Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2016
Just Don’t Do It: How Religious Organizations Spread Dangerous Misinformation Through Sex-Ed Programs in Public Schools
Nonprofit Spotlight: Urban Blooms
Tyler Wolf and Lily Turner, co-founders of Urban Blooms, recently built the largest living wall in Ohio. The two Walnut Hills High School graduates started the nonprofit two years ago and have been amazed with the outpouring of support and interest they have seen from Cincinnati communities thus far. Urban Blooms specializes the design, installation…
Music: Jukebox the Ghost
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Jukebox the Ghost is touring despite not releasing a record of new material in nearly two years. By their own calculations, the Washington, D.C. trio of vocalist/pianist Ben Thornewill, guitarist Tommy Siegel and drummer Jesse Kristin has played “almost 1,000 shows” since unveiling its full-length debut, Let Live…
Sound Advice: Jukebox the Ghost with Mainland
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Jukebox the Ghost is touring despite not releasing a record of new material in nearly two years. By their own calculations, the Washington, D.C. trio of vocalist/pianist Ben Thornewill, guitarist Tommy Siegel and drummer Jesse Kristin has played “almost 1,000 shows” since unveiling its full-length debut, Let Live…
Bummers Eve Shows Noisy Brilliance on Debut
Less than three years ago, Cincinnati trio Bummers Eve played its first show (a party in Northside), and since then the Psych/Rock/Garage/Punk crew has worked the road hard to build its name. The progress the band was making in a relatively short period of time hit a potential momentum killer last year when singer/guitarist Michael…
Hands-On Learning
D aniel Pujol is a restless, uncommonly curious guy. The rural Tennessee native who now calls Nashville home has immersed himself in a whirlwind of activity since debuting his slanted Rock & Roll outfit Pujol in 2010, writing, recording and touring at a pace foreign to all but the most committed of DIY obsessives. Pujol…
Art: Cotton or Fruit/Flowers at Live(In) Gallery
Partners and co-directors of their own apartment-based art venue in Chicago, Kitchen Space, artists and independent curators Traci Fowler and Trevor Schmutz will have an opening reception of their collaborative work at Live(In) Gallery in Brighton. The two worked collaboratively yet individually to construct an exhibition in which they will “reveal themselves to one another…
Art: Look Here! Curator Walk
Look Here!, an outdoor, site-specific photo installation project throughout Over-the-Rhine, is coming to an end. Join curator Anne Delano Steinert on a walk and talk to discuss 15 or so signs, each exhibiting a historical photograph (taken between the late 19th century and the 1940s) juxtaposed with its current location to allow viewers to compare…
Event: Cincinnati Pints and Whiskers Beard and Mustache Competition
Rhinegeist is teaming up with Dayton, Ohio’s Whiskermen Beard Company to present the Pints and Whiskers Beard and Mustache Competition. There will be Rhinegeist beer on tap and your choice of ping pong or cornhole. Registration begins at 4 p.m.; judging takes place at 6 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for Best Beard, Best Mustache…
Event: Bockfest
Forget Punxsutawney Phil. There’s only one sure way to foretell the coming of spring, and that’s Bockfest, Cincinnati’s annual celebration of bock beer and the city’s brewing history. The festival returns this weekend for its 24th year, officially commencing with the Bockfest Parade. Traditionally led by the reigning Sausage Queen (plus some goats pulling a…
Event: Cincinnati International Wine Festival
Support 35 local charities by sampling more than 700 new, rare and exciting wines from hundreds of wineries around the world. In addition to samples, winemakers and winery representatives will share their knowledge of the art of winemaking, and wine tasters can also enjoy gourmet food and a silent auction. Entry to a special tasting…
Event: GemStreet USA Show and Sale
Shoppers can browse a colorful showcase of precious and semi-precious stones, and kiddos can learn how to identify fossils, minerals and rocks and receive free treasures to take home. Professor Amanda Hunt of the University of Cincinnati’s Clermont College geology department displays equipment and specimens that focus on Earth science. She will also demonstrate mineral…
Art: A.J. Weber at Mary Ran Gallery
Mary Ran Gallery is opening a show that brings to light an interesting Cincinnati painter of the past, A. J. Weber. After graduating from the Art Academy in 1914, Weber moved from a conservative Realism style toward Expressionism and even abstraction. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum and the Corcoran…
