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This Cincinnati Program Removes Invasive Species — and Barriers for Youth The Mill Creek Alliance’s Green Corps gives young people interested in environmental stewardship a chance to grow their skills BY S E T H W E B B ER

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diploma because he was focused on selling marijuana for fast money. “I was focused on just being young,” he says. “I just wanted to have fun, fun, fun, but sooner or later you’ve got to grow up.” Smith is ready to move on to an engineering career, which he hopes to pursue at Cincinnati State. Until then, he is going to be developing his skills in the Green Corps. “This is a starting point to where I want to be in life,” he says. “I’m just taking it one step at a time.” Yess was inspired to create the Green Corps based on a similar program from Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Environmental Restoration. “It was super impactful and kind of drove the ethos for creating this,” he says. That program got Yess plenty of networking opportunities, but he said there wasn’t much skill development the likes of which can be found with the Green Corps. The NKU program also focused on restoring rural areas in Boone County. That’s an entirely different environment, Yess says — “not the concrete jungle that Mill Creek is.” CONTINUES ON PAGE 11

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team based on his interests and has stuck with it for the past four years. “Sometimes they’ll get kids there who are just here for a paycheck, (and) they’ll get kids who sometimes get converted and actually care,” Buie says. He ended up being one of the kids who cared. Buie says with age comes commitment — those working in the Green Corps seem to be more dedicated to the cause. Yess sells the Green Corps as a workforce development program, and everyone who serves on the team is in agreement that there is plenty of development to be had. “I think they take the whole workforce development part of this pretty seriously as opposed to us just being a workforce,” says Owen Linville, the youngest member of the Green Corps at 19. “It really isn’t just a job. It really is an education program, too. I like that aspect of it a lot.” Green Corps members start out at $12 an hour and get up to $15 an hour through certification programs provided by the Mill Creek Alliance. Anthony Smith, the newest Green Corps member, joined in early February and has been working on getting his chainsaw and herbicide certifications. Smith said missed out on getting a high school

Corps members get energy efficient LED bulbs from the Cincinnati Zoo and install them in homes around the neighborhood. They’ve also gone to sites in Northern Kentucky to do work clearing invasive plants. Mill Creek Alliance’s Tanner Yess formed the Green Corps in 2016. The program is modeled after the alliance’s Green Team summer program, which trains and gives work experience to high schoolers. Green Corps is the next step up: anyone ages 18 to 24 can join. Sophie Revis, who is 24, is approaching that cutoff but will be able to stay with the group because she’s a crew leader. While many in the Green Corps joined during high school, Revis learned of the program when Yess came into her environmental studies class at the University of Cincinnati to tell students about the program. After she graduates from UC this spring, Revis has plans to put her environmental studies degree to use in the Peace Corps, but “these guys are making it hard for me to want to leave,” she says. Another Green Corps member, Aristotle Buie, now 20, joined Green Team when he was 16. He had an interest in the police academy but missed the deadline for application. Instead, he was placed with the

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he thick vines of invasive winter creeper constrict a tree standing along the edge of Madisonville’s Little Duck Creek, and more tendrils from the vine cover the forest floor along the creek’s trail. The amount of fast-growing winter creeper and impassable invasive honeysuckle bushes along the creek has become a big problem — one that is seemingly overwhelming without the help of harmful chemicals. But a group of young workers with Mill Creek Alliance’s Green Corps has been able to make short work of the tangle. The program does more than just cut away some vines. It gives young folks the opportunity to explore careers in environmental stewardship while earning a paycheck — all while hopefully having some fun, too. “I’m blown away at how safe these folks work, how skilled they are and frankly how fast they work,” says Bill Collins of the Little Duck Creek Task Force. Collins is passionate about seeing the trail and the forest around it become the hot spot for children and adults it was in his youth. To make the trail walkable again, the Little Duck Creek Task Force received an $8,700 grant from Duke Energy in September 2018. That money has gone to contracting the Green Corps to remove obstructive invasive plants to make way for native species. In addition to helping with Little Duck Creek and maintaining and improving conditions along the Mill Creek, the Green Corps takes up work all around the city. They’ve been working on a program called Light Up Avondale in which Green

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Historic Conservation Board Recommends Terrace Plaza as Landmark BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

Metro Eliminates Stops on Several Routes to Speed Bus Service BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

Cincinnati’s Terrace Plaza Hotel, a 1948 International Style building on Sixth Street downtown, took another step toward being designated as a local historic landmark Feb. 25. After more than a dozen preservationists gave public comment supporting the designation, the Cincinnati Historic Conservation Board voted 5-1 to recommend that status despite reservations from some board members about whether the increased protections would make more hurdles for redevelopment efforts. At the time of its construction, the Terrace Plaza was a landmark building in many ways. It was the first International Style hotel in the U.S. and one of the first hotel projects here after World War II. It was one of the first hotels to have fullyautomated elevators and other high-tech touches. It was also where a trailblazing architect got her start. The then-24-year-old Natalie de Blois designed the building for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, now a famed Modernist design firm. “In the 1940s to have a woman design a building was extremely rare,” Cincinnati Historic Conservator Beth Johnson told the conservation board. The building already has federal historic landmark status, though Johnson pointed out that status offers little protection for the building. The local designation would require developers to gain approvals for changes that vary from historic preservation guidelines. Cincinnati City Councilman David Mann is the applicant for the historic designation. He says the building is a significant part of Cincinnati history and needs protection from demolition or significant changes. Though a marvel in its day, the building has since fallen into disrepair. The hotel portion has been vacant since 2008, though a couple of first-floor retail tenants remain. A parade of owners hasn’t been able to keep up with the structure. Current

If you ride city buses in Cincinnati or surrounding areas, your go-to stop may have gone missing as of March 3. As part of a pilot program to test ways to speed up service, the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority’s Metro bus service is removing 115 stops serving routes 15x, 17, 31, 33 and 41 — about 18 percent of all stops serving those routes. Overall, Metro operates about 4,000 stops system-wide.

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owners JNY Capital, who bought the building last August, are now answering for numerous code violations on the property that have resulted in almost $60,000 in fines. The city is reportedly mulling a public nuisance lawsuit against JNY over the building. Last year, a chunk of the building’s facade came loose, plunging to the street and striking a car, and in January, pipes burst and soaked Batsakes Hats, a firstfloor tenant on the corner of Sixth and Vine streets. There is also a legal battle between JNY and another developer who has designs on the building. Developer Anderson Birkla, which has sued JNY and the building’s former owners, had been working to purchase the building prior to its sale to JNY, going so far as to draw up plans for a $61 million, mixed-used redevelopment of the property. That plan, however, calls for stripping the Terrace Plaza’s unique windowless brick facade — a move preservationists say would destroy the character of the

building. Birkla’s lawsuit currently sits with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Judge Michael Barrett. Ulmer & Berne attorney Brad Kaplan is representing JNY. He says his clients aren’t planning on tearing the building down or punching windows into the building’s distinctive blank brick facade — but they also don’t want to be subject to more regulations because that would entail gaining extra permits every time they make alterations to the building. Kaplan asked the board to delay recommending the historic designation until JNY finishes a development plan, likely in late March. In the meantime, the owners are spending “a tremendous amount of money” stabilizing the building and fixing code violations, Kaplan said. The Historic Conservation Board Vice Chair Thomas Sundermann was the sole vote against the historic designation, citing concerns that more restrictions on the building will keep it vacant.

Called FAStops, the pilot “aims to not only speed up trip times, but to allow for the agency to make improvements along routes by streamlining bus stop placement,” Metro officials said in a news release. “Each stop is assessed based on its location — ensuring stops aren’t too close together — as well as its usage, amenities, safety and accessibility.” Metro said it has weighed public input seriously since announcing the project in June last year, and held off on eliminating more than a dozen stops after holding 14 public information sessions about the program. Riders can still provide feedback by emailing RouteComments@ go-metro.com or filling out an online survey at go-metro.com/fastops. You can find a list of stops to be eliminated or consult a map showing removed stops at go-metro.com. Metro, which is funded by slim state contributions and a rather unique City of Cincinnati earnings tax instead of a standard county-wide tax, has struggled with financial constraints and looming deficits. SORTA’s board last year opted against putting a Hamilton County sales tax levy on the ballot that would have shored up that deficit and funded an expansion of Metro, but could do so in 2020. In the meantime, transit activists have called for an increase in the city’s earnings tax to better fund bus service.

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The state Senate’s Health, Human Services and Medicaid Committee heard testimony about SB23 and the House Health Committee heard HB68, both versions of the so-called “heartbeat” legislation. The bills have roughly 50 co-sponsors as well as the support of pro-life groups like

Ohio Right to Life. But dozens also testified or submitted written statements opposing the bills, including NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio and the Ohio State Medical Association, on the grounds that it would block women’s access to needed health care. “The OSMA is extremely concerned due to specific provisions of the legislation that allow for civil and criminal penalties

for clinicians who provide medical care related to women’s reproductive health issues,” the group said in written testimony. The Republican-lead General Assembly last year passed a similar bill, but it was vetoed by then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich. CONTINUES ON PAGE 11

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It’s not the first time the restrictions — which, if passed, would be among the strictest in the country — have come before the Ohio General Assembly.

passing into law and withstanding legal challenges now than at any time in the past.

Committees in both the Ohio House and Senate on Feb. 26 heard testimony around a law that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected — as soon as six weeks after conception.

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Yess sees importance in urban conservation not just because it helps to preserve shrinking forests and fields in the city, but because it also works to create stronger communities by reaching people right where they live. Linville is a prime example of this type of community outreach. “I’ve lived in this neighborhood and along the Mill Creek pretty much my entire life,” he says. “It’s pretty close to home for me, really, literally and emotionally.” Linville has an interest in horticulture, which fits perfectly with the type of work the Green Corps tends to do. When the team isn’t cutting up honeysuckle or tearing winter creeper out of the ground, they’re growing oak trees and milkweed at the greenhouse at the Diamond Oaks Career Campus in Green Township. The Green Corps members have no problem getting their hands dirty in some mulch at the greenhouse, but work that allows them to get some exercise outdoors while also learning about conservation is their bread and butter. “I like the physical aspect of the work. I like working with my hands,” Linville says. “Being out in the woods all day, I’d much prefer that to working in a kitchen or something.”

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“We have this building taking up half a block of downtown sitting vacant,” he said. “What I don’t want to do is handcuff people in the development role.” But other board members argued that isn’t the Historic Conservation Board’s role, and that the board should consider only whether the building meets historic significance standards necessary for local landmark designation. “A lack of vision shouldn’t be a reason not to preserve an important part of our history,” board member Allison Mackenzie argued. Mann agreed. He also said he believes the building can be redeveloped even with historic protections in place, citing Cincinnati’s “hot market” for boutique hotels. “I’ve spoken to a lot of folks who understand the difficulty of developing a building like this,” he said. Supporters also pointed out that the historic designation would make it possible to get state and federal tax credits for historic preservation, which can cover as much as 45 percent of a project’s cost. The Historic Conservation Board’s vote is just the first Mann’s proposal needs to be applied to the Terrace Plaza. The Cincinnati Planning Commission and Cincinnati City Council must both approve the designation.

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It was the second time Kasich had vetoed the legislation due to concerns about its constitutionality. Lawmakers missed overriding Kasich’s veto by two votes in the state Senate. New Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, however, says he will sign the bills into law should they pass through the Ohio General Assembly again. Courts have struck down similar heartbeat laws in other states, including North Dakota and Iowa, as recently as last month. Federal courts have declared the laws violate the constitution under Roe v. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that guarantees abortion rights. Both pro-life and pro-choice advocates have identified abortion restrictions — 20 of which Ohio has passed under Kasich and now DeWine — as attempts to trigger a court battle that could topple Roe. With the two new conservative additions to the Supreme Court, supporters of the “heartbeat” bill say it could be part of a wave of legislation that succeeds before

the new Supreme Court. “Ultimately, this will work its way up to the United States Supreme Court,” DeWine told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last month. “And they’ll make that decision.” Bill co-sponsor State Rep. Candice Keller of Middletown says the aim of the legislation is simple: demonstrate that the laws can withstand legal scrutiny and protect the lives of the unborn. “After nine years of waiting, it is time,” she told the House committee, of which she is a member. However, representatives from NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio argued in testimony yesterday that the legislation would represent a “seismic shift” in abortion access policy. “Abortion will be effectively outlawed in Ohio, and likely in many of our neighboring states,” NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Executive Director Kellie Copeland told the Senate committee. “Abortion may remain legal in some states, but they may not be able to handle the influx of patients to their states.”

