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Courtroom Erupts as Former Hamilton County Judge Tracie Hunter Taken to Jail Hamilton County Judge Patrick Dinkelacker executed Hunter’s sixmonth sentence despite strong protests from activists and elected officials

BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

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he long legal saga of former Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter reached a tense bookend July 22 as a deputy dragged her by her shoulders out of the courtroom of Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Patrick Dinkelacker to spend six months in jail.

Dinkelacker executed the sentence for a fourth-degree felony conviction handed down almost five years prior by his nowretired predecessor, Judge Norbert Nadel.

The October 2014 conviction was for allegedly providing her brother, a juvenile court employee, with confidential records as he was in the process of being fired.

Prosecutors and Hunter’s critics say she has willfully broken the law without remorse. But her attorneys and supporters say she is innocent, and some see politics at play.

Hunter’s ongoing legal battle and subsequent incarceration have stirred up intense anger from some in Cincinnati’s African-American communities. As Dinkelacker gave his decision, supporters of the first black juvenile court judge and faith leader burst into chants and yells.

One was arrested by deputies for allegedly crossing over a bar between court attendees and the rest of the courtroom.

“They dragged my pastor out of the courtroom,” one woman said after Hunter went limp and was carried off. “They dragged her.”

“This city is going to burn,” another yelled.

Hunter’s attorney, David Singleton, told Dinkelacker that Hunter’s legal battle is not over and that he is filing motions to dismiss the charges against her.

“The conviction is unjust,” Singleton said, also taking issue with the sentence. “Six months in the jail in a felony for someone who has never been in trouble before and someone who still has a positive impact in our community is not just.”

Singleton said that Hunter has lost her

job as a judge, her law license and “her peace of mind.”

He pointed out that amid her legal battles, Hunter has continued to serve as pastor at Western Hills Brethren in Christ Church.

She is also the caretaker for her elderly mother, Singleton said.

But special prosecutor Scott Croswell told Dinkelacker that the sentence was warranted, saying that Hunter had not shown remorse, that her conviction was upheld in state and federal courts and that she “continues to lash out” at the court.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters sent a letter to Dinkelacker with strong words about Hunter’s actions. But he also asked that the sentence be delayed so Hunter could undergo a psychological evaluation.

“I believe she has some kind of mental condition that has created this scenario,” Deters wrote.

Hunter’s attorneys pushed back strongly at the suggestion, saying their client is of sound mind.

Deters’ wasn’t the only letter Dinkelacker got. Mayor John Cranley, Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman, former NAACP President Edith Thrower and other community leaders also wrote to the judge asking him not to incarcerate Hunter.

“Mrs. Hunter has suffered for her conviction,” Cranley wrote. “It doesn’t

Tracie Hunter PH OTO: NIC K SWARTSELL

appear to me that she poses a risk to others.

Her professional life has been negatively impacted. She has been punished enough.”

Dinkelacker also said he received 45 postcards sent to his home asking him not to jail Hunter. Many of those postcards said the authors were “registered voters,” something the judge said he took as a threat.

One postcard called Dinkelacker “a fraud.” Another railed against the fact that the judge faced no penalties for an incident in which he hit a woman with his SUV on Central Parkway in December 2013, pushing her into another moving car. The woman, who police say was standing in the middle of the street, died. Authorities said Dinkelacker was not charged with a crime because the woman was not in a crosswalk and tested positive for drugs. A civil suit alleged Dinkelacker crossed the double-yellow line when he hit the woman; his attorneys denied this. The judge settled the suit out of court.

“I hope no judge ever has to go through this,” Dinkelacker said of the letters. “If this was an attempt to intimidate to me, that has flat out failed.”

The tense day in court comes after years of controversy around Hunter, her judgeship and her conviction.

Hunter ran for juvenile court judge in 2010. Initially, her opponent John Williams was declared the winner. But Hunter sued for a recount because some votes were not counted. When they were, Hunter came out victorious by a slim margin.

“She entered the court under a great cloud of opposition,” civil rights activist Bishop Bobby Hilton said after the July 22 sentencing. “It’s been a major political fight since day one.”

Hunter made changes to the juvenile court, including ordering young defendants taken out of shackles. Her supporters say those changes and the tense electoral CONTINUES ON PAGE 08

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Cincinnati City Council Approves Responses to Violence — and Debates Long-Term Solutions

BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

Cincinnati City Council passed a motion July 18 by members P.G. Sittenfeld and Greg Landsman asking city administration to implement a raft of policy changes designed to immediately address a summer spike in gun violence that caused the city’s most deadly month on record.

Overall, this year has been less violent than most statistically. But 20 people were murdered in Cincinnati between May 30 and the end of June, and the violent spike has continued into July. That violence took the lives of two 14-year-olds just a week apart in Over-the-Rhine and Lower Price Hill.

Sittenfeld’s and Landsman’s motion asks the city to add two more Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence outreach workers and make sure CIRV workers are properly equipped to do their jobs; keep some Cincinnati Recreation Centers near violent hot spots in Price Hill open as late as midnight; install better lighting and cameras in those hot spots; immediately remove gangrelated graffiti; and explore ways to partner with nonprofits to convince neighborhood residents to work with police on information about violence.

While all six members of council present

voted to pass the motion (council members Amy Murray, Jeff Pastor and Christopher Smitherman were excused from the special council session), a few had questions about longer-term issues.

“To some extent, we’re paying the piper — for the poverty in our community, the disparities in our community,” council member David Mann said.

Mann said he supported the initiatives, but longer-term approaches to poverty are needed if the city wants to see significant reductions in violence.

Mayor John Cranley, meanwhile, advocated for an increase in police officers to bring the force up to the 1,055 sworn officers Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac has requested. Isaac says that when CPD dips below 1,000 officers, it can’t operate some of the programs it uses to reduce violence.

Forty-two new recruits will come aboard in the coming weeks, but attrition will keep CPD’s numbers low, Isaac says.

Some council members agree with that idea. But others, like council member Tamaya Dennard, say that more police aren’t the solution to the deeper problems created by poverty, exposure to trauma and racial disparities.

Sittenfeld’s and Landsman’s motion takes a small step toward some of those issues, directing city administration to explore partnerships with community groups to offer trauma support at Cincinnati Recreation Centers. But more needs to be done, Dennard said.

“These kids are hurting,” she said.

“They’re dealing with issues that need to be addressed. One of the reasons I’m not in favor of adding police is that we cannot arrest away our problems.”

The line between crime rates and policing staffing isn’t a clear-cut one, experts say.

The Queen City has roughly 1,000 officers, or one per every 300 residents. That is more per capita than many other nearby mid-sized municipalities.

Louisville has 1,250 officers, or one per every 600 residents. Indianapolis has 1,700 officers, or one per every 516 residents.

Columbus has 1,800 officers, or one per every 444 residents. Pittsburgh has 900 officers, or one per every 336 residents. Of these, only Indianapolis has had a higher crime rate than Cincinnati in recent years.

Meanwhile, Cleveland, with 1,600 officers (one officer per every 243 residents), and St. Louis, with 1,300 officers (one

State Passes Budget That Cuts Taxes, Boosts Smoking Age

BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L It took more than two weeks past a deadline mandated in the Ohio Constitution, but state lawmakers July 17 finally settled on a $69 billion, two-year spending plan for Ohio.

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The next day, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the budget, though he vetoed 25 provisions within the spending plan.

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The budget, which passed 75-17 in the House and 29-1 in the Senate, will increase spending by $1.4 billion, or about 4 percent, this year. The spending plan shakes things up in a number of policy areas: It ups the required age to buy tobacco and vaping products from 18 to 21, increases funding for programs for low-income families and children and provides $172 million for H2OHio, a program designed to protect some Ohio waterways.

Under the spending plan, Ohioans will get a 4-percent tax cut. That would save a person making $35,000 a year about $29 on their taxes. Those making less than $21,750 a year will pay no state income taxes after lawmakers eliminated the lowest two tax brackets.

So-called pass-through businesses will also get to keep a big tax break they’ve been receiving for a number of years — a tax exemption on the first $250,000 in revenues business owners report as

personal income. Lawmakers in the House wanted to cut that to $100,000.

The Senate passed on that idea but did exempt lawyers and lobbyists from getting the tax break. The exemptions are worth about $1.2 billion a year.

officer per every 244 residents), both have more officers per person than Cincinnati.

But both also have had higher crime rates in recent years.

Cranley and others have pointed out, however, that the call for more police comes from a desire to do more problemoriented policing, or police work focused on a few people in so-called “hot spots” across the city.

“This isn’t about a dragnet approach,” he said. “This is about targeted, strategic arrests for the worst offenders.”

Police accountability advocate Iris Roley, part of the group that sued the city to get the federally mandated Collaborative Agreement following the 2001 police shooting of Timothy Thomas in Over-the-Rhine, called the proposals “knee-jerk.”

She says that the application of problemoriented policing that was part of that agreement needs to be consistent, and that responses to trouble signs within the community need to come sooner.

“We needed to be doing this after the first shooting, not the 14th,” Roley said in council. “It sends a message to portions of this community that they don’t matter.”

Sittenfeld defended his motion while promising more efforts in the future.

“No one is pretending this solves everything,” he said. “But the intent is to make things better immediately. Because the immediate past is the deadliest month on record.”

and sometimes counsel women against seeking them.

The budget also sought to provide $100 million in compensation to pharmacies to reimburse them for prescription drugs for Medicaid users and to eliminate the state’s multiple pharmacy benefit managers in favor of having the state’s Department of Medicaid work with just one manager in order to control costs.

DeWine also vetoed that provision, however.

Lawmakers set aside an additional $550 million to provide mental health, counseling and other programs to students at public K-12 schools across the state.

Other education provisions were more controversial: $125 million more for private school scholarships and money DeWine vetoed for fast-growing, wealthy school districts capped under the state’s current funding formula, both moves Democrats opposed. Many Democrats also balked at a one-year pause on state takeovers of poorly-performing districts, saying they want the practice amended or stopped entirely. School districts in Lorain, Youngstown and East Cleveland will continue to be under state control as lawmakers and the Ohio Supreme Court mull changes to the process.

House Majority Leader Larry Householder said the wait was worth it. Democratic House Minority Leader Emilia Strong Sykes, however, said that “there were no wins in the delay” and that, while the budget “is not awful for the state of Ohio,” it doesn’t go as far as it should in many areas.

Democrats in the GOP-controlled General Assembly also weren’t happy about a change to Ohio’s primary day that moves voting forward to Saint Patrick’s Day and a move that will give so-called crisis pregnancy centers $7.5 million. Those clinics provide some health services to women, but do not provide abortions

“Moments ago, I signed the #OHBudget, which lays the groundwork for a better #Ohio for future generations and makes unprecedented investments in children, families, workers, recovery, education, and more,” DeWine tweeted. “My team is compiling the final details and will release more info soon.”

The budget retains a slight increase to the state’s local government fund — which will increase revenues somewhat to cities like Cincinnati — and to libraries.

City Settles Lawsuit Over Realtor, Client Handcuffed by Cincinnati Police

BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L Cincinnati City Manager Patrick Duhaney announced July 19 that the city has settled a lawsuit brought by a realtor and his client who were handcuffed while legally viewing a house for sale in West Price Hill.

The incident took place Nov. 17 last year, when Anthony Edwards and his realtor Jerry Isham were scheduled to view a house at 1093 Morado Drive in the neighborhood and gained entry via a key left in a lockbox at the front door.

They didn’t know it at the time, but a neighbor, former police officer Thomas Branigan, called the police to report a potential case of breaking and entering.

“I just seen two black male subjects force the front door open,” Branigan, who is white, told police. Branigan did stipulate to the call center operator that the house CONTINUES ON PAGE 08

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battle are behind what happened next. In 2014, Hunter was indicted on nine felony accusations. Jurors couldn’t agree on eight of those counts, but did convict Hunter on one. Three jurors later indicated they wished to change their votes, but a motion for a retrial was denied.

Hunter was able to stay out of jail as her case took a long, winding series of appeals that went through state courts and, eventually, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. But in May, federal District Court Judge Timothy Black upheld Hunter’s sentence after three years presiding over the case. That opened the door to Hunter’s incarceration.

Outside the courtroom following the July 22 hearing, State Sen. Cecil Thomas and Hilton said Cincinnati’s AfricanAmerican communities should consider an economic boycott in response to Hunter’s incarceration.

“It’s a political statement that they’re making,” Thomas said. “They’re saying to us ‘stay in your place, don’t you dare challenge our authority.’ Judge Hunter came in and made changes to the court. We’re not going to stand for it. This is going to be the beginning of a huge price this region will pay for this miscarriage of justice... every

day she sits in this jail there will be an economic price to pay. Judge Hunter is not the end; she is the beginning.”

Thomas said the court is a “Republican stronghold” that Hunter was punished for challenging. He pointed to accusations that the county courts run on nepotism, including a case in which Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine emailed Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters asking about internships in the prosecutor’s office for his son. That request was granted.

“That was a violation of ethics,” Thomas said. “It fits every element.”

Hunter’s supporters have continued to protest her impending jail sentence.

A large group showed up at a Hamilton County Commissioners meeting protesting the roughly $2 million taxpayers have spent on her trial.

The night before the July 22 sentencing hearing, a group of roughly 40 of Hunter’s supporters gathered outside the Hamilton County Courthouse for five hours, lit by the occasional flash of lightning.

“I’m overwhelmed with gratefulness to see this many people showing up on a Sunday night,” Hunter said as she stood near the courthouse steps. “In preparation for what lies ahead, it’s a blessing.”

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Hunter said she remains focused on addressing racial and economic disparities in the juvenile court system, where a large number of defendants are black, lowincome or both.

“I think people have to want to eliminate the disparities, and honestly, I think by what they’ve done to me, the willingness to pay any amount of money to eliminate the first African-American juvenile court judge, they don’t want to change,” she said.

The crowd didn’t disperse until midnight.

“You are our modern-day Rosa Parks,” Rev. Damon Lynch III, pastor of New Prospect Baptist Church, said at that event.

“You are our modern-day Ida B. Wells. We have to make sure that when history is told, it is told correctly. The people in this building behind us, they targeted you.”

The case will very likely have political dimensions. Prosecutor Deters is up for reelection next year, and his Democratic Party opponent Gabe Davis is already blasting him over Hunter’s treatment.

Deters, for his part, has asked Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to explore commuting Hunter’s sentence. DeWine’s office has said the governor will consider that if Hunter applies for commutation.

was for sale and that he did not see either man entering the property with a weapon.

Three officers arrived at the scene, and one briefly pulled out her firearm, according to the lawsuit that attorney Chris Finney filed on behalf of Edwards and Isham.

Despite explaining the situation, the two were then handcuffed for a brief period before they were released.

Police documentation gained via a public records request supports the basic narrative offered in the lawsuit brought by Edwards and Isham.

“The city regrets this extremely unfortunate and unnecessary situation,” Duhaney wrote in a statement. “Mr. Isham and Mr. Edwards did nothing wrong. We have reached a settlement in the amount of $151,000 that includes voluntary training with police and the Board of Realtors. Further, we are in the process of implementing implicit bias training for all city employees. We sincerely apologize.”

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As they say, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere — which means it’s time for a drink. Whether you’re looking for a nightlife destination to mix and mingle or a place to spend happy hour before heading home to binge-watch Netflix, there’s a bar for every vibe in Cincinnati. For this Drinking Issue we’ve divided different boozy destinations into categories to help you pick where to raise your glass next. In the mood for something new to post to your Instagram stories? There’s a bar for that. What about somewhere you can throw an axe? Sure!

Want a masterful mocktail in opulent environs? We have those kinds of bars, too. And if your favorite watering hole didn’t make the list, don’t worry — plenty of great bars didn’t — which is as good a reason as any to curse CityBeat while using our free publication as a coaster during your next night out. Cheers!

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BRANCH

Folks from Northside’s Littlefield Restaurant Group rehabbed the historic 1920s-era Central Trust Bank building in East Walnut Hills, opening the aptly named restaurant Branch and its adjacent downstairs speakeasy Night Drop in December. Cocktails take their sobriquets from financial terms, like the Reverse Mortgage, Preferred Risk and Accelerated Depreciation, the latter of which contains bourbon, orange bitters and Dr. Pepper syrup, which is extracted from a box of fountain soda, sans carbonation. Other clever creations include habañero-infused Green Chartreuse, peanut-infused mezcal and spiced gin. Make sure to snap a selfie in the owl-wallpapered bathroom. 1535 Madison Road, East Walnut Hills, eatatbranch.com.

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COBBLESTONE OTR

Cobblestone is a no-frills establishment that feels like hanging out in a friend’s living room — if that living room had 15 different bourbons (Weller and Bulleit among them); two cocktails on draft, including a mightily potent Old Fashioned and Fernet-Branca; and a rotating draft beer list (Bud Light is constant). A built-in long leather seat at the back, nestled next to the restrooms, allows for shoe-shines on certain nights. 1132 Race St., Over-theRhine, facebook.com/cobblestoneotr.

