You’re the Solution
I thank Donna Covrett for featuring the heartbeat of our city in "Knitting Us Together" (issue of Jan. 5-11). Civic engagement is the heartbeat of any city and pumps vital energy along its vast and concrete lined arteries to reach even its most extreme members. So many citizens today, instead of celebrating the vitality of…
Living Out Loud: : John’s Back
I was born in the summer of 1967. A few years after my birth, my Uncle John was drafted into the Army and served during the war in Vietnam. I know he was stationed there, because I remember my grandfather proudly showing us pictures of the red skies and the Asian Landscapes that came from…
Locals Only: : Cunning Langus
Dale M. Johnson Langus "We're 21-years old, what else are we going to write about?" asks Brian Bruemmer, bass player for Langus in regard to his band's favorite subject, sex. But, if you dig deeper, you also find that Langus is a very professional, dedicated, tight band — whose members happen to like sex. A…
The Blue Isn’t Black & White
Just as being accused of a crime doesn't automatically make a person guilty, being a police officer doesn't automatically make a person innocent. There are probably as many levels of professionalism in the Cincinnati Police Department as there are officers: about 1,050. In a study dated Nov. 14, 2004, the Citizens Complaint Authority (CCA) called…
Yoga Helps Kids
(Diane Utaski Notes: For the time being, this column will include stories in their own words of how yoga has changed people's lives.) Teaching yoga to children between the ages of 5 and 12, I've seen how yoga helps them develop better body awareness, self-control, flexibility, coordination and self-esteem. Yoga has also been shown to…
Facing the Cold, Hard Facts of NFL Playoff Football
Jerry Dowling Something in the stomach hurts this time of year, when we watch great football players and their teams falter and we suspect it's because they can't hack a little cold weather. In much of the country, the cold weather is a test of a football team, not to mention its fans. No other…
Through The Past, Tightly
Locals And Andy release High & Tight on Saturday at Radio Down with Bulletproof Charm, Chaselounge and Louisville's Waterproof Blonde opening. The disc will be available online for download via iTunes on Tuesday. Making full use of the band's influences (Weezer, Superdrag, Foo Fighters) as touchstones, but exercising their own righteous Pop sensibility, And Andy's…
In a Jam
The sudden announcement that Pepsi Jammin' On Main won't happen this spring wasn't a surprise, but it still hurts. Citing "hard times" due to rising talent fees, a reduction in sponsorship revenue and bad weather, Music and Events Management announced Jan. 18 that it's cancelled the 2005 music festival, which would have returned to Main…
Helpless Animals and Worried Smokers
Cameron Knight Marching in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday are (L-R) Kerry Paterson, his son Jordan Paterson and granddaughter Linee Boyd. The Cincinnati Animal Defense League last week took their year-old protest against Forest Pharmaceuticals to Green Township, where police have an even lower level of tolerance for dissent than cops in the…
Upcoming Concerts with Eleven Eleven, Infinite Number of Sounds and More…
Eleven Eleven with Tonefarmer Wednesday · Stanley's Pub If forced to provide just one word to describe Eleven Eleven's sound, "textural" would probably be the best singular description. The Philadelphia quartet has been favorably compared to similarly toned sonic sculptors like The Cure, The Smiths, Radiohead and My Bloody Valentine, and with good reason. Eleven…
News to Use
IJPC Peace Committee Meets The Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center's Peace Committee meets at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Peaslee Neighborhood Center to view the film Ground Truth. For more information, call 513-579-8547. Not One Damn Dime There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or right wing agenda to rant about.…
Dayton filmmaker Selena Burks on heading to Sundance
The path to the 2005 Sundance Film Festival for documentary filmmaker and Wright State University graduate Selena A. Burks goes back as far as she can remember because Saving Jackie, the film that brings her to the festival in Park City, Utah, is her own life story. "The film is about my sister Lorita, my…
Film: Punk Critic
Punk Rock singer Henry Rollins turns film critic with his new show, Henry's Film Corner, on the Independent Film Channel. LOS ANGELES — For a high-school graduate, the former Punk Rock singer Henry Rollins has an amazing frame of reference. In conversation, whether talking Punk or movies — the latter of which ostensibly is the…
Diner: Bombs Away
I first visited Sake Bomb a few months ago, right after it opened, and have been talking it up ever since. With good sushi, an unpretentious atmosphere and sake bombs going off everywhere (I'll explain in a minute), it feels like a restaurant and a house party. It's not often that I have that kind…
The Price of Art
A friend recently asked me what I considered "must-see" from a trip I just made to New York City. My answer needed no consideration — visiting the newly reopened Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown Manhattan and experiencing Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi's beautiful new building. "But it costs $20 to get in," he gulped,…
We Belong at the Table
I was 16 the first time I felt discrimination. The school board was hiring teenagers for summer office work, and I knew I could get the job. I had been elected twice to student council, was a member of the National Honor Society, could type 80 words a minute and had good telephone manners. But…
How About Three?
Last year I began a sexual relationship with someone from my university. He was graduating, so we just kept it light and had fun. Even though he's no longer here, we have kept in contact and get together whenever he's in town. Recently he propositioned me, asking if I would have a threesome with him…
News: Connected Shelters
Graham Lienhart Kim Manning is director of Sophia Technologies, which created the HMIS database. Social service agencies say the new system expedites their work. A Cincinnati area computer system created to improve the care of the homeless is proving to be a surprising success story for cooperation among social service agencies. Hamilton County soon will…
Brussels sprouts are hot!
Old is the new new. Brussels sprouts are hot! No wait! Kale is the new Brussels sprouts, and sauerkraut is sexy. What was once bad for us became good, and what was good is now bad. (Thank some of the corporate food giants who have a lot to gain by funding studies to promote the…
Music: Out of Border
Canadian progressive Folk singer/songwriter Ember Swift shuns the corporate music machine in favor of a more self-sustaining, do-it-yourself approach. On "F.A.Q.," a song from Disarming, her eighth self-released album in the last nine years, Ember Swift runs through a list of questions she hears from her audience at the close of nearly every show she…
League of Cincinnati Theatres: Tsunami Relief
Shoshana Bean, a 1999 CCM musical theater grad, has taken over for Tony Award winner Idina Menzel in Wicked. The League of Cincinnati Theatres is doing its part on behalf of the recent tsunami disaster in Asia: Look for donation boxes at participating theaters. Proceeds will be donated to UNICEF. While our theater scene in…
