RJ Smith

Showcasing the comic book pop genius who came out of the Queen City.

The buzz on raising bees.

"I fell in love with the Northside Fourth of July Parade the moment I saw the father and son bananas."

At the No Response Festival, Cincinnati’s mysterious synth legend comes out of the shadows to teach a clinic in noise

“We Shall Overcome” is an A-side on America’s jukebox, a song embraced as the anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement. And there’s a tantalizing Cincinnati connection.

Extremist groups and political bloviating have steered Islamic progress in America off track. Roula Allouch sets the record straight.

Artist Noah Purifoy sought activism without preaching it.

Don Cheadle totally channels the badassitude of Miles Davis.

When Dana Michel performs her award-winning Yellow Towel at the Contemporary Arts Center this month, expect anything but a low-impact evening. The choreographer-performance artist inhabits a persona that falls in and out of “normality,” a figure the audience will at times empathize with and at times fear.

King Records once brought the funk, and now a less satisfying funk hangs over efforts to bring its legacy alive one more time.