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02/04/2013

Career Q+A: Pole Dancer

Ever tried pole dancing? The women of PoleKittens fitness, one of the oldest pole studios in the country, do it to stay in shape. Read about one of the instructors here:

http://www.thevergemagazine.org/career-qa-pole-dancer-2/

An exercise instructor shares how pole dancing can do more than just strengthen your core. Combine a sultry pole studio with a sweaty, glut-blasting fitness routine, and you’ve got one of the hottest ways to slim down and tighten up. Ohio’s PoleKittens Fitness is the oldest pole studio in the countr...

02/04/2013

Career Q+A: Beer Brewer

Love beer? So does Mike Dewey, co-owner of Mt. Carmel Brewing Company. Read about him and his business here:

http://www.thevergemagazine.org/career-qa-beer-brewer/

A beer brewer shares how his lifelong hobby morphed into a successful business. When Cincinnati native Mike Dewey began home-brewing more than 10 years ago, he developed a love for the craft and was faced with a tough decision: to continue his job as a mechanical engineer or jumpstart a new career i...

02/04/2013

Career Q+A: Skydiving Instructor

Skydiving may intimidate many young adults, but Nathaniel Isaacson free falls with student skydivers seven days a week. Find out what it's like here:

http://www.thevergemagazine.org/career-qa-skydiving-instructor/

A skydiving instructor discusses his love for adventure, airplanes and what it’s like falling from the sky. Slicing through the clouds two miles above the ground might give even the most adventurous daredevil acrophobia. But Nathaniel “Shaggy” Isaacson, 22, free falls with students seven days a week...

02/04/2013

Career Q+A: Tattoo Artist

Ever wondered what it's like to be a tattoo artist? Read about one artist's evolving journey here:

http://www.thevergemagazine.org/career-qa-tattoo-artist/

A tattoo artist reveals his love for the ink industry and discusses where he finds his inspiration. After deciding not to return to art school, Dave Halsey, 24, completed a traditional American two-year apprenticeship. Now, with three years of experience under his sleeve, he tattoos at Barber’s Elec...

26/06/2012

A Day’s Jaunt in the Big Easy

Is New Orleans still the city it once was, before Katrina and the oil spill? A traveler returns to one of her favorite cities to find out.

Read all about it here:

http://www.thevergemagazine.org/a-days-jaunt-in-the-big-easy/

Is New Orleans still the city it once was, before Katrina and the oil spill? A traveler returns to one of her favorite cities to find out. In 2005 I watched on TV as Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge washed away a chunk of the I-10 causeway that leads into New Orleans. Going over the causeway again si...

26/06/2012

Friends in Big Places

Big Brothers Big Sisters pairs children in need with adult mentors, creating relationships that can last a lifetime. Check out Justin and Michael's story online now, at The Verge Magazine.

http://www.thevergemagazine.org/friends-in-big-places/

Big Brothers Big Sisters pairs children in need with adult mentors, creating relationships that can last a lifetime. As children swarm around the roller-skating rink that swallows the interior of The Fun Factory in Cincinnati, out-maneuvered grown-ups trail behind the wild army of kids, struggling...

09/05/2012

Top-10 Weirdest Dating Websites

One is an odd number, but some singles are odder than others.

Check out our Top-10 Weirdest Dating Websites and let us know what you think! Have you ever had an eccentric online dating experience?

http://www.thevergemagazine.org/top-10-weirdest-dating-websites/

One is an odd number, but some singles are odder than others. It seems the older we get, the less acceptable being single becomes. Being single is a lot like binge drinking: It’s perfectly fine until you graduate from college, then it’s just frowned upon. The trouble begins with concerned gazes and ...

09/05/2012

CrossFit Craze

Interested in a new fitness trend that blends a little bit of everything into an intense 15-minute exercise blitz?

Read all about the CrossFit Craze here: http://www.thevergemagazine.org/crossfit-craze/

Coming soon to a gym near you: A new fitness trend that blends a little bit of everything into an intense 15-minute exercise blitz. For the traditional fitness buff, Smith machines and leg presses are the golden tools for muscle enhancement, while ear buds and mp3 players orchestrate the workout, ...

01/05/2012

Working Like a Dog

Ever try to teach a dog to fetch? How about sniff out a co**se or track a missing person? The all-volunteer Buckeye Search and Rescue Dogs team knows a thing or two about finding lost souls.

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Ever try to teach a dog to fetch? How about sniff out a co**se or track a missing person? The all-volunteer Buckeye Search and Rescue Dogs team knows a thing or two about finding lost souls. Payton wags his tail proudly at his owner, Liz Naber, clearly expectant of a reward. She tosses his favorite ...

