Locals Only: : A warped perspective
Dale M. Johnson djdq The Vans Warped Tour (aka "Punk Rock Summer Camp") made its Cincinnati stop at Riverbend Music Center Aug. 16. It's the largest national tour to feature several local acts, offering wider exposure for local bands to a (mostly) younger audience — an estimated 12,000 of a younger audience, in fact. That…
Bagging the Youth Market
FRITO-LAY, ABSOLUT TO LAUNCH NEW LINE OF "SPIRITED" SNACKS (Aug. 24, 2004; Dallas, TX) Frito-Lay, the global leader in the manufacture and sale of snack food products, announced today that, in cooperation with V&S Vin & Sprit Aktiebolag, makers of Absolut, the world's best-selling vodka, they will introduce Blastéros, a complete line of vodka-fortified chips,…
Cover Story: It’s Just Talk
Black talk radio is the new black church. Can I get an "Amen?" It looms where once the church defined and dictated black political activism, morality and community standing. It crowns racial heroes, demonizing and lambasting failures of the mid-Bush black community. It's equally responsible for the growth and the demise of black intellect. Pissed…
Looking for 6 young souls
Young and Giving: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is looking for six young (21-40), energetic civic volunteers. When it finds them, GCF will give them $2,000 each for the nonprofit organizations of their choice. Of course, recipients of GCF's 18th annual Jacob E. Davis Volunteer Leadership Awards will also get an award ceremony, lots of…
Luken, Luken, Luken
No Real Difference The problems Cincinnati faces in a post-Charlie Luken world aren't unique to Cincinnati ("Life After Luken ," issue of Aug. 11-17). Since World War II, the states and cities in this country have pretty much been running on autopilot, the result of what gearing up for that war supplied to every aspect…
News to Use
Hop Off Your Ass The League of Pissed Off Voters hosts a Labor Day Weekend Hip Hop Summit. The workshop on electoral politics lasts all day Sept. 4. Contact nati_voter@yahoo.com for more information. Planting the Seeds of Grassroots Activism The Grassroots Leadership Academy is accepting applications for enrollment into its leadership training program. The program…
News: Putting Down Roots
Matt Borgerding Encouraging ex-offenders to vote is useful in rehabilitation because it encourages a sense of participation in the community, according to David Singleton. Local grassroots organizations challenging Americans to register to vote will be joined by the Prison Reform Advocacy Center (PRAC) in their final efforts to fill voting booths in November. But PRAC's…
Take Us to the River Grass
A riverfront spot to be proud of, something unlike anything else in Cincinnati, sits upriver from the headline-making National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Ohio River Grass is a nursery for ornamental grasses on Wenner Street just off Eastern Avenue, right before the junction of Delta and Kellogg avenues in the East End. On its own,…
Once upon a time in band camp
A few weeks back, Laughing at Myself Now suggested that I ask my readers to send in letters detailing their childhood misconceptions about sex. It sounded like a good way to lighten my workload, allowing me to get out of the office and enjoy some of this global warming stuff I've been hearing so much…
Upcoming concerts with Burrito deluxe and mofro
The Tough & Lovely Burrito Deluxe Wednesday · Southgate House "Back then, the audience was wondering, 'Who are these guys and what are they doing?' " recalls pedal steel master Sneaky Pete Kleinow. "It's a big improvement now. In those days, nobody even knew what they were supposed to do." When Kleinow refers to the…
Camp Washington Chili
Vol. 4 Issue 37 and Camp Washington Chili today Then: In 1998, Camp Washington Chili was getting ready for a big move. The venerable institution, which had called Hopple Street home for more than five decades, had finally met its match — not in restaurant competition but in the Camp Washington Urban Design Plan, which…
Tale of the Tape
Woodrow J. Hinton "J-a-y are the letters of his name/ Cutting and scratching are the aspects of his game." — Run D.M.C. Somewhere — perhaps in that ubiquitous kitchen "junk drawer" or packed away in that dusty shoebox in the darkest corner of the bedroom closet — lays The Tape. True Hip Hop connoisseurs know…
