Film: Review: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
BY Steven Rosen | Posted 07/21/2008 ADI PADURETU/IFC FIRST TAKE AND RED ENTERTAINMENT Anamaria Marinca in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days What keeps film alive as a creative artistic medium is the influx of exciting, challenging new movies from countries we never expected to be factors in contemporary cinema. The latest is Romania,…
Porkopolis
BY Kevin Osborne | Posted 07/20/2008 (enlarge) Hamilton County GOP Chair Alex Triantafilou Unlike the federal government, cities and counties have to balance their books each year and can't have a deficit. Everyone who runs a household understands the concept, but many politicians don't want to grasp it because it forces them into difficult decisions.…
Film: Review: The Dark Knight
BY Scott Renshaw | Posted 07/18/2008 (enlarge) Batman (Christian Bale) meets the Joker (Heath Ledger) in The Dark Knight. Here is the ugly truth nobody at Warner Bros. can possibly utter aloud: The death of Heath Ledger will be good for The Dark Knight's bottom line. Make no mistake, the movie was going to be…
Sound Advice: : Tim Easton and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
BY Brian Baker | Posted 07/18/2008 (enlarge) Additional Images: 1 | 2 TimEaston.com Tim Easton Tim Easton with Matthew Shelton Sunday • Taft Museum of Art (2 p.m.) Like a good many contemporary singer/songwriters, Tim Easton's songs exist at the intersection of his varied influences and his eclectic experiences. But very few of Easton's peers…
Music: From the Stage to the Studio
BY Brian Baker | Posted 07/17/2008 Dee Dee Zoretic Medeski Martin & Wood In the music industry's contemporary model, an artist writes and records new material, the label releases it and the artist tours to publicize the new work and stimulate album sales. With few exceptions, that's been the formula for the past six decades…
Another seven days of governments treading on everyone
Jesse Jackson WEDNESDAY JULY 9 Iran stepped up its effort in the 2008 War Games today, firing numerous missiles into the air to show that Israel isn't the only defensive Middle Eastern nation with scary weapons. Israel had pissed off Iran last month by practicing how it will bomb Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities if…
Music: The Moore You Know
Jonathan Willis Daniel Martin Moore If you're a faithful follower of Cincy-born music, then you have probably been perusing Sub Pop's Web site lately in the hopes that the Afghan Whigs have agreed to play the record label's jam-packed 20th anniversary festival. And you likely already know that there's only disappointment to be found…
News: Movement in Clifton Heights
Emily Maxwell Development along the Calhoun/McMillan corridor adjacent to UC might finally be ready to move ahead. Over the July 4 weekend, it wasn't fireworks but the sight of bulldozers on Calhoun Street that left onlookers in awe. Without warning or announcement, Clif Cor Co. began demolition of the former Hardee's and Arby's fast…
News: Background Checks for Houseguests
A friend from another state spends a few nights in your home. One morning before he leaves, a social worker shows up on your doorstep with a cop telling you that she's there to remove your children pending an investigation of an anonymous allegation of negligence. If convicted of child endangerment, you could lose custody…
My Name Is Joe, and I’m a Geek
I spent part of the last week geocaching and last night I stayed up too late playing around on my computer trying to figure how to hack my Blackberry, maximize efficiencies with my GMRS radios (look it up) and program my TiVo. While on vacation recently, I took along all my camera gear —…
Onstage: Vocal Pleasures
Northern Kentucky University Forever Plaid sounds heavenly at NKU. Maybe the four lads in NKU/Commonwealth Dinner Theater's Forever Plaid don't sing at all. Maybe when their enraptured opening-night audience sat listening to "Moments to Remember," the guys on the stage were actually channeling some ethereal echo of the (real) Four Lads from back in…
Cover Story: As American As Apple Pie
Jason Kidwell America on Steriods Americans are obsessed with being the biggest and the best. From business to war to sports, we have a long-running compulsion with winning. It should then come as no surprise that American athletes are compelled to do everything in their power to get an edge, including using performance-enhancing drugs.…
Film: Review: The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Here is the ugly truth nobody at Warner Bros. can possibly utter aloud: The death of Heath Ledger will be good for The Dark Knight's bottom line. Make no mistake, the movie was going to be huge anyway — 2005's Batman Begins didn't exactly under-perform at the box office. But plenty…
Funny puppets, sining along to art, Frog Bog, Barefoot in the Park, 24-Hour Film School and much more
Terry Fator Terry Fator & friends WEDNESDAY 7/16 ONSTAGE: FOREVER PLAID, a dinner musical presented by the Commonwealth Theatre Company, masters tight harmony. See Tom McElfresh's review here. ART: TAFT MUSEUM OF ART allows you to experience art without feeling the pressure to get to the masterworks in Views From the Uffizi. See Laura…
