Music: The Hospital Legacy
Bill Bullock/TinctCreative Auto Glamour Sound, a compilation documenting the adventurous, late '70s/early '80s underground scene, shows Cincy was ahead of the curve. Although no one's ever been able to document Mark Twain actually uttering the words, "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years…
Cover Story: Mercantile Library Short Story Competition: Third Place Winner
Like birds, we Americans in Mexico City flocked together, attending the same churches and parties, and sending our children, if we had any, to the American School. Our husbands worked for the same American companies, enduring their overseas assignments while we wives had our hair done in over-sprayed bouffant styles and puzzled over whether a…
South Pacific
Dean Rettig for Footlighters Inc Local actress Julie Woffington plays Nellie Forbush in Footlighters' South Pacific: She'll use a P&G product to wash a man "right outta her hair." When JULIE WOFFINGTON, as Nellie Forbush, sets out to "wash that man right outta my hair" in Footlighters' production of SOUTH PACIFIC, opening Thursday, she…
Cover Story: Writing Round-up
David Sorcher Poetic Insurgency Imagine a weekly poetry open mic as a marketplace, a center where instead of trading on goods and services poets — comrades, really — build on concepts of community and exchange CDs, wordplay and encouragement. The Lyrical Insurrection, a nearly year-old Wednesday night prayer meeting of poets, rappers and singers…
News to Use
Meet State Candidates Meet and greet some of Ohio´s statewide Democratic candidates, notably gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland, at the Warren County Democratic Party Dinner Oct. 8 at the 20 Mile House Restaurant, 3159 Montgomery Road. The greeting starts at 6 p.m. and the eating starts at 7 p.m. Dinner is $50. Other guests include Richard…
Cover Story: Write On
Woodrow J. Hinton 2005 Literary Issue Welcome to CityBeat's annual literary issue. As one would expect, these pages are devoted to written words: those who create them, those who read them, those who like them. While there's no doubt plenty of worthy subjects, we've narrowed our gaze to highlight a few local purveyors who…
Living Out Loud: : Those Living Dolls
Larry Gross Bob Doll and daughter Lindsay work hard at the Proud Rooster and give back to their community in their spare time. They volunteer coach. When you walk past the Proud Rooster, 345 Ludlow Ave., it's kind of fun to glance over at the window and watch the cook beat some eggs, turn a…
Lights Out at Mockbee
Young arts volunteers and the crowds who have made The Mockbee the top venue in Cincinnati for young arts patrons will soon have to find a new hangout. The massive three-story performance and exhibition space on Central Parkway in gritty Brighton Corner is scheduled to shut down Nov. 13 after its last arts exhibition, a…
Lemmie’s Exit Interview and Smitherman’s Churchill Moment
There were no interviews with City Hall reporters from major local news media when Valerie Lemmie left. Instead, the departing city manager talked to the Associated Press' Terry Kinney and The Cincinnati Herald's Dan Yount. I couldn't find Kinney's story in The Enquirer or The Post, although both belong to the Associated Press. However, Enquirer…
How Will the Story of Katrina Define Us?
