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Jeffersontown Shootings Will Be Investigated as Hate Crimes

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efore he allegedly entered a Kroger store outside of Louisville, Ky. on Oct. 24 and shot 69-year-old Maurice Stallard in the back of the head while Stallard was shopping with his grandson, security footage shows 51-year-old Gregory Alan Bush trying to gain access to the predominantly-black First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown nearby.

After exiting the Kroger, Bush shot another woman, 67-year-old Vickie Lee Jones, multiple times until she died.

Both Stallard and Jones were black, a fact that, along with Bush’s attempts to gain entry to the church and other evidence, has driven speculation that his grisly crime was racially motivated. But a dive into Bush’s background suggests mental illness may have also played a role.

A bystander who had a tense standoff with Bush in the parking lot after the shootings says the alleged gunman made a racial remark.

Ed Harrell was in the parking lot of the Kroger when the gunshots rang out. He

grabbed his own revolver, he says, and crouched down next to his car. He then saw a man walking with a gun in his hand. He asked what was going on and the man, who is believed to be Bush, said he wouldn't shoot Harrell.

"Don’t shoot me," Harrell says the man told him. "I won't shoot you. Whites don’t shoot whites."

The man then entered a vehicle and drove off. Jeffersontown Police apprehended Bush a short time later.

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that Stallard, Bush’s first victim, is the father of Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer's racial equity officer. It is unclear if Stallard's killing was targeted or random.

The owner of a Facebook account under the name Gregory Bush in the Louisville area has made reference to suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. That account features a profile picture that highly resembles a photo of the suspect released by police.

"I have worked most of my life and

battled mental illness throughout my life," the account's profile states. "My paranoidschizophrenia finally stopped me from working and now am on mental disability.

I'm lucky I made it this far with all the trouble I've caused myself when I get off my medicine. I'm lucky my parents are in good health as it took 2 years too finally get my disabilty (sic). maybe one day I can work again. I'm hoping for the best."

The account follows a number of conservative sites, pro-Trump and Blue Lives Matter pages as well as multiple sites about interracial dating, the movie Black Panther and other content specifically about people of color. Most of the posts on the page are about comic books, University of Kentucky football and movies.

A Twitter account also featuring the same photo very much like the photo released by police follows a similar pattern, though it does make reference to "trouble" the poster has gotten into on the site that may have led to a suspension.

Court records show Bush had at least

two run-ins with the law prior to the shootings. In one 2009 incident, he choked his elderly parents in the home he shared with them. In 2009, Bush also punched a family court deputy trying to subdue him after Bush yelled obscenities at his ex-wife. He was listed as a suicide risk following the scuffle. Bush was charged with menacing for another incident in 2003 in which he came up behind a 15-year-old in a movie theater restroom and grabbed her by the waist.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the killings as possible hate crimes, U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman said Oct. 26.

Bush is being held on $5 million bond.

His next court appearance is Nov. 5.

Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers made a Sunday visit to the First Baptist Church Bush tried to enter before the shootings. There, he made brief remarks before the congregation.

“I wanted to call it what it was, and that’s racism in action,” Rogers said.

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Another series of text messages between Cincinnati City Council members Tamaya Dennard, Greg Landsman, Chris Seelbach, P.G. Sittenfeld and Wendell Young, all Democrats, saw release on Oct. 19 in both The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Business Courier.

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Those texts, released by the city after a lawsuit this summer from conservative activists Mark Miller and Brian Shrive of the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes, don’t contain much new substantive information that we didn’t already know.

Namely, they show that back in March the five Democrats discussed the pending firing of then-City Manager Harry Black, the pending FC Cincinnati stadium deal and other public business via the texts. Oh yeah, they also traded some gifs and used some colorful language to describe Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley.

The exchanges are likely a violation of open meetings laws, since they involved a majority of the city’s law-making body.

We’ve known most of this information since this summer, when some of the texts came out — but the newly-released texts also offer a clearer picture of some of the behind-the-scenes deal making going on between council members and attempted deals offered by both Black (to avoid being fired) and Cranley (to get at least one of the self-described “gang of five” to go along with Black’s ouster).

Phew. Get all that?

One of those potential deals, according to the text messages? Black reportedly offered to prioritize traffic signal timing for the streetcar and support making it free to ride to boost its ridership and performance, according to texts from Seelbach. During its two years in operation, the streetcar has struggled with low ridership and frequent delays. Black also reportedly offered to help support Seelbach’s responsible bidder ordinance, which requires that companies getting certain city contracts offer apprenticeship programs.

Cranley was also in a deal-making mood at the time, at least according to the texts, reaching out to Young, Seelbach and Landsman and asking what each would need to vote for Black’s ouster.

“He claims he’s willing to put anything on the table,” Landsman said in a text. Later, Landsman told the Cincinnati Business Courier that the mayor was simply trying to “determine priorities.”

More texts are likely forthcoming after Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman ruled on Oct. 22 that the city must release to COAST attorney Shrive texts from each of the five council members — even if they weren’t made to a majority of council and don’t involve city business. The city has warned that those texts could contain material that is embarrassing to city officials and “third parties.”

Ruehlman rejected a request from former City Council candidate Derek Bauman to join the lawsuit in order to seek the

release of texts from councilman Christopher Smitherman, who was involved in a text group with all nine council members and Black. Texts from Smitherman, three other council members and Cranley will not be released under Ruehlman’s order.

In response to records requests for texts covering the time period around Black’s ouster, Cranley has said that he dropped his phone in a hot tub and could not provide them.

There are some political implications at work here — Smitherman has announced he will run for mayor in 2021, and Sittenfeld is said to be strongly considering a run as well. Cranley and COAST are both allies to Smitherman, while Bauman and his attorney are Sittenfeld supporters. The release of the texts of the five progressive council members to Shrive gives him a potentially powerful political weapon to use in the coming mayoral election. Shrive has not yet said which, if any, of the texts he will make public when he gets them.

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ood news! The end to the deluge of campaign ads, fundraising emails, junk mail from candidates and other electoral spam is almost here. But before it all goes away (for at least a few weeks until politicians start in on the 2020 election), you’ll get a chance to cast your vote in one of the most pivotal elections in recent memory for candidates and issues that could have big implications nationally and locally.

There’s Ohio’s tight governor’s race, where Democrat Richard Cordray and Republican Mike DeWine are battling over justice system reforms, health care and other issues.

Then there’s the heated battle between Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot and Democrat Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval for Ohio’s 1st Congressional District, which covers much of Hamilton and all of Warren counties.

Oh, yeah, then there’s Issue 1, the ballot initiative that could reduce penalties for drug possession. And of course, there are the local issues, which could dictate how long Cincinnati City Council members stay in office and whether they can meet in executive session. Plus a U.S. Senate race, a Hamilton County Commission campaign, state representatives and senators, votes on a number of local and state-level judges and more.

Seem overwhelming? No worries. We’ve got you covered with our election guide. Read on for all the information you need.

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Cordray vs. DeWine

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For the last eight years, Ohio’s state-level political

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landscape has been dominated by Republicans, including Gov. John Kasich. But that could change in November.

Richard Cordray, former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has teamed up with running mate former U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton to face off against current Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and his running mate, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted.

Polling shows the two neck and neck — somewhat surprisingly, given how established DeWine and Husted are politically and the trouncing Republican Kasich handed his Democratic opponent Ed FitzGerald in 2014.

This contest was never going to be about charisma: owlish DeWine is a textbook career politician, having served two terms in the Ohio Senate, four terms in the U.S. House, two in the U.S. Senate and a three-year stint as Lt. Governor under George Voinovich.

Cordray, meanwhile, has taken a winding route through private law practice and public office. The former Marshall Scholar clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. before serving a term in the Ohio House of Representatives. Campaigns for U.S. House, Ohio Attorney General and the U.S. Senate followed. Eventually,

Cordray won the election to be Ohio Treasurer in 2006, and then Ohio Attorney General in 2008.

During Cordray’s gubernatorial campaign, he has been keen on making oddly contemplative observations on Twitter and rather staid campaign appearances. He rocks what some might call a “semi-bowlcut.” Add to this that neither DeWine nor Cordray are noted public speakers and you have a recipe for a snoozer.

Rockstars they are not. And yet, there is plenty of heat in the race between the two. A bit of that comes because the campaign is something of a rematch: DeWine toppled Cordray from his perch as Ohio Attorney General in 2010.

Most of it, however, is likely the result of the fact the two are vying for the top executive office in Ohio in an incredibly polarized political atmosphere.

The national political tensions that have grown during the Trump administration are on full display in the campaigns.

The two have debated most heavily on health care — still a hot-button national issue. Cordray wants to preserve Ohio’s Medicaid expansion and has hit DeWine with charges that he would strip Ohioans of the healthcare offered by the Affordable Care Act, especially its provision

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Gadell-New ton vs. protecting those with pre-existing Irvine conditions. DeWine, meanwhile, has a murky stance on the issue: as attorney

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time for fentanyl traffickers. The amendment’s language makes clear that prosecutors can still charge those caught with drugs like fentanyl with trafficking, however, and that only penalties for possession would be changed by the new rules.

Meanwhile, Green Party candidate Constance Gadell-Newton and Libertarian Travis Irvine have pushed to be heard in the race, having been left out of three gubernatorial debates.

The Ohio Libertarian Party has filed a lawsuit over those omissions.

Gadell-Newton, an attorney, has campaigned on a platform that includes expanding civil liberties, protecting Ohio’s environment, opposing hydraulic fracturing in the state, criminal justice reform, marijuana legalization and other progressive issues.

The Green Party in Ohio is small compared to the major parties — just over 4,300 people voted in its primary this year, compared to 875,000 Republicans and 730,000 Democrats, though the party says its membership is growing. But Gadell-Newton’s candidacy isn’t just about a long-shot chance at the governor’s office: it’s also about the party’s continued visibility in statewide elections. If GadellNewton doesn’t get 3 percent of the vote in November, the Green Party will lose its status as a recognized party and its candidates will appear on the ballot as independents.

Irvine has campaigned on an interesting mix of stances: He’s proIssue 1 and pro marijuana legalization, which could win him attention from liberals. But he’s also big on gun rights and tax reform that lightens the burden small businesses bear — issues near and dear to conservatives’ hearts.

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general, he brought Ohio into a lawsuit against the Obama administration fighting the ACA. But he also says he wouldn’t end Ohio’s expansion or the ACA’s protections for pre-existing conditions.

DeWine has taken a hard-right tack during his attorney general stint by taking on Planned Parenthood and suffering several losses in federal court. Most recently, he tried defending a state law that sought to defund Planned Parenthood over its provision of abortions (the organization receives some state funds for health screenings not related to abortion). An appellate court ruled in April that the law is unconstitutional.

The battles likely won’t change many peoples’ minds — pro-life advocates will see DeWine’s court fights as worthy efforts and pro-choice voters will see them as confirmation of DeWine’s ideological stance — but they do illuminate the degree to which DeWine differs from Cordray, whom Planned Parenthood endorsed in May. Another issue, however, may be more decisive for some voters choosing between DeWine and Cordray: the scandal involving the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, which closed earlier this year after the Ohio Department of Education ordered it to pay back millions in taxpayer funds paid to the online charter while it was flubbing attendance numbers.

Audits showed irregularities in ECOT’s record-keeping as far back as 2001.

ECOT founder Bill Lager and others at the charter have donated more than $2 million to candidates — almost all of them Republican. That includes money to both DeWine and Husted,

though DeWine later donated that money to charity. While donations to DeWine and Husted numbered in the tens of thousands of dollars, Cordray also received small donations of a few hundred dollars. He donated those to education groups.

DeWine’s critics say that he should have acted quicker to bust ECOT as it was taking in millions for students it didn’t educate. DeWine didn’t take action until well after ECOT’s troubles were well-established, though he did file legal action seeking recovery of millions from Lager and others this year. DeWine has countered his critics by saying his role as attorney general was limited and that he took action when he could. Others have found that claim dubious, but say DeWine isn’t the only one to blame.

“The warning signs about ECOT had been documented in news articles for many years, and yet the state government as a whole was slow to act,” fact-checking site politifact.com wrote this year in rating claims made against DeWine by union AFSCME “half true.”

Cordray has skated through the campaign relatively gaffe-free, but one issue could hurt him with the moderate voters he’ll need to win the election: Issue 1, an attempt to reform Ohio’s drug possession laws (see page 15).

Cordray says he “wholeheartedly” supports Issue 1 because it rolls together several worthy aims — reducing taxpayer expenditures on incarceration, increasing chances for inmates to gain rehabilitation and combating Ohio’s opioid epidemic.

DeWine’s campaign has hammered Cordray over his support for the initiative, saying that Issue 1 would lead to reduced charges and no jail

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And the state’s top legal association is also opposed.

“While many agree that Ohio’s drug laws merit change, Issue 1 is the wrong solution,” Ohio State Bar Association President Robin Weaver wrote recently as the OSBA announced its opposition.

But Issue 1 has also garnered support from some unexpected places — including an endorsement from Republican and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Some opponents of Issue 1, including DeWine, say that it will keep people with large quantities of deadly drugs like fentanyl out of jail. But supporters point out that prosecutors will still have discretion in charging dealers with trafficking — an offense that some supporters like Cordray agree should have heftier penalties In a September interview, DeWine claimed that Issue 1 would allow someone caught with pounds of fentanyl to stay out of jail. But that’s not true. Ohio’s current drug statutes defi ne “bulk amounts” of illicit, Schedule II drugs like fentanyl — the quantities under which someone would be charged with trafficking instead of simple possession — as 40 grams or five times the maximum daily dose of the drug. In the case of fentanyl, the maximum amount that would fall under those rules according to professional prescribing guides is about .05 grams. Anyone caught with that amount or more would be charged with a third-degree trafficking felony — one not covered by Issue 1.

