Tight Times
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 6, 2008
All this talk of a recession got me to thinking. Before the gas hike, people carelessly spent money as if dollar trees grew in the backyard.
Music: Flipping Scripts
Anonymous moniker aside, John Doe/1200 Hobos' mixtapes carry distinction
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 26, 2008
John Doe/1200 Hobos doesn't claim to be an aficionado. Knowing music just comes with his territory. "Like most Hip Hop DJs, I am pretty much a nerd," he says. "I'll admit it. But others won'
Music: Drive That Funky Soul
Dap-Kings' Sharon Jones talks about the energy behind their Soul-era sound
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Picture being at a late-night house joint where the hostess never runs out of good 45s. That's something like listening to Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, whose unadulterated Rhythm & Blues soun
Music: Business, Never Personal
Hip Hop duo Little Brother goes back to the pimp that punches softer
0 Comments · Thursday, November 29, 2007
Three days before Thanksgiving, Little Brother's tour bus heads to Dallas after leaving Houston. At 4 p.m. I call their manager, who says Phonte and Big Pooh are still asleep because they had a l
Onstage: Dirty Birdie
Lisa Lampanelli can hurl slurs in seven dirty words or less
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Insult comedian Lisa Lampanelli's belted swing dresses say "1950s homemaker," but her mouth fires flagrant pock shots with indiscriminate aim. After being the only female comedian invited to
Music: Rewind! Let's Do It Again
Reissue, reunion and a legacy of admirers bring RAMP full circle
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Things must feel heady for RAMP, as the Cincy Soul band rides the crest of a reunion and a long-awaited reissue of its 1977 record, Come into Knowledge. Recent club dates in New York and London i
Locals Only: : MC Till
Grassroots and still growing, MC makes beauty and rawness interact
1 Comments · Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Adam Hayden, also known as MC Till, figures out how to engage others in his music and his point of view. And in Cincinnati, where more MCs line the city's blocks than churches and liquor stores,
Music: Provocatively Speaking
A month before his most extensive U.S. talking tour in two years, Henry Rollins just converses
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 10, 2007
A few local people who have met him proclaim that Henry Rollins is a down-to-earth guy, the kind one could find asking about import Prince CDs when Wizard's Records sat on Short Vine in Corryvill
Music: Creepin' On a Come Up
With as many as 27 nominations for the Ohio Hip Hop Awards, Cincinnati isn't just a 'Down the Way' girl
0 Comments · Friday, September 21, 2007
Since the Don Imus debate helped reheat and stir hullabaloo over Hip Hop's courtship with misogyny and violence, the culture can use a positive nod in its direction. This Saturday that nod will c
Cover Story: Can't Knock Her Hustle
Local poet Jennie Wright is busy but keeps her commitments working together
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 19, 2007
When a woman says she's a single mother, it's not inconceivable that she has more than one job. But Jennie Wright's schedule makes one recall that In Living Color sketch about the job-juggling
