✅ Most Tornado Warnings ever issued in August. 🌪️
✅ 2nd most Severe Thunderstorm Warnings issued in August. ⛈️
✅ 2nd most Flash Flood Warnings issued in August. ☔️
Unreal.
“Our first priority is getting every animal out safely and making sure they have a clean, comfortable place to rest, food and water, and whatever medical care they need."
Those who wish to help the rescued animals can donate monetarily or through their wish list at links in the article.
After shuttering its Five Kitchen earlier this year, Crown Restaurant Group will open Bar Rosso, a new concept, in the same space – this one focusing exclusively on steak frites and vermouth-accented cocktails.
For a set price of $50, guests will enjoy house-made bread, a "signature salad" and a steak tenderloin with frites (fries) on the side, Anthony Sitek, who co-owns CRG with his wife, Haley Nutter-Sitek, told The Enquirer.
Bar Rosso's cocktail program will specialize in vermouth cocktails, including martinis and negronis. Instead of offering just two or three vermouths, it will have dozens from all over the world.
“With Bar Rosso, we wanted to build a menu that feels confident and complete rather than crowded,” Sitek said in a press release. “We’re going to execute what people enjoy the most - a perfect steak, frites, and a cocktail.”
Rhinegeist and Fifty West breweries are among 14 businesses that may continue selling THC beverages after a federal judge granted a two-week restraining order allowing the companies to resume sales during litigation over a new state law restricting those products.
The 14 plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are:
Helmick also granted a preliminary injunction in a separate lawsuit on July 13 that allows businesses, including Cincinnati-based Urban Artifact, to sell THC drinks and other hemp products.
The new bridge will be the first of its kind in the world. The only other double-decker, cable-stayed bridges in current use include trusses, usually steel framework, between decks, he said. The Ohio-Kentucky bridge, still unnamed, will not include truss structures.
Visitors to the Cincinnati Museum Center can now see a 14-foot replica of the new bridge, created in 2024-25, to test how the design holds up to wind.
Contractors for the bridge installed the model in a wind tunnel, adding the current Brent Spence, the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge and even the Cincinnati Bengals' indoor practice facility to simulate on-the-ground conditions. They applied wind conditions, using data from wind measurements on the Brent Spence and at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. It passed the tests.
New data from the National Weather Service indicates that more rain fell on Cincinnati's East Side throughout the months of June and July than any other two-month span in the service's recorded history.
According to the data, a total of 21.95 inches of rain fell in the 61-day span between June 1 and July 31 near the National Weather Service's weather monitoring station at the Lunken Airport.
This is the largest volume of rain to have ever fallen over two consecutive months since the NWS first began recording data at the airport in 1948.
This included 11.77 inches falling at the airport during June, and 10.18 inches falling during July, leading to widespread flooding in nearby neighborhoods such as Hyde Park, Oakley, and Fairfax.
Shame to see Gus go - his history here is a singularly unique thread in the fabric of Cincinnati since the dawn of the 20th century.
Go get yourself a new lid before he closes the door for the last time.
Third Eye Brewing Co. in Hamilton won big at the 2026 U.S. Open Beer Championships, the third-largest craft beer competition in the United States. The brewery earned this year's Grand National Champion award, winning five gold medals, two silver and two bronze.
Third Eye tied the record for most medals won in a single year, with Maui Brewing, which set the record in 1990. Both establishments won nine medals. Third Eye’s five gold medals also set a new record for most first-place awards won by a single brewery in one year.
Third Eye scored gold for its Mocha Operandi (breakfast stout), Double Astral (chocolate/cocoa beer), Unleashed Potential (light coffee beer), Kelly’s Private Stash Barley Wine: Ferds Edition (barrel-aged barleywine-specialty) and 2024 Kelly’s Private Stash (aged).
Third Eye, which also won the 2025 Brewery of the Year title at the Great American Beer Festival, took silver medals for Jelly Brain (milkshake IPA) and Kelly's Private Stash (barrel-aged barleywine-English). Its bronze medal-winners were the Barrel Aged Dark Aura (barrel-aged pastry stout) and Barrel Aged Celestial Reserve (blended barrel-aged beer).
2026 US Open Beer Championships Top 10 Breweries
From today's email announcement - now available from 15 library locations:
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In an otherwise forgettable season, Elly De La Cruz had another solid performance on Friday, going 2-for-5 and hitting a solo home run, his 15th of the season - and that blast put him in some very special history.
He is now just the 2nd player in MLB history to record at least 75 HR and 150 SB within his first 500 career games.
The first, you wonder? None other than Eric "The Red" Davis - now Elly can see how close he can get to Davis' amazing 107 home runs and 190 stolen bases through 500 games.
Across 74 games, Elly has posted a .272 batting average, .345 on-base percentage and .842 OPS - all of which would be career highs if the season ended today.
Ohio's four high-major men's basketball programs will compete in an outdoor preseason exhibition doubleheader this fall.
The CareSoure Invitational will feature Xavier against Dayton and UC against Ohio State at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio, The Enquirer has confirmed.
