News to Use
Maya Angelou at UC The University of Cincinnati´s celebration of African-American History Month features Maya Angelou speaking at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 in the Great Hall of Tangeman University Center. The event is free. However, priority seating will be given to students, faculty and staff. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. For more information, call Student…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Them Vs. Them, Ghostfinger and More…
M. Vorrasi Say Hi to Your Mom Them Vs. Them with The Stapletons and The Times Saturday · The Mad Frog Chicago trio oh my god (OMG) is on break working on new material, so dedicated local fans might be jonesin' for a little organ-grinding power and frenetic, don't-blink songwriting. Their fix comes Saturday,…
Cure for the Winter Blues
After its successful 13th annual Cincy Blues Fest this past summer, the Cincy Blues Society is ready to launch a new event. The inaugural Winter BluesFest is set for Saturday at various clubs in Covington's MainStrasse entertainment district. The festival features several of the area's finest Blues acts and raises funds for the innovative Blues…
Not Part of the Gang
Joseph-Beth Booksellers is an independent, hometown bookstore, not part of the "chain gang" as so coldly described in Living Out Loud ("The Chain Gangs," issue of Jan. 11-17). We proudly wear our independent bookstore status, growing from one small bookstore in Lexington, Ky., in 1986 to seven healthy bookstores today located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky…
This Is for You, Pretty Boy
This isn't for you. This is for all those thugs who blast on cops, devalue life and generally act like fools. This is for Dante "Pretty Boy" Person, who made the front pages for shooting Cincinnati Police Officer Kristina Holtmann in the face in a Bond Hill driveway and for hiding, like an outlaw with…
Get Involved Before You’re Disabled
There's a significant kind of countdown that kicked off this month that far too few people are thinking about — and I don't mean the shopping days left 'til next Christmas. On Jan. 1 the parade of baby boomers turning 60 began. The good news is that 60 is no longer a signal for slowing…
Music: The Holy Trilogy
Courtesy of Erickson Public Relations Country legend Marty Stuart's most recent albums have been spiritual explorations of Roots music, composing what he dubs his "church house trilogy." Try mentioning to Marty Stuart that it's slightly intimidating to interview him. He's played with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash (for a time, he was even married…
Living Out Loud: : Speak Up!
I was watching the proceedings in Congress on C-SPAN after U.S. Rep. John Murtha said the Bush administration purposely deceived the country into war and recommended a complete withdrawal from Iraq. Don't get me wrong. I'm not the kind of person with nothing better to do than watch congressional proceedings, but it was like the…
Diner: One-Horse Town
Going to One Restaurant and Lounge in Mason is like entering a wrinkle in time. To get there from I-71 means traversing miles of sprawling new development — past strip malls, myriad chain restaurants, a gigantic Wal-Wart supercenter under construction and burgeoning housing developments going up in all directions. I met an old-timer once who…
That Flushing Sound
I have a sexual interest in the sounds of men using the toilet. There are several restaurants very close to my home, and I hide a wireless telephone headset in an inconspicuous place in the bathroom. I can then record, from my home, the sounds of men farting and defecating. My husband is aware of…
News: An Official Oversight
Wendell France A contract signed "in blood" was supposed to keep Wendell M. France in Cincinnati as executive director of the Citizen Complaint Authority (CCA) for two years. It didn't work. In March 2004 then-City Manager Valerie Lemmie joked about the signature as a way to underscore her desire to keep someone in the…
Film: Dreaming of a New World
Merie Wallace Colin Farrell is Captain John Smith in Terrence Malick's The New World BEVERLY HILLS — Wes Studi, the actor who plays a 17th-century Algonquian Indian named Opechancanough in Terrence Malick's The New World, knows how he would change the film if he had control of the final edit. It is a speculative…
Locals Only: : The Upward ‘Spiral’
Peter Adams Peter Adams Acclaim for Peter Adams' debut disc, The Spiral Eyes, has been snowballing since last year, making him a prime candidate to be the "next big thing" to emerge from the Cincinnati music scene. The only problem is that the 22-year-old home recorder has never played a show. That's an issue…
Once More, with Feeling
Cameron Knight Nina Boyd sits on the shoulders of her grandfather, Terry Patterson, in Washington Park before the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march. Patterson has brought his children and grandchildren to the march every year for more than a decade. Cincinnati City Councilman Cecil Thomas, chair of the Law and Public Safety…
Quick Eats
While walking through my Northside neighborhood recently, a shiny new storefront caught my eye. "Hey," I said suspiciously to no one in particular, "that looks like a restaurant." Pushing open the front door to demand some answers, I found out that yes, Virginia, MELT (4165 Hamilton Ave., 513-681-6358) has found a home. This funky little…
Going to School Old School
Being the first in your family to go to college used to mean something. There were the obstacles to overcome. Everyone always points to the financial burden, which was significant and remains so, but no moreso than the pressures to excel in an unfamiliar arena. It's about going where no one you know has gone…
News: The Truth About Being Poor
Graham Lienhart State Rep. Catherine Barrett (left) and Diane Enscoe addressed the truth commission on poverty. Try to forget for a minute about human rights violations internationally. Let's talk about the human rights being violated right here in the United States. Such as this one: "Everyone who works has the right to just and…
Cover Story: Coming & Going
Teams get lost when administrators make headlines, which is why Thursday's Crosstown Shootout is even more welcome than always this year. Now that euphoria over pro football's restored legitimacy in Cincinnati takes a well-earned offseason, the Shootout arrives as the unofficial start to college basketball in the sport's Midwest capital. Odd that Cincinnati should…
Unlocking Perception
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite." — William Blake With this wisdom in mind we might want to start scrubbing, but what is it that we should scrub and how do we scrub it? Referring back to the quote, which echoes meditation's ultimate goal, it…
Thom Pain
Sandy Underwood Todd Almond and ETC's full production of I Am My Own Wife travel to Louisville for a run at Actors Theatre, opening Thursday. Next week ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI (ETC) opens a three-week run of Will Eno's Thom Pain (based on nothing), a marvelous one-man show that was an Off-Broadway hit in…
News: Everyday Prejudice
If only the artwork addressing prejudice could more closely emulate prejudice itself, suddenly rearing up in our paths or flying at us from our blind spots to decimate what we know about ourselves. Instead, part of the exhibit Facing Prejudice is safely stationed in an alcove at the entrance of the University of Dayton's Roesch…
Film: Divine Interventions
Two gods make up the Jamestown settlement epic The New World, a movie that's often too beautiful for words. Colin Farrell puts his bedroom eyes and wild-man looks to the test as Captain John Smith, the rebellious Jamestown colonist who establishes first contact in 1607 with the native Powhatan Indians of the Virginia territory.…
