented her on the song and subsequently promised her a Zippy the Pinhead button that he had. Walker later went to see Cleaver’s solo set at Top Cat’s in Corryville to claim the button; she caught up with him on a break outside, where he was complaining about playing solo. “He thought he didn’t sound very good and for some reason I said, ‘Well, I’ll help but I don’t know the words,’ ” Walker says. “Why would I say that? And for some reason he said, ‘That’s a great idea, we’ll do this now.’ That’s not in either of our characters. So he wrote some things down on a napkin and I must have heard them enough on the radio to remember them, and it went OK.” Very soon after, Cleaver was slated to perform at a Cincinnati Entertainment Awards preview showcase at Cody’s, a former coffeshop/bar in University Heights. “We get there and Bill (Alletzhauser, onetime Ass Ponys guitarist and leader of The Hiders) is there, and Chuck’s like, ‘She’s singing with us,’ and he was like, ‘OK,’ ” Walker says. “That’s how that started.”

“I don’t think I’ll be alive to do a second one” The almost unbelievable reality of Cleaver’s solo adventure with Send Aid comes at a time when Wussy has entered something of a hiatal phase. Coupled with Walker’s recent reissue of her solo music as Magic Words and her admission that Cleaver’s success with crafting Send Aid has given her the impetus to think about her own imminent solo pursuits — as well as Wussy bassist Mark Messerly’s exquisite INERT recording from last fall — conjecture about the band’s future seems inevitable. Cleaver is quick to point out that Wussy is taking a break for a very legitimate reason: drummer Joe Klug and his wife just welcomed their second child. Though Wussy had to cancel some tour dates last year due to Cleaver’s serious back issues, he, Walker and Messerly will be on the road together this summer. But not as Wussy. Each musician will perform solo sets as well as together in an “in-the-round” setup. So all is well in Wussy world, and Cleaver has proven there’s more than enough curmudgeonly wisdom in his creative well to fuel both his band ventures and his newly minted solo career. On the perhaps premature question of his interest in doing a second solo album based on the results of Send Aid, he responds with customary honesty. “At some point, yeah,” he says. “But it took me, what, 50 fucking years to do the first one. I don’t think I’ll be alive to do a second one.” Regardless of whether Cleaver finds the time, material and inspiration to create a follow-up to Send Aid, the fact is that his first solo album is a circular affair. He gave his daughter her first camera and encouraged her budding interest (he still has a framed copy of one of her first shots), and now her imagery has helped define her father’s album, utilizing a photo that directly ties into his small-town childhood. Cleaver began his musical journey four decades ago by making a clattering noise with friends, and now he creates a similar sonic upheaval with new friends and a 40-year résumé of lyrical brilliance to back him up. With Chuck Cleaver, it is most assuredly more than just lines on paper — it’s lines drawn directly on a listener’s heart and mind and soul and is as memorable as a dead barber. As it turns out, aid is finally on its way. Chuck Cleaver’s Send Aid is out on Shake It Records on July 19. The tour promoting the album comes to MOTR Pub on Aug. 10. More info: wussy.ella.net.

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513-221-5353 302 East University Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45211

Open 7 days a week Weekend Brunch Available

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One of the historic treasures of Cincinnati, Mecklenburg Restaurant and Bier Garten was established in 1865. Priding ourselves on our German heritage, Mecklenburg Gardens stays true to its roots providing delectable German cuisine along with traditional German lagers, dunkels, hefeweizen, and pilsners on tap. Come on in, enjoy One of the historic of Cincinnati, Mecklenburg and a round intreasures our Black Forest bar or sit under the grape vines inRestaurant the garden, and thenBier stay Garten for a plate of our chef's delicious fare! was established in 1865. Priding ourselves on our German heritage, Mecklenburg

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AMERICANO BURGER BAR

The Americano Grilled onion, lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayo,

BUFFALO WINGS & RINGS

(10 LOCATIONS) Ringer Burger Topped with our sweet barbecue sauce, applewood

ketchup and, of course, American cheese. The Queen City Americano special sauce, grilled onion, lettuce, pickles and American cheese.

smoked bacon, cheddar jack cheese and one of our signature onion rings; served on a brioche bun.

ANDERSON PUB & GRILL

BURGER BROTHERS

grilled pineapple, Sriracha mayo and pepper jack cheese.

bourbon and honey barbecue sauce with fried Burger Brothers seasoned onion rings and pepper jack cheese.

Hawaiian Burger Our premium Angus chuck topped with bacon,

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL

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Bourbon Honey BBQ Burger 7 oz. burger patty smothered in

The Arnold’s Burger Proudly serving our own custom beef blend

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topped with white cheddar and American cheese, dressed with Cajun aioli, barbecue sauce, Braxton Garage beer-sauteed onions and crispy bacon on a potato bun.

bacon, fried egg and mayo, served on a bun.

BURGERS & CRAFTS

B&A STREET KITCHEN

brisket and chuck topped with chipotle-honey peanut butter, bourbonbacon jam, crispy pickles and American and swiss cheese.

from Avril-Bleh Meat Market. American cheese, lettuce, red onion and Arnold’s secret sauce.

All American Burger 6 oz. Certified Angus Beef, American cheese,

Cajun Bacon Cheeseburger Two all-natural Angus patties

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Peanut Butter Jelly Burger Burger blend of short rib, beef

South + Southwest Burger Juicy Angus beef burger topped

with our housemade spicy sweet jalapeño jelly and crispy Tajin-spiced chicharrón, resting on a bed of fresh lettuce, tomato and our own bourbon mayo to add a Southern twist. Served on a toasted brioche bun.

BARD’S BURGERS & CHILI

Deluxe Burger Our best seller! A 1/3 lb. cheeseburger deluxe

dressed with pickle, onion, tomato, lettuce and mayo on a fresh toasted local bun. Served with a regular order of fries.

BARLEYCORNS (3 LOCATIONS)

Cincy BBQ Grippo Burger 1/2 lb. burger topped with a

CHANDLER’S BURGER BISTRO (2 LOCATIONS)

The Westsider Our mouthwatering burger with grilled onions and

pickles, two slices of American cheese and lettuce topped with tartar sauce.

CHAPTER MT. ADAMS

Double Stack Burger White cheddar, truffle aioli, housemade pickle and tomato, served on a challah bun.

CHART HOUSE

tantalizing combination of Barleycorn’s blue cheese dressing and Grippo’s Bar-B-Q crumbles. Dressed with lettuce, tomato and pickles. Pretzel Roll Sliders Two all-beef sliders topped with American cheese on mini pretzel rolls, garnished with pickles and crispy onion straws. Served with Saratoga chips.

onions, whole grain mustard aioli and smoked shredded cheddar on a Kaiser bun.

BAR LOUIE (2 LOCATIONS)

Smoked Pork Burger Chipotle mayo, cabbage slaw and green

Six Napkins Burger Two smashed slider patties, grilled with

yellow mustard and topped with caramelized onions, double white cheddar, pickles and Louie sauce.

Goetta Burger Topped with lettuce, tomato, pickled fried red

COPPIN’S

tomato relish on a Sixteen Bricks sesame seed bun.

DESHA’S

The Pimento Burger Ground beef burger with pimento cheese

BRAXTON BREWING CO.

topped with a spicy pickle-tomato relish.

Enjoy a Braxton, receive an extra stamp! Must be 21+ Please drink responsibly

DRAKE’S

BBQ Cordon Blue Burger A fresh, never-frozen patty with

BLONDIE’S SPORTS BAR

Blondie Burger 1/2 pound angus beef burger with pepper jack cheese, jalapeño poppers, chipotle ranch, bacon and jalapeños

marbled jack and blue cheese, smoked ham, bourbon barbecue mayo and shredded lettuce on a warm butter-toasted bun.

BROWN DOG CAFÉ

DUNLAP CAFÉ

with pickled red cabbage, New York white cheddar, Kaiser pickle, red onion and Brown Dog brat mustard.

with your choice of either cheddar or Swiss cheese, dressed with lettuce, tomato, mayo and a pickle on a grilled brioche bun that can take it.

BRU BURGER BAR

FLIPDADDY’S (4 LOCATIONS)

Beef Brat Burger Housemade beef bratwurst on a pretzel bun

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(2 LOCATIONS) Black and BRU Burger Blackened 4 oz. patty with our

signature blend of brisket, sirloin and chuck, onion bacon jam, whipped gorgonzola cheese spread, fresh arugula and sliced tomato.

BUCKETHEADS

The Bucket Burger 1/3 lb. Angus beef, honey-caramelized diced bacon, red onion and American cheese, served on a pretzel bun.

BUFFALO BOB’S

Brussel’s Burger Seasoned, hand-packed beef patty with ovenroasted Brussel’s sprouts and bacon, striped with our housemade tiger sauce on a brioche bun. Horseshoe Burger Seasoned, handpacked beef patty topped with curly fries, homemade chili and queso sauce. Served on a garlic toasted brioche bun.

The Henrietta A fresh 1/4 lb. of ground beef, seasoned and grilled

Kentucky Bourbon Bacon Burger Our sweet and tangy Kentucky bourbon infusion covers our burger along with American cheese, cherrywood-smoked bacon and bacon bits. Peanut Butter & Jelly Burger Burger with melted white cheddar, peanut butter and spicy onion jelly. Topped with crispy bacon and onion straws. Bean Me Up Scotty Black bean and veggie patty topped with pepper jack cheese, tortilla strips and salsa. Swap the bun for a lettuce wrap if you wish!

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Triple Steakburger Three steakburger patties (YES, we said

THREE), three slices of American cheese, mustard, onion and pickles on a toasted bun.

GABBY’S CAFE

Beer Cheese Burger A fresh beef patty with Braxton beer

cheese and caramelized onions on a toasted bun. Served with a side of Saratoga chips and Gabby’s barbecue sauce. Gabby’s Vegan Burger House vegan burger made with black beans and beets.

Topped with lettuce, tomato and pickle on a toasted bun. Served with a side of Saratoga chips and Gabby’s barbecue sauce.

LUCKY DOG GRILLE

OAKLEY PUB & GRILL

SLATTS

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spiked Jack Daniel’s Whiskey pickles, shredded lettuce, cheddar cheese and homemade Yum Yum sauce on a toasted brioche roll. Topped with two beer-battered onion rings.

housemade barbecue sauce and topped with bacon and Wisconsin cheddar cheese.

jalapeño-cilantro cheddar cheese sauce, seasoned rice, black beans, pulled chicken, burrito sauce and fried flour tortilla strips.

The Classic Handmade Angus beef patty with lettuce, tomato and pickle. Breakfast Burger Bacon, pepper jack cheese, fried egg and grilled onions on a brioche bun.

