1310 Bowman Ave.
Jymi Bolden Address: 1310 Bowman Ave.,Lower Price Hill Owner: James Paul and Patricia Sue Collins of Harrison Year Built: 1883 Value: $16,300 in 2001, down from $20,500 in 1998, according to the Hamilton County Auditor's Office Comments: This building is slip-sliding away, according to report by the Cincinnati Department of Buildings and Inspections, which…
Howlin’ Maggie
Howlin' Maggie The always amazing melodic Rock & Roll masters Howlin' Maggie are winding down the promo push behind their latest album, Hyde, with a handful of shows, including a stop in Cincinnati this weekend with local greats The Ass Ponys. The Columbus-based band will then go on a brief hiatus as frontman Harold…
News: Learning How to Struggle
Lucie M. Rice Activists are learning new ways to practice creative nonviolence. Corporations became powerful through careful organization — and that's what it will take to bring them to heel. A group of Cincinnati activists are receiving training through Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations (STARC), learning skills for grassroots organizing, fighting racism and working…
Summer’s Finest
I frequently walk past the girders and rising walls of the new home for the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) at Sixth and Walnut streets downtown and wonder: What art will come to this new building? It's been an invigorating year of museum construction locally. The Taft Museum of Art is expanding, while the Cincinnati Art…
News: Watching the Detectives
A scene from a CopWatch video shows a traffic stop by a Cincinnati Police officer. For a year now citizen volunteers have kept surveillance on a group that includes members who have killed unarmed men, forced women to have sex and shot beanbags at little girls in broad daylight. The target of the surveillance…
Continuing Films
ABOUT A BOY — (Grade: A) In Will, a smarmy British bachelor who joins a single-parents' club as a way to meet women, actor Hugh Grant finds a screen character perfectly matched to his own unique blend of cultured arrogance and foppish personality traits. Grant's natural performance enhances the film's frequent, comic moments. He also…
Diner: Heads Up!
Lucie M. Rice Cincinnati's German heritage once meant the city was home to hundreds of breweries. Those glory days have long since faded, but beer lovers still can find local, handcrafted brews that offer flavor and personality. This week we explore three microbreweries for tips on what to drink and eat. BarrelHouse Brewing Co.22…
And a Child Shall Direct Them
Who does Tommy Reuff think he is, this preppy Stephen King-looking cat? And Steve Ramos, CityBeat's overgrown, bald camper-cum-film editor and Cincinnati Film Society (CFS) board member? Together, these guys put their talents where their yaps are. They figured out the antidote to ignoring future corner-dwellers: Put something in their hands and minds to replace…
Whirlygig: 38
Edited by Rebecca Lomax Culture Shock My friend Chris was back in town for the weekend, and he brought along his friend Chris. Chris No. 2 was born, raised and lived in the same town all his life. For him, Cincinnati was a little bit of culture shock. He said he felt like time had…
Did Valerie Lemmie Spark a Union Campaign?
Jymi Bolden City Manager Valerie Lemmie ended overtime pay for non-union city workers. It seems they won't be non-union much longer. About 75 percent of the employees of the city of Cincinnati have long been unionized, so why are the rest forming their own union now? The answer is wages, benefits and job security.…
Cover Story: Up In Smoke
Woodrow J. Hinton Four years ago Ohio, learning it would receive a windfall of billions of dollars, promised to invest the money in public health programs that could save thousands of lives. Instead the money is being frittered away for other purposes. Ohio has the fifth-highest rate of smoking in the United States, according…
