Cover Story: Their “A” Game
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com O.J. Mayo drives to the basket, lifting the North College Hill team and, seemingly, the entire community. The sounds you don't hear this January night are two, three, perhaps four basketballs bouncing in an empty high school gym and the voices of several players breaking down their game. It's late on a school…
News: Labor Pains
Jymi Bolden (L-R) Tia Yisrael of Forest Park consults with nurse midwives Jackie Gruer and Stephanie Deimling. Skyrocketing insurance costs are limiting options for women in Cincinnati who want to give birth outside a hospital. Midwives Care Inc. has had to stop conducting deliveries at private homes and at its birth center in Northside because…
News: Marching for Choice
Jymi Bolden Hollie Hinton (L) and Kathy Helmbock are organizing Cincinnatians for a national pro-choice rally. Cincinnati women are organizing to defend legal abortion, which could soon face its greatest threat since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court established their right to choose. "People are starting to see the crucial nature of this issue," says…
Diner: Family, Friends and Food
A provocative statement opens the menu at Baltic in Blue Ash: "Eating is a necessity; knowing how to eat is an art." Not being a literalist, I understood the message clearly. In fact, I once considered writing a book titled How to Eat about the dining experience that is beyond the food, the experience that…
Bush League
On last weekend's Saturday Night Live spoof of the 9/11 hearings, Janet Jackson did a better Condoleezza Rice than Rice herself, who did a far superior impression of Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth during the real 9/11 commission ass-grill than Omarosa herself ever did on her way to being blackballed from The Apprentice. This is America now. A…
Living Out Loud: : A Day With Huggy
Some might see the remaking of Starsky and Hutch into a movie as yet another sign of the end of the world, or at least of intelligent life. After all, the idea of trying to make a camp version of the popular 1970s television series is like trying to make a bland plate of grits.…
ETC unites local talent for a marital battle of War Games
Ensemble Theatre regular a. Beth Harris sings in an Off-Center/On-Stage production of Janet Vogt and Mark Friedman's War Games: Marriage on the Front Lines this weekend. If you're a fan of new plays in Cincinnati, you probably know that heading your list should be ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI (ETC), where a steady diet of premieres…
Q2: The Experience
Water is the primary constituent of all life, necessary for bioenergetic processes to occur. Pat Roth, an R.N. with 31 years experience, tells us about the Q2 Energy Spa, which was created to realign, balance and enhance the bioenergetic levels in water. This creates an "energy bath" that can recharge our biological battery, rejuvenate and…
Maybe, Baby
Forgive me a bit of personal reflection and some rambling thoughts. I know this space normally is used to comment on serious social and political issues of the day, but not today. The vibes are too good today. Maybe it's the recent passing of Easter, which carries both the secular and religious significance of rebirth.…
News to Use
Ethics in the Global Economy Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, discusses "Ethical Globalization" during several appearances this week. She speaks at Xavier University at 7 p.m. Sunday and during a panel discussion at 7 p.m. Monday. Both events are at the Schiff Family Conference Center in Xavier's Cintas Center. Admission is free. Robinson also…
Writer’s Block
James Thurber What's the secret life of the man behind "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"? Well, James Thurber's life might not be all that scandalous, but it's fascinating — and it's certainly held the attention of HARRISON KINNEY, who's become something of an expert on the humorist from Columbus, Ohio. Kinney presents "Simply Thurber"…
Discover Channel launches Human Cannonballs
Here are a few programs to look out for in the upcoming week … WEDNESDAY 9 P.M. History Explorer: Lost Civilizations, History Channel. "Tibet: The End of Time." Tibet's landscape contrasts with its timeless culture's struggle to survive in the modern world. A lot of folks, including several celebrity-types, urge us to work to "free…
Locals Only: : Meadoe Blaster
Northside bar The Comet has been a hangout for creative people of all types for years, and it can also take credit for being the breeding ground of some of the area's best local music. With new group Meadoe, The Comet has once again spawned an exciting local original project. Rob Deslongchamps (vocals/guitar/drums) and Christa…
Sexual attraction places burden on someone born intersexed
I'm a twentysomething legal female. For the longest time, I thought I was transgendered, as my build and tastes made me feel like a bisexual man in a woman's body. (I'm 6-foot-1 and pass for male with ease.) Just recently I had it confirmed that I was actually born intersexed and "fixed" to be female,…
News: Educated Killers
"My eyes saw what no person should witness: gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot by high school and college graduates. So, I am suspicious of education. My request is: help our children become human." — The late Dr. Haim Ginott, child…
Forget Cassettes tunes up their Instruments of Action
Brian Auger Rasputina with Death By Murder Thursday · 20th Century Theater If Rasputina's Melora Creager ever decided to throw off her allegiance to the cello and defect to the downtuned guitar and shredding wattage, she'd make Kittie look like Jessica Simpson by contrast. Luckily for them (and perhaps for all of us), Creager is…
Teresa Melgard and Kelly Robinson
Teresa (left) and Kelly Robinson with (L-R) Eryn, Brielle and Audrey Then: In 1996, CityBeat wrote about Teresa Melgard and Kelly Robinson, two women in a committed relationship who were raising a daughter in Mason and fighting for equal protection under the law. At that time, the eyes of the country were on Hawaii, a…