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of those inmates would be funneled back into drug treatment programs and other rehabilitation efforts.

A number of Democrat state lawmakers, as well as social service groups, have applauded the measure.

Cincinnati-based State Sen. Cecil Thomas is a member of the Ohio General Assembly’s Criminal Sentencing Commission. That commission found that Ohio’s drug possession incarcerations have increased by a third. The first-term Democrat says the ballot initiative is the right approach to rolling back those increases and reducing the number of people in the state’s prison system.

State Rep. Bill Seitz, also of Cincinnati, says he’s supportive of the effort’s overall goal, but that legislation, not an amendment, is the best way to deal with the issue. That’s a sentiment other Republicans in the General Assembly share: many feel that sentencing reform is necessary, but worry about locking something so specific into the state’s constitution.

The ballot initiative could play into November’s gubernatorial race. Democrat candidate Richard Cordray has signaled his support for the effort. Republican Mike DeWine has blasted Cordray for his support, and he’s not alone in opposing it. Several Hamilton County officials — including Democrats Coroner Lakshmi Sammarco and Sheriff Jim Neil — held a press conference decrying the provision.

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Ohio voters will get to decide in November on a constitutional amendment that would reduce penalties for non-violent drug crimes. The ballot initiative, called Issue 1, has already won some high-profi le supporters.

But while lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say they support its overall aims, some Republicans question whether a constitutional amendment is the way to achieve those goals.

Supporters gathered more than 305,000 valid signatures from voters across the state to land the Neighborhood Safety, Drug Treatment, and Rehabilitation Amendment on the ballot.

The proposal seeks to reduce Ohio’s prison population by reclassifying nonviolent fourth- and fi fth-degree felony drug possession or use crimes as fi rstdegree misdemeanors. The amendment would make the maximum penalty for such crimes 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine, and first and second offenses would be punishable by probation only.

It would also direct the state to give half a day’s credit up to 25 percent of an inmate’s sentence for each day of rehab or educational work completed.

Under Issue 1, prisoners currently incarcerated could petition courts to make the changes to sentencing classifications retroactive, meaning those who were imprisoned under the old rules could be eligible for release. The incarceration cost savings netted by the early release

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Chabot vs. Pureval

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Perhaps the hottest race in Ohio this year has been the epic contest between U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot, a Republican, and his challenger, Democrat Aftab Pureval.

The contest between the 65-year-old incumbent, a 22-year congressional veteran, and the upstart 35-year-old political newcomer has drawn national attention. It has also unleashed a barrage of acrimony and negative ads.

Pureval has quickly become a rising star in the local Democratic Party after his 2016 win over Republican Tracy Winkler to become Hamilton County Clerk of Courts. He’s looking to parlay that momentum into a seat in the U.S. House — a quest for which he’s received an endorsement from former President Barack Obama, among other noted Democrats. But conservative groups and Chabot’s campaign aren’t taking the challenge lying down.

The Congressional Leadership Fund, a PAC supported

by U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, made a $1.2 million ad buy attempting to tie Pureval to a $1.5 billion settlement between the U.S. and the Libyan government for terrorism victims. White & Case, the law firm representing Libya in that settlement, later employed Pureval, then a recent law school graduate. But Pureval had nothing to do with the settlement, which Republican lawmakers in Congress

voted for and which Republican President George W. Bush signed.

But Pureval has also struggled under somewhat more substantive allegations, including an Ohio Elections Commission inquiry into his campaign fi nances. Earlier this year, Pureval’s clerk of courts campaign spent $30,000 on polling and other expenses that appeared to be more related to his congressional run. That would be a violation of federal election laws.

Further muddying the waters, a Democrat Hamilton County Elections Commission employee admitted to blacking out memo sections on two checks from Pureval’s campaign as it was fi ling expenditure disclosure forms.

One memo section was blank. The other said “polling,” likely referring to a poll seemingly related to Pureval’s congressional bid. The state election commissions inquiry is ongoing.

Some questions have also followed Chabot’s campaign — mostly related to the roughly $177,000 Chabot’s campaign paid his son-in-law for creating his campaign’s website and other work around the campaign. Hamilton County Democratic Party Co-Chair Connie Pillich fi led a federal elections complaint related to that spending in

Wenstrup vs.

Schiller August, saying the price Chabot’s

Wenstrup, a 60-year-old doctor and Columbia Tusculum resident who has since 2013 held Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District encompassing downtown and areas east into rural, heavily-Republican territory.

His challenger, Schiller, is pushing Wenstrup with many of the same strategies as Pureval — calling out his votes to defund the Affordable Care Act, his role in the Republican tax reforms and his alignment with President Donald Trump on many issues.

Schiller is an attorney who formerly worked for the Obama administration in the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Like Pureval, she’s made health care a major issue in the campaign. She says she would act to help make sure government health care options cover those who can’t get private insurance.

Schiller’s challenge to Wenstrup isn’t as close as Pureval’s bid against Chabot has been — in part due to name recognition and in part due to the fact that Wenstrup’s district covers much more rural, conservative ground. But Schiller is hoping that dissatisfaction with Trump and the fact that she’s Wenstrup’s first serious challenger in two election cycles will work in her favor.

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the rich and pointed out that, while unemployment has dropped and the stock market has surged, wages have remained static.

Chabot, meanwhile, defended the tax plan and accused Pureval of trying to undermine tax cuts for the middleclass provided in the initial phases of the tax plan. Pureval has denied this.

Other local issues remained murky.

Neither Pureval nor Chabot presented a plan for paying for infrastructure needs in the region, including the aging Brent Spence Bridge and Western Hills Viaduct, though Chabot claimed he has worked to secure millions for the former.

Pureval seemed to be catching up with Chabot earlier this year, with national poll watchers like Sabato’s Crystal Ball calling the race a toss-up.

But questions around campaign finances may have tripped up Pureval to some degree — Sabato’s recently moved the race back to “leans Republican,” and polls show Chabot with a comfortable lead weeks before the election.

Still, Pureval has worked an extensive ground game, especially in Warren County. He’s not likely to get a majority of votes in the deep-red Republican haven, but a strongerthan-expected showing there could tip the race in his favor should he also take increasingly-blue Hamilton County by a large margin.

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son-in-law was paid for the services he rendered is much too high and amounts to self-dealing by Chabot.

The race has also had some substantive discussion of policy, mostly around health care, where Pureval has accused Chabot of working to take away coverage for pre-existing conditions extended by the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. Chabot has denied this, though he and other Congressional Republicans cast votes to repeal the ACA, including its provisions guaranteeing coverage for those with pre-existing conditions.

Chabot for his part has worked to paint Pureval as too far-left for the district, pointing out he’s pro-choice and supports sanctuary cities.

The two danced around other issues at an Oct. 16 candidate forum that also included U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup, the incumbent battling with Democrat challenger Jill Schiller to keep his Ohio 2nd Congressional District seat to the east of Cincinnati.

At the forum, Pureval and Chabot squared off on Republicans’ recent tax reforms, which proponents say has helped the economy pick up steam.

But, as a moderator pointed out, it has also ballooned the national deficit. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated it will increase the federal government’s deficit by $1 trillion over the next decade.

Pureval said that Republicans’ reforms amounted to tax cuts for

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Another contentious but not nearly as competitive a race is the Senate battle between U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a progressive Democrat, and U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, a Trumpsupporting Republican.

Renacci is an Akron-area businessman who has held his seat in Congress since 2011. He ditched a bid in the Ohio GOP gubernatorial primary to switch to the Senate race and has since received the endorsement of President Donald Trump.

However, that endorsement seemingly hasn’t moved the needle much for Renacci, whose campaign has so far failed to find its legs.

Brown has been a popular presence in Ohio politics for decades. He served as Ohio Secretary of State from 1983 to 1991, then made the jump to the U.S. House, where he served from 1993 to 2007. He then moved up to the Senate and is now looking for a third term.

Brown has repeatedly attacked Renacci over the Republican tax reform bill, pointing out it has lowered taxes for corporations and high-income earners while raising the national deficit by $1 trillion over the next decade. He’s also taken statements from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about resultant cuts to Medicaid,

Medicare and Social Security and lobbed them at Renacci.

Renacci has countered that the tax cuts have sped up the economy, and that eventually, the policies will produce enough growth to make up for the loss of revenues.

“They blew this big hole in the federal budget deficit, and his leaders want to close the budget deficit by cutting Medicare and Social Security,” Brown said of Renacci during an Oct. 20 debate between the two. “I think that’s bad economics, and it’s just wrong.”

The race has gotten scathingly personal. Renacci’s campaign has released ads highlighting a 1986 restraining order Brown’s then-wife took out as they were in the process of divorcing. Renacci says Brown physically abused her, but Brown’s ex-wife has since fi lmed a video for Brown blasting Renacci and demanding he stop using the couple’s divorce in his campaign.

Renacci has since alleged that other women have shared stories about abuse by Brown but has not released substantive details expounding upon those charges. Some political watchers have called that an act of desperation on Renacci’s part as he trails by double digits in polls just weeks before the election — unless he comes up with more proof.

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when four-year terms were proposed by Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan and approved by voters.

Another ballot initiative introduced by Councilman Chris Seelbach could also affect coming elections: ISSUE 12, which would limit campaign spending by LLCs. Currently, a person can contribute the personal limit of $1,100 to a local campaign and then contribute that amount under each LLC they control or have a stake in. The law would end the loophole allowing that practice.

That could have big implications. In the 2017 mayoral election, incumbent John Cranley’s campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from LLCs, while challenger Yvette Simpson received tens of thousands of dollars.

The initiative has wide, diverse support from a number of local political groups and council members. There is little opposition, though Councilman Jeff Pastor voted against the proposal because he believes it could limit free speech.

Finally, ISSUE 13 would amend the city’s charter so that Cincinnati City Council could hold executive session to discuss sensitive topics such as ongoing litigation, personnel matters and other limited topics out of the public eye. Ohio law allows this, and most other municipalities have some allowance for executive session. Cincinnati’s charter, however, does not.

The issue could be complicated by a recent controversy over a series of text messages sent between five Democrat council members during this spring’s fight over embattled City Manager Harry Black. A lawsuit by conservative activists alleges those text messages constituted a secret meeting and were illegal. Will that controversy sway voters to continue prohibiting private meetings? We’ll know soon.

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After a tumultuous year at City Hall, Cincinnati voters will be presented with a number of ballot initiatives that could change the way we elect Cincinnati City Council members and how they can meet once they’re elected.

Following a knock-down, drag-out brawl over the rift between former Cincinnati City Manager Harry Black and Mayor John Cranley, Cranley ally Christopher Smitherman introduced ISSUE 10, a proposal that would switch council terms from four years back to two years. Smitherman says the shorter terms would make council more responsive to voters.

Opponents, including Democrats on council, say it would simply create an endless cycle of campaigning and keep council members from completing long-term projects.

In response, Councilman Greg Landsman introduced a counter- initiative, ISSUE 11, which would keep four-year terms but stagger them so four or five candidates are up for election every two years. That way, each council person would have four years to work, but voters would get to weigh in on council every two years.

In addition to Smitherman, leaders of Cincinnati’s Fortune 500 companies, FC Cincinnati President Jeff Berding and former mayors Charlie Luken and Mark Mallory are pushing for the return of two-year terms.

The Cincinnati Charter Committee and the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers also back the proposal.

The Hamilton County Democratic Party, meanwhile, backs the staggered four-year terms. Should both initiatives pass in November, the one with the most votes will go into effect.

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Like the governor’s race, many of Ohio’s other races for statewide offices are too close to call.

A big issue in the highest-profile of these races: allegations that online charter school ECOT had been padding its attendance numbers and receiving millions in state funds improperly.

ECOT founder Bill Lager and others associated with the school donated millions to Republicans, including some contributions to Ohio Auditor Dave Yost, who is now looking to move up to become Ohio’s next Attorney General.

Yost later donated to charity the roughly $30,000 his campaign received from those connected to ECOT, though critics say he didn’t act fast enough during his time as auditor to stop the long-running attendance-data-rigging practices the school engaged in.

If he wants to replace Attorney General Mike DeWine, Yost will have to get past Democrat Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. Attorney in Ohio’s Northern District and a longtime federal prosecutor with the Justice Department.

Dettelbach, who also has extensive private legal experience, has repeatedly accused Yost of mishandling the ECOT scandal.

“There are people who make cases and people who make excuses,” Dettelbach said of Yost during an October debate between the two. “If you had spent as much time and effort trying to hold people accountable as you do making excuses, the people and children of Ohio wouldn’t be sold out by $200 million.”

Polling shows that the ECOT controversy may not be enough to dissuade voters from picking Yost. The Republican led 38 percent to 34 percent in a poll by Baldwin Wallace Community Research Institute earlier in October. More than 28 percent of respondents were still undecided, however.

Other statewide races are closer. The same poll showed the contest for Ohio Secretary of State between Republican State Sen. Frank LaRose and Democrat State Rep. Kathleen Clyde dead-even at 36 percent each. Clyde and LaRose, both 39, have both held their respective offices since 2011.

