May 11-18, 2016
Mad Driven: Overcoming Multiple Tragedies, Cincinnati Rock Trio Mad Anthony Immerses Itself in a Year-Long Release Project
Morning News and Stuff
Do you live in Kentucky? Well, if you do, it's primary day! Unfortunately, it looks like Kentucky's primary has come too late for Republicans to participate in what was the GOP presidential show down. Kentuckians won't be able to vote on which Republican they'd like to see in the White House because Trump became the…
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Hey all. Let’s do this news thing. Democrat presidential primary front runner Hillary Clinton came to Northern Kentucky yesterday for some last-minute campaigning before the state’s primary tomorrow. Clinton mostly bashed her likely general election opponent, real estate magnate and GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump, and didn’t mention her primary opponent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders,…
Stage Door: Searches for Beauty, Love and Truth
There are so many good choices for theater right now you could hardly go wrong anywhere, but there are three shows you should absolutely see. The musical Violet at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is the story of an angry, self-conscious young woman who believes her life is a dead end because of a disfiguring facial scar.…
REVIEW: Valley of the Sun’s ‘Volume Rock’
There are times in some bands’ careers when, in order to take the next step forward, it first has to take a step back. That is what has occurred with Cincinnati-based desert-rockers Valley of the Sun between the release of 2013’s Electric Talons of the Thunderhawk and the recently-released album Volume Rock. For the new full-length (issued in…
Your Weekend To Do List
FRIDAY 13ART: UNRAVELED: TEXTILES RECONSIDERED AT THE CAC In Unraveled: Textiles Reconsidered, nine artists deconstruct and reanimate clothing, blankets, rugs and other fabrics into emblems of political and personal expression. Textiles are mined for their metaphors to explore aspects of identity and interconnectedness. Adrian Esparza’s “Dawn,” an azure weft spun around a grid of nails…
Morning News and Stuff
Hey hey Cincinnati. It’s gorgeous, it’s Friday, it’s spring, so let’s get this news thing over with quickly. Let’s play good news, bad news, shall we? First, a new ranking puts Cincinnati as the top city in the country for recent college grads when it comes to jobs. That ranking from ZipRecruiter.com, a job-searching site,…
Today’s Penitent Political Journalists
In some European communities, Christians sought to avoid or mitigate plague with processions of men whipping themselves bloody as they moaned through the narrow streets. Those unfailingly ineffective attempts to appease a loving god came to mind as I followed the comments of today’s penitent political journalists. One after another, reporters and commentators whipped themselves…
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Hey all. It’s been a busy 24 hours in Cincinnati. Here’s what’s happened. Cincinnati City Council yesterday passed a resolution recognizing an alternative ID card for undocumented immigrants, the homeless and others that will be sponsored by the Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati and issued by Catholic Charities of Southwest Ohio. The card is intended…
