Let’s All NOT Kill Each Other on the Roads
So you're going to be driving over the next few days. As I write the roads are getting icy, but it will be 53 degrees on Christmas Day. If I don't start a riot due to the stupid weather, I will also be driving. I would appreciate it if you wouldn't kill me while I…
Do You Peek?
Whether you celebrate the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Christmas, do you go looking for and/or peek into gift bags? Is it a tradition? A sport? A challenge? An "accident?"
You, You’re Awesome/Creepy Santas
Click the image above to check out Scott Beseler's photos from the You, You're Awesome show at the Tavern and the Creepy Santas at The Comet on 12/18.
Music: Thistle
Last weekend, Cincinnati helped local heroes Over the Rhine celebrate its 20th anniversary at the Taft Theatre. This coming Tuesday at The Southgate House, another local band hitting a milestone throws an anniversary shindig/concert. Thistle will celebrate its 15th birthday that night, an impressive run, especially given the fact that they have had nary a…
Onstage: Every Christmas Story Ever Told
Arnold’s Bar and Grill, Cincinnati’s oldest tavern, is the cozy and congenial setting for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s rendition of Every Christmas Story Ever Told. But if you're looking for a traditional holiday entertainment, be forewarned: This performance has more in common with wild and crazy sketch comedy than it does with a performance of a…
Art: Contemporary Print Making at Manifest Creative Research Gallery
Noticing how individual works play off each other can give a new slant to looking at an exhibition, allowing you to think like a curator. Contemporary Printmaking at Manifest Gallery offers such a rewarding opportunity. The gallery’s call for submissions brought in nearly 400 works by 160 artists for this juried show. Curator Jason Franz…
Old Masters, New World (Review)
We go to our American art museums and dutifully pass the Old Masters’ paintings, nonchalant about them being on display here rather than Italy, Spain, Germany, England, France, Netherlands or the other European countries where those great painters lived centuries ago. After all, we’re the United States of America, the world’s most powerful country. Why…
Did a Cincinnati Man Actually Write Christmas Hit ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’?
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2008. It might have been a story of a Nick Hornby character living off the royalties of his father’s hit Christmas song. But the story my father never told me until I was in my thirties is more like Tim Burton’s film Big Fish, wherein a son…
Bail Out a Theater
Everyone’s feeling a little pinched these days, including our local theaters and other performing arts organizations. Cincinnati Ballet canceled its Dec. 26 performance of The Nutcracker, citing weak ticket sales. The Cincinnati Playhouse has cut short the run of local playwright Joe McDonough’s Travels of Angelica, which opens Jan. 22, 2009, and was to be…
The Real Deal
Collaboration is a very active verb in Robin Guarino’s vocabulary.The new J. Ralph Corbett distinguished chair in opera at UC’s College-Conservatory of Music is widely acclaimed for her work with stage designers, choreographers and performers and recognized as an innovative educator training students in the arduous pursuit of a professional opera career. Guarino was in…
More Holiday Show Madness
• Local acoustic rocker Bob Cushing is celebrating his 20th year as a professional musician with a show Sunday at the Blue Note in Price Hill. Joined by friend/producer/harmonizer Chris Goins, Cushing will be performing a VH1 Storytellers-like show, talking about and playing songs from Cushing’s five studio albums (as well as some of their…
Another Seven Days of Equality for Some and Compensation for All
WEDNESDAY DEC. 17Two local middle school students won a UC-sponsored stock market game for kids last week by investing their fake $100,000 in Under Armour athletic apparel. Over a 10-week period the students’ investment grew by 24 percent, which was good enough to beat the S&P 500’s performance by 42 percentage points. The exercise was…
Attractions: Ice Skating on Fountain Square
Fountain Square is fun even in winter because if they can’t have live music, dancing and beer, they have ice skating, which is nostalgic, cuddly childhood kind of fun. The 7,000-square-foot rink (roughly the size of the rink at Rockefeller Center) is right in the center of the square with a view of the fountain…
West End Gets Noticed for Talent
First there was Hollywood. Then there was Bollywood. Now the West End. OK, not exactly. There are plenty of things missing from The Last Shot — flashy graphics, slick Hollywood production and Academy Award-winning acting, to name a few — but the people involved in it are amateurs with big dreams. What’s so amazing about…