LaRose is a veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, while Clyde previously served as deputy legal council for Ohio House Speaker Armond Budish and in the Ohio Secretary of State’s office. Clyde has called for an end to the state’s practice of purging inactive Ohio voters from the state’s registration rolls — a practice LaRose agrees needs to be adjusted.

The race to replace Yost as Ohio Auditor — basically the state’s fiscal watchdog — between Democrat Zack Space

and Republican State Rep. Keith Faber is also neck and neck. Space is a former U.S. Rep. who has experience as an attorney in private practice and as special counsel for Ohio Attorneys General Anthony Celebrezze, Jr. and Lee Fisher.

Faber has also served in the Ohio Senate and was that body’s president between 2013 and 2016.

The two have tangled over small amounts of taxes each has paid late. Substantive policy debates between the two have largely been dominated by arguments about a $1 billion tax cut for so-called “pass through” corporations that the Ohio Legislature passed while Faber was president of the state Senate. Space says that money could have gone to local government funds, which have lost roughly $1.2 billion in funding in the past eight years. That’s had big implications for both Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s municipal budgets.

Like Yost, Faber’s opponent has also lashed him for his alleged role in the ECOT scandal. Faber received about $36,000 in campaign contributions from those connected with ECOT. His campaign recently donated the money to charity. Faber has countered allegations that he didn’t do enough to hold ECOT accountable by pointing out 2016’s House Bill 2, which required better record-keeping from schools like ECOT. By that time, however, investigations were already well under way into the online charter school.

And critics point out that Faber didn’t support other legislative efforts to bring more scrutiny and accountability to ECOT. Meanwhile Republican State Rep. Richard Sprague and Democrat Rob Richardson, Jr., an attorney and former candidate for Cincinnati Mayor, are squaring off for Ohio Treasurer. That position oversees the state’s collection of its $64 billion in annual revenue and its $21 billion investment portfolio, among other responsibilities.

Richardson’s father is an influential labor leader and president of the Cincinnati NAACP. Richardson, Jr. would like to work on divesting Ohio’s pension system from forprofit prisons, increase loan programs for college students, find ways to increase broadband internet access across the state and incentivize private business to innovate responses to the opioid crisis.

Like Richardson, Sprague has pledged to push private sector responses to the opioid crisis through a so-called “social impact bond” worth $1 million. If a company comes up with solutions to opioid addiction treatment that work better than current options, the state would pay the money back. He also wants to expand financial literacy programs for high school students and encourage alternate career paths that avoid college loan debt.

OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY RACES Blessing, a Colerain Township resident and engineer by trade, first gained his seat in 2012. He touts tax cuts he voted for in the state House as well as his pro-life and pro-Second Amendment stances. Davis, a Democrat, is the founder and director of a child advocacy nonprofit. She’s running on a platform advocating for greater transparency, reforms to Ohio’s ethics rules and enforcement for lawmakers, and tax reforms that favor working-class families.

In Ohio’s 30th House District, Democrat Clayton Adams, a high school educator, has posed a serious but long-shot challenge to longtime Republican lawmaker State Rep. Bill Seitz, who switched over to the House after he was term-limited out of the State Senate. As a teacher, Adams has focused on educational issues, including opposition to the state’s controversial charter schools. He’s also run on increasing regulations on firearms as a means of reducing gun violence, including universal background checks and mandatory licensing and training for gun owners.

Seitz, a self-described “pragmatic conservative,” has been under some scrutiny of late for comments he made about a fellow female Republican lawmaker during a goingaway party for a legislative staffer. Seitz says his comments were meant in jest, and he has since apologized.

In Ohio’s 31st House District, Democrat incumbent Brigid Kelly, a former union communications director, faces no challengers. In the state’s 32nd State House District, Democrat Catherine Ingram, the incumbent, faces Republican Marilyn Tunnat, a retired teacher.

In Ohio’s 33rd House District, Democrat Sedrick Denson and Republican Judith Boyce will battle it out for State Rep. Alicia Reece’s seat as she leaves due to term limits. Denson supports restoring state money for local government funds, which state lawmakers have cut by $1.2 billion since 2010.

He also supports universal background checks for gun ownership. Boyce, a retired city clerk and conservative, wants to lower taxes. She opposes Issue 1, the ballot initiative creating sentencing reform for drug possession.

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An overlooked but very consequential series of races, the battle for seats in Ohio’s General Assembly has serious repercussions for everything from local municipal budgets to education funding to gun control efforts.

Ohio State Senator Cecil Thomas, a Democrat, looks to fend off a challenge from Republican Tom Chandler.

Thomas served eight years on Cincinnati City Council, a quarter century as a Cincinnati Police officer and five years as the executive director of the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission. He’s been a strong supporter of tighter gun laws in the state, including introducing legislation supporting universal background checks and a statewide registry for firearms. Thomas has also been active in issues around police-community relations and other progressive causes.

Chandler spent four decades working for UC Health and is now retired. He favors looser restrictions on guns than Thomas and says better mental health services are the key to reducing gun violence. He self-describes as a fiscal conservative.

You’ll likely see few surprises in local Ohio State House Districts. Most are safely Democrat or Republican. Here’s a rundown of who’s running in those that represent parts of Cincinnati: Ohio’s 27th House District is represented by Republican Tom Brinkman Jr., a Mount Lookout resident. Brinkman is staunchly conservative and has taken a number of farright stances over the years, including a recent bill that would require teachers to report students who might be transgender to their parents. Democrat Christine Fisher, a finance manager at Procter & Gamble, is challenging Brinkman for his district, which includes a number of conservative areas east of Cincinnati. Fisher wants to reform the way the state funds education, protect reproductive rights for women and increase funding to local governments given by the state.

In Ohio’s 29th House District, Republican incumbent Louis Blessing, III faces Democrat challenger Carrie Davis.

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After Democrats took control of the Hamilton County Commission in 2017, Chris Monzel will fight to remain the sole Republican on the three-member commission.

His challenger, former Forest Park Mayor and Lincoln Heights Village Manager Stephanie Summerow Dumas, may have the county’s increasing turn toward the Democratic Party on her side, but Monzel has serious name recognition and fundraising abilities to buttress his reelection bid.

Monzel has generally been a very fiscally conservative commissioner, balking earlier this year at a .2 percent sales tax increase that would have covered a yawning $28 million budget deficit. After Democrats on the commission

withdrew the tax increase under threat of a ballot initiative, many county agencies face likely budget cuts.

Democrats on the commission say the county is spending the same amount it has for the past 17 years, despite big increases in costs. That largely comes due to cuts to state and federal funding for the county. Monzel, however, says the county should wait to see if state funding increases in the future.

“It always seems to be easier to spend other people’s money before you have to spend your own,” he said in explaining his vote against the sales tax increase.

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This ballot initiative would create a property tax levy to help fund Hamilton County Job and Family Services’ child welfare and foster care services. Currently, homeowners pay about $54 on every $100,000 their home is worth for JFS, bringing in about $39 million each year. That’s about half the agency’s $80 million budget. If Issue 9 passes, homeowners would pay another roughly $70 per $100,000 of valuation to boost JFS’ annual budget by another $38 million so the agency can address increased demand for child and foster care services — up about 40 percent since 2015 — created in part by the opioid addiction epidemic. Exacerbating JFS’ financial situation, cuts to the state’s local government fund has left the agency with less state funding since. Without the levy, county officials say JFS will run out of money in three years. A wide array of social service and faith organizations back the levy. Anti-tax group Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes and Republican Hamilton County Commissioner Chris Monzel oppose the measure.

This contest pits longtime Auditor Dusty Rhodes, who has served in this role since 1990, against challenger Nancy Aichholz. Rhodes is nominally a Democrat, though he’s about the most conservative member of his party in the county. Aichholz, a Republican, is the president and CEO of Aviatra Accelerators, a startup accelerator focused on woman-owned businesses. Rhodes touts his nearly three decades of experience in his role as auditor, and his efforts to save taxpayers money, including a recent $14 million rebate to county municipalities the auditor’s office didn’t use when it reappraised properties. But he’s also caught flak for clerical errors that caused Cincinnati to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars in erroneous property tax payments. Aichholz, meanwhile, says the auditor’s office is outdated and needs fresh, tech-savvy leadership.

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work with Hamilton County’s drug, mental health and veterans courts.

Voters will also get the chance to choose who finishes out an unexpired term ending February 10, 2021.

Voters can choose between Hamilton County GOPendorsed incumbent Judge Curt C. Hartman and his challenger,Thomas O. Beridon, who has received the county Democratic Party’s endorsement.

Beridon, currently chief hearing examiner with the City of Cincinnati, has also served as a public defender and an assistant city solicitor. He’s received endorsements from the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, the Fraternal Order of Police Queen City Lodge, the National Association of Social Workers and a number of labor unions.

Hartman, a Navy veteran and former law clerk for Judge Rhesa Barksdale in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, touts his experience as an attorney and as special counsel to the Mason Municipal Court. He served as a delegate at the 2016 Republican National Convention before Gov. John Kasich appointed him to the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas in 2017.

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diverse background and set of experiences to the role.

On the November ballot, Hamilton County voters will be able to pick two of the four candidates above for a term beginning April 1, 2019.

In addition, they’ll also get to vote for one candidate for a term beginning Jan. 1, 2019.

Deputy City Solicitor Terry Nestor received the Hamilton County Democratic Party’s endorsement in that race. He’ll be challenging incumbent judge Steven Martin, who grabbed the county Republican Party’s endorsement. Nestor has proposed three reforms to the county’s justice system: increasing the depth of the county’s jury pool by pulling jurors from driver’s license lists as well as registered voter lists, aggregating and publishing statistics on court rulings so the public can better understand the decisions made in the courtroom and increasing partnerships with drug treatment facilities to try and address the opioid addiction crisis with more than just jail sentences.

Martin, meanwhile, touts his long tenure as a judge, which stretches back to 1998. He says he has the experience to determine when someone before the court needs treatment versus jail time, and points to his

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County and state judicial races are often overlooked by voters and the media, but recent situations show how vital they can be. Consider, for example, the tense and nationally-watched trial of former University of Cincinnati Police officer Ray Tensing for the shooting of an unarmed black motorist, presided over by Hamilton County Judge Leslie Ghiz, who is currently up for reelection. Ghiz made multiple decisions about evidence admissibility, what documents and information would be released to the media and other choices that influenced how the trial would proceed, what the public would learn about it and when.

Ghiz and Lisa Allen are two sitting Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judges up for reelection to another set of six-year terms. Both are endorsed by the Hamilton County GOP. Also running in November for those two spots: Pavan Parikh and Arica L. Underwood. Parikh, an attorney who is heavily involved in Greater Cincinnati’s legal community, has received the endorsement of the Democratic Party and says he wants the courts to operate with more efficiency, transparency and empathy.

Underwood, a felony trial counsel for the Hamilton County Public Defender’s Office, says she can bring a

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OHIO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES Voters will get two chances to decide the makeup of Ohio’s top court, which is currently comprised of seven Republican justices.

Craig Baldwin, a Republican who has served five years as a 5th District Court of Appeals Judge, was previously a judge in domestic relations court and director of child support enforcement in Licking County. He’s vying for a seat vacated by Terrance O’Donnell, who cannot run again due to age limits.

His challenger Michael Donnelly, a Democrat, has been a judge for 13 years hearing civil and criminal cases in Cleveland. On that court, he’s spent a good deal of his time on mental health cases for the last seven years.

Before his stint on the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, Donnelly was an assistant county prosecutor. He also serves on the state Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Task Force, which has recommended reforms to Ohio’s capital punishment policies.

Melody Stewart, a Democrat, is challenging DeGenaro.

She has served on Ohio’s Eighth District Court of Appeals since 2006. Stewart is a member of a state group, the Ohio Criminal Justice Recodification Committee, that is suggesting updates to Ohio’s criminal law. Stewart has also taken a stint as a visiting justice on the Ohio Supreme Court.

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U.S. Senate: Sherrod Brown Ohio Governor: Richard Cordray Ohio 1st Congressional District: Aftab Pureval Ohio 2nd Congressional District: Jill Schiller Ohio Attorney General: Steve Dettelbach Ohio Secretary of State: Kathleen Clyde Ohio Auditor: Zack Space Ohio State Senator: Cecil Thomas Ohio 27th House District: Christine Fisher Ohio’s 30th House District: Clayton Adams Ohio’s 32nd House District: Catherine Ingram Ohio’s 33rd House District: Sedrick Denson Ohio Supreme Court: Michael Donnelly, Melody Stewart Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judges: Pavan Parikh, Arica L. Underwood, Terry Nestor, Thomas O. Beridon Ohio Issue 1 (a constitutional amendment to reduce penalties for nonviolent drug crimes): Yes Hamilton County Issue 9 (a property tax levy to help fund Hamilton County Job and Family Services): Yes Cincinnati Issue 10 (to return council to two-year terms): No Cincinnati Issue 11 (to stagger council’s current four-year terms): Yes Cincinnati Issue 12 (to limit campaign-spending by LLCs): Yes Cincinnati Issue 13 (to amend the city charter so Cincinnati City Council could hold private, executive session): No

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Republican Mary DeGenaro is the incumbent in another Ohio Supreme Court race. She was appointed

by Gov. John Kasich in January to fi ll the seat of Justice William O’Neal, who left to seek the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial nomination. Her nomination made the court a seven-member Republican sweep. Prior to that, DeGenaro served in Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals for 17 years.

