5 places you’ve seen comedian Mike Epps
Funnyman Mike Epps is in town Friday to perform a stand-up show at Xavier University’s Cintas Center. If his face looks familiar, but you’re not sure where you’ve seen him, here are five items on his lengthy resume that you might remember him from.
Posted: 3/10/2011 4:12 PM in Listapalooza
Painting: Who Is Pulling Your Strings?
And here in lies the conundrum…….if I hate painting lettering so much why do I keep including it in my paintings? Answer: It’s the English Major side of me coming out……… I love both WORDS and ART. This is the lettering when I first started painting today:...
Posted: 3/10/2011 3:54 PM in Dawna Boehmer
I Dress Up a Lot
I have recently been going out in costume. Just to name a few: Santa Claus, a turkey, a King, and my personal crown jewel, the full body silver spandex jumper. I have a deep inner question about this new trend in my life. Am I trying too hard to stand...
Posted: 3/10/2011 3:14 PM in make cincinnati weird
Art of Food Winner
The winner of the free tickets to Art of Food is Kristen! Here’s her story: In third grade we lived in Blacksburg VA where my Dad was getting his doctorate. With 3 kids in a small apartment, money was tight but we never knew it. One thing my Mom would...
Posted: 3/10/2011 1:50 PM in wine me, dine me
Tim & George Morning Team Quit KISS107
The KISS107 morning team — Tim and “My Mother Calls Me George” — say on their Facebook page that they’ve left the station voluntarily, choosing not to renew their contract. They plan to be “on the air (not in Cincinnati) as soon as April,” according to...
Posted: 3/10/2011 10:36 AM in TV and Media Blog
SXSW: Fact or Fiction?
After 25 years, and an explosion in popularity in the last five years, many people wonder "what's the big deal about SXSW?!" I'm actually one of those people.
Posted: 3/10/2011 10:19 AM in South By Southwest
“The Warmth of Other Suns” and the shrinking Queen
Brendon of the Books was here last week, bringing with him an excellent lunch, by the way, something more of you should think about. In the sniffing around about what each other was reading he nominated Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns as being...
Posted: 3/10/2011 9:55 AM in Stacked
Auditions Here For Adult ‘Made’ Spin-off
They’ve remade “Made ” — the Emmy-winning MTV series which lets teens achieve their dreams — for adults to air on sister CMT channel. And they’re coming to Florence and Mason looking for people ages 25-50 who want to be on the show. Open audtions will...
Posted: 3/10/2011 9:30 AM in TV and Media Blog
Cleopatra Exhibit On CBS Sunday Morning
We think so…. as of today…. these things tend to change…. but for now, the Cincinnati Museum Center folks anticipate that ”CBS Sunday Morning” (9-10:30 a.m., Channel 12) will broadcast a story about Cleopatra, examined through Stacy Schiff’s book and...
Posted: 3/10/2011 8:43 AM in TV and Media Blog
Happy fifth blogiversary to me
Today, March 10, marks the fifth anniversary of the day I started blogging about roller derby. My posts are not nearly as frequent as they were in those heady days when both blogging and roller derby were new, but I consider it a small victory that it’s...
Posted: 3/10/2011 1:42 AM in Roller Derby Diva