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n the midst of an especially deadly summer for gun violence in Cincinnati, city officials have outlined immediate plans for curbing the shootings. But, even as Cincinnati’s overall rate of violence has slowed in recent years, the bloodshed that persists may have deeper roots that need long-term solutions, data and some experts suggest. Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac at a news conference July 11 said the department will utilize overtime funds and pull officers from specialized services and supervisory duties to increase police patrol presence in areas that have recently seen recurring violence. Isaac also said that the department will soon roll out ShotSpotter, a technology that notifies police of gunshots, where some of the recent shootings have occurred. Finally, CPD officials have also said the department is looking to up curfew enforcement and boost efforts around youth engagement, including its partnerships with nonprofits and its own programs like a youth police camp, the Police Explorers Program and others. Since the end of May, 20 people have died in shootings in Cincinnati — more than half of the 33 murders the city has seen since the beginning of the year. Four of those killed since the beginning of June were under the age of 20, and at least two were minors. Anthony Hinton, 14, died from gunshot wounds about 6 a.m. June 30 near Grant Park in Over-the-Rhine, becoming the city’s 14th homicide victim in 30 days and capping off the deadliest month in Cincinnati in at least two decades. Twenty-seven
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other people were injured in shootings in June. The start of a new month brought more violence. That wasn’t entirely unexpected — shootings and other violent crimes tend to spike when the weather heats up as people spend more time outdoors — but the increase has been especially alarming this year. Around midnight on July 6, someone shot 14-year-old Cameron Franklin in the head on Storrs Street in Lower Price Hill. He died at the scene. Franklin’s family says the boy was well-liked and generally well-behaved. They also say Franklin may have been targeted after an altercation he was involved in at West High, where he attended school. Franklin knew Hinton and was mourning his friend’s death. “It was rough,” Patricia Franklin, Cameron’s mother, told WLWT. “It was hard. It was a long week trying to get him through it.” In between those two tragic deaths, a shooting on the Fourth of July killed 18-year-old Bryan Messer in West Price Hill. Authorities say they have arrested a suspect in that case, though no arrests have been made in Franklin’s and Hinton’s shootings. Cincinnati Police have arrested suspects in about half of the killings that
occurred in June. The shootings come in a year when violence has otherwise been down in the city. Overall, Cincinnati’s 33 homicides so far this year — mostly from gunfire — are less than the city’s average of 34 murders per year over the past three years and the 36 murders the city had seen by June 29 last year. Overall, 176 people have been shot this year — also lower than usual. But gun violence has continued to increase over the summer. Four people in Cincinnati were shot in a four-hour period July 9 — one fatally in West Price Hill. Prior to the July 11 news conference, police officials discussed increased curfew enforcement as a solution. Currently, minors under 16 can’t be alone in public after 10 p.m. and those under 18 can’t be out and about after midnight. Those curfew rules run until 5 a.m. Police could step up efforts to make sure young people are abiding by those rules. “Our belief is when you have young people that are out at 2 and 3 in the morning there is something going on in that family,” CPD’s Isaac said at the July 11 news conference. “We’re not looking for a heavy-handed approach to that but we want to offer assistance to those families.” But further enforcing the curfew likely won’t address the whole issue. Sixteen of
the city’s 20 recent gun murder victims were over 20 years old. It is unclear how many of the shooters have been minors. At least some, however, have been adults. Tyshawn Mayer, the man who shot Messer in West Price Hill earlier this month, is 26, for example. There are other solutions on the way, officials say. The areas near where Messer and Franklin were shot will soon get ShotSpotter, a technology that uses up to 25 sensors per square mile on rooftops and utility poles to detect gunshots and relay the location of the shots to police in under a minute. So far, Cincinnati has installed ShotSpotter in parts of Avondale, Corryville, Mount Auburn and Walnut Hills. The city plans to place the technology in East, West and Lower Price Hill in the next month. Officials have credited ShotSpotter with a 50-percent drop in shootings after its introduction in Avondale. But some in other cities have questioned whether the tool is effective, and at least one municipality has ceased using the technology after it missed some gunshots. Whether things like curfew enforcement and technology can make a dent in the CONTINUES ON PAGE 08
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Hamilton County Commission Backs Transit Levy BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L
In a letter sent July 11 to Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority Board Chair Kreg Keesee, Hamilton County’s three Democratic commission members indicated they will support up to a .7 percent sales tax levy to improve funding for SORTA’s Metro bus system. Metro faces mounting deficits — up to $188 million over the next decade — plus declining ridership and insufficient coverage getting riders to employment opportunities under its current funding structure, which pulls about $56 million a year from Cincinnati’s earnings tax. Voters would need to approve the increase, which would appear on the ballot in 2020. “We agree that the county should play a significant role in supporting public transit in our community and would be willing to support an increase to the county sales tax for this purpose,” the letter says. But commission members don’t want to go as far as some other advocates, who have called for a 1-cent boost. “There are also other significant needs from public safety to infrastructure that the county’s sales tax capacity must meet, and we believe that any proposal
must be viewed in that context,” the letter continues. Previously, county commission members indicated they would support a half-cent increase to be split between Metro and efforts to repair infrastructure like the Western Hills Viaduct. SORTA’s board, some city officials and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber believe a levy will need to include some money for infrastructure to win over county voters. The .7 percent sales tax would raise about $110 million a year, commission members say. The commission said it wants to see at least part of the city’s payroll tax preserved for Metro. Some Cincinnati City Council members have proposed eliminating Metro’s portion of the tax if the county passes a levy. At the .7 percent level, according to SORTA’s Reinventing Metro Plan, the bus system would likely be able to expand access for people with disabilities, add new crosstown and circulator job access routes, increase the frequency and hours of weekday and weekend service on existing routes — including 24-hour service on
major routes — and extend some routes further into the county. If voters ponied up for a higher .8 percent increase, Metro could provide some so-called bus rapid transit. Those are routes that mimic light rail with dedicated lanes, special stations and fewer stops, speeding up commute times. The extra money for that could also come from some remainder of the city’s earnings tax. Transit activists have grown impatient with the time it has taken for SORTA and county commission members to decide on a levy. SORTA’s board last year opted against pursuing a levy, and Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune at one time vocally opposed a levy ask in favor of a wider-ranging regional transit plan. Cincinnati’s Better Bus Coalition even introduced its own proposal: a ballot initiative that sought to raise the city’s earnings tax to adequately fund Metro. But Cam Hardy, Better Bus Coalition’s president, says he would support a county levy. “We support whatever will pass
with county voters that includes full funding to the reinventing metro plan,” Hardy tweeted. “I sympathize with the commission but Cincinnati Metro is also in a crisis and if we don’t do something soon we won’t have a bus system.” A 2015 study of Metro’s reach commissioned by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the Urban Land Institute and other organizations found that only 23 percent of jobs in the city are easily reachable by public transit. Many others take more than 90 minutes to reach by bus. And about 40 percent of jobs in the city — some 75,000 — aren’t reachable by transit at all. All told, the city ranks lower than 11 other peer cities when it comes to job accessibility via public transit, including regional neighbors Louisville, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Columbus and Pittsburgh, as well as cities like Denver and Austin, Texas. An independent report released by consultants AECOM in January 2017 found Metro would need at least $1 billion in upgrades over the next 10 years to make it more functional and get more county residents to the region’s jobs.
Cincinnati Civil Rights Legend Dies at 99 BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L A lot can happen in 99 years. But even given the relatively long time Cincinnati was touched by the presence of Marian Regelia Alexander Spencer, she accomplished much. Spencer, who lived in Avondale, passed away at about 10 p.m. July 9, according to friends of the family.
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But her legacy will remain — concretely in the form of a section of Walnut Street downtown the city renamed in her honor in 2016 and in a wider sense through myriad contributions she made to civil rights in Cincinnati.
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The granddaughter of a former slave, Spencer traced her lineage back to African-American, Native American and Scottish ancestors. She came to Cincinnati with her twin sister Mildred in 1938 to attend the University of Cincinnati, and stayed after marrying Donald Spencer. She received her degree in English in 1942 and had two children: Donald Jr. and Edward Spencer. It was her children’s desire to swim at Coney Island that sparked Spencer’s first big integration effort. In 1952, she organized two dozen other women to push for the desegregation of the Cincinnati water park, which at the time
did not admit black people. “I called Coney Island and the girl who answered the phone said of course we’d be welcome,” Spencer told CityBeat last year. “‘But we’re Negroes,’ I told her.” That meant they would not be admitted into the pool, the voice on the other end of the phone said. “I wanted to find out who had made that decision,” Spencer said. “My boys should be treated just like any other children.” By that time, Spencer was already heavily involved in the local NAACP and was the first black woman in the Woman’s City Club. She pulled from those affiliations to strengthen her cause, and with other women, faced armed security at the pool. “The national NAACP told us we needed an integrated effort, so we had welldressed white women in hats and gloves marching with us,” she said. “An integrated group of ministers drove to the front gate and was pelted with dirt clods and fruit.” It took three years of pushing to get the park to admit blacks at all, and nine for black people to be allowed into Coney Island’s Sunlite Pool.
Spencer didn’t stop there, piling up a laundry list of contributions to racial integration in Cincinnati. She raised $30,000 with her husband for legal efforts to desegregate Cincinnati Public Schools in the 1970s, when she chaired the Cincinnati NAACP’s education committee. She became chapter president in 1981 — the first woman to do so — and then ran for Cincinnati City Council, becoming the first black woman elected to that body in 1983. She would later go on to become vice mayor. The year after her council election, Spencer represented the state Democratic Party at the national party’s convention. She did so again in 1988. That was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to Spencer’s civic engagement, however. During her life, she worked with the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Planned Parenthood and a number of other organizations, including serving on the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees for five years.
She received numerous awards and recognitions for her work. Last year, UC named a dormitory after her on its main campus — where she was prohibited from living due to her race during her time attending the school. The same year, Cincinnati Public Schools named the Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students in Walnut Hills in her honor. Local leaders expressed their admiration for Spencer and sadness at her passing. City flags flew at half-mast in her memory. “I’m trying desperately to find the words to express my gratitude for Marian Spencer, the first Black woman elected to Cincinnati City Council,” council member Tamaya Dennard wrote on social media. “I sit in that seat at 801 Plum Street because of her. She dared to forge ahead when people told her no or that she needed to wait her turn. She wasn’t afraid to challenge norms.” “Small in stature, but a giant in impact, Marian Spencer led by example to build a more integrated city and we are all trying to live up to her example,” Mayor John Cranley said in a statement. “We mourn this loss but we are so grateful our city is better for her life.”
