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Cover Story Doug Manning has visitation rights to see his daughter, but his ex-wife has taken the 8-year-old and gone into hiding. He’s planning his next move, but will it do any good? 8
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The Straight Dope
BY CECIL ADAMS
Why is it that Cecil Adams [March 9-15], as well as the NRA, have different copies of the United States Constitutionfrom my own? The Second Amendment in my own library clearly starts out with the words “A well-regulated militia. ...” What is well-regulated about a private citizen with a stash ofguns in his basement? The opening words of this amendment seem to clearly indicate that the possession ofguns was not meant to be beyond control.
Ed Cohen, Chicago
Let’s put it this way: It was not meant to be beyond regulation. The question is whether the power to regulate encompasses the power to ban. So far as guns are concerned, the courts have held that it does. You may say outlawing guns altogether was not what you had in mind. But it’s certainly what some peopie have in mind, at least with respect to broad categories of firearms such as handguns, and a few would happily prohibit guns, period. Federal case law currently offers virtually no protection against such draconian measures. Put yourself in a gun owner’s shoes. While the first half of the Second Amendment is no miracle of clarity, the second half is about as plain as it can be. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” But gun-control advocates deny this sentence means what it seems perfectly evident it says, and the courts have backed them up. Gun owners’ recognition that one of their most cherished rights has been interpreted out of existence accounts for the apocalyptic tone in which their arguments are often framed. But let’s get back to “well-regulated.”
A number of serious scholars have disputed the idea that this phrase necessarily means “subject to a lot of regulations.” The historian Robert Shalhope, for example, makes a good case that for the framers it meant “duly constituted” that is, subject to civilian authority. The framers, in other words, did not propose to have armed gangs of self-appointed militiamen roaming the streets. Some take Shalhope’s argument a step further and say that “well-regulated” applies only to the militia and does
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not constrain an individual’s right to keep and bear arms in any way. A more reasonable interpretation, however, is that if the government can regulate the militia, it can regulate the individuals in it, provided it does so in a way that does not make a shambles of their basic Second Amendment rights. For that reason I think even if the amendment had been interpreted more in line with the framers’ intent, the regulatory landscape would not necessarily look a lot different from the way it does now. But it’s silly to think the framers would guarantee a right in one half of the Second Amendment only to allow the government to unguarantee it in the other half.
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militias vastly preferable to standing armies, which in their experience had been instruments of oppression. They also had no professional police force upon which to depend for defense of their lives and property. It seemed natural to them that ordinary folk should have the right to own guns.
That was then, you may say, and this is now. In the 1990s it may well be foolish, as a matter of public policy, to allow law-abiding private citizens to own guns (although I’m not persuaded this is so). But it seems pretty clear that’s what the
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The trouble with Cincinnati is all these uppity right-wing fundamentalist extremists the ones Dwight Tillery kowtows to on the civil rights issue. Their omnipresence is stultifying to the public. You know the type. Their God gives them the option of ignoring science (i.e., reality) in favor of ancient mythology and the right to pick and choose out-of-context phrases from the Bible to justify every prejudice and vendetta. They mostly ignore the teachings of Christ in favor of the more vindictive, and fallible, human voices in the book. Most KKK cults have a church backing them up. Those, and the churches that advocated slavery in the South, are both typical fundamentalists. They all attack homosexuals as a scapegoat to cover for the shortcomings of their archaic, oppressive and alienating ideas about family structure the consequence of which is an inability to raise civilized children (as evidenced by their trashy antics whenever they appear on TV talk shows).
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Their ultimate goal is a fundamentalist theocracy (ask and they will admit this themselves) with all law derived from their biased sampling of the Bible. In this they seek to emulate the success of the Muslim fundamentalists in countries like Iran. Those countries have been pounded into the Dark Ages as far as human rights go. Tillery came to power as an advocate of human rights, so why has he caved in to these radicals? Well, amazingly, they have produced a number of millionaires by begging on TV. So, having banded together to effectively purchase the Republican Party, their power waxes. And now they declare war with “Project Spotlight,” the fear of which sends Tillery scrambling like a cockroach. I expect he will join the ranks of the turncoat Democrats and switch parties. He is a crass political opportunist. His nose follows power, not principle. Gays today are in much the same position as blacks were in the 1950s. In that era Tillery would have voted with the segregationist majority. His fellows Luken, Vehr and Heimlich are just your standard-issue white male bigots. But Tillery is a hypocrite, too cowardly to defend the values he once swore to uphold. The video of him cheering gay rights, recently released by Stonewall Cincinnati, is ample proof.. That he accuses them of character assassination is laughable. His vote to remove sexual orientation from the Human Rights Ordinance was a political backstabbing on a par with Judas’. The demise of his character has long been selfevident; the coroner’s ruling: suicide.
As for the fifth councilman’s vote against equality the sexist Charlie Windbag’s his was the most vile. Bigots such as he, loonies like David Koresh and Fred Phelps, the KKK and the think-like-we-tellyou-to CCV (who incited all this trouble in the first place) are all different stripes of the same fundamentalist cloth. They care for neither culture nor human rights. Ever since the Roman Empire became the Christian Empire, the watch
word of enlightened progress has been “Love Thy Neighbor.” But that’s all beside the point to the fundies, so it’s back to mob rule! CCV’s Phil “Pomophile” Burress will reap the guilt, having cast the first stone and all.
It’s like a perpetual “Who tragedy” in progress (where 11 died in the rush to enter a concert in Cincinnati). As they push and shove for the best shot at the festival seating to their anxiously awaited Apocalypse, the fundies trample everyone and everything around them. Well, you can’t hurry the show, folks!
How ironic that by opening more doors the Who tragedy could have been averted, while in the arena of human rights, the fundies seek to close the doors to all but their own.
Terry Turner, Erlanger
Talking Back
Each week, Cincinnati CityBeat poses a question on its back page. Our staff selects the best responses to print the following week, with published responses meriting a fabulous, 100-percent cotton CityBeat T-shirt.
Here are some of the responses to last week’s question: “If you had $30 million to spend on the City of Cincinnati, what would you do?"
REBEKAH INNIS: I would invest in public school repair. As someone who attended more than one Cincinnati Public School, I can’t begin to describe the sheer delight of beginning each new day with the smell of moldy desks and the sounds of a falling ceiling.
EUNICE J. GRATHWOHL
Repair all sidewalks in downtown. Clean up Race Street between Fifth and Seventh streets. Fountain Square West should have been restored, not demolished. Get rid of that parking lot on our prime corner. Have McAlpin’s spend the $30 million for that block.
BARB HOBE: 1 would put Roxanne Qualls and Dave Phillips on Fountain Square and let these two holistic humanitarians decide how to use the money with no need for approval from either City Council or DCI. Ah yes! Finally some common sense!
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Decline & Fall of Baseball
Future generations have been robbed of the chance to love this game
BY JOHN FOX
An open letter to my children’s generation (whether or not I ever have children):
There are many things I’ll never be able to explain about my youth in the 1960s, 70s and ’80s. Bellbottoms. Vietnam. Disco. Ronald Reagan. The Brady Bunch. Baseball. Life was very different back then, kids. Everything moved at a slower pace-. Everything cost less money. Not everyone had computers in their homes. We still had two political parties. .1 grew up during the last few decades of professional baseball’s popularity, which sportscasters these days refer to as the game’s “golden age.” I know it’s difficult for you to understand how big baseball was at one point, given its relative insignificance now. Back then cities used to have parades on a season’s opening day, and World Series games were actually broadcast on network television! Baseball was more than just a sport, though. It connected me to my father and to his father before him, relating us in a common bond (much like virtual reality roller hockey does today). But it was better with baseball. Fresh air. Green grass. Leather gloves. Wooden bats. No battery-powered equipment.
My father took me to my first major league game in the ’60s in an old rundown stadium in a run-down part of the city. I saw Roberto Clemente. I ate a hot dog (a long, round meat product you put mustard on). I kept score in a program (too complicated to explain here). It started raining, and we had to leave. I didn’t want to go home.
My father, grandfather, brothers, aunts and uncles talked about baseball all summer every year. We listened to entire games on the radio. I memorized the boxscores and agonized over the standings. I got into a fight in college when my team lost in the playoffs. I cried when that team, the one my father and grandfather had rooted for for 50 years, finally won the World Series.
I had a lot of friends who grew up
with baseball the same as I did. They started having kids, and I remember a couple of them proudly taking their sons to their first professional baseball game. Some of us started playing this off-shoot game called Rotisserie baseball, where you selected a team of real players and collected their stats. We did it to keep in touch, since we were scattered all across the country, and to keep up with the game. I know it sounds dumb now, but it was fun. Then came the big strike in the mid1990s and, well, baseball was never the same. You know, it’s funny, but I can’t for the life of me remember what the strike was over. All I know is it was players against owners, probably about money or something.
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They stopped playing for a while. They canceled the World Series. They tried fielding replacement players. We stopped doing Rotisserie. We stopped reading the boxscores. We stopped taking our sons to the stadium.
Yeah, I know you kids play baseball in the park every now and then. And you know who Ken Griffey III is who doesn’t? You’ve been forced to watch Field of Dreams with me and your grandfather dozens of times. But you really don’t understand. You don’t know why Dad and I get a tear in our eye when the father and son play catch in the movie. It’s not your fault, I know. Back at the end of the 20th century millionaire ballplayers fought with millionaire team owners over billions of dollars, and by the time they divvied up the money, they had ruined baseball. The fans didn’t care anymore. The parents and children moved on to soccer and computers and other pursuits.
Of course, almost all of those owners and players are dead now, and baseball is a mere shell of its former glorious self. It’s a crime they’re not around to see their legacy.
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BURNING QUESTIONS
BY BRAD KING
Will Pay for Work
Two work programs aimed at unemployed, low-income workers are coming to Cincinnati one will subsidize businesses to encourage participation, the other will not. Hamilton County has been chosen as a pilot site for a proposed Ohio taxpayer-subsidized work program for welfare recipients once the details of the program are worked out in the state legislature, said Linda Meyer, chief of the Hamilton County Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program.
Like a brokerage firm, “Communities of Opportunity” will attempt to match recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with entry-level jobs that pay $8 to $11 per hour, she said.
As the proposal stands now, Meyer said taxpayers would pay 50 percent of a new employee’s salary the first year of the program and 25 percent of the salary the second year. By the third year, she said, the business will pay the entire salary.
A proportional amount of the subsidy will come from the welfare recipient’s AFDC check, Meyer said.
But according to a news release from Downtown Cincinnati Inc. (DCI), there already are more that 10,000 full-time, entry-level jobs available in Cincinnati. In response, DCI has created a different program, “Cincinnati Works,” which is a privately funded project to train unemployed workers for specific jobs and match them with entry-level positions in local companies.
So why is taxpayer money needed to subsidize businesses in the Communities of Opportunity program when there already is a demand for entry-level workers in many Cincinnati companies?
“I guess people have different opinions about what employers need,” Meyer said. “The hope is that this is an economic stimulatioa for employers who are on the fence about creating a new position.”
Commissioned Again
More change might be in store for Cincinnati-Public Schools just three years after the Buenger Commission recommended changes to revamp the district.
New American Schools Development Corp. (NASDC) a national, non-profit organization formed by corporate leaders to improve the nation's school systems has entered into negotiations with Cincinnati Public Schools to work with the district over the next five years, said Monica Curtis, director of public affairs for Cincinnati Public Schools.
NASDC has nine proven program curricula it offers to school districts, Curtis said.
But the Buenger Commission a group of executives from Cincinnati’s business community which in 1990 and 1991 studied ways to streamline and improve city schools offered 48 recommendations focusing in part on how to change the way Cincinnati Public Schools managed district-wide curricula.
Based on the commission's recommendations, the district created nine mini-districts within the school system in 1992. One of those districts was designated as an experimental district where new teaching methods and curricula were to be studied.
Why is the district considering paying a fee for NASDC to come in with set programs after the Buenger Commission offered recommendations for changes that allowed Cincinnati Public Schools to create new programs itself?
“Most of (NASDC's programs) are along the lines of programmatic changes such as curriculum instruction and new teaching methods," Curtis said. “It’s an opportunity for the district to expand its designs, particularly in the neighborhood schools."
She said since NASDC's programs already incorporated proven methods of teaching, they could immediately impact schools.
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A History of Helping
After raising Cincinnati's childrenfor more than 100 years, the New Orphan Asylum lives on as a scholarshipfund
BY CHRISTOPHER BROOKE
Each day, after teaching English at Withrow High School and before going home to grade papers and plan lessons, Norma Lane stops at the New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation office to open mail, return telephone calls and balance the books. The small office in Walnut Hills
John Gray represents much more than a second job for her, though. It’s home base for an extended family with 150-year-old roots.
“Mrs. Lane is a wonderful mother figure,” says John Gray, a University of Cincinnati scholarship student. “It’s like we’re her kids.”
More than 150 years after its founding, the New Orphan Asylum continues to aid Cincinnatians despite the fact that the orphanage was torn down in 1967 to make way for Interstate 71. The board of trustees tried to move the orphanage, but zoning laws hampered efforts to build a new dormitory.
Undeterred, the trustees decided to invest in education for people who need economic assistance for higher education. Since its creation in 1970, the foundation has granted more than 1,000 college scholarships to students from Hamilton County.
Significant history
Norma Lane is executive director of the Asylum Scholarship Foundation.
noted Cincinnati earned social work University of Cincinnati age. She became joining the Urban Cancer Association the Negro College tions. The Cincinnati
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After considering the cost of purchasing another plot of land, the outlay for construction of new dormitories and the availability of integrated orphanages and foster care, the trustees decided to shift the organization’s emphasis from housing orphans to education. The orphanage officially closed, displacing 40 children, most of whom were transferred to other local institutions.
The trustees operated the scholarship fund under the title of the orphanage until its legal dissolution in 1977, when its transformation into the New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation was finalized.
Lane remembers its creation: “We said, ‘We’re already sending kids to college, so why don’t we keep doing that?’
Two of the fund’s current trustees have ties to the orphanage and want to continue its tradition of helping people.
Vice president Blanche Kalfus served on the Board of Lady Managers as far back as the 1940s. Her duties included making and mending clothes and organizing the yearly Christmas dinner. Kalfus worked with the female residents directly to provide attention and support.
Kalfus says that the orphanage went beyond providing housing to children it gave the orphans a family. If they recognized abilities in the children, she says,
staff members sought to nurture those talents.
“When Reverend and Mrs. Harris (longtime orphanage supervisors) saw that the children had something, they really encouraged them,” Kalfus says. “It was just like a big family.”
Moss White, until recently president of the scholarship fund, also had connections with the orphanage: His friends lived there. White grew up just blocks from Van Buren Avenue and attended Douglass School with many of the orphanage’s residents. The orphanage grounds, which covered six acres, were perfect for running or for a baseball game, he says. He also remembers celebrating
The New Orphan Asylum for Colored Children, established in 1845, was housed in this Avondale building for 70 years, shown circa 1920. The orphanage ceased operations in 1967 when the building was torn down for construction of
Christmas at the New Orphan Asylum’s annual festival.
A retired principal of Hughes High School, White still contributes to education through the scholarship fund.
“You feel you can continue to do something useful for people,” he says. “Helping youngsters is a worthy project. They bring a lot into the program. They already have some self-drive and hope for their futures and dedication to the community.”
Lane also wants to continue the scholarship foundation’s mission. She was asked to take her job in 1974 because, she says, “they needed a trustworthy person.”
During the transition between the orphanage and the scholarship fund, two trustees were charged with embezzling $260,000 from the organization’s portfolio. One was sentenced to a year in federal prison, while charges against the other were dropped. The board of trustees then hired Lane to manage the foundation’s daily tasks, which officially includes handling investments, figuring expenses, meeting applicants and keeping abreast of recipients’ academic status.
Lane has in turn become the scholarship fund’s moral center. She talks with the applicants about available grants and advises and encourages recipients.
Lane also advises the board, recommending students to sponsor when funds cannot cover all applicants. She also created the annual scholarship fund banquet for students to meet the trustees and to testify about grant benefits.
“There was hardly any other way to finance my education,” says Gray, who is majoring in music. “(The scholarship has) helped me in immeasurable ways. I would not have been able to go to college had the scholarship not been there. I think that’s true for all of the students.”
Gray, as a high school student at Withrow, knew Lane personally and had' learned about the scholarship through her. He was a highlight of the organization’s recent scholarship banquet, singing his appreciation to his former teacher as she smiled through tears.
Gray is thankful for his opportunity to pursue a higher education, because some of his friends will never have the chance.
still had to work to pay for living expenses and the dormitory fee. She worked for Keebler Co. in Mariemont on an 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift to stay solvent. But her grades fell when, in quick succession, she and her mother became ill. She soon lost the academic scholarship. Tibbs says that Lane understood her problems and was sympathetic. The scholarship fund continued to support her even though she was struggling. When Tibbs thought she couldn’t do it anymore, she turned for advice to Lane, who was also at the University of Cincinnati.
About the Foundation
The name New Orphan Asylum is an anachronism the foundation serves more than orphans, and the actual asylum hasn’t existed since 1967. Fund trustees have perpetuated the name to ensure the scholarship fund would receive bequests intended for the original orphanage.
The foundation awards approximately $100,000 in college scholarslups to 100 students a year, according to foundation Executive Director Norma Lane. To qualify for a scholarship, students must graduate from a high school in Hamilton County and write a letter explaining their intentions for school and their economic situation.
When granting a scholarship, the trustees examine a student’s grades, hobbies and community service, though economic need is the primary consideration.
Once accepted, recipients receive an annual endowment throughout their college career, provided they are full-time students and keep trustees apprised of their grades. Most scholarslup recipients are non-traditional students, Lane says, ranging from college-age to older students returning to college to single parents. They pursue college careers at Fisk, Howard, Tuskegee, Florida State, Yale, Harvard and other universities across the country. Though the institution was originally dedicated to helping minorities, grants are available to all races.
THE NEW ORPHAN ASYLUM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION Is at 2340 Victory Parkway in Walnut Hills. For more information about scholarships, contact Norma Lane at 961-6626.
“It’s a blessing to be able to go to college,” he says. “Some of my friends from high school are dead, shot. I think it’s our duty to those who were slain to make the community a better place to live. It’s good for the community there’s something like (the scholarship foundation) to help. They help us, we help the community, and that way nobody loses.”
Gray gives back to his community by participating in service projects, tutoring high school students and working at St. John Social Center’s soup kitchen.
Mary Janet Carucci, 52, almost dropped out of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College before she learned about the New Orphan Asylum Scholarship Foundation from a teacher.
“I wouldn’t be in school without the scholarship,” she says. “Being an older student, I have more responsibilities. (The scholarship) really helps me cut my tuition.”
Carucci lives in Clifton Heights with her mother and works as an office clerk for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She retinned to school to obtain associates degrees in business administration and printing, hoping eventually to make a living in an art-related field. She also might continue school and earn a bachelors degree. “What’s ahead?” she asks. “There has to be a million things ahead.”
Two former scholarship recipients, now holding suecessful careers, decided to return the favor by serving on the organization’s board.
Penni Tibbs received the Patricia Corbett Minority Scholarslup at the University of Cincinnati in 1980 but
“I wanted to give up, but I thought if she can keep going on, I couldn’t give her an excuse,” Tibbs says. “And she said to me, ‘You’re always going to have problems, so what are you going to do?’ Tibbs graduated in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and a concentration in biological sciences. She now works as an insurance agent with Allstate Insurance Co. and has joined the foundation’s board of trustees, succeeding White as board president.
