Compassion for Victims or Just Politics?
I'd like to respond to the letter by Don Gilligan of Rossmoyne, "Hurricane Survivors Show the Worst Side of America" (issue of Sept. 21-27), in which he condemned the looters in New Orleans and at the same time praised those who have offered assistance and prayers to the city and its victims. Initially, his observations…
Film: Dream Sister
Daniella Scaramuzza Keira Knightley stars in Domino, a film "sort of" based on the events of Domino Harvey's intriguing life. A dark angel, he's shuffling in/ Watching over them/ With his black feather wings unfurled. — "Dream Brother," Jeff Buckley The final images of director Tony Scott's Domino feature the real Domino Harvey dressed…
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Puzzled By Pubes
What would you make of someone who intentionally leaves a pubic hair on your toilet seat every time he visits your home? This guy is ostensibly straight (married, even). I'm gay, and my boyfriend and I have known him since college. Anyway, I initially thought the pubic hair thing was just a coincidence, but for…
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Pay Attention!
Election Day is less than a month away. Are you prepared to vote? Cincinnati residents, in particular, have dozens of candidates to learn and tons of information to digest before Nov. 8. But suburbanites have a lot to choose from, too, from school boards to tax levies. And every voter in Ohio has to take…
‘Alive’ and Well
Singer/songwriter Andrea Rosenthal celebrates the release of her latest Venus Mission CD, Love Me Back Alive (the first VM album since 2002's debut, Midwestern Soul), with a show at Jack Quinn's Emerald Ballroom Friday. Joining Venus Mission (which also features Mike Georgin, Aaron Mahoney, Scott Hacker and Chris Ellison) for the 8:30 p.m. event are…
News: The Cuckoo Outgrows The Nest
Like the namesake character made famous by Jack Nicholson, the attempt to lobotomize R. P. McMurphy's Irish Pub and Coffeehouse began Sept. 30. The bar faces the operational equivalent of a lobotomy: the state of Ohio is considering taking away its liquor license through a process that began with a Sept. 30 hearing in front…
Living Out Loud: : Unconscious Racism
Last week, I was walking from a class at UC with a friend of mine, Brenda. I was telling her about a methamphetamine article I was working on, and we started talking about cultural trends and drug use. She caught me off guard when she said, "I don't think black people do methamphetamines much because…
Will Changes in Justices Bring Changes in Justice?
One of the fascinating aspects of constitutional law is the influence of changing times on individual justices and on the court's decisions. Why does a court revisit settled law? Sometimes to reaffirm settled principles, sometimes to move in a different direction, sometimes to keep in step with changing values in society. Sometimes the justices themselves…
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Lauren Dragon
Sandy Underwood Lauren Dragon performs 19 songs in Love, Janis with a fiery passion and abandon reminiscent Janis Joplin's originals. Lauren Dragon was singing with a band at Allyn's earlier this year when one of her bandmates told her about something he'd read online: Sam Andrew, an original member of Big Brother and the…
Bengals’ Loss and Baseball Playoffs Prove the Value of Defense
For all the suspense in sports, outcomes much more often than not boil down to one principle. In baseball, defense wins, which mostly means pitching. In the other sports, defense wins, whatever that means. But where's the fun in predicting the future if we're slavishly loyal to these bromides? The answer arrived last weekend.…
Cover Story: The Early News Hole
Matt Borgerding Even in its February 1880 beginnings as Belatrasco, the University of CincinnatiÕs newspaper of record seemed to have its finger on the newborn pulse of UC, albeit seemingly by accident and as a matter of that age-old journalistic trick — filling a news hole. In his 39-section will dated Sept. 22, 1855,…
News to Use
Women and Fundamentalism The Cincinnati Museum Center hosts the program, Women Responding to Fundamentalism from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Oct. 29. Cost is $25 plus $5 parking, but scholarships are available. For more information, call 513-451-9444. CityBeat Mayoral Debate CityBeat and four other local media outlets have teamed up to gang up on the two mayoral…
Spinning Round the Periphery
Ninety-nine percent of the time, 99 percent of us live our lives in the periphery rather than from the center of our being. This has its purpose and has established the comfortable material existence we have today, but this is a universe away from a fully conscious existence. Only rare unconscious visits are made to…
News: Judging Who Judges Us
Graham Lienhart Fanon Rucker (L) is running in District 3 for Hamilton County Municipal Court. Judge William Mallory Jr., serving District 1, seeks re-election. The Nov. 8 election will give voters more choices than usual, with six judgeships contested in Hamilton County Municipal Court. Five Democrats and one Republican are challenging six incumbent judges…
Cover Story: Start the Press!
Sean Hughes Stop The Press! The smell of former basketball coach and talk radio lightning rod Bob Huggins isnÕt even gone when University of Cincinnati President Nancy Zimpher is in a late-September roundtable with the editorial brain trust of The News Record in the Swift Hall basement newsroom. ItÕs the collegiate equivalent of politicians…
Diner: Heat of the Night
There aren't too many restaurants that call out their riskiest meal options right on the menu. Not so at Riverside Korean in Covington where, under the heading of "Adventure Dinner," are three vaguely sinister sounding possibilities — Spicy Raw Skate, Seasoned Fresh Raw Beef and Sliced Three Layer Pork Simmered with Kim Chi. Although I'm…
Locals Only: : Local Disc-O-Mania
· THE SONNY MOORMAN GROUP CROSSROADS MOTEL (ATLAS RECORDS) Crossroads Motel is a fitting title for the latest from the Sonny Moorman Group. The trio has not only visited the cross section between Blues and Rock — they've grabbed a room and set up camp for the long haul. (Hope they don't charge by…
Pepper’s Persistence and a Peace Hero’s Passing
Graham Lienhart City Councilman David Pepper (left) and State Sen. Mark Mallory, rivals for the job of Cincinnati mayor, appear at a Democratic fund-raiser Oct. 6 Disregarding the public relations disaster he created the first time he tried this publicity stunt, City Councilman David Pepper, candidate for mayor, is trying the same tack again.…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Raul Malo, Metric and More…
Raul Malo Raul Malo Thursday · Southgate House What exactly does Raul Malo do to relax? He is perpetually at work with The Mavericks, the hugely popular Country/Tejano/Americana band he fronts and produces, but over the past five years, Malo seems to be finding a number of other projects to occupy what little free…
