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The best beer gardens in America, including Mecklenburg Gardens

The Atlantic Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The beer garden is the new coffee shop. So gather your friends for craft brews and a casual vibe at these hot spots, from Mecklenburg in Cincinnati to Standard Biergarten in New York.

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Venture for America comes to Cincinnati

Wall Street Journal Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ivy League senior Ethan Carlson recently turned down a job with a global-energy consulting practice and instead pledged to spend two years working for an entrepreneur with Venture for American, perhaps with a focus on renewable energy, in a struggling U.S. city, which may be Cincinnati.

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Hathaways takes a spot on The Splendid Table

The Splendid Table Tuesday, January 31, 2012

This week we meet Nordic chef Rene Redzepi, author of Noma, Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine. The Sterns are at Hathaway's Coffee Shop in Cincinnati, OH and Jenna Woginrich gives advice on raising egg-laying chickens in the city.

Listen to the podcast here.

How to Customize Your iPhone, Inside and Out

LifeHacker.com Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The iPhone is a beautiful device on its own, but with hundreds of millions of iPhones sold it's not particularly unique. Cincinnati-made JackBacks made LifeHacker's list of ways to customize your iPhone.

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Hollywood returns to Ohio in upcoming movie shoots

CBS Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley will star in the latest movie set to film in Ohio, which has been courting Hollywood with state tax incentives. The Ohio Department of Development said Tuesday that credits totaling more than $1.5 million have been approved for two more movies.

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CincyTech wants your 'Minimum Viable Concept'

Inc.Com Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Eric Ries's Lean Startup book famously promotes the Minimum Viable Product as a way for start-ups to think about how to spend limited resources to get a product out the door. But now the seed-stage venture capital company CincyTech is looking to help companies do even more, by asking them to do even less. At the same time, CincyTech is hoping this will lead to stronger start-ups--and better investments.

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Greentree helping streamline health care education

Dayton Business Journal Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Sarah Yost, a sophomore at Miami University Middletown, has always dreamed of being a nurse. Still a few years from graduation, she’s already getting valuable experience through the use of high-tech equipment, including a mannequin that simulates everything from heart attacks to bowel obstructions.

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Venture for America comes to Cincinnati

Wall Street Journal Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Ivy League senior Ethan Carlson recently turned down a job with a global-energy consulting practice and instead pledged to spend two years working for an entrepreneur, perhaps with a focus on renewable energy, in a struggling U.S. city, including Cincinnati.

Read the full story here.

Elyria, Columbus, Cincinnati, to get training help for minorities

Hispanic Ohio Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Ohio Gov. John Kasich was expected Monday to announce plans for training programs at three community colleges that will aim to provide certain groups of people with job skills and employment services.

The work force development initiative would include one-year pilot programs at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Columbus State Community College and Lorain County Community College in Elyria.

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Former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin elected to baseball Hall of Fame

Washington Post Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Barry Larkin was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Monday with plenty of room to spare.

The former Cincinnati Reds shortstop was chosen on 495 of 573 ballots (86 percent) in voting announced by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, well above the necessary 75 percent. Larkin was on the ballot for the third time after falling 75 votes short last year.

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Children's Hospital uses horticulture to grow hope

Horticulture Magazine Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Trough horticultural therapy, people of all ages facing all kinds of physical, emotional or psychiatric challenges can improve their well-being. Children and teens at the residential psychiatric program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital have the chance to learn about gardening with horticultural therapist Mardie Hay

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Theater for Twits

The New York Times Tuesday, January 10, 2012

In an unsavory confluence of social media and the arts, we now have what are known as the tweet seats — sections of otherwise dignified theaters where communicating via Twitter during shows is actually encouraged. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has tweet seats from which patrons can carry on what organizers call “digital conversations” during concerts.

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Cincinnati chili

Leite's Culinaria Tuesday, January 10, 2012

In Cincinnati they heat things up with heaping bowls of chili cooked until practically melted, with additions such as warm spices like cinnamon, cocoa powder, allspice, and cloves, and a touch of sweet molasses. Served over spaghetti and topped with hearty beans, cheese, and onion, it’s like no chili you have had before, but definitely one you’ll make over and over again.

Read the full story, and get the recipe, here.

Soapbox on Cincinnati Edition

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Soapbox Cincinnati presented its 12 Things to Watch For in 2012 in its first issue of the year, and Managing Editor Elissa Yancey expounds upon those in a conversation with Mark Perzel.

Read the full story, and listen to the whole program, here.

Launch women's speaker series: Candace Klein

Lunar Cincinnati Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Candace Klein, local attorney and entrepreneur will be at Launch for a FREE event for female business women and owners to learn more about how to acquire funding for their small business venture goals or launch or run their own businesses.

Read the full story here.