Northsider | August 2014 Volume 1 Issue 11

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COMMUNITY NEWS SPOTLIGHT MUSIC MAKERS 4 8 10Northside Neighborhood Yardsale Returns

EATS: The Kitchen Factory

INTERVIEW: Kristen Kreft of The Perfect Children

9 FEATURE PEOPLE OF NORTHSIDE - A MONTHLY GLIMPSE INTO THE LIVES OF NORTHSIDERS

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northside 4th of july parade|2014 PEOPLE’S CHOICE WINNERS

The ballots are in, and this year’s float fa-vorites are: (Clockwise from top left) First Place: DANCEFIX. Photo by Tom Rick; (Top right) Third Place: Able Projects/Gallery Automotive/Galaxie Skate Shop. Photo by Bob Scott; (Center) Second Place: Chicken Lays an Egg. Photo by Sam Womelsdorf; (Bottom right) Fourth Place: The Dent School House; (Bottom left) Fifth Place: Mighty Ohio Scooter Club. Photo by Bob Hollis.

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Printmaker Julie Lonneman created the art for this month’s cover, a 12” x 9” reduction linocut. Julie maintains a studio at the Off the Avenue building on Knowlton Street. In 2009, she documented scenes

along Knowlton Street through a series of relief prints, a project funded through an Individual Artist’s Grant from the City of Cincinnati. She is a member of the Tiger Lily Press print cooperative. Julie also works as a graphic designer and illustrator, mainly for print publications. Her illustrations have been published in the United States, Canada, Germany and Australia.

COVER ART | NORTHSIDER FEATURED ARTIST VOLUME 1 ISSUE 11 | CONTENT

2 4TH OF JULY PARADE PEOPLE’S CHOICE

4 COMMUNITY NEWS -NORTHSIDE TIDBITS

-LITTLEFIELD GROUNDBREAKING -NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY YARDSALE -HAPPEN GOES GREEN -NORTHSIDE TEENS ‘EARN AND LEARN’

7OPINION -WE, TOO, ARE HUMANS

8SPOTLIGHT EATS: THE KITCHEN FACTORY

9FEATURE PEOPLE OF NORTHSIDE

10 MUSIC MAKERS -INTERVIEW: KRISTEN KREFT OF

THE PERFECT CHILDREN

12SPOTLIGHT EVENT: APPLE STREET MARKET PARTY

13 ISSUES FOOD ACCESS: APPLE STREET MARKET

A CHANCE TO SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE CITY AND NATION

14COLUMNS FOOD CULTURE: THE INTREPID FARMER

HEALTH & WELLNESS: GOOD VIBRATIONS

16 NORTHSIDE SCENE EVENTS CALENDAR-AUGUST

17 ARTS -YOUTH: HAPPEN’S FILM CRITICS

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culture in the Northside Neighborhood. As such, The Northsider is committed to providing timely, quality and informative community news and opinions while embracing the diversity of the neighborhood.

organizational structure:Northsider, LLC. is a Nonprofit Limited Liability Company overseen by the Northside Community Council. The Northside Community Council is a volunteer, community-based organization that provides an opportunity for all individuals and groups in the community to participate in Northside’s present and to chart Northside’s future. As such, it is committed to bringing people of diverse backgrounds and opinions together in an

atmosphere that fosters cooperation and communication.

The NCC meets the third Monday of the month, (except January and February, fourth Monday due to holidays) at 7:00 PM at McKie Recreational Center, 1655 Chase Avenue.

The Northsider Monthly newspaper is published on the first Friday of the month and is distributed to businesses and residents in the 45223 zip code.

WRITERS: Ollie Kroner, Tommy Reuff, Jonathan Sears, Nick Mitchell, Steve Sunderland, Lindsay Cavagnaro, Stefan Pleli, Ericka McIntyre, Rae Hoffman, Andyman Hopkins, Casey Whitten-Amadon, Cynthia Allen, Ginger Dawson

artwork: Julie Lonneman, Tom Rick, Bob Scott, Sam Womelsdorf, Bob Hollis, Peter Stevens, Happen Inc. , CAIN,

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CALL TO ARTISTS | MONTHLY COVER ARTMonthly Cover Art submissions:The Northsider is seeking monthly cover art submissions from local artists. Artists will be paid $40 for published covers. All 2 dimensional pieces will be considered. One stipulation of publication is that the piece or a print be donated to The Northsider Annual Art Auction Fundraiser. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will be reinvested in a fund to support art projects in Northside. The remainder will help support the paper. If you are interested in having your artwork considered: email: [email protected] Subject line: Cover Art Submission

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COMMUnITY nEWS

nORTHSIDE TIDBITS

Syringe Exchange Project

At the July meeting, Northside Community Council voted unanimously to support a needle exchange pilot program. The pilot will last 6 months, operat-ing one day a week, offering users a clean needle in exchange for a dirty needle. The program is already in operation in other locations, and helps bring users into treatment, reduce the spread of disease, and reduce the number of used needles discarded as litter.

Senior Living Options

Northside will see 56 new apartments coming in at the corner of Knowlton and Mad Anthony. The apartments will offer an affordable housing option for our seniors looking to stay in Northside, with some healthcare and assisted living options onsite.

Neighborhood Yard Sale

Get ready! Over 30 yard sales already announced for August 9th, 9:00-2:00. Find a map of sales, or add your own at www.northsideyardsale.com.

Next Meeting

Community Council will meet 7:00 PM, Monday, August 18 at McKie Rec Center.

Northside Community Council Updates

Friday, July 25, 2014 - Littlefield Groundbreaking Northside - Members of the Cincinnati City Council joined the Northside Business Association and Northside Community Council in welcoming the owners, Matt Distel, Chad Scholten and Mike Berry and the bar manager John Ford, in cutting the ribbon on the latest redevelopment in the South Block of Northside. Originally built in the 1870’s by the Littlefield family, this historic structure has been revitalized to house Northside’s first Bourbon bar. Photos: Peter Stevens.

Groundbreaking|WHAT’S OLD IS NEW AGAIN NORTHSIDE’S SOUTH BLOCK WELCOMES THE LITTLEFIELD

Wednesday July 23, 2014 - PAR-Projects, a Cincin-nati-based arts organization located in Northside, announced the purchase of a parcel of land in Northside. The land, located at 1662 Hoffner St. also includes a small building that will be used for office space and outdoor performances. PAR-Projects’ goal is to build an art & education center for Northside that focuses on teaching practi-cal arts at a community accessible level.More about theit upcoming plans and fundraising goals will be launching soon.

PAR-Projects update

July 2014 - Dance With Me (DWM), an entertain-ment company that strives to produce quality arts enrichment & entertainment at affordable rates, launched a Kickstarter Campaign in July. The cam-paign is aimed at helping owner Ben Walker open a dance/rehearsal studio in Northside at 1757 Chase. Walker is seeking $15,000 in funds that will go towards operating costs including rent, insurance, and studio equipment. DWM has successfully choreographed and pro-duced productions for the greater Cincinnati commu-nity since 2008. DWM also provides arts enrich-ment & classes for private schools, public schools, after-school programs, and recreation centers. Go to www.kickstarter.com to help fund this project.

Dance with me “Help Open the Doors” Kickstarter Campaign

If you’re new to Northside or happen to work weekends, you may not be aware of one of the community’s institutions -- The

Northside Community Yard Sale. For many years C.A.I.N. (Churches Active In Northside) located on Hamilton Ave did a great job of coordinating this event the same weekend as “Corridor 127,” also known as The World’s Longest Yard Sale. For 10+ years, their volun-teers put together a yard sale map so neighbors could find each oth-ers’ wares, trinkets and furniture.

