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Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Evansville city council approves ordinance for outdoor drinking area downtown
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — The ability to walk around part of downtown Evansville with an alcoholic beverage will soon be a reality. City council members unanimously voted and approved an ordinance tonight, clearing the way for the city to create a designated outdoor refreshment area, or DORA in downtown Evansville. 'It seems like a very exciting addition to our community,' says Ben Trockman, the Evansville City Council president. City leaders say it will help local businesses grow. Adam Trinkle, the Downtown Evansville Economic Improvement District Executive Director, presented the ordinance before the city council. He says he got the idea after seeing the success of DORA in other Hoosier communities, like Fort Wayne and Noblesville. 'DORAs attract foot traffic, benefiting restaurants, bars, retail shops, entertainment, and other spaces. This activity leads to increased sales, job creation, and a stronger local economy through revenue and increased sales tax revenue,' says Trinkle. Trinkle says the current outline is intentional and is designed to include a wide range of businesses downtown. It begins at the corner of Northwest 1st Street and Riverside Drive, following the curve of the riverfront up to the Pigeon Creek Greenway passage until Mickey's Kingdom Park. Mary Allen is on the city council and says many constituents are on board with the idea, but adds she has seen some safety concerns. 'I have had several constituents text me and are in support of it. And I have seen some concerns on social media about potential crime, public intoxication, and those types of things. But histories that other cities have implemented show this not to be true,' she says. Trinkle says the area would have time restrictions. It would be open from 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on weeknights and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends. If approved, the DORA hours of operation would be 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily between the months of June and July. Trinkle also says all entrances and exits would have signs. 'It is a clear indicator to folks who come into the DORA, that they can't bring an outdoor beverage or for folks who are exciting the DORA that they can't leave with that beverage,' Trinkle says. All of the drinks would be in special cups, which Trinkle says would be recycled. He says the next step is working on permit applications through the Alcohol and Tabacco Commission. He hopes to have the area open sometime this spring. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Guardian
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Xhosa Cole: On a Modern Genius (Vol 1) review
Few have doubted that African American pianist/composer Thelonious Monk was a genius of modern music, as this album title attests, but the acclaimed 28-year-old Birmingham-born saxophonist Xhosa Cole catches Monk's wild spirit as well as the legacy of his great compositions. Ever since Monk's emergence among the midnight-jamming subversives of jazz's revolutionary early-1940s bebop movement, his rhythmically jagged, melodically circuitous music was revered – and even feared – by improvisers. His playing would ascend, only to suddenly stop with a crash or jump a sudden chasm; he would lay harmonic booby-traps that invited escapes in shambling melodic runs. Even the great John Coltrane described missing a Monk chord change as like falling into an empty elevator shaft. But Cole will surprise even the most devout buffs, and hook the most unsuspecting of jazz newbies too. Cole accelerates the opening Trinkle, Tinkle into a whooping clamour of figures resolving on a dark, grouchily slurred low note, then elides the details of the composition without losing any of its ingenious design. An unusual lineup features a dynamically empathic guitarist in Steve Saunders, and the percussion is shared between drummer Nathan England Jones and the sharp chatter of Brooklyn tap dancer Liberty Styles' feet. Rhythm-a-ning opens on wriggling free-tenor figures before the melody emerges – first faithfully, then slewing and loose – and Misterioso enters on bassist Josh Vadiveloo's muscular solo pizzicato before the dreamy tenor theme. Criss Cross segues into Round Midnight before ending up at Brilliant Corners, and Cinematic Orchestra singer Heidi Vogel unwraps a majestic account of Duke Ellington's Come Sunday before a quietly ecstatic tenor-sax odyssey at the end. An erudite young sax master, Cole sounds as if he's already way down the road, but with plenty of fascinating detours to go. UK double-bassist/composer Misha Mullov-Abbado sidestepped his illustrious classical-musical parentage and found his own contemporary-musical path in 2014, and with his fourth album, Effra (Ubuntu Records), he unveils an autobiographically heartfelt mix of hard-boppish and traditionally swinging grooves, minimalism and Latin jazz from his A-list London band. Long-running Norwegian piano trio In the Country (including Susanna and the Magical Orchestra's Morten Qvenild) is joined by imaginative guitarist Knut Reiersrud, the crystal-clear vocals of Solveig Slettahjell, and recitations by Sidsel Endresen on Remembrance (Jazzland). Qvenild's compositions and Reiersrud's shimmering guitar sounds create luminously delicate contemporary settings for poems by the Brontë sisters and Emily Dickinson, and if jazz and improv aren't exactly conspicuous, this soundscape owes a lot to them. German pianist/composer Julia Hülsmann continues to be one of the quietly ascending stars of the ECM label's roster, with her regular band plus Norwegian trumpeter Hildegunn Øiseth (captivatingly applying electronics to both the conventional instrument and to Norway's goat horn) on the playful and haunting Under the Surface.
