Chris Collier spreads the word about Cincy Folk
Chris Collier Chris Collier is unintentionally instructing a clinic in Newport, Ky. The singer/songwriter/guitarist is performing at York St. Café a few Sunday nights ago as part of the first Songwriters Summit, organized by Mark Messerly and Brian Ewing. The Folk duo is utilizing this as a night to play alongside talents either enjoyed…
Esquire Cuts Sex Scene from Center of the World
This is the scene Cincinnati audiences for director Wayne Wang's unrated adult drama The Center of the World failed to see at Clifton's Esquire Theatre: A stripper leans over her male customer. She inserts a lollipop into her vagina, quickly pulls it out and inserts it into the mouth of her mesmerized customer. The image…
Onstage: Wandering & Wondering
Last Monday night, the police rang my doorbell because an African-American man had complained about Sister jumping on his leg. Sister and I had been walking up the alley between Kaldi's and Divas off of Main Street. Ahead of us I saw Hans, my neighbor's boxer, and I was thinking that it would take a…
Curly tales of the city
No Talking, No LaughingThe name on the badge of the police officer who threatened to arrest an Independent Media Center (IMC) reporter June 2 — for taking notes while walking in Mount Adams — was T. Bley. The IMC journalist was beating a path down St. Gregory Street on command from a squad of police…
News: Silence Kills
Jymi Bolden Students in an adult literacy class visit Hebrew Union College to learn about the Holocaust and its lessons for contemporary racism. Werner Coppel knows a thing or two about racism: It killed his family. A survivor of Auschwitz, Coppel says the blame for the Holocaust extends beyond the people who ran the…
Pseudoquasiesque: Pseudoquaisiesque
PleasantriesHow are you? I'm fine as the pinfeather fluff around a chicken's anus. What's new? In terms of the universe, our sun. In terms of the planet, man. In terms of the Midwest, hot pants. What's up?/Wassup? By court order, my fly. What's shakin'? All items I've designated for bakin'. What've you been up to…
Dining: Nailed
As fast as Cincinnati's northern neighborhoods are developing, their rural, friendly, neighborhood ambience is disappearing. Although national chain restaurants have sprung up throughout Mason and West Chester like dandelions in a wet May, the booming population has created a dining nightmare for families trying to find a decent meal without a wait, especially on a…
Paris Texas
Hailing from Madison, Wisconsin, the Rock quintet Paris Texas are one of the more exciting new bands who use Punk as a springboard without limiting themselves to any sort of narrow focus. On the group's third release, Brazilliant! (Polyvinyl), the band shows that they can exhilaratingly kick out the jams in full-throttle mode, but…
Letters from the edge
love my mail. Opening and organizing the accumulation of envelopes and postcards — junk and otherwise — is such an important ritual for me that I have a hard time focusing on anything until I have sorted, opened and organized my daily haul. A few weeks back, among the bills, magazines and catalogs, a letter…
Will Free Trade Make Us All Rich, Happy and Good-Looking, Too?
Free trade and globalization are supposed to help everyone. How does a concept that sounds so uniting become so dividing? If there are more jobs in Third World countries, if electricity goes private, if we can peddle our wares wherever we please, won't we move closer to being a more united human race? Not exactly.…
News: Helter Shelter
Werner Coppel knows a thing or two about racism: It killed his family. A survivor of Auschwitz, Coppel says the blame for the Holocaust extends beyond the people who ran the death camps. The Nazis never could have killed so many people without acquiescence from the majority of Germans. Racism, like all crimes, exists in…
Cover Story: Gettin’ Whacked
Jymi Bolden A protester screams as police officers arrest her in Mount Adams. "We're just here to ensure that all you law-abiding citizens don't do anything illegal," said Cincinnati Police Lt. Col. Richard Janke. He was speaking to a small number of journalists and one or two protesters who were the first to arrive…
Music: Countrypalooza
Brooks and Dunn continue to be one of the most successful Country duos of all time. Ronnie Dunn doesn't have to consider the question for very long before he answers. "I used to be critical of our differences," he responds as he tries to get to the heart of the matter of what makes…
