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NEWS Big Shifts for Cincinnati Parking Policy Under a new plan, OTR gets parking permits and core neighborhoods shed parking space requirements

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incinnati City Council approved big changes to downtown parking policies on Sept. 19, some of which have been in the works for years.

Council passed a parking permit plan for bustling Over-the-Rhine and removed requirements that developers build parking facilities or spaces when they develop in downtown, OTR, Pendleton and parts of Mount Auburn and the West End. Under the revised permit plan, the city would sell an uncapped number of permits for OTR residents south of Liberty Street. The regular rate would be $60 a year — down significantly from the original proposal of $150 a year. Low-cost permits would be available to residents of subsidized housing at $25 a year.

The plan would cost the city about $180,000 in initial signage and other expenses, and about $75,000 a year to administer. Those costs would be covered by the fees from the permits.

Five hundred of the 1,290 spaces in the neighborhood would be permit spots. The spots are needed, city administration says, because OTR has become increasingly popular as a destination.

“Since 2003, the City of Cincinnati made concerted effort to revitalize Over-the-Rhine,” reads a memo from Acting City Manager Patrick Duhaney about the plan. “A combination of public and private investment has brought residents, businesses and amenities to the neighborhood... the success, however, has created new conflicts. With more people choosing to live, visit or work in OTR, parking spaces are at a premium.”

Parts of Clifton, Columbia Tusculum and Pendleton already have permit programs, but those cost $30 a year.

Mayor John Cranley has twice vetoed

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similar permit plans in OTR. Cranley says that it’s unfair to block people from other parts of the city from parking on public streets they pay for. He also believes it will make parking harder — especially for those working in OTR who live elsewhere.

The Over-the-Rhine Community Council has concerns and was not notified of the city’s adjustments until recently, according to a letter from council president Maurice Wagoner. The letter noted that the plan seems closer to what the community council would like to see, but it contained two elements that raised concerns. One issue was that the price of the permits was not written into the legislation but left up to the city manager, creating uncertainty about the price in the future. The version council passed changed that, and the $60/$25 price levels are built into the legislation.

The other concern from OTRCC was the two-level price of the permits, something the neighborhood council says isn’t done in other cities.

“In our research, no other city creates this distinction based on housing status or income,” the letter reads. “We have repeatedly expressed our opposition to this approach and seek an opportunity for further discussion about alternative solutions.”

OTRCC’s Margy Waller says that proving low-income status may be onerous or humiliating for some residents.

Boosters say that the permit plan will ease parking worries for those who live in the neighborhood — especially those with low incomes who can’t pay for expensive garage spaces. CityBeat spoke to some residents in 2016 who were hoping for permits because parking had become so difficult near their homes.

One group not served by the permit plan: those who work in OTR. The neighborhood, which has a number of service-industry jobs, is already a tough place to park for those commuting to those positions. Earlier versions of the city’s plan included so-called “flex spots,” which would have been usable by drivers with and without the residential permits. That portion of the plan was dropped, however.

Council passed the final version of the permit plan with a veto-proof majority. It will take effect Jan. 1.

Another prong of the plan — removal of minimum parking requirements for developers building in downtown, OTR, Pendleton and parts of the West End and Mount Auburn — would encourage more pedestrian-friendly development and eventually decrease the number of cars in the neighborhood, supporters say. A city

task force that helped draw up the plan cited the removal of parking minimums in parts of Cleveland, Nashville and Kansas City, Mo. as examples of the concept elsewhere.

Earlier this month, the Cincinnati Planning Commission approved the proposal.

“Parking minimums are well-intended, but they are an unnecessary regulation that violate their own stated goals of reducing traffic, threaten walkability, and lead to blight in our cherished urban fabric in Over-the-Rhine,” a report from the city task force states.

Cincinnati City Councilman David Mann doesn’t think the city is ready to roll back parking requirements, however. He says the move will make parking more difficult in OTR because developers will simply opt to forego parking even when it may be needed.

“I want to believe that the market will take care of all human needs,” he said.

“With all respect, I don’t believe that.”

Other critics of removing mandatory parking minimums for developers say the move amounts to another concession to developers who are already getting tax abatements and other incentives from the city while making parking in OTR more CONTINUES ON PAGE 09

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Cincinnati Will Fine Scooter Riders for Riding on Sidewalk

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Cincinnati Trailed Cleveland In Economic Growth Last Year

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Want to ride that electric scooter on the sidewalk? It will soon cost you more than just the respect of your fellow Cincinnatians.

City of Cincinnati administration issued guidelines earlier this year for electric scooters after dockless scooter rental company Bird descended on Cincinnati unannounced in late July. Lime, another scooter rental company, joined the fray soon afterward.

One of the main guidelines the city suggested? Don’t ride the motorized scooters on the sidewalks.

Cincinnati City Council Sept. 19 gave final approval to an ordinance making that guideline more than just a firm suggestion. The legislation calls for fines of $100 to anyone who gets caught riding on the sidewalks. Cincinnati has long had a prohibition against riding bicycles on the sidewalk, although it is rarely enforced.

Other cities have taken stricter measures against the scooter companies, sometimes kicking them out of town temporarily or permanently after complaints about wayward scooters left piled in high-traffic areas and dustups between pedestrians and scooterers (scootees?). Most Cincinnati City Council members say they welcome the scooters, but also say they want to make sure riders are using them safely.

At least one person has reported taking a trip to an urgent care facility after a rider

The Cincinnati Metropolitan area landed right in the middle of Ohio’s three largest metros when it comes to economic growth last year, a new study by the Federal Bureau of Economic Analysis reveals.

Fueled primarily by growth in natural resource-related industries and professional services (think accounting and administrative jobs), the Cleveland metro’s economy grew by 2.9 percent in 2017 to $139 billion. The Cincinnati metro area wasn’t too far behind — its economy grew by 2.4 percent to $138 billion. Columbus’ metro trailed, growing by 2.1 percent to $136.3 billion.

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hit her with a scooter downtown.

It’s unclear what sort of enforcement measures the city will take, but Bird, Lime and other potential scooter companies operating in Cincinnati may need to share some of the burden in keeping riders off sidewalks.

Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld says as technology companies operating scooters with geolocation equipment, Bird and Lime should be able to pinpoint which riders

were involved in incidents that caused injury to others. For both scooters, a rider must scan their photo ID to ride.

“The City Administration is also exploring additional contract requirements to ensure that e-scooter companies also help to prevent and deter riding of e-scooters on the sidewalk and ensure generally safe operation,” reads a memo about the legislation from Acting City Manager Patrick Duhaney.

Cincinnati Will Pay $150,000 for Private Attorneys in Text Message Suit

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After two Cincinnati City Council votes, the City of Cincinnati will pay $75,000 for private legal representation to defend five city councilmembers in a lawsuit over text messages, and another $75,000 for private attorneys representing the city itself.

The lawsuit brought by conservative activist Mark Miller in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court accuses Democrat councilmembers Wendell Young, P.G. Sittenfeld, Chris Seelbach, Greg Landsman and Tamaya Dennard of violating open meeting laws by holding “secret meetings” via text message during this spring’s messy ouster of thenCity Manager Harry Black.

Text messages released via a public records request by Miller show the five discussing how they would approach

the standoff between Mayor John Cranley and Black.

Miller is now seeking more text messages from the councilmembers — but they say the lawsuit is simply an attack against them and claim they do not have to provide the texts.

Council Democrats say they aren’t worried about their texts coming out but want to push back against the lawsuit on principle.

“There is nothing in my text messages I wouldn’t want the public to see,” Young said.

“This has everything to do with trying to embarrass us,” Landsman said. “I, like Mr. Young, am a pretty boring texter.”

Some councilmembers were reluctant to approve the

$150,000 in attorney’s fees.

Young voted to approve funds to defend the city, but not funds for councilmembers individually. Republican Councilman Jeff Pastor was initially opposed to the city spending the money, then reversed.

Cranley said the money is a necessary expense.

“It is law school 101 that you don’t go into court without a lawyer,” he said, telling councilmembers it would be fiscally irresponsible to taxpayers to risk a loss in court.

Settlement negotiations around the suit have ground to a halt after Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman refused to sign a waiver allowing the city to move forward with those negotiations.

Cincinnati saw declines in professional services and manufacturing, but gained in finance, insurance and real estate along with retail sectors. Cincinnati’s economy ranked 29th largest in the nation, just behind Cleveland at 28th and just ahead of Columbus, which ranked 30th.

The economic growth didn’t extend to everyone equally. Even as the Cincinnati metro area’s economy was growing, the city proper’s poverty rate ticked up to 27.7 percent — higher than it was prior to the Great Recession a decade ago.

Those increases came even as poverty declined across the state and the nation.

Cincinnati’s metro area includes Brown, Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren Counties in Ohio; Dearborn, Franklin and Ohio Counties in Indiana; and Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and Pendleton Counties in Kentucky.

Smitherman, who is running for mayor in 2021 — potentially against Sittenfeld — is also tangled up in the legal action. He is the subject of a motion by former council candidate Derek Bauman to intervene in Miller’s lawsuit.

Bauman alleges Smitherman violated the same rules by responding to a different text chain involving all nine city councilmembers and the city manager. Smitherman criticized Black’s handling of the drama around his departure in those messages.

The Ohio Elections Commission voted 6-1 on Sept. 20 to take a closer look at the campaign finance practices of Democrat Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval, who is running a tight race to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot in Ohio’s 1st Congressional District.

Due to the conflicting sides in the drama, the city must be represented by private attorneys instead of the city solicitor’s office.

At the center of the inquiry is whether Pureval used money from his clerk of courts campaign fund for his congressional run. That is a potential violation of federal election laws.

Hamilton County Judge Robert Ruehlman held a hearing on the issues Sept. 25.

Pureval’s campaign says the money in question — about $30,000 — was for his

Ohio Elections Commission Will Probe Pureval Campaign Finance Questions

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difficult to find.

Cranley echoed the sentiments of the city’s task force, calling the move “progressive,” claiming removing the parking minimums would make OTR more walkable and more affordable as it lowers costs developers pay to do projects.

Each parking space can add as much as $15,000 to the cost of a project. It is unclear whether those savings would translate into more housing affordability, however.

“If we want to see the city grow at all income levels, we have to do things like this,” Cranley said.

The parking plan has taken a long, winding path to get to this point.

In February 2016, Cincinnati City Council directed city administration to create the task force on parking in OTR made up of staff from the offices of the city manager, the department of community and economic development, the city’s parking division, the transportation and engineering department and city planning.

The task force also tapped Walker Parking Consultants, community groups in OTR and development organizations as well as held public input sessions. That process eventually yielded the basis for the plan council passed Sept. 19.

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local clerk of courts reelection campaign in 2020. But some of the expenses — $320 for a photographer who shot his congressional campaign announcement, money for trips out of state and polling expenses— raise questions, opponents say.

Representatives for Pureval’s campaign deny there was any wrongdoing.

“Aftab Pureval acted legally and appropriately with respect to all campaign finance reporting,” the Pureval campaign wrote in a statement. “We will take full opportunity to prove that this partisan complaint has no merit, and that we fully complied with the law.”

The commission wants to take a closer look, though. Ohio Elections Commission Executive Director Phil Richter said that there is a “reasonable question” about whether Pureval’s spending was within bounds.

The aforementioned poll had questions about Pureval’s job performance as clerk of courts, but also had questions that were aimed at his congressional race.

The inquiry comes after the Hamilton County Board of Elections held an

emergency meeting Sept. 19 to determine why one of its officials blacked out the memo spaces on checks written

by Pureval’s congressional campaign, including one for the polling.

The meeting explored why board deputy director Sally Krisel redacted the information on the checks turned in by Pureval’s campaign. There is nothing specifically prohibiting a board employee taking that action, Democrat board chair Tim Burke claimed.

But attorney Brian Shrive, who filed a complaint with the Ohio Election Commission on behalf of conservative activist Mark Miller about payments from Pureval’s clerk of courts campaign fund, says the action was highly inappropriate.

Chabot has been the subject of accusations around campaign finance as well, including claims that he used campaign funds to pay thousands of extra dollars to his son-in-law, who worked on Chabot’s campaign website.

That spending — more than $177,000 paid to Right Turn Design — triggered a complaint to the Federal Elections Commission from Hamilton County Democratic Party Chairwoman Connie Pillich in August.

Pillich says the work should have cost no more than $33,000, violating federal election laws about overpayment of campaign funds to relatives.

“It is not our practice for the board staff to do that redaction,” Burke told The Cincinnati Enquirer before the meeting.

“The campaign should do it. It’s their filing. I don’t think she knows why she did it.”

Krisel says she was asked to make the redactions by Pureval’s campaign manager Sarah Topy, but says she should have had Topy make the redactions herself. The purpose of the checks — including one with a memo that said “polling balance,” was also recorded on Pureval’s campaign finance paperwork.

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elicia Henderson sits counting out her finances at a table in the salmonpink community room of The San Marco, a graceful Romanesque building whose chimneys and spired turret loom over the boundary between up-and-coming Walnut Hills and tony East Walnut Hills.

Eleven years ago, Henderson says she underwent surgery to repair a condition that critically damaged blood vessels in her brain. Afterward, she had to relearn everything, she says, down to her ABCs. Now, the only income the 51-year-old gets comes from a $750 a month federal disability payment.

It goes fast. The first big chunk comes out in rent: $251 a month for her one-bedroom apartment in the San Marco, owned, like 29 others in the building, by the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority. Then there is the $60 a month she must pay for her medications. And the $30 a month for

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her phone bill. Then money for doctor visits, the bus and other regular expenses. When the bills are paid, she’s left with just enough for food — if she’s lucky. Some months, she’s forced to go to local food pantries.

Henderson, in a gray sweatshirt with vibrant graphics, has her hair pulled back tight and neat. She’s quick to smile and joke, but an edge fi nds its way into her voice when she talks about her lack of resources — and a new proposal that could raise her rent.

“How can I have a decent life like that?” she says. “Do I seem angry? I’m angry because I’m hungry all the time.”

The proposal, which may or may not ever come into being, is a window into the long-term divestment in subsidized housing that has long caused worries for those in Cincinnati and other major cities who rely on it. Those stresses are exacerbated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s moves to cut programs even as a national affordable housing crisis deepens.

In April, HUD Secretary Ben Carson floated a raft of potential changes that would raise the proportion of income inhabitants of federally-subsidized affordable housing must pay in rent, as well as impose new work requirements, triple the minimum rent required from the system’s poorest residents and set a minimum required rent for elderly and disabled residents, among other changes.

Carson later seemed to walk back on some of those

increases, at least for now. But the future is murky.

If the changes were to be implemented, residents who rely on subsidized housing like Henderson — some 4 million of them across the country — would see their stretched budgets get even more fraught.

The rent increases, work requirements and other changes could cumulatively raise rents by an average of 23 percent for as many as 400,000 people throughout Ohio. That’s because the policy shifts would consider gross income, not net income, and would do away with a number of exemptions for things like medical bills.

In Greater Cincinnati, the rent increase could be as much as 26 percent, or $850 a year for the average resident, according to research by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. That would add more than $60 a month onto Henderson’s rent, for example.

The changes could impact as many as 38,000 residents in the Cincinnati metro area. Roughly 47 percent of those living in units affected by the increases would be children, according to HUD data.

The changes don’t sit well with many residents and their advocates.

“I think it’s going to be a hindrance for a lot of my residents, because they’re just barely making it on 30 percent,” said Delorise Calhoun, the president of the Jurisdiction-Wide Residents Advisory Board. J-RAB represents residents of public housing in Greater Cincinnati.

“To me, I’m looking at a lot more homeless residents,” she says. “They’re going to be out of their apartments.”

There are not many other options. There are lengthy waiting lists for Section 8 housing vouchers, and Cincinnati has a 30,000-unit gap when it comes to housing affordable to those at the lowest income levels, according to estimates from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency.

“Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority is paying close attention to any future action that may come out of Housing and Urban Development Director Ben Carson’s proposal that could impact the thousands of families CMHA serves as well as changes that would effect the way the agency operates,” CMHA spokesperson Lesley Wardlow says. “If the proposal becomes a new policy, CMHA would have to prepare our residents and staff for the implementation.”

Like Henderson, those at other buildings throughout Cincinnati are also worried.

Yvonne Howard is resident council president at Maple Tower, a nine-story, 120-unit CMHA property in Avondale that is home mostly to seniors. The gray and brown stone building houses assisted living programs and other services for older individuals who need help living independently.

Howard says the rent increases could have big implications for some of the residents there.

“The majority of the residents I work with are seniors

"I TH IN K IT’S GOING TO BE A H IN DRANCE FOR A LOT OF MY RESIDENTS, BECAUSE TH EY’RE JUST BARELY MAKING IT ON 30 PERCENT. TO M E, I ’M LOOKING AT A LOT MORE HOM ELESS RESIDENTS. TH EY’RE GOING TO BE OUT OF TH EIR APARTM ENTS."

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something. There is no getting around that.”

“The thing is, why do we keep sending the same congressmen back there five, six terms and they aren’t doing anything for us?” Williams asks, mentioning Ohio’s U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot, who has voted to decrease HUD funding in the past and even recommended eliminating the department in the 1990s.

The lack of resources is readily apparent at some local public housing complexes, where CMHA must struggle to keep aging buildings maintained on tighter and tighter budgets.

HUD has been moving away from owning public housing since the 1970s, gradually leaving some complexes more and more woebegone. In the place of housing agency-administered developments, the department has leaned on Section 8, which allows HUD to pay subsidized rents for tenants of private landlords, and tax credits that fund private development of affordable units.

Today, residents at CMHA housing complexes in neighborhoods like the West End, Avondale and other low-income pockets sometimes find themselves pushing the agency to address maintenance and safety concerns.

