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Jason Ricci Jason Ricci and New Blood Thursday · Fat Fish Blue If Blues Traveler's John Popper is the Eddie Van Halen of harmonica, then Jason Ricci might be the John Coltrane. If one offers unnerving speed and precision, the other adds to this dizzying virtuosity a fire, passion and genre-expanding inventiveness that supercedes raw…
Music: ‘Dresses for Successes
Keith Klenowski The Sundresses (L-R) Brad Schnittger, Makenzie Place and Jeremy Springer Tuesday's open mic night at Allyn's consistently draws some of the city's best singer/songwriters to test new material or just get some exposure. On this crisp February evening, several of Cincinnati's finest talents — including Whitney Barricklow and members of Ruby Vileos and…
Ruling Goes Uncovered and the White House Welcomes a Shill
Has porn prosecution become ho-hum for local dailies and TV? They missed it when a Pittsburgh federal judge dismissed charges against Extreme Associates at the urging of Cincinnati lawyers H. Louis Sirkin and Jennifer Kinsley (see Media, Myself & I, issue of Feb. 2-8). Judge Gary L. Lancaster agreed that federal anti-obscenity laws were unconstitutional.…
News to Use
Rally to Stop the War The cost of war in Iraq: more than 1,469 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…
One Good O-T-R Night Out
Everything looks right in Over-the-Rhine under warm nighttime skies and a wintertime full moon. Revelers crowd outside BarrelHouse Brewery — with no clue that it was literally the brewery's "final Friday" — and watch Scottish bagpipers parade down 12th Street. It's late on Feb. 25, the night of Bockfest, Over-the-Rhine's annual winter-ending celebration of bock…
Plans Waiting for Action
Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) officials updated city council Feb. 22 on their progress after a year and a half of work to redevelop Over-the-Rhine, the Banks and Fountain Square. Over-the-Rhine is the only development that's moved beyond planning stages. The Kroger parking deck should be done by May 1, said Joe Pichler, head…
Under The Influence: Dave Purcell – Pike 27
Dave Purcell Pike 27 The Sex Pistols — Never Mind The Bollocks … Here's The Sex Pistols In September, 1980, I began my freshman year at Newport Catholic High School. The Internet was over a decade away and cable wouldn't come until the following spring. You found out about cool music by word of mouth,…
Exploring the Sacred Feminine
By Leslie HershbergerHave you heard of the parable of the boiled frog? It's the one that tells of a frog placed in boiling water who immediately tries to scramble out. Yet when placed in room temperature water, the frog stays put. If you gradually raise the temperature, the frog still doesn't move. As the temperature…
Placing all the blame
Holy cow, Dan! I totally disagree that there is a direct parallel between mugging old ladies and having unsafe sex with an HIV diagnosis. The old ladies have no way to protect themselves, whereas every single person who sleeps with an HIV-er has the choice to use a condom. I work at an HIV service…
Never-ending hacked celebrity Sidekicks
Star idolization reached a new low — or a technical high, depending on how you look at it — when celebrity-by-default Paris Hilton had her trusty Sidekick (a combo cell phone and PDA) hacked into and its contents revealed on the Internet. A photo of Hilton kissing MTV VJ Eglantina Zingg makes a dull sex…
Travel & Getaways
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Spurs a Team for the Ages, Though This NBA Age Is Reviled
Jerry Dowling The epithets aimed at the NBA in the past couple of decades might be summarized by saying it was once about competition and now it's about entertainment. But that's spectator sports in a nutshell. If it were only about competition, the games would be everything and a lot fewer people would watch without…
On the Off Chance the Feds Will Help
Sean Hughes/photopresse.com Ted Jackson (standing) briefs volunteers in the successful campaign to repeal Article 12 of the city charter. Now Jackson is leading a local chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans. The county might be done dealing with the 2000 death of Roger Owensby Jr. in police custody, but Councilman Christopher Smitherman has received word…
Mind If I Yell Next to You?
The proposed smoking ban in Cincinnati ("Butt Out," issue of Feb. 23-March 1) has already passed in sister cities like Columbus and recently went into effect as the last mutterings of debate died down and people got back to the business of eating, drinking and taking in live music. Why doesn't Vice Mayor Alicia Reece…
Film: One Industry; Two Ceremonies
Alexander Payne's Sideways won a record-tying six awards at the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards, held the day prior to the Oscars. LOS ANGELES — Nothing at the Independent Spirit Awards ceremony on Feb. 26 in Santa Monica was as thrilling as watching Sean Penn upbraid Chris Rock's mean-spirited joke about Jude Law at the Oscars…
Cover Story: Writing a New Chapter
Geoff Raker Writing A New Chapter From August 2002 to August 2004, I was a teacher in the small town of Murakami, Niigata, Japan. I taught 17 classes to 500 students a week, helped plan new employee orientations and attended countless local drinking parties called enkai. I'd love to say I was able to survive…
News: Toking the Cure
Oliver Meinerding It was the prospect of his father's impending death that made State Sen. Robert F. Hagan (D-Youngstown) consider the medicinal value of marijuana. "I was there when the doctor said, 'You have six months, Mr. Hagan,' " he says. His father's pain and suffering is also what made Hagan bristle when he was…
Film: Shake Your Moneymaker
Woodrow J. Hinton For his Be Cool return as gangster Chili Palmer, John Travolta partners with Uma Thurman. CENTURY CITY, Calif. — Just as Harvey Keitel was explaining the importance of being present at the creation of the modern "indie" film movement — Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Bad Lieutenant and more — the fire…
Living Out Loud: : In the Spirit of Trying Something New
I don't like to think I'm set in my ways but the reality is I know I am. I listen to the same radio station at work everyday, usually get up at the same time, have routines that I follow and get pissed off if something throws them out of whack. But maybe it's progress…
Locals Only: : Bluer Shade Of Pale
Dale M. Johnson Pale Beneath the Blue "I want to do a CD of nothing but Billy Idol covers," says Rhonda Everitt, guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist of Pale Beneath the Blue. I think she's only half-joking, but you never know quite what to expect from Everitt. Pale Beneath the Blue is Everitt's latest band in her interestingly-named oeuvre.…
Diner: Land of Choice
Was it fate or coincidence that I ended up at Uncle Yip's during the Chinese New Year celebrations? Despite the juxtaposition of our visit with the holiday and festive paper decorations of happy Asian people on the pastel-tinged walls, Uncle Yip's, like many Chinese restaurants, has a rather seedy quality to it. The indoor/outdoor carpet,…
All Heart, No Bastards
One of the finest releases to come out the Cincinnati area in the several years, Heartless Bastards' Stairs and Elevators, gets its local "release party" Friday at Newport's Southgate House (Pearlene and Campfire Crush open). But this isn't your usual "local release." Stairs and Elevators is the latest from Fat Possum Records, a Mississippi-based label…
I Am My Own Wife
Sandy Underwood Todd Almond plays 35 characters in I Am My Own Wife at ETC. When D. Lynn Meyers, producing artistic director at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati (ETC), approached actor TODD ALMOND about performing the one-actor show I AM MY OWN WIFE, he thought, "Her opinion of me must be too high! There's no way…
