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Cincinnati Labyrinth Project

The Editor — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:05:11 +0000

Well, I must say this is a different sort of cause. But a cause I can get behind. I give you the Cincinnati Labyrinth Project:

Our goal is to facilitate the sale of the Cincinnati Bengals and the creation of a massive stone labyrinth in Paul Brown Stadium.

As a Bengals fan, I hate Mike Brown. And I hate what he’s done to my football team. Something like just might make me feel good about their sweetheart lease, and all the prime riverfront property they use up for 10 events (mostly losses) a year. But I digress.

Imagine that! A giant labyrinth the size of PBS! That would be too cool. For a while anyway. David Bowie would be happy. Be sure to sign the petition.

via Visualingual

Ride The Ducks

The Editor — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:59:20 +0000

Newport joins the likes of Boston, Seattle, Baltimore, and San Francisco by becoming the eighth U.S. location to offer Ride The Ducks tours, a unique and fun – but also educational – sightseeing tour. These boat-shaped cars… er, car-shaped boats… er, boat-shaped cars can travel on land and water, providing a unique tour route never offered before in this area. Like the official website says, you can laugh and learn by land! And you can laugh and learn by sea! What a country!

Photo by P. Reddy/The Enquirer

From Soapbox Cincinnati:

Aquarium owner Herschend Family Entertainment has opened Ride the Ducks Newport, a 40-minute tour that includes 25 to 30 minutes on the Ohio River, with a land circuit of the Great American Ball Park, Paul Brown Stadium, the aquarium, the World Peace Bell, and the historic homes on Covington’s Riverside Drive.

Tickets are $13 for adults and $10 for children and are available from a kiosk located outside of the aquarium.

I saw some a tour leaving the station the other day on the way to a movie. It would be ideal for out-of-town guests, but I can’t wait to try it out for myself.

Dancing Across Cincinnati

The Editor — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:20:27 +0000

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. But, hey, whatever.

All Aboard The Anderson Ferry!

The Editor — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:16:33 +0000

For some reason, I always want to call the Anderson Ferry the Harper’s Ferry. …Cool boat to get across the Ohio river… first battle of the Civil War… you can see my confusion. In any case, I hadn’t ridden the ferry in a while, so I took my camera out for a drive one sunny afternoon. Which suddenly became a dreary rainy afternoon – damn you Cincinnati springtime weather!

Trivia: For high school prom, I took my date to out to dinner at the Fore & Aft, and crossed the Anderson Ferry to get there. At the Fore & Aft, I impressed my date when I used an Entertainment Book coupon for dinner. I believe the Fore & Aft has since sank.

More at the Anderson Ferry.

Waiting for the ferry to come back.

That’s a rough approach to the ferry. Just kidding, that’s one of the spares ferries parked in the ferry lot.

The view at river level…

Accckkk, pirates!

View from the rear of the boat, hindered by the unnecessarily big truck.

The other shore is in sight.

Nice spot to read

The Editor — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:29:26 +0000

There’s a man sitting on a bench reading a book by the Ohio river. He’s there everyday and he never moves.

It’s a statue of James Bradley, a slave turned educator and Underground Railroad conductor.

He fools me everytime I walk down there. In the wintertime, someone usually puts a scarf around his neck and a hat on his head to keep him warm. In the springtime, when everyone is still paying attention to the Reds, you may find him with a Reds cap on his head and a pennant in his hand. I have yet to see any Bengals gear on him, I guess because there usually isn’t any reason for him to cheer.

Sawyer Point’s Flying Pigs

The Editor — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:26:00 +0000

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 Cincinnati” newsman Les Nesman won a number of fictional “Silver Sow” awards. The pork industry has since moved to Iowa and the Carolinas, but locals still affectionately refer to Cincinnati as “Porkopolis.”