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1 month ago | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | John Fox
Cervilio Miguel Amador was named Cincinnati Ballet’s artistic director in December, capping a quick rise through management ranks following 16 years as the company’s principal dancer. He served as rehearsal director for several years and was named interim artistic director in 2023. He’s traded athletic jumps and sore muscles for meetings and spreadsheets, but Amador, 41, remains a dancer at heart.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | John Fox
I joined the magazine in August 2017 while we were wrapping up the October issue. (Yes, that’s our crazy publishing schedule.) The issue celebrated Cincinnati Magazine’s 50th anniversary with highlights from across the years, a “What does it all mean?” essay, and an interview with Jerry Springer, who graced the cover once again (for the final time). One of the few people who approached Springer’s frequency as Cincinnati Magazine cover model was Jean-Robert de Cavel.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | John Fox
Our relationship with work is all over the place these days. It would be unrecognizable to the fresh-faced, shaggy-haired me who entered the full-time workforce in the 1980s. Like all my peers, I embraced the established college degree/office job/get an apartment/buy a car pathway to adult independence and success. Work is a bit different today, to say the least. You can work from your bedroom and never see the inside of an office.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | John Fox
How three Cincinnati ”faces of the franchise” stack up with each other.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | John Fox
The first quarter of the 21st century comes to a close this month. Let that thought sink in for a minute. It’s been a quarter-century since the whole Y2K craziness of computer software not being able to handle switching over to the year 2000. These days, our big computer concern is that AI-driven server farms are developing consciousness and taking over.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | Amanda Boyd Walters |John Fox |Brianna Connock |Claire Lefton
Stickers: The Sticker ShopGen X mom/author/blogger/disability activist Amy Webb had a brainstorm in January 2023: She wanted to open a sticker shop. It might have seemed out of the blue, but digital fatigue, nostalgia, and a desire to connect with her daughters over creativity inspired her to sign a lease on a Wyoming storefront and transform it into The Sticker Shop.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | Brianna Connock |Amanda Boyd Walters |John Fox |Claire Lefton
Seafood Boil: Cincy CrabWhile the Buckeye state may be far from any ocean, dinner at Cincy Crab gives the impression that you’re enjoying a feast right off the coast. Its seafood boils are by far the stars of the menu and come fully customizable. Customers can handpick one pound each of their favorite seafood—from crab and lobster tail to shrimp and crawfish to clams and mussels, and everything in between—served with potatoes, sausage, and corn on the cob, all coated in a sauce of your choosing.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | John Fox
The skating rink and humongous Christmas tree on Fountain Square might feel like a multi-generational holiday tradition for many of us, but the downtown favorites aren’t even 20 years old. The seasonal rink followed 3CDC’s renovation of the square and its underground parking garage in 2006, adding activity downtown during winter months. Andi Schultes, 3CDC’s director of event logistics, is starting her 12th season in charge of the rink and knows more about making ice than almost anyone in town.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | John Fox
When ArtWorks leaders toured a potential new headquarters building on Gilbert Avenue in Walnut Hills, its origin story was almost too good to be true. It was constructed in 1909 to house the Bolce Paint Company, which at the time was the third-oldest paint store in the U.S. and the largest west of the Allegheny Mountains. The three-story building, plus basement, later became home to Race Refrigeration for 50 years.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
cincinnatimagazine.com | John Fox
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park replaced its larger theater with Moe and Jack’s Place–The Rouse Theatre last year for multiple reasons, mostly to use state-of-the-art technology and staging. The new space was designed with a proscenium stage, rather than the old thrust stage setup, because that’s the configuration used in the major Broadway halls—and Producing Artistic Director Blake Robison wants to mount new shows in Cincinnati that eventually head to Broadway.
