February 2015
Features
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Pinball Wizards
Behind the counter at Porter’s Pinball Parlor on Main Street in Over-the-Rhine, proprietor Brian Porter has erected a shrine of sorts, a series of questions and answers noting important moments in pinball history.
Reboot DIY: Spin The (Pottery) Wheel
Whistle Stop Clay Works started as a career reboot for the couple that founded it.
Reboot Your Love: Knock Out Arguments
You’re punch-drunk in love, locked in a clinch, grappling with your feelings. Sweat it out with University of Cincinnati Fitness Center’s six-week fitBOX class created specifically for twosomes.
Reboot Your Fitness: Burn Through Those Calories
“We don’t beat you into the ground. We focus on changing your lifestyle. Fix the rest and the scale will follow.”
Reboot Your Fears: Control Those Pests
David Hoffman has a job that can make your skin crawl: He teaches people to overcome their fear of bugs.
Reboot Your Bar: Master Mixology
Weary of the corporate grind? Becoming a bartender might be just the shakeup you need.
Reboot Your Money: Find Financial Peace
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to managing your assets, but these classes are a start.
The Voice of Pod
In 2005, Cliff Ravenscraft felt a calling. To answer it, he turned himself into the Podcast Answer Man, sharing the quotidian details of his life– passionately, one episode at a time– and teaching others how to do the same.
Reboot Your Yard: Dig Into Gardening
For our February 2015 Reboot Your Life issue, we’ve rounded up classes, services, and tools that will help you hit the reset button. Make 2015 your year.
Reboot Your Love: Unblock Your Energy
From her yoga position on her living room floor, Amrita Rothchild sees a way many folks can change the direction of their lives.
Reboot Your Love: Strengthen Your Relationship
For our February 2015 Reboot Your Life issue, we’ve rounded up classes, services, and tools that will help you hit the reset button. Make 2015 your year. If people have been wondering” about working on their relationship, says Joyce DeVoge, founder and director of the Cincinnati Relationship Center, “it’s a good indication.” DeVoge has been helping […]
Reboot DIY: Redo Your Rooms
Tired of staring at the same four walls? Change ’em
Reboot Your Old Home: NKY Restoration Weekend
You love your historic home, but not the drafty windows—or you want to buy a historic home, but the banker just laughed when you said “rehab budget.” In any case, the NKY Restoration Weekend can help.
Reboot Your Health: Do Some Body Work
Feeling sluggish? Try these treatments from Alliance Integrative Medicine’s Integrative Health Coach Mary Rasmussen.
Reboot Your Free Time: Get A Hobby
Mary Ann Burgoyne, one of the owners of Tri State Scuba, has seen folks change once she gets them into a wetsuit.
Reboot Your Rhythm: Shake Your Groove Thang
If you’ve got a case of happy feet, or you’re just trying to find your rhythm, there’s a dance class out there for you.
Reboot Your Family Life: Take a Parenting Class
If only kids came packaged with instructions.
Reboot Your Skills: Learn To Swim
No matter why you can’t swim, there’s still time to learn.
Reboot Your Dinner: Learn How The Sausage Is Made
Once a month from December through June small groups gather at Avril-Bleh & Sons Meat Market to grind, mix, stuff, and link to their heart’s content.
Reboot Your Kitchen: Sharpen Your Knife Skills
Home cooks yearning to mince like Giada can discover the proper way to fold your fingers and which way the knife should go.
Reboot Your Scouting Skills: Survive In The Wild
Build your own fire and learn what to cook on it, pack a month’s worth of survival essentials into one 32-ounce bottle, harness your inner Katniss with archery lessons, or become a triangulating pro in the orienteering class.
Reboot Your Regimen: Train Better
It’s time to become an actual weekend warrior.
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Frontlines
Dave Mason To Play 20th Century Theater
The rock and roll legend comes to Cincinnati.
One Couple’s Vision Brings Public Art To Covington
The prominent artistic duo FAILE—known for their collage-style pop culture appropriations—transformed the outer walls of several buildings in Covington with a new mural titled Around the Corner.
Mack and Cronin: The Odd Couple
It took a pair of homegrown coaches with ambitions to stick around in the wake of the 2011 Crosstown Shootout brawl to keep the tradition alive.
Speak Easy: NKU’s Sue Ott Rowland Talks Snake Charmers
Actress, director, world traveler, and since January of last year, Northern Kentucky University’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, Sue Ott Rowlands shows off her performance chops this month with “The Play’s the Thing” at the Mercantile Library.
Bill Alletzhauser On The Hiders’ New Album
Last November The Hiders released Totem, the band’s haunting and subdued fifth album. Songwriter, lead guitarist, and former Ass Ponys strummer Bill Alletzhauser talks about recording in the wilderness, the influence of Neil Young, and how the new record tastes.
High Profile: Cincinnati Rollergirl Sailor Scary
Jennifer Damron (a.k.a. Sailor Scary) discusses life as a member of the Black Sheep (CRG’s varsity team), coach of the Cincinnati Junior Rollergirls, and, uh, pre-school teacher at the Montessori Academy of Cincinnati.
Dr. Know: February 2015
Cemetery activities, Cincinnati Rock City, and chaos on the dial.
Radar
The Updated Man Cave
February needn’t be all hearts and frills. Try these essentials of refined masculinity instead.
Old Time Computer’s iHorn is Victrola 2.0
Old-time rock and roll now has a whole new meaning.
Style Counsel: Ohge
“It doesn’t take much more time to look good than it does to look bad. Why not take a few extra minutes to shave, or a couple extra minutes to press your shirt?”
Behind The Bars at Maverick Chocolate Co.
Findlay Market’s stylish new chocolatier does it all in-house.
Tudor Block Party
From Avondale to Indian Hill, we found some charming homes with classic Tudor style.
Columns
High Flying with Martha Lunken
Fearless flying in a Cessna with a local aviation icon.
Letter From Katie: Rhythm and Blues
Even in a year of loss, John Von Ohlen’s beat goes on.
Dine
Review: The Mercer
Turning up the volume on modest ingredients and nailing the details.
Vermouth Is Having A Moment
What was once kept around to medicate sick kids has more recently been reintroduced by savvy bartenders.
Hot Plate: China Gourmet
Rare is the restaurant that survives seven years, let alone 37. In China Gourmet’s case, it’s all about clientele.
Fine Diving: Quatman Café
Food Network fans may not enthuse over the Quatman patty’s gourmet quotient, but the well initiated guard its reputation with vigilance.
Snack Time: This Lady’s Artisan Eats
Forget the stale peanuts at your local dive bar. Nuts, once the cheap fodder of happy hours across the land, are now considered haute health food.