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ONSTAGE: Double Dare Live!

Double Dare Live! splats down in Cincinnati on Thursday. The popular Nickelodeon game show was the sole reason some of us wanted cable in the late 1980s. Hosted by Marc Summers (later known for hosting Unwrapped on Food Network), Double Dare was a mix of trivia and wonky physical challenges, followed by the messiest

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obstacle course seen on TV. Now you can test your luck and try to get onstage, as contestants will be selected at the show. Don’t worry: the iconic and contestantsoaking green slime is only vanilla pudding mixed with applesauce, oatmeal and green dye (and not actual slime). 7:30 p.m. Thursday. $29.50-$58. Taft Theatre, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, tafttheatre.org. — SEAN M. PETERS EVENT: Taking the Plunge: History of Public Bath Houses in OTR Baths are synonymous with warmth and solitude. Sink in — maybe even pop in a fizzing bath bomb — and for a half hour you can slide into sudsy contentment.

But, Cincinnatians didn’t always bathe this way. Dive into the Over-the-Rhine Foundation’s tour and be transported back to the early 20th century, when costly in-home plumbing and water heaters drove citizens to commercial bath houses

since many didn’t have their own. Learn about the history of these communal spots and advocates that pushed for publicly funded baths. After, commune the modern way: at 3 Points Urban Brewery. 5:30 p.m.

Thursday. $25. Over-theRhine Foundation, 416 E. 13th St., Over-the-Rhine, otrfoundation.org.

— MACKENZIE MANLEY

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MUSIC: Radio Artifact’s One-Year Anniversary Party One year ago, online radio station Radio Artifact was launched by Northside brewery/music venue Urban Artifact, featuring unique, community-minded programming that, like the bookings at Urban Artifact, is heavy on music created by locals. Since its launch, the station has joined the Cincinnati Public Radio family, becoming part of the organization’s digital radio platform (you can find it on the HD2 station of 91.7 FM,

making it a sister channel of WVXU). This weekend, the venue is hosting a birthday celebration for Radio Artifact featuring many of the on-air personalities from the channel. The show hosts will chat onstage about their different programs and, since many of the hosts are also musicians, the musical entertainment for the night will be provided by local bands that include Radio Artifact DJs among their members. The music lineup includes performances from Go Go Buffalo, The Phasmids, Phasmonaut, Venicia & the Shadow People, Hot Diggity Daffodil and Fitz Pape, who hosts the Ambient and Drone music program The Hum every Wednesday at 10 p.m. Listen to Radio Artifact online at radioartifact.com.

8 p.m. Friday. Free. Urban Artifact, 1660 Blue Rock St., Northside, artifactbeer.com.

— MIKE BREEN COMEDY: John Heffron John Heffron first gained

nationwide attention as a participant on NBC’s Last Comic Standing during that show’s second season in the summer of 2004. He won, but a few months later a third season debuted which pitted Season 1’s comics against Season 2’s. “Even the prom queen gets to keep her title for a year,” he’d go on to tell audiences. The win for Season 3 went to fellow comic and friend Alonzo Bodden. Fortunately, both have continued to have successful careers. Heffron continues to headline and has just released his fifth comedy album, The Laughs You Deserve. Drawing on his Midwest and middle-class upbringing, Heffron offers a relatable but unique perspective, as demonstrated by a recent trip to the mall.

“There are to acceptable ways to wear a cap,” he states. “Twelve o’clock, and six o’clock if you’re a sniper or a catcher.” 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday; 7 and 10 p.m.

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EVENT: The inaugural Cincinnati’s First Podcast Fest takes over Memorial Hall. See feature on page 46.

EVENT: Lights Out: Monster Edition at The Dent Schoolhouse Once upon a time, a janitor named Charlie killed a bunch of kids and hid their bodies in the basement of The Dent Schoolhouse. Today, Charlie and the ghoulish girls and boys haunt one of the city’s scariest attractions each Halloween season. And if the regular Dent experience wasn’t freaky enough, the schoolhouse goes lights out for some super scares this week. Each group of intrepid haunted-house-goers gets a single glow stick to make their way through the pitchblack attraction, which has been filled with twice the number of monsters and horror actors. For an extra $10, you can opt for a “touch pass” to up the fear factor.

7:30-10 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. $20$45. The Dent Schoolhouse, 5963 Harrison Ave., Dent, frightsite.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: Wake the Dead Bash with the Mighty Wurlitzer at Music Hall Spend All Hallows Eve in one of the most haunted buildings in America: Music Hall, built on a former Potter’s Field, is reportedly home to several spirits and occasional spectral music.

But tonight, the music makers are of the mortal realm as organist Trent Sims plays The Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ, which can imitate the sounds of an entire orchestra with its loud and slightly eerie pipe acoustics. The spine-tingling show will include spooky songs, “creepy-crawly singalongs” with the Cincinnati Young Professional Choral Collective and drag queen Brock Leah Spears as the evening’s emcee. The Cincinnati Research & Paranormal Studies group will also be on hand to offer guided mini ghost tours of Music Hall. Tickets include one drink (mixologist Molly Wellmann will be on hand), light bites and entertainment.

Costumes are encouraged but not required. 9 p.m.

Wednesday. $45. Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-theRhine, cincinnatiarts.org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: Mac & Cheese Throwdown At CityBeat’s inaugural Mac & Cheese Throwdown, local chefs will go headto-head in a melty, cheesy smackdown competition pitting mac-and-cheese dish against mac-andcheese dish to see whose creation reigns supreme. Participants include Eli’s BBQ, Court Street Lobster Bar, The Eagle OTR, Keystone’s Mac Shack, MamaBear’s Mac and more. After sampling all the mac and cheese you can handle, attendees will decide on the winner. 5:30 p.m.

Friday. $35. American Sign Museum, 1330 Monmouth St., Camp Washington, macandcheesecincy. com. — MAIJA ZUMMO FROM PAGE 35

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Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday. $15-$48. Funny Bone Liberty, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone. com. — P.F. WILSON ATTRACTIONS: Guitar: The Instrument that Rocked the World After a brief intermission while the freshly renovated Cincinnati Museum Center underwent final systems testing, Guitar: The

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Instrument that Rocked the World is open once again. The exhibit catalogs the 5,000-year evolution of the guitar from its early days in the Nile River Valley through the Renaissance, the Woodstock era and today. Stringed instruments that tell the history of the modern guitar are on display including an ancient nyatiti, a lute, a banjo, a Gibson J-200 Country and Western acoustic guitar, a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, the world’s largest guitar and even an air guitar (it’s invisible…). Play the guitar, watch video performances, learn about the science of sound and more. Through Jan. 6, 2019. $14 adults; $12 seniors; $10 child; $7 member adult; free member child. Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate, cincymuseum. org. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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ONSTAGE: The world premiere of the Cincinnati King musical takes over the Playhouse in the Park. See feature on page 43.

LIT: The Mercantile Library’s sold-out Niehoff XXXI lecture is a blacktie affair featuring The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood in conversation with locally based author Curtis Sittenfeld. See feature on page 44.

MUSIC: New wave Chicago MC Chief Keef plays Bogart’s. See Sound Advice on page 52.

ONSTAGE: T2: Transit Theatre Take the streetcar and get a dose of theatrics. The experimental Transit Theatre project brings the theater directly to the public via the venue of the Cincinnati streetcar. And hey, you can ride for free during three different four-hour theater sessions. Stay for the full four-hour, 10-scene revue or hop on and off. Backed by local philanthropic lab People’s Liberty, join Matthew David Gellin — the founder of American Legacy Theatre — and view these sketches that explore social issues. This round’s theme?

Gentrification. 4-8 p.m.

Saturday and 4-8 p.m. Nov. 9 and 10. Free. Cincinnati Streetcar, Downtown and Over-the-Rhine, americanlegacytheatre.org.

— MACKENZIE MANLEY EVENT: Northside Record Fair Northside is home to a lot of weirdos and, generally, weirdos have great taste in music. That’s why vendors and buyers from all over the region file into the neighborhood’s North Church every year for the Northside Record Fair. Inside, you can play “count the Unknown Pleasures T-shirts” while you

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navigate the bevy of collectors to get to the next vendor table. Fans of all genres will likely find something new or unexpected on vinyl, cassette, CD or wax cylinder (if you’re old school). As the fair’s website reads, “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.”

The whole neighborhood opens its doors during the record fair, so eat, shop and drink local. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday. $5; $10 10 a.m. early-bird admission. North Church, 4222 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsiderecordfair.com. — SEAN M. PETERS

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EVENT: Cincinnati Pizza Week CityBeat’s Cincinnati Pizza Week takes over area pizzerias for seven days of $8 specialty pies. Participants — like Goodfellas, ALTO, Dewey’s, Brick Oven Loveland and many more — will be offering sit-down specials; grab an official Pizza Week Passport and get a stamp at each location you visit.

There’s a special kick-off party 5:30-8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at Braxton Brewing Co. (27 W. Seventh St., Covington) with sneak peek eats, live music and beer. Pizza Week: Nov. 5-11. $8 pizzas. More info at cincinnatipizzaweek. com. —MAIJA ZUMMO

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MUSIC: Deafheaven plays the Taft Theatre. See interview on page 49.

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COMEDY: Nick Swardson Nick Swardson, the party boy storyteller comedian, will perform at Bogart’s as part of his Too Many Smells 2018 tour. The actor, writer and producer is widely known for his work on Reno 911 as Terry, the over-thetop male prostitute who spoke with a Valley Girl lisp and constantly roller skated.

He was also featured by Happy Madison productions on the big screen in Grandma’s Boy. Swardson’s brand of stand-up comedy often relies on autobiographical tales that unveil subversive nuggets of humor found from his hard-partying lifestyle

that he can’t seem to quit.

6 p.m. doors; 7 p.m. show Sunday. $42.50. Bogart’s, 2621 Vine St., Corryville, bogarts.com. — SEAN M. PETERS

EVENT: Greater Cincinnati Holiday Market Halloween is over, which means it is finally time for holiday-lovers to emerge from hibernation. It also means that the end-of-the-year shopping season has begun, and the Greater Cincinnati Holiday Market is coming out strong with a three-day event.

You can grab a group of friends and switch back and forth between shopping the 350-plus boutiques at the show and the much-appreciated wine lounge. New this year: wider aisles, a larger show room and longer hours. VIP shopping and early entry happen 8 a.m.-11 a.m.

Friday and Saturday. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. $8 online; $10 at the door. Duke Energy Convention, 525 Elm St., Downtown, cincinnatiholidaymarket.com.

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permit from the city to open a walk-up window, which likely will lead to expanded food items. So far, in addition to the charcuterie, they serve only “bar bites,” such as olives, almonds, other types of nuts and a hummus trio (Lebanese, spicy, and roasted red pepper) with pita chips. The window will give that meat smoker a little more to do, she said.

Crafts & Vines also hosts a monthly book club and occasional special events. “Swine and Wine” in October combined smoked pork with wines matched to the food, for instance.

Although Crafts & Vines has a location near the southern edge of MainStrasse Village, Hugo said that end of the street continues to grow southward. New establishments include a small popcorn shop and a vaping store, with a Japanese bakery coming soon, she said. That’s on top of a development across Main Street renovating a historic building and adding construction totaling more than 180 new apartments.

The enhancement of the blocks around Crafts & Vines most likely will make this corner stop even more attractive as a neighborhood hangout. And it’s only a short hop for Cincinnatians, as well.

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“For our beer selection we focus on Kentucky brews, both locally and from around the state,” she added. Her husband, Vic, is a home brewer and enjoys helping with selecting beer offerings. He also pitches in on weekends by smoking meats in a Big Green Egg smoker. On the anniversary weekend, he made smoked chicken tacos, which were off-menu and we didn’t hear about them until we were on our way out.

But we did sample an array of wines and one of the beer taps, along with a meat-and-cheese charcuterie platter. From among a half-dozen meats and seven or eight cheeses, you can pick three or six.

We decided to sample six — three each of cheeses and meats — for $23. We had prosciutto, speck — actually a variation on prosciutto — and the hit of the table, a large and sinfully delicious strip of mapleSriracha bacon.

Cheese choices were not terribly adventurous, but we settled on Manchego, brie and cheddar with caramelized onion.

The platter included dried fruits, jam and honey and a sprinkling of crunchy Marcona almonds; it also came with a basket of sliced baguette. We thought the cheese portions should have been a little more generous and we probably should have asked for a refill on the bread basket. Everyone loved the accoutrements, especially the almonds.

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The place consists of three smallish rooms with a back patio and a couple of sidewalk tables. The front room includes a bar with wine and beer taps, bottled drinks and cocktail ingredients; you can sit on a stool or at a table. The room immediately to the left contains a wall with retail wine offerings — about 120 different wines, according to Hugo — and more seating. Then there’s a small back room with more tables. The layout has an informal vibe that’s also intimate and warm. Hugo wanted the spot to “feel like an extension of your living room,” and she rejoiced when more than one person told her that what she had created was “the only place I feel comfortable going by myself.”

Crafts & Vines became the first bar in Northern Kentucky to offer wine on tap; it has eight rotating taps — four red and four white wines, which Hugo says are among their most popular drink categories. Her menu also has several wines by the glass or bottle.

