Music: Vinyl Frontier
WOXY.com The Chocolate Horse When you walk up to Jason Snell's modest two-story home tucked away on a backstreet in Northside, you don't suspect it to be any different from the rows of well-worn houses that surround it. But walk inside and you are in Chocolate Horse World Headquarters, something immediately evident when you…
Art: Retro Cool
Country Club Gallery "Earth and Satellite" are colorful works included in Country Club's Charley Harper exhibition. Matt Distel and Christian Strike are like kids ripping open a gift as they pull the bubble wrap off of the latest Charley Harper picture to arrive from storage. "Rocket Belt, Mechanical Horse and Automatically Controlled Car" has…
News: More Hazard Warnings
Carlos Banda Workers and supporters held a protest rally Marxh 6 at a Cintas facility in Bedford Park, III. One year after Eleazar Torres-Gomez was entrapped by a conveyor belt at a Cintas Corp. laundry in Oklahoma and was dragged into an industrial dryer where he burned to death, some workers at the company's…
Onstage: Review: Doubt
Sandy Underwood Titanic struggle: Caitlin O'Connell and Ted Deasy match wills in Doubt. If you need to demonstrate to someone why the Cincinnati Playhouse is one of America's most respected regional theaters, I suggest you take him or her to see the current production of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: A Parable. Artistic Director Ed Stern…
Music: Jiggling the Handle
Jason Thrasher Drive By Truckers With the release of possibly their best record yet, Brighter Than Creation's Dark, plus several key lineup changes, the Drive-By Truckers keep chugging past career crises and crossroads with plenty of juice left in the proverbial tank. This Southern Rock band with Alabama roots has made a career out…
Film: Review: Funny Games
Wip Devil in white: Naomi Watts (left) greets Brady Corbet in Funny Games. Austrian writer/director Michael Haneke has remade his own controversial 1997 film, in which he effectively mocked American cinema's love for violence by pushing the limits of cinematic sadomasochism with an excruciating thriller that sticks to a standard formula, albeit with a…
Resetting the Fizz with a new CD
Fizzgig This Saturday, Cincinnati Power Pop powerhouse Fizzgig performs at the Southgate House to celebrate the release of its latest album, Reset. Likeminded popsters Ellison and Nashville's Second Saturday open the show. Upon first listen, you can't be blamed for hearing the album as almost one long song. A good, well-crafted song, but same-samey…
Xenophobia, self-censorship and the media
Xenophobia and self-censorship bedevil the news media. It begins and ends with Matt Drudge, the blogger who became indespensible after sleepy Washington reporters caught his scoop on the president
News: Justice System Injustice
Jymi Bolden Attorney Bill Gallagher says that incompetence is ingrained in Hamilton County's public defender system. You've been drinking at a bar and get into it with the guy next to you. The next thing you know you're in the back of a police car on your way to the Hamilton County Justice Center…
Sound Advice: : Emerson Drive and God Is a Astronaut
Splash Publicity Emerson Drive Emerson Drive Friday · Madison Theater What do you call a band that rocks and pops as much as it twangs, specializes in crystalline harmonies and plays songs that can crack smiles and break hearts in equal measure? If you're from Southern California, it's called the Eagles. But if you're…
Rob Anderson
Rob Anderson, "In the Studio" Rob Anderson's sensitive paintings examine the subtle relationships between individuals and their everyday surroundings. Observed directly from life, his drawings — on view at Dicere Gallery in Camp Washington through March 29 — display Anderson's prodigious ability to capture the human figure. The following are a few things that…
Competition and Fair Play
Last week the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the pioneering independent alt weekly newspaper, won its predatory pricing lawsuit against SF Weekly and parent company Village Voice Media. Village Voice Media is the largest chain in the alt weekly world and was known as New Times until it bought The Village Voice a few years ago.…
Another seven days of mocking the poor, feeling gloomy and not banning torture
Dewey's 'flavor saver' WEDNESDAY MARCH 5 Scientists flooded the Grand Canyon today to simulate the natural flows of water that once replenished its complex ecosystems. According to the AP, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne pulled a lever releasing more than 300,000 gallons of water per second out of the Glen Canyon Dam to…
Art: An American in London
Emil Robinson Emil Robinson paints in his London studio. If you haven't seen Emil Robinson around lately, it's because he's across the pond. Robinson is in London putting together a new body of work and trying to break into the gallery scene there. He jumped at the chance to go abroad when his fiancée,…
Locals Only: Local Only: Cut In The Hill Gang
Cut in the Hill Gang Cut in the Hill Gang vocalist/guitarist/creative spark plug Johnny Walker claims he doesn't have a lot of ambition. "I just want to sit around and play music," he says with a laconic laugh. His actions speak considerably louder. Walker moved from his adopted home base of Detroit to Covington…
Food, drink, etc.
