How the Caged Nigga Seems
Cincinnati is addicted to containment. Gentrification on steroids pushes low-living whites and blacks closer together into a crushing embrace of poverty, rising crime and substandard public education. Enquirer gatekeepers slyly rename the paper's section fronts to curry the favor and hold the attention and subscriptions of suburbanites who migrated to farthest perimeters to escape the…
excessive force
Three police officers used excessive force in the Nov. 30, 2003, incident that led to the death of Nathaniel "Skip" Jones, an investigation by the Citizen Complaint Authority has concluded. The Aug. 2 report recommended that officers James Pike, Baron Osterman and Guy Abrams be "severely disciplined." The 33 blows that officers delivered with their…
Locals Only: : Crime wave U.S.A.
The Thirteens In the late 1960s/early 1970s, American filmmakers like Arthur Penn and Martin Scorcese filmed homages to the outlaws of the 1920s with their movies Bonnie and Clyde and Boxcar Bertha. Those movies romanticized the careers of those gangs, and the directors skillfully used the tales as metaphoric protests against the ongoing Vietnam War/Nixon…
News: Air Fare
Sean Hughes and Cameron Knight If Interstate 75 is a traffic hassle and hazardous to the environment, maybe making it bigger is the wrong approach. But alternatives such as light rail carry political pitfalls and a big price tag In the bureaucratic world of regional transportation planning, Byzantine laws and arcane procedures are the norm.…
Cover Story: Hanging 10
Dale M. Johnson Carole Walker CAROLE WALKER, THE WALKER PROJECT When CityBeat was in its infancy, Carole Walker and her brother/collaborator Chris were winding down their successful run with Heavy Weather, a top-notch Funk/Rock band that had developed a regional fanbase. The siblings are currently creating the more intimate Soul/Pop sounds of The Walker Project…
Music: Walking Again
Paying the rent: (L-R) Paul Maroon, Matt Barrick, Hamilton Leithauser, Peter Bauer and Walter Martin The Walkmen often get shit. Why? Some think things have come a little too easily for the five childhood buddies who hail from our nation's capitol. (Recently overheard at a local watering hole: "You mean those pampered New York boys?")…
Diner: Soul Providers
It's been said that soul food is our passport to the past, our heritage born from hominy. American soul food rose from the same muddy waters as the Blues, often complemented by a preacher at the head of the table or a Gospel choir praisin' the Lord. While the fundamentals of soul food — barbecue,…
News to Use
Head Job for the Vote The king of eclectic Jam Rock and countless live albums, Dave Mathews, performs Thursday at Riverbend Music Center. HeadCount, a nonprofit all-volunteer group on tour with Mathews, plans to register voters throughout the concert. To register or to thank the volunteers, go to the blue tent. By the time summer…
They Don’t Rest on Sunday
I love to see the birth of a newspaper. "Birth" is the right word. It's that vital. That's why the far more common death of a paper evokes mourning for more than lost jobs. Starting a paper is an increasingly rare opportunity. I've done it. I know the months of preparation and anxieties, the birth…
Upcoming concerts with Rik Emmett and Tuesday
Rik Emmett Rik Emmett Friday · 20th Century Theatre Way back in the heady, hedonistic days of 1975, Toronto guitarist/vocalist Rik Emmett was toiling away in the obscurity of a Canadian music scene that was dominated by Folk and Pop acts. With nothing much to lose, Emmett cast his fortunes as a third of the…
The Cincinnati Black Theatre Company finds a new home
Joan Marcus Tyrone Giordano, left, is Huck Finn and Michael McElroy is Jim in Big River, coming to Cincinnati in March 2005. Trading something good for something better isn't a bad deal. That's what's happened with Broadway in Cincinnati, which just announced that Wonderful Town, scheduled for the Aronoff Center in March, will not make…
Cover Story: Instant Nostalgia
Sean Hughes What's the deadline for nostalgia? I'm still flabbergasted that there was a Totally '90s CD of the hits of that bygone era released in the year 2000. I swear I saw a commercial for it during the Y2K New Year's Eve television parties. And, even though it was just four years ago, VH-1…
More Moore
Still Talking Thanks so much for the delightful capsule review of my show Meditative at DesignSmith Gallery (Gallery Hop , issue of July 28-Aug. 3). Cincinnati's appetite for "non-traditional" art is voracious, and I am happy to help scratch that itch. David Smith's gallery is certainly a class act, and it was a great pleasure…
Drop dead gorgeous
I've always had a fantasy of playing with the limp body of an extremely beautiful woman who is pretending to be dead. Real death grosses me out. I've never had a problem meeting girls, but sometimes I have to visualize my fantasy to stay hard. I achieved my first orgasm watching horror movies, and I've…
First Chakra: Root
This column is part of a series to help understand the chakra system, the seven energy centers in the body. An overview of each was described in a previous column (issue of July 21-27), which can be viewed on citybeat.com or cincyoga.com. Sanskrit Name: Muladhara Location: Base of spine, centered in the space between the…
Second Chance City
Was it just last summer that critics and arts reporters came from far and near to opine on Zaha Hadid's shocking, nonlinear building, the new Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, the home of Cincinnati's legendary Contemporary Arts Center (CAC)? The best summation of critical response to Hadid's sleek temple of art is…
