Upcoming Concert Reviews of Lyle Lovett, Willowz and More…
The Willowz Lyle Lovett and His Large Band Friday · Taft Theatre When you examine Lyle Lovett's life and accomplishments in a compressed space, he seems like one of the oddball characters that he's created in his songs since his quietly astonishing self-titled debut album in 1986. During his college years at Texas A&M, Lovett…
Super 77 Gives Up “The Ghost”
Super 77 celebrates the release of its new album, The Ghost of Howard, Saturday at alchemize. The group is joined by And How, And Andy and the Elliott Ruther Trio for the 9 p.m. event. Attendees get a free, limited edition two-CD Howard package that includes the album, plus a lyric booklet and a bonus…
Locals Only: : Chasing Rhythms
James McKenna Chase Blowers "I think I'd like them a lot more if their singer didn't go around claiming they're better than the fucking Beatles!" "Yeah, I know, like, they won a CEA, but who cares? I mean, it's Cincinnati, for crying out loud!" We're having Coronas at a downtown bar, half-eavesdropping as the local…
Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park
Sandy Underwood Drew Fracher recently won theater awards in both Cincinnati and Memphis. Here he plays Nickin ETC's Sight Unseen, for which he earned a CEA as Best Supporting Actor. Theaters think carefully about the shows that open their seasons. Many start with a comedy or a musical. The crowds, it's assumed, might return for…
Diner: Survival, Post-Maisonette
Oliver Meinerding That sound of quiet downtown is the absence of fine whine that descended on the city when the Maisonette closed its doors in July. The Comisars have taken their complaints northward and are now blaming Sycamore Township's Board of Trustees for their problems instead of their former nemesis — scary, riot-torn downtown. You…
Network Spinal Analysis
Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) is an evidence-based approach to wellness and body awareness.Gentle, precise touch contacts along the spine cue the brain to create new wellness promoting strategies. Two unique healing waves develop with this work. They're associated with spontaneous release of spinal and life tensions and the use of existing tension as fuel for…
Cover Story: True Body and the Write Stuff
Clare Rettig Finding the True Body 'UglySmartGood Girls' From the moment I entered this world upside down and butt forward, it's been about the ass. As a little girl, my round white bottom looked like a swollen marshmallow stuck to my summer-browned body. In the black-and-white photographs of the 1960s, it's a glowing orb…
Brave Bureaucrat Releases Race Statistics
Sleeper of the month was Eric Lichtblau's New York Times story on Aug. 24, printed below the fold on page 1 with a one-column headline. It detailed a new administration effort to suppress data that contradict Bush policies. This one involves the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) survey showing that blacks and Hispanics are far…
Feeling Nothing At All
How can I tell if I'm asexual? Is it a legitimate orientation or am I just a seething ball of neuroses? Sex does nothing for me. I can't orgasm (even when I attempt masturbation), so my husband doesn't go there. That's fine by me. I hate my people-parts; I find them utterly icky. At any…
News to Use
Bring Them Home Now On Aug. 31the Bring Them Home Tour launched three buses from Crawford, Texas, each carrying military and Gold Star families as well as veterans of the Iraq War and previous wars. The buses are traveling different routes across the country before converging in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 21 for the United…
Cover Story: ‘Just Because We Paint Our Lips Pink Doesn’t Make Our Words Any Sweeter’
Roni Moermond Donna Covrett and Ciera Brooks partner up in yoga. Camillia North, age 14 School for Creative and Performing Arts, Over-the-Rhine "Every Woman Is Secretly in Love" I think every woman is secretly in love with her lips A soft kiss upon the smooth skin of one's heart Gracious and full. I think every…
Tearing Down Paradise
I love to walk by the School for Creative and Performing Arts in late spring, when the lush climbing roses scale the fence on East 14th Street to provide a heady profusion of color, beauty and scent, softened by the light from the northeast corner of Prospect Hill. In reasonable weather, my dog Sister and…
News: Gulf Coast Devastated, Government Response a Disaster
Ed Edahl/FEMA Houston, TX, September 2, 2005 — Residents of Louisiana, who had to flee their homes because of Hurricane Katrina, inside the Houston Astrodome. The residents of Texas have mobilzed a massive relief effort to help the those of Louisiana. Volunteers from a number of agencies were on hand to help. The nation and…
Music: Prophet Motive
Peter Ellenby With a little help from former Captain Beefheart member Eric Drew Feldman, Chuck Prophet conquered writer's block to complete his latest album. Make no mistake, Chuck Prophet knows what he wants from his music. And perhaps more to the point, he knows what he doesn't want. More than 20 years ago, Prophet made…
Living Out Loud: : Looking Straight Ahead
When the bus driver didn't offer to lower the steps to the bus to help an elderly passenger get on with a walker, I helped the man myself — putting the walker aside, then holding on to him to while he reached for a seat in the front. The driver, looking straight ahead, didn't seem…
Roadside Art
Viewing art where it's least expected means a trip to an outdoor sculpture exhibition in Blue Ash and a search for a sole farm surrounded by office parks and typical suburban sprawl. Whether or not the anti-museum trip is worth the effort depends on finding its gem installation tucked behind overgrown brush and a small…
Mayoral Primary the Start of Something Big
One of the most important elections in Cincinnati history starts Tuesday with the non-partisan primary for mayor. The top two finishers then square off to determine the city's next political leader, with the final vote on Nov. 8. No matter who ultimately emerges from the field of seven candidates, change is coming to Cincinnati. Well,…
Wannabe Assassins and Other Right Wing Offenses
Larry Gross Bob Dombrowski insists the post office wasn't built around him, but he ran it by himself for 12 years before retiring last week. It might be illegal, it's certainly offensive, but it can't come as a surprise that police agencies spy on local political activists. The only surprise is that every so often…
In NFL, Saints Could Be Heroes, Bengals Could Be Winners
Jerry Dowling More often than in any other town, football season ends in New Orleans. In the past 68 years, the duration of the college football polling era, 20 national champions have finished their seasons in the Sugar Bowl, more than any other game. Nine Super Bowls have been in New Orleans, more than any…
Feel Safe or Be Safe?
Cincinnati has a real battle for mayor this election and the issue of public safety has dominated the political discussion (Sound Bite into Crime, issue of Aug. 10-16). I´d like to examine the public safety plans announced by three of the candidates. David Pepper and Charles Winburn tout the broken window theory popularized by John…
Walking for Paul
In 1992, June Delph's son wrote from California to break the news to his parents that he had AIDS and he'd landed in the hospital. "We didn't know he was gay either," she says. "It was like a double whammy." So on Sept. 17, seventysomething June, her husband Harold and their daughter Linda Arnest will…
