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In the West End, a Unique Center Works to Lift the Emotional Weight of Trauma

Walter Metz, Jr.

The Trauma Recovery Center is one of just six receiving state funds in Ohio. It seeks to address the searing pain that comes from experiencing violence — pain which, in some cases, can spark further violence if not addressed

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hen Walter Metz, Jr. was struggling to process the shooting of his 18-year-old grandson in the West End, he didn’t have to go far for support.

He found help just steps from the scene of the shooting, at the corner of Baymiller and Findlay streets, where community services organization Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses runs a unique program called the Trauma Recovery Center.

Metz grew up in the West End before moving to Westwood and he remembers frequenting the neighborhood house from the age of 9. But the Trauma Recovery Center was something new to him.

That center, one of just six receiving state funds in Ohio, seeks to address the searing pain that comes from experiencing violence — pain which, in some cases, can spark further violence if not addressed.

Center staff and clients say those efforts are all the more vital after a summer of gun violence that claimed the lives of multiple teenagers as young as 14.

The Metz family’s roots in the West End, Over-the-Rhine and downtown span

six generations, with Walter right in the middle. He’s proud of that legacy. But it also comes with pain.

Multiple members of his immediate family have been victims of gun violence, including a granddaughter who was shot and killed in OTR. But Metz didn’t seek help with the emotional weight of those events until his 18-year-old grandson was shot in the face in late August on Baymiller Street. The bullet traveled through his eye socket and lodged in his brain.

He survived — “by the grace of God,” Metz says — but the shooting left his grandfather with a heavy heart.

“That was the reason for coming,” he says. “This has been the place to just come and talk and communicate about how that made me feel, how it affected my family and what I can do to help my family and others in the healing process moving forward. Having someone to talk to concerning your deepest and most personal feelings and emotions… it’s not an easy thing to do, and there aren’t too many avenues to go down to get that. But here, the doors are open.”

In 2017, then-Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced the $2.6 million state grant creating five of the centers in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Springfield to address the mental health dimensions of violent crime and other traumatic events. Officials announced a sixth in Toledo this September.

“Often the victims of violent crime have been surrounded by violence throughout their entire lives,” DeWine said during a news conference about the centers in Columbus, according to The Columbus Dispatch. “Then, the trauma compounds.

It is my hope that the support provided by these trauma recovery centers across Ohio will also help victims overcome emotional scars from their past, which can help prevent future victimization.”

Research suggests psychological trauma can actually change brain function and increase the chances a person will experience addiction, behavioral issues and mental illness.

“A growing body of research has begun documenting the measurable differences in brain development and function

in individuals who have been exposed to early life adversity, meaning their environments have been characterized by sustained stress resulting from violence, neglect, abuse and dysfunction,” states a 2017 report from national nonprofit the Violence Policy Center. “Science can now demonstrate that these neural differences are the direct result of traumatic experiences, the consequences of living with toxic stress...Those who live in high-crime neighborhoods marked by elevated levels of community violence are at an increased risk for experiencing toxic stress — and altered neural development.”

Ohio is just the second state after California to fund such centers on a statewide basis. The Golden State’s trauma recovery center network started with a location at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. Data from that program shows that 74 percent of the clients at the UCSF center ended up with better mental health outcomes and a 56 percent increase in the rate of return to employment following treatment.

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CITY DESK

Cranley Touts Growth, Climate Efforts at State of the City Address

BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

In his 2019 State of the City address at Memorial Hall on Oct. 23, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley, a Democrat, cast Cincinnati as a city prepared to move on progressive agenda items the Republicancontrolled state and federal government are unwilling to take up. He also painted an expansive, if at times somewhat optimistic, portrait of the city’s progress since his first election in 2013.

Cranley called the city’s progress “the Cincinnati miracle,” celebrating successes such as BLINK and big developments while sometimes sidestepping some of the city’s bigger challenges and controversies.

The roughly 50-minute speech touched on the Cincinnati’s growing population — which Census estimates indicate has inched up a few thousand people to top 300,000 during Cranley’s term — and efforts to grow jobs, curb gun violence, increase access to public transit and combat poverty and climate change.

That last issue was the focus of two new initiatives the mayor discussed during his address: a solidified plan to move forward with an array of more than 31,000 solar panels and a statewide climate summit to be hosted in Cincinnati next year.

Cranley pinned increased rainfall and resultant landslides the city is seeing — average rainfall in Cincinnati jumped from 40 inches up until 1999 to 46.4 inches last year — on climate change and said state and federal governments are moving backward on addressing that global phenomenon.

“Donald Trump pulled our country out of the Paris Accord,” Cranley said, also blasting state lawmakers for passing legislation called HB6 that bails out nuclear and coal plants at the expense of the state’s

renewable energy standards. “But in the meantime, we are picking up the slack and leading by example.”

Cranley said the city has locked down a site for 1,000 acres of solar panels, an array he says will generate 100 megawatts of energy.

The majority of that array will exist outside the city in Highland County, while some of the panels will be placed on city-owned rooftops. The array will be constructed by local laborers with the international Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Cranley says, and will create hundreds of jobs.

The mayor also announced that the city, along with Green Umbrella, the Ohio Mayors Alliance and the Ohio Climate Council, will host a statewide climate summit in April of next year designed to convince municipalities across Ohio to adopt the climate standards state lawmakers reduced or eliminated in HB6.

“We will do what our state will not — take the responsible steps to invest in renewable energy and reduce our carbon footprint before it is too late,” Cranley said.

Cranley also pledged similar pressure when it came to gun restrictions — an area where, despite mass shootings like the tragic 2018 incident at Fountain Square and this year’s deadly attacks in Dayton and El Paso, federal and state lawmakers have passed few new laws.

The mayor railed against what he called “the NRA-controlled state legislature” for inaction on gun restrictions recommended by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. He also announced he is endorsing a statewide referendum effort to pass universal background checks.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Cranley

recognized the late civil rights leader Marian Spencer; Pamela Smitherman, the late wife of Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman; city employee of the year Ronetta Engram; public services employee Leroy Garrison, who died while on the job this year; retiring Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune, who is currently fighting cancer; and Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen for his company’s move to stop using plastic bags and for constructing the first downtown location for the grocer in half a century.

The mayor praised a number of community development initiatives in College Hill, Westwood and other neighborhoods as well as continued development of bike paths in the city.

He also gave a big plug for Issue 22, the charter amendment that would end the city’s portion of its earnings tax going to bus service if county voters approve a sales tax to fund Metro.

Throughout his remarks, Cranley returned to touchstones that have become constants in his State of the City addresses — encouraging volunteerism, holding up the city’s economic and population growth and efforts to reduce poverty and gun violence. Here, the mayor highlighted real progress but also painted a somewhat rosier picture than others might.

Spotlighting the city’s economic growth, Cranley touted the Cincinnati economy’s 3 percent growth rate, a claimed 1,000 businesses added since his first year in office and 2,300 jobs added this year.

That 3 percent growth rate is roughly the same as U.S. GDP growth last year, though nationally growth has slowed to about 2.5 percent since then.

Cranley also celebrated construction

of a $550 million expansion at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and FC Cincinnati’s $250 million Major League Soccer stadium in the West End as major economic boosts to the region. However, he didn’t mention the bitter wrangling associated with those projects and critiques from community groups upset about the displacement of residents near those facilities.

And while the mayor rightly noted that poverty has decreased in the city — falling from 31 percent to roughly 26 percent during his time in office — Cincinnati still has the fifth-highest poverty rate among U.S. cities with more than 250,000 people.

Sometimes, the mayor’s remarks seemed to contradict his previous stances, especially when it came to the city’s budget.

The mayor touted the fact that the city has increased its human services funding from $1.5 million to $7.1 million annually — though Cranley has sometimes fought with Cincinnati City Council as it sought to increase that funding. Cranley also praised Cincinnati Office of Environment & Sustainability Director Larry Falkin, despite keeping cuts in the city manager’s budget this year that would have eliminated his position. Council restored that funding.

Again and again in his address, Cranley — who is term-limited as mayor and has been rumored to have ambitions for a congressional run — returned to his underlying theme that Cincinnati is picking up where more conservative state and federal lawmakers and administrators had dropped the ball.

“Given the abdication of state and national leadership, hope is hard to come by,” he said. “But we are giving hope at the local level.”

Hamilton County Republicans Will Challenge Sales Tax

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A sales tax approved earlier this month by the Hamilton County Commission will face some resistance, local Republicans say.

Hamilton County Republican Party Chair Alex Triantafilou announced Oct. 21 that the party will launch a petition effort to repeal the .25 percent tax the county’s three Democratic commission members unanimously approved Oct. 15.

That tax is a replacement for a sales tax voters approved in 2014 to renovate Union Terminal that expires in April next year.

Commission members and Hamilton County Administrator Jeff Aluotto say the tax is needed to bridge a $20 million budget gap the county faces due to dwindling

state contributions, increasing expenses and other dynamics.

Because the tax replaces the expiring renovation tax, the county’s sales tax rate will stay steady at 7 percent. The tax costs anyone buying tax-eligible items in the county 25 cents per $100 spent.

“We’ve been treading water here for a while in Hamilton County,” Hamilton County Commission President Denise Driehaus said just prior to voting for the tax. “From my point of view, it’s time to sink or swim — and we’re going to swim.

We’ve closed buildings, we’ve reduced staff. We’re on furloughs and hiring freezes. We’ve had additional challenges in recent years with cuts to the state’s funding. And we’ve had an increase in

need related to the opioid epidemic.”

Critics, however, have decried what they call a tax increase that voters didn’t get to weigh in on. Ohio law allows commission members to approve sales tax increases.

“When the voters approved a new tax to fix the Museum Center, they were told it would end in five years,” Triantafilou tweeted Oct. 17. “They were duped. How can we believe our politicians next time they tell us a new tax will end? How could this county come through the Great Recession without stunts like this?”

Tax opponents will need 33,969 signatures in a petition effort to land the issue on the ballot next year.

A move last year to boost the county’s

sales tax by .2 percent met with strong resistance from conservatives, who mounted a petition drive to repeal the hike. County commissioners rescinded the proposed increase.

The county’s local sales tax is 1.25 percent, but only .5 goes to the county’s operating budget due to the two stadium deals and other issues.

Meanwhile, Cuyahoga County’s sales tax rate is 2.25 percent, and 1.2 percent of that goes to the county’s operating fund.

Franklin County’s local sales tax is also 1.25 percent, and it dedicates it all to its operating fund.

Just to the north, Warren County dedicates all of its 1.25 percent to operations as well.

CITY DESK

In Hamilton County Municipal Court Races, Bail Reform Takes Center Stage

BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

requires a judge in setting bond on a felony or misdemeanor to primarily consider securing a defendant’s appearance in court and to protect the public.”

The public safety element is crucial, fellow Republican-endorsed municipal court Judge Gwen Bender says. Bender was an assistant Hamilton County prosecutor before she was appointed to the municipal court in 2017. She’s running unopposed for a full term this year in the West Side’s 7th Judicial District.

“The greatest nightmare you have as a judge is to hear a defendant out on bond committed a violent offense,” she says.

“And it happens. It’s one of the hardest things you live with when you’re trying to set those bonds. It’s almost like you have to have a crystal ball.”

Bender acknowledges, however, the challenges presented by the bail question.

She says there is middle ground — using electronic monitoring and other newer technology to keep a defendant out of jail, but not totally unsupervised.

Berkowitz says the criteria he looks at closest is whether someone has a history of skipping court dates and whether they live in the community.

“We have people coming into Cincinnati and Hamilton County from an hour south in Kentucky, west in Indiana, north and east to buy drugs and then overdosing and getting arrested,” he says. “I’m setting bond on that, and I have to decide if they’re likely to appear in court.”

He also says that so-called “own recognizance” or “OR” bond is often used by judges or law enforcement “every day” to keep a defendant from having to pay cash bail, either formally by the court or informally by officers who cite someone to a court date rather than arresting them.

But Berkowitz’s challenger, Hamilton County Public Defender’s Office Common Pleas Division Director John Kennedy, says that’s not the whole story.

Before his time working in common pleas court, which handles more serious cases, Kennedy worked for the public defender in municipal court. He says he saw many people in a tough situation due to high bails that weren’t necessary.

“When you tell a client that a judge is going to place a monetary bond on them, you hear that they’re going to lose their housing or they have no one to watch their children or that they’re going to lose their job because of $100,” he said at the judicial forum. “If you had one of those conversations, it might be easy to forget. But I’ve had hundreds, and that injustice happens every day in our court system. We need judges who understand that locking those people up pretrial does nothing.”

Kennedy recounted a case earlier this month in which a man was arrested for stealing $50 worth of items from a Kroger, including a medical cream.

“The person didn’t have a bad record,”

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Kennedy says. “But they were given a bond of $1,000 at 10 percent. That individual stayed locked up in the Justice Center.”

Just because some defendants get to wait for their court date outside a jail cell without paying bond doesn’t mean there isn’t a problem, he says.

For Janaya Trotter Bratton, the issue is even more fundamental. Bratton, a civil rights attorney who has been endorsed by county Democrats, was running for a seat occupied by Republican-endorsed municipal court Judge Elisa Murphy, who was appointed last month by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to fill a seat vacated by former Judge Fanon Rucker.

“Bail reform is not just protecting the public and getting people to return to court,” Bratton says. “You should not stay in jail just because you’re poor when someone else with the same score (in the court’s risk assessment system) gets out.”

While the two may have differences on other issues, Murphy says she’s on board with that.

“No one should sit in jail because they can’t afford to give $125,” she says.

Bratton, along with Kennedy, says that one way to make the court fairer when it comes to bail — and other issues throughout the judicial process — is to keep better data. That data could reveal racial and other disparities in the way bail and sentencing is administered in the county, advocates say.

“We need the public at large and the judges themselves to know how they’re treating different people on the same or similar cases,” Kennedy said. “That’s not a searchable thing I’ve been able to find. I know some from experience, but I haven’t been able to find those statistics. Until we have transparency, there won’t be any accountability.”

Information about how often judges let defendants out on their own recognizance

versus when cash bail is required in Hamilton County isn’t readily available. CityBeat has requested data on bail practices from the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts.

Advocates for bail reform say that 65 percent of those in the Hamilton County Justice Center are there awaiting trial, though some are facing charges on more serious violent offenses rather than minor crimes.

The issue of bail reform has become a hot topic of late.

In April, Cincinnati City Council passed a motion asking city prosecutors not to pursue cash bail for low-level nonviolent offenses for cases they work. Council member P.G. Sittenfeld, who sponsored that motion, also called for the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office to do the same.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, however, shot back that the county doesn’t lock up those suspected of low-level offenses — something others dispute.

Meanwhile, State Rep. Catherine Ingram and State Sen. Cecil Thomas, both Democrats who sit on a task force on criminal justice reform, have said efforts are underway in the Ohio General Assembly to enact similar reforms on the state level.

Bail reform has also been the topic of debate in other states. In Harris County, Texas (where Houston is located), officials this summer settled a lawsuit around the county’s bail practices that advocates for bail reform call “a watershed moment” for more equitable pretrial treatment of defendants.

In Hamilton County, even those who generally defend bail practices acknowledge there is still room for improvement.

“We are out of room at the Justice Center,” Bender says. “We can’t lock up nonviolent offenders in the numbers that we’ve seen in the past. We are changing… but there still are elements we need to change.”

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If you get picked up on suspicion that you committed a misdemeanor, whether you get out of county jail while you await trial may depend on how much is in your bank account. And if you can’t pay up, you may find yourself sitting in a cell, risking your job, your housing, even custody of your children.

At least, that’s how some candidates and current judges running for seats on the Hamilton County Municipal Court frame the issue of bail reform.

But some, including other current judges, say the issue of bail is more complex. They cite multiple considerations judges must weigh when thinking about setting bail, and also about middle ground between traditional cash bail and simply being let out on your own recognizance while you await your day in court.

Municipal court judges hear misdemeanor cases and also set bail for all felony cases coming before the county courts.

Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Tyrone Yates has been on that bench since 2010. He says it’s the busiest court in the county — and the most vital.

“The municipal court is one of the most important in our country, because it’s the court that is closest to the people,” he told attendees at an Oct. 17 panel discussion for court candidates hosted by the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Cincinnati League of Women Voters and other groups.

“It’s the court where most citizens will interact with the justice system.”

Yates says that judges in the court often set bail higher than is necessary for lowlevel nonviolent offenders.

“From time to time, I’ve actually received calls from other judges asking me not to lower the bail they’ve set,” he says. “But the constitutional rights of the defendant are higher than my duty to my colleagues.”

Yates, like a number of other judges this election season, was making his pitch for another term in the county’s 2nd Judicial District during the forum. During this election season, bail reform became a big issue in the important — but often overlooked — set of municipal court races.

Yates’ challenger, Hamilton County Juvenile Court Magistrate John Coleman, agrees that bail should be kept low or nonexistent for nonviolent offenders. Coleman has been endorsed by the county Republican Party, while Yates has gotten the nod from county Democrats.

Other judges looking to keep their seats, though, said the issue is more complex.

Municipal Judge Josh Berkowitz, a Republican-endorsed incumbent running in the 4th Judicial District on the east side of the county, says that many factors come into play when it comes to setting bail, even for nonviolent charges.

“When it comes to setting bond, we have to follow the law,” he said at the Oct. 17 forum. “The law in Ohio controls bond and

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Cincinnati has the only center in the state located within a local, grassroots nonprofit — the other five are run out of health centers or hospitals. The West End trauma recovery center receives about $125,000 from the state grant.

The idea, center director Sheila Nared says, is to use an approach called “traumainformed care” to create a safe place for those who have experienced violence or other traumatic events so they can process what has happened to them and learn coping skills and healthy emotional habits.

“We want people to feel safe and comfortable,” Nared says. “We want them to build some trust. They need that safe haven. We want to equip them with some tools, some ways to handle trauma, so that when they’re out there in settings with other people they can use them.”

Nared says the process works in a number of different ways but starts with taking walk-ins or referrals from local hospitals, law enforcement officials, the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority or nonprofits.

Staff at the center helps assess and document a client’s history with traumatic events and works with that client to draw up a care plan together. Then, they track the client’s progress in understanding and recovering from their trauma. If further

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treatment is needed, the center connects the client to outside partners who can help.

The center’s four staff members take an array of training and certifications — including certifications by crime victims advocacy group the National Advocate Credentialing Program — so they do more good than harm when interacting with people who are processing intense experiences.

