One Strike and You’re Out
My friend "Mike" is one of them scabs. He and the rowdy crowd that formed outside the Aronoff Center for the Arts last week are the only reasons I know there is an actors' strike against advertisers going on now. Seems the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists…
News: ‘Sorry’ Seems to Be the Hardest Word
Leaders of Cincinnati Black United Front are claiming victory after downtown restaurant owners apologized for closing shop during an African-American cultural festival this summer. The only problem is the restaurant owners didn't say they were apologizing. Nor did they say they were sorry. Nor did they say they did anything wrong. The letter from the…
Community Calendar
Bond HillArts and crafts workshops begin next week at Bond Hill Recreation Center. The program includes watercolor note cards, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Oct. 31; the fee is $2 per class. A soap-making workshop meets 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday; the fee is $2. Youth programs from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. include a…
Useless from the Collar Down
My back is neither broad nor strong. I have not worn a hard hat since Skylab stopped falling out of the sky. My hands are uncallused. I am not all thumbs, I am all thumb stumps. The major brand names in my toolbox are Oneida, Lady Craftsman and Advil. If it ain't broke, I ain't…
Rachel’s
Rachel's An Indie Rock band with a near-Classical approach (think lots o' strings) to composing and arranging, Rachel's have released four full-length album's for pioneering Chicago Indie label Touch and Go Records. The group's album's contain beautiful soundscapes of atmospherics, but there is also a distinct grounding that keeps the music from sounding pretentious.…
Melissa Day
Jymi Bolden Artist ProfileMelissa Day Graphic artist MELISSA DAY has a CD design, book cover and a festival poster to her credit. But since they were all created for the Art Institute of Cincinnati, where she is a senior, BLUES BROTHERS is the first piece of her work to be displayed. Working outside of…
Them Changes
Listening to P. Anne Everson-Price, Kathy Wade, Bill Caffie, Eugene Goss, Mike Wade, Steve Schmidt and all the others wail and play the Blues, it was suddenly disconcerting to be handed a clipboard with a petition on it. "Here, this is about WNOP," Laura Gentry whispered, handing it over. "Sign it." It read something like,…
Meet Me In St. Louis
Here in St. Louis, I was so busy with work I could hardly keep up with the see-saw swings of the political season. I was just about ready to breathe a sigh of relief and write George W. Bush out of the presidential race, but look how things can change in a couple of weeks.…
Diner: J Stands for ‘Just a Classic’
Restaurants come and go. That's no surprise. The Tristate continues to welcome new, trendy places with lots of promotion and two-hour waits. Some make it, some don't. Yet how is it that other, older restaurants thrive, even surpass, their yearling counterparts with no showy promotion, just reputation? J's Fresh Seafood in Hyde Park knows the…