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Located in a former 105-year-old rest area (basically a public bathroom), Comfort Station has transformed a dilapidated space into an airy nightlife destination full of hip cocktails and outdoor lounge areas. Guests can choose their own adventure when entering, opting to go through either the Women's or Men's door. Head through the bright blue ladies entrance to access the main-floor space, replete with original skylights, plush blue-velvet seating and bathrooms with twoway mirrors to watch the goings-on behind the bar (you can see out; they can't see in).

From the main bar, you can access the back patio, which has multiple seating nooks, including an elevated perch with cushions.

Opening later this year, the entrance through the Men's door will lead guests to an eightseater basement cocktail lounge for “nighttime revelry and good-natured mischief." 793 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, searchable on Facebook.

FAUSTO

This café inside the Contemporary Arts Center from brothers Tony and Austin Ferrari

plays off of the artful surroundings to craft a menu of thoughtfully designed and seasonal cuisine. Dishes range from chia seed pudding and baked eggs to smoked white fish tartine and handmade linguini with clams. In addition to a craft coffee menu based off of a specialty Deeper Roots Coffee blend, the cocktail list features modern mixes like the Refreshing as Yoko (pamplemouse, Aperol, grapefruit bitters, sparkling wine and rosemary) and wines that run the gamut from red to white to sparkling with a special Ferrari Bros. rosé. 44 E. Sixth St., Downtown, faustoatthecac.com.

HIGHGRAIN BREWING CO.

Located in the former Silverton Memorial Municipal Building, HighGrain Brewing features “old-world styles with a modern twist,” like their Switch oatmeal stout with chocolate, coffee and nuts, and the Monarch IPA, with Citra and Idaho Gem hops. The food menu from their in-house chef includes options for vegetarians, meat-eaters and kids.

With a focus on sustainability, the brewery is also 100-percent powered by wind, and their Norwegian Table Ale is carbon neutral. 6860 Plainfield Road, Silverton, highgrainbrewing. com.

HOLIDAY SPIRITS

Helmed by Dan Wright and his wife Lana (Senate, Abigail Street and Pontiac Bourbon & BBQ), this space at the corner of Liberty and Race streets is meant to evoke the vibe of a dive bar and offers a menu of Middle Eastern street food. The bar features 15 beers on tap and about 10 different cocktails ranging from a tequila old fashioned and a

Inspired by a retro vibe and the domestic cocktails of the 1950s through the 1970s, Homemakers Bar has a unique focus on design (with groovy pink, blue and yellow paint colors) and nontraditional spirits with a drink program featuring lesser-known liqueurs including Italian tinctures, herbal wines and low-proof cocktails, along with modern and classic drinks. The food menu offers delightfully nostalgic bites like finger sandwiches, homemade snack mix and dips, some served on lunch trays. 35 E. 13th St., Over-the-Rhine, homemakersbar.com.

Hurricane to a Cinnabon-inspired drink and their take on a Harvey Wallbanger. 1538 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/ holidayspiritsbar.

LOCOBA BY PLATFORM

The Cleveland-based Platform Beer Co.’s bar and coffee concept on Main Street serves brews, beans and bites. As the first Platform location not styled as a brewery, Locoba (which stands for "local coffee barrels”) serves Brown Bear pastries and café-style foods, Platform brews on tap and in cans and cocktails. It also features a full-service coffee and espresso bar with Ohio-roasted beans.

1201 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook. com/locobaplatform.

ODDFELLOWS LIQUOR BAR

Columbus-based watering hole Oddfellows Liquor Bar is an eccentrically-themed place to hang out and drink. Attached to its sister operation, Mikey’s Late Night Slice on Elm Street, it’s almost too convenient that the bar is located next door to everyone’s favorite

drunken food craving — only a fool would pass on the opportunity to follow liquor with pizza. Oddfellows features 16 beers on tap and a seasonal cocktail menu. 2014 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, oddfellowsliquorbar.com.

RICH’S PROPER FOOD & DRINK

Rich’s Proper Food & Drink operates out of the more than 100-year-old building formerly occupied by Rich’s Gruen Watches, a highend jewelry store. Owner/operator of the eatery, Bill Whitlow, spent considerable time and effort restoring the building, helping to expose its history. The bar’s menu includes wine, beer and cocktails (the Proper Mule is jumbo-sized and hypothetically shareable), with a special emphasis on bourbon.

The kitchen provides Southern fare with Creole and Kentucky influences, including raw oysters. 701 Madison Ave., Covington, richsproper.com.

SAMUEL ADAMS CINCINNATI TAPROOM

Located across from the Samuel Adams Cincinnati Brewery at the Urban Sites’ Film Center Project adjacent to Findlay Market, the taproom, which features indoor and outdoor space, spans nearly 9,000 feet, offering an array of unique beers brewed both on-site and at the Cincinnati brewery. These include fan favorites like the Cincinnati-inspired lager 513, Boston Lager and Summer Ale, and options made specifically for the taproom. 1727 Logan St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/ samadamscincy.

SOCIAL OTR

Social OTR features an ambitious New American menu and two spaces: a front dining room and a cozy back bar with an entrance from the alley. The menu includes about eight “Snacks,” 10 to 11 “Small Plates” and just two “Large Plates,” with a drink list that’s almost longer than the food offerings.

Whether you prefer tequila, rye, gin or any other spirit, the house cocktails have you covered. The nonprofit restaurant also aims to fill a multitude of societal and business needs in the community through its workforce development program. 1819 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, socialotr.com.

SUGAR WHISKEY SIS

Sugar Whiskey Sis is a self-proclaimed "moonshine room" from the minds behind nearby Agave & Rye, famous for their alternative protein tacos (with options like kangaroo meat). The bar offers more than 50 different types of moonshine, craft cocktails, local beers and plenty of Southern-style chicken and pimento cheese dishes, plus hand-dipped shakes and an espresso bar. 633 Madison Ave., Covington, sugarwhiskeysis.com.

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ARNOLD’S BAR & GRILL

Below Zero Lounge is an LGBTQ+ destination that puts an emphasis on the plus. On any given night you’ll see people wearing tuxes and gowns sipping on cocktails beside people in T-shirts and flip-flops. Nestled snuggly between the nightlife action in OTR and plenty of trendy theater destinations, these two facts become specifically important during Thursday night karaoke, when it’s not uncommon for local talent or actors from traveling Broadway shows to hop onstage to belt their own takes on karaoke classics.

Every Friday and Saturday night, the upstairs Cabaret turns out the city’s most intimate and entertaining drag shows. 1120 Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine, belowzerolounge.com.

THE BIRDCAGE

The Birdcage is an LGBTQ+ nightclub and lounge that opened in late October 2018 as a no-judgement zone with a state-of-the-art sound system and plenty of velvet couches.

The spirited environment has rubbed off on the colorful cocktails, which are named after tropical birds — all featuring fresh juices, fun alcohol and candied garnishes from local candy shop Peter Minges & Sons. The menu also features large-format and booze-filled Fish Bowls. Check the calendar for events like Broadway singalongs, Salsa nights, drag shows, karaoke and even dog-friendly yappy hours. 927 Race St., Downtown, birdcagecincinnati.com.

HIGHER GRAVITY

These guys really want to help you love beer — so much so that they’ve installed iPads around the store to help you browse their inventory and find your perfect brew. Let their friendly “beeristas” pour you a flight: this neighborhood bar and bottle shop has more than 500-plus rotating beer selections and 100 wines. Higher Gravity is kid- and dogfriendly, as well as B.Y.O.F. (bring your own food, or order in something tasty from one of their Northside neighbors), plus they have a cool garage door that turns the bar indooroutdoor. 4106 Hamilton Ave., Northside, highergravitycrafthaus.com.

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Take a secret service elevator up to the 11th floor of the 21c Museum Hotel to discover the Cocktail Terrace, a hip 75-seat oasis with cushy patio furniture and glass partitions for full views of downtown’s glowing nighttime cityscape. Along with clever cocktails, the terrace is known for its boozy slushies — try the Ed Sheeran with your choice of alcohol and ginger beer — and pop-tails, aka cocktails with a submerged flavored ice pop. 609 Walnut St., Downtown, 21cmuseumhotels. com/cincinnati.

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On top of the AC Hotel at The Banks, the Upper Deck boasts excellent views of the riverfront and Great American Ball Park.

Lounge under string lights while gorging on Grand Slam Nachos (salsa, guac, cheddar, nacho cheese, jalapeños, corn, black beans, onions, olives, sour cream and carnitas or chicken on tortilla chips). 135 Joe Nuxhall Way, Downtown, acupperdeck.com.

Queen City Exchange is Cincinnati’s first and only stock exchange-themed bar, featuring 40-something beers on tap with prices that rise and fall depending on demand. Costs fluctuate between $3.50 to $9 — check the board for up-to-date numbers. When the market crashes, it’s time to buy, buy, buy and chug, chug, chug. For more gaming, visit during Boozy Bingo or Trivia Tuesday. 32 W. Court St., Downtown, queencityexchange. com.

This former auto body shop turned multilevel OTR hang features rotating taps of local, regional and national beer, canned and bottled brews, a small cocktail program and adult-themed treats including boozy slushies. Garage doors create indoor/outdoor space and the patio boasts not only a ton of seating, but also the on-site Queen City Whip food truck. 222 W. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine, qcrbar.com.

SUNDRY AND VICE

Sundry and Vice creates curative cocktails in apothecary-inspired environs: amber glass medicine bottles, vintage pharmacy signs and wallpaper made of old prescriptions (even some for cocaine) set the mood as be-aproned bartenders meticulously craft libations full of texture, color and flavor. And though they may not be backed by “science,” the elixirs are the perfect remedy for a sour mood. Or just sling back an Old Fashioned on draft (quicker than those drinks shaken and strained by hand). 18 W. 13th St., Overthe-Rhine, sundryandvice.com.

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THE BLIND PIG

This friendly downtown pub has a shaded rooftop patio — on top of Lola’s coffee shop — that serves a full menu of bar food and daily drink specials. A perfect stop for a Reds pregame party. Try whatever is on special that day. Tuesdays its $3 Fireball and Tullamore Dew shots... and karaoke.

24 W. Third St., Downtown, facebook.com/ theblindpigcincinnati

GASLIGHT BAR & GRILL

The Gaslight Bar & Grill is located in the old Clifton branch of the public library. It serves lunch and dinner six days a week, and includes an expansive bar with a dozen seats and Clifton’s first rooftop patio.

351 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, facebook.com/ gaslightbarandgrillclifton.

TOP OF THE PARK AT THE PHELPS

On the roof of this downtown hotel, you can catch 360-degree views of the city and the river from its vantage point at the base of Lytle Park. Amenities include tabletop fire features, TVs and live music, plus a tapas menu with snack options like sliders, charcuterie and chocolate churros. 506 E. Fourth St., Downtown, topoftheparkcincinnati.com/ top-of-the-park.htm.

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Helmed by veteran Cincinnati music promoters, MOTR Pub is unique. It hosts some of the best live shows in the city, seven nights a week, highlighting local and touring Indie, Rock and Folk acts (sometimes even poetry nights) — all without a cover. And it ain’t just about the music; it’s also about the “pub.”

The well-crafted brunch, lunch and dinner menu incorporates local ingredients to create a streamlined selection of hearty vegan, vegetarian and meaty options — burgers, salads and classic bar bites — available until late-night. Drinks are strong, not fussy, and so is the staff. 1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, motrpub.com.

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Open since 1861, Arnold’s is the oldest continuously running tavern in town, complete with dark wood walls, vintage memorabilia and a big ol’ bathtub, rumored to have been used to make gin during Prohibition. A Cincinnati classic, it serves up a nice range of lunch and dinner options — pasta, sandwiches and burgers, plus vegan and gluten-free options — at bargain prices. Enjoy a local draft in the outdoor beer garden and almost daily live music. Named

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An homage to the neighborhood’s flood of 1937, this loosely nautically themed Rock club and gastropub specializes in smoked wings (chicken and/or cauliflower), live music and fresh cocktails of the tiki persuasion.

The well-stocked bar — replete with gigantic Hula-girl punch bowls awaiting the bartender’s mixology magic and a lighter to set them on fire — features fresh juice mixtures, stacks of fragrant pineapple and bowls of herbal garnishes. But one of the best bar specials is the Peanut Butter Tequila house shot. If you don’t want the protein, go for something sailor-strength, like the Painkiller: Pusser’s British Navy rum, pineapple, orange, coconut and nutmeg. 4231 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, northsideyachtclub.com.

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The nostalgia is strong and the drinks are plenty at 16-Bit. Guzzle ’80s-themed and candy-adorned drinks with names like the Carrie Fisher (coconut rum, blueberry vodka, blue curacao, fruit juice and rock candy) while playing more than 50 different classic arcade games and pinball. The bar also offers a variety of mocktails alongside their other fun and boozy beverages; find them on the menu under “No Booze? No Problem!” If you buy a drink (whatever the ABV), you play for free. Things go all-ages noon-5 p.m. Sunday during Shorty Day. 1331 Walnut St., Over-theRhine, 16-bitbar.com/cincy.

as one of the best bars in America by Esquire magazine, they also have a large selection of bourbon. 210 E. Eighth St., Downtown, arnoldsbarandgrill.com.

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THE VIEW AT SHIRES’ GARDENS

The View at Shires’ Garden is located on the 10th floor of the City Club Apartments. The 6,000-square-foot rooftop spot features an indoor dining room, an outdoor patio, two full bars, outdoor small and group dining and cocktail tables with impeccable views. The décor mixes modern furnishings with the style of the original Shires’ Gardens from the 19th century — a historic Queen City amusement resort of sorts in this same spot at Vine and Third streets. 309 Vine St., Downtown, theviewatshiresgarden.com.

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THE BAR AT PALM COURT

Entering this lobby-level bar with French Art Deco décor in the historic Hilton Netherland Plaza is like stepping into an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Sidle up to the bar — if you’re lucky enough to find a stool — and peruse the drink menu, which offers classic cocktails like the Chef’s Old Fashioned and the NP, a best-of-both-worlds cocktail that pairs bourbon with something bubbly. Named after the Netherland Plaza, the cocktail features Four Roses yellow label bourbon, lemon, ginger, bitters and sparkling wine. It’s light, refreshing and still packs a boozy punch. 35 W. Fifth St., Downtown, orchidsatpalmcourt.com.

COPPIN’S AT HOTEL COVINGTON

This boutique Covington hotel offers a fine selection of in-house eateries and drinkeries that’ll make you never want to leave. The cocktail menu has house options and seasonal drinks that make use of Kentucky bourbon, creative infusions and fresh fruit and herbs. If you’re feeling stuffy, escape to the patio for a breather and you’ll be swept away into a sundappled, brick-paved paradise. 638 Madison Ave., Covington, hotelcovington.com.

THE LITTLEFIELD

This Northside bar and bistro specializes in whiskey — from small-batch bourbons and ryes to white dogs and Japanese Hibiki — and cozy eats, like an artful pot pie and Sixteen Bricks bread with blue-cheese bourbon butter. Clever cocktails highlight verdant and floral flavors, like in the Mad Anthony, with Buffalo Trace bourbon, basil simple syrup, balsamic vinaigrette and housemade ginger beer. 3934 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, littlefieldns.com.

LONGFELLOW

With a focus on flavor, the cocktails here are dangerously drinkable. While selections change frequently, mainstay bevvies include the Spruce Goose (barrel-aged gin, honey, lime, bitters and tonic) and Shiso Painkiller (navy rum, shiso, orange, coconut and nutmeg). The beer menu is as extensive as it is impressive, with selections from Oregon, Germany and Japan, and you won’t be bored by the bar snacks, either — food options range from late-night pierogies and caviar to liverwurst and cottage cheese. A fun payit-forward menu allows you to buy drinks for friends, strangers and crushes. 1233 Clay St., Over-the-Rhine, longfellowbar.com.

THE VIDEO ARCHIVE

Named in honor of the video rental store where director Quentin Tarantino once worked, The Video Archive is a video store that doubles as a speakeasy, like a Blockbuster with a back-alley bar. Upon entering, you’d think you’ve arrived at an indie flick shop, until you discover the secret door — opened by selecting a specific VHS movie from the shelves — that leads you to the booze room full of rotating Tarantino-themed drinks with hip ingredients like mezcal, Aperol, green tea syrup, Yellow Chartreuse and sparkling sake. 965 E. McMillan, Walnut Hills, facebook.com/videoarchivecincinnati.

BIERGARTENS Outdoor drinking with Bavarian flair (or just picnic tables)

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OLD KENTUCKY BOURBON BAR

This shotgun-style wood-lined watering hole houses a mind-boggling bourbon selection — more than 300 bottles on floor-to-ceiling shelves — served in snifters by a well-educated, passionate staff. Try a curated flight or an expertly crafted classic whiskey cocktail, like a Kentucky mule, boulevardier or horse’s neck. 629 Main St., Covington, oldkybourbonbar.com.

OVERLOOK LODGE

A bar inspired by Stephen King’s The Shining, Overlook Lodge brings a bit of movie magic to life with its giant Overlook Hotel-inspired fireplace and eerie backlit bar.

Try a themed cocktail like the Writer’s Block (bourbon and apple-berry sweet tea) or Bathtub Gin (Beefeater, Chartreuse, ginger, lime and bitters). Combine the themed atmosphere with live music on the weekends and housemade trail mix, and this Pleasant Ridge locale guarantees some much-needed play after a hard day’s work. 6083 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, thatshiningbar.com.

