Locals Only: : Seabird
Seabird Cincinnati's Seabird takes flight with forthcoming major-label CD I believe that a music zone exists. It's a strange place where beauty hangs out in our hearts, the place where we feel a song's ghetto depth or sweet rise, the moment when a tune makes a certain emotional connection with us. It's a feeling…
News: Local Dems to Vote
Joe Lamb Chris Dole, who has qualified for the fall ballot as an independent, is seeking the Democratic Party's official endorsement in the race for Hamilton County Commissioner. Rank-and-file Democrats who dislike a deal cut this winter between the two local party chairmen that limits competition in the races for the Hamilton County Board of…
Onstage: Review: The Color Purple
Paul Kolnik The Color Purple features an engaging ensemble cast. Some people think of musicals as an unrealistic view of the world. After all, how often do people burst into song in everyday life? But The Color Purple, derived from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in Georgia in the early years of the 20th…
In news, more is almost always better
Recent unrest in Tibet and protests over the appearance of the Olympic torch show the value, indeed the necessity, of obtaining information from a variety of sources — and treating all of them with healthy skepticism. Thanks to the Nobel Peace Prize awarded the Dalai Lama in 1989 and his growing cadre of celebrity devotees,…
Sound Advice: : Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Armor For Sleep
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with The Duke Spirit Friday · The Mad Hatter For the past decade, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has been the sound of Rock's past crashing headlong into its future. Blending elements of the Blues-and-Folk-drenched Psychedelia of the '60s with the defiantly independent Garage Rock ethic of…
Cover Story: Get Green in Greater Cincinnati
Joe Lamb Valerie Taylor runs the Cincinnati Locavore blog, which promotes locally grown food as a way to save energy and to support area farmers. Recycling Hamilton County Recycles The Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services offers news and information on local recycling programs. If you have waste materials and you're not sure where to…
Cats, Jack O’Connell, Radio Party, painting robots, butterflies and much more
Jack O'Connell Author Jack O'Connell THURSDAY 4/17 ONSTAGE: CATS Although Andrew Lloyd Webber made a name for himself with early musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar, which he created with Tim Rice, it was Cats that really made him famous and began a wave of transatlantic theater imports from London to Broadway. The show opened…
Reviewing the National League Central Race After Two Weeks
Jerry Dowling The first two weeks of a baseball season can overflow with surprises, which doesn't make them decisive or very informative. The naked eye sees crazy images and wonders if baseball might be changing. But the more discerning eye looks a little deeper, often spotting the obvious that lies beneath the bizarre. Take…
The Strange Case of Sibel Edmonds
For all the chest-thumping about getting tough on terrorism, there are some things that the U.S. government doesn't want you to know and the mainstream corporate-owned media are afraid to tell you. Sibel Edmonds was fired from her job as an FBI translator in March 2002 after she accused a co-worker of covering up illegal…
Music: Voegele Training
Myspace Records Ex-Miami University student Kate Voegele gradated to the big leagues without graduating from college. There are so many elements of Kate Voegele's actual career that seem lifted from a screenplay about a young woman's meteoric rise from obscurity to stardom that it's not surprising in the least that she recently played that…
Another seven days of breakfast meats, light charges and the unavoidable ‘R’ word
$1 hot dog scam? WEDNESDAY APRIL 9 Local goetta maker Daniel Glier took some of his German breakfast meat to the White House to give to President Bush today, and the president promptly asked him, "What's goetta?" According to The Enquirer, Glier was invited to thank Bush for investment incentives in the economic stimulus…
Long Live the Queer
CityBeat Archive Culture Queer One of the city's best, most criminally underrated Indie Pop bands, Culture Queer, returns with a new CD this Friday. The band will play Northside's Gypsy Hut to celebrate the new Kid Friendly Dinner Party, CQ's third album. Also on the bill is Wussy (fresh off of an East Coast…
Sometimes Green Takes Green
When my mom asked me what gift I'd like for my birthday this year, I think I surprised her a little bit when I answered "light bulbs." But not just any light bulbs. I wanted to fill in the rest of the light sockets in my apartment with compact fluorescent bulbs, or CFBs. I already…
Film: Review: Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
Daniel Marracino Morgan Spurlock tours the Middle East in his new film, Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? Morgan Spurlock's latest quasi-documentary asks many questions, including the biggie that stands as the film's title: Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? Yes, spurred by the pending birth of his first child,…
