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Enjoy Your Weekend: we’re helping you spend your money wisely this weekend.

Crafty Supermarket: tomorrow afternoon, crafty people are taking over the Northside Tavern, us included. Be there or be square.

Midwest Seed Bombs: Amy of Amy’s Stocking Stuffers likes our Midwest Seed Bombs and Ohio River coasters, which are available in our online shop. Thanks!

City Hall: suddenly added to my Cincinnati to-do list is a free tour of the Cincinnati City Hall. Who knew?

Motion Supports Making Urban Gardening Program Permanent: good news for this fledgling pilot program in Cincinnati.

Bio-Diversity: Christoph Niemann’s Abstract City column in the NYT looks at leaves. The results are stunning.

Mystery of Argleton, the ‘Google’ Town That Only Exists Online: just that.

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Enjoy Your Weekend: tons going on this weekend, including the opening of a brand-new gallery in Covington tonight.

Clifton Arts Center Work Could Begin in January: Cincinnati’s already strong arts scene keeps growing.

Exhibit Makes a Statement: two medical students install A Beacon for Broken Health Care at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit.

The Cosmetology behind Civic Art: American Dirt examines the role of public art, particularly the acclaimed Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia.

Postcard: Philadelphia: more love for the over 2,500 murals that have been painted throughout Philly.

Vintage Travel Posters: yummy picks from the 1950s-1970s by the always inspiring Grain Edit.

Recycling Old Car Parts: car part art!

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Enjoy Your Weekend: whether you’re into the Halloween spirit or not, you’ll find something fun to do this weekend.

FLW in Oak Park: CityKin checks out some Frank Lloyd Wright homes in Oak Park, IL.

Westhope, Tulsa: another gem of a Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Cure for Urban Blight: Plant Lots of Sculpture: who’s up for a road trip to Des Moines to see some public art?

People in Glass Apartments: Steven Heller takes issue with glass-clad apartment buildings.

Retail Vision for a Church That Housed an Infamous Club: cupcakes for sale in the former Limelight? What is the world coming to?

We Love Woolwich: grassroots effort to stop the demolition of historic buildings in the town of Woolwich.

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Enjoy Your Weekend: art everywhere this weekend, from downtown Cincinnati all the way out to West Chester.

Charley Harper Skateboards: we have our deck, and now you can get one, too.

Cedric Michael Cox Interview: our talented painter friend Cedric discusses OTR as his muse; Soul within Structure, an exhibit of his new paintings, opens at the CAC tomorrow.

More Jane, Less Marc: a brilliant DIY campaign by Mike Joyce of Stereotype Design.

DAZE, ROKE and PRIEST Peel Back History in Birmingham, Alabama: a brand-new mural peels itself back to reveal its 30-year old predecessor. Wow. Just wow.

Down at the Corner Store: photographers Karla and James Murray document NYC storefronts.

Moonjoo Lee, Painter of New Nature: Urban Decay, Debris, Demolished Buildings: just that; awesome work.

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Enjoy Your Weekend: celebrate inclines, King Records, and Raymond Thunder-Sky this weekend.

Bringing Street Vendors to Life in Cincinnati: observations on the subject from Urban Cincy [see also the food cart paintings by Ralph Goings].

Moments in Time: Artist Eric March’s Coney Island: opening tonight in Brooklyn.

Map of the Day: NYC(ollage): artist Michael Albert has created a ransom note-style map of Manhattan out of packaging and advertising ephemera.

Renascence Friday: Queen City Printing Ink Co.: speaking of vintage ephemera…

“Every Sizzler restaurant in America?!”: now there is a road trip theme.

Another Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher?: I’m not going to try to explain this; you just have to read it for yourself.

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Enjoy Your Weekend: it’s a wild weekend of roaring tigers, leaping carp, oh, my!

Raise the Rutherford!: check out the hijinks at last weekend’s birthday party for Rutherford B. Hayes.

QCD Detroit Gallery: more Detroit from our intrepid photographers here and here.

NYC Grid: exploring NYC block by block and corner by corner with a focus on the mundane and ephemeral.

7 Classic Blunders of Sidewalkdom: LOLs found via The Urbanophile.

World’s Longest Escalator: crazy photos and some video.

And the Pursuit of Happiness: Maira Kalman’s witty illustrated blog for the NYT.

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Enjoy Your Weekend: this weekend, Cincinnati has art out the wazoo.

VisuaLingual for the Home: Queen City Survey makes our day! [See more of our work in situ here.]

About Cincinnati and How I Ended Up Here: The Walking Green shares her thoughts on the trajectory that’s led her from the suburbs of Chicago to Over-the-Rhine.

Metropole Should Stay: fighting words [and sound reasoning] from CityKin about a downtown Cincinnati SRO.

Re-Imagining Boston’s Stalled Projects: imaginative, inventive, and somewhat silly ideas for stalled construction sites in Boston.

What’s A ‘Spooey’? A Field Guide To Freeway Interchanges: Freeway Interchange Typology 101.

Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great City: thoughts about regionalism and diversification in and around Detroit.

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Enjoy Your Weekend: Final [or Vine-L] Friday, MidPoint Music Festival, et al.

Down on Main Street: a great read about OTR by Kathy Y. Wilson.

The World’s 10 Greatest Large Urban Parks: from Central Park to Luxembourg Gardens, all viewed from above.

The Evolution of Extra Place: Kevin Walsh of Forgotten New York traces the history of what was once a Native American trail and is now becoming an upscale shopping spot, next to the now-defunct CBGB.

The Real Estalker: stalking celebrity real estate, e.g. “Celebrity owned 1933 East Coast Traditional, beautifully set on private, gated half acre.” Fun.

The Summer of Pink Shirts: EV Grieve documents men wearing pink shirts in the East Village this summer.

The M25 Slowcoach: Tortoise Who Wandered Across Five Lanes of Rush-Hour Traffic: wow!

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Enjoy Your Weekend: lots going on this weekend, including Oktoberfest Zinzinnati, but you already knew that, right?

Cincinnati Park[ing] Day 2009 Locations: check out all the shenanigans being organized by your neighbors today in parking spaces downtown and in Over-the-Rhine.

Raymond Thunder-Sky Legacy Mural: artist Cedric Michael Cox worked with Antonio Adams and a team of ArtWorks apprentices to create this mural on the side of the Visionaries & Voices building in Northside.

Overlooked Cincinnati: everyone, meet the latest member of the Cincinnati Minutia Militia [found via Stop Working, Start Living].

A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City: David Byrne [David Byrne!] discusses the elements needed for a livable city.

Winnipeg: Love and Hate: a bit like this blog, but with better photography.

Riihitie 20: The Aalto Family Home, Studio & Laboratory: wow!

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Enjoy Your Weekend: there’s so much going on this weekend, including the final Fountain Square movie of the summer, and the first UC Bearcats home game of the season.

It’s No Picnic-in-the-Park…But a Picnic-in-the-Parking Space for Design Students: inspiration for next Friday’s Cincinnati Park[ing] Day.

New Zoo Entrance: Citykin examines the new entrance to the Cincinnati Zoo.

Sketchbook: A Summer in the City: summer scenes by Michael Arthur.

Best and Worst Midwestern Cultural Traits: The Urbanophile courts trouble and starts an interesting discussion.

A Choice Tidbit From The New York Times Archives: “We have thus paid dearly for the incorporation with Brooklyn, and the least we can insist upon now is to be considered citizens of Brooklyn, and to have the more primitive designation of Williamsburg pass away with the newer conditions of society.”

Begging for Urban Decay: funny/bizarre anti-public art op-ed piece.