News: Double Vision
Don Brannen (L-R) Josh Jackson, Laquain Dawson and Chris Love work on a rain barrel at Vision Trek. Kayaking, planting gardens and using rain barrels hardly seem to be common activities in January, when temps in Cincinnati drop into the single digits, but that's exactly what "at risk" teens are learning — and teaching…
Wicked Broadway fun, free dance classes, women’s art and much more
Le Rug WEDNESDAY 1/9 ONSTAGE: WICKED "Something wicked this way comes" wails Shakespeare's second witch in Macbeth. This week most of the wailing will be about the shortage of tickets for Wicked, back for another run at the Aronoff Center. Perhaps with a touch of lineage back to Shakespeare, this popular Broadway musical is…
Locals Only: : The Turkeys
The Turkeys The Turkeys The Turkeys' tunes pull on the ear like a slow, sucking magnet. With Every Night's the Same, released in late 2007, Chris Cusentino (bass, guitar, vocals) and Kyle Knapp (drums, guitar, vocals) lead the flock, easily leaping through genres. Maintaining positive energy, they glue diverse songs together. In the end,…
News: Something in the Air
Joe Simon Marti Sinclair, program director at the Environmental Community Organization A study of major sources of industrial pollution in Hamilton County has found significant violations of the federal Clean Air Act. The Environmental Community Organization (ECO), a local network of environmental activists, checked the compliance of 124 significant air pollution sources in the…
Sound Advice: : Dillinger Escape Plan and Maura O’Connell
Dillinger Escape Plan Dillinger Escape Plan with Killswitch Engage and Every Time I Die Saturday • Bogart's It's become a common topic with Dillinger Escape Plan, discussing how much adversity the band has encountered and why the band has persevered. Bassist Liam Wilson agrees that one secret to survival is the familiar notion that…
Onstage: Review: Wicked
Joan Marcus The land of Oz comes alive in Wicked, currently at the Aronoff Center. For all those parents of teenage girls who are scrambling (perhaps too late) to score a ticket for Wicked at the Aronoff Center, I have a message: This is a subversive show. And not just because the central character…
Slim’s
Starting on Sunday, Slim´s in Northside will have a new brunch menu and hours. The restaurant will be open for lunch/dinner from 1-7 p.m. One of the new menu items is a whole roasted suckling pig cooked in a La Caja China box, which can cook a 50-pound pig in five to six hours, replicating…
Art: Review: Keep on Living
Matt Morris Zach Rawe (Left) and Nick Hill check out their work at Semantics Gallery. Despite the lag in Brighton's art scene in recent months, its own Semantics continues to deliver fresh exhibitions that cultivate a sense of community for Cincinnati's creative class. This month the gallery hosts a two-person exhibition called Keep on…
Facts About Herbal Weight Loss
We all know that increased weight results mostly from reduced physical activity and increased caloric intake, especially around the holidays, but other contributing factors can include dysregulation of serotonin in the brain, psychological issues and medical causes (i.e., metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, gallbladder disease). The problem isn't so much the fat seen on the outside…
Who the Hell Is Greg Hartmann?
He's your brand new Hamilton County Commissioner, that's who, to be formally "elected" nine months from now and to be sworn in this time next year. No muss, no fuss. You can thank the people who run the local Democratic and Republican parties for saving you the trouble of actually voting in November. It's like…
We Don’t Need No Stinking Election
Matt Borgerding Portune Long a darling of Democrats in Greater Cincinnati, Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune often talks the talk of standing up for progressive values, but he certainly didn't walk the walk last week — instead choosing to strike a deal that is contrary to democracy and reeks of all that is wrong…
Diner: Review: InCahoots
Joe Lamb InCahoots Since it opened, InCahoots has been offering Blue Ash residents food and drinks in what its Web site calls "a new restaurant and bar with universal appeal." One of the first things my wife, who is Asian, and I notice when we enter InCahoots is that she's the only non-white patron.…
Music: Die Job
Adrenaline PR Every Time I Die Every Time I Die singer Keith Buckley openly acknowledges that his band felt it had a lot to live up to with the group's new CD, The Big Dirty. Much of the pressure came from Gutter Phenomenon, the fourth release from the Buffalo, N.Y., group. That album earned…
Lost: The Complete Third Season (Buena Vista)
Lost: The Complete Third Season 2007, Not Rated Watching Lost places you in a rather toxic relationship. You know you should break it off, but you have so much time invested in it all, you just can't walk away. You've become attached to the survivors of Oceanic flight 815, and while you might have…
News to Use
Celebrate the Drop Inn Center The Drop Inn Center marks its 30th anniversary this weekend. At 11 p.m. Jan. 11 a commemorative walk and performance begin at 1324 Main St. At 2 p.m. Jan. 12 leaders from a variety of faiths hold a red-dedication ceremony at the Drop Inn Center, 217 W. 12th St. From…
News: Post-Post
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com Dec. 31, 2007: The final edition of The Cincinnati Post. Some have plans, sketchy at best. Some want to stay in town, even knowing the media possibilities are limited. Some planned to decompress. Peggy Kreimer, a 34-year veteran of The Kentucky Post and The Cincinnati Post, put it this way: "There are…
