Squatweiler stops in for an adventurous ride
North Carolina's raucous Squatweiler honed their eclectic, energetic sound on several wonderfully dynamic and adventurous indie releases — including the excellent, ragged and underrated All Tempo Hot Pants from '95 — and tours with the likes of Bad Religion and Henry Rollins, who is such a fan he scribed the band's current bio/hype sheet.…
My Sick Perspective
Her grin was 100 percent institutional: barely functioning and poorly painted. Her "May I help you" hung in the air, unfinished, waiting to be completed by a phrase like, "… light your hair on fire" or "… stop breathing." "My name's Woodiwiss," I told her. "I'm scheduled for surgery." That seemed to cheer her up.…
News: Health Educators Concerned Over Drop in HIV Tests
With the passage of another National HIV Testing Day June 27, the Cincinnati Health Department is reporting a drop in the number of people seeking free, anonymous tests. While the theories explaining the drop vary, many suggest that because drugs now are keeping people with AIDS alive longer, society at large is living with a…
Complacency? So What?
The executive summary of the recently released Greater Cincinnati Metro Region Resource Book (aka the Gallis report) extols the Tristate's future possibilities as "a single, strong, competitive force on the global stage." There's just one thing holding us back from our collective destiny, the report concludes: "A sense of complacency, characterized by an attitude that…
Were Reports of Pending Shirey Firing Greatly Exaggerated?
Jymi Bolden John Shirey Despite news reports strongly insinuating that Cincinnati City Manager John Shirey was on his way out, his fate is not sealed. Council members did not have enough votes to fire City Manager John Shirey after hours of closed-door discussions that ended June 28. But council did agree that he needed…
Gay & Lesbian Issues: real life
It was a beautiful summer afternoon and I was stuck in my office staring out at everyone enjoying the day. Like so many other days, I had rushed to the work without breakfast and dashed madly from meeting to meeting all morning. When I finally found myself at my desk, one ear was glued to…
News: East Walnut Hills Residents Complain that Concert Plan Has Backfired
People having sex openly in the yard of an Eden Park-area resident has some East Walnut Hills residents fed up with Sunday night gatherings of young adults in the park. Residents and city leaders agree that incident and several others — such as open drug use, blocked driveways, urinating in front of houses and massive…