Onstage: Strength in Numbers
CDT Choreographers Collective It's high time. Until recently there was only one local outlet exclusively devoted to producing area modern dance choreographers' work: Contemporary Dance Theater's ubiquitous annual Choreographers Without Companies show each June at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Enter the Choreographers Collective. Spearheaded by locally based choreographer Diane Germaine with an…
Music: No Complaints
Benj Gershman Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers are having the time of their lives and it shows on-stage. When Stephen Kellogg talks about how the live shows he plays with The Sixers are the lifeblood of the band, he could simply be repeating one of the classic clichés of Rock & Roll. Or he…
Spreading the Chili Gospel
If there's one thing people from Cincinnati love, it's chili. We love eating it, and we love talking about it. Those of us who have moved away from the area have cans of chili and spice packets mailed to us. When we return home, it's often the first thing we eat, and then we continue…
Film: Shining a Light on a Forgotten Film
In Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese's new IMAX film featuring the Rolling Stones in concert, the "boys" are still vital and extremely energetic Rock & Rollers — even if they are pushing past 60. But as exciting as they still sound (and astonishingly trim and fit as Mick Jagger still looks), there is an undeniable…
The Perfect President
I'm really enjoying the John Adams series on HBO, which ends Sunday night. I've read David McCullough's Adams book and 1776 as well as other biographies of Washington, Jefferson and Madison. Yes, I have a thing for the birth of our nation. I know John Adams is a made-for-TV version of McCullough's historical biography, which…
Cover Story: The $26 Billion Question
John Austin of the Brookings Institution says that if the government spends $26 billion cleaning up the Great Lakes the economic benefit to America will be $80 billion to $100 billion. Austin was the keynote speaker at a recent economic development summit in Toledo that drew government officials from the Great Lakes region. Austin told…
Funeral Food
The Celts have a deep history with funeral rites. The Samhain, a festival dedicated to the harvest and the dead, includes three days of keening (a type of wailing chant) followed by four days of dancing and singing. Keening is also a traditional part of the better-known Irish wake, that period of time from death…
Jason Brunson
Jason Brunson Jason Brunson's graffiti-inspired work is currently on view at Feralmade in Northside through May 3 in Plump & Plush, an exhibition of wall painting, canvas, paper work and toys that the gallery describes as "an animated stampede of a massive zoo escape." Here, in his own words, Brunson shares what inspires him.…
The Final Word
Who says I'm haughty?: ACTA's logo features this Frenchman. I've belonged to the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) for about a decade. Our logo uses an image of a haughty fellow, drawn by 19th-century French caricaturist Honoré Daumier. Pen and pad in hand and supercilious expression on his face, the "critique influent" is taking…
Cover Story: Unplug, Rethink and Simplify Your Life
Sean Hughes As the Earth's feedback loop of consumerism, waste and environmental disaster moans louder, it's easy to feel like giving up. The talking heads relate tales of melting ice caps and dying species while corporate greed overwhelms the spirit. Despite what conservative pundits might say, the problems are real and there are real things…
Diner: Review: Lavomatic Cafe
Raven Bull Lavomatic Café How do you make dirty laundry hip and trendy? I guess one way would be to sell it on eBay, but the Jean-Robert de Cavel family found a tastier approach with its latest venture, Lavomatic Cafe, a wine bar and restaurant. Lavomatic is one of the crown jewels in the…
Irony in the State Legislature
On April 2, I went to Columbus to testify against HB 111, the latest bill regulating sex offenders under the auspices of ¨protecting our children (¨Destroying Families · Again, Porkopolis blog post, April 4). The bill expands the definition of ¨child negligence to anyone who knowingly allows a sex offender in a home with little…
News: The Final Link
Sean Hughes West End residents are proposing that the City Links project move to the county-owned Kahn's site. A controversial proposal to create a "social services mall" in the West End has cleared its final legal hurdle and appears headed toward becoming a reality, but some neighborhood residents want the project's backers to consider…
This Week in Wellness
Buddhist monk Achok Rinpoche presents a three-part class on "Transforming Adversity into Opportunity." This series is part of the Gaden Samdrup-Ling Buddhist Monastery's ongoing work to bring Buddhist teachings to the greater community. Free. 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday. (See more in To Do picks, page 21.) 3046 Pavlova Dr., Groesbeck, 513-385-7116, www.ganden.org.…
