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Supreme Court Rules Courts Shouldn’t Intervene in Gerrymandering The 5-4 ruling leaves congressional redistricting questions to the states and means Ohio’s districts — declared unconstitutional by lower courts — will stay until 2022 BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

Ohio’s Congressional Districts O H I O S E C R E TA R Y O F S TAT E

congressional districts are drawn so that races in them aren’t competitive, groups challenging the map say. Instead, large numbers of reliably conservative voters are concentrated in districts like Ohio’s 1st Congressional District, which encompasses the west side of Hamilton County and deep-red Warren County. U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot has held that district since the 1990s, save a brief exception in 2009 when Democrat Steve Driehaus defeated him for a single term just before the districts were redivided. The federal judges tore into that district and others like it, stating that “the plausible explanation for District 1’s CONTINUES ON PAGE 07

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another election using the map. The judges ordered state lawmakers to submit a new one by June 14. The Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Ohio League of Women Voters, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups brought the lawsuit challenging Ohio’s 2012 congressional redistricting. Ohio’s current congressional map was drawn by a Republican-controlled panel in a Columbus hotel room in December 2011. From 2012 to 2016, Republicans in Ohio won 56 percent of the state’s votes for U.S. House candidates. But they netted 75 percent of Ohio’s seats in the House. In 2018, that pattern repeated, with Democrats getting only four of the state’s 16 seats. That’s because many of the state’s

Elena Kagan, issued a blistering dissent calling the decision “tragically wrong.” “Is that how American democracy is supposed to work? I have yet to meet the person who thinks so,” Kagan wrote for the dissenting justices after recounting the extreme gerrymandering in both North Carolina and Maryland. “Election day — next year, and two years later, and two years after that — is what links the people to their representatives, and gives the people their sovereign power. That day is the foundation of democratic governance. And partisan gerrymandering can make it meaningless. At its most extreme — as in North Carolina and Maryland — the practice amounts to ‘rigging elections.’ “ That was the conclusion a panel of three federal judges reached May 3, when they unanimously ruled that Ohio’s congressional map is unconstitutional. The ruling found that mapmakers manipulated congressional districts to benefit the Republican Party, a violation of voters’ constitutional right to choose their elected representatives. Under their ruling, Ohio wouldn’t have been permitted to hold

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ederal judges ruled earlier this year that Ohio’s congressional districts were unfairly skewed to elect Republicans. But the state’s districts won’t be changing ahead of the 2020 presidential election. On June 27, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that federal courts have no business deciding issues around congressional redistricting, leaving battles about gerrymandering to state lawmakers. The ruling on cases in North Carolina and Maryland means that Ohio’s current congressional districts will stay until 2022, despite a lower court’s decision that struck them down as unconstitutional because they provide an advantage to Republicans. The lower federal court ordered Ohio to begin redistricting immediately ahead of the 2020 elections. The state of Ohio appealed that decision, meaning that the pending redistricting here hinged on the Supreme Court’s decision. Ohio will redistrict again in 2022 under a new process approved by voters when they passed state Issue 1 last year. In the decision, a majority of Supreme Court justices — all nominated by Republican presidents — argued that the high court wading into the issue would set a troubling precedent. “What the appellees and dissent seek is an unprecedented expansion of judicial power,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority decision. “We have never struck down a partisan gerrymander as unconstitutional — despite various requests over the past 45 years… Consideration of the impact of today’s ruling on democratic principles cannot ignore the effect of the unelected and politically unaccountable branch of the Federal Government assuming such an extraordinary and unprecedented role.” Republicans have applauded the ruling, while Democrats generally have blasted the decision. The four dissenting judges, led by Justice

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Ohioan Gets Life Sentence for Killing at White Nationalist Rally BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L

A federal judge June 29 sentenced 22-yearold Greater Cincinnati native James Alex Fields Jr. to life in prison for driving his car into a group of anti-racism protesters at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, killing protester Heather Heyer and injuring 30 others. Federal prosecutors sought the life sentence for the federal hate crimes charges, saying Fields acted out of hatred, but Fields’ attorneys asked for more leniency, saying he suffers from mental illness and experienced trauma in his youth. “No amount of punishment imposed on James can repair the damage he caused to dozens of innocent people,” his attorneys write. “But this Court should find that retribution has limits.” Fields grew up in Northern Kentucky and lived in Maumee, Ohio at the time of the rally. He drove to the event hosted by white nationalist groups to protest the removal of a statue honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee. While there, he drove his car into a group of counterprotesters, killing Heyer and injuring many others. Fields in March agreed to a plea deal on 29 federal hate crimes charges.

In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty. He also faces sentencing on murder and other charges in the state of Virginia. Sentencing for those charges should take place July 15. A jury in the state case has recommended Fields spend life plus 419 years in prison for those crimes. His attorneys James Alex Fields Jr. say Fields was diagPHOTO: ALBEMARLE- CHARLOT TESVILLE REGIONAL JAIL nosed as bipolar early in his life and was later diagFields attended recalled his keen interest nosed with schizoid personality disorder. in Nazism to news media following his Fields had a tumultuous adolescence. alleged acts at the Unite the Right rally. His mother called 911 multiple times Prosecutors argued that giving Fields when Fields lived with her in Florence to the maximum sentence will help discourreport his threats of violence against her. age similar acts of domestic terrorism. Teachers and fellow students at schools

Cincinnati City Hall Text Saga Triggers Lawsuit BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L Two anonymous Hamilton County Democrats are suing the City of Cincinnati, the company it contracted to extract texts from elected officials’ phones and the attorney who sued to obtain those texts, claiming the release of the messages violated their constitutional rights.

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The results of the suit could help settle a vexing question: Which communications sent by public officials are public record?

In the lawsuit filed June 24 in U.S. District Court, the two unnamed Hamilton County residents say they corresponded with some of the five members of Cincinnati City Council caught up in a complex controversy originally stemming from the attempted ouster of Cincinnati City Manager Harry Black by Mayor John Cranley last year. But that correspondence wasn’t about city business, the plaintiffs say, and the collection of those messages about social plans, political organizing and other items unrelated to official city business is a violation of their civil rights. After council members Tamaya Dennard, Greg Landsman, Chris Seelbach, P.G. Sittenfeld and Wendell Young released a joint statement protesting Black’s

impending firing, conservative activist Mark Miller and his attorney Brian Shrive filed public records requests and a lawsuit in April last year, saying that texting among the five amounted to open meetings violations. The city released some of those texts among the five council members last year. After Hamilton County Judge Robert Ruehlman ruled in favor of Miller and Shrive, the city paid $101,000 in legal fees and penalties and over time released more than 600 pages of text messages among and between the five council members, Cranley, Black and politically involved private citizens, including former Cincinnati Mayor Dwight Tillery and others. According to the suit, Binary Intelligence — a digital investigation company — copied the entire contents of council members’ private cell phones generated between January and October of 2018. It is unclear who filed the lawsuit. The plaintiffs have asked Judge Michael Barrett to keep their identities secret to protect their privacy. The suit alleges that the collection of the text messages, ordered by the city after

requests from Shrive and carried out by Binary Intelligence, violates the plaintiffs’ First Amendment free speech rights, their Fourth Amendment protections from search and seizure without a warrant and their Fourteenth Amendment due process rights. The lawsuit also alleges that Shrive unlawfully released the texts to media outlets. “The City had no probable cause to believe that John Doe 1, John Doe 2, and the class’s communication with the council members constituted a crime or was evidence of any crime,” the lawsuit filed by attorney Jennifer Kinsley states. “As such, the City had no basis for seizing the communication and has no basis for continuing to maintain and review it.” The lawsuit is seeking monetary damages as well as a court order preventing any party from holding on to, reading or sharing any messages involving the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs have also requested that Barrett allow the suit class-action status, which could open it up to any other member of the public who corresponded with the five council members during the period in question.

New Measures Aim to Protect City of Cincinnati Workers BY N I C K SWA R T S EL L Following the death of a city worker on the job, Cincinnati City Council June 25 unanimously passed a motion asking the city to collect data about worker safety. Leroy Garrison Jr. was working alone in a city bucket truck in Mount Airy installing a police security camera when he was electrocuted June 17. He died at the scene. A week after his death, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) said that the preliminary findings of a state investigation show significant safety issues within the city’s Department of Public Services. That investigation, conducted by the Ohio Public Employee Risk Reduction Program, is ongoing. “There is no question Mr. Garrison should still be with us right now,” said Cincinnati City Council member P.G. Sittenfeld, who introduced the motion. “Obviously this is a set of immediate steps meant to be a response to a tragedy that occurred. More will be forthcoming.” The measure asks the city to establish a worker safety task force, and to collect and provide data that compares workplace fatalities among City of Cincinnati employees to its peer cities over five- and 10-year periods. The motion also asks the city to provide weekly updates on safety upgrades in city departments, especially the city’s Department of Public Services and to share findings from any internal probes and the state’s investigation as they present themselves. Finally, the motion asks that nonemergency electrical work not be performed without council approval and seeks assurances that city employees have the appropriate safety equipment. “Our employees are extremely important to us, and this tragic death is something we need to prevent in the future,” AFSCME Local 240 President Christopher McDonald said, noting the union supported the measure. Garrison’s funeral was June 25. He was 48 years old. Cincinnati City Manager Patrick Duhaney issued a memo following CONTINUES ON PAGE 07

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configuration was the predominant desire to crack Democratic votes in Cincinnati, a cohesive center that would likely have elected a Democratic representative.” Overall, the map shows intent to draw districts for political gains, the judges said. “In this case, the bottom line is that the dominant party in state government manipulated district lines in an attempt to control electoral outcomes and thus direct the political ideology of the state’s congressional delegation,” the judges’ ruling reads. According to the lower court’s ruling, many of the districts are drawn — sometimes with wildly convoluted shapes — so as to divide up major population centers like Cincinnati, which have more liberal and minority voters. Heavily-urban Cuyahoga County in Cleveland, for example, is split four ways, each small section mixed with much more conservative suburban and rural areas. That division devalues the votes of urban communities, including predominantly minority ones, critics say. Ohio Legislative Black Caucus President State Rep. Stephanie Howse said the caucus is “extremely disappointed” in the Supreme Court’s ruling. “Despite the past achievements in seeking equality at the ballot box, we continue to see communities targeted and muted for political gain,” she wrote

in a statement. “The right to vote should never be marginalized as it is sacred to our nation’s democracy and promise. Ohioans made their clamor for change to our electoral maps known when they voted to pass Issue 1 in May 2018. The Supreme Court has failed the people with this ruling in setting a precedent that allows our democracy to be corrupted and hinders the people’s right to have fair elections.” The Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t mean partisan gerrymandering in places like Ohio isn’t an issue, the court said, but it is one that state lawmakers and voters should handle. “Our conclusion does not condone excessive partisan gerrymandering,” the decision says. “Nor does our conclusion condemn complaints about districting to echo into a void. The States, for example, are actively addressing the issue on a number of fronts.” Currently, the party controlling Ohio’s General Assembly and governor’s office has almost complete control over how congressional districts are drawn every 10 years. The current map was drawn up in 2011 mostly in a hotel room in Columbus rented for $9,600 in taxpayer money by staffers for Republican state legislators. Two of those two staffers, Ray DiRossi and Heather Mann, were each paid $105,000

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as contractors for their work drawing the maps. The group working on the redistricting project called the hotel room “the bunker.” Correspondence between those working on the map and others within the GOP shows that, among other changes, mapmakers redrew boundaries to include now-Ohio GOP Chair Jane Timken’s headquarters in Canton in U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci’s district. At the time, Timken was the vice chair of the Stark County GOP and a major Renacci donor. The request for that change and others came from the office of then U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, who, according to the correspondence, had final say over the map. But in May last year, Ohio voters approved Issue 1, which seeks to reform the redistricting process. Under the reforms, legislatures will still draw the maps, but at least half of Democrats and half of Republicans in the legislature will have to approve the maps. If they can’t agree, a seven-member, bipartisan lawmaker commission will take over the redistricting, with at least two votes from members of each party needed to approve a map. If that also fails, the legislature can then draw a map without any restrictions — but it will be good for only four years, not 10.

council’s vote outlining steps the city has already taken, including suspending non-emergency electrical work until safety evaluations are complete. City workers will also take electrical safety classes July 10 and will get new safety equipment in the near future. Garrison’s funeral “served as a stark reminder of the importance of our evaluation of the Traffic Service Bureau that we are currently undertaking,” Duhaney wrote. “This weeks-long review will consist of an overall evaluation of general policies, procedures and safety standards utilized by the bureau and culminate in a path forward that allows us to ensure best practices are being utilized.” “A crucial part of this evaluation process will be ensuring it is as transparent as possible,” the memo continues. “I have made a promise to the Garrison family, as well each of you, that this process will not only be comprehensive but also done in the public eye. As I’ve mentioned previously, a major component of this process will include regular updates to you, as well as the public, on the status of our investigation.”