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shootings, the deeper roots of the violence — and long-term solutions — may involve political and socioeconomic issues that go beyond policing. One potential method of reducing shootings some have advocated — more restrictive gun laws — is likely beyond the reach of city officials, who are barred by state law from passing gun control legislation. Many of the killings have happened in low-income communities. Of the at least 33 murders in Cincinnati so far this year, 27 have happened in communities where families make well below the city’s median household income. Those murders occurred in the West End (4), West Price Hill (4), Avondale (3), Bond Hill (3), Evanston (3), Over-the-Rhine (3), South Fairmount (3), East Price Hill (1), East Westwood (1), Lower Price Hill (1) and Villages at Roll Hill (1). It isn’t that most low-income people commit more crime, experts say. It’s that low-income communities are especially vulnerable to violence often associated with trauma, illicit activity or both committed by a few members of the community. “There is a strong correlation between homicide and income inequality,” UCLA social welfare professor Mark Kaplan told a crowd at a 2017 presentation at the
university about research around firearmrelated deaths in the U.S. Kaplan, who has conducted extensive research on the intersections of violence, race and economics, highlighted that counties in the United States with the least inequality also have the fewest gun murders. Because of a history of racial and economic disparities in the U.S., the pains of neighborhood violence often fall hardest on African-Americans, who have accounted for at least 27 of Cincinnati’s murders this year. Nationally, young African-American males have a gun murder rate of 89 per 100,000 — similar to rates in countries with some of the highest murder rates in the world. Even Federal Bureau of Investigation officials have acknowledged the link between inequity and crime. “So many young men of color become part of (the justice system) because so many minority families and communities are struggling,” then-FBI Director James Comey said in a 2015 speech on race and law enforcement at Georgetown University. “They lack all sorts of opportunities that most of us take for granted.” Addressing socioeconomic disparities is a huge task in and of itself, though — one that takes a long-term approach, especially
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in a city where 28 percent of the population lives in poverty. City leaders from the mayor to Cincinnati City Council have unveiled efforts to address the problem, but the city’s poverty rate is still four points higher than it was before the Great Recession more than a decade ago. In recent years, a debate has popped up about public health-oriented approaches to violence reduction that take into account exposure to trauma, poverty and other socioeconomic conditions. This more systemic approach became a key piece of the 2017 mayoral race between Mayor John Cranley and then-Cincinnati City Councilwoman Yvette Simpson, the latter of whom wanted to try new programs that would have embedded psychological trauma specialists with emergency responders. Some experts believe that simply throwing more police officers at the complex, knotty problems that spark neighborhood violence won’t solve the problem on its own. “We published a study synthesizing all of the studies of police force size and crime and could not find a scintilla of evidence that expanding a police force would reduce crime,” John Eck, a University of Cincinnati criminal justice professor, told CityBeat in 2017. That study looked at both crime data and police department
size data from 1968 to 2013 and found no correlation between the two. For Eck, the key can be found in changing strategy, not changing size. CPD has made efforts to change its approach. In 2016, the department rolled out a new initiative called PlaceBased Investigations of Violent Offender Territories, or PIVOT. PIVOT is designed to further efforts like the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence, or CIRV, which started in 2007. PIVOT combines CIRV’s focus on the networks linking the relatively small number of violent offenders and the community with data-driven, intensive attention to chronic crime locations. Even some police reform advocates who have decried racial disparities in policing have applauded PIVOT as a possible way to reduce those disparities while chipping away at neighborhood violence. Officials’ recent suggestions about pulling officers from other, non-policing duties to patrol problem areas would likely align with PIVOT strategies. The question is whether that alone can quell the violence. The overall reduction in shootings over the past few years shows that approaches like PIVOT may be working — but spikes like this summer’s shootings suggest they may also have their limits.
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Born Melissa Viviane Jefferson in 1988, Lizzo knows how to strike an endearing balance between confidence and humility, appearing in genuine awe of her string of sold-out shows while also treating her entire record as a love letter to herself, declaring that her body is not merely a snack, but the "whole damn meal" as she does on the lead single, "Juice," or more directly on "Soulmate." Get you a Lizzo who can do both. Lizzo's other recent accomplishments include but are not limited to: Gaining fans in Reese Witherspoon, Janelle Monáe, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Michigan's Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who was reportedly singing along to her favorite song, "Good As Hell," in the back of her tour bus in a New York Times profile (sample lyric: "Boss up and change your life/You can have it all, no sacrifice"); challenging fictional flutist and Anchorman Ron Burgundy to a flute-off (she won); being cast opposite Cardi B and Jennifer Lopez in the stripper heist drama Hustlers; penning a heavily meme'd lyric that also inspired hordes of TikTok users to share their genealogy results ("I just took a DNA test/Turns out I'm 100 percent that bitch."); earning a standing ovation for her performances at the aforementioned BET and MTV Movie & TV awards; receiving rapturous praise from the U.K. press for her set at the Glastonbury festival; and becoming the first plus-size woman of color to appear in a Playboy feature. While it could be prematurely argued that this is Lizzo's year (even she admits that 2019 has been the craziest of her life), she's had plenty of time to primp and prepare for what she describes as "entering a new world of mainstream success." But don't call her the next Beyoncé, as Mother Jones did in a recent headline. "Beyoncé is already Beyoncé, why the fuck would I want to be that?" Lizzo says. "I don't have enough money to change my name."
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After moving from Houston to Minneapolis in 2011, Lizzo stealthily made a name for herself as founder of indie Hip Hop groups the Chalice, Grrrl Prty, the Clerb and Absynthe before releasing her 2013 solo debut, Lizzobangers. In 2014, she collaborated with Minneapolis royalty Prince on his record Plectrumelectrum. That same year Time named her one of its 14 artists to watch. "Well, the Lizzo train been going for a while. In my mind, since 2013 and after, like, I've been on that hoe slowly going faster, faster, faster, faster," she says. "When 'Juice' hit a million so quickly and kept going after that, I was like, 'Whoa, what's happening?' It's like suddenly all eyes are turned in this direction." The eyes are indeed turned in Lizzo's direction, so much so that she found herself making her first "celebrity" apology based on a tweet that set the Twittersphere — and music journalists everywhere — ablaze. "PEOPLE WHO 'REVIEW' ALBUMS AND DON'T MAKE MUSIC THEMSELVES SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED," Lizzo tweeted in April in response to Pitchfork's lukewarm review of Cuz I Love You. In her review, Pitchfork contributing editor Rawiya Kameir admits that Lizzo's skill and charisma are undeniable forces on and off the record (though says her press cycle feels like an "extremely long yaaaaaaas") but cites "overwrought production" and clumsy rapping among the reasons she scored Cuz I Love You a 6.5 (out of 10). Kameir also deflates Lizzo's dream of becoming the "ARETHA FRANKLIN FOR THE 2018 GENERATION" as she did on Twitter last year, suggesting instead that Lizzo is more likely to become this generation's Natasha Bedingfield than the Queen of Soul, and adding that "Juice" or "Soulmate" could garner the same commercial success as Bedingfield's "Unwritten" and could easily score a "rom-com or yogurt commercial." Lizzo admits her tweet was misguided and says it wasn't necessarily in response to an unfavorable review — it was about feeling as though Kameir had "white-washed" her experience by comparing her to Bedingfield, something she finds more offensive coming from one black woman to another.
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"My tweet was definitely misinterpreted, and now that I'm realizing that that's a possibility, that my tweets can get misinterpreted like that, I really need to watch what I say," she says. "I never said we don't need music journalists. I just felt like, man, I wished these asshole music writers that liked to do things for shock factor, I wish they could be in a studio for one day and write a song. I wish they knew what it felt like to tear down somebody's baby and that's all I meant." Following the backlash, Lizzo tweeted an invitation for music writers to join her in the studio and tweeted again shortly after vowing to take her temper off the internet. In addition to attracting even more attention for the record — although, admittedly not the kind of attention she wanted — Lizzo's temper also ignited a dialogue about the relationship between music journalists and artists. The same week as her "quote-unquote celebrity apology thing," Ariana Grande came under fire after defending her legion of fans who attacked a music writer for calling out Grande's hypocrisy when she tweeted that music critics were "so lost," "unfulfilled" and "purposeless." "I was just like, ‘Bitch, you're just trying to be the one person gave me a bad review in a sea of good reviews,’ and I really, really, really regret..." Lizzo trails off. "I was drunk, too. And I was at Coachella. I was just like hot. Like, I have no excuse for saying something like that because I appreciate the perspective that music journalists and critics have, and I appreciate all the love and positivity. I just don't like that one bitch. And if I ever saw her in the street, I would have words for her." Just days before her tweetstorm, Lizzo had won the hearts of many a music writer (outlets like Slate had already hailed the record a welldeserved "victory lap" and Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield referred to Lizzo as a "hero" and Cuz I Love You a "legend-making" album) and snagged glowing headlines for her perseverance during her debut sets at the Coachella music festival, both of which were plagued with technical issues. Lizzo and her team of dancers, including a handful of performers she had never worked with before the event, were forced to think, sing
and dance on their toes when the sound abruptly cut out as early as two songs in, and again during "Worship," forcing the singer to endure glitches as she live-sampled Aretha Franklin's "Respect." "If they ain't gonna get the music right, I'm gonna get the music right," Lizzo said during the performance. "That's why I got my music major." Throughout her 11-song set, Lizzo chugged Patrón straight from the bottle and navigated countless instances of tracks dropping out, sometimes multiple times in a single song. During the second weekend's performance, the sound dropped during her set's closer, which she finished a capella, egomaniac Sasha Flute in hand and with a crowd drunk on Lizzo juice. Looking back at how Coachella did her wrong, Lizzo isn't looking for an apology. In fact, she's grateful for how everything went down and refers to the experience as a "team-building moment." "I mean, I've always been a performer that can work on my toes. I've always dealt with technical issues, but I've never dealt with anything like that," she says. "Like, the Rock & Roll girl in me wants to go off, but then I heard one of the girls onstage, she said, ‘Keep going.’ I heard her say that and I was like, ‘I gotta keep going.’ So I just powered through it. I think that it changed something in me. We ran a lot of tests to see what happened. It was a lot of different factors on my end as well. At the end of the day, I don't think I need an apology. I just want to headline." Coachella was but a testament to the power of Lizzo's voice — something that, surprisingly, gets overshadowed by her ability to twerk and play the flute at the same time, and the fact that she's often classified as a rapper. But Lizzo's confidence has been a lifelong battle, especially in terms of using her voice as an instrument. "I didn't think I was a good singer (growing up) mostly because my mom and my sister were better singers than me," she says. "I was like, ‘Well, I'm just going to be the smart one. Like, I'll be the nerd, the bookish one.’ ”
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In Detroit, Lizzo grew up deeply connected to her family's Pentecostal church, which she says is still active and exposed her to her earliest vocal influences, most of which were rooted in Gospel music, citing the likes of singers Karen Clark Sheard, BeBe and CeCe Winans, and Aretha Franklin. Her family relocated to Houston when she was 8 or 9 years old, which is where she learned about Hip Hop and freestyling and where she would sow the seedlings of her showwomanship as a piccolo player in marching band through college. While Cuz I Love You is on pace to hold high court in the pantheon of body positivity culture (surpassed only by her own Coconut Oil EP from 2016 and maybe Christina Aguilera's self-love banger, "Beautiful") — Lizzo's stunning foray into the mainstream is rooted in trauma and pain and her irrepressible ability to laugh through all of it. The singer says she suffered a domino-like effect following the death of her father in 2010 (with whom she regularly communicates through a medium), which resulted in a brief period where Lizzo suffered homelessness and depression and was under the belief that her music career would not pan out. For that reason, the danceable sunshine-y vibrancy on Cuz I Love You (an album that mentions some form of crying
in nearly every song), is a testament to the way Lizzo sees life — through Lizzo-tinted glasses. "I think I naturally laugh when I'm shocked," she says. "I don't know what it is, whether it's a defense mechanism or if it's just some padding. Humor is really therapeutic for me. So I think that's the reason why I'm able to turn things into silver linings. Even when I'm in the studio and I'm singing about crying or when I'm actually crying in the studio like when I write 'Truth Hurts,' you know?" "I think that's just the way that I am. It's just… I was literally just designed to do this. I'm not forcing it." Lizzo performs at Kiss 107.1’s Loud & Proud 2019 show at U.S. Bank Arena on July 26. Tickets are $25-$60. Tickets/more info: usbankarena.com. This story originally appeared in CityBeat’s sister paper, Detroit Metro Times.
