Students and administration clash over the effectiveness of Antioch College’s controversial Sexual Offense Policy
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Touchy-Feely:
Antioch College, 70 miles north of Cincinnati, has long been considered a bastion of liberal education, radical thinking and political correctness. Its controversial Sexual Offense Policy, spelling out in detail what constitutes sexual consent and the ramifications for those who violate that consent, generated a frenzy of national media coverage last year. CityBeat’s Steve Ramos and Jymi Bolden visited the Antioch campus to ask a burning question is the policy working? and came away with more than one answer.
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The Straight Dope
BY CECIL ADAMS
HWhen youforget to dial “1 before an area code, a recorded message informs you that you “mustfirst dial a ‘1 before dialing this number. If the little man in the phone can tell that the number requires a “1 in front of it, why do youfirst need to dial a “1 ”?
—Reuben Gbogba, Berkeley, Calif.
The teachers in grade school must have hated you, Reuben. You’re absolutely right: If the switching computer is smart enough to figure out that the number needs a “1” in front of it (in other words, that it’s a long-distance number), it’s smart enough to put the call through. Same deal right after an area-code split. If you dial a no-longer-local number without putting the new area code in front of it, you get a message telling you to redial it with the area code first. But the computer is perfectly capable of figuring out what number you were trying to get and putting the call through. It
just doesn’t want to or rather, the phone company geniuses who program it don’t want to. On the contrary, they’re trying to teach you a lesson so next time you’ll do it right.
Sounds a little schoolmarmish, but the phone company doesn’t have much choice. “One-plus” dialing was implernented to make more three-digit combinations available for area codes and local exchanges. (Previously, the middle digit in all area codes had to be a 1 or a 0 so the switching computer would know a long-distance call was being dialed.) Now it’s possible for Berkeley to have the area code 510 and for each area code in North America to have a 510 local exchange. But this is the important part not right away. First the phone companies have to pound the idea of one-plus dialing into the consuming publie’s head, so when Nick in Newark calls Berkeley long-distance information, 510-555-1212, the call doesn’t wind up at Joe’s Pizza, 510-5551, to the understandable consternation of Joe. Thus the annoying recorded message. Eventually, of course, 510 will be assigned for local use, and if you forget one-plus, you won’t get the recording, you’ll get Joe
(or whomever). The phone company just hopes that by then you’ll get the idea.
Swiss Army Facts
Your column is the only reason I pick up the [Los Angeles] Reader. However, I could not let the article on Swiss Army knives go unchallenged. There is no such thing as a Swiss Army. They are a neutral country and, as such, have no standing army. They do, however, have a national guard which uses their knives. From my own perspective, who cares? But as I’m sure you’d agree, the straight dope’s the straight dope only if it’s straight JeffBirkenstein, Fountain Valley, Calif.
People are always telling me I’m the only reason they pick up the paper. Clearly I am to the alternative press what Michael Jordan is to the NBA. Luckily it hasn’t affected my personality. Now to your complaint, worm. You should call up the Swiss and tell them what they’re supposed to call their armed forces. They have the idea it’s the army. There’s no such thing as a Swiss national guard. (There is also no navy, for reasons that ought to be obvious but, given the state of public education, may not be. There is, however, a merchant marine. Go figure.)
While I was on the phone with the nice man from the consulate, I asked if .Switzerland still had compulsory military service for males between the ages of 20 and 50. Jawohl he said, although the upper age limit was recently dropped to 40. And are the troops still issued automatic rifles? Mais oui, he said. And do they still take their rifles home with them when not on duty? You got it, bub, he replied. So, I said, warming to the topic, in view of the fact that you’ve got 1.6 million men and an indeterminate number of women with an automatic rifle in the house, is Saturday night in Switzerland a bloody spectacle of drunken louts and drug dealers machine-gunning each other in the streets? Why no, said the nice man. We toast each other with hot chocolate and whittle cuckoo clocks with our Swiss Army knives. So you’ve been lucky, I hissed. Just wait.
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Crime Against Family
Your article “What’s the next move?” [also titled “Taking Michelle,” March 30April 5] really hit home with me. I, too, was married and divorced in the God-forsaken county of Clermont. Upon violation of Exodus 20:14,1 initially had six consultations with attorneys who each said verbatim, “Men don’t get custody in Clermont County.”
I, too, was finagled into “joint” custody and shared parenting.
My children, too, were all set to go to Disney World, reservations and all. Well, with 10 hours notice, they didn’t go.
Telling the Truth
My particular case has been a 7 1/2 year onslaught against the whole family, with the primary victims being the children. My 10-year-61d son is presently hospitalized for depression arising from the gross neglect of the Domestic Relations Court of Clermont County. My 12-year-old says she wants to run away.
I have repeatedly had motions and hearings denied. Clermont County Court has consistently demonstrated
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As a young CubanAmerican living in Cincinnati, I was extremely pleased and very much surprised when I read your article on Cuba [April 6-12], As you said in the article people here in middle America simply do not know nor care about what is going on in Cuba, unless it directly affects them in any way. Sometimes if I do come across some news from Cuba it’s either only about [Fidel] Castro or idiotic leftist bullshit.
that they don’t care about the wishes of the child, the child’s best interests or “whether the residential parent has continuously and willfully denied the other parent his right to visitation 3109.04 of the Ohio Revised Code.
I agree with Mr. Manning, visitation rights are useless in Clermont County because no one will enforce them.
Fortunately, 1 now live in Butler County which has a real judge and local police who enforce Ohio law.
I’ve spent thousands of dollars filing contempt for willful denial of visitation. It is a major crime against the family.
But to Clermont County referees it’s a long drawn out chess game which abuses and neglects the children and ignores the rights of the father.
It is a cruel battle with the parents as the targets, the children as the ammunition and attorneys as the guns.
Tragically, there is no money in keeping a family together or enforcing the laws of love and forgiveness. Divorce is a crime against the family.
Robin N. Roland, Cincinnati
Custodial Precedent
This is in response to your [March 30-April 5] cover story, “Taking Michelle.”
The problems described in the article, where a child is kept apart from a parent, are quite common among estranged couples. Often, visitation denial is justified by a mother as a response to a father’s alleged abuse. It’s also common for relatives to col-
BURNISH QUESTIONS
BY ELIZABETH CAREY AND NANCY FIROR
Whose Environmental Priorities?
An Alternative Look at How and Why It Happened
Tornado Alert for Hearing Impaired: You’re on Your Own
Despite proposal, Cincinnati and Hamilton County have not devised warning system
BY ELIZABETH CAREY
The Environmental Priorities Project, announced in December by the Hamilton County Environmental Action Commission, will meet May 13 to hear environmental concems.
Lightning strikes, rain turns into hail and ominous sirens sound the alert: Severe weather, possibly a tornado, is on the way. What about people who are hearing impaired?
The goal of the committee, headed by retired Judge Robert L. Black, is to rank in order of importance Hamilton County’s most pressing environmental problems.
Despite proposals for special warning systems that have been planned in Northern Kentucky, officials in Cincinnati and Hamilton County have not answered the question.
But Cincinnati lawyer David Altman and some other prominent environmentalists say they won’t come. The committee’s first priorities are the priorities of business, Altman said.
"I wouldn’t be at all opposed in a process to find out the community’s concerns,” Altman said. “But I’m opposed to a process where the regulated community decides on what concerns the protected community.”
Black and other volunteer committee members for the project are to consider a diverse range of citizen and business perspectives in ranking the county’s most pressing environmental concerns, said Robin Corathers, member of the Hamilton County Environmental Action Commission. There also will be a strong effort on consensus building among those with differing views, she said.
City and county officials, who have been considering a warning system proposed since 1992, are citing two stumbling blocks lack of money and concern from the county’s deaf community about the system’s effectiveness.
“We’ve encouraged and asked (Altman and others) to be involved,” she said. “They’ve expressed very legitimate concerns about what could happen.”
What will the committee do if Altman and others don’t share their ideas?
Function without them, Corathers said.
"We will not have the benefit of their individual perspectives," she said. “However, think there’s a lot of agreement on what serious environmental problems we have.”
Ohio’s Welfare Reform for New York
“We’re continuing to look into what to do about the situation and what money is available,” says Don Maccarone, director of the Hamilton County Emergency Management Agency. “For instance, there are strobes, pagers and (vibrating alarms) available, but the question is who’s going to pay for them?”
While members of the agency say they are committed to findmg solutions for the hearing impaired, members of the International Police Relations Council for the Deaf (IPRCFD) say they are frustrated by the city’s and county’s inaction.
Over vehement objections from social service agencies across the state, Gov. George Voinovich in 1992 enacted deep cuts in general assistance.
His reason? Being forced off welfare would force ablebodied adults back to work.
The emergency management agency’s Maccarone says that while a committee has been formed to address the issue, no decision has been reached. The city and county have “bounced the responsibility for this program back and forth for years,” says Col. R. E. Jackson, founder and president of the IPRCFD.
On Feb. 22, the Northern Kentucky League of Municipal Governments unanimously adopted a hazardous weather warning system for the hearing impaired. The decision followed a previous meeting during which the IPRCFD gave a 15-minute presentation on its system, which consists of flags and placards that warn the hearing impaired of life-threatening emergencies.
Two years later, the number of people seeking assistance from homeless shelters has increased 18 percent, and the number of people being turned away by those same agencies has increased 20 percent, according to a 1994 Ohio State Coalition on Homeless and Housing (OSCHH) survey.
“We recognize the system is limited, and we’re concemed about that, but it’s better than nothing,” says Lou Noll, city administrator of Edgewood, one of the cities involved in the league.
The number of people seeking welfare assistance has remained basically the same for the past five years, said Mindy Good, director of communications for the Hamilton County Department of Human Services.
The OSCHH survey preceded a study by the University of Cincinnati and the United Way/Community Chest and a
Since 1992, the Cincinnati and Hamilton pending with a county Cincinnati Councilman council’s Law and Public motion March 4 requesting a plan to implement
Vance Summerline (left) and Rodney Jackson, of the Council for the Deaf, support using tornado warning
study the system
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proposed system. But CityBeat found verification that included a newsletter produced by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration endorsing the IPRCFD’s system. The system also is endorsed by the National Red Cross, the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Under the IPRCFD system, large flags purchased from the organization are run up the flag poles of municipal buildings when weather alerts are posted by the National Weather Service. The system also offers color-coded warning cards to be placed in municipal buildings. Each warning system kit for the deaf contains a flag with a wall mountable flag pole, wall mounts and warning cards as well as a weather radio linked to the National Weather Service. The cost is $160 per kit.
Therein lies part of the problem in getting county acceptance, Maccarone says. But he and others also question the flag system’s effectiveness.
“The deaf community felt it was not worthy of the cost of the system,” says Greg Ernst, director of St. Rita’s School for the Deaf in Evendale and a member of the county committee reviewing the issue. “Their major concern was its inefficiency.- In the first place, there’s 250 flags per set, and you need a volunteer to put those flags up. If you want to take the risk and liability of sending someone out into hazardous weather, that’s fine, but who are you going to get to do it? And, really, how many people will actually notice the flags anyway?”
Several states, including Vermont, Oklahoma, Ohio and Missouri, have opted to endorse the project. Maccarone says that the only system now available in Hamilton County is individual action.
“(Deaf) individuals can go out and purchase these modified radios to provide a strobe light or vibrate,” he says.
But the radios to which Maccarone refers are National Weather Service radios altered by the IPRCFD.
Tornado Tips for Everyone
Tornado season, while not officially recognized by the National Weather Service, spans April, May and June. These are the months when tornadoes in this area are most likely to occur, though they can occur at anytime, the weather service says.
When a tornado threatens, these steps are recommended:
If you are inside your home, get to the lowest possible floor a basement if you have one and get to the most interior wall as far away as possible from any windows or exterior walls.
In larger buildings, such as malls and apartment buildings, there should be a designated tornado area. If there is not one, get to the most interior wall away from windows and exterior walls.
A device tied into the warning system sets off strobe lights during the day or sends signals to an under-thepillow vibrating alarm during the night to signal lifethreatening conditions. The radios are not available through any retail outlet.
In mobile homes and cars, get out of the structure as soon as possible and find shelter in a nearby building. If this is not possible, find a ditch or low-
Maccarone also cites the deaf community’s concern that the weather radios proposed by IPRCFD are not battery operated.
“The radios we modify cost between $80 and $90,” Jackson says. “If we were to modify battery-operated units, the cost would be around $250 to $300 per item.”
Started in 1983, the IPRCFD is a non-profit law enforcement support group funded by participating law enforcement officers and proceeds from the sale of the warning kits.
The organization was founded, Jackson says, to address the communication gap between deaf individu
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als and the police. Originally intended to train police officers to be “police interpreters” for the deaf, the organization soon found itself addressing other safety concerns for the deaf as well, he says.
In 1992, IPRCFD members spoke before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C. The council now serves as part of Vice President A1 Gore’s All Hazards Task Force and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Warning Modernization Initiative.
But despite the council’s long history of work with the deaf community, the members of the county committee studying the problem remain skeptical.
“Most of our able forms of cover, a tornado like can’t count on upwards of 60
ELIZABETH
Rethinking Mill Creek Hood Control
BY NANCY FIROR
Alocal push to re-examine floodcontrol work along Mill Creek aimed at restoring the corridor’s ecosystem is expected to win out.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the process of finalizing agreements that would allow a $2.4 million “reevaluation study” to go forward in place of the “termination study” the corps recommended when work was halted on the half-finished project, says Jerald Robertson, chairman of the Mill Creek Watershed Steering Committee.
The study would mean a complete reevaluation of the 17.4-mile channel improvement project that extends north from near the Ohio River to Interstate 275. The study would include:
A review of work already done and whether changes in that work including possible removal of some concrete paving should be made to prevent future problems.
An evaluation of alternate flood-control methods, including channel widening, realignment, levees, non-structural solutions, restoration of flood plain storage and detention basins.
An environmental impact statement, an analysis of ways to abate toxic pollution and a study of a recreation/greenway plan for completed and uncompleted sections of the project.
CityBeat reported Jan. 19 that corps officials in Cincinnati and Louisville were recommending approval of the “reevaluation study,” which had been sent to corps officials in Washington D.C. for review. The study has not been officially approved, however, and Ken Crawford, public affairs officer for the corps in Louisville, would not comment on the status of the agreements or the corps’ final decision.
Robertson and Robin Corathers, executive director of the Rivers Unlimited Mill Creek Restoration Project, say written agreements are being finalized between the corps and the Millcreek Valley Conservancy District. The district is to provide $55,000 toward the study, and local governments and volunteers have pledged services worth $511,000, according to the “reevaluation study” proposal.
The original flood-control project designed to protect the creek corridor from a 100-year flood involved straightening and paving parts of the creek. The project was suspended in 1993 after projected costs escalated to $341 million from an initial estimate of $42 million.
Most of the work done was south of Elmwood Place, with concrete paving used in sections that run through St. Bernard and Cincinnati.
The Mill Creek Watershed Steering Committee, formed by the Hamilton County Environmental Action Commission, pushed for the “reevaluation study,” arguing it was needed to
head off problems created by the uncompleted project.
It is the committee’s hope that if the reevaluation study is completed and work goes forward it will proceed in a way that helps restore the corridor’s ecosystem and helps lessen the impact of work done so far.
Domestic Violence Law for Whom?
Whether gays and lesbians are protected under Ohio’s domestic violence law has surfaced as another difference between Hamilton County’s and Cincinnati’s interpretation of the law.
Changes that made arrests “preferable” aimed at making the law stricter went into effect March 9. Since then, there has been considerable discussion about differences in the county’s and city’s interpretation of the law and resulting differences in when officers make arrests.
Under the county’s interpretation, the domestic violence law does not apply to gays and lesbians because under Ohio law a spouse can only be a person in a relationship of opposite sexes, says Steven Martin, chief assistant Hamilton County prosecutor.
“Our position is that it does not cover same-sex relationships ...,” Martin says.
“That’s not necessarily reflective of the way we would write it.”
But Martin says gays and lesbians are equally protected because assault charges carrying the same penalties can be filed in the event of a domestic dispute.
That is not equal protection, says Cindy Abel, executive director of Stonewall Cincinnati Human Rights Organization.
If assault charges afforded equal protection, she says, no one would need the new domestic violence law, which is not the case. Simply put, Hamilton County’s interpretation gives additional protection to heterosexuals legally married or cohabiting that does not exist for peopie in same-sex relationships, she says.
“It is definitely something we are concerned about...,” Abel says. “It should apply to same-sex couples as well.”
Cincinnati has had a tougher, mandatoiy arrest policy since 1990. But a March 23 CityBeat report revealed that under the city’s interpretation of the new law, an officer’s discretion in determining when a domestic violence arrest was justilled could be diminished because the law protected an officer in making an arrest based solely on the victim’s statement. Officials in the county prosecutor’s office have disagreed with that interpretation, saying the law did not push officers into making arrests when they did not think there was probable cause.
On the issue of whether the law includes lesbians and gays, the county and city also are at odds. The city has
based its interpretation on a 1990 appellate court decision in Franklin County that says the law does not exclude members of same-sex relationships, City Prosecutor Terrence Cosgrove says. “Whatever living unit you have, the intent (of the law) is to keep peace within that unit,” he says.
But in Hamilton County it ultimately will take a court decision to settle the dispute, he says.
