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The Best Names in Cincinnati Reds History, an Informal Primer (1940's)

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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 11:07 a.m.

I want to celebrate the names, the ridiculous and the sublime, that make baseball what it is. This is largely inspired by a Joe Posnanski post where he said that Wally Moon was the most 1950’s name ever. That sparked me to take on this new project ... Let’s go through each decade of Reds’ history, from 1890s through the 2000’s and select the greatest names. We will have three categories: Best Name, Most Cincinnati Name, and Most 1920’s Name. I will list the names and how they got on

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Arrest made in homicide at Richie's Fast Food

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Published Feb. 18, 2011 at 4:21 a.m.

Cincinnati police announced the arrest Thursday of a Woodward High School student and charged him with aggravated murder in death of 34-year-old Antonio Smith, a restaurant employee gunned down during a robbery in October ...

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Council: No panhandling at meters, hotels

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Published Feb. 16, 2011 at 10:42 p.m.

It will soon be illegal in Cincinnati to ask people for money at parking meters, in parking lots, at outdoor dining places and near hotel doorways ...

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Taqueria Mercado grows downtown location

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Published Oct. 5, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

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Luis Leon grew up in Chicago and lived there with his family for twenty-five years. Luis says, "My father worked in a factory and my mother was a secretary. They were good years, but my mother wanted something else, she had a dream. She wanted to own a restaurant." ... So when the family left Chicago and moved to Cincinnati they opened Cancun Mexican Restaurant. A year and half later, the Leon's opened the first of three restaurants bearing the name Taqueria Mercado. The first was in Fairfield,

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Al-Amir Cafe opens in downtown Cincinnati's 8th Street Design District

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Published Aug. 24, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

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Downtown Cincinnati's 8th Street Design District has a relatively new food option. Al-Amir Cafe is now open inside the small space previously occupied by the 8th Street Deli Cafe, and is serving up authentic Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine ... Located at 326 E. 8th Street, Al-Amir offers everything from sharwarma, kabobs, gryos, and falafels to burgers, chicken, fish, and salads. Appetizers include a similarly diverse collection of items like baba ghanoush, foule, grape leaves, and

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Gourmet hot dog restaurant, music venue opens on Short Vine

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Published Aug. 24, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

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In his years touring around the world as a Hip Hop DJ, Brad "Mr. Dibbs" Forste would always grab a hot dog after the show ... "Literally all around the world, whether it was [the U.S], Japan, Australia, Germany - that was the one thing on tour that I clinched on, finding the hot dog," Forste said ... He eventually used that international experience to hone his own recipes for specialty hot dogs and, along with his wife and brother, opened Flop Johnson's last Tuesday in a vacant restaurant

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Basil's Caribe Carryout offering up authentic Caribbean cuisine on Cincinnati's west side

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Published Aug. 17, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

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Cincinnati's west side is known for its neighborhood-grown food icons like Price Hill Chili, LaRosa's, Sebastian's, and Skyline Chili. It's not often that the west side is thought of as a place to find authentic Caribbean cuisine, but Basil's Caribe Carryout changed that earlier this year when it opened in West Price Hill near St. Teresa ... "I have lived at the end of the street and have had the idea for the restaurant for nearly 20 years," said Caribe Carryout owner Basil Dalian. "Over

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Uncorked: Are restaurants ripping customers off?

Published July 30, 2009 at 9:25 p.m.

How often have you walked into a restaurant, opened the wine list and stared wide-eyed at the seemingly ridiculous prices? You scan down the list, looking for one or two of your most recent favorites, find them and can't believe that the restaurant wants $125 for the bottle you paid $35 for last week. Uncorked explores the meaning of this markup, explains the rationale and talks about a world with reasonably-priced wines.

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Chi-nnati's Pizza (Review)

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Published July 15, 2009 at 7:54 p.m.

Where Chicago meets Cincinnati, in pizza form I’ve whined in the past about Cincinnati’s mediocre pizza offerings. Sure, there are some exceptions — Dewey’s springs to mind — but for the most part, nothing here wows me. So, would Chi-nnati, a new Cincinnati-Chicago hybrid, become my new pizza Mecca? I went with an open mind and two dining companions, including a bicycle racer with a youth-fueled appetite for carbs ...

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Cuban restaurant opens in Covington's Wedding District

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Published July 14, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

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Covington's resurgent Wedding District welcomed a new dining option last month. Cuba Cafe opened at 630 Madison Avenue and, unsurprisingly, features Cuban cuisine ... Theintimate cafe seats 20 to 25 people and is located in the heart ofCovington - only a short walk fromthe popular Greenup Street and Main Strasse commercial districts. Cuban-born restaurant owner, Willie Rodriguez, came to the UnitedStates in 1980 when he was six during the Mariel Boatlift and came directly to the Cincinnati

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