Private Lives
CSF Corinne Mohlenhoff and Brian Isaac Phillips are feuding but erudite former spouses in Private Lives at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival Of course it's the time of year when most theaters are staging holiday shows (see page 33 for a collection of these productions), but you do have other options: Most notably is the…
Puttin’ Out the Bone
Mark Mallory has a chance to become a great Cincinnati mayor because Cincinnati's problems are among the greatest in its history. The Mallory victory surprised many political observers as a mild-mannered, underfinanced African American without a phone book-sized master plan won Cincinnati's highest office from a primarily white electorate. Precinct breakdowns suggest he connected with…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of The Suicide Machines and More…
Sideonedummy Records Suicide Machines The Suicide Machines Wednesday · Top Cat's Punk is a genre that inspires a good deal more burning out than fading away. It is not a style that is conducive to easing gracefully into different phases of a band's evolution, which might be why so few of them either age…
Locals Only: : Terra-Fied
Terravada Terravada All songwriters have places that they draw inspiration from, whether it be internal or external. It can be a memory, a special chair, poetry, a muse, a lover, history or the nightly news. Whatever it is, it helps to form the emotional core from which their most personal journeys depart. For Terravada…
The New Negro Vogue
Asked if Hollywood studios practice a quota for black actors, Don Cheadle answers with a matter-of-fact "yes." He knows from experience. Cheadle earned acclaim for his performance of heroic hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda, the hit film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide and how 1,300 people avoided slaughter. But he says he earned…
College Conservatory of Music Dance Division
Curious about what dance students have been up to since heading back to school? This weekendbrings a couple of concerts promising some of the season's strongest student (and professional) classical and contemporary performances. First off, the University of Cincinnati's COLLEGE-CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC DANCE DIVISION presents its fall ballet ensemble dance concert in the Patricia Corbett…
Really Mean Friend
My boyfriend, Jason, is having problems with a boy named Roger who is obsessed with him. But because Roger is friends with Jason and Jason's friends, Jason won't just tell him off. Roger had the audacity to call Jason today and ask about our sex life. Roger is not only making Jason's life hell, he's…
Christian Yoga
Christian yoga, if it really is yoga, is the same as Hindu, Buddhist or any other yoga. When the Bible says, "Be still and know that I am God," it is echoing the heart of the spiritual teachings of all religions. When Christ said, "My yoke is easy," he was referring to his yoga technique…
News: On Your Mark
Matt Borgerding Mayor Charlie Luken, leaving office Thursday, urges his successor to act as though he's in charge. Charlie Luken, Cincinnati's longest serving mayor, says he learned late in his final term how best to wield his authority. "I saw when that railcar was leaking styrene that, if you go in and take charge,…
The Ravenous
In this Christmas season cheery, while out browsing, growing weary, Ent'ring chain and specialty shops with merchandise and products galore, I sought to purchase with my plastic, something utterly fantastic, When suddenly my thoughts went spastic, spastic in my yule-stressed gourd. "This stuff's full retail," I declared, a drastic gnawing at my core, "No one…
Cover Story: No Visions of Sugarplums
Sean Hughes HOLIDAY ISSUE 2005 Click Here to View the ULTIMATE GIFT GUIDE 2005 Deck the halls with yuletide treasures, right? Every year it's an interesting challenge to find new things to say about shows we see every holiday season. That task is a bit easier this year thanks to several new productions, not…
How the Other College Football Teams Earn Their Championships
Jerry Dowling Because the Bowl Championship Series this year will produce two, and only two, worthy entrants for the national championship game, a void is left where the punditry would ordinarily address the moment's specific injustice. Unless the universities of Colorado and California at Los Angeles suddenly develop laboratory solutions for Vince Young and…
Camera Allura
Saturday at The Comet in Northside, local Indie/Electronic group (in)camera hosts a release party for their first recorded effort, a four-song, self-titled EP. Toledo's Stylex also performs. On the EP (a "teaser" for the band's forthcoming full-length), the band showcases its groovy balance of hypermelodic Pop and tweaky, electro-fused, almost cinematic soundscapery. Bassist Jay McCubbin…
Film: Lit Flicks
Holiday Issue 2005 The holiday and movie-award season occupies one of the biggest and blackest quarters (as in bottom line) in the consumer year. The market celebrates the arrival of Black Friday, even though both the retail and the prestige film season starts a month earlier as the annual savior of profits and jobs…
Make P.E.A.C.E., Not War
C. Matthew Hamby "All that beef … is done, we had our fun. Let's get this money." — Jay-Z I imagine that somewhere "up there," 'Pac and Biggie are high-fiving each other over the public display of unity between Jay-Z and Nas during Jay's historic "I Declare War" concert in late October. After a…
Thank the Troops
I read with some sadness the Porkopolis item titled "Who would Jesus send care packages to?" (issue of Nov. 16-22). I am certain that Jesus wouldn't take sides and would send care packages to everyone. Did you learn nothing from the effects of the Vietnam War? The left wing castigated U.S. troops during that war,…
News: Room at the Inn
Holiday Issue Depression, despair and hopelessness are part of the holiday season for many people. The dramatic change in weather, combined with the emotional intensity of family issues, make coping a little bit harder for the homeless, according to the staff of City Gospel Mission. The organization's goal is to break the cycle of…
Mallory Parties With the In Crowd
Matt Borgerding Diedre Murch spreads the news about Wal-Mart at its store on Ridge Road. Mayor-Elect Mark Mallory put his much-publicized arts support to the test Nov. 21 as he graciously joined the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards (CEAs) party at the Taft Theatre downtown. He and Cincinnati resident rocker Peter Frampton shared the stage to…
Music: Yule Love These CDs
Holiday Issue 2005 · JAKE SPEED AND THE FREDDIES — LOSANTAVILLE (SELF RELEASE) If I was Bill O'Reilly, I would say Losantaville, the new holiday album from local Folk hero Jake Speed and his crew, The Freddies, is the latest car bomb to be detonated in the "War Against Christmas." I mean, the guy's…
Living Out Loud: : Dr. Scholl and Me
I have this callus on the bottom of my right foot, and as often as I can I keep it elevated on a chair and cover that part of my foot with good old petroleum jelly — you know, Vaseline. It helps moisturize the bad area. But I can't have my foot up on a…