Comedy: Josh Wolf
“I’ve always wanted to do it, but it probably happened because I had a little bit of a resume,” says Josh Wolf about his late-night talk show on CMT. “I don’t do interviews with celebrities for a couple of reasons. One, I’m not big enough to get celebrities that anyone cares about. Two, I feel…
Onstage: Jason Alexander: An Evening of Comedy and Song
He’s back, baby! Before taking on the iconic role of Seinfeld’s George Costanza, Jason Alexander was taking Broadway by storm, receiving the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his 1989 performance in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. This weekend, he’s teaming up with the Cincinnati Pops for a retelling of his journey to…
Event: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey come to town this weekend, celebrating 145 years as the “greatest show on Earth.” The thematic Circus Xtreme will include BMX bike stunts and bouncy street-style parkour, a human cannonball, exotic tigers, Asian elephants and athletic acrobats, plus the notorious Clown Alley. Thursday-Sunday. $16-$75. U.S. Bank Arena, 100 Broadway…
Music: Maple Stave
The name of the new release from Post Punk trio Maple Stave is V, representing the band’s fifth recording, but the number five is significant for the 13-year-old threesome for another reason. Five years ago, Maple Stave slightly fractured when guitarist Andy Hull relocated first to Washington, D.C., then to San Francisco. But Hull still…
Onstage: Newsies
Low expectations and high results — that’s the story of Newsies, about a ragged band of New York newsboys in 1899 who fought back against publishing titans and won. It’s also the path the 2012 musical followed on Broadway. It was intended to be onstage for just a few months that year, but it gained…
Film: Cinema in the City
Cinema in the City is the title of a three-film series, beginning tonight at the Esquire Theatre, which looks at how classic films portray urban living. It is presented by the University of Cincinnati’s Center for Film and Media Studies and DAAP’s School of Planning, and there will be a discussion after the screening. Tonight’s…
Morning News and Stuff
Happy Super Tuesday, Cincinnati. Here are your morning headlines. A shooting at Madison Junior/Senior High School in Butler County yesterday left two teenagers with non-life threatening injuries. According to witnesses, yesterday morning around 11 a.m., freshman James Austin Hancock started firing a gun in the lunchroom. Hancock luckily did not fatally injure anyone and reportedly…
Playhouse in the Park Announces 2016-2017 Season
On Monday evening, Blake Robison, artistic director at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, announced the shows he has selected for the theater’s 2016-2017 season. In an earlier conversation about the 10 works to be presented, Robison told me why he’s excited about the coming year. “This hits all the programming areas that we talk…
A Witty Dose of Jane Austen at Cincy Shakes
Critic's Pick Jane Austen. Her name spells theater magic in the 21st century. Stage an adaptation of one of her early 19th-century novels, and you will fill theater seats. Beyond Shakespeare, Austen is, in fact, surely the most widely recognized figure in English literature. So it’s no surprise that Cincinnati Shakespeare Company has embarked on…
Primary Cheat Sheet: Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz (Republican) Fun Fact: Whether you agree with Ted Cruz’s policy or not, this Texas senator is highly educated — graduating from two Ivy league schools. Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Public Policy, we went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard Law School with a Juris…
Morning News and Stuff
Hey all! Hope your weekend was a good one. Here’s your news today. Recent funding shifts by Cincinnati city administration away from a prominent anti-blight organization have caused a rift between the city and the group’s supporters. Cincinnati City Manager Harry Black earlier this month informed City Council and Mayor John Cranley that he would…
Your Weekend To Do List (2/26-2/28)
FRIDAY ONSTAGE: EMMA Pretty much all you need to do to sell theater tickets these days is attach Jane Austen’s name to a show. No zombies in Emma à la the current film adaptation Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but Cincinnati Shakespeare is on the bandwagon with another stage adaptation by Jon Jory, the longtime…
Morning News and Stuff