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Midway Burger Famous Ebert’s Meats beef burger topped with
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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.
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FC Cincy Burger 6 oz. Certified Angus Beef, bacon, onion ring, pimento cheese and mustard-mayo served on a pretzel bun.
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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 American cheese.
Hand-pattied burger topped with provolone cheese, Tavern secret sauce, lettuce and tomato.
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Jack Burger Prime burger, rocket arugula, aged Vermont cheddar, bourbon-bacon jam, Berkshire bacon and truffle aioli, served on a brioche bun.
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Guinness Burger Black Angus beef topped with Guinness-braised
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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-
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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.
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FILM: Ratatouille at Washington Park Bon appétit! This week, Summer Cinema in Washington Park screens Ratatouille. The 2007 Disney and Pixar animated movie is about a rat’s dream to become a Parisian chef. Hold in your gags, the film is super cute thanks to the computer animation and the cast, which includes the vocal talents of Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm and Lou Romano among others. Bring lawn chairs, blankets and lots of snacks. Concessions will also be open. 9-11 p.m. Wednesday. Free admission. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-theRhine, washingtonpark.org. — ERIN GARDNER
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LIT: Author Sarah Smarsh discusses her book, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, during a sold-out lecture at The Mercantile Library. See interview on page 32. FILM: Tarantino-Fest In anticipation of Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Video Archive is hosting TarantinoFest, a six-day, six-movie party on the patio with cocktails, costumes and plenty of blood. Hold on to your ears: Things kick off on Thursday with a screening of the 1992 heist film Reservoir Dogs. Dress as a character from any of the Tarantino oeuvre and get ready to drink, dance and enter to win tickets to a screening of the new film. Bartenders will be making different drinks every night. Films start at dusk on the patio.
Friday night it’s Pulp Fiction, Saturday is Inglourious Basterds, Tuesday is Jackie Brown, Wednesday is Death Proof and Thursday is Four Rooms. 6-11 p.m. Thursday; films through July 24. Free admission. The Video Archive, 965 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, facebook.com/ videoarchivecincinnati. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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COMEDY: Sheryl Underwood Sheryl Underwood is a card-carrying member of the Republican Party, something many would find unusual for a female African-American entertainer. She’s not what you would call a social conservative, though, as she tells audiences, “Men, every woman does not want to be in love with you, some of us just want sex. And don’t pull your pants down too far, cuz you’re not staying very long.” However, she notes, “I think most entertainers don’t understand how conservative they truly are. They
whine about the environment, but then they jump on a private jet.” Though she was a fan of George W. Bush, she supported Barack Obama and, in the last election, Hillary Clinton, telling radio host Tom Joyner, “We’re stronger together if we stay with her because we have to protect the legacy of Barack Obama.” 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday; 6 and 9 p.m. Saturday. $27-$57. Funny Bone, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty. funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON MUSIC: Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Wheels of Soul 2019 with Blackberry Smoke and Shovels & Rope Singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi and her guitar-slinging husband Derek Trucks have been spending their summers on the road since 2015, with their Tedeschi Trucks Band heading up the crosscountry, Roots-music-heavy “Wheels of Soul Tour.” The CONTINUES ON PAGE 28
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alcohol. The crawl starts at the Moerlein Lager House, with the tapping of an official goetta-inspired beer, brewed by Christian Moerlein. The lager features smoked malt and Glier’s oats. From the Lager House, crawlers check in at the Glier’s Goetta Mobile Kitchen to receive a menu and a wristband to redeem drink specials and gotta concoctions at different locations including the AC Upper Deck, Galla Park, Jefferson Social and Tin Roof. Make sure to pick up a “I Ran the Goetta Gauntlet” T-shirt and register to win a Yeti cooler fuller of goetta. Proceeds benefit the Dragonfly Foundation, which assists pediatric cancer and bone marrow transplant patients and their families. 6-10 p.m. Wednesday. $10. The Banks, 120 E. Freedom Way, Downtown, facebook. com/gliersgoetta. — ERIN GARDNER
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EVENT: Cincinnati Burger Week From CityBeat Events, Cincinnati Burger Week is a seven-day food frenzy 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. Participating eateries include Burger Week veterans like Flipdaddy’s, Taste of Belgium and Nation Kitchen and Bar, plus newcomers like Queen City Whip, Arnold’s Bar & Grill and Salazar. 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 is sponsored by Braxton and Jack Daniel’s, so expect to find some beer or cocktail pairings with your burgers at various eateries. Through Sunday. More info and participating restaurant menus at cincinnatiburgerweek. com. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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tour — which has frequently come to Cincinnati — has showcased a nice range of American Roots music since its inception. Over the years, artists rolling with TTB on the Wheels of Soul have included Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Los Lobos, North Mississippi Allstars, The Wood Brothers, Marcus King Band and Drive-By Truckers. For this year’s fifth-anniversary tour, the Tedeschi Trucks Band is being joined by hugely acclaimed Americana duo Shovels & Rope. The husband/wife duo of Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst recently released By Blood, which has received glowing reviews for its broadening sonic palette and smart, poetic social commentary. Southern Rock-meetsCountry group Blackberry Smoke rounds out this year’s Wheels of Soul lineup. Tedeschi Trucks Band’s recent setlists have also included covers of songs by Bob Dylan, The Box Tops, Elton John, Elmore James and The Allman Brothers, the legendary Blues Rock group Trucks began playing
guitar with when he was just 20 years old (the guitarist is the nephew of Allmans’ drummer Butch Trucks). 7 p.m. Friday. $52-$149. PNC Pavilion at Riverbend, 6295 Kellogg Ave., California, riverbend.org. — MIKE BREEN EVENT: Price Hill Creative Community Festival Come out to Price Hill for two days of dance, poetry, film, performances, food and more. Price Hill Will is hosting its fourth annual Price Hill Creative Community Festival with more than 50 performances spread across four venues in the neighborhood. Its artists-in-residence program pairs internationally renowned performers with MYCincinnati, Price Hill’s youth orchestra, to produce original works of art. See the feature on page 34 for more. Starts 5 p.m. Friday and runs through Saturday. Free admission. Warsaw Ave. Firehouse, 3120 Warsaw Ave., Price Hill, creativecommunityfestival.org. — EMMA STIEFEL EVENT: Schützenfest Translated as “The Marksman’s Festival,” Schützenfest began in the 15th century when, according
to the legend, a German marksman shot an eagle that attacked a child. The marksman was made honorary king. When German immigrants settled in Cincinnati, they brought the traditional fest with them, holding the first Schützenfest here in 1866. Today, the Kolping Society continues the tradition with a weekendlong event that includes a competition for the shooting of a hand-carved eagle, a bier dash and authentic German food like jägerschnitzel and spätzle. 6 p.m.-midnight Friday; 4 p.m.-midnight Saturday; 1-9 p.m. Sunday. $3 adults; free 15 and younger. Kolping Center, 10235 Mill Road, Mount Healthy, kolpingcincinnati.com. — ERIN GARDNER
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EVENT: Horror Movie Survival Camp Learn how to NOT be the idiot who dies first at Overlook Lodge’s Horror Movie Survival Camp. Chad Baker, your very own Horror Movie Camp Survival Counselor, will teach you all the skills needed to make it through the night inspired by that week’s featured film, which could include anything from Sleepaway Camp to Get Out. If you want to go for a late-night swim, he’ll tell you that, hey, maybe that’s not the best idea, and then show you how to avoid being devoured by a water monster. If there’s a psycho with an axe outside your tent, he’ll tell you how to get out with all your limbs intact. There will be free s’mores, free movies and signature drinks. No RSVP needed. 7-10 p.m. Wednesday. Free admission. Overlook Lodge, 6083 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, facebook.com/overlooklodge. — EMMA STIEFEL
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ONSTAGE: RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season 11 Tour Your favorite queens are coming to the Queen City. The latest season of RuPaul’s Drag Race has turned out to be “the most fashionable, fearless and jaw-dropping spectacle in Drag Race herstory,” says a release, and the performers are now going to walk the runway in Cincinnati. Expect to see Season 11 winner Yvie Oddly, plus Silky Nutmeg Ganache, A’kiera Chanel Davenport, Plastique Tiara, Kahanna Montrese, Nina West and Ariel Versace as they show off their fiercest looks, as introduced by host Asia O’Hara of Season 10. 8-11 p.m. Friday. Tickets start at $45.75. Aronoff Center, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, cincinnatiarts.org. — EMMA STIEFEL
a T-shirt; and an additional cash bar. If you opt for VIP, you get in early with access to a build-your-own taco bar and high-end tequila. Tequila brands who will be at the event include Herradura, El Jimador, Patron, Don Julio, Casa Noble and Cabo Wabo. 6-10 p.m. Saturday. $50; $55 door; $125 VIP. Fountain Square, Fifth and Vine streets, Downtown, tequilafestcincinnati.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO
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CLASSICAL: Cincinnati Opera’s Blind Injustice is a world-premiere that examines the lives of six wrongly convicted and imprisoned individuals freed by the Ohio Innocence Project. See feature on page 31.