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he Paris of the Belle Époque will never be forgotten. From roughly 1871 — the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the violent collapse of the defiant, insurrectionary Paris Commune — to 1914 and the beginning of World War I, the city was more than just the thriving, busy and peaceful capital of a strong European nation, France’s Third Republic. It was the eternal City of Light. It was also, especially during Paris’ fin de siècle (turn of the century) and the International Exposition of 1900 that celebrated it, an inspiration to the world of what a great city is like at its zenith. It still is today, even if that actual era is now a memory. Or, rather, the subject of a museum exhibition. Belle Époque Paris currently is available for us to visit at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where the ticketed exhibition Paris 1900: City of Entertainment has just opened and will be on display through May 12. Organized by the Petit Palais Museum of Fine Arts, which is in a building originally constructed for the 1900 exposition, Paris 1900: City of Entertainment consists of more than 230 objects drawn from Parisian museums. This show fi rst was on display in Paris in 2014, to commemorate the 1900 exposition. Sometimes also referred to as the Exposition Universelle, it was a world’s fair that celebrated Paris’ cultural and scientific optimism and progressive mindset. Held from April 14 to November 12, it drew 51 million visitors. It helped usher Paris into the 20th century as if it would witness another 100 years of continued greatness.

“Poster for Palace of Optics, the Great Telescope of 1900” | GEORGES LEROUX, MUSÉE CARNAVALET, PARIS, © MUSÉE CARNAVALET/ROGERVIOLLET

“Cupid and Psyche” | AUGUSTE RODIN, PETIT PALAIS, PARIS, © PATRICK PIERRAIN/PETIT PALAIS/ROGERVIOLLET

The exposition-related galleries contain all sorts of material related to the historic event. There is a glazed stoneware model for the exposition’s frieze honoring the laborers who helped create it, as well as all French workers. There is archival material, such as a sheet of tickets and a guidebook to the exposition. There is the otherworldly poster by Georges Leroux promoting the fair’s Palace of Optics and the Great Telescope of 1900. Visitors could use the telescope to see the moon and then eat at the aptly named Restaurant de la Lune. Then there is the woodcut by Felix Vallotton of people on the exposition’s three-speed “Moving Sidewalk.” With bold but spare lines, it suggests the range of emotions passengers felt while being taken for such a new and unusual “ride.” It is quite literally a symbol of Paris moving forward. “I love this — it’s one of four woodcuts by the artist in the exhibition,” Bell says. “They’re absolutely gorgeous impressions. They couldn’t be more simple — just black and white — and the artist uses this pared-down medium to be just so evocative. With the moving sidewalk, he suggests all these different types of characters with just the barest amount of linear design.” The exhibition overall is as varied and visually stimulating as Paris, itself. It features some artists — painters, sculptors, poster designers — still famous today, like Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Camille Pissarro and PierreAuguste Renoir. But it succeeds at going deeper into its era. There are major, large-scale works by less familiar artists, such as Victor Prouvé’s pastoral oil painting “Joyful and Peaceful Rest: Meditation.”

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“It’s an incredibly important period,” says Peter Bell, Cincinnati Art Museum’s associate curator of European paintings, sculpture and drawings. “You have the confluence of a number of different circumstances in Paris in the second half of the 19th century and around the turn of the century. “It’s a peaceful time across Europe, by and large. There are all kinds of new technologies being invented, there’s now an influx of creative people into cities. There’s a profusion of artistic styles coming forward in Europe in this period. France decided to do an international exposition in that year and really turn Paris, and thus the Republic of France, out to the world.” That made a long-lasting impact, Bell explains. “Whenever anyone thinks of Paris now, no matter how much exposure you have to its history, there are styles, fashions that come to mind that hit their highest peak in the Belle Époque, around 1900,” he says. When the Petit Palais fi rst staged Paris 1900, it was not immediately planned to be a traveling show. But the French consulate general/cultural attaché in Atlanta encouraged a U.S. tour, and the fact that one of the participating Parisian institutions — Musée Carnavalet — was undergoing renovations facilitated the availability of objects for overseas travel. A “reconsidered” version of the original exhibition opened at Nashville’s Frist Art Museum in October 2018. After Cincinnati, Paris 1900 concludes at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. “It provides an opportunity for American audiences to understand the importance of the International Exposition of 1900 to our contemporary culture,” says Cameron Kitchin, the Cincinnati Art Museum’s director. “That was a turning point in 1900, when so much was changing in terms of visual culture. It still has echoes and ripples that have led through Modernism and to today.” (Christophe Leribault, director of the Petit Palais, had discussed the show with Kitchin in Paris in 2016; they talked again when Leribault came to Cincinnati in 2017 for the opening of Taft Museum of Art’s Bijoux Parisiens: French Jewelry from the Petit Palais.) The 1900 exposition fi lls the show’s opening galleries at the Cincinnati Art Museum, giving it fi rst billing among the multiple starring subjects that comprise Paris 1900. At the show’s entrance is a large photo of the exposition’s domed pavilion, the Porte Monumentale, with people walking by it. Its multiple arches look like the curves of a roller coaster — an invitation to a dizzying future.

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And repeatedly, there are examples of how art, design, beauty, pleasure and happiness figured into everyday life. The exhibition features galleries devoted to the decorative Art Nouveau movement of the time, which incorporated more natural forms and lines into objects, especially those in the decorative arts. One gallery space has been partitioned into a sumptuous Art Nouveau living room containing chairs, lamps, a screen, bench and table. Since Paris at the time was the home of the nascent film industry, the exhibit features nine minutes of the milestone 1902 film A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès. In a section devoted to the stylish, ascendant “Parisian Woman” is an otter-fur muff with satin and silk lining and an accompanying cassette-sized, fabric-covered muff warmer that could be filled with hot coals and placed inside. It’s an example of the kind of care and imagination — and fashion sensibility — that went into idealizing Parisian women as sophisticated and comfortably stylish. “By having the enormous exhibition that this is, we’re able to both highlight the superstars but also give some context around them,” Bell says. “This brings forward a number of lesser-known names who are working at the very top of their game and are rivals with Rodin and Toulouse-Lautrec, but don’t have names that echo in our minds today. Although, perhaps, they should.” Bell is deeply impressed by an oil painting by Georges Souillet from 1905, “Construction of the Metropolitain,” which depicts another technological accomplishment of the era — the laborious creation of a tunnel for the Paris Metro. Workers are in a pit, pushing a cart toward the tunnel, as enormous, brownish scaffolding towers above them. A cart, used to lift or lower material, hovers and looms threateningly over the workers. “There was so much going on in terms of changing the physical fabric of Paris across the 19th century,” Bell says. “Artists like Souillet take the city as their subject matter, and they do that in this gritty way, by also finding the beauty in the compositional complexity of scaffolding as much as in the finished terrace housing or churches. There are a couple other instances in the exhibition where you’ll see this wonderful treatment of the city as this living, growing thing. And also the importance of labor.”

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La Tosca for her; Giacomo Puccini later turned it into the famous opera.) The exhibition also features a 1905 photograph by Henri Manuel of Bernhardt onstage in a theater bearing her name, such was her fame, in the Victor Hugo play Angelo, Tyrant of Padua. There is a steamy, erotic side to the exhibition, represented well by Hubert-Denis Etcheverry’s oil-on-canvas study for a larger-scale painting of “Vertigo.” A tuxedo-wearing man leans over a couch to passionately kiss a woman reclining on it. The back of his bent-over head obscures half her face; we can see her one eye closed. Curtains separate them from a couple dancing in an adjoining room. “It’s a painting of an illicit encounter — a kiss over the back of a sofa,” Bell says. “It might seem quite tame to us now, but even in a period of excess such as Paris in 1900, there are still social norms. Shining a light on high society and the activities of the rich and famous is something artists did in this period. “In many ways, these studies or sketches can be even more thrilling than the finished work itself because you see the artist in motion, working out what he or she wants to capture.” Nightclubs, cafés and concert-staging cabarets like Moulin Rouge, Folies Bergère and Le Chat Noir were fashionable during the Belle Époque, and they’re well-represented in Paris 1900. Edouard Zawiski’s painting of Moulin Rouge, the boisterous dance hall in the hilly Montmartre district where the can-can was invented, captures the bright, inviting appeal of its entrance at nighttime, when the lighted red windmill (for which it was named) was illuminated.

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Among works of note by Art Nouveau artists are René Lalique’s glass-and-silver chalice, with its surface that creates an illusion of being covered by pine cones, and Jean-Joseph Carriès’ bizarrely cheerful glazed stoneware, “Frog with Rabbit Ears.” “Carriès was a very accomplished sculptor and decided to move his entire creativity into stoneware and ceramics and drawing out this fantastical subject matter and elevating the potter’s art to something of real sculptural merit,” Bell says. The exhibition also spotlights women artists working in Paris around 1900, such as sculptors Hélène Bertaux and Camille Claudel, and the painter Berthe Morisot (who died in 1895). “Around 1900, there are a number of major figures who come forward that are women,” Bell says. “Claudel was also Rodin’s lover, so we think about her personal life perhaps more than we should. But we have a bust of Rodin in the show by Claudel, who worked in his studio and went on to achieve a career of her own.” Another female sculptor represented in the show is a surprise — Sarah Bernhardt, probably the greatest French actress of the period as well as an international celebrity. She starred in many of the most popular plays. The show features her “Seaweed,” a ruggedly daggershaped bronze piece that she made after taking plaster molds from seaweed gathered on the Brittany coast. “We have a bust (by her) of Sardou, the playwright who wrote many of her best parts as leading lady,” Bell says. “She made this fantastic bronze bust of him that’s front and center in a section of the exhibition.” (Victorien Sardou, among other things, wrote the play

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Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithograph of a show rehearsal at the Folies Bergère, the club in Paris’ 9th arrondissement known for its provocatively dressed (and undressed) dancers, captures an intimate view of the club’s workings. Toulouse-Lautrec also did the colorful poster in the show that promotes another Montmartre club, Divan Japonais. And the place that was considered to be the original bohemian cabaret, Le Chat Noir, is represented by several pieces, including an 1881 painted sheet metal sign designed by Adolphe Willette that proudly displays its symbol, an Art Nouveau-stylized black cat, and a poster by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen advertising the 1898 sale of the venue’s art collection after the owner died. “At the café-concerts and cabarets, all levels of society could be found mixing at these variety shows, and that in itself is one of the hallmarks of this era,” Bell says. “Of course, there’s ballet and opera and institutions frequented by the upper class, but the upper class would also come and be seen side-byside with the artists and bohemians at the cabaret and café concerts. “That’s a uniquely Parisian phenomenon that has one of its great moments in the years around 1900.” The Belle Époque ended with the outbreak of the first World War in 1914 — Germany declared war on France. That war lasted until 1918, but since the French were among the victors, you might assume the country resumed the good times as if they were never interrupted. But the war profoundly changed French life afterward, even if it took awhile for that to set in. Paris did recover somewhat in the 1920s, especially with the help of the Americans — the African-American dancer Josephine Baker, for instance, became a star of the Folies Bergère; Paris became the base for “The Lost Generation” of American writers like Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But there was another Lost Generation, too. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, of the 8 million French soldiers mobilized for the war, a staggering 1.3 million died and 1 million were crippled. Northeast France was devastated by the combat, and economic growth and industrial production plummeted. “Poster for Sale of Le Chat Noir Collection” | THÉOPHILEALEXANDRE STEINLEN, MUSÉE CARNAVALET, PARIS, © MUSÉE CARNAVALET/ROGERVIOLLET

