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Art: Vegas 360 at the Cincinnati Art Museum

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Published Sept. 1, 2010 at 3:53 p.m.
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Cincinnati Art Museum’s latest photography exhibit, Vegas 360 by Cincinnatian Thomas Schiff, continues through Sept. 26. It features large-scale full-color panoramic images of the famous 24/7, neon-lit Vegas Strip shot with a custom-made Hulcherama 360 camera mounted on an extended tripod, rotating 360 degrees or more on its axis to expose film in a continuous strip as it turns ...

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Onstage: Cincinnati Entertainment Awards for Theater

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Published Aug. 30, 2010 at 7:07 p.m.
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So you attended theater for a whole season in 2009-10, and now you'd like to see how your judgments stack up against others. You can do that at Know Theatre Sunday evening when CityBeat presents the 14th annual Cincinnati Entertainment Awards for Theater. There will be lots of opinions reflected: There are 18 categories voted on by the public (maybe you went online to do that yourself) and another 10 "Critical Achievement" awards decided by local critics, including the season's outstanding

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Cincinnati connections

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Published June 13, 2010 at 5:22 a.m.

Several artifacts on display at the Cincinnati Museum Center as part of America I AM: The African American Imprint have local connections.They include: Flag belonging to the Black Brigade of Cincinnati, the first group of African-Americans to be organized for American military purposes. In the fall of 1862, when Confederate forces threatened Cincinnati, the city called on local black men to dig trenches and erect barricades in Northern Kentucky. This flag flew over their work area. Gold medal

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Pop Goes Cincinnati

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Published June 13, 2010 at 12:43 a.m.
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40 years ago Cincinnati became part of Rock & Roll lore Forty years ago this Sunday, Iggy Pop — 23-year-old front man of The Stooges, a defiantly loud and grungy Detroit band — created Rock & Roll mythology at the Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival. Bare-chested, singing "T.V. Eye," he scrambled from the outdoor stage at Crosley Field and went into the crowd, climbing atop the shoulders of frenzied fans to stand above them, like Jesus on water, held up by their sea of hands as he pointed

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ArtWorks' summer job program to bring art, music and focus to Cincinnati youth

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Published June 7, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
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Each summer for the past 15 years ArtWorks has put young people in Cincinnati to work by creating public artwork throughout the city.  The Summer Jobs Program includes a variety of efforts, but is more often known for its MuralWorks program that will have installed 34 murals throughout the region in more than two dozen neighborhoods by the end of this summer ... "In 2007, Mayor Mallory asked ArtWorks to do at least one mural in each of the 52 city neighborhoods," said Tamara Harkavy,

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Know Theatre gears up for 7th Annual Fringe Festival, readies for new marquee

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Published May 24, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
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Know Theatre is feverishly preparing for the 7th Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival which has now become Ohio's largest performing arts festival.  This year's installment of performance and visual art will take place between Tuesday, June 1 and Saturday, June 12.  More than 190 artists from across the country will be on-hand to "push the boundaries of the norm and experiment with style and content." ... Eric Vosmeier, Know Theatre's managing artistic director, says that this year's artist

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Mobile gelato cart hitting Cincinnati's streets this Summer

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Published May 17, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
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Dojo Gelato opened at historic Findlay Market last August and gelato lovers have been lining up ever since to enjoy their handcrafted Italian-style ice creams and sorbettos.  With the temperatures heating up, and festival season getting started, those same loyal customers have been clamoring for a more mobile gelato experience.  Later this month, gelato fans will get their wish ... The new Dojo Gelato cart will make its first appearance at the Over-the-Rhine Summer Gateway Celebration on May

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Cincinnati casino could set bar for urban casino design

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Published May 10, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
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Cincinnati leaders expect Ohio's first casino to be developed on the Broadway Commons site located on the edge of downtown Cincinnati.  Developers hope to break ground on the $350-400 million project later this year, with a grand opening planned for sometime in 2012.  One issue in Cincinnati is the design of the casino and how it fits into the surrounding historic neighborhoods like Over-the-Rhine and Pendleton.  Luckily for Cincinnati, Rock Ventures, developers of the casino, appear willing

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Cincinnati celebrates new Green Learning Station in Avondale

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Published May 3, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
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The Civic Garden Center in Avondale was the gathering point to celebrate the groundbreaking for the Green Learning Station.  The $1.2 million project will eventually transform an old gas station into a learning station that will be a "state-of-the-art laboratory for sustainable practices to gardens and the systems that support them." ... The facility - the first of its kind in the Cincinnati region - is striving for LEED-Gold certification.  As a result, the groundbreaking celebrations

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Attractions: GOLD at Cincinnati Museum Center

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Published May 3, 2010 at 4:57 p.m.
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that glitters, the stuff of fortune and fable, greed and gilded, is at the Cincinnati Museum Center's newest exhibit. 'Gold' presents the history, extraction and engineering of the globe's most valuable substance. Among the treasures stored deep within the bowels of the Union Terminal are the 26-pound Boot of Cortez, the Summitville Boulder, Spanish doubloons and an entire room plated with gold that visitors can walk through ...

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