Cover Story: Just One More Season
David Sorcher More than a feeling: The over-30 crowd plays ball at the Crosley Field replica in Blue Ash. The year is 1969. An old man takes the tickets from my dad and allows my brother and me through the turnstiles. I've never seen so many people. At age 5, I'm attending my first…
Cover Story: Some Mic It Hot
Bottom Line The film biz goes into blockbuster-sequel overdrive. The television world largely falls back on reruns. And the music suits prepare superstar album releases timed to an overly active touring season. Yes, summer's here and the time is right for the entertainment industry to guess how to best siphon off your warm-weather spending…
News: Decentralizing City Council
Momentum is building for a proposal to begin electing Cincinnati City Council by districts. Financial consultant Don Driehaus, a Democrat, raised the issue during his unsuccessful 1995 council run. Now he's working with investment adviser Emanuel Marshall of College Hill and Pete Witte, a Republican and president of the Price Hill Civic Club. The proposal…
The CAC Comes Alive
The "kids table" at the May 30 gala party celebrating the opening of the new Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) was located on the second floor of London-based architect Zaha Hadid's nonlinear building. That's where CAC Assistant Curator Matt Distel poured wine into plastic cups, passed out bottles of beer and served homemade spanakopita from a…
Cover Story: The Hot 100
Call it the summer of our dissed content — what follows is a full 100 days of radical concerts, cutting-edge events and in-your-face performance art, all intended to enthrall your senses and satisfy your soul. Plus cute little church festivals, free symphony performances and tons of more info. To help you plan each and every…
Cover Story: Going Easy
Matt Borgerding Jim Labarbra (left) and Jeff Jones meet their Ten Years Late Scooter Club mates at The Comet in Northside. "It's my perfect scooter," says Adam Biddle, pointing to a battered-looking red vehicle that sits in the corner of his basement. "I took every piece of a scooter I liked, from all the…
Locals Only: : Woo Are You
Eric Diedrichs The Woos Brendan Bogosian just might be the luckiest guitar player on the Cincinnati Indie music scene. His three bandmates are talented, creative, motivated, and, oh yeah, they also just happen to be three of the cutest chicks in Rock & Roll right now. But one listen to the lush, catchy sound…
News: Repairing the Wall
Jymi Bolden Board members of Stonewall Cincinnati are (L-R) Doreen Cudnik, Carol Lippmann, Victor Fabro, Laurence Wolf and John Schlagetter. When an openly gay man believed a Cincinnati Police officer discriminated against him in handling his robbery complaint, he turned to Stonewall Cincinnati for help. After the group's mediators got involved, the officer's superiors…
Brown Meat, Beer and a Bootleg Cabbie
The meat isn't brown. I'd heard and believed the urban legend that said meat sold at the Over-the-Rhine Kroger was so near the end of its shelf life it was as brown as the customers who shopped there. But everything at the June 2 Grand Re-Opening — except the notoriously claustrophobic parking lot — was…
News: Tapping Civic Pride
Doug Trapp The collection of Hudepohl signs, bottles and memorabilia owned by Gene and Etta Felix of Price Hill might be one of the best representations of the company's history. A century ago Cincinnati was the brewing capital of the United States. But 13 years of Prohibition, followed by the encroachment of national brands,…
Whirlygig: 80: Out on the Town
Butterflies Are Free Saturday, my friend Kristine and I decided to do something out of our usual routine and actually hang out in daylight without beers in our hand. So we headed to Krohn Conservatory to see the butterfly show. We walked around to the side of the building to pay and encountered a little…