Holiday: Christmas at EnterTRAINment Junction
I don’t really know what the connection is between the Christmas season and trains but for some reason there are a bunch of involved and snowy train displays all over the place in December. EnterTRAINment Junction, which is a train-themed entertainment center, is no exception to this phenomenon. They have an elaborate Christmas display inside…
Ramona
Up until a few weeks ago, I’d usually try to catch the No. 64 bus that arrives at Werk Road, just before you reach Boudinot Avenue, at 3:45 p.m. The bus goes up through English Woods, through Fairmont and through parts of Clifton before it finally reaches downtown. It’s a bit of a haul. Walking…
Doubt (Review)
Playwright John Patrick Shanley adapts his award-winning 1960s-era drama for the silver screen with mixed success. Shanley’s narrative presents a double-edged problem by painting Catholic priest Father Brendan Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as a concerned good-guy to Meryl Streep’s baleful Sister Aloysius, who accuses the father of impropriety with the school’s only black student, Donald…
New Year’s Eve: NYE Speakeasy
Pull out your vintage party dresses and prepare to raise a glass for a different kind of New Year’s Eve celebration. The Know Theatre will be ringing in the New Year with its third annual event. The Roaring ’20s-inspired party, NYE Speakeasy will have you drinking and dancing all night. And you don’t have to…
Cintas Gets a ‘Pardon’ on Safety
If you’re like most people, when you got in trouble as a kid you knew which parent you preferred to find out first. Inevitably, one was more of a pushover and wouldn’t punish you as severely as the other. Executives at Cintas Corp. in Mason, it appears, still operate by that philosophy. After spending almost…
Sign of the Times
Movies as cultural events are rapidly becoming relics of the past. It’s rare when a new movie can even come close to generating the enthusiasm that greeted old-school epics like Gone with the Wind or relatively new-school blockbusters like Jaws and Star Wars. There are many reasons for this shift — most prominently the demystification…
Holiday: A Roller Skating Jam Called Christmas
Lace up your skates and put on your hot pants/American Apparel thigh-high white socks and celebrate the Cincinnati tradition that is A Roller Skating Jam Called Christmas, which returns for the eighth year to the Fun Factory in Norwood. Started by Sebastian Botzow (aka Seblove) in December 2001, the skating party originated as a way…
Using the Bailout to Break a Union
The winds of global financial meltdown blow as bitterly as a December cold front. And, as with the weather, most of us bundle up and mumble to each other, “Well, what can you do?” I feel tiny and insignificant as I see new developments with the federal government’s bailout of failing corporations. After hearing government…
Outsourcing Local Newspaper Jobs
Outsourcing Local Newspaper Jobs I’m one of the Cincinnati Enquirer employees who took the volunteer severance buyout in September. I’ve been searching CityBeat and other media sources since then to see what’s been going on with the company I dedicated 27 years to (“Paper Cuts,” issue of Dec. 10). One thing I don’t see is…
The Blue Shivers (Profile)
I may be talking with The Blue Shivers, but this evening the Sitwell’s Coffeehouse room temperature = a sauna. “How much clothes can we take off before we get arrested?” drummer Dave Palermo asks. His wild hair shifts when he laughs. Like a fiery Muppet. “This year, we’re not going to jail,” Bryan Westerman (keys,…
Climate Change
When Aretha Franklin takes to the stage at President Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20, it would be fitting if she were to serenade him and his guests with the late Sam Cooke’s anthemic “A Change Is Gonna Come.” It’s been a long, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh…
A Curious Case for Adaptation Readers
Each year, the multiplexes offer more translations from page to screen. A quick glance at 2008’s literary screen gems features entries from the comic and graphic novel frames (Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man along with the recent Punisher: War Zone, DC’s juggernaut The Dark Knight and the forthcoming Frank Miller project The Spirit),…
Ska’s the Limit
The word Ska conjures up differing responses, and many are sadly negative. Whether through sub-par bands or kneejerk reactions against the genre’s ’80s commercialization, the mere mention of Ska rubs some people the wrong way. To that end, The Pinstripes have a mission. The septet wants to replace that downcast opinion by offering a joyous…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Review)
