Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: featuring penguins! In Defense of the Suburbs: I’m guilty as charged, making this an interesting read. Oakland History Lecture: Greetings from Idora Park!: Idora Design shares some insights and great historic images of Idora Park, probably the cutest neighborhood in Oakland, CA. Unhappy Hipsters: photos from Dwell Magazine, recaptioned. Relive the NYC [...]

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Seed Bombs in Woman’s Day

I’m a bit late on this one, but I just discovered that our Midwest Seed Bombs were featured in the Nov 09 issue of Woman’s Day, in the 7 Stocking Stuffers article. I love the idea of people like our moms coming across our little DIY tool in this magazine.

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For a New World by John Pitman Weber

The mural For a New World graces Holy Covenant United Methodist Church at 925 W. Diversey Pkwy. in Chicago. It was painted in 1973 by John Pitman Weber with assistance from Oscar Martinez, and depicts the three areas of the congregation’s service: Confession, the Word, and the Offering.

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Biblical Illustrations by Edie Harper

The Lebanon-based artist Edie Harper passed away on Saturday at the age of 87. Probably best known as the wife and partner of Charley Harper, Edie’s work was geometric and reductive like Charley’s, but focused around the subjects she preferred — cats, kids, and the Bible.

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HOME WORK: An Exhibit of New Work by VisuaLingual

Save the date! We will be hosting an opening reception for HOME WORK: An Exhibit of New Work by VisuaLingual, on Sat 20 Feb, 5-8pm, at the Betts House, the oldest brick house in Ohio still on its original site. Our opening falls right in the middle of the Fine Arts Fund Sampler Weekend, which [...]

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Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: OTR art exhibits, music at Mayday in Northside, a winter hike through Ault Park, and more. 4th Grade Boy in NYC 1971: CityKin takes up reading Judy Blume. Building Cincinnati Likely to Fold: say it ain’t so, Kevin! A Gangland Bus Tour, With Lunch and a Waiver: new LA-area tourist attraction? When [...]

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Subway Map Shower Curtains

These subway map shower curtains by Izola include the systems for DC, NYC, Chicago, Boston, and London. If I were living in one of those cities, I would hang the shower curtain backwards, so that I could plan my daily trips while taking my morning shower.

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Chicago Flavor Connections Update

I know you’ve all been eager for an update on that Chicago Flavor Connections sign that once graced the old post office on Vine St. in Over-the-Rhine. Monday afternoon, it was spotted in the storefront of the Kente cloth-colored building next door.

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Green Houses by My House Party

Portland, OR-based My House Party is the husband-and-wife team of Jessica and Mike, who create these lovely little “green houses” that house air plants.

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A Corner Store Cornucopia

The lack of corner stores in Cincinnati has been an ongoing complaint for me, and opening one myself has become somewhat of a running joke. I don’t really know anything about running a corner store, but it seems that no one else around here does either. Thus, I bring you my visual research into this [...]

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