Near as I can tell Cincinatti has very little to offer in the way of sin and is not really that natty. Not that I've had the chance to make a complete audit of these things.
I will note that in the three blocks from my hotel to a business dinner last night I strolled past a Tiffany's and a Macy's and was panhandled twice, so for a moment there it felt just like being in San Francisco.
I know from a previous trip here many years ago that the univeristy has great architecture and that the city prepares chili in a peculiar style.
Just as curious as the chili is the means of getting a cab from the paying in advance for your cab, and then standing outside waiting for/trying to find the cab with the number on it which matches your reciept. This is oddly inefficient and when asked why they did things this way I learned that apparently since 9/11 cabs are not allowed to form cab lines in front of important buildings like the Cincinnati airport. Except, apparently, in cities which are less likely terrorist targets like, say, New York and Los Angeles . . .
Ah Cincinnati. I have always refered to it as the "Bizarro World" Seattle. It has lots of twenty and thirty-something hip folks, Microbrewries, cute coffee shops, and it is the most CONSERVATIVE place on the planet.
--Have fun :)
Posted by: Mark F | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 at 10:05
The chili -- I had the four-way with onions -- was about as good as the airport taxi stand was strange.
Posted by: Andy | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at 23:53
And their college basketball team is corrupt. I think their graduation rate tops at 0%.
Posted by: Brian | Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 05:08