If there’s one word to describe The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it’s right there in the title: curious. This would appear to be the kind of lavish, carefully produced and “important” Hollywood film, cast with the best stars available (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, in this case), that usually is designed to impress the…
Essential Home Viewing
Choosing the year’s best DVDs is a difficult task. The market has become so large, divergent, inclusive and specialized that comprehensive surveys are Herculean efforts, with the only guarantee being that something of worth is overlooked. So why bother? Simple. Aside from being critical eyes, film writers serve a parallel function as guides to the…
Contemporary Printmaking (Review)
Noticing how individual works play off each other can give a new slant to looking at an exhibition, allowing you to think like a curator. Contemporary Printmaking at Manifest Gallery offers such a rewarding opportunity. The gallery’s call for submissions brought in nearly 400 works by 160 artists for this juried show. Curator Jason Franz…
Oleg’s Tavern (Review)
Who knew a fella from the Ukraine would be cooking up a storm of authentic German food in Mason. Oleg Makhayev, the owner of Oleg’s Tavern, is a native of Kiev, Ukraine. He’s lived in the States for about seven years and cooked at Jag’s in West Chester before opening his own restaurant last year.…
Onstage: Monty Python’s Spamalot
Want a special night out on New Year’s week? How about a Tony Award-winning musical? Broadway Across America is offering Cincinnati audiences a one-week run of Spamalot, a show that’s lovingly “ripped-off” from the internationally famous comedy team’s most popular motion picture, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It won three Tony Awards in 2005,…
From Big Screen to Small
The new remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still makes the best case possible for why good actors are better served by television than movies these days. Sure, there is a cluster of genuine movie stars who are also fine actors in their prime — Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet and…
A Rose by Any Other Name
Since first-time customers at the huge wine shop I worked at in New Jersey would often look overwhelmed, we’d always patiently explain how the place was organized. One time, I told a gentleman where we kept domestic wines, new world wines, dessert wines, etc. “And upstairs,” I concluded reverentially, pointing to the balcony, “we also…
List Service 2008
2008 Hates and Greats The GreatsBy Mike Breen THE GREATS MGMT – Oracular Spectacular: I loved this album’s weird dynamic, the mystery and vibe of it all, and the amazing songs, which mixed warmer modern Dance music ideas with folksy Bowie musings and subtle Psych freakouts. I also loved the seemingly organic build of the…
The Auto-Tune Explosion
One morning early this winter, I was in the car listening to the radio, growing restless with NPR’s downer economic news. I decided to check in on the Pop music world and surfed between a couple of Top 40 stations. I stopped on “Love Lockdown,” the new single from Kanye West. It’s a pretty interesting…
Orange Bowl Gives UC a Chance for a Notable Win
At the end of a charmed season, University of Cincinnati football officials are in the game they expected, a Jan. 1 meeting in the Orange Bowl against Virginia Tech, which automatically goes to Florida as the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion. The Bearcats could have asked for more and received a lot less. They could…
Comedy: Josh Sneed
Another hometown comedy hero returns. Josh Sneed will yuk it up at his “home” club, Go Bananas, Friday through Sunday. The former P&G-tech geek turned stand-up comedian and T-shirt mogul wraps up a busy year, and gets set to kick off what will hopefully be an even more hectic 2009. His album Unacceptable, released by…
Breaking Holiday Sex Slumps
Forget about the spontaneous moment of lust that scares up the sex drive ghosts of Christmas Past. It ain’t gonna happen in the midst of party planning, shopping, wrapping or hiding gifts, paying credit card bills and every other thing that comes up during the holiday season, according to Patty Brisben. As the owner of…
Frost/Nixon (Review)
I´ve never really been a fan of Ron Howard. I grew up watching him, first as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show, then later as Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. And while his all-American appeal was winning, those characters belonged to a time and place of innocence as lost as paradise. Howard’s segue into film,…
The Good Thief (Review)
Adolescent Ren has little at the start of the Good Thief: a stump in place of his hand, a first name but no last, a question mark in place of his past and an uncertain future. Orphaned as an infant, Ren’s only family are the other lost boys at Saint Anthony’s monastery. He seems destined…
