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Edited by Rebecca Lomax Wedding Weekend One of the nicest things about living in Cincinnati is the ease with which you can leave it. My boyfriend and I left for a friend's wedding in Nashville. The drive took five hours, about the same time as to Chicago minus the toll roads and the fragrant…
Luther Wright and the Wrongs
For local brew house/music club the BarrelHouse's seventh anniversary, they're hosting a party featuring the creators of one of the year's most unusual (and unusually funny) albums. Luther Wright and the Wrongs will be swinging by on their current tour in support of Rebuild the Wall, a song-for-song remake of Pink Floyd's legendary concept…
Radical Street Fairies
Buy Michael McCleese, Roy Ford and Heidi Bruins a drink this weekend if you see them joined together in a chorus of "I Will Survive" at The Dock. The Stonewall Cincinnati board members have informed the organization that, in action and deed, its mission is off-track, dated and divisive. They've been picketing, circulating e-mails to…
Continuing Films
ABOUT A BOY — (Grade: A) In Will, a smarmy British bachelor who joins a single-parents' club as a way to meet women, actor Hugh Grant finds a screen character perfectly matched to his own unique blend of cultured arrogance and foppish personality traits. Grant's natural performance enhances the film's frequent, comic moments. He also…
Diner: How ‘Bout Them Apples?
Entering the Apple on Elm, Downtown, is like walking into a family dinner, only it's not your family and everyone seems to know everyone else … except you. The servers know a surprising number of the customers on a first-name basis and treat them as old friends, despite a bustling crowd during the Wednesday lunch…
Between Interstate 75 and Railroad Avenue
Jymi Bolden Address: Between Interstate 75 and Railroad Avenue, St. Bernard Owner: CSX Corporation of Jacksonville, Fla. Value: Unknown Year Built: Unknown Comments: This beacon of hopelessness is best observed from Interstate 75 just south of the Norwood Lateral interchange, where it towers above the industrial wasteland of the Mill Creek. Its message —…
The Nurses Didn’t Strike, but Has the Crisis Ended?
Why are nurses so demoralized? Nursing shortages are usually short-lived, peaking during economic booms. But even during the current recession, hospitals have been unable to get close to full staffs. A variety of reasons account for the shortage, according to Lynn Olman, president of the Greater Cincinnati Health Council, a non-profit association of health providers.…
What Should the United States Do to Secure Its Borders?
Rocky Merz, Treasurer of the Hamilton County Young Democrats Throughout history, generation after generation, the United States was built on the back of its ambitious immigrant population. Whether they fled their own war-torn lands or just embarked on a search for freedom, America has always presented an equal opportunity for all. Now that our world…
New Millennium Opera
I watched and listened as mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade performed on the Music Hall stage July 6. It was an evening dress rehearsal for the Cincinnati Opera production of Dead Man Walking, and she appeared early in the second act. Her voice was remarkable, filling the near-empty auditorium with passion and beauty. Still, seeing von…
News: Emerging Survivors
David Wasinger Judy Little went to VOICES for help; now she's the agency's executive director. Adults clutching stuffed animals at the Clarion Hotel in Blue Ash this week arn't necessarily cleaning up after kids; more likely, the toys are for their own comfort. A playroom — for throwing jacks, coloring books and games of…
News: Making it ‘HIP’ to Stay
Jymi Bolden Innovative union and county programs will help working families afford houses, according to Alyson Steele, spokeswoman for the Cincinnati AFL-CIO. The new houses rising in former Warren County cornfields can look awfully tempting to Hamilton County homeowners. The U.S. Census illustrates the drawing power of suburbia. Hamilton County's population dropped from 866,228…
Cover Story: A Way of Life
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com Handle Bar Ranch I knew to arrive from the east, via the Mount Healthy exit from I-275. Off the ramp, you take a turn and descend into the valley that masks the Rumpke landfill rising like a mythical volcano. Come the other way, where Colerain Avenue becomes Ohio Rt. 27 on street…
