Rock on the Range Q&A: Josh Todd of Buckcherry
Buckcherry has been epitomizing Hard Rock since the late ’90s. The band recently started touring behind its sixth studio album, Confessions, adding to a great and energy filled set-list, alongside crowd favorites and major hits “Crazy Bitch” and “Lit Up." CityBeat had a chance to speak with enigmatic Buckcherry singer Josh Todd in preparation for…
Curmudgeon Notes 5.15.2013
• Some Cincinnati IRS employees violated IRS rules and maybe the law by harassing scores of Tea Party and similar conservative groups seeking vital nonprofit status. As an example of IRS intrusiveness, the Enquirer reports that the Liberty Township Tea Party received a questionnaire demanding information the IRS is not allowed to seek. “The…
Music Tonight: Foals, Colin Stetson and More
• British Indie stars Foals perform tonight at Bogart's in Corryville. Showtime is 8 p.m. With a dancey, atmospheric New Wave vibe (sort of a modern, more Math Rock-informed version of Talking Heads), Foals took off quickly in the U.K.; the band's 2008 debut, Antidotes, reached No. 3 on the U.K. album charts and Foals…
Morning News and Stuff
The city confirmed today that Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig will be leaving Cincinnati to take a job in Detroit. During Craig’s time, the city experienced a significant drop in crime. City officials praised Craig for his attempts to forge better ties between the Cincinnati Police Department and local communities, particularly by establishing the External…
Council Scrutinizes Streetcar Budget Fixes
At a Budget and Finance Committee meeting today, City Council members grilled City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. on how the city will fix the streetcar project’s $17.4 million budget gap and whether paying for the cost overrun to save the project is worth it. Supporters of the streetcar pushed questions and comments that suggested the…
Music: The Shins with Ra Ra Riot
When Cincinnati’s first casino, Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati, opened at the Broadway Commons area between Downtown and Over-the-Rhine in early March, area music lovers probably expected the concert offerings to be more in line with other casinos in the region — primarily “nostalgia acts.” So it was a pleasant surprise when concerts for the casino’s The…
Onstage: League of Cincinnati Theatres Awards
The League of Cincinnati Theatres (LCT) celebrates the 2012-2013 theater season with an awards program at Know Theatre. LCT judging panels have made nominations of outstanding productions, actors and technical accomplishments throughout the season. Finalists have been chosen and one winner from each category will be announced on Monday evening. LCT invites the public to…
Event: Whiskers and Wags Pet Adoption
See more than just exotic animals at the Cincinnati Zoo this weekend. Petco is teaming up with the zoo to present a day of awareness for pets in need. More than 50 animals from 14 different local animal rescue agencies will be on display across from the entrance to the zoo parking lot, each available…
Literary: Sockford (Part 1) and The Bridge Graphic Novel Release
Two local artists — Aaron Delamatre and Russell Ihrig — have new comics ready to claim space on the shelves. The comic/graphic novel world is dominated, it seems, by superheroes, but that’s just because Hollywood studios have found that there’s money to be made off fanboys. Fortunately, there’s a not-so secret space out there where…
Event: Asian Food Fest
Asian communities and vendors come together to promote diversity through food and culture during the fourth annual Asian Food Fest (AFF). The festival will feature food from countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, India and the Philippines. Sample-sized portions will range from $2-$6. Local craft and Asian beer will also be available. Enjoy local bands…
Event: Civil War Weekend
If Spielberg’s Lincoln had you jonesing for a deeper look into the bloodiest American war, you’ll find your fill and more during the 2013 Civil War Weekend at the Heritage Village Museum in Sharonville. This weekend includes more than your run-of-the-mill battle reenactment; guests will experience the ins and outs of soldiering life, from reenactments…
Art: Exhibitionism 3
For having a reputation as a conservative city, Cincinnati’s arts advocates sure know how to let loose. The Weston Art Gallery’s annual fundraiser Exhibitionism 3 gives the institution’s supporters an opportunity to get wild for a good cause: All proceeds benefit their annual programming. A walk past the Weston’s lower-level gallery proper offers supporters a…
Event: Go OTR 5K Run/Walk and Summer Celebration
Runners, walkers, walkers with strollers, runners with dogs, walkers with dogs and anyone else who wants to support OTR are invited to participate in the seventh annual Over-the-Rhine 5K Run/Walk, followed by an intro-to-summer celebration in OTR with a party in Washington Park. Registration for the race is only $25 (and includes timing, a T-shirt…
