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Clooney at home filming Ides in Cincy (0) George Clooney attends the premiere of the film at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills, California. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo CINCINNATI, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- George Clooney says he had been looking forward to working in his hometown when he directed his new political movie "The Ides of March" in Cincinnati. The 1979 graduate of Augusta High in Cincinnati rewrote the original play "Farragut North," changing the location fro...

Cincinnati Magazine May 6, 2021 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1923 U.S. tour was devoted entirely to promoting spiritualism and communication with the dead. Cincinnatians sold out the Emery Theatre to hear the famous author. Cincinnati loved Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, even though the great author left Sherlock Holmes behind on his only two visits here. On his first, in 1894, Doyle arrived not quite a year after he killed off Holmes and Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. He told The Cincinnati Post [...

As we near the end of the school year, we thought it would be fun to test your knowledge of local history. So, try out the first Our History quiz based on the historical stories that have appeared in The Enquirer over the past few years. As with all good educational tools, if don’t know the answer now, then you can learn something. Good luck! Questions (Scroll after the questions for the answers) 1. In 1924, DeHart Hubbard of Avondale was the first Black athlete to win an Olympic Gold Medal....

Jay Hanselman / WVXU So how did Cincinnati end up with the council-manager form of government, where a professional city manager runs the day-to-day operations and a nine-member council sets policy? It was a case of political bossism gone haywire in the 1920s that pushed Cincinnati into this relatively new, clean and efficient form of government – one that had little hint of scandal or corruption until 2020, when no less than three council members were indicted on federal corruption char...

Cincinnati Magazine April 14, 2021 Spend a few hours poring over the old city directories, and you will quickly conclude that Cincinnatians changed addresses frequently. It’s rare to find the same person in the same building from directory to directory. You may be amazed to learn that most of Cincinnati not only moved from year to year, but most households moved on exactly the same day. The Cincinnati Post April 22, 1924 Image extracted from microfilm by Greg Hand From from the mid-1800s to t...

Tom Uhlman / AP April 7, 2021, marked 20 years since white Officer Steven Roach shot and killed Black 19-year-old Timothy Thomas in Over-the-Rhine. The shooting, along with 14 other killings of Black males at the hands of police from 1995 to 2001, led to nearly a week of unrest in Cincinnati. The protests, lootings and chaos garnered national media attention. Reporting for WCPO, Jenell Walton interviewed NAACP President Kweisi Mfume as he toured the damaged area of Over-the-Rhines Vine Str...

Cincinnati Magazine March 16, 2021 Artist Winsor McCay (later famous for his “Little Nemo in Slumberland”) captured the essence of Cincinnati’s Irish saloons in this drawing published to illustrate one of Finley Peter Dunne’s “Mr. Dooley” humor columns. Image extracted from microfilm by Greg Hand. So ubiquitous are the photographs of mustachioed men with feet up on the brass rail and plug hats screwed firmly upon their noggins, that you might be forgiven if you con...

Cincinnati Magazine March 2, 2021 Jigsaw puzzles were as hard to find as toilet paper throughout 2020, as Americans looked for anything to entertain us during the pandemic’s lockdowns. Amy Pepe of the Geneva (New York) Historical Society says this current fascination is actually the third jigsaw puzzle craze, and Cincinnati shows the same pattern, with locals jumping on the puzzle bandwagon all three times. The whole family, including the baby, the dog and the cat, took up jigsaw puzzles in 1...

Rich Boehne has notified the board of directors of The E.W. Scripps Co. that he will step down as chairman and retire from the board when his term expires on May 3. Kim Williams will become chair of the board, effective the same date. Boehne leaves a long legacy of stewardship over the company, having […]

Rich Boehne has notified the board of directors of The E.W. Scripps Co. that he will step down as chairman and retire from the board when his term expires on May 3. Kim Williams will become chair of the board, effective the same date. Boehne leaves a long legacy of stewardship over the company, having […]