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Downtown details.

Today is October 28th, and today’s high is near 70º. And noon today, the ice skating rink on Fountain Square is officially open for the ice skating season…

Because why wouldn’t you want to ice skate before Halloween? 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.

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by Thadd F. on October 28, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Central Business District

Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Court Street, Downtown, Fountain Square, Ice Skating Rink, October, Ohio, Queen City Exchange

Posted by Thadd F. on October 28, 2016

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Cyclones season tickets.

Genifer got us another 12-game pack of tickets to our Cincinnati Cyclones. And this afternoon, I walked down to US Bank Arena to pick up our hockey tickets…

They were busy getting ready for Carrie Underwood and Disney on Ice at US Bank Arena…

I sure hope the ‘Clones can add to their banner collection again this season…

🙂

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by Thadd F. on October 19, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Cyclones hockey, Sports

Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Cyclones, Downtown, October, Ohio, The Banks, US Bank Arena

Posted by Thadd F. on October 19, 2016

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Constructing Cincinnati.

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. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on October 18, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Central Business District

Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Constructing Cincinnati, Downtown, October, Ohio, Seen and noted

Posted by Thadd F. on October 18, 2016

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Obscure Cincinnati.

I saw this poster today for Obscure Cincinnati in downtown Cincinnati…

Obscure Cincinnati is an interactive art project by J. Miles Wolf. Over 40 photographs can be viewed along a four-block route in Downtown Cincinnati.

Large-scale photographs fill the windows and doorways of nine buildings in Downtown Cincinnati as part of the biennial FotoFocus exhibition program. Every photograph is visible from the street 24/7, and many are also visible while riding the ~~streetcar~~ Connector.

This public exhibit can be seen from the sidewalks within a short walking route starting at the CAC. Obscure Cincinnati is interactive; use the QR codes to unlock additional clues and photographs, then read some history behind each photo or the photographic technique used to capture each image. Viewers are encouraged to guess where each photograph was taken by playing the Obscure Cincinnati game.

Pretty neat stuff. I’ll have to walk the route to see the all photos and play the game really soon to see how well I know Cincinnati. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on October 14, 2016 • Permalink

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Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Downtown, FotoFocus, It's a sign, Obscure Cincinnati, October, Ohio, Seen and noted

Posted by Thadd F. on October 14, 2016

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Weston Art Gallery.

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. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on October 11, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Central Business District

Tagged 2016, Another World, Art, Christian Schmit, Cincinnati, Dennison W. Griffith, Downtown, Exhibition, Lost in the Making, Mario Pascual, October, Ohio, Three Works, Weston Art Gallery

Posted by Thadd F. on October 11, 2016

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Huit Craft BBQ.

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. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on October 7, 2016 • Permalink

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Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Downtown, Huit Craft BBQ, It's what's for lunch, October, Ohio, Takeout, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on October 7, 2016

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neuf.

I was walking to get lunch today and I when noticed some new signs in the window of what used to be Dynasty Chinese Restaurant on Main Street. It looks like Huit up on Court Street is opening a sister restaurant called neuf asian eatery …

It’s always nice when a new restaurant opens up right around the corner from work. I can’t wait to give it a try once it opens. And if it’s anything like Huit, you just know it’s going to be great. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on October 6, 2016 • Permalink

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Tagged 2016, Cincinnati, Downtown, It's a sign, Neuf Asian Eatery, October, Ohio, Seen and noted

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Downtown details.

I took a few photos running some errands around downtown this afternoon…

🙂

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by Thadd F. on October 3, 2016 • Permalink

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Tagged 2016, Central Business District, Cincinnati, Downtown, October, Ohio

Posted by Thadd F. on October 3, 2016

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Reds baseball game #15.