Good morning, Cincinnati! Here are your morning headlines. Two top officials at Cincinnati's VA Medical Center have landed in hot water with the The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. On Thursday, The feds removed Dr. Barbara Temeck, the chief of staff for the medical center, from her position. Officials from the department also proposed that…
Stage Door
There’s an exciting array of theater on local stages this weekend, a perfect time to check out a live performance before you settle in for the Academy Awards on Sunday night. It seems that all a theater needs to do these days is mention Jane Austen and fans line up for tickets. I’m sure that’s…
National Premieres for Cincy Rockers
A pair of Cincinnati Rock bands had new projects revealed today on a couple of popular and far-reaching music websites. Wussy’s music video for “Dropping Houses,” the first single from the band’s forthcoming Forever Sounds album, debuted on Stereogum this morning. The clip was made locally, directed by Lightborne’s Scott Fredette (who gets a shout-out…
Morning News and Stuff
Hey, hey all. Here’s the news today. Is an ongoing argument between the city of Cincinnati and Hamilton County about to cost users of the region’s Metropolitan Sewer District millions? That’s what City Manager Harry Black says. Black fired the next salvo in an ongoing tussle between the two governments yesterday when he announced that…
Bunbury Announces 2016 Lineup
This morning, organizers of the Bunbury Music Festival — which returns to Cincinnati’s riverfront (on stages throughout Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove) June 3-5 — announced the lineup for this year’s event. This is Bunbury’s second year under the ownership of Columbus, Ohio-based concert promoters PromoWest Productions and its fifth overall. Scheduled to perform at…
Slice of Cincinnati: Building Value
Customers entering Building Value in Northside are greeted by a yard of bathtubs, sinks and other home furnishings. It might seem like a graveyard for building materials, but these old home fixtures are awaiting a new life. This is confirmed by the set of child-sized lawn chairs by the store entrance. Upon closer inspection it’s…
Triple 9
John Hillcoat, the Australian director behind The Proposition and The Road, has proven quite adept at dark, violent thrillers stuffed to the gills with gritty and bloody anti-heroes, but with Triple 9 it feels like he’s hit the mother lode. Gathering a stacked deck of criminals and corrupt cops — played by the likes of…
A War
Denmark’s representative in the Best Foreign Language Film competition at this year’s Academy Awards arrives courtesy of writer-director Tobias Lindholm (A Hijacking, screenwriter for The Hunt) and wanders into the contemporary morass of wartime decisions. Claus (Pilou Asbæk), a company commander leading troops stationed in Afghanistan, and his wife, Maria (Tuva Novotny), navigate their lives…
Touched with Fire
Love, in the broader culture and society, often gets associated with madness, and has since the beginning of time. Writer-director Paul Dalio, emerging off the strength of a couple of shorts (Heartless and The Order), tackles this notion head-on in Touched With Fire, a drama about a pair of bipolar patients (Katie Holmes and Luke…
Gods of Egypt
Talk about counter-programming nightmares: Director Alex Proyas (The Crow and I, Robot) brings his gamer-like action-fantasy precision to this mythic adventure about a thief (Brenton Thwaites) who teams up with the Egyptian god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to save the land from Set (Gerard Butler), another far-more despotic god in the pantheon. While it is admirable…
Eddie the Eagle
There’s a truly loveable sense of relating to Eddie Edwards (Taron Egerton) as The Little Engine That Could. From the start of his highly improbable life, Eddie was an underdog, a sickly kid with dreams of competing at the Olympics. The young Brit stumbled upon ski jumping far later than most traditional competitors, but his…
Event: Hometown Hollywood Gala
People Working Cooperatively’s final Oscar celebration/fundraiser, the Hometown Hollywood gala, is themed “Back to Black and White,” and guests will be transported to old-world Hollywood. Formal black and white dress is a must for the red-carpet welcome. There will be themed entertainment, a three-course meal, silent and live auctions and a live telecast of the…
Event: Cincinnati Home and Garden Show
Those looking to remodel or build their own home (or simply pretend they’re at home in model kitchens and bathrooms) can head to the Duke Energy Convention Center this weekend for the Cincinnati Home and Garden show, which has helped Cincinnatians with their home, garden and building needs since 1969. The event features landscape and…
