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Professors rewarded for outstanding contributions
Two Queen's professors have received prestigious awards for their work in the field of pharmacology and toxicology.
Louise Winn (Pharmacology and Toxicology and Environmental Studies) has received the 2011 Women in Toxicology Mentoring Award from the Society of Toxicology (SOT). The international award recognizes an outstanding record of achievement in the mentoring of women in the discipline of toxicology.
"I was quite surprised and shocked that I had won," says Dr. Winn, whose research focuses on fetal toxicity. "I think a lot of my students have come to me for advice, and I enjoy that. Throughout my career I've looked to mentors for advice, so I want to do that in return."
More than 30 of Dr. Winn's former students wrote letters in support of her nomination for the award, and one of her previous PhD students organized the nomination package. Dr. Winn received her award at the SOT's annual general meeting, held last month in Washington, D.C.
James Brien (Pharmacology and Toxicology) is this year's recipient of the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CSPT) Pfizer Senior Scientist Award. The Pfizer Award is the most prestigious award for contributions to the field of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Canada, and it recognizes the outstanding achievements of a scientist's career.
"I was surprised, absolutely thrilled, and deeply honoured when I learned I had won this award," says Dr. Brien, whose research focuses on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. "It is a national recognition of the work that we've done and the accomplishments and discoveries we've made in research."
Several of Canada's leading researchers have received this award over the years, including two of Dr. Brien's mentors – former Pharmacology and Toxicology Department Heads Gerald Marks and Khem Jhamandas.
Dr. Brien will receive the award and deliver an oration describing his research achievements at the CSPT annual meeting in Montreal in May.


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Animal Control Looking for Help in Finding Dog Involved in Spencer Park Bite Incident
The Sioux Falls Police Department's Animal Control Division would like the public's help in locating a dog in reference to a dog bite.
Pet Rock Craft at Humboldt Library in Sioux Falls
Siouxland Libraries will sponsor a free Pet Rock Make-and-Take Craft for children on Thursday, July 18, 2013, at the Humboldt Branch.
More Road Closures as Construction Continues Around Sioux Falls
On Tuesday, July 9, 2013, the westbound lane on 26th Street will be closed between Yeager Road and Van Eps Avenue. Westbound traffic will use the center turn lane.
Guns Taken in Wayland Avenue Burglary
On Sunday, June 30, 2013, Sioux Falls Police responded to a burglary report in the 800 block of North Wayland Avenue. It was discovered that the suspect or suspects had forcibly entered the residence while the homeowners were away.
'Romeo and Juliet' to be Performed at Falls Park in Sioux Falls
William Shakespeare is once again bringing a classic tale to the Queen Bee Mill at Falls Park. Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation will be hosting performances of 'Romeo and Juliet'.
North Marion Road Concrete Repairs Begin Monday in Sioux Falls
69th Street Branch Drop-Off Site Closing Sunday
Traffic at branch drop-off sites has steadily declined, and the storm-related debris is largely cleaned up. As a result, the City of Sioux Falls will return to normal branch disposal operations.
Sioux Falls Police Investigate Home Burglary
On Friday Sioux Falls Police were dispatched to a burglary in progress in the 5000 block of West Thurman Drive.
Western Avenue Lane Shift Begins Monday; Blackhawk Street Closed for Railroad Crossing Work
Beginning on Monday, July 1, 2013, traffic on Western Avenue, south of Crossing Place, will be shifted from the northbound lanes to the new pavement on the southbound lanes.

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Watch out folks. Economists are comparing the artwork of Jeff Koons– currently the subject of a major Whitney retrospective– to the 17th Century tulip-mania bubble. This sobering comparison is found buried in a 2013 study titled, "The Investment Performance of Art and Other Collectibles," which measured the long term performance of collectibles and was conducted by London Business School's Elroy Dimson and HEC Paris' Christophe Spaenjers.
The European academics found that between 1900 and 2012, art, stamps and violins underperformed the equity markets by a wide margin. Stocks posted real returns of 5.2% annually, while art, stamps, wine, diamonds and violins eked out between 2.4% and 2.8%, even though there were periods, such as in the inflationary 1970s, when such passion collectibles shot up in value. The good news for collectors, according to the academics, is that collectibles did beat fixed income and gold during the same period.
Dimson's and Spaenjers' important point is that markets for collectibles are extremely volatile. By their calculation, the price of artwork collapses between 15% and 30% during bleak economic periods. Stamps, for example, have returned somewhere between 0% and 1% for a quarter of the years tracked by the study, and a majority of the stamp returns came from just a few years, with 1976 (77.7%) and 1979 (83.2%) being the most obvious standouts.
The researchers also calculated the real cost of auction house fees and dealer mark-ups. At 25% of the sale's transaction cost, it would take four years of appreciation on average to recoup the middle men fee. Meanwhile, the cost of storage and insurance, along with fraud and the costs of selling these illiquid investments, raises the economic barrier even higher. Also, remember, the long-term gains on collectibles are taxed in the U.S. at a rate of 28% versus 23.8% for traditional investable assets.
