News: ‘Back to Square One’
Jymi Bolden Lamont Taylor, Corryville Community Council president, says the cancellation of Sunday night street festivals means that eight months of hard work is wasted. The University Village Association's plan to hold festivals to control crowds in Corryville could be called a best-laid plan gone awry. Corryville business owners have canceled plans to hold…
Cover Story: Need to Be ‘Traditional’ Will Lessen in the New Millennium
Are women in 1999 still defining themselves by the accomplishments or occupations of their spouses or partners? CityBeat got heated response from both sides.Some say it is a "sexist" question that promotes false stereotypes. Others say women simply are refusing to recognize that it still happens — a lot. My English professor says that cultural…
Press Clips: Just Answer One Simple Question
A year after The Cincinnati Enquirer's 18-page investigative series on Chiquita Brands International and the subsequent front-page apologies, the question lingers in the air like a rotten banana: Are the stories true? One of the reporters who wrote them says he stands behind his work. The other isn't talking, although he might be forced to.…
Living Here
When I moved to Cincinnati in 1980, somebody told me that Fountain Square was the city's "living room." I've always liked the analogy, but these days it's tough to get anyone to understand it. I walked to Fountain Square during a chilly lunchtime earlier this month to see the booths for the Arts in the…
Cover Story: Medicine in 2000
Jymi Bolden Dr. Marcia Swehla, director of The Health Alliance's women's health programs The 1990s might well be characterized as the decade of women's health — a new, finally well-defined specialty in medicine. The women's health movement in many ways grew out of the women's movement in general in the 1970s. Twenty years or…
Cover Story: Successful or Not, Moms with Jobs Get Bad Rap
Jymi Bolden Sallie Hilvers balances her career with raising two sons. Can mothers who work outside the home cut it? What a ridiculous question, some CityBeat readers said with disgust. Everyone knows moms have been boosting their numbers in the work force since World War II. To be more precise, in 1996, 61 percent…
HairyapesBMX
HairyApesBMX With former members of Billy Goat making up the bulk of their membership, Austin, Texas-based HairyapesBMX and their new album, Expatriate, come with a full-on groove guarantee — It's rump-shakin' music of the highest order (hell, the BMX stands for Butt Moving Experience). While slightly less primitive than Billy Goat,Expatriate is highlighted by…
Cover Story: Just the Facts
It's a sad statement about women's progress toward equality. During the last century, the recognition of women as having roles that reach far beyond motherhood has brought new freedom, including the right to vote. An increasing number of women are pursuing higher education and climbing the ranks in the workplace. Logically, it would follow that…
Film: The Ghosts of Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in The Mummy Note from the pundits: Macho is still out. There have been wispy rumors that old strongmen are coming back. But as far as we're concerned for right now — and in American cinema especially — the poker-faced romantic hero who takes out the bad guys with…
