The Sweep (Profile)
Andrea Vetter The Sweep Gritty, alluring, shocking. On the side, Canadian Indie band Black Mountain works to serve the drug addicted, distributing clean needles in a job that stabs into their darkly psychedelic sound, one that still hangs on to the roots. Street-smart and alarming, in 2005, Black Mountain grabbed me. It was like…
Film: Review: The Incredible Hulk
Universal Big mouth: The Hulk tests his mighty roar. In an effort to perhaps exorcise the sense of failure surrounding Ang Lee's 2003 film version of Hulk — which did a monster opening weekend then promptly circled the box-office drain — most of the roles in The Incredible Hulk have been re-cast. Edward Norton…
Art: Review: Kingdoms
Tim McMichael's "Untitled (Convergence)" Tim McMichael's work turns nations on end — or sometimes just 90 degrees. A simple rotation changes the context of familiar shapes of countries or states with an effect that is unexpectedly dramatic, transforming countries into inkblots or states into subtle glossy gradations. In his current Kingdoms show at Clay…
Music: Noah Place Like Home
Noah Sugarman Singer/songwriter Noah Sugarman is currently based in Los Angeles as a way to stay close to his label and the SoCal clubs that keep him kinetically busy. But, at least for the moment, Sugarman has returned to Northern Kentucky to see his parents and perform a handful of regional shows in support…
Onstage: A Flying Start
Carol Rosegg Shun-Ying Li stars in Cincinnati Opera's Madame Butterfly. Evans Mirageas has been Cincinnati Opera's artistic director for almost three years, but this is the first season that he can truly call his own. Former Artistic Director Nic Muni set the 2006 and 2007 seasons, and Mirageas brought his formidable network of contacts…
Music: Poi Now
Andy Forbes Poi Dog Pondering With Frank Orrall, five years away from band work is not a hiatus. After 2003's In Seed Comes Fruit — the sixth album from his amazing experimental Pop/Soul/Jazz/Rock/ Insert-Appropriate-Genre-Here collective Poi Dog Pondering — Orrall and his band embarked on a series of eclectic sonic projects that made PDP's…
Sedamsville at Risk
Emily Maxwell Sadly in line with Sedamsville's quiet decline over the past 50 years, the neighborhood is on the cusp of irrevocable change once again thanks to a seemingly inevitable architectural upheaval. Kevin LeMaster, founder of the Web site Building Cincinnati (www.building-cincinnati.com), reports that since mid-2007, developer Arlon Brown has quietly been buying more…
Obama Ignores Rumors to His Own Peril
Smear tactics and dirty tricks are nothing new in politics, but they've reached a whole new level in the Internet age and with the United States' first major African-American presidential candidate. And the worst may be yet to come. The first time I heard the "Barack Obama is a secret Muslim" rumor was in early…
Cover Story: GLBT Community Directory
Health Services Alcoholics Anonymouswww.aacincinnati.org, 513-351-0422 Gay and lesbian AA meetings offer peer support for alcoholics. AIDS Volunteers of Northern Kentuckywww.avnk.com, 513-483-5757 Support and community for people living with HIV. Monthly dinners provide social contact with other HIV-positive individuals. Caracolewww.caracole.org, 513-761-1480 Provides affordable housing and supportive services for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Their SOPHIA program coordinates…
William Gibson, ETC’s Trailer Musical, Indie Summer, Mates of State and much more
the Wexner Center Mary Heilmann's"Go Ask Alice" WEDNESDAY 6/11 ONSTAGE: THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL It might seem a tad antithetical to talk about a trailer park and the Tony Awards in the same breath, but thanks to Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, it makes perfect sense. ETC is resuscitating The Great American Trailer…
Adam Mysock
Adam Mysock Adam Mysock Adam Mysock, coordinator of ArtWorks' MuralWorks program, appears in two local shows this summer: Manifest Gallery's annual Magnitude 7 exhibition of small works through July 3 and Dicere Gallery's Exquisite Drawing, July 12-Aug. 16. Here are a few things that motivate this engaging artist. (Tamera Lenz Muente) John Henry. Here's…
Rumors, Lies and General Misunderstandings
· Acclaimed Indie Rock band Wussy is preparing to record its follow-up to last year's Left For Dead, which received gushing reviews from Rolling Stone, Spin and numerous other press outlets. Singer/guitarist Lisa Walker says the band will play its last local show before heading into the studio this Saturday at the York Street Café…
Where religion and politics intersect, where satire and journalism don’t
For a man whose courage under extreme duress is legendary, Sen. John McCain is quailing before politically correct 21st Century Know-Nothings and baying collaborators in the news media. First, he turns his back on local GOP favorite Bill Cunningham after national news media hear Willie
Sound Advice: : Bomb The Music Industry! and Teddy Thompson
Bomb The Music Industry! Bomb the Music Industry! Saturday
Thanks Pops
