· BEAU ALQUIZOLA -- PLEASE KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED Compelling Cincinnati-based singer/songwriter Beau Alquizola has worked with R&B musicians, acoustic pluckers and rockers in his decade-plus car
Poetic Insurgency Imagine a weekly poetry open mic as a marketplace, a center where instead of trading on goods and services poets -- comrades, really -- build on concepts of community and ex
When the MidPoint Music Festival debuted in September of 2002, even some of the local "scenesters" who should have gotten it right away seemed to harbor apprehension and distrust. It's a pre
Although they spend lots of time checking out the area's many new and interesting dining establishments for CityBeat readers, our restaurant writers have favorites of their own -- some based on m
If you were looking for the 2002 elections to bring change to Hamilton County, never mind. Republicans maintained control of the board of county commissioners, held the Congressional seat from
"This is the best thing to ever happen to local music." Those were the words spoken from the stage by Saving Ray frontman Kevin Nolan during his group's triumphant performance on Sept. 27 at
Drive along Liberty Street between Main and Walnut on Over-the-Rhine's northern edge, and you'll see a whole lotta work goin' on. It's a foundation -- and quite a bit more. Lois and Dick Rose
Here's CityBeat's tip of the week: Don't attend a mock disaster at the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) at 8:00 on the morning following your birthday party. Although we've attended only one
It seems every year, when the announcements of the amphitheater schedules come around, it's like a trip down memory lane. Sometimes it's a nice trip, though often it's an embarrassing one. Usu
A garbage transfer station that's been proposed near the closed ELDA landfill is -- in what should be absolutely no surprise -- coming under fire. Winton Hills residents, who just reached a $2 mill