“When you don’t use that traumainformed care lens, not only do you take the risk of re-traumatizing someone, you could lose them,” Nared says. “Their stories are important, but we don’t probe them.

We let them tell us. That’s when it’s genuine and they really tell you what’s going on.”

That time and space is vital for healing, says 66-year-old Regina Martin.

After she had a stroke a decade ago, Martin found herself newly vulnerable, relearning to navigate the world with somewhat diminished mobility and eyesight.

So it was a further blow when a group of men knocked on the door of her Over-theRhine apartment last year, forced their way in when she opened the door and pointed a gun at her face. They took what they could and fled, leaving Martin deeply shaken.

“I’ve never forgotten it, and I’m still healing,” she says. “I was afraid to go into my own home. I couldn’t sleep, even though the perpetrators were caught the same day.

I cried a lot.”

Like Metz, Martin was already familiar with Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses, having also come there as a child. Nared and other center staff accompanied Martin to court proceedings and, when she couldn’t find a way to feel safe in her home in OTR, helped her secure new housing in City West Apartments, not far from the center.

In addition to individual and group counseling sessions, referrals to other services and a comforting, non-judgmental space to process trauma, the trauma recovery center is situated in the middle of Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses’ wider offerings, which include a food pantry, clothing bank, gym with exercise equipment and basketball hoops, health classes and a blood pressure machine, plus a boxing ring that legendary West End boxers utilized in their formative days.

Those services continue an 80-year legacy for the location, which began as the founding site for summer youth program Camp Joy in 1937. The Findlay Street Neighborhood House — a social service and community center for West End residents — followed at the site in 1945.

The camp moved to Warren County in 1959, but the neighborhood house has remained.

Soon, it will have more capacity to treat trauma. Cincinnati City Council earlier this month approved roughly $100,000 to

help fund an expansion of the center.

Gary Smith is another client at the trauma center touched by gun violence against a young person close to him. His stepson Cameron Franklin died after an unknown gunman shot him in the head in Lower Price Hill this summer. Franklin was just 14 years old, and his shooting sparked intense media coverage and discussion among elected officials.

Franklin’s death has echoed through Smith’s family, he says, touching the lives of his nine children, many of whom attend group sessions at the center or spend time with Nared or other staff members off-site to talk about how they’re feeling.

“It’s helped me out tremendously,” Smith says. “It’s helped my kids out tremendously.

It can teach my kids how to live better, how to act the right way, where they don’t need to go out and do this kind of stuff. And they can talk to their friends about that, about how to deal with emotions. I think it’s a kind of ripple (effect).”

Trauma Recovery Center counselor and advocate Janice Sowell says that in many ways is the point.

“When you have 14-year-olds shooting each other, it comes down to pain upon pain,” she says. “They’ve had traumatic experiences, but they’re kids and they don’t know how to deal with it. These traumas don’t get addressed. We need to address them.”

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BY MACKENZIE MANLEY

lNDEPENDENT In the late ’60s/early ’70s, The Independent Eye stood defiantly as Cincinnati’s underground counterculture newspaper. Half a century later, its oft-overlooked legacy is being shared and celebrated in a retrospective exhibition, online archive and tribute paper.

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Antiwar activist Tom Hayden (righ The Independent Eye // Phot

— New York’s 1960s underground paper — became the model for these types of publications.

“People liked (East Village Other’s) irreverence, its underground cartoons, its pro-drug stances, its humour and the way it explored the outer possibilities of what you can do with offset litho before it becomes illegible,” he writes.

“They ran collages, handwritten headlines, typewritten copy, printed the thing sideways, superimposed and upside-down. You got the sense of immediacy and the energy of the news as it happened, quickly slapped down on the boards as if it was hot gossip.

You got the sense that if they could do it, anyone could. And it was true.”

The Eye was no different. Though not included in Bizot’s book, reading that collection eventually led Neeley to stumble upon Cincinnati’s own underground press. After locating an extensive list of such publications, he found The Independent Eye. “Perhaps I was just naive, but I was floored by the sheer quantity of papers that were published in just about every pocket of the country,” he says. “It was, of course, a testament to the momentum of this transitional cultural period.”

Only traces of The Eye’s existence can be found through a quick internet search. And when Neeley reached out to his own local connections, only one person knew of The Eye — and that knowledge was limited. That person was Steve Schmoll, owner of Black Plastic Records. He recalled seeing copies of the paper in the ’90s when he lived in a communal space in Clifton.

Unfortunately, that was the extent of the information Schmoll had.

But in November 2017, Neeley’s curiosity brought him to the rare book room at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s Main Branch with The Eye’s archive spread before him. As an artist himself, he says he was first struck by the penand-ink style of the artwork in the paper. Going through the covers, he also was able to trace their “sociopolitical lineage to today's political climate.”

“I've always said that a lot of these covers could be published today, and you wouldn't know it was 50 years old,”

Neeley says. “It's also so obscure that I wanted to bring it out just because I did think it was like finding buried treasure where the only people who really know about this were the select few who got the paper at the time all those years ago.”

When he returned the archive, reference librarian Brian Powers struck up a conversation about the paper; it just so happened that Powers also knew Mr. Cincinnati, aka Jim Tarbell, who in 1969 opened famed music venue The Ludlow Garage, which brought artists of the era — from Santana to The Kinks to Iggy and the Stooges — to the Queen City.

Though not a direct contributor to The Eye, his name often appeared in concert advertisements as “Jim Tarbell Presents.” After the librarian connected Neeley to Tarbell via a spontaneous phone call, Neeley was then able to connect with Ellen Bierhorst, a local psychologist and one of the paper’s original founders, who coincidentally donated her copies of The Eye to the library in the ’90s. (Tarbell, Bierhorst and Neeley will participate in the aforementioned Nov. 13 panel discussion, with reference librarian Chris Smith as moderator.)

Of the paper, Smith has his own fond — if indirect — memories: his great grandmother was a reader herself.

“There’s something about it because it’s so organic,” Smith says, pointing to the paper’s varied concert ads and unique art style. “It’s surreal. I mean, it captures a time that was not only happening in Cincinnati, but it was happening around the country.”

Seeing the project to fruition felt like fate to Neeley. He spent the following year digging through the archive and calling past staff members — including Bierhorst, renowned local photographer Melvin Grier, photojournalist Ken Hawkins and Gerald Yukevich, now a practicing internist in Massachusetts — to take in as many details about the paper’s history as possible.

Aside from the event, that research also inspired him to spearhead Optic: A Visual Tribute to the Independent Eye. But more on that later.

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ht) with Cincinnati underground newspaper editor Alex Varone of o: Ken Hawkins/The Independent Eye/KenHawkinsPictures.com

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n a late summer morning, browned newspapers dated back to the late 1960s through the 1970s lay carefully stretched across a table in the “rare book room” at downtown’s Main Library. Scanning the pages, a single inked eyeball stares back as if to say, “You can’t escape me; I know who you are.”

It’s the first time I’ve seen physical copies of The Independent Eye, a progressive underground newspaper first published in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1968 shortly before moving its base to Cincinnati, where it printed issues through 1975. Like other underground papers across America, of which there were hundreds, its pages captured the counterculture movement that proliferated the decade by way of psychedelic art and articles that called for revolution, often with a sarcastic bite.

The staff rallied against the Vietnam War, wrote about issues surrounding the civil rights and women’s liberation movements, proclaimed their love for Rock & Roll and championed myriad forms of sociopolitical justice.

Like a clenched, raised fist, their mere existence was a symbol of solidarity against “the establishment.”

After sitting in the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s archives for over two decades, The Eye has recently been digitized, allowing anyone to “flip” through its artful pages on the library’s website. On Nov. 13 at 7 p.m., the Main Library will host a retrospective and panel discussion event delving into the history and relevance of the paper. Original newspapers and related photography will also be exhibited through the month at the main and Clifton branches.

These events came together serendipitously, spurred first by the curiosity of local artist Mark Neeley, who become interested in the counterculture publications of the ’60s and ’70s after reading Jean-Francois Bizot’s Free Press, an expansive volume detailing covers and inside pages from underground publications produced during the era.

In the foreword of Free Press, John Wilcock, co-founder of East Village Other, Other Scenes, The Village Voice and the Underground Press Syndicate, writes that the East Village Other

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GENESIS OF SIGHT

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Up a winding road in Clifton is the Lloyd House, partially obscured by towering trees with a cone-shaped roof peeking through. Once the home of Dr. John Uri Lloyd, a famed pharmacist and chemist, the house was designed by James W. McLaughlin in the Richardsonian style, also known as Romanesque Revival. Square stones, rounded arches, semi-circular windows and a recessed entryway, held up by a pair of columns, mark the immense exterior.

Bierhorst’s parents bought the house in 1957 and, after her father died, sold the house to her and her now-divorced husband, Monty Sher, in 1965. In the decades since, the space has served an array of purposes, including the one-time home of The Eye. During a recent interview, Bierhorst led me to her dining room, anchored by a large rectangular wooden table. At this table, decades prior, issues of The Eye were laid out, all without the help of modern technology.

After handing me a mug of chilled herbal tea, she told me the story of how Cincinnati’s former progressive underground paper came to be.

The first issue rolled out Feb. 26, 1968 in Yellow Springs, where it was printed on pamphlet-sized paper that was mimeographed — a way of duplicating copies from a stencil — then staple-bound, making it more characteristic of today’s zines rather than traditional newsprint. According to Bierhorst, they sold their first for 1 cent apiece.

(Subscriptions would later become available.)

Along with Bierhorst, who took on the role of production manager, and her husband, the paper was founded by Alex Varone (who managed editorial content) and Jennifer Koster, both seniors at Antioch College in Yellow Springs. “(They were) very political and very concerned about the war,” Bierhorst says of Varone and Koster. “You have to realize that many of our friends were being drafted and killed in Vietnam.”

People of all ages became radicalized by witnessing these events, Bierhorst says, but young people were especially “inflamed by the horror

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Ellen Bierhorst at the Lloyd House // PHOTO: Katie Griffith

of the war and the dawning suspicion that (the U.S.) government was lying.” Of her own radicalization, she recalls participating in a peaceful vigil in the late ’60s at Washington Park.

“There might have been 40 people there, Quakers, hippies, and it was a very modest demonstration,” she says. “But I remember looking up with my friend and seeing over

by Race Street, two men that were obviously plainclothes detectives.”

They went over to speak with them about their feelings toward the government, but she says they walked away. When they followed them, asking to have a conversation, the men ran up Race Street.

“I'm sure they were FBI people or something,” Bierhorst says. “Later we discovered that we have thick file in Washington, D.C. on our doings here at (The Eye). But when I realized that these two agents regarded me — a college graduate, nice Midwestern housewife and graduate student at the time — as a public enemy, something just put an axe through my head. And I became a radical.”

Emerging from her childhood in the ’50s, Bierhorst says it was as if a whole new universe was taking root around her. The Eye was a piece of that revolution. In its heyday, the paper came out every two weeks. Hippies would hawk them on street corners across Cincy, mostly in downtown and Clifton.

The war’s looming presence is evident from the first page. Though they ran original, locally focused articles, the paper’s coverage — especially in beginning issues — also came via the Liberation News Service, an anti-war syndicate that distributed news bulletins to alternative papers around the country from ’67 to ’81.

A brief aside in the inaugural issue reads: “The Eye is intended to provide a forum for news and views

not normally printed in the high school or local papers. The Eye welcomes letters, school gripes, and relevant articles. We need poetry as well.”

Among articles that included coverage in support of the Boston Five — referring to “men indicted for anti-draft conspiracy” during a demonstration in which they burned their draft cards — they urged readers to share and, if able, reprint the publication.

As the readership grew, Horace Champney, who owned The Yellow Springs News, offered to let them use his presses. Bierhorst wistfully recalls The Eye’s short-lived home as a traditional hot-lead print shop where the thrill of journalism thrived.

“Every two weeks, my husband and I would go up to Yellow Springs,” she says. “And all night long we would set the paper and put it to bed and in the morning, the pressman would ride off. It gives me chills remembering.”

That same year they moved their base to Cincinnati — with production at the Lloyd House — where their readership and support

grew. As a larger city in the region, the counterculture scene was not lost on the Queen City. Like most urban college towns, pockets of the movement could be found citywide, but particularly around the University of Cincinnati.

By the fifth issue in June of ’68, they began publishing The Eye on full size “broadsheet” paper on newsprint, using an offset (or lithographic) printing process.

“I did the design and managed the crew. We would have vegetarian potlucks,” Bierhorst says of those days. “It would take all night to put the paper to bed; I had a baby — somehow I managed all this crazy stuff.”

At any given time, Bierhorst estimated that there were maybe “25 hippies working on the paper” — artists, photographers, cartoonists, writers — many of which floated in and out during the paper’s seven-year lifespan.

“We were a part of history. And we did something important,” Bierhorst says. “We were part of a larger voice that opposed the war. And in the beginning, it was an uphill climb. We felt like, ‘Are we going to make it one more issue?’

“And then it was a whole year… We didn’t feel real to ourselves. But we just had to do this thing. And then it was two years and we started to believe in ourselves.”

A VOICE FOR SOUTHWEST OHIO

One of the first covers Neeley flipped to detailed the 1971 International Women’s March, which, having participated in 2017’s historic Women’s March in Washington, D.C., spoke to him. To trace the echoes of that activism was inspiring.

“What this paper represents is a microcosm for those progressive political movements from that era that gets lost in translation a lot,” Neeley says. “When people think about the ’60s they think about the caricature of the hippies and drugs and that was an all-important part of it.

But also I think we forget about this New Left movement, with the underground press being an oft-forgotten part of it.”

Though perhaps overlooked by history, war resistance papers were synonymous with the era. The same year The Eye printed its first issue was one of America’s most turbulent: civil rights giant Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated; the Tet Offensive proved to be a turning point in the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam and public approval for the war was fast dwindling; student activism swept through universities; Richard Nixon became president thanks in part to the support of the “silent majority”; and Apollo 8 orbited the moon, a win for the U.S. in their space race with the Soviet Union.

Amid the shifting culture, local and national activism and the raging war was The Eye, who in their time highlighted the Black Panther Party and women’s liberation

organizations. Entire issues delved into LGBTQ and workers’ rights. A sketch of Mao Tse-tung — a Chinese communist revolutionary who founded the People’s Republic of China — graced another cover in early 1971; carrying a boulder on his shoulders, his gaze is transfixed on an unseen vantage point, lost in the haze of introspection. The Eye took radical stances often, questioned police enforcement and the government at large, all with the ultimate mission of being a progressive voice for Southwestern Ohio.

Perhaps The Eye illustrated its purpose best in a contributor solicitation house ad: “Attention!

Muckrakers and informants, please contact the EYE, Freaky Schmekle wants you, (Enquirer, Post), television and radio employees: If the straight media won’t say it, we will. Keep your anonymity if you wish, but tell the story. If possible, please supply us with a means of verifying any far-out facts; we are interested only in the truth.”

And tell the story they did. Editorials on everything from abortion rights to rally coverage to drug use guides (specifically, marijuana) speak to The Eye’s mission — as did the paper’s ads. On the inside of one issue, a box reads, “ready to quit working for the establishment? see our job ads — pg. 6.” Classifieds detail everything from astral projection classes to band tryouts to a new LGBTQ newsletter dubbed Lavender Vision; one person even sought information on covens/devil worshippers in Cincinnati.

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Art/excerpts from The Independent Eye // PHOTOS: Courtesy of the collection of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

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Art/excerpts from The Independent Eye // PHOTOS: Courtesy of the collection of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

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In The Eye’s later years, the paper changed editors and moved from the Lloyd House to a row house that operated at 2283 Vine St. Things took a turn when, on Sept. 8, 1970, The Eye’s offices burned down. Though ruled an arson, police never found the suspect. The event is tied to the paper’s eventual dissolution, coupled with the coming of a more conservative 1980s.

An article in The Cincinnati Enquirer cited that four separate fires were set that week.

Other fires included one at the Rockdale Temple and the offices of Checkmates Inc. Though The Eye had reportedly made arrangements to print their paper at Rockdale Temple following the fire, Donald Yuellig, then assistant superintendent of the Fire Prevention Bureau, said he “didn’t know if there was any connection between” the two arsons — which occurred less than a week apart.

In 1989, The Enquirer revisited the case, reporting that former staffers of The Eye claimed Cincinnati police set the fire. In the article, former Eye editor Mike Wood says that the police “didn’t do an investigation. They just got out a paintbrush.”

After the fire, Wood claimed a Cincinnati police officer kept him out of the building while two plainclothes officers were allowed inside;

Wood alleged that they stole subscription lists and files. Additionally, Michael Avey, another Eye staffer, obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act that revealed the FBI’s surveillance of underground newspapers, including Cincinnati-based federal agents monitoring the bank accounts of The Eye. In light of these claims, city council hired special investigator John Barber to look into allegations of Cincinnati police being tied to the arson. But no new suspects were found.

“It's really a wild story, but it's also kind of a microcosm,” Neeley says of the arson. “In reading books about the underground press, the FBI got involved in some of these papers.

They saw them as targets, they saw them as being so radical that they were dangerous and un-American.”

At the time The Eye had moved out of the Lloyd House, Bierhorst says there was a “major schism” among the staff.

“We were so naive, we thought that anybody can have a vote. We would have a business meeting and make policies,” she says. “And anybody who showed up, and cared, would have a vote. And that was a mistake.”

At the time, there was a man Bierhorst said they later decided — “maybe without hard evidence” — was hired to infiltrate The Eye. He called for violence against the police, to “off the

pigs.” Being radicalized by the Quakers, who oppose war and violence, Bierhorst was (and still is) a pacifist. When the staff voted in the direction of violence, she cut ties.

“I was so exhausted and so brokenhearted,” Bierhorst says of the move. “By that time, the mainstream media was starting to show body bags and coffins… various horrible things came to light. The whole culture was changing and we weren’t the one lone wolf crying out in the wilderness.”

Beyond the drama of the fire, Bierhorst says there was opposition to the paper from the get-go. She says that early on they would go to churches and give anti-war talks, for which they were “vilified.” In one case, they received an ammo box full of dried feces in the mail.

She says police would drive by the house on production nights.

“The drama of the fire sort of draws people’s attention but, from my perspective, the important part of The Independent Eye had already happened when they moved (to Vine),” Bierhorst says.

After the fire in ’71, the paper no longer kept to its biweekly timetable and was sporadically published until 1975. Across the country, similar publications fizzled out, many even sooner. That The Eye hung on seven years made it unique among its contemporaries.

