CityBeat's Rick Pender reports on the good review the Performance Gallery's IndyFringe performance of Fricative received. The show is a provocative Dadaesque use of vocalisation that played CincyFringe in 2008. Here was my Review on TheConveyor.com.
Also getting some attention for the upcoming Chicago Fringe is Pones Inc whose production The Four Food Groups was the featured photo for this UpChicago Fringe article.
Chicago Fringe also features the amazing Artemis Exchange show Aberrant Reflections on the Barbarism of You & I.
If you happen to be in Chicago over the next week and a half, see both shows, they both were Conveyor.com award winners and are rousing fun.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Bigotry Wins a Battle in a Local Catholic High School
It is sad, but not a surprise that the Cincinnati Archdiocese bowed to local and national pressure from anti-Muslim groups and parents. Archbishop Dennis Schnurr cancelled a potluck dinner at Mother of Mercy High School in Westwood between students and local Muslims. The dinner was to be Ramadan meal and was meant as a way for students to learn about and meet local Muslims in hopes to better understanding the religion and the people who practice it. Instead, the event at the school was cancelled and a different Catholic group in University Heights will hold the event, without the school's involvement.
Teaching that bigotry wins is the result of this incident. That will create more bigotry. What is worse is that some parents, like Kelly Jennings, are teaching bigotry directly by acting to prevent this event. I just don't understand the fear and ignorance of fools like Jennings. They appear to live in bubble, with just a single tube of information flowing in and scared stiff that adding more sources will pop their mythical safety net. This lingering bigotry is so foolish, yet so hard to break.
Teaching that bigotry wins is the result of this incident. That will create more bigotry. What is worse is that some parents, like Kelly Jennings, are teaching bigotry directly by acting to prevent this event. I just don't understand the fear and ignorance of fools like Jennings. They appear to live in bubble, with just a single tube of information flowing in and scared stiff that adding more sources will pop their mythical safety net. This lingering bigotry is so foolish, yet so hard to break.
Where Is the Conservatives' Budget Plan?
Leslie Ghiz said there was going to be a budget plan, but we still haven't gotten word of one. We get more grandstanding and pandering by the Conservatives on Cincinnati City Council, but no plan. It is a pathetic game. Promise not to fire police officers, but refuse to document and detail whose jobs would be cut is all we get.
Let's be clear, jobs will have to be cut based on current State cuts and the continued low revenue projections. The Conservatives (mostly Republican) on council have the majority and have the responsibility to state before the election what they would cut.
We're not going to get much more than promises made to score endorsements and votes. Elections don't breed honesty, they are about saying what your voting base wants to hear.
Let's be clear, jobs will have to be cut based on current State cuts and the continued low revenue projections. The Conservatives (mostly Republican) on council have the majority and have the responsibility to state before the election what they would cut.
We're not going to get much more than promises made to score endorsements and votes. Elections don't breed honesty, they are about saying what your voting base wants to hear.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Check Out Some Great Aerial Photos of Cincinnati
Check out some great aerial photographs of Cincinnati, including Downtown, the Rverfront, and Kings Island, from QueenCityDiscovery.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Here They Are: AMERICA'S MERCURY ASTRONAUTS!
There are a few Cincinnati City Council candidates who need their signatures verified, but everything's been turned in and the list of candidates for the ride of a lifetime are as follows:
Incumbents:
Chris Bortz (C)
Leslie Ghiz (R)
Wayne Lippert Jr. (R)
Amy Murray (R)
Roxanne Qualls (C/D)
Laure Quinlivan (D)
Cecil Thomas (D)
Charlie Winburn (R)
Wendell Young (D)
Previous Candidates:
Kevin Flynn (C)
Nicholas Hollan (D)
Christopher Smitherman (I)
New Candidates:
Jacqueline Allen (I) *
Mike Allen (I)
Kathy Atkinson (I)
Patricia McCollum (I)
Sandra Queen Noble (I)
Jason Riveiro (D)
Chris Seelbach (D)
Yvette Simpson (C/D)
P.G. Sittenfeld (D)
Catherine Smith Mills (R)
Write in Candidate:
Orlando Welborn
More from CityBeat and the Enquirer.
*Please note that CityBeat and the Enquirer have slightly different lists. CityBeat includes Jacqueline Allen, the Enquirer does not. CityBeat indicated J. Allen had turned in enough signatures, but was among those waiting for the signatures to be verified. I am not aware that the verification were completed.