Howard, the council president at Maple Tower in Avondale, says residents have struggled with CMHA over conditions there — a fight documented in local media reports.

“We’re dealing with plumbing issues, flooding, ceilings collapsing on us,” she says. “Things not working.

Infestations. Some places have rodents. Their feeling is, if we have to live through all this, you should be paying us to go through all that. We deal with a lot.”

It’s not the only CMHA property where residents say they have maintenance concerns.

At a recent residents council meeting in Winton Terrace, a sprawling, 600-unit CMHA complex of lowslung red brick townhouses in northern Cincinnati, the complaints were numerous.

CMHA built Winton Terrace in 1941, just a few years after the advent of modern American public housing and the creation of the local housing authority through the 1933 National Recovery Act. At first, by virtue of the segregation written into the legislation that created America’s early public housing, Winton Terrace was home to white residents almost exclusively. As public housing desegregated, however, whites began leaving the complex and Winton Hills, the surrounding neighborhood. The complex was predominantly black by 1970. Today, Winton Hills overall is roughly 90 percent black.

The complex is somewhat isolated — nestled next to factories and a landfi ll, miles away from the city center with spotty bus service.

One whole section of buildings at Winton Terrace had severe mice infestations, residents told a city inspector at the meeting. The mice had even taken to living in one resident’s stove, though the housing agency replaced the unit. Problems with plumbing and water mains were common and persistent. Ceilings leaked and threatened to fall in. An enveloping and mysterious swarm of insects had made a field between several of the buildings impassable. A herd of dozens of cats had overtaken another.

As residents listed off their concerns, Resident Council President Moneaca Collins tried to corral their energy as it rose in the cinderblock and brick community building at the heart of the complex.

Collins, a strong, scrappy 41-year-old mother of four, has been working to push CMHA — and residents — to take better care of the buildings. She knows Cincinnati’s public housing well, having grown up in nearby Findlater Gardens before moving to other cities in Ohio and Georgia.

Her life has been a whirlwind of triumphs — a college degree in education, homeownership — and challenges.

After the housing crisis cost Collins her home, she turned

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on a fi xed income,” she says. “They still have to pay for their medicine — Medicaid doesn’t cover everything.

They’re worried. Their income is only $700 or $800 a month. And then they’re paying rent. Then they still have to pay for food. At most, they get $60 a month for food stamps. A lot of them are worried about where they’d go… because they won’t be able to afford rent and buy groceries.”

HUD Secretary Carson said the idea would incentivize more people who live in subsidized housing to work and eventually pay their own rents.

“The way we calculate the level of assistance to our families is convoluted and creates perverse consequences, such as discouraging these families from earning more income and becoming self-sufficient,” Carson said shortly after unveiling the plan.

The future of the rent changes is unclear. In remarks June 7 in Detroit, Carson suggested parts of the plan were off the table after Congress increased HUD’s budget. That increase came despite a request from the administration of President Donald Trump to slash funding for the agency — a request Carson supported.

But at a congressional oversight hearing on the proposal June 27, Carson indicated the administration was still pursuing the rent changes. Carson defended the proposals, saying “relatively few people” would be affected by a part of the rent increases that would boost minimum rents paid by subsidized housing residents from $50 to $150, for example. That increase alone would affect more than 400,000 people.

“We have to do what we need to do to make the budget fit,” Carson said, responding to questions from U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters about whether he continued to back the rent increases. “This proposal is a starting point in the conversation. Of course we continue to back our proposals.”

The potential rent increases have drawn intense criticism, especially after revelations of lavish spending within HUD — including the purchase of a $31,000 dining set for the secretary’s office. Carson says cuts at the agency are necessary, however, citing the $20 trillion federal deficit.

“Every year, it takes more money, millions of dollars more, to serve the same number of households,” he said during remarks introducing the ideas in April.

Trump’s budget proposal earlier this year cut more than 18 percent — almost $9 billion — from HUD’s budget, including a move zeroing out a fund for maintaining and improving public housing and halving another fund that pays for its operating costs. Congress, however, restored and even raised that funding in its fi nal budget this year.

Should Carson’s proposed policy changes become real, advocates and residents say they will add to the already myriad challenges facing those who live in public housing and other subsidized options for low-income people.

In some ways, Carson’s proposals are a window into the creaking ship that is American public housing in 2018: HUD’s budget has significantly reduced over the years, and its once-robust attempts to provide for the most immediate needs of the nation’s poorest citizens has fallen behind the need for low-income housing.

HUD’s $42 billion budget authority is about half what the department got from Congress 40 years ago when adjusting for inflation. And in the past decade, cuts to public housing have been steep. Between 2010 and 2016, HUD was given $1.6 billion less for public housing — a 20 percent reduction.

Robert Williams has lived in the San Marco for 18 years. He’s quick to speak his mind — even to defend President Trump sometimes — and has an independent streak. He doesn’t believe the situation is entirely Carson’s fault.

“Carson has to deal with it,” Williams says. “If he needs 10 dollars and Congress only gives him five, he’s gotta cut

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to drugs to deal with the trauma, eventually becoming homeless. She moved back to Cincinnati in 2015 when her mother died of cancer. Since then, she’s been a steadily-building force to advocate for Winton Terrace.

It’s an insult to ask residents to pay more for housing that isn’t satisfactory, Collins says.

In response to questions about conditions at its properties, CMHA says it strives to do the best it can.

It highlights numerous public engagement efforts and repairs it has made to complexes like Winton Terrace and other properties.

CMHA completed 49,610 work orders last year and another 57,891 in 2016, Wardlow says.

But it’s an uphill battle. CMHA buildings are an average of 74 years old and cumulatively, its 5,000 units housing about 10,000 people need some $100 million in deferred maintenance. That’s not unusual for a HUDfunded housing authority — nationwide, agencies like CMHA have a $4 billion maintenance backlog.

It’s even harder to keep up when funding from HUD isn’t complete. In the last six years, CMHA’s funding has dipped as low as 86 percent of what HUD is supposed to provide it — and that’s after decades of cuts to HUD itself.

HUD and CMHA will try to fi ll some of those funding gaps with a program called Rental Assistance Demonstration, which will eventually open public housing in Cincinnati and other cities up to private investors so CMHA can use those investments to make repairs and build new housing. Some tenants complain about another layer of inspections — on top of those done on building conditions — from engineers assessing their buildings for RAD. And many are worried that RAD

will mean demolition of their buildings and that their replacements won’t have enough units for everyone.

CMHA says the program will be positive, however — a way to finally fund capital needs.

On top of all the uncertainty, residents are now concerned their rents will increase.

“It’s going to hurt them bad,” Collins says. “They’re having a hard time paying the rent now. People are struggling in Winton Terrace already. If the rent increases happen, some people will have to leave.”

Sadie Crawford, 71, has lived in Winton Terrace for three years. She’s a tough customer — she’ll text her CMHA work orders to Collins, whom she calls Ms. Mo, whenever she fi les them.

“I demand to be treated well,” she says, laughing. “Mo is on it. I’m a Southern woman, from Selma, Alabama.

Home of the civil rights movement. I demand it.”

She’s been in and out of Cincinnati multiple times in her life, once living in Millvale, another low-income, predominantly black neighborhood made up mostly of CMHA housing. She moved back to Cincinnati into Winton Terrace from Alabama when she retired.

“It’s not affordable, I just make it affordable,” she says of the current rent prices. “I let something else go to pay it. It’s $294 a month, with air conditioning. I’m going to have to buy less food — maybe I’ll have to eat two meals a day, say, if they raise the rents.”

Advocates say paying more than 30 percent of their income is too large a burden for low-income renters to bear.

“HUD decided almost 40 years ago that the right amount of rent, what people could afford, is 30 percent,” says Legal Aid of Southwest Ohio Director John Schrider.

“And every administration, regardless of administration, has stuck with that.”

Residents at San Marco say their conditions are better than Winton Terrace and other public housing.

The eclectic building, adorned with arched stonework and completed in 1894, was purchased and renovated

by CMHA in the early 1980s after sitting vacant and derelict. It sits in a national historic district across from the soaring gothic spires of St. Francis de Sales Catholic church, built in 1879, and the two together give the quickly-redeveloping neighborhood the feeling of a European public square.

While it’s a grand structure, the building is more selfcontained than the sprawling streets of Winton Terrace.

The one-bedroom units aren’t bad on the inside, either, residents like Henderson and Williams say. Recently, the building scored a 94 percent on a HUD inspection — easily passing.

But like Winton Terrace and other CMHA buildings, residents here are worried about the future.

San Marco resident Williams says many don’t see any easy ways out of the ever-tightening conditions around public housing. He says he’ll simply have to “roll with” any rent increases and fi nd a way to pay them.

“Every day, you realize you’re at the bottom of the totem pole,” he says. “You feel like you don’t have a voice, basically. You have enough people in public housing to get together and call these congressmen and tell them what to do, but most people in public housing, they don’t vote, because they don’t see anything getting better for them.”

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Chef owned and operated Extensive wine list, beer on tap, full bar

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Broad menu with great appetizers, salads, sandwiches, steaks and seafood Saturday and Sunday Brunch Visit Us

Hours

Monday & Tuesday: Closed Wednesday & Thursday: 5-9pm Friday & Saturday: 11am-1:30pm; 5-9pm Sunday: 10am-2:30pm; 5-9pm

3009 Obryon Street, Cincinnati, OH 45208

Reservations

(513)321-0413 www.blackbirdeatery.com

ALADDIN’S EATERY + LOUNGE OTR

vinaigrette(gf) Waldorf Salad with Belgian endive, walnut vinaigrette, apple shards, rum raisins, celery, Jarlsberg swiss, and candied walnuts (gf) Hot Slaw with hot-and-sour dressing, nitrate-free bacon, and onion straws

1203 Main St., Suite 100, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-381-0395, aladdinseatery.com $25 Lunch & Dinner FIRST COURSE

Hummus Appetizer with tahini and lemon juice Tabouli Appetizer with sweet onions, diced tomatoes, bulgar, lemon juice, olive oil and herbs Baba Gannouj with tahini, fresh garlic and lemon juice Falafel Appetizer with ground chickpeas, fava beans, onions and herbs and served with tomato slices and tahini yogurt dressing

THIRD COURSE

Double Duck with duck confit, kumquat onion jam, grilled polenta, boursin spinach, Kirsch demi Mr. Mahi with sweet potato mofongo, pineapple salsa, balsamic reduction, and wilted Swiss chard Padres prime aged dry rib eye steak, cornmeal roast local potatoes, fall vegetables ala plancha, and smoked tomato bordelaise (gf)

SECOND COURSE

Mediterranean Lamb Plate with brown rice and vermicelli , fried pine nuts and almonds, and a hint of cinnamon. Choice of garlic sauce or tahini yogurt dressing.

Mediterranean Beef Kafta Plate with brown rice and vermicelli, fried pine nuts and almonds, and a hint of cinnamon. Choice of garlic sauce or tahini yogurt dressing.

Mujadara Plate with lentils and brown rice topped with Lebanese salata and fried onions Jasmine’s Favorite with Chicken Tawook with cooked beans, vegetables and brown rice, seasoned with a blend of herbs and spices and topped with our grilled Chicken tenderloin *All entrees will come with a side salad

GCRW Cock tails

Marker’s Mark Whiskey Sour | $10 Pear-Infused Tito’s Tini | $12

THE BUTCHER AND BARREL 700 Race St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-954-8974, thebutcherbarrel.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Empanada with choice of beef, spinach, caprese, chicken, four cheese, or smoked pork belly Provoleta with olive oil and oregano Argentine Chorizo

THIRD COURSE

SECOND COURSE

Any cake slice from the daily selections

Mixta Salad with tomatoes and onions tossed in red wine vinaigrette Zanahoria y Huevo Salad with shredded carrots, and hard-boiled eggs tossed in red wine vinaigrette Caprese Salad with housemade mozzarella, tomato, fresh basil, olive oil and balsamic vinegar Waldorf Salad with apples, grapes, field greens, gorgonzola, and walnuts mixed with mayonnaise Classic Caesar Salad with fried anchovies

GCRW Cock tail

Maker’s Mark Collins | $8 MoTito | $8

AMERICANO

MENUS

545 Race St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-345-6677, americanoburgerbar.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Rafa’s Guac and Chips Fresh Pretzel and Real Beer Cheese

THIRD COURSE

SECOND COURSE

The Americano Burger with grilled onion, lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayo, ketchup and, of course, American cheese The Queen City Burger with Americano Special Sauce, grilled onions, lettuce, pickles, and American cheese *Each entree comes with choice of fries or Farm Green Salad THIRD COURSE

Root Beer Float Orange Dreamsicle Float

BANANA LEAF MODERN THAI

FIRST COURSE

Shrimp and Mango Roll with shrimp, mango and mint.

Served with two homemade dipping sauces.

Tom Yum Soup with lemongrass, mushrooms and tomatoes House Salad with homemade peanut dressing on the side SECOND COURSE

Thai Tiramisu Macarons

BLACKBIRD EATERY

3009 O’Bryon St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45208 513-321-0413, blackbirdeatery.com $25 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Birdhouse Salad with market greens, oven-dried tomatoes, pickled shallots, lemon vinaigrette Pumpkin Cappuccino Soup with ginger crème fraiche Malakoff with mustard and cornichons

BOI NA BRAZA

441 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-421-7111, boinabraza.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Unlimited Salad Bar featuring a variety of mixed salads, fresh vegetables, cheeses, breads, smoked salmon, prosciutto and hot sides SECOND COURSE

Unlimited servings from 10 different cuts of meats THIRD COURSE

Caramel Turtle Cheesecake Key Lime Pie Carrot Cake Chocolate Mousse Cake GCRW Cock tails

Maker’s Mark Man-o-War | $10

BONE FISH GRILL

588 Buttermilk Pike, Crescent Springs, Ky. 41017 859-426-8666 2737 Madison Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45209 513-321-5222

SECOND COURSE

with french fries Blackened Baja Fish Tacos Half-Pound Wagyu Beef Burger Bonefish Cobb Salad Cod Fish and Chips Lily’s Salmon 6oz.

FIRST COURSE

Insalata Della Casa with chopped greens, cucumbers, tomato, bacon, crispy pasta, parmesan dressing Bravo Chopped Salad with cucumbers, red onions, tomatoes , olives, feta, red wine vinaigrette Lobster Bisque Italian Wedding soup SECOND COURSE

$35 Dinner

Chicken Parmesan with pomodoro, mozzarella and herb linguine Mama’s Lasagna Bolognese with signature meat sauce Grilled Salmon with pepper, asparagus, tomatoes, feta, sweet potatoes, pesto vinaigrette and spinach Pasta Fra Diavolo (Chicken or Shrimp) with spicy tomato cream and campanelle pasta

FIRST COURSE

THIRD COURSE

Bonefish House Salad Classic Caesar Salad Cup of Corn Chowder & Lump Crab SECOND COURSE

with choice of two fresh sides Filet Oscar* (8 oz.)

Rhea’s Sea Bass (6 oz.)

Salmon Spinach Bacon Blue* (8 oz.)

Ahi Tuna Bellair* THIRD COURSE

Macadamia Nut Brownie Jen’s Jamaican Coconut Pie

BRAVO! CUCINA ITALIANA

3825 Edwards Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45209 513-351-5999 5045 Deerfield Blvd., Mason, Ohio 45040 513-234-7900 9436 Waterfront Drive, West Chester, Ohio 45069

Carmel Cheesecake Crème Brûlée

THE BROWN DOG CAFE

1000 Summit Place, Blue Ash, Ohio 45252 513-794-1610, browndogcafe.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Soup (daily selection) Cheese and Meat: Hombolt Fog, aged prosciutto, sundried tomatoes, pesto, blueberry fennel jam Shrimp Ceviche Tacos with citrus, cilantro, slaw, pickled onion, chimichurri, corn tortilla, and manchego Grilled Heart of Artichoke with romesco sauce, pickled fennel, basil oil, and parmesan SECOND COURSE

Soup (daily selection) House salad with dried cherry, gorgonzola, spiced pecans, marinated tomatoes and balsamic

Restaurants with more than one option listed in the course will give guests a choice on their selection. Menus are subject to change.

THE CAPITAL GRILLE

3821 Edwards Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45209 513-351-0814, thecapitalgrille.com $35 Lunch & Dinner FIRST COURSE

Wedge Salad with bleu cheese and smoked bacon New England Clam Chowder Lobster Bisque (+$5) SECOND COURSE

Filet Mignon 8 oz.

Bone-In Dry Aged NY Strip 14 oz.

Herb-Roasted Chicken Seared Citrus-Glazed Salmon with marcona almonds and brown butter Table Accompaniments: Sam’s Mashed Potatoes and French beans with heirloom tomatoes THIRD COURSE

Flourless Chocolate Espresso Cake The Capital Grille Cheesecake

CHART HOUSE

405 Riverboat Row, Newport, Ky. 41071 859-261-0300, chart-house.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Caesar Salad New England Clam Chowder SECOND COURSE

Black & Bleu Salmon with Cajun spice, bleu cheese butter, caramelized onions, coconut ginger rice Parmesan Snapper with citrus butter and coconut ginger rice Shrimp Fresca with angel hair pomodoro and lump

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THIRD COURSE

GCRW Cock tails

Maker’s Mark Maple Bacon Manhattan | $10 Tito’s Vodka and Pink Grapefruit Punch | $9

FIRST COURSE

Bonefish House Salad Classic Caesar Salad Cup of Corn Chowder & Lump Crab

513-759-9398, bravoitalian.com $25 Lunch & Dinner

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Spicy Mason Noodle with flat noodles, vegetables, chicken and shrimp. Sautéed in famous sauce with choice of spice level.

Volcano Chicken with bamboo, red bell peppers, water chestnuts and green onion. Served with a choice of rice and spice level.