Baldelli or Bust
It's Hot Stove time, and the Reds have already exchanged Ryan Freel for Ramon Hernandez, a move I like. Other than that, the Reds seem content to let things play themselves out. Cincinnati never made overtures to the Manny/Sabathia/Texiera-level free agents, which is a good thing. Ownership seems to think the Reds are a few…
Common Listening Party at Mixx Ultra Lounge
So we gave Mixx Ultra Lounge a kind of shitty review when they first opened but this bar/sushi joint/plush-carpeted elevator ultra lounge offers a night life experience like no other place in this city. I went on Friday (12/19) for the Common listening party and was really surprised at how comfortably crowded and friendly it…
Make Goodness Recession-Proof
For as long as I have been writing Christmas letters, I have assumed the folks reading were better off and more stable than our neighbors here in Walnut Hills. This year, however, I am not so sure. Oh, I know the economic crisis hasn’t brought you down to worried-about-your-next-meal status, but I also know that…
Week 15 – Patrick Fowler
You are the winner of tonight's Bud Light Bolo toss game. How does it feel to be a champion? It feels very sexy. Now that you are in the spotlight, you are a role model. Any words of wisdom for all those aspiring Bud Light Bolo Football quarterbacks that look up to you? Stay in…
Cincinnati-Born Artist Gives Back in South Carolina
Cincinnati-born artist SH! started a multi-tiered fundraising project in Charleston, S.C. this holiday season. Starting with a live concert and moving on to an art sale, He's trying to raise money to buy gifts for under-privileged children. The program, dubbed Presents From Punks, started five years ago as a benefit concert featuring a variety of…
Congressman: Cintas Settlement ‘Despicable’
Two prominent Democratic congress members say a $3 million settlement between Cintas Corp. and federal workplace safety regulators is insufficient because it downgrades the severity of the company’s violations and gives it two years to install new safety equipment.—- The legislators describe the sudden settlement essentially as a “pardon” granted by the Bush Administration in…
Of Pledge Cards and Patronage
It’s kind of like peeling an onion. Once you begin twisting, more and more layers are revealed. Ever since CityBeat cited a letter last week written by a Hamilton County Probation Department employee listing the work she’s done for the local Republican Party as a reason she should get a promotion, other county workers have…
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (Review)
Critic's Pick Arnold’s Bar and Grill, Cincinnati’s oldest tavern, is the cozy and congenial setting for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s rendition of Every Christmas Story Ever Told. But if you're looking for a traditional holiday entertainment, be forewarned: This performance has more in common with wild and crazy sketch comedy than it does with a performance…
Stage Door: Jesus Christ Superstar
I know it's Christmas and not Easter, but don't let that stop you from seeing Jesus Christ Superstar at The Carnegie Center in Covington. It's a faithful reproduction of Andrew Lloyd Webber's first big hit (back in 1971), a Rock opera that retells the story of the last days of Christ, leading up to his…
Winter and You
The Department of Public Safety Emergency Management Agency doesn’t want you to get caught out in the cold or in a flood or any of the other icky weather situations that arise during the winter months in Ohio. In a press release they offer a number of helpful tips that make a lot of sense.…
MusicTown: The New Cincinnati Music Message Board
After successful MidPoint Music Festival and the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, there is no question that Cincinnati is a music town. Our vibrant local scene thrives on a huge range of innovative and talented bands and artists, as well as on a diverse and supportive collection of venues. Cincinnati now needs a place for musicians online…
WTF AK?
Andy Kennedy, were you hanging out at the Lodge Bar until 1 a.m. last night? Was your pervy looking “Director of Operations at Mississippi,” 31-year-old William Armstrong, trying to hunch on some rich girls into the wee hours of the night only to get his crackerish ass thrown out of the bar? Did y’all act…
Have a Holly Played Out Christmas
Since the Holidays have arrived, a sacred ritual is being practiced by the adolescents and young adults in the Tri-State area. The seasonal "Ugly Sweater" party is underway again this year. This unusual gathering didn't really start until the mid to late 90's but has skyrocketed in popularity among the easily amused. During the 1970s…
The Faint Goes Nuclear At Southgate
The crowd getting crazy. Todd Fink on the mic.