Art to be included in The Independent Eye tribute paper // ART: Tracy Miller-Robbins

A Visual Tribute

paper are on display at the library.

Imbued in psychedelic imagery that calls back to a past era, artists involved in Optic will be paid a stipend for their work, a feat made possible through a $3,500 Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation grant. Neeley received news of the funding in early October, but the tribute paper was always on the table — even if they had to scale back.

“I'd never written grant proposals and stuff like that,” Neeley says of the process. “So it was kind of horrible, to be honest. But in the end, after a lot of meetings and phone calls, I'm very grateful that (the funding) came through because my partner and I were almost ready to give up. We were still going to do it, but we were prepared to do a really small run.”

As envisioned, the paper will be free and distributed at spots like local record stores and at the library itself. Though it was intended for the tribute paper to be printed in time for the Nov. 13 library event, Neeley says that, due to funding being in limbo, it will likely come out near the end of November or early December.

Of the event’s relevance today, librarian Smith, who has worked on organizing the forthcoming event, says that he believes it will resonate not only with the generation who came of age during that era — and might have memories of The Eye’s activism and the various

Art to be included in The Independent Eye tribute paper // ART: Mark Neeley

concerts, hippie boutiques, record stores and bookshops advertised within — but also with young people who were not yet born.

“Once it's discovered on the digital library, an entirely new generation is going to realize, ‘Wow,’ ” Smith says. “It's going to make it real for them.”

As Bierhorst pours me another glass of tea, she recalls long nights of reporters clanking away in various rooms on electric typewriters. Looking down the length of the table, the scene feels tangible. Staffers running in with stories, photographs and art that tell of political happenings, outrage and revolution hot off the page. The team laying out each column and headline by hand. Calls for last-minute runs to DuBois Bookstore for materials.

“Those were the days but I'm proud that we did it,” Biehorst says. “I'm proud of having been a part of that."

The Independent Eye: Cincinnati’s Counterculture Alternative Press panel discussion will take place at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s Main Branch at 7 p.m. on Nov. 13. The exhibition runs through December. More info: cincinnatilibrary.org.

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Artist Neeley’s piece will come to fruition in multiple parts. In connection to the upcoming panel discussion, the paper’s entire archive was recently made accessible online, which Neeley says was vital because of its permanence. But perhaps most illustrative of his passion is Optic: A Visual Tribute to the Independent Eye. As the title suggests, the art-based tribute newspaper will be printed through a risograph — similar to a mimeograph — with a silkscreen cover. In an email, Neeley says that he and his partner, Jon Flannery, are putting the project together computer-free, an homage to The Eye’s process. It will contain illustrations, paintings, linoleum-cut prints and collages inspired by the underground paper, all contributed by local artists. Though there won’t be editorial content, captions and text will be created old-school — with a typewriter.

Optic contributors include Neeley, Flannery, Tara Heilman, Karen Boyhen, Joe Kuth, Bill Ross, Tracy Miller-Robbins, Lizzy DuQuette, Yusef Quotah, Antonio Adams, Celine Carey, Britni Bicknaver, John Lanzador, Emily Brandehoff, Julia Lipovsky and Sea Dax. A foldout insert will reveal a collage of original artwork from The Eye — but you should still peep the real-deal either online or while issues of the

“We Want Gardens,” to be included in The Independent Eye tribute paper // ART: Lizzy DuQuette

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LEGAL NOTICE

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A settlement as described below (“Settlement”) has been reached with Caremark, L.L.C. (“Caremark”), and Fiserv, Inc. and Fiserv Solutions, LLC (collectively, “Fiserv”) of a class action lawsuit alleging they wrongfully disclosed confidential, protected health information of certain participants in the Ohio Drug Assistance Program (“OhDAP”) in mailings that were mailed, provided, or sent for delivery in August 2017 (the “OhDAP Mailing”). OhDAP participants to whom the OhDAP Mailing was mailed, provided, or sent for delivery are entitled to compensation under the Settlement.

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (“Court”) authorized this notice in two cases, known as John Doe One, et al. v. CVS Health Corporation, et al., No. 2:18-cv-00238-EAS-CMV (S.D. Ohio) and John Doe v. CVS Health Corporation, et al., No. 2:18-cv-00488-EAS-CMV (S.D. Ohio) (collectively, the “Doe Lawsuits”).

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The Doe Lawsuits claim that the OhDAP Mailing disclosed OhDAP participants’ confidential, protected health information in violation of Ohio law. Caremark and Fiserv dispute that they have done anything wrong and believe that they have complied with all applicable laws. The Court has not decided which side is right.

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You are included in the Settlement if the OhDAP Mailing was mailed, provided, or sent for delivery to you.

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Under the terms of the Settlement, Caremark has agreed to pay the cash amount of $4,400,000 (the “Settlement Fund”) to settle and release claims arising out of or relating to the OhDAP Mailing, the alleged disclosure of protected health information in connection with the OhDAP Mailing, and/or the facts and allegations in the Doe Lawsuits. The Settlement Fund will be used to pay all settlement payments to all Settlement Class Members, all settlement administrator fees and expenses, all attorneys’ fees up to one-third of the Settlement Fund (plus costs and expenses), and all service awards to the Class Representatives (which may be up to $14,000).

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(1) Base Payment of at least $400 automatically provided (without the need to submit a Claim Form) to all Settlement Class Members for whom the Settlement Administrator has address information (this amount may be increased but never decreased); and (2) Payment of up to $10,000 for certain financial harm and $2,500 for certain nonfinancial harm, subject to a reduction depending on the total amount of damages claimed in valid Claim Forms received.

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If you have not received a notice about the Settlement with a Class Member ID and a Claim Form through the mail but believe you are a Settlement Class Member, you MUST contact the Settlement Administrator immediately at www.OhioPrivacySettlement.com or by calling 1-833-253-8060 to receive any benefits under this Settlement.

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If you receive in the mail a notice about the Settlement with a Class Member ID and a Claim Form, you will automatically be sent a check for at least $400. To receive additional compensation for financial and/or non-financial harm, follow the instructions in the notice and Claim Form. Additional information may be found by visiting www.OhioPrivacySettlement.com or calling 1-833-253-8060.

What Are Your Options?

If you do not want to be legally bound by the Settlement, you must exclude yourself from it by December 20, 2019, or you will not be able to sue, or continue to sue, Caremark, Fiserv, or the State of Ohio (including the Ohio Department of Health and OhDAP) about the claims this Settlement resolves. If you exclude yourself, you will not get money from the Settlement. If you stay in the Settlement Class, you can tell the Court that you do not agree with the Settlement by objecting to it by December 20, 2019.

This is only a summary of the Settlement. The full Notice of Settlement, available at www.OhioPrivacySettlement.com, explains how to exclude yourself or object and describes the released claims in detail.

Who Represents You? The Court appointed several law firms to represent the Settlement Class. You can locate this information at www.OhioPrivacySettlement.com. If you want to be represented by your own lawyer, you may hire one at your expense.

When Will The Settlement Be Approved?

The Court will hold a hearing on January 14, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. to consider whether to approve the Settlement, the request for payment of attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses, service awards to the Class Representatives, and the payment of the Settlement Administrator’s fees and costs. You or your own lawyer may ask to appear and speak at the hearing at your own cost, but you do not have to.

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If you want more information or want to review the Settlement’s terms, the Notice of Settlement and the Claim Form, or to inquire with the Settlement Administrator whether you are a Settlement Class Member, please visit www.OhioPrivacySettlement.com or call 1-833-253-8060.

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In the Anderson Towne Center, family owned and operated since 1987

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7466 Beechmont Ave., Anderson

1211 Main St., Over-the-Rhine 603 Main St., Covington, Ky.

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10” ALEX’ BBQ GRIPPO

Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue base, topped with chicken, onion, bacon, provolone, mozzarella and crushed Bar-B-Q Grippo’s.

10” BELLA MARIA

Olive oil and garlic base, tomato, provolone, mozzarella and feta, topped with fresh basil.

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3672 Erie Ave., Hyde Park

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13” DELICIO TRIO

9640 Mason Montgomery Road, Mason

10” WILD MUSHROOM

Olive oil base, mozzarella, wild mushrooms, arugula and parmesan.

10” FIESTA PIZZA

Olive oil base, mozzarella, cheddar cheese, blackened chicken, corn salsa, red pepper, topped with tortilla strips and chipotle ranch drizzle.

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1000 Summit Place (Summit Park), Blue Ash

12” SWEET DREAMS

Hand-tossed crust, arugula, truffled wild mushrooms, Ohio apple slaw, taleggio cheese and smoked honey.

C A M P O ROSS O WO O D FIRED PIZZERIA Camporosso.com Crushed tomato red sauce, fresh mozzarella cheese, basil and EVOO. Baked at 1000 degrees in an Italian brick oven.

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C AT C H - A - F I R E P I Z Z A MadTree Brewing, 3301 Madison Road, Oakley

Roasted garlic and olive oil, chicken, bacon, four cheeses, Happy Amber BBQ, white cheddar and scallion.

10” CRAVIN’ CHOKE

Artichoke crema, artichoke, arugula, Gruyere, spicy tomato coulis.

G R A N DV I E W TAV E R N GrandviewTavern.com 2220 Grandview Drive, Fort Mitchell, Ky.

Zesty creme fraiche, cavatappi pasta, house cheese, cheddar and American.

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11” MEATBALL

Our signature red sauce joins fresh basil, hand-sliced fresh mozzarella, Italian meatballs, shaved parmesan and a sprinkling of dried oregano to create an unmatched pizza specialty. GF crust available + $3

773 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills

10” SMILE BBQ

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2475 Dixie Highway, Ft. Mitchell

11” MARGHERITA PIZZA

Oil-based pizza with mozzarella, topped with a strawberry and arugula salad, loaded with shaved almonds. A spritz of lemon juice added to enhance the flavor and then murdered with a balsamic reduction.

Housemade pizza sauce, hand-sliced pepperoni, crimini mushrooms, banana peppers, house cheese blend.

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10” ELI’S BBQ PIZZA

Base of an Alabama white sauce, mixed mozzarella and provolone cheese, house-roasted chicken, house-pickled red onions, a shake of Eli’s BBQ rub and Eli’s BBQ sauce to finish.

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Fire-roasted tomato sauce, pepperoni, Italian sausage, salami, peppadew peppers and mozzarella.

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JALAPEÑO POPPER PIE

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601 Monmouth St., Newport, Ky.

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Pizza sauce, three-cheese blend, fresh mozzarella, roasted garlic, fresh basil and, of course, pepperoni.

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129 E. Second St., Covington, Ky.

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12” BACON & APPLE

9558 Civic Centre Blvd., West Chester

Olive oil, applewood smoked bacon, granny smith apples, arugula, blue cheese and mozzarella, finished with lemon vinaigrette.

13” DELUXE

Pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, onion, green bell pepper, olives and red bell pepper.

12” VEGETARIAN

13” MEDITERR ANEAN

White wine garlic sauce, sundried tomatoes, spinach, artichoke, goat cheese and mozzarella.

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5143 Montgomery Road, Norwood

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Salami, pepperoni, Roma tomato, sweet Italian sausage and diced pickle with spicy oil and vinegar.

12” GOTHAM GANGSTER

10” THE NORWOOD ASSEMBLY 10” CLASSIC CHEESE WITH TWO TOPPINGS

Perfectly thin and crisp pizza with tomato sauce and mozzarella, with your choice of up to two toppings.

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4831 Spring Grove Ave., Spring Grove Village

10” MARGHERITA

New Haven-style coal-fired Apizza with crushed tomato, fresh mozzarella and fresh basil.

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202 W. Main St., Mason

New York-style pizza with chicken, bacon, red onion, scallion and a barbecue sauce drizzle.

9” PEPPERONI DEEP DISH

Chicago-style pizza with a creamy mozzarella base followed by fresh, chunky tomato sauce and topped with pepperoni.

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Zablong.com

23 E. Sixth St., Downtown

16” OBLONG ZA- PREME

Homemade classic tomato sauce and mozzarella base, topped with pepperoni, mushroom, red peppers, green peppers and garnished with fresh-grated parmesan.

GF crust available + $1

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3531 Columbia Parkway, Columbia Tusculum 56 E. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine

14” VEGGIE SUPREME

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STUFF TO DO

Ongoing Shows DANCE: The Wizard of Oz Aronoff Center, Downtown (through Nov. 3)

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ART: On Belonging examines the ever-changing community of Over-the-Rhine via photos, stories and video.

See feature on page 37.

ONSTAGE: The Lifespan of a Fact explores the battle between storytelling and accuracy onstage at the Playhouse in the Park. See review on page 39.

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EVENT: Cincinnati Pizza Week Kick-Off Party CityBeat’s Cincinnati Pizza Week is back Nov. 4-10. But before you get to gorge on seven days’ worth of $8 pies from your favorite local pizzerias, Braxton Brewing Co. is hosting a kick-off party on Oct. 30 with sneak peek samples, your first chance to grab a Pizza Week passport, live music and plenty of Braxton brews. Then, starting Nov. 4, head to any one of the two dozen-ish participating area eateries— Catch-A-Fire, Dewey’s, Goodfellas, Harvest, Joe’s Pizza Napoli and more — to grab a cheap pizza and have your Cincinnati Pizza Week passport stamped. Get four or more stamps and enter to win $250 in gift cards. 5:308:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. Free admission. Braxton Brewing Co., 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, cincinnatipizzaweek.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO FILM: Halloween III: Season of the Witch at The Esquire Theatre John Carpenter’s Halloween is one of the most iconic slasher films to date, with its haunting minimalist score and tale of a crazed masked man killing young women in the American

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suburbs. It solidified Jamie Lee Curtis as the seminal Scream Queen and birthed not only an entire franchise but also greatly influenced a generation of horror cinema. 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch marked a departure for the series.

Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, it completely shed the Michael Myers storyline.

Dark but campy, it instead hones-in on a mad scientist who plans to mass murder children by way of an ancient Celtic ritual that involves satanic Halloween masks.

Though not as influential, its kookiness is worth a watch.

Luckily, you can revisit the flick at the Esquire Theatre — just in time for Halloween.

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. $10. Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, esquiretheatre.com.

— MACKENZIE MANLEY EVENT: Howl-O-Ween Costume Contest Bring your furry friend to Washington Park on Wednesday for a

Howl-O-Ween costume contest. Judges don’t care whether the outfit is homemade, store-bought or “somewhere in between,” and there will be prizes awarded for the Best Pair (owner and dog costume), Most Original Homemade Costume, Scared Silly (the scariest costume) and Fan Favorite.

You can enter your dog in more than one category, but they can only win once.

Registration is available at the park. Vendors including Good Paws Training, Rover The Rhine and Milli&Moo will also be on-site. 6-8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 30. Free.

Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

THURSDAY 31

EVENT: Longfellowship of the Ring Over-the-Rhine bar Longfellow is doing its annual Halloween costume change and transforming from its typical hip drinking destination into Longfellowship of the Ring,

a Lord of the Rings-themed hobbit haunt. Expect karaoke “in the fires or Mordor,” surrounded by homemade boulders, and $4 ales. Partygoers are encouraged to “wear elf ears,” “fight evil” and “smoke pipe-weed.” The best costumes will be awarded prizes. 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. Free admission. Longfellow, 1233 Clay St., Overthe-Rhine, facebook.com/ longfellowcinti. — MAIJA ZUMMO EVENT: SkyRosa’s at Northside Yacht Club The Northside Yacht Club is transforming into SkyRosa’s, “Cincinnati’s No. 1 Chizzaria,” just in time for Halloween.

For one night only, the bar will be slinging a disgustingly delicious blend of Cincinnati’s favorite regional delicacies: Skyline-style chili and LaRosa’s pizza.

The menu will feature a cheese coney wrapped in a slice of pizza (with an available vegetarian option); SkyRosa’s fries topped with chili and cheese on one side

and marinara, cheese and pepperoni on the other (also with a vegetarian option); and smoked chicken and/ or cauliflower wings with a parmesan marinara or chili cheese sauce. Last year, NSYC transformed into Applebee’s for Halloween and people lost their minds.

Expect a crowd this time around...and heartburn. 4-10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. Free admission. Northside Yacht Club, 4227 Spring Grove Ave., Northside, facebook. com/northsideyachtclub.

— MAIJA ZUMMO

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MUSIC: Ian Noe brings gritty Appalachian Folk to the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 48.

EVENT: Dent Schoolhouse Lights-Out Tour As an adieu to spooky szn, the Dent Schoolhouse bows out with perhaps the scariest iteration of their already scream-worthy haunt: a Lights-Out Tour. This year’s

theme is “ZoBo’s Revenge 2.0” — aka the schoolhouse will be filled to the brim with monstrous clowns. Seriously.

Maybe don’t wear a yellow raincoat and steer clear of anything involving the sewer system...just to be safe, ya know? Each group will be given only one glow stick to guide them through the darkness. If you really want to up the fear factor, a touch pass allows Dent’s actors to physically touch you (in an appropriate and safe manner, says their website).

7:30-11:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2. $25-$50. Dent Schoolhouse, 5963 Harrison Ave., Dent, frightsite.com.

— MACKENZIE MANLEY EVENT: Layers of Wonder The Cincinnati Museum Center is celebrating its legacy — which began more than 200 years ago with the founding of the Western Museum Society — with an extravagant party. Layers of Wonder, as the event is dubbed, will bring crafted cocktails, light

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EVENT: Northside Record Fair The Northside Record Fair returns with thousands of LPs, 45s, 7-inches, CDs, cassettes, posters, T-shirts and assorted memorabilia for sale from more than two dozen vendors. Sponsored by local record shops Torn Light Records and Shake It Records, regional vendors include Skeleton Dust Records from Dayton, Vinyl Shock from Columbus, Atlantic Posters from Chicago, Half-Price Books, Ohio’s WonderTwin Records pop-up and plenty more. According to the event description, “This ain’t no Beatles and Elvis fair. These vendors will be bringing out the good stuff, the rare stuff, the stuff you only dream of finding.”

Think Punk, Psych, Blues, Classic Rock, World Music, Garage Rock, Hip Hop, Experimental, Industrial…the list goes on. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. $5; $10 early bird entry at 10 a.m.

North Church, 4222 Hamilton Ave., Northside, facebook.com/ northsiderecordfair. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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ART: The Last Picture Show and Shelter In Place 3 usher in the 10th-anniversary of Northside’s ThunderSky, Inc. See feature on page 35.