House Red Curry with holy basil and coconut milk.

Your choice of chicken, pork, or tofu. Steak or shrimp available for an additional $4. Served with a choice of rice and spice level.

THIRD COURSE

Vanilla Panna Cotta with pecan shortbread Cinnamon Gooey Cake

7710 Voice of America Centre Drive, West Chester, Ohio 45069 513-755-2303, bonefishgrill.com $15 Lunch

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101 E. Main St., Mason, Ohio 45040 513-234-0779, bananaleafmodernthai.com $35 Lunch & Dinner

SECOND COURSE

Fall Mushroom Ragu with pappardelle, gremolata and parmesan Lamb Ribs with honey creme fraiche, rhubarb glaze, radish herb salad Nori Pesto Salmon with zucchini, pea shoots, green couscous Beef Bone-In Short Ribs with gremolata, carrots, Tokyo turnips, chevre mashed (+ $10) Grass-Fed Ribeye with ramp butter, roasted maitake and field mushrooms, chevre mashed (+$10)

Choose one entrée Grilled Short Rib 6 oz.

Grilled Sirloin Flap 6 oz.

Grilled Skirt Steak 6 oz.

Chicken Milanesa Napoliatana served breaded and fried with prosciutto, mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce Prime Rib Cannelloni stuffed with braised prime rib, then baked in a creamy tomato sauce Choose one side Caramelized Brussels Sprouts Steak Fries Argentine Potato Salad Mashed Potatoes

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crab meat THIRD COURSE

Raspberry Sorbet Espresso Crème Brûlée

COOPER’S HAWK WINERY & RESTAURANT

8080 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236 513-488-1110 7490 Bales St., Liberty Township, Ohio 45069 513-463-9463, chwinery.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Artisan Hummus & Roasted Vegetables with tricolor carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, harissa, toasted pita Caprese Flatbread with ripe tomatoes, mozzarella, red onion, pesto, basil, balsamic glaze Chicken Potstickers with sweet and spicy mustard, ginger soy sauce SECOND COURSE

Dana’s Parmesan-Crusted Chicken with tomato basil relish, lemon butter, Betty’s potatoes, garlic green beans Keaton’s Spaghetti & HouseMade Meatballs with bucatini pasta, rich tomato Bolognese, burrata dolce, basil, extra virgin olive oil Jambalaya Chicken with shrimp, andouille, onions, tomatoes, peppers, jasmine rice Maple-Mustard Pretzel-Crusted Pork with Mary’s potatoes, oven-roasted vegetables THIRD COURSE

S’more Budino with caramel custard, Valrhona chocolate mousse, brown-butter toasted graham cracker Cooper’s Hawk Chocolate Cake with Valrhona chocolate, hazelnut ganache, vanilla ice cream Salted Caramel Crème Brûlée with fresh berries, flaky sea salt

COPPIN’S RESTAURANT & BAR

638 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky. 41011 859-905-6600, hotelcovington.com/dining/coppins $25 Lunch & Dinner FIRST COURSE

Crab Cake Bites with blue crabmeat, Cajun remoulade, parsley, radish and red onion Smokey Peanut Soup with Spanish red peanuts, bacon, trinity and cilantro Marinated Black Eyed Pea Salad with black eyed peas, shallots, jalapeño and red wine vinaigrette

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SECOND COURSE

Shrimp Etouffee with Gulf shrimp, Louisiana popcorn rice and green onions Red Beans & Rice with Grilled Smoked Sausage Fried Green Tomato Po’Boy with remoulade, shredded lettuce, French bread, served with fries THIRD COURSE

Café Au Lait Cheesecake Beignets Classic Bread Pudding GCRW Cock tails

White Peach Whiskey Smash | $10 Green Tea Honey Vodka Collins | $10

COURT STREET LOBSTER BAR 28 W. Court St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-246-0184, courtstreetlobsterbar.com $35 Lunch & Dinner FIRST COURSE

Spicy Crab Dip Shrimp Bites SECOND COURSE

Avocado Lobster Roll with fresh Maine lobster, buerre blanc, avocado purée, topped with crispy leeks THIRD COURSE

Crème Brûlée Weekly Dessert Special GCRW Cock tails

The Douglas | $12 Lonestar Liberté | $13

DESHA’S 10

11320 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 513-247-9933, deshas.com/cincinnati $35 Dinner

Butter Crunch Cheesecake Peanut Butter Banana Cake

FIRST COURSE

Bootleg Cocktail

Brussels Sprout and Baby Kale Salad with applewood smoked bacon, crumbled blue cheese, pickled onions, sherry vinaigrette Fried Goat Cheese Salad with bibb lettuce, red apple matchsticks, red onion, sundried tomato vinaigrette Crab Bisque with basil parmesan croutons SECOND COURSE

Braised Beef Short Ribs with horseradish tomato gravy, sharp cheddar cheese grits Garlic Herb Pappardelle with Shrimp with roasted red pepper and tomato sauce, roasted mushrooms, spinach, zucchini, shaved parmesan Beer-Battered Yellow Perch with lobster and sweet corn potato salad, caper tomato relish, lemon and garlic aioli THIRD COURSE

Cream Cheese Pecan Pie with bourbon sauce and whipped cream Peach Cobbler with vanilla bean ice cream and cinnamon sugar

EDDIE MERLOT’S

10808 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 513-489-1212, eddiemerlots.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Caesar Salad King Crab and Corn Bisque SECOND COURSE

Entrée served with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and sautéed green beans 6 oz. Filet Mignon Grilled Creekstone Farms Pork Chop served with Southern Comfort barbecue glaze Cedar Plank Oven-Roasted Salmon with barbecue glaze and garlic aioli Chicken Florentine with creamed spinach, parmesan cream sauce and tomato relish *Upgrade to a 10 oz. Filet Mignon or a 12oz. Prime New York Strip for an additional $10 per order THIRD COURSE

Carrot Cake Chocolate Cake

EMBERS RESTAURANT

8170 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236 513-984-8090, embersrestaurant.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Spicy Tuna Maki Roll Butternut Squash Bisque Caesar Salad SECOND COURSE

Braised Short Rib over creamy polenta, roasted carrot and fig balsamic glaze Amish Chicken Breast with truffle corn flan, sauteéd trumpet mushroom, broccolini and pan jus Scottish Salmon with sauteed Brussels sprouts, golden raisins, miso-cider beurre blanc over celery root purée

GCRW Cock tails

FIREBIRDS WOOD FIRED GRILL 5075 Deerfield Blvd., Mason, Ohio 45040 513-234-9032, firebirdsrestaurants.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Shaved Brussels Sprouts and Spinach Salad with pumpkin seeds, parmesan and Craisins, tossed in orange-cranberry vinaigrette Homemade Soup of the Day Homemade Chicken Tortilla Soup BLT Salad Mixed Green Salad Caesar Salad SECOND COURSE

Slow-Roasted Prime Rib served with homemade au jus and creamy horseradish sauce and choice of loaded baked potato or parmesan mashed potatoes Grilled Short Ribs served over creamy gouda grits, with crispy parmesan-dusted Brussels sprout leaves Cauliflower “Steak” Frites with roasted chile hummus, chimichurri sauce, parmesan fries and cucumber salad Chile-Ribbed Salmon topped with crab and spinach fondue; with parmesan mashed potatoes Santa Fe Pasta with tagliatelle pasta, tomatoes and grilled corn in a parmesan chardonnay cream sauce THIRD COURSE

Crème Brûlée Cheesecake Squares Chocolate Brownie with Breyer’s ice cream, dark chocolate sauce and salted caramel sauce Key Lime Pie with white chocolate sauce Ooey Gooey Pumpkin Spice Butter Cake topped with spiced pecans and vanilla whipped cream, drizzled with Woodford Reserve-spiked salted caramel sauce

GOLDEN LAMB

27 S. Broadway St., Lebanon, Ohio 45036 513-932-5065, goldenlamb.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Roasted Beet and Honeycrisp Salad with sunflower seeds, goat cheese, tossed in a white balsamic fig dressing Roasted Butternut Squash Bisque with local honey-infused crème fraiche, toasted coconut and fresh chive oil SECOND COURSE

Herb-Crusted Marcho Farms Lamb Rack with creamy local mushroom and parmesan risotto and bacon roasted Brussels sprouts Sustainably Sourced Seasonal Fish, chef crafted with regional ingredients Grilled CAB Filet Mignon served on celery root griddle cake and acorn squash purée *$10 Supplemental Spaghetti Squash and Roasted Cauliflower Raguwith local mushrooms, baby spinach, fire roasted local tomato broth

THIRD COURSE

THIRD COURSE

Crème Brûlée Oreo Stuffed Doughnut with Bailey’s cookie and cream ice cream

Dark Rum & Peach Cobbler Local Honey Panna Cotta with pickled strawberries, topped with house made granola

FIRE AT RIVERCENTER

Maker’s Mark Collins | $8 Tito’s Blood Orange Martini | $8

GCRW Cock tails

50 E. RiverCenter Blvd., Suite 20, Covington, Ky. 41011, 859-392-2850, fireatrivercenter.com $35 Lunch & Dinner FIRST COURSE

Crispy Korean Pork Belly served on crispy rice paper with Napa cabbage pickled jalapeño slaw Golden Beet Salad with herb goat cheese, pepitos, roasted honey pears, arugula, toasted in cara cara orange vinegar SECOND COURSE

Shrimp & Grits with andouille sausage & Nola Rhinegeist gravy Curry Buttermilk Fried Chicken with belly corn succotash topped with harissa maple syrup THIRD COURSE

JAG’S STEAK & SEAFOOD

5980 West Chester Road, West Chester, Ohio 45069 513-860-5353, jags.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Fried Pork Belly with maple Sriracha dipping sauce Wild Mushroom Bruschetta with goat cheese and bourbon onions Cream of Sweet Potato Soup with roasted garlic crème fraiche Apple Cranberry Walnut Salad with mixed greens

and citrus vinaigrette

House made Ice Cream (seasonal)

SECOND COURSE

Pan-Seared Diver Scallops served over sweet potato purée with haricot verts and truffle brown butter Grilled Filet Mignon with whipped potatoes and asparagus Roasted Organic Chicken with wild mushroom risotto and chicken demi-glaze Ora King Salmon served over green apple beurre blanc with roasted fennel and jasmine rice * 8 oz. Filet Mignon | $10 THIRD COURSE

Kentucky Butter Cake with banana praline gelato Latte Crème Brûlée with ganache medallion Roasted Pistachio Gelato

KAZE

1400 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-898-7991, kazeotr.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Kaze Salad with avocado, cucumber, radish, shishito and shiso vinaigrette Miso Soup OTR Roll with tuna, avocado, cucumber, spicy scallion aioli and ponzu Poke Bowl with cubed sashimi, greens, avocado, fruit, vegetable fritter, black sesame, salsa verde SECOND COURSE

Katsu Bowl with panko-crusted chicken, fried Brussels, rice, tare, and yuzu aioli Salmon with seven-pepper crust, crispy ramen, bok choy, eggplant, soy roasted mushrooms and General Tso’s sauce Filet with turnip purée, smoked fingerlings, broccoli, tomato and demi-glace Roasted Vegetables served with rice and miso butter THIRD COURSE

Platinum Brownie with milk chocolate cayenne ice cream, miso caramel, and sesame tuille Churros with cinnamon, sugar and chocolate dipping sauce Sorbet with choice of two seasonal selections

LOUVINO

1142 Main St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-813-3350, louvino.com/otr $35Dinner FIRST COURSE

Chef’s Whim SECOND COURSE

*pick two to share Loaded Baked Potato Tots with cheddar, scallion and house ranch Brussels Sprouts Salad with seasonal salsa and cilantro lime vinaigrette Fried Chicken Tacos with garlic whipped potato, cheddar and pepper gravy Beef Sliders topped with bacon, caramelized pepper and onion mix and port cheese Seared Scallops with fried green tomato, maple mustard sauce and parmesan Bison Stuffed Peppers with grilled squash, brown rice, smoked gouda and basil pesto Marinated Quail with banyuls vinegar, caramelized fennel, pickled beets and bing cherries Heirloom Tomato with cucumbers, basil pesto, fresh mozzarella, pickled shallot and fleur de sel THIRD COURSE

Cookie Dough Stuffed Beignets

MAGGIANO’S LITTLE ITALY

7875 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236 513-794-0670, maggianos.com $35 Lunch Dinner FIRST COURSE

Maggiano’s Side Salad with crumbled bleu cheese, crispy prosciutto and red onions; served with our signature house dressing Caesar Side Salad with croutons, grated parmesan tossed in Caesar dressing SECOND COURSE

6 oz. Filet on a bed of garlic mashed potatoes with crispy onion straws, watercress, and a red wine demi glace Grilled Salmon on a bed of orzo with spinach, roasted tomatoes, and a lemon white wine sauce THIRD COURSE

LASZLO’S IRON SKILLET

1020 Ohio Pike, Cincinnati, Ohio 45245 513-561-6776, laszlosironskillet.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Laszlo’s BLT Salad with bacon, tomato, croutons and housemade ranch dressing Classic Wedge with crumbled bleu cheese, housemade balsamic reduction, bacon and tomato with bleu cheese dressing SECOND COURSE

Mini Gigi’s Buttercake with vanilla bean whipped cream and honey drizzle Mini New York Style Cheesecake topped with fresh berries and whipped cream GCRW Cock tails

Maker’s Summer Splash | $6 Tito’s Strawberry Cucumber Gimlet | $6

MATT THE MILLER’S TAVERN

Red Wine Braised Short Ribs with roasted garlic whipped potatoes and root vegetables Oven Roasted Pork Shank with horseradish whipped potatoes and bacon-braised cabbage Maker’s Mark BBQ Glazed Norwegian Salmon with maple bacon sweet potato hash

5901 E. Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236 513-914-4903 , mtmtavern.com 9558 Civic Centre Blvd., West Chester, Ohio 45069 513-298-4050, mtmtavern.com $25 Dinner

THIRD COURSE

The Miller Salad tossed in a sweet and sour dressing, and topped with bacon, red onion, crumbled bleu cheese, and grape tomatoes Bowl of Soup: Beer Cheese, Tomato Basil Bisque or Chicken Noodle Bavarian Pretzel Bites, warm, dusted with sea salt and served with roasted garlic sauce and sweet and tangy mustard sauce Loaded Tavern Chips topped with bleu cheese sauce, crumbled bleu cheese, shredded white cheddar, diced tomatoes, smoked bacon, scallions and tarragon essence

Maker’s Mark Bourbon Bread Pudding Vanilla Crème Brûlée GCRW Cock tails

Marker’s Mark Cherry Bourbon Smash Elderflower Rose Tito’s Martini

LISSE STEAKHUIS

530 Main St., Covington, Ky. 41011 859-360-7008, lisse.restaurant $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

De Kas (Greenhouse Salad) Caesar Salad SECOND COURSE

Dutch Filet with Hutspot Roasted Chicken with carrot mash and demi glacé Bami THIRD COURSE

Restaurants with more than one option listed in the course will give guests a choice on their selection. Menus are subject to change.

FIRST COURSE

SECOND COURSE

8 oz. Top Sirloin with onion straws and mixed vegetables Asian Salmon served with soy-honey glaze, coconut edamame rice and mixed vegetables Smoked Pork Tenderloin served with garlic mashed potatoes, fresh asparagus, and apple-whiskey sauce Roasted Chicken served with warm kale and ancient grain salad, with roasted cauliflower, edamame, cherries, tomatoes, and toasted almonds, and finished with a light lemon butter

sauce

Mushroom Soup with barley, thyme, crème fraiche

THIRD COURSE

SECOND COURSE

Oreo Brownie Mini Cheesecake Mini

Black Eyed Pea Scaffata with charred broccoli, lemon, pecorino, broccoli pistou Grilled Marksbury Farms Chicken Thighs with braised greens, apple mostardo Verlasso Salmon with pickled Brussels sprouts, dates, carrot broth

MCCORMICK & SCHMICK’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS

21 E. Fifth St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-721-9339, mccormickandschmicks.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Heirloom Tomato Gazpacho Mexi-Caesar Kung Pao Calamari SECOND COURSE

Aisan BBQ Salmon with teriyaki glaze, stir-fry vegetables, sticky rice and toasted sesame Steak & Frites with jicama chimichurri and truffle fries Hawaiian Bigeye Ahi Tuna with shitake mushroom and bok choy sauté, sticky rice, Mongolian black pepper sauce, wasabi cream Herb-Roasted Bone-In Pork Chop with maplebacon mac and cheese THIRD COURSE

Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta with fresh strawberry jus and an almond biscuit Molten Chocolate Lava Cake with caramel and chocolate sauces, heath bar crunch, topped with vanilla bean ice cream

THE MELTING POT

11023 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 513-530-5501, meltingpot.com $25 Lunch & Dinner FIRST COURSE

Green Goddess Cheddar Cheese Fondue Spinach Artichoke Cheese Fondue SECOND COURSE

Bacon and Bleu Spinach Salad California Salad THIRD COURSE

Includes All Cajun Shrimp, Roasted Garlic Chicken, Teriyaki Marinated Sirloin, Chicken Potstickers and Fresh Vegetable Medley GCRW Cock tails

Melting Pot Mule | $10.95

THE MERCER

FIRST COURSE

Artisan Mixed Green with oranges, walnuts, gorgonzola (gf) (v) Caprese Salad with tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, balsamic (v) (gf) Pesce Crudo with chili, red onion, cilantro, citrus (gf) SECOND COURSE

METROPOLE

609 Walnut St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-578-6660, metropoleonwalnut.com $35 Dinner

MITCHELL’S FISH MARKET SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & BAR

One Levee Way, Suite 2129 ,Newport, Ky. 41071 859-291-7454 9456 Water Front Drive, West Chester, Ohio 45069 513-779-5292, mitchellsfishmarket.com $25 Lunch FIRST COURSE

