Walnut Hills / E. Walnut Hills

Walnut Hills was the first Cincinnati neighborhood to participate in Soapbox's On the Ground series, an embedded journalism approach to learn what's happening in the underrepresenting neighborhoods that are being transformed. Stories covered everything from business and community development, arts and culture and education to health and wellness, crime and food insecurity. A community newsroom was held at Caffé Vivace hosted by the champion of 45206, Kathryn Gardette. 

New restaurants coming to East Walnut Hills, Oakley, and Madisonville

New grub and tipples from a trio of forthcoming dining establishments.  

ArtWorks' Civic Studio artist in residence Asha White (second from left) with the Studio's team of artists catalogued Greater Cincinnati's 218 existing monuments and their subject matter as part of the New Monuments Initiative.
Artworks’ monumental task

The New Monuments Initiative strives for more inclusive Cincinnati memorials.  

L to R: Civic Art Studio Artists Emilee Taylor, Zero Pruitt, Eve Miller, Madison Lentz, Aspen Stein (behind), Lexi Spurlock, Claire Wagner and Civic-Artist-in-Residence Asha White at ArtWorks' ArtAmplifed event in June.
ArtWorks reimagines the future of public art with New Monuments Initiative

Share your thoughts and ideas on monuments in your community to help inform the creation of new ones. Take the five-minute public survey now.

City of Solidarity: Urban places can be models of social harmony in a divided world

With a diversity of cultures, places, and experiences – cities show how we can thrive in a complicated world.

Edenesque Walnut Hills is the right location and right choice for a bookstore for the ages

Household Books is a new bookstore and literary venue that focuses on culture, engagement, and community outreach.

Cincinnati Public Schools community shares ideas to improve local schools

School Board School and CPS partner again to hear innovative ideas during Policy Pitch Night.  

Under the shade of the many beech trees on the site, it came to be known as Beech Acres, and later, Beech Acres Parenting Center.
Beech Acres moves back to the urban core

A new centralized location allows nonprofit to connect with more children and families throughout the entire tri-state.

Laure Quinlivan interviews Eric Russo at The Hillside Trust
Local filmmaker exposes the dangers of hillside erosion in new documentary “Living with Landslides”

Multiple experts explain why the region's topography is susceptible to landslides and how the development of hillsides has sometimes exacerbated the problem. 

Visitors to Studio 122, the Art Circle at the Essex enjoy the watercolors.
During ArtWalks, fifty Essex studios offer free behind-the-scenes tours of their workspaces

After nearly a one-year absence, Essex Studios re-opens its doors to the public offering visitors the opportunity to meet working artists and buy original art.

The House of Katmandu in Mallorca, Spain. Photography BDR Design Group.
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