Streetcar Loses in Mayoral and City Council Elections
Cincinnati’s streetcar project lost big on Tuesday as voters ushered in ex-Councilman John Cranley over Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls in the mayoral race and three non-incumbents who oppose the project to City Council, according to unofficial election results from the Hamilton County Board of Elections. With all precincts reporting, Cranley handily defeated Qualls 58-42 percent.…
Officials Report Smooth Election Day
Early reports from the Hamilton County Board of Elections indicate Election Day is proceeding with minimal problems and voter turnout is considerably better than it was for the Sept. 10 mayoral primary. “There’s always bumps in every election … but nothing highly unusual,” says Sally Krisel, deputy director of the board of elections. Countywide voter…
Marvin Jones Emerges as a Driving Force for the Bengals
The destruction of the Jets two weeks ago by the Bengals saw not only the largest margin of victory for our football team in many years, but also the emergence of second-year wide receiver Marvin Jones. The Bengals brought Jones aboard in 2012, but not until the fifth round of the draft — much to…
Coffee Cup Runneth Over
Newport, Ky.’s, new coffee bar, Carabello Coffee, features all of the amenities of a neighborhood craft coffee shop: exposed brick walls, granite tabletops, Clever Drippers aligned on the countertop, hipster clientele and Indie Rock music playing in the background. Yet, this isn’t your archetypal neighborhood coffee shop. Husband-and-wife owners Justin and Emily Carabello roast…
Soup’s On!
Lately, social media might be the best place to get the skinny on new restaurants to try — a friend posts a picture of a juicy hamburger or gooey queso dip dangling from a tortilla chip and someone inevitably comments, “WANT,” or, “Where?” And this time of year, as the leaves start to fall and sweaters…
Art: Julia Bryan-Wilson Lecture
Not many art historians are referred to as “totally badass” in Youtube videos of their presentations, but Julia Bryan-Wilson is the exception to that rule. The associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California Berkeley has written about the ways in which artists and critics have leveraged their political power by…
Event: Kristallnacht 75th Anniversary
The Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education and Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion are presenting a day of learning to mark the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom in Nazi Germany, a series of coordinated attacks against defenseless Jews that signaled Nazi intent to carry out the Holocaust. Events are…
Food: Taste of the World Banquet
The Taste of the World banquet, brought to you by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, presents a worldly assortment of food and beverages. The Party Source will be breaking open their cellars to provide the best wines and spirits from around the world. This is the 10th anniversary of the banquet and proceeds go directly…
Event: The Rusty Ball
What do you get when you mix the area’s best cover band — The Rusty Griswolds — more than 160 local charities and ’90s superstar Tiffany? You get this year’s Rusty Ball. Money raised from the ball goes to local charities including Adopt a Class, Alois Alzheimer Foundation, Angel’s Rest Animal Sanctuary and more. In…
Music: Annie Sellick
Nashville, Tenn., native Annie Sellick brings her endearing Jazz stylings and engaging stage presence to the Blue Wisp Jazz Club Saturday for two shows. A latecomer to Jazz, Sellick was a quick study; within a year of sitting in with a Jazz group in college, the expressive vocalist was studying the music’s ins and outs…
Event: Christian Moerlein Seasonal Beer Extravaganza
The Oktoberfest season has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean the great beer stops flowing in Zinzinnati. Moerlein Lager House sets out to prove that there’s always great beer to celebrate in the Queen City. Join in the festivities and lift your stein in praise of the great beers of fall and winter. More…
Literary: Julia Serano
Julia Serano, as her Wikipedia entry succinctly relays, “is a transsexual American writer, spoken-word performer, trans-bi activist and biologist.” Her latest endeavor, a book titled Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, opens with this bit of insight: “While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender…
Holiday: Holiday Junction
Kick off the holiday season with a Cincinnati tradition: Union Terminal’s beloved model train display. Grandparents and parents can pass on stories of Cincinnati’s long-running history of trains and railroads as kids catch a glimpse of Duke Energy’s famous holiday trains as they roll down their tracks. Visitors of all ages can see the evolution…
Event: Jungle Jim’s International Wine Festival