EVENT: Fountain Square Ice Rink Opening Weekend Sorry, Michael Myers: your time is over; it’s Gremlins season now. If it’s on-brand for you to listen to Xmas-themed playlists as soon as November hits — no judgment here — take note: From 6-10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2 you can witness Macy’s holiday tree going up on Fountain Square to launch the season. And if you’re really feeling the spirit, at 10 a.m. that same day, the Fountain Square Ice Rink will open to the public for a tree trimming party (starting at noon). Wear some flannel — of the lumberjack variety, not grunge — throw on a scarf, grab some hot cocoa and you’ll basically be an extra in one of those Hallmark movies. How very twee. Though typically $4, skate rental will be free all opening weekend long with the purchase of admission ($6). The rink will be open daily (except certain

holidays) through Feb. 2, 2020, so you’ll have plenty of time to hone your skills and maybe not embarrass yourself completely. Concessions will be selling hot and cold snacks and boozy beverages. And if you want to see that tree get lit, come back Nov. 29 for Macy’s Light Up the Square (6 p.m.midnight), which will feature live music, food trucks and Saint Nick himself (or so a press release, er, elf told us). 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 and Sunday Nov. 3. $6 skate admission.

Fountain Square, 520 Vine St., Downtown, myfountainsquare.com. — MACKENZIE MANLEY EVENT: Mac & Cheese Throwdown CityBeat’s secondannual Mac & Cheese Throwdown will take place at downtown’s The Phoenix on Nov. 2. Local chefs will go head to head in a melty, cheesy smackdown competition pitting mac and cheese dish against mac and cheese dish to see whose creation reigns supreme.

The event will feature more than 15 local mac-andcheese slingin’ restaurants including favorites like Eli’s BBQ, Fiery Hen, Keystone’s Mac Shack, MamaBear’s

Mac (the winner of 2018’s throwdown), Lucius Q and Court Street Lobster Bar. Expect fun and flavorful creations like brisket mac and cheese, lobster mac and cheese, white truffle mac and cheese and more. Tickets include endless samples, drink tickets, live music and your chance to vote for the best mac. If you’re looking to kick things up a notch, opt for the VIP ticket, with general admission perks plus early entry (11:15 a.m.), a private bar, exclusive VIP vendors, an additional drink ticket and some swag. 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 2. $35; $50 VIP. The Phoenix, 812 Race St., Downtown, macandcheesecincy.com.

— HAILEY BOLLINGER EVENT: Great Ohio Brew N’ Que Fifty West and Great Lakes Brewing Company are teaming up again for the fifth annual Great Ohio Brew N’ Que, a big ol’ beer and barbecue party. The two breweries have crafted their annual collaboration brew — this year, it’s Pip’s Pale Ale — which will be on tap during the party along with other specialty beers including Fifty West’s Double Home Sweet Home

EVENT: Rhinegeist Rare Beer Fest Drink your way across America while staying in one spot thanks to Rhinegeist’s 2019 Rare Beer Fest. Try some of country’s rarest beers from up to 40 participating breweries with origin points ranging from your own backyard all the way to Yakima, Washington. The event is split into two sessions and the VIP options for both sessions have already sold out.

General admission includes 10 beer samples as well as a tasting notebook; the VIP option — if you snagged a ticket — includes 10 beer samples, four samples from the exclusive bar, a tasting notebook, a food token and a take-home bottle of Rhinegeist’s Rare Beer Fest Specialty Blend. Session One: 1-5 p.m.; Session Two: 6-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2. $45; $70 VIP. Rhinegeist,

1910 Elm St., Over-theRhine, rhinegeist.com.

— CAMERON BYERS

SUNDAY 03

EVENT: John Cusack heads to the Taft Theatre for a screening of Say Anything followed by a Q&A. See interview on page 38.

TUESDAY 05

MUSIC: Acclaimed Indie Rocker Lucy Dacus supports her covers EP 2019 at The Woodward Theater. See interview on page 45.

MUSIC: Early Post Punk band Killing Joke opens for Tool at the U.S. Bank Arena. See Sound Advice on page 49.

MUSIC: Tool Fans who waited 13 years for the release of Progressive/Alt Metal heroes Tool’s fifth album, Fear Inoculum, were understandably giddy with excitement over its release in August. The same day as the release, local fans got even more reason to get excited as the band announced a return to Cincinnati on the Fear Inoculum tour. Tool has played Cincinnati several times over the past 20-plus years. In 1996 they performed at The Garage (at the site of the former Caddy’s downtown, near the riverfront) and they were last in town 10 years ago when they performed at Riverbend’s PNC Pavilion. Fear Inoculum topped Billboard’s album chart upon its release, knocking Taylor Swift out of the top spot (and leading to some amusing confusion among Swift’s fans over CONTINUES ON PAGE 32

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bites, live music and entertainment to the museum for an enchanting evening of exploration and indulgence.

The party will have bars on every level as well as hors d’oeuvres from local culinary favorites for guests to enjoy while they peruse various exhibits. “Walk the cobblestone streets past an 1850s steamboat and beer hall as you feast on a rustic Cincinnati staple and raise a stein of your favorite local brew. Sneak into a 1930s speakeasy to enjoy a Manhattan and decadent desserts. Embrace your inner carnivore or herbivore as you graze in the shadow of dinosaurs and explore the nooks and crannies of The Cave with a spiked shaved ice in hand. And let our mad scientists delight your taste buds with liquid nitrogenfueled foods and fizzing cocktails,” a press release reads. There will also be an incognito sketch artist meandering throughout the celebration to capture moments from the evening. 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. $200; $150 member; $225 premium. Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate, cincymuseum. org/layersgala. — HAILEY BOLLINGER

marshmallow sweet potato brown ale, Hit the Road Jack maple pecan brown ale and Ghost of Imogene barrel-aged imperial stout, and Great Lakes’ Christmas Ale, Ohio City oatmeal stout and Blackout Stout, which is aged in Heaven Hill barrels.

Chefs from each brewery have also come together to create some tasty barbecue.

Tickets include an all-youcan eat buffet (with vegetarian options) and eight beer tickets. Additional beer will be available for purchase.

4-midnight Saturday, Nov. 2. $40; $20 designated driver (includes food but not beer).

Fifty West Production Works, 7605 Wooster Pike, Columbia Township, fiftywestbrew. com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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MUSIC: Kentucky Roots musician Joan Shelley headlines the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 50.

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COMEDY: Mark Chalifoux It’s a busy time for comedian Mark Chalifoux, onstage and off. “I’m coaching 6-yearolds in soccer,” he says, “and I’ve been traveling a lot.”

He’s hoping to end 2019 on a high note. “I’m going to win my fantasy football league championship, then get a TV spot,” he states. He’s also trying to get pal, fellow comic Josh Sneed, to reboot their popular podcast Detention. “I was somewhere and a guy said to me, ‘I love your podcast.’ I thought, ‘You’ve got the wrong guy.’” But the fan continued, “You had Jimmy Pardo and T.J. Miller on.” That was indeed Detention. “That’s a super fan,” Chalifoux says. His album, Think Fast, which came out in 2018, continues to do well. Although you can buy it, Chalifoux recommends simply streaming it from your

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MUSIC: Folk icon Bob Dylan plays BB&T Arena.

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SPORTS: Cyclones Shut Out The Hate Night The Cincinnati Cyclones are taking pride to the ice with their Shut Out the Hate promotion to celebrate the “diversity of (their) fans, employees, players and coaches, because Hockey Is Anyone’s Game.” The concourse at U.S. Bank Arena will have a special LGBTQ support and family resources pop-up and the team will be donning Shut Out the Hate jerseys to be auctioned off after the

game, with additional Shut Out the Hate merchandise available online and in person. Proceeds from the jersey and merch sales will be donated to local LGBTQ charities. The team faces off against the Brampton Beast.

7:30 p.m. puck drop Friday, Nov. 8. $18-$30. U.S. Bank Arena, 100 Broadway St., Downtown, cycloneshockey. com. — MAIJA ZUMMO MUSIC: Marcus Miller Though known as an influential Jazz player, bass superhero Marcus Miller is far from just a “Jazz bassist.” He’s done sessions with Jazz greats like Herbie Hancock and Dizzy Gillespie, collaborated with David Sanborn and Wayne Shorter and worked closely with Miles Davis in the ’80s, producing, writing and playing on Davis’ late-period work, including the Grammywinning Tutu. He had a similar (though longer and more commercially fruitful) relationship with R&B legend Luther Vandross, for whom

TUESDAY 05

ONSTAGE: Mean Girls at the Aronoff Center Wildly popular teen comedy film Mean Girls is headed to Broadway in Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center during its national tour. The musical is based on the 2004 movie, which tells the story of a clan of popular teens — dubbed "The Plastics" — who become at odds with an innocent girl that moves into their suburban Illinois town from the African savanna and attempts to take down the queen bee. The award-winning creative team behind the Mean Girls musical includes director Casey Nicholaw (Aladdin, The Book of Mormon), author Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde). Nov. 5-17. $35-$115. Aronoff Center, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, cincinnatiarts.org. — HAILEY BOLLINGER

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ATTRACTION: Christmas Nights of Lights Yes. As soon as Halloween is over, it’s time for holiday lights. Coney Island transforms into a drive-thru Christmas show during the ten-week-long Christmas Nights of Lights. Enjoy the warmth of your car while lights manipulated to resemble dancing candy canes, glowing snowmen, colorful tunnels and giant holiday trees are synchronized to Christmas tunes both classic and new available via your car radio. The two-and-a-half-mile long display features more than one million lights. The show begins at dusk and runs until 10 p.m. daily through Jan. 5, 2020. $6 per person. Coney Island, 6201 Kellogg Ave., California, coneyislandpark.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

EVENT: Greater Cincinnati Holiday Market The Greater Cincinnati Holiday Market returns to the Duke Energy Convention Center, offering a one-stop shop for holiday gifting.

There will be more than 350 boutiques and specialty stores, but this is more than

a shopping spree — it’s an outing. Take breaks from buying and hang out in the wine and appetizer lounge or visit the adjacent Cincy Specialty Food & Treats Show for some goodies.

And on Friday and Saturday evening (4-7 p.m.), there’s a special Girls Night Out promo with discounted tickets. 8 a.m.-11 a.m. VIP and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. general admission Friday, Nov. 8; 8 a.m.-10 a.m. early entry and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. general admission Saturday, Nov. 9; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10. $10; $20 early entry; $30 VIP; $7 Girls Night Out; discounted tickets online. Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Downtown, cincinnatiholidaymarket.com.

— CAMERON BYERS ATTRACTIONS: Holiday Junction at the Cincinnati Museum Center The 73rd-annual Holiday Junction will transform the Cincinnati Museum Center into a whimsical winter wonderland through Jan. 5, 2020. The classic Duke Energy Holiday Trains display includes more than 300 rail cars and 60 locomotives

that run on 1,000 feet of track. Real train aficionados can have fun identifying the new and old formations within the display’s intricate diorama, including a Carlisle & Finch 1904 toy train and a pre-World War II Lionel set.

In addition to a whole lot of locomotives, the event also features a special “interactive winter wonderland” where guests can build snowmen, leave footprints and even take a ride on a train. You can also pay a visit to Brickopolis, where you’ll find plenty of Disney and comic book character portrayed in fun LEGO-style scenes. Or head to Tower A on weekends to get a view of the Union Terminal rail yard. Nov. 8-Jan. 5, 2020. $14.50 adult; $13.50 senior; $10.50 ages 3-12; $5.50 ages 1-2; free for members.

Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate, cincymuseum.org.

— HAILEY BOLLINGER

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MUSIC: Wilco Jeff Tweedy might want to just get an apartment in Cincinnati. He was here last year to promote his fantastic memoir, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back). The live interview/performance event at Walnut Hills High School was one of only six dates on the book tour. Then this year Tweedy played a solo show at Music Hall’s Ballroom, which was part solo acoustic concert, part stand-up comedy set (throughout, the singer/songwriter did a running bit about how the gig CONTINUES ON PAGE 3 4

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he wrote and produced during the most successful period of the singer’s career.

Miller has also worked with other notable superstar artists, including Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Elton John and Bryan Ferry, and his résumé includes film scores for more than two dozen movies, including 2017’s Marshall. Miller is also an accomplished solo artist and bandleader, with 13 studio albums to his name. His most recent was last year’s Laid Black on Blue Note Records, on which he incorporated everything from Gospel to Trap into his groove-centric Contemporary Jazz mix.

8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8. $45-$85. Ludlow Garage, 342 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, ludlowgaragecincinnati.com.

— MIKE BREEN

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Rolling Stone both said it was their best album in years. Wilco has played Cincinnati consistently over the past three decades, from a small club show at Ripley’s and an opening set with The Jayhawks and Victoria Williams at the Cincinnati Zoo to headlining concerts at the Aronoff Center and the Taft. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9. $45-$75. Taft Theatre, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, tafttheatre.org. — MIKE BREEN

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EVENT: Brick Bar When we wrote about the Brick Bar popup this spring — and when it was slated to appear in Cincinnati in July and then was rescheduled for November — did we really think the bar made with more than 1 million LEGO-style bricks was going to appear in the Queen City? No. We did not. But it seems like Brick Bar is actually coming and it’s popping up at the American Sign Museum (probably the most ideal place for this type of playful event). The traveling bar — which features LEGO-style sculptures and fountains, DJs, an adult ball pit, pingpong and a bevy of the building bricks for anyone to use — has made its way from Australia to London to America. Of course, it wouldn’t be a pop-up bar without booze, and Brick Bar offers cocktails and beer in oversized containers shaped like LEGO blocks. You have to reserve your spot in advance for a 90-minute session in the bar. Food and drink are sold separately. 4-11:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8 and 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9. $15-$25. American Sign Museum, 1330 Monmouth Ave., Camp Washington, thebrickbars.com. — TOMMY MCDONALD

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was like a wedding reception due to the odd configuration of the venue). After the book and a pair of solo albums, Tweedy has reconnected with his Wilco bandmates for Ode to Joy, the group’s 11th studio album, which was released in early October. Wilco is a perennial critical darling but there seemed to be more praise than usual for Joy; Stereogum and

EVENT: Friends Fest at MadTree Get by with a little help from your friends at MadTree during Friends Fest 2019, a celebration of brewery relationships featuring more than 40 beers, cocktails and mead, plus bites from select brewery chefs and Catch-AFire pizza. MadTree’s buddies include Blackberry Farms, Creature Comforts, Fat Heads, Jackie O’s, Stone Brewing and many more — both regional and national. Each boozy purveyor is bringing a selection of special creations, BAR and MadTree is also releasing a couple of collaboration brews: an IPA with Creature Comforts and a Belgian-style ale with Blackberry Farms. Ticketing is limited to 300 people. 3-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9. $99; $149 specialty bottle pack. MadTree, 3301 Madison Road, Oakley, facebook.com/ madtree. — MAIJA ZUMMO MUSIC: GA-20 with Neal Francis Unlike the vast majority of contemporary Blues acts, in their songwriting and recording, duo GA-20 (Matthew Stubbs and Pat

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Free. Fretboard, 5800 Creek Road, Blue Ash, fretboardbrewing.com. — MIKE BREEN

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EVENT: Art on Vine Monthly maker pop-up Art on Vine is moving indoors to its winter hub at Rhinegeist. Discover and shop more than 70 local crafters, collectors and fine artists while sipping on a brew or snacking on dishes from Sartre OTR. Noon-7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10. Free admission. Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine, artonvinecincy.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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A Decade of Thunder-Sky, Inc. Gallery founders look back on 10 years of the beloved Northside art space

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came up with my own alter ego,” Kingdom Master says, sipping a glass of orange juice at The Comet, a bar located next door to the gallery. Like Ross, he grows buoyant when speaking about the people brought together by Thunder-Sky, Inc. Ross and Banner began regularly exhibiting Raymond’s and the Kingdom Master’s work alongside other similarly unconventional artists at Base Gallery.

Later, merging curatorial and social work led to Ross and Banner founding Visionaries + Voices (V+V), a studio day program for artists with disabilities.

In 2002 Raymond was diagnosed with cancer. At the end of October 2002, Raymond would be cancer free; V+V opened the following August.

But Raymond’s cancer returned in 2004 and he died that October.

“It was a beautiful full moon,” Ross recalls of the night Raymond passed away.

As V+V grew, Ross and Banner felt like they were losing control of their own creation. By 2007, fractures in the relationship appeared, leading to a messy split. (Both emphasize that they have since made amends and are proud of what the organization is doing today).

The story has all the elements of Raymond’s drawings: There’s a demolition, but it’s not really about destruction; it’s about imagining a better world, through the eyes of a man in a clown suit and hard hat.

“It’s really hard to create utopia, and that’s where we came from, that innocent

idea that art can make things come together,” Banner says.

In 2009 they gave utopia another try. On Oct. 30, Thunder-Sky, Inc. opened its doors in Northside. The exhibition, Raymond Nation, doubled as a fundraiser to purchase a headstone for Raymond’s grave.

Soon the focus of the gallery would shift to bringing unconventional artists together with more established ones.

“And that was like kerosene,” Ross says.

The Cincinnati art world agreed. In the past decade, Thunder-Sky, Inc. has cultivated a reputation as a beloved iconoclast.

Openings are joyful and weird. One of Ross’s favorite memories was at the opening of Radical Visibility, featuring work by Chicago fashion designer Sky Cubacub.

“Oh my God, the energy that night was so insane. It was just beyond,” he says. “And it was all positive energy. I thought we were going to collapse the floor.”

Flash forward and we’re back at The Comet enjoying drinks after an exhibit closing. Ross and Kingdom Master are there, as are other members of the Thunder-Sky, Inc. community.

Emily Brandehoff says she never viewed herself as an artist until she met Ross nine years ago. She now exhibits regularly. “(When) you meet someone like Bill, who fills you with so much confidence, it makes you want to show people what you do,” Brandehoff says.

She now looks to extend that generosity to others.

But Banner points out there’s more to Thunder-Sky, Inc. than a feel-good sense of community.

“Raymond was a figure people were afraid of. The police were called on him,” he says. “People were repelled by him.”

He was an “other” in every sense.

Maybe this is Thunder-Sky, Inc.’s radical proposition: “When you actually confront the otherness and weirdness of people, it’s a little jarring,” Banner says. “It’s hard to have equality and acceptance in the art world, where it’s about a meritocracy.

