Church Still Keeping Secrets
Graham Lienhart Christy Miller and Dan Frondorf, survivors of sexual abuse by priests, want the church to communicate There are child molesters among us. That's not surprising, but how we learn about them can be. In April the clergy newsletter for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati included an advisory about two priests suspended…
‘The World’ According to Ill
"I dream bigger than I reach," Ill Poetic told me once, and I only half believe him. In some ways, this 25-year-old MC reminds me of Peter from Office Space — either he's frantically biting his nails over his work or he's found true Zen instead of just pretending everything's all good. For example, when…
Lisa Watts — Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio
Lisa Watts — Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio What is it about Ohio? It nurtures able writers, as this book makes clear, but then they leave. Eudora Welty stayed in the same town, in fact the same house, for most of her brilliant writing life, but this book suggests Ohioans…
Order Is Restored in NBA as Spurs and Pistons Head to Finals
Jerry Dowling The NBA took a year off from its historical arc last season, when Dallas and Miami made their cameos on the NBA Finals stage and thus were certified Dirk Nowitzki and Dwayne Wade as important players rather than mere stars. Sadly, the series didn't live up to what little hype two barely…
Troublemaker’s Journal
Last November the people of Hamilton County, with a 57-43 percent vote, resoundingly defeated a proposal to finance a new jail through a regressive sales tax. But for the Democratic Party, democracy is apparently not an important value. County commissioners Todd Portune and David Pepper have proposed another version of the jail, also to be…
Music: Full Loon Fever
Tapes 'N Tapes Support from Pitchfork and a strong SXSW gig put Tapes 'N Tapes on the map. The Minneapolis-based band Tapes 'N Tapes had no illusions when it finished its 2005 debut album, The Loon, about just how much it was likely to do for the group's fledgling career. The CD, after all,…
Michel Onfray — Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam
Michel Onfray — Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam Firmly grounded in the post 9/11-era search for answers and in a certain degree of pomposity, Atheist Manifesto is as much an attempt to argue that religious extremism could be the death of us all as it is a sermon to the…
Jason King — The Cannibible Collection (Ten Speed Press)
Jason King — The Cannibible Collection Imagine if coffee were banned. The black market wouldn't allow the luxury of choosing between Jamaican and Colombian, latte and espresso. You'd take what you could get — and then you'd get out of there, before the cops arrived. So it is with the marijuana market. Most smokers…
Cover Story: Leaving the Light On
Jon Hughes Turning on the oven and popping in a frozen pizza for about 20 minutes doesn't seem difficult. The directions on the box are explicit. Some boxes even have a picture of a dial on the stove turned to 350 degrees. So what is there to screw up? "We walked into this place:…
Comedy of Power (Koch Lorber Films)
Comedy of Power 2006, Not Rated The classical roots of comedy exist in tragedy and that is exactly what is missing from French master Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power. This tale, inspired by a true story of corporate corruption, details the efforts of a driven French magistrate named Jeanne Charmant Killman (Isabelle Huppert) who…
Hill-Dawg and YouTube
HOT High on the Hill-Dawg? The next Mr. or Mrs. President of the United States will be inaugurated in approximately 606 days, 17 hours, 22 minutes and 48 seconds (yeah, we're keeping track), and the campaigns are well on their way. Some of the candidates have been using these new-fangled Internets things (your YouTubeys, your…
Mamma Mia
Joan Marcus Mary Jayne Raleigh stars in Mamma Mia, whichis on the Aronoff stage through Sunday. It's easy to dismiss "jukebox musicals" (such as All Shook Up, which littered the Aronoff stage in March with tepid renditions of Elvis tunes), but the principal reason they've been popular and proliferated is because of the success…
Letters From Iwo Jima (Warner Home Video)
Letters From Iwo Jima 2006, Rated R Clint Eastwood's admirable, often poetic, sometimes overbearing companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers presents the battle for Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view. But there's more at play here. Deeply philosophical and curiously left-leaning in its concern for the individual, Letters questions whether there…
Venus (Miramax)
Venus 2006, Rated R Peter O'Toole earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in this touching, often very funny portrait of an aged British actor named Maurice who becomes smitten with a young woman. It's not hard to see why. Maurice is a role that only O'Toole could play. Tall and frail, yet…
Music: Radio Chaos
