Dating
In any long-term dating relationship, there are going to be issues that test the strength of that relationship. Some you will have some control over — like where you will dine out, how often to have sex and the like. There will also be tests that will just be dropped on you like a bomb…
Newcomers Hoodwink offer straight-up Pop/Rock with no trickery
Hoodwink For local Alternative Pop/Rock group Hoodwink, what you see is what you get. "There's no gags or gimmicks," says drummer Kevin Leaton. "We define 'normal': We really focus on the music, not in being crazy, outlandish characters." So what's with the band's name then? No trick, deception or prank? According to Leaton, his…
Cover Story: A Close Encounter with Jerry Black
Matt Borgerding Jerry Black Jerry Black is looking for UFOs. A sighting has been reported somewhere over rural Blanchester and, as the cool fields grow dark, he monitors the sky expectantly. For Black, maybe tonight will be the night. Perhaps, for just an instant, he'll see something unusual moving above the tree line, blotting…
News: Secrets About Race
Jymi Bolden City Councilman Phil Heimlich objects to a settlement proposal for a lawsuit over racial profiling by police. City council — not a federal judge — should resolve complaints of racism in the Cincinnati Police Division, according to Councilman Phil Heimlich. Never mind that some would say council's refusal to aggressively deal with…
News: Health Has a Community
Jymi Bolden Ted Kennedy Jr. says cancer patients need more than medicine. Kennedy helped open a new support facility for the Wellness Community. Dealing with cancer involves a lot more than dealing with cancer, according to Ted Kennedy Jr.Kennedy knows this not just because he is a member of the national board of The…
No thugs in Our House
Inside Music Hall, the concert sounded beautiful. Departing conductor Jesés López-Cobos led the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) in a sparkling performance of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 9. Outside the hall, the warm April sun was just as stunning. But anyone wanting proof of the racial lines that divide Cincinnati need only stand on Music Hall's…
Can You Hear the Footsteps Coming?
Oh, won't you come to Cincinnati in the springtime, when blossoms are bursting and breezes are blowing and the streets are crying out for justice? Won't you come with your plastic-bucket drums and your fists raised skyward and your chants of peace and liberty? Is momentum not on our side? Is it not right to…
News: It’s Right to Rebel
Protest. Scream from the rooftops. Cuss.Then, when you've got their attention, take action and get things done. Some have called what happened April 9-14 in Cincinnati a riot. Others have called it a rebellion. Working to make sure the upheaval proves to be more than a one-week ruckus are Karen Murphy-Smith and other organizers. A…
Grandaddy
When last Modesto, California's Grandaddy passed through the Southgate House, they were opening for critical fuck-doll Elliott Smith and drawing a pretty split response from the crowd. Some thought they blew Smith away, while others didn't know quite what to make of the band's homemade basement-Sci-Fi stage presentation. But since that time, Grandaddy's excellent…
Talking to myself, Part 2
As recounted in this space last week, PPL Replications a now defunct biotech firm working with this reporter's robust, gladly given DNA, did, in September 2000, produce the first-ever human clone. Through circumstance and wrong-headedness, however, this clone my clone! while still "pre-natal" was exposed to and saturated in unproven, as…
Working Together, We Shall Overcome
Have you ever stopped to notice that Cincinnati seems to grab the national spotlight for all the worst reasons? The Who tragedy, Dennis Barry and the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Center, the national scandal over the performance of the play Poor Superman at Ensemble Theater, the ongoing fight to remove Issue 3…
Diner: Something Wild
Ryan Greis Pick any stretch of railroad track in any city of moderate size and you'll find it to be a short, bleak hike — 10 minutes, if you stay on the packed gravel and move at a brisk clip. But walk a little slower, take some time to really look at the plants…
Curly tales of the city
Grand juries are, and always have been, prosecutors' tools. That's why Hamilton County Prosecutor Michael Allen managed to indict 63 people for rioting before ever presenting the grand jury the case against Officer Stephen Roach, whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black man led to the riots in the first place. Meanwhile, complaints about police…
News: Editorial
During the recent tense days of unrest and curfew, Cincinnati leaders called on citizens to calm down, back off the rhetoric and be patient. Everyone on all sides of the issues needed to take a deep breath, the leaders said, and give them a chance to come up with a plan. To their credit, citizens…
Music: Believo or Not
Enon Boston, Kansas, Alabama, Chicago, Europe, Idaho, Berlin, Enon. Enon? That's right, you can add John Schmersal's band to the list of those named for places, because apparently Enon is a small town outside of Dayton, Ohio. More important to fans, though, is how awful damn good the Dayton native's band is. Those who've…
