News: Seeking Normalcy in New York
NEW YORK CITY, SEPT. 12 — Just like many New York mornings, the shrill wail of sirens stirred me awake on Tuesday, Sept. 11. They're an annoying but entirely typical part of life in the city. But these sirens didn't stop and kept increasing in numbers, so I sat up in bed to see if…
News: Dark Alleys and Deadly Pants
Jymi Bolden Officer Stephen Roach, with hands in pockets, is on trial for homicide. The first two days of the trial of Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach shed light on dark alleys and a fatal gunshot that left Cincinnati angry and confused. Roach is charged with negligent homicide and obstructing official business as a…
Relationships
It's not often I clip and save a newspaper article. But I was particularly intrigued by a New York Times item reprinted in The Cincinnati Enquirer on Sept. 9 about a young couple — a 16-year-old girl and a 22-year-old man — who engaged in a "betrothal" two years ago. In short the couple who…
Cover Story: The Big List
Jymi Bolden Art Academy of Cincinnati College of Mount St. Joseph 5701 Delhi Road, Delhi Twp. 513-244-4531 Web Site: www.msj.edu Student Body: 2,300 This private Catholic liberal arts college, founded in 1920, offers 40 bachelor's degrees, a dozen associate's degrees, and two graduate degree programs, including art and design, business, computer science, education, nursing,…
Les Miserables
"I don't know what happened. It just went off. It just went off."— Officer Stephen Roach after shooting Timothy Thomas One patient photographer waited for the right angle, for just the right shot. Finally, he maneuvered, hunched his shoulders and shot. Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach, heretofore with his broad back and the rear of…
News: A Soundtrack for Restoring Life
I was born in Youngstown Ohio, primarily raised in Cincinnati and flourished as a writer and editor in New York City. When the World Trade Center was hit by terrorists using commercial jets, I was in Cincinnati dealing with the aftermath of my father's death. Two hours after the attack At 9 a.m. Sept. 11,…
Diner: Food for Thought
The acronym FSM once meant the Free Speech Movement, the wave of student demonstrations that covered universities in the mid-'60s. These days FSM may be developing a second meaning, one that's taking campuses from the inside out: Food Studies Movement. "I hear it all the time, the Food Studies Movement with a capital M, and…
News: Did the U.S. Ask for It?
Jymi Bolden A Sept. 14 vigil on Fountain Square turns solemn as participants ponder the death toll in the attacks. No one steers a jet into a skyscraper unless he feels he's been seriously aggrieved. That might seem obvious, but it somehow escaped President George W. Bush. His explanation for the attacks on the…
Programalgamation
Sometimes I wonder what we did to deserve TV. After all, it asks nothing of us but our time and attention — two items of dubious value and unlimited quantity — and in return it's raised us, babysat us, socialized us, educated us and, most importantly, reduced our tedious families to ignorable background noise. Then,…
Cover Story: View from Outside
The 2002 college guides tell students and parents across the country the alleged bare facts about Greater Cincinnati schools — which student body is known for going on drunk benders, which university's classes are laid back, which institution has "crazy" professors. From Barron's to the Fiske Guide, Kaplan's to the Insider's Guide to Colleges,…
News: The End of Decadence
It's over. The easiest, sleaziest, richest, most meaningless decade we've yet known has come to an end, buried beneath the rubble and ashes and dust of the World Trade Center. Officially, the 1990s died at 8:45 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower — thereby setting off…
Premiere area Power Pop trio Clabbergirl emerge with their debut full-length release
Clabbergirl This week Clabbergirl, one of Cincinnati's prime Power Pop trios, releases their debut album, I Feel Pretty. The long-awaited album has been in the works since January by the tuneful trio, who formed in 1995. Sean Rhiney (bassist/lead singer) met Brian Halloran (drummer) in law school. They met Al Valvano (guitarist/singer) at a…
News: Conditional Love
Larry Gross, left, and his brother Jered celebrate their birthday in the 1960s at their Indiana home. It occurs to me that my time left on this earth may be short. I pray to go quickly and with dignity. I need to talk, but just who I can talk to is a real question.…
News: Blind Rage
The roots of the terror that struck America last week run deep. They are complex and more profound than the preparations for "war" now underway. America was not targeted because it's a beacon of freedom in the world, despite President Bush's words to that effect. But the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, universally recognized…
News: The View from Brooklyn
On the morning of Sept. 14, we were awakened at 5:30 by a toxic stench that had us jumping up and closing windows, bleary-eyed and naked, mumbling about chemical warfare. Then rain began to fall, and the air turned unseasonably cold. I pondered nuclear winter and whether Tank Girl wears Polarfleece. A friend called to…
