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Madisonville The Unsung Heroes Recognition Dinner is at All Saints Coffee House, 5910 Madison Road, from 3:30-6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $20. Honorees range from city council members to little known teachers and grandmothers. To nominate someone, call 513-852-9893, leaving the person's name and your phone number. The person who chooses to honor a "hero"…
Aromatherapy and Essential Oils
For thousands of years, essential oils have been prized by many cultures for their healing abilities. There's evidence dating back as far as 1500 BC that the Egyp-tians had a high success rate in treating diseases with more than 800 herbal prescriptions found in the Ebers Papyrus. The recognized father of aromatherapy is Rene-Maurice Gallefosse,…
Annette Shepherd’s The Perils of Iva is a family affair
Annette Shepherd Many artists describe the writing, recording and production of their first CD as something akin to the birthing process, analogizing the bittersweet joy, pain and frustrations that many expectant mothers feel with the agonizing, cathartic experience of seeing their own little musical labor of love finally set loose upon the world. No…
Whirlygig: 12
I've always wanted to be a table-for-two canoodler on Valentine's Day. I never have been. Between a history of January break-ups and of dating boys who say they don't recognize the holiday, I've never celebrated Valentine's Day. Nope, not since the days it meant tearing into my red-construction-paper-heart-covered box and reading my store-bought valentines…
News: Ujima Gets the Ax
Jymi Bolden In recent years, the Jazz festival has been a flash point for racial conflict, as when downtown restaurants closed their doors. Ujima Cinci-Bration, the free downtown celebration of African-American heritage, has ended. Cincinnati City Council has cut funding for Ujima and given the money to the promoters of the annual Jazz festival…
Cover Story: Even More Savage
Editor's Note: Due to space constraints, CityBeat runs about two-thirds of the Savage Love available to us each week. Yes, there's more savage advice out there in the ether that you haven't seen yet. To celebrate love and Vanlentine's Day, here's a sampling of Savage Love's Missed Hits. Enjoy! I am a 31-year-old straight…
Robert Cohen’s Inspired Sleep
Robert Cohen isn't sure what's different about a book tour for the paperback release of a book as compared to the tour for the original hardcover release. "To be honest, I've never done it before," he says. "My first novels, when they came out in paperback, the last thing the publishers wanted to do…
Diner: Wunderbar
In the mood for love? I've got the place for you and the object of your affection: Vito's Café, in Fort Thomas, Ky., found in the pleasant dining space occupied recently by Chez Alphonse. Their Italian cuisine is excellent, but the restaurant you'll likely recall is Vito's spiritual ancestor, Forest View Gardens. That longtime…
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart As a high school dropout and teen mother who began her musical career in her late thirties (and in the shadow of her brother, Steve), Stacey Earle has plenty to write songs about. Most often likened to Nanci Griffith, her vulnerable, little-girl voice has a tell-it-like-it-is survivor's edge. And…
Why Isn’t Mike Allen Guilty of Contempt of Court?
Did what law-and-order types call a "technicality" keep Hamilton County Prosecutor Michael Allen from facing contempt of court charges? In October, Common Please Judge Norbert Nadel said he would seal a statement given police by a defendant in the morgue photo case (see Morbid Subject issue of Oct. 18-24, 2001). But Allen then proceeded to…
Next Steps in Northside
The first time I heard about Crazy Ladies Bookstore was at my friend Sally's house. I am not sure why it came up in our conversation, considering we were probably in seventh and eighth grades at the time. Sally's mother, a midwife by profession, was and still is active in women's health issues and bought…
No Justice, No Peace
"No Justice, No Peace," the signs say at various protest rallies. But what exactly do they mean? To me, they suggest that real peace won't be at hand in Cincinnati until justice is available to all its people. OK, then what exactly are "peace" and "justice?" Peace is more than simply the absence of conflict.…
Chocolate Genius
Painter Ken Leslie wields paintbrushes like Miles Davis brandished his trumpet. Davis, himself a fledgling painter, blew flaming notes from the bell of his horn — notes that appear to listeners as strokes of paint filling empty spaces. Leslie, a trumpeter who waffled between art and music as a child, manipulates paint — wrestles it,…