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EVENT: NamasDEY: Yoga on the Field The pun might be cringy, but the yoga will be meditative. Come out to the Bengals’ field for an all-levels class led by instructors from The Yoga Bar. Bring your own yoga mat. Event is rain or shine. Entry fee proceeds go toward the Tidal Babe Period Bank, which provides feminine care products to local women in need. 8:30 a.m. check in; 9-10 a.m. class Saturday. $10. Paul Brown Stadium, 1 Paul Brown Stadium, Downtown, facebook.com/bengals. — EMMA STIEFEL
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EVENT: Celestial Sips Moon Landing The Cincinnati Observatory is celebrating the moon landing’s 50th anniversary with a night of space-themed activities. Recall Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s outof-this-world feat with a buzz of your own from a variety of beers presented by Fifty West and stop by a “Moontastic Photo Booth” for Instaworthy pics. Moon-themed goodie bags will be handed out, and a silent auction will give guests the chance to walk away with even more swag. Weather permitting, there will also be star gazing via the giant telescope. Participants must be 21 or older. 8-11 p.m. Saturday. $75; $65 members. Cincinnati
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‘Blind Injustice’ Uncovers Innocence Cincinnati Opera’s world premiere tells the true stories of wrongfully convicted prisoners who were exonerated with the help of the Ohio Innocence Project BY A N N E A R EN S T EI N
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embraced the challenge of fusing powerful words with song. Drawing on his professional experience as an actor, Richards derived thematic hooks from the libretto’s drama to create a distinct musical language. Influences from Jazz, Pop and Rap can be heard throughout, but Richards insists that the score is not pastiche. “There’s energy and hopefulness that’s very different from what you find in modern opera,” he says. Looking ahead, there is strong interest from several opera companies in staging Blind Injustice in their communities. Godsey isn’t surprised. “Music magnifies feelings in ways that words alone can’t,” Godsey says. “This opera has a hundred times the impact that reading a legal document ever could.” I asked Godsey how to spread that impact beyond “woke” audiences in Cincinnati and, more specifically, to members of the deeply flawed system whose actions result in wrongful convictions. “Opera is very popular with a lot of judges,” Godsey says, without a hint of irony. “I’m convinced that if you’re going to make changes, it’s going to be decades long and it’s going to take things like this opera to make those changes.” Performances of Blind Injustice are sold out. More info: cincinnatiopera.org.
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reading than the book, in which Godsey’s damning accounts of justice denied are enough to make you throw it at a wall in frustration. That outrage is channeled into the opera’s sharply etched episodes that play out in prison cells and courtrooms. “Each story could be a full-length opera,” Cote says. “So, we took fragments of the stories to see how they could form a structure.” The Cincinnati Opera’s Director of Community Engagement Tracy Wilson videoed the interviews and worked with the creative team to ensure the libretto conveyed the exonerees’ personalities, especially their deep religious faith. “We could do 90 minutes of absolute misery, but we were more interested in the human spirit,” Cote says. “These are real people who went through the worst injustices and they never abandoned hope. No one was eaten up with bitterness.” Though the opera won’t see its world premiere until July 22 — all five of the performances at Music Hall’s Wilks Studio are sold out — its first audience, the exonerees themselves, was the most crucial. Last November, they attended an emotional workshop session. The exonerees were given a standing ovation. “I have to say that we were all impressed,” Ricky Jackson says in an email response. Composer Scott Davenport Richards
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that could involve the choral collective’s singers. Blind Injustice consists of 12 principal roles, a chorus of 16 YPCC members and eight professional singers, plus an instrumental ensemble of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra musicians, all of which are led by Cincinnati Pops conductor John Morris Russell in his Cincinnati Opera debut. The production’s biggest challenge was the storyline itself: How to convey true stories of obstructed justice, years of incarceration, despair, hope and ultimately forgiveness in 90 minutes? And how best to make the words sing? Librettist David Cote and director Robin Guarino worked with Godsey to choose four stories from over 13 hours of interviews conducted with Ohio Innocence Project exonerees and to incorporate material from his book. Of those they chose to hone in on, Nancy Smith was incarcerated for 15 years on charges of molesting children when she was a bus driver for a Head Start program; the East Cleveland Three — Eugene Johnson, Laurese Glover and Derrick Wheatt — served 20 years on charges of murder; Clarence Elkins, Ohio Innocence Project’s first exoneree, was in jail for seven and a half years for murder and rape; and Ricky Jackson put in 39 years, including time in solitary confinement. The libretto is even more difficult
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here are no innocent people in prison.” So thought Mark Godsey when, as a new faculty member at Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law, he took over the school’s Innocence Project for a year. The Innocence Project aims to exonerate the wrongly convicted using DNA evidence and when his students did just that, his initial assumption crumbled. Godsey, a Fairfield native who once served as a New York State prosecutor, is now a tireless advocate for the wrongfully convicted and for criminal justice reform. When he joined the University of Cincinnati’s College of Law in 2003, he cofounded the Ohio Innocence Project. Both the organization at NKU and at UC are part of a larger network of Innocence Projects across the country. Ohio’s chapter is one of the most successful, having helped exonerate 28 innocent Ohioans who collectively served 525 years. Their stories inspired Cincinnati Opera’s CO Next program to commission Blind Injustice, a world premiere opera which tells the true stories of six people who were tried, convicted and imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, and who were ultimately freed by the Ohio Innocence Project. Development for the opera began six months before the October 2017 publication of Godsey’s book, Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Incarceration, which gives a harrowing account of human error and willful obstruction in the criminal justice system. In February 2017, following a happy-hour presentation by Ohio Innocence Project staff for the Young Professionals Choral Collective, YPCC cofounder and artistic director KellyAnn Nelson realized the potential for an opera
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Journalist and author Sarah Smarsh will speak at the Mercantile Library on July 18 about her book, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. Smarsh is the debut author in the library’s newly created Memoir Lecture series, a response to the resonance these works are having in contemporary nonfiction. Indeed, the top spot of the New York Times Best Sellers list for nonfiction is currently held by Tara Westover’s Educated: A Memoir, about her childhood spent growing up in a cult. “I think memoirs are especially popular now because we’re hearing someone confide their life story, or at least part of it, to total strangers,” says John Drury, professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. “Part of the appeal of memoir is its air of ‘true confession.’ “The writer could be famous, like Patti Smith, whose first memoir, Just Kids, recounts her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, or someone previously unknown, like Sarah Smarsh, whose Heartland wins the prospective book-buyer’s attention immediately by its compelling subtitle, to which many of us can relate. We want to hear her testimony.” And what a compelling testimony it is. Heartland is Smarsh’s even-handed, poignant review of her life in poverty, fleshing out the inherited cycles of family impoverishment and socioeconomic disadvantage that conspired to keep her teenage mother — who is also the child of a teenage mother — trapped in low-income, hard-living situations. As Hillary Copsey, book advisor at the Mercantile, notes: Smarsh is someone who has a foot in both the working class and white-collar worlds. “That’s been the focus of most of her journalism — class in America, something we often don’t talk about, or we don’t talk about it directly,” Copsey says. “Sarah Smarsh always has it in her work, and her memoir is really about that.” What is a memoir, exactly, for the uninitiated? It’s nonfiction, mostly, and distinct from an autobiography or biography. “Memoir often concentrates on a distinct episode or period of time in the writer’s life, or on a particular subject with which the writer has expertise,” UC’s Drury says. “Autobiography now suggests something formal and pretentious, something official; but memoir sounds more casual, more personal, more welcoming, emphasizing a dependence on memory but acknowledging the inevitable lapses, the moments of forgetfulness. Its power and authority come from the writer’s friendly approach in recounting and revealing what’s happened.” There’s an unmistakable air of plaintive resilience to Heartland, too. Smarsh’s analysis of and research about Middle America, as told through the lens of the economics of a farmer’s lifestyle, reveal
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larger truths of the country itself. That notion is illustrated in this excerpt from Heartland: “I started to wake up to the gulf between my origins and the seat of American power when I left home at eighteen. Something about my family was peculiar and willfully ignored in the modern story of our country. My best attempt at explaining it was, ‘I grew up on a farm.’ But it was much more than that. It was income, culture, access, language, work, education, food — the stuff of life itself.” Smarsh uses a narrative device of writing her memoir to her unborn child, which is an interesting choice that can occasionally jar the reader from the intensity of the story she’s telling. As a trained journalist, she focuses her objective observation skills on the hardscrabble life endured by folks who inhabit “flyover country” in America. “I think there’s a lot of really good and interesting memoirs coming out right now,” says John Faherty, executive director of the Mercantile. “I also believe introducing memoirs as one of our signature series allows us to bring in a whole lot of different voices that will be good for us and good for the community.” The Mercantile has expanded and increased its programming over the last few years, adding the Memoir Lecture this year and, more recently, the Science and Technology Lecture. Founded in 1835, the library’s guiding principles include selfeducation and reading, as well as sparking new ideas borne of guest speakers. “Our programming is absolutely built on that tradition, and these are just more ways to start those conversations,” says Copsey. “Also, from a practical level, people love memoirs because it gives you a chance to see a life that’s not your own and almost live it for the time that you’re in that book.” Sarah Smarsh will speak at the Mercantile Library in a sold-out lecture on July 18. More info: mercantilelibrary.com.
