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Culture: As we approach the exhaustion in the arts as post-modernism end of the 20th century. Putting
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Straight Dope
BY CECIL ADAMS
Here’s what I’ve seen asfar as the streetlights thing goes, where they go off as people approach, and come back on as they move away. Senior Week in ’93 down at Ocean City, Md., my girlfriend and I were hanging out with another couple. This other couple had been having a rocky relationship over the precedingfew months, but then about three days into the week they had some incredible love thing happen. Both later said that that was their most memorable time in their relationship. Anyhow, as the day wore into night we went to the boardwalkfor a little fun, and as we walked down the boardwalk we noticed that the streetlights would flicker and go off as we approached, then flicker back on as we walked away. After a while the other couple separated and went off to do something.
As I watched them walk away I noticed that a ratio of about eight out of 10 streetlights would go out as they walked beneath and then come back on as they passed by. It had stopped happening to mygirlfriend and me, so obviously it was the other couple who were causing this. They later mentioned that it continued all night... Weird shit, man. Mutant, via the Internet
While a student in Boston, I often experienced the streetlights shorting out as I passed under them (sometimes three andfour in a row). This was witnessed byfriends. However, I am unable to make this happen at will. In my case, this phenomenon occurs when I go hyperactive. During this period, usually brought on by binge drinking or afull moon, I have no choice but to existfor long periods of time without eating or sleeping. This hyperactive state is when the lights go out, in more ways than one.
Michael Burns, also via the ’Net
IfI had afew in me it became clear I had some secret, but uncontrollable, power over the streetlight.
Joe Wackerman, Washington
It used to happen to me, too. Then it began to happen less and less. I’m only 30. Too youngfor electropause. Then I read your column, and on Saturday night I get this whole bank ofstreetlights to come on. Not as a group, but one after the otherjust preceding my path down Ashland Avenue.
Lon Ellenberger, Chicago
I have caused streetlights to go out in North America, Africa, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Nepal, New Zealand.
Anonymous
Chicago, New York, Athens (Georgia), upstate New York, and Arizona.
Nina Keinberger, Chicago
This is an example ofwhat we in our lab call “the van is always at the comer’’ because one only notices the van when it is indeed parked at the comer, not the times when it is gone. How many lamps does one walk
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Much as I admire your steely logic, Josh, I’m never letting you sit around the camp fire when I’m telling ghost stories. I’m charmed by the thought that powerful physic-emotional emanations may be behind HLS (human light switch) syndrome. Lest you think my mid-life crisis has put me completely off my nut, I realize it’s a crock. But it’s a fun crock.
Now, since my contract obliges me to insert at least one fact per column, this word from a top high-pressure sodium engineer at General Electric: “It is a combination of coincidence and wishful thinking. Cycling (on and off) occurs because the (lamp) ballast is only able to sustain an arc with a certain maximum voltage. As high-pressure sodium lamps age, their voltage increases as sodium is lost by various chemical processes. (The
the international date line, you are invited to make music together with everyone on Earth at the same instant, linked up on all networks, radio, TV, telephone, etc.
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Learning from history
While the main thrust of Daniel Brown’s essay on varying family forms in contemporary America (Dec. 8-14 issue) was clear, his use of historical arguments hurt his case, making historical claims without citing sources and making a number of mistakes in the process. To cite two of importance to his argument:
1. The extended family has never embraced a large proportion of the population of this country. This has been a key issue in a large literature on family history and exhaustive studies have disposed of the idea of the extended-family household as a norm.
2. The founding fathers were concerned about the separation of church and state not because of fear of New England Puritanism (which was in decline by the 1780s) but because they’d been weaned on English political theorists reacting to the sectarian upheaval of the English Civil War.
As a historian, I’m glad to see a journalist buttress his ideas with historical arguments. Too often, though, journalists don’t actually know the “history” they invoke.
Scott Fletcher, Cincinnati
Song for a new age
Several years ago, it occurred to me that it would be really wonderful if symphony orchestras in different cities were to link up and play the same music at the same time. Then I thought that it would be even more wonderful if orchestras all over the world were to link up and play the same music simultaneously. Wow! What an amazing idea. But what would be an occasion of sufficient magnitude to persuade people everywhere to cooperate on such a project when it might be inconvenient because of the time differences? Then it came to me:
Jan. 1, 2001, at the very moment that date begins at
As midnight comes to each successive time zone, the peopie of those longitudes are invited to share their music with the rest of the world for that hour. At the end of 24 hours, when it is now Jan. 1, 2001, all over the planet, again we all join together to play and sing our song. What will it be? I don’t know yet, but I feel that it will make itself known, will well forth from within the hearts of people everywhere and clearly be recognized as The Song, which embraces all the cultures and peoples and living beings of our planet.
As the second 24 hours unfold, and Jan. 1 gives way to Jan. 2, all kinds of linkages can take place. All the children of the world can take the stage to join together in song.
Sister cities can link up to perform their programs for everyone else. During this holiday of harmony, you are encouraged to set aside all nonessential work, to enjoy foods and beverages, to refrain from doing harm to anyone or anything and to enjoy a celebration of life on Earth.
At the end of the 48 hours our holiday is complete.
If you like this idea, please share it freely any way you desire. Feel free to copy this message and to make translations if you wish.
Mai-y-Jane Newborn, Cincinnati
Talking back
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We Will Begin Again
New Year’s Day offers reflections on the past year and bright hopesfor 1995
BY JOHN FOX
The beginning of the new year is upon us. Where did 1994 go? How did 365 days fly by so quickly?
There have been plenty of milestones, both personally and professionally, to mark passage of the past year. Surely we all have our lists, our memories, our moments.
Likewise, most of us have adopted or at least considered goals and resolutions for the coming year.
Allow me to share some thoughts in each category.
The biggest change over the course of 1994 for me, and many others, is what you’re reading right now: Cincinnati CityBeat. None of us could have expected the turn of events that produced a brand-new weekly newspaper for Cincinnati. I know I didn’t.
Exactly a year ago, as editor of Everybody’s News, I was pulling together a massive year-end music issue. The spring months were spent trying to figure out how to change from a biweekly to weekly publishing schedule. Then, after four and and a half years as writer, assistant editor and editor, I left EN in late May.
In a series of what seem now like lightning-quick moves over the summer, we formed a corporation, Lightbome Publishing; wrote the newspaper’s business plan; finalized the paper’s short- and long-term financing; and hired an initial full-time staff of eight people.
Dan Bockrath, classified advertising manager of the weekly San Diego Reader, decided to come back home to serve as co-publisher with me. (Dan is originally from Dayton and had been in California for 10 years.) He came on board around Labor Day, which is when word started to get out in the local media that CityBeat was afoot.
At the same time, Alison Tranbarger left The Enquirer to become our managing editor, and Nancy Firor left The Post to become news editor. Writers and contributing editors who worked with me at Everybody’s News Daniel Brown, Brian Baker, Mike Breen, Elizabeth Carey, Dale Doerman, Jon Hughes, John James, Billie Jeyes, Rick Pender, David Pescovitz, Steve Ramos, Jeremy Schlosberg and Kathy
Wilson formed the foundation of our fledgling staff. Cincinnati artist Jymi Bolden became our chief photographer.
Throughout September and October we launched a small business: secured downtown office space, bought furniture, printed forms and business cards, built a computer network and set up payroll, tax and accounting systems. We published a 16-page prototype issue the second week of October and began our advertising sales push.
Volume 1, Number 1 of CityBeat hit the streets of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky on Nov. 17.
The entire process from the business plan’s title page to our premiere issue rolling off the presses amazingly took just five and'a half months. And now New Year’s Day finds us seven issues into the paper’s life cycle.
1 look back on 1994 and shake my head, wondering how so much can change so quickly. On a personal note, this year also marked my first full year of marriage, and my wife and I bought our first house. Crazy.
I also can’t help wondering, if last year held so many surprises and changes, what 1995 will bring. Where will each of us be one year from today? What will we be doing? How will the paper be doing? Will it be 50 pages each week? Will we be available in twice as many distribution points around Greater Cincinnati? Will we have made a difference to our readers? A difference to the city?
We have aggressive expansion plans for CityBeat for ’95 and the years beyond. Besides page count and distribution scope, we’d like to add writers and photographers. We want to cover the city like no other local news organization. We hope to get involved in on-line technology in a big way.
As for specifics, we’ll have to see how the opportunities present themselves: how you respond to what we’re trying to accomplish with CityBeat', if, when and how advertisers decide to interact with our readers. In other words and I’m serious when I say this how 1995 goes for CityBeat depends a great deal on you. Will you support us? Will you support our advertisers? Do you want a thriving, independent, alternative print media voice in Cincinnati?
As I explained in this space in the first issue of CityBeat, we see the paper as two-way communication, a conversation among peers. We have experienced people writing, editing and designing this rag, but we need your input to keep it fresh, to keep it current and to keep you interested. So let us know.
Hey, we’re counting on it.
In closing, I wish you, your family and your friends the happiest of new years in 1995. And I quote a very appropriate old U2 song, “New Year’s Day”:
“Newspapers say it’s true, it’s true/ We can break through./ Though torn in two/ We can be one./1 will begin again./1 will begin again.”
BURNING QUESTIONS
Funding Salvation
Despite Thriftway’s ban this holiday season that kept Salvation Army collection kettles away from Thriftway store fronts, early counts indicate the Salvation Army reached its $1.8 million goal.
Thriftway officials said they banned the kettles because the Salvation Army’s presence was in potential conflict with rules governing picketing union workers. The Salvation Army was forced to rely on the creativity and perseverance of its volunteers to step up collections, said Lt. Col. William A. Bamford, the group's division commander for Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky.
"It did have an adverse affect on the fund-raising effort,” he said.
While it appears the group’s goal was reached, final collections will not be determined until the end of this week. So, do Thriftway officials feel better knowing the agency’s collection drive was a success despite their ban?
"We just don't discuss things relative to the company,” said Karen Carmichael, a Thriftway spokeswoman.
BRAD KING
Losing Business
A decision earlier this month by The Ohio National Life Insurance Company to move its headquarters to Montgomery is the most recent example of a losing streak the city is on when it comes to keeping business downtown, Cincinnati City Council Member Thomas Luken said.
Earlier this year, downtown-based Midland Co. broke ground for its new headquarters in Clermont County.
Luken said Ohio National Life's recent decision followed months of "secret" negotiations between the company and city administrators, which Luken said he had questions about. In a written statement, company chairman David B. O’Maley said the Montgomery site simply offered “the kinds of things” the company wanted.
Mayor Roxanne Qualls said city administrators and Downtown Cincinnati Inc. extended a competitive offer and that Luken should educate himself about the facts.
But Luken last week told City Council members that he wanted council's Intergovernmental Affairs and Environment Committee, which he chairs, to examine what went wrong. Various council members disagreed on which committee the issue belonged in. After a lengthy debate, Luken withdrew his request.
So why did the city lose Ohio National Life?
Mark McKillip, supervising development officer in the city’s Department of Economic Development, said the company’s decision had to do with what the developer was offering not any problem with the city’s “very aggressive” offer.
But Luken said he had little hope of getting a meaningful answer. Most likely: “It will be totally covered up.”
NANCY FIROR
Grounded for Good?
On Dec. 9 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) banned two commuter airplanes used by the American Airlines' commuter division, American Eagle.
Because of recent problems with the 64-passenger ATR-72 and 46-passenger ATR-42 during icy weather conditions, the FAA decided to temporarily ground the airplanes in northern cities.
Beginning Jan. 4, American Eagle will start using the SAAB 340B, a 34-passenger commuter airplane, for flights from Cincinnati to Chicago. This is a temporary move until the FAA completes tests on the two grounded planes, said Marty Heires of American Eagle.
Does American Eagle want to keep the ATR-72's and the ATR-42’s grounded in the future, or is the company just waiting out the ban and the negative publicity?
“We don’t know,” Heires said. “There are tests being conducted on the ATR aircraft. The aircraft may be, at some point, released from it’s (grounded) condition.”
BRAD KING
BURNING QUESTIONS is our weekly attempt to afflict the comfortable.
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An Alternative Look at How and Why It Happened
Future Could Hold Answers for ELDA Neighbors
Federal agency agrees to study landfill health risks almost eight years after Cincinnati askedfor help
BY NANCY FIROR
Almost eight years after Cincinnati officials asked for help, federal officials are finally launching a study of potential health threats posed by the ELDA Landfill in Winton Hills.
The federal Agency for'Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) agreed in 1990 to conduct an assessment of potential adverse health effects of all pollution in the neighborhoods surrounding the Cincinnati landfill a request former Cincinnati Health Commissioner Dr. Stanley Broadnax made in 1987. The study has not been launched, however, because of the agency’s backlog of cases and lack of available personnel.
But now that concerns are erupting over ELDA’s possible expansion, ATSDR has agreed to begin at least a limited study.
Waiting too long
“It is our opinion that too much time has elapsed without any action on your part,” wrote Cincinnati Health Commissioner Malcolm Adcock in an Aug. 19 letter to Robert. Williams, director of the ATSDR’s Division of Health Assessment and Consultation in Atlanta.
“ATSDR has been awaiting the availability of staff to begin work on the public health assessment since (1987),” Williams wrote in a Nov. 4 response to Adcock. “This long waiting time is highly regrettable, but ATSDR has been completing work on other sites.”
Williams was on vacation and could not be reached.
Chris Brandt, an environmental health scientist at ATSDR’s Atlanta headquarters, said, “We do have a tremendous backlog of sites.”
For years, ELDA landfill neighbors have complained of rashes, allergies and other adverse health symptoms,
In response to arranged to begin tants from the ELDA neighborhood pollution sultation was the agency awaited a the full assessment.
Study 'at
The limited study Department of Health Department in conjunction by reviewing all environmental on ELDA and then that data, said Tracy Department of Health’s “We’re at the very
Malcolm Adcock
ATSDR’s help in analyzing are:
Current solid waste regulations require that solid waste placement for any newly constructed sanitary landfills be at least 1,000 feet from residential housing, when the ELDA landfill is about 200 feet from the closest occupied structure.
The landfill’s physical structure created by a requested 106-foot vertical expansion could cause heavy organic vapors such as aromatic hydrocarbons to collect and drift down slopes of the landfill toward residences.
The expansion of ELDA could add more pollution to a neighborhood that already tops most Ohio neighborhoods for toxic releases, as measured by the annual Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data.
An estimated 942 to 6,280 cubic yards of hazardous
New Year’s Resolution?
Merchants: Hyde Park Square parking problems hurt holiday business , remain unresolved
BY BRAD KING
Adispute is brewing over who is responsible for parking lot construction delays that might have jeopardized holiday business on Hyde Park Square.
Originally slated to be completed Nov. 15, the project has been forced by bad weather and design changes to a new completion date of April 30, 1995, said Glen Wauligman, president of Aggressive Construction, which is building the lot.
“There was a bunch of owner changes with the lighting and weather delays,” Wauligman said. “It would have been done last week if we had good weather.”
But Richard Anthony, senior engineer with the City of Cincinnati’s engineering division, had a different version of the story and said negotiations are underway to determine who will pay for the project delays.
“I’m not at liberty to discuss this issue,” he said.
Mike Wagner, president of the Hyde Park Business FROM PAGE 5
waste could accumulate in the landfill if the expansion went forward.
Dr. Susan Montauk, a Cincinnati Board of Health member and associate professor of clinical family medicine at the University of Cincinnati, said that even if the study was limited it was a good first step.
“My assumption until I learn otherwise is that they would not put their time and energy into a study unless they felt it would accomplish something,” she said. What the study might accomplish, she said, is the realization that there has not been enough data collected to project risks for the area.
Association and owner of Head Over Heels on Erie Avenue, said that Aggressive Construction has not lived up to its end of the bargain.
“We were not going to let a contract unless it could be completed by Thanksgiving,” Wagner said. “By not having (the lot) available, it impacted the businesses.”
The delay, he explained, caused the Hyde Park Square business district to cancel holiday promotions around the new parking lot. A program of free holiday parking and concurrent holiday advertising had to be dropped, he said.
Located between Michigan Avenue and Edwards Road north of Erie Avenue, the lot was supposed to help with the square’s holiday parking overload. Not only did the business district not gain any new parking, Wagner said, but it lost the 40 parking spaces available on the gravel lot on the same spot because Aggressive Construction was developing it. Anthony said the city spent $11,000 creating a temporary lot on the North Frame Parking Lot site to be used until the contractor finishes the job.
Wafiligman, however, said parking isn’t a problem in the Hyde Park Square area.
“They don’t even need the parking, there is plenty there,” he said. “’Us the season to give the Hyde Park people what they want, though.”
Members of the Hyde Park Neighborhood Improvement Corporation (HPNIC) insist that parking expansion is necessary for development in the area.
Waste Management of Ohio Inc. needs to find another 700 feet between the trash in its Winton Hills landfill and nearby apartments.
