Of Food and Justice

The topic of food justice greatly interests me, not only intellectually, but because it directly impacts my life. But, every time I hear about the Great Downtown Cincinnati Supermarket Crisis, I’m a bit puzzled. I don’t know that access to nutritious, reasonably priced food has ever been so easy for me.

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Bay Area Paintings by Hilary Williams

I came across some work by Hilary Williams at City Art Gallery in San Francisco. Here’s a sample of this Bay Area artist’s Surrealist paintings. Is she channeling the spirit of Marc Chagall? I suspect she is.

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Elsewhere

Delta Queen Nominated for ‘Most Endangered’: Cincinnati’s own Delta Queen is getting well-deserved attention from preservationists. Cincinnati-Area Parks a Growing Community Asset: the local park system deserves to be celebrated and supported. How the City Hurts Your Brain: “After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold [...]

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Kenney Tile Downtown

Every time I start to wonder when I’ll run out of decorative tile examples in the basin, I find another amazing specimen, usually right on a path I’ve already taken a million times. How do these things hide in plain sight? This one is on 7th, just west of Vine.

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826 Valencia

Shopping is one of the topics I don’t really get into here. However, I visited the pirate shop and had to share. 826 Valencia is a writing and tutoring center in the Mission in San Francisco, founded by Dave Eggers [who also founded Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, authored A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, among [...]

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Japp’s on Main St. in OTR

Beneath the grime of Over-the-Rhine, the facade and entryway to Japp’s are a veritable treasure trove of pattern and typography. Paying close attention has such rich rewards.

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San Francisco’s Clarion Alley

San Francisco’s Clarion Alley runs between Mission and Valencia in the Mission. To say that it’s covered with murals is a bit of an understatement. It’s been an ongoing public art gallery of sorts since at least the 1960s, bearing witness to the many changes in the Mission over the past 40 years. For more [...]

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Barren’s Ghost Sign in OTR

At Race and Elder in Over-the-Rhine, across the street from Findlay Market, the ghost sign for Barren’s boasts what may be the sexiest “B” I’ve ever seen.

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Back from the Wrong Coast

I just got back into town from a vacation on the Wrong Coast. After that much-needed break, I’m very slowly getting back into the whole Interweb scene. While I get my bearings, enjoy this funky little map of the Bay Area, courtesy of the always informative and entertaining Strange Maps. Over the next few weeks, [...]

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Elsewhere

Lost & Found: actually, Cincinnati Revisited found some amazing old photographs of Cincinnati scenes. Brooklyn [We Go Hard]: new Jay-Z track from the upcoming movie about the life of the Notorious B.I.G. Meet the Real World Brooklynites: oh, how I wish I had cable to witness the lameness… London Shop Fronts: just that — amazing [...]

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