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Cincinnatiâ€™s 23 reader-voted best burger joints (Plus some staff favorites)

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amburgers tend to adhere to a tried-and-true culinary equation. At the nucleus of a burger is a ground-beef patty (or two), topped with assorted accoutrements — lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese, pickles, bacon, over-easy eggs, etc. — sandwiched between either side of a bun. If a burger isn’t made with beef, it typically boasts a modifier like “turkey” or “veggie” (not sure what happens if you have a “ham” burger) and if it isn’t in a bun, restaurants will generally use a phrase like “bun-less” or “low-carb” to describe the burger’s condition. But within those parameters, building a burger is a bit like shopping for toothpaste. An almost overwhelming amount of variations on the same general concept can be achieved by substituting slightly different ingredients — switch up the sauce and cheese combo from a standard squirt of ketchup and slice of American and you get an entirely different flavor profile. And each restaurant that puts a burger on its menu seems to want to excel at either a damn good basic or to push the limits of our understanding of the meat sandwich to extremes, trying to achieve ultimate flavor artistry (or ~insanity~). With that in mind, this Burger Issue tips its hat to local restaurants that have captured the hearts and stomachs of the people, featuring the best burger joints as voted by CityBeat readers in the 2019 Best Of Cincinnati issue. It also includes our readers’ favorite top 10 veggie burgers and top neighborhood-specific burger spots, as well as a handful of staff picks sprinkled in (because we just can’t keep our opinions to ourselves).

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Open since 1926, Zip's Cafe is an East Side institution. And the café’s claim to fame — besides the little toy train that runs along the ceiling — is having some of the best burgers in town: fresh, flame-broiled Avril-Bleh beef patties (sourced locally every day), served on a honeyegg bun. The fan-favorite Girth burger — named by former Bengal punter Pat McInally — features a classic Zip burger topped with a split, grilled Avril-Bleh mettwurst. If that isn’t enough, opt for the Train Wreck, a step up from the Girth with the addition of shaved ham and three types of cheese. With worn wood flooring and dark wood paneling, the small space is separated into a dining area and a bar by a saloon-style door. Zip’s owner Mike Burke says that years ago, the bar area or “code room” was where customers placed illegal bets on horse races. The code was that “if the blinds are open, the books are open.” Today, head to the code room to grab a local beer on draft while you wait for space at a booth or a seat at one of the shared family-style tables. Also voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (East Side).

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3 516 E d wa r d s R o a d , H y d e Pa r k ; 8 2 21 B e e c h m o n t Av e . , A n d e r s o n , a r t h u r s c i n c i n n at i . c o m Arthur’s is a relaxed gathering place on Hyde Park Square that prides itself on serving local brews on tap. The menu includes salads, soups, sandwiches and — their specialty — burgers with deals on toppings during “burger madness” days. For less than $10 on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, top an original Arthur’s burger (a half-pound of seasoned lean meat), a Sally burger (five ounces of lean ground beef), a housemade vegan black bean burger or a turkey burger with whatever the hell you want for no extra charge — well, with two caveats: you must limit yourself to six cheeses (you monster) and gourmet toppings (fried egg, avocado, boursin, et al) are excluded from the deal. If you’re smart, you’ll ask for a side of pink salsa (salsa, sour cream and a splash of mayo) to dip your fries. If you’re even smarter, you’ll start with an order of fried cheese. These aren’t your typical frozen mozzarella sticks: gigantic chunks of provolone cheese are beer-battered, fried to order and come to the table with a flaky crust. Arthur’s, originally opened on the square in 1947, opened a second location in Anderson Township in 2014. Also voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (East Side).

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Nation Kitchen and Bar might not agree with the anti-booze ideology of its namesake, the axe-wielding teetotaler Carrie Nation, but it has embraced her love of hatchets. The restaurant offers a new burger every month called “The Bit,” named after the part of the axe that makes the most impact. Past versions have included a pizza burger and one that made it onto the permanent menu as The Nation burger, featuring a brisket patty, smoked cheddar, whiskey barbecue sauce, onion straws and horseradish aioli. For every Bit Burger sold, $1 goes to a local charity. “We knew we wanted to do something to give back,” says General Manager Brittany Pyles. “We’re always focused on the community because we were the first restaurant (in Pendleton).” What makes all of Nation’s burgers stand out is their locally sourced Sixteen Bricks buns and Avril-Bleh meat — each burger consists of two three-and-a-half-ounce patties instead of a single large “hocky puck” patty, which Pyles says improves the structure and texture of the sandwich. If the burgers don’t do the trick, you can also try one of “The Others,” such as a fried bologna sandwich. Also voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (Downtown/OTR).

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Giant glowing chuck wagon sign? Check. The same classic Roy Rogers menu? Check. Nothing much has changed except the location for this nostalgia-inducing Cincinnati favorite. Opened in 1969 in Union Township as part of the Roy Rogers chain of fast food eateries, Roney’s (as the restaurant came to be called after Roy’s dissolved) shuttered its original location in 2012 only to reopen in Milford in 2015 with the same food and same neon marquee. Well known for its fried chicken and roast beef, Roney’s also serves cult favorite burgers including the Lucky R Burger (formerly known as the Double R Burger): a quarter pound of beef topped with American cheese and a slice of ham on a sesame seed bun. Head to the “fixins bar” to add your own lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion and condiments. Fun fact: Roy Rogers, king of the cowboy actors, was born Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati in 1911, which makes this local connection all the more sentimental.

So, you like burgers but do you really love burgers? Located in a former chili parlor in Latonia, Bard’s specializes in both burgers and Cincinnati-style chili (hence the name). Burgers are made with fresh, never-frozen ground chuck, infused with spices, seared on a flattop and served on a toasted bun. Their Chili Cheese Burger is made with their own Cincinnati-style chili and topped with American cheese, lettuce, pickle and mayo; the Purist strips it down to just beef and the bun; and the Donut Burger comes topped with American cheese, lettuce, pickle and mayo on a donut bun from neighboring Moonrise Doughnuts (add bacon and make it a 5.0 Burger). But if you want to go big, like really big — and we’re not just talking deep-fried Twinkie big (also on the menu) — Bard’s offers the Bardzilla Challenge. For this food feat, diners must eat an 11-patty Bardzilla burger (each topped with cheese and weighing in at one-third of a pound), plus two pounds of fries in 60 minutes or less. Also voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (NKY).

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This no-frills grill has been serving Norwood patrons since 1966, when it was founded by high school buddies Albert “Albo” Imm and Ken Talmage. Their half-pound burgers are the epitome of simple: no special spice mix, standard 80:20 meat to fat ratio, served with lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle on a plain old paper plate. Current owner Matt Imm says what makes them stand out is the fresh, local ingredients (everything but the tomatoes and lettuce are purchased from Cincinnati companies). Fans of the burger especially love dining on Monday, Thursday and Saturday, when $8 will get you a cheeseburger, fries or onion rings and a soda or draft beer. It’s hard to go wrong with that, but if you want to change it up, Quatman’s also sells some grub you don’t find very often — fancy a bowl of mock turtle soup? Quatman’s also has a second location in Mason. Also voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (Central) and (Burbs).

A friendly neighborhood dive that might be Pleasant Ridge’s worst-kept secret, the Gas Light Cafe’s unassuming exterior belies its excellent burger reputation. Celtic green paint and a hammered tin ceiling create a cozy atmosphere in which to enjoy a well-seasoned, straightforward cheeseburger and a local beer on draft. The Gas Light Burger features a quarter pound patty topped with a slice of American cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle and mayo. It’s basic and comforting — the Platonic ideal of a Burger. Burgers are typically served with chips but get the fries: they’re crinkle cut.

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Krueger’s Tavern is part of the rapidly expanding Thunderdome empire, which also owns Maplewood, Bakersfield, Currito and The Eagle. And Krueger’s has one of the best and most inventive veggie burgers — possibly ever. The housemade patty is a blend of beets, breadcrumbs and other binding ingredients, all mushed together into a sort of disc, then dropped in a fryer. Deep frying anything is a good idea, especially vegetables, and this is no exception; the end result is falafel-like in texture. The burger is crispy on the outside and super flavorful on the inside, with a nice reddish hue. Topped with melty provolone cheese, pesto mayo, mixed greens and housemade pickles on a challah bun, it’s got substance, tang and crunch. If you aren’t here for the veggies, Krueger’s also accommodates meat-eaters with house-ground, hand-packed burgers. The Chicago Burger upends convention by replacing a hot dog with two burger patties, topped with tomatoes, relish, onions, sport peppers, mustard and celery salt on a challah bun. No ketchup! Also voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (Downtown/OTR).

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2. TICKLE PICKLE

417 6 H a m i lt o n Av e . , N o r t h s i d e , t i c k l e p i c k l e n o r t h s i d e . c o m Earth-conscious, locally sourced Rock & Roll burgers are exactly the kind of thing one would expect to find in Northside. And Tickle Pickle happens to serve just that. Patrons order their Rock-themed burgers — like the Nom Petty (a beef patty with mushrooms, Swiss cheese and mayo) and Meatallica (a beef sandwich with mayo, American cheese, bacon and egg with the option to add goetta) — from the counter and then take a seat. Vegetarians have two burger options on the menu, the Buns N Roses (a housemade vegan black bean burger on a vegan bun topped with ketchup, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle) and When Buns Cry (a mushroom cap topped with balsamic, spinach, tomato and caramelized onion on a pretzel bun). Tickle Pickle also happens to be one of the local spots where you can grab an uber-popular plant-based Impossible Burger… when there isn’t a shortage. Also voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (Central).

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6. FLIPDADDY’S

Maplewood serves up dishes and ingredients that would be right at home on the West Coast: cold-pressed juices, superfood salads, egg-white omelets and somewhat nutritious cocktails, like the roasted tomatillo bloody mary. Made with Tito’s vodka, house tomatillo bloody mary mix and cold-pressed Super Greens juice (kale, celery, spinach, romaine and pineapple), it’s topped off by a purple cabbage accouterment. Helmed by Thunderdome, the same team behind the No. 1 veggie burger at Krueger’s, the Maplewood veggie burger offers a different, non-fried take on a meatless sandwich. A housemade black-bean veggie patty is topped with havarti cheese, avocado, lemon-caper dijonnaise and mixed greens on a Sixteen Bricks sesame bun. The addition of havarti — a sort of buttery, nutty Danish cheese — really separates this option from the pack.

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The Sleepy Bee Café serves bee-friendly, non-GMO and local foods from head chef Frances Kroner and caters to all palates from toddlers to tipplers at their Oakley, Blue Ash and downtown locations. The breakfast-and-lunch destination does tofu scrambles, buckwheat pancakes, Moroccan chicken salad sandwiches and a clever “food for the brood” kids menu along with craft coffee and “stingers” — cocktails like a kombucha mimosa or a Hugo with sparkling wine, mint and elderflower. And while they offer plenty of meats — goetta, bacon, salmon — their novel housemade “bacon” is a treat. Try the Vegan Mushroom “Bacon” Sammy, featuring fake bacon made with mushroom, topped with cashew-garlic aioli, chimichurri and arugula.

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17 3 9 E l m S t. , O v e r -t h e- R h i n e , h a r v e s t p i z z e r i a . c o m Columbus-spawned chain Harvest Pizzeria does in fact specialize in pizza, and very good pizza at that. Harvest manages to create a ’za with a magically crunchy-yet-chewy and light-but-substantial crust with gourmet toppings like fennel sausage, almond pesto and vegan chorizo. But the menu is rounded out by yummy small plates, salads and burgers. The meat burgers are grass-fed, pasture-raised Ohio beef — all hormonefree, antiobiotic-free and non-GMO — but they also offer a veggie burger. The Harvest veggie patty is made in house with mushrooms, walnuts, basmati rice (fun!), carrots, pickles, peppers and sweet potatoes and then topped with cheddar cheese, giardiniera, iceburg lettuce, red onion and house aioli, served on a sesame bun. It’s nutty, well-textured and substantial — something different than a black bean patty. The burg comes with a side of smashed fingerling potatoes, but also try the buttermilk-fried pickles with zesty remoulade. They’re addictive.

8. ARNOLD’S BAR & GRILL

210 E . E i g h t h S t. , D o w n t o w n , a r n o l d s b a r a n d g r i l l . c o m Open since 1861, Arnold’s is the oldest continuously running tavern in town, complete with dark wood walls, vintage memorabilia and a big ol’ bathtub in the dining room, rumored to have been used to make gin during Prohibition. A Cincinnati classic, it serves up a nice range of lunch and dinner options — pasta, sandwiches and burgers, plus vegan and gluten-free options — at bargain prices. Enjoy a local draft in the outdoor beer garden and almost daily live music. Named as one of the best bars in America by Esquire magazine, they also have a large selection of bourbon. For burgers, they offer a Yo Mama Burger (seen on the Travel Channel) featuring a custom Avril-Bleh beef blend topped with American cheese, goetta, a potato cake, sunny-side-up egg and chipotle mayo. But if you don’t want to ingest several animals, the veggie burger is a solid and delicious alternative. A housemade vegan patty is topped with lettuce, avocado and chipotle mayo and served on a Sixteen Bricks bun. Also voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (Downtown/OTR).