Under Ohio law, trash cannot be placed within 300 feet of a landfill’s property line or 1,000 feet of a residence.
The 1,000-foot setback is one of several requirements that Waste Management’s ELDA Landfill must address in order to come into compliance with solid waste regulations approved in 1988. Though it was established in 1974, ELDA is not exempt from addressing the 1988 regulations, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) officials said. The 1,000-foot setback applies to the existing landfill as well as the expansion its owners are requesting.
“We’re still working on that,” said John Stark, Waste Management division president.
Residents in the Ridgewood Hills housing project 300 feet from where trash is deposited in the landfill have asked ELDA officials for help moving elsewhere, Stark said. That, he said, has resulted in speculation that ELDA might buy the apartments to control use of the property and resolve the setback issue. But ELDA officials have not made any such plans, he said.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is in the process of foreclosing on the Ridgewood Hills project. Because the foreclosure process is not complete, HUD has not formulated a written plan outlining what it will do with the property, said William Harris, HUD area coordinator. Until written plans are completed, he said, department officials will not publicly discuss what it might or might not do with the property.
What Ridgewood residents want, he said, was made clear at a Nov. 10 meeting which he attended to hear concerns.
“Most folks out there just want to leave,” Harris said. But Dr. Susan Montauk, a Cincinnati Board of Health member, said she had spoken with many concerned residents who simply wanted to improve their neighborhood by safeguarding residents from the effects of pollution.
“I have not heard anyone say they want to leave,” she said.
Residents’ concerns have intensified with ELDA’s pending request for a 106-foot vertical expansion, which was included in an application Waste Management submitted in May, said Don Marshall, a solid infectious waste unit supervisor at OEPA’s Dayton office. Addressing the 1,000-foot setback requirement could be as simple as getting approval from the abutting property owner, Marshall said.
Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls has proposed a resolution urging the OEPA to deny ELDA’s permit for" expansion, which also must be approved by the city Department of Buildings and Inspections and the Planning Commission. In addition to the landfill’s proximity to housing, Qualls is objecting because the landfill sits over an aquifer (an underground water source). The OEPA has begun reviewing results of water sampling that regulations require ELDA to perform.
There has only been one industrial well used for boiler water that has been served by the aquifer, Stark said, and sampling by ELDA has shown no contamination of the aquifer.
Under regulations, ELDA will be required to submit results of a number of water samples by the end of 1995. Based on a preliminary review of what has been submitted so far, said John McGinnis, OEPA district geologist, there is nothing to indicate that the uppermost aquifer has been affected by the landfill.
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While levels of arsenic and barium appeared to be elevated, McGinnis said, all of the analysis would have to occur before the true meaning of the testing can be evaluated. “(The elevations) could be due to natural conditions,” he said.
NANCY FIROR
Cultural Trends 1995-2000
The arts face problems and opportunities alike withfunding, programming, aging audiences, new talent
ESSAY BY DANIEL BROWN
Trends in the visual and performing arts are virtually nonexistent, as post-modernism plays out the century as a kind of fin-de-siecle blues. Exhaustion in culture is a welldocumented phenomenon at the end of an era; turn-of-the-century Viennese culture and the Warhol ’60s eventually imploded upon themselves.
We may be witnessing a similar fatigue in the arts as the cycle repeats itself at the end of another century.
Installation art, video and performance art will no doubt continue to attract fewer audiences; a lot of neo-conceptual art will stumble along, mainly in Europe. “Political art” (feminist, AIDS-related, etc.) will continue to marginalize the arts away from other socio-political and economic issues, as artists fail to recognize the minimal impact this work has in and on American culture. Linguistic analysis in artwork will become totally meaningless, except in obscure academic art publications.
The crisis in arts funding will continue, leaving artists with less and less time to create and think in solitude.
Grant-writing processes will become even more Byzantine; the rules and regulations will always boggle the mind, and individual artists will continue to be cornered, along with dealers, by a virtually non-existent market for art, with attendant lack of sales and money.
Galleries will begin to think about dropping insurance and cutting costs to the bone. Some will close. The prestigious, regional Toni Birckhead Gallery, which conceived the concept of a high quality regional artists gallery, closes at the end of this season as Birckhead changes careers to run the Aronoff Center Gallery. In Greater Cincinnati, most corporate art collections are, in art jargon, “mature” (a.k.a. completed).
Corporate buying has virtually ceased; corporate collections are privately for sale, and more and more will go to auction houses to raise money to pay off creditors from corporate bankruptcies or to mollify stock shareholders.
Artists will keep shifting galleries, as they can, and dealers will doubt their
loyalty. Locally, Over-the-Rhine galleries will continue to exhibit superior art but will have to find more clients the single largest problem for artists and dealers. Dealers are not looking for artists; they’ll remain desperate for clients.
The overemphasis on marketing artwork an attempt to professionalize how art gets viewed by curators and dealers has left mountains of unsolicited slides, which will continue to be most dealers’ lowest priority. Curators in New York will be looking internationally, hoping for overseas dollars. Art Fairs will proliferate worldwide; in America, metro areas such as Seattle, Houston, Miami and Minneapolis/St. Paul will flourish at the expense of New York, as the myopia of New York dealers gets worse.
The price is wrong
Artwork prices will continue downward, as reflected by auction prices worldwide for the past three to four years; the price of artwork has been reduced in both New York and Chicago by approximately one-third. The price of artwork in Cincinnati is minimally different from that in these major cities, except for “superstar” art, the financial value of which is much reduced.
Gallery survival is at stake. Artists will become increasingly frustrated; wiser midcareer artists will take the opportunity breather, really to experiment, ternporarily leave the market, refresh. In the meantime, art schools will continue to pour out young people who will continue to believe they can make a living as professional artists which will lead to chronic disillusionment in the twentysomething generation.
Institutions such as the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Contemporary Arts Center, the Taft Museum, the Arts Consortium and the Carnegie Arts Center will probably find new and creative approaches to fundraising; that’s why the Taft and the CAM hired new directors with business backgrounds. The role of directors will become more dependent on their personal contacts in the corporate communities.
Benefit parties will attract smaller audiences, as the same people and artists are “hit” for donations and over-priced tickets. Many patrons no longer open their mail. How to get peopie to open an “invitation” to a “party” they have to pay to attend is under scrutiny by marketing specialists; such invitations are perceived as birthday or seasonal greeting cards from one’s insurance agent (translation: don’t open). The link between art and liberal social causes will continue, as an increase in less expensive “benefits” will go to more social agencies that work with the homeless and the impoverished and with children.
Education will continue to be the institutional key to funding and corporate support, in all probability. Art teachers, arts institutions and corporations will hook up for mutual enrichment, as corporations seek more well-rounded
employees. Educational programs for elementary school children will likely continue and probably become exclusive; they’re popular, they work,- they’re safe and they will continue to build new audiences as parents see excited children. Childrens’ museums will flourish all over America.
Public school art programs will be cut or eliminated, fueling the arts’ financial and aesthetic paradoxes. Artistic and curatorial decisions about “popular” shows and performances will reach near crisis in the forseeable future (no doubt the Cincinnati Ballet is tired of performing The Nutcracker but it’s a cash cow and the Ballet needs it).
The Playhouse, Symphony and Ensemble Theatre will struggle to find the right mix for their audiences, as trustees will be more demanding of financial accountability and proof of solvency. All the arts will reassess a seeming overemphasis on “gay” programming as well as the role of identity politics in their programming.
To the rescue
All arts institutions will desperately continue to need operating revenue, which is not sexy to fund; few patrons want their names on a new roof or a new furnace. Capital and endowment campaigns will bring in significant money as “the old guard” across America make their final estate plans; the cultural life of Cincinnati will get a last blast of money from this most distinguished group of
aging, retired or Emeritus trustees. The extraordinary contribution, in Cincinnati, of the “old families” will be undervalued by younger corporate generations/ trustees, who have minimal links to Cincinnati in more and more cases.
The University of Cincinnati will be stuck trying to fund the new DAAP building, which will reach a funding crisis that causes dollars to be bumped from arts departments. Individual arts professors at U.C. have already been asked to find funding for the building, an ominous trend that is likely to continue with arts programs in universities across America.
The shrewder arts folks will realize the seriousness of corporate support for downtown Cincinnati, and corporate support for the Aronoff Center will continue to pour in. Birckhead and center director Warren Sumners have the opportunity to integrate both corporate and art interests in a new downtown, as power shifts from concerns with arts per se into the more urgent problem of rebuilding downtown Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati Business Committee (CBC) is deadly serious about its commitments to downtown, and events such as Art on the Square will work after the kinks are out of its planning phases as corporate support for downtown will matter the most to the arts. Savvy arts directors will work with their development directors and with newer corporate leaders in building a new sense of a downtown arts community. The
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attainable blueprint for downtown development
STORY BY NANCY FIROR
PHOTOS BY JYMI BOLDEN
Downtown Cincinnati in the year 2020 is the “envy of cities everywhere.”
The bustling riverfront draws visitors and tourists by the thousands. They flock to shops, restaurants, galleries, Reds games and the Aronoff Center for the Arts.
Residents of all incomes and races live here. Housing much of it renovated is affordable and pleasing. The streets are safe and friendly. Cincinnati police officers are visible and bilingual.
The struggle for downtown revitalization is long forgotten in this place, which has remained “North America’s Most Livable City” since 1994.
This is not a dream. It’s The Vision carved out of opinions from more than 4,000 Tristate residents. And even though the question of how to breathe new life into downtown has been looming for years, The Vision’s creators and city officials are adamant: In some form, The Vision will become reality.
“We finally are awake now,” says Rick Greiwe, chief operating officer of Downtown Cincinnati Inc. (DCI), a private, non-profit group formed last year to spur down
town revitalization. “Downtown is the heart of the area, and we have to take action. Downtown has to be safe, it has to be clean, it has to be easy to use.”
But because past efforts have not guaranteed downtown’s sound economic future, some wonder whether city leaders are reinventing the wheel in an attempt to reach an impossible goal.
“Everybody needs ‘The Vision thing,’ but a lot of it is money and competition from retailers in the suburbs,” says Peter Strauss, who was a Cincinnati City Council member from 1981 to 1993. “The jury’s still out as to whether downtowns are going to make it anymore.”
That, DCI’s chief executive officer, David Phillips, says, simply is not true.
“Downtowns are making it,” Phillips says. “They’re making it big time.”
Phillips bases his opinion on visits he has made to about 25 cities and his research what some of those cities have done in an effort to bounce back from economic crises.
Five cities Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Cleveland, Denver and Portland, Ore. are good examples for
Cincinnati to learn from because they faced similar problems and have made significant strides in overcoming them, Phillips says.
To reverse the impact that changing business trends and suburban sprawl have had on downtown Cincinnati, DCI stepped into action in fall 1993 and formed a 15-member Vision Committee. The committee consulted experts, solicited responses from more than 4,000 people and crafted The Vision, which was presented to City Council in May.
Since then, signs of follow-through by DCI and the city have been apparent:
In October, DCI released a detailed schedule of goals and the committee members working on them in the areas of retail, arts and entertainment, environment, sports and hospitality, housing, office space, marketing, finance and leadership.
A DCI holiday promotion plan announced in September has surpassed the goals it set, including a goal for a 5 percent increase in downtown retail sales.
The City of Cincinnati, Western-Southern Life Insurance Co. and Fifth Third Bank have established a
$5 million loan fund for the development of market-rate housing in Over-the-Rhine. The fund, however, has been criticized because no funds have been dispersed under the program, though a $1 million deal has received tentative approval.
DCI officials helped establish a $4.5 million loan fund for market-rate housing in other downtown areas. But no funds have been dispersed.
Kicking off the new year, Phillips says, DCI next month will release final benchmarks setting goals for percentage increases in all target areas such as retail and housing. That way, DCI’s progress can be measured year after year.
“DCI is going to be accountable for the results,” Greiwe says.
Sounds like a serious commitment. But it also sounds a little like Cincinnati history, Strauss suggests.
Looking back vs. ahead
In 1989, on a motion by then-Council Member Strauss, City Council authorized the appointment of a
committee to determine whether the city was on target with downtown development as outlined in the Cincinnati 2000 Plan.
That plan, “a design for a pleasing city,” had been approved by council in 1982 to guide development through the year 2000. It contained specific goals for retail, housing, office buildings, parking and transportation, entertainment, hotels and convention center development.
The review committee found that the city had made “remarkable progress” on some elements of the plan but concluded in its report that “the balance of the plan is substantially behind target and well behind its potential achievement.” Among examples cited were retail-space losses. While the plan called for an increase of about 400,000 square feet in retail space, the committee found that 230,000 square feet had been developed while 870,000 had been lost, leaving a net loss of 640,000 square feet. In its recommendations, the committee called for the selection of a board of trustees
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Downtown Cincinnati Inc. Board of Directors
Here are DCI’s board members and their committee assignments:
Bannus Hudson (U.S. Shoe Corp.), David Krings (Hamilton County administrator), chairman and executive committee. transportation committee.
Robert Wehling (Procter & Gamble Co.), vice chairman/secretary and executive committee.
Gordon Reis III (Seasongood & Mayer), treasurer, executive committee; chair, finance committee.
Roger Ach III (Chicago West Pullman Corp.), retail leasing committee.
Sheila Adams (Urban League of Greater Cincinnati), marketing committee.
John Barrett (Western Southern Life), office committee.
Jeff Besecker (Hunt Club Clothiers), executive committee; chair, retail committee.
Am Bortz (Towne Properties), executive committee; chair, arts/entertainment committee.
Dale Brown (Sive/Young & Rubican), marketing committee.
William Butler (Corporex Cos. Inc.), downtown environment committee.
Jim Tarbell (Arnold’s Bar & Grille), arts/entertainment committee, housing committee.
Harry Whipple (The CinciRpati Enquirer), transportation committee, housing committee.
John Williams (Chamber of Commerce), executive committee, marketing committee.
Mike Wilson (Greater Cincinnati Convention & Visitors Bureau), sports/hospitality committee and convention center expansion task force.
Robert Wiwi (Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co.), office committee.
Walter Zimmer (I.B.E.W. Local 212), office committee.
David Phillips, chief executive officer.
Richard Greiwe, chief operating officer.
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to consist of 15 members with strong business or personal interest in the success of downtown for a “proactive Cincinnati Downtown Progress Committee.”
That committee set about the task of investigating revitalization efforts in other downtowns and developing long-term strategies for downtown as well as the attainment of 2000 plan goals, recalls Strauss, who was on the progress committee. But, he says, consensus among business and government leaders was difficult to find, partly because times were changing.
Historically, he says, businessmen had taken their ideas and needs about downtown to the city manager. Now, council members and mayors were wanting, and taking, more of a stake in decisions, he says, and business people had begun backing council members of their choice.
Also becoming apparent were the needs of diversifying businesses and the need for the city to compete with the suburbs as well as other cities. The complexity of downtown’s needs had surpassed challenges of days gone by and, possibly, the progress committee’s resources, he says.
“To be perfectly candid, (the committee’s efforts) didn’t work very well,” Strauss says.
Volunteer vs. paid staff
The progress committee, Greiwe says, was not set up for success because it was a volunteer group, it was not accountable for results, and it did not have a results-oriented, paid staff such as the one DCI is building. Business and city leaders finally got the message that such a concerted effort was needed when threats, such as the Bengals leaving town and Lazarus moving its headquarters, captured their attention, he says.
“All these institutions were saying: ‘Hey, downtown isn’t happening for me anymore,”’ Greiwe says. “I think it woke up the business community and City Council.”
Still, the end of the progress committee and the beginning of DCI and The Vision are not evidence that the city has found itself playing try-and-tiy-again, says Mark McKillip, supervising development officer in the city’s Department of Economic Development. In fact, he says, downtown development and the progress committee made great strides under the Cincinnati 2000 Plan and others that came before it. Those plans all were designed to be implemented during specific time periods, and all were designed to be revised as the time period was approaching its end and as economic or business trends inevitably changed.
Likewise, McKillip says, such plans, which detail specific development goals, should not be confused with The Vision. While it contains some specifics such as locations for retail and entertainment districts, The Vision was meant to be a general picture that will guide specific goals.
“(The Vision) was a plan that was based on community input,” McKillip says. “It’s a high standard to shoot for, but if you don’t set a high standard to shoot at, you’re never going to get there.”
So, as DCI and city officials try to get there, DCI will be re-evaluating the Cincinnat 2000 plan, recommending changes that are needed to guide downtown into the next generation, McKillip says.
That does not mean DCI will be reinventing the wheel, Greiwe says. Instead, DCI and The Vision mean that new people and new leadership are carrying out a new charge.
To answer that charge, DCI has a board of directors 57 business and government leaders who have a vested interest in downtown’s success. It has a budget for three years: $400,000 a year from the city, $200,000 a year from Hamilton County and DCI is raising $800,000 a year in private donations.
