Events: MoBo Bicycle Co-op Fund-raiser Party
Dear Cincinnati bike rider: you make a noble attempt to navigate our town’s many hills, freeways and narrow roads on a daily basis. Certainly it’s hard enough just dragging yourself out of bed for the morning ride to work, let alone having to worry about how not to get run over by your vehicle-operating fellow…
Art: Aisle Gallery and Carl Solway Galleries
Friday will be a lively evening of gallery receptions and openings at the contemporary art outpost at 424 Findlay St. in the West End. Joseph Winterhalter’s exhibition at Aisle Gallery, entitled Flowers of Romance, is complemented by Carl Solway Gallery’s three concurrent exhibitions: Judy Pfaff’s Constructed Paper, Jean Dubuffet’s The Hourloupe Cycle Graphics, and A…
Events: Maifest
Mainstrasse has been welcoming in the first spring wines for 30 years with Maifest, and, like all of our favorite festivals here in the Queen City, this one is decidedly German. There will be meat. There will be alcohol. There will be music. Over six blocks along the Sixth Street promenade, Main Street and Philadelphia…
Music: Dave Alvin
The celebrated roots-rocker, Dave Alvin, whose career has spanned from his rockabilly days with The Blasters back in the ‘80s to his still-flourishing 20-year solo career, likes to mix it up on the road. Between his longtime band, The Guilty Men, his part-time membership in The Knitters with John Doe, and his occasional reunion gigs…
Art: Bunk Warehouse
“[Bunk News] is a collaborative group of friends and artists where each person is bringing different media, styles, skill sets and perspectives into one somewhat focused direction,” says Ben Brown, one of the four founders of Bunk News and a fine arts student in the University of Cincinnati’s Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP) program.…
Television: Friday Night Fu
WKRP (yep, just like the old sitcom) is holding out here in the tri-state. The locally and independently owned station can be found on channel 38 on the old-school TVs and on Insight and Time Warner cable, and if you’ve got one of those new-fangled converter boxes or digital TVs, you can tune that baby…
Attractions: The Beach Waterpark
Summer is approaching fast and is sure to bring the heat. What better way to escape the sun and humidity than at The Beach Waterpark? Beat the crowd by helping The Beach kick off its 25th anniversary season, starting this weekend. For the daredevil in you take on the park’s tallest slide, The Cliff, and…
Onstage: Falstaff
The fat man sings in CCM ‘s spring opera production of Verdi’s Falstaff. Based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Falstaff is a fast-paced comedy featuring the Bard’s favorite big guy who lusts after money, food and women (in that order). He goes after two married women to get at their…
Music: Happy Chichester
Harold “Happy” Chichester, former frontman of Howlin’ Maggie, bassist for Royal Crescent Mob and auxiliary member of The Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers, is silly. One expects such silly behavior from the likes of musicians whose personalities are more bombastic than their musical acumen (read: Kanye). One might be tempted to think Chichester’s status as…
Events: The Celluloid Jam
Rocky Horror fans can be an insanely dedicated—and loving—lot. Take a look at the story of Jim Hetzer. After being coaxed into seeing the notoriously cultish musical ages ago, he’s been embedded in the local Rocky scene for 18 years (he plays Eddie, Meat Loaf’s persona) and is the proud Web master of Cosmo’s Factory,…
Comedy: Robert Hawkins
Robert Hawkins is one of America’s foremost joke tellers, something that’s a bit of a dying art in stand-up these days. “I talk about how I’m a procrastinator,” he says, “and I haven’t gotten around to writing the punchline.” Often he jumps from topic to topic, simply because he just can’t concentrate on long bits.…
Music: I Am Ghost
Since forming five years ago in Long Beach, California, I Am Ghost has been the epicenter of more drama than 10 seasons of All My Children. The sextet coalesced in 2004 around a conceptual blend of Death Metal grind, Punk passion, Prog majesty and Classical complexity. Last year, original guitarist Gabe Iraheta departed over “creative…
Lectures: Diane Keaton
Well, la-di-da, Miss Diane Keaton is coming to the Aronoff Center for the Smart Talk women’s lecture series. She’s an Oscar winner and she’s starred in over 50 films including Annie Hall, Manhattan, Sleeper and probably some other non-Woody Allen films, too. The Godfather? Listen to this fashion icon and real woman talk about balancing…
Events: Surreal Escape