DUTCH’S

Dutch’s pony keg turned bar, bottle shop and artisanal larder is an East Side hang with an expansive kitchen, pantry and patio, complete with a fire pit and backyard bocce court. Pair one of 200 different available wines or craft on-tap beers with farmstead cheeses, natural meats or snacks like truffle popcorn. Thursday is Burger Night, with a special one-night-only gourmet burger available from 6 p.m. until they sell out. 3378 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, dutchs.squarespace. com.

FINDLAY MARKET BIERGARTEN

Landlocked Social House covers the socially acceptable drinking needs of an entire day in one place — and with gusto — so customers can always be caffeinated and buzzed. This is achieved by offering a solid third wave coffee and espresso menu alongside an extensive selection of beers, ciders and wines which can be sipped al fresco in their breezy, plantfilled back patio. 648 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, landlockedsocialhouse.com.

LITTLE MIAMI BREWING COMPANY

Milford’s Little Miami Brewing Company sits on the banks of its namesake river, pouring 11 beers alongside a selection of brick-oven pizzas. The small-batch brewery offers 16 different brews on tap, from classics to experimentals and seasonals made with real fruit, like their Blackbird Fly American wheat made with blackberry puree. 208 Mill St., Milford, littlemiamibrewing.com.

MECKLENBURG GARDENS

It's Oktoberfest all year long at this historic German eatery. Wash down your triple goettawurst and spaetzle with a 1-liter glass boot of doppelbock or hefeweizen in the grapevine-laden outdoor biergarten. Founded in 1865, it was named one of the best biergartens in America by Travel + Leisure magazine in 2017. 302 E. University Ave., Corryville, mecklenburgs.com.

MECCA OTR

This hip OTR hideaway is a welcoming hangout for those interested in L.A. vibes, vinyl tunes and free popcorn. Find the main courtyard entrance tucked away down 15th Street, and cross the big-ass gravel patio, past colorful street-art murals, a panoply of rainbow lighting and a plethora of communal seating to enter a world of hanging plants (in summer the patio is decked out in greenery as well) and the most creatively decorated — dare we say selfie-ready — bar bathrooms in the city. Dogs are welcome, as long as it’s not too crowded. 1429 Walnut St., Over-theRhine, facebook.com/meccaotr.

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HOFBRÄUHAUS

Opened in 2003, the Newport Hofbräuhaus was the first Hofbräuhaus brewery and beer hall to open in the United States. Beers are

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Summertime means extended hours at this Over-the-Rhine drinking destination. Grab a bite, sit on the iconic red Findlay Market chairs and sip on something cold while the sun goes down. On Tuesdays, it's Mug Club night: get $1 off all drafts (with an additional $1 off during happy hour from 4-6 p.m.).

Open through October. 1801 Race St., Overthe-Rhine, findlaymarket.org.

KREIMER’S BIERHAUS

Located in the backyard of Kreimer’s Bierhaus, this Bavarian biergarten on the Great Miami River has three decks, fire pits and a ton of Black Forest-inspired wood features, from picnic seating to a whimsical cuckoo-clock-looking German grill house, which serves snacks like sauerkraut balls, pretzel bread, bier cheese and plenty of meaty metts. 6052 State Route 128, Cleves, bierhauswest.net.

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This au courant culinary hideaway on Clay Street in Over-the-Rhine offers a constantly creative and frequently updated a la carte and four-course tasting menu for a low-key but high-art dinner. If you don’t want to commit to a meal and are just searching for snacks and a drink, the back bar offers both (and the full food menu until 10 p.m. every night). The 12-seater self-described garden bar has natural wines (sup, orange wine?), local and European beers and trendy cocktails and spirits that utilize fresh flavors. The latest wave embraced by the bar team at Please is the lowproof cocktail trend. 1405 Clay St., Over-the-Rhine, pleasecincinnati.com.

Longtime friends Eric Bosler and Ron Sanders were homebrewing for years before opening their own taproom in Bellevue.

It started with experimenting in their own kitchens, enjoying their strange brews and sharing them with friends. And it was poking and prodding from those friends that led to Darkness Brewing, which opened in July 2016. The microbrewery focuses on the dark and unusual. 224 Fairfield Ave., Bellevue, facebook.com/darknessbrewing.

brewed on-site in the original Munich tradition (under the license and supervision of Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München), with a keg tapping of seasonal brews the final Wednesday of each month. Buy a liter of beer and keep the stein for $12. 200 E. Third St., Newport, hofbrauhausnewport.com.

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Crown Republic continues to impress with their amazing summer cocktails.

All summer long they are featuring their “POPtails” where they partner with Bello’s Bike Pops out of Newport KY. Their summer cocktail list just launched and these popsicles make a perfect addition to keep you and your drink cool.

Their beers rotate on a weekly basis and they continue to support local- having Taft’s, Braxton, Rhinegeist, Rivertown, and other Cincinnati favorites on draft and in cans. Be sure to stop in on Monday nights for $10 Burgers and 1/2 off drafts and Tuesday’s you can enjoy their All Day Happy Hour! Come see all that Crown has to offer to this summer!

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later this year. 111 E. 12th St., Over-theRhine, revelotr.com.

RIPPLE WINE BAR

Inspired by the title of a Grateful Dead song, Ripple Wine Bar is one of those sweet little spots that hits all the right notes: good wine, lots of it, paired with good food. The bar offers 40 varietals by the glass or half glass, bottle or half bottle and also does a $10 half-bottle happy hour for gun-shy consumers or folks dining solo. The menu’s overall vibe is laidback, a true “California kitchen,” with winefriendly food that’s seasonally inspired. Bread is from Covington’s Pepe Cucina, cheddar comes from Walnut Hills’ Urban Stead and look for Newport’s Grateful Grahams in dessert options. 4 W. Pike St., Covington, ripplewinebar.com.

SOMM WINE BAR

This worthy wine destination is in the Incline District in Price Hill. Somm Wine Bar offers a large patio with tables and lounge chairs, live music on Fridays and weekday specials.

You’ll find a lot of food choices — from the light fare you expect at a wine bar to several more substantial entrées. 3105 Price Ave., East Price Hill, sommwinebarcincinnati.com.

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WUNDERBAR

Rhineland ambiance with wooden picnic tables and German signage and a beer garden out back. Food options include giant pretzels, sauerkraut, sausage and doner kabobs, one of Germany’s favorite street-food dishes. The beer menu features staples such as Franziskaner and Warsteiner. 1132 Lee St., Covington, facebook.com/wunderbar. covington.3.

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Oakley Wines started as a boutique bottle shop just off the main drag in Oakley. And then it became more than a neighborhood

REVEL OTR

This unpretentious boutique winery and event space specializes in promoting local, regional and family-owned wineries. Revel makes its own small-batch house wine and serves it in juice glasses. Grab a flight of three 6-ounce or 9-ounce pours, served in carafes so you can drink and discover on your own time. They also carry fun wine cocktails and plenty of meat and veggie charcuterie. Look for a rooftop patio coming

ARCADE LEGACY: BAR EDITION

The boozy version of the local Arcade Legacy chain blends pinball, retro arcade games and classic console play with alcohol and AvrilBleh hot dogs (plus vegan options, massive nachos and sides). Monday Night Fights are for serious players, and there’s a high-score board for some local fame. All games — except pinball — are free to play if you buy drinks or food. If you don’t want booze, they also offer inventive sodas. 3929 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, arcadelegacyohio.com/ bar-edition.

FOWLING WAREHOUSE

This unique entertainment franchise capitalizes on the up-and-coming tailgating game, which combines bowling and football. Located in the Highland Park industrial complex of Pleasant Ridge, the warehouse stretches 46,000 square feet and offers 30 total lanes of fowling, two full-service bars, a stage and a large biergarten. Great for individuals, groups, parties and corporate outings, the

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Take your taste buds on a journey from the marigold-lined pathways of Château Guiraud in France to the Alps-framed Castelfeder winery in northern Italy — all while dining at LouVino in Over-the-Rhine. The concept restaurant on Main Street offers 60 wines by the glass as well as small plates inspired by Southern cuisine. You’ll see some familiar names on the wine list, as flights are named after Ohio and Kentucky celebrities like Carmen Electra and John Legend. And there are two food menus: classics and seasonal. 1142 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, louvino.com/otr.

hang when upward of 100 people started stopping in for Friday-night wine tastings. So, expanding with demand, they revamped the basement into The Cellar bar. The subterranean space features a full drink list, with wine and beer on tap, and upscale snacks.

Recently taken over by the owners of The Rhined cheese shop, the bar has been featuring new dining pop-ups and events overseen by chef Lydia Jackman. 4011 Allston St., Oakley, facebook.com/oakleywines.

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Crafts & Vines was the first bar in Northern Kentucky to offer wine on tap, but it also offers several by the glass or bottle. The layout of the space has an informal vibe that’s intimate and warm, with a front bar, retail wine offerings and a few sidewalk tables. Owners try to focus on atypical wines by the glass and Kentucky beers.

Food items include bar bites like black truffle burrata, olives and Truck Stop Charcuterie

FAIRFIELD MARKET

This cafe and bar offers a streamlined selection of pastries, picnic salads, sandwiches and charcuterie complemented by morning coffee and evening libations — house cocktails and a rotating wine and beer selection. With original terrazzo and vintage décor mixed with contemporary furniture, the vibe is Palm Desert meets Midcentury Modern. Food service focuses on seasonal and locally sourced items with dinner and brunch programs forthcoming. 700 Fairfield Ave., Bellevue, thefairfieldbellevue.com.

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Destinations that excel at offering vino varietals plus shareable plates

with housemade beef jerky, maple Sriracha bacon and pimento cheese. 642 Main St., Covington, craftsandvines.com.

Helmed by brothers Tony and Austin Ferrari in a converted 19th-century home in Camp Washington, Mom ‘n ‘em coffee shop and wine bar sparkles with Italian vibrancy and straightforwardness. There’s a diverse offering of wines selected by certified sommelier Austin, and the idea, he says, is to be meaningful but playful. Food includes tinned fish, cheeses, cured meats, pastries from North South Baking in Covington and sandwiches.

To whom it may concern: They have a full liquor license with cocktails like a classic negroni and Manhattan, and a smart selection of beer in their cooler. 3128 Colerain Ave., Camp Washington, momnemcoffee.com.

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general objective of fowling is to knock over the opponent's bowling pins with a football before they knock yours down. Guests can either reserve a lane or enjoy open play.

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HOPPIN VINES

Located in the former TGI Fridays in Kenwood, Hoppin’ Vines combines duckpin bowling, pizza and alcohol. The bar offers 40 rotating beer taps with a focus on craft brews — local, regional and national — plus more than 30 wine flights. The bar is also home to an outpost of Delicio Coal Fired Pizza. 8150 Montgomery Road, Madeira, hoppinvines.com.

PINS MECHANICAL CO.

Pins Mechanical Company features multiple levels of gaming with duckpin bowling, vintage pinball machines, ping pong, foosball and a rooftop patio with bocce ball and fire pits. The bowling lanes are first come, first served, so it is recommended that guests come early to get their name in the queue, grab a drink and enjoy one of their other games while they wait. Pins boasts three bars (two inside and one on the patio) with 36 craft beers on tap, plus signature and seasonally rotating cocktails.

1124 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, pinsbar.com/cincy.

URBAN AXES

At Urban Axes, you throw an actual 1.5-pound hatchet at a wooden target. You can either schedule a 2.5-hour group event with safety instructions, throwing practice and a round-robin tournament, or you can wing it and hope it isn't busy and opt for walk-in session. During the hour-long walk-in, different "axeperts" will help you hone your skills. The Cincinnati location of Urban Axes differs from other axe places in the area because it has a bar. Yes, axes and booze! 2010 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, urbanaxes.com/cincinnati.

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SECOND PLACE

Catch the game and enjoy a selection of booze on tap, bottled, canned and a few (kind of) fancy cocktails. This bar boasts a pool table, courtyard, board games darts, a carryin menu from The Littlefield and early morning soccer. What else? Free popcorn. And dogs. 3936 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, facebook.com/secondplacebar.

STREETSIDE BREWERY

From their taproom/brewery along Eastern Avenue in Columbia Tusculum, Streetside Brewery blends craft and community. With beers like their milkshake blonde Cereal Milk and a red velvet donut stout collaboration with Holtman’s Donuts, this brewery has developed a niche for having your cake and drinking it, too. The taproom frequently hosts

WOODBURN BREWERY

This East Walnut Hills brewery offers a plethora of creative beers, from fruity ales brewed with Yoshino cherries grown at Krohn Conservatory to the Han Solo coffee-infused blonde ale. Armed with this lineup of clever brews, they frequently host fundraisers and other events to benefit local pet rescues and animal welfare organizations. Dogs are always welcome to chill inside the taproom or outside on the patio at Woodburn, where they will receive many pets. 2800 Woodburn Ave., East Walnut Hills, woodburnbrewery.com.

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3 POINTS URBAN BREWERY

It’s typically not too difficult to relax once you sit down with a pint in any brewery, but 3 Points Urban Brewery really upped the game by offering daytime coworking hours, similar

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The Porch at Washington Park just got an upgrade: a brand-new permanent roof, bartop and additional seating. Add public party games to the selection of local beer from breweries like Taft’s Ale House, Rhinegeist, Fifty West and Christian Moerlein and you’ve got a space for happy-hour-goers, families and competitive gamers alike. The Washington Park dog park is within spitting distance of the porch. Owners can bring their drinks inside the doggie play paradise, and dog-less humans can watch pups from the porch — or get right in the mix and pet stranger’s dogs while sipping rosé. 1230 Elm St., Over-theRhine, washingtonpark.org.

food trucks and programmed events. Wellbehaved dogs are allowed inside and on the patio. 4003 Eastern Ave., Columbia Tusculum, streetsidebrewery.com.

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This hillside watering hole, inspired by mid19th-century whaling clubs in New England, gives a warm welcome to everyone who walks in the door. With an enormous selection of bourbons and beer, this is the perfect place to wet your whistle. But maybe the best thing about Hightail is that they encourage all tails, especially during their Sunday Yappy Hour from 4-8 p.m., where you’ll receive special deals and your pup will receive some yummy treats. It’s a neighborly place where they not only know your name, but also your

LIBERTY’S BAR & BOTTLE

Liberty’s offers the best of both the bar and the bottle with 20 rotating craft beers on tap and 15 wines available by the glass — including half-pours — along with 100 bottles of wine and 40 craft beers via retail. Dogs are welcome and you’ll frequently find one or two snoozing under their owners’ stools at the bar. 1427 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, searchable on Facebook.

devastated to lose “OTR’s backyard.” Then, 4EG — the entertainment group behind Lackman, Mount Adams Pavilion, Igby’s and more — announced they’d be taking over the space. After some upscale renovations, they reopened as Rosedale in January 2018.

It’s a little more classed up than comfy-old Neons but has retained the former’s focus on craft cocktails… and the giant, dog-friendly patio. Sip discount drinks from the monthly $3 menu then grab some grub and support your community at the MORTAR Mess Hall, where food entrepreneurs hone their skills in a professional setting. 208 E. 12th St., Overthe-Rhine, rosedaleotr.com.

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dog’s name, too. 941 Pavilion St., Mount Adams, hightailmtadams.com.

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to how people treat coffee shops as their remote work site. As early as 9 a.m. during the week, you can shuffle in, get a pint of their Easy Ale cream ale, or an Urbana Cafe drip coffee if the only buzz you need is a caffeine one, and do your work in the chillest of settings. The taproom is spacious and very open (with free Wi-Fi), so you can stretch your legs before the happy hour hustle is in full swing from 4-7 p.m. Monday through Friday. 331 E. 13th St., Pendleton, 3pointsbeer.com.

BRINK BREWING CO.

Voted one of the top 10 best new breweries in the U.S. by USA Today and the 2018 Very Small Brewing Company of the Year by the Brewers Association, College Hill’s Brink Brewing is a neighborhood gathering space loaded with interactive features including a 20-seater community table, reclaimed-wood bar and a gigantic Scrabble board that’s very popular with patrons after a few pints from the brewery’s wide-reaching tap list. Head to the bathroom to see more than three decades’ worth of collected beer labels from Uncle Jack — it was his fridge, chock full of artisan beers, and his neighborly values that inspired the owners to open Brink in February 2017. 5095 Hamilton Ave., College Hill, brinkbrewing.com.

BRAXTON BREWING CO.

Arguably one of the best reasons for Cincinnati beer drinkers to cross the Roebling Bridge into Covington, Braxton has made quite an impression on the local brewing scene. Currently undergoing a $5 million expansion, Braxton celebrated its fourth anniversary this July by opening a 5,000-square-foot rooftop patio. Rooted in the ethos and innovation forged in a Midwestern garage — founder Evan Rouse started homebrewing when he was just 16, before he could even taste his creations — Braxton’s constant evolution has yielded a Braxton Labs location in the Party Source, for super experimental brews; distribution in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee; and a forthcoming Barrel House in the former Fort Mitchell Remke Market. 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, braxtonbrewing.com.

