May 2010
Features
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May Day
On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio—killing four, wounding nine, and igniting campuses across America. It was a grim defining moment for a generation. And if you think it’s history, think again.
The Way She Lives Now
It’s not just a stage: With two books under her belt and a third on the way, Cincinnati-born playwright and screenwriter Theresa Rebeck is a novelist now, too. Roll over Trollope, and tell Dickens the news.
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Columns
Odd Man Out: Nature Boy
I’ve had some of the best times of my life in our parks. Fully clothed, of course.
Backstory: Speaking of Faith
Did a Walnut Hills church close in anger, or was it a bullied pulpit?
The Last Detail: The Hall of Foam
Editor’s Note: This was originally published in the May 2010 issue. 1796—Numbündnumber: The city’s first locally brewed beer as well as its most popular one for over 70 years, this pilsner’s not-so-secret ingredient was a judicious dash of clove oil, which anesthetized a drinker’s tongue and taste buds, thus making it the perfect accompaniment/antidote to […]
Letter from the Editor: May 2010
When I was in high school and college, there was a drinking game called Thumper that, I must confess, I rather enjoyed. As drinking games go, it was pretty physical, requiring quick wits more than dexterity.
Dine
The Yoga of Food
In addition to being a perennial student of the culinary world, yoga has also been a defining path in my life. I’ve been practicing yoga since I was a teenager, and teaching classes and individuals for the past 13 years.
Playing It Safe
Gaetano Williams is working the room, looking natty in a double-breasted chef coat and a traditional tall, starched, pleated toque, he moves from table to table throughout the dining room of his five-month-old bistro greeting each and every customer sotto voce, inquiring about dinner, his hands interlaced behind his back and departing with a “thank you” or a “very good,” occasionally adding a half-bow here and there.
Take The Cake
Concerning restaurateurs and sadomasochists: I don’t question whether sados make the best restaurant owners or whether owners simply tend to be sado. All I’m saying is that until I had experienced the killer Sunday brunch at Take the Cake (TTC), I considered the occupations indelibly bound. But now, after eating steak and eggs prepared with 100 percent real love, I realize my miscalculation.
Doris & Sonny’s Homelike Restaurant
You just don’t find enough restaurants with good arrowhead collections anymore. You used to see them everywhere. Didn’t they used to have an arrowhead collection on the wall at Olive Garden? Maybe I’m mistaken, but Doris & Sonny’s Homelike Restaurant keeps up this tradition with not one, but two fascinating arrowhead displays, along with their fine collection of cow memorabilia.