Imagine you are 65 years old, your first spouse has passed but you are blessed with another soul mate. Each of you has grown children, it's complicated, so you jointly decide not to get married. Still, you would like to be considered common-law married for the purposes of your will, so you can leave your companion important possessions and help provide for his or her financial stability. Your common-law marriage might be clear to you and your significant other, but to avoid familial squabbles over your estate at your death, it's wise to have your intentions clearly documented.
Though many of the recent court rulings on common-law marriage have dealt with same-sex couples, the overarching lessons learned still apply. In one pending Washington D.C. case, two men had lived together for 20 years but one partner, at age 68, passed away unexpectedly. In 2013, a dispute erupted between his partner and the deceased's four siblings, who were named the beneficiaries in his will. The will pre-dated their relationship and the case is still pending.
The dispute centers on the deceased's $1.3 million estate which, if the surviving partner is considered his spouse, he would be entitled to an "elective share" of the estate, to be determined by the court system. The siblings claim the partner was not close enough to be classified as a widower and, a less relevant stipulation for the purposes of our discussion, that Delaware, where the deceased's 1990 will was filed, allows for same-sex marriage but doesn't explicitly recognize common-law marriage.
After the court makes its decision, either way, both sides could lose since the lengthy legal battle will have significantly depleted the deceased's wealth — and perhaps still misinterpreted his true wishes. "Legal disputes are awful for both sides," says Nicole Pearl, partner at McDermott Will & Emery, who is not involved in the case. "All the money ends up going to lawyers, it's psychologically trying for all involved and inevitably the deceased's wishes are not carried out." This case is no different.
The 209 largest wealth management firms in the world boosted their assets under management by 19.7% last year, which means they globally lord over $14.9 trillion in what is estimated to be a $20.3 trillion industry. This increase in high-net-worth clients' assets also allowed the 209 managers to collectively report a 10.9% jump in income last year, considerably better than the 2.3% increase in income reported in 2012.
These are the headline figures from Scorpio Partnership, a London-based data cruncher that will release its full Global Private Banking Benchmark 2014 report in just under two weeks. But its knowledgeable and affable managing director, Sebastian Dovey, has been compiling this global private bank ranking for 13 years, so I called him up to get an advance peek at the big picture.
Dovey says UBS is "a nip"—meaning a couple of months away—from being the first bank in the world to have $2 trillion under management. That's after the Zurich-based colossus clocked a 15.4% increase in assets under management in 2013.
Any family that's been visited by mental illness knows how hard it can be. The pain is wrenching, and the search for a treatment can be exasperating. That's especially so with eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, because they're often coupled with depression, anxiety and even drug use.
Enter Balance, which was started in 2009 to provide patients with a safe, intimate environment for treatment. The New York-based center offers intensive outpatient programming, as opposed to live-in residential treatment, long the norm for serious cases. Many patients come for five days a week and eventually transition to three nights per week. The programs, designed for groups of eight, mix traditional psychotherapy and nutrition with newer techniques like art therapy and yoga. It all adds up to an appealing alternative for families of means. The tab for three months, the typical treatment period, can exceed $25,000, and Balance doesn't accept insurance.
Balance was just the ticket for former patient Whitney McMullan. She was diagnosed with anorexia in her late 20s but had struggled with the disorder since high school, when intense control issues and restrictive eating crept into her lifestyle. McMullan kept very little food in her apartment, except one chocolate bar and when she was hungry or stressed would walk into the kitchen to look at it. "I felt better knowing that it was there and I wasn't eating it. And that meant I had control over at least one part of my life," she says. She also remembers sitting in a psychotherapist's office, years before her diagnosis, so stricken with anxiety that, for two months of appointments, she mostly stared at her toes, unable to connect with the therapist.
Adrenaline junkies and watch geeks have their eye on Swiss watchmaker Breva. The boutique upstart first splashed onto the scene last year with its Génie 01, the first time sophisticated weather forecasting was incorporated in a mechanical watch — by building a barometer under the timepiece's hood. This year at Basel, Breva followed up with the Génie 02 Terre and Génie 02 Air, each with an embedded altimeter measuring altitude. At 55 timepieces per model, the price tags for the Génie 01 and the Génie 02 oscillate between $130,000 and $170,000.
But there is more lurking in the tool kit of Breva's 37 year-old CEO Vincent Dupontreué. In an exclusive interview with Penta, Vincent Dupontreué revealed for the first time that he is on the threshold of moving production in-house, phase II of his development plans, and that next March he will unveil another "measuring" watch, inspired by Lake Cuomo and its fair-weather wind, that will be priced at around $40,000. To learn more, see our video interview.
Dupontreué first conceived of the original Génie 01 when his habit of constantly checking the weather, at a time when he was looking to buy a watch, collided in his imagination. His aim was to do something that had never been done before and to shake-up the Swiss watch industry, but the watch essentially pulls together Dupontreué's interests as a skier, amateur pilot and self-confessed "weather nut." To help actualize his vision, and gain watchmaking experience, Dupontreué hired renowned watchmaker Jean-François Mojon of Chronode to guide him.