Winos, international food and drink lovers and Jungle Jim’s fanatics alike can rejoice at the Jungle Jim’s International Wine Festival, which features 400 wines from more than 90 wineries around the world. The Grand Hall of the Oscar Event Center will be overflowing with diverse wine, finger food and live music. Guests can upgrade to…
Onstage: Boeing, Boeing
Bernard is engaged to Gloria. And Gabriella. And Gretchen. His timetable of flights in and out of Paris has kept the three flight attendants from crossing paths. But Boeing’s faster engine disrupts his delicate timing and forces Bernard to find ways to preserve his bachelor fantasy. The College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Drama team moves from…
Comedy: Greg Warren
Greg Warren started his stand-up career in Cincinnati while working for P&G. Currently he lives in New York City, where he’s a developed a love of Thai food. “I love the Thai people, I love their food,” he says, “but they lie. At least the ones at the Thai restaurant by my apartment. They lie…
Sports: Impact Wrestling
Rumor has it that Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is interested in buying Impact Wrestling. We’ll leave it for you to discern whether that might be a positive development. What we do know is that the nine-year-old pro-wrestling extravaganza visits Cincinnati Gardens this week, complete with a live “worldwide” television transmission on Spike TV. The…
Guy Fawkes Day Lives on All Around the World
We’ve all heard it before. “Remember, remember, the fifth of November/Gunpowder treason and plot/We see no reason/Why Gunpowder treason/Should ever be forgot…” It is a well-known 18th century rhyme and a memorable quote perhaps immortalized by the film V for Vendetta. The movie features Hugo Weaving as an enigmatic vigilante sporting a Guy Fawkes mask…
Music Tonight: The Winery Dogs, Lotus, Black Crowes
• The Winery Dogs released their first album in July, but if you are a serious fan of Progressive Metal and Hard Rock, you were likely already familiar with the virtuosic instrumental prowess of the trio’s members — drummer Mike Portnoy (cofounder of modern Prog legends Dream Theater), singer/guitarist Richie Kotzen (Poison, Mr. Big) and…
Morning News and Stuff
It’s Election Day. Polls will remain open today until 7:30 p.m. Find your voting location here . Check out CityBeat ’s election coverage and endorsements here . Regardless of who you plan to support, go vote . The results will decide who runs Cincinnati for the next four years. A gathering in Covington, Ky. over…
The Lone Bellow
Coming at us from Brooklyn, N.Y., The Lone Bellow — whose name couldn’t suit them any better — is made up of a trio of beautiful souls. Their harmonies are tight and soul-stirring, but at just the right moments, it’s lead singer Zach Williams’ Georgian drawl that cries out louder than the rest. The Lone…
Basia Bulat
Canadian Folk chanteuse Basia Bulat exhibited all the standard genre traits on her first two albums, 2007’s Oh, My Darling and 2010’s Heart of My Own — quietly reflective lyrics, acoustic intimacy, honey-and-bourbon vocals. And Bulat has certainly been recognized for her efforts, with a fair number of well-deserved Joni Mitchell comparisons and a short…
Drive-By Truckers with Old 97’s
For all intents and purposes, the band Drive-By Truckers could also be called “Changing Lineup.” Over the years, quite a few musicians have entered and left the building of this acclaimed group, including the current darling of the Americana world, Jason Isbell. But the heart of the Truckers is still true, with original members Patterson…
Bull (Review)
It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and you really don’t want to be the runt. “Everybody loves a winner,” goes a lyric from Cabaret (which is currently onstage at the Cincinnati Playhouse), but the flipside of that is that “Nobody loves a loser.” That’s pretty much the story of Mike Bartlett’s Bull, currently onstage at Know Theatre,…
‘Enquirer’ Circulation Declines Again
Many of Ohio’s major newspapers, including The Cincinnati Enquirer, lost thousands of readers in the past year, but some managed to beat trends and gain in certain categories, according to a circulation audit from the Alliance for Audited Media. The audit found The Enquirer’s average daily circulation, which excludes Saturday and Sunday, down to 117,754…
Music Tonight: Distant Correspondent and Love X Stereo
• After four albums on which he played every note, David Obuchowski’s Distant Correspondent project morphed into an actual “band” this year with a self-titled debut album release and the launch of its first full U.S. tour. Obuchowski had been operating the DC project on the side, with his main band, Indie Metal powerhouse Goes…
Morning News and Stuff
With Election Day tomorrow, today is the last chance to vote early. Find your voting location here . Normal voting hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., although some days are extended. If you don’t vote early, you can still vote on Election Day (Nov. 5). Check out CityBeat ’s coverage and endorsements for the…
