Enquirer Supports Less Privacy?
Enquirer nuttiness is making me think I'm a conservative. An editorial blandly accepts CCTV — not Phil Burress' illiberal cult — but 120 Closed Circuit TV cameras to police our streets. Any true conservative would reject CCTV as a metastasizing big government intrusion into our freedom to travel, assemble and speak in public without police…
Walk the Moon (Profile)
Walk the Moon Nestled in the Highland Heights hills, there lives another planet — The Bamboo Room, producer/manager Erwin Musper's baby, a recording studio true to its name. Made of bamboo, the floors have a yellowish tinge. Not the usual studio darkness. Smooth and spotless. From Holland, Musper has worked with stars such as David…
Onstage: All Over the Map
Sandy Underwood Drew Fracher (left) and Annie Fitzpatrick starred in Ensemble Theatre's production of Rabbit Hole in September 2007. Both actors and the show are nominated for Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. Mikhail Roberts (left) and Steve Copps in Know Theatre's Thrill Me. Christopher Guthrie (left) and Jeremy Dubin in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The words…
Sound Advice: : Morgan Heritage and Mickey Hart Band
Morgan Heritage Mickey Hart Band Wednesday
Eat, Drink and Give to Charity
CityBeat Archive Ken Griffey Jr.'s Charity Wines debuted on Father's Day. Just when you thought it was safe to cut down on dining out, summer brings even more opportunities to eat and drink new things in new places. At least you can do some of it in the name of charity. On July 9,…
Northside Rock ‘N Roll Carnival, Cajun comedy, motorcycles in Newport, balloons at Coney Island and much more
Xavier Donald Holden's "Schoodic Sunset" WEDNESDAY 7/02 ART: MEYERS GALLERY Midway is currently on display at the University of Cincinnati's Meyers Gallery in the Steger Student Life Center and features sculptural works and drawings by Laura Alich and Beth Graves. Both artists use skills honed in their day jobs as sculptors at Sculpco to…
Signs Pointing to Better Public Transit
Cincinnati City Council recently passed a motion to pursue taking over the area's bus system on the Ohio side. The fact that the motion passed unanimously means change is afoot. Greater Cincinnati has needed a truly regional approach to public transit for a long time. Well, we need a regional approach to a lot of…
Memorial Hall
Memorial Hall With the Fourth of July so close you can almost taste the hot dogs and ice cream, it seems a fitting time to discuss a building meant to honor the individuals our society places at the forefront of patriotic pride: soldiers. Well, technically that dedication includes not just soldiers, but flag-waving sailors,…
Back in the Day
By the time you read this column, I'll have been inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM) in Owensboro, Ky., which is right across the road from Rosine, the birthplace of Bill Monroe, considered the father of Bluegrass music. Bill was buried in Rosine as well. That's why the Bluegrass music industry is centered…
Another seven days of dull parties and sharp flag pins
Maverick WEDNESDAY JUNE 25 The Supreme Court today finally put and end to the question of whether or not the Second Amendment is an inherent staple of democracy or an outdated symbol of poor people having power. It's the first one. The court's 5-4 decision overturned the District of Columbia's 32-year ban on handguns…
The Balcony Is Open, and It’s Really Lux
After all these years in decline, somebody has figured out a way to make the movie-theater balcony hip again. Not just hip, but — to use the terminology of National Amusements, owner of a new Showcase Cinema multiplex at Florence Mall — "lux." It will cost you $10 beyond the cost of your movie ticket…
Rumors, Lies and General Misunderstandings
Roundhead Roundhead · Roots Rock greats 500 Miles to Memphis have taken on a new side gig. After a chance run-in with 500 Miles in her home base of Austin, Tex., Country singer Kasey Musgraves has teamed with the group for live shows (so far, they've opened for the likes of Trace Adkins and…
Cutting Trees and Community Ties
Photos.com Out along Bridgetown Road in Green Township there are about five houses that have been inadvertently thrust into the firewood business. It wasn't the homeowners' idea, but thanks to crews contracted by Duke Energy — for all intents and purposes Greater Cincinnati's sole energy provider — the trees in their front yards were…
Dance: Close Encounters
