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Someone is trying to figure out their new phone/app. Lame how a paid app advertises itself by default. Don't you know Blackberries are so last decade? RIM is now looking for a buyer. These Highway Barons are just looking for people who will say they want a big handout in the form of highway dollars, which they inevitably will since everyone loves a handout. Any other info they gather will be conveniently ignored, since "we can't have everything" (like choices).

I'm going to jump on the 4.5-5 hr. bandwagon, but it's been some time since I have done the drive.

I certainly hope it's not. A far as I know, John does not drive.

Dammit, I got beat to the punch. But you have convinced me -- pumpkin pie it is!

^ I'm trying to decide which dessert I want to live in: chocolate mousse, cheesecake, or pumpkin pie.

Beware of trains, Mr. Phinney!

That has to be Mt. Adams, with so many wooden buildings in the pic! Not many non-brick rowhouses in Cincy. Especially not outside Mt. Adams. These are definitely italianate, as so many Cincy rowhouses are.

3C offered a "slow train" between Dayton and Cincinnati and between Dayton and Columbus, which should fall in a similar category of service as the Akron-Cleveland train which you call a different story, 327.

I didn't mean to suggest the stadium might have burned during the riots, more that attendance might have been affected and spillover to the neighborhood may have ceased to be as strong.

I am tired of having the Cards in first. It needs to change.

There is a lot of looseness in the spelling of Pittsburgh with and without the h to this day.

Would have been interesting to see how the riots would have interacted with the stadium and surrounding development, had it been built at BWC. It could have been very bad, or the stadium's presence could have prevented OTR from taking as big a hit as it did. I don't think we can state with any confidence that things would be better if the stadium had been built there. Maybe we'd be a few years ahead in downtown development, but there could have been a butterfly effect which would have kept us from getting where we are today. If the neighborhood had not been allowed to go through "the seven stages of grief" after the death of Timothy Thomas, if these were stifled by the momentum of the stadium, OTR's progress may have been stunted. 3CDC may not have gotten the fire in its belly, and longtime residents may not have been as receptive to the neighborhood clean-up which is almost universally understood as positive at this point.

I'm not sold on either stadium site in particular, but I'm okay with the way things turned out. Having the stadium by the river has helped enable the Banks to be what it is/is becoming. I think businesses like TBKILTBAG and Johnny Rockets are appropriate for the riverfront, but much less so for Pendleton, and attempting to draw the stadium crowds has largely set the tone for businesses opening at the Banks: offerings for a less urban-oriented crowd. Having two stadiums, one which is only used 10 nights a year, is absurd IMO. A new arena and/or more mixed-use Banks and/or park development where PBS is would have been preferable. A casino could have fit as well. But that has little to do with BWC. We'll see what happens with the casino. I'm not at all happy with its front lawn. I'm not convinced it will bring patrons to the nearby neighborhood. I do think people will choose it over the riverboat casinos. I think this site for the casino is a gamble (whoa, just realized the punniness...not intended) for the city. It's a corner of the basin that has very little going on and I could easily see it serving as an island. I'll definitely be watching intently to see what happens with the surrounding area. It will likely make a good case study for people interested in the potential impact of a casino, because it could be very transformative or it could sit in a relative bubble while OTR development branches north to Findlay Market instead of east to the casino site.

The World Choir Games (is there a thread for that?) song has been released...and, boy, is it corny. A surprise to no one, I suppose.

A fine building in need of more neighbors.

They will never compete with the burbs if their strategy is to become more suburban. A city can't win that game. This article reads like it's straight out of the 1960s.

Do yourself a favor and spend time in some gay bars. You'll probably find they are not a terrible place to meet...erm...b%$ches. Lord knows the vast majority of us have spent enough time in straight bars. Only extraordinarily rarely with the prospect of leaving with any "tail". A gay address sounds intriguing. I've never considered the concept. I am skeptical that even an address in the Castro would affect a straight man's game, assuming he has any.

Aaargh Mike #$^*ing Brown!!!

Ha, that's awesome. Yeah, the Reds are definitely on a roll. So glad they won the series with those damn Yankees. Now they're only half a game back, which could possibly turn into half a game up this evening.

The Main Street stuff is ahead of schedule, but here's the plan:

I hate when people who moved to the south brag about warm weather on Facebook. As if they need to validate their decision to move down there. Okay, you opened your pool in April. Let's hear back from you in August about how fracking awesome the blistering heatwave is.

U Street?

About the only acceptable excuse. Yet it still leaves open the question of why you have the shirt to begin with!

I believe Prather said there would be a summer update after phase 1 opened, at the end of the last update.