1757-61 Sycamore St.
Doug Trapp Address: 1757-61 Sycamore St., Over-the-Rhine Owner: Lee Ann Coulter Value: $12,400 (combined) Year Built: 1875 Comments: This property is an example of blightus averageus in Over-the-Rhine and Mt. Auburn. Like many buildings in need of rehab, it's visible, it's near a building that has already been rehabbed and it's near an overgrown…
News: The Fire Next Time
Racial tensions are set to explode, according to Carol Swain. Cincinnatians have every right to be concerned about declining race relations. America is in danger of a major uprising of race hatred and destruction, according to Carol Swain, professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University. "We in America, I believe, are increasingly…
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…
Reviews of The Frog King and The Origin of The World
Let's begin. American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Mad Max meets Dogma meets Road to Perdition. Wildly imaginative. Very dark. Dramatically upping the ante, Gaiman takes off from British castles and atmospheric passages leading into alternate realities to cross the Atlantic in one Paul Bunyan-like step. Anti-hero Shadow has spent the last three years in…
Whirlygig: 36
Edited By Rebecca Lomax Jungle Fever If it weren't so dry around here, I'd swear it was the jungle with the temperature in the 90s and the humidity dripping moisture. Face it: July and August make some of us long for a crisp autumn evening or a cool spring shower. I would never survive in…
Can’t You Say Something Nice About the Republican Censor?
Will Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune say something supportive about the Bengals? Does he have any choice? The gagging of Portune continues. The latest development is paragraph 2G of the seven-page joint defense agreement signed in late June by the Cincinnati Bengals and the county. It's a contract to share the legal expense of fighting…
Sweat and Inspiration
On a day meant for swimsuits, eight teen-agers stand outside a Walnut Hills factory building holding paintbrushes and wearing air masks. The heat is brutal, but that doesn't curb their enthusiasm for their work. Part of the ArtWorks summertime training program, the "Power of Art" project unites 15 local apprentices with New York City-based graffiti…
News: Right to Boycott
If the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is worried about finding performers to fill its venues because of the civil rights boycott, the group can turn to its own lawyer, Edward Marks, a capable entertainer. Melodrama is Marks' specialty. In arguments justifying the CAA's lawsuit against members of the Coalition for a Just Cincinnati, he compared…
Double Redundant
I am not an apologist. It's difficult for many Negroes to say the same. When one of us does something wrong, though, it's no better or worse than when a person of any other race takes a misstep. Perhaps suspended Cincinnati Police Lt. Col. Ron Twitty panicked during what might have begun as a small…
Diner: Piquant Mouthful
Open the front door of this sky blue building, and you feel as if you just stepped into someone's home — with a few extra tables set up in the front rooms, waiting for family, friends or the unexpected visitor who might turn up with an appetite. "Drop on by" is the attitude that prevails,…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
Until recently, I did a nightly talk radio show on WDBZ (1230 AM), with a largely African-American audience. On my last day, the story broke that Lt. Col. Ron Twitty was being removed from his police duties with pay for allegedly lying on an investigation report about damage done to his police-issued car July 4.…
Dianogah
Dianogah Indie instrumentalists Dianogah (pronounced Dye-ah-No-gah) not only don't have a singer in their core, but they don't even possess a guitarist. Just a drummer and two bassists. If that sounds limiting, a quick listen to the sprawlling, lush and bewitching Millions of Brazillians shows that the trio is more than capable of utilizing…
News: Holy Disorders
Jymi Bolden the Rev. Stephen Van Kuiken could lose his job for fully welcoming gays and lesbians into the church Equally loving and welcoming all God's children might damn the Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church. An administrative commission assigned to investigate the church and its pastor, the Rev. Stephen Van Kuiken, will make a recommendation…
