Nordstrom or Not? If Not, What?
Should or shouldn't the city of Cincinnati invest millions of more dollars to lure a Nordstrom department store to the vacant block at Fifth and Race streets downtown? The city and its private partners have been heading for some sort of retail development at the site for several years. Along with Eagle Realty Group —…
Film: Dance Hall Drama
Center Stage Center Stage is a new ballet drama where a group of attractive Dawson's Creek kids enter an elite New York ballet school in the hopes they will one day become superstars. They're not the nicest bunch in the world. They make petty remarks and thrive on the misfortune of their colleagues. If…
Cincinnati Legislator Seeks Ohio Law to Show Mercy When Babies Are Abandoned
In this prosperous country, news of abandoned babies is always shocking. From the comfortable vantage point that many of us enjoy, it's difficult to empathize with mothers who set their babies down and walk away, even when they leave their children near safe locations frequented by caring individuals, such as churches and police stations. But…
Press Clips: : Two Years and Counting
Two years ago last week, The Cincinnati Enquirer published what many at the paper and its parent organization, Gannett Co., hoped would be their shining moment in the journalism sun — the infamous 18-page special report on Chiquita Brands International. The fact that the work is now infamous instead of famous speaks for itself. The…
Cover Story: Generation Next
Jymi Bolden Becca Collins "don't avert my eyes anymore/ in a man's world/ i am a woman by birth/ and after nineteen times around i have found/ they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth."— Ani DiFranco, "talk to me now" A recent conversation about feminism with my likewise white,…
Cover Story: What Would Jesus Do?
Rebecca Lomax Rev. Theresa Langford As a child, the Rev. Theresa Langford learned that women couldn't be pastors in her Southern Baptist church. "Women made up the majority of the church," she remembers. "They could be the Sunday school teacher. They could be a missionary. But as far as the hierarchy of the church,…
Addressed to Kill
This week, columnist Bob Woodiwiss is away on hiatus (this time on an outpatient basis). The following are excerpts from his recent commencement address to the Class of 2000 at Myron College. MC is located in Speculum, Ohio, and is a small liberal arts school dedicated to teaching the many young men and women in…
Zrazy
Zrazy With vocals that hover between a cross-pollination of Edith Piaf and Basia and saxophone shadings reminiscent of Richie Cole, Ireland's Zrazy are vocalist Maria Walsh and Carole Nelson on alto and soprano saxes and piano. Churning World Beat, Celtic and Straight Ahead Jazz into a brew they've dubbed "pagan Funk," the duo —…
Spring Cleaning
There are a lot of topics worthy of a column. And there are topics that should be written about, but don't justify a 700-word dissertation. I suppose this is how Larry King approaches things. Another way to look at it is a sort of spring cleaning here at Channel Surfing. A good subject for this…
The Women’s Traditional Music Jam Session strives to create a community
One of the things that made this musical session different was the pile of handbags in the book-lined corner at Kaldi's. Trina Emig might have had her finger picks in her brown suede fringed bag (or they might have been in her banjo case); Britta Larsen brought some sheet music with hers. She carried a…
News: Sleepless in D.C.
Jymi Bolden Oakley's Aaron Rodgers attended last month's IMF and World Bank protest. A few weeks ago in Washington, D.C., thousands of protestors gathered to disrupt the semi-annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank as a follow up to the headline-grabbing protests of the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in…
Columbus, Mutant Mice and Pepper Therapy
Peppers. Red Chile peppers; bell peppers; banana and Hungarian cherry peppers; Jalapeño peppers; Szechuan peppers; cayenne, Habanero and Tabasco peppers. Just thinking about them makes your tongue tingle. But researchers believe that, in peppers, they've uncovered some of the many mysteries of pain reception and its management. The work might lead to completely novel ways…
The Dating
When the doorbell rang repeatedly I was fully prepared to shoo away some little kid offering to cut my grass. So imagine my delight when I saw a delivery man armed with a bouquet of yellow roses, my favorite. Unfortunately I was the only one pleased to see the man. My dog was barking and…