Onstage: Krisit
A martini bar and a bathtub form the set for Krisit, opening its three -weekend run at Clifton Performance Theatre, with award-winning Dale Hodges in the title role as a movie starlet who has grown too old to be a starlet any more. Written by Clifton playwright Y York, whose plays for children have appeared at…
Comedy: Bob Biggerstaff
Bob Biggerstaff, international comedian of mystery. “Wednesday morning I was in Honduras,” he says via Skype from a hotel room in Montreal. “I performed on a cruise ship. Got on the ship in Grand Cayman.” He confesses he had to look up the island’s location. “It’s right below Cuba. Got on the ship there, went…
Western & Southern to Buy Anna Louise Inn
It's over. Big guys, you won. Western & Southern in a press release today announced an agreement with Cincinnati Union Bethel (CUB) that will sell the Anna Louise Inn in Lytle Park to W&S for $4 million, ending years of entanglements between the two entities over what should be done with the property in need…
Violent Affair
There are several keys to spotting a Street Punk band in the wild without having to engage a lick of music. First, keep your eyes peeled for a name indicating social havoc, destruction (especially the kind caused by the military), corruption or abandonment. (Ideally, the band name's official typeface is vaguely Metal-band-like or in a…
Danny Schmidt
The empathetic scene in Austin, Tex., beckons to singer/songwriters with a siren's seductive allure, inviting musicians of every conceivable stripe to perform in front of some of the most discerning audiences on the planet. With the constant influx of talent into the Texas capital over the past few decades, the true rarity is the singer/songwriter…
Music Tonight: The Lonely Wild, Paper Bird and More
If you're craving some solid live music, it's a surprisingly busy Monday night in the area clubs. Besides the always entertaining Insane Clown Posse's return to Bogart's tonight, here are a few other offerings: • Los Angeles-based The Lonely Wild plays a free show tonight at MOTR Pub in Over-the-Rhine. Showtime is 10 p.m. The…
Morning News and Stuff
City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee is set to discuss the plan to close the streetcar budget gap today, which was proposed by City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. on April 30. The plan borrows funding from various capital funding sources, including a temporary reallocation of Music Hall funds and money from infrastructure projects surrounding the…
Wild Moccasins with of Montreal
Ordinarily, Indie Rock, Halo and skating share a whole heap of nothing in common. But for Wild Moccasins vocalist/guitarist Cody Swann, each of those things has functioned as an all-enveloping obsession at some point in his life. “I would describe myself as very OCD and continually looking for some sort of new stimulation,” he said…
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren first got the attention of the wider music world when he released the syrupy-yet-addicting Soft Rock hit “Hello It’s Me” in 1972. However, to his credit, once achieving stardom, Rundgren did not sit still with his newfound Pop success. Instead he cranked up the synthesizers and electric guitars and came forth with his…
The Killers
After close to six solid years of touring and a quintet of best selling albums (including a B-sides/rarities collection and a live CD/DVD set), The Killers began 2010 with the announcement that they would be taking a well-deserved break. But the need to create doesn't take convenient vacations. After dealing with the trauma of his…
Sunset Boulevard (Review)
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, created in the mid-1990s was his last big show to have some measure of success, including a two-year run on Broadway. Even at that, however, the musical version of Billy Wilder’s 1950 film had a troubled stage history, opening in London in 1993 and the following year on Broadway. It…
Free Summer Music at Fountain Square, Washington Park
We told you a few weeks back about the lineup for the MidPoint Indie Summer concert series on Fountain Square, featuring numerous (primarily local) Indie and Rock acts every Friday this summer from 7-11 p.m. Click here for the full rundown. But there are many other popular themed nights returning this summer to both Fountain…
Your Weekend To Do List: 5/10-5/12
This weekend is all mothers, so grab your mom, grandma, baby-mama or other motherly-type and take her out for a good time! The next few days are packed with stuff to do, with moms or otherwise. The 44th annual Appalachian Festival is already in full gear at Coney Island, with tons of live music, handmade…
WATCH: Trademark Aaron’s “Faith” Video
Florence, Ky., Hip Hop artist Trademark Aaron has released a stellar new music video for his track, "Faith," which will be included on his next EP, For the People. The track — featuring a great vocal hook sung by Koren Jackson —keeps in line with Trademark Aaron's overall positive approach heard on previous releases like…
