Diner: A Staple in the Suburbs
I remember feeling as if I had entered a Williamsburg, Va., chophouse when I visited the James Tavern in Blue Ash years ago. Dark, cool and cozy. In its new life, Parkers Blue Ash Grill is lighter and brighter, and feels a bit more bustling with family parties throughout the labyrinth of rooms. Operated by…
News: The Culture of Protest
Jymi Bolden Rev. Damon Lynch III talks to protesters May 8 on Fountain Square. What do they want? Justice. When do they want it? Now. Where the heck are they headed? That's not always clear. Sometimes the protesters on Cincinnati streets the past five weeks follow a leader, and other times they wander without…
Agents for Change Vs. Enemies of Change
After a month of violence, threats of violence and fear of violence, Cincinnati remains mostly calm. On the surface, unfortunately, that calmness is easily confused with a lack of action in dealing with the city's deep racial tensions. But there's a good deal of activity bubbling underneath the radar, much of it positive. It's the…
News: The Fire Last Time
Jymi Bolden Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth says little has changed since the 1967 riots. Cincinnati 1967: Riots devastate a poor, mostly African-American neighborhood, leading to a curfew and hundreds of arrests. Some black leaders disdain the term "riot," saying a rebellion is underway. Among the solutions proposed by an interracial panel of business and civic…
Cover Story: The Midas Touch
Sean Hughes/photopresse.com Bill DeWitt has several reminders of his St. Louis Cardinals franchise in his downtown Cincinnati office. Things have never looked better for William Orville DeWitt Jr. Already powerful, DeWitt now has the ear of the president, who likely wouldn't be in the White House without him. Already blessed by a childhood spent…
A Jammin’ Opportunity Lost
The May 9 fax message about Pepsi Jammin' on Main came directly from a machine at Music Hall. The banner at the top of the page identified the sender as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The contact was Mike Smith, the CSO's director of project development and Riverbend Music Center. Four weeks after Music Hall staff…
The Cynics
In a Pittsburgh neighborhood sometime last year, guitarist Gregg Kostelich was cleaning out his garage. On top of a box of croquet balls, hidden under a bicycle tire and a high school biology text book, were The Cynics. Left in the garage since 1995, the great fuzzed-out '60s-styled Punk troupe were a little older,…
News: Puttin’ Out the Bone
A huge flash of dark blonde knifes through a tunnel of thick Alaskan tundra and stops at the edge of a shallow braid of the Sanctuary River. As if to mock our human frailty, he lifts his thousand pounds full up on his back legs just 20 yards across the water from where we stand…
Community calendar
Walnut HillsPajama jam is the theme from 7 p.m. Friday to 7 am. Saturday at Melrose YMCA. The program, for children ages 5 to 12, includes swimming, board games, use of the gym, movies and refreshments. Admission is $15 for members and $20 for others. For more information, call Felice Dean at 513-961-3510. Hyde ParkPlant…
Does Your Giraffe Have Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is the most common bone disorder in America and more than half of all healthy women aged 30 to 40 are likely to develop vertebral fractures as they age. Bone is a dynamic tissue, continually broken down and rebuilt, with women reaching peak bone mass in their early 30s. Between the ages of 35…
What If They Had a Festival and Nobody Came?
Will the Black United Front blow it, as many hope it does? Or is Rev. Damon Lynch III smart enough to avoid a trap? Perhaps it's fitting that in a city whose name comes from Cincinnatus, military dictator of Rome, a debate over police violence last week devolved into breast-beating over festivals. It was in…
Laze balance a variety of sounds and styles to create a laid-back, funky groove
They rap, they rhyme — and they have the parental advisory sticker on their CD to prove it. That doesn't hinder the fans of local band Laze, though. Even with just one CD under its belt, the band still boasts large turnouts at every show. As a matter of fact, Laze's fast-talking frontman, EJ Mac…
Sea of Green: Time to Fly
Somewhere on another planet, beyond the Earth's atmosphere, over the dark side of the moon and past the Milky Way, is a place of absolute bliss. There, the bud is always kind, the ladies are willing and fine, and you can blast your Rock & Roll as loud as you desire and no one…
Waiting to Exhale
Keep power from the mighty and the mighty from the small. Heaven help us all.¨ — Stevie Wonder, ¨Heaven Help Us All¨ The neighborhoods that Sugar ´N Spice diners hail from might not always be ideal, but the restaurant is. It´s practically a racial utopia. During this weekday swing time between late breakfast and early…
Curly tales of the city
It All Adds UpEmulating their hero, President Bush, Enquirer editorial page staffers offered some fuzzy math in the final "Great Cities" report May 13. After an exhaustive two-month study comparing Cincinnati to neighboring cities Cleveland, Indianapolis, Columbus and Louisville, our hometown came out on top. We're No. 1! But the numbers didn't add up on…
Burning with Passion
Burning with Passion It is Sunday. It is sunny. Warm. Today, I will grill the tender flesh of barnyard animals over a fiery bed of crimson coals. I state this not in celebration. Nor do I state it in shame. I state this only to gratuitously goad the predictable folks at PETA into a weeklong…
