Sound Advice: : De Novo Dahl, Levi Weaver and Band of Horses
Band Of Horses De Novo Dahl with We Are the Fury Wednesday
Know Theatre Readies Two Cutting-Edge Productions
Know Theatre Tribe Todd Patterson I still draw occasional blank stares when I recommend Know Theatre of Cincinnati to people who say they care about good theater. I'm surprised, because the fearless company has been around for a decade. But Know operated under the radar for a long time, performing cutting-edge work in a…
Music: Onward Christian Soldier
You may think you have a busy schedule, but Christian McBride, one of this generation's most renowned young Jazz bassists, will match Day Planners with you anytime. Although it's been a year and a half since his last album, Live at Tonic (a three-CD document of his star-studded stint at the now defunct New…
News: The Race Is On
Joe Lamb Ed Rothenberg is running anyway. Just as the presidential race this year had Mike Gravel on the Democratic side and Ron Paul on the Republican side to discuss issues that other contenders weren't addressing, this fall's race for Hamilton County Commission has its own renegade candidates. Hoping to tap into the public…
Dance: Keepin’ It Real
Howard Schotz Thaddeus Davis says his company likes to "kind of blur the line between dance, theater andreality." Ever heard of Gee's Bend, Ala.? If the name rings a bell, chances are it's thanks to the community's extraordinary quilts. The African-American women's handiwork has become an art world sensation with numerous national exhibitions from…
Blues News U Can Use, plus Blues ambassadors in Memphis and Eat Sugar in Spin
Chuck Madden Jon Justice plays at this weekend's Winter Blues Fest. This weekend's Winter Blues Fest at the Southgate House in Newport — presented by the Cincy Blues Society, which also puts on the annual summer Cincy Blues Fest at Sawyer Point — features a doozy of a local lineup. Actually, one night of…
Review: La Cherie Bakery and Bistro
More and more I'm drawn to little cafes — places for some simple food that's prepared well and not too pricey. A place I can relax and chat with a friend over a bowl of thick soup or enjoy a solo coffee with a book for a few quiet hours. La Cherie Bakery and Bistro…
Chris Walla: Field Manual
It's one thing when a member of a popular band goes solo after said band breaks up. When the main band is still active, the shadow of previous output looms even larger. When one of your bandmates has his own wildly popular side project, you'd better be ready to face lots of "not as good…
Art: Review: Lines, Webs and Sites
Sean Hughes A piece from Paul Kass' "Roy G. Biv" series Paul Kass makes fine art with materials you might find in your garage, but his work is anything but ordinary. An interest in form, structure, pattern and color defines his sculpture, and his unconventional use of materials creates a distinct visual vocabulary. Kass…
News: Violent Spillover
Natalie Hager L.C. and Sharon Nolan reminisce about their late daughter, Shannon. They share her story with young people as an object lesson about abusive relationships. A pile of 100 letters chronicle the violence experienced by a teenage girl who ultimately married her abuser. When her family found them among her personal effects after…
Another seven days of butter-flavored pain, a peaceful bin Laden and competent black women
WEDNESDAY JAN. 16 A Denver man named Wayne Watson has sued Kroger Co. and two of its popcorn-making subsidiaries for giving him a butter-flavored respiratory disease. Watson says that years of eating two to three bags of microwave popcorn a day gave him "popcorn lung," a respiratory illness caused by inhaling the fake-butter flavor diacetyl.…
Locals Only: : TimProject
Shawn Abnoxious Local musician Tim Willis Let's begin with the planet Saturn and an unexplainable 25,000 kilometer-wide polygon at the planet's north pole. Or maybe start with the strange radio emissions that were also recorded there by the Cassini probe in 2003. Yeah, that's a good start. Polygons and noise. No, let's start off…
Rest in Peace, Munchkinland
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com Anna Gay Ritter For those of us who grew up in western Hamilton County, legends persisted that piqued our curiosity on many boring weekend nights. Buffalo Ridge, a winding road in Miami Township, once had a crematorium or maybe an observatory rumored to now be a church for devil worshipers, where little…
The Waiting Is the Hardest Part