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Daisy Jane’s Flower Truck is easy to spot with its poppy red exterior and custom-made white canopy, which covers baskets filled to the brim with bouquet-ready flowers, each accompanied by a sign that lists its name, price and background story. Having a bad day? There’s a flower for that. Owner and founder Megan Moore is readily available near her truck — which can be found rolling around Greater CincinDaisy Jane’s Flower Truck nati on any given day and P H O T O : B I L LY K E E N E Y popping up at various locating a 1965 Spring Special Ford E100 art fairs and events — to on Craigslist. Filled with nerves and exciteanswer questions, chat with customers ment, she reached out to the owner and set and arrange flowers into vibrant, colorful a date to go visit the vehicle. bouquets. You can even customize your “I sat over here like, ‘Oh my goodness. If own bouquet and write a personalized this truck is in good shape and good to go, note with Moore’s vintage typewriter. then this is happening — this has to hapWhile she has no formal training as a pen,’ ” Moore says. florist — if time allows, she would love She bought the truck in October 2018 to check that off her list — Moore says and gave it a name: Daisy Jane. As Moore her business venture has been a learning explains, daisies symbolize new beginprocess. This year marked Daisy Jane’s nings and the name Jane means “God is debut as a rolling floral depot since she first gracious,” from ancient Greek and Hebrew. bought the truck last fall. (She posts her A month after buying the truck, she left weekly locations via social media and her her job at Local 12 to pursue a long-term website, daisyjanesflowertruck.com.) goal of owning a small business. “Oftentimes, when you’re trying to start “I always knew, at some point in my life, I something new, especially a business, you wanted to start a business,” Moore says. “I feel like you have to have everything in even bought a door — a mint green door.” place,” Moore says. “I feel like you will Bought from a Habitat for Humanity never start if you know every single thing. Restore in Traverse City, Michigan — You’ll always be learning.” where she previously worked as a reporter Moore, a Cincinnati native, was faced for WPBN-TV in 2012 and ‘13 — the door with a decision when her contract as a has traveled with Moore to every city she news reporter with Local 12 News — where has called home and served as a physical she worked on Good Morning Cincinnati reminder to Moore of her ultimate entre— was coming to an end. Renewing the conpreneurial goal. Currently, the door resides tract meant early morning and late-night in her basement, but she would love to use shifts and working weekends and holidays it in a physical storefront one day. For her, for at least another three years. But she it serves as a symbol of the independence, knew she wanted more flexibility so that hard work and reward found as a small she could spend time with her family — business owner. especially with her young son. “I think what I love so much about small “My family has followed me everywhere businesses is just the impact they have on I’ve gone,” Moore says. “They’ve sacrificed the community,” she says. “When you buy so much in following my career path that I from small businesses, you’re supporting wanted to give back to them.” your neighbor.” She wanted to do something else; she Moore says she loves being a part of a just didn’t know what. Around the same community of entrepreneurs who have time as she was debating her next move, a carved out their own path. friend posted about a mobile flower truck “Anybody who steps out and does that is in Nashville on Instagram. Moore immeditaking a huge risk, but I think that so many ately fell in love with the idea. She thought can be inspired by someone knowing that the concept of the truck was adorable and this may not work, but it’s OK,” she says. the flexibility of owning a pop-up business “And if it inspires someone else to chase a would offer her the schedule she wanted. dream that they have, then that’s all worth She decided that if she could find a truck, it.” and no one was offering the same business in Cincinnati, she would launch her own For more information on Daisy Jane’s here. Flower Truck and to find upcoming She scoured countless truck listings on locations, visit daisyjanesflowertruck.com. every auto website she could find before
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The fourth iteration of the Price Hill Creative Community Festival will take place at four distinct but physically close venues in East Price Hill, including the one-time home of the late actress Doris Day. More than 50 performances will unfold, representing a variety of musical and artistic styles, with shows featuring PHCCF’s four artists-in-residence taking place at the MYCincinnati Firehouse, one of the venues that also acts as an unofficial headquarters. Eddy Kwon is the program director for MYCincinnati, which provides youths who live/attend school in Price Hill with free musical instruction, both during the school year and over the summer. “The core of what makes MYCincinnati really special is that we’re a family; we’re a community,” Kwon says. “Our orchestra and our ensemble is kind of the vehicle in which we practice being in a community together.” That community focus is integral to the PHCCF. MYCincinnati students are involved in many of the festival’s performances, including the works of each of the four artists-in-residence, which helps bring that layered vision to life. “Our artists-in-residence program was created the same year as the festival’s founding, so our artists-in-residence program is really at the core of what makes the festival special and unique,” Kwon says. The artists-in-residence include Detroitbased musician Shara Nova, founding member of Chamber Pop band My Brightest Diamond, who will examine “what it means to be a creative and engaged citizen.” There will also be a performance by Byda Circo, a trio of Mexican circus performers who will combine their daring antics of juggling, acrobatics and stilting with the work of the MYCincinnati students to create a piece called ¡El vecindario es un circo! or Neighborhood is a circus! Rounding out the festivities are two locally sourced artists-in-residence. Jennie “Black Budda’fly” Wright, a renowned slam poet and Cincinnati native, will present the Sankofa Experience, an interactive piece exploring the Harlem Renaissance from an artistic, musical and fashion lens. There’s also Hip Hop artist Roberto, who incorporates live instrumentation into his beats. His performance, The Last Day of Summer, will bring strings, winds, keys and percussion into the fold for a featurelength Hip Hop piece. Napoleon Maddox is a former artist-inresidence who has been involved in all of the past festivals but is unable to attend this year because he is working in France; he champions the development of the festival and those involved. “This has been a kind of evolution of different sharings and collaborations and being part of a creative community that’s really charged and excited to continue exploring critical and creative work,”
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Maddox says. The festival has grown since its inception and so has the involvement of people behind the scenes. Marlo Salem has previous experience as festival coordinator. Although they didn’t expect to return to the position this year due to work obligations, Salem said that the stars were aligned after they quit their job. “I reached out to see if they needed anything, and the coordinator that was taking over this year (for PHCCF) had also just left,” Salem says. Salem finds that the festival’s mission to “use collaborative performing arts as a tool to build more creative and inclusive communities” is followed through by its curation. Some areas of inclusivity haven’t been able to be fully realized, due to issues like building ownership. Two venues, El Día and 3117 Warsaw Ave., are not up to Americans with Disabilities Act design standards. “It’s a priority for us to make the spaces each as accessible as possible,” Kwon says. “Some spaces are going to be harder to do that just because some of the structural constraints and what we’re legally and not legally allowed to do” If the venues can’t be changed immediately, the festival can still act as a catalyst for change, particularly in an artistic sense. Kwon refers to the PHCCF as “anti-genre” due to how they resist such pigeonholing of musicians and the historical racial component of it. As Kwon puts it, genre “was a way to code racism so that consumers could then reinforce those systems of racism.” “We very strongly hold to the tenets of supporting and uplifting black and indigenous people of color, people of color, queer people of color, queer trans people of color, and if you look at the lineup, it’s there,” Salem says. “It’s not just that we’re spouting diversity; it’s truly for and of the demographics of our city.” The Price Hill Creative Community Festival takes place July 19 and 20 in East Price Hill. Find more information at creativecommunityfestival.org.
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The Hawkins kids are growing up. between Seasons 2 and 3 is any indicaThat’s the biggest takeaway from tion, it might be 2021 before we get another Stranger Things 3 (now on Netflix), picking installment. The rising stars are taking up in the summer of 1985 as the younger on more roles individually, too. Wolfhard, crew has reached their early teens while for example, is starring in It Chapter Two, the older ones are joining the workforce Addams Family and Ghostbusters movies. (well, interning, scooping ice cream (Everything old is truly new again.) and lifeguarding). Of course, navigating Whenever Stranger Things returns (and puberty, first loves and early adulthood yes, despite its flaws I am already counting are small hurdles when you’re dealing the days — the Duffer Brothers are great at with evil forces from across the globe and hooking you), there will be some shakeanother dimension. ups, no doubt. Some characters look to be As teased in a video a year before the making the wise decision to leave Hawkins. Season 3 premiere, a new mega-shopping Could they relocate to Chicago, where we mall has opened in Hawkins, providing a fun new setting for our characters — like the smitten El (Millie Bobby Brown) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and unlikely buds Steve (Joe Keery) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) — to interact. The O.G. gang’s all here, and we learn more about bad boy Billy (Dacre Montgomery) and his stepsister Max (Sadie Sink), who were introduced last season, and meet newbie Robin, Steve’s food-court co-worker-in-crime, played by the imposStranger Things 3 cast sibly cool Maya Hawke (her real-life parents are PHOTO: COURTESY OF NETFLIX Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke). But the cheerful ambiance of neonlast saw El’s siblings in superpowers? Will washed shops and eateries of a bygone era our beloved party be phased out in favor of belie something sinister. If you thought a new group? Lucas’ (Caleb McLaughlin) closing the gate to the Upside Down in little sister Erica (Priah Ferguson) could be Season 2 would stop the supernatural poised to take center stage with her friends. scaries from rearing their ugly heads again, What Stranger Things does best is capyou were mistaken. This season brings ture a heartfelt nostalgia that rings true for monsters and corrupt politicians and many — especially in a time when so many Russians. Oh my! reboots and throwbacks try and fail to Set during the Fourth of July, the holiday capitalize on the feeling. While this season is the perfect backdrop for this season. left us with some plot holes, pacing issues What’s more American than kicking Rusand unnecessarily gut-wrenching blows, sian ass and saving your hometown from Stranger Things 3 continues to nail not destruction? It’s a refreshing change from only the essence of the ’80s, but so many the typical gloomy Midwestern fall we’ve aspects of childhood. This time around, seen in the last two seasons, and it’s visuthat includes coming of age. El can’t grow ally reflected in the excellent costuming up in a cabin in the woods without friends as well. Honorable mentions: Sheriff Jim her own age — she has to be allowed some Hopper’s (David Harbour) pastel Hawaiian risks so she can experience the many shirt and El’s makeover montage quintesstages of life. Will, meanwhile, seems sentially set to Madonna’s “Material Girl.” stuck in childhood while the rest of the Like a lackluster fireworks display, the crew becomes more interested in young season sparks off with a promising start romance and less in D&D. (Can you blame but sputters out, splitting the group in a him? He missed out on some peak boymillion directions and leaving too many hood time while in the Upside Down!) lingering questions. Much of the plot felt Wherever Season 4 brings us, I hope more like a setup for another season than Stranger Things continues to nail the anything, which begs the question: How experience of growing up, even if that long can the show last? The young cast is means watching our faves grow apart. aging at a faster rate than their respecContact Jac Kern: @jackern tive characters — Will (Noah Schnapp) especially is in desperate need of a more age-appropriate haircut — and if the time
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“If you go to Kroger, the bags (of tortillas) are sitting right on the shelf without being refrigerated. The reason is because of chemicals. You’re feeding yourself chemicals; you’re not feeding yourself natural food,” Garcia says. “Ours are fresh, made with real corn, even the tamales. The texture is totally different, the taste is 100 percent different. The tortilla that we make here is softer, it tastes better. The best part of the meal is the tortilla.” Like a bakery, this tortilleria offers tortillas to go. A two-pound pack of tortillas costs $3.99 and provides enough for 16 tacos if you use two tortillas per taco, as Garcia recommends. The tortillas have a shelf life of five to seven days. To store them, take them home, open the package and let the tortillas cool (they’re sold warm and ready to eat). Once they’re no longer hot, wrap them back up, put them in a plastic bag and store them in the refrigerator or freezer. If frozen, they only need to defrost in the fridge. To prepare them for a meal, put them in a preheated non-stick pan and flip them every few seconds for about a minute. You’ll be pleased to find they maintain their moisture and flavor perfectly.