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Owner Curtis “Bones” Bonekemper started serving burgers out of a food truck in 2011. He wanted to create a great burger from locally sourced, grass-fed beef, and did just that, winning over enough converts to open two storefronts: one in Montgomery and one in Oakley. Despite his focus on beef, however, Bones has served veggie burgers from the start. Originally supplied by Veg Head in Loveland, this patty got an upgrade a year ago when vegan manager Jason Kelly came on board. Kelly developed a rice-based patty (now gluten-free, unlike its forebearers) packed with black beans and other veggies. With all his burgers, Bones uses as many local ingredients as he can, including in-season produce from farmers he met while running his food truck at local markets. You can sub a veggie patty for any of Bones’ creations or build your own, but his most popular veggie burger draws its inspiration from further away; it’s the California Roll, with goat cheese, local microgreens and fresh avocado.

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With burgers made from ground chuck sourced daily from Bridgetown Finer Meats — and buns from Servatii Pastry Shop — this West Side burger bistro and sports bar plays on its heritage with #bestside menu names like The Panther, The Westsider and the Who-Dey Burger. While The Panther burger is not Elder High School purple, it comes as close as possible with Cajun seasoning and blue cheese crumbles. The Westsider is beautifully basic with grilled pickles and onions, two slices of American cheese, tartar sauce and lettuce. And the signature Who-Dey is a spicy tailgate in a bun with ghost pepper cheese, Cajun Sriracha sauce, lettuce, applewood smoked bacon and gouda cheese bites. Voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (West Side). 6135 Cleves Warsaw Pike, Delhi; 10533 Harrison Ave., Harrison, chandlersburgerbistro.com.

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Nestled at the intersection of Delta and Linwood avenues in Mount Lookout Square, Delwood is a family-friendly Peruvian-inspired gastropub from owner Trevor Snowden, formerly of the Thunderdome Group. Snowden comes by his Latin American inspiration honestly; his mother is Peruvian and that country’s recipes and ingredients infuse the menu with an uncommon flair. The Delwood Burger comes topped with salsa criolla (a sort of vinegary red onion and pepper mixture), avocado and Peruvian huancaina sauce made from aji Amarillo chile peppers and cream. It’s slightly spicy and served on a standard bun. For something more traditional, there’s also a double cheeseburger with cheese, pickle and special sauce. Instead of french fries, try the yuca fries or tostones (twice fried plantains) and keep an eye on the drink menu for an equally transportive experience with options running the gamut from a caipirinha and pisco sour to a paloma. 3204 Linwood Ave., Mount Lookout, delwoodcincy.com.

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Dutch’s knows burgers. The pony keg has been open since 1947, the bar since 2010 and the kitchen since 2012. And every Thursday night from 6 until 9 p.m. — or until they run out — it’s Burger Night. Each week is a different burger, but we’ll place a bet that the burger is delicious. Recent creations have included beefy burgers — featuring a meat blend sourced from Findlay Market — topped with caramelized fennel, provolone picante and ghost pepperoni and a burger topped with pickled green tomato and deviled crab. If you can’t make it Thursday, every Friday lunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., they serve up two three-ounce patties with a cheddar blend, bacon, shredded lettuce, burger sauce and their house spicy ketchup. 3378 Erie Ave., East Hyde Park, dutchs.squarespace.com.

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In the middle of Norwood on Montgomery Road sits Gordo’s, an unassuming neighborhood bar with glowing neon signs in the window and your standard dive-bar awning. But inside, this Xavier University hang kicks things up with a menu of incredibly insane burgers (and an amazing craft beer selection). Opened by a friend of chef Jean-Robert de Cavel, these half-pound burgers are deliciously clever creations boasting fever-dream ingredients. For example, there’s the Jean-Robert, a burger infused with blue cheese, then topped with more blue cheese, goat cheese, grape compote, mayo and lettuce. Or the BPJ, with fried banana, chunky peanut butter cream cheese and jam. Or the Korean, with kimchi, a fried egg, pork belly, pepper jack cheese and Sriracha mayo. Imagine a country or a flavor profile, and you can find it a Gordo’s. French? How about a burger with brie? Mexican? A giant patty topped with avocado, jalapeño, lettuce, tomato and housemade cilantro mayo will fit the bill. And what if you just want it all? Try the hangover: smoked gouda, smoked sausage, cheddar, Canadian bacon, American cheese, smoked bacon, onion strings and chipotle barbecue mayo. Bonus: Vegetarians can sub in a black bean burger for any Gordo’s creation. Voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (Central). 4328 Montgomery Road, Norwood, gordospub.com.

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Opened in 1939 as Heine’s Café, the small drop-ceilinged dining room is what some may call a “hole in the wall,” but the simple and delectable burgers are made to order and served by an incredibly friendly staff. The burgers are basic — a juicy meat patty topped with cheese, onions and pickles — and a short list of sides includes chili, soup or Husman’s chips. The joint recently added craft beer to its program of PBR, Bavarian’s and Budweiser. One note: Herb & Thelma’s is cash only, but burgers ring in at less than $5 (as does the fried bologna sandwich with cheese). 718 W. Pike St., Covington, herbandthelmas.com.

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Open for around six and half years, Incline Public House is the definition of dinner with a view. Their house-blend seasoned patties are cooked to order and the toppings make the burger as big as the customer’s head, says Kevin Geers, IPH’s bar/catering manager. The favorite burger around the neighborhood is the House Burger: black Angus ground beef, bacon, cheddar cheese, mixed greens, tomatoes and crispy onions on a brioche bun. Every Monday night is Burger Night featuring a creative burger concoction ranging from mac and cheese to breakfast. If not burgers, come for the view, which looks out to

downtown Cincinnati. From burgers to pizza to fish, the menu can be overwhelming. Geers says customers can literally close their eyes and point to the menu for inspiration. “If something looks goods, it is good,” he says. Voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (West Side). 2601 W. Eighth St., Price Hill, inclinepublichouse.com.

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Mad Mike’s certainly isn’t fancy but the burgers — made with black angus beef — are really good. These two-patty sandwiches are juicy with crispy edges and the topping options might be one reason for the “mad” adjective. Signature offerings include the Rockefeller, a blissful combination of blue cheese, tangy-sweet cranberry chutney, crispy fried onions and cilantro mayo. Or the bigger-than-your-head Hawaii-Five-O, with caramelized crushed pineapple, beer-battered onion strings, barbecue sauce, American cheese and bacon. And if you needed more food on your food, the Goliath burger comes with American cheese, bacon, grilled onions, lettuce, tomato, barbecue sauce and a half pound burger between two grilled cheese sandwiches for buns because, why not? In regards to the “fries” portion of the name, those are hand-cut daily. 194 N. Brookwood Ave., Hamilton, madmikesburgershamilton.com.

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This former George Remus speakeasy is now a cozy little pub nestled on Hatch Street in Mount Adams. Fun fact: It was the first bar in Ohio to obtain a liquor license after the repeal of Prohibition. With some kitschy flair and autographed photos of celebrities and actors from the nearby Playhouse in the Park, it’s got a neighborhood vibe, which plays well with the casual eats. The food here is easy and solid and the menu boasts multiple burger options, including the Broadcaster (a quarter pound of beef or turkey topped with grilled onions and chopped green olives between two slices of melted Swiss, served on grilled Jewish rye) and a housemade veggie burger. The veggie burger itself is a “combination of oats, tofu, wheatgerm, sesame seeds and a variety of seasonings” and tastes kind of like a Gardenburger. It comes served with lettuce, tomato, pickle, red onion, mustard and Monterey Jack cheese, and you should definitely order a side of housemade ranch dressing to dip or spread on top. 938 Hatch St., Mount Adams, mtadamsbarandgrill.com.

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A true-to-its-name pub and grill in the heart of Oakley, this drinking destination serves up comfortable and approachable bar food: good quality, not super fancy. There are nachos, quesadillas, chicken tenders, wings, handmade chili and a nice selection of burgers. Grilled premium angus chuck comes topped with any variety of options and is served on a Cubano bun with a side of waffle fries. Try the Memphis Burger, topped with housemade barbecue sauce, bacon and cheddar cheese, or the Soul Burger with jerk spices, bacon, grilled onion and American. On Wednesdays, build your own burg with five toppings for just $8.95. Voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (East Side). 3924 Isabella Ave., Oakley, oakleypubandgrill.com.

T he P ubl ic Hou se

Formerly known as The Black Sheep and featured on Spike TV’s Bar Rescue, The Public house is alive and thriving with a slew of “perfect pint pourers” certified by the Guinness brewery in Dublin. But if you aren’t here to drink a beer, try some stout on your burger. The Guinness Burger features grilled angus beef topped with Irish stout cheddar and Guinness-braised onions on a toasted bun. If you want to go a little more German, the Bah Bah Black Sheep comes topped with goetta, bacon, egg and your choice of cheese. Voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (West Side). 3807 North Bend Road, Cheviot, thepublichousecheviot.com.

S a mm y ’s Cr a f t B urger s & Beer

Opened in 2009, Sammy’s gourmet steak burger base is ground fresh daily with a blend of brisket, short rib, ball tip and tri-tip; each burger is then hand-pattied, seasoned and char-grilled to order and served on a challah bun with a side of beer-battered french fries. The Fretboard Burger comes topped with beer cheese made with Blue Ash’s Fretboard Brewing Co. beer, pancetta, a sunny-side-up egg and crumbled bacon and is served with Fretboard beer cheese fries. The Anthony Muñoz Legendary burger is a 50/50 blend of beef and chorizo topped with guac, bacon, pepper jack cheese and Mexican street corn fritters; a portion of proceeds go to the Anthony Muñoz Foundation. And if you can’t decide from the 20-plus burger options, go for the party of three to mix and match any three craft burgers. Voted one of the Top 3 Best Neighborhood Burger Spots (Burbs). 4767 Creek Road, Blue Ash, sammyscbb.com.

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Wyoming’s Phish-leaning Tela Bar & Kitchen offers highlevel pub grub in a laid-back atmosphere. Burgers start with Longdale Farm Ohio beef patties and then branch out with options like the Multibeast — a beef patty plus a chorizo patty topped with bacon jam, whipped goat cheese, bibb lettuce, roasted tomato and caramelized onion on a Sixteen Bricks challah bun. They also have a SoCal-style quinoa burger if you ain’t ‘bout that beast with alfalfa sprouts, roasted red pepper hummus and roasted tomato on a Cubano bun. 1212 Springfield Pike, Wyoming, telabarandkitchen.com.

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osted by CityBeat Events, the upcoming Cincinnati Burger Week (July 15-21) is a seven-day food frenzy featuring $5 specialty burgers at more than 75 area restaurants, bars and bakeries (they serve dessert “burgers,” not like meat donuts). The creations run the gamut from straightforward quarter pounders to veggie burgers and really wild monstrosities. This little shameless selfpromotion sidebar highlights some of the more indulgent options. Proceeds from Burger Week help benefit Childhood Food Solutions, a nonprofit that works to help kids secure access to food during school breaks. Get more info and details at cincinnatiburgerweek.com.

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South + Southwest Burger — An Angus burger is topped with housemade jalapeño jelly, Tajin-spiced pork rinds, lettuce, tomato and bourbon mayo on a toasted brioche bun. 1500 Race St., Over-the-Rhine.

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Cincy BBQ Grippo’s Burger — A half-pound burger comes topped with blue cheese dressing, Grippo’s Bar-B-Q chip crumbles (true!), lettuce, tomato and pickles. 1073 Industrial Road, Cold Spring; 2642 Dixie Highway, Lakeside Park; 8544 U.S. 42, Florence.

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Beef Brat Burger — A housemade beef bratwurst is served on a pretzel bun with pickled red cabbage, New York white cheddar, a Kaiser pickle, red onion and Brown Dog brat mustard. 1000 Summit Place, Blue Ash.

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Wasabi Burger — A beef burger comes topped with wasabi mayo, hoisin ginger sauce and sesame slaw, served on a brioche bun. 702 Indian Hill Road, Terrace Park.

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Chili Burger — Gold Star was once Hamburger Heaven, a Mount Washington hamburger joint purchased by the Daoud brothers in 1964. Since then, the menu has expanded to include Cincinnati-style chili, among other options. For Burger Week, Gold Star is highlighting their burgers, but you can get both specialties on the Chili Burger: two beef patties topped with Gold Star chili, Fritos, diced onions, mustard and cheddar cheese. 24 locations including 504 W. Fourth St., Covington.

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Dutch Lion Burger — Locally sourced beef comes topped with bacon, a slice of gouda, an additional gouda wedge (lots-o-gouda), spicy orange mayo, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle. 433 Johnson St.,

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The Fat Boy — A burger topped with American cheese, fried oysters, tartar sauce, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle on a toasted sesame seed bun. Washington Platform also has a fancy vegetarian option: a housemade vegan red bean and rice burger with fried green tomato and chimichurri slaw. 1000 Elm St., Downtown.

