Cool little party at the American Sign Museum for Enjoy the Arts last week.
Love the new space for the Sign Museum. The old space was cramped and there was always a hot sign six feet from your face. The new space is open and much cooler, both in temperature and ambiance.
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Fuel Coffee just 4 miles out of downtown at 2726 Riverside Dr. On weekdays you should be getting off the Columbia Pkwy rat race and driving into the office on Riverside, then you could stop for a relaxing coffee at Fuel.
The weekends however are made for enjoying a confluence of cars. And doubly so this Saturday, a car show made seemingly for Fuel called Cars and Coffee that travels around the country checking out all the coolest spots for, yes cars and coffee.
If you have cool car or you love them and even if you have no aspirations to be on TV you should stop in tomorrow at Fuel just to soak in the scene. Everything from Ferraris to 1930's Packards show up, something for everyone.
8am to 12pm every Saturday.
John Cranley in a quest for the office of mayor, along with his partners, the anti-city hate group COAST are a political Forrest Gump mindlessly opposing everything in their path with no idea why.
He saw an opportunity and helped oppose the parking plan designed to balance the budget and save city jobs then released a his own budget that made no sense. In a quest to better hide his prejudices he has now created a new budget that makes even less sense and released it on an unbelievably busy news day.
So no one would notice?
John Cranley a few weeks ago on his way to killing the plan to save police/fire jobs said “It’s a 100 percent hidden tax increase on the citizens of Cincinnati.” in reference to parking fees.
And his big plan now to balance the budget?
Raise $6 million a year by writing more tickets.
In his budget he says, "While I strongly oppose the parking meter privatization plan, I believe the City can earn more than it currently does from its parking meters by stepping up enforcement..."
So instead of having everyone pay the true cost of parking he wants to turn every Cincinnati citizen into a criminal.
He also specifically mentions a shell game to change the funding of Focus52, the economic plan to target all of Cincinnati's neighborhood business districts for improvements. Improvements learned from what worked in OTR.
So it is becoming more clear that its not Downtown vs the rest of Cincinnati like he has made it out to be, its his Incline District vs the world.
While I'm on the subject of the anti-city hate group COAST, how about their mouthpiece Chris Smitherman?
“if you like this parking deal, then you hate America.” - NAACP President Christopher Smitherman
Smitherman days later also wrote: “The streetcar operation puts city jobs at risk. "
This couldn't be further from the truth.
Mr. Smitherman is relentless in his cluelessness, and its outrageous for him to think that anyone could disagree with him. Its hard to wrap ones head around the uninspired banality of Smitherman/Cranley’s so-called “leadership” when both of them in fact helped kill the plan to save police and fire jobs.
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An Eco-friendly event comprised of an installation of original sculptures made of recycled and/or recyclable materials in celebration of Earth Day. Ecosculpt continues 3CDC's movement of events from Fountain Square to Washington Park. Maybe it makes more sense here but I always like seeing the art on the square.
There are fewer entries this year but they make up for it in quality, two of the installations are amazing.
And of course when traveling to see Ecosculpt you should travel ecoly. Is that a word? Doesn't matter, It is now.
Spontaneity, it always has a way of making good things great.
We headed out for Northside Second Saturdays hungry, knowing one thing, we wanted pizza or tacos. I know, two very different things, but there it was. Imagine our surprise when we saw people walking into what used to be the Painted Fish but now is home to Barrio Tequileria. They had me hooked at the sugar skull motif, no way we could not go in after that.
We walked in and found out they had just opened the night before! Things were getting better and better.
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Make like a tree and...drink a beer
Most anything that isn't downtown, for me at any rate, takes the planning a preparation of an extended Himalayan adventure. Which explains why it took so long for me to finally visit MadTree Brewing. A visit I had been anticipating greatly. I met Brady Duncan, got a beer then wandered around around.
I liked the spare design of MadTree's bar and tasting area, everything you need, nothing you don't. Most of what is in the bar area has been repurposed from what was left from the previous businesses occupying the space. The tables were fabricated by Chris Daniel of Brazee Street Studios from found steel and wood doors and he also designed the Madtree logo. The metal grates surrounding and hanging over the bar to define the space were fab'd from cages also left behind by former tenants.
