Oct. 18 Free Night of Theater is already sold out
Michael Shooner Nicole Tuthill and Ryan Gilreath star in New Edgecliff Theatre's Fat Pig. The League of Cincinnati Theatre's local promotion of a FREE NIGHT OF THEATER, first written about locally in this column a year ago, is a hands-down success. Part of a national program started in 2005 by Theatre Communications Group in…
News: The DNA of Violence
Joe Lamb Terry Alexander (left) and son Ade attended a retreat on family violence. Violence doesn't just materialize out of thin air; it's rooted in life experience. Getting at the source of violence means taking a clear-eyed look at violent behavior and that from which it grows. That's the goal of the second Father…
Film: Review: We Own the Night
Columbia Pictures Brotherly love?: Mark Wahlberg (left) and Joaquin Phoenix are estranged brothers in We Own the Night. In yet another study of twisted loyalty, Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg return to the crime-driven New York state of mind that belongs to writer-director James Gray. The two actors starred in The Yards and attracted…
Sound Advice: : Rocky Votolato, Polyphonic Spree and Nada Surf
Alicia J. Rose Rocky Votolato Rocky Votolato with The Great Depression, Portugal the Man and Hazie Weatherfield Sunday · Mad Hatter The year 1999 was a watershed one for Rocky Votolato. After his teenage band Lying on Loot dissolved, Votolato started a new Rock/Post Hardcore group called Waxwing and after recording an impressive 7-inch,…
News: Opening Debate
Scott Beseler City Councilman Chris Bortz (left), a Charterite, and John Eby, a Republican, speak at The Greenwich. With abandoned storefronts just a few hundred feet away and others struggling to stay in business, incumbent Cincinnati City Council members defended their records on neighborhood revitalization efforts at the first major debate of the election…
Onstage: Rising to the Call of Freedom
Cincinnati Opera Terry Cook stars as John P. Parker, an Ohio slave who was a conducter on the Underground Railroad for 15 years, in Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story. John P. Parker was larger than life, a slave who bought his freedom at the age of 18 in 1845 and moved…
Too Much of a Good Thing
I attended college long before "Internet gaming" existed. For fun, we couldn't hole up in our dorm rooms until dawn playing Halo 3 with kids in Tokyo. No, we earned our virtual battle scars the old-fashioned way — face-to face … over a Risk board. Of course, it was college, so one evening we turned…
Diner: Review: Apsara
Joe Lamb Apsara When Chanaka Delanerolle opens a new restaurant, people in Cincinnati tend to take notice. A native of Sri Lanka, Delanerolle already owns three stalwarts of the local dining scene: The Celestial, Teak and Mount Adams Fish House. Located in Blue Ash, Apsara is Delanerolle's latest venture and is housed in the…
Take 5 Night Lights
The Young Friends of the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) host TAKE 5 NIGHT LIGHTS, an evening of music, wine and food, on Thursday from 6:30-10 p.m. at Lightborne Studio (212 E. 14th St., Over-the-Rhine). The event includes live mini-performances by CCM's opera, drama and musical theater artists, Jazz performances as well as food and wine…
News: Cranley Proposes Ambitious Health Care Plan
CityBeat Archive John Cranley City Councilman John Cranley has announced an ambitious health-care plan for the working poor. The plan, which he won’t formally propose until after the Nov. 6 election, would use city funding to help provide health care for workers at a cheaper rate for both employees and business owners. Cranley’s proposal…
Film: Review: Across the Universe
Columbia Pictures Jim Sturgess (left) and Evan Rachel Wood play lovers in Julie Taymor's Beatles-powered musical, Across the Universe. Something needs to change Julie Taymor's world, or at least her directorial aesthetic, after this sentimental musical that uses Beatles songs to tell a trite story of love and rebellion in the 1960s. We've been…
Supporting Music and Musicians
(Re: "What Is Music Worth?" post on CityBeat's Spill It blog about Radiohead's experiment with releasing their new album on the Web only and asking fans to pay whatever they want.) Pretty fascinating idea. Jane Siberry has been doing this on her Web site for a couple years now. I'm not much of a Radiohead…
News to Use
Liberty Comes to Town The Cincinnati Preservation Association's 12th annual Fall Forum presents Robert Liberty, metro councilor of Portland, Ore., at noon Oct. 19 in the Hall of Mirrors at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza. Liberty's topic will be, "Divergence and Convergence: Two River Cities Find Their Futures." Tickets for the luncheon are $40. For…
A Woman’s World
It's a woman's, woman's, woman's world in two upcoming CD tribute projects that benefit breast cancer support and awareness. Later this month New Jersey's FDR Records will release About a Girl, collecting cover contributions from Philadelphia area artists taking aim at songs with a woman's name in the title. AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie" is found…
Debunking Myths About Iridology and Hair Analysis
Iridology is the art and science of analyzing the structure and color of the iris, the area around the pupil in our eye, to gain information related to health and disease. Modern iridology was popularized in 1848 by Ignatz von Peczely, a Hungarian physician, but most of the concepts related to this discipline are based…
Film: Review: Michael Clayton
Warner Bros. Entertainment A man of conscience: George Clooney stars as the titular character in Michael Clayton, an effective legal thriller from first-time director Tony Gilroy Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a contracted back-of-the-house "fixer" at Kenner, Bach & Ledeen, one of Manhattan's largest corporate law firms. He's the guy sent out at midnight…
Cover Story: Born & Raised
Sean Hughes Born & Raised The St. Xavier High School parking lot is crammed with tailgaters before the St. X-Elder football game Sept. 28. The crowd spills out of the lot and into the church driveway across the street while long lines of cars wait in traffic. Hundreds of people huddle around grills and…
Ellen Scott
Sean Hughes ELLEN SCOTT ELLEN SCOTT stitches a mythic tale in her fabric collage LOTTERY, part of her exhibition Sewing Stories: Fabric Collages now on view at the Weston Art Gallery. Scott's appliqué technique allows her to reminisce about a favorite Mexican pastime, the Loteria, a game similar to bingo but uses cards with…
Is UC Headed to the Rose Bowl?
