The Genius of Water
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once upon a time downtown
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Sid Saturday
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I (still) believe in Father Christmas
...the message there is that faith in something that is not true, as long as it is faith in goodness, is worth the huge cover-up, while disbelieving leads to all types of evil behavior such as scooping pennies off the poor, scaring little children, and being a general stick in the mud.[where: 45202] best place to learn how to live downtown cincinnati ohio the ethos of Cincinnati
- - Zulieka
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vintage Christmas
I never tire of these pictures, the first of Ms. 5chw4r7z's mom, and one of her aunt. Downtown Cleveland, I think it was Higbee's but I'm not sure.
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Christmases long ago
I love this stuff, Ms.5chw4r7z has all these boxes of old pictures. Its always like a treasure hunt looking through them.
And yes, for all you young wise guys they did celebrate Christmas way back in the nineteen hundred and seventies.
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Sid Saturday
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The Cincinnati Streetcar. Its on!!
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a low winter sun
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olde time Christmas
My father and Aunt
I wish you a hopeful Christmas[where: 45202] best place to learn how to live downtown cincinnati ohio the ethos of Cincinnati
I wish you a brave New Year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
Hallelujah Noel be it Heaven or Hell
The Christmas you get you deserve
-- Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
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a satyr, Ms Claus and Father Christmas walk into a bar...
Just another crazy day in Cincinnati overrun with Santas and every other Christmas character you can think of.
1 Santa down the chimney
Walk on Woodburn
A surprisingly warm December night for Walnuts Hills Walk on Woodburn. Warm by December standards at any rate and it felt good. I was pleasantly surprised to see quiet a few people out all things considered. And a neighborhood in flux, there were a few more shops open, the Cincinnati Bicycle Co! and Steinkamp Outfitters. Plus a bunch of new salons. And your usual art galleries.
Interesting.
Also, a mural of a horse and a real horse!
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Sid Saturday
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dressed up for the holidays
Downtown is a concrete jungle but its magic when covered in snow and ice.
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A Fairytale of New York
The best non-traditional Christmas song ever.
A happy little Christmas ditty of dysfunction, misplaced expectations and domestic violence.
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Queen City Cookie
may your cookie jar never be empty ~ old Italian blessing
I may have made that up, but you really have no worries with Queen City Cookie in the Northside.
Queen City Cookie recently finished their new cafe complete with coffee, espressos and Madisono’s ice cream. And their location, around the corner from Take the Cake which will soon be closing is timely since they've also snatched up Take the Cake's former co-owner Doug Faulkner.
One opportunity closes and another opens as they say.
Right now its pastries and ice cream, I can't wait to see what they come up with in the future.
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after one week are the lunatics running the asylum?
An open letter to the mayor from Council Members Wendell Young, Yvette Simpson and Chris Seelbach
Cincinnati's progress and momentum are undeniable. As elected leaders, we want to be part of continuing our success, to ensure we continue to grow, create good-paying jobs and foster a welcoming, inclusive environment.
That's why we are very disappointed in Mayor Cranley's first week in office, causing us great concern about the direction of the city for the next four years under his leadership.
On Nov. 27, The Cincinnati Enquirer said it was concerned Mayor Cranley was not reigning in his "dictatorial tendencies" in order to be "diplomatic, respectful and collaborative." We agree.
Cranley's first week lacked structure, included attempts to purposefully silence the voters of Cincinnati and elected members of council and seemed to really crumble when Cranley delayed the vote of his city manager choice, shortly before the very competent Willie Carden, eliminated himself from consideration altogether.
The first meeting of the new council started with the "Streetcar Committee" meeting without any agreed upon rules, any agreed upon committee assignments and without any ordinances to actually vote on. The chair of the committee, Vice Mayor David Mann, had to recess the meeting because he hadn't even seen the 11 ordinances Mayor Cranley had prepared.
When the ordinances were presented, they contained financial allocations, preventing them from going to a referendum, even though Mayor Cranley had called that right "sacred " earlier in the year when fighting to put the "Parking Modernization Plan" up to a vote of the people. As Council Member Sittenfeld said in chambers, "What makes a sacred right sacred is that it doesn't go away when you disagree on the issue."
The week continued by Mayor Cranley delaying a vote on his city manager choice after he had planned to have council vote on the decision without a national search and without ensuring that every council member had the ability to talk with his selection before voting.
With the vote delayed, daylong discussions of the streetcar continued, where Mayor Cranley tried to prevent Council Member Sittenfeld from speaking (and had to be overruled by an 8-1 majority of council) and misled Council Members Mann and Flynn into believing they could look at the streetcar numbers independently and ultimately decide to continue the project (when Cranley knew he would veto any decision to bring the project back to life).
Given that this is only the first week of Mayor Cranley's four-year term, we have hope he can change, and does so fast. That's why we are asking him to slow down, start caring about process and listening to every voice before decisions are made. We ask him to have more respect for the sacred rights of voters and the voice of every member of council. And we ask him to think about how he can be more collaborative and less divisive.
We're all in this together. And we hope Mayor Cranley starts to get that.
Email the new mayor your thoughts HERE
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Fountain Square in the snow
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