Greiwe emphasizes that DCI also has a paid staff that will do nothing but work on downtown.
But, like any long-term project, DCI’s efforts to make
The Vision reality will have to endure intermittent controversy whether over development indecision in Over-the-Rhine or temporary obstacles such as one that arose in October when Lazarus officials threatened to scrap their $29 million project on Fountain Square West.
“All of us need to understand the ingredients needed for a successful downtown,” Greiwe says. “Not to have people on the same team will certainly make the progress slower.”
Some controversies will certainly change The Vision, as was the case with Cincinnati Council Member Charles Winburn’s change of heart and vote in August, which killed plans for a conservatory on Fountain Square West. But that change did little to threaten The Vision, says Dwight Hibbard, chairman of the board at Cincinnati Bell who served as chairman of the Vision Committee.
The conservatory, Hibbard explains, was not a fundamental building block in The Vision.
“The fact of the matter is, though, that vision anticipates that it takes more than retail to bring people downtown,” he says. “We didn’t specifically say it must be a conservatory. But what we said in The Vision is you’re making a big mistake if you just stick with retail. Retail alone won’t compete with the suburbs.”
Quick saves
In replacing the conservatory, the Cincinnati Business Committee’s Ron Roberts came to the rescue last month. In a surprise presentation to the DCI, then to City Council, he presented plans for a high-tech theater complex.
Before presenting it to council, the project’s backers had spoken to state officials who approved the $7 million in state funds that had been earmarked for the conservatory for the theater complex, which will house an IMAX 3-D theater, a Discovery Simulator and a planetarium. The complex is a much better plan than the conservatory because the theater shows will keep changing, which will keep families coming back downtown, Phillips says.
The project depends upon another $10 million its backers will raise in private donations. The complex will sit atop the new Lazarus store another project that might not being going forward if it were not for another rescue mission last October.
Claiming that a city ordinance, which imposed union rules on the $29 million project, unfairly restricted the competitive bidding process, non-union contractors had filed a lawsuit that could have delayed the Lazarus project.
Lazarus officials threatened to scrap the project. So Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne. Qualls and Council Member Bobbie Sterne changed their votes, rescinding the union-rules requirement.
While that averted the threat, it was worrisome that council passed an ordinance that created a barrier that jeopardized the project in the first place, Hibbard says.
But Phillips says the only real obstacle DCI has faced and will continue to face is frustration. That frustration, he says, is caused by the opinions of those who think downtown revitalization is some enormous, next-toimpossible task. They feel that way, he says, because they have not studied other downtowns and are not aware of the facts.
“This is no big deal...,” he says. “This can be done.”
If it is done, the Lazarus store will open in the fall of 1996.
Over-the-Rhine arts area will continue to muddle along until corporate and City Council support of development there becomes clearer.
More joint ventures between and amongst arts institutions will merge. All eight Fine Arts Fund institutions’ employees are now on one health-care system, and attempts are being made to computerize intramurally.
The Symphony and the Playhouse will continue to build national and international reputations, and corporate and foundation support will increase in all probability. The Symphony, as the crown jewel of Greater Cincinnati’s arts communities, will never fail. The Opera is likely to set the standard for the “right” fiscal and aesthetic mix.
Conservative art, both in visual and performing arts, will be the wave of the American future. More and more Russian art will be exhibited outside New York, playing upon the sympathy factor for formerly dispossessed artists.
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will classical ballet. Smaller arts groups around the world will reemerge everywhere as the true new avant-garde, with fresh ideas and enthusiasm... but no money.
Nationally and internationally, the split between America and Europe in all the art forms will continue. Multiculturalism will become associated with nationalism, paradoxically x creating a pluralist arts culture.
Artwork sold in pricey resorts such as Santa Fe, Taos, the Hamptons, Palm Beach, Naples, Palm Springs, Aspen, Vail and newer ski resorts will sell. “Decorator art” will sell for high prices, and the concept of art-as-investment will end with a sigh of relief as the entire concept of collecting art will change back to purchasing art for personal pleasure and/or edification. Theatre, as well, will reflect the same conservative trends look at Broadway as
Nationally and internationally, the split between America and Europe in all the art forms will continue.
Multiculturalism will become associated with nationalism, paradoxically creating a pluralist arts culture.
“Multiculturalism” will die as a buzz word, however, as “pluralism” equates with no trends (anything goes).
The world headquarters and clearinghouse for all the arts will be Berlin, as New York fades as the command center for world culture.
(Sotheby’s, the auction house, has taken out a 15-year lease in Berlin with an option to renew.) Nothing will happen with the arts in Germany, aesthetically or financially, until the socio-economic problems brought by reunification have some resolution.
More European countries will support their own cultures through their own arts institutions.
In a sense, no trends actually exist in the arts, reflecting political and economic changes city by city, region by region, country by country. The evolving world economy will eventually determine the future of all the arts.
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WELL BEINGS
BY JOSH KATZ
Get fit through activity
Most people like to believe that weight gained during winter is the body's way of insulating itself. Nice try. It is true that body fat serves several purposes, including insulation, but most people have PLENTY.
The fact is that many people gain weight in the winter for several reasons. For starters, the holidays bring with them delectable, edible temptations, Also, as our calorie intake rises, our calorie output (physical activity), tends to decrease. Let's face it, a walk around the block after dinner in 35 degrees just does not motivate the masses like a stimulating, sunny stroll. The math is simple: Calorie Input Calorie Output - Extra belt loops.
In the summer, we eat foods such as fruit, vegetables and pastas and engage in all kinds of activities. In the winter, we fall asleep in front of the TV after eating high-fat snacks. The contrast is obvious; the solution is not. One part of the answer, though, is exercise.
But as Dr. Rod Dishman, a professor of exercise science at the University of Georgia, points out, 50 percent of all adult Americans drop out of supervised exercise programs in the first three months. According to the U.S. Centers For Disease Control & Prevention, 40 percent of adult Americans do not engage in enough physical activity, and 24 percent are completely sedentary.
So what are you to do if you don't have time for, don’t have money for, don't have access to or dislike exercise? Try physical activity.
Confused? Then we must distinguish between physical activity and exercise. Exercise is a series of structured movements designed to increase physical fitness.
Physical activity, on the other hand, is any movement that results in energy expenditure. Physical fitness has a series of parameters and measurements (i.e., cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility); physical activity does not.
The premise is simple: You move, you expend calories. Both exercise and physical activity will, if performed regularly, lead to a reduction in the risk for many chronic diseases. “Regular” activity is now defined by the American College of Sports Medicine as accumulating 30 minutes of moderate activity (walking), most days of the week. How effective is just plain physical activity? Two studies indicate it's very effective:
Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger and colleagues at Stanford Medical School followed more than 16,000 males, ages 35 to 74. In The New England Journal of Medicine, Paffenbarger reported that the men who expended about 2,000 calories a week (equivalent to about 30 minutes of walking per day) demonstrated a reduced risk for early death. The subjects’ activity levels were measured indirectly by the amount of city blocks walked, “real” stairs climbed and leisure sport participation. The participants in this landmark 1986 study did not undertake a formal exercise program.
The Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas followed more than 13,000 individuals for 8 years; the findings were reported in 1989 in the Journal of The American Medical Association. Individuals in the low-fitness group were three times more likely to die from early-death diseases (heart disease, cancer, etc.) than the moderate-fitness group. The difference in the death rate between the moderate- and high-fitness groups was far less indicating that moderate activity is nearly as effective in disease prevention.
Indeed, everyday activities such as gardening, mowing the lawn (manually), taking the stairs, golfing (minus the cart) and walking the dog can make a difference if performed regularly. So if formal exercise isn’t for you, don't sweat it; just get up and do something every day.
JOSH KATZ is exercise physiologist. If you are interested in finding out how many calories your favorite activities or exercises expend, write to Josh Katz, c/o Cincinnati CityBeat, 23 E. Seventh St., Suite 617, Cincinnati. OH 45202. You don’t have to include your name, but please include your weight, the specific activity and the duration performed. In his next column, Katz will show you how to estimate the amount of calories you expend during various activities.
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This Little Piggy Went
On thefrontier are genetically engineered swine organs to humans and other wonders
Thirty-five years after the invention of the silicon computer chip, we’re in the midst of a technological revolution. Computers are now found not only on our desktops but in our living rooms, kitchens, automobiles, hospitals and laboratories.
The following is a survey of several fields where hightech tools and techniques are being used that will dramatically alter our lives and the world in which we live.
We are nearing the end of this millennium. The revolution, however, has only just begun.
BIOTECHNOLOGY. As a result of computer-empowered researchers mapping the order of the 3 billion base pairs of human genes as part of the Human Genome Project, scientists located a gene this year that, when mutant, is thought to be responsible for about half of the cases of hereditary Breast Cancer. While a test may be difficult to devise, the gene’s discovery will eventually enable very early identification and treatment of the disease. Further gene research may someday lead to genetic therapies and vaccines for AIDS and cancer.
Biotechnology may also be part of the solution to the transplant shortage. In the United States alone, 36,000 patients are in need of an organ transplant while there are only 4,000 available donors.
However, scientists in the United States and England are genetically engineering pigs with human genes to create a “universal organ donor animal,” with organs that can be transplanted into humans without rejection. DNX Corp., a New Jersey biotechnology company at the forefront of the research, hopes to breed genetically engineered pigs and transplant their organs into monkeys or apes within the year. Human trials could by 1996.
miles of driving California law requires automobiles for vehicles,” referring With Big Three powerful and longer-lasting by 2010 more than
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This Week’s Theme: Some things old, some things new
What a week this will be as we choke on the dregs of 1994 but breathe heavily about the prospects of 1995. Indeed, Saturday we kiss off the old year and embrace the new. Celebrants seeking a NOVEL approach might want to check out the New Year’s Eve TRADITIONAL Sobriety Pow Wow this weekend in Covington. (Details in Etc. listmgs.) If you’re STUCK IN YOUR WAYS and just must go wild, iocal drinkeries and dance-aterias are offering a full slate Saturday.
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screen. Earlier, his film noir thriller Red Rock West traveled from cable TV to video and finally to a suecessful theatrical release. Now, with The Last Seduction Dahl runs through that vicious cycle again.
Contrasts between the old and new run all through the UtterKiosk listings this week. In Art, SIXTY Years of Photography a retrospective show of Ruth Bernhard’s work opens at Julia’s Gallery of Photography, while the Cincinnati Art Museum continues its photo-based installation, NEW Art 3. In Etc., consider the CONTEMPORARY Dance Theater’s classes in modem dance and ereative movement or Flying Cloud Academy of VINTAGE Dance’s lessons in proper 19th and 20th century social stepping. In Onstage, Ray Combs Comedy Connection has a FRESH emcee, Todd Lynn, but Dayton’s Victoria Theatre Association has CAROL CHANNING (need we say more?) starring in Hello, Dolly! Cheers!
Last Seduction the top.
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On the critical success of The Last Seduction director Dahl has finally gone into the big leagues of filmmaking. His talent is evident in every frame. More than a homage to a past genre, The Last Seduction steps forth on the strength of Dahl’s fresh screen writing and excellent camera work.
to a normally flimsy genre. Canadian actor Henry Czerny excels in his role as Jack Ryan’s nemesis. This movie is for those who like a little brain with their brawn. (Rated PG-13; at Norwood.)
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Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) persuades her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to pull off a drug deal and then turns on him. In the process of her get-rich schemes, she cons a small-town boy (Peter Berg) to do her bidding on some deadly deeds. No one escapes from the traps set by this beautiful and dangerous woman. Fiorentino grasps what might have been another cliche-ridden ferrnne fatale character and pulls herkicking and screaming into new heights. Watching her chew up the scenery is a wildly wonderful joy ride.
For her performance, Fiorentino has earned Best Actress awards from both Los Angeles and New York film critics. She pushes The
Here is a director who is not only good with setting up objects, but more importantly he is good with people. At every level, The Last Seduction is a superior thriller.
Think of Fiorentino's performance as the icing on a delicious cake. Dahl’s next project will be for MGM. He’s ready for Hollywood. One wonders if Hollywood is ready for the dark visions of John Dahl.
With J.T. Walsh and Bill Nunn.
(Unrated; at the Esquire Theatre and the Little Arts Theatre, Yellow Springs.)
CityBeat grade: B.
★ DESTINY IN SPACE Sure, everything looks cooler when it’s blown-up super huge in the IMAX format, but too often the initial excitement fades fast. (Remember Antarctica?) This time,
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York Times) to praise Neil Jordan’s adaptation of her novel. Her grandiose, self-congratulatory stance outshines the movie which is just good, not great. Interview possesses a few scary moments, some horrific, blood-drenched sequences and one truly creepy scene. Unfortunately, these scenes unfold between long, dull stretches. In places where the novel speaks of loss, futility and longing, the film becomes tongue-tied. Tom Cruise is fine as Lestat, as is Brad Pitt as Louis. Young Kirsten Dunst steals the show as a child-vampire with truly adult hungers. Thankfully, Interview ends on a wild scene that is both terrifying and hilarious. Too bad that tone not held throughout the entire film. With Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea and Christian Slater.
(Rated R; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
IN THE ARMY NOW Whatever may be Pauly Shore’s appeal, let’s hope that it is fading fast. Shore makes Jim Carrey seem like a comic genius. This latest stab at slapstick is easily his worst. The weasel should stay out of films arid stick to MTV. With Lori Petty.
(Rated PG; at Turfway.)
out their posters of Jerry Lewis and replaced them with ones of Carrey. A new slapstick god is born. With Teri Garr and ex-MTV veejay Karen Duffy. (Rated PG-13; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
★ EROTIQUE Three female •filmmakers come together to explore issues of sexuality but with an emphasis on the woman. For the male-dominated movie industry, their project is legitimately unique. Erotique tells three stories: “Let’s Talk about Sex,” directed by Lizzie Borden; “Taboo Parlor,” by German director Monika Treut; and “Wonton Soup," by Hong Kong director Clara Law. To be honest, don’t bother looking for grand political statements in Erotique. Its pleasures are not that cerebral.. They’re basically carnal. The sex scenes in Erotique are not any more graphic than the countless soft-porn titles that line the shelves at Blockbuster. The difference is that with Erotique women are not the victims but the victors. For that one quality alone, the film reaches above the level of base excitement. With Kamala LopezDawson. Priscilla Barnes and Hayley Man. (Unrated; at Real Movies.)
★ FORREST GUMP The phenomenon continues. America never tires of Forrest Gump. Tom Hanks combines the right amount of syrupy pathos with humor.' Those people who complain about the movie’s glorification of the retarded are forcing politics where it does not belong. Let’s hope that the Christian Coalition does not use Gump as some kind of twisted poster boy. With Gary Sinese, Robin Wright and Sally Field. (Rated PG-13; at area Loews Theatres, and the New Neon Movies, Dayton, Ohio.)
★ HEAVENLY CREATURES The hit of the Toronto Film Festival can be found up Interstate 75 this holiday instead of here in our river city. New Zealand director Peter Jackson leaves behind his schlock-horror movies and takes a brilliant stab at retelling this tale of two young female friends who plot to kill. Combining elements of movie musicals with all the trappings of a psychological thriller, Jackson’s film emerges as a truly creepy original production. With Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet. (Rated R; at the New Neon Movies, Dayton, Ohio.)
★ INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE It still puzzles why Anne Rice took a full-page ad out in Variety (later reprinted by producer David Geffen in the New
★ I.Q. With the new year here, someone may toss around phrases like best romantic comedy of 1994 with credibility. Catherine (Meg Ryan) emphasizes her head over her heart. As the niece to renowned physicist Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau), her priorities come as no surprise. Still, life has a way of tossing a wrench into things just when one least expects it. Ed (Tim Robbins) reads sci-fi magazines when he is not busy fixing cars at the local gas station.
Upon seeing Catherine, Ed knows that she is the woman he loves. Ed is just an Average Joe with an Average Joe-like noodle. Catherine only has eyes for whiz-kids like herself. Here, her Uncle Albert and his group of loopy colleagues come to Ed’s rescue. Director Fred Schepisi (Roxanne, Six Degrees ofSeparation) has taken a screenplay from two seasoned TV writers, Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson, and fashioned the most enjoyable romantic comedy of the year. In a time when Hollywood believes laughs only occur in broad slapstick, I. Q. reminds us that believable characters with humorous dialogue ereate the finest comedy. Failures such as Speechless remind us how special films such as I.Q. are. This is the type of movie that inspires one to return and watch it again. With Charles Durning and Gene Saks. (Rated PG; at area Loews Theatres.)