Jerry Dowling Popularity usually ruins the best things in life, which lose their edge and intimacy when too many of the wrong people get involved. But those of us with long-running affection for University of Cincinnati football have no fear. Step right up to the bandwagon. Don't be shy. Plenty of room up here.…
Baby You’re a Ric Man
The steeple and the freestanding yard marquee announcing next week's sermon are clues that the structure used to be a church, but the dust inside the marquee is the tip-off that it doesn't serve that purpose anymore. Inside, the pews have been removed from the sanctuary, and chairs and instruments sit on the riser where…
New for fall: New clubs, new approaches, old friends
After the past few weeks of scorching temperatures, one can't be faulted for not realizing that it is actually autumn in Cincinnati. The temps go down this week, so now that you're in a better fall-like mindset, here are some "cool" musical happenings coming up. · Progressive arts and music space the Skull Lab has…
Cincinnati Art Museum picks an architect, The Banks avoids the architects
Matt Borgerding The Banks project continues to baffle with the recent announcement that the Urban Design Review Committe has not been invited to see the current plans. Downtown Cincinnati sits between two architectural developments that seem completely at odds: the Cincinnati Art Museum's expansion, which the Rotterdam-based firm Neutelings Riedijk Architects will develop and…
Living Out Loud: : That Cincinnati Vibe
I don't want any of you thinking I spend all my time hanging out at Madonna's on Seventh Street downtown. Maybe I do, but I don't want you thinking it. There I was again on a Friday afternoon, shooting the shit with bartender Christy when four guys came walking in wearing Chicago Cubs T-shirts and…
Improve Your Entire Being with Chiropractic
Many people approach and enter our practice with specific nerve, muscle and skeletal complaints. Sometimes their problems are acute or chronic back and neck pain, headaches, shoulder or wrist issues. Others come to us with a greater intent: mind and body wellness. Chiropractic originated more than a century ago with the first patient having his…
More Campaigning at Public Expense
CityBeat Archive Eve Bolton used equipment at a public school for her campaign. We wanted some information from Eve Bolton, candidate for the Cincinnati Board of Education, but we didn't want her to break the law to send it. Bolton sent a six-page fax Oct. 8, background information for an upcoming article about the…
Locals Only: : Eric Leyton
Eric Leyton Eric Leyton Eric Leyton works hard at his musical endeavors. The former WLW traffic reporter self-released Waiting for the Sun, his solo singer/songwriter CD, earlier this year and he wants to move toward a point where he does nothing but original music. For the time being, however, he earns a living doing…
Music: Provocatively Speaking
Skippy13/Skippy.net Hank's A Lot: With new tour, Henry Rollins continues his trek as one of the most hyphenated personalities in entertainment. A few local people who have met him proclaim that Henry Rollins is a down-to-earth guy, the kind one could find asking about import Prince CDs when Wizard's Records sat on Short Vine…
Onstage: Review: Ballroom
Bea Asher has lost her husband, and she's just treading water, opening a junk shop to sell off the remnants of their long marriage. But a vibrant friend tells her that six months after her own husband's death, she realized that "they'd only buried one of us." Bea is enticed to a ballroom where people…
MainEvent: Local author Scott Francis is pretty scary
Scott Francis The Truth Is Out There Leonard Nimoy's bassy voice kept me fixed on my set as he opened every episode of TV's In Search Of… with a story about the hidden worlds lurking just below the surface of civilization. It was a grainy primer for those of us who later delved into…
