Michelle Shocked
Michelle Shocked Before Ani, there was Michelle Shocked. The "Alternative folkie" (who actually has more in common with Folk's early instigators than most of the artists who pass as "Folk" today) has been doing things her way since emerging in the mid-'80s with albums like The Texas Campfire Tapes and Short Sharp Shocked. The…
To Price Hill With Love
A facelift to Cincinnati's Price Hill neighborhood could come in the form of theater, if the local community is interested in helping. Tim Perrino, artistic director for the Showboat Majestic, wants to convert the former Covedale Cinema Grill in Price Hill into a new performing arts center for Cincinnati Young People's Theater (CYPT), a group…
News: Splash of Death
Bina Akhter was burned while protecting her cousin from an acid attack in her native Bangladesh. She now lives in Cincinnati and speaks out against violence against women. Sulfuric, hydrochloric and nitric acids can melt metal. Imagine having it splashed in your face. Bina Akhter and Jharna Akhter know how it feels. The two…
Diner: Special Delivery
Lisa Bialac I don't remember where we kids found the glossy, hypercolored publication that year. Maybe in one of the bathrooms, where my father could lock the door and study the lurid photos in relative privacy. Maybe in the living room, where we had tugged it out from underneath more innocent periodicals. Clearly it…
Whirlygig: 21
Edited by Rebecca Lomax Good, Clean Fun Bill left on Thursday for his job interview in Idaho. Friday I decided that, if Bill might end up 2000 miles away, then I better consider how to avoid becoming a recluse. I was crazy to get out of the house. Barring any activity that is inherently better…
Music: Foggy Mountain Breakthrough
There's been a lot of talk about Bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley's capture of this year's Grammy for Country Male Vocal Performance — a richly-deserved artifact of the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack 's unexpected success — but it's not the only award that wound up in the hands of a legendary septuagenarian banjo picker.…
109 Mulberry St.
Doug Trapp Address: 109 Mulberry St., Over-the-Rhine Owner: John and Kathy Van Styn Purchase Date: February 1981 Current Property Value: $25,800 Year Built: 1865 Gross Area: 1,650 square feet Comments: John Van Styn's building has a back deck with a panoramic view of Over-the-Rhine, but it also has a broken window at the sidewalk…
Police Reform: Is it time for Cincinnati to have a new police chief?
Charles Tassell, president of Blue Chip Young Republicans If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the photo of Val Lemmie and Chief Streicher walking hand in hand spoke volumes — just not what some people wanted to hear. It's easy for those who have done little in life nor had to make hard…
News: Mulberry Bushed
Jymi Bolden Chris Rose (left) says the city has been shortsighted in implementing improvements on Mulberry Street; some neighbors disagree. An Over-the-Rhine resident is stirring things up at Cincinnati City Hall over a street project he believes is a missed opportunity. But other residents of Mulberry Street say he's doing more harm than good.…
Pearline turn the Blues upside down to reveal the most important elements
Jymi Bolden Pearline Dripping with the sweat of a drunken dancing mob at a recent party, I was slave to the heat generated by Pearline, who reminded me, if I ever knew it, that Cincinnatians do know a thing or two about being damn funky. I danced so hard that it felt like the…
Got Justice?
During the April 7 March for Justice, I wasn't in the number as a reporter or writer. I went to mend my splintered humanity. I'm also not a member of New Prospect Baptist Church. I have disagreed publicly and privately with Black United Front leader and New Prospect's pastor, Rev. Damon Lynch III. But I…
Brendan Halpin’s It Takes a Worried Man
Brendan Halpin Brendan Halpin's memoir, It Takes a Worried Man, evokes many emotions. Should you laugh? Should you cry? Or cry while laughing, as I did? According to Halpin, the book is supposed to make you laugh, but the topic would make anyone tear up. His wife Kirsten was diagnosed with breast cancer at…
