Locals Only: : Twain A Comin’
James McKenna Marking Twain Not many bands can say that their debut gig was the Midpoint Music Festival. For Marking Twain, a stacked résumé probably helped. The band contains former members of local teenage Pop Rock phenoms Premium, but the deciding factor was more likely their catchy, groove-centric songs. With some new blood and…
Is Lust Enough?
I'm a married guy with a good job, a wonderful kid, and my wife's a good lady. The problem? Sex. She rarely wants/needs it, and when I can get her in the mood it's the same old, dull routine. Same position, I do all the work — she won't even touch my dick! — and…
Film: Less Is More
B-movie Buddha: Roger Corman's legacy continues to grow. It's not a matter of legendary producer and B-movie kingpin Roger Corman getting smaller after 50 years in show business. The Hollywood movies, many of them special effects-driven fantasies, keep getting bigger and bigger: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Ed Knight, Femme fatality and More…
Moonlight Towers EG Kight Friday · Aronoff Center If some concrete proof of EG Kight's legitimacy as a Blues artist is required, her five W.C. Handy nominations in the past two years should speak to her authenticity. But the Blues wasn't always Kight's primary focus; the self-proclaimed "Georgia Songbird" began her musical education in…
Cover Story: Sew Cool
Sew Cool Take a tape measure. Actually, take about 200 tape measures. Or a zipper. A 100-foot-long zipper. Or some dollar bills. Maybe a thousand of them. If you're artist Cat Chow, you make something unanticipated from any or all of these materials. Cat Chow — her first name is a mischievous shortening of…
News: Cheerios, Coffee and Psalms
Graham Lienhart (L-R) John Neiheisel and Michael Johnson are members of the Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey, adopting some of its 900-year-old spiritual practices. Michael Johnson of Cincinnati stood at the door of the 160-year-old abbey. A former Franciscan friar subsequently married with two children, he was a Catholic seeking something more than the…
News: More Than a School
Cameron Knight Principal Melody Dacey gushes about new programs at Riverview East Community Learning Center . The new Riverview East Academy on Kellogg Avenue is unusual — three large squares atop stilts that raise the building above the 100-year flood level. But what's going on inside is even more astounding. Educators, parents and the…
Living Out Loud: : The Chain Gangs
After 33 years of being part of Clifton's Gaslight District, New World Book Store has closed its doors. No longer will I be able to go in and browse for books, look over their quirky card selection or just bullshit with the friendly people who worked there. They were all excited about my book coming…
News: Street Talk
tminus321.com A scene on his camera phone shows filmmaker Terrance Huff filming a shot of himself. It's Friday night, and Terrance Huff is in his element as he and friend Jon Seaton set up a tripod and digital video camera on the sidewalk in front of a nondescript Kroger store in Hamilton. A father…
Off the Wall
It takes just three steps past the doorway of artist Rick Mallette's bungalow studio to hit its back wall. His galley workspace, the front room of a boxy Northside house, is comically compact. But good light comes through its south windows, and he's learned to work with few resources. These days Mallette considers himself a…
In Palmer’s Defense, the Bengals’ Defense Cost Them Again
Jerry Dowling So it ends, and the news is worse than expected — not just a Bengals loss but the loss of their quarterback. And now we enter a worried offseason while Carson Palmer rebuilds his left knee and Marvin Lewis keeps rebuilding a defense that would have spelled the end even if Palmer's…
Crimes of the Heart
James Czar Christopher Guthrie plays the lead role in Know Theatre Tribe's Judas Iscariot. In December 2004, Cincinnati actress Corinne Mohlenhoff was in a production of Crimes of the Heart at Dayton's Human Race Theatre, working with actress JENNIFER JOPLIN. Joplin hadn't performed on a Cincinnati stage at that point, although she had been…
Film: Fractured Fairy Tale
Rico Torres Doomed duo: Isolde (Sophia Myles) tends to her precious Tristan (James Franco Poets have been telling the story of the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde since the Middle Ages. Composer Richard Wagner put their love story to music in his influential 19th-century opera, which inspired German philosophers to construct…
Lessons in “Astronomy”
Locals Hierophant officially release their debut full-length, Popular Astronomy, on Friday at the Mad Hatter in Covington. In keeping with a "Friday the 13th" theme, the band is joined by The Thirteens and Le TechnoPUSS13S. The group's spark was first kindled over a decade ago when guitarist Chris Storms (then with legendary local trio Ditchweed)…
Boundaries
Do you feel like a doormat? Do you find yourself in uncomfortable relationships or situations because you can't say no or fear what others will think or do? You probably feel resentment, anger or self-hatred as a result. On the flip side, do you do whatever you please without regard for anyone else? Either way,…
Talk About the Passion
What a great story about Northside, one man's passion and the idea that Northside can be saved ("Leaping into Buildings in a Single Bound," issue of Jan. 4). Thanks for bringing Brian Mueller to the attention of all Greater Cincinnatians. — Peg Haustetter, Cincinnati Naked on the Square The rehab of Fountain Square is a…
Diner: Same Place, New Face
The tradition of food writing is to focus on the new. There is no obituary column for restaurants. I'd like to pay tribute to Carol's on Main, which closed its doors in October after 15 years in business in downtown Cincinnati. But convention has me turning my attention to the new name above Carol's old…
Support for Law Enforcement That Obeys the Rules
When you get past the mandatory cheerleading for the cops — a civic tradition not afforded garbage workers, street repair crews or most other municipal employees — the latest anti-crime bromide from City Hall has something significant to say. In announcing a press conference for 10 a.m. Jan. 17, City Councilman Cecil Thomas promised to…
News to Use
Dialogue on Iraq Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, believes the U.S. attack on Iraq was a war of aggression. Adeed Dawisha, a Miami University political science professor originally from Iraq, believes the U.S. occupation must continue until the country can govern itself. The two meet to discuss the war from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Feb.…
