Writing a New Chapter
Bicycling the length of Japan, a Cincinnatian learns to tame the beast with one back and two wheels
From August 2002 to August 2004, I was a teacher in the small town of Murakami, Niigata, Japan. I taught 17 classes to 500 students a week, helped plan new employee orientations and attended countless local drinking parties called enkai.

Eccentric Constructions - Jonathan Lethem dissects the DNA of his fiction

Quintessential Survivor - ETC gives prize-winning I Am My Own Wife an astonishing, exhilarating premiere

Small Canvas - Art Academy's Minumental works are intimate, diverse and informal

'Dresses for Successes - Locals The Sundresses play SXSW two years running and get started on a big year

Spill It - All Heart, No Bastards

Locals Only: Bluer Shade Of Pale - Rhonda Everitt ditches the band thing and digs up some beats for her new Pale Beneath the Blue project

Shake Your Moneymaker - Can a movie have a Hip Hop vibe? Ask the makers of Be Cool

One Industry; Two Ceremonies - Awarding Sideways a record-tying six awards, the Indie Spirits proved itself better than the Oscars

Couch Potato: Video and DVD - Incident at Lock Ness

Land of Choice - Uncle Yip's offers a more authentic Chinese menu

The Dish - Starvation Saturday

Lofty Liberty Lost - 3CDC stalls plans for new housing for the homeless

Toking the Cure - Medical marijuana's isn't about five hippies and a dog

All The News That Fits - Plans Waiting for Action

Savage Love - Placing all the blame

Living Out Loud: In the Spirit of Trying Something New - A New Year's goose

Arts Beat - One Good O-T-R Night Out

Sports - Spurs a Team for the Ages, Though This NBA Age Is Reviled

Letters - Mind If I Yell Next to You?

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