Power to the People
After months of news reports about greed, illegal activity in the financial markets and the failure of numerous regulatory systems that were supposed to protect people without power it’s easy to feel powerless. But the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center offers a substantial list of accomplishments for 2008 that give a body a reason to…
Freedom Center Lets 17 People Go
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is suffering from a poor economy and continuing financial trouble. The center announced today that they will be laying off 17 full-time employees, by the end of the year, leaving a staff of 47. The museum will also no longer be open on Sundays. Last year, the Freedom Center…
Notes on the Golden Globes
Like any “awards” program based on so-called subjective judgments, The Golden Globes’ track record is all over the place. Yet a quick glance at this year’s nominees for "Best Motion Picture — Drama" reveals a list that will likely align nicely with the Academy Awards' more predictable, prestige-laden fare. —- David Fincher’s The Curious Case…
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
party time.
Local GOP Shocked (Shocked!) by County Job Patronage Charges
Like their national counterparts, Hamilton County Republicans often preach about how they dislike government and want to reduce its size. The truth about county government, however, is that it’s been rife with wasteful spending for decades, a period in which the local GOP had a lock on virtually all of its elected positions. Just like…
Another Seven Days of Nice Sheriffs and Mean Protesters
WEDNESDAY DEC. 10 It looks like the auto bailout plan is in big trouble, and The Los Angeles Times reported today that there is one group of people mainly to blame: the greedy workers who make American cars. Republicans who voted down the bailout are arguing that American car companies have failed against Japanese automakers…
Think Inside the Box
Maybe record labels knew much sooner than Washington and the economic experts that hard times were coming, as 2008 will go down as one of the leanest of years for box sets. But here are several 2008 box sets that are worth the price (usually $50 and up), as well as some other releases that…
Thanks for the Feedback. Really.
One of the great delights of being published in a widely read publication is the occasional communication from readers. Journalists, as if clarification is needed, are a curious bunch wrought with variably sized egos and a determined sense of right and wrong. Generally speaking, this isn’t a profession chosen to make fortunes but typically to…
Saxual Healing
Matt Baumann does not look like a wild-eyed, avant garde Jazz experimentalist. The 28-year-old St. Louis native who moved here two and a half years ago has the intense, contemplatively quiet demeanor of a bassist, a tall anchoring presence grounding a loud Indie Rock band’s chaos. But the music of the alto/tenor saxophonist reflects many…
Pushing My Buttons
Pushing My Buttons After I read Larry Gross’ “Looking for the Joy” column (issue of Dec. 10), I ended up shaking my head as tears came streaming down my face. He has this way of pushing my buttons. I become so annoyed when I read Gross’ rants on same-sex marriages and abortion, and that one-sided…
Even With Bad Economy, Art Museum Has Progressive Plans
Museums have not been immune to the nation’s economic meltdown — Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art’s endowment has calamitously plunged and Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center had to lay off five people, including its public relations director. It would seem a time for museums to be very cautious and conservative. Yet, it’s also a time…
Paintings by Jimi Jones (Review)
“I had a Eureka moment,” Jimi Jones told an audience at a lecture last week for his current exhibition Pixels at downtown’s Weston Art Gallery. The longtime active member of the Cincinnati arts scene had discovered he could incorporate pixels — the building blocks of computer graphics — into his paintings. Results of that breakthrough…
Vito’s Café (Review)
Critic's Pick I gave Vito’s a rave review in 2007, and it has only improved with the addition of Chef Romuald Jung, late of the Palace Restaurant at the Cincinnatian Hotel. Chef Romy’s talent and love of food and family outgrew the corporate confines of hotel dining. He’s found a welcome home with Vito —…
Holiday Show Explosion!
