THEN: At the end of 1996, Music Editor Mike Breen compiled the Cincinnati Top 40, a list of the best local CD releases of the year. Hogscraper's self-titled release, which occupied the No. 2 posi  

Then: Connie McFerron was a "person of size" on the verge of a second marriage who saw a need and decided to fill it. After months of chatting online to other folk who faced similar issues -- in  

Then: In 1995, Terri Ford was a large part of a small Cincinnati poetry scene. She was co-coordinator of the York St. International Café's poetry readings and, as a poet herself, firmly beli  

Then: In 1996, CityBeat did a feature on fashion in Cincinnati. Although the two words would seem mutually exclusive, thanks to University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Art, Architecture and Pla  

Then: In December 1996, Hamilton County was up in arms about where to put the new baseball stadium. People had flocked to the polls to support the half-cent sales tax increase to build two new sta  

Then: Back in 1994, sax man Mike Malone was living in Cincinnati, playing gigs at the Blue Wisp and the Hyatt. CityBeat reported the CCM grad was leaving town for four months to play on a cruise s  

Then: At the time of CityBeat's debut issue, Roxanne Qualls was mayor of Cincinnati and presiding over a messy debate: how to ensure the economic revitalization of Over-the-Rhine. During her tenu