Lit: Literary Lunch with Cathleen Schine
The Mercantile Library’s Literary Lunch series continues this week with a visit from Cathleen Schine, who requested that the library be included on her current book tour. Schine’s latest novel, Fin & Lady, centers on an 11-year-old boy who, when orphaned, must move in with his older half-sister in 1960s Greenwich Village. People magazine has…
Music: Friday Flow with Thee Phantom
Philly native Jeffrey McNeill is one of the few Rap artists who can legitimately promise listeners and those who attend his concerts something they haven’t seen or heard before. Under the MC moniker Thee Phantom, McNeill hit upon the formula by mixing the Beastie Boys’ “Paul Revere” with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony … when he was…
Onstage: The 39 Steps
In 1935, Alfred Hitchcock made a thrilling film adaptation of The 39 Steps, based on John Buchan’s melodramatic 1915 tale of espionage and murder. In 2005, playwright Patrick Barlow adapted Hitchcock’s film into a hilarious four-actor version, requiring the quartet to play good guys, bad guys, minor characters and occasional props. In 2013, Cincinnati Shakespeare…
Comedy: JR Brow
After some 20 years doing stand-up, JR Brow has amassed quite a collection of jokes, characters and songs. The mix has developed into a unique blend of comedy with a little music thrown in. “It’s a potpourri,” he explains. “I guess it’s basically me telling long stories that have jokes inside of them about my…
Onstage: Aida
Cincinnati Opera winds up their season with Verdi’s grand opera Aida, featuring a stellar cast headed by American soprano Latonia Moore whose last-minute Metropolitan Opera debut last year as the doomed Ethiopian princess was textbook A Star Is Born. Aida loves the Egyptian general Radames (tenor Antonello Polombi) — unfortunately, so does the princess Amneris,…
Event: The Warren County and Butler County Fair
Nothing says summer like some good old-fashioned fun at the fair. So whether you’re feeling nostalgic for your 4-H days or just a city-dweller looking to get in touch with your Americana roots, you’re in luck: Fair season is in full swing in Ohio. Cheer on your favorite 4-H-er, show off your country side with…
Event: Kids, Cultures, Critters and Crafts Festival
Learning Through Art, Inc. combines a trip to the Cincinnati Zoo with a chance to introduce children to different cultures through music, dance, crafts, puppetry and activities for all ages. A number of the zoo’s most popular attractions will feature entertainment kiosks where adults and kids can learn, listen, engage and celebrate cultural diversity. Entertainers…
Art: Abigail Portner Shoe Release at Thunder-Sky, Inc.
Artist Abigail Portner’s drawings and paintings have long been intertwined with the work of her brother, Dave Portner, member and co-founder of the Experimental Psychedelic band Animal Collective. Her work is both dreamy and eerie at the same time — often focusing on images of children, animals and masked revelers. In addition to creating various…
Event: Meatball Kitchen Pop-Up Dinner
Meatballs. Are they nature’s perfect food? Find out when the Meatball Kitchen hosts their third pop-up dinner at The Kitchen Factory in Northside. Meatball Kitchen owner Dan Katz, former co-owner of New York’s Le Jardin Bistro and wine bar Sweet & Lowdown, has brought his expertise to the Queen City to create some meaty masterpieces.…
City Debt Outlook Worsens
It might cost Cincinnati more to issue debt following a credit rating downgrade by Moody’s. In a report released on July 15, the credit ratings agency downgraded the city’s general bonds from Aa1 to Aa2 and revised the bonds’ outlook to “negative.” “The negative outlook reflects the expectation that the city will continue to face…
Turns Out Kids Aren’t Racist Assholes
The Fine Brothers are "filmmakers and new media pioneers" who have created a pretty successful web series called "Kids React," where they film kids reacting to stuff. The latest in their child-watching oeuvre is a video about the now infamous interracial Cheerios ad. Infamous because Cheerios literally had to disable the video's YouTube comments section because of the…
Senate Wins Best Hot Dog Nomination from ‘Food & Wine’
Food & Wine magazine has confirmed what we Cincinnatians already know: Senate serves up some effing awesome hot dogs. In the magazine's slideshow of the top 28 best hot dogs in America — "from classic franks to artisan wieners" — a photo of two delicious Senate dogs (taken by 513{eats}' Gina Weathersby) shows up first … before Hot Doug's in…
Morning News and Stuff
The city administration yesterday disputed the findings of a June 20 memo that suggested the city is getting a bad deal from its parking lease agreement with the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority, but controversy remains about why the city administration withheld the memo from City Council and the Port Authority for three-plus weeks. Opponents of…
Bosnian Rainbows