Film: The Oscars at The Esquire
Watch The Oscars in a theater setting at the Esquire as winners are announced live with host Michael Baldwin from FOX 19. Will Cate Blanchett win Best Actress in a Leading Role for the locally filmed Carol (also nominated for cinematography and costume design)? Will Leonardo DiCaprio finally take home a Best Actor Oscar? Along…
Music: Christian Sands
This season of the Xavier University Jazz Series has featured some truly remarkable and accomplished artists — like Chris Potter and Brian Newman — with even more great music on the horizon (Grammy favorite and Cincinnati native Fred Hersch plays April 3). This week, the series welcomes Christian Sands, a young piano virtuoso who has…
Event: Macy’s Arts Sampler
Dive into the vibrant world of local art and culture with the Macy’s Arts Sampler, a weekend festival featuring free performances and activities. Now in its 30th year, the annual ArtsWave-sponsored fest features a wide range of activities in art, music and more. Try a creative writing workshop at the downtown public library, a craft…
Event: Syrian Shrine Circus
The Syrian Shrine Circus returns this weekend for its 95th-annual family-friendly extravaganza. This three-ring circus will dazzle with death-defying aerial acts, animal attractions and the notoriously funny Shriner Circus clowns. Kids will also have the chance to ride and pet many different animals, including elephants, donkeys and camels, during intermission and after the performance. The…
Onstage: Shen Yun
China was once known as “The Middle Kingdom” and “The Land of the Divine,” said to be inhabited by heroes, sages, dragons, phoenixes and immortals. It was an era characterized by magic and splendor — an age that will be resurrected this weekend on the Aronoff stage. Shen Yun, the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and…
Music: Sam Baker
T he foreboding but rewarding complexity of Sam Baker’s music is evident in the statement near the top of his website’s homepage: “Everyone is at the mercy of another one’s dream.” Think about that. Aren’t dreams good things in the lexicon of singer/songwriters? In the arts, aren’t dreamers idealists? Yes, but one person’s “dream” can…
Event: 2016 A’cat’emy Awards Extravaganza
Falling just before the 88th Academy Awards is a similarly minded ceremony with a big, cat-centric cause. The Ohio Alleycat Resource & Spay/Neuter Clinic is rolling out the red carpet for its fifth-annual A‘cat’emy Awards Extravaganza, a glamorous night of cinematic feline frenzy. Guests will enjoy dinner and drinks in addition to movie trivia, Oscar…
Art: King Me at the Globe Gallery
Nina Wells, who goes by the artistic name Nina M Dot, opens her photographic exhibition at the Globe Gallery on Friday evening featuring lenticular portraits of local men of color contrasted with images of themselves dressed as kings. Wells aims to restore the perception of these men’s self-value by applying a what-you-see-is-what-you-become mindset. “It is…
Event: 30 Rocks! with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati
Over-the-Rhine theatrical and community mainstay, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, turns 30 this year, and to celebrate they’re hosting a birthday bash to remember. 30 Rocks! will feature theater, live music, cocktails and tasty bites from a ton of local eateries like The Delish Dish, Funky’s Catering, Gomez Salsa, Macaron Bar and more. The party kicks off…
Onstage: Emma
Pretty much all you need to do to sell theater tickets these days is attach Jane Austen’s name to a show. No zombies in Emma à la the current film adaptation Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but Cincinnati Shakespeare is on the bandwagon with another stage adaptation by Jon Jory, the longtime leader of Actors…
Event: The Art of Food
The “Mona Lisa” made of bread. A marshmallow dress toasted onsite. A gallery of glass toast. Since its debut a decade ago, The Art of Food exhibition at The Carnegie has continuously topped itself, evolving beyond visual art to wearable art and performance. But artist Pam Kravetz, who has organized an army of creatives for…
Event: QueerCon 2016
I f you search “social justice warrior” or “SJW” online, chances are you’ll see a lot of hate surrounding the term. It’s used pejoratively, a label for those who supposedly promote their socially progressive ideologies in aggressive and gratuitous ways. But that’s not what Kyle Shupe has in mind when it comes to the theme…
Comedy: Bengt Washburn
