5chw4r7z:: the ethos of downtown Cincinnati

PopShop + Vitaminwater fashion show

The pimped out space on the ground floor of the Hanke Building has been knocking out shows all month leading up to MPMF. The fashion show last night, set against the backdrop of the Higher Level Art murals was just the latest. Is this a new standard in Cincinnati, according to Nathan Hurst, it could be. He talked last week in a Cincinnati Profile story about the string of fashions shows happening this fall.
If it is or isn't, the local fashion scene is coming on strong. Last night featured clothing from Northside's Chicken Lays An Egg, Hyde Park's Fetish and OTR's Lindsey Lusignolo.

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Cincinnati Park[ing] Day

A worldwide event, Park[ing] Day this year involved over 800 parks in 30 countries.
Park[ing] Day is a one day event held every year where citizens turn metered parking spots into a temporary park. A public space.
It seemed like the last couple years it was gaining traction in Cincinnati. Until this year that is, on a day that dawned cool and overcast everyone stayed home. Its a little disappointing, but after lunch it was brilliant out.
You want some IRL old school social networking as apposed to the new fangled virtual type?
Sit at a table in front of Park+Vine for a couple hours.
Next year we need to find a way to get Artswave and the Art Academy involved. Who else, there has to be other creatives out there who could really sink their teeth into this.

Chris and Otto looking for a good parking space to turn into a park.

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Bier Laufen

The World’s Fastest Parade, held Saturday at Christian Moerlein's hub for everything beer related in OTR. It was held in conjunction with the Hudy 14K run earlier in the morning. I'm outside the runners circles so I saw hardly any info on this and wouldn't have even known about it if I hadn't had a chance encounter with one of the reps organizing it.
The variety of "floats" showed just how far these guys thought the race part of this out. While some of the entry's were little more than floats, Arnold's and Neon's put their thinking caps on and built thin nimble racing machines with no sensitivity at all to the parade aspect of the race.

The Hoist float

Arnold's hyper fast moonshine powered bathtub.

The Neon's entry, like the best racers, looking the entire way through the corner

John Kasich, being cool, hanging with the cool kids, doing things that are cool. That's what its all about people.
How did Little Kings get the governor down here to race and keep it so quiet?

In the end it was the Neon's lithe and fast bathtub that set the fastest time and took home the glory.
Congrats.

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Sid Saturday

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First look: Jimmy G's

The same guys who brought you Lunar/Launchpad, Scott Sheridan, Bill Foster, Ryan and Ron Goldschmidt and Chef Jimmy Gibson are at it again, preparing to bring their expertise to your dining experience. This was more of a pre-sneak peak than a sneak peak as they're working frantically to have the old Wah-Mee space at 5th and Elm completed for a November opening.
My first reaction was I walked into a time capsule of Wah-Mee and the process of deconstruction was going on, this place hasn't been touched since the 50's. Then our guide and partner/owner Ryan Goldschmidt told us, "think Mad Men" and I remembered last December Scott Sheridan told me he wanted the space to channel the Rat Pack and it all made sense.
I never would have guessed how big the place was, it went on forever, there are 3 rooms in the back for parties, a smaller one for a bout 14 people and two larger rooms that when combined could probably host a small reception.
If you are familiar at all with the Cincinnati food scene Chef Jimmy Gibson doesn't need an introduction, he was the Executive Chef for Jeff Ruby forever and has his hand in other projects as well. The food on hand to sample was amazing and if you've had appetizers at Launch or FB's you know whats in store.
They'd like the average price to be around $25 a person so it shouldn't price out anyone looking for a fine dining experience.

The VIP pitch, nowadays we call this crowd sourcing you need some deep pockets but if you have the ability to prepay you can get up to a 40% bump on your money. Back when we were talking about opening a coffee shop we were going to do this, selling $125 gift cards for $100 before the opening to raise cash.
Private wine lockers, don't worry, the swans aren't staying.

One of the bigger private rooms.

This is going to be a nice addition for the south west corner of downtown, on one hand you have the sandwiches at Main Stay Rock, which are fantastic by the way, or you have the run of the mill bar food at Champs, or you could hike 5 or 6 blocks for something upscale.
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Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati

The museum, ranked as one of the best in country had their annual open house with a chilli cook-off, the 911 Memorial Poker Run and free admission to the museum.The event this year included artifacts from the World Trade Center.

Amazing the elaborate system they had created, when a firebox was pulled the central firehouse could "compute" the location of the box, then notify the closest fire house. I sometimes forget that computers in one form or another have been used for year before modern digital computers were invented.