Tax-Credit Project Takes More Heat
More than 100 Columbia Township residents are protesting the proposed expansion of the low-income apartment complex they live in.
Objections from the Eagle’s View/Hilltop apartment tenants follow a CityBeat report that Cincinnati developer William Brisben is seeking additional LowIncome-Housing-Tax Credits to expand the project, which first generated controversy about two years ago.
“We hope you can look past the need for additional income and look to the needs of the current residents of the community,” reads a March 31 letter to Brisben signed by 124 tenants of the complex.
Contacted April 12, Brisben refused
to comment and hung up the telephone after saying, “I’ve got nothing to say to you. I’m not going to talk to you.”
The tenants are arguing that the complex’s current facilities cannot support additional tenants.
In 1993, neighboring Kennedy Heights residents, whose neighborhood abuts the project, protested Brisben’s plan to build now-completed apartments. They argued that the project posed safety problems and that Brisben initially told residents and county officials that he intended to build market-rate condominiums on the site.
At the time, Brisben said he had to change his plan because he had learned that it was not feasible to develop condominiums on the site.
CityBeat’s March 16 story also detailed how a Milford official was raising concerns because a company affiliated with Brisben also had applied for lowincome tax credits for a townhouse project in Milford after telling city officials, during a public meeting, that the townhouses would not be subsidized housing.
A Brisben representative was to meet the evening of April 12 with Columbia Township apartment tenants, but neighboring Kennedy Heights residents were told not to attend, says Kay Briggs, community coordinator for the Kennedy Heights Community Council. In support of the tenants, she said she would attend anyway.
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Welcome to “Bubbleland.”
That’s how students like Mathew Arnold describe Antioch College in Yellow Springs, about 70 miles north of Cincinnati. Unique. Different. Like no other school in the world.
Antioch’s 500 students share little in common with peers at. other campuses. Antioch is wellknown for leftist politics, and current students carry on its activist tradition.
And they come and go a lot. Antioch’s Co-op Program requires students to participate in six work studies, mostly off campus. Chances are, friends from last quarter won’t be around next quarter. Long-lasting relationships? Not likely at Antioch.
This situation, some students say, has contributed to problems and concerns with violent sex crimes, including acquaintance rape and stranger rape. IVpical college problems, perhaps. This is Antioch, however, and administrators have implemented a solution as unique as the school itself: “The Antioch College Sexual Offense Prevention and Survivors’ Advocacy Program.”
Mathew Arnold
But many students say the solution isn’t working.
During three separate visits to the Antioch campus, students who spoke to CityBeat revealed a strong mistrust for the program, a lack of confidence in its director and a dislike for its student staff members, called peer
advocates. Frustrated that their complaints about the survivors’ advocacy program have gone unanswered by school authorities, students have developed their own system of policing concerns and dealing with sexual harassment on campus.
“You have the director of the program introducing it, handing it down from on high, instead of the students who have problems with her, and things get ‘workshopped’ to death,” says student Beth Maloney, 22.
But program director Karen Hall and others maintain “the policy is working.”
A solution is born Antioch’s sexual offense policy prompted a barrage of local and national media reports, including a March 7, 1994, Newsweek article that referred to it as a “prissy new sexual-conduct code.”
While some call it a cutting-edge example of university planning, many students today say they will not seek the help the program one of two that support the policy offers.
Hall has been affiliated with the survivors’ advocacy program since its inception the direct result, she says, of two on-campus rapes of women students during fall 1990 and considers herself integral to it.
Tired of watching school administrators do nothing about the rapes, Hall says some women students
protested and presented two demands: that a policy be developed to deal with sexual offenses and that a person be hired to serve as a survivor advocate on campus.
But Jonathan Platt, former editor of Antioch’s student newspaper The Record pinpoints a different reason for the program. To him, the rapes simply were catalysts. The policy, he says, came about because of the extreme political-correctness that is an integral part of the Antioch community.
“Here, women take off their shirts to play softball, just like the guys,” Platt says. “Women sunbathe topless. They go to parties nude. It’s their right, but they want to make sure administration provides a safe environment for them to do so. If guys from the University of Dayton come driving by, beeping car horns, throwing beer bottles, (the women’s demand is) administration better do something.”
The administration did.
Hall arrived at Antioch in fall 1991 as director of the Sexual Offense and Survivor Advocacy Program, and the school’s sexual offense policy was implemented the next quarter. Hall runs oncampus support groups for female and male survivors of sexual violence and partners whose significant others are victims of sexual violence. She arranges workshops on topics that include healthy boundaries, ereating supportive atmospheres for survivors of sexual violence, how to heal from sexual violence, birth-control and communication skills.
Hall has the backing of the Antioch Advisory Council, a group of administra-
The Antioch College Sexual Offense Policy
“Ail sexual contact and conduct on the Antioch College campus and/or occurring with an Antioch community member must be consensual.”
Opening with this straightforward statement, Antioch’s nine-page Sexual Offense Policy provides detailed explanations of what constitutes consent; what are punishable sexual offenses; procedures for reporting sexual offenses; hearing complaints and appealing board decisions; “remedies” for those found in violation; confidentiality issues; and school-sponsored educational and support opportunities.
The policy was first drafted in 1991 and revised in 1992. It applies to Antioch students, faculty, administration, staff and anyone else considered a member of the Antioch community.
Policy details include:
tors, faculty and students that oversees campus programs.
Later this quarter, the program will sponsor “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Week,” during which people whose lives have been impact-
Consent:
‘Consent’ shall be defined as follows: the act of willingly and verbally agreeing to engage in specific contact or conduct. Obtaining consent is an on-going process in any sexual interaction. Verbal consent should be obtained with each new level of physical and/or sexual contact/conduct in any given interaction, regardless of who intiates it. Asking ‘Do you want to have sex with me?’ is not enough. The request for consent must be specific to each act.”
Offenses Defined: The acts of sexual contact/conduct prohibited under this policy are rape, sexual assault, sexual imposition, insistent and/or persistent sexual harassment, non-disclosure of a known positive HIV status and non-disclosure of a known sexually transmitted disease.
Procedures/Hearings: If a violation of this policy occurs, the “primary witness” (victim) should be
ed by sexual violence will be asked to write something meaningful and tie it to a tree in front of Antioch’s student union.
Some students think Hall has gone too far.
Maloney, a graduating senior, says she is tired of Antioch’s “touchy-feely, free-to-be-you-and-me” atmosphere. “Students are supposed to come to these workshops, drop all their cultural baggage, drink some magic Antioch juice and fix all,” she says.
“That’s crap.”
Maloney remembers attending a four-hour workshop that explained the school’s sexual offense policy. Most of the time, she says, was spent listening to students strum guitars and sing an approach, she says, that she and others do not take seriously.
But Hall says these workshops are reflective of Antioch’s way of solving crisis. Everyone has a say, she says, and problems are discussed until a consensus is reached.
Jane Reilly, a graduate student in psychology who is interning in Antioch’s Co-op department, shares Hall’s views about the workshops.
Supporting Antioch’s sexual offense policy since it began, Reilly worked with Hall as a peer advocate in the Survivors’ Advocacy Program.
“I would rather have students be workshopped to death than not get it,” she says.
Still active with the pro-
union.
reported to a member of Antioch’s Sexual Offense Prevention and Survivors’ Advocacy Program or to the Dean of Students.
Depending on the nature of the violation, the “respondent” (accused) can be brought before the Hearing Board; its nine members consist of three students, three faculty members and three administrators/staff members. At least five members of the Hearing Board pool must be women.
Remedies: For rape and non-disclosure of a known positive HIV status, immediate expulsion. For other violations, the policy prescribes suspension, treatment programs and reworking class, schedules to separate primary witness and respondent for first- and second-time offenses. A third offense requires immediate explulsion.
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gram, Reilly considers Hall a good friend. She also considers Hall to be an “extremely important person on campus.”
“She was hired into the position as a result of the policy,” Reilly says. “She implemented the policy. She represents the policy.”
Reilly looks at Hall’s mix of skills and personal attributes as the key to her suecess as a counselor to students.
“She’s so soothing and safe,” Reilly says. “You know that what’s said to her will be kept in the strictest confidence. She’s been here for three years now, and if the students didn’t feel this way you can be sure that they would be letting each other know.”
But that’s exactly what some students say they are doing.
“I don’t trust Karen Hall,” says student Antoinete DeLeo, 20. “When doing sexual offense seminars during orientation, she made me angry because she portrayed women as victims. I refuse to accept that stereotype.”
Raped at age 13, DeLeo is the type of student that the program is supposed to help.
“I would never go to Hall,” DeLeo says. “I would not go to the program.”
Such remarks surprise Hall.
“I feel that I have a pulse of what goes on here,” Hall told CityBeat. “Students feel comfortable talking to me about their sexual practices, their sexual lives and their experiences with victimization.”
Eight to ten students attend each workshop but no figures exist to gauge the number of students who call the program’s crisis line, Hall says.
Hall’s constant references to women as “survivors” is what bothers students like Tricia Glen, 21.
“Every time that I have been in a room with Karen Hall, she talks about victims,” Glen says. “Some of us don’t like the term survivor, meaning that at some point we have been a victim of something.”
Glen remembers when a friend complained to Hall about a workshop. As Glen recalls it, Hall told the student that her problem was not with the program but with the fact that she was not dealing with her sexual history and as a child must have had a sexual encounter.
“I was raped,” Glen says. “But I couldn’t be in a room with Karen Hall. I don’t think she knows how many victims there are on campus because I don’t think they go to her.”
The program attempted to reach out to students by creating a survey, and the results found that a third of the women and 8 to 10 percent of the men in Antioch’s community had experienced sexual violence, Hall says.
Divisiveness
Hall acknowledges that some students might have reservations about coming forward with their problems. But there has been action taken under the school policy, she says.
In fall 1994, for example, a male stu-
judgmental, very formal: ‘This is right, this is wrong.’
Who is a typical peer advocate? Nothing like a typical Antioch student, DeLeo says. She describes them as nonsmoking, non-substance using, vegetarian and socially conservative with less promiscuous natures than most students on campus.
dent who grabbed and kissed a female student at a school dance was accused of unwarranted sexual advances. He was brought before the sexual offense board and, in order to avoid trial, agreed to a 10-day suspension from classes.
For the victims in such situations, Reilly says, a key element is the peer advocates student support staff mem
DeLeo recalls an incident that occurred when she was cooking a hamburger in her dormitory. One of the peer advocates became angry and yelled at her for filling the air with the smell of cooked meat.
“I’m not going to talk with someone about something devastating that happened to me if they can’t even deal with the fact that I’m eating a hamburger,” DeLeo says. Glen also sees Antioch comprised of many small, distinct groups that do not necessarily get along. It’s just that the peer advocates happen to be more “hard-core” in their politicalcorrectness, she says. These differences can lead to confrontations. Glen points to graffiti messages in a women’s bathroom that include, “Marriage Is Slavery.”
“With different politics, personal lifestyles and general interests, it’s rare that (the groups) cross,” Glen says.
bers who are paid through a federal grant. Reilly served as a peer advocate while an undergraduate student.
Antioch’s campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
“There’s some hard-core people here, hard-core feminists, and they follow the policy. That’s their thing. Some of us live life just to enjoy. That’s our thing.” Hall says she knew when she accepted her job that there was divisiveness on the Antioch campus, but she believes she has restrained it during her tenure. Revising the original Sexual Offense Policy during the 1992 winter quarter, Hall clarified its definitions of rape, consent and sexual violation. Under the revised policy, due-process rights are now specifically spelled out, while vietims have the right to appeal a decision not in their favor and are granted more time to file a grievance to compensate for personal shock and trauma.
“Peer advocates are available to students on campus if they’re in crisis, need extra-support, need questions answered or just need to discuss something,” she says.
Through the program, peer advocates are trained to offer support and education through a five-credit course. Advocates are required to commit to the program for a minimum of two years, work at least 10 hours a week and be on-call 24 hours a day. On average, there are between eight and 14 student peer advocates on campus; Hall sees them maintaining a constant presence, bringing up program issues in classrooms and making themselves available at all hours.
But students tell CityBeat that these student peer advocates are so far out of the loop that they magnify the program’s problems.
“A lot of people don’t go to the program because of things that peer advocates have done,” DeLeo says. “My experiences with them are that they are very
Hall points out that for the original policy’s first year, Antioch’s student newspaper received no letters criticizing the program. Only after the onslaught of media attention did criticism arise, she says.
“The media onslaught traumatized campus,” Hall says. “Students gave the media what they wanted, a circus.... There are certain misconceptions about what the program is about.”
Reilly says students’ criticisms are ordinary. On every campus, some staff members simply are liked better than others.
But other students say there’s a lot more to it.
“The rumor is that Karen Hall does not have the educational background to deal with the program, Glen says.
Antioch’s Sexual Offense Prevention and Survivors’ Advocacy Program.
DeLeo says it’s more than a rumor.
“Students complained about Hall’s credentials last year,” DeLeo says. “The complaints were never answered. That’s why I don’t go to group meetings or deal with peer advocates.”
Hall earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Michigan State University. She is listed by Michigan State’s English Department as A.B.D., which means that Hall has completed all
Reilly, former peer advocate in Antioch’s Survivors’ Advocacy Program.
of her course work for an additional graduate degree in English.
“I think she’s extremely qualified for this position even though her degree is in English,” Reilly says. “She just has to be careful about stepping over boundaries.”
While at Michigan State, Hall organized the state’s first “Take Back the Night” march. Active in anti-rape causes since the late 1970s, she worked at Michigan State’s Crisis Intervention Center.
“I’m someone who learns from experi
here have unreal expectations.”
ence,” Hall says. “I’ve attended lots of conferences, training and expect to enter a graduate program in psychology at Antioch soon.”
Students run it
Some express surprise at complaints about Hall. By their definition, students run the program.
“I don’t see Karen Hall as the integral force behind the policy,” says Mathew Arnold, 22, a co-op student in the public relations department. “Students created
the policy and uphold the policy.”
To Arnold, Hall’s job simply is to maintain the program. Going off and on campus as much as they do because of the Co-op Program, Arnold says that students cannot maintain the program on their own.
Reilly agrees.
“I could see why there might be a problem if the administration had handed this down and said follow these rules, but the students said ‘We have this need’ and created it,” Reilly says. “Absolutely, students are in authority of the policy.”
But students say concerns about the program go unaddressed.
Problems with sexual violence continue at Antioch, they say, as was demonstrated last quarter when a man used a BB-gun to hold women hostage while he sexually assaulted them. Some students, unhappy with administration response, now police campus themselves, offering support to the vietims of such crimes.
Recently had the good fortune to find myself relaxing on a South Florida back porch, about dusk. was surrounded by tall trees and vines and a lush undergrowth of many different kinds of plants, for this happened to be a very overgrown suburban backyard.
Not the result of a broken lawnmower, this chaos of vegetation was quite by design. It was but one stage in the 30-some years’ evolution of your standard suburban yard: what had been a patch of grass, barren of trees.
Once a part of the Everglades, the imposing of suburbia had meant draining, dredging, filling, bulldozing and flattening this ground, until the only resemblance it bore to its native condition was in that it was ground, terra, though a good bit more firm than it had been. Perhaps terra infirma for all the loss of natural health.
could see the little fish pond, first of the projects that my friend who lived here had undertaken to reintroduce a natural wildness to this land. Over the years of my youth 1 had watched it evolve. A few sprigs of some native plant would catch hold and gradually sprawl into a dense patch, while some other well-established plants would be overtaken, by shade perhaps, and dwindle, only to be overgrown by some more shade-tolerant species. That yard was constantly changing.
Now, around the fish pond, vines wove a thick adornment, and though goldfish no longer swam there, it provided a watering place for local animals, as well as a compelling source of mystery, in its dark, murky waters.
As the daylight waned, yellow and black Zebra butterflies wove in and out among the foliage, and one by one came to rest on the wires of a hanging bird feeder. They hung there, prepared for night, their delicate wings pulsing open and closed, reminding me of the wavelike contractions of the gills of a fish. Every few minutes, another one or two zebras appeared, and finding their way to the roost, settled in. counted 10 of them.
The next day, my friend showed me some plants that provided food to other species of butterfly. One stringy little vine, a corky maypop, otherwise called passionflower, grew hidden within a healthy stand of Florida privet. The plant was a food source for the larvae of three species of long-winged butterfly: the Julia, the Zebra longwing and the Gulf fritillary.
Butterflies are very particular in their eating habits, many species being adapted to feed on a single plant species. These three species lay their eggs at different levels of the plant, sharing their home like good neighbors. Another larval host plant, a Dutchman’s pipe, trailed up a wooden fence on one edge of the lot. This plant was home to the pipevine swallowtail (oddly named, since its wings are tailless). A person bent on neatness would have weeded this struggling plant from her yard.
That a butterfly could detect and home in on this one scrawny plant, among the vast artificial landscape of suburbia, seemed nothing short of miraculous. That there might not be another such plant literally for miles seemed highly probable. The acute sensing capabilities of such a slow-moving creature were clearly beyond my comprehension. wondered: did such a creature, surely short-lived and with a finite supply of energy, search thousands of acres of croton-filled suburbia before alighting here? Was it tipped off by another comrade who'd already rested here? Did it sense just a few stray molecules wafted miles away, and beeline in?
Unable to satisfy our human curiosity, my friend and acknowledged our amazement and respect for these non-human neighbors of ours.