Stage Door: Stock Up
Nothing new onstage this week, but lots of good work continues as we head toward the summer when theater gets scarce. Now's the time to stock up. This is the final weekend for Cock at Know Theatre. (Some publications call it The Cockfight Play, but Cock is Mike Bartlett's actual title for his play.) It's…
Morning News and Stuff
The city manager unveiled his budget plan to solve the city’s $35 million operating budget deficit yesterday. The plan includes less layoffs than expected — particularly to cops and firefighters — but it proposes an increase to property taxes. The plan also includes a series of other cuts, including to all arts funding and subsidies…
Kenny Peck & the Smoky Jack Band Go Country
Tonight, dynamic Northern Kentucky group Kenny Peck & the Smoky Jack Band will celebrate the release of their new album, Country Jack, at the Thompson House in Newport. Following up last year’s Naked Jack, which explored various forms of Pop/Rock, Country Jack focuses on the Country and Folk sides of Peck's schizo musical personality. Steeped…
City Manager Unveils Budget Plan
City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. released his operating budget plan for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 today. The plan makes lower-than-expected cuts to police, fire and other city departments to help balance the $35 million deficit in the operating budget for fiscal year 2014, but it would also effectively raise property taxes. The City Charter…
Morning News and Stuff
With a set of initiatives unanimously approved last week, City Council is looking to join the state in combating Cincinnati’s human trafficking problem . The initiatives would evaluate local courts’ practices in human trafficking and prostitution cases and study the need for more surveillance cameras and streetlights at West McMicken Avenue, a notorious prostitution hotspot.…
Peeples
Screenwriter Tina Gordon Chism (Drumline and ATL) steps behind the camera with Peeples — and gets a huge presentation stamp of approval from Tyler Perry — as she explores the story of a regular working guy (Craig Robinson) who takes it upon himself to crash the exclusive Hamptons enclave of his girlfriend’s family to ask…
No Place On Earth
This documentary by Janet Tobias (a Frontline and MSNBC producer), follows the efforts of Chris Nicola, an explorer attempting to map out the largest cave system in the Ukraine, when he stumbles upon evidence of five Jewish families who spent almost two years living in the complete darkness of the caves during their escape from…
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel — easily the best American novel, by my estimation — leaves such a lasting impression because it captures the underlying essence of the American myth. We are a country and a people driven by a desire, an urge to re-invent ourselves, no matter what the costs. Australian stylistic maestro…
Medicare Data Reveals Huge Price Variation at Local Hospitals
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled price data today for more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals, revealing large price variations between hospitals around the nation, including in Cincinnati. For treating chest pain, charges from three Cincinnati hospitals varied by thousands of dollars: Bethesda North charged on average $17,696, Christ Hospital charged $12,000 and…
Duke Energy Tops List of Worst Utility Company Polluters
Cincinnati's main gas and electricity provider, Duke Energy, has scored a No. 1 ranking, but it's not exactly one you'll be wanting to clap your hands about. Remember when we blogged a couple of weeks ago about how Greater Cincinnati has some of the worst air pollution in the nation? Yep, the American Lung Association's…
Public Library to Be Honored at the White House
At a White House ceremony this afternoon, First Lady Michelle Obama will present the 2013 National Medal for Museum and Library Service to The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and nine additional libraries and museums. She will join Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Susan Hildreth in recognizing 10 exceptional institutions making…
WATCH: The National’s “Sea of Love” Video
The Cincinnati natives in hugely popular Indie Rock group The National participated in a Reddit "AMA" chat today, where fans could ask the band anything. Perhaps someone asked, "Hey, when are you putting out a video for a track from your new album?" because during the chat, the band posted the first video from Trouble…
Music: Foals with Surfer Blood and Blondfire
Foals is yet another great musical gift from across the pond. The six-piece band’s music, though recently taking on a slightly darker tone, is raucous and rousing. Their concerts aren’t meant for the people that stand and stare, but for the sneaker-wearing, arm flailing, synth-loving people of the world; the people who value experiencing life…
Music: Colin Stetson
