News: Ending the Silence
Jymi Bolden Eileen McDonough, a survivor of child sexual abuse, helps other women at Connections: A Safe Place. Sexual abuse of children is not the rare occurrence many people believe it to be, according to Rebecca Born, director of Connections: A Safe Place Inc. "One in four women and one in six men are…
Community Calendar
Delhi The Delhi Historical Society's 25th Anniversary Gala is at 6 p.m. Dec. 2 at Western Hills Country Club. Proceeds benefit the historical society's educational programs. The deadline for reservations is Wednesday. For reservations, call 513-451-4313. Winton Place The Cincinnati Waldorf School holds its annual Holiday Faire from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 8. The program…
The Myth of the War on Cancer
In the "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1973-1998," a consortium of government agencies reported a 1-percent annual decline in rates for new cancers and deaths between 1992 and 1998. The National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, hospitals and research facilities began this "war" on cancer in 1971 with the…
Heard That Song Before
Craving a potpourri of Pop music the other night, I was going to put on a mix CD. Instead, I decided to just flip on a commercial-heavy TV station instead. It was the same thing. Barenaked Ladies "One Week," any number of Fatboy Slim mixes and the lost classic, "Saved by Zero," are back on…
Out on the Town
Last Friday I was at the Barrel House enjoying the sounds of the Fairmount Girls and the Ass Ponys. I like them both — in fact, I forgot just how good the Ass Ponys sound live. But I also went for another reason: a lot of people I know and like were going to be…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
Screw Peggy Noonan. I'll take Bill Clinton's character over Ronald Reagan's any day. Former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan has a new book, When Character Was King, in which she says her old boss is the epitome of integrity. She's making the cable-news rounds gushing about Reagan's moral foundation and how it made him a…
Cover Story: Choosing the City
Jymi Bolden Jim Tarbell likes the city life. A boy about 8 years old stood in an alley, watching a man slumped over a steering wheel. The boy wanted to help, but he didn't know the man was suffering a diabetic attack. The boy paced the alley for a couple of hours, alone. Finally,…
News: Stir It Up
Jymi Bolden Zoraida Bermudez makes salad at the Cincinnati Cooks kitchen. The recipe for success calls for a cup of determination, a sprinkle of self-confidence and a pinch of help from an outside source. Cincinnati Cooks, a program designed to help people leaving welfare, is about more than getting a job. It's about teaching…
Pulp: We Love Life
It's a well-known story, at least in the UK, but as it's the stuff of heroes, it's worth repeating. In 1996 at the Brit Awards, England's equivalent to the Grammies, King-of-Pop Michael Jackson was joined onstage by Pulp front man Jarvis Cocker during a performance of Jackson's current hit "Earthsong." Cocker, however, had not…
Bad Times Made Gooder
"Are we in a recession?" the journalist asks the government official, the economist, the securities analyst and a host of other financial experts from A (accountants) to Z (zombie accountants). And from the interviewees come, "I think it's too soon to tell …," "If production and consumption remain soft into the next quarter …," "I…
How Could We Afford Not to Reform Campaigns?
What part of the budget will Cincinnati City Council cut in order to pay for candidates' campaigns in 2003? That's the question Chris Finney, vice chair of the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) now asks. He asked the same thing before the election, trying to convince voters not to approve Issue 6…
How Does It Feel?
Metaphorically insulting the white male penis castrates power, privilege, authority and entitlement at the very root of their orgiastic entanglement. Want proof? Responding readers most insulted by Still Dickless After All These Years (issue of Nov. 8-14) are those who took my discussion of Mayor Charlie Luken's tool literally and not figuratively. I've always said…
Gig of the Week: :Karl Denson
Karl Denson Mixing Hip Hop influences, organ-fed grooves, Acid Jazz tinges and traditional Jazz roots, SoCal-based saxman Karl Denson's latest release, Dance Lesson #2 (Blue Note Records) is a study in the art of neo-Fusion. Denson started his journey into beat-happy Soul Jazz as a founder of the Greyboy Allstars. With the all-instrumentalDance Lesson,…
