1310 Alms Place
Jymi Bolden 1310 Alms Place Address: 1310 Alms Place,East Walnut Hills Owner: Cognition Management Group Inc. Year Built: 1901 Value: $64,600 Comments: This once beautiful property used to be East Vocational High School, alma mater of retired State Sen. William Mallory Sr. (D-Cincinnati). The massive turn-of-the century stone and brick building has sat vacant for…
The Iguanas get ready to slither and shake up the Tristate
New Monsoon The Iguanas with The Cole Brothers Thursday · Southgate House It's time once again for Cincinnati's devoted Parrotheads to come out and shake their moneymakers in support of one of JB's former inner circlists, The Iguanas. Since departing from the ranks of Buffett's Margaritaville imprint label five years ago, The Iguanas have done…
Cover Story: A Sundance Primer
Steve Ramos Main Street barricades provide room for the Sundance mobs. PARK CITY, UTAH — Like it has every morning for the past six days, the Sundance Film Festival's official yoga class begins at 8 a.m. at the Sundance House, a combination meeting room, café and Internet lounge located in the arts center on Main…
News: Backing Dean
Jymi Bolden Steve Reece knows a thing or two about racial profiling, he told the audience at the Cincinnati for Dean town hall meeting. Including a "Dean Wins Iowa!" card in the Dean Deck was a bit premature, but local supporters still believe former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean will oust George W. Bush and gain…
The Projects
The Projects At the Projects, art moves. Embracing the double entendre of the gallery's name, the Projects unites its urban community surroundings with artists and art-buyers, bringing this art class assignment to street level through participatory "cheap art." Each exhibit begins with a theme. Artists are invited to interpret that theme through artwork. Works are…
Permanent Screw
"Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?" — "Sinnerman," Nina Simone LaShawn Pettus-Brown's (LPB) Jan. 23 arrest opens a new chapter on the most intriguing manhunt for a runaway colored man since Nat Turner got nabbed in 1831. In New York and on the run from the FBI, the 27-year-old former University of Dayton (UD) basketball…
News: One Block at a Time
Jymi Bolden Matt Stonecash (left) and John Matre, volunteers with Give Back Cincinnati, help prepare the new Dirigar Center. The center is part of the Smith Family Foundation's initiative in Over-the-Rhine. Gale Smith of southeastern Indiana is finished building financial empires. Now he's concentrating on rebuilding a community — a square block encompassed by Liberty,…
Ultimate Blind Date
Recently I attended a four-course dinner in the dark. Not low lighting, mind you. I mean pitch-black, could-not-see-my-food-or-hand dark. It was delicious. Oh, and the food was great, too. Popular this past year in New York City and several European cities as a new form of urban mating, the Dinner in the Dark concept was…
Is Yoga a Religion?
Dear Diane, I belong to a particular church denomination, so I'm leery of trying yoga. Will I have to chant "om" and talk in a language I don't understand? I just want to stretch, not change religions. — Church Goer Dear C.G.: Because of its roots in Eastern religion and mythology, hatha yoga has often…
Stacy Sims
Stacy Sims Then: In January 2003, CityBeat stretched readers' minds and introduced them to Stacy Sims and pilates. Sims discovered pilates while working as a PR and marketing director in Cleveland and living what she called "an unhealthy life." She shaped up and took a leap of faith, moving back to her hometown and opening…
An abstinence-laden relationship leads to post break-up sex
I'm an 18-year-old senior in high school. I met a girl at a party one night and we ended up going out for about a month. During that time we never went further than me fingering her, because she didn't want to. We had both had sex before, she with her boyfriend of eight months…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
I read in a paper last week that Cincinnati City Councilmen Jim Tarbell and David Pepper asked us all to back away from personal comments in the wake of Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen's crack. On Bill Cunningham's talk show (WLW, 700 AM) Allen called City Councilman Chris Smitherman a "smart mouthed punk." Since coming…
News: Cincinnati at Night: Shadeau Breads
"You probably need to eat something," the baker said. "I hope you'll eat some of my hot rolls. You have to eat and keep going. Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this….'' — From a short story, "A Small, Good Thing,'' by Raymond Carver The baker in Raymond Carver's arguably best…
Messing With the Messenger
On Tuesday, one of our contributing writers, Leslie Blade, will testify under oath in front of City Council's Law and Public Safety Committee about a story she wrote for CityBeat. Council issued her a subpoena compelling her appearance. Following internal debate and lots of advice, both solicited and unsolicited, I decided to honor the subpoena…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
Ryan Greis A Bud and suds. What a concept. Sudsy Malone's, the Corryville laundromat and bar, has been around for close to two decades, blending washers and dryers with liquor and live music across the street from Bogart's. It's a mainstay on the economically challenged Short Vine strip that primarily serves UC students. Fire and…
Why Is Heimlich Stalling City-County Relations?
Why won't Todd Portune's fellow Hamilton County Commissioners let him work on improving relations with the city of Cincinnati? Portune's request to co-chair the City/County Steering Committee this year fell on deaf ears during the commissioners' Jan. 14 meeting. Commissioners Phil Heimlich and John Dowlin voted to keep Heimlich in that position for another year…
Film: Serial Murders
Woodrow J. Hinton A reunion of retreads: Characters from The Lord of the Rings, Matrix and Terminator 3 discuss their big-screen fates in 2003. Neo is dead. The hobbits are frolicking for eternity in the Shire. Arnold the Terminator will not be back. The year 2003 will be carved on numerous cinematic gravestones. Characters from…
