Music: Keepin’ It Reelin’
James McKenna Swaggering and powerful, local rockers Crybaby — who release their first full-length this weekend — strive to create a "spectacle" with every show. To make an indelible mark on music, a band needs two elements: They must be both catchy and quirky. This is a pretty broad generality, but when you hearā¦
Cover Story: Who Wants to Buy a Hug?
Cameron Knight Candy Federl says she still gets scared every day as she pursues her dream of being an entrepreneur. More than two months ago Candy Federl took a very calculated leap. To prepare for it, the former Procter & Gamble brand manager asked people visiting her home to hug several stuffed bears, pickā¦
Living Out Loud: : The “One” Question
I was minding my own business one day, playing with someone's cute 11-month-old baby boy, as late 20- to early 30-year-old single women often do, when that annoying tick showed up, which by the way does exist and gets even louder around that certain time of the month or during dinners with my family whenā¦
Diner: Correctional Cuisine
Woodrow J. Hinton It's a Friday evening and I'm sitting in the officer's dining room at the Hamilton County Corrections Center downtown, in front of a scuffed plastic tray of inmate food. The tabletop is greasy. When I lean on it to reach for a packet of salt, my elbows stick. It's cold andā¦
News: Price Hill’s Will
Graham Lienhart Price Hill Will acquired this house at 850 Academy Ave. with plans to renovate and sell it. Price Hill has better views than Mount Adams at a fraction of the price. That's become a slogan in residents' efforts to revitalize their community. Like many urban neighborhoods that have experienced a decline, Priceā¦
Caller, Caller?
Recently, my boyfriend and I broke up, one reason being his lack of initiative in calling me. After we broke up, I spoke with several of my girlfriends and found out that they, too, have similar troubles with their boyfriends or guys they are seeing. Some of these women are in serious, long-term, loving relationships.ā¦
Canon Club
CSF Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra will be discussed at the Mercantile Library's first Canon Club conversation for 2006. Jessica Joplin (right) plays Cleopatra in CSF's production later this month. With her is Corinne Mohlenhoff. I suspect a lot of you are Shakespeare fans. If so, you can take your fandom to a higher levelā¦
Locals Only: : Disc-O-Fever
· SUCHANUGLYTHING — THE FEAR EP This album is a collection of illusions, the foremost of which is that this dynamic, experimental Indie Rock outfit consists of only one member, Rob Ford (at least that was the case as of this recording; Suchanuglything has since grown into a quartet). He's been playing and recording forā¦
Cover Story: Might As Well Jump
Leigh Cox Might As Well Jump About three years ago I decided to join the Peace Corps. It offered me a position teaching English in Madagascar, which I took. Some of my friends and relatives thought I was jumping off a cliff. Some thought I was devoting the next two years of my lifeā¦
One Good Cover Deserves Another
The Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) has found an interesting way to promote its current exhibition, Borrowed Time: The Photograph as Music Album Cover, which features famed or especially creative album sleeves from various records from the past four decades. What better way to celebrate the lost artform of the "album cover" than with a concertā¦
NFL Playoffs Expose Bengals’ Weaknesses
Jerry Dowling It's good news that the Bengals proved they could beat the Pittsburgh Steelers by doing exactly that on Dec. 7. It also seems to have become bad news. Since that day, the Bengals have played four times, winning twice, but with only one encouraging performance. And that's three weeks ago, when theyā¦
Not Beyond Criticism
CityBeat readers are owed something a bit more perceptive — and honest — about the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center than Steve Ramos' ad hominem attack in Arts Beat ("Changing the Signs," issue of Dec. 14-20). Since the Freedom Center opened in August 2004, more than 320,000 people have visited our museum from across theā¦
Tying the Not in ’06
For the past few weeks CityBeat, like many media outlets, has taken a look back at the highlights and lowlights of 2005. But that's too easy. The hard part is figuring out what's going to happen in '06. So with the first issue of the new year I offer predictions — but not for whatā¦
Playing Through
I have always thought my decline began in earnest about 12 years ago when I had a gig with a Bluegrass band at a Northern Kentucky country club. I drove over in a wet winter twilight with zero visibility, one of those dreary days that crop up so often in Cincinnati just after Christmas. Theā¦
They’re Your Documents
Reporters have no special right to public records. It's just that we're in the business of asking for them. Arrest reports, the mayor's e-mail to the city manager, a school principal's personnel file and the county administrator's travel-expense sheet are just a few of the public records that are available on demand to any memberā¦
Cover Story: Leaping into Buildings in a Single Bound
Cameron Knight Moline Court A little more than a year ago Brian Mueller took a leap of faith in Northside and, thus far, has failed to come back down. By all accounts, he's still airborne. His friends and family might be forgiven for believing he is lost forever in the clouds, floating high inā¦
Film: Tainted Love
Kimberly French Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal, left) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) share a a forbidden love in Ang Lee's period western, Brokeback Mountain. The overflowing basket of critical acclaim for director Ang Lee's epic romance Brokeback Mountain includes the Golden Lion, the Venice Film Festival's top prize, as well as best filmā¦
News: The Minimum We Can Do
Graham Lienhart Katy Heins says many earn less than the federal minimum wage. Talk about dubious distinctions. Ohio is one of only two states in the U.S. whose minimum wages are lower than the federal minimum wage. At $4.25 per hour, Ohio's minimum wage is considerably lower than the federal rate of $5.15/hour. Ofā¦
Remembering the Fourth Amendment
When they're not fantasizing what to do to/with Ann Coulter, Left and Right increasingly attack the credibility and patriotism of mainstream news media. Given the news media's self-inflicted wounds, they're easy targets, but don't forget what we learned from those same damnable, liberal corporate publications and broadcasters in recent days: · The Washington Post exposedā¦
Cover Story: Shedding Her Skin
Toni Lynch is tired of being the "overweight friend." The 16-year-old is tired of having her friends visit, then watching them leave to hang out at Newport on the Levee. She's tired of being the one everyone looks at when she's in public. "You feel like you're wearing a mask," she says, sitting in aā¦
The Reel Story
C. Matthew Hamby "Tell the truth — James Brown was old/'Til Eric and Rakim came out with 'I Got Soul' …" — Stetsasonic, "Talkin' All That Jazz" "Those rappers need to stop using other people's music" is usually the first talking point hurled my way when I engage people in a debate over theā¦
News to Use
Wal-Mart Conversation Imago Earth Center, a non-profit ecological organization that creates tangible ways to live in harmony with the earth, hosts a Conversation Series that provides an opportunity to discuss a topic of interest at 6 p.m. on the first Friday of every month. The Jan. 6 conversation begins with a video about Wal-Mart. Imagoā¦
Film: Where Are We?
The new millennium began with dire prognostication, incessant paranoid rants about an apocalyptic technological crash and collapse of global markets. We were stockpiling canned food and water in our cellars, and few of us were partying like it was 1999. There were no green lights in the film industry foretelling this momentary fear that grippedā¦
Cops Raffle Gun, Churches Might Collect Them
Matt Borgerding City Councilwoman Laketa Cole will meet with pastors to encourage them to let their churches become gun-collection points. With 79 homicides in Cincinnati last year and a police officer wounded by gunfire last week, one might expect the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) to want fewer firearms on the streets. But insteadā¦
