Up-and-coming Indie band Post-Haste strive for new audiences and raw sounds
Post-Haste They are an aspiring graphic artist, a former Procter & Gamble employee, and a devotee of Kurt Vonnegut. They are also the local band called Post-Haste, a two-year-old outfit composed of drummer Gregory Mills, bassist Mike Fair and guitarist/vocalist Mike Winters. Mills and Winters, both 24, are Mason natives and longtime friends who…
Killer Serials
Sometimes the solution to a problem is so glaringly obvious, you can't believe it goes unnoticed. Such is the case with the broadcast networks and, in particular, the WB. Once deemed the most likely to survive as America's fifth over-the-air network, this season has seen the Frog stumble. The United Paramount Network (UPN) almost hired…
Film: Philosophy According to the Girl Next Door
Deb Nathan Sandra Bullock How can you be an ordinary, nice person and a movie star at the same time? It's a persistent contradiction that Sandra Bullock contends with on a daily basis. Hollywood actors are expected to wander the earth, whether they're working or not, dragging their on-screen personas in tow, like pesky…
News: Candidate Cranley Hopes That Youth Will Be Served
John Cranley The MTV cameraman keeps straightening John Cranley's tie, and Cranley keeps twisting himself up, waving his hands and almost shaking with enthusiasm. The 26-year-old candidate for U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot's 1st Congressional District seat is off on a rant about how important public service is to his generation and why he's running…
The Dating
If you're like me — one of the unlucky ones — you spent Opening Day, at work or some other place that wasn't the stadium. Since it poured rain, I don't feel too bad, but for the fans who got drenched, I'm sure it wasn't the best of days. I like baseball. Not love it,…
Join the 225-Mile-High Club
You can't afford Italy. You didn't like Vegas. And Tijuana still reminds you of contracting dysentery. So, where do you go on vacation this year? You know you're taking a gamble wherever you go. She likes the beach, you like the mountains. You get the idea. But there's a new destination for us all to…
Cover Story: The Life and Death and Life of the Ass Ponys
Sean Hughes/photopresse.com The Ass Ponys today Man, oh man, were we stupid. It's almost funny now to think how naive everyone was about the way the world works. Grunge and the Lollapalooza mania of the Alternative Rock nation couldn't change things any more than boy bands can now. Sure, 1991 was "the Year that…
The Blame Stops Here
In January, the Cincinnati city engineer and two principal engineers were placed on paid administrative leave for at least poor recordkeeping of city street repairs from 1991 to 1997 and possibly for filing intentionally misleading reports. A former senior engineer who quit the department in 1998 also is named in the investigation. A city internal…
A Most Celestial Body
BOB GOEN: Good evening and welcome to Entertainment Tonight. I'm Bob Goen … MARY HART: … and I'm Mary Hart. Tonight's big story is the arrival of Jesus Christ in the city of Jerusalem just over 24 hours ago. As you can imagine, it was absolute bedlam as the Christian Messiah made His long-awaited and…
Diner: The Mrs. Dash of Clifton
I never know what to expect anymore when I go to Clifton. I'm well past my college years, but I like to think I'm still relatively with it. Yet Clifton never ceases to amaze me. I guess I should expect, as times change and trends come and go, establishments surrounding a college campus will evolve.…