The music Stetson is playing on his current solo tour largely features songs from New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, the just-released final entry in a trilogy of loosely connected albums for Constellation Records. The new album is the latest endeavor in a fruitful decade-plus run that has seen the Michigan native…
Music: The Lonely Wild
Whoever came up with the notion to sepia-fy the cover of The Sun As It Comes deserves a drink. The image on the front of The Lonely Wild’s first full-length is a photo collage of skulls, rocks and mountainous scenery — a pretty good concept with humdrum execution — but the pictures’ varying shades of…
Music: Justin Furstenfeld with Ashleigh Stone
Justin Furstenfeld may not have invented the concept of “living out loud,” but he certainly embodies it with an enviable zeal. The Blue October frontman has never hesitated to identify his long struggle with a bipolar condition as the main grist for his songwriting mill. Furstenfeld’s original solo persona when he toured alone during Blue…
Event: Mother’s Day Downtown
Celebrate mom downtown this year with a day of drinking, dining, shopping and shows. More than 30 downtown restaurants will be serving up brunch, lunch and dinner menus with specials for Mother’s Day, including Orchids at Palm Court, Palomino, The Phoenix and more. Then find city-centric events ranging from a Reds game and shopping to…
Music: Electric Citizen
Brand new local Psych Rock crew Electric Citizen performs a free show Saturday at Northside’s Mayday. The band, whose members have played in Two Headed Dog, The Lions Rampant and You, You’re Awesome, is working to release its debut full-length later this year. In the meantime, keep an eye out for a pair of 7-inch…
Music: The Lockland Brakes
Cincy newcomers The Lockland Brakes will make their live debut this Saturday at The Drinkery in Over-the-Rhine, joining Dead North and Bad Standard. The energized Pop/Punk band — which features past/present members of Situation Red, Newport Secret Six and DAAP Girls — will also be releasing its recorded debut, an introductory three-song EP featuring lead…
Sports: Cincinnati Rollergirls
Cincinnati Rollergirls face Toronto Roller Derby and The Dire Skates Saturday at the Cincinnati Gardens. Read an interview with Cincinnati Rollergirl rookie Sydney “Big Ugly” Greathouse here. 7-10 p.m. $10-$17; $5 kids 7-12. cincinnatirollergirls.com.
Event: Petopolis
Cincinnati goes to the dogs — and other animals, for that matter — with the Petopolis Pet Show. Designed to reflect the look of an actual city, the family-oriented show will feature on-site adoption opportunities, activities and attractions for attendees and local, regional and national pet-related businesses. In addition to visiting retail outlets, a pet…
Event: Carnival The Day Away
Bring the whole family to join Santa Maria Community Services — a nonprofit agency that empowers Price Hill and surrounding area residents to achieve sustainable health, housing, education and more — for their first Carnival The Day Away at Washington Park. From games and activities to live musical performances, the fundraiser features family-friendly entertainment such…
Event: Appalachian Festival
Join in the fun at the 44th annual Appalachian Festival. Coney Island hosts this day of tradition, crafts, history, demonstrations and more with live storytelling performances; music from the likes of The Tillers and the Rabbit Hash String Band; dancing demonstrations from the All Nations Drum Native American Indian drum and dance performers, Hoosier Hoedowner…
Event: Taft Museum House and Grounds Tour
Spring’s balmy warmth always seems like the ideal time for a visit to the Taft Museum of Art. A true urban oasis, one can wander through its outdoor gardens and Federal villa (or just sit and eat on the garden patio) and imagine what Cincinnati might have been like some 80-odd years ago when the…
Onstage: School of Rock Mason
After recently celebrating its first anniversary, the young students at the School of Rock Mason are back in action this weekend, performing the music of The Who at The Redmoor in Mount Lookout. The all-ages show begins at 7:30 p.m. both Friday and Saturday. Admission is $6 in advance (via mason.schoolofrock.com) or $8 at the…
Comedy: Nick Thune
Guitar-strumming comic Nick Thune, whom you may recognize as a correspondent from Jay Leno’s ill-fated 10 p.m. talk show on NBC, didn’t start off in show business as a funnyman. “I was a musician first,” he says, “and I wanted to be in a band really bad, but I just couldn’t take myself seriously enough…
Lit: Ace Atkins
The late, impressively prolific crime novelist Robert B. Parker’s best-known literary creation was Spenser, a wise-ass Boston detective with a soft spot for Jazz, doughnuts, beer and dogs. Determined to see the iconic character continue following Parker’s death in 2010, the author’s widow decided to hand off the series to another writer. Enter Ace Atkins,…
Morning News and Stuff
Supporters of the Anna Louise Inn, the women-only shelter near Lytle Park, will hold a rally in front of the Hamilton County Courthouse at noon today, which was supposed to be the day Western & Southern and Anna Louise Inn owner Cincinnati Union Bethel met in court again. The court date has been delayed as…
