Then: In 1999, CityBeat celebrated its fifth anniversary with an issue devoted to looking back over the first five years of publication. Writers chose their 12 favorite stories from 1994-99 to sha  

Then: In 1997, CityBeat launched the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, a local version of the Tony and Grammy awards rolled into one. The first performers to be inducted into the CEA Hall of Fame w  

Then: In 1995, CityBeat profiled the Cincinnati Film Commission and several local filmmakers who were working hard to keep the city on the celluloid map. Cincinnati had taken a major hit -- we'd   

Then: In 1997, CityBeat looked into what was happening with the Emery Theatre, the historic building on Central Parkway that once housed the Ohio Mechanics Institute and a 1,600-seat, acoustical  

Then: In 2001, CityBeat sent Brad King and Monte McCarter in search of America and Americana down US Route 127 during the World's Longest Outdoor Sale. The sale happens annually in August, touchi  

Then: In 2001, CityBeat sent a team of roving, hungry reporters out on a late-night binge to check out 24-hour eateries in Greater Cincinnati. The team turned up five local (non-chain) all night d  

Then: In the early 1990s, a wave of 'zines, both e- and paper variety, hit the Greater Cincinnati area. CityBeat profiled four of the publications in an article in 1995 -- one of which was Evil   

Then: In 1998, Camp Washington Chili was getting ready for a big move. The venerable institution, which had called Hopple Street home for more than five decades, had finally met its match -- not i  

Then: In 1995, Greater Cincinnatians were mumbling and grumbling about the alleged "monopoly" that Delta Airlines held over the Tristate area. CityBeat reported that despite rebuilding Terminal   

Then: In 1996, microbreweries were all the rage in Cincinnati. CityBeat profiled seven different brewpubs that had sprung up in the Queen City since the phenomenon took hold on the East and West c  

Then: In 2000, Rick Pender talked to Brian O'Donnell, a familiar voice in Cincinnati radio who was in the unique position of working at two different non-commercial stations. O'Donnell had been   

Then: In 1995, the public broadcasting organizations in Greater Cincinnati were facing proposed federal budget cuts, much to the dismay of local station managers and the viewing and listening publ  

Then: The Oakley Drive-In is the last of a dying breed. Steve Ramos covered the aging theater and its manager, Scott Roberts, in the summer of 1996. He found out that although running a drive-in  

Then: In 1997, Jon Hughes did a photo essay of Stenger's Café on Vine Street in Over-the-Rhine. The café had been serving lunch for more than 63 years thanks to owner Leo Sunderman, who  

Then: In 1998, CityBeat reported on the "aftermath" of a U.S. District Court decision to overturn the city ordinances that put severe limitations on panhandling. Katie Taft and Joe Sampson wrot