Cincinnati

Patti Smith Takes St. Louis!

{Ed note: Patti Smith reads from her poetry and performs a set at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis on Sunday. Our sister paper River Front Times talked to the punk pioneer. We reprint it in part here.You can read the entire interview on their site.] There's no simple way to describe Patti Smi ... More >>

'Prussian Blue': It's Not All About You

Gay Museum Wars: Victory? Or a Truce?

For gay artists past and present, it gets better . . . slowly

Redlegs: A Narcissistic Spectacle of Male Grief

Q&A: The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli On Getting The Band Back Together, The Art Of Comedy, And Bad At-Bat Music

Tonight at the Bowery Ballroom, the Afghan Whigs—the Cincinnati torchbearers for damaged soul music—return to the stage after 13 years on hiatus, and if their performances on last night's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon are any indication, tonight's sold-out show will be full of the band's ... More >>

Q&A: Wussy's Chuck Cleaver And Lisa Walker On The Cincinnati Scene, Playing Music With Your Ex, And Shaking The "Critic's Band" Tag

It's high time Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker, the core of Cincinnati crust-stained yet dreamy jangle-pop heroes Wussy, get uttered in the same breath as holier-than-thou lady/dude combos like John Doe & Exene, Ira & Georgia, Mac & Laura, and Thurston & Kim. The rough-and-tumble, whiny disposition of ... More >>

The Afghan Whigs Are Getting Back Together And Playing Next Year's I'll Be Your Mirror Festival In Asbury Park

​A year and change ago SOTC emerituses (emereti?) Rob Harvilla and Zach Baron said it seemed at least a bit likely, and now it's really happening: The Afghan Whigs, the Cincinnati chroniclers of suffering for love while swaddling one's self in soul to help ease the pain a bit, will be getting ... More >>

Download Tanya Morgan's Breezy, Brazil-Inspired "Whatever That's Mine"

​After 2009's landmark Brooklynati (immortalized on YIMBY's Best Local Music of 2009 Mixtape and a slew of excellent solo releases, Tanya Morgan, New York's greatest living heirs to De La Soul is Dead, have finally returned. Their nine-track EP ARMY Edition (out November 22) comes in a "a tran ... More >>

The Voice: All Of A Sudden, There Are Only Four Contestants Left

via Rickey​One thing about The Voice that bugs me: Way too many people getting sent home way too quickly. It's hard to develop that much of a connection to the contestants when half of them get axed once a week. So on this results show, people were, once again, just dropping like flies. Would ... More >>

Naked Cowboy Robert Burck Will Marry Gay Couples in Times Square for Free on July 3

​Ever-ready for publicity, the Naked Cowboy, Robert Burck, has thrown his support behind the movement for marriage equality in New York and declared July 3rd "Gay Marriage Day." To celebrate the holiday, Burck, who happens to be an ordained minister, will be performing free same-sex wedding ce ... More >>

New York Is America's Top City for Bedbugs

​According to a survey released by the pest-control people at Terminix, New York is again the number one city for bedbugs in the US of A. Congrats, all. This summer keeps being touted as the "summer of bedbugs," and it's great to know that we're succeeding on that front. Truthfully, it's horri ... More >>

Five Fantastic Songs By Holly Golightly, Who Is Playing NYC Tonight And Tomorrow

​The voice of Holly Golightly--a British singer who first entered the music world as a member of Thee Headcoatees, the all-lady spinoff of Thee Headcoats, and who has also lent her vocals to songs by Rocket From The Crypt and the White Stripes--is a whiskey-soaked marvel, communicating pain an ... More >>

The Mighty Wurlitzer: Films From Another Hollywood

March Madness Day 3: At South by Southwest, They Were Into March Madness in February

via​Go ahead and turn Twitter off today, you'll thank us. There will be only two types of tweets: people talking about South by Southwest (or, "South by," if you're an insufferable nincompoop) and people talking about March Madness. Both of them will make you very angry. Just so you don't miss ... More >>

Lady Hides Drugs in Special Lady Place

​Today, in places to hide things (or, as the case may be, places not to hide things): A pregnant Cincinnati jail inmate with the auspicious name of January Newport was being prepped for a C-section when nurses found she'd hidden "some 15 pills used to treat anxiety," um, you know, up there. Wh ... More >>

V.V. Brown Cancels Tour, Including Bowery Ballroom Date

​A quick note for anyone hoping to see pleasantly spastic electro-soul upstart V. V. Brown on tour this fall: Show's over. Citing merely "unforeseen circumstances," she's canceled the remainder of her fall dates, including October 24 at Bowery Ballroom. All canceled dates are below; those disa ... More >>

NYC Is the Most Bedbug-Ridden Place in the USA!

