Leather: More than a Beauty Contest
The Tri-State Leather Contest last November did more than just start an annual leather fetish event in our area. It started Mike Taylor on a journey that will lead him throughout the world as International Mr. Leather 2000. Taylor won the local contest, and the subsequent Mr. Heartland Leather title in Columbus, qualifying him for…
News: Price Gouging, or Retail?
Nordstrom shoppers, get out your credit cards. Two days of recent lobbying by a Nordstrom executive and two others seemed to have worked. One week before an expected June 26 vote, at least four Cincinnati City Councilmembers were ready to support a financial package of more than $50 million to build a downtown Nordstrom store…
Diner: A Beat Ahead
Since 1972, Chester's Road House has been drawing an audience from surrounding eastern neighborhoods, as well as tourists, corporate mavens, prom dates and, very likely, a few folks who've managed to navigate from western Hamilton County. The casual, upscale ambiance and good food that seemed just a beat ahead of the trends portrayed on the…
Stop Thinking About Doing it and Do It
Bye-bye, Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy … Whoa. Check out Willie Loman at the newsstand there. Willie Loman? He's fictional. How's some a real guy look like a fictional character? I don't know. I guess, the hunched posture. Old and tired. The sample case. Well, not a sample case, exactly. That thing looks more…
News: Installing all cars
Jymi Bolden Cincinnati police vehicles are being equipped with cameras. After several months of testing, the Cincinnati Police Division is ready to begin the two-year process of putting video cameras in all police cruisers. In January 1999 the division installed nine video cameras and recorders in five cars per district, for a total of…
Terry Boyle
Jymi Bolden SwineLake, created for theCincinnati Ballet, began as one pig, but before long it grew to a five-pig dancing pyramid, says artist Terry Boyle, who plans to finish it by the end of June. Earlier Boyle completed another pig for the Cincinnati Art Museum, "Pop Pig Andy Warhog." And he was asked…
News: Defining Moment
Hamilton County Commissioners said they would vote to approve funding of approximately $600,000 for the long-delayed Regional Cultural Alliance (RCA) at a meeting early Monday morning. The amount, based on a per capita contribution of $0.71 per county resident, will make up close to half of RCA's intended first-year budget of $1.2 to $1.3 million.…
The Dating
Dear Dating Diva: A couple of months ago my boyfriend dumped me. I didn't see it coming, and I was devastated. After a couple of weeks of crying and a few pints of ice cream, I got over it. I started seeing someone new, actually rekindling a romance from years ago. Things are going well…
A Spy in the House
A Spy in the House David Burke, the British director for White Dot, an anti-television campaign, has written a book about digital interactive TV, Spy TV. His book attempts to expose the agenda of those behind this "revolutionary technology." Burke's background is software design, but when he heard about this technological marvel, he says, "I…
Cover Story: Hot Potatoes
"Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions." — From This Compost by Walt Whitman Summer has come to Ridgeview Farm. Birds take eagerly to the air as Matt Madison tends to well-ordered ranks of vegetables. It's a busy time.…
New York City Jazz Superband
The names of these players — drummer Carl Allen, pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassist Cecil McBee, sax player Don Braden, trumpeter Terell Stafford, trombonist Conrad Herwig and guitarist Bruce Arnold — may not fall readily from your lips when you ponder today's roster of steady and sure Jazz players. However, billed collectively as the New…
What Happened to Primary Care?
In the 16th century, Tibetan physicians stated that a group of diseases called "Nyen" would spring up toward the end of the 20th century. Nyen diseases were defined as "diseases with no known cause and no known cure." It's just one glimpse into ancient prophecies pertaining to our modern lifestyle. We've heard many. In the…
Music: Modern and Primal
Jymi Bolden Nicholas Muni is ready to light up his third season with the Cincinnati Opera. Ask your average Joe or Jo-Ellen if they'd like to spend a night at the opera, and it's likely they'll describe some painfully laborious task they'd rather perform instead, like polishing their staple gun or shopping for floor…