The Cincinnati Art Museum celebrates this weekend's close of its successful Surrealism and Beyond: In the Israel Museum, Jerusalem with a very arty party Friday night, "Surreal Escape: A Night of Absurd Reality." Lasting from 8 p.m.-midnight, it will offer Dada and Surrealist art, dance, a fashion show from the Fashion Design Student Association, opera…
Onstage: Mark Twain Tonight
Hal Holbrook has been playing 19th-century American writer Mark Twain for 50 more than years. At the age of 84, he’s actually 10 years older than Twain was when he died in 1910. So in a sense, he’s played the colorful and opinionated novelist, essayist and lecturer longer than the original act. Despite his age…
Music: Northside Music Festival
We here at CityBeat sometimes get accused of solely writing about things happening in Northside. It’s not true exactly, but if it seems that way, it’s likely because the little ’hood has become a fertile breeding ground/hangout for artists and musicians. And, maybe – just maybe – we’re fishing for discounts on our massive bar…
Random Reds Ramblings
Let's not point out the many things I haven't been right about so far in 2009. Instead, let's focus on my Spring Training prediction that Laynce Nix, if healthy and in the lineup, would hit 25 home runs. It looks pretty feasible. The shot he hit to dead center in Arizona last night was certainly…
All Fu’d Up on WKRP
Late-night Kung-Fu movies and their bizarre hosts are something of a low-rent underground TV tradition. For years, stoners, cult film buffs and homebound loners alike have turned to the UHF dial, the refuge of offbeat, independent and non-network programming, for some much-needed martial-arts-oriented entertainment after a night of bonging out or skulking about the house.…
Arms and the Man (Review)
Critic's Pick When George Bernard Shaw’s witty comedy Arms and the Man debuted in 1894 in Dublin, it was a hit. Shaw described it as “one joke after another … a firecracker.” That’s pretty much what you’ll experience onstage at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (CSC), making its first foray into Shaw’s prolific output. I hope we’ll…
Music: Kings of Leon
Traveling around the country playing music is was nothing new to the Followill boys — brothers Nathan, Caleb, Jared and cousin Matthew — when they started their American swamp-rock quartet, Kings of Leon. As boys, they traveled around the country with Nathan, Caleb and Jared’s father, Ivan, a Pentecostal preacher with a flair for the…
Next Day Air (Review)
I’m sorry, Ms. Jackson (Debbie Allen), but your son Leo (Donald Faison) is a no-good weed-smoking punk. He hangs out with his boy Eric (Mos Def), who has conned you into believing he is a model employee for the delivery company you’ve got these overgrown boys working for, when he’s just exploiting the situation to…
Texts from Last Night
(408): hey, what are you doing? my roommates are gone for the night… you should come over 😉 (650): nah, i'm gonna grab some food —- OK. So this site keeps me from doing my work more than any sort of social networking contraption could ever dream to: http://textsfromlastnight.com. Just in case you haven't been…
Free Airplane Rides for Kids in June
The Cincinnati chapter of Experimental Aircraft Association is hosting free airplane rides for kids ages 8-17 on June 13. The event is part of the Young Eagles program, which is a national initiative that aims to offer free aviation experience to children. Kids who participate will take a free, introductory flight and will be able…
Eat, Drink and See Tacos
Have you had brunch at Chalk yet? If you haven’t, you are missing out on a mouth-hole party o’ epic proportions. I’d been meaning to pop in there to see what all the fuss was about for a while now, but it wasn’t until last Sunday that a group o’ friends and I actually meandered…
Police Once Scoffed at Gun Range Hazard
The Cincinnati Police Department is seeking $400,000 to make improvements to its target range in Evendale after a ricocheting bullet flew over a concrete wall and broke the windshield on a citizen’s car. But when city officials considered moving the target range in 1999, the police union opposed the move and called any safety concerns…
Noctaluca Flashes the Crowd Tonight
Local “face-melting” alt-rockers Noctaluca may sound like a band that lies somewhere between Pearl Jam and Shudder to Think, but they are in fact thoroughly modern. Check their latest innovation: an immediate recording of their live show on a two-gig flash drive that’ll be available right after they’ve played. —- All fans need to do…
Friday Movie Roundup: Business Is Good … But Are the Movies
Nearly 30 years ago, in an essay entitled “Why Are Movies So Bad? Or, the Numbers,” film critic Pauline Kael wrote that “the movies have been so rank the last couple years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren’t drawing an audience — they’re inheriting…