Wille Carden Jr. spends his free time assisting students because he can identify with them. Carden wanted to attend college but he couldn’t afford it. He worked at a Kroger’s groeery store in Seven Hills where Lane shopped and learned about the scholarship foundation after striking up a conversation with her. He decided to attended the University of Cincinnati, but dropped out for almost two years.
With encouragement from Lane, Carden eventually earned a bachelor’s degree in economics with an associate degree in business management. He joined the founaation board, he says, because he wanted to return the organization’s support.
“I almost flunked out,” Carden says, “but I still graduated. The foundation stuck with me, and this is the fruit of them sticking with a student who had a few question marks by his name.”
Carden is now employed by the City of Cincinnati as assistant manager for Riverfront Stadium and last year was presented the City of Cincinnati Black Achievers Award.
Both Lane and Carden stress that the commitment between the scholarship foundation and its beneficiaries is not short-term. Students receive money, but they also are encouraged to aid others when they can.
“This is not a four-year-and-you’re-out program,” Carden says. “It’s a life-long commitment.”
Lane agrees, saying, “Sometimes the recipient is the first person in their family to go to college. Some are single parents on welfare. We’re talking about the benefits extending to another generation.”
After 20 years on the job, Lane has no intention of leaving.
Doug Manning has a court order that gives him the right to see his 8-year-olddaughter Michelle, who has been in her mother’s custody since the couple divorced in 1991.
But to Manning, the order is useless. His ex-wife, Teresa Ingram, has taken the child and gone into hiding.
A family member claims to know Ingram’s whereabouts. But Clermont County officials say they have done all they can to find Ingram and her daughter.
“(Michelle’s) last words to me were, ‘Daddy when I see you next time I’ll get to stay for a whole week,’ Manning of New Richmond wrote Feb. 6 in an objection to the court after being denied custody of Michelle. “The defendant has taken my daughter and is running with her from the law. I am begging this Court to change their decision and grant me custody so I can save my daughter the suffering of being put in Foster Care while I put her Mother in Prison.”
Manning, who now is being told he still must pay child support even though officials do not know where to send it, might be fighting an almost impossible battle.
Local officials call his plight a common, growing problem that they often cannot solve: Under Ohio law, it is not a crime for a parent who has lawful custody of a child to flee with the child even when the other parent has visitation rights.
According to Clermont County Municipal Court records, bench warrants have been issued for Ingram’s arrest in an unrelated matter. But Clermont County officials say they do not have authority to pursue her if she has left the state.
So, after almost five years of court disputes over the divorce settlement, child visitation, shared parenting and custody, Manning is in the process of filing an appeal, seeking the custody of his daughter something officials say is Manning’s only hope.
And while Manning and Ingram plan their next moves, Michelle remains caught in the cross-fire of her parents’ disagreements. Since her parents’ divorce in 1991, court records show that:
Accusations between Manning and Ingram have continued to fly, adding up to more than 150 reports, routine filings and motions many over Michelle’s visitations with her father and his desire for custody filed in the Clermont County Court of Common Pleas’ Domestic Relations Division.
Ingram has been placed on probation for misdemeanor welfare fraud.
Manning has been placed on probation for second-degree burglary a charge resulting from vandalism Manning committed at his ex-wife’s house, which he said was the result of losing his temper when he repeatedly was denied the right to see his daughter.
Teresa Ingram took her 8-yearold daughter Michelle into hiding to avoid contact with Michelle’s father, who has legal visi tation rights. Clermont County officials say they can’t charge Ingram with a crime and can’t chase her across state lines, but Michelle’s father is determined to break the stalemate
BY NANCY FIROR
Caught in the middle
Now, Manning is vowing to find the child he has not seen since August. He is tormented, he said, by what Michelle must be going through as the result of being caught in the middle and used as a weapon.
“I need to know where she is and if she’s all right,” he said. “She’s always been with me. I know she wants to be with me. It’s just not right.”
But Ingram’s 21-year-old daughter, Stacey Louiso, told CityBeat that Michelle and her mother were better off without Manning in their lives and that Ingram wants Manning to leave her alone.
“(Ingram) wanted to live her life in peace and not be harassed,” she said.
Louiso said Ingram had been in contact through telephone caEs and letters, but she would not divulge Ingram’s whereabouts or relay to her CityBeat’s request for comment.
“That’s how she wanted it and that’s how it’s stayed,” said Louiso, who spoke on the condition that CityBeat not relay her whereabouts, to the Mannings.
Louiso said her mother had made sincere attempts to get on with her Me after her divorce from Manning. But, she said, Manning and his current wife, Donna, continuaEy had tried to sabotage Ingram’s efforts and were responsible for driving her away.
As examples, Louiso cited contact Donna Manning had made with someone Ingram sued after being injured in a car accident as weE as contact with one of her former employers, Remke’s Markets. FoEowing those contacts, Ingram was charged in
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U.S. Department of Justice Report: 354,100 Children Targets of 'Family Abductions’
Doug Manning’s search for his 8-year-old daughter is not an isolated case.
Cases in which chEdren are taken into hiding by a custodial parent wlule the other parent is left fighting for his or her visitation rights have become a common problem in the Tristate and across the nation, local and national authorities say.
“It comes up frequently,” said Terry Gaines, chief administrator in the Hanulton County Prosecutor’s Office.
Ben Ermini, director of case management for the National Center for Missing and Exploited ChEdren m ArEngton, Va., said, “This is a problem that occurs frequently throughout the nation,” though he did not have specific numbers.
According to a 1990 U.S. Department of Justice study of 1988 mcidents, 354,100 U.S. chEdren were targets of “famEy abductions” that included chEdren taken:
In violation of a custody agreement or decree.
With an attempt beuig made to conceal the taking or the whereabouts of the chEd.
Out of state.
With the intent of keepuig the chEd indefinitely.
Not returned at the end of a legal or agreed-upon visit, with the chEd beuig gone at least overnight.
The report did not differentiate between custodial parents who took their cluld and parents who did not have legal custody.
Under Ohio law it is not a crime for a parent who has legal custody to leave with the chEd he or she has custody of, Games said. Recourse for the parent with courtordered visitation rights varies from state to state but usuaEy involves that parent returning to court in attempt to get custody and a warrant agamst the custodial parent for violating a court order, Ermini said.
As Manning of New Richmond has learned, warrants are not necessarily helpful. Bench warrants against his ex-wife, issued in an unrelated matter, provide for her return only E she is found in the state of Ohio something that has not occurred.
That, too, is a common problem, Ermini said.
People beuig sought by local authorities cannot be entered Ei the national computer information system and thereby sought by law enforcement officers in other states, unless the warrant aEows for extradiction the return of the suspect from another state.
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Clermont County Municipal Court with submitting false statements to secure government assistance, according to court records.
According to charges filed May 5, 1994, Ingram “failed to report... that she had received a lump sum settlement as a result of an auto accident in the amount of $7,574.55, and that she denied any employment in (the) last 4 1/2 years, when she had been employed with Rempke Market effective 10-8-93 and that she denied applying for workers compensation, when she has been off work from Rempkes since October 1993 and compensation has been filed for.”
Ingram pleaded no contest and was placed on probation in June, court records showed. An affidavit alleging she was in violation of probation was filed in September by a county probation official. Among the violations was failing to report any change of address and failing to report for a Sept. 7 review, court documents show.
Warrants for contempt for failure to appear were issued in September and February.
But Ingram was gone.
Back and forth
Clermont County Sheriffs deputies tried to serve Ingram with the first warrant at her last known address in Bethel, but she was not there, and a notation in the file indicated that, according to information supplied by someone at the house, Ingram had left the state, said Deputy Jim O’Brien.
He said he did not know if deputies who went to the home spoke to Louiso or other family members.
O’Brien said that, in November, he followed up with the Mannings and investigated leads they supplied but none led to Ingram.
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remains active, O’Brien said.
“We’ve got many, many warrants here...,” he said. “If I get a lead on a warrant, I will work it until it’s dead and if I get another lead six months from now, I’ll go back and work it again. If we’ve exhausted all possible leads and all possible sources of information on a particular individual, then we don’t just keep beating our heads against a wall. We file the warrant until something else comes up on it.”
But Manning wants more effort.
A construction worker of modest means, Manning said everyone he had sought help from had advised him that he needed custody of Michelle in order to act. That, he said, is why he is appealing the court’s decision denying him custody and why he is planning to hire a private investigator.
Manning said he wanted to seek custody at the time of his divorce from Ingram. But, he said, his lawyer advised him that custody routinely was awarded to the mother and that he should focus on negotiating an acceptable visitation order. From there, Manning said, his lawyer advised him that he should work to show the court he deserved custody with such actions as finding a better home to live in.
But citing ongoing problems in getting Ingram to follow the court-ordered visitation agreement, Manning eventually filed for shared parenting and then custody.
“I have filed several motions of Contempt of Court, against the Defendant since our separation dated April 1990 to the present,” Manning wrote in his September 1993 motion. “This does not seem to work because there are no consequences enforced on the Defendant for not following Court orders.... I have tried the Court’s way for three (3) years now and it is not working.”
Some of Manning’s visitation problems also got public attention.
In June, October and December 1993, news reports detailed a dispute that erupted when Doug and Donna Manning wanted to take Michelle to Disney World and Ingram would not let them.
The trip had been awarded to the Mannings’ then 4-
year-old daughter, Jade, who was battling neurobiastoma cancer. It was Jade’s wish, made to the charity sponsoring the trip, that she be allowed to take Michelle, her half-sister, Donna Manning said. Ingram objected to the trip because she said she was afraid Manning would go to Florida and not come back, according to a June 27, 1993, article in The Cincinnati Enquirer. Over Ingram’s objections, a Clermont County judge issued a court order allowing Michelle to accompany the family to Florida, court officials said.
Ingram’s daughter Louiso told CityBeat that the trip, which she insisted the Mannings planned to take without Ingram’s knowledge, should not have been granted and neither should regular visitations with the Mannings. When her mother argued against Manning’s visitations, Louiso said, she simply was trying to protect Michelle.
Louiso cited abusive behavior that Manning displayed toward Ingram during their marriage, including heated arguments and Manning seeing another woman, his current wife.
About a month after Manning filed for divorce Ingram sought a restraining order, claiming Manning was abusive, court records show. Such orders were routine in many such cases and granted, as Ingram’s was, based on her affidavit, a court official said. Manning said he thought Ingram raised this allegation to keep Michelle from having a relationship with his current wife. But Louiso said she heard many heated arguments between Manning and her mother in the days before they separated. She stopped short of saying that she witnessed any physical violence.
She also stopped short of saying Manning was a bad father.
Instead, she said, it was not good for Michelle to be with Manning’s family. When she would come back to her mother’s house from a visit, Michelle would be upset for days because she had been told that her mother did not love her, Louiso said.
Then, she said, the visits made Michelle unhappy because her father was paying special attention to Michelle’s half-sister because Jade was ill with cancer. Doug Manning at home with his wife Donna daughter Jade.
That hurt Michelle’s feelings because “(Manning) was her daddy firstLouiso said. “It’s not that he doesn’t care it’s that he ignored her needs. The Clermont County Court system doesn’t know what it’s doing.”
The Mannings counter every allegation.
Michelle would get upset, Donna Manning agreed, but not because of anything the Mannings told her. Instead, she said, Michelle would get upset when it was time to go home to her mother as she did when the family returned from Disney World and Michelle said her mother would punish her for going on the trip.
Donna Manning also thinks court officials failed to properly assess the problem.
“The law is supposed to be in the best interests of the child (so that) the parents that will not interfere with the other parents’ visitation,” she said. “(Ingram) has not proved that she has nobody’s interest at heart but her own.... Poor Michelle. I just can’t imagine what she’s going through right now. It just breaks my heart that somebody could be so cruel.”
Being held accountable
Such cruel behavior would continue, Donna Manning said, because Ingram was not being held accountable for her actions.
On Dec. 12, 1994, a court referee’s report alleging Ingram was in contempt for failing to provide visitation was accepted by the Clermont County domestic relations court. But the same report denied all of Manning’s motions for custody.
“A little common sense ought to come out of those judges, you know what I mean?” Donna Manning said. “I would say to me it’s common sense that when a man that doesn’t have money would sit here spending his last dime over this stuff it seems to me he must be doggone concerned about something.”
Judge Michael J. Voris, who accepted the report, could not be reached for comment.
Mike Masterson, director of domestic relations court
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services, said court officials were not taking Ingram’s departure lightly.
“I know we would very much like to have her back in the county,” Masterson said. “She is engaging in major, major contempt of court.”
The domestic relations court, however, did not issue a bench warrant on the civil contempt of visitation charge because it would have no more power than the previous bench warrant, which sheriffs deputies were unable to serve, Masterson said.
The case, which now has spanned about five years, is not unusual, he said, though no one had any way of knowing that Ingram would go into hiding. He described the typical divorce case as an emotionally trying situation that becomes more so when a child is involved.
Manning said that meant frustration, which in his case escalated to a point where he lost control. Ingram, he said, kept refusing to let him visit with Michelle. He said that when it happened again on Aug. 2, Aug. 12, Aug. 15 and Aug. 16, he had had enough.
Manning said that on Aug. 17 he went to the address where his wife and child were living, only to find they had moved out.
“I was just so frustrated and I was going crazy because I had no idea where she was at,” Manning said. “I just lost all control. Then (in court, Ingram’s sister told the judge) that I was there to kill her. It was just unbelievable.”
According to the arrest report, Manning knocked over two fences and damaged both of the complainant’s vehicles and had a hunting knife when deputies arrested him.
Manning said that he had the knife for protection. He said he intended to go into the garage to see if Ingram’s car was there and knew the family had guard dogs that might attack him.
Manning was charged and, in December, pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary, according to Clermont County Court of Common Pleas records. A check of his record, included in the court case file, showed no prior
offenses involving violence. He was sentenced to 4 to 15 years in prison, but the sentence was suspended, according to court records.
“It is the opinion of the Court that the defendant is not likely to engage in offensive course of conduct and that the public good does not require that sentence to be immediately executed,” according to court records.
Manning was ordered to serve 90 days in jail and placed on probation, records showed. The order was issued Dec. 9, three days before his motion for custody of Michelle was denied.
“Mr. Manning did not help himself much by getting mad and tearing up his ex-wife’s house ...,” Masterson said. “I feel sorry for Mr. Manning. I’ve tried to help him as much as I could.”
But Ingram has legal custody of Michelle, Masterson said, and there is nothing more the court can do until she surfaces.
Clermont County Prosecutor Donald White said additional options might exist for Manning if he were to obtain custody.
Yet, even if custody is obtained, it remains questionable whether local criminal court authorities who make decisions about extraditing accused offenders can help in pursuing the parent who has left when that parent legally had custody at the time she or he took the child, said Terry Gaines, chief administrator in the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office, who CityBeat called for an additional opinion.
It is a problem that frequently arises in Hamilton County, Gaines said, recalling a case where a woman had temporary custody but was afraid she would lose when permanent custody was decided. She left with the child, and the father was later awarded custody. But local officials could not help him, Gaines said.
If Manning managed to get custody of Michelle, Gaines said, he likely would be in the same position.
“One must define for themselves what they wish to believe. Each individual is to be their own authority.”
This tenet guides Kirk Prine in his diverse work. When ask him to describe what he does, he pauses for a moment and then says, "It’s multimodal.”
The four modes in which he works are as a psychotherapist, a bodyworker (massage plus other bodywork), an educator and a volunteer. In each of these modes he draws on an equally diverse educational background, which includes a B.A. in theology from the San Jose Bible College, an M.Ed. and Ed.D. in counseling from the University of Cincinnati and a C.M.T. (certified massage therapist) from the Body Electric School in Oakland, Calif.
Prine is the clinical director of the Clifton Counseling Center. In Northern Kentucky, Prine works with Marilynn Gugel to provide the Healing Circle, a psycho-spiritual group that uses touch as part of the therapy. And he cofacilitates Flesh and Spirit group sessions with Chris Love.
The Flesh and Spirit psychotherapy groups for gay men are about connecting with oneself and with others.
“Sexually active gay men will be challenged to heal the separation between their sexuality and spirituality," Prine explains. Themes of the group include being a sexual healer, making an inward journey and midwifing the dying.
“Criteria for participation are a willingness to honor all parts of yourself, a willingness to move beyond judgments of yourself and others, a willingness to question authority and one must be a sexually active gay man,” he says.
With these "clothes-on experiences" and in counseling, Prine advocates what he calls conscious sex, which is “being able to make connections to the heart with your erotic energy," he says. “Sex can be a path to God. Every energy is erotic.”
A strong spiritual aspect of the Flesh and Spirit sessions is derived from Buddhism and Hinduism. “We use few images consistently,”'he says. “I glean loving ideas from many different spiritual traditions. Sometimes we try something that I have not even tried. We approach it with a ‘let’s see what happens’ attitude. We do not feed them dogma someone else coughed up; rather, we help those interested to explore the possibilities. Each one has to decide for themselves what they wish to believe.”
Some of the ideas Prine uses are taken from preChristian traditions, and some are Native American. He does not believe that there is a need to be restricted to one set of beliefs. However, he does not feel that opening up to new experiences means abandoning the beliefs one has held for many years.
“Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water,” he says. “Glean those ideas that are true for you. The truth resonates with anyone."
In order to have integrity in what he teaches, Prine, believes he must experience before he can teach. (“I can’t teach what have not experienced.”) He also quotes from the Bible, where Paul counseled, “Comfort with what you were comforted." Those who attend the Flesh and Spirit sessions or the Healing Circle do need comforting at times. Though the sessions sometimes are not calm.
"Sometimes, we take people into their pain so they can work through it,” he explains. “Our emotional wounds we try to fill with data and logic, not emotion. Most are addicted to pain. Many others are familiar with guilt or shame. In Flesh and Spirit, we do all kinds of work to confront realities."
To learn more about KIRK PRINE’S work to participate in the sessions, contact him at the Clifton Counseling Center, 221-2299, or at the Energy Body Center in Layton, Ky.. 431-3112.
The Gas is Always Greener
Converting vehicles to natural gas saves money in long run and reduces air pollutants
BY POLLY CAMPBELL
For cars into alternative lifestyles, Cincinnati has a new all-ages, all-hours club and watering hole. It’s the CG&E Natural Gas Refueling and Conversion Center, which opened in February on Dana Avenue, just off Interstate 71. It’s the first place in Cincinnati where vehicles that run on natural gas can get a quick fill-up, 24 hours a day.
That’s good news for the air in Cincinnati and beyond.
Of all the available alternative automotive fuels, natural gas shows the most promise in cutting the emissions that cause smog and bad air quality. It also has a positive effect on greenhouse gas emissions, is an American-produced fuel, is easier on a car’s engine than gasoline and it’s cheaper than gasoline.
To use natural gas, a car must be built or modified with natural gas tanks. Conversions cost $2,500 to $3,000, and buying a new natural gas -equipped car is more expensive by about the same amount. That has limited the market, but Cincinnati Gas & Electric is counting on the use of natural gas to grow. Steve Brash, CG&E’s director of external communications, says, “There are now 50,000 natural gas vehicles on the road, mostly in commercial fleets. In 10 to 15 years, that’s anticipated to grow to 20 million.”
