City Living
Spring is near
Spring is near Originally uploaded by hjoew The tree outside my apartment window is about to burst with spring beauty. This makes me very happy.
On Segway tour of Cincinnati
On Segway tour of Cincinnati Originally uploaded by hjoew In Eden Park, Memorial Grove. Great time!
Facebook Lexicon and “Cincinnati”
The Facebook Lexicon is a searhable application tracks the usage of terms used in Facebook on group, profile and wall pages. It’s an endlessly fascinating way to take a bird’s eye view of what people are talking about – and, frankly, what they are not. Because of Facebook’s global scope, I think it’s hard to [...]
Please poo/pee in the bathroom
When I first moved to Over-the-Rhine in 2004, the building next to ours on Race Street in Cincinnati, the one at 13th and Race streets, was akin to tenement housing with, if I recall correctly, around 40 single-room “apartments” that shared a bathroom on each floor. I never went inside because of the sounds I [...]
United Nations meets on Fountain Square
Alan, Kenny, Joe, originally uploaded by hjoew. Alan, Kenny and I went to Colerain High School together, class of 1992. Back then we were all very much involved in the Colerain (now Clippard) YMCA’s Leaders Club, a volunteer service group for teenagers. Being in Leaders Club and the many friends I made and re-made during [...]
The Kaldi’s dilemma
In this week’s CityBeat column, I break news about Over-the-Rhine’s Kaldi’s Coffeehouse being asked to vacate the premises for six weeks so an elevator can be installed through their kitchen. When finished, it would make preparing food in the tiny kitchen a real challenge, but a nice addition for delivering large quanities of food quickly [...]
Smile. Someone or something is watching.
This week’s CityBeat column is about Bill Brown’s Surveillance Camera Tour he gave Sunday to a mixed-age, mixed-race group of 18 people. I was told about the tour by a neighbor who found it on Brown’s Web page by accident, she said. It seemed interesting – and it was. My neighbor also wrote a blog [...]
The hold-up tapes
Back in January, my girlfriend and I were the victims of an attempted robbery in Over-the-Rhine near my home. I wrote about it in my weekly CityBeat column. It was a horribly devastating thing to have happen to us. We’re both very supportive of downtown and Over-the-Rhine and want nothing more than for those neighborhoods [...]
Being more eco-friendly in the transpo department-o
In my column in this week’s CityBeat, I comment on an issue that has been buggin’ the heck out of me (and quite a few others) for some time. That’s the lack of alternate transportation options – bike, scooter or just ease of walking (especially when you live in the urban center) – available to [...]
Lavomatic lunch
Ron, Suzanne and Joe at Lavomatic, originally uploaded by hjoew. Ron (left) invited Suzanne (Fountain Square events manager, whom I’d never met) and I for an impromptu lunch at Over-the-Rhine’s newest eatery, Lavomatic (a Jean-Robert de Cavel production). And it was wonderful. The food was super delicious, the conversation was great and it seemed half [...]