Media Pop Quiz
Big media corporations have taken over, sucked the profits out of and are now closing newspapers left and right. Subscription rates are down and ads fill more space than editorial content.So the questions are there:—- 1. Do you read a newspaper? 2. If you do, why do you read the paper edition? 3. If not,…
Taking the Stage … Anywhere But Cincinnati
You know that friend who gets sweaty and angry and tense whenever someone says something bad about Cincinnati? The friend who will defend it like King Arthur defended Camelot, not only the city itself but the idea of it? I'm that guy. I will Wiki whatever city you grew up in and show you point…
The Cowboy: An Expert on Barbecue and Twitter
There are times during Reds TV broadcasts when one just shakes his head and thinks, “Goddammit George Grande, the world ain’t all that great.” And there are times when you might say, “Welshy, I really miss your mustache and I think it's funny how uncomfortable George Grande makes you.” And then there are times when…
Bands Smash Pumpkins Tunes to Bits… and Rearrange ‘Em
Twenty five (yes, that’s 25) bands are set to descend on the Mad Hatter Saturday night for An Ode to No One, a Smashing Pumpkins tribute show so ridiculously massive that it’s got to be a Guinness Book contender. —- Organizer Matt Ogden was also the man behind I Might Be Wrong, last year’s Radiohead…
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Review)
You don’t have to give 2 cents about Heavy Metal music to appreciate Sacha Gervasi’s joyous and touching documentary about charismatic Canadian musicians Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner, who for 35 years have held onto their dream of making it big with their Rock band Anvil. Credited with influencing a slew of successful Hard…
Over the Rhine Pet Health Day
The Freestore/Foodbank offered pet services free of charge to local residents in need.
CityBeat Podcast 5: The Women’s Issue
CityBeat's Maija Zummo discusses the CityBeat Women's Issue and takes listeners along on the Snooty Fox Bus Tour — a mobile shopping spree that takes patrons to eight different locations of the local consignment store chain. Suscribe to our podcast in iTunes or use our RSS feed. —-
Out of My Vulcan Mind: Caleb Reviews Star Trek
These past two weeks have seen more than their fair share of Klingon in the Mathern/Wissman/Zummo household. In an effort to bring myself up to speed for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, I’ve been indulging my sci-fi jones, having imbibed the first four Trek films, starting with The Wrath of Khan, working my way through The…
It Takes a Village
Amelia Mayor Leroy Ellington can take a breath and relax. For a little while, at least.—- As writer Rick Bird reported in CityBeat’s April 22 issue, Ellington inadvertently gave rise to the citizen-led effort to dissolve the Clermont County village and have it revert to its township roots. That occurred after Ellington proposed last summer…
Still Not Welcome
An historic local political group’s policies about who may join are again raising questions about new media like the Internet and the citizen journalism movement.—- Cincinnati City Councilwoman Roxanne Qualls recently launched her own blog, called Cincinnati Rox!, in advance of this fall’s council elections. Qualls is a member of the Charter Committee, the city’s…
Events: Movie Night on Fountain Square
Cheap dates, downtown transients and budget-conscious suburbanites alike finally have reason to rejoice, for at long last there is one place to come together in Cincinnati and enjoy free outdoor entertainment. Starting Saturday at 7:30 p.m., P&G and Toyota present Movie Nights on Fountain Square, a weekly dose of big-budget cinema brought to you by…
The Good Woman’s Guide to Entertaining at Home
As women, we have many responsibilities. We must maintain a sunny disposition to put others at ease, keep our make-up fresh and stay up on current events so we can keep up with our husbands in conversation. Increasingly, we’re also being asked to work outside the home. How are we to do all of this…
Muscle Memories
From the glut of reality shows and the Peoples’ Choice Awards to blogging and Twittering, now more than ever audience members feel entitled to voice their opinions. And in these times, organizations must stay in tune with their patrons. Cincinnati Ballet deserves kudos for keeping current with trends of the times — choreographically and otherwise…
Onstage: Arms and the Man
Irish playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw was one prolific writer. Living to the age of 94, he wrote 60 plays before his death in 1950. In Canada, the Shaw Festival annually produces a selection of his plays — much like Shakespeare festivals around the world present the Bard, who left about half as many…
