Cover Story: Cincinnati Tees Off on the Arts
Heather Wehby Some streets have personalities all their own. Think of Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Chicago's Michigan Avenue, San Francisco's Haight Street or L.A.'s Hollywood Boulevard. New York City has Broadway, Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue, among others. Each of these American thoroughfares, one can imagine, began as a hodge-podge of businesses, residential…
Mapplethorpe: Cowboy Hats, Canonization and Current Truths
When I was growing up, the media made things pretty simple. Cowboy shows, those epitomatic morality tales, spelled it out visually: The good guys wore white (hats always, sometimes other clothing, often astride white horses) and the bad guys wore black (notable exceptions, Adam Cartwright and Paladin, an interesting hybrid). You could spot good or…
DUI Double Standard
It has become a national obsession. And, as with most obsessions, decisions and policy are influenced by emotion, not by reason or logic. The emotions driving the policy are influenced themselves by horror stories of lost loved ones: children on a schoolbus, teens on a joyride, a young mother running her errands, a father trying…
Black-and-White Whine
"Can I see your license?" I get that question a lot. Partly because it's the start of my favorite sexual role-playing game, Naughty Out-of-Season Bonefisher Happened Upon by Unmerciful Game Wardeness. But, in this instance, it's because a cop has me pulled over and is initiating the traffic citation sequence. I've been ticketed many, many…
The Dating
Sometimes you think things are going along well in your relationship. You're just coasting along, and then one day you realize something is a little amiss. Some little quirk materializes out of the blue and instead of washing over you, it eats at you until all of the other little quirks that you let slide…
Katie Reider turns to family and friends for inpiration and support
Katie Reider Katie Reider knew at an early age that music would be a likely vocation. Long-time Cincinnatians will likely recognize Reider, since her father Rob was a regular presence on The Bob Braun Show in the '70s and early '80s. While most parents would attempt to steer their offspring to more "sensible" careers…
News: Paddling the Urban Frontier
Doug Trapp Canoers explore Mill Creek at a spot straddling Reading and Lockland Mill Creek has been many things: a tributary, a sewer, a dump, a playground and an urban legend, to name a few. But a scenic waterway with hiking trails? A natural resource treasured by citizens? If a coalition of local environmentalists,…
Why I Stayed Home
Months ago, the e-mail invitation arrived. "Are you guys planning to come to D.C. for the Millennium March?," my friend's electronic note asked. A dear high school friend and her girlfriend had recently moved to Washington. They were excited to have the opportunity to play host to friends from across the country who they hoped…
Music: Maximum Rock & Roll
NRBQ "We're world famous, and if anybody thinks we're not, that's just because they've never heard of us." So quipped NRBQ founder and keyboardist Terry Adams at the band's 30th anniversary celebration last November. Despite having all the logic of a Yogi Berra non sequitur, Adams comment is dead on. NRBQ have released over…
News: Hidden Reds Stadium Drawings Unveiled, Sort of
At last, the Reds stadium drawings kept hidden by the county since an April 7 architectural panel meeting were revealed to the media on April 28. Well, sort of. On April 28, a herd of information-hungry local news outlets did get a 45-minute look at the latest stadium architectural drawings (dated April 18) at the…
Cover Story: The 25 Most Influential People in Cincinnati Arts
Jymi Bolden Tom Neyer Jr. People love lists. Top 100 songs of all time. Hollywood's top power brokers. The best presidents. All-century baseball team. Lists, in a clunky and inexact way, try to quantify people, businesses and issues into neat rankings that always seem to create some level of controversy. But the bottom line…
