(Part 4) Top products from r/cincinnati

I don't know much about the tunnels, but I'm sure others do. Check out other local parks, big and small, to find places you like [Winton Woods, Sharon Woods, Mt. Storm, Ault Park, etc).

Take The Cake [Cafe+Bakery] in Northside has a chalkboard menu, so every day the food is different, but awesome. (I'm biased towards this place. Others will say MELT, etc)

If you like music, be sure to keep track of all the local venues, big and small.

• 20th Century Theater, Madison Theater, etc
  
• Memorial Hall, Music Hall
  
• Northside Tavern, Mayday, MOTR, Drinkery, Neon's, Mockbee, (is BunkSpot still open?)
  
• US Bank Arena, Riverbend, Bogarts, etc
  
• Contemporary Art Center also has the occasional concert
  
  Arcade Legacy is popular amongst redditors, they moved to Cincinnati Mills Mall, haven't checked out the new location yet, but they have $10 all you can play, plus a large selection of music and games that are very reasonably priced.
  
  MPMF Indie Summer Series is going on now. Every Friday on Fountain Square there's live music, 3 bands each night, and sometimes they have really good tunes. My highlights from last year were Pomegranates and These United States.
  
  If you like stargazing, or just want to be able to see stars, I recommend Stone Lick State Park. It's about 50 minutes East of Cincy, and the park is a dark sky site, so there's not much light pollution and you can see the sky much better than you can in the burbs or the city. I've got a pair of these Celestron binoculars, you can see some incredible stuff on a clear night.
  
  That's all I've got off the top of my head. Cheers!
  
  
  *Edit: Final Friday's in OTR/Cincy, most of the galleries have stuff going on [wine & cheese], same thing with a lot of the bars. Second Saturday in Northside is the same deal. Going to gallery openings is fun because you can feel fancy, see some good art (sometimes), and drink free booze.

Oh, it was not a critique of your photos at all... They're great! I was just assuming you had a lot more that you didn't include in the posts. Since it was a blog (versus book or magazine), I was saying it would be cool to see more pics, even if they weren't the "perfect shot", if that makes sense.

I absolutely love photography of industrial decay. One of my prized possessions is a copy of "Ruins of Detroit", which sadly is out of print, but the publisher page has some good pics from it. Each one tells an entire story. (If you're not familiar, it's worth clicking through that second link.)

BUT... I would love to see the photographer's b-roll pics that didn't make the book! That's what I was trying to say about yours, albeit not so eloquently.

Again, thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed it and passed it on to some friends as well.

There's lots of Cincinnati in music, blues and bluegrass and rock. This was written by a local author, but you can hardly kick a can downtown/OTR/Clifton without some story of (especially) musical excellence in the city. Really. CCM, Music Hall, The May Festival, we do have some musical roots here.

As far as on TV, I think the best you get is WKRP In Cincinnati. I'd argue that that's all we need.

Also, wasn't Harlem Nights (the Eddie Murphy movie) also shot here? There was some random DeNiro film shot here, too, that was a period piece.

I did read some diary of a dentist on Vine (late 19th century) somewhere once that was very interesting & creepy, I'll ask a friend if he remembers it. Lots of flies in that one.

Nothing I can think of on film. When the Museum Center opens up again, they had a neat section devoted to Cincinnati history.

If you come up with something, please share.

1. Natural Capitalism - Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Most businesses still operate according to a world view that hasn't changed since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Then, natural resources were abundant and labor was the limiting factor of production. But now, there's a surplus of people, while natural capital natural resources and the ecological systems that provide vital life-support services is scarce and relatively expensive. In this groundbreaking blueprint for a new economy, three leading business visionaries explain how the world is on the verge of a new industrial revolution.
   
   
2. The Information Diet. The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. We're all battling a storm of distractions, buffeted with notifications and tempted by tasty tidbits of information. And just as too much junk food can lead to obesity, too much junk information can lead to cluelessness.
   
   
3. Republic, Lost. With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple labels and reductive logic - and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left - Lessig seeks out the root causes of our situation. He plumbs the issues of campaign financing and corporate lobbying, revealing the human faces and follies that have allowed corruption to take such a foothold in our system.
   
   
4. Free: How Today's Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing. A generational and global shift is at play—those below 30 won't pay for information, knowing it will be available somewhere for free, and in China, piracy accounts for about 95% of music consumption. Anderson provides a thorough overview of the history of pricing and commerce, the mental transaction costs that differentiate zero and any other price into two entirely different markets, the psychology of digital piracy and the open-source war between Microsoft and Linux. Although Chris Anderson puts forward an intriguing argument in this cheerful, optimistic book, many critics remained unconvinced.

