If this Sunday is like other Easters, my father will greet me on the telephone with, 'The Lord is risen, alleluia.' I'll ask him how Mass was, he'll ask if I attended Mass, I'll remind him that I d  

It's a well-established fact that Texas produces the nation's best bullshitters. It was the presidents from Texas who brought us the full-blown Vietnam War, the first war on Iraq and the current wa  

If, like Chuck D said, Rap is the black CNN, then whites are as prone to be enraptured by Rap's unfolding black updates riding a dope beat as blacks are to write, record and videotape them. This mar  

Kaldi's Coffehouse and Bookstore has sold its liquor license, and even the bums are feeling the pinch. Last week, when the lights started going out by 7 p.m., guys like Ricardo, our friendly StreetV  

The annual Person of the Year cover story is always one of my favorite CityBeat issues. In many ways it epitomizes this paper's reason for being. The choices we've made over the years for Person o  

The sudden announcement that Pepsi Jammin' On Main won't happen this spring wasn't a surprise, but it still hurts. Citing "hard times" due to rising talent fees, a reduction in sponsorship revenue  

Something miraculous happens around this time every year. Besides the birth of Christ, the winter solstice and the whole Santa Claus thing. I drag my burned-out butt to the end of December convince  

I always get sentimental when Christmas rolls around. The traditions and the end of another year inevitably conjure up mile posts throughout my life, starting with my earliest memories as a child an  

A month after the election, I continue to sort through a variety of conflicting thoughts and emotions. I'm still not sure how Sen. John Kerry didn't win. I'm still not certain he didn't win Ohio.   

The presidential election results bring to mind a twist on a hip T-shirt slogan from a few years back: "It's a red thing. You wouldn't understand." The red-staters would be right: I can't understa  

Everyone's calling this presidential election the most important in a generation. Who are we to argue? If George W. Bush is granted four more years, the damage his administration has caused domest  

By all accounts, last weekend was pretty special in Cincinnati. Five hundred thousand people again showed up for Oktoberfest, Chicago Cubs fans overran Great American Ball Park, the Ohio Classic fo  

Apparently Charlie Luken was the last person in Cincinnati to figure out he wasn't up for being mayor anymore. His Aug. 2 announcement that he wouldn't seek re-election next year might have shocke  

There's something happening here, What it is ain't exactly clear. This isn't going to be your ordinary presidential election. It hasn't been so far, and it's just barely started. Something is i  

Cincinnati desperately wants change. Like many long-term relationships, city dwellers have grown vaguely dissatisfied with their hometown, and its once-endearing quirks are now just annoying. Afte