Ever wonder "How could that have happened?" when evening news has a story of some terrible event carried out by an ordinary person, somebody who could live down the street from you, a perfectly nice person never given to mayhem? Cincinnati writer Dorothy Weil tells us how things like that can happen in her new novel, which takes place mostly in Walnut Hills.  

An artist's ideas bristle on every wall and even on some floors at the dual Sol LeWitt exhibitions now showing at Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM). Behind LeWitt X   

    

In a world gone digital, certain photographers soldier on with film. Some even work in black and white, ignoring siren calls of color, immediacy and digital tricks. They might, however, have a f  

Surprise, the quirky element that can't be taught, runs through Margaret Wenstrup's inventive art -- as true in this recent piece in the Contemporary Arts Center's Graphic Content exhibition a  

That kid -- you know, the one who collects rocks and digs a hole in the backyard just to see what's there -- will like this book. Author Charles Ferguson Barker is a geologist who, I suspect, never got over wanting to know what he'd find if he dug a hole.  

To lift your spirits, go one flight up at the YWCA Downtown to the Women's Art Gallery, currently alive with the work of Kay Muir. Muir, now in her nineties, has been making art most of her long  

Three gorgeous creatures have lighted at the Carnegie Visual and + Performing Arts Center, and SASSY SMIRKING VIPER is my favorite. Although the pieces are in fact blown glass works by artist St  

This reviewer could never be mistaken for a member of grades 4-7, but I found Black and White Airmen: Their True Story, which was intended for that age group, a great read anyway. John Fleischman  

Late in May, outrageous hats brightened the 1200 block of Elm Street as their wearers stepped into Memorial Hall for a program honoring the memory of sculptor, teacher and notable hat-wearer Patr