We’re not after that. We’re after this shared aesthetic that isn’t even an aesthetic — it’s more like a club, where everyone makes art. It may not be good art, it may not be bad art, we don’t even know. But we’re gonna frame it and put it up on the wall every two months to see what happens.

“We’re trying to figure something beyond all the other shit that other people figure out. I think that’s what Raymond was trying to do.”

Call it a sensibility, or an aesthetic, but there’s something here: a Thunder-Skyness that brings everything together.

Whatever it is, it tells of art’s capacity to bridge disparate realities to find a place of solidarity. The hand-painted sign above the entrance says it best: Vital Art Spirit.

The Last Picture Show and Shelter In Place 3 run through Dec. 13 at ThunderSky, Inc. (4573 Hamilton Ave., Northside).

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t’s a Saturday afternoon in the basement of Thunder-Sky, Inc. Strands of holiday lights cast a celebratory glow on artists sitting around a table discussing their work. In a corner, Bill Ross, who co-founded the gallery with Keith Banner, hunches over a brightly-colored canvas of a tentacled figure poised to smash a cupcake with a hammer.

On Oct. 26, exhibitions The Last Picture Show and Shelter In Place 3 opened at Thunder-Sky, Inc., ushering in the gallery’s 10-year anniversary.

“Gosh, I don’t even know where to start,” Ross says. “It’s like pulling the thread on a sweater.”

He can hardly believe a decade has gone by. And it all started with Raymond Thunder-Sky. In 1999, Ross, an artist and social worker, had been assigned a new client named Raymond Thunder-Sky. It wasn’t long before he recognized something special.

“He just opened the door into a whole new world for me,” Ross says. “I never expected to find somebody with such an intense sense of what they were doing.”

Raymond was already something of a public figure: A man of few words, he was frequently spotted at demolition sites wearing a hard hat, drawing the scene with markers on a pad of paper. But it wasn’t his toolbox of art supplies that captivated onlookers. It was his clown suit.

Ross didn’t know any of this yet. But after seeing his art, he knew the world needed to know Raymond.

Ross and Banner — then involved with Over-the-Rhine’s Base Gallery — exhibited 12 of his drawings in the spring of 2000. Raymond’s idiosyncratic portrayals of cranes and half-demolished buildings revealed a desire for a better world. Ross recalls lines around the block to see them.

It also attracted the attention of Antonio Adams, who would become a key figure in the Thunder-Sky, Inc. community — and something of a spiritual guide for Ross.

(Adams has requested that I refer to him as “Art Thing: Kingdom Master of the Universe” in this article.)

“I saw Raymond and his work, and then I

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What Does it Mean to Belong?

A project spearheaded by former People’s Liberty fellow Asa Featherstone spotlights families and individuals that call the neighborhoods surrounding Findlay Market home

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“I ended up just kind of hanging out and getting to know a lot of the people that were employees there and also just walked up to them and simply asked them to be a part of the project,” Featherstone says.

With his background in photography and videography, he documented their stories by way of portraits and videos and asked subjects about their connection to the market. The title of his project revolves around a resounding question: “What does it mean to belong?”

“It’s a pretty broad question,” Featherstone says. “It created the space for each of the people that I talked (with) to come up with their own response, but they’ll share their connection with that — their connection to that question.”

Six stories are featured on the project’s website, some from families and some from individuals. If you’ve taken a recent stroll through Findlay Market, you’ve likely seen images from On Belonging displayed on the walls, joined by a quote from the people involved. (Full stories are online.)

“Each portrait that’s around the market will only have one snippet or insert from a larger piece of the story,” Featherstone says. “I would like to encourage others to continue to dig in to the stories and get to know some of these people.”

The project took a total of three months, from contacting the families, interviewing and editing the stories and media to setting up the website and installing the photos around Findlay Market. Each story

carried meaning for Featherstone, who says he enjoyed developing relationships with every individual.

“The way I see, each story contributes equally to create one whole story about their relationship to their neighborhood,” he says.

Another point of the project is to make people intentional about the spaces they’re using, Featherstone says, adding that many cities are in a “renaissance.”

He says Cincinnati has areas that can be seen as tourist destinations, but we often forget those who live there and create that community. When it comes to Findlay, he wants to recognize the individuals and cultures that have made it a historic spot.

“Understand that the space and the things that you get to enjoy in a city, specifically, don’t just come out of nowhere,” Featherstone says. “It’s really a lot of the love and amazingness that comes from the people that live there — and have lived there — and are continuing to make that place amazing.”

That sentiment is posed on the project’s website, which states that: “For better or worse, neighborhoods and communities everywhere are changing — including Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati. So what keeps these neighborhoods so special? We’re talking about changes to the physical landscape, changes in neighbors, and changes in power — much of which can leave us feeling disconnected — and as people we long for unity.”

On Belonging is one answer to that need for unity. Throughout the project, Featherstone told himself that it wasn’t about him. Though humbled to use his gifts and talents to uplift voices, the project ultimately was for others. He says that Over-the-Rhine is in jeopardy of turning over all of its culture for the sake of money.

He says without the people, these spaces don’t have anything else, just “a bunch of buildings and dollar signs.”

It’s been rewarding for him to watch families return to Findlay Market after years of not visiting to see their photo displayed. Featherstone says this makes them feel appreciated being in that space because they can see their value.

Though what he did may seem small, Featherstone says that it will impact future generations and the images, installed on clear vinyl, will be on display indefinitely.

Featherstone also has hopes of expanding On Belonging to other Cincinnati neighborhoods in the future.

“It’s a lot bigger than just some portraits on buildings,” he says. “It really is something that just has an everlasting life to it because the people that were involved in the neighborhood were cared for and put as a priority, which hasn’t been the case in recent occasions.”

You can view On Belonging in person at Findlay Market (1801 Race St., Over-theRhine) or online at on-belonging.com.

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ow do you preserve the spirit of a changing neighborhood?”

It’s a question that Asa Featherstone, a People’s Liberty Haile Fellow, contemplated in regard to the everchanging Over-the-Rhine community. The answer came through a series of blackand-white photos, videos and written stories packaged as On Belonging.

People’s Liberty, a five-year philanthropic experiment that began in 2014 and was funded by the Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, gave grants to people, rather than organizations, to pursue meaningful projects. Featherstone began his six-month fellowship earlier this year with the task of answering the aforementioned question, specifically about Findlay Market. (Featherstone’s project came to fruition late this summer.)

“One of the things that I thought about in finding ways to preserve this spirit was to first identify what that spirit is, and I feel that the spirit resides in the people that live in the neighborhood,” Featherstone says.

Featherstone says the project’s objective was to re-establish a meaningful relationship with people in the neighborhood who might feel like the Findlay Market area wasn’t a space for them anymore. In physically placing their stories in the market, he wanted to uplift the individuals and families who call the area surrounding the market home and, in turn, create a deeper sense of ownership.

Featherstone hosted a total of four dinners (along two other Haile Fellows, Kyle Ebersole and Brian Yangyuen, who were working on their own projects) for local families with the goals of fostering community and of re-establishing Findlay Market as a welcoming space. It was through these shared meals, and simply by hanging around the market, that Featherstone was able to find families to participate in On Belonging.

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John Cusack has appeared in more than going to be like Lennon and McCartney.’

80 movies since 1983. The 53-year-old Obviously that’s the broadest analogy, Chicago-area native has been a distinctive because they’re Lennon and McCartney, presence in discerning works by directors but the dynamic was the same, which was including John Sayles (Eight Men Out), that McCartney would write, ‘You have to Stephen Frears (The Grifters and High admit it’s getting better, it’s getting better Fidelity), Woody Allen (Bullets Over all the time.’ And Lennon would come in Broadway), Terrence Malick (The Thin Red and say, ‘It can’t get no worse.’ That’s the Line), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich paradox. and Adaptation) and David Cronenberg “So it wasn’t that Lloyd was going to be (Maps to the Stars). optimistic because he was oblivious to He’s been in box-office hits like Con Air, having a dark side himself or to having any popular romantic comedies like America’s of those darker tones; it was that despite Sweethearts and goofy one-offs like Hot (those tendencies) he was going to be Tub Time Machine. He’s played everyone optimistic. That was the rub or conflict that from the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson (Love made it work.” & Mercy) to Richard Nixon (The Butler) and Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven).

But one character and movie seem to stand alone in Cusack’s filmography: Lloyd Dobler in Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything. In celebration of the movie’s 30th anniversary, Cusack will appear at a postscreening Q&A at the Taft Theatre 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, part of a multi-city tour that, depending on the stop, also features screenings of his other cultish staples, High FidelJohn Cusack as Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything ity and Grosse Pointe Blank.

Say Anything is unique PHOTO: T WENTIETH CENTURY FOX in its enduring resonance for multiple reasons, none more important than Cusack’s unguarded Say Anything was well-received critically performance as Dobler, a charmingly but barely made back its modest budget earnest but unorthodox 19-year-old when released in the spring of 1989. Yet, in kickboxing aficionado who has no idea the age of VHS and later DVD, it gradually what he wants to do with his life. That garnered a cult following, becoming one of changes when he meets and falls in love the most beloved movies of its kind and a with Diane Court (an equally stellar Ione staple of a particular moment in history — Skye), a single-minded high-school senior a pre-internet, pre-cell phone America that whose demanding dad (John Mahoney) would be almost unrecognizable less than has nurtured her to be the best student she a decade later. can be, culminating in the procurement of Cusack is gratified that Say Anything has a prestigious fellowship in England. become something of a touchstone, one in Lloyd and Diane are an unlikely couple which audiences’ affection for the characin a romantic comedy that undercuts cliters is apparent. ché through an emotionally nuanced and “You walk into a screening and hear peouniquely detailed script by Crowe, then a ple reacting to the movie,” Cusack says. “I first-time director who made his name as a think it’s probably because people still like teenage music journalist at Rolling Stone. the movie so much and they sort of have an In a recent telephone conversation with interactive quality with it like Rocky Horror CityBeat, Cusack admits that he was inior something. They are way into it.” tially reluctant to take the part — he was 23 While Cusack is happy to talk about Say at the time and wary of inhabiting another Anything, he isn’t interested in addressing young-man role — but acquiesced when where Lloyd and Diane might be today.

Crowe allowed him to inject Lloyd with “I sort of love the ambiguity of that, so I darker and more playful tendencies. usually don’t like to think about it,” Cusack “Yeah, that was my main concern,” says. “I just like to leave it as it is.”

Cusack replies when asked about the risk A screening of Say Anything will be of Lloyd coming off as too much of a puppy followed by a live conversation with John dog in his devotion to Diane. “And it wasn’t Cusack at the Taft Theatre (317 E. Fifth a dig on Cameron at all; it was about how St., Downtown) on Nov. 3. More info/tickets: people would interpret the character. We tafttheatre.org. talked about that a lot. We said, ‘Hey, it’s

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The Search for Truth in ‘Lifespan of a Fact’

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In an era when “fake news” is a daily, topof-mind topic, the freshly minted stage comedy The Lifespan of a Fact is a timely exploration of just how far the boundaries of storytelling and journalism can be pushed.

The play, well received on Broadway just a year ago, is based on a book by writer John D’Agata and fact checker Jim Fingal that chronicled their actual sparring — over a period of a half-dozen years — regarding an article about a teenager’s Las Vegas suicide that had been first rejected

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and suggestions for sharper accuracy, justifying the tweaked and twisted facts as devices that will enhance the impact of his storytelling. Their exchanges escalate in intensity from cleverly projected emails to an angry ping-pong of phone calls, and finally to a face-to-face meltdown.

The Playhouse production, staged by veteran director Wendy C. Goldberg, features three fine actors: JuCoby Johnson as Fingal, Kate Rigg as Penrose and David Whalen as D’Agata. (The latter portrayed another writer — the imprisoned romance novelist Paul Sheldon — in the Playhouse’s 2018 production of Misery.)

They don’t have the starry credits of the Broadway cast, which included Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) as Fingal, but they are an excellent ensemble: Johnson navigates Fingal’s hyper path from uncertainty to crazed, committed excavation with finesse, growing in his conviction as he battles with Whalen’s self-important D’Agata, who justifies his manipulations of reality in ways that are revealed to be rooted in his own sad personal arc.

Rigg convincingly plays the tough-minded, exasperThe cast of Playhouse in the Park’s The Lifespan of a Fact ated editor, refusing to give up personal details and PHOTO: MIKKI SCHAFFNER PHOTOGRAPHY stepping in to mediate when Fingal ends up in D’Agata’s Converted into an 85-minute script tawdry Las Vegas home, where he took

by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and up residence to care for his dying mother Gordon Farrell, the show compresses their (another detailed design by Rosenthal). epic philosophical battle into a five-day Rigg’s Penrose, stepping in as a kind of fight between a maniacal fact checker with mom disciplining her combative children, a pressing deadline and a writer whose strives to bridge the gap between the two inclination is to fudge facts as a means to and comes close to drawing the opponents come closer to his version of ultimate truth. into a kind of appreciation of one another’s Their humorous wrestling match, perspectives. Nevertheless, the play ends augmented by D’Agata’s arrogance and with a kind of shrug, leaving a final deciFingal’s nervous but naively virtuous sion to the audience. demeanor, is refereed by Emily Penrose, The Lifespan of a Fact is designed for a distracted veteran editor who is eager laughs, but the play has a provocative for a final big splash at a glossy New York undercurrent regarding issues that make it magazine. (The Cincinnati Playhouse’s a compelling piece of theater for contemproduction opens on a sleek editorial office porary audiences. The five-day timespan designed by Todd Rosenthal, offering a produces a comedic pressure cooker panoramic view of the New York skyline.) that’s not all that believable: Penrose has Due to the disintegration of editorial another story in her hip pocket that could support that’s sadly pervasive at newsbe used to meet the printer’s deadline, papers and magazines everywhere today, and no convincing reason is offered as to Penrose resorts to the eager Fingal, elevatwhy D’Agata’s piece has to be published ing him from his lowly internship to a posiin this particular issue. Nevertheless, the tion of editorial authority. She asks him to swiftly told story keeps audiences engaged be sure names are spelled correctly and between the poles of journalistic honesty dates check out, but he quickly explodes and poetic license. It’s the kind of show the task, producing a 130-page spreadsheet that will have audience members arguing that annotates factual errors and other after the curtain call. journalistic transgressions in D’Agata’s The Lifespan of a Fact is onstage at the “article.” D’Agata insists he is an “essayPlayhouse in the Park through Nov. 16. ist,” not a journalist. And he pompously More info/tickets: cincyplay.com. objects to Fingal’s insistent questioning

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Fall Favorites Return to the Small Screen

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It’s fall, y’all! And amid the changing comedy about a man burned out on weather comes a new season on TV. From life. Taking self-care to a new level, he primetime to premium cable, new and undergoes a mysterious treatment to returning series are taking over our become a happier person, only to be screens. Here’s what to watch out for. replaced by a clone — who’s better than This Is Us (9 p.m. Tuesdays, NBC) – How him at everything. can this show continue to surprise viewers Mrs. Fletcher (10:30 p.m., HBO) – Kathand travel back and forward in time as the ryn Hahn has been stealing scenes as a cast (particularly the growing group of supporting character in comedies for years, young talent) ages IRL? By growing with as seen in everything from Anchorman the characters, introducing new ones that and Step Brothers to Parks and Recreation enter their lives and employing clever writand Transparent. In this new comedy ing that continues to elicit gasp-inducing

by Tom Perrotta (The Leftovers), Queen twists and reveals. Season 4 is already going strong — and keeping Kleenex in business.

The Masked Singer (8 p.m. Wednesdays, Fox) – This was supposed to be a joke. I was not expecting to find myself feverishly jotting down clues and genuinely trying to identify the voices behind the intricate cartoonish costumes. And yet, here I am, addicted to this show. It’s not as deep as it sometimes attempts to be, pushing the singers to reveal the existential New characters join the cast of NBC’s This Is Us reasons behind selecting a dog or butterfly costume.

P H O T O : R O N B AT Z D O R F F / N B C Jenny McCarthy is a judge; the pans to the audience, chanting their favorite singer’s masked Hahn steps into center stage as a woman moniker and inexplicably miming in embarking on a new chapter in life. A unison, look like something out of Black divorced empty-nester with her son going Mirror. But don’t take it too seriously. The off to college, Eve Fletcher experiences a Masked Singer is just plain dumb fun. sexual reawakening as her son comes of Almost Family (9 p.m. Wednesdays, Fox) age in his own ways.

– A famed fertility doctor is revealed to have The Morning Show (Friday, Nov. 1, secretly impregnated hundreds of women Apple TV+) – So I’m still not sure how to using his own, ahem, “genetic material.” watch Apple TV+ on a regular TV (I’m a Problematic much? Based on the Auspurist), but I will figure it out in time to tralian series Sisters — and inspired by watch this star-studded original dramedy some troubling real-life cases — this Jason that premieres when the service launches.

Katims drama (Friday Night Lights, ParentSteve Carell and Jennifer Aniston star as hood) follows the doctor’s daughter (Brithosts of a popular daily news program tany Snow) as she connects with two newly when the former is fired amid a scandal à discovered half-siblings, including one of la Matt Lauer. Reese Witherspoon plays an her childhood friends (Megalyn Echiup-and-coming journalist eager to step in kunwoke) and a retired Olympian (Emily and shake up the show.

Osment). Local fun fact: Cincinnati native The Crown (Sunday, Nov. 17, Netflix) – Zina Camblin is a writer for the show (and We know Olivia Colman can slay a royal Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga). role after her Oscar-winning turn in The Mr. Robot (10 p.m. Sundays, USA) – Favourite, and now she’s taking on a Rami Malek returns as a bonafide star more contemporary queen as Elizabeth II after winning the Best Actor Oscar for his circa 1964-77. Tobias Menzies and Helena take on Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Bonham Carter take over as Prince Philip Rhapsody. In this fourth and final season and Princess Margaret, respectively. This of the hacker psycho-thriller, Elliot will try season will see Harold Wilson’s time as to make peace with Mr. Robot (Christian prime minister, British decolonization Slater) and face off with Whiterose (BD around the world, the moon landing and Wong) while presumably blowing our the introduction of a pre-princess Diana minds in the process.

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FILM

‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Transcends Time

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There is a difficulty with watching period films in that sometimes I struggle with placing myself in those established moments. There is specificity to a particular place and time, one that generally messes with my understanding of context and history. It often reminds me of the very real limitations and lack of privilege I have based on race, because I’ve never truly been able to imagine a place or time, especially in any real or fictional version of the United States, where I could look forward to being anything other than what I plainly am: a black man.