They also opened their parking lot to community members looking to participate in a central yard sale location, which is more in tune with the Corridor 127 event.

After many years of success, the group found the event difficult to relate to their overall mission and noticed the planning was be-coming a bit cumbersome to handle amongst all of the great work they were doing for the communi-ty, especially during the summer months. When they made the tough decision to pass the torch, the good

folks of Building Value (another great Northside organization) real-ized they had the space to keep the event alive, so over the past few years they’ve been putting in the long hours to organize and promote the event. Still, it was never a perfect fit for the group, so this year the community yard sale was once again passed on to whomever would take it on -- via The Northside Community Council.

As one of the few members

The Northside Community Yard Sale|LOOKING FORWARD

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(Left) Happen’s Nature Team at Northside Grange (Center) Happen and Youth Works weed the Lingo Parking Lots (Right) Pat Agnew teaches composting. Photos: Happen Inc.

This summer Happen, Inc. explored nature in Northside with several camps and special events focused on the environ-

ment and healthy lifestyles. Hap-pen worked directly with over 200 children ages ranging from 6 to 17 in all the Happen Gardens located in Northside. Happen also teamed with Youth Works to provide eight Thurs-day night Family Art Picnics at Fergus Park and The Happen Nature Team met on Tuesday mornings twice a month in the Happen Gardens. Com-bined with the efforts of Youth Works, Whiz Kids and Happen volunteers, Happen has served over 1,200 peo-ple during our summer outdoor events in Northside.

Happen also harvested 107 pounds of greens for CAIN in just the spring and early summer. Happen’s Nature Team has already planted the fall garden and are looking forward to harvesting even more greens for CAIN later this year. The Nature Team children were also able to visit and learn about local businesses in Northside focused on promoting neighborhood gardens. Jerome from Northside Grange spoke to children about the varieties of greens they could grow in the fall and why he de-cided to start a local business focused on pet and urban farm supplies.

Naturalist, Pat Agnew worked with our Nature Teams and Teen groups on learning the best practices

for composting. Faces Without Places, an organization dedicated to helping homeless children, brought two busses of children to the Happen Outside space on Hoffner Street for a morn-ing of games and activities focused on fruits and vegetables.

Special thanks goes to Camp Washington Business Association who donated several planters that Happen has distributed through-out Northside. Look for some of the planters filled with wildflowers in front of North Presbyterian church and in Hobart alley.

All the efforts this summer cel-ebrates Happen’s Garden theme “Community is more than where you live, ™ It’s how you live with other

people.” All these activities and summer is

not even over! If you enjoyed Hap-pen’s Free Pony Rides at “Happen Outside” (1617 Hoffner St.) last month then you don’t want to miss A Day Of Pirates on August 9 at Hap-pen Outside.

Art activities for parents & children4201 Hamilton Ave (& Chase) HOURS: 3:30 - 7:30PM (Tue.-Thu.) 10am - 5PM (Sat.) www.happeninc.org (513)751-2345

Happen Inc. Goes Green This SummerCOMMUnITY nEWS

Happen, Inc.’s founder and Executive Director

BY TOMMY RUEFF

of the Northside Community Coun-cil board with experience hosting and producing large-scale events in Northside and surrounding areas, I took on the responsibility of accept-ing the torch, with the understanding that I’d be making it into more of a PAR-Projects experience in an effort to loop it into our annual offerings. And for those who don’t know, PAR-Projects is the organization that’s been working to build an art & education center for Northside, out of repurposed shipping containers. You may have noticed our #MakersMobile shipping container gallery space floating around and/or

heard about our recent land acquisi-tion.

Familiar or not, with this article, I’d simply like to invite you to join us for the re-birth of The Northside Community Yard Sale.

On Saturday, August 9th, from 9am to 2pm, please join us in the green space behind Django Western Taco (along Blue Rock at the corner of Hamilton), where you’ll find this year’s central location. We’ll have maps so you can locate your shopper-welcoming neighbors, smiles to help with whatever mother nature presents us with, and excited wishes of “Happy Hunting!” to

help put you in the mood. Per usual, we’ll also be hosting

some of your eclectic neighbors, but this year a few highlights from outside of Northside such as the “Big SIS” tent (of Rosie Kovacs & Jessie Cundiff) will be joining us and featuring fanciful hand-me-downs as well as pricing options that will allow your dollars to benefit one of their favorite non-profits, Dress for Success! There may even be a few surprises like a live DJ and art-inspired takeaways from PAR.

All said, this is our transitioning year so we hope you’ll excuse any missteps we may (or may not) have made along

the way. More importantly though, we hope you’ll look forward to the new generation of the Northside Community Yard Sale hosted by PAR-Projects. Inter-active maps, art markets, live entertain-ment and good food are things you can expect us to start integrating into one of our favorite Northside events as the years progress.

For now though, you can stay tuned in at www.NorthsideYardSale.com

ParProjects founder

BY Jonathan Sears


Stacey ‘Sun’ Smith, founder and owner of Soap-box tees, designed and printed CAIN’s Earn and Learn t-shirts this year. Sun was born and raised in Northside and donates her time to serving

both in and outside the community. Earlier this year she held a T-shirt fundraiser, from which proceeds went to a school in Haiti.

Founded in 2007 in Cincinnati, OH by Sun, Soapbox Tees is a creative, urban, and socially conscious lifestyle clothing company. Sun’s vision is to design clothing that represents a variety of influences, a reflection of her environment and passions. As an activist, writer, and de-vout volunteer, Sun’s experiences working with low-wage workers establish workers rights, connecting displaced people in the community with sustainable resources, fuels her drive for promoting social responsibility. Soapbox Tees remains committed to the principles that took it from scribbles on a pad to textile art. Their success is a result of their commitment to raising social awareness and fundraising for national and global causes. For the con-sumer, Soapbox Tees delivers a universal message that breaks stereotypes and ethnic boundaries.

This summer eleven Northside teens partic-ipated in Churches Active in Northside’s Earn And Learn Employment Readiness Program. Aimed at 13, 14 and 15-year

olds, the focus of Earn and Learn is neighborhood beautification, community service, and job eti-quette. Students earn a stipend upon completion of the program.

Since 2001, and dependent on available funding and partnerships, CAIN has coordinated various teen summer employment offerings for 10 to 20 teens each summer. The summer opportuni-ties are designed to help teens at a critical point in their personal development to gain skills need-

ed to better prepare them for future success. The hope is that participants see they are able to make an impact in their community, which will inspire them to continue making positive, life-giving decisions in their future.

This year’s stellar participants include: James Austin Carr, Alijah Clark, LaMarzi Glover, Curtis L. Hopey Jr., MiVonn Jackson, Timothy Jones, Davon Jorden, Destiny King, Malia King, Jaden Miller, and Andrew Welch. Five-year veteran supervisor and program coordinator, Kathy Y. Wilson motivates and inspires teens to do their best.

The students were very appreciative of the program and the opportunities which included representing CAIN in the 4th of July parade, helping clean-up Hoffner Park after the 4th of July Rock-n-Roll Carnival, several clean-sweeps of Hamilton Avenue, a field trip to the Cincinnati Opera and a session with Stacy ‘Sun’ Smith, founder and owner of Soap Box tees.Curtis Hopey, Jr., a 16-year old who wants

to go to college for mechanical engineering, is a 2-year veteran of the program. He said that he values the program because it helps keep kids off the streets during the summer by offering them an appealing alternative. Curtis served as Teen Assistant and said “I’m not just in it for the money, but also the other kids.” Jaden Miller enjoyed the hard work the program required of her and was grateful for the opportunity to obtain more work experience for the future.

