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Published 13 hours agoCincinnati’s improv festival returns after seven-year hiatus
After seven years away, the Improv Festival of Cincinnati (known as IF Cincy) returns. Featuring three nights of comedy from performers all around the nation, including troupes from places like Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles and Ann Arbor, the festival takes place from October 15…
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Published 13 hours agoHere’s Cincinnati’s official BLINK 2026 map
Just under two weeks out from the festival’s start date, BLINK has released an official map featuring all of this year’s attractions. The official BLINK 2026 map gives visitors their first full look at where to find this year’s projections, murals, light installations and unique…
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Published 15 hours agoVote for the CityBeat Culture Maker of the Week
Meet three Cincinnatians making the city more creative, connected and unmistakably itself, and then help choose the Culture Maker of the Week winner. Cincinnati culture doesn’t just happen. It’s built every day by artists, musicians, chefs, organizers, performers, business…
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Published September 24KY-based filmmaker releases New Years-themed slasher ‘New Fears Eve’
After attending HorrorHound — the annual Cincinnati-based convention celebrating all things horror — for nearly 20 years, filmmaker PJ Starks got to show one of his own works to an adoring crowd with the release of “New Fears Eve.” In the film, three best friends all attend a…
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Published September 24Sphinxes, stone trees, Cincinnati icons: Exploring Spring Grove Cemetery
Spring Grove is as much an arboretum, history museum, sculpture garden and park as it is an active cemetery. Its miles of roads wind past lakes, mausoleums, unusual trees and the graves of people whose names are still scattered across Cincinnati: Kroger, Graeter, Fleischmann,…
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Published September 24New Cincinnati documentary sells out Esquire Theatre premiere
One new locally-based documentary has already been so successful leading up to its premiere that the Esquire Theatre is adding a second showtime. “Shelter Me: Cincinnati,” the newest installment of the nationally acclaimed PBS series “Shelter Me,” is set to premiere at the…
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Published September 23CityBeat’s Local Band Highlight: Trauma Illinois
Trauma Illinois was destined to be a rock band from the moment of their conception. Lead singer Jack Johnson, following a “horrific car accident” and laid up in the ICU, received a get well card from none other than Fall Out Boy, who just happened to be at the same hospital,…
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Published September 23Remember Cincinnati’s turtle lamps? One local woodworker has replicas for sale
If you’re a real Cincinnati history aficionado, you probably know about the “turtle lamps” — yellow lamps that were once scattered all across the city to indicate streetcar platforms or raised islands in the hopes that drivers wouldn’t crash into a median late at night. In recent…
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Published September 18Meet CityBeat’s Culture Maker of the Week: Jamison Walker
The votes are in: CityBeat’s Culture Maker of the Week is Jamison Walker. Walker was nominated by Robert Gaskins because “Jamison is an owner of the Decorated Body tattoo studio. The Decorated Body is an artist-owned and operated co-op that doesn’t take a commission on artists’…
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Published September 18Vote for the CityBeat Culture Maker of the Week
Meet three Cincinnatians making the city more creative, connected and unmistakably itself, and then help choose the Culture Maker of the Week winner. Cincinnati culture doesn’t just happen. It’s built every day by artists, musicians, chefs, organizers, performers, business…
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Published September 17NKY artist designs poster celebrating 50 years of Oktoberfest Zinzinnati
A 14-year-old dachshund from Campbell County helped inspire the official poster celebrating 50 years of one of Cincinnati’s biggest traditions. Camp Springs artist Keith Neltner, founder of Neltner Small Batch, designed the limited-edition poster for the 50th Oktoberfest…
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Published September 17Mary Poppins Jr. launches at The Children’s Theatre next month
Next month, The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) will open its 107th season with an all-new production of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s “Mary Poppins JR.” From October 9 – 25, audiences can head to the Emery Theater in Over-the-Rhine for a new adaptation of the Broadway…