Riding the Buffalo on the new CD, ‘Let It Ride,’ plus remembering Mr. K and new CDs from Slant and Mad Anthony
Keith Klenowski Buffalo Killers host a CD release party on Saturday. After the release of their debut album, Cincinnati PsychPop trio The Buffalo Killers found they had fans in high places. The Black Crowes took them on tour (they'll be back out with them this fall) and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys signed…
Music: Talk About the Passion
Bob Delevante Mathew Ryan vs. The Silver State Unlike in literature, fresh starts rarely come with fanfare in life. Characters suffer and grow in fiction while we measure their catharses page by page. Reality's long slog has a way of flattening out the changes and arcs in our lives. That's why listening to Matthew…
Another seven days of dead friends and free terrorists
Sadness teach you a lesson, boy! WEDNESDAY JUNE 11 Cincinnati will soon have a new tallest building, and it is going to look tight as hell because architects designed the top to look like Princess Diana's tiara. According to The Enquirer, City Council voted 7-2 today to approve the financing for Western & Southern's…
Not So Fast, CityBeat
Last week many people rallied to CityBeat
Art: ist as Avenger
Raven Bull Matthew Dayler's "Loco (Avenger)" and "I Heart (Avenger)" In his new show at the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, Matthew Dayler has mounted a multimedia exhibition of various works under the title The Avengers. The name refers to a team of Marvel Comics superheroes — well-known figures like Captain America and…
Terry Gross, 5th Street Gallery art sale, Jitney, a new Happen Inc., WNKU’s “power drive” and much more
Woodrow J. Hinton Terry Gross WEDNESDAY 6/18 ART: 5TH STREET GALLERY Contemporary art expert Danny Brown has collected some of the best work by some of the best artists in our area. Faced by deteriorating health and the resulting extraordinary costs, he's selling major portions of his collection at 5th Street Gallery (Fifth and…
Branching Out at the Cincinnati Art Museum
The perception too often is that Cincinnati has one specialized museum for contemporary art, the Contemporary Arts Center, and a bigger institution that focuses on everything else, the Cincinnati Art Museum. But while the art museum certainly means to remain "encyclopedic," it is becoming increasingly active — even hip — in its pursuit of contemporary…
The Chronic Pain That Is Interleague Play
Jerry Dowling Because the novelty of interleague play in Major League Baseball has worn off, the arguments for and against it have lost their force. It's just not worth the trouble anymore. We're stuck. But this is by no means a victory for interleague play, which arrives without anticipation precisely because the novelty has…
CCV Not Following Own Values
If John Fox's editorial is accurate with all of the facts ("Publicity Stunt Targets CityBeat," issue of June 11), what Citizens for Community Values (CCV) has done deeply saddens me. It specifically says on the group's Web page that CCV exists to promote Judeo-Christian moral values and to reduce destructive behaviors contrary to those values…
Onstage: Review: Bedroom Farce
Commonwealth Theater Company at Northern Kentucky University has opened a new dinner-and-show production of Bedroom Farce. It might be a labor of love on the part of cast and crew, but it's too labored in delivery to love very much. Like most of the 50-plus farces Sir Alan Ayckbourn has produced in his long and…
Cover Story: Atlas Sung
Sean Hughes World Party In Greek mythology, the titan Atlas held the universe on his shoulders. He was being punished. Middle-20th-century thinkers liked to claim that they — the thinkers, the artists, the writers, the scientists — were culture's answer to Atlas. Without them, society would slack and fall. Now in our post-postmodernist world,…
The Mother Rose
Petite and curvy, Mom looks startlingly young for her age. She wears a tricky shade of lipstick — reddish brownish bronze. It suits her. A master cook, Mom thrives on contact with people. I can barely cook a potato and tend to be a loner. Somehow, we still laugh and talk like two teenagers. Might…
News: Springer the Lightning Rod
