Donald Judd’s UNTITLED
Tamera Lenz Muente It seems innocuous enough at first: an 8-by-8-by-16-foot aluminum box on a grassy rise in the center of Northern Kentucky University's (NKU) plaza. Yet, this structure, often mistaken for a large air vent or dumpster, is arguably one of the most significant public sculptures in the Cincinnati area:DONALD JUDD's UNTITLED. In…
Music: The Ongoing Struggle
biz3 El-P's new album has political elements, but don't expect him to start preaching about societal ills anytime soon. El-P creates from the gut. One listen to his visceral, densely layered Hip Hop soundscapes and deft, world-weary rhymes offers instant proof of the guy's fierce intensity and vision. Making music is his way of…
Onstage: Eccentric
Sandy Underwood Neva Rae Powers stars as Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir. Florence Foster Jenkins was fond of saying, "People may say I can't sing, but they can't say I didn't sing." If you attend Souvenir, the final production in Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati's 2006-07 season, you'll see — and hear — the truth…
Living Out Loud: : A Belated “You’re Welcome”
So there I was, holding the postcard that U.P.S. had sent me. It claimed they had sent what I told you, dear brother, they were going to send. But I pity the fool who believes that. As my brother, you're well aware that I'm a completely different type of fool. It was quite an official…
Gets Bloggy
Last Friday, CityBeat launched a new blog hub at blogs.citybeat.com, meaning you can now read daily news updates and commentary (including our trademark "leftist rantings," as one local blogger put it). Among the new family of blogs is "Spill It: A Music Blog," featuring local music updates as we get them and daily features and…
Resisting Prejudice and Shady Elections
Joe Lamb Reminding drivers about the war are (L-R) Dick Manoukian, Beverly Jones and Elizabeth Motter. Americans of Irish, Italian and Chinese descent remember the prejudice and hostility that often greeted their forebears when they first came in large numbers to the United States, let alone the cruelty that awaited Africa's forced "immigrants." In…
Don Imus and the Dulcimer Players
The Appalachian Festival has been held on the second weekend of May for more than 30 years now, and it never rolls around without my remembering the Year of the Revenge of the Dulcimer Players. It was a quiet Sunday evening, and Wayne Clyburn and I were hosting our radio show, Music from the Hills…
Diner: Review: Sully’s Saloon
If you check out the Web site, you'll see why Sully's Saloon, a new downtown restaurant, is a popular destination. The "wildest Irish pub on Earth" appears to have non-stop action. There's TGIF drink specials, guest bartenders, Kentucky Derby parties, bachelorette and birthday party packages and, of course, the mysterious Jameson Room — an…
Should We Fear the Photo of a Mass Murderer?
Killings at Virginia Tech might be the most lethal rampage on a U.S. college campus, but news media erred when they said it was the worst shooting/massacre in American history. Ignoring wars on our soil, two still bloodier come to mind: · Mormons and possibly Paiute allies murdered 120 strangers on a passing wagon train…
Film: Third Time a Charm?
Warner Bros. Entertainment Tobey Maguire again dons the Spider-Man suit in the third installment of director Sam Raimi's ultra-successful series. Before X-Men debuted in 2000, the only Marvel Comics character to have successfully launched onto the big screen was an obscure vampire hunter named Blade (1998). DC Comics had, with their Superman and Batman…
Lookwhos: Look Who’s Eating – Barbara Kenny
Graham Lienhart Barbara Kenny Barbara Kenny's Irish dishes at Molly Malone's really are home cooking. She just returned from a visit to the Emerald Isle, where she grew up and where her brother is the chef at the West County Hotel in Dublin. At Molly Malone's, traditional potato pancakes, or boxty, are served with…
News: Catholic Crisis
Graham Lienhart Thomas P. Doyle, a former priest who worked at the Vatican Embassy, warned U.S. bishops in 1985 about a coming crisis over sexual abuse by priests. Even as public awareness grows about the widespread sexual abuse of children by some Roman Catholic priests, the church hierarchy continues to deny the full extent…
Bengals Tread Water in NFL Draft While Browns Improve
Jerry Dowling The NFL draft approached with a warning shot across the league from the commissioner's office, which didn't need to name the Bengals as a primary target. Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Tennessee Titans cornerback Pacman Jones for the entire 2007 season while also bumping Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry for eight games —…
Cover Story: Funny Business
Suzanne Hanover Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen in Knocked Up Web-slingers. Pirates. Transforming mutant robots. These have long been the undisputed stars of summer films. They hoist the tent poles that comprise each studio's summer movie slate and they're expected — by virtue of their bigness, loudness and that special crack-like quality that will…
News to Use
Our Daily Ice Cream Our Daily Bread, a hospitality ministry to the poor in Over-the-Rhine, holds an ice cream social from 1-3 p.m. May 2. The ice cream is free, and guests will have the opportunity to see Our Daily Bread's ministry in action. To make a donation of ice cream, syrups, toppings or cones,…
