No Alibi
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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
Cover Story: When Silence Becomes Singing
Antonio Adams draws language we can see
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Deion is outside on the first authentic day of spring. Over-the-Rhine is on fire: a tangle of cars -- dubs spinnin', systems bangin' and black girls starin' -- clog every major ghetto artery
Editorial: Sorries From the Cincinnatians
(a la Sonnets From the Portuguese)
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 22, 2006
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
Cover Story: David Singleton and the Ohio Justice and Policy Center advocate justice for all
And Just Us for All...
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 15, 2006
The mural in the children's playroom of Our Daily Bread on Race Street in Over-the-Rhine lies to the walk-in clients of the legal clinic hosted by the Ohio Justice and Policy Center (OJPC). "
Books: Some Bluegrass Is Black
Frank X Walker embraces his Affrilachian name
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Poet Frank X Walker was forced to invent a word to name himself. During a 1991 gathering of Appalachian poets in Kentucky, Walker, in the audience, thought about where he and other poets of color
Bullet and a Target
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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
Locals Only: : Color Me Jazz
Steve Schmidt releases New York-flavored Red and Orange
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Steve Schmidt plays piano. Even in the absence of a piano. His muscular, almost ruddy, fingers are splayed, drumming, no -- tickling -- the tabletop of a bar-side booth at Kaldi's on Main Street.
This Is for You, Pretty Boy
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 18, 2006
This isn't for you. This is for all those thugs who blast on cops, devalue life and generally act like fools. This is for Dante "Pretty Boy" Person, who made the front pages for shooting Cincinnat
Death Be Not Loud
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Like sexuality, like God and patriotism, like voting and like getting to Cuba from America, the death penalty is complicated. Complicated in theory, not difficult when enacted. It's easy to flip a
Cover Story: When They Reminisce Over You, My God
A journey through the secret life of wax
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 23, 2005
"They couldn't understand how I feel when I'm on the track board turnin' the knob switch/ Moms keep talkin' that ol' 'Get a real job' shit." -- Phonte, "All That You Are" When I say