“There’s no question that all of society in France was affected by World War I, (although) that feeling that society could return to its prewar sense of optimism and positivity lingered until maybe the mid-1920s,” explains Jane Alden Stevens, a professor emerita of Fine Arts at University of Cincinnati whose 1999-2003 photography project, Tears of Stone: World War I Remembered, resulted in a book. “Then they came to grips with the new reality — they had ended the war with a collective sense of grief that pervaded everything. No one in France after the war had not lost someone, or knew someone who had been killed or disfigured, or were experiencing what we now call PTSD. There were simply so many people in mourning that they were the majority of the people.” And beyond that, World War II awaited. Still, the Belle Époque lives on in our memory — we don’t just want to remember it, we want to relive it. On my tour of Paris 1900 during the media preview, a visitor commented to me, while looking at a short fi lm of people on the moving sidewalk at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, that she wished we all could travel back to that time and place — right now. We can’t, but we can do the next best thing — spend time with Paris 1900 and learn what it says about golden ages. “This was a very specific moment in history, and the arts in general were responding to it with a wonderful focus on making life beautiful for a public that consumes it,” says curator Bell. “Art was taking the spirit of the age as its substance. Not everything was rosy and glowing in 1900 in Paris or at any other city in the world, but there was this spirit of patient progress and belief in beauty, and it expressed itself through these objects we are fortunate enough to assemble.” Paris 1900: City of Entertainment continues through May 12 at the Cincinnati Art Museum (953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams). Tickets cost $12 for adults; $6 for seniors, college students and children ages 6-17. Free for members and children under 5. More info: cincinnatiartmuseum.org.

Kreines Lecture: Art Nouveau– What’s in a Name? with Dr. Martin Eidelberg 2 p.m. | March 10

*Public Tour with ASL Interpretation: Paris 1900: City of Entertainment 1 p.m. | March 16

See the Story Book Club: Rodin’s Lover by Heather Webb 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | March 16

Artist Workshop: Printmaking 1-2 p.m. | March 16

Wee Wednesday: Petite Paris 10 a.m.-noon | March 27

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*Gallery Experience: Paris 1900: City of Entertainment with Associate Curator of European Art Peter J. Bell 3-4 p.m. | April 7

Baby Tours: Parisian Babies 11 a.m./2 p.m./3 p.m. | April 19

Memories in the Museum: Paris 1900: City of Entertainment 10 a.m.–noon | May 1

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Paris 1900 Concert with Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra in the Fath Auditorium 7-8 p.m. | March 28

FILM SERIES: Paris 1900

7 p.m. | March 7 Directed by Nicole Vedrès and filmed in 1946, this documentary draws on archival footage and interviews with artists, writers and politicians to paint a vivid picture of life in Belle Époque Paris. Excerpts taken from more than 700 films shot between 1900 and 1914 were pieced together by Vedrès to tell the story of the City of Light during an exciting period of change. See Paris from the perspectives of flâneurs and flaneuses, market vendors, and personalities such as Léon Blum, Claude Debussy, André Gide and Auguste Rodin. A post-film conversation with Michael Gott and respondent Peter Bell, associate curator of European paintings, sculpture and drawings, follows.

Monsieur Chocolat 7 p.m. | April 4

Zazie dans le metro 7 p.m. | May 2

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Director Louis Malle’s exuberant comedy evokes the exhilaration and experimentation of the French New Wave but careens off into an entirely different register, using playful editing tricks and special effects. Malle follows 10-year old Zazie on a quest across a burlesque, colorful Paris at a crucial point in the city and the nation’s history. Although set in a later era, Zazie uses new mobile camera technology to offer a unique glimpse into the sights and sounds of a rapidly changing city, from Art Nouveau metro stations to 19th-century passages. A post-film conversation with Michael Gott and respondent Stanley Corkin, professor of film and media studies at the University of Cincinnati, follows.

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At the turn of the century, two anonymous circus performers meet and devise an act together. Monsieur Chocolat would rise to fame and became the first black performance star in French history after he and his partner Footit are discovered and recruited to perform their exuberant routine in Paris. French director Roschdy Zem’s historical biographical drama depicts the career of Monsieur Chocolat and offers an artist’s perspective of Belle Époque Paris, but it is also fundamentally a story about race and discrimination in French society at the turn of the century.

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ONSTAGE: A Doll’s House, Part 2 at Ensemble Theatre is the unauthorized sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking original. See feature on page 29. ART: Start Over Tomorrow While There’s Still Time examines witty ink on paper at Wave Pool gallery. See feature on page 31. ONSTAGE: The Winter’s Tale at Cincy Shakes is a tragicomedy set during the Regency era. See review on page 32.

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featured on Weir’s 2016 solo album, Blue Mountain). Last year, Dead & Company — featuring Weir and fellow Dead members Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, plus John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti — played at Riverbend. 7 p.m. Wednesday. $49.50-$78.50. Taft Theatre, 317 E. Fifth St., Downtown, tafttheatre.org. — MIKE BREEN

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CLASSICAL: Salon 21 presents Pillars of American Art Song, a collaboration between voice and piano professors from Northern Kentucky University and the University of North Florida. See feature on page 30 .

MUSIC: MC Vince Staples delivers stoic nuggets of wisdom atop genre-bending production at Bogart’s. See Sound Advice on page 43.

MUSIC: Dr. Dog plays Madison Theater with the Nude Party. See Sound Advice on page 43.

COMEDY: Sarah Colonna Sarah Colonna grew up a sports fan, mostly following baseball. “My dad was a

sports editor, so I’m more knowledgeable than I would have been otherwise,” says the Arkansas native. Colonna’s dad worked at the Orange County Register, which made her a fan of the Los Angeles Angels. Somewhat oddly, though, she’s married to a footballer, former Seattle Seahawks punter Jon Ryan. Football isn’t a sport Colonna followed previously. “As I’ve gotten older, I appreciate it more. Football used to be something that could be on in the background, but I never followed it.” That has changed. Onstage she talks not only about sports but also relationships and her day-to-day life. In addition to doing stand-up, Colonna co-hosts the podcast Off the Rails with fellow comic Josh Wolf. 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday; 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday. $12-$47. Funny Bone Liberty, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON

EVENT: Pendleton Block Party for International Women’s Day Pendleton is showing ladies some love with specials at different neighborhood breweries and restaurants to celebrate International Women’s Day and raise funds for Planned Parenthood. 3 Points will be releasing their new bar-face mural, designed by the women at Fathom House Art, as well as hosting a tote bag screenprinting event with music from DJs Shines and Xanati. At Boomtown Biscuits & Whiskey, build your own mimosa flight or indulge in some Maker’s Mark specials. At Nation, make your own hat with the ladies from New Belgium Brewery and enjoy food and drink specials all day. And at Lucius Q, you can make your own buttons with Rhingeist before DJ Apryl Reign, Elsa Kennedy, Agape Love, Freedom Nicole Moore & The Electric CONTINUES ON PAGE 22

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EVENT: Cincinnati International Wine Festival You may not be able to leave the country, but your tastebuds can. The 29th-annual Cincinnati International Wine Festival takes over the Duke Energy Convention Center with more than 700 different wines from over 250 wineries. Events kickedoff Thursday with paired wine dinners at restaurants across the Tri-State, but the main event takes place Friday and Saturday with Grand Tastings, a silent auction and learning opportunities. Admission to the Grand Tastings includes a Riedel wine glass and the

chance to sample all the food and wines on offer. If you add on a special tasting room ticket, you can sample seven high-end wines for one hour prior to each Grand Tasting. Educational events are ticketed separately. Proceeds from the festival have raised more than $5.6 million to benefit more than 35 charities, including the Freestore Foodbank, Alzheimer’s Association, Cincinnati Ballet and Women Helping Women. Grand Tastings 7-9:30 p.m. Friday; 2:30-4:30 p.m. and 6:30-9 p.m. Saturday. $75 advance, $80 door Friday; $70 advance, $75 door Saturday afternoon; $85 advance, $90 door Saturday evening. Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Downtown, winefestival. com. — KIARA REECE

MUSIC: Band of Friends: A Celebration of Rory Gallagher pays tribute to the Irish Blues/Rock guitarist and singer at the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 42.

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MUSIC: Bob Weir and Wolf Bros Grateful Dead legend Bob Weir is returning to Cincinnati, this time for a performance with his Wolf Bros band project. The trio features esteemed veteran producer/musician Don Was on bass and drummer Jay Lane, a longtime member of Weir’s group RatDog who has also played with Phil Lesh and Friends. The Wolf Bros band — which plays the music of the Dead and more — did a sold-out run of dates last fall. PopMatters praised Weir and Co., saying that “finding new sonic territory to explore after more than 50 years on the ‘Golden Road’ to unlimited musical devotion is a tall order, but Bob Weir is doing it again with his Wolf Bros.” In January of 2017, Weir played Cincinnati’s MusicNOW, the unique and ongoing “New Music” festival founded by Bryce Dessner of The National. He performed at the Aronoff Center with Campfire Boys, which featured Aaron Dessner, Scott Devendorf and Bryan Devendorf of The National (the Dessners and Scott Devendorf were also

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EVENT: Jurassic Quest Jurassic Quest is coming to the Duke Energy Convention Center with all kinds of dinosaur-themed entertainment and learning activities. More than 80 dinosaurs — life-sized moving, breathing and even walking dinosaurs — will recreate the Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic period via science stations, interactive experiences, fossil digs, videos, bounce houses, crafts, face painting, a petting zoo, dinosaur rides and plenty more. Paleontologists worked with Jurassic

EVENT: Mary, Queen of Heaven Fish Fry For many, it’s already a yearly tradition to go to the annual Mary, Queen of Heaven Fish Fry. But, if you are unfamiliar, every Friday during Lent (or March 8-April 12 this year), Mary, Queen of Heaven Church serves meat-free meals like shrimp tacos, baked cod, butterfly shrimp, fish sandwiches, a signature Holy Haddock and more with a side of flair. The church is the home of the Codfather aka John Geisen, CEO of Izzy’s. Geisen

becomes the Codfather by dressing in mafia-style clothing and carrying around his giant stuffed cod during the Friday fish frys. Make sure to fill your stomach and get pictures with the Codfather at this local Lenten celebration. 4-8 p.m. Fridays through April 12. Meal prices vary. Mary, Queen of Heaven, 1130 Donaldson Road, Erlanger, facebook.com/ mqhfishfry. — BEN REES

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MUSIC: Adrian Belew plays at sold-out show at Ludlow Garage. See interview on page 39.

EVENT: Taft’s Spring Garden Market Birds are chirping, bees are buzzing and beers are being guzzled. It might as well be spring at Taft’s Brewpourium this Saturday when day drinking and gardening prep go hand in hand. Local vendors like Daisy Jane’s Flower CONTINUES ON PAGE 27

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Lorena Molina Tu nombre entre nuestras Lenguas Every 15 minutes Goetta Institut Breakfast Conversations with Artists

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Lorena Molina Tu nombre entre nuestras Lenguas Every 15 minutes

Lorena Molina Tu nombre entre nuestras Lenguas Every 15 minutes Goetta Institut Breakfast Conversations with Artists

7:30pm

Intermedio On Touching

Daina Ashbee Serpentine

Joseph Keckler Live

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Intermedio On Touching

Mammalian Diving Reflex All the Sex I’ve Ever Had

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JOSEPH KECKLER

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LORENA MOLINA

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RopeWalk

Hailed by The New York Times as a “major vocal talent whose range shatters the conventional boundaries,” Joseph Keckler folds mesmerizing storytelling and sharp wit into a rich vocal range spanning over three octaves.

