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Hamilton, Ohio  – The lights go down. The screen comes up. The familiar turn. The crouch. The draw. The trigger pull.   An insistent rhythm of jangling strings before an explosion of orchestral sound.  So begins another adventure in the nearly 65-year film history of Agent 007, the world’s greatest spy with a license to kill.   The Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra explores the music playing behind Bond - James Bond - with Shaken, Not Stirred  Saturday, March 28, at the

Hamilton, Ohio  – Many lessons await along the shores of the Wiggly River.  River City Puppets brings The Wonders of Wiggly River  to the Fitton Center for Fitton Family Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20 . Puppeteer Dylan Shelton breathes life into a Paul Strickland script loosely based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, “The Fisherman and his Wife.”   “The stories are probably not the most familiar, but they are very accessible,” Shelton said. “As with a lot of Paul’s wo

Hamilton, OH - The Nine Muses of mythology adorn the ceiling of Music Hall in Cincinnati. Friends of Music Hall board member Thea Tjepkema brought them all to life over nearly a century and a half of history during the March 4 Celebrating Self luncheon at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts - Muses: The Women of Music Hall. Stars of classical music, opera and ballet all performed there from the beginning. So did pioneering women in jazz, blues and rock. But more than music,