The 2013 reader picks for the city's and state's best news and political events and the people involved.
  

Whether it's City Council or the Ohio Statehouse, a lot happened in our state last year. Here's a list of the good and not-so-good.
  

Experimental live-Electronica/Rock band You, You're Awesome brings MOTR Pub a weird, wild and wonky transition into 2013 with a special New Year's Eve performance.  

With the multitude of wild and wacky end of the world parties that took place not so long ago around these parts, we at CityBeat had to search high and low for cool happenings that one-up any kind of lame, primal goat-sacrifice the Mayans would’ve held in honor of the arrival of the New Year.
  

We at CityBeat have come to terms with the fact that expectations of just about any kind usually end up blighted. In honor of arming you for a story that, in all likelihood, won’t be nearly as glitzy as you may envision, we’ve gathered anecdotes from CityBeat staffers that make for a collection of nontraditional holiday testimonials that are sometimes lame, sometimes nerdy and, in general, pretty anticlimactic.   

National Nude Recreation Week starts Saturday July 14, but you can get a head start this weekend at Paradise Gardens, one of the area’s two nudist resorts. From 9 a.m. until 6 p.m., first-time visit  

Greater Cincinnati musicians and writers pick their favorite musical things and moments of 2007, including Linford Detweiler's favorite things.  

ARNOLD'S 9 p.m. Raison D'Etre (Wilder, Ky.) Folk/Americana The three hyper-talented women of Folk trio Raison D'Etre have been astounding audiences with their gorgeous three-part harmo  

ARNOLD'S 9 p.m. Wink Keziah & Delux Motel (Charlotte, N.C.) Americana/Alternative Wink Keziah has turned the raw material of his harrowing life experience into the tripabilly Country swa  

ARNOLD'S 9 p.m. Chris Collier (Newport, Ky.) Folk/Americana For the past decade and a half, Chris Collier has been one of the area's premiere Folk artists, putting out four acclaimed re