Your Line Is Not Dead
Dear Valued Customer, It happens all the time. To busy people. To smart people. To important people. In other words, to people like you. Imagine: You're anxiously awaiting a certain phone call. Hours pass. Every time your cell phone rings you think, This is it. But it's not. Then — at last! — the call…
Stuck In the Twilight Zone for 31 hours
Here are a few programs to look out for in the upcoming week … THURSDAY 3 P.M. John Ratzenberger's Made in America, Travel Channel. A double shot of TC's rolling look at America's great iconic companies and their products. First stop, the Crayola Factory in Pennsylvania where new colors are made and coloring-book fanatics can…
Lasers By Janet Berg
Lasers have been around for quite a while, but just exactly how much do we know about them? The word "laser" is actually an acronym for "light amplified stimulated emission of radiation" — a medium is stimulated in a particular way to emit radiation (not the nuclear type) of a wave form of energy, such…
The Development of Block D
City Manager Valerie Lemmie didn't anticipate making a funding request Wednesday for a development project in Madisonville. The meeting is the last before city council breaks for summer — and a key deadline in the project looms Aug. 1. Members of Madisonville Weed and Seed consider the redevelopment of "Block D," Madison Road and Whetsel…
News to Use
Help Stop the War The International Socialist Organization is organizing a protest against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The picket begins at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Bush regime handed symbolic control of Iraq to an interim government this week, but U.S. troops continue to occupy the country, killing civilians and committing over abuses. The Education…
The Art Rouse Award
E.J. Hanna Kathy Labanz (left), Megan Schultheis (seated) and Dee Anne Bryll (right) are part of the Drama Workshop's Belles, which moves on to statewide competition in September. Cincinnati's ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY THEATRES (ACT) held its annual excerpt competition on June 24-26 (expanded to three days to encompass 17 groups each presenting 30-minute cuttings from…
Diner: Around the Corner
Strip malls grow like weeds in the northern suburb where I live, and I always wonder what else on earth they could possibly find to put in them. I mean really how many salons and dollar stores do we need? So I watched with train-wreck fascination as The Apollo Center (could I make that up?)…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
It's like tiny crystal droplets from Montana mountains growing into wide, deep waters 2000 miles below in Missouri. A single Harley Davidson rumbles out of East Seattle and heads on Interstate 90 toward Boston. The leather-decked rider has a luggage T bag strapped to his sissy bar. He thinks of tomorrow, when the sun will…
Peace Out
How will the families of Matthew Maupin and the families of all those anonymous missing, dead and assumed dead military personnel and civilians in Iraq celebrate the early and clandestine handover of "sovereign" power to the in-between Iraqi regime? Will they wait by their respective phones? Hypnotized by CNN loops of third- or fourth-generation grainy…
Can I see your I.D.?
I wanted to let you know that your advice to DOM, the 29-year-old anxious to get it on with his legal-where-he-lives 16-year-old coworker, was spot on. When I was 14, I had a very satisfying sexual relationship with a 24-year-old man. We met through some friends who were college age. I pursued him for months.…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
There's something inherently cool about a family that blows up stuff. Cooler still that they're known throughout the country for their ability to blow up stuff. And the coolest part of all is they're locals. The Rozzi family — a name synonymous with fireworks — has been a Cincinnati institution for nearly 75 years. They've…
News: After the Shooting
Cameron Knight Richard Biehl Five shots ring out in a dark alley after a high-speed pursuit. An unarmed African-American teenager lies on the ground, clutching his cell phone. A young white police officer stands over the dying boy's body and calls into his radio, "Man down. Man down." Within minutes the police chief, FOP president,…
The second coming of the Suicide Girls
Bloom Suicide Girls Tour with Bloom and Sluts of Trust Wednesday · Southgate House The Suicide Girls traveling burlesque show — an offshoot of the Web site, suicidegirls.com, which features "alternative" pin-up girls (i.e. nudie pics with lots of tattoos and piercings) — returns to the Southgate House this week. Last time they pulled through…
Standing up for Koenig
Walnut Hills a Solution As a Walnut Hills High School alumnus and parent, I see no reason why the Cincinnati Board of Education should again investigate Marvin Koenig, the principal of Walnut Hills ("Matter of Principal," issue of June 23-29). The complaints against him are trivial. Koenig enjoys the strong support of parents and alumni,…
Cover Story: Cincinnati’s next Republican Mayor?
Kelly Burleson and Jon Hughes Oh, those occasional sharp written rebukes, the allusions to popular culture, the uncluttered prose and sheer accessibility of language in his opinions. The judge disdains legalese; indeed, he rails against it. Judicial opinions rendered in straightforward, sometimes blunt language, decisions that have wounded some, delighted others. Judge Mark P. Painter…
Locals Only: : Going the distance
500 Milesto Memphis The subject of distance comes up a lot when talking with area trio 500 Miles to Memphis. There's obviously the name, indicating the distance between Cincinnati and Elvis' adopted hometown. Then there's the spread-out living situation — bassist Wade Owens currently lives in Hamilton and will soon move back to his hometown,…
Falling on Def Earz
Woodrow J. Hinton "If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be lyrically, Talib Kweli …" — Jay-Z I guess it's official: The latest issue of Complex Magazine (a relatively new Hip Hop/fashion monthly) declared that "conscious Hip Hop was making a comeback." I suppose I should be thrilled. After all, isn't this what I've…
Living Out Loud: : The Mother of Lost Summers
The last live cicada I saw suffered the agony of my shoe. Rack up another bad memory. It was an accident. I had to slide into my car, so as I crushed it, unaware that it was flitting around my car door, I shrugged it off. When my shoe devoured the bug, it symbolically crushed…
News: The Peoples Party
The relationship between African Americans and Latinos has often been riddled with problems in other cities across the United States. The country's two largest minorities have been involved in violent clashes in riots in 1989 in Miami, in 1991 in Washington, D.C., and most notably in 1992 in Los Angeles. The Lafricano festival June 27…