FIFTY WEST BREWING COMPANY

brews to wash it down. Classics include the Maverick chocolate porter, infused with local Maverick chocolate, and Nellie’s Keylime Caribbean ale. 1429 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, taftsalehouse.com.

URBAN ARTIFACT

This brewery, taproom and music venue, located in a historic church, crafts beers with locally caught wild yeast and bacteria, resulting in a lineup of sour, tart brews. The brewery hosts events and live music basically nightly, including film screenings, D&D meet-ups, open mic nights, stand-up sets and both local and traveling bands in genres ranging from Hip Hop to Experimental music.

Its in-house indie radio station, Radio Artifact, features local music, local podcasts and local shows airing on WVXY’s HD2. 1660 Blue Rock St., Northside, artifactbeer.com.

Fairfax, near the Frisch’s Mainliner. Onpremises, they distill several spirits, including vodka, gin and apricot brandy. But they also bring an eclectic, hand-crafted energy to their mocktail menu. Karrikin provides four different alcohol-free options including the Blood Orange Shrub, with blood orange and rosemary, and the more experimental Karrikin N/A Mule, consisting of ginger, lemongrass and Szechuan peppercorn. Besides their mocktails, you can also sample one of their housemade craft sodas with flavors like key lime and cola. 3717 Jonlen Drive, Fairfax, karrikinspirits.com.

MADTREE BREWING

MadTree’s million-dollar makeover did not disappoint. The hugely expanded operation on Madison Road is bigger on all fronts, including its 10,000-square-foot beer garden.

With 32 MadTree-exclusive taps, ambient lighting and an industrial brick façade leftover from the building’s factory days, there’s more than enough space to accommodate all the beer-drinking, cornhole-playing, dog-loving humans that hang at MadTree on the regular.

Bonus: The expansion also included bigger bathrooms. 3301 Madison Road, Oakley, madtreebrewing.com.

WEST SIDE BREWING

Since opening in spring 2017, this spot has brought a lot of life to its little corner of Westwood. Not only is West Side Brewing a great neighborhood watering hole, it’s also a community hub that’s seen a chili cook-off, dogfriendly nights, pop-up workout classes, live music, fundraisers and countless big-game watch parties. 3044 Harrison Ave., Westwood, westsidebrewing.com.

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RHINEGEIST

Some out-of-towners might not even know there is a Cincinnati outside of Rhinegeist.

This brewery has taken over the local beer scene in recent years thanks in part to their phenomenal branding and, overall, thanks to consistently solid beers. The taproom is like an adult playground with so much room for activities. Their 25,000-square-foot warehouse tucked away on the north end of Elm is home to boozy alchemy and big house parties. Head upstairs to the weatherdependent giant patio. This very chill wooden rooftop deck features ample seating and an upstairs bar with 15 draft beers and ciders, plus a selection of wine and draft cocktails. If you get hungry, try a burger from downstairs Sartre, delivered to you via pneumatic tube (just like The Jetsons). We live in a golden age of convenience. 1910 Elm St., Over-theRhine, rhinegeist.com.

TAFT’S ALE HOUSE

ASTER

This social sippery is a casual cocktail space above the downtown location of the Sleepy Bee Café. The drink menu brings the farm to the cocktail world with a range of drinks that spans all ABVs (alcohol by volume). The menu starts with tasty modern tipples like the Pickle Martini, a vodka martini with house ginger-pickle juice and dark spice bitters and several gin and tonics with housemade tonic.

There’s also a smattering of non-alcoholic options that go beyond virgin mixed drinks to accommodate everyone. These “Adaptogens” blend fruit, herbs, teas, housemade kombucha and sodas to create interesting flavor profiles, like in the Full Bloom: Holy Basil tea, strawberry lemongrass and soda. Boozy Socials — aka carafes of drinks for sharing with friends old and new — are perfect when imbibed on the rooftop patio. 8 E. Fourth St., Downtown, asteronfourth.com.

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KARRIKIN SPIRITS CO.

In December, former Metropole chef Jared Bennett and former Maribelle’s eat + drink chef/owner Mike Florea teamed up with MadTree Brewing co-founder Jeff Hunt to open Karrikin Spirits Co., a distillery and restaurant located in an industrial park in

YONDER

Inspired by owners Chris and Tess Burns' love of Kentucky State Parks, this bar concept by the folks behind Covington's Commonwealth Bistro features a chic treehouseesque rooftop bar with a small rotating menu and craft cocktails. The bar menu features a variety of both alcoholic and spirit-free cocktails, like the High Lonesome, a cold brew coffee-based drink with sarsaparilla-hickory syrup, almond milk and mint. Co-owner Tess is a non-drinker and wanted a mocktail list “that was just as long as the cocktail list.” The breezy, plant-filled bar holds approximately 30 guests and features cozy, communal bench seating, hanging rattan chairs and five seats along the bar. 621 Main St., Second Floor, Covington, commonwealthbistro.com/ yonder.

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Taft’s Brewing Co. renovated a historic church for its Ale House in OTR, which led to an impressive home base for the company. Named for William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and former Cincinnatian, black-and-white Taft photos and memorabilia are scattered throughout the three levels of the 13,000-square-foot space. There are beer hall-style communal picnic tables on the first floor, a speakeasy-type lounge named Nellie’s (after Taft’s wife) in the basement and a more intimate dining area on the mezzanine. The food menu at the Ale House leans heavily on tri-tip beef, with a slew of creative

When you want something special without the booze

TOKYO KITTY

This karaoke bar makes for a fun Friday night, or any night really, and if you don’t need to fuel your solo act with some liquid courage, Tokyo Kitty has you covered with some alcohol-free options. Under the “mocktails” sections of the drink menu are two choices that are the same price — if not cheaper — than the cocktails. The Keroppi is easily approachable with pistachio simple syrup, lime and ginger beer. Or level up to the No-Face, with activated charcoal, lavender simple syrup and lemonade. There are still plenty of alcoholic drinks — their beer, house specialties and sake bomb selections — for friends who may need that extra push for their Rockstar moment. 575 Race St., Downtown, thattokyobar.com.

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This brewery has an excellent kitchen to complement their line of beers and makes for a satisfying table experience. If you’d like to stay on your feet while you enjoy a few pints, Fifty West has turned a stretch of Wooster Pike into a veritable outdoor recreation corridor. Across the street from the flagship brewpub sits Fifty West Canoe & Kayak, Fifty West Cycling and Fifty West Production Works (home to six sand volleyball courts).

All are geared toward building community through shared experiences, which include drinking craft beer and getting outside: It’s all about an active lifestyle, says brewery co-owner Bobby Slattery. 7668 Wooster Pike, Columbia Township, fiftywestbrew.com.

FRETBOARD BREWING CO.

Bradley Plank, Jim Klosterman and Joe Sierra, the trio behind Blue Ash-based Fretboard Brewing Company, seek the perfect marriage of their two passions — music and beer — by providing creation spaces for local musicians to rattle off riffs while grabbing brews at the taproom. What could have simply been a traditional German-bier-inspired brewery was electrified into an incredibly active live music venue with a pro grade sound system. Fretboard’s main stage hosts live performances nearly every night, putting an emphasis on the sort of rootsy Blues tunes and Americana that are nearly synonymous with microbrewed beverages. Maybe the consistent barrage of sonic waves positively affects fermentation? 5800 Creek Road, Blue Ash, fretboardbrewing.com.

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THE RUM BAR

The place to relearn to love the spirit of the moment — even if it made you barf once

OTHER ROOM

While bourbon is king — especially around these parts — and has undoubtedly reigned over the past decade, rum is the next rumored rising spirit. Rum distillers are making a resurgence and bartenders are finding innovative ways to revive the spirit. Over-the-Rhine’s Longfellow has even opened an attached Other Room, a separate back bar that has 107 fluctuating rums — argued to be the largest rum collection in Ohio. With the vibe of a 1950s basement bar “where Desi Arnaz would perform but was managed by David Lynch,” the rum curators and bartenders are more than happy to help you find a favorite new spirit from their global collection. For something sweet and savory, try the Dr. Jones, a mix of Appleton Estate rum, pineapple juice, almond syrup and soy sauce. 109 E. 13th St. and Brackett Alley, Over-the-Rhine, longfellowbar.com/ other-room.

THE VODKA BAR

Step into a plush Eastern European-style watering hole (with caviar)

WODKA BAR

THE BOURBON BAR

This lil’ speakeasy is only open on Friday and Saturday nights

PROHIBITION BOURBON BAR

Named one of the best bourbon bars in the country by The Bourbon Review, Prohibition Bourbon Bar started as Newberry Bros. coffee and pastry shop before morphing into a speakeasy with one of the largest collections of bourbon and whisky in the world — the bar has more than 2,000 bottles, including Scotch, Irish, Tennessee and Japanese brands, plus more than 50 wines by the glass. Like any good Prohibition bar, access is limited: Owners Peter and Kim Newberry only open their watering hole Friday and Saturday nights. The bar is also on The B-Line, a collection of bourbon-minded Northern Kentucky establishments that has its own passport. 530 Washington Ave., Newport, newberrybroscoffee.com.

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MIXWELLS NORTHSIDE

Warning: Townies and tourists alike have been known to bust a move and seriously enjoy themselves at this establishment. Mixwells is a neon-lit discotheque with rotating DJs and a let-loose, college-basement-party vibe where people be getting wasted, taking selfies in a makeshift photo booth and sweating it out to ’80s tunes. Check the schedule for upcoming themed dance nights, which range from Studio 54 to Darkotica Goth. 3935 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, facebook.com/ mixwellsbar.

JAPP’S SINCE 1879

Japp’s transforms from a craft cocktail lounge to an island getaway on the first Wednesday of each month for Tiki Night. Jeremy Harrison, bartender, musician and one of Tiki Night’s founders, spins ’80s New Wave/Punk Rock dance jams throughout the night and serves up surf-ready drink staples. An homage to authentic Caribbean/Polynesian libations, expect complex and potent rum-based cocktails with a balance of sweet, sour, spice and a fruity or floral garnish. Every Saturday, it’s a retro dance party. 1134 Main St., Overthe-Rhine, facebook.com/japps1879.

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Some sounds while you sip

THE BLIND LEMON

Mount Adams’ favorite backyard bar since 1963. Walk down a set of stairs to find a secret, little hideaway. Inside, the cozy walls are lined with eclectic paraphernalia. Outside, the relaxed garden patio is like a boho blend of Bourbon Street and Paris café life. With a promise to hear Blues, Rock or Jazz every night, it’s one of the most romantic drinking destinations in the city. 936 Hatch St., Mount Adams, theblindlemon.com.

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THE GREENWICH

Walnut Hills’ answer to Greenwich Village features a combination of Jazz, Spoken Word and Hip Hop. This long-standing nightlife destination has been presenting live music and art for more than four decades. Happy hour runs 6-8 p.m. weekdays with deals on already affordable drinks (a martini here will set you back less than $6) and is a perfect segue into the weekend during “Fridays at the Greenwich,” featuring a regular lineup of weekly acts. 2442 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills, the-greenwich.com.

HÄRTH LOUNGE

Downtown’s Härth Lounge offers a classy and romantic but laid-back and welcoming atmosphere, plus a rotation of local Jazz piano greats. 125 W. Fourth St., Downtown, bromwellsharthlounge.com.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN

This neighborhood tavern features a front bar, back room and huge patio. There’s free live music almost every night of the week.

4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsidetav. com.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT

Pianist Ed Moss is a Cincinnati Jazz legend for his musical achievements, but he was also beloved for his low-key Jazz venue.

When Moss passed away in 2016, his daughter, Zarleen Watts, decided to honor her father by keeping his passion project going. The club — fittingly located at a “pointed” building arrowed into the five-way intersection at Vine Street and McMicken Avenue — reopened in 2017, retaining the eccentric character and regular Jazz performances (by a who’s who of the Cincinnati scene) that were a part of Moss’ vision, but modernizing it a bit and adding a new drink menu. 1901 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, thepoint.club.

STANLEY’S PUB

A favorite spot for live, eclectic tunes along the river. Local and out-of-town bands with cheap drinks make Stanley’s an area favorite.

A big place for Jamgrass. 323 Stanley Ave., Columbia Tusculum, facebook.com/stanleys. pub.

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This coffee house and Jazz lounge in Walnut Hills blends artisan coffee, alcohol and the area’s finest Jazz musicians. Coffee is sourced from Carabello Coffee and live Jazz takes place six nights a week with full cocktail service and craft beer and wine. (There’s a $10 drink minimum for any show.) 975 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, caffevivace.com.

THE COMET

This vintage-styled neon-lit Northside Garage Rock bar has Mexican food (served until 1 a.m.), booze, live music and coffee, so you never have to leave. Or you could just come back for their weekly house salsa creations and housemade ginger ale. Upon entering, you’ll probably think you’re in a ‘50s-era diner based on the jukebox and checkered tile floors, but this is a space for good, loud music (everything from Rock and Reggae to Hip Hop and Indie); cheap, strong drinks; and an inspirational amount of craft beer in bottles and cans housed in an old-fashioned cooler. And for Bluegrass fans, the Comet Bluegrass All-Stars bring down the house every Sunday. 4579 Hamilton Ave., Northside, cometbar.com.

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Located in the space that formerly held Rake’s End, a DIY dive bar for the local independent arts and music scene, Arts’ on the Ave is located in the West End’s creative BrightonMohawk District. The interior features rotating exhibits; provides paper, pens, paint and paintbrushes so artistic patrons can get creative; and recurring events like Drafts and Crafts let you

create while drinking discounted beverages.

During the weekends, different DJs help kick off late-night dance parties. 2141 Central Ave., Brighton, artsota.com.

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Sarah Dworak of Babushka Pierogies opened Wodka Bar on Main Street, attached to her popular pierogi lunch and latenight walk-up window. Dedicated to the patron spirit of Eastern Europe, the bar carries an ambitious selection of vodkas, stocking upward of 60 types including many Russian, Polish and Ukrainian brands that are lesser known in the United States, plus house-infused options with Russian Caravan black tea, caraway seeds, pine needles, rosemary, berries and citrus zest. European wines and a single

draft beer — O.K. Beer, a Premium Lager from Brzesko, Poland’s Okocim Brewery — round out the drinks. You can chase your shots with bites of caviar, pickled fish and vegetables, smoked meats, cheese and butter on dense, dark rye bread. 1200 Main St., Over-theRhine, wodkabarotr.com.

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FRIES CAFÉ

Before opening as a bar in the 1930s, Fries Café was a Kroger grocery store. It offers a large selection of craft beers on tap. If you’re in the mood for games, Fries offers three floors of shuffleboard, dart boards and pool tables. Head out back and check out the massive patio set-up. 3247 Jefferson Ave., Clifton, facebook.com/friescafe.

GYPSY’S

With a welcoming, dog-friendly atmosphere, Gypsy’s is perhaps most well known for their fully stocked bar and large craft beer selection on draft or in bottles and cans — you can find a drink special for under $4 any day of the week. Watch your favorite game on one of several TVs or enjoy their back patio equipped with fire pits and giant Jenga.

641 Main St., Covington, facebook.com/ gypsyscovington.

KNOCKBACK NAT’S

Part neighborhood hangout, part sports bar, part destination for hungry individuals looking for delicious smoked wings (featured on the Travel Channel), Knockback Nat’s has a little something for everyone. And there are always sports on TV. 10 W. Seventh St., Downtown, 513-621-1000.

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trotting horse). The $4, 25-ounce Hudepohl schooners, $6 cocktails and draft beer mark it as an affordable, laid-back hangout. Browse historic news clippings that act as décor, play a classic card game or lounge on the 13-foot couch in the back — all while sipping on reasonably priced booze or snacking on Derby-themed panini. 625 Main St., Downtown, facebook.com/bayhorsecafe.

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ARLIN’S

The is Clifton’s Gaslight District neighborhood pub for the thinking man or woman. Have a beer on the big back patio and beer garden or enjoy live music and bar food. The no-frills atmosphere includes a pool room, plus 20 taps, sports on TV and a jukebox. 307 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, facebook.com/arlinsbar.

Prospect Hill’s neighborhood joint is chatty, diverse and full of character. A great place to have beer, relax and mix it up with the regulars. 301 Milton St., Liberty Hill, facebook. com/miltonstheprospecthilltavern.

CROWLEY’S

Crowley’s Highland House has made a name for themselves offering Smithwick’s, Guinness and Killian’s on draft in an unpretentious atmosphere. As Cincinnati’s oldest Irish bar, the bar was established in 1937 by Bill “Specs” Crowley. They put on quite a party for Saint Patrick’s Day and the Labor Day fireworks. 958 Pavilion St., Mount Adams.

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CROW’S NEST

The Crow's Nest opened in 1895 by husband and wife duo Mike and Mary Crow. Now, the pub is owned by the O'Dell family, who are the descendants of Mary. When you drive by, you’ll see a plethora of Irish fanfare. But their claim to fame is their fish sandwich. 4544 W. Eighth St., West Price Hill, facebook.com/ crowsnestcincy.