Later that week, watched a newly emerged monarch test her wings for the first time. She rested on a high branch for a few minutes, gathering strength into those newly unfurled wings and then rose into the air. Half flying, half carried by the breeze, she moved slowly out of sight. With her went my wishes that many more humans might be as caring as my friend for their wild neighbors.
Walnut Hills resident KAREN AMELIA ARNETT finds green, in a parking lot.
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Issues Born of Everyday Living
No Experience Necessary Rugby's appeal lies in its open acceptance with an amateur love of the game
BY MATT COOPER
“William Webb Ellis with afine disregardfor the rules offootball as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it.
A stone marker at the gates ofRugby, a school in England
For perplexed Americans that is rugby’s ultimate irony: a sport that confuses the novice started when an opportunistic young man took the simplest advantage in a game largely without rules.
We can’t really be blamed for our ignorance, of course. We’ve grown up on football and base.ball, with a host of runner-ups vying for the remainder of our weekend golf, basketball, soccer and tennis.
Rugby?
The talk turns to acrobatic feats of beer-guzzling and those sporty jerseys. (Remember the thick yellow-and-blue stripes, the white collar?) What do we know about the game? Why play? And just how tough are those guys, anyway?
We need search no further than our own backyard for answers.
The Cincinnati rugby scene thrives with time-honored tradition and new interest, competition and camaraderie, hard hits and good parties. And under it all, there is a true love of the game an amateur’s love that makes the sport a greeting party for the curious.
From elder statesmen clubs like the Queen City Frogs and Cincinnati Wolfhounds through the college ranks, it’s hard find a better bunch of guys. “This is a bad game for a jerk to play,” says Wolfhounds coach Brian Brimelow, spawning a grin that indicates jerks wind up eating turf. “You want to stay with your friends.”
Jump ahead ing in the states football. At the O’Byrne “missed was interest,” early 40s and The east-sider showed on a
He readily strongest around Frogs are no junior division
The attraction Why play clobbered? Well, despite nosed louts
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driving range and on a field better-suited for a Creature from the Black Lagoon outtake.
By day’s end, a panoply of jersey reds, blues, yellows and greens is reduced to mud brown. None is mudbrowner than the one on Matt Kuzma, who, at 5 foot 9 inches, 155 pounds, contentedly absorbed eye-opening hits, flying through the air like a discarded tin can.
The roughness might explain why there are no women’s teams locally. Barb Tinsley, 23, Clifton, who moonlights as the Kelts’ social and organizational guru, says women don’t turn out for recruiting sessions. Though she itched to play in college, she found herself to be one of the few. Tinsley can’t say for sure why the interest isn’t there, but speculates that “a big part of it is the roughness.”
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Watching Kuzma take the hits, Hassett grins. “I used to take hits like him,“ he says. “Not anymore. He’ll learn some day not to take so many.”
Kuzma’s determination epitomizes the Wolfhound practice that, under Shiels and Brimelow’s supervision, is an exhaustive regimen of drills, running and scrimmages. The Wolfhounds are the only local team playing senior-level rugby competition has always been Job No. 1, Shiels says. By contrast, the Frogs put a little more stock in the sport’s social outlets, Creager says.
Somewhere between the Wolfhounds and the Frogs lie the Cincinnati Kelts. Formed from a handful of discontent Wolfhounds, the Kelts started in January 1994,, says coach Shaun Gaffney, 39, of Mount Lookout.
Most agree it was a good move. The Kelts have spread interest in the game and are perfect for the competitive if inexperienced player.
“We’ll take anybody,” says the Kelts’ Stringer. “But they have to survive. It’s an incredible amount of running. Most players never make it to the hitting part.” Tell that to Clifton resident Paul Rettig, 27. He walked into his first rugby practice with the Kelts a few weeks ago. “I’ve always been interested in the physical, fast-paced” nature of rugby, he says.
He joined because the Kelts don’t hold try-outs. The team’s “take anybody” philosophy also sells at the college level, where the game is as much about getting in shape and making friends as it is pursuing the nuances.
“Very few people are educated about the sport,” says Shad Huffer, 20, vice president of the 40-member University of Cincinnati Rugby Club. “I think the first time they hear about rugby is when they see me handing out fliers,” he adds.
Rugby’s appeal, reduced to the common denominator, is this open acceptance, no skills necessary. That grabs strangers, buddies and brothers. And Fathers.
“It’s much more of a team sport,, ultimately,” says Father Mike Graham, Xavier University vice president for development and three-year chaplain for the club. “The whole team has to function together as a very efficient unit, almost telepathically, in some ways.”
Graham sings the game’s praises and simultaneously shrugs off its brutal nature. However, at 42, wisdom has overtaken his desire to subject a 6 foot, 4 inch, 220pound frame to the rigors of rugby.
In rugby, each team has 15 players. The eight forwards focus on winning the ball; the seven backs do most of the passing, kicking and running.
The object is to carry or kick the ball into 20-yard end zones of a 110-by-75-yard field. There are 40-minute halves and four substitutions for injuries, after those, teams go a player down.
Players advance the ball by running, passing or kicking it, though no forward passes are legal. Watch for off-sides players can’t participate unless they have the ball or are behind it.
Ball movement can resemble college football’s option: a ball carrier runs toward a sideline and forces a defender to commit, then either dishes off to a teammate or cuts ahead with the ball.
If a ball carrier is tackled, the opposing team has a chance to take possession by stripping the ball. A player downed with the ball must hand off to a teammate.
Possession not yardage is key; unlike foot-
ball, it avails the ball carrier little to break from his teammates if he finds himself surrounded by the opposition. Ball carriers will take the hit and wait for help before they’ll release possession.
And then there’s the scrum.
Its purpose is to reset play after a penalty or minor infraction. The biggest eight players of each side engage, arms intertwined as the thick necks up front lock and attempt to push each other off. The ball goes to the middle of the huddle, and both teams attempt to heel it to their backfield for possession.
The scrum is a battle of leverage and power, says J.R. Hassett of the Cincinnati Wolfhounds. “The wings and forwards are pushing in,” he says. “All of this pressure is on the necks of the three guys in the front row. They have to be meatheads.”
River Downs, horse racing’s poor relation, opens Friday. So put on your tackiest bright green polyesterjacket, match it with the plaid pants you almost threw away last year, grease up your hair with Brill cream and you’ll be ready to go to the races. Forget handicapping. The only way to PICK A WINNER is to dress the part. Oh, and if you’re into camel racing, take a road trip to Keeneland. Starting Saturday, there will be simulcasts from Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates. Quick tip: Always pick the CAMEL WITH THREE HUMPS. (See Sports listings.)
Dick Bozian, who has spent the last five years studying brains, speaks about the implications of recent neuroscience research on our understanding of FREE WILL, ADDICTION and RELIGIOUS BELIEF. If this makes you at all nervous, be thankful that he didn’t get a glimpse of your brain. (See Events.)
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Some “first-impression” questions you may ask about the title: Is it a presumptuous and pretentious literary reference that shows off the fact that two Croatan members studied literature in graduate school? Do the peopie of Croatan truly believe they’ve created an album that serves as a sequel to Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey?
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Grey says working with Kramer “really brought out all the parts that were sunken down on the first tape.” Light adds that the experience of working with Kramer, a longtime idol of his, was often as surreal as it was a learning experience.
“I was in awe just walking into (the studio),” he says, noting that such Alternative music big-wigs as Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Urge Overkill and Royal Trux have laid tracks at Noise New Jersey. “We drove all the way up there, and we get there and I just kept feeling like I was going to wake up. It just didn’t seem real. He has a meditation pyramid in the corner of the control room where you can go and meditate while you’re mixing down. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
“Chris Elliot is godlike,” Light says of the former Late Night with David Letterman scribe and star of the criminally canceled Fox comedy Get A Life.
“The (album) title comes from this one episode of Get A Life where Chris and Gus get toxic waste, and Chris becomes a genius. They’re thinking of all these things they can do with Chris’ new talent and he goes and enters all these spelling bees. And he’s going to the universe spelling bee championship, and he’s weary of doing it, so Gus tells him, ‘Come on, kid, you’ve got to do it. You’ll win that jewel-encrusted dietionary.’ And Chris turns to Gus and he says, ‘But Gus, I need another dictionary like The Iliad needs about a 100 more verses about Agamemnon.’”
JOHN KOGGE AND THE LONESOME STRANGERS Folk. The Stadium. Cover.
LUBE, OIL AND FILTER Rockabilly. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover.
MILHAUS Rock favorites. Blue Note Cafe. Cover.
The Elliot reference gives a better idea of the schizophrenic, heavy and unconventional sounds that emanate from the group’s CD. The Croatan sound is a vast, mindexpanding freefall that has the feel of that tumbling, jerking state that happens right before you fall asleep. Light’s stylishly sporadic drumming drives beneath Grey’s quivering, possessed vocals and a virtual wall of guitar to create a truly unique sonic ruin.
NOAH HUNT AND JASON DENNIE Acoustic. Tommy’s. Cover.
PAVILION MUSIC COMPANY
ORCHESTRA Big Band. Skipper’s Lounge. $5.
SHOOT THE GIFT Alternative.
Sudsy Malone's. Cover.
The band’s singularity caught the ears of underground guru Kramer. The musician/producer, who was a founding member of the performance band Bongwater, invited the group to his Noise New Jersey studio just outside New York and eventually agreed to produceAgamemnon and release it on his own label, Shimmy Disc.
STACY THE BLUES DOCTOR
WITH BLUES U CAN USE Blues. Local 1207. Cover.
STEVE SCHMIDT WITH THE RON ENYARD TRIO Jazz.
Not exactly sure why Kramer took such an interest in his band, Light suspects that Kramer felt a kinship with the group’s musical eccentricity. “Our music has a lot of weird changes and timings in it, and I think Kramer’s kind of a sucker for that stuff,” Light says.
Kaldi’s. Free.
TIME MARKET Jazz. Blue Wisp. Cover.
Says Grey with a laugh, “I was surprised he even liked us because our (first demo) tape wasn’t that good
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The result of those sessions is a complete, cohesive “album” as opposed to a series of unrelated tunes. Light says he feels the art of making a conceptually whole record has been lost with the modern-day hitmaking mentality.
“We wanted to have the listener start on song one and end on song 12 and not want to stop it or reprogram it to play in a different sequence,” Light explains. “We wanted it to be like a trip. You don’t see a lot of albums like that anymore.”
“A lot of bands try so hard to get a ‘hit,’ he adds. “They have three or four hits, and then they put songs around them. We don’t have hits.”
For the future, Croatan has plans to keep up a steady touring schedule and complete a half-finished follow-up to Agamemnon. This past winter the group tooled around the South for a month, and there are plans to stay on the road for two months this summer on the East Coast and throughout the Midwest. Even before they were signed, the band members tried to travel in short spurts as often as possible and that regimen is something that Light and Grey recommend to any band starting out.
“It’s real easy to fall into a mode where you’re just playing (Cincinnati) every couple of weeks for your friends,” Light says. “That’s cool and we like doing that, too, but you have to get people to know your name (outside Cincinnati). Even if you had a really strong demo tape and there was a label looking at you, if they can’t pick up the phone and call some club or contact in another city, then the chances are they’re going to sit back and think, ‘This record’s good and we could put it out, but how many people are going to buy it?’
At Croatan’s core are members Mark Light
Grey. (Not pictured is Nathan Craddock.)
“Nothing but good can come out of touring for a new band,” he continues. “Except the first time out you’re going to spend a lot of money. When we did it, we looked at it as expensive vacations.”
BRIAN LOVELY AND THE SECRET Alternative Rock. Tommy’s. Cover.
CRAWDADDY Acoustic Alternative favorites. Scooter’s. Free.
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BILLY LARKIN Jazz. The Promontory. Free.
BOB CUSHING Acoustic. Cloverleaf Lakes. Free.
BOB CUSHING Acoustic. Foley's Western Hills. Free.
THE DIXIE CRUISERS Dixieland Jazz. Arnold’s. Free.
JIM CONWAY Acoustic. Blind Lemon. Free.
BRIAN EWING Acoustic. Blind Lemon. Free.
LAURIE TRAVELINE, CHRIS ALLEN AND MILES LORETTA Acoustic. The Friendly Stop. Free.
DAYTON JAZZ ORCHESTRA Big Band. Gilly’s. Cover.
FANNIGAN’S ISLE Celtic. Ozzie’s. Cover.
OPEN MIC WITH GREG MEHAN, BRIAN EWING AND JOELLEN DAVIDOFF Folk. Canal Street Tavern. Cover.
PHIL DEGREG TRIO Jazz. Blue Wisp. Free.
FORBIDDEN WITH MALEVILANT CREATION Monster Metal. Sudsy Malone's. Cover.
VIBE TRIBE WITH INSOMNIA AND RAVEN HILL Alternative. Sudsy Malone’s. Cover.
FRED GARY AND DOTTIE WARNER Eclectic. Arnold’s. Free.
MARC MICHAELSON Rock. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover.
PAUL PLUMMER QUARTET Jazz. Blue Wisp. Cover.
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SONNY MOORMAN AND THE DOGS Blues. Fat Frank’s. Cover.
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ANN CHAMBERLAIN AND SHIRLEY JESTER Jazz. The Promontory. Free.
ARNOLD’S WEDNESDAY NIGHT GUYS Eclectic. Arnold’s. Free.
BEEL JAK WITH 14 AND SLUR Alternative. Sudsy Malone’s. Cover.
BLUE BIRDS Blues. Tommy’s. Cover.
BLUE WISP BIG BAND Jazz.
Blue Wisp. Cover.
BRIAN LOVELY AND THE SECRET Alternative Rock. Shady O’Grady’s. Free.
CELTIC JAM Celtic. Hap's Irish Pub. Free.
CURTIS
Tavern. Cover.
JANET PRESSLEY AND BINGO
BONGO Acoustic. Main Street Brewery. Cover.
PIGMEAT JARRETT Blues. Allyn’s Cafe.
SHINDIG Rock
Murray’s Pub.
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SMITHA-JUSTICE Classic
Scooter’s.
SONNY MOORMAN AND THE DOGS Blues. Fat Frank’s. Cover. TRILOGY Classic Rock. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover. THE WEBSTERS Alternative favorites. Salamone’s. Cover.
Coming Soon
THE BAND Bogart’s. Friday, April 21. $15. 749-4949. VAN HALEN Nutter Center in Dayton. Friday, April 21. SOLD OUT. SLASH’S SNAKEPIT WITH TAD The Newport in Columbus. Saturday, April 22. $15. 749^949. THROWING MUSES AND ASS PONYS Bogart's. Saturday, April 22. $10. 749-4949.
DREAD ZEPPELIN Bogart’s. Sunday, April 23. $7/$8 day of show. 749-4949.
THE CULT Bogart’s. Monday, April 24. CANCELED (refunds at point of purchase).
THE EAGLES Riverbend. Monday and Tuesday, April 24-25. $112.50. 749-4949.
G. LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE WITH BU BU KLAN Sudsy Malone’s. Monday, April 24. Cover. 751-9011.
JIMMY PAGE AND ROBERT PLANT Riverfront Coliseum. Tuesday, April 25. SOLD OUT. BETTER THAN EZRA WITH DISHWALLA Sudsy Malone’s. Tuesday, April 25. Cover. 751-9011. ARCHERS OF LOAF Sudsy Malone’s. Wednesday, April 26. Cover. 751-9011. COMPULSION WITH LOW POP SUICIDE AND LATTIMER Bogart’s. Wednesday, April 26. $7/$9 day of show. 749-4949.
BRAINIAC Sudsy Malone’s. Thursday, April 27. Cover. 751-9011. SONS OF ELVIS Bogart's. Thursday, April 27. $2.97. 749-4949.
HELIUM Sudsy Malone’s. Friday, April 28. Cover. 751-9011.
GRANT LEE BUFFALO WITH THRONEBERRY Bogart’s. Sunday, April 30. $7/$8 day of show. 749-4949.
STEVE MORSE Cut to the Chase. Monday, May 1. $8/$10 day of show. 721-1000.
KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS
Cut to the Chase. Wednesday, May 10. $10/$12 day of show. 721-1000. (Sale date TBA.)
AQARIUM RESCUE UNIT
Ripleys. Saturday, May 13. Cover. 861-6506.
VERUCA SALT WITH THE MUFFS Bogart’s. Wednesday, May 17. $12/$13.50 day of show. 749-4949.
ALL WITH THE TOADIES Bogart’s. Thursday, May 18. $6.50/$8 day of show. 749-4949.
JULIANA HATFIELD WITH JEFF BUCKLEY AND COLD WATER
FLAT Bogart’s. Wednesday, May 24. $10/$12 day of show. 749-4949.
WHITE ZOMBIE WITH REV. HORTON HEAT AND THE MELVINS Dayton’s Hara Arena. Wednesday, May 24. $20/$22 day of show.749-4949. (On sale Saturday.)
LETTERS TO CLEO Bogart’s. Thursday, May 25. $5. 7494949.
MORPHINE Bogart’s. Sunday, May 28. $15. 749-4949.
SIMPLE MINDS Bogart’s. Monday, May 29. $15. 749-4949.
HAL KETCHUM Cut to the Chase. Thursday, June 22. $12/$14 day of show. 721-1000. (Sale date TBA.)
