Enough Gay Pride for Me
Since this is June, you're probably expecting to read another "gay pride" column. Maybe in your own way you will. But in addition to being the month of gay pride, June is also the month we celebrate Father's Day. And if there is anyone who quietly displays his own brand of gay pride every day,…
Artist Profile: Romelli Design Inc.
Jymi Bolden (L-R) Patrick Thomas Romelli Sr., Thomas Romelli and Patrick Romelli Jr. CAM Ham, one of eight pigs at the Cincinnati Art Museum, was created by ROMELLI DESIGN INC. The pig was a collaboration of the history of the museum with the personality of Patrick Romelli Jr.'s design firm. Romelli says his company…
Diner: Retro Done Right
I once took a vacation through Virginia with a goal of eating only in diners. The sleek and shiny metallic tubes and domes were so alluring, but the most intoxicating attention-grabbers were usually fried or baked. Please note: that was during my hollow-leg, skinny phase. By the time my friend and I rolled over hills…
News: Media Bridges Jump-starts Mixed Media Center, Possibly at ‘The T’
Jymi Bolden Media Bridges staff and supporters tour Longworth Hall: (L-R) Taffy Douglas, Frank Clark, Bob Reiner, Tom Speer, Tom Potter, Mark Watkins, Julie Cracolici and Belinda Rawlins. One room best explains why Media Bridges, the non-profit group managing the city of Cincinnati's cable access programming, wants to move from its long-time location at…
Relationships
This is some ground I've covered before. But I witnessed something so heartbreaking and pathetic the other day that it bears repeating. A woman had plans to meet a gentleman at a particular time and place. I just happened to be there. She needed to use the restroom and told me to be on the…
Coal Chamber
Coal Chamber Los Angeles' Coal Chamber burst from the same scene as Korn, but their textured, aggressive Metal sound indeed has its own identity. Groove-heavy and progressive, with a hearty dose of fiery vocals and detuned murkiness. Think Black Sabbath filtered through a child of the '90s Hard Rock CD collection and you have…
Sportraits
In approximately 100 days, the premier sporting event of the quadrennium will begin: the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. As always, we in the media are determined to give you the comprehensive coverage — all the ceremony, events, analysis, statistics, profiles and excruciatingly incidental details you'll need to fully appreciate the Games. Of course,…
Should Any Words Be Off-Limits?
An ill-advised comment by Cincinnati Police Chief Thomas Streicher a few weeks ago led to a wild and wooly city council meeting June 1 — the most contentious meeting since the November elections — and started another prickly debate about race and the police. When it was over, the word "nigger" had been said repeatedly…
I Survived an Episode of ‘Survivor’
After waiting in a long traffic jam caused more by people looking at the accident than by those who caused it, you still feel that guilty urge to look. What exactly compels us toward this action isn't always clear, but it must be related to the urge we have to watch "reality TV." Television has…
Community by Committee
It's nice to have a parade back as part of Cincinnati Gay Pride celebrations. Indeed, it's what makes the event more of a celebration instead of a simple observance. For years, the local gay "community" has languished under a self-imposed low profile, unwilling or unable to express itself in a unified fashion and vulnerable to…
Film: Four Lloyds
Matt Borgerding Characters: Sweet Lloyd Reporter Same Pants Lloyd Jerk Paulloyd and Annalloyd Travelers from Holland Act One, Scene One: The Film Opens The lights dim and the projector spills out the opening images of the second annual independent film festival. The project, the brainchild of Midwestern movie mavens David Enright, Dave Waddell and…
