CityBeat, Issue 222,
April 18-25, 1996

• Moot 66
  How lousy is local TV news? Our survey tells you where - and where not - to turn your dial...
  
  
• A Week in the Life of Cincinnati Newscasts
  Why this report, and why we're doing it nowÉ
  

• In a Beautiful Pea Green Boat
  Craig Britton's 'Odyssey' documents heart-wrenching journey of boat people off the Florida coast
  
  
• ARTS BEAT
  Good News Travels Fast
  
  
  

• Anchormom
  
  

• Jane Blah
  Franco Zefferelli adopts Charlotte Bronte's classic soap-opera into a surprisingly dull movie
  
  
• Junior's Just Wild About Daddy
  Bill Wellman Jr.'s documentary lassos in life and times of director-father 'Wild Bill' Wellman
  
  

• UtterKiosk
  What's up around town this week
  
  
• Beats of the Week
  Cincinnati CityBeat and Cinci.Com, the Cincinnati Home Page, are pleased to bring you their guide to the best of what's going on in Cincinnati for the week of April 18-25, 1996.
  
  
• Click a category to see what's up around town:
  
  
• CityBeat Personals
  
  
• Backbeat
  
  

• Brighten Your Day
  Signings, poetry readings and library activities on tap this week

• 'Round Here
  Seven days of live concerts show rare diversity
  
  
• Rustic Soul
  Ass Ponys' new record is more somber in tone but retains poetic realism and wit
  
  
• Moment By Moment
  Cincinnati's Standard Time Quintet works the groove on its new CD and makes the truth known
  
  
• Spill It!
  Shake Ups
  
  
• POSITIVELY YEAH YEAH YEAH
  

• Eroding Environmental Efforts
  Residents and environmentalists charge that state regulators have allowed Rumpke to capitalize on landslide
  
  
• Not Turning the other cheek
  Archdiocese of Cincinnati fights city approval of water-chilling plant to be built across from church offices
  
  
• UPDATE: Mill Creek
  Mill Creek considered one of Ohio's 'most threatened' rivers
  
  
• Web Bites
  Tidbits from web sites devoted to some aspect of the upcoming Presidential Election
  
  
• Burning Questions
  A Private Matter
  
  

• Fighting the Good Fight
  Strong performances, seamless direction carry the day for 'Two Weeks'
  
  
• Caught in the Verboblender
  'All in the Timing' a whirlwind of comedy, language and questions on the meaning of life
  
  
• Wild Things Run Fast
  Balanchine protégé Victoria Simon passes on the master's style and tendencies to Cincinnati dancers