Inspiration is the spark of life for writers. When we sit down at our keyboards, it's like sliding into your car on a bitterly cold morning, turning the key and hoping the engine cranks. There's nothing better than a reliable car on a winter morning when you have to get going and be somewhere on…
New York-Boston Rivalry Spills Into the Super Bowl
Jerry Dowling Ending most football seasons, the Super Bowl is often little more than the NFL championship game. Only on very few occasions is the Super Bowl really the Super Bowl. We're grateful for that. An NFL championship game matters if you like football. It's a game like last year's championship game, a 29-17…
Ruckus Roboticus: Playing with Scratches
With technology's growth spurt in the past several years, particularly in terms of music recording technology, now anyone can make mash-ups, cut-and-paste samples from iTunes and become an amateur DJ of sorts. But to go beyond the amateurism, a deft touch is needed: a sense of musicality as well as a strong feel for rhythmic…
Cat Power: Jukebox
Is Cat Power a better songwriter or song interpreter? If her latest two albums are any indication, the latter is true. On The Greatest, her critically-acclaimed 2006 album of original songs backed by Memphis session aces, Cat Power (which, for the uninitiated is the "nom du Rock" of singer/songwriter Chan Marshall) crafted a couple of…
Frank X Walker reads, Cincinnati Shakespeare doubles up, Roz G. is right and much more
Frank X Walker Frank X Walker WEDNESDAY 1/23 LITERARY: FRANK X WALKER Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker spends his time making the invisible visible using his words, not magic. His latest collection of poems, When Winter Come: The Ascension of York, picks up where his award winning Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York left…
News to Use
Poets Needed for Peace Mission For the fifth year in a row, a group of local poets and artists is putting together a book of poems and drawings on the themes of peace and justice. Any poet in Greater Cincinnati is encouraged to submit one to three poems for a book to come out during…
Cover Story: Fresh Voices, New Stories and New Approaches to Storytelling
Jennifer Phang Jennifer Phang PARK CITY, UTAH — It's cold. Really cold. As in single-digit, below-zero-after-wind-chill cold. As in my feet feel like blocks of ice within 10 minutes of landing in the snow-laden terrain here, home of the Sundance Film Festival. Weather is but one of the many traits that make Sundance a…
Casey Riordan Millard
Casey Riordan Millard Casey Riordan Millard comedically explores the "search for solace from the heartbreak of mortality" in her current Shark Girls series, which includes sculptures, drawings and paintings of girls with the heads of great white sharks. She constructs life-sized sculptures from steel, wax, fabric, clay, paint and ceramic; smaller sculptures in painted…
Protecting Berding from Himself
Jeff Berding Berding Dictionary.com defines "hypocrite" as "a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions or statements belie his or her public statements." It´s derived from a Greek word that means "actor." A few politicians, unfortunately, all too often fall into this category — som e…
Help Save Cincinnati from the Politicians
I read your paper online from Texas. We happen to love the city of Cincinnati and its great people and had lived there for more than 40 years but could no longer bear to watch such a lovely place continue to be destroyed by the "powers that be." While reading about continued protection for bad…
Film: Review: Diva
Cincinnati World Cinema American opera singer Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez stars in the French film Diva. Jean-Jacques Beineix's classic Diva, now being re-released in a gorgeous new 35-millimeter print, is one of the coolest, most visually compelling art movies ever made. That it also works well as an unsentimental thriller is a definite plus. Ironically,…
Caffeine Dream
I thought it'd be easy. I had no idea what I was facing. Wicked, flu-like symptoms. Achy, weak and lightheaded, I was overcome by a stinking depression. I crawled in to work, but when my boss studied my face he told me to go home. Intense drowsiness hit me. Then four days in bed. The…
Rue Dumaine (Review)
Known for her work in New Orleans, Chef Anne Kearney opens a much-anticipated restaurant in her home town. As a restaurant reviewer, it's hard to be unbiased. Some places I'm just predisposed to like. So I'll admit this upfront: I've looked forward to dining at Rue Dumaine with the eagerness of a kid at…
