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Jun 30, 2023

Top 10 things to do this weekend in Cincinnati: Sept. 1

Cincinnati's traditional end-of-summer bash is a daylong event along the Ohio River featuring a synchronized fireworks finale. It runs noon-10 p.m. Sunday along the Serpentine Wall, Downtown, and

Cincinnati's traditional end-of-summer bash is a daylong event along the Ohio River featuring a synchronized fireworks finale. It runs noon-10 p.m. Sunday along the Serpentine Wall, Downtown, and Festival Park, Newport. Admission is free. There are other places to view the fireworks as well. Here are a few spots:

Travel back in time at this 16th-century English village. Enjoy full-armor jousting tournaments, live entertainment, shopping, food, drinks and more.

Details: 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday and Labor Day, 10542 E. State Route 73, Harveysburg. Runs Sept. 2-Oct. 29. Season pass $80. General admission $28, $10 ages 5-12. Renfestival.com.

Halloween already? You bet. This Old West town boasts a haunted trail immersive experience tailored to the intensity level you want. You can opt for a realistic fright experience and nothing more. Level up to the gold bracelet option to be splattered and drenched in gore. The red bracelet option includes all of the above, plus signals your approval to be touched by actors. New this year is a Blue Skull experience (Sept. 8 and Oct. 12) that plunges you into a world of terror where you are the sole focus of the haunt. Blue Skull is ages 18-up only, other frights are 16-up.

Details: 7 p.m.-midnight Friday-Saturday, 1449 Greenbush Cobb Road, Williamsburg. Runs Sept. 1-Nov. 4. $15-up. $150 season pass, Blue Skull $75-$180. Allhallowsevellc.com.

See military vehicles and classic cars, shop vendors and more. Register for B-29 Doc Flight Experience rides, ground and cockpit tours of B-29 Doc, one of only two B-29 Superfortress aircraft still airworthy and flying today.

Details: noon Saturday-Sunday, Lunken Airport, East End. Free admission and parking. Warbirds.clubexpress.com.

Meet and greet with Turtleman from Animal Planet’s “Call of the Wildman” and the YouTube series “Turtleman’s Hunt for Bigfoot.” Enjoy flea market and craft vendors, petting zoo, pony rides, Bigfoot contests, giveaways and more.

Details: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Buckeye Trading Post, 11294 State Route 50, North Bend. Free admission, field parking is $3.

The Cubbies are in town this weekend. There's a doubleheader on Friday, a Reds tote bag giveaway on Saturday, and on Riverfest Sunday, it's a Hunter Greene poster giveaway.

Details: 1:10 and 6:40 p.m. Friday, 6:40 p.m. Saturday, 12:10 p.m. Sunday, Great American Ball Park, 100 Joe Nuxhall Way, Downtown. Runs Sept. 1-3. Reds.com.

Enjoy live music, beer, wine and food trucks while you browse and buy from 60 artists of painting, jewelry, fiber arts, pottery, mixed media crafts, photography and sculpture.

Details: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Whistle Stop Clay Works, 119 Harrison Ave., Loveland. Free admission. lovelandartfestival.com.

See black and white drawings and color etchings from this renowned Czech artist. The works represent his surrealistic illustrations of the seminal book "Songs of Maldoror," written in the 1860s by influential French author Isidore Ducasse.

Details: Opening reception is 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Lindner Gallery, 6620 Montgomery Road. Free. kennedyarts.org.

The KYSO plays television themes from the 1950s-1990s, and plenty of tunes from the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons. Bring folding chairs or blankets. On Saturday, Tank shuttle buses depart from Covington Catholic High School (1600 Dixie Highway, Park Hills) to Devou Park every half hour from 6-7:30 p.m. and return after the show. The show repeats Sunday in Fort Thomas.

Details: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Devou Park Bandshell, 1201 Park Drive, Covington. Free; shuttle costs $1 each way. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Tower Park, 900 S. Fort Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas. Free; limited parking. Kyso.org.

Enjoy rides, games, live entertainment, German food and beer, stein-holding contest and more. There's a car show from 1-4 p.m. Sunday.

Details: 6-11 p.m. Friday, 1-11 p.m. Saturday, 1-8 p.m. Sunday, 2361 Hamilton Cleves Road, Hamilton. Free parking onsite and at Oberson's Nursery (2389 Hamilton Cleves Road), with free shuttle. $5 admission, free ages under 14. facebook.com.

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