TUCK AND PATTI Bogart's. Friday, June 23. $15. 749-4949. MORE, PAGE 20
New Tunes
POSITIVELY YEAH YEAH YEAH
BY JOHN M. JAMES
Mixed Genre Opportunist
Malcolm McLaren is a grand master of seizing the day’s attention, whether it be by hoax, media event or capturing perfectly the timing of a musical emergence. More of a transcultural ringleader than a musician, McLaren brought together the Sex Pistols in 1974, produced Adam Ant and Bow Wow Wow in 1980, jumped into the emerging American street Rap scene with his clever “Buffalo Gals” on 1982's Duck Rock, mixed classical grand opera with progressive dance music in 1984’s Fans and fused traditional waltz tempos into a pop sound in Waltz Darling in 1987. He knows what he wants and he knows how to get it, blending musical genres into new collages of interpretation.
And now, in 1995, his wandering imagination has ereated Paris, a soundtrack for the mind, painting images of the City of Light itself in words a slow-motion salute to the groove and seduction of Parisian mystique. McLaren presents this heady mix with his spoken-voice riffing in a poetic sense, above the “fashion runway jazz” his collective musicians have created muted trumpet calls, sweet Jazz guitar styles, whispery background vocals, tinkling piano, dead radio voices of French conversation, bits of African and Arabic rhythms, mixed among the upright bass and breathy drums pacing the stroll of this dulcet daydream.
Listen closely and hear the lush voices of Francoise Hardy and Catherine Deneuve among the French and English words, rolling off the tongue more as music than speech. This new album, on Gee Street/Island Records, has a nice bonus limited copies contain a second CD of the instrumental versions of the album, for turning off the left side of the brain and languishing within the right.
Oh, Yeah
Have you heard the official theme music played during the National Hockey League broadcasts on the FOX network? That's Steve Vai, from his new mini-album, Alien Love Secrets on Relativity Records. The new importonly CD 5-inch single from Jeff Buckley, “Last Goodbye,” contains a 14-minute version of Alex Chilton’s “Kangaroo.” #
Releases Coming Tuesday
And like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change. ABBA Thank You for the Music (Polydor), four-CD box set; Peter Case Torn Again (Vanguard); Denison / Kimball Trio Soul Machine (Skin Graft); Bob Dylan Unplugged (Columbia), vinyl release date, the CD and cassette come out April 25; Fight A Small Deadly Space (Epic), tour starts in May; Flying Saucer Attack Further (Drag City); Foetus Gash (Columbia); Marvin Gaye The Master 1961-1984 (Motown), four-CD box set; Joykiller Joykiller (Epitaph), with Jack Grisham of TSOL; the Last Poets Holy Terror (Black Arc); Mae Moore Dragonfly (Tristar); Naughty By Nature Poverty’s Paradise (Tommy Boy); Aaron Neville The Tattooed Heart (A&M); Scorpions Live Bites (Mercury); Souls At Zero A Taste for the Perverse (Energy); Terminal original motion picture soundtrack (Invisible), music by Lab Report; Gary Wright First Signs of Life (Triloka), the Dream Weaver is back with guests George Harrison and Terry Bozzio; Frank Zappa We 're Only In It For the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe, Does Humor Belong in Music? and London Symphony Orchestra Vol. 1 & 2 (Rykodisc), the first phase of their reissues of 53 Zappa titles over two months, reverting back to the Verve original analog masters, with restored and enhanced artwork, lyrics, and more.
JOHN JAMES can be found behind the counter at Wizard Records in Corryville.
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THE ORB Orb vs Terrarvm (Island).
These Englishmen are the most popular and recognizable names in Electronic music, and Orbvs Terrarvm is the perfect example of why all the acclaim is deserved. The ambient sound of tracks like “Valley” and “Montagne D’Or” are mind-expanding and resilient with occasional quirks and samples that stretch the group past the standard electronic fare. The Orb’s sheets of sound are vastly artistic and make the group the natural heir to electro-architect Brian Eno’s drafting tools.
CityBeat grade: A.
SARAH MCLACHLAN The Freedom Sessions (Nettwerk/Arista).
McLachlan is the hands-down leader of the recent crop of female singer/songwriters (sorry, Tori). Without being the slightest bit pretentious, she sings of the pains and joys of love with a lilting, precise voice that’s always strong and never melodramatic (again, sorry, Tori). This EP is comprised of strippeddown versions of her previous work and a version of Tom Waits’ “01’ 55.” Unlike P.J. Harvey’s demo-version of Harvey’s own masterpiece, Rid ofMe, McLachlan’s renditions aren’t merely skeletal, standing as a testament to the strength of the songs.
CityBeat grade: A.
OUR LADY PEACE Naveed (Relativity).
Toronto’s Our Lady Peace has all the makings of a great group. Strong vocals that recall Bono at his finest and a vital, guitar-driven sound set this band apart from
Next Thing wanna-bes. There’s an immediacy and vibrancy here, and the band’s vigorous edge is strongly emotional in the same way that groups like Live take it straight to the heart. It’s nice to see passion make a comeback in music. Our Lady Peace will perform Tuesday at Bogart’s. And it seems Robert Plant’s an OLP fan; the group opens the Jimmy Page/Robert Plant show April 25 at Riverfront Coliseum.
CityBeat grade: B.
CHANNEL LIVE Station Identification (Capitol).
After riding high on the charts with the uppity
single “Mad Izm” for the past few months, this Rap duo hits the streets running with its fantastic debut album. The ragamuffin delivery is similar to that of the FuSchnickens, but there’s an experimental quality about the music that sets this crew apart from its peers. The group also is intently self-aware and intelligent and, unlike the reckless efforts of its Gangsta counterparts, Channel Live seems to realize the power of its clever wordplay.
CityBeat grade: A.
RED HOUSE PAINTERS Ocean Beach (4AD).
RHP has made quite a reputation in underground circles with its mesmerizing, Pink-Floyd-meets-BrianWilson sound. The band’s mix of soothing melancholy and quiet suffering makes the group the house band for the Prozac nation. Unlike the disturbed abrasiveness and sadness of music like Nirvana’s, Red House Painters’ sound is representational of the numbness felt when one is tight in the throes of clinical depression. To call this “mood” music would be an amazing understatement.
CityBeat grade: A.
MONSTER MAGNET Dopes to infinity (A&M).
Though not quite living up to the intensity of the debut, Spine of God, the Magnet is back with a monster of a new release. While the last record the disappointing, self-absorbed and self-conscious Superjudge was a career stumble, Dopes is a consistently explorative and expansive journey of unnaturally natural retro guitar Rock (due to the group’s use of ancient guitar effects) and tastefully trippy and warbled vocals. Imagine Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer drinking the same dosed water that made the members of Flaming Lips lose their minds, and you’ve got a good idea what Monster Magnet is all about.
CityBeat grade: B.
GOO GOO DOLLS A Boy Named Goo (Warner Bros./Metal Blade).
The Goo Goo Dolls’ power Pop Punk drive has gotten increasingly boring over the years and with the group’s latest, the slick production and straight-ahead Rock has little that is even slightly ear-catching. The band, to its credit, amicably incorporates influences ranging from the Ramones to Superchunk. Unfortunately, the final result ends up sounding like the equally nauseating Material Issue’s long-haired, Metal cousins.
CityBeat grads: D.
SUMMARIES AND CAPSULE REVIEWS
BY STEVE RAMOS
Opening
COLONEL CHABERT Based on the novel by Honore de Balzac, Colonel Chabert, director Yves Angelo (The Accompanist and Un Coeur en Hiver) reunites two of France’s acting powerhouses, Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant, last seen together in Woman Next Door.
In the year 1817, Count Ferraud (Andre Dussollier) plots to be rid of his wealthy wife (Ardant). Her riches were accumulated under Napoleon’s reign, and the Count knows that they have become a political obstacle to his own interests. Into their courtroom .battles walks Colonel Chabert (Depardieu), an army officer believed killed 10 years earlier at the Battle of Eylau. Seeking to prove that his wife is no longer a widow, Chabert has plans of his own. For those fans of Depardieu and French historical drama, a trip up Interstate 75 may be in order. With Frabice Luchini. (Unrated; opens Friday at the New Neon Movies, Dayton.) No screening.
JURY DUTY Inspired by the shenanigans with the O.J. trial, Hollywood finds another vehicle for their favorite low-budget comedy star, Pauly Shore. This time around, Shore plays Tommy Collins, an unemployed young man who finds his jury duty gig
been in movies
to be the answer to his financial worries. Along the way, he romances another jury member, Monica (Tia Carrere), a no-nonsense law student. As long as ticket-buyers keep flocking to see Shore's movies, Hollywood will keep making them. Scary. With Shelly Winters and Brian Doyle-Murray. (Rated PG-13; opens Friday at area Showcase Cinemas.) No screening.
protect innocent woman. Bad Boys sounds like Beverly Hills Cop times two. Whoops! That’s what the publicist said. (Rated R; at area Loews Theatres.)
BILLY MADISON Comedian Adam Sandler of TV’s Saturday Night Live leaps onto the big screen in this story about a 27-year-old man, Billy Madison (Sandler), who wants to inherit his father's (Darren McGavin) billion-dollar hotel business. There’s a catch. He has to repeat all 12 grades of school in less than six months. With Bridgette Wilson and Josh Mostel. (Rated PG-13; opens Friday at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair, Biggs Place Eastgate and Westwood.)
THE PEBBLE AND THE PENGUIN Kids, are you in for a treat. Not only does MGM’s The Pebble and the Penguin offer colorful animation, a story about love and friendship and an upbeat musical score, but it also teaches a thing or two about the mating ritual of Adeli penguins. True to his penguin culture, Hubie (the voice of Martin Short) presents a shiny pebble to Marina (the voice of Annie Golden) as a token of his love. Unfortunately, Drake (the voice of Tim Curry) wants Marina for himself and plans to stop Hubie. Parents, you may cringe at the idea of Barry Manilow writing the songs, but children don’t have any anti-Manilow sentiment. Not yet. With the voice of James Belushi. (Rated G; opens Friday at area Loews Theatres.) No screening.
BORN TO BE WILD Punished by his mother (Helen Shaver), 14-year-old Rick (Wil Horneff)
actress Shelley Long (Diane of TV’s Cheers) takes a spin at portraying pulp icon Carol Brady. With Gary Cole and Michael McKean. (Rated PG-13; at area Loews Theatres.)
★ BULLETS OVER BROADWAY With Dianne Wiest taking home an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Woody Allen’s fantastic comedy returns. In this story, young playwright (John Cusack) receives tips from an unlikely source. Allen’s trademark elements of witty dialogue, quality production and stellar cast are in place. (Rated R; closes Thursday at Norwood and Turfway.)
★ BYE BYE, LOVE When done well, like the family comedy Bye Bye, Love, crowd-pleasers emerge as the mindless good times that they’re made to be. Three best friends Donny (Paul Reiser), Vic (Randy Quaid) and Dave (Matthew Modine), all recently divorced complete their weekly ritual of picking up their kids for the weekend at a neighborhood McDonald’s. Bye Bye, Love sets out with the simple goal of making people laugh and hits the target more than it misses. With Amy Brenneman and Lindsay Crouse. (Rated PG-13; at area Loews Theatres.)
TOM AND VIV Brilliant poet, awful person. Director Brian Gilbert’s Tom and Viv promises to show both sides of T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe). Based on a play by Michael Hastings, Tom and Viv looks at Eliot's marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson). From their meeting at Oxford in 1915 to her death in 1947, their time together was marked by turmoil. Often unruly, sometimes childish, Vivien was diagnosed with a mental disorder. Eliot, while writing his masterpieces like The Wasteland, finds himself incapable of facing Viv’s problems. Receiving Oscar nominations for Best Actress (Richardson) and Best Supporting Actress (Rosemary Harris), Tom and Viv wowed most critics. With Tim Dutton. (Rated R; opens Friday at the Movies.) No screening.
a residential street in a Los Angeles suburb, something a bit strange is going on. It’s 1995 and TV’s favorite predisco family, the Bradys, is still hanging around. The twist is that the world around them has moved on, but that wacky Brady Bunch is trapped in the ’70s. Keeping true to her TV roots,
CANDYMAN FAREWELL TO THE FLESH Poor Candyman (Tony Todd), he could have been a horrormovie contender, the next Freddy Krueger. Now, after this awful sequel to the hit film Candyman, he’s just a monster-bum. Farewell to the Flesh serves up tired old jolts and slashermovie imagery. Caroline (Caroline Barclay), a young schoolteacher, discovers her family possesses a close relationship to Candyman. As a result, she must face an ancient curse. Hohum. With Veronica Cartwright. (Rated R; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Love and laughter in 1957 Ireland. Considering herself fat and ugly, young Benny (Minnie Driver) falls in love with Jack (Chris O’Donnell), the cutest boy in her freshman university class. Her friends follow suit with affairs of their own. Benny may learn from this relationship
Continuing
BAD BOYS Will Smith (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) and Martin Lawrence (Martin) leap from the safe haven of successful TV sitcoms to the unknown waters of feature films. Sure, they’ve
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case, he encounters resistance from both the arresting officer, Det. Tanny Brown (Larry Fishburne) and the residents of a small southern Florida town. Director Arne Glimcher leaves behind the passionate romance of his debut effort, The Mambo Kings, and tackles author Johji Katzenbach’s best-selling thriller head-on. With Ed Harris and Kate Capshaw. (Rated R; at area Loews Theatres.)
★ LEGENDS OF THE FALL Sharing an isolated existence on a large Montana ranch, Col. William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) and his three sons Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt) and Samuel (Henry Thomas) experience some conflict when the youngest Ludlow, Samuel
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returns with his fiancee, Susannah (Julia Ormond). From the cruelties of World War I trench warfare to the hardships of a changing frontier, Legends of the Fall is the best kind of soap opera one that is larger than life. With Karina Lombard and Gordon Tootoosis. (Rated R; at Loews Florence.)
Upsetting Catholics with its director and star of \Priest face the controversy
LOSING ISAIAH Desperate for crack, Khaila Richards (Halle Berry) abandons her baby in a Chicago alley. A white social worker, Margaret Lewin (Jessica Lange), discovers and adopts the black infant into her family. Years later, Khaila discovers her son is alive and wants him back. Margaret fears losing Isaiah, and the courts will decide whether the young boy (Marc John Jeffries) will return to his birth mother or remain with his adopted family. Based on the novel by Seth Margolis, director Stephen Gyllenhaal (A Dangerous Woman, Waterland) looks to spark a debate over issues of racism and what it means to be a parent. With Samuel L. Jackson and David Strathairn. (Rated R; at Showcase Cinemas Cincinnati.)
BY STEVE RAMOS
Ndepiction of a gay pastor
othing fazes British director Antonio Bird. Not angry phone calls, nor nasty letters to newspapers, nor protests. It’s a good thing since her first feature film, Priest, which opens here Wednesday, is creating a lot of controversy.
* THE MADNESS OF KING
GEORGE Director Nicholas Hytner’s The Madness of King George peeks at the royal family’s back-stabbing, circa 1789. Life’s a bit rough for his royal highness, King George III (Nigel Hawthorne). It doesn’t help matters when one’s senses begin to fade. Plotting against the king, disgruntled members of Parliament find an ally in his son, the Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett). A renowned stage director (Miss Saigon, Carousel), Hytner uses the broader spaces of cinema to unfold playwright Alan Bennett’s story across magnificent locations. With Ian Holm. (Unrated; at the Esquire Theatre and New Neon Movies, Dayton.)
The Catholic League took out a quarter-page ad in the April 10 New York Times denouncing Priest. In an open letter, Catholic League President William A. Donohue announced a “nationwide charge against Disney [parent company of Miramax, which is releasing Priest ], making use of every legal means available from stockholder revolts to mailing in an old Disney toy or video.”
themselves more harm than good.”
For him, Priest is not simply a “gay movie.” There’s a lot more to it. “I think it’s more about prejudice, intolerance and repression,” Roache says.
It’s the church’s intolerance that Roache sees as a cause of his character’s homosexuality. “He’s a man with a genuine vocation, but he feels wrong for being gay. He’s judgmental on himself and on others. By the end of this film, he’s become more vulnerable, whole and human, and by that becomes a better priest. It doesn’t make any difference if he’s gay or straight.”
MAN OF THE HOUSE Living alone with his mom, Sandy (Farrah Fawcett), for the past five years, 11year-old Ben Archer (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is not ready to share his home with a step-dad, Jack Sturges (Chevy Chase). He has a plan. Young Ben convinces Jack to join him for some father/son games at the YMCA Indian Guides camp. If he makes Jack look really dumb, then his mom won’t want to marry him. (Rated PG; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
MAJOR PAYNE Finding his military career cut short, Maj. Bensen Winifred Payne (Damon Wayans) accepts an assignment at Madison Academy for Boys to turn a bunch of young, ill-behaved Junior ROTC cadets into a top-notch outfit. Wayans (In Living Color) and director Nick Castle (Dennis the Menace) do their best to make the movie's gags a lot funnier than its title’s play on words. With Karyn Parsons and William Hickey. (Rated PG-13; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
Rough stuff. Bird’s not worried. Speaking at a Los Angeles hotel room with her lead actor, Linus Roache, Bird admits that she’s getting used to it. When production on Priest began last year, Bird received initial approval to shoot inside an inner-city Liverpool Catholic church. Then Priest’s financier, the BBC, sent, a copy of the script to Liverpool’sCatholic bishop for approval. He didn’t give it. To no one’s surprise, Liverpool’s bishop refused Bird access to his diocese’s churches. He denounced the script as blasphemous and recommended that it be changed. The Bishop of Liverpool also asked church leaders from every denomination to turn Priest away. Luckily for Bird, the Episcopalian Church didn’t listen, and production resumed at an Episcopal property.