Lucky Dog Burger 1/3 lb. freshly ground burger with housemade

MAC SHACK (2 LOCATIONS)

Memphis Burger Grilled premium Angus chuck smothered with

OVERLOOK KITCHEN + BAR

The Summit Burger Special blend, fontina, house pickle, Summit

GOLD STAR (24 LOCATIONS)

(Mac &) Cheeseburger in Paradise Burger meat with lettuce, tomato, Heinz 57 and french fries on top of a bed of Lovin’ Spoonful mac & cheese. Topped with a pickle spear.

sauce, tomato, red onion and iceberg served on a sesame seed bun.

a drink for just $5. Made-to-order burgers with 100% pure U.S. ground beef and a secret seasoning blend, all topped with our “heavenly” burger sauce. Our burgers include the chili burger, the classic burger, the cheeseburger and the bacon cheeseburger.

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Life Is Gouda Burger 50% Angus beef, 50% applewood smoked

Any Burger Enjoy any single burger with a side of french fries and

GRANDVIEW TAVERN

The Gusto 8 oz. grilled burger topped with pepper jack cheese, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo and chipotle mayo.

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Croque Madame Burger Fresh Eckerlin’s burger, on grilled

Texas toast, with melted Swiss cheese, bacon and grilled onion. Topped with a Sriracha cheese sauce and a sunny-side egg.

HOUSE OF ORANGE

Dutch Lion Burger Made with locally-sourced, farm-to-table

beef. With bacon, slice of gouda, gouda wedge and spicy orange mayo. Includes lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle.

J TAPS

Big J Bacon Burger Fresh-cut 8 oz. patty, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, mayonnaise, American cheese and fresh bacon. Bacon Avocado Burger Fresh-cut 8 oz. patty with avocado, American cheese, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, fresh bacon and housemade Thousand Island dressing.

JACK DANIEL’S™ COCKTAIL

Enjoy a Jack Daniel’s™ special, receive an extra stamp! Must be 21+ Please drink responsibly

KEYSTONE BAR & GRILL

(4 LOCATIONS) Southwestern Burger Keystone’s signature burger grind, Swiss

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Bacon Jam Burger Burger topped with bacon jam, onion straws

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Ragin’ Cajun Burger 1/2 lb. burger topped with grilled mushrooms, onions, Swiss cheese and secret Cajun aioli. The Ladder Patty Melt 1/2 lb. burger topped with caramelized onions, mozzarella cheese and housemade creamy horseradish aioli served on toasted honey swirl bread.

L’BURG DRINKS & MORE

Fire Burger 8 oz. Certified Angus steakburger with ghost pepper cheese, onions, jalapeño slices, pickles, lettuce and tomatoes. Basic Burger 8 oz. Certified Angus steakburger with American cheese, pickles, onions, lettuce and tomatoes.

LOCAL POST

Local Post Burger Beef patty, American cheese, bacon, onion, tomato, shredded lettuce, garlic aioli and a fried pickle topper. Delivered on local Sixteen Bricks challah.

LONGNECKS SPORTS GRILL

(2 LOCATIONS) Longneck Burger A juicy 1/2 lb. of high-quality prime meat with all the fixins. Farmer Burger Our Longneck Burger topped with

French Macaron Burger Dark chocolate ganache “patty”

topped with white chocolate “lettuce” and “cheese,” all on a traditional almond meringue “bun” topped with toasted sesame seeds.

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Pittsburger Burger patty served on thick-cut Italian bread topped

Buffalo Dip Burger A fresh patty with housemade buffalo dip on

American cheese.

MECKLENBURG GARDENS

Boom Boom Burger 1/4 lb. steak burger, bacon, pepper jack

MIDWAY CAFE

Midway Burger Famous Ebert’s Meats beef burger topped with

SMOKE JUSTIS

Federal Burger 1/3 lb. USDA ground-beef patty with Smoke Justis spices, topped with white cheddar cheese and applewood smoked bacon on a locally made brioche bun with house mayo, lettuce, onion and tomato.

STREET CITY PUB

FC Cincy Burger 6 oz. Certified Angus Beef, bacon, onion ring, pimento cheese and mustard-mayo served on a pretzel bun.

TASTE OF BELGIUM (4 LOCATIONS)

B3 Burger Cheddar grits waffle bun, short rib/brisket/chuck blend, candied bacon, cheddar, tomato jam and Belgian barbecue.

TAVERN ON THE BEND

007 Burger Special beef blend fresh daily from Eckerlin’s Meats.

Junior Paxton Burger Burger topped with bacon and Swiss and

with provolone cheese, fries, coleslaw and tomatoes. Served with a side of chips. Blue Balls Burger Burger patty topped with blue cheese crumbles and spicy cheese balls. Served with a side of chips.

The Mecklenburger Served on a white bun, topped with lettuce, candied bacon, tomato jam and cheddar cheese. Ruben Burger Served on a rye bun, topped with Swiss cheese, Thousand Island dressing, corned beef and sauerkraut.Beyond Spring Burger A plant-based burger that looks, cooks and satisfies like beef without gluten, soy or GMOs. Our Beyond burger is served on a white bun, topped with smoked gouda, garlic aioli, fresh spinach, caramelized mushrooms and onions.

Burgerrito 1/2 lb. ground beef on a brioche bun. Topped with

Hand-pattied burger topped with provolone cheese, Tavern secret sauce, lettuce and tomato.

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PRICE HILL CHILI

cheese, jalapeños, grilled onion, lettuce, tomato, and boom boom sauce. Served on a bun.

In Through The Out Door Longdale Farm ground beef patty, sharp cheddar cheese, 2001 sauce, shredded iceberg lettuce and sliced tomato, served on a Sixteen Bricks challah bun.

THE BIRCH TERRACE PARK

PRIME CINCINNATI

Jack Burger Prime burger, rocket arugula, aged Vermont cheddar, bourbon-bacon jam, Berkshire bacon and truffle aioli, served on a brioche bun.

Wasabi Burger An Asian-inspired burger with wasabi mayo, hoisin ginger sauce and sesame slaw on a brioche bun.

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Bacon Blue’s Burger (Crestview)

onions and a sharp cheddar cheese. All on a toasted brioche bun.

Pub Patty Melt (Rookwood)

Guinness Burger Black Angus beef topped with Guinness-braised

All-beef patty, bacon, blue cheese, Swiss cheese, arugula and an onion ring, served on a brioche bun.

QUEEN CITY WHIP

Beef patty, sauerkraut, Swiss and tangy Thousand Island on a brioche bun.

Bocadillos De Hamburguesa (2) Two beef sliders, mahon

TICKLE PICKLE

cheese, pickles, crispy serrano ham and aioli, served on a brioche bun.

and sirloin, locally ground and found at Mackie Quality Meats. Flat-top sizzled, covered in cheddar cheese and served on a toasted bun with all the fixins: lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickle, ketchup, mustard and mayo.

MOTR

RAMSEY’S TRAILSIDE

lettuce, tomato, pickles and onions.

MITA’S

The Queen City Whip Burger 1/4 lb. blend of chuck, brisket

Pearl Jam Beef burger with local jalapeño jam, goat cheese, caramelized onion, and tomato. Buns N’ Roses Housemade vegan black bean burger with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle and spicy ketchup.

MOTR Burger Hand-packed Angus beef topped with a beer-

battered onion ring, romaine, tomato, pickles and chipotle mayo on a toasted brioche bun.

White Cheddar Whiskey Burger Our steak burger topped with Irish whiskey white cheddar, caramelized onions and black garlic aioli.

MURRAY’S WINGS

SALAZAR

topped with melted provolone cheese, crisp applewood bacon and our Signature Bourbon Sauce, complete with lettuce, tomato and onion on a grilled sesame seed bun. Served with Saratoga chips.

lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles and dijonnaise on a sesame seed bun.

and brisket patties smashed and topped with green chilis and white cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato and chipotle mayo on a brioche bun. The Egg-On Targaryen Burger Fresh-ground chuck and brisket smashed and topped with applewood bacon, smoked gouda and a sunny-side-up egg on a brioche bun.

SALEM GARDENS

TRES BELLES CAKES

Bourbon Bacon Burger 1/3 lb. Certified Angus Beef patty

NATION KITCHEN & BAR

The Great White Buffalo Two buffalo-spiced Avril-Bleh Meat Market beef patties, blue cheese crumbles and a buffalo celery mayo, all on a Sixteen Bricks Artisan Bakehouse challah bun.

NATIONAL EXEMPLAR

The Comeback Jr. Longdale Farm beef patty, shredded lettuce, American cheese, comeback sauce on a potato bun.

NICHOLSON’S TAVERN & PUB

Shepherd’s Burger Fresh ground lamb and beef, blended with herbs and sautéed onions, grilled and served on a butter-griddled brioche bun with herbed goat cheese, baby arugula, tomato, red onion and our housemade lemon-garlic aioli.

freshly cooked-to-order bacon and cheddar beneath an over-easy fried egg that we let trickle down your prime meat.

Salazar Burger 4 oz. grass-fed burger with American cheese,

The “Charlie-O” Burger Two 1/4 lb. fresh-ground chuck

cheeseburgers topped with lettuce, white onion, pickle and mayo, served on a Giminetti Baking Co. bun.

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The Green Chili Double Burger Two fresh-ground chuck

Biscoffee Iceburger Glazed donut topped with our housemade Biscoffee ice cream, drizzled with chocolate fudge. Jack the Wheel A double chocolate chip cookie sandwich with whiskey-toffee-chip edible cookie dough. Garnished with crushed pretzels.

TRIO BISTRO

Maple Bacon Burger Topped with a spicy maple glaze, bacon

Goat Cheese Burger 100% beef with goat cheese, caramelized

and cheddar cheese.

onions and arugula on a challah bun.

SANDBAR

WAHLBURGERS

The Southern Comfort Burger A 6 oz. burger with

housemade spicy pimento cheese, jalapeños, fried green tomato, applewood-smoked bacon, lettuce and onion on a brioche bun.

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The Our Burger 1/3 lb. burger, lettuce, tomato, onion, government cheese, Paul’s signature Wahl Sauce and pickles.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM

The Fat Boy American cheese, fried oysters and tarter sauce,

SILVERTON CAFE

Silverton Burger Grilled ham and cheese burger topped with lettuce,

tomato, pickle and onion.

dragged screaming through the garden, on a toasted sesame bun. Red Bean & Rice Burger On an egg-free bun, with fried green tomato and chimichurri slaw.

WISHBONE TAVERN

BURGER WEEK KEY: = BRAXTON SPECIAL = JACK DANIEL’S SPECIAL

= GLUTEN FREE SUBSTITUTE = TAKE OUT AVAILABLE = VEGGIE SUBSTITUTE

Drunken Bourbon Burger Seasoned steakburger with

provolone cheese, bacon, a crispy onion ring and drizzled with bourbon Sriracha and toasted sesame seeds.

