News: Mostly Non-Violent
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com County Commissioner David Pepper wants consideration of ways to reduce recidivism. Despite pre-election warnings about the potential for a flood of violent inmates being released early if Hamilton County's sales tax weren't increased to pay for a new jail, some new data shows voters might have made the correct decision in defeating…
Weighty art, library books for sale, Colin Powell speaks and much more
Reed Gallery An image from Weight of the World WEDNESDAY 1/16 ART: UC's REED GALLERY It's hard to find art that attends to issues of an artist's own healing, or else monitors our society's ability to cope, without seeming cliché. But this month's exhibition at Reed Gallery in UC's College of DAAP teems with…
Music: Mission Survivable
Michael Kearns Cancer survivor and Wussy drummer Dawn Burman plays the One More Girl on a Stage concert Saturday Interactive slideshow here Dawn Burman has a full plate. When she's not playing drums for two bands — local Indie darlings Wussy and sassy newcomers the Tammy Whynots — she's immersed in a teaching career,…
Onstage: Review: The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead
Sandy Underwood Annalee Jeffries is a one-woman tour de force at the Playhouse. Don't be fooled by the artwork promoting the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's U.S. premiere of Australian playwright Robert Hewett's The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead. It shows three identical faces, differentiated only by hair color — blonde, brunette…
Locals Only: : Screaming Mimes
Jason Bechtel Screaming Mimes The Screaming Mimes' four members have families, full-time jobs and responsibilities that occupy time most bands set aside for practices, writing, recording and gigging. And they're of an age and mindset to not be overly pie-eyed about having a shot at fame and fortune in an Indie Rock band. Ironically,…
Music: Introduce Yourself
Solid PR Foxy Shazam Sometimes singer Eric Nally will put a _________ (noun) in his __________(body part) on stage. Sky White was once __________ (verb pt) by his own keyboard because it was too __________ (adjective). Guitarist Loren Turner helps pay for recording sessions by ___________ (verb ending in "ing") the producer's ___________ (noun).…
Shhhhh!
I step off the No. 18 bus at Eighth and Walnut streets downtown. This is the morning after New Year's Day, and there's snow on the ground. It's windy and cold as hell. I decide to go to the Main Public Library to warm up. Remembering its tech center on the second floor, I take…
Film: Review: There Will Be Blood
Francois Duhamel Like father, like son: Dillon Freasier (left) and Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood. Paul Thomas Anderson's flawed yet fascinating There Will Be Blood is an epic, supremely strange period piece that evokes a host of current cultural issues: our obsession with oil, the role of religion in society, the perils…
Time to Act on Streicher
Thomas Streicher “The very essence of policing is derived from honesty. If and when you make a mistake, you must be truthful about it.” Cincinnati Police Chief Thomas Streicher Jr. uttered those words in March 2002, after an internal investigation concluded that an officer lied about the events that caused him to shoot and…
Feasting Through Mexico Part II: Coffee from the Gods
Now that the holidays are over we can refocus on what is truly important … coffee! A couple of months ago I left off in mid-memoir, and a cold January seems like a good time to pick up the tale… After a summer working as a field archaeologist on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, my…
Cover Story: Die the Way You Live
Sean Hughes Die the Way You Live As with living well, dying well is a delicate balance between control and letting go — the concrete realities and the transcendence that we can embrace. Death as a topic is fascinating and also repulsive. Bodies … The Exhibition, a display of human cadavers in life-like poses…
Look Who’s Eating: Chuck and Robbie Warinner
Graham Lienhart Chuck and Robbie Warinner When Chuck Warinner graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Cincinnati's barge business was in rapid decline. "It was bad timing," he acknowledges over a bowl of delicious, creamy asparagus soup. "So I started working in restaurants to pay the bills."…
Sound Advice: : Martin Sexton and Nappy Roots
Crackerfarm Martin Sexton Martin Sexton with David McMillin Friday • 20th Century Theater Martin Sexton's latest album, Seeds, is a career pinnacle and a reminder of the path he's traveled — literally and figuratively. The Syracuse, N.Y., native relocated to Boston in 1990 and quickly became a fixture in the city's thriving but tough…
