Cover Story: Baby, You Can Drive My Car!
My daughter has always been and will always be a great source of pride and inspiration. I can remember proudly holding my tiny newborn princess in the crook of my right arm like a running back would hold a football. I'll never forget the first wary steps she took as she made the transition from…
Cover Story: Role Reversal
A recent study reported widely on national news proclaimed that women and minorities are 40 percent less likely to receive aggressive intervention —angiogram — for heart disease. In actuality, the differences were 85 percent versus 91 percent, a 6 percent spread. When further analyzed critically, the difference was largely applicable to African-American females. The women's…
Diner: Italian Tastes for American Appetites
Yet another Italian restaurant, I think, hearing Nicola's has expanded to Hyde Park Square with Pane e Vino, in the space once occupied by J.B. Winberie's. No way will they make it with the same pricey fare they offer at their Over-the-Rhine location. And what is with this fascination with Italian restaurants? Don't people eat…
News: Firefighters Called Parking Space Hogs
Campanello's manager says his business is suffering because of a continuing fight over limited parking spaces on Central Avenue (foreground). Campanello's Italian Restaurant is weary from what its owner says has been a battle with the Cincinnati Fire Division over firefighters taking up parking spaces with their personal vehicles. The spaces in question are…
News: Toughing It Out on the Road Is How Group Pursues Dreams
(L-R) Heather Gawronski, Marty McConnell and Andi Strickland perform poetry as The Morrigan. Calling themselves "The Morrigan," Heather Gawronski, Marty McConnell and Andi Strickland have ditched their jobs and uprooted their lives to live in their van, "Wilma." They travel the country performing spoken word poetry. Why? Because they "needed to speak to as…
Convention Wisdom: Once Again, There’s No Plan
There seems to be little doubt that Cincinnati's next major public investment will be an expansion of the Delta/Sabin Convention Center. As with most tax-and-spend projects, without the benefit of a coordinated downtown masterplan, "conservative" organizations like the Republican Party and The Cincinnati Enquirer have eagerly endorsed this huge public expenditure. In fact, this project…
Cover Story: Growing Up, Growing Older
30 I've never really been one to put too much weight on age or birthdays. Turning 16 was great for the driving privileges and turning 21 was anticipated for (legal) drinking privileges. I also was anxious to make it past 27, the age many of my musical heroes died. So the big 3-0 wasn't that…
You’ve Got Male
Ruthless predator. Awkward communicator. Rutting, carnal beast. Sweaty. Slovenly. Slow to comprehend. Sad, isn't it, guys? Those words could just as easily describe a man of 10,000 years ago as they could any man today (and, I think, Courtney Love). Don't be disheartened, though. Just because we men have been slow on the evolutionary uptake…
Cover Story: Moving On Up
Jymi Bolden Andy Georgin While life is loaded with transitions, it's safe to say that going to college opens up a whole other can of worms in that department. Attending a university usually means leaving the cushy womb of your parents, meeting new people, trying "new things" and deciding where your life is going…
News: Local Church Says, ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ — Straight or Gay
Jymi Bolden The Rev. Harold Porter A decision by the Vatican several weeks ago to prohibit a Maryland priest and nun from ministering to gays and lesbians has struck a local nerve. Local church leaders and organizations representing gays, lesbians and bisexuals say the decision sends a harmful message to homosexuals practicing organized religion.…
Cover Story: Are We Not Men?
Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla There is an episode of Taxi in which Latka's fiancée must meet with her future mother-in-law to find out the secret truth about men. Until she hears it, Simka cannot marry Latka. His mother sits her soon-to-be daughter-in-law down and tells her, "Men are drunken lumps of lazy flesh,"…
