http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/articles.sec-186-1-citybeat_recommends.html Ten years ago, Mountain Heart opened up a concert at the Taft Theatre for recently deceased Country Music Hall of Famer, George Jones. To Jones’ credit, his love of Bluegrass music allowed for such ]]> We’ve been here before, but it wasn’t quite the same. The frequently sun-struck paintings in the engaging exhibition, Continuity and Change: The Return to Figurative Painting, now at Cincinnati Ar]]> After a couple of years of little-to-no activity, excellent Cincinnati Punk band The Socials has returned to the local club circuit and (cool) record store bins. On Saturday, June 1, the trio performs]]>  So what tips can I offer, as the 10th Cincinnati Fringe Festival is about to begin? I’ve attended these annual round-ups of theater, dance, comedy, music, monologues and oddball unclassifiable]]> New Found Glory is a rarity in contemporary music; a band that attains iconic status without succumbing to compromise or internal fracturing.  The Florida quintet coalesced in 1997 when vocalist]]> A good overzealous band bio can make for quite the unintentional treat. Take what Simo and/or its management cooked up when someone decided to go off the rails with the hard sell. According to the bio]]> Visit the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden through the end of May for a wholesome and family-friendly peek at the zoo’s newest (and youngest) arrivals. You’ll find these little ones throughou]]> The Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from Canada to Texas, has been a controversial proposition. Some believe it will add thousands of jobs and create a needed source of fuel. Others believe it w]]> It’s not often you get to see a comic who holds a world record. The Midnight Swinger, Dave Scott, recently broke the record for longest stand-up set: 40 hours and eight minutes. “I was celebrating]]> Your final opportunity to see photographer Peiter Griga’s QR-coded portraits of local entrepreneurs happens Friday at a closing reception for his exhibition QRtifacts at the Artisan Enterprise Cente]]> The annual food/music fest Taste of Cincinnati — Cincy’s unofficial “start of the summer” — doesn’t begin until Saturday, but Friday you can get an outdoor music fix that couldn’t be mor]]> Start summer off scrumptiously. The 35th annual Taste of Cincinnati will consume six blocks of Fifth Street on Memorial Day Weekend. The nation’s longest running culinary arts festival will feature ]]> Architreks, a volunteer program of the Architectural Foundation of Greater Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Preservation Association, is leading a guided walking tour of the West End’s Betts Longworth ]]> Fountain Square’s multiple weekly summer music series kick-off Tuesday with the first American Roots show, featuring local performers who play everything from Bluegrass and Folk to Honky Tonk and Ro]]> Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, created in the mid-1990s was his last big show to have some measure of success, including a two-year run on Broadway. Even at that, however, the musical versio]]> Long gaps between albums aren’t unusual for IsWhat?!  In fact, it took Napoleon Maddox and his Cincinnati-based genre-defying Hip Hop/Jazz/Rock/Soul collective three years after their 1996 for]]> Patti Smith's Contemporary Arts Center exhibition and concert, The Coral Sea, opens May 18 — also the date of her Memorial Hall performance.  It is a remembrance of and tribute to her close c]]>