Nurse Shortage Is Hazardous to Our Health
For several years now, stories have been popping up in print and broadcast media about the nursing shortage in the United States. Far from an alarmist media tactic to attract viewers and readers, this shortage is real, and it's going to get worse. The American Hospital Association reported in June 2001 that 126,000 nursing positions…
Diner: Savoring Memories
For many of us, Mother's Day recalls childhood memories of surprising Mom with breakfast in bed — although the real surprise came a bit later after she strolled downstairs and discovered the pancake batter sticking like wallpaper glue to every surface in the kitchen. Or perhaps you remember taking Mom and Grandmother out for brunch…
News: No Dictator Left Behind
Jymi Bolden The Rev. Mike O'Grady, a Jesuit brother, has finished a jail sentence for trying to occupy what some call a U.S. terrorist camp at Fort Benning, Ga. The Rev. Mike O'Grady of South Cumminsville doesn't take freedom lightly. He lost his for three months after illegally crossing onto the U.S. Army base at…
Cover Story: Return and Retrieve
Una-Kariim Cross Through her Sankofa program, Kimya Moyo trains black teen-agers to think critically, travel, value education and embody African principles set forth by Kwanzaa. Around 9 a.m. Saturday morning, April 24, seven teenagers stumble bleary-eyed into Kimya Moyo's house. As they ingest the pop and chips they've brought or the bagels, fruit and water…
Cover Story: Lyricists’ Lounge
Una-Kariim Cross Sk8ter girl: Tammy Bender's Corryville store True Blue is as much a hang out for MCs as it is the place they come for gear. Words like "underground" are too contrived to describe Tammy Bender's store. It's more like a cavern. Under the guise of being a Hip Hop retailer, True Blue is…
Cover Story: Shut Yer Hole
Una-Kariim Cross The Rag is a rag not solely for women on or off the rag: (L-R) Shana Yinlang, Erika Yinlang, Kelly Carr, Natalie Mathis, Virginia Tabot and Emily Joy. Articulating and applying feminist theory to real-life situations in a slightly crazy but very cool and sexy sort of way isn't for the faint of…
News: A New Way of Policing
Jymi Bolden The Cincinnati Police Department wants public input, according to (L-R) Officer Sal Tufano of the Tri-State Regional Community Policing Institute (L) and Richard Biehl, executive director of the Community Police Partnering Center. About 60 citizens attended an April 27 meeting at the Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church to learn about Community Problem Oriented Policing…
Cover Story: Strivers’ Row 2004
Here are a few of my favorite strivers. Pull up a seat, ladies. Are station bosses punishing her or is she just intrepid as hell? Either way, Channel 5 news reporter Monica Abler's seemingly 24-hour on-camera work outside hospital emergency rooms, bracing against the elements and sucking down truck fumes from the shoulders of countless…
Larry Flynt and Hustler
Vol. 3 Issue 8 Then: In January 1997, CityBeat's Steve Ramos caught up with Larry and Jimmy Flynt just as the film The People vs. Larry Flynt was hitting theaters across the country. In a town that once saw a showdown between the Hustler founders and Sheriff Simon Leis, the Flynts had returned to Cincinnati,…
The Wrens take flight again with The Meadowlands
The Wrens with Campfire Crush and Giant Judys Saturday · Southgate House The last time The Wrens released a record — 1996's blissfully fuzzy Secaucus — The Strokes were still in private school uniforms and Bill Clinton thrashed a guy whose post-election source of income came courtesy of a penile enhancement product (coincidence?). After years…
News to Use
Make Fountain Square Yours The Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation will host five more public meetings to gather public input about the planned transformation of Fountain Square. The next meeting is at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the College Hill Recreation Center. Two more meetings are scheduled for Thursday, one at noon at Christ Cathedral Church…
Cover Story: From The Gap to Grits
Una-Kariim Cross Woman, at rest: Carla Tucker (left) is still; Joe Tucker is not. Carla Tucker had no desire to be immortalized in print. "No one wants to read about me," she says. "It would be a boring interview." Liar, liar. Pans on fire. She finally gave in and recounted her life's story. Most recently…
SCPA grad returns for benefit concert