The last weekend of the Reds baseball season. We wanted to get in one more ballgame to make it 15 trips to Great American Ball Park for us this season. We were hanging out at Washington Park for the Pokopolis Pig & Whiskey festival before the game…

Then we walked across Race Street so Genifer could ride the ~~streetcar~~ CB Connector for the first time…

Here it comes…

Apparently, everyone downtown had the exact same idea as us. The Connector was stupid packed…

But we eventually made it to The Banks. We’re pretty sure we could have walked there quicker.

The Reds were playing the Cubs for this final series of the regular season. It was cool to get to see the Cubbies before they embark on their postseason run…

John Lester was on the hill for the Cubs…

Joey Votto’s had an extraordinary second half of the season…

It’s ridiculous how good he’s been this year after a slow start. Bases were full of Reds…

Eugenio Suarez went yard…

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Plenty of seats were still available…

So not surprisingly, we were able to find that Chick-fil-a cow…

And Rosie Red…

Last ball park snacks of the season…

Now the bases were chuck full of Cubbies…

BARGE!

The Cubs brought in Aroldis Chapman to pitch the eighth inning…

With two outs in the eighth, it was Aroldis Chapman versus Joey Votto…

Raisel Iglesias came in to try to shut the door on the Cubs…

And this one belongs to the Reds!

It was a long, tough season for the Reds. But the second half showed a lot of promise and potential for what could be next season. I just know now that for the next couple of weeks I’ll look at the clock see that it’s around 7pm, go to turn on the Reds game and have to remind myself that the season’s over. There isn’t any more Reds baseball until next Spring. And for me, that’s always the hardest part. It’s not the fact that they didn’t do well this year. It’s the fact that their season is over, and I have to wait all winter until I can get to watch my Reds play baseball again. 🙂

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by Thadd F. on October 1, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Reds baseball, Sports

Tagged 2016, Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Downtown, GABP, Great American BallPark, MLB, October, Ohio

Posted by Thadd F. on October 1, 2016

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Porkopolis Pig & Whiskey Festival.

It was hard to believe that today was already the first day of October…

We rode the 17 bus downtown to the Porkopolis Pig & Whiskey Festival. Last year, it took place on Horseshoe Casino’s event lawn, and was really a lot of fun. This year’s 2nd annual Pig & Whiskey Festival took place at Washington Park. And I have to say when we walked up, we were a little underwhelmed…

The sizeable event lawn at Washington Park kind of swallowed the event whole…

But we had some time to kill before the start of the Reds game, so we got some tickets and soldiered on for some BBQ and whiskey…

First, we tried whiskey infused with sake. A bold new liquor experience bringing the best of East meets West from Karate Cowboy…

They were offering a couple of different cocktails. A pineapple mule…

And a honey cran apple cider…

So we tried one of each. Both were absolutley delightful…

We also tried a root beer flavored bourbon from Rebel Yell…

For food, we started with The Pockey from Huit…

Asian style ground pork with Chihuahua Cheese rolled in a flour torilla, deep fried and sauced with Huit’s house made sweet sambai…

Delicious and surprisingly filling. And we shared some really incredible St. Louis style ribs from Just Q’in…

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Amazing ribs. The meat fell right off the bone. I was also going to get some burnt ends from Velvet Smoke BBQ but we couldn’t find the room to put them away…

So we got a Jack Tennessee Fire and Canadian Dry instead, which is a delicious cocktail…

And the Met Life Blimp was hovering over Washington Park the whole time…

Pig & Whiskey was definitely more fun last year. But we got to sample some alcohols we wouldn’t have normally got to try. We definitely want to add both Karate Cowboy flavors, and the Rebel Yell root beer bourbon to our home bar reserves. And whenever you get to hang out at Washington Park and gaze at Music Hall, it’s never a bad afternoon…🙂

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by Thadd F. on October 1, 2016 • Permalink

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Tagged 2016, Blimp, Cincinnati, Downtown, Met Life Blimp, October, Ohio, OtR, Over-the-Rhine, Porkopolis Pig & Whiskey Festival, Washington Park

Posted by Thadd F. on October 1, 2016

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