Buffaloed in Springfield
There's something happening here, What it is ain't exactly clear. This isn't going to be your ordinary presidential election. It hasn't been so far, and it's just barely started. Something is in the air this summer. You feel it here, and you read and hear about it happening across the country. Liberals, progressives, independents and…
News: The Green Team
James Czar / JAMESCZAR.com Facing obstacles to ballot access and with his own party's previous nominee running as an independent, presidential candidate David Cobb told Green Party members in Cincinnati that their message is important. The menu for the Green Party presidential ticket's July 19 visit to Northside was simple: cobb salad, corn on the…
Painting Mark Painter’s story
Why Don't You Understand? I was surprised and disappointed by your article covering the Africano fest ("The People's Party," issue of June 30-July 6). I have had great admiration for CityBeat's coverage of the complex and painful racial conflicts plaguing our city during the past several years, but boy did you get this wrong. Your…
Diner: Reviewing the Reviewer
Kelly Burleson I am in a heart-pounding, sweat-slicked run for my life. From behind is an odd rhythm of ka-thump-thump-drag, joined by rustling, the clanging of metal and an increasingly loud chopchopchopchop. Terror propels me forward through an opaque, greasy rain that sizzles and pops as it hits the … hmmm … rubber? … ground.…
Jon Shenk finds his calling through Lost Boys of Sudan BY steve ramos
Jon Shenk The civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan continues to rage as Arab militias rape and kill black Africans. U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell is in the news for visiting Sudan, but the core issue of providing safety for the Sudanese people remains. More than any newspaper article, the most…
Locals Only: : Damn right he knows the blues
Dale M. Johnson The Reverend Billy Rose The history of Blues music is liberally populated with figures that just quite can't overcome their own worst character traits due to a variety of conscious choices. It's equally — if not more — populated with figures that have been ripped off blind by unscrupulous record companies and…
A new home for Hip hop
The Hip Hop Youth Arts Center now has a home at 1599 Central Pkwy., at the Liberty Street intersection and next to the Cincinnati Ballet. That puts it 10 minutes from every bus line in the city, according to founder Gavin Leonard. He reports that the "truly unique" building, designed by a Cuban architect, also…
Brian O’Donnell
Vol. 06Issue 34 Then: In 2000, Rick Pender talked to Brian O'Donnell, a familiar voice in Cincinnati radio who was in the unique position of working at two different non-commercial stations. O'Donnell had been on the local scene for 27 years, bouncing around the dial until he found two that fit: the Monday-Friday morning show…
It Depends
I'm a 28-year-old guy. When I make out with a girl, I produce lots of pre-come. It's often so much that my pants get wet. And it's tons worse if there's petting involved. This can be very embarrassing, especially if we're in public. I've gotten to the point where I'll wear a pair of shorts…
Cover Story: Taking a Flier
Kelly Burleson and Sean Hughes Jobs. Lately they seem scarce, particularly the good ones. Especially for young people. This summer has been the roughest in some time for teenagers and twentysomethings. Both U.S. News & World Report and Time magazine ran stories bemoaning the employment outlook for college and high school students. Corporate internships are…
Film: The Tent Pole Outsider
Danger continues to follow assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) and friend Marie (Franke Potente) in director Paul Greengrass' The Bourne Supremacy. LOS ANGELES — The name has now been claimed but an alternate title, both provocative and pertinent, for 2002's spy thriller The Bourne Identity could have been I, Robot. As part of the CIA's…
All Along the Church Tower
The 1962 demolition of Manhattan's old Penn Station — a grand 1910 building with a vaulted glass ceiling and massive concourse that made train passengers feel like royalty — caused an outrage credited for breathing life into the historic preservation movement and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The same thing should have happened in…
News to Use
Talk to HUD Secretary Communities United for hosts U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson for a public forum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at North Presbyterian Church, 4222 Hamilton Ave. in Northside. Jackson will listen to citizen concerns about affordable housing and the Section Eight housing program. For more information, call 853-3947. Tibetan…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
Remember Edgar Allen Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum? That huge, weighted arm swinging back and forth, and with each passage the lowering blade threatens the main character as he's strapped to a table. Politics is like that. With occasional exceptions, centrist "swing voters" — those who usually decide elections — chose their leaders with…
Previews of upcoming shows of Los Straitjackets, Secert Machines and Korn
Funeral For A Friend Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men and Los Straitjackets Thursday · Southgate House When the Los Angeles scene erupted in the late '70s/early '80s, the only common denominator was boundless energy. Pure Punk angst was exemplified by The Germs, a jazzier Punk vibe was captured by X, and East L.A.'s Hispanic…
