News: Natural Law Party Takes Aim at Bovine Growth Hormone, Saying Milk Could Lead to Cancer
Jason Snell Snap, crackle and pop. But do you really know what you are pouring on your cereal? The Natural Law Party wants to make sure you do. American dairy farmers have been injecting their cattle with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) since it was approved in November 1993. Dennis Slotnick, Natural Law Party…
Cincinnati, the Internet Hub
Level 3 Communications Inc., a communications and information services company based in Broomfield, Colo., has undertaken a gargantuan project — connecting 150 U.S. cities, Western Europe and the business centers of Asia with a 24,000-mile network of fiber optic cables. The company recently announced that, as one of 71 hubs in this international network, its…
Concert previews
"Weird Al" monday All right, kids. It's Heavy Metal SAT time: Poison was to Vixen as Alice in Chains is to ______. If you answered Drain STH, pat yourself on the back. You know your contemporary Metal pretty damn well. Drain is an all-woman quartet that formed in Stockholm, Sweden, six years ago and…
A Brand-New D
Epilogue I didn't see Marcus after that summer. Not because I held him responsible for my severed optic nerve, but simply because I had a severed optic nerve, something which kept me from seeing anybody or anything. But we didn't talk, either. And for all I knew, Marcus could have moved. Or died. Or been…
News: The Tao of Leo Sunderman
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com The worn bar inside Stenger's Cafe The steel gate rises promptly at 8 a.m. The coffee brews in a 30-year-old metal urn. Meanwhile, in the back kitchen, cook Dee Dee Yeary fixes the day's special: macaroni & cheese and breaded pork chops. Stenger's Cafe, an Over-the-Rhine landmark, is open for another day's…
Diner: Like Wow
Restaurants have been organized around '50s themes and even the Roaring '20s, but not many have looked to the '60s for inspiration. That may or may not be a good thing. Intentionally or not, Taste of the World Cafe in Northside evokes gentle memories for those of us who were there, while appealing to younger…
Music: Static Cling
Static X It starts, as all good stories do, with the Mandrell Sisters: Barbara, Louise and Irlene. Without the endorsement and product use by those big-haired Country legends, the White Rain Hair Product line might not have survived. For without White Rain Hair Products, Static X namesake Wayne Static's locks couldn't cheat gravity. And…