My dad was working on his computer at the kitchen table when I showed up at my parents' house around 11 a.m. on Father's Day last year. Surprised at my relatively early arrival, Dad asked what got me up so early. "Anxiety," I replied. He laughed and said, "Boy, what do you know about anxiety?"…
Sway (Review)
If Zachary Lazar has an inherent enthusiasm for the Rolling Stones, his novel's subject, he keeps it hidden. Rather, he meticulously challenges a truism of the 1960s, that the Stones' performance at Altamont dramatically ended the '60s. The Stones hired Hells Angels to police a free concert at northern California's Altamont Speedway on Dec. 6,…
Another seven days of rising oil prices and sinking polar bears
Dead soon WEDNESDAY JUNE 4 A day after all but securing the Democratic nomination for president, Barack Obama celebrated at a Minnesota rally by unveiling a youthful display of affection for his wife: the fist bump. Popular among young people and Rap music enthusiasts, the fist bump confused TV news stations but tickled the…
Missing Author and Book
I read from top to toe Larry Gross column on D.B. Wells (¨Her Anonymous Life, issue of June 4) with much interest, mainly because I ordered her novel through Amazon several weeks ago. Now I know why it hasnt been received or charged on my credit card! The book publisher should have the Web site…
King Corn (Docurama)
1982, Not Rated This lively, riveting documentary about our nation
The Public’s Right to Know
Hamilton County Commissioner Pat DeWine wants to share something with you. DeWine, who's running for a spot on the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas this fall, thinks it's time that government put what it spends into a searchable database on the Internet. To that I say, "Amen," and it shouldn't stop there. With today's…
Cover Story: Young and Gay in Cincinnati
Jason Kidwell The Many Faces of Pride Being gay in Cincinnati is easy. Nearly four years ago, a virtually unprecedented coalition consisting of the mayor, Cincinnati's Catholic archbishop, area civil rights leaders and the CEOs of several locally based Fortune 500 companies pulled together to help the city's gay and lesbian residents. The high-profile…
Publicity Stunt Targets CityBeat
On June 9, a coalition of clergy, law enforcement officials, right-to-life organizations and other serious people held a news conference in a City Hall conference room to denounce CityBeat's adult-oriented advertising. Led by Citizens for Community Values (CCV) and fronted by the Rev. Charlie Winburn, the coalition claimed that CityBeat's adult ads are the primary…
Mercury Rising
Photos.com This will not be the last wine column you come across this summer urging you to switch away from bigger reds and heavier whites that are appropriate in colder months. Hell, I've written this column or ones like it before, but the message bears repeating: When the mercury (do they still use mercury…
Tying Up the Fringe
Rodney Eggleston Daniel J. Kiely and Karl Gregory inOatmeal and a Cigarette After 12 days of theatergoing during the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, I need some rest. I managed to see about half the 37 productions. But I edited reviews of each one (check CityBeat's special Fringe blog (blogs.citybeat.com/fringe08/) — the most comprehensive coverage…
The Race Card (Review)
When victims of Hurricane Katrina face delays in getting federal assistance, when Oprah Winfrey is denied service at Hermés' flagship store in Paris as the store is closing and when no cab stops for Danny Glover in midtown Manhattan, the reflex action is to call it racism. Sounds like it is. But what if it…
News: Ohio’s Silent Epidemic
Raven Bull Theresa Wukusick, program director of Anthem Foundation of Ohio, says getting a handle on the pervasiveness of abuse across the state is critical to finding holistic solutions. What if 166,000 was the infant mortality rate for Ohio for 2007? What if 166,000 Ohio children were poisoned by lead-based paint last year? What…
Diary of the Dead (The Weinstein Co.)
2007, Rated R George A. Romero
Baseball’s Draft Is the Riskiest in All of Professional
Jerry Dowling Baseball people love quoting Ted Williams saying the hardest thing to do in sports is to hit a baseball, as if Williams could have become an excellent NFL quarterback had he taken the easy way out. For the best damned hitter who ever lived to say hitting is the toughest act in…
Film: The Hustler
Raven Bull Russell Hurley, producer of and actor in 'The Vagrant,' gives William Jones a close shave. "Anything that you write bad about this is my fault," Russell Hurley says of his role as producer of The Vagrant. "Even if it didn't look like my fault, it was my fault." There's no need for…
John Phillips Restaurant & Bar (Review)
Emily Maxwell John Phillips Restaurant & Bar Described by staff as "casual, but upscale," John Phillips Restaurant & Bar is the new joint venture of Syndicate Owner John Whalen and Newport Police Captain Phillip Liles. Much more than a Kentucky Good Old Boys Club — although some longtime Kentucky movers and shakers are certainly…
