Sacrifice for Boycott
The two words that come to mind when I think about the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott are "doable" and "sacrifice." There were other Montgomery, Ala., businesses that Dr. Martin Luther King could have boycotted as part of his fight against that city's segregation laws. But when Rosa Parks refused to forfeit her seat to a…
The Warsaw Falcons have entered the 21st century with their most prolific phase yet
David Rhodes Brown has recently found his muse again. The venerable leader and heart of Cincinnati's original Roots/Rockabilly band, The Warsaw Falcons, is dishing out new music at a rate likely to challenge Guided By Voices frontman Bob Pollard's recent cluster-bomb output. On Saturday the Falcons release their second EP of the new year,…
Elizabeth Dewberry’s Sacrament of Lies
Grayson Guillory's mother is a paranoid manic-depressive. Her father is a power-hungry womanizer that happens to be Louisiana's present governor. In Elizabeth Dewberry's third novel, Sacrament of Lies, the story picks up after her mother's suicide with Grayson's own mental state starting to slip as she sinks into a depression. She blames herself for…
Whirlygig: 17
Edited by Rebecca Lomax The Road to the Road March is alive with the sound of basketballs. Add the ardent roar of fans and the fervent prayers for wins, and it's a good time all around. So it was this week in Cincinnati as we chased dreams of Final Four and the No. 1 seed…
Dreamland: 180 Days Later
"Let's make a pact for our lives/ in our homeland/ built on the bricks that we've made/ in my dreamland." — "Dreamland," Madeleine Peyroux Changed much? Our president is popular because he landed a wartime lap dance early in his term. Thus, George W. Bush's "them bad, us good" tape loop is as big a…
1531 Republic St.
1531 Republic St. Address: 1531 Republic St., Over-the-Rhine Owner: Northern Liberties Corporation, a subsidiary of Hart Realty Purchase date: March 1, 1984 Current value: $14,700, according to the Hamilton County Auditor Square feet: 1,980, including three bedrooms and three full bathrooms Year built: 1870 Comments: While most of the housing units owned by Hart…
News: He’s No Hard-Ass
Jymi Bolden Sometimes Mayor Charlie Luken doesn't seem to understand why African Americans, gays and lesbians are angry. Mayor Charlie Luken says he wouldn't mind being black. He also thinks the police chief is doing a good job and people outside Cincinnati don't much care about the city's discrimination against gays. Luken, who wanted…
Cover Story: Salamanders in the City
Jymi Bolden Francis Ganance (left) and George Hardebeck have observed salamanders in unexpected urban settings, such as this field in College Hill. When George Hardebeck thinks about his community, he doesn't include only the humans living nearby. For him, community involves all creatures, even a plant or a salamander in a stream. Part of…
News: The Kids Feel Alright
Jymi Bolden Gay and straight teen-agers are on the same developmental path in terms of their sexuality, according to Andy Ruffner. Last summer Nikki Kowell ran away. After two days on the streets, she spent two and a half weeks at the Lighthouse Youth Crisis Center. It was the only place for her. Kowell,…
Diner: A Taste of Russia
Lisa Bialac The nights are cold, my job sucks, and cabbage is the freshest thing in the produce aisle. Don't bother me. I'm having a Russia moment. They come along every winter, when I look up and remember that good tomatoes are still at least five or six months away. It might be just…
News: Digging In
Doug Trapp Jennifer Warner says she is suing to stop a corporation from intimidating citizens who oppose a mine in their community. It's difficult to find people in Boone County willing to talk about Hilltop Basic Resources, a family-owned, Cincinnati-based concrete company. It might have something to do with the wave of subpoenas issued…
Music: Come See, Come Saul
Saul Williams' forays into film, literature and music make him a modern day Renaissance man. Saul Williams has more slashes than Jack the Ripper. He is: poet slash actor slash screenwriter slash musician slash Rock star. And through each medium Williams spits invocations, channeling the gods and goddesses of Hip Hop's golden era for…
Ampline
Ampline It's an Indie Rock spectacular Saturday at the Southgate House, as local Indie instrumental group Ampline (which features two-thirds of the local group Thistle), return from a two-week tour for a special homecoming gig. The band's winding, rocked-out songs (which are so solid you hardly notice the lack of vocals) can finally be…