Mitchell’s House Salad Classic Caesar New England Clam Chowder SECOND COURSE

Harpoon Shrimp Salad with blackened shrimp, egg, tomato, bacon, blue cheese, sweet and sour dressing Crispy Chicken Parmesan with fresh linguine and marinara Seafood Paella with clams, mussels, shrimp, calamari, scallops, chorizo, peppers, saffron rice THIRD COURSE

Mini Sharkfin Pie Crème Brûlée $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Mitchell’s House Salad Classic Caesar New England Clam Chowder SECOND COURSE

Salmon Crab Oscar with smashed redskins, sautéed asparagus, hollandaise Crab Cake + Shrimp with broiled shrimp, Maryland style crab cake, roasted corn sauté, smashed redskins Seafood Paella with clams, mussels, shrimp, calamari, scallops, chorizo, peppers, saffron rice

GCRW Cock tails

Signature Old Fashioned | $9.50 Lemon Basil Cooler | $9.50

MORTON’S THE STEAKHOUSE

441 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-621-3111, mortons.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Morton’s Salad Caesar Salad Cup of Baked Five Onion Soup Cup of Lobster Bisque (+ $3) SECOND COURSE

6 oz.* Filet Mignon 16 oz. Double-Cut Pork Chop Broiled Salmon with Beurre Blanc Chicken Christopher * Upgrade to Center-Cut Filet Mignon 8 oz. | $10 Second Course Accompaniment (Choose One) Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes “Twice Baked” Au Gratin Potatoes Steamed Broccoli Florets Creamed Spinach THIRD COURSE

THIRD COURSE

Double Chocolate Mousse Key Lime Pie Morton’s Legendary Hot Chocolate Cake ($6 Upgrade)

Mini Sharkfin Pie Crème Brûlée

MUSE MT. LOOKOUT

GCRW Cock tails

New Age Sangria | $12 Seaside Bloody Mary | $10

MONTGOMERY INN

925 Riverside Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242, 513-721-7427 9440 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 513-791-3482, montgomeryinn.com $13 Lunch FIRST COURSE

Brisket Sandwich topped with our world-famous Original barbecue sauce Grilled Pacific Yellowtail Sandwich topped with a house remoulade sauce Pulled Pork Sandwich mixed with our world-famous Original barbecue sauce Pulled Chicken Sandwich mixed with our worldfamous Original barbecue sauce SECOND COURSE

Saratoga Chips with our world-famous Original barbecue sauce or our spicy chipotle sauce Sautéed Brussels sprouts with bacon Ribs King Salad topped with tomatoes, carrots, onions, cucumbers and homemade croutons Baked Idaho Potato Baked Sweet Potato French Fries

FIRST COURSE

Charred Pear & Beet Salad with cheese curds, arugula, pear vinaigrette

THIRD COURSE

Strawberry Shortcake Key Lime Pie

$35 Dinner

1000 Delta Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208 513-620-8777, musemtlookout.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Citrus Salad with fennel, golden raisins, hemp seeds, ginger vinaigrette (v) (gf) Blackberry Salad with blackberries, spinach, burnt honey walnuts, daikon radish, blackberry vinaigrette Ancient Grains Salad with quinoa, wheat berries, heirloom tomatoes, fennel, kale, balsamic vinaigrette SECOND COURSE

Mussels in Saffron Broth with shallots, garlic, red pepper flakes Hazelnut Butter with walnut flax crackers, lavender oil, radish, pink peppercorns (v) (gf) Chilled Carrot and Chili Soup (v) (gf) THIRD COURSE

Seared Duck Breast with cherry gastrique, English pea purée, sautéed greens, wheat berries, purple potato puree, goat cheese (gf) Mushroom and Rotini Strogonoff with crimini mushrooms, cashew and nutritional yeast sauce (v) Strip Steak served with sweet corn puree, roasted romanesco, marble potatoes, chimichurri (p)(gf) Zucchini Noodles with confit heirloom tomatoes, thyme, basil, shallots, olive oil (v) (gf)

SECOND COURSE

Black Grouper with English pea-basil puree, haricots verts, shallots, dill, lemon-caper-butter Grilled Flat Iron Steak with potato-parsnip mash, carrot, cipollini onion, beech mushroom, arugula, blue cheese Veggie Fettuccine with toasted garlic, roasted tomato, artichokes, spinach, chili, Parmigiano THIRD COURSE

Nutella Pie NE Carrot Cake

NICOLA’S

1420 Sycamore St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-721-6200, nicolasotr.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Caesar Salad with grana padano, malfatti croutons Caulilini Salad with tuna sauce, bagna cauda, golden raisins, pickled pearl onion Caprese Salad with buffalo mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, balsamic pearls, tomato water SECOND COURSE

Fusilli with broccoli, sausage, broccoli pesto, Tagliatelle alla Bolognese Crispy Potato Gnocchi with four-cheese fondue, truffle oil, chives Chicken Involtini with eggplant, port wine, mint Pork Loin with grilled peach, pistachio, cipollini onion Mediterranean Branzino with fregola sara, artichoke, baby spinach, cauliflower THIRD COURSE

Tiramisu Panna Cotta

Scotch Egg with pub mustard, arugula Spinach Dip with diced tomatoes, pub crisps Beer Cheese with crumbled bangers, pub crisps, warm soft pretzels Watermelon Gazpacho with crème fraiche and bourbon-soaked pineapple-mango salsa SECOND COURSE

Pan-Seared Scottish Salmon with mashed potatoes, green beans, lemon garlic butter Oatmeal Crusted Trout with maple-mustard cream sauce, Brussels sprouts and sweet potato hash Steak & Duck Fat Fries Mojo Marinated Grilled Pork Tenderloin with refried beans, cheesy polenta cake, fresh corn, tomato and zucchini sauté, cilantro-parsley sauce, citrus crema THIRD COURSE

Sticky Toffee Pudding with dates, butterscotch sauce, Drambuie whipped cream Tipsy Laird with fresh sherry-soaked berries, vanilla custard Apple Crisp with sweet baked apples, buttery oat crumble, vanilla bean ice cream, pure maple syrup Butterscotch Pudding with whipped cream and crumbled English toffee

OVERLOOK KITCHEN + BAR

5345 Medpace Way , Cincinnati, OH 45227 513-527-9967, thesummithotel.com $25 Lunch FIRST COURSE

Soup with asparagus sunshine farm, six ways Salad with Summit chef’s choice of local and seasonal greens with enhancements *add Ohio Amish chicken, add tiger shrimp, add verlasso salmon, add Ohio all natural beef SECOND COURSE

Ohio Bison Burger with Indiana goat cheese, local pretzel bread Gnocchi with lions mane Maxwell mushroom, spring pea, white truffle, wacky pea shoot THIRD COURSE

Brownie with bourbon vanilla, Graeter’s black raspberry chip ice cream, berry dust Cheesecake with raspberry, charred lime, graham cracker, port, chervil

GCRW Cock tails

Maker’s Mark Godfather| $10 Tito’s Godmother | $10

NICHOLSON’S TAVERN & PUB

625 Walnut St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-564-9111, nicholsonspub.com $15 Lunch Choose App + Entrée OR Entrée + Dessert

$35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Pretzel with goetta, MadTree beer, local cheese Salad with Summit chef’s choice of local and seasonal greens with enhancements *add Ohio amish chicken, add tiger shrimp, add verlasso salmon, add Ohio all natural beef SECOND COURSE

FIRST COURSE

Gnocchi with lions mane Maxwell mushroom, spring pea, white truffle, wacky pea shoot Ribeye with caramelized spring onion, wild foraged morel mushroom Scallops with parsnip, purple carrot, aged black garlic, ramps, micro celery

SECOND COURSE

Brownie with bourbon vanilla, Graeter’s black raspberry chip ice cream, berry dust Cheesecake with raspberry, charred lime, graham cracker, port, chervil

Scotch Egg with pub mustard, arugula Spinach Dip with diced tomatoes, pub crisps Beer Cheese with crumbled bangers, pub crisps, warm soft pretzels Watermelon Gazpacho with crème fraiche and bourbon-soaked pineapple-mango salsa Fish ‘n Chips with slaw, tartar sauce, housemade ketchup, fries Caledonian Chicken Sandwich with Worcestershire-marinated chicken, rasher of bacon, griddled onion, gruyere cheese, lettuce, tomato, fries Signature Burger with sweet onion jam, sharp cheddar cheese, arugula, tomato, lemon garlic aioli Mediterranean Grilled Chicken Wrap with romaine, roasted red pepper, red onion, feta, pepperoncini, Kalamata olives, creamy parmesan vinaigrette THIRD COURSE

Sticky Toffee Pudding with dates, butterscotch sauce, Drambuie whipped cream Tipsy Laird with fresh sherry-soaked berries, vanilla custard Apple Crisp with sweet baked apples, buttery oat crumble, vanilla bean ice cream, pure maple syrup Butterscotch Pudding with whipped cream and crumbled English toffee

THE NATIONAL

Restaurants with more than one option listed in the course will give guests a choice on their selection. Menus are subject to change.

THIRD COURSE | +$4

GCRW Cock tails

The Unnecessary Noise | $9.50 The Smash | $9

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Vanilla Panna Cotta with lemon and blueberry Samoa Martini with coconut rum, salted caramel vodka and chocolate, cream Madisono’s Sorbet (v) (gf)

GCRW Cock tail

The Red Winter | $9

World-Famous Pork Loin Back Ribs served with our world-famous Original barbecue sauce or our spicy chipotle sauce St. Louis-Style Spare Ribs served with our world-famous Original barbecue sauce or our spicy chipotle sauce Grilled Pork Chops served with our world-famous Original barbecue sauce or our spicy chipotle sauce Coho Salmon, grilled or blackened Beef Brisket served with mashed sweet potatoes, sautéed Brussels sprouts and cornbread

FIRST COURSE

Arugula Vichyssoise with smoked shrimp, dill crema, American caviar Peppered Beef Carpaccio with castelvetrano olives, manchego, watercress, green peppercorn aioli, fennel pollen Grilled Caesar Salad

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Tagliatelle, Alla Carbonara with pancetta, poached egg and parmesan Chicken with tomatoes, fennel, chard and sorrel purée (gf) Roasted Cauliflower with chickpeas, olives and chermoula (v) (gf) Beef Tenderloin with fingerlings, leeks, mushrooms, jus (gf) (+$15)

Sweet Potato Cakes Dark Chocolate Custard

SECOND COURSE

EXEMPLAR

6880 Wooster Pike, Cincinnati, Ohio 45227 513-271-2103, nationalexemplar.com $35 Dinner

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THIRD COURSE

FIRST COURSE

Gulf Shrimp Cantonese served with damson plum and hot mustard sauce Iceberg Wedge Salad with tomatoes, smoked bacon, bleu cheese crumbles, topped with housemade creamy bleu cheese dressing

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PALOMINO RESTAURANT & BAR 505 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-381-1300, palomino.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Portabella Mushroom Soup with caramelized onions, leeks, sherry cream The Palomino Chop Chop with smoked turkey, salami, provolone, fresh basil, garbanzo beans, parmesan, crisp romaine, tomatoes, balsamic vinaigrette Organic Field Greens with chevre, pumpkin seeds, EVOO veg SECOND COURSE

Organic Rotisserie Chicken with cauliflower mashed potatoes, toasted garlic green beans, roasted chicken jus - your choice of white or dark meat (gf) Chef’s Seasonal Salmon Baked Four Cheese Rotini with fontina, mozzarella, parmesan, asiago, mascarpone, toasted breadcrumbs (v) Grilled Filet Mignon with Roquefort blue cheese risotto cake, roasted seasonal mushrooms, crispy onion strings, cabernet demi-glace THIRD COURSE

Palomino Chocolate Tiramisu with mascarpone, zabaglione, crumbled biscotti Orange Ricotta Donuts wth sugar dusted gluten free dough, orange zest, house made raspberry sauce, and warm nutella (gf) Selection of locally made Gelato or Sorbet, Biscotti GCRW Cock tails

Maker’s Mark Manhattan | $12.75 Classic Cosmopolitan | $10

PARKERS BLUE ASH TAVERN

4200 Cooper Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 513-891-8300, parkersblueash.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Parmesan Potato Croquettes Lump Crab Cake with frisée salad, bacon lardons, citrus aioli SECOND COURSE

Parker’s Specialty 12 oz. cut Roasted Prime Rib of Beef Au Jus with creamy horseradish sauce and choice of one side dish 7 oz. Mesquite Charcoal Grilled Filet Mignon with béarnaise sauce, and choice of one side dish Seared Jumbo Sea Scallops with white cheddar grits, grilled asparagus, roasted tomato purée

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Award-Winning Crème Brûlée Cheesecake Godiva Chocolate Ganache Cake Ohio Maple Sugar Cotton Candy GCRW Cock tails

Apple Cider Bellini

PRIMAVISTA

810 Matson Place, Cincinnati, Ohio 45204 513-251-6467, pvista.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Arugula Salad with marsala-soaked apricots, almonds, goat cheese and honey-lemon vinaigrette Potato Gnocci with butter, peas, sage and pancetta Fresh Mozzarella with castelvetrano olive pesto and cherry tomatoes SECOND COURSE

Grilled Pork Chop “Saltimboca” with Nduja butter sauce, mushrooms, asparagus and polenta Sautéed Verlasso Salmon with pancetta, pistachios, brown-butter orange vinaigrette and green beans Crab and Fettuccine with mushrooms, butter, parmesan, arugula and pangrattato THIRD COURSE

Budino di Panettone with dark caramel sauce, marsala-soaked raisins and whipped cream Tiramisu with savoiardi cookies layered with fresh cream, espresso, mascarpone cheese, chocolate and zabaglione Cioccolata with bananas and peanut butter bourbon sauce

PRIME CINCINNATI

580 Walnut St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-579-0720, primecincinnati.com $35 Lunch & Dinner FIRST COURSE

Caesar Salad House Salad Strawberry Fields Salad Lobster Bisque Soup du Jour SECOND COURSE

12 oz. Certified Angus Prime Ribeye with wild mushrooms, caramelized onions Boat-Direct Fish du Jour Pan Seared Dry Sea Scallops with lobster risotto Certified Angus Filet Trio with brandy peppercorn, oscar, horseradish bleu cheese 6 oz. Certified Angus Petit Filet with roasted shallot mash, julienned vegetables, red wine demi THIRD COURSE

Half-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookie with Loveland Sweets vanilla ice cream, German chocolate syrup Citrus Flan with caramel sauce, fresh whipped cream Key Lime Pie with graham cracker crust, fresh whipped cream

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE

Maker’s Fashion | $10 Zig Zag Mule | $10

100 E. Freedom Way, Suite 160, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-381-0491, ruthschris.com $35 Dinner

POMPILIOS

FIRST COURSE

600 Washington Ave., Newport, Ky. 41071 859-581-3065, pompilios.com $35 Dinner

Caesar Salad Steakhouse Salad with balsamic vinaigrette dressing

FIRST COURSE

SECOND COURSE

Two Salads with choice of dressing SECOND COURSE

Choose Two Entrées Classic Meat Lasagna Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo Meat or Cheese Ravioli Eggplant Parmigiana Chicken Parmigiana served with a side of pasta Italian Sampler served as a platter of lasagna, eggplant parmigiana, meat and cheese ravioli, meatball and sausage

Petite Filet Salmon served with sizzling lemon butter Stuffed Chicken Breast with garlic herb cheese and served with lemon butter Choose One Side Creamed Spinach Garlic Mashed Potatoes Upgrade Your Side | + $5 Sweet Potato Casserole Fresh Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce

$35 Lunch & Dinner

Lobster Bisque

FIRST COURSE

SECOND COURSE

Choose One Flatbread To Share Roasted Roma Tomato Garlic Pesto Chicken Seasonal Selection

6 oz. Filet Mignon with roasted fingerling potatoes, asparagus, red onion, mushroom demi-glace, shaved parmesan Lemon Chicken with garlic mashed potatoes, roasted mushrooms, tomatoes, lemon-caper buerre blanc Pan Seared Barramundi with curry-mascarpone farro, grape tomato relish, mango puree, candied pine nuts Truffled Potato Ravioli with baby spinach, red onion, grape tomatoes, white wine butter sauce, shaved parmesan

SECOND COURSE

Seasonal Spinach Salad Organic Field Greens Crisp Romaine & Baby Kale Caesar THIRD COURSE

Cedar Plank-Roasted Salmon Wood-Grilled Filet Mignon Wood-Grilled Pork Tenderloin All-Natural Roasted Half Chicken FOURTH COURSE

One Mini Indulgence Desserts

SOMM WINE BAR

3105 Price Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45205 513-244-5843, sommwinebarcincinnati.com $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Oysters Rockefeller Potato Leek Soup with creme fraiche and caviar Pecan Gorgonzola Salad with pear, orange and maple vinaigrette

Maker’s Old Fashioned | $10 Trio Classic Martini | $10

VIA VITE

520 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-721-8480, viaviterestaurant.com $35 Dinner

SECOND COURSE

FIRST COURSE

Roasted Carrots with whipped feta, honey, pistachio Roasted Cauliflower Salad with white anchovy dressing, kalamata olives, sea salt capers, orange

THIRD COURSE

Pecan Pie Chocolate Pot de Crème GCRW Cock tails

Maker’s Mark Boulevardier | $10 Miles Away | $10

TASTE OF BELGIUM

1135 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 2845 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45219 3825 Edwards Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45209 16 West Freedom Way, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-396-5800, authenticwaffle.com $25 Lunch & Dinner FIRST COURSE

Beer Cheese with housemade pretzels Mac & Cheese with cheddar mornay sauce and toasted breadcrumbs Liégeoise with haricots verts, bacon, apple cider vinegar Escargots with garlic butter, baguette SECOND COURSE