“I try to pick wines for the by-the-glass list that you don’t normally see on wine lists around the area,” she told me. On my visit the list included a Torrontes from Oregon, an Australian Riesling and a Spanish Monastrell — definitely not typical glass

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e are lucky to have several neighborhoods where a variety of interesting restaurants and bars cluster together on streets that you could call “restaurant rows:” there’s Vine Street in Over-the-Rhine, the area within a couple blocks of the Aronoff Center downtown and the long-established MainStrasse (aka Main Street) in Covington.

On an outing to Covington this summer after some friends and I ate nearby, several of us strolled down Main and came across an inviting little place called Crafts & Vines on the corner of Seventh Street at the southern end of the commercial district.

It had the feel of a neighborhood hangout, friendly staff and — as the sign outside suggested — an emphasis on carefully selected beer and wine choices.

A couple of weeks ago, I found my way back to Crafts & Vines to sample some of the fare. It was a warm evening, so my friends and I grabbed one of the sidewalk tables and settled in for drinks and a bite.

Turns out the café was celebrating its second anniversary that weekend, with drink and food specials and a lot of happy faces. We also happened onto a compelling story about a mid-career woman who left the corporate world and followed her bliss, combining a fascination with wine and facility with numbers to open this business.

Crafts & Vines owner Lesley Hugo had worked as a financial analyst for a prominent hospital but wanted to leave the corporate world. She hooked up with Bad Girl Ventures, a local nonprofit that gives women the training and tools they need to start businesses. (A year ago, Bad Girl rebranded as Aviatra Accelerators.)

That helped her develop the concept for what became Crafts & Vines and produce a viable business plan. When she talked with Covington residents about the kind of place she had in mind, all the feedback was positive. After more than a year of renovating the century-old building that houses Crafts & Vines, her dream came to

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There are a couple of brewery and brewery-related anniversaries coming up. Blue Ash’s Fretboard celebrates its one-year anniversary Nov. 2-4 with a party called Jam Session 18. Expect all-day live bands and the release of Fretboard’s collaboration with Klosterman Bread, Rye Bier. Some of the proceeds from the event will go toward local nonprofit ArtsWave.

On Nov. 2, Radio Artifact — Urban Artifact’s indie radio station — celebrates their one-year anniversary on the internet and airwaves. (Find them on 1660 AM.) Some of the radio personalities will be on hand to discuss their programs and play tunes.

Recently, Mason has become a brewery epicenter: In early October, nano-brewery Common Beer Company quietly opened in downtown Mason, and on Oct. 27, Sonder Brewing also opened, joining the nearby one-year-old 16 Lots.

New Beers • MadTree recently released the seasonal bourbon-barrel-aged imperial stout Are You Ready For Some Darkness in bottles.

Find it at the taproom. Dorado High is MadTree’s latest in the High Series. It’s brewed with El Dorado, Azacca and Mosaic hops. Find it on tap.

• Just in time for Halloween, Little Miami Brewing has released Godzilla, a double IPA. It’s their hoppiest beer to date. Find it on draft at the taproom.

• Narrow Path Brewing just brought back Salted Caramel Amber Ale and Coconut Porter. Try them in the taproom.

• Urban Artifact’s Operation Plowshare, a blackberry jelly donut Midwest Fruit Tart that’s brewed with 2,600 pounds of blackberries and 60 grams of vanilla beans, is back in cans and on draft at the taproom.

• Nine Giant recently released two new beers: a farmhouse saison named Bloom, and a tweaked version of a NE IPA named Magical Colors, which has “a little woodsy pine on the backend.”

• For the first time, Old Firehouse Brewery canned Probie Porter, a robust and chocolate-y dark ale. Find the six packs at their taproom and in various stores.

• Grainworks knows how much basic bitches, er, witches, love pumpkin-spiced everything, so they brewed Basic Witch Pumpkin Ale — a “witchy orange delight that perfectly walks the line between pumpkin and spice.” And then they took the pumpkin ale and infused it with coffee from local roaster Resurgam to create Basic Witch’s PSL. It’s basically a PSL in beer form. Drink both at the taproom.

• On Nov. 2, 16 breweries throughout Kentucky — including Braxton and Wooden Cask — will release Kentucky Proud beers. Each brewery used ingredients like hemp seeds, pecans, corn and blackberries to create their own style.

The first 100 people at the breweries will receive a custom poster and Kentucky Proud/Kentucky Guild of Brewers glass.

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Events • On Nov. 3, Fifty West and Great Lakes team up for the fourth-annual Great Ohio Brew N’ Que. Tickets are $40 and include all-you-can-eat wings, beef brisket, pulled pork, pork belly, corn pudding, collard greens, coleslaw, mac and cheese, Fifty West brownies and Great Lakes bread pudding. You also get eight beer tickets, including access to a collaboration beer.

If you just want to pig out and not drink, designated driver tickets are $20.

• The Breeders’ Cup takes place on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs, and Braxton is the official beer sponsor. If you can’t make it to the race, hang out at Braxton and watch it live while drinking their Breeders’ Cup Golden Ale. Braxton will also have Kentucky Home Mint Julep Ale on draft and in bottles, and a Maker’s Mark cocktail.

• Braxton also has several other events coming up. On Nov. 7, swing by the taproom to support fishing cat conservation at Drink Like a Fishing Cat. Participate in raffles, buy a T-shirt and sip on some beer. Then, on Nov. 9, Braxton pays homage to Covington firefighters and Veterans Day with the release of the beer Strike the Bock, brewed in collaboration with the Covington Professional Firefighters Local 38. And on Nov. 13, OCD Cakes’ James Avant IV will pair four of his pies with four Braxton beers. For $30, you get a welcome beer, pie and more beer.

• On Nov. 10, support Veterans Day at Rhinegeist. They’ll tap Valor, a coconut porter, brewed by their veterans on staff.

Fifty percent of beer sales will go toward The Barracks Project, Inc., which combats veteran homelessness.

• DogBerry wants home brewers to participate in their two-part Brew Out, held at the taproom. On Nov. 17, pick up wort from the brewery and see what you can come up with. On Dec. 15, bring your concoction back to the taproom for a sampling. Sign up by Nov. 10.

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Midnight at the Masquerade at Brown Dog Café — Escape from trick-or-treaters by heading to the Brown Dog Café for a murder mystery dinner party.

Midnight at the Masquerade is the theme (feel free to wear your own masquerade mask) with a multi-course meal featuring toad legs with blood sauce, short ribs and a bone cookie with ice cream eyes and blood topping, plus spooky themed cocktails.

7-9 p.m. $75. Brown Dog Café, 1000 Summit Park, Blue Ash, facebook.com/ thebrowndogcafe.

Longfellow is Titanic — Over-the-Rhine drinking destination Longfellow is dressing up for Halloween as the 1997 Leonardo DiCaprioKate Winslet vehicle Titanic.

Expect thematic décor — like karaoke on the bow of the ship and an iceberg with cold booze — as well as general Halloween fun, like a costume contest, and at least three people saying, “Draw me like one of your French girls.” 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Free admission. Longfellow, 1233 Clay St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/longfellowcinti.

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Shack, MamaBear’s Mac and more. After sampling all the mac and cheese you can handle, attendees will decide on the winner. 5:30 p.m. $35; early bird tickets are sold out. American Sign Museum, 1330 Monmouth St., Camp Washington, macandcheesecincy.com.

Red River Gorge Yourself — Red River Gorge Yourself is a one-of-a-kind camping/dining experience that brings together some of the very best things in life; food, friends and the great outdoors. Three local chefs — Elias Leisring of Eli’s BBQ, Jackson Rouse of Bauer Farm Kitchen and Christian Gill of Boomtown Biscuits & Whiskey — will prepare a gourmet campfire breakfast, lunch and dinner for guests at the Wilhoit & Taylor Recreational Preserve, located in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.

Guests will need to bring their own camping, climbing and hiking equipment as it will not be provided. FridaySunday. $80; ticket includes access to the preserve, as well as breakfast, lunch and dinner. Wilhoit & Taylor Recreational Preserve, Red River Gorge, Ky., facebook. com/wilhoiteandtaylor.

Fretboard’s Jam Session 18 — Blue Ash’s Fretboard Brewing celebrates its oneyear-anniversary with Jam Session 18. Expect all-day live bands and the release of Fretboard’s collaboration with Klosterman Bread, Rye Bier. Some of the proceeds from the event will go toward local nonprofit ArtsWave. 5 p.m-midnight Friday; noonmidnight Saturday; noon-9 p.m. Sunday. Free admission.

Fretboard Brewing, 5800 Creek Road, Blue Ash, facebook.com/fretboardbrewing.

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Shiitake Madness at the Civic Garden Center — In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to cultivate shiitake and morel mushrooms on logs.

Discover how to select, harvest, inoculate and care for logs in order to grow many, many mushrooms. 1 p.m. $30; $50 2-part series.

Civic Garden Center, 2715 Reading Road, Avondale, civicgardencenter.org.

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International Tea Ceremonies with Churchill’s Fine Teas — Visit Rüya Coffee in Findlay Market for this seminar on the different types of tea ceremonies found throughout the world.

Churchill’s will provide the stories and teas for tastings from China, Turkey and England, along with specialty desserts. 2-2:30 p.m.; 2:453:15 p.m.; 3:30-4 p.m. $20.

Rüya Coffee, 1805 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook. com/ruyacoffee.

Bartender’s Choice at Please — Please bartender Omy Bugazia will be overseeing a curated cocktail night every Sunday at the restaurant’s bar. He will be “serving different cocktails weekly on a whim and with a focus” with bonus glass pours of off-menu wines. 6-11 p.m. Free admission. Please, 1405 Clay St., Over-theRhine, pleasecincinnati.com.

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Great Ohio Brew n’ Que — Fifty West and Great Lakes team up for the fourth-annual Great Ohio Brew n’ Que. Tickets include all-youcan-eat wings, beef brisket, pulled pork, pork belly, corn pudding, collard greens, coleslaw, mac and cheese, Fifty West brownies and Great Lakes bread pudding.

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Cincinnati Pizza Week Kick-Off Party — CityBeat’s Cincinnati Pizza Week kicks off at Braxton with sneak peek eats of participating pizzerias, live music from Ethan and Joey and beer from Braxton. It will be your first chance to pick up your Pizza Week passport; get an extra stamp when you buy a Braxton. 5:308:30 p.m. Free admission.

Braxton Brewing Co., 27 W. Seventh St., Covington, cincinnatipizzaweek.com.

You also get eight beer tickets, including access to a collaboration beer. If you just want to pig out and not drink, designated driver tickets are $20. 4 p.m.-midnight. $40; $20 designated driver. Fifty West Brewing Co., 7668 Wooster Pike, Columbia Township, fiftywestbrew.com.

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ARTS & CULTURE Long Live the King — Records, That Is The local pioneering record label gets the stage treatment at the Playhouse in the Park’s world premiere of Cincinnati King

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Cincinnati King runs Nov. 3-Dec. 23 at the Playhouse in the Park. Tickets and more info: cincyplay.com.

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talking to his staff,” Sanchez says. “They’re full of his ego and bravura, but he’s really funny in these recordings.”

She listened carefully to these recordings and then imagined scenes of Nathan and Willie John insisting on being interviewed, which should culminate as an engaging, entertaining mix.

In addition to the production of Cincinnati King on the Playhouse’s mainstage, the theater has assembled several related events, including a set of firsthand accounts by artists who worked at King Records, especially Sanchez’s prime resource, Paul. This “Perspectives” program happens at the Playhouse at 7 p.m. Nov. 26; it’s free, but registration is required (box office: 513-421-3888).

You might also want to check out a documentary, King Records: Birthplace of Rock & Roll, to be screened 7 p.m. Nov. 29 at the Esquire Theatre in Clifton and 2 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Kenwood Theatre. ($12 admission.)

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to the audience as if the audience is interviewing them,” she says of her process.

After all the material was assembled, she realized it would be more powerful to intersperse music with the narratives.

“This show really wanted to be a musical,” she says.

Sanchez has translated Nathan into a colorful character in her play. He battled with one of the company’s greatest talents, Little Willie John, an AfricanAmerican Gospel and Blues singer who likely had a major impact on James Brown once he began recording at King studios.

Philip Paul, King Records “Syd Nathan is one of the most session drummer fascinating people I have ever studied,” Sanchez says. She PHOTO: TONY ARR ASMITH// A R R A S M I T H & A S S O C I AT E S admires his chutzpah, and his irascible management style, but she also recognizes his great humanity. Nathan was something of a pioneer of diversity, perhaps resulting from Cincinnati being a city on the way to everywhere multiple versions of the classic number else. Nathan’s studio recorded early Rock “Blues Stay Away from Me” — rendered by & Roll songs and Country tunes (called “the eerie, plaintive twang of The Delmore “Hillbilly Records” at the time), as well as Brothers, the gutbucket cry of Lonnie Gospel and Rhythm & Blues numbers Johnson and the Doo-Wop-infused Otis (termed “Race Records”), often backed Williams and the Charms.” (Versions by by an interracial studio band that had the the Delmores and by Johnson are both talent to shift from one musical genre to included in the show.) another.

Drummer Paul, still performing in Philip Paul offered Sanchez and her Cincinnati at age 93, is portrayed as the team first-hand insights into day-tonarrator. day activities at King Records. An actor “He was born and raised in Spanish Harplays him, but all of his lines come from lem in New York,” Sanchez says. “He was conversations with Sanchez. She says he’s an up-and-coming Jazz star in New York.” been an invaluable resource in assembling Singer Tiny Bradshaw was recording at the show.

