Is Yoga Art?
Dear Diane, Usually when I read about yoga, it talks about how breathing lowers your blood pressure or stretching helps your back. That all sounds scientific to me. But as I did my home practice recently, I felt my body held in the pose, and it actually felt like a work of art. So what…
Tony and Baloney
Ed Stern's biggest success after 13 years as Playhouse in the Park's producing artistic director is the 2004 Regional Theatre Tony Award. His network TV shout out to Cincinnati, by far the biggest Queen City plug in recent memory, was sweet, positive and more than a little Pollyannaish: "A very, very big thank you to…
News: Building on McCrackin’s Legacy
Seven years after his death, the Rev. Maurice McCrackin's passion and dedication for social justice continues to influence activists. But the leadership void he left has yet to be filled. Community organizer and former Cincinnati City Council candidate Brian Garry hopes to begin working to fill the void Saturday during the sixth annual Rev. McCrackin…
Cover Story: Want to Live Longer?
It sounds like dieting, but it isn't. Dieting has the short-term goal of weight loss, but Calorie Restriction (CR) represents a lifelong approach to food consumption. Efforts to combat aging and extend human life date as far back as 3500 BC, and self-proclaimed experts have hawked anti-aging elixirs and fountains of youth since. But controlled…
Diner: Pot to Trot
To say I was skeptical about going to a fondue restaurant would be an understatement. I mean, how good can a restaurant be that only serves fondue? And how, possibly, could it make it just serving fondue, for heaven's sake? I had a lot to learn about the place and about fondue. I know, I…
Mindful Eating
Trying on a bikini under the fluorescent lights of a department store fitting room after a solid six months of comfort food hibernation is analogous to mainlining a hypodermic syringe of low self-esteem, the worst kind of drug. The spongy white thighs and South-for-the-winter ass is enough to propel anyone into expensive gym memberships and…
What Agitates an Agitator?
How would Kabaka Oba handle someone like Kabaka Oba? Known for his radical — some would say ridiculous or offensive — political activism, Oba once donned a Ku Klux Klan costume for a Cincinnati City Council meeting. But he has been mastering another trade for the past eight years. When he's not on Fountain Square…
Chasing the Wolf confronts issues of conformity and identity
Chasing the Wolf, a new work staged by Performance Gallery, is about two people imprisoned in a moment in time. If Cincinnati's recent Fringe Festival gave you an appetite for theater with an edge, you'll want to check out the world premiere of CHASING THE WOLF at the Columbia Performance Center (3900 Eastern Ave., Columbia-Tusculum),…
Cincinnati turns into Panicsville
Porter Hall Tennessee International Orange Thursday · Radio Down Though having played its first show less than a year ago, Chapel Hill, NC's International Orange has already taken its tasty Pop/Rock up and down the East Coast (from NYC to Florida) and become one of the more talked about new acts in their Indie-lovin' hometown.…
Cover Story: What’s Eating Us?
Ryan Greis and Sean Hughes Something tastes bad. Amidst the endless search for just the right diet, we're not just getting fatter — we're getting fatter fast. It's no longer normal to be normal weight in America. With more than 50 percent of adults overweight and one out of five adults obese, lean Americans are…
MATRIX Knows All About You
Despite very real privacy and data security concerns, the Taft administration provides information compiled from Ohioans' driver licenses, vehicle registrations, traffic infractions, court proceedings and criminal and incarceration records to the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (MATRIX), a massive law enforcement database used by several states and by the federal government. Ohio's data is combined with…
Stenger’s Cafe
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com Then: In 1997, Jon Hughes did a photo essay of Stenger's Café on Vine Street in Over-the-Rhine. The café had been serving lunch for more than 63 years thanks to owner Leo Sunderman, who joined the business after returning from a tour of duty in World War II. Sunderman's father-in-law, John Stenger Jr.,…
Locals Only: : Tears for Cheers
The Gravity Car The Gravity Car's vocalist and guitarist, Stephen Sunday, knows he's found kindred spirits. "I walked in to band practice and said, 'I'm writing a musical based on a translation of the work of a dead homosexual author by his lover and we're all going to be in it and play the music…
Self-mutilation takes cut into sexual self-worth
I know this isn't a sexy or even remotely enjoyable subject, but I could really use your advice. I'm an 18-year-old girl, though I can easily pass for 25. I'm pretty attractive (though I think everyone has things about them they would change), thin and altogether relatively normal, although I graduated high school early. As…
News to Use
Write for Change Gail Collins, editorial page editor of The New York Times, speaks at the second annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture at the Mercantile Library at 7 p.m. Monday. The topic is, "Writing to change the world." Admission is $20 and includes hors d'oeuvres and wine. To make a reservation, call 513-621-0717. Golf Benefits…
Here Comes the Sun
About this time two summers ago, Atif Kemaz corralled chaos. Simone's, his New World bistro, was thick with it. Likewise, our neighborhood of East Walnut Hills — the 'Nut to us — was also rowdy up top. Like Simone's, though, the place is elegant underneath. Already fantastically textured, all the 'Nut needed to join our…
Reno 911! is back on the case on Comedy Central
Here are a few programs to look out for in the upcoming week … WEDNESDAY 10:30 P.M. RENO 911! Comedy Central. All new episodes of CC's original comedy series start here. This summer the lieutenants of the Reno, Nevada Sheriff's Department are back chasing perps and getting themselves in trouble, both on and off duty.…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
Tucked away in one of the more beautiful corners of the area lies a collection of Queen City treasures. First, there's that view — arguably there's none better than at Eden Park. From the unique perspective of downtown (i.e. not from the river they always show during ball games) to the panoramic view looking east…
