Few things in life are as important as music. Recorded or live on stage, in your iPod or on your radio, certain songs and musicians take root in your brain like a weed. You can't kill them. You can  

From April 26 to May 5, I had the opportunity to travel to the nation of Jordan in the Middle East. My trip was sponsored by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Jordanian Tourism Board (JTB) in con  

Running the Flying Pig Marathon May 2, I realized that whoever assigned Cincinnati that ridiculous flying pig symbol turned out to be a visionary. What other mascot offers such comic potential? At   

Forgive me a bit of personal reflection and some rambling thoughts. I know this space normally is used to comment on serious social and political issues of the day, but not today. The vibes are too  

Another national story about Cincinnati, another tizzy in the local media. And more evidence that perhaps Cincinnati is its own worst enemy. By now you might have heard about Esquire magazine's spe  

Despite the rejiggering of election dates in order to make Ohio part of a Super Tuesday slate, the Democratic presidential primary March 2 is pretty much an afterthought. Yet a number of important r  

A few weeks ago I came home to find some fliers wedged into my front door. They were promoting God as well as a specific denomination of Christianity. It's certainly not the first time I've found   

On Tuesday, one of our contributing writers, Leslie Blade, will testify under oath in front of City Council's Law and Public Safety Committee about a story she wrote for CityBeat. Council issued her  

I'm not sure how to properly evaluate Cincinnati Police Chief Thomas Streicher's overall performance as administrator and leader of a large bureaucracy. His boss, the city manager, is the best judg  

It was about the most pathetic photo I've ever seen. There on the front page of the Nov. 21 morning paper were Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, his lawyers and Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen sta  

Basking in the twin glow of a wonderful Tall Stacks and a stretch of beautiful fall weather, it's easy to remember why we love living in Cincinnati. Tall Stacks brought all kinds of people -- y  

On Sept. 29, a multi-year study of the future of transportation along I-75 came to something of a conclusion with a 27-1 vote to recommend a slightly wider highway along with expanded bus service an  

In the year 2000, after volunteering for AVOC (Aids Volunteers of Cincinnati) for five years, I ran away. I was part of AVOC's buddy program ­ being a friend to someone suffering from the ill  

On May 7, 2003, Joseph Platt of White Oak wrote a letter to the CEO of SuperValu, which owns the Bigg's stores in Greater Cincinnati. Platt asked the CEO to remove CityBeat from Bigg's or "restrict   

We had a lively editorial staff meeting last week here at CityBeat. The big topic was my decision to move Savage Love to a Web-only feature, ending its almost four-year run in the paper. A number o