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Event: Club B

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Join the Cincinnati Ballet as they turn the Cincinnati Masonic Center into the hottest nightclub in town: Club B. Replete with the red carpet treatment, guests can dance the night away in the VIP sect  

Lit: Brian Kimberling

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Brian Kimberling’s deftly rendered debut novel Snapper is set in his native Indiana, also known as the Hoosier state. Or, as our western neighbor is described early in the book, “Indiana is rural,  

Attraction: Miller House Museum

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Madeira’s historic Miller House Museum is opening for tours twice a month. Built in 1922, this Sears Roebuck kit house, operated by the Madeira Historical Society, presents an accurate slice of life  

Art: DAAPworks Exhibition Opening

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Every spring, the University of Cincinnati opens its doors to hundreds of visitors who might never have a reason to go on campus were it not for a family member or friend graduating from the College o  

Onstage: Mandy Patinkin

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The human hurricane known as Mandy Patinkin sets down this weekend for three concerts with the Cincinnati Pops, his first appearance with the Pops since 1991. The protean star of stage (Evita, Sunday   

Music: Akron/Family

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Everything Akron/Family does is patently fascinating, wildly evocative and compellingly mysterious. The Brooklyn, N.Y., collective — with no connection to the northern Ohio city or each other as ind  

Music: Chuck Mead and the Grassy Knoll Boys

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Chuck Mead had a hell of a run with the band BR549 in the 1990s. The AltCountry outfit, named after the phone number Junior Samples would give out as part of a regular skit on that great American TV s  

Music: Victor Wooten

1 Comment · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Victor Wooten is the apex four-stringer, the DaVincian model for the guitar half of a rhythm section; he is the bassist’s bassist. Wooten is a success in more than mere esoteric terms; the Idaho na  

Music: Jon Dee Graham

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The story of Alejandro Escovedo’s rise from years of toiling in an Austin, Texas, Punk-tinged Roots Rock band, True Believers, to become (at age 62) one of Americana’s most recognized and exciting  

Music: Beach House

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Beach House’s gauzy head-trips are marked by the hypnotic voice of frontlady Victoria Legrand. Within the band’s recorded output — which is now at four increasingly ear-pleasing albums afte  

Music: Fists of Love

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
At long last, Cincinnati Rock foursome Fists of Love will see the release of its debut album, I Sang My Heart Out to a Snake Once. The album has been “virtually street-ready” since   

Event: Record Store Day

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
This Saturday is Record Store Day (RSD), which began in 2007 as a way to celebrate (and draw business to) independent, brick-and-mortar record shops all over the globe. In the Cincinnati area, four lo  

Music: My Gold Mask

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
It comes as no surprise to learn that My Gold Mask’s Gretta Rochelle and Jack Armondo are fans of giallo, a genre of Italian cinema saturated by garish colors and melodrama galore that was at its cr  

Music: Richard Thompson Electric Trio

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
If there is a buzz on the concert circuit this spring, part of it centers on the shows currently being performed by Richard Thompson. The London, U.K.-born musician is a legend in many eyes, with Roll  

Event: FORTY40 Gala

0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
When someone falls in love with dance, it’s often a lifetime experience. It’s been that way for Jefferson James, founder, artistic director and CEO of Contemporary Dance Theater (CDT), today Cinci