Mayor Charlie Luken's first official order of business as "strong mayor" is fraught with double standards. Luken appointed the Rev. Damon Lynch III to Cincinnati Community Action Now (CAN) for poli  

Napoleon Maddox is the type of brotha who, at his funeral, would run down the aisle to jump in the casket right before they closed the lid. He'd be apologizing eloquently the whole way, dropping kno  

Metaphorically insulting the white male penis castrates power, privilege, authority and entitlement at the very root of their orgiastic entanglement. Want proof? Responding readers most insulted by  

"The city's gotta unify and come together." -- Charlie Luken on Nov. 6 Your once and future mayor is stuck on stupid. When approached by a CityBeat reporter on the night of the biggest political   

There are few things more painful, hilarious and sad than suffering through the low jinks of candidates' TV commercials during election time. It's just not fair. It's like this: Funny, witty a  

Exactly 15 years ago, I caught my late Aunt Dorothy's silicone prosthesis. "Kathy, you ever seen a prosthesis before?" she asked as the thing was whizzing through the air like a pregnant, waterlogge  

You won't see Mary McCoy rubbing shoulders with the big boys of social service funding on the morning TV shows. They were all there recently because it's that time of year again -- time to give 'ti  

"This is a song that makes me spill out all my guts." -- "Sometimes," Bilal Just when you thought it was safe to return to your life ... With the world in the toilet like it is, regurgitating/rum  

" 'God bless America' ... those are songs from a long time ago." --Edward, white man on the street The Sept. 11 attack on America by what's turning out to be Osama bin Laden's boys has Negroes mor  

"I don't know what happened. It just went off. It just went off." -- Officer Stephen Roach after shooting Timothy Thomas One patient photographer waited for the right angle, for just the right sho  

"Don't you know that it's true/that for me and for you/the world is a ghetto?" -- War Suddenly, two guys dissing each other for the run of the asylum isn't so important. At the end of the world,   

People want a lot from CityBeat, myself included. Readers selfishly look to these pages for reflection, not so much an intellectual or pensive thoughtfulness but more a mirror image. It's the peop  

Why are grown Negroes wearing Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids clothing? And why are they operating those remote control cars downtown? Have you seen Mister Charlie's commercials? Doesn't he have bi  

"Don't call me nigger, whitey/Don't call me whitey, nigger." -- Sly and the Family Stone This is what The Cincinnati N-quirer should have said about nigga/nigger in its Aug. 5 front-page fumble.   

"Dude looks like a lady." -- Aerosmith There oughta be a name for people like me. You know, people born one way but because of interpretation -- ours and yours -- perceived another way. I'm talki