New York Dolls, The Smithereens, Immaculate Machine and Much More
One light week and look what happens: The CD piles are teetering precariously, and if the cat comes in and rubs her cheeks on that stack one more time, the walls are definitely going to come tumbling down. Better start reducing the load as quickly as possible. Folk wisdom and Roy Wood agree: Lightning never…
Events: Second Sunday on Main
Second Sunday on Main celebrates its fifth anniversary with “Take Mom to Main.” This Mother’s Day-themed event will feature live music, food, booze and free flowers for the first 200 moms. Bands include The Hiders, Kelly Thomas & the Fabulous Pick Ups, Maurice Mattei and more. Also look out for recycled fashions by Megpie Vintage,…
Teenage Prayers with The Mayors of Super Awesome Town
When New York’s Teenage Prayers blew into town for 2007’s MidPoint festivities, their incendiary set at The Exchange was easily a highlight of the whole shooting match. Frontman Tim Adams was a manic summit of Paul Westerberg, Julian Casablancas and David Johansen holding a seance to conjure up the spirit of Sam Cooke, while the…
Lectures: King Records Panel Discussion
As part of its ongoing study of Cincinnati's King Records, downtown’s Main Library will hold a panel discussion at 3 p.m. celebrating the 60th anniversary of one of King's most crucially important recordings, “Blues Stay Away From Me” by the country duo known as the Delmore Brothers. The song was written and produced by Henry…
Manchester Orchestra with Fun and Audrye Sessions
A good recipe for a Rock supergroup — a group of musicians whose presence in the music industry is strange, beautiful and meteoric — is difficult to peg down. Because there is no paucity of tasteful variations, sometimes I gravitate toward an obvious formula: looks. One theory that stands true to the test of time…
New Day Rising?
Can film (including, defining the term broadly, Internet videos) save popular music from its commercial destruction? Three recent and vastly disparate examples — Anvil, Susan Boyle and Leonard Cohen — give hope. If you haven’t heard of Anvil yet, it’s because the hit documentary about this middle-aged Canadian Metal band — Anvil! The Story of…
Onstage: Cincinnati Ballet’s Greatest Hits
In true democratic fashion, Cincinnati Ballet season subscribers were invited to cast votes for their favorite works the Ballet has performed. This weekend, the Ballet concludes its 45th season with its Greatest Hits, a powerhouse, if mixed, assortment of dance delights taken from the most-requested audience picks. Greatest Hits showcases the entire company, and quite…
It’s Easy Being Green
Unless you’ve locked yourself away in a bunker 30 feet underground or haven’t listened to NPR in more than a decade, we’re all aware that humans are destroying the planet. We know the emissions from our SUVs will eventually suffocate us. We know the same soil that sprouts our vegetables is polluted by pesticides and…
A Oral History of My Future
Not long ago, I finished reading The Story of Joe Gould as told by Joseph Mitchell, a columnist at The New Yorker magazine from the 1930s until the mid-’60s. Living solely off his friends’ contributions to “The Joe Gould Fund,” he spent his days as an eccentric, drinking and interacting with the city’s pop society…
Music: Priestess
If there’s one thing to be absorbed from the music of Priestess, it’s that Heavy Metal still has the power to liberate. While histrionics-heavy Metalcore and cheaply crafted Radio Rock can be found clotting iTunes playlists with a fragmented notion of what “Metal” should sound like in 2009, Priestess’ sweeping scapes are an excellent diversion.…
Events: Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Members of the band Anvil, the long-forgotten Canadian Metal demigods, will be at the Esquire on Saturday to introduce a special midnight showing of the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil. The movie follows Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner, who made a pact at age 14 that they would rock together forever. Their band,…
Hip Hop (Un)Scene: Ill Poetic Spills It
Mike Breen at CityBeat has been gracious enough to give me a monthly column to exercise my thoughts and ambitions on the Cincinnati Hip Hop scene. So without further ado, here’s a brief synopsis of who I am and why you should care to read to the bottom of this column. (Heads up: I dropped…
Reds’ First Month Report Card: Terrible Hitting, Great Pitching, NL Contenders
One month into the 2009 season, the task of assessing the Reds for their staying power in the National League playoff race remains a work of wild guessing. They have no stars and few track records. They finished 13-12, hitting the ball harder with their gloves than with their bats. The first month leaves us…
