News: Cop Test
J.D. Cutter Do you have what it takes to be a Cincinnati Police officer? One part of the assessment process is a multiple-choice test. The questions don´t require specific police or law enforcement knowledge but are designed to test the knowledge, skills and abilities that are predictive of successful performance as police officers. Following…
Cover Story: The Final Year
J. Patrick Moynahan Click here for The Post's full operations timeline. Deadlines are the great motivator of the newsroom. Reporters and editors live by them. Now The Cincinnati Post faces its last and most important deadline: What to do with the final year of publication? We asked top journalists — some of them former…
Film: The Force Be With Him
Samuel Goldwyn Films Ioan Gruffudd is 19th-century British abolitionist Willliam Wilberforce in Amazing Grace. Barely two sentences into my phone interview with actor Ioan Gruffudd and his thickly sweet accent has disrupted my concentration completely. It doesn't help that just the night before he rang me up to talk about his new film, Michael…
A Life Supreme
During my senior year at Penn, I stumbled across a listing for a memorial concert sponsored by some members of the Coltrane family operating out of the West Philadelphia row house that had belonged to the legendary saxophonist. As an eager Jazz enthusiast intent on connecting with the legacy of a fellow North Carolina homie…
Border Radio (Criterion Collection)
Border Radio 1987, Rated R Allison Anders has directed two of the better movies made about the Rock & Roll lifestyle — Grace of My Heart and Sugar Town. You can see just how deep her feel for the subject matter runs in this "lost" film, made while she and co-directors/writers Dean Lent and…
Open Bullpen Might Ruin it for the Reds
Jerry Dowling As always, the coming of spring awakens hope in a young man's heart, although, after enough springs, a young man becomes an old man and the questions weigh more than the hopes. Who's going to emerge from the Reds bullpen to finish off victories in the eighth and ninth innings? What can…
Perceptions of Mental Illness Can Prove Deadly
In Los Angeles last week, a 24-year-old man was shot three times in the chest and killed by a Los Angeles police officer. The man, who lived in a 15-person psychiatric facility, had schizophrenia. He was carrying a screwdriver and, when ordered to drop it, ran from the police. They chased him and, when he…
Diner: Soulful Fixture
Joe Lamb Myra's Dionysus Where were you in 1977? Mourning the death of Elvis Presley? Sitting through the New York blackout? Maybe you were just a twinkle in your daddy's eye. Myra Griffin, owner of Myra's Dionysus, was embarking on a new career as a restaurateur. Myra's opened 30 years ago, and other than…
Music: Walk of a Lifetime
Cincinnati Arts One of the most popular World music acts on the planet, Ladysmith Black Mambazo use their success to help others. Twenty years ago, Albert Mazibuko had a hard time getting to a gig in his home nation of South Africa. At the time, the country was under apartheid, a government-instituted practice of…
Jason Bruffy
Degracias Lerma Chris Guthrie is the title character in Know Theatre's reworking of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Asked why he'd undertake to present Hamlet, JASON BRUFFY, Know Theatre of Cincinnati's ambitious artistic director, flashes a sly smile as he says, "If you're going to take a stab at reinventing a classic, why not go for the…
Cover Story: The Light Dims
Geoff Raker The corporate motto for Cincinnati-based media chain E.W. Scripps Co. is "Give light and the people will find their own way," which the lighthouse logo has come to symbolize. The lighthouse can be seen on the front page of every issue of The Post. Click here for The Post's full operations timeline.…
Onstage: Shtick vs. Schmaltz
If you're looking to warm up during February, you could do worse than heading to Northern Kentucky University's Corbett Theatre for the spirited production of Urinetown. There's enough energy onstage to melt snow. I suspect this irreverent, tongue-in-cheek musical will become a staple on college and university stages in the future. That's good and bad,…
20th Annual ‘Minumental’ Exhibition
Art Academy of Cincinnati Nathan Turner's "Scrimshaw/Piano Key" is part of the Art Academy's annual Minumental exhibition. It's not too late to catch one of the longest continually running arts exhibitions in the area: the ART ACADEMY's (1212 Jackson St., Over-the-Rhine) 20th Annual Minumental Exhibition. Each year, this distinctive showcase highlights hundreds of pieces…
Cover Story: The Deal That Changed Everything
Click here for The Post's full operations timeline. The Cincinnati Post had more weekday circulation in the mid-1970s than today's Cincinnati Enquirer, when it convinced the Justice Department it was a failing newspaper that needed to form a cartel with The Enquirer to survive. That's what it got when The Post and Enquirer entered a…
News to Use
Peace Talks Gateways to Healing in Mount Lookout presents a workshop Feb. 23 and 24 on nonviolent communication. Jeff Brown, a trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, leads the program, "Communicating with Compassion: Using nonviolent communication to create peace & harmony in your life." The workshop meets from 7-9:30 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m.…
Ode to the Egg
Our bodies have a mind of their own when it comes to food cravings. Our biological clocks always seem to be in tune with the season, and winter is the time of soups, stews and roasted vegetables. Maybe it's like the panda's thumb — an evolutionary throwback from a time when our food source was…
Film: Junk Cinema