Rumors, Lies and General Misunderstandings
• Chicago-born, Dayton, Ohio-based Jazz trumpeter Mario Abney must have a thing for Cincinnati Hip Hop. After recently doing a show in town with guest Napoleon Maddox of local Hip Hop/Jazz mashers IsWhat?!, Abney and his band will return to Cincinnati this Thursday for a 9 p.m. show at The Greenwich, this time featuring Cincy´s…
It’s Time to GO
There are amazing disparities among the city of Cincinnati's neighborhoods. That's not a big secret. From Mount Washington's suburban-like feel to Lower Price Hill's abject poverty, sprinkled with a touch of Hyde Park upper-crust lap of luxury thrown in for good measure, Cincinnati's neighborhoods are about as diverse as the people who live here. Like…
Debunking Myths About Iridology
Dr. Ignatz von Peczely, a Hungarian physician and naturopath, discovered iridology (iris diagnosis) in 1848 after the Hungarian Revolution. Allegedly as a boy he broke an owl´s leg by accident and noticed a black stripe in the lower quadrant of the bird´s eye. We aren´t told if the stripe was present before the accident or…
Art: Women of Peace
xavier University Women's Center 1000 Peacewomen Across the Globe features the work by hundreds of journalists, writers, photographers and editors. Imagine meeting 1,000 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize all at one time. Beginning Jan. 16, you can do just that. Xavier University's Women's Center will host 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe, a traveling…
News to Use
Women´s Lunch Discussions Xavier University´s Women´s Center offers seven lectures as part of its Brown Bag Lunch Series. The programs are from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Take your lunch to the center at 1415 Dana Ave. and eat as you listen and discuss. For more information, call the Women´s Center at 745-3737. The schedule is: •…
Another seven days of annoying deers, surprise incest and helpful fetus photos
WEDNESDAY JAN. 9 The state of Ohio brought its report card home to Mom and Dad today and just barely avoided a stern lecture by producing an overall B-. Ohio was one of 10 states that scored slightly higher than average (C) in the criteria checked by Education Week, which includes academic performance, teacher quality…
A Streetcar Named Ignorance
This week Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters lobbed a rhetorical hand grenade into the ongoing debate over crime, punishment and law enforcement, hitting Cincinnati's political leadership and Over-the-Rhine development with shrapnel. The truth became collateral damage as well. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Jan. 15 that Deters railed against those who failed to support November's sales…
The Media Needs Watchdogs
Media watchdogs to watch during our quadrennial masochism include www.factcheck.org and www.mediamatters.org. Rather than stenographically report campaign charge and countercharge, they identify significant errors, distortions and misrepresentations and present evidence of what was said/done. Last week mediamatters.org faulted WLW's Bill Cunningham for playing phony religion and race cards against Obama. Quoting his nationally syndicated Sunday…
Kim Krause and Stacy Sims Collaborate to Chase the Furies
Graham Lienhart Stacy Sims (left) and Kim Krause Peeking inside Kim Krause's solo exhibition at the Art Academy's Pearlman Gallery, Chronos/Tropos, you see color before concept, "playful chaos" before mythology, imagination before history. But it's all there. "My mentor in grad school used to say that the Furies were after him when he was…
Peterson 101: How to Win Football Championships
Jerry Dowling While it's long been decided that contemporary hot mediums diminish the general public's attention span, all too seldom is it noted that media messengers and football coaches are every bit as badly afflicted. Hence, one can predict with the calendar which questions are about to exercise coaches and columnists, as if history…
Lack of Choice Isn’t Good
Many Hamilton County elected officials — including Coroner, Engineer, judges, Prosecutor, Sheriff and County Commissioners — will run unopposed in the March primary and November general election this year (Porkopolis and Editorial, issue of Jan. 9). Since the races will be on the ballot without any registered opposing candidates, Hamilton County voters will have no…
Holy Family Church
Joe Simon Sitting in a rear pew of Holy Family Church in Price Hill on Christmas Eve, attempting to breathe amid clouds of absurdly potent incense, I knew I had found the inspiration for this month's Cincitecture. Any doubts I harbored were put to rest when, right along with the Eucharistic gifts (that's the…