THE JUNGLE BOOK Because it’s just too hard to get children to watch National Geographic videos, here’s a new adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling classic that combines great photography of the Iridian landscape and wildlife with a timeless story. Children love animals and the idea of a wild jungle boy like Mowgli (Jason Scott Lee). Sounds like Disney has put together a fun way for young people to learn something new about their world. With Sam Niell, Cary Elwes and Lena Headey. (Rated PG; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
JUNIOR Director Ivan Reitman (Kindergaiten Cop, Twins), more than any other filmmaker, should know how to make Arnold Schwarzenegger funny. In Junior, he has the best sight gag, a pregnant Schwarzenegger. Reitman blows this golden, comic opportunity by miscasting Danny DeVito as a straight man and Emma Thompson as some slapstick clown. Junior could have been hilarious instead of just being cute. With Pamela Reed and Frank Langella. (Rated PG-13; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
★ THE LION KING Hey, the kids were clamoring for it. So, nice folks at Disney brought this animated blockbuster back for the holidays. Right, let’s get one thing straight. Disney doesn’t have a new animated movie for Christmas, and this is a great
Foreboding Planet
If what movie-makers project becomes real , and disconnected age ahead
BY STEVE RAMOS
ovies love to look forward. It’s no wonder. Filmmakers acquire a lot of creative flexibility in this realm of future make-believe. What fascinates most, is how these moviemakers’ imaginations achieve an astounding consistency in predicting tomorrow’s world.
The looming skyscrapers of director Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) and the big-screen TVs found in the homes of director William Cameron’s Things To "Come (1936) are now a part of today’s living.
Commercial space travel as seen in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the hovering blimps of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) that bombard people with advertisements may soon become just another facet of daily life.
UntO now, movies have kept busy dreaming up new objects to fascinate the eye like rocket ships to future worlds or flying vehicles that zip through the air. Not anymore. Through virtual reality, our future will unfold within our mind’s eye. “You won’t need architects, buildings or even lighting,” says Charles Linn, senior editor at Architectural Record magazine. “Lighting will come from your headset.”
Before, Linn would look at movies such as Blade Runner to spot future trends in architecture. Now, films such as The Lawnmower Man (1992) and director Robert Longo’s Johnny Mnemonic (due this summer) may prove more accurate because they emphasize virtual reality over physical objects. Linn believes that the future lies not in what humans construct around them, blit in what they dream up through the powers of virtual reality.
For him, virtual reality is a return to the dark ages. “When people don virtual reality headsets, you let someone else control your thoughts,” he says. “You put yourself not so much in a god of darkness, but in a god of technology.”
bumping into each tuses. “Somebody say, ‘This is really Just as people the Renaissance, should be smart here to learn and The future will finds familiar. Linn nostalgia. “Guys of Roman buildings style.” He cites Post-Modern example of appropriating Once again, Linn stand the importance sci-fi thriller, Harrison detective who is a gang of replicants, trated society. When business, he keeps per and eating Chinese succinctly: “People
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so flat. With Gary Shandling, Kate Capshaw and Katharine Hepburn. (Rated PG-13; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair and Biggs Place Eastgate.)
★ THE MASK In this specialeffects-laden comedy; Jim Carrey’s performance resembles a Tex Avery cartoon. Still, his manic contortions remain true to the spirit of the film. Of all the fluff from summer, The Mask possessed the most originality. With this hit, Carrey became a million-dollar baby. Who
brandishes Mace, her weapon of choice, against a more formidable threat in John Dahl’s black thriller The Last Seduction.
knows if he will ever lose his Midas touch? With Peter Riegert and Cameron Diaz. (Rated PG-13; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair and Biggs Place Eastgate.)
MILK MONEY Other than catching a glimpse of some local scenery, this tale of two young boys who match their dad up with a prostitute possesses few redeeming qualities. Director Richard Benjamin ( My Favorite Year, Racing with the Moon) piles on the mush and forgets about the laughs. An ultra-thin Melanie Griffith as a hooker with a heart of gold gets lost in the process. With Ed Harris and Malcolm McDowell. (Rated PG-13, opens Friday at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair and Biggs Place Eastgate.)
★ MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
Sure, we have seen this tale of a department-store Santa. Claus who insists he-is the real thing before, but this version really shines. Give credit to the wonderful performances from its leads, Richard Attenborough and young Mara Wilson. It’s not often that young girls experience strong role models such as Wilson at the movies. Of all the family-movie fare out there, this new take on the 1947 original really hits pay dirt. It also struck gold for Wilson. She just signed a huge multi-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. With Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott and Frasier's Jane Leeves. (Rated PG; at area Loews Theatres.)
team up with Jim Carrey. With Madeline Kahn, Juliette Lewis and Adam Sandler. (Rated PG-13; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
MIXED NUTS Christmas Eve is often a crazy time for everyone. For the folks at the Lifesavers suicide-prevention hot line, the holidays become especially manic. Its proprietor, Philip (Martin), faces crises both personal and professional in this adaptation of the hit French film Le Pere Noel est une Ordure. Still smarting from the utter failure of his last film, A Simple Twist ofFate, Steve Martin keeps searching for a hit movie. Unfortunately, director Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle) does not provide the vehicle that Martin needs to jump-start his career. Next time, Martin better
★ NATURAL BORN KILLERS Director Oliver Stone (Platoon, Wall Street) pushes his cinematic skills to new heights. As a result, Natural Bom Killers may be the most daring studio release of the
(Rated R; at Norwood and Turfway.)
★ NELL With her own production
Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino)
Quentin Tarantino has shifted from cult favorite to media darling. With wild frenzy, Tarantino mixes together gun play, drug abuse and racial epithets into a series of interrelated crime tales. Certain to' send teen-age.boys into wet-dream heaven. Adults may rather emphasize Tarantino’s skill at fast and funny dialogue. 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 John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. (Rated R; at Showcase Cincinnati.)
READY TO WEAR Just because Miramax changed the title from Pret-a-Porter to Ready To Wear doesn’t mean that this grandiose blunder by director Robert Altman suddenly turns into a decent film. Hey, when you have a career as long as this filmmaker, there will always be ups and downs. Ready To Wear offers further evidence that Altman does not write as well as he directs. This story that he
cowrote with Barbara Shulgasser brings together an inane plot about a'possible murder into the hightension world of the Parisian fashion shows. Too many characters, little story development, no definite conclusions to any of these varying subplots and very few laughs result in a mess that may remind filmgoers of Quartet. Just because Altman was on a roll after his last two fantastic films (The Player, Short Cuts) doesn’t mean he can’t screw up. Ready to Wear is one high-production waste of time. The only pieces of footage
that excite are the straight, documentary ones of the fashion shows. Worst of all, Altman ends this movie with a tired version of the old emperor-without-clothes joke. If you enjoy high-fashion, stay home and watch Elsa Klensch on TV. There’s too much waste to sift through to make Ready To Wear’s few redeeming qualities worth searching for. With Marcello Mastroianni,, Julia Roberts and a cast of seemingly thousands.
(Rated R; at area Loews Theatres and the Esquire Theatre.)
★ RICHIE RICH A little rich boy in real life, Macaulay Culkin has finally found the role that he has been groomed to play. Based on the popular children’s comic book, Richie Rich weaves a rather simple message about the importance of friendship with a lighthearted romp about kidnapped parents and a search for hidden loot. What makes Richie Rich an enjoyable family movie is that director Donald Petrie never weighs the story down with heavy, adult concerns. Unlike other kiddie movies that pound the youngsters with ultra-serious plots about the environment, Richie Rich keeps the mood light. Hey, any film that has a character called Professor Keenbean has to be fun. Plus, Warner Bros, unveils its first new Roadrunner cartoon, a short titled Chariots ofFur, in more than 30 years. Now that’s something that even adults will get excited about. With Jonathan Hyde and Edward Herrman. (Rated PG; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
★ THE RIVER WILD Meryl Streep takes a successful leap as an action heroine in the latest effort from director Curtis Hanson (The Hand that Rocks the Cradle). Streep’s character leads her husband and son on a white-water rafting trip, only to face terror from two criminal goons. What the story lacks in substance and character development, it makes up with frantic action and breathtaking photography. For her fans, Streep’s role may seem like slumming. Hey, the girl just wants to have fun. With Kevin Bacon and David Straithaim. (Rated PG-13; at Norwood, Turfway and Biggs Place Eastgate.)
THE SANTA CLAUSE Tim Allen makes the leap from TV stardom to the big screen. His sense of ease for kiddie comedy is wasted on this unimaginative story. Hopefully, Disney has Allen in mind for another Son ofFlubber. Kids may eat up the story about a grouchy dad who becomes Kris Kringle. Do they know what “tool time” even means? In film, quality and box-
office draw do not always match. Moviegoers have made this turkey a huge hit. With the holidays soon to be history, will ticket buyers still flock to a Christmas-theme movie? That’s a question as big as Allen’s fake tummy. With Judge Reinhold and Peter Boyle. (Rated PG; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
THE SPECIALIST Two of Hollywood’s hardest bodies, Sly Stallone and Sharon Stone, come together in a soft-and-limp action vehicle. On paper, the film looked like a winner. The sad reality is a story with too much talk and not enough action. It’s frustrating when Hollywood starts missing the mark on this type of fluff. With James Woods, Eric Roberts and Rod Steiger. (Rated R; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair, Biggs Place Eastgate and Westwood.)
SPEECHLESS Directpr Ron Underwood’s Speechless tackles the most basic of stories two adults falling in love. Two political speech writers, Kevin Vallick (Michael Keaton) and Julia Mann (Geena Davis) meet incognito in the middle of a tense campaign for a New Mexico congressional seat. The film should have appropriated All’s Fair, the book that chronicles the romance between President Clinton’s campaign manager James Carville and head of the George Bush campaign, Mary Matalin. Carville and Matalin's real-life story contains more laughs than anything that Speechless screenwriter Robert King dreamt up. Speechless takes two seemingly intelligent adults and forces them to say stupid things and act in foolish ways. With Christopher Reeve and Bonnie Bedelia. (Rated PG-13; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
STARGATE Cutting-edge special effects wrap around a rather old-fashioned science-fiction epic. Unlike recent action films, Stargate takes nothing seriously. Its childlike innocence is refreshing. Consider Stargate as a hip Forbidden Planet. In true ’90s fashion, The Crying Game’s Jaye Davidson steals the show instead of Robby the Robot. With Kurt Russell and James Spader. (Rated PG-13; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair, Biggs Place Eastgate and Westwood.) STAR TREK GENERA-
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friendship. The result is a rare film that
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qualifies as beautiful. With Julianne Moore and Larry Pine. (Rated PG; at the Esquire Theatre.)
Alternative music has lost its meaning with recent mainstream success but some artists have given new meaning to 'Post-Modern music in recordings
★ THE WIZARD OF OZ Adult film buffs may discuss the importance of The Wizard ofOz in the annals of American cinema. Children just love the. film for its timeless sense of wonder. Either way, The Wizard ofOz deserves to be seen on something larger than a living room TV. There’s nothing cooler than watching a 7-foot high munchkin projected on the silver screen. With Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton and Jack Haley. (Unrated; closes Monday at the New Neon Movies, Dayton, Ohio.)
I’ve seen the future of Rock and Roll... and it’s a rotting, maggot-infested corpse.
To look at the future of music is a frivolous pursuit. The comings and goings of trends in popular music are so frequently changing that it’s a complete impossibility to even begin to guess where things will be in 100, 20 or even five years from now.
Repertory
★ TIME BANDITS Before director Terry Gilliam went all out with Brazil and The Adventures ofBaron Maunchausen, he whetted his appetite for cinematic excess on this tale of a young boy taken through time by a gang of unruly dwarves. Gilliam mixes comedy and adventure rather deftly. Still, it’s his flamboyant visual style that makes his movies so beguiling. With Sean Connery and Ralph Richardson as God.(Rated PG-13; midnight Friday and Saturday at Westwood.)
As the dinosaurs of Rock carry on seemingly forever, bands like Pearl Jam, Candlebox and Collective Soul carry the torch of their forefathers and seem to have no interest in creating something original. But it’s not necessarily the artists’ fault; the public is equally guilty of perpetuating the dying art form known as Rock and Roll. Millions of sheep consume their dribble, so musicians obviously are going to keep giving the people what they want.
But there is a large portion of society that wants something new. “Alternative” music is constantly beg: ging the question “alternative to what?” these days, with the success of musicians who are playing music that was once seen as uncommercial and unmarketable. Who would have ever thought we’d see the day when Punk Rock became big business?
It would be my hope that the future of music is to keep coming up with alternatives to the alternative.
★ SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Sure, everyone is buying the video, but wouldn’t you rather see this classic film on a big screen? TV does not do justice to the beauty of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. After the flick, stroll by and look at some of the film’s original animation cels. You won't find them inside your video box. (Rated G; 1 p.m. Thursday at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis. 317-923-1331.)
Dayton’s Brainiac is one of the newer bands to break the barriers of musical convention. The group’s latest release, Bonsai Superstar (Grass, 81 N. Forest Ave., Rockville Center, NY 11570) is shockingly different than the previous album, Smack Bunny Baby, and refreshingly different than anything on the current market.
While Smack was a tweaky, quirky ride on a punkish roller coaster, the newer record is a dive into sick and perverted experimental noise pop. With the last album, Brainiac took catchy, high-energy tunes and built a layer of weirdness (Moog synthesizers, odd vocal effects, etc.) on top. With Bonsai, the weirdness is in the forefront, with only song skeletons beneath the surface.
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There are tape loops, a lot of pointy, focused effects and the way the band uses noise is almost jazzy. Singer/guitarist Tim Taylor’s voice fluetuates from arty falsettos to grizzly growls while the rest of the band warbles and stabs with dynamic poignancy and heart.
These No Wave noise puppies have truly created Post-Post-Modern music here. While some may be taken aback by the band’s experimental direction, the band should be applauded for doing something unique.
Caspar Brotzmann is another explorer and destroyer of existing musical boundaries. On his latest release, Home (Thirsty Ear, 274 Madison Ave., Suite 804, New York, NY 10016), Brotzmann and his band, Massaker, create a scathing, syncopated drone that is fueled by Brotzmann’s fascinating, soaring guitar style. Brotzmann comes off like a Post-Modern German Steve Vai. At times, Brotzmann and his band sound like a cynical, gloomy version of early King Crimson.
What stands out about Brotzmann’s playing is its
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depth and oceanlike tone. Be forewarned: Home is an extraordinary “guitar” album.
Brotzmann writes pieces, not songs, and while he does occasionally sing on the album (in a very deep, unspectacular voice), it’s his unique guitar technique that is spotlighted. While the selections on the disc are exceptionally long and the album on a whole is slightly repetitive, Brotzmann’s fret-board experiments are unequaled. You’ll be hearing a lot about him in the years to come.
So maybe Rock isn’t really dying, just changing. The evolution of music is almost as slow as that of human kind. Who knows what Rock or Pop or Jazz or Rhythm and Blues will sound like in the future. To paraphrase songwriter Todd Snider, maybe the future of music is silence music’s original alternative.
CltyBeat grade: Brainiac, A; Caspar Brotzmann Massaker, B.
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CityBeat’s music listings are free of charge and are for all concerts as well as clubs which feature live music on a regular basis. For information call MIKE BREEN at 665-4700 or FAX at 665-4369. All listings are subject to change. The following listings are for Dec. 29Jan. 4.
Concerts
* KEITH SWEAT Hunky R&B superstar Sweat possesses one of the finest voices in current Soul music, and he could charm the panties off a nun. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Taft Theatre, Fifth and Sycamore streets, Downtown.
$27.50. 749^949.
NINE INCH NAILS 7:30 p m. Thursday. Hara Arena, 1001 Shiloh Springs Road, Dayton. $23.50. 749-4949.
ASS PONYS WITH LAZY AND HONEYBURN 8 p.m. Saturday. Bogart’s, 2621 Vine St., Corryville. $6. 281-8400.
Varied Venues
MOVIN’ MERVYN AND GUESTS
Trinidadian Folk. 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Zarabanda World Cafe, 3213 Linwood Ave., Mount Lookout. 321-1347.
SPENCER FUNK AND THE RHYTHM RATS Folk open mike. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. University YMCA, 270 Calhoun St., •Clifton. 771-0121 or 829-8360.
DAN NICHOLS Acoustic guitar.
ACOUSTIC
JOHNNY SCHOTT WITH PLOW ON BOY AND TIERRA DEL Open mike. Courtyard Cafe. No cover.
8 p.m. Friday. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
LEN CALLAHAN Acoustic. Local 1207. Cover.
DAVID GOLDFLEECE Jazz.
MODULATORS Eclectic. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover. THE REMOTES Rock. Jim and Jack’s. Cover.
JOHN KOGGE AND THE LONESOME STRANGERS— Folk. The Stadium. Cover.
MODULATORS Eclectic. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover.
NEW BEDLAM Rock. Shady O’Grady’s. Cover.
OVERDUE Rock favorites. Hurricanes. Cover.
New Tunes
POSITIVELY YEAH YEAH YEAH
SNOWSHOE CRABS Alternative Rock favorites. Salamone’s. Cover.