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behaviors or actions.

In one scene, while attempting to light a woman’s cigarette, Essrog strikes a match, extends it to the tip of the cigarette, but blows it out before the flame ignites the tip.

He does this several times until the woman gives up walks away.

Saddled with this collection of tics, Essrog isn’t the typical gumshoe (who in the genre is?). But he’s been able to stake out a place for himself thanks to his mentor and friend Frank Minna (Bruce Willis), head of the private agency Essrog works for.

Minna obviously saw something special in Essrog, something in the tics that could be focused, making his protégé into a potentially formidable and reliable asset. He pushed Essrog into seeing how his behaviors were a means of reframing the world and its details into digestible elements. When ordered, they become clues that lead to facts capable of determining guilt or innocence.

When Minna gets killed while following a series of disparate threads, it’s up to Essrog to weave those left-behind strands back together. He dutifully follows the leads wherever they take him, which means into Brooklyn’s history and politics at a time that feels foundational.

New York City has an illusory appeal, as if it has always been “New York,” but it has been built on the sweat and blood of people from all corners of the globe. It is, quite possibly, the most central example of a capitalist city. The masses have been exploited by canny operators (businessmen, crooks and politicians — all the same, if you think about it).

Essrog hits the streets and uncovers a secret so fundamental that it grounds the New York of his moment and paves the way for a host of artful surprises and deals to come. He can’t let go — his mind won’t let him — which drives him further into this place. At a point, it feels like the dawning of a new period. With each puzzle piece that he uncovers, Essrog recognizes a sense of the past and present merging to create the future, which ultimately will just be more of the same.

In this realization I was able to latch onto meaning more so than with other period films. Call it a peculiar cynicism, but in Motherless Brooklyn, Norton captures the sense of acceptance that those on the “lower frequencies” live with every day, something they’ve done for generations.

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I’m too old to embrace the current trend of appealing to identity culture as a means of attempting to burn down the social order and remake it in some kind of more inclusive utopia. I don’t believe that’s possible now or that it ever will be. There will always be people on the margins who are exploited or denied access to rights, resources and recognition of their worth.

But for a brief moment at the Toronto International Film Festival, while watching Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn, I began to appreciate Norton’s understanding, his carefully considered and lived-in sense of empathy for those on what Ralph Ellison dubbed “the lower frequencies.”

It could be because protagonist Lionel Essrog, played by Norton, is a uniquely marginalized figure himself. Essrog is a fictional icon of sorts, a private investigator in New York City during the 1950s, part of a genre with deep cultural resonance (in both film and books).

Essrog finds himself set apart due to Tourette’s syndrome. He’s prone to uncontrollable verbal outbursts, scratching and remixing words and phrases into new patterns and forms that most of those around him can’t decipher. He also repeats certain

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ou could almost call me a cardcarrying fan of chef Jose Salazar, whose first two Cincinnati restaurants — Salazar, which opened in 2013, and Mita’s, in 2015 — occupy high ground in my ranking of the area’s very best places for an excellent meal. Given that track record, I was thrilled when construction started earlier this year on his new place adjacent to Findlay Market. Goose & Elder opened its doors a couple of months ago with Sydney Fisher as chef but Salazar himself greeting patrons and putting finishing touches on just about every plate coming out of the kitchen.

Goose & Elder is quite different from his first two restaurants, which serve up rather elevated, somewhat pricey fare that makes them once-inawhile treats for most of us. And yet as executive chef, Salazar’s creativity comes across just as clearly at Goose & Elder as his team works with less rarified ingredients.

Memorable, signature dishes have become a Salazar trademark. At his namesake OTR restaurant, Salazar, it’s hard to get past the King Salmon “everything” crust entrée, his brilliant take on a bagel with cream cheese and lox. His fabulous pozole verde at Mita’s is, as my most recent dining companion there quipped, “seafood stew as it should be.” The unusual pairing of shrimp, calamari and lobster in a dish usually made with pork caught the attention of New York Times’ food writer Melissa Clark, who published a more home-kitchen-friendly version of his recipe last summer.

I thought perhaps he had done it again at Goose & Elder with savory, fall-off-thebone duck leg confit over grits ($17). It was the first dish I tried within days of their opening and it was marvelous. But upon a later visit, the meat was so tough as to be almost inedible, and near impossible to cut from the bone with the knife they gave me.

Since their late summer opening, I’ve eaten brunch and three evening meals at

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1800 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, gooseandelder.com.

Goose & Elder.

It was only at my most recent visit did my friends and I leave unhappy with the food and service.

I’m a regular shopper at Findlay Market and knew almost immediately when Goose & Elder had opened its doors. At that first visit, with two friends, we enjoyed not only the duck leg but also an innovative, deceptively simple and refreshing side dish of sliced watermelon with flaky sea salt, lime and powdered chili ($5) we ordered as an appetizer. Watermelon is seasonal, of course, and that dish won’t be on the menu much longer (if it’s still available), but it’s a fine example of the taste combos the kitchen is capable of.

A couple weeks later, we went to their weekend brunch. Although the market opens at 8 a.m. on Saturdays, the restaurant doesn’t start serving until 10 a.m., which doesn’t accommodate the early birds — like me — who hit Findlay for breakfast or coffee. My friends and I were there when the doors opened.

At brunch you can get chocolate-chip pancakes, buttered grits with eggs and bacon, goetta hash or a berry-themed French toast, among other egg-based offerings. We split an order of avocado toast ($11) while sipping drinks and loved the two thick slices of multigrain topped with thinly sliced radishes, soft scrambled

eggs and jalapeño jam. The French toast ($10) was a delight, lighter and less sweet than some versions. The house omelet ($10) with figs and goat cheese featured a nice combo of savory with a bit of sweetness from the fig.

During BLINK, I stopped at Goose & Elder when it and everything else in the market was slammed. Even so, we received prompt attention from an overworked server after we found a just-vacated table in the back. We had the Royale Goose burger ($8.25; $12.50 double). One thing I love about this place is the retro cocktails, like the Harvey Wallbanger, White Russian and Tequila Sunrise. Any of these go well with burgers and fries, although I opted for a glass of cabernet sauvignon ($11).

My most recent meal here, dinner with three friends, was disappointing. There was the duck fail — which the server apologized about but did not offer to replace or take off our tab. And despite the many empty tables on an early-weekday night, we felt mostly ignored by the staff, who let our wine and water glasses sit empty for long stretches.

But even with those lapses we enjoyed most of the food, from an appetizer of bone marrow with grilled bread ($8) — rich and delicious — to an entrée of chicken schnitzel with perfectly-cooked, buttered noodles ($17) and a special dessert, cherry

bread pudding ($7.25) with drizzled caramel sauce and whipped cream in a portion large enough to satisfy the four of us.

You might wonder at the restaurant’s name. While the front door is on Race Street, it’s at the corner of Elder Street and backs up on a little lane called Goose Alley.

Thus, Goose & Elder. The sidewalk on Race is roomy enough for a few tables, nice during the warmer weather when the main dining room can be quite noisy. There’s extra seating and a full bar in a quieter room down a back hall.

That duck entrée still has the potential to become my go-to meal here. The meat rests in a pool of buttery grits alongside a generous portion of baconbraised Southern greens — flavors that complement each other beautifully.

Perhaps a little more quality control on the duck itself or its preparation would do the trick. But Goose & Elder fits in nicely with the burgeoning Findlay Market neighborhood where apartments and condos are multiplying like proverbial rabbits. No doubt, many of these new residents will congregate at Salazar’s latest addition to good eats in Cincinnati.

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Cuisine and Culture at Cincinnati’s Asian Markets

BY L AU R EN M O R E T TO

Food can be a window into another culture, shedding light on unique traditions and flavors. And Cincinnati’s specialty international markets facilitate that experience with everyday access to ingredients, information and products.

Here, we’re going to focus specifically on Asian markets.

One of the first Asian grocery stores in Cincinnati was Saigon Market (119 W. Elder St., Over-the-Rhine). Beyond the red exterior at the Findlay Market storefront are tall shelves holding products from Vietnam, Thailand, China and more. The parents of the store’s current owner, Nghiep Ho, immigrated from Vietnam in 1976 and started their business the same year.

“They were a couple of hardworking people that started from literally nothing,” says Ho. Today, Saigon Market has been joined by other Asia-focused stores across the Tri-State, including CAM International Market, Sakura Mart, Jagdeep’s Indian Market, Burmese Market and more, which hold products both familiar and non for a variety of shoppers.

Dr. Mikiko Hirayama, the Director of Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati, has seen an increasing interest in non-Western cuisines in the past 10 to 15 years. She recalls going abroad one year, then returning to find that Cincinnati-area Kroger stores now carried sushi.

“That was a game changer,” she says.

“Since then, I think the interests and demands have been gaining steadily.”

Along with groceries that specialize in Asian ingredients, Hirayama also sees the importance of places like Jungle Jim’s. “(Seeing) those products from all over the world kind of demystifies Asian cultures and other non-American cultures,” she says.

At certain times of the year — such as the Mid-Autumn Festival in September — Jungle Jim’s and Asian grocers may carry special items like lanterns or moon cakes, a pastry that is gifted among friends and family.

“Those products with cultural meanings will give people from other backgrounds a new perspective about what Asian culture is,” says Feng Liang, a Chinese language professor at UC. But visiting these specialty stores has an even greater effect on Asian-Americans who wish to explore their cultural identity or may be looking for a piece of home.

While interviewing Chinese heritage language learners for his dissertation, Lang noticed a trend — he found that some of his students went to stores like CAM International Market to shop and practice their language skills.

“One participant mentioned that he tried to use Chinese to communicate with the shopkeeper. (These experiences) are very important to them,” Liang says.

The first CAM International Market opened in 1997. Today, there are three locations: a local shop at 10400 Reading Road in Evendale, one in Columbus and one in Cleveland. Arguably the largest Asian grocery store in the Tri-State, you could spend hours navigating the shelves. Along with snacks, canned goods and noodle and rice varieties, CAM stocks baked goods, produce and fresh meat and seafood.

Kirsten Liu, a marketing assistant at CAM, says that the area surrounding the store has a more saturated Asian population.

“They like to buy some Asian special ingredients. They like to enjoy the food and cook for themselves,” Liu says.

Along with Asian-Americans, Liu also interacts with people who worked in Asian countries, returned to Cincinnati and are now looking for the ingredients they fell in love with while abroad.

Local colleges like Xavier University and UC are home to many international students, including those from Asian countries. These students make up nearly 8 percent of UC’s student population, according to the university’s 2018-2019 enrollment data. Liang says these Asian grocery stores help the students make a more gradual transition from their home

country to the U.S. In fact, Jagdeep’s Indian Grocery (270 Ludlow Ave., Clifton) in the Gaslight District has a shout out in UC International’s Cultural Handbook for interShelves of sauces and snacks at Saigon Market in Findlay Market national PHOTO: L AUREN MORET TO employees, scholassociated with a dark, cold and inward ars and students. While the store does energy. So, warming foods like soup and receive some business from Americans, in-season ingredients like squash are your they largely serve international students, go-to. according to Kalvinder Kaur, whose The traditional cuisine of Japan, known husband’s family owns the store. They as washoku, likewise puts an emphasis on have popular spices like turmeric, garam seasonality, but it also urges the diner to masala and chili powder, along with rice, unpack the layers of a dish. flour and organic foods.

“We say in Japan that you eat with your “(The students) make everything from eyes, your ears — all five senses. It’s not scratch. Half are vegetarian, and we cater just about the taste,” says UC’s Hirayama. to vegetarians here,” Kaur says. “If (the Western-style restaurants may use students) moved out on their own due to classic round plates and pile on food, leavschool or they just moved out because ing very little empty space. Traditional they’ve grown up, they can make their own Japanese meals are artfully arranged. food, you know? Keep their link with their Asymmetry, contrast of taste and color, culture, their roots.” and empty space are utilized to create a When experiencing Asian cuisine, meal that is not only delicious, but also immersing yourself in the traditions and captivating to the eye. These practices are a philosophies associated with it is just as source of great pride to the cook, according satisfying as the meals themselves. Each of to Hirayama. the 48 countries that make up Asia has its Cincinnati is a community with an own perspective on what should be eaten, increasing eagerness to learn about and and when and how. celebrate the cultures of its neighbors.

Traditional Chinese medicine teaches These Asian grocery stores offer an opporbalance. tunity to do just that. If you haven’t been, “You’re supposed to eat what’s seasonal, plan a visit, ask questions while you shop because seasonal food has nutritional and introduce new culinary flavors to your benefits that you need in that particular kitchen. season,” Liang says.

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Post-Halloween depression is about to set in, but don’t fret: November is overflowing with brewery anniversary parties, Rare Beer Fest and a Friends Fest.

These activities should help you ease into the winter days ahead.

On Nov. 8 and 9, celebrate Fretboard’s two-year anniversary with two nights of live music and the release of Drummer Boy Winter Warmer, available on draft and in cans. That same weekend, Newport’s Wooden Cask celebrates three years with special tappings and live music.

Great Ohio Brew N’ Que On Nov. 9, Mason’s Sonder PHOTO: PROVIDED BY FIF T Y WEST Brewing celebrates its one-year anniversary with • On Nov. 15, Wooden Cask will release special tappings every hour, including a a bourbon-barrel-aged Irish red ale called milkshake IPA with mangoes, fruit ale Breaking Red to celebrate Veterans Day. with raspberries and an American wild ale One dollar from every pint sold goes aged in a pomegranate liqueur spirit barrel. toward charity 22 Until Valhalla, a nonThey’ll also release special bottles and profit that combats veteran suicide. cans from their collection.

Rhinegeist’s annual Rare Beer Fest EVENTS takes place Nov. 2 and is divided into • On Nov. 1, Bircus Brewing hosts a two sessions: 1-5 p.m. or 6-10 p.m. More Haunted Steam Punk Ball. They’ll have than 40 local and national breweries will a freak show, parlor games, vendors, tarot descend on the taproom offering their card readings and New Wave music. rarest brews. Tickets range from $45 to $70 Admission ($10) includes a pint of beer, and (VIP) and include 10 five-ounce samples VIP ($25) includes food, a view of the dance for general admission and 10 samples plus floor and a tarot reading. four additional five-ounce samples for VIP. • On Nov. 2, Fifty West Production Works On Nov. 9, MadTree hosts Friends Fest. teams up with Great Lakes Brewing for Their friends, including Blackberry Farm, the Great Ohio Brew N’ Que. For $40, you Jackie O’s and Creature Comforts, will offer get an all-you-can-eat barbecue buffet special brews and even some collabora(including vegetarian options) and eight tions. Tickets are $99 ($149 with a specialty beer tickets. Designated driver tickets ($20) bottle pack) for a commemorative mug, include food but no alcohol. food, entertainment and access to rare and • On Nov. 4, LOCOBA by Platform and exclusive beers. Entry is capped at 300.

The Rhined collaborate on a beer and cheese pairing ($30). Sample four cheeses NEW BEERS with four five-ounce pours of Platform • Nine Giant’s timely ImPeachMint beer, plus an additional full pint. peach-apricot-mint gose is back on draft.

• Get your goat yoga on Nov. 5 at Taft’s - Urban Artifact released the limited Brewpourium. For $19, let goats walk all Bathysphere, a black raspberry Midwest over you for an hour. Bring your own mat. fruit tart, and re-released Operation Participants will receive $1 off pints.

Plowshare, a throwback to a jelly donut.

• On Nov. 7, join 16 Lots for a beer tasting Both are on draft and in cans. led by journalist and cicerone David • Mt. Carmel just brought Raspberry Nilsen. He’ll explain the history behind six Crush, a black-hued beer with a chocolate four-ounce pours of 16 Lots beer. The event malt body, back on draft. is free for 16 Lots mug club members and • West Side Brewing released Blue Line $20 non-members.

• If you need an excuse to avoid family IPA on draft and in cans. A portion of sales on Thanksgiving Eve (Nov. 27), attend will be donated to the Blue Line FoundaGrainworks’ Thanksgiving Eve party. tion, an organization that offers resources Food trucks and a special beer will be and training to Cincinnati police. available.

• Brink just released Libbynade, a • On Nov. 27, Urban Artifact hosts the lemonade blonde ale with cherries named Bon Vivant festival featuring dishes from after Brink fan Libby Houser Hodapp. eight local food trucks paired with the • March First has tapped Bomb Pop brewery’s food-infused Epicurean beers.

Seltzer, a hard seltzer that clocks in at 8 For $55 pre-sale or $60 at the door, you get percent. They also released their collaboraunlimited pairing samples, a glass and the tion with Doscher’s Candies under their opportunity to buy the beers to-go. house Voltage Vodka brand: a peppermint schnapps infused with Doscher’s candy cane flavoring. It’s available at the taproom.

Contact Garin Pirnia: request@citybeat.com.

MUSIC

Not Blinded by the Light Acclaimed Indie Rock artist Lucy Dacus comes to Cincinnati ahead of her anticipated covers EP, 2019

BY JAS O N G A R G A N O

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ucy Dacus appeared on the musical landscape seemingly out of nowhere, a then-21-year-old Virginia-based film student turned singer/songwriter whose 2016 full-length debut, No Burden, arrived so fully formed — with warm Indie Rock guitar and cortex-sticking arrangements accentuating her vivid lyricism — that none other than Matador Records rereleased the album a few months after it surfaced.

Dacus’ follow-up, 2018’s Historian, expanded her sonic palette in sometimes unexpected ways: horns and keyboards, among other additives, revealed new textures and depths. Exhibit A is albumopener “Night Shift,” a slow-burning tour-de-force that moves from pensive to rousing over the course of six-plus minutes and begins with this typically evocative lyrical turn: “The first time I tasted somebody else’s spit/I had a coughing fit.”

CityBeat reached Dacus by phone to discuss everything from the upcoming release of an EP of cover songs titled 2019 to her recent essay in Vanity Fair celebrating Bruce Springsteen’s 70th birthday.

CB: Your musical collaborators, Collin Pastore and Jacob Blizard, are both trained musicians, whereas you’re completely selftaught. How has that dichotomy impacted how you guys work together?

LD: I think the pitfall has been vocabulary; like I want to say something, but I don’t know the words for it and I’ll kind of have to figure it out. I’ll get frustrated because it’s not what I want. I’m getting

CB: Your upcoming EP includes covers of Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” and Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” Why were you interested tackling such iconic songs?

