The Road to Experimentation Goes Through Columbus
The most exciting news release regarding the upcoming fall arts season arrives in early August like a punch in the gut, and the impact is a smile of anticipation followed by a long sigh of discontent. The 2003-04 program calendar from Columbus for the Wexner Center for the Arts performing arts series promotes 21 acts…
Editorial: : Diabetics R Us
I knew when I hired Sara last year that she was different somehow, and that's what I liked about her. But I had no idea she was diabetic. When I found out she was, a smile probably came across my face. It's not because I'm happy she suffers from diabetes — it's because I also…
The Haywards bring on the new messiah while Velvet Dreamfield engages in Act 1 Scene 1
· The Haywards — Bring on The New Messiah Wherever He or She May Roam Following last year's dual releases of the minimalist Early Days of Old Age and a collection of earlier outtakes, Singles and Mistakes 1996-2000, The Hayward's new disc Bring on The New Messiah Wherever He or She May Roam is…
Cover Story: No Place Like Home
Jymi Bolden An overview of Washington Park All the right people describe Washington Park as a place off limits to decent folks. To hear consultants and civic improvement types tell it, the park is a campground for Cincinnati's indigents, vagrants and undesirables. Set across the street from the Drop Inn Center, Washington Park is…
News: The Secret Way
Jymi Bolden Sensei (or teacher) Eugene Fields bows to students. I am bringing my gi with me to the old firehouse turned judo academy, just in case. Behind the red brick façade, the judokas chant ichi, ni, san, shi — one, two, three, four — as they pound the mat with the blades of…
Locals Only: : Unlike a Virgin
Dale M. Johnson Sammmy McKee It is early on a Saturday evening and I am having coffee with one of Cincinnati's busiest men — Sammy McKee. When he isn't performing in his solo electronic project, Fotos, he can be found drumming for Hyperstatic, masterminding the comeback of his band Viewfinder, running the Unlike record…
News: 48 Hours Later
April L. Martin Ericka Smith and Lee Hardin shoot a scene at a house in Wyoming for the first film in The 48 Hour Film Project. The elusive dreams of the independent filmmaker live and die by the film festival circuit. The latest and hippest trend in indie filmmaking combines the strategy of Survivor…
Dry humping leads to questions of the potency of semen
I'm a 16-year-old girl with a 17-year-old boyfriend. My boyfriend is religious and strongly against sex before marriage (vaginal, anal or even oral). Recently our making out has lead to "dry humping." I've heard all sorts of things from peers and teen magazines about what can happen when a guy ejaculates in this situation, and…
Was the Supreme Court Correct on Affirmative Action?
Dave Schaff President, Hamilton County Young Democrats The historic role of American progressives is to promote redistribution measures that enhance the standard of living and quality of life for the disadvantaged. Affirmative action was one such redistribution measure that surfaced in the heat of battle in the 1960s among those fighting for racial and…
Events: The Church of Baseball
Jackie Robinson's 1956 jersey "I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul is the church of baseball." — Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) in Bull Durham (1988) Perched in front of a trio of red stadium seats, Gaylord Perry bears a holy resemblance. The famed pitcher's lanky…
The Myth of Eyelashes
I have pretty eyes. When I was a girl, my eyelashes were so thick they curled back on themselves. They ringed my eyes like sideways wreaths. I was about in the fifth grade the first time I ever did it. Life was leaving me. I hated school — a new phenomenon — mainly because every…
Editorial: : The Savage Truth
We had a lively editorial staff meeting last week here at CityBeat. The big topic was my decision to move Savage Love to a Web-only feature, ending its almost four-year run in the paper. A number of criticisms came up in the meeting. The writers, not surprisingly, were concerned I'd drop one of them to…
The Pops park along the great outdoors
For 37 years it's been a summertime tradition in Cincinnati: freeCONCERTS IN THE PARK by the CINCINNATI POPS. On four consecutive evenings at 7:30, Maestro ERICHKUNZEL will present pleasant tunes and voices — singers MARY ELIZABETH SOUTHWORTH and DAVID WHITESEL — at some of our region's most popular greenspaces. On Aug. 27 the program is…
Whirlygig: 91: Out on the Town
A Blonde, a Brunette and a Banana The humidity, heat and lack of air-conditioning on Saturday afternoon had me sprawled out on my couch in the most loose-fitting pair of shorts and tank top I owned. In between watching WNBA basketball and golf, I spent most of the afternoon trying to guess how many Deveroes…
