Archives from 2000

Every year, in late December, I, like so many of my journalistic colleagues, like to look to the future and speculate on -- i.e., make predictions about -- the events, developments and trends we can

My stint as a mall Santa was both psychologically and physically debilitating. Psychologically because I was constantly struggling to reconcile this internal conflict: If I loved the woman who ran S

Tags: News Feature, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Falcon Theater, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati

Whenever someone utters the familiar bit of treacle, "It's always darkest just before the dawn," I like to point out that, like cocktail hour, it's always "just before the dawn" somewhere in the wor

Tags: News Feature, Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, CEA, CEA2014

I'm not proud of what I did. To be honest, I barely remember doing it. My court-appointed shrink says I lost my grasp of reality. Maybe so. All I know is that, at the time, taking those weapons into

Tags: News Feature, education, news, schools, poverty, income inequality

Hey-hey, look who's here. Welcome, welcome. Get on in here out of the cold. Good to see you. Let me take your coat. I'm so glad you could join us for Thanksgiving dinner. No, you're absolutely fin

Tags: News Feature, Matt Baumann, Cincinnati music, WolfCryer

By BOB WOODIWISS The ballyhoo is irresistible. For weeks, it builds in the stores, then, slowly, it takes over the streets. The decorations, the songs, the merriment become ubiquitous. Before you

Tags: News Feature, television, Downton Abbey

I usually restrict my bookstore browsing to Fiction (looking to indulge my taste for deep, complex novels) and Romance (looking to indulge my taste for shallow, easy women). So it was strictly dumb

Tags: News Feature, news, John Cranley, budget, Meg Olberding, city manager, John Curp, city administration, Bill Moller, Scott Stiles

PSEUDOQUASIESQUEGood morning/afternoon/evening, I'm Bob Woodiwiss, and welcome to Pseudoquasiesque's special election coverage, Painful Culmination 2000. As in years past, we'll be bringing you, the

Tags: News Feature, Afghan Whigs, Paramore, Coachella, Bunbury Music Festival, New Politics

Stage Frightening

Tags: News Feature, election, news, gay marriage, David Pepper, Mike DeWine, LGBT, attorney general

My back is neither broad nor strong. I have not worn a hard hat since Skylab stopped falling out of the sky. My hands are uncallused. I am not all thumbs, I am all thumb stumps. The major brand name

Tags: News Feature, news, streetcar, City Council, mayor, John Cranley

Every four years, it happens like this: I step into the voting booth and there, on the presidential ballot, besides the deficient Democrat, the loathsome Republican -- or is it "loathsome Democrat"

Tags: News Feature, news, streetcar, City Council, mayor, John Cranley, SORTA

It is my fifth day of pain. My fourth day of discharge. My third day of unwelcome discharge. My second day of painful, unwelcome discharge. The act of standing and walking to the bathroom now seems

Tags: News Feature, news, City Council, mayor, John Cranley, city manager, Willie Carden

Few would deny that you can tell a lot about a person by looking at him. Or her. Not the least of which is whether the person you're looking at is a him or a her. But beyond gender solutions, appea

Tags: News Feature, John Cranley, Cincinnati streetcar, P.G. Sittenfeld

It's 9:21, Friday night. The band is set to launch into the first song of their first set. Technically, they were supposed to start 21 minutes ago, but the clever bastards are taking full advantage

Tags: News Feature, Roxanne Qualls, Thanksgiving, John Cranley, Milton Dohoney, Cincinnati Enquirer, Macy's, Carolyn Washburn, Cincinnati streetcar, Kevin Flynn, Black Friday, Pope Francis, Kaze OTR, David Mann

We all suspected it. But only Mother Jones had the resolve to prove it. And I, for one, am glad someone finally did. For those of you who don't know what I'm referring to, who haven't yet heard abo

Tags: News Feature, MidPoint Music Festival, MPMF, FotoFocus, The Ridges, The MidPoint Sessions

Take a quick flip through the listings in the back of this paper (not now, genius, after you're done here) and you'll see we're in the thick of fair and festival season. Yes, from mid-August through

Tags: News Feature, news, Chris Seelbach, LGBT

I love road trips. Always have. But before setting out on America's blue highways, before I make my first wrong turn or erupt in my first episode of road rage, I have to decide: Camping or hotels? T

Tags: News Feature, Cincinnati Music Theatre, Aronoff Center, CCM, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Clifton Performance Theater

Greenback Harbor Country Club, 8:45 a.m.: I am not a golfer. Which is exactly why Clay, Trey and Dave asked me to shoot a round with them this morning. Today I will be playing the role of the buffoo

Tags: News Feature, The Lackman, Igby's, 4EG

"Can I see your license?" I get that question a lot. Partly because it's the start of my favorite sexual role-playing game, Naughty Out-of-Season Bonefisher Happened Upon by Unmerciful Game Warden

Tags: News Feature, news, streetcar, mayor, John Cranley, John Deatrick

Each year, as the mercury spikes and America heads to the beach, something happens. Our collective zest for substantive, intellectual fiction and non-fiction temporarily subsides. We shelve our Ulys

Tags: News Feature, NFL, Cincinnati Bengals, Football