Local trio Culture Queer’s multimedia performances come to the CAC
Locals Only"It was our seventh show before we had one that didn't feature at least the threat of the band breaking up!" The room laughs as Sam Womelsdorf chronicles the volatile history of his three-piece multimedia collaborative, Culture Queer. The group has existed since early '99 as a side project for the busiest Girl in…
Corporations Battle Populist Court
Statehouse(Election 2000) Some legislators, business leaders and insurance-industry executives accuse the Ohio Supreme Court's four-member majority coalition — justices Alice Resnick, Paul Pfeifer, Andrew Douglas and Francis Sweeney — of using their authority to advance their political ideologies and of usurping the lawmaking power of the General Assembly. These same accusers praise the rest of…
News: Poet and playwright Reanae McNeal teaches the necessity of healing
Reanae McNeal is a survivor. As such, she believes blacks don't speak openly enough about rape and sexual assault. Therefore, healing and recovery occur slowly — or not at all. McNeal, 31, has surmounted depression, abusive relationships and suicidal ideation. For her, every day is another chance to show, through her poetry and one-woman plays…
Biological Slavery
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYAnyone who has read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World will remember the Embryo Store, just down the corridor from the Social Predestination Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center. There, row upon row and gallery upon gallery of embryo-filled glass jars recede into the distance, awaiting classification as intellectual Alphas or…
In the Booth, Outside the Box
Every four years, it happens like this: I step into the voting booth and there, on the presidential ballot, besides the deficient Democrat, the loathsome Republican — or is it "loathsome Democrat" and "deficient Republican," I always get that confused — and maybe a high-profile wildcard like Anderson or Perot or Nader, there's a whole…
Community Calendar
WEST END African Dance Symposium sponsored by the African American Drum and Dance Ensemble and the Ohio Arts Council. Guest artist is DeAnna Battle, African dancer and instructor from Boston, Mass. Noon to 2 p.m. Oct. 21 at the West End YMCA, 821 Ezzard Charles Drive. Admission is $6 per person. For more information, call…
Diner: Well Orchestrated
Tucked midway down the block of 14th Street just north of Music Hall is a European-style surprise. The Symphony Hotel and Restaurant is nestled among other Victorian brownstones and discreetly marked with a punched metal flag over the doorway, just as you would find throughout Bavaria. We were welcomed at the front door by the…
Versus
VersusFollow for now. You have Kenny G, we have Charlie Parker. You have Bette Midler, we have Chaka Khan. You have George Washington, we have the Rev. Jesse Jackson. You have Dennis Rodman, we have Prince. You have Prince, we have Dennis Rodman. You have Chet Baker, we have Miles Davis. You have Grateful Dead,…
News: The Other Race
News While Hamilton County Commission candidates Todd Portune and Bob Bedinghaus dominate headlines, the race for the other open seat on the commission is attracting far less attention. And incumbent Commissioner John Dowlin wants it that way. Dowlin, a Republican with 10 years' experience in the office, recently unveiled his one and only TV ad…
Lynne Hamons
Lynne Hamons (NO, HER NAME ISN'T A PIG PUN) JUMPED AT THE CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BIG PIG GIG AFTER SEEING CHICAGO'S COWS LAST SUMMER. SHE ROPED HER SONS — Steve AND Scott — INTO HELPING. STEVE JOKES, "SHE NEEDED THE MANPOWER." TOGETHER THEY HAVE CREATED THREE PIGS: Maisownette (FOR THE MAISONETTE GROUP), Styler…
News: Disorderly Signs and Free Food
Election 2000 Being a reporter has its privileges. We get to go places and see things most people don't, as last week when more than 2,000 of us went to Centre College in Danville, Ky., to watch Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman and Republican Dick Cheney spar verbally. Take a right at the story ideaYou might…
Airwaves:Traffic and Weather together
The most amazing thing about radio is how its has transformed itself over the course of its 70-plus-year history. Perhaps more than any other medium, radio — and particularly AM — has responded to challenges that could have wiped it out. It's a rare medium, you might say (though, I'd never say anything like that).…
Banning Banned Books Week
Give us LibertyPerhaps you saw one of the displays for "Fish in the River of Knowledge," the theme for Banned Books Week 2000. One place you didn't see them was at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Our public library refuses to participate in Banned Books Week, although a few branch directors set…
Straight Dope
Since I live in Alabama and don't come in contact with that many Muslims, I thought I'd just ask you. When Muslims must face Mecca and pray, which way do they face? Since our planet is round, one could really face Mecca going east or west. Is there some line that is the switching point…
Creeper Lagoon
Man, Creeper Lagoon know how to build anticipation. When I Become Small and Go was released a couple years back it stood as one of the best Indie Pop albums of the year but still felt a bit incomplete. The San Francisco-based group (which features ex-Cincinnatians Ian Sefchick and Sharky Laguana) delivered that album with…
