Cincinnati CityBeat Podcast

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Tamara York on her book, 60 Hikes in 60 MIles.

Josh Breitbart of Clamor, Jimmy Heath of Streetvibes and Ellen Bierhorst of the Independent Eye.

CityBeat News Editor Kevin Osborne discusses the local political landscape.

CityBeat Managing Editor Jason Gargano discusses the films of 2009, how the recession has hit the film industry and his favorite works of the past 12 months.

Progressive, urban minister Bart Campolo on the downward mobility, the Walnut Hills Fellowship and working with the poor in Cincinnati.

Richard Stewart of Carriage House Farm and photojournalist Amanda McLaughlin discuss bees.

Michael Gross, Tom Savini, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins, Courtney Gains and Corbin Bernsen discuss horror.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail with Jeff Alt, author of A Walk for Sunshine.

Jazz by the house quintet recorded Nov. 10, 2009 and an interview with Ed Moss.

Danny Cross and friends explore Cincinnati's beltway.

Jac Kern goes inside the Nightmare haunted riverboat.

Brian Griffin and Donald Caster.

Col. Gail Halvorsen, the original candy bomber from the 1948 Berlin Airlift.

Jerry Gels on Haunted Newport.

Michael Kuany on on the Lost Boys of Sudan.

Living Out Loud with Larry Gross.

311-miles along the Ohio-to-Erie Trail.

The Flight 93 National Memorial

Larry Bourgeois on Third Place.

Interview with the Dean of Cincinnati, Jason Haap.

Interview with the the subject of The Animal in Hollywood.

Joe Wessels and Tom Brinkman debate local issues from the left and the right.

Joe Wessels and Tom Brinkman debate local issues from the left and the right.

On this episode we'll hear two stories from Cincinnati author Mark Flanigan and an interview with the Harlequins.

Local film is a growth industry. This episode features interviews with Southern Ohio Filmmakers Association board members Margaret McGurk and Kat Steele. Christian Appleby of Media Bridges is also a guest.

This episode presents a July 6 concert by local acts Brandon Dawson and Saw Fist Tree. Hen's Teeth Duo from Brooklyn also performs. The music was recorded live at 1801 Mills.

A local prostitute tells CityBeat's Cameron Knight her tragic life story with humor and insight into the world's oldest profession.

Listen to a local wrestling exhibition by the Dynamic Wrestling Alliance at the Price Hill Recreation Center as well as interviews with Darren Aronofsky who directed The Wrestler and Necro Butcher, a real wrestler who played himself in the film.

Listen in on our conversation with Brewster Rhodes who is the chairman of Paddlefest, the nation's largest paddling event, happening along Cincinnati's riverfront this weekend. You'll also hear a recent voyage of the riverboat P.A. Denny, a floating ecology classroom that cruises the Ohio.

The brothels, speakeasies, wise guys (and girls) and bootleggers are fleshed out in an eight-block walking tour. In this episode, you'll learn how Newport almost trumped Las Vegas (nearly becoming the nation’s gambling capital), about the local man who was the inspiration for The Great Gatsby and hear stories of the people who ran the city as well as those who ran the gangsters out.

Our guests include Christine Wilson, who confesses the sins of the church against the gay community, 2009 Pride Parade Grand Marshall Cheryl Eagleson. Danny Cross and Alex Weber visited the guerilla queer bar staged at the Cadillac Ranch and spoke with patrons as well as Guerilla Queer Bar organizer Ethan Philbrick.

Listen in on the 2009 Fringe Festival performance 'Success Show,' a send-up of motivational seminars.

On this episode we'll take a walk on the dark side for a behind the scenes tour of Cincinnati's Dent Schoolhouse. It's a rare, macabre treat to find out what makes it tick.

For this episode we recorded the Fringe Festival performance Incredulity. It's an improvisational piece that was recorded on May 28 by Ashley Thomas.

The Cincinnati Fringe Festival is a marathon of new and offbeat theatrical works running from May 26-June 6. Our guests are CityBeat Contributing Editor Rick Pender, Cincinnati Fringe Fest founder Jason Bruffy and Eric Vosmeier, who is the Managing Director of the Fringe.

This episode of the Cincinnati CityBeat Podcast features voices from the Cincinnati Drop Inn Center in Over-the-Rhine. Drop Inn Center staff members Pat Clifford and Kenny Havens discuss their work, providing shelter and restoring dignity to homeless men and women.

May is Bike Month. On this episode we'll hear from local bicycle commuters who took part in Queen City Bike's rolling press conference CityBeat's Danny Cross, who wrote a cover story in 2008 on why Cincinnati isn't a very bike-friendly city music by the bike-friendly band Turmeric and Shawn Jenkins of Segway Cincinnati, which sells electric bikes.

CityBeat's Maija Zummo discusses the CityBeat Women's Issue and takes listeners along on the Snooty Fox Bus Tour a mobile shopping spree that takes patrons to eight different locations of the local consignment store chain.