Music: Studio Stud
Behind the boards: Internationally-renowned producer Erwin Musper mans the controls at his new Northern Kentucky studio, The Bamboo Room. Walking from the ground floor down to the lounge in Erwin Musper's house-turned-studio, it's hard to miss all the Gold records hanging amidst the posters and commissioned paintings. While the sheer numbers of "units sold" seem…
Better Off Going to Mars
It's a well-established fact that Texas produces the nation's best bullshitters. It was the presidents from Texas who brought us the full-blown Vietnam War, the first war on Iraq and the current war in Iraq. Lyndon B. Johnson told us the Vietnam War was an effort to help a democratic country resist communist aggression. In…
News to Use
Rally to Stop the War The cost of war in Iraq: more than 1,500 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis dead, $154 billion spent and 0 reasons to be there. Meanwhile, our city and the region face growing financial challenges as money for jobs, education, human services, health care and public transit grow ever more scarce. Join…
Cover Story: A Season for Justice
A Season For Justice It was the summer of '64. Rick Momeyer had just graduated from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania and, for the first summer since he started college, didn't have to work. Two years earlier Momeyer had spent a semester at Fisk University, where he took part in sit-ins in Nashville, Tenn., with civil…
Wanted- Girls
I'm a 15-year-old boy and I've never had a girlfriend and I wanted to ask you personally, how do you get girls? Like the best way to get them, so they think I'm interesting. I await your orders. — Teenager Going to Waste There's nothing I enjoy more than ordering around the odd teenage boy,…
Under The Influence: – Beth Cheek – Lovely Crash/The Fairmount Girls
Dale M. Johnson Beth Cheek – Lovely Crash/The Fairmount Girls David Bowie — Low In the wasteland that was West Chester in the late '70s, there was little on the landscape and less in entertainment options. Used to Pop pap from Q102, I was "restless and bored." Enter a merry band of folks who would…
Travel & Getaways
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Locals Only: : Words To Eat By
Dale M. Johnson Ill Poetic "I haven't had a chance to eat all day," MC Ill Poetic says. "Do you mind that I'm fixing something to eat?" It's 4 in the afternoon, and clearly he's famished. Haphazardly dumping powdered cheese and milk into the pot, he's playing beat-the-clock before a Greyhound ride to his hometown…
Living Out Loud: : Goodnight, Johnny
On Jan. 23 I was in my study writing when my son came in to tell me Johnny Carson had died. Any thoughts of putting more words down on paper stopped at that moment. I went to the Web and for the rest of the day read stories on his life and death and watched…
Redhawks Red-Faced: Miami Screwed Again by the NCAA
Jerry Dowling For reasons that are unknown and still understandable, the NCAA men's basketball tournament selection committee refuses to release its Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) to the public. After all, the committee would never be able to explain its decisions. A week ago, we picked Miami University as a lock, if barely, for the NCAA…
Reel News: :
Last month, Russell Crowe took a verbal swipe at George Clooney and other Hollywood superstars for their willingness to be featured in foreign and domestic advertising. "It's kind of sacrilegious," Crowe told GQ, "a contradiction of the contract with your audience." The list of offended celebrities is impressive. Oscar winner Halle Berry is one of…
Snorkel Yoga
In Jamaica at Rainbow Tree Villa, you can walk right into the surf of warm, blue and crystal clear water and within 5 feet be snorkeling along colorful coral. The surf is gentle, but the waves have just enough energy and force to create a sparkling bubble dance underneath the water. They crash on the…
Hardcore, American-Style
Cincinnati Rock foursome American Hardcore is set to release its first album Saturday in conjunction with a live show at Downtown's alchemize. 6 Sigma and Bluf open. The band's self-titled debut is a loving throwback to the debauched, mascara-drenched days of Metal when the music crossed over from Big Hair pomp-and-stomp to the Guns 'N'…
Rennie Harris / PureMovement
Poppin', lockin', breakin' animation — even if you're not well-versed in the different styles and nuances of Hip Hop dancing, chances are you'll take something positive away from a RENNIE HARRIS/PUREMOVEMENT performance. In fact, that's precisely the vision of Philadelphia native Lorenzo "Rennie" Harris — to bring the universal themes of Hip Hop dance to…
The Performance Gallery
Brian Robertson and Nathan Gabriel Michael Bath (center) is Woyzeck, a man victimized by others around him. Want to get a step ahead of audiences for the 2005 Cincinnati Fringe Festival? (See story on page 39.) This weekend is your chance, thanks to THE PERFORMANCE GALLERY. They´re staging Georg B´chner´s classic play, WOYZECK, written in…
News: Prove Who You Are
Bonnie Davis Karen Dabdoub (left), Ohio director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Gary Daniels of the ACLU at a forum on the Ohio Patriot Act. Ohio law soon will require people to identify themselves on demand from police officers or face 30 days in jail. The Ohio Patriot Act, unanimously passed last week…
How Many Mics?
If, like Chuck D said, Rap is the black CNN, then whites are as prone to be enraptured by Rap's unfolding black updates riding a dope beat as blacks are to write, record and videotape them. This marriage between voyeur and Negro Petting Zoo birthed a business largely financed, consumed and appropriated by white America.…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Hood, Magnapop and More
Kings of Leon Hood with Culture Queer and Audible Wednesday · Southgate House There's a tendency of music critics (present company included) to make pronouncements about a band's latest recording based on previous output. And the pronouncements can be unnervingly inconsistent and downright contradictory at times. "So-and-so is simply making the same record over and…
Diner: It Takes a Village
Woodrow J. Hinton Bruce French Extreme adventure might be his diet, but for former Cincinnati chef Bruce French extreme service is his nourishment. For six months a year, French — a local legend in the Cincinnati restaurant scene in the 1980s and '90s — works as a private chef for touring Rock bands such as…
No Need to Avoid People with Disabilities
It's an amazing phenomenon that many people with disabilities experience. You go to a room that will soon be filled with people. You settle in and wait for others to arrive. But when they do, no one sits in your row or at your table. All too often, people who (as yet) have no disability…
Banning in Cincinnati
Given the Gannett Co.'s staggering competitive advantage, the founder of a handful of free social networking and listings Web sites wants to know why The Cincinnati Enquirer refuses to sell him advertising. Gannett owns 101 daily newspapers, including USA Today, a slew of non-daily papers, 21 TV stations, a direct-mail advertising magazine, a broadcast network…
Sparing the Public’s Tender Sensibilities
Jymi Bolden Can you hear me now? Councilman Jim Tarbell says closed meetings have a purpose. The slung mud that attends every election season started congealing during the March 9 meeting of Cincinnati City Council, nearly eight months before voters go to the polls. First Councilman David Pepper, a mayoral candidate, sharply criticized Councilman Christopher…
Songs to Die For
HOTDead Beats A survey of 45,000 people in the UK and Europe asking what song they would like played at their funerals revealed some delightfully peculiar quirks. The Brits have generally bad taste (Robbie Williams' "Angels" was their No. 1 pick) but also a wicked sense of humour (Monty Python's "Always Look On the Bright…
Surviving Taft
My question for the week is this: If I buy a gallon of gas at a price similar to someone in Europe, why can't I enjoy the same social support system, culture and inexpensive health care? My second question goes out to Ohio Do-Nothing Gov. Bob Taft as he crisscrosses the state to promote his…
