Cincinnati Magazine Podcast

In the first episode of our new Politics podcast series, we talk with 2017 Cincinnati City Council candidate Tamaya Dennard.

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The Cincinnati Magazine Inside the Issue podcast is back! (And we explain why it took so long.) We also delve into our September Fall Arts Preview: digital editor Amy Brownlee discusses the new look of the city's stage scene, and Brian Isaac Phillips, producing artistic director at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, talks about the troupe's new theater. We also chat with Jay Gilbert about his Living In Cin column on WEBN's 50th anniversary, his long tenure with the station, and whether radio can still have that type impact on a city. Plus, we tease out our new Cincinnati Magazine Politics podcast series, dropping later this week. 

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Here in Cincinnati—and America, really—we mark summer with an uptick in our hot dog consumption. The Queen City's past and present is practically a giant, continuous sausage link, hence our July coverage package exploring our current Golden Age of Hot Dogs. We peel back the casing on how the package came to be, and then discuss Justin Williams' feature on Sean McCarthy and his Cincinnati Strongman persona, as well as Philip Eil's tragic tail of a Portsmouth pill mill. Finally, we wish Adam Flango farewell.

Welcome to The Room Where It Happens. (I'm fairly confident that's a Hamilton reference.) Get more Broadway and Brooklyn insight from Adam Flango on his tears-and-avocado-toast-filled weekend in NYC, along with a seamless transition to our unrequited love of hot dogs, evidenced by our July issue coverage package. (Forgive us our inability to refrain from a few sophomoric jokes, as well.) We also dish on our weirdest reporting experiences—not nerdy ones, we promise!—and an in-depth discussion of Flango's recent piece on Hamilton County dog names. Also, I go on a 45-second rant about You've Got Mail.

In the June issue of Cincinnati Magazine, we offered 18 weekend getaways, one for each weekend of summer. In this episode, we look at a few of those destinations, including a small town in Indiana and an ocean-crossing voyage in Florida. We also talk to digital media editor Amy Brownlee about the joy of radio and go behind the scenes of Sarah Stankorb's story about rape on college campus. 

An emergency pod inaugurating Scooter Gennett into the Hall of Fame

The Reds weren't supposed to be good. They were barely supposed to be respectable. Yet more than a month into the season, the team has been hitting (quite literally) on all cylinders and actually winning baseball games. Sure, some of it seems like smoke and mirrors. But maybe, just maybe, these players are just better than we thought? Either way, the city doesn't exactly seem to be noticing.

On an unrelated note, we also look at the odd guests attending Dre Kirkpatrick's summer football camp.

Cincinnati is a different place when the lights go down. And no we aren't talking about bars and strip clubs. (Well, except one.) The city is filled with late night entertainment options that digital media editor Amy Brownlee curated into May's Cincinnati After Dark package. We talk to her about how she distinguished this package from others and what her takeaway was after visiting a longtime Newport institution. Plus: looking into stories about the complicated influx of Chinese students to Miami and setting the scene for the Mayoral primary.

Cincinnati as a burgeoning hub of creative, millenial minds was a laughable notion just 15 years ago. But while similar cities have experienced a brain drain, Cincinnati has avoided that pitfall and grown its creative class. That's the focus of April's feature package, and to get a better feel for how the city's creative class has evolved, we spoke with stylist, Haile Fellowship winner, and creative class OG Tamia Stinson about the evolution of Cincinnati's creative workforce. And while your commenting on our podcast, make sure to check out Stinson's podcast, Creative City. 

Each year, a select few are responsible for evaluating the best restaurants in Cincinnati. This year, Alyssa Brandt was called up to the big leagues. We discuss the months-long process of eating and thinking about food, how it works, and what surprised her (like, say, eating ears?) along the way. After that, we look back at a uniquely Cincinnati story in February's issue about beloved and troubled chair maker Chester Cornet.