SHINDIG Alternative favorites. Katmandu Cafe. Cover.
BY JOHN M. JAMES
THE ACID JAZZ BAND SOCIAL COMMITTEE Acid jazz. 11:30 pm Saturday. The Loft Society, 119 Calhoun St., Clifton. 559-9220.
STUFF Rock. Allyn’s Cafe. Cover.
UPTOWN RHYTHM AND BLUES Rhythm and Blues. Stow’s. Cover.
BRIAN EWING Alternative Folk. 8 p.m. Saturday. Blue Mountain Coffee Co., 3181 Linwood Ave., Mount Lookout. 871-8626.
WILLIE RAY Blues. Burbank’s Sharonville. No
WOLVERTON BROTHERS WITH HOGSCRAPER Alternative. Sudsy Malone’s. Cover.
DAWN "JEWELL” BOSAN
R&B. 8 pm, Saturday. The Westin Hotel, Fountain Square, downtown. 820-1718 or 281-7180.
FRIDAY ANN CHAMBERLAIN JAZZ TRIO Jazz. Coco’s. Cover. BATTERY Metallic favorites. Annie’s. Cover.
SNEAKY PETE Rock. Local 1207. Cover.
SNOWSHOE CRABS Alternative Rock favorites. Salamone’s. Cover.
WILLIE DICKER BAND Eclectic. Katmandu Cafe. Cover.
WONDERLAND Rock. Stow’s. Cover.
SATURDAY
★ ALICE HOSKINS “Sweet"
Alice is Cincy’s premiere Blues diva. (Also: Check out her new release, Cornin' Home to the Blues.') Burbank’s Florence. No cover.
The Fort That Rock Built
A collection of Alternative music that showcases the prolific Fort Apache recording studio in Boston hits the streets Tuesday. And if you aren’t familiar with the name, I’m sure you’re familiar with the artists and albums that have been produced there, such as Hole’s Live Through This, Lemonhead’s Lovey, Sugar's Copper Blue, Come’s Eleven/Eleven and multiple albums from Throwing Muses, Hypnolovewheel and Dinosaur Jr.
★ JAZZ GUITAR SUMMIT Part of the unique Jazz Workshop series at Kaldi’s; guitarists Cal Collins, Joshua Breakstone, Kenny Poole and Bob Roetker play individually and together. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Kaldi’s Coffee House and Bookstore, 1204 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-3070.
BLUES ALL STARS Blues. Burbank’s Sharonville. No cover.
BORDERLINE Rock. Jim and Jack’s. Cover.
THE BUDDY GRIFFIN BAND Bluegrass. Arnold’s. Free.
CIRCUS OF THE SUN WITH FUGUE Rock. Top Cat’s. Cover.
CRUISIN’ BAD DADDY Rock. Club Gotham. Cover.
THE DOGS Blues. Burbank’s Forest Fair. No cover.
Clubs
THE DUKES Blues. Burbank’s Eastgate. No cover.
FEEDER WITH HIGBEE AND BEEL JAK Alternative. Sudsy Malone’s. Cover.
THURSDAY
FESTIVE SKELETONS Alternative. The Palace Club. Cover.
THE BLUE BIRDS Blues. Shady O’Grady’s Pub. Cover.
BLUE LOU AND THE ACCUSATIONS Blues. Burbank’s Forest Fair. No cover.
HIGH SCHOOL BAND CHALLENGE Various. Bogart’s. $6.50.
CRAZY FINGERS Dead Rock Top Cat’s. Cover. THE DOGS Blues. Burbank’s Eastgate. No cover.
HIGH STREET RHYTHM ROCKERS Blues. Mansion Hill Tavern. Cover.
ED MOSS Jazz. Ivory’s. No cover.
FOREHEAD Alternative favorites. Blue Note Cafe. Cover.
FRANK POWERS TRIO Eclectic. Arnold’s. Free.
GOSHORN BROS. Classic Rock. Tommy’s. Cover.
HIGH SCHOOL BAND CHALLENGE Various. Bogart’s. $6.50.
IDENTITY Reggae. One Hundred West. Cover.
DOORS OPEN AT 9:00 PM
STREETSIDE RECORDS CLIFTON (ACROSS FROM RIPLEYS) 5:00 PM JAN. 6
TICKET GIVEAWAYS FOR 9:00 SHOW!
ANVIL SLUGS Alternative favorites. Club Gotham. Cover. BATTERY Metallic favorites. Annie’s. Cover.
BLUE LOU AND THE ACCUSATIONS Blues. Mansion Hill Tavern. Cover.
BLUES ALL STARS Blues. Burbank’s Sharonville. No cover. BORDERLINE Rock. Jim and Jack’s. Cover.
BRIAN LOVELY AND THE SECRET Alternative Rock. Shady O’Grady’s. Cover.
★ BU BU KLAN WITH MR. UNIVERSE AND STITCH Highenergy Punk Hoppers Bu Bu Klan bring in the new year with the abrasive psychedelia of Mr. Universe and new heavy-hitters Stitch. Sudsy Malone’s. Cover.
CEREAL KILLERS AND LUBE OIL AND FILTER Rock. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover.
THE DOGS Blues. Burbank’s Forest Fair. No cover.
THE DUKES Blues. Burbahk’s Eastgate. No cover.
GOSHORN BROS. Classic Rock. Tommy’s. Cover.
HEAVY WEATHER Alternative Funk. Ripleys. Cover.
PSYCHODOTS Pop Rock. Hurricanes. Cover.
RIVERRUNT SPOOK FLOATERS Dead Rock. Top Cat’s. Cover.
ROCKIN’ THE RANGE Country. Coyote’s. Cover.
SHIRLEY JESTER JAZZ TRIO Jazz. Coco’s. Cover.
UNDER THE SUN AND SHELLY Alternative. Salamone’s. Cover. WILLIE DICKER BAND Eclectic. Katmandu Cafe. Cover.
SUNDAY
BLUE BIRDS Blues. Allyn’s. Cover.
JOHN KOGGE AND THE LONESOME STRANGERS Folk. The Stadium. Cover.
MARK COOPER Rock. Club One. Free.
MILHAUS Rock favorites. Blue Note. Cover.
PIGMEAT JARRETT Blues. Stow’s. Cover.
STACY THE BLUES DOCTOR WITH BLUES U CAN USE Blues. Local 1207. Cover.
MONDAY
FRED GARY AND DOTTIE WARNER Eclectic. Arnold’s. Free. MARC MICHAELSON Rock. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover.
TUESDAY
BRIAN LOVELY AND THE SECRET Alternative Rock.
What makes a recording studio and the souls running the clubhouse boards so unique that it deserves its own album? Maybe it starts with Fort Apache’s beginnings in 1986 as an eight-track operation in a warehouse space that brought together local musicians/engineers and their equipment to produce the first Pixies record on a budget of less than $1,000. The roster and equipment have steadily increased since then, and now the studio has a deal with MCA Records to create a new shared label and act as ears-and-eyes talent scouts.
The 13-track album is simply titled This Is Fort Apache and features a mix of better-known acts as well as the cool new band Cold Water Fiat. Limited edition white wax is also available.
A Hidden Hit
Looking for the nifty track "Seattle Grunge Rock Blues” by Todd Snider and can’t find it even though you’ve got his MCA debut Songs For the Daily Planet in yer mitts? Well, you got it it’s just hidden away as a bonus “ghost” track at the end of song No. 12 just let it roll a bit... a bit more ahh, there it is.
Industrial Eye Damage
Wax Trax Records the only label can think of that entirely created and nurtured a new musical genre and movement has just released a two-volume video retrospective. The release coincides with its 13-year anniversary retrospective three-CD Black Box set.
Both videos run almost 80 minutes each and.gontain hypnotic dance-club videos, state-of-the-art computer animation, and high- to low-budget hits from Thrill Kill Kult, Revolting Cocks, Meat Beat Manifesto, Clock DVA and many, many more from the Wax Trax stables. Rarely seen clips are scattered throughout the 35-video collection, including "Joy” and “I.C. Water” by Psychic TV, “Faster Than Light” by Lead Into Gold, and other rarities by Chris Connelly and Greater Than One.
An artistic highlight of Volume Two is the six-minute mini-movie that Coil produced for “Tainted Love” that is now in the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art.
New Releases for Jan. 10
So sorry, music junkies, the major record labels need at least a week to overcome post-holiday hangovers
Wayne Kramer The Hard Stuff (Epitaph), ex-MC5 madman with guest pals from Bad Religion, Melvins, Pennywise and Rancid; Mother May I Splitsville (Chaos/CBS); Tad Live Alien Broadcasts (Futurist); Zumpano Look What the Rookie Did (Sub Pop).
JOHN JAMES can be found behind the counter at Wizard Records in Corryville.
NEW YEAR’S EVE RESOLUTION RUN The 5K run begins at 11:45 p.m. Saturday. You can pick up pre-registration forms at Bob Roncker’s Running Spot, 1993 Madison Road, O’Bryonville. $5, $10 with T-shirt. Beavercreek High School, 2660 Dayton-Xenia Road, Beavercreek. 1-427-1025.
WEEKDAY BIRD WALK Hikers can look for Winton Woods’ winter resident birds. Binoculars and field guides are recommended. 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Parcours Trail, Winton Woods, Winton Road, Springfield Township. 521-PARK.
WHO LIVES HERE? Park visitors can find out about Woodland Mound’s animal population. 3 p.m. Thursday. Seasongood Nature Center, Woodland Mound, Old Kellogg, Anderson Township. 521-PARK.
1995 SENIOR STROLL SERIES
Adults 55 and older are invited to welcome in the new year during the Hamilton County Park District's first walk of the season. 10 a.m. Tuesday. Visitor Center, Sharon Woods, U.S. 42, Sharonville. 521-PARK
Pre-registration is $8, $13 with T-shirt. On the day of race, registration is $9, $14 with T-shirt. Campbell County YMCA, 1437 S. Fort Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas. Steve Howard, 781-1814.
SCRIPPS HOWARD SCHOOLS PROGRAMS Intensive, multilayered, first-hand experience with original works of art designed for students in grades 1-12. Scheduling is arranged to meet the teacher’s needs. $5 per student for the year covers gallery admissions, teacher manuals and materials. Contemporary Arts Center, 115 E. Fifth St., Downtown. 721-0390.
TREASURE ISLAND JEWELRY
Offers classes on stained glass; basic, beaded and wire-wrapped jewelry; polymer clay; and lamp work beads. 34 W. Court St., Downtown. 241-7893.
VITAL VISIONS PROGRAM
Targets at-risk students. A multifaceted program includes a visit with an artist of international and/or national reputation, plus a tour of the materials and techniques employed by the artist. Each student receives a complementary exhibition-related workbook. Free to eligible schools. Contemporary Arts Center, 115 E. Fifth St., Downtown. 721-0390.
Classes & Exhibits
AFRIKAN AMERICAN DRUM AND DANCE ENSEMBLE
Offers classes every Saturday at 12:30-2 p.m. $5 adults; $2.50 children 12-16; $1 children under 12. West End YMCA, 821 Ezzard Charles Drive, West End. 281-7909 or 241-9622.
COMMUNIVERSITY Offers myriad courses from Wordfor Windows 6.0 to Portuguese Fisherman's Hat. University of Cincinnati, College of Evening and Continuing Education, Clifton. 556-6932.
Groups & Programs
CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF CINCINNATI
Offers two four-week Money Control Workshops. The first one starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday. $40 for couples, $25 for singles. CCCS, 151 W. Fourth St., Downtown. 651-0111.
Events
BOAR'S HEAD & YULE LOG FESTIVAL More than 200 singers, actors and musicians perform an elaborately costumed and orchestrated pageant for the 55th annual festival, carrying on a tradition that began in 14th century England at Oxford University. 5 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 and 5 p.m. Sunday. Free. Christ Church Cathedral, Fourth and Sycamore streets, Downtown. 621-BOAR.
HAPPY ZOO YEAR Created especially for families, this celebration is the grand finale of the Cincinnati Zoo’s Festival of Lights. Skating, camel rides and wagon/train rides will be available throughout the night, which will culminate in glittering fireworks and a momentous countdown to the new year at 9 p.m. Starts at 5 p.m. Saturday. Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, 3400 Vine St., Avondale. 281^700.
NEW YEAR’S EVE BASH —TJ’s Sports Bar and Cafe celebrates its first New Year’s Eve with dancing and music. 7851 Tanners Lane, Florence. 647-0100.
★ NEW YEAR'S EVE TRADITIONAL SOBRIETY POW WOW The Ohio Center for Native American Affairs and the Sacred Run Foundation presents the second annual Pow Wow, with Dennis Banks as Master of Ceremonies, Saturday-Monday. Native crafts and foods will be available, and dance sessions will be held daily. No drugs or alcohol allowed. Doors open at 9 a.m. $5 adults, $3 children 12 and under, free to seniors over 65 and children under 5. Holmes High School Field Gym, Madison and 25th Street, Covington. 581-9456.
This Cincy quintet’s vinyl debut (the five put out an EP in 1993) is highlighted by singer Johnny Hodge’s dramatic, heart-felt vocal flash as it glides over the adrenalized grooves, heavy-handed rhythm section and a wall of guitars. “Sudden” is a dynamic slice of guitar-Rock wherein the players allow the song to breath at the appropriate times and then turn on the full attack the next second.
“Acceptance” is a more full-on scorcher that recalls Southern Death Cult with a stompy backbeat. (See Stitch on Saturday at Sudsy Malone’s.) CltyBeat grade: B.
FUZZY Fuzzy (Seed, 19 W. 21st St., New York, NY 10010).
Fuzzy’s name fits pretty well the sweet vocals and warm chord progressions exude a womblike feeling of familiarity, contentedness and serenity. The sugary guitar Pop on the quartet’s debut is screaming for comparisons to Velocity Girl and Veruca Salt, but these Bostonians definitely stand on their own eight feet. The guitars sound glittery and glistening as they move the songs along powerfully and confidently under the harmonizing voices of co-guitarists Chris Toppin and Hilken Mancini. Good stuff in general and, though there’s nothing especially unique about Fuzzy, it’s a good record to put on during a lazy, rainy Sunday afternoon. CityBeat grade: B.
The A-side is a quirky tune with layers of distorted guitar. “Valentine” mildly recalls the Psychedelic Furs, featuring harmonies and a very distinguished melody and shows the band moving away from the Goth-thing.
CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATER Offers classes in tap, jazz, ballet, modem dance, African dance, creative movement for chil-
YOUTH CONVENTION The Cincinnati Convention Center hosts the Wesleyan Church International Youth Convention through Thursday. Estimated attendance is 400. 525 Elm St.,
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and loved ones. All services are free and confidential. Cookbooks, holiday gift cards and sets available. 2183 Central Parkway, West End. 421-2437.
Bereavement Support Group
For people who have experienced loss related to HIV. Meets at 7 p.m. every other Wednesday. Common Bonds For individuals living with HIV. Meets at 7 p.m. every Tuesday. Family, Friends & Loved Ones For loved ones of persons living with HIV/AIDS. Meets at 7 p.m. every Tuesday.
Room With A View An AAbased group for individuals who are HIV+ and in recovery from chemical and/or alcohol dependency. Meets at 8 p.m. every Wednesday.
Womancare For women who are living with HIV Meets at 7 p.m. every other Wednesday.
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.
ENJOY THE ARTS Offers substantial discounts to various arts organizations. Only full-time students are eligible. $24.50 for one year, $39 for two years. 751-2700.
GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD Open 6-11 p.m. daily. 651-0070.
LAVENDER LIGHTS Gays and lesbians helping the hungry and homeless in Cincinnati. To volunteer or get information, call 793-7937.
MIDWEST ANTI-FASCIST NETWORK Expanding pro-active organization fighting racism and racists in the Midwest. Currently seeking donations for the legal defense fund of the six people arrested on Dec. 17 in connection with the pulling down of the KKK cross on Fountain Square. RO. 19614, Cincinnati, OH 45219. 852-9332.
NAAMEN’S RETREAT AfricanAmerican community based support group for HIV-challenged individuals. 559-2933.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF CINCINNATI 2314 Auburn Ave., Mount Auburn. 721-7635.
TRI-STATE HARVEST A volun teer organization whose sole purpose is to transport surplus food to those who need it in the community. To donate food or become a volunteer, call 281-FOOD.
UNITED WAY HELPLINE Provides counseling, supportgroup information, crisis intervention and assistance 24 hours a day. 721-7900.
YWCA PROTECTION FROM ABUSE PROGRAMS Alice Paul House and House of Peace are emergency shelters providing housing, advocacy and support to battered women and their children. 241-2757.
Auditions & Opportunities
CINCINNATI OPERA Accepting applications for artistic and technical internships during the 1995 Summer Festival Season. Interns must be available from late May through July. To apply, contact Thomas Bankston, Director of Operations, Cincinnati Opera, 1241 Elm St., Cincinnati, OH 45210; before March 1. 621-1919, Ext. 226.
INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANT PROGRAM Starting Monday, applications will be available for the City of Cincinnati’s 1995-96
Clubs Directory
MUSIC
ALLYN’S CAFE 3538 Columbia Parkway, Columbia-Tusculum. 871-5779.
•SILKY SHANOHAN’S 1582 E. Kemper Road, Sharonville. 772-5955.
SONNY'S CAFE AND LOUNGE 1227 California Ave., Bond Hill. 242-4579.
SOUTHGATE HOUSE 24 E. Third St., Newport. 431-2201.
STACHE’S 2404 N. High St., Columbus. 614-263-5318.
THE STADIUM 16 S. Poplar St., Oxford. 1-523-4661.
SPILL IT
STOW’S ON MAIN
BY MIKE BREEN
1142 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 684-0080.
A Little New Year’s Eve Night Music
SUDSY MALONE’S
2626 Vine St., Corryville. 751-2300.
If you're up for club-hopping this New Year's Eve, the music you’ll find is a great, diverse slice of Cincinnati’s best.
TOMMY’S ON MAIN
1427 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 352-0502.
TOP CAT’S
2820 Vine St., Corryville. 281-2005.
ZIPPER’S
604 Main St., Covington. 261-5639.
DANCE
CLUB CHRONIC
616 Ruth Lyons Lane, Downtown. Call for days and times. 621-4115.
THE CONSERVATORY
Lemmings. Then head over to Ripleys (2507 W. Clifton Ave., Clifton) for the slammin’ Heavy Weather with its brand of jazzy, funky, soulful Alternative Rock. Local veterans the psychodots will grace the stage at Hurricanes (411 W. Pete Rose Way, Downtown), playing their stellar, finely written Power Pop into the first hours of 1995.
640 W. Third St., Covington. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Friday-Saturday. 491-6400.
Fans of the Blues will want to be at Mansion Hill Tavern (502 Washington St., Newport) for the blue sounds of Blue Lou and the Accusations. And Burbank’s in Florence (7908 Dream) will feature Blues diva “Sweet” Alice Hoskins.
COOTER’S
University Plaza, Vine Street, Corryville. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Until 4 a.m. Friday and Saturday. 751-2642
Modern Alternative Rock fans will get six of this area’s best to help ring in the new year all within the cozy confines of Short Vine in Corryville. Bogart’s (2621 Vine St.) will be the site of A&M recording artists Ass Ponys' New Year’s Eve shindig. The Ponys will be joined by Lazy, fresh off of a tour in support of the trio’s new Roadrunner Records release, Some Assembly Required, and by Columbus’ Honeyburn. Across the street, fans will find Bu Bu Klan, Mr. Universe and Stitch at everyone’s favorite laundrobar, Sudsy Malone’s (2626 Vine St.).
THE DOCK
603 W. Pete Rose Way, Downtown. Until 4 a.m. Friday-Saturday. 241-5623.
In the Presidential Ballroom at the Westin Hotel (at Fountain Square, Downtown, 820-1719 or 281-7180), club-hoppers will find the R&B sounds of Dawn “Jewell” Bosan and friends on New Year’s Eve. (“Jewell,” who plays improvisational Rhythm and Blues, is a hometown fave and ex-Modulator who moved to Los Angeles last year.)
KING TUT’S WA WA HUT
1338 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. 10 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday. 10 p.m.-4 a.m. Friday and Saturday. 241-6045.
For Jazz fans, there will be a unique event at the Loft Society (119 Calhoun St., 559-9220). The makeshift “club,” which features live Jazz about once a month, will house an Acid Jazz performance by the Acid Jazz Band Social Committee a cool, different experience.
And if you want to dance in the new year Hip-Hop style, stop by Club Chronic (616 Ruth Lyons Lane, Downtown). Or head over to the Warehouse (1313 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine) for a night of House/ Alternative dancing.
WAREHOUSE
Top Cat’s (2820 Vine St., Corryville) will be the site of Cincy’s best Grateful Dead-inspired rockers Riverrunt Spook Roaters with Funk gods the Riverrunt
14 Pete Rose Pier, Covington. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Friday-Saturday. 581-1414.
Raymundo
8:30and 10:45 p.m.
8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. 8410 Market Place, Montgomery. 984-9288. RAY COMBS CINCINNATI COMEDY CONNECTION Boasts a new emcee, Todd Lynn, who hails from the Queen City and has appeared on DefComedy Jam. Spike Davis and Todd Davis appear ThursdaySaturday. 8 p.m. Thursday and Sunday, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Friday, 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday. Over 21. $6.50 weekdays; $8.50 weekends. Carew Tower, 441 Vine St., Downtown. 241-8088.
FOREST VIEW GARDENS Sit down to a three-hour meal brought to you by singers-servers who perform Festival of Carols. Through Friday. Reservations required. 4508 North Bend Road, Monfort Heights. 661-6434.
MIAMI VALLEY DINNER THEATRE Presents the musical revue Memories of Christmas through Saturday. $26.95-$34.95. Route 73, Springborq. 1-746-4554.
★ VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION Carol Channing makes a triumphant return to the stage as the unforgettable Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! 8 p.m. Tuesday; runs through Jan. 8. $18.50-$3Q.50. Memorial Hall, 125 E. First St., Dayton, Ohio. 1-228-3630.
VILLAGE PUPPET THEATRE Presents a special performance of The Elves and the Shoemaker 12:30, 2 and 4:30 p.m. Friday. 606 Main St., Covington. 291-5566. Classical Music
★ CSO NEW YEAR'S EVE CONCERT AND BALL Celebrating its centennial season, the Cincinnati Symphony offers its New Year’s Eve concert featuring members of the Cincinnati Ballet. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Dinner and dancing follow. $15 and up for concert only; $100 and up for the ball; combo packages available. Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. 381-3300.
Comedy
GO BANANAS Dennis Piper headlines with John McClellon
Openings
JULIA’S GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Sixty Years of Photography is a retrospective of the work of Ruth Bernhard, a pioneer of American photography who focuses primarily on the nude figure and still life. Opens Friday. Opening reception 2-4 p.m. Sunday. Civic Center Shops, 410 W. Vine St., Lexington. 606-225-8260.
WENTWORTH GALLERY
Country Landscape features the works of Soler, Parsons, Anderson arid Preston. Opens Tuesday. Through Jan. 9. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday. 7875 Montgomery Road, Kenwood Towne Centre, Kenwood. 791-5023.
840 GALLERY Recent sculpture by Mike Johnson and Stephen Winters will be on display beginning Monday. Through Jan. 6. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. D.A.A.P. Building, University of Cincinnati, Clifton. 556-2962.
Galleries & Exhibits
ADAMS LANDING ART CENTER
11 a.m.-3 p.m. WednesdaySaturday or by appointment. 900 Adams Crossing, Downtown. 723-0737.
ARTERNATIVE GALLERY
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.
ARTS CONSORTIUM OF CINCINNATI, UNION TERMINAL Art for City Walls is a yearlong exhibit focusing on local artists. 1-5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; noon-5 p.m. weekends. Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate.
Playhouse in the Park’s 1994 season-opener, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was Ed Stern would like to see the Playhouse present more classics in the future.
Backward Glances
Theater directorsforesee more productions of also lookfor a world premiere or two
By almost any standard, Cincinnati is in something of a theatrical renaissance.
The Playhouse in the Park is celebrating its 35th season, as the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati approaches its 10th. And we are blessed with several new, seriously committed theater groups that make the scene even more lively. Looking to 1995, we’ve asked several artistic directors to tell us of their dreams for the immediate and the distant future.
Jasson Minadakis, artistic director of the Fahrenheit Theatre Company, the newest professional group in town, is about to become Fahrenheit’s first full-time staff member. Fahrenheit, committed to doing classical works players have staged two Shakespearean plays and a dramatization of the Old English Beowulf next
become a Shakespearean Seasongood Pavilion and Covington’s Devou lier classics someday, audience is established. speak, after we build his contemporaries.” is to reach as many Duffy Hudson and Project have a similar they, too, are committed nature. Having presented Frankenstein at the nearly 2,000 people, tales that can be adapted
5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 105 E. Main St., Mason. 398-2788.
fONI BIRCKHEAD GALLERY
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday; Saturday by appointment. 342 W. Fourth St., Downtown. 241-0212.
4 p.m. Sunday. 1416 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 381-2437.
CARNEGIE ARTS CENTER Heaven and Earth features the oils of Kentuckian Frances Hemmer in McCarthy Gallery. Acrylic paintings by Cincinnatian Mary Linn White in Downstairs Gallery.... Beautiful Things Remembered As The Art of Healing Hands highlights mixedmedia works by the physicians of St. Elizabeth Hospital in Downstairs Gallery. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; noon-1 p.m. Saturday. 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington. 491-2030.
★ CELIO! Includes paintings by Roger Pelton, Rocky Woods and Lisa Schare. Good work from emerging regional talent. 11 a.m.7 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday. 1341 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 362-0090.
CHIDLAW GALLERY, ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI 9 a m -
5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Art Academy of Cincinnati, Eden Park. 562-8777.
CINCINNATI ART CLUB Club members are presenting work at the Golden Lamb restaurant in Lebanon, 27 S. Broadway. Through Saturday. 621-8373.
CINCINNATI ART GALLERIES
9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.-
4 p.m. Saturday. 635 Main St., Downtown. 381-2128.
★ CIRCLE CD’S & RECORDS Holiday exhibition of limited-edition silkscreen prints and Rockconcert posters by artists such as Derek Hess, Frank Kozik, Linsey Kuhn, M. Getz, J. Hollans and Uncle Charlie. A revived art form reminiscent of Haight-Ashbury. Through Jan. 16. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 5975 Glenway Ave., Western Hills. 451-9824.
★ CLOSSON’S GALLERY DOWNTOWN —Permanent collection includes some of the best art by Cincinnati’s earlier artists, including Frank Duveneck, John Henry Twachtman, Herman and Bessie VVessel, Charles Meurer, William Louis Sonntag, John Weis, Charles Salis Kaelin and Henry Mosler. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. 401 Race St., Downtown. 762-5510.
CLOSSON’S GALLERY KENWOOD Continuing exhibition of maritime paintings and prints by Cincinnati favorite John Stobart through Saturday. Wildlife oils and prints by John Ruthven through Friday. Reflective Moments spotlights paintings by Adeline Hoagland. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 7866 Montgomery Road, Kenwood;
ARTS Center closed for the hoiidays through Monday. 9 a.m.8 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m5 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m.-noon Saturday. 101 S. Monument Ave., Hamilton. 863-8873.
GALLERY AT WELLAGE & BUXTON Photographs by Jon Yamashiro through Thursday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. 1431 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-9127.
Thursday and Sunday; noon-9 p.m. Friday-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 Features antique fishing equipment. Sounds interesting. Through Tuesday. 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. MondaySaturday. 3075 Madison Road, Oakley. 321-6020.
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE SKIRBALL MUSEUM Aishet Hayil: Woman of Valor features paintings, textiles and sculptures. Through Feb. 25.11 a.m.^4 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 2-5 p.m. Sunday. 3101 Clifton Ave., Clifton. 221-1875.
★ HEIKE PICKETT GALLERY A one-person show by Steve Armstrong featuring carved and painted wooden pieces with wooden gear mechanisms; one of the strongest faux naif carvers, combined with one of the oldest and most prestigious Kentucky folk art groups. Concurrent invitational group show features 27 artists. All through Jan. 15. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 522 W. Short St., Lexington. 606-233-1263.
MARTA HEWETT GALLERY Solo show by Salvatore Ventura featuring large-format architectural watercolors. Through Jan. 15. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; noon-5 p.m. Saturday. 1209 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 421-7883. HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER 9 a.m.-5 p.m. MondayThursday; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday. 2615 Clifton Ave., Clifton. 221-6728.
★ IN SITU Inside/Outside is a group exhibition featuring landscape multiples by national and regional artists Laurie Rousseau, Suzanne Caporael, Joan Nelson, Wade Hoefer, Ellen Phalen, Katleen Sterck and Terry Rozo and the X-Art Foundation. Known for its exquisite installations, in situ presents landscape works from fresh, well-conceived perspectives. Through Jan. 21.11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 1435 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 651-4613. INNER SPACE DESIGN Contemporary Works on Paper includes the works of Kelly, Dine, Motherwell, Rauchenberg, Indiana and Lichtenstein. Through Saturday. Also on display one-of-a-kind necklaces by New York jewelry designer Nancie Taphorn. Through Feb. 28. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 2128 Madison Road, O’Bryonville. 533-0300.
★ JAMAR GALLERY —Works by five artists include photographs by Boris Yusupov, titled “New Eyes on Cincinnati”; oils and watercolor/paper cuts by Russian artist Oleg Lazarenko; oils by C. Savchenko; floral watercolors by Crimean artist Elvira Letz; and the cloisonne enamel pieces of Joseph Treppetti. Jamar’s ongoing interest in Russian art is manifested again. Through Jan. 31.10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. 135 W. Fourth St., Downtown. 333-0022.
KZF GALLERY Paintings and drawings by Ken Landon Buck; sculpture by Barbara Beatrice; paintings and prints by B.B. Hall.
Curated by Steven V. Clark. Through March. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 655 Eden Park Drive, Walnut Hills. 621-6211.
LOUISVILLE VISUAL ART ASSOCIATION 3005 Upper River Road, Louisville. 502-896-2146.
LEFTHANDED MOON 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Tarot readers available noon3 p.m. every Saturday. 48 E. Court St., Downtown. 784-1166.
MACHINE SHOP GALLERY Chairs, an exhibition by University of Cincinnati industrial design students will be on display through Feb. 10. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. TuesdaySaturday. 100 E. Central Parkway, Over-the-Rhine. 556-1928.
★ MALTON GALLERY Foreign Exchange: New Talentsfrom the Old Countries features the etchings of Sweitlan Kraczynam, a Polish/Russian-bom artist working now in Florence, Italy; the pastel drawings of Tatjana Krizmanic, a native of Yugoslavia currently residing in Nova Scotia; and the paintings on handmade paper of Vladzimir Isupov, born in Siberia now living in Russia. A refreshing exhibition of new Russian artists. Through Jan. 31.10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 2709 Observatory Ave., Hyde Park. 321-8614.
★ MASON FINE ART GALLERY A well-curated exhibition showcasing mostly regional talent and featuring silverpoints, watercolors and egg tempera paintings by Cincinnatians Ken Landen Buck and Jan Brown Checco, and New Yorkers Irwin Greenberg and Kenney Mencher. Buck’s work is a must-see. Through Jan. 15. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 6-9 p.m. Wednesday. 108 W. Main St., Mason. 398-2625.
MILLER GALLERY The paintings of Northern Illinois University art professor Ben Mahmoud will be on display through Feb. 3. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 2715 Erie Ave., Hyde Park. 871-4420.
MULLANE'S PARKSIDE CAFE First watercolor exhibition from Art Academy star alum Heinz Pradac. Through Friday. 11:30 a.m.-l 0 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 11 a.m.-ll p.m. Friday; 5-11 p.m. Saturday. 723 Race St., Downtown. 381-1331.
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY 9 a.m.-9 p.m. weekdays; 1-5 p.m. weekends. Fine Arts Building, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights. 572-5148.
★ OLMES GALLERY Lynda Riddle’s explosive career continues on the mark, and her new works are currently on display. 11 a.m.6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 3515 Roundbottom Road, Newtown. 271-4004.
★ ONE SHOT GALLERY Presents new works by Cincinnati artist Mils, with vintage political cartoons by fellow Cincinnatian Claude Shafer. 10 a.m.-l p.m. weekdays; weekends by appointment. 658 Main St., Downtown. 721-1193.
ONLY ARTISTS —For the Holidays From the Hand and the Heart explores the traditions of folk art with a unique selection of hand-carved ornaments, Santas, angels, Bybee pottery and Joe De Luco furniture. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 1315 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-6672.
★ LAURA PAUL GALLERY An elegant mix of work in a classy gallery setting, The Art ofGiving The Giving ofArt includes original works by Enrico Embroli and Bruce Hall, sculpture by Charles Herndon and jewelry by Angela Cummings. Through Jap. 30.10 a.m.-4 p.m. MondaySaturday. Dixie Terminal, 49 E. Fourth St., Downtown. 651-5882.
PENDLETON ART CENTER 1310 Pendleton St., Over-theRhine. 721-6311. ★ GRETA PETERSON GALERIE
Swedish folk art is on view in 20 Days ofChristmas, which also includes new paintings, textiles and decorative art. The gallery continues its strong tradition in eclectic international exhibitions. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 7696 Camargo Road, Madeira. 561-6785.
