Remember feeling that early 2000′s angst and raw emotions of melodic notes of punk vibrations pulsating through your blood making you pay attention to life’s woes, but it feeling good to go through it with someone? Usually that someone was a band like Blink 182. Well, they are still with us. Not only is Blink [...]

What is a fringe festival? Why is it called that? Where are they?
I’ll be brief. A fringe festival is an arts festival focusing primarily on theater performances. They tend to be non-mainstream theater but historically, several major productions got their start at fringe. For example, the movie “The King’s Speech” has its roots in a [...]

Have you seen Cirque du Soleil yet? There’s still time (and still seats)! I was lucky enough to be able to see the show — from the front row — before the river ran through it. But the real treat is the one you get to share… I was able to bring my [...]

1) How many different styles of music did the band perform?
“To create the musical score for OVO, Berna Ceppas combined the sounds of bossa nova and samba with funk and electro music. And, as you might expect from a Brazilian – there is a lot of percussion in the [...]

When I say “Over the Rhine”, I’m not talking about our unique and historical neighborhood, I’m talking about that band that Cincinnatians are all weirdly excited about.  They are performing with the Cincinnati Ballet this weekend, April 29-30, and all you weird Over the Rhine fans can get two pleasures for the price of one.  [...]

We got to see Cirque du Soleil’s OVO.  We’ll post more details coming up, but for now…
Cirque du Soleil – Ovo
[Jeff B.]

Circus: Elephants, Tigers, Fleas — you know the drill.  Cirque: People costumed as bugs (at least this time) flying through the air, performances unlike anything you have likely seen before and at least twice as entertaining, and all without harming a single animal.  Not bad.  World-renowned Cirque du Soleil is coming to Cincinnati.
Make Cincinnati Weird [...]

Joe is right on time. I check out of work and we walk to the Cincinnati Ballet. It’s free pizza, beer, and, ballet. A not so likely combination, but nonetheless a great one. We see a few people we know, and chat over pizza and beer. Joe is wearing a cool, slick urban t-shirt with [...]

“‘TurangalÎla’ apparently refers to ‘love songs’. And I really would not have known that upon my first listening! But looking back on it now, I can sort of see how in a tortured and beautiful and personal and universal way, he is sort of talking about love,” said Dwight Parry, principal oboe for the Cincinnati [...]

WHAT:           Steve Solomon’s MY MOTHER’S ITALIAN, MY FATHER’S JEWISH, AND I’M IN THERAPY
WHEN:           Fri., Feb. 11, 8 PM • Sat, Feb. 12, 2 PM & 8 PM; Sun., Feb. 13, 2 PM
WHERE:        Aronoff Center for the Arts – Jarson-Kaplan Theater
PRICES:         $30
INFO:             Meet the Family: Mom, Dad, Grandma Angelina, Grandpa Harry, Bubbie, Aunts, Uncle Vito, [...]