Carteaux and Leslie, a fine used book store just a few doors from the corner of Vine and Court streets, is presenting an exhibition called Rensler's Revisited: A Fresh Look at Vintage Works From a V  

Endorsements for the Nov. 6 election continue this week, with attention turning to the two most contentious ballot issues local voters will face: a new operating tax levy for Cincinnati Public Scho  

Election Day is just a few weeks off, so it's time to start making up your mind. As always, CityBeat is here to help. We begin three weeks of election endorsements right now and will offer more in  

What better represents Cincinnati: the Bengals on Monday Night Football or the MidPoint Music Festival? Luckily for us Cincinnati is a big enough city that this isn't an either/or question. We can  

It's funny how a bunch of different threads in life can occasionally come together to form a string of a theme. I've experienced some of that convergence this past week. Labor Day weekend was the   

I started working at WNKU (89.7 FM) in November 1989, when popular Bluegrass DJ Ed McDonald left to pursue other opportunities. Sheila Rue, the station's general manager, asked me to host the show,   

You've heard it before: Size matters. But just as in a more notorious context, when it comes to concert venues, bigger isn't necessarily better. So much of what we call Classical music was original  

As I grew into a young man and began to find my way as an adult, the two "possessions" I prized the most were my relationships with music and sports. No wonder I didn't get married until my mid-thi  

I don't like change. I can see no virtue in it. The unavoidable changes, like growing old and dying, make me wonder why everyone isn't suspicious of words like "development" and "progress." The che  

The other day CityBeat News Editor Gregory Flannery posted this on the Porkopolis blog on our Web site: "I don't support the troops. Supporting the troops means supporting what troops do -- namely,  

Pat Renick's path crossed mine back in 1976, when both she and I were nominated for a Post Corbett Award in separate categories. She had already won as a visual artist in 1975, and I was nominated   

Hamilton County commissioners voted last week to increase the county's sales tax to fund a new jail and a larger safety plan. They considered placing the plan on the August or November ballot but u  

America's experiment with neofascism is coming to an end. He came to office in a coup d'état and consolidated power after 9/11. George W. Bush might be our worst president in history -- certai  

So you're out at a club on a Monday night, and you're conflicted. You're having a great time, feeling sort of like you're playing hooky because it's 11 p.m., you're drinking a beer and you're not a  

"Toe to Toe in Over-the-Rhine" was the cover story headline in the inaugural issue of CityBeat on Nov. 17, 1994. Is there any better example of the saying "The more things change the more they stay