Film: Scream Teens
A boy and his killer hand: Idle Hands' Devon Sawa "He's laughing his ass off." That's the response Devon Sawa, star of the horror comedy Idle Hands, gave when asked if Satan might feel slighted when he finds out human filmmakers are personifying him as the demented appendage spidering from victim to victim. The…
Inventory Taxes Targeted
Signs with brightly colored,5-foot tall letters plastered across storefronts and crazed spokesmen on television who scream it out: "Inventory Reduction Sale, Buy Now." In Ohio, these sales are not merely shameless attempts to draw money out of you, they are a business necessity. Ohio businesses pay local property taxes on 25 percent of the average…
News: ‘Because I Wanted To’
Jymi Bolden Cincinnait Councilman Tyrone Yates says he doesn't care about Republican council candidate Pat Dewine's stance that Yates wasted tax funds on a mass mailing. Council member candidate Pat Dewine says he had never gotten any mail from Councilman Tyrone Yates until an envelope from Yates arrived carrying the ballot language for Issue…
News: Littleton Tragedy Prompts Fear in Tristate Children
The news that bled April 20 from a Denver suburb filled Jane Thickston with "overwhelming sadness." The intern minister at St. John's Unitarian Church in Clifton is frustrated by the violence. "It seems there's more and more of this," Thickston said. "We're headed in a really bad direction, and I don't know what it's going…
Diner: South of the Border
Cincinnatians live in their own little world. Especially native Cincinnatians. Those of us born and raised here find comfort on our own turf. We admit it. Many of us have been sheltered, going time and again to the same restaurants and never knowing what we've been missing. I recently discovered some of what I've been…
Othello Molineaux
Othello Molineaux The Greenwich is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its renovation/reopening with back-to-back weekends in May of stellar Jazz entertainment. This Saturday, Trinidadian Jazz steel drummer Othello Molineaux, who marked the club's reopening one year ago, returns from Miami, Fla. Molineaux has a decade-long relationship with the club who plays traditional Calypso as…
Homeopathy: From Art to Science
Homeopathy, founded by a German physician, Samuel Hahnemann, came at a time, almost two centuries ago, when medicine was in its dark ages. The treatment for syphilis, for example, was arsenic. As is the case today, allopathic, or conventional medicine, sought powerful substances to address single molecular events, such as killing bacteria. Today, for example,…
Pooling Our Talents
Neither Dad nor I was particularly handy, clever or capable. We'd proved that the year we'd resodded the front yard greenside down. So the day he said I should grab the tool box (contents: a ball peen hammer; two Phillips head screwdrivers with palm-shredding grips; a nearly unliftable beast of a cast-iron monkey wrench inherited…
News: March of Dimes Animal Tests Under Fire
The banner flying over downtown April 25 was there to grab some walker's attention. Trailing from an airplane, it read: "March of Dimes, Stop Animal Experiments." It was part of a protest by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) against funding from the March of Dimes for medical animal experiments. "The March of Dimes…
