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Some powerful special interest groups know
a secret that the average Cincinnati voter doesn’t: If you want to make
your votes for City Council truly matter and have the greatest impact,
don’t use all nine of them. That’s right: Even though you can cast nine
votes in the council race, you really shouldn’t.
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Occupying Democracy
We the People, not We the Corporations
As our leaders loudly preach, democracy
is something that we export to the rest of the world — to certain
monarchies and autocratic regimes that rule Arab nations, for example.
And it’s understandable though regrettable, they tell us, that there
would be eruptions of pent-up anger at aloof upper classes in India,
Greece, Spain and Israel. But a genuinely populist uprising to
bring democracy, both economic and political, to the U.S.A.?
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Rose Funeral Opens “Gates”
Local melodic Death Metal group Rose Funeral have released its second long-player for esteemed label Metal Blade. Now a slimmed down trio (though no less ferocious), the band’s Gates of Punishment came out at the end of September, but Rose Funeral is just now making its way back from tour to host a hometown release party. ...
Through the Past, Snarkily
Lou Barlow talks Sebadoh reunion, musical concision and bad ’90s music
Lou Barlow is a direct guy. The 45-year-old founder and main frontman for lo-fi Indie Rock stalwarts Sebadoh doesn’t mince words or waste time — a fact easily discerned when listening to his band’s concise, emotionally direct songs. It makes sense, then, that Barlow would be similarly to the point when discussing Sebadoh’s return via the “Bakesale/Harmacy Remembering Time Tour,” which stops at the Southgate House Thursday. ...
Van Zandt (Review)
North College Hill restaurant & tavern offers tasty burgers, fresh ingredients and Wednesday trivia
Many great restaurants call North College Hill home, and for the past couple years Van Zandt Restaurant and Tavern on Galbraith Road has, too. There is so much going for it — homemade breads, locally delivered meats and seafood and trivia on Wednesdays — but there is something missing that would make Van Zandt’s the king of the Hill. ...