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Ohio and Greece

A special thanks goes out to Strange Maps for putting this particularly interesting map together. It’s pretty simple, it overlays a flag of another country over a US state with a comparable population. In this case our beloved Ohio (11,485,910) compares to Greece (11,216,708).

Some other Greek connections include Cincinnati’s strong Greek community that will celebrate the 35th Annual Panegyri Greek Festival the weekend of June 26. The Cincinnati Greek community also brought us Cincinnati’s famous Skyline Chili.

It’s also worth noting a couple of my favorite Gyro places around town – Chicago Gyro and Sebastian’s Gyros. They are both fantastic, but Chicago Gyro is more centrally located and has slightly better tzatziki sauce. Sebastian’s will lure you over to the westside and treat you with its cozy feel.

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Tags Cincinnati, events, food, greece, ohio

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This Week In Soapbox 6/9

This Week In Soapbox (TWIS) you can read about the opening of several new restaurants including World Food Bar at historic Findlay Market, Pergola Restaurant & Bakery in Fort Thomas and the return of Hamburger Mary’s to its previous downtown location. Also in this week’s Development News section you can read about Norwood’s first community garden and the $100 million Kenwood Towers project.

If you’re interested in staying in touch with some of the latest development news in Cincinnati please check out this week’s stories and sign up for the weekly E-Zine sent out by Soapbox Cincinnati.

TWIS 6/9:

World Food Bar opening at historic Findlay Market – full article
Hamburger Mary’s is back, baby – full article
Pergola Restaurant & Bakery bringing fresh and local food concept to Ft. Thomas – full article
Community garden sprouts in Norwood at Linden Pointe on the Lateral – full article
Residents work for zone change for $100M Kenwood Towers project – full article

Tags Cincinnati, developments, downtown, environment, findlay market, food, ft. thomas, norwood, over-the-rhine

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This Week In Soapbox 6/2

This Week In Soapbox (TWIS) you can read about the $24 million Corryville Crossings project in Uptown, the annual end-of-year DAAP Works exhibition, new development projects in Lower Price Hill, new features at the fabulous Bootsy’s produced by Jeff Ruby, the $10 million master plan project for the Children’s Home of Cincinnati and the scenic view corridor studies being conducted by The Hillside Trust.

TWIS 6/2:

$24M Corryville Crossings project pushing full steam ahead – full article
DAAP Works to showcase some of nation’s best design work – full article
New development projects transforming formerly industrial Lower Price Hill – full article
Bootsy’s ready to serve with new features fit to impress – full article
Children’s Home gets started on their $10M master plan – full article
Hillside Trust working to promote and preserve scenic Columbia Parkway – full article

Tags Cincinnati, corryville, developments, downtown, education, environment, events, food, lower price hill, uptown

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This Week In Soapbox 5/19

This Week In Soapbox (TWIS) you can read about Rookwood Pottery’s new OTR digs, new restaurants in College Hill and Newport, downtown Cincinnati residential trends, new life for the historic Crosley Building in Camp Washington, a new water sports complex on Cincinnati’s upper westside and my feature article on Ohio’s 3-C Corridor that would introduce high-speed rail to Ohio’s primary metropolitan areas.

TWIS 5/19:

Linking Ohio through the power of rail – full article
College Hill business district welcomes Shhhhh Restaurant – full article
Historic Crosley Building may see new life – full article
Rookwood Pottery completes first phase of $18M rehabilitation project in OTR – full article
Newport Pizza Co. adds locally owned pizzeria to Monmouth – full article
Wake Nation brings water sports thrill to Midwest with new Cincinnati park – full article
Downtown Cincinnati experiencing steady population growth and stable selling prices – full article

Tags architecture, camp washington, Cincinnati, college hill, developments, downtown, food, newport, ohio, over-the-rhine, retail, Transportation

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2009 Taste of Cincinnati

The 31st annual Taste of Cincinnati festival takes place this Memorial Day weekend from Saturday through Monday on Fifth Street in downtown Cincinnati.

The Taste of Cincinnati is the nation’s longest running culinary arts festival and typically draws around 500,000 visitors to the heart of Cincinnati. At this year’s event there will be approximately 45 area restaurants and more than 60 musical acts over five stages.

There are nine new restaurants this year including Cafe Istanbul, J. Gumbo’s, Keystone Bar and Grill, Kyosin Japanese Restaurant, Mixx Ultra Lounge, Mac’s Pizza Pub, Roher’s Tavern, United Dairy Farmers and the much anticipated Vitor’s Bistro that won two awards at the “Best of Taste” competition.

Each entree being served is $5 or less and the festival is free and open to the public. On Saturday and Sunday, the Taste of Cincinnati will run from noon to midnight and on Monday it will run from noon to 9pm.

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Tags Cincinnati, downtown, events, food, fountain square, music, taste of cincinnati