Cincinnati

Life is Gouda Burger

Try the Boom Boom Burger + A Braxton Draft for just $8 during Cincy Burger Week!

50% Angus Beef, 50% Applewood Smoked Bacon, Smoked Gouda Cheese, Bacon Jam, Brioche Bun

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Boom Boom Burger

1/4 lb. Steak Burger with bacon, pepper jack cheese, jalapeños, grilled onion, lettuce, tomato, and Boom Boom Sauce! www.PriceHillChili.com Monday-Thursday 6A - 11P Friday-Saturday 6A - 1A

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MEET OHIO’S BEEF FARMING FAMILIES AND FIND BEEF RECIPES AT OHIOBEEF.ORG.

streetcity.pub Come try our $5 Junior Paxton Burger during Cincinnati Burger Week July 15-21

126 W Loveland Ave. Loveland, OH 45140 www.paxtonsgrill.com 513 - 583 - 1717

Pre-Theater 3-Course $25 513.444.4763 ramseystrailside@gmail.com 200 W. Loveland Ave. Loveland , OH 45140

580 Walnut St • Cincinnati, OH 45202

Pre-Theater 3-Course $35 LIVE MUSIC THURS. - SAT. PAT I O S E AT I N G AVA I L A B L E

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Half pound angus beef topped with Vermont Cheddar cheese and Guinness braised onions on a toasted brioche bun

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Come try our $5 Burger during Cincinnati Burger Week! Grilled ham and cheese burger topped with lettuce, tomato, pickle and onion

7201 Montgomery Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45236 www.silvertoncafe.com 513-791-2922

SINCE 1993 THE SILVERTON CAFE HAS BEEN WHERE THE ELITE MEET TO EAT AND GREET. THE SILVERTON CAFE IS HOME TO THE AUTHENTIC CINCINNATI EXPERIENCE.

$5 B U RG E R S

Rotating

Mac & Cheese Specials

Large

Craft Beer Selection

Half Off

Mac & Cheese Mondays

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The Place to Party in Symmes Twp. for Over 25 Years

Celebrate Burger Week at Sammy's! SAMMY'S MAPLE BACON BURGER TOPPED WITH A SPICY MAPLE GLAZE, BACON & CHEDDAR CHEESE Add a Jack Daniels & Coke or Braxton for just $5 more!

Sammy’s Craft Burgers & Beers proudly supports local love. Our signature burger grind is ground locally daily, our breads are baked in Cincinnati, OH, our recipes support local breweries. We are committed to supporting local and passing it on to our customers

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Celebrate burger week at Tēla with an In Through the Out Door! 1212 Springfield Pike Cincinnati, OH 45215 513.821.8352 (TELA)

fresh seasonal menu • outdoor patio Curated Wine & Beer Selections 702 c as ual atmosph e re • b occ e b al l

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Available July 15-21 for Cincinnati’s Burger Week OTR | 1135 Vine Street Clifton | 2845 Vine Street

Rookwood | 3825 Edwards Road The Banks | 16 W Freedom Way

515 Wyoming Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45215

(513)821- 6040

JUST $5 EACH FOR CINCINNATI BURGER WEEK!

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9856 Montgomery Road (Next to Camargo Cadillac) (513) 791-1900 | www.ToastAndBerry.com Open 7 Days a Week from 7am - 2:30pm

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Biscoffee Iceburger: Biscoffee ice cream sandwiched in a glazed donut with chocolate drizzle.

Happy Eating! Sun noon-4

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EAT, DRINK, & SAVE!

$5 burger July 15-21 513-984-1905 | triobistro.com | 7565 Kenwood Road

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Ongoing Shows VISUAL ART: Kimono: Refashioning Contemporary Style Cincinnati Art Museum, Mount Adams (through Sept. 15)

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EVENT: Cocktails for Conservation Mix and mingle with Fiona, Fennessy, Adana and all the other new and classic zoo animals during Cocktails for Conversation. This event helps raise funds for the Zoo’s Lindner Center for the Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife and, after some public feedback, the entire Toast to the Wild boozy zoo series features extended event hours, more zoo access to more animals, a larger selection of drinks and more food for purchase. Sip on zoo-inspired mixed drinks created by Molly Wellmann. VIP tickets include complimentary light bites. Rain or shine. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Thursday. $45 member; $50 non-member; $75 VIP member; $80 VIP non-member; $25 member designated driver; $30 non-member designated driver. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale, cincinnatizoo.org. — ERIN GARDNER

EVENT: Bourbon, Bacon and Brew Festival Celebrate an American — and Cincinnati — food icon on the Ohio riverfront: bacon. There will be Moerlein beer flights and food pairings and a Cincinnati beer trivia contest, where the winner will receive two passes to any Brewery District tour. The live music lineup includes Trailer Park Floosies, Marsha Brady, Moment 44, Final Order and more. With numerous eateries supplying bacon-centric fare from bacon-wrapped meatballs and pork belly mac and cheese to bacon cream puffs and bacon cannoli, this event knows its way to a person’s heart — and arteries. There will also be bourbon tastings, bourbon creations from area mixologists and craft beer. 5-11 p.m. Thursday-Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Festival Park, Riverboat Row, Newport, cincinnatifestivalsandevents. com. — NICK SULLIVAN

EVENT: Taft House Party This Taft House Party focuses on creativity with a panel discussion led by Creative City podcast founder Tamia Stinson and featuring designer and Project Runway contestant Tessa Clark, Far-I-Rome Creative agency founder Rome Ntukogu and Jack Wood Gallery founder Jack Wood; each will be discussing their work and how the museum’s L’Affichomania: The Passion for French Posters exhibit has motivated them. In addition to the panel, check out live music from Lauren Eylise and paint whatever you’re feeling with provided paint, stencils and canvas. Challenge your friends to a game of giant Jenga, Connect Four or tic tac toe, which will be out on the front lawn. Food will be available from Honey Child Artisan Pops and Taqueria La Parrilla. 5-8 p.m. Thursday. Free admission. Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown, taftmuseum.org. — ERIN GARDNER

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MUSIC: Carly Rae Jepsen supports Dedicated, her self-described “understated disco, living room dance party thing,” at Bogart’s. See Sound Advice on page 69.

ONSTAGE: Mr. Burns, a post-electric play at The Carnegie With a title like Mr. Burns, one can expect this play to be nothing short of “excellent.” The dark comedy follows a group of survivors who, living in a post-apocalyptic society, attempt to recreate scenes from The Simpsons and other pop culture entities. Over time, these pop culture snippets become the new society’s primary form of entertainment and, decades later, the mythology of future generations from which new performances are created. From Anne Washburn and Michael Friedman and performed by the Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. $15 adults;

$12 students/seniors. The Carnegie, 1028 Scott St., Covington, facebook.com/ castnky. — NICK SULLIVAN ART: Contemporary Arts Center Exhibit Opening Celebration Three new exhibitions are coming to the Contemporary Arts Center: Saya Woolfalk’s A Cabinet of Anticipation, a multimedia display centered on a fictional race of women, “Empathics,” who can alter their genes and merge with the natural world; Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s All my seven faces, African Futurist paintings that celebrate the revolutionary potential of imagination; and Bubi Canal’s Into the Gloaming, a photographic series that brings otherworldly characters to life. The celebration open to the public begins at 8 p.m., but there are receptions and a talk with the artists open to CAC members beginning at 6 p.m. Read more about the exhibits on page 66. 6-11 p.m. Friday. CONTINUES ON PAGE 52

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MUSIC: And The Kids bring elegantly aggressive Indie Rock to Urban Artifact. See Sound Advice on page 68.

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EVENT: Cincinnati Burger Week Kick-Off Party Cincinnati Burger Week officially starts on Monday, but get a meaty sneak peek at Braxton Brewing Co. on Wednesday as a handful of burger joints head to the brewery to offer samples. Get a taste of what Flipdaddy’s, Bru Burger Bar, Keystone Bar & Grill and The Pub have to offer (while supplies last) and imbibe a Braxton brew or two. It will be your first chance to pick up an official Burger Week passport — and have it stamped. Starting Monday, Cincinnati Burger Week launches a seven-day food frenzy (through July 21) featuring $5 specialty burgers at more than 75 area restaurants, bars and bakeries (they serve dessert “burgers,” not like meat donuts). The creations run the gamut from straightforward quarter pounders to veggie burgers and really wild monstrosities. Proceeds from Burger Week help benefit Childhood Food Solutions, a nonprofit that works to help kids secure access to food during school breaks. Burger Week is presented by the Ohio Beef Council and sponsored by Braxton and Jack Daniel’s, so look for drink specials. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Free admission. Braxton Brewing Co., 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, cincinnatiburgerweek.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: Paradise Music & Beer Festival Braxton Brewing Co. and Essential Productions are transforming Covington into a version of paradise with this two-day music and beer fest featuring live music from headliners The Infamous Stringdusters and Keller Williams. Food trucks will be on-site, with craft beers available from Braxton. Admission is free, but those who want to upgrade their experience can get a VIP ticket, which includes a meal, seven beers, a T-shirt and access to private restrooms. 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday; 1 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturday. Free admission; VIP tickets start at $50. Braxton Brewing Co., 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, paradise-fest.com. — EMMA STIEFEL MUSIC: Peter Frampton Rock legend Peter Frampton — who lived in Cincinnati for several years around the turn of the century — announced in February that he would embark on his final tour this summer. Dates include this week’s concert at Riverbend Music Center,

where Frampton has performed several times in recent years. Frampton told CBS This Morning he was retiring from the road because he has the autoimmune disease Inclusion Body Myositis, a progressive muscular disorder, and he wants to go out while he is still in top form, playing-wise. “I’m a perfectionist and I do not want to go out there and feel like, ‘Oh I can’t, this isn’t good,’ ” he said. After co-founding Rock supergroup Humble Pie in 1969 when he was just 18, Frampton began his historic solo career. His double-live album Frampton Comes Alive! made him a superstar in 1976; it was the best-selling album of 1976 and remains one of the top-selling live albums of all time, moving more than 11 million units worldwide. Frampton bought a home in Indian Hill in 2000 after marrying a woman from the area. He sold the house after getting divorced earlier this decade and now lives in Nashville. When Frampton lived in Cincinnati, he was involved in several community projects. He appeared on the King Records tribute