This is the final summer for CAIN’s Earn and Learn Program that has been a key part to many young teenagers’ lives. The program has offered hope to teens who need it most and has inspired a future generation.

FOR MORE INFO: Churches Active in Northside (CAIN)

4230 Hamilton Avenue513-591-CAIN (2246)www.cainministry.org

Northside Teens ‘Earn AND Learn’ with CAIN | ANOTHER SUMMER OF “GOOD FOR THE HOOD”

July 8, Earn and Learn Students with Stacey ‘Sun’ Smith, at Churches Active in Northside Photo: CAIN

July 10, CAIN, Students, Program Coordinator Kathy Wilson, and CAIN Director MiMi Chamberlin celebrate the summer’s success with a

certificate ceremony. Photo: CAIN

Stefan Pleli, a junior marketing major at Xavier University, is working this summer at Churches Active in the Northside through the Scripps Howard Foundation Nonprofit Internship Program.

By Stefan Pleli

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1 Introduction: Cancer Care Needs Dramatic Change. There is too little help in making good decisions about

critical decisions. If you are poor, without insurance, a minority, or of average intelligence, then you are lost in the maze, a set of structures set up to confuse, intimidate, and frustrate anyone who is facing very tough medical conditions. Poor people are in greater danger of dying from the system of heath care in Cincinnati and this country. This is not a new situation. Instead of finding a welcoming for the very sick by the health profession, a set of thought-ful and understandable suggestions for consideration that include risks, and a willingness to provide the time to explain treatments and listen to concerns, the patient, their family, and their support persons are often told through body language, arcane procedures, and verbal abuse, that they are in the “wrong place” at the “wrong time.” Even so-called “best” hospitals, doctors, and social workers seem to need a major lawsuit to wake up to the need for adult communication between health care providers and patients. This crisis in health care delivery is solvable. Other cities and countries have found that assisting the patient through one on one activities by a lay person, a nurse, a doctor, or a family member can dramatically reduce doctor error, clarify treatment and follow up procedures, and increase life expectancy for anyone who is sick with cancer or any threatening health condition. Institutions like Cleveland Clin-ic, Johns Hopkins, and the Medical College of Georgia are still the exceptions for patient navigation through the health care obstacle course. Yet, patients in Cincinnati can make a difference in demanding that hospitals, doctors, nurses, and hospital staff review the evidence on patient navigators and implement some variation of what is now happening in other cities.

2 What is Patient Navigation and How Did It Start? A Patient Navigator can be a friend who is able to be an

ally of the patient. This means keeping the patient’s interest at the center of the discussion; or, clarifying medical ter-minology until it is clear; or, being a spokesperson for the

patient when the patient needs to know the experience of the health professional with this kind of cancer; or, helping the patient seek a second opinion even if the first physician seems to have covered all the questions. With a diagnosis of cancer, the patient, especially the patient who may be poor, may be totally unfamiliar with doctors, hospitals, patient rights, and the meaning of critical terms related to treatment. The Patient Navigator, perhaps assigned by the hospital, perhaps being sent from a patient group, can step in and provide some important guidance to the process of negotiating the hospital as well as coping with the emotions connected to having cancer. Without a Patient Navigator, the likely result is increases in patient ignorance, sketchy patient compliance with medical procedures, and severely limited patient success. For too many patients, especially poor patients, this means unnecessary death.

Harold P. Freeman, M.D., a cancer specialist and former president of the American Cancer Society, start-ed the first research on using Patient Navigators to raise the survival rate of poor blacks and Hispanics who have cancer treatments in 1990. His research at Harlem Hospital in New York City, largely among African Americans, was seeking to see if having a Patient Navigator would signifi-cantly change the health outcomes of African Americans diagnosed with cancer.

Amazing results happened over 5 years: Survival rates from cancer changed from 39% to 70%. Freeman believed that the success was related to three factors: “First, the cen-ter /Harlem Hospital Cancer Control Center/ offered free and low cost screening mammography, which allowed for early diagnosis. Second, the Patient Navigation program promoted treatment with no delay. Finally, the improved outreach and public education were believed to have played an important role in the new findings.”

Currently, there are 85 institutions in 33 states with 181 trained navigators.

3 Patient Navigation and America’s Unequal Health Systems: The American Health System has ranked last

compared to other countries in providing equitable health care. Patient Navigation approaches face a daunting real-ity. According to The Commonwealth Fund’s analysis: “The U.S. ranks last on measures of equity. Americans with below average incomes were more likely than their counterparts in other countries to report not visiting a physician when sick; not getting a recommended test, treatment, or follow up care; or not filling a prescription or skipping doses when needed because of costs. On each of these indicators, one third or more lower income adults in the U.S. said that they went without needed care because of costs in the past year.”

Each of these issues could be dramatically assisted by Patient Navigators. Moreover, the introduction of the Af-fordable Care Act has created opportunities and challeng-es for poor people and the population in general. Some insurance choices have involved out of pocket expenses that are just too high for poor families and thus reduce partici-

pation in health choices. Or, patients are stuck with choices of poor quality hospitals and services, especially poor people. For rich and poor alike, post surgery survival is linked to hospital quality: Patients are more likely to die at hospitals that serve low income communities.

Again, with Patient Navigators there could be both bet-ter outcomes for the patient and improvements in hospital quality.

4Cincinnati Health Issues and Patient Navigation: The absence of a Patient Navigation process in Cincinna-

ti only increases what is a dire situation facing the poor. There is no question that health access dramatically affect life and death in our poorer neighborhoods. Recent data has shown that poor black neighborhoods have a 66.4 to 68.2 years of life expectancy while affluent neighborhoods have 83.2 to 87.8 years of life expectancy. Underlying this grim statistic is the reality that “(a)lmost 20 percent of African American adults in Cincinnati went without see-ing a doctor because they couldn’t afford it...” (L. Ber-nard-Kuhn(3/23/14) Effort seeks to close the gap in health care. The Enquirer.. P. A4.) 53 babies died in Cincinnati and a poorly developed system “...of programs for expectant mothers and young children is not a reliable way to reduce infant deaths or make sure that babies get off to good starts.” (K. Ramsey(6/2/14) What is the best way to save babies? The Enquirer. P. A8.) Patient Navigators can make a major contribution just like Freeman’s program in Harlem in 1990.

5. A Personal Note: Cancer has entered my life from two directions, my wife and my brother. Each day I

wonder what my life would be like if one of the hospitals and one of the doctors we are working with had connected us with a Patient Navigator. Like other cancer patients and support people, rich or poor, we are proceeding with-out our questions and concerns being responded to by a consistent, friendly, and cancer knowledgeable ally. Finding good doctors, nurses, oncologists, surgeons, and insurance staff has proceeded with too much uncertainty for my taste. I am sure that many support members of people with cancer feel the same way. A Patient Navigator is one giant step toward a caring system for rich and poor. I have a dream that one day any patient with cancer can be matched with a Patient Navigator to accompany him/her on their journey. Perhaps patients can come together and start a program, or a hospital, insurance company, or physician group will step forward.

OPInIOn: MEDICAL JUSTICE

WE, TOO, ARE HUMANs: WHERE IS MY PATIENT NAVIGATOR?

Steve is a founder of the Peace Village and a professor of peace and educational studies at the University of Cincinnati.

He has been a Northsider for over 10 years.

BY Steve Sunderland [email protected]


At the corner of Apple and Chase, you’ll find the Kitchen Factory. Or the Lunch Box. Or the late-night pizza slice

window, depending. But you’ll always find a friendly greeting and good food.