Mussels & Frites with pancetta, garlic, crushed red pepper, spicy tomato sauce (gf) B3 Burger & Frites served on cheddar grits waffle bun, short rib/brisket/chuck blend, candied bacon, cheddar, tomato jam, Belgian barbecue Meatballs with beef, pork, onions, Sirop de Liège, and frites Carbonnades Poutine with carbonnades, mozzarella curds, frites Mushroom Galette with caramelized onions, mozzarella, provolone, boursin, arugula (Gluten friendly, can be made vegan) THIRD COURSE

Strawberries & Cream Waffle Apple cinnamon waffle, whipped cream, caramel Banana & Nutella Crepe Blueberry Ricotta Cheesecake Crepe

TRIO BISTRO

THIRD COURSE | +$4

Mini Cheesecake with Chocolate Bark

Cannoli Tiramisu Banana Foster Cake

Upgrade Your Dessert | + $4

FIRST COURSE

GCRW Cock tails

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Caesar Salad Chopped House Salad

3819 Edwards Road, Cincinnati, OH 45209 513-631-5252, seasons52.com

Honey Crisp Old Fashioned

GCRW Cock tails

Atlantic Swordfish with lemon watercress risotto and herb butter Hanger Steak with whipped potatoes, wild mushrooms, pearl onions and red wine demi Chicken Piccata with orchiette pasta, spinach, capers and white wine

7565 Kenwood Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236 513-984-1905, triobistro.com $35 Dinner

THIRD COURSE

THIRD COURSE

Flourless Chocolate Cake with Chocolate ganache, Filthy cherries, whipped cream Lemon Cheesecake with Blueberry sauce and fresh mint Grown Up Sundae with Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, butter cookie crust, chocolate ganache, whipped cream, Filthy cherries

SECOND COURSE

Housemade pappardelle with red wine-spiced pork ragu Farfalle with brandy cream sauce, butternut squash purée THIRD COURSE

Pork Belly Involtini with braised leek and parsnip pappa Pan Seared Cod with pancetta braised lentils, truffle brown butter

WE OLIVE

33 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-954-8875, weolive.com $35 Lunch & Dinner FIRST COURSE

Cheese Plate Seasonal selection of cheeses, artisan spreads, We Olive mustards andaccoutrements. Served with toasted baguette and extra virgin olive oil Add Charcuterie | + $2 SECOND COURSE

Seasonal Salad with fresh squeezed lemon juice, strawberries, candied walnuts, SeaHive cheese, strawberry white balsamic, blood orange olive oil Pesto Fromage Flatbread with housemade basil pesto, artisan cheeses, Meyer lemon olive oil Caprese Panini with roasted tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil pesto, basil olive oil, blackberry balsamic *Add Grilled Chicken or Fresh Prosciutto | +$4 THIRD COURSE

Basil Gelato with cherry bomb jam and peach white balsamic GCRW Cock tails

Blackberry Smash | $9

WOODHOUSE KITCHEN + BAR

2629 Water Park Drive, Mason, OHIO 45040 513-466-8170, woodhousekitchenbar.com $25 Lunch FIRST COURSE

Ode to Polly Salad with crumbled feta, cucumber, sundried tomato, diced chicken, sunflower seeds and raspberry vinaigrette SECOND COURSE

Pierogies with saffron creme fraiche, herbs, gremolata and caramelized onion

Restaurants with more than one option listed in the course will give guests a choice on their selection. Menus are subject to change.

THIRD COURSE

German Pork Sandwich with house made sauerkraut, curry aioli, housemade pickles served on a brioche bun with fries Cabbage Rolls with beef, tomato cream, crispy carrot, sour cream and dill $35 Dinner FIRST COURSE

Russian Salad with cucumber, tomato, onion, olive oil, dill and champagne vinaigrette SECOND COURSE

Mussels with chorizo, soffrito, Madeira, butter, herbs and grilled bread THIRD COURSE

Brick Chicken (Tabaka) with roasted potato, garlic, dill, tomato, veggies, champagne vinaigrette and garlic cream Steak Kebob with local veggies and derevo coyc (house sauce) GCRW Cock tails

Star Hill Punch Rosie on Pleasant

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STUFF TO DO Ongoing Shows ONSTAGE:Misery Playhouse in the Park, Mount Adams (through Sept. 29)

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Wednesday. $10; $15 door.

Cincinnati World Cinema, 719 Race St., Downtown, cincyworldcinema.org.

— MIKE BREEN ONSTAGE: The Roommate Written by Jen Silverman, The Roommate is a rocky comedy that follows Sharon, a 50-something recent divorcée, and her son as they open up their lives and their Iowa home to a new roommate to fill the space left by Sharon’s husband.

Robyn, a fascinating woman on the run who needs a new start, answers their ad, but when “Sharon begins to uncover Robyn’s secrets, she taps in to a deep-seated desire to abandon her

comfort zone and live a life of danger and adventure,” says the Playhouse in the Park. And with references to illegal scamming, drug use and adult situations, the L.A. Times says the play “brings humor and a wicked sense of anarchic fun.” Through Oct. 21. $35-$96. Playhouse in the Park, 962 Mount Adams Circle, Mount Adams, cincyplay.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO EVENT: USS Nightmare Welcome to the USS Nightmare. With two levels of horror on this huge, haunted “death dredge,” only the bravest will make it through the 30-plusminutes of being scared.

Yes, not everyone even makes it through. The whole experience of the USS Nightmare is based off The Mitchell Massacre. In this story, a whole community watches as an old ship

goes on an erratic journey down the river, crashing into multiple bridges. When rescuers finally get aboard the ship, they assumed they would find no passengers, but instead found a plethora of bloody bodies. Book a RIP Experience for some hands-on, immersive terror to kick-off the Halloween season. Through Nov. 3. $20 general admission with options for upgrades, including a RIP Front of the Line $60. 101 Riverboat Row, Newport, Ky., ussnightmare.com.

— MARLENA TOEBBEN

THURSDAY 27

MUSIC: Christian Rock superstar Lauren Daigle heads to the Taft Theatre.

See interview on page 28.

COMEDY: The Improv Festival of Cincinnati returns with comedy, improv and diverse voices. See

feature on page 21.

EVENT: Slice Night It’s a pizza party at Yeatman’s Cove with Slice Night, a pizza-tasting event hosted by Cincinnati Magazine. Tickets include access to the event plus all-you-can-eat pizza from local participating eateries like Adriatico’s, Dewey’s, LaRosa’s and Goodfellas, as well as beer, wine and cocktails for purchase.

Music will be provided by Q102 and 100 percent of the ticket price goes to benefit cancer research at the UC Institute. 5-9 p.m. Thursday. $15 advance; $20 door; $5 children; $50 VIP (includes a parking pass, two drink tickets and tent seating).

Yeatman’s Cove, 705 E. Pete Rose Way, Downtown, cincinnatimagazine.com.

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Bad Reputation follows Jett’s remarkable career, which kicked off with the pioneering “all-girl” Rock band The Runaways and was followed by a period of superstardom as a solo artist in the early ’80s. Jett remains active and is seen as a trailblazer. The film also includes interviews with Billie Joe Armstrong, Kathleen Hanna, Iggy Pop and other peers and admirers. Bad Reputation premiered at Sundance earlier this year, where it picked up distribution from Magnolia Pictures. It hits on-demand services like iTunes and Amazon on Friday; the Garfield screening is a part of an early “one-night-only” event taking place in theaters across the country. The Cincinnati screening will be followed by a discussion about Jett led by John

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EVENT: Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Week Since 2016, Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Week has been offering a curated craft dining experience at restaurants across the city: chef-prepared, special multi-course prix-fixe menus priced between $25 and $35. Diners pick and choose from course options to build their own three-dish dinner. Basically, you get a lot of fancy, delicious food for cheap for one week only.

This year’s event is bigger than ever, with more than 50 restaurants presenting three-course meals, from New American eateries and steakhouse favorites to upscale Italian and Thai.

And with liquor sponsors Marker’s Mark and Tito’s Handmade Vodka, plenty of these eateries are complementing their culinary creations with specialty cocktails from either or both distilleries (for an additional cost). Find a full list of menu offerings in this week’s insert. Through Sept. 30.

More info at greatercincinnatirestaurantweek.com.

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MUSIC: Modest Mouse brings oddly affecting tales about cockroaches, Orange Julius and Styrofoam boots to the Taft Theatre. See Sound Advice on page 30.

EVENT: Art After Dark At the Cincinnati Art Museum’s monthly afterhours party, the theme is “When You See It” — as in, do you know great art when you see it? Find out Friday while enjoying live music from Us, Today, artthemed scavenger hunts and craft activities, access to exhibits and cocktails and food from Che for purchase (while supplies last). 5-9 p.m. Friday. Free admission. Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

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EVENT: Brews on the Block Brews on the Block is Cheviot’s end-of-summer block party featuring live music, draft beers from local breweries and food trucks. For two nights, check out eats and alcohol from vendors like LaRosa’s, Maury’s Tiny Cove, West Side Brewing, Henke Winery, Fifty West, Grainworks, Fretboard, Brink and more. Local bands, such as Chantelle & The Digs and Amish Mafia, will start performing

at 7 p.m. both nights with performances going until 11:30 p.m. 5 p.m.-midnight Friday; 4 p.m.-midnight Saturday. $2. Glemore and Harrison avenues, Cheviot, brewsontheblockcheviot. com. — MARLENA TOEBBEN

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MUSIC: Jazz musicians pay tribute to 20 years of anime series Cowboy Bebop with 3-2-1! Let’s Jam! See feature on page 19.

Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar calendar, and always on a full moon. During this time, it’s believed that the moon is at its brightest and roundest. Its origins can be traced back to ancient China, when they would give thanks to the moon for that year’s harvest by offering a sacrifice. Now the traditional Chinese festival is coming to Cincy for the first time ever. Presented by Vibe Cincinnati, it’s a way for the Chinese community to showcase their cultural heritage and share it with the larger community. Expect a glowing lantern display, performances, a movie screening and vendors, plus mooncakes (a pastry filled with red bean or lotus seed paste). 2-9 p.m. Saturday.

Free. Fountain Square, Fifth and Vine streets, Downtown, facebook.com/ vibecincinnati.

— MACKENZIE MANLEY

EVENT: Great Outdoor Weekend The Great Outdoor Weekend, hosted by local nonprofit Green Umbrella, encourages children and adults to go outside this weekend via a plethora of free outdoor and recreational activities. More than 100 events at area parks and other outdoor destinations are open to the public to foster nature awareness and curiosity with events like scavenger hunts at local parks, gardening EVENT: Pyramid Hill workshops, outdoor exercise Art Fair classes, urban (and not-soBring your kid. Bring your urban) hikes, rock climbing, dog. Bring that void you craft making and even canoe have been feeling in your adventures. All day Saturday Instagram account. Bring it and Sunday. Free.

Find a full schedule of associated events at meetmeoutdoors. org. — MAIJA ZUMMO COMEDY: David Koechner You know David Koechner from, EVENT: Cincinnati well, tons of things. He’s most Moon Festival recognized as Todd Packer, The Chinese Michael Scott’s best friend on The Office, and as Champ Kind from The Anchorman films.

Early in his career, though he had steady work, he sought a bit of work stability. “I didn’t ever want to be without a job, so I called my agent and asked, ‘Can you put me on the road?’ ” he says. A week later, she had 11 gigs lined up for him.

“They were three months out, so I just worked up an act in town, put a bunch of character pieces together and went out on the road.” These days his set is more family-driven. “I’m married with five kids,” he says.

“I call my show Symphony of Chaos, because that’s what my life is.” 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday; 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday; 7 p.m.

Sunday. $20-$50. Funny Bone Liberty, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone. com. — P.F. WILSON

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EVENT: Newport Oktoberfest Greater Cincinnati has had Oktoberfest celebrations all month long, and now the festivities are crossing the river into Northern Kentucky. Pretend you’re in Munich as you stroll from tent-to-tent. Sponsored by Christian Moerlein, there will be traditional German bier tents and food including cream puffs, goetta, bratts, metts and more. Slip on some lederhosen and jive to German music all weekend long. Peep the Log Sawing Competition, Masskrugstemmen Beer Stein Holding Competition or the Oktoberfest Stakes Stick Horse Racing, or shop the Bluegrass Marketplace. 5-11 p.m. Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday.

Free admission. Newport’s Festival park at the Levee, 1 Levee Way, Newport, Ky., cincinnatifestivalsandevents.com. — MACKENZIE MANLEY

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MUSIC: Frankie and the Witch Fingers play MOTR Pub. See Sound Advice on page 30.

EVENT: Midnight Drag Show with The Alley Cats Tokyo Kitty is hosting

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MUSIC: Liz Phair celebrates the 25th anniversary of Exile in Guyville at the 20th Century Theater. See Sound Advice on page 31.

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CLASSICAL: The Akropolis Reed Quintet brings some quirky Classical reed music to Memorial Hall.

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its first-ever drag show, starring queens Amaya Sexton, Natalia Marie, Sue Nami and Lexi Love. There will be singing, dancing, laughing and a special performance by The Kitten King B. The event includes a complimentary cocktail — The Salem, a mysterious black-cat concoction. The bar will be matching tips to donate to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Transgender Health Clinic. 11:30 p.m. Sunday. $10. Tokyo Kitty, 575 Race St., Downtown, thattokyobar. com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: Country Applefest Whether you pronounce it ‘carmel’ or ‘caramel,’ get ready to get some of the delightful sugary stuff stuck in your teeth. This fall festival is a celebration of all things apple: candy apples, cider, fritters,

pies and more. Relish in the apple extravaganza and shop arts and crafts like pottery, jewelry and handmade, possibly applescented soaps. 10 a.m.- 7 p.m. Saturday. Free. Warren County Fairgrounds, 665 N. Broadway St., Lebanon, countryapplefest.com.

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all to Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum for the 16th-annual Pyramid Hill Art Fair. With more than 70 juried arts and crafts vendors present for the two-day event, booths will be set up alongside the monumental sculptures of the park, complemented by live music and food trucks.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. $5 per carload. Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum, 1763 Hamilton Cleves Road, Hamilton, pyramidhill.org.

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The Jazz of ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Lands in Cincy Two local organizations pay musical tribute to Cowboy Bebop, one of Japan’s greatest anime series

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and trumpeters Dennis Reynolds, William Ward and Roland Joseph.)

“The music is going to be the centerpiece.

The music of the show is very distinct and probably unlike any music featured in an anime, so it’s quite a beloved soundtrack.”

Little says. “I’m interested to see how people will respond to this interpretation and tribute to it.”

She adds that getting a Big Band sound for the opening theme song was vital, as it sets the mood for the entire series.

Another philanthropic aspect of the event is the ability to purchase a ticket and donate it to a local student who can’t afford one. Other elements of 3-2-1 Let’s Jam! will include vendors selling everything from jewelry to organic soy candles, art and photography. Oh, and Cowboy Bebop cosplay; attendees are encouraged to dress as their favorite characters.

Little plans to portray Jet Black, captain of the starship Bebop and head of the bounty hunting “cowboys,” whose love of saxophonist Charlie Parker informs the show’s Jazz soundtrack. As it appears, the cycle of fandom has brought this late ’90s cult-anime back via 3-2-1 Let’s Jam! to celebrate its lasting impact. As Jet says, “Everything has a beginning and an end.”

But Cowboy Bebop still lives on.

Celebrate 20 years of Cowboy Bebop with 3-2-1 Let’s Jam! A Philanthropic Jazz Tribute at Withrow High School (2488 Madison Road, Hyde Park) on Sept. 29; doors open at 6 p.m. More info/tickets: 321letsjam.eventzilla.net.

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saw the way music engaged him; so, she worked it into his individual education plan, along with other students’ plans.

At the time, Little wrote for Cincinnati Magazine and wrote an article about Nuseibeh and her musical teaching approach, which inspired Nuseibeh to start a nonprofit music therapy program. She then invited Little to be a board member.

Little spent over six years as Melodic Connection’s marketing director, a period that saw the program grow from an initial class of 30 students to over 300 annually.

“If we were going to do a charity component, it had to be Melodic Connections,” Little says. “It’s so close to my heart. I love what they do and music is such an amazing way to bring people together and bring out the best in people.”

For the concert itself, Little enlisted the assistance of renowned local Jazz trumpeter Mike Wade, who used his connections to assemble a group of gifted local and regional talent to translate Cowboy Bebop’s weirdly appropriate Jazz soundtrack. It seems fairly daunting, considering the specific and largely-unknown source material that the band will cover, but Little notes that rehearsals have been very productive. (Members include bandleader Wade; vocalist Kayla Upthegrove; drummer Reggie Jackson; pianist Patrick Kelly; guitarist George Simon; bassist Peter Gemus; percussionist Ricardo Wilkins; trombonists Terry Twitty, Marvin Curry Jr., Umvikeli G. Scott Jones and Marc Fields; saxophonists Joshua Atkin, Eli Gonzalez, Hal Melia and Dwayne Irvin;

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groups began in 2014. The former “highlights and celebrates African-Americans in all the genres that fall under speculative fiction,” Little says — that includes science fiction, fantasy and sword and soul.

In efforts to get those genres more recognition — as well as the people behind them — BSFA hosts film nights, black sci-fi book clubs and simply makes a space for blerds to gather and discuss their interests.

“And HRA Ashanti is a steampunk group that focuses on multi-culturalism and philanthropy; we’ll go out in steampunk gear and raise money for particular organizations,” Little says. “It’s a way to combine two things we enjoy: philanthropy and getting dressed up and having fun in our steampunk gear.”

The proceeds from 3-2-1 Let’s Jam! will benefit Melodic Connections, a music education program designed to get instruments into the hands of special needs individuals. The program’s founder, Betsey Zenk Nuseibeh, recruited Little when she conceived Melodic Connections a decade ago.