★ RAYMOND GALLERY First-ever prints by Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist Jim Borgman of The Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati Post cartoonist Jeff Stahler;
the “new” abstraction and wall sculptures (constructions). Through Jan. 13. 231 Bethesda Ave., Clifton. 558-5627. PATRICIA WEINER GALLERY The holiday exhibit features recent acquisitions of paintings by European and American artists of the 19th and 20th
dealing with the ideas of woman as object and voyeurism; through Jan. 29.... 11 a.nx-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. 721-0390.
Celebrate! features watercolors by Jane McCullock and an exhibition by members of the Art Bank cooperative. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. 898 Walnut St., Downtown. 241-7090.
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE
XAVIER UNIVERSITY GALLERY
Childe Hassam: Etchings and Lithographs by the turn-of-thecentury American artist; through Jan. 29. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Sunday; 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday. 465 Belmonte Park North, Dayton, Ohio. 1-223-5277.
A mixed-media exhibition by Xavier art students through Jan. 13. 12-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. 3800 Victory Parkway, Evanston. 745-3811.
Museums
★ CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM
New Art 3 is a photo-based installation investigating memory and loss by Christian Boltanski, a cutting-edge contemporary international artist. This brilliant, interactive installation utilizes light as metaphor, as well as being beautifully installed and executed.
Through Jan. 26. Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec: French Impressionists to PostImpressionist Prints and Drawings. Proves that all great art is based upon drawing. Through March 5. Also, Divine Intervention is a modern-day memorial to AIDS vietim Richard Allen Shiftier by artist Joel Otterson; through Sunday. Acquisitions of Costume and Textiles, 1974-1994 are on display through Jan. 29. Edward Potthast 1857-1927 features eight paintings by the native Cincinnatian; through March 5. Richard Bitting: Nine Summer' Haiku is a suite of nine color lithographs with music and text transformed into designs; through April 9. ...Air in Motion, Heart in Motion includes 14 prints by Shinoda Toko, trained in calligraphy but best known for her paintings; through May 14. The Questfor Quality highlights museum acquisitions from the 20year directorship of recently retired Millard F. Rogers. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. $5 adults; $4 students and seniors; children free; free to all on Saturdays. Eden Park. 721-5204.
★ INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: An Art in the Making spotlights 150 of the world’s earliest (and still best) animation cels, exhibited with extraordinarily creative adjunct programs. Through Feb. 5. Also, Textiles by West African Nakunte Diarra; through Saturday. Paintings by Indiana native-tumed-superstar Kay Rosen in Back Home in Indiana; through Jan. 8. Written on Stone with Garo Antreasian; through Jan. 15. Liber Studiorum, Turner Printsfeatures worksfrom the 13-year span the artist devoted to printmaking; through Feb. 5. Riley to Tarkington: Images ofIndiana Authors; through March 12. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Thursday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. $4 adults; $3 students and seniors; children 12 and under free. 1200 W. 38th St., Indianapolis. 317-923-1331.
★ J.B. SPEED ART MUSEUM Organized by the.American Craft Museum in New York City and touring nationally, The Ideal Home: 1900-1920 focuses on objects of the domestic environment. Furniture, textiles, lamps, jewelry and other such objects made by such eminent artists of the period as Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Comfort Tiffany are displayed. Excellent period pieces avoid the feel of period rooms in museums. In coordination with this exhibit, the museum has organized three of its own shows that explore the American Arts and Crafts Movement in Louisville architecture and decorative arts collections. Through Jan. 8. 10 a.m.^1 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. 2035 S. Third St., Louisville. 502-636-2893.
MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM Continuing exhibits include Stitched, Woven and Plaited: Contemporary Craft Traditions ofAfrica, through Jan. 11, and The Belle Epoque in Caricature, through Feb. 19. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Free. Patterson Ave., Oxford. 1-529-2232.
★ NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER Mississippi Freedom Summer Remembered: 1964-1994 is a photographic exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer. A must-see for historical and aesthetic purposes; showcases photography’s multiple possibilities.... Also, 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. 1-376-4944.
★ COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART Landscape As Metaphor is a special exhibit highlighting multimedia works by 13 living American artists. A good look at landscape, in conjunction with the Wexner landscape show. The museum has two important collections: the Sirak Collection of French Impressionist and German Expressionists including Degas, Renoir, Monet, Ensor, Picasso and many Klees; the Howald Collection of American painters including paintings by O’Keefe, Homer, Bellows and Cassatt. Admission to the museum collection is free.
SOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM Stars and Diamonds is a 15th anniversary exhibition of brilliant cut glass from the Harold Micklethwaite Collection; through Friday. Portsmouth Structures 11 highlights Will Reader’s paintings of local scenery; through Friday.
A Neoclassical holiday display of decorations by Cincinnatian Frances Jones Poetker along with a Victorian Christmas tree and a collection of antique toys; through Saturday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdayMORE, PAGE 24
★ CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER Horizons: The Art of Healing includes paintings from psychologically or physically abused children utilizing art-astherapy for healing.
Now Wait A Nanosecond!
Writer's vision has Cincinnati enlivened by molecular technology that transforms inhabitants to Charlie Parker, Gertrude Stein and Billie Holiday
BY BILLIE JEYES
Kathleen Ann Goonan’s vision of Cincinnati in the future gives no clue as to the fate of Fountain Square West or whether Mike Brown ever got his foOtball-only stadium. But don’t let those facts stop you from reading her futuristic novel, Queen City Jazz.
Queen City Jazz (Tor, $23.95) is. a thoughtful yet complicated book that requires more than the usual amount of concentration from the reader. It is worth the effort, though, and if a technological reactionary like myself can grasp the book’s scientific concepts, there’s hope for everybody.
In Goonan’s world, a quasar has disrupted normal forms of communication and most of the country has reverted to a pre-industrial form of society. Cincinnati, however, has been “enlivened” with a new
Writers’ notebook
Still Going The roster of long dead writers coming out with new novels is getting longer every day.
V.C. Andrews gets the prize for being the most prolific, and Ernest Hemingway comes a close second with The Garden ofEden. Not to be outdone, Louisa May Alcott has come up with A Long And Fatal Love Chase, a posthumous novel that deals with an extremely current issue.
I won’t give away the plot. Actually, I can’t because I haven’t read it yet. But, rumor has it that it’s about a woman who is hunted down by her husband. Sound familiar?
Attention Bibliophiles! The former editor and publisher of the Village Voice’s literary supplement will become editor-in-chief of WORD, a brand-new magazine devoted to literature.
Its main thrust will be book reviews, but it will also have a listing of national author events and a best-seller list.
Musical Literary Chairs: Bill Buford, author of Among the Thugs, has been named New Yorker fiction editor. Buford certainly has the experience for the position. For the past 15 years, he has been the editor of the highly acclaimed literary magazine, Granta.
He will replace Charles McGrath who will become the new editor of the New York Times Book Review.
Almost Gone With The Wind: The makers of Mercedes-Benz automobiles plan to buy and restore the apartment building that was home to Margaret Mitchell while she was writing Gone With The Wind.
In September, an artist decided to adorn the building with more than 40,000 inflated surgical gloves. Shortly thereafter, it was set on fire by an unknown arsonist.
The building, which Mitchell referred to as “the
form of technology, known as nanotechnology, which Goonan defines as “a manipulation of matter on a molecular or nuclear level.” Goonan credits Eric Drexler, author of The Engines of Creation, with developing the concept of nanotechnology.
“Drexler envisioned a big vat of liquid with all of the components needed to make a car which would be built molecule by molecule,” she says.
Using this technology, Cincinnati has not only replicated its former architecture but has also genetically transformed its inhabitants into such luminaries as Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.
“Genetic engineering is coming closer to the time where we will be able to manipulate human beings,”
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dump,” is located on Peachtree Street in Atlanta and should be ready in time for the 1996 Olympic Games.
Matchmaker’s Reward: If you’re looking for a way to supplement your income in 1995, pick up a copy of Bill Adler’s romance novel, Who Should Melissa Marry?
If you can figure out the best possible ending, you could win yourself $10,000. Adler is spreading the wealth to booksellers, too; $2,500 goes to the store that can sell the most copies of his book.
This is not the first time Adler has paid people to read his books. In 1983, he offered a $10,000 reward to the reader who came up with the best ending for his mystery, Who Killed the Robins Family?
Magazines Online: Wired has finally come out with its online ’zine, Hotwired.
Look for the serialization of Alexander Besher’s new novel RIM: A Novel of Virtual Reality. The Internet address, for those of you with the technology, is: http://hotwired.com/
Releases for January or February:
Chaos And Cyber Culture by Timothy Leary (Ronin, $19.95).
From Time To Time by Jack Finney (S&S, $23). Good Benito by Alan Lightman (Pantheon, $21).
Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin Samuel Beckett, and Their Circle on the Left Bank by James Campbell (Scribner, $25).
An Imperfect Spy by Amanda Cross (Ballantine, $20).
Missing by Jonathan Valin (Delacorte, $19.95).
My Education: A Book ofDreams by William S. Burroughs (Viking, $21.95)
Original Sin by P.D. James (Knopf, $24).
Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections edited by J.H. Stape (University of Iowa, $19.95).
Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play by Ben Watson (St. Martin’s, $27.50).
BILLIE JEYES
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BB RIVERBOATS Lunch, dinner, sightseeing cruises with area high school choirs available. Closed Saturday and Sunday. Cruises depart from BB Riverboats base at Covington Landing. $27.95-$4.50. 261-8500.
BEHRINGER-CRAWFORD MUSE-
Friday. 825 Gallia St., Portsmouth. 614-354-5629.
★ THE TAFT MUSEUM The Expatriate American Artist and Other Selections From a Cincinnati Collection features 30 paintings, watercolors and sculptures, including works by five “Duveneck” school artists. Also includes a Herter Bros, furniture display. Superb Elizabeth Nourse paintings from the turn of the century mix with period furniture from the original Cincinnati Probasco home as director Phillip Long attempts to make the Taft a living house once again. Through Jan. 15. Also, a special display of four works by Grandma Moses continues through March 19.
UM Housed within the historic Devou family home, it is the only museum of Northern Kentucky natural and cultural heritage. Holiday Toy Trains includes characters from Thomas the Train and the Lionel American Flyer. Through Jan. 8. Silent Testimony: The Prehistoric Earthworks of the Central Ohio Valley, a photographic show by Cincinnati artist Alice Weston, has been extended through Jan. 8. 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
This restored Victorian mansion, built in 1861, provides the setting for the Butler County Historical Museum. 1-4 p.m. TuesdaySunday. $1 afults; free children 12 and under. 327 N. Second St., German Village, Hamilton. 893-7111.
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. Free admission to visitors bringing any non-perishable food items or personal care products; items will be donated to the FreeStore/FoodBank, the Drop Inn Center and other local social service agencies. 241-0343.
BICENTENNIAL COMMONS More than 300,000 lights are displayed throughout the riverfront park for the Honda Starlight Celebration. The lights are on 5-10 p.m. daily through Monday.
Skating hours: 4-9 p.m. Thursday; 5-10 p.m. Friday; noon-10 p.m. Saturday; noon-6 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $2 adults; $1 children 12 and under. $1 skate rental; $2 rollerblade rental. Bicentennial Commons at Sawyer Point, Downtown. 352-4026.
WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS Burning Beds features paintings, drawings and mattress sculptures by Argentinean artist examining identity and place, memory and loss; through Saturday. Between the Frames: The Forum includes eight videos by installation artist Antonio Muntadas with more than 100 interviews from North Americans, Western Europeans and Japanese regarding how contemporary art is presented, created and interpreted among differing cultural institutions; through Saturday. 10 a.m.6 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday; noon-5, p.m. Sunday. Ohio State University, North High Street at 15th Avenue, Columbus. 614-292-3535.
BUCKINGHAM LODGE A preCivil War house now home to the Indian Hill Historical Society. By appointment only. Camargo Road, Indian Hill. 891-1873.
CAREW TOWER OBSERVATION DECK Come to the top of the tallest building in Cincinnati for a breathtaking view of the city’s seven hills. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. $2 adults; $1 children 5-12; free to children under 5. 441 Vine St., Downtown. 579-9735.
CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Newly opened interactive museum celebrates World Beat Week with improvisational Jazz at 1:30 and 3 p.m. Thursday; and Cha Cha, Samba and Rumba at 1:30 and 3 p.m. Friday. Museum hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. T\iesday-Thursday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday. Starting Sunday, the museum will have new hours. Schools only, 10 a.m.-noon WednesdayFriday. General admission, noon5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, noon5 p.m. Sunday. $5 admission; chil
dren under 5 pay their age in dollars. Longworth Hall, 700 W. Pete Rose Way, Downtown. 421-5437.
CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM
Featuring the permanent exhibit
The Early Volunteer Fire Fighters of Cincinnati. 10 a.m4 p.m. weekdays; noon-4 p.m. weekends. $2.50 adults; $1.50 children 2-12. 315 W. Court St., Downtown. 621-5553.
CG&E HOLIDAY TRAINS
The B&O model train first pulled into the CG&E lobby in 1946 and The Trains of Christmas has been an annual event ever since. Through Saturday. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. 139 E. Fourth St., Downtown. 287-2639.
CINCINNATI HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM Temporary exhibits include Modernist Visions of Urban Housing, featuring materials introduced at the Wessenhof housing project in the 1920s by Mies van der Rohe; through Sunday. Winter Light: Festive Art From the Collection ofThe Cincinnati Historical Society features paintings by Frank H. Myers, John H. Twachtman and John Weis and etchings by Caroline Williams and E.T. Hurley; through Jan. 15. Model Railroads includes balloonstack wood burners of the mid-1800s; through Jan. 15. Permanent exhibits include Cincinnati: Settlement to I860, a re-creation of the city’s origins from a Western frontier outpost to a booming manufacturing center, and Cincinnati Goes to War, a portrait of the homefront during WWII.'Museum hours: 9 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m6 p.m. Sunday. $4.95 adults; $2.95 children; members free. Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate. 287-7030.
CINCINNATI MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Dinamation’s Carnivore Caper features five animated dinosaur replicas that move and roar; through Monday.... The new computer-animated simulation film Dino Island takes viewers on rollercoaster ride in The Reactor, a virtual reality theater with seats that move and shake. $3. Through Jan. 8. Daytime prices (9 a.m.-5 p.m.): $4 adults; $2 children 3-12. Evening prices: $5 adults; $3 children 3-12. Museum hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. $4.95 adults; $2.95 children 3-12; members free. Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate.. 287-7020.
CINCINNATI PLANETARIUM The holiday season includes Holiday Skies at 1 and 3 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Laser Nutcracker at 2, 4 and 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. Other continuing shows include Laser Doors, 8:15 p.m. ThursdaySaturday; Lazerpalooza, 9:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday; Laser Zeppelin, 10:45 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; and Laser Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, midnight Thursday and
Friday; Laser Floyd: The Wall 8:15 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Evening shows $6; afternoon shows $4 adults, $3 children 12 and under. Located in the Geier Collections and Research Center of the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, 1720 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills. 395-3663.
★ CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDEN The annual Festival ofLights transforms the zoo into a winter wonderland with lights, reindeer, caroling, rides and a holiday ice-skating show has been extended through Jan. 8. Ice skating, free with zoo admission, continues 10 a.m.-4 p.m. each weekend in January. Skate rentals cost $3 per pair. 5-9 p.m. SundayThursday; 5-9:30 p.m. FridaySaturday. Zoo-hours are 9 a.m.5 p.m. daily. $7.50 adults, $4.50 children 2-12, $5.25 seniors; $4.50 parking. 3400 Vine St., Avondale. 281-4700.
DAYTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY A 7-month-old red fox that was too tame to be reintroduced into the wild can be seen in Wild Ohio, a zoo containing animals native to Ohio. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday; 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. $3 adults; $1.50 ages 3-17; free to children 2 and under. 2699 DeWeese Parkway, Dayton, Ohio. 1-275-7431.
DELHI HISTORICAL SOCIETY A restored 1880 farmhouse. The exhibit room features antique dolls in winter scenes and the parlor will be decorated for a Victorian Christmas. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 1-3 p.m. Sunday. Free. 468 Anderson Ferry, Delhi Township. 451-4313.
DINSMORE HOMESTEAD A historic farmstead built in 1841-42. 1-5 p.m. Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. $3 adults; $2 seniors; $1.50 children under 12. 5654 Burlington Pike, Burlington, Ky. 586-6117.
★ FOUNTAIN SQUARE CHRISTMAS VILLAGE —See the lights and trimmed trees, visit Santa’s toy-making village and then skate awhile. And, in the spirit of the First Amendment, resXrain the urge to tear down the KKK cross. Ice-skating rink open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; closed Sunday. Starting Tuesday, the iceskating rink will be open noon-8 p.m. Monday-Wednesday; noon-5 p.m. Thursday; noon-9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. Through Feb. 20 (weather permitting). $1 to skate, $1 skate rental. 684^945.
