Diner: Nostalgia on a Bun
Honestly, what could be more iconic than the American hamburger? It's basic: a smashed ground meat patty, cooked in some way, served on a bread product. That's it. The rest is up to us. What we bring to that burger — and what it leaves us with — is as important as anything that goes…
Stopping the Kerry attacks
Shoo, Dog Prosecutor Mike Allen has risen to the top of the political arena in Hamilton County specializing in over-prosecuting blacks, under-prosecuting the police and not prosecuting the priests. Allen himself is an Elder High School graduate and former Cincinnati Police officer. Allen has fallen by the wayside by having sex with a woman who…
Locals Only: : Sweat blood until you sweat
Dale M. Johnson RaKwaun "Roc" Biuins of RaRa Enterprises, Inc. (left) and Ms. Nickee of Diva Day DesignZ As he spoke to artists and panel contributors of the inaugural Cincinnati Hip Hop Summit in mid August, streams of sweat trickled across Richard Mohammad's forehead. Not only was the room exceedingly hot, but Mohammad found himself…
Living Out Loud: : Chain Letters, Miracles & Trendy Shoes
Dragging the bags under my eyes into work, I sat down at my computer and stared. I sighed. I then rose from my desk and poured the first of a dozen cups of bad coffee. It was Monday morning, and I was again feeling the fatigue and the dismal defeat of having to face another…
Cover Story: Lasting Influence
Since 1997, CityBeat has assembled a list of "arts influentials," people we've judged to be movers and shakers in the arts community. The list has become a much anticipated feature in our annual State of the Arts issue. We're quick to admit that the list is highly subjective, completely our own and not entirely…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
No singular annual event typifies Cincinnati more than Riverfest, better known as the day we gather around the river and watch stuff blow up. That ear-popping day is Sunday, and it'll mark the 28th time the fuse has been lit on the biggest fireworks display this region sees. It all started in 1977, legend has…
Once upon a time in band camp Part 2
Dear Readers: Last week we were treated to the childhood sexual misconceptions of my male readers — a shocking number of which involved piss. This week it's the girls' turn…. My grandma on my dad's side liked to come in while I was sitting on the toilet doing No. 2 and tell me, "That's how…
Cover Story: The 10 Percent Solution
Jon Berry Who would've thought that you and I are as influential in the Cincinnati arts scene as Ed Stern or Procter & Gamble or City Councilman Jim Tarbell? That's one of the key findings of a new look at how Americans regard arts and culture by the Roper Reports, which has been studying U.S.…
The Hangy-Down Theory®
Penile misdeeds transcend politics. Rebecca Collins' allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination against Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen have nothing whatever to do with donkeys or elephants and everything to do with dicks. It's not the political party — it's the hangy-down that's hard up for power and control. Glance at the men who've…
Steve Libbey
Vol. 1 Issue 31, Steve Libbey Then: In the early 1990s, a wave of 'zines, both e- and paper variety, hit the Greater Cincinnati area. CityBeat profiled four of the publications in an article in 1995 — one of which was Evil Dog, started by Jeff Wilson and Steve Libbey. Their publication was dedicated to…
Third Chakra: Solar Plexus
This column is part of a series to help understand the Chakra System, the seven energy centers in the body. An overview of each can be viewed at citybeat.com or cincyoga.com. Sanskrit Name: Manipura Location: Located between the base of the breast bone and the navel (the solar plexus). It governs aspects of the nervous…
Cover Story: Taking You Aback
Sean Hughes/photopresse.com Linda Shearer She thinks quickly and speaks slowly. She divides equally her curiosity, speculation and certainty, interweaving them with her language, which unfolds gradually like a brightly colored brochure. She giggles and grins often, and she just happens to be brilliant. She's quirky, off-beat, funny and down-to-earth, so she'll fit in perfectly in…
News: King of All Liberal Media
THE AL FRANKEN SHOW will be seen on the Sundance Channel (Time Warner Cable channel 158) starting Tuesday with one-hour excerpts from the radio program at 11:30 p.m. and replays at 2:30 and 7 a.m. Al Franken sounds a little fatigued. It's exactly 9 a.m. when he phones from New York City, having set aside…
Naming Spies Can Be Dangerous
Being accused of being a CIA undercover agent isn't fun. I've been there. It was early 1964. Yuri sat down uninvited at my table in the Nkana Hotel on Zambia's Copperbelt. I paused from my efforts to cut the notoriously tough steak. "Well, Kaufman, how are things at the Agency?" Peachy, I assured him, and…
Upcoming concerts with Incus and The Impossible Shapes
She's Your Sister Incus with Yust Lundeburg Wednesday · Bar Humbug Something hot, dark and body-painted comes to the Cincinnati area this week as the "tribal gothic" band Incus makes two stops in town (the group also plays Thursday at The Dock downtown). Their "Dark World Cabaret and Body Painting Festival" tour offers something a…
Wanted: Arts Protesters
Republican National Convention speeches from Sen. John McCain and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani offer few shocks, although McCain's plea to GOP faithful that Democrats aren't the enemy generated a chuckle's worth of surprise. My curiosity has me half listening to partial speeches, but I'm completely mesmerized by the thousands of protesters expressing…
The Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati Tackles Death Row
Sandy Underwood Bob Elliott (left), most recently seen in Mr. Roberts, returns to the Playhouse in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Sept. 9-Oct. 8. This fall the theater season's most frequently produced playwright is none other than WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Of course, the CINCINNATI SHAKESAPEARE FESTIVAL will present several shows, including its season opener, the comic and romantic…
No Real Defining Olympic Moments, but We’ll Take It
Jerry Dowling The World War II President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, said he read the sports page first to be reminded of man's victories, then read the front page to be reminded of man's tragedies. The Olympics never give us that choice. They are victory and tragedy, always at home on the front page and the…
News to Use
Remember the Prisoners Staughton Lynd presents Lucasville, his book on the 1993 prisoner riots at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, from 7-9 p.m. Sept. 19 at St. John's Unitarian Church, 320 Resor Ave., Clifton. Lynd, a movement historian, labor lawyer and longtime activist, has extensively documented miscarriages of justice in the trials of…
