Recreational dispensaries could open sooner than anticipated in Ohio. PHOTOGRAPH BY AYEHAB VIA ADOBE STOCK It’s almost 4/20, the high holiday for cannabis lovers, and those who celebrate may have heard the news that recreational marijuana will be available for sale to adults 21 and older in Ohio by the Fourth of July, months earlier than anticipated. In recent weeks, Ohio Rep. Jamie Callender (R-Concord) has spoken with a plethora of media outlets about the accelerated timeline. He is chair of the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review, the state’s legislative committee that reviews proposed ne ..read more

Iam not a doctor, but I play one in this magazine. I’m a specialist in the treatment of ACC (Acute Cincinnati Curiosity), a recurring condition that’s incurable, although it can be managed with proper care. The Doctor cares and shares every patient’s passion for finding answers to Cincinnati’s most elusive questions. With the publication of this month’s Dr. Know column, I have now occupied this esteemed position for 10 years. It’s time for a performance review. Dr. Know was created in 2008 by Albert Pyle, who apparently wasn’t busy enough as executive director of the venerable Mercantile Libr ..read more

Although some national publications made light of equine influenza, many American cities, including Cincinnati were brought to a standstill without ready horsepower. FROM HARPER'S WEEKLY 16 NOVEMBER 1872 It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. For nearly three weeks in the autumn of 1872, Cincinnati was paralyzed by a virus with no known cure. Humans were not susceptible to this virus. It only affected horses, but the entire operation of Cincinnati life and business depended primarily on horses. When the city’s horses were incapacitated, Cincinnati screeched into paralysis. Th ..read more

Like many generations of Cincinnatians, I grieve the closing of The Cupboard on Short Vine. I haven’t visited in a while, but the smell lingers (in a good way). The many stories I see now about the place, though, seem contradictory. Please give us a reliable timeline of that famous address. —ROLL ANOTHER ONE DEAR ROLL:First Sunlite Pool, and now this! Surprisingly, the humble one-story building at 2613 Short Vine was first built in 1935 as a modest Kroger. But it found its legs in 1940 as Corry’s 5¢ to $1 Store, selling bits of everything into the mid 1960s. Then, just as America welcomed Sgt ..read more

Join hundreds of business, nonprofit, government, and community leaders at the Duke Energy Convention Center on Thursday, May 2, for the 11th annual Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit, hosted by Green Umbrella. Building on last year’s focus on imagining visionary possibilities, this year’s Summit takes a decisive step toward action. The theme, “From Vision to Action,” focuses on ways to align efforts and enact climate solutions. Learn how you can be part of the movement to create a more vibrant, equitable, and thriving region at this year’s Summit. The event will feature more than 80 spe ..read more

As the 1974 tornado swept through Mack, James Frazier of Westwood snapped this image with his Polaroid camera. IMAGES COURTESY OF GREG HAND'S PERSONAL COLLECTION On the evening of April 3, 1974, your narrator interviewed a woman who found a perfectly new, pristinely crisp, twenty-dollar bill in her front yard. This random occurrence of good luck became newsworthy because her random benefit had floated down into her yard from a passing cloud that had recently spawned an F5 tornado. At the time, I was not a reporter exactly but everyone that evening became either a reporter or a source. The memo ..read more

Seventh grade students across CPS heard from volunteers, like those pictured from Huntington Bank, including Steve Mullinger (center) about various skills to build their financial literacy knowledge. Years of banking experience have shown Steve Mullinger that talking about money is taboo for many people. That’s unfortunate, because it can mean lost opportunities to improve financial health. It’s one reason he welcomed the opportunity to speak to seventh graders at Western Hills High School March 5 as part of the ninth annual Unite for Teen Financial Literacy event, a joint project of United Wa ..read more

Based on this cartoon, it appears that Cincinnatians tossed their empty tin cans, old shoes, bottles and flower pots into a backyard heap. IMAGE EXTRACTED FROM MICROFILM BY GREG HAND If you had family in Cincinnati a century ago, I have bad news for you: They wallowed in garbage. It wasn’t entirely Grandma’s and Grandpa’s fault. The City of Cincinnati took a long time to figure out trash collection. Back around 1910, for example, the city sanitation wagons picked up only two kinds of refuse – ashes and garbage. Ashes were the remnants of the fuel burned in stoves and furnaces. Garbage had a ve ..read more

Cincinnati celebrated its first Sacred Heart Italian Dinner in 1910—four decades before the first Skyline Chili opened and 20 years before Buddy LaRosa was born. Automobiles were so rare that neighbors raced out of their houses to gawk when a Model T rumbled down the street. The Italian dinner at Sacred Heart Church in Camp Washington, in other words, is a Cincinnati tradition with a capital T, serving 210,000 ravioli, 23,000 meatballs, and 600 gallons of sauce to some 2,000 diners and 3,000 carryout customers at its peak. An army of sauce stirrers, meatball makers, and ravioli chefs worked t ..read more

My neighbor’s friends park in front of my house in College Hill. I wouldn’t mind, but they half-park up on the sidewalk, muddying the grass on the little devil’s strip. I complain, but my neighbor says too bad, that’s city property. Is she right? Who’s responsible for that little grassy area? —SHOVE THY NEIGHBOR DEAR SHOVE:Whatever hostilities rage between you and your neighbor, they don’t compare to the firestorm you have created at our offices. You called that little grass rectangle between the curb and the sidewalk the “devil’s strip.” One faction here never heard this expression and never ..read more