Onstage: Review: Crime and Punishment
Sandy Underwood Nick Cordileone (left) and John Campion face off in "Crime and Punishment" at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Fyodor Dostoevsky took 700 pages to tell the story of the tortured university student Raskolnikov who murders two women and then suffers the pangs of grief for a crime he thought he was entitled…
Locals Only: : The Newbees
The Newbees The Newbees At Sitwell's, The Newbees are on an electric high, jazzed-up from a Beatles tribute they just played over the weekend. All multi-instrumentalists and songwriters, they constantly share the spotlight. The anti-ego band. With luminous smiles all around, they agree: "Positive energy is the reward here." Tim Seiwert (drums, vocals) grew…
Hamilton County tries to help lower airfares
Matt Borgerding Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (left) might help local flyers, too, by talking to Kentucky's new governor. Anyone who travels by plane even just once a year should pay attention to the latest proposals from Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune, as they could impact your wallet in a direct way that most public…
Onstage: Review: Take Me Out
Brandon Burton (right) and Charlie Clark in Take Me Out From the evidence at hand, it's safe to say that playwright Richard Greenberg loves baseball. Make that adores baseball. His clubhouse comedy Take Me Out
Dance: Role Playing at Work
Graham Lienhart Cincinnati Ballet dancers prepare their sword fight scenes for Romeo & Juliet. "Woo hoo!" was Devon Carney's first response to a couple of interview questions. He has much to be excited about: a brand-new title and a dynamic character role in Cincinnati Ballet's Romeo and Juliet. The former ballet master-in-chief has just…
Music: Ones Are Not the Loneliest Numbers
Fat Wreck Loved Ones A little over a year ago, Loved Ones guitarist/frontman Dave Hause had no clear view of how the future was going to shake down. In December 2006, founding bassist Mike "Spider" Cotterman departed after a grueling tour to support the Loved Ones' debut full-length album, Keep Your Heart. With the…
Ohio, the Heart of All Politics
Good things come to those who wait. Even in politics. Not that long ago, Ohio's primary election March 4 looked like it would be irrelevant to the presidential outcome. Conventional wisdom said the Democratic and Republican nominees would emerge after Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, when more than 20 states ganged up to create a…
Another seven days of artificial sunlight, fighting over rocks and making public art
WEDNESDAY FEB. 6 The BBC reported today that a suicide bomber reached Israel by way of Egypt for the first time in more than a year, and the small U.S.-backed and Muslim-hated nation isn't happy. Now Israel wants to build a giant fence to separate it from countries that don't respect its existence, but the…
Adam Ferrara, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, novelist Chris Bohjalian and much more
Anne Van Epps Anne Van Epps' "Untitled" WEDNESDAY 2/13 MUSIC: TEA LEAF GREEN brings its adventurous jams to 20th Century Theater. See Sound Advice here. ONSTAGE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, a fast-moving adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel, continues at The Playhouse in the Park. See review here. MUSIC: THE TOASTERS, longtime masters of Ska, stop…
News: Legalizing Birth
Jerren Helwig of Fairfield Township in Butler County is a certified professional midwife (CPM) with 10 years experience attending more than 200 births. In October 2007 her life and profession were abruptly disrupted. "On Oct. 6 police came with an enforcement officer from the (Ohio) Board of Medicine with a search warrant," she says.…
Film: Review: Youth Without Youth
Tim Roth and Alexandra Maria Lara star in Youth Without Youth. Sometimes the greatest challenges come later in life after you've achieved everything you thought your heart desired, when you wake up knowing in the deepest recesses of your soul that your life's work remains substantially incomplete. Fame and fortune obscure the initial search for…
Terroir-ists Converge on Covington!