EVENT: Swing House Open House Camp Washington’s Swing House is open on Saturday for the curious public to poke around. It took artist Mark de Jong around three years to complete the renovations to a 1880s three-story brick building, removing the upper floors and creating a functional work of architectural art that does in fact feature a swing suspended from rafters in the ceiling. The house includes a kitchen, bedroom, floating cabinets, a bathroom — all the normal accessories you’d find in an average abode — and you can even rent it on Airbnb. If you can’t make it to this open house, don’t worry: The Swing House is open the second Saturday of every month. Noon-4 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Swing House, 1373 Avon Place, Camp Washington, swing-house.com. — ERIN GARDNER

album Hidden Treasures in the early ’00s alongside local acts Over The Rhine, The Ass Ponys, Blessid Union of Souls and others, recording a cover of Freddie King’s “Hide Away” that also featured local drummer Philip Paul, who appeared on the original. Joining Frampton for his final Cincinnati show will be Jason Bonham, son of Led

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EVENT: Second Sunday on Main The second Sunday of each month June through October finds Main Street abuzz with vendors, food trucks and brews as a part of OTR’s most eclectic street festival. This month, the event is sock-hop-themed, featuring live performances of 1950s and ’60s tunes, a muscle car show and Salsa and Polka dancing by Cincinnati Baila Dance Academy. Gather up some greaser and sock friends for a time that’s sure to be a gas, daddy-o. For hip cats. Made in the shade. You get the point. Noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Free. Main Street between 12th and Liberty streets, Over-the-Rhine, secondsundayonmain. org. — NICK SULLIVAN

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COMEDY: Lawyer, opera singer and stand-up Brooke Cartus brings Midwestern queer comedy to Taft’s

EVENT: The OFF Market Get your weekend “off” to a great start at Oakley’s monthly market. Browse art, food, clothing, trinkets and more, all while supporting independent local creators. You can complement your local shopping with a local beer from MadTree Brewing, where the event is held. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. MadTree Brewing Barrel Warehouse, 3301 Madison Road, Oakley, theoffmarket.org. — EMMA STIEfEL

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EVENT: Rüya Coffee hosts a pop-up at Camp Washington’s The Welcome Project. See feature on page 63.

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MUSIC: Indie Rock legends Sebadoh play the Woodward Theater. See interview on page 66.

MUSIC: Singer/songwriter John Paul White of the former Americana/Folk duo The Civil Wars brings his solo artistry to the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 69.

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started, he was able to catch on with the Arena Football League’s Utah Blaze and was on the Buffalo Bills’ practice squad before moving on to mixed martial arts fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). From there, he went into podcasting with comedian Bryan Callen. The two cohost The Fighter and The Kid, which introduced Schaub to the world of stand-up. He started at clubs in Los Angeles before playing shows across North America and around the world. 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday; 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday. $25$50. Funny Bone Liberty, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone. com. – P.F. Wilson

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pure reds, blues and yellows that act as optimistic bulwarks against the eerie unknown. In his 2010 Supercolor series, an early precursor to his upcoming CAC exhibition, a wizard-like figure in a blue bubble jacket huddles with plush Rainbow Brite sprites; an evening storm frames them in darkness. “Love Is My Message” (2013) centers on a half-human, halfmascot biker in Jordan tennis shoes, acting as a purple beacon of positivity against the creeping dawn. Furbys — yes, the robotic, owl-like toy from the 1990s — feature prominently throughout his body of work. “(Canal’s photography) is reassuring,” Seda-Reeder says. “The work isn’t supposed to be jarring or disorienting. There’s something very childlike about it — something willfully naïve that really reflects his personality.” All three exhibitions open July 12, kicking off with a 6 p.m. cocktail reception, followed by a 7 p.m. artist talk that is free to all CAC members. A public celebration follows at 8 p.m. Saya Woolfalk’s A Cabinet of Anticipation, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s All my seven faces and Bubi Canal’s Into the Gloaming open July 12 at the Contemporary Arts Center (44 E. Sixth St., Downtown). More info: contemporaryartscenter.org.

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technique which allows you to see the under layers of pencil through thin, very watery layers of paint,” Umansky says. “This is a technique she has developed over the years, but for me as a historian — and I’m sure for her as well — traces back to what we now call the ‘palimpsest,’ which is the idea that you can have layers of understanding. In that case, it was in the pages of books; and in Pamela’s case, it’s in layers of paint.” Slated for the lower-level lobby gallery, Spanish photographer Bubi Canal’s Into the Gloaming series embraces absurdity by centering itself on playful costume design that wouldn’t feel out of place buried in a toy chest. The show’s 18 photographs and supplementary video, shot during the “gloaming,” aka twilight or dusk, were curated by former CityBeat arts contributor Maria Seda-Reeder. “There’s a kind of nuance and ambiguity that his photographs kind of get to that allows for multiple things at once,” says Seda-Reeder. “It feels like daytime because the sun is out, but it’s in the process of going away. There’s a kind of magic that happens in those transitional moments, a kind of interstitial thing.” Surrealism is often associated with murky colors and an unnerving atmosphere, yet Canal’s work emerges from the subconscious swathed in

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immersive and intricate constellations of projection and wall-mounted sculptures will surround the visitor. Much of the work in the exhibition opens up possibilities for future human narratives and the acceleration of post-humanism.” Sunstrum, born in Botswana and based in Canada, also explores the symbiosis between humans and their digital selves. Her mid-career survey, All my seven faces, will feature the largest-ever display of her drawings, as well as the first monograph dedicated to her work. Often working in pencil, gouache and watercolor, Sunstrum layers faceless figures atop surreal landscapes. Bodies merge into multi-limbed beings. Flowing dresses mime mountain ranges. Dreamy pastels and geometric shapes form backdrops that are by no means natural, but perhaps nature-adjacent. “The notion of the avatar is essential to her work,” Umansky says. “A visual being tied to our imagination. It’s an added layer of simulation to what we perceive as reality. Sunstrum calls her avatar Asme, which reads ‘as me’ if you cut the word down the middle.” It’s this idea of multiplying the self that inspired the title of Sunstrum’s show and connects the decade of artistic output that will be on exhibit. “She has this really unusual, elaborate

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f the Contemporary Arts Center’s three upcoming exhibitions are any indication, your visit to the museum might take a turn for the trippy. Starting July 12, the CAC’s gallery spaces will erupt with primary colors, exhibiting vibrant — and often lysergic — solo work from Saya Woolfalk, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and Bubi Canal. “It’s clear when you look at the imagery that there’s a thread between them,” says Valentine Umansky, the CAC’s curator of lens-based arts. “Part of that is deliberate and part of it’s by chance — let’s say ‘orchestrated chance.’ ” Umansky has curated the solo shows for Woolfalk and Sunstrum, which will be on display in the second-floor gallery. Woolfalk crafts large, diorama-like scenes and Sunstrum paints flat, surreal tableaux, but both focus on the links (and disconnects) between identity and the digital world. The future and past co-exist as folk-art tropes merge with visions of technological progress. Woolfalk, a New Yorker who is of Japanese and African-American descent, is fascinated by the concept of hybridity: the combination of genes, cultures or species. Each sense of the word is evident in her upcoming CAC exhibition, A Cabinet of Anticipation. In Woolfalk’s imagination, the future promises the Chimacloud — a virtual world just beyond ordinary perception made accessible by the advancements created by a firm called ChimaTek. Through works that resemble anthropological exhibits, Woolfalk introduces audiences to the Empathics, a race that has learned to transport their consciousness into this new, customizable universe. There, limitless possibilities have leveled the distinctions between cultures and geographical locations; what’s left is a colorful hybrid of all lifestyles and eras that have previously existed. To say her work is maximal is an understatement. “The gallery will feel like walking into the dark of night,” reads the CAC’s press release. “Deep blue walls filled with

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In a strange turn of events, the disparate respectfully pull inspiration from another worlds of the Cincinnati Art Museum and culture, Amnéus says that those featured Kim Kardashian West have collided. The in the exhibition used motifs, silhouettes reason for overlap? The term “kimono.” and specific techniques that embellish Kardashian announced on June 25 via their fabrics to emulate the kimono. Twitter that she had planned to name “They admire Japanese design and were her new Spanx-esque shapewear line inspired by it, creating versions that are Kimono, which borrows from the word their own yet pay homage to the original for the traditional Japanese garment. She source,” she says. “Many artists have done drew criticism for the move from the this and couturiers are artists in their own Mayor of Kyoto, a Japanese city known right, pulling inspiration from various culfor its beautiful kimonos. Subsequently, tures and to create different styles. They do Kardashian took to Twitter again July 1 not simply adopt the name of a garment.” to apologize and say her brand will now Kardashian’s decision to change the launch under a new name. Kardashian’s controversy just so happens to coincide with the CAM’s newly-opened Kimono: Refashioning Contemporary Style ticketed exhibition. Organized in partnership with The Kyoto Costume Institute and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, it explores the kimono’s lasting impact on fashion worldwide from the 1870s to present day. Because of the overlap, Jill Dunne, CAM’s director of marketing and communications, says that A few of the pieces in CAM’s new Kimono exhibition. both The Guardian and PHOTO: MACKENZIE MANLEY TMZ have reached out to them and the Asian Art Museum to discuss the cross-cultural name came, in part, after the Mayor legacy of the kimono. of Kyoto penned an open letter asking “I was surprised at the choice of the her to reconsider her choice while also name,” says Cynthia Amnéus, CAM’s explaining the kimono’s rich tradition in curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles, upon Japanese culture. hearing Kardashian’s announcement. “In recent years, we see not only Japanese “Shapewear and kimono essentially have but also many foreign tourists wearing nothing in common. Although kimono Kimono and strolling around in Kyoto can seem confining, when this traditional and cities in Japan,” he wrote. “It is proof Japanese garment was introduced to the that Kimono, that we are proud of as our West in the middle of the 19th century, it traditional culture, is loved by people from was admired because of its expansive cut around the world.” and looseness. The Japanese speak about Dunne says that, because of Kardashian admired attribute called ‘ma’ — space an’s large following — she has over 60 milbetween the body and the garment. This lion followers on Twitter alone — the CAM does not seem compatible with shapewear hopes the situation can open up a larger that confines and shapes the body.” conversation and that their exhibition The CAM’s exhibition, which opened can provide a teaching moment about the June 28, boasts over 50 pieces — from texcross-cultural impact of the kimono. tiles to shoes, paintings and prints. It walks “Creating this type of understanding is visitors through the early and contempopart of our core at the museum,” she says. rary influence of Japanese art and fashion “The fact that the kimono is being discussed on the Western world. One such example in popular culture at this moment when of pieces that were collected by Western we have an exhibition exploring the topic artists is a gray-blue silk kimono that dates is a great opportunity. I hope that even a back to the mid-19th century; it depicts small part of Kim Kardashian’s millions of blossoming trees, red and yellow peonies, fans are willing to visit the Cincinnati Art finely detailed waterfalls and a whimsical Museum to see this exhibition.” komainu (lion-dog) traversing through the Kimono: Refashioning Contemporary landscape. Style will be on display at the Cincinnati Art Walk through the gallery space and Museum through Sept. 15. Tickets/more you’ll also encounter modern takes info: cincinnatiartmuseum.org. by Japanese, European and American designers. When asked how designers

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Perhaps what is most striking about any given Night Vale episode — live or otherwise — is the juxtaposition between heavy, sometimes scary, subject material and absurdist, often existential, humor. That balance, Cranor says, is a delicate one. “Sometimes, if things get too heavy, I think there’s a feeling of needing to lighten up a little bit,” he says. “I just think about when you go to a funeral, afterward, when you’re around people there’s a sense of wanting to remember the dead. That’s one of the heaviest feelings in the whole world. “What’s amazing to me about moments like that is how people will then tell funny jokes — some of them even dark jokes. And it always feels right in the moment. And I think I am always trying to find those ways of getting around from heavy to light in storytelling.” That sentiment is in line with the kind of writing both Cranor and Fink are often drawn to. Cranor’s ultimate hope for Welcome to Night Vale as it embarks on its seventh year? That it continues to have longevity and resonate with its devoted pack of listeners.

