Diner: Consuming the Holidays
Woodrow J. Hinton Food and drink are intimately entwined with the year-end celebrations. For this holiday issue, we asked CityBeat's dining writers to conjure up some thoughts, recommendations or memories about dining, drinking and the holidays. It's a mixed bag of insights — satiric, cynical and sincere a bit like opening unanticipated presents.…
News: Freedom Square
Sean Hughes/photopresse.com An ancient symbol of religious freedom, the menorah rises on Fountain Square Dec. 2 in spite of city council's persistent efforts to block it. The menorah this week again became a symbol of freedom, with the U.S. Supreme Court ending Cincinnati City Council's effort to keep the Jewish symbol off Fountain Square.…
Mary Lee’s Corvette
It's one thing to ambitiously take on the task of covering one of the greatest albums of the last century at a live show. It's another thing to record it, release it and garner a tasty record deal due to the surging critical buzz. That's the story of Mary Lee Kortes' band Mary Lee's…
News: Fixing the City
Doug Trapp What Cincinnati needs is a new middle class, according to Terry Grundy. If the urban center of our region — Downtown, Over-the-Rhine, the West End, Mount Auburn, Mount Adams, Newport and Covington — is going to prosper, we need to attract young professionals and creative people, gays, retirees and immigrants. That's the…
Art Isn’t a Crime
This is what National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) Arts Advocacy Director Svetlana Mintcheva has to say about artist Thomas Condon, who begins his appeal Thursday after being sent to prison by Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Norbert Nadel: "Morgue photography is nothing new. It's a legitimate subject of artistic expression. There was a great…
Listings
Art Opportunities 97X COMMUNITY GALLERY AND ARTISAN GROUP — A virtual art gallery of digital art, photography, sculpture, poetry, food and art has opened its doors on the pages of elaine.garver@abilitiesfirst.org or vicki.fleming@abilitiesfirst.org. ACLU OF OHIO — Volunteers are needed for the Southwest Chapter of the ACLU of Ohio. Our interests are in the areas…
Out on the Town
Talent As Passion Inspiration is something I wish you could bottle right alongside chemistry. Wouldn't that be cool? Not to mention amazing and extremely profitable. I'm not sure which is harder to find or explain, but damn I spend a lot of energy looking for both. Actually the truth is when there's chemistry there's usually…
1531 Pullan St., Northside
Doug Trapp Address: 1531 Pullan St., Northside Owner: Thomas Switzer Value: $6,800 Year Built: 1910 Comments: This 560-square-foot building might have started out as a garage, but more recently it was a beer and wine carryout store. Today nothing is being carried out here except a slow-motion demolition, compliments of Mother Nature. But the…
News: Personal Best
Joe Smitherman (right) explains how his partner Jason's race has been a personal highlight of numerous Gay Games experiences. My partner of over five years, Jason, and I recently attended Gay Games VI in Sydney, Australia. This is the first time the Gay Games have been held in the Southern Hemisphere, and I'd been…
Movin’ On Up
Oh, those party conversations. It was said wistfully, as in passing. Still it carried heft. Whooomp! Like a steaming sack of hot do-do it splattered down. The affluent black woman at the holiday gathering confirmed the quiet fears and anxieties of upwardly mobile, scorched-earth Negroes everywhere. She hoped her pre-adolescent son, though surrounded by white…
Are Little Girls So Dangerous?
If a police officer fires a weapon and injures an innocent little girl, is it safe to say something went wrong? What if several cops are involved? What if two little girls are injured? Plus a schoolteacher? And a bystander? That's what happened at Liberty and Elm streets on April 14, 2001 (see Firing on…
Home Work
It wasn't all that long ago while touring our fair city with a lovely couple from New York who where considering the possibility of moving here that I made a discovery. As we toured, going from neighborhood to neighborhood, we happened to pass through the suburb where I grew up and (theoretically) developed. Up until…