Greater Cincinnati Originals
The Greater Cincinnati Originals (GCO) will hold their annual event, the Original Spring Mix, on May 9 at the Midwest Culinary Institute at Cincinnati State College. The chefs from the Cincinnati chapter of the national group Dine Originals will prepare five-course dinner and wine pairings, and guests will have a chance to meet the chefs…
Locals Only: : Pomegranates
Pomegranates Pomegranates Pomegranates came together by chance in autumn, 2006. A progressive, edgy Indie band that makes use of live Electronica, they're both startling and alluring as all Hell. Check out their curious use of transitions; it'll keep you hard at guesswork, both unsettling and clever. Perhaps the use of strange changes comes from…
More Concerts of Note
Asylum Street Spankers Asylum Street Spankers Upcoming Concert Reviews of Wolfmother, Asylum Street Spankers and More… WOLFMOTHER Thursday · Bogart's It has taken considerably longer than overnight for Wolfmother to become a sensation, but what the Hard Rock/Retro Metal trio lacks in immediacy it more than makes up for in volume (the Spinal-Tap-amps-to-11 kind).…
Cover Story: Blockbusters Be Damned
Lion's Gate Films Away From Her AWAY FROM HER Director: Sarah Polley Cast: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy Lowdown: Young actress-turned-director Polley delivers a surprisingly nuanced portrait of a Canadian man (Pinsent) dealing with his wife's (a stellar Christie) descent into Alzheimer's. This 2006 Toronto Film Festival favorite is the ultimate…
New Media, New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from the Fabric Workshop and Museum
Mandy Smith Mandy Smith of The Collect poses with various "junk" items. Two recent exhibitions — New Media, New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from the Fabric Workshop and Museum at the Contemporary Arts Center and CYMK at Focus Gallery in Covington — got me thinking about art and its materials. The CAC show…
Music: Hear Them Roar
Michael WIlson Trick or Treat! The Bears new album, Eureka!, shows an evolving band concerned more with making music with longevity than anything else. It's a standard, blasé Wednesday late morning and a generic, East Side-corporate coffee bar is inundated with customers refueling as their morning fixes grindingly fade. The line stretches to the…
News: Hit That High
C. Matthew Hamby Ouch! You stub your toe and it hurts, right? Pain = bad. Yet fo some, pain can create a pathway to a different place: pleasure. For the past 13 years Anything for Love (AFL) has presented conventions catering to people looking to expand their erotic horizons. Although AFL's activities are primarily focused…
Cover Story: Summer Movie Preview
Fox Searchlight Summer Movie Preview Steven Speilberg's Jaws radically changed the summer movie season. It was the first film to employ techniques that have now become commonplace: a huge marketing campaign and a wide release. It raked in money like never before, in the process blowing box-office expectations out of proportion forever. As a…
Onstage: Defining Tragedy
Zachary Copfer Amy Warner and Brian Isaac Phillips star in The Goat. If you're looking for an evening of light-hearted entertainment, don't choose The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Edward Albee's Tony Award-winning play getting its regional premiere by New Stage Collective (NSC) — which happens to be debuting its new theater space at…
The Next Move in OTR
"Toe to Toe in Over-the-Rhine" was the cover story headline in the inaugural issue of CityBeat on Nov. 17, 1994. Is there any better example of the saying "The more things change the more they stay the same"? The story's subheadline could have been written last week: "Advocates for redevelopment and for low-income housing face…
Super Seeds: Nick Cave and Co. Get it Right on New DVD/CD Set
Oliver Meinerding This column marks a milestone for the DistroRevo. After nearly a year of playing catch-up with old stuff, we're covering a brand new release! Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' live set The Abattoir Blues Tour hits all the buttons we love to talk about, so let's (finally) push things forward. Talk…
Cover Story: Where Are the Girls of Summer?
IFC Films Christina Ricci in Penelope We've been told quite often that behind every great man there's a woman. This summer it seems that even if the men aren't all that great, there are still women hanging around the fringes. The feisty, beknighted Keira Knightley swashes a mean buckle — even more than her…
Smackers Unite!
I was pleased to read Gregory Flannery's cover story "Why We Smoke" (issue of April 18). I too am part of a persecuted minority of Ohioans: I like to invade people's personal space, whether they like it or not, and smack them across the face. I'm a smacker. Why do I smack? In short, it…
News: Dream Wizards
In the last stanza of the 1963 ballad "In Dreams," Roy Orbison sings: It's too bad that all these things, Can only happen in my dreams Only in dreams In beautiful dreams. Orbison's boxing up dreams as something that isn't "real" is a common mistake, according to Laurel Clark, president of the School of Metaphysics.…
