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OTR is in the running to win a national preservation competition and $25,000 in grants. Out of 100 places in the competition, OTR is in the top three with The Breakers in Newport, RI and the Dreamland Theatre in Little Rock as its top competitors. Voting ends at the end of the day tomorrow.
OTR is only a few buildings away from losing 50% of its valuable stock and the money along with leadership from the National Trust for Historic Preservation will go a long way in planning to save whats left of the neighborhood, an area containing more such buildings than New Orleans and is larger than Charleston's world-renowned historic district.
What does this have to do with me and you?
OTR needs your help in voting, please click here, register and then vote for OTR. I know your time is valuable and registering and voting takes a few minutes, but its a few minutes to save the largest collection of historic places there is anywhere.
Voting ends at midnight 5pm June 30th don't delay.
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Final Friday June
Still the best bang for the buck in Cincinnati.
Final Friday in OTR, see some art. Enjoy snacks and wine tasting.
Cheapest date around.
Unless you see something you like, then the skys the limit.
Have you tried Streetpops yet? The lemonaide strawberry is intense.
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over the river and through the woods to #beehiveBBQbash we go..
I had forgotten just how much campfires and drinking go together. They go together like two very complimentary things. Plus a perfect evening for hanging outside. Once I got over being cranky for having to get in a car I settled in and had good time.
Some guys are overly photogenic. I hate these guys.
what the hell? now I realize why halfway through the night someone stuffed this guy headfirst into the ground.
as a general rule I'm a dog disliker, but brown dog was cool.
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Sid Saturday
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coffee at Japps Since 1879
Not just craft cocktails but coffee too!
Sure Monday morning at the office you only have the energy to scoop Folgers into the coffee maker, but just like mixed drinks we're too sophisticated to endure that when we go out.
Enter some Frankenstein level brewing equipment for your coffee. Burners, evaporation tubes and Tesla coils.
I might be joking about the Tesla coils.
Maybe.
Any rate, Bob Bonder, of Tazza Mia fame. Bob who is to coffee what Jean-François is to waffles. he's popping up everywhere these days is helping setup and operate the high end coffee shop in the back of Japps Since 1879.
So the question is, will locally roasted gourmet coffee brewed up in one of these high end devices provide a good cup of coffee?
ARE YOU CRAZY?? Hell yeah it does.
Bob started explaining this to me about 15 times and got interrupted everytime so I'll just make stuff up. Pour ice cold water in the top, it works its way down cold brewing coffee that is flavorful and not bitter from heating the beans.
Close?
In the ballpark?
This I can explain, the steam from the heated water pushes that water into an upper reservoir where ground coffee is added. The heat is removed sucking the water through the grounds back into the lower reservoir. Couldn't believe it when I got home and didn't have a picture of the coffee. fantastic.
3 java coming right up
Japps Since 1879
No, I'm sure they didn't invent drinking in OTR, but it sure seems like it sometimes. And not the binge type drinking, I'm talking drinking and enjoying the best micro brews, wines and cocktails the city has to offer.
And the word is getting out, the bars in OTR are seemingly more crowded every weekend so it was only a matter of time before the next unique bar opened.
Tonight is the grand opening of Japps Since 1879, I wouldn't wait too long to get there, this is going to be huge.
Craft cocktails, wine and a good beer selection plus a cool space utilizing all the found object in the basement covering 130 years of Japp's history. Old light fixtures, cabinets and all the other odds and ends that found their way to the basement.
The raison d'être, a home for vagabond Molly Wellmann.
Molly explaining the Stammtisch table. Not VIP. Its the regulars table. Back in the day when you were new to town, you'd lean on the rail just like that and get the scoop to find jobs and places to live. I like the idea, you still see things like this now a days kind of. The same old guys at the same table in breakfast spots mostly.
The old looms for laying out hair and wig making, creates a cool space within a space.
These are not the syrupy sweet drinks that you need to be over 21 to buy but under 22 to enjoy, no. All homemade ingredients, created back in the "lab" one of the most fragrant places ever. The drinks are subtle, complex and refreshing, not a punch to the forehead sweet.
I had just got done talking to Molly about Ginger Beer and Dark & Stormys in which she admitted she's afraid of fermenting therefor no homemade ginger beer, when interestingly enough, I started getting tweets asking about it. So there you go Molly, ginger beer could be huge.
7 refreshing cocktails
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