Cover Story: Miss Average Midwest Loves Bad Movies
J Lo has always just been "Jenny from the Block," even in blockbuster films like Gigli. As a Midwestern, 22-year old, 5'8" college student, I've got being average down to a science. Like most average college students, I'm immersed in pop culture. I watch a lot of TV (mostly on hung-over Fridays), I listen to…
Another Top Ten List
Danny Nader 1. "FutureWorld" on 97X late night hosted by Shiv. Legal tripping! 2. Mr. Rhythm Man, Saturday evening on WNKU. He oughta be in the Hall of Fame. 3. Paavo Jarvi and the CSO. The best band in town is really rockin' now, led by one bad-ass Estonian. It amazes me that every concert…
Cover Story: Tarantino, I’m Waiting
Quentin Tarantino Now that Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is out and Vol. 2 is in the can, Hollywood attention has turned to filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's next project. After waiting six years between Jackie Brown and Kill Bill — and considering the critical reception over Kill Bill — who can blame him for making his next…
Terri Ford
Then: In 1995, Terri Ford was a large part of a small Cincinnati poetry scene. She was co-coordinator of the York St. International Café's poetry readings and, as a poet herself, firmly believed that everyone, skilled or not, could be moved by and respond to poetry just by attending a reading. "Believe me," Ford said…
Paths and Styles of Yoga
A common question I'm often asked is, "What kind of Yoga do you teach?" A good question, and the first step to understanding how it can fit into your life. The easiest way to explain it is to divide the subject of yoga into paths and styles. The paths give us choices of how to…
Cover Story: Tale of Giving, Not Raking in Profits
Nick Wall Actresses Helen Mirren (second from right) and Julie Walters (second from left) have some fun with Tricia Stewart (far left) and Angela Baker (far right) — the real women who inspired the characters in Calendar Girls. The season of giving — by Hollywood standards — is all about receiving. Cinema stockings are overcrowded…
News: The Right to Struggle
Matt Borgerding People in need should not be ashamed to ask for help, according to attorney Jennifer Kinsley. Nor should they be prosecuted, as they are in Cincinnati, she says. Dec. 10 was the 55th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Around the country, educational workshops, rallies and town halls marked…
Top Ten Albums
Joe Pernice 1. My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves (ATO/RCA). Awash in reverb and drawing beautifully on the best elements of Country, Rock, Pop, Folk, Soul and Blues, Louisville's My Morning Jacket has created an album that bridges the gap between music's timeless past (Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield) and its bright future (Wilco, Lambchop). Stunning.…
Cover Story: Year in Film & Music: Beware the Big Foot
On the cinema side of things in our annual Year in Film and Music issue, we look back at the year's releases and focus on the closing burst of holiday movies. Articles and interviews include director P.J. Hogan answering how a director can shift from a Julia Roberts comedy to a live-action version of Peter…
Top Eight Reasons I Didn’t Stop Listening to Music in 2003
Robert Gleim The White Stripes at Bogart's Because of great live music. It immerses you, it transports you, it's an excuse to get out with friends. Favorite shows of 2003: Spiritualized, The Sea & Cake and a rare and special night with the enormously talented Tin Hat Trio. Because of great new music, and 2003…
Top 10 Hip Hop Collaborations we Didn’t see in 2003 (But Should Have)
Watusi Tribe Eminem and Sista Souljah: Imagine if she had been in the studio when those derogatory lyrics came out of Em's mouth! Ja Rule and Luther Vandross: If Ja insists on singing his lyrics, he should team up with a living legend. Brother J (formerly of X-Clan) and The Watusi Tribe's X-Man: More Egyptian…
News: The New Workhouse
Jymi Bolden Frisch's has hired nearly three dozen former prisoners so far this year, according to Lamont Taylor. With plastic tables stocked with salt, pepper, squeeze-bottle ketchup and Frisch's place mats, the River City cafeteria resembles an ordinary school lunchroom. Friendly expressions on faces and an orderly, respectful atmosphere make it even easier to forget…
Cover Story: You Say You Want a Devolution?
