Film: Gorgeous People in Danger
Warner Bros. Entertainment Manly men Kurt Russell (left) and Josh Lucas save the day in Poseidon. "There's nothing fair about who lives and who dies," says manly Kurt Russell to manly Josh Lucas in Poseidon, trying to buck up the younger guy who I am shocked — shocked! — to report starts out the…
Cover Story: The Word on Sexual Harassment
Real stories about sexual harassment told in the words of those who've lived them can be as powerful as they are shocking. Far from the vague words used in human resource handbooks about suggestive jokes and inappropriate touching, these real-life encounters with sexual harassment are an eye-opening initiation into the workforce. Melissa, a school-teacher…
Cover Story: Girlfriends As Grandmothers
slim Jim Puvee Ginger leaves a message on my cell: "Flying to Dayton from a business meeting in New York, grandson Jonah seriously ill, Mary Beth needs me, prayers requested." When the crisis is over, Jonah is at home and recuperating. "The bright side was a day in the kitchen with granddaughter, Paige. She…
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Matt Borgerding Brian Isaac Phillips and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company have earned a $25,000 grant from the NEA. After 12 seasons, it's about time for folks from outside our region to notice the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, er, the CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY. (That's the name CSF — sorry, old habits die hard — has adopted…
George Bush Is a Douchebag
HOT 'Smack Down While Neil Young is enjoying glowing press for his new politically-charged album, George Bush Is a Douchebag (or whatever it's called), popular hard rockers Godsmack, who seem to stand not-so-firmly on the other side of the fence from Neil, were recently backed into a corner about their own shaky views. Jay Babcock,…
Cover Story: Girls On Girls: Womens Issue ’06
Patty Robisch Girls on Girls Get a group of girlfriends together, and we'll be as non-PC and raunchy as any group of men. While this is common knowledge among the estrogen set, it occurred to us that some of the things we talk about might be of interest to the uninitiated. Discussing the tons…
Cover Story: Bag Lady Syndrome
Waking up in the middle of the night, her heart pounding, a woman tries to calm herself down from the nightmare of having to live out of a shopping cart because Social Security disappeared and her retirement savings aren't enough to sustain her. Who is this woman? She's your co-worker, your boss, almost any woman…
No Way to Kill a Dog
Ohio can now lay claim to the longest execution on record in the United States, thanks to the long, slow killing of Joseph Lewis Clark, age 57, on May 2. The executioners took 25 minutes to insert an intravenous line for the lethal injection. Once the chemicals started flowing, they failed to kill Clark, according…
Cover Story: Sex Advice for a New Generation
Julie Mullins Columnist Tristan Taormino likes to talk about sex. Talking about sex can be dangerous. Especially if you're doing it loudly in a small, quaint, informal café in the hip, gritty-on-the-outside-yet-civilized-at-heart area of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Clad in a long-sleeved tee and jeans, with her long, dark hair splashed with incidental highlights, Tristan Taormino…
Joe Dumars Again Has Detroit Firing on All Pistons
Jerry Dowling The legends of professional basketball are made in the NBA playoffs, the current presentation of which is already touted among the best for all its tight competition. But who will be this year's historic actor? Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson made a bid in the first round, changing the Lakers to a…
Jammin’ On … and On, Again
Following last year's successful debut, the monstrous Jammin' On festival, featuring over 60 of the area's best original music acts in eight clubs, returns to Over-the-Rhine this weekend. The fest was conceived by local musicians and boosters who sought to fill the void left when the long-running, national-performer-heavy Jammin' On Main was cancelled in 2005.…
Cover Story: Just Another Freakin’ Gift
slim Jim Puvee Are you married, or a slut? The phone rings. It's your girlfriend, whose quivering voice reveals wonderful news: She's engaged. Your response? That depends on your answer to the first question. It's not a fair categorization by any sense, but it's how single women feel the unattached and married sets are…
News: Stopping the Blood Flow
Graham Lienhart Police Chief Thomas Streicher (left) and Dr. Kenneth Davis discuss a program that will give gunshot victims services beyond medical care. Ace Ventura was shot three times within 18 months in Cincinnati. Ventura is an alias given to a local man who is a repeat customer at the University Hospital Adult Trauma…
Cover Story: ‘Thank God for Cosmopolitan’
If parents, ministers and other responsible types wonder why teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease are a problem in our culture, all they need to do is ask women how they learned about sex. We did, and the responses make it clear that adults who complain about the aforementioned problems aren't giving their daughters the…
Cover Story: Ms. Myths
A myth is "a popular belief that is false or unsupported by facts," according to Plymouth Plantation (http://www.plimoth.org/learn/history/glossary.asp) an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. False ideas about women are alive and well and frequently accepted as fact. Those of us who live with these fallacies roll our eye, ignore them and/or debunk them when we…
Upcoming Concert Reviews Of Eddie From Ohio, Melvin Sparks and More…
Melvin Sparks Eddie From Ohio Thursday · Jack Quinn's To most Indie Rock bands, the DIY ethic means recording their album in a basement studio, hand painting the cover art and delivering their still-drying discs to area record stores for consignment sales. For the past 15 years, the members of Eddie From Ohio have…
Cover Story: The Divine Feminine and The DaVinci Phenom
slim Jim Puvee "Everyone needs a god who looks like them," says the character August Boatwright to Lily Owens in Secret Life of Bees. Sue Monk Kidd's coming-of-age novel set in 1960s South Carolina covers the same ground as Dan Brown's blockbuster mystery The DaVinci Code — the murder and cover-up of the murder…
News to Use
Cindy Sheehan with MUSE MUSE – Cincinnati's Women's Choir hosts "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, Holly Near and Muslim Mothers Against Violence in the 23rd Annual MUSE Spring Concert, "The Great Peace March," June 9 and 10. Pre-concert teach-ins, featuring Sheehan on June 9 and Muslim Mothers Against Violence on June 10, will begin at 7…
Whose Castle Is This Anyway?
