Music: Playing With Shadows
Blueghost Publicity Shadowy man on a shadowy planet: Xiu Xiu braintrust Jamie Stewart is often painted as a strange, dark bird by the music press. There are some people for whom therapy will help them come to terms with their demons. There are others for whom it will never work. And still there are others…
Locals Only: : Riddim Rebels
Soulragga Soulragga It was meant to be that me, Ron C and Junya B all ran a little late for our interview or I wouldn't have caught them talking to a guy on the stoop of a store on Clifton Avenue. The guy on the stoop turned out to be the store's manager, and his…
Living Out Loud: : My Father’s Pets
Back last winter when I was anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring, I told myself I was going to take up fishing again. In my youth, I remember Sunday afternoons on my grandfather's farm and the huge lake he had. We would often go fishing with our cane poles catching sunfish, bass and the occasional…
Junior Has Become the Reds’ and Baseball’s Savior
Jerry Dowling The stories told by baseball aren't like the stories told in films and books, where time and space are condensed for brevity and convenience. Baseball stories take their time, decades if need be. They fly across the country and back, exposing the true loyalties, vulnerabilities and virtues of real people. Baseball was reality…
Smokin’ Sex
I'm a smoker who has decided it's time to quit. But my boyfriend has a smoking fetish. He likes it when I smoke while we're having sex; he likes to jerk off and watch me smoke; he likes me to smoke and give him oral sex at the same time. His porn collection is all…
Cover Story: Fighting Words
Geoff Raker Rolling With The Punches Alicia Reece likes a good fight. Her lifelong hobby is rollerskating, and she first made her mark in high school basketball. But it's a sport Reece only briefly pretended to participate in — boxing — that best illustrates her real passion. In 2001, during the first city elections after…
The Kanye Way
HOT Wise, Wise West While his music is highly overrated, superstar rapper Kanye West has been making some crucial statements recently that could go a long way in changing some of Hip Hop's more unsettling trademarks. Following the noble and thoughtful anti-bling message about the tragic conditions of the diamond mining industry on his new…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Totimoshi, Mofro and More…
Theory Records Forget Cassettes Totimoshi with Croatan Wednesday · Southgate House Like so many bands being classified as Stoner Rock, Totimoshi elude easy description. Just when the syrupy guitar tones, double bass ripping and shifting dynamics have you convinced they'll fit alongside Quicksand and Clutch, in comes a minimalist breakdown or Surf-inspired guitar runs. Right…
News: Wary of Wal-Mart
Graham Lienhart Fairfax resident Deborah Scott says a new Wal-Mart supercenter store would destroy safety and property values in her neighborhood. The prospect of a Wal-Mart supercenter has people who live near Murray Avenue in Fairfax and Erie Avenue in Hyde Park worrying about the impact on their community. Wal-Mart supercenters, more than twice the…
Diner: Grilled
At first I thought, it must be me, experiencing a rough culinary re-entry from last week's vacation, taste buds out of whack from a week of eating my way across Paris and the south of France. (Let me tell you, all that fine wine, buttery patisseries, artisanal cheeses and such can really wreak havoc on…
Cincinnati No Place for Me
Your cover story "I'm Hungry" (issue of Aug. 10-16) was the awful truth about the creative class of color here in Cincinnati. Yes, I left Cincinnati many years ago to much creative success in New York City, but then I come back after 9/11 to no job and suddenly I have no skills. Many years…
Film: The Hard-Luck Auteur
IFC Films Director Terry Gilliam brings his unique sensibility to The Brothers Grimm LOS ANGELES — Poor Terry Gilliam. People say that about the 64-year-old director so often you'd think "poor" is Gilliam's first name. Now the question is whether his latest film, The Brothers Grimm, changes his image as a gifted but commercially hard-luck…
Taking Undue Advantage in OTR?
Jymi Bolden Cincinnati School Board member John Gilligan says he's not interested in handing over unused public school buildings to charter schools. Many Over-the-Rhine community members have been ticked off since 3CDC swooped in a year ago and scuttled the 2002 Over-the-Rhine Comprehensive Plan they'd spent four years hashing out for their neighborhood. 3CDC, of…
Sudsy’s, Southgate Get Punk’d
This weekend's Cincypunk Fest IV cannot be contained by one venue. Heck, the benefit concert can't even be held by one state. This year, the fest — featuring the cream of the local Punk and Punk-influenced crop — takes place at Newport's Southgate House on Friday and Corryville's Sudsy Malone's Saturday. Last year's Cincypunk Fest…
Brothers Grimmer
Read the synopsis of Barbaric Stories, the joint show by the hidden gem artists Jimmy Baker and Matt Coors at Publico Gallery in Over-the-Rhine, and the theme is fear. Yet the scares they gather have nothing to do with the daily reports of worsening conditions in Iraq, the 16 Ohio-based Marines who were killed over…
New Stage Collective
Tony Arrasmith After eight years as Bob Cratchit at the Cincinnati Playhouse, actor Bruce Cromer will step into the role of Scrooge in December. I really expect you to be at UC's Corbett Auditorium Friday evening when the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards for the 2004-05 theater season will be handed out (see story page 28). So…