Musical sound emanates through continually unfolding transmissions distributed between audience, performers, and wearable cybernetic garments. The multi-sensory presence and pressure of the collective touch unites the audience through shared action.

Tu nombre entre nuestras Lenguas Tu nombre entre nuestras Lenguas is an intimate, sensorial ceremony for those lost in the deadliest massacre in recorded Latin American history in 1981 at El Mozote, El Salvador.

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The late night Hub is the meeting point for artists, organizers and the audience Thursday, Friday and Saturday night from 9PM till 2AM, and best of all, it’s totally free to the public! Each night the Hub will be alive with performances programmed in collaboration with a local organizations and galleries, extending the community’s participation and offering a platform for diverse artistic voices. Mobile food vendors and local spirits will be on hand to keep you moving, with performance installations and other opportunities for audiences to get involved, meet new people, and share stories about all they’ve experienced and recommendations for what to see next!

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As part of the inaugural year of This Time Tomorrow, the CAC is launching the Goetta–Institut, featuring breakfasts in conversation with artists. Each morning we invite the public to join us in the CAC’s lobby for a deep dive into what brings life to a performance, to meet the performers, or just find out what the heck performance art is all about. To make things even more enticing, the Institut will be serving up goetta breakfast sandwiches (vegetarian versions, too!) and coffee to help revive you after that late night at our festival hub! Join us every morning for unforgettable conversations, goetta breakfast sandwiches and coffee –free of charge!

RopeWalk is large-scale, public performance occurring along the Purple People Bridge. Fifty participants from various communities will work together to create ropes spanning the bridge as a symbolic and real action of public healing.

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Truck and 80 Acre Farms are selling a variety of indoor plants and garden seeds and non-alcoholic drinks can be found at Deeper Roots Coffee and Rooted Juicery stands. The day begins with an 11 a.m. barre class and gardening classes go throughout the day. Grab an aptly named Farm to Tulip from the taproom and get that green thumb ready for warmer weather (fingers crossed). 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Free admission. Taft’s Brewpourium, 4831 Spring Grove Ave., Spring Grove Village, facebook. com/taftsbeerco. — TOMMY MCDONALD EVENT: Greater Cincinnati Orchid Society Spring Show & Sale There are about 28,000 species of orchid worldwide, more than double the amount of bird species, and they come in an untold

variety of vibrant colors and diverse leaf formations. Celebrate this prolific plant family at the Krohn Conservatory during the Greater Cincinnati Orchid Society’s biannual orchid show and sale. Gardening pottery and orchid growing supplies will be available to anyone looking to hone their green thumb; and adept orchid growers will have choice flowers available for purchase. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. $4 adults; $2 children. Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, facebook.com/cincinnatiorchids. — TOMMY MCDONALD EVENT: Lost In The Crowd: A Waldo-Themed Fundraiser Remember the Where’s Waldo book with the page that’s nothing but Waldo look-alikes, making it a masochistic task to find the true hide-and-seeker? If not, the

upcoming Lost in the Crowd pub crawl offers an immersive recreation. Beginning at Rhinegeist and spreading out to five other Over-theRhine bars — including Queen City Radio, Pins Mechanical Co. and 16-Bit Bar+Arcade — this fundraiser encourages everyone to break out some hipster glasses, blue jeans and their stripiest red-and-white shirt to mimic Waldo’s famously pedestrian look. Gussy up for a greater cause; every costumed drinker not only gets a sticker at the door, but also a portion of the days’ proceeds benefit Lighthouse Youth & Family Services. 1-9 p.m. Saturday. Free admission. Rhinegeist Brewery, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook. com/rhinegeist. — TOMMY MCDONALD

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EVENT: Art on Vine This artisan market takes over Rhinegeist with more than 70 local makers showcasing and selling their handmade wares, from pottery and photography to jewelry and apparel. Noon-7 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Rhinegeist, 1910 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, artonvinecincy. com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

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EVENT: Pints & Pitties Adore-A-Bull Rescue and Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. are hosting a pre-Saint Patrick’s Day celebration with two of the best things in life: beer and dogs. This afternoon party will feature adult-style carnival games with prizes for people and doggos alike. Vendors, raffles and the bar at Christian Moerlein will add to the fun. Tickets come with an Adore-A-Bull Rescue water bottle, a reusable tote, a koozie and a beer ticket; VIP tickets include the reusable tote, koozie, and beer ticket plus a beer paddle, flight glasses and cake pairings from Nothing Bundt Cake. For every pint sold during the event, Christian Moerlein will donate $1 back. Outside dogs are not allowed in the bar but there will be dogs available for adoption on site. Noon-5 p.m. Sunday. $25 general admission ticket; $35 VIP ticket. Christian Moerlein Brewing Co., 1621 Moore St., Over-the-Rhine, facebook.com/ adoreabullrescuecincinnati. — BEN REES

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Three Hits Come to Ensemble Theatre An uncompromising new line-up of America’s most popular plays — A Doll’s House, Part 2, Skeleton Crew and The Wolves — heads to OTR BY R I C K PEN D ER

Connan Morrissey (left) and Tony Campisi in A Doll’s House, Part Two P H O T O : R YA N K U R T Z

Skeleton Crew is a searing drama. Factories are closing and squeezing those left behind, putting extreme pressure on a makeshift family of blue-collar auto workers who must cope with management decisions. The production will be directed by Stori Ayers, who performed in Wilson’s Jitney at the Cincinnati Playhouse in 2016. Meyers’ play selection hat trick is rounded out with Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves in June, the story of a team of nine elite teenage athletes on a high school girls soccer team. Meyers calls the script “relentlessly fierce” and likes that it’s “so wide awake.” “These young women will inherit the world because they are strong, brilliant, proud people,” she says. The ferocious, unflinching comingof-age drama was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. “This will not be easy theater for audiences or actors,” says Meyers, who will stage the show, adding that actors have been clamoring to audition for the production. “We don’t do ‘easy’ theater here at Ensemble,” she says proudly. “This is decidedly not easy theater.” All three shows represent the kind of theater that Meyers loves to present, and she’s quick to point out that all three shows will be directed by women. “No compromises!” she says. A Doll’s House, Part 2, presented by Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, runs through March 30. ETC will present Skeleton Crew April 13-May 11 and The Wolves June 1-29. Tickets: ensemblecincinnati.org.

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is Torvald, Nora’s conflicted husband. Current ETC acting apprentice Esther Cunningham portrays Emmy, Nora’s whipsmart daughter, who was 2 years old when her mother left the family behind. Local stage veteran Christine Dye plays Anne Marie, Nora’s one-time nanny who raised the children after Nora’s departure and has strong opinions of her own. When asked how she would shape her cast, Pugh says, “I don’t show up with a prompt book full of blocking. Since I’m an actor myself, I like to find performances that fit and decide how to keep them all in the same play. So we create this story working in the rehearsal room together.” A knowledge of Ibsen’s original play is not required, Pugh says: “You don’t have to know it before you see Part 2. Don’t worry.” Hnath’s script is considered a comedy — not a farce, but not a tragedy. The show’s humor, according to Meyers, comes through the pain of characters who confront each other ETC’s April production will be Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew. It was Meyers’ first choice for the current season. She staged the playwright’s Detroit ’67 in 2014, and she likes this script even more, saying it might be “the best play I’ve read in 20 years.” Meyers envisions Morisseau as the next August Wilson, chronicling 21st-century African-American lives as the eminent playwright did for the 20th century. “The honesty of her work is remarkable,” Meyers says. “She’s just an amazing writer.” Set in Detroit in 2008 as the wheels are falling off the auto industry, Morisseau’s

contemporary sound. Meyers says she was excited by Hnath’s “unexpected turns on the classic situation,” and praises his writing as “so smart, so concise.” A Doll’s House, Part 2 is directed by Regina Pugh, an actress familiar to local audiences at ETC, Know Theatre and elsewhere. Meyers approached Pugh with what the latter calls an “out of the blue request” to stage the show. “I’m an actor first,” Pugh says. “I’m confident in my ability, but I don’t pursue opportunities like this. Lynn wanted a woman to direct.” Meyers is certain Pugh is the right choice to direct the show. “She is insightful, compassionate, always intellectually ahead of the game,” Meyers says. “She’s a woman of few words but incredibly honest actions. She had to think about taking on this task for a while, but I knew she would understand these women.” As Pugh talked with Meyers about the show, she likened it to a boxing match: There are four scenes with Nora going toeto-toe with another character, just like the rounds of a prize fight. “At the end, who wins?” Meyers asks. “Everybody’s beaten up.” And everyone, in fact, has a legitimate point of view. The cast includes Connan Morrissey, a professional actress who’s been in Cincinnati for several years but involved in another career. She plays Nora, a character who is “fiercely alive,” according to Meyers. Morrissey, she says, has exactly the right spark for the role. New York actor (and frequent ETC performer) Tony Campisi

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rtistic director D. Lynn Meyers has been known to fret as she assembles the seasons for Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. The company calls itself a “premiere” theater, presenting plays unfamiliar to Tri-State audiences. That can be a challenge to market. But after two decades of Meyers’ leadership, her subscribers have come to trust her judgment, many of them renewing for the next season even before shows are announced. Meyers hit the trifecta with the second half of the current season — one shaped by the overarching concept of people stepping outside of their comfort zones to make hard choices. The final three shows each landed on the list of most-produced plays in the United States assembled annually by American Theatre magazine. Lest you think she looked at that list and programmed accordingly, know that Meyers’ season was announced in March 2018, long before the magazine published its list of mostproduced plays in October. In other words, Meyers’ instinctive, gut-driven insights ensured that ETC subscribers will see some of the most popular new works on American stages this season. First up is Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, which opened last week at the recently refurbished and expanded theater complex in Over-the-Rhine. A sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking play from 1879, it follows a woman who shockingly abandons her marriage and her children. Hnath’s sequel, a 2017 Broadway hit, imagines Nora Helmer 15 years later as a changed woman; sorting out complications that resulted from her past decision, she returns home to awkwardly ask for a favor. Focused on still relevant themes of marriage, fidelity and personal independence, Hnath’s play employs razor-sharp dialogue with a very

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American Art Song Takes Center Stage BY A N N E A R ES T EI N

Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland are among America’s greatest composers who — known for penning music for orchestra, chamber groups and theatrical performances — also wrote songs for solo voice; though the latter works are less familiar, now Salon 21 is paying tribute to this trio of composers via Pillars of American Art Song. The event is a collaborative effort between voice and piano professors at Northern Richard van Dyke (left) and Kimberly Lazzeri Kentucky University and University of North Florida — PHOTO: BRI HICKS Kimberly Lazzeri and Krzysztof Biernacki, respectively. The pair will perform from Barber’s Hermit Chariot,” more widely recognized as Songs, Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles “Because I could not stop for Death.” and Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily “‘The Chariot’ is the final piece in the Dickinson. cycle, and it’s my favorite,” Lazzeri says. Not that long ago, a classically trained “There’s such a calm about it as it describes American singer’s recital typically featured looking toward eternity. It reminds me songs in German, Italian, French and, of the final piece in the Hermit songs, occasionally, in Russian. Works in English (‘The Desire for Hermitage’); there’s a — especially by American composers peacefulness in both.” — were rarely performed, despite the Composed just two years before his abundance of material. death, Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles But in the last 20 years, that’s changed. explores the life cycle of an American “As American singers, it’s really critical marriage with texts by himself, his mother that we perform our own music,” says BierJennie and Yiddish poet Yankev-Yitskhok nacki. “I wasn’t born here but I live here Segal. There will be both solos and duets now, and there’s a wealth of extraordinary for voice and pianists get to show off with vocal music written in this country.” a four-hands performance that involves Born in Poland, Biernacki became a proscatting, singing, improvisation and fessor of voice and director of opera at UNF blowing a whistle along the way. in 2005. This concert marks his Cincinnati “The arias are tricky and absolutely debut, thanks to a network of University of wonderful,” Biernacki says. “They’re witty Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and exceptionally well put together.” alumni now on NKU faculty, starting with Although having the entire program Salon 21’s artistic director, Jill Jantzen. A in English can be a relief for audiences, it clerical staff member there, Jantzen met poses special challenges for singers. Lazzeri, an NKU assistant professor of “It’s the worst language to sing in because voice, at the university as well. there are no pure vowels,” Biernacki “Jill invited me to do a recital of American says. “They can be extremely difficult to songs and I immediately thought of articulate especially in the upper registers.” Krzysztof,” Lazzeri says. “I was a visiting Lazzeri agrees, adding that there’s professor of voice at UNF for a year and another critical element to singing in he and I began a series of collaborative English for native speakers. concerts that we continue to perform “We assume that we understand the text throughout the country.” but the challenge comes in the interpretaPianists Erin K. Bennett and Richard tion,” she says. “I encourage my students to Van Dyke will also join the fold. Both have approach singing in English as if it were a ties to CCM, with the former currently foreign language and to translate the way working as an associate UNF professor and they would translate any other language so the latter serving as NKU’s keyboard area that there’s that depth of understanding.” coordinator. Biernacki notes that his department Lazzeri will perform Barber’s Hermit requires voice majors to include works Songs; mystic, bawdy, serene and witty, the in English in their senior recitals. “We song cycle is based on 10 medieval poems also want our students to explore the written by Irish monks, which were transextraordinary riches in American Art lated by contemporary Irish poets, includSong,” he says. “And this concert provides ing W.H. Auden and Nuala O’Faolain. a great introduction.” She also chose four selections from Pillars of American Art Song takes place Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Thursday, March 7 at Willis Music Kenwood. Dickinson for the program, including one More info/tickets: salon21.org. of Dickinson’s best-known works, “The

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OF Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Book by Peter Parnell Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney film

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Start Over Tomorrow While There’s Still Time runs through April 6 at Wave Pool (2940 Colerain Ave., Camp Washington). More info: wavepoolgallery.org.

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undercurrents of the work that are pretty serious.” This is evident in Boyhen’s work, too. Her autobiographical drawings were torn directly from her sketchbooks. They detail some humdrum parts of life — eating noodles or sitting in a coffee shop — but difficult ones, too. Her work feels like prying into someone’s diary, but the drawings’ familiarity and intimacy make it seem like it could be our own. Greer tackles driving anxieties through “Signs of Life,” an illustration series that features signs from the road. Messages include “PLEASE GET WELL” and “WHAT DOES PEACE FEEL LIKE.” Following a traumatic car accident, she explains that sharing her struggles allows for making more honest connections with other people. “It’s kind of…making a joke out of the things that I’m scared of,” she says. “Making fun of myself is a way of being cathartic. Just opening up, I was like, ‘Dude, this is a release for me to talk about my problems.’ Let’s get everyone into the game.” One of Russell’s fliers advertises a support group for the masses. “WE’RE NEVER GETTING OUT OF THIS PLACE / GROUP COUNSELING SESSIONS / OPEN TO THE PUBLIC / EVERY THURSDAY AT 6 PM / IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM / FREE DONUTS.” The group is imaginary, but Start Over Tomorrow While There’s Still Time is the next best thing. “I hope people leave the exhibition feeling a little better about life,” Cullen says. “There’s something about these drawings that make me feel hopeful that we’re all on this planet, we’re all sharing these emotions and we’re not alone.”

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Good news: We’re all human. Bad news: This condition comes with some side effects, including but not limited to stress and emotional burnout. More good news: Wave Pool’s new exhibition can help with that. Through a collection of simplistic works of ink on paper, Start Over Tomorrow While There’s Still Time seeks to celebrate the mundanity of everyday life and all the weird and wonderful that comes with it. The exhibition features the work of Cincinnatians Karen Boyhen, Macartney Greer and Evan Verrilli, plus Kyle Knobel and Nathaniel Russell from Oakland, California and Indianapolis, Indiana, respectively. Knobel draws ordinary things without the context of backgrounds; there are flowers, sea coral and a pair of braids without a head to attach to. Some pieces are covered with grids, each more densely filled with crisscrossed patterns than the next. While Knobel draws with fluid, sweeping strokes, Verrilli’s red and blue pen drawings are incredibly precise. In his “honda’s odyssey” series, he draws detailed minivans with big decals advertising things like “1-800-CALL-MOM” and “findyourdad.com.” The frames hang surrounded by a web of arrows scribbled in pencil, which point to holes in the wall left from the first attempts at hanging the drawings. A note reads, “labors of love” and, for one lonely little nail hole, “labor of hate.” Wave Pool Executive Director Calcagno Cullen says she’s noticed “a de-skilling trend, where it’s not about making something look photo-real or making something perfectly to proportion. It’s more about finding the humanity in handdrawn things.” Russell embraces weirdness through a series of fliers that wouldn’t look out of place on a community bulletin board. One features a cat with a white, glowing void where a face should be. The text reads, “HAVE YOU SEEN HER? LOCAL CAT, SUSAN, APPEARS AS AN INFINITE BALL OF LIGHT HURTLING THROUGH TIME AND SPACE. CALL FOR INFO.” But there’s no phone number. The exhibition takes its title from another flier. In a photo, two figures are silhouetted in the darkness against an enormous bonfire. It reads, “BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN / START OVER TOMORROW WHILE THERE’S STILL TIME. THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT.” “Who doesn’t feel like getting in the car and driving away, you know?” Russell says. “That’s like my most Punk Rock flier. Because it’s about destruction but it’s also about rebirth. It’s about finding what it is you’re supposed to be here on Earth for.” There’s a duality to the works here. “They are lighthearted and totally you can just look at them and laugh and feel good,” Cullen says. “But there’s a lot of

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Jealousy, Redemption in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ R E V I E W BY JAC K I E M U L AY

One of Shakespeare’s late romance plays, feels a bit careless. To put such time and The Winter’s Tale unfolds as King Leontes effort into a setting different than the one of Sicilia and his wife, Hermione, host in the text feels excessive when that newly Leontes’ childhood friend, Polixenes, the envisioned era fails to make a statement King of Bohemia. In this tragicomedy, about the time period or the work itself. an imagined love triangle between The result makes for a production that is the three nobles arises when Leontes lovely to behold but confused in execution. accuses Hermione of being pregnant with That being said, the production overall is Polixenes’ child. tight, well performed and a pleasant blend In Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s of drama and comedy that never feels too current production, paranoia and rage heavy or too light. Nevertheless, some drive Leontes (played by Brent Vimtrup) actors fall prey to the language, either to call for the murder of Polixenes (Josh struggling with the cadence of the verse or Katawick) — though the two were once like stumbling through the text’s word play. brothers — and the imprisonment of his Leslie Brott, who plays Paulina — beloved wife (Kelly Mengelkoch), whom he Hermione’s close advisor and friend — channels his anger toward. As the first act ends in death and tragedy, we are also treated to one of Shakespeare’s most famous stage directions: Exit, pursued by a bear. But the rest of the play takes a decidedly comedic turn. Set in Bohemia — depicted as a pastoral kingdom with zany characters — another love story emerges, which involves Florizel (Crystian Wiltshire), the prince of Bohemia, and his beloved Perdita (Courtney Lucien), the daughter of a The cast of Cincy Shakes’ The Winter’s Tale shepherd with a secret and unknown royal lineage. PHOTO: MIKKI SCHAFFNER PHOTOGRAPHY The Winter’s Tale is oft criticized by literary critics due to the two vastly conflicting styles steals the show in every scene in which in the play; the first three acts are a she appears. Brott expertly captures the classic psychological tragedy, whereas cadence of the Shakespearean language in the final two are comedic, resulting in a a splendid, natural way. Even those in the happy ending. Because of this, though audience who may have had trouble with the play’s first half is action-packed, the the language’s complexity could easily lightheartedness of the second half goes by follow each emotion and sentiment evoked much faster. The Cincinnati Shakespeare by her performance as the fiery, wise Company’s cast handles this dichotomy elderly woman. well and is able to navigate through both One crowd-pleasing element of the show tragedy and comedy without too much is the music composed by William Cary melodrama. However, at times, the second Davenport, who also hilariously embodies half feels like an apology to the audience several characters in the play’s second half. for the intense drama of the first. Combined with the whimsical movement Due to the expense of materials choreographed by Darnell Pierre Benjaneeded to make the production feel min, the musical moments and songs that realistic and polished, it can be rare to pepper the Bohemian half of the play feel see a Shakespearean play performed in like a party. period costume and setting. Directed by Though The Winter’s Tale is a complex Christopher Luscombe, Cincy Shakes’ play that has to overcome unexpected production of The Winter’s Tale is adapted shifts in the narrative, Cincy Shakes’ for the Regency era, which lasted between production navigates this ambiguity 1811-1820 — and each actor carries the well; the final product satisfies both pompous air of the period well. dramatic and comedic tastes and is Designed by Shannon Moore, the set suitable for playgoers who may be newer to is quite bare, but is composed of lovely Shakespeare or are old hands at absorbing marble columns that are expertly and the Bard’s works. realistically painted, which reflect both the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s The Greek influences of the era and the original Winter’s Tale runs through March 23 at text. Similarly, the costuming, designed by the Otto M. Budig Theater (1195 Elm St., Rainy Edwards, is completely gorgeous. Over-the-Rhine). More info and tickets: Despite the marvelous costuming and cincyshakes.com. set design, the choice of the Regency era

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Cobblestone will be serving drinks during the Reds Opening Day Parade, too — it passes right in front of the bar. “Any time I can do an event and give back, I’m all on board,” says Farris. “We’re cityfocused. We want to be involved in things going on downtown. Making people love Cincinnati is definitely a passion of ours because we love Cincinnati.” Cobblestone OTR is located at 1132 Race St., Over-the-Rhine. More info: facebook.com/cobblestoneotr.

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the Berry Boujee, a creamy gin cocktail that tastes like a raspberry milkshake. It combines egg white, raspberry purée, Watershed Four Peel gin and lemon juice to cut the sweetness. “Once again, it’s approachability; simple three, four-ingredient cocktails (that are) not taking us 10 minutes to make, and then we wanted the variety,” Farris says. “So we have two vodka cocktails, a gin cocktail, a bourbon cocktail (“Go On, Git!”), and then the big boy, which is the Bring Out Your Dead, which is four liquors, no mixers.” Bring Out Your Dead combines reposado tequila, sweet vermouth, Aperol and Fernet — proceed with a designated driver. There’s also the Hot & Dirty, a spicy, dirty vodka martini. The latter would be served in a martini glass, but in that effort to maximize efficiency, all drinks are served in either small rocks glasses or pints. Beyond booze, Farris and Cobblestone are interested in charitable and community-oriented endeavors. Featured during the month of March is a whiskey and blackberry purée cocktail called The Matisse: The Lady in the Purple Coat, from which a dollar for each sold goes to the local Dress For Success. Cobblestone is also participating in a Where’s Waldo?-themed pub crawl on March 9 called “Lost in the Crowd” that starts at Rhinegeist and benefits Lighthouse Youth and Family Services.