Knock knock. "Come in," says the mama bear. "Don't come in," says the papa bear. Who wins? Five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court say the papa bear wins. Three say the mama bear wins. Justice Samuel Alito has no known opinion yet, as he didn't participate in this case. No, it isn't Goldilocks. It…
Cover Story: Cat Fight
I was pushing a cart through Kroger when I saw an ear, a ponytail, the collar of a green coat. All it took was a glimpse of someone who looked like Kim, and I was off on a silent tangent. Simmering, I passed rows of breakfast cereal and wondered why, despite all my best…
Locals Only: : Armed Forces
1000 Arms "I'm just glad that you didn't ask us to describe our sound," says Gabe Molnar, guitarist and vocalist for 1000 Arms. His reluctance to hang a label on their music is understandable, since it sounds about as premeditated as sleepwalking. But if the destination is haphazard, the individual songs contain enough complexity…
Be Realistic, but Get Started
So your 2006 resolutions have already come and gone. Summer is right around the corner. You're still paying for your gym membership and you're still not in the shape you would like to be — not even close! You're now also frustrated because you went to the gym religiously in January but haven't seen any…
Diner: Out of Square
There was a lot of buzz about the opening of Nectar this spring, with much talk in the local food press about the menu that features organic and local ingredients and the smaller, more intimate setting than chef/owner Julie Francis' previous downtown home, Aioli. Nectar is certainly an exciting evolution from Aioli and a big…
Demanding Too Much?
Let's face it: We demand a lot from arts and culture. We want the arts to educate our children, revitalize our neighborhoods, save our economy and develop new audiences in every age group, racial demographic, socioeconomic segment and geographic area of the city. And why shouldn't we? The claim that arts perform these miracles is…
Music: A Quiet Glen
Laurel Phillips Glen Phillips says the spare nature of his new self-released album allowed him to feel like a musician again, instead of just a "person in an industry." In theory, the singer and songwriter of a successful band should find a certain measure of success as a solo act. But Glen Phillips knows…
Pumped Up as Folk
Notes: One of my songwriting missions involves singing out against injustice. This week's song strikes out against the media's refusal to cover the out-of-control steroid use that's driving a hammer through American Folk music. If the media doesn't quit wasting its time on baseball players and start attempting to put a cork in this Folk…
Living Out Loud: Mike and the Price of Gas
"When I was driving in California last week, I was paying over 4 bucks a gallon for gas. Don't you think that's outrageous?" "No," I replied. "I don't think you paid enough." "What?" "You should have paid much, much more." Mike looked at me like I was nuts. So did others in the bar who…
Film: Badly Drawn Boy
Suzanne Hanover Bardo (Joel Moore, left) and Jerome (Max Minghella) are reluctant buddies in Art School Confidential. At this point in the brief career of Max Minghella, son of director Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain), I am reminded of former magazine cover girl and faux actress Kelly LeBrock's famous quote, "Don't…
Family Business and Looking for a Cop
Matt Borgerding In Price Hill, the protesters couldn't get past the lobby. When it comes to political appointments in Cincinnati, officials apparently believe in keeping it in the family. Then-Mayor Charlie Luken raised eyebrows in late 2002 when he appointed his father, former mayor and ex-Congressman Tom Luken, to the regional transit board that…
WAIF Must Know the Truth
The allegations in the CityBeat cover story about WAIF-FM ("Naughty Stepchild?," issue of May 3-9) are very serious, with possible catastrophic implications for the only community radio station in Cincinnati, one of the absolute best stations in the city and one of the few in the country. While I'm extremely disappointed that CityBeat decided to…
Cover Story: Phemale Pharmacology
Janis Hastings Addressing the state of women's health care is impossible without once again looking at what Ohio legislators have been up to. Looks like some of them have been up to preventing women from fully addressing their health, period. Wait. "Period." Can we say that? OK, as long as we didn't miss one.…
News: Deadly City
Woodrow J. Hinton With homicides a near daily occurrence in Cincinnati and street shootings becoming bolder and more common, some city officials are beginning to question privately — and a few not so privately — whether more could be done to reduce violent crime. The behind-the-scenes debate shows some of the first cracks forming…