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Cheeseburger in Paradise — Burger meat is plopped on top of a pile of Lovin’ Spoonful macaroni and cheese, which is then topped with lettuce, tomato, Heinz 57 sauce, french fries and a pickle spear. 249 Calhoun St., Clifton Heights; 5655 Harrison Ave.,

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MUSIC: Built to Spill plays the Woodward Theater to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Keep It Like a Secret. See Sound Advice on page 42.

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MUSIC: “Weird Al” Yankovic brings his Strings Attached orchestral tour to Fraze Pavilion. See Sound Advice on page 42. EVENT: LaRosa’s Balloon Glow 20th-Anniversary The sky above Coney Island will illuminate with more than a dozen glowing hot air balloons for the 20th-anniversary of Balloon Glow. Take in the dazzling light display before a fireworks grand finale from Rozzi’s Famous Fireworks. Make Balloon Glow an all-day experience by heading to the park early to enjoy Coney rides, entertainment and Sunlite Pool. 4-11 p.m. Wednesday. Free Balloon Glow admission; $10 parking fee; $15 after 2 p.m; amusement park admission separate. Coney Island, 6201 Kellogg Ave., California, coneyislandpark. com. — EMMA STIEFEL

all starting at 11 a.m. Before the parade, head to Hoffner Park to pregame with kegs and eggs at 10 a.m. 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Wednesday; 11 a.m.midnight Thursday. Free admission. Hoffner Park, 4101 Hamilton Ave., Northside, northsiderocks.com and northsidejuly4.com. — MAIJA ZUMMO

ATTRACTIONS: Il Giardino: A Garden of Tuscany at the Krohn Conservatory Krohn Conservatory’s summer show promises to transport you to Italy’s beautiful Tuscany region. The landscape is designed to recreate a traditional Italian garden, complete with cypress trees, fragrant herbs, fountains and colorful summer flowers. It may be a formal garden, but it certainly isn’t stuffy. Through Aug. 18. $7 adults; $5 children; free under 4. Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, cincinnatiparks.com/krohn. — EMMA STIEFEL

MUSIC: The Aquabats and Reel Big Fish Two of the more popular acts of the Ska/Punk explosion of the 1990s — SoCal’s The Aquabats and Reel Big Fish — are spending part of their summers on a co-headlining North American tour and the second show on the jaunt is right here Cincinnati. The costumed caped crusaders Aquabats are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. In recent years, the band has etched out a career in kids-oriented TV, including appearances on Yo Gabba Gabba! and their own The Aquabats! Super Show!, for which they recently re-acquired the rights. A soundtrack album culled from music for the show was released in June. In a press release for the tour, The Aquabats’ CONTINUES ON PAGE 28

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EVENT: Red, Rhythm & Boom Join the cool kids in celebrating Independence Day as Echosmith takes the stage, followed by Grammy-nominated headliner Daughtry. Because there’s nothing more patriotic than American Idol. The night opens with a FASTRAX Skydiving display and closes with a fireworks extravaganza courtesy of Rozzi’s Famous Fireworks. Food, drinks, bouncy houses and carnival games will also be available

throughout the event. 4-10 p.m. Wednesday. Free. Mason Municipal Campus, 6000 S. Montgomery Road, Mason, imaginemason. org. — NICK SULLIVAN

on Thursday, the most colorful Fourth of July parade in town steps off at noon. The annual Northside Fourth of July Parade is an all-out celebration of independence, community, small business and individuality. Expect to see creative handmade floats from vintage stores, bars and community organizations; local marching bands; drill teams; every local politician you’ve ever heard of; ladies dancing with lawn chairs; guys dancing with power tools; and other unexpected and delightful displays of pride and spirit. The parade culminates with the second day of the Northside Rock N’ Roll Carnival. Day two music features mainstage acts Lung, Phoul Phill Andt Guill, Reincarnation MVMT, Calumet, Near Earth Objects, Tracy Walker and more on the side stage,

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FILM: Top Gun at Washington Park Head to Washington Park every Wednesday this summer for free cinema in the park. Grab some food on the way down or make a trip to the concession stand for all your favorite snacks, plus wine, local beer and even some boozy cocktails. This week, check out Tom Cruise in his prime as he plays fighter pilot Maverick, competing for best in class — as well as his love interest’s affection. 9-11 p.m. Wednesday. Free admission. Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, washingtonpark.org. — NICK SULLIVAN

EVENT: Northside Rock N’ Roll Carnival and Fourth of July Parade Northside takes the Fourth of July very seriously, having hosted a carnival and parade in some iteration since the 1980s. Things kick off at 4 p.m. Wednesday with the start of the two-day Rock N’ Roll carnival, a family-friendly music and beer-fueled romp in Hoffner Park featuring free live music on two stages. Day one features Fairmount Girls, Freedom Nicole Moore & The Electric Moon, Heavy Hinges, The Sedonas, Freekbass and Go Go Buffalo on the mainstage plus more music on the side stage. There will also be plenty of food vendors, artisans, sideshow acts and beer from Urban Artifact and MadTree sprinkled throughout the park. Then

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EVENT: Red, White and Blue Ash Celebrate the Fourth of July with a bang. Head to Summit Park in Blue Ash for a night of Classic Rock and big fireworks. Natalie Brady & the Nite Owls kick off the tunes at 6 p.m. before Kansas takes the stage at 8:15 p.m. The night will be capped off with a fireworks show by Arthur Rozzi Pyrotechnics at 10 p.m. Make sure to tune in to WARM 98.5 during the show to hear patriotic jingles. The National Pyrotechnics Association has named the show as one of the best in the nation. 4-10:35 p.m. Thursday. Free admission. Summit Park, 4335 Glendale Milford Road, Blue Ash, blueashevents.com. — ERIN GARDNER

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Christian Jacobs says, “We haven’t been on the road for a while so this is going to be most fun! We’ve been friends with the Reel Big Fish-ermen for over 20 years now and after all this time, it still feels like we’re just goofing around, playing music and having fun with no other motives than to goof around, play music and have fun.” (Fun fact: Jacobs was a child actor in the ’80s, appearing in, among other things, Pretty in Pink — he was the boy in the record store who Annie Potts lights up with a staple gun for shoplifting.) Reel Big Fish also formed in the ’90s and had a breakthrough hit with their song “Sell Out.” The long-running group has been touring almost non-stop ever since. Last year the band released its ninth album, Life Sucks... Let’s Dance! “Come out and party like it’s 1997 with two bands who have been making fools of themselves onstage for your entertainment for over 20 years,” Reel

Big Fish frontperson Aaron Barrett says of the tour in the release. “If you don’t have a good time, it’s because you hate fun.” 7 p.m. Wednesday. $25. Bogart’s, 2621 Vine St., Corryville, bogarts.com. — MIKE BREEN

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CLASSICAL: Red, White and BOOM! Enjoy an evening listening to all those patriotic classics you’ve known since you were young as seasoned conductor John Morris Russell and the Cincinnati Pops give what’s likely to be an inspiring rendition of every single one. The two-hour concert includes guests the US Army Six String Soldiers and vocalist and Tony Award nominee Montego Glover. Pack a picnic to enjoy on the lawn before the show and stick around after for a fireworks display by Rozzi’s Famous Fireworks. Concert tickets include free admission to Coney Island (excluding Sunlite Pool). 8 p.m. Thursday. $15

adults/students/youth; $5 for veterans. Riverbend Music Center, 6295 Kellogg Ave., California, cincinnatisymphony.org. — NICK SULLIVAN EVENT: Ault Park Fireworks Ault Park’s Independence Day fireworks show returns for its 54th year. The day also includes a children’s parade in the morning and live music by GenX before the Rozzi’s Famous Fireworks show. Barbecue, hot dogs and other concessions will be available. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Thursday; fireworks start at 10 p.m. Free admission. Ault Park, 5090 Observatory Circle, Mount Lookout, facebook.com/ aultparkcincinnati. — EMMA STIEFEL EVENT: Stricker’s Grove Fourth of July Flash back to childhood nostalgia as you take a ride on the Tilt A Whirl or buckle into the classic Tornado rollercoaster. Although this familyowned amusement park is closed to the public most

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MUSIC: The Gabe Stillman Band plays the Summers Blues, Brews & BBQ concert at the Southgate House Revival. See Sound Advice on page 43. CLASSICAL: Cincinnati Opera presents the comic Ariadne auf Naxos at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. See feature on page 32.

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this time, don’t worry: Art on Vine takes place on the first Sunday every the month. Noon-6 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Fountain Square, 520 Vine St., Downtown, artonvinecincy.com. — ERIN GARDNER

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EVENT: Reds’ Rockin’ 150 Birthday Bash Celebrate Independence Day (well, the day after Independence Day) and the 150th anniversary of America’s first Major League Baseball team on Friday. Great American Ball Park will have activities spread throughout the grounds to commemorate the Reds, with coach and player meet-and-greets and photo opportunities, Vietnam-era American Hueys to explore, the ability to run bases on the field and hit balls in the batting cages and more. In addition, tours of typically exclusive areas of the stadium will be available, and mascots will be wandering

around to entertain young ones (and old one’s with a soft spot for Mr. Redlegs). The event comes to an end after bands Phillip Phillips, X Ambassadors and 3 Doors Down take turns on the mainstage. 5-11 p.m. Friday. Tickets are currently sold out. Great American Ball Park, 100 Joe Nuxhall Way, Downtown, reds.com. — NICK SULLIVAN

COMEDY: Godfrey Comedian Godfrey is probably as well known for his TV presenting skills and voiceover roles as he is for his stand up. From co-hosting the outdoor competition Bullseye on FOX to playing Kofi on the popular animated series Steven Universe, Godfrey is one busy man. Born to Nigerian parents, Godfrey had a hard time convincing his friends he was a second-generation African. Even now it surprises people. “They don’t believe me cuz I got clothes on,” he tells an audience. “When you say you’re African, people want that Discovery Channel African.” Onstage his set is a mix of childhood recollections, current experiences and occasionally politics. Once in a while he’ll pull out some impressions. “Whatever comes to mind,” he says. 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday; 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday. $12-$45. Liberty Funny Bone, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township, liberty.funnybone.com. — P.F. WILSON

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ARTS & CULTURE ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to Cincinnati Set in South Carolina, the 1935 opera has a storied, yet controversial, history BY L E Y L A S H O O KO H E

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says. “To diversify your audience base, you have to diversify the product you’re offering not only in terms of repertoire, but also in presentation and the people behind the pitch.” Trevigne agrees. Post-singing career, she says she wants to continue working in opera and ensure that directors, singers, conductors and women of color all have a seat at the table. “I think that is the next step the arts need to go in — because they’re there and they just haven’t been given the opportunities, and so they haven’t been heard,” she says. “It’s going to take risk. But I think it’s one that ultimately will be rewarded for greatly.” To that end, Cincinnati Opera is making great progress. Blind Injustice, a world premiere inspired by the Ohio Innocence Project, is composed by Scott Davenport Richards, an African-American composer. The opera is already sold-out and opens later in July. Next season, the company’s centennial sees the world premiere of Castor & Patience, with a libretto by Tracy K. Smith, the African-American 2017 U.S. poet laureate. Porgy and Bess opens July 20 at Music Hall with performance dates through July 28. Tickets/more info: cincinnatiopera.org.

