News: ‘He Said, He Said’
"Niggers," "natives," "neighbors." "Pickers," "diggers," "dopers." In analyzing a tape of Cincinnati Police Lt. Jeff Butler's alleged racial slur, an expert consulted by the city considered all of those possible pronunciations. At dispute is a sentence in an internal affairs interrogation, at the end of which Butler says, "Can you get my gun for me…
News to Use
High School Journalism Conference The Cincinnati High School Journalism Conference meets from 1-5 p.m. Saturday at Cincinnati Country Day School. The program includes workshops led by journalists from CityBeat, The Cincinnati Post, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati Magazine and the Community Press. Registration is $5. For more information, see www.journalismconference.tk or email journalismconference@hotmail.com. Getting Global "Global:…
Diner: Food’s the Thing
I often wonder why people live in Mount Adams. Now I know why I might move there — Mangia Osteria on St. Gregory. In an age where restaurants insist on furnishing dining rooms with anything and everything imaginable, Mangia Osteria gives you the impression you are actually in a restaurant, not an auction hall (think…
News: Pretty in Kink
What's love got to do with it? Play and paraphernalia are part of Anything for Love. Gays and lesbians aren't the only people who have long been in the closet because of their sexuality. So have people who enjoy an alternative kind of pleasure: spanking, bondage play and other kinks. The 10th annual Anything for…
Yoga Teaching As a Living?
Dear Diane, I'm thinking about a career change and would like to do something to help other people. I'm taking a yoga class now and think it would be fun to teach it. Is it possible to teach yoga for a living, and where do I go for training? — Future Yoga Teacher Dear FYT,…
Cover Story: Growing Roots and Wings
Woodrow J. Hinton and Sean Hughes Dream with us a little. Dream of a school — your neighborhood school, the one you still attend, the one you attended years ago. Think of what you'd like there. A bookstore and coffee shop? Adult computer classes, art classes? A YMCA? A community health clinic? A professional theater…
Music: People Get Rizzy
Jymi Bolden Cuttin' heads and cuttin' tracks: Local producer/performer Young Rizzy says his style is a throwback to pre-bling, socially-aware Hip Hop. In the back of Supreme Styles barbershop in Northside sits a claustrophobic room that doubles as an efficient recording studio. When Laron Wilson (aka Young Rizzy) isn't cutting heads up front, he's in…
News: Jail Fight
Lamar Miller, charged with felonious assault after a struggle with guards at the Hamilton County Justice Center, says he was the victim of their assault. Guards at the Hamilton County Justice Center injured another mentally ill inmate three weeks ago, raising more questions about the diagnosis and treatment of prisoners. Lamar Miller of North Avondale,…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
This is the time of year when Cincinnati shows its strong Catholic roots in full force. That's right, it's Lent, and while the observance of Lent extends across the denominations, it's Catholics who tend to — if you'll pardon the expression — religiously observe the custom of eating fish on Fridays. In fact, one of…
Playhouse goes for Twelfth Night and The Crucible with its 2004 season announcement
Jymi Bolden The Cincinnati Playhouse's Ed Stern has announced his 14th season for the Eden Park theater. ED STERN, producing artistic director at the CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK, is still wrapped up in his 2003-2004 season (I called him in St. Louis, where he's directing a production of Mr. Roberts, which opens in Cincinnati…
Detroit Cobras slither into town
Detroit Cobra The Detroit Cobras with The Fairmount Girls Thursday · Jack Quinn's It takes cojones the size of cantaloupes just to play music in Detroit. When you actually name-check one of the greatest music cities on the planet when you christen your band, you better come with your A-game and a butt-wad of confidence.…
Locals Only: : Who Will Save Your Soul?
Dale M. Johnson Derrick Sanderson's Soul Expression As most know, Cincinnati has a rich history of Rhythm & Blues and Soul music. There's King Records and James Brown's session there in the label's heyday. Every summer, for 40 years (until 2002), Cincinnati was Jazz, R&B and Soul central when it hosted a huge Jazz and…
Black Class Complexities
Money is the new crack for America's monied black middle class. Settle yourselves. No one's begrudging the African-American (wo)man's green-eyed quest to validate the hyphenated American scheme. Go on. Brush your shoulders off. Everyday black wealth and black ownership do not equate black greed and aren't synonymous with the type of culturally stultifying behavior I'm…
Bill Cunningham and Who Must Go
Then: In 1996, CityBeat polled Cincinnatians and readers and asked them to choose "Who Must Go." The poll involved 1,200 randomly selected households, with about 10 percent of them returning their surveys. Felix Winternitz reported that "our polling sample despises extremists at either end of the political spectrum. Weathermen with loud ties. Loudmouth politicos. Abrasive…
Discovery Channel is in the process of ‘Reading Minds’
Here are a few programs to look out for in the upcoming week … THURSDAY 10 P.M. Naked Face: Reading Minds, Discovery. What if you could read people's thoughts and know their motives — just by looking at them? This one-hour special introduces viewers to a revolutionary face-reading procedure called the Facial Action Coding System…
News: Being Bugged
Jymi Bolden Gene Kritsky, cicada expert, urges people to help count the noisy bugs. Gene Kritsky considers himself a cicada baby, which means only that he was born in 1953 when a bunch of the bugs called Brood X — literally tons of them — left their underground world after 17 years and took wing…
Women finds herself in tryst with her girlfriend’s husband
Early last year, my married girlfriend deployed to Iraq. Prior to her leaving, she told me she was having problems with her husband. Being a good friend, I supported her. I learned via e-mail that she had fallen in love with another man. When she came home and asked her husband for a divorce, he…