LD: I basically just love these songs and I’m just having fun. After putting out two records and people telling me that the stakes are raising, I’m like, “You know what, I really need to shake off expectations and I need to spend time in the studio and do things that are personally fulfilling.”

When I write a song, I feel this weight that it has to be perfect, it has to be of me and it has to have my essence in it. But when it’s somebody else’s song, I get to explore the studio and sound and it felt really relieving to do that in between the last record and this next one because I also learned so much about the studio and about engineering and mixing and I feel all the more confident about putting out the third record just from this exercise.

CB: Speaking of Bruce, I recently read your piece on him in Vanity Fair. There was a passage in there that stuck out to me: You wrote that he is “an example that comes as a relief to writers who are ill-suited for the limelight but well-equipped with words.”

Were you referring to yourself as one of those writers?

LD: I didn’t mean to say that he wasn’t fit for the limelight but I think just his appearance — he’s not flashy. From having performed myself, everything turns back to the song. There are tons of people that do costume changes and it’s beautiful and I love to watch those shows but I don’t have that person in me. I don’t think I’ll ever be an arena star. I’m not larger than life, I’m just life. So seeing Bruce exist — he is an arena person but his demeanor is humble and he seems genuine.

At the core, I just really love to write songs and to sing them. I don’t feel flashy and I feel very exposed when I’m onstage, and so I try to be honest about where I’m at with the crowd because some days I feel

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really nervous or just like in my head and other days I’m so connected to the crowd.

I think more recently I’ve been really connected to the crowd because the new album has had time to set in and whenever people are signing along, I feel so grateful.

I try to look people in the eyes and telepathically try to tell them, “Thank you for spending time with the record.” So, yeah, I just think that the song matters more than the pomp and circumstance.

CB: Outside of music, you haven’t been shy about voicing your opinion about various cultural and political topics. Do you feel a responsibility to speak up about issues?

How do you go about balancing that aspect of your voice with your artistic one?

LD: I would not say that artists on the whole have a responsibility to be activists, but I feel the responsibility. I think it makes sense that artists feel a responsibility because you literally see your audience and you’re on a mic and you are saying things and people are listening. So, if you do want better for the world, why wouldn’t you talk about it in a way that you think makes sense? Some people are like, “Oh, if I say something, I’m going to lose all my fans.” But it’s like, “Why does that matter more than the change you wish for people?”

Lucy Dacus performs Tuesday, Nov. 5 at The Woodward Theater (1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine). Tickets/more info: woodwardtheater.com.

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CityBeat: You’ve been on the road pretty much nonstop since Historian dropped last spring. How has playing live so much in recent years impacted your songwriting?

Are you currently writing songs for the next album?

Lucy Dacus: I’ve actually written them all. I’ve written a whole other record, and I can tell how it has changed (in light of performing so much). Seeing that people care to see me headline rooms is gratifying. People are showing up, and so I feel like I’m allowed to take people closer to me. I feel more comfortable being open about some things, to be a little bit more vulnerable and specific to myself. I feel like I write a lot about archetypes or things that can happen within a friendship or family dynamics in general or self-belief, but a lot of the next songs are about just me, like personal stories. That feels like totally new territory. It’s terrifying, but I am really happy with what I’ve been writing.

better at that over time. I’m much better at speaking music, but one of the best things that has always been true is that I think of things that neither of them do because they think in patterns and they’ve been told what’s right or wrong and that certain chords are meant for Jazz and certain chords are meant for Emo bands. I don’t really have any idea of tropes for music. I know what I hear. I will write a song that has seven chords in it and they will be like, “What? How did you do this?”

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Local Musicians Join International Amazon Boycott

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Voting Open for 2019 CEAs

Depending on when you read this, there is still time to vote for your favorite local artists for the 2019 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards.

After a first round of nominations from

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the public and input from a panel of local music experts and aficionados, the ballot for the 2019 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards is up and ready for your votes.

CityBeat created the CEAs 22 years ago as a way to celebrate the diversity and richness of Greater Cincinnati’s music scene.

This year’s collection of CEA nominees features numerous first-timers, including, logically, those up for New Artist of the Year honors (Madqueen; The Ape Tones; Rosewood Coast; Blessed Black; CRUNR). Other first-time CEA nominees: the Michelle Robinson Band, Now Hear This, Bla’szé, Freak Mythology, Greer and Oski Isaiah.

The Artist of the Year, New Artist of the Year and Album of the Year CEAs are critical achievement categories that will be decided by the nominating committee.

Past nominees returning to the CEA ballot with multiple nominations in 2019 include the five Artist of the Year nominees: Triiibe, Leggy, Over the Rhine, Electric Citizen and Chuck Cleaver, who has been nominated numerous times over the years with his bands Wussy and The Ass Ponys.

The deadline to vote for this year’s

CEAs is Nov. 1 (occasionally over the years extensions have been granted). Visit citybeat.com for more details.

The winners will be announced on Nov. 24 at a ceremony/party at Over-theRhine’s Memorial Hall that will feature live performances from some of the nominated artists. Tickets are on sale now; visit memorialhallotr.com for details.

A Decade of Ironfest

On Nov. 8 and 9, Ironfest celebrates a milestone. A decade ago, Greater Cincinnati local music mainstay John Gerhardt started the event as a tribute to his late best friend, area musician Mike Davidson (aka “Iron Mike”). The event has grown to become one of the most anticipated local music events of the year and, with its dozens of local and touring acts featured each night, it’s also the best “bang for your buck” fest around.

Admission to Ironfest — which takes place at The Southgate House Revival (111 E. Sixth St., Newport, southgatehouse. com) — is just $5 each night if you purchase tickets in advance (via ticketweb. com) or $10 day of the show.

Ironfest X is again stacked with a

killer lineup featuring some of Greater Cincinnati’s best Hard Rock, Metal and Punk acts, though it also dips into other genres. Local highlights on Nov. 8 include Valley of the Sun (just back from a recent bout of European touring), Veronica Grim, Calumet, Taylor Shannon, Sleepcrawler, A.M. Nice, Black Tractor and Casteless.

Saturday’s Ironfest lineup features Tiger Sex, The Dopamines, Vacation, The Raging Nathans, Smoke Signals…, The Nothing, The Perfect Children, Siegelord, The Shivers, Smokehealer, 500 Miles to Memphis and Vampire Weekend at Bernie’s, among many others.

Some former local bands have used Ironfest as a chance to reunite for rare performances. Dropkickmejesus and Oxboard Drain are getting their bands back together for Ironfest X, performing on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

Music begins each day at 6:30 p.m.

Visit facebook.com/ironfest3 for the full schedule, latest updates and more Ironfest X details.

Contact Mike Breen: mbreen@citybeat.com

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Over 1,000 bands, musicians and record labels have signed an open letter to Amazon announcing their intention to boycott the company’s events and festivals until it severs ties with various organizations they deem human rights violators.

In a notice posted at the website fightforthefuture.org, the “No Music for ICE!” participants said they would not perform at the upcoming music and art festival Intersect in Las Vegas — presented by Amazon’s AWS web hosting services — in protest of the company’s business arrangements with various government agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).

“It has recently come to light that Amazon Web Services, an Amazon subsidiary with known ties to ICE and law enforcement, is hosting a festival marketed as an experience ‘where music, technology, and art converge,’ ” the letter states “We… are outraged that Amazon continues to provide the technical backbone for ICE’s human rights abuses.”

The letter further states that the artists would not participate in any Amazonaffiliated events or “engage in exclusive partnerships with Amazon in the future” until the company meets their demands, which include the termination of contracts with “military, law enforcement, and government agencies that commit human rights abuses.”

“We will not allow Amazon to exploit our creativity to promote its brand while it enables attacks on immigrants, communities of color, workers, and local economies,” the letter says. “We call on all artists who believe in basic rights and human dignity to join us.”

Among the hundreds of musicians to sign the letter are Cincinnati-rooted acts WHY? and The Ophelias (both acts record for the major indie label Joyful Noise).

Damnably Records, the London-based label that has released music by Cincinnati acts Leggy and Wussy overseas, also signed.

Other signees include Guy Picciotto of Fugazi, Atmosphere, Car Seat Headrest, Chastity Belt, Colleen Green, DIIV, Diet Cig, Ted Leo, Deerhoof, Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz, Girlpool, Landlady, Lee Bains III, Matt Sweeney, New Bomb Turks and of Montreal.

The list of artists joining the protest is growing. Visit fightforthefuture.org and @NoMusicForICE on Twitter for updates and more info.

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For the past three and a half decades, Michael Franti has been on the frontlines of changing the world as we know it through music. A consummate hyphenate, Franti possesses a résumé with more slashes than the Halloween franchise: He’s multi-genre singer/ songwriter/political activist/poet/ multi-instrumentalist/filmmaker.

The San Francisco resident began his music career with the Beatnigs, an Industrial Punk/ Spoken Word outfit whose lone 1986 full-length album was released on the Dead Kennedys’ Alternative Tentacles label.

In 1991, Franti and Beatnigs bandmate Rono Tse formed the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, releasing a phenomenal debut album, 1992’s Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury, a triumph of musical hybridization and political awareness. The band’s blend of Hip Hop, Fusion, Rock, Punk and Electronica was Ian Noe matched by its bold rejection of PHOTO: K YLER CL ARK misogyny, homophobia, conflict politics and the passive culture of entertainment, typified by the titles under his name alone, including album’s impactful single “Television, the his latest, the propulsive Stay Human Vol. Drug of the Nation.” The attendant buzz II, a slight return to the 2001 Spearhead earned Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy concept album and the soundtrack to an opening slot on U2’s Zoo TV tour.

Franti’s new Stay Human film.

In 1994, Franti dissolved Disposable Michael Franti wants nothing less than Heroes of Hiphoprisy and formed a better world for every living being, and Spearhead, steering away from overt he’s dedicated his talent to disseminating political statements and grounding his that message to anyone who is willing Hip Hop sound in a decidedly Funk/Soul to hear it and, more importantly, do direction. something about it. (Brian Baker) Spearhead’s first two albums, 1994’s Home and 1997’s Chocolate Supa Highway, Ian Noe with Sierra Ferrell were critically well received but Capitol Records wanted the band to collaborate Friday, Nov. 1 • Southgate House with Hip Hop celebrities, which was not Revival on Franti’s creative radar. The band cut Though Kentucky has always been a ties with Capitol and started their own pioneer bastion for Country music — from label, Boo Boo Wax, but the major label Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass to Loretta Lynn’s owned the band’s name, so subsequent Honky Tonk — within the last decade, recordings were released as Michael Franti Roots music has reinvigorated the state’s & Spearhead. rich music scene.

Over the years, Franti has framed his Local figures such as Sturgill Simpson, social/political/cultural lyrics in more Tyler Childers and Chris Stapleton, to conventional Rock surroundings without name a few, have triggered a Roots abandoning his broad range of influences, renaissance south of the Ohio River. With including Reggae, Ska, Funk, Soul, Hip his accomplished debut record — this Hop and Punk. The band’s amazing nineyear’s Between the Country — Ian Noe joins album catalog and supporting tours have their ranks with his beguiling brand of attracted a global fan base for Franti’s gritty Appalachian Folk music. music and his consistent messages of Hailing from Beattyville, Kentucky, in peace and equality. A line from 2003’s the rural, eastern part of the state, Noe has “Bomb the World” has become a rallying lately been touring as the opener for major cry of sorts: “We can bomb the world to acts like Son Volt, Blackberry Smoke and, pieces but we can’t bomb it to peace.” his hero, John Prine. One of Nashville’s Franti has also recorded a handful of most in-demand producers, Dave Cobb,

Michael Franti PHOTO: ANTHONY THOEN

helmed Between the Country. With such a wealth of promise, Noe stands on the cusp of breaking out.

What distinguishes Noe from some of his peers is the dark, vernacular bent of his lyricism. Noe’s soul-damaged characters list their accrued wounds in excruciating

detail. Think of John Prine’s classic “Sam Stone,” about a war vet junkie, but without the romanticism.

Raw realism bleeds from definitive tracks like the fingerpicked “Junk Town” and the profane “Methhead,” where the drug epidemic eats up small Kentucky

Killing Joke PHOTO: TOM BARNES

towns like some zombie plague.

Other key songs on the album, like the surging “Letter to Madeline” and the electric “Barbara’s Song,” deal with mythic tales of sepia-toned trains, bibles, bridge collapses and the Cumberland Gap, while found, recorded noises like the rushing of a stream and the rumbling of a train are interspersed between the tracks, providing a vérité feel.

Everything about Between the Country — including the striking cover depicting a dead buck strewn across a snowy road — combines to create a visceral and evocative musical experience. (Gregory Gaston)

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Killing Joke is one of the most influential early Post Punk bands of all time, and also perhaps the most enduring outside of The Cure. Forty-one years after forming in London, the group is currently on one of the biggest tours of 2019.

You don’t have to have ever even heard of Killing Joke to have felt their influence — it has trickled into popular culture via students of the band’s seminal records.

Those disciples include some of the biggest musicians in the world, who’ve help spread the Killing Joke sound — a varying mix of Alt, Post Punk, Industrial and Goth stylings — to generations of Alternative Rock, Hard Rock and Metal fans.

The band’s current tour of North America is an arena jaunt opening for Art

Metal juggernaut Tool. And Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Metallica did a version of Killing Joke’s classic song “The Wait” on their popular 1987 EP Garage Days Re-Revisited; singer James Hetfield has said Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman is one of his favorite vocalists of all time.

(Coleman is joined in the current version of Killing Joke by founding bassist Youth, who has produced huge artists like The Verve, Take That and U2.)

On Nirvana’s game-changing album Nevermind, Kurt Cobain used a sloweddown version of the main riff of Killing Joke’s song “Eighties” for the basis of “Come as You Are.” Though Killing Joke called the band out for the theft and reports suggest Cobain and Co. were well aware of the (rather obvious) similarities, Coleman and the rest of Killing Joke were never officially credited for their contribution.

Perhaps as a bit of payback, Dave Grohl would later play drums with the band in early ’00s; his Foo Fighters covered the Killing Joke song “Requiem” for one of the B-sides to their huge single “Everlong.”

The Nirvana situation is somewhat indicative of Killing Joke’s place in music history. Even a novice browsing their extensive catalog would be struck by just how familiar the music sounds — it’s that prominent in the DNA of modern Rock.

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deserve. Still, like Grohl, the high-profile Killing Joke stans are at least generous in their public comments about taking inspiration from the group. Other artists to name-check Killing Joke as a major influence include Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Ministry, LCD Soundsystem and My Bloody Valentine.

Even Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page has said he’s a big fan.

You might not know their name, but Killing Joke is all around us. (Mike Breen)

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Louisville, Kentucky has had plenty of “Roots” musicians come to national attention in recent years, but Joan Shelley may just be the most important one since Will Oldham/Bonnie “Prince” Billy emerged in 1993.

Having become familiar to Cincinnati audiences with increasingly high-profile shows here (including opening spot for Richard Thompson), she headlines a concert at Southgate House Revival on Nov. 6. Shelley will be joined by a five-piece band for the show, with Nathan Bowles (drums), Nathan Salsburg (guitar), Anna Krippenstapel (violin and harmony vocals)

and Jake Fussell (bass) joining her.

Because Shelley plays acoustic guitar and has a voice that delivers lyrics with crystalline clarity, sometimes extending syllables as if letting them free to float away with newfound freedom, some tend to think of her as a Folk singer — a contemporary Joni Mitchell (think Song to a Seagull and Clouds era), singing with grace about the elements.

Indeed, some of the songs Shelley wrote for her new Like the River Loves the Sea album, especially “High on the Mountain,” remind one of Jackson Browne’s quieter but emotionally resonant, introspective work.

But like Oldham, Shelley keeps surprising her growing fan base as she evolves into a thoroughly contemporary, challenging artist whose work is rooted in Kentucky Folk yet is about the world.

For Like the River, she went to Reykjavik, Iceland to record — something Oldham has done — and the setting infused her Kentucky-inspired songs with a wider worldview. It’s one of love, but cut through with an undercurrent of fear and sorrow as she contemplates coming environmental changes.

This is most clear in her masterful “The Fading”, a new song in which she awaits the rising of the world’s water level from her old Kentucky home: “When it breaks down/Oh, babe, let’s try/To see the beauty in all the fading/When it breaks down/

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When the stakes get high/To see the beauty in all the fading.” (MB)

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It’s hard to imagine a world where Bob Dylan doesn’t exist. With more than half a century of published work in his discography, Dylan has made music longer than friends like The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Tom Petty. He came up in the Folk scene with the likes of Joan Baez , Joni Mitchell and Peter, Paul and Mary, but it’s Dylan who has continued to actively make music and push product 57 years later.

It’d be easy to say that most of that has to do with the fact that Dylan has also outlived many of his contemporaries (including some of those aforementioned pals), but that’s the easy way out. With 38 studio albums under his belt and a seemingly bottomless vault of previously unreleased work, Dylan is one of the most prolific musicians of our lifetime. And his impact on culture extends beyond the medium of music.

This fall alone Dylan has dabbled in everything from books to music and beyond. Earlier this month, fashion label Barking Irons worked in collaboration with Dylan to release a limited edition Rolling Thunder collection.

Inspired by Dylan’s own sense of fashion and with its fair share of “vintage-inspired” T-shirt reissues, the collection allows fans the ability to look just like they were on the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. (You didn’t need this month’s paycheck anyway, right?)

Next up is Dylan’s release of Travelin’ Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 which releases on Nov. 1. The newest in the Bootleg Series might turn out to be one of his most popular yet, as it features his work with another music icon: Johnny Cash. You haven’t lived until you hear Dylan and Cash play through “You Are My Sunshine.”

As if that isn’t enough to keep Dylan’s fans holiday season especially lovely and folksy, his 1966 book Tarantula will be released on audio for the first time in early December.

So, yeah. Dylan remains a pretty busy dude. Along with his multiple Grammys and chart-toppers, our guy also has a Nobel Prize, a Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Honor.

At 78, Dylan is halfway towards an EGOT — but, really, isn’t having a GONP (Grammy, Oscar, Nobel, Pulitzer) even more impressive? — and he shows no signs of stopping or slowing down, somehow remaining a tireless road dog with a relentless touring regimen. (Deirdre Kaye)

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BOGART’S - Ice Nine Kills with Fit for a King, Light The Torch, Make Them Suffer and Awake At Last. 6 p.m. Rock. Sold out.

