Sunday, October 15 – Saturday, October 21 This Week in Renovated Theaters: On Tuesday I went to the Ensemble Theater for the first show of the 2017-18 season, and the first show in their newly renovated theater. The old version of the theater featured a cramped lobby that looked like it was designed byContinue reading “What I Learned This Week: #22”
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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”
Where Oh Where…
Mindfully shopping for items I don’t really need A book that has been on my radar of “books to read” for a long while is Vegas: Memoir of a Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne. I come across the title occasionally in those listicle-type articles the internet is so great at. When the internet wants to suggest an interesting book to me, I click rightContinue reading “Where Oh Where…”
Bottom Shelf Blues
Here’s a book lover emotion: I feel bad for books on the bottom shelf at the library. Some book lovers wax poetic over the smell of old books. I wring my hands over the lack of consideration for books on the bottom shelf. So sad. The bottom shelf of books are just out of comfortable eye rangeContinue reading “Bottom Shelf Blues”
This Book Will End When I Say It Will End
I’m reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and I’m on page 311 of just under 1100 pages. Before I pick up the book to continue reading I need a moment to regroup. Infinite Jest is a long and complex novel that I have chosen to read for a number of reasons. I expected theContinue reading “This Book Will End When I Say It Will End”
Nothing Ever Happens on My Street 