The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 10th album is a resounding testament to their endurance. Over 28 years, the band has had 11 personnel changes, and I’m With You is the debut of their newest incarnation, with guitarist Josh Klinghoffer replacing John Frusciante. The Peppers could have broken up when they […]

The restaurant The Senate in Over-the-Rhine (OTR) is slumming it with the dogs, and you should, too. That doesn’t mean it’s in a bad area; rather, The Senate is located in a cool area of the historic Cincinnati neighborhood where there are a handful of unique restaurants and artsy hangouts. […]

Beginning with the stunning one-night-only performance of Itzach Perlman on Sept. 2 and with the most recent performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Titan and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish; Cincinnati’s premier performing ensemble, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, has started off its 2011-12 season with a bit of magnificence. […]

Everyone knows that Cincinnati is no rival to New York or Chicago when it comes to entertainment. Sometimes you have to look closely to find artistic jewels in the Queen city. But every year in September, downtown comes alive during the Midpoint Music Festival. From Sept. 22-24, exotic acts from […]

The remake of the 1984 classic Footloose is causing a lot of Hollywood hype prior to its Oct. 14 release date. After seeing the movie myself, I quickly realized that it wasn’t dancer-turned-actress Julianne Hough’s or breakout heartthrob Kenny Wormald’s performances that left me wowed – but rather that of […]

Last Friday kicked off the two week limited theater release of the Disney classic animation, The Lion King, now in 3-D. Originally premiering seventeen years ago, Disney remade the popular film with piercing scenery and a few pop-outs. Disney certainly revitalized the film’s African savannahs by making the animations three […]

For the first time in years, Xavier Players, Xavier performing arts and Xavier music department are teaming up to put on a stage production. On Oct. 21-23 and Nov. 4-5, Players and the two departments will be staging Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta Pirates of Penzance, a hilarious tale of […]

We’re all busy. We need to maximize our waking hours, and that includes multitasking for every possible task. Chances are you spend about five minutes each day brushing your teeth. OK, let’s say three minutes a day. Those three minutes need to be more productive than just gagging on a […]

Just because you spent your summer outdoors doesn’t mean I did. Here’s a summary of some of this summer’s finest in reality TV: “The Bachelorette:” No surprises here. On the beaches of Fiji, Ashley Herbert found love and accepted JP’s proposal, while Ben Flajnik went home heartbroken. As a consolation […]

I vaguely remember as a first year, over three years ago now, going to see a speaker at the beginning of the semester who was supposed to tell us how to make our “college experience” the best it could be. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I basically […]