Joe Lamb Alan Patrick Kenny says Jerry Springer: The Opera belongs in Cincinnati because we appreciate Springer. Leave it to Jerry Springer to stir up a little trouble even when he's nowhere in sight. For months the New Stage Collective theater troupe has planned to close its sixth season by staging the regional premiere…
Being OK With Being Like Dad
This might have been my father's last Father's Day. At least the last one he's aware of. I visited with my family last weekend out of town, and we brought Dad home from the nursing home for a dual celebration of his birthday and Father's Day. He's been living in the assisted care facility for…
Winburn Looks to Stay in Public Eye
Winburn wants attention. Here's how the public can tell that last week's press conference about adult services ads in CityBeat had more to do with politics than with any genuine concern for women who might be mistreated. Let's follow the trail. The high-profile June 9 press conference at City Hall was organized by former…
Film: Review: Fugitive Pieces
Samuel Goldwyn Films Mutual appreciation: Rade Serbedzija (left) and Robbie Kay in Fugitive Pieces Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces dives deep from the get-go, immersing itself in the scarring emotional terrain of World War II-era Poland. A young boy, Jakob (Robbie Kay), hides in a secret wall in his family's home as he watches Nazis…
The Guardianship Question
This is a challenging article for me to write, because it hits close to home. Guardianship: Who will take care of my children if my wife and I were to both pass away suddenly? It's a question so painful to think about that many parents simply don't think about it — and that can prove…
Sound Advice: : Scout Niblett and The Black Angels
The Black Angels Scout Niblett with The Hiders and Daniel Martin Moore Friday
Some Like It Hot
Emily Maxwell Mokka There are few places, particularly in Northern Kentucky, where you can go and be transported to a 1940s/'50s Hollywood movie set complete with palm fronds, cabaret stage, ballroom and plush fan-backed booths perfect for hot kisses between Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis. Think the hilarious tango scene in Some Like It…
Cover Story: A New Direction
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, Courtesy Pacewildenstein, New York Tara Donovan's Untitled (Styrofoam Cups, detail), 2003 Even as the Contemporary Arts Center is celebrating the opening of two new thematic shows — American Idyll: Contemporary Art and Karaoke and Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art — it is temporarily suspending new ones. Last week, Raphaela…
OTR Without Kaldi’s Is Unthinkable
Matt Borgerding Jeremy Thompson Kaldi's Coffeehouse, the venerable staple of Over-the-Rhine's Main Street, might have finally met its match: an eviction notice. Though thoughts of moving the bar and restaurant — known for its eclectic clientle and beatnik vibe — have bounced through owner Jeremy Thompson's head, he thought the timing would move at…
News: Endangered Green
Greenhills Historical Society Greenhills was one of three "Planned Greenbelt" built in the 1930s, but today its planned design is considered "endangered" by Preservation Ohio. Endangered species receive extra attention and scrutiny when they go on a list. That's what some residents of Greenhills hope will happen to their community now that it's on…
Music: God’s Warriors
Solid State Records Demon Hunter It was a surreal moment calling up Demon Hunter vocalist Ryan Clark for our interview. Not only is his Metalcore band a prominent fixture of Tooth and Nail Records, but he's also employed as the label's art director, responsible for CD packages and overseeing photo shoots. "It's definitely different,"…
Art: The Poetry of Place
Kurt Strecker Richard Hague isn't vague about his views on poetry. Richard Hague is an awarding-winning poet and teacher at Purcell Marian High School. His previous books — a dozen collections of poetry — have drawn largely on his Appalachian roots as a native of Steubenville, Ohio, but his forthcoming Public Hearings (2009 from…
Blue Agave (Review)
� Joe Lamb Blue Agave "What is a blue agave?" my step-dad asked. The young woman behind Blue Agave's cash register motioned in Vanna White fashion toward the plants in small pots on the wall behind her. "Agave is what you make tequila out of," she said. "Blue agave makes the best." Of course, she…