Graham Lienhart Riverside Korean Restaurant Taza is now open in the old Buzz Coffee Shop space at the corner of University and Jefferson in Corryville. Along with serving up fair-trade coffee drinks, Taza supports organizations that positively impact the local and global community by offering monthly "Friends On A Mission" mini-grants to groups who…
A Vote for a Better Voting System
Sophia Hughes The world of post-2000 presidential election voting in Ohio isn't working. It's way too expensive, unnecessarily complicated and perversely taxing on everyone involved, from underpaid poll workers and board of elections workers to the voters themselves. Here's a shocker: The old way was better. Hanging, dangling, partially perforated chads are preferable to…
Bush’s Incompetence Belies GOP Campaign Claims
Joe Lamb McCain talks big on terrorism and security. Conventional wisdom often is wrong. Consider this nugget: Republicans know more about getting tough with malcontents, waging war and keeping the United States safe. Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, touts his military background and long tenure on the Senate's Armed Services Committee when…
Film: The Enchanter
Kerry Brown Amy Adams stars as a charming American singer in the period piece Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. Enchanted, Disney's blockbusting mix of live-action and animation, musical and romantic drama, earned multiple Best Song nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which meant that there would be three overblown…
Kids Having Kids
When I was working on the "Bear" column that appeared here a few weeks ago, I wrote it in longhand one afternoon at the Main Library downtown. This is a luxury I usually don't have. More often than not, I'm at my computer banging on the keyboard. This time I wanted to feel my hand…
Cover Story: They’re So Veins
Roman Titus Ben Davis (left) and Sebastien Schultzsay Bad Veins might be "the most signed unsigned band ever." Web Photo Slide Show Extra It's early December and I'm in Chicago with Cincinnati-based Indie Rock duo Bad Veins as they prepare to play yet another series of highly buzzed-about out-of-town shows. If you were to…
Enduring the Dog Days Between the Super Bowl and the NCAA Tournament
Jerry Dowling Flipping around the dial over the weekend, looking at a college basketball game here, a spring training baseball game there and an NBA game somewhere else, one had to curse his rotten luck at being too sick to leave the house at just the wrong time. Even if you weren't sick, you…
Freedom’s Sisters, Free Passion, St. Patrick’s Parade, Rumble Club and much more
Manifest Gallery Projections at Manifest Gallery WEDNESDAY 3/12 ONSTAGE: DOUBT, the most produced play on regional stages across the U.S., continues at the Playhouse in the Park. See Rick Pender's review here. ART: COUNTRY CLUB's Charley Harper: Works on Paper 1961-1970 exhibition continues through May 3. See Selena Reder's feature story here. ART: MANIFEST…
This Week in Wellness
Welcome the return of the sun at the Spring Equinox Celebration, featuring hiking, storytelling and a fire. Bring a snack to share. Free. 7 p.m. March 16 at Imago Earth Center, 700 Enright Ave., Price Hill, 513-921-5124. Via Crucis: Immersion is an experiential Stations of the Cross event that uses mixed media to explore the…
Harold C. Schott Education Center & Zoo Academy
Cincinnati Zoo / Glaserworks Harold C. Schott Education Center & Zoo Academy If there's one place in the city where embracing your inner child is an absolute must, it has to be The Cincinnati Zoo. The zoo has always provided a wide array of animal species to ignite the imagination, awe and curiosity of…
Mark Bradford, Genre Jumper
Juan Carlos Avendano, Courtesy of Sikkema, Jenkins & Co Mark Bradford's immersive paintings arecurrently on view at the CAM. In the Vance-Waddell Gallery at the Cincinnati Art Museum, three enormous, swirling, silver-plated paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford shroud the space. The exhibition, Maps & Manifests: New Work, jumps traditional genre boundaries: In…
Holistic Heart Health
Caring for your heart isn't just watching your diet and exercise. Holistic heart health encompasses a broad array of categories beyond our physical heart (body) including a tender heart (mind/emotions), a servant's heart (spirituality) and our community heart (sociality). Physical Heart Health Schedule a visit with your primary care physician for a complete physical, including…
Say Something Nice … or Else
I enjoyed Joe Wessels' column "Is Bill Cunningham Really One of Us?" (issue of March 5). Wessels' points are fair and well thought out. Usually CityBeat is so one sided on the liberal point of view that their articles can't be taken seriously. Proof of this is that someone (at CityBeat, I assume) actually thinks…
Amarin (Review)
Joe Lamb Amarin Thai and Sushi Amarin Thai & Sushi is located in the section of Hyde Park where Cumin, Hap's Irish Pub and Bangkok Bistro line Erie Avenue. Parking was a bit of a challenge, but we managed to squeeze in next to a half-melted snowdrift behind the bank across the street. Amarin…
