News: CFT Plans Fight Against Budget Cuts That Scale Down Teacher Evaluations
Jymi Bolden Tom Mooney, Cincinnati Federation of Teachers president, says the Peer Assistance and Evaluation Program is critical for keeping new teachers in Cincinnati Public Schools. The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT) and the school district's administrators are butting heads over a proposal to cut a district program that evaluates and assists teachers who…
Diner: A Latin Fling
It's said there's nothing new under the sun. But there is in West Carrollton, Ohio, at El Meson. If you're looking for an exotic dining experience without packing or showing a picture ID, drive north on I-75 for a south-of-the-border minivacation. Forget the miles, don't worry about the time: You'll feel welcome in this tropical…
The Right to Not Choose
I've always been pretty much a black-and-white guy. You either support the death penalty or you don't. You're either a dog person or a cat person. You're either a liberal or a Clinton supporter. Period. If you advocate locking up serial murderers for life and then keeping them infected with a really nasty flu, I…
Ekoostik Hookah
Ekoostik Hookah Ohio's answer to the Allman Brothers, Ekoostik Hookah, are celebrating the release of their sixth CD, Sharp in the Flats, by doing what they do best: touring. The album is a collection of mostly unreleased Hookah songs (along with a funktastic cover of Billy Preston's "Sister Sugar") that were recorded live at…
News: Cincinnatians Take Tantra Yoga’s ‘Path to Higher Consciousness’
Bodhi Avinasha, co-author of Jewel in the Lotus: The Tantric Path to Higher Consciousness Some Cincinnati residents identify with the city's national reputation for sexual conservatism. But others have a decidedly more relaxed view of human sexuality. Forty such people attended a seminar March 26-28 on Tantra Yoga — a system of techniques often…
Damned if They Don’t?
The March 19 fatal shooting of Michael Carpenter by Cincinnati police officers has some citizens calling for a Justice Department investigation, while the media is characterizing the shooting as another Pharon Crosby or Lorenzo Collins case. Officers Brent McCurley and Michael B. Miller II shot Carpenter after they said he dragged one officer with his…
‘Worthy of the Light’
Organized religion has always rubbed me the wrong way. I am not sure why. But it always has. Maybe it's all the people who felt obliged to share their religious beliefs with me when I sat next to them on airplanes as a young child traveling by myself. And it could possibly be my generally…
Cover Story: How to dance:
Rock 'n' roll might be all the rage right now, but there's no denying a big part of its appeal is due to dancing. It looks hard, sure, but if mastered it can provide hours of enjoyment. Dancing has been important to humans throughout recorded history. Ancient Egyptians were said to have danced after…
News: An Olympic-sized Problem?
Nick Vehr, president of Cincinnati 2012 Inc., says that because striking Human Rights Ordinance protections for gays has withstood legal challenges, change will be difficult. Gay-rights advocates are pointing to Issue 3 and Cincinnati's attitude toward gays as a hurdle for efforts to bring the Olympics here in 2012. But those trying to get…