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1449530289&sr=8-5&keywords=zombie+classics
it's in line with a modern strain of fiction the nativity is ... would it help if it was pointed out that there are others who revisit classic literature and make commentary on it ... in light of modern writing aesthetic it's on point ... there are classic stories retold with zombies ... there are also a lot of people that think jesus died last week when he didn't die at all ... it's fiction ... i mean i am more creeped out by normal ones ... if you are so down with jesus that you want to celebrate his birth the quote unquote normal way i am more frightened and put off by typical nativity sets than a creative zombie remake ... in other words for me personally the people with the zombies would probably be cooler people than a traditional nativity set owner ... i think it's cool becasue i think the people that put it up are probably cool ... traditional nativity sets are owned by people that have historically shunned me for thinking they are well stupid for celebrating a book club 52 times a year and not talking after the services and building community ... which position in society do i need to start passing out fines for what people use to celebrate the holidays in their front yard? like the zombie nativity would probably agree that church services would be better off being all day saturday and put a church to use the right way and then spill over into saturday night into sunday morning every week the normal nativity scene owner would probably want church services as tight and lean as possible to get the fuck away from the people in their church ... the cool church meets at saturday at 5pm and lasts until right before work on Monday but no one 's up for it every week

PRO TIP : I'm banned from sitwell's and the northside tavern because of an affair with a bartender but i'm pretty sure if you drop something like this line on a chick at the northside tavern she'd be wit it

If you are looking for other genre books set in Cincinnati, these are a few I'm familiar with.

Have you read Mosaic 17K? It's a cyberpunk book based in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati. Really captures the area IMO. Good stuff.

Also Queen City Jazz, which doesn't really fit comfortably in a genre. Not really my cup of tea, but might be worth the read. Very surreal. Has kind of a 1970s sci-fi vibe to it.

And the Kim Harrison Hollows novels, which are urban fantasy. IMO, she didn't capture the area at all well. It came across as super generic midwest large city. And she described the town I live in all wrong, not even a little bit right. Possibly the most well known series of books set in the area.

A year ago I posted this thread mining ideas for strange, unknown, "secret" places in and around Cincinnati. Based on your responses (and suggestions from other family members and friends), my mother wrote this book (and my father did all the photography). She went and visited like 80-90 places and this is the result.

EDIT: I got a PM asking for the link to the book. Here it is on Amazon.

Looks like you can also buy it on Joseph Beth's website, and this one does NOT show any sort of shipping delay

Her website
The book's Facebook page

She has some events coming up so you can check those links.


Edit about Amazon
My mom's publisher on Amazon:

>This is Amazon being Amazon. We have no input as to what they show for availability on any of our book product pages. They always order a few copies to start and after a few weeks ramp up more reasonable quantities. The availability should change to "In stock" with a normal statement about delivery time, in a week or so.

I've been reading "Lost Cincinnati" this week an absolutely loving it.


https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cincinnati-Jeff-Suess/dp/1626195757


Jeff Suess is the historian/librarian at The Enquirer and has some great knowledge of the city, and access to tons of archival material. He has a few books but this is the first one I've gotten to read so far.

Good, if somewhat outdated, summary of the Cincinnati bridge:

http://library.cincymuseum.org/journals/files/chsbull/v23/n4/chsbull-v23-n4-sus-211.pdf

Newer book on the topic by Don Tolzmann, dean of German-Americana:

https://www.amazon.com/Roebling-Suspension-Bridge-Historic-People/dp/1544004346/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1573006536

Uhhh so much to unpack here

> a lot of these kids who say they are persecuted are usually assholes and/or have very bad interpersonal skills

I think having poor interpersonal skills is a pretty normal thing, especially for kids/teens, and isn't what I was referring to. I was talking more about the straight-up psychopaths, like the guy who initiated this plot.

> Society usually has a way of putting people exactly where they belong.

... maybe, but not in the sense of them sinking to the bottom. This book says it all better than I could.

A book about these was just recently released (written by a local), I've been meaning to check it out.

eta: author is a local

Try this book on Amazon Wicked Newport: Kentucky's Sin City

The recent heroin problem was brought on by a more specific set of circumstances. The book "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic" explores the situation in depth. Basically it started with heavy marketing and over-prescription of Oxycontin in the '90s, followed by the arrival of cheap black tar heroin from Mexico. The author, Sam Quinones, has given talks all around the country, including recently at NKU. He also did an extensive interview on Mark Maron's WTF podcast a while back. Well worth the listen if you are interested in the topic.

Not exactly in Cincinnati but I’d strongly recommend the following book for more details around the event:
'The Beverly Hills Supper Club: The Untold Story of Ky's Worst Tragedy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1533121575/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_vOO0BbSZARSHC

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Here is a broad website with many resources but I have included many news articles about specific aspects of the issue: HHS

Why D.A.R.E. didn't work


What is an Opiod Note oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), codeine, and morphine


Why are Opiods so addictive see "mu (μ)"


Why were doctors prescribing so many opiods


Why people switched from pills to something stronger It's cheaper


Resistance You need more to achive the same pain relief


What is Heroin synthetic morphine basically


Addiction Very complicated subject


Why is addiction complicated Cinci library has this book


Who's dying? Mostly white males 25-40+ but it is happens in every neighborhood to many different people (bet you can find an OD in yours)


Why are they dying


What is Fentanyl/Cerfentanyl


Why is Fentanyl more deadly than regular Heroin


Do people know what is in their Heroin in Cincinnati? No, we dont have testing sites like NYC which would cost less than the EMT services + hostpital bills


What is Narcan]Naloxone aka Narcan will IMMEDIATELY trigger withdrawl symptoms


How bad opiod withdrawl is Some people have died from the withdrawl


Local foundation trying to fight the epidemic


And if you just want to watch a video that tells you some more info Here

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