A Fox on the Run
John Morris was a fiddler who had hair the color of a carrot. He had freckles and blue, blue eyes, and he was from Clay County, W.V. He liked to act like he was a rube, though in fact he was better traveled and educated than most folks. "Why don't you ever come see me?"…
Cincinnati International Wine Festival
The Cincinnati International Wine Festival (www.winefestival.com) kicks off March 23 for two days of tastings and related wine fun. Grand Tastings will be held on Friday and Saturday at the Duke Energy Center (the convention center) downtown. The event features more than 600 wines from 130 wineries, live music, food and a silent auction. This…
Cover Story: Blowing off the Dust
Joe Lamb Local artist Luensman plans many surprises as he takes over the entire Cincinnati Art Museum. The Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) turned 125 last year. The revered institution held parties to celebrate its history and received attention and kudos for, well, lasting so long. Now, though, at age 126, the museum is looking…
The Stooges — The Weirdness (Virgin)
The Stooges — The Weirdness Thirty-three years ago, Iggy Pop and his band of virulently talented miscreants known as The Stooges unleashed a withering barrage of seminal Punk called Raw Power, a kick to the complacent ball sack of popular music at the time. That album alone could have cemented the Stooges' rep for…
Music: If It Ain’t Broken, Fix It
Aaron Farley Brokedown no more: L.A. Indie Pop band The Broken West were forced to change their band moniker (conveniently) as their sound was changing shape. A little over a year ago, The Brokedown, an L.A. quartet with a penchant for Power Pop and a relatively short history as a band, self-released their debut…
Diner: Eager to Please
Graham Lienhart Paul Ortiz The Cincinnati Wine School might be the city's only institution where students enjoy studying. Though not listed among Princeton Review's "top party schools," it's only in these hallowed halls where students eagerly swirl, sniff and sip their way through an entire curriculum. It should be noted, though, that there are…
Locals Only: : Okeanas
Okeanas Okeanas Okeanas play music as refreshing as a cold beer and as honest as a three-aspirin hangover. Their fine debut CD, Butler County, features 11 Country-tinged Rock tales that reflect that locale, but the themes of raising hell, drinking, loving, lusting, dying and hurting are universal. Okeana (pronounced "Okie-Anna") is a small town…
Still Rebels Without a Pause
Oliver Meinerding What separates a compilation of cast-offs from a classic? When I finally managed to separate the discs from the packaging, Public Enemy's latest, Beats and Places, fell apart in my hands. Literally. The jewel box crumbled like a Democratic presidential candidate in November, disintegrating into shards of brittle plastic. But I love…
News to Use
Write for Rights Amnesty International hosts an evening of poetry, performance and music at 8 p.m. March 16 at the Greenwich in Walnut Hills. "Write for Rights" is a night of intense performance poetry to raise awareness of Amnesty International and to recognize the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Experience a diverse…
The Silos – Come On Like the Fast Lane (Bloodshot)
The Silos — Come On Like the Fast Lane After a 20-plus year career with the Silos that has inspired critics to gushing raves and garnered the band a cultishly loyal fan base, it might seem as though frontman Walter Salas-Humara would be justified in coasting ever so slightly on his magnificently obscure reputation.…
Books
Sarah Laubacher Adam Rapp — The Year of Endless Sorrows (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ADAM RAPP — THE YEAR OF ENDLESS SORROWS (FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX) With a title like The Year of Endless Sorrows, one would expect the new novel by Adam Rapp to be anything but a pick-me-up. Thankfully, the "Midwesterner in…
News: Kandi’s Sweet Justice
Jymi Bolden Kandi Linthicum, shown here in 2003, won a lawsuit against the two police officers who took advantage of her. Both officers are back on the police force. When we're children, our parents warn us about the dangers of talking to strangers. Based on Kandi Linthicum's experience, they should warn against talking to…
Support the Rage
The news out of Iraq, as usual, is grim. The news lately about Iraq is just as awful. The scandal surrounding poor outpatient care given to injured soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is just exploding now, and each day brings horrible new accounts. Congressional committees are hearing heart-wrenching testimony from military personnel and…
Beckham Is Injured, Casting the Fates Against American Soccer
Jerry Dowling It's never too late for professional soccer to become a popular spectator sport in America, though one only says that to the extent he believes the world will never end. A more hard-bitten voice says pro soccer in America is doomed by the same fate as human existence itself and that a…
News: Controversial Medicine
Woodrow J. Hinton Protecting children and women has been a popular rallying cry for thousands of years and something politicians have used to their advantage. So the idea of mandating a vaccine that can prevent serious health issues for girls and teens and save the lives of thousands of women falls into the category…
Onstage: Get a Load of This