The Kitchen Factory feeds a mix of Northside regulars and new folks who happen by or wander in. On the weekdays, it’s the kind of place a busy mom can pop in and grab a slice for herself and her kids to fuel a hectic afternoon; the kind of place where two friends, one a dedicat-ed vegetarian, the other a decided carnivore, can get cozy over sand-

wiches and salads for lunch and catch up. And on weekends, it’s the kind of place you can go at 2:30 AM when you just really need a slice. (Soon, it will be the kind of place you can go for dinner, too—starting August 1st the Factory will be open Thursday through Saturday evenings, offering their spin on Italian fare.)

I stopped in one recent lunch shift to talk to Melissa Cox Howard, the Factory’s proprietor, about the place, the neighborhood, the food, and her mission. While I’m there, a customer asks if he can “really” get vegan pizza. Melissa cheerily assures him, it’s vegan. (And, it’s good; it was vot-ed “Best Vegan Pizza” by CityBeat). Another new guest says she’s always looking for good vegetarian-friendly places. She and Melissa chat about how healthy food can be enjoyed, not just endured. Of her dishes, Melissa says, “We all love mac & cheese—give me the flavor Grandma made, but give me the healthy version of it so I don’t feel crummy after I eat it.” The Factory’s “Crack & Cheese” (veg-an mac & cheese) achieves just that.

Melissa opened the Kitchen Fac-tory in 2012 with an idea to cook for people, and help others cook for peo-ple, too. The Factory is part restau-rant, part new restaurant incubator. She rents the Factory to chefs who’d like to test the waters before taking all the risk of opening a new place. Outfits like Meatball Kitchen held successful pop-ups here, and are now full-fledged restaurants on their own. Melissa sees this as her mission—feeding people healthy food, nurtur-ing small businesses, and passing on what she’s learned after thirty-five years in the business. She started as a dishwasher and worked her way up to chef. In between, she’s cooked for four U.S. Presidents, Prince Charles, and the Prime Minister of Israel; and famous musicians from Frank Sinatra to Stereolab. But who does she love feeding most? Northsiders. The Fac-tory’s menu board reads, “We love cooking for YOU!” and when you see Melissa’s passion about her customers, her staff, her food, and this neighbor-hood, you know it’s true.

Opening the Factory in Northside

was intentional. Melissa says that while managing the kitchen at Melt for five years, she fell in love with the neighborhood. She was running the vegan lunch counter at Park + Vine, and wanted to bring that concept here. She says of Northside, “It’s an open-minded neighborhood…. Peo-ple here want new things, so it’s the best place for this restaurant to be. It’s a neighborhood that’s growing, a walking neighborhood…a good fit for what I want to do.” She counts the success of restaurants the Factory has helped to launch as her greatest success: “Because this is what we’re supposed to be doing—helping each other, not kicking each other back in the ditch. And my kitchen is the small way that I can do that.”

Band members Kerstin Bladh, Veronique Allaer and Christopher Campbell Photos submitted by Veronique Allaer.

spotlight|EATS

THE KITCHEN FACTORy

Ericka McIntyre is a freelance writer and editor who lives in, works in, and loves Northside.

By Ericka McIntyre

The Kitchen Factory is open as The Lunch Box, Monday–Friday, 11 AM to 3 PM, serving vegan sandwiches,

salads, slices, and more; and for pizza on Thursday evenings from 5 PM to 9 PM. The Kitchen Factory’s late-night

slice window is open Friday–Saturday, 9 PM to 3 AM, serving vegan and

non-vegan slices. Phone: 591-3333.

the details

(Left) Melissa Cox Howard behind the counter at the Kitchen Factory (Top) The Kitchen Factory, 1609 Chase Avenue (Above) The late-night slice window at the Kitchen Factory Photos: Ericka McIntyre

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This month through a series of successful “er-rors” I was introduced to Neil Anderson of Pullan Avenue. Neil, a seven year resident of Northside, moved here originally from

Clifton. Neil is a massage therapist specializing in catering to the individual needs of each client. His technique is conscientious care so that everyone leaves better than they came. He assured me that “even if you only have fifteen minutes I can make a difference.” He explained that many of his clients have a frustration with conventional medicine and struggle with not being listened to. Neil takes special care to listen to his clients when they come to him and gives them tools to empower themselves when they leave, like suggestions for at home ex-ercises or better ways to sit in a desk chair.

Neil wasn’t always a self-employed massage therapist. In the late 80’s he worked in a factory and was burnt severely on his arm from an indus-trial accident. You do not have to look too closely to see the scars from the skin grafts on his arm. He healed after months of recovery and went back to work in the factory, a job he didn’t feel made a difference. He started doing massage thera-py about nine years later. He took a two year program and has been licensed since 2000 and he has not looked back. As he puts it “I don’t hate Monday mornings anymore.” He finds the value in doing something you love is the payoff even if it takes time for the financial value to come to

fruition. One of my favorite

takeaways from my time with Neil was his insight to why he loves Northside and its place in Cincinnati: “Cincinnati is a town where identity is important,” he explains, “the high school you went to, the town where you grew up, what your parents did, wheth-er or not you went to UC, your religious beliefs, those have been the tradition-al markers of identity in Cincinnati for a long time… to be in Northside is to be a place where your past, your identity markers, are not seen as determinants for where your life can go… Living in Northside those identity markers are just seen as part of the music of your life. They’re not your final destination or final statement of who you are. You’re kind of free to create your own identity in Northside.”

If you are lucky to be sitting at Melt or Djan-go on a Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon, you just might catch a glimpse of the elusive window washer. His name is Gary Turner,

and for thirty-four years he has been cleaning the windows of Northside businesses with the dexterity of an artist.

Though Gary now resides in St. Bernard and works a full time job during the week, he still carves a few hours out of his busy schedule to keep Northside transparent--washing and polishing the windows of Sidewinder, Ruth’s, Blue Jay’s, Bistro Grace and the Littlefield, to name a few.

Some lucky patrons and business owners

who catch Gary at the end of a wash and ask are treated to an incredible Elvis imper-sonation. Gary says that aside from the daily grind of work and life, he’d love to get “on one of those singing competitions.” It is Gary Tuner and many others who keep Northside clean, unique, and never dull.

people of northside|MEET GARY TURNERNORTHSIDE’S WINDOW WASHER/ELVIS IMPERSONATOR

Rae Hoffman lives in Northside with her pug, Athena. She has a BA and MFA in Poetry. She has been published in

Kenning, Poetica Magazine, Red River Review, and is forthcoming in Mojo.

BY Rae Hoffman

Lindsay is relatively new to Northside moving here in November of 2012. She was drawn here by the sense of community and acceptance Northside offers and plans to stay and contribute for many years to come.

BY Lindsay Cavagnaro

Photo: Rae Hoffman

people of northside|MEET NEIL ANDERSONSCARRED BUT FAR FROM BROKEN

Photo: Lindsay Cavagnaro

to be in Northside is to be in a place where your past, your identity markers, are not seen as determinants for where your life can go”

Welcome to the “People of Northside” where each month we feature different members of our eclectic neighborhood to remind you why you call Northside home. If you would like to see an article published on a member of the community or to write your own article on a

person that interests you email us at [email protected].


Big laugh. Warm smile. She wears an old arch top guitar with just as much swagger as her customary cowboy boots

and pillbox hat. She’s not here to impress you, but she does it anyway. Get used to it. Another big laugh.

Kristen Kreft is the lead singer for a local “Garage Soul” band with a hot new CD prepped for imminent

release. As their website says:“The Perfect Children are the

romp and stomp; the fresh wound of broken love; laughing in spite of pain. They are a girl with something to say and a boy to help deliver the message, cathartic but engaging. Their energy is infectious, the notes ring out and the space between is an emotional exhalation-personal but vague. They live at the intersection of Holly Golightly, Dex Romweber, Nina Simone, Al Green, and Otis Redding.”

