Dating
Hello, Diva, I have a problem and of course seek your advice. I'm attracted to an older coworker (3 years) who is separated from her husband. We have become great friends, and I would like to intensify our relationship. But I'm not 100 percent sure of her opinion of me. So what is your advice…
Critics Picks: Critics’ Picks
Thursday 8Maybe you'd think AVENUE X was the street of porno make-believe, where Tracy Lords lives with John Holmes in their white picket fence house with their kids, Neil and Bob. And if you keep thinking this way, you'd probably get to wondering if it's the place where all those classically trained actors and actresses…
The Smell of Success
Joel Lloyd Bellenson wants to turn us all into "scentographers." And he wants to do it using something called an iSmell device, coupled with technology that digitizes and transmits smells directly to your computer. More importantly, he wants us all to be scentographers by the end of the year. The iSmell device from DigiScents Inc.,…
News: Waiting to Inhale
Seventeen-year-old Patrick Wood became too weak to attend school, a result of his ongoing battle with cystic fibrosis. Children dying of lung disease can receive new lungs, and new life, thanks to the medicine of the 21st century — so long as their families can come up with enough cash. Advances in the science…
Diner: A New Old Experience
I was on a bad date the last time I ate at the Iron Horse Inn. He seemed normal when we arranged the date, but by the time the salads arrived, it felt like midnight. It was painfully difficult to stay awake, and the food (as well as my date's name and face) long ago…
Entertainment Weakly
Every autumn, as predictably as pine needles not falling from the trees, the television networks debut their new programs. Almost simultaneously, as predictably as the average American ass advancing beyond the edges of a single couch cushion, the television viewing public renews its complaints about what's being broadcast. We hear that the new shows bite,…
Local music veteran Jeff Roberson and his band Len’s Lounge will never make a Volkswagen commercial
Len's Lounge Len's Lounge rocks. I dedicate that sentence to the brainiac who once told Jeff Roberson, guitarist and principal singer/songwriter of the Country/Folk/Rock sextet, that his band didn't. Indeed, this band rocks with a quiet edginess that's loud on a more important level. In the band's music, you'll hear essences of storytellers with…
Should a Terrorist Ring the World Peace Bell?
Has revolution gone respectable? Newport's World Peace Bell will peal Wednesday for its most controversial ringer yet, a man banned as a terrorist by the British government in 1982. Martin McGuinness is no low-level bomb-thrower but the chief negotiator for Sinn Fein, the Northern Ireland political party that's championed independence from Great Britain. Reviled by…
Richard X. Heyman’s Heyman, Hoosier & Herman
Richard X. Heyman If you are a fan of great Pop songwriting, particularly of songs with a healthy British Invasion influence, then I have an assignment for you. Head to your local independent record store — or any record shop with a decent cutout bin — and search the stacks for anything bearing the…
Who’s Afraid of the XFL?
I am no fan of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), nor am I one of its detractors. Who am I to hammer people for enjoying pro wrestling? After all, I enjoy watching outdoor soccer and listening to pop music of the '60s and New Wave tunes of the '80s. Sports is something else I enjoy,…
Streetbeat
Bond Hill"Taste of Bond Hill" is 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at the Bond Hill Recreation Center. The program includes a demonstration of Tai Chi by Woodrow Fairbanks, aerobics, kids' crafts, a weight room demonstration, badminton, a Double Dutch drill team performance and a Photo Club meeting. The Teen Girls Club serves as hostesses, and coffee…
Curly tales of the city
We're So Proud!Cincinnati has again registered on the national consciousness, and for once it has nothing to do with those damn flying pigs. This time it's Mother Jones magazine's annual list of the country's top 400 political contributors — six of whom are well-known Cincinnati businessmen. Carl Lindner, along with wife Edyth, ranks No. 6…
Death of a Salesman
"You know, lots of us do lousy jobs we don't like," reads one of my lines in a play that opens this week in Dayton. "Doesn't mean we shirk our duty." Many of us find ourselves in lines of work we would have sworn years earlier we would never enter. These jobs are usually taken…
Pilfers
Pilfers Pilfers formed in 1997 when singer Coolie Ranx decided to leave Third Wave pioneers The Toasters to start his own project. It was a good move — Pilfers is one of the best Ska bands on the scene. The band's latest release, Chawalaleng (Mojo), is spectacular, as the band experiments with various styles…
Don’t Make Me Over: Blacks and AIDS Part 2
Ours are drastic times. Drastic words and actions are in order. Especially drastic actions. Writing a column about black folks and AIDS and taking black ministers/churches to task for sleeping on the genocide wreaked by rampantly unprotected sex between black folks was, on my part, apparently a drastic stroke. (See "Doing It to Death: Blacks…
Spring 1968 Flashback
The colors spin like a dervish. The sparkling images throb at the back of one's mind. Everything is appropriately psychedelic. The musical soundtrack matches perfectly: The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, The Byrds. Avant-garde filmmaker Jud Yalkut creates a type of cinema you feel both physically and spiritually. There was a reason why the Yalkut program…
Music: Allman Joy
Dean Reynolds of Milford, Ohio, grew up down the street from one of Cincinnati's legendary Rock clubs, the Ludlow Garage in Clifton. Reynolds was a frequent visitor to the club, which opened its doors in September of 1969 with Grand Funk Railroad and hosted over the next few years such acts as Humble Pie,…