It is now possible, with some planning, Brash says, to drive across the country using only natural gas for fuel. CG&E itself has 30 vehicles that run on natural gas and plans to add 25 more.
Every vehicle that converts means a positive impact on auto emissions. A more pure fuel than gasoline, natural gas cuts the emissions of hydrocarbons by 45 percent, particulates by 99 percent and carbon monoxide by 30-40 percent (or 99 percent at an idle). These are the major components of ground-level ozone, or smog. The nitrous compounds known as NOx also are reduced by 35 percent, and carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, is cut by 30 percent.
“CG&E is taking a small step in the right direction,” says Ned Ford, energy chair of Sierra Club’s Ohio Chapter.
“Natural gas conversion is the most reasonable of a lot of fixes for auto emissions, though the best solution nationally would be for Congress to legislate better fuel efficiency standards.”
Ford points out that natural gas, when unburned, is a
Hannan, above, converted his 1987 Mercedes to
six months ago and refuels his car at work. At left, the car’s tank fits in the trunk.
greenhouse gas. But the fueling system, which features a quick-connect nozzle, is designed to be leak-proof, making it safer and less polluting than the current gasoline system, Brash explains.
So far, conversion to natural gas is most attractive for fleets of vehicles that use a central fueling station. Natural gas now costs 79 cents for an amount equivalent to a gallon of gasoline, which can be $1 or more. The conversion cost can be recouped in a few years by heavily used cars and trucks.
Besides the carrot of a cost savings, fleet operators might be motivated by the possibility of a legislative stick. Both the Clean Air Amendments and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 contain provisions that could require government and private fleets to convert a percentage of vehicles to alternative fuels. Cincinnati is not affected
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PHOTOS; BONNIE GREER
Dailyfired Of Questionable Taste
The existence ofcitrus-flavored prunes makes one ponder the marketing possibilities; know what we mean Barney?
BY ROBERT WOODIWISS
Leave it to children to ask the tough questions. “Why,” the little boy next door wanted to know, “do they make prunes that taste like lemons and oranges?” Luckily, I dislike children immensely, so instead of trying to come up with an answer, I made faces at him until he cried. He’d got me thinking, though. I’d seen them, too, in the ads, in the grocery store. Lemon- and orange-flavored prunes. Seemed cannibalistic. Or incestuous. One fruit subjugating its own taste to that of another? No, this was the fruity equivalent of bestiality.
I decided to do some digging. Five hours and a hole the size of Rush Limbaugh later, I was still consumed by citrus fruit-flavored primes. Filling the hole with water, I knew there’d be no swimming till the next day. Time to do some research.
First stop, the Yellow Pages. Under the heading “Prunes” I was referred to “Produce, Abhorred.” There I was bounced to “Fruits, It’s Your Funeral.” Nothing but figs and quinces. I tried “Nearly Black Foods, Non-Rancid.” Zip.
By now my fingers had done so much walking they had an endorsement deal for a new line of Nikes. That would wait. Because under “Plums, Geriatric” I hit pay dirt: The Prune Institute, or, as I’d come to call it, “Prime U.”
I was able to arrange an interview with Dr. Myra Clench, director of the Institute, for that afternoon. Dr. Clench claimed a doctorate in single-pit fruits from a Small Midwestern University, though the diploma hanging in her office is signed by Sally Struthers.
Before coming to the Institute, she and her research team hybridized the “Avocola Nut,” without which there would have been no carbonated guacamole craze. She also has the disarming habit of interjecting the word “caribou” into any conversation not concerning
prunes.
I got right to it. “Doc, why would I buy a prune that tastes like an orange when, if I want a fruit that tastes like an orange, I can buy an orange?”
She didn’t miss a beat. “Prunes have a proud heritage of innovation. What other fruit comes pitted? What other fruit comes sweetened? Remember ‘Chatty Prunes’? Very popular for about two years. Pull the string, and they’d say, ‘I taste less bad than you remember’ and six other phrases.’
“I didn’t come here for a history lesson,” I reminded her, though I did wonder whether she could help me keep the Goths and Visigoths straight. “What’s your point?”
“For years, our most regular customer was the irregular customer and vice versa,” she said. Her euphemisms for the naturally occurring condition of constipation and normal bowel function were enough to make me want to toss my cookies. “Today’s new generation of safer, milder, high-fiber, natural, better tasting laxatives means we have to fight harder than ever for a piece of the colonic pie.” Her gift for imagery was enviable. “The prune’s biggest problem is it’s prune-flavored.”
“OK. A prune taste can’t sell a prune. How about a chocolate-flavored prune? Or root beer? Or brie?” I asked.
No answer. She was busy scribbling notes. Thank goodness I stopped before mentioning steak tartare.
I had my answer. “Good-bye,” I said.
“Caribou,” she muttered as I left her office.
On the drive home, my prunic wrath gave way to realization. The prune peopie weren’t Mephistophelean fruit flouters; they were ingenious.
Their simple intra-category flavoring scheme could be expanded. Use the essence of a rare or expensive product to flavor a cheaper more common sibling with similar properties. Yes.
Ideas and possibilities came in a torrent. At first, small: corn-flavored carrots. Then, macadamia-flavored filberts. Or lox-flavored perch, shrimpflavored krill and caviar-flavored hen’s eggs? As the day wore on, food seemed a small palette to work with. I foresaw Rolls-Royce-flavored Escorts, Biltmoreflavored housing projects and a Big Apple-flavored Tuscaloosa. Very late, I fell asleep with the not-quite hallucinogenic image of a Louis Farrakan-flavored Barney.
It wasn’t until I was floating in my new swimming hole the next afternoon that I thought of prunes again.
Too bad, really. Lousy taste, uninteresting, dubious appearance and for the sake of propping up its popularity, it undergoes regular tinkering at the hands of science and technology. I’m sorry. It was Cher I thought of.
ROBERT WOODIWISS, a Cincinnati-based writer, cleans up easily with a damp sponge and warm, soapy water.
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by those provisions now, but could be if clean air standards don’t continue to be met. So several local governmental fleets, including Hamilton County, Anderson Township and Clermont County, are taking part in a pilot program to test natural gas and other alternative fuels. Jim Sadelfeld, air-quality manager for the City of Cincinnati, says five city vehicles are being converted. “We want to promote use of clean fuels and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. If we help expand the infrastructure for natural gas, costs of fuel and conversions go down, and it becomes a good choice for everybody.”
Some individuals already have made that choice. Richard Hannan converted his 1987 Mercedes to natural gas six months ago. With the help of CG&E, he installed a natural gas feed in the parking lot of his company, Mercury Instruments Inc. in Fairfax. This is a slow-feed fueling method, using gas from the same household line that fuels stoves and furnaces. It takes about two hours to fill, as opposed to the pressurized gas available at the Dana Avenue station, which fills at the same rate as gasoline.
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Film (capsule reviews, theater guide) 20
Sports (recreational, spectator) 24
Art (galleries, exhibits, museums) 24
Events (cool happenings) 26
Attractions (museums, historic homes) 26
Literary (signings, readings, events) 28
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Upcoming (a look at what’s ahead) 30
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Peach, Vibe Tribe, Hogscraper and Missing Since Monday. 7 p.m. Friday. Riverfront West Sports Park, indoor shelter, State Route 128 at Harrison Avenue, Miamitown, Ohio. $10. 557-WEED.
TOAD THE WET SPROCKET WITH HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH Alternative. 7 p.m. Saturday. Taft Theatre. 318 E. Fifth St.. Downtown. SOLD OUT.
This Week’s Theme: April Fool’s Day
The Fellowship of Merry Christians celebrates April Fool’s Day with Holy HUMOR Month. The rest of us do what we can without the help of wellknown STORYTELLER and WINE MAKER Jesus, who will be making an appearance this Saturday when he rides the bull at Bobby Mackey’s. (See Second Comings listings.) Stagecrafters brings Carl Reiner and Joseph Stein’s comedy classic Enter Laughing to the stage. Let’s hope, for their sake and ours, that the audience EXITS LAUGHING. (See Onstage.) The Central American Task Force, a community-based group seriously concerned about U.S. intervention in Central America, is holding a humorous fund-raiser called Flush Rush and the Right. And yes, that refers to porcine blabbermouth Rush Limbaugh. So, come test your pitching arm on the Jesse Helms Toss and the Bob Dole Bean Bag Toss and don’t hesitate to deflate the Newt Balloon of your choice. (See Events.) Rona Pondick’s New Art 4, a traveling exhibition, alights at the Cincinnati Art Museum this week. Pondick, who uses parts of the body in her artwork, discusses her life and work Wednesday.
If only Jeffrey Dahmer had been able to sublimate his carnal desires into art. (See Art.) The makers of Free Willy bring Bom to be Wild, a BOY-MEETSGORILLA story, to the silver screen. This time, a 15 year old boy runs away to live with a gorilla. Now let me guess boy meets gorilla, boy hates gorilla, boy falls in love with gorilla? Sounds like a happy ending. (See Film.)
The joke really is on baseball fans with a so-called OPENING DAY with the socalled Cincinnati Reds vs. the so-called Chicago Cubs. (See Sports.)
★ SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK With a blend of Folk songs and Gospel and African chants, Sweet Honey as these six women are known to their friends expect to be dancing in the aisles. 7 p.m. Sunday. Taft Theatre. 318 E. Fifth St., Downtown. $22.50. 749-4949. ★ THE HOUSE BAND WITH SILVER ARM Celtic music's popularity is increasing at a rapid pace. Here are two of the best bands of the genre the British-based House Band and locals Silver Arm. 8 p.m. Tuesday. St. George Church, 42 Calhoun St., Clifton. $12. 751-5237. THE FREDDY JONES BAND Rock. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Bogart's, 2621 Vine St.. Clifton. $8/$10 day of show. 749-4949.
VERUCA SALT AND HAZEL Alternative. 8 p.m. Wednesday. The Newport, 1722 High St., Columbus. $12.50/$14 day of show. 749-4949.
★ WAYLON JENNINGS Country music legend Jennings makes a rare local stop, performing a 90-minute solo, unplugged set. Go and yell for
RON PURDON AND HIS ORCHESTRA Jazz and Swing. 8 p.m. Friday. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
SYLVAIN ARCHER AND PHIL WILLIS Jazz guitar. 8 p.m. Friday. Borders Books and Music, 11711 Princeton Pike, Springdale. 671-5853.
THE AKOUSTIKATS Eclectic acoustic. 10 p.m. Saturday. Buffalo Wings and Rings, 3207 Linwood Ave., Mount Lookout. 321-0120.
BRIAN EWING Alternative Folk. 8 p.m. Saturday. Blue Mountain Coffee Co., 3181 Linwood Ave., Mount Lookout. 871-8626.
GREG MAYHAN Acoustic. 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Blue Jordan Coffeehouse, 4573 Hamilton Ave., Northside. 541-FORK.
THE KLEZMER PROJECT Jewish Folk. 1:30 p.m. Sunday. College Hill Coffee Co., North Bend and Hamilton avenues, College Hill. 542-BREW.
the theme from The Dukes of Hazzard he loves it when you do that. 9:30 Wednesday. Coyote’s, 400
HURRICANE SURF CLUB 411 W. Pete.Rose Way, Downtown. 241-2263.
IVORY'S JAZZ CABARET 2469 W. McMiCken, Fairview Heights. 684-0300.
J A FLATS Forest Fair Mall, Forest Park. 671-LIVE.
OZZIE'S PUB & EATERY 116 E. High St., Oxford. 513-523-3134. PALACE CLUB 2346 Grange Hall Road, Dayton, Ohio. 513-426-9305.
640 W. Third St., Covington. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Friday-Saturday. 491-6400.
COOTER’S University Plaza, Vine Street, Corryville. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Until 4 a.m. Friday and Saturday. 751-2642 THE DOCK 603 W. Pete Rose Way, Downtown. Until 4 a.m. Friday-Saturday. 241-5623.
THE WATERFRONT 14 Pete Rose Pier, Covington. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Friday-Saturday. 581-1414.
Music
BRIAN LOVELY AND THE SECRET Alternative Funk Rock. Shady O’Grady's. Free.
CARLO IAVICOLI AND CHAMBER AND NOLTINQ Blues. York Street International Cafe. Cover.
CARPEDIEM Rock. McGuffy's. Cover.
★ CATHERINE AND CHROME
CRANKS Chicago’s Catherine plays swirly, distorted Pop; while NYC’s Chrome Cranks oozes a murky, scraping, Lower East Side sound. Sudsy Malone’s. Cover.
FOREHEAD Alternative favorites. Blue Note Cafe. Cover.
FRANK POWERS TRIO Eclectic. Arnold's. Free.
GOSHORN BROS. Classic Rock. Tommy’s. Cover.
THE GRAVEBLANKETS WITH THOMAS Folk. Top Cat’s. Cover.
IVORY'S OPEN HOUSE Jazz. Ivory’s. Free.
JOHNNY SCHOTT WITH JUST THE BAND, CRYSTAL AXXE, BOB GOINS AND NOLAN BURKHOUSE Open mic. Courtyard Cafe. Free.
JOHN ZAPPA QUARTET Jazz. Ogden’s Place. Free.
KEN COWDEN AND CHRIS GOINS Acoustic Rock. Shady O’Grady’s. Free.
KEVIN TOHLE Classic Rock. Zipper’s. Free.
KRIS BROWN Acoustic. Blind Lemon. Cover.
LYNN CALLAHAN Acoustic. Local 1207. Cover.
THE LEMMINGS Funk Rock. Ripleys. Cover.
THE MENUS Rock favorites. Jim and Jack’s. Cover.
MISTER BLACK Alternative. Main Street Brewery. Cover.
MODULATORS Eclectic. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover.
GEORGE LAVIGNE Rock. The New ‘90s. Cover.
GOSHORN BROS. Classic Rock.
Tommy’s. Cover.
POSITIVE REACTION Reggae. Club Gotham. Cover.
RAS BONGHI Reggae. Ozzie’s. Cover.
HOPPER AND SHOOT THE GIFT Alternative. Top Cat’s. Cover.
THE INDUCERS Jazz. Southgate House. Cover.
SNOWSHOE CRABS Alternative Rock favorites. Salamone’s. Cover.
JERRY’S LITTLE BAND Dead Rock. Ozzie’s. Cover.
SONNY AND THE DOGS Blues. Burbank’s Eastgate. Free.
JIM GILLUM Acoustic. Blind Lemon. Cover.
UPC Rock. JA Flats. Cover.
★ JIMMY ROGERS Blues fanat-
UPTOWN RHYTHM AND BLUES Rhythm and Blues. Stow’s. Cover.
ics take note: The legendary Bluesman, who has had his songs covered recently by Eric Clapton, makes a rare (and free!) local appearance. Burbank’s Forest Fair. Free.
WILLIE RAY AND THE MIDNIGHTERS —Open Blues jam. Burbank's Sharonville. Cover.
JOHNNY AND THE HI-ROLLERS Blues. Burbank’s Sharonville. Free.
MCNASTY Folk. York Street International Cafe. Cover.
ANVIL SLUGS Alternative favorites. Club Gotham. Cover.
BAD HABIT Rock. Blue Note. Cover.
PSYCHOLOGICAL VACATION Alternative favorites. First Run. $3/$5 under 21.
RICHARD KNOGGAN Rock. Silky Shanohan’s. Cover.
BANJO Alternative. Zipper’s. Free.
BOB CUSHING Acoustic. Village Tavern. Free.
RICKY LYNN GREGG Country. Coyote's. Cover.
SWEET ALICE HOSKINS Blues. Burbank’s Florence. Free.
BRIAN EWING Acoustic Alternative. Empire. Cover.
THE TERRY PENDER QUARTET Jazz. Arnold's. Free.
BRIAN LOVELY AND THE SECRET Alternative Funk Rock. Local 1207. Cover.
UPC Rock. Murray’s. Cover.
UPTOWN RHYTHM AND BLUES Rhythm and Blues. Stow’s. Cover.
CARPEDIEM Rock. McGuffy’s. Cover.
WONDERLAND Dance Rock. Main Street Brewery. Cover.
CONRAD HERWIG Jazz. Blue Wisp. Cover.
CRAWDADDY Alternative favorites. Longworth’s. Cover.
THE DIXIE KARAS QUARTET Jazz. Ivory’s. Cover.
DOUBLESHOT WITH ANNIE ELLIS Pop. Briarwood. Free.
THE DUDE OF LIFE— Eclectic Rock. Ripleys. Cover.
THE DUKES Blues. Burbank's Eastgate. Free.
FEEDER, STITCH AND IODINE Alternative Rock. Sudsy Malone’s. Cover.
SATURDAY APRIL 1
ANVIL SLUGS Rock favorites. Club Gotham. Cover.
BAD HABIT Rock. Blue Note. Cover.
★ BIRDHOUSE Come celebrate the release of these wacky song puppies’ new CD, Serendipity Doo. Main Street Brewery. Cover.
BOB CUSHING Acoustic. Million’s Cafe. Free. BRIAN
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SUNDAY APRIL 2
BLUE BIRDS Blues. Allyn's Cafe. Cover.
BOB CUSHINQ Acoustic. The Straushaus. Free.
CAT CITY Jazz. Blue Wisp. Cover.
★ CHRIS WILLIAMSON AND TRET FURE Fans of “womyn’s music,” here's your chance to see two of the all-time favorites. Canal Street Tavern. Cover.
DAVE SAMS Acoustic. Blind Lemon. Cover.
THE IMPULSE BAND FEATURINQ RICHARD DANIELS Jazz. Babe Baker’s. Free.
JOHN KOGGE AND THE LONESOME STRANGERS Folk. The Stadium. Cover.
LUBE, OIL AND FILTER Rockabilly. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover.
MILHAUS Rock favorites. Blue Note Cafe. Cover.
NOAH HUNT AND JASON DENNIE Acoustic. Tommy’s. Cover.
STACY THE BLUES DOCTOR WITH BLUES U CAN USE Blpes. Local 1207. Cover.
MONDAY APRIL 3
BOB CUSHING Acoustic. Cloverleaf Lakes. Free.
DAYTON JAZZ ORCHESTRA Big Band. Gilly's. Cover.
FRED GARY AND DOTTIE WARNER Eclectic. Arnold’s. Free.
MARC MICHAELSON Rock. Mt. Adams Pavilion. Cover.
PSYCHOACOUSTIC ORCHESTRA Eclectic Jazz. Blue Wisp. Cover.
SCOTT KARNER Acoustic. Blind Lemon. Cover.
TUESDAY APRIL 4
BRIAN LOVELY AND THE SECRET Alternative Rock. Tommy’s. Cover.
CRAWDADDY Acoustic Alternative favorites. Scooter's. Free.
BOB CUSHING Acoustic. Foley's Western Hills. Free.
THE DIXIE CRUISERS Dixieland Jazz. Arnold’s. Free.
JIM CONWAY Acoustic. Blind Lemon. Cover.
LAURIE TRAVELINE, CHRIS ALLEN AND MILES LORETTA Acoustic. The Friendly Stop. Free.
OPEN MIC Folk. Canal Street Tavern. Cover.
THE PHIL DEGREG TRIO Jazz. Blue Wisp. Cover.