Once you see their show, it’s easy to see why they were nominated for not just “Best Live Act,” but also “Best R&B/Soul/Funk Band” at last year’s Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. There’s a raw intensity that’s built among the members Beth Harris and Nicole Potter Borngrebe handle the harmonies, while drum and bass du-

ties fall to Adam Shelton and Victor Strunk.

Blues meets punk meets gospelbil-ly at the crossroads of Woo and Hoo. A deal is made.

On Friday August 22, The Perfect Children will release their newest CD-“Get Me Mine” at Northside Tavern. Special guests include Brian Olive and DJ Harvination.

We asked Kristen a bunch of random questions and to our delight she answered them:

What was the last song you were listening to?Man Smart, Woman Smarter—Harry Belafonte

What were you listening to that song on? (car stereo, elevator speakers, etc)My 1993 Toyota Previa Mini Van—LOUD!

What was the first musical instrument you ever played?I started the Baldwin Technique on a Cigar Box and Ruler in preparation for the violin which I began around three and played until I was about 6…then I started piano.

Were you allowed to go outside much when you were a kid?I was not allowed to be inside a lot if it was nice out. I remember practicing violin under the apple tree in our side yard.

Did your parents play music?I grew up in a uniquely musical environment as my father worked at Fraternity Records and Counterpart Studios. He plays guitar and has the coolest collection of instruments of anyone I know.

music makers|INTERVIEW

KRISTEN KREFT OF THE PERFECT CHIlDREN

Photo: Kate Mitchell

WHO: Kristen Kreft of The Perfect ChildrenWHAT: CD Release Party (“Get Me Mine”)WHEN: Friday, August 22Where: Northside TavernHOW: Featuring Brian Olive and DJ HarvinationMORE: www.theperfectchildren.com/www.northsidetav.com/cincy/

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Name or describe your dream musical instrument. Money is no object.

Great question! I have found that what is more important to me is the Amp rather than the instrument. I play now, through a Fender 1966 ProReverb amp that pretty much makes me feel like a rock star every time I plug it in. I suppose I wouldn’t turn my nose up at a 1955 Les Paul though. I also have a vintage Wurlitzer Electric Piano that is really my dream piano, so looking at my answer, I seem to be a pretty happy girl.

You get to jam with anyone in the world. Ever. Who is it? WOW!! EVER??? UGGG…. Well Nina Simone. Because she would school me on EVERYTHING!!!

Complete this sentence: “I’m so Northside,

because…”I get my breakfast at Sidewinder. (see below breakfast question.)

What do you usually eat for breakfast?Coffee.

Name a movie title that describes how you feel about the music industry:20 Feet From Stardom. I am, at heart, a vocalist. I love to sing. I live to sing. If I could do anything in the world ever, it would be to sing. Aside from fronting a band and writing material, I whole heartedly enjoy singing backup and supporting other artists. The bond that you experience simply singing with other like minded vocalists is spiritual, other worldly, telepathic even. So that really doesn’t answer your question per say, but I don’t think there is a movie that speaks to the industry

right now as it is in a kind of limbo….but, being a single mom of a 4 year old, I am literally going to see a movie at a theater , for the first time in 4 years tomorrow. So, there’s that.

Who first told you that they liked your music?My mom and dad.

Which is your favorite- live shows or studio recording?I love both. They are so incredibly dif-ferent. Live is so raw, naked, and in the moment. It takes on what ever is hap-pening in your life at that very moment in time. All of your love and fear and happiness and silliness and seriousness comes out in seconds. No apologies. The studio is a different kind of naked. It’s the kind of vulnerability that you only share with those you are in a

relationship with. It’s a sacred time that I cherish deeply.

What’s shaking in the next year or two for ya?I plan on releasing “Get Me Mine” and then spreading it around regionally. I want to share these songs and this band with everyone I can.

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Andyman Hopkins is a local musician and/or an audio engineer. He is a husband, a father, and a proud Northsider since

1992. He likes guitars, BB guns, Asian food, and hiking. Feel free to drop him a line! [email protected]

BY ANDYMAN HOPKINS

Artwork: Dylan Speeg

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The status of the bittersweet closing of the old Save -A -Lot grocery store in Northside has just been upgraded to “sweet”.

The Apple Street Market will be a full service grocery store, focusing on the diverse needs, personality, and inter-ests of Northsiders. Promising fresh produce, deli items, and quality meats, Apple Street Market is a cooperative business, owned by contributors from the neighborhood. $100 makes you a stakeholder, while local nonprofits, such as the Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative (CUCI), are helping with the launch, as well.

In order to boost awareness of the co op, Northsider Rachelle Caplan headed the Apple Street Market Par-ty, with games, live music, food trucks, and booths. On Saturday, July 19, supporters converged on the future stomping grounds of the new grocery

store, 4145 Apple Street. The event featured a BMX demo by Dominic LoPresti (from SPUN), a Jello n Spoon Race (Happen Inc.), a food justice discussion (Village Green), and live musical performances by Kristen Kreft, Beth Harris, Eugenius, Folded Patches, Mavis Concave, and Abiyah.

“The Apple Street Market Party was a testament to the diversity and passion of the Northside community,” says performer Abiyah. Her favorite highlight being “a fantastic impromptu freestyle rapping and singing ses-sion by several of the neighborhood youths.”

The performers share an uncloud-ed appreciation for the cooperative.

“It’s great to see such a diverse community come together for pro-gressing such an important project for the area,” boasts performer Eugenius. The party was certainly made up of a

wide variety of ages, demographics, and walks of life; a positive represen-tation of the community.

The most popular booth was the Happen Inc. Tomato Toss learning game. The Happen Inc. booth award-ed tomatoes to kids who were able to identify dairy ingredients on the packaging of food products. The tomatoes then were tossed by compet-itors into a giant Campbell’s Soup can. The competitor who was able to knock over the giant can was awarded a gift certificate to Happen Inc.’s Toy Lab.

“We are around 130 Community-Owners,” event organizer Rachelle Caplan explains. “We received close to over 800 responses to our survey from households in Northside and 900 responses from households in College Hill. We originally wanted to open early 2015 but we need support from the community to reach that scheduled

date. If we don’t get it then we can’t open that early, so we will see how August goes.”

FOR MORE INFO: If you are interested in becoming a member owner, visit applestreet-market.coop for more details. Shareholders will enjoy select grocery discounts, informa-tive newsletters, the right to run for a seat on the Apple Street Market board of directors, patronage refunds in profitable years, and more. Your share is fully refundable.

Nick is a touring musician and the co-founder of Grasshopper Juice Records. He and his

wife moved to Northside two years ago in appreciation of its alternative culture.

BY nick mitchell

The Apple Street Market PartyNORTHSIDE’S GRASSROOTS GROCERY STORE GETS A BOOST

Photos: Tina Gutierrez


Apple Street Market is a project by the Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initia-tive to have a full-service

grocery at the Save-A-Lot location. Apple Street Market began its Com-munity-Ownership drive Monday, June 2nd. As of July 20th, we have over 100 Community-Owners with an election upcoming August 24th and August 25th for the Community-Own-er Board member.

This project was initiated when Northside’s only grocery store, Save-A-Lot, closed in September 2013, leaving the neighborhood without a large-scale gro-cer to serve the community. We need to raise a substantial amount of equity from the community to start another

full-service grocery, and to convince other sources of funds that Apple Street Market would have a real consumer base to survive and thrive.