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performing the role of Bess. Criticisms of Porgy and Bess extend beyond song familiarity, pointing to linguistic and character stereotypes and portrayals. “There are lots of people who write about Porgy and Bess — some very, very famous African-American historians and performers of generations past — who say, ‘it’s a travesty,’ that ‘it disses our people,’ that ‘it should not be done,’ ” Mirageas says. “Whereas, when you talk to people like Morris and Talise, they say the best way to remove those stereotypes is perform it with grace and power and passion,” he continues. “The controversy will rage for as long as the piece is produced. But I’ve come to really strongly believe that if you have performers who are engaged with a piece, it will tell its story in a very honest and powerful way.” As Cincinnati Opera approaches its 100th anniversary next season, the company has expanded its efforts to engage and diversify both its audiences and its performers, as have a multitude of legacy arts organizations the country over. Since Robinson was first brought onboard in 2017 as Cincinnati Opera’s artistic advisor, he has made diversity a priority. “I find that people are attracted to that with which they’re familiar,” Robinson

like Porgy), the less likely it is that you’re typecast as those for the rest of your career,” says Morris Robinson, who portrays Porgy in the Cincinnati Opera production. “Because once you, as I say, jump on Catfish Row, it’s hard to get off Catfish Row. So I wanted to make sure that I diversified myself; I established myself firmly in standard repertoire.” Robinson’s path to opera was unconventional: a former high school and college football star, he went on to sales in corporate America. A lifelong love of music and fondness for singing blossomed after an audition for the Choral Arts Society in Washington, D.C. led to a solo and his first operatic role as the king in Aida. More training followed, which quickly led to what is now a full-blown, seven-languagespanning international career. He took on the role of Porgy in 2016, some 17 years after he started performing opera, following a phone call from the famed La Scala opera house in Italy. Robinson says this performance was then followed by eight other offers. “I think with Porgy and Bess, you can fall into the trap of, ‘Oh, here comes the number we know, that was our favorite song.’ I think it needs to still feel raw and immediate,” says Talise Trevigne, who is making her Cincinnati Opera debut

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hen Cincinnati Opera’s production of Porgy and Bess opens on July 20, it will do so for only the second time in the company’s 99-year history. Composed by George Gershwin, with a libretto by DuBose Heyward — the author of the play Porgy upon which the opera is based — and Ira Gershwin, Porgy and Bess premiered in 1935 and is regarded as a seminal American folk opera, and the first to feature African-Americans in all singing roles. “To put it in perspective, Porgy and Bess put on by opera houses is still a recent phenomenon. It doesn’t really enter the repertoire of core opera houses in this country until 1976,” says Cincinnati Opera Artistic Director Evans Mirageas. “And it’s partly the fault of the snobbery of the American Classical music establishment (because) they considered Porgy and Bess to be this hybrid between an opera and a Broadway musical.” Under Mirageas’ leadership, Porgy and Bess made its company debut in 2012. This upcoming production (July 20, 25, 27 and 28) is new and features costumes by Hamilton costume designer Paul Tazewell. Set on Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina, Porgy and Bess is the tragic love story between Porgy, a disabled beggar, and Bess, a woman with another complicated love affair and a “happy dust” habit. The residents of Catfish Row round out the cast, creating a well-realized community that allows both Porgy and Bess to dream, fight and come face to face with their respective realities. George Gershwin specified that all singing roles be performed by African-Americans, which gave many a prodigious start to various opera careers; Leontyne Price, the heralded Metropolitan Opera star, is one such example. But as is the danger in any art form, sometimes performers were only cast in Porgy and Bess. “It is taught to you early on that the further you can stay away from (roles

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Omer Ben Seadia’s career is on a nonstop whom were famously unlucky in love. upswing. “I see these two as part of what makes up I first profiled the Israeli director for most people, in terms of what we want to CityBeat in May 2014 when — as a grad define as love,” she says. “Is love devastatstudent at the University of Cincinnati’s ing and heartbreaking, or is it frivolous?” College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Strauss’ opera — with a libretto by Hugo — she was granted the rare distinction von Hofmannsthal — is both a screwball of directing a mainstage opera produccomedy and an intense drama. Ben Seadia tion. Five years later, Ben Seadia, now 32, acknowledges the challenge of balancing returns to the Queen City to rack up yet both, but she’s confident about the results. another achievement: directing a new Cincinnati Opera production of Richard Strauss’ comedy, Ariadne auf Naxos. Between those productions, she has worked on stagings for Houston Grand Opera, the Atlanta Opera, Opera Canada and smaller companies throughout the U.S., all of which garnered rave reviews. Two years ago, she directed a stunning production of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard presented by Cincinnati Opera and the Vocal Arts Ensemble. “That rekindled my relationship with Cincinnati Opera,” Omer Ben Seadia she says. P H O T O : K E L LY M A X W E L L F O R O P E R A C O L O R A D O So when CO Artistic Director Evans Mirageas approached her with the idea for Ariadne, she says her “The best collaborations I’ve had are choice was “a no-brainer.” when we’re all striving for the same goal: The production unfolds in the elegant making the storytelling work with the home of a wealthy man hosting a gala evepeople in the room,” she says. “It has to ning that includes an opera — Ariadne auf have all the whimsical fun and leave our Naxos — and a slapstick comedy. The buthearts and lives full. That’s what Strauss ler announces that both must be presented and Hofmannsthal wanted.” at the same time; a clash of high and low Ben Seadia has worked with many of the cultures ensues, with performers wandercast members from previous productions ing in and out of each other’s shows. both at Cincinnati Opera and elsewhere. Mirageas’ idea was to set the opera “I worked with Twyla Robinson (the in Pinecroft, a Tudor-style mansion in Prima Donna/Ariadne) when I was Mount Airy built by Cincinnati inventor assistant director for Cincinnati Opera’s and entrepreneur Powell Crosley, Jr. That Rosenkavalier,” she says. “Luis Orozco worked for Ben Seadia, who wanted to (Harlekin) was in my class at CCM and localize the production. She chose the Kyle van Schoonhoven (Tenor/Baccus) was 1950s for the time period, an era where she at San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program says “many artists were challenged in both when I was there in 2014.” the political and artistic arenas.” The production team includes another Three of the opera’s main characters CCM colleague: scenic designer Ryan are portrayed in the guise of cultural Howell. icons. Acclaimed playwright Arthur Miller “At CCM, you’re in the same classes as serves as the model for the Composer, singers and what ends up happening is who sings an impassioned aria about the there’s a natural feeling that we’re coming supremacy of music. The soprano singing from the same place, that we’re all in this the Prima Donna is based on renowned together,” she says. diva Maria Callas while the saucy comeRaised in Tel-Aviv, Ben Seadia calls dienne Zerbinetta resembles Marilyn Cincinnati one of her home spaces. Unlike Monroe. (Monroe married Miller in 1956; many stage directors, she will stick around they divorced in 1961.) after the July 6 opening to catch up with “Miller was such an interesting characCincinnati friends and take in the rest of ter, a successful dramatist reflecting the the CO season. internal conflicts in American culture and Cincinnati Opera presents Ariadne auf also was drawn to popular culture,” Ben Naxos at the School for Creative and PerSeadia says. forming Arts’s Corbett Auditorium July 6, 11, A famous photo of Callas and Monroe 13 and 14. Tickets: cincinnatiopera.com. inspired her to model the leading soprano roles on these legendary figures, both of

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A new art gallery has opened in Clifton’s Gaslight neighborhood, close to some of Ludlow Avenue’s most popular hot spots. The sensibly named Off Ludlow Gallery is just one of the latest initiatives of the Clifton Town Meeting Arts & Culture Committee to emphasize arts in the neighborhood. Located on Ormond Avenue in the former Clifton post office, this pop-up gallery includes Off Ludlow Gallery works by committee PHOTO: PROVIDED BY OFF LUDLOW GALLERY members as well as their associates, with most of Instead of painting directly on the venthe pieces available for purchase. More ue’s brick wall, the mural will be created than 200 people attended the gallery’s by scanning and printing the art on large grand opening on June 14. aluminum panels sealed with UV coating. “Dave Taylor, who owns the building, has Brown-Checco estimates the installagiven us empty buildings before to do poption will take a few days and that the mural ups,” says committee member Joyce Rich. pieces will be good for “seven to 10 years.” “I called him and asked him if he would The most prominent piece of the mural allow us to use it for a pop-up gallery.” will be a portrait of guitar legend B.B. King. The ultimate goal is to turn the pop-up Concept art shows a dapper-dressed King into a permanent space. passionately playing “Lucille,” one of his “The message we’ve gotten from everyone black Gibson electric guitars. that’s come in is, ‘This really needs to stay,’ ” David Michael Beck, the artist behind says committee member and studio artist the planned 20-foot portrait, primarily Jan Brown-Checco. works in what he calls “stylized realism.” Arts & Culture Committee chair Sean He based his image of King off of various Mullaney says the Clifton Town Meeting photographs before drawing it in pencil conducted a survey two years ago to and adding in color work. hone-in on what could make Clifton a Another late artist who will be depicted better arts neighborhood. Among the 100is Captain Beefheart. Ellina Chetverikova, plus suggestions were to help with local an artist from the Ukraine who is currently festivals and partner with local cultural based in Cincinnati, will be doing the porinstitutions. They took this to heart, trait of the experimental musician. It was working with a class at the University her husband, Michael Oliva — the singer of Cincinnati’s College of Design, and guitarist of local band The Harlequins Architecture, Art, and Planning to create — who first introduced her to Beefheart. innovative light sculptures for last year’s “I didn’t really like him right away, to be CliftonFest. honest, but then (Michael) kept showing Those light sculptures were tempome videos and kept showing the influences rary, but a long-term project is underway and how much (Beefheart) does for the alongside a show at Off Ludlow Gallery music and how unique of a person he is,” highlighting the artists involved. Chetverikova says. “I’ve grown to like him.” The committee is also working with The mural won’t be dedicated until seven artists to create a mural for Ludlow Oct. 5 as part of CliftonFest 2019, but the Garage’s west-facing wall. (The concert committee will be showcasing the artists’ venue came under the ownership of Taylor work at Off Ludlow Gallery as part of and his wife, Claudia, last year.) The mural an exhibition entitled Garage Muralists will consist of large-scale portraits of from July 12 to Aug. 3. There will also be a renowned musicians who have performed chance for artists to meet with sponsors at the historic venue: Judy Collins, Rickie on July 16. The opening reception will take Lee Jones, B.B. King, Albert King, Iggy place from 4-8 p.m. on Friday, July 19. Pop and the Stooges, The James Gang and Pat Olding, another committee member Captain Beefheart. and studio artist, says that the gallery has Reflecting the variety of musical styles filled a void for the Clifton area. of artists depicted, those involved in the “We definitely have an audience,” Olding mural will work in an array of mediums, says. “And Clifton is very interested in including oil, pencil and wash, watercolor participating. ” and digitally manipulated drawings. Garage Muralists will be on view at “It’s going to be like a gallery of different Off Ludlow Gallery July 12-Aug. 3. Call musicians where the artist tried to feel 513-201-7153 for more info or search “Off what their music also felt like while they Ludlow Gallery” on Facebook. were doing a portrait,” Brown-Checco says.

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Midsommar begins with a sharp inhale and ends with an exhale. From the start, director Ari Aster plunges viewers straight into grief. At the center is Dani (Florence Pugh), an American psychology student in the midst of unfathomable trauma. Even before this, her relationship with long-term boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor), an anthropology graduate student, was on the outs. The cast of Midsommar When he and his friends make plans to travel PHOTO: COURTESY OF A 24 to Sweden to attend a a 20-something myself, this is a vacation midsummer festival — as I’d opt to take if given the chance. I mean, invited by Swedish exchange student stripped of the pagan rituals and alarming Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren) — he invites body count, Midsommar could have been a her to join them, not out of want but out of trippier EuroTrip. guilt. Also on the trip are vaping bro Mark Director Aster knows how to make (Will Poulter) and fellow anthropology his audience hurl and take on the student Josh (William Jackson Harper). swirling emotions of his characters. In As those facing severe anxiety and devshort, Midsommar is a highly disturbing astating loss often do — especially in the mindfuck. Aside from out-in-the-open absence of a strong support system — Dani gore and uncanny imagery, Aster also brushes off her emotional pain with sevemploys dizzying effects. eral “I’m OK” moments. Except, of course, In the opening act, the group drives she is not OK in the slightest. She holds toward the village along a road enshrouded in her pain. In other moments, we see by forestland: a classic stock image from her experience panic attacks. As the film the horror movie tradition. But then the progresses, these neuroses are splayed out screen flips upside down, as if they are and made open for dissection. entering the Twilight Zone. Once they Midsommar marks Aster’s follow-up reach the village’s archway, the screen flips to last summer’s divisive domestic terror back to normal. Though small, the moment Hereditary. Though both films hinge on feels like part of the rituals that follow. family tragedy, grief and mental illness, The presence of psychedelics is also they do so in completely disparate ways. a thread that runs throughout the film: Where Hereditary is contained to a singufood on the table expands and deflates as lar home, Midsommar plays out almost if breathing; the pistil of a flower in Dani’s entirely outdoors in a stunning Swedish crown does the same; memories and village where the blue sky is blinding, the present day intersperse. sun hardly sets and all of the locals don In a pivotal scene, Dani participates in flowy frocks and flower crowns. a dancing ritual with other women in the A visceral work of folk-horror, commune. They first sip a psychoactive Midsommar is often nausea inducing; at concoction before joining in a circle the same time, the sun-dappled, floweraround a maypole — a tall, phallic wooden laden world is beautiful. This juxtaposition pole rooted in European folklore. At first makes the shock of violence all the more uneasy, she becomes uninhibited. The assaulting. And though gut-wrenching, women laugh, dizzy with giddiness. On there are comedic moments that douse the the sidelines is Christian, who feels more film in absurdity. distant than ever. Pelle is from the aforementioned vilThat scene is the precursor for the mindlage and he gives little information to his bending ending. At the risk of revealing friends as to what the festival will actually too much, a discovery is made by Dani that entail. He shows them photos of smiling cracks her. She wails, clutching her body. women dressed in all white backdropped The other women collapse over her, collecby a lush landscape. This setting is in stark tively feeling the pain. It’s the first time in contrast to the static-filled, snowy environthe film that Dani feels quite literally held. ment where we first meet the characters. At its core, Midsommar is a horrific Different from other midsummer festivals, breakup film that dives headfirst into Pelle describes his village’s take as a “crazy trauma. In the light of summer, we exhale nine-day festival” that only occurs every the cruelty of Dani’s winter. Renewal is 90 years. (He refers to his home as a compain. Like Hereditary, Midsommar leaves mune, but it unfolds more like a cult.) us with flames. Grade: A (In theaters July 3) The set-up is easy enough to believe. As

