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Cedric Michael Cox | Visual Artist: I just finished the new site for my OTR-based friend and studio neighbor; if you spot any egregious errors, please direct them to my attention.

Springtime Garden Wedding: some love for our personalized seed bomb favors.

Liberty St. “Road Diet” Advances, to Be Bid by Nov. 2014: a plan to eliminate the barrier between the Southern and Northern portions of Over-the-Rhine.

Aggregate Dialect Difference: the Cincinnati dialect is least like NYC, Newark, Jersey City, Boston, or Philly.

The Heidelberg Project: A Resilient Community Rebuilds, Again: the latest on Detroit’s Heidelberg Project after last month’s tragic fire.

Is the End Nearing for Odessa Café and Bar on Avenue A?: the end of an era for a neighborhood icon? Pretty soon I won’t even recognize my hometown.

Fake Shop Fronts Used to Make Towns Seem Neater for G8: in Northern Ireland, The Society of the Simulacrum has popped up.

Abstract Paintings by Malcolm Montague Davis

Boston-based Malcolm Montague Davis trained as an architect whose paintings, which he considers to be abstract, are based on details of his buildings, sculptures and architectural models. Above is an example from his Chama Valley Series.

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Biking thru Washington Park Oct 2007: see the historic Over-the-Rhine park as it looked 5 years ago.

PHOTOS: Historic Glencoe-Auburn Place Row Houses Are Being Demolished: I did not see this one coming.

Hi, I’m from Ohio: I don’t really get these jokes, but hopefully the Buckeyes in the audience will.

Top 5 Favors You Can Plant: Something Fabulous likes our personalized seed bomb favors!

Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game of ‘Big City’: The Onion nails the Boston experience.

New York, a Graveyard for Languages: all about the 800 or so languages spoken by NYC residents.

25 Pictures of Life Captured by Google Street View: just that.

The Art of Matte Stephens

Manhattan by Matte Stephens

Portland, OR-based Matte Stephens is sort of the love child of Georges Damin and Mark Coomer, with a hint of Nicholas Takis and a touch of Jim Flora in the mix, sprinkled with a garnish of early Charley Harper. His gouache paintings are very much rooted in the forms and colors of the middle of the 20th century, and I especially like his scenes of different cities.

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Big Pig Gig: Do Re Wee: pigs have taken over Porkopolis, courtesy of ArtWorks.

Inside Union Terminal: checking out Cincinnati’s Art Deco gem.

T-Time: Boston Subway Time-Scale Map: “MBTA subway lines, with stations spaced according to scheduled travel time.”

An Alternate Coney: dreaming about Coney Island.

The World’s Biggest Gay Rights ‘Tattoo’: beautiful public art in Chicago.

Invasion Verde in Lima: awesome installation in Lima provides seating and greenery in the middle of the city.

‘In Relation to’ Map: a fun mural in Brooklyn.

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Adding More Color to Gabriel’s Garden: the painter Cedric Michael Cox beautifies another corner of Cincinnati with his work.

Cincinnati Frequent Transit Map Raising Money for a Second Printing: just that; help support this map.

The “Old” Christian Moerlein Brewering Company – What Still Exists: a fascinating look at the Northern side of Over-the-Rhine.

Etsy Find of the Week: Sugar(ed) Occasions likes our personalized seed bomb wedding favors.

Brooklyn Rebounds as the New Bohemia: everything about this article makes me angry.

Midwesterners Bring State Fair Fare to New Yorkers: tomorrow in NYC.

Os Gemeos in Boston: the São Paulo-based twins unleash their latest amazing mural in Boston’s Dewey Square.

Field Guide to the Vanity License Plates of Southwestern Ohio: Part 2

Kind readers, I know you’ve been impatiently waiting for the next installment in my typological series on the vanity license plates of Southwestern Ohio, and here it is! Today, we’re taking a look at sports messaging, and possibly adult content. Above, BARECAT. Pun-prone UC fan or porn mogul? It’s impossible to know for sure.

VisuaLingual in Just Design

It’s an honor to have our work included in Just Design: Socially Conscious Design for Critical Causes by Christopher Simmons of San Francisco-based MINE™, which has just been published by How Books.

Metropolis II by Chris Burden

OMFG!!! Chris Burden’s Metropolis II measures 10×28 feet and includes 30-40 buildings, 13 railroad tracks, 18 car lanes, and 1,100 toy cars. Approximately 100,000 cars circulate through this dense city each hour.

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Main Attraction: examining the recent renaissance of Main St. in Over-the-Rhine.

Amy & David Butler’s Creative Textile Lab of a Home: the Granville, OH home of the couple behind Amy Butler Design.

Positions Found in the Kama Sutra for Midwesterners: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency is poking fun at the flyover states again.

Oh, Troy, What Are You Doing?: Doug of id29 has some harsh words about a proposed 9/11 memorial for Troy, NY.

How Fucked Is Muni?: an investigation of the San Francisco transit system.

How Fucked Is the T?: inspired by the above, a look at Boston’s transit.

Aboard the L Train, Luncheon Is Served: OMG, WTF?