As the single family office industry consolidates, surviving single family offices are hanging on by slashing pricey overhead. One way is to hire outside investment teams and many single family offices are availing themselves of this outsourcing option. One of the winners of this trend is wealth manager Greycourt & Co in Pittsburgh.
Prior to 2010, Greycourt was primarily a consultant to family offices, merely advising on portfolio decisions. Greycourt advises on $9.2 billion in client assets. The firm, with 41 employees, has 70 client relationships, both wealthy individuals and institutions, with an average account of about $130 million. Greycourt charges a minimum annual fee of $200,000 on discretionary assets and $125,000 on non-discretionary. That fee can be negotiated.
But the financial crisis upended that business model. Now, says Greycourt's founder, Gregory Curtis , 70% of new clients coming through the doors are looking for an outsourced CIO. "During the financial crisis, wealthy families were either panicking or frozen," he says. Investment teams were understaffed and barely able to keep up with the fast collapsing financial markets. Portfolios were indiscriminately battered and wealthy families grew increasingly leery of complicated and costly investment strategies like hedge funds, which were pitched as stable ballasts but inevitably stumbled along with the market.
"Paul, there are just so many different kinds of watches, so many brands, and so many models. I don't know where to begin!" So exclaimed my closest friend. It's a lament I often hear, and a stumbling block that experienced watch professionals and collectors often take for granted. So here's a guide to give potential watch collectors a running start.
Novices generally know that the industry is divided between high-end mechanical watches, powered by a mainspring, and mass-market quartz watches, which are powered by a battery. After that, things get fuzzy. Mechanical-watch movements are built out of springs that provide power (mainspring) and regulate power (hairspring); gears and levers, which transmit the power of the mainspring; and finally bridges, which are the structural elements that hold all movement parts in place.
For a detailed explanation of the parts in a movement, pick up Donald De Carle's Watch & Clock Encyclopedia and George Daniels' detailed Watchmaking. To see exposed movements in all their glory, track down Guido Mocafico's magnificent photography book Movement.
But let me help with the learning curve, too. Mechanical watches are either manual or automatic. A movement's long, coiled mainspring is "energized" when wound; in a manual watch that's done by turning the round winding crown on the side of a watch until the mainspring is loaded with energy. In automatic watches, a heavily weighted rotor inside the case, sometimes made of gold or platinum and constantly spinning with the wearer's wrist movements, winds up the mainspring.
Jazz is America's music, evolving with the ebb and flow of our history. It thrived in Prohibition-era speakeasies, provocatively questioned Jim Crow segregation with interracial bands, and splintered during the protests of the Vietnam War, between the frustrated riffing of jazz-rock fusion, led by Miles Davis, and the anguished spiritualism of John Coltrane, with many artists of the day looking East towards Hinduism and Buddhism for answers. Jazz's path is so closely tied to the American experience that it is often instructive to trace the lives of its artists, from the famous to the anonymous, to better understand the big sweep of history that makes up our nation.
At the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, an exhibition called "Jazz Lives" does just that. It features the photographs of bassist Milt Hinton, best known for playing with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Cab Calloway, with those of jazz enthusiast and freelance photographer, Lee Friedlander. The two men and their lenses, spanning 1938 to 1981, provide us with an insightful behind the scenes look at the artists and the emotional pain of segregation that plagued the usually rough and poverty-stricken lives of America's great midcentury jazz musicians. The Yale exhibit closes September 7th.
As the prices for contemporary art continue to soar, the valuable heirlooms hanging on the wall at home are posing a new set of issues for collectors and estate planners alike. Too often these precious artworks aren't accounted for in the estate planning process, says Fiduciary Trust vice chairman Gail Cohen. "And that is the absolute worst scenario, because sometimes the works have appreciated so significantly they overwhelm the value of the [rest of the] estate," she says. With no proper plan in place, the death of a savvy collector could expose heirs to a staggering tax bill.
Artnet's C50 index, tracking the performance of works by leading contemporary artists from Warhol to Hirst, has nearly quadrupled this last decade. That means art collectors could be sitting on a massive windfall. Take out the party horns. But the flipside is that the combined federal and state estate tax exposure for a New York resident could come close to 60%. Not so good. Furthermore, that rate applies to estates exceeding the $5.3 million, and $10.7 million for a couple, when the markets are at a stage where a single, second-rate Warhol or de Kooning could easily put you over that gift-tax exclusion threshold. Heirs only have nine months to pay up. If they don't have the cash, they'll probably have to break up the collection, quickly selling off bits to pay the IRS tab.
To avoid this emotionally and literally taxing loss, a collector must, earlier on, choose to leave the artworks to his or her family, gift the collection to charity or sell the works outright. Assuming your children want your collection, you must decide whether to gift the collection during your lifetime or leave it to the family in your will. The answer to that is a numbers game that differs from state-to-state.
