Locals Only: : The Risky Antiseptics
Matt Robinson MercuroChrome Ah, monkey bars, slides, skinned knees and the good ol' days of superficial, playground wounds. Grandma's antiseptic, Mercurochrome, to the rescue. All better. Except the substance might cause mercury poisoning. Oops, mood killer. Local band MercuroChrome's sound brings forth this mix of threat and healing, worn band-aids peeling. In their debut…
Cover Story: Memory of the Flood
David Rae Morris Members of the choir listen to speakers during an interfaith service at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church in New Orleans, LA July 21, 2006. The featured speaker was U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill). Katrina's winds shredded through the Gulf South like a giant scythe, but it was the flood in New…
Dealing With Cake Withdrawal
I went to see my doctor early in July, and 10 minutes after I got there I was admitted to University Hospital's emergency room with a blood sugar level that was off the chart. All the equipment could do was scream, "Crisis!" I was put into a small room with a lot of beeping equipment.…
Reds Need to Accept Criticism
I don't know if Bill Peterson is referring to bloggers or radio call-in people or what ("Mystery Achievement: Reds Doing Better Than Critics Admit," issue of Aug. 23), but I suppose I'm one of Reds manager Jerry Narron's critics. On my Cincinnati Reds Blog (www.shawns.blogspot.com), I have tried to be even-handed in my evaluations of…
Upcoming Concert Reviews of Simon Dawes, Deftones, Korn and More…
Mike Piscitelli Simon Dawes Simon Dawes with Band of Horses and Chad Vangaalen Wednesday · alchemize The name Simon Dawes conjures up images of an awkward British singer/songwriter, but that image is so far off base, it's in the parking lot across the street from the stadium. Simon Dawes is an Indie Rock quartet…
Events: Hugs & Bruises
Graham Lienhart Women on wheels: The Cincinnati Rollergirls do their thing. Like the beginning of any respectable American sporting event, we all rise, remove our hats and join together in singing the National Anthem. But on this Sunday afternoon, sitting in the musty dark on floorboards that hold the nostalgia of so many singles…
Cover Story: Katrina Lives
Bill Bullock/TinctCreative More Katrina coverage here. New Orleans — This is a place where 600-year-old oak trees have names and are considered neighbors. The McDonough and The Roosevelt live down on Lelong Avenue in the New Orleans City Park. But now everywhere in Southern Louisiana the views are filled with dead or dying bushes and…
Music: Dust Your Shoulder Off
K-Drama Cincinnati MC K-Drama takes his Christian message further thanks to a new deal with EMI Gospel. Never mind that he's smiling while gray clouds pass overhead. The first thing that strikes from K-Drama's Web site is a vicious beat that detracts attention from those clouds over Cincinnati's skyline. In it, jittery synths wiggle…
YWCA Art Gallery
Carl Solway Gallery Rocio Rodriquez's "Night Garden" is part of his solo exhibition, Transgressions: New Paintings, at Carl Solway Gallery, opening Friday. Look no further than the YWCA ART GALLERY (898 Walnut St., Downtown) for a chance to witness Real Beauty, the latest exhibition brought to this gallery, which seeks to provide a space…
News to Use
Discuss Bush's War Democracy for Cincinnati hosts a forum on the U.S. war on Iraq from 7-9 p.m. Sept. 14 at Clifton United Methodist Church, 3416 Clifton Ave. Admission is free. For more information, call 513-481-3347 or write lynnw@fuse.net. Learn About AIDS "Evolution of an Epidemic: Faith in Action" is a free seminar sponsored by…
Critics’ Pick: Arnold’s
Graham Lienhart Scene: You never know whom you'll encounter in the courtyard at Arnold's, a city saloon and gathering place since 1861. Nowadays servers guide you from the pub's dark interior into the private, garden-like courtyard for lunch or dinner. Brick walls wrap around iron café tables and wooden benches, filtering out downtown noise…
Film: Hollywood Whodunit
Focus Features Adrien Brody plays private detective Louis Simo in Hollywoodland. Ben Affleck takes a significant stride toward correcting his frat-boy actor image with an engrossing portrayal of George Reeves, the actor popular for playing the Man of Steel on television's Adventures of Superman series in the 1950s. Director Allen Coulter's stunning debut feature…
Deters Plays to the Mob
Graham Lienhart A Sept. 5 rally in support of raising Ohio's minimum wage targeted drivers in Kenwood. Few politicians are as adroit at hogging the spotlight as Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters. His performance last week, after the death of 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel came to light, was especially exploitative. Investigators apparently made apt use…
Fake Photos Are as Bad as Phony Stories
Faking a news photo is grounds for dismissal. Faking a combat photo should be a career-ending offense. I'm not talking about image manipulation that clearly is labeled as an illustration or cropping a picture to make the final, still-accurate image more dramatic. Joe Rosenthal's iconic AP photo from Iwo Jima was cropped wisely to emphasize…
Music: Napoleon, Complex
