JUST PATTI – PATTI SMITH AT MEMORIAL HALL by Kathy Valin One Indian summer day we dressed in our favorite things, me in my beatnik sandals and ragged scarves, and Robert with his love beads and sheepskin vest. We took the subway to West Fourth Street and spent the afternoon in Washington Square. We shared […]

“HIT PARADE: THE ANATOMY OF A COVER SONG” SHOWS WIT, WHIMSY – Kathy Valin Third Party Gallery’s one-night-only “HIT PARADE: The Anatomy of a Cover Song” March 13, 2013, was designed as a gallery installation and a take-away compilation CD of The Beach Boys’ 1966 smash hit “Good Vibrations.” Liner notes were very nicely done, […]

  A DARK AND ARTY NIGHT: INTRIGUING COLLABORATIONS FEATURE MUSIC AND DANCE INSPIRED BY VISUAL ART  – by Kathy Valin On a chilly Cincinnati evening – December 4, 2012 – in the company of two friends, I ascended Mount Adams after being picked up from Over-the-Rhine. We were in search of a dose of seriously […]

by Kathy Valin “Cincinnati Ballet at 50: Photographs by Peter Mueller” opened September 6 and runs through May 2014 (coinciding with the close of the company’s 50th Anniversary Season) at the Cincinnati Ballet Center, 1555 Central Parkway. Consisting of about twenty oversized photographs displayed on walls throughout the lobby of the Mickey Jarson Kaplan Performance […]

Editor’s Note: ÆQAI has invited contemporary dance critic and still occasional dancer/teacher Kathy Valin to write for us in an interdisciplinary fashion.  Look for ÆQAI to do more of this kind of crossover writing.  Maria Seda-Reeder’s review of the Nick Cave installation on all three floors of the Cincinnati Art Museum is featured in this […]

Author’s Note: Valinkat (aka Kathy Valin) is a blog I created in the summer of 2010. I am currently a freelance writing and editing professional enjoying life in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, when I’m not traveling all over the world with my husband. On Valinkat I regularly post a mix of urban diary, […]