whether it’s price comfort, actual comfort seating, environment or ordering comfort,” he says. “We’re not trying to be overwhelming or pretentious. We want to have a variety of stuff.” Cobblestone has 15 different bourbons, Weller and Bulleit among them, because Farris is a bourbon guy; two cocktails on draft, including a mightily potent Old Fashioned and FernetBranca; and a rotating draft beer list. On tap, Bud Light will remain a constant, and since the bar opened in November, they’ve had Horsecar, a collaboration beer produced by Rhinegeist. “It’s limited real estate, so to have a little bit of everything is what I try to achieve. You gotta have your IPA, you gotta have some light beer, you gotta have a dark beer,” Farris says. I stopped by on a recent Friday evening. It’s a tight but inviting space; by the time I left, I could have sworn there were 60 people in the bar, but Farris says capacity tops out at about 40. The warm walnut and pine back bar was preserved in the renovation and restored to its glistening original state. Two TVs mounted above the bar were tuned to sports. A jukebox occupies the front corner, where floor-toceiling windows look out on Race Street and the School for Creative and Performing Arts. There are a few long high-tops across from the leather bar seats, exposed brick, and a truly cool light fixture feature that combines exposed Edison bulbs and silver-domed bulbs on a circuit board-like pattern. A square of window faces the Thai ice cream joint, with stools and a stretch of counter space. A built-in long leather seat at the back, nestled next to the restrooms, allows for shoe-shines on certain nights. I was hesitant when I tried the Horsecar. It’s a lager infused with Churchill’s tea — lemon verbena and lime kefir — and Farris calls it “a builder”; the more you sip it, the more the tea flavor builds. I will keep that in mind next time I go because I only tasted a friend’s glass. I’m a sour beer fan, so I went with Urban Artifact’s Gadget, a purple-hued, bright-tasting raspberryand-blackberry tart. It’s a winter sour beer winner in my book. I also ordered

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’m happy to report I was wrong about Cobblestone OTR, a newish bar located at the corner of 12th and Race streets in Over-the-Rhine. The no-frills establishment feels more like hanging out in a friend’s living room than the kind of preening-for-the-popular-crowd posturing that can happen at other drinking destinations. Cobblestone is about chill as they come, and all are welcome to stop by. “The neighborhood bar is really the feel we try to achieve,” says Mark Farris, Cobblestone managing partner (financial partners are Keyur Joshi and Kidus Tadele.) “Friendly staff, well-priced items.” There seems to be a predominant kind of pressure for new bars in Over-the-Rhine to fit neatly in some kind of niche: sexy cocktail bar; grungy dive bar; bar-with-aband. Cobblestone eschews those notions — genuinely. “We’re not trying to be a sports bar, we’re not trying to be a cocktail bar,” Farris says. (They do have cocktails, but they are very simple.) “It’s a comfortable spot where you can come in after walking your dog in your running shorts. Or you can come in after dinner at Zula and have a nice bourbon. We like the range.” That range is something I addressed openly with Farris, regarding the location. Its predecessor was also a neighborhood bar, simply called 1132 (the address) but the neighborhood has changed drastically in the last 10 years since 1132 was in operation. That whole corner of Over-the-Rhine, looking out over Washington Park, has been one of the more slow-moving in terms of the wave of gradual revitalization — or gentrification, depending on how you look at it — the neighborhood has undergone. Directly across from Cobblestone was once an outpost of The Lord’s Gym & Pantry, a nonprofit organization that included a weight-lifting and Christian devotional program designed to meet the needs of neighborhood men and boys. Now, Simply Rolled Thai ice cream is located next to the former Lord’s Gym. The new Cincinnati Shakespeare Company theater is just a block away. “It’s not so we’re appealing to everyone; we just enjoy the range and diversity of it all,” says Farris. “What’s great about our clientele so far is it seems to be later 20s up to mid-60s — we’ve achieved a range of ages as well. I think that’s in some of the small details.” “Really, it’s about creating comfort,

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Let’s paint a picture: Joey Votto sends a walk-off homer into the stands at Great American Ball Park to give the Cincinnati Reds a win on a Friday night in early summer. Riding Votto’s momentum, the Reds’ faithful pour into The Banks, but not in search of $2 beers and $3 cocktails in plastic cups — not this time. The crowd goes against the grain, celebrating the win in style with high-end cuisine, proper drinks and a dance (or seven) at a premier night club. Galla Park makes this possible, creating a space for Reds’ die-hards, weekend drinkers and everyone in between to indulge in an upscale atmosphere outside the traditional scope of The Banks’ familyfriendly and more mainstream offerings. “This is the area we want to be. We saw the opportunity to enhance the dining portfolio of The Banks and increase that,” says co-owner Michael Mercer. Mercer and his partners at Peerless Management Group opened Galla Park in October 2018 at 175 Joe Nuxhall Way, serving a new experience around the stadium in addition to lunch, dinner and cocktails. “The way that Galla Park was created is we kind of took a look at what some of the bigger cites were doing, like Miami, Chicago, L.A.,” Mercer says. “And a lot of the hot trend across the country right now is restaurant-first, more of a hipper, trendier, more of a modern feel that transitions throughout the night into more of an upscale lounge or, like this place warranted, a full-blown night club.” But the food comes first at Galla Park, and for good reason: executive chef Ben Toney, formerly of Lebanon’s The Golden Lamb, has designed all of its recipes. “He believes in the concept and understood it,” Mercer says. “Having creative freedom and working with myself and other partners who stay up on the trends and do a lot of research, it was kind of a home run. We’ve been very lucky and fortunate to get a guy like Ben.” The lunch menu is highlighted by a parmesan-crusted grilled cheese and

shaved Brussels sprouts; a 48-ounce sliced Tomahawk ribeye ($115) and Atlantic halibut ($30) lead the entrée list at dinner. The menu also includes an array of shareables, including pork belly and waffles, truffle fries and sheet pan nachos — “something for everyone,” as Mercer puts it. “The whole idea and concept is, we can have lunch with all of the businesses around town, so let’s do our happy hours, do our dinners,” Mercer says. “But our ideal dinner crowd is your 7:30, 8:30 dining crowd. And as they get done with their dinner, the room starts to transition. You can then start popping bottles, go to the bar, go to the dance floor, get a VIP, or just whatever. It’s just kind of a one-stop shop for your dining and entertainment needs.” On that note, Galla Park lists their bottle service menu on the website, with options like a bottle of Smirnoff for $175, a bottle of Armand De Brignac Rose “Ace of Spades” for $900 or a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label Scotch for $800. Happy hour runs 3-6 p.m. Monday through Friday with $5 cocktails, $5 house wines, $4 craft drafts and $3 domestics. You’ll see seasonally changing craft beers with locals like Taft’s and Rhinegeist on tap alongside options like Southern Tier, Goose Island and Bud Light. In addition to classic cocktails (i.e. Moscow Mule, Manhattan, Old Fashioned), Galla Park offers a Sriracha Margarita and what they call the Second Street Connector, a gin-based cocktail with St-Germain elderflower liqueur, peach-habañero shrub, fresh lemon juice and an apple slice garnish. “Our cocktail program is extremely strong,” Mercer says. “Everything is made fresh, from the simple syrups to the juices. Everything is freshly squeezed.” Come summer, expect live acoustic entertainment during the week with DJs on weekends, plus a 1,500-square-foot patio for drinking, dining and lounging outdoors. Of course, Mercer is well aware that Votto’s walk-off home runs won’t send

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National Oreo Cookie Day — Hightail Mt. Adams honors America’s beloved sandwich cookie. Prepare yourself for a full Oreo buffet, Oreoinspired cocktails and Oreo pudding shots. Test your Oreo balancing skills in the Oreo stacking contest. The highest Oreo tower will win a $25 4EG gift card. 4 p.m.midnight. Free admission. Hightail Mt. Adams, 941 Pavilion St., Mount Adams, hightailmtadams.com. Trap Kitchen Cookout Tour — The chefs Spank and News from Trap Kitchen are stopping at The Mad Frog in Clifton during their cooking tour. The Trap Kitchen Dinner is $30. Upgrade your ticket to the Trap Kitchen Full Meal Deal Bundle for $75 and get a T-shirt and cookbook along with your dinner. 7 p.m. $30-$75. The Mad Frog, 1 E. McMillan St., Clifton, themadfrog.net.

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March Brewer’s Table: Suds and Sausage — Moerlein Lager House is partnering with Avril-Bleh to create dinner pairings of beer and sausage. Moerlein plans to release their featured March beer the day of the event. Prepare to pair that brew and many more Moerlein beers with rare sausages from Avril-Bleh prepared in-house. 7-9 p.m. $16. Moerlein Lager House, 115 Joe Nuxhall Way, Downtown, moerleinlagerhouse.com.

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Taft’s Spring Garden Market — It may not feel like it yet, but spring is almost here. The vendors coming to Taft’s Brewpourium have the essentials for kicking spring off the right way. Potted plants, seeds, juices and coffee are just a few products to browse and buy while drinking a beer. 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission. Taft’s Brewpourium, 4831 Spring Grove Ave., Spring Grove Village, taftsalehouse. com/brewpourium.

Big Gay Brunch at Below Zero Lounge — Before this month’s Tea Dance, head to Below Zero Lounge for some pre-gaming. The Big Gay Brunch features drinks specials, a brunch buffet and a drag queen or two. Brunch reservations are necessary for the buffet (make online) but the lounge is open to all. The Tea Dance starts at 4 p.m. at 3 Points Urban Brewery. Noon-4 p.m. $15 brunch. Below Zero Lounge, 1120 Walnut St., Over-theRhine, eventbrite.com/e/ big-gay-brunch-marchtickets-56935066316. Spring Brewer’s Brunch with Branch & Bone — Fifty West Brewery and Branch & Bone Artisan Ales, based in Dayton, are partnering to host a brunch with beer. Tickets will get you a three-course brunch, a 12-ounce reception beer, six 5-ounce beer pairings presented by experts from Fifty West and Branch & Bone and one can of Fifty West’s new seasonal can, Chasing Sunsets peach ale. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $40. Fifty West Brewing Company, 7668 Wooster Pike, Columbia Township, fiftywestbrew.com.

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Donut & Beer Pairing at Streetside — Marcella’s Doughnuts & Bakery head to Streetside for a night of donuts and beer tastings. Tickets are limited to 50. 6-8 p.m. $13. Streetside Brewery, 4003 Eastern Ave., Columbia Tusculum, facebook.com/streetsidebrewery. Sensory 100 at MadTree — Learn how to truly understand what a beer tastes like and why at this education session. Your taste buds will get the practice they need to classify 10 common off-flavors and learn how and why they occur in the brewing process. Tickets for this two-hour class come with a beer of your choice and a sensory analyst glass to take home. 6-8 p.m. $50. MadTree Brewing Taproom, 3301 Madison Road, Oakley, facebook.com/madtree.

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International Women’s Day 2019 at Listermann — Listermann hosts a release for their 2019 International Women’s Day brew, a Berliner Weisse called Ceres. This female-brewed beer will be on tap and in four-pack cans featuring artwork from four different local women. One dollar from every pint sold during

the event will be donated to Women Helping Women. 4-11 p.m. Free admission. Listermann Brewing Company, 1621 Dana Ave., Norwood, facebook.com/ listermannbrewing.

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happy as a chickadee. I don’t know why, but I feel extremely young. I think it’s just my spirit and my nature. I’m a naïve kind of person. I use a lot of my energy toward creating things like a child might do. I don’t think of myself as a child, but I don’t think of myself as being even past the age of 30.” The current tour will run off and on through the rest of the year, with Belew recording new songs in between at his home studio in Nashville. “They pretty much sound like a band even though I play everything on them,” Belew says of Pop-Sided and the new material he will record. “It’s very much a solo endeavor with the exception of having a recording engineer, and it all fits very well with having a band playing it live.” It seems Belew’s urge to create new music will never cease. “It’s just my purpose,” he says. “I always knew it. Even when I was a child, I knew I should be doing something. I didn’t know what it would be, but I knew it wasn’t supposed to be the typical job. I always loved to draw. I always loved to sing. I always loved to play drumbeats. Everything about me was about being creative.” Adrian Belew’s concert Saturday, March 9 at Ludlow Garage is sold out, but he recently announced his return to the venue for an Oct. 4 show. Tickets/more info: ludlowgaragecincinnati.com.