For our schedule to work, we need a substantial amount of Community-Owners by the end of August. Around 2,000 Community-Owners would ensure success by demonstrat-ing a loyal consumer base. The landlord of the former Save-A-Lot has been patient and generous, giving us time to fundraise and letting us host a

community party in the parking lot on July 19th. However, there is no guar-antee that the landlord will be able to afford waiting much longer. Other tenants are interested, and that building is the last affordable and feasible space for a grocery without the project being cost prohibitive.

This opportunity, to replace our last full service grocery, is not just an opportunity to have a cooperative or to have a grocery store within walk-ing distance, Apple Street Market is a chance to show the nation that a need can be met by the people of a community uniting over a common goal.

Too often communities have to rely on waiting and hoping that a well-funded investor will bring the type of business that is necessary for it. The investment trend since the 1970’s has been an increase in temporary and part time jobs and a decrease in well paid full time jobs. This has decimated the middle class and left America with a consumer base increasingly reliant on credit and unable to pay for the goods, houses, and services available. The Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initia-

tive is trying to reverse that trend by creating good jobs and worker-ownership so that employees can sustain their families without government assistance.

All across the city and nation food deserts are appearing as lower and middle income neighborhoods are seeing their grocery stores leave. This has real measurable effects on the health of a community. Lack of proximity to a grocery store decreas-es the likelihood of a healthy diet and measurably increases related diseases and health problems.

Northside is already a fantas-tic community, known for its unique and progressive atmosphere, for the best Fourth of July parade, for its tolerance, and for the beauty of the surrounding parks. Northside is also known for its diversity, where peo-ple of all walks of life and different levels of income feel welcome. If Apple Street Market succeeds, the entire city and nation will look to Northside for yet another rea-son, because we have shown an example of how a food desert is solved from within. We cannot do it without you, and you cannot do it without your neighbors. We have to do this together or not at all.

FOR MORE INFO: visit our website at www.applestreetmarket.org For questions, or to get involved: • Casey Whitten-Amadon (Project Manager); [email protected] (513) 368-9694

Mail your Community-Owner contract with check or money order to:Apple Street Market CooperativeP.O. Box 24192Cincinnati, OH 45224

Sign checks or money orders to “Cincin-nati Development Fund FBO Apple Street Market” or “Cincinnati Development Fund” for “Apple Street Market.” This account will be held in Escrow by the Cincinnati Development Fund at Northside Bank until we reach viability amount, which is at least $150,000. No money will be spent until that amount is reached.

food access|APPLE STREET MARKETA CHANCE TO SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE CITY AND NATION

Casey is a licensed attorney in the State of Ohio specializing in Labor Law, Employment Law, and Labor Relations. He works with CUCI as project manager

for Apple Street Market Cooperative and is the Stand-In Director for the Worker-Owner class. Born in College Hill, Casey’s family first moved to Northside in 1995.

BY Casey Whitten-Amadon

Purchase a Community-Ownership share and donate so that your neigh-bors may do the same. The Commu-nity-Ownership Contract form and

information is on our websites:

www.applestreetmarket.coop

www.applestreetmarket.org

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FOOD DESSERTS

Artwork: Jeni Jenkins


Looking back to January, you remem-ber that being in the house all of the time really got old. Cabin fever really had its claws in you. Your thoughts

turned to gardening, of course, and just when you were at your most vulnerable, you were inundated with a crushing amount of seed catalogues in the mailbox.

It was time to plan the new years’s garden! It was easy to get overly ambitious and be swayed by every catalogue’s pitch and every glorious picture. The choices were overwhelming. Which tomatoes? Which peppers? Which eggplant? Before you knew it, you had a list that a team of migrant workers couldn’t keep up with.

Of course you will be planting to-matoes, peppers, beans, garlic, etc... But let’s stop for just a moment RIGHT NOW

as you are about to deal with the enormity of the task ahead of you… harvest. That big seed order that you managed to get in the ground is about to ex-plode. Let’s think about this in a more realistic, personal way and take notes that will be put in a place that you won’t forget this coming January.

How much time will you have to cook and preserve? What kind of diet do you personally enjoy and feel is good for you?

I raise tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, green beans, garlic, zucchini, and cucumbers among other things; I

always have the time to deal with all of it, one way or another. But I always like to fine tune my choices. I feel that greens are very good for you and well, I just really LIKE them. I attribute this to an early devotion to my favorite cartoon character, Popeye. With spinach, Popeye saved the day and Olive Oyl’s honor was preserved again! Though I don’t believe I had a clear picture of exactly what “honor” meant at the age of six.

What is a good way to incorporate greens into the overall garden plan?

I have raised spinach. It is an early season crop, as it can’t tolerate the heat and bright sun of mid-summer. It is very easy to grow, but, before you are ready for it to be over, it’s over. And generally by that time I am very busy getting the rest of

the garden going. What is a good substitution for spin-

ach? What ones will be able to last an entire season? New Zealand Spinach is a good choice. Not really a true spinach, it has the taste and culinary uses of regular spinach. The leaves are tender, slightly succulent in appearance, and grow on a short vining stem. In warmer climates, it is perennial. Wouldn’t that be great?! But, those of us here in zone 6 will have to be contented with annual plantings... (shoot! No rest for the wicked). This plant is very easy to grow and doesn’t suffer much at all from any diseases or insect attack.

I was happy with New Zealand Spin-ach, but it really was too much to deal with in conjunction with a full planting of Swiss Chard. I had greens coming out of my ears and it was overwhelming.

This year, I planted only Swiss Chard. It really is my favorite green. I have a sen-timental bias for it. It was my Grandfather’s favorite. He was an old school gardener of epic proportion. You can cook with it just as you would spinach, kale, or any other type of green. It’s only comparable drawback is that it isn’t that great eaten fresh in salads. But, that’s about it.

Swiss Chard is easy to grow. You direct-seed it in spring after the last frost, usually right around Mother’s Day (let that be your rule of thumb). I have found that it is a good idea to cover the rows right after planting so that the birds don’t make a buffet out of it. Trust me, the little monsters will, if you don’t take precautions. I use a combination of a type of grid fencing fold-ed into a long tent and then covered with a fiberglass window screen. You can buy this stuff at the hardware store. I prefer it to other garden fabrics. The screen lets in the sun and rain easily, and is infinitely durable. I also like the fact that it is easy to

see through. It is important to monitor you garden’s progress, and the easier it is to do this, the better. Honestly, you really should check your plants at least once a day. Suc-cessful gardening takes dedication. It takes dedication and the willingness to fail… many times. I have done that… the failing, I mean… many times.

Take heed and benefit from my past failures. I’m doing this for mankind. We don’t ALL have to suffer. But, honestly, a gardener (being an independent cuss, gen-erally) always seems to have to find his/her own way, so carry on and learn from those mistakes!

When the chard starts to push against the tent, just remove it and let it grow. You can start harvesting when the outer leaves are of a size that looks right to you. There are several ways to harvest chard. I, personally, start trimming off the outer leaves when they are roughly a foot long in size. They will get very large and have stems the thickness of a stalk of celery, but usually I can’t wait that long. If you look closely down into the center of each plant, you will see little leaves starting to make their way. This will continue for the rest of the season. Swiss chard gives a big payoff for the effort.

In the future, I plan on experimenting with kale and other greens. It is the experi-mentation and tinkering with gardening that keeps me engaged. I hope, however, that I will remember to refrain from planting every member of the greens family in one season.

Now, where am I going to hide these notes?

INTREPID URBAN FARMER | ALL CHARD UP!COLUMn: FOOD CULTURE

Swiss Chard “Bright Lights” variety. Photo: Ginger Dawson

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Cynthia Allen is a partner in Future Life Now which specializes in wellbeing and growth. She is an expert in walking, joint health and

just about anything related to movement as a Certified Bones for Life Trainers and Feldenkrais Practitioner. Reach her at 513.541.5720, www.futurelifenow.com, or email her at [email protected].