MILLIONS CAFÉ/ MOUNT LOOKOUT TAVERN

It’s Friday night: Everyone’s looking for love — or lust — in Mount Lookout. Try sister and brother bars Million’s Café and Mount Lookout Tavern — or MLTs, as the locals call it. They are basically mirror-image sports bars that specialize in easy bar food, craft beer and Jell-O shots of the glow-in-the-dark variety. 3210 Linwood Ave., millions-cafe.com; 3209 Linwood Ave., mtlookouttavern.com.

O’BRYON’S BAR & GRILL

This neighborhood bar and grill has two floors and an outdoor patio. Enjoy peanuts — in the shell — while watching one of many TVs and exploring the regularly rotating draft beer selection. Famous for their Shark Tank cocktail: vodka, sprite, sour mix and a rubber shark filled with grenadine you pour in yourself. 1998 Madison Road, O’Bryonville, obryonsirishpub.com.

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THE CRAZY FOX SALOON

From their insane bloody marys, stacked high assorted meats and cheese, to their fresh mint juleps, The Crazy Fox Saloon brings a fun twist to every drink. This cozy bar

provides not only a close-knit atmosphere, but also killer cocktails and a great selection of local craft brews. 901 Washington Ave., Newport, searchable on Facebook.

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The historic Bay Horse Café, with roots dating back to 1817, reopened after co-owners and partners Fred Berger and Lori Meeker spent two and half years restoring the building (and its vintage neon sign featuring a

CITY VIEW TAVERN

A hillside dive and home of one of the best spicy bloody marys and best views in town.

The burgers are damn tasty, too. Meet the Big Ted Deluxe: eight ounces of griddle-cooked, handmade beef patty with American cheese, mustard, lettuce, pickles, mayo, onion, ketchup, tomatoes, served in a plastic basket with a bag of chips. 403 Oregon St., Mount Adams, cityviewtavern.com.

This is one of the closest things to a townie bar in downtown. The cozy dive boasts a pool table, jukebox, some of the friendliest bartenders in the city and a great BLT. 11 E. Seventh St., Downtown, madonnasbarandgrill.com.

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THE B LIST

According to their Facebook page, they’re a “quintessential neighborhood ‘hole in the wall.'" The bar includes a 100+ bourbon selection, over 100 cans and bottles of craft beer and cider, a $3 craft beer special every day and 10 craft and domestic beers and cider on draft. 343 Division St., Bellevue, facebook.com/theblistbvue.

A Walnut Hills institution since 1978, the Brew House offers funky décor, friendly people, good burgers and cheap drinks. It’s a gathering place that is essential to the fabric of Walnut Hills and has been offering a very tasty Brew House Chili Cook-Off — a favorite of kitchen-savvy regulars — for more than two decades. 1047 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, brewhouse.com.

MADONNA’S BAR AND GRILL

Enjoy live cover bands or a Blues jam over affordable suds and a basket of popcorn, then head to the side room, past the pool tables, and bowl to your heart’s content at the electro-mechanical coin-op bowling game (just a quarter per game). Six players at a time can play on the bar’s vintage Champagne machine, which was made by the Chicago Coin company, a noted pinball machine manufacturer, back in 1969. 52 Donnermeyer Drive, Bellevue, facebook.com/millersfillinn.

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Learn how to turn simple mixes, dips, spices and oils into complex and inventive recipes. Aprons, cookbooks and serveware will be 20 percent off. 6-8 p.m. $10; reservations required in advance via 513-802-5721.

Ten Thousand Villages, 11316 Montgomery Road, Harper’s Point, harperspoint. tenthousandvillages.com.

— ERIN GARDNER

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MUSIC: Conor Oberst brings some warbling and emotion-packed music the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 44.

MUSIC: Cincinnati Music Festival A recent article from Newsweek named the Cincinnati

name (Tresvant has been touring with another former member, Johnny Gill, but not as New Edition). Saturday will feature a special performance by funky Buckeye State music icons The Ohio Players, who recently returned with their first new music in almost 30 years.

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. $50-$150.

Paul Brown Stadium, 1 Paul Brown Stadium, Downtown, cincymusicfestival.com.

— MIKE BREEN EVENT: Red, White & Zoo Independence Day may be over, but the Cincinnati Zoo is still celebrating ’Merica.

Crack open a cold one with the bonobos and enjoy a night of live music performed

by Country artists Filmore and Aaron Goodvin. Proceeds benefit USO of Central and Southern Ohio, and for every ticket bought, the zoo will donate a zoo admission ticket to a local military member. 7-9 p.m. Thursday. $20 advance; $25 day-of.

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Garden, 3400 Vine St., Avondale, cincinnatizoo.org.

— NICK SULLIVAN EVENT: Adult Swim Ziegler Pool gets lit after hours with monthly Adult Swim nights this summer.

Each evening includes bar and a DJ. At the July event, Meraki Haus will provide the music. Then in August, OWN LANE SHOES will host the first-ever Adult Swim fashion show at the pool. Attendees must be over 21. 7:30-10 p.m. Thursday. $10. Ziegler Park Pool, 1322 Sycamore St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/zieglerpark.

— EMMA STIEFEL EVENT: Glier’s Goettafest In any other American city, this odd little oat and meat patty would be met with skepticism. Here, there’s an entire festival thrown in its name. This year, Glier’s Goettafest is now held over two weekends. And this celebration of goetta, a German-inspired dish originally intended to save money by stretching out

meat servings, brings all the goetta-infused creations you could possibly ask for: goetta burritos, goetta buffalo wraps, goetta rangoons and even goetta brownies.

For any out-of-towners who are new to the whole goetta scene, feel free to play it safe by enjoying plenty of goetta-less options. In addition to food, the event will also host live music and a slew of activities including a goetta toss because Cincinnati just can’t goettanough.

Also, keep an eye out for the goetta vending machine.

Read more about the history of Glier’s Goettafest and what to expect at this year’s festival on page 41. 5-11 p.m. Thursday and Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday; same hours again Aug. 1-4. Free admission. Festival Park, Riverboat Row, Newport, goettafest.com. — NICK SULLIVAN

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ONSTAGE: The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company puts a female spin on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective in Miss Holmes.

See review on page 34.

Music Festival one of the “13 Best Music Festivals of Summer 2019.” The classic R&B fest — by far the longest-running popular music festival in Southwest Ohio, with origins dating back to 1962 — was included in the write-up alongside heavyweight events like Coachella, Hangout Music Festival, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Boston Calling, Outside Lands and Woodstock 50. For CMF 2019’s opening-night kick-off event on Thursday, Hip Hop legends Slick Rick, EPMD and Kid Capri are scheduled to perform. The lineup for the weekend concerts showcases the event’s familiar mix of contemporary R&B/Soul favorites (Mary J. Blige and Maxwell) and oldschool heroes (Earth Wind & Fire and Frankie Beverly & Maze). On Friday, the classic lineup of New Edition (“Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike”) is booked to appear, but under the name RBRM, due to early member Ralph Tresvant owning the trademark on the New Edition

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FILM: The Fast and the Furious The Summer Cinema series at Washington Park hosts family-friendly blockbusters every Wednesday night.

Grab some lawn chairs, lay down a blanket or sprawl out on the grass. Concessions will be available on-site, offering light snacks and refreshments, including beer, wine and spirits. This week, the park is screening The Fast and The Furious. The original in the now eight-film series, The Fast and the Furious follows undercover cop Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker, RIP) as he tries to infiltrate the street racing underground in Los Angeles.

The literal premise is a bunch of “fast and furious” racers are hijacking semitrucks in their tricked-out Hondas and stealing items from truck hauls to resell.

But, like, not really. Mostly you see Vin Diesel, his friends and various other “gear heads” drag-racing their cars plus scantily clad women — but also ladies holding their own as drivers — as they all converge to compete in the unfortunately named Race Wars in the desert. Lots of weird problematic 2001 stuff, but lots of high-octane action.

Explosions. Wheelies.

JNCOs. And tons of NOS — the gas and the energy drink.

9-11 p.m. Wednesday. Free admission. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-theRhine, washingtonpark.org.

— MAIJA ZUMMO

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MUSIC: The Temptations play PNC Pavilion with The Righteous Brothers. See an interview with Otis Williams on page 42.

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MUSIC: I Don’t Know How But They Found Me brings neon-bright Pop to the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 44.

MUSIC: Lizzo While it could be prematurely argued that this is Pop sensation Lizzo’s year, she’s had plenty of time to primp and prepare for what she describes as “entering a new world of mainstream success.” After moving from Houston to Minneapolis in 2011, she 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 Prince on his record Plectrumelectrum. That same year Time named her one of its 14 artists to watch.

Her most recent album, Cuz I Love You, debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard charts

(its deluxe-edition single “Truth Hurts” just jumped into Billboard’s Hot 100 top 10) and her big, beautiful, dimpled derriere has been twerking across magazines, billboards, Twitter feeds and the exhaustive album rollout talk-show/touring/summer festival circuit non-stop.

Lizzo’s recent rise to the top of the pop culture mountain can also be seen in her Greater Cincinnati concert bookings. When it was announced that she would play the mid-size Covington venue Madison Theater in June, tickets for the show sold out quickly. When she had to cancel that concert to prepare for performances at both the MTV Movie & TV Awards and the BET Awards, a new date was booked at a much larger venue: the U.S. Bank Arena for Kiss 107.1’s Loud & Proud 2019 show. That show will also feature local Round2Crew and appearances by drag queens Amaya Sexton, Chasity Marie, Jessica Dimon and Sarah Jessica Darker.

6:30 p.m. doors; 8 p.m. show. $25-$60. U.S. Bank Arena, 100 Broadway St., Downtown, usbankarena. com. — JERILYN JORDAN

COMEDY: Dan Cummins “It was so random,” says comedian Dan Cummins of his former TV job. “I hosted Playboy’s morning show on the actual Playboy Channel.“ Like many comics, Cummins has auditioned for acting roles over the years. “I just kind of figured out that hosting things was easier than trying out for acting roles. I don’t have any interest in going to acting classes.” He liked the fact that the job utilized a variety of skills. “I did a monologue with my co-host that was the closest thing to my stand-up, so I got to use that muscle. I got to meet people. We did celebrity interviews, men’s lifestyle stories and topical stuff.” And there are naked ladies. “Yes there were,” he says. “Not a bad way to start the day.” 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday; 7 and 10 p.m.

Saturday. $20-$50. Liberty Funny Bone, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty. funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON EVENT: Art After Dark: Life’s a Beach The Cincinnati Art Museum took inspiration from the Spanish word “playa,” which translates to beach, for

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MUSIC: Zedd Post-Reds Game Concert Grammy Award-winning artist/DJ/producer Zedd will “Stay” for an hour performing a free, live concert after Friday’s Reds game. The show is part of the Ohio Lottery Post-Game Concert Series. The Reds take on the Colorado Rockies and the concert begins 20 minutes after the game ends. You must have a game ticket to attend the concert. 10-11 p.m. $12-$280. Great American Ball Park, 100 Joe Nuxhall Way, Downtown, reds.com. — ERIN GARDNER

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EVENT: Dangerwheel Make like Evel Knievel and hop on an adult big wheel for this tournament-style downhill race in Pendleton. Doubling in size from the 2018 competition, Danger Wheel will now invite 128 three-person teams to compete in an obstacle course built into Pendleton’s urban core. Race teams consist of three — one driver and two to supply said driver with a running start. Held rain or shine, drivers from each team will go head-to-head down a two-block course that will change throughout the day. Each will compete for the coveted title of “Danger Champion.”

Even if you discover your standard driving skills are not transferable and find yourself wiping out a lot, don’t worry: All racers are guaranteed at least two races thanks to the losers’ bracket.

Local brewers and food trucks will also be lining the block to provide interested spectators with nourishment and alcohol. All proceeds go toward beautification projects in Pendleton. The first races start at 2 p.m. Noon-11 p.m. Saturday. $100 to race; free to watch. The starting line is at 378 E. 12th St., Pendleton, dangerwheel.com. — NICK SULLIVAN

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EVENT: Fabric Fest at Sew Valley Crafters and designers rejoice: Thousands of fabrics, interfacings, linings, labels, hang tags and other sewing materials will be coming to Cincinnati for one day. Not-for-profit sewn-product resource, technology and workspace enterprise Sew Valley is partnering with Chicagobased supplier The Sourcing District to bring fabrics not usually available to the local market, and at wholesale prices. The event is free and open to the public and includes names like Kendor Textiles, Oriole Textiles, Mikan Printing, Guide Fabric and more. 2-6 p.m. Tuesday.

Free admission. Sew Valley, 1010 Hulbert Ave., West End, facebook.com/sewvalley.

— EMMA STIEFEL

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EVENT: Pagan Pride Picnic Pagans, witches, druids, heathens and ceremonial magicians can come together for this sixth annual gathering. The familyfriendly event will celebrate the Pagan holiday Lughnasadh with a ritual at 5 p.m.

There will also be a drum circle, vendors selling pagan goods, wolves from Ironwood Wolves and a potluck dinner. Noon-8 p.m. Sunday.

Free admission. Mount Airy Forest, 5083 Colerain Ave., Westwood, facebook.com/ ovpagansociety.

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this month’s Art After Dark after-hours cocktail party.

The word is also used to describe the dry lake beds in the American West — including those at Black Rock Desert, home to the annual Burning Man event, inspiration for the current interactive and somewhat psychedelic museum exhibit No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man. During Art After Dark, take advantage of the free admission to No Spectators as well as Kimono: Refashioning Contemporary Style, plus enjoy live music from The Cliftones and food for purchase from Eli’s BBQ, Graeter’s Ice Cream and Macaron Bar. 5-10 p.m.

Free admission. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

— ERIN GARDNER

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This eclectic lineup highlights famed composers’ lesser-known siblings, celebrates the life of Leonardo da Vinci and heats up with fiery flamenco

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for Bagpipe and Hurdy Gurdy in D Major.

There’s even more to celebrate: The concert marks Preu’s 50th birthday. “I’ve had rehearsals on my birthday but never done a concert. So it’s going to be special,” he says.

CCO administration hinted that something celebratory is in the offing but wouldn’t share details.

Summermusik’s season includes afternoon concerts, pub crawls and other intimate experiences, most of which are sold out. At publication, there was availability for all concerts at the School for Creative and Performing Arts’ Corbett Theater; the Aug. 11 Afternoon Musik performance featuring the SilverGarburg duo; the 9:15 p.m. session of the Rivermusik Pub Crawl on Aug. 13; and a screening of Amadeus with commentary

by Preu on Aug. 22 at the Esquire Theatre.

Preu notes that he and the guest artists curate the Afternoon Musik series while CCO musicians oversee the Chamber Crawls.

“If you look at the repertoire, it’s standard stuff,” he says. “It’s more the spirit, the feel of the shows that’s important. And there’s a feeling of intimacy, even at the SCPA concerts, which seats 750.”

Once again, it’s all about making a joyful noise.

“When I come here, I feel a certain exuberance and joy that reminds me of why I went into this business in the first place,” Preu says.

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of a work by Preu’s brother, HansPeter, which is based on the alleged “hidden melodies” in da Vinci’s masterEckart Preu, CCO’s music director piece, “The Last PHOTO: MIKKI SCHAFFNER Supper.” The program includes excerpts from Michael Nyman’s score for the film Prospero’s Books, siblings will be read by Cincinnati a concerto grosso by Giuseppi Torelli, and Shakespeare Company actors, which will concludes with selections from Handel’s provide insights into the extremely close Water Music. relationships that remained strong even as Liquid Video Solutions will project the men achieved greater recognition than images of da Vinci’s most famous the women. artworks on the theater’s walls to create The sensuous rhythms and sounds of flaan immersive visual experience. Although menco heat up an already sultry summer Preu is excited about the multimedia with “España” on Aug. 17 with renowned aspects, he’s working with Liquid Video’s guitarist Pepe Romero, flamenco dancer artists to ensure that the music isn’t Arleen Hurtado and palmero and vocal overpowered by the images. artist Gabriel Osuna.

“This isn’t Lumenocity,” Preu says. “The “Flamenco is such an integral part idea is to make it a holistic experience, of Spanish music, so powerful and painting the whole room and not drawing emotional,” Preu says. “Pepe is playing attention to it.” a concerto by his father that echoes that The following weekend on Aug. 10, tradition and both Arleen and Gabriel are Israeli duo-pianists Sivan Silver and phenomenal artists.”

Gil Garburg will celebrate works perHurtado will dance to Manuel de Falla’s formed by Mozart and Mendelssohn and famous scores El Sombrero de Tres Picos their equally talented but lesser-known and “Ritual Fire Dance” from El Amor sisters. If Nannerl Mozart composed Brujo. music, nothing survived of it. Thus, Fanny The final weekend concludes with Mendelssohn Hensel’s music will receive “Blissful Mozart” on Aug. 24, a celebration more attention; the CCO will perform her of Mozart, his colleagues and some strange Overture in C Major. instruments for a Classical concert.

“It was important for me to get her out “You can’t have too much Mozart,” Preu of the shadows, and this piece was a real says, “and I’m really interested in finding discovery for me,” Preu says, adding that out more about his contemporaries who Fanny was acknowledged as the superior were more famous and who are now talent in the family. virtually forgotten.”

