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Cincinnati’s unofficial celebration of the start of summer is off to a strong start.

Taste of Cincinnati 2018 kicked off on Saturday on Fifth Street between Main Street and the Interstate 71 and Columbia Parkway ramps with sunny skies. The celebration of Cincinnati’s culinary scene featuring more than 70 restaurants, food trucks and culinary entrepreneurs with more than 300 menu items and 50 musical acts continued into Sunday ahead of the first-ever Music Bash on Sunday night that will be followed…

Kroger Co. is buying a Chicago-based meal kit company in a deal that shows what's ahead for the grocery industry and Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc.

Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR) said this past week that it will acquire Home Chef, an online meal kit company. The deal will cost $200 million initially and future earnout payments could total another $500 million over five years, reports the Cincinnati Business Courier, a sister news organization.

Kroger will maintain Home Chef's e-commerce…

The May Festival concert on Friday opened with a surround-sound experience: Trumpeters rang down from the upper reaches of Music Hall, playing antiphonally against the organ and brass of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Onstage, the May Festival Chorus was echoed by the May Festival Youth Chorus from the back of the hall.

Gabrieli’s “Magnificat à 33,” written for the vast spaces of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, was an inspiring opening to the new tenure of Juanjo Mena, the festival’s…

Members of a Gardner barbecue competition barbecue team are taking their passion for smoked meats to a new level. They're opening a barbecue supply store in Olathe that also will offer classes for backyard grillers and those wanting to up their game in competitions.

“It's a one-stop shop for any competition or backyard barbecue cook. … Anything that has to do with barbecue, we'll have it,” said Richard Fergola, Fergolicious BBQ team member and general manager of the new store.

The store will…

Phoenix Comic Fest is gearing up for a big weekend that will draw tens of thousands of fans to downtown Phoenix.

The annual event held at the Phoenix Convention Center is going under a new name this year after event organizers Square Egg Entertainment reached a deal with the owners of the San Diego Comic-Con International regarding use of the “comic con” name.

While the name has changed, much else remains the same for the event that started Thursday and will run through Sunday. The event features…

There has always been buzz around the Colony since it opened two years ago in midtown Phoenix, and now the retail and restaurant hub is full with local tenants.

The retail center on Seventh Street has signed four tenants during the past few months. Since opening, the Colony, which consists of two separate buildings, has had a few tenants come in and out.

The latest businesses to call the center home include:

The Bevvy Uptown is the second location of the upscale gastropub. It moved into the space…

PepsiCo said Friday that it’s purchasing San Francisco-based Bare Foods Co., a maker of fruit and vegetable-based snacks, for an undisclosed sum.

After the deal closes, the maker of Bare Snacks will continue to operate independently from its San Francisco headquarters in the Presidio, with its leadership reporting to PepsiCo’s (NASDAQ: PEP) Frito-Lay North America snacks unit.

Bare Foods, led by CEO Santosh Padki, was founded in 2001 by Eric Strandberg and his family-owned organic apple farm…