The wealthiest Americans are constantly pitched and prodded into buying new products, and all well-run luxury brands want more of the high-net worth pie. So Penta, to get a head's up on what might be coming soon to your inbox, sidled into the back row of an event called "Courting The One Percent; Inspiring Them to Invest and Buy," and diligently took notes about upcoming pitches.
The confab was put on by The Luxury Marketing Council in New York City, a "by-invitation only" outfit boasting a network of 5,000 CEOs and CMOs (chief marketing officers) from more than 1,000 luxury brands. "Never before has the richest, most sophisticated customer demanded as 'high a touch' from every transaction with luxury brands as today," read the event leaflet. The goal of the night was to set the "gold standard" for thoughtful marketing practices, and it attracted a smattering of insurance salesman, private bankers and luxury hotel execs, who gathered over cocktails and Mediterranean munchies.
Eventually, an eight-person panel got the show going. Howard Givner of the Event Leadership Institute, a consultant for event planners, best articulated the problem of luxury brands today. Customers are not using traditional media like they used to. "They're watching their TV on Netflix and listening to their music on Spotify and Pandora, meanwhile publications like Time Inc. have experienced 24 straight quarters of declining ad revenue," Givner says. Even online ads are more likely to be ignored, he says. "People, especially the younger generation, have trained themselves to ignore the right 1/3 of the page where the paid ads are and they know exactly where to look for the content."
How are advertisers bucking the trend? By appealing to the aura of comfort and security generated by a wealthy individual's lifestyle. "Whether you take one vacation a year to the Jersey Shore or spend a couple of weeks on your private yacht, you want to make sure you can take that vacation year-in and year-out," said Ken Kamen of asset manager Mercadien. Brands have to "tap into that [sense of] warmth and comfort, because then you're delivering a product that truly gets to how people think about their money," said The Luxury Marketing Council founder Gregory Furman.
Written with Barron's wit and often contrarian perspective, Penta provides the affluent with advice on how to navigate the world of wealth management, how to make savvy acquisitions ranging from vintage watches to second homes, and how to smartly manage family dynamics.
Richard C. Morais, Penta's editor, was Forbes magazine's longest serving foreign correspondent, has won multiple Business Journalist Of The Year Awards, and is the author of two novels: The Hundred-Foot Journey and Buddhaland, Brooklyn. Robert Milburn is Penta's reporter, both online and for the quarterly magazine. He reviews everything from family office regulations to obscure jazz recordings.


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The album is an endangered concept in music, with MP3s and streaming encouraging more and more people to listen to tracks "a la carte." If people aren't listening to a collection of songs intentionally put together by an artist in a specific order, why should the artist bother trying? It's one of the reasons releasing EPs seems to have become more popular than issuing full-lengths.
With some exceptions, the "album as art" concept has long been dwindling amongst Hip Hop artists, many of whom have more fully embraced the hodge-podge "mixtape" format, which is perhaps more in tune with our ADD/social media-plagued culture.
So it's beyond refreshing to hear the new release from Cincinnati MC Sleep, Branded: The Damon Winton Story, a collection of eight tracks that tells the story of a young man's troubled upbringing. It's not just that Sleep has compiled eight songs that kind of fit together; Branded is a fully envisioned tale that requires the listener to hear the entire album in order to get the total impact. And it's quite an impact.
It helps that Sleep's "concept album" is based on some excellent storytelling skills, contains some fierce rhymes (with a flow and timbre that recalls Jay-Z at his peak) and is supported by the excellent, often hauntingly atmospheric production of Dope Antelope, which brilliantly reflects the dark, chaotic, heart-breaking nature of the story. The way Sleep — half of local duo 2-Man Cypher — lays the story out is also sharply clever. In lieu of titles, each track is labeled as simply "Question," followed by the track number. The album opens with a police officer hitting "record" to begin his interview with the main character's social worker about "what could have led up to what transpired with him this past weekend." To kick off each track, the social worker is asked about a different aspect of the trouble the young man had experienced and been in.
Working backwards from the incident (which isn't revealed until "Question 8," so the listener is left to wonder what transpired), Sleep creates evocative, harrowing slices of life, usually told from the main character's point of view, but with other voices popping in occasionally to give an even bigger picture. The young man's horrific surroundings are revealed gradually; the listener learns that he has self-mutilated himself, been molested, lost (or never had) faith or religion and had family involved in drugs. Sleep's brilliance is turning the smaller stories from the big picture into vivid, cinematic tales in themselves — "If this is grown folks' business/Then why when you conduct it, there's a child as a witness," he raps after it's revealed that the main character's mother had substance abuse issues. When the social worker tells the officer that the young man had been bullied over his clothes in school, Sleep echoes that pain with lines like, "The peer pressure to be above the status quo/It's never ending, it's never taking sabbaticals."
By the last track, the listener is primed to hear just what happened to the main character, but when his fate is revealed, it's not what most would expect, making the album that much more powerful. (In the spirit of not ruining the final act, I'll refrain from giving away the ending.)
