Diner: Caffeinate Your Pleasure
Hello, my name is Donna, and I am a javaholic. Hopelessly hooked to the devil's drink. Coffee crazy. I have no intention of trying to shake the habit, so please refrain from all offers of steps and sponsorship. Undoubtedly, after one uncaffeinated morning with me, you would be driving me to the nearest Starbucks yourself…
Osteopathic Healing
Carl Shapiro, DO, sees himself more as an educator than an interventionalist. He's an osteopathic physician, a fully licensed medical doctor who's board-certified in internal medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine. He's also trained in neurology, with an emphasis on disorders of the spine and peripheral nervous system. Shapiro's clinical practice is concerned…
Even Sportswriters Weary of the Pete Rose Act
He has only changed physically after 14 years — he is wider of girth, his hair is thinning and cropped short. He is, after all, 62 years old, almost two decades removed from that September evening in 1985 when he became Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader. He is older but not wiser, at least…
Music: Bam! 97X Is Sold
Jymi Bolden Doug and Linda Balogh are proud of their 23 years in Oxford and remain committed to keeping the 97X name synonymous with "Modern Rock." For many in Greater Cincinnati, Dayton and around the world, word of 97X's sale was a shock, like finding out a close friend had suddenly died. As the news…
Disposable Negroes of Hypocrisy
"Mammy: A term of insult. Never used in any other way by Negroes." — Glossary of Harlem Slang, Zora Neale Hurston Every day I write the book. I'm forced to churn out pop 'n fresh chapters like I do because black bitches like me are under attack. We are targeted. Everywhere I go and look,…
News to Use
Put Kissinger on Trial The International Socialist Organization shows the controversial documentary The Trials of Henry Kissinger at 5 p.m. Thursday in 127 McMicken Hall at the University of Cincinnati. The film documents Kissinger's role in some of the uglier examples of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. Thanks to the Bush administration's ugly…
Women masks feelings about boyfriend’s cross-dressing fetish
My boyfriend of four years enjoys wearing women's clothing and acting like a submissive woman when we have sex. Nothing gets him off more. We have only just started exploring his fetish in the past year because he's been ashamed of it all his life. I have encouraged him so far, and now we have…
Music: Almost Frozen
Ericka McIntyre The Fairmount Girls' ever-evolving lineup currently features (L-R) Erin Proctor, Mark Zero, Dana Hamblen and Melissa Fairmount. I have a Joker card in my hand. On the face of it, Dana Hamblen has written "Melissa Fairmount" and a phone number. She has invited me to travel with her band to Columbus for a…
Keep Enemies Closer
The uneasy dance between artists, many who view themselves as independent and politically correct, and corporations and governments, the majority of which these same artists deem corrupt, was broadcast live over cable TV as part of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival's closing night awards. Part of a festival-long marketing blitz a few notches shy of…
Cluth grabs hold of an intoxicating mixture
Clutch Clutch Wednesday · Bogart's Heavy and silly are like pumpkin pie and whipped cream: fine by themselves, but exquisite together. Clutch gets the mixture just right, bridging the gap between Kyuss and System of a Down. Mixing '70s Arena Rock riffs with intense funky flavors and humorous variations for over a decade, they manage…
Cover Story: Tour of Duty
Jymi Bolden Kathy Y. Wilson conducts a mini-tour with Al Williams at Sonny's Barbershop in Bond Hill. "The place where I come from is a small town/ They think so small/ They use small words But not me/ I'm smarter than that/ I worked it out I've been stretching my mouth/ To let those big…
News: East Beginning
Jymi Bolden Active in planning Cincinnati's "alpha school" are (L-R) Dee Fricker, Jay Parks, Darlene Kamine, Melody Dacey, John Van Volkenburgh and Betty Zink. Like students back from summer vacation, they pair off and lag behind, talking excitedly about the new school, about holiday parties, about the numbing January cold. But these aren't students, they're…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
Ryan Greis Why is the pig such an icon for Cincinnati? Why indulge in a Flying Pig Marathon or a Big Pig Gig? Once the nation's largest pork-packing center, the city earned the moniker "Porkopolis" and hogged it for the first half of the 19th century. Cincinnati slaughterhouses supplied the tables of the British Navy…