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what he did. “Eighteen months later I was playing that onstage with him.” Born in Covington, Belew hasn’t lived in Greater Cincinnati since the mid-1970s, but he doesn’t hesitate to mention the impact his hometown area had on his life and career. “When I was growing up in the Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati area, there were so many great bands and so many great musicians around that I thought that was normal,” he says. “I thought every city in the world had that. As I traveled around the world, I realized that wasn’t true, that Cincinnati really did have a plethora of really fine musicians. The music scene there was very lively. I heard so many different bands all the time that it was one of those situations where, if you combine that with all the great music that was coming out at the time, it’s really a hotbed for someone to want to get into music. It was perfect for me, because it gave me a lifestyle. Basically, every day of my life I just wanted to get better at playing music and listen to all the new music and play it.” In addition to the recently completed 11 songs on Pop-Sided, Belew says he has another 19 songs written and ready to record, one of which is titled “70 going on 17.” “That was really the original premise for the new record,” Belew says of the fact that he will turn 70 in December. “It’s just saying, ‘I might be 70 but I feel like I’m 17.’ I’m living my life the way I please and I’m

that every time you hear it, for a half an hour it’s different and the material appears in different ways in a different order. It’s interrupted by snippets and sounds… and visuals, which never come at the same time either. “It took some six years to really develop that, and in that time I was writing like a fiend but it just wasn’t going on proper records.” “You Never Know,” one of the songs Belew wrote for FLUX, is a tribute to Bowie, his longtime friend and collaborator whose 2016 death came as a surprise. The ethereal track floats by on a bed of strings, Belew’s atmospheric guitar and lyrics that relay an elegiac chorus: “I always thought I’d see you again/You can never know if or when/I always thought I’d see you again/ You never know.” Belew says his new touring band — which includes drummer Jordan Perlson, longtime Power Trio bassist Julie Slick and multi-instrumentalist Saul Zonana — will play “You Never Know” live for the first time on the current Pop-Sided tour. “I remember in 1977 I was driving up 21st Avenue South here in Nashville in my broken-down Volkswagen,” Belew says, reminiscing about how quickly and drastically his life changed more than 40 years ago, as he’d go on to join Bowie’s band. “I was as poor as a church mouse, and I turned on the radio and there was a new song by David Bowie called ‘Heroes.’ I just fell in love with it. I was just so amazed by that song. I always liked so much of

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drian Belew’s singular, oddangled career as a guitar visionary and endlessly curious musician continues with the pending release of PopSided, the Northern Kentucky native’s first solo record in a decade. As the album’s title might suggest, expect the new material to be more in line with the meticulous songcraft of his work with The Bears (which also featured Cincinnati musicians Chris Arduser, Rob Fetters and Bob Nyswonger) than the eccentric excursions of his time fronting King Crimson or as a touring guitarist with Frank Zappa and David Bowie. “Inner Revolution is probably what this record is most like,” Belew says by phone, referencing his stellar Power Pop-leaning solo album from 1992. “I would probably point to that record more than anything else because of the variety of those songs, some of which you walk away singing. I’ve been touring with my (Adrian Belew Power) Trio for over 13 years all around the world, and what I’ve learned more recently is that’s kind of where people would like me to go back to — the singer/songwriter stuff, with the interesting guitar work and interesting production, of course. “They’re Adrian Belew Pop songs — somewhere between The Bears, The Beatles, King Crimson and me.” Pop-Sided might be Belew’s first fulllength studio recording to drop since 2009’s e (a 42-minute instrumental suite), but don’t think the ever-restless singer, songwriter and prolific session guitarist has been sitting on his hands over that time. He’s toured regularly with the aforementioned Adrian Belew Power Trio, performing songs from across his versatile four-decade career, and he continued to contribute guitar parts to projects by artists like Nine Inch Nails. Belew spent a lot of time on FLUX, a fascinating iOS app that plays random snatches of his sonic creations. “It took me six years to develop and record and create all the material that’s in FLUX,” Belew says. “There’s so much in FLUX because the idea behind it was

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The beef between Slipknot and Nickelback softened somewhat since its crescendo in 2017, when Slipknot’s Corey Taylor said Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger had a “face like a foot.” But the feud nobody wanted recently took another unnecessary turn when Taylor turned his ire to Imagine Dragons, saying the hitmakers had taken the “worst band of all time” title away from Nickelback. ID frontman Dan Reynolds responded by saying such comments are just “clickbait horse shit” and a form of bullying that has added to his depression. “I don’t feel anger towards them actually, just more of a sadness that this industry embraces, even celebrates this mentality,” Reynolds said in the social media response.

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As a proverbial “troubled teen,” a bit of a shy outcast trying to figure out who I was and, more importantly at the time, developing and molding my musical tastes, Cincinnati band Red Math — and, specifically, the Alternative/Post Punk/ New Wave group’s enigmatic singer Paul Stewart — were unequivocal Rock Stars to me. According to social media posts from friends and former bandmates, Stewart died suddenly on Feb. 26 at the age of 56. (Friends say his death was related to ongoing heart problems.) The development of my musical taste for many years Paul Stewart trended toward “Alternative music,” which isn’t what it was P H OTO : FAC E B O O K called at the time, but basically encompassed Punk, Post Punk, New Wave and, as it was dubbed But my memory of Stewart — who by some back then, “College Rock.” This earlier fronted Junta, a band that featured was when that music was pretty far from future members of the more gritty and the mainstream, with a few exceptions experimental Wolverton Brothers — isn’t busting through but a decade before the tainted by any feelings of “what could “Alternative music revolution” made snarky have been.” My memories are frozen in hipsters start saying “Alternative to what?” the late ’80s, with his unique steel-guitar Cincinnati music was essential to my playing and voice — anxious, mysterious, musical evolution. In junior high, a friend romantic — soaring above a concert (who also recently passed away) turned me audience or wafting through the speakers on to The Raisins, who I held in the same in my basement bedroom. regard as other international favorites, like Stewart to me was (and, in my memory, The Police, The English Beat or The Cure. remains) the captivating enigma onstage In high school, thanks to some other with the billowing, ghostly-white outfits friends, I’d similarly become enamored and otherworldly voice. He glowed, aurally with Cincinnati Punk legends like SS-20 and visually. Stewart and Red Math and Human Zoo right around the same shape-shifted my perspective on music time I discovered the more “New Wave” and showed me that you didn’t have to be side of Cincinnati’s musical underground. in New York or L.A. or London or Paris to That scene was led by Sleep Theatre and make such enchantingly exotic sounds (or Red Math, who performed at larger venues to hear it as made by people who live in that I could actually get into in high school your own backyard). like Bogart’s, and had their music played In my world (admittedly one built on local radio outlets like 97X and WVXU around a passion and need for music), (on the Public Radio station’s crucial Stewart is a legendary figure. In his time Nightwaves new music program). on stages in the ’80s, his influence as an Paul Stewart stands out to me as the artist on kids and young adults is way more face and voice of that sound and era — the vast than he ever knew. Like many other mid- to late-’80s — of Cincinnati music. artists, he helped shape my perspective Red Math should have been huge, their on not only music and art but also identity influence felt well beyond Cincinnati, but and what it means to be free to be yourself, it was not to be. Along with the careers of even if you’re afraid because you think those aforementioned acts so important to you’re a little too weird. To leave that kind me back then (and still), the fact that Red of subtle yet deep and enduring legacy Math wasn’t more widely known was my is something for which we would all be introduction to the concept that there is grateful. no real justice in the “music biz.” Where Rest in peace, Mr. Stewart. And thank I’d assumed growing up that these big you. bands I listened to were obviously the most A musical celebration of Stewart’s talented musicians in the world, artists life — featuring artists who worked with like Red Math made me realize there is an and alongside him — is currently in the enormous underground that is chock full planning stage for later this year. of groups with just as much — if not way Contact Mike Breen: more — talent, charisma and great songs mbreen@citybeat.com as the superstars.

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Had he not died following a liver transplant in the mid-’90s, influential Irish Blues/Rock guitarist and singer Rory Gallagher would have recently turned 71. But Gallagher’s legacy and music still looms large in the Blues Rock universe, from his ’60s band Taste (which played with artists like Jimi Hendrix and Cream) to his work with Albert King and Muddy Waters through the extensive solo career that he turned down jobs with The Rolling Stones and Deep Purple to launch in the early ’70s. There are still regular celebrations and tributes to Gallagher all over the world, including the touring, lineup-rotating Band of Friends, which was formed earlier this decade by bassist Gerry McAvoy. Since its start, the musician, who had worked with Gallagher for 20 years and appeared on all 14 of his solo albums, anchored the project with another Gallagher collaborator, drummer Ted McKenna, who died in January due to complications from the routine hernia surgery he decided to undergo between tour cycles. For the band’s current tour (its third U.S. venture in less than a year), Mike Hansen will be holding down the drummer position. The trio is fronted by another relative newcomer to the fold, Blues/Roots/Rock guitarist Davy Knowles, who is now based out of Chicago but grew up on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, right between Great Britain and Ireland. (He began playing with Band of Friends last year.) Raised on a steady diet of guitar music that included Eric Clapton, Dire Straits and John Mayall, Knowles also absorbed a Celtic influence, which helped him make an even deeper connection with Gallagher.

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“Rory Gallagher understood Celtic influences, being an Irishman, and I saw that where I was growing up, too,” Knowles said in an interview with the Seattle PostIntelligencer in 2008. “We were only 50 or 60 miles off the coast of Ireland. So I had this big Celtic influence growing up. And when I heard him incorporating that into his music, that’s when I really got into it.” While definitionally a tribute to Gallagher, playing material from throughout his career, in a press release for the current U.S. tour, McAvoy stresses that Band of Friends is not a rote “tribute band.” “The interpretations of the material can be quite spontaneous and unique,” he says. “It’s not a note-for-note replica of Rory’s material or concerts from decades past, but his influence and spirit is omnipresent in everything we do.” (Mike Breen)

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In a pop-cultural landscape dominated by Twitter beef, braggadocio and neon hair dye, Vince Staples is an outlier whose sole gimmick is his total lack of gimmickry The 25-year-old MC endorses a straightedge lifestyle and scoffs at designer jeans, delivering stoic nuggets of wisdom atop genre-bending production. Staples’ pen is his strongest suit, often flashing back to his past life as a Long Island Crip while maintaining acute awareness of his current status as an influencer/role model. His latest record, FM!, masks its incisive social critique in West Coast bounce. Staples ruminates on masculinity and the cyclical nature of violence on “Relay.” On “Fun!,” he challenges his white fans to see the humanity behind the artists whose work they consume. Not once, though, do the instrumentals take a backburner. Thanks to producer Kenny Beats’ airtight percussion, FM! can be as introspective or as lit as you want it to be. Adorned with cover art that references Green Day’s Dookie, the album equally indulges Staples’ Pop and Punk sensibilities. It takes guts to make a line like “wrong hat, wrong day, I’ll kill my brother” transition seamlessly into a Ty Dolla $ign chorus about chilling on the beach. But in this case, the gamble pays off. True to its name, FM! plays like a half-hour of your favorite radio station, stitching jarring mood shifts together with bombastic voiceovers and ninth-caller contests. “I had a few songs — they sounded cohesive but not similar,” Staples said in a 2018 interview with BigBoyTV. “So I thought we should make it like the Big Boy in the Morning radio shows, with, like, skits and commercials.” Appropriately, he also runs his social media accounts like a radio DJ of sorts, peppering his Twitter feed with a treasure trove of one-liners. Why did the Old Testament forbid wearing clothes woven of two materials? “They was scared of the

Dr. Dog sounds like a character name that Jim Henson would have devised for one of his wild creations on Sesame Street or The Muppet Show, although he already had Dr. Teeth, so it would have been Vice Admiral Dog or High Lord Chancellor Dog. At any rate, Dog MD is celebrating a couple of career events on its current tour; the nearly-one-year anniversary of its latest album, Critical Equation, and the 20-year anniversary of the Neo Psych/Folk/Indie Rock band’s formation. Dr. Dog was borne of the friendship of singer/bassist Toby Leaman and singer/ guitarist Scott McMicken, who met in eighth grade in their hometown, Newark, Delaware. Not content to play covers, Leaman and McMicken began writing original music as teenagers, which ultimately led to their first college band, Racoon. Dr. Dog coalesced in 1999 and self-recorded its first album, 2001’s The Psychedelic Swamp, which the Philadelphia-based band rerecorded for an official 2016 release. Dr. Dog’s acknowledged debut album, 2002’s Toothbrush, ultimately led to tours with My Morning Jacket and a contract with renowned indie label Park the Van. After more Park the Van releases, including 2007’s We All Belong and 2008’s Fate, the band signed with Epitaph imprint AntiRecords and recorded Shame, Shame. From the beginning, Dr. Dog had amassed the majority of its fan base through constant roadwork coupled with skillful use of the blossoming internet, which was exponentially increased with Anti-’s distribution. With the conclusion of their Anti- contract, Dr. Dog decided to pursue the freedom of its early self-releasing days and formed the We Buy Gold label, with distribution through established indie Thirty Tigers. Its first release was the initially-shelved Abandoned Mansion, which was posted on Bandcamp as a fundraiser for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Last year saw the release of Critical Equation, a dark and dense culmination of the band’s musical and personal histories. You know you can trust Dr. Dog with your entertainment dollar because it’s right there in the name; man’s best friend with a doctorate. (Brian Baker)

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Rock. $22, $25 day of show.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Philip Paul Trio. 7:30 p.m. Jazz. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB - 49 Winchester. 10 p.m. Appalachian Soul. Cover.

