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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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