Roache, who plays Father Greg, finds the church’s protests a bit frustrating. In all the fuss, Priest’s qualities are being forgotten.
Originally developed as a four-part television movie, screenwriter Jimmy McGovern tells a story about young Catholic priest who finds his beliefs about the church’s role challenged by his parishioners’ needs. A young girl’s safety raises issues regarding Father Greg’s vow of confessional silence. He also has personal issues of his own. Father Greg is gay and experiences torment over his vow of celibacy.
MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE Juiced by a critically acclaimed performance of Dorothy Parklr by actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, director Alan Rudolph (Choose Me, The Moderns) looks at Manhattan in the '20s and the antics of those members of the cultural aristocracy, the Algonquin Round Table. You decide: Does Rudolph’s film portray this collection of writers, editors, poets and humorists as literary geniuses or simply a bunch of harddrinking, loose-living decadents? To no surprise, they’re a little bit of both. With Campbell Scott and Matthew Broderick. (Rated R; at the Esquire Theatre.)
A gay priest? Homosexuality within the Catholic Church is nothing new. Still, in a letter sent to Miramax and Disney, New York Cardinal John J. O’Connor described the film, sight-unseen, as “viciously antiCatholic.”
Roache thinks they’re foolish. “If they start going on with, ‘Oh, this is terrible, shock, horror,’ then they’ll do
MURDER IN THE FIRST Based on a true story from the 1940s, Henri Young (Kevin Bacon), faces unrelent-
Some Catholics might not agree. No matter how great the film, Bird and Roache know some people will be angry. Still, some Catholics feel differently. After its U.S. premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival,. Bird took questions from the audience. A man stood up and introduced himself as Father John, a Catholic. He told a hushed audience and a nervous director that he loved the film and supports it. Similarly, last month at the Berlin Film Festival, a religious panel drafted a letter to the Vatican, asking the pope to endorse Priest and to allow it to be shown in Italy. Members of the panel said they felt that Priest addressed important issues. Roache agrees. He sees Priest starting a debate and becoming a forum for change.
“This movie needed to be done,” he says. “I get this feeling that something needs to break out in the Catholic Church. Something needs to change. I didn’t feel any great sense of spirituality in the Catholic services that I went to, even though Catholic services are probably the most generous in terms of community.”
Director Antonio Bird and actor Linus Roache
So Roache and Bird just watch and wait. Returning to his native Britain, Roache hopes to pursue other film projects. Bird’s more apprehensive. America is her new home. She just finished her first Hollywood movie, Mad Love, for Touchstone Pictures which also is owned by Disney. For her, controversy has its benefits. Being in the hot seat has taught her a lot about her new home.
“He’s a man with a genuine vocation, but he feels wrong for being gay. He’s judgmental on himself and on others. By the end of this film, he’s become more vulnerable, whole and human, and by that becomes a better priest. It doesn’t make any difference if he’s gay or straight.”
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Collette. Granted, its ABBA soundtrack sticks in one’s mind for an uncomfortably long time. Still, it’s the laughter that you’ll remember most. With Bill Hunter. (Rated R; at Showcase Cinemas Cincinnati.)
★ PULP FICTION Director Quentin Tarantino has shifted from cult favorite to Academy darling, taking home an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. With wild frenzy, Tarantino mixes gun play, drug abuse and racial epithets into a series of interrelated crime tales. If Pulp Fiction did not reveal strong growth in Tarantino's technique, his personal hype might have overshadowed this fantastic film. An accurate reflection of what really makes America go round” violence,, drugs and racism. With Uma Thurman. (Rated R; at Showcase Cinemas; at the Little Art Theatre, Yellow Springs.)
★ NELL Jodie Foster, the industry’s most powerful woman, tackles Nell, a story about a young recluse who is discovered by Dr. Jerome Lovell (Liam Neeson), a local physician, and some university psychologists, including Dr. Paula Olsen (Natasha Richardson). Lovell believes Nell should be left alone and the university psychologists feel that Nell should be placed in a hospital under their care. Foster proves she can tackle a role that is far removed from how audiences perceive her (very smart, articulate and attractive) and make it work. With Jeremy Davies. (Rated R; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair, Biggs Place Eastgate.)
★ QUIZ SHOW Failing in its Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Paul Scofield’s performance as the elder Mark Van Doren, Robert Redford’s Quiz Show returns to the nation’s box offices looking for that audience that never materialized. Taking a cue from attorney Richard N. Goodwin’s book Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties, director Redford has crafted his best movie to date. With Mira Sorvino and David Paymer. (Rated R; at Norwood, Turfway and Biggs Place Eastgate; opens Friday at the Little Art Theatre, Yellow Springs.)
★ RICHIE RICH A little rich boy in real life, Macaulay Culkin has finally found a perfect role. Based on the popular children’s comic book, Richie Rich weaves a rather simple message about the importance of friendship with a light-hearted romp about kidnapped parents and a search for hidden loot. Plus, Warner Bros, unveils its first new Roadrunner cartoon, a short titled Chariots of Fur, in more than 30 years. With Jonathan Hyde and Edward Herrman. (Rated PG; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair and Biggs Place Eastgate.)
★ NOBODY’S FOOL An American acting treasure returns to the silver screen with a melancholy tale of an older man named Sully (Paul Newman), who faces up to abandoning his family in a small New England town. Based on the novel by Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool offers Newman fantastic dialogue, touching scenes and a character worthy to his abilities. With Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith. (Rated R; at Loews Kenwood Towne Center and Northgate.)
★ ROB ROY With a nod to those big-budget epics of yesteryear like Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, director Michael Caton-Jones (This Boy’s Life, Scandal) reaches into Scottish history and in Rob Roy pulls out a hero who’s worthy of cinemascope, Technicolor and all the trappings of modern Hollywood moviemaking. In 1712 Scotland, Rob Roy
OUTBREAK Inspired by recent best-selling books like The Hot Zone and The Coming Plague, screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool craft a tale about an officer from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Col. Sam Daniels, M.D. (Hoffman), who investigates a village in the African rain forest. Soon, a "hot” virus finds its way to America. Director Wolfgang Peterson (In the Line of Fire) takes real-life drama and ruins it with a blase, Hollywood action-chase ending. The story behind the making of Outbreak is more entertaining than the movie itself. With Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland. (Rated R; at
MacGregor (Liam Neeson), of the famed MacGregor clan, falls victim to theft and finds himself at the mercy of a ruthless lord, the Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt). Fighting for his family, his life, but most importantly his honor, Rob Roy takes on the marquis’ evil henchman, Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth) in a vicious battle that sweeps across the Highlands. Here, justice requires blood, sweat and tears.
Actress Jessica Lange solidifies her position one of America’s true female stars in her role as Mary, Rob Roy's wife. She provides a strong center to Rob Roy. Julia Roberts couldn’t pull off this performance. This is the kind of role that requires more than youth. It calls for stature, presence, intelligence and true stardom. Neeson has all that, too. Rugged, but believably romantic and tender-hearted, he steps into a whole new level of acting. He has been in large-scale movies before, but those films such as.
Schindler’s List always seemed larger than his performance. Here, Neeson takes hold of a massive production and makes it his own. A classic
into the Hollywood loop just long enough to earn decent money (Sayles wrote the screenplay for Ron Howard’s upcoming Apollo 13), he then steps aside to continue to craft original films that leave most Hollywood projects in the dust. Based on Rosalie K. Fry’s 1957 novella, Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, a young girl, Fiona (Jeni Courtney), longs for her young brother, Jamie (Cillian Byrne), who is believed dead. She sees him floating ashore inside a cradle, on Roan Inish, an island where her family once lived. Are ancient spirits teasing with a young girl’s mind, or is Jamie alive? Working again with cinematographer Haskell Wexler (Matewan), Sayles crafts a story so beautiful, The Secret of Roan Inish qualifies as art. Multiplexes won't know what hit them an intelligent family movie. With Eileen Colgan and Mick Lally. (Rated PG; at Showcase Cinemas Cincinnati.)
★ SHALLOW GRAVE Looking for another roommate, three friends Juliet (Kerry Fox), David (Christopher Eccleston) and Alex (Ewan McGregor)
STUDIO SAN GIUSEPPE AT THE COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST. JOSEPH Medusa, the Movement for the Education of Student Artists, is sponsoring Dream of the Earth, a weeklong celebration of Earth Day with works by students, faculty and
staff. Through April 23. 10 a.m.5 p.m. weekdays, 1:30-4:30 p.m. weekends. College of Mount St. Joseph, 5701 Delhi Road, Delhi Township. 244-4314.
★ UC HEALTH SCIENCE LIBRARY Selected Prints from Paul Wozencraft features artwork collected by the late professor emeritus of pathology at UC's College of Medicine and includes prints by Matisse, Miro, Picasso and Roualt. Opening reception: 4-6 p.m. Monday. Through June 30. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 231 Bethesda Ave., Clifton. 558-5627.
WENTWORTH GALLERY Figures, featuring the works of Kosowsky, Mierzwa, Guttman, B. Mack, as well as pieces from the Louis Fields Estate, opens Tuesday. Through April 24. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-7 p.m. Sunday. Kenwood Towne Centre, 7875 Montgomery Road, Kenwood. 791-5023.
Energy, Marks, Gesture
Mid-career retrospective hardly sums up prolific artist's work, but exposes her memories and metaphors
REVIEW BY
KIM KRAUSE
Bukang Kim, fresh from a New York solo debut at the HaenahKent Gallery this spring, is having a mid-career retrospective at the Machine Shop Gallery, presenting selected paintings and works on paper that date from 1985 to the present.
The exhibition is, to a limited extent, representative of her oeuvre; limited in the sense that it is difficult to sum up in a single exhibition an artist as prolific as Kim, even when filling a space as large as the Machine Shop.
er is forced to pause. There is space here to slow down and allow the contradictions to sink in.
Bukang Kim’s work is a unique hybrid of Eastern and Western influences brought to life and made visible through memory and the act of painting in the instant. The work is full of vital contradictions.
XAVIER UNIVERSITY GALLERY Paintings by Amy Backert. April 19-28. Noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. 3800 Victory Parkway, Evanston. 745-3811.
Galleries & Exhibits
★ ADAMS LANDING ART CENTER Five in Photography features color photos by Barry Anderson, handcolored photos by Diane Kruer, Polaroid transfers by Ann Segal, lightboxes by Connie Sullivan and installations by Michael Wilson. Through April 15. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. WednesdaySaturday or by appointment. 900 Adams Crossing, Downtown. 723-0737.
ARTERNATIVE GALLERY Features pottery by Animalia, painted silk scarves by Vera Stastny and Kymberly Henson, and new jewelry by various artists. Through April 30. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. 2034 Madison Road, O'Bryonville. 871-2218.
ARTISTREE STUDIOS Offers an array of artwork in a variety of media from artists around the Tristate. ArtisTree also offers classes, workshops and lectures. 11 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Sunday. 6818 State Route 128, Miamitown. 353-2100.
ARTS CONSORTIUM OF CINCINNATI, UNION TERMINAL Art for City Walls is a yearlong exhibit focusing local artists. Bein' Round Natti Town, a permanent exhibition, highlights the first 150 years of African-American presence in Cincinnati. 1-5 p.m. WednesdayFriday, noon-5 p.m. weekends. Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate. 241-7408. MORE, PAGE 24
The exhibition is comprised of landscapes, interiors, figures and a few “pure” abstractions. The subject matter is the stuff of everyday; a view of trees from a window, a room, a path in the woods, a standing figure. Drawing is at the heart of these paintings. Her scratchy bravura brushwork is loaded with anticipation and impatience to fulfil] its promise. Individual marks are scattered or piled together, and only through the deeply engaged experience of painting is the resolution found.
Kim’s work is a unique hybrid of Eastern and Western influences brought to life and made visible through memory and the act of painting in the instant. The work is full of vital contradictions: contemplative while formed by highly energetic marks and gestures; unusually dark yet yielding the feeling of light; triggering memories while punctuating the present.
These paintings are layered in metaphor and layered with paint. One cannot separate the images from their own making. In this way the artist’s search and journey are laid bare to be shared and explored by the viewer. In Kim’s case, this is an intimate and quiet journey inward, it is remarkable how such spontaneous, energized paint manipulations can convey light coming into darkness, stillness and timelessness.
“Bell” (1988) is a large painting depicting a room-size bell hanging from the roof beams and a timber used to strike it hanging level with the floor. The architectural space is raw and narrowed to its essential language, as are the bell and timber. Yet this piece has a quiet, powerful presence. There is a suspension of time, and the bell makes no sound. The colors are warm and inviting; the light is direct but ethereal. Like most of the pieces in this exhibition, the view-
While it appears that the work was anxiously painted, anxiousness is not a part of the experience of looking at the pieces. In “Railway” (1993), Kim has painted a small portion of the railroad tracks that can be easily seen from her studio window. The paint is applied forcefully and directly, with only a passing regard for the literal representation of the tracks themselves. Instead, we are exposed to the artist’s memories and the metaphors associated with her experience of looking at and painting the tracks. As in the making of the painting, the tracks anticipate travel but are not about traveling. These tracks are basic and necessary, and like a mantel clock, are a constant reminder that things continue to move even when we are not there to see them. There is no train; the tracks are the destination.
“Wishing Path” (1992) is strongly influenced by Kim’s life in Korea. She tells of an ancient custom that requires the walker of the path to pick up a stone, make a wish and place the stone on a mound of other stones at the side of the path that has built up over the years, sometimes for centuries.
Kim incorporates this recollection into this large landscape, and while it is unlikely that non-Koreans will directly understand the reference, the unusual blue and white marks that depict the mound of stones, and the centuries of wishes made there, is visually communicated. It is not just any path in the woods; - it is memory made visible.
Bukang Kim’s work is not only about the moment but also the recollection of the moment. It is never the illusion of something but becomes the thing itself. This look back over the past 10 years reveals an artist enthralled in the journey of self-discovery and the debate over its essential form.
This search does not lead to the East or the West, but to that place where the compass needle points inward toward the self.
BUKANG KIM/PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND PRINTS 19851995 continues through April 21 at the Machine Shop Gallery. 556-1928.
Corner Gallery features naive paintings by Covington’s Mary Bruce Sharon, and the Downstairs Gallery spotlights the Creative Youth Expo and 4th Congressional District Art Discovery. Through April 29. 10 a.m.5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-4 p.m. Saturday. 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington. 491-2030.
ARTS CONSORTIUM OF CINCINNATI, LINN STREET Art for City Walls is a yearlong exhibit focusing on local artists. 1-8 p.m. TuesdayThursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekends. 1515 Linn St., West End. 381-0645.
CINCINNATI ART GALLERIES Works by Potthast, Weis and the Wessels as well as a fine collection of Rookwood pottery. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. 635 Main St., Downtown. 381-2128.
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER
★ BASE ART Images Center for Photography’s spring exhibition is a juried show titled Renewal. Through April 22. Noon-4 p.m. Saturdays and by appointment. 1311 Main St., Overthe-Rhine. 491-3865.
Landscapes by Cincinnatian James Benesch. Through April 23. 4949 Tealtown Road, Milford. 831-1711.
★ CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI Enjoy the center’s gardens in spring and take in the 18th biennial Art Academy of Cincinnati Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. Through April 30. Works by J.A. Ritschel. Through April 28. 9 a.m.4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. 2715 Reading Road, Avondale. 221-0981.
★ BEAR GRAPHICS AND ILLUSTRATION GALLERY The Art of the Car features original illustrated automotive art by Bob Woolf, David Skrzelowski, Steve Petrosky, Tom Osborne, Mike Brann, Russ Brandenburg and David Lord. Through May 31. Noon-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday. 105 E. Main St., Mason. 398-2788.
CAFE ESPRESSO Works by Thomas Greene Jr. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday. Borders Books and Music, 11711 Princeton Road, Springdale. 671-5852.
CLOSSON’S GALLERY DOWNTOWN Presents 19th and 20th century American, European, regional, Far Eastern and West African paintings, prints and sculpture. Through May 1. Permanent collection features some of the best art by Cincinnati’s earlier artists, including Frank Duveneck, John Henry Twachtman, Herman and Bessie Wessel, Charles Meurer, William Louis Sonntag, John Weis, Charles Salis Kaelin, Julie Morrow DeForest and Henry Mosler. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, noon5 p.m. Sunday. 401 Race St., Downtown. 762-5510.
★ CAFE Z A series of lithographs by April Foster are on display. Twenty- five percent of the proceeds go to AVOC (AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati). Through May 31. 227 W. Ninth St., Downtown. 651-3287.
★ CLOSSON’S GALLERY KENWOOD Recent Paintings: Art of the Flower displays works by Melinda Bitting. A devoted birder, Bitting is the principle illustrator for a Fieldguide to the Birds of the Philippines, to be published this year by Oxford University Press. Through May 12. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 7866 Montgomery Road, Kenwood. 891-5531.
C.A.G.E. Presents Erkel’s Salon, an exhibit of local art and music. Through April 30. Noon-8 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday. 1416 Main St., Over-theRhine. 381-2437.