Your Weekend To Do List: 11/1-11/3
Halloween may technically be over, but that doesn’t mean the spooky fun has to end. Exhale Dance Tribe’s annual Halloween performance Dead Can Dance takes over Memorial Hall Friday night. An eerie, engaging show in a historically haunted building? Check. Snacks and drinks included? Check. A chance to get another wear out of your costume?…
Morning News and Stuff
CityBeat’s full Election Issue is in stands now. Check out our feature stories on three remarkable City Council challengers: Mike Moroski , Michelle Dillingham and Greg Landsman . Find the rest of our election coverage, along with our endorsements, here . Atheist marriages may last longer than Christian ones. Research shows that divorce rates are…
The Return of Pike 27
Greater Cincinnati Rock band Pike 27 was a staple on the local club circuit in the early-to-mid-’00s, playing sweaty, raucous live shows to a dedicated following (headlining and opening for the likes of Dave Alvin and Chuck Prophet) and releasing the acclaimed full-length, Falling Down Hard, in 2001. But in 2007, frontman/guitarist/singer/songwriter Dave Purcell left…
Stage Door: Musicals Galore
If you love musicals, you should run, don’t walk to the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music this weekend for the short run of Singin’ in the Rain. It's a fabulous recreation of the iconic 1952 movie that featured Gene Kelly. It's about the transition from silent to talking pictures in the late 1920s. Even…
Council Members Propose Funding to Ease Racial Disparities
Councilman Wendell Young and five other council members on Oct. 30 signed a motion that asks the city administration to budget $2 million to address racial disparities in Cincinnati. The motion cites three statistical disparities: Infant mortality rates for black babies are three times the rate for white babies; the unemployment rate for black residents…
Supreme Court Expedites Medicaid Expansion Case
The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday expedited the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law’s challenge against the federally funded Medicaid expansion, which Republican Gov. John Kasich pushed through the Controlling Board , a seven-member legislative panel, despite resistance from the Ohio legislature. The case will decide whether Kasich was constitutionally allowed to bypass the legislature to…
Ohio Gay Couples Can Now Jointly File for Federal Taxes
The Ohio Department of Taxation this week released separate tax forms that will allow gay couples who live in the state but got married in another state to jointly file for taxes at the federal level. But because of Ohio’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, same-sex couples won’t be able to jointly file for taxes…
Bank On Greater Cincinnati Helped 1,700 Residents
Mayor Mark Mallory announced on Thursday that the Bank On Greater Cincinnati initiative during its first two years reached 1,700 residents previously without a bank account, which could help boost their economic mobility. The residents kept an average of $701 in their new accounts. The initiative connects local residents with traditional financial services so they’re…
Morning News and Stuff
CityBeat’s full Election Issue is in stands now. Check out our feature stories on three remarkable City Council challengers: Mike Moroski , Michelle Dillingham and Greg Landsman . Find the rest of our election coverage, along with our endorsements, here . The Ohio legislature is working through a bill that would limit ballot access for…
The Crucible (Review)
Critic's Pick It was a perfect storm when Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and Xavier University decided to collaborate on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. CSC’s concurrent small-cast production Of Mice and Men left strong company members including Sara Clark, Kelly Mengelkoch, Regina Pugh, Billy Chace, Michael Bath, Torie Wiggins without parts. The timing allowed fellow-member Stephen Skiles,…
Cranley Helped Paycor Move 450 to 500 Jobs out of Cincinnati
As an attorney and lobbyist at Keating, Muething & Klekamp (KMK), mayoral candidate John Cranley helped payroll company Paycor finalize plans to move its headquarters — and 450 to 500 jobs with it — from Queensgate in Cincinnati to Norwood, Ohio. Specifically, KMK helped Paycor and Norwood set up a tax credit deal to incentivize…
Cincinnati Metro Expands Transfer Time
If you're a Metro rider and often feel like making your bus transfer on time a little too closely resembles the hell that was your high school gym class, you're in luck: The folks at Cincinnati Metro have answered riders' requests to relax the time limit an issued transfer ticket is valid. Beginning Friday, Nov.…
Suggesting Ingredients in a Federal Shield Law