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Euphoria’s (10 p.m. Sundays, HBO) mononymous star manages to capture a reputation certainly preceded itself. The haunting portrait of addiction without any TV series debut from creator/writer/ after-school-special vibes. director Sam Levinson, this high schoolThat’s not to say this pitch-black take set drama offers a frank look at teen sex, on adolescence will totally ring true to drug use and mental health, with enough most people in that age group. The average adult content to warrant not one but two high schooler is not out meeting strangers warnings ahead of each episode. Early in motels for sex or doing a stint in rehab reviews harped on the show’s gratuitous or starting up an adult web-cam venture. nudity and sexual violence, as if the everAnd certainly 11-year-old, tattooed drug graphic Game of Thrones is just a distant dealers are few and far between. I’d hope. memory. The Hollywood Reporter’s pearl-clutching account of an episode that featured no less than 30 penises cemented the sentiment that parents (and stuffy entertainment writers) truly just don’t understand — and only added to my intrigue. These reactions had me half-expecting Euphoria to be an overzealous version of the trite and troublesome 13 Reasons Why or a less fun Degrassi, but the series charts its own path as a raw story about addicZendaya as Rue in Euphoria tion and coming of age in PHOTO: COURTESY OF HBO rapidly changing times. The show centers on Rue (Zendaya), a girl destined for struggles at Euphoria offers a scandalous, surreal birth, it seems. She was diagnosed with view, but it does tap into the unique terrain multiple mental illnesses early on and navigated by kids born post-9/11, who began experimenting with her parents’ have had the world at their fingertips prescriptions at a young age. We meet her via technology their entire lives, an fresh out of rehab and on the brink of her experience where limitless possibilities junior year of high school. We soon find out are clouded by existential dread. Dive that she has no intention of staying sober, below the sensational surface and you’ll despite a recent overdose that has left her find struggles long faced by many young family reasonably traumatized. people of many generations — Levinson, Unable to connect with the friends from 34, based much of the show on his own her childhood, Rue’s sole companion is her struggles with addiction. drug dealer. While other kids get wasted The heavy subject matter here is to party, hook up or fit in, she’s using alone, balanced by lush sensory details, from the making her way through the boozy crowds soundtrack to a tapestry of colorful visuals. like a ghost. That is until she meets Jules Beautiful psychedelic trips are juxtaposed (Hunter Schafer), a new girl in town with by terrifying, grotesque overdoses and her own complicated identity. outbursts — a dangerous dance in an In many ways, Jules, who is transgender, attempt to feel something. seems confident in who she is. But, like Is Euphoria a show for teens or their Rue, she constantly puts herself in risky families? There’s no right answer. For situations. The two hit it off immediately in some viewers, this is just too explicit and a sweet relationship teetering on romance triggering. And who wants to see an erect where, refreshingly, topics like gender penis on-screen with their parents in the identity and sexual expression don’t need room? to be spoon-fed to the audience. But I’d argue that a squeaky-clean “I win,” Jules half-jokingly says to Rue as sitcom where everyone is perfect or a light the two compare figurative battle wounds. melodrama where bad decisions have zero Since 2010, Zendaya has graduated from repercussions aren’t truly any better for a the Disney Channel to bonafide blockbustyounger audience. ers like The Greatest Showman and the Vivid and vicious but genuine, with new Spiderman flicks, with a Pop music standout performances all around, the career in between. She’s been a talented series stands out from the pack of dark teen multihyphenate from a young age, but this fare. With a dash of soapy twists and finalrole is career-defining. Her performance scene revelations, Euphoria will keep you as Rue can elicit total sympathy and utter coming back for another dose. frustration all at once. As a 22-year-old Contact Jac Kern: @jackern who’s never touched drugs or alcohol, the

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New Brews in Lockland Cincy Brewing Co. is transforming the former Rivertown Brewing Company space into its own neighborhood brewery and taproom BY L AU R A L E AV I T T

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omething new is brewing off I-75 in Lockland, filling a spot formerly long held by Rivertown Brewing Company (since relocated to Monroe) and near other small businesses like the La Terza Coffee roasting headquarters. The forthcoming Cincy Brewing Co. is taking over the old Rivertown space to create a brewery and taproom where locals can congregate, enjoy a casual atmosphere and drink a pint or three. Cincy Brewing Co. is the brainchild of owner Rob Rosen. Rosen is originally from Cincinnati, but after spending time in the military, he was looking for a way to reconnect with his home city. Seeing the core ingredients in beer as a great equalizer, he thought a brewery would be a good way to get people of all backgrounds to come together to enjoy a pint, not just people who know craft beer well. “I think the nature of brewing is that it is an art that is accessible to everyone,” Rosen says via email. “What I mean is the technical aspects and the work that goes into a craft beer can be appreciated by an aficionado, novices, or your mass-produced beer drinker just looking for something good to drink.” “Community is the whole point of most craft breweries, and (Rob) really wanted to create a place for community,” adds Brittany Shuler, the branch manager getting Cincy Brewing off the ground. “A place where people can hang out, have fun, get away from everything else going on in life, just really enjoy themselves.” Because the building once held a brewery, the Lockland location was already well suited to the new project, but the Cincy Brewing team, some of whom work outside of Cincinnati and all of whom have other full-time obligations, have been working hard to renovate and prepare the space. The months of construction have led to online buzz, especially on the Cincy Brewing Co. Facebook page. Rosen and Co. still haven’t set a firm opening date, but the goal is this summer. “We are really excited to be opening in the Lockland/Reading/Wyoming/Lincoln

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Heights area,” Rosen says. “We really look forward to becoming involved in the community and do not plan on leaving. We plan to have something for everyone, including non-beer drinkers. We really appreciate all the patience that everyone has shown while we try to get open and look forward to everyone coming out and enjoying our beer.” Cincy Brewing Co. beers will run the gamut, with brews featuring locally inspired names including the St. Clair Saison and the Lincoln Heights IPA. They have also developed a red IPA, a coffee porter and a Belgian light to round out the opening tap offerings. Shuler is particularly excited about the saison, which will be gluten-free. “I have a gluten allergy and this is the only thing I can drink here; it is delicious,” she says. “We’re going to have fun with it. We’re going to brew good beer, everyone’s versions of good beer.” The location will also have plenty to engage non-beer drinkers: there will be food available for purchase, as well as cornhole, giant Jenga, board games and

even a board on the wall for magnetic poetry. A side room will be used as a quieter space for conversations. And while Cincy Brewing doesn’t aim to be a sports bar, there will be some televisions available to watch big games. The brewery will also be family-friendly, with dogs welcome on the outdoor patio, which they hope to have open this summer. Once the space is up and running, they also hope to have events to honor and celebrate veterans, since team members including Rosen and Shuler have served in the Armed Forces. Shuler and the rest of the team have worked together but also remotely in the creation of Cincy Brewing. They appreciate that their space was once a brewery, but the steps to get it open have still been substantial. “It didn’t hurt to already have some of the foundational pieces here; that being said, it’s still a lot of work,” she says. The ongoing work to renovate Cincy Brewing Co. has also been informed by the team’s commitment to focusing on local vendors and contractors as they build partnerships that will carry them into fullscale production after opening.

“It’s a lot of management, design knowledge, knowing that every little aspect makes a difference: the color of bar, table, stools. Everything helps in the big picture because the little details go a long way. I work on the big vision,” Shuler says. “When I walk into breweries and restaurants, I always want to see something new; I want people to not know what to expect and be surprised when they get here.” She says they also welcome anyone and everyone’s input as the point of the brewery is to “build value in the community.” As the finishing touches are being put on the space and the team prepares for opening to the public soon, Rosen is reminded of the unique qualities of community in Cincinnati. “Cincinnati has such a rich beer history and every community is looking for their own brewery,” he says. “The whole community has been super welcoming and helpful. That is probably a Midwest thing, but when you mention you are doing a brewery, everyone wants to help.”

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1819 Elm St., Over-theRhine, socialotr.com A nonprofit venture owned by the Corporation for Findlay Market, Social OTR not only nails its ambitious New American menu but also aims to fill a multitude of societal and business needs in our community. The restaurant actually is a two-in-one, with front and back rooms featuring different décor and service styles but the same menu. They’ve been doing dinner since opening in February and added weekend brunch in mid-May. I first went for dinner on a Wednesday, which happens to be burger night. Each week, the staff comes up with a different burger prep, and this time it included not only duck-fat fries but also a bottle of beer and a shot of whiskey, all for $16. The same night happened to feature $1 oysters, a treat one of my companions couldn’t resist. Otherwise, the menu includes about eight “Snacks,” 10 to 11 “Small Plates” and just two “Large Plates” — a steak dish and chicken roulade. We focused on the snacks and small plates and never made it to the steak or chicken. Safe to say that our consensus favorite was the piping-hot, generous portion of pappardelle pasta. Its mushroom herb sauce became extra delicious with butter-poached wild mushrooms and ramps. But there’s a whole back story to what Social OTR is up to. In partnership with CityLink, a faith-based nonprofit organization that works on multiple fronts to combat poverty, Social OTR participates in a workforce development program that starts with training students for four weeks at the CityLink facility. The next step is for students to learn on the job in a casual/ upscale environment, and that’s where Social OTR comes in. Students work in the basement prep area and then in the kitchen for 24 to 30 hours per week. After 12 weeks, graduates get placed in kitchens around the area. (Pama Mitchell)

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6085 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, lonelypinesteakhouse.com Lonely Pine Steakhouse takes a simple concept — quality food at an affordable price — and elevates it with Southwestern flair and retro decor. The newest venture by Gorilla Cinema Presents, it is the first foray into food service for the company. Founder Jacob Trevino has already made a name for himself in the local nightlife scene with Gorilla Cinema’s film-themed drinkeries Tokyo Kitty, The Video Archive and Overlook Lodge. However, Lonely Pine is

less focused on blatantly paying homage to a film, though there are clues for those on the hunt for Easter eggs. “There are only nods to Back to the Future,” Trevino says. The first course I ordered was a cucumber-serrano gazpacho ($7). The chilled green soup comes with a flourish of cilantro microgreens and edible marigolds that contrast beautifully both aesthetically and on the palate. Next was a 16-ounce bone-in New York strip, dry-aged in house for 30 days. An aggressive sear yielded a perfectly cooked medium-rare center. The NY strip is the second priciest option on the menu at $45, the most expensive being “The Cowboy,” a 16-ounce bone-in ribeye that’s similarly dry aged for $55. But there are options for someone on a tighter budget. For only $16 you can have the 4-ounce Ohio wagyu petite tender, a rare deal for such an esteemed cut, or a 6-ounce sirloin cap for $22. (Sean Peters)

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and Snow’s romance blossomed. Most importantly, Sungaze has evolved from a project featuring a guitarist searching for a new creative outlet and a keyboardist with one foot out the door into a cohesive band with a definable sound and a grounded sense of the future. The band’s first singles have garnered attention from online music press outlets and their touring (they recently played several dates across Texas) has helped further build up anticipation for the new LP. “We’re definitely just kind of going with the flow, whatever comes up,” Hilvert says. “We’re not trying to dominate or conquer the world, just seeing what comes of it. If people like our music, we’re in business.” Sungaze will host a free release party on July 20 at MOTR Pub. More info: motrpub.com and sungazemusic.com.

