i’m in love with a wonderful guy

and his name is sam hill.
i am a difficult woman to please. i have lived in this fair city for almost 20 months, and while this blog makes it look like i’ve spent most of that time eating out, i have actually spent most of that time scouring the city for a new hairdresser, taking [...]

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photo phriday

 

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jb kids

ah, the pleasaures of joseph beth booksellers: quiet music piped in to soothe as you browse a wide selection of books, magazines, gift items, music and movies, soft light perfectly reflecting off the blond wood shelves, fresh coffee, a pastry, or even a full meal available at the adjoining brontë bistro. Such a calm, adult refuge [...]

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i go, you go, we all go to hugo

it is hard to pass up shrimp and grits, and so it was hard for me to continue passing by hugo without stopping in. we tried to drop in one evening but it was during the summer, we felt a little sweatily under-dressed, and we had a fussy toddler in tow. so we made a [...]

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neighborhood pride?

we recently added cincyblurg to our blogroll — she has recently resurrected her blog –er, blurg – after a hiatus. i never saw the first incarnation, but am enjoying the irreverent yeah-i-like-cincinnati-but-hey-it’s-a-little-crazy-just-like-all-cities tone. that’s right, folks — cincinnati’s problems are nothing unusual for a mid-size metro area, they don’t mean the city’s going to hell in a [...]

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friendships, down-home cincy style

i have to admit to being baffled by ‘nati natives who ask new folks, first off, where they went to high school. i mean, really, WHO CARES? but this obviously displays my west-of-the-rockies mentality. here in cincy everybody cares where you went to high school, precisely because, unlike in so many other places, where you [...]

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it’s NOT EVEN THANKSGIVING YET!

scene at the corner of drake and wasson on monday november 19:

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Dewey’s Pizza on Hallowe’en!

When the CincyScenes staff was preparing to move to Cincinnati, and considering neighborhoods, we narrowed our choices down to a few, including Oakley. And every time we mentioned Oakley as one of our options, someone would say, “Oh! And you’ll be right down the street from Dewey’s Pizza!”
Well, we did choose a house in [...]

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pumpkins we have loved

pumpkins seen around and about our ‘hood. more here.

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