I love wine bars: Casual neighborhood places where you can relax with friends, drink something new, maybe even let your guard down enough to consider pretentious concepts like terroir (the way a specific vineyard site — climate, soil, sunlight, breezes — is expressed in a wine) and tannin (a textural component that along with acid,…
The Importance of Being Civil
Sean Hughes Bk Broiling On a recent sunny afternoon in downtown Cincinnati, a large mobile shredding truck was parked in the middle of Perry Street, a tiny one-way street the runs behind the main firehouse near Fourth and Central streets. Inside the back of the truck was a man busy at work surrounded by…
Reds Will Be Served (Some Day) by Their Youth
Jerry Dowling Of all the words ever spoken about baseball, none are truer than those attributed to 1950s catcher Wes Westrum, who's supposed to have said that baseball is like church: Many attend, but few understand. Baseball just isn't like the other sports, which is why more hogwash is uttered about baseball than any…
Rumors, Lies and General Misunderstandings
¯ Greater Cincinnati's greatest Outlaw Country performer, Dallas Moore, has a new CD officially coming out this weekend (he did sell some copies when his band recently opened for pal and Outlaw Country legend, David Alan Coe). Tales from a Road King (no doubt a reference to Moore's rigorous performance schedule) gets the proper release…
The John Frankenheimer Collection (MGM)
The John Frankenheimer Collection 1961-1998, Unrated A few years back, BMW teamed up with David Fincher to create a series of short films for the Internet to spotlight the automaker's cars. High-profile film directors were given the opportunity to work with Clive Owen as the series driver and a $1 million production budget in…
Right at your door (Lionsgate)
Right at your door 2005, Rated R Where will you be when the bombs go off? This question is key to the jarring, grossly ignored, low-budget Sundance fave Right at Your Door. In the vein of 1983's The Day After and Peter Watkins' 1965 classic, The War Game, the film speculates on the devastation…
Bodies Everywhere
Premier Exhibitions Bodies… The Exhibition Last week I took my nephew William to the Cincinnati Art Museum. This is what he loved: the mummy in the classics gallery. "What is it?" he asked me. "A mummy." "A mommy?" he asked. "A mummy," I said. "A very old dead person." Maybe I confused him, even…
Time to find the facts in streetcar debate
It appears our Sole Surviving Daily is recovering its will to pursue stories beyond the usual sources
Onstage: Review: Red Light Winter
Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter is an overlong, de-constructionist theatrical exercise in talking too much about too little, eschewing plot, saying "fuck" too fucking often and delving into personalities — two of whom aren't deep enough for delving. The show, lethargically (make that glacially) staged by Eric Vosmeier, is playing in a rolling rep schedule…
Look Who’s Eating: Dean Zaidan
Dean Zaidan, owner of Dean's Mediterranean Imports, is a Findlay Market veteran. "I got started here roasting nuts," he said. Twenty-two years later his store mushroomed from a one-item operation to a specialty shop that offers around 2,000 items, including 30 varieties of nuts he still roasts. CityBeat: What's the last great meal you ate…
Sound Advice: : Tea Leaf Green and The Toasters
Eric Luse Tea Leaf Green Tea Leaf Green with Moonalice Wednesday
Onstage: Review: Mary’s Wedding
Mikki Schaffner Morgan Grahame and Ryan Wesley Gilreath star in Mary's Wedding at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. In 1917 or thereabouts, blithe young Mary and sturdy young horseman Charlie are introduced by a thunderstorm that rolls across the prairies of Western Canada. Aggression has already roiled Europe into conflagration. Mutual fascination gathers. As they…
Easy Exploration: Last.fm Merges Marketing and Musical Discovery
What would a major label's version of <a "now=""now" (e.g.="(e.g." CBS deserves credit for not interfering with the established "scrobbler" social network. The biggest change after the takeover is more music, including downloads and streams. Discovery is a crucial link in the business of music, and knowing what your friends listen to has value. "Free-to-user"…
News: Settling Unquiet Minds
Perhaps the only people who haven't heard about the frequent public meltdowns by fading Pop singer Britney Spears are those who don't read newspapers, watch TV or have access to the Internet. For the rest of us, even those who dislike our culture's obsession with celebrity, the bizarre situation has been nearly unavoidable. One potential…
Absolute Wilson (New Yorker Video)
Absolute Wilson 2006, Not Rated I was lucky enough to meet avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach, The Black Rider) recently as he escorted a group of journalists around Los Angeles' ACE Gallery to show his remarkable Voom Portraits — high-definition-video portraits of the famous and the unknown. What was so…
Sit or Spin III
Last month at the Laundromat, while sorting my clothes for the washer, I gave up, stuffing socks and shirts wherever they freaking fit. Trouble came marching toward me while I slipped coins in slots. An alchy approached me, slurring and sloppy, stinking there. I'd been in his shoes years ago, so I was empathetic, listening.…
Cover Story: Of Human Bondage
Sean Hughes 21st Century Slavery Modern day slavery, also known as human trafficking, is alive and well. It happens in war-torn Africa, where 9-year-old kids carry semi-automatic weapons after their parents sell them into the military in order to raise money to feed their other starving children. It happens when criminal gangs kidnap underage…
Bouquet Restaurant and Wine Bar (Review)
Joe Lamb Bouquet Restaurant and Wine Bar Located on a hip and happening block of Covington's Main Street, the Bouquet Restaurant and Wine Bar is a pleasant surprise. In fact, in the incestuous world of Greater Cincinnati dining, Bouquet is a thriving branch covered with shiny leaves: It sits opposite Dee Felice and right…