I’m grateful to Tom Kent, the AP standards editor and veteran correspondent, for suggesting ingredients in any definition of journalism for purposes of a federal shield law. You can find his fuller argument on huffingtonpost.com and it’s worth consideration. I’m listing the ideas he offered and suggesting my reasons for embracing the best of them…
Cooks’Wares Chili Challenge
Think you have the best chili in the city? Prove it. Cooks'Wares cooking school and retail store is hosting a chili challenge, awarding the best chili prizes ranging from $25 gift certificates to Cooks'Wares to an 8-quart Le Creuset Stock Pot and a $50 gift certificate. And everyone's a winner, with every entrant receiving $5…
The Pin
Writer-director Naomi Jaye (Peep and A Dozen for Lulu) takes audiences on a dramatic journey, beginning with Leah (Milda Gecaite) and Jacob (Grisha Pasternak) in hiding during World War II. The couple retreats into a barn and their own secret language (Yiddish) to such an extent that the place becomes an oasis from the horrors…
Last Vegas
When Billy (Michael Douglas) decides to marry, his old friends Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline) take it upon themselves to throw him a typical bachelor’s party in Las Vegas, which stirs up old rivalries and sparks dreams of new lives for some of the old fellas. Jon Turteltaub, director…
Free Birds
I’m not sure, in good conscience, that I can recommend a movie with the aim of taking turkey off the Thanksgiving menu, but Jimmy Hayward (director of Horton Hears a Who! and a member of the animation departments behind Finding Nemo and Monsters, Inc.) helms the story of Jake (Woody Harrelson) and Reggie (Owen Wilson),…
Ender’s Game
This Orson Scott Card science fiction novel has been drifting along in film development hell for years, but finally arrives thanks to writer/director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi and X-Men Origins: Wolverine). Hood found a way into the mind and experiences of Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a young cadet picked and trained to save Earth (and the…
Art: Memories in the Museum
On the first Wednesday of each month, a group of special visitors gathers in one of three participating Cincinnati museums for a tour designed expressly for them. The group includes people whose memories are fragile in the extreme and their guests, the family members or others who accompany them. Memories in the Museum is a…
Music: Play It Forward Compilation Release
In 2007, upon his retirement from the local airwaves, Cincinnati radio legend Gary Burbank and several area cohorts got together to form Play It Forward, a nonprofit organization set up to raise money for musicians in times of hardship. Ever since, Play It Forward has presented various benefit events throughout the year and helped numerous…
Music: The Milk Carton Kids
Quietly unadorned, sincerely presented acoustic music is everywhere. So what allows one relatively new Folk duo — The Milk Carton Kids from Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood — to skyrocket to popularity after just two albums? The Milk Carton Kids — Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale, who both play guitar, compose and sing — have…
Halloween: Dead Can Dance
Over-the-Rhine’s Memorial Hall, the Tiffany-chandeliered, 1908 Beaux-Arts treasure teeming with handcrafted details in marble, wood and plaster, is tucked at Grant and Elm streets, next to Music Hall. The space is said to be haunted by the figure of a Civil War-era soldier who materializes in one of the steep balconies. Whether or not that…
I Just Can’t Get Enough
The Walking Dead is getting pretty crazy this season, and so is its after-show, Talking Dead. Sunday night’s guests included Jack Osbourne, TWD Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd and a very entertaining, probably inebriated Marilyn Manson. His long-winded, unfocused comments were punctuated with references including Hitler, “scissoring” and the character Carol’s likeness to Jamie Lee…
CityBeat: No on Issue 4
Even above the City Council and mayoral races, Issue 4 could be the most decisive ballot item in the 2013 election. If voters approve it, Cincinnati could be ravaged by the city charter amendment’s horrible financial implications. There are plenty of problems with how Issue 4 privatizes the city’s pension system so future city employees…
CityBeat: Yes on Issue 2
Issue 2 is another levy renewal that goes directly to the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. If approved by voters, it wouldn’t increase taxes, although it would keep property taxes $10 higher for every $100,000 of home value. That’s a pretty good deal for an institution that is so profitable and prominent for Cincinnati. A…
CityBeat: Yes on Issue 1
Issue 1 would renew a minor property tax levy for the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Since it’s simply a renewal, it would not increase taxes from current levels. But it would provide a lot — $181 million over the next 10 years — to help the library keep its finances in order.…
