Fourth Chakra: Heart
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: Anahata Location: Located "medially" at the heart area, upper chest and upper back. It's the center of the chakra system, integrating the…
“Night” Moves
While Len's Lounge has always been a forum for writer Jeff Roberson's "mongrel Americana" musings, he's been ably augmented the past two years by a core group that includes bassist Paul Cavins, violinist Annette Ellis and vocalist/guitarist Annie Winslow. With Winslow moving away this fall, what better way to take a musical snapshot for the…
News: No Easy Answers
Judy Snyderman has seen it from the inside out. As a medical equipment sales representative to hospitals, she became aware of what she calls "so many very sad cases, where quality of life was gone, no contribution (to living) could be made, and the drain on resources of family and hospitals was heavy." Now retired,…
Silver City Director John Sayles on ‘liberal’ Hollywood
Steve Ramos John Sayles Things are happenin, and the movies are finally addressing the news and politics that surround them. Recent documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Control Room have opened the door for hot-topic dramas like filmmaker John Sayles' Silver City. Inspired by George W. Bush's campaign for Texas governor, Silver City addresses politics, media…
Cover Story: Cool Like That
Jude Law (far right) and Jason Schwartzman tangle in I TM Huckabees. Veteran film critics tell of a time when summers meant long vacations because so few high-profile films were released in the dog days between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Everything changed close to 30 years ago with the creation of the wide-release blockbuster.…
As the Bengals Showed, Blocking and Tackling Still Rule the NFL
Jerry Dowling Thank Carson Palmer for his debut performance on Sept. 12, because the Bengals gave too little other indication they'll be contenders. They'll entertain us this year, but that's not going to make us happy. Maybe next year. We're not trying to kill the season after just one game, but this game, football, again…
News to Use
Dare to Look at the War Eyes Wide Open: the Human Cost of War in Iraq is a multimedia journey through words, images and sounds. The program is at the academic mall and in the main library at Xavier University from 4-10 p.m. Monday through Sept. 22. For more information or to volunteer, contact the…
Cover Story: Pull This
Lucie M. Rice Folks at ArtWorks will tell you it's all about the size of the package. They would know, having just completed a summer project converting an old cigarette vending machine into a dispenser of works of art the size of a pack of smokes. And in October, the nonprofit job training/public art organization…
Living Out Loud: : Black and White with Shades of Gray
I put out an overall of my upbringing on diabetes last week, concluding with me hitting in on my backward positioning in regard to diabetes. I'm turned around in a better direction these days but am still learning and re-learning that acceptance runs on an assorted continuum (see "Diabetics R Us," issue of Sept. 8-14).…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
Ryan Greis A Little German What better way to celebrate a town built — literally and figuratively — with German hands, a town whose living testimonials to its old-world roots include the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, Findlay Market and a great brewing industry, than to transform several downtown blocks into a Bavarian village once a year?…
Upcoming concerts with Robbie Fulks and The Silos
Robbie Fulks Robbie Fulks with Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys Thursday · Southgate House Robbie Fulks' roller coaster music career runs the gamut of musical expression and professional mood spikes. After dropping out of Columbia University, Fulks moved to Chicago in 1983 and scored a 12-year position as guitar teacher with the Old Town…
24-hour eateries
Vol. 7 Issue 35 Then: In 2001, CityBeat sent a team of roving, hungry reporters out on a late-night binge to check out 24-hour eateries in Greater Cincinnati. The team turned up five local (non-chain) all night dining rooms and weighed in on the food, service and atmosphere. Unfortunately, we didn't follow up on heartburn.…
Cover Story: Smells Like Team Spirit
Local musicians (L-R) Mike Montgomery, Jerry Dirr, Joe Thompson and Rick McCarty organized the unusual compilation album Organelle. A fundamental part of being a musician on an independent label is that you have to do the bulk of the work. If you happen to run the label, then it's all on you. Three local indie…
‘People Should Rise Up’
John Arthur Steve Embree (left) and Justin Brogden lobby people at ChiliFest to support the repeal of Article 12 of the city charter. The good news is Mike Allen has withdrawn from the ballot and won't seek re-election as Hamilton County Prosecutor. The bad news is his predecessor, State Treasurer Joe "Death Row" Deters, is…
Music: Midwest Marauder
RJD2, aka R.J. Krohn, hails from Columbus, Ohio, an unlikely Hip Hop hotbed. RJD2, aka R.J. Krohn, hails from Columbus, Ohio, a surprisingly fertile source of Hip Hop talent. Making his mark DJ-ing for a collective of local rappers dubbed Megahertz (MHz), Krohn eventually caught the ear of Definitive Jux, the renowned underground New York…
Misleading the Public
Hiding the GOP Platform President Bush, Vice President Cheney and the Republican Party are proud of their strong positions on their core conservative family values. These values include, according to the Republican platform, a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages and another amendment to ban political demonstrations where the American flag is burned. Why would…
Locals Only: : split/single
DJ Empirical The Quahogs Entertainment Group, of which DJ Empirical (aka Stephen Boyd) is a part, has a pretty diverse roster of acts. There's Montana Wildhack, the jack-of-all-trades of QEG and the drummer/keyboardist/occasional guitarist for ex-Fudgie and FuFu conspirator David Enright's group, The Haywards. Montana was also part of a short-lived project called Montana and…
News: Age of Innocents
David Sorcher Jerry Springer read a role in The Exonerated to support the Ohio Innocence Project. When Delbert Tibbs speaks of the events of 1974 that falsely landed him in prison for rape and murder, he does so with a cool resignation, almost if he were recounting some nondescript day in his life. He never…
Puck Dunaway – Boy Radio
Puck Dunaway – Boy Radio · Dexy's Midnight Runners — Searching For the Young Soul Rebels Hammond organs, a striking horn section and Kevin Rowland's utterly unconventional Soul vocals soar this record high into my most played list. · The Auteurs — After Murder Park The group that spearheaded the '90s BritPop movement and quickly…
Television and Radio: Detective Inspector
Wes Cowan Wes Cowan owns and operates Cowan's Auctions Inc. in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Linwood. Viewers of the popular PBS series, Antiques Roadshow, recognize him as one of the program's appraisers. He's also one of the History Detectives, another PBS series in its second season (it airs at 9 p.m. Mondays). Traveling the country,…
Don’t wander to far from home – You might get lost
PLEASE HELP ME. My husband gets off on the voyeur thing. It started out with him watching me and masturbating while I was unaware of his presence. Soon I was wearing daisy dukes at the door (about to come myself!) and writing out a check for the pizza delivery guy while my husband hid. I've…
Old Bait and Switch
I first learned the phrase "bait and switch" in my late teens, selling televisions at a Chicago department store. Customers would come into the department asking for a favorite brand of TV — let's say Sony — and we'd promptly redirect them to another brand that paid us more commission. For years local artists, arts…
Cool Like Dat (Version 39.0)
Squishy stuff, that cool. Cool is like soul: You embody it (or it imbibes you) or you do not (or it does not). If you've got cool, you don't flaunt it. It just oozes. When I was a teenager, I never really figured cool out. I just watched idly as nearly every one of my…
