Peace Talks
Physical violence is something people understand — hitting that results in a black eye or a broken bone. But "violent communication" results in more than a few quizzical looks, according to Jeff Brown, a trainer of nonviolent communication. Last month Brown presented a two-day workshop at the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center, teaching community activists…
Giving Up Lent
Like many of my righteous forefathers, I found a loophole in the system that allowed me to put a positive, self-indulgent spin on an otherwise cumbersome religious tradition. If people would just do a little bit more soul-searching, then they'd see that Lent could be a hell of a lot of fun. I dread Easter…
Human Rights for Gays, Not for WAIF
The repeal of Article 12 of the Cincinnati City Charter, frequently referred to as "the anti-gay law," made it clear that Cincinnatians want to end discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to Councilman David Crowley. He, Vice Mayor Jim Tarbell and council members Laketa Cole and Chris Bortz announced March 7 they'll propose an ordinance…
News: No Sweat
Doug Trapp Angie Reichert-Hester (left) of Wyoming Youth Services directs high school students (L-R in front) Chris Luckhaupt, Jenn Hobohm and Jeff Docera on how to make wallets from duct tape. Eighty high school students lined cafeteria tables in Moeller High School the night of Feb. 24, manufacturing duct tape wallets and writing slogans…
News: Future Crime
Matt Borgerding To reduce crime, one of the most helpful things individuals can do is reach out to youth, according to (L-R) Dr. O'dell Owens, Police Chief Thomas Streicher and Mayor Mark Mallory. A doctor standing in front of 150 attorneys, threatening to tell lawyer jokes, might not seem the best way to get…
Cover Story: Right to a Private Life
Right To A Private Life For its place in an organization that draws so much controversy, Sue Momeyer's neatly-kept space on the third floor of the Planned Parenthood office in Mount Auburn is surprisingly warm and serene. For that matter, so is Momeyer. But then Planned Parenthood provides much more than the abortion services…
Locals Only: : When Four Become One
Only Everything Only Everything The buzzwords associated with a life of music could be coded and molded into one hell of a crossword puzzle — tour, recording, mixer, Marshall, pick-guard, Waffle House, label, merch, etc. Unfortunately, it would be wildly entertaining for only a tiny few, while the rest of us would be fast…
The Legal Evolution of ‘Intelligent Design’
We Ohioans should be grateful to the Dover, Pa., School Board for its attempt to mandate the teaching of intelligent design (ID) in its ninth-grade science curriculum. It made our own state board's 2002 effort to include intelligent design theory in the science curriculum look slightly less egregious. We should also be grateful to George…
Music: For Those About to Pick
Cooking Vinyl Though admittedly a "novelty" act, Hayseed Dixie skillfully connects the dots between Alice Cooper and Grandpa Jones. "High concept" is a Hollywood term for a movie pitch that can be explained in a single sentence without exploring subtext and subtlety and nuance. Hayseed Dixie is a Bluegrass band that interprets classic Hard…
Black Privilege
Before Kathy Y. Wilson — like some intellectually lazy, undisciplined, over-politicized high school sophomore — again denounces something she calls white skin privilege ("Bullet and a Target," issue of Feb. 22-28), she should ask herself how many of her white liberal colleagues could land some cush job at a black-published paper and routinely criticize black…
Film: Double Vision
Director Jonathan Demme (left) watches Neil Young do his thing SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Kevin Smith must be really jealous of Sarah Silverman for getting to be in last year's homage to the world's dirtiest joke, The Aristocrats. Judging by his crude and filthy wisecracks about his wife, himself and others at Saturday's Independent…
News: Rohs Street Cafe Book Sale
The Rohs Street Café's book sale extravaganza this Friday and Saturday is an opportunity to find great deals and contribute to programs that serve the community. Thanks to a massive donation from the Pilgrim's Place Bookstore, the sale consists of the 8,000 to 9,000 books for which the cafe doesn't have shelf space. In addition…
Living Out Loud: The Taxi Driver
When I painfully got into the cab, the driver said, "How do you do?" He was an older man with a white afro and brown skin that looked like leather. He was wearing a black cap. His large hands were gripped around that steering wheel like he was holding on for dear life. "I've been…
Film: Looking for a Sign
Focus Features Ang Lee took home a pair of Best Director awards last weekend for his work on Brokeback Mountain Jonathan Demme orders orange juice for himself, Neil Young and me at Zoom Restaurant in Park City, Utah. It's a refreshing way to begin a morning interview on behalf of the concert film Neil…
A Decade of Bullies
Phil Heimlich can kiss my ass. The Hamilton County Commission president is the latest in a long and undistinguished line of politicians over ther past decade who have overpromised and underdelivered on downtown riverfront projects. As his predecessors did, Heimlich has now taken the offensive to try to bully the rest of us into accepting…
Diner: Selling Out
Well, it's finally come to this. I auctioned myself to the highest bidder. I know that some of you are not at all surprised. Sadly, that's probably the people who know me best — traitors! Can I just defend my honor by saying that it was for a good cause? No? I didn't think so.…
Hicks and Kennedy Brought Order to UC’s Tumultuous Season
Jerry Dowling Try remembering the 12 years immediately before Bob Huggins and, if you can't, try to imagine them. On second thought, don't bother. That's probably the best way to remember the University of Cincinnati's basketball program from those days, because so few bothered with it. If the Bearcats never fell so low as…
Gone With The Wind
Sandy Underwood Warren Kelly portrays legendary producer David O. Selznick in Moonlight and Magnolias at Ensemble Theatre. Perhaps after watching the Academy Awards you're wondering how screenplays actually get written. ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI (ETC) is offering a comic version of how one of the greatest movies of all times, Gone With The Wind,…
News to Use
End the War, Stop the Next One On the third anniversary of war in Iraq, in solidarity with events happening around the world, the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center sponsors a rally and march at 2 p.m. March 19 in Burnet Woods at the Lone Star Pavilion on Clifton Avenue. For more information about this…
R.I.P. Sam Nation
Tragedy has struck a local band and all those touched by them. Local visual artist, musician and singer/songwriter Sam Shipman, better known as Sam Nation, died late on March 4 after the car in which he and his girlfriend/bandmate Melissa Cox-Howard (aka Melissa Fairmount and Missy Teen) were driving was struck by a drunk driver…
Art: Tranquility Preserved
Scott Miller Scott Miller captured a full moon rising over Thoreau's Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Walden Pond is the birthplace of the modern national and international environmental movement, and 19th-century American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau is widely regarded as the movement's father. His writings focused on the beauty and wonder of the…
