We Won! Cincinnati Magazine at the National City and Regional Magazine Association Awards!
On June 1, winners of the 2009 National City and Regional Magazine Association Awards were announced at the City and Regional Magazine Association conference in New Orleans. Cincinnati Magazine walked away with two awards: one for Art Director Grace E. Saunders's spread design, for the opening pages of the March 2008 King Records feature, "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King," by Larry Nager; another in the reader service category for May 2008's  "Sweating Equity: Your Guide to Surviving a Rough Real Estate Market."

NEW! Cincinnati Magazine in Google Archives!
Cincinnati Magazine content from 1970 to 2005 is available on Google Archives. Eventually, our stories will begin appearing in regular Google search results, but to see content online now, click here.  The link will take you to the Google Book Search page, where you can search for Cincinnati Magazine content. To find only results from Cincinnati Magazine, click on "Advanced Book Search," enter you search term in the proper box, then select "Magazines" next to "Content" and put "Cincinnati Magazine" in the title field. To browse back issues, search "Cincinnati Magazine," then click on the first result. Click on the "About This Magazine" tab to browse issues. (Not all issues are available.)

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Kathy Y. Wilson's book Your Negro Tour Guide has been adapted into a one-woman show—it's been performed at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Click here to read a Q&A with Torie Wiggins, who brings Wilson's words to life.

The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion board of governors has opted for restructuring and cost-cutting instead of closing any of its four campuses. HUC-JIR had considered closing one or two campuses to eliminate a $3 million a year budget deficit. Cincinnati is also home to the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the Jewish American Archives and the Klau Library, which house countless priceless and one-of-a-kind works. The multimillion-dollar endowment left by Jacob Rader Marcus to the Jewish American Archives was contingent on the Cincinnati HUC-JIR campus remaining open and on the archives remaining permanently in Cincinnati. The HUC-JIR . To read Melissa Davis Haller's July 2005 article on the archives, click here. 

Western Bowl lives! The Glenway Avenue institution, which had been set to close on May 1, has gotten a reprieve. The Hoinke family is negotiating a deal with a buyer who will keep the alley open. Read more about Western Bowl in contributing editor Jack Heffron's September 2008 West Side Story "Builders' Market" and his March 2007 feature "The Bowler," which explores the culture of west side lanes.

