Princess in the Promised Land
Welcoming another's baby makes grieving a dead infant unbearable. There goes Kennedy Anne Wilson. Here comes Francine Anne Blase. Three days after Kennedy, my niece, died at home from complications from a birth defect, Francine's daddy, Darren, left me this message: "Dean had the baby last night at 8:55 p.m. Francine Anne. We're at home,…
News: Passionate White Man
Jymi Bolden Michael Moore — Academy Award winner, bestselling author — didn't get dressed up. Good thing, because the news media stayed away, although there was a Saddam Hussein sighting (below). An exhausted but passionate Michael Moore spoke to a crowd of more than 4,000 people Oct. 30 at Xavier University. At times his lecture…
Music: Back in Black …
Doug Perry "Cocksure" or "Cock? Sure is!": Greg Dulli says if he was a janitor, he'd be the "cockiest fucking janitor you ever met." "Is this for Cincinnati?" Greg Dulli asks as I ring him for our interview. "Just fucking make it up," he laughs. "There are two kinds of people in Cincinnati. They either…
Diner: Familia and Funk
Maccia, Loperfido and Falco — these are the family surnames of my girlfriend and frequent dining companion, making her an essential guide for dinner at Bella Luna, a "traditional Italian restaurant in a non-traditional setting." Residing in the former A'meretta restaurant in the Columbia-Tusculum/ Linwood neighborhoods, Bella Luna preserves the bold décor of leopard print…
Whirlygig: 101: Out on the Town
A Thin Line Between Lovers and Friends When a guy and girl are best friends and hang out nearly every night they're free, sooner or later one of them begins to question whether or not to take the relationship to the next level. This time it's all me. It started at Cody's on a Monday…
News: It Takes a Neighborhood
Jymi Bolden Neighborhood development corporations work because "they're our neighborhoods," says Jim King of the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation. The Alexandra Apartments are a case in point. Fire ravaged the roof of the Alexandra Apartments in 1993, forcing the building to remain vacant. In 1998 the city of Cincinnati condemned the historic landmark, and it…
Talk Radio (Isn’t Only) for Dummies
It's a myth, says the publisher of Talkers Magazine — a trade industry mag considered the bible of talk radio — that all talk radio is earnest, even shrill, right-wing and driven by politics. Consider this: On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Lincoln Ware sat in his studio at WDBZ (1230 AM, "The Buzz") and…
Cover Story: That’s News to Me
Chad Crowe and Sean Hughes If there's one influence that's shaped worldwide politics over the past year plus, it's the extent to which the Bush Administration has exploited the events of Sept. 11, 2001, to solidify its military and economic control of the world at the expense of democracy, true justice and the environment. But…
Shaving pubic hair is all the rage
I need help understanding a recently observed trend. As a physician, I see lots of naked bodies. For several years I've noticed that, generally speaking, many straight patients (men and women) in their 20s have trimmed and/or coifed pubic hair. A lot of the men tell me that their girlfriends prefer it that way; some…
On the Unit 2 Road Show
Steve Zieverink and Lou Larson's "Being and Non-Being" fills the Carnegie Center's main gallery. Practical growth for arts duo Steve Zieverink and Lou Larson, better known under their pseudo-scientist tag Unit 2, means displaying their debut kinetic sculpture installation in a cramped hallway inside a Camp Washington factory building. They've made inventive use of the…
Locals Only: : ‘Time’ Peace
Linda Gillings Tracy Walker Pity the stock manager at Tower Records who has to figure out which bin to put All This Time, the new album by Cincinnati-based singer/songwriter Tracy Walker. A wildly diverse affair, Walker's follow-up to 1998's more stripped down solo debut, Naked, is built around the emotional lyrics, stirring vocals and anchoring…
News: God-Fearing Liberals
Much of the debate over "gay marriage" misses the point, according to Welton Gaddy. Religion and politics have always mixed, but conservatives are more practiced at organizing fellow believers for fights over public policy. That's why Tommie Thompson and Richard C. Bozian founded the Interfaith Alliance of Greater Cincinnati three years ago. Thompson was…
Webitorial: : The Old Man and Dancing Lisa
I met him a few months ago on the No. 17 bus downtown. He told me what his name was, but I don't remember it. He looked dirty and homeless. I figured he was probably a panhandler, too. He didn't smell very good, but the bus was crowded and I was tired so I took…