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

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Jim Connerley Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Dallas Moore. 10 p.m. Country.

Free.

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MOTR PUB - Bi with Siren Suit and Madqueen. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

REVEL OTR URBAN WINERY - “The High Note.” 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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RIVERFRONT LIVE - Michael Franti & Spearhead. 8 p.m. Hip Hop/ Soul/Pop/Roots/Rock/Various. $30.

STANLEY’S PUB - Blue Eyed Bettys and River Snout. 9 p.m. Bluegrass/ Folk. Cover.

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TAFT THEATRE - Boz Scaggs. 7:30 p.m.

Rock/Pop. $38.50-$63.50.

URBAN ARTIFACT - It’s Alive! - A Halloween Recital featuring Jess Pinkham, Ariadne Antipa, Brooke Ten Napel, Aaron Brant, Amy Lassiter and Alex Dick. 6:30 p.m. Classical/Chamber/ Various.

THURSDAY 31

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

Free.

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MOTR PUB - Human Heart with War on TV and Tooth Lures a Fang. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

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NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Season of the Witch: Halloween Covers featuring Molly Sullivan, Emily Ash and members of Appaloosa, Sky Hank, The Guitars, Jess Lamb & the Factory, The Ophelias and more. 9 p.m.

Alt/Indie Rock. Free.

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SCHWARTZ’S POINT - Society Jazz Orchestra’s Halloween Party.

8:30 p.m. Jazz. $10.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Veronica Grim. 9:30 p.m.

Roots. Free.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Elizabeth Cook & Will Hoge. 8 p.m.

Roots/Country/Americana. $22, $25 day of show.

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STANLEY’S PUB Halloween Party with See You in the Funnies and Extansion. 9 p.m. Rock/Jam. Cover.

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THOMPSON HOUSE - Uncut Republic’s Haloween Haunted Mansion with Eptic, Brondo, Gardella, Vice Versa and Ski Patrol. 9 p.m. EDM. $25-$35.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Grassroots Ramble. 8 p.m.

Bluegrass. $10 (food/drink minimum).

FRIDAY 01

BLIND LEMON - Tallant & Harmony. 9 p.m. Acoustic.

Free.

BLIND LEMON - Mark Macomber. 8 p.m. Acoustic.

Free.

BLUE NOTE HARRISON Uncle Kracker. 7 p.m. Pop. $25-$35.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - El Ritmo De Mañana. 7:30 p.m. Latin Jazz.

BOGART’S - Blue October.

8 p.m. AltRock. $29.50.

DELHI PUB - Rockne’s Open Mic. 9 p.m. Various.

Free.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Steve Schmidt Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz.

Free.

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

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Triage.

8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

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CAMP SPRINGS TAVERN - Ohio Valley Salvage. 8:30 p.m. Rock/

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FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - Root Cellar Xtract. 8 p.m. Country/Rock/Roots. Free.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Whammies.

9:30 p.m. ’80s Pop/Rock.

Cover.

ROOM) - Darity, Michael Andrew Spalding and A.P.M. Music. 7 p.m. Indie Pop/ Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Ian Noe with Sierra Ferrell. 9 p.m.

Folk/Americana. $10, $12 day of show.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Deuces Wild. 9 p.m.

Country. Free.

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TAFT THEATRE - Rumours of Fleetwood Mac. 8 p.m.

Fleetwood Mac tribute. $27.50 -$44.50.

LUDLOW GARAGE 999 and The Clap. 8:30 p.m. Punk. $20-$30.

THE MAD FROG - Día del Bajo featuring Tangled Branches, Vusive, Mr. Scissors and more. 9 p.m. Electronic/Bass/Dance.

Cover.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Leroy Ellington. 9 p.m.

Blues/Soul. Cover.

MEMORIAL HALL - Asleep at the Wheel with The Quebe Sisters. 8 p.m. Country/Western Swing/Americana. $20-$45.

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MOTR PUB - Coastal Club and Young Colt.

10 p.m. AltPop/Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - Season of the Witch: Halloween Covers featuring Freedom Nicole Moore, Elsa Kennedy and members of Slow Glows, Madqueen, Heavy Hinges, Young Heirlooms and more. 9 p.m.

Alt/Indie Rock. Free.

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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Harley Poe with The Homeless Gospel Choir and Old Pictures/New Pictures. 8 p.m. Folk/Rock/ Punk.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - The Goldsberrys. 7:30 p.m. Folkgrass. Free.

RADISSON CINCINNATI RIVERFRONT - Basic Truth.

8 p.m. R&B/Soul/Funk. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB Terrapin Moon. 10 p.m.

Grateful Dead tribute. Cover.

TOP CATS - William Duvall.

8 p.m. Rock. $20.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Hal Malia Quartet.

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

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WOODWARD THEATER - Jazzed About Art presented by Art Beyond Boundaries featuring Art Gore & The Jazz Knights. 7 p.m. Jazz. $75.

SATURDAY 02

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Cincinnati Dancing Pigs. 8 p.m. Americana/Jug band. Free.

BLIND LEMON - Zack & Corey. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Trapt, Saliva, Sponge and Tantric.

6:30 p.m. Rock.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Brian Lovely with The Steve Schmidt Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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

Jazz. Cover.

COLLEGE HILL COFFEE CO. - Ricky Nye. 8:30 p.m.

Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

RICK’S TAVERN - The Menus. 10 p.m. Rock/Various. Cover.

FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - The Whammies. 8 p.m. ’80s Pop/Rock.

Free.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT Gene Marquis with Pat Kelly & Lou Lausche. 8:30 p.m.

Jazz. Cover.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - Gee Your Band Smells Terrific. 9:30 p.m. ’70s Pop/Rock/Dance. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Buzz Bin. 9 p.m.

Rock. Free.

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

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LUDLOW GARAGE - Hiroshima 40th Anniversary Show. 8 p.m.

Jazz. $35-$65.

THE MAD FROG - AK1200 with DJ ODI, Nicro and Fatchick. 9 p.m. EDM. $10.

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MADISON LIVE - The Dude Ranch: Blink 182 Tribute. 8 p.m. Pop Rock. $10, $15 day of show.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Prestige Grease. 9 p.m.

Blues. Cover.

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MEMORIAL HALL Jonathan Edwards and Jon Pousette-Dart. 8 p.m.

Singer/Songwriter.

MOTR PUB - Josie Dunne with Jane Decker and Brooklyn Rae. 10 p.m. AltPop. Free.

PADRINO - Chris Comer Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.

PEECOX ERLANGER Saving Stimpy. 9:30 p.m.

Rock. $5.

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PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Jim Pelz and the Firewalkers. 7:30 p.m.

Americana. Free.

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RIVERFRONT LIVE ENMY. 8 p.m. Rock.

$10.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT Phil DeGreg Trio with Kiko Sebrian & Giovanni Sena.

8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

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THE SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL MentoringPlus Music Festival with Mike Reid, The New Lime, The Leftovers, The Diversions, Judges, Electric Indigo, Jake Walz, G Miles and the Hitmen and more. 4 p.m. Rock/Various. $25-$100.

STANLEY’S PUB - Seconds 2 Surrender. 10 p.m. U2 tribute. Cover.

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TOP CATS - Leftover Crack. 7:30 p.m. Punk.

$18.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Pat Kelly Quartet. 9 p.m.

Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

SUNDAY 03

BLIND LEMON - Jeff Henry.

8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO - BlueBirds. 8 p.m.

Rock/R&B. Free.

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MOTR PUB - Alfred Banks with Santino Carleon and Jay Hill. 8 p.m.

Hip Hop. Free.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT Marcelo Silviera & Guest. 6 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Dylan Holland. 8 p.m. Pop. $15.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Traditional New Orleans Jazz Brunch with 2nd Line Jazz Trio. 11:30 a.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

WESTSIDE VENUE - Blues Jam with Jimmy D. Rodgers and Lil Al Thomas. 7 p.m.

Blues. Free.

MONDAY 04

BLIND LEMON - Ben Armstrong. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - CCM Combo Night. 7:30 p.m.

Jazz.

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TAFT THEATRE - The Japanese House with Our Girl. 8 p.m. Indie Pop. $18, $20 day of show (in the Ballroom).

TUESDAY 05

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - John Redell. 7 p.m.

Blues. Free.

BLIND LEMON - Nick Tuttle.

8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

BREWRIVER CREOLE KITCHEN - The Twirlers. 7 p.m. R&B/Classic Pop/Standards. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Lynne Scott, Lee Stolar and Lou Lausche. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.

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STANLEY’S PUB - Trashgrass Troubadours with Georgia Rae. 9 p.m. Bluegrass/Folk. Cover.

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TOP CATS - Icon For Hire. 7:30 p.m. Rock. $17-$79.

U.S. BANK ARENA Tool with Killing Joke. 7 p.m. Progressive/Metal/Post

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Philip Paul Trio.

7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

Roots.

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Punk/Rock. $75-$125.

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WOODWARD THEATER - Lucy Dacus with Liza Anne. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. $15, $18 day of show.

WEDNESDAY 06

MADISON THEATER - The Black Jacket Symphony presents: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. 8 p.m.

Classic Rock. $35.

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

MOTR PUB - Matt Baumann, Jeremy Smart, Mack West and Billy Alletzhauser. 10 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. Free.

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BOGART’S - Gryffin. 8 p.m. EDM. $25.

MANSION HILL TAVERN Losing Lucky. noon Roots.

Free.

MEMORIAL HALL - The Kingston Trio. 7:30 p.m. Folk. $38-$56.

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SORG OPERA HOUSE - Marcia Ball. 8 p.m.

Blues. $30.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - The Almost Infinite with Sheet Ghost and Hulk Hogan’s Heroes. 9:30 p.m. Rock.

Free.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Joan Shelley. 8 p.m. Roots/Folk/Various. $15, $18 day of show.

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TAFT THEATRE Dream Theater. 8 p.m.

Prog/Rock. $35-$75.

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STANLEY’S PUB - Flux Capacitor with SolEcho. 10 p.m. Jam/Funk. Cover.

RIVERFRONT LIVE - The California Honeydrops. 8 p.m. Blues/R&B. $22.

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SCHWARTZ’S POINT Brandon & Carlos. 8 p.m.

Jazz guitar. Cover.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Vital Remains.

9 p.m. Death Metal. $15, $17 day of show.

REVEL OTR URBAN WINERY - “The High Note.” 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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THE MAD FROG - Space Wizard with Gardella, S.MOSS and Tesla Arts. 9 p.m. EDM. Cover.

URBAN ARTIFACT Rock Eupora, Knotts and Wavelette. 9 p.m. Indie/ Rock/Pop/Soul.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Grassroots Ramble. 8 p.m.

Bluegrass. $10 (food/drink minimum).

FRIDAY 08

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Women’s Groovement Music Festival with The Queen City Sisters, femme factory and The Lady Parts. 7 p.m. Roots/Various.

Free.

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

Outlaws. 8:30 p.m. Rock. $30-$50.

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WIEDEMANN BREWERY AND TAPROOM - Ricky Nye and Paul Ellis. 7 p.m. Blues/ Boogie Woogie. Free.

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MOTR PUB - King Buffalo. 8 p.m. Psych Rock. Free.

LUDLOW GARAGE Marcus Miller. 8:30 p.m.

Jazz. $45-$85.

MADISON LIVE Saving Escape with Eerie Point, The Ravens and Easy Company. 7:30 p.m.

Rock. $10.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Tickled Pink. 8 p.m. Blues.

Cover.

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MOTR PUB - Mr. Phylzzz with Issabelle Helle and The Hell’s Bells.

10 p.m. Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - Chad Price with Sammy Kay and Chuck Coles. 9 p.m.

Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Dave Cofell. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic.

Free.

THE REDMOOR - The Everyday People Band. 8 p.m. Dance/Funk/Pop/Various. $10.

RICK’S TAVERN - Under the Sun. 9:30 p.m. Rock/ Various. Cover.

RIVERFRONT LIVE - Cane Hill, Glassworld and The Catalyst. 7:15 p.m. Rock. $15.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT Waves de Ache Quartet.

8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

SILVERTON CAFE - Lady Joya Band. 8 p.m. R&B. Free.

BLIND LEMON - Warren Ulgh. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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BOGART’S - Yacht Rock Revue. 8 p.m. Soft Rock. $17.

BLIND LEMON - Billy Otten.

8 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Lee Stolar Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Mike Darrah Organ Trio. 7:30 p.m.

Jazz.

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DELHI PUB - Rockne’s Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various.

Free.

FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - Second Anniversary Party with Ernie Johnson From Detroit and Strange Mechanics. 7 p.m. Funk/ Afrobeat/Various. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Mitch Greve. 9 p.m. Rock/Various.

Free.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - 3 Piece Revival.

9:30 p.m. Rock. Cover.

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

BB&T ARENA - Bob Dylan & His Band. 8 p.m. Folk/Rock. $50-$85.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Philip Paul Trio.

7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

LUDLOW GARAGE - Kung Fu with The Jauntee. 8:30 p.m. Rock. $15, $20 day of show.

KNOTTY PINE - Prizoner.

10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Danny Frazier. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

THE SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL Ironfest X with Valley of the Sun, Bradley Palmero, Veronica Grim, Typesetter, Boss’ Daughter, Drop Kick Me Jesus, Calumet, Castless, True Falcon, Sleepcrawler, Taylor Shannon, A.M. Nice, SKunk Dog and more. 6:30 p.m.

Rock/Various. $5, $10 day of show.

STANLEY’S PUB - Chromatic Crew, Audio Nebula and Actually. 10 p.m. Jam/ Funk/Rock. Cover.

TOP CATS - Garrett Zoukis.

8 p.m. Hip Hop. WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Ron Jones Quartet.

SATURDAY 09

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Women’s Groovement Music Festival with Honey and Houston, Chelsea Nolan and The Dirty Birds. 7 p.m. Roots/ Various. Free.

BLIND LEMON - Michael J. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

BLUE NOTE HARRISON Purple Masquerade. 8 p.m.

Prince tribute. $10-$15.

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BOGART’S - Simple Plan and State Champs with We the Kings and Northbound. 6:30 p.m. Pop Punk.

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CAFFÈ VIVACE - Kathy Wade with Pat Kelly Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

CAMP SPRINGS TAVERN - Randy Steffen. 8:30 p.m.

Americana/Country.

THE COMET - Queen City Imperial Soundsystem. 10 p.m. Dancehall Reggae.

Free.

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FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - Second Anniversary Party with Neal Francis and GA-20.

7:30 p.m. Soul/Blues/Funk.

Free.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - My Sister Sarah.

9:30 p.m. Pop/Rock. Cover.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Throw It Down. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Prizoner.

10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

MEMORIAL HALL Shemekia Copeland. 8 p.m. Blues. $20-$45.

MOTR PUB - Katie Toupin. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

RICK’S TAVERN Elementree Livity Project. 10 p.m. Reggae.

Cover.

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

Jazz. Cover.

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THE SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL Ironfest X with Tiger Sex, The Dopamines, Cadaver Dogs, OC 45, Smoke Signalsz…, Mynah Tones, The Nothing, Paige Beller, Tommy Grit & the Pricks, Oxford Drain, The Raging Nathans, Vacation, The Perfect Children, 500 Miles to Memphis, Siegelord and more. 6:30 p.m. Rock/ Various. $5, $10 day of show.

STANLEY’S PUB - Calabash and Harmless Varmints.

10 p.m. Jam/Bluegrass.

Cover.

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TAFT THEATRE Wilco with Deep Sea Diver. 7:30 p.m. Indie/Rock/ Roots. $45-$75.

TOP CATS - ¡Mayday!. 8 p.m. Hip Hop/Various. $15.

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TAFT THEATRE The Wood Brothers with Nicole Atkins. 8 p.m.

Americana. $29-$39.

URBAN ARTIFACT - Addison Agen and Plastic Ants. 7 p.m. Rock/Pop. $10.

MONDAY 11

CAFFÈ VIVACE - CCM Combo Night. 7 p.m. Jazz

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

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TAFT THEATRE Incubus with Le Butcherettes. 8 p.m. AltRock.

TUESDAY 12

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Ben Levin. 7 p.m.

Blues. Free.

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BOGART’S - The Neighbourhood. 8 p.m.

AltPop. $35.

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THE VENUE CINCINNATI The Rush Tribute Project. 9 p.m. Rush tribute. $15.

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WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Michael Cox, Eric Augus & Reggie Jackson. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL - Music Live@ Lunch with The Rabbit Hash String Band. 12:15 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

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SUNDAY 10

MAURY’S TINY COVE

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Steven Dayvid McKellar (of Civil Twilight). 7 p.m. Singer/Songwriter. $10, $15 day of show.

BREWRIVER CREOLE KITCHEN - The Twirlers.

7 p.m. R&B/Classic Pop/ Standards. Free.

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MANSION HILL TAVERN - Black Jack. 8 p.m. Neil Young tribute. Cover.

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URBAN ARTIFACT Kelly Hoppenjans. 9 p.m. Roots/Pop/Rock

LUDLOW GARAGE Diamond Rio. 8:30 p.m.

Country. $45-$85.

THE MAD FROG Phiso. 9 p.m. EDM. Coer.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT - El Ritmo De Mañana. 6 p.m.

Latin Jazz

YORK STREET CAFÉ - Ellis Paul. 8 p.m. Folk. $25, $30 day of show.

BOGART’S - New Found Glory, Hawthorne Heights, Free Throw and Jetty Bones.

7 p.m. Rock/Pop Punk. $26.50.

LUDLOW GARAGE - The

CAFFÈ VIVACE Original Farm League Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.

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LUDLOW GARAGE Rising Appalachia. 8 p.m. Folk. $20-$35.

THE MAD FROG Stalley. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. Cover.

STANLEY’S PUB Trashgrass Troubadours with The Common Sound. 9 p.m.

Bluegrass/Folk. Cover.

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The University Of Cincinnati Department Of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care has completed its participation in the clinical research study Prehospital Tranexamic Acid Use for Traumatic Brain Injury Research Study.

About the research: This study was conducted by the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) -- a collaboration between U.S. and Canadian sites that performed emergency medicine research.

This study was completed in 12 regions of North America. A total of 967 patients were enrolled in the study.

The drug that was studied, tranexamic acid (TXA), had already been shown to improve survival after traumatic injury in patients at risk for major bleeding. This study investigated whether patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury who receive TXA in either of two dosing plans beginning before arriving at the hospital have a more favorable neurologic outcome 6 months after injury than patients who receive no drug (placebo).

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