“Betsey was a special education teacher at Clark Montessori (High School) and she had a student who was autistic. He didn’t read or write; he barely spoke, but he had perfect pitch,” Little says. “She was trying to find a way to connect with him, so she taught him a couple of chords on the piano.

They left for holiday break and when he came back, he sat down at the piano and started playing part of ‘Moonlight Sonata.’ ” They didn’t know where he had picked the Beethoven classic up, but Nuseibeh

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iesha Little, a self-professed blerd (black nerd), discovered the grittily nuanced splendor of Cowboy Bebop — one of most richly textured Japanese anime series — on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim as a senior at Central Michigan University in 1998. She was struck by a combination of elements: The series’ stylized look, its unique Jazz-drenched soundtrack and its engaging tale of interstellar bounty hunters in a somewhat distant future.

With its 20th anniversary on the horizon, she felt compelled to mark the occasion.

Along with a network of like-minded friends, she orchestrated an event to pay homage: 3-2-1 Let’s Jam! A Philanthropic Jazz Tribute to Cowboy Bebop.

“It’s my absolute favorite show, because of the storyline but also because of the music,” Little says. “There are lots of themes of loss and putting the pieces back together, finding a new group of people to align yourself with. I graduated in 1999 so I related to the characters because I felt like I was getting ready to go on my next big adventure.”

A live Jazz Big Band will recreate the anime’s score in a typical festival/comiccon atmosphere, which will take place at Withrow High School on Saturday night (Sept. 29). This event is slightly different than what Little originally envisioned.

“I bought a Cowboy Bebop CD at an anime convention and I was listening to it driving back and I thought, ‘This would be amazing birthday present to myself for my 40th birthday,’ ” Little says. “It took a little longer than I expected. So it’s an early 42nd birthday present.”

The Cowboy Bebop festivities are cosponsored by the Midwest Black Speculative Fiction Alliance, a small literary organization that Little co-founded, and Her Royal Airship Ashanti, a steampunk appreciation society/philanthropic organization where Little is an active member; both

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Akropolis Reed Quintet: Quirky Classical

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The Akropolis Reed Quintet formed in round out the program. The Gershwin is 2009 at the University of Michigan’s School especially engaging and reveals more of of Music, Theatre & Dance. A unique the score’s sonic textures and wit. “All the ensemble of five students, each played a music is there, but in this arrangement, the different reed instrument and loved the mechanics of Gershwin’s compositional sounds they created together. genius really come out,” Landry says.

“We felt an immediate connection with The Akropolis Reed Quintet are dedieach other,” says clarinetist Kari Landry. cated educators who produce wide-rang“And the music we played was something ing and varied K-12, college, community fun and unique.” and collaborative programs. In February, The acclaimed ensemble makes its Cinthe ensemble received a $10,000 National cinnati debut at Memorial Hall on Sunday Endowment for the Arts grant to help (Sept. 30), presented by Matinée Musicale. fund Together We Sound, a Contemporary Their sound is rich, deep and often wildly hilarious, just like their performance practice, which features new compositions and familiar work tailored for its members — in addition to Landry, there’s her husband Matt Landry on saxophone; Ryan Reynolds on bassoon; Andrew Koeppe on bass clarinet; and Tim Gocklin on oboe.

Nearly a decade since their first performance, the Akropolis Reed Quintet continues to dazzle and engage audiences with virtuoso Akropolis Reed Quintet off-the-wall performances.

They’ve commissioned PHOTO: GARY NORMAN dozens of new works, often in collaboration with other performance groups, and released three music festival in Detroit that aimed to albums. expand and diversify access to world-class “We were drawn to the fact that the music Contemporary music, broaden Detroit’s was new, that we were having a hand in stake as a cultural center and increase creating it, and that we could bring our both artistic and scholastic achievement of own energy, colors and talents to the local youth. music,” Landry says.

While their time in Cincinnati doesn’t Their Cincinnati program includes three include a residency, the quintet’s informal works the quintet has championed; two of manner and commitment to audience which are commissions. engagement are the next best thing.

Composer Marc Mellits’ Splinter “We try to be really informative and is an eight-part work inspired by tree casual onstage so people get to know us, movements and infused with Rock why we’re here and why this music is so and Electronic influences. Landry special,” Landry says. describes the piece, which the quintet The quintet’s impressive roster of commissioned, as fast-paced and energetic. performances, awards, residencies and Another commission, Thaw, is a work recordings put them at the forefront of written this summer by 21-year-old young artists doubling as entrepreneurs, a composer Becky Turro. vital component of a musician’s training, “Becky and a friend traveled to Acadia says Landry, who is in her fourth year of National Park in late winter, and this piece teaching entrepreneurial basics at her is incredibly serene and so evocative and alma mater (her husband, Matt, teaches a you have the sense of the coming spring similar course at Michigan State). thaw,” Landry says.

“People tend to separate being an Refraction, by David Biedenbender, is a artist from being an entrepreneur but three-part work, and if you’re a fan of the if you want to share your identity with short viral YouTube video Death Metal different communities, you have to be an Chicken, you’ll love the first movement. entrepreneur,” she says. “There’s only so far (Biedenbender was inspired to create your talents will take you.” it after watching the video of a rooster The Akropolis Reed Quintet will perform screaming over Death Metal music.)

3 p.m. Sept. 30 at Memorial Hall. More info/ Arrangements of Astor Piazzolla’s Libertickets: memorialhallotr.org. tango and Gershwin’s An American in Paris

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Growth, Diversity for Cincy Improv Fest

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Cincinnati’s improvisational comedy and Los Angeles will travel to perform here. scene has flourished in the past few Previously staged at Over-the-Rhine’s years. Just look to the Improv Festival of Know Theatre, this year IF Cincy will move Cincinnati as a powerful indicator of this a few blocks over to Memorial Hall, which boom. This year, it boasts 60 percent more allows the festival to schedule two stages at performances than it hosted in 2017. once and double its comedy offerings.

But the festival’s growth can also be Those familiar with Whose Line Is It counted toward its initiatives to bring in Anyway? have already experienced the performers from diverse backgrounds. short-form version of improv, a collection “We focus on the artists and make sure of brief, structured games which typically we’re bringing in the best we can,” says use audience suggestions as a jumping-off festival co-producer Paul Wilson. “People point. Local performers ComedySportz who are going to put on an amazing show and Cleveland’s Rare Form Improv and who are going to expose the Cincinnati audience to new forms, new voices, diverse voices; to diversify the look of the performers, to make sure that we’re getting perspective from far and wide.”

Take Matt Damon Improv (MDI), a troupe comprised entirely of women of color. While many shows focus solely on making the audience laugh, other troupes use comedy and satire to draw attention to larger issues — Chicago-based MDI is one Matt Damon Improv at the Improv Festival of Cincinnati of them. At each performance, MDI chooses a difP H O T O : M AT T S T E F F E N P H O T O G R A P H Y ferent white improviser to join their team — women portray actress Lena Dunham whereas exclusively perform this subgenre. men play as actor Matt Damon.

Though short-form is the most recog“The caveat,” member Angela Oliver nizable style of improvisation, IF Cincy explains by phone, “is that (Matt Damon or offers audiences a chance to dive into Lena Dunham) can only repeat words we other formats as well, including long-form have said in the improv set, forcing them to performances that feel more like an onreally listen.” the-fly play. A Chicago-based troupe of Oliver refers to their unique form as musical improvisers will create Anarchy, “a a satirical device, one which her troupe completely sung, completely improvised uses to bring more awareness to the lack Rock opera” at each performance, whereas of representation by women and people Los Angeles’ JETZO will use clowning to of color in film, media and even in other tell stories about a father and son. Another improv, where Oliver feels too-often cast as Chicago team, Horror of Terror, will blend the “sassy black woman” stereotype. “sub-genres of horror from backwoods and “(Improv) just frees us so much. We get to fanaticism to slasher and psychological play whatever we want to play,” Oliver says. thriller to make a uniquely terrifying com“We can be aliens and sometimes we’re edy” that you’re unlikely to find elsewhere, detectives from the noir era and nobody’s according to an IF Cincy press release. negating it.”

As for IF Cincy’s rapid growth, Wilson This year, women make up half of the credits the momentum to the support of performers of IF Cincy — a figure that local audience members — not only to shouldn’t feel as shocking as it does. those who have shelled out for sponsorWilson says that a combination of diverse ships or donated year after year to the improvisors and the immediacy of the art festival’s crowdfunding campaigns, but form lead to “a chemistry that you don’t get also to those who enthusiastically attend elsewhere.” shows and workshops around the city.

“There’s a change that’s happening and I “It’s a community that has built this,” hope — and I think I see — that improv is Wilson says. “We’re just lucky enough to leading the way,” Wilson says. “I couldn’t stand on stage and introduce it.” be prouder to be a small part of that fight.”

The Improv Festival of Cincinnati runs That diversity is also present in where Thursday through Saturday (Sept. 27-29) participating improv troupes are from. at Memorial Hall (1225 Elm St., Over-theWhile 13 local troupes will be performing, Rhine). More info/tickets: ifcincy.com. an additional 19 from cities such as Atlanta

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Book clubs are having a moment. Oprah on her to-read list. After claiming the book, certainly popularized the concept of a she found a bookmark with Under Cover’s group of individuals reading and disinformation inside, posted a photo of her cussing a book together. But at the risk of find on Instagram, and started following sounding trite, Under Cover Books isn’t the club’s account (@ undercover513). your typical book club. Members never “I was dancing in the hallway and (my physically meet to discuss the books team was) like, ‘Huh? You’re crazy,’ ” she they’ve read — and, since Under Cover says. “I was like, ‘No, best day ever, I found also bills itself as a “scavenger hunt,” a book!’ ” members have to find the books, which are Social media and websites like planted in hidden spots across the city.

Goodreads, Litsy and Book Riot help “I just the love the idea that at any encourage and facilitate that unabashed moment you can just be surprised with joy surrounding books. Under Cover melds something, just a gift,” says Samantha Evans, founder of Under Cover Books. “(People might say), ‘What’s the angle, what are you trying to achieve with this?’ It’s like, ‘I just really want you to read.’ ” Evans was equal parts inspired to create the club by a late-night talk show segment asking random citizens whether or not they read (overwhelmingly, the answer was no) and a desire to connect people.

Founded earlier this year, Under Cover’s first title was The Summer Under Cover Books founder Samantha Evans That Melted Everything, authored by Ohio native PHOTO: HAILEY BOLLINGER Tiffany McDaniel. Evans’ primarily selects a recently-released debut from a relativelythe traditional book club model with the under-the-radar author for the club. Evans omniscience of social media by posting also conducts interviews with each Under frequent updates, author tidbits, and a Cover author. rotating feature called Cover Stories, which “It’s more about having a dialogue and promotes books the club hasn’t necessarily getting into their heads,” Evans says. “I read but finds worth noting. don’t think you see a lot of book clubs “I think social media makes it easier to where you get the author’s perspective and seek those things out, and easier to share,” the author’s viewpoint of what it is they says Hillary Copsey, founder of Make were intending to write.”

America Read Again and a staff member Evans has interviewed authors at The Mercantile Library, where she has McDaniel and Claire Fuller, who wrote the led a monthly book discussion group. “I club’s second novel, Swimming Lessons. think people like book clubs because it’s Other books read by the club include: like any other art form you’re experiencing The Grip of It by Jac Jemc, The Gunners by — it can be more fun to experience it with Rebecca Kauffman, The Border of Paradise somebody.”

by Esmé Weijun Wang, The Third Hotel by Evans has big plans for the future of Laura van den Berg, and the latest pick, Mr. Under Cover: more authors, possible Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt. collaborations and partnerships with local Each month, Evans hides copies of the bookstores and libraries and a member pick in plain-sight locations around the discussion group. Ultimately, creating downtown area, where she’s a resident. But an opportunity for connection and that she hopes to expand beyond the city center, shared experience is Evans’ primary goal. saying that “there’s a lot of readers who “I like the idea at the end of the day of just would probably enjoy finding something connecting people, just bringing people and not have to come downtown to do it.” together,” she says. “Maybe something that Lucky ones who have found a book they read will give them a different perinclude Terri Green, who encountered the spective; ‘maybe there’s a reason I found club’s first book at her workplace, the Dixie this.’ I like to put a little romantic spin on it, Terminal Building on Fourth Street. The like a soulmate thing, with these books.” book was sitting in a tree in the building’s For more info on Under Cover Books, visit lobby. Being an avid reader, Green undercover513.com. recognized the title as one she already had

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The life of Country musician Blaze Foley the sad, bent notes, the bluesy heartbreak is explored in the new Ethan Hawkeor the simple romantic desires, all of the directed biopic Blaze. Everything about pre-ambling melts away, and the film Foley — portrayed by Ben Dickey — was transitions as well. oversized and unwieldy, yet unnervingly It grants us access to his perspective engaging. He was a bear of a man yet on key moments from his past, primarily watching him cradle and pick away at a those with Sybil. We see sketches of their guitar made it apparent the calming focus tumultuous affair and the painful scars it music had over him. left on Foley’s psyche.

Adapted from the novel Living in the The inevitability of this performance Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze being his last is never kept from the

by Sybil Rosen, the film feels equally audience, because we get a second untamed and unruly. In quiet moments framing device — an on-air interview with Sybil (Alia Shawkat), an aspiring actress who became Foley’s muse and wife, a gentleness and empathy is seen that stands in sharp contrast to his otherwise looming presence.

Told as a series of fragmented memories and relayed anecdotes, the viewing experience constantly questions the idea of truth, but not in the way that we’ve been conditioned to by the current social and political environment.

This situation is more Ben Dickey (left) and Alia Shawkat in Blaze of an elemental, even mythic desire to capture PHOTO: COURTESY IFC FILMS the essence of our shared encounters with others.

The film asks us to consider who we are with Van Zandt with one of his most and how others perceive us. earnest bandmates and drinking buddies Foley has a world of feeling barely (Josh Hamilton), conducted by a radio contained within his big body or mind, personality (Hawke) whose lack of which is aflame with love, longing and a familiarity with Foley’s story allows Van need for self-expression. He doesn’t have Zandt to create a narrative that takes on a much — in terms of material needs or life of its own. belongings — and he wants for even less.

We’re left to wonder how much time Van He only longs to share his musical gift with Zandt spent with Foley and whether or not the world and be understood. he’s the best person to be telling the tale.

Part of the narrative framing illustrates It’s difficult to watch Blaze and not just how important this recognition is to want to compare it to Bradley Cooper’s him. upcoming remake of A Star Is Born. Hawke Hawke captures Foley in a bar — which and Cooper both take us on a journey turns out to be his final performance — that’s not merely behind the music, but where he’s recording a session. Along with inside the beats. members of his regular band, they wait on In some ways, the big-hearted Blaze stage for the arrival of his musical running serves as a raw merger of the two figures buddy and fellow rabble-rouser Townes in A Star Is Born — the wizened rocker Van Zandt (Charlie Sexton). Foley sets (Cooper) in the twilight of his career and up, after promising the bar owner that he the young starlet (Lady Gaga) who gets will be on his best behavior, aka no heavy discovered and streaks off into the heavens. drinking or bar fights.

Foley tells us early on that he has no And for the most part, Foley keeps his interest in being a star, because they shine word; when he leans into the opportunity, brightly and burn out. He wants to be a he searches his soul for answers to legend and live on forever. That may be questions the only way he knows how: his true, but Hawke’s film shines anyway, like music. a big beautiful crazy diamond in the sky.

Before each song, Foley attempts to Grade: A provide some context for the performance, Contact tt stern-enzi: and then guides both viewers and himself letters@citybeat.com through why it matters. But once he opens his mouth and lets his voice match up with

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every single day — like ‘Trump’s relationship with Erdogan is not good, Turkey doesn’t like America, America doesn’t like Turkey,’ blah blah blah,” she says. “And I remember getting a text message from my friend like, ‘Are you sure this a good time for you to open up a Turkish coffee shop?’

And I was like, no, I think this is the perfect time for something like this.”

Aydogan says that she’s aware some people may have an unconscious bias as to what they think Turkish people are like, but she hopes that she can challenge people to forgo assumptions. Rüya isn’t about politics — it’s about people.

“It really comes down to what the Turkish coffee culture is about, which is friendship and hospitality and the fact that, you know, we care about the person sitting across from us,” she says. “It just shows that the values of our culture are really about relationships.

“I want people to be able to come into this space regardless of what culture you are. America is referred to many times as the ‘melting pot,’ but I like to see it as a mosaic. Because I think people want to be celebrated for their individuality and their uniqueness. So I don’t want to put a bunch of cultures in a pot and dissolve it, but more celebrate and highlight those cultures.”

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means ‘dream.’ ” Dating back to the 16th century, Turkish coffee is the oldest brewing method of coffee in the world.

In 2013 it was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Inside Rüya Coffee Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

PHOTO: HAILEY BOLLINGER “Back in the day,” as Aydogan says, the coffee was prepared in hot sand. It’s still done today for the pure novelty of it, but a hot Another feature on the menu? Tradistove will do the job just fine. Aside from tional Syrian cookies baked by refugees a heat source, all you need is water and living in Cincinnati. While America has coffee that’s been ground to an ultra-fine chocolate chips, Syrian cookies use ingrepowder. In this case, the coffee in question dients like pistachios and dates. is a special blend created by local Deeper “A big part of the shop will be supporting Roots Coffee specifically for Aydogan’s Syrian refugees, which is something I’m grant project. passionate about,” Aydogan says.

Preparing a cup of Turkish coffee is When her own parents came to America, simple enough, but getting it just right is a she says it was a “classic immigrant story: science and an art that Aydogan began to no plan, no money, no one to, you know, learn as soon as she was old enough to be help them. And so I have to give back.” trusted with a stove.

