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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.

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Cincinnati’s Radioactive Subway Tunnels: okay, they’re not radioactive, but do check them out.

Heidelberg Project House Burns, Arson Suspected in Fire of Detroit Art Installation of Tyree Guyton: tragic news about the Heidelberg Project in Detroit.

Fire at the Heidelberg Project Is a Snapshot of Presence: a lovely write-up about this sad turn of events.

The Golden Age of Gondolas Might Be Just Around the Corner: what the?

A 70-Year-Old Documentary About Cities Shows We Haven’t Come Very Far: wow.

How I Became a Hipster: Brooklyn-exploring link bait.

A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map of America: tracking the circulation of dollar bills.

Off the Wall in Baltimore

Shipwreck in a Storm by Willen van Diest

Off the Wall is a series of temporary installations in public spaces throughout Baltimore, initiated as an outreach effort by the Walters Art Museum. Reproductions of paintings from the museum’s permanent collection are on view through the end of 2013, including Shipwreck in a Storm by Willen van Diest at 200 East Pratt St.

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Pale as a Ghost Sign: I get to keep awesome company, getting quoted in this article alongside Tod from the American Sign Museum and Bill from The Writing on the Walls.

After Failed Court Battle, Crew Demolish Former Gamble House: like the worst April Fools’ joke ever, but this really happened on Monday.

The “Ghost Ship”: a crazy find, not far from downtown Cincinnati.

20 Unique and Fun Destination Wedding Favors: Surf & Sunshine likes our personalized seed bomb wedding favors!

Windows of New York: Jose Guizar illustrates NYC windows and the peeks into strangers’ lives that they contain.

A Newbie’s Travel Guide to Detroit: exactly what you think it is.

Inadequate Housing: photos of tiny Hong Kong apartments.

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11 Cincinnati Foods That Are Better Than Yours: I don’t agree with all the chosen foods, but I’ll let native Cincinnatians weigh in on the validity of this list.

All Signs Point to Awesome: A Visit to the American Sign Museum: checking out Cincinnati’s amazing American Sign Museum.

The Rust Belt Shall Live Not by Weekends Alone: in Ferndale, just outside of Detroit, a former big-box store got turned into a weekend artists’ market; now a Kickstarter campaign is underway to further transform the space.

When New York Power-Lunched at the Cloud Club: a glimpse inside a once-swanky club in the Chrysler Building, courtesy of Ephemeral New York.

Final Analysis: Missed Connections: check out who’s searching for whom and where [in Ohio, that would be at Wal-Mart and, mysteriously, in Indiana, at home].

The Town that Spent 25 Years Underwater: photos of Villa Epecuen, a tourist town established in the 1920s on the banks of a salt lake, just outside of Buenos Aires.

Sign Painters [Official Trailer]: this will be amazing.

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A Garden of Many Voices: The Civic Garden Center at the 2013 Home & Garden Show: all about this year’s Civic Garden Center display [also, my friend worked on it and wrote this article, so I'm doubly proud].

Cincinnati Canstruction 2013: large-scale sculptures made of canned goods are currently on display in downtown Cincinnati; check out an online preview at CincyWhimsy and vote for the People’s Choice Award this weekend. All food will go to the Freestore Foodbank.

Tower Place Mall – feb 25th, 2013: just some photos of a seemingly abandoned mall.

Horseshoe Casino Fails to Deliver on Urban Design: unsurprising observations about the new casino in Cincinnati.

Succulents Don’t Suck: Umba Box likes our 10 Seed Bombs with Slinger!

Michigan Will Take Over Detroit: I think we all saw this one coming.

Berlin Wall Protests Stall East Side Gallery Demolition Work: demolishing a chunk of the Berlin Wall to make room for luxury housing sounds like a less-than-stellar idea.

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Exploring Cincinnati, Mayoral-Style: Mayor Mark Mallory shows off the Queen City in the NY Post.

Nineteenth Century Covington Mansion Demolished: because Walgreens plans to build a store a block away from its current one.

Weekly Farmers Market Coming to Washington Park: Mondays this summer [the one day that Findlay Market is closed].

Seeds of Creativity: 10 Etsy Favorites: Lark Crafts likes our 10 Seed Bombs with Slinger!

Windy City Hoops: the city of Chicago has turned to crowdfunding to expand its teen basketball program.

Why All Your Impressions of Detroit Are Wrong: astute writing from The Urbanophile.

360 Panorama of London: just that.

Wynwood Walls in Miami

Wynwood is a neighborhood in Miami whose warehouses now contain a mixture of industry, wholesale distributors, galleries and artist studios. It’s also home to one of the largest collections of street art in the world. Above is part of a mural by the legendary Ron English [confusingly, there's a Cincinnati-based artist also named Ron English, who sometimes sells his wares on the streets of Over-the-Rhine].

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Race St. Has a View: in downtown Cincinnati, the old skywalk to nowhere is now gone.

The Benn Pitman House: a gorgeous Cincinnati home once owned by the founder of Phonetic Shorthand in the US and the first official stenographer for the US government, who built intricate furniture in his spare time.

How to Grow Your Business through Holiday Gifts: kind words about our promotional seed bombs for TalentGrow.

Decorated Houses Help Save a Detroit Neighborhood: Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project gets some well-deserved love.

Art Deco Weekend: this weekend in Miami Beach, “celebrating the Art Deco era in Florida’s quincentennial.”

A Look Below the Surface in Gentrifying Crown Heights: “I still think there’s a better and more ethical way to get from a broken down, crime-ridden, drug-ridden neighborhood to a place that is safe and enjoyable for everyone while still maintaining a sense of community ownership.”

There Is Now a Literal Map of Brooklyn’s Gentrification: just that.

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SpringBoard Holiday Gift Guide: SpringBoard likes our Ohio River coasters.

Gifts for the Gardener: gift guide love for our Exotic Herbs seed bombs.

2012 D*S Gift Guide: For Gardeners: Design*Sponge likes our Southwest seed bombs.

Kaze: an update on the old Cincinnati Color Co. building in Over-the-Rhine.

The Artists’ Touch: How Creatives’ Investments in Upper Floor Housing Built a Neighborhood: if you can stomach the term “ghettoflauge,” this is an interesting update on the Eastern Market neighborhood in Detroit.

XOXO to Gossip Girl and Your Fabulous Sets: I couldn’t handle Gossip Girl beyond the first couple of seasons, but the sets remained one of the show’s highlights over the years.

Walk like a Fish: examining pedestrian traffic in NYC.