What’s That Smell Coming from the Basement?
Jerry Dowling From the field to the front office, the Reds have delivered one of the most unpleasant seasons we've ever seen. The worst of it is that we don't know how badly they've let us down — but the chance remains strong we'll find out. Two other National League franchises, in Washington and Houston,…
Living Out Loud: : Code Baby Snowsuit
Last Sunday I sat in a booth at LaRosa's, waiting for my mother and younger sister to join me. As I sipped my Cherry Coke, a loud and unmistakable noise filled the dining room, like a combination of a long burp and a porpoise calling to its mate. Other diners, unsettled by this interruption, looked…
The Fuel of Awareness
In the very nature of a problem there's fuel to guide us toward higher awareness. The bigger the problem, the more fuel we can tap. A problem can't exist without an answer, for the answer is waiting ahead of the problem for us to awaken to it. It is our lack of awareness that veils…
News to Use
Get Mixed Up With Candidates The Urbanists and YP Cincy are throwing a candidates mixer from 6-8 p.m. July 13 at McFadden's downtown. Candidates for Cincinnati City Council and mayor will attend. Don't miss the opportunity to corner your favorite or least favorite politician for a one-on-one chat. For more information, call Jeffrey Stec at…
Musicians Exchange
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Home Services
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Cover Story: The ‘New’ Coroner’s Office
CSI: Cincinnati Pensively sitting in a nondescript county office building on a recently redeveloped corner in Corryville, Charlene Walker — mother of Kenneth Lackey, Cincinnati homicide victim No. 51 in 2004 — waits to talk with Hamilton County Coroner Dr. O'dell Owens. The two met at the Avondale Branch Public Library during a meeting of…
Rentals, Roommates & Real Estate
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Sudsy’s Gets Warped
Legendary Corryville Rock club Sudsy Malone's is the home of this year's "Battle For Warped Tour" competition, with the ultimate winner earning a slot on the celebrated Punk/Rock fest when it stops at Riverbend July 22. The first round takes place Wednesday at 9 p.m. and features area artists Dusty Bryant, Ukrane Crane, Ailinel, The…
Matt Parmenter – Medic
Michael WIlson Matt Parmenter – Medic The Record That Changed My Life – SPK — "Slogun" I was 14 years old in a college town in Michigan, hanging out in the dirty, smelly one-room apartment of a clinically insane friend, with a Sisters of Mercy subway poster on the wall and a gallon bottle of…
News: The River Is a Playground
Roni Moermond Recreation can help conservation efforts on the Ohio River, according to Patricia Timm and Brewster Rhoads. The Ohio River is plagued with bacteria and a bad reputation that keeps Cincinnatians apprehensive about using it as a means of recreation. But that could be changing, according to Brewster Rhoads, a board member of Ohio…
State Scandals? Not in Cincinnati
With perennial fears of a "long hot summer" simmering and Cincinnati City Council and mayoral elections before us, a warning: Beware of news media whose stenographic reporting fails to challenge candidates and activists who invoke some number of black men killed by Cincinnati Police. Since Timothy Thomas was shot by a Cincinnati officer in 2001,…
Notices
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Artists Exchange
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Diner: Heavenly Dining
Dining in the clouds is no longer the experience it once was. When you fly, you've got to bring your own burger, unless you're going first class. The good news is that everyone goes first class at the Celestial Steakhouse — not quite in the clouds, but certainly high above the city. The Celestial Steakhouse…
BYO-OBGYN
I'm sure this won't be the only response you receive regarding your advice to OBGYN, the pro-choice girl whose pro-life boy refused to have intercourse with her unless she agreed to have the baby if she got pregnant. Why? Because your advice was totally fucked up. I take 95 percent of what could be considered…
Survival of Ideology at Stake
Last week President Bush stood in front of a nation where, according to a report in The Washington Post, nearly three-quarters of its people say the number of casualties in Iraq has not been a price worth paying and nearly six in 10 people say that the war hasn't been worth fighting at all. More…
Got Reform?
Changing the way the Cincinnati Police Department handles conflict is a slow process, but the effects are starting to show. The 10th quarterly report by the independent monitor charged with overseeing implementation of a package of police reforms, published last week, details the improvements as well as areas in which operations still need work. The…
The Heart of Friendship
I spent a week in San Francisco at the end of June, bathed in temperate breezes and surrounded by beauty: alabaster palaces draped in purple bougainvillea and oleander, marinas of white sail boats perfectly balanced, tacking into the blue bay. On the sidewalk, slender figures glided by on bikes and rollerblades in trim fitting sports…
Food, drink, etc.
You don't need to tell Westsiders that DAMIR'S DELHI HOUSE, (6344 Gracely Drive, Saylor Park, 513-941-5888) is a gem — they've known that for about 124 years. The restaurant, originally opened as the Delhi House, has been serving food, drink and even ice cream (during Prohibition) in the same location since 1881. The current owners…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of The Cloud, Hockey Night and More…
The Cloud Room The Cloud Room with Benzos Wednesday · Southgate House (Parlour) What a difference a decade can make. When bands in the '90s tried to attach the music of the '80s to create their own, they were derided as artless poseurs, unoriginal revivalists or worse. Maybe there's more perspective on the '80s now…
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Sandy Underwood After a successful run at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Crowns heads to the Actors Theatre of Louisville for a production beginning in April. If you read this column with any frequency, you know that I admire the efforts of ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE, especially its annual Humana Festival of New American Plays.…
For Sale
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Miscellaneous
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Downtown’s Square Deal
Our lives are in constant motion, even on holiday weekends promoted as well-earned rest-and-relaxation time. I pass through downtown's heartbeat, Fountain Square, on my way to nearby banks and Kinko's on a regular basis, but I can't remember the last time I hung out there. Banners hanging from Fifth Street lamp posts declare the "Great…
Employment
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Luken: ‘We Don’t Need No Stinking Boards’
Sean Hughes/photopresse.com Amazing sights in Northside: a dog on skates and support for Charlie Winburn's mayoral campaign. Cincinnati City Council met June 29 for the last time before breaking for the summer. Among its last-gasp business items, council voted to override the Historic Conservation Board's refusal to OK moving the Tyler Davidson Fountain. That means…
Locals Only: : Riffer Madness
Blacklight Barbarian It's a steamy summer night, and a sweaty power trio is ripping through one sludgy jam after another. On one wall of their practice space hangs a UV-illuminated picture of two scimitar-wielding ogres looking down on the band with cartoonish ferocity. Like their poster-bound namesakes, Blacklight Barbarian are a reminder of another era,…
Telephone Services
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