Surveying the 2003 happenings in the Music World, there's a disconcerting trend going on in the mainstream that's common among the music news headlines of the year. The big news stories of the year have little to do with the creativity and merit of what an artist actually produces. Today, more than ever, music is…
Top Ten list with a taste of the Blues
Jymi Bolden 1. Calvin Owens Orchestra. Not because we talk from time to time, but he was B.B. King's band leader for close to 25 years. His band was hot, hot, hot then, and still is now. 2. Fruteland Jackson. A master storyteller and a hell of a nice guy, his storytelling takes you right…
Yep. Top 10 List: 97X Style
Matt Borgerding Pearlene 10. Coldplay "Clocks." I must have heard this song well over 500 times this year, and the opening piano riff still sends chills down my spine. That's the indication of one powerful — and great — song. 9. Buckra: So Many Weapons. An absolutely excellent album, with each track worth a…
A whole different breed of meat-eater
Bernd Brandes was recorded on video in 2001 eating his own penis. Brandes isn't an auto-fellator, like others who've written in, but a man who wanted to be eaten by a cannibal. He found one on the Internet and allowed this man to cut off his penis and fry it in a pan. Brandes' penis…
Cover Story: Monster Under the Tree
Sigourney, you tell the monster it's her turn to make the popcorn. Weaver (center) and friends relive their famous outer space adventures in the nine-DVD package, Alien Quadrilogy. In the universe of movie monsters, Frankenstein, Dracula and Godzilla claim more appearances than the titular outer space creature first seen in director Ridley Scott's 1979 film…
Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of the Cincinnati Music Scene in 2003
Eric Diedrichs The Woos 10. Drinking too many $1 beers at the most fun press conference I've ever been to. Sean Rhiney and Bill Donabedian know how to throw a great party. Not only was the MidPoint Music Festival this year an absolute blast, but the press conference they held last May at RBC to…
Cover Story: This Boy’s Fantasy Life
Jasin Boland Director P.J. Hogan (right) talks with Jeremy Sumpter on the set of the live-action film adaptation of the beloved literary classic, Peter Pan. LOS ANGELES Not even the notion of a flying boy is as surreally fantastical as the Hollywood casting system. Director P.J. Hogan's live-action adaptation of Peter Pan is a…
Charter Schools Provide Good Feelings, But Not Much Else
Ohio's traditional public schools triumphed over community schools in most measures of academic performance, according to a recent report by the Legislative Office of Education Oversight (LOEO), the agency responsible for evaluating the state community school initiative. Furthermore, community schools have run into a host of financial problems and many have failed to live up…
801 Sixth St., West End
April L. Martin 801 W. Sixth St. Address: 801 W. Sixth St., West End Owner: The Keene Group Inc. Value: $195,400 Built: 1860 Comments: In 2001, the Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co. ended its 116-year history in Cincinnati. Hudepohl brands are now brewed at the Frederick Brewing Co. in Frederick, Md. The only remnants of the local…
Living Out Loud: : CityBeat’s at 811 Race Street
CityBeat is the Baltic and Mediterranean on my race around the board, the first stop in a daily odyssey that weaves through the downtown streets and then dumps me onto Prospect Hill a mailman's nightmare of hundreds of steps. I do not pass go. But I do collect about $200 (mailmen pull in about…
ArtWorks Time Warner Cable Gallery
James Czar ArtWorks Time Warner Cable Gallery When I walk into the ArtWorks Time Warner Cable Gallery, I almost run into a bat sculpture. The gallery — a small, glass-enclosed room with vaulted ceilings facing Race Street — is packed tightly with ArtWorks projects past and present. Walls, floors and tables host bat sculptures and…
Top Ten list minus the numbers
Mallory The Spectacular Fantastic's 97Xposure nod. Mike Detmer is incredible. Between his lush songwriting and playing all of the instruments on his debut album, I'd say he's one of the most talented guys in the city. Mallory's (pictured) Cincinnati Entertainment Award. A victory for all of the experimental and progressive Rock bands in the city.…
The Star Spangles brightly spread the gospel
Vampire Moose The Star Spangles with Death in Graceland and Anonymous Bosch Wednesday · Barrelhouse If you're the type of person who speculatively bought up Internet domain names a few years ago, your current project might be selling stretches of Lower East Side gutter to aspiring Garage bands. But for every hundred bands whose New…
The Love Be Low
I wish Joe could see me now. Whenever I brimmed over, he spoke my aspirations back to me without diminishing my excitement. Joe made it OK to be a black alien. That's because he was one. To be young, gifted and black. Oh, what a lovely precious dream, Nina Simone said to Donny Hathaway. Joe…
Cover Story: Lost Stocking Stuffer
Bill Murray might be big in Japan, but everyone loves his starring role in Lost in Translation. Thanks to the sound legal decision of New York City Judge Mukasey to repeal the ban on screeners put into effect by the Motion Picture Association of America, Focus Features has already launched a massive mailing of DVD…
Locals Only: : Non-Sexual Healing
Me or the Moon Through friendship, turmoil, division and reconciliation, Cincinnati duo Me or the Moon have been creating their unusual brand of "rhythmic storytelling" for the past few years. I sat down recently with Matthew Shelton (vocals, kalimba, mbira) and Victor Strunk (bass, vocals) to ask them just what a kalimba is, and just…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
What's the ultimate Cincinnati foodstuff? Skyline Chili might be the automatic answer. Or Graeter's french pot ice cream, Montgomery Inn ribs, Grippo's potato chips and LaRosa's pizza. Cincinnati is known for any number of culinary innovations, actually. Due largely to the city's pork packaging and brewing heritage, the West side is the home of "city…
Diner: Warm and Cozy
Anyone who's ever battled a revolving door or crammed into a small atrium knows that entrances are difficult. Entering Elliot Jablonski's newest venture, Bistro @ Harper's, is almost comically so. After finding the well hidden front door, we come in through the small entry with an arbitrary fish tank in the wall. Another door is…
Top 10 of 2003 (listed alphabetically)
Anthrax Anthrax: We've Come for You All Bathory: Nordland II Blind Guardian: Live Cradle of Filth: Damnation and a Day Edge of Sanity: Crimson II Iced Earth: The Reckoning Enslaved: Below the Lights Iron Maiden: Dance of Death Opeth: Damnation Watch Them Die: Watch Them Die Chris Lee is affiliated with 16 Piece Bucket/Sudsy Malone's/Devil…
