Dirt Don’t Hurt
Bill Bullock/TinctCreative "I come with that un-local, style from my vocal/ Couldn't peep it with a pair of bifocals/ I'm no joka, play me like a joka / Be on ya like a house on fire, smoke ya!" Ol' Dirty Bastard I often wonder if Hip Hop columnists grow weary of ending their pieces…
The good, bad and ludicrous make for another tumultuous year in the Cincinnati arts
Most Nonsensical Policy Washed-up TV actress Linda Gray drops her clothes as Mrs. Robinson on the U.S. tour of the Broadway comedy, The Graduate, including her 12-day run last December at the Aronoff Center, and no administrators at the performance hall batted an eye. Which is fine and fair. The Graduate's highbrow striptease, a winking…
Voice Overs: Excerpts from letters and editorials in 2004
Donna Covrett's analogy of ordering a up a mate like fast food on a menu is priceless, because it exemplifies today's "I gotta have it yesterday," "make it easier for me" attitude that many of us seem to have toward dating. I contend that, if women would spend less time complaining about the lack of…
Ray’s The Roof
Some bands get a gig on New Year's Eve, grab a case of champagne and noisemakers and make the most of it. Others turn it out and make their shows an event. Ray's Music Exchange would fall in the latter category, as their annual NYE shows have become eclectic audio/video extravaganzas that have people talking…
Police Give Monitors the VIP Treatment
Robert Webber On behalf of developer Arn Bortz, William Wallace accepts a faux check from Santa Bush, who rewards deserving fat cats. Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher and his boys have really stepped in it this time. A special report released Dec. 27 and headed to a federal judge declares the city in material breach…
News: Changing the Game
Sam Robinson A pre-election sign above the Seventh Street exit of Interstate 75 reminded voters of what's at stake Politics became cool again in 2004. George W. Bush might have secured a second term as president Nov. 2, but barely so; and only after surmounting a huge grassroots coalition motivated by nothing more charismatic than…
Year Wax
Every December, periodicals and news programs are lousy with recaps of the year's biggest, best and worst world, national and local events. I hate that. Around this same time, Christmas cards fill my mailbox, many supplemented with long letters that painstakingly detail the highs, lows and momentous episodes that have transpired since last year's painstakingly…
Regrets, Who Me?
Any regrets about 2004? — One Concerned Dude Regrets? I've had a few. I mean, I must have had a few, right? But thanks to short- and long-term memory loss — I drove a nail into my own head in fourth grade … really — I couldn't recall any off the top of my head.…
Beating the Odds
Mike Fraley, 57, is an artist, painting landscapes in acrylic and oil in Studio 610 at the Pendleton Art Center. About two years ago, he was having sinus problems and decided to have surgery to relieve his condition. He went for pretests and was found to be anemic. Within a week he had a blood…
News to Use
African Americans in Politics Unite Cincinnati PAC, which sponsored the recent Citywide Public Safety Summit, hosts a televised discussion on the role of political parties in the African-American community. The meeting, which is open to the public, is 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 8 at Media Bridges, 1100 Race St. For more information, contact nate@unitecincinnati.com. Greet…
Clark Jenkins – Big Wiskey/Fat Cactus
Clark Jenkins – Big Wiskey/Fat Cactus · Jupiter Coyote — The Lions Den Recorded live in September 2004 on a three-disc set. The music is described as Jam Rock by most, but it is more "mountain music" with an honest warmth and outstandingly written stories. · Mark Broussard — Momentary Setback Broussard has emerged with…
Locals Only: : do robots dream of organic grooves?
Dale M. Johnson Diet Audio In Paris in the 1950s, a man named Pierre Schaeffer made what was termed at the time as musique concrete, which used both sounds from conventional instruments and recordings from Schaeffer's surroundings, like street sounds. During the same time period, in Cologne, Germany, Karlheinz Stockhausen used sine wave generators (they…
Living Out Loud: : Is There a Point?
I don't know why I do it, but on the last day of the year, every year, I write in my journal things I want to work on in the coming New Year. Just for the hell of it, I went back to my 1999 entry to see what I had on it. Among the…
Armageddon Comes to the Hockey Rink
Jerry Dowling The most important story in sports during the year just ending might also be the most important story next year and many years later. On Jan. 14 the National Hockey League team owners will meet with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. It wasn't immediately confirmed that the group will cancel the season, which already…
The Passion of the Right
In the year that was, the evangelical right miscast morality as fact. Factor in fear and 2004 shaped up to be the highest rated reality TV show that never made it to TV, but whose name could've been Fear Factor nonetheless, considering how conservatives recruited blindfolded Americans to eat homosexuals and equal rights and to…
Film: The Year of Men in Tights
Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey provide on of 2004's true surprise in Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. How to sum up a year's worth of watching and reviewing movies? CityBeat critics TT Clinkscales, Rodger Pille, Steve Ramos and Steven Rosen break it down into four manageable chunks. Here We Go Again (January-March)…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
What a year 2004 was. It's not likely anyone will compare it to, say, 1943, a key World War II year; or, for that matter, some of the years of the 1960s, when American society felt paradigm shifts. But some of the events will be more than just memorable moments. They'll be changes in direction.…