Bowerbirds with La Strada
It’s refreshing when a band is christened purposefully and not by randomly assembling words that have never been juxtaposed before. The Bowerbirds took their name from an Australian species characterized by the males’ propensity for creating artistically sculptural nests to attract mates, a quality that accordionist Beth Tacular found worthy of tribute. The band that…
Take Your Momma Out
Forty percent of moms will celebrate Mother’s Day by dining out this year, according to the National Restaurant Association. Others will be cooked for, waited on and showered with love. The rest — and you know who they are — will be in the kitchen making lunch and dinner for their families. Don’t let this…
For the People…
Local musical eccentrics Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar celebrate the release of their new CD, The People Vs. Lemoncello, with a huge show at the Southgate House this Friday. Performing throughout the Southgate will be The Sundresses, The Lions Rampant, Rumpke Mountain Boys, Wonky Tonk, The Harlequins, CJ the Cynic, Bullying Ben Jones,…
Tortured Excuses
Americans proudly believe we live in a nation of laws where no one — not corporate executives, celebrities or presidents — is above the law. A place where justice is applied evenly and consistently regardless of class, wealth, race, gender or any other factor. All men are created equal here, and the U.S. justice system…
A Walk in Her Shoes
Marcelina Robledo is a woman of many hats. Or, perhaps more accurately, many shoes. Robledo, 38, has walked the road less traveled, a collection of winding paths that has led her to her present place in life. She is a self-starter who is constantly reinventing herself, rolling with life’s punches and taking risks. Currently, Robledo…
Comedy: Mike Armstrong
“I like doing comedy,” says cop-turned-comic Mike Armstrong. “I get shot at less, too. People don’t shoot at comedians like they do at the police.” And, yes, he was funny cop too. “I’d constantly pull (drivers) over and warn them about speed traps … just to see their faces.” He gives another example. “On the…
Star Trek (Review)
James Tiberius Kirk (Chris Pine) enters the world just moments before his father George Kirk (Chris Hemsworth), a newly minted Starfleet captain, dies heroically, guaranteeing that baby Kirk, his mother Winona (Jennifer Morrison) and the harried crew of his attacked ship are able to escape death at the hands of the Romulan Nero (Eric Bana).…
Kinneret Cafe (Review)
Years ago, I went to Israel, thinking Israeli food was hummus and tabouli. I stayed with my then-husband’s Lithuanian mother and Polish father, Sarah and Shlomo, in their penthouse in Tel Aviv. I woke the first morning to a breakfast spread of hummus, along with sabich (a pita sandwich with eggplant, tahini and eggs that’s…
Bow Down
If there’s one thing to be absorbed from the music of Priestess, it’s that Heavy Metal still has the power to liberate. While histrionics-heavy Metalcore and cheaply crafted Radio Rock can be found clotting iTunes playlists with a fragmented notion of what “Metal” should sound like in 2009, Priestess’ sweeping scapes are an excellent diversion.…
Made by Women
Hi, I’m Maija and I’m a woman. Generally I refer to myself as a “girl,” but for the purposes of this introduction I shall be a woman. Traditionally, as a woman, people expect you/me to make a lot of things: homes, babies, CityBeat Women’s Issues, etc. Thankfully, no one required me to get pregnant during…
Step Back in Time
This weekend, the owners of several historic homes in the area are flinging their doors open to visitors. Cincinnati Preservation Association (CPA) and Clifton Town Meeting are offering rare opportunities to see the interiors of some of Cincinnati’s most regal homes in two of the area’s grandest neighborhoods. On Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m.,…
Smearing Socialism
During the Cold War, there was almost no insult worse for an average American than to be called a communist. Anyone labeled with the tag might lose his or her job, be shunned by neighbors or undergo government surveillance. Sen. Joseph McCarthy tapped into these fears in the 1950s to boost his political career, before…
Music: Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra, the foursome from Atlanta, started their career young with an unabashed, ball-outs zeal and cranked out as much product as fast as possible. With the average age of the band being 21, MO has already produced two full-length studio albums, I’m Like a Virgin Losing and Child a Mean Everything to Nothing, in…
Radical Architect Comes Home to UC