​As Rosie mentioned last week, maybe it's time to accept the bedbugs as our overlords. Personal anecdote: This very blogger walked down 2nd Street on Sunday and saw no less than 6 mattresses waiting in the rain for garbage collectors. Since it's neither the last nor the very first of the month ... More >>

Early Annals of Science Chefdom: Cotton Candy

​A lonely cotton candy vendor in Richmond Hill, Queens. Cotton candy has been with us since at least the Middle Ages, when Persian and Turkish versions were available at great expense, made by a labor-intensive method. The invention of a cotton-candy machine by Nashville candy makers John C. ... More >>

Tamarind Tribeca Upscales the Tandoor

Tabla and Devi get a little company

Canadiens, Pirates, Robin Hood: The Best News Trends Cycle Ever?

​If only every day's news could start out like this. Why is the universe obsessed right now with a misspelling of our neighbors to the north, swashbuckling scalawags, and the Prince of Nottingham Forest?

Foxy Shazam

Murray's to Go Nationwide

​ Murray's is set to spread itself across the country like so much melted brie over toast: According to an article in Supermarket News, the 40-year-old cheese company is partnering with the Kroger Co. to open 50 store-within-a-store locations nationwide over the next three years.

The Early Word: Bill's Bar & (Meh) Burger

​Here it is! The celebrated Bill's Classic, which has risen from total obscurity to the top of the burger heap in a matter of days. The hamburger at Bill's Bar & Burger is not so much an actual burger, as the idea of a burger.

Why?+Owen Weaver+Flexible Trio

An Interview with Whit Stillman

The full transcript of our conversation with the recently returned director

Tea Parties Are Go!

Image via NextRightNation New York's version is scheduled for 7 p.m. at City Hall Park -- Newt Gingrich is supposed to speak! There have already been some big ones in Cincinnati and Austin; others are smaller but have lots of signs and homebrewed coverage ("The atmosphere is upbeat - the people he ... More >>

Kent Jones Leaves the Film Society of Lincoln Center: He's Okay, But Are the Rest of Us Fucked?

Would you believe that even my hometown of Cincinnati--primarily noteworthy for Italianate townhouses, imploding professional sports teams, and homicide--supported a respectable repertory movie theater up until 1996? Once shuttered, the lease was grabbed by a Shakespeare Festival. Moviehouses clos ... More >>

Pringles Can Inventor's Ashes Kept in His Beloved Tube, And Other Oddities

"Viva Obama - The Ohio Remix."

Mass Hysteria

In which Gustavo posits a Catholic theory for Lou Dobbsism

Cred Sheet

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

Debunkers Strike Out

It's a swing and a miss for the attempts to tear down a Jackie Robinson moment immortalized in a Brooklyn statue

Morning Report 6/19/05
Pre-War Plotz

Miller's Crossing

Rust belt blues: In this brashly ambitious debut, the earnest Midwest reveals its dark side

Good Conduct: The Metropolitan Opera, as Always, a Class Act

Politics as Unusual

How I learned to win from the League of Pissed-Off Voters

Music

Black for Blue

Learning to Love Tha Police

Living in Cincinnati

Mysterious son of Flann O'Brien's Third Policeman finds a Latin beat on Vox Populi Street

Music

Fathered By Flagels

Savoring the Bensonhurst Octopus

Letters

Eggs and Elephants

Henry Gwiazda Paints a Surreal World of Sounds and Shapes

Sports

The Way We Were

Showtime Exhumes the Mapplethorpe Trial

Running Scared

The Bad Apple Defense and Other Symptoms of Spinelessness in the Art World

A Cincinnati Narc Strikes a Pose

Invitations to Hell

Total Death of Loud

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