Editorial: Endorsements
Everyone's calling this presidential election the most important in a generation. Who are we to argue? If George W. Bush is granted four more years, the damage his administration has caused domestically and internationally will grow to almost unimaginable levels. If John Kerry wins, much of that damage can be undone, though the situation in…
Rob Fetters
Sean Hughes/photopresse.com Vol. 4 Issue 1 and Rob Fetters today Then: In 1997, CityBeat launched the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, a local version of the Tony and Grammy awards rolled into one. The first performers to be inducted into the CEA Hall of Fame were The Bears, the Cincinnati band that hit it big in the…
Library Closes Book on Political Discourse
Less was more when it came to kicking out an MTV Rock the Vote event featuring informational booths and music just four days before it was scheduled at the Main Public Library, according to the President of the Hamilton County Library Board of Trustees Tara Khoury. "I think probably the less said about our reasons…
News: What’s Your Sign?
Bonnie Davis Chris Cuomo (front) and Karen Kahle of Women of Ohio and the World fight to give women a voice. Two Cincinnati women waging a campaign against the Bush election campaign discovered that free speech often depends on who owns the advertising medium. Women of Ohio and the World (WOO), a nonprofit political organization…
News: Fighting First
Una-Kariim Cross "The younger generations should make politicians fear their clout and fear their influence on the electoral process," says Greg Harris, Democratic candidate for the 1st Congressional District. The race in Ohio's 1st Congressional District offers a clear choice between candidates with opposing views on many issues. U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Westwood) has represented…
Upcoming Concerts with The Cramps and Patty Larkin
Dead Poetic Dead Poetic with Acceptance and Anadivine Wednesday · Top Cat's When Dead Poetic's debut album, Four Wall Blackmail, hit the streets three summers ago, it was a clear-cut case of the-kids-are-alright. Forming the band in 1997 when they were in high school and recording their debut when they were freshly graduated, the Dayton-area…
Local Releases
· Twisted Roots trio Heevahava is set to release their latest CD, all ferhoodled, on Saturday. The band will play a free show at the Northside Tavern to celebrate. Gordy Horn is also on the bill. About a year ago, the band traveled to Chicago to record all ferhoodled with legendary studio engineer Steve Albini.…
News: Charmed, We’re Sure
S inclair's Channel 64 runs Stolen Honor Thursday. The controversy over Sinclair Broadcasting's decision to force stations it owns to pre-empt regular programming to show the anti-John Kerry documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal has reached Greater Cincinnati, as WSTR (WB64) will broadcast the film Thursday evening. Sinclair owns 62 stations across the U.S.,…
Actress Penélope Cruz on looking her worst
There are two beautiful actresses in director John Duigan's sprawling period romance, Head in the Clouds, but only one of them receives the glamour treatment. Charlize Theron enjoys a gorgeous wardrobe as Gilda Bessé, the free-loving aristocrat, but her co-star Penélope Cruz, as Gilda's intimate friend Mia, sports a bum leg and a drab uniform…
Theta Healing
Vianna Stibal is a medical and psychic intuitive, naturopath, healer, artist, writer and teacher. She found that she was able to look into a person's body and observe disease and that it came to her quite naturally. In 1995, she was diagnosed with cancer and told that she'd have to lose her leg. She began…
News to Use
King on Civil Rights Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, tells audiences at Miami University's Millet Hall why "Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere: Civil Rights and the Problem of Inclusion" at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Contrary to recent misleading propaganda from the Equal Rights No Special Rights campaign…
Living Out Loud: : THE RIVER
I can remember with detail the spring of 1997. The previous winter had been cold, and at the time it seemed as though it was going to be long. I dreaded what could be six more weeks of the dreary gray and blue hues that are prevalent in a Midwestern winter. I was tired of…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
It's one of the best, unexplained local mysteries, along with the physics-defining style of a local Congressman's hair — just what are the seven hills of Cincinnati? A born-and-raised Cincinnatian hears the question no less than 100 times in their lifetime, and transplants are presented the question as if they're appearing on Final Jeopardy. The…
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Cover Story: Voices Carry: Life After GBV
City of Newport Proclamation Guided By Voices might be taking their last lap around the course, but that doesn't mean that we'll ever stop following the exploits of Dayton's favorite Pop sons. Here's a random sampling of imminent and recent releases that will ease the pain of a world without GBV: · Robert Pollard/untitled solo…
Film: Tokyo Chills
Director Takashi Shimizu (left) consults with stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and William Mapother for the Hollywood remake of his horror film The Grudge. By Steve rosen LOS ANGELES — Too often, the huge domestic popularity of Japanese ghost and horror movies gets lost in translation here in the U.S. These films, certified smashes in their…
Diner: Simplicity and Elegance
I recently took a trip back in time and memory to the Brandywine Inn in Monroe. I visited what is a wispy shadow of the way things once were and are seldom so again — a restaurant that's about passion and food and service and dedication and dreams. In this age of fast food junk…
Can’t Trust This
I'm an 18-year-old student. I have trust issues. I have been with my boyfriend for 10 months now, and he's very supportive. I'm not a jealous person or a controlling head case because I have no problem with him going to bars/clubs with friends, going to parties when other girls are there, having conversations with…
Larkin Should End His Career on His Terms
Jerry Dowling The Reds did themselves no favors last week when they did Barry Larkin the favor of telling him he won't be back next year. Here's hoping Larkin will do himself a favor and use the opportunity to forge another championship and a campaign, if quietly, for his Hall of Fame election. Where the…
Cover Story: Cincinnati Connection:
Greater Cincinnati — specifically Newport's Southgate House — has been a home away from home for Guided By Voices. In the early '90s, spurred partly by accolades from people like Kim Deal and Thurston Moore, the obscure Dayton band who had been gigging and writing songs sporadically for years caught fire in the underground and…
Cover Story: Last Call
Sean Hughes The truth can finally be revealed: Bob Pollard is Bob From Dayton. Back in the late '80s, when running a record store was a license to print money, I was one of the counter geeks at the tiny but much-respected Wizard Records (when it was still located in the basement of In Cahoots…
The Price Isn’t Right
Pete Witte says the middle class in Price Hill is being squeezed out. Price Hill residents flooded City Hall Oct. 13 to demand that council pass a motion put forth by their neighbor, Councilman John Cranley, to lock council into funding two police recruit classes in both 2005 and 2006. That way council could fulfill…
Locals Only: : does anybody remember laughter?
Brandon Schilling The Newbees Introducing a buzz band that will take you back to when you drank milk with dinner, your mom still packed your lunch and the '80s hadn't happened yet. Warm, fun, surprisingly sophisticated and honest, The Newbees prepare to feed Cincinnati a spoon full of sugar with their debut album, Songs from…
Rock the Board, Rock the Boat
I always thought the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County was like Switzerland. Accepting yet neutral. The library system gives shelf space to the Bible and the Koran, Shakespeare and the recently self-published, The New York Times and CityBeat. More specifically, the Main Library downtown is most days home to scholars pursuing theses and…
Kaplan Prize Funds Leap
The ongoing production of edgy works at the Cincinnati Playhouse, such as Brian Dykstra's Hiding Behind Comets (March 2003), is assured by the Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize. The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park has announced the establishment of the MICKEY KAPLAN NEW AMERICAN PLAY PRIZE. The first installment of the Kaplan Prize will…
