Cover Story: Unsafe Environment
Geoff Raker .. At the same time that Jamie Turner found feces in Mill Creek, which runs past her house in Springfield Township, her 1-year-old daughter Lauren got very sick. Six months later the child is just beginning to emerge from what Jamie and doctors best describe as a fog. When she first called the…
Diner: Five Easy Pizzas
Jerry Dowling Pizza, Italy's most beloved export, is at its finest in the sun-drenched land of Naples. Neapolitans are enormously proud and staunchly defend their contribution to the world as the true, original authentic. No one knows for certain where the first pizza was served. The Greeks, who founded Naples over 2,500 years ago, baked…
Artfully Remaking the Country
David Sorcher At Standdown for the Homeless, Susan Henson, RN (left) checks Carl Carr for diabetes in Washington Park. Sen. John Kerry's stepson, Andre Heinz, made a visit to the University of Cincinnati Sept. 28 along with actresses Claire Danes and Rashida Jones and State Sen. Eric Fingerhut, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. The…
News to Use
Election Up for DebateHear the socialist perspective on the presidential elections. The International Socialist Organization hosts a public discussion to ask, "How do we beat the Bush agenda?" and "Is John Kerry the answer?" The program is at 7 p.m. Thursday in 368 McMicken Hall at the University of Cincinnati. For more information, call 513-541-3175…
Locals Only: : boogie man
Ricky Nye Whether you realize it or not, you've heard Boogie Woogie before. Maybe not in its pure, unadulterated form, but at least in its pervasive influence on popular music, particularly Rock & Roll. You've heard it in The Rolling Stones, more blatantly in Jerry Lee Lewis — hey, even Tori Amos breaks into Boogie…
Music: Separated at Birth
Dale M. Johnson General Manager Bryan Miller straightens up at the new Cincinnati studio headquarters for woxy.com. "It was a real Frank Capra moment," Doug Balogh says. "It died, and the Phoenix rose from the ashes." That's how he describes the death and resurrection of a local institution. It was May 13, 2004. His Modern…
Altercations
Race seems tired. Race is that badass kid who terrorizes and exasperates her teachers, family and onlookers. We cluck our tongues and talk shit about what we'd do if she was ours, but nobody wants to roll up those sleeves. Few want to wrestle race, finally, to the ground. Whatever that even means. The recurring…
It’s okay SAUDI
I'm a Middle Eastern guy who lived 21 years of my life in that region. This year I came to Canada. The sexual freedom in this country makes you feel more and more inclined to have sex with a girlfriend. Lately, I met this girl on an Internet chat. She said she has a crush…
Last Goodbye
Successful local Groove Rock faves Homunculus have decided to call it quits after an eight-year run that found them touring the country several times and releasing the nationally-distributed CD, Words, on L.A.-based Howling Records. The band will play one final show on Saturday at the Mad Frog. Without an opening act, Homunculus takes the stage…
To Muni and the Good Life
Recent productions of Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins and Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine are what I visualize whenever I think about Cincinnati Opera. I think about the recent avant-garde productions, by far the best artistic efforts by the Opera, which means I'm thinking specifically about Artistic Director Nicholas Muni. Muni first came to…
Emery Center
Vol. 3 Issue 44 and the Emery Center today Then: In 1997, CityBeat looked into what was happening with the Emery Theatre, the historic building on Central Parkway that once housed the Ohio Mechanics Institute and a 1,600-seat, acoustically sound theater funded by Mary Emery in 1908. The theater had definitely seen better days; except…
Reds on the Outside Looking in Again as Playoffs Begin
Jerry Dowling The commissioner of baseball has for years trumpeted the game's "incredible renaissance." The first recorded instance probably goes back to about 1995, when baseball returned from a player's strike to puny crowds. But it had to happen some time, once the gremlins stopped fooling with gimmicks like excessive home runs and put the…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
Perhaps only in parts just east of Ohio and just north of the Mexican border is high school football more popular than in our quaint burg. But, say what you will about Pennsylvania and Texas prep football, that's really all they have going on. There isn't anything to supplant its popularity. The same can't be…
News: Deters Is Safe at Home
Jymi Bolden His office marred by scandal, Ohio Treasurer Joe Deters hopes to return to his old job. No longer welcome in Columbus, Joe Deters is poised to resign his current position as state treasurer and crawl back to his old job as Hamilton County Prosecutor after the upcoming election. Deters easily won the prosecutor's…
Living Out Loud: :
It's time for progressives to become practical. If we believe the things we say, and especially if what we most fear comes to pass — George W. Bush acquiring a second term — we must prepare for a whole new kind of resistance. I had the luxury of attending the massive Aug. 29 demonstration against…
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Deters Scandal? What Deters Scandal?
Cincinnati news judgment long has been distorted by parochialism; Cincinnati is the center of the Ohio universe and Columbus, let alone Cleveland, is a lesser world. Life exists in those distant places but rarely is worth exploring. That might explain why The Post and The Enquirer devote so little effort to crime in and around…
News: Uneasy Riders
Matt Borgerding Scooters are economical and convenient, but watch out for the people driving cars. Yasin Southall makes a statement everyday in the way he gets to school: He rides his bicycle. A second-year student at the University of Cincinnati, Southall is on Clifton streets crowded with single-passenger cars, fighting traffic like everyone else, but…
Women’s Voter Action Day
Women Know Did some door-to-door canvassing on behalf of Women's Voter Action Day on a recent Saturday. The weather was sunny, clear and exhilarating, and we were pleasantly surprised to find many women at home, no doubt doing the housework they hadn't had time to do while they were at work during the week. This…
Upcoming concerts with Conference Call, Iswgat? and Kelly Joe Phelps
Conference Call Conference Call and IsWhat?! Thursday · The Greenwich Before the home-burned copy of Conference Call's Spirals: The Berlin Concert froze my secondhand computer on production day, I was feeling the sonic burn of drummer George Schuller, pianist Michael Jefry Stevens, bassist Joe Fonda and especially multi-reedist Gebhard Ullmann, the German leader who spastically…
Robert Lewis Vaughan’s THIRTY GHOSTS
Broadway veteran Peggy Cosgrave plays a writer whose story has unfortunate results in Thirty Ghosts at ETC. A perfect demonstration of a flourishing theater community is when a director can find local actors to fill challenging roles; it's even more encouraging when those actors come from training programs anchored at local theaters. ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF…
News: The Write Stuff
Jerry Dowling Changing prosecutors isn't the same thing as changing the prosecutor's office. Perhaps the best proof of that came when Michael Barrett, chair of the Hamilton County Republican Party, called a meeting to assure assistant prosecutors that their jobs are safe — even though their boss is losing his. The GOP has controlled the…