01/05/2012

Where Everybody Knows Her Name

Cincinnati mixologist Molly Wellmann transformed a local bar into a hotspot hang-out, where the cocktails are custom-made and the aura is old-school cool.

Read it here:

http://www.thevergemagazine.org/where-everybody-knows-her-name/

Cincinnati mixologist Molly Wellmann transformed a local bar into a hotspot hang-out, where the cocktails are custom-made and the aura is old-school cool. It’s a sunny, chilly Saturday afternoon in Cincinnati, and I’m standing outside of Japp’s, a bar in the city’s Over-the-Rhine area downtown, wait...

22/02/2012

A Storyteller’s Town

Have you ever heard of Archer City, Texas? Discover this small country town with a big love for literature.

A trip to Archer City, Texas, leads to the discovery of some small-town folks with a big-time love for their town’s literary heritage. Sue, a gristly, weathered woman with a chin-length brown bob and magenta wind jacket, hands me a tall glass of something murky called red draw. “Try it,” she advises...

13/02/2012

Fit for a Queen

After getting laid off work, a Cincinnati drag performer turned a hobby into a business with his one-stop costume shop for queens near and far. Read the story here! - http://www.thevergemagazine.org/fit-for-a-queen/

A Cincinnati drag performer turned a hobby into a business with his one-stop costume shop for queens near and far. Tucked away on a dead-end street in one of Cincinnati’s roughest neighborhoods is a rather nondescript 19th-century row house, identified only by a tiny sign in the window reading, “Swe...

13/02/2012

All Dolled Up

Do you know what it takes to make it in the industry of makeup artistry? Read this quick Q & A with Chenese Bean, a self-taught makeup artist from Cincinnati.

Self-taught makeup artist Chenese Bean works with models, actresses and brides, proving she has what it takes to survive in the competitive makeup industry. Makeup brushes, eye shadow palettes, mascara sticks and colorful tubes of lip-gloss spill over the compartments in Chenese Bean’s silver case. ...

09/02/2012

Costa Rican Cowboyin’

Escape the cold and read this travel piece about Costa Rica, which is accompanied with beautiful photographs that transport you to a different world.

A ride deep into the Costa Rican rainforest results in saddle sores but reveals a greater truth about what small steps it takes to help save the planet. “Vamonos!” I yelled pleadingly as I nudged the silent Waco gently in his sides with my heels. But there we sat, planted along a steep, narrow horse...

03/02/2012

From Tutus and Tiaras to Ballet and Beer

Think ballet is just for little girls in puffy dresses or old ladies in fur coats? Think again.

In an effort to reach younger audiences, ballet companies across the country are retooling their image from old and stuffy to contemporary and hip. It’s opening night of the last production of Cincinnati Ballet’s 2010-2011 season, and the excitement in the air is palpable. Audience members file in...

30/01/2012

Vinyl Revolution

Sure, it's now 2012 and iPhones are threatening to make BlackBerrys a thing of the past. But vinyl records are making a comeback while CD sales are still struggling. Click here to read about this fascinating revolution within the music industry.

Not long ago, vinyl records were the floppy disks of the music world: outdated and sold off thrift-store walls for pocket change. Now music fans are turning into audiophiles, obsessing over the quality of sound and eagerly snatching up vinyl LPs. What’s behind the rebirth of vinyl, and will it last?...

25/01/2012

Artistic Insight

Jason Hubbard's eyesight may be fading, but his imagination and dreams are not diminishing.

A Cincinnati artist doesn’t let his fading sight thwart his creative aspirations. Illustration isn’t just a pastime for Jason Hubbard; it’s a race against time. After dedicating his life to studying drawing, the self-trained artist developed keratoconus, an eye disease that rapidly alters the shape ...

24/01/2012

Pulling the Plug on Technology

Can you imagine living in today's modern world without technology? Read this story about what it was like for a guy who tried to do just that.

Could you survive a week without access to the Internet, Facebook and (gulp!) your cell phone? Here’s a guy who tried to thrive like it was 1995 and lived to tell about it. One day last spring, I unplugged from the modern world. It all began brewing in the shower, which—completely void of hot water—...

18/01/2012

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18/01/2012

Big Screen Dreams

Read Woodrow Goldsmith's article about young video-production entrepreneurs, which was also just featured in TNR Extra.

Young entrepreneurs launch a home-grown video-production company in Cincinnati and brew big plans for the future. Twenty-three miles north of his Cincinnati home, Stephen Sargent’s friends and Moonbeam Studios business partners are unloading tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment into a sm...

15/01/2012

Bored this Sunday? Read this piece about one woman's experiences trying to navigate love through technology. http://www.thevergemagazine.org/technology-modern-love-in-a-facebookin-world/

12/01/2012

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15/11/2010

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15/11/2010

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15/11/2010

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18/04/2010

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