Make Cincinnati Weird!

With one bridge bright yellow, and a purple bridge, along with there being recent talk as to the color to paint the suspension bridge by Kentucky. I read many want to paint it a bright kentucky blue. Good idea.
The Taylor-Southgate Bridge is visible above the outfield bleachers of the new stadium.  I think it would [...]

A.K.A. We’ll Turn Main Street into a Street Party Whether You Like It Or Not
Need:

 200 of your closest friends.
200 of your closest friends’ beers of choice.

Plan:
City Hall won’t block off Main Street to create an appealing and enjoyable downtown weekend entertainment area, so we’ll just have to do it ourselves. They’re too uptight to take [...]

“A full-size vending machine was converted graphically and functionally to dispense one-pound rolls of goetta,” Balasa said. “It’s the world’s only one.”
Goetta, a German dish, is often compared to breakfast sausage or scrapple. It is a unique, delicious and nutritious mixture of pork, beef, steel-cut (pinhead) oats, and seasonings.
Ohio and Money magazines featured stories [...]

This strange house juts out all over and reminds me of an out-of-control tree in a magic forest.
The front part is like a huge teepee with small pieces of colored tile adorning the bottom and a stained glass room bulging from the side.
A red metal staircase leads to the door and wooden shingles of all [...]

This is a detail that is missed by people who don’t look up. Flanking the entrance to the Sawyer Point park on the Ohio River are a set of steamboat stacks. At the top are four flying pigs, celebrating the city of Cincinnati’s one-thriving hog processing and packing industry. In the television program “WKRP In [...]

A tour of the 2 mile tunnel today, as one might expect, is a surreal experience. As the tubes are just below street level, the sounds of automobiles, police sirens, and even sidewalk conversations can be heard through the vents, and the tunnels have that musty “subway smell”. Surprisingly, the 80 year old tunnels and [...]

The 26-foot tall Metrobot is the sidewalk ambassador for The Contemporary Arts Center. Its towering presence not only communicates The Center’s location but also imparts messages about exhibitions and events on its electronic message-board-arm and tells time on its wrist-watch-clock. Video monitors and a public telephone located in its legs invite passers-by to interact with [...]

Need:

A few large bedsheets sewn together somehow
Acrylic paint (various colors)
Metal or wooden poles for weight

Plan:
Sew the bedsheets together into a rectangular sign with heavy duty needle and thread (whatever that means). Paint in the most colorful way possible Loosen Up Cincinnati! or some such message across the entire area. Sew the poles into the [...]