Upcoming Concert revies of Herculaneum, All That Remains and More…
HerculaneumSound.com Herculaneum HERCULANEUM Saturday · The Comet Probably the "exploratory young Jazz player" capital of America, Chicago has an exciting Free/Avant-Garde Jazz scene that shows no signs of drying up any time soon. At least if relative newcomers Herculaneum are any indication. The quintet formed in 2002 and features members who have worked in…
Don’t Take the People’s Stairs
I read the CityBeat article about 15 households that were holding a set of public steps hostage ("Controlling the Stairs," issue of Jan. 31) and City Councilwoman Leslie Ghiz, who was going along with and helping their cause. All I can say is: Are you kidding me? How can 15 out of several thousand households…
News to Use
Where is King's Dream? Martin Luther King III and Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) headline the panel discussion, "Where is the Dream Today: Reflections on Civil Rights Activism Past and Present." The program is at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Cintas Center at Xavier University. Admission is free, but seating is limited. To make reservations,…
News: Sexual Harassment & Legalese
Woodrow J. Hinton Hearing someone say "I hope you don't think I'm coming on to you" could be a straightforward statement of fact. Couple that with "I do wish I was younger and not married, I would love to go out with you," and a question creeps in about which comment is the truth.…
Limited Choice
Oliver Meinerding At last month's Consumer Electronics Show, Disney chief Bob Iger said, "From my perspective, the best way to combat piracy is to bring content to market on a well-timed, well-priced basis." Holy crap! The media giant has awakened to 21st-century reality! Surely end-times are near! While the "Music Choice" channels on Time…
News: Finally Ready for a Ceasefire
Cincinnati's political leaders hope it's a case of better late than never when it comes to trying to duplicate the success locally of a plan used in Boston and more than a dozen other cities nationwide to significantly reduce gun violence and crime. At the urging of community activists, university researchers and local physicians, Cincinnati…
The Winter’s Tale
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Corinne Mohlenhoff is Hermione in Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's production of The Winter's Tale. It's not often that a classic theater like CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY gets to present a premiere, but this week it's pretty close to that: For the first time in the company's history, they're staging Shakespeare's infrequently produced romance…
Film: A Performance of Beauty
Miramax Peter O'Toole and Jodie Whittaker star in director Roger Michell's Venus. Maurice (Peter O'Toole) is a highly regarded, aging British actor in a familiar, Odd Couple-esque relationship with Ian (Leslie Phillips), his doddering best friend and a fellow thespian from back in the day. It's obvious that Maurice was the swinging lady-killer with…
Step Up, Step Back, Step Up Again
Graham Lienhart These Walnut Hills area residents wanted a hillside stairway kept open despite complaints from homeowners at the top of the stairs. Score one for grassroots community activism against big bucks contributors to Cincinnati City Council, at least for now. Defying council's wishes, the city's planning commission recently voted to keep a public…
Web Onstage: Still Ticking
Several people have asked me what 1:23 is about. Carson Kreitzer's new play, premiering this month at the Cincinnati Playhouse, could be seen as one of those yanked-from-the-headlines pieces, since it was inspired by three women who drowned their children. But it was not intended to scandalize. I've been hesitant to say much about the…
Locals Only: : Eat Sugar
Eat Sugar Eat Sugar Eat Sugar plays above the good stuff. Their wrought iron shambles and blood-red carpet sanctify the sounds: upbeat and dancey, no real method abounds. Bassist Jim Reynolds can't really explain it, so he just smiles and shoves his hands into the pockets of his beaten leather jacket. "We're great," he…
Around The Bend
Semantics Gallery Sara Mulhauser's "Atlanta" is currently on view at Semantics Gallery. It's not often that the worlds of art and NASCAR collide (it's a first for me, in fact) so you won't want miss the latest installation at SEMANTICS GALLERY (1107 Harrison Ave., Brighton) where artists SARA MULHAUSER and CHRIS HENNIG present Around…
Willful Ignorance As Editorial Policy
When President Bush invoked British support for his casus belli, American editors couldn't run enough of it. Now, too many resist British revelations that challenge White House judgment, suggesting editors enjoy willful ignorance at our expense. They ignored BBC's allegation that a Blair aide "sexed up" intelligence to justify the war. They were blind to…
News: Cars on the Cheap and in a Hurry
Trevor Sears George Graves, who owns 500 Auto Sales in Fairmount, says "buy here, pay here" dealerships generate lots of repeat customers. Margie Williams, a 55-year-old Over-the-Rhine grandmother, knows what it's like to be without personal transportation. When she went to a local used car lot several years ago, she didn't own a car…
Music: Magnetic Storm
Joshua Kessler After losing a key member, the long-running Apples in Stereo put together a new lineup to support their just- released album, New Magnetic Wonder. As a musician who, on the new Apples In Stereo CD New Magnetic Wonder, introduces a new musical scale that he's invented, it's not surprising to hear Robert…
Diner: Carnivore Heaven
Last week at Amor de Brazil Fiery Steakhouse in Mason, when our server leaned toward us and asked, "Would you like to hold on to your meat disk?" I knew I had just found my favorite new restaurant. I've never used a meat disk before. Owned by Al Copeland, and taking the place of once…
Living Out Loud: : Me? A Blogger?
