Cover Story: The Battle of Chilo
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com Welcome to Chilo. Drive east along U.S. 52 as it winds along the Ohio River and stretches past farmland and rolled bales of hay, past a couple of power plants — Zimmer in the village of Moscow sends white clouds skyward — past campgrounds and homes that sit at river's edge, through…
Whirlygig: 40
Edited by Rebecca Lomax Musical Chairs I'll try anything once. As they say, you only go around once, and if you do it right once is enough. This is how on Sunday night at 6:45 I found myself in GameWorks at Newport on the Levee standing in line to be put on a waiting list…
Diner: Natural Flavors
I felt geographically challenged as the five of us settled into our table at Aralia. "Ummm, between India and China?" was the best answer I could come up with to the question, "Where exactly is Sri Lanka?" Nothing like being dull and unprepared to make a big first impression on the three CityBeat readers who…
Welcoming Creativity
What should Greater Cincinnati do to encourage the growth of the "creative class?"Dave Schaff, President, Hamilton County Young Democrats The recent "urbanist" buzz has been about Richard Florida's "creative class" theory, which suggests that creative people choose places to live based on how tolerant a city is, the cultural scene and job opportunities. The problem…
The Care and Feeding of Black Teen-agers, Version 2.0
I've written this one before. It was another time, a different place and a different newspaper. The more Negroes change, the more we stay the same. See, the circumstances were identical — wild, careless, potentially violent, emotionally vacant, frighteningly under-parented and follow-the-leader stupid black teen-agers left to their own devices. Wearing expensive gym shoes and…
News: Tipping the Balance
Jymi Bolden Phil Heimlich relaxes with his wife, Rebecca, as his Hamilton County Commission race heats up. In the race for Hamilton County Commissioner, one candidate has a vision for the job — and the other has a toolbox. If Dr. Jean Siebenaler wins, Democrats will control the three-member board of commissioners for the…
6098 Belmont Ave.
Jymi Bolden 6098 Belmont Ave. Address: 6098 Belmont Ave., College Hill Owners: Sharon and Bruce Howarth Year Built: 1902 Value: $60,700 in 2001, according to the Hamilton County Auditor's Office Comments: The owner of this house, Sharon Howarth, is a missionary in Alabama. It was her home for 14 years, one she rehabbed and…
Pluto Nash, Blue Crush, The Good Girl, Serving Sara and Undisputed
THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH— Director Ron Underwood's outer space comedy sucks all the spunk out of the once raunchy Eddie Murphy's comic persona. I don't mind Murphy playing warm and fuzzy, as long as he delivers some laughs. It's the year 2087 and Pluto Nash (Murphy) owns a nightclub on the moon. The mob…
Art After Sept. 11
There have been countless works of art addressing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and severely damaged the Pentagon, but I can't imagine how any of them will be more thoughtful than Foreign Correspondence, an artists book by Cincinnati visual artist Diana Duncan Holmes and her husband, poet Timothy Riordan.…
News: Military Rape
Women in the U.S. armed services are increasingly at danger — not from foreign terrorists, but from men in the U.S. armed services. The deaths of four Army wives in six weeks this summer at Fort Bragg, N.C., allegedly at the hands of their soldier husbands, might be an aberration. But the number of rapes,…
The Hackensaw Boys
The Hackensaw Boys Watch out for The Hackensaw Boys in town this week — and not just on the concert stage. The ten-member Bluegrass string band are notorious for unpacking their acoustic instruments on populated street corners before shows to help draw the masses, and the band members (a roving group of carpenters) are…
Continuing Films
AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER — (Grade: D) The loudest laughs come in the first few minutes of Austin Powers in Goldmember, the third and least creative film starring Mike Myers' time-warped British secret agent Austin Powers. Goldmember's opening joke revolves around a movie-within-a-movie gag involving a Hollywood version of Powers' life story. Each of the…
