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Preserve Rights, Enhance Safety "Ashcroft" policing, through which the public sacrifices constitutional rights for safety, simply doesn't work. So says David Harris, author of Good Cops: The Case for Preventative Policing. He speaks at 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church, 320 Resor Ave. The event is free and open to the public;…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Foundry Field Recordings, The Rolling Blackouts and More…
Foundry Field Recordings Foundry Field Recordings Wednesday · The Comet Ten years ago, Foundry Field Recordings could have masqueraded as the only Elephant 6 band that didn't dig The Beach Boys. Instead, the cheerless Indie group is a spoke in a new band collective, Columbia, Mo.-based Emergency Umbrella Records. Billy Schuh, a singer/guitarist and the…
Releasing Negativity
In my healing practice, I see many individuals who are in physical or emotional pain. Anxiety "eats" at them; they have felt helpless to make the changes that they need to make. There are many issues to be addressed, but one of the most common factors is the way life is experienced — the glass…
Film: Greed & Indifference
Three cheers for arrogance: Former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay finds the company's notoriously shredded documents useful after all. LOS ANGELES — Just as we suffer from water and air pollution, there is also money pollution. Director Alex Gibney's new documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, shows just how disastrously insidious and corrupting it…
Diner: Fine Dining, Round 3
A contemporary restaurant has to have something to say to distinguish it from the masses. It's not easy to gauge. It's somewhat like falling in love — you just know when you've arrived. Bistro 318 (formerly Scalea's) is certainly charming in its historic building on Covington's courthouse square. The service often rivals that of any…
Any Moderates Left?
Moderate Republicans, we're all counting on you. I know you're out there living your daily life, working your job, paying your taxes, loving your family. You're conservative on social issues and money issues. You like to live your life without government assistance or intervention, and you're happy to let others live their own lives as…
Locals Only: : huh? wat? who?
Moe' Tre Musically, Cincinnati has seen its share of shooting stars in the last decade. A couple were light-years ahead of their time and blew up a few spots, but most disintegrated or got sucked into a black hole of existence. Notably, though, Moe' Tre, former Chicagoan and R&B singer-turned-rapper, says that he and his…
Thuggish Basketball Program Bogs Down UC’s Larger Mission
Fairly or not, the general knock against Bob Huggins is that he doesn't recruit bright kids. So he finally brings in Roy Bright, and look what happens. If this kid has anything in his head, it's going to be on his head that he brought down Huggins, allegedly by bringing a gun to the University…
Sickening Budget
Carolyn Pettis knows there are some people who see her only as a drain on their taxpayer money. She at least wants them to understand how much more taxpayer money it will take to support her if she goes blind. Pettis suffers from both diabetes and asthma, which have prevented her from holding a steady…
Music: Motor City to Queen City
After being dropped by Virgin Records, Power Pop cult hero Brendan Benson almost quit music. Now, he's on the top of his game. Brendan Benson might be Detroit born and raised, but he's established so many recent connections to Cincinnati, he could almost be considered an honorary native son. Benson's produced a handful of new…
Dave Storm – The Screaming Mimes – The Record That Changed My Life
Dave Storm – The Screaming Mimes Crowded House, Woodface In the early '90s I was detoxing from years of writing long, aggressive Prog Rock that celebrated weird time signatures and alienated Sudsy's audiences night after night. The entire enterprise was boring, and I was looking to return to the music that first sparked my curiosity…
Washington Is Disabling Service to the Disabled
You don't ask the guy who repairs your driveway to operate when your dog needs her teeth cleaned. You wouldn't dream of asking your favorite interior decorator to prepare your taxes. And you would know it was preposterous if someone suggested that your daughter's piano teacher translate your company's promotional literature into French. It's a…
News: Guarding the Watchdogs
Stephen Novotni Amy Goodman blasted the mainstream media for ignoring the anti-war movement. ST. LOUIS — Can you trust this newspaper? Is the journalist writing this story providing you with all the facts, or has something been left out because of who signs his checks? Trust and access were the focus of the National Conference…
ARNOLD’S BAR & GRILL
Maybe it's true. Maybe you can't go home again, but I was aching to try when I ducked in for lunch at ARNOLD'S BAR & GRILL (210 E. Eighth St., Downtown, 513-421-6234), where Audrey Cobb, Mullane's former chef/owner, is now the day chef. But the visions of Spinach Sauté dancing in my head began to…
Choice Is Threatened
Your article on the pending statewide ban on abortions ("Brinkman Vs. Roe," issue of May 11-17) absolutely frightens me to death. Every year I hear more and more about how legislation is going to decide who gives birth and who doesn't. They use terms like "pro-abortion" to describe those who agree to right of choice,…
The Gospel According to Simon Leis
Matt Borgerding Protesting cuts in anti-smoking programs are (L-R) Alexa Simms, Anna Lind, Ben Goodpaster and Kyle Peavley. Their signs suggest kids' health is "for sale" by legislators. Cue the organ and start a-swayin' and a-clappin' your hands. Sheriff Simon Leis is preaching God's Word. Don't you know the devil is trying to get you?…
Onstage: Going for the Glory
Matt Borgerding Dorynn Beasley tries out for Showtime at the Apollo on Tour; local finalists perform Friday at the Aronoff Center Before American Idol and Making the Band, stars were born and legends were made at the Apollo Theater, located on 125th Street in the heart of Harlem in New York City. The Apollo has…
Could I have it already?
I am a 26-year-old hetero male, and I recently started hooking up with a new girl. She's very cute and smart, and I'm really attracted to her. During a recent make out session, she informed me that she has HPV, the STD that causes genital warts. From what I've read, condoms don't necessarily mean you're…
The Fearless Freaks
HOT Flaming Freaks There have been some really spectacular Rock & Roll documentaries lately (Dig!, End of the Century, Some Kind of Monster). You can throw Bradley Beesley's just-released Flaming Lips bio, The Fearless Freaks, into that lineage immediately. Beesley uses his friendship and artistic relationship with the Oklahoma-spawned Avant Pop troupe to gain lover-close…
Cover Story: Man Out of Time
Sean Hughes Man Out of Time The one thing in veteran artist Jay Bolotin's ramshackle farmhouse that's not like the others is the state-of-the-art computer in his upstairs bedroom. The past surrounds Bolotin in the mid-19th-century white clapboard house he calls home. His kitchen appliances are decades old. Vintage family photos blanket the living room's…
Living Out Loud: : Real People
Larry Gross Richard & Kristina Ford entertain their college students and others at their East Boothbay, Maine home. When I got back to Portland that night, I dropped off my ride at Enterprise Car Rental and called my hotel and asked for a shuttle to pick me up. The hotel clerk told me it wasn't…
Art: No Place Like Home
Matt Borgerding Decisions about the longtime home of the Art Academy of Cincinnati will be made by the Cincinnati Art Museum later this year. A wrecking ball isn't waiting to demolish the historic home of the Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC), adjacent to the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) in Eden Park. But there could be…
‘Tones Release “Memoirs”
Saturday at Stanley's Pub, local foursome The Vinyltones celebrate the release of their debut, Memoirs of a Songbook. The Roscoe Justice Band opens the show. Memoirs was recently released by the new label, Tru Artists Entertainment, founded by successful locally-based producer Matt "Emosia" Senatore, who has worked with acts like Blessid Union of Souls and…