Preu describes the Silver-Garburg duo The concert features works by Josef as “one brain with four hands, sharing Myslivećek; Joseph Boulogne; Mozart’s extraordinary telepathic communication.” father, Leopold; and Mozart’s great They’ll perform an early Mozart piano rival, Antonio Salieri. British clarinet concerto — just as the composer and his phenom Julian Bliss will perform Mozart’s sister originally did — as well as Bach’s delightful clarinet concerto, and bagpiper concerto for two keyboards in C Major.

Karen May and hurdy gurdy player Tomás Letters from the composers to their Lozano will highlight Leopold’s Sinfonia

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ow in its fifth season, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s August Summermusik Festival has silenced doubts about viability with performances hosted in both standard and surprising venues, many of which have sold-out well in advance.

Much of that credit should go to music director Eckart Preu, who uses “joy” as a frequent descriptor and conveys a palpable sense of delight in his work with the CCO, both on and off stage.

This season marks Preu’s third with the CCO; and this year the Summermusik schedule features top-tier musicians, dancers, actors and visual artists who will perform new works along with beloved classics. Preu insists that their formula for success is simple.

“You can grow your audience just by offering high-quality concerts that are interesting and entertaining,” he says, speaking from his home in Spokane, Washington. “(Cincinnati) is open to new things and that’s what I’ve always liked about the cultural landscape.”

Also in the lineup are shorter pieces that “allow for more programming diversity,” Preu says.

CCO’s two previous Summermusik seasons amply demonstrated that their audience is eager for new music experiences as well as hearing more familiar works. This season follows suit.

Other than presenting the intersections of creative and performing arts in innovative ways, there is no overarching theme.

The fest kicks off Aug. 3 with “Visions of da Vinci,” which commemorates the 500th anniversary of famed artist Leonardo da Vinci’s death. The featured soloist is Serbian-German percussionist and composer Nebojša Jovan Živković, who will perform the third movement of his second marimba concerto, called “Rondo da Vinci, excerpts from Vivaldi’s Concerto for Flautino in C Major,” arranged by renowned British percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.

“Nebojša is one of the world’s best,” says Preu, citing his ability to bring a vocalism to percussion instruments.

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‘Miss Holmes’ Elevates Female Voices R E V I E W BY J EN I FER M O O R E

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Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s assertive, funny and compelling against 2019-2020 season, “The Season of the their male counterparts. Overall, the Woman,” kicks off with the debut of talented mix of both new and legacy Christopher M. Walsh’s Miss Holmes at the performers to the ensemble know what Otto M. Budig Theater. It is a joyous and the audience wants and deliver it on thought-provoking staging that will leave command. theater lovers excited for the rest of the The creative team for Miss Holmes is a season’s adaptations, which prominently tour de force that takes audience members feature women in lead roles. Based on back to 1881 England with a simple yet iconic characters by Sir Arthur Conan expansive set design, robust lighting and Doyle and directed by Jemma Alix Levy, sound, and thoughtfully curated costumthis production of Miss Holmes is a twist ing. I wondered how Holmes’ clothing on a classic story that also challenges perceptions of the role of women in Victorian society.

CSC regulars Kelly Mengelkoch and Sara Clark, as Miss Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Dorothy Watson, respectively, shine brightly as a fierce dynamic duo racing against time to solve the case of a newlywed who believes her influential and highranking investigator husband murdered Sara Clark as Dr. Watson (left) and Kelly Mengelkoch as Miss Holmes his former wives and PHOTO: MIKKI SCHAFFNER PHOTOGRAPHY that she too will face the same fate.

Mengelkoch, in her 16th season with the would translate into that of a female role company, flexes the wealth of her experiduring a time period where it was frowned ence in the performing arts by effortlessly upon for women to wear pants. Costume delivering lines with a perfection that designer Clara Jean Kelly’s choice of a “split leaves you yearning for more. She easily skirt” was brilliant; it offered the feel of displays the classic Holmes style — obsesthe classic masculine Sherlock Holmes sive personality, inquisition and extensive look while also incorporating feminine knowledge about any person or thing — elements. but adds her own flair.

Likewise, the stage set is sparse, which Clark is equally impressive in bringing allows the cast to move around with ease life to Watson, Holmes’ trustworthy and throughout the production. There are curious companion. While some may see minor pieces of furniture, which is perfect Watson as the underling to Holmes, Clark’s because the audience can fully focus on portrayal makes way for the character to the stellar performances as opposed to shine in her own right. In doing so, she admiring the set. confirms the belief that when women team Major kudos should be bestowed upon up, everyone wins. director Levy in her debut for the CSC. As women across the nation celebrate Being the first production in a new season the centennial of the 19th Amendment to — especially one focusing on the historical the Constitution — which gave women significance of the 100th anniversary of the right to vote — it is no surprise that women’s suffrage — can be intimidating, themes revolving around women’s yet Levy masterfully owned it as director. rights, their qualifications for certain If you are a fan of Sherlock Holmes, professional occupations and sexism you will love Cincinnati Shakespeare are subtle additions to the production.

Company’s adaptation of Walsh’s play as Watson’s consistent pushback and defense it offers comedy, drama and — the best of her career as a medical professional is part — an opportunity to elevate the many refreshing. Through the twists and turns voices of women in the arts. of the play, we see Watson grow from not Miss Holmes is presented by the just a companion to Holmes, but also into a Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and leader who is capable of holding down the runs through Aug. 4 at the Otto M. Budig fort when challenges arise.

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responded to controversial pre-game protests in the National Football League with a reminder that league rules required players to stand for the national anthem.

“The league office will determine how to deal with any possible instance in which a player, coach or trainer does not stand for the anthem,” reads a memo sent to NBA members. “Teams do not have the discretion to waive this rule.”

A longtime fan of the league, Smithson felt torn between her love of basketball and the implication of supporting an organization that suppresses its players’ speech.

“I know that he knows the kneeling isn’t a bad thing,” she says. “That’s what I truly believe after hearing a lot of interviews with him. I think it was kind of, like, a showmanship thing. So I just wrote a letter to him, saying, ‘Here are my thoughts.’ ” Smithson’s first open letter to Silver made her case for the freedom to protest, closing with the assertion that “disruption of the norm is a way to start discourse.”

The writing practice became cathartic for Smithson. Inspired by “Dear Abby” columns, the soon-to-be-sent letters act as both a diary and a statement of purpose for her work. These dispatches touch on everything from the meaning of the word “passing” to her visit to Michael Jordan’s hometown in Wilmington, North Carolina.

“My dream is that I would send him these letters and he’d ask me for a meeting,” Smithson says. “My long-term goal is that, in some way, I could work for a basketball organization as exactly who I am today — an artist.”

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A college basketball season doesn’t end at the final buzzer. March Madness wouldn’t be complete without its ceremonial send-off: that post-tournament tradition in which the season’s reigning champions climb a ladder and cut the nets free from the arena’s hoops. As enduring a tradition as football’s Gatorade shower, net-cutting makes victory manifest. The scissored scraps keep record of a hard-fought season long after the scoreboards are reset.

But what about the nets that populate our own communities? The tattered, nylon webs that dangle above blacktop; the rusted chain-link alternatives — they too deserve reverence, says Arizona-based artist Abigail Smithson, who is currently taking part in Wave Pool’s Art Space Is Your Space residency.

Smithson’s Net Trades project, chronicled on her website, was conceived of while she studied photography at Louisiana State University’s graduate school. The series of images finds Smithson and others climbing ladders at parks and playgrounds, ready to separate net from hoop. The old nets, taken in for closer photographic examination, are then replaced with new ones, hence the titular “trade.”

“I like the idea that if I wanted that net, I’d have to go and ask permission from a school principal, from a secretary, from a homeowner — any place that had a net that I thought was interesting,” says Smithson. “That’s a healthier dynamic to me than just trying to show up at these places and photograph. Why not have a sort of abstract representation that’s true to the place based on the tears, the rust and the way it’s sort of captured the weather that passes through that space?”

Smithson’s artistic output is fixated on basketball, particularly on the ways the game relates to record-keeping beyond the stat sheet. The nets themselves are records, for example, as are the words and concepts we use to describe the game.

During her Wave Pool residency, Smithson plans to embark on a project titled What is the Harm in a Reach?, an installation that collects high schoolers’ drawn depictions of basketball moves (reaching, a shot, passing) and exhibits them as cyanotypes — blue-tinged prints that develop with sun and water. She’ll also mark the first artist-in-residence for Wave Pool whose work is fully devoted to sports.

“I think there is quite a bit of overlap between sports and art, but perhaps we don’t think of these ties often,” says Wave Pool Executive Director Calcagno Cullen. “Athletes and artists are both heavily dedicated to their craft, working to perfect technique and form.”

Smithson doesn’t just share in the artistry of athletes — she sticks up for their right to express themselves on the court.

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After working grueling hours for a San bodies over the school year and develop Francisco tech company, Sarah Habib left some solid motor control skills,” says Dan to coach a girl’s elementary basketball Scheid, a University of Cincinnati student team. Immediately, Habib says she noticed and M2M contract worker. the unhealthy habits of many of her playThe program is unique in that it takes ers and wanted to design a program to a holistic approach to fighting childhood enable proper eating choices and improve obesity by going beyond exercise and their physical capabilities. nutrition — it teaches coping strategies Her initial fitness plan morphed into that are linked to being able to better hanthe innovative nonprofit Mission2Move dle stress and increase mental well-being.

(M2M), which is billed as a “chronic stress Habib says that by taking this approach, prevention program” that uses movement, the program delves deeper. It considers meditation, nutrition and community factors like: What’s going on in someone’s involvement to tackle the issue of childhood obesity and improve both academic and social performance in classrooms.

In 2017 Habib moved the program from San Francisco to Cincinnati to address childhood obesity in the Queen City, where it affects one in three children, according to a Community Health Assessment published by the Cincinnati Health Department. That’s higher than the national average of one in five children.

Through teacher M2M battles stress and obesity via movement and mindfulness professional development, school implementation PHOTO: PROVIDED BY MISSION2MOVE and after-school programming in Cincinnati Public Schools, M2M hopes to life? Are they using food to cope with build resilient children. stress? Are there teachable stress-coping “By learning to meditate and move their tools that might also decrease food intake? body, students become better at coping Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with stress or negative thoughts,” Habib measure life-altering events such as abuse, says. “It is often overlooked because it is violence and other traumatic experiences not visible. Mental health is below the surthat have negative effects on children for face. You can see that a child is obese, but the rest of their lives. you cannot see with just your eyes that a “If a child had three or more ACEs, it can child has many adverse childhood experitake 10 years off of life expectancy,” Habib ences or a lot of stress in their life.” says. “This is preventable. The more coping The program seeks to help teachers and strategies and resilience we build in kids, health professionals improve physical the less the effects of ACEs.” education curriculums; it also teaches kids Habib’s next move? Continuing to mindfulness through guided meditation spread the word and bring national and calming breathing techniques. They awareness to her program. use a core set of drills based on a protocol Come Sept. 15, M2M will hold their

by Z-Health — an approach to fitness that inaugural 5K run/3K walk at Ault Park. focuses on the body through the brain by Every $25 raised will go toward sponsoring teaching students how to strengthen their a child for the entirety of the school year. nervous system.

“We are undoubtedly making an impact, In 2017 the program went from teaching most notably for the teachers and school 100 students at one school to what is now communities,” UC’s Scheid says. “I think over 1,000 students at 21 different Cincinwith more exposure and time to work with nati Public Schools. In fall 2018, M2M the CPS kids, we will be able to make a launched an Amazon Alexa skill program more profound impact on individual kid’s that can be easily accessed on Amazon lives and teach them how to alleviate some Echo in classrooms. It enables teachers to of the constant pressures that they face use the M2M movement and mindfulness as far as poverty and chronic stress are techniques first-hand, without the need of concerned.” additional staff members.

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In the heyday of quirky independent flicks, they were the absolute definition of indie white male insecurity. They were Jesse Eisenberg in The Art of Self-Defense funny (looking and quick with dark quips) men of PHOTO: BLEECKER STREET inaction (unless they were being used ironically, like Cera in Scott Pilgrim vs. stupid American. He’s got a dog, but it’s the World or Eisenberg in Zombieland) tough to figure out which one of them is and both were blessed/cursed with a look the pet in the relationship. of geeky intelligence that lent them the He reeks of fear, which leads to him ability to see the world’s inherent faults being attacked by a roving group of rather than having any actual esoteric motorcycle bandits who rob and molest knowledge. individuals late at night. Casey is easy But Eisenberg has been able to put these prey, but during his recovery he decides skills to greater use in a wider variety of it is time to fight back. First, Casey checks roles. While he’s made his name on the out a gun shop and applies for a handgun. indie side of the ledger in films like Roger Then he stumbles into a dojo run by the Dodger, The Squid and the Whale and mysterious Sensei (Alessandro Nivola), Adventureland, Eisenberg has also more who commands complete respect from his than flirted with the mainstream, having students and wields their aggression into earned an Academy Award nomination a weapon. for his performance as Facebook’s Mark Sensei sees Casey’s fear for what it Zuckerberg in The Social Network, enjoying could be: something beautiful and lethal. small-franchise success in two Now You Casey confides in Sensei that he wants See Me installments and essaying the role to transform into the very thing that of everyone’s favorite DC comic villain Lex intimidates him. He desires to be a blunt Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of masculine figure. His transformation, Justice. while comic, bears some resemblance What he has been able to accomplish to the journey of Bruce Wayne/Batman is fascinating when you consider that in the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight Eisenberg has done little to change his trilogy. Young Wayne fears bats and the indie It Guy persona. He remains nebbish darkness they reside in. It takes a master to a fault and doesn’t burrow so deep into manipulator to convince Wayne that if a character that he disappears before our he overcomes this fear it can turn into a eyes. Eisenberg is always Eisenberg. symbol that strikes the same fear into the But he’s able to go dark, as illustrated heart of others. in The Art of Self-Defense, the second The dojo also comes to mirror the spirit feature from writer-director Riley Stearns and credo of David Fincher’s Fight Club, (Faults). Eisenberg’s character, Casey, is where fighters surrender to bloodlust to an accountant who audits the expenses of prove themselves to be alive and full of employees at an anonymous company. He feeling. Casey watches as students draw is walking wallpaper in a world of bland blood, break bones and knock teeth loose backdrops, blending in to the point of near — all while adhering to Sensei’s rules. invisibility. Only his weakness and fear Eisenberg has learned the rules of acting, attract attention. Fear, in this case, has both in the independent world and within killed emotional and psychological growth the Hollywood studio system, and found and development. his niche in each arena. He appreciates Eisenberg plays Casey as an insecure the darkness in this art form and has been automaton who tries to navigate ways of able to weaponize it, employing it to steal interacting, but misses the specifics of power. Casey, in The Art of Self-Defense, how to actually live. Casey has listened proves to be a quick study as well. (In to French language-learning tapes and theaters) (R) Grade: B+ becomes fluent, but all this knowledge has done is open him up to ridicule from French-speakers who assume he’s just a

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Gluten-Free from Field to Glass Middletown’s Rolling Mill Brewing Company serves celiac-friendly craft beer in a gluten-free taproom

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beer flavors to explore.

“Give us a try; don’t let the gluten-free derail you. We’ve had people literally sitting here and they will overhear a conversation and say, ‘Wait, this is gluten-free beer?’ So that says something. We think anyone can love it,” she says.

More Local Low-Gluten Brews • Brink offers Father G’s Bees, a “glutenreduced” honey brown ale.

• Listermann offers ciders, meads and wines that are naturally gluten free.

• MadTree reduces the gluten in all of their beers. The two lowest parts-per-million brews are Shade and Happy Amber.

• Rhinegeist ciders are as close to gluten-free as they can be without having dedicated gluten-free facilities.

• West Side Brewing doesn’t brew glutenfree beers, but they keep a gluten-free cider on tap.

• Braxton’s twist on hard seltzer, VIVE, comes in multiple flavors and is gluten free.

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name. Photographs of family who have worked in the steel and iron industry decorate the interior of the building.

Each of their signature beers has a connection to the company or to their family.

“We have a good variety of beer,” Megan says. “We describe Two Goldens as an easy, go-to everyday drink. We have some awesome IPAs, like Three’s Chaos, which is named after (having) three kids in three years, so that is the hoppiest beer. Federalist is an American pale ale, and two darker beers, the brown ale and the stout. Both of those names reference AK Steel: Ingot, for ingot iron, and Open Hearth.”

Open Hearth stout and the Three’s Chaos IPA are just as good, if not better, than beers containing barley or other grains. The IPA tastes lighter than others, but still has the distinctive bite of hops.

As they’ve scaled their product, some of the aspects of the process have gotten easier: They no longer have to malt their own grain, though every part of the recipe is processed in dedicated, gluten-free facilities, giving weight to their claims of being totally gluten-free.

One of the metrics by which Josh and Megan measure the tastiness of the beer is by the wide variety of people who don’t need gluten-free beer but still drink Rolling Mill. They estimate that 70 to 80 percent of their customers have no gluten intolerances. Megan points out that there is nothing lacking, but rather new craft

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“Middletown has a great water supply; the base water on the Great Miami Aquifer is great, so we take great water, hops, gluten-free malt and yeast,” Josh says. “We can’t quite meet the German beer purity laws, but we are close.”

