Diner: Work in Progress
I like Elliot Jablonski's restaurants, really I do. What's better than a hearty breakfast at Sugar 'n' Spice before a Xavier game, or eating on the patio in Hyde Park at The Vineyard, or watching the snow fall in the Christmas lights from the windows at The Bistro at Harpers? So I was pretty excited…
Cover Story: Boys of Summer
Playing together since their preschool years, brothers JoJo, Henry and Ringo Jr.(L-R opposite page) Garza now are taking Los Lonely Boys to a national audience,thanks in part to blistering live performances (above). Here's some quick musical trivia for everyone who misses the days when Jeff Probst hosted Rock and Roll Jeopardy on VH1: When was…
News: A Mettle for the Pedal
For Kevin Reynolds, the second shift at the Cincinnati Water Works Miller Treatment Plant ends at midnight. Strolling into the parking lot, keys jingling in his pocket, he walks up to a bike rack and unchains his Joe Breeze road bike for the 18-mile ride home. Reynolds, like many Cincinnatians, has given up his car…
Let’s give It Another Roll
You had to know letters would pour in from women pissed off at your blatantly fat-phobic, sexist response to Butter with Your Rolls, the man who thought "girl love handles" created by low-rise jeans were "revolting." You agreed with him "100 percent" and said that women "should get the obesity epidemic under control" if we…
Turn That Up! 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs
Here are a few programs to look out for in the upcoming week … WEDNESDAY 8 P.M. Unsolved History, Discovery. "Trojan Horse." Bent on vengeance for the abduction of the beautiful Helen by the Trojan prince Paris, the Greeks lay siege to Troy for 10 years. Unable to win by force, the Greeks resort to…
Yoga for Children
Dear Diane, When I practice my yoga at home, my two kids always imitate me and want to follow along. I'd like them to learn it safely. Is it OK to take them to my yoga class or do they just have to do kids yoga with children of their own age? — Yoga Mom…
The Last Arts Consortium Revival
Construction cranes and other heavy machinery have become familiar sights in Cincinnati's West End, a roughhewn stretch of warehouses and housing projects adjacent to downtown. The transformation of the low-income housing blocks that were Laurel Homes into a diverse neighborhood combining market rate and subsidized homes continues steadily. A new community center sits on Linn…
Legislators Must Prescribe Cure for Nursing Shortage
There is a shortage of nurses around the country and in Ohio. Due to several factors, some of which are generally unalterable (the aging of Baby Boomers and a wave of retirements that will soon strike the nursing ranks) and some of which can be changed (nurses quitting due to job dissatisfaction and too few…
Music: Paranoid Androids
Foreboading foursome: England's Clinic invades the Southgate House Thursday. "They're a bit weird, phones, I think," says Ade Blackburn, frontman for the band Clinic. Speaking from his home in Liverpool, England, Blackburn's odd opening statement is not surprising. But his polite, rather flat speaking voice is: He sounds more like an everyday English bloke than…
Petra-fied
Rick Pender The ancient city of Petra, carved from sandstone cliffs, is Jordan's principal tourist attraction. From April 26 to May 5, I had the opportunity to travel to the nation of Jordan in the Middle East. My trip was sponsored by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Jordanian Tourism Board (JTB) in conjunction…
Who You Are
Kathy Y. Wilson Una-Kariim Cross You are eavesdropping. If we all spoke honestly to an unseen documentarian about gender, race and class, our diatribes would be manipulated by the seer's conceptualization of us. But it'd be little more than a schizophrenic filmstrip of whom we are when no one's looking and whom we assume we're…
Cover Story: Hope You Like Jammin´ Too
Brian Meola MRNORTH As predictable as it is each year for the Brian Meola MRNORTH As predictable as it is each year for the Pepsi Jammin' on Main street festival to conjure up some bad memory from Rock & Roll's past in the form of a token, big-draw "oldies" act (Styx's Dennis DeYoung "wowed" audiences…
News to Use
Talking Torture Professors from Xavier University, the University of Cincinnati and Miami University lead a community forum concerning the scandal over the U.S. torture of Iraqi POWs and its wider implications at 7 p.m. Monday at St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church in Clifton. XU history Professor Brendan LaRocque, UC philosophy Professor Chris Cuomo, Anne Runyan…
News: Bush Gardens
Jymi Bolden Thousands turned out to hear President Bush praise his wife and speak asentence in Spanish. President Bush's campaign rolled into Cincinnati Gardens May 4. Here's a courtside analysis of his campaign game. The Music: While eager fans awaited Bush's arrival, contemporary Christian songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman performed. No surprise there: mere pandering to…
Locals Only: : ‘Ring’ Leader
Gregg Smith Maurice Mattei While he performs and records with just acoustic guitar accompaniment, and his songs crucially rely on thoughtful lyrical content, singer/songwriter Maurice Mattei cringes at the thought of being considered a Folk singer. Given the clichéd implications of the term, he insists what he does is only Rock & Roll, albeit with…
Maybe the Best Band In The World: SLOAN
Sloan Mark Kozelek Wednesday · Southgate House Considering the variety of band personas that Mark Kozelek surrounds himself with, one might be tempted to believe that he's trying to cloak himself behind obfuscating group names in order to shield his creative and emotional psyches from closer scrutiny. And if it was anyone but Kozelek, it…