This time last year, if you were to ask me if I wanted to be a blogger, I would have said you were damn crazy. Sure, there are some blogs I read and frequent almost everyday, but me doing it? Being responsible for keeping it running? Writing for it? No fucking way. I'm much too…
Blume In Love (Warner Home Video)
Blume In Love 1973, Rated R This is one of the best movies from one of the 1970s' finest and most underappreciated auteurs, Paul Mazursky. But it's a strange movie to release for the first time on DVD as part of a Valentine's Day promotion, which is what the distributor is doing, for there…
Cover Story: ‘Can I Lick Your Face?’
J.D. Cutter Love & Sex Survey Love and sex — they're our most private experiences, yet they're almost always shared with another person. Or several people, sometimes at once. When it comes to talking about love and sex, most of us clam up. We're often unable to talk even to our lovers about the…
Onstage: Forces at Work
Playhouse In The PArk Finger on the pulse: Playwright Carson Kreitzer draws inspirations from newsworthy subjects. Carson Kreitzer doesn't take playwriting lightly. "I think I write plays rather than picking up a gun," she tells me in a recent conversation about her upcoming world premiere, 1:23, opening this week at Cincinnati Playhouse in the…
Onstage: Twist and Shout
Sandy Underwood Dennis Parlato stars as Michael, a self-proclaimed "hack novelist," in ETC's Fiction. Admired novelist Linda Waterman (Amy Warner) tells a class of writing students that her most respected teacher once said, "The lies begin when we lift the pen." The distance between lies and fiction isn't all that far, it appears, and…
All Keyed Up
Local trio Trifectafunk celebrate the release of their new self-titled EP (the group's second effort) this Friday at the East End Café. Locals The Rumpke Mountain Boys and Headband also perform. The band follows up that show with an in-store performance at Everybody's Records in Pleasant Ridge at 2 p.m. Saturday. Though only three tracks…
Colts’ Super Bowl Win Makes Bengals’ Road Even Tougher
Jerry Dowling After the NFL and the old AFL split the first four Super Bowls, the merger took hold in 1970 with its two conferences on equal footing. But the footing has never remained equal. The 1970s belonged to the AFC, which won nine of the first 11 Super Bowls following the merger. Those…
Get Something Out of This
by WILLIAM BRASHEAR What are you trying to get out of this? Whatever it is, could you do whatever it is you're doing without trying to get something out of it? Hmmm, what would that be like? Well, if you succeed in this discipline in trying to achieve non-trying, you will know what meditation is…
Walking the Hills
"A green Christmas makes for a fat graveyard," my Aunt Dot used to say a long time ago, waving her crooked index finger at anyone who'd listen. It was her explanation for why people sickened and died even in mild winters. According to her logic, if December wasn't cold enough to freeze the virus germs,…
Food, drink, etc.
The Place There's a new chef in the house — or should I say houses? The Palace has a new executive chef, Romuald Jung. Chef Romy will begin introducing patrons to his new winter and spring menus as specials on the current menu. Mark Bowers, who has worked as chef at the Cincinnati Zoo and…
