2116 Hatmaker St.
Jymi Bolden 2116 Hatmaker St. Address: 2116 Hatmaker St.,Lower Price Hill Owner: Thomas W. and Yvonne Cahill Value: $16,800, according to the Hamilton County Auditor's Office Year Built: 1880 Comments: Thomas W. Cahill, owner of Thomas Cahill Plumbing and Supply, purchased this property from George Weke of L&W Plumbing. When he acquired the property,…
News: Trafficking in Peace
Jymi Bolden CityBeat News Editor Gregory Flannery (center) laments that he was unable to express his anti-war views to the judge, jury and prosecution. His case was dismissed. At some point in a tiny municipal courtroom downtown — where during the morning prisoners were led away in handcuffs and others stood before the judge…
Diner: Harmonious Integration
When you get tired of the restaurants in your own neighborhood, it's refreshing to venture to other neighborhoods and explore theirs. This was the case with a recent evening at Ruthai's Thai Kitchen, just off Mount Lookout Square. Ruthai's is a cozy Thai restaurant like many that came before it. Inside you'll find the same…
Music: Great Scots
Scotland's Idlewild have found American success with the album, The Remote Part. When you think of "Rock band," the word "normal" probably doesn't pop into your head. But that word best describes singer Roddy Woomble and his Scottish Rock band, Idlewild. I mean, come on — the band got its name from Anne of…
Locals Only: : Hard to Explain
Alias Jones Many of Cincinnati's local bands are in the frame of mind that in order to get recognition they must play as often as possible in the area, as well as abroad. This is not the case with Northern Kentucky locals Alias Jones, who, in the past two years, have barely managed to…
News: A More Perfect Union
Jymi Bolden Linda Pollack listens as Deborah Caldwell Stone, deputy director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, leads a discussion. Who are "We the People," anyway? This apparently simple question was asked of the people who showed up June 13 at SSNOVA for the fifth discussion in the "My Daily Constitution"…
Take the Blinders off: A CityBeat reporter says good-bye and offers advice
I don't believe many people pay attention to the little names printed at the top of our news stories, but for the few who do, I wanted to mention this will be my last piece for CityBeat. This week I'm heading to Madagascar to teach English as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years. Before…
Music: Hooked on Sonics
Sonic Seniors?: (L-R) Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Steve Shelley and Kim Gordon. By any standard imaginable, Sonic Youth is an anomaly. A radical art project begun in 1981 by guitarists Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore and bass player Kim Gordon — the indispensable Steve Shelley became their third and forever drummer in…
Whirlygig: 82: Out on the Town
Landscape Study The new Cincinnati Wing at the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) in Eden Park has suffered just a tad from the whirlwind of excitement over the opening of the new Contemporary Arts Center (CAC). A slight overshadowing at least occurred in my mind due in large part to the fact that the CAC was…
What Can Cincinnati Hope for in the Fall City Council Election?
Jeff Cramerding Executive director of the Charter Committee of Greater Cincinnati The only hope the fall election will provide is Cincinnati's third choice. Citizens in most U.S. cities do not have a third choice. In most cities you can vote for the Republicans — shortsighted, closed minded and divisive — or the Democrats — irresponsible,…
