Sunday, January 7 – Saturday, January 13 The Week Stopping: I continued to stop drinking…I’m 1/2 way through dry January. The cold, windy weather has mostly, but not completely, stopped me from going too much. And, I totally stopped wearing one of my favorite shirts because I put it on, went in the bathroomContinue reading “What I Learned This Week: #33”
Category Archives: Cincinnati
Blink Cincinnati
Last weekend Cincinnati’s downtown core came alive with Blink, a festival filled with art and light installations that seriously surprised and delighted a ton of people. Put together by future-thinking creative minds including those who work in the design and marketing firms around the city, they unleashed the spirit of Cincinnati’s Lumenocity. That event featured a light show on Music Hall that in its 3 year run proved so popular,Continue reading “Blink Cincinnati”
What I Learned This Week: #21
Sunday, October 8 – Saturday, October 14 This Week in Movies: I saw Bladerunner 2019, a brooding, overlong, very pretty, unevenly-scored sequel. The replicants in this version search for meaning and humanity as they travel in densely packed consumer zones, sparse forgotten places where life is apparently more real, and sparsely decorated corporate officesContinue reading “What I Learned This Week: #21”
What I Learned This Week: 20
Sunday, October 1 – Saturday, October 7 This Week Underground: This week started underneath Cincinnati on American Legacy Tours’ Underground Tour benefiting the Cat Adoption Team. I’ve been on this tour before, but I’m such a homer I couldn’t resist a repeat. The tour starts on Vine St discussing Cincinnati’s brewing and drinking heritageContinue reading “What I Learned This Week: 20”
Weekend Walk
One of my favorite walks downtown is from my place down to the Purple People Bridge to head over the Ohio River and into Newport, Kentucky. I often take this walk mid-morning on weekends to catch the first showing of a movie at AMC. [The first show is less than six bucks, the next showContinue reading “Weekend Walk”
Longfellow – Bar Review
In a neighborhood full of bars and restaurants, its surprisingly difficult to find a neighborhood bar. Where every new establishment seems to be designed for mass consumption, it’s nice to find a less forced atmosphere, a place that you might stop into even if you weren’t planning to have a drink. You stop because you saw someoneContinue reading “Longfellow – Bar Review”
What I Learned This Week
#3 Sunday, May 28 – Saturday, June 3 The Week in Doing Things: I went to the Art Museum and Bunbury Music Festival. The Week in Good Frites: I also it to one of OTR’s more forward thinking restaurants Pleasantry for Steak and Frites night. Below, though, is a picture of Frites and Steak. Sure, theContinue reading “What I Learned This Week”
Nothing Ever Happens on My Street 