Onstage: Measure for Measure
It might surprise you to learn that Shakespeare’s tale of hypocrisy and extreme morality is considered a comedy. Left in charge of Vienna, the puritanical Angelo condemns Claudio to be executed for getting his fiancée pregnant before their wedding. (Even in 1604, when Shakespeare wrote Measure for Measure, this wasn’t a capital offense.) When Isabella,…
Republicans Continue Voter Suppression Tactics
If you can’t beat them, make it so they can’t play to begin with. That’s been the mentality of the Ohio Republican Party time and time again, and the latest budget bill from the Republican-controlled Ohio House continues the trend. During last-minute voting, Ohio House Republicans sneaked in an amendment to the Ohio House budget…
Study: Medicaid Improves Mental Health Outcomes
As Ohio legislators debate the federally funded Medicaid expansion, a new study from Harvard researchers revealed access to Medicaid in Oregon led to better mental health outcomes and reduced financial strain, but no short-term gains were found in physical health outcomes. The study, which was released Wednesday by The New England Journal of Medicine, offered…
Music: Lyle Lovett and His Acoustic Group
Lyle Lovett has persevered through some rough times during his long career, yet has always come through them to make wonderful music afterward. I’m not talking about his failed marriage to actress Julia Roberts, per se, but more his run-in 10 years ago with his uncle’s bull in Texas, which proceeded to break Lovett’s leg…
Music: Kenny Peck & the Smoky Jack Band
Dynamic Covington, Ky., group Kenny Peck & the Smoky Jack Band will celebrate their new album, Country Jack, Thursday at the Thompson House in Newport. Following up last year’s stripped-down Naked Jack album, Country Jack focuses on the Country music side of the Pop/Rock/Folk/Blues/Etc. band’s personality. Steeped in a vintage Country style, the new album…
Fracking Flourishing in Water-Stressed Areas
A new interactive map shows hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is flourishing in U.S. areas where water is already scarce — a potentially bad sign for Ohio counties that are allowing the water-intensive drilling process within their own borders. The map from advocacy group Ceres shows northeast Ohio counties with fracking activity are made up of…
Music: Martin Bisi
Martin Bisi had an important role in nurturing the fruitful, pioneering New York City music scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s, which was blossoming in various then-novel genres like New Wave, Punk, No Wave and Hip Hop. He worked, not as a musician but as a producer (with Brian Eno as a mentor),…
Communication Breakdown
HOT Communication Breakdown When negotiating with other countries in times of crisis, sometimes a peacekeeper the other country doesn’t hate, like Jesse Jackson, comes in for some gentle diplomacy and succeeds. Maybe that was the approach taken by Bill Clinton when movie mogul Harvey Weinstein sent him on a mission… to get Led Zeppelin to…
Ohio Republicans Could Limit Voting for Out-of-State Students
An amendment sneaked into the budget bill passed by the Republican-controlled Ohio House on April 18 would force public universities to decide between charging lucrative out-of-state tuition rates or providing out-of-state students with documents required for voting in Ohio, raising concerns from Democrats that Republicans are attempting to limit voting opportunities in the state once…
Cincinnati vs. The World 05.08.2013
A speaker at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting advised audiences to store guns in kids’ rooms as part of his “Home Defense Concepts” course, days after a 5-year-old Kentucky boy accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister with a gun designed for children. WORLD -2 Duke Energy ranked No. 1 on solar and wind…
Onstage: Cincinnati Arts Ambassador Fellowship Performance
Come see the artistic talents of the city of Cincinnati’s first class of Cincinnati Arts Ambassador Fellows (CAAF). Each of the 2012-13 ambassadors was awarded a $6,000 to use toward the creation of either new or existing work, which will be showcased for the public Wednesday and then again on May 15. Puppeteer Jesse Mooney-Bullock,…
Stopping Traffick
I n our present-day American society, the term “modern-day slavery” sounds almost like an oxymoron. Slavery, we think, is a dark stamp in a long American history; at worst, it’s something we think is isolated to poorly developed countries. It’s a $32 billion industry, and, yes, it’s happening in less developed countries, but it’s also…
First Acts Announced for 2013’s MidPoint Music Festival
On May 3, the first 17 artists booked and confirmed to perform at this September’s MidPoint Music Festival were announced. The first batch of MPMF.13 performers is very representative of the bookings for MidPoint the past few years. You’ve got a Modern Rock legend, a few established acts, several current “buzz bands” and a few…
