It’s a pleasure to highlight the week’s most intriguing events during this holiday season. Some may seem a bit offbeat, but hey, that’s culture!
Culture FIX: Dec. 7-13
Tag: Cincinnati Pops
Culture FIX: Oct. 19-25
With BLINK in the rearview mirror, there is a lot of making up for lost time this week. No rest for the curious, I’m afraid. (There’s a lot of cool stuff to sample.)
Culture FIX: June 29-July 5
A relatively quiet week ahead, Arts Mavens, but quality outstrips quantity anytime. See what’s in store for July 4 and more…
JMR gets 2-year contract extension
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra announced a two-year contract extension with conductor John Morris Russell, effective through the end of the 2024-2025 season.
Culture FIX: April 27-May 3
Thanks to PR maven Chris Pinelo for pinch-hitting this week, with assistance from our intern Reed Cunningham. Read on to see what goodies they have chosen for you…
Culture FIX: March 23-29
Whether Einstein said it or not, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” We at M&M are in the clear here because we expect the same thing each week — you peruse; you pick; you hopefully come back next week for more!
Culture FIX: Dec. 1-7
Now that you all have done your good deeds and donated on #GivingTuesday, we can all celebrate by looking for distractions in the days ahead. Here’s my starter list…
Culture FIX: Oct. 20-26
East Side. West Side. All around Downtown. I feel a song coming on. (Look it up, Kids.) So much to sing about this week. And to see, to eat and drink and … do!
MUST-SEE fall performing arts: MUSIC
Thomas Consolo shares some of the most-anticipated classical and jazz performances of the fall.
Cincinnati Pops’ John Morris Russell makes a case for the ‘good stuff’
Most stories about John Morris Russell spend lots of time discussing his showmanship, his brash, cheerleader-ish onstage persona as conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra – the guy one of his former colleagues described as “a wind-up toy” that never runs down. But this is a story about a more contemplative JMR, as he has become known over his 20 years in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra organization.