AMelancholy, Baby Freedy Johnston
ttention happy people: Freedy Johnston writes sad songs. P.S.: He’s not real cracked up about explaining why.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 5
ARNOLD’S WEDNESDAY NIGHT GUYS Eclectic. Arnold’s. Free.
BLUE BIRDS Blues. Tommy’s. Cover.
BLUE WISP BIG BAND Jazz. Blue Wisp. Cover.
BRIAN LOVELY AND THE SECRET Alternative Rock. Shady O'Grady's. Free.
CELTIC JAM Celtic. Hap's Irish Pub. Free.
CHRIS GOINS AND KEN COWDEN Acoustic Rock.- Shady O'Grady's. Free.
CURTIS CHARLES Classic Rock. Zipper's. Free.
FOREHEAD Alternative favorites. Murray’s Pub. Cover.
JEFF GOITHER Acoustic. Blind Lemon. Cover.
GREENWICH TAVERN JAZZ
ENSEMBLE Jazz. Greenwich Tavern. Cover.
“It’s obvious that I write sad songs,” Johnston says with a defensive laugh. “It’s almost an unanswerable question. ‘Why are you the way you are?’ I’ve never tried to invent a public persona for myself, so I’ve never tried to lie and say I had a happy life. Broken home. Left my hometown when I was 19.1 was a working stiff for 10 years. I’m basically a sad person.”
GULLIBANQUE Reggae. Ripleys. Cover.
THE MENUS Rock favorites. Katmandu Cafe. Cover.
NOAH HUNT AND JASON DENNIC Acoustic. Local 1207. Cover.
OVERDUE AND THE MENUS Rock favorites. Blue Note Cafe. Cover.
PIGMEAT JARRETT Blues. Allyn’s Cafe. Cover.
SHANNYN COOK’S OPEN MIC Open mic. Empire. Cover.
For a sad guy, an awful lot of good things are happening to him. Johnston’s major label debut, This Perfect World, released last summer on Elektra, has received a fair amount «of critical acclaim and slow-building acceptance by the public.
SHINDIG Rock favorites. Murray’s Pub. Cover.
knows the value ofsad songs (and why they say so much)
INTERVIEW BY BRIAN BAKER
songs are largely not autobiographical (although Can You Fly's “Trying to Tell You I Don’t Know” weaves a tale about a starving singer that Johnston has admitted is the story of his struggle to make it as a musician).
The mark of a lazy journalist, according to Johnston, is the baldly simplistic question “Why do you write such sad songs?” When I note that his songs have a discernibly macabre spin, he allows enough time for the dreaded question to follow. When it doesn’t, he is audibly appreciative.
Recent appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and Jon Stewart’s late-night soiree have helped propel “Bad Reputation,” the album’s first single, into the limelight.
UNDERCURRENT WITH THEY Alternative Rock. Top Cat’s. Cover.
THE WEBSTERS Alternative favorites. Salamone’s. Cover.
His opening slot on the Sheryl Crow tour has been largely successful on its own merits, without factoring in the added attention due to Crow’s multiple Grammy scores. When she departs for Japan in April, Johnston will return to New York to record four new songs for the Hello Recording Club,, the CD subscription service founded and operated by They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh. When does Johnston have time to be sad?
The short answer would be that he makes the time. One might think that Johnston’s time dwindles away while he churns out the poignant and unforgettably wry songs that have appeared on his critically lauded but commercially ignored releases to date. The Trouble Tree, Can You Fly and the Unlucky EP (all on New Jersey’s Bar None label) were flush with excellent tunes, but still not up to Johnston’s exacting standards. So, naturally, he must spend an inordinate amount of time agonizing over each chord, each phrase.
“I am a lazy son of a bitch,” says Johnston, as another songwriter myth shatters in the background. “I have tons of half-assed songs laying around.”
One of the biggest misperceptions about Johnston concerns the perspective of his material. He insists his
“I’m used to it now,” Johnston says wearily. “People ask, ‘Did you know a couple of kids who killed themselves?’ (like the doomed ‘Two Lovers’), or ‘Do you really have a bad reputation?’ It’s expected. You have to assume that people are going to assume that it’s your life. But I don’t generally write about my life because I really am not interested in that kind of selfexamination. I don’t want to write a song about my mother because I don’t want to talk to her about it.
I have a lot of deeply felt things I could write about... my brother, my sister, my relationships. I don’t want to do it that way.”
The other constant Johnston seems to have endured is the mangling of his name.
“Early on, I was real defensive about it,” he says with a laughs. “You know, go to a radio station, do the interview which starts, ‘So, Freddy Johnson, I really like your album Will You Fly.' Then (I) was like ‘I don’t want to talk to you now.’ It still happens, I just handle it differently.”
Johnston’s musical mentors loom large in his consciousness, but you won’t find much in the way of obvious influences on his own work. He loves 70s rock to a fault (Fave band: Led Zeppelin “A lot of what they said was idiotic, but I love that band fave song: “Benny and the Jets” “That is still my favorite song to this day ...”).
One of his all-time favorite songwriters is Stevie Wonder, the discussion of whom reintroduces the subject of autobiographical songwriters. “He’s got to be sad sometimes,” Johnston observes. “But most of his songs have the word ‘love’ in them. And they’re happy. Nobody asks Stevie why he’s so goddamned happy all the time.” XTC is another object of admiration, although he admits that lyrically they strike him as “occasionally strident and preachy.”
PHOTO: Freedy Johnston opens for Sheryl Crow on Friday
His record collection sports a lot of ’60s Country and Soul artists (Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, A1 Green) but reflects a current resurgence in his interest in the Beach Boys. “I never took them seriously, at all,” he says. “I’ve only heard Pet Sounds in the last three or four years. But ‘I Get Around’ is one of the all-time great singles. They are rock music.”
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FREEDY: FROM PAGE 17
Given Johnston’s love of the music of the ’60s and 70s, it only seems natural he would attempt to cover some of his favorites. Sure enough, one of the high points of his set is his stunning cover of Jimmy Webb’s “Wichita Lineman,” which he recorded for the Unlucky EP. Johnston’s shivering version makes Glen Campbell’s admittedly classic reading sound sterile by comparison. “I’ve played that song so much,” says Johnston with a proper blush of penitence, “I will admit that I want to own that song. Glen Campbell’s is always going to be the version, but I want to be No. 2.”
When asked what other covers could sneak onto the set list or into the studio, Johnston hauls out a completely unexpected response. “We stopped off at the liquor store after the show last night, and that Kiss song, ‘Rock and Roll All Nite,’ came on the radio. I think it deserves to be reincarnated. Maybe I’m way off the mark, but I think I could do it.
“Another song that I would love to do is ‘Takin’ Care of Business.’ 1 love that goddamned song; I could listen to it all day. Randy Bachman is an incredible songwriter.”
Johnston’s current listening habits have taken a local spin, although he wasn’t aware of it. “This band, the Ass Ponys, I didn’t listen to them for the longest time because I hate bands with stupid names,” he laughs. “It’s like they’re daring me not to listen to them. I finally listened to their new record; it’s
fucking amazing. That guy (Chuck Cleaver) is the one of the greatest lyricists around right now. I’m humbled. They’re going places.”
Perhaps the most fascinating thing about Johnston is the intense scrutiny he reserves for himself. While throwing around compliments by the metric ton to fellow songwriters and early influences, he asserts that the reason he never got any airplay previous to “Bad Reputation” was that neither he nor his songs were good enough. He never once mentions his first album, The Trouble Tree, and flatly states that of the material that appeared on Can You Fly, only “The Lucky One” was worthy of airtime. He dismisses the Unlucky EP as a rushed failure and intends to rerecord both “Wichita Lineman” and “Caroline” on his next release (which, if all goes well, will again be produced by Butch Vig).
Johnston’s inherent melancholy does not dampen his enthusiasm for his work. He looks forward to the sessions for the Hello Recording Club, and even with the prospect of having to complete his halfformed songs, he is anxious to return to the studio.
“This Perfect World is a major step forward for me,” he says with some pride. “I want every album to be that way.” Freedy Johnston almost sounds happy. Luckily for his fans, that can’t last.
FREEDY JOHNSTON opens for Sheryl Crow Friday at the Taft Theatre. 749-4949.
Blues Hall of Famer and Grammy Nominee,
TIMMY ROGERS
will be appearing at Burbank’s Real Bar-B-O, Forest Fair Mall, Friday, MARCH 31 9PM
BY MIKE BREEN
Don’t Be a Fool
This Saturday, April 1, two local groups with high aspirations will be out promoting their new records in the clubs of Cincy. No kidding:
Birdhouse celebrates the release of its brand-new Serendipity Doo disc Saturday at the Main Street Brewery (1203 Main St., Over-the-Rhine). The first single from the whimsical Pop trio, “Wild Cherry,” is to be released on birdhouse-shaped vinyl from the California label Azra International sometime in the near future. Serendipity is a great representation (albeit a tittle long 21 songs guys?) of the group’s clever songwriting ability and unique sense of humor.
If you're craving dramatic guitar-layered Rock, then head to Sudsy Malone's (2630 Vine St., Corryville) on Saturday for Speakboy. The group is made up of former members of the Mourning, and fans of that group’s dark, Goth-influenced sound will be happy to hear Speakboy’s even more-realized vision. Teaser, the band’s four-song cassette sampler of songs from the forthcoming release (for which the band is shopping around for a label), will be available at the show while supplies last. Opening the evening will be Johari Window.
Sweet Releases
“Sweet” Alice Hoskins' new release is one of the best local Blues albums to hit the bins in a while. Cornin’ Home to the Blues is Hoskins at her best. Mixing original songs with loyal covers of Ray Charles and Denise LaSalle, Hoskins’ deep and powerful voice leads the tracks. The immediacy and sophisticated rawness give the album the smoky soul of old Blues records. Hoskins seems most at home on the more Gospel-like, lowtempo numbers such as the exquisite “Eyes
- Full of Tears.”
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THE HOUSE BAND Another Setting (Green Linnet, 43 Beaver Brook Road, Danbury, CT 06810).
Even more traditional than the Chieftains, this English quartet plays with intensity the realm of Celtic music, from uptempo jigs (“Jigijazz”) to dark and brooding ballads (“Grimstock” and “The Setting”). Split between intricate instrumentals and effective vocals, Another Setting is a dynamic and true take on Irish music that alternately makes you feel like you’re on a bright green Irish hillside or knee-deep in a pint of stout, drowning at the corner pub. The House Band performs Tuesday at St. George’s Church in Coriyville.
CityBeat grade: B.
EVERCLEAR Sparkle and Fade (Capitol).
This Portland trio’s second release is a brilliant clash of cheery Pop melodies and chord progressions with biting lyrics that show why Everclear has become a cultlike sensation and one of the great
SPILL
Thistle's new cassette, Lame as Rob, is full of wash guitars, swaggering vocals and an overall endearing slur. Dinosaur Jr. and Swervedriver fans should be happy to know that there's a like-minded band right in your backyard. The trio has been steadily building a local following since 1993. The songs on Lame are anything but and show a young group with integrity and potential.
Missing Since Monday is a new Metal crew that spews spiteful lyrics and metallic grinding all over its brand-new CD, / Love You Dead. The group lyrically expounds on women doing them wrong and launches a particularly vicious attack on Bill Clinton (“America”). Musically, MSM is in the vein of Pantera mixed with old Anthrax (though with a much better vocalist). If you like your Metal raw, outspoken and uncensored, this is the group for you. Missing Since Monday plays at Bogart’s on Friday.
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The Industrial duo of Skin and Saliva, which combines electronic aggression with raw tribal rhythms, has just signed a threeyear deal with COP International, a California label, and plans to have the first full-length album out (worldwide) this fall. Dream Big: the Over the Rhine Steel Drum Band is an emotional video documentary that looks into the local drum ensemble that is composed of kids and adults from the OTR area and examines that community’s day-to-day happenings. The show premieres at 4 p.m. Sunday on Channel 48. Drummer Paul Buchignani of Memphis is the new Afghan Whigs' drummer, replacing the departed Steve Earle. The Whigs are now working on the follow-up to 1993’s Gentlemen.
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hopes of the Portland scene. Sparkle and Fade, which hits stores May 23, is the group’s second release. It harkens back to the days of youthful, adrenalized post-Punk pop (a la Look Sharp-era Joe Jackson). Everclear plays Sudsy Malone’s on Wednesday.
CityBeat grade: A.
MARILYN MANSON Live performance at Bogart’s on March 8. Ed Wood movie-kitsch. Jane’s Addiction. The Damned. Nine Inch Nails. Jimmy Swaggart. What do they all have in common? A Marilyn Manson live show. With an arsenal of metallic guitars and pulsating, anvil-powered beats, the group gave the packed Bogart’s a show of shows. Singer Mr. Manson has a provocative and frightening stage presence. Theatrical Rock and controversy in Alternative music is alive and well and living in the bowels of Marilyn Manson. See the band April 17 at the Newport in Columbus with Danzig and Korn. CityBeat grade: B.
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Chrome Cranks Cuts & Pastes, Slashes & Burns
INTERVIEW BY MIKE BREEN
ost musicians vehemently deny there is even a remote possibility that they have been influenced by anyone. As if it would imply that they were any less of a performer (or some kind of thief), the dreaded, admittedly tired question is usually answered with an “it’s-all-me, baby” type of response. But the members of New York’s Chrome Cranks are more grounded than most artists. While it’s not as if the band wears its influences on its sleeve, the rugged soulfulness and scraping guitars that seer ears on the group’s self-titled debut (on PCP/Matador) clearly nod to forefathers Nick Cave, the Scientists, Suicide and the Stooges. Singer/guitarist Peter Aaron who, along with guitarist William Weber formed Chrome Cranks in Cincinnati in 1988 before moving to NYC three years later freely admits to appropriating his idols.
“No one is totally original,” explains Aaron on the phone during a stop in the middle of Kansas on the way to Kansas City. The group is in the midst of its first tour (of which Aaron says, “For someone at our level, just starting out, it’s been going really well”), taking Aaron and company across the entire United States.
“The basic structure for everything’s been done. If you realize that, it gives you more freedom”
NYC’s Chrome Cranks grinds out slicing Rock that graciously borrows from the lords of the underground.
Aaron says he hears everything from Garage Rock to Blues in his band’s music but points out that not everything is intentional. Things creep into the damp, slashing, murky mix subconsciously. “There’s little things that you hear. Sometimes it’s conscious, sometimes it’s later on and you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s where I got that.’
The group’s history is packed full of line-up changes, a slew of 7-inch singles and almost unanimous critical praise in the alternative press. After moving to New York, Aaron and Weber enlisted bassist Jerry Teel (exHoneymoon Killer), a friend Aaron met during
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SUMMARIES AND CAPSULE REVIEWS
BY STEVE RAMOS
Opening
BORN TO BE WILD Punished by his mother (Helen Shaver), 14-year-old Rick (Wil Horneff) faces the burdensome task of cleaning her animal research lab everyday after school.
Life stinks. But then, Rick meets a new friend at the lab, Katie. She’s funny. Smart. A real friend. Oh yeah, Katie’s also a 3-year-old gorilla. When Katie’s previous owner (Peter Boyle) reclaims her for display at his flea market, Rick leaps to help his new friend. He frees Katie, then the two of them hit the highway for the Canadian wilderness. You’ve heard of puppy love? Well, this is ape-bonding.
Inspired by ’93's box-office success of Free Willy’s boy and his whale story, filmmaker John Gray looks to make the same impact with a boy and his gorilla. Before all the children fall for Disney’s Pocabantas, maybe they’ll go ape over this. (Rated PG; opens Friday at area Loews Theatres.) No screening.
MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE Four months after its initial release, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle finally makes it to Cincinnati. Sort of makes moviegoers feel like they’re living in Bumpkinville, doesn’t it?
Juiced by a critically acclaimed performance of Dorothy Parker by actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, director Alan
Rudolph (Choose Me, The Moderns) looks at Manhattan in the ’20s and the antics of those members of the cultural aristocracy, the Algonquin Round Table. You decide: Does Rudolph’s film portray this collection of writers, editors, poets and humorists as literary geniuses or simply a bunch of hard-drinking, loose-living decadents? To no surprise, they’re a little bit of both. Sure, the Academy ignored Leigh’s inspired portrayal of Parker, but then, it ignored Hoop Dreams, too. With Campbell Scott and Matthew Broderick. (Rated R; opens Friday at the Esquire Theatre.) No screening.
THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH
You’ve got to admire filmmaker John Sayles. Stepping into the Hollywood loop just long enough to earn decent money (Sayles wrote the screenplay for Ron Howard’s upcoming Apollo 13), he then steps aside to continue to craft original films that leave most Hollywood projects in the dust. If American cinema were to choose an ambassador to represent itself to the world, Sayles would be an excellent choice. Can a poet and true intellectual make it in the movies? Well, by scraping up international finances and setting minuscule budgets, Sayles succeeds. We’re lucky for his perseverance.
Based on Rosalie K. Fry’s 1957 novella Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, Sayles brings tenderness to this tale.
A young girl, Fiona (Jeni Courtney), longs for her young brother, Jamie (Cillian Byrne), who is believed dead. She sees him floating ashore inside a cradle, on Roan Inish, an island where her family once lived. Desperate for her brother’s return, Fiona knows that seeing him is a sign that she and her grandparents must return to their island homestead. Are ancient spirits teasing with a young girl’s mind, or is Jamie alive? Although steeped in Celtic lore, Fiona’s search is truly universal. The Secret of Roan Inish looks at the importance of family, remembering one’s past and place. Working again with cinematographer Haskell Wexler (Matewan), Sayles crafts a story so beautiful. The Secret of Roan Inish qualifies as art. Magical and lyrical, it possesses the tempo and rhythm of fine poetry. In a time filled with Tank Girls and Tommy Boys, the very existence of The Secret of
Roan Inish astounds. Who’s this movie for? Granted, its protagonist is a young girl, but it’s not just a children’s movie. Its timeless and powerful magic will work on all ages. Multiplexes won’t know what hit them an intelligent family movie. Thank you, Mr. Sayles. With Eileen Colgan and Mick Lally. (Rated PG; opens Friday at Showcase Cinemas Cincinnati.)
CityBeat grade: A. STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE
Actor Jeremy Irons summed the appeal of foreign films pretty well on last Monday’s Oscars show. When the lights go down and subtitles go up, audiences are swept away to lands never seen. For American moviegoers, Strawberry and Chocolate makes a doubly powerful impact. Few places are as foreign as Cuba. Close to our shores, politics keeps our Latino neighbors at a distance. Strawberry and Chocolate offers us a glance at a world too seldom seen.
Based on the short story "The Wolf, The Forest and The New Man" by Senel Paz, directors Tomas Gutierrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabio brings to screen this tale of two young men, David (Vladimir Cruz) and Diego (Jorge Perugorria), who meet and develop a friendship. It wasn’t easy. David, a university political science student, follows Communist Party doctrine with a fervor. Diego seems to possess every characteristic that David’s against. An artist, Diego smuggles contraband scotch, criticizes the government and flaunts his homosexuality. In Havana, Diego certainly stands out.
Girl. Maybe, they’ll get things right for a sequel. With Ice-T, Iggy Pop Pnd Ann Magnuson. (Rated R; opens Friday at area Loews Theatres.)