‘Evolution’ Rock
Amanda Grissom Chris Lee Mason rockers Bluf host an all-ages CD release party Saturday at The Poison Room in honor of their new album, Documents of Evolution. The four-piece (consisting of frontman/Johnny Cougar nephew Ian Mellencamp and brothers Ben, Elliott and Evan Rubin) takes a slanted Hard Rock approach akin to acts like Chevelle…
Film Festival Here Could Be Doable
I almost couldn't believe it when I saw the cover story "Cincinnati Film Festival: Could It Work Here?" (issue of Jan. 2). Barely three years have past since the demise of the Cincinnati International Film Festival (CIFF) — which I once served as associate producer — virtually unassisted promotionally by CityBeat, which repeatedly devoted copious…
The District (Atopia)
The District 2005, Unrated Pimps, whores, drunks, gangsters, terrorists, corrupt cops and even corrupter politicians rap, dance, fight, cuss, fuck and steal throughout The District — a wild Hungarian Hip Hop animated feature. Essentially a skewed Romeo and Juliet transplanted to a crime and violence-ridden Budapest ghetto, the film follows two young lovers who…
Cover Story: Remember the Publico
Matt Distel Remember the Pubico 2003 to 2008 I suppose that within the organizational chart of the art world Publico falls under the less-than-specific category of "alternative space." All that term really connotes is that Publico is neither a commercial gallery nor a more traditional nonprofit institution. The joke goes something like this: "They…
Film: Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Miramax Mathieu Amelric (left) and Anne Cosigny in Diving Bell and the Butterfly The whole point of art, really, is to experience the world as others see it. Few artists have taken that imperative as literally, yet at the same time so poetically and imaginatively, as Julian Schnabel in The Diving Bell and the…
At The Cincinnati Post, It Was Always About Winning the Story
Jerry Dowling The last year ended in reflection, personal and otherwise. The Cincinnati Post, my last daily newspaper, put out its final edition on the morning of Dec. 31, three days short of reaching 127 years old. All but pre-ordained by a joint operating agreement (JOA) signed with the cross-town Cincinnati Enquirer 30 years…
Sign of the Times
Think the "Princess Diana tiara" that will adorn the planned Great American Insurance Building at Queen City Square looks tacky? Try a big K-E-N-D-L-E lighting up the nighttime sky. From where else? Atop the beloved Carew Tower. Western Southern's announcement last month of plans for a $300-million, 660,000 square-foot office tower near the intersection of…
Young Talent Going, Staying
Satori Group Satori Group A young Cincinnati theater company, The Sartori Group, offered several productions during 2007 including iLove, a Fringe Festival show that was named the Producers' "Pick of the Fringe" and garnered a Cincinnati Entertainment Award nomination for best alternative production. After splitting from New Stage Collective, another newish theater company, over…
Another seven days of counting the homeless, buying decent cars and banning rollerblades
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2 It was announced today that volunteers and social service personnel will scour the state of Kentucky for homeless people Jan. 24 to determine how much federal funding the state gets for its supportive housing and care programs. This year's homeless person survey has been shortened so the searchers can spend less time…
Crossing the Rhine
I've been happier lately — busy, moving with a new kind of buoyancy. The windows on my new "mid-town" apartment face south, and when the sun comes out it looks light and airy and gives my soul a lift. This is a walking neighborhood. Just as I'd imagined, I walk out most mornings to the…
Brad McCombs
Brad McCombs Brad McCombs Brad McCombs uses media as diverse as robotics, video and straw bale architecture to explore human interaction with technology and the environment and to provide catalysts for action and change. See his work from Jan. 17 to Feb. 8 at Northern Kentucky University, where he's assistant professor of visual art…
There’s History in the Glass
Last night I had dinner with my in-laws — spaetzle with butter and onions and big, fat knockwurst. A typical German meal like this works great with a nice pilsner, but I felt like drinking wine. An off-dry Riesling would pair well, and dependable wines from Germany's spectacular 2005 vintage are still on most store…
Joshua (20th Century Fox)
Joshua 2007, Rated R George Ratliff's supremely sinister film will leave more than a few viewers wary in its wake. An upscale Manhattan couple (Vera Farmiga and Sam Rockwell) and their hyper-intelligent 9-year-old son Joshua (Jacob Kogan) welcome a newborn baby into the family unit. Typical enough premise, right? Not quite. The slow-burning narrative…
Music: Great Explorations
Kurt Strecker Clark Wheeler Clark Wheeler is barely old enough to order a beer. Yet, at the tender age of 21, he´s already been around the block — living in the Kalahari desert for six months (by choice), submitting recordings to Smithsonian Folkways (pending response) and now releasing his first solo album, Stars and…
Crossing the Line (Kino)
Crossing the Line 2006, Unrated In 1962, 21-year-old U.S. Army private James Joseph Dresnok left his post on the border between North and South Korea, crossed the treacherous, two-mile-long Demilitarized Zone and defected to the Communist north. His contact with the West ceased that day — until filmmaker Daniel Gordon ventured into the rarely…
In a Word, Bias
On Second Thought One or two words can make all the difference in what a news article says
