Did you know that Bootsy Collins, the funkmaster of funk music, has performed with Dee-Lite ("Groove is in the Heart"), Talking Heads ("Five Minutes"), Hank Williams Jr. (Monday Night Football opening), not to mention James Brown. He has produced 18 albums over his career and now will open a restaurant and nightclub in downtown Cincinnati with restaurateur Jeff Ruby. (FULL DISCLOSURE: Jeff Ruby is a client.)

Bootsy is all ours, and he loves Cincinnati!

Talk about butts in seats. I can't wait until this place opens. The joint will be jumping.

It will be a destination for people around the country to enjoy and explore. We held the press conference to announce the fall opening and offer the renderings of the space, located across the street from the Aronoff Center for the Performing Arts (the theatre that hosts all of the big productions, concerts in town). The press conference was filled with energy, celebs and civic and corporate leaders. I could feel the Chamber and Tourism reps getting giddy with delight.

Bootsy's produced by Jeff Ruby, as it will be called, will be a catalyst for cool. I can't wait for the opening of this restaurant. I imagine Bootsy at the corner table with Kid Rock and Slash while Beyonce and Jay Z are at the next table with Ruby sitting beside Russell Simmons and Madonna.

It's Bootsy, baby! And it's in Cincinnati.