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Vol 10, Issue 234 May 7-May 13, 2008
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Editorial Sex Sells, and We Keep Buying (05-07-08)

Editorial The Bold and the Confident (04-30-08)

Editorial Building a Strong Three-Legged Stool (04-23-08)

The Dish When the Stars Align (04-23-08)

Editorial The Perfect President (04-16-08)

Editorial How to Be Hip Guilt-Free (04-09-08)

Editorial Here's the Windup and the Pitch (04-02-08)

Best Of Cincinnati 2008 All 'Bests' Are Local (03-26-08)

Editorial Best Week of the Year (03-26-08)

Editorial Five Years of Protest and the War (03-19-08)

Editorial Competition and Fair Play (03-12-08)

Editorial A Hard Day's Election (03-05-08)

The Fierce Urgency of Now Obama challenges Cincinnati to hope and to 'keep making progress' (02-27-08)

Editorial Ohio Is Again 'The Decider' (02-27-08)

Editorial Obama for President (02-20-08)

Editorial Ohio, the Heart of All Politics (02-13-08)

Editorial Celebrating Superfat Tuesday (02-06-08)

Editorial Why We Do 'Person of the Year' (01-30-08)

Editorial The Waiting Is the Hardest Part (01-23-08)

Editorial A Streetcar Named Ignorance (01-16-08)

Editorial Who the Hell Is Greg Hartmann? (01-09-08)

Editorial New Year, New Approach (01-02-08)

Editorial Looking Over My Shoulder (12-19-07)

Editorial Time to Step It Up (12-05-07)

Editorial Thank You for Reading (11-20-07)

The Show The Cincinnati Entertainment Awards - Music 2007 (11-14-07)

Thank You! Presenting Sponsor: Scion (11-14-07)

CEA 2007 MUSIC NOMINEES (11-14-07)

Into the Light CityBeat endorsements will help you roll through Election Day (10-31-07)

Editorial Close Calls on Key Ballot Issues (10-24-07)

Editorial Let the Endorsements Begin (10-17-07)

Editorial Bite the Hand That Doesn't Feed (10-03-07)

Sounds Like a Music Festival Use the tools, sound like Tool or be a tool (09-26-07)

Editorial The Art of Change (09-05-07)

State of the Arts: How the Arts Saved Cincinnati And how we learned to love our new arts facilities (08-29-07)

State of the Arts: How the Arts Saved Cincinnati And how we learned to love our new arts facilities (08-29-07)

State of the Arts: How the Arts Saved Cincinnati And how we learned to love our new arts facilities (08-29-07)

State of the Arts: How the Arts Saved Cincinnati And how we learned to love our new arts facilities (08-29-07)

Editorial Another Column About Barry Bonds (08-01-07)

Editorial Blame and Shame (07-11-07)

Editorial New Jail a Taxing Problem (06-06-07)

Editorial You Shoulda Been There (05-16-07)

Editorial The Next Move in OTR (05-02-07)

Editorial Transitions (04-04-07)

Best of Cincinnati 2007 Music to Our Ears (03-28-07)

Editorial Support the Rage (03-07-07)

Hail to the Presidents of Cincinnati They deserve a slice of Presidents Day glory, too (02-14-07)

Taking the Time Channel 9 reporter/anchor wants to help fellow journalists (02-14-07)

Editorial Moving the Transit Conversation (01-24-07)

Editorial A Winter Without Snow (01-10-07)

Editorial In My 'Expert' Opinion... (12-20-06)

Editorial Schools Need Sporting Chance (12-06-06)

Editorial Diverse Media Ownership Helps Our Democracy (11-29-06)

Editorial CityBeat Goes Mainstream? (11-15-06)

Bone Up, Then Vote for Change Time for a clean sweep (11-01-06)

Editorial Bone Up, Then Vote for Change (11-01-06)

Editorial Throw the Bums Out (10-25-06)

Editorial Deciding the Issues (10-18-06)

Editorial It's a Crime (10-11-06)

Young Influentials Take Root in Cincinnati The 'next generation' of artists and arts leaders come of age; how are they doing? (08-30-06)

Editorial Electing to Cover Politics (08-16-06)

Editorial Surviving the Dog Days (08-02-06)

Editorial How Will the Story of Katrina Define Us? (08-02-06)

Editorial Blackwell's Mess Rolling On (07-19-06)

Editorial Time for Cincinnati to Step Up (06-28-06)

