Diner: Still Waiting
I've had Mexican food all my life. Both of my parents were from southern Arizona and, in the days before McD's, Mexican food was their fast food. When they moved to the Midwest, they decided to make their own. As surprising as it might seem today, there were no restaurants serving this cuisine. You couldn't…
Growth
No matter where I've lived — whether I've gazed out over bucolic acres or had no more than a fire escape to define my outdoor living space — I've made room for growing edibles and flowers. In part, it's my heritage that requires me to dig in the dirt. My mother's English lineage is one…
Cover Story: Cutting Edge
Walter Deller Esquire Theatre operator Gary Goldman likely was confident that no one would ever learn about the secret editing of director Wayne Wang's adult drama The Center of the World in 2001. The chance that a customer had caught the film in another city before re-watching it at the Esquire was slim. It was…
Voting, waking up and taking notice
It'll Be Clear Real Soon I'm writing in reference to the editorial "Buffaloed in Springfield" (issue of July 21-27). John Fox summed up many of the reasons why I and many of my peers feel so driven to participate in this presidential election. First of all, we have become a nation of fear. We've been…
Penning returns to CSF
Actress MARNI PENNING, a co-founder of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival (CSF), now lives in New York City, but she's begun finding professional work at theaters all over the Eastern U.S. Penning returned to CSF last fall for the company's 10th anniversary production of The Taming of the Shrew. She recently wrapped up the lead in…
Film: Stairway to Happiness
Metallica frontman James Hetfield (left) and drummer Lars Ulrich confer in a scene from Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Santa Monica, Calif. — Way back in 1956, when Johnny Burnette's Rock N Roll Trio recorded the memorable "Rock Therapy," the point was that this new and vibrant youth music was therapy for whatever ails you.…
Microbreweries
Vol. 2 Issue 36 Then: In 1996, microbreweries were all the rage in Cincinnati. CityBeat profiled seven different brewpubs that had sprung up in the Queen City since the phenomenon took hold on the East and West coasts in the 1970s. "Not until the Oldenberg complex opened in Fort Mitchell in 1987 did (Cincinnati) encounter…
Living Out Loud: : Playground Politics
It is already the last week in July and I have no summer vacation plans in sight. Bummer. Fortunately for me, it's Election Year, and I've been able to entertain myself by sending e-mails to a friend, offering intelligent and introspective meanderings on our current political scene, not to mention observations on our astounding list…
Designsmith gallery
Cameron Knight designsmith gallery Simply put, DESIGNSMITHGALLERY is stylish and cool. It's unassuming, airy and absorbed with a kind of vintage vivacity that makes you feel like making a martini and chilling in your '60s New York apartment. Art mingles with vintage furniture for a retro, hip feel with interesting form, shape and color throughout…
Do some exercise, get buff.
I'm a girl who really enjoys being fisted by my boyfriend. We don't do it too often because I worry that frequent or prolonged fisting will loosen me up too much. How much is too much? Could I become the Grand Canyon if we indulge in it too often? — Fisting Is Super Titillating "It…
Television and Radio: Left Alone
Fox News Channel Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes of Hannity and Colmes Alan Colmes is the co-host of Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes, host of his own radio program (heard on 60 stations) and the author of Red, White and Liberal. He recently spoke to CityBeat by phone from New York. CityBeat: Did Hannity…
Lineage
I missed another family reunion. Still, the Hills — my mother's people from Edward and Mary Alice — are closer than we let on. Though we cousins fork at the point where our parents diverge, we share experiences. Like all those forced extended-family cookouts on hot holidays. Uncle Emory, Dollie's husband, imposed his way across…
The Cure tour brings some of the best bands in music today
Cephas & Wiggins Cephas & Wiggins Friday · Cincy Blues Fest (Sawyer Point) For over a quarter century, Washington, D.C., natives John Cephas and Phil Wiggins (performing at the Blues Fest on Friday at 9:20 p.m. on the Arches Acoustic Stage) have extolled the virtues of a Blues genre known as Piedmont (a style popularized…
The Politics of Rap
Laura Rayburn "Can't make it to ballots to choose leadership/But we can make it to Jacob's and to the dealership" — Kanye West To many, the words "Hip Hop" and "Political Convention" don't even belong in the same sentence. So when cultural skeptics heard that there was an organized National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC)…
News: Square Not Hip
Cameron Knight Bold Fusion brought together 350 young professionals July 23 to network with each other and local business leaders, who got an earful about what the "creative class" sees as Cincinnati's priorities. Young professionals and members of the "creative class" have a simple message for downtown developers: Build us grocery stores, unique boutiques and…
English woods gets treatment from the top
Scream and They Will Come: Marcia Battle and other activists fighting to save English Woods agitated long enough and loud enough that they finally brought to Cincinnati the head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) himself. English Woods is the 1940s-era low-income public housing development built and administered by the Cincinnati…
Shorn of Plenty
Mom had no training as a barber. Neither was she a hairstylist. Fact is, Mom never could and still can't shave her underarms and get them to "come out even." Yet, up until I was 5, Mom cut my hair. To do the deed, she'd spread newspapers over the kitchen floor, place a chair in…
How the Greens, Ralph Nader and Dennis Kucinich Can Help John Kerry
News from the campaign trail has been coming fast and furious over the past month, although, as is all too often the case, the mainstream press has skimmed over the most important story: the Green Party convention. That body snubbed independent candidate Ralph Nader, who ran under the Green banner in 1996 and 2000, in…
News to Use
Face Down Prejudice The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion unveils its newest original exhibit, Facing Prejudice, as the final feature of Holocaust Awareness Weeks 2004. This exhibit is the product of a yearlong project of UC's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Students created original visuals…
