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Ra Ra Riot Bonus Content
Ra Ra Riot, an addictive Indie Pop outfit from Syracuse, N.Y., plays the Mad Hatter in Covington Saturday night. (Local heroes Pomegranates open the show.) I talked to RRR bassist Mathieu Santos for a feature that appeared in this week's print edition....
Posted: 3/16/2011 1:00 AM in CityBeat Blogs - Music
A Special Deal for Our Readers!
30% off your ticket to see “The Firebird” ballet this weekend if you mention “Make Cincinnati Weird” when you purchase! (Please click for larger image) Ticket prices with discount are: Premiere – $56 Gold – $45.50 Silver – $31.50 Bronze – $21 A story...
Posted: 3/15/2011 11:12 PM in make cincinnati weird
And so it ends
After 72 hours, 4 airports, 18 Foursquare check-ins and too much Tex Mex to count, I am finally on my way home from SXSW 2011. Looking back on the past few days, I left with a few observations. Crowds like I have never seen before – With attendance rumored...
Posted: 3/15/2011 11:07 PM in South By Southwest
Painting: Who Is Pulling Your Strings?
And another day spent adding finishing touches and tightening up the painting……this is the part that most how-to-books don’t talk about. It’s the final little touches where you re-instate the Darks and lighten the Lights that really make the painting….this...
Posted: 3/15/2011 9:38 PM in Dawna Boehmer
Summing Up SXSWi with Pepsi & Fast Company
My interview with Pepsi’s Global Director of Digital and Social Media, Bonin Bough and Fast Company Senior Writer, Ellen McGirt about their take on what Bough refers to as a "digital Davos."
Posted: 3/15/2011 5:35 PM in South By Southwest
Ohio Arts Council down 19.5 percent in Kasich budget
Ohio Governor John Kasich released his budget proposal for fiscal years 2012 and 2013. on Tuesday and it includes a 19.5 percent reduction to the Ohio Arts Council’s (OAC) general fund appropriation, bringing its FY12/13 budget to $10,611,408. According...
Posted: 3/15/2011 5:31 PM in Theater Buzz
Cincinnati firefighters hit the beach
Nearly two dozen Cincinnati firefighters have made their annual trek to Fort Myers Beach in Florida. The vacationing firefighters have performed revue shows on the beach for the past 28 years. Here is video from one of the group’s shows for beachgoer...
Posted: 3/15/2011 5:10 PM in No ... Really.
Realistic Wear and Tear — or — You’re Going to Have to Pry this Old-timey, Extremely Overdue Library Book from My Cold, Dead Fingers
The times, they are (sigh) a changin’. An article appeared in yesterday’s New York Times on HarperCollins Publisher’s decision to limit e-book lending in libraries to 26 times. Which is, let’s face it, a serious kick in the stomach to libraries whose...
Posted: 3/15/2011 4:49 PM in Stacked
Time Warner Adds Tru TV HDTV Today
THIS JUST IN AT 11:30 A.M. WEDS: Even better news for basketball fans — Time Warner added tru TV in HDTV on Channel 1220 today, so you can see the first-round games from the University of Dayton Arena tonight. Pregame starts at 6 p.m., with Texas-San...
Posted: 3/15/2011 4:39 PM in TV and Media Blog
Make Cincinnati Weird. Wild. Wonderful.
“‘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...
Posted: 3/15/2011 3:46 PM in make cincinnati weird
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