Since his last visit to Cincinnati, Bengt Washburn has discovered a few things about himself. “I’ll just keep talking with more confidence,” he says. “That’s also what you do when you get older. You don’t get wiser, you get cocky and stupid.” Last year, Washburn did a string of military shows in Europe, including Kosovo,…
Art: Jo Ann Callis
When Jo Ann Callis returns to her hometown Wednesday to give a FotoFocus lecture at the Cincinnati Art Museum, it will be as a Los Angeles photographer getting renewed attention for some groundbreaking erotic work done in the 1970s and then forgotten. In 2014, the Aperture Foundation published the book Jo Ann Callis: Other Rooms,…
Oscar Talk
Film awards season comes to a close this week with The Oscars (8:30 p.m. Sunday, ABC). Chris Rock returns to host the 88th Academy Awards celebration — he first took the gig in 2005. Leading in nominations are The Revenant (with 12 nominations), Mad Max: Fury Road (10), The Martian (seven), Carol, Spotlight and Bridge…
Appreciating the Art and Soul of Film Criticism
Last week, I joined the legion of readers descending, en masse, upon bookstores and Amazon for a chance to delve into New York Times film critic A. O. Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth. The book wastes no time, introducing the questions “What’s the point of criticism?”…
Tenth ‘Art of Food’ Brings the Farm to the Gallery
The “Mona Lisa” made of bread. A marshmallow dress toasted onsite. A gallery of glass toast. Since its debut a decade ago, The Art of Food exhibition at The Carnegie has continuously topped itself, evolving beyond visual art to wearable art and performance. But artist Pam Kravetz, who has organized an army of creatives for…
Revolutionary Theater
Uprisings, sassy utterances and insurrections are onstage at several Cincinnati theaters. The Revolutionists at the Cincinnati Playhouse and Avenue Q at the Incline Theater both evoke laughs, but their approaches and intentions are very different. The Playhouse continues to give women their due, with a second 2016 world premiere by a female playwright. Lauren Gunderson’s…
New Life for Old Works of Jo Ann Callis
When Jo Ann Callis returns to her hometown Wednesday to give a FotoFocus lecture at the Cincinnati Art Museum, it will be as a Los Angeles photographer getting renewed attention for some groundbreaking erotic work done in the 1970s and then forgotten. In 2014, the Aperture Foundation published the book Jo Ann Callis: Other Rooms,…
Social Justice Warriors
I f you search “social justice warrior” or “SJW” online, chances are you’ll see a lot of hate surrounding the term. It’s used pejoratively, a label for those who supposedly promote their socially progressive ideologies in aggressive and gratuitous ways. But that’s not what Kyle Shupe has in mind when it comes to the theme…
Is It Bockfest Yet?
It’s almost time for Bockfest, which is a sure sign spring is on its way. The March 4 kickoff includes the annual goat-led keg parade through Over-the-Rhine, culminating in a weekend of festivities celebrating Cincinnati’s German heritage, warm weather and Bock beer. Throughout the weekend, revelers will traverse the festive streets of OTR and downtown…
Opinion: Removing Central Parkway Bikeway Is a Bad Idea
Today, Cincinnati City Councilman Christopher Smitherman will introduce a motion to remove part of the Central Parkway Bikeway, citing safety concerns caused by confusion about parking along the route. But removing the lane doesn’t make any fiscal or safety sense. The city constructed those bike lanes mostly with a $500,000 federal grant. Removing them would…
Puerto-Cuban Street Eats
E l Camino co-owner Sean Morgan was manning the counter of the new (and packed) addition to Mount Lookout Square when I arrived with a friend for dinner on a Thursday night. Housed in the 1,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by brunch favorite Annabel’s, the restaurant is bright and cozy, with chalkboard menus and a casual…
Chartered Cruise
N early two decades ago, the state of Ohio set up a grand experiment that lawmakers said was an attempt to provide better educational opportunity in the state’s impoverished urban areas. In the intervening 19 years, some of the state’s 290 physical charter schools, which receive more than $1 billion a year from taxpayers, have…
Worst Week Ever! Feb. 17-23
Kase Dawg Realizes He Has Zero Shot of Becoming Prez, Refocuses Efforts on Fucking up Ohio Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s piss-poor showing in the South Carolina blah blah blah this week forced him to confront and accept the reality that he is less popular than Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. (Basically, he is…
Morning News and Stuff