Kurt Strecker Partnership: The Tango takes two. Editor's note: This is the first installment of a three-part series highlighting dance-class offerings around town. You might expect a dance class — especially one that includes a partner — to kick off with learning some steps. Not so with Tango. In a recent introductory Argentine Tango…
Glitterbox: Derek Jarman X 4 (Zeitgeist Films)
Glitterbox: Derek Jarman X 4 1985-'93, Unrated Quite obviously a poet and painter even before he became a filmmaker, Derek Jarman came to movies with his singular style of cerebral camp already cultivated. "Gay sex, please. I'm British," seemed like his unofficial motto, borne out in an arrestingly sensual vision, and he knew perfectly…
Local GOP All Talk, No Action
Hamilton County's newest Republican Party chairman must think voters have short memories or don't understand county government. Or both. On his blog last week, GOP Chairman Alex Triantafilou dusted off tired old clich's to warn his fellow true believers that the Democrat-controlled Hamilton County Board of Commissioners was going to raise taxes sometime soon. The…
Music: Personnel Triumph
Wendy Lynch Isaac Brock (right) likes what he hears from the latest lineup of Modest Mouse Isaac Brock, the leader of Modest Mouse, was famously quoted as saying that during the recording of the band's 2004 album, Good News For People Who Like Bad News, he wanted to kill producer Dennis Herring. Or, as…
Cover Story: The Shadow of Addiction
Oliver Meinerding The Shadow Of Addiction Like the long shadow of a person cast by the late-day sun, the darkness cast by the actions of a sex addict covers his or her family with suspicion and fear. The person who can't get enough sex will turn to prostitutes, young people who are vulnerable to…
In Bruges (Universal Studios)
In Bruges 2008, Rated R Playwright Martin McDonagh's full-length feature debut finds Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as a pair of Irish hit men who are jettison to the sleepy medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by their boss (a scary Ralph Fiennes, whose head here resembles a throbbing anvil) after a previous job goes awry.…
Film: Review: Hancock
Columbia Pictures You talkin' to me?: Will Smith in Hancock There's something genuinely redundant about casting Will Smith as a superhero in a release on the Fourth of July. Much has been made about his supreme box-office domination of America's summer holiday, which when viewed without hyperbolic bias seems slightly overblown. Considering that he…
Music: Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Drunk
Gregg Gillis Mess you up Last week, Gregg Gillis — the track-sculptor better known as Girl Talk — released his new album, Feed the Animals. Released as one of those new-fangled "pay what you want" downloads on his Web site, Animals follows in the same vein as Gillis' breakthrough last record, Night Ripper, a…
Larry Is Forever
I like most of the writers who write the Living Out Loud columns, but Larry Gross' stories make me smile and think the most. "A Good Sunday" (issue of June 25) is a keeper. I scrapbook a few things, and this column I cut out and put in my book. Really, he wrote just a…
News: ‘Sorry’
Oliver Meinerding If Iraqi farmer Suhail Najim Abdullah al-Shimari is telling the truth, he was repeatedly tortured at Abu Ghraib and other prisons near Baghdad for more than four years by U.S. military contractors paid with your tax dollars. With neither military nor civilian courts having yet to charge any private contractors with criminal…
Boarding Gate (Magnolia)
Boarding Gate 2007, Rated R Asia Argento, daughter of Italian horror director Dario Argento, has carved her own auteur-like niche as an actress. Her characters are beautiful messes of dichotomies and contradictions: carnal and innocent, manipulative and needy, headstrong and reserved, controlled and confused, confrontational and distant. The effect is spellbinding, giving Argento command…
Cleveland Indians Aren’t a Last Place Team … or Are They?
Jerry Dowling Nothing is more fun and easy to abuse than a baseball statistic, which is why we do it so freely and often. It's also how we frequently outsmart ourselves. No matter what we learn from quantitatively analyzing past events, future events are under no obligation to conform. Anomalies pop up everywhere, formulae…
Coco’s (Review)
� Joe Lamb Coco's From a distance, under the slightly fluorescent streetlights in front of Coco's, Jimmy Salzarulo (aka "Jimmy the Weasel") looks a bit like Jean-Robert de Cavel. Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the lively expressions. Maybe it's the pink shirt. But Jimmy, 94.9 "The Sound" DJ and new co-owner of Covington's reopened…
