A Snapshot of What Freedom Is and Isn’t
Like many parents, Cynthia Stewart is an ardent amateur photographer when it comes to recording the lives of her children. Unlike most, the Oberlin Schools bus driver faces up to 16 years in prison on two criminal charges of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and pandering sexually oriented photographs involving a minor.…
Chiquita/’Enquirer’/’Brill’s’ Contact: Is There a Source?
In the February issue of Brill's Content, a national media issues magazine, former Chiquita lawyer George Ventura wrote a seven-page first-person account of his life before, during and after The Cincinnati Enquirer's investigation of Chiquita Brands International. Chiquita likely has great interest in what Ventura — arrested and sentenced for being one of the anonymous…
Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Fest
Is it ironic that we'd have a Hawaiian guitar fest in mid-winter in Hamilton, Ohio? Or is that just Alanis Morissette-irony? We don't even know anymore. But we digress. The Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Fest features three masters of the slack key style — George Kuo, Dennis Kamakahi and Martin Pahinui — who, along…
News: Boone County, Union Residents Give Town Center Plan a Second Shot
The town of Union, located on U.S. 42 a few miles south of sprawling Florence, hasn't changed much in the last few decades. While development has swallowed nearly every acre of available property to the north, Union's rolling hills and horse farms are sectioned by white fences and trees. Residents in the city of 1,700…
Science & Technology: Digital Wire: Science & Technology
'American Journalism Review reports that more than 3,400 domestic newspapers are online, as are most of the country's news magazines. The four major broadcast television networks, CNN and NPR all maintain news-delivering Web sites. MSNBC, Slate, Salon and HotWired, among others, were created specifically to distribute news through the Internet. Yet, when the Internet was…
Film: FutureShock
The Postman The best thing about the millennium is we can all stop talking about it. That's the impression I get from people. Others are quick to point out that the real millennium doesn't technically begin until January 1, 2001. So where does that leave us? In limbo. Out of the old, but not…
News: Guest Editorial
Last month the government of Sweden ended its 400-year official relationship with the Lutheran Church, much to the satisfaction of Swedes and Lutherans everywhere. As of this writing, the state of Minnesota is the only place left on earth where Lutheranism is the official religion. And if Gov. Jesse Ventura has his way, that won't…
Sawdust Memories
My lover and I go to the circus every time it comes to town. I because I'm enchanted by the ballet-slippered nymph who stands on the bare back of the serious white stallion as he gallops round the center ring; my lover because she despises the same woman (both for her grace and her skill)…