Sleep's Branded shows just how much power Hip Hop still has to tell a realistic story poetically but without hyperbole. It's an incredibly moving piece of work that stands as one of the best Hip Hop albums to come out of Greater Cincinnati in recent memory. And Sleep shows that if he ever gets tired of the Rap game (which itself would be tragic becomes the genre needs more voices like his), he'll be able to find some kind of career as a writer, be it an author, a journalist, a filmmaker or whatever field he decides to lend his talents to.
If you're a fan of intelligent Hip Hop or just great storytelling in general, you must download (for free or whatever you'd like to kick in) Branded immediately at sleep513.bandcamp.com.
Here is a music video for the track, "Question 2":
New Music Releases Available Now: Promising, trippy Hip Hop/Dance newcomer Theophilus London has released his debut long-player, Timez Are Weird These Days. London — a native of Trinidad — isn't your typical MC, as his music and this feature from The New York Times show. Spinner has a full stream of Timez here and you can get a sample of his unique style for your very own with this free download of the RAC Remix version of the track "Why Even Try," courtesy of Mashable. Below is a wild clip for the song "Girls Girls $."
An EP can serve several purposes — a stopgap release between full-length releases; fresh merch to offer at shows; a teaser for more material down the road; or an exploratory release to test the waters for a response to a new band or an existing band's new direction (among others).
In any event, whatever a band's reason might be for offering up a small dose of their material for reduced consumption, the inviolable rule of the EP is simple — always leave the listener wanting more. If you elicit even a modicum of boredom or disinterest in a spare handful of tracks, you're not likely to entice listeners to take a chance on a full-length or get them out to a show, which is, as stated, sort of the point.
Luckily, no such lapse is even remotely evident on Real Far East, Saturn Batteries' second EP in just over a year. Since the Cincinnati bands formation in 2010, guitarist/vocalist/lyricist Brad Gibson — who's put in bass time with the likes of Charlie Hustle, Young Heirlooms and Walk the Moon — has presented his brainchild as a trio, quartet and quintet along the way, all in the service of Beatlesque Pop filtered through the New Wave aesthetic of the Police and XTC and adrenalized with a heart needle full of the Pixies' jittery satellite Rock.
On last year's Ever Been in Love? Gibson and the Batteries du jour hewed a little closer to the John Lennon/Frank Black strands of their DNA, but Real Far East finds the freshly minted foursome (Gibson, guitarist Brad Rutledge, drummer Justin Sheldon, bassist Archie Niebuhr) drifting more toward the Paul McCartney/Andy Partridge end of their gene pool. And while the Batteries soften the edges ever so subtly and polish their surface to a slightly more reflective shine on Real Far East, these refinements don't diminish the band's energetic charm in the least.
One of the reasons for that is the Batteries have never forsaken one direction for another, preferring to incorporate differing elements into their foundational sound in an effective display of their diversity. The soulful "It's Not About the Money" and propulsive "Overtime" are both Pop gems that swing and swagger in a groove that isn't far removed from the benchmarks established by Walk the Moon in their march toward global domination. "You Really Live Twice" features previous members Rob Barnes and Rich Shivener, naturally hearkening back to the moody energy of Ever Been in Love? "Every Last Time" updates '60s/'70s AM Pop to the 21st century, while "Cherry Times" is a solid hybrid of the sweet and dissonant Pop that has characterized everything that Saturn Batteries has done well to this point in their history.
Real Far East shows that Saturn Batteries can have fun within their core Pop/Rock sound and clearly points the way toward a bright future for the quartet going forward.
Saturn Batteries celebrates the release of Real Far East tonight (Friday) at The Drinkery in Over-the-Rhine (click here for details). Below is the EP track "Every Last Time"; click the player or here to sample/download the entire release.
Fountain Square's popular Thursday evening "Salsa on the Square" concerts/dances — featuring top Salsa/Latin Jazz groups from across the area (and sometimes beyond), numerous dancers and even free Salsa lessons (right at the scheduled 7 p.m. start time) — are coming to an end for the summer, with two more dates left. Like all concerts on the Square, the event is free and tonight and next Thursday you can also score a free Salsa compilation EP.
"Volume 4" of the Salsa on the Square CD compilation series features five tracks by performers from this year's concerts on the Square, including locals Cla've Son, Azucar Tumbao, Son del Caribe and veteran local favorites Tropicoso, plus a cut from tonight's Salsa on the Square headliners, Bay Area ensemble Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel.
Only 500 Salsa on the Square comps are available; half will be given out tonight and the rest next Thursday, when Tropicoso closes out the series.
Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel will be making the most of their Cincinnati visit (though based in San Francisco since 1999, drummer/group leader Andres grew up in Cincinnati, where he first found his drumming groove). The group also performs downtown at the Blue Wisp Jazz Club, Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $10. Read more about Andres and Co. from this preview from when they were in town last year.
Here's a clip of Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel performing "Estampa Cubana" in 2009.