Good morning all. Here’s the news today. Cincinnati City Councilman Christopher Smitherman is set to introduce a motion in today’s Council meeting asking that a portion of the Central Parkway Bikeway be removed. The stretch of bike lane, which separates cyclists from the road with vertical plastic barriers, was constructed in 2014. Cyclists cheered the…
Music: Bell Witch
“Suffocation, A Burial: 1 – Awoken (Breathing Teeth),” the first song on Bell Witch’s most recent album, 2015’s four-song Four Phantoms, is as foreboding as its title — 22 minutes of slow-motion bass riffs, odd moaning and narcotic drumming. If David Lynch were to make his version of hell, this would be playing while Dennis…
Sound Advice: Bell Witch with Wrekmeister Harmonies and Flesh Mother
“Suffocation, A Burial: 1 – Awoken (Breathing Teeth),” the first song on Bell Witch’s most recent album, 2015’s four-song Four Phantoms, is as foreboding as its title — 22 minutes of slow-motion bass riffs, odd moaning and narcotic drumming. If David Lynch were to make his version of hell, this would be playing while Dennis…
Music: Josh Ritter
Prolific singer/songwriter Josh Ritter’s eighth full-length studio album is rife with religious imagery, starting with its title, Sermon on the Rocks. Yet the Idaho native, who found his creative voice while at Oberlin College in Ohio in the late 1990s, says that wasn’t necessarily planned. “I oftentimes don’t know that stuff or notice that sort…
Sound Advice: Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band with Barnstar!
Prolific singer/songwriter Josh Ritter’s eighth full-length studio album is rife with religious imagery, starting with its title, Sermon on the Rocks. Yet the Idaho native, who found his creative voice while at Oberlin College in Ohio in the late 1990s, says that wasn’t necessarily planned. “I oftentimes don’t know that stuff or notice that sort…
Music: The Motet
Nearly two decades ago, drummer Dave Watts assembled a group of like-minded Jazz, Funk and AfroBeat players in Denver to create The Dave Watts Motet, a swinging combo that blended its collective love of R&B and Funk with a Jam and Rock mindset. By 2000, Watts had taken his name off the marquee and shortened…
Sound Advice: The Motet
Nearly two decades ago, drummer Dave Watts assembled a group of like-minded Jazz, Funk and AfroBeat players in Denver to create The Dave Watts Motet, a swinging combo that blended its collective love of R&B and Funk with a Jam and Rock mindset. By 2000, Watts had taken his name off the marquee and shortened…
Music: Rayland Baxter
DNA is no guarantee of talent — sometimes it skips a generation; sometimes the progeny of the musically gifted rebel against any expectations heaped upon them. But when the children of greatness embrace their roots and use them as a starting point to chart their own unique path, the results can be breathtaking. That could…
Sound Advice: Rayland Baxter
DNA is no guarantee of talent — sometimes it skips a generation; sometimes the progeny of the musically gifted rebel against any expectations heaped upon them. But when the children of greatness embrace their roots and use them as a starting point to chart their own unique path, the results can be breathtaking. That could…
A.M. Nice Celebrates Debut EP Release
Powerful Cincinnati trio A.M. Nice is finally hosting a hometown release concert in honor of its excellent self-titled debut EP, which was first made available late last year. The seven-track effort is available at amnice.bandcamp.com, where you can purchase a download or order the 12-inch vinyl or CD version from area label Phratry Records (the…
Out of Darkness Comes Light
T he foreboding but rewarding complexity of Sam Baker’s music is evident in the statement near the top of his website’s homepage: “Everyone is at the mercy of another one’s dream.” Think about that. Aren’t dreams good things in the lexicon of singer/songwriters? In the arts, aren’t dreamers idealists? Yes, but one person’s “dream” can…
Moon Music?
HOT: Moon Music? Were the astronauts on Apollo 10 being serenaded by aliens as they passed around the far side of the moon during their mission in 1969? Probably not, but there is still no good answer as to what the whistling “outer space-type music” (as one astronaut called it) they heard when normal radio…
Just Don’t Do It
S ix years ago, a charismatic speaker in his twenties visited Alexis Corcoran’s Sycamore Junior High School health class to teach lessons on sex-ed. The guest instructor enthusiastically taught the eighth-graders facts about contraception, relationships and sexually transmitted diseases in a series of presentations she still remembers today. It wasn’t until last year, during her…
