Onstage: Screen to Stage
Some theater snobs disdain television and actors who work in the medium. Of course, there's a lot of dreck on TV, but the tube employs many good actors and occasionally generates material that translates beautifully onstage. Case in point: 12 Angry Men, the current production at the Aronoff Center, featuring Richard Thomas and George Wendt.…
News to Use
March to Stop the War The Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center (IJPC) has chartered a bus for people who want to join the Jan. 27 peace march in Washington, D.C. Organized by United for Peace and Justice, the march aims to deliver a resounding message to the new Congress: No half-measures that will only prolong…
Onstage: Fascinatin’
Sandy Underwood Gavin Lawrence (left) and Kelly Taffe prove that opposites attract in Pure Confidence. "Fascinatin' " is how Caroline (Kelly Taffe) describes Simon Cato (Gavin Lawrence) in Carlyle Brown's Pure Confidence, a tale about African Americans who jockeyed race horses before the Civil War and the current mainstage production at the Cincinnati Playhouse.…
Living Out Loud: : The Out-of-Towner
Seeing Lucille again was going to be fun. She was a friend of my twin brother's, and we became friends after his death 12 years ago. Like my brother did, she lives in Seattle. Through the years, we've stayed in contact through phone calls and e-mails. Last Sunday, she flew into Cincinnati to attend a…
News: A Passion for Education
Joe Lamb William Franklin poses a question at a Jan. 18 forum with Eileen Cooper Reed, president of the Cincinnati Board of Education, at Christ Church Cathedral. Everything from No Child Left Behind and community engagement to bedroom slippers and bathrobes were discussed at the Christ Church Outreach Forum when newly elected Cincinnati Public…
Moving the Transit Conversation
Peeking inside The Enquirer's well-done special section Sunday on the Ohio River flood of 1937, I was drawn to the editorial, "Streetcars: Is the desire there?" It followed up on a recent front-page Enquirer story about the city of Cincinnati's funding of a study regarding a possible downtown streetcar project. The first thing I noticed,…
News: The Poop on Cincinnati
Jim Fugett As the Queen City begins a new year of struggles with the same crappy issues other urban centers face, let's look at how we deal with our shit. How do cops deal with horse shit? The mounted patrol gives Cincinnati Police officers a unique tool for managing crowds and for interacting with…
Upcoming Concerts with Andy Narell, The LAst Town Chorus and More…
Eye For Talent Andy Narell SAKÉSHO FEATURING ANDY NARELL Saturday · Parrish Auditorium at Miami University's Hamilton campus The steel pan (or steel drum as it's better known) has long been associated with the sound of Reggae and Calypso, since those genres introduced the instrument to Western ears decades ago. Jazz percussionist Andy Narell…
Busdriver — Roadkillovercoat (Anti/Epitaph)
Busdriver — Roadkillovercoat While RoadKillOvercoat might be your first exposure to Busdriver, the uniquely skilled Hip Hop freestyler is no novice, having well over a decade in the L.A. underground and a quartet of highly regarded albums under his belt. For his fifth release and his debut for Anti/Epitaph, Busdriver presents his pop-culture-referencing, politically…
The Chrome Cranks — Diabolical Boogie (Atavistic)
The Chrome Cranks — Diabolical Boogie If you explored the Cincinnati underground music scene in the late '80s/early '90s, chances are you knew Chrome Cranks singer/guitarist Peter Aaron … or at least saw one of the shows he booked at various venues in the area. Aaron sparked the Cranks in Cincinnati with guitarist William…
Film: Crit Lit
Film literature has gone pop, with an amazing number of book guides out now covering every possible angle of the world of movies. Serious film culture once was a rarefied thing, the domain of university programs, international periodicals like Britain's Sight & Sound and intellectual theorists like France's Andre Bazin. It wasn't that it…
Diner: Here We Come A-Wassailing!