New Line Cinema You lookin' at me?: Jim Carrey stars as a deranged, sax- playing killer in The Number 23. Joel Schumacher, the same director who stank up cinemas with 8MM and The Phantom of the Opera, hits a new low with debut screenwriter Fernley Phillips' hackneyed script about a could-be killer obsessed with…
Scott Kelly
Last week, just before the Cincinnati area was blanketed with ice, I walked into the Duveneck Gallery on the second floor of THE CARNEGIE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER in Covington. I was immediately enveloped by the warm scent of spices — perfect timing on a cold, dreary February day. Part of The Carnegie's…
Living Out Loud: : Journal — February 13, 2007
4:00 a.m. — I get out of bed pretty much at the normal time. Spend about an hour or so drinking coffee and working on my novel. I do my best writing in the morning, or so I lie to myself. 5:00 a.m. — Feed my cat Phoebe. 5:10 a.m. — I put up a…
Don’t Speak Ill of the City
Regarding the letter "Can't Figure Us Out" (issue of Jan. 31), the writer implies that people residing in Cincinnati can't recognize things that are wrong in the city. I see things wrong with Cincinnati: a high crime rate, lack of shopping centers and insufficient parking space. I also see the benefits of living in Cincinnati:…
Tommy Womack — There, I Said It! (Cedar Creek)
Tommy Womack — There, I Said It! Middle-life crises don't come any bigger than Tommy Womack's back in 2003. The former Bis-Quits/Government Cheese guitarist enjoyed a middling Americana solo career (great albums, little acclaim) when he mistook his dwindling opportunities for the end of his gig. To compound matters, Womack's wife lost her job…
Jesse Malin — Glitter In The Gutter (Adeline/East West)
Jesse Malin — Glitter In The Gutter Singer/songwriter Jesse Malin left his trash-brat frontman gig with D Generation with the intent of making an intimate little acoustic solo album. But producer/pal Ryan Adams convinced him to get in touch with his inner Ramone on his 2003 debut, The Fine Art of Self Destruction. The…
Cover Story: Why The Post Mattered
Click here for The Post's full operations timeline. Before they moved, they worked at that majestic building at 800 Broadway on the eastern edge of downtown. They arrived at a time when old-school journalism was becoming new, when The Front Page was giving way to All the President's Men. Those who had embarked on careers…
Upcoming Concert Review of Yonder Mountain String Band, The Devil Wears Prada and More…
Aaron Farrington Younder Mountain String Band YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND Thursday · Madison Theater Subgenres in music are always interesting in the messages they send. If it's anything with "Core" attached to the end, you know to stay away if you're not into the more brutal, aggro side of Rap, Punk or Metal. "Neo…
Money Mark — Brand New By Tomorrow (Brushfire)
Money Mark – Brand New By Tomorrow If you're even a casual Beastie Boys fans, chances are you know Money Mark. Mark and his keys played a pivotal role in the group's sonic restructuring in 1992 on Check Your Head by adding much of the Soul/Jazz/Funk groove that dominated the album (and its follow-up,…
Cover Story: When Nouns and Verbs Were Enough
Gordon Baer The Post linotype operator John Eckstein with a gaggle of summer interns, 1967. Click here for The Post's full operations timeline. When I was at The Post all through the 1960s, we were playing out the closing act of an era we associate now only with the likes of Citizen Kane and…
Music: In a Meadow Mood
Soleil Konkel Singer/songwriter Richard Buckner's creative process involves recordingsnippets of song ideas on the road, then piecing together the results later. Richard Buckner is not a planner by nature. The downcast singer/songwriter might mention that he's thinking two or three albums into the future beyond his latest album Meadow, but that could all change…
Can a Democrat Hold a Republican Party?
Jeff Berding Jeff Berding, who calls himself a Democrat, is a GOP favorite. When Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Berding, a Democrat, planned a campaign fund-raiser to mark his 40th birthday, the host committee read like a Who's Who of Republican corporate power brokers. The list, circulated via e-mail, is being cited by Berding's critics…
Rumors, Lies and General Misunderstandings
· We were sad to learn of the passing of a local musician this past weekend. Bruce Willis, drummer for the local cover band Saving Stimpy (who play current Rock hits at clubs all over the area), was found dead on Feb. 18 in a wooded area in Independence, Ky. Willis and his band had…
Locals Only: : view-finder
Andrew Higley view-finder News flash! Local band view-finder is not reuniting. Possibly because they never broke up. Despite two years of complete dormancy in terms of shows and releases, the Indie Rock quartet have continued to collaborate, albeit at a very casual pace. So, what have they been doing during their non-hiatus? Enjoying a…
Horntones
HOT Pimp My Horn Now that "ringtones" have their own chart in Billboard, we could be just around the corner from having a Top 10 "horntone" chart. A hardware engineer from California is taking pre-orders for his new invention, the FX-550 Horntone, which looks like a satellite radio and is capable of uploading MP3s. There…
News: Difficult Dialogue
Natalie Hager Chains play a prominent role in Keely and Du, but Xavier University's production of the controversial play will launch an unrestricted discussion about abortion, according to Cathy Springfield, director of theater arts for the Catholic institution. Pro-life/pro-choice, anti-choice/anti-life, pro-abortion/anti-abortion — regardless of the terms used, abortion is one of the most hotly…
