Renew Yourself in 2008
Too often, half-hearted New Year's resolutions take the place of substantive, meaningful changes. Personal renewal isn't a quick fix but a long road with many steps. Here are 10 ideas for how to craft a better life in 2008: Cut the Sugar: Many recovering alcoholics and addicts turn to sweets during recovery. Alcohol converts to…
News: Year in Review: Heartland Disease
Jared M. Holder Having served her sentence for sex with an inmate while a prison guard, Tammy Welton has learned she now must register as a sex offender for the rest of her life. Fear, hatred and vindictiveness aren't the values most people strive to instill in their children. Nor do politicians tout that…
Mary Mark
Mary Mark MARY MARK's exuberant relief prints appear in museum and private collections around the country. Her work is currently on view in the national juried exhibition Art at the X through January 11 at Xavier University. Here are five things that motivate her: Visual obsession. My eye, my heart and my brain have…
Film: The Golden Girl
Focus Features Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in Atonement The massive success of Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) transformed Keira Knightley from a little-known British actress to a figure worthy of glossy magazine covers and swooning admirers across the globe. Almost overnight the waifish tomboy with dark, smoldering looks…
News to Use
Celebrating Roe v. Wade Freedom of Choice Ohio hosts the 35th Anniversary Roe v. Wade Dinner and Lecture Jan. 31, 2008, at Ohio State University's Fawcett Center in Columbus. The keynote speaker is Dr. Susan Wicklund, a physician, pro-choice pioneer and author. Wicklund is the author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion…
A Year of Outrages, Rumors and Plain Old Lies
Graham Lienhart Breasts, thighs and animal rights were on the minds of passersby during a protest in January. The silliest edition of Porkopolis this year was one of the very first of 2007. The Jan. 10 column included the threat of a march by neo-Nazis, a secret meeting between the mayor of Cincinnati and…
Art: An Artful Year
Joe Lamb Tony Luensman's solo show at CAM, Arenas, was a highlight of 2007. The art year in Cincinnati started a little early in 2007. It was last December, in fact, with the first rotation of the Contemporary Arts Center's exhibition Graphic Content. Before Matt Distel left Cincinnati for Peekskill, N.Y., he teamed up…
MainEvent: Brüder
Jarrod Becker Brüder Satiating the Soul The Southgate House Gallery serves up a hearty collection of paintings in Jarrod Becker
Writed Wrongs
Dear Family and Friends, Dang, it's hard to believe the holidays are here again and another year is at an end. Laura and I hope this letter finds you and yours unforeclosed upon, personally untouched by the suffering and loss of war and up to your eyeballs in oil profits. Of course, if you aren't,…
Diner: Checking the Tea Leaves
Joe Lamb Via Vite Every year at this time we look back and try to make sense of the past 12 months. We attempt to find a pattern, some meaning or significance. We can't help it; we're hard wired that way. That's where the whole idea for reading tea leaves and Rorschach testing comes…
A Mostly Bad Year in Cincinnati Thankfully Ends
Jerry Dowling The year in sports just now winding behind us is most happily to be remembered for the rise of football at the University of Cincinnati, not long ago and for a very long time the most neglected team in town. Most happily remembered? Let's try that again. The utterly regrettable year in…
2007 Year in Review: Dance
The Kennedy Center Legendary Balanchine ballerina and Cincinnati native Suzanne Farrell As 2007 closes, dance is venturing into places where it has seldom been seen. At this year´s Academy Awards, the acrobatic-inspired troupe Pilobolus tumbled their way into a new symbolic representation of films: a series of shapes comprised of the dancers´ collective silhouetted…
Letters: Voices of the Year
This might seem trivial in light of the serious problems facing this city, but with the passing of James Brown — who recorded his most famous music here in the Queen City at King Records, not to mention giving local icon Bootsy Collins his start — I think it's long overdue to erect a monument…
Music: Best Year Ever
Joe Lamb 500 Miles to Memphis The bar has been raised for the local music scene. Truly, it has been one of the best years ever, at least of the 16 or so that I have been covering music in Greater Cincinnati. I´m looking forward to 2008. But for now, let´s get nostalgic for…
Cover Story: Year in Review: Strange Change
Sean Hughes What's old was new again in 2007 as Greater Cincinnati voters returned all of the same politicians to city council, kept debating what should be built along the city's riverfront and again rejected a sales tax increase to build a new jail. But the year did contain a few surprises along the…
2007
Zachary Copfer New Stage Collective's The Goat, starring Amy Warner (left) and Brian Phillips, was 2007's most powerful local production. For a two-week stretch in mid-October, it was obvious that Cincinnati's theater scene had arrived. On three consecutive evenings, four of our best theaters opened new productions: More Fun Than Bowling at Ensemble Theatre…
