Cincinnati Ballet
The Year In Review Diversity and drama were the hallmarks for dance during 2005 — on- and off-stage: dance emergencies, growing multiculturalism and some outstanding performances. In dance developments, CINCINNATI BALLET unveiled an elegant, functional and intimate performance studio, a sizable addition to their Over-the-Rhine space. CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATER (CDT) has hired Lisa Buck…
Cover Story: You Asked for It
Geoff Raker Looking Back: The Year In Review It's often been said in recent years that Cincinnati needed meaningful change. In 2005 we got it — and we're not talking about the Bengals' win-loss record. How big a deal was Mark Mallory's election as mayor? Even South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu greeted it as…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
The Year In Review All right, everybody, turn your head to the right. No, wait. I'm a Democrat. So look over your left shoulder backward at the year 2005. It's about over. What happened that mattered? Here's my list in the order that they pop into my head. First, the door on the outhouse…
News to Use
Emancipation Proclamation Celebrated The International Ministerial Alliance of Cincinnati is hosting its annual Emancipation Proclamation Day Service to commemorate the liberation of African-American slaves in the United States. The program at 11 a.m. Jan. 2 at the Metropolitan C.M.E. Church, 2815 Melrose Ave., includes speakers and music, followed by dinner. Admission is free. For more…
Believing in Something Better
InkTank Executive Director Jeff Syroney lets loose his New Year's resolutions without being asked. He's that confident about his vision for a better Cincinnati, one he believes is shared by many who care about the quality of urban living. "The city feels like it's on the verge of waking up and moving towards the 21st…
Devilish Details
The Year In Review Maybe Simon Leis is onto something. Perhaps, as the Hamilton County Sheriff pronounced on Fountain Square last spring, we are suffering a "satanic pestilence." What else could explain some of the goings-on that defined 2005 in Cincinnati? When the Southwest Ohio Regional Transportation Authority raised Metro bus fares to $1…
Film: Big Screen’s Best
The Year In Review Steve Ramos 1. CAPOTE Philip Seymour Hoffman gives the male performance of the year as author Truman Capote, laying out charm, eccentricity and heartache in equal measure in director Bennett Miller's tragic true-life drama. More than a traditional biography story, Capote is about writing. It's about artistic inspiration that morphs…
News: Opening Doors at City Hall
The Year In Review The remaining evidence of the 2005 election season is an occasional "elect" or "re-elect" yard sign from seven mayoral and 31 city council candidates, but significant changes are already under way at City Hall. Anyone who wants to see the new mayor has an open invitation to literally walk into…
My Sisters Slave
My sister, whom I'm quite close with, has been getting into S&M. Recently she announced that she's acquired a slave. After much thought and discussion on the matter, I am still having a very hard time coming to terms with it. The problem I have is that she treats him like a slave 24 hours…
So This Is The New Year …
Another year slips into the memory banks and a new one awaits. Time to send '05 off in style with a weekend full of original music and/or local favorites. New Year's Eve weekend might not have any one "blockbuster" event at which to sing "Auld Lang Syne," but there are plenty of solid local events…
New Years’ Resolutions
What do you resolve to change or do differently this coming year?At year's end, many of us take stock of our lives and circumstances and decide what works and what doesn't. We intend to do better, start a business, eat right, exercise, make or break a habit, get organized and so on. Setting goals is…
Buffaloed Bengals Still Have Something to Prove
The Year In Review To review the year in sports is to simply describe the present situation. The Bengals are going to the playoffs, the University of Cincinnati is playing basketball post-Bob Huggins and the Reds are back to the drawing board. Compare with the situation one year ago. The Bengals were packing it…
News: We Hardly Knew Ye
The Year In Review Former Cincinnati City Councilman Christopher Smitherman says his only real regret is not being confrontational enough. Acknowledging the seeming absurdity of that statement, a relaxed Smitherman smiles broadly in the colorful Walnut Hills office where he and a partner run a financial planning business. He's returned to working there full…
News: Concrete Changes
The Year In Review It's been a year of lawsuits, openings, resignations and firings for the Clifton Heights Community Urban Renewal Corporation (CHCURC). All that has slowed — but hasn't stopped — one of the largest series of redevelopment projects in the city, situated on the quarter mile-long strip of land between Calhoun and…
Packing the Mosque for Peace
Cameron Knight Abdel Siyam (left) of Clifton and Nasser Sumar of Florence respond to a call to shake hands with other participants at an interfaith prayer vigil at the Islamic Association of Cincinnati mosque. Speakers included leaders of Christian organizations, Tibetan monks, representatives of the Jewish faith and Muslims from other mosques around the…
Declaration Proclamation
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one person to dissolve the political bands which have connected him with the sole remaining superpower of the earth, jeez, what a giant fucking megillah. Nevertheless, having suffered long enough at the hands of an illegitimate, hostile, belligerent, dishonest and foolish rule, I, Bob…
Raise Your Voice:2005 Editorials, Columns and
And so every December the magic appears from nowhere and everywhere, and before you know it you find yourself emerging from a cosmic car wash that's scrubbed away the year's grime, salt and bird poop. It's like finding a $20 bill in your shirt pocket — no reason to overthink it, just smile and move…
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
Matt Borgerding ETC's D. Lynn Meyers at the CEAs in August. For the first time, the 2005 awards were presented in a ceremony dedicated exclusively to theater. The 2005 CINCINNATI ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS on Aug. 26 offered firm evidence of Cincinnati's strong theater scene. In the ninth year of the CEAs, CityBeat separated the theatrical…
Locals Only: : Hunting Down Noah Hunt
Brian Kothe Noah Hunt The "attack" dog that barks behind Noah Hunt's door is named Meesha. Inside, she's sweet. "Down, girl," Hunt whispers. The clean house is relatively bare. "Just moved here in July," Hunt explains. The whole scene is two-sided. The place is freezing. The spongy chairs, warm. His hair, shaggy dark. An…
Diner: Food Chain
The Year In Review As the clock winds down on 2005, the CityBeat dining section travels back in time to take measure of the culinary comings and goings of the past year. Probably too much ink has already been spilled about the demise of the MAISONETTE (formerly 114 E. Sixth St.) and its faithful…
Film: Does Your Mother Know?
Steve Ramos Fresh face, foul mouth: Sarah Silverman makes Steve (and others) sweat. Meeting comic Sarah Silverman makes one an immediate target of her outrageous humor. Add an unseasonably warm September afternoon in Toronto and a rushed reporter with a habit of profuse sweating when overheated, and the opportunities for laughter are obvious. For…
Music: A Year to Hear
The Year In Review Heartless Bastards: Stairs and Elevators One of the finest releases to come out the Cincinnati area in several years, Heartless Bastards' Stairs and Elevators was released by Fat Possum Records, a Mississippi-based label that made its name by digging up vintage, untainted bluesmen before harvesting a new crop of young…
Living Out Loud: : You’re as Old as you Feel
Remember that callus I told you about a few weeks ago? Well, now it's turned into an ulcer on the bottom of my right foot. While I'm under a good doctor's care, he's telling me I can't walk on it, need to walk on the heel of my foot — can't put pressure on the…
New Year’s Resolution
New Year's resolution-making is beneficial to the human spirit. A practice apparently begun millennia ago by the ancient Babylonians, resolutions push us forward in our lives, unleashing the mindfulness and positive transformation that spring from assessing the gap between where we are and where we want to be. The Romans took this idea seriously, naming…
