Entries from November 2007

November 30, 2007

No Tickets Required Here

I’ve wanted to go to Tickets in Fairborn for the past few years. A weird desire, I know. I was a little nervous to go inside the first time I noticed the place so I continued on down the street to Giovanni’s. Does anyone else experience that? Fear of going into little neighborhood bars/restaurants for [...]

November 30, 2007

I Love Me Some Old Houses

I’ve been looking at houses lately. I thought about the whole condo thing but it’s lacking three things—space, a small backyard and the inability to be loud as heck. A downtown condo would be nice for its location and ease but those don’t matter quite as much to me. I’m in a great situation too, [...]

November 21, 2007

Guest Review: Hasty Tasty Pancake House

We’ve all seen the small town diners in movies with the aging waitress, the regulars, and of course a souvenir penny machine. Well on Linden Ave. in Dayton a little place like this exists. It’s called the Hasty Tasty Pancake House or Bunny’s for short. With the recent talk on this Gem [...]

November 20, 2007

Downtown Has Finally Gotten Too Cool for Me

Cincinnati’s CBD is getting pretty crazy, as in awesome and everything I want it to be. I’ve been down there the past few weekends and have been absolutely amazed. Lots of people and traffic, particularly at nightfall. Some friends came on down from Dayton and we got downtown at about 6:30, maybe 7:00 and we [...]

November 20, 2007

Wine Gallery—You’re Still My Boy

My good pal Drew finished his final class this past week and he’s now a marketing man. So we went out for a mini-celebration. We hadn’t been to the Wine Gallery for a while so we figured it was time. I’ve been a huge fan and promoter of the place since the first time I [...]