When Hurricane Katrina struck Aug. 29, I wasn't anywhere near the Gulf Coast. I was at home in air conditioning watching it on television, cable news, 24/7. My friend Wayne thought this natural disaster was one of those instances where television served us well. "The camera doesn't lie," he told me. I watched the images,…
Cover Story: Get on the Same Page
David Sorcher Carol Skilbeck supports aspiring writers at Delhi's library. Those immersed in the literary world are notoriously dedicated. Who else but book lovers would wait in line at midnight for the next edition of Harry Potter? Then there are the writers. Some authors spend years producing a manuscript. Many take days to craft…
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Cover Story: Track Three: Easter
Woodrow J. Hinton Side One: 1993, Roanoke Civic Center, Virginia. Press Play. Keep dancing. When the bodies lean, packed together tight, the squeeze of it holds the human slant against the stage, and if I surrender into the pressure, I may hang on to this brief life. From ten years of mosh pits, I…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Sleater-Kinney and More…
Josh Joplin Sleater-Kinney with The Ponys Wednesday · Southgate House Several months back I was listening NPR staple Fresh Air. Its host, the always genial and generally well-prepared Terry Gross, was talking to the three women of Sleater-Kinney about their latest album, The Woods. She asked them a poorly-worded question about their Riot Grrrl…
Cover Story: Mercantile Library Short Story Competition: Second Place Winner
Here is how it opens. You come home from work and retrieve the newspaper the paperboy has thrown — ever so consistently, you believe — into your bed of petunias, the delicate flowers crushed against the newsprint like bright, melted crayons. You stand on tiptoes and reach up to the mailbox. Someday, you will lower…
Poor, Blacks Can’t Rely on Others
Regarding Kathy Y. Wilson's editorial "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (issue of Sept. 28-Oct. 4), how do I start? I, like Wilson, hate America right now. I feel mangled and heartbroken and sick in my soul over this whole Hurricane Katrina thing. For once our cover has been blown wide open. Our "invisible poor," our…
News: Educating Cincinnati
Jymi Bolden Harriet Russell is running on her record. She's been on the board 12 years. After ratcheting its state rating from "academic emergency" to "continuous improvement," Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) might appear healthier to voters. But can a district that allowed itself to slip into the abyss in the past continue improvement for…
Music: Red Hot Cinema
Erica Henderson The New Pornographers get close. When Carl Newman finally reconvened The New Pornographers late last year to begin assembling the parts that would eventually become Twin Cinema, the band's stunning third album, there was plenty on everyone's minds. The band had toured extensively behind their ecstatically-received sophomore album, Electric Version, and then…
Use of Force
The prospect of having the law come down hard is sometimes sufficient to get wrongdoers to change their behavior, and that applies to police and other city officials as well as criminals. Having angered a federal judge by insulting court-appointed monitors, leading earlier this year to the imposition of more stringent court oversight, the officers…
Boldly Fused for the Future
Natalie Hager Tess Chaffee (in foreground) and her mother, Shon Chaffee, marched for farm animals on Oct. 1 More than 400 YPs, creative classers, influentials and whatchamacallits gathered at Longworth Hall downtown Sept. 30 to plot their takeover of Greater Cincinnati and the world. The second annual Bold Fusion, organized by the Cincinnati USA…
News: Play Station
Matt Borgerding Mark Mayhall is the creator of Ear Candy for the Mind, an online radio station. Forget what you know about radio broadcasting. The towers, the cluttered rooms of equipment, the infantile DJs who think they know what makes you laugh — this is no longer the face of the medium. A revolution…
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Getting back in the saddle
I hope this problem isn't too boring: I adore my smart, affectionate, sexy husband, but he's impotent. We don't really need medical advice — we know why. (It started out physiological, side effects from anti-depressants, now it's psychological.) He's currently — and willingly — seeing a psychiatrist. I need some advice on how we can…
Diner: Meaty Issues
Doug McDonald In my hands I hold a frozen rattlesnake, neatly arranged in a skinned pink coil, a couple of hundred cream-colored ribs clearly visible through the frosted shrink-wrap. It's a Saturday morning, and I'm standing in Jungle Jim's International Market in front of a precariously stacked wall of frozen exotic meats. Bricks of…
Rediscovering the Sexual Self
Are you a sexually passionate being? If not, why not? After all, sexual passion doesn't come with a price tag attached. It exists within everyone, regardless of age. Sexual passion translates into a passion for life and a desire to explore and to create. In its most sublime form, it unites partners in divine union…
Rumors, Lies and General Misunderstandings
· Covington's new Rock club, The Mad Hatter, has put together an impressive lineup this weekend for a showcase series they've dubbed the "Anthem Project 2K5." The club owners have arranged for A&R people from several labels, plus others in the biz (including booking, radio and management folks), to come into town for the event.…
Locals Only: : high on firestarters
Graham Lienhart Roger Drawdy It's not unusual to see a pub full of folks singing along to Irish music. Well-worn songs are cheered by throngs of stout-swilling audiences every weekend. The twist at a Roger Drawdy and the Firestarters show is that most of the words the crowd diligently recites were penned by Drawdy…
Championship in the Cards for St. Louis
Jerry Dowling Let's just cut through the preliminaries and go right to the finish: It's the Cardinals this year. It has to be. They're not just the best club still standing — they're the best club by a long way. The baseball playoffs begin this week, complete with seven clubs who might paper over…
