get yer holiday shopping here!

if you have not yet filled your christmas lists there is still time to shop locally, save money, and do good all at once:
your purchases at the downtown coffee emporium this weekend send 20% of sales to the know theatre.  while you’re there, pick up an ornament tag to buy a gift for a needy child; [...]

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sunday evening at slim’s

we’ve touched on the joy that is slim’s previously, and i don’t want to get into the habit of repetition. but on a return visit there this past sunday, i found myself thanking my lucky stars that cincinnati has a restaurant like this. plus, the experience was very different than our previous visit. earlier, we’d [...]

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eat slow. stay slim.

what little i know about the slow-food movement can be captured in fewer words than it has taken to write this sentence. it’s italian in origin. it’s good for you.
and now i know it makes some damn fine eats.
it’s not hard to guess at that last piece, since almost anything that any sentient person makes [...]

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melt

man, i dig northside.
the same coworker who introduced me the downtown scene at cafe de paris took me for lunch yesterday at melt. just being back on hamilton reminded me of all the reasons we considered living in northside — tons of small, local businesses, all within walking distance. for some reason, though, now the drive [...]

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