kendall

Welcome to Cincinnati! I think you will enjoy living downtown, especially near Piatt Park. It's a straight shot up Elm St to Music Hall. I wouldn't send my grandmother up there after midnight, but you will be just fine. The CSO has an amazing student ticket special. The bus service to campus is good on weekdays, but a lot less frequent on weekends. The stop is right on Vine St. I've taken the route hundreds of times without issues (and I pick it up in OTR).

Are local taxes the predominant method of funding light rail around the country? If so, does that mean that KY is stuck in the transit dark ages until they amend their constitution? It's too bad our airport is stranded down there.

Whatever eventually gets built, it had better be absolutely huge. Cincinnati needs a reputation as a place where criminals are jailed to the fullest extent of the law. Today's revolving-door jail is inadequate, and it's part of the reason I see so many worthless pieces of trash drive in from KY, Clermont, and Indiana and troll around my neighborhood looking for hookers and drugs.

Nick, was operating alchemize on Walnut unprofitable, or just too big of a pain?

I don't want to ignore anyone currently, but I remember the days when I would have liked to use the feature so I didn't have to read Locutus's posts. Banning someone isn't a substitute for an ignore feature, because what annoys me to no end may be just fine with other people.

Well, it looks like Boi na Braza won't be the first Brazilian steakhouse in Greater Cincinnati, Deerfield Twp. beat us to it. Hopefully Tower Place has them locked into a lease so they can't change their mind. This article makes no mention of the plans for a similar restaurant downtown. ------- Brazilian restaurant a mouthful BY POLLY CAMPBELL | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Brazilian churrascarias are a hot concept in dining, and the first in the area will open in Deerfield Township in August when the Copeland's restaurant company turns Copeland's into Amor de Brazil. "Oh, that's exciting," says restaurant-goer John Connors of Symmes Township, who has been to churrascarias in New York. "It's like a steakhouse, but it's much more fun. I took 10 guys to one in Manhattan when I was there for business, and they had a blast."

"Workers were still pouring concrete last week as they scrambled to meet a Sept. 9 deadline for the square's official reopening. But the formal celebration has been pushed back to Oct. 14, when rededication ceremonies will kick off a four-month-long "rolling re-opening" as construction wraps up and new elements of the square are finished." I read the article as saying the plaza will be accessible Sept. 9th, but that the features (such as the Fountain) won't be ready until later. Although the fountain will likely be in place, just not running: "The iconic fountain will be reinstalled in late August or early September, facing south this time rather than west..."

Great, now we're left with three local yokels.

$2.5 million for 3 bedrooms on 1 level? At that price, there had better be a soaring ceiling somewhere in the unit. That does include 3 garage spaces, though.

It sounds like the plaza will at least be open Sept. 9th. But it also sounds like it will be pretty raw space. I at least hope the fountain is set in place by then, even if the plumbing isn't ready. It's disappointing to see that one of the two "new" restaurants in Tower Place at 5th and Vine is just a relocation of Morton's. So far, the new fountain square will have the following restaurants within sight: Rock Bottom (newly renovated) Palomino Havana Martini Club Boi na Braza Morton's JeanRo Bistro McCormick & Schmick's Ingredients (Westin Atrium) Also rumored is a second location by the owner of Nicola's Boloco, the burrito and wrap chain that recently opened in Clifton Heights, is also planning a second location around fountain square. Within a block or so there's also: Orchids at Palm Court The Palace Restaurant Bella Nicholson's Benihana The new Fountain Square will be the gastronomical epicenter of the region, and this list doesn't even account for the two or three unfilled spaces in 5/3's buildings on the Square.

This is a big-time fuck up. Having the new square, complete with fountain on and trees planted, ready in time for Oktoberfest and Tall Stacks would have added so much more value. Apparently the planners don't get the concept of synergy - that the sum can be much more than the individual parts. Instead of half-assing it, they should have had work crews out there 24/7.

The fountain won't be turned on until October 14?? So the hundreds of thousands who come downtown for Oktoberfest and Tall Stacks won't be able to see it? They should turn it on as soon as it's ready, not wait until the reopening ceremony.

Good to hear they're not going to tear down the Pipefitters Union building for parking.

A good idea, though $6 million is a lot for 5 acres.

The fort was a lot more impressive when I was a kid. Thanks for the great photos of one of America's most impressive 20th-century civil engineering achievements, the Mackinac Bridge:

That would be a terrible spot for a Taco Bell with a drive-thru. Here they've gone and built a huge apartment building that's well-positioned to encourage pedestrian activity, and they want to build a 30-unit condo building that will likely be similar. Then they'd put a drive-thru restaurant right in the middle of it? I doubt this is the last we'll hear of the plan, unfortunately.

I think we all have some idea what an abusive relationship is,but until we see it first hand,until we are confronted with it,it can be ignored.I don't think many of you would be opposed to dropping pictures like that on an unsuspecting public. You don't need me to supply a vivid depiction of an aborted fetus in a blood-spattered garbage bag; it's head oblong, having been crushed by calipers so it could be prematurely extracted from a woman's body. You can just look up in the sky or at the posters outside your local abortion clinic for that. Variance in detail and emotion between topics is a legtimate rhetorical technique that I deliberately employed, and I will not suffer your feeble sarcastic retorts.

Would it be possible to add a feature that allows us to automatically ignore users that we specify? That is, not display their posts at all, or minimize them so that we would have to click a button to expand them out? I've seen this feature on other forums, but not ones that use this software.

This is faulty logic. People understand what abortion is. In a small percentage of them, a fetus that resembles a person is manually destroyed, revealing blood and guts. We get it. No, this is just another part of the domestic terrorism agenda pursued by many anti-abortion fanatics. What kind of reaction do you think anti-war advocates would get if they flew banners of soldiers' heads blown open like melons, their brains strewn across dusty asphalt? Consider the brouhaha after a reporter snapped a photo of flag-draped coffins. But wait, "people won't understand war until they see it." You don't have to shove the blood and guts in everyone's face for them to understand.

Can't they just build smaller schools instead of cutting schools altogether? What hope does CPS have of regaining enrollment if each elementary has to draw from such a large area that it loses its community feeling and connection?

Sixty units currently in progress, another 40 underway by year's end, and the capacity for 75-100 a year thereafter. Added to existing residents, that would easily result in a critical mass of market rate residents within two years for some real businesses on Vine St. Things are looking up!

So many reasons to be jealous... Thanks for the pics!

The Cincinnati sign on the Convention Center looks great from that angle!

Last month's Second Sunday was great, but unfortunately I missed it this month. Looks like it might have been even better this time!

This is absolutely amazing. I look forward to details on where downtown they will set up shop.