Woodrow J. Hinton If music stars are the epitome of hipness in our culture, then the music industry that coddles them is the out-of-touch parent who overreacts to every perceived or real crisis. When I was 16, I had my first brush with a "rehab" experience when I was court-ordered to attend an all-day…
Create Better Support for Science
Most of us are aware that the Creation Museum sponsored by the Answers in Genesis group is scheduled to open soon in Northern Kentucky. Many are asking if we as a region can expect a positive benefit from it. I believe that it will reflect negatively on Greater Cincinnati and the entire Midwest, because the…
News to Use
Keep Cincinnati Looking Good A study on preserving scenic views of Cincinnati is the topic of a public meeting from 4:30-6pm May 30. The study, prepared for the city, was conducted by the Hillside Trust and Human Nature, a local landscape architecture firm. The meeting is in Committee Room B on the third floor of…
Film: Waiting on a Breakthrough
Fox Searchlight Love doctor: Nathan Fillion and Keri Russell in Waitress. Actor Nathan Fillion looks a lot like Han Solo, but, oddly enough, looks nothing like Harrison Ford. That's probably because the role he's most famous for — Captain Malcolm Reynolds on Joss Whedon's television series Firefly — is a wise-cracking space pirate just…
News: Jail Tax Almost Certain
Mark Bealer Michael Earl Patton says one reason the jail appears overcrowded is because we jail so many nonviolent offenders. One way or another, people in Hamilton County probably will begin paying more in sales tax within the next few months to help build a new jail and overhaul the county's criminal justice system.…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Ladyhawk, Deftones and More…
Steven Bedard Ladyhawk LADYHAWK WITH TAPES 'N TAPES AND HARLEM SHAKES Thursday · Southgate House The latest music scene to capture the imagination of American listeners isn't in America — it's emanating from the Great White North. Vancouver, British Columbia, is a current hotbed of Rock, spawning The New Pornographers and their AltPop satellites…
The Untouchables: Season One, Volume One (Paramount)
The Untouchables: Season One, Volume One 1959, Not Rated As The Sopranos reaches its conclusion, it's a useful time to reflect on how important the Mob — and depictions of criminal violence in general — has been to the development of groundbreaking television drama. The Untouchables, which debuted in 1959 and featured the grim-faced,…
Diner: Review: Pho Paris
Joe Lamb I hadn't been to Pho Paris since its move to Scalea's old location in Covington. I was immediately charmed. The space is warm and inviting and the staff attentive without being fussy — just the kind of spot to settle in for a relaxed evening of good food. As my husband and…
Joe Boyd — White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
Joe Boyd — White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s The joke used to be that if you remembered the 1960s you weren't there. That's based on the assumption that those there were too busy enjoying the uninhibited decade and its creative Pop music, presumably while imbibing the hallucinogen of their choice, to remember…
Deli Seven20
When Poppies Deli was in its heyday, Michelle Lightfoot was something of an urban legend — not "crocodiles in the sewer" urban legend, but an "I want to tell everyone I meet to eat there" urban legend. Lightfoot, who left Poppies right before its demise, recently set up shop for herself at deli seven20 (720…
News: A Special Voice
Joe Lamb Diane Rehm says openness to other viewpoints is the hallmark of liberalism. The Woman's City Club hosted Diane Rehm May 15 at the Plum Street Temple. The host of The Diane Rehm Show has worked for National Public Radio for 34 years. Her career started at age 36, when she took a…
Art: Review: Genius in Marble
Taft Museum of Art Hiram Powers' "Greek Slave," designed and modeledcirca 1841, is currently on display at the Taft Museum of Art Now that the 21st century is off and running, why should we care about white marble statues, which are so 19th century, right? Because they're cool, very cool. And sexy. Example? See…
Locals Only: : Fickle
Dale M. Johnson Fickle After hearing Fickle's music — stirring Rock with a fiery, soft-Metal essence — I imagine they'll appear wearing mostly black, with at least one skull T-shirt. OK, I'm being stereotypical, but I do secretly bet myself there'll be a silver-spiked belt wrapped around someone's waist, and I expect tats and…
Living Out Loud: : Hard Times
It was December 4, 2001, and my father would die in four days. He'd been diagnosed four years earlier with chronic lymphatic leukemia and was receiving hospice care at home. My siblings and I had decided to take off work as often as possible to help our mother during this difficult time. On that early…
News: Hearing Each Other over the War
Thor Jacobs Thor Jacobs (right) studied in Beirut. He joins a panel discussion on the Iraq War Saturday as part of S.O.S. Art. Almost everyone in Iran has lost family to the Iran-Iraq War. It spanned all but the last two years of the 1980s, and its footprints weigh heavily on how Iranians view…