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was ‘Eh. I don’t know,’ ” Snow says of the song. “I was like, ‘No guys, it’s really cool. I know we can do something with it.’ It ended up being Ian and I at the space and we wrote most of it through the keyboard line, and then came up with a cool slide guitar thing.” “That’s her discerning abilities and managerial attitude,” Hilvert says. “We hold ourselves to a good standard and make songs we believe in.” So far, Sungaze has surmounted the challenges of finding a stable lineup, booking their own shows and writing, recording and playing out, all while Hilvert and Snow navigate the oft-told pitfalls of being soulmates and bandmates, which they manage quite well. They also selfproduced the video for their first single “New Familiar,” shot by Mechlem’s sister in the North Carolina environs where Hilvert

prior to joining Hilvert in his new venture and, although she had a pretty decent musical pedigree, she wasn’t sufficiently confident in her own nascent abilities. “I’ve never been classically trained on any instrument, so I was doubtful I could do it at all,” Snow says. “I always wanted to. When I was a kid, I was like, ‘I’d love to be a musician,’ but I never did lessons or anything. And when I was growing up, my dad was a musician; he and his brother Andy played in a band called Camargo Road. When I was born, they were doing their practices in the basement, so I grew up listening to everything they were playing, which was a lot of Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Neil Young. My dad was into the classic singer/songwriter stuff, so that’s what I picked up on, like Gordon Lightfoot. I think that’s mainly where my influence comes in.” Thankfully, Hilvert wasn’t looking for a keyboardist very strenuously, and Snow improved and evolved in her role, ultimately becoming one of the band’s chief songwriters. She has also become the band’s de facto manager, booking agent and quality control inspector. “Ivory’s got a very particular kind of thing,” Hilvert says. “She’s like, ‘We need to be better; we need to have higher expectations for ourselves.’ That dialogue had gone on a number of times and she kept setting the bar. I could have played any old thing and been happy with it. I came up with it.” “We’d have songs that we liked when we played them out, but we’d record another one and I’d be like, ‘OK, that was a notch better than that last one, and I know we can do a notch better than this one, but this one can stay,’ ” Snow says. “It was just building off of that.” Everything seemed to coalesce for Sungaze about a year and a half ago, when Snow’s vocals became more prominent in the band’s songs. The real clarity came with the track “Washed Away,” which became the creative benchmark for subsequent material (and ultimately featured local Kate Wakefield on cello) and the target sound they had been seeking from the start. It was also the first song that Snow had a major role in writing, establishing the tone for the rest of the album and the process of setting aside their lesser material and concentrating on their stronger songs. “We’d had these chords for a long time and I really liked them but everyone else

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ven a cursory listen to Light In All of It, the debut album from Cincinnati band Sungaze, reveals a wealth of influences that have been absorbed, translated and incorporated into the quartet’s sonic miasma — inspirations that include The Beatles, Slowdive, Alice in Chains, Tame Impala and Pink Floyd. Intense sheets of guitar wash hint at ’90s Shoegaze. Bursts of noisy dissonance indicate a love of Grunge. A hallucinatory vibe recalls the glory days of Psychedelia and the band’s ethereal vocals and melancholy melodic textures are reminiscent of Mazzy Star and Chris Isaak. It’s a beautiful, hypnotic and engaging musical mosaic assembled from the listening and performing histories of Sungaze’s primary songwriters, the husband-and-wife duo of guitarist/vocalist Ian Hilvert and keyboardist/vocalist Ivory Snow. The pair is joined in the group by newly acquired bassist Jimmy Rice and longtime drummer Tyler Mechlem. And yet Sungaze has one rather unexpected bullet point on its résumé — one that doesn’t seem remotely in keeping with the gauzy epics that comprise Light In All of It, recorded at their Walnut Hills rehearsal space. When the band plays live, it’s not too difficult for intuitive members of the audience to pick up on the sonic signs pointing to Hilvert’s recent past. “It’s funny, because when people hear us, they’ll say, ‘Did you used to play Metal?’ ” he says with a grin. “I can’t unlearn it. I still listen to all that stuff today. The lead lines and whatever still come out, which is kind of cool, because you wouldn’t hear a Metal guitarist on a Psych record.” Hilvert and Snow are obviously compatible as a romantic couple — they married last fall after a six-year relationship — but you wouldn’t necessarily pick them out of a lineup as bandmates. Hilvert’s last band affiliation was with Fenrir, a local Metal outfit that played in the area for about five years. Burned out on Metal, he exited the band in 2015 to start Sungaze, enlisting Snow (his then-girlfriend) to be his interim keyboardist. “I still appreciate Metal but I just wanted to make some other kinds of music,” Hilvert says. “I wasn’t feeling so angry anymore.” For her part, Snow was happy to be a placeholder at the keyboard position in Sungaze until a permanent player could be installed. She had never been in a band

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Cincinnati comedian Brad Thacker is presenting his fourth “Dump Trump” show this weekend. Featuring a slew of Greater Cincinnati musical acts and comedians, Dump Trump IV: The Agony goes down on Saturday, July 6 at 8 p.m., taking over the whole Southgate House Revival (111 E. Sixth St., Newport, southgatehouse.com). Thacker hosted the first Dump Trump event in July of 2016; last year he said he’d organize the shows “every summer until Trump is gone,” meaning, at Ampline plays Saturday’s Dump Trump IV event. best, this will be the final year PHOTO: KEITH KLENOWSKI and, at the very worst, there will be five more (unless Trump shackles himself to his desk in the Oval Office). More Local Notes Scheduled to play on the Fake News • The annual Crown Jewels of Jazz series Stage: ForestFox; Wonky Tonk; Lockjaw; featuring local and nationally recognized Slutbomb; Lashes, Terror at Midnight; Jazz artists returns this week. This year’s and Willow Street Carolers. On the Mar-ahome for the free, weekly concerts is the Lago Stage, Sovereign Being, The Whiskey lawn at St. Aloysius Orphanage (4721 ReadShambles, Trash Knight, Lazy Ass ing Road, Bond Hill). Music begins each Destroyer and Ampline will perform, with week at 6:30 p.m. a surprise guest band closing things out. This week’s series opener on July 3 feaJustin Schafer, Glenn Childress, Erica tures Tim Warfield’s Organ Band. On July Russell, Ryan Riker will be handling the 10, the event’s founder and longtime local comedy portion of the event. vocalist Kathy Wade heads up the “Sistahs Proceeds from this year’s Dump Trump Who Swing” showcase with singer Mandy fest will again go to Proclaim Justice, an Gaines and the Jordan Pollard Quartet, organization that works to get people while Cincinnati favorite Marc Fields wrongly convicted of crimes out of prison; plays with a quartet on July 17. Kansas the Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines serves City-based bassist Julian Vaughn headon the org’s board and her band has raised lines the July 24 concert and NYC musician awareness for the cause on tour. Christian Sands’ High Wire Trio will presThe Facebook event page for this year’s ent a tribute to legendary Jazz pianist Erroll Dump Trump declares that once again Garner to close out the series on July 31. there will be free Cheetos for attendees Visit learningthroughart.com for more (while supplies last). info. Tickets for Dump Trump IV are just $5 in • It’s going to be super hot for this year’s advance through ticketweb.com or $10 at Fourth of July festivities, including the the door on the night of the show. big one in Northside, which includes the New Dallas Moore LP Coming beloved parade on July 4 and the equally Cincinnati Country music hero Dallas beloved Rock N’ Roll Carnival on July Moore has announced his next album, 3 and 4 at Hoffner Park. The Carnival showTryin’ to Be a Blessing, will be released on cases several of Cincinnati finest bands; Oct. 4. Just like Moore’s last album, last visit northsiderocks.com for details. year’s Mr. Honky Tonk, the new album was If you need a break from the heat, nearby produced by Dean Miller, son of the legUrban Artifact (1660 Blue Rock St., Northendary Roger Miller and a fellow Country side, artfiactbeer.com) will also have some singer/songwriter. The album features great local acts (and a few touring artists) a guest appearance by Nashville Honky on Wednesday and Thursday — as well Tonk singer Tommy Ash on the song air conditioning. Local artists performing “Lovin’ on Backstreets.” throughout the midweek faux-weekend Pre-orders for the new album are open include Lemon Sky, The Harlequins, now and include various price points with Fyakey, Kaitlyn Peace, Anna Applegate, different perks — from T-shirts and vinyl The Mimics, The Mad Hat Trio and Queen to a concert at your house featuring Moore City Silver Stars. There is no cover charge and his full band. Those who pre-order will at the venue Wednesday and Thursday. receive the album in advance of the Oct. 4 More info: facebook.com/ release date. urbanartifactbrewing. For pre-order details, visit dallasmoore.com/blessing. Contact Mike Breen:

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Wednesday • Fraze Pavilion (Kettering)

“Weird Al” Yankovic has said that he never imagined that his career would take off the way it has. In the beginning, he started performing on Thursday nights at his college coffeehouse. Students would go and sit and have a coffee and watch local artists and students perform. Nine times out of 10, some guy would play an acoustic guitar and sing a Dan Fogelberg song. Then, Yankovic would come up with his accordion and sing what he refers to as “some goofy song in a strangled voice and freak everyone out.” It would always get a huge reaction because it was just so different. That’s when Yankovic got his first love of performing and realized he could make people laugh. By the time he graduated from college, he thought he could maybe become a performer. Initially, Yankovic released “My Bologna,” a sendup of the Knack tune “My Sharona.” That was the first of many Weird Al songs to become hits on a novelty radio program hosted by Dr. Demento. The track

became No. 1 for several weeks on Demento’s Funny Five. The guys in the Knack even heard the song and liked it. Yankovic had recorded it in the bathroom across the hall from his college campus radio station. From that point on, Weird Al set his sights on Pop’s biggest tunes. Throughout the ’80s, he was a staple on MTV as he parodied Pop stars such as Michael Jackson. When Grunge hit in the ’90s, Yankovic was there to poke fun at Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and when Hip Hop became huge, he delivered “White & Nerdy,” a sendup of “Ridin’” by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone. His latest endeavor, the Strings Attached Tour, finds him performing for the first time ever with a full orchestra. For the tour’s stop in Kettering, Ohio, Yankovic is playing the hits with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. “It’s pretty stinking majestic,” Yankovic says of his current orchestral tour. “I played with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra a couple years ago, and that’s largely what inspired this tour. It just makes every song feel so huge. And looking at the big picture, it just amuses me because you wouldn’t normally expect a Weird Al concert to have so much emotional gravitas.” (Jeff Niesel)

Built to Spill with Clarke and the Himselfs

Wednesday • Woodward Theater

Built to Spill joins a curiously robust set of 1990s Indie Rock staples touring this spring and summer — Guided by Voices, Sebadoh, Superchunk, Yo La Tengo and Stereolab, to name just a handful — acts that made their name amid the post-Nirvana Alt Rock explosion with musical outputs that still reverberate today. Some are touring behind recent albums, while others are celebrating music created back when Napster was barely a twinkle in Sean Parker’s eye and Y2K was a legitimate concern. Built to Spill’s current tour is a 20th-anniversary celebration of Keep It Like a Secret, the third album in a series of triumphs that included 1994’s There’s Nothing Wrong With Love and 1997’s Perfect from Now On. Frontman Doug Martsch, the only

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constant over the band’s 27-year existence, emerged out of Boise, Idaho in the early 1990s, wielding an epic guitar sound influenced by equal parts Neil Young and 1980s stalwarts like the Butthole Surfers, plus a high-whine voice that added a surreal element to twisty songs that sometimes ran into the seven-minute territory. Keep It Like a Secret was more concise by that measure, Martsch’s version of Pop songs that still reveled in fuzzy guitar excursions and cryptic lyrics. Though he hailed from the same part of the country, Martsch’s music has never been much inspired by the Pacific Northwest Indie Rock scenes. “I don’t think there was too much in the Northwest that had an influence on my songwriting,” Martsch said in an interview with KEXP earlier this year. “I mean, here and there, just because you’re around people, but I felt like my biggest influences were, like, David Bowie and the Butthole Surfers and Camper Van Beethoven, The Replacements. Things from all over other places. There wasn’t a whole lot in the Northwest. Like, I wasn’t into the Grunge stuff. I liked it OK. But I wasn’t into Sub Pop or anything.” (Jason Gargano)

Known affectionately as Billtown, Williamsport, Pennsylvania is the birthplace of Little League Baseball and home to the annual Little League World Series. And while some of the young ball players certainly experience agony-ofdefeat moments in the big games, the blues of another Williamsport native is purely of the musical variety. Billtown’s Gabe Stillman is a young Blues guitarist who is starting to garner attention on a national (and international) scale. Formed just four years ago after Stillman graduated from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, The Gabe Stillman Band (originally Gabe Stillman & The Billtown Giants) began performing its R&B/Jazz/Funk-influenced Blues around the Southeastern region of Pennsylvania, earning a reputation as a solid live act on the club and festival circuit, which helped the group score some choice opening gigs, including a date with Blues Rock heroes George Thorogood & The Destroyers. At the start of this year, Stillman’s reputation as an ace player was showcased on a bigger stage when the group traveled to Memphis to participate in the 2019 International Blues Challenge. The band placed in the top eight (out of more than 100 acts from around the world), making the finals of the esteemed competition, while Stillman was singled out for his playing, winning the Gibson Guitar Award. The band — rounded out by bassist Colin Beatty and drummer Jesse Roedts — has been capitalizing on its IBC success this year, hitting the road for summertime dates throughout the South and Midwest. Stillman and Co.’s Greater Cincinnati show this weekend is part of the Summer Blues, Brews & BBQ concert at the Southgate House Revival. The event begins at 4 p.m. with 11-year-old Dayton-based Blues guitar prodigy Moses Mabarak, playing with his backing band, the Commandments. The Ben Levin Band plays at 5 p.m. with guitar wiz Noah Wotherspoon and legendary King Records session drummer Philip Paul. Stillman plays at 6:30 p.m. Visit southgatehouse. com for tickets/more info. (Mike Breen)

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WEDNESDAY 03

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

BOGART’S - Reel Big Fish and The Aquabats with Dog Party. 7 p.m. Ska/ Rock/Pop. $25.