Just about every mention of Bosnian Rainbows includes the fact that the band formed after the demise of guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s previous band, The Mars Volta. Which is to be expected, but it’s also kind of unfortunate — the Rainbows’ taut, shimmering Rock songs transcend whatever its four members (the band also includes singer Teresa Suarez,…
When Particles Collide
Yes, folks, guitar-and-drum duos still exist in Rock & Roll! In this case, it is the husband and wife team of guitarist and singer Sasha Alcott and drummer Chris Viner. Together, they make up the band When Particles Collide. Hailing from Bangor, Maine, WPC spends its time “driving around the country with a Punk Rock…
Michael Franti & Spearhead
For all intents and purposes, Michael Franti’s songs should be considered World music. While coming up playing Punk in the group The Beatnigs and then moving on to the Hip Hop sounds of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Franti’s musical journey continues to evolve while retaining attributes of all of those grooves. With Spearhead, Franti’s…
Keith Urban
Truth: When I think of Keith Urban, I think of his Playgirl cover. Don’t get me wrong. No guy is hot wearing a banana hammock. But it was the way he cuddled his guitar. So cheesy! Especially with his weird little goatee and frosted tips. When Urban toured through Columbus, Ohio, with Sugarland a few…
Blair Crimmins & The Hookers
Six years ago, Atlanta native and Berklee School of Music grad Blair Timmins was putting the finishing touches on the sophomore album from his Indie Rock outfit Bishop Don when a skateboard ride turned into a three-day coma. After Crimmins regained consciousness, he had a case of tinnitus (caused by skull shrapnel in his ear…
Cincinnati Streetcar Scheduled to Open Sept. 15, 2016
Following years of political controversy, the Cincinnati streetcar is scheduled to open for service on Sept. 15, 2016. The news was unveiled in a city memo this morning, which detailed the streetcar project’s future following a construction deal with Messer Construction, Prus Construction and Delta Railroad. The news comes after Messer revealed it will need…
City Administration Responds to Critical Parking Memo
The city administration today disputed the findings of a June 20 memo that suggested the city is getting a bad deal from its parking lease agreement with the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority, but it has not said why the memo wasn't passed along to City Council members and Port Authority during the three-plus weeks since…
Morning News and Stuff
Following Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley’s announcement Friday to increase city contracts with minority- and women-owned businesses once elected, fellow Democratic mayoral candidate and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls echoed support for the proposals, although she disputed Cranley’s record on the issue . One issue in particular is the Croson study that would allow the city…
Carnegie to Present ‘Sound of Music’ with KSO
Can't say whether the hills will be alive, but The Carnegie in Covington certainly will be in January when it presents a "lightly staged" production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music in partnership with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. Presented Jan. 17-26, 2014, under the direction of Brian Robertson and KSO conductor J. R.…
Here Are the Top Five Cincinnati Innovates Entries
There's $100,000 on the line waiting to be handed out to 12 ambitious groups of Cincinnatians with big ideas, and every applicant is hoping to earn your vote. They're all contestants in Cincinnati Innovates, a contest designed to support Cincinnatians with progressive, transformative ideas of any kind — and sometimes they're pretty quirky. This year…
Your Weekend To Do List: 7/12-7/14
It’s Bunbury Weekend! The second annual three-day music fest takes over Sawyer Point Friday-Sunday with acts including fun., Walk the Moon, MGMT, Cake, Tegan and Sara, Yo La Tengo, Belle & Sebastian and tons more. Check out our interview with Matt Berninger of The National — Bunbury’s Sunday headliner — here. In addition to great…
Streetcar Gets Good News with New Construction Bid
Messer Construction says it needs nearly $500,000 more than the original $71 million it asked for to do construction work for the streetcar project, but the extra money is easily covered by the project’s $10 million contingency fund that the city established in case of further cost overruns. In June, City Council approved an extra…
Three Days of Bunbury Music Starts NOW
One of the Midwest’s best new music fests, Cincinnati’s own Bunbury Music Festival, presents its second annual event this weekend. With another stellar lineup for the three-day affair — including headliners like Fun., MGMT and Cincinnati-bred Indie Rock stars The National (whose latest album debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s album chart), plus a great…
Morning News and Stuff
Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley is releasing a plan today that promises to reward more of the city’s business contracts to black people, Latinos and women if he’s elected. Cranley says he will hire an inclusion officer that would help him achieve the goals of the plan, which is modeled partly after the African American…
FitzGerald Unveils Plan to Repeal Anti-Abortion Measures
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald is urging a coalition effort to begin a long, complicated petitioning process that could repeal some of the anti-abortion measures in the recently approved two-year state budget . If the petitioning process is successful, it would force the Ohio General Assembly to consider repealing aspects of the budget that don’t…
Audit Finds More Problems at City’s Largest Charter School
A state audit found more evidence of misused public funds at Greater Cincinnati’s largest charter school, including one example of salary overpayment and a range of inappropriate purchases of meals and entertainment. The school’s former superintendent and treasurer are already facing trial on charges of theft for previously discovered incidents. The audit reviewed Cincinnati College…
The Sundresses Become a Quartet
One of the finest original bands to call Cincinnati home over the past decade or so has expanded from a trio to a quartet. The Sundresses' dark, dirty, rootsy Rock sound has been delivered by the three core members over the past 11 years, with Jeremy Springer and Brad Schnittger switching off between drums and…
Q&A with Bunbury Performers Everest
Everest is an Indie Rock band unique in a cluttered genre. The group has been able to work with many major players — most notable is the band's relationship with Neil Young, whose recording studio produced their first studio album. Young has had the band to open for him many times over the last several…
Ohio No. 4 in Nation for Foreclosures
A new report shows Ohio has the fourth highest housing foreclosure rate in the nation — another troubling statistic for a state that, according to state officials, is supposed to be undergoing a major economic boom. The report from RealtyTrac , a real estate information company, put Ohio’s foreclosure rate at 0.96 percent during the…
LISTEN: Cincy Trio Public Debuts New Single
Impressive Cincinnati AltRock trio Public is all set to performing at Cincinnati's huge Bunbury Music Festival this weekend, essentially opening the fest Friday at 2 p.m. with a performance on the Bud Light Stage. The band — nominated at the most recent Cincinnati Entertainment Awards for "Best New Artist" — released its four-track EP, Red,…
Morning News and Stuff
Ever since the Cincinnati streetcar has been envisioned, the mass transit project has been mired in misrepresentations driven largely by opponents and politicians. CityBeat has a breakdown of the misrepresentations here , showing some of the silliest and biggest falsehoods claimed by opponents and supporters. The national battle over gun control came to Cincinnati on…
Curmudgeon Notes 7.10.13
• I’m undecided about the value of the redesigned Cincinnati Business Courier print edition. Previously, the weekly was helpful to a general reader who wanted to follow corporate doings and influence in Cincinnati. Now, I’m less sure of its usefulness. It didn’t help that veterans Lucy May and Dan Monk quit to join the online…
Anti-Abortion Group to Show Graphic Video on Fountain Square
Fountain Square will bear witness on July 11 to an explicit anti-abortion video as part of a Midwest tour by Created Equal, a Columbus-based anti-abortion group that describes itself as “a social action movement seeking to end the greatest human rights injustice of our time.” The “graphic abortion video,” as the group calls it, utilizes…
Art: Elaine Ling’s Mongolia
Elaine Ling's compelling photographs of five summer visits to Mongolia are now on the walls of Iris BookCafe. The exhibition reflects Ling’s visits to Mongolia made between 2002 and 2006. The people living there are moving cautiously into contemporary times, more 20th than 21st century. Elaine Ling’s Mongolia shows us a landscape that lends itself to…
Event: Cin City Reptile Show
The Cin City Reptile Show — a monthly reptile show — features thousands of exotic reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, supplies and feeders. Don’t miss this opportunity to pick up a new family member and stock up on supplies; everything in the show is sold at or below wholesale price. “Show bucks” totaling $250 will be given…
Event: Second Sunday on Main
Free food and drinks from Cincinnati chefs, breweries and more tempt taste buds at Second Sunday on Main, Over-the-Rhine’s eclectic neighborhood street festival. This month’s Celebrity Chef Series features Chef Mike Florea of Maribelle’s Eat + Drink and MadTree Brewing Company. Enjoy wine pairings donated by City Cellars and snacks from vendors like C’est Cheese,…
Event: International Nude Recreation Week