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Garcia, however, does have tortilla maker, which is easy to spot while in line to order at the register (it accounted for nearly half of the College Hill restaurant’s opening budget). Its continuous functionality is essential to the entire operation and, to be certain no problems take them by surprise, it is maintained daily. A ball of masa is placed between two mechanical rollers on the front of the tortilla maker, which portions and shapes 6-inch tortillas with the help of a rotating silicone mold. The tortillas are then carried through a heating chamber on an assembly line inside the machine, going down several levels from cooking to cooling. Finally, they slide down into a collector basket, where they’re stored until ready for use. Garcia claims the machine can make 1,400 to 1,500 tortillas in an hour. The tortilla’s texture straight from the machine is incredible, making for a delicious snack on its own, but after they’ve fully rested, and only then, are they ready for a taco. “I like people to try (tacos) the traditional way, where you taste the tortilla’s flavor: cilantro, onion, salsa and the lime, squeeze it on,” Garcia says. Tortilleria Garcia’s protein options include pollo (rotisserie chicken), carnitas (pork), carne (steak) and al pastor (pork
with pineapple). Everything made inhouse is gluten free and, unless you specifically order meat, 100-percent vegetarian. Side options include chips (made from the tortillas, of course), salsa, an extravagant guacamole, white and Mexican-style rice, refried beans and pico de gallo. Sour cream, lettuce and all the common taco toppings are also available. Tamales are not as popular in the Midwest as tacos, but anyone new to the dish should definitely order one. Made with the same masa as the tortillas and wrapped in corn husks, tamales are extremely portable and make an excellent take-out option. The spicy carnitas tamales with hot salsa are a perfect marriage of flavor and texture (just make sure your body is ready for some serious heat), while the pollo tamales with verde salsa are ideal for picky eaters — simple, straightforward. Tortilleria Garcia does offer flour tortillas, but to order these would be to miss the entire point of the restaurant. Even if you think you don’t like corn tortillas, you owe it to yourself to try them here — most restaurants that make their own corn tortillas use Maseca, a popular brand of corn flour, and do not nixtamalize and grind their own corn. It has been proven time and time again, especially when it comes to food, that the easiest route does not usually yield to the best results. Thankfully, Garcia’s happy to put in the extra work.
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ortilleria Garcia will change everything you think you know about tacos. One might assume that the highlight of a taco is the protein or the salsa, but once you take a bite of a fresh corn tortilla made by restaurant owner Omar Garcia and his team, you’ll come to understand that — if made with respect for tradition and natural ingredients — what was once a mere vessel for taco fillings is now the centerpiece of the meal. And after almost five successful years in Springdale, Tortilleria Garcia has expanded and opened a second location in College Hill to serve even more hungry Cincinnatians. “When you go to Mexico, a tortilleria is not a place that you get meat or tacos; a tortilleria is a place where they just focus on tortillas, that’s all they do,” Garcia says. “Like, if you go into a bakery, what do you expect from a bakery? Just bread.” But like many bakeries-turnedsandwich-shops, if you also serve things typically eaten with bread, there’s a good chance you’ll make more sales. Same thing goes for Tortilleria Garcia. Menu options here run the gamut from tamales, nachos and burritos to tacos, rotisserie chicken and fresh corn tortillas by the pack. (Note to self: Taco Tuesdays offer $1 tacos, less than half the standard price.) Recipes are inspired by those of Garcia’s mother and grandmother and the Mexican family farm where they grew corn when he was a child. Garcia’s tortillas all start with dried corn, which is purchased in bulk. At present he uses yellow corn but plans for blue corn tortillas are underway. First, the dried corn goes through a process called nixtamalization, where it is soaked in water and calcium and then rinsed to remove the hull. It is then ground between two stones into a supple and pillowy dough called masa (also available by the pound). “We do it exactly the same way we’ve done it for generations in Mexico. My grandparents had a grinder, not a tortilla maker, and they’d grind the corn for everyone where we lived,” he says.
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4 W. Pike St., Covington, ripplewinebar.com Ripple 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 husbandand-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. The bar at Ripple offers 40 varietals, by the glass or half glass, bottle or half bottle. 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. My dining partner and I also couldn’t resist ordering the beef Wellington popovers ($13.50), which chef Will Smith says are one of Ripple’s most popular items. The juicy little pastry packets are stuffed with 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. The menu’s overall vibe is laid-back, a true “California kitchen” with winefriendly food that’s seasonally inspired. Moving into the earnest summer months, Smith says the menu will feature a watermelon and feta salad, among other warmweather offerings. (Leyla Shokoohe)
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1819 Elm St., Over-theRhine, socialotr.com A nonprofit venture owned by the Corporation for Findlay Market, Social OTR not only nails its ambitious New American menu but also aims to fill a multitude of societal and business needs in our community. They’ve been doing dinner since opening in February and added weekend brunch in mid-May. I first went for dinner on a Wednesday, which happens to be burger night. Each week, the staff comes up with a different burger prep, and this time it included not only duck-fat fries but also a bottle of beer and a shot of whiskey, all for $16. The same night happened to feature $1 oysters, a treat one of my companions couldn’t resist. Otherwise, the menu includes about eight “Snacks,” 10 to 11 “Small Plates” and
just two “Large Plates” — a steak dish and chicken roulade. We focused on the snacks and small plates and never made it to the steak or chicken. Safe to say that our consensus favorite was the pipinghot, generous portion of pappardelle pasta. Its mushroom herb sauce became extra delicious with butter-poached wild mushrooms and ramps. A special of diver scallops was cooked just right, tender and succulent. Another winner was charred pulpo, aka octopus. But there’s a whole back story to what Social OTR is up to. In partnership with CityLink, a faith-based nonprofit organization that works on multiple fronts to combat poverty, Social OTR participates in a workforce development program that starts with training students for four weeks at the CityLink facility. The next step is for students to learn on the job in a casual/ upscale environment, and that’s where Social OTR comes in. Students work in the basement prep area and then in the kitchen for 24 to 30 hours per week. After 12 weeks, graduates get placed in kitchens around the area. (Pama Mitchell)
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6085 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, lonelypinesteakhouse.com Lonely Pine Steakhouse takes a simple concept — quality food at an affordable price — and elevates it with Southwestern flair and retro decor. The newest venture by Gorilla Cinema Presents, it is the first foray into food service for the company. Founder Jacob Trevino has already made a name for himself in the local nightlife scene with Gorilla Cinema’s film-themed drinkeries Tokyo Kitty, The Video Archive and Overlook Lodge. However, Lonely Pine is less focused on blatantly paying homage to a film, though there are clues for those on the hunt for Easter eggs. “There are only nods to Back to the Future,” Trevino says. The first course I ordered was a cucumber-serrano gazpacho ($7). The chilled green soup comes with a flourish of cilantro microgreens and edible marigolds that contrast beautifully both aesthetically and on the palate. Next was a 16-ounce bone-in New York strip, dry-aged in house for 30 days. An aggressive sear yielded a perfectly cooked medium-rare center. The NY strip is the second priciest option on the menu at $45, the most expensive being “The Cowboy,” a 16-ounce bone-in ribeye that’s similarly dry aged for $55. But there are options for someone on a tighter budget. For only $16 you can have the 4-ounce Ohio wagyu petite tender, a rare deal for such an esteemed cut, or a 6-ounce sirloin cap for $22. (Sean M. Peters)
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Cincinnati Burger Week — Cincinnati Burger Week (from CityBeat Events) is a seven-day food frenzy featuring $5 specialty burgers at more than 75 restaurants, bars and bakeries. Through Sunday. Get more info at cincinnatiburgerweek.com. Glier’s Goetta Pub Crawl — This pub crawl peeks into the world of goetta-inspired alcohol. The crawl starts at the Moerlein Lager House with a tapping of an official Glier’s Goetta-inspired beer, brewed by Christian Moerlein. From there, crawlers can redeem drink specials and gotta concoctions at different Banks locations including the AC Upper Deck, Galla Park, Jefferson Social and Tin Roof. 6-10 p.m. $10. The Banks, 120 E. Freedom Way, Downtown, facebook.com/gliersgoetta. Ratatouille Kids Cooking Class — Before Washington Park’s free screening of Ratatouille, head to the porch for a kids’ cooking class featuring dishes from the movie. Real chef will teach kids hand-on techniques to recreate Frenchinspired meals. RSVP required. 6:30-8 p.m. $35. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, tablespooncookingco.com. Cupcake and Beer Pairing at Streetside — 3 Sweet Girls Cakery heads to Streetside for a mini cupcake and beer pairing. Tickets required. 6-8 p.m. $15. Streetside Brewery, 4003 Eastern Ave., Columbia Tusculum, facebook.com/ streetsidebrewery.
