Diner: Testing, 1-2-3
Want a good test for a new restaurant? How about seven women having lunch, arriving one-by-one over an hour and lingering for a total of three-and-a-half hours? On the last Friday of the year. A month after the official opening. On the former site of a successful family-owned restaurant that was a familiar and favored…
Do We Still Have a Dream?
The birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a national holiday. Blatant racism has been eliminated from the law. More than three decades after his assassination, does King's crusade still have relevance? King's "I Have A Dream" speech is world-renowned, taught in schools, the most famous words the civil-rights leader spoke. "I have a…
Music: War and Peace
The Prehistoric Sounds team of Hip Hop musicians from Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn. The notes to Mission Control Presents: Prehistoric Sounds Feat. Mood cite Psalms 144:1-9, beginning "Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to battle." The recording's closing, "Outro," sampled from an old…
New Life at the Old DiLeia
Over the years, little has changed at 2823 Massachusetts Ave. in Camp Washington. Of course, I'm talking about the outside of the building. Inside is a different story. On Jan. 6, an opening-night crowd of friends, colleagues and arts supporters crowded into the old DiLeia Gallery for Unit 2, a series of three exhibitions curated…
The Closer I Get to You
I never knew Chuck Wilson as a free man. I never saw him walk down the street, run from the rain, bundle against the cold, play in the floor with his children or stroke his wife's arm. When I was 4, he violently forfeited his rights to those freedoms. In 1968, he returned to the…
Music: The Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet: (Left-Right) David Harrington, John Sherba, Jennifer Culp, Hank Dutt At Kronos World Headquarters in San Francisco, violinist David Harrington is just finishing a rehearsal for the Kronos Quartet's upcoming tour. On the phone, in the first of several interviews he will do during the evening, Harrington talks enthusiastically about the quartet's past…
Local svengali/entrepreneur Mark Liggett spills the secrets to his success
Blessid Union of Souls Do you wanna be a Rock & Roll star? Or do you want to be successful in the music business? Most featured in these pages would answer yes to both, or ask, "Aren't they the same thing?" But Cincinnati's Mark Liggett has forged a highly successful 18-year career in music,…
News: Power to the Businesses
Southern Ohio electric customers now have a choice in who their power generator is; electric transmission and distribution remain a monopoly. Although the public-relations campaign about electricity deregulation in Ohio talks a lot about freedom of choice, it fails to mention the driving force behind the law — businesses. You might have already heard…
Pseudoquasiesque: Psuedoquasiesque
By-bye Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy … Whoa. Check out Willie Loman at the newsstand there. Willie Loman? He's fictional. How's come a real guy look like a fictional character? I don't know. I guess, the hunched posture. Old and tired. The sample case. Well, not a sample case, exactly. That thing looks more…
News: Educating Officer Keith
Officer Robert Jorg NOBODY IS SAYING CINCINNATI POLICE OFFICER KEITH FANGMAN IS AN IDIOT — NOBODY, THAT IS, EXCEPT OFFICER KEITH FANGMAN. IN AN ASTONISHING RESPONSE TO THE INDICTMENT OF TWO FELLOW CINCINNATI COPS ON CHARGES OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AND ASSAULT, FANGMAN SEEMS TO SUGGEST IGNORANCE AS A DEFENSE. "WE USED TO KNOW WHAT…
And We Still Can’t Count Votes
ANOTHER YEAR IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HAS PASSED AND THERE ARE STILL NO FLYING CARS. THERE ARE NO THREE-COURSE MEALS IN EASY-TO-SWALLOW PILL FORM, NO TWO-HOUR TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHTS, AND WE STILL CAN'T BREATHE UNDERWATER. AMONG OUR MANY ILLUSTRIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS WE CAN COUNT THE WHEEL, THE TELEPHONE, ANTIBIOTICS AND THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE. WE CONSIDER OURSELVES…
Supreme Court now a special interest group
Now that the illustrious U.S. Supreme Court has decided … Wait a minute, it didn't decide anything except the election result. If the court had stipulated every state's counting methods must be up to date and consistent, then rejecting a hand count in Florida would make some sense. Instead, the court stated a hand count…
Critics Picks: Critic’s Picks
THURSDAY 11Kiss a little longer, hold tight a little longer, stay close alittle longer, longer with Patrick Marber's CLOSER, a lovingly brutal tale of just how bad a bad relationship can be, reeking breath and all. Better leave the kids at home, 'cause this play won't leave a minty taste your mouth. (See Onstage.) SATURDAY…
Recession would bust state surpluses
The prosperity of the past few years has all but erased from our minds the inherently cyclical nature of the economy. But cyclical it is, and a general slowing of the economy will eventually, certainly follow the recent demise of never-profitable Internet companies and the widespread cutbacks in other technology-oriented fields. Recognizing the inevitability of…
Ryan Pelton
Elvis' drummer D.J. Fontana and Jordanaires bass signer Ray Walker host a birthday tribute to The King, who would have turned 66 years old this month. The show features impersonators Shawn Klush, Ryan Pelton (pictured), Quentin Flagg and Garry Wesley, who will re-create the Elvis years era-by-era. From the lean early days to the…
