Back in the Day
"I never thought I'd grow up so fast, so far/ To know yourself is to let yourself be loved" — "Get Me," Everything But The Girl Back in the summer of 1985, I'd just completed my sophomore year of high school in Asheville, N.C., and was preparing for a six-week summer program at Phillips Exeterā¦
Living Out Loud: : A Cincinnati Pentecost
"Ta da!" The smiling man sang out as he pulled his top hat off, separating it from a black cane held in his other hand. His wide smile highlighted a gap in the middle of his upper teeth. I couldn't help but notice he looked like a mix between David Lettermen, Kojak and Willy Wonka.ā¦
Cincinnati Fringe Festival
John Kuczwara Anna Marie Agniel undermined all assumptions about her "slow" sister, Mary Kate, in Slow Children Playing, one of the "Pick of the Fringe" winners at the Fringe Festival. The 2005 CINCINNATI FRINGE FESTIVAL concluded June 12, including three performances of the "Pick of the Fringe" determined by the festivals producers, critics and fans.ā¦
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At Last, a Meaningful Conversation
Matt Borgerding Marchers gathered at Burnet Woods for the start of the annual Pride Parade, leading to the festival in Northside. When 16-year-old Eugene Lampkin of Avondale was shot and killed June 6, the media branded it a "turf war" and city officials began making speeches and holding hearings to figure out what to do.ā¦
News to Use
Rally for Janitors Cincinnati's commercial janitors are fighting for a livable wage and affordable health care. The Service Employees International Union kicks off a summer of activities with a National Justice for Janitors Day rally at 4:30 p.m. June 15 on Fountain Square. For more information, visit www.cincijanitors.org. Political Education, Mastication The Cincinnati AFL-CIO Laborā¦
Diner: Thai Dining Returns
What is it exactly that attracts us to the flavors of Thai cuisine? Perhaps it's the subtle language of the spices, the enigmatic lure of curries or the dietary benefits centered around fresh seafood and vegetables. Thailand's cuisine is a fusion of influences: the searing flavor of its famous chilies introduced by Portuguese sailors inā¦
Cover Story: The Wild, Wild Web
Jesse Tuttle, whose trial starts Monday, claims he was helping the FBI as a hacker. But after he visited two Hamilton County Web sites, investigators say they found child pornography on his computer. Det. Rick Sweeney used to handle Hammer, a drug-sniffing dog. Now he investigates computer crime. Phillip John Eide, AKA Xavier Von Erck,ā¦
Medicare Rule Doesn’t Have a Leg to Stand On
If your notion of the current status of people with disabilities in our culture is that all of that discrimination jazz — not to mention just plain stupidity — can be summarized as foolish facts of the distant past, think again. Yes, it's true that a few thousand years ago babies born with visible disabilitiesā¦
Learning to Receive
Many of us were taught early on to be givers. We learned that "it's better to give than receive." Give to charity,give of yourself "without measure," give it your all, give it your best shot and so on. Give selflessly, and ask nothing in return. We know that giving is a "good thing," and that'sā¦
Artists Exchange
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News: Outsourcing Misery
While searching for her son in a hidden gravesite in 1979, a Salvadoran woman was arrested by the military government, tortured and raped. She was seven months pregnant, she tells a group of Xavier University students visiting El Salvador. But she didn't back down. "When your child is taken away in a violent act, youā¦
Unsafe Sex in the City
At last count there were 1,483 people in Hamilton County infected with HIV/AIDS. Of those, the vast majority, or 82 percent, were male. But that was through Dec. 31, 2003, the last period for which the Ohio Department of Health released any numbers. By all indicators, the face of new HIV/AIDS infections is rapidly morphingā¦
News: Rocky Road
Matt Borgerding CiTiRAMA's glory has faded after just four years, according to Rockford Woods residents Jeffery Laptak-Moreau, Matt Appenzeller and Flora Laptak-Moreau. Sixteen homes in Northside just four years old, together valued at close to $2.8 million, are already declining in value. People who bought houses in the Rockford Woods development, featured in CiTiRama 2001,ā¦
Film: Rare Bird
Birdman of San Francisco: Mark Bittner tends to his beloved parrots in a scene from The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is a love story as well as an exquisitely beautiful nature documentary. It's about the love people can develop for abandoned animals as well as the love thatā¦
Foxy Gets ‘Trigger’ Happy
Foxy Shazam! unleashes their debut album, The Flamingo Trigger, Wednesday in conjunction with a show at the 20th Century Theater in Oakley. Also on the bill are MOTH, Banderas, Fizzgig and Wigglepussy, Indiana. With the chart success of System of a Down and The Mars Volta, much has been made about the rise of aā¦
Locals Only: : the revolution will not be downsized
Junior Revolution One frontman is one too many for some Rock bands, with histrionics and egotism often eclipsing potential. So how does a band survive having four? In the case of Junior Revolution, they wouldn't want it any other way, an axiom that was recently put to the test. Guitarists Jayson Hazelbaker, Andy Hermes andā¦
Hyde Park Living
In the parallel universe of race and class inhabited by Cincinnatians and Americans in general, black-on-black and white-on-white crime are identical yet somehow simultaneously different (she said with mock surprise). Poor blacks kill one another, and we're pathological, crime-addled cannibals who deserve the sham that the "just us" system has in store. We're statistics, countedā¦
‘Dismal’ the Right Word for the Reds’ Season So Far
Jerry Dowling To paraphrase one of the worst leads in sports writing history, since it contains a grain of truth, the hardest part of describing the Reds is finding the right words. Last week, as the Reds reached a new low by letting the Colorado Rockies sweep three games from them, Reds President John Allenā¦
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Hellshock, Lesser Birds of Paradise and More…
Lesser Birds of Paradise HELLSHOCK WITH SELFISH AND ENVENOMED Thursday · Sudsy Malone's For every action, there is a reaction. In Portland, Ore., the explosion of Hardcore acts appears to be a reaction to the city's longstanding reputation as a neo-hippie hotbed. In fact, the influx of utopia seekers has strained the job market thereā¦
Music: The Great Live North
Down-to-earth AltCountry diva Neko Case made her latest album a live one, because she mistakenly thought it would be quick and easy. To say that Neko Case maintains a busy schedule is like calling Jimi Hendrix a serviceable guitarist. Case's burgeoning and much lauded Alt.Country solo career keeps her in the studio and on theā¦
What number is the number 18?
I'm a 27-year-old female who started teaching high school freshmen three years ago when I was 23. I was closer in age/culture to most of my students than I was to the other teachers. That first year I bonded with a lot of the students, in particular with a small group of boys who wereā¦
Racism Is Against Our Ideals
In reference to your cover story "What's After Article 12?" (issue of June 8-14), I was happy to read Gary Wright of Citizens to Restore Fairness mention the deep, dark secret in the Cincinnati gay community that no one ever talks about: racism. As an African-American gay man born, raised and living in Cincinnati, Iā¦
