Naughty Stepchild
Woodrow J. Hinton Naughty Stepchild The closest most people get to being on the radio is calling a talk show or making a request for a song. A community radio station that gives locals an opportunity to program their own shows is a rare and valuable asset to any city. Cincinnati is fortunate to have…
News: Global Night Commute
Graham Lienhart A participant in Global Night Commute camps outside, in solidarity with Ugandan children. Joseph Kony has abducted 50,000 children over the past 17 years, according to the Invisible Children Inc. (ICI), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children in Uganda. On April 29 ICI organized the Global Night Commute in Cincinnati and other…
Thanks for Being Green
I'm writing you on behalf of the Local Alliance of Nature and Development for Hamilton County (LAND-HC) and thanking you for the recent article on the University of Cincinnati's use of "green building" techniques ("Building a Green Future," issue of March 15-21). Members of the LAND-HC Committee on Green Building, which I chair, are working…
Tough Is Not Enough
Nobody wants crime in their community, not even advocates for unpopular social causes. "People who commit serious violent crimes ought to be held accountable, and we don't want those people running free to victimize more people," says David Singleton, executive director of the Ohio Justice and Policy Center (OJPC). The latest rhetoric coming from City…
Still a Place for Small Independent Papers
Ben L. Kaufman Worley Rodehaver owns several local papers. Long before corporate journalism became today's high-anxiety business, Worley Rodehaver dropped out. That was the 1970s, and he'd already been a radio and print journalist for at least 20 years. Worley still goes his own way, a publisher who finds niches that others miss, ignore…
Unexciting, Underachieving Draft Still Pleases Bengals Fans
Jerry Dowling So the NFL draft didn't go exactly as the Bengals hoped. In an ideal society, per their official Web site, they might have picked up North Carolina State linebacker prospect Manny Lawson for easy adaptability to a 3-4 defense and Notre Dame tight end Anthony Fasano for more pass catching. The Bengals…
Chess
Buffy Hanna Interested in a little chess? If you're a fan of musical theater, that question has a bit more meaning than sitting down to push a few pawns toward a quick checkmate. Community theater regular MARK FEMIA is directing an upcoming production of CHESS (Friday through May 13) for Cincinnati Music Theatre (CMT).…
Music: Meet Coachella
What has 94 bands, temperatures in the upper 90s (if your lucky), and about 120,000 people? I'll give you a hint: it's seven years old, lives in the California desert and its friends call it "Coachella," although you might want to call it the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Concert promoter Goldenvoice once again…
A Taste of CBGB’s
It's tribute/benefit time again, this time with a Big Apple twist. While we're still waiting for the Slim Whitman tribute (fingers crossed), the pool of great artists to honor by having handfuls of local acts play their tunes has shallowed, so some have found interesting (and broader) angles to explore. Saturday at Downtown's Poison Room,…
Film: Big Mamas, Sexless Queens & Kinky Boots
Miramax Lola (Chiwetel Ejiofor) buys a new pair of boots in, yes, Kinky Boots. In 1979, Prince proudly proclaimed, "I Wanna Be Your Lover," tossing salacious lines like, "I wanna be your brother/I wanna be your mother and your sister too" into the mix. These teasing refrains came from a doe-eyed black man with…
Locals Only: : The Masquerade Is Over
Audible Treats Tanya Morgan Take it from Loud Minority Records' newest roster addition, Tanya Morgan: Image means nothing. Study the album cover all you want, but nothing there says, "Hip Hop," "trio" or "men," for that matter. But the radiant smile of a brown-skinned lady masks a clever inside joke on A&R and their…
Guest Last Call for the Appalachians
Cincinnati has had a lot of "eccentrics," but I always had a soft spot for an old woman named May Stidham. You could usually find her perched on a naughahyde bar stool at a now-defunct joint called Dixie's Bar up on Short Vine back in the mid-1970s. Dixie's was the last of the working class…