GINGERBREAD VILLAGE The Hyatt Regency presents its 11th annual Gingerbread Village made from 225 pounds of gingerbread, 280 pounds of candy and 22 galIons of icing. Through Monday. 151 W. Fifth St., Downtown. 579-1234.
HARDING MUSEUM OF THE FRANKLIN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Open 1-5 p.m. Sunday and by appointment. 302 Park Ave., Franklin. 1746-8295.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BREWING HISTORY AND ARTS
Houses the largest display of brewing and beer artifacts in the world. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.5 p.m. weekends. $4 adult tour and tasting; $2 under-21 tour and nonalcoholic tasting; $3 adult tour only; $2 beer tasting only. Oldenberg Complex, Interstate 75 at Buttermilk Pike, Fort Mitchell.
Events
KAHN’S AFRICAN CULTURE FEST Jan. 14-16 marks the 10th anniversary of African Culture Fest at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. Performers includeKhamisi Drum Ensemble, Afrikan Drum and Dance Ensemble, Essence of Africa, Overthe-Rhine Steel Drum Band, Sister Friends, Queen City Dance Theater, Drums for Peace; storytellers Geralding Robinson, Julane Yancy and Larry Joiner, and artists Shelley Lindsay, Victor Siffel, Mariella Owens and Robert Davies. Daytime prices (9 a.m.-5 p.m.): $4 adults; $2 children 3-12. Evening prices: $5 adults; $3 children 3-12. Museum hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. $4.95 adults; $2.95 children 3-12; members free. Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Queensgate. 287-7020.
ANIMAL RIGHTS COMMUNITY
The Wildwood Rehabilitation Project has been finding more and more injured and orphaned animals. Learn how you can assist by attending a talk by wildlife rehabilitator Justyn Anderson. 8 p.m. Jan. 5. Free. Star Bank’s Meeting Room, 425 Ludlow Ave., Clifton. 542-6810.
STARS OF BASEBALL SHOOT
OUT Major league baseball players will play in a double-elimination exhibition basketball touma- s ment. Between-game activities include a slam-dunk contest, 3point shooting contest and designated autograph sessions.
Proceeds from the event will benefit St. Rita’s School for the Deaf. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Jan. 14 and 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Jan. 15. Tickets are $7 in advance, $9 at the door. Xavier University’s Schmidt Fieldhouse, Winding Way, Norwood. 749-4949.
KING DAY BREAKFAST CELE-
BRATION The fifth annual breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr. is presented by the Arte Consortium of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Historical Society. 9-10:30 a.m. Jan. 16. $15 adults; $9.50 students. Hyatt Hotel’s Regency Ballroom, 151 W. Fifth St., Downtown. 381-0645.
HOW TO MAKE A QUILT PANEL
Free workshop for those interested in making a panel to memorialize those who have died of AIDS. 7-9 p.m. Jan. 9. Panels will be displayed at the University of Cincinnati during the April 19-22 exhibit of the Names Project AIDS' Memorial Quilt. Meet in the lobby at 7 p.m. University Hospital, 234 Goodman, Clifton. 771-6832.
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Restaurant owner: Generation raised on fastfood turn to mass-marketed eateries
BY POLLY CAMPBELL
I’m a person who likes to know where her next meal is coming from, so when I think about the future, I wonder where we’ll be eating put, come the millennium.
I can easily imagine two different futures, based on trends evident now. I’d like to think that there will be more chef-owned restaurants serving regional, fresh food in creative ways, giving us plenty of organic, vegetarian and low-fat choices. I do see a lot of lip service paid to those ideals, but places like The Production Line and What’s for Dinner boost my hope. But when I see what kinds of restaurants are actually opening in Cincinnati, the future looks different. 1 see it marching over the landscape, in uniform ranks, scouted out by market researchers and proclaimed in neon: chain restaurants.
Places like The Cooker, Outback Steaks, Don Pablo’s and Mountain Jack’s are opening big restaurants in multiple locations. They’ve got big portions, long menus, reasonable prices, servers trained to be friendly, food of consistent quality. And they’re packed with customers. What’s not to like?
Only that they have no heart, no soul. Rather than personality, they have an image, created by advertising. Their menus and ambiance seem to have made several passes through a market-research department and ended up at the lowest risk-free common denominator. They are absolutely the same everywhere in the country. No matter how many choices of chains there are, they all feel somehow the same.
As long as chains are just among the choices and there are also interesting, independent restaurants, I
been so formed by fast-food gravitate to the more
“People seem to go be familiar, too,” he says. about eating healthy, conscious of.” What conventioneers head they know from back
“I think there will Deluxe Grill in Clifton restaurants have the When The Cooker opened from Jeckle’s, it “took ness is already back right now, but they’re
BY JULIE LARSON
ST. FRANCIS CENTER LECTURE
SERIES Father Nick Lohkamp will be presenting a six-part lecture series 7-9 p.m. Jan. 16. $50. 10290 Mill Road, New Burlington, Ohio. 825-9300.
WNKU’S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING Bring your unadorned trees to parking lot L, where they will be chipped, courtesy of Asplundh Tree Expert Co. Please bring plastic bags to take mulch home. The remainder will be used by the landscaping department at Northern Kentucky University. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 7. Highland Heights. 572-6500.
Literary
MERCANTILE LIBRARY 1995
NIEHOFF SERIES Jonathan Kamholtz, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC, presents five informal lectures: Tobias Wolffs
This Boy’s Life, Jan. 10; Stephen King’s The Shining, Jan. 17; Frank Chin’s Donald Duk, Jan. 24; E.L. Doctorow’s. World’s Fair, Jan. 31; and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Feb. 7. Lectures start at 12:45 p.m. $40 for series, $45 for non-members. 414 Walnut St., Downtown. 621-0717.
Onstage
ATHENAEUM CHORALE Presents settings of English carols arranged for choir and string orchestra for the Epiphany Vespers and Carol Concert. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8. 6616 Beechmont Ave., Mount Washington. 231-2223.
CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK Jar The Floor, Cheryl L. West’s hit play about the bittersweet nature of family love opens Jan. 12 and runs through Feb. 9. Not recommended for children. $ 19—$31 adults. Public previews take place 7 p.m. Jan. 10 and 8 p.m. Jan. li. $16. Robert S. Marx Theatre, Eden Park. Tickets to all shows are half-price when purchased noon-2 p.m. the day of the show. 421-3888.
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA Jesus LopezCobos conducts the CSO with solo violinist Alyssa Park. Program includes Schuman’s American Festival Overture, Barber’s Violin Concerto, Op. 14; and Brucknep’s Symphony No. 7 in E. Major.
8 p.m. Jan. 6, 8 p.m. Jan. 7. Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-theRhine. $10-$26. 381-3300.
DAYTON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA Indian-born
pianist Priya Mayadas, winner of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Award and the New Jersey Governor’s Award in Arts; debuts with the DPO in Concertos for Everyone. The program includes works by Back, Handel and Ginastera’s. The Coffee Concert begins at 10 a.m. Jan. 6, and concertgoers are invited to start the morning at 9 a.m. with conversation, complimentary donuts and coffee. Casual Classics at 6:30 p.m., but stop.by an hour early for complimentary hors d’oeuvres. $14—$10. Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton, Ohio. 1-224-3521.
JEROME BARRY The internationally acclaimed baritone who has sung with the Israel Philharmonic, the Boston Pops and the Baltimore Symphony presents Yiddishi, a potpourri of Jewish song, ranging from art songs by renowned Jewish composers to Jewish folk melodies, Hassidic music and well-known pieces from the Yiddish theater.
7:30 p.m. Jan. 8. $9 adults; $5 children and seniors. Jewish Community Center, 1580 Summit, Road, Roselawn. 761-7500.
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Suburban Torture
Goonan says.
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Blaze.
“I was born in Cincinnati and moved when I was 8,” says Goonan, who now lives in Florida. “For some reason, it’s the quintessential city for me, with such beautiful architecture.”
She cites Union Terminal and the Roebling Suspension Bridge as notable landmarks, both of which appear in the book.
Goonan’s short stories have been pubfished in Asimov’s Amazing Stories, Fantasy & Science Fiction and Interzone.
“There are so many benefits to technology, but a lot of thought needs to go into the decision making,” she cautions.
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creating new products,” says Marx, who in 1994 added hummus and tabouli to the menu.
The book’s heroine, Verity, has been brought up by a strict Shaker community living on the outskirts of Dayton. To avoid the nanoplague that has decimated the population, the community avoids the new technology, but when her dog, Cairo, and her best friend, Blaze, are shot, Verity makes her way to the technologically superior Cincinnati in an attempt to bring them back to life.
“Some people might not like the insanity and noise here” he adds. “Maybe we’re not for them.”
Once she arrives, she begins to find out that the city holds the secret to her birth, a secret that she will have to unravel before she can save Cairo and
THEATER: FROM PAGE 21 affected.”
He also hopes his dream can help the Carnegie Theatre to become a “palace,” Covington’s own regional theater.
Cincinnati’s most established regional theater, the Playhouse in the Park, is doing its part to guarantee future theater audiences, according to Ed Stern, producing artistic director. The Rosenthal “Next Generation Theater Series,” Saturday programs for youngsters, are intended to cultivate a love of five performance. Right now, Stern notes, there are 14 presentations scattered during the season. But one of his dreams is to have one every weekend. “We’re competing with TV, and we need to show kids today that theater is alive and exciting.”
The success of his 1994 season-opener, Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, plays out another Stern dream: presenting classical works more regularly. Dream was well-received, he notes, “even by some skeptics.”
And he’s truly pleased at Fahrenheit’s successful Twelfth Night and ETC’s upcoming production of Hamlet. The Playhouse hadn’t done a Shakespearean production Stern doesn’t count his wildly successful Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas from last spring for about seven years, “and that’s too long.”
This season offers a play inspired by classic literature, an original production of The Brothers Karamazov (opens Feb. 21), and next season may include something from the classical repertoire, perhaps by G.B. Shaw.
Stern is also excited about two shows on the Playhouse’s current season: Cheryl L. West’s Jar the Floor, a tale of four generations of African-American women (opening Jan. 10), and Ed Graczyk’s Hometown Heroes, this year’s Rosenthal New Play Prize winner, a bittersweet comedy about two aging veterans set in a small Ohio town (opening March 28).
Stern likes to avoid niches: “I don’t want to be too predictable,” he says. “I hope to attract people who love all kinds of theater.”
David White, artistic director at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, shares this sentiment. He and Stern agree that “more theater begets more theater.” In fact, several of the newer groups have been spawned by artists who interned or worked at ETC.
White’s dreams of nine years ago have largely come true: “We thought we might last through the year,” he recalls, noting ETC survived through the generosity of several backers. Today after 40 premiers by the likes of Edward Albee and Lee Blessing and recognition by Time of ETC’s production of Poor Superman as one of 1994’s 10 best productions nationwide White is sought out by playwrights like Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heartf who has two plays under consideration at ETC right now.
For his 10th season, White may bring back a few past hits, such as a gigantic friend from one of ETC’s most popular holiday pantos. (Could it be that Jack’s coming back?)
ETC’s dreams also include spinning out projects to surround productions. The upcoming Hamlet (opening Feb. 8) will spark a Feb. 3 mock trial of the central character by noted attorneys Stan Chesley and Lou Sirkin, with Judge Mark Painter presiding. For Find Me a Voice (opening March 29), ETC brings in a speaker from the Holo’caust Museum and will memorialize survivors and victims of the Holocaust by planting of a grove of trees in Eden Park.
“The theater can and should go beyond a production,” says White. “It can educate and enhance our fives. We look for hooks to create a lasting effect for our art.”
White knows what good theater is all about. “It means taking risks. We’ve been on a wild adventure. Every day we don’t quite know what’s coming along. I hope our next 10 years are just as exciting as our first.”
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Education
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Your complete jewelry and bead shop. We offer a variety of classes, including wire wrap jewelry and stained glass. Please call for details. Treasure Island Jewelry, 241-7893.
For Sale
WANTED TO BUY!
Private collector wants to buy magazines from the 20’s-60's and 33 1/3 LP records from the 50’s & 60's and paperback books from the 30’s-50’s. Call 791-2273 from 9AM to 7PM.
WATERBED BEDROOM SET
Beautiful modern dark hardwood queensize waterbed with headboard, chest of drawers with mirror and nightstand. Excellent condition. 1 year old, $675. Call 641-2392.
Help Wanted
PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANTS
People with disabilities are seeking assistance to achieve an independent lifestyle. Need assistance with personal hygiene, housekeeping, driving. Must be dependable and punctual. Transportation and telephone required. Call 241-2600.
UMPIRES
Did you know that umpires make approximately $15 per hour? Call Eggleston Park at 369-8399.
VOLUNTEERS
Children’s Museum
Be among the first to be a volunteer at The Children's Museum of Cincinnati. Help create an environment where parents and children can learn together. There are many opportunities to assist children in learning through discovery. Hours are flexible, having fun is required! For information, call 421-6136, x217.
Musicians Exchange
BASS PLAYER
Female bass player wanted: electric & acoustic. Must be able to sing harmony vocals behind female lead singer. Call 751-0274.
BASS PLAYER
Veteran musicians with connections seek bass player. Melodic punk (original), excellent material. Initial goals: demos, local and regional gigs. Leave message at 557-3466.
DRUMMER SEEKS BAND
Drummer, age 40, versatile, energetic, sane, looking to play with experienced, focused musicians. Interests include alternative, jazz/rock, progressive blues: anything with some commercial poteritial. Not interested in playing with drunks, druggies, or ego freaks. Please call. Jack 244-2382.
DRUMMER WANTED Feeder Needs a Drummer
Heavy, Alterna-punk band needs ative,-committed, talented for travels, fun and ambitious suits. No flakes. Call 559-9625 861-2346.
FLUTE
Artley Symphony flute with in good condition available $150.00. Call 281-8208.
PRO BASSIST SEEKING Versatile player with vocal ties and studio/touring experience. Call 321-0390.
SPEAKERS Boston A120 speakers with Excellent condition. Used
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FREE INTERNET E-MAIL/USENET ADDRESS!
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CINCINATI COMPACT DISC AND RECORD SHOW Sun. Jan. 8, 10am-5pm Holiday Inn-North 1-75, Exit 15 & Sharon Rd.
SERVING BREAKFAST
AT 5AM - NEW YEAR’S EVE Where??? WAREHOUSE, 1313 VINE
JAZZ STUDIES
AT CCM PREPARATORY
Winter quarter begins January 3rd CONTACT CCM PREP AT 556-2595.
CLUB A CELEBRATES
NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH “TOYS IN THE ATTIC” A tribute to Aerosmith Call for info and tickets 777-8699
VIDEO DESIGNER
Do you have a project that needs that special touch? Specializing in documentation of events, arts and commercial projects. Call Bob Leibold 481-3011 Fax 481-1444
OPEN MIC. NIGHT
EVERY WEDNESDAY, 8PM Sing it, dance it, play it, shout it!
EMPIRE 8th & State, 921-8008.
Welcome to Back Beat, the back page of Cincinnati CityBeat. This last page is your last chance to have the last word.
CUSTOM GIFT SERVICE For employees, associates & personal buying needs. Fabulous custom made gift baskets. Free shipping anywhere in the USA Fragrances, lingerie, chocolates, stuffed animals, something for everyone! CALL 481-7161.
THE VERVE PIPE
FRI. JAN. 3, 9PM - RIPLEYS
USED IBM COMPUTERS UNDER $500 Kevin 598-9703. Leave Message.
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Don’t miss the in-store acoustic appearance! Streetside Records on McMillan - 5pm (Across from Ripleys)
TICKET GIVEAWAY FOR 9PM SHOW!
BEADS BEADS BEADS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
CALL ABOUT CLASSES Treasure Island Jewelry, 34 W. Court, 241-7893
FINDLAY MARKET
INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAY FESTIVAL
FRI. & SAT. 10-4
Arts & Crafts from around the world, Entertainment & Additional Vendors LAST CHANCE - ENDS DEC 31
DID YOU KNOW UMPIRES MADE APPROX. $15 PER HOUR? Call Eggleston Park at 369-8399
ROCK
ART
NOW ON SALE
Limited edition lithograph and silk screen rock art prints. As seen in Rolling Stone. CIRCLE CD & RECORDS 5975 Glenway Ave. 451-9824
MOONSHINE SCREEN PRINTING
T-Shirts, sweats, hats, bumper stickers. Full art staff.
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MULLANE’S PARKSIDE CAFE Lunch & dinner. Great food. Art shows. Vegetarian specialties 723 RACE ST. 381-1331
COMING IN JANUARY Queen’s Roan Records presents UNCLE SIX
DEBUT RELEASE, “HEARTLAND SOUL” and ZIONITES
DEBUT RELEASE, “SOUNDWAVE” For distribution info or for bookings Call Bill at Equus Entertainment, 281-2733. ATTN:
