Music: Hiders Seek
Emily Maxwell The Hiders Billy Alletzhauser displays a quietly cautious manner when answering questions. It might be a natural byproduct of his experience in the Ass Ponys, when the Cincinnati quartet became a hot industry prospect only to be dropped by A&M after two albums. Alletzhauser finds lightning striking twice as his new Americana…
Sound Advice: : Peter Mulvey and The Sword
The Sword Peter Mulvey Saturday
Onstage: Review: Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Rich Sofranko Joneal Joplin plays James Tyrone, a vain, miserly father, in Long Day's Journey into Night. Like life, there's nothing particularly tidy or precise about Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's staging of Eugene O'Neill's vast masterpiece, Long Day's Journey Into Night. Also like life — and just like the Pulitzer winning 1941 script — the…
Can you digg it?
Leave it to The Economist to tell this paleoreporter about the digg icon at the end of many online news stories. Previously I've hesitated to push digg because I ascribe to Cincinnati City Motto (as translated from the Latin) "Don't Do Anything for the First Time That You Haven't Done Before." Digg links users to…
Celebrating King Records, Second Sunday on Main and the Appalachian Festival
Danny Nader Otis Williams was inducted into the CEA Hall of Fame in 1999 along with King Records. On Saturday, the main downtown branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County is presenting a lengthy program in honor of the 65th birthday of pioneering Cincinnati-based record label, King Records. Exhibit No. 1 in…
Onstage: Review: Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet's men are behaving badly in Glengarry Glen Ross. The program cover for New Edgecliff Theatre's production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross has a simple illustration: two dogs snarling and fighting. But each one is wearing a man's tie, and that anthropomorphic detail gives a sense of what's to come: In a season…
Cash Flagg (Profile)
Michael McIntire Cash Flagg Opening credits. Scene one: Early on a Wednesday evening, the Northside Tavern patio is already body-packed. Rowdy and raucous. The bar staff floats around, wearing the usual thrift store shirts. Picture moppy hair, musicians, habits, paint splashed on pants, tattoo sleeves, bottles and beards. Intimidating, cool. Handshakes don't fit in…
Buying and Selling Democracy
Regarding the letter "Rise Up and Rule Yourself" (issue of April 30) and the cover story that inspired it ("Ruling Class," issue of April 23), migration, legal or otherwise, is not a quest for "misguided welfare programs." It's about people trying to survive. Among other things (war, persecution), immigration is being driven by corporate globalization…
Cover Story: Connecting the Dots
What question lies at the heart of your work? Mary Pierce Brosmer, founder of Women Writing for (a) Change, posed this idea to a group recently as keynote speaker for the Woman's Leadership Symposium at Miami University. Her question was inspired by work done by the international Society for Organizational Learning, where Brosmer recently became…
Cover Story: Restricted Access
Since the Supreme Court has yet to reverse Roe v. Wade, ladies, it's still your body and it's still your choice. And whether or not you choose to pop the pill, wear the patch or regret it the morning after, planning if and when you start a family is a legal right — even though…
The Bette Davis Collection (20TH Century Fox)
The Bette Davis Collection 1950-1965, Unrated The Bette Davis Collection opens with a two-disc Cinema Classics Collection edition of All About Eve that catches the legend at the height of her screen divahood. Writer/director Joseph Mankiewicz's film earned a record-breaking 14 Academy Award nominations in 1950 (it won six Oscars), but in the end…
News: Walking the Walk
Paulkomarek Events such as Saturday's "NAMI Walks" help educate and encourage people with brain disorders to seek help. Meegan Brown was a senior at Turpin High School when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, finally explaining her years of erratic behavior and giving her a pathway to recovery. Nine years later, Brown is providing…
Another seven days of defending Lesbos, cutting KET and ripping on West Chester
Pay me WEDNESDAY APRIL 30 First it was the rainbow, now it's the geographical designation of perfectly ambivalent island dwellers that's being threatened by the gays. The AP reported today that three residents of the Agean island of Lesbos, whose people are known regionally as Lesbians, have filed a grievance in Greek court against…
Return Of The Living Dead Boys: Halloween 1986 (MVD Visual)
Return Of The Living Dead Boys: Halloween 1986 2008, Not Rated Shot in suitably cruddy fashion from a video camera somewhere back in the audience at a concert at New York's Ritz, the look turns out to be a good fit for the music — Rock with slovenly but thrilling vocals and grungy, speeded-up,…
Cover Story: 2008 Women’s Issue: See Jane Run
Patty Robisch During a conversation about birth control and abortion, a female Republican friend once told me: "If men had babies, you could have an abortion by drinking tap water." That might be an exaggeration, not to mention medically impossible, but I got her point. In the halls of government, men generally control laws…
Wolfe and the Chicken Pot Pies
On warm spring nights, the place to be is the corner of Vine and Court streets downtown. Universal Grille has tables set up along the sidewalk, roped off so they can serve alcohol outside legally. When it's too early for air conditioning and too warm to stay inside, the block is full of people —…
Celebrating as One, laughing with Drew Hastings and Eddie Izzard, CAC Silk and Spice Gala, King Records panels, Second Sunday on Main and much more
DrewHastings.com Drew Hastings WEDNESDAY 5/07 ONSTAGE: THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL brings its eclectic collection of kitsch to ETC. See Rick Pender's review here. THURSDAY 5/08 EVENTS: CELEBRATE AS ONE Inspired by Israel's 60th birthday, the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati is throwing a party featuring musical, cultural and community experiences. With the tagline…
Cover Story: Women by the Numbers
Ohio and Kentucky are near mirror images in the political and economic status of their women. Though we've made gains, we still have some catching up to do. Women make up just over half of both states' populations but are underrepresented in elected office, earn less than their male counterparts, are more likely to be…
