Diner: Selling Out
Darin Overholser "Nice (drop cap) little chaise," says Mark Weitz. "Lot 1195. A nice little chaise, beautiful piece, raised on cabriole legs. Beautiful. Very nice. Beautiful piece. Little chaise, little chaise. Very nice. Little chaise." Weitz is standing on a dais in a function room at downtown's Westin Hotel, behind a table cluttered with…
God Directs Bush, Oba Calls the Tune
For a second time in recent months, local news media have ignored a stunning story that raises serious questions about President Bush's decisions to commit Americans to war against Iraq. In May, a pre-war "Downing Street Memo" was leaked to London's Sunday Times. The 2002 memo recorded what Britain's top spy told Prime Minister Tony…
Locals Only: : Local Disc-O-Mania
· BEAU ALQUIZOLA — PLEASE KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED Compelling Cincinnati-based singer/songwriter Beau Alquizola has worked with R&B musicians, acoustic pluckers and rockers in his decade-plus career. The cross-section of cohorts is indicative of the diverse tone of his latest solo album, Keep the Door Closed, but the album is more the sound of a…
Bengals Up, Packers Down, Plus Hail to the White Sox and Spurs
Jerry Dowling Baseball season is finished now and basketball begins this week, but neither of those is a local story in Cincinnati. So let's stick for the moment with the Bengals, who bookend an emphatic phase of football history. That history began on Sept. 20, 1992, when the Bengals ventured to Green Bay, Wisc.,…
News: A Matter of Style
Graham Lienhart The differences between mayoral candidates David Pepper (left) and Mark Mallory are in the details, or lack of details. Pepper emphasizes his specific plans, while Mallory pushes his leadership qualities. When it comes to deciding which dot on the mayor's ballot to poke with that stylus Tuesday, it mostly comes down to…
Music: Baby Blues
Pitch Perfect PR Influenced by CCR, Velvet Underground and Otis Redding, Healthy White Baby's self-titled debut is raw and Garage-y, with a sharp R&B/Soul/Blues flair. Healthy White Baby guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Danny Black and bassist Laurie Stirratt are like star-crossed lovers, without all the complications of being in love. The pair met eight years ago when…
Where the Holler Meets the Hardtop
"The weatherman's a'runnin' with the dry cows," Moon Mullins used to say on dreary winter afternoons in 1977 and 1978, when the temperatures went to 25 below zero two years in a row. Those were a couple of bad years; tempers were short and batteries dead. Comparing a weatherman to impotent cattle was just the…
Film: It’s Hard Out There for a G
Richard T. Jones stars as a lovelorn Hip Hop mogul in G, director Christopher Scott Cherot's Gatsby-esque drama. From the Year of the Woman to the Year of the African American, we are constantly looking to Hollywood for signs of change on the cultural horizon. Maybe in time 2005 will be seen as a…
Harry Potter
If you've been living on this planet for the last eight years, you most likely have at least heard of Harry Potter. He's the young hero of a series of books by J.K. Rowling, and the fourth movie based on them will debut this month. His popularity is phenomenal, transcendING age and gender. Some dismiss…
News: Fortifying Findlay Market
Matt Borgerding The Rev. Damon Lynch III was among the speakers Oct. 26 describing a more populated and popular area around Findlay Market. Developers, business owners, community groups and residents gathered Oct. 26 at Memorial Hall to take part in an annual forum sponsored by Friends of Findlay Market. More than 100 people heard…
Wanting a Hot Husband
I've been with my guy for almost eight years. He wants sex way more often than I do, but I don't want it because I'm not attracted to his 80-pounds-overweight body. The one time I gently broke it to him why my libido was low, he acted really hurt and didn't sleep with me for…
Having Fun With Elections, and Ghosts in the Machines
Sean Hughes/photopresse.com Gary Wright says CCV operated "a network of deception." There's no better way to wrap up a grueling election season than to gather to eat, drink and make fun of everyone on Election Night. At least that's the thinking behind "All Kidding Aside," a new project featuring parody songs about the Cincinnati political…
Moving Art Dance Company
The unexpected can be part of what makes dance exciting. Colleen McCarty, artistic director ofMOVING ART DANCE COMPANY, had to rethink the company's season opener, Habitual Insanity, after a dancer's eleventh-hour injury — a tough situation, given that the cast was only a trio. McCarty decided to reconfigure the piece with two performers. She says…
Living Out Loud: : When Circumstances Change
Larry Gross A couple months ago I flew up to Ann Arbor and visited my friend, Kathy. She's been living there for awhile now and it's been too long since we've had the opportunity to really catch up with one another. The four days we spent together will be one of the highlights of my…
Why Cincinnati Builds
One piece of advice from a new book worth reading, Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World, is that anyone working for a company about to construct elaborate new headquarters needs to seek employment elsewhere. Sudjic's theory is that companies on the downfall look to celebrity architects to return…
News: Transparency in Office
Matt Borgerding (L-R) Hawaii State Sen. Les Ihara Jr., Peter Block and Roxanne Qualls discuss idealism in politics on Oct. 26. The trim man wearing the Hawaiian shirt didn't look or sound like any successful local politician. He sounded more like the handful of starry-eyed idealists who every two years lose their bids for…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Buckethead, Zakk Wylde and More…
Trey Anastasio Buckethead Thursday · 20th Century Theatre In today's culture defined by soul-baring documentaries, behind the scenes looks and exhaustive FAQs, a good mystery can be hard to find; this one wears a KFC bucket on his head. OK, so the name isn't much of a puzzler, but if The Residents, The Unknown…
CEA Showcase Showdown
The "Exile on Main Street" multi-bar local music showcase series in Over-the-Rhine turns the spotlight on the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards this Friday. The event (booked by different guest promoters the first Friday of each month) features CEA nominees from various categories at four OTR venues. At alchemize, catch Souse (nominated in the "Jam Band" category),…
