Liliana Duque Piñeiro looks out the window at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP). From the 840 Gallery she watches UC students pass by. T
Art can be a welcome diversion in today's climate of sorrow and terror. In the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it felt good to watch a Toronto Film Festival screening of Italian filmmaker
Sweeping is a performance art when Laura Hollis holds the broom. As she regularly does, Hollis cleans the dirt and trash from the entry to her Newport arts center, The Artery. It's a weekday afterno
The address knocked me off my feet, as did the initial press materials. Someone wants to make movies in Newport, and I'm not talking about pornography. A few blocks away from the World Peace Bell,
The city of Cincinnati is desperate to transform itself into a harmonious city. This is a statement I think everyone would embrace. The summer-long debate among Cincinnati's political and business
It's easy to be overwhelmed by the chaos of an all-day outdoor concert like the Vans Warped Tour. On a recent July afternoon, bands like Rancid, 311 and Less Than Jake blast their music from four
Statistics from the Cincinnati Opera's 2001 season are in, and the news is very good. A robust 4,443 subscriptions gave the company its second highest subscription rate ever, totaling 70 percent of
The titanic puppet slowly makes its way down a grassy hillside in Loveland, Ohio. Beneath its canvas body, artist Mark Fox and his crew struggle to navigate the figure's long arms and enormous hea
The tower is what pulls me into the Linda Schwartz Gallery at the edge of downtown on West Fourth Street. It's a titanic blur of blues, greens and reds that tickles the top of the gallery's 12-foot
The first surprise was the fact that the May 10 letter arrived on my desk sometime in June. It's a delay even the Post Office would have trouble explaining. The second surprise was the squiggly sig
A place like the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) often looks its most ominous right before visiting hours. Outside the museum's doors, the world surrounding Eden Park and Mount Adams is one of warm suns
It's been a week since CityBeat first broke the story about Esquire Theatre operator Gary Goldman cutting a sex scene from director Wayne Wang's unrated adult drama The Center of the World. I've yet
This is the scene Cincinnati audiences for director Wayne Wang's unrated adult drama The Center of the World failed to see at Clifton's Esquire Theatre: A stripper leans over her male customer. She
Workmen are finished dismantling vending booths. Trash has been hauled away. The 2001 edition of Taste of Cincinnati is over. But for the time being, the media spotlight remains focused on the Centr
The May 9 fax message about Pepsi Jammin' on Main came directly from a machine at Music Hall. The banner at the top of the page identified the sender as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The contac