For Aydogan, the goal of Rüya is simple: “It’s cooked in an ibrik, which is a copper it’s all about fostering community. To pot with a long handle,” she says. “Basiunderstand Turkey’s coffee is to undercally, you start with cold water and then stand some of the values of Turkish culture. you put the grounds in and heat it together.”

Aydogan recalls one of many Turkish The trick is getting the foam just right. sayings about coffee: “Once does not desire “The foam at the top is a very important coffee or a coffeehouse. One desires conpart of Turkish coffee…as soon as the versation and coffee is just an excuse.” coffee starts bubbling up, (it’s) making “From kind of a cultural standpoint, I sure that it gets to the very edge of the ibrik view it as a communication tool — not and then turning down the heat and then just within the Turkish culture but crosspouring it into the cup.” culturally,” she says.

The first sip is the absolute best one.

For herself and many others, sharing a The froth of foam on top — perfected by cup of coffee is about making a connection practice — is silky smooth. Turkish coffee more than it is caffeine. is best enjoyed slowly. Not unlike espresso, “Once you prepare it in a certain way and it’s definitively dark and can be a bit bitter. present it to someone, it’s almost a feeling “If you’ve never had it, I can understand of ‘I’ve taken care of this person and they if you don’t like it — you will not hurt my feel good and they feel valued.’ Sometimes feelings,” Aydogan says with a laugh. “It’s I see coffee in America as a necessity. It’s very strong.” like grab and go. Whereas Turkish coffee…

You can, of course, request to sweeten we take our time,” she says. up your cup, but make sure to ask for Still having family in Turkey to visit (and sugar before the coffee is made. Instead of share coffee with), Aydogan says she tries adding it last, the sugar is combined with to make the trek over about once a year. the coffee grounds during brewing.

This year, she went at the tail end of August, Those looking for a sweet treat on the just weeks before Rüya was set to open. side won’t be disappointed, either. Rüya “I made sure that I was reading (the offers a variety of baked goods like flaky newspaper) every day while I was on vacabaklava and a rich, chocolate mosaic cake. tion. I saw Turkey was in the headlines

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ucked away in a small corner of Findlay Market, three young women gather around a low table, sitting on floor cushions or kneeling. They’ve already finished their coffee. Two empty cups sit upside down on matching saucers, and the small group chats while waiting for the coffee grounds — which have settled at the bottom of their tiny cups — to run down the sides.

When the cups are flipped right-side up again, the patterns inside are to be read like a palm.

“When it’s clean, you have clear intentions. A pure heart,” one is told.

Another learns that the thick lines in her cup indicate an uphill challenge.

Examining the markings together leads to conversation on career paths, travels, book recommendations and break-ups. They only just met, but soon they’re laughing like old friends.

Interpreting the lines in the fine coffee grounds is Melissa Aydogan, the heart and soul of Rüya Coffee, her Turkish coffee pop-up at the market.

Aydogan is a 2018 recipient of a People’s Liberty Globe Grant: a $15,000 grant given to groups or individuals with a goal of turning People’s Liberty’s Findlay Market headquarters into a shared community space. The storefront has been everything from a ceramic workshop to microcinema.

This time around, it’s been transformed into a traditional Turkish coffeehouse.

The interior is decorated in rich shades of reds and oranges accented by velvet pillows, layered rugs and billowy chiffon draped from the ceiling. Families, couples and friendly strangers find themselves nestled into cushioned benches or gathered around a big community table.

“I want you to feel like you’re sitting in my grandma’s living room,” Aydogan says.

A first-generation Turkish American and Cincinnati native (she works as an account executive at Procter & Gamble), Aydogan is using her grant project to share a piece of her family’s heritage.

“I saw an opportunity and I would’ve regretted if I didn’t take it and I would have regretted not giving my family the opportunity to bring a piece of their home back to the home that I grew up in,” she says.

As for the fortune telling? The practice is “more so to spark conversation about your future — your hopes; your dreams,” she says. “Hence, the name Rüya, which

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Fall is in session, and that means autumn Campbell County Animal Shelter. They’ll flavors are back, including MadTree’s have adoptable animals on hand, a keg of Pilgrim, Blood Orange PsycHOPathy and Easy-Going Pup and special deals. the Great PumpCan (on draft). Braxton • On Sept. 29, Streetside will throw a also just released a collaboration with two-year anniversary bash. They’ll have Graeter’s: a pumpkin pie ale with flavors live music, specialty releases throughout from the shop’s pumpkin pie ice cream. the day, a chance to dunk a bartender and On Sept. 28, Brink Brewing will release a brewer, and they’ll pop open some beers their Oktoberfest beer, Brinktoberfest. from their cellar such as Demogorgon and They will host a stein-holding contest in Tequila Mockingbird. which the winner gets to keep the stein. For noncontest participants, pay $10 for a stein and a pour of Brinktoberfest.

Every Wednesday night in October, Taft’s Brewpourium will host free screenings of horror films (because of the R-rated nature, only those 18 and older will be allowed). The list is solid: Se7en, The Strangers, Children of the Corn, The Sixth Sense and The Conjuring. Unlimited Braxton and Graeter’s Pumpkin Pie collaboration beer candy and popcorn will be offered, and it’s encourPHOTO: PROVIDED aged for patrons to dress up: the best costume each • From Oct. 5-7, Wooden Cask will host week will win a gift card. the Rhythm Brew Art and Music Fest.

October seems like a good time to get The event highlights 39 bands — Richie in touch with the spiritual world. During Ramone (as in the Ramones), The Tillers, select Fridays in October — Oct. 12, 19 and 500 Miles to Memphis, the Cliftones, 26 — Fibonnaci will host Taps and Tarots Moonbeau, etc. — on two stages. Tickets from 6-10:30 p.m. And every Friday and cost $15-$30. While you’re there, seek out Saturday in October, Christian Moerlein their brewery cats, Sully and Spencer. will host Haunted Brewery Tours. Brave • FigLeaf turns two on Oct. 6 with an people will meet dead characters from anniversary party. They’ll have 24 beers on Cincinnati’s brewing history and have a tap, a bottle release of the 24-month-aged chance to solve a mystery. Tickets are $25.

Barrel Aged Black Solstice (with notes of New Beers dark chocolate, raisins and molasses), a • A couple weeks ago, Fibonacci tapped dunk tank, live music and food.

Ober Verde, a savory salsa verde-inspired • On Oct. 13, Brink hosts their secondkölsch beer containing organic tomatillos. annual chili cook-off and homebrew Try it at their taproom. competition. Chili makers must use Brink • Mason’s 16 Lots brewed a beer named beer in their concoctions, and homebrewThe Beast after the Kings Island roller ers must use chili peppers. The folks who coaster. It’s a double IPA and clocks in at really bring the heat will be awarded with 130 IBUs, hence it’s “a beast.” a People’s Choice award.

• Rivertown replicated lemon bars in • Oct. 19-21, Wiedemann gets into fall their Lemon Bar Berliner Weisse. It’s a sour with Falling for Wiedemann Fall Festival ale brewed with lemon and orange peels, at their brewery in Saint Bernard. They’ll English caster sugar, vanilla and fresh sell Monmouth Street Blonde Ale for $3 a lemon juice. Try it at their taproom. pint and $12 a pitcher. Expect live music • Urban Artifact’s latest Midwest Fruit and all kinds of autumnal fun.

Tart, Yellow Mombin, is flavored with a • Rhinegeist’s Rare Beer Fest takes place Brazilian fruit called a mombin, which all day on Oct. 20. Sample rare beer from tastes like a mango. It’s available on draft across the country in two sessions: noon-4 at the taproom. p.m. or 6-10 p.m. Tickets cost $40 (10 fiveounce samples) or $65 VIP (four additional Events tastings and food pairings).

• On Sept. 27, 3 Points Urban Brew• On Oct. 20, participate in The Cov ery brings back Drag Bingo, hosted by Abides Adult Scavenger Hunt/Bar Crawl.

RuPaul’s Drag Race’s contestant and local Wear a bathrobe or a fishing vest to vendrag queen, Miss Penny Tration. ture through several of Covington’s bars • On Sept. 29, Alexandria Brewing Comwhile taking on challenges and drinking pany invites people to drink beer at their Braxton beers. Prizes will be awarded to taproom and consider adopting a pet from the best costumes; tickets are $5.

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Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Week — Since 2016, Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Week has been offering a curated craft dining experience at restaurants across the city: chef prepared, special multi-course prix fixe menus priced between $25 and $35. Diners pick and choose from course options to build their own three-dish dinner.

GCRW takes place Sept.

24-30. More info: greatercincinnatirestaurantweek.com.

Most classes and events require registration and classes frequently sell out.

Best of the West — Cincy Magazine celebrates the best of the West Side with this event. Top establishments will have booths representing the finalists in the magazine’s categories including food, retail and service. Sample and vote for your favorites. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $30. Nathanael Greene Lodge, 6394 Wesselman Road, Dent, cincy.live/ events/best-of-the-west18.

Vino at the Memo: Wine Wars — The Cincinnati International Wine Festival and Memorial Hall join forces for Vino at the Memo, four special wine tastings to expand your knowledge and appreciation of the beverage.

There will be games of trivia, wine pairings, prizes and cheese and charcuterie selections prepared by The Rhined. 6-8 p.m. $50. Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, memorialhallotr.com.

Slice Night 2018 — It’s a pizza party at Sawyer Point hosted by Cincinnati Magazine. Enjoy slice samples, beer, wine and cocktails (alcohol for an additional fee). One-hundred percent of the ticket price benefits cancer research at UC Cancer Institute. 5-9 p.m. $15 advance; $20 door; $5 for children 10 and under.

Yeatman’s Cove, 705 E. Pete Rose Way, Downtown, cincinnatimagazine.com.

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Botany and Brews: Chocolate Beer — Krohn Conservatory hosts Let’s Do Lunch: Mexican this evening that pairs — This express class shows botany and brews. Enjoy a you how to make a quick limited-release beer from and easy fiesta at home. the Woodburn Brewery Dishes include Mexican made with chocolate pods salad, baked chickenfrom the conservatory. cheese enchiladas and 5:30-7:30 p.m. $12. Krohn Mexican bread pudding. 11 Conservatory, 1501 Eden a.m.-12:30 p.m. $45. Jungle Park Drive, Mount Adams, Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, krohn.cincyregister.com/ Fairfield, junglejims.com. brewschocolate.

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Cincinnati Beer Run with Glow — This glow run sends racers through Newport, into Cincinnati and back with craft beer stops every half mile, live entertainment and a large beer at the end. Each racer gets a beer on the course, a beer at the end (at Newport Oktoberfest), a glass mug, T-shirt and glow wear. 7-11 p.m. $40. Riverboat Row, Newport, Ky., facebook. com/cincinnatibeerrun.

Oktoberfest Newport — Newport Oktoberfest claims to be the most authentic in the area. The Munich-style fest features a fest ten, German beer, food and live, continuous German music. 5-11 p.m. Friday; noon-11 p.m. Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Riverboat Row, Newport, Ky., cincinnatifestivalsandevents. com.

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12:44 PM

11 a.m. Sept. 29. Free admission. 770 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, facebook. com/whstreetfoodfest.

Build the Perfect Cheeseboard at We Olive — Emily Frank of Share: Cheesebar will be at We Olive to lead this class on how to build the perfect cheeseboard. Sample and learn about different types of cheeses and tips and tricks for creating the perfect board. Wine expert Amanda Sarich will also be there with wine pairings. 5-7 p.m. $45. We Olive & Wine Bar, 33 E. Sixth St., Downtown, facebook.com/weolivecincy.

Country Applefest — This fall festival is a celebration of all things apple: candy apples, cider, fritters, pies and more. 10 a.m.- 7 p.m.

Free admission. Warren County Fairgrounds, 665 N. Broadway St., Lebanon. countryapplefest.com.

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The Secret Society of Spirits: Fall Flavors — The Secret Society of Spirits and Watershed Distillery present this fall-themed event

featuring lessons on how to mix up creative cocktails using fall flavors. Learn how to make three different cocktails and sample food from The Rhined. 4-6 p.m. $40. Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, memorialhallotr.com.

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Deep Dish Pizza — In this hands-on class, guests will learn how to make thick and chewy pizza crust. Make your own crust, sauce and sausage in this class and then learn recipes for how to make deep dish pizza with fennel sausage and ice cream sundaes. 6-8 p.m. $75. Jungle Jim’s, 5440 Dixie Highway, Fairfield, junglejims.com.

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HopScotch 2018 — Join CityBeat for its inaugural HopScotch event and imbibe unlimited samples of scotch, craft beer, whiskey, food and more at New Riff Distillery.

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MUSIC Moving Up, Crossing Over Already a Christian music superstar, Lauren Daigle’s new album has gotten the attention of the entire music industry

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ne thing Lauren Daigle has learned about performing live is that it’s OK to relax a bit and go with the flow onstage.

“I was just talking to a friend about how in the very beginning you get caught up in trying to get it right,” Daigle says, looking back on when she first began performing.

“There’s this feeling of, ‘I have to do it right.

I don’t want to fall flat on my face.’ And you learn that actually mistakes and those kinds of moments are some of the purest and most beautiful moments on a stage…

I think I’ve learned how to face those moments and run with those moments.”

The ability to embrace spontaneity and the occasional happy accident should work in Daigle’s favor as she tours to promote her newly-released second album, Look Up Child. She’s bringing out a big band to help recreate the more organic sound of the new music, and the interplay she wants to see onstage is likely to generate one-ofa-kind moments that won’t necessarily be the product of planning or perfect execution, but of honest communication, expression and perhaps that unintended mistake that somehow enhances that show.

“My goal for this (show) was I want to sweat at the end and I want a band that talks to each other with instruments, plays with each other with instruments and doesn’t rely on (backing) tracks to be the thing that drives the sound,” Daigle says.

“So we completely reorganized everything and now there’s going to be 10 people onstage, which is completely new — so new. But to get some of the fullness of the sound requires more people. I’m excited, I’m so excited.”

She has even more reasons to be excited lately. Though Look Up Child was expected to do big numbers in the Contemporary Christian music market, where she is a superstar, when it was released on Sept. 7 and debuted in the No. 3 slot on Billboard’s all-genre album chart — beating out the latest from Paul McCartney and Eminem — many in the music industry seemed

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surprised.

Big music publications and press outlets have been taking notice, comparing her soul-drenched voice to Adele and Amy Winehouse. Look Up Child seems well on its way to making Daigle a crossover star.

After the debut, she told Rolling Stone, “I’m inspired to see music continue to crosspollinate through genres.”

The more natural, less synthetic live sound Daigle is presenting is very much an extension of the direction she pursued on Look Up Child. It makes sense for the Louisiana native, who relishes the oldschool approach she heard in the music of New Orleans and elsewhere in the state.

“It’s such a rich culture of music — of Jazz and Zydeco and so much (more),” she says.

“You can be on a street corner listening to a band that’s blowing your mind. They don’t have (prerecorded) tracks.”

Now 27, Daigle has been singing her entire life, but threw herself deep into music after she overcame a serious autoimmune condition as a teenager that kept her home-bound for two years. Hoping to break into the business, she tried out for American Idol, first in 2010, where she just missed making the field of 24 finalists, and then again in 2012, where she was cut in the first Las Vegas round.

Daigle didn’t have to wait that long for her next break, though. After being asked

to sing background vocals on an EP by a band called The Assemblie, both the group and Daigle were invited by Christian music record label Centricity Music to attend a workshop. She ended up filling in for the singer of The Assemblie (who suffered an attack of appendicitis) at the workshop’s main event and, in 2013, Daigle was signed

by Centricity.

Following a successful EP release, Daigle’s debut album, How Can It Be, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Christian albums chart when it was released in 2015.

The album went platinum and cemented Daigle’s status as one of the fastest-rising newcomers in Christian music history.

Instead of jumping right into working on her second album, Daigle decided she needed a break to figure out who she was and what experiences and stories should inform the new songs.

“I went home, back to Louisiana, and just kind of stepped away from music,” she says. “I took about six months off to kind of re-find myself, go back into normal day-today life and see my old friends, see some family, get rooted again. I needed a season of rest, because I was touring so much (and) I didn’t want to write a record from a place of burnout. So I ended up going home, got refueled and then that’s when I knew, ‘OK, it’s time to do this again.’ ” In recording the songs with songwriters/

producers Paul Mabury and Jason Ingram, her main collaborators from the first album, Daigle started moving away from synthetic elements, opting to use real instruments — including strings or horns — to help create a more organic setting for her rich, soulful vocals and inspirational lyrics. Much of the Look Up Child album is weighted toward ballads, such as “Rescue,” “This Girl” and “Love Like This,” which swell to lush, string-laden crescendos.

But there is also “Still Rolling Stones,” a punchy rocker, and the sprightly “Your Wings,” which has a Reggae-ish feel.

In the wake up Look Up Child’s huge early success, Daigle’s current headlining tour represents a whole new adventure.

Just as she switched up her approach to recording, Daigle’s current show is completely different from the last time she toured.

“We’ve pretty much changed everything,” Daigle says. “The start is going to have some old — a couple of old songs — and then a lot of new songs and some covers of songs that impacted the making of this record. So it’s hodge-podge of a little bit of everything.”

Lauren Daigle performs 7:30 p.m.

Thursday (Sept. 27) at the Taft Theatre (317 E. Fifth St., Downtown). Tickets/more info: tafttheatre.org.

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Music Modernization Act Almost Law

On Sept. 18, U.S. senators uncharacteristically all agreed on something and unanimously passed the “Orrin G. Hatch Music Modernization Act,” which updates the royalties system for songwriters and offers a more fair pay-out for creators in the streaming era. The OGHMMA makes it easier for artists to get paid for streams, eliminates the ridiculous practice of not paying royalties for recordings made before 1972 and gives producers and engineers royalties from streaming as well. Because there were changes to the bill in the Senate (including the titular shout-out to Hatch, apparently because he’s retiring and a songwriter), it now goes back to the House of Representatives, who are expected to pass it and move it along for the President to sign into law.