Assuming it's Center Court , the newly renovated facility has a Center Court seating capacity of 11,614
Per the Columbus Dispatch, the games will be held at UD Arena in Dayton in the case of inclement weather.
Downtown Cincinnati's latest mural will cover one of the city's newest and highest profile developments: the $28 million convention center garage.
And it could hold the title of Ohio's largest contiguous mural.
Starting in August, Austin, Texas-based artist DAAS will design and install a seven story, roughly 20,000-square-foot mural on the facade of the 780-space Whex Garage at 210 W. Fourth St.
DAAS is known for his large-scale abstract installations across the United States and abroad.
Local artists Chase Melendez and Matt Grote will work alongside DAAS, who will begin painting the mural sometime in August. It's expected to be completed by mid-September, just less than a month before the fifth installment of Blink Cincinnati begins.
Amir Khan, the viral student manager from the 2025 NCAA men's basketball tournament, has entered the transfer portal to reunite with Will Wade at LSU.
"Yeah, I'll be a student manager for one more year," Khan told ESPN on Tuesday.
Khan earned the nickname "Aura" while attracting more than 20 NIL deals that combined to exceed six figures after his tunnel walkouts with Wade's McNeese squad became one of the biggest social media events of the 2025 NCAA tournament.
One of Over-the-Rhine’s longest-tenured restaurants is moving just down the street to a space triple the size—with a new name and new menu to match. Quan Hapa will rebrand to “Yô Đi,” which is Vietnamese for “come in” but is more commonly used to mean “let’s go.”
“We’re like, ‘cool, now we have more kitchen space to cook everything we always wanted to cook,’ said Bao Nguyen, co-founder and partner of the Lang Thang Group. "And I started updating our menu, and I realized most of the dishes on it I really like are Vietnamese,” he said. “I’m Vietnamese, so that’s where my strong suit is. And even with some of our dishes, there are Vietnamese versions I like a lot better. So, we thought, why not rebrand and reinvent ourselves and just… go all the way?”
https://www.citybeat.com/food-drink/quan-hapa-ownership-on-rebranding-relocating/
Mohammed Rashden stated that when he opened Sharkz, he invested in security and technology. However, he has recently noticed an increase in attempts to bring guns and drugs into the venue. He believes that the source of this problem is not his customers, but rather the promoters.
“If I continue this thing, it’s going to be really bad for everyone. Someone is going to get killed — from my crew, my customers, or myself. So I said enough is enough,” Rashden said.
Jeff Schmidt, CEO of Argos Defense, headed security at Sharkz. He said the problems varied depending on which promoter was bringing groups into the club. “Problems with promoters wanting us to circumvent security procedures, letting people in without IDs — which we would never do — and not searching people they said were with them,” Schmidt said.
The University of Cincinnati has tapped an esteemed international architecture firm for its next signature project.
Bjarke Ingels Group, also known as BIG Architecture, will serve as the lead architect on UC’s so-called Welcome Center and Gateway Building on the former College of Law site at the prominent corner of Calhoun Street and Clifton Avenue, forming the southwest entrance to UC's Clifton campus.
BIG was founded in Copenhagen but lists additional headquarters offices in London, Barcelona, Shenzhen, New York City and Los Angeles.
The firm’s modern and futuristic design style is reflected across its vast and various project portfolio, from skyscrapers and museums to innovation hubs and corporate campuses for the likes of Google and Lego.
Relevant to the current project, BIG recently designed Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Student Center, which opened in late 2025.
UC’s trustees resolution for the Gateway Building’s design contract said the building’s design should “reinforce UC’s national reputation for architecturally distinctive and forward-looking design.”
The 200,000 sq ft facility will include a 1,200-seat auditorium, a black box theater, a curated art gallery, interactive learning classrooms, event venues, public engagement spaces, a cafe and a retail shop.
Aside from the baked-in local Kroger animus, curious what folks think of the cobranding concept, the name and the packaging.
While I get their desire to leverage Kroger to enter new markets and expand distribution, it gives me a bargain Lotsa Cola vibe that risks cheapening the Rhinegeist brand.
Slightly below Columbus (27th) but above St Louis, Pittsburgh, Indy, Milwaukee, Detroit, Louisville and Cleveland in the Midwest.
“With OG’s NBA Finals heroics, this has become an even cooler piece in my Hoosier collection,” Haston said on X. “When OG was at IU, a few of his teammates got into some trouble, leading to IU players getting assigned former Hoosiers to write apology notes. Luckily I got mine from OG.”
Hall of Fame coach Gene Bess built one of the most untouchable records in sports, winning 1,300 games across 50 seasons and leaving behind a legacy that changed college basketball forever.
When Bess arrived at Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, in 1970, few could have imagined what would follow.
Over the next five decades, he transformed the junior college program into a national powerhouse and turned himself into a coaching legend.
His final record stood at 1,300-416. The number is staggering on its own. The context makes it even more impressive.
Bess coached 50 seasons at the same school. He led Three Rivers to 17 NJCAA National Tournament appearances, reached eight Final Fours and won national championships in 1979 and 1992.
https://www.si.com/onsi/athlete-lifestyle/gene-bess-college-basketballs-winningest-coach-dies-at-91