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Put An Owl On It

Night Owl Market is a lively addition to OTR nightlife

2 Comments · Wednesday, August 29, 2012
NOM is a unique event in that it serves multiple purposes for late-night visitors — it’s a great place for bar hoppers to stop for some munchies and music, or to keep up the pace after the bars close. But it’s also a fun, booze-free alternative for other nightlifers.   

Stuart Fink: A Welcome Return

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Stuart Fink’s Shape to Shape at Brazee Street Studios’ gallery One One bristles with energy, mostly dispenses with narrative (who needs it?) and includes paintings as well as sculpture. Best known as a sculptor, Fink studied to be a painter and never really gave it up.  

Fall Arts Picks

Onstage, visual arts and lit

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 29, 2012
FOTOFOCUS might be taking over many local arts venues this fall, but local theaters, galleries, dance companies and others have another full slate of thoughtful entertainment in store.
  

Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life Of David Foster Wallace

By D. T. Max

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 29, 2012
In his biography of David Foster Wallace, New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max has painted an incredibly honest and vivid portrait of a brilliant writer, a sensitive soul and a tortured artist, plagued throughout his life with severe depression, anxiety and self-doubt.  

The Dog Stars

By Peter Heller

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Just like in Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, post-apocalyptic novel The Road, first-time novelist Peter Heller has created a heartbreakingly moving love story with The Dog Stars, one of this year’s greatest literary surprises.  

Fall Fringe

Know Theatre brings back award winning shows from 2012 Fringe

1 Comment · Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Perhaps you overslept back in June and missed the 2012 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. You now have a chance to make up for it or to satisfy a fall craving for Fringe performances, thanks to the festival’s presenter, Know Theatre of Cincinnati.
  

Theater Season Heats Up

0 Comments · Tuesday, August 28, 2012
As the final weeks of summer cool down, it’s time for Cincinnati’s theaters to turn up the heat.
  

From 'Rocko' to 'Reno'

Comedian Carlos Alazraqui's portfolio bursts with unexpected voice roles

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The sixth annual Brew Ha-Ha is upon us. Saturday's headliner Carlos Alazraqui is probably best known as Officer James Garcia on Comedy Central’s Reno 911!.
  

Antonio Adams Gives Celebrities a Reality Check

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 22, 2012
See Unrealized and Unforeseen, Antonio Adams’ solo show at Thunder-Sky Inc., and leave feeling a bit more special, even if you aren’t on his list of “good celebrities,” superstars and Divas of Pride. Just witness the transformative power of art.  

New Art Book and Projects for Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The most profound and beautiful art installation of recent years in Cincinnati — an inspiration for what public art here can be — was Shinji Turner-Yamamoto’s 2010 “Hanging Garden.” It continues to have an afterlife.  

Rounding Third (Review)

Odd couple concept pleasant and predictable

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The title of Richard Dresser’s 2002 play, Rounding Third, the current production on board the Showboat Majestic, is a pretty obvious clue that this is a show about baseball.  

Pedaling For A Cause

BikeFest offers participants opportunities to assist and learn about local charities

1 Comment · Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Episcopal Community Services Foundation’s BikeFest is more than a charity ride; it offers riders from a variety of athletic backgrounds — both serious and occasional riders — the opportunity to learn about and engage with the local charities they’re serving.   

Star Gazing

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 15, 2012
If you spent some of last spring watching the TV series Smash, you learned that Broadway producers look for talent whose names attract audiences. The commercial concerns of Broadway producers are surely a big factor in their decision-making, especially how much magnetism a star can bring. This led me to speculate whether we have bankable stars in Cincinnati.  

Searching for the ‘Now Factor’ at a Color Show

0 Comments · Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Amid busy, vibrant abstract canvases and panels, the stark simplicity of a paperboard sculpture captures extra attention at Phyllis Weston Gallery’s Color NOW!, on display through Sept. 1.
  

Xanadu (Review)

Old cult favorite's strange magic charms audiences at the Carnegie

0 Comments · Monday, August 13, 2012
Summers in Cincinnati tend to have theater in short supply. Thanks to the Carnegie Center in Covington, there’s a bounty of fizzy fun in the form of the very tongue-in-cheek musical Xanadu, staged by Alan Patrick Kenny.