Editorial Sucks. Rocks. Both. (06-14-06)

Editorial Republicans: From Hypocrites to Hypercrites (06-07-06)

Letters Protecting the Church's Image (06-07-06)

Letters Artists Should Make Their Own Way (05-31-06)

On Any Given Friday Sometimes art imitates life, but in Over-the-Rhine (05-24-06)

Editorial If I Were a Betting Man... (05-17-06)

Letters Thrill Is Gone at WAIF (05-17-06)

Porkopolis Portune Kept out of Banks Loop (04-12-06)

Editorial Wake up and Smell the Riot (04-05-06)

Editorial A Decade of Bullies (03-08-06)

Editorial Sharing Values (02-01-06)

Editorial Tying the Not in '06 (01-04-06)

Editorial Very Very Merry (12-07-05)

Mr. Kearney Goes to Columbus The newest state senator could go even farther (11-23-05)

Editorial A Refreshing Election (11-09-05)

Endorsement A Lot to Like on Election Day (10-26-05)

Editorial Pay Attention! (10-12-05)

Editorial Pissing on the Poor (09-14-05)

Gulf Coast Devastated, Government Response a Disaster 'New Orleans Is Gone' (09-07-05)

Editorial Mayoral Primary the Start of Something Big (09-07-05)

State of the Arts 2005 It's the quality, stupid (08-31-05)

Gulf Coast Devastated, Government Response a Disaster 'New Orleans Is Gone' (08-31-05)

Editorial Always Faithful (08-17-05)

Endorsement U.S. Representative, 2nd District: PAUL HACKETT (07-27-05)

Editorial Highway to Hell (07-13-05)

CityBeat Is Ohio's Best Weekly Paper SPJ award confirms common perception (06-29-05)

Equal, Not Separate Local gay rights movement takes its first major post-Article 12 step with the formation of Equality Cincinnati (06-08-05)

Editorial Any Moderates Left? (05-18-05)

Editorial '60s History Revisited (05-04-05)

Editorial Enquirer Still Owes Us (04-20-05)

Editorial Ohio Religious Right: 'Welcome to Our World' (04-06-05)

Nine Ball Best Of Cincinnati 2005 (03-30-05)

Editorial Dominus Vobiscum (03-23-05)

Editorial How Many Mics? (03-16-05)

Editorial Person of the Year: The Honor Is Ours (02-23-05)

Their Roots Are Showing A funny thing happened to Robin and Joani Lacy on their way to fame and fortune (02-02-05)

Editorial In a Jam (01-19-05)

Editorial Out With the Old, In With the New (01-05-05)

Letters Voice Overs: Excerpts from letters and editorials in 2004 (12-29-04)

Editorial Political Winners and Losers in 2004 (12-22-04)

Editorial The Age of Reason?

(12-08-04)

Lessons Learned Over 10 years, CityBeat helps Greater Cincinnati learn to 'begin again' (11-10-04)

CityBeaters The Ups and Downs of "Alternative" Work (11-10-04)

Editorial Red State Blues (11-10-04)

Endorsements Election Day is your time to place stepping stones (10-27-04)

Endorsements Voters Beware (10-27-04)

Endorsements The Future Begins Now (10-20-04)

Editorial They're All Big (09-22-04)

The 10 Percent Solution Finding and connecting with the real influentials (09-01-04)

Editorial Fill 'Er Up, Charlie (08-11-04)

Editorial Buffaloed in Springfield (07-21-04)

Editorial Wrong Plan, Wrong Time (06-23-04)

Editorial X Marked the Spot (05-19-04)

Editorial Maybe, Baby (04-14-04)

Editorial Music: Try It, You'll Like It (03-17-04)

Editorial Primary Colors (02-25-04)

Persons of the Year: Healing the Hurt Citizens to Restore Fairness are building relationships one person, one house at a time (02-18-04)

Activism 10 Years of Making a Difference (02-18-04)

Editorial Defense of Decency (02-18-04)

Editorial Messing With the Messenger (01-28-04)

Guided by Voices Excerpts from CityBeat letters and editorials in 2003 (12-31-03)

Editorial Change at the Top (12-10-03)

Editorial Protecting Catholic, Inc. (11-25-03)

Porkopolis Words of Wisdom on Election Night (11-12-03)

Editorial: A Tall Order CityBeat Endorsements for Election 2003 (10-22-03)

Editorial The Anti-Rail Bogeymen Lose Their Teeth (10-08-03)