BLIND LEMON - Tom Roll. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

BLIND LEMON - Mark Macomber. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Todd Hepburn. 7 p.m. Piano/Various. Free.

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

THE GREENWICH Brandon Coleman Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. $5. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Phil DeGreg Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

KNOTTY PINE - Dallas Moore and Lucky Chucky. 10 p.m. Country. Free. THE MAD FROG - Hip Hop Open Mic. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. MANSION HILL TAVERN Losing Lucky. 2 p.m. Roots. Free. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Dave Hawkins and Peg Buchanan. 7 p.m. Celtic/ Folk. Free. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) - Ky Myle with Twig&Leaf. 9 p.m. Roots/Blues/Country/Rock. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys. 8 p.m. Roots/Country. $12, $15 day of show.

STANLEY’S PUB Bob Weir After Party with Terrapin Moon. 10 p.m. Grateful Dead Tribute. Cover.

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

BLIND LEMON - James Knight (9 p.m.); Ed Oxley (6 p.m.). 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Wayne Yeager Trio with Pam Mallory. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free.

BLUE NOTE HARRISON - Greater Cincinnati Band Challenge with Absent Soul, Chaos Ritual, Heathen Saints, Michelle Robinson Band, Reid Telando and Roadkill Dewey. 7:30 p.m. Various. $10.

KNOTTY PINE - Kenny Cowden. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. LUCIUS Q - Ricky Nye and Chris Douglas. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

MEMORIAL HALL The Hackensaw Boys and Buffalo Wabs & The Price Hill Hustle. 8 p.m. Roots/Americana

BOGART’S - Vince Staples with JPEGMAFIA. 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $35.

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

MADISON THEATER Dr. Dog with The Nude Party. 8 p.m. Alt/Psych/ Rock/Various. $25.

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MANSION HILL TAVERN - Tickled Pink. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover. MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Over Easy. 9 p.m. Soft Rock. Free.

MOTR PUB - Leggy (album release show) with Heaven Honey and Fruit LoOops. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

STANLEY’S PUB - Dead Humor, Ocean City and Seth Canan & the Carriers. 10 p.m. Indie/Pop. Cover.

TOP CATS - Speed Walton (album release party). 9 p.m. Hip Hop. $20-$40.

URBAN ARTIFACT Vehicle. 7 p.m. Rock. Free.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Lisak and Rowe. 7:30 p.m. Roots. Free.

WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Chris Barrick. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

THE COMET - Lung, Wintermute, Okapi and Bi. 10 p.m. Indie/Rock/Various. Free.

RADISSON CINCINNATI RIVERFRONT - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. R&B/Funk/ Soul.

COMMON ROOTS - Sarah Asher and Nick Keeling. 8 p.m. Alt/Pop/Various. $5.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Ben Levin and The Heaters. 8 p.m. Blues. Free.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Open Mic. 7 p.m. Various. Free.

THE GREENWICH - Just Friends Friday with Kathy Wade featuring Jordan Pollard Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10.

THE REDMOOR - Leroy Ellington’s Sacred Hearts and Johnny Fink & The Intrusion. 8 p.m. Blues. $10, $15 day of show.

MOLLY MALONE’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT Missy Werner Band. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. MOTR PUB - Dentist with Lashes. 10 p.m. Indie Pop/ Rock. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - King Serpent with The Shivers and Madqueen. 9 p.m. Rock. Free.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB - Brandon & Carlos Double Jazz Guitar Experience. 8 p.m. Jazz. Cover. SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Alex Williams with Craig Gerdes. 8 p.m. Country/Rock. $10.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Band of Friends: A Celebration of Rory Gallagher featuring Davy Knowles, Gerry McAvoy & Ted McKenna. 9 p.m. Blues/

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Triage. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Ricky Nye Inc. with Bekah Williams. 9 p.m. Jazz/Blues. Free. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - The Sly Band. 9 p.m. Pop/Dance/Various. $5. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Kevin McCoy Band. 9 p.m. Country. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Bad Habit. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. LUDLOW GARAGE Rumours. 8:30 p.m. Fleetwood Mac Tribute. $20-$35.

RICK’S TAVERN - Under The Sun. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. SCHWARTZ’S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB - Bill Radin with Don Aren & Chris Arduser. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Left Lane Cruiser with Dead Man String Band. 8 p.m. Roots/Rock. $10, $12 day of show.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - The Wooks with Old Salt Union. 9 p.m. Americana/ Jam/Various. $12, $15 day of show.

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BLIND LEMON - Sal and Joya (9 p.m.); Evan Uveges (6 p.m.). 6 p.m. Acoustic/ Various. Free. BLUE NOTE HARRISON - The Rock Show. 7:30 p.m. Journey Tribute. $10-$15.

Trio. 7 p.m. Blues/Rock/ Americana/Various. THE GREENWICH - Greg Abate Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Brad Myers/Chris Barrick Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - My Sister Sarah. 9 p.m. Pop/Rock/Various. $5. JIM AND JACK’S ON THE RIVER - Gen X Band. 9 p.m. Rock/Country/Various. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Bad Habit. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

LUDLOW GARAGE Adrian Belew. 8:30 p.m. Rock/Pop. Sold out.

THE MAD FROG - Heart Means More with Electric Son and Hanover. 9 p.m. Rock. $5.

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

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Marc Fields Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Chuck Brisbin & the Tuna Project. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

THE COMET - Basement Reggae Night with Queen City Imperial Soundsystem. 10 p.m. Reggae/DJ. Free.

MARTY’S HOPS & VINES - Kick the Blue Drum. 9 p.m. Bluegrass/Rock. Free.

COMMON ROOTS - Ma Crow & Company. 8 p.m. Bluegrass. $5. FOLEY’S IRISH PUB - Acoustic Pete Blues

MADISON LIVE - Random Rab and Bluetech. 9 p.m. Electronic. $22, $25 day of show.

MOTR PUB - Ruby Vileos with Boxcar Suite. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free. NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB - The Cowboys, The Virginia Creepers and Neuf Zero. 9 p.m. Rock/Various.

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

20TH CENTURY THEATER - Forever Diamond. 8 p.m. Neil Diamond Tribute. $15.

MADISON LIVE - Consider the Source with Strange Mechanics. 9 p.m. Progressive Sci-Fi Middle Eastern Fusion. $10, $12 day of show.

URBAN ARTIFACT Drop The Sun’s All You Need Is Love with Nick Federinko, Leopold the Ghost and Nick Heffron. 8 p.m. Rock/Pop/Beatles/ Various.

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THE COMET - Summer Like the Season, Maggy, J Borroughs and Eva. 10 p.m. Indie Pop. Free.

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TAFT THEATRE Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. 7 p.m. Rock/Various. $49.50-$78.50.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Voyager Jazz Septet. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.

URBAN ARTIFACT Darlene, Justin Payne & Co and Static Falls. 9 p.m. Indie Rock.

THE MAD FROG - PhaseOne. 9 p.m. EDM. $20, $25 day of show.

PUZZLE $5. PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Blue Rock. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass/ Rock. Free. THE REDMOOR - Soul Pocket. 9 p.m. Soul/R&B/ Pop/Dance. $10. REDWINE & CO. - Red Idle Rejects Duo. 8 p.m. Rock. Free. RICKâ€™S TAVERN - LDNL. 10 p.m. Pop/Dance. Cover. SCHWARTZâ€™S POINT JAZZ & ACOUSTIC CLUB - JJ Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

SHAKE IT RECORDS - Soul Step Records Night with This Pine Box, Young Heirlooms, Audley and Krystal Peterson & The Queen City Band. 7 p.m. Rock/Folk/Soul/Hip Hop/ Various. Free. SHORTYâ€™S SUGARTIT KENTUCKY PUB - Saving Stimpy. 9 p.m. Acoustic Rock. Free.

SILVERTON CAFE - Basic Truth. 9 p.m. R&B/Soul/ Funk. Free.

STANLEYâ€™S PUB deFrance. 10 p.m. Southern Rock/Blues. Cover. TIN ROOF CINCINNATI - Kyle Daniel (8 p.m.); Crawford & Power (6 p.m.). 6 p.m. Country/Roots. Free.

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THE SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL Rock Nâ€™ Revival For A Cure featuring The Grove, Lemon Sky, See You in The Funnies, Triiibe, Noah Smith, The Cliftones, Freak Mythology, Sundae Drives, The Midwestern, The Vims, 90â€™s Kids, Go Go Buffalo, Physco, Brother Smith, Smoke Parade, The Summit, This Pine Box, Kaitlyn Peace and more. 2 p.m. Various. $10, $15 day of show (benefiting the John Forsthoefel for Glioblastoma Research Fund).

TOP CATS - Every Villain is Lemons, Spacepark and Anna Applegate. 9 p.m. Funk/Jazz/Rock/Fusion/ Various. $5.

URBAN ARTIFACT Baoku Moses (album release show). 7 p.m. World/African. WASHINGTON PLATFORM - Jim Connerly Trio. 9 p.m. Jazz. $10 (food/drink minimum).

WIEDEMANN BREWERY AND TAPROOM - Kyla Mainous. 8 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter.

SUNDAY 10

BLIND LEMON - Jeff Henry. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

THE COMET - The Comet Bluegrass All-Stars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Mike Darrah. 10:30 a.m. Jazz. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Randy Peak. 10 p.m. Acoustic/ Various. Free. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Jam with Deb Ohlinger. 6 p.m. Blues. MOTR PUB - Haneef Smart. 9 p.m. Jazz/Various. Free.

Band. 8 p.m. Jazz. $5 or two canned goods. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Peter Gemus Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Open Mic. 9 p.m. Various. Free. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Acoustic Jam with John Redell & Friends. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free. MOLLY MALONEâ€™S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT Open Bluegrass Jam. 8 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. MOTR PUB - Beams with Soften and Blossom Hall. 9 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

STANLEYâ€™S PUB - Jazz Jam. 9 p.m. Jazz/Improv. Free.

TUESDAY 12

BLIND LEMON - Nick Tuttle. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free. BOGARTâ€™S - Queensryche with Fates Warning. 8 p.m. Prog/Metal. $25.

CAFFĂˆ VIVACE - Pam Mallory & Wayne Yeager. 7:30 p.m. Jazz.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Remo Drive with Fredo Disco and Pierre. 8 p.m. AltRock. $15, $18 day of show.

STANLEYâ€™S PUB - Open Jam. 9 p.m. Improv/Various. Free.

CROWâ€™S NEST - Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

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