One of the great things about fall is that the cooler temperatures allow humans to walk around outside without getting sweat mustaches. It’s perfect weather for wandering the city to investigate Cincinnati’s sometimes-hidden treasures. Let’s start with historic and move our way to weird.  

Rich Sherman moved to the Queen City from Minneapolis, his hometown, after his partner, Chris, was transferred for a job. And a year later, his tune — and business — have changed. “I am happy to say I love it here and am so thankful we ended up here. It is one of the best-kept secrets, I think. Who knew Cincinnati had so much going on?”  

From federal legislation to local initiatives and activism, Cincinnati's LGBT community has many triumphs to look back on during the past year.
  

You were a shit show this weekend and I straight up don’t appreciate it — in fact, I still get so irritated when I think about this weekend that my butt and calf muscles tense up into tiny little balls. I was too hot, too hungry and too dressed up to deal with whatever you were going through trying to figure out how to cram a thousand events into a single weekend.   

You don’t have to have a penis to drink alcohol, and you don’t have to have a penis to be a dick, either. Polite society functions on ground rules passed down throughout history, and in regards to respecting the bar, etiquette is indifferent toward gender.  

Little girls can frequently be found playing with Barbie dolls (if you were like me, you’d frequently be found giving them Crayola marker makeovers and cutting their hair off), but Jennifer Young of Chaos Contained, a Cincinnati-based organizing and design service, didn’t play with her Barbies — she organized them.    

Midnight December 31: when our clocks and calendars tip us into the New Year, party hats and all, to start anew. The goal is to end the old year with respect — and a really great soiree — and set our intentions to bring prosperity, love and luck in the new year.  

Santa (aka Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Sinterklaas, Tim Allen) is an old white dude of debatable Pagan/Christian/secular origin whose primary task is to bring gifts to children all over the world at some point during the months of December and January, arriving via sleigh, donkey or by boat from Spain.    

Fabricate, Northside's boutique-gallery hybrid chock full of unique art and locally made goodies, is celebrating its two-year anniversary with an opening reception for Cintessential, a group art show   

Artists Ryan Fabel, Jake Cruzen and John Early are taking Aisle Gallery back to the ’80s — if only in title alone — with their exhibition Who Are Three Men Who Have Never Been in My Kitchen, a r