Sex Sells, and We Keep Buying
The best political scandals are always about sex, aren't they? Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann's career implosion is just the latest — and most local — example of an elected official getting caught with his pants down. The media and the public can't seem to get enough. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer crashed and burned…
Dance: Is Theater First
Kurt Strecker Choreographer Mauricio Wainrot (left) watches Cincinnati Ballet dancers interpret his vision. Clap! Clap! Internationally acclaimed Argentine choreographer Mauricio Wainrot signals the large assembly of dancers to stop. Three women are hoisting another skyward on her back, limbs akimbo, but it's not yet perfect. Troubleshooting is required. It's a warm afternoon in the…
Too Many Choices Make Us Fat
We've all spent a random Friday night binging on pizza and beer only to wake up Saturday morning in a panic. We rush to the Internet or the bookstore, hoping to find that brand new diet, fat-burning pill or workout that will cancel out all of the damage and help us drop 20 pounds in…
Music: Def Con
TeganandSara.com Tegan and Sara, the rockin' twins from Calgary The face of success can take on many forms, including the likeness of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. Once upon a time in an ostensible Rock wonderland, Vedder, The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde and Canadian AltRock duo (and identical twins) Tegan and Sara went to an amusement…
Raphaela Platow Brings Changes to CAC
When Zaha Hadid's Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art — the first American museum designed by a woman and her first built project in the U.S. — opened downtown five years ago this month, it was heralded for its radically visionary design. Hadid saw it as an extension of city life, an "urban…
McCain Not Tainted by His Crazy Ministers
Sean Hughes Mr. Teflon Republican presidential nominee John McCain actively sought the endorsement of a minister who advocated for the murder of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez merely because Chavez had the audacity to disagree with U.S. policy. McCain also sought an endorsement from another minister who proclaimed that Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans because…
Cover Story: Babies at Risk
Emily Maxwell Every time a woman gets pregnant, a piece of her community's future sits precariously between her hipbones. Her quality of life during pregnancy can set her child up for disease, disability, early arrival or even death. Cincinnati's infant mortality rate (12.9 per 1,000 live births) is worse than other cities of similar…
News: Healthy Businesses, Sick People
Joe Lamb City Councilman David Crowley (left) and his legislative aide, Rocky Merz, have been working on a citywide environmental justice ordinance for almost three years. Environmental justice is a concept most people agree with: Communities heavily polluted with toxins and other garbage that makes residents sick shouldn't have to host additional polluting businesses.…
Film: Stayin’ Alive
Timothy White Throw your hands in the air like you just don't care: the Young@Heart Chorus Just before the film Young@Heart — about a chorus of seniors, ages 73 to 92, who sings Rock & Roll songs — opened in New York last month, music director Bob Cilman was cautiously optimistic about its reception.…
Cover Story: Kentucky Woman
Emily Maxwell Millicent Straub Larson In Northern Kentucky, a number of women struggle to realize their dream of sharing their art and instigating change within their community. The Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW) hopes to shepherd these women and help them realize their dreams so their voices ultimately will be heard. KFW Executive Director…
Spring Unveils New Dining Options
There are several restaurant openings to talk about this month. Greek to Me opened a second location in Covington last weekend. Its Erlanger restaurant offers authentic Greek food and music in a casual atmosphere with low prices. The Midwest Culinary Institute's public restaurant, The Summit, will open May 23. Program graduate Matt Winterrowd, who has…
Saturdays in the Park
Sitting on my window sill and staring at them every Saturday was not enough. Apparently I needed to go down to Washington Park and experience what it was like to hand out sandwiches on the sidewalk. The invitation was in response to an earlier column in this space ("Looking for Help That Helps," issue of…
Cover Story: The Clinton Campaign Legacy
Graham Lienhart Connie Pillich says successful women politicians need a supportive network of family and friends. It's happened in Israel, India, Ireland and England. It's even happened in Liberia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Chile. But in the United States, a country where women make up a majority of the population and are among the…
The Walker (Thinkfilm)
The Walker 2007, Rated R Paul Schrader steps back behind the camera after the rigmarole surrounding his entry in The Exorcist franchise to write and direct an equally sinister thriller set in Washington, D.C., where politics and personal lives intertwine to create an altogether different hell. Woody Harrelson stars as Carter Page, a wealthy,…
Cover Story: Riding the Wave of Change
Emily Maxwell Victoria Wulsin hopes to address the country's health care crisis if she's elected to congress. I knew Democratic congressional candidate Victoria Wulsin was a woman of many talents, so I didn't bat an eyelash when she drew a picture during our interview. On a scrap of paper in her Anderson Township campaign…
Celtics’ Resurgence Is the NBA Season’s Best Story
Jerry Dowling The NBA playoffs arrive with goodies for every basketball fan — something old, something new, something borrowed and, best of all, something green. It's good to have the Boston Celtics back. Not to pull for them, but just to see them around, mattering, bringing that flame back to life. Perhaps the Celtics…
Knotty Pine on the Bayou (Review)
Joe Lamb owner/chef John Caulfield serves up some tasty Cajun-influenced cuisine at Knotty Pine on the Bayou. When your GPS can't tell you how to get there, your destination is off the beaten path. But Knotty Pine on the Bayou is definitely worth the trip. We were amazed to see the size of the…
