Film: Elemental Images
Fox Searchlight Kalyani (Lisa Ray) and Narayan (John Abraham) share a forbidden love in Water. Water completes writer/director Deepa Mehta's elemental trilogy that began with 1996's Fire and continued with Earth two years later. Thematically, the first two stories featured struggles with independence, the double helix of the personal and the political. While India and…
Books: Love, Life & Leukemia
Mary Strubbe Loveland's Annette Wick has released her first book, I'll Be in the Car. Her small hands and compact frame belie the enormous experience contained in Annette Januzzi Wick. At the age of 34, Wick lost the love of her life, Devin, to leukemia. Since then she has worked countless hours to chronicle her…
Cover Story: Our Back Story
Jymi Bolden John Zeh: Gone but not forgotten I'm fascinated by the history of the gay and lesbian community not just because I feel connected to it but also because it's largely unrecorded. There is so much to learn by just listening to the stories of the people, places and organizations that opened doors for…
“Cuz n Jake Go Together”
Cuz n Jake Notes: Every June, just as summer peaks its head out of the sweet corn, a Folk duo emerges from the ruins of Country music. It ain't pretty. It ain't combed. It ain't altogether sober. However, these neo-Hee-Haw hokum bluesmen set up their vaudeville act once a year for the Rivertown Breakdown, just…
Enquirer Feature Had Dangerous Misinformation
In a major holiday feature, The Cincinnati Enquirer offered this potentially lethal pool safety advice: Use the Heimlich maneuver as the first response to someone who is pulled from the water and apparently is not breathing. Wrong, say the American Heart Association (AHA), the American Red Cross (ARC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),…
Big News Rocks the NL Central Division
The pages of last week's sports news described three signature developments concerning this year's race in the National League Central division. An injury in St. Louis, a contract in Houston and the sudden appearance of consistent pitching in Cincinnati might have cleared the summer for an open contest with a surprising finish. Not even a…
Upcoming Concerts with The Holy Fire, Strays Don’t Sleep and More…
CJ Benninger The Holy Fire The Holy Fire with Felix Culpa Wednesday · The Mad Hatter Are there any bands that actually embrace the term "Emo"? I've had bands get mad at me for calling them Emo in print, and there's no limit to, uh, Emo bands who proclaim their non-Emo-ness in interviews. I bet…
New City Manager? Think Small
Brewster Rhoads U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, speaking downtown June 3, said he plans to return to Ohio to campaign for Democrats. For the second time in a row, Cincinnati officials are looking to a smaller neighboring community for someone to oversee City Hall's daily operations. Mayor Mark Mallory announced June 6 that Milton…
Merging Forces in Housing Effort
With Over-the-Rhine undergoing pressures caused not only by persistent problems with violent crime but also a push by corporate leaders to develop upscale housing near Music Hall, two longtime neighborhood groups are merging to better meet the area's changing needs. ReSTOC and the Over-the-Rhine Housing Network combined last month to form a single, refocused organization…
Connecting Fringe to Audiences
It's 9 p.m. on opening night of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival at Volunteer Headquarters — the first floor of Know Theatre Tribe's new space on Jackson Street. Headsets and hand-held radios are buzzing and cracking with urgent dialogue, laptops share a power strip plugged into another power strip and a printer is spitting out schedule…
National Review
HOT On the Lists The phenomenon of "list writing," where publications/Web sites rank most anything in order to stir discussion, is running rampant in journalism right now, and music writers and editors seem particularly prone. Thing is, it's easy, people like to read them and, even better, complain about them. Last week, we told you…
Republicans: From Hypocrites to Hypercrites
Here's something to make you proud as Cincinnati's Pride Alive festival approaches this weekend: With all the problems facing this country, our elected officials in Washington D.C. are actually debating a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Yes, with the litany of concerns that impact the daily lives of average Americans — the war in Iraq,…
News: Josh’s Two Moms
Graham Lienhart (L-R) Jennifer, Josh and Cheryl McKettrick are a family, thanks to modern technology, some help from the law, a mother's courage and lots of love. Jennifer and Cheryl McKettrick have a family like any other, except that they're gay and entrenched in an ongoing struggle for the recognition of their family unit and…