Ron Bohmer Now he's a Broadway star, but 20 years ago RON BOHMER was mostly known as a talented kid at Cincinnati's SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS (SCPA). On Monday evening, he'll be back in town for a benefit concert. He's appeared in leading roles in several dramatic works of musical theater on Broadway:…
Nicole Kidman on Dogville director Lars von Trier
Celebrity actress Nicole Kidman has her selection of film projects, but she chose to work with Danish auteur Lars von Trier on Dogville, the first in the maverick director
The Einstein Factor
What is it that constitutes being a "genius?" This question is explored in The Einstein Factor by Win Wenger, Ph.D., and Richard Poe. Wenger's 20 years of research led to his conclusions, and his premise is that each of us can increase our intelligence and learn to think like a genius by practicing his method…
Cover Story: Don’t Need Nothin’ but Eating
Una-Kariim Cross Dixie Cherrington's Mount Adams restaurant still lives on in the stomachs of Cincinnatians. Now she wields secret powers with ranch dressing. Ranch dressing gives her secret powers. The kids she feeds at Emanuel Center call her Miss Dixie, but during the 20-year-one-week run of her Mount Adams restaurant, diners and staff just called…
Television and Radio: Friends ‘Til the End
The cast of Friends signs off Thursday but will stay with us for a long time. The end of a beloved television series is always an event, even though ratings for such episodes have trailed off in the past 20 years. It's highly unlikely we'll ever see 50 million people watch a series finale like…
Relatively inexperienced woman wants to pull out the show-stoppers for her pro beau
I'm a relatively inexperienced 26-year-old young lady. I have basically spent the last four years celibate in a dead-end relationship that I'm finally out of. Recently, I met a much older man, 41, who is extremely experienced and has had a history of being totally freaky (golden showers, porn, etc.). He's got a pretty healthy…
Cover Story: Into the Land of Nods
Falling asleep is a lean cat stretch into the sand's shift and then a graceful curtsey. The window ledge hikes her skirt and purrs. The dream builds her nest in the body. While it rests, little tears are mended and hard feelings are buffered. After I had my first child, I missed my sleep, especially…
Locals Only: : The Itch Is Back
Seven Year Itch: Mating Songs Of Cincinnati USA They rise from the earth. They sing. They mate. They die. No, it's not a VH1 Behind the Music — it's cicadas, and they're due to arrive in the Cincinnati area in a few weeks. Five billion of the insects will call the area home for six…
Cincinnati Runs, Keeps Moving Forward
Running the Flying Pig Marathon May 2, I realized that whoever assigned Cincinnati that ridiculous flying pig symbol turned out to be a visionary. What other mascot offers such comic potential? At least four head-to-toe pig outfits pumped the air with pink fists (hooves?) for us. Lots more flossed regalia with snouts, wings and round…
Be My Girl
"Take a load off, Annie/ take a load for free/ take a load off, Annie, and you put the load right on me" — "The Weight," Robbie Robertson My bedroom is the center of my life. Because of what goes on in here. In here, I worship women. Nikki Giovanni is repeated four different times,…
Cover Story: Care, There, Cry, Give
Patricia Robisch "All that she said was true/Give her some time, give her some space/All that she meant was good." — Bjork Watching National Insecurity Advisor Condoleezza Rice misappropriate the truth during her stint of the 9/11 Commission Hearing, I got to thinking about us. Her antidotes. That is, the sisters (and I mean that…
May Festival gets ready to sing
If you haven't ever experienced the power of 150 voices singing in unison, you'll want to snag a couple of tickets now for the upcoming MAY FESTIVAL concerts, May 21-29. This year marks the 25th anniversary of music direction by conductor JAMES CONLON. That might sound like a long time (well, it is), but it's…
Yes, it’s possible. Bill Maher can bee more cynical
Here are a few programs to look out for in the upcoming week … WEDNESDAY 9 P.M. TV Land Moguls, TV Land. A look at the movers and shakers who made the shows we grew up with. Tonight it's the '70s. Because of their taste, style and tenacity, Grant Tinker (The Mary Tyler Moore Show,…
Cover Story: ‘Where I Should Be’
Una-Kariim Cross Kathy Holwadel is Ink Tank's one-woman think tank. As a stockbroker, she used to send poetry to clients. "I was always a weird stockbroker," Kathy Holwadel says. "When the market went down, I would send my clients poetry." That explains some things. When I heard that Holwadel had been in finance for 20…
