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Soapdish: The ultimate insider's guide to downtown + OTR

Casey Coston Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Soapbox's own Casey Coston delivers again with his “Highly Subjective, Sometimes Eccentric, Oftentimes Random Insider’s Guide to Over the Rhine and Downtown,” from best art/dog park to best rooftop establishment by default.

Architecture, Arts + Culture, Cincinnati, City Building, Consumer Products, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Food, Move to Cincinnati, Parks + Greenspace, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Talent

Downtown, Over-the-Rhine

Fashion forward in Northside

Scott Beseler Tuesday, June 26, 2012

parProjects transformed the Bertke Electric Warehouse into 10,000 square feet of art fusion, including music, visual arts and fashion. Lots and lots of fashion. Soapbox's Scott Beseler takes you there.

Arts + Culture, Cincinnati, City Building, Consumer Products, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Move to Cincinnati, Non-Profit, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Talent

Northside

The New Revolutionaries: Shaping the future with art, strings and passion

Elissa Yancey Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tatiana Berman wants to get Cincinnati noticed. Her fresh take on the city's established arts scene shaped her Constella Festival, now headed into its second year and poised to strike a powerful economic as well as artistic chord.

Arts + Culture, Cincinnati, City Building, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Move to Cincinnati, Non-Profit, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Talent

Mt. Adams, Oakley, Downtown, Over-the-Rhine

The many faces of Etsy

Robin Donovan Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Four local artists who maintain Etsy shops take very different approaches to the online craft megasite. Each small business owner has a plan, but the role Etsy plays depends on products, time and long-term goals.

Cincinnati, City Building, Consumer Products, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Move to Cincinnati, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Talent

Northside, Over-the-Rhine

Soapbox takes a holiday: Happy Fourth

Elissa Yancey Tuesday, June 26, 2012

In honor of next week's holiday, we won't be publishing Soapbox the week of July 3. Enjoy your Fourth, and we'll see you the week of July 10 with plenty of stories about what's next in Cincinnati.

VFA Fellows excited to move to Cincinnati

Elissa Yancey Tuesday, June 19, 2012

They are young, high-powered, high-achieving, highly skilled professionals with their sights set on the same thing: success in Cincinnati, start-up style. Read where they are working — and why.

Branding + Design, Cincinnati, City Building, Diversity, Emerging Technology, Entrepreneurship, High Tech, IT, Jobs, Leadership, Move to Cincinnati, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Research + Innovation, Talent, Venture Capital

Clifton, Mariemont, Corryville, Uptown, Over-the-Rhine

What The New York Times forgot: Our innovative parks

Elissa Yancey Tuesday, June 19, 2012

With the Smale Riverfront Park open and Washington Park debuting July 6, we take a closer look at how the Cincinnati Park Board's oft-overlooked innovations move, and in some cases outright push, the city forward.

Alternative Energy, Cincinnati, City Building, Education + Learning, Green, Health + Wellness, Leadership, Non-Profit, Parks + Greenspace, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Research + Innovation, Sustainability

Clifton, Corryville, Mt. Lookout, Mt. Adams, Price Hill / Covedale, Oakley, Northside, Downtown, Uptown, Over-the-Rhine

Soapbox Savings: Symphonic Stylings, June 23

Elissa Yancey Tuesday, June 19, 2012

It's part fund-raiser, part art show. Part chamber music concert, part fashion show. Part dance party, part pop-up sale. On June 23, Symphonic Stylings takes over 10,000 square feet in the Bertke Electric warehouse in Northside for an event like nothing you've seen before.

Arts + Culture, Cincinnati, City Building, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Move to Cincinnati, Non-Profit, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Talent

Northside

Thinking inside the box pays off for Oakley's Blue Manatee

Chris Graves Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Kids love to turn boxes into toys. The experts at Blue Manatee in Oakley turned that inevitability into an award-winning product that stimulates imaginations while it promotes local businesses and sustainability.

Cincinnati, City Building, Consumer Products, Diversity, Education + Learning, Entrepreneurship, Move to Cincinnati, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Talent

Oakley

Fringe exposure

Shaun McClanahan Tuesday, June 12, 2012

In its ninth year, Cincinnati Fringe Festival sparked ideas, opened minds and just plain entertained thousands of guests. One photographer took the long view of the 12-day celebration of all things Fringe and the results capture the art, and artists, in new and unusual ways.

Arts + Culture, Cincinnati, City Building, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Move to Cincinnati, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Research + Innovation, Talent

Over-the-Rhine

What he left behind

Gin Ando Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Marvin Gates, 25, was shot and killed on the streets of Evanston last month. He was a blip on the 24-hour news cycle radar. But for family, neighbors and his supporters at the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence, he was much, much more. Photos by Thomas E. Smith.

Cincinnati, City Building, Diversity

Signs of progress light up museum's new home

Casey Coston Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Retrieving signs tossed into back alleys is something of a specialty for Tod Swormstedt, the force behind the American Sign Museum. With a working neon shop and 20,000 square feet of space, the museum's new home in Camp Washington gives his ever-growing collection a dazzling home.

Architecture, Arts + Culture, Branding + Design, Cincinnati, City Building, Diversity, Move to Cincinnati, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Talent

Clifton, Northside

Bright lights, neon city

Scott Beseler Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Soapbox photographer Scott Beseler take us on a tour of the American Sign Museum in Camp Washington.

Architecture, Arts + Culture, Cincinnati, City Building, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Talent

Northside

My Soapbox: Sheida Soleimani, photographer

Elissa Yancey Tuesday, June 05, 2012

New college graduate and photographer Sheida Soleimani co-founded Third Party Gallery in Brighton last fall. She opens her second large-scale exhibit, which explores her Iranian-American identity as shaped by political refugee parents, at Prairie Gallery in Northside this week. The ambitious young artist talked with Soapbox's Elissa Yancey about work, school and coming to terms with cultural dualities.

Arts + Culture, Cincinnati, City Building, Consumer Products, Consumer Research, Diversity, Education + Learning, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Leadership, Northern Kentucky, Quality of Life

Clifton, Northside

My Soapbox: Lyden Foust, Xavier University, Campus Solutions

Becky Johnson Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Make way for Lyden Foust, the Xavier University senior who led the effort to host Xavier’s first TEDx event and was the only Xavier undergraduate honored with an Entrepreneurship Black Belt in an award ceremony last month. With two start-ups now under that black belt and work lined up in web development, design and branding after graduation, Foust recently spoke to Soapbox's Becky Johnson to explain his creative approach to business strategies and how he would like to challenge accepted notions about the purpose of profits.

Cincinnati, City Building, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Quality of Life, Regional Indicators, Regionalism, Talent

Norwood