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  • The Off Beat: Innovative new all-ages music venue is taking shape

    Friends of Noise is hard at work on their soon-to-open home base, The Off Beat. The group has a $1.5 million fundraising campaign to transform and remodel the former Dancin’ Bear Strip Club in Kenton. “The Off Beat is an all-ages music venue and creative space where music is the focus instead of alcohol sales. In addition…

  • Music nonprofit leases former Dancin’ Bare

    Music nonprofit leases former Dancin’ Bare

    The Dancin’ Bare strip club loomed over downtown Kenton for decades, making an impression that some neighborhood residents did not like. That era is now over. The non-profit Friends of Noise (FoN) has taken over the site and plans to open a music education and performance center to be called “Off Beat.” “We couldn’t be…