★ CARL SOLWAY GALLERY
★ COLLECTOR BOOK AND PRINT GALLERY Spotlights University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music [ncscnts the 1 994-95 Mainstage Season
Limbus: The Source of a Mechanical Opera is a portfolio of 65 woodcuts by Jay Bolotin, with hand-coloring, related paintings and drawings for the new opera. Through June 2. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, Saturday by appointment. 424 Findlay St., West End. 621-0069.
CARNEGIE ARTS CENTER
Paintings by Cincinnatian Aileen May are displayed in the Duveneck Gallery. Drawings and paintings by BSA founder Daniel Beard can be found in the Aileen McCarthy Gallery; the
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Barb Young’s “Dreams and Mysteries I,” a collagraph/collage on handmade paper, is on display through May 1 at Malton Gallery. abstracts and Irish sketches by Cincinnati artist Reginald Grooms, who taught art at UC for
40 years. Through June 30. There also will be a special display of Stephen Birmingham’s works. 3-6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 1801 Chase Ave., Northside. 542-6600.
SHARON COOK GALLERY Serene transitional to wild abstract imagery. The gallery represents Phoenix Art Press and Winn-Devon. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 1118 Pendleton, Over-the-Rhine. 579-8111.
DIJOHN Paintings by Fran Watson and relief sculptures by Larry Watson. Through May 31. 742 Madison Ave., Covington. 781-0623.
★ GALLERY AT WELLAGE & BUXTON Small Works on Paper highlights works by Gretchen Andres. Through April 25. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. - Saturday. 1431 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-9127.
GALLERY 48 Action Auction Art. Through April 28. The auction will take place April 20-28. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 1223 Central Parkway, Over-the-Rhine. 381-4033.
GALLERY 99 Spring showing has and varied works by 17 members. Through April 30. Noon-6 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, noon-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 1101 St. Gregory St., Mount Adams. 651-1441.
GLASS CRAFTERS STAINED GLASS STUDIO Features handcrafted stained and beveled glass miniatures, windows, lamps, mirrors and more. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. 11119 Reading Road, Sharonville. 554-0900.
GOLDEN RAM GALLERY
Original oil paintings by Nelle Ferrara. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. 6810 Miami Ave., Madeira. 271-8000.
HARROGATE Works exhibited are mostly of maritime themes including 19th and 20th century paintings, ship models and artifacts. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 3075 Madison Road, Oakley. 321-6020.
★ HASSELLE POTTERY AND DESIGN ARTS GALLERY Presents New Work in Clay by Robert Hasselle and Terri Kern. Through April 30. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 4046 Hamilton Ave., Northside. 541-1171.
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE SKIRBALL MUSEUM Contemporary Jewish and Israeli artists present Aishet Hayil: A Woman of Valor. Through April 23. 11 a.m.4 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday. 3101 Clifton Ave., Clifton. 221-1875.
★ HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT
CENTER A joint exhibit features works on paper by Haifa native Itzhak Shalhevet and stone sculptures by Andrew Barnett Davis. Through April 28. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday. 2615 Clifton Ave., Clifton. 221-6728.
★ IN SITU Elementi: Solum, Aer, Ignus, Aqua features color photographs of the Great Plains by Larry W. Schwarm. Through May 20. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 1435 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 651-4613.
★ IN SITU INSIDE Photographs, a collection of gelatin silver prints by
Margaret Silverman, is the first show to be displayed in the new exhibition space, designed especially for photography, printmaking and drawing. Through May 20. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 1435 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 651-4613.
INNER SPACE DESIGN
Currently showing works by James Brown, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelley, Robert Rauschenberg, Louis Bourgeois, Donald Judd, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Indiana, Tom Nakashima and Louise Nevelson. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. MondaySaturday. 2128 Madison Road, O'Bryonville. 533-0300.
JAMAR GALLERY Has closed and is currently looking for a new location. It will be located temporarily at 79 Locust Hill Road, Anderson Township. By appointment only. 752-1344.
★ KZF GALLERY Between Abstraction and Realism: Where to Draw the Line highlights sculpture, paintings and works on paper by. three Cincinnati-area artists: Karen Heyl, Sheila E. Yeagle and Heather Young. Through July 28. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 655 Eden Park Drive, seventh floor, Walnut Hills. 621-6211.
LEFTHANDED MOON A continuing exhibition of hand-carved and painted fimo pendants by Jeni B. and ceramic rattles by Nance Emmet. 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 48 E. Court St., Downtown. 784-1166.
★ MACHINE SHOP GALLERY
The solo retrospective, Bukang Kim: 1985-1995, includes about 40 works by the Korean artist, some as large as 7 by 8 feet, predominantly acrylic on canvas and acrylic on paper. Through April 21. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 100 E. Central Parkway, Over-the-Rhine. 556-1928.
★ MALTON GALLERY Presents The Art of Printmaking, an exhibition that explores the various disciplines of printmaking with works by Barb Young, Art Werger, Wayne Kimball, Gordon Mortensen, Norman Laliberte and Fernando Bellver. Through May 1. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 2709 Observatory Ave., Hyde Park. 321-8614.
MARITAIN GALLERY Paintings by William Schickel and prints by Georges Rouault. Through April 30. 1-5 p.m. Sunday-Friday. 127 W. Loveland Ave., Loveland. 683-1152.
MARTA HEWETT GALLERY
Exhibits contemporary fine art and crafts, including glass, ceramics and furniture, by regional and national artists. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday. 1209 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 421-7883.
MIAMI VALLEY COOPERATIVE
GALLERY Works by Judith Bogumill-Thaxton, a follower of the dada movement who wants to "resurrect humor in serious art.” Through June 30. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. 19 E. Second St., Dayton, Ohio. 513-278-2710.
MILLER GALLERY The first major show of landscapes and genre scenes in the classic French Impressionist manner by Sotiris-Corzo. Through April 29. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 2715 Erie Ave., Hyde Park. 871-4420.
★ ONE SHOT GALLERY Presents new works by Cincinnati artist Mils, with vintage political cartoons by fellow Cincinnatian Claude Shafer. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays, weekends by appointment. 658 Main St.,
Tomar Collection. Through April 22. 11 a.m.4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 7696 Camargo Road, Madeira. 561-6785.
RAN GALLERY Permanent collection includes works by Potthast, Farny and Meakins. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, noon-7 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 3668 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, OH 45208. 871-5604.
★ SEMANTICS GALLERY 47 highlights recent drawings, paintings and sculpture by David Birkey and Janalyn Glascock. Through April 22. Friday. Noon-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. 1125 Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine. 684-0102.
STUDIO SAN GIUSEPPE AT THE COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST. JOSEPH Senior Thesis II highlights works by arts seniors in their major areas of concentration and serves as a bridge to professional careers in the visual arts. Through April 17. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 1:30-4:30 p.m. weekends. College of Mount St. Joseph, 5701 Delhi Road, Delhi Township. 244-4314.
STUDIO 701 Art from the Heart showcases large and small works on canvas and paper by M. Katherine Hurley, winner of a recent Artist’s magazine award. A good look at conservative landscape work. Studio 701 of the Pendleton Art Center, 1310 Pendleton St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-4123.
THE SUN’S EYE —An exhibition of art jewelry in sterling silver and gemstones by V.L. Punkari and J. Gustafson.
of Cincinnati and Modernism features four paintings by Barnett and a recently acquired work by Chidlaw; through Sept. 4. $5 adults; $4 students and seniors; children free. 10 a.m.5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Eden Park. 721-5204.
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER
David Humphrey: Paintings and Drawings, 1987-1994 is a seven-year survey of the artist’s work; through June 18. In Bill Viola: Selected Works 1976-1989, the video artist presents a selection of videotapes exploring primal fears, darkness, the passage of time and man’s journey from birth to death; through June 18. Horizons features the work of Diane Samuels, in particular, the formation of personal alphabets, including a Hebrew prayer/poem that she “translated” into various languages. This installation is accompanied by the sounds of different people reciting the prayer and the alphabet in different languages; through May 28. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday. $2 adults; $1 students and seniors; children 12 and under free; free to CAC members; free to all on Mondays. 115 E. Fifth St., Downtown. 345-8400.
★ MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART
MUSEUM Carol Summers
Woodcuts runs through July 30. Le Corbusier: Unite features aquatints by the architect which were printed by Atelier Crommelynck in 1963 and 1965. Through Oct. 1. Forever Flowers continues through Oct. 1. Stitched, Woven and Plaited: Contemporary Craft Traditions of Africa; through June 11. 11 a.m.5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Free. Patterson Ave., Oxford. 513-529-2232.
NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER From Victory to Freedom: Afro-American Life in the '50s is a permanent exhibition featuring artifacts staged in settings reminiscent of the period. $3.50 adults, $1.50 students. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 1350 Brush Row Road, Wilberforce. 513-376-4944.
★ THE TAFT MUSEUM - Etchings by Whistler and Zorn features seven 19th century etchings. Through May 28. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Pamela R. Lessing Friedman Collection comprises more than 100 exquisitely decorated snuff bottles
dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. Through May 28. 10 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 316 Pike St., Downtown. $3 adults; $1 seniors and students; children 12 and under free. 241-0343.
Smoke and Mirrors
To produce 1927 Dracula script, Playhouse staff conjures up VOs-style special effects
BY DALE DOERMAN
When Steven Hollis was contacted last fall to direct the 1927 theatrical script version of Dracula for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, he instantly knew what he did not want to see on stage.
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“I didn’t want to see rubber prop bats flying about on strings, and I didn’t want to turn it into a drawing-room comedy. Essentially it’s a play about good and evil.”
Theater
BROADWAY SERIES Presents Andrew Lloyd Weber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Students from the School for Creative and Performing Arts will be in the show. April 18-23. 8 p.m. TuesdayFriday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. $41-$46. Taft Theatre, Fifth and Sycamore streets, Downtown. 749-4949.
The prospect of producing the original Dracula script which made Bela Lugosi famous in the title role presents challenges that reach beyond the obvious restrictions of a dated script and a sophisticated audience that is wellversed in vampire lore. With countless film versions of the story in circulation in the nearly seven decades since the Lugosi run on Broadway, and with the recent popularity of Anne Rice’s vampire novels, the staff at the Playhouse had its work cut out.
CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK Stage, TV and film veteran M. Emmet Walsh and Ralph Waite, best known as the father on The Waltons, star in the two-man cast of Ed Graczyk’s Hometown Heroes, winner of the Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize. 8 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 5 and 9 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Through April 23. $22-$29. Shelterhouse Theatre. The Rosenthal Next Generation Theatre Series, a program of performances for young people, continues with Kathy Wade’s A Black Anthology of Music. 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Saturday. $3.50 adults; $2 children 5-18. Tickets to regular performances are half-price when purchased noon-2 p.m. the day of the show. Eden Park. 421-3888.
With opening night fast approaching, designers, technicians and artists are working at full-tilt to create the mood, period and, most importantly, the special effects needed to bring to life the oldest and purest Dracula script.
Although the play is written in a melodramatic style appropriate for the time frame of the story, Hollis knows Playhouse staff must “somehow re-create for the audience how it feels for this upper-middle class family to be threatened by this other-worldly phenomenon.”
In order to meet this challenge, it would be necessary to create special effects that would startle 1995 audiences as much as the 1927 production did or more so.
Production Manager Phil Rundle has been busy over the last five months planning and exploring the technical needs and possibilities for Dracula. Blueprints and storyboards clutter Rundle’s Playhouse office overlooking downtown Cincinnati.
★ ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI Mark Mocahbee directs Suzanne and Gabor Barabas’ Holocaust drama, Find Me a Voice. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 and 8 MORE, PAGE 26
“Most people don’t have the slightest idea how much goes into preparing a production like this,” he says. “Some special effects are still in evolution.”
Rundle and the rest of the staff are in a difficult situation: How much can they give away about the special effects without letting the cat out of the bag?
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After all, five months’ work most of which is yet to be tested on stage is at stake.
Dracula’s first transformation begins with fog rising from the floor (top panel). As it does, the image of a bat is projected onto the fog (middle panel); this image morphs into that of a man (bottom panel).
Rundle begins by explaining that Dracula is somewhat different in that the set has been designed primarily to accommodate the special effects needed for the production. The aesthetic environment for,the story must first bow to the demands of the technical wizardry. In fact, the production will move onto the main stage at the Marx Theatre a few days sooner than most shows do in order to work all the bugs out and to give it a pol-
ished, yet supernatural look.
Rundle and others have been to Columbus to see special fog machines. There have been lighting meetings in New York and countless long-distance calls to their fellow associates in the trade of illusion. Flip books have been drawn to illustrate transformation sequences and CONTINUES ON PAGE 30
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SHOWBOAT
p.m. Sunday. Through April 16. $20 adults; $15 students and seniors. 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. 421-3555 or 721-1000.
FOREST VIEW GARDENS Eat, drink and enjoy Hot on Cole, a Cole Porter review. Through April 30. Reservations required. ThursdaySunday. 4508 North Bend Road, Monfort Heights. 661-6434.
★ THE FOXROCK THEATRE COMPANY Presents Eric Overmyer’s Dark Rapture. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday. Through April 23. $10 adults; $5 students and seniors. Carnegie Theater, 1028 Scott St., Covington. 541-2860.
MIAMI VALLEY DINNER THEATRE Gypsy, the musical based on the life of Gypsy Rose Lee, runs through April 29. $26.95-$34.95. Route 73, Springboro. 513-746-4554.
RUINS Mark Fox presents "object theater" with marionettes, puppets
Classical Music
★ CINCINNATI CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY Presents the Trio di Milano. The program features Beethoven’s Variations, Op. 44; Mendelsohn's Trio in C minor, Op. 66; and Dvorak’s Trio in F minor, Op. 65. 8 p.m. Tuesday. $16 adults; $8 UC faculty; free to UC students. Corbett Auditorium, UC campus, Clifton. 761-6867.
COLLEGE-CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Gerhard Samuel conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra. The program features Schumann’s Manfred Overture, Berg’s Early Songs, the world premiere of Allen Sapp's Faces of Love and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A Major. 8 p.m. Thursday. $10, free to UC students. Corbett Auditorium. Composer Sylvie Bodorova gives a lecture and recital. 3 p.m. Friday. Room 241, Mary Emery Hall. Free. University of Cincinnati, Clifton. 556-4183.
DAYTON PHILHARMONIC
Isaiah Jackson conducts, with pianist Robert Spillman. The program features Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 2, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major and Symphony No. 2 in D Major. 8 p.m. Wednesday. $12-$22. Memorial Hall, 125 E. First St., Dayton, Ohio. 513-224-9000.
CINCINNATI OPERA OUTREACH
The Arts and Humanities
Resources Center for the Elderly presents "Famous Lyricists of the American Theater,” with a tribute to Ira Gershwin. Monday. Seasons, 7300 Dearwester Drive, Kenwood. Wednesday, Maple Knoll Senior Center, 11199 Springfield Pike, Springfield Township. Friday, Pinecrest Senior Center, 3951 W. 8 Eighth St., Western Hills. All programs begins at 1:30 p.m. Free, but tickets should be picked up in advance. 369-4474.
KNOX MUSIC SERIES Music
Director Earl Rivers conducts the 60voice Knox Choir and Baroque Orchestra. The program features J.S. Bach’s St. John's Passion. 8 p.m. Friday. Free but donations are accepted. Knox Presbyterian Church, Michigan and Observatory avenues,
One-show-season Bet Pays Off with ‘Rapture’
REVIEW BY DALE
DOERMAN
Foxrock Theatre Company has wagered heavily on this year’s season by putting all its efforts into only one production. Eric Overmyer’s Dark Rapture plays with the theme of reality vs. illusion in some very interesting ways. And not unlike cinema’s hot favorite Pulp Fiction, the play also deals humorously with the underworld, bumbling criminals and deals gone bad.
Fortunately for Foxrock, the wager pays off: The season is, in most respects, a hit. (No pun intended.)
Dark Rapture is a story about surviving catastrophes, specifically a California wildfire that consumes a home and possibly $7 million in mob money on the way to the laundry. Also missing is the estranged husband of the Hollywood producer responsible for the larcenous loot. The entire story is little more than a series of intellectual chase scenes and identity puzzles, but with Overmyer’s talent pushing the pen, it works well.
Director Rene Marrero has assembled a solid cast that is up to the task of presenting this 16scene, two-actfilm noir tribute. Many of the actors portray dual roles.
Matt Wehner is understated as Ray, who could be the missing husband. Stephanie Lunn convincingly portrays Julia the producer, a power-hungry Hollywood carnivore with ice water in her veins. Charles Killian is delightful as Lexington, one member of the main mob duet; while Darryl Hilton gives solid support as his straight man and partner in crime.
★ CINCINNATI BALLET Spring Dance Festival II features a series of one-act ballets. Frederic Franklin choreographs Pas De Dix; Cincinnati Ballet Director Peter Anastos choreographs Gloria, and Frederic Franklin choreographs “Pas De Deux,” taken from the full-length ballet Sylvia. 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. $9-$48. Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. 749-4949.
Comedy
Tony (Michael Bath) and Ron (David Levy) provide actual menace to this otherwise benign underworld story. Christine Whitley is wonderful as Renee, Ray’s Cuban lover whose father has a secret claim to fame. Mary Tensing as Max, Ray’s other lover, isn’t quite as convincing in her role as the outlaw with a past hiding out in Key West, Fla. Marrero acquits himself nicely as Babcock, a mysterious man with a past and just as mysterious a future.