With his friends encouraging David to turn Diego over to the government police, trust comes slowly to their friendship. Although political by nature of its story, Strawberry and Chocolate plays more like some ’50s American melodrama. Strengthened by Perugorria’s phenomenal portrayal of Diego, who feels his creativity faltering in an unsupportive land, Strawberry and Chocolate hits a fine dramatic note. Its politics, both sexual and governmental, pale in comparison to the characters’ emotions, hopes and feelings for each other. That’s how it should be. Who wants to watch some polemic when melodrama brings the points home so much better? With Mirta Ibarra. (Rated R; opens Friday at
CityBeat grade: C. TOMMY BOY Seven years after enrolling, Tommy Callahan (Chris Farley) is graduating from college. Now, he’s ready to return home to Sandusky, Ohio, and learn his father’s business. To everyone’s surprise, Big Tom (Brian Dennehy), owner of Callahan Auto Parts, needs his lazy, good-for-nothing son’s help. Occupied with his new bride (Bo Derek), Big Tom faces hostile takeover of his company. Teaming up with his father’s former rjght-hand man, Richard Hayden (David Spade), Tommy works to stop the takeover, save the town, impress his father and overturn his reputation for being a total loser. Whew! That’s a lot for one movie. Known for their work together on TV’s Saturday Night Live, producer Lome Michaels yanks Farley and Spade off the tube and tosses them upon the silver screen once more in Tommy Boy. Are witnessing the next Martin and Lewis? Paramount Pictures hopes so. With Rob Lowe and Julie Warner. (Rated PG; opens Friday at area Showcase Cinemas.) No screening.
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BY JOHN M. JAMES Basketball Jones
If you’ve been blessed enough to have someone turn you on to Jim Carroll’s book The Basketball Diaries, then I’m sure you’re excited to hear of it's film adaptation. I’ve always seen the book as a 1970’s fiip-of-the-coin to J.D. Salinger’s Catcher In the Rye, except the author’s autobiographical days are spent in search of basketballcourt hustling, petty theft and the eternal drug/sex rush among the mean alleys of New York and the green seclusion of Central Park. But the vibe is there, .trying to fill the void, trying to put meaning to it all.
The soundtrack on Island Records looks to be an excellent set, with Carroll reinterpreting his own "Catholic Boy” newly recorded with Pearl Jam as the backing band, new material from Soundgarden and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea contributing the track "I’ve Been Down.” Other music fleshing it out comes from PJ. Harvey, the Doors, the Posies and Graeme Revell. On an interesting music note, the film co-stars ex-New Kid Marky Mark Wahlberg, whom I understand pulls in a tremendous performance, as well as Carroll making a cameo. The soundtrack hits stores Tuesday, and the film opens nationally April 21.
Downhome Brady & More
Former TV teen dream Maureen McCormick (as Marsha Brady) has a new Country music career about ready to boil over with the release of When You Get a Little Lonely, due next week on Phantom Hill Records. The album contains material written by Pam Tillis, Mike Reid and Nicolette Larson. Appearances on Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and David Letterman's Late Night are expected. (I don’t know if I’m scared or intrigued by this news. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.)... A tasty compilation of live recordings from New York City’s non-profit artist collective the Threadwaxing Space is out on Zero Hour Records, featuring Guided By Voices, Slant 6, Blonde Redhead, Giant Sand, Azalia Snail and seven others. Threadwaxing Space Live: The Presidential Compilation 1993-1994 is available on CD and a limited run of 2,000 vinyl copies. Up-and-coming modern rockers Our Lady Peace will be the musical guests on the Jon Stewart Show on Tuesday.
Releases Coming Tuesday
And like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change. The Basketball Diaries original motion picture soundtrack (Island); Die Cheerleader Son of Filth (London), LP will feature graphic cover art; Flaming Lips “Unconsciously Screaming” (Atavistic), reissue of 12inch from 1990 with original holographic jacket, poster and colored vinyl; General Public Rub It Better (Epic); Guided By Voices Alien Lanes (Matador), Dayton’s very own with 28 new songs; Innocence Mission Glow (A&M); Montell Jordan This Is How We Do It (Polygram); Ini Kamoze The Original Hotstepper (Columbia); KMFDM Nihil (Wax Trax / TVT); Malcolm McLaren Paris (Gee Street / Island); Van Morrison Raincheck (Polydor); the Orb Orbvs Terranvm (Island); Pizzicato Five “Magic Carpet Ride” (Matador), 12inch; Poem Rocket “Small White Animal" (PCP), 7inch single; John Prine Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings (Oh Boy!); the Psyclone Rangers The Devil May Care (World Domination); Jonathan Richman You Must Ask the Heart (Rounder); Shabba Ranks Ah Mi Shabba (Epic); Sonia Dada A Day at the Beach (Capricorn), second album; George Thorogood & the Destroyers Let's Work Together Live! (EMI); various artists Threadwaxing Space Live (Zero Hour); Veluptous Horror of Karen Black the Anti-Naturalist (Triple X). JOHN JAMES can be found behind the counter at Wizard Records in Corryville.
Sweet Honey Still Adding Flavor
INTERVIEW BY KATHY Y. WILSON
Twenty-one years and as many members ago, Bernice Johnson Reagon began what has become the center of her life’s walk: the seminal, a cappella female group Sweet Honey in the Rock.
She was the vocal director of the D.C. Black Repertory Company wherein she held workshops. Sweet Honey’s first members came from those workshops while its name comes from a song Reagon knew as a child.
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“Sweet Honey in the Rock” was the first song Reagon taught the group during that first rehearsal, and the term has grown into a metaphor for African-American women. If her environment is warm and nurturing, inside a (stereo)typically strong, sturdy black woman should exist the honey that flows from the rocks.
Since this is not an ideal world, Reagon and the five other members of Sweet Honey have had their work cut out for them. Through their hybrid of African Folk songs and chants, Gospel shouts, field hollers and children’s songs, they’ve been teaching without preaching. Their renditions of spirituals can be joyously mournful; their love songs plaintive and honest, and their Folk songs informed by this country’s history of race and gender relations. “I’m an historian, and I think it’s natural for me to operate as a kind of teacher, and it comes out through the music,” Reagon explains.
Reagon knows the history of which she sings. Bom in Georgia and active during the civil rights movement, Reagon says she spent two weeks in jail in 1961. She was among protesters angered by the arrest of two students jailed for purchasing a bus ticket at an all-white window. According to Reagon, history as information equals
self-empowerment. People, particularly AfricanAmericans, should build stronger self-identity and “contribute to the stew by adding to the spices,” she says. “I think we live in an ahistorical society where people are concerned with the present in an imbalanced way.”
Perhaps more people pay attention to the past even if only through the harmonic symphonies of Sweet Honey’s voices than even Reagon realizes. There is no doubting the women’s staying power and appeal. They began during an era when the faded glory of the 1960s manifested itself on the airwaves of albumoriented rock radio. Nevertheless, they retained that era’s unabashed ability to challenge authority through song lyrics. Sweet Honey’s musical legacy has been passed on through the word of mouth of its legion fans.
“I think we’re a grassroots kind of group,” Reagon says. “Our constituency wherever it is has a sort of close, local feel to it. We don’t find our audience through the media drive.
It’s been a long, often arduous road for the group and one that has reached from stages in Uganda, Mozambique and Namibia, to Australia, Singapore and back to Columbus, Ohio, and Rockford, Ill.
“I’m exhausted right now,” Reagon says with a sigh, and rightfully so. The group’s founder also works as a curator at the Smithsonian Institution and as an historian at the American University all while working on Sweet Honey’s records of sacred music:
“On a deeper level, I’m not tired of life or this walk, and there isn’t anything else I would be doing,” she says. “The contribution of Sweet Honey in the Rock is to say to people you will not die because you live in a country of many people and many cultures.
“There are more of us who thrive in a cross-cultural society and African-Americans impact the overall flavor of the dish that is America.”
SWEET HONEY
Film
attempts to have his name removed from the film’s credits. Wonder what he was afraid of? With Alicia Silverstone and Jeremy Sisto. (Rated R; at area Loews Theatres.)
help of a modern-day samurai (Yoshio Harada). A successful screenwriter, J.F. Lawton (Pretty Woman, Under Siege) makes the leap into the directing chair with this action thriller that mixes both ninjas and samurais. With another action role under his belt, Lambert (the Highlander films) looks to give our man Jean-Claude Van Damme a run for his money. (Rated R; closes Thursday at area Loews Theatres.)
HIGHLANDER 3 Christopher
★ INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE With few scary moments, some horrific, blood-drenched sequences and one truly creepy scene Interview emerges as a good, not great horror film. Tom Cruise is fine as Lestat, as is Brad Pitt as Louis. Thankfully, Interview ends on a wild scene that is both terrifying and hilarious. Too bad that tone was not held throughout the entire film. With Christian Slater. (Rated R; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair and Biggs Place Eastgate.)
Lambert returns as the Scottish clan leader who finds that being immortal can be a real pain. Mario Van Peebles turns up as an evil sorcerer. Sooner or later, somebody always loses his head in these Highlander movies. Maybe for Lambert, the third time is the charm. (Rated R; at Norwood and Turfway Park.)
★ HOOP DREAMS Documentary
THE JUNGLE BOOK Disney s new adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling classic combines great photography of the Indian landscape and wildlife with a timeless story about a wild jungle boy named Mowgli (Jason Scott Lee). With Sam Neill. (Rated PG; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair, Biggs Place Eastgate; closes Thursday at Westwood.)
filmmakers Steve James, Peter Gilbert and Frederick Marx spent seven years following the lives of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two African-American boys from Chicago’s inner-city. Gates and Agee share a common dream.
These two envision a time when NBA uniforms will drape their bodies. Hoop Dreams weaves together the best elements of two different film genres. It has all the emotional intensity of a dramatic narrative and the educational impact of fine'documentary filmmaking. Tragedies such as a father’s struggles with drug addiction or a family sitting around a dark apartment because the electricity has been turned off take on more meaning when they’re real. (Rated PG-13; closes Thursday at the Esquire Theatre.)
JUNIOR Director Ivan Reitman (Kindergarten Cop, Twins), should know how to make Arnold Schwarzenegger funny. In Junior, he blows the best sight gag, pregnant Schwarzenegger, by miscasting Danny DeVito as a straight man and Emma Thompson as some slapstick clown. With Pamela Reed. (Rated PG-13; at Norwood, Turfway and Biggs Place Eastgate.)
JUST CAUSE Paul Armstrong (Sean Connery), a Harvard Law professor answers a cry for justice from Bobby Earl Ferguson (Blair Underwood), convict Florida’s Death Row. As Armstrong investigates the details of an 8-year-old case, he encounters resistance from both the arresting officer, Det. Tanny Brown (Larry Fishburne) and the residents of a small southern Florida town. Director Arne Glimcher leaves behind the passionate romance of his debut
HOUSEQUEST Trying to ditch loan sharks at the airport, a con artist (Sinbad) spots the key to his safety.
Gary Young (Phil Hartman) is waiting for a long-lost friend whom he has not seen in more than 25 years. Before long, Kevin has convinced the absentminded Gary that he is that friend.
Let’s see if such street humor can survive in an antiseptic Disney environment. With Jeffrey Jones and Kim Greist. (Rated PG; at Loews Theatres Florence, Northgate and Covedale.)
THE HUNTED While in Japan, American businessmen Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert) witnesses the killing of a woman, Kirina (Joan Chen). With the woman’s assassin (John Lone) fast on his trail, he enlists the
effort, The Mambo Kings, and tackles author John Katzenbach’s best-selling thriller head-on. With Ed Harris and Kate Capshaw. (Rated R; at area Loews Theatres.)
★ LEGENDS OF THE FALL
Sharing an isolated existence on a large Montana ranch, Col. William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) and his three sons Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt) and Samuel (Henry Thomas) experience some conflict when the youngest Ludlow, Samuel returns with his fiancee, Susannah (Julia Ormond). From the cruelties of World War trench warfare to the hardships of a changing frontier, Legends of the Fall is the best kind of soap opera one that is larger than life. Every action occurs with a high intensity. Emotions this overwrought need a sweeping score and cinemascopelike visuals. Melodrama finally receives the Tiffany treatment that this genre rightfully deserves. With Karina Lombard and Gordon Tootoosis. (Rated R; at area Loews Theatres.)
LOSING ISAIAH Desperate for crack, Khaila Richards (Halle Berry) abandons her baby in a Chicago alley. A white social worker, Margaret Lewin (Jessica Lange), discovers and adopts the black infant into her family. Years later, Khaila discovers her son is alive. Off drugs and desperate to start a new life, she wants her child back. Margaret fears losing Isaiah. Now, the courts will decide whether the young boy (Marc John Jeffries) will return to his birth mother or remain with his adopted family. Based on the novel by Seth Margolis, director Stephen Gyllenhaal
With Ian Holm. (Unrated; at the Esquire Theatre and New Neon Movies, Dayton.)
THE MANGLER Long known as a master of modern horror films, director Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) adapts a short story by best-selling author Stephen King about a series of mysterious murders at the Blue Ribbon Laundry. This was one has gorefest written all over it. With Robert Englund. (Rated R; closes Thursday at area Loews Theatres.)
MAN OF THE HOUSE Living alone with his mom, Sandy (Farrah Fawcett), for the past five years, 11year-old Ben Archer (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is not ready to share his home with a step-dad. Jack Sturges (Chevy Chase). He has plan. Young Ben convinces Jack to join him for some father/son games at the YMCA Indian Guides camp. If he makes Jack look really dumb, then his mom won’t want to marry him. Unfortunately, some mobsters follow them to the camp. They intend to do more to Jack than just make him look dumb. If Tim Allen can make the jump from TV to silver screen with huge success, Home Improvement co-star Thomas figures to give it a whirl as well. (Rated PG; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
MAJOR PAYNE Finding his military career cut short, Maj. Bensen Winifred Payne (Damon Wayans) accepts an assignment at Madison Academy for Boys to turn bunch of young, ill-behaved Junior ROTC cadets into top-notch outfit. These boys may not be old enough to shave, but Maj. Payne is determined to turn them into a disciplined, well-trained team. Wayans (In Living Color) and director Nick Castle (Dennis the Menace) do their best to make the movie’s gags a lot funnier than its title’s play on words. With Karyn Parsons and William Hickey. (Rated PG-13; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
MURDER IN THE FIRST Based on a true story from the '40s, Henri Young (Kevin Bacon), faces unrelenting brutality during his incarceration at the notorious prison Alcatraz. His quest for justice teams him with an idealistic public defender, James Stamphill (Christian Slater). With Gary Oldman and Embeth Davidtz. (Rated R; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair, Biggs Place Eastgate and Westwood.)
★ MURIEL’S WEDDING In the movies, ugly ducklings turn into beautiful swans all the time. For Muriel's Wedding, first-time filmmaker PJ. Hogan puts a unique spin on this tried and true tale. Everybody calls Muriel (Toni Collette) a loser her family, her so-called friends. Life’s pretty bad in Muriel’s tacky, coastal hometown of Porpoise Spit, Australia. Still, at least one can dream. It’s how Muriel gets by. She envisions the day when she walks down the church aisle, dressed in her wedding finery. Upon moving to Sydney with her friend
STREET FIGHTER Inspired by the video game, Street Fighter puts Jean-Claude Van Damme, the Muscles of Brussels, in a cartoon environment about an Allied Nations commando team against the psychotic warlord Gen. M. Bison (the late Raul Julia). Director Steven De Souza, screen writer for Die Hards 1 & 2, gets the chance to prove if he can direct all the stuff that his imagination comes up with. With Kylie Minogue and Wes Studi. (Rated PG-13; at Norwood, Turfway and Biggs Place Eastgate.)
TALES FROM THE CRYPT PRESENTS DEMON KNIGHT With the Crypt Keeper as a ghoulish host, Tales from the Crypt takes its unique mix of black comedy and pulp horror to the big screen. Director Ernest Dickerson (Juice) does his best to keep the horror and gross-out fiends happy. With Billy Zane and Jada Pinkett. (Rated R; at Norwood, Turfway, Forest Fair and Biggs Place Eastgate.)
TALL TALE THE UNBELIEVABLE ADVENTURES OF PECOS
BILL Daniel, a feisty young boy (Nick Stahl), conjures up some legendary characters from the Old West John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), Paul Bunyan (Oliver Platt) and Pecos Bill (Patrick Swayze). Daniel needs his new friends' help. Determined to help save his family’s farm, he asks these mythical figures to help him fight J.P. Stiles (Scott Glenn), who wants to take the farm away. (Rated PG; at area Showcase Cinemas.)
Repertory
LAUREL AND HARDY - The Main Library's Filmagic series places the spotlight on two of Hollywood’s most famous talents with Laurel and Hardy. Parents, aren’t you excited about getting junior outside to play and out of your hair? (Unrated; 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Main Library, Downtown. 369-6922.)
OH GODI Director Carl Reiner (All of Me, The Man with Two Brains) fashions a fairly enjoyable homage to all those '40s supernatural comedies like Topper and / Married a Witch. A huge box-office hit upon its original release, Oh God! benefits from comedy veteran George Burn’s easy-going portrayal of the supreme being himself. With John Denver. (Unrated; 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Emery Theatre, Over-the Rhine.)
STRANGE BREW Some years ago in TV land, skit about two lovable beer-guzzling Canadian brothers named Bob and Doug McKenzie and their weekly talk-show “The Great White North" appeared regularly on NBC’s late-night comedy show SCTV. Although never more than a cult favorite, those McKenzies still found their way to the big screen. Unfortunately, Bob and Doug’s jokes don’t possess half the shelf life of beer. Leaving director Ingmar Bergman far behind, actor Max von Sydow joins in on the gag. (Rated PG-13; midnight Friday and Saturday at the Movies.) MORE, PAGE 24
FDirector Comes in from
Hot, steamy ‘ Exotica’ looks to make Atom Egoyan but he’s not interested
or 16 years, Toronto-based filmmaker Atom Egoyan has been working on the fringe. Slowly developing a cult following but remaining obscure. Things change. Independent filmmakers dream about what Egoyan’s got going with his latest movie Exotica bigger budgets, major advertising and the support of a top-line distributor like Miramax. Egoyan’s thrilled, right?
INTERVIEW BY STEVE RAMOS
Not really.
“I’ve been doing it for too long to be seduced by it,” says Egoyan, speaking from Los Angeles. “I can fantasize about shooting in 35mm film and Dolby sound. Those are really great toys to play with. But what I’m most excited by is the ability to have freedom and ereative control.”
Still, becoming a mover and a shaker has some privileges.
“If I want to work with stars in my next film, I can now access that,” he says.
OK, if it’s not money, bigger movie budgets or mainstream suecess, what does Egoyan dream of?
“Maybe someday I would like to make a movie on an epic scale.”
Bom 35 years ago in Cairo, Egypt, Egoyan’s Armenian parents named him in honor of Egypt’s first nuclear reactor. Moving to Victoria, British Columbia, as a child, Egoyan quickly realized how different his black hair and dark features were from his fair-skinned classmates. Being an outsider stuck with Egoyan. Earning a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Toronto’s Trinity College, he hoped to become a diplomat. It was not to be. In 1979, Egoyan completed his first short film, Howard in Particular. He went on to complete a series of films, each relating to his personal life. A fire in a building owned by his parents inspired The Adjuster (1991), while a teen-age job in a hotel laundry room became the basis for Speaking Parts (1989).
Egoyan’s life and art came fully together on Calendar (1993), where Egoyan plays a Canadian photographer who travels on assignment to Armenia. The photographer’s wife is played by Egoyan’s real-life wife, Arsinee Khanjian.