Protecting the Church’s Image
Thanks to Gregory Flannery for writing what many Catholics in this archdiocese have been thinking and saying for years ("Pilarczyk Himself Is the Biggest Scandal," issue of May 31-June 6). Our beloved archbishop "has no clue" about his culpability and his image. I speak as a Catholic who has become very disillusioned about the hierarchy.…
News: Peace, Not Quiet
Graham Lienhart Catherine Roma leads MUSE Cincinnati Women's Choir in rehearsal. This weekend women of diverse races, religions and classes will come together to raise their voices in unison for a common objective: peace. Musician and activist Holly Near joins MUSE Cincinnati Women's Choir for its 23rd annual spring concert, "The Great Peace March." The…
Cover Story: 20 Years, and Out
Geoff Raker Eric Hunter as a high school student and today Few things inspire more unnecessary anxiety and an immediate wave of self-doubt in a thirtysomething's life than a class reunion. For me, there was one additional layer to my trepidation. Since the last time I saw most of my classmates, I came to terms…
News to Use
Help Struggling Siblings In April, Brayden Dunn was diagnosed with Down syndrome at the age of 7 months. This isn't the first struggle his family has encountered. His older sister, Hailey, who is 2, was diagnosed a few months after birth with craniosynostosis. She endured weeks of testing as well as painful surgery to remove…
Tony Awards Live Broadcast Party
Sandy Underwood Actress Ann Randolph will offer a workshop on "Sharing Your Life Story" at the Cincinnati Playhouse. Sunday evening is the Tony Awards, so I'll remind you one last time that the best place in town to see them is at Paul Brown Stadium. No, not on the 50-yard line, but in the East…
Film: Dark Thoughts
Courtesy First Look Studios Screenwriter Nick Cave (left) and director John Hillcoat wanted The Proposition to reflect the landscape of their native Australia. The Proposition, director John Hillcoat's solemn and violently unsentimental Australian western, has its fair share of stars in the cast. Guy Pearce plays Charlie Burns, a member of a murderously brutal Outback…
Living Out Loud: : Funny to Me
People might think it's easy to be funny but let me tell you something — well, okay; actually it is pretty easy in my case. The mother lode of things to make fun of in this neo-post-modern life surrounding me are legion, all the absurdities of which I seem to be, at best, a semi-willing…
Ska’s Not Dead
After the third-wave of Ska fell out of mainstream favor in the ´90s, the genre became the butt of jokes and many assumed that bands playing Ska disappeared completely. But the Ska underground has never gone anywhere and, today, it seems to be building steam once again. For further proof that the fourth-wave of Ska…
News: Helping Prostitutes Escape the Street Life
This isn't "Prostitutes Anonymous" or a typical 12-step program. But Cincinnati's oldest social service agency is attempting to help women working in the world's oldest profession. Cincinnati Union Bethel (CUB), founded in 1830, has long been dedicated to helping women, providing housing for disadvantaged women and families in the Anna Louise Inn downtown. CUB also…
Diner: Hog Heaven
Oliver Meinerding It's a Sunday evening, and I'm trying to maintain my grip on 3 feet of wet and slippery hog's intestines. Pale, translucent loops of it float in a large mixing bowl, which sits in the kitchen sink. I have some of it draped over my wrist and a few loops of it clutched…
The Music of the Night
The Jazz guitar player Kenny Poole, who died last week of cancer, was an awkward man. He was well over 6 feet tall, and his legs were as gangly as a stork's. He carried his own cushion, which he placed on the chairs he sat in to play, strapped the Gibson hollow-body guitar he preferred…
Cover Story: Fighting the Good Fight
Progress doesn't just happen by itself. There are people and organizations out there helping to push the GLBT community forward. Here is a look at a few new organizations and truly community-minded business that are making their mark in today's GLBT community. OutReels: During the 2006 Gay Pride season Cincinnati will experience its first annual…
Locals Only: : Respect The Technics
Amanda Davidson Mr. Pillo Cincinnati's urban club scene responds to DJs in varying measures. Some DJs command response; some become disregarded centerpieces on the tables. For one, few club-goers expect to hear anything that sets the DJ apart from the record. Second, much of the current technology allows amateurs to assume a DJ's position. But…
