On our way across downtown to Redsfest, we stopped to admire some of the spectacular holiday trees around downtown. This beautiful tree was in the atrium of The Westin on Fifth Street…
And of course, they chopped down yet another beautiful, huge old pine tree to stand on the Square for the next month before being discarded… 
I don’t know why the one on the Square really bothers me. And there was this beautiful tree in Carew Tower…
Downtown sure is beginning to look festive. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on December 3, 2016
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MLS Commissioner Don Garber was in town today for a whirlwind day tour of Cincinnati to see the city and learn more about the hype surrounding FC Cincinnati…
The most noteworthy part of the whole visit was a town hall meeting held at OtR’s Woodward Theatre emceed by ESPN commentator and analyst Taylor Twellman. We watched the town hall meeting on FC Cincinnati’s YouTube channel. It seemed that MLS and Don Garber were definitely impressed and taking note of the movement that is happening in Cincinnati. And that Cincinnati is very much being short-listed and strongly considered for future MLS expansion. ORANGE AND BLUE PRESS had a great post with photos about Don Garber’s visit to Cincinnati.Â
All I know is it was an incredible inaugural first season and we can’t wait to see what happens in 2017!
Posted by Thadd F. on November 29, 2016
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Today, we had our Thanksgiving Potluck at work…
It was quite the spread with some really delicious flavors. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on November 22, 2016
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As we were driving down Sycamore Street, we noticed a really funny cloud of fog…
It was an odd fog. As we got closer, it looked like it was just around P&G Gardens. Genifer said when she was on the Big Mac Bridge crossing the Ohio River the fog was crazy. She said you couldn’t see anything but the bridge. But once she got over the bridge into Kentucky, the fog was just gone. It was an odd fog. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on November 17, 2016
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Sometime last week, the owners of Huit Craft BBQ closed up shop on Court Street and moved to their new location over on Main Street just a block south of where I work. Their new place is called Neuf Asian Eatery. I always thought Huit was really good stuff (really good) so this afternoon I decided to give Neuf a try for a late lunch…
I ordered their battered chicken stir fry lunch plate with Cantonese classic brown sauce with steamed Jasmine rice…
And I tried the one of the most difficult to pronounce dishes on the menu, Xiao Long Bao dumplings. They’re pork and shrimp steamed dumplings Shanghai style with ginger soy sauce. And they were out of this world!
It was a really, really outstanding lunch, even though I ordered way too much food!
I’ll definitely be back to Neuf very soon and often! 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on November 14, 2016
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Tonight, we had tickets to our first Cyclones hockey game of the season…
We hopped on the Metro 17 bus from Northside…
And in no time, we were down at US Bank Arena…
It was good to be back at US Bank Arena…
The view from our 12-game season ticket seats is pretty nice…
LET’S PLAY HOCKEY!
There were plenty of good seats still available…
At the end of the first period, the ‘Clones were up 2-0 on the Quad City Mallards…
The Cyclones got a new “zamboni” from that chicken place. The Twister, Porkchop and some fans ride around the ice for a couple of laps and throw out a few t-shirts. But strangely, no new ice is actually laid down…
And then the actual zambonis come out and resurface the ice. Back to hockey…
At the end of the second, it was 3-1 Cyclones…
And the Cyclones won 4-1!
We took an Uber home after the game, and our Uber bill was just 13¢ thanks to a $10 credit we had from last weekend. It was a great surprise ending to a great evening of Cyclones hockey! 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on November 3, 2016
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Today is October 28th, and today’s high is near 70Âş. And noon today, the ice skating rink on Fountain Square is officially open for the ice skating season…Â
Because why wouldn’t you want to ice skate before Halloween? Â Or have an Halloween costume contest ON the ice? Makes perfect sense to me.
Another head-scratcher is the location of the Queen City Exchange on Court Street…
Queen City Exchange is one of those bars with stock market-style beer pricing. Prices change in 25-cent increments as supply and demand of different beers fluctuate. Prices drop dramatically during three-minute “market crashes” announced by a ringing bell. After the market “closes” at 9 pm, beer prices will be fixed for the rest of the night due to some silly Ohio law.
It’s really a pretty fun bar concept as we got to witness first hand up in Michigan at Kalamazoo Beer Exchange. It’s just a really odd location because there isn’t anything else nearby.
Posted by Thadd F. on October 28, 2016
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The new parking garage and apartments on Sycamore between Seventh and Eighth Streets continue to rise higher and higher into the sky…
I forgot to walk over and see how the new Holiday Inn was looking over on Broadway Street. But the new hotel in The Banks has really been making a good deal of progress…
And the cutting-edge architectural wonder that was everybody’s least favorite parking garage on Fourth Street…
Now looks like this…
There’s always something new going up or coming down in downtown Cincinnati. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on October 18, 2016
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I stopped by the Weston Art Gallery to check out the new exhibition, Mario Pascual • Three Works…
Three Works is an selection of photographic manipulations that combines photography and everyday objects…
Interesting. Downstairs was a selection of photographs entitled After Industry, a selection of American and German photographers who examined post-industrial landscapes. Again, it was interesting. But nowhere near as interesting as the last exhibition, which I completely forgot to do a post about. The last exhibition, Another World featured paintings by the late Dennison Griffith, the former president of the Columbus College of Art and Design where I went to school. His paintings were a “surreal landscapes populated by a cast of colorful and biomorphic characters often tenuously tethered or supported by crutches or ladders.” And in the downstairs galleries was one of the coolest exhibitions that I’ve seen. It was called Lost in the Making, a series of intricately constructed miniature worlds by Christian Schmit. “His intimate and intricately constructed sculptures alluded to the secret and obsessive activities of unseen characters.” And it was one of the most amazing exhibitions I’ve ever seen. I could have stared at those little scenes for hours. The Weston Art Gallery always has something pretty neat. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on October 11, 2016
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All that talk about Huit yesterday got me thinking that it’s been a minute since I’ve eaten there. So today, I walked up to Court Street to get lunch from Huit Craft BBQ…
I got curry empanadas, which were delicious…
And I got Huit’s sweet and sour chicken. I’ve been on a real Asian food kick…
What a very tasty lunch. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on October 7, 2016
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