News: Gray Eminence
Jymi Bolden Civil rights attorney Fred Gray (foreground) attended dinner with (L-R) retired Judge William McClain, City Councilman Christopher Smitherman and his mother, Barbara Smitherman. Despite an early morning fire that raged through his Tuskegee, Ala. office three days earlier, Fred Gray Sr., renowned civil rights attorney, addressed an audience of 250 at the YWCA…
Smokestack fires up a palpable vibe
Smokestack Smokestack with Alias Jones, Bluf and The Frankl Project Friday · The Mad Frog Folks who aren't huge fans of either Bruce Hornsby or the Grateful Dead are often surprised to find out that Hornsby collaborated extensively and toured with the Dead in the '90s. If the piano-heavy Jam vibe sounds intriguing to you,…
News: Challenging Chabot
Jymi Bolden Greg Harris is running for the Democratic Party nomination to oppose U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot in the fall, as he did in 2002. Richard Lerner stands in the kitchen of his Amberley Village home, which also functions as his campaign headquarters. As one of two Democrats vying for a shot at U.S. Rep.…
Film: Goldsworthy Gaga
Artist Andy Goldsworthy examines his Nova Scotia earthwork in the fim Rivers & Tides. The year 2003 was a watershed one for documentaries. Winged Migration, Spellbound and Capturing the Friedmans did as well in art houses as traditional narrative features. Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, released in 2002, won an Oscar in 2003 and became…
Community supported agriculture
Then: In April 1995, CityBeat introduced many readers to the concept of community supported agriculture (CSA). In a nutshell, CSA pairs consumers with a farm close to home. "A group of consumers (contract) directly with a grower to receive the fruits of the harvest," Karen Amelia Arnett reported. "By connecting directly with the grower of…
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Cover Story: Activism
Jymi Bolden Jim Tarbell at the Commons "Despite what many politicians and corporate executives want us to believe, Cincinnati is not a collection of skyscrapers and department stores and stadiums. Cincinnati is its people: young and old, black and white, male and female, poor and wealthy, gay and straight." These lines from the introductory editorial…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
Ryan Greis Cincinnati is known for many a culinary legacy: Glier's goetta, Graeter's ice cream, Skyline's chili, Motz's maple syrup. Maple syrup? Sure enough. Some of the finest syrup in the state, if not this side of Vermont, is sifted amid the forests maintained by Matt and Bart Motz and their families in Anderson Township.…
Defense of Decency
A few weeks ago I came home to find some fliers wedged into my front door. They were promoting God as well as a specific denomination of Christianity. It's certainly not the first time I've found such literature on my property. And I can recall three or four times in the 10 years I've been…
News to Use
Imagining Kucinich Presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Cleveland) addresses issues of peace, health care and the environment at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The new location is the University of Cincinnati Event Pavilion. The event, called "Imagine America," also features farm labor organizer Baldemar Velasquez and health expert Christine Horner. A former mayor of Cleveland, Kucinich…
Why Not Dennis Kucinich?
What if the President of the United States were a vegan? You can imagine the Republican attack ads if U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Cleveland) won the Democratic nomination: "He masticates … in public … with fruits and vegetables. Is that the kind of America you want?" Beloved of Shirley McClaine and endorsed by Willie Nelson,…
Cover Story: Persons of the Year: Healing the Hurt
Jymi Bolden and Sean Hughes It's exactly the kind of office you'd expect for this grassroots political organization. The donated space has four or five old desks, a few computers, some telephones. Hand-written posters and low-tech maps are taped to the walls. The heat could probably work a little better. But Citizens to Restore Fairness…
Body Talk
The Body Talk System was developed in 1995 by Dr. John Veltheim, an Australian chiropractor and acupuncturist. It's a non-invasive, natural healing technique that doctors, nurses, massage therapists, naturopaths and physical therapists as well as laypeople can learn to help synchronize and balance the body/mind. It's completely safe and can be used with any health…
Television and Radio: Spaced Out
Lost in Space started out good, but then it went bad. Successful science fiction is hard, especially on television. Two recent DVD releases from 20th Century Fox help define that. Lost in Space: The Complete First Season (on CBS, 1964-1965) and Firefly: The Complete Series (14 episodes that aired on Fox in 2002) show that…
Ohio’s Unknown Favorite Son
Imagine how frustrating the political process must seem to Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who wraps up a tour of the Buckeye State with a rally Wednesday at the University of Cincinnati before heading off for stints in California, Minnesota and Massachusetts and a return to Ohio for Super Tuesday on March 2. Most people have…
Tasting your way through a world of wine
Wine lovers, mark your calendars! The granddaddy of local tastings, the annual CINCINNATI INTERNATIONAL WINE FESTIVAL, is fast approaching, bringing together wines and wine lovers for the 13th consecutive year. Created in 1991, the festival now ranks as one of the Midwest's largest wine and food events: 600 wines from 125 wineries are slated for…
A woman finds truth in the myth of female ejaculation
When I was young, I naively assumed that since male orgasm was accompanied by ejaculation female orgasm must be too. When I fnally asked a friend about "girl come," I was corrected. So for years I ignored talk of female ejaculation, just as I ignore talk of Bigfoot sightings. But now I've found myself wondering…
Music: Death Becomes Them
Dale M. Johnson Death in Graceland find common ground in Punk and pizza. An old friend once related his version of Jimi Hendrix's final moments. "Yeah, he choked on his own puke, but Clapton was there making sure he stayed on his back, and Keith Richards was giving the ambulance driver bad directions. They couldn't…
Good Nude vs. Bad Nude
Washed-up TV actress Linda Gray drops her clothes as Mrs. Robinson on the U.S. tour of Broadway comedy The Graduate, including her 12-day run last December at the Aronoff Center, and no administrators at downtown's performing arts facility bats an eye. Which is fine and fair. This highbrow striptease — a winking gesture to the…
