Here's something to make you proud as Cincinnati's Pride Alive festival approaches this weekend: With all the problems facing this country, our elected officials in Washington D.C. are actually deba  

Daniel Pilarczyk has served the Roman Catholic Church all his adult life. Now, at age 72, it's time for him to render the greatest service of which he is still capable: Go away. Resign. Retire to a   

So I'm sitting at the poker table at a Catholic church festival last Saturday, and a few of us are pounding beers and discussing the moral implications of expanding casino gambling across Ohio. We   

Cincinnati has had a lot of "eccentrics," but I always had a soft spot for an old woman named May Stidham. You could usually find her perched on a naughahyde bar stool at a now-defunct joint called  

Recent suicide attacks at El Arish and Dahab in the Sinai dumped me into rare nostalgia. I knew both places in a very different era. In 1979, Enquirer Editor Luke Feck agreed to let me cover the hi  

If you seen it or heard it, maybe probably I did it Maybe or maybe not I admit what I committed Exhibit the truth because I'm living proof why I had no disguise, no verdicts, no alibis -- "N  

Kabaka Oba's death, like much of his public life, contained a major element of absurdity. Gunned down in front of City Hall after his weekly diatribe against racism on the police force, it's hard t  

Five years later, I'm not sure we've really learned anything. Other than that we don't know anything. And, ultimately, isn't that the real tragedy of a tragedy -- that we learn nothing from it and  

Mike Markiewicz, who owned the small bookstore on Woodward Street a block north of me, moved to Columbus this morning. He left, as T.S. Eliot said, "not with a bang but a whimper." Mike was a famil  

How are we sorry? Let us count the ways. We are sorry to the depth and breadth and height cash can reach, once asphyxiation halted the young breathing of black Roger. We are sorry 6.5 million ti  

Phil Heimlich can kiss my ass. The Hamilton County Commission president is the latest in a long and undistinguished line of politicians over ther past decade who have overpromised and underdelivere  

Irma Lazarus -- patron of the arts, grande dame, visionary and one of Cincinnati's most notable women -- counted celebrities like Beverly Sills and Carol Channing among her friends, along with a ho  

In the waning light of Black History Month, how better to put the reparative short month to sleep than a rumination over white men being themselves? I always know when white men are embarrassed by   

For me, the Person of the Year issue is a highlight on CityBeat's editorial calendar. It's our annual high-profile pat on the back for those in Greater Cincinnati who are working hard -- usually un  

Ma Crow is a small woman with tiny hands and feet and long, thick strands of dark, wavy hair that she wears caught up in a comb on one side of her face. When you look at her sometimes you can see cl