One of the original founding board members of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Jeff Syroney, on why he won’t ever live in a city without a Fringe Festival:
I’ve made the decision that I won’t live in a city that doesn’t have its own Fringe Festival. A Fringe city makes a statement about itself. It says it’s [...]
[ May 27, 2008 9:00 pm to May 28, 2008 3:00 am. ] The Fringe Festival is here! Shows start this Wednesday, May 28, 2008. But if you can’t wait for that, the Visual Fringe starts off at the Cincinnati Art Academy in Over-The-Rhine on Tuesday, May 27, 2008, from 6-9 pm. After that, the official kickoff party rages from 9pm-1am at the Know Theatre. [...]
Watch Robbie Knieval set a world record last Saturday by jumping over 24 lined-up delivery trucks. The second video of the jump is from a little further away, which I think gives you a better sense of just how much distance Knieval covered flying through the air on his motorcycle.
[ May 24, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Sometimes I regret I wasn’t alive yet during Evel Knieval’s heyday. But opportunities to witness mind-blowing foolishness are still there! To wit:
On October 25, 1975, Evel Knievel jumped over 14 Greyhound buses on his motorcycle at Kings Island, setting a viewing record for ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” with a 22.3 rating and [...]
Found via Soapbox Cincinnati, Steve Stephens from the Columbus Dispatch writes about some of the most unique grocery stores in Ohio, including a trip to Jungle Jim’s International Market. The brief but very entertaining review I think is just barely adequate enough to give a true sense of scale of Jungle Jim’s to someone [...]