Incumbents:
Chris Bortz (C)
Leslie Ghiz (R)
Wayne Lippert Jr. (R)
Amy Murray (R)
Roxanne Qualls (C/D)
Laure Quinlivan (D)
Cecil Thomas (D)
Charlie Winburn (R)
Wendell Young (D)
Previous Candidates:
Kevin Flynn (C)
Nicholas Hollan (D)
Christopher Smitherman (I)
New Candidates:
Jacqueline Allen (I) *
Mike Allen (I)
Kathy Atkinson (I)
Patricia McCollum (I)
Sandra Queen Noble (I)
Jason Riveiro (D)
Chris Seelbach (D)
Yvette Simpson (C/D)
P.G. Sittenfeld (D)
Catherine Smith Mills (R)
Write in Candidate:
Orlando Welborn
More from CityBeat and the Enquirer.
*Please note that CityBeat and the Enquirer have slightly different lists. CityBeat includes Jacqueline Allen, the Enquirer does not. CityBeat indicated J. Allen had turned in enough signatures, but was among those waiting for the signatures to be verified. I am not aware that the verification were completed.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Help the Streetcar and All Rail Projects: Cincinnatians For Progress Fundraiser - Tonight!
Cincinnatians For Progress is holding a fundraiser tonight,Thursday August 25th, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at The Blue Wisp, 318 E. 8th St.
There will be music by Dave Hawkins. There will be door prizes from Milton's, Iris Bookcafe, Park + Vine, Segway and others. Get there and support progress for Cincinnati.
A suggested donation is $20 to the general public, or $50 to hosts. If you can't make it tonight, you can contribute online here.
A suggested donation is $20 to the general public, or $50 to hosts. If you can't make it tonight, you can contribute online here.
Chabot Hates Open Meetings and is Ignorant About Tax Rates
In case you missed the video, check out what happened when Republican Congressman Steve Chabot's staff directed a Cincinnati police officer to seize cameras of private citizens during a Chabot Town Hall event in Avondale at a publicly owned building.
I feel sorry for the police officer, but he should know better, and should have questioned the validity of "security reasons" when two television station cameras are there. Here is a tape of this from a third camera:
Here is more from the Enquirer's political blog. (If this was Steve Driehaus, this would have been front page news).
In other Chabot News, Steve Benen of Washington Monthly has a great story discussing an exchange, at I believe the same meeting above, where Chabot was advised that Federal Tax rates are the lowest they have been in 50 years.Chabot didn't believe it. He was told this by a voter, not likely one to vote for him, but a voter none-the-less. Benen gives Chabot-the-Ignorant the truth about Federal Tax rates. I understand that in the middle of a meeting, Chabot can't Google this, but as a member of Congress who is talking about tax policy, he should know this simple fact. What I fear is that he knows this, as do most Republican office holders, but he doesn't want any else to know this. They want people to think they pay far more taxes then ever before in hopes that the ignorant public will support cutting taxes, without a worry about how much their lives will change when they are asked to buy why they can't afford, assuming they want the same service the government provided. Republicans like Chabot want to destroy more government services for the public and will lie in order to do so. That's the modern GOP way.
I feel sorry for the police officer, but he should know better, and should have questioned the validity of "security reasons" when two television station cameras are there. Here is a tape of this from a third camera:
Here is more from the Enquirer's political blog. (If this was Steve Driehaus, this would have been front page news).
In other Chabot News, Steve Benen of Washington Monthly has a great story discussing an exchange, at I believe the same meeting above, where Chabot was advised that Federal Tax rates are the lowest they have been in 50 years.Chabot didn't believe it. He was told this by a voter, not likely one to vote for him, but a voter none-the-less. Benen gives Chabot-the-Ignorant the truth about Federal Tax rates. I understand that in the middle of a meeting, Chabot can't Google this, but as a member of Congress who is talking about tax policy, he should know this simple fact. What I fear is that he knows this, as do most Republican office holders, but he doesn't want any else to know this. They want people to think they pay far more taxes then ever before in hopes that the ignorant public will support cutting taxes, without a worry about how much their lives will change when they are asked to buy why they can't afford, assuming they want the same service the government provided. Republicans like Chabot want to destroy more government services for the public and will lie in order to do so. That's the modern GOP way.
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