We've all heard of the ubiquitous Barbie and her kindred spirits: Princess Barbie, Holiday Barbie, Olympic Barbie, Veterinarian Barbie, Flight Attendant Barbie ... the list goes on. But what abou  

Her small hands and compact frame belie the enormous experience contained in Annette Januzzi Wick. At the age of 34, Wick lost the love of her life, Devin, to leukemia. Since then she has worked c  

Reviews of Shari Goldhagen's debut novel, Family and Other Accidents, have been so positive that she might not have to return to stalking celebrities for a living. She's done that kind of work f  

Embarking on her first national book tour for the critically acclaimed release Copper Sun, former-award-winning-teacher-turned-award-winning-author Sharon M. Draper discusses the variety of stunne  

Poet Frank X Walker was forced to invent a word to name himself. During a 1991 gathering of Appalachian poets in Kentucky, Walker, in the audience, thought about where he and other poets of color   

When you pick up a copy of CityBeat, you're reading an alternative newsweekly. The paper covers alternative music and cinema, even alternative medicine. Here's another one for you: Cincinnati ha  

Coffee is an unnecessary additive to the frenetic energy of artistic everyman Nathan Singer, yet he partakes in refill after refill. He drinks it up, interspersing sips of java with gulps of wate  

After a release last year, local mystery writer JEFFREY MARKS is ready to bite the literary world again. This time though, he's taking on editing duties primarily for Criminal Appetites, a collectio  

What does the word "bench" bring to mind? A lonely assemblage of chipped boards and faded paint waiting perpetually at the bus stop? A splintering seat soaked with years of excitement from Littl