GO BANANAS Alan Proffitt and Mary Beth Reisenberg through Sunday. Steve Barrett and Todd Tony open Wednesday. 8:30 and 10:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. $5 weekdays, $7 weekends. 8410 Market Place, Montgomery. 984-9288.
COMEDY NIGHT Angela
Montgomery, Jerry Lee, Paul Filipi and Darryl Williams. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Free. TJ’s, 7851 Tanners Lane, Florence. 647-0100.
Buz Davis has designed a set of vertically arranged rectangles that shift from scene to scene reflecting a change but not a specific locale; set dressings, furniture and props more closely identify each scene. With black backdrops upstage, the focus remains squarely on the characters where it belongs. If this were a movie, much of it would be shot in close-up.
Angela Warden’s lighting is imaginative and effective in its ability to cover myriad locations with limited means her opening “night fire” sequence is a good example of the economy and control exercised throughout. It’s a shame she doesn’t have more to work with.
Dark Rapture is a strong play with familiar and unusual moments that keep you thinking. You don’t have to work to understand anything, but it does encourage an odd reflection. It remains at almost the same pace from beginning to end, whether the scene is steamy sex in a hotel room in Cabo San Lucas or an underworld rendezvous at a greenhouse in Santa Barbara, Calif.
But the pacing is a large part of the production’s style and, through the course of the play, serves to reinforce its conclusion: Fate is the hunter, so watch out.
DARK RAPTURE continues at Covington’s Carnegie Theater through April 23. 541-2860.
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JOANNA LUND This Iowa housewife, who lost 130 pounds, gives a cooking demonstration from her Healthy Exchanges Cookbook. 7-8 p.m. Wednesday. Books & Co., 350 E. Stroop Road, Dayton, Ohio. 1-800-777-4881.
DR. MARY ANN MALLOY The Chicago-based cardiologist and author of The American Heart Association Cookbook signs and discusses her book. 7-9 p.m. Wednesday. JosephBeth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
★ ED MCBAIN The author of the 87th Precinct mystery novels introduces Romance, the 46th in the series. 7-8 p.m. Tuesday. Books & Co., 350 E. Stroop Road, Dayton, Ohio. 1-800-777-4881.
JOSEP NOVAKOVICH The author signs and reads from Apricots From Chernobyl, his collection of essays on life in the former Yugoslavia. 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Impure Thoughts
Lack oflanguage 'purity ’ led native Yugoslavian to write in English; collection of essays results
BY BILLIE JEYES
IRENE OPDYKE As a Polish Catholic teen-ager during WWII, Opdyke risked her life to save Jews fleeing Nazi oppression and recounts her true story in Into The Flames: The Life Story of a Righteous Gentile. She will sign her book and speak on the subject. 4-6 p.m. Saturday. JosephBeth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
Like many exiles, Josip Novakovich is nostalgic for his homeland. Unlike most, the country he left behind no longer exists.
Croatians are trying to “purify” the language by getting rid of the artificial layer.
Groups
CHRISTIAN WRITERS’ FELLOWSHIP Critique group meets at 7:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of the month at Vineyard Community Church, 1391 E. Crescentville Road, Springdale. 521-1913.
CINCINNATI PLAYWRIGHTS Critique group for playwrights meets at 7 p.m. every Monday at the Carnegie Arts Center, Robbins and Scott streets, Covington. 556-3914.
His collection of essays, Apricots From Chernobyl (Graywolf, $12.50), provides a revealing glimpse into a world with which most Americans are unfamiliar. Though Novakovich writes in English, the influence of his native language lends character and originality to his prose.
CINCINNATI WRITERS PROJECT Support group for writers of every genre offers monthly meetings. 689-5283.
CINCINNATI WRITERS PROJECT FICTION CRITIQUE GROUP Meets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Arnold’s Bar & Grill, 210 E. Eighth St., Downtown. 441-5573.
GREATER CINCINNATI WRITERS LEAGUE Critique group meets at 8 p.m. on the second Friday of every month at the Regency, 2444 Madison Road, Hyde Park. 753-5697.
Novakovich teaches creative writing at the University of Cincinnati and has just released a useful guide for writers working on their own, titled Fiction Writer’s Workshop (Story Press, Born in Yugoslavia, he was the youngest of five children. His father was Croatian, his mother is half Slovenian, half Croatian.
LET’S TALK ABOUT HUMOR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE The Campbell County Public Library continues its reading series with a discussion of Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities. A free sandwich supper sponsored by the Friends of the Library will be provided at 5:30 p.m. Monday. 3920 Alexandria Pike, Cold Spring. Reservations: 781-6166.
“There were very few Baptists, around 3,000,” he says. “I had the bad luck to be one of them. Baptists were despised as the new believers. To my mind, most of society was the enemy.”
The inaction of the West in the Yugoslavian conflict has been particularly frustrating for Novakovich. “Even more frustrating is the embargo,” he says. “You can’t expect others to fight your wars, but you can expect them to sell weapons. The West is willing to sacrifice their economy to help the aggressor. In any war, the West was extremely happy to ship arms. If you have a balance of power, you can have negotiations.”
Novakovich left Yugoslavia in 1976 at the age of 20 to study in the United States. After graduating from Vassar with a B.A. in psychology, he obtained a Master of Divinity at Yale. But, during his studies, he grew disenchanted.
“My English deteriorated there because theology is so badly written,” he says. “It definitely damaged my syntax. It was tedious.”
Novakovich started writing in his adopted tongue during this period.
“When I was bored during my theological studies, I began to write in Croatian. But when I mailed my work to the editors, they said it wasn’t pure enough.
“In the 1930s,” he explains, “Croatian was forced to become partly Serbian, for peaceful co-existence.” The language metamorphosed into what Novakovich calls “Yugoslavian/Croatian,” and now the
“It is good,” he continues, “although I’m nervous about ethnic purification of the language. The Serbs are doing the same thing, getting rid of Turkish words.
“As kids, we learned both alphabets. One day a week, lessons would take place in Serbian Cyrillic. The torture of having to write in Cyrillic contributed to the hatred of the Serbs,” he says, half in jest.
“I didn’t know there were any ethnic groups until I was 12, For a while, there was a Yugoslav identity. I didn’t know that it was the suecess of Tito’s dictatorship. I did realize that I lived in a police state. ‘Brotherhood’ and ‘Unity’ were mottoes, names of major highways. There was no ‘Sisterhood.’ The whole premise was chauvinistic.”
Novakovich, who describes himself as being “in remission” from religion, went on to attend the University of Texas in Austin where he earned an M.A. in ereative writing.
He tries to go back to his hometown of Daruvar at least once a year. His last visit was in the winter of 1994. “It was very boring,” he says. “You’d expect some excitement in a war zone. The economy is paralyzed, and the people are tired of repeating their stories.”
One of his sisters,. Vinkovci, was hit by shrapnel. “She recovered, but her husband is dead. He got cancer, stomach cancer. This wouldn’t have happened because of the war. There were very few people left. He paid for his courage, stubbornness. He was very religious. He transcended his fear through faith. He died with dignity, a beautiful death. Everyone around him is proud of him. His funeral was very large despite the fact that he was a factory worker.”
With the publication of Apricots in Chernobyl Novakovich seems somewhat relieved, as if the essays have finally achieved their cathartic effect.
“Now that I’ve dealt with the crisis in Yugoslavia,” he says, “I’m writing more fiction again. His short story collection, Yolk (Graywolf), is due in September.
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH will read from, discuss and sign books at Joseph-Beth Booksellers. 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday. He will also read from his work at the York Street International Cafe at 8 p.m. April 26.
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POETRY CRITIQUE GROUP
Poet Carol Feiser Laque is interested in starting a critique group. Call 871-0521 by Saturday.
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL
JOURNALISTS Organization of working journalists and writers offers monthly programs, monthly newsletter and subscription to national Quill magazine. Local and/or national dues. Marc Emral, 683-5115.
WRITERS WORKSHOP Open to all emerging writers, the workshop meets once a month to discuss and share works in an open forum atmosphere. $3. Arts Consortium of Cincinnati, 1515 Linn St., West End. 381-0645.
ALBERT B. SABIN CONVENTION CENTER Registration for the 92nd National Catholic Education Association Conference begins 8 a.m. Tuesday. Sessions begin at 9 a.m. with a liturgy 4-6:30 p.m. Through April 21. $150 per day. 525 Elm St., Downtown. 352-3750.
★ THE ARTIST IN EVERY WOMAN Crazy Ladies Bookstore presents weavers Wendy Linck and Shelley Lindsey. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Free. 4041 Hamilton Ave., Northside. 541-4198.
PAUL J. BERGMAN The investment adviser discusses "Money Management.” 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood
Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
★ COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: SEEKING QUESTIONS ON ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE
Barbara Barders, dean of Raymond Walters College, moderates "The Definition of World” with panelists Martin Walker, American bureau chief of The Guardian and author of The Cold War; Richard Blumberg, founder of Productivity Online Inc.; and William Vocke, president of the Greater Cincinnati Council on World Affairs. 7-9 p.m. Tuesday. Raymond Walters College Theatre, 9555 Plainfield Road, Blue Ash. 745-5600.
★ THE FREE INQUIRY GROUP Presents Richard Bozian, M.D., who discusses the implications of recent neuroscience research in understanding free will, addiction and religious belief. 7:15 p.m. Tuesday. Free. Geier Center, Gilbert Avenue and Elsinore, Eden Park. 557-3836.
GREEN UP DAY Help out on one of 30 conservation projects of the lower Caesar Creek Valley. A celebration party takes place after the work sessions with food, raffle prizes and a recycling drive. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Caesar Creek State Park, 8570 East State Route 73, Waynesville. 513-897-1050.
MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM BROWN BAG LECTURE
Alan and Linda Straus present Nepalese Adventure, a free slide talk on their travels. Noon Wednesday. Auditorium, Patterson Ave., Oxford. 513-529-2232.
THE POETRY OF POTTERY: THE ART AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST In conjunction with its Singing the Clay exhibit, the Cincinnati Art Museum offers a three-part seminar on pueblo pottery. 1:15-2:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25 and May 2 or 10:15-11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 29 and May 6. $24, $18 students and-seniors, $15 members. Advance registration is required. Eden Park. 721-5204, Ext. 293.
TAFT LECTURE Louis Nirenberg of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday in rooms 527 and 801 of Old Chemistry, respectively. UC campus,
Cincinnati CityBeat in association with Cincinnati Arts Festival, Inc. is publishing the official program guide for this year’s Fifth Third Bank Art on the Square festival. The guide will feature extensive
of the event, including a venue map, entertainment schedule, artist profiles and other fun and interesting features about art. Here’s a
opportunity for you to place your sales message in front of consumers at a
Clifton. 556-2772.
UC ALUMNI LUNCHEON SERIES
UC President Joseph Steger presents "Visions of the Future." Lunch begins at noon, with the lecture following at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday. $14. Westin Hotel, at Fountain Square, Downtown. 556-4344.
579-9735.
CHATEAU LAROCHE A one fifth scale medieval castle. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. weekends. $1. 12025 Shore Drive, Loveiand. 683-4686.
CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Newly opened interactive museum. Hollie Nesbit and her environmentally conscious puppets perform. 1:30 and 3 p.m. Sunday. Noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. $6 general admission; children under 5 pay their age in dollars. Longworth Hall, 700 W. Pete Rose Way, Downtown. 421-5437.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BREWING HISTORY AND ARTS
Houses the largest display of brewing and beer artifacts in the world.
CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM Features the permanent exhibit, The Early Volunteer Fire Fighters of Cincinnati. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. TuesdayFriday, noon-4 p.m. weekends. $2.50 adults: $1.50 children 2-12. 315 W. Court St., Downtown. 621-5553.
10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. $4 adult tour and tasting: $3 adult tour only: $2 beer tasting only; under 12 free. Oldenberg Complex, Interstate 75 at Buttermilk Pike, Fort Mitchell. 341-2802.
B8 R1VERBOATS Lunch, dinner, sightseeing cruises. Cruises depart from BB Riverboats base at Covington Landing. $4.50-$27.95. 261-8500.
BEHRINGER-CRAWFORD MUSE-
CINCINNATI HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM The museum has been collecting and preserving materials related to the Cincinnati area since its foundation in 1831. Howard Bros. Miniature Circus, a 4,000-square-foot scale model through Sept. 10. Permanent exhibits include Cincinnati: Settlement to 1860, and Cincinnati Goes to War. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. $4.95 adults; $2.95 children; members free. Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate. 287-7030.
UM Housed within the historic Devou family home, it is the only museum of Northern Kentucky natural and cultural heritage. On display is the Harlan Hubbard Collection, donated by Hubbard in 1985. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. weekends. $2 adults: $1 students and seniors. Devou Park, Covington. 491-4003.
BENNINGHOFFERN HOUSE
CINCINNATI MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Dinosaurs A Global View, through April 30. The Space Art of James Hervat; through May 14. Cincinnati's Ice Age: Clues Frozen in Time is a permanent exhibit. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. $4.95 adults; $2.95 children; members free. Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate. 287-7020.
CINCINNATI PLANETARIUM
This restored Victorian mansion, built in 1861, provides the setting for the Butler County Historical Museum.
1-4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $1 adults: free children 12 and under. 327 N. Second St., German Village, Hamilton. 513-893-7111.
Native American Skies; 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; through May 28. Sting narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf: A Laser Tale; 7 p.m. Friday; 2, 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday; 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday. $4 adults; $3 children 12 and under. Laser Nine Inch Nails/Ministry; 9:30 p.m. FridaySaturday. Lazerpalooza; 8:15 and 10:45 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Laser Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon; midnight Friday-Saturday. Laser Floyd: The Wall; 8:15 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Laser rock shows are $6. Geier Collections and Research Center of the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, 1720 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills. 395-3663.
★ CINCINNATI RAILROAD CLUB INC. The recently renovated historic railroad control tower is now open to the public. On view in Tower A are the tracks diagram board, train dispatcher desk and largest railroad library in the United States. Free. 10 a.m.4 p.m. Saturday. Fifth floor, Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate. 651-RAIL. CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDEN As part of the 1995 Spring Floral Festival, Hearts and Flowers, the Southwestern Ohio Daffodil Society presents its show at the Coors Pavilion. 1-5 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Free with zoo admission. Take an armchair safari to Polar Bear country. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. $7.50
Free for Cincinnati residents, children 5 and under, and school groups; $2 adults; $1 children, seniors and groups of 25 or more. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday, 10 a.m.5 p.m. Thursday-Tuesday. 1501 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park. 421-5707. LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE Built in 1873, the brick house served as a school for 63 years. Restored by the Indian Hill Historical Society, it is now a museum. By appointment only. Free. 8100 Given Road, Indian Hill. 891-1873.
MIMOSA MANSION Built in 1853-55 as a Tuscan villa, the house features two player grand pianos: a Mason and Hamlin and a Chickering. 1-6 p.m. weekends. Group tours available by appointment. $4. 412 E. Second St., Covington. 261-9000.
PARAMOUNT’S KINGS ISLAND The amusement theme park reopens Saturday. 9 a.m.-lO p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday.
FIGURE SKATING CLUB OF CINCINNATI Meets 6:10-8 p.m. every Wednesday. Northland Ice Center, 10400 Reading Road, Evendale. $6.50 guest fee.
FRIDAY NIGHT HIKE 7 p.m. Friday. The Oval, Mount Airy Forest, Mount Airy. 829-9739.
★ MAX’S SAND VOLLEYBALL Begins its spring season 6:30-9:30 p.m. Monday. People interested in signing up for sixes, quads, triples and doubles leagues should call. 2135 Stapleton Court, Forest Park. 576-1381.
MIAMI GROUP OF THE SIERRA CLUB The Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club outings canoeing, kayaking, hiking and backpacking are open to the public. 841-0111.
ORIENTEERING CINCINNATI
All events have free instructions for beginners. Bring a compass. 11 a.m.1 p.m. Saturday. $3, $4 non-members. McFarland Woods, Montana Avenue, Westwood. 861-3840.
OVER-THE-LINE SOFTBALL
LEAGUES Also known as ThreeOn-Three Softball, the game differs from conventional baseball in several ways: Teams consist of three players and one optional hitter: the field is triangular in shape and approximately one-third the width and equal in length to a standard softball diamond; the batting team supplies its own pitcher; and there is no running, as "ghost-runners” are used. The object of the game is to hit the ball over a line 55 feet from home plate and between home plate and between foul lines. The season begins May 5. The cost is $60 per team and registrations are currently being accepted. 521-PARK.
★ THE SAND COURTS The new sand volleyball complex is offering men’s, women's and coed leagues. Tournaments will be held on various weekends throughout the summer. Free instructional clinics will be offered the last two weekends in April and are open to the public. Knights of Columbus’ sports facility, 3144 Blue Rock Road, Colerain Township. People interested in entering their team should call 385-0240.
★ TOUR DE WEDNESDAY Tour
de Wednesday is a joint Sierra Club/Cincinnati Cyclery Club activity for intermediate bicyclists. 10 a.m. every Wednesday. All riders must wear ANSI-approved bicycle helmets. Call 752-9639.
