CCM pays tribute to ‘The Good Soldier Schweik’
The opera stars (no pun intended) have aligned early in the year to provide a bounty of choice for local fans who usually have to wait for summertime and the Cincinnati Opera to satisfy their needs. If you think opera can only be immense and expansive, you might want to head to UC's COLLEGE-CONSERVATORY OF…
Music: Sur La Tabla
Dale M. Johnson Local Indian music expert Jim Feist explores a variety of worldly sounds in Mohenjo Daro and on the debut CD from his studio side project, Indus Red. Sitting cross-legged opposite Jim Feist, watching him manipulating the tabla, I'm mesmerized by the array of sounds he charms from the instruments. When it's my…
Can Cincinnati Keep NIOSH?
What costs the city of Cincinnati more: keeping large employers or losing them? That's been the question since city council last year gave Convergys an incentive package worth $52 million, followed by a deal to build a $12 million dollar garage for Kroger. Now the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is considering…
A primer to learn about wine
I was recently asked to serve as a judge for the 2004 Cincinnati International Wine Festival (March 5-6). You don't need to be a wine writer to judge wines — anyone can sample and assess wine. If you've made learning about wine one of your New Year's resolutions, Uncorked is here to offer a few…
Film: Monster Queen
Woodrow J. Hinton Charlize Theron wiped away hertrademark good looks to play Aileen Wuornos in Monster. LOS ANGELES — Monster is a deceptive title for Charlize Theron's new film. Given its intentions, it should be called "Not a Monster." True, Theron plays a real-life serial killer, Aileen Wuornos, a Florida prostitute who kills her pick-ups…
943 Churchill Ave.
Jymi Bolden 943 Churchill Ave. Address: 943 Churchill Ave., Walnut Hills Owner: Jerome Harwell Jr. Year Built: 1900 Value: $44,000 Comments: This vacant house is within walking distance of the Progressive Child Academy. Jerome Harwell Jr. owns this property and a vacant lot next door. Fire damaged the house several years ago, according to Ethel…
Cover Story: Oh Dana …
Dale M. Johnson Dana Hamblen has been a driving force in the local music scene for well over a decade. Local music vanguard Dana Hamblen has been performing her unique brand of Rock for more than a decade. I asked her recently about her own history in music, how far she thinks women in music…
Unfulfilled she-male fantasy poses problem for a marriage
I am a massage girl — wink, wink — who provides men with happy endings. I enjoy porn, especially guy-on-guy porn, and I like to think of myself as very open. I'm also happily married. Until recently. My husband is 36, handsome, 6'2", well endowed, works out daily and has an awesome body. For 14…
News: Tale of the Tape
Police Chief Thomas Streicher reacts to a tape showing an alleged racial slur by a subordinate officer. Streicher saw the tape Dec. 22 during a deposition. Sgt. Jeff Butler thought the tape recorder was off, and he was right. But he might have forgotten about the video camera, which was still recording his interrogation during…
Locals Only: : Shoeless Joes
Traveling Barefoot Despite the popularity of the Jam-band genre, there are relatively few Jam acts in the Cincinnati music scene. True, the regional up-and-comers are regularly making stops in town, but locals in the genre are in the minority. One act of the Jam-band persuasion gaining popularity locally is Traveling Barefoot, a diversely talented group,…
Cover Story: Not Mama’s Lillith Fair
Dale M. Johnson Jen Schmidt started the Chicks RockFest on a lark, but her fourth annual gathering promises to be one of the year's most noteworthy music events. CityBeat: What's the history of Chicks RockFest (CRF)? Jen Schmidt: It's a festival that I put together kind of as a joke at first in 2000 —…
Oyler Elementary School
Then: In 1997, CityBeat's "Stories of Eighth and State" looked at Lower Price Hill through the eyes of several neighborhood institutions, including Oyler Elementary. "Oyler stands alone as Lower Price Hill's last, true community building," Steve Ramos reported. In an area riddled with challenges, Oyler seemed to be getting a few things right, including providing…
Sevendust is the time of the ‘Seasons’
The Sirens The Samples and Brian VanderArk Thursday · Mad Frog At about the same time the Dave Matthews Band was playing keggers and making grassroots fans on Virginia college campuses, The Samples were working a similar corner on the other side of the country in Boulder, Colo. The band's hard work paid off with…
Cover Story: Catch 22
Dale M. Johnson and Geoff Raker In mid-December, CityBeat asked 22 area women musicians (including one sound technician) to participate in a panel discussion about women in music at the York St. Café. Timed to the emerging "Chicks RockFest" (taking place Friday and Saturday at The Cavern and BarrelHouse; see interview with fest co-founder Jen…
Can Yoga Help Me Lose Weight?
Dear Diane, My friend has been doing yoga and looks great. She also has a better attitude (thank God). Can a regular yoga class help me lose weight, or do I have to do that power stuff and sweat it off? I've never done yoga, so how do I start? — Yoga Body Wannabe Dear…
Nigger, Please?
"Can you go get my gun for me so I can go lock up some niggers?" That's what I hear then-Sgt. Jeff Butler say — tired, frustrated and angry — at the videotaped tail end of a February 1999 Cincinnati Police Department internal investigation of allegations that officers bilked overtime pay. There are two things…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
Ryan Greis We call pork "city chicken." We throw around phrases such as "what not" and call soda "pop." We pronounce Cheviot as Chiviot, Mariemont as Marymont and Buttermilk Pike as Buttermelk. And we call Coney Island "Old Coney," but there's no New Coney. There is a definitive Cincy Speak, a collection of expressions and…
Computer Voting: How to Steal an Election
For years, computer scientists have warned that electronic voting systems, which generally employ touch screens or keypads to record votes onto electronic storage media, are vulnerable to tampering. Citing such security concerns, influential business magazine Fortune recently named electronic voting the Worst Technology of 2003. Although Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has certified electronic…