BY Cynthia M. Allen

What if standing on a vibrating plate for 10 minutes a day could help you with

a host of health issues? I have been recommending this modality for many years now, and the research around it just gets more exciting each day.

The backstory. In response to astronauts’ rapid bone loss when in space, 25 years ago NASA-funded research of vibration for healing went into full swing. At that time, vibration was already well known for its damaging effects. For example, when subjected to vibrations over 1 g-force, joint damage and neu-rovestibular disorders occur. Truck and race car drivers, fighter pilots, and jack hammer operators know that extreme vibration is not a good thing.

Yet, the muscles in a healthy body contract and release (vibrate) about 30 times per second during walking. With each heel strike, a lit-tle less than one g-force is channeled up through the body. This phenom-

enon that makes walking nature’s medicine is also why standing on a low-intensity vibration plate can be so beneficial.

When feeding vibration along the long bones of the body for just a few minutes each day, research has documented improvements in:

• Children with cerebral palsy, young women and post-menopaus-al women, all of whom suffered from osteoporosis.

• Loss of muscle mass that comes with bed rest or aging.

• Balance and fall and fracture risk.

• Diabetes.

• Obesity.

Musculoskeletal pain. Research is now expanding into how vibration may help with spinal cord injuries, bone grafts (hip replacements, spinal fusions, etc.) and even chal-lenging neurological issues such as Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis.

How does it work? In studying the cellular response to vibration, re-searchers found that when low-in-tensity vibration mimics the con-tractile characteristics of healthy muscle, a biologically relevant sig-nal is sent to adult stem cells. These stem cells have a choice to become fat, muscle, bone, or cartilage cells. Instead of choosing to be fat cells,

they develop into a more health supporting cell such as bone when exposed to low-intensi-ty vibration.

What is effective & safe vibration?

• Low magnitude sig-nal of 1 g-force or less

• 30-90 Hz

• Applied along the long bones of the body in standing

• The vibration will be noticeable but gentle.

• 10 minutes per day is ideal.

• What is unsafe vibration?

• High-intensity signals greater than 1 g-force regardless of Hz or exposure time.

• Many vibration plates on the market range up to 8 Gs. You may have stood on one of these in your chiropractor’s office, holistic center or fitness facility. There is nothing gentle about these. Bigger is not always better. This is particularly true when it comes to vibration.

• Safe vibration levels have been well studied and documented by OSHA, NIOSH, CDC, ISO and others.

• For some people, walking doesn’t provide the all the stimulus they

need, or their current health status doesn’t allow them to walk as much as is needed. In these cases, low-intensity vibration is worth checking out as something they can do at home to maintain or improve their health in only a few minutes a day.

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ONGOING EVENTS: First Monday – Northside Business Association Monthly Meeting @ Happen, Inc. 4201 Hamilton Ave. (6PM) The Northside Business Association is a resource for all Northside Businesses and works to continually improve the neighborhood. More info: call 513-541-4745 or email: bdemske@el`la.net

Third Monday (Fourth Monday January and February) – Northside Community Council Monthly Meeting @ McKie Rec Center 1655 Chase Ave. (7PM) Get involved with issues that directly affect our community! The NCC is a volunteer, community-based organization that provides an opportunity for all individuals in the community to participate in Northside’s present and to chart Northside’s future.

Every other Monday – The Qtet @ Northside Tavern 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9PM) Influences range from Miles Davis to Van Halen. Jazz. Front room. Cost: Free www.northsidetav.com

Every other Monday – Northside Jazz Ensemble @ Northside Tavern 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9PM) From Funk, Reggae and Soul to Rock, Free Jazz, Blues and straight-ahead Jazz and back again, this tight four-piece puts familiar tunes in a brand new bag. Jazz. Front room. Cost: Free. www.northsidetav.com

Every Monday – The Marburg Collective @ The Comet 4579 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Indie/Jazz. www.cometbar.com

Every Monday – Adult Pictionary w/ Steven Walls (Vampire Weekend at Bernie’s) @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Game Show/Comedy www.thechameleonclub.com

Every Monday – Trivia @ Northside Tavern 4163 Hamilton Ave. (8PM) Cost: Free. www.sexytimekaraoke.com

Every Monday – Bomb’s Away Comedy Open Mic @ Mayday (8PM) Cost: Free. 4227 Spring Grove Ave. www.maydaynorthside.com

Every Tuesday – Movies & Games @ Northside Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library 4219 Hamilton Ave. (3PM) For information, call 513-369-4449

Every Tuesday – Teen Movie Madness @

Northside Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library 4219 Hamilton Ave. (3PM) For information, call 513-369-4449

Every Tuesday – Zumba @ McKie Center (6PM) 1655 Chase Avenue. ”If you are perfect don’t come”- you’ll ruin our demographic.

Every Tuesday – Bike Night @ The Comet 4579 Hamilton Ave. (7pm) Motorcycle enthusiasts gathering. Free. Bikes, Burritos and Brews. www.cometbar.com

Every Tuesday – Artist In Residency: Kate Wakefield @ The Comet 4579 Hamilton Ave. (10pm) Free. Indie/Folk. www.cometbar.com

Every Tuesday – Cinthesizer Live Podcast @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (7pm) Free. Electronic. www.thechameleonclub.com

Every Tuesday – Technodrome Tuesday w/ Immortal Meteor @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (10pm) Free. Hip Hop. www.thechameleonclub.com

Every Tuesday – Trivia Tuesday @ Mayday (8PM) Trivia every Tuesday, with prizes and specials. Cost: Free. 4227 Spring Grove Ave. www.maydaynorthside.com

Third Tuesday– Square Dance @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (8-10:30 pm) All dances taught. Live music by the Northside Volunteers. Beer on tap. Suggested donation $5-10 to caller. It’s hip, it’s what’s happening. Each month features a different local / regional caller and live old-time music and dance. Historic tavern, resonate wooden floor for dancers, small stage for all-volunteer band.July 15 – Calling by Local Yokels (Russ Childers, Judy Waldron, Susan McElroy-Marcus, Mike White)

First wednesday– The Chris Comer Trio @ The Listing Loon 4124 Hamilton Ave. (8PM) A piano based jazz trio. Cost: Free. More info: www.ChrisComerTrio.com

Every Wednesday – Open Shop @ Mobo Bicycle CoOp 1415 Knowlton Ave. (6-9PM) Come work on your bike. For info: mobobicyclecoop.org or [email protected]

Every Wednesday – Kreative Kids @

Northside Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library 4219 Hamilton Ave. (3PM) Ages 5-12. For info call 513-369-4449

Every Wednesday – Northside Farmers Market @ Hoffner Park 4104 Hamilton Ave. (4-7PM) This twelve-month market brings tri-state farmers to the city of Cincinnati to sell their produce, meat, eggs, crafts and fruit. NFM prides itself on bringing fresh and locally produced food to the vibrant community of Northside. More info: www.northsidefm.org

Every Wednesday – Live Acoustic Wednesdays @ Bistro Grace 4034 Hamilton Ave (6:30-9pm) we support local events, breweries and musicians. We are centrally located in thre Northside. We have quality food at reasonable prices and a full bar. We offer happy hour prices, drink specials and half off wines. Come join our friendly staff and enjoy our beautiful patio. Free. BistroGrace.com

Every Wednesday – Hump Day Karaoke @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (8pm) Free. Karaoke. www.thechameleonclub.com

Every Wednesday – Sexy Time Live Band Karaoke @ Northside Tavern 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9PM) Live band karaoke. Back room. Cost: Free. www.sexytimekaraoke.com

Third Wednesday – Learning Lab Gathering hosted by Starfire @ McKie Center (6PM) 1655 Chase Avenue. Citizens are gathering every month to meet-up over community building and inclusion. The gatherings are a springboard for people’s ideas around community related projects, as well as opportunities to learn from local citizens. Hosted by Starfire, free, and open to all. Each gathering begins with a potluck. For information [email protected]

Every Thursday – International Folk Dancing @ Clifton Community Arts Center, 7-9 PM. Line/circle dances from Eastern Europe/Middle East. No partners necessary, no experience necessary. Teaching available. For information, call 541-6306 or e-mail [email protected]. Cost $3.