King and needed a new drummer, so he “I don’t in any way want people to think invited Paul to come to Cincinnati. Paul this is the definitive ‘King Records’ story,” did — via Greyhound bus with his drums.

Sanchez is quick to say. “I decided to go He went on to provide drum accompanideeper with fewer people, to focus on the ment for roughly 350 King recordings. drama and the personal, emotional stories.”

“We’ve kind of invented this genre of Huntley and Sanchez have gathered a jukebox/docu-mashup — it’s one part many of the classic tunes that emanated songs from the King catalog, another part from the studio for the production: “The with Philip Paul as the story’s narrator,” Twist,” “Sixty Minute Man,” and “Fever,” Sanchez says. along with 14 more numbers that make up The third part is fictional scenes Cincinnati King. Huntley especially points between Little Willie John and Nathan. to being blown away when he discovered “Syd actually made records of himself

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f you’re a longtime Cincinnati Pop music fan, you’ve surely heard of King Records, the legendary Evanston recording studio that cranked out early and pre-Rock & Roll hits by James Brown and others in the 1940s through the ’60s.

Syd Nathan, the studio’s quirky founder, is a story unto himself — and it’s about to be told in a new world premiere musical at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

Playhouse Associate Artist KJ Sanchez based Cincinnati King on years of research and interviews. In 2013, she and other community members began to collect material about King. That effort culminated in a celebration of session drummer Philip Paul and King Records at Washington Park in 2015. Both a writer and a director, Sanchez is also a theater professor at the University of Texas. She has developed the show in conjunction with American Records, her theater company that chronicles American history.

Over the past 15 years, she has made about 15 documentary plays based on real people and about real subjects.

Five years ago, Playhouse Artistic Director Blake Robison invited Sanchez to turn her attention to Cincinnati’s own contribution to Rock & Roll history, King Records. Her associate, Richard Huntley, the production’s music director and drummer, says, “I had known about King Records peripherally — Tiny Bradshaw, Little Willie John, some of the bigger artists.

But once I started digging in and doing research, I was blown away by the incredible music, the musicians, all the stories.”

Even before the advent of music legends like Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips and Sun Records, King was cranking out hit recordings in Cincinnati. That was Nathan’s doing. Sanchez describes him as “this guy with nothing more than an eighth-grade education who knew nothing about record labels, who went from basically running a radio repair shop to owning the sixth-largest record label in the world. He was scrappy, he was feisty, he did it all himself.”

Sanchez thought this project would eventually become a documentary play.

“The people that I interview become characters in the play. All the dialogue comes straight from our transcripts, and they talk

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The Mercantile Library’s 31st-annual Niehoff Lecture takes place Nov. 3 for a sold-out crowd at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, featuring famed author Margaret Atwood in conversation with native Cincinnatian and fellow author Curtis Sittenfeld.

“This year, Niehoff Lecture XXXI, is far and away the biggest one we’ve ever had,” says Cedric Rose, collector and librarian with The Mercantile.

Past Niehoff lecturers have included controversial figures like Salman Rushdie, comedian (and Dayton native) Jonathan Winters, famous chef Julia Child and 2017’s guest, best-selling author Zadie Smith.

One thing all lecturers have in common?

“There has to be some sort of gravitas to their career,” says Amy Hunter, literary programs and marketing manager for the 183-year-old subscription library. Rose calls it the “Niehoffian” quality, which essentially boils down to a substantive, well-known breadth of work.

An events committee comprised of volunteers, board members, the library’s executive director John Faherty and Hunter pull together a list of “dream speakers,” and go from there with the vetting and selection process.

“It just has to sort of ring true to the committee, and then also we run it by the Niehoff family,” Hunter says.

With Atwood, “It was one of those things that someone suggested and everyone went, ‘Yes. Can we get her?’ and we contacted the agency and she was available and we were just thrilled to bits that she would join us,” Hunter continues.

Atwood has written more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and essays, the most famous of which is likely The Handmaid’s Tale. A cautionary tale about a dystopian future published in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale became a popular culture phenomenon with the release of the Hulu original series of the same name in 2017.

In the tenuous political climate of the Trump presidency, the television show and the book that started it all have become a byword of sorts, with many looking at the ominous world of forced pregnancy and violently rigid adherence to a militant sect of Christianity as a foreshadowing of the future. Women clad in the Handmaid’s traditional red gowns and white bonnets have even appeared in protest on Capitol Hill.

For her Niehoff appearance, Atwood opted for a conversation rather than a straight lecture. Last year’s lecturer, British author Smith, requested the format change.

Smith was interviewed by Jim Schiff, an English professor at the University of Cincinnati. Author Sittenfeld (her younger brother P.G. Sittenfeld is a Cincinnati City Council member) is on board this year.

Sittenfeld is the author of five books — 2016’s Eligible is set in Cincinnati — including this year’s short story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It. She has conducted a

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number of interviews with other literary and celebrity figures (notably, former vice president Joe Biden, author Judy Blume and actor Jon Hamm).

“I think really that the event is about what the audience wants to know more than what I personally want to know, although there is overlap,” Sittenfeld says. “I think that people usually like to have a mix of sort of autobiographical information, and a conversation about specific books and life anecdotes.”

Discussing The Handmaid’s Tale is an inevitability, but foreseeing the current cultural climate that has made it a discussion for topic, as Atwood did, was not, necessarily.

“Obviously, she was so prescient in anticipating the cultural moment that we live in now, and I think it’s really interesting,” Sittenfeld says. “I feel like she anticipated a lot of what we’re facing now in terms of both climate and gender and it seems like that’s really interesting to talk about. It’s kind of an amazing thing that she wrote this novel decades ago and people are literally dressing up as characters from the novel as a form of political protest all this time later.”

The conversation will take place on a stage at the Hyatt Regency’s ballroom.

There’s a cocktail hour full of socializing, plus dinner and the conversation itself.

Established in 1986 by Buck and Patti Niehoff, the lecture is The Mercantile’s only annual fundraiser. Hunter calls it the “pinnacle” of the library’s season, one that includes a number of other signature events, from Q&As with up-and-coming authors to other lecture series (last year’s 2035 Lecture series brought in guests like Chuck Klosterman) and more.

Margaret Atwood’s sold-out Niehoff Lecture, in conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld, takes place at the Hyatt Regency downtown 7-10 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 3). More info: mercantilelibrary.com.

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P H O T O : K AT I E G R I F F I T H “When you put something next to something else, you create a context between those two things,” Wagster says. times, in conflict.

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Ebeling. The blue and white pattern on the After graduating from the Art Academy cover of Tomaž Šalamun’s Poker creates of Cincinnati — Lipper majored in paintmovement that may seem awkwardly ing, Wagster in drawing and Khosla in inviting while the literal head-turning Sculpture — the trio felt Cincinnati lacked arrangement of words on Cold Mountain an outlet for contemporary poetry and art Mirror Displacement by Jeremy Hoevenaar to be created and showcased. They worked draw the eye closer. to fuse this gap via a physical space to print “We don’t want to push a social agenda,” and publish books. That first came in the Lipper says. “It’s more about the human form of a location in Mount Healthy, which condition and about the ideas that are opened in September. About a month later, being expressed in today’s world.” they wanted a more central location, so The art MWP produces and displays is they went to Over-the-Rhine. always reflective of the world around it A new mission was established with the by providing tools for each individual to move to Main Street: along with hosting decode their own reality. This concept is poetry readings and making books, MWP complemented by MWP’s first publication, added poetry workshops and classes to a chapbook of poetry titled Statelessness by their operation.

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“We want to elevate the writing Though the end product is refined, the community in a different light,” Lipper team described the making of Statelessness says. “And start integrating the actual as trial and error, as they worked through process of creating poetry with lecture the kinks of publishing. The only outseries or classes. We want to inject life into sourced task was the actual printing; an the things that are happening and be more undertaking that will be doable in smaller integral to the community.” batches in their private studio as early as Their efforts gained the attention of December.

Gary Walton, director and founder of The latest project, a book of poetry the Cincinnati Type and Print Museum. called Ordinary Dissonance by Brett He donated equipment, including a Price — a local poet and Art Academy of letterpress, which brought MWP closer to Cincinnati adjunct instructor — is set for a their goal of in-house publishing. mid-November release. As noted on their Khosla noted the donation as a sign of website, they promise to accept and review limitless opportunity when it comes to all submissions and are always open to sculpting a book, a process he describes as: new ideas.

“Just being weird, engaging with ideas and “I want people to truly understand that materials that maybe you wouldn’t expect we are genuinely here to nurture and and approaching things in a new way with sustain a culture that we think is impora different perspective.” tant, that we often feel like gets overlooked In the store itself, a wall of theory, or is not elevated to its respective place of graffiti and poetry books act as the focal what it deserves,” Wagster says. “It’s just as point. Along with alternative magazines, much for us as it is for everyone around us.”

DIY zines and chapbooks, MWP stages Midwestern Press is located at 1411 these creations in a way that enhances Main St., Over-the-Rhine. More info: their meaning, and emphasizes that they midwesternpress.com. are live entities that flow in unity and, at

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When Steve Ramos first had the idea to Since Pantsuit Politics went live in 2015, launch a podcast festival in Cincinnati, Silvers believes she and Holland have he sought out a team to make it reality. already found engagement with their For the fest to be successful, he knew it audience. needed to also be diverse and inclusive — “It’s cool because we get to really connect in race, gender, economic standing and with the audience,” she says. “We get these experiences. emails from our listeners that are so long Ramos, founder of SR Media — a design, and thoughtful and personal.” writing and strategy hub that works out of Silvers believes the collaborative aspect Over-the-Rhine’s Union Hall “disruptor of podcasting (and, in turn, the engageworkspace” — cites inclusion and diversity ment listeners feel) will underscore the as key components, facets he finds espeupcoming festival. During the festival, cially important as someone who works in Silvers and Holland will record an episode the startup and tech world.

“My joke is I think I am the only Latino in Cintrifuse right now,” Ramos says. (Cintrifuse is a Cincinnati startup network of which SR Media is a part.)

“And they forget I’m Latino.

I don’t know, maybe I don’t sound it or look it or whatever. And in tech that type of diversity and inclusivity is, really, a pressing issue and kind of a crisis.”

In regards to the actual diversity proportion among the team of creators for the podcast festival, Ramos says: “We Steve Ramos, creator of Cincinnati’s First Podcast Festival are beyond that 50 percent minority quota and we PHOTO: MARLENA TOEBBEN will be more successful because of that.”

Ramos believes the diversity among the of Pantsuit Politics as one of the live festival leadership will also attract a more performances. diverse audience. “That was really a key Brad Mulvey of the podcast Millennial value to building this event,” he says.

Mastermind will also be one of the The festival — dubbed Cincinnati’s First main performers at the event. He feels Podcast Festival — takes place Nov. 1 and that this festival will stand out among 2 at Memorial Hall. The fest is made up similar festivals because it was created of five live performances and a number by podcasters for podcasters. He hopes to of breakout brainstorming sessions see the festival drive engagement among throughout the day; guests can sit face-topodcasters in the region. face with podcasters to discuss different “Really anyone can create a podcast if topics related to podcasting or creative you’re passionate about the topic,” Mulvey work. The festival is targeted at those with says. “It is an incredible way to bring peoa wide range of podcasting experience, ple together who share similar passions.” with three tracts making up the fest.

Millennial Mastermind — which focuses “You can spend a day and a half with the on sharing tools and inspiration for entrePantsuit Politics team, which is the leading preneurial millennials — first came to podcast out of our city, and you’ll learn fruition in 2015 when Mulvey felt he could all the best practices, whether you’re an not find a podcast that fit the subject he emerging podcaster — meaning you’re was looking for. So, he made his own. going to launch your series — whether Ramos and his team are considering you’re maybe mid-level experience, maybe this year’s Podcast Festival as a soft-open you have 25, 35, 50 episodes but you want with about 150 estimated attendees. And to get it to the 100 episode max and make it he expects this event to become annual, more of a business,” Ramos says. continuing next year.

Beth Silvers, co-host of Pantsuit Politics, “Storytelling will always continue,” says Cincinnati has a great atmosphere Ramos says. “There will always be creative for podcasting because of the city’s sense people in support of storytelling. And of innovation. She co-hosts her show with that’s what this event is about.”

Sarah Stewart Holland and says that two Cincinnati’s First Podcast Festival takes female hosts is not the norm in the podplace Nov. 1 and 2 at Memorial Hall. More casting world, which, she says, began “with info/tickets: memorialhallotr.com. such a bro mentality.”

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Three years ago, viewers around the world than any prosecutor could.” I don’t doubt it. were swept up in the story of Steven Avery, Critics would say she finds a tiny a Wisconsin man convicted of murdering arbitrary fray in a case and tugs until photographer Teresa Halbach, and his it’s completely unraveled. The innocent nephew Brendan Dassey — also sentenced convicts she helped free might say she for the crime — thanks to the Netflix saved their lives. docu-series Making a Murderer. The series Unlike any legal representative we’ve painted a dismal portrait of the American seen in the series, she is truly dedicated to criminal justice system as it played out for not only overturning Avery’s case, but also one family. finding out who actually killed Halbach.