Heavy Hinges is a new-ish band featuring some faces likely familiar to dedicated local music fans. Guitarist Jeremy Singer and drummer Brian Williamson have played in numerous groups over the past two decades, while singer/guitarist Dylan Speeg and bassist Andrew Laudeman were members of long-running, super-diverse Cincinnati crew Buckra. Maya Banatwala is the relative newcomer in the band, but her soul-drenched co-lead vocals in the Hinges serve as the group's secret weapon.
Heavy Hinges debut album, Mean Old City, shows signs of some of Buckra's trademark sonic diversity, but it's channeled in a more focused manner. Ultimately, Heavy Hinges is a great Rock & Roll band, but its sound is touched by influences from Blues, Pop, Funk and Soul to various other forms of American Roots music. Like Alabama Shakes, Heavy Hinges manages to sound remarkably vital and "of the now" — despite the obvious vintage inspirations — thanks to the sincerity and vigor poured into each note. Mean Old City bristles with a timelessness that has less to do with the classic genres flirted with throughout and more to do with the from-the-heart songwriting and playing.
Here's a music video for Mean Old City track "Booze May Be Your Lover, Not Your Friend":
Speeg and Banatwala make for great co-frontpeople, crisscrossing their melodies and harmonies sometimes like X's Exene Cervenka and John Doe and other times like June and Johnny Cash, with each singer possessing a voice quite distinct from each other, yet still sounding like they were made for each other when they come together. Meanwhile, the rest of the band are flawless and perform with a similar soulfulness; Williamson and Laudeman are a jaw-droppingly great rhythm section, while Singer's guitar leads and solos are as attention-grabbing as the singers' powerful vocal one-two punch.
Heavy Hinges host a free release party for the new album Saturday at 10 p.m. at Northside Tavern with DAAP Girls. Read CityBeat's profile of Heavy Hinges from early this year when the band was nominated in the "Best New Artist" category at the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards.
Paul Weller has traveled a fascinating trend-bucking career arc since his debut with The Jam during Punk's heyday in the late '70s. When every other band was pursuing a gobsmacked, adrenaline-soaked and barely coherent version of Rock, Weller and The Jam were turning out their highly stylized spin on The Who's Mod period.
When The Jam's influence turned out pale imitators, Weller moved on to Style Council, a loungey R&B/Pop outfit that inspired a whole genre of similarly subdued purveyors. Weller's subsequent solo career has been a pastiche of Brit Folk flavored Baroque Rock flecked with bits of the sonic personae that he's championed over the past three decades, from the brilliant Traffic/Small Faces direction of his solo debut, 1992's Wild Wood, to the Soul reflection of 2002's Illumination to the edgy Punk Pop buzz of 2005's As Is Now.
It seems hard to imagine but Weller is on a hot streak at the back end of a 35-year career; 2008's 22 Dreams was on a fair number of critics' year-end lists and 2010's Wake Up the Nation was nominated for Britian's Mercury Music Prize. To his credit, Weller's approach to a new album resembles the first rule of Italian driving — what's behind you doesn't matter anymore.
So it is with his latest set, the diverse and energetic Sonik Kicks. The album lurches to life with the insistent and atmospheric "Green," a squalling, blipping gene splice of The Buzzcocks and Muse, which leads into the tropical Pop bounce of "The Attic" and Weller's Pop/Punk homage to Kurt Weill, the noisily melodic "Kling I Klang." Weller returns to his acoustic direction on the gentle (and gently orchestrated) "By the Waters," which he follows with "That Dangerous Age," a track that Peter Gabriel would be amazed to find had nothing to do with him, and the six-and-a-half minute smoky Pop/Soul workout of "Study in Blue," which deftly blends a lot of what has come before it.
Given the amazing breadth of Weller's creative palette, perhaps his consistent versatility shouldn't be such a surprise, but the incredible range and vitality of Sonik Kicks has the snap and spirit of an artist in the middle of his career, not nearing its 40th anniversary.
After launching last year locally at the MidPoint Music Festival and nationally at New York's CMJ conference, the intuitive and comprehensive music industry e-book Musicians' Desk Reference has relaunched with a new format. Created in Cincinnati by longtime local musician and promoter Brian Penick (also the founder of The Counter Rhythm Group, which has helped numerous local acts garner national attention and work), MDR is moving from its original, one-time-purchase approach to a monthly (or annual) subscription plan.
(Penick wrote guest blogs for CityBeat as he put the project together. For a more comprehensive MDR overview, click here and here. Billboard magazine has also given the project lots of love.)
For those who may have been cautious about its upfront cost, Musicians' Desk Reference, which is customizable to the user's needs (no matter where they are in their career) and features information, templates and advice relating to everything from touring, promoting and recording to radio and press campaigns and well beyond, is now available to test-drive for free. The no-cost 30-day trial doesn't even require a credit card; click here to get started.
Artists serious about pursuing a career in music will likely become more interested in MDR as they dive in and look at all it has to offer. After the 30-day trial, MDR can be accessed for $10 a month or $100 for the year.
