I’ve been updating a few things lately, including wordpress, themes and comment spam protection. The comment spam filter now asks some slightly less bot friendly questions. Sorry if there’s some down time. I’m really trying to update the theme and style of the page. I’ve never really liked the current theme, it’s just one of the easiest on the eyes that wasn’t black.
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Just an interesting post I found the other day from the well known Laughing Squid blog. Scott Beale enjoys Skyline Chili on his way through town. He never said which location he visited and I wish there was a mention of the Price Hill neighborhood, but that’s what trackbacks are for.
Sphere: Related ContentSorry for the lack of posts lately. I went east to visit family for about a week and came back to mountain of work.
Here are a few bits and pieces that have been in the mix since my last post:
- Join the Westwood Concern and Price Hill Civic Club on Monday November 5th from 7-8:30p at Price Hill Chili to thank Captain Raabe for his service at District 3. Captain Raabe is leaving District three after 7+ years of service to the community.
- Friday, October 26th is another Good Guy Loitering date. Meet at St. Lawrence around 7:30.
- I hate to link to the spawn of satan (i.e. MySpace) but the Warsaw Project Gallery, an art gallery located on Warsaw Avenue (at Hawthorne Ave), has both a web page and a MySpace profile. The Enquirer mentioned it recently. Unfortunately my post is about a week late so anyone interested has to wait until next month to visit the gallery.
- At the last EPHIA meeting the proposal to make the property currently occupied by Whittier School available to District 3 was mentioned. District 3 has been interested in a new building and more parking for quite a while. Kevin has more on the development at Building Cincinnati.
That’s it for now.
Sphere: Related ContentHere’s a good source of photos from the race last weekend. And hopefully these will be added to the Price Hill Flickr group shortly.
Sphere: Related ContentAnyone interested in following an East Price Hill home being rehabbed should check out the Room 113 blog. The house is 961 Olive Ave. It’s very near to the planned new Kroger store on Enright and Warsaw.
It’s fun reading, considering I’m doing the same thing. I can relate to certain aspects, such as the City of Cincinnati Sanitation Department not taking all of my garbage.
I plan on posting pictures of my “project” in the future.
I’ve added Room 113 to my blog role.
Sphere: Related ContentLocal 12 gave the Good Guys Loitering event that I mentioned last week more press.
Everyone attending feels that the events are working.
If you would like more information about participating, contact District 3 Police at (513) 263-8300.
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Kevin covered the TIFs and Streetscape story that affects Price Hill among other Cincinnati neighborhoods. Basically there will delays in the various projects since the districts must be amended.
This Sunday, September 16th, Price Hill Will and the Price Hill Historical Society are hosting a reception to celebrate artwork created by several local students. The event is from 1pm to 2pm at the 3640 Warsaw Ave.
Great news came yesterday regarding the proposed barge terminal development in Lower Price Hill. City Council’s economic development committee passed a motion barring negotiations with any industry for use of the property and stated that a 90 day period be observed to consider other options. It’s about time.
I’ve been checking out a “new” web-2.0-social-bookmarking-news-aggregating site outside.in. It’s no reason to jump up and down, but it’s interesting to see articles gathered together and many local blogs on a map (I’m still a bit confused how all of the got there). It would probably be cooler if Cincinnati was one of the bloggiest cities in America, but I’ll say we’re shooting for quality not quantity.
Sphere: Related ContentSince the start of Price Hill Blog I’ve debated if I should post news regarding Price Hill, save room for user commentary and leave it at that, or, chime in with my opinion and make that the conversation starter, rather than the news item itself.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I find my comments most interesting–granted they are my thoughts. Isn’t this really the nature of a blog? Otherwise, I’m just filtering various newspapers, blogs and other media sources into a digestible stream for a niche audience. So, in the future look forward to more commentary on my part (when time and reason permits.)
Todays earlier post has inspired me for a more in depth explanation of how $500,000 isn’t really a great thing for Price Hill. I’ll post it shortly.
On another note, I have various ideas and segments I’m working on for the blog so stay tuned.
Another couple notes that are way off topic…
Lately I tried a (new?) Thai restaurant in Western Hills, Thai Taste. It’s located on Crookshank, near Applebee’s and O’Charley’s. This isn’t Price Hill, but it’s close. The menu includes plenty of entre choices and at least two pages of sushi rolls. This is the only place on the west side I know of that serves Sushi. If I’m wrong please comment below. The building doesn’t look like much from the outside, but I was impressed with the food. Both the Chicken Pad Thai and sushi choices I ordered were great. I would rate the food somewhere between Thai Express in Clifton, and Teak in Mt. Adams or Thai Cafe in Clifton.
Also, over the weekend I dropped by Findlay market to hang out, get some food and taste the new Christian Moerlein Fifth & Vine Oktoberfest Marzen. It’s excellent!
My hope in the Cincinnati Enquirer has been slightly renewed as the gave me a plug.
I’d also like to mention that in the future I will be looking for another contributor to help with some posts. It’s probably evident that my stomping ground is the East Price Hill area. I’d like to cover the whole Price Hill area (where that ends and begins is probably debatable) but there’s only so many neighborhood meetings one person can attend and plenty of information to scour from local news, magazines and blogs. If anyone is interested drop me a line at john@pricehillblog.com.
Sphere: Related ContentI’m not a web “designer” by profession. I can program software, work with bits, bytes, scripts and code. And, although I’ve worked on web sites for many years, I’ve still never harnessed the power of great design. That said, when I make changes to this site color scheme I tend to be extremely fickle. I’ll be experimenting over the next couple weeks with various color schemes until I find one that fits best. Please comment if you see something you like (or dislike). If you are a web designer and would like to help, that would be super.
[I prefer darker backgrounds with light text because staring at a white screen all day strains the eyes. Why bright white took off on the web as the standard background boggles my mind. Newspapers aren’t printed on bright white paper and books are generally printed on a few shades off white.]
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