Cap off International Nude Recreation Week with a visit to Cedar Trails Nudist Retreat in Peebles, Ohio. From 2-4 p.m., admission is free to first-time nudist couples. At 3 p.m. there’s a group skinny-dip to celebrate Nude Recreation Week. There’s also an art and photo exhibit. Guests are invited to bring their favorite piece of…
Event: The City Flea
This weekend, skip the mall and flash your cash at Cincinnati’s monthly urban flea market. With more than 170 participating vendors since 2011, you’re sure to find something local and unique for your closet, home or taste buds. From Streetpops ice pops to a number of vintage clothing vendors, City Flea features a variety of…
Guest Blog: Musicians’ Desk Reference Inches Closer to Reality
Editor's Note: Brian Penick of local music promotions company The Counter Rhythm Group is guest blogging for CityBeat monthly to provide a behind-the-scenes look at his journey to release his interactive industry guidebook, Musicians’ Desk Reference. We are very much in the trenches right now! Keeping afloat amongst a sea of deadlines is a feat…
Event: Queen City Sausage Festival
Get ready for the biggest sausage fest in town as Queen City Sausage pays homage to Porkopolis all weekend long. There’s sure to be enough meat to go around as the sausage company hosts brat eating contests and shows you 27 ways to enjoy sausages of all shapes, sizes and flavors including brats, metts and…
Event: St. Rita Fest
Take part in one of the oldest and largest annual festivals in the Cincinnati area at St. Rita Fest, a tradition that spans nearly 100 years. Money raised benefits St. Rita School for the Deaf and its education for deaf individuals from all over the world. Try some of the famous turtle soup, a recipe…
Art: A Study in Bird Logic: Bruce New
71 Gallery’s Tony Dotson regards Kentucky artist Bruce New as “the king of us,” referring to outsider/folk artists. He was just featured on the cover of Raw Vision, the international journal considered the bible of the genre. Now he has his first Cincinnati show, which is only the second exhibit at Dotson’s recently opened space…
Event: Gambling Rose Tattoo Convention
It is time for Cincinnati to get inked at renowned tattoo artist Shane O’Neill’s Gambling Rose Tattoo Convention this weekend. Whether you’re a body art collector or a tattoo virgin, you’ll have all weekend to watch the most famous — and infamous — tattoo artists from across the nation and around the world create their…
Music: Bunbury Music Festival
One of the Midwest’s best new music fests, Cincinnati’s own Bunbury Music Festival, presents its second annual event this weekend. With another stellar lineup for the three-day affair — including headliners like Fun., MGMT and Cincinnati-bred Indie Rock stars The National (whose latest album debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s album chart), plus a great…
Comedy: Ryan Singer
Dayton native Ryan Singer, who started his comedy career at Go Bananas in Montgomery and now lives in L.A,, returns to his “home club” this weekend. When he’s not on the road he tries to stay busy. “It’s tough being out (in L.A.),” he confesses, “because it’s beautiful and there’s the beach and the mountains.…
Art: Cincinnati Everyday
Now that you’ve likely gotten your fill of patriotism from last weeks’ various America-centric events, go out and celebrate a little more local with Cincinnati Everyday. If you haven’t had the chance yet, the Cincinnati Art Museum’s exhibition of Cole Carothers’ landscape paintings and Courttney Cooper’s hand-drawn aerial maps of Cincinnati, curated by Adjunct Curator…
Onstage: Big River
Could there be a more perfect musical for the Showboat Majestic than Big River? This tuneful version of the story of Huck Finn and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, is a timeless classic about life on the Mississippi. Roger Miller's award-winning score is easy to enjoy, and there’s plenty of comedy. Mark Twain’s inimitable…
Music: Listen to This! The Music of Tiny Tim
Head to the main branch of the public library and tiptoe through the tulips with CityBeat Contributing Visual Arts Editor Steven Rosen as he unearths his treasure trove of recordings by oddball ukulele player Tiny Tim as part of Listen to This!, an hour-plus long program of listening to and talking about music in the…
Thoroughly Modern ‘Newsroom’
It’s September 2011. Occupy Wall Street is in its early stages, the country mourns the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, the 2012 election race is in full swing — a tumultuous and exciting time to re-enter The Newsroom (10 p.m. Sundays, HBO). In last season’s debut, Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom took us right there: behind the scenes…
Media Bridges Shutting Down
Local public access media organization Media Bridges is shutting its doors for good by the end of the year, ending nearly 25 years of public service. The organization’s demise is a result of the city eliminating funding for Media Bridges in its latest budget, which was passed by City Council in May. “It is with…
MidPoint Music Festival 2013: New Additions!
