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I agree about Party Source's prices on beer. They seem to be a few bucks higher than the Stop & Go in Clifton, which is my normal go-to beer spot as Jimbo keeps an excellent selection in stock all the time. Even the beer and wine store in Findlay Market has a lower price point than Party Source on most of their beer selection.

Perhaps I misunderstood, but the $80,000 is what is expected to be left in the contingency at the end of construction given the worst case scenario plays out, correct? It’s not what is left currently? The Enquirer, and even the brief comment I heard on NPR this morning, weren’t exactly making that clear. If you finish the project and still have money left in the contingency budget, you did fine. The narrative Cranley is pushing seems to be that there’s $80k left and we still have two years of construction, which is incredibly misleading.

I was under the impression that Sandstorm was not unlike a Rockroll, but that it was generally frowned upon by most on the internet as it originated some place stupid like Reddit rather than having a more natural birth on 4chan. If you found someone enjoying Sandstorm ironically, I don't know if they'd classify as a hipster or just out of touch.

I think the simple fact that Rhinegeist’s beers are $1 more than they should be must be giving them a huge profit margin. Most breweries in the area have (or at least had at the time) a $5 standard beer price, Rhinegiest charges $6. The ingredients and processes aren’t all that different cost-wise from brewery to brewery, so they’re cleaning up. Their six packs are also $1 more than a Moerlein six pack.

^ When I first saw that I just assumed it was Johnny in a bald cap trying to make the conversation all about himself, but I guess that explanation makes a bit more sense.

I could show you that's incorrect, but it would only feed your desire to wallow in the irrelevant. See you Sunday. You could be right, depending upon which convenience store Manziel happened to be walking out of when you took his measurement. Or Jacksonville and Houston?

Manziel is 2" shorter than Dalton, not 1".

They have used 34% of the $9.7 million contingency. There's $6.4 million left.

^ For $600,000 the prices are in the $250 per square foot range, or more than double the average in Cincinnati. Though these are nicer homes, in a more difficult to work urban setting, and on land with a high value/demand, they are still making some big profit margins at that price.

Almost as scared as we were for Brady Quinn. Given the Brown's history of awful QB draft picks (probably the only team that has been worse at that than the Bengals) I'd be surprised if he wasn't a flop. I predict Hoyer comes back in sometime in the second half.

I got one too, I was hoping for a cheaper option like $10 so I could give them out as stocking stuffers or gag gifts for suburbanites.

Big 12 Officials Met with Cincinnati This is good news, and it seems that this is something more than a rumor.

Maybe Lewis would rather play against Manziel, and wanted to give the Browns no choice but to start him. How pissed will the fans in Cleveland be if Lewis gets to take a jab at their savior and he doesn’t get a chance to play?

We kind of had the designation, then the Big East suffered death by a thousand cuts ESPN. Wouldn't it be tragic if we joined B12 and then that conference was destroyed as the others decided to go to 16 members. Or we should just realign and have 8 conferences of 16 teams, with the champion of each getting a playoff spot - but that's way too logical, and doesn't make enough money for everyone. At very least, the 5 conferences should all go to 16 teams, two divisions a piece, with the winners of each playing each other in a championship game to get a playoff spot. A 6th playoff spot should go to an at-large team from the other conferences.

So UC split the conference title with Memphis and will play in the Military Bowl. Aside from that, speculation is brewing about the Big 12 expanding, with UC being one of the obvious choices should they choose to do so. The consensus seems to be the lack of a conference championship game is the only reason TCU and Baylor were leapfrogged by OSU to get the final playoff spot, but the NCAA won't let a conference with fewer than 12 teams have a conference championship game, and the Big 12 only has 10 teams. Cincinnati, ECU, Memphis make sense to spread the conference out closer to WVU, and potentially make east and west divisions. BYU and Boise State would also be candidates. I wonder if Tuberville made any friends in the Big 12 leadership while at Texas Tech?

those releases look great as usual, but given their interest in local history i am surprised great lakes does not make a bock beer for late winter/spring, especially as poc, erinbrew, schmidts and black label all did. in fact seasonal bock was thee only readily available craft style beer available at all in the big commercial brewing dominated days. it's kind of a lost style, it seems to have never taken off with any modern craft brewers. Bocks are big down in Cincy, with almost every local craft brewery making one. We also have a "Bockfest" parade and weekend-long celebration, if you're ever up for a weekend trip. It's actually the only two days a year I am willing to drink bocks - I'm just not a fan of the style.

^ The verticality of the press box/suites is impressive, and the view you catch of it from various nooks and crannies around campus are interesting. Prior to this expansion, the stadium was almost a surprise because of the way it is tucked down into the urban landscape. Now it still has that quaint feel of being a bowl sunk into the campus, but has a relative verticality that is unique amongst stadiums, so far as I know. I agree that it will be loud, especially with the amount of glass on the vertical face of the expansion, and the hard surfaces past the north end zone. It won’t seat a ton of people, but it’ll sound louder than much bigger stadiums.

This is a newer charge, too. There used to be a minimal fee for a gas connection, and the usage based charge was higher. Sometime around 2008 or 2009, when I also lived in an apartment that only used gas to the stove, the fee was introduced and it was $25. I went from $10 a month gas bill to $35 overnight, a 350% increase in price despite using the same minimal amount of gas to cook a few nights a week. Even owning a home now that uses gas heat, during the summer months I only use gas for the stove and I’m in the same boat – paying $40 a month to be able to cook. When I had an apartment in OTR I had an electric stove and only used gas for heat. I would call up Duke every April and October to have them turn off/on the gas when the heating season rolled around because I was not about to pay $35 a month and not use any gas whatsoever. I actually had an operator try to tell me I wasn’t allowed to do that once, but they gave in when I started to complain and ask for a supervisor.

I have always heard that the problem with Sam Adams is that it’s a very industrial facility and it’s running at capacity most of the time. They would need an addition to do a tap room – but that could make for a great building in their lot on the corner of Liberty and Central.

^ A quick look at the breakdown by city shows that good transit, and specifically the rail transit, correlates with a lower percentage of commutes by car.

If you are in the city and use Cincinnati’s aggregate buying, you are already getting your electric from someone else (my bill says FirstEnergy is the supplier). It looks like Duke does provide natural gas, though. I have always doubted that going off on your own to buy gas/electric from another provider would be cheaper than sticking with the city-wide lowest bid, but that depends on a lot of things. I don’t think there’s substantial/consistent savings (though you can gamble on fixed rates/terms), but if the purpose is to make a statement, it’ll probably only cost a few bucks a month at most for most residences.

Oh how the bitter tears of SheepBoy only makes this sweeter!!! Did you mean to quote someone else? What's SheepBoy in reference to? My comment was a pretty logical one: OSU should not have leapfrogged TCU primarily because they managed to score a lot of points in one game. They playoffs don’t make any sense, and like all bowl games they’re primarily focused on money, while maintaining just enough integrity to not be too obvious a joke.

College football: where running up the score gets you into the playoffs.

That was ugly. The Bengals still have a slim lead in the division, though. They just have to match the Ravens and/or Steelers record from here on out and they make the playoffs. They can only afford to lose another game if someone else does, too.

1/2 mile by 1/2 mile is pretty big. A quick measure looks like The Banks district could span from the north edge of Fountain Square to the river, and almost from Plum to Main. I wonder if the city would try for the full extent, or just keep it south of 2nd Street.