cincinnati and covington, ky rfi

there is a general cincinnati thread but it's old and the name of the city is spelled wrong.

i'm going to be here (well technically across the river in covington) for two nights later in the month. is there anything good to do? like, really i'll take just about anything that's decent.

Nice bar/venue in nearby Newport:

http://www.southgatehouse.com/calendar.php

wow, could have sworn this thread would have been started by a different ilxor

idgi tracer!

The paintings of the presidents in Southgate house were done by my great uncle (RIP). The owner, a good friend of my great uncle, took his suggestion that he should open up the back area with a music stage and setup a PA - that suggestion is the reason why they have great shows there today. I drove down from Chicago to see the last GBV classic lineup tour there and it was awesome. Also saw Mark Kozelek there and totally got why he mentions 'newport, ky' in two separate songs ...

go to a reds game

or go see their AAA team in louisville

go to a reds game

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, August 3, 2011 1:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

obv this was the first thing i checked--i'm probably getting in too late on night 1 and they're playing a day game the next day (when i will be in an allday software demo)

update: i think i am in their hipster neighborhood? at least their young profesh neighborhood.

haha i was just reading abt the neighborhood: http://nplusonemag.com/cincinnati

thanks lamp, that was really interesting! you can def sense how forced the o-t-r project is--drive one or two blocks in some direction while trying to turn the car around and you're immediately in a pretty poor/depressed area.

my friend mike doesn't own a car and lives up by the university--he's basically totally reliant on buses because it's not advisable to bike or walk between his area and o-t-r/downtown. too bad, it would be a completely straight 2 mile journey on one street!

are the buildings pretty? I've seen pictures and that neighborhood looks gorgeous

my roommate just moved to nyc from cincinnati and according to him the only fun thing to do was to go dancing at the big fountain downtown?

that n+1 article is good

i think i passed the fountain--there was some kind of outdoor concert happening. it doesn't seem like there's lots of "fun things to do," more like a handful of bars with good cheap drinks and nice people.

the buildings there are really pretty though! and really old--older ime than a lot of stuff on the east coast.

yeah he says that was basically it as far as fun things

idgi tracer!

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:13 AM (4 weeks ago)

it was a "thing" of charltonlido to romanticize uh... off the beaten paths of the American landscape.

lol ok thanks, i realized when i bumped this that i was still wondering what that post meant!