Private Lives and Public Campaigns
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 3, 2004
When I first saw the television ad on Feb. 16, I was startled -- not just by its audacity but its conclusions based on a kind of connect-the-dots that seemed to reach well beyond what little had b
News: Cincinnati at Night: Observatory Center
Our innate attraction to the sky
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 25, 2004
The night began to turn dark at 6:40 p.m., the sky on the horizon turning a garish orange before the heavens darkened and bloomed with stars. It promised a good night with an eye affixed to telesco
News: The Day the Music Critic Died
Firing at The Enquirer prompts lawsuit
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Larry Nager sits at a table at Kaldi's on Main Street, orders a glass of ice water and talks with passion and much animation about the music scene in Cincinnati, a scene he covered for eight year
Even Sportswriters Weary of the Pete Rose Act
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 4, 2004
He has only changed physically after 14 years -- he is wider of girth, his hair is thinning and cropped short. He is, after all, 62 years old, almost two decades removed from that September evening
News: Cincinnati at Night: Shadeau Breads
Working baker's hours making comfort food
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 28, 2004
"You probably need to eat something," the baker said. "I hope you'll eat some of my hot rolls. You have to eat and keep going. Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this....'' -- From a shor
Enquirer Tunes out, Turns off Broadcast Coverage
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 7, 2004
John Kiesewetter is back where he started more than a quarter-century ago, reporting on suburban issues and events for The Cincinnati Enquirer, an unfortunate move that leaves the TV/radio beat va
Cincinnati's Other Daily Still a Must-Read
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 3, 2003
For those who missed it -- many of you who pay attention to CityBeat and perhaps no attention whatsoever to the city's afternoon daily newspaper -- the Nov. 22 edition of The Cincinnati Post was tel
Cover Story: Maddening Genius
Local man works to resurrect long-forgotten Cincinnati novelist Robert Lowry and again put the city on the literary map
0 Comments · Wednesday, December 3, 2003
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix... who poverty and tatt
Talk Radio (Isn't Only) for Dummies
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 5, 2003
It's a myth, says the publisher of Talkers Magazine -- a trade industry mag considered the bible of talk radio -- that all talk radio is earnest, even shrill, right-wing and driven by politics.
News: Off the Map
The village of North Bend fights to keep its independence
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Phil Wienkamp recalls that as a teen in the 1930s he found himself in the woods that was part of the village of North Bend, hunting rabbits on a hillside that overlooked the sweep of the Ohio Riv
