Mar 16-23, 2016
2016 NCAA Tournament Preview: Chris Mack and Xavier Set Their Sights on the Final Four
Knight of Cups
Terrence Malick, an iconoclastic filmmaker who began making movies in the 1970s and seemed disinterested in flooding the market, has recently made himself a fixture of sorts on the release schedule. Knight of Cups marks his fourth film in 11 years (following a period where he directed just three films in 25 years) and focuses…
Fastball
Made in association with Major League Baseball, directed by Jonathan Hock and narrated by Kevin Costner (Mr. Baseball among the acting set thanks to his work in Bull Durham, Field of Dreams and For Love of the Game), Fastball zeroes in on the most elemental of battles waged in the arena of sports: the dynamic…
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Zack Snyder and the DC Comics brain trust at Warner Brothers made a curious decision to downplay the idea of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as a second installment of the ongoing saga of the new “Man of Steel,” instead of seizing upon the opportunity to commit to a focus on larger franchise building…
Slice of Cincinnati: OCD Cakes
As the night sky blankets Cincinnati at 3 a.m., a faint glow emanates from the kitchen window of a small apartment. While most University of Cincinnati students who are awake at this hour are up to their eyeballs in tedious lab reports and last-minute reading, James Avant is caught in a frenzy of mixing bowls,…
Morning News and Stuff
Good morning, Cincinnati. With sad news coming out of Belgium and historic news coming out of Cuba, it's a big day for international news. But first, here are your local headlines. • Cincinnati's Historic Preservation Board has approved a real estate developer's request to tear down two buildings located downtown at the corner of Eighth…
Morning News and Stuff
Hey all. Hope your weekend was rad. MusicNOW was incredible and I kinda wish I’d learned how to play like, concert piano or violin as a kid instead of boring guitar. Anyway, here’s what’s going on today in news. You might need a little soundtrack for this first bit, and this weird song by hometown…
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati Announces 2016-2017 Season
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is really getting its act together. Not that they haven’t always been on top of things, but it’s often been deep into springtime before the coming season has been announced. Having recently shared the news about the expansion of its physical plant beginning in 2017, ETC has now shared what will be…
Your Weekend To Do List
FRIDAYMUSIC: MUSICNOW Though the Cincinnati natives of The National didn’t form their internationally successful Indie Rock band until they’d all moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., the band’s guitarist, Bryce Dessner, keeps strong musical ties to the Queen City in the shape of his annual MusicNOW festival, a unique, collaborative and creatively curated new music event that…
Stage Door
There’s plenty of theater on local stages this weekend. Here’s a round-up for you to consider: Two shows based on very different classic novels are excellent choices. Emma, adapted from Jane Austen’s 1815 novel about well-intended matchmaking that goes awry, continues at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. The production takes advantage of the company’s strong female acting…
Morning News and Stuff
Hey all! Here’s the news today. First, let’s drill down a little bit more on something we talked about Wednesday, following primary voting — the ultra-local battle for precinct executive seats going on within the local Democratic Party. As we mentioned before, the winners of those seats help decide who the Cincinnati Democratic Committee will…
Trump-as-Hitler Analogies
It didn’t take long before politicians and commentators in the news media began likening Donald Trump to Hitler or Mussolini. We might not like what Trump and his supporters say and do, but equating someone with Hitler forecloses conversation. It’s the F-bomb of epithets. There is no defense. Worse is how any analogy to Hitler distracts…
Morning News and Stuff
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Cincy! Here are your morning headlines. University of Cincinnati President Santa Ono says he'd like to see the streetcar extend to go Uptown and to UC's campus. Ono first publicly announced his position in a recent speech that was posted on YouTube. Ono, who has previously supported the project privately, said…