Back in 2016, Megan and Josh were looking for a way to move his homebrewing operation out of the garage and into a facility where people could build community and enjoy beer together. They noticed a building that just might be perfect.

“We’d driven past this building for years, and it wasn’t for sale. We found out who the owner was and said this was where we wanted to be,” Megan says. “I’m not sure what made it seem right to us — the windows were painted shut, no bathrooms, no electric. We renovated for a year before we opened.”

In December 2017, the couple opened the brewery, and even as 18 months have passed and Rolling Mill has begun canning some of its beers, their lives remain very busy.

“Josh and I are learning how to separate work and home life since he’s working a full-time job and I’ve got the three kids under age 8,” Megan says. “We wanted something we could do and keep them with us.”

Josh and many others in Middletown work for AK Steel, whose predecessor company ARMCO invented the continuous rolling mill, which gives the brewery its

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hen Josh Laubach, a native of Middletown, was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2011, he set to work figuring out how to brew a glutenfree beer to satisfy his craft cravings. His experience with the disease is particularly acute — even a few parts per million of gluten can make him sick, which is an amount found in many gluten-removed beers. But homebrewing isn’t particularly easy, and it was much more complex without the option of using common gluten-containing ingredients like wheat, barley and rye.

“There were no recipes, there was no process (for brewing gluten-free beer),” Josh says. “If you are a homebrewer, there’s a lot of resources, recipes, things to try, but for gluten-free beer, even today, there’s hardly any basic stuff out there.”

What began as experiments in the kitchen with his wife Megan took on a bigger life in his garage where they tried sorghum extracts and gluten-removing enzymes, two typical methods for glutenfree brewing, but they weren’t quite what they were looking for.

“We settled on millet, buckwheat and rice as our grains,” Josh says.

The development of a gluten-free beer required doing many of the processes themselves: malting their own grain, which is a roasting process, and discovering what different proportions and combinations tasted like. Not everything was an instant hit.

“In the beginning, when we were learning, we made a lot of accidental sours,” Josh says with a laugh.

What emerged was a recipe that inspired Josh and Megan to open Rolling Mill Brewing Company in downtown Middletown.

Their facility is one of about a dozen that serves nothing but gluten-free items, from the snacks to the beer taps, making it safe from cross-contamination for those with celiac disease.

The facility draws locals who simply want a tasty tipple from the range of IPAs, porters and lagers that Rolling Mill offers.

They also draw substantial attention from people with a wide range of gluten sensitivities and allergies, as well as those who simply want a drink that is entirely natural.

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Yonder is an Elevated Mocktail and Cocktail Bar in MainStrasse

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If you’re looking for great mocktails, just head over Yonder — literally.

Yonder is a rooftop bar that opened at the end of June above Commonwealth Bistro in MainStrasse.

Conceived by Commonwealth owners Chris and Tess Burns as a way to utilize the patio above the main restaurant, the new bar features Yonder seats 30 on the roof above Commonwealth Bistro the same attention to PHOTO: HAILEY BOLLINGER detail that has made the bistro popular. “(We wanted guests to feel) like they are all our friends coming brew coffee, chicory syrup, sarsaparilla, into our home,” Tess says. almond milk and mint. Harris’ inspiraFor Tess, who doesn’t drink, an essential tion was the Appalachian Folk musician part of creating a relaxing and welcoming Roscoe Holcomb, whose album The High space was offering a well-crafted selection Lonesome Sound captured the hardships of mocktails. of his life in the Kentucky mountains. And, “I wanted to honor that guest who, like Harris adds of the drink, “It evokes a little myself, wants to go out but also wants bit of a cowboy theme as well.” more options than soda water with lime,” The mocktail trio is completed with she says.

Peaches & Herb — peaches, local Carriage So she asked Bryan Harris, Yonder’s House Farm honey, lemon, thyme and beverage director, to create a mocktail list seltzer — which is named after the Disco that was just as exciting and delicious as duo and will be served as long as its eponythe cocktail menu, and he delivered. So mous fruit is in season. Harris developed far, the crowd favorite is the Cucumber it in collaboration with Yonder’s culinary Strawberry Smash, a concoction devised team, who helped him imagine how the with the sweltering Kentucky heat in mind. flavors of grilled peaches, a summertime It combines cucumber, jalapeño and favorite, could be captured in a drink. lime with strawberry Jarritos, a popular Yonder’s alcohol is also noteworthy. One Mexican soft drink. of its most popular cocktails is the Van “Yonder is an outdoor bar, so we focused Lear Rose, named after one of Kentucky on making drinks that would cool you off Country music artist Loretta Lynn’s songs. on a hot summer day,” Harris says. “With The drink combines hibiscus vodka, lemthe Strawberry Smash, the cucumber is onade, orange blossom and seltzer. Those cooling and you also get spice from the looking to double down on the outdoor jalapeño, which makes you sweat a bit and theme can order a Campfire Breakfast — cools you off, too.” housemade bacon-washed bourbon and This refreshing summer drink is conmarshmallow mixed with maple syrup. trasted with the more somber High LoneThese permanent cocktail features are some — locally roasted Deeper Roots cold joined by a weekly special drink. Since

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the bar opened, these concoctions have included a yuzu slushie, maple kombucha and frozen Painkiller.

Yonder’s culinary menu also rotates on a weekly basis. Like Commonwealth, Yonder’s chefs and bartenders use direct-fromthe-farm ingredients, but the bar’s more flexible approach lets them use unique items that come in small quantities, which are perfect for an appetizer that only sticks around for a week but couldn’t be worked into the main restaurant’s menu. Past dishes have ranged from Oysters Rockabilly to wagyu beef jerky made in house.

The menu matches the spirit of outdoorsy adventure that permeates Yonder. Tess and Chris were inspired by the natural beauty of Kentucky State Parks like Red River Gorge (though, Tess diplomatically adds, “Ohio state parks are also

great”). They partnered with local designer Corey Rineair, who also curated Commonwealth’s interior, to create a wood-encased space reminiscent of a treehouse. It’s complemented by Midcentury Modern touches that evoke the decades-old aesthetic still found in many state parks today.

“We wanted you to feel like you were away from all your troubles,” Tess says.

“Anytime you go camping and get to finally sit down in nature you feel calm and released. “ Yonder can seat about 30 and, true to its weekend-getaway theme, is open Thursday through Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons.

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Glier’s Goettafest is expanding its festivities at Newport’s Festival Park on the Levee to two weekends (July 25-28 and Aug. 1-4) for the first time since the annual celebration began 18 years ago.

Goetta, next to Cincinnati-style chili, is our city’s most popular regional dish. And chances are high that you’ve been ordering Glier’s brand goetta from local restaurants; the Covingtonbased company claims to sell the most goetta in the Glier’s Goettafest will take place July 25-28 and Aug. 1-4 world and has played a P H O T O : P R O V I D E D B Y G L I E R ’ S G O E T TA large role in maintaining goetta’s popularity since the sausage kitchen and smokehouse live music stages, a carnival-style dunk opened more than 70 years ago. tank, face painting, speed pitch and more Not necessarily an outright invention goetta than you could ever eat. There’s that the Cincinnati area can claim, goetta also a novelty refrigerated goetta vending is a continuation of the German Grützmachine on-site in case you want to take wurst tradition, a practical solution for goetta home. feeding more people with less by essenSchall and his team have also been hard tially cutting sausage meat with starches. at work on an updated game tent with a Goetta is a combination of pork and beef, giant game of Mr. Goetta Operation (you whole-grain oats, onion and spices. The have to remove pork, beef, onions and oats dish was made to stretch out cuts of meat from his body with giant tweezers) and a with cheap, readily available ingredients, Mr. Goetta toss. not unlike meatloaf, scrapple, livermush “I’ve never seen anything like our or haggis. product that touches people’s emotions the “The uniqueness about goetta is the way it does,” Schall says. “People will come oats,” says Kerry Schall, Glier’s director of up and tell us about the first time they marketing and special events coordinator. had goetta, how their grandma used to “When you cook the oats, they brown up make them goetta as a kid and every time and give it that unique texture and flavor they have it, they think of their grandma. that really makes it different than anything There’s so much emotion tied to this, it’s else.” neat to see.

Schall has been in charge of Glier’s “Dan Glier, our owner, he’s at Goettafest Goettafest for the past decade, doing the whole time and he walks through everything from scheduling the live and gives people stickers and I think the music to assisting food vendors in creatfamily feel that you get from this event is ing goetta-themed menus. As a vendor at different than anything else around. We’re Goettafest, you have to create an entirely all involved, we’re all proud of what we do unique menu; you cannot repeat what anyand of the product we serve, so we take the body else is making. That means the food time to make sure this is a neat experience variety at the festival is incredibly diverse, for everybody.” despite the unifying inclusion of goetta.

Now that the fest will span twice as long, Deep-fried goetta balls are some of the there’s double the chance to enjoy one of most popular items, but Schall suggests Cincinnati’s culinary traditions. Schall you find the grilled-goetta donut sandwich, says Goettafest is even a great excuse to comprised of a goetta patty, bacon and travel back to the Queen City. cheese sandwiched between two glazed “We get a lot of people that are transdonuts, offered by Busken Bakery. plants from Cincinnati that went to Florida “It’s interesting to look at, but it’s an and they’ll schedule their vacation time to amazing sandwich,” he says. come back for the festival,” he says. “It’s a This will be the first year the fest spans time to come out and try some new things eight days; in the past, it’s only been four. and try some old things that you love, The only recurring complaints Schall spend some time with family. It really is a has received about Goettafest are it is great family experience, just a good time.” always too busy and people with strollers Glier’s Goettafest takes place at or wheelchairs can’t easily navigate the Newport’s Festival Park on the Levee July crowd, so the solution was to stretch the 25-28 and Aug. 1-4. Admission is free. party out longer with the hope that attenMore info: goettafest.com. dance won’t be so heavily concentrated.

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No Need to Beg Otis Williams, the sole surviving member of legendary vocal group The Temptations, reflects on the success of the Broadway smash based on his memoir

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he world of legacy Soul, Rock and Pop musicians — sometimes called “oldies acts” — rarely overlaps with the cutting-edge of contemporary popular culture. These acts have their own circuit, their own showbiz niche, often appealing to nostalgic fans that want to thank them for the hit records of the past.

On one level, the Friday, July 26 show featuring The Temptations (and The Righteous Brothers) at PNC Pavilion fits the above description. The Temptations were an integral part of Detroit’s Motown Records at its zenith, when the label combined Soul music with Rock awareness to become “the sound of Young America.”

From 1964 through 1973, the dynamic vocal group had an unstoppable string of now-classic hits — “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “My Girl,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep,” “I Wish it Would Rain,” “Cloud Nine,” “Just My Imagination,” “Ball of Confusion,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” and many more.

Their live shows also had exciting dance moves and stylish outfits.

But at the same time that the current Temptations — centered around 77-yearold baritone singer Otis Williams, the last surviving member of the original quintet — are on tour, a much younger version of the group is exciting Broadway theatergoers in the new, much-talked-about musical: Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. Opening in March to immediate crowds, it went on to receive 12 Tony nominations (winning one for choreography) and is hailed as the best musical of its kind since Jersey Boys (about The Four Seasons). It will begin a 50-city national tour in July 2020.

The musical is based on Williams’ 1988 memoir Temptations, which tells the story of the group’s career — both triumphant and tragic — through his eyes and thoughts (Williams is played on Broadway

by Derrick Baskin).

“I think the history we have is so rich, with not only having hit songs and great choreography but the things we have gone through,” Williams says. “When you sit and read about it, then you think it should be told on Broadway. Luckily for us, we were able to get the right producers… to really make it happen, and they got the right people together to make this Broadway play.”

Ain’t Too Proud also is about Detroit in the 1960s, when international success

came to African-American-owned Motown and its sound but also when a 1967 riot devastated that great American city. As actor Baskin’s Otis Williams says in the musical, “Outside, the world was exploding. And inside, so were we.”

Williams today well remembers living through the 1967 Detroit rioting.

“You cannot help but realize and understand that at that point in time, it was just a hotbed of unrest, even though a lot of great music was coming out of Detroit by way of Motown,” he says. “It was rough to live through seeing our city being torn apart.”

Ain’t Too Proud has non-stop hits, and also a modernized version of the famously hip, jubilant Temptations-style dance choreography devised by the late choreographer Cholly Atkins. But it also has tragedy — the original group’s two primary lead singers, falsetto Eddie Kendricks and the deeper-voiced David Ruffin, left amid discontent and group division, and Ruffin later died from drug use. A third member of the original five, Paul Williams, committed suicide; the fourth, Melvin Franklin, was weakened by chronic illness before dying in 1995. (Kendricks died in 1992.)

Dennis Edwards, the singer brought in to replace Ruffin and share vocals with the others for the group’s “psychedelic Soul” string of rhythmically propulsive, lyrically provocative hits of 1968-1972 (“Cloud Nine,” “Ball of Confusion,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”), died last year, having left the Williams-led Temptations earlier. He is also portrayed in the musical.

Before getting to Broadway, Ain’t Too Proud had residencies in several cities, starting with the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. That’s when Williams realized the story’s deep impact.

“During intermission in Berkeley, when we were just getting it into shape, a young lady came up to me and said, ‘How do you feel about having your life portrayed up there onstage?’ ” Williams says. “I said I was close to tears. She said it was the same thing for her. Every step along the way, people who saw it said, ‘Your story is just as strong as your music.’ ” The road to Broadway for Ain’t Too Proud started in the mid-’80s, when Marilyn Ducksworth — an executive with G.P. Putnam’s Sons publishing — visited the group backstage in New York.

“She said, ‘I was sent here because we think you would make great copy,’ ” Williams says. “I said, ‘What’s great copy?’

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She said, ‘We’d like to do a book about you and The Temptations.’ You could have tipped me over with a feather if I would have believed I would have this kind of rich history.”

After the book, which Williams wrote with Patricia Romanowski, came out, there was a 1998 NBC miniseries based on it. Williams long has wanted to see a Broadway musical, but had to wait until after Motown: The Musical, based on a memoir by label founder Berry Gordy, was produced in 2013.

Now, while Williams hopes for an Ain’t Too Proud movie, he’s still touring with his current Temptations. (To date, there have

been a total of 26 members of the group.)

“We’re coming up on our 60th anniversary,” Williams says. “People say they want the Temptations to be around forever. I say, ‘If I’m 80, you still expect us to come out?’ They say, ‘Yes sir, we still love seeing you guys move.’ Wow, I never would have imagined I would be told that at 80 people would still want to see us out there doing those steps. It’s a wonderful way of being loved.”

The Temptations perform with The Righteous Brothers July 26 at Riverbend’s PNC Pavilion. Tickets/info: riverbend.org.

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The superb Cincinnati Indie Rock trio Pop Empire (now in its 10th year as a band) returns this week with Novena, its first full-length album since 2014’s excellent Future Blues. Album tracks like “Sister Chaos,” “Black Wine” and “For Maggie” (which recently premiered on music website Midwest Action) wonderfully showcase the group’s mesmerizing Psych Rock sound, in which you can hear reminders of trippy acts from a variety of eras — from the Velvet Underground, T. Rex and early Pink Floyd through contemporary artists like Pop Empire The Black Angels, DevenP H O T O : R YA N dra Banhart and beyond.

Novena — which releases this Saturday, July 27 — is the first recording to feature Pop Empire’s current lineup, in which singer/bassist (and founding member) Henry Wilson is joined by guitarist Katrina Eresman and drummer Jake Langknecht. The album will be available on major streaming platforms, as well as through popempire.bandcamp.com.

The band is currently finalizing dates for a planned September tour through the Midwest, East Coast and parts of Canada.

Local Pop Empire fans can catch the trio at its album release party this Saturday at Northside Tavern (4163 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsidetav.com). The free 9 p.m. show will also feature performances

by Illinois’ The Funs and fellow local Dreamgaze greats Soften.

For more on Pop Empire, visit popempire.com.

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Jerry Foxhoven, the head of Iowa’s Department of Human Services, was recently forced to resign from his job the day after he sent a mass email to over 4,000 fellow government employees that included an uplifting quote from rapper Tupac Shakur. The self-described (to NPR) “66-year-old white guy from the Midwest who likes Rap music” thinks his affinity for Shakur is why he was let go.

Perhaps “affinity” isn’t a strong enough word. According to reports, besides the regular motivational quotes via email, Foxhoven played the late rapper’s music in the office on ‘”Tupac Fridays” and celebrated Tupac’s birthdays by bringing “themed” baked goods into work. In a statement, a spokesperson for Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds would only say she “wanted to go in a new direction.”

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If you’ve always been suspicious about how so many choice concert tickets seem to quickly end up on resale sites at inflated prices while fans waiting in virtual lines get stuck with nosebleed seats, you may have been on to something.

Live Nation has admitted that a few big touring acts — including Metallica (the only artists named so far) — have directed the concert promoters to give resale sites first dibs on prime tickets in order to help the performers’ reap higher proceeds from sales.

