November 2010
Features
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Update: The Correction
Sometimes the connection between a writer and his subject goes beyond the story.
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Columns
Too Long at the Fair?
Cheviot’s Harvest Home Fair is thriving, even without a harvest to celebrate.
Letter from the Editor: November 2010
The leaves were turning a sickly sort of brown as we went to press. After three months without a drop of rain—capped by that maddening no-hitter Roy Halladay pitched against the Reds in the first game of the National League Division Series—it’s looking like our autumn will be nasty, brutish, and short.
Dine
Taqueria Mercado
I have been writing this column for nine years, and am happy to report that I am still uncovering new dives and have yet to recycle a place. So I need to plead special dispensation here for a return trip to the original Taqueria Mercado in Fairfield.
Scene Stealer
Ours is a city of beautiful views, many of them captured by restaurants. Maybe you’ve dined amid the pine paneled and glass wrapped walls of The Celestial, or danced next door in your Mad Men threads to a swingin’ set of jazz standards underneath the bar’s glittering chandelier, resplendent from the reflection of a million city lights. No doubt you’ve enjoyed the bird’s-eye view from the west side at Primavista, or the sweeping expanse of Cincinnati’s riverfront from the South Beach Grill at The Waterfront.
Yat Ka Mein
For five years, Yat Ka Mein, an inconspicuous noodle house sandwiched between Penn Station and Aveda Frederic’s Institute in a Hyde Park strip mall, has catered to our inner Chinese peasant.
Hip to Be Square
My first experience with boxed wine was not a pleasant one: a five-liter box fell from a shelf and hit me on the back of the head. I cursed its existence and came up with several secondary uses, including my erstwhile favorite, a doorstop.