Diner: Tempting Tavern
There's something comforting about having a casual bar and grill near home. For those nights when cooking seems too tedious, yet travelling to a hot spot requires too much effort, only the local neighborhood grill will do. Fortunately for the folks on Cincinnati's West side, the local bar and grill happens to be Nick &…
Gifts of Spiritual Music
Have the holidays become stressful? Now's the time to take a break and catch your breath. Music can help to heal the tensions that come in this season of celebration. You might want to gift yourself first before picking one of the following CDs for a loved one: Sound Body, Sound Mind by Andrew Weil…
Whirlygig: 5
Guided by Beer Local(ish)band Guided by Voices played a hometown friends and family show last Friday at the Southgate House. About a third of the balcony was reserved for their guests. Appearing stage right were singer Bob Pollard's parents in matching baby blue GBV T-shirts. I think they lasted as long as the band, just…
Beware Santa’s Postmark
Every year among the many, many Christmas cards someone as popular as myself receives, there are the familiar images of quiet, snowy streets and laughing children, presents and Christmas trees and a portly, rosy-cheeked Santa Claus who presides over the whole thing, with a light dusting of snow on his shoulders, his head thrown back…
News: ‘It’s Time to Fight’
Jymi Bolden Supporters of affirmative action march downtown to a rally on Fountain Square. The Rev. Jesse Jackson once again stood up his supporters in Cincinnati last week, but neither his absence nor a driving rain diminished the vigor of a Dec. 6 civil rights march. About 400 people marched from the University of…
Bill Davis Strikes Back at ‘These People’
Bill Davis' "Admonition" Photographer Bill Davis' first statement hangs next to an overturned canvas on the sixth floor of University Hall at the University of Cincinnati. His words read solemnly: "I objectively regret and regretfully object to any distortion of my original intent. The photographs could have been pulled from this show, but I…
Cover Story: The Fight for Over-the-Rhine
Doug Trapp Tom Denhart, owner of Hart Realty, is liquidating most of his low-income housing empire through federal bankruptcy court. The war for the future of Over-the-Rhine is as close to a treaty as it has ever been. For almost 30 years affordable housing advocates and market-rate developers have clashed, sometimes bitterly, over what…
Street Life
Panhandlers are a nuisance. Panhandlers are necessary. It's that time again when people are debating the very presence of panhandlers. In doing so, the lifeline of downtown's economic pulse always seems to come into question. If I come downtown, will I be harassed? Should I make eye contact or keep walking? If I pull money…
Décor Meltdown
They look innocent enough. Or at least benign. They bear no skulls and crossbones. No warnings from the Surgeon General. No HazMat symbols. Yet, from past experience, I know that what's inside these containers will, by the end of the day, have me moaning in pain, begging to be put out of my misery. Because…