Every Thursday – Slow and Steady Bike Ride @ Leaves from Hoffner Park 4104 Hamilton Avenue (7PM) Cost: Free. Join this welcoming and easy bike ride.

Every Thursday – Karaoke with Bree @ Boswell’s, 1686 Blue Rock. (8pm) Free. Great food, great drinks, great karaoke!www.facebook.com/hotwheelsentertainment

Every Thursday –The D.B. Jazz Duete @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (7pm) Free. Jazz. www.thechameleonclub.com

Every first & third Thursday – Comma Comma Chameleon (Comedy Night) @Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. www.thechameleonclub.com

Every SECOND & Fourth THURSDAY – Throwback Thursday w/ AP (Night Bees / Counterfeit Money Machine) @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (8pm) Free. Poetry / Live 90’s Music Videos. www.thechameleonclub.com

LAST Thursday – Folk & Fiction @ The Listing Loon 4124 Hamilton Ave. (6-11PM) Reading and musical performances. Cost: Free. More info: facebook.com/folkandfiction

final friday – cartRAGE (Chip-tunes) @ The Chameleon Club, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9PM) Free. Electronic / Chiptunes. www.thechameleonclub.com

Every SATURDAY – Zumba @ McKie Center (12PM) 1655 Chase Avenue. ”If you are perfect don’t come”- you’ll ruin our demographic.

Every Saturday – International Folk Dancing @ Twin Towers’ Hader Room (8-10:30 PM). Line and circle dances from Eastern Europe/Middle East. No partners necessary, no experience necessary. Teaching available 8-9 PM. For information, call 541-6306 or e-mail [email protected]. Cost: $5. 5343 Hamilton Ave.

Every Second Saturday – Northside Second Saturdays (6-10PM) Come see art, shop, imbibe and eat in one of Cincinnati’s most creative and diverse neighborhoods. Featuring new art openings, later hours, bar drink specials, interactive events and promotions that vary monthly with participating businesses.

Every Second Saturday – Hook & Ladder (Vinyl Night) w/ Margaret Darling (The Seedy Seeds, Devout Wax) @ Chameleon 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Vinyl / Variety.

FIND OUT WHAT’S HAPPENING AROUND NORTHSIDE THIS MONTH. events calendar – AUGUST

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Every Second Saturday – Galaxie Art Show & Skate Park Fundraiser w/ Chris Luessen, Jill Cleary, & More @ Chameleon 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Galaxie Skate Shop, 4202 Hamilton Ave. (6pm) Free. Art. galaxieskateshop.blogspot.com

Every Second Saturday – Basement Reggae w/ Abiyah & Grover @ The Comet, 4579 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Reggae. www.cometbar.com

first sundays– Bulletville @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Live music. Front room. Free. www.northsidetav.com

third sundays– DJ Harv @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Front room. Free. www.northsidetav.com

Final sundays– The Tillers @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Live music. Front room. Free. www.northsidetav.com

Every Sunday– Comet Bluegrass Allstars @

The Comet. (7:30PM & 9PM) The Comet house band plays two sets every Sunday. Cost: Free. 4579 Hamilton Ave.

Final sundays – Bummer Night w/ John Hays @ Chameleon 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Folk/Punk/Songwrite www.thechameleonclub.com

Weekdays –– OPEN STUDIO @ Happen, Inc. 4201 Hamilton Avenue. 3:30 - 7:30PM (Tue.-Thu.) & 10am - 5PM (Sat.)

UPCOMING EVENTS:Friday, August 1, Drugstore Audio & Pluto Revolts @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Indie/Rock. www.northsidetav.com

Thursday, August 7, What to Do When You Know What to Do But Can’t Get Yourself to Do It @ Future Life Now, 4138 Hamilton Avenue., Suite B (5:30-7:30pm). $75. Register at 513-541-5720. www.futurelifenow.com

Friday, August 8, Lucas Brode, Jennifer Simone, & Mr. Akimbo @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton

Ave., Free. Indie/Solo. www.thechameleonclub.com

Saturday, August 9, The Harlequins, Lemon Sky, & Mardou @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Indie/Rock. www.northsidetav.com

Friday, August 15, Head In The Louds & Ziggity Boo @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave., Free. Hip-hop. www.thechameleonclub.com

Saturday, August 16, Northside Skate Park Benefit: Strange Mechanics, Heretics of Funk, Dealer, Wonky Tonk, Eugenius, Abiyah, Night Bees, Juan Cosby, Mr. Pointy @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Indie/Jam/Hip-hop. www.northsidetav.com

Thursday, August 21, Healing Effects of Low-intensity Vibration @ Future Life Now, 4138 Hamilton Avenue., Suite B (6:00-7:30pm). FREE. Register at 513-541-5720. www.futurelifenow.com

Friday, August 22, The Northsider Monthly (Benefit) w/ Juan Cosby @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave., Free. Hip-hop. www.

thechameleonclub.com

Friday, August 22, Brian Olive @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Indie/Rock. www.northsidetav.com

Saturday, August 30, 80’s Night w/ DJ Zulu @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave., Free. 80’s/Dance/VJ. www.thechameleonclub.com

Saturday, August 30, The Cliftones @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Reggae. www.northsidetav.com

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Last month, Happen’s Kids Critics failed to fall sway to the supernatural charms of the original

1932 version of The Mummy, starring the legendary Boris Karloff, so for August, it was time to jump forward, 67 years to investigate the Stephen Sommers remake. Rather than focusing exclusively on the story of Imhotep (Arnold

Vosloo), the ancient high priest cursed for his forbidden love, this update sets its

sights on the swashbuckling adventures of a roguish soldier (Brendan Fraser) who reluctantly agrees to lead a beautiful scholar (Rachel Weisz) to the secret tomb - of course, they find themselves racing against a team of mercenary treasure hunters eager to claim the riches within. Accidents will happen, and before long, the soldier and the scholar must figure out how to prevent Imhotep from gaining complete control over limitless powers and unleashing them on the world. Let Happen’s Kids Critics reveal to you whether or not this edition of The Mummy is worth getting wrapped up in - before the release in 2016 of another reboot of the franchise.

- TT Stern-Enzi, Cincinnati Film Critic

Each month, Happen’s Kid Film Critics received their own official Happen film critic packet and a press badge. TT Stern-Enzi, Cincinnati film critic, provided insight about the film and guided the children as they wrote this month’s film reviews.

Read the reviews, and be sure to watch The Mummy (1999)

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Reviews of THE MUMMY (1999)

““I was terrified. I liked the black and white one bette” -Kayla

“It was a lot different than the other one. It was bit more scary and the bugs were really creepy. The mummy looked a lot scarier and it wasn’t even wrapped up” -Sweet Pea

“ I did not like the fight on the bus. I did not like the fight at the beginning. I did not like the bugs. I did not like the camels. The original movie was less scary than the remake ” -Victoria

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