When writing Exotica, Egoyan once again looked at himself. His business was audited. He remembered all the times when his father would drive the baby-sitter home alone. Then, Egoyan discovered that a past girlfriend was involved in a incestuous relationship. But, it wasn’t until Egoyan was listening to Leonard Cohen singing “Everybody Knows” that he discovered Exotica’s theme of ambiguity.
“I love that song so much because it suggests this notion of collective knowledge, ‘the things that everybody knows,’ yet the things that nobody really addresses, which is what the whole film is about,” Egoyan says.
In Exotica, an upscale strip club overflows with intrigue as characters’ paths criss-cross within its lush confines. Francis (Bruce Greenwood), a tax auditor, develops an intense relationship with one of the lapdancers, Christina (Mia Kirshner). Thomas (Don McKeller), a pet-store owner who’s rumored to be
smuggling exotic animals, arrives at Exotica per Francis’ request. Their drama unfolds under the watchful eye of Exotica’s owner, Zoe, again played by Egoyan’s wife. Think of Erotica as a textbook on Freudian psychology with dirty pictures. A big hit with members of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, Exotica continues Egoyan’s trademark of making films that critics describe as cerebral. Egoyan also sees how it hits audiences at the gut level.
“Exotica has built-in spectacle, but that’s by fortune of what the story was about,” Egoyan says, referring to the nightclub set itself. Decked out with tropical plants, awash in aqua-blues and greens, club Exotica seeps with a moist feel.
“I wanted the Exotica to seem like this huge aquarium full of trop: ical fish. I created this really intoxieating environment through the music, the look and feel of the club. It becomes a character in and of itself.”
It’s why Egoyan makes movies: to create fascinating characters. Dipping into their psyches and examining their relationships, people are his No. 1 priority; families, a constant obsession.
For Egoyan, work takes on a personal angle. Look at the role of his wife in Exotica. For her role as Zoe, owner of Exotica, Egoyan’s wife played the part pregnant.
“In this film, it was particularly challenging,” he says. “Her body was going through massive changes. I realize in retrospect that to put her in a club, surrounded by beautiful women whose bodies were in excellent shape was a bit cruel. When she got pregnant, we both decided that it would be very interesting.”
Seeing a lot of fertility symbols in the film, Egoyan felt that Arsinee’s pregnant belly perfectly matched the tone of the film. “It sounds so bizarre that we actually did it. By no means should you think that we got pregnant to make the part.”
Starting on his next movie, Egoyan’s going about business pretty much the same. No big stars. No epic productions. He is sticking to his original game plan. He wants his movies “to challenge the limits of audience identification.” Impressed with Russell Bank’s novel The Sweet Hereafter, about the impact a deadly bus crash makes on a small town, Egoyan plans to adapt Bank’s novel for his next film.
Hollywood is sending him scripts, but Egoyan remains out of the loop. He pays little attention to boxoffice figures. Industiy gossip holds no interest for him. So, it comes as a surprise when Egoyan admits to reading every review for all his movies. He sees it like giving credit where credit is due.
For many years, only critics talked about his work. “If it wasn’t for that critical support, I don’t think that I would have any career at all,” he says. “I don’t make my films for the critics, but I’m not one of these people who says I don’t read reviews. I read them all the time because I learn from them. It’s very important for me to have that support.”
APRIL FOOLS DAY WALK The Hamilton County Park Naturalist guides the walk. 2 p.m. Saturday. Tallgrass Prairie Trail, Miami Whitewater Forest, Mt. Hope Road, Crosby, Whitewater and Harrison townships. 521-PARK.
BUTLER COUNTY ROAD RACE
The 1995 Tri-State Spring Training Series for cyclists continues. The course is a 12-mile circuit with one climb and many rollers. A: five laps; B: three laps; C: one lap. All races begin consecutively at 10 a.m. Sunday. Morgan Ross Athletic Association baseball fields, Chapel Road, Ross. 677-PELO.
FAMILY ADVENTURE HIKE
The mission of the 2-mile hike is to reach the swinging bridge over Flat Rock Gorge. Along the way, family members will hunt for clues. Register early to get a copy of the treasure map and a list of bring-alongs for your day pack. 2-4 p.m. Saturday. Free. Caesar Creek State Park, 8570 East State Route 73, Waynesville. 513-897-2437.
FIGURE SKATING CLUB OF CINCINNATI Meets 6:10-8 p.m. every Wednesday and Friday. Northland Ice Center, 10400 Reading Road, Evendale. $6.50 guest fee. 12:30-2:30 p.m. Sunday. Iceland’s Sports Center, 10765 Reading Road, Evendale. $7. 779-1090.
HUMMINGBIRDS The Hamilton County Park Naturalist will show a large-screen video presentation on these ruby-throated birds. 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday. Winton Woods, Winton Road, Springfield Township. 521-PARK.
MIAMI GROUP OF THE SIERRA CLUB The Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club outings canoeing, kayaking, hiking and backpacking are open to the public. 841-0111.
ORIENTEERING CINCINNATI
Mike Minium presents an orienteering class, covering topographic and orienteering maps, basic compass skills and basic orienteering skills. 6:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday and April 11, 18 and 25. $29 includes maps and reading packet. Miami University, Oxford. 513-523-9279.
★ TOUR DE WEDNESDAY Tour de Wednesday is a joint Sierra •Club/Cincinnati Cyclery Club activity
for intermediate bicyclists. 10 a.m. every Wednesday. All riders must wear ANSI-approved bicycle helmets. Call 752-9639.
WIN 12TH ANNUAL 5K RUN/FITNESS WALK - Working in Neighborhoods (WIN), an agency that helps neighborhood groups in the low-income areas of Cincinnati, sponsors the event. 9 a.m. Saturday. $7. Winton Woods Boat Harbor, Winton Woods, U.S. 42, Sharonville. 541-8536.
Spectator
★ CINCINNATI CYCLONES IHL hockey vs. Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Friday; Chicago; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. These are the last games of the season, so now’s the time to go. $6-$12 adults; $4-$10 students. Cincinnati Gardens, 2250 Seymour Ave., Norwood. 531-7825.
CINCINNATI REDS Opening Day with the so-called National League’s Cincinnati Reds vs. the so-called Chicago Cubs. 2:05 p.m. Monday; 7:35 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. $3.50-$11.50. 100 Riverfront Stadium, Downtown. 421-REDS.
ROAD TO THE FINAL 4K
Dribble your own basketball for 2.5 miles. If you’re one of the first 32 men and women across the finish line, you’ll win a prize. Registration begins 7:30 a.m. Saturday, with the race beginning at 9 a.m. $10. Willie’s Sports Cafe, 401 Crescent Ave., Covington. 474-1399.
★ TURFWAY PARK Everyone at the 1995 Jim Beam Stakes will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Kentucky bourbon. Noon Saturday. Live racing. 7 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 1:30 p.m., Saturday-Monday. Simulcasts from Fairgrounds, Hialeah Park, Oaklawn, Garden State and Santa Anita. The track closes April 6, re-opening Sept. 6. Parking $2, valet parking $3; grandstand admisSion $3.50, clubhouse $2.50. 7500 Turfway Road, Florence. 371-0200.
UC BEARCATS Great Midwest Conference Baseball vs. Dayton, 4 p.m. Saturday; Dayton, 1 p.m. Sunday; Marshall, 3 p.m. Tuesday. Free. Johnny Bench Field, UC Campus, Clifton. Great Midwest Conference Men’s Tennis vs. Butler, 3 p.m. Thursday; Northern Illinois, 12:30 p.m. Friday. Great Midwest Conference Women's Tennis vs. Indiana State, noon Thursday; Kenyon, 3:30 p.m. Monday. Free. Chambers Courts, UC Campus, Clifton. 556-CATS.
TER A joint exhibit features works on paper by Haifa native Itzhak Shalhevet and stone sculptures by Andrew Barnett Davis. Opening reception: 2-4 p.m. Sunday. Through April 28. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday. 2615 Clifton Ave., Clifton. 221-6728.
★ IN SITU Elementi: Solum, Aer, Ignus, Aqua features color photographs of the Great Plains by Larry W. Schwarm. Opening reception: 6-10 p.m. Friday. Schwarm, who is flying in from Kansas for the show, will give a gallery talk at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday. 1435 Main St., Over-theRhine. 651-4613.
IN SITU INSIDE Photographs, a collection of gelatin silver prints by Margaret Silverman, will be the first show to be displayed in the new exhibition space, designed especially for photography, printmaking and drawing. Opening reception: 6-10 p.m. Friday. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 1435 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 651-4613.
Openings
★ MACHINE SHOP GALLERY
The solo retrospective, Bukang Kim: 1985-1995, includes about 40 works by the Korean artist, some as large as 7 feet by 8 feet, predominantly acrylic on canvas and acrylic on paper. Opens Friday. Through April 21. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 100 E. Central Parkway, Over-the-Rhine. 556-1928.
★ ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI The Senior Fine Art Exhibit, featuring the work of India Behrens, Stephanie Winters and Chad Wheeler, opens Sunday. Through April 7. 9 a.m.-lO p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-lO p.m. Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Chidlaw Gallery, next to Cincinnati Art Museum, first floor, Eden Park. 562-8777.
★ MAINTRAUM STUDIO The Springfield Museum of Art will present Maintraum: Approaching the Unconscious, the works of four Cincinnati artists: Stephen Geddes, Robert J. Morris, Dana A. Tindall and Tom Towhey. The show can be previewed 6-10 p.m. Friday, in conjunction with the Main Street Gallery Walk. 1140 Main St., second floor, Downtown. 684-0112.
BASE ART Images Center for Photography’s spring exhibition is a juried show titled Renewal. Opening reception, 6-10 p.m. Friday. Through April 22. Noon4 p.m. Saturdays and by appointment. 1311 Main St., Overthe-Rhine. 491-3865.
★ ONLY ARTISTS On display is a show of paintings, primarily oils on Masonite, by noted contemporary folk artist Hugo Sperger. Opening reception: 6-10 p.m. Friday. Through April 30. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 1315 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-6672.
★ C.A.G.E. Presents Erkei's Salon, an exhibit of local art and music. Opening reception: 6-10 p.m. Friday. $1 optional donation toward C.A.G.E. at the door. Through April 30. Noon-8 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday. 1416 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 381-2437.
LAURA PAUL GALLERY Fresh Paint features original works on canvas by Carol Griffith and Enrico Embroli, functional forms by Lynn Sweet and paint on paper by A. Hall. Through April 30. 10 a.m.4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, or by appointment. Dixie Terminal Arcade, 49 E. Fourth St., Downtown. 651-5885.
★ CLOSSON’S GALLERY KENWOOD Recent Paintings: Art of the Flower displays works by Melinda Bitting. A devoted birder, Bitting is the principle illustrator for a Fieldguide to the Birds of the Philippines, to be published this year by Oxford University Press. Opening reception: 5-8 p.m. Thursday. Through May 12. 10 a.m. 8 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 7866 Montgomery Road, Kenwood. 891-5531.
PENDLETON ART CENTER
Start With Art features life-size papiermach6 figures and dinosaurs, sand art vases, mixed masks, sculptures and dolls by hundreds of public school students, grades 4-12. Opening reception: 5-9 p.m. Friday. Don't forget to check out the eighth floor studios, which will be open 6-10 p.m. for Final Friday. 1310 Pendleton St., Overthe-Rhine. 721-6311.
BEAR GRAPHICS AND ILLUSTRATION GALLERY The Art of the Car features original illustrated automotive art by Bob Woolf, David Skrzelowski, Steve Petrosky, Tom Osborne, Mike Brann, Russ Brandenburg and David Lord. Through May 31. Noon-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday. 105 E. Main St., Mason. 398-2788.
BLEGEN LIBRARY Photo exhibit of University of Cincinnati campus architecture. Noon-10 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 1-10 p.m. Sunday. UC, Clifton. 556-1959.
DIJOHN Displays paintings by Fran Watson and relief sculptures by Larry Watson. Opening reception: 5-8 p.m. Sunday. Through May 31. 742 Madison Ave., Covington. 781-0623.
SEMANTICS GALLERY - 47 highlights recent drawings, paintings and sculpture by David Birckey and Janalyn Glascock. The artists also be will painting the floor of the gallery. Opening reception: 6-10 p.m. Friday. Through April 22. Friday. 1-4 p.m. weekdays, noon-5 p.m. weekends. 1125 Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine. 684-0102.
CAFE ESPRESSO Works by Barb and Neil More. Through March 31. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday. Borders Books and Music, 11711 Princeton Road, Springdale. 671-5852. CAFE ELITE Silk-screen prints and oil paintings by Tom Lohre. Through March 31. 11 a.m.-lO p.m. daily. 364 Ludlow Ave., Clifton. 281-9922.
★ CAFE Z A series of lithographs by April Foster are on display. Twentyfive percent of the proceeds go to AVOC (AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati). Through May 31. 227 W. Ninth St., Downtown. 651-3287.
THE SUN’S EYE Displays jewelry by silversmithing students. Opening reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday. Through April 14. 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. weekdays. 923 Vine St., Downtown. 241-2066.
★ GALLERY AT WELLAGE & BUXTON Small Works On Paper highlights works by Gretchen Andres. Opening reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday. Through April 25. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. 1431 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-9127.
WENTWORTH GALLERY Still Life, featuring the work of Fairchild, Mouly and B. Guy, opens Tuesday. Through April 10. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-7 p.m. Sunday. Kenwood Towne Centre, 7875 Montgomery Road, Kenwood. 791-5023.
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
★ HASSELLE POTTERY AND DESIGN ARTS GALLERY Presents New Work In Clay by Robert Hasselle and Terri Kern. Opening reception: 5-9 p.m. Friday. Through April 30. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 4046 Hamilton Ave., Northside. 541-1171.
ART GALLERIES Women: Rites of Passage runs April 2-May 14. 10 a.m.4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon5 p.m. weekends. Creative Art Center at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. 513-873-2978.
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Galleries & Exhibits
★ CARL SOLWAY GALLERY An exhibition of new interactive sculp-
VERSITY ART GALLERY The Annual Juried Scholarship Competition and Exhibition features sculpture, ceramics, paintings and drawings by current NKU art students. Main Gallery. Through March 31. A Senior Show displays the graphic design work of Dan Edminten and Amy Kennedy. Third Floor Gallery. 9 a.m.9 p.m. weekdays, 1-5 p.m. SaturdaySunday. Fine Arts Building, NKU, Highland Heights. 572-5148. OLMES GALLERY Artists of Disguise displays reinterpretations of works by the Masters by students at Anderson, Indian Hill and Turpin high schools. Through April 7. 11 a.m.6 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.3 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-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.-4 p.m. weekdays, weekendsby appointment. 658 Main St., Downtown. 721-1193.
★ ONLY ARTISTS A new inventory of works by Linvel Barker, Howard Finster, Shirley Lambdin, R.A. Miller, Lonnie and Twyla Money, Mose T. and G.C. DePrie is on display. Metal furniture by master craftsman Joe DeLuco of Cincinnati. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 1315 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-6672.
LAURA PAUL GALLERY Defined Paper features the works of Berringer, Clark, Hall and Hubert. Through March 31.10 a.m.4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, or by appointment. Dixie Terminal Arcade, 49 E. Fourth St., Downtown. 651-5885.
GRETA PETERSON GALERIE Curator Tom Bryant’s Tomar Collection features paintings by Spaniard Evaristo Alguacin, Swede Mona Starfelt, Kentuckian Neil Di Teresa and Cincinnatian Mark Rozic. Also, sculpture by Jeff Johnston, textiles from Sweden, Portugal, Italy and South America. Through April 1. 11 a.m.4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 7696 Camargo Road, Madeira. 561-6785.
★ RAN GALLERY Permanent collection includes works by Potthast, Farny and Meakins. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, noon-7 p.m. TuesdaySaturday. Contact Margaret Singh, 3668 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, OH 45208. 871-5604.
RAYMOND GALLERY Italian landscapes by Jennifer Strange, a young artist from Indianapolis. Through March 31. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m.8 p.m. Monday and Wednesday. 2700 Erie Ave., Hyde Park. 871-7373.
★ ROSEWOOD ARTS CENTRE
GALLERY Dayton Area Works on Paper is a juried exhibition showcasing artists living within a 30-mile radius of Dayton. Through April 7. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. 2655 Olson Drive, Kettering. 513-296-0294.
SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S LCR GALLERY In the Spirit of the Family showcases family memory boxes created by the citizens of Miami Valley. Through April 5.
Only Artists presents a Spring show of paintings by noted contemporary artist Hugo Sperger. Also featuring Joe Deluco Furniture
Join us for Final Friday. March 31, 6-10 p.m.
8 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday,
Taking Clay Seriously
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. 444 W. Third St., Dayton. 513-449-5381
STUDIO SAN GIUSEPPE AT THE COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST.
Hasselle’s vessels and slabs contrast with Kern's structured sculptures
REVIEW BY
JOSEPH Senior Thesis I highlights works by arts seniors in their major areas of concentration. Through April 3. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 1:30-4:30 p.m. weekends. College of Mount St. Joseph, 5701 Delhi Road, Delhi Township. 244-4314.
LARRY WATSON
Within the context of clay as a medium for art, the diversity of forms and approaches to concept are no greater in any medium. This is due to its malleability and manipulative possibilities, increased exponentially by the methods, tools and individuals creating art in clay.
STUDIO 701 Art from the Heart showcases large and small works on canvas and paper by M. Katherine Hurley, winner of a recent Artist’s magazine award. A good look at conservative landscape work. Studio 701 of the Pendleton Art Center, 1310 Pendleton St., Over-the-Rhine. 241-4123.
★ SUB.GRESSIVE
Parasite=Host is an unsettling new installation created by David Opdyke. By appointment through March 31. 1412 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. 421-4221.
THE SUN’S EYE An exhibition of art jewelry in sterling silver and gemstones by V.L. Punkari and J. Gustafson. Through April 30. 11 a.m.5:30 p.m. weekdays. 923 Vine, Downtown. 241-2066.
The exhibit at Hasselle Pottery and Design Arts Gallery of works by Robert Hasselle and Terri Kern, New Work in Clay, is an example of this diversity. Hasselle’s controlled vessel forms and rolled stab platters contrast in method, manipulation and concept with the architectonic/figurative sculptures of Kern’s intimately scaled wall pieces.
Hasselle’s pieces have one of two surface treatments:
THOMAS MORE GALLERY
Thomas More College 1995 Student Exhibition features paintings, drawings, photographs and sculpture. Through April 21. 8 a.m.-9:45 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.4:30 p.m. Friday, noon4 p.m. Saturday, 4-8 p.m. Sunday. Thomas More College Library. 333 Thomas More Parkway, Crestview Hills. 344-3309.
★ TONI BIRCKHEAD GALLERY Recent paintings by Cincinnatian Kim Krause, who teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Through April 14.10 a.m.4 p.m. weekdays, Saturday by appointment. 342 W. Fourth St., Downtown. 241-0212.
TOON ART GALLERIES Disney
Dimensions highlights limited-edition and one-of-a-kind 3-D pieces from raku pottery to collector plates and jewelry. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. By appointment Monday. 21 E. Fifth St., Westin Hotel, Downtown. 651-3500.
