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Events: Cincinnati Salsa Festival

Looking for a way to spice up your weekend? Come to the Cincinnati Salsa Festival for a family friendly and fun filled three days of Latin dance, music and food. Don’t know how to dance? Not a problem! Workshops will be held all weekend for anyone who’d like to try something new, or salsa enthusiasts looking to brush up on their skills. Kids can enjoy Children’s World while adults take in live dance performers and Latin musicians.

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Comedy: Sebastian Maniscalco

"My act is primarily based on the disgust of human behavior," says comedian Sebastian Maniscalco. "I saw that a lot while waiting tables. I worked at a big end hotel…in Beverly Hills and I would get a very snooty type of clientele. I never really brought that on stage, but I did have an angst (about) how people act especially when they're getting waited on." The Chicago-native actually didn’t attend his first open mic until arriving in Southern California.

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Events: Butler County Fair

Considering the first Butler County Fair consisted of a few wagons displaying the latest farm supplies, the fair has worked its way up to provide entertainment for everyone and fun for all ages. From a Mad Cap puppet show each day to a corn hole tournament, visitors can bring anyone to come enjoy the fair. There will be a horticultural and agricultural display and judging, as well as arts and crafts and the usual rides a festival would not be complete without.

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Onstage: Shakespeare in the Park

People in New York City brag about the chance to see works by Shakespeare in free outdoor settings (this summer in Central Park it's 'The Winter's Tale' and 'The Merchant of Venice'). But thanks to our own Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, you don’t need to travel all the way to the East Coast to enjoy the Bard al fresco. This summer the busy group (Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit' is currently onstage at their downtown theater) is offering 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Hamlet' at various parks throughout southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky.

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News

Cuts in HIV Drug Program Could Prove Fatal

Without meds, 'you will get sick and you will die'

The latest round of state budget cuts literally is a matter of life and death to some of the people affected. More than 5,000 people use the Ohio HIV Drug Assistance Program (ODAP) to get expensive life-saving medications that treat HIV. Recent government belt-tightening, however, has led to a first-time waiting list and other major cost containment measures for the 20-year-old program.

Art

Pones Inc. Offers Food for Thought

Cincinnati's provocative performance art troupe Pones Inc. adds food to its toolkit

Food and art have interesting commonalities in the way they are carefully prepared, the way they affect our senses and, perhaps most of all, the attention we pay to them when we find them strikingly beautiful. Because of the actions associated with cooking and eating, food lends itself to performance. This is just what the local performance art group Pones Inc. has done with its most recent work, Rub, Dredge, Fry (Repeat).

Porkopolis

Time for GOP to Clean Up Stadium Mess

It's time for Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters to use his considerable influence and put the squeeze on Bengals owner Mike Brown. Hamilton County officials are desperately seeking to renegotiate the lease for Paul Brown Stadium because the county's stadium account is facing a $13.8 million deficit this year. The deficit will jump to $25 million in a few years and could cumulatively total more than $700 million by 2032, when the Bengals' lease expires. Unless the Bengals agree to some concessions, county commissioners will have to cut some services to residents, lay off some county workers or probably both to cover the shortfall.

Diner

ForkHeartKnife (Review)

Offering simple delectables and street-theater seating

If there were ever a perfect vantage point to watch the kind of moments that make city life so fascinating, it's at ForkHeartKnife, the tiny kitchen at Main and Liberty that's owned and operated by some of the friendliest and most creative women in Over-the-Rhine. After two visits to ForkHeartKnife, I'm a big fan. It's just such a personal experience, like dining with friends.

I Shall Be Released

Ed Kowalczyk, Magnolia Mountain, Jimmie Vaughan, Walter Trout and More

I move on trying to play catch-up with a mountain of new album releases, with just barely a breath to mention the passings of underground comic author Harvey Pekar and counterculture figure Tuli Kupferberg, co-frontman and songwriter for The Fugs. Let's check out the new albums from Ed Kowalczyk (of Live fame), Magnolia Mountain, Jimmie Vaughan, Walter Trout, Kylie Minogue and The Cat Empire.

Movies

The Kids Are All Right (Review)

An unconventional family grows up in Lisa Cholodenko's latest indie gem

For a film about family, Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right effectively twists the dynamics in ways both obvious and subtle. As a long-together lesbian couple, Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore) have achieved a degree of domestic perfection that defies convention by being utterly conventional in its own way. Grade A.

 
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