Jay Gilbert

I’m on a team in Clifton that’s renovating a beautiful century-old mansion. We know a lot of its history, but there’s one detail that eludes us: a gorgeous mural on the living room ceiling...

I only recently learned that Cincinnati once had a Lincoln Park. Did Lytle Park’s beardless Abraham Lincoln statue start there and then get moved? —HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY Dear Happy: Yes, a beautiful west-side expanse called Lincoln...

C incinnati did not exist when I was a kid. I can’t remember when I first heard the name, though I’m sure that spelling it correctly came much later. I was born in Philadelphia—its own spelling...

Many devotees of UC would happily award Crosley Tower a stomped-on Lifetime Unachievement trophy.

Legendary TV Newsman Al Schottelkotte once did me a favor.

Who among us has not felt smoke emanating from our ears as we sit endlessly before the Great Red Destroyer of Appointments?

There’s a security camera affixed to a utility pole on Observatory Avenue in Hyde Park, facing the intersection at Edwards. It creeps me out. Hyde Park isn’t exactly a high crime area, and I...

"There’s a security camera affixed to a utility pole on Observatory Avenue in Hyde Park, facing the intersection at Edwards. It creeps me out."

Things were different back in the Olden Days of the 1990s.

Rather than make a chart showing the dizzying array of Juniors and The Thirds, let’s just say that the East End Railroad Pendletons were related to the Over-the-Rhine Politics Pendletons.