University of Cincinnati and good architecture have long gone together, both because of the College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning’s (DAAP) graduate and undergraduate programs and the “signature” architects who have designed new campus buildings. But one of the strongest connections between UC and architecture, especially in this age of sustainability, is Michael Reynolds.…
Events: Appalachian Festival
Looking for something special to do for Mother’s Day? Take Mom, and the whole family for that matter, to Coney Island for the 40th annual Appalachian Festival. Check out local Bluegrass musicians so authentic you’ll think you’re in the Smoky Mountains. Acts include the Comet Bluegrass All Stars, Wild Carrot & the Roots Band, Uncle…
Okay Lindon (Profile)
It’s the chicken/egg situation for every band: Which comes first, the gigs or the fan base? “We actually were turned down by every major venue in Cincinnati that we contacted for our CD release show,” says Dustin Smith, the 22-year-old singer/songwriter behind Okay Lindon. He isn’t complaining, though. He’s simply explaining why his band had…
‘The Music Should Speak for Itself’
We’ve all seen the bumper sticker: a simplistic drawing of a baby chicken above the words “Chicks Rock.” Well, that statement couldn’t be truer in the case of Lisa Walker and Margaret Darling, the female faces behind local bands Wussy and The Seedy Seeds, respectively. The two, who list Culture Queer and the Pomegranates as…
Bad Apples and Bad Attitudes at CPD
Here’s an incident involving the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) and Tom Streicher that most residents probably haven’t heard about. Sometime between midnight and 10 a.m. on the day after Valentine’s Day, Streicher fired a shotgun through the front window of Seventh Street News, an adult bookstore, while he was on-duty. Official documents in the case…
Events: Historic House Tours
This weekend, the owners of several historic homes in the area are flinging their doors open to visitors. Cincinnati Preservation Association (CPA) and Clifton Town Meeting are offering rare opportunities to see the interiors of some of Cincinnati’s most regal homes in two of the area’s grandest neighborhoods. On Saturday from 1–5 p.m., CPA presents…
Austin City Limits, Iggy Pop and Ozzy
[HOT] AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TURNS 35 The best music show on TV, PBS’s Austin City Limits, has announced the lineup of artists for its 35th anniversary season (yup, ACL can now officially run for President), which starts Oct. 3. The roster is another great mix of established artists and relative newcomers, with the Dave Matthews…
Standing Up, Getting Involved
It seems young people are finally taking an interest in politics again. Ceair Baggett is 21 and a manager at Cincinnati Bell, overseeing some of their retail operations. He’s a graduate of Taft High School and Xavier University, lives in Mount Airy and owns a home in the West End he’s re-modeling. And he’s running…
Bizarre Experience
Bizarre Experience Let me preface this by saying that I’m in no way a “food snob.” There is nothing in the world I enjoy more than a local hole-in-the-wall restaurant of quality, but I have to comment on Lora Arduser’s take on AmerAsia in Covington (“Asian Haven,” issue of April 29). My husband and I…
Another Seven Days of Old Jokes and New Candidates
WEDNESDAY APRIL 29 Hamilton County GOP chairman Alex Triantafilou is a complicated man, and no one understands him but his man (Bill Cunningham). The liberal media today didn´t understand Triantafilou’s joke about a bald-from-chemotherapy Sen. Arlen Specter looking like the Dr. Evil character from Austin Powers. Triantafilou´s point was that Specter was pretty much being…
Music: Teenage Prayers
When New York’s Teenage Prayers blew into town for 2007’s MidPoint festivities, their incendiary set at The Exchange was easily a highlight of the whole shooting match. Frontman Tim Adams was a manic summit of Paul Westerberg, Julian Casablancas and David Johansen holding a seance to conjure up the spirit of Sam Cooke, while the…
Music: An Ode to No One: A Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins
I’m not totally sure what’s up with the Smashing Pumpkins these days. Billy Corgan remains the only original member, making the band seemingly destined for an oldies revue with other ’90s hit-makers (Candlebox, Sponge, Dishwalla, etc.) in a few years. Regardless of Corgan’s puzzling antics (he makes Kanye look like the humblest monk on the…
Homeless Means Worthless
During an election year, city council and the mayor member profess to care about the most vulnerable in our society, but their actions are speaking much louder than words. Mayor Mark Mallory allowed a city budget proposal to go forward that would have eliminated all human services funding and the meager investment was only restored…