Cincinnati Rollergirl ‘Big Ugly’ Talks Track
Cincinnati Rollergirl rookie Sydney “Big Ugly” Greathouse is anything but unsightly. She has an infectious smile to match her peaceful demeanor, which probably has something to do with the fact that she blows off steam by beating up her friends at practice three times a week. The 6-foot-tall blocker selected her derby name as a…
Reflections Eternal
P atti Smith is enthused about coming to Cincinnati. You could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Given her other recent high-profile activities, she could view her upcoming Contemporary Arts Center exhibition and concert as more of a footnote than a career milestone. The show, The Coral Sea, opens May 18 — also the date of…
Asian Food Fest Returns to The Banks
Summer’s all about festival food. There are MainStrasse fests with brats and metts and loads of church festivals with chicken dinners and cake raffles. One of my favorite summer treats, the Asian Food Fest, returns to The Banks this month. Last year, the AFF was held on one of the hottest weekends of the summer,…
Saxophone Colossus
Colin Stetson is a busy guy. And that’s just the way he likes it. Speaking by phone from his home in Montreal, where the avant saxophonist extraordinaire has a rare two-week break from his seemingly ceaseless touring schedule, Stetson admits even his down time is spent working on his craft. “When I’m on break, that…
Of the Dead Speak No Evil
In a sunken conversation pit, its surrounding carpeting painted long ago in the earth tones of blackness, a few of us sat perched high above the city in Mount Auburn laughing and talking about Herbert Allen, whose home we were in, and also about Benjamin “Ben” James Allen, the brother he’d just lost April 15.…
Is ETC Doing — or Overdoing?
“If something is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing,” proclaims one of the spunky gals in the current iteration of The Marvelous Wonderettes at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati this month. ETC apparently agrees, since this is the fourth consecutive year it has staged one of Roger Bean’s retro shows featuring music from the ’50s and ’60s. The…
The Other Sister
It’s pretty incredible how different two human beings can be when they’re raised by the same parents, under the same roof, in nearly identical conditions. And while my sister and I may share the same last name, same sense of humor and same freckled cheeks, our stories couldn’t be any more different. I never realized…
Food For Thought
T here are many lessons we’re taught at our mother’s apron strings under the guise of learning how to cook. As toddlers, we eagerly await a big lick from a chocolate batter-covered spoon while mom pretends to enlist our help with baking, slipping in some seemingly mundane basic survival skills such as, “Don’t talk to…
The Classic Is Dead, Long Live Gatsby
It has likely been close to 30 years since I first read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and I was immediately taken with the story. I think, back then, I was intrigued right away with the reference by the golfer Jordan Baker to her time in Asheville, N.C. Outside of hometown novelist Thomas Wolfe,…
Worst Week Ever!: May 1-7
WEDNESDAY MAY 1 People love to complain, and one of the old standbys when doing so is feeling tired. In response to everyone always whining about feeling tired or hungover, many food companies have begun producing snacks with caffeine added to them. In the near future, finishing a bag of potato chips meant to feed…
Organically Grown
T he Hilton Brothers — photographers Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg — have arrived in Cincinnati with food on their minds. They don’t specify that it needs to be organic, but it might as well be. The term pops up repeatedly as the New Yorkers discuss their natural, open-ended approach to life, art and collaboration. …
The Return of AMC’s ‘Not Suitable For Work’-place Series
I was tricked into watching Small Town Security (10 p.m. Thursdays, AMC) during its premiere last summer. The reality workplace comedy following a Georgia private security company immediately followed each episode of the first half of Breaking Bad’s final season (the second half returns this August). Since it is physically impossible to go straight to…
The Thrill of Surviving Eli Roth’s ‘Aftershock’
You’ve got to say this for Eli Roth: Like his filmmaking brother-in-arms Quentin Tarantino, he’s got spools of film instead of veins with blood keeping his heart a-beating, and he’s a genre geek deep in the marrow of his bones. I would imagine that the guy dreams in grainy Technicolor. Aftershock, which screened as part…
A Room with a View
Not many libraries can claim to be a room with a view. The Mary R. Schiff Library of the Cincinnati Art Museum, now in its new space and again open to the public, has a spectacular one. Books line either side of the long walls, unbroken by windows, but the far end is all glass…