It was the epitome of binge-watching She does have some solid theories — but fare before the term was ubiquitous. Most let’s just say they won’t please everyone in of us outside Manitowoc County, Wisconthe Avery family. sin, had never heard of the Halbach murder, let alone Avery’s unique position — he previously served 18 years in prison for another crime he didn’t commit and was later found innocent due to DNA evidence.

Engrossed in this truecrime saga, many viewers like myself followed the news surrounding this case as it played out in real time in the years that followed. So when a second season following the same subject was announced, I wondered how they could Kathleen Zellner, Steven Avery’s attorney, surrounded by reporters possibly fill 10 episodes with new information and PHOTO: COURTESY OF NETFLIX even try to top Season 1.

After all (spoiler alert for those not following the case), Avery and As for Dassey, he has new representation, Dassey remain behind bars today. too, coming from Northwestern UniverSeason 2 does tread familiar territory, sity’s Center on Wrongful Convictions of with early episodes serving as a refresher Youth. His team works relentlessly to argue while setting up new developments. In fact, that, as an intellectually disabled minor, while much of this season’s content comes he was coerced into a false confession that from the couple of years since the first one has led to a life sentence. aired, there’s a lot from before 2015. With Making a Murderer has been criticized the first season filmed over the course of for not being a true documentary — that a decade, there was plenty of footage that it’s too biased in favor of Avery. Filmmakdidn’t make the cut the first time around, ers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos and some of that finds its place here. acknowledge this in the new season, and The most significant new player and true every episode ends with a lengthy list of star of this season is Avery’s new attorney people who declined to be involved with Kathleen Zellner, who started representthe series or didn’t respond to requests. ing him in January 2016 shortly after the This season is far more intriguing than original series premiered. A Texas born, I imagined, but it’s also heartbreaking. pistol-packing straight-shooter based in We hear Dassey call home, full of hope, Chicago, Zellner is a heavy hitter when it discussing his plans for his first meal on comes to exonerating the falsely accused. the outside, when we know that might not In 23 years, she has helped overturn 19 ever happen. We watch Avery’s parents wrongful convictions — more than any struggle with aging and health problems, private attorney in America. She gives Seaconcerned that they won’t be around if he son 1 lawyer baes Dean Strang and Jerry ever does get released. Even if these guys Buting a run for their money. were complicit, the hand they were dealt is In the 1990s, Zellner represented serial far from just. Meanwhile, Halbach’s family killer Larry Eyler, a death row inmate who may never know what happened to Teresa. confessed additional murders to her before Still, there’s a noble sense of hope in dying in prison. After that experience, she Avery as we hear him discuss, in a call from shifted her focus to helping the falsely prison, his refusal to grow bitter. With all accused. And if Zellner does take on your the odds stacked against him, he continues case, you better be innocent. “If you are to fight. guilty,” she says in the show, “I will do a Contact Jac Kern: @jackern way better job of finding out you are guilty

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above everything else it’s important to be understanding and kind to one another. I think in some way the album definitely reflects that mindset.

When I was first coming up with themes for the record, I remember saying to the guys that I wanted this to be our “celebration” album. I want it to be focused on life and togetherness and the acceptance of the whole thing. Perhaps that was in part because, if you pay any attention to the media or the political climate right now, you’re constantly bombarded by the horrors of the world, and I needed something, at least for a moment, to remove myself from that.

CB: This album seems more romantic than the stuff you’ve done in the past…

GC: Yes! You hit the nail on the head.

I love when people call this album “romantic,” because I very much get that feeling, too. I think it has a certain warmth to it and it feels more loving than our other records, and that’s definitely intentional.

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GC: I think every album that we do is in some way a reaction to our previous one.

After we finish an album and we tour on it for two years, the last thing that we want to do is write a record that reflects that same sound, just because it feels tired for us. That being said, there’s not like a “Hey, let’s write a bright-sounding record that ups the guitar solos!” Those conversations don’t really happen. What does happen a lot though is that we share music. We are all always listening to music and hanging out and talking to each other. And then when we get to writing, I don’t know how to explain it — it’s kind of like we unconsciously decide what we are going to do based on our just hanging out and sharing.

CB: How do you think the crazy current political and social climate impacted the writing and recording of this record?

GC: I think it did, certainly. It would have been impossible for it not to. One of the initial ideas for the album was to create something that presented a bit of a different narrative. I think there has been a lot of focus on separation of people, and I wanted to kind of remind, at least our audience, that we’re all in this together and

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GC: Yeah, we’re all big movie fans and soundtrack fans. Kerry and Shiv especially pay a lot of attention to soundtracks, and in some way, we are probably influenced by that. But what often happens is that Shiv will have a more aggressive guitar part that he will show everyone — a Metal riff in a certain key — and Kerry will be like, “Hey, I’ve been working on this big instrumental passage that I don’t know what to do with.

It’s in that same key. Why don’t we see if we can combine them?” And then we work for a few hours to see if we can take Kerry’s idea and Shiv’s idea and put them together in a way that makes sense and has a good flow. And that just keeps happening, so it’s just that over and over and then we’ll all look at each other and be like, “Oh, shit, this song is 12 minutes long.” I would like to say that it’s part of some bigger plan, but it’s pretty natural and organic. When we’re all together and playing, we rarely want to stop, and I think that shows itself on our albums.

CB: Each of your records is different in subtle ways. How did you approach the writing and recording of this album compared to your previous output?

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eafheaven’s latest and best album, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, is yet another immersive experience, more than an hour of dynamic soundscaping that deftly moves from corrosive guitar riffage and jackhammer drumming to pensive, piano-laced atmospherics, often within the same song.

Yet there is also something different in the air this time out, a wistful melancholy that was not as apparent on their 2013 breakthrough Sunbather or its heavier follow-up, 2015’s New Bermuda.

Formed in 2010 by singer George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy, the San Francisco-based band — which is rounded out by guitarist Shiv Mehra, drummer Daniel Tracy and new bassist Chris Johnson — has transcended its early Black Metal tag by incorporating everything from Shoegaze to Radiohead-esque experimentation into its heavier, Slayer-influenced leanings.

CityBeat recently connected with Clarke — whose delivery has likewise evolved from guttural yelps to a more diverse vocal palette — via phone to discuss what influenced the writing and recording of Ordinary Corrupt Human Love.

CityBeat: You guys recorded this one in your own backyard in Oakland this time.

What difference did that make?

George Clarke: We recorded it at 25th Street Recording in Oakland. We actually did a lot of New Bermuda tracking there also. We just really like that room. Jack Shirley, our producer who we always work with, was actually in-between studios.

He shut down his studio in Palo Alto (California) and rebuilt it in Oakland, but it wasn’t quite ready, and that room is closest to the setup that he uses. We were all just very comfortable with it. One of the big things about recording this album was comfort, and we wanted to be in a good headspace, so it just fell in line.

CB: Your music can be quite cinematic and immersive. Some of the songs run past the 10-minute mark. How do you go about writing the longer songs — and, given their kind of ebb-and-flow structure, how do you know when they are done?

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What does a 23-year-old dude who raps about “Beerbongs & Bentleys” do in the face of sudden fame and fortune? If you’re Post Malone, you order a lot of take-out. Postmates recently revealed what their “#1 most dedicated customer” has been ordering and, over the past year, that has included a lot of fast food from places like Chick-fil-A, Burger King and Popeyes. Some fun Post Malone Postmates facts: He once tipped a delivery driver with a CD that had his unreleased music on it; he has ordered “calcium crickets” and latex gloves; he ordered 10,000 Popeyes biscuits for a Coachella party; and his bill for the year was around $40,000.

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It’s not a diss track, but rapper 50 Cent recently waylaid his late-’90s rival Ja Rule in an even more devastating manner. After reportedly noticing that Groupon had a deal on tickets for a Ja Rule concert for just $15 a ticket, Mr. Cent says he bought 200 of them, not to bring a bunch of friends in a healing show of support, but to leave them empty. 50 had no proof that he bought the tickets, but he did post on Instagram a funny Photoshopped pic of himself sitting in the middle of several barren rows of seats with the caption, “What a show… do it again, my kid went to the restroom.”

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During a spoken word tour in Australia, Dickinson said, “Absolutely,” when he was asked if he thought his band should be in the Rock Hall, then added that he feels the whole institution is “an utter and complete load of bollocks… run by a bunch of sanctimonious bloody Americans who wouldn’t know Rock & Roll if it hit them in the face.” It’s nice to hear from Rock legends who legitimately belong in the Rock Hall instead of those who cry about conspiracies (looking at you, Ted Nugent!) or whine about not getting in fast enough (hi, Jon Bon Jovi).

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Renowned for his energetic, firecracker live performances, Cincinnati singer/songwriter Audley had a breakthrough year in 2018. After building up his reputation as a performer on the local Hip Hop circuit, then teaming up with the dynamic local AltRock group Sylmar for several live appearances, the artist kicked off 2018 with the release of Pink, a bold and accomplished album that found the artist showcasing his vocal and Audley writing skills on material that danced between the P H O T O : J O N AT H A N M A N A H A N boundaries of Funk, Pop, R&B and Hip Hop with compelling results. (At the time of the “This year has been all about love and release, we wrote, “Like the most recent light. Spreading it. Accepting it. Fighting to funkadelic work of Childish Gambino, admire it even in the darkest of times. The Pink also moves away from a strictly Hip music community collectively chose to Hop format, exploding like a Technicolor honor this mantra this year.” dreamcoat threaded with elements of Neo Here’s the full lineup for the everySoul and modern/classic R&B and Pop.”) Tuesday Love and Light Series at The As 2018 begins to come to a close, Audley Comet: (who recently received two Cincinnati Nov. 6: Season Ten, Freedom Nicole Moore, Entertainment Award nominations for his Brooklynn Rae and Elsa Kennedy work over the past year) is in a reflective and appreciative mood, but he’s not just Nov. 13: Flocks, Patterns of Chaos and Jess going to spend his nights sitting by the Lamb and the Factory fire, smoking a pipe and scratching his Nov. 20: Joesph, Christian Gough (Moonchin. Throughout November, he is hosting beau/The Yugos), Ryan Anderson (from Bena series of weekly concerts that will include digo Fletcher) and Brian McCullough (Sylmar) some of the Cincinnati artists he admires and has gotten to know over the past year Nov. 27: Blossom Hall, Triiibe, Ronin, Devin or so. Many are also 2018 CEA nominees, Burgess, SmokeFace and Xzela and the lineups represent a diverse range “I must say I am so happy that I decided of musical styles (from Pop and Hip Hop to to book this series,” Audley says. “This Indie Rock and beyond). year has been filled with wins. Not just for “The Love and Light Series” kicks off me, but for Cincinnati as a whole. It’s only this Tuesday (Nov. 6) at The Comet (4579 right that we document that growth with a Hamilton Ave., Northside, cometbar.com), month of killer tunes.” then continues each subsequent Tuesday “‘Love and light’,” he adds, “is and will in November (the Northside venue books always be the message.” a different local artist every month for its For more on Audley, visit facebook.com/ Tuesday-night residencies). Each show is audleyglove. free.

After the Nov. 27 Comet showcase, Don’t Boo, Vote!

Audley wraps up the series with a weekend Visit citybeat.com/music/cincinnati(also free) headlining show at MOTR Pub entertainment-awards now to find the (1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, motrpub. ballot for the 2018 Cincinnati Entertaincom) on Nov. 30 featuring Patterns of ment Awards, which has been celebrating Chaos, Pxvce (from Triiibe) and Louisville, and honoring Greater Cincinnati’s original Ky.’s Bendigo Fletcher. music scene for over two decades. The “I chose to call this series The Love and 21st-annual CEA party/ceremony is Nov. Light Series because to me it defines 2018 25 at Memorial Hall (125 Elm St., Over-thein the Cincinnati music scene,” Audley Rhine). Tickets for the event are availsays. “This community has lifted each able now for $20 at memorialhallotr.com other up in a magnificent way and it (they’ll be $25 at the door if any remain). deserves to be celebrated by coming The 2018 CEA ballot closes Friday, Nov. 2 together at The Comet. (The venue) asked at midnight. me to do the residency a while back and I was scared to accept because I knew if I did Contact Mike Breen: it, I would want to do it right and it would mbreen@citybeat.com take a lot of work.

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Early standout singles like “Hate Bein’ Sober” and “Love Sosa,” both featured on Keef’s 2012 debut Finally Rich LP, offered an grim glimpse of life in the trenches of South Side Chicago, filtered through a futurist lens. Transporting listeners into a dystopian world that is to the Windy City what A Clockwork Orange is to Britain, the record navigated ultraviolence with equal parts elegance and indifference. Its then 17-year-old protagonist girded dependable Shock Rap tropes with weirdly Baroque instrumentals that employed synthesized horns, string sections and organs.

His ascent to Hip Hop stardom seemed unstoppable, aided by collaborative efforts with fellow Chicagoan Kanye West and an inclusion in XXL magazine’s 2013 “Freshman List.” Unfortunately, a persistent stream of legal troubles and contractual disputes have proved to be a commercial stumbling block. Though he’s yet to replicate the success generated by Finally Rich, Keef has whet the appetites of his cult following with a prolific output of exploratory mixtape releases, from the impressionist, avant-garde stylings on 2014’s Nobody to the Bubblegum Pop bliss of 2017’s Thot Breaker. His most recent record, The Cozart, even includes a few Eurobeat-inspired

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The first leg of Bluhm’s odyssey began when she was 19 and just learning to play guitar and exploring the mechanics of songwriting. At that critical juncture, she saw Tim Bluhm and his band The Mother Hips in San Francisco, and then met him after the show. Their subsequent post-show chats included his encouragement of her blossoming musical skills and eventually turned into a romantic and creative relationship. They tied the knot in 2007.