Visit musiciansdeskreference.com for complete info.
If you are a betting man or woman and the bet is "What Cincinnati band will be next to break out into the national spotlight?" putting your money on Indie Pop/Rock trio PUBLIC would be one of the safer wagers you could make. The three gifted young musicians craft some incredibly catchy music that would be right at home on any AltRock radio station's playlist, as evidenced especially on a brand new track the group just unveiled, the danceable, hook-laden "Make You Mine."
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For more info on PUBLIC, visit the group's Facebook page here. And check out CityBeat's interview with PUBLIC from 2013 (when the group was nominated for New Artist of the Year at the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards) here.
When Maps & Atlases dropped Perch Patchwork, their 2010 debut full-length and first album for Barsuk Records, the Chicago-based quartet was just beginning to explore the intersection of their adoration of Post-Punk Math heroes like Don Caballero and their father-tilted love of '70s Prog avatars like Jethro Tull and Mahavishnu Orchestra. M&A's introductory EPs — 2006's Tree, Swallows, Houses and 2008's You and Me and the Mountain — found the band pursuing a more Folk-tinged flavor, but Perch Patchwork was an expansive yet subtle attempt to utilize the totality of the band's creative building blocks. That exploration paid huge dividends as critics and fans alike were drawn to M&A's lo-fi sonic constructions and hi-fi orchestral ambitions.
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Tribal choral melodies float above while the band skips and skates around a soundtrack that is equal measures of quirky Indie Rock ("Vampires") and blippy Electro Pop ("Silver Self"). There are still plenty of remnants of the band's organic approach to song construction but there are also many more examples of Maps & Atlases pushing themselves to think well beyond the natural box they fashioned on their earlier releases, blending their influences and experiences and evolving in fascinating new directions.
(Maps & Atlases perform July 15 at the inaugural Bunbury Music Festival along Cincinnati's riverfront.)
Local faves Buffalo Killers are gearing up for the May 13 release of Heavy Reverie, the trio's first record for Warner Music Group subsidiary Sun Pedal Recordings. Today the band revealed the new album track "Poisonberry Tide," a delicious slice of Pop Rock that is reminiscent of Guided By Voices and Superdrag and is one of the catchiest songs the band has ever released.
The label still has a few limited edition "bundles" of the new album available for pre-order. The bundle includes Heavy Reverie on CD and vinyl, as well as a digital download that includes the unreleased song "Don't Cry to Me." The package also includes a vinyl test pressing (with hand-drawn artwork by the band members), a T-shirt and a poster. Click here for more info.
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She was born March 8, 1948, in Lima to Orval P. and Lois L. (Smith) Leiberick, who preceded her in death.
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The IceHouse Theatre has been delighting audiences with professional productions for more than 60 years. From March 18 through April 9, critics can soak up the drama juices of Bingo. This Groupon is valid for any showing on Thursdays (7:30 p.m.), Fridays (8 p.m.), and Saturdays (8 p.m.). Bingo tells the story of three female friends who encounter danger, romance, and a mysterious stranger as they soldier through hurricane warnings to finish their weekly bingo game. Attendees can expect energy, laughter, and a curse upon anyone whose paper-cup-and-string phone rings during the show.
Champion over the ghoulish attractions gracing all 18 holes at Monster Mini Golf. The Winter Garden location contains enough geometric challenges to make the course interesting for all ages. Navigate your illuminated golf ball past horrible goblins, a disgruntled swamp monster, impolite specters, and a scarecrow jack-in-the-box, or just stand in awe at the 3-D spectacle. Be sure to listen for Monster Mini Golf's own in-house radio station, "W.I.R.D. (Weird Radio)," whose live, on-site DJ hands out prizes for random reasons on the links.
For more than 25 years, the Festival of Orchestras has attracted internationally renowned symphony orchestras to fill central Florida with the crashing thunder of brass instruments and the melodious vibrations of strings. Hearken to the harmonious reverberations of the German State Philharmonic, playing its first U.S. tour and featuring conductor Philippe Entremont, whose enigmatic conducting style has inspired musicians and accidentally opened intergalactic wormholes. With this deal, you'll get to witness the orchestra at Longwood's Northland Performing Arts Center, called a "music lover's dream" by the Orlando Sentinel for its wide seats and warm acoustics. The program includes a sweeping performance of historically moving pieces, including Weber's Oberon Overture, a piano concerto by Mozart, and Mahler's Symphony no. 4. Call 407-539-0245 to reserve spots for a free optional pre-concert lecture at 6:30 p.m.
As Tommy, one of Howl at the Moon's piano players, explains on the club's website, "Every night…we try and throw a party, regardless of whether it's a Tuesday night or a Saturday night." The bar's trademark dueling pianos serve as the epicenter of these nightly celebrations; patrons submit their favorite songs on slips of paper for the pianists and backing musicians to recreate. If the website's playlist is any indication, the bands can handle popular songs from all genres and eras, from Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" to Kanye West's "All of the Lights." The performances are spirited: colorful lights splash upon a stage where servers, guests, and chairs that have somehow developed mobility all dance along to the music.