Flashdance (Review)
The philosophy picked up by Flashdance: The Musical’s welder/wanna-be-dancer Alex (Jillian Mueller) from her mentor is that trying and falling is better than not trying at all. That mindset seems to have guided the folks involved in translating this popular 1983 movie into a stage show with hopes of a Broadway run. Its touring production…
Steve McQueen Creates a Complex Human Portrait of Beautiful Brutality
From the first moment I walked out of the theater during a private press screening of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, I knew this film had the potential to spark discussion on the subject and history of race and race relations in the United States. It is a story rooted in that peculiar institution…
Morning News and Stuff
During his final state of the city address yesterday, Mayor Mark Mallory touted Cincinnati’s nationally recognized economic turnaround, which began during his eight years as mayor. He also fought back against the neighborhoods-versus-downtown rhetoric that has permeated on the campaign trail in the past year; he pointed out that throughout his past two terms the…
‘Parenthood’ Brings the Feels in a Smart Way
NBC’s Parenthood (10 p.m. Thursdays), now in its fifth season, is loosely based on the 1989 Ron Howard film starring Steve Martin. This hilarious offering from the quotable ’80s movie vault sets the stage for its contemporary series counterpart. Both feature three generations of a family (The Bravermans on TV; The Buckmans in the movie)…
In-Demand Local Man Provides Audio Commentary for Movies
Tim Lucas’ long and singular career as a movie critic has taken him down a number of interesting pathways, probably none more curious than his role as an in-demand provider of audio commentary tracks for DVD and Blu-ray releases. The lifelong Cincinnati resident is best known as the editor and co-publisher of Video Watchdog, a…
Museum Series Engages Art Lovers Who Have Alzheimer’s
On the first Wednesday of each month, a group of special visitors gathers in one of three participating Cincinnati museums for a tour designed expressly for them. The group includes people whose memories are fragile in the extreme and their guests, the family members or others who accompany them. Memories in the Museum is a…
Audit: Private Prison Retains Increased Levels of Violence
A re-inspection of the privatized Lake Erie Correctional Institution (LECI) found the prison is “heading in a positive direction,” but the facility is still on pace in 2013 to maintain increased levels of violence similar to the year before, according to the report. In 2011, LECI became the first state prison in the country to…
Being Like Mike
C incinnati could stand to have a few more politicians like Mike Moroski. Really, the world could just use a few more people like him, too. It’s not hard to check the news every day and be jaded by the ethos and pathos (or lack thereof) that dictates a nauseatingly large portion of modern-day politics,…
Few Local Contributions to Issue 4 Campaign
Issue 4, the ballot initiative that would semi-privatize Cincinnati’s pension system, obtained most of its financial support from out-of-town tea party groups, according to financial disclosure forms filed to the Hamilton County Board of Elections on Oct. 24. The report confirms concerns previously raised by city officials, unions and mayoral and City Council candidates: The…
Panel Recommends Limiting Facial Recognition Access
A panel of nine criminal justice officials on Oct. 25 recommended limiting access to Ohio’s facial recognition program and establishing protocols that would seek to make the program less prone to abuse. The recommendations follow a nearly two-month review of current procedures and public criticisms over the controversial facial recognition program’s secrecy and alleged lack…
Plays for Young Audiences Take Root “Off the Hill”
When I mention the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, you likely think of the theater that sits on the hilltop above Mount Adams. It’s a marvelous asset to our community’s arts scene, the winner of several Tony Awards. It has a noteworthy history of presenting new theatrical works (68 so far). But the folks who…
Pull up a Seat
City Council candidate Michelle Dillingham defines herself as the most vocal advocate for affordable housing policies in the council race — and a look at her personal history helps explain the origins of her passion. Dillingham is unique among council members and candidates in that she has personal experiences with homelessness — her dad was…
The Folly of Privatization
Privatization schemes in Cincinnati and Ohio just went through a bad month. In Cincinnati, the city administration on Oct. 9 announced the parking plan, which leases the city’s parking meters, lots and garages to the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority and its band of private operators, will only generate an $85 million payout — and even…
Covering Kasich?
