Make Cincinnati Weird!

Visualingual remarks:
One of my favorite Over-the-Rhine anomalies — the 20 cent payphone! There are several of these north of Liberty St. [this one is on Elm]. There’s probably a mundane explanation, but all I can think is, when was this installed? I remember payphones costing a quarter back in the mid-80s. Now, if you can [...]

[ May 3, 2008; 10:00 pm; ] One night only, the Hellblinki Sextet from North Carolina will perform music of distinction with dazzling performances by Cincinnati’s own Barnyard Burlesque. Presented by Cloven Hoof Theatre.
The show takes place in the Mockbee building (formerly SS Nova) on Central Pkwy. on Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 10pm - 1am.  If you haven’t seen a [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about these ladies for a long time. I’ve been trying to make it to a match for even longer. Maybe this, their 3rd season, will hold the first match I get to see.
Proud members of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), the Cincinnati Rollergirls are Cincinnati’s all-female, [...]

[ May 28, 2008 to June 7, 2008. ]

This year’s Fringe Festival kicks off on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. See the website for details.

The Queen City Zapatistas are a Cincinnati area marching band that is equally capable of playing parades, dances, weddings, funerals, parties, serenades, the front lobby of your office building, baseball and football games etc… We play a high octane mix of Dixieland, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Klezmer, New Orleans style funeral marches, 2nd line arrangements [...]

I first saw the fire-breathing antics of Dante’s Gypsy Circus at the Northside Rock & Roll Carnival and 4th of July Parade and Festival at Hoffner Park last year (where I also saw the Pickled Brothers sideshow and pigged out on gyros - that was a fun night). I saw them again recently marching [...]

[ June 19, 2008 to June 22, 2008. ] The second installation (and I use that word intentionally) of the Scorched Nuts festival is from June 19-22 2008. It is the Ohio version of the famous Burning Man festival held out in the Nevada desert.

More on the Scorched Nuts website.

If you’re ever awake at 5:45 am on Fridays, watching the Channel 12 traffic report - and if you’re like me, you aren’t - then you may have already seen this.
If it’s Friday, and there are no major accidents, the 5:45 am traffic report on Fridays is Dance Party Friday.
Spotted in this eyar’s CityBeat Best [...]