Jon Hughes On the new Hyena Records release, The Life We Chose, IsWhat?!'s Jack Walker (left) and Napoleon Maddox take their staunchly unique sound to new heights. It's another muggy Saturday afternoon in Cincinnati and most people inside Sitwell's coffeehouse in Clifton seem to be chilling, kicking back in the restfulness that is mid-weekend…
Web Onstage: New Old World
The Light in the Piazza Adam Guettel's award-winning Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza lacks some of the bells and whistles (not to mention helicopters and chandeliers) that have become the calling cards for recent hit shows, especially those on tour to cities across the U.S. It's driven by everyday characters addressing life's challenges…
Fading Light Shines
Spellbinding singer/songwriter Kim Taylor celebrates her second full-length release, I Feel Like a Fading Light, with a performance at 8 p.m. this Saturday at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Norwood. Fading Light was recorded in New York City with Jimi Zhivago, former guitarist for popular progressive Roots music purveyors Ollabelle, and the music is performed entirely by…
The Dust Ain’t Settled Just Yet
Notes: The 911 attack five years ago left so many young lovers destroyed. This song recollects one couple?s last goodbye that takes place before the hint of danger struck the air. These simple daily goodbyes can sometimes come back to mean so much more than ever imagined at the time. The Dust Ain't Settled Just…
Podfishin’: Castin’ The Net
Oliver Meinerding By now even grandma knows what an iPod is. Apple's tiny players changed the shape of music — the antithesis to the challenge of Napster, the iPod created a way to sell music at a lower cost to fans, with higher margins for artists. Beyond that, it spawned a new medium, the…
News: Immigrants: ‘Welcome’ or ‘Keep Out’?
Matt Borgerding Julie Przybysz (left) and Kristen Barker, staffers at the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center, are helping to organize a program on immigration issues. East Side, West Side, high school allegiances: Cincinnati seems to have a knack for breaking itself into groups even before considering the racial divides, both acknowledged and unspoken, that…
Studio Series
Marin Mazzie Marin Mazzie presents her one-woman show, Yes! It's Today!, Saturday at the Carnegie Center's Otto M. Budig Theatre. A friend recently told me he's resumed going to see shows at UC's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and how much he's enjoyed renewing the acquaintance. I'm sure he has the 2006-2007 STUDIO SERIES season…
Diner: Home Again
Laura Smith Stretching across the plump rumpled belly of Middle England, from Nottingham in the east Midlands, sweeping through Hereford and Worcestershire to the south and continuing westward to the border of Wales, is a geographical region known quite implausibly as the Pork Pie Belt. Here, across this wide band of greenery, the traditional…
Living Out Loud: : Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Very soon I'll be coming up on five years living in Clifton's Gaslight District. For the most part, it's been an enjoyable time. I like living in a community that's very urban, has a lot of diversity and where most want to take the time to get to know their neighbors. I like going into…
Onstage: Classic Revival
Cabaret is a tricky show. Kander and Ebb's classic story of Berlin just prior to the Nazi takeover was not an instant classic: Its dark irony left many people in the 1960s uncertain how to react to the original staging. Perhaps Cabaret was ahead of its time. In a 1998 revival Academy Award-winning film director…
A Wild Card Race No One Seems to Want
Jerry Dowling What if they held a pennant race and no one came? Or left? The good news this fall concerning the tepid National League wild card race is that we're spared the ordinary silliness about how the extra playoff berth is such a fabulous development for baseball. The bad news is that clubs…
Film: Warning Shot
Sony Pictures Classics Eugene Jarecki says Why We Fight was inspired by President Eisenhower's warning about the rise of the "military industrial complex" as well as by director Frank Capra's unbridled patriotism. Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight is a fascinating look at today's America. Recently released on DVD after a brief, criminally overlooked theatrical…
News: 1st District Reprise
Jon Hughes/photopresse.com U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot says his challenger, John Cranley, is avoiding controversial issues, including the war in Iraq. On the surface, the showdown between U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Westwood) and Cincinnati City Councilman John Cranley, his Democratic challenger, for Ohio's 1st Congressional District seat seems a mere replay of their 2000 race.…
Art: Can You Follow Directions?
CAC Shape shifting: an example from the CAC's Paper Sculpture Show The Contemporary Arts Center's (CAC) Paper Sculpture Show messes everything up. The 29 participating artists lose their typical artist designation — as the "solitary mastermind." Instead, they transfer an idea onto a sheet (or two or three) of paper and write step-by-step instructions…