Alone at 3AM (Profile)
To get to Candyland Studio, one must navigate the slippery, newly bleached floor of Puppy Camp, a doggie daycare. Tucked behind the canine retreat, the studio strangely appears. On the walls: skateboards, Jesus the trucker, Johnny Cash flipping the bird. Red-black, loose curtains surround the room. Dark drapes. Quirky vampires could live inside. Alone at…
Heavy Questions
When we met on Fountain Square that afternoon, we talked about something, but I'll be damned if I can remember what either one of us said. My mind wasn't on the conversation. My mind was on her fat. She was so heavy I didn't recognize her. In fact, I walked right by her without saying…
Writing and Reality
Thanks to Margo Pierce for her cover story, "The Shadow of Addiction" (issue of July 2). As the spouse of a recovering sex addict, I'm always glad to see anything written with a bent toward reality. And I always enjoy seeing Dr. Laura Schlessinger taken to task. Pierce's writing was timely. With the Christie Brinkley-Peter…
Over-the-Rhine the Right Place for a Historic Tenement Museum
Historic-house museums are great for a city — places not just to learn about the past but also to see it meticulously preserved and brought to life. Cincinnati has some good ones: the Taft Museum of Art (which serves as both a house and art museum), William Howard Taft National Historic Site, Harriet Beecher Stowe…
Katie Reider 1978-2008
KatieReider.com Katie Reider Cincinnati-bred singer/songwriter Katie Reider passed away on the morning of July 14 after a two-year battle with cancer. In early 2006, Reider went to the dentist for a toothache, kicking off a long process that ultimately led to a diagnosis of a Myofibroblastic Inflammatory tumor. Reider fought the progressive cancer with…
The American League Is Superior Thanks to the Yanks
Jerry Dowling Midway through the baseball season, the American League's superiority in big league baseball persists with such radiance that The Wall Street Journal took a stab at explaining it, however feebly. An article in the paper last week gave as reasons for AL superiority a list of facts basically amounting to an inventory…
Art: Revisiting an Era
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Botticelli's "The Adoration of the Magi" is part of the Taft Musuem of Art's Views from the Uffizi. It's easy to get lost in the Uffizi. Florence's most prestigious art museum is large and full of some of the best known paintings in the entire world. These works often eclipse…
Sound Advice: : Tim Easton and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
TimEaston.com Tim Easton Tim Easton with Matthew Shelton Sunday
Time for GOP to Ante Up
Unlike the federal government, cities and counties have to balance their books each year and can't have a deficit. Everyone who runs a household understands the concept, but many politicians don't want to grasp it because it forces them into difficult decisions. Surprisingly, the worst local offender — until recently — was the Hamilton County…
The Enchantress of Florence (Review)
Things to keep in mind when starting a Salman Rushdie novel: It's difficult, if not impossible, to understand everything during a first reading; the bawdy language is as much a device as the plot itself; and, most importantly, Sir Rushdie is consistently lighthearted, despite the heaviness of his subjects. His newest book is no exception.…
The Soloist (Review)
Steve Lopez, metro columnist for The Los Angeles Times, was walking around downtown one day when he saw a shabbily dressed homeless man serenely playing Beethoven on his battered violin at a street corner. He was intrigued — and, of course, looking for column material. "Violin man. It's got potential," Lopez recalls thinking in his…
Film: Review: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
ADI PADURETU/IFC FIRST TAKE AND RED ENTERTAINMENT Anamaria Marinca in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days What keeps film alive as a creative artistic medium is the influx of exciting, challenging new movies from countries we never expected to be factors in contemporary cinema. The latest is Romania, which in the last couple…
Music: From the Stage to the Studio
Dee Dee Zoretic Medeski Martin & Wood In the music industry's contemporary model, an artist writes and records new material, the label releases it and the artist tours to publicize the new work and stimulate album sales. With few exceptions, that's been the formula for the past six decades of popular music marketing. But…
Obama Returns to Cincinnati a Leader
Sen. Barack Obama came to Cincinnati July 14 a much different man than the last time he publicly spoke here. Back in the winter, when he held a boisterous rally at UC's basketball arena, he was still a curiosity of sorts. He'd surprised everyone, maybe even himself, by holding off Sen. Hillary Clinton through Super…
NuVo (Review)
Make plans to go to NuVo. You owe it to yourself to try this surprising new restaurant in the most unlikely of locations: Dream Street in Florence. Seriously, Dream Street is hardly Monastery Street in Mount Adams or the main drag in Montgomery, but by the quality of the food at NuVo you wouldn't know…