Have you picked up your new CityBeat today yet? In the music section's column Spill It, you'll find Round 3 of this year's MidPoint Music Festival lineup announcements. Click here to read it in column form or check out some audio/visual samples from the just-confirmed acts below (click the artists' names for their website homes).…
‘Enquirer’ Takes Questionable Approach to Covering Meyers Ordination
Thirty-nine years ago, Enquirer editors agreed to cover a global story that still reverberates through some of Christianity’s oldest denominations: the acrimonious debate over whether women may be priests. That 1974 event was the ordination of the first female priests in the Episcopal Church. They were rebels as were the three traditionally consecrated bishops…
I Just Can’t Get Enough
Cincinnati may be 20 years behind the times (according to that old adage), but no more than two months after New York's Dominique Ansel Bakery birthed the cronut — a magical, croissant-donut hybrid — the Queen City’s already got local bakeries with our own varieties. Holtman’s Donut Shop is serving up the pastry at its…
MidPoint Music Festival 2013 Announces More Artists
The MidPoint Music Festival is three months away from kicking off autumn in Cincinnati, with nearly 200 artists from all over the world set to converge on the clubs and venues of Over-the-Rhine and Downtown Sept. 26-28. The third round of bookings for the festival has been confirmed; artists who put in submissions for performance…
Little League Keys, Rapper Torture and Jay-Z Pulls an NSA
HOT The Big Dress Up Boy, The Black Keys will do anything for marketing. The Ohio Indie-to-Arena rockers — whose music can be heard on TV shows, in movies and on commercials for … well, seemingly everything — hustle so hard, they even found a group of little kids they could force to wear Black…
Peaking Valley
“Do you have earplugs? You’re going to want earplugs,” says Valley of the Sun guitarist/vocalist Ryan Ferrier. Most bands turn up the volume in their practice spaces. Competing against other acts in warehouses with nothing resembling insulation tends to make some dials crank up and make Ferrier’s advice extremely valuable. But Valley of the Sun…
Morning News and Stuff
It’s not even two weeks since Gov. John Kasich signed the two-year state budget, and he’s already pushing for the federally funded Medicaid expansion again . Kasich, a Republican, called on fellow advocates and Democrats to lobby Republican legislators into supporting the expansion. The administration says it would need legislation passed by the end of…
Ol’ Dirty Bastards
T ruth be told, when one hears of a group named “Community Service,” they’ll either associate it with social work or ex-offenders in orange jumpsuits doing trash duty along the freeway, not a co-op minded group of MCs spitting a broken-glass-in-the-gutter type of unadulterated Hip Hop. Bonded by shared personal ethics — like agreeing…
Top 10 Misrepresentations of the Cincinnati Streetcar Project
With new funding and accountability measures in place, Cincinnati’s streetcar project is back on track following months of uncertainty and years of obstructionism — a testament to how determined city officials are to complete the project. The funding measures approved by City Council on June 26 put the project’s estimated cost at about $148 million,…
Meet Daniela
If Republicans got their way, women like Daniela would be stuck in a perpetual cycle of near-poverty, with limited options to get a better education and climb out of the economic rut that bad chance — or perhaps parents going through the same cycle — has put them in. Daniela is not a real person,…
Worst Week Ever!: July 3-8
WEDNESDAY JULY 3 Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is a complicated man, as evidenced by his ability to parlay years of respectable military and public service into becoming the guy who uses whack-a-mole metaphors and auto-tune to condemn political opponents. The latest iteration of the senior senator’s growingly unsophisticated political maneuvering (to his credit, he didn’t…
Uphill Battle
T he Armslist.com user from Columbus, Ohio looking to buy an AK-47 automatic assault rifle in the want ads is probably just a collector. He’s probably never committed a crime. He’d probably pass a background check. But maybe he wouldn’t. It’s a question that will never be answered in the exchanges between buyers and sellers…
Playing the Name Game