JammingTalent Productions Jammingtalent Productions' multimedia piece Wet Dream will be part of the 2007 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The Cincinnati Fringe Festival has announced 30 productions for this summer's two-week celebration of risk-taking performances (May 30-June 10). Showcasing artists who push the boundaries of the norm and experiment with style and content, the 2007 edition…
Performance (Warner Home Video)
Performance 1970, Rated R This perverse, hallucinatory and way-ahead-of-its-time look at the dark side of Britain's Pop Revolution of the 1960s — an originally-X-rated flip side to the sexy giddiness of Blow-Up combined with a tough British gangster flick — so scared the executives at Warner Bros. that they delayed its release for two…
Homeostasis
Even if you're not familiar with the term homeostasis, you have reaped the benefit of having this property expressed within your body since before you were born. Homeostasis refers to your ability to self regulate your internal environment. More specifically, this life-sustaining mechanism lets you maintain internal equilibrium by means of adjusting physiological processes. Examples…
Onstage: Cartoon Time
If Elvis weren't already dead, the musical All Shook Up would likely kill him. And I don't want to hear anything about his heirs approving of this execrable knock-off of his music. The truth is, I don't even like Elvis Presley's music all that much. But even non-fans know that his recordings were all about…
Nathan Gabriel
Harlan Taylor The original staging of After Ashley (pictured) happened in 2004 in Louisville. Know Theatre will offer the show's Cincinnati premiere in April. New Edgecliff Theatre (NET) stages its own version of March Madness this week with its first-time CINCINNATI DIRECTORS COMPETITION. Three different plays will be staged at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,…
Arcade Fire Vs. U2
HOT Feud Watch Feuds in the music world are nothing new. Hip Hop artists made a fine art out of it in the genre's heyday (before murder came along and ruined all of the fun). Now that rappers like Ludacris are taking on arch enemies like Oprah and Bill O'Reilly, we thought it was time…
Thanks for the Post Memories
Regarding the two letters in your Feb. 28 issue that were in response to your very worthwhile feature on the history and future prospects of The Cincinnati Post ("Dim the Light," issue of Feb. 21): To Dennis Tuttle: Thanks for reminding me about former Enquirer Executive Editor George Blake and for alerting me to his…
Ready to Whig Out?
Newly recorded Afghan Whigs songs are less than two months away. I'll write more about my personal feelings about The Whigs and their legacy (and my own experiences with their music) closer to the May 1 release date of the new Unbreakable retrospective from Rhino Records. But, first up, here's a review of the two…
Film: Dylan Revisited
Jason Gargano How's my hair?: Bob Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker circa 1965 For D.A. Pennebaker, the time has come to look back. For the new digitally remastered "deluxe edition" DVD of his classic documentary Don't Look Back, which followed Bob Dylan during a 1965 solo acoustic tour of England, Pennebaker went back to his…
Apostle Of Hustle — National Anthem Of Nowhere (Arts & Crafts)
Apostle Of Hustle — National Anthem Of Nowhere The lineup of Canadian Post Punk collective Broken Social Scene changes more than George Steinbrenner's Yankees and has variously included nearly every musician in the Toronto scene. With that many creative cooks in the sonic soup, it's not surprising that BSS has taken a quick breather…
Murder Coverage: Good Work, and Too Much
Duct Tape Dad Pleads Guilty, Spares Readers. (I know it was clear packing tape, but it doesn't fit.) Murder trials bore me. Before opening statements, we know most of what we need to know. I was jolted out of my ennui by excessive, overheated Enquirer coverage of the Liz Carroll prosecution. No one needs all…
Things That Are Coming to a Close
Nick Clooney Nick Clooney: future publisher of The Cincinnati Post? Most intriguing unconfirmed rumor of the week: George Clooney buys The Cincinnati Post and hires his father, Post columnist Nick Clooney, as publisher. This enables George to save a dying daily with a proud history and enables Nick to keep writing about politics and…
Film: Graphic Greek Myth
Warner Bros. Entertainment Gerard Butler is King Leonidas in director Zack Snyder's 300, which recounts the real-life Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. "It's mythology out of history," director Zack Snyder says of his blood-soaked, steroid-driven adaptation of Frank Miller's award-winning graphic novel 300. Set in 480 B.C., it recounts the real-life Battle of…
Living Out Loud: : “Hello, Plastic or Plastic?”
The line is rather long this evening, and I could try to sneak by in the 15-items-or-less lane but the thing is I have at least 20 items, and the girl at the register seems to always take notice of that. I don't feel like getting the look. I see that Kelly is working, so…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Pelican, Chuck Prophet and More…
New West Records Chuck Prophet Pelican with Russian Circles, Young Widows and Ampline Thursday · Mad Hatter Instrumental Punk/Prog quartet Pelican took flight nearly seven years ago in the gloomy, lake-effect bone chill of Chicago. When they first assembled, the foursome (guitarists Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Lebec, bassist Bryan Herweg, drummer Larry Herweg)…