A Raku copper matte glaze that relies in large part on the vagaries and serendipity of the reduction process obtained by immersing the red-hot vessels into newspaper or other combustible material; Or, the polychromatic effects of a copper barium glaze.
★ UC CLERMONT COLLEGE ART GALLERY Recent Works by Katherine Hurley, Dianne Loos and Lynda S. Reiner. Through March 31. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays. 4200 Clermont College Drive, UC Clermont College, Batavia. 732-5224.
★ UC HEALTH SCIENCE LIBRARY Melvin Grier’s moving photographic documentary, Not Without Prejudice, his view of the conflict, loss and dislocation experienced by a group of Avondale residents whose homes were demolished and replaced by a Cincinnati Zoo parking lot, stands in contrast to Jymi Bolden’s more cerebral photographic abstractions of the human form. Through April. 14. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 231 Bethesda Ave., Clifton. 558-5627.
The ever-popular copper-matte glaze produces swirls and hot spots of iridescent colors on a background of soft bronze that seems to glow from within the clay. It is used predictably on Hasselle’s conventional vessel forms but is more effective on the textured platters, where it complements the loose fluidity of clay moving around and across the surface. The almost liquid gesture of the handles, enhanced by the copper matte’s fiery pools, alludes to the smoldering wisps of smoke in the firing process.
PATRICIA WEINER GALLERYFeatures 19th and 20th century museum-quality paintings with special interest in Cincinnati artists. 11 a-.m.-
The copper barium glaze more effectively captures the resultant patterns. Flames breathe across the vessels, frozen in eternity when the cool air closes in on the glaze. The blue-green-purple colors are effective on the large complex pieces that combine tight, assembled vessel forms and irregular architectural shapes. The vessel forms are narrow at
is the subject of Painting of the Month, a free gallery talk, at 2 p.m. Sunday. Georges Roualt’s “The Clown” is the subject the Close Inspection Gallery Talk, a
lecture presented by art
students from
and the Art Academy of Cincinnati, at 2 p.m. Saturday. Family Fun Tours are free with museum admission and include, Brushtrokes: Painting, at 1 p.m. Saturday; The Rainbow Connection: Color in Art, at 3 p.m. Saturday; and Art Express: How Artists Work, at 2 p.m. Sunday. $5 adults; $4 students and seniors; children free. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Eden Park. 721-5204. ★ CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER Horizons features the work of Diane Samuels, in particular, the formation of personal alphabets, including a Hebrew prayer/poem that she “translated” into various languages. This installation is accompanied by the sounds of different people reciting the prayer and the alphabet in different languages. Through May 28. In Memory Spaces, Pittsburgh artist Paul Glabicki uses state-of-the-art computer programs while working simultaneously with paintings, drawings, photographic sequences and installation plans to create a continuous architec.tural landscape for the viewer to experience when projected three-dimensionally and viewed through polarized glasses; through April 5. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, ThursdaySaturday. $2 adults; $1 students and seniors; children 12 and under free; free to CAC members; free to all on Mondays. 115 E. Fifth St., Downtown. 345-8400.
MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART MUSE-
UM Carol Summers Woodcuts runs through July 30. Le Corbusier: Unitd features aquatints by the architect which were printed by Atelier Crommelynck in 1963 and 1965. Through Oct. 1. Forever Flowers continues through Oct. 1. Stitched, Woven and Plaited: Contemporary Craft Traditions ofAfrica; through June 11. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySunday. Free. Patterson Ave., Oxford. 513-529-2232.
NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER From Victory to Freedom: AfroAmerican Life in the '50s is permanent exhibition featuring artifacts staged in settings reminiscent of the period. $3.50 adults, $1.50 students.
★ THE TAFT MUSEUM Etchings by Whistler and Zorn features seven 19th century etchings. Through May 28. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Pamela R. Lessing Friedman Collection comprises more than 100
exquisitely decorated snuff bottles dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. Through May 28. 10 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 316 Pike St., Downtown. $3 adults; $1 seniors and students; children 12 and under free. 241-0343.
★ AFRIKAN HERSTORY EXPLOSION ’95 To kick off a new ereative and performing arts center, Creative Uprising Promotional Showcase (CUPS) presents an evening of roots reggae, poetry, R&B, Jazz, Afrikan drum and dance, theater, rap, Hip-Hop and Gospel, plus ethnic fashion show and buffet dinner.
7 p.m. Friday. $10 adults, $5 seniors, $3 children under 12. Freeman Avenue United Church of Christ, 2601 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills. 751-6677.
ALBERT B. SABIN CONVENTION CENTER Midwest Economics Association Midwest Financial Joint Annual Meeting will be held through Sunday. The Undercar Digest/Undercar Expo takes place Friday-Sunday. 525 Elm St., Downtown. 352-3750.
★ ART ATTACKS The indoor festival features the bands Ditchweed, Snaggletooth, Hogscraper, Europa and Joanna Parson with Bingo Bongo. There will also be poets, acoustic musicians, art and short plays.
8 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday. Southgate House, 24 E. Third St., Newport. 887-6557.
CORBUSIER AS PRINTMAKER AND SCULPTOR Jose Oubrerie, chair of Architecture at Ohio State University, lectures on the legendary architect. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Miami University Art Museum, Patterson Ave., Oxford. 513-529-2232.
DOWNTOWN LAWRENCEBURG
STREET FESTIVAL - The Historic Lawrenceburg Business Association launches into spring with a gala festival. On Saturday, there will be an Easter egg hunt for children in the afternoon, and the Cincinnati Zoo will bring baby animals for viewing at 3 p.m. There will be dancing and entertainment throughout the day, culminating in a Country Western Dance 7 p.m.-midnight. There will be entertainment on Sunday, too. Downtown Lawrenceburg, Ind., 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday.
★ FLUSH RUSH AND THE RIGHT
The Central American Task Force, community-based group concerned about U.S. intervention in Central America, is holding a fund-raiser. There will be game booths, including a Jesse Helms Toss, a Bob Dole Bean Bag Toss, the Newt Balloon, a gypsy fortuneteller and the Flush Rush Pinata. 8 fj.m.-midnight. Saturday. $5. First Unitarian Church, Linton and Reading roads, Corryville. 777-6180. GRAND ILLUSION BALL - The Flying Academy of Vintage Dance presents an 1890s Viennese ball with ARKRAP? j
By Eric Overmyer
4/8,13-15,20-22:8p.m. Sun, 4/9 and 4/23: 7p.m. The Carnegie Theater 1028 Scott Street Covington Information: 541-2860
Mature Audiences Only
Supportedby a grantfrom the Projects Pool ofthe Fine Arts Fund
live music by the Fleeting Moments Orchestra. $10 YMCA members; $15 non-members includes refreshments. Period attire is encouraged but not required. 8:30 p.m. Saturday. There will be a workshop 1-4 p.m. Saturday. $6 YMCA members; $8 non-members. 270 Calhoun St., Clifton. 733-3077. HOW TO ANSWER DIFFICULT INTERVIEW QUESTIONS The career-strategy seminar, based on the
Buz Davis plays a young man in Find Me a Voice, which has its world-premiere at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati.
Five O’clock Club Method, takes place 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday. $40. RustLester Center for Change, 8228 Winton Road, Finneytown. 521-2731.
KIDS HELPING KIDS The bene fit for the Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Gabriel’s Corner Summer 1995 arts programming for inner-city youth takes place
MONTE CARLO '95 Thomas More College Alumni Association presents an evening of gambling, with prizes, food, roulette, craps, black jack, door prizes and an auction. 7 p.m. Saturday. TMC Convocation Center, 333 Thomas More Parkway, Crestview Hills. 344-3344.
★ PLANTING THE FUTURE
Yaffa Eliach, CBS-TV Woman of the Year and creator of the Tower of Life at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, speaks at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati’s special event, designed to coincide with the premiere of ETC’s Holocaust drama Find Me A Voice. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. $5 students; $20 adults. Adath Israel Synagogue, Ridge and Galbraith roads. Pleasant Ridge. 421-3555.
PROKIDS BENEFIT The evening will begin with cocktails, hor d’oeuvres and a silent auction, followed by a live auction featuring the works of Jim Borgman, Tom Bacher, Frank McElwain, C.F. Payne and Gilbert Young. The proceeds will benefit ProKids, a non-profit legal advocacy agency serving abused and neglected children in the Hamilton County juvenile court system. 7 p.m. Friday. $30. Verdin Bell Co., 444 Reading Road, Over-the-Rhine. 421-4080.
★ RED, WHITE AND QUEER Miami University’s Gay and Lesbian Bisexual Alliance is celebrating its annual Awareness Week. Guin Turner, star of the film Go Fish, will discuss “Performing the Lesbian Act in the Media Circuit.” 8 p.m. Monday. 1 Upham Hall. Art Jimpson will lead a discussion on “Hate Crimes: Victims and Offenders.” 7 p.m. Tuesday. Bishop Hall Living Room. On Wednesday, Vicki Smith presents a lecture on "Lesbian Pulp Fiction” after the 5 p.m. viewing of the film Forbidden Love in 1 Upham Hall. Ave., Oxford. 513-529-2232.
★ THANK VAN GOGH IT’S FRIDAY The art museum’s monthly bash starts at 5:30 p.m. Friday. $6 general, $4 members. Cincinnati Art Museum, Eden Park. 721-5204. THE VIOLET VORTEX The New Age fair, with astrologers, numerologists, tarot readers and the like, takes place 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday. $5, or $4 if you bring a can of food. Fair Oaks Plaza II, 5975 Boymel Drive, Fairfield.
SANDY UNDERWOOD
and inlaid floors presents Cincinnati at the Turn of the Century, a postcard exhibit. The exhibit runs through the fall. 10 a.m.4 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m.3 p.m. Friday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. $2 adults; $1 seniors; $.50 children. 812 Dayton St., West End. 721-3570.
★ KROHN CONSERVATORY Lilies, hydrangeas, mini roses, snapdragons, lilacs, azaleas and chrysanthemums are on display at Cincinnati's flower house for the annual spring floral show. Through April 30. Krohn’s rain forest expert Jeff Kapela presentsAmazonian Region, Plants and People. Boxed dinners will be served by Ulysses Restaurant with music by Lee Rolfes. 7 p.m.
Tuesday. 1501 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park. 421-5707.
MIMOSA MANSION Built in 1853-55 as a Tuscan villa featuring 1850s laminated Rococo Revival furniture and an exceptional collection of early lighting devices. The house also features two player grand pianos: a Mason and Hamlin and a Chickering. 1-6 p.m. weekends. Group tours available by appointment. $4. 412 E. Second St., Covington. 261-9000.
PROMONT Completed in 1867, this Italianate villa belonged to former Ohio Gov. John M. Pattison. All rooms are furnished with period antiques. 1:30-4:30 p.m. Friday and Sunday. $2 adults; $1 children; group tours MORE, PAGE 28 THE ONLY SLICE OF NEWYORKYOU'LL FIND
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Ice Fishing
Or, fear and loathing ofwhat’s in thefreezer
made it. After a winter of threats of being dragged ice fishing, I made it out alive. Surely by now the Great Lakes have thawed. Right? (Please say yes.) The thought of more than 12 minutes in a small shack on top of a sheet of ice with holes in it, just makes me a little uneasy. (Heck, I got nervous ice-skating on the Reflecting Pool in Eden Park, and the water is only 6 inches deep.)
Of course, for those of you still itching for the opportunity to get your mitts on some frozen fish, there’s an ample supply. Get your gloves out and go to the groeery.
Yes, there’s always an abundance of fish sticks.
Perhaps you’ve even eaten these delicacies from the sea a meal when served with cole slaw, mounds of tartar sauce and some other form of ready-to-pour-from-a-can food product.
OK, let’s be honest: As far as greasy, breaded, preprocessed, ice-coated foodstuffs go, fish sticks don’t even rank up there with Tater-Tots. I know, we all remember eating them as kids, and somehow back then, we actually liked them. But now, like Apple Jacks, Captain Crunch and Boo Berry (all of which I have tried again in the past few months), fish sticks just don’t taste the same especially when you’re the one paying for them.
Pass the tartar sauce
Primarily, fish sticks are made of pieces of fish, wrapped in a starch-based batter and deep-fried, then frozen. The fish is mostly cod or haddock, a cheap, light fish with a barely discernible fish flavor.
For your convenience or humor, whichever comes first, I tested seven kinds of fish sticks. Only one stood out as edible.
Kroger’s Fish Sticks: As much as I hate to say it, Kroger’s fish sticks were the best. With a good fish taste, light on the breading, and actual pieces of fish instead of fish-pieces parts, they were undeniably the best of the worst. Low on grease and high on taste, they far outranked the competition.
Gorton’s Mini Fish Sticks: Really, these weren’t that bad. I couldn’t see any fish-pieces parts, but these fish sticks had a distinct fish flavor. I guess Gorton’s cuts the pieces in relation to the size of the stick; unfortunately, I didn’t have a microscope handy to check it out.
Gorton’s Crunchy Fish Sticks: Noticeably lacking any fish flavor at all, these were not bad if you like croutons. For those who may enjoy fried breading, these would be the ones to choose.
Gorton’s Potato Coated Fish Sticks: While certainly not as greasy as other brands, it was really difficult to find the fish. The potato coating was overbearing. Once I found the fish, it was difficult to taste. Overall, these fish sticks tasted more like french fries cooked in cod liver oil.
Mrs. Paul’s Fish Sticks: Normally, Mrs. Paul’s would be the fish product of choice in a desperate situation like having a dolphin with a penchant for oil-based products over for dinner. However, these fish sticks took eat-
ing to a new low. Looked CityBeat won’t print Van do Kamp’s Fish these had a fish flavor. ly found discernible fish amount of coating detracted feel in one’s mouth. (For thing.) Basically, these fish flavored batter sticks.
Schooner’s Fish think from the Styrofoam freshly filleted fish, that better taste. No such fish and looked like fish, like breading. Another gory, but a loser in the
You don’t have to dig through feet of ice to catch
OK on calories, higher in fat
For the fat-conscious: contained a minimum Kroger’s Fish Sticks, percentage to calories, with a calorie count meaning that roughly to fat. The Schooner’s
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SHARON WOODS VILLAGEGuided tours of eight restored and furnished 19th century homes. 1-5 p.m. weekends. $5 adults; $3 seniors; $2 children 6-12; free to children 6 and under. Sharon Woods Park, Route 42, Sharonville. 563-9484.
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STAR OF CINCINNATI Featuring lunch, dinner, weekend and brunch cruises that depart from Star Landing at 15 Mehring Way, Downtown. 723-0100.
WARREN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM - Features artifacts from 1790 to the present, including Shaker and Victorian furniture and an extensive collection of paleontological and archaeological artifacts. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. TuesdaySaturday. 105 S. Broadway, Lebanon. $3 adults, $1 students. 932-1817.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE -
Designated by Congress in 1969, this Greek Revival-style house has been restored to its appearance during the years Taft lived here as a child and young adult, and serves as the only memorial to the nation’s 27th president and 10th chief justice. Free. 2038 Auburn Ave., Mount Auburn. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Closed Monday. 684-3262
has been published in The Ohio Journal, Wind Literary Magazine and Gambit. After their readings, there will be an open mic poetry reading. 8 p.m. Wednesday. York Street International Cafe, 738 York, Newport. 261-9675.
LYNN HUGO DECOURCEY - The author of The Time Change and A Progress of Miracles reads from both her fiction and poetry, which has been published in numerous journals including Black Buzzard Review and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Gathering House, 100 S. College Drive, Oxford. 513-523-4284.
RICK SOWASH The humorist and author of Ripsnorting Whoppers reads from his book. 7-8:30 p.m. Saturday. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
DANA STABENOW The Edgar award-winning author of Play With Fire signs copies. 2-3:30 p.m. Sunday. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
★ GEORGE SUBIRA The author of Black Folk’s Guide to making Big Money in American signs his book. 1 p.m. Sunday. Artistic Apparel, Swifton Commons Mall, 7030 Reading Road, Roselawn. 351-2787.
TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE
Author Linda Lyons, well-versed in the fundamental mechanics of how to deal with publishers^ conducts a spiritual workshop for fellow writers. 9:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday. $30 includes lunch. St. Francis Center for Peace and Renewal, 10290 Mill Road, New Burlington. 825-9300.
Groups
BOONE COUNTY WRITERS GROUP Meets at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month at the Gathering House, Florence Nature Park, U.S. 42, Florence. 371-5491.
Readings, Signings & Events
FATHER MURRAY BODO
Thomas More College's writer-in-residence and author of The Almond Tree Speaks, reads from his book and signs autographs. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Science Lecture Hall, Thomas More College, 333 Thomas More Parkway, Crestview Hills. 344-3309.
DON BOGEN POETRY READING
UC’s Creative Writing and English professor reads from his works. Bogen has been awarded an NEA grant for his poetry and has been published in The New Republic, The Paris Review and The Nation. 7 p.m. Thursday. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
CINCINNATI PLAYWRIGHTS Critique group for playwrights meets at 7 p.m. every Monday at the Carnegie Arts Center, Robbins and Scott streets, Covington. 556-3914.
CINCINNATI WRITERS PROJECT FICTION CRITIQUE GROUPMeets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Arnold’s Bar & Grill, 210 E. Eighth St., Downtown. 441-5573.
LET’S TALK ABOUT HUMOR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE The Campbell County Public Library continues its reading series with a discussion of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. A free sandwich supper sponsored by the Friends of the Library will be provided at 5:30 p.m. Monday. 3920 Alexandria Pike, Cold Spring. Reservations: 781-6166.
MURDER AND MAYHEM The mystery book group is reading Carl Hiaasen’s Striptease. It meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month. Little Professor Book Center, 814 Main St., Milford. 248-BOOK.
CINCINNATI ARGENTINE SOCIETY Offers authentic Argentine every Thursday. University YMCA, Clifton. 631-6215.
CINCINNATI BALLET classes for adults Ballet Class Session 7:15-8:45 p.m. $10 per class. 100 Parkway, Over-the-Rhine.
CINCINNATI NATURE Jonathan Hart takes step through the 7:30-9:30 p.m. continues March Road, Milford. Call prices.
CITIZENSHIP Travelers Aid International its citizenship classes. group also offers eign born, immigration application assistance, and photos. 707 Downtown. 721-7660.
CIVIC GARDEN
GREATER CINCINNATI garden variety of Reading Road, Avondale. 221-0981 for information.
CONSUMER CREDIT ING SERVICE A weekly Money begins 6:30
★ SUSAN BORDO The author of the 1993 Pulitzer-nominated book, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and The Body, which was named one of the Notable Books of 1993 by The New York Times, discusses cultural preoccupations with the body in a series of four lectures. The first, “The Feminist as Other," starts at noon Monday in Room 402 of Tangeman University Center. The second, "Minding the Body:
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USA, Old Spice Tournament of Champions, Tall Stacks Tom Sawyerville, Sunkist/A&W Scare Fest and Honda Starlight Celebration. Call Audrey Bell at 352-4606 by June 3.
EARTH GIVING Area artists Carrie Pate, Cheryl Pannabecker and Gerry Moll initiated the project, which consists of a series of mound shapes and a dishlike depression to be planted in Burnet Woods with native prairie plants this spring. Volunteers are needed to help cover the mounds with topsoil 1 p.m. Thursday and Saturday. Donations and assistance in raising the seedlings also are needed. 681-4192 or 896-7162.