• Local Rockabilly greats Rumble Club will host their fourth annual ’Billy-themed Christmas party/concert, Greasemas, this Friday at the Southgate House. The Rumblers will be joined by Indy’s Mandy Marie and the Cool Hand Lukes, Pittsburgh’s Highway 13 and local Honky Tonk/Rockabilly heroes Straw Boss. At the show, you’ll also be able to check out…
The General James Taylor Mansion
There are few things that get me in the Christmas spirit like an old historic building or city block decked out in its holiday fanciest. There’s just something about the twinkling lights at dusk and miles of pine roping neatly adorning some fabulous architecture that ignites the sentimental holiday sap in me — which is…
Docs for Dope
Marijuana is a medicine. Not many doctors are willing to make that kind of statement publicly, especially when U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raids result in the jailing of physicians, terminally ill patients and statelicensed marijuana growers in states where the medicinal use of marijuana is permitted by law. But Richard J. Wyderski, a physician at…
Flo’s Plate Full of Soul (Lunch Review)
I walked down to Flo’s Plate Full of Soul (133 E. Court St., Downtown, 513-421- 3567) from CityBeat World Headquarters last week with a couple staffers. The new girl in the office, a vegetarian, picked out a nice Thai place on the way to Flo’s as a backup. She suspected Flo’s vegetarian options might be…
The Sound of Music (Review)
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is a classic musical. Based on the true story of the musical Von Trapp family in 1938, the show was a hit in 1959. It focuses on the widowed Captain Von Trapp, his seven singing children and Maria, an strong-willed postulant who comes as a governess then abandons…
‘Tis the Season for Stealing
Bitter cold. The air seemed to be made of sharp, solid metal, slicing through pants and shirtsleeves with tiny saw-like teeth that chewed at the skin. Hello goosebumps. Dressed in layers, I headed to Sharonville to teach my regular noon yoga class. Everything was normal. Despite the weather, I smiled, pulling into the workout club…
Jesus Christ Superstar (Review)
The Carnegie in Covington has spent several years in search of the best way to present musicals on the small, tight stage in its renovated Otto M. Budig Theatre. With this month’s minimally staged but aggressively choreographed production of Jesus Christ Superstar the formula now seems evident: Put the energy into the performance, keep the…
Luxe Redux
The original 1994 version of Ashes of Time is probably the least well known of Hong Kong master Wong Kar Wai’s nine feature films. There are numerous reasons for this: its batshit, inscrutable narrative; its lack of a proper theatrical release in the U.S.; and the need for a definitive DVD release being at the…
Baseball Hall of Fame Focuses Too Much on ‘Fame’
In more than one interview, Pete Rose noted that he doesn’t understand why anyone who’s in the baseball Hall of Fame isn’t a first-ballot Hall of Famer. After all, he said, it’s not as if the player became better in his second, fifth or 10th year of eligibility. Rose is right, as far as that…
A New Political Discourse
Hoping to channel the grassroots energy that propelled Barack Obama to the White House into a lasting political movement, his campaign urged followers last weekend to hold house parties and decide for themselves how they wanted to keep the momentum going. More than 4,200 “Change Is Coming” parties were held Dec. 13 and 14 across…
Nothing Except Appreciation
Editor’s Note: It’s common knowledge that local law enforcement has been monitoring telephone and e-mail correspondence in and out of CityBeat. What triggered the investigation — suspicion of our adult classified ads or our harsh criticism of Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis Jr. — is unknown. A transcript of phone calls between Editor John Fox…
Down by Law
If you witness a killing when you’re a child, it’s bound to affect your reflexes. By age 27, if you hear a shooting and encounter a body lying facedown in front of an apartment building at midnight, you’re unlikely to stay and watch. Maybe if Bryant Gaines had done just that, instead of running for…
The Occidental Tourist
As the world grows smaller in the wake of global media, China is hot. The recent Olympic Games in Beijing underscored the country’s emerging presence on the world stage. Locally, the Cincinnati Art Museum’s current exhibition, China Design Now, showcases China’s contemporary design work, from architecture and fashion to pop (sub)culture, graphic design and more.…
Los Honchos (Profile)
Maybe it’s fitting that in the city that spawned King Records’ legendary recordings, including Mr. James Brown, Soul music still sweats and pulses in our Queen City. Los Honchos are the new Soul contenders on the block, and this six-piece combo brings plenty of heat and horns to the party. Nominated for a Cincinnati Entertainment…
Over the Rhine Turns 20; Music Editor Feels Old
Cincinnati band Over the Rhine is celebrating going into its 20th year of music this Friday and Saturday at the Taft Theatre. Check out this cool little hub of info tributing the band with photos, video and links to past stories CityBeat has run about them. Watching OTR turn 20 is one of those moments…
YP Habitaters
Young Professionals ditch their suits and briefcases and trade them in for dirty clothes and power tools and they want more people to join them in 2009. Why? So they can build more stuff – houses, to be specific. “Since 2005, Cincinnati Habitat YP has been working to raise money and awareness for Cincinnati Habitat…
