Whirlygig: 84: Out on the Town
That's a Lot of Roaches I still remember the first time I fell head over heels for someone after moving to Cincinnati. It was way back in 1985 when I was a freshman in high school. My first friend from high school invited me over to his house and I met his younger sister Jess.…
Tide Turns for Cincinnati Opera
Circles of blood-red seats provide an edgy backdrop for a recent weekday night dress rehearsal of the most avant-garde production on Cincinnati Opera's Summer Festival calendar. Soprano Catherine Malfitano walks on the Music Hall stage to perform a triple bill featuring Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins, Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine and the world…
Diner: Fruity Little Darlings
In my version of heaven, it is an endless summer, and everyone gets to eat pie for every meal. Butterscotch pie, coconut cream pie, chicken pot pie, custard pie, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, lemon meringue pie. Pie, pie, pie and more pie! My favorite pies, especially since I've deemed it a never-ending celestial…
Dancing with the Devil
In 1970, Sen. Strom Thurmond hired Thomas Moss. A black South Carolinian and director of the Voter Education Project, which advocated black voter registration, Moss was the first black person hired by any member of Congress hailing from South Carolina. Thurmond, however, isn't going down as racially progressive, supportive of civil rights or a friend…
Cover Story: Out of the Wreckage
Jymi Bolden The color comes naturally as Adam works on another self portrait with his Crayola 100 pack.. He stares at my face for 30 full seconds, meticulously drops the crayon to the paper, glances up again and slowly begins outlining my head. I'm turning splotchy red and growing uncomfortably warm while attempting to…
1178 Lincoln Ave., Glendale
April L. Martin Address: 1178 Lincoln Ave., Glendale Owner: Jeanna Gray Year Built: 1961 Value: $59,400 Comments: Morris Roebuck, the builder and former owner of this house, was a contractor. But he didn't take care of his own property. Citations against the house date back to 1978, when Roebuck applied for a building permit…
Locals Only: : Loud and ‘Claire
Dale M. Johnson Montclaire Typically, nothing good comes out of an ice storm, besides possibly the guilty amusement one can derive from watching smug suburbanites with a false sense of security and an SUV spin off into the grass. But for local five-piece Montclaire, an ice storm was providential. Guitarist/keyboardist David Jackson starts the…
News: Workers Squeeze Grocery Giant
Jymi Bolden Baldemar Velasquez addresses a June 26 protest against the Kroger Co. Shareholders in the Kroger Co. met June 26 at Music Hall to discuss corporate profits and management changes, but outside protesters demanded the company pay attention to workers' needs. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters…
News: Politicians, CEOs and Other Beggars
Jymi Bolden The new panhandling ordinance was the subject of a June 23 meeting at Buddy's Place. Saks Fifth Avenue, the Kroger Co. and other Cincinnati corporations that have begged for city subsidies will soon have panhandling licenses, if Cincinnati Progressive Action (CPA) gets its way. So will city council members and other political…
Summer reading gets hot hot hot
The sun has shone now for five days in a row. Like a fevered dream, this luminous apparition in the sky has left us in a swoon. Like a Buster Poindexter meets Elvis Costello album, Fine Print salutes our friend Ra with a recap of hot and saucy books, a sampling across categories. Crazy…
News: Enquirer Agonistes
The shame of five years ago lingers for Cincin-nati's dominant daily newspaper. Like a family struggling to move on after a tragedy, The Cincinnati Enquirer continues to put distance between it and the journalistic equivalent of suicide, the paper's infamous settlement with Chiquita Brands International five years ago. This week Enquirer officials were to…
News: Life at Last
Jymi Bolden Gathered to plead for clemency were (L-R) Jerome Campbell's nieces, Cathy McGee and Lisa Davis; his sister, Patricia Jenkins-Smith; and his mother, Betty Campbell. Jerome Campbell phoned June 25 from Death Row. I had agreed to witness his execution, scheduled two days later. Convicted of stabbing to death a 78-year-old man in…
