The RiverSpan Sculpture Exhibition and Sale is an annual event celebrating the creative genius of a wide range of fine art sculptors. From pedestal size to monumental, the RiverSpan experience will satisfy the appetites of the casually interested to the fervent collector.
RiverSpan is not another arts & crafts event, but a calculated attempt to bring the work of fine art sculptors into public view. RiverSpan is produced in association with the CincinnatiUSA Regional Chamber, and together we are working to make your visit to the region an enriching experience.
Whether you come to browse or to purchase, our aim is to make the time you spend worthy of your effort. Sculptors are juried into the event from across all state and international borders, working in all range of style and media.
Today is the first day of the Annual Library Used Book Sale at the Main Library Downtown. You can find really great stuff including CDs, DVDs, as well as art and of course books.
Don't forget Friday is bag day - buy a bag and fill it up with anything for $10.
Le's Cafe (the cafe inside the library) will be grilling out on the Walnut Street plaza all week, too.
All proceeds help support the library, so stop by!
I've taken a few photos of the new Avril-Bleh Grocery that was supposed to open this week. It's not quite there yet, but it's getting really close. Between Wednesday and today it's been painted and most of the fixtures seem to be in place. I even saw a rack holding bags of chips in there this afternoon.
My biggest hope is that they'll slightly later hours than Ciancolo's on Main, since I usually get off work about an hour after they close.
A few weeks after voting I received an email from Ray Angel of StartupWeekend.com claiming that preparations were beginning for an even in Cincinnati:
I've begun planning for the Columbus weekend and we hope to be announcing it on the Startup Weekend website soon.
I'd like to be able to announce the Cincy Startup Weekend around the same time if at all possible and I need to narrow down the weekend that works best for the majority of people.
A visit to the site showed that a Columbus event had been announced, but as far as I could tell, there wasn't any announcement about Cincinnati.
Anyway, I didn't think much about it.
As usual, once a I'm exposed to a meme like this, I start noticing it where I might not have earlier. It didn't take long before I was actively digging around for information about this whole operation.
The group has been mentioned a few times on TechCrunch.com, fairly amicably, but the real juice is on uk.techcrunch.com where they did a longish post about the history of Startup Weekend so far and the apparently dramatic Andrew Hyde, Startup Weekend's founder. From that article we learn that a few cities have had uneasy relationships with Hyde and to varying degrees have divorced their "startup weekends" from his company. Some have complained about his style of management and professionalism.
More recently, a spat has occurred between Hyde and an Andrew Paradies. Paradies, is a co-founder of another web-startup based out of Cincinnati called photrade.com. Hyde accused Paradies of creating an inferior clone of Startup Weekend and also dissed him for using a Creative Commons licensed photo improperly on the new company's site InOneWeekend.org.
I turns out that Paradies is involved with InOneWeekend.org, but isn't really a founder per se, and based on the back and forth it appears he and Hyde have made up. Still I don't think Startup Weekend and In One Weekend have much love for each other at this point.
Anyway, now it appears InOneWeekend.org is planning ( obviously ) an event in Cincinnati in July as their first weekend. However, they have no details on the site other than the dates.
One wonders if Hyde's SW is still going to come to town, or if they decided to skip us and let IOW take the reins. It's not clear to me whether they've made up their minds about coming since there hasn't been a post on the actual site yet. Columbus and Cincinnati both still appear on the voting page. The decision making process is not very transparent.
I guess my initial interest, if not enthusiasm, for the idea has been somewhat dampened.
I'll still try to attend one or both of the events if they actually occur, but now it'll be more out of morbid curiosity than an entrepreneurial attitude. I know the videos I've seen so far make it look like a pretty unique experience.
This Saturday, May 3rd is Free Comic Book Day. As the name implies, Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book specialty shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores.
It is a great way to get into comics if you're not already a big comic book reader, and it's a good way to see some stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up if you are already a comic book fan.
Here is the awesome list of books that you will be able to get for absolutely free.
And here is the list of participating stores in the Cincinnati area:
I've been to 5 of these 6 stores and believe me when I say they are very friendly places. You will usually find that the owner of a comic book store is the staff of that store and they tend to be passionate about not just comic books, but also helping people find what they are interested in. Whether you are looking for something specific and obscure or if you don't really know what you want, comic book store owners usually bend over backward to help you out. They are really great local businesses to support.
You may have already read this post about the Walking Tour of Surveillance in Downtown Cincinnati from this morning on Visualingual, but if you read it in the AM you may want to check back. An excellent discussion of the role of surveillance in cities has been going on in the comments, including a few comments by Bill Brown the leader of the tour.
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