Fueling the celebration is the bar's indulgent selection of drinks. Servers stand over patrons to plunge jello injectors into their mouths, and revelers grab colorful straws to help drain 86-ounce booze buckets filled with sangria or other fruity libations. Pomegranate liqueur and honey-infused whiskey sweeten specialty cocktails, and local beers add depth to coolers stocked with Stella Artois and Dos Equis.
Legendary rock icon and influential multi-instrumentalist Edgar Winter struts his decades of musical savvy as his latest tour rollicks generations of fans. A child prodigy, Winter has built a long-lasting career on imagination and inimitable virtuosity. Famous for such classic-rock staples as "Tobacco Road," "Free Ride" and the hummable No. 1 hit "Frankenstein," the performer left his forever stamp on popular music by pioneering the use of keyboard body straps, synthesizers, and solar-powered kazoos in his live shows. Winter whisks away audiences on an electrifying trip through his oeuvre, hitting all the hits and running through genres with no regard for the genre guard.
The independent Evolution stimulates the Lakeland scene by selling an eclectic selection of both mainstream and underground music while providing an intimate venue for local and touring musicians to present their craft. Evolution's stock consists of T-shirts ($10+), CDs and vinyl records ($1+), and posters for music fans to coat their empty walls with artist admiration. Peruse Evolution's thousands of vinyls, from timeless classics, including The Beatles and AC/DC, to exciting new artists (though Bob Dole's ambient-metal album is currently sold out). Evolution hosts shows nearly every weekend, featuring artists advancing the cause of rock, hip-hop, folk, and more.


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According to Wikipedia, in the videogame series "Hitman," the nameless Agent 47 is marked by the following characteristics: 47 is an introverted character who almost always speaks without emotion in a calm, formal manner (with what might be considered a muted or blunt affect). His lack of empathy, emotion or excitement while committing acts of murder are defining characteristics of the character. Basically, he's an unfeeling, expressionless drone. So who better than Paul Walker to take on the character?
Perhaps sensing that his employment on the "Fast & Furious" franchise will have to end at some point, that actor has taken the lead in a reboot of "Hitman" franchise, which is now being called "Agent 47," like a new title even matters. Video game fans know that Timothy Olyphant took on the role in the 2007 movie that was modestly successful, and even though it didn't even break $100 million worldwide, a sequel was in the works a couple of years ago. Why? Because a brand is a brand is a brand, and these things can be made with the change found in studio cushions ("Hitman" cost $24 million).
So anyway, Fox will kick the can again this time with a sure to be awesome (yes, that's sarcasm) script by Skip Woods (who wrote the Olyphant movie, that wasn't so hot) and Michael Finch ("Predators"). And if that wasn't enough to set the bar low, commercials director Aleksander Bach will make sure his feature debut on the movie, with production starting in the summer. So, if you wanted to see 90 minutes of cut scenes with perhaps the least charismatic actor around, your dream has come true. [Deadline]
Brendon Mize | August 19, 2013 4:38 AM
Paul Walker? Oh God. Thanks for saving me $8.50 for a movie ticket!
AJ | February 27, 2013 10:29 PM
Not knowing the game very well, I enjoyed the movie. I loved Timothy Olyphant in the role of Agent 47. I could see the conflict in his eyes, which is not always an easy thing to pull off. I think he portrayed the character with heart and feeling. I feel that rebooting the movie and inserting a different actor would take away from the fanbase that is out there of the movie. It would make more sense to get a better story teller to do the script though as the 1st movie was a little strained. Personally I wouldn't change any of the actors from the first movie, just the script writer! I would definitely see it if it had Timothy as Agent 47. I won't if Paul Walker portrays the character as I would feel cheated.
triguous | February 7, 2013 12:00 AM
I've long been a fan of Timothy's, since Scream 2 in 1997 really. While Hitman was a miss, Olyphant played the part well, which is something I don't see happening with Walker in the lead. This is a pretty dramatic downgrade in my opinion. I'm dumbfounded to see the same screenwriter return for the reboot, considering it's his shitty Hitman script that made this whole reboot thing possible, necessary or not. Hollywood recycles the same bad writers like it does with its movie franchises, which is why the majority of these remakes/reboots are so bad. It starts with the screenplay, and when you expect different results with the same writers, nothing good is ever going to come out of it.
DArtagnan | February 6, 2013 4:19 PM
I've always felt that Jason Statham would have been a good 47. Maybe for the next reboot in 2-3 years... :-)
Blenda Taylor | February 6, 2013 11:32 AM
I'm glad Timothy Olyphant isn't doing another Hitman movie,I never liked Tim bald,but he will always be Agent 47 ,good luck Paul Walker.
Stephen B | February 5, 2013 10:24 PM
I love how on the Nerdist podcast Olyphant admitted he only did Hitman to enable him to pay for a house he'd bought before Deadwood's cancellation.


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