Film: Hunting for Del Toro
Method Man: Benicio Del Toro held nothing back while filming the fight scenes in The Hunted. Benicio Del Toro has a way of blending into his characters. The chameleon-like actor hit the scene as the mumbling, bumbling Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects (1995). He next dove headfirst into Dr. Gonzo in Fear and…
Listings
ART OPPORTUNITIES 97X COMMUNITY GALLERY AND ARTISAN GROUP — A virtual gallery of digital art, photography, sculpture, poetry, food and art has opened its doors on the pages of sr-curator@cacmail.org. … Reminisce the CAC's 64-year history in Scrapbook: A CAC History, a retrospective exhibit co-curated by Owen Findsen. Through Apr. 30. … Offering Art in…
News: Pink Market
Think of The Listings as a GLBT chamber of commerce, says Chris May. Where does the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gendered (GLBT) community find guidance to navigate gay-friendly businesses in a homophobic city like Cincinnati? It's not always as easy as a rainbow flag dangling from a storefront façade. The answer, however, is at…
Diner: Home Away From Home
This is what I imagined Irish food to be: potato and oatmeal dishes washed down with a pint of ale and a shot of Irish whiskey. And somewhere in there big legs o' mutton — one gets inspired to speak the Irish brogue when you're talking about things like mutton — washed down with a…
Diner: Get Your Irish Up
A few years ago in Seattle, a new Irish pub called F.X. McHooligan's or something equally obnoxious opened up. I went there, fresh from my recent trip to the Emerald Isle, and just about spat on the floor at what I saw. Bright brass everywhere, glistening mirrors, green leather, shamrocks, harps all over the place…
Whirlygig: 68: Out on the Town
Gotta Go, Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now Maybe it was the bad Chinese food I had for lunch on Friday. Maybe it was the intense workout I had after work. Maybe it was the eight hours of drinking after work. Or maybe it was a combination of the three. I spent all of Saturday…
Let’s Get on With the Past: Stop the Shooting
It was only last Friday night that Joe and Carla Tucker were talking about how sweet 22-year-old Gillespie McPherson was. Less than 24 hours later, McPherson bled to death in the brightest sunlight this winter. Joe pointed out down filling from McPherson's coat that swirled around on the sidewalk beside his restaurant. The gun battle…
Locals Only: : Loose Morals
Dale M. Johnson Morals Galore You'd know them if you've seen them on stage — five bodies of various shapes and sizes flailing at their instruments and making a delicious, melodic mess. Local Indie Rock combo Morals Galore come off as a more innocent version of The Replacements, with all the boozy sincerity, looseness…
All Tomorrow’s Parties: Hoping for a Better Future for Cincinnati
The great "what's next" is the topic of choice whenever I get together with a group of friends. We make up dream shows that should appear at the new Contemporary Arts Center (an exhibition by Matthew Barney, America's leading avant-garde artist) and pile unfair civic responsibilities on the shoulders of the National Underground Railroad Freedom…
Don’t Limit Lawsuits — Redistribute the Awards
With the Bush and Taft administrations abdicating their roles as protector and bowing to corporate demands by gutting basic and critical product safety regulations, lawsuits are consumers' only shield against the single-minded greed that produced such deadly, profitable products as asbestos, the Ford Pinto and flammable baby pajamas. The component of lawsuit awards that conveys…
News: Slithering Celts
Jymi Bolden Susan Kern and Monty Python are among the attractions at the All Snakes Day Faire. Instead of green beer there is mead, a fermented honey wine. In place of St. Patrick is Monty Python — a four-foot ball python whose ancestors the saint was said to have driven out of Ireland. Organizers…
1429 Race St.
Doug Trapp 1429 Race St. Address: 1429 Race St.,Over-the-Rhine Owner: City of Cincinnati Value: $60,400 Year Built: 1900 Comments: Many old and historic churches in the city are faring poorly these days. This building is a classic example. The city has owned it since April 1985, according to the Hamilton County Auditor's Office. But…
News: Jurors Like Us
Jymi Bolden Hamilton County Jury Commissioner Fritz Meyer has been collecting demographic data on the juror pool. People who work in the Hamilton County court system have long suspected that defendants aren't always judged by juries of their peers. Interviewing lawyers, judges and other court workers last year, Cincinnati Community Action Now (CAN) —…
News: You Can Do, Too
The "Can Do" woman is a career woman, a mother, a daughter and a caretaker. Speaking of Women's Health has designated 2003 the Year of the "Can Do" Woman, trying to remind her to focus not just on the needs of others, but on her own needs and health as well. Speaking of Women's Health…