News: Managing the Environment
slim Jim Puvee Keeping a promise made during last fall's election campaign, Mayor Mark Mallory is leading an effort to revive Cincinnati's Office of Environmental Management (OEM), disbanded by his predecessor, Charlie Luken, in 2003. The chief question facing city officials, however, is what role the watchdog agency should fill if it's restored. Mallory…
News to Use
Celebrate Fair Trade In celebration of the successes that have marked the growth of fair trade movements, Rohs Street Café hosts World Fair Trade Day Fest from noon- midnight May 13. The program features live music all day, speakers from Oxfam America and other fair trade agencies and Fair Trade goods from Ten Thousand Villages…
Film: Return of a Pinup Queen
Picturehouse Films Whip it, whip it good: Gretchen Mol plays Bettie Page in director Mary Harron's biopic of the notorious pinup model. Gretchen Mol, who stars in The Notorious Bettie Page, couldn't be more accommodating in her interview. She is cheerful and fully engaged with the questions, at times self-deprecating, at others introspective. But…
“Walk Away”
4/30/06 Jake Speed: Guitar/Vocals. Kentucky Graham: Tenor Guitar. Notes: I wrote this song as a call to consciousness about the dire situations in Uganda and Darfur. The song dreams of a day when we all realize that we share one moon, one starry sky and one direction home. As you listen, visit these Web sites.…
We CAN, but We Haven’t Yet
Matt Borgerding Supporters of immigrants rallied May 1, calling for legal status and a path to U.S. citizenship. Consultants hired to review the effectiveness of Cincinnati's attempts to promote healing and end racial disparities after the 2001 riots are giving the effort a mixed review. Groups connected to Cincinnati Community Action Now (CAN) listened…
Guest Memories of a Happier Sinai
Recent suicide attacks at El Arish and Dahab in the Sinai dumped me into rare nostalgia. I knew both places in a very different era. In 1979, Enquirer Editor Luke Feck agreed to let me cover the historic return of the first land captured by Israel in four wars with its Arab neighbors. It would…
News: Looking for Hard Luck
Matt Borgerding For some, home is wherever you place your bag of belongings. At 4:30 a.m. April 27 the only sounds in the brush near I-71's Reading Road exit are birds testing morning voices, the occasional rumble of passing traffic and cries of "Hello? Anybody home? Outreach. Hungry? We have coffee." Each of the…
Diner: Elemental Eating
Darin Overholser Tall and lanky, David Fankhauser strides absent-mindedly across his Pierce Township pasture, checking off edible plants as he goes. "Do you know this one?" he asks, pointing to a thick carpet of dark green leaves. "This is chickweed, good just as a salad green or cooked down. It's a fairly mild-flavored wild…
Music: Turnbulls on Parade
Keith Klenowisky In a short time, Cincinnati's Turnbull AC's have become one of the most talked about original Rock bands in town. The basement of any house, from pre-fab to pre-Civil War, is an anomaly, incongruous, not in shape, but in ambience to the rest of the structure. You can hear the comfortable din…
Take Your Pineapple Pizza Back To Russia, Pinkos
HOT Freedom Re-Fried There have been no publicized color-coded terror alert upgrades since the presidential election (hmm) and the "War on Christmas" turned into a cultural quagmire (who won that one, by the way?). So what are beleaguered conservatives up for election supposed to use to get our panties into a bunch? Luckily for them,…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of The Avett Brothers, Fruit Bats and More…
Fanatic Promotions The Avett Brothers The Avett Brothers Thursday · Southgate House Pegging the Avett Brothers as Bluegrass is like describing a peacock as a bird; it's technically correct, but you've missed a few of the high points. Imagine a raucous hillbilly gene splice of The Replacements, Whiskeytown, Charlie Daniels, The Beatles and R.…
Living Out Loud: : Driving Mr. Rodney
The day was hot and humid, the kind of heat and humidity in Cincinnati that warps out time and everything seems to move in slow motion. In my gold Toyota, I was driving westward on Dana Avenue. A man on the sidewalk tried to flag down a small car by frantically waving his arms. When…