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A smooth voice akin to the whir of distant highway traffic rumbles: “Hello, listeners.” It’s the voice of Cecil Baldwin, the host of popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale, which centers on a quirky desert town located in the Southwestern United States. It’s a place where dark-hooded figures lurk, a faceless old woman is always just out of sight and dog parks occupy different dimensions. Think of it as somewhere between Twin Peaks and The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Or, more simply, a place where all conspiracies are real. Created by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor in 2012, episodes of the fictionalized podcast are released twice a month — on the first and fifteenth — and run just under 30 minutes. It first exploded into popularity in 2013, rocketing to the No. 1 spot on iTunes’ most downloaded podcasts in August of that year. Since then the show has produced 150 episodes, two novels — a third is in the works — and seven (soon to be eight) live shows. Fink’s and Cranor’s production company, Night Vale Presents, expanded in 2016 to include other original podcasts: Alice Isn’t Dead, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats and Sleep With Me, to name a few. Their current live show tour, “The Spy in the Desert,” will come to Cincinnati’s Taft Theatre July 13. In a recent conversation with Cranor via phone, he calls the standalone episode a spy thriller. “It’s about a secret spy that has arrived in Night Vale and nobody can seem to track that person down,” he explains. Cranor recalls how he and Fink first connected: the theater company New York Neo-Futurists. Both he and Fink wrote for the company’s late-night show The Infinite Wrench, in which 30 plays are performed in an hour. “When Joseph and I started writing the podcast, we set deadlines for ourselves to say, ‘Well, these episodes will go on these exact dates and we will do this show ad infinitum until we die or retire. And neither of those two things have happened yet,” he says with a laugh. “But yeah, I think the work ethic of the Neo-Futurists was really, really influential on me.” Guided by the voice of Baldwin, Cranor says Night Vale’s adaptation from earbuds to a live staging is an easy transition. “It’s about the storytelling. And it’s about your lead actor. Somebody like Cecil Baldwin — we just have so much faith in Cecil because he’s such a good actor, he’s a great performer and has an incredible stage presence. I think the best thing we could possibly do is just get him in front of a mic in front of an audience. And that will stand out. And once we did that a couple times we were like, ‘Yep, we were right. This is correct. He’s perfect for this.’ ” The more complicated part of translating Night Vale to the stage was finding a way to write the scripts so that they would

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The multi-hyphenate Brooke Cartus grew up in Buffalo, New York, became a professional opera singer and started doing standup comedy while living all over the state, including in New York City. She moved to Columbus in 2011 to attend law school at Ohio State University and has lived there ever since. Soon after she moved to Ohio, she officially came out as gay. “I came out three times and each time a different Brooke Cartus family member or friend PHOTO: COURTESY OF BROOKE CARTUS pushed me back in,” a homophobic woman hides her hate in Cartus says. “It’s fine. It her bangs and how Catholic school turned makes for good jokes.” Cartus gay. Cincinnatians will have a chance to hear “For me, my lens of the world is those jokes when she performs at Taft’s inherently radical to some folks,” she says. Brewpourium’s Laughs at Taft’s on July “But I can’t not talk about that, because 13, hosted by local Bombs Away! Comedy it’s my experience. The straight cis white showcase. A big part of her shtick is coming dude is going to tell his experience, so to terms with her queerness. why wouldn’t I talk about representing “Grappling with that is a huge challenge incarcerated individuals who are suing the to talk about with your friends let alone state of Ohio?” into a microphone with strangers,” she Speaking of white dudes, the says. “Finding my own voice in comedy conversation turns to “the most famous has also helped with my own identity rapist in comedy right now,” comedian outside of comedy.” Louis C.K., who recently performed six Though the jokes came first, she got sold-out shows at Columbus’s Funny Bone. her law degree so she could help LGBTQ “It’s harder for people who aren’t famous people fight the system that’s sometimes comedians to call out the misogyny and rigged against them, she says. “It made the rape culture we see all the time,” me want to have the tools to be able to do Cartus says. “And it’s not just comedy. It’s something about it and people listen to in our culture. I’m not blaming comics. you more when you’re a lawyer. Though I I’m not blaming stand-up. It’s just as don’t always come out onstage as a lawyer infuriating as seeing some local guy who’s now. Oftentimes I’ll come out as queer really put down some women. What Louis way sooner than I’ll come out as a lawyer, C.K. is doing is signaling to those people because everyone hates lawyers.” that what they do is OK, and audiences’ Currently, she doesn’t practice law but reactions to him are cueing to comedians instead volunteers at The Legal Aid Society around the country that your treatment of of Ohio. In June, as part of her activism, women doesn’t matter.” she hosted a fundraiser in Columbus and But it does matter. Cartus feels OK about raised almost $1,000 to help provide horgetting grouped into queer comedy slots or mones to transgender migrants in Mexico. all-women shows but she also likes getting As a queer performer in a conservative booked for straight shows and doesn’t state, Cartus says her liberal brand of want to be pigeonholed as just a queer Midwestern queer comedy forces her comedian. to work harder to entertain audience “For me, looking up and seeing diverse members, like a 70-year-old woman voices at a national level is so important,” wearing a MAGA hat and knitting (the she says. “But when I look in local shows woman thought Cartus was funny), or an — that’s where I look because to me that’s angry man who wouldn’t uncross his arms what matters — frankly sometimes it’s during the entire show. great and sometimes it’s not. I think we “You still have to connect with folks,” she need to make space for diverse voices in all says. “You still have to make them laugh, or sorts of venues.” at the very least make them listen. I can’t leave my politics off stage. I’m not going to Brooke Cartus will perform at Taft’s change my jokes for people. I have to make Brewpourium (4831 Spring Grove Ave., sure my queer identity and what I like to do Spring Grove Village) as part of Laughs at as a lawyer is something that they can still Taft’s on July 13. Tickets are $10. The show laugh at it.” also features David Broermann, Josh Faust During her set — and also on her and Erica Russell. More info: facebook. comedy album I Have Straight Friends & com/bombsawaycomedy. Other Confessions — she talks about how

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Tom Holland is the third actor to play a live-action Peter Parker and his superhero alter-ego SpiderMan, and yet, within a brief three-year window, he has been featured in the role five times — as many times as Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield combined. Spider-Man: Far From Home is Holland’s second solo outing since the character officially joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the stakes Tom Holland as Spider-Man (left) with Jake Gyllenhaal as Quentin seem to be quite high. Beck in Spider-Man: Far From Home The world of Far From P H O T O : J AY M A I D M E N T / / S O N Y P I C T U R E S Home is caught in a surreal using his powers at a key early moment, transitional phase. As which teaches him the lesson that “with viewers know, Avengers: Infinity War set great power comes great responsibility.” up the cataclysmic battle between Thanos Instead, we see Peter as a hapless (Josh Brolin), armed with the all-powerful teen with an ever-expanding number of Infinity Stones, and Earth’s Mightiest people who are in on his secret. His best Heroes/the Guardians of the Galaxy, friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) discovers which left the good guys and the universe Peter’s secret identity in Spider-Man: reeling as Thanos snapped half of all life Homecoming and his aunt May (Marisa on Earth out of existence. The Avengers: Tomei) finds out at the end of that movie. Endgame follow-up presented an Ocean’s (Coincidentally, they are all victims of the Eleven-styled time-traveling plan to gather Thanos snap.) the stones before Thanos did in order to Peter, as I imagine him, is a far more reverse his snap and return everyone who complex character than Far From Home had been lost. even allows him to be because of that It’s no surprise to say that the plan initial — and unseen — tragedy. His guilt was successful and Thanos was eventustems from the fact that his Uncle Ben ally defeated, which is where Far From was his first father figure, the man who he Home picks up. Spider-Man was among watched and longed to emulate. He then the characters snapped out of existence, latched onto Stark and had to deal with but after the defeat of Thanos, he returns returning from the dead along with losing exactly as he was when the snap occurred. yet another mentor. Those who survived the snap lived and Far From Home finds him running away aged during the five-year period between from Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Infinity War and Endgame, setting up some weirded out by the budding relationship startling changes for everyone. Even more between his aunt and Stark’s former traumatic for some, like Spider-Man, is assistant/bodyguard Happy Hogan (Jon dealing with the loss of heroic mentors. Favreau). When he is pressed to partner Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) held Peter with Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal), a Parker in his arms as he turned to ash in mysterious hero from another dimension Infinity War and Peter was by Stark’s side in the multiverse, Peter jumps at the as he succumbed to his injuries at the chance to connect and lay down a portion conclusion of Endgame. of the burden he feels he’s not ready to Stark, who recruited Spider-Man for shoulder: being the hero to replace Stark’s his alternative Avengers team in Captain Iron Man. America: Civil War, became a father figure/ What I enjoy about Holland, as both mentor to Peter. He created a high-tech Peter and Spider-Man, is his youthful suit for the neighborhood wall-crawler, naïveté and the sometimes little-boy-lost provoked his curious mind and inspired look that crosses his face in moments him to take on greater responsibility as a of crisis. More than with Maguire and hero. Garfield, we get to appreciate how this What’s fascinating about this dynamic kid has been thrust into a situation far and the role of Spider-Man in the MCU is beyond his emotional and psychological that all of this has happened without Peter comprehension. We also see that, as long receiving a proper origin story. There has as he doesn’t have much time to consider been no re-enactment of the radioactive the epic level of tragedy he has had to face spider bite, the amazing first recognition of thus far, Peter (and the entire MCU) will Peter’s powers or his fledgling attempts at be just fine. What more should we expect using them. Most importantly, we haven’t from our comic book heroes? (In theaters) seen how Peter deals with the tragic loss (PG-13) Grade: Aof his Uncle Ben, a direct result of him not

