Upcoming Concert Reviews of Negativland, Dosh and More…
Force Field PR Dosh NEGATIVLAND Thursday · Southgate House To identify Negativland as a band is like calling Salvador Dali a painter; it's technically appropriate but sorely lacking in descriptive depth. The band will occasionally display the trappings of a traditional Rock band but that is almost certainly only an underlying context to anything…
Dance: Double Vision
Julie Buck Choreographer/dancer Carrie Rohman draws moves from poetry. Sometimes you just know. A collaboration between a choreographer and a poet arose as naturally as a yogi drawing breath. "When she read them I knew," choreographer/dancer Carrie Rohman recalls with a laugh during a recent telephone interview. "I knew at that moment that this…
News: Heimlich Family Feud
Lynne Congemi Peter Heimlich and his wife, Karen Shulman, live in Atlanta. As if the reelection campaign of Hamilton County Commissioner Phil Heimlich hasn't had enough trouble in recent weeks, CityBeat has learned that Heimlich's insurance company offered a $3,000 payment to settle a claim that the commissioner allegedly defamed his estranged brother. Phil…
There Goes the Neighborhood
Sean Hughes Lon Coleman distributes fliers and warns that the proposed jail tax "hoses" the public. The Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) is actively pushing poor people out of Over-the-Rhine, according to the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless. Case in point: the 33 people who, until last week, lived in a boarding…
Cardinals Revert to Old-Fashioned Baseball to Win It All
Jerry Dowling A question, which isn't like the questions in other sports, fogs over the World Series: How does a ball club win 83 during the season and go all the way to the World Championship? A football team drones into the wild card spot, like last year's Pittsburgh Steelers, ends up having to…
Diner: Sense & Sensibility
Orchids at Palm Court Go: 35 W. Fifth St., Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Downtown Call: 513-421-9100 Hours: 5:30-10 p.m. daily; Sunday brunch: 10:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Prices: Expensive Payment: Major credit cards accepted Red Meat Alternatives: Seafood Accessibility: Yes Grade: B+ You don't have to be an architectural geek to marvel at the craftsmanship of Orchids…
PUBLICO
Marc Pittman Marc Pittman's movie poster redesigns are currenly on view at Syn Gallery. Don't miss an exhibition that offers the ideal combination of art and music. PUBLICO (1308 Clay St., Over-the-Rhine) presents Music Show: Contemporary Art, Design & Music, their newest exhibition that combines artists' work featuring some aspect of music, such as…
Wellness Directory: Road to Wellness
What is the true meaning of healing, and what is stopping us? The dictionary definitions of healing include: to mend; to make or become healthy, whole or sound; to restore to health, free from ailment; to repair or reconcile; to free from evil; to cleanse or purify; to effect a cure. When we approach healing…
Music: Coping with Confusion
Danny Clinch Despite label shifts and some resistance to his eclectic sound from the industry, Citizen Cope's grassroots audience continues to grow. Citizen Cope has apparently confused more than a few radio programmers — not to mention music fans — who struggle to pin down his music. The only thing that's difficult for Cope…
Film: No Holds Barred
20th Century Fox Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) delivers a mangled version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in one of Borat's many comic scenes. Virtually everyone who has seen early screenings of the comedy Borat has found it uproariously funny. But they're often a select audience already familiar with both the character Borat and its…
Music: Don’t Think Twice, It’s Just a Song
Sean Hughes Jake Speed presents some of his favorite "songatorials" live at Rohs Street Cafe this Thursday. Editor's Note: On the first day of 2006, local Folk singer/songwriter Jake Speed began an ambitious project, writing a weekly "Speedy Delivery," his singing "songatorial" which is posted at citybeat.com/songatorial. As Speed's New Year's resolution — to…
The Work of Women
Twice a year my siblings and I found ourselves sleepily dragging feather pillows from our beds at 5 a.m. and climbing into the Gray Ghost, the family Oldsmobile, for the trek to my father's birthplace. We'd alternate between fighting and dozing as we wound through the switchbacks of the Blue Ridge Mountains to Mars Hill,…
News: Same Old in Northern Kentucky
CityBeat Archive Election 2006 When voters in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District head to the polls Tuesday, they'll decide on a rematch of the same candidates from four years ago. Democratic challenger Ken Lucas is trying to return to the office he left in 2004. He hopes to unseat Republican incumbent Geoff Davis, and the…
Don’t Vote for Him
Jake's Notes: Mark Twain may have best summed up political strategy when he wrote that it's better to be popular than right? May the best-looking candidate win! Don't Vote for Him – Click Here To Listen By: Jake Speed 10/29/06 Don't vote for him, his breath smells bad He's short and his eyebrows, they make…
Music: Boot-a Claus
Woodrow J. Hinton Bootsy Collins' holiday album, Christmas is 4 Ever, fulfills one of the Funk legend's longstanding dreams A quick scan of Bootsy Collins' accomplishments over the course of his nearly 40-year career shows more than just a résumé filled with amazing benchmarks — it's the impressive history and evolution of Funk since…
