Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: lots to do this Friday and Saturday, in Over-the-Rhine and beyond.

Rediscovering Cincinnati: a NYC-based architect returns to Cincinnati and shares his adventure in words and pictures.

Zig Zag Roof Scavenger Hunt: another architect roams Cincinnati in search of Modern zig zag roofs.

First Ever Historic Covington Coloring Book to Debut This Fall: oh, to be a kid again!

Stripping Away the Darkness as Murals Are Reborn: restoration magic, one inch at a time, at 30 Rock.

opencitydetroit: “Dreaming of starting a business in Detroit?” Actually, now that you mention it, that’s a lovely notion…

Beef Posters: one designer uses his power to try to start beef between cities, e.g. “Cleveland will kill New York.”

Interior Landscapes by Ann Toebbe

Yahtzee by Ann Toebbe

Ann Toebbe was born in Cincinnati, educated in Cleveland, NYC, New Haven, and Germany, is now living in Chicago. Her work, rendered from memories of her Midwestern upbringing, mythologizes domestic life and its accoutrements, without including people. A few of her paintings are available as prints via 20×200.

Elsewhere

Work for Food Program at Thistlehair Farm: five hours of work per week gets you a free CSA share at this area farm.

Urban Panoramas: this amazing exhibit of photos by Thomas R. Schiff is currently on view at the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati.

The City to Scale: Cincinnati Modeled: awesome compilation of models of Cincinnati and parts thereof.

You, Too, Can Own a Piece of the (Mini) City: meanwhile in Queens, you can own a piece of the historic model of NY, originally built for the 1964 World’s Fair.

Backdrop for a 1907 Bailout: cool technology meets hot eye candy in this interactive panorama of J.P. Morgan’s private study.

Who’s Hacking These Signs?: LOL in NYC.

Even Cleveland: is this my Cleveland doppelganger? Yeah, sort of.

Elsewhere

Northside Guerilla Farmer: “Waging war against tasteless, overpriced vegetables, by teaching you to grow your own!”

The Roots of Live, Work and Play: the popular marketing trifecta [closely related to OTR's own Live, Shop, Play] is examined.

Riding the Rails: “Riding the rails isn’t quite the romantic journey it once was. But for one traveler, a cross-country trip was a way to reconnect with America.”

Cass Avenue’s Exotic Chin Tiki Is No More: kitschy Detroit icon is razed to make way for more parking and possibly a new hockey arena.

Guerrilla Marketing Without the Headache: a clever-ish projected ad for Tylenol PM is examined.

Watchmen’s New York: visual comparison between 1980s NYC scenes and The Watchmen.

All Boarded Up: godspeed, Cleveland.

Better Living through Expectation Management

According to a recent Pew Research Trust survey, 84% of the people surveyed who do not live in Cincinnati would not like to live here. Cincinnati is marginally more popular than Cleveland and Detroit. But, only 23% of the respondents even claim cities as “their favorite community type.”