Jason Bruffy, new artistic director for Know Theatre Tribe
Geoff Raker The moving force behind the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Jason Bruffy is Know Theatre Tribe's new artistic director. Theater is starting up everywhere in town (see story on page 43), and there's more in store. Not surprisingly, KNOW THEATRE TRIBE, which takes a different approach to most things, runs its season on a calendar…
News to Use
Protect the Election You, too, can help defend democracy Nov. 2 by becoming an Election Protection Volunteer. The Election Protection Coalition has designated Ohio a state at high risk for voting rights violations and is seeking volunteers in Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and Youngstown. For more information and training, visit www.workingforchange.com/vote. Party for Parity…
Living Out Loud: Diabetics ‘R’ Us
(Editor's Note: If the title of the story sounds familiar, it should. Last summer, I wrote the first Diabetics R Us essay telling how I came to know Sara and I wrote about some our diabetic trails and tribulations (Diabetics R Us). Now a year later, here's Sara's take take one.) Larry Gross (Take…
Table for One
It's a given that as humans we are, by nature, social creatures. But in the same way that we should all take a casual afternoon nap, go barefoot more often and get regular massages, we should make it a point to periodically dine out on our own. Once you get past the association that solo…
Upcoming concerts with Junior Brown and Old Crow Medicine Show with Gillian Welch
Old Crow Medicine Show Junior Brown Saturday · Gold Star Chili Chilifest (near the corner of Court St. and Central Ave.) The marketing geniuses that came up with the concept of crossover music weren't thinking it would lead to the Rock rumble and Country bluster of Junior Brown. The Indiana native learned piano at a…
Cover Story: Queen City Terror
There's something either poetic or frightening about Sgt. 1st Class Shawn Kenny of Cincinnati serving on a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. The 1991 Oak Hills High School graduate is an admitted bank robbery conspirator, founding member of an Aryan hate group and associate of the late Timothy McVeigh. How Kenny got into the Army in…
Mr. Smitherman
Still Waiting: Councilman Christopher Smitherman's office says that the executive director of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), Donald Troendle, has agreed to add Princess Gill's name to a waiting list for an incentive transfer. That means she'll be able to move out of the Millvale public housing development where she and her family have…
Take It From Reagan, Vote Democratic
Ever since Ronald Reagan dramatically posed the question while campaigning in 1980, candidates for political office predictably ask voters, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" Incumbents then provide slices of data to show that, yes, citizens are better off, while challengers provide gloomier data that suggests the situation is worse.…
Labor (Day) Pains
I get up and go to bed according to work. Most days and nights are governed by the mental lassoing of the free fall of ideas, sentences and word searches. I even fall asleep tapping a replay of the day's words. I work when ostensibly I do not. Constantly I fill notebooks with poems, column…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
On any given Sunday, you're likely to find as many people at Price Hill Chili as in nearby St. Teresa Church. And that's simply because — despite rumors to the contrary — the West side isn't all Catholic, but everyone there does love their neighborhood diner. And what's not to love? There's a full, varied…
Diner: Going Home Again
Located at the epicenter of Covington's restaurant scene, across from Scalea's, Donna's Diner occupies an underserved segment in Cincinnati's restaurant scene — the small, neighborhood restaurant/watering hole, dishing out good food at good prices. Run by a local company, the Queen City Restaurant Group, which also owns Teller's, Scalea's, Watson Bros. Bistro and Brewery and…
Reliv
Deborah Lapatina suffered from chronic health issues that many people feel hopeless about, including candida, chronic fatigue and blood sugar imbalances.In her personal path to recovery, she was led to Reliv and, after three months of using this product, actually feels joy about her body. While Reliv doesn't make health claims, Lapatina has provided information…
News: Portune Goes for Two
David Grossmann Hamilton County voters will have a rare opportunity Nov. 2 — the chance to re-elect a Democrat to the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners. Four years ago Commissioner Todd Portune became the first Democrat in 36 years to win a seat on the three-person commission. His opponent, David Grossmann, hopes to remove the…
Help, I can’t get out of my straitjacket
I'm not sure what to do. I've had a fetish for straitjackets since I was 15 years old. I'm now 35. I've told only two girlfriends about it and absolutely no one else. The last one went along with it just to please me; my current wants no part of it. Problem is, I feel…
In the Age of NFL Parity, Is 2004 the ‘Some Day’ for Bengals Fans?
Jerry Dowling Autumn arrives in new clothing, a modification of the Bengals uniform complete with a football team that might not look too foolish in anything. And Autumn arrives with a new message of hope from the local professionals, who are finally serious about their mission. No one questions if the Bengals are serious enough…
Ramos Rehash
America on the Air? Now that cities like Pittsburgh, Madison, Minneapolis and Columbus have local radio stations that broadcast Air America, home of Al Franken (¨King of All Liberal Media," issue of Sept. 1-7), it would certainly seem timely for there to be one in Cincinnati, where it's needed as in few other cities. Of…
Locals Only: : Medic alert
Medic My roommates' band practices in our apartment about twice a week. Shockingly, that statement is usually responded to with pity "That's gotta suck." Fortunately, that band is Medic. Could I be any luckier? The three-piece first met and began playing together in October 2003, just weeks before I moved to town and showed…