Bone Up, Then Vote for Change
Jason Kidwell Election Day draws near, and change is afoot. You can feel it in the air. You can hear it in the desperate TV ads being run by Republicans. You know you're unhappy with how things are going, and so are your friends and even your conservative relatives. Hell, The Enquirer actually endorsed…
News: The Myth of Your Rights
Sean Hughes It only looks like "Heil Hitler": Police order a journalist off the sidewalk. It turns out our constitutional rights are worth whatever the people with the guns decide they're worth, and nothing more. When the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce announced Vice President Dick Cheney would speak Oct. 25 at The…
News to Use
Dialogue on the War Xavier University Army ROTC and the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center are co-sponsoring a Day of Dialogue on Iraq at Bellarmine Chapel on Xavier's campus from 7-9:30 p.m. Nov. 10. Four Iraq War veterans will share their stories and perspectives. Everyone's point of view is welcome. Remembering Buddy Gray This year…
Here’s to Full Disclosure
As advocated by Caleb Faux in a Letter to the Editor ("Don't Forget the State Elections, issue of Aug. 30), CityBeat gave coverage to the 28th District Ohio House race between incumbent Jim Raussen and challenger Connie Pillich ("Close Race in the Northern Burbs," issue of Oct. 18). Unfortunately, like Faux, CityBeat apparently had a…
Living Out Loud: : Suffering
Luke If suffering equals growth of the soul, I must surely be a spiritual giant. But, of course, this is not true. Yes, I'm spiritual, but I'm merely a struggling soul searching for answers to life's most difficult questions. The Buddhist concept of karma is easily westernized and boiled down to "as you sow, so…
Here’s to Full Disclosure
As advocated by Caleb Faux in a Letter to the Editor ("Don't Forget the State Elections, issue of Aug. 30
Vote for The Future of Rock
HOT Rock Hall Gets a Few Right The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees for the Class of 2007 were recently announced and it appears that the nominating committee is finally getting around to acknowledging some artists whose exclusion have outraged many a music fan. We've long contended that a Rock Hall without Iggy…
Cover Story: Bone Up, Then Vote for Change
Jerry Dowling Time For A Clean Sweep Election Day draws near, and change is afoot. You can feel it in the air. You can hear it in the desperate TV ads being run by Republicans. You know you're unhappy with how things are going, and so are your friends and even your conservative relatives.…
Lookwhos: Look Who’s Eating
Matt Borgerding Armin Hack, co-owner of Frieda's Bakery Master pastry chef Armin Hack is an artist. His medium? Belgian chocolate and layers of fresh puff pastry. A fourth-generation pastry chef, Armin started his training in Germany at the ripe old age of 5 while playing in his father's bakery. Today, he and his wife Melanie…
Film: Still Mad as Hell
20th Century Fox Consider the following: "I want angry shows! I want anti-establishment! I want counterculture!" "We're not a responsible network; we're a whorehouse network." "You're talking about putting a manifestly irresponsible man on television." If you think the first is the mantra HBO, the second is the anonymous confession of a FOX executive…
Ashley Brown
Sandy Underwood Jessica Boevers and Matt Bogart are two of seven CCM grads in the Cincinnati Playhouse production of Ace. The University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) generates an astonishing number of musical theater performers who go on to noteworthy careers, often on Broadway. Once they graduate, we usually have to travel to…
Locals Only: : Just Like Honey
Joe Lamb Tupelo Honey A couple of weeks ago, Heather Turner and Katie Wefer packed their bags and left Fort Thomas, Ky., with only one goal: getting to Dallas. They were ready for any adventure along the way. While stopping underneath the Tupelo city sign in Mississippi to get their picture taken, a car…
Proofreaders Are Sorely Missed
Before newspapers eliminated proofreaders to save money, those literate, skeptical guardians were our last defense against libel and error, whether journalistic or typographical. Unlike computers, they distinguished between Army Air Corps, Army Air Force and Air Force, infer and imply, presently and currently, homicide and murder, its and it's and, locally, between Clifton and Corryville.…
PatientZero Go “Ape”!
Locals patientZero return this week with the follow-up to Seemingly So …, their debut long-player from last year. Inflatable Ape Nation gets the release party treatment Friday at the Madison Theater. PZ singer Chris Sarvak's Acoustic Pop band, Up & Away, as well as other special guests, open the 8 p.m. show. Admission is $5,…
Confessions of a Yellow-Dog Democrat
My grandparents got up early on Election Day. They lived in a small rural community in Tennessee, just 10 miles south of Murray, Ky. They were country people; they dressed up to vote. My grandfather put on his Sunday pants and shirt, and my grandmother laced herself into a corset and a print dress. She…
News: This Election Is Different
CityBeat Archive Election 2006 Change is a watchword this election season, and it's not limited to candidates and issues — the way voters casts ballots is different this year. New state laws mandate significant changes such as no-fault absentee voting and requiring voter identification. The controversy surrounding voting procedures in Ohio during the 2004…
