All month long our friend Curtis Heuser has opened up his beautifully remodeled home for tours spanning the month of May, every Saturday and Sunday. The Covington home inspired Heuser's recently published book A Living Canvas. If design isn't your thing, stop by The Southgate House for a night chock-full of local music. Details after the jump:
Continue reading Enjoy Your Weekend (W/E May 4th).
Instead of raining men (amen), it's about to start raining tax rebate
checks all over America. More than 130 million household will
receive between $300 and $1200 in order to help jumpstart the health of
our economy. However, where and what you spend your tax rebate
check on (assuming you, like a majority of Americans will not take that
check straight to the bank) can drastically impact where the economy is boosted. Sure, those tax refund specials from large multinational retailers are awfully tempting, but the economic health of your neighborhood, city and country are at stake.
Continue reading A Not So Radical Idea: Spend Your Tax Rebate Locally.
For many of us, sushi is a production, a night out with no sneakers allowed. But nestled in Clifton Heights, Maki Express is giving its patrons a simple and pleasurable experience that's sure leave some extra cash in your pocket (for another visit maybe?).
Continue reading Maki Express: Sushi Takeout In Clifton Heights.
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It may be extremely hard to believe, but regardless of what you believe, we've already reached the Final Friday of the month again. There will be plenty of worthwhile places to visit tonight, but the Pendleton is always a great place to start. Also, this Saturday BuyCincy writer Jordan Neff is playing with Mark Utley and Magnolia Mountain at the Comet, so stop by and say hello! Details after the jump:
Continue reading Enjoy Your Weekend (W/E April 27th).
O'Bryonville, that quaint strip of Madison Road wedged between Walnut Hills and Hyde Park, is BuyCincy's kind of place: Independent, locally owned and operated businesses as far as the eye can see. Some of these businesses (The BonBonerie, Bob Roncker's Running Spot and others) have been there for decades, and we look forward to working our way down the strip. But it's one of O'Bryonville's newest businesses that caught our eye recently, The Coffee Shop on Madison.
Continue reading The Coffee Shop on Madison: O'Bryonville's new kid on the block.
The last month has been a busy one here at BuyCincy HQ. On top of taking home 2 "Best of Cincinnati" award from CityBeat, we have added two new stellar writers to the fold: Jordan Neff and Stepfanie Romine. We've also been working on a couple parts of the site away from the main page that we though you might want to know about.
One, we have put another update into our local shop directory to add information about Duttenhofer's , Linden Noll, OUTSIDE, Campus Cyclery and Avril Bleh among others, check out the full directory here. And two, we would like to give a shout to Reser Bicycle, who a few weeks ago posted a blurb about themselves on the BuyCincy wiki. We are encouraging business owners to sign up for our wiki (its free!) and post a little information about their stores to help us spread the word about the plethora of great Cincinnati owned businesses. If you know a business owner that might be interested, send them over!
Grammer's has already established itself as a sure stop for any local beer afficionado, and has provided us with its newly finished beer list for spring and summer. For those of you less inclined to drink beer, Grammer's has also announced that it is now carrying Cincinnati's own Woodstone Creek Vodka. We featured Woodstone Creek only weeks ago here. Peruse the menu and stop by this new/old OTR favorite!
Continue reading New Menu and Woodstone Creek at Grammer's.
BarrelHouse Brewery began as a brewpub in Over the Rhine with an immense selection of locally brewed, handcrafted beer. Operating as such from 1995 until 2005, BarrelHouse is now a full-fledged brewery in West End with distribution across Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. We at BuyCincy were afforded the opportunity of a tour and interview at this local craft brewery.
Continue reading BarrelHouse Brewery: Craft Brewing in Cincinnati.
Just a quick reminder that Earth Day is tomorrow, April 22 and some of our favorite shops have special eco-friendly events going on both tomorrow and throughout the week.
- Nicholas Gallery, Park + Vine,
Artworks and Below Zero are teaming up to present an event that
combines art, music and vodka into one tidy (or not so tidy depending
on how much vodka is involved) package. This Friday (Final Friday
for April), the 25th, "Nonsense to Greensense" kicks off with recycled
art from the Art-O-Matic and music from Jake Speed and the Freddies at
Artworks, music and eco-friendly art at Park + Vine and Nicholas
Gallery (featuring our good friend and soon to be BuyCincy contributor, Maya Drozdz, among others) and an afterparty featuring 360 vodka, "the world's first
eco-friendly vodka" at Below Zero. Our little Earth Day advice,
nine times out of ten, locally-produced items are more Earth-friendly
than traditional "eco-friendly" products (less transport equals less carbon emissions), so feel free to celebrate Earth Day with
Cincinnati's very own Woodstone Creek vodka, which we believe is also available at Below Zero.
Continue reading Earth Day the BuyCincy Way.
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