News: Keys of the Kingdom
Frau Bluecher Catholic bishops have long hidden the truth about sex crimes committed by priests. Next time the Hamilton County Prosecutor issues a grand jury subpoena to Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, he should ask for more than documents. The prosecutor should demand the archbishop's secret key — the one Pilarczyk is required to have under…
Caitlin Cary
Caitlin Cary With her former Whiskeytown bandmate Ryan Adams parlaying critical fawning into commercial success with his latest, Caitlin Cary is holding her own with the brand new While You Weren't Looking on Yep Roc Records. The album, which features the bulk of her Whiskeytown buds on most of the tracks (Adams co-writes three…
Whirlygig: 23
Editted by Rebecca Lomax De-hibernating Now that Bill will be staying in town, things are getting back to normal. Along with the warm weather this week came invite after invite from friends who, like us, have emerged from winter hibernations. Tuesday we finally got hold of Greg and Carlos, whom I'd called weeks ago. I…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
I don't get it. No one — not any student, not any fan, not any red sweater who sits courtside, certainly not President Joe Steger — said, "Hey, let him go. It's time for a change." No, when University of Cincinnati men's basketball coach Bob Huggins manipulated the whirlwind courtship with West Virginia University to…
News: Paving Paradise
Some Cincinnatians may not know what they've got 'til it's gone. The Eastern Corridor Plan, an initiative sponsored by theOhio, Kentucky and Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) aims to improve transportation in the Cincinnati metropolitan area. The plan proposes, among other things, extended bus service, new bike paths, light rail and highway improvements. One…
The Old and the Restless
My right knee doesn't always work right. Sometimes the pain in my lower back is so unbearable I swallow an Aleve/Advil cocktail to sleep. My eyes burn most of the time from squinting at a computer screen. Second-hand smoke sends my sinuses into a tizzy, and fits of hay fever send me to bed. Because…
Buzzing and Whirling
The comical admission boombox is back, one of the installations from Stacked, the Weston Gallery exhibition that ran in 2000. Coins hit a metal plate, which triggers a switch that sends a signal across a cable. The cable trips a wooden mallet that creates a loud thump from a metal sculpture installation by Cincinnati artist…
News: The Cost of Clarity
Jymi Bolden The tax levy enables preventive treatment that's less costly than hospitalization, according to Patrick Tribbe of the Mental Health Board. Last year more than 23,000 people received treatment through Hamilton County's community mental health care system. Voters will decide May 7 on a property tax levy to help provide care for those…
660 Lincoln Ave.
Doug Trapp Address: 660 Lincoln Ave., Walnut Hills Owner: 660 Lincoln Inc. (a four-person local partnership) Current Property Value: $468,800 Year Built: 1915 Comments: Eighty years ago, this six-story building built by Henry Ford was the home of the country's third Model-T truck plant. Today it's on the National Register of Historic Places, but…
Why Does Ohio Drag Its Feet on Equal School Funding?
Ohio students must pass state proficiency tests to graduate, but state legislators keep failing the Ohio Supreme Court's test on public school funding. Three times the court has found Ohio's property tax-fueled system of school funding unconstitutional because it promotes unequal funding among school districts. The Republican-led legislature has spent about as much time complaining…
Diner: East of the Border
There's something extremely satisfying in discovering a place that serves great, inexpensive food. When the food is authentic Mexican — found in unlikely suburban Cincinnati — the satisfaction is even sweeter. The Scene Guadalajara Grill is hardly a hole in the wall. Its prime location on Beechmont Avenue, complete with bright awning, beckons to East…
