0 Comments · Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Among other things, Friday, April 20 marked the two-year
anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, which leaked nearly
5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico before the well
was plugged. Disturbing accounts of deformed aquatic life have recently
surfaced, including fish plagued with mysterious ulcers, eyeless shrimp
and crabs missing legs.
Locals put Cincinnati on the map of steampunk empire
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 25, 2012
“I’m known to many as Aloysius Fox, and I am
actually British,” says the enigmatic founder of The League of
Cincinnati Steampunks. Though role-playing is a significant part of the
literary genre-turned-cultural movement, Aloysius assures that his
charming European swagger is, in fact, authentic (he notes that he moved
to the States from Britain in the mid-1990s).
With Tramp, evolving singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten opens up to collaboration
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Sharon Van Etten began winning admirers with a pair of intimate, soul-bearing albums — 2009’s Because I Was In Love and 2010’s Epic
— that explored love gone bad via a voice that was so big and
expressive and sad-sounding that one feared for the woman from which it
was emanating.
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 24, 2012
One of the great beauties of baseball is
that one pitch can mean everything and one game can mean nothing. The
Reds are off to a slow start, winning seven of their first 16 games.
It’s not ideal and wins in April count as much as wins in September, but
it’s baseball — every team loses roughly one-third of its games.
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Inaugural meeting open to all
Ever thought about jumping aboard the electric car train? Do your research and communicate with others also seeking more sustainable methods of transportation. The inaugural meeting of the Cincinnati Electric Car Club will be held at 6:30 p.m. May 10 at Cincinnati Hybrid at 6403 Madison Road. The meeting is open to all community members, especially targeted to those thinking about buying or building an electric vehicle seeking a support group, anyone who wants to further advocate the use of electric cars in Cincinnati, or current hybrid or plug-in electric cars hoping to network with other owners. If you own a hybrid or an electric car already, you're encouraged to bring your car along so it can be put on display along with others. Because the club is a recent development, the first meeting will discuss strategies for future meetings and the club's purpose as a whole. Here is an itinerary, according to a press release, for the first meeting:6:30-7 p.m.: Examine hybrid and fully electric vehicles on display and chat informally with the cars' owners. 7-7:30 p.m.: Brief presentations by Duke Energy about their electric fleet and charging infrastructure and Cincinnati Hybrid on maintaining and servicing electric vehicles. 7:30-8:30: The first organizational meeting will seek input on the group's goals, how it should be organized, future activities and meeting frequency. RSVP to Steve Johns at steve.johns@cincinnati-oh.gov if you'd like to attend. Be sure to indicate if you have a hybrid or electric vehicle you'd like to display.
Cincinnati’s finest Americana ensemble, Magnolia Mountain, releases 'Town and Country'
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Thanks at least partially to our proximity
to Appalachia, Greater Cincinnati has long had one of the finest
Roots/Americana music scenes in the region. And the finest band from
that impressive batch of artists right now is Magnolia Mountain, the
band formed by Rock veteran and singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
Mark Utley about five years ago.
10 reasons Cincinnati is greener than you think
1 Comment · Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Cincinnatians just love to joke about
that old, clichéd quip often attributed to Mark Twain: “When the end of
the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always 20 years
behind the times.” The colloquialism is used to exemplify anything
considered remotely backward, from legislation to fashion to potholes.
Signs of life, though, are sprouting up around the city like a canary
dandelion through a crack in the cement.
Take Back the Night aims to curb violence against women, empower victims
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Organizers of the annual Take Back the
Night vigils and marches across the United States often cite the Thoreau
quote as epitomizing one of the movement’s key principles. The power of
speaking out, they say, is essential to ending the stigma associated
with sexual violence against women.
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 17, 2012
It seems every mock draft out there — and
there are a ton — knows exactly what the Bengals will do with their two
first-round picks on April 26: The team will take a guard and a
cornerback. They seem to be the two glaring needs,
even though the team addressed their depth at the positions in free
agency.
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 18, 2012
More than 600 people today were expected
to attend an anti-tax rally on Fountain Square, the city’s most
recognizable public space which happens to be beautifully maintained by
tax money. Attendees planned on complaining about poor people being offered health
care and how the American dream now sucks.