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Shortly thereafter, the Bluhms formed The Gramblers, fronted by Nicki and her soaring vocals and gorgeous and introspective Folk/Pop compositions and co-writes with the band, while Tim served as guitarist, co-writer, producer and mentor. In 2010 they released Driftwood, credited solely to Nicki, while touring extensively; two years later, The Gramblers became a YouTube sensation with their “Van Sessions,” a series of videos documenting the band playing covers of favorite songs — including Hall & Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That” and Funkadelic’s “Can You Get to That” — from the confines of their tour van. In 2013 the band released Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers, their debut under the band name followed two years later by Loved Wild Lost.

By that point, touring and alcohol and substance issues led to relationship issues and the couple separated musically and personally after the release of Loved Wild Lost. After 10 years of marriage, Tim asked for a divorce, admitting that he had been unfaithful for at least half of their time together. Shocked by the betrayal, Nicki withdrew into herself and tried to find solace and answers in her songwriting, which resulted in the beautifully powerful songs on To Rise You Gotta Fall, her first album without her now ex-husband’s input.

Featuring a co-write with Ryan Adams (“Something Really Mean”), To Rise You Gotta Fall is packed with Nicki Bluhm’s hard-fought wisdom about navigating some of life’s greatest emotional challenges and remembering how to be her own best friend, lessons that can benefit us all. (Brian Baker)

an esteemed spot in Cincinnati Rock & Roll history. On Sept. 6, 1969, the band co-headlined (with Vanilla Fudge) the First Annual Midwest Mini-Pop Festival at the Cincinnati Zoo — the city’s memorable answer to Woodstock. An occasional bestial roar could be heard between the songs.

That appearance is not in the new feature-length documentary Horn from the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story. Much as Butterfield’s performance at the zoo is revered by locals, it just wasn’t enough of a highlight, among so many, in the career of the only man to have played the Newport Folk Festival (1965), the Monterey Pop Festival (1967) and 1969’s Woodstock.

Butterfield, who died of an accidental overdose in 1987, was a Chicago virtuoso harmonica player and vocalist as responsible as anyone for introducing electrified Blues to a Rock audience in the 1960s. White and from the middle-class Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park, he insisted on his bands being integrated and in crediting and honoring Chicago’s older electric Blues musicians, like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. He also encouraged his own band members to be experimental — on his band’s classic second album, 1966’s East/West, he played blues harp while his extraordinary guitarists Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop explored modal Jazz, Psychedelic Rock and Indian Raga on the title song, a brilliant and groundbreaking Rock instrumental. For such work and more, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

The new film gets its title from a quote by Butterfield about the harmonica: “It’s such a personal instrument. It’s like a horn from the heart.” Director John Anderson uses old footage and new interviews from such friends and collaborators as Bishop, David Sanborn, drummer Sam Lay, Bonnie Raitt and many more.

The film covers fascinating episodes in Butterfield’s career. Because he and Bob Dylan shared a manager — Albert Grossman — Dylan was able to borrow Butterfield’s band at the Newport Folk Festival (both were scheduled to play) in 1965, where the Rock legend famously went electric for four songs in his set. The response to that has become so famous that the equally noteworthy separate performance

by Butterfield is lesser known. But it shouldn’t be, as the film explains. When Alan Lomax, an ethnomusicologist who favored acoustic Folk and Blues, dismissively introduced the Butterfield Band’s set, manager Grossman jumped him and the two started rolling on the ground fighting.

While it is his Blues band for which Butterfield is best remembered, he did make other music for almost 15 years after that group’s breakup. The film covers his work with the Better Days band and with both Levon Helm and Rick Danko of The Band. (Steven Rosen)

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WEDNESDAY 31

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BLUE NOTE HARRISON–John 5 with Wednesday 13 and Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow. 7 p.m. Rock/ Progressive/Various. $20.

CAFFÈ VIVACE–Blue Wisp Big Band. 8 p.m. Big Band Jazz.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT–James E. Smith Quartet. 6 p.m. Jazz.

Free.

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MOTR PUB–Mothers with Mega Bog and Orchards. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

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NORTHSIDE TAVERN– Blossom Hall, Marjorie and The Lovers and Upstairs.

10 p.m. Pixies /Death Cab for Cutie/Fleetwood Mac tributes. Free.

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URBAN ARTIFACT– Fashion Week, In Details and ForestFox. 9 p.m.

AltRock.

FRIDAY 02

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL–Chelsea Ford and The Trouble. 9 p.m.

Bluegrass/Americana. Free.

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BB&T ARENA–Nelly and Juvenile. 7:30 p.m.

Hip Hop/Pop. $37-$72.

BLIND LEMON–Will and Olvia. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

URBAN ARTIFACT–Wick-It the Instigator with Get Dangerous. 8 p.m. DJ/ Electronic/Hip Hop/Various. $10, $15 day of show.

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STANLEY’S PUB–The Last Troubadour and Miller and the Other Sinners.

9 p.m. Rock/Soul/Funk.

Cover.

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

MOTR PUB–4onthefloor with Craig Brown Band. 10 p.m. Roots/Rock/Various.

Free.

BELTERRA PARK GAMING–Trailer Park Floosies. 8 p.m. Dance/Pop/ Rock/Rap/Country/Various.

Free (in The Stadium).

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY)–Just Strange Brothers Presents: A Funky Halloween–A Tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire. 9 p.m. Funk/Soul/Pop. $5.

C I T Y B E AT. C O M

Cellar Xtract. 8:30 p.m.

Americana. $15-$23.50.

LUDLOW GARAGE– Humble Pie. 8:30 p.m.

Rock. $20-$45.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB–Piece of Mind, Prowl, Low End, Transgression, Crossed Off and Guts. 8 p.m.

Metal. $10.

OCTAVE–The Fritz presents Michael Jackson vs. Prince. 8 p.m.

Funk/R&B/Soul. Cover.

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BOGART’S–Cash Unchained. 8 p.m. Johnny Cash tribute. $12.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE–Hank Mautner with The Steve Schmidt Trio.

9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE–Phil DeGreg Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

COLLEGE HILL COFFEE CO.–Ricky Nye. 7:30 p.m.

Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

THE GREENWICH–Rollins Davis Band featuring Deborah Hunter. 9 p.m.

Jazz/R&B. $5.

BOGART’S–Mayday Parade with This Wild Life and William Ryan Key. 7 p.m. Rock. $27.50.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD–3 Piece Revival.

9 p.m. Rock. $5.

CAFFÈ VIVACE–Pat Kelly Trio. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER–Heather Roush. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

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

THE GREENWICH–Mambo Combo. 8:30 p.m. Latin Jazz. $5.

THE LISTING LOON– James Meade. 9 p.m.

Classical Guitar.

KNOTTY PINE–Final Order.

10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

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THE LISTING LOON–Lo, the Loyal Conscripts, Eric Paul and Miss Christine. 9 p.m. Indie Rock.

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LUDLOW GARAGE– High South with Root

MVP BAR & GRILLE– ekoostik hookah with The Summit, See You in the Funnies and Nathan Whitt Band. 8 p.m. Rock/Jam/ Various. $10.

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NORTHSIDE TAVERN–Counterfeit Money Machine with RaisedXWolves, Spoken Nerd and Xzela. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. Free.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM SALOON & RESTAURANT– Mike Wade Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

SATURDAY 03

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ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL–Cincinnati Dancing Pigs. 9 p.m.

Americana/Jug band. Free.

BLIND LEMON–G Burton. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

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BOGART’S–Chief Keef.

9 p.m. Hip Hop. $27.50.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE–Adia Dobbins with The Steve Schmidt Trio.

9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB–Brandon Wadley and Room For Zero. 9 p.m. Indie/ AltRock. Free.

CAFFÈ VIVACE–Marc Fields Quartet. 8:30 p.m.

Jazz.

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OCTAVE–Formula 5 with Desmond Jones.

8 p.m. Widespread Panic/ Grateful Dead tribute. Cover.

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

Rock. $5.

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THE REDMOOR– Nightflyer and Balderdash. 7:30 p.m. Rock/ Various. Cover.

RICK’S TAVERN–Empty Garden. 10 p.m. Rock.

Cover.

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RIVERFRONT LIVE– Founding Fathers, Chalk Eye, Arcadian Bliss, Motel Faces and Archer.

8:30 p.m. Alt/Rock/Various. $7.

SILVERTON CAFE–Sonny Moorman. 9 p.m. Blues/ Rock

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY)– Left Lane Cruiser with Cesar Tijeras. 9 p.m. Roots/ Country. $8, $10 day of show.

THOMPSON HOUSE–Riot Shield. 8 p.m. Punk. $10.

TOP CATS–Sea of Treachery. 8 p.m. Metalcore/ Deathcore. $10.

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URBAN ARTIFACT– Radio Artifact One-Year Anniversary with Go Go Buffalo, Fritz Pape, The Phasmids and Phasmonaut.

8 p.m. Rock/Alt/Various.

Free.

FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER–Maureen McGovern. 8 p.m. Broadway/ Pop/Various. $25-$30.

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THE GREENWICH– Jess Lamb and Audley.

9 p.m. Soul/Funk/Pop/R&B/ Alt/Various. $7.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD–Good Hooks. 9 p.m. Dance/Pop/Various. $5.

JAPP’S–Ricky Nye Inc. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie.

JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER–Derek Alan Band. 9 p.m. Country. Free.

KNOTTY PINE–Lt. Dan’s New Legs. 10 p.m. Pop/ Dance/Various. Cover.

THE LISTING LOON– Megan Wren and Willie Lutz.

9 p.m. Acoustic.

LUDLOW GARAGE–David Sanborn. 7 p.m. Jazz. $40-$75.

THE MAD FROG–DJ Funk with Gettoblaster, GLDNGUYS and Pumba. 9 p.m. Electronic/Dance/DJ/ Various. Cover.

MADISON THEATER–Big Head Todd & The Monsters with Los Colognes. 8 p.m.

Rock. $30, $32 day of show.

MCCAULY’S PUB–Amy and the Arrangement. 8 p.m.

Blues/Soul/Rock. Free.

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MOTR PUB–Oids with Yardboss. 10 p.m.

AltRock. Free.

p.m. R&B/Rock. Free.

MVP BAR & GRILLE– Second Annual Helping Heroes Benefit Concert with Jay Allen and One Degree From Mande. 9 p.m. Country. $20.

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NORTHSIDE TAVERN– Sexy Time Live Band Karaoke. 9 p.m. Various.

Free.

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

Rock. $5.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE–Ronnie Vaughn and Co. 7:30 p.m.

Rock. Free.

RICK’S TAVERN– BlackBone Cat. 10 p.m.

Rock. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE)–Ben Levin & The Heaters. 9:30 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie.

Free.

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SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY)–Saves The Day, Kevin Devine and An Horse. 8 p.m. Rock. $19. $24 day of show.

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STANLEY’S PUB– Ramblin Rob’s Greatest Story Ever Told WAIF FM Fundraiser with The Inturns, Little Spooky, Broke Til Thursday, Twig & Leaf, Maritime Law and The Ram Ones. 9 p.m. Roots/Rock/ Various. $8.

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THOMPSON HOUSE– The Earth Laid Bare. 7 p.m. Progressive Metal. $10.

TOP CATS–Let It Happen with Daniel in Stereo, Beloved Youth and 7 Minute Martians. 8 p.m. Alt/ Rock. $10.

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URBAN ARTIFACT– Acarya, Kanten and Sundae Drives. 9 p.m. Rock/ Pop/Various

VINKOLET WINERY AND RESTAURANT–Holly Spears. 7 p.m. Acoustic WASHINGTON PLATFORM –Bobby Sharp Trio with Brenda Folz. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

SUNDAY 04

LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO–Blue Birds Band. 8

MADISON THEATER– Benefit for Hap with Rapid Fire, Borderline, Southern Highway, Landslide, Troy Tipton, Whiskeytown and Southern Fire Acoustic. noon Country/ Rock/Various. $10.

MOTR PUB–Moringa Moon with Run Rabbit Run. 8 p.m.

Alt/Blues/Roots/Various.

Free.

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NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB–Kosha Dillz with Massive Nights, Off the Meat Rack and Eugenius. 8 p.m. Hip Hop. $10, $12 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE)–Town Mountain with The Misty Mountain String Band. 7 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

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

Free.

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

MONDAY 05

MOTR PUB–Silo’s Choice with Littleboyheadonbike. 9 p.m. AltRock. Free.

TUESDAY 06

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BOGART’S–Palaye Royale with Bones and Dead Posey. 7 p.m. AltRock. $18.

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

Jazz.

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CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL–Music Live@Lunch with Rabbit Hash String Band. 12:10 p.m.

Bluegrass. Free.

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THE COMET–Audley, Season Ten, Freedom Nicole Moore, Booklynn Rae and Elsa Kennedy. 9 p.m. Alt/Rock/R&B/Hip Hop/ Singer/Songwriter/Various.

Free.

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TAFT THEATRE–Nicki Bluhm with Gill Landry.

8 p.m. Americana/Roots. $13, $15 day of show.

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