Locals Only: : Message Accomplished
The Messengers It's a snow-covered Sunday afternoon in early February as local Punk quartet The Messengers — guitarist Don Hogle, drummer George Jesse, bassist Bryan Schmidlapp and singer Shannon Wilson — enter Mecklenberg Gardens to grab a late lunch and talk about their brief history together. We discuss their somewhat surprising victory in the contest…
News: Civil Rights Legend Speaks
As a lawyer for Rosa Parks and others, Fred Gray Sr. has fought against the ills of racial inequality. Upon graduation from law school in 1954, Fred Gray Sr., the renowned civil rights attorney for Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and many other leaders of the Civil Rights Era, returned to Montgomery, Alabama with…
Wedding Party Planners
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Freddy K sails with a schizophrenic mix of Post Rock extremes
· Freddy K — Stand by the Sea for Good Luck It's a joyful dilemma, but I have no idea how to classify Freddy K's debut album. It's a deliciously schizophrenic mix of Post Rock extremes that transforms almost completely from song to song. The three opening tracks set the diverse tone. "Chewing Baskets" combines…
Television and Radio: Doctor Know
Dr. Natasha Terry earned a doctorate in human sexuality. North Americans are much more uptight about sexuality than, say, our friends in Europe. OK, the Brits might be as uptight, but we certainly have issues on this side of the pond. A few voices out there seek to help us through various media outlets —…
TV and/or Politics
If you take actor/director Robert Redford at his word, at least by what he told reporters at the recent edition of his Sundance Film Festival, he'll soon begin work on the long-planned sequel to his 1972 political satire, The Candidate. Before Redford's new candidate hits theaters, Robert Altman's razor-sharp, slyly comical miniseries Tanner '88 returns…
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Black History Month is like fastening a rope around air. It's slave-catching. It's like embracing a cloud. It's the Middle Passage without rest stops. It's a failed survey of a ubiquitous civilization in the guise of a chitlin' circuit play whose cast consists of B-list Negroes from WB (We Black) and UPN (U People's Network)…
Base Gallery
Jymi Bolden Base Gallery A little funky and a lot of fun, Base Gallery is definitely a unique place and a great stop on your Final Friday gallery hop. A friendly atmosphere that generates an eclectic crowd, Base is interesting, to say the least. With several rooms displaying various local artists, an unusual accordion player,…
University of Cincinnati
Then: In January 1996, CityBeat explored the largest employer in town — not Procter & Gamble, the city of Cincinnati or General Electric, but the University of Cincinnati. The story contained lots of interesting facts and figures surrounding UC. For example, in 1996 there were a total of 34,526 students and a budget of $852…
Dan takes the heat for his less-than-honest advice
Your advice to Femme Teasing Mask, the woman who wrote in about her crossdressing, female-latex-mask-wearing boyfriend, was bullshit. You told her to break up with him, "(but) don't tell him the real reason you're leaving: Let him think that it's not the crossdressing and the latex masks, but his breath or his fashion sense. Leave…
Help! I’m Not Flexible!
Dear Diane, I'm very inflexible. Can I still do yoga? — R.C. Dear R.C.: You didn't say where you were inflexible. Remember, yoga works on the body, mind and spirit, which are all mirrors of each other. So I'll assume you're talking about your body, and I'll touch on the other two at the end.…
Diner: Upscale Watering Hole
I still don't know what to make of Wild Bill's New American Grille in downtown Lebanon. It's part local watering hole and part fancy-pants restaurant. Believe me, I've been in a local watering hole or two, and Wild Bill's certainly seems to be one upon arrival. The bar is right up front, and a few…
News to Use
Kucinich Uses Imagination Presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Cleveland) addresses issues of peace, health care and the environment at 7 p.m. Feb. 18. The new location is the University of Cincinnati's Event Pavilion. The event, called "Imagine America," also features farm labor organizer Baldemar Velasquez and health expert Christine Horner. A former mayor of…
Mozart’s comic opera finds its way into the 1960s
Mark Lyons CCM's modernized production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte places it in the socially conservative early 1960s. Mozart wrote his comic opera, COSÌ FAN TUTTE ('All Women Are Like That') in 1790, but don't be thinking a production of it will of necessity be stuffy or old-fashioned. Mozart's brilliant wit and compositional skills mean…
The Russian Futurists keep it simple
Tokyo Sex Destruction Tokyo Sex Destruction with Bullet Train to Vegas and Viva La Foxx Thursday · Radio Down I once interviewed a Cincinnati-based band whose singer was bemoaning the fact that too many new groups were falling into an abstract abyss when it came to lyrics and intent. Nobody was singing about "the scene"…
News: The Day the Music Critic Died
Jymi Bolden The Cincinnati Enquirer likes its reporters to be young and female, according to Larry Nager. Larry Nager sits at a table at Kaldi's on Main Street, orders a glass of ice water and talks with passion and much animation about the music scene in Cincinnati, a scene he covered for eight years as…
702 Ridgeway Ave.
Jymi Bolden 702 Ridgeway Ave. Address: 702 Ridgeway Ave., Avondale Owner: D&N Properties LLC Year Built: 1900 Value: $138,000 Comments: This 39-unit apartment building has sat vacant since late 2002. Several windows on the lower level are broken out and some of the plywood barricades have been damaged. Ed Pinkston, city of Cincinnati building inspector,…
The Truth About Diebold and Your Ballot
Diebold Election Systems of North Canton, Ohio, is taking a beating. As outlined in last month's Statehouse, a recent study found that the AccuVote-TS, the company's touch-screen voting system, contained five high-risk security flaws and 15 overall security flaws. The analysis discovered that, among other things, Diebold failed to properly encrypt sensitive election data; employed…
Writer’s Block
Former teacher Sharon Draper has earned the 2004 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award for her new book for teens, The Battle of Jericho. A change in identity hasn't deterred the soul of THE MARK L. PASTOR BLACK BOOK FAIR. By renaming the weekend-long event, organizers sought to honor one of the fair's founders. In…