J.D. Cutter It's mid-January and our Christmas decorations are packed away. My New Year's resolution to exercise regularly has already been broken and Valentine's Day merchandise fills the seasonal aisle at Kroger. Yet, even with the small blast of snow last weekend, winter doesn't feel like it's arrived. The mid-50s afternoons throughout this month…
Music: All You Need is Loved
Drew Goren A recent headlining tour and wildly successful trek through Europe helped Punk/Rock band The Loved Ones see their hard work pay off. The Loved Ones guitarist Dave Hause sounds pretty upbeat for a guy whose band membership has just been downsized by a third. The Philadelphia trio had returned home last month…
Why America Is Pulling for Peyton Manning
Jerry Dowling Peyton Manning is the guy who's in all the television commercials. He's the guy who passes for more than 4,000 yards almost every year. The guy who stands as close as we come to a natural at quarterback, the glamor position in American sports, blessed with the right heredity and environment. Manning…
Ink Bleeds: Prints on Modern Rock
Art Academy of Cincinnati Ink Bleeds shows off the endlessly creative endeavor that is poster art. The Final Friday Gallery Walk is back for its first installment of 2007, and there is a plethora of gallery opportunities open to you. Start your walk with the RUTHE G. PEARLMAN GALLERY at the ART ACADEMY OF…
Troublemaker’s Journal
Former President Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace not Apartheid has become a bestseller. At the same time, it's the target of a coordinated campaign to denigrate the book and discredit the author. What a strange response to what is such a simple, straightforward and in many ways commonplace book. Had it not been written by a…
Pure Confidence
Carlyle Brown, who wrote Pure Confidence, now on stage at the Cincinnati Playhouse, is playwright-in- residence at Miami University. Every once in a while I ask the question, "Where do plays come from?" I'd like to describe the path of PURE CONFIDENCE, presently onstage at the Cincinnati Playhouse. (See review on page 47.) Its…
News: They Remember
Graham Lienhart (L-R) Sarah Weiss, acting director of the Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education, and Terrie Puckett, associate curator at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, discuss an upcoming exhibition on the Holocaust opening at the Freedom Center. Sarah Weiss isn't quiet. There's a lot to talk about as the Center for Holocaust…
Kentucky Fests
· Northern Kentucky rockers Sweet Ray Laurel follow up their successful multi-band festival show, Laurelpalooza, from last year with this Saturday's Laurelpalooza 2 at Newport's Southgate House. The band has compiled a diverse bill for the event. Scheduled to appear are Sweet Ray Laurel, Strip the Image, The Loose Threads, Gravity Hill, Seconds Away, Kelly…
Cover Story: A Matter of Trust
Sean Hughes A Seed Grows in Cincinnati Brian Garry still is shaken when he recalls the incident that occurred on an unseasonably warm evening a few weeks ago in Over-the-Rhine. As he worked in his Vine Street storefront office with the windows open, he heard a family who lived in the building next door…
Locals Only: : Suddenly Monday
Suddenly Monday Suddenly Monday It's easy to digress. Unavoidable when interviewing five creative musicians. Instantly, everyone becomes a Professional Interrupter. Reminds me of that "this is your brain on drugs" egg commercial from the '80s. Both seriously inspired and ridiculous, something's sizzling in the Suddenly Monday frying pan. But I'm not comparing their sound…
Music: Into the Wild Black Yonder
Victory Records After quickly selling out of their self-released CDs and playing to receptive audiences across the region, Beneath the Sky caught the attention of Victory Records, which just released the band's debut LP, What Demons Do to Saints. Beneath the Sky just returned from Pittsburgh where they shot the first video for the…
Is that your rubber ringing?
HOT Rubbers' Soul Forget the iPhone (we're holding out for one with a built-in taser, anyway). Condoms with a musical component are the real hottest new technological advances of 2007. Late last year, several news sites picked up a story about a Ukrainian scientist who had invented a rubber that would actually emit music during…
‘War Trial’ Waits; Chabot Wiggles Out
Joe Lamb After being found guilty, "War" is removed from the courtroom of a mock trial Jan. 22 in the West End. Efforts to put the war on trial ran into the realities of a busy urban courtroom Jan. 22, postponing the affair for another six weeks. Five anti-war protesters, arrested for trespassing during…
Secrets of Civilization #2
Miller Gallery Boston-based artist PAMELA SIENNA's oil painting at MILLER GALLERY, "Secrets of Civilization #2," is a tightly rendered still life of packages wrapped in fabric and string. The three packages — one royal blue, one peacock blue, one white — lie on a pale blue cloth before a vivid violet background. A lilac…
Film: Nomad No More
Joe Lamb Cincy World Cinema's Tim Swallow (right) gets comfortable in his organization's new space with Cincinnati Art Museum's Stephan Bonadies. Cincinnati World Cinema, despite the all-embracing title, has had no fixed home for most of its five-year existence. Floating no more, CWC is now the resident film programmer at the Cincinnati Art Museum's…
