Archives from 2001

Every day, I'm personally reminded of the April riots. I pass vacant buildings and broken windows in my neighborhood, Walnut Hills. On my walks from CityBeat's downtown offices to an Over-the-Rh

Tags: News Feature, MidPoint Music Festival, MPMF, Zola Jesus, Purity Ring, Pokey LaFarge, Cincinnati music festival, Strand of Oaks

In early April, a violent crowd of protesters, angry about Timothy Thomas' fatal shooting by Cincinnati Police, took their frustrations to the streets of Over-the-Rhine. By April 16, the Cincinnati

Photographer Bill Davis' first statement hangs next to an overturned canvas on the sixth floor of University Hall at the University of Cincinnati. His words read solemnly: "I objectively regret

Tags: News Feature, Todd Haynes, Cate Blanchett, Carol

Cathy Springfield turns visibly excited when she talks about the characteristics of a good arts advocate. Her voice raises a few decibels. She gestures wildly with her hands. Talking with Springfie

Councilman Jim Tarbell is a performance artist when it comes to the spoken word. Looking onto Over-the-Rhine from a 21st-floor office in the Kroger Building, he waves his hands past a large window a

Tags: News Feature, Michael Wilson, Cincinnati music, Jeremy Pinnell, Sofa Burn Records

Inside a Camp Washington building, artist Steve Zieverink, 26, and musician Lou Larson, 35, are standing in a large room that usually houses artist studios. The mess and clutter have been removed.

Tags: News Feature, Cincinnati City Council, Pete Rose, Charlie Winburn, John Kasich, Mount Auburn, SORTA, MLB, Oasis Line, East Side, Tamir Rice, Inwood Park

I hear the same complaint every election. Friends tell me there have been no pro-arts political candidates since Mayor Roxanne Qualls left Cincinnati City Hall. They grouse that arts issues and su

Tags: News Feature, Bob Castellini, Procter & Gamble, Sherrod Brown, Kroger, Uptown Consortium, CDC, Ohio Right to Life, John Barrett, Mayor John Cranley

The witch-hunt led by Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen hit its targets on Oct. 16. On a blustery fall afternoon, jurors in the trial of assistant coroner Dr. Jonathan Tobias, 31, and photograph

Tags: News Feature, Limp Bizkit, Andrew WK, Zakk Wylde, Black Label Society, Living Colour

Conversation becomes something beautiful when photographer Bill Davis is uttering the words. Davis chooses his sentences carefully. The phrases fall from his lips like delicate whispers. When Davi

Tags: News Feature, Barbara Boxer, Rand Paul, Brent Spence Bridge, Western Hills Viaduct

Liliana Duque Piñeiro looks out the window at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP). From the 840 Gallery she watches UC students pass by. T

Tags: News Feature

Art can be a welcome diversion in today's climate of sorrow and terror. In the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it felt good to watch a Toronto Film Festival screening of Italian filmmaker

Tags: News Feature, Aronoff Center, Cinderella, West Side Story, local theater

Sweeping is a performance art when Laura Hollis holds the broom. As she regularly does, Hollis cleans the dirt and trash from the entry to her Newport arts center, The Artery. It's a weekday afterno

CityBeat's fifth annual ranking of the people who are leading the local arts -- for better or worse

Tags: News Feature, Rookwood, Cincinnati Zoo, Facebook, I-75, Martin Wade, Grammer's, unemployment, Mike Brown, OTR, Ferguson Missouri, protests, Tamir Rice

The address knocked me off my feet, as did the initial press materials. Someone wants to make movies in Newport, and I'm not talking about pornography. A few blocks away from the World Peace Bell,

Tags: News Feature, DAAP, Cincinnati art

The city of Cincinnati is desperate to transform itself into a harmonious city. This is a statement I think everyone would embrace. The summer-long debate among Cincinnati's political and business

Tags: News Feature, City Council, Cincinnati Enquirer, chili, Christopher Smitherman, Carl Lindner, Charlie Winburn, Amy Murray, Mayday, SORTA, Chris Seelbach, Streetcar, Tracie Hunter, Lachey's Bar

Statistics from the Cincinnati Opera's 2001 season are in, and the news is very good. A robust 4,443 subscriptions gave the company its second highest subscription rate ever, totaling 70 percent of

Tags: News Feature, gay marriage, Ohio, Mike DeWine, same-sex marriage ban, Brittani Henry-Rogers, Brittni Rogers

The titanic puppet slowly makes its way down a grassy hillside in Loveland, Ohio. Beneath its canvas body, artist Mark Fox and his crew struggle to navigate the figure's long arms and enormous hea

Tags: News Feature, Cincinnati music, Valley of the Sun, Cincinnati Rock

The tower is what pulls me into the Linda Schwartz Gallery at the edge of downtown on West Fourth Street. It's a titanic blur of blues, greens and reds that tickles the top of the gallery's 12-foot

Tags: News Feature, Cincinnati music, Valley of the Sun, Cincinnati rock

The first surprise was the fact that the May 10 letter arrived on my desk sometime in June. It's a delay even the Post Office would have trouble explaining. The second surprise was the squiggly sig

Tags: News Feature, photography, FotoFocus

A place like the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) often looks its most ominous right before visiting hours. Outside the museum's doors, the world surrounding Eden Park and Mount Adams is one of warm suns

Tags: News Feature, Hillary Clinton, Clifton Heights, LeBron James, Mitch McConnell, P&G, Alison Lundergan Grimes, Greenpeace, Mayor John Cranley, HUD