MOVIE OF THE WEEK #2 (1/28/11): BLUE VALENTINE
"We're like Sid and Nancy ... Or Kurt and Courtney ... Wait - none of those couples ended well, did they?!" Dean (Ryan Gosling) embraces his wife Cindy (Michelle Williams) during a moment from the Academy Award-nominated BLUE VALENTINE. Credit: © 201...
Posted: 1/28/2011 4:26 PM in McCoy on Movies
Three-Cup Chicken
Here’s what 3-cup chicken looks like at The House of Sun in Sharonville. This is a Taiwanese dish, supposed to be made with a chicken, a cup of sesame oil, a cup of soy sauce and a cup of rice wine. It’s cooked for a long time, until the sauce is basically...
Posted: 1/28/2011 3:33 PM in Campbell’s Scoop
A Big Christmas Gift For WRRM-FM, WAWK-FM
Boy, do we love Christmas music! Soft rock WRRM-FM (WARM98.5) and Christian music WAKW-FM (Star 93.3) more than doubled their audience in Arbitron ratings released today by playing Christmas music 24/7. WARM98 jumped from eighth in November with a 4.8%...
Posted: 1/28/2011 2:46 PM in TV and Media Blog
CSO-Andre Watts concert near sell-out
If you’re lucky, there may be a few tickets left for Saturday night’s Cincinnati Symphony concert in Music Hall with Andre Watts performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. As of this morning, limited seats were still available. Tickets: 513-381-3300,...
Posted: 1/28/2011 1:39 PM in Arts in Focus
International House of Breakfast
I kind of got obsessed with finding international/ethnic breakfasts over the past few weeks, and had a great time doing it. The results of the quest are in today’s Weekend. I wanted to mention a couple that didn’t make it to the story because of space/time...
Posted: 1/28/2011 11:29 AM in Campbell’s Scoop
Shadeau Breads
Keller’s IGA in Clifton has always sold a lot of locally-made products, many of which you can’t find at just any grocery store. So its continued closure is hard on shoppers who like to buy those products; not to mention their producers. . . If Shadeau...
Posted: 1/28/2011 11:04 AM in Campbell’s Scoop
Friday Five: Barbecue
The Better Half and I love barbecue. The Better Half, being from Alabama, might have barbecue sauce in his veins– and he’s quite particular. Here are, in sort of a particular order, our five favorite barbecue joints in Cincinnati (that we’ve tried). 1....
Posted: 1/28/2011 10:12 AM in wine me, dine me
Survivor Audition Line For Tonight Maxed Out
1:45 p.m. update: This just in from reporter Jeff McKinney: If you’re not already at Turfway Park to audition for “Survivor,” then don’t even think about it. Officials shut down the line shortly after noon after about 315 people arrived to take advantage...
Posted: 1/28/2011 8:20 AM in TV and Media Blog