Film: The Chase Is Over
John Frankenheimer When thinking about the great films of John Frankenheimer, who passed away on July 6, many people immediately recall The Manchurian Candidate. It's not difficult to see why. Not only was it deliriously exciting, but it was one of the first films to directly challenge the McCarthy era. I suppose you could…
Thanks, but No Thanks
Jymi Bolden Steve Loftin says the Cincinnati Arts Association isn't "fanning the flames of discontent or attacking political expression" with its lawsuit against boycotters. Steve Loftin, president of the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), has decided not to take up Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune's suggestion that the organization drop its lawsuit against the Coalition…
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: The Latest Thing
Phil Morehart Ale-8 One, a soft drink with a cult following that's brewed in a small Kentucky town, is now available in Greater Cincinnati. In 1926, soft drink entrepreneur G. L. Wainscott hit the beverage jackpot. After years of manufacturing various flavored sodas, he created the taste that would make addicts of the residents…
CQ, The Crocodile Hunter, Dark Days, Eight Legged Freaks, Halloween, K:19, Reign of Fire and Stuart Little 2
* CQ — Writer/director Roman Coppola follows in his famous father's filmmaking footsteps with this sly movie-within-a-movie comedy inspired by Roger Vadim's 1967 film Barbarella. In 1969 Paris, an American film editor (Jeremy Davies) is hired to complete a troubled sci-fi movie, Dragonfly. His stewardess girlfriend (Elodie Bouchez) rants against his lack of commitment to…
Cover Story: The Life of a Salesman
"Weegee with his Speed Graphic camera" is a portrait of Weegee taken in 1944 by an unknown photographer In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a short, slightly stout, cigar-smoking photographer stalked New York for news, night after night, with a Speed Graphic camera and a pocket full of flashbulbs. He shot murder after…
News: Priests in Love
David Wasinger Bill Proud served as a Catholic priest for 28 years until he left to marry Pat. If God is love and the Catholic Church is about bringing people closer to God, why is it bad for a priest to fall in love? The continuing child abuse scandal in the church leaves many…
Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu Boasting an anvil-heavy sound with a trippy, lysergic bent, SoCal's Fu Manchu are one of the best of the breed of Hard Rock bands who worship at the altar of old Black Sabbath and Black Flag. The band has actually been at it for over a decade, forming in 1990, when they…
Herbs for Life
This week begins a series to highlight some common herbs and how they can assist in healing or keeping the body in balance. Every other week, I'll focus on common herbs indigenous to this area, many of which are growing in your yard right now. Most can be taken as teas (leaves, stems or roots…
News: Block Power
Jymi Bolden The Rev. Damon Lynch III (center) was invited by North College Hill residents to join their march July 9 to protest alleged poor treatment of black teen-agers by NCH police officers. Parents who couldn't get complaint forms July 8 from the North College Hill Police Department got them July 9 when they…
Why Is Adamowski Leaving CPS Now?
After nearly four years as superintendent of Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS), Steven Adamowski abruptly resigned June 24 to take a college position teaching leadership and school reform skills to principals and superintendents. By the end of August, he'll pack his bags and head to the University of Missouri's College of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies,…
Whirlygig: 35
Edited by Rebecca Lomax Heteroflexible Midweek I found myself doing some research over at Rockwood Commons for an upcoming French picnic. I hoped browsing through the Wild Oats deli and produce sections would get my culinary juices flowing. The picnic guests who were to convene at my house are food snobs, while I'm typically…
The Riley Project Dazzles
Ask any local Joe where one finds "high art," and he'll direct you to the Cincinnati Art Museum. Old and valuable are the determining factors that make an artwork worthwhile to many people. Everything else falls into various "low art" categories — avant-garde, emerging, experimental and the most marginalized of all art, student artwork. Every…
1731 Carll St.
David Wasinger 1731 Carll St. Address: 1731 Carll St., North Fairmount Owner: F&R Developers & Contractors, Cincinnati Value: $33,900 Year Built: 1998 Comments: North Fairmount has an abundance of what might, in another neighborhood, be called green space. For more than three decades, woodlands have been steadily reclaiming, lot by lot, what was once…