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Chicago’s Mamby on the Beach — featuring artists like Brockhampton and Flying Lotus — recently announced the cancelation of its August event, in large part due to the beach festival’s intrusion on land that is home to a few Great Lakes Piping Plovers, wading “shorebirds” that are a federally protected species. Two birds had been nesting at the fest site and three babies have hatched, the first such hatchlings in the area in more than 60 years. Meanwhile, at the just-wrapped Latitude music festival in the U.K., animal rights organizations aren’t happy about the sheep roaming fest grounds that were dyed bright pink as a marketing stunt. The festival said the dye was “all natural,” but PETA says the process of being submerged in dye and then being forced to carouse alongside “rowdy, drunk festivalgoers” and loud music amounted to cruelty.

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Saturday, July 27, compelling local Indie Rock group Sylmar is taking over Main Street in Over-the-Rhine (well, at least about a block of it) to celebrate the release of its new five-track EP, Telford. A press release for the EP says it reflects “a relaxed, less fortified approach to writing” and is a collection of tracks the band members have been working on and reworking over the past two years.

The band is headlining Woodward Theater (1404 Main St., woodwardtheater. com) Saturday with special guests This Pine Box and Louisville’s Bendigo Fletcher.

Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door (a copy of Telford on CD is included with the price of admission). Music at the Woodward begins at 8 p.m.

At 10 p.m., the fun continues across the street at MOTR Pub (1345 Main St., motrpub.com). The free release party extension will have performances from locals In The Pines and Flocks and a crossover set featuring local Hip Hop artists Audley and Ronin Halloway. Cleveland’s The Katy and Lexington, Kentucky’s Joslyn & The Sweet Compression will also play the MOTR show.

You can find Sylmar’s music on most major digital platforms. For more info, visit thesylmarband.com.

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This Friday, July 26, Cincinnati rockers A.M. Nice are following up their 2018 album, End of an Era, with a new single. For the new tracks, the adrenalized, melodic Punk/Post Punk trio mixed up some of the fuzzier bombast of its self-titled debut album from 2016 with the cleaner, more polished style exhibited on Era. The limited edition 7-inch vinyl version of the single features the songs “Scooter” and “Man on a Wire”; the digital version (to be available at amnice.bandcamp.com) also includes the bonus track “Elliott the Man.” The single marks the 60th release from local indie label Phratry Records (phratryrecords.com).

A.M. Nice plays a release show Friday at Southgate House Revival (111 E. Sixth St., Newport, southgatehouse.com). Showtime is 9 p.m. and admission is just $5. It’s a strong lineup, with the trio being joined

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Has it really been 17 years since Conor Oberst dropped his breakthrough effort, Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, a sprawling, melodyinfested ride through the mind of a young man traversing the minefield of adult relationships for the first time?

Released under the moniker Bright Eyes via his Omaha, Nebraska hometown label Saddle Creek (co-founded by his older brother Justin), the 73-minute opus announced the arrival of an ambitious singer/songwriter whose dense lyrical style and warbling, emotion-packed vocals yielded polarizing reactions.

Bright Eyes would go on to release five more albums through 2011, all of which reveled in Oberst’s love of off-kilter Folk Rock with touches of everything from R.E.M and Neutral Milk Hotel to Neil Young and Bob Dylan.

Then there are his various other projects, including the punky Desaparecidos, the supergroup Monsters of Folk and a series of solo records (the most recent being 2017’s Salutations) that don’t stray far from his Bright Eyes roots.

Oberst’s latest endeavor is called Better Oblivion Community Center, a collaboration with singer/songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, whose penchant for melancholy (and melody) is nearly as strong as her mentor’s (she has called Bright Eyes’ 2005 effort I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning her all-time favorite album).

The duo’s self-titled debut features 10 evocative songs that range from the catchy Pop Rock of “Dylan Thomas” to “Didn’t Know What I Was in For,” an atmospheric slow-burner that deftly incorporates the

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pair’s affecting, intertwining vocals.

“I’ve always had an affinity for ‘sad sack’ music over the years,’ ” Oberst said in a recent interview with The Skinny. “I think we’re all beginning to feel left alone in the world right now. Sometimes it can be helpful hearing someone else express emotions that you are carrying around inside yourself but might not have the right words to articulate. For me, growing up, listening to sad records, it was like, ‘Wow, there’s someone else out there who feels these things too.’ It’s a function of trying to connect with someone and not feel so out to sea.” (Jason Gargano)

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First things first — all kudos are due to Dallon Weekes for not only naming his AltRock project I Don’t Know How But They Found Me, but also for resisting the certain pushback from industry types to change it. The shorthand iDKHOW seems a fair compromise for the moniker, which

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is taken from a line in the 1985 film favorite Back to the Future.

That retro reference and the title of the group’s debut EP — 1981 Extended Play — are about all the context clues you need to figure out where Weekes and Co. are coming from, sonically, with iDKHOW. The group’s music is neon-bright Pop with distinctively ’80s flourishes, but it’s not a purely nostalgic trip. Singer/songwriter Weekes, who grew up in Salt Lake City, played bass in Panic! at the Disco from 2009 to 2017 (he co-wrote hits like “This is Gospel”) and you can hear traces of Panic in places on 1981. The group’s biggest song, the almost oppressively catchy “Choke,” may be the best example of iDKHOW’s crossover style — a little Panic, a lot of ’80s bop, a bit of Glam Rock boogie and theatrics and a BritPop-ish chorus hook for the ages.

The project began as a solo recording outlet for Weekes that he worked on while Panic was touring. After leaving the band, Weekes put his full focus into iDKHOW, at first playing low-key secret shows in L.A. and publicly denying for months that the band even existed. That created some mystique and separation between Weekes and his previous projects. After building up anticipation, iDKHOW teamed up with Fearless Records, home to a slew of Metalcore and Punk Pop acts, including Plain White T’s, Pierce the Veil and August Burns Red. iDKHOW has a full-length release in the works but won’t be playing anything from it on their current tour. Weekes told Alternative Press that they’re holding back so as not to ruin the surprise when the LP drops, filling out their sets instead with unreleased cuts, songs from Weekes’ early band The Brobecks (whose drummer, Ryan Seaman, also joins Weekes in iDKHOW) and some covers, including a show-stopping version of Beck’s slow-jam “Debra.” (Mike Breen)

Battling siblings is nothing new in the Rock realm but no one would ever have guessed that Heart’s Wilson sisters would join that acrimonious hall of infamy. After nearly four decades of literal and figurative harmony and three years after their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ann and Nancy Wilson went from arm-inarm sisterhood to an episode of The Real Bandmates of Seattle in 2016 when Nancy had Ann’s husband thrown in jail for allegedly assaulting her sons during Heart’s tour for their reinterpretive album Beautiful Broken. The ugliness proliferated; the sisters communicated through third parties for the remainder of the tour, then Ann threw herself into her solo career and Nancy formed the band Roadcase Royale.

That was, as they say, a lot.

In announcing their Love Alive summer tour, which has now been extended into October, the Wilsons assiduously avoided mentioning the incident that caused the rift and spoke in more generic hiatus-tocomeback terms: the need for a break; the benefits of working apart; positive vibes; love conquers all; and, perhaps most importantly, the brightness of the future. The Wilsons’ bitter division may have been completely unexpected, but their reconciliation seemed like a foregone conclusion given their long history of surviving success, excess, personal heartbreak and professional droughts.

From the beginning, Heart was touched by a certain magic; with their breakthrough sophomore album, 1975’s Dreamboat Annie, critics and radio programmers alike anointed them as the “female Led Zeppelin,” and their ascent on a platinum stairway to heaven was assured.

Years of multi-million selling albums and singles and sold-out arena shows ultimately gave way to the inevitable indifference of younger, more distracted audiences, until Heart reinvented itself as itself, embracing their inner Zeppelin again to amazing effect; the Wilsons’ performance of “Stairway to Heaven” at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors for Zeppelin, featuring Jason Bonham on drums, was shivery and tear-inducing.

Heart’s string of late-career albums signaled their return, including 2010’s Red Velvet Car, their first Top 10 album in two decades; 2012’s equally successful and return-to-formidable Fanatic; and 2016’s aforementioned Beautiful Broken, a new tracks and reimagined-old-songs stunner.

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WEDNESDAY 24

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Blue Wisp Big Band. 8 p.m. Big Band Jazz. $10.

FOUNTAIN SQUARE Mighty Mystic. 7 p.m. Reggae. Free.

THE LISTING LOON - Ricky Nye. 8 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Tart. 9 p.m. Indie Pop Rock.

Free.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Drivin N Cryin. 8 p.m.

Rock. $15, $18 day of show.

STANLEY’S PUB - Maritime Law. 9 p.m. Acoustic/Jam. Free.

THOMPSON HOUSE - The Catching and Mavenne. 7:30 p.m. Pop. $10-$25.

VINOKLET WINERY AND RESTAURANT - Bluegrass Wednesdays with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 6:30 p.m. Bluegrass.

Free.

THURSDAY 25

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Philip Paul Trio.

7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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CAFFÈ VIVACE - Mandy Gaines Trio. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.

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HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Braza Trio.

6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Train and The Goo Goo Dolls with Allen Stone. 7 p.m. Pop Rock. $29.50-$125.

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LUCIUS Q - The Grace Lincoln Band. 7 p.m. Soul/R&B. Free.

MADISON LIVE - Eminence Ensemble. 8 p.m.

Jazz/Rock/Electronic/Funk/ Jam/Various. $10, $12 day of show.

MEMORIAL HALL - The Lettermen. 8 p.m. Pop. $30-$42.

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Giants, Life in Idle and Knavery. 8 p.m. Rock. $10.

FOUNTAIN SQUARE - KY Salsa All Stars with Rob/ Cuban Salsa Cincinnati. 7 p.m. Latin/Salsa/Dance.

Free.

FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - Xander Wells.

6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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THE GREENWICH Now Hear This. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Phil DeGreg Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz.

Free.

LEGENDS BAR AND VENUE - Telltale, Friday

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PAUL BROWN STADIUM - Cincinnati Music Festival: Vibe’s Party With A Purpose featuring EPMD, Kid Capri and Slick Rick. 7:30 p.m. Hip Hop. $50-$100.

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RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Wiz Khalifa with French Montana, Moneybagg Yo, Chevy Woods and DJ Drama. 6 p.m. Hip Hop. $29-$103.

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RIVERFRONT LIVE Taylor Gang/Wiz Khalifa After Party with Moneybagg Yo, Chevy Woods, DJ Drama, Lantana and more. 10:30 p.m. Hip Hop. $50-$200.

STANLEY’S PUB - The Qtet. 10 p.m. Jazz Fusion/ Funk. Free.

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TAFT THEATRE Conor Oberst with Joanna Sternberg. 8 p.m.

Indie/Singer/Songwriter. $33.

URBAN ARTIFACT - Honorable Demons with And Then Came Humans. 9 p.m. Jazz/ Rock/Funk/Various WASHINGTON PARK Casey Campbell Band. 7 p.m. Roots/Americana. Free.

FRIDAY 26

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Grey Dogs. 8 p.m.

Roots/Blues/Various. Free.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Mandy Gaines with The Steve Schmidt Trio.

9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - KGB Trio.

8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

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THE COMET - Old City, Fuck Your Birthday and The Actual Fuck. 10 p.m.

Indie Rock. Free.

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COMPANY - Bluegrass Night with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass. 7 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

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FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - Whispering Beard Preview Night with Chelsea Nolan, Buffalo Wabs & Price Hill Hustle and The Winetree. 8 p.m.

Americana/Folk. Free.

JACK CINCINNATI CASINO - Trailer Park Floosies. 9 p.m.

Dance/Pop/Rock/Hip Hop/ Country/Various. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Bad Habit.

10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

THE MAD FROG - Pigeon Hole with Gawp. 9 p.m. DJ/ Electronic. $15.

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MADISON LIVE - St. Francis Fest with Ray Will & Jon Schuyler, DJ Flatface, Crunr and Ohio Player Tim. 8 p.m. R&B/Soul. $10, $12 day of show.

MANSION HILL TAVERN Mistermann and the Mojo Band. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

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MOTR PUB - Aztec Sun with Krystal Peterson.

10 p.m. Funk/Soul/Jazz/Pop/ Various. Free.

MT. HEALTHY CITY PARK - Leroy Ellington’s Sacred Hearts. 7:30 p.m. R&B. Free.

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PAUL BROWN STADIUM - Cincinnati Music Festival with Maxwell, Earth, Wind & Fire, Tamia, Raheem DeVaughn and RBRM. 7:30 p.m. R&B/Soul/ Funk/Various. $60-$150.

PIRATES COVE BAR & GRILLE - Basic Truth. 8 p.m.

Funk/R&B/Soul. Free.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Ross Hollow. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic.

Free.

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PNC PAVILION AT RIVERBEND - The Righteous Brothers and The Temptations. 8 p.m. Pop. $23.50-$71.

THE REDMOOR - El Ritmo Del Mañana. 7 p.m. Latin Jazz. $10.

RICK’S TAVERN - Roadtrip.

10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

RIVERFRONT LIVE - Uncle Kracker with Brent James & The Vintage Youth and

Derek Alan Band. 8:30 p.m.

Country/Rock/Pop. $25, $30 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Cutler Station, Jake Dunn & The Blackbirds and Ben Davis, Jr. 9:30 p.m. Roots/Rock/ Various. Free.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) – A.M. Nice (single release show) with Madqueen, Bon Air and Cold Stereo. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. $5.

STANLEY’S PUB - Terrapin Moon. 10 p.m. Grateful Dead tribute. Cover.

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TAFT THEATRE - I Don’t Know How But They Found Me with Twin XL. 8 p.m. AltPop. $18, $20 day of show (in the Ballroom).

THOMPSON HOUSE - Psychostick with Toybox Killer and New World Natives. 8 p.m. Rock. $15.

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URBAN ARTIFACT - NPR Tiny Desk showcase with Sundae Drives, Paige Beller, The Whiskey Shambles and Fycus. 8 p.m.

Rock/Various. $10.

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U.S. BANK ARENA KISS 107.1 Loud and Proud 2019 featuring Lizzo with Round2Crew, Aaya Sexton, Chasity Marie, Jessica Dimon and Sarah Jessica Darker. 8 p.m. Pop/Hip Hop/Various. $25-$60.

SATURDAY 27

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Chelsea Ford and the Trouble. 8 p.m. Bluegrass/Americana. Free.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Steve Schmidt Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Mambo Combo. 8:30 p.m. Latin Jazz.

Cover.

THE GREENWICH - Push Play. 8:30 p.m. R&B/Dance/ Various. $8.

KNOTTY PINE - Flatline. 10 p.m. Country. Cover.

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MADISON LIVE Beloved Youth with Current Events, Season Ten, Circle It and Micah Sipple. 7 p.m. AltRock. $10, $12 day

of show.

MANHATTAN HARBOUR MARINA - Trailer Park Floosies. 8 p.m. Dance/ Pop/Rock/Hip Hop/Country/ Various

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URBAN ARTIFACT - Tiny Desk Contest showcase with Kaitlyn Peace and the Electric Generals, Wonky Tonk, Us, Today and Fickle Hellcat. 6 p.m. Rock/Various. $10.

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MOTR PUB - In The Pines, Audley x Ronin, The Katy, Joslyn and The Sweet Compression and FLOCKS. 8 p.m. Hip Hop/ Indie Rock/Electronic/Various. Free.

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SUNDAY 28

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Pop Empire with The Funs and Soften. 9 p.m.

Indie/Psych Rock. Free.

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PAUL BROWN STADIUM - Cincinnati Music Festival with Mary J. Blige, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Blackstreet featuring Teddy Riley and Dave Hollister, Major and The Ohio Players. 7:30 p.m. R&B/Soul/ Funk/Various. $60-$125.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Ma Crow & Co. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

RICK’S TAVERN - LDNL. 10 p.m. Pop/Dance/Various.

Cover.

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RIVERBEND MUSIC CENTER - Heart with Elle King. 7 p.m. Rock. $29.50-350.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT - Pat Kelly Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

Cover.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - The Bones of J.R. Jones, Goodnight, Texas and The Harmed Brothers.

8 p.m. Americana. $10, $12 day of show.

STANLEY’S PUB - Moriah Haven & Nick Giese Duo and Ross Hollow. 10 p.m.

Americana. Cover.

WOODWARD THEATER - Sylmar (EP release) with This Pine Box and Bendigo Fletcher. 8 p.m.

Indie Rock. $12, $15 day of show.

MOTR PUB - Fickle Hellcat with Moira. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

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NORTHSIDE TAVERN Dusty Bryant. 8 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter. Free.

PNC PAVILION AT RIVERBEND - Moe. and Blues Traveler with G. Love. 5:30 p.m. Rock/Jam. $23.50-$59.50.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Cosmic Honky Tonk Revue with Chuck Mead & The Grassy Knoll Boys and Jim Lauderdale. 7 p.m.

Americana. $22, $25 day of show.

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WOODWARD THEATER - School of Rock Allstars 2019. 5:30 p.m. Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

MONDAY 29

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Peter Gemus Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz.

Free.

MEMORIAL HALL - Jazz at the Memo: The Society Jazz Orchestra Plays Ed Moss. 7 p.m. Jazz. $6.

MOTR PUB - Fox Grin with The Midwestern. 9 p.m.

AltRock. Free.

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

Free.

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