Cincinnati’s Fringe Festival describes itself like this: “Kinda weird, like you.” Produced by Over-the-Rhine’s Know Theatre, this annual summertime theater-bender draws a fleet of artists – dancers, actors, playwrights, musicians, visual artists, puppeteers, clowns and storytellers – from across the country to share their strangest, riskiest work with audiences in spaces scattered throughout Over-the-Rhine.
“I’ve always had a ‘giving back’ philosophy,” Boehne said. “I grew up in a Southern Baptist family where it was always: What’s mine is yours … and if much has been given, much is expected.”
The most basic elements of any story are a beginning, a middle and an end. The more nuanced elements include an introduction, interesting characters, conflict, high stakes, transformation and resolution. By any of these measures, the story of Cincy Stories remains incomplete. The end, or resolution, is nowhere in sight. But the power of a story, in the telling and the hearing, has been plain to see.
To muse: to think, to ponder, to meditate on. This is the focus at Anne Ilyinsky’s Muse in Mt. Lookout. She and her team, including executive chef Jen Kempin balance and beauty to Cincinnati’s ever evolving food scene.
Justin Kormelink, Louie Randolph and Ryland Ritchie co-chair the reimagined annual fundraiser for Starfire Council. Now focused around FC Cincinnati’s opening day, this event is all about inclusion, community-building and raising money for a great cause.
As the board chair of the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati, Ahmad continues to passionately work to promote understanding between people who may think they are different from one another, but really are not very different from the girl who grew up on the West Side of Cincinnati.
Throw a pebble into a pond, and the ripples spread outward.
If you sing a song in the city, do the notes ripple outward as well? Does a mural ripple? A Shakespeare play? Do these ripples affect communities, and even the economies they touch?
“Blind Injustice” author takes on our “medieval” criminal justice system – By Julie Kemble Borths Time haunts Mark Godsey. The University of Cincinnati law professor and director of the Ohio Innocence Project never has enough of it. With a…
