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Opinion: History says the Supper Club fire was no accident

Opinion: History says the Supper Club fire was no accident Peter Bronson View Comments Ivory-clean Cincinnati has a dirty secret buried in the dim, forgotten past. Long ago, a Faustian bargain was made that was good for the convention business: The northern banks of the Ohio would stay clean – but south of the river, anything goes. Newport, Kentucky became an underworld kingdom, the outlaw grandfather of Las Vegas. It was “Sin  City,” “Little Mexico” and “America’s most wicked ci...
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The Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire Still Has a Hold on Us

Cincinnati Magazine Photograph courtesy Peter Bronson One of the deadliest nightclub fires in U.S. history destroyed the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate on May 28, 1977, killing 165 people. Former Enquirer editor and columnist Peter Bronson has published a new book, Forbidden Fruit, about the tragedy’s connections to Northern Kentucky’s long history as a gambling and organized crime hotbed. The fire was no accident, Bronson claims, but in fact flowed from 40 years of “Sin City”...
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Chinatown Treasures: Jazz in the 1950's

   Credit Noe Tanigawa    Put yourself there: Chinatown, Honolulu during and after WWII.  Drummer Harold Chang, now 92, remembers jazz clubs all through the neighborhood.      Chang says fine musicians cycled through Hawaii in the military. And the robust entertainment scene, centered in Chinatown, attracted high quality players to the islands.    "Good musicians were coming in and going out. In the service, at night theyd go to Hotel Street. And jam, you know?"   You can still find ...
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A photographer looks deep into America's past

A photographer looks deep into Americas past Dawoud Bey, A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, NY, 1988. Pigmented inkjet print (printed 2019), 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm); Frame: 41 1/8 x 50 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. Collection of the artist; courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. © Dawoud Bey. by Tausif Noor (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Before he became a photographer, Dawoud Bey trained as a jazz percussionist, look...
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