’95 CABIN FEVER FISHING
SERIES The fourth annual amateur fishing tournament continues
UNITED WAY HELPLINE Provides counseling, support-group information, crisis intervention and assistance 24 hours a day. 721-7900.
WOMEN’S ART CLUB OF CINCINNATI Meets at 1 p.m. the second Saturday of every month. Room 501, 1310 Pendleton St., Overthe-Rhine. 522-0117. YWCA PROTECTION FROM ABUSE PROGRAMS Alice Paul House and House of Peace emergency shelters providing housing, advocacy and support
Auditions & Opportunities
the Point, Riverfest USA, Old Spice Tournament of Champions, Tall Stacks Tom Sawyerville, Sunkist/A&W Scare Fest and Honda Starlight Celebration. Call Audrey Bell at 352-4606.
CINERGY COLLECTION Artists 18 and older who reside in the Tristate can submit 35mm color slides of their work for the juried exhibition. Works in all media are eligible but must not exceed 60 inches in any direction. April 24 is the deadline. 1-800-428-3534, Ext. 3404.
FIFTH THIRD BANK ART ON THE SQUARE Volunteers
11 heures. Bienvenue aux etudiants, professeurs et connaisseurs de la larigue frangaise. Baba Budan’s Espresso Bar, 243 Calhoun St., Clifton. 221-8952 or 556-7474.
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS An agency that works with people with disabilities to achieve goals of independence. 23 E. Seventh St., Suite 601, Downtown. 241-2600.
Contemporary Dance Theater will bring NYC’s Bebe Miller Company to the Dance Hall for three concerts, April 21-23. Fund-raisers for CDT coincide with the
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER
Miggie Jacobs, a judge for the American Daffodil Society and the Garden Clubs of America, presents "Daffodils by the Dozens.” 2-4 p.m. Saturday. 4949 Tealtown Road, Milford. 831-1711.
7 a.m. Saturday. Anglers fish for trout, crappie and bluegill as they compete for prizes and gift certificates. $30 per two-person team includes boat rental. Registration begins at 5 a.m. Miami Whitewater Forest, Mount Hope Road, Crosby, Whitewater and Harrison townships. 791-3872. performances.
CLIFTON COUNSELING CENTER Serves the gay, lesbian and bisexual communities with support and therapy groups. "Flesh and Spirit Gatherings” are designed for gay/bisexual men integrating sexuality and spirituality and meet at 7 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of every month. $20. 411 Oak St., Clifton. 221-2299.
Tuesday for the next New Citizens Project Test, scheduled for June 10. The non-profit group also offers English for the foreign born, immigration counseling, application assistance, finger printing and photos. 707 Race St., Suite 300, Downtown. 721-7660.
THE GREATER CINCINNATI LITERACY TASK FORCE Dedicated to providing services for those who cannot read or write, its members promote community awareness of the adult literacy problem. 621-7323.
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI Offers a garden variety of classes, including a Strawberry Jar Workshop, 10 a.m.noon Tuesday. 2715 Reading Road, Avondale. 221-0981.
INTER-ETHNIC COUNCIL OF GREATER CINCINNATI Its mis sion is to provide a forum for ethnic and nationality groups in the area, to meet and educate its members and the public and to promote the values of a multicultural society. 721-7660.
★ CONTEMPORARY DANCE
NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY If you’re tired of government inaction on manned space development, join the fledgling local chapter, which will hold its first meeting in May. 941-5270.
THEATER Offers classes in tap, jazz, ballet, modern dance, African dance, creative movement for children and yoga. Artists from Bebe Miller Company present workshops and classes during their residency, starting with an improvisational class, 7:45 p.m. Wednesday. The Dance Hall, Vine Street and East Daniels, Corryville. 751-2800.
PARENTS WITH HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN SUPPORT GROUP Meets at 6:45 p.m. every third Thursday of the month. Cincinnati Bible College, Room 251, 2700 Glenway Ave., Price Hill. 541-9073.
QUEEN CITY SWEEPERS Sweepstakes enthusiasts can join the local club and keep up on up-to-date info on local and national sweepstakes as well as discover tips for winning. 3 p.m. Saturday. Free. Perkins restaurant, 9307 Montgomery Road, Montgomery. 1-800-409-1442.
FLYING CLOUD ACADEMY OF VINTAGE DANCE Offers classes in 19th and 20th century social dance. 8 p.m. Wednesdays. $3 members; $5 non-members. University YMCA, 270 Calhoun, Clifton. 351-7462.
MODELING WORKSHOP Learn how the modeling and talent industry works. Meetings take place 7:30-9 p.m. every Tuesday.
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CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S MUSEUM The new interactive museum needs volunteers. 421-6136, Ext. 217. Longworth Hall, 700 W. Pete Rose Way, Downtown.
CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUZUKI STRINGS PROGRAM This program, in its 11th year, offers more than 270 children the opportunity to learn to play a stringed instrument. Your donation will be matched by the Corbett Foundation. 929-2419.
CINCINNATI RECREATION COMMISSION The CRC needs volunteers for Kahn's Kids' Fest, Picnic on
TALL STACKS The Greater Cincinnati Tall Stacks Commission is seeking volunteer supervisors for the Oct. 11-15 event. 397-0555.
VOICES AND VISIONS OF URBAN YOUTH Filmmakers
Spike Lee, Marcus Turner and Hark Bohm will judge the photographers, videographers and filmmakers’ completed work, which should supersede the negative, commercialized and stereotypical images of youth and expand the margins and assumptions constructed around “minority imagery.” Artist application deadline is June 1; film and video, Sept. 1; visual art. Sept. 15. The conference will take place Sept. 22-Oct. 1. 721-2777.
1995 GREATER CINCINNATI MATH COMPETITION KUMON
U.S.A. is sponsoring the citywide math competition that is free and open to any student, in grades 1-6, through April. The winner will receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, second place will receive one for $50 and third place will receive one for $20. All three winners will receive trophies. Call 281-0743 by April 30.
1995 APPALACHIAN FESTIVAL
The May 12-14 festival at Coney Island, which celebrates the area’s rich mountain heritage with downhome entertainment, crafts, food and cultural attractions, needs volunteers. Applicants must be at least 18. Call Jerry Sebastian at 441-8464.
1995 COMMUNITY ART EXHIBIT
To qualify, artists must reside in eastern Hamilton, Clermont, or western Brown counties. Up to three pieces, properly mounted, may be submitted and should be dropped off at UC Clermont College 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. May 8-11. 4200 Clermont College Drive, UC Clermont College, Batavia. 248-2128.
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dents and seniors. The Dance Hall, Vine and East Daniels, Corryville. 721-1000.
SORG OPERA COMPANY
Presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s lolanthe. 8 p.m. April 21-22. $15-$25 adults; $7.50-$12.50 full-time students 21 and under. Sorg Opera House, 63 S. Main St., Middletown. 513-425-0180.
DAYTON CONTEMPORARY
DANCE THEATER Bring your lunch and enjoy Dance & Dialogue. Noon April 21. Free. 126 N. Main St., Dayton, Ohio. 513-228-DCDC.
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA Jesus L6pez-Cobos conducts, with Alicia de Larrocha on the piano. The program features Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BMV 565; Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466; Cordero's Fanfarria Jubilosa; and Villa-Lobos’ Bachiana Brasileiras Nos. 4 and 8. 11 a.m. April 21, 8 p.m. April 22. $10426. Music Hall, 1241 Elm St„ Over-the-Rhine. 381-3300.
THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE
Classical pianist Karen Walwyn performs works by Liszt, Adolphus Hailstork and Louis Gottschalk. 3 p.m. April 23. $5. Dayton Art Institute, 456 Belmonte Park North, Dayton, Ohio. 1-800-797-5500.
ATHENAEUM CHORALE
Presents Easter vespers. 7:30 p.m. April 23. Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, 6616 Beechmont Ave., Mount Washington. 231-2223.
★ THE ECHTERNACH FESTIVAL
ORCHESTRA OF LUXEMBOURG
The orchestra composed of music faculty and students from Miami University, the Luxembourg Conservatory of Music, musicians from the Radio-Television Luxembourg Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Boychoir performs Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.
8 p.m. April 28. $10 adults; $5 students and seniors! Millet Hall, Miami University, Oxford. 513-529-7592.
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY SUMMER DINNER THEATRE You're A Good Man Charlie Brown runs June 22-July 1. Play It
Again Sam runs July 7-15.
Romance Romance runs July 20-29.
Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m., the show at 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. On Sunday, dinner begins at 5 p.m. for a 6:30 p.m. show. $7 adult; $6 NKU faculty; $5 NKU students. Black Box Theatre, Fine Arts Building, Highland Heights. 572-5433.
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CUSTOM DESIGNED
DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE
CINCINNATI OPERA BALLET CORPS Auditions take place
ONIYONE BLOCK FROM FOUNTAIN SQUARE!
MONA TAPP Eclipsed Pulse is a multimedia performance incorporating dance, acting, slides, music and poetry. 8 p.m. April 20-22. $7. Gabriel’s Corner, corner of Sycamore and Liberty, Over-the-Rhine. 241-6553.
On-site management
1 p.m. April 23. Dancers must be at least 15 and should bring both point and character shoes and may arrive at noon to warm up. No appointments necessary. Ballet Studio, Emery Center, 100 E. Central Parkway, Fifth Floor, Over-the-Rhine. 621-1919, Ext. 226.
★ CONTEMPORARY DANCE
THEATER CDT’s 1994-95 concert series continues with Bebe Miller Company, an acclaimed New York dance company. 8 p.m. April 21-22, 7 p.m. April 23. In conjunction with the performance, CDT holds its “Silent Auction Fund-Raising Benefit.”
Bidding for auction items takes place April 21-22; there will be a special raffle April 23. $15 adults; $10 stu
Events
TAFT LECTURE Lynn Hunt, the Walter H. Annenberg professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, presents “The Revolutionary Origin of Human Rights," 3 :30 p.m. April 20
everyone, especially Hollis, is laboring away in the hope that it will all come together in the final two weeks of rehearsal when the technical elements are worked into the production.
It’s a process, a refinement, built on trial and error. For instance, there is a scene, by now an oftimitated one, in which vampire-hunter Van Helsing comments to Count Dracula that he failed to observe the count’s reflection in the mirror. This enrages Dracula who then smashes the mirror with a vase. The script calls for a full-length mirror, but since there is no place to attach such a mirror in the Playhouse set, other possibilities had to be tested. Staff tried using a hand mirror, but it didn’t have nearly the desired effect.
The effect being tested calls for Van Helsing to hold a cigar box with a mirror on the inside lid. When Dracula is upset by Van Helsing’s remark instead of throwing a vase at the mirror he will shatter the mirror with psychic energy (a striking device is hidden in the box) and cause the box to fly from Van Helsing’s hands and across the room.
At least that’s the current plan.Audiences will have to wait for opening night April 20 to discover how well the effect works or whether it has been replaced by another technique.
Back at the Scene Shop
There are four major special effects and many minor special effects throughout the Playhouse’s Dracula. A tour of the Gilbert Avenue Scene Shop provides a behind-the-scenes look at the set andsome of the effects in construction.
and "Women’s Rights and the French Revolution," 3 p.m. April 21. Both lectures are free. Room 127, McMicken, UC campus, Clifton. 556-2772.
COLLEGE WEEKEND RETREAT
Fifteen students from local colleges are organizing the April 21-23 retreat that is open to students of all denominations; $55 includes hot meals, sleeping accommodations and material. St. Francis Spiritual Center, 10290 Mill Road, New Burlington. 825-9300.
Attractions
THE SHOW HOUSE The Tudor style home, built in 1931, boasts gargoyles, stone-carved canines and hand-painted murals on the exterior; elaborate plaster casts and wood carvings on the interior. April 23-May 14.10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. $10 at the door. Sponsored by the Dayton Philharmonic Women’s Association. 2610 Philadelphia Drive, Dayton, OH. 513-224-3521.
Literary
B&N MYSTERY GROUP
Discusses Kathy Trocheck’s Every Crooked Nanny. 7:30 p.m. April 20. Barnes & Noble, Sycamore Plaza, 7800 Montgomery Road, Kenwood. 794-9440.
GARY PAULSEN The author of Hatchet, a Newberry Honor book, visits the Oakley Blue Marble. 4:30 p.m. April 20. Tickets required, free with purchase of a book. 3054 Madison Road, Oakley. 731-2665.
KAY TURNER The author of I Dream of Madonna visits the Crazy Ladies Book Store. 7 p.m. April 24. 4041 Hamilton Ave., Northside. 541-4198.
SHARON ROSEBERG
There is an awesome focus in the building, an energized attention to detail that exists when you have seven or eight artists completing various details on the same project with the same deadline, under one roof. They have honed their skills over the course of hundreds of productions and, best of all, love their work. The energy is infectious.
Survivors of All Kinds of Abuse visits the Crazy Ladies Book Store. 7 p.m. May 11. 4041 Hamilton Ave., Northside. 541-4198.
“Have they told you about the cigar box? I’m working on that,” says Matthew Taylor, magiceffects designer for Dracula.
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Nearby, towering glass-door units are under construction. “When the set is moved and reassembled on stage, they will take major focus at the center of the set with gothic arches topping the pinnacle 30 feet above the stage floor,” he explains.
CINCINNATI CHEETAHS USISL professional soccer vs. Detroit, 6:30 p.m. April 23; Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. April 30. $7.50 adults; $3.75 children 12 and under. Deer Park High School, 8351 Plainfield Road, Deer Park. 985-3985.
CINCINNATI LEOPARDS
Night and day are of particular focus to this story. Through these doors the audience will view the full moon and the contrasting daylight. On the other side of these doors, Dracula will make an entrance as a wisp of fog over a balcony railing and across the stage.
USWISL Women’s Soccer vs. Chiquita 10 a.m. April 22 UC, May 7. Call 985-3985 for prices and location.
UC BEARCATS Great Midwest Conference Baseball vs. St. Louis, 4 p.m. April 22; Wright State, 7 p.m. April 25; Morehead State, 7 p.m. April 27. Free. Johnny Bench Field, UC campus, Clifton. Men’s track vs. Ball State, noon May 6. Free. Meyer’s Field, UC campus, Clifton. 556-CATS.
Everyone working on the show is by now wellacquainted with heating and cooling ducts. A special nitrogen-based fog will be produced that will rise through a series of ventilation ducts and onto the stage. As the fog moves, a technician beneath the stage floor, in communication with the stage manager, will be opening and closing vents, controlling the path of the spectral column of fog on stage.
XAVIER MUSKATEERS
Midwestern Collegiate Conference Baseball vs. Butler, noon April 22-23; Eastern Kentucky, 3 p.m. April 25; Northern Kentucky, 3 p.m. April 26; Wright State, noon May 6-7. Hayden Field, Xavier campus, Evanston. $4 adults, $2 students. 749-4949.
After studying the storyboard for a surprise effect in the final scene, Taylor engages in an animated conversation. A mischievous gleam sparkles in his eye as he mentions previous “rubber bat” productions of Dracula, during which castle walls wobbled when the bats, which hung from wires, bounced off the stage flats.
★ MARCH FOR PARKS Your registration fee will benefit the Little Miami River, home to 83 species of fish and 28 species of mussels. The 10K walk, run or roller-blade events start at 10 a.m. April 22, but be sure to arrive by 8:30 a.m. to allow time for parking and catching a shuttle bus in time for a 9 a.m. check-in. $45 adults; $15 students 16 and under accompanied by an adult. This gets you a T-shirt, lunch, a Kings Island Pass and a tree seedling. Nisbet Park, Loveland. 531-5554.
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MASSAGE THERAPIST Licensed massage therapist with 12 years experience and excellent professional referrals. Specializing in myofascial therapy. In the privacy of your own home. Call Kathie Stuhlbarg. L.M.T., 871-2434.
MASSAGE THERAPY Licensed massage therapist specializing in stress management, relaxation, and injury. House calls and gift certificates available. Flexible hours. Strictly non-sexual. Oakley Sherry Meinhardt, L.M.T. 731-0490.
METAPHYSICAL MEETING Learn how to use your psychic ability. Instructor Ann Richer conducts Developing Your Psychic Ability at the Thursday, April 27 Northern Kentucky Metaphysical meeting. 7:30 p.m. at the Edgewood Public Works building, Edgewood, kentucky. For more information, call 341-7447. MODELS NEEDED FOR AVEDA Fredric’s/Aveda is looking for female & male models. For more information, please call Fredric's at 874-2226 ext 242.
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PSYCHIC READINGS & MORE Experience the energy! Victory Books is metaphysical emporium at 609 Main Street, Covington. Featuring new and used books, New Age cassettes and CDs, incense, oils, tarot cards, jewelry, crystals, and much more. Psychic, tarot, and astrological readings by appointment. Open daily. Call for information, 581-5839.
READINGS Norita Ruehl, spiritual advisor and professional reader, offers private or group readings. Receive the answers to specific questions and personal concerns. Hostess Plan is available is available with group of ten. All information is strictly confidential. Call 606-441-0908.
Jeri Boone offers counseling through the art of astrology and numerology. Or join Jeri and Beverly Boone, both licensed massage therapists, as they offer therapeutic massage, Swedish massage, cranial sacral, body reflexology, polarity therapy, and accupressure. The Body Mall has a fully trained professional staff, and offers study groups, development workshops, children’s classes, and many alternative methods of caring for yourself. 3519 Glenmore Avenue, 662-5121.
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CLUB PARAGON
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