Christmas (Music) Is In the Air

With only about 90 shopping days left until Christmas, two unexpected holiday albums have been announced. A few big-time Modern Rock artists are involved in Christmas Party, a new album from the surviving members of ’60s Pop Rock band The Monkees. The collection includes new songs written by the likes of Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, XTC’s Andy Partridge and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, plus a cover of Big Star’s “Jesus Christ.” A much more kitschy holiday album will also drop in October, this one featuring the over-thetop-dramatic vocal stylings of William Shatner. The forthcoming Shatner Claus features Iggy Pop (in a duet of “Silent Night”), Henry Rollins (for two versions of “Jingle Bells”) and many others.

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Several years ago, Cincinnati a different vignette, often dealing with multimedia artist Vernard Fields asked fundamental early life lessons, such as his friend and fellow rapper Adam Hayden on “Pick Up Your Towel” and “We Like to (better known in Cincy Hip Hop circles as Share.” They are strung together by upbeat MC Till) if he’d like to make a children’s conversation between Hayden and Fields album with him. Hayden was interested, that gives the album a sense of cohesion. but the project was forgotten until 2012, One of the great struggles for parents when he was working with first graders as of young kids is finding music the child a teacher with Cincinnati Public Schools. enjoys that isn’t painful for grown-ups to Getting frustrated with the boisterous hear (and, if it sticks, hear a lot). The ideal tykes, Hayden grabbed a book of children’s music isn’t just tolerable, but enjoyable for poetry and began reading. It was when the adults. The Corner definitely fits that he switched to rapping the poems that bill, falling somewhere between the quirky he discovered he had the kids’ rapt attention. Hayden subsequently reconnected with Fields about the children’s project, and eventually the process behind The Corner, an album and book using storytelling, Hip Hop and illustrations, began.

The final key to the project was Charlie Padgett, an award-winning Cincinnati illustrator who now lives in France. Padgett has worked with local establishments like Happen, Inc. and MadTree Brewing, as well as international advertising companies and publications. His breathtaking illustrations have a childlike wonder to them and he had worked on children’s projects previously, making him a perfect fit for The Corner.

Padgett’s artwork is also strikingly The Corner original and helped shape the tone of The Corner.

PHOTO: PROVIDED “We wanted to create children’s content in the irreverent tradition of our heroes like Shel Silverstein, Roald Dahl Pop of the children’s albums by AltRock and Maurice Sendak,” Hayden wrote on duo They Might Be Giants and the colorful, the project’s crowdfunding page. “Stories oddball playfulness of the music-filled TV that we would enjoy. Illustrations that show Yo Gabba Gabba! intrigue us as parents and at the same time Along with solid, catchy songs and an are engaging for very young people. Art almost surrealistic sense of silliness, those that does not shy away from the conflicting projects also possessed enough crosshumanity within us all, but embraces it, generational callbacks to make parents celebrates it, and wrestles with it. That is go, “Oh, I see what you’re doing.” For The the essence of The Corner.”

Corner, a big part of that is the vibe of the To underwrite the project, the trio beats, which have the feel of J Dilla or A started a GoFundMe campaign. Besides Tribe Called Quest. Likewise, Hayden and parents, the creators also targeted educaFields are very good MCs — even though tors with hopes that The Corner would they (necessarily) keep their performances be used in classrooms as an educational wide-eye bright and hyper-enunciated, vehicle, an aspect baked into the concept you can hear in the movement of their from the start. They made a Corner study voices the experience and talent. guide for teachers and offered those donatThere is “grown” Hip Hop that has ing the opportunity to receive or gift the kid-appeal, but for Hip Hop designed for project to teachers or entire schools across children, The Corner should be your first the country. Fields and Hayden have also choice. For educators, it can help connect been sharing The Corner through appearkids to things like storytelling, poetry and ances at schools, as well as area libraries. rhythm. For parents, it’s all of that and Earlier this summer, The Corner became an opportunity to knock The Wiggles and available for the first time, as a book — feaBarney out of the playtime playlist. turing Padgett’s illustrations coupled with The different formats of The Corner the song lyrics — and a CD or download can be purchased at thecorner.us; you with the music. There is also a gorgeous can also stream/download the music at package with the music on a vinyl album thecornerus.bandcamp.com. and the book in the gatefold sleeve.

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Isaac Brock’s voice contains multitudes.

Modest Mouse’s longtime frontperson — and only constant member over the band’s 26-year history — emits an anxious yelp that is at once world-weary and childlike, evoking a cross between Kurt Cobain and Daniel Johnston.

That voice first broke into wider consciousness via 1997’s The Lonesome Crowded West, an album full of jagged guitar, unpredictable song structures and Brock’s oddly affecting tales about cockroaches, Orange Julius and Styrofoam boots. Think Talking Heads filtered through the depressed, rain-soaked environs of the Pacific Northwest (Modest Mouse hails from the suburbs of Seattle and now calls Portland, Ore. home).

Modest Mouse’s yearning to transcend Brock’s dour nature permeates each of the band’s eight records, which is not to say they haven’t evolved over the years. Early songs about down-and-out drifters and religious seekers gave way to more universal but no less emotionally urgent themes.

The band’s biggest hit, “Float On,” from 2004’s Good News for People Who Love Bad News, is an uncharacteristically optimistic jaunt about a guy given a break by the police who won’t even let getting fired from his job get him down. Given its bright guitars, driving rhythms and undeniable melodic hook, mainstream popularity shouldn’t have come as a surprise, but a surprise it was.

Never comfortable in the spotlight, Brock responded by bringing in former Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr for a period and otherwise keeping a low profile (interviews and appearances outside of Modest Mouse tours are fairly non-existent).

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Intra-band issues among the musicians have threatened to derail the group occasionally, but Brock has persisted — 2007’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and 2009’s No One’s First, and You’re Next were solid entries in what stands as one of the most consistent catalogs of the era.

After a long layoff during which the band still toured fairly regularly, 2015’s Strangers to Ourselves surfaced, confirming that Brock’s anxiety remains as strong as ever, most curiously exemplified by “Sugar Boats,” a seasick, piano-laced ditty that opens with this existential declaration: “This rock of ours is just some big mistake/ And we will never know just where we go/Or where we have come from.” (Jason Gargano)

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They are the gold standard of Garage/ Psych purveyors, fuzzy enough to be inscrutable, loud enough to be undeniable and high enough to see your house from wherever they are.

The Witch Fingers’ seed was planted in 2011 when Indiana University students Glenn Brigman (drums), Josh Menashe (guitar) and Alex Bulli (bass) played together in Prince Moondog. Just before their frontman moved to New York, Brigman began jamming and recording with guitarist/vocalist Dylan Sizemore. When Sizemore’s other band couldn’t keep up with the pace of his songwriting, he and Brigman quickly brought in Menashe and Bulli to form a full band, which they dubbed Frankie and the Witch Fingers.

The first Witch Fingers album, Sidewalk, was recorded by Sizemore and Brigman over a couple of weeks in 2013 and released on cassette. The band’s sophomore full-length, Heavy Roller, was released by Burger Records in 2016. This year has been busy for the Witch Fingers; in addition to a heavy touring schedule, the band released its third album, Brain Telephone, back in February, which was followed by a new

A lot has changed since Liz Phair’s trailblazing debut, Exile in Guyville, surfaced in 1993. That year, Bill Clinton swept into office as our youngest President since JFK. Kurt Cobain and Nirvana dropped its final studio album, In Utero. CityBeat was a year away from publishing its first issue.

(For those who might have forgotten, Exile topped that year’s Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics’ poll, finishing just ahead of In Utero, PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me and The Breeders’ Last Splash.)

Fast forward 25 years: CDs are nearly extinct and cassettes and vinyl are making comebacks; Cobain is a musical deity; Donald Trump, of all people, is our President, defeating Clinton’s wife in the process. And Liz Phair’s influence is everywhere on a music scene that has become inundated with female talent. (This year alone has delivered excellent new albums from the Phair-minded likes of Speedy Ortiz, Caroline Rose, Mitski, Snail Mail, Soccer Mommy and Lucy Dacus.)

“I’m sort of a feminist spokesmodel for, I guess, putting your voice out there, believing you have something to say and maybe sex-positivity or something,” Phair told The New York Times earlier this year. “I have been placed there because there was a sense that I was the girl next door who just picked up a guitar and went onstage and said what everyone was thinking.

And it felt empowering to me and it felt empowering to the people that heard it, especially the women.”

Matador Records’ 25th anniversary reissue of Exile in Guyville — officially dubbed Girly Sound to Guyville in a nod to the bedroom tapes that influenced the album — has kicked off a reemergence of sorts for the now-51-year-old Phair, whose career had been dormant in recent years following a string of glossed-up, mixed-bag records that culminated with 2010’s truly mystifying Funstyle.

As expected, set lists from the accompanying tour lean heavily on songs from Exile with a sprinkling from its two follow-ups, 1994’s Whip-Smart and 1998’s underrated Whitechocolatespaceegg — a trio of career-defining records that remind us how necessary Phair’s unvarnished perspective on relationships and sex was then and remains today. (JG)

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20TH CENTURY THEATER–Tom Paxton & The DonJuans. 8 p.m. Folk. $25-$30 HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT–Pat Kelly Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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THE LISTING LOON– Chaquis Maliq. 9 p.m.

Soul/Acoustic.

MEMORIAL HALL– Randy Bachman: Every Song Tells a Story. 8 p.m.

Rock/Storytelling. $40-$65.

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MOTR PUB–The Rad Trads. 10 p.m. Jazz/ Rock/Soul. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN–The Johnson Treatment. 9 p.m.

Dance/Various. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE)–JIMS with Wonky Tonk and Terror at Midnight. 9 p.m. Rock/ Roots/Various. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB–Maritime Law & Friends. 9 p.m. Rock/ Various. Free.

THURSDAY 27

BLIND LEMON–Kyle English. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE–Jordan Pollard Trio. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.

COMMON ROOTS–Common Roots Open Mic. 8 p.m.

Open Mic. Free.

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

THE LISTING LOON–Leif Fairfield, Yvette Nepper and Sophia Cunningham. 9 p.m.

Acoustic.

LUDLOW GARAGE–Arlen Roth. 8:30 p.m. Rock. $15-$30.

THE MAD FROG–EDM Thursdays. 9 p.m. DJ/Electronic/Dance. Cover.

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MADISON LIVE–Black Fast with Black Tractor.

8 p.m. Rock. $10.

MOTR PUB–New Breed Brass Band. 10 p.m. Funk/ Rock/Jazz/Hip Hop. Free.

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OCTAVE–Zach Deputy.

9 p.m. Funk/Soul/Pop/ Rock/Reggae/Various. $15.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT–Jazz Vinyl Night with DJ Ghost.

8 p.m. Jazz. $10 (drink minimum).

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE)–Reed Turchi. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM)–Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis featuring Redd Volkaert. 8:30 p.m.

Roots/Rock/Various. $20, $25 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY)– Justin Wells, Joslyn & The Sweet Compression and Calumet. 8 p.m. Country/ Roots/Rock/Various. $12, $15 day of show.

STANLEY’S PUB–Will Payne Harrison. 9 p.m.

Acoustic. Free.

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TAFT THEATRE– Lauren Daigle. 7:30 p.m. Soul/Pop/Various. $27.50-$77.50.

FRIDAY 28

BLIND LEMON–Will & Olivia. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE–Emmaline Band.

9 p.m. Soul/Jazz. Free.

Arcadian Bliss and White Liger. 8 p.m. Rock. $10.

MANSION HILL TAVERN– Leroy Ellington. 9 p.m. Blues.

Cover.

MARTY’S HOPS & VINES– Encore Duo. 9 p.m. Various.

Free.

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MOTR PUB–Maps & Atlases. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN– Actual Italians, The Almost Infinite and Chalk Eye. 10 p.m. Rock/Various. Free.

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OCTAVE–Zach Deputy.

9 p.m. Funk/Soul/Pop/ Rock/Reggae/Various. $15.

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

Funk/R&B/Soul. Free.

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

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RICK’S TAVERN–Elementree Livity Project.

10 p.m. Reggae/Rock/ Various SCHWARTZ’S POINT–Pat Kelly Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

Cover.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE)– Joe’s Truck Stop with The Local Honeys. 9:30 p.m.

Country/Americana. Free.

THE GREENWICH– Sister City Jazz. 8 p.m.

Jazz. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM)–“Remembering Josh, 2010 All Over Again” with Lazy Ass Destroyer, Tommy and The Pricks, Gun Fight66, Of No Value and Chiva Knievel. 8 p.m. Rock/ Punk/Various. $10.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT–Marc Fields Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB–Zoofunkyou with Moselle. 10 p.m.

Funk/Jam. Cover.

CAFFÈ VIVACE–Brian Lovely Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

THE COMET–Cougar Ace. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.

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JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD–The Fun Size. 9 p.m.

Pop/Dance/Country/Rock/ Various. $5.

KNOTTY PINE–DV8. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

THE LISTING LOON– Josiah Wolf, Will Pope and Derek Stinson. 9 p.m.

Various.

LUDLOW GARAGE–The Babys. 8:30 p.m. Pop Rock MADISON LIVE–The Jamie Carr Band, Stones Throw,

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TAFT THEATRE–Modest Mouse. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. $39.50-$49.50.

TOP CATS–One Day Steady (farewell show).

7 p.m. AltRock. $5.

URBAN ARTIFACT– Marbin. 9 p.m. Progressive Jazz. $10.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM–Greg Chako & Wayne Yeager Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

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BLIND LEMON–Sal & Joya.

9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL–Catfish and Cadillac.

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BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE–Zappa/Myers/ Schmidt. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE–Brent Gallaher Organ Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

THE COMET–Disaster Class, Sleepy Drums, New Third Worlds and Pete Fosco. 10 p.m. Rock/Indie/ Various. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN– Serengeti with Muwosi and K. Savage. 10 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB–Face to Face with Austin Lucas. 9 p.m.

Acoustic Rock. $22, $25 day of show.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT–Josh Strange Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

Cover.

SILVERTON CAFE–The Night Owls. 9 p.m. Rock/ Various. Free.

House with Dracula-Wolf and Spooky Dreamland. 9 p.m. Indie/Rock/Various.

Free.

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THE COMET–Crave On, Styrofoam Winos and Maggy. 10 p.m. Experimental/Rock. Free.

THE GREENWICH–Baron Von Ohlen & the Flying Circus Big Band. 7:30 p.m.

Big Band Jazz. $5.

MOTR PUB–Active Bird Community with Samia. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

THE GREENWICH–Kelly Richey & Sherri McGee. 8 p.m. Blues. $10.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM)–Strung Like A Horse with Dead Man String Band. 9 p.m. Americana/ Rock/Various. $15.

HILLSIDE GASTROPUB– Pandora Effect. 8:30 p.m.

Rock. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB–Donald Benjamin. 10 p.m. Country.

Cover.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT–Faux Frenchmen. 9 p.m. Jazz.

Free.

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TOP CATS–Party With The Pride featuring The Midwestern and Saturn Batteries. 10 p.m. AltRock. $10.

CAFFÈ VIVACE–Lynne Scott & Lee Stolar. 7:30 p.m.

Jazz.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD–My Sister Sarah. 9 p.m. Rock. $5.

KNOTTY PINE–Wayward Son. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

THE LISTING LOON–Jess Lamb & The Factory. 9 p.m.

Alt/Soul/Rock/Pop/Various.

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LUDLOW GARAGE– Madeleine Peyroux.

8:30 p.m. Jazz. $40-$95.

THE MAD FROG–CODES with DJ Odi, Nautigroove and more. 9 p.m. EDM/DJ. $10.

MADISON LIVE–Synapse Defect. 7 p.m. AltDeath/ Grindcore. $10, $12 day of show.

MANHATTAN HARBOUR YACHT CLUB–Pirate’s Ball with Trailer Park Floosies. 8 p.m. Dance/Rock/Pop/Country/Various. $10.

MANSION HILL TAVERN– Jamie Carr Band. 9 p.m.

Blues. Cover.

THOMPSON HOUSE– Pilot Around The Stars.

7 p.m. Rock. $10.

URBAN ARTIFACT–Mike Bandanna, MARR, GRLwood and Maria Rocket. 8 p.m. Indie/Rock/Various.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM–Ron Jones Quartet.

9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

NORTHSIDE TAVERN–The Qtet. 9:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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20TH CENTURY THEATER–Liz Phair. 8 p.m.

Indie Rock. $25, $30 day of show.

BOGART’S–Neck Deep with Trophy Eyes and WSTR. 7 p.m. Pop Punk. $25.

THE LISTING LOON–Anna Applegate. 9 p.m. Acoustic.

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MADISON THEATER– Borgore. 8 p.m. EDM. $20, $25 day of show.

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LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO–Blue Birds Band. 8 p.m. R&B/Rock. Free.

Olivia Jean – Oct. 12, Southgate House Revival

THE MAD FROG–Samson, Resonator, Run Rabbit Run, Trauma Illinois, Dionysus & the Ferrymen and Heart Means More. 7 p.m. Rock. $10.

Mod Sun – Oct. 16, Madison Theater

MOTR PUB–Frankie and the Witch Fingers with Grotesque Brooms. 8 p.m.

Garage/Psych/Pop/Various.

Free.

MARTY’S HOPS & VINES– Working Title. 9 p.m. Steampunk. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN– Mammoth Indigo and Turtledoves. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

MOTR PUB–Dos Santos with Orchards. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB–Stanley’s Open Jam. 8 p.m. Various.

Free.

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