Cover Story: @college.com
When you say "online classroom" in Cincinnati, you're really talking the Union Institute. Yes, most local colleges and universities — the Art Academy, Cincinnati Bible College, Cincinnati State, Mount St. Joseph, Hebrew Union, Miami, Northern Kentucky, Thomas More, UC, Wilmington College and Xavier — have some sort of Web site or e-mail capability. (We list…
Cover Story: Students Ready for a Semester of Struggle
As summer vacation quickly turns to fall, the average college student's mind turns to shopping. Some are picking out trendy new clothes, dorm room posters or the perfect beer stein. But others, a significant number of others, are buying batteries for their bullhorns and ink for their printing presses, getting ready to protest their lungs…
Cover Story: The Blair Weird Project
Jymi Bolden Xavier University Let's give credit where credit is due: There's no lack of contenders for the title of weirdest college course in Cincinnati. Take land-locked Miami University, offering its Seapower and Maritime Affairs Seminar. Or University of Cincinnati's Social History of Baseball. Or even Xavier University's introduction to The Horror Film. Our…
Film: A Step Away From Splatter
Psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) and eight-year-old Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) face unexplainable danger in The Sixth Sense. I've never witnessed a real-life murder, but I've seen plenty on TV. I've also never been one to string up Hollywood as the scapegoat for violence in America, but when you see enough people arbitrarily…
Diner: Colorful Whimsy
I'm not overly familiar with light industrial locales. So as we traversed Eastern Avenue, approaching the Beechmont Levee, I had my doubts about the directions I'd received over the phone. But you really can't miss the renovated building with flashing lights circling the red and white sign amid the vacant lots and squat dark buildings…
Cover Story: Volunteering
Got any extra time on your hands? A need to help others? A desire to look at the world beyond the end of your nose? There are a number of volunteer opportunities in the Greater Cincinnati area for red-blooded American youth like you. Consider getting involved. Hey, it beats studying. ARC Companions: The organization, which…
Thousands Cheer. One hand Claps.
Fresno. An average some might say bland middle-class town approximately halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Not a place one usually associates with the hot and the happening. But, for once, Fresno, it seems, was in the right place at the right time. Because it was here that an unlikely yet fortuitous…
Y2K Glitches: Immunity for All?
On Jan. 1, 2000, we will wake to see if the billions of lines of programming code that underlie almost everything from automatic doors and grocery store scanners to power stations and financial markets have been correctly updated to recognize the four-digit nomenclature of the new year. Like some of us, Ohio's state legislators have…
Cover Story: Books
It's time to get back to the books. That's a horrifying thought, isn't it? Well, what else do you expect at the start of the school year? Just to give you a heads up, though, the local book scene looks slightly different in the Tristate after the long, hot summer months. Crazy Ladies Bookstore over…
Integration
While still waiting to personally experience the intake visit of an "integrative medicine" center for the alternative medicine series, I began to worry about what article I would do for this issue. It occurred to me that terminology always presents us with problems. Calling any medical system "alternative" is problematic. First, because most alternatives are…
Music: Ladies Night
Barenaked Ladies After almost a decade, Barenaked Ladies' slow-and-steady wooing of the United States finally came to fruition last summer. Upon its July release, Stunt, the Canadian band's fourth full-length studio album, debuted at No. 3. Stunt's long-term, multi-platinum success was buoyed by the ubiquitous single, "One Week," which turns an up-tempo, fairly routine…
Cover Story: Music
The Graveblankets Hey, why not make a resolution this fall to go out and see some live bands instead of hitting the same ol' dance clubs or stinkin' drinkin' bars? It's cheaper (usually), you'll be doing something charitable (starving artists, you know?) and your friends will think you're cool (maybe). This summer saw a…
Vice at Your Neighborhood Barber Shop
A barber shop is just like Cheers. OK, not everyone knows your name. (You don't go as often.) And, it's true, there's no alcohol, and members of the opposite sex are rare. But it is a chat room with a distinctive aroma where outbursts of utter asininity are welcomed with equanimity. Won't you join me…
Concert previews
Other Star People thursday While mainstream Guitar Rock in the '90s continues its evolution from contemplative gloom (thanks to Grunge) to aggressive, testosterone-overload (revived by Korn, et al.,), Los Angeles-based Other Star People (OSP) are putting their own shiny spin on the artform. With Jennifer Finch (ex-L7 bassist, now using her longtime nickname Precious)…
Cover Story: Feeding the Masses
Delivery jobs come with some expected perils: sprinklers, slippery steps and unchained dogs. But delivering food on college campuses has its own set of challenges. On the down side — low or no tips, prank calls and the occasional theft. On a funnier note, you never know when you might be invited to the party,…