Editorial The Power of One Open Mind (09-24-03)

Porkopolis Touchy-Feely Crap in Action (09-17-03)

A 360-Degree View Symphony, opera and ballet get back to basics in long-range planning (08-27-03)

Editorial: The Savage Truth What went into moving Savage Love to the Web? (08-20-03)

Editorial No Convergence (08-06-03)

Enquirer Agonistes Five years later, the newspaper moves on (07-02-03)

The Courtship of Julianne's Father Appreciating my 5-year-old's worldview (05-07-03)

Editorial We Can Do Better: Boycott Issues Can Be Solved (04-23-03)

Porkopolis Anti-war protesters cross the street and cross some cops (03-26-03)

A Real Stand Up Guy Todd Portune becomes the standard-bearer for progressive causes in Greater Cincinnati (02-26-03)

Porkopolis: Curly Tales of the City Citizens for Community Values stands against CityBeat (02-12-03)

Editorial I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (02-05-03)

Hearing Voices Excerpts from CityBeat letters and editorials in 2002 (12-26-02)

Blown Up Tom Neyer's departure and Cinergy Field's demolition signal the end of an era (12-12-02)

Editorial The Power of Words (11-21-02)

Why We Left Cincinnati And what, if anything, Cincinnati can do to keep its creative young professionals (10-31-02)

Editorial: Change Is in Your Hands Tuesday CityBeat endorsement recap (10-31-02)

Dismantling the Fear Factory Local elections provide an opportunity to face the future with hope, not fear (10-24-02)

Editorial: The Old Switcheroo Time for some changes in Columbus (10-17-02)

The Gift That Keeps Giving Regional Cultural Alliance lives on in arts advocacy fund (08-29-02)

Fits to a 'T' With a little help, Cincinnati's arts and cultural projects could lift downtown from economic doldrums (08-29-02)

The Most Influential People in the Arts CityBeat's sixth annual ranking of people who are leading Greater Cincinnati's arts -- for better or worse (08-29-02)

Editorial The Arts as a Window (08-29-02)

Editorial Festival Seating Return Is Past Due (08-14-02)

Porkopolis Thanks, but No Thanks (07-18-02)

Editorial: Endorsements Vote No on Issue 4, Yes on Issue 5 (05-02-02)

Editorial Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is? (04-18-02)

Editorial Seeking the 'There' There (04-04-02)

Editorial Keep Eyes on the Prize (03-28-02)

Best of Cincinnati 2002 (03-28-02)

Editorial No Justice, No Peace (02-07-02)

Editorial The Road to Hell Is Paved with CAN Meetings (01-24-02)

Editorial What's in the Cards for 2002? (01-10-02)

Meet the New Boss Same as the old boss, or motivated to change? (11-08-01)

Don't Let Us Down Take a tip from the mayor: It's time for fundamental changes in Cincinnati (11-01-01)

Editorial Looking for Hope but Simply Staring (09-13-01)

RCA R.I.P. Cincinnati's arts council proposal fell apart with hardly a whimper, but those involved found silver linings (08-30-01)

The 25 most influential people in Cincinnati arts CityBeat's fifth annual ranking of the people who are leading the local arts -- for better or worse (08-30-01)

Cincinnati CAN? No, Cincinnati MUST CityBeat's own alternative blue-ribbon panel recommends 'fundamental changes': nine modest proposals and no waiting (08-09-01)

Editorial The Big Chill (07-12-01)

Editorial Cincinnati Must Own, Then Overcome, April's Events (06-21-01)

Editorial Agents for Change Vs. Enemies of Change (05-17-01)

Editorial The Difference Between Blame and Accountability (05-03-01)

Editorial It's Time to Get Real (04-19-01)

2000 Person of the Year: Victoria Straughn (02-01-01)

Searching for the Holy Grail Chiquita-related lawsuits, among other ills, continue to dog The Enquirer (12-21-00)

Teeing Off, Moving Ahead Movement on several fronts points to an arts district for downtown and Over-the-Rhine (12-21-00)

Media Coverage: Overall, Better Than Anticipated But they went easy on the cops (11-22-00)

Being Here A Primer on Cincinnati. (11-16-00)

The More Things Change... Election 2000 (11-09-00)

Power to the People Election 2000 finds progressives facing tough choices, third parties on the rise and Democrats ready to break through in Hamilton County (11-02-00)