Director Lee Daniels (Precious) finds himself in a most curious position less than two months from the release of his new film, a historic drama detailing the life of Eugene Allen (here known as Cecil Gaines and played by Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker), a quiet Everyman who served eight presidents during his time as…
Iris BookCafe Shows Extraordinary Photographs of Mongolia
If you’ve wondered whatever happened to the “Renaissance Man,” that able fellow who could do any number of things with skill and had multiple areas of real knowledge, perhaps you need to look at some of today’s women. Elaine Ling, born in Hong Kong and a Canadian since the age of 9, qualifies. Her compelling…
Philip Glass’ ‘Galileo Galilei’ Is More Than a Musical Challenge
Galileo Galilei was a mathematician, a philosopher, a physicist and above all, an astronomer who was a pious Roman Catholic. He was good friends with the Pope Urban VIII until his defense of heliocentrism, the belief that the earth revolves around the sun, ran afoul of church authorities. In 1616, the Vatican forced him to…
Lights, Camera, Action: FotoFocus14 Announces Plans
It was always the stated intention of FotoFocus Director Mary Ellen Goeke — and thus presumed fact — that the photography celebration would be a biennial event. Thus, it would be back in October 2014. But a couple things had happened since last October’s event that raised some questions. First, there was feedback that last…
Base Camp Café (Profile)
W hen Kermit the Frog sang, “It’s not easy being green,” he probably didn’t know decades later it would actually be pretty easy to be green — in the environmental way, of course. Millions of people visit the Cincinnati Zoo every year to see lions, tigers and bears, but now they can further their environmental…
War Flowers
Writer-director Serge Rodnunsky has transitioned from his start as a dancer and choreographer with the American Ballet Theatre (where he worked with Mikhail Baryshnikov and George Balanchine) to feature films. His latest, War Flowers, is a period piece, set during the American Civil War that explores the complications of loyalty and honor that ensue when…
Unfinished Song
This international collaboration (England and Germany) will likely remind audiences of the 2007 documentary Young@Heart, which focused on a senior citizen choir that re-interpreted contemporary popular music. The lovely and uplifting premise certainly seemed like it had the makings of a fictional story, and in Unfinished Song (from writer-director Paul Andrew Williams, best known for…
Pacific Rim
When giant aliens rise up from within the earth, mankind’s only hope is to create a legion of mechanical warriors to battle the menace. Each of our robotic fighters requires two human pilots, mind-melded into a synchronized unit. If all this sounds like an episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers or a live-action version of…
Grown Ups 2
The initial pairing of Adam Sandler with his comedic buddies (Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade) proved to be the least obnoxious release from Sandler’s Happy Madison production house in some time (a fairly low bar thanks to the likes of Jack & Jill), but did it really deserve a sequel? Sure, Sandler needs…
Cincinnati vs. the World 07.10.2013
The number of bicycle commuters across the U.S. has grown by almost 50 percent since 2000. WORLD +2 Gov. John Kasich picked up his first endorsement for a presidential bid from none other than Citizens for Community Values president and executive director and self- professed former porn addict, Phil Burress. CINCINNATI -1 The state of…
A Celebration of Our Greatest Appendage
Sometimes, as a writer, you get hit with an idea, run with it for perhaps a few more miles than you should, scribble down notes and a rough draft and then sit back, read it and realize pitching (let alone publishing) it might very well get you put into a mental institution. One of my…
Until It’s Time for You to Go
Now. I have been on a Nelson Mandela Internet Death Watch since news broke that he’d been hospitalized in late March, and each time I look at the Yahoo! main page and see his name “trending” I suck in a breath and squish my eyes closed then I move the cursor to his name and…
Psychic Sisters
S isterland, the freshly minted fourth novel by Cincinnati native Curtis Sittenfeld, centers on twin sisters Kate and Violet, who have the unique psychic ability to see future events, among other less vital factoids. The narrative opens as Violet (Vi) predicts the specific day that a devastating earthquake will hit St. Louis, where the 34-year-old…
