News: The Art of the Deals
Uptown Arts will give Over-the-Rhine kids art lessons and performing space. Drive along Liberty Street between Main and Walnut on Over-the-Rhine's northern edge, and you'll see a whole lotta work goin' on. It's a foundation — and quite a bit more. Lois and Dick Rosenthal are renovating a century-old building, once the Geise Cigar…
News: New Garage to Serve UC
Marjorie Klusmeyer, president of the Clifton Heights-University Heights-Fairview Neighborhood Association, says residents have signed petitions against the proposed parking garage project on Clifton Avenue. Call it by the trendy name "private-public partnership," or just call it good business planning. But please don't call a proposed 950-car garage a University of Cincinnati project. "It's not…
Touchdown! Bedinghaus Wins?
As the November election draws closer, political armchair quarterbacks keep repeating the prediction: If the Cincinnati Bengals win several games, voters are more likely to re-elect Hamilton County Commissioner Bob Bedinghaus, the man most associated with Paul Brown Stadium and its ups and downs. As the common wisdom goes, voters will warm to Bedinghaus if…
Sister Seven
Sister Seven Mixing gritty Rock, catchy Pop and urban Blues with an even hand, Sister Seven's latest release, Wrestling Over Tiny Matters (Arista), is a thorough treat that should have you tossing out those Melissa Etheridge albums in no time. The Austin quartet are no stranger to the Cincinnati area — as relentless tour…
Let Us Now Praise a (Not So) Famous Man
You probably didn't know Dan Jenkins. I didn't either, really. But I have to talk about him. I'm given only 700 words in this space, and I've spent every day since last Thursday thinking of how to fill it. Then, on Friday, a friend at the Main Public Library showed me a clipping of an…
Leslee Wick
Leslee Wick One person's trash is Leslee Wick's art. "I guess I'm a junker at heart. I love finding and collecting things that others discard." She created "Her Vanity Radiated" with rhinestones, jewelry and beads over a mannequin subsculpture. She revisited the style with His Dreams Took Him On A Colorful Journey, an homage…
An Asinine Development on the ‘Enquirer’ Pages
I normally don't comment on other people's editorial opinions. As someone who occasionally offers an opinion in print, I staunchly defend everyone's right to have his or her say. I draw the line, however, at a Cincinnati Enquirer editorial from Aug. 23 titled "All's well that ends well." The brief piece, the third of three…
Local drummer Tony Franklin moves from the Rock world to Jazz without missing a beat
Tony Franklin Esteemed local pianist Phil DeGreg plays a regular Tuesday gig at The Blue Wisp downtown. My partner and I arrive just in time (9:30 p.m.) to grab the last empty table in a room crawling with twentysomethings. This was the last place in town where I expected to feel like the "old…
Atheism Is Stuck in the Darkest Closet
In the first hours of Aug. 10, I am standing in a bar in Paris, France, listening to an Englishman who won't give peace a chance. He is speaking about tolerance. He says he is an atheist and claims that, while religion clearly helps some people, it's also responsible for more deaths than any other…
Diner: Room with a View
Thank of hot spots on the river for an elegant, romantic dinner and only a few places may come to mind. You can add to this list an unexpected find: the house restaurant of one of the city's newer hotels. Zebo's Bistro, tucked inside Covington's RiverCenter Marriott, offers thoughtfully presented food and attentive service in…
Our corporate city; our corporate world
Corporations, with glee and a sneer, are giving us all a run-around. I'll start with a generic example: You call your banker about a mortgage problem. You reach a digital menu of seven choices, none of which get you directly to your contact. Two more calls get you your banker's extension, where a voice mail…
Fair. At Best.
Take a quick flip through the listings in the back of this paper (not now, genius, after you're done here) and you'll see we're in the thick of fair and festival season. Yes, from mid-August through late October, hundreds of churches, schools, municipalities, associations and organizations will set up the food stands, the rides and…
A Trip up Mount Auburn Hill
My dog Sister and I marched straight up Sycamore Hill the other day and didn't break a sweat 'til after Milton Street. I was feeling pretty proud of myself, and I thought wouldn't it be nice if Laura Pulfer just happened to drive by at that minute. I know Laura, thank you very much, and…
News: Banking on Port Authority
The Riverfront Advisory Commission (RAC) is once again taking over the driver's seat of riverfront redevelopment — possibly for the last time. On Aug. 29 the RAC presented an ordinance to remake an existing quasi-governmental organization to handle riverfront development between Interstate 75, the Ohio River, the L&N Bridge and Third Street. After two years…