GOP Kicks Ass How the Republican Party turned Hamilton County's conservative lean into a machine and what, if anything, Democrats can do about it (10-05-00)

Editorial An Asinine Development on the 'Enquirer' Editorial Pages (08-31-00)

Editorial Time for Some Summer Outrage (08-03-00)

Editorial Our Birthday Present to You (07-13-00)

Editorial Disappointing Reds Designs: Go to Jail, Do Not Pass 'Go' (05-18-00)

Press Clips: Two Years and Counting Beaupre's lawsuit turns long 'Enquirer'/Chiquita debacle from ugly to sad (05-11-00)

Cincinnati Tees Off on the Arts CityBeat proposes The T, downtown avenues of the arts that concentrate high-profile arts organizations to spur economic growth and focus public attention. It worked in Philadelphia -- why not here? (05-04-00)

The 25 Most Influential People in Cincinnati Arts (05-04-00)

Candidate Cranley Hopes That Youth Will Be Served (04-13-00)

Then and Now: Mapplethorpe CAC What was it like 10 years ago? What does it mean today? (03-30-00)

Mapplethorpe and the CAC 10 Years Later Director Charles Desmarais on what the 1990 exhibit, trial and controversy mean to the Contemporary Arts Center today (03-30-00)

Local Candidates Rebel Against Their Party Endorsements (03-02-00)

Election 2000 Ballot Initiatives (03-02-00)

Stadium Overruns Signal a Real Leadership Crisis Bedinghaus and Neyer should resign; taxpayers must get satisfaction (02-24-00)

Woo Hoo! We're All Gonna Be Rich! Junior: 'It's not about the money.' Everyone else: 'Whatever.' (02-17-00)

1999 Person of the Year Sister Alice Gerdeman (02-03-00)

When a Non-Story Becomes the Story (01-20-00)

Why 'CityBeat' Got Thown Out of Kroger Editorial: The Real Story (01-20-00)

George and His Jungle Ex-anonymous source George Ventura tells his Chiquita/ 'Enquirer' tale of woe to the nation; are the local dailies holding back on covering the story behind his story? (01-13-00)

Ventura's Tale: Information and the Damage Done (01-13-00)

Young People Must Assume Leadership Roles, Rep. Waters Says (10-14-99)

Gilligan Steps Back into the Political Spotlight (10-07-99)

Editor Notes Savage, Weird, Entertaining, Worldwide (10-07-99)

Don't Tread on Me (09-30-99)

How to Talk Like a Cincinnatian [Or play one on TV] (09-16-99)

Down and Out in Cincinnati 'Everybody's News' folds; 'The Enquirer' hopes and dreams (09-09-99)

Who Are You? UC, Xavier, Miami and NKU by the numbers and through the wringer (08-26-99)

Sports (08-26-99)

Editorial For the Public Good (08-19-99)

Growing Up, Growing Older (07-29-99)

Put a Lid on It Gallagher gets probation, the rest of us get the silent treatment, as the 'Enquirer'/Chiquita cases end (07-22-99)

Seeking to Avoid Another 'Enquirer' Fiasco, Gannett Announces Ethics Policy (07-22-99)

Editorial P&G: Maybe Just 98% Pure

(07-15-99)

Editorial Complacency? So What?

(07-01-99)

Just Answer One Simple Question Truth continues to elude those seeking 'Enquirer'/Chiquita closure

(06-03-99)

The Year of Living Disingenuously A year after the 'Enquirer'/Chiquita fiasco, the national media remains fascinated with the ongoing secrecy, the human toll and a turncoat reporter (05-27-99)

Isn't That Special? Tuesday's tiny little election offers compelling choices on Issue 4; can you spare a few minutes to help decide the future of our city? (04-29-99)

The 25 Most Influential People in Cincinnati Arts CityBeat's annual ranking of the people who will lead the local arts (for better or worse) into the future (04-22-99)

Don't Mention It After years of talk about wider support for the arts, the Regional Cultural Alliance and the Fine Arts Fund look to make a real difference (04-22-99)

Biggest, Best Issue Best of Cincinnati 1999 (03-25-99)

Take Reform 'Any Way You Can,' Campaign Reform Advocate Tells Local Forum (03-25-99)

The Politics of Politics Citizen groups, political leaders and city council members have debated six plans since 1995 for changing how Cincinnati elects its mayor; can't we all just get along? (03-04-99)

Press Clips Ward, Something's Wrong With 'The Enquirer' (01-28-99)


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