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pounds of short rib a week to create the popovers, which come eight to an order. “We braise the crap out of it,” he says, in a mixture of red wine, garlic and shallots, “low and long, until it’s fork-tender.” “Then I chill it, and I pick it to get all the impurities out. And then I’ll season it again,” he says. The juicy little pastry packets are stuffed with the beef and surrounded by a mushroom duxelle, with a pert tarragon aioli to balance the meatiness. I could have eaten the popovers alone for dinner and been stuffed (and delighted), but I like a challenge, so we also tried the scallops ($15), which were nicely seared, and the stuffed portobello mushroom ($12), which also could have been a meal on its own. There are a handful of entrées and several other additional small plates to choose from as well. The menu’s overall vibe is laid-back, a true “California kitchen,” as Matthew says, with wine-friendly food that’s seasonally inspired. Moving into the earnest summer months, Smith says the menu will feature a watermelon and feta salad, among other warm-weather offerings. “We’re a small operation and we don’t have much storage space or prep area, so we buy local and seasonal as much as we can,” Kathleen says. In addition to Urban Stead’s cheddar, other locally provided fare includes bread from Peppe Cucina in Covington; on another recent visit during the restaurant’s

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says. “You’re tasting a quality wine that otherwise you may not have been able to try somewhere else, and you’re not breaking the bank. After you have the opportunity to try it and you know that you like it, maybe next time, you might buy the bottle, and you might introduce your friends to it because you were able to try it on a smaller scale.” Dinner started with a choose-four charcuterie board ($16), followed by the roasted beet salad ($12.50) with butternut squash, chevre, pepitas, prosciutto and an orangeparsley vinaigrette. You can also choose two or six items for your charcuterie from a nice selection of meats and cheeses, including local Urban Stead cheddar. The butternut squash in the salad was perfectly done, and the vinaigrette had a nice kick. My dining partner and I couldn’t resist ordering the beef Wellington popovers ($13.50), which chef Will Smith says are one of Ripple’s most popular items. “Every Wellington bite that you’ve had here, I’ve rolled personally,” he says. Smith worked in a number of restaurants locally and nationally before Ripple (including a stint at Gloria Estefan’s now-shuttered Cuban-flavored Bongos restaurant in Miami) and graduated from Sullivan University’s culinary program in Louisville. Working in an exclusively electric kitchen, Smith goes through about 25

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ipple Wine Bar is one of those sweet little spots that hits all the right notes. Too often, restaurants chase a gimmick or sweat it out over laborious minutiae. That’s not to say Ripple doesn’t pay attention to the details, but husband-and-wife owners Matthew and Kathleen Haws don’t forget the bigger picture, either. Which, for them, is simple: good wine, lots of it, paired with good food. “Small-plate restaurants have definitely taken off, and that concept is nothing new, but pairing it with a significant wine program is definitely new, especially to our area,” says Kathleen of the impetus behind Ripple. She and Matthew are both wine fans and found a need to commit to a finedining experience to get the kind of wine variety they were looking for when dining out. But Ripple is more of a boutique restaurant, while maintaining a fullservice experience. The bar at Ripple offers 40 varietals, many of which are served via a sleek, stainless steel Cruvinet system (“the Porsche of Cruvinets,” according to Matt) that accommodates 29 wines. A Cruvinet uses nitrogen to extract the wine, ensuring next to no oxygen gets in the bottle, keeping it fresh for up to three months. On a recent visit, I tried the Terrae, a bright, medium-bodied garnacha that set the upbeat tone for the whole dining experience. Wine at Ripple comes by the glass or half glass, bottle or half bottle. I loved the range of options because I am not a wine aficionado and can be timid when it comes to purchasing a full amount of anything about which I’m unsure. This was an intentional move. Ripple also does a $10 half-bottle happy hour (4-6 p.m.) for gun-shy consumers or folks dining solo. “We’re able to offer some high-end wines at more of an affordable price. You don’t have to dedicate yourself to the entire bottle; you can order a half-glass,” Kathleen

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Summer Food Fest — The Summit Hotel is hosting a summer food carnival filled with classic picnic eats and au courant street food to celebrate Cincinnati Magazine’s summer food issue. There will also be live music and outdoor games. 7-9 p.m. $25 advance; $30 door. The Summit, 5345 Medpace Way, Madisonville, facebook. com/cincinnatimag. Tiki Night at Japp’s — Tiki Night is pushed back a week because of the Fourth of July holiday, but the bartenders are ready to set sail tonight with a menu full of tropical cocktails, island music and light bites. 8 p.m. Free admission. Japp’s Since 1879, 1134 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook. com/japps1879.

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Cocktails for Conservation — This boozy afterhours zoo event is bigger than ever with longer hours and a larger layout. Toast to the wild with a series of zoo-inspired cocktails created by Molly Wellmann and check out a variety of zoo animals. VIP tickets include light bites, while other ticket options include access to food for purchase. 6:30-9:30 p.m. $45 members; $50 non-members; $35-$30 designated driver; $75 member VIP; $80 non-member VIP. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale, cincinnatizoo.org.

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Most classes and events require registration and classes frequently sell out. afternoon party features DJs, an outdoor market and cocktail specials all day. Arrive early for some food surprises. Pineapple and island-themed outfits are encouraged but not required. Noon-6 p.m. Free admission. Revel OTR Urban Winery, 111 E. 12th St., Over-theRhine, facebook.com/ merakihaus.

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The Art of Making Sauerkraut — The Pickled Pig visits Gorman Heritage Farm for this class on making your own sauerkraut. In this hands-on workshop, discover how to turn organic cabbage grown and harvested on the farm into fermented food. 1-3 p.m. $17-$20. Gorman Heritage Farm, 10052 Reading Road, Evendale, facebook.com/ gormanfarm. National Mac & Cheese Day at Keystone and Mac Shack — All three Keystone locations — Covington (313 Greenup St.), Hyde Park (3384 Erie Ave.) and Clifton (249 Calhoun St.) — will be serving mac and cheese chicken and waffles. If you aren’t ready for that monster, they will also have chili mac and cheese fries. And if you want to go traditional and still honor the dairy noodles, every Keystone menu mac is only $7.14 all day long. Head to Keystone’s offshoot — the Mac Shack in Clifton (249 Calhoun St.) or Green Township (5655 Harrison Ave.) — to grab their Cheeseburger in Paradise mac: burger meat plopped on top of a pile of Lovin’ Spoonful macaroni and cheese, and then topped with lettuce, tomato, Heinz 57 sauce, french fries and a pickle spear. More info keystonebar.com and eatmacshack.com. Rüya Pop-Up at The Welcome Project — Turkish coffee pop-up Rüya is heading to Camp Washington’s Welcome Project, an offshoot of Wave Pool to assist refugees and immigrants in Cincinnati. The coffee shop will offer traditional Turkish coffee and fortune telling. According to the event

statement, “Cup by cup, conversation by conversation, Rüya serves to be a positive voice for Middle Easterners.” 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free admission. The Welcome Project, 2936 Colerain Ave., Camp Washington, facebook.com/ ruyacoffee. The Peach Truck Tour — The Peach Truck Tour sells ripe Georgia peaches throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Owners Stephen and Jessica Rose harvest more than 40 varieties, all non-GMO and nourished in Fort Valley’s red Georgia clay. The peaches are available by the half-bushel aka a 25 pound box for $42. This will be their second and last time in Cincy this summer. Stops include: 8-10 a.m. Richwood Flea Market, 10915 Dixie Highway, Walton, Kentucky; 8-10 a.m. Semco Outdoor, 11864 Chesterdale Road, Springdale; 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Woodcraft Furniture, 1065 Reading Road, Mason; Noon-2 p.m. Performance Lexus at River Center, 633 W. Third St., Covington; 3-5 p.m. Eastside Christian Church, 5874 Mont Clair Blvd., Milford; 3:30-5 p.m. Bargains and Buyouts, 5150 Glencrossing Way, Western Hills; Find more info and a full list of stops at thepeachtruck.com.

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Cincinnati Burger Week — Cincinnati Burger Week is back and bigger than ever with more than 75 area restaurants, bars and bakeries offering $5 specialty burgers for seven straight days. Pick up an official Burger Week Passport and get it stamped at at least four locations to be eligible for a grand prize drawing and Ultimate Grill Out. Certain locations will also be offering Braxton beer and/ or Jack Daniel’s cocktails to complement your beef. This culinary madness benefits Childhood Food Solutions. July 15-21. For more, visit cincinnatiburgerweek.com.

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ebadoh is on the Mount Rushmore of Indie Rock. What started 30 years ago as Lou Barlow’s bedroom side project away from his main band, Dinosaur Jr., is now recognized as one of pillars of the genre: a lo-fi-loving, heart-on-sleeve outfit driven by the long-running collaboration between Barlow and Jason Loewenstein. (Current drummer Bob D’Amico joined in 2013.) The band’s freshly minted ninth album, Act Surprised, just their second effort this century, is classic Sebadoh — a mix of raging rockers and introspective excursions with its central duo splitting songs evenly. CityBeat recently connected with Loewenstein to discuss what has and hasn’t changed over his three decades as one of Sebadoh’s driving creative forces.

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CityBeat: I noticed you worked with a producer this time out: Justin Pizzoferrato. How did that impact the new record? Jason Loewenstein: I usually come to the recording sessions with nine songs, so I have a couple to throw away if they don’t work. We try to record everything (we have) and then later on in the process you start to see that this set of songs really starts to seem like a record and you start finessing the sequence until it seems more like an album. We paid a lot of attention to that in the past, but it ended up sounding more like a radio show because we were recording in different studios and from song to song it sounded very different. In this case, just because the recording was in the same place, people are saying, “Wow, it is so consistent.” I think it’s almost more a result of Justin, because the songs are diverse, there’s a lot going on there, but it is a consistent production style, so I think that’s what people are sort of latching on to. CB: When going into a new record, as a band that has put out as much material and been around for as long as you guys have, do you say to yourself, “This is or isn’t a Sebadoh song”? How much do you think about the expectation of the audience versus following whatever your current artistic interest might be? JL: I think there is a little of both in there.

