Relationships
Stop dating! Not all of you. Just some of you. And just temporarily. There are times when you need a break from dating. It could be a few days, a few months or even years, but the time will come in every life when you need to step off the dating roller coaster and chill…
Cover Story: Hot Feet: Ensemble Turns Sweet 16
Jymi Bolden AADDE Members perform at Ujima Cincebration 1999 on Fountain Square In 1984, the Afrikan-American Drum & Dance Ensemble (AADDE) was founded by a group of young men and women in Cincinnati who had been taking drumming and dance classes. Together, they toured West Africa and learned dances and rhythms firsthand. Members have…
‘The Power of Many’ to ‘In Us We Trust’
The first person to send in the correct number of Procter & Gamble brands mentioned in the following e-mail message — even in partial or extended forms — will win my ACLU "Card carrying and PROUD" furniture magnet. Start counting. Hello, luvs. Vidal here. Sure it's none of my biz but that charmin, highly pampered…
Cover Story: Hot Dates: Summertime Romance
Indigo in Hyde Park Square The key ingredients for a hot date are included in the title. Basically, it's summertime and you have a person to squire about. Oh, but the makings of a great hot date require just a bit more thought. First, take a good non-drowsy formula antihistamine. You've spent enough time…
Cover Story: Hot Issue
Jymi Bolden Visit the Butterfly Show at Krohn Conservatory June 11 The temperature's rising. It's not just the mercury we're talking here, but the live music and event scene — things in summer 2000 look to be as hot as they've ever been, from dinosaurs to dramatics, Sting to Santana, Kids Fest to Riverfest.…
Cover Story: Hot Concert: Do It Again
Donald Fagen (left) and Walter Becker When Donald Fagen and Walter Becker first began disclosing in 1996 that they'd begun writing songs for the first new Steely Dan CD since 1980's Gaucho, it fueled one of the most eagerly anticipated reunions of the past decade. When Two Against Nature, the new CD from the…
Holy Crap shoot for local success and beyond with an upcoming debut release
Holy Crap! It's hit Cincinnati. Holy Crap are a local Rock band made up of drummer Bart Foster, bassist Jamie Thorman, and guitar master John Binkowski. The trio share creative and vocal responsibilities. The band members have been playing together for about a year-and-a-half, but they aren't new to the local music scene. The members…
Your hangover is a punishment from god
People promoting religion at my door make me want to drink. Of course, just the appearance of this couple could drive someone to guzzle mass quantities of grain alcohol. The woman had a black dress, green sweater despite the heat, black hair and a lot of angry rouge. The guy was a Phil Donahue copy…
Cover Story: Hot Game: Enter the Dragons
Brad Quinn Say what you will about the financial aspirations of big league ballplayers but, at the end of the day, they want the same thing as the fans — to win a World Series championship. The minor leaguer, however, has different goals. While they all, I'm sure, would be glad to win a…
Cover Story: Hot Seats: Ohio’s New Roller Coasters
Magnum XL at Cedar Point, voted best steel coaster two years in a row. North Carolina bickers that we in Ohio have "Birthplace of Aviation" on our license plates and dispute that claim. Perhaps a better slogan for Ohio, and one that's less debatable, is "The Roller Coaster State." We have more monster rides…
Cover Story: Hot Spots: Weird Food Festivals
When writing a story on bizarre Ohio festivals, one need no more than utter these four words: The Tiro Testicle Festival. Held annually at the Tiro Tavern in Tiro — in the middle of nowhere between Columbus and Cleveland— the fest's motto is "You'll have a ball," and who wouldn't? Pig and bull testicles are…
Boom
The chip that powers my aging PC is to the chips powering the latest PCs as the rhesus monkey is to the bulbous-headed giant brain people of the 51st Century. My hard drive is definitely not giga-, probably not mega- and quite possibly not even centa-. I possess so little RAM I'm technically a EWE…
