News: Meth to the Madness
There's nothing like sex while you're using methamphetamines, according to Ryan, a meth addict who asked that his last name not be used. "The sex is great," he says. "There's nothing else I can say about that. It's indescribable. Everyone says that nothing can enhance sex, but that stuff does. It intensifies your orgasm times…
News to Use
Who Will Be Fired Next for Speaking Out at Work? The Cincinnati AFL-CIO, Steelworkers Local 14340 and the Justice for Janitors campaign of Service Employees International Union Local 3 rally at noon Dec. 9 to highlight a human rights and economic crisis: threats to the freedom to form unions and bargain collectively. More than two-thirds…
A Season Of Giving
Michael Shooner The real Henny Penny If all those good feelings evoked by holiday shows have made you feel generous, the LEAGUE OF CINCINNATI THEATRES is ready to oblige you with its annual event, A SEASON OF GIVING. Many theaters offer discounts when you donate canned food (the Cincinnati Playhouse partners with the Society…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of As I Lay Dying, Madball and More…
As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying with Madball, A Life Once Lost and Norma Jean Thursday · Bogart's San Diego quintet As I Lay Dying has been on the fast track to Metalcore stardom since their 2001 formation. Initially assembled as a trio by former Society's Finest guitarist Tim Lambesis and named…
Very Very Merry
What would any Christmas season be — or any week, for that matter — without bitching and moaning from political right-wingers about some vast liberal plot to eradicate their very way of life? It's always something, and this time it's Wal-Mart that's the killjoy. Yes, Wal-Mart, the world's largest corporation run by one of the…
More Art, Attention
Regarding the well-written article about the new art gallery in Brighton called Junior ("Of Art and Discourse," issue of Nov. 9-15), it's gratifying to see so much of what we at Manifest have been working very hard to introduce into the city — as others have done in the past — show up in yet…
News: The Plame Game
Graham Lienhart Congress never authorized the invasion of Iraq former Ambassador Joseph Wilson said during a speech at Xavier University Dec. 5. No doubt you've heard of the Iraq war and a little controversy about weapons of mass destruction. A key figure in that controversy spoke Dec. 5 at Xavier University and said Americans…
Diner: Opening the Doors
slim Jim Puvee Mike Anagnostou swirls the contents of his wine glass with a well-practiced flourish before judiciously bringing his nose to its rim. He closes his eyes and, with his nose now buried almost completely in the glass, inhales deeply. "Ah," he says, lowering the glass for a moment and nodding to himself.…
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability
I'm a 23-year-old straight male. Due to a rare autoimmune attack three years ago, I have been indefinitely confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. I was never sexually active before the attack, so now I'm left to face my sexual future from a significantly altered perspective. The important thing to remember is…
Music: Such Great Heights
C. K. George Hawthorne Heights have experienced great success with their certified-gold debut album, but insist they are "the same bunch of guys from Dayton, Ohio." It's long been established that Cincinnati's sister scene to the north in Dayton has been every bit as diverse and surprising as our own over the years. The…
Happily Crazy
Acoustic rocker/"one man band" Bob Cushing is something of a local music institution; practically any night of the week, you can catch Cushing playing at some bar in Greater Cincinnati. He leaves the cover songs behind and shows off his songwriting chops on his fifth CD, Middle Aged Crazy, which gets the CD-release-party treatment Saturday…
Pocketful of Change
Change has come, not quietly, the way you hope it would, like Sandburg's "little cat feet." Instead it's come in the roar of hurricanes and natural disasters, erupting volcanoes, tsunamis. Our difficulties in Iraq have erupted in suicide bombings. Our government teeters on the brink in the flash of the photographers (click! click! click!) surrounding…
Books: Turning Over a New Leaf
Sean Hughes/photopresse.com Dating back to 1884, the Lloyd Library serves everyone from scholars to children. When you pick up a copy of CityBeat, you're reading an alternative newsweekly. The paper covers alternative music and cinema, even alternative medicine. Here's another one for you: Cincinnati has an alternative library — the Lloyd Library and Museum,…
Living Out Loud: : Me and Juan’s Body
Last night I got drunk on wine with Juan and decided to sell all my body parts on the Internet and E-Bay. The highest bidder might win, or I can accept a fixed price. The sale of body parts is apparently illegal. Of course, donating them for nothing is perfectly fine, and there are many…
Bengals Getting Closer to the Mountaintop
Jerry Dowling How many steps can a football team climb in one day? On what kind of day does a football team reach backward across 15 years of failure to share its best days with the present? How charming is that moment when a loser passes through breaking even to become a winner, culminating…
Study Says Police Need Diversity
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com City Hall workers add new council members to the directory. The Cincinnati Police Department needs more women and minorities and would benefit from training officers to better communicate with members of other races, according to an analysis released this week by the RAND Corp. Parties to the collaborative agreement on police reform…
Film: Black Gold, Blacker Hearts
Glen Wilson George Clooney (center) is ably supported by an excellent ensemble cast that includes Matt Damon (left) and Alexander Siddig (rear) in the compelling drama Syriana. For the first time in his career, leading man George Clooney has no need for his good looks. A scraggly beard covers his chiseled chin as CIA…
New Council, New Controversy
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com Now it's official: Mallory is Mayor Cincinnati City Council could have easily been mistaken for a high school graduation Nov. 30. Members of the public and council members reminisced about accomplishments and offered compliments along with good wishes to outgoing Mayor Charlie Luken and council members Sam Malone, David Pepper, Alicia Reece…
Joseph Wilson Warns of the ‘Worship of Access’
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Those infamous "16 words" in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union message ignited a scandal reaching into the White House and tainting some of the nation's best news media. Bush was wrong. But when former Ambassador Joseph Wilson…
Cover Story: Heart Attack
C. Matthew Hamby Emotional Rescue There is a kind of violence that doesn't involve physical pain — a type of abuse that doesn't involve touching at all. Some clinicians call it emotional abuse. The staff at the Cincinnati YWCA calls it emotional violence. Dr. Gary Dick, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of…
A look at some of the latest locally-spawned CD
· PIKE — THE SOUND OF POWER TOOLS Pike has been around in various forms for 10 years, since guitarist/vocalist Kelley Kombrinck and drummer Holly Knepfle joined forces in high school. The recent addition of Cleveland native Kelly Jarvis on guitar and vox has imbued the band with a more definitive persona, albeit a split…
