Film: Pretty Dull Woman
Actress Kate Hudson, paired with John Corbett, flashes her most dimply smiles in director Garry Marshall's romantic comedy Raising Helen. The corny '80s catchphrase that best suits Garry Marshall, director of female-friendly hits like Pretty Woman and Beaches, is this: It's better to look good than to feel good. Marshall's latest film, the Kate Hudson…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
Ryan Greis The Queen City populace is awfully proud of any firsts or bests we achieve. So it's fitting to really celebrate, especially this year, one of the finer traditions this fair region has going strong: the annual Taste of Cincinnati. Started 25 years ago as a one-day event in Piatt Park with 5,000 people…
Diner: Smoldering
The valet-parked Mercedes, Jaguars and BMWs out front at Embers are a dead giveaway for the country club crowd ensconced within. Open since February in a revamped strip mall down the road from the Kenwood Towne Centre, Embers is quickly becoming a dining destination for Kenwoodites, Indian Hill land barons and other upscale Eastsiders. However,…
Bubba Ho-Tep’s Don Coscarelli on horror’s comeback
Don Coscarelli Not too long ago, independent horror films had places to call their own — big city downtown cinemas and rural drive-ins. That's where veteran writer/director Don Coscarelli connected with diehard fans for his surreal horror classic, Phantasm (1979), famous for a flying metal ball that drills into victim's foreheads, as well three Phantasm…
Cover Story: No One’s Home
Mandy Janes No One's Home Walk down Elm Street in Over-the-Rhine and you'll see it immediately: Cincinnati has a vacant-building problem. If you're not convinced, try Vine Street or Race Street. Try Pleasant Street — an ironic name for a stretch with 25 vacant buildings in four blocks. The problem extends beyond Over-the-Rhine. Try River…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
The small high-wing Cessna banked slowly in a wide circle. Its balloon tires nearly touched snowy spires on either side of a wide chasm cut by a raging, braided river below. Under the plane, we could see a field of wild flowers and two swimming pool-sized mountain ponds of rainwater that we knew would provide…
Locals Only: : The Best of Both Worlds
Hyde Park Outrage Here in Cincinnati, there's a rather intense rivalry between bands that play original music and bands that play cover songs. It's a debate that rages in the clubs, on the streets, in people's homes and on the local music message boards. You're either performing 95 to 100 percent original music — or…
Cover Story: Idealistic Landlords
Jymi Bolden The city's housing policies seem designed to drive out the poor, according to Rev. Damon Lynch III. Churches and nonprofit organizations aren't the most serious contributors to blight, but they do own more than 50 unsafe or unsanitary vacant properties in Cincinnati. The Race Street Tenant Organization Cooperative (ReStoc) and New Prospect Baptist…
The TV Revolution will be televised on Bravo with a look at homosexuality on the small screen
Here are a few programs to look out for in the upcoming week … THURSDAY 10 P.M. MTV True Life, MTV. "I'm on Adderall." MTV rolls up its journalistic sleeves and gives viewers a lesson in the drawbacks of Adderall, the drug that's the new rage among high school and college students because it keeps…
News: Health for the Homeless
Dana Kimmon A new clinic operated by the University of Cincinnati at the City Gospel Mission provides free nursing care to the homeless. A new program at the City Gospel Mission might ease the stress on hospital emergency rooms and provide college students with hands-on education, all while helping people struggling with homelessness in Over-the-Rhine.…
You Must Learn
Woodrow J. Hinton If the secret to meditation is found in the breath Then speech is another form of meditativeness … KRS-One, "Ocean Within" I wonder how many Hip Hop heads knew that May 1623 was Hip Hop Appreciation Week? To be honest, I didn't exactly "celebrate" during the week-long observance established by Hip…
Orange Goblin spiders into town
Tim Easton Orange Goblin with Debris Inc., Lamont and Blacklight Barbarian Thursday · Top Cat's Do bands like getting dubbed "Stoner Rock"? For a group like Britain Heavy Rock greats Orange Goblin, who spend an ungodly amount of time touring Europe and the States, it would seem like the tag would cause some problems (Border…
News to Use
Torture in Our Name Professors from the University of Cincinnati will lead a forum about "U.S Military Detainees: Issues of Law, Ethics and Politics," at 12:30 p.m. Thursday at the TUC Theater at UC. Political science professor Howard Tolley will discuss what citizens need to know about prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Law…
Yoga for Golfers
Dear Diane, I love this time of year so I can finally get outside with my sticks. But each year my body feels more and more like a stick — stiff and breakable. My shoulders are tight, and my lower back hurts the following day. I also don't seem to have the patience I used…
Cover Story: A Shaky Foundation
Cincinnati's Department of Community Development and Planning has felt as unsteady this past year as some of the blighted buildings it's charged with redeveloping. The low point was Dec. 1, 2003, when City Manager Valerie Lemmie had police lock employees out of their offices while investigators searched through files and e-mail. Lemmie said she wanted…
Panhandling
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com Then: In 1998, CityBeat reported on the "aftermath" of a U.S. District Court decision to overturn the city ordinances that put severe limitations on panhandling. Katie Taft and Joe Sampson wrote that "the federal ruling seems to say 'hands off' to the city because actions it previously approved are unconstitutional. Homeless advocates advise…
Large women weigh in on Savage’s views of obesity
You hate-spewing, body-image-fascism-promoting asshole. I'm a large woman. I read your two incredibly offensive columns about "girl love handles" and the supposed "health risks" of obesity. How dare you oppress women, large and small, with your judgments! Maybe if you enjoyed putting something in your mouth every once in a while that wasn't cock, Mr.…
Cover Story: Inspectors on Point
Jymi Bolden Building inspector Terry James says owners are responsible for safe housing. Imagine going to a job eight hours a day, five days week, where the lives and safety of others are in your hands, you're verbally assaulted and you witness extreme poverty and abuse. That's a normal day in the life of a…
Jock the Vote
As you might recall, at a certain point during the presidential campaign of 2000 we were informed by the people who inform us of such things that Soccer Moms, a newly identified voting bloc, would determine the election's outcome. This time around, however, it's generally accepted that the race for the White House will hinge…
News: Wiccan Ways
Rows of handprints line the walls of the Robin's Hood Community Center in Covington. One wary visitor was certain the handprints were a spell, a means of capturing souls. The handprints are merely a kind of "guest book," according to the Rev. Bonnie Campaniello, manager of the center. However, Campaniello does capture souls, lively and…
How Do We Track Good Police Work?
Does the Cincinnati Police Department impose quotas on officers for arrests or traffic tickets? At first glance, a flier circulated in District 4 — "2004 Beat Cop of the Month Rules" — looks like a quota system, arousing the curiosity of a prominent civil rights lawyer. But the "rules" govern a voluntary reward system devised…
CCM merrily rolls along next season
CCM's Michael Burnham, a CEA Lifetime Achievement Award winner, directs Life of Galileo next season. I always look forward to this time of year, when new seasons are being announced and journalistic elbows start flying over who has the information first: The actual productions are months away, so it really doesn't matter. But it is…
Giving Something Up
I am not a card-carrying anything. Even my video store membership is in peril. Neither am I a political animal. Usually I vote according to my needs — not according to polls, scandals or the greater good. When I vote, I kill. That is, with the assassination of each chad I sometimes feel I'm poking…