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

FRAZE PAVILION - “Weird Al” Yankovic. 8:30 p.m. Orchestral Comedy Pop Rock. $41.50, $46.50 day of show. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Pam Mallory Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

JACOB HOFFNER PARK - Northside Rock N’ Roll Carnival with Fairmount Girls, Freedom Nicole Moore & The Electric Moon, Heavy Hinges, The Sedonas, Freekbass, Go Go Buffalo, Strobobean, Lashes and more. 5 p.m. Rock/Pop/ Funk/Various. Free. KNOTTY PINE – Dallas Moore. 10 p.m. Country. Free. MANSION HILL TAVERN Losing Lucky. 8 p.m. Roots. Free.

MOTR PUB - Warbly Jets with Joesph. 10 p.m. Indie Pop/Rock. Free.

MT. HEALTHY CITY PARK - Michelle Robinson Band. 6 p.m. Country. Free. NEWPORT ON THE LEVEE - Summer Music on the Levee with Kenny Welch Band. 7 p.m. Country. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Ghost Hammer. 8 p.m. Ghost tribute. $12, $15 day of show.

THOMPSON HOUSE - The Mailboxes. 9 p.m. Indie/Pop/Rock. $10.

COMMON ROOTS - Open Mic. 8 p.m. Various. Free.

JACOB HOFFNER PARK - Northside Rock N’ Roll Carnival with Lung, Phoul Phill Andt Guill, Haneef Smart & Reincarnation MVMT, Calumet, Near Earth Objects, Tracy Walker, Phasmids, Acarya and more. 2 p.m. Rock/Pop/Various. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Mitch Greve. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

Denver Jam band Magic Beans perform Saturday at Top Cats

LEAPIN’ LIZPHOTO: ARDS GALLERY - The Jazz Coasters. 8:30 p.m. Swing/Jazz. $10

MOERLEIN LAGER HOUSE - Rockin’ the Roebling with 500 Miles to Memphis. 4 p.m. Rock/ Roots. Free (on the Schmidlapp Event Lawn).

MOLLY MALONE’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT Missy Werner Band. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

MOTR PUB - Smut and Grand Process. 10 p.m. Rock. Free.

TA R A C G R A C E R

Frost. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. BOGART’S - Thunderstruck. 9 p.m. AC/DC tribute. $10.

BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - Mandy Gaines Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

THE MAD FROG Infekt. 8 p.m. EDM. $15.

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Jamie Carr. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

FOUNTAIN SQUARE – 2nd Wind. R&B/Jazz/Various. 7 p.m. Free.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Open Mic. 7 p.m. Various. Free. STANLEY’S PUB - Moselle and The Bad Hats. 10 p.m. Jam/Funk/Folk. Cover.

THE GREENWICH - David Friesen Group. 8 p.m. Jazz. $15.

FRIDAY 05

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Ron Jones Quartet. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free.

BLIND LEMON - Donna

KNOTTY PINE - Partytown. 10 p.m. Pop/Rock/Country. Cover.

CAFFÈ VIVACE - Five Little Bears. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

FRETBOARD BREWING COMPANY - Just Strange Brothers. 5 p.m. Funk/Rock. Free.

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - John Redell. 8 p.m. Blues. Free.

9:30 p.m. Pop/Rock/Dance/ R&B/Various. $5.

JAG’S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - Two For Flinching.

MOTR PUB - JSPH. 10 p.m. Alt/Pop/R&B. Free.

MT. HEALTHY CITY PARK - Everything’s Jake. 7:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free. PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Burnt Down House Bluegrass. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. RADISSON CINCINNATI RIVERFRONT - Basic Truth. 8 p.m. R&B/Funk/Soul. Free (in the Fifth Lounge). RICK’S TAVERN - Turned Up Band. 10 p.m. R&B/Pop/ Dance/Various. Cover.

SCHWARTZ’S POINT Janet Evra Quartet. 8:30 p.m. Jazz

WASHINGTON PARK – Premium Blend Band. R&B. 7 p.m. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (LOUNGE) Strange Creature and Shiny Old Soul. 9:30 p.m. Blues/ Jazz/Folk/Roots/Rock/Various. Free.

WEST SIDE BREWING Pandora Project. 7 p.m. Rock. Free.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Joey Allcorn. 8 p.m. Country. $8, $10 day of show. THE SYMPHONY HOTEL Philip Paul Trio. 8 p.m. Jazz. Free.

TOP CATS - Exnations with Clubhouse, 90s Kids and Saint Sterling. 8 p.m. Alternative/Pop/Rock. Cover.

URBAN ARTIFACT - Hyssop, .scarab, Sweet Francis and Jeremy Myint. 9 p.m. Indie/Rock/Various.

SATURDAY 06

ARNOLD’S BAR AND GRILL - Cincinnati Dancing Pigs. 8 p.m. Americana/Jug band. Free. BLIND LEMON - Zac & Corey. 9 p.m. Acoustic. Free. BOGART’S - Bronson Arroyo. 9 p.m. Rock. $10. BROMWELL’S HÄRTH LOUNGE - The Burning Caravan. 9 p.m. Jazz. Free. CAFFÈ VIVACE - Dara Tucker Quartet. 8 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

THE COMET - Brooklyn Rae. 10 p.m. Singer/ Songwriter. Free.

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STANLEY’S PUB Willow Tree Carolers, Twig&Leaf and Eli Lev. 10 p.m. Americana/Folk. Cover.

THURSDAY 04

WOODWARD THEATER Built to Spill. 8 p.m. Indie Rock. Sold out.

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PLAIN FOLK CAFE - Alex Feccos, Mike Lieser and Kyle’s Station. 5 p.m. Acoustic/Rock/Country. Free.

PUZZLE

FOUNTAIN SQUARE â€“ The Tillers with Joseph Huber. Folk/Americana. 7 p.m. Free.

THE GREENWICH - Rollins Davis Band. 9 p.m. Jazz/R&B. $5. HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Mambo Combo. 9 p.m. Latin Jazz. Free. JAGâ€™S STEAK AND SEAFOOD - Gee Your Band Smells Terrific. 9 p.m. â€™70s Pop/Rock/Dance. $5. KNOTTY PINE - Mitch Greve. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover. MANSION HILL TAVERN JC Clements. 9 p.m. Blues. Cover.

MOTR PUB - Tweens and Static Falls. 10 p.m. Indie Rock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Sexy Time Live Band Karaoke. 9 p.m. Rock/Pop/ Various. Free.

PLAIN FOLK CAFE My Brotherâ€™s Keeper. 7:30 p.m. Roots. Free. RICKâ€™S TAVERN - Deadwood Alley. 10 p.m. Rock. Cover.

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VERONA VINEYARDS - Lyn Payne Holland & Merry Herbert Duo. 6 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

SUNDAY 07

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

THE COMET - The Comet Bluegrass AllStars. 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass. Free.

HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Jazz Brunch with Mike Darrah. 10:30 a.m. Jazz. Free. KNOTTY PINE - Randy Peak. 10 p.m. Acoustic/Various. Free. LATITUDES BAR & BISTRO - BlueBirds. 8 p.m. Rock/R&B. Free. MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Jam with Deb Ohlinger. 6 p.m. Blues MOTR PUB - Estina. and the Black Sheep and Freedom Nicole Moore. 8 p.m. Indie/Pop/Rock/Various. Free.

SCHWARTZâ€™S POINT Mandy Gaines Trio. 8:30 p.m. Jazz. Cover.

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (REVIVAL ROOM) - Truckstop Waterfall with Tim Lancaster. 6:30 p.m. r. $10.

THE SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL Dump Trump IV: The Agony with Tree Carolers, The Whiskey Shambles, Terror at Midnight, Slutbomb, Lashes, Lazy Ass Destroyer, Trash Knight, Lockjaw, Forestfox, Ampline, Sovereign Being and more. 8 p.m. Rock/ Roots/Punk/Post Punk/Comedy/Various. $5, $10 day of show.

Songwriter/Americana/ Various

STANLEYâ€™S PUB - Secret Circle Society, 22 Stitches and V-Twin Sin. 10 p.m. Rock/Metal. Cover.

TOP CATS - Magic Beans. 9 p.m. Funk/ Jams. Cover. URBAN ARTIFACT - Matt Baumann, Jeremy Smart, Dusty Bryant Band and Eric Barnett. 9 p.m. Singer/

SOUTHGATE HOUSE REVIVAL (SANCTUARY) - Summer Blues, Brews & BBQ at The Southgate House Revival with Moses and the Commandments, Ben Levin Band featuring Noah Wotherspoon and Philip Paul and Gabe Stillmann Band. 4 p.m. Blues

MANSION HILL TAVERN - Open Acoustic Jam with John Redell & Friends. 8 p.m. Acoustic. Free. MCCAULYâ€™S PUB - Open Jam with Sonny Moorman. 7 p.m. Blues/Various. Free.

MEMORIAL HALL Jazz at the Memo presents Singinâ€™ and Swinginâ€™ with Mandy Gaines and the Brad Myers Trio. 7 p.m. Jazz. $8. MOLLY MALONEâ€™S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT Open Bluegrass Jam. 8 p.m. Bluegrass. Free. MOTR PUB - New Van Goghs. 9 p.m. AltRock. Free.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN Northside Jazz Ensemble. 10 p.m. Jazz. Free.

AC R O S S

1. Madonna nickname 6. Name on a credit card 10. Pixar movie inspired by the Day of the Dead 14. Stevia rival 15. Busy travel nights 16. Shortly 17. Thing blown after a heavy rainstorm?

21. Canadian Football League scores: Abbr. 22. Heads into the pool? 23. ___ homo 25. Peter Parkerâ€™s girlfriend

TUESDAY 09

27. Kangarooâ€™s hereditary piece?

ARNOLDâ€™S BAR AND GRILL - Ben Levin. 7 p.m. Blues. Free.

33. Crossword birds

BLIND LEMON - Nick Tuttle. 8:30 p.m. Acoustic. Free.

35. That sorta thing

BREWRIVER CREOLE KITCHEN - The Twirlers. 7 p.m. R&B/Classic Pop/Standards. Free. CAFFĂˆ VIVACE - Emily Grace Jordan & Brad Myers. 7:30 p.m. Jazz HILTON NETHERLAND PALM COURT - Brian Cashwell Trio. 6 p.m. Jazz. Free.

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

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

STANLEYâ€™S PUB - Trashgrass Troubadours and Nectar Valley. 8 p.m. Bluegrass. Cover.

NORTHSIDE TAVERN - PoncĂŠ. 9 p.m. AltRock. Free.

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38. Barbecue meat

4. Ana of â€œWine Countryâ€?

40. Roman censor

5. Multi-core?

41. Bioguard Lo â€˜N ___ (pool pH reducer brand)

6. See 50-Across 7. â€œAll in the Timingâ€? playwright David

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50. Topiaryâ€™s side

32. â€œRocketmanâ€? subject, familiarly

51. Kind of pickle

36. Big ape 38. Admit, with â€œupâ€? 39. Beat and humiliated, on-line 40. Afro-Brazilian martial art 42. Meganerd

52. Beat it 53. Big troubles 55. Maker of the Aspire laptops 56. Toffee candy bar 57. Look at

43. Border dispute area: Abbr.

59. â€œHarry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery,â€? e.g.

45. Our moral superiors

60. â€œHow about that!â€?

11. Broadcasting

46. Hairstyle for Gabe Kaplan

61. 45, for a 7â€?

48. â€œ___ we forgetâ€?

12. Haan of shoemaking

47. History chapter

49. Car maker Ferrari

18. Cortizone target

42. Like one end of the pool 43. The Good, the Bad & the Queen singer Albarn 44. Activity similar to bar hopping?

50. With 6-Down, â€œEven Flowâ€? singer 53. It started after the July Crisis: Abbr.

8. Darn it all 9. Cricket bat wood 10. House of cards?

13. Tipjar notes 19. Clarifying phrase 24. Shot amts. 25. Athlete who plays for â€œBig Blueâ€?

58. Sleazeball magician?

26. Slackerâ€™s bugaboo

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

62. Sticking point?

27. Singer/songwriter Glynne

KNOTTY PINE - Open Mic. 9 p.m. Various. Free.

64. Hospital area

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54. Carefree life

MONDAY 08

20. Canadian Football League division

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

BLUE ASH AMPHITHEATER - Ricky Nye Inc. 7 p.m. Blues/Boogie Woogie. Free.

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63. British noble 65. Thicket trees 66. Itâ€™s worth a nickel 67. Unionize?

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www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Extra Space Storage hold a public auction at the location indicated:8080 Steilen Drive, Florence, KY 41042 on July 16th, 2019 at 12:15 pm. Unit 659, Unit 825, Unit 1418, Unit 1620, Unit 2004, Unit 2016, Unit 2222, Unit 2229, Unit 2329, Unit 2716The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may

rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction at the location indicated: 525 W 35th St, Covington, KY 41015 on Tuesday July 16, 2019 at 1:30 PM. Unit 02111, Unit 02124, Unit 05134, Unit 04213, Unit 04126, Unit 02331, Unit 02121, Unit 04128, Unit 04301, Unit 02206, Unit 04205, Unit 03431, Unit 04103, Unit 03201 The auction will be listed and advertised on storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal

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