The Stapletons work to extend their extended family on the local music front
The Stapletons Four brothers, dressed in their grandfather's clothes, sit around a table overwhelmed with coffee cups and ashtrays at Kaldi's on Main Street on a Sunday afternoon. These are four unmistakably distinct personalities and yet the sideburns alone offer enough evidence that they are together. They are Jody, Newky, Lance and Mick —…
Diner: The Basics
The Echo has long been a landmark in Hyde Park, around the corner from the square. In fact, it's been in the same location since 1945. The uniformed waitresses with name tags and big hair disappeared several years ago, but the cozy, familiar atmosphere remains. We'd planned to meet at The Echo at 7 p.m.…
Film: Choosing Actor over Stardom
Omar Epps Anonymous and loving it? No, that's not quite what Omar Epps means when he says he doesn't really want to be a brand name. He sits amiably in a Los Angeles hotel room, and the topic of the moment is the expectations of stardom and why Epps feels that becoming too much…
Commute Abu-Jamal’s Sentence, but Don’t Make Him a Hero
The news that Mumia Abu-Jamal will soon make virtual appearances in Ohio ("Abu-Jamal to Speak Via Tape at Antioch, Kent State Events," CityBeat issue of April 13-19) leaves me saddened over a life discarded and disappointed that earnest people have been drawn to a cause founded on dubious revision and convenient omission of fact. I,…
Urban Frontier
How many times have you driven past an abandoned home or building and thought, "What a shame," or "Why do they just let them sit there?" or "Man, could I do something with that." It's a common reaction to neighborhood blight and neglect throughout the city, especially when seen through the eyes of those of…
Tuned in to radio billboards
I can understand (if not tolerate) the idea of radio station billboards. You're driving along. You're bored. You just passed a fat billboard on the interstate blithely proclaiming "Less Talk, More Music!" for that new station that used to be owned by Clear Channel before it was devoured, sold for stale lumber then reinvented as…
News: Monroe Mall Reaction Huge; Developer Responds to Anti-Mall Attacks
A small band of opposition to a proposed regional mall near Monroe has grown into the largest public comment ever received by the state's transportation funding committee. More than 300 letters, 400 e-mails and 700 postcards opposing the mall and the related $22 million highway interchange have been received by the Transportation Review Advisory Committee…
Cover Story: Read All About It … or Not
Following are Project Censored's top 10 stories for 1999: 1. Multinational corporations profit from international brutality On the morning of June 3, 1997, in the Indian fishing village of Veldur, police broke down the door of Sadhana Bhalekar's house, dragged her naked from her bath, beat her in the street and arrested her. Bhalekar…
What Is ‘Good Medicine?’
While attending a recent Harvard Medical School symposium on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, it became apparent that this emerging field has lost its previous Cinderella status. Books, tapes and journals now abound in this rapidly growing business, estimated at around $30 billion per year in the United States alone. Alternative and complementary therapies have long…
Cover Story: Project Censored’s Other Selections for 1999
11. America's largest nuclear test exposed thousands. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Counterpunch, Terrain; Jeffrey St. Clair, In These Times 12. Evidence indicates no pre-war genocide in Kosovo and possible US/KLA plot to create disinformation. Mark Cook, Covert Action Quarterly; Progressive staff, Progressive Review; Pablo Ordaz, El Pais 13. U.S. agency seeks to export…
Putting the Logical in Neurological
Ask anyone who knows me and you'll get the same two bits of advice over and over again: 1) Don't stand between Bob and a controlled substance; 2) Don't get Bob started on the subject of neuroanatomy. I plead guilty on both counts. But since my guilty plea on the controlled substance issue is still…
News: A Tale of Two Governments
Pat DeWine A day before Hamilton County lawyers argued that a closed county commission meeting in January was within Ohio's Sunshine laws, Cincinnati City Council eagerly declared that all of its future meetings will be open to the public — despite concerns from its own legal staff. During its regular April 12 meeting, city…
