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The Main Library hosts a series of experimental music nights

The Main Library hosts a series of experimental music nights

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - If you think of Ross playing his keyboard synthesizer on “Friends” when you hear the words “experimental music,” then you need to swing by the Main Library and listen to some real musicians push the limits of genre and sound.

Electric Inertia

Jonathan Hancock will play trumpet and piano simultaneously, accompanied by a cellist, while manipulating reel-to-reel projectors.

  • 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, Reading Garden Lounge

Neato Torpedo

Cincinnati's own legendary noise weirdoes.

  • 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, Popular Library Lounge

Gentle ambient Fender Rhodes electric piano accompanied by a participatory multidimensional audio book sound collage.

  • 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, Popular Library Lounge

Charlie Tekulve

Man charged with repeat-dialing 9-1-1 to demand a ride, is given a ride to jail

Man charged with repeat-dialing 9-1-1 to demand a ride, is given a ride to jail

 

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Cincinnati Police have arrested a 33-year-old Westwood man, Chatase Jones, on charges that he called 9-1-1 over and over again demanding that police come and give him a ride somewhere.  They ended up giving him a couple rides to jail.  The second arrest came one day after he was indicted on his first set of calls. He is scheduled to be arraigned Saturday.

William Shatner to beam into Cincinnati for one-man show

William Shatner to beam into Cincinnati for one-man show

 

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Friday, the 13th of April, television and movie legend William Shatner will bring his one man show SHATNER’S WORLD: WE JUST LIVE IN IT (www.shatnersworld.com) to Cincinnati, one of 15 cities on the tour.  Tickets for all cities go on-sale the weekend of February 3rd.  The tour follows a three week run at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre from February 14 - March 4.

The two-hour show will take audiences on a voyage through Shatner’s life and career, from Shakespearean stage actor to internationally known icon and raconteur.  The star is known as much for his unique persona as for his expansive body of work on television and film.  

“I’m looking forward to taking this show on the road and playing for audiences across the country,” says William Shatner. “It’s taken me 80 years to get this show right!”

Fluorescent, furry "Soundsuits" come to the Art Museum this weekend

Fluorescent, furry "Soundsuits" come to the Art Museum this weekend

 

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Chicago artist Nick Cave will make his presence known in a big way when "Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" debuts at the Cincinnati Art Museum this weekend.

This exhibition is the largest scale presentation of the work of Chicago-based artist Nick Cave to date.  Cave combines aspects of sculpture, fashion design, dance and video art in his larger– than–life ‘Soundsuits’.  These full body, form fitting ‘suits’ are layered and textured with metal, plastic, found objects, and colorfully dyed human hair designed to rattle, swish, and resonate in rhythm with the movements of the wearer, usually Cave himself. 

Friday January 20, 2012, the Soundsuits will be in motion in a special performance during a Member’s Opening at 7 p.m.  300 members have already rsvp’d.  Nick Cave will give a lecture at 7:30pm in the FATH auditorium.

Scientific study says wolf spiders steal dance moves

Scientific study says wolf spiders steal dance moves

 

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A team of researchers at the University of Cincinnati, Alma College in England, and the Newark OH campus of OSU says they've learned that male wolf spiders watch each other and steal their best dance moves, used to attract mates.

This is the first time this kind of thing has been reported in an invertebrate.

The study co-authored by David Clark, a professor of biology at Alma College; J. Andrew Roberts, an associate professor in the department of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at The Ohio State University at Newark; and George W. Uetz, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cincinnati; is published this month in Biology Letters, a journal of the Royal Society of London.

Pumpkin guts, casually tossed, get their revenge on your plumbing

Pumpkin guts, casually tossed, get their revenge on your plumbing

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Downtown-based Roto-Rooter, with regional offices in Northside, says it may seem easy for your kitchen sink disposal unit to take care of the insides of a newly carved pumpkin, but their plumbers will remove gobs of guts from clogged drains before the end of the Halloween season. They say local Roto-Rooter plumbers have become as common a Halloween visitor as trick-or-treaters due to sticky pumpkin pulp and seeds. 

Roto-Rooter, which is America's largest provider of plumbing repair and drain cleaning services, says pumpkin pulp should never be put down drains or into garbage disposals.

Settlement reached in Eric Deters vs. Whistleblower case

Settlement reached in Eric Deters vs. Whistleblower case

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A case that pitted a controversial Northern Kentucky lawyer and talk-show host against a controversial conservative online publication. 

Eric Deters has dropped the case he filed against Jim Schifrin of Anderson Township, publisher of the Whistleblower in exchange for a statement published there.   Deters said the judge urged the parties to settle.  Deters sued after remarks Schifrin made about Deters and an employee who went to work for him after he successfully defended her on sex charges when she was a school teacher.

Here's a release from the ACLU, which defended the Whistleblower: 

Settlement in ACLU Lawsuit Protects Free Speech
Local Attorney Ends Lawsuit
Seeking to Silence Citizen Journalist 

CINCINNATI- Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio announced that a settlement was reached between Whistleblower publisher James Jay Schifrin, and local attorney, radio host,