S mall political parties in Ohio — Greens, Libertarians, Constitutionalists and Socialists — are concerned that Senate Bill 193, sponsored by Cincinnati-based Republican Sen. Bill Seitz, will effectively shut them out of state elections — all to supposedly protect Gov. John Kasich’s chances of re-election in 2014 from tea party challengers and others who are…
Holding out Hope
City Council candidate Greg Landsman acknowledges government can’t do everything, but that isn’t an excuse to quit. To him, it’s a reason to rethink the approach and instead leverage every resource, through public-private partnerships, to solve Cincinnati’s shortcomings. The biggest issue, according to Landsman, is Cincinnati’s failure to reach out to the city’s poorest —…
Blues Brothers Blues
HOT Blues Brothers Blues A court in the Netherlands has ruled that actor/comedian Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s widow can’t stop a touring tribute show based on The Blues Brothers. The case was about the show’s co-opting of the Blues Brothers’ image without permission. The Hollywood Reporter says the judge ruled that the actors could…
Which Came First, the Chicken or the Streetcar?
It seems like only yesterday we at CityBeat were preparing our endorsements for the 2012 presidential and congressional races, with important state and local issues like redistricting and City Council’s four-year terms on the ballot. We covered Republican Josh Mandel’s ridiculously misleading campaign against Sen. Sherrod Brown and declined to endorse anyone against Rep. Steve…
Cincinnati vs. the World 10.30.2013
A group of men who raped and attacked a 16-year-old girl in Kenya and then buried her in a latrine (she escaped) were ordered by the police to cut some grass as punishment. That’s it. WORLD -2 Cincinnati is the head-scratching Twitter capital of the Midwest, according to a new study. We spread trends as…
Dance Of The Dead
O ver-the-Rhine’s Memorial Hall, the Tiffany-chandeliered, 1908 Beaux-Arts treasure teeming with handcrafted details in marble, wood and plaster, is tucked at Grant and Elm streets, next to Music Hall. The space is said to be haunted by the figure of a Civil War-era soldier who materializes in one of the steep balconies. Whether or not…
New Local Music Compilation Benefits Musicians in Need
In 2007, upon his retirement from the local airwaves, Cincinnati radio legend Gary Burbank and several area cohorts got together to form Play It Forward , a nonprofit organization set up to raise money for musicians in times of hardship. Ever since, Play It Forward has presented various benefit events throughout the year and helped…
Worst Week Ever!: Oct. 23-29
Local Chef Declares Love for Personified Cincinnati There are few things people like more than having their hometown complimented, because it is the place where they live and it’s sad to think that other places could make you happier, healthier or richer (Cincinnatians don’t care about other people’s weather because we enjoy hating ourselves a…
Taste the Moonbow
Moonbow vocalist Matt Bischoff and his iPhone are never far apart. As a recent participant on the TV show Survivor and a businessman who’s always on the road, it’s important to always be available. Add in trying to find time to practice and write with his band — with Hank III/ex-Lethal guitarist Davey McElfresh, ex-Afghan…
Shawn Carter, Holy Fail
I always knew Shawn Carter was fraudulent. I could never put my finger on it, nail it down. I only knew I never heard all the “genius” and his fanatics were young black men with hustler-to-riches fantasies and white boys who head nod to tales of black ghetto self annihilation. What I saw in Carter’s…
Paying Attention
I’ve been paying attention here for 10 years. Now, if you go to the CityBeat archives for this column, you’re not going to think that. The first one archived was written in December of 2003 by our mailman, Bob. That’s not really the first column. As far as the archives go, until you get to…
These Kids are All Right
Q uietly unadorned, sincerely presented acoustic music is everywhere. So what allows one relatively new Folk duo — The Milk Carton Kids from Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood — to skyrocket to popularity after just two albums? The Milk Carton Kids — Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale, who both play guitar, compose and sing —…