FIFTH THIRD BANK ART ON THE SQUARE Volunteers 16 and are needed for the May 19-21 celebration of the city's artistic heritage. Volunteers will receive free admission and a free
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the naturalist staff. Call Nancy Hemmer at 521-PARK. OHIO ARTS COUNCIL The OAC is accepting applications for its programs in Art in Public Places, Design and Presenting/Touring through April 15. A one-time-only Art Student Scholarship is open to Ohio high school seniors who plan to continue their arts training. Finalists receive $1,000 to be used at the Ohio college or university of their choice. Apply by April 15. Applications for the LongTerm Assistance Program, a grant that helps minority arts organizations, should be submitted by May 1. 614-466-2613. The Ohio artists who receive NEA grants will be supported by the Ohio Arts Council’s International Program, which provides as much as $5,000 to eligible Ohio arts organizations and as much as $2,000 to Ohio artists and performers. The deadline is May 15 for projects beginning Nov. 1. For collaborative projects, residencies should call Silvio Lim at 202-682-5422. Artists and performing artists should contact Pennie Ojeda at 202-682-5422.
PEPSI JAMMIN’ ON MAIN The May 12-13 festival, designed to showcase Cincinnati’s diverse musical heritage, is looking for volunteers 16 and older. Volunteers will receive free admission to the festival and a free commemorative T-shirt. 744-8820.
STREET PERFORMERS The Downtown Council has scheduled auditions for jesters, jugglers, magidans, mimes and musicians 5-9 p.m. Monday. Each performer has been allotted a 10-minute time slot.
Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Suite 300 of the Carew Tower, Downtown. Call 562-8473 to reserve a time slot.
VOICES AND VISIONS OF URBAN YOUTH Seeks to provide young visual artists, photographers, videographers and filmmakers access to workshops, training and production.
Filmmakers Spike Lee, Marcus Turner and Hark Bohm will judge the entrants'- completed work based on experience, track record, technical capacity and overall thematic development of original media projects. The work should challenge the policies and politics of cultural representation, supersede the negative, commercialized and stereotypical images of youth and expand the margins and assumptions constructed around “minority imagery." The artist application deadline is June 1. The film and video deadline is Sept. 1. The visual art deadline is Sept. 15. The conference will take place Sept. 22-Oct. 1. Call 721-2777 for applications. 1995 APPALACHIAN FESTIVAL The May 12-14 festival at Coney Island, which
Traitors at the Gate
Revealed as one of ‘Heavenly Creatures' girls, mystery writer Anne Perry endures appalling months of book tour
INTERVIEW BY BILLIE JEYES
In July 1994, the news broke. A New Zealand newspaper, The Sunday News, reported that worldfamous mystery writer Anne Perry was in fact Juliet Hulme, who on June 22, 1954, together with her friend Pauline Parker had murdered Pauline’s mother, Honora Parker.
The revelation was compounded by the release of Miramax’s Heavenly Creatures, a movie based on the events surrounding the murder.
Says Perry, who is on the last leg of her U.S. publicity tour for her latest mystery, Traitor’s Gate: “It’s been an appalling seven or eight months. I can’t think that anybody would want the worst time of their lives being dug up and spread all over the place. Either I say yes, or I lie. If you run away from it, it just gets worse. It’s a case of coming out and facing it.”
“If there was anybody I’d felt I could tell, I would have. My father lost his job, and my parents were coping with their own distress.”
ANNE PERRY, ON HER FRIEND PAULINE’S PLAN TO KILL PAULINE’S MOTHER
Perry, bom in England, had been a sickly child, suffering from chest complications made worse by the harsh English winters.
She was sent abroad to recuperate, and, after spending time in the Bahamas with a foster family, she moved to New Zealand, where her parents eventually joined her. It was there that she met Pauline.
They became very close friends, made closer by the fact that Perry’s parents were having marital problems. Her mother left New Zealand with her lover, Bill Perry, leaving the 15-year-old alone with her father and brother. Matters became worse when her father lost his job as president of Christchurch University. He decided to return to England with what was left of his family. The two young friends were so devastated at the idea of being separated that Perry’s father offered to take Pauline back with them.
Pauline’s mother, however, balked at the idea, and so Pauline came up with the murderous plan.
“It was her idea,” Perry says. “She felt it was the only thing to do. I hardly knew the woman. Pauline wanted to come back to England with us, but her mother, naturally, said no. She was ill, throwing up after every meal, her face breaking out. She desperately wanted to come with us.
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Onstage ■ Suburban Torture
ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI Mark Mocahbee directs Suzanne and Gabor Barabas’ Holocaust drama, Find Me A Voice.
8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Through April 16. $20 adults; $15 students and seniors. 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. 421-3555 or 721-1000.
THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT
The local theater group previews the 1995-96 season with a sampling from Talley's Folly. 8-9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
FOREST VIEW GARDENS Phantom runs through April 2. Reservations required. ThursdaySunday. 4508 North Bend Road, Monfort Heights. 661-6434.
★ MARIEMONT PLAYERS David Edwards directs the American premiere of Ranjit Bolt's adaptation of Lysistrata, Aristophanes’ bawdy, antiwar comedy. The cast features Teresa Ripple in the title role with Bill Keeton the Magistrate. Also, look for former Monkeytimer Scott Levy as Kineseas. Through April 8. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday. $10. Walton Creek Theatre, Muchmore Road, Mariemont. 684-1236.
MIAMI VALLEY DINNER THEATRE Gypsy, the musical based on the life of Gypsy Rose Lee, runs through April 29. $26.95-$34.95. Route 73, Springboro. 513-746-4554.
RUINS A performance with marionettes, puppets and shadowpuppets, referred to as “object theater" by ereator Mark Fox. Performers include Gretchen Andres, Jennifer Case, Laura Hess and Anthony Luensman. 8 p.m. Saturday and Wednesday. Through April 21. $5. 2827 Massachusetts Ave., Camp Washington. 651-2346. SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS Presents Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. $3-$8. Black Box Theatre, 1310 Sycamore St., Over-the-Rhine. 632-5910.
STAGECRAFTERS Berni Shayne directs Enter Laughing, a comedy by Fiddler on the Roof author Joseph Stein. 8 p.m. Wednesday and April 6, 9 p.m. April 8 and 7 p.m. April 9. $7. Jewish Community Center, 580 Summit Road, Roselawn. 351-1234.
Classical Music
★ CINCINNATI MEN’S CHORUS Presents its annual spring concert, The Music Is You, with special guests, The Four-Sided-Triangle, a North Carolina-based quartet. The CMC also will premiere The Canterville Ghost, based on a short story by Oscar Wilde. 8 p.m. Saturday. $12; $25 box seats. Memorial Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. 749-4949.
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Virtuoso clarinetist Richard Stoltzman joins Jesus Lopez-
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8 p.m. April 14, 2 and 8 p.m. April 15. $9-$48. Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. 749-4949.
BROADWAY SERIES Presents Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, April 18-23. 8 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. $41-$46. Taft Theatre, Fifth and Sycamore streets, Downtown. 749-4949.
Events
PAUL J. BERGMAN The invest ment adviser discusses “Money Management.” 7-8:30 p.m. April 13. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
Literary
TONI SCIARRA POYNTER The Cincinnati native and author of From This Day Forward: Meditations on the First Years of Marriage conducts a workshop for brides and grooms. 7-8:30 p.m. April 6. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
★ JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN As part of UC's Distinguished AfricanAmerican Lecture Series, the renowned historian and author of From Slavery To Freedom, will deliver keynote address "Plantation Dissidence and Runaway Slaves."
4 p.m. April 7. Room 112, Lindner Hall, University of Cincinnati, Clifton. 556-1824.
★ JONATHAN VALIN The Cincinnati author makes a rare appearance to autograph his latest Harry Stoner novel. Missing. 7-8:30 p.m. April 7. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
Cobos as he conducts. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. $10-$40. The CSO has lined up an impressive array of performers for its Centennial Gala Concert. Jesus L6pez-Cobos, Michael Gielen, Erich Kunzel and Keith Lockhart will conduct. $37.50-$125. 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Music Hall, 1240 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. 381-3300.
COLLEGE-CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC The percussion group performs John Cage’s Music for Three and Charles Wourinen’s Percussion Quartet. 8 p.m. Tuesday. Pianist James Tocco and cellist Yehuda Hanani perform the five Beethoven sonatas for cello and piano. 8 p.m. Wednesday. ...$10 adults, $5 seniors and free to UC students. Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati, Clifton. 556-4183.
L’AMITIE PIANO TRIO The all female trio has Henrietta Nance on viola, Sylvia Jo Plyler on piano with lyric coloratura soprano Karen Peeler. The program offers an eclectic mix of new compositions and more traditional music including Bright Sheng’s Three Chinese Love Songs, Alan Smith’s Four Irish Folk Songs and Federico Mompou's Combat del Somni. 8 p.m. Friday. Free. Greaves Concert Hall, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights. 572-5433.
Dance
★ CONTEMPORARY DANCE
THEATER Continues its 1994-95 Concert Series with a presentation of the Cleveland Ballet’s Dancing Wheels, a dance company made up of highly skilled professional dancers with and without disabilities. 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. $12 adults;
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PERRY: FROM PAGE 29
and evil is important; eternal growth as opposed to innocence in a state of ignorance. We don’t baptize babies. We don’t believe that they are born in sin. The age of accountability,” she says, perhaps aware of the irony, “is at about 8 years old.”
She is against the death penalty, saying: “I would give everybody the room to repent. Too often we make mistakes we don’t understand. I don’t care to set myself or anybody else up as judge.”
When her father offered to buy her a cottage in Suffolk, she moved back to England, realizing that she would have more time to write. Perry had been writing historical novels but was having a hard time getting them published. In desperation, she wrote a Victorian mystery.
Her break finally came when her next-door neighbor, a writer, set her up with an agent.
In 1979, she sold The Cater Street Hangman (St. Martin’s Press) for about $3,500. Since then, she has changed publishers and now has a contract of $1 million for eight books.
She is very happy with her present publisher, Ballantine, and says the people there have been wonderful to her throughout her recent publicity ordeal.
“They told me that if I didn’t want to come, I didn’t have to and that if it got to be too much, I could come home at any time.”
She refuses, however, to say anything about the movie, explaining that Miramax would just use it against her for publicity.
$8 students and seniors. Dance Hall, Vine Street and East Daniels. 751-2800. Select-A-Seat; 721-1000.
★ JUNE STEPHENSON The author of Men Aren’t Cost Effective visits The Crazy Ladies Book Store. 7 p.m. April 7. 4041 Hamilton Ave., Northside. 541-4198.
★ DENIS WAITLEY - The best selling business author signs copies of Empires of the Mind: Lessons To Lead and Succeed in a KnowledgeBased World. 7:30-8:30 p.m. April 11. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood Pavilion, Madison and Edwards roads, Norwood. 396-8960.
Comedy
GO BANANAS Phil Van T. and Doc Barham through Sunday. Vic Henley opens Wednesday. 8:30 and 10:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. $5 weekdays, $7 weekends. 8410 Market Place, Montgomery. 984-9288.
★ BETTY FRIEDAN Groundbreaking feminist author will lecture on “Women's Rites of Passage: Telling the Story.” 7 p.m. April 9. University Art Galleries, University of Dayton. 513-873-2978.
Sports
CINCINNATI CHEETAHS USISL professional soccer vs. Ohio River Club. 7:30 p.m. April 8; Detroit, 6:30 p.m. April 23; Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. April 30. $7.50 adults; $3.75 12 and under. Deer Park High School, 8351 Plainfield Road, Deer Park. 985-3985.
WARREN COUNTY ROAD RACE The 1995 Tri-State Spring Training Series for cyclists continues. The course is a 7-mile loop with big rollers. A: nine laps; B: six laps; C: three laps. All races begin consecutively at 10 a.m. April 9. Butlersville Elementary School, Route 132, Butlersville. 677-PELO.
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the day, taking on the warmth and character from its occupants. Kern’s textures are initially harsh brick textures and scraped clay but they are round and take on an aspect of magnified skin cells, adding to the biomorphic nature of the sculptures.
This skin/cell/brick surface is continued on the figurative pieces, faces sculpted in brick, the lines of “mortar” appearing as wrinkles. The textures are punctuated with smooth lips and rough hair, subtly complementing the composition. Despite the solidity of the brick texture, the sculptures’ silhouettes on the wall possess a living organic feel.
Another group of work combines architecture and the figure by implication. These pieces are open structures with the interior protected but visible to the viewer like ancient shrines, containing a tiny chair with a small bird perched on the seat. It leaves one with the sense of a figure occupying the space almost constantly but just not while we’re looking.
The use of color in Kern’s work is subtle and strong. Her palette reflects the emotive qualities of each piece, accentuating the serenity or whimsy as appropriate. She sometimes uses a soft patina of aging jade, other times opting for a polychromatic palette cut with a surreal edge. Using combinations of underglazes, acrylic and metallic paints, the colors complement without overpowering the dimensions of the sculptures and their emotional content.
CINCINNATI OPERA OUTREACH
Performs Cheering Up Princess. 7 p.m. April 6. Westwood Branch Library, 3345 Epworth Ave., Westwood. Free, but tickets should be picked up in advance. 369-4474.
★ SHAWN WOMACK DANCE
UC BEARCATS Great Midwest Conference Baseball vs. Louisville, 7 p.m. April 12; Wilmington, 2 p.m. April 13; Thomas More, 7 p.m. April 14; lUPU-Indianapolis, noon April 15; NKU, 7 p.m. April 17. Free. Johnny Bench Field, UC Campus, Clifton. Great Midwest Conference Men’s Tennis vs. Louisville, 2 p.m. April 12. Free. Chambers Courts, UC Campus, Clifton. Men’s Track vs. Miami, Findlay, Kentucky State, Rio Grande and Berea. Noon April 15; Ball State, noon May 6. Free Meyer’s Field, UC Campus, Clifton. 556-CATS.
PROJECTS —UC Clermont College hosts a Community Arts Benefit Performance with two dance pieces: Fireworks and Party for Two. 7:30 p.m. April 8. $7 adults; $5 students. Krueger Auditorium, Clermont
Kern has a facility and intimacy with her medium that allows a viewer to immediately identify with the sculptures, regardless of the emotional or psychological source of the forms. There is an indomitable spirit embodied in her work that bursts forth as irresistibly as the seemingly fragile bird’s beak through the brick walls of her sculpture.
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MASSAGE THERAPY Licensed massage therapist specializing in stress management, relaxation, and injury. House calls and gift certificates available. Flexible hours. Strictly non-sexual. Oakley area. Sherry Meinhardt. L.M.T. 731-0490.
METAPHYSICAL MEETING Come enjoy unique crystal bowls concert by Doris Beierle at the Northern Kentucky Metaphysical meeting Thursday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. Held at the Edgewood Public Works Building, Edgewood, Kentucky. For more information, call 341-7447.
OLYMPUS GYM 6 month membership, includes training, vitamin supplements, exercise & nutrition manual, and more. Only $150. Olympus gym, 128 East 6th St., 651-9114.
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PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT
Beginning Wednesday, April 12, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., join Krista Hanson in a unique ten week Psychic Development class at the Mt. Auburn Community Center. Topics will include application of psychic energy, meditation techniques, introduction to psychic tools, and personal symbolism and dream interpretation. Class size is limited. Call to register or for more information, 381-1760.
PSYCHIC READINGS & MORE
Experience the energy! Victory Books is a metaphysical emporium at 609 Main Street, Covington. Featuring new and used books. New Age cassettes and CDs, incense, oils, tarot cards, jewelry, crystals, and much more. Psychic, tarot, and astrological readings by appointment. Open daily. Call for information, 581-5839.
READINGS
Norita Ruehl, spiritual advisor and professional reader, offers private or group readings. Receive the answers to specific questions and personal concerns. Hostess Plan is available is available with a group of ten. All information is strictly confidential. Call 606-441-0908.
STRESS THERAPIST/ HYPNOTHERAPIST
Ron Scanlon, Certified Stress Therapist/ Hypnotherapist, uses Relaxation, Emotional Clearing, and Muscle Tension Release to balance the body, heart, and spirit. Understand and let go of everyday aches and pains. 1-513-298-4939.
THE BODY MALL
Understand yourself and those you love better. Professional astrologer Jeri Boone offers counseling through the art of astrology and numerology. Or join Jeri and Beverly Boone, both licensed massage therapists, as they offer therapeutic massage, Swedish massage, cranial sacral, body reflexology, polarity therapy, and accupressure. The Body Mall has a fully trained professional staff, and offers study groups, development workshops, children's classes, and many alternative methods of caring for yourself. 3519 Glenmore Avenue, 662-5121.
THE GIFT OF PEACE
We are looking for three offices with at least four people to participate in our own survey. We come to your office and do a 10 or 15 minute chair massage. What is a chair massage, you may ask. It is a seated massage which relieves mental and physical stress by calming your nervous systern, releasing tight and painful muscles, and increasing circulation. If you feel your office could benefit from this, please submit your name and number, and indicate how many peopie will be participating. Inner Peace Massage, located at 3907 Harrison Avenue, in Cheviot- only minutes from downtown. Call 661-0302.
THERAPEUTIC BODYWORK Bodywork is individualized and includes Massage-Swedish, Deep tissue, and Amma; Acupressure-jinshindo: Energy Work- Reiki, Therapeutic Touch: and Integrative Bodywork. Kirk Prine, Ed.D., C.M.T., by appointment only. 431-3112.
VIRAL LOAD REDUCTION PROGRAM
HIV/STD Viral Load Reduction Program. Send $10 and selfaddressed, stamped envelope to: P.O. Box 30350, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45230-0350.
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.
Classes/Lessons
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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.
MATH Does your fear of math affect your business dealings? Do you wish you had a better grasp on basic math? Do you want to prepare for the GMAT/GRE without spending hundreds of dollars? Joseph Speier offers customized individual and group tutoring for people who want to hone their math skills. For more information, call 481-1828.
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Master photographer Robin Victor Goetz will be conducting Basic and Advance photography workshops. Basic classes start April 11 and Advance classes start April 13. Classes run 1 night a week for 10 weeks, with certificate upon completion. Spaces are limited. Call now for more information. Don’t be left out of the dark! 721-4504.
Computer Bytes
ELECTRONIC SUPERHIGHWAY
Internet is your access to world resources. Internet Access Cincinnati is offering a 3 1/2 hour workshop combining lectures with live demonstrations to take you into the wonderful world of the Internet, for beginner and experienced computer users. Held at Finneytown High School Auditorium, 8916 Fountainbleux Terrace (off Winton Rd.), Tuesday, April 11 & Monday, April 24 from 6:30 - 10:00 p.m. For information & pre-registration, call 333-8833.
USED IBM COMPUTERS
Do you want a computer but don’t want to spend thousands on a brand new system? I have used computers that will meet your needs. All are IBM compatible XT’s, 8088’s, 286’s, all under $600- several as low as $100! also have faxes, tape back-ups, modems mouse, printers, CAD printers for $750, and laser printers. If you have any questions, please call me. Remember- don’t buy a computer that's new until you see what mine can do! Call Kevin Birchfield and leave a message, 723-9304.
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ASTROLOGY/ TAROT
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THE MOVIES
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Contemporary Folk Art Gallery presents paintings by HUGO SPERGER Join us for Final Friday, March 31, 6-10 p.m. 1315 Main St, Over-the-Rhine
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