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What I’m realizing about myself is that, personally, I’m reactionary. I became a songwriter in this band by accident. When (founding member) Eric (Gaffney) left the band, all the sudden I had the opportunity to fill more songs in. Lou is not a same-y, same-y kind of guy but I would say there is a certain consistency to his tunes. And, in the beginning, he was going for a less agro approach. He was going through heartbreak and stuff like that, so he was writing those types of songs. And as much as that stuff might be going on in my life, we don’t need more of that on this record. I missed what Eric brought to the band, which was a little bit of chaos. I have that in me, so I was like, “Let me feature that part of my weird personality, just so that it stays in the band and maintain that spirit.” To some degree I make sure the songs aren’t wildly insane. Well, I don’t know if that’s true, because that last record I put a few songs on there that don’t sound like Sebadoh songs at all to me. I try to just not do the same thing Lou is doing. And it is kind of on purpose. CB: How do you guys go about crafting a setlist with so many songs from which to choose? JL: I want to cater to people who have come to hear certain things, who want something out of the experience, so I do

try to play hits, so to speak. There are a handful of songs of mine that I know people want to hear almost every time we play. I just want to make sure there’s a good mix. I know how I feel when I go see a band that I’ve known for a really long time. For me, as a fan, to reverse it I would cite Mission of Burma, somebody who has been around a wicked long time and I’m completely enamored of their work and they’ve had a very creative late career output. So when I go to see Mission of Burma play, I’m very excited about the new music but, of course, the familiar tunes just make you jump through the roof. CB: How has touring changed over the years? Do you notice anything particularly different from the early days? JL: In this age of streaming, I think in general people think records should be free, but they will pay for live shows. People are charging a ton of money for (concert) tickets nowadays, in my opinion. For us, it’s a return to the early days of just scrapping away. We don’t make a ton of money from the shows because we’re not a big band, and so we just have to stay in the minivan, which we prefer anyway. (Laughs.) It’s not a great business to be in if you want to make a living, and so it’s very much the same as it was 30 years ago. It’s good. It keeps things pure in a certain

sense because things on our level… you’re not going to be corrupted by greed because there is no greed to be had. In a way it’s a self-governing mechanism. CB: You guys aren’t known for your social or political commentary, but “Raging River” seems pretty overt in its critique of this crazy moment. How did that come about? JL: As an old Punk rocker, Jello Biafra and other politically minded musicians taught me a lot about what to be suspicious of in the world and our government. So that’s always been in the back of my mind, that sort of activist side. Being interested in social and political issues is just human, but bringing it into a band where we mostly talk about human relationships — almost all of our songs are about my friend being a dick or I’m having trouble with my girlfriend — to force politics in there would have been a little awkward. But I think it was just naturally the way that I was feeling when we were putting these songs together. It was just coming out of me, you know? I’m scared — or not necessarily scared but no one seems to know what’s up right now, me included. I just wanted to raise my hand and be counted. Sebadoh performs Tuesday, July 16 at The Woodward Theater. Tickets/more show info: woodwardtheater.com.

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When Detroit rapper Tiny Jag pulled out of an upcoming music festival in her hometown recently, her reasoning caused a firestorm on social media. The musician (who is biracial) said she was no longer going to perform at the AfroFuture Fest after she was informed that advance tickets for the event had two price tiers — $10 for “POC” (“people of color”) and $20 for “NONPOC” attendees. The story — first reported by Metro Times — spread quickly to national media outlets, causing ticketing site Eventbrite to threaten to stop selling tickets. Some speculated that the festival could be hit with lawsuits, but on social media, organizers said it was doing away with the pricing discrepancy after “threats from white supremacists” and racist attacks on Instagram.

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Punk/Metal all-star group Tau Cross recently lost its record deal with Relapse over liner notes for the band’s forthcoming album. According to Relapse, a German magazine pointed out that the band “prominently” thanked writer Gerard Menuhin, a far-right conspiracy theorist who has called the Holocaust the “biggest lie in history.” In a statement, the label said the acknowledgment put the album’s lyrics in a new light and that they were severing all ties with the group. In the aftermath, the band’s singer and lyricist Rob Miller doubled down on his support for Menuhin, but all of his bandmates — who were reportedly unaware of the influence — have left Tau Cross.

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Fiona Apple announced that she will be donating royalty payments from her biggest hit, “Criminal,” to While They Wait, an organization that helps refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. with legal and other forms of assistance. “After months and months of reading the news about how my country is treating refugees, I’ve become gutted with frustration trying to figure out the best way to help,” the singer said of her decision in a note posted on a fan site. “I could write a song about this and maybe I will but for now, I will use ‘CRIMINAL’ to help the WRONGLY criminalized get justice.” Apple says she’ll be donating all of the money she makes off of the song this year and next to the organization.

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First held in 1993, the classic Cincy Blues Fest (believed to be the longest running volunteerdriven Blues fest in the U.S.) is on the move this Ralph & the Rhythm Hounds year. But PHOTO: RALPHANDTHERHY THMHOUNDS.COM it’s not moving Blessed Black, as well as reunited Death/ too far from its longtime Sawyer Point spot. Thrash squad Machinations of Fate, who, Retaining the stripped-back, one-night according to the event’s Facebook descripapproach the festival returned to in 2018, tion, will be playing their “first, last and Cincy Blues Fest will be held this Saturday only comeback show ever.” at the Schmidlapp Event Lawn near Smale Headlining Saturday’s Transplant Fest Riverfront Park. are New York Sludgecore heroes Negative The fest has also switched to a heavy Reaction, Serbian Death Metal group local music focus. This year’s Blues Fest Bane, Pittsburgh’s Automb and Chicago’s includes Greater Cincinnati favorites G. Molder. Rounding out the lineup are Miles & the Band of Helping Hands, the Ohio acts Dismemberment, Weed Demon, Ben Levin Band with special guest Philip Inoculation and Zuel. Paul, Leroy Ellington’s Sacred Hearts, Unlike the vast majority of shows Ralph & the Rhythm Hounds and Daytonaround town these days, promotion for area father/son duo Troubled Waters. Transplant Fest won’t just be found in your Winners of this year’s Cincy Blues ChalFacebook feed. Like with all Transplant lenge in the Solo/Duo category, Troubled gigs, Feiner makes sure to get the word out Waters will represent the Cincy Blues SociIRL, plastering show posters in shops and ety early next year at Memphis, Tenneson utility poles throughout the area. see’s International Blues Challenge. Ralph “From a promotional standpoint, I & Rhythm Hounds placed second at the take a lot of pride in making sure there’s Cincy Blues Challenge and first at the 2019 paperwork everywhere in Cincinnati,” Dayton Blues Challenge, meaning they’ll Feiner recently told CityBeat’s Nick Grever. also be heading to Memphis for the IBC. “Definitely, I like the feet-to-the-ground Headlining this year’s Blues Fest is The kind of approach, making sure there’s Blues Beatles, a globally-touring Brazilian flyers in the places that people go. It’s band that — if you couldn’t guess from the something that 10 to 12 years ago, when I name — performs Blues arrangements of was in a band, it made sense and I think Beatles songs. that’s been lost.” Tickets for the Cincy Blues Fest are $20. Feiner has put an impressive amount of Music begins at 4 p.m. with the Blues in the time and hard work into his DIY venture Schools Band. over the past year and a half. Though For complete festival information, visit definitely a “labor of love,” Feiner says cincybluesfest.org. Transplant has been like a second fullTransplant Fest Returns time job for him. Local independent Metal concert promoter “Essentially I work two eight hour days,” Will Feiner presents the second-annual he says. “Sometimes things get pretty Transplant Fest this Saturday, July 13 at tough at times between managing the Northside Yacht Club (4231 Spring Grove other job and doing Transplant. But I just Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub.com). keep reminding myself, ‘You do it because The fest is named after Feiner’s Transplant you care, you love it, you asked for it.’ This Productions, itself named after Feiner’s is what I wanted to be a part of.” residential status in town — he began the Saturday’s Transplant Fest begins company after moving to Cincinnati from at 7 p.m. Tickets are available for $18 at Missouri in 2017 and has been booking a cincyticket.com (for those ages 18-20, steady stream of local/regional/national/ tickets are $20). global underground Metal acts in the city Visit citybeat.com for more on the show ever since. and Feiner’s work behind the scenes. This year’s Transplant Fest is reflective of Contact Mike Breen: Feiner’s booking vision. Representing the mbreen@citybeat.com. Cincinnati scene are Automaton (who will be debuting a new lineup), Verment and

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And The Kids has one of the great childhood band origin stories. Vocalist/ guitarist Hannah Mohan and drummer/ vocalist Rebecca Lasaponaro met in seventh grade while both were music students at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Northampton, Massachusetts, a facility referred to by Mohan and Lasaponaro as “Jail For Kids” (as in “JFK”). According to band lore, Mohan and Lasaponaro started smoking pot and dropped out of high school together. With their creative senses and time availability heightened, they became more serious about their musical pursuits. They played in a variety of bands as a rhythm section, but Mohan wanted to write songs, so they formed a duo and adopted their band name — originally And the Kids and the Pirates — after their status as relative street urchins earned them the derogatory local nickname “the kids.” Fearful that they would become the punks everyone already believed them to be, their parents enrolled them in the nearby Institute for the Musical Arts. They met keyboardist Megan Miller at IMA in 2011, and the following year, the trio released Nothing Came First, their first EP as And The Kids, which led to a contract with renowned indie label Signature Sounds, based in their hometown. And The Kids has always been a rather tumultuous collective, enduring a number of lineup shifts and odd situations; Miller has become a tangential member since her unfortunate exile in her home country of Canada after being refused admittance

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to the U.S. in 2014 and fellow IMA alumni Taliana Katz joined as bassist shortly thereafter (Katz has since left the band). And The Kid’s early Bandcamp page bore this description of their sound: “accessible unconscious existential indie glitter popsicle crisis music.” That doesn’t seem all that far-fetched, given the frenetic and artful Indie Rock results on their subsequent recordings, 2015’s Turn to Each Other, 2016’s Friends Share Lovers (which they recorded in Montreal to accommodate Miller) and their recently released third album, When This Life is Over, featuring their chihuahua mascot Little Dog on the cover. With Mohan’s earthy and swooping Siouxsie Sioux-meets-Elizabeth Fraser vocals and Indie/New Wave/Punk guitar climbs and dives and Lasaponaro’s polyrhythmic thunder and nuanced intricacy, combined with an avant-garde sense of arrangement and the lyrical freedom to explore any topic, And The Kids is one of Indie Rock’s most elegantly aggressive outfits. (Brian Baker)

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It’s been seven years since Carly Rae Jepsen’s ubiquitous “Call Me Maybe” dominated the Pop landscape, rocketing the Canadian singer from obscurity to worldwide adoration. She responded to her newfound fame by crafting 2015’s E•MO•TION, an album of infectious songs that reveled in her love of 1980s Pop radio. Curiously, it was a critical favorite but was mostly ignored by mainstream audiences despite the presence of album-opener “Run Away with Me,” an inescapably catchy call to arms that, via its jaunty beat and crystalline vocals, transports listeners to an era when taut songcraft and earnest emotions made stars of everyone from Madonna to Stacey Q. E•MO•TION placed third in Village Voice’s long-running Pazz & Jop critics’ poll, and she even found herself playing a set at the taste-making Pitchfork Music Festival, the kind of turnabouts that seemed impossible a few years earlier. Jepsen’s long-gestating follow-up, Dedicated, finally dropped this spring. She has described it as “an understated disco, living room dance party thing.” Sure enough, its 15 songs aren’t quite as clubfriendly as those on E•MO•TION. Album opener “Julien” is less reliant on big, belted vocals and more concerned with layered sonic textures. “There was something about it that had this maturity to it, but at the same time, it had this old-school old-fashionedness that I loved,” Jepsen said of “Julien” in a recent interview with Billboard. “I loved the subtlety of it.” Dedicated’s closer, “Real Love,” is even less concerned with Pop formula, moving from a pensive opening to robust chorus and back again, along the way utilizing Jepsen’s understated vocals in a way that, like the rest of Dedicated, emphasizes emotion over bombast. (Jason Gargano)

After a dozen years as a professional Nashville songwriter, John Paul White released his 2008 debut solo album, The Long Goodbye, and subsequently met Joy Williams at a songwriting workshop where they were thrown together by chance to collaborate on a song. That twist of fate led White and Williams to form The Civil Wars, their aptly named Americana/ Folk duo, which experienced stratospheric commercial and critical success before creative internal turmoil brought it all crashing down. In the aftermath of the Civil Wars’s breakup, White wrote and released his dour sophomore solo album, 2016’s Beulah, which proved to be a problematic endeavor. White’s debut solo album had been assembled from the vast catalog of songs he had amassed over his writing career, but Beulah’s material was written specifically for the album and by its very nature would be more representative of White as an artist rather than simply a songwriter. That distinction proved to be daunting, but White rose to the occasion and created a darkly fascinating document of who he was artistically in the vacuum of losing the group that had defined him for six years. It was also the first release for his newly established label, Single Lock Records. White had broken through the barrier of identifying himself as an artist, so with his just-released third solo album, The Hurting Kind, he wanted to explore not just where he was creatively but also where he had come from originally. To that end, he contacted a handful of Country artists and songwriters who had inspired him as a listener and motivated him as a songwriter — the legendary Bill Anderson, Paul Overstreet and Bobby Braddock among them — and convinced them to collaborate on new material with him in his effort to revisit the classic Countrypolitan sound of the ’60s and early ’70s. With White’s contemporary perspective on that era of Country music and a vocal presence that has been compared to everyone from Roy Orbison to Marty Robbins, The Hurting Kind has racked up some impressively positive reviews since its April release. For nearly two decades, John Paul White was tagged as either a relatively faceless staff writer or as half of a wildly successful duo; with The Hurting Kind, he has taken a major step toward being identified as an artist on his own visionary terms. (BB)

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HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Nick Fryer Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free. MOTR PUB - Daddy Long Legs with Breaking Glass. 10 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT Brazilian Commusications. 8 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

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FOUNTAIN SQUARE Salsa on the Square with Tropicoso with Kama Salsa. 7 p.m. Latin/Salsa/Dance. Free. THE GREENWICH - Greg Chako ‘s Organ-Eyes Trio featuring Brooks Giles III. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Emily Jordan Quartet. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free. LUCIUS Q - The Grace Lincoln Band. 7 p.m. Soul/R&B. Free. LYDIA’S ON LUDLOW Open Mic. 6 p.m. Various. Free. THE MAD FROG - Spose. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. Cover. J U LY 1 0 -1 6 , 2 0 19

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Ghost Key with Distinguisher, Dismal Dream and Beneath Black Sails. 8:30 p.m. Metal/Hardcore. $10, $12 day of show.

STANLEY’S PUB - Mcfarland, Zack Lemons Band and Nate Blevins Band. 10 p.m. Rockabilly/Rock/Jam. Cover.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Braza Trio. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Alex Williams and Craig Gerdes. 8 p.m. Country. $12, $15 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Gretchen Peters. 8 p.m. Country. $18, $20 day of show.

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VILLAGE GREEN PARK Groovin’ On The Green with Ricky Nye Inc. 7 p.m. Blues/ Boogie Woogie/Jazz. Free.

LOUNGE - Rusty Burge/ Kim Pensyl Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Pistol Mystics, Tommy Grit and the Pricks and Patsy. 8 p.m. Punk Rock. $10.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Triage. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) Junior Brown. 9 p.m. Roots. $20, $25 day of show.

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FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - Jason Owens. 8 p.m. Country. Free, THE GREENWICH - Dave Potter Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Palm Court Serenaders. 9 p.m. Swing Jazz. Free. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Sly Band. 9:30 p.m. Pop/Rock/Dance/Various. Cover. KNOTTY PINE - Colorblind. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Grey Dogs. 9 p.m. Blues/ Roots. Cover.

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MOTR PUB - Common Center with Drop the Sun and Michigan Left. 10 p.m. Alternative/Various. Free.

WASHINGTON PARK Roots Revival with Ohio Valley Salvage. 7 p.m. Americana. Free.

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FRIDAY 12

RICK’S TAVERN - House Party. 10 p.m. Rock/Pop. Cover.

BLIND LEMON - Jamonn Zeiler. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Green Jello with Top Hat Theatre, Faith to Hate, MCRNR and Wise Wolf. 7 p.m. Metal/Punk/ Rock/Comedy. $15.

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BOGART’S - Carly Rae Jepsen. 8 p.m. Pop. $41.15.

BRAXTON BREWING COMPANY - Paradise Music & Beer Festival featuring Keller Williams, Litz and Hyryder. 5 p.m. Rock/Funk/ Jazz/Jam/Various. Free. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Eyope with Metalbaby. 10 p.m. Soul/Funk/Jazz/Various. Free.

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RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Peter Frampton with Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $29.50-$350.

RIVERFRONT LIVE - Aaron Watson. 8 p.m. Country. $25. SCHWARTZ’S POINT - Eric Wurzelbacher Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Punk Rock n Roll Invitational III with Governess, Vice Tricks, Tiger Sex, Black Cat Rebellion, The

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STANLEY’S PUB - The Native Howl. 9 p.m. Bluegrass/Metal. $10. THOMPSON HOUSE Thames. 8 p.m. AltRock.

$8.

TOP CATS - Last Band Standing with Chandler Carter, Hillary Hahn, Literary Squirrel and TasteFull. 8 p.m. Rock/Various. $5.

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URBAN ARTIFACT Girls Rock Benefit with pout, Queer Kevin, Odisea, Roof Rabbit, Bershy, Slug Death, TTUM and more. 6 p.m. Rock/Various. $5-$10.

WASHINGTON PARK Friday Flow with Algebra Blessett. 7 p.m. R&B. Free.

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WIEDEMANN BREWERY AND TAPROOM - Warsaw Falcons with Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m. Roots/Blues/ Rock/Various. Free.

SATURDAY 13

12 MILE CREEK WINERY - Encore Duo. 5:30 p.m. Acoustic Classic Rock. Free. ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - T.A. and the Soulminers. 8 p.m. Americana. Free. BOGART’S - Candlebox. 8 p.m. Rock. $27.50.

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BRAXTON BREWING COMPANY - Paradise Music & Beer Festival with The Infamous Stringdusters, Goose, Hyryder, Dizgo and more. noon Free. Free. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - FrenchAxe. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE - Eric Wurzelbacher Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover. CLUB TRIO - Pandora Effect. 8 p.m. Rock. THE COMET - Queen City Imperial Soundsystem. 10 p.m. Dancehall Reggae. Free. THE GREENWICH - Spear

Shakers. 9 p.m. Blues/Rock. $10. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Gary Gorrell/Jim Connerley Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. HOLLYWOOD CASINO Trailer Park Floosies. 8 p.m. Pop/Rock/Hip Hop/Country/ Various. Free.

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THE LISTING LOON - Olivia Frances with Dusty Bryant. 8 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter. Free. LYDIA’S ON LUDLOW - Off the Cuff Band. 7 p.m. Rock. Free. MACADU’S - Basic Truth. 9 p.m. R&B/Soul/Funk. Free.

THE MAD FROG - Gotcha with Kenny Hill Group and Sons of Gargamel. 8 p.m. Rock. Cover. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Tickled Pink. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover. MAURY’S TINY COVE Ricky Nye. 7 p.m. Blues/ Boogie Woogie. Free.

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ROOM) - Veronica Grim, Lost Coast, Ohio Valley Salvage and JIMS. 9 p.m. Roots/Rock/Various. $5.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Songs for Joe with the Harmed Brothers, Buffalo Wabs and the Price Hill Hustle and the Old Souls String Band. 7 p.m. Folk/ Roots. $20. STANLEY’S PUB - The Trip, Ample Parking and Porch Kat. 10 p.m. Jam/Rock. Cover.

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TOP CATS - Last Band Standing with Bark, Colly, Patient Zero and Rags And Riches. 8 p.m. Rock/ Various. $5.

URBAN ARTIFACT Acarya, See You in the Funnies, Jamwave and The Traveling Jam. 9 p.m. Rock/ Alt/Various.

SUNDAY 14

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WASHINGTON PARK - Wild Carrot. 7 p.m. Folk/Americana. Free.

MOTR PUB - Aaron Collins with Turtledoves. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

WESTSIDE VENUE - Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Gringo Star with The Harlequins. 10 p.m. Indie/ Garage/Psych/Rock. Free.

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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Transplant Fest with Negative Reaction, Bane, Automb, Molder, Dismemberment, Weed Demon, Machinations Of Fate, Inoculation, ZUEL, Verment, AUTOMATON and Blessed Black. 6:30 p.m. Metal/Various. $20. PIRATES DEN (WESTERN HILLS) - Saving Stimpy. 9:30 p.m. Rock. Free. THE REDMOOR - Soul Pocket. 9 p.m. R&B. $10.

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RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson with Palaye Royale. 7 p.m. Hard Rock. $35-$113.

RIVERFRONT LIVE - KC & the Sunshine Band. 7:30 p.m. Disco/Pop. $30, $35 day of show.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL

MONDAY 15

MEMORIAL HALL - An Evening of Western Swing Classics with The Midwestern Swing. 7 p.m. Western Swing. $8. MOTR PUB - Kyle Shutt with Cult of Sorrow. 9 p.m. Metal. Free.

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NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Down Home Collective. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

TUESDAY 16

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Cheryl Renee. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

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NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Combo Chimbita with Counterfeit Madison. 9 p.m. Alt/Psych/Latin/Various. Cover.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - John Paul White. 8 p.m. Americana. $20, $25 day of show.

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WOODWARD THEATER - Sebadoh with Eleanor Friedberger. 8 p.m. Indie Rock

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