Botany and Botanicals: Limoncello — Head to Krohn Conservatory to learn how to make and infuse your own batch of limoncello surrounded by the current Il Giardino: A Garden of Tuscany exhibit. Tickets include evening exhibit access, one beer and your own limoncello creation. 6-8 p.m. $30. Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, facebook. com/cincyparks. Aunt Flora’s Grand Reopening — Everyone’s favorite aunt is reopening her Findlay Market stall in a roll-up door space. Aunt Flora (Katrina Mincy) has returned as an outdoor vendor recently and is now ready to be back full-time serving cobblers, pies, barbecue sauces and gourmet coffee. The grand reopening includes a ceremonial cobbler cutting. 10 a.m. Free admission. Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-theRhine, findlaymarket.org.
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for a 90-minute, in-depth tour exploring the history of the space and the brewing process. The brewery has partnered with Holtman’s Donuts to include rare and unreleased beers at each stop — plus donuts. 6-8 p.m. $35. Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, rhinegeist.com.
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couple of years ago, Stephan Jenkins, frontperson of Third Eye Blind, announced that the group would no longer make full-length albums. It’s a thought that’s occurring to plenty of music acts these days, given the way the major-label music industry emphasizes singles and how streaming encourages putting out music in small batches. Jenkins was ready for the EP to become the primary format for Third Eye Blind music. That is, until the band’s next helping of music began to come together. “Isn’t it funny, because I said I’m not going to make LPs anymore, and here I am about to put out an LP,” Jenkins says. “So yeah, (I was saying) I don’t want to be limited to LPs, but this one did turn into an LP.” That LP is going to be called Screamer, and Jenkins expects it to be out sometime during his band’s “Summer Gods” tour with Jimmy Eat World. Jenkins offers some hints on what fans can expect from the new release. On a musical level, the album figures to be more raw than other Third Eye Blind efforts. “Nothing’s safe — no smoothed-out edges, nothing like that at all. The whole thing was, ‘Keep the edge, keep it weird,’ ” Jenkins says of Screamer. “I just feel like everything is so safe and like so much music, it sounds like artists don’t want to have their choices impugned or like they’re relying on something that works. I don’t give a fuck what works. I want to make what makes a dent.” Beyond the sonic scope of Screamer, Jenkins says he worked hard to create and share “revelatory” moments within the lyrics. “I’m trying to create this landscape that you can live inside, but that doesn’t matter without that revelatory moment,” he says of his writing approach. “You have to have something in there, in the song, where you are telling a truth that was uncovered. There has to be something where you are permeable, where you are vulnerable and that’s what Rock & Roll is — the courage to
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put that out there.” To hear Jenkins talk about them, the lyrics for the songs on Screamer are timely, provocative and also quite personal. “This is kind of an album about passion and friction and vitality and aliveness in the space of dystopia,” he says. “I see us moving into this kind of dystopian world, but at the same time I’m so inspired by the energy of so many people — the young activists right now are the things that give me the most hope.” In particular, Jenkins cites as inspirations Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, survivors of last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida who became high-profile activists for gun control. “I don’t write anything political. I only write from an emotional standpoint,” he insists. “But there’s a song (on Screamer) called ‘The Kids Are Coming to Take You Down,’ and that song is kind of inspired by them. So yeah, I realize that that’s kind of like part of the narrative energy of the record. But it’s still mostly what I do about internal politics, the friction between, the impact human beings have on each other.” Jenkins began his musical journey in San Francisco in 1993, when he teamed up with songwriting collaborator and
guitarist Kevin Cadogan. With bassist Arion Salazar and drummer Brad Hargreaves completing the original Third Eye Blind lineup, the band released its self-titled debut album in 1997. That debut turned the group into stars. Fueled by the hit singles “Semi-Charmed Life,” “Jumper” and “How’s It Going To Be,” Third Eye Blind went six times platinum. The 1999 followup Blue sold over a million copies. Since then, however, Third Eye Blind has had its ups and downs. The first big episode came after the release of Blue and the firing of Cadogan, who sued for wrongful termination and back royalties. The suit was settled out of court in 2002. Further lineup changes have followed, and Jenkins and Hargreaves are now the only remaining original band members. The group has been somewhat sporadic in releasing new music and haven’t had a Top 20 hit on the radio since 2003’s “Blinded,” but Third Eye Blind has remained a reliable concert draw. The fact that the band is playing amphitheaters this summer says a lot about Third Eye Blind’s continued appeal. Jenkins says fans coming to summer shows can expect to hear Third Eye Blind — which currently also includes Kryz Reid (guitar), Alex LeCavalier (bass) and Colin CreeV (keyboards/guitar) — play some
of their new music this summer, along with a cross-section of songs from the back catalog. The forward-looking focus of the tour is a shift from the group’s 2017 outing, on which they celebrated the 20th anniversary of their debut album by playing it in full. Jenkins says that album remains relevant to long-standing fans and newcomers alike, but he’s not sure why. “That is such a perplexing question,” Jenkins says. “I’ll give you a theory. I think we use music… the reason why it’s so energized in youth is because it’s this identity generation debunked. Something in the rhythm, in the narrative, in the landscape of what we’re doing, people find that (album) as this latticework for creating identity and developing that sense, and that’s also finding community. “So you see kids who are at our shows who are 17, 20 years old, and this isn’t something old for them. This is right now for them. It’s an amazing thing to see. It really keeps my music alive and it allows me also to push forward into the future. It gives me that kind of confidence. I need that confidence or otherwise I’ll doubt myself.” Third Eye Blind plays Wednesday, July 17 at Riverbend’s PNC Pavilion. Tickets/more info: riverbend.org.
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Knitting Goes Metal
There are several hobbies that seem well-suited to be soundtracked by Heavy Metal — axe throwing, wood chopping… all of the major axe sports, really. Knitting would not logically be featured high atop that list, yet here we are — Finland recently hosted the first-ever Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship. It might be difficult to imagine what such a competition might entail, but once you see video, it all makes sense. Part Rock show, part performance art and part crafting showcase, the event featured teams of fancifully dressed knitters dancing (and knitting) onstage to live Metal bands, Finland’s favorite export (The Washington Post says Finland has the most Metal groups per capita in the world). “We have such dark and long winters,” one of the event’s founders, Mari Karjalainen, told the Post. “This really gives us lots of time to plan for our short summers and come up with silly ideas.”
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July 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s breakthrough single “Space Oddity.” If you are a huge Bowie fan and happen to also love collecting Barbie dolls, we have some very good news for you: Mattel has made a commemorative Bowie Barbie. Dressed as the icon’s Ziggy Stardust alter ego (with metallic bodysuit and red platform boots), the doll is going for $50 on the official Barbie website, which lists the recommended ages for purchasing as “Adult Collector,” but we’re sure more than a few kids would enjoy its androgynous cool.
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This Saturday, the Southgate House Revival (111 E. Sixth St., Newport, southgatehouse.com) will be home to an ’80s Cincinnati music scene reunion as some of the biggest Alt acts from the era team up to remember Paul Stewart. The enigmatic singer for influential local Alternative music bands Red Math and Junta died in February from a heart ailment. He was 56. Saturday’s celebration in memory of Stewart will feature performances by several of his musical peers, many of whom have not performed together in Paul Stewart with Red Math years, including Perfect PHOTO: PROVIDED Jewish Couple, Zero Gravity/Drumbones, The The majority of the cards in the decks Uninvited Guests and Get Christy Love. feature a watercolor portrait of a musician There will also be tributes to Stewart’s with links to Greater Cincinnati who had music by some of his closest musical a big impact on music locally, regionally, companions. Along with a performance nationally and internationally. On the flip by Stewart’s Junta bandmates, an all-star side are “snapshot bios” of each subject. band called The Algorithms will feature Shake It’s Darren Blase was inspired to creRed Math’s Paul Brooke and Mike Davis ate the series by artist R. Crumb’s famous performing their old group’s songs like trading card sets dedicated to Blues, Jazz “Expectations” and “Wrought in Promise.” Other bands playing include The and Country music pioneers. Warsaw Falcons, Mary Tyler Mustang, Those depicted in the Cincinnati MusiThe Tigerlilies and The Libertines (the cal Legends Volume 1 deck include Coworiginal Libertines from Cincinnati, not boy Copas, Grandpa Jones, Bootsy and Catthe later British band). fish Collins, Cal Collins, H-Bomb Ferguson, Music begins Saturday at 8 p.m. AdmisLonnie Mack, Mamie Smith, Stephen sion is $13 in advance or $15 at the door. Foster and The Isley Brothers. There are Ticket proceeds will be donated to Stewalso lots of relatively lesser-known artists art’s family to help them with expenses. like Junior McCants, Cody Black, Sacred There will be some new “merch” for sale to Mushroom and Mr. Spoons. The debut help the family as well, including T-shirts, deck also has cards for local music institubuttons and remastered CDs featuring Red tions like The Cotton Club, Herzog Studios Math’s long-out-of-print and hard-to-find and “Cincy Indie Labels” (King, Federal, music. There will also be raffles where fans Saxony, Jewel and others). can win vintage Red Math vinyl and more. “You will quickly notice that some of the subjects of these cards are more well Cincinnati Music Legends known than others but collectively they Cards are Here help tell the great musical history of The The first set in a series a trading card decks Queen City,” the deck’s introductory card that tell the story of Cincinnati’s rich music reads. “Hopefully the snapshot bios on the history will be available beginning this back of each card will prod you to explore Friday, July 19 at Shake It Records (4156 beyond the 100 or so words we are limited Hamilton Ave., Northside). The “Volume 1” to due to space. Each one just scratches the deck can also be ordered online ($15.99) at surface of some very fascinating characshakeitrecords.com. The Cincinnati Musical Legends Tradters and we encourage you to explore!” ing Cards series is spearheaded by Shake The first deck consists of 36 subjects It Records with an assist from ArtWorks. Blase and Co. randomly chose out of an Cincinnati comics artist and sign painter initial list of over 150. The plan is for there Justin Green is the lead artist on the projto be three more volumes in the series. The ect; if you’re a Shake It fan, his artwork will intro card says future decks will spotlight ring familiar, as he’s responsible for the people like Pigmeat Jarrett and Oran“marquee” sign above the store’s front door. gie Ray Hubbard and venues like Aunt Local artist Joe Walsh was the project manMaudie’s and The Jockey Club. ager and Josie Masset, Katelan Thomas and Contact Mike Breen: Kadin True were apprentice artists. Joe Kuth was a guest artist on the project. mbreen@citybeat.com.
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content lies beneath the frilly synth pads. Patternist’s latest single, “Bikes,” has a bit more bite than previous releases, edging closer to the band’s Emo roots than ever before. “We’ve got new music coming out, and I really feel like the new music is going to be the best representation of what Patternist has been trying to do for the last several years,” Mouer says. Patternist’s debut full-length will be released on Sept. 6. In the meantime, the band is on the road this summer, bringing a recurring set of challenges for the solo project. Mouer’s wife, Ashton, is the only consistent touring member, playing keys and bass. Otherwise, almost every tour consists of new sets of hired hands. Since Patternist songs are largely electronic, the backing musicians have to pick up on songs quickly and transcribe them for real instruments. “When I’m writing, I don’t think, like, ‘How is a human being going to play this?’ ” Mouer says. “I sort of worry about that after, so there’s always a point where we’re hiring new people (and they’re) figuring out how
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With lush synths, sparkling guitar riffs and some of the softest vocals around, Patternist exudes a cheery, head-in-theclouds energy that blends naturally with any summertime playlist. Only upon closer inspection do the one-man-band’s Emo roots shine through. Gabe Mouer, the Portland-based musician behind the solo project, began toying with music just before high school. The self-proclaimed angsty and awkward teenager saw music as an outlet, idolizing bands like Saves the Day, Jimmy Eat World and Hot Rod Circuit. Patternist combines the songwriting philosophies of those Emo influences with musical stylings akin to what Mouer calls “Pop apologists” — bands like The 1975 and Chvrches that embrace the Pop formula in ways that legitimize it to alternative and mainstream audiences. Due to these varied sources of inspiration, each song feels like a dance between burgeoning hope and complete disillusionment. On social media, Patternist brands itself as “sad songs that sound happy.” Though intended as self-effacing and tongue-incheek, Mouer says there is a truth to the tagline because he often writes the music before the lyrics. “It’s just easier and feels more personal to talk about struggles and self-doubt — the major themes of Patternist songs lyrically — than writing something upbeat,” he says. “It’s not that I’m a sad person necessarily, it’s just that those are the sort of things that are more cathartic to write about.” This contrast lends versatility to the music. For those wanting to dig a little deeper, profound and potentially relatable
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Nashville-based guitarist TJ McFarland began writing lyrics and poetry when he was young and took the next step of setting his words to a traditional Country music soundtrack as a teenager. After moving to Nashville, he rebranded his musical identity utilizing the name of his adopted home state and James Dean’s character in Giant and Tennessee Jet was born. McFarland makes a mighty racket with spartan simplicity; his standard set-up includes acoustic and electric guitars, his ever-present harmonica rack and a drum kit designed for foot/occasional right-hand execution. Jet has the creative and structural flexibility to shift from visceral, foundation-rattling Blues stomps reminiscent of early White Stripes and Black Keys to confessional, reflective Country/Folk balladry and raucous Honky Tonk hoedowns that nod to Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam. McFarland dropped his eponymous Tennessee Jet debut in 2015, and became a minor sensation without the benefit of label assistance; in short order, he had song placements in high profile ad campaigns for Mini Cooper and Miller Lite. His sophomore album, 2017’s Reata, cemented his status as a legitimate songwriting talent, with some reviewers going so far as to draw comparisons to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. McFarland has the smoldering good
On paper, the Folk music singer/songwriter Danny Kiranos’ releases as Amigo the Devil shouldn’t have anything to do with the world of Metal music. But once you start listening to the heavy, dark sound Kiranos first introduced to most of the world with his 2018 album Everything is Fine, the connections become a bit clearer — if not musically, then certainly spiritually. The heaviness in Amigo the Devil’s music is found in Kiranos’ blisteringly soulful vocal delivery and captivating lyrics, which compellingly explore the dark corners of human consciousness. Amigo the Devil has emerged as one of the leaders of the so-called “Murder Folk” movement, a genre that also includes like-minded contemporary Roots acts like The Devil Makes Three and Harley Poe. But all of those artists are merely advancing a Folk music tradition that goes back centuries — “murder ballads” are a foundational element of “Americana” that predate America. Amigo the Devil’s earlier work used the murder ballad approach most literally, with lyrics from the point of view of modern serial killers like Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer. After three EPs that explored that morbid terrain, Kiranos turned more inward. But that’s not to suggest that the previous work was void of self-examination. Looking at the world through the eyes of a deeply disturbed killer is just a different means of dissecting the human psyche. On Everything is Fine, Kiranos comes from a more introspective place, which can sometimes be even more disturbing. Given the pitch-black tone of the lyrics, it’s sometimes surprising how beautiful Amigo the Devil’s can be. But it can also be full of jagged edges. Though Kiranos usually performs alone with his acoustic guitar and banjo, on Everything is Fine he’s joined by musicians like Brad Wilk, the powerhouse drummer from Rage Against the Machine. The album was also produced by Ross Robinson, who is known for his work with bands like Korn and Slipknot. Still, the Metal fans who dig Amigo the Devil’s music aren’t coming for the sonics — Kiranos creates an emotionally theatrical world with his music that transcends genre specifics. Its darkness is for everyone. (Mike Breen)
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BURNET WOODS BANDSTAND Wednesdays in the Woods with Triiibe. 7 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.
CAFFÈ VIVACE - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10.
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FOUNTAIN SQUARE Reggae Wednesdays with Lazo. 7 p.m. Reggae. Free.
HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Jim Connerley Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.
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LEGENDS BAR AND VENUE - Telehope with Patternist and Malibu Wild. 7 p.m. AltPop. $10. MANSION HILL TAVERN Losing Lucky. 8 p.m. Roots. Free.
MOTR PUB - Freddy & Fancine with The Sea The Sea. 9:30 p.m. Americana. Free.
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CAFFÈ VIVACE - On a Limb. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.
FOUNTAIN SQUARE - Salsa on the Square with ¡Zumba! Salsa Band and Bembe Cincinnati. 7 p.m. Latin/Salsa/Dance. Free.
LUCIUS Q - The Grace Lincoln Band. 7 p.m. Soul/R&B. Free.
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THOMPSON HOUSE - Flatland Harmony Experiment, The Pickin Pear and Highly Likely. 8 p.m. Bluegrass/ Americana. Cover. URBAN ARTIFACT - Lisa De Novo with Kyla Mainous. 10 p.m. Pop/Various.
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FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - Krystal Peterson. 8 p.m. R&B/ Various. Free. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Faux Frenchmen. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.
JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - Molly & The Rockers. 9:30 p.m. Dance/ Pop/Various. Cover. KNOTTY PINE - The Amy Sailor Band. 10 p.m. Country. Cover. MANSION HILL TAVERN Blue Ravens. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.
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PNC PAVILION AT RIVERBEND - Tedeschi Trucks Band Wheels of Soul 2019 featuring Blackberry Smoke and Shovels & Rope. 7 p.m. Roots/ Rock/Americana/Various. $52-$149. RADISSON CINCINNATI RIVERFRONT - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. Funk/R&B/Soul. Free (in the Fifth Lounge).
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THOMPSON HOUSE Light the Torch, Moon Tooth, American Sin and Spring Grove. 7 p.m. Rock. Cover.
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TOP CATS - See You In The Funnies with Bishop Battle, Living Darian and Malibu Wild. 8 p.m. Alt/ Pop/Rock/Various. $8.
URBAN ARTIFACT Moselle, The Monolithic and Vessel. 9 p.m. Rock/Various.
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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Moonshine Drive. 8 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. THE AVENUE EVENT CENTER - 42 Dugg. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. $25. BLIND LEMON - Jake Walz. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - FrenchAxe. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.
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CAFFÈ VIVACE - Now Hear This. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover. CLUB TRIO - Trailer Park Floosies. 8 p.m. Pop/Rock/ Country/Rap/Dance/Various. Cover. THE COMET - Phoul Phill Andt Guill. 10 p.m. Rock/ Experimental/Various. Free.
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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Matt Tolentino Band. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.
RICK’S TAVERN - Carey Hunley Band. 10 p.m. Country. Cover.
HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Marc Fields Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.
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SCHWARTZ’S POINT - Phil DeGreg Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.
JACK CINCINNATI CASINO - Dionne Warwick. 8 p.m. Pop
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Jess Lamb. 9:30 p.m. Alt/Soul/ Pop. Free.
JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - Airwave. 9:30 p.m. Pop/R&B/Dance/Various. Cover.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - The Farmer & Adele with Slippery Creek. 9 p.m. Americana. $12, $15 day of show.
JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Debi & the Revelation. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/Various. Free.
BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Like A Storm and Through Fire. 7 p.m. Hard Rock. $20, $25 day of show. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Ben Tweedt Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE - Pete Mills Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.
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STANLEY’S PUB - Suede Jackets. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.
KNOTTY PINE - Wayward Son. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. LYDIA’S ON LUDLOW - Ma Crow & Co. 7 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.
MANSION HILL TAVERN - Johnny Fink and the Intrusion. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.
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THOMPSON HOUSE - Between the Buried and Me with The Contortionist. 7 p.m. Rock. Cover.
MOTR PUB - Sungaze with Oregon Space Trail of Doom. 10 p.m. Shoegaze/ Dream Pop. Free.
TOP CATS - Lift the Medium with American Bombshell and RIND. 8 p.m. Rock. $8.
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NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Hyperstatic, La Cerca with Old City. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.
NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Sharptooth and Obey The Brave with Born a New, Downswing, Deadculture, God of Nothing and Grave Friends. 7 p.m. Metalcore/ Hardcore. $13, $15 day of show. PEECOX ERLANGER Saving Stimpy. 9:30 p.m. Rock. $5. PLAIN FOLK CAFE Vaughn and Co. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free. RICK’S TAVERN - Second Wind. 10 p.m. Rock/R&B. Cover. RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Hootie & The Blowfish with Barenaked Ladies. 7:30 p.m. Pop/Rock. Sold out. SCHWARTZ’S POINT Erwin Stuckey Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) Mockery with Maxwell Hedron and Abby Vice. 9 p.m. Indie/Alt/Pop/Various. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Cincinnati Noir. 10 p.m. Alt/Dance/Various. $5.
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STANLEY’S PUB Ladyfolk Festival with Honey & Houston, Maria Carrelli, Chelsea Ford and The Trouble and Twig&Leaf. 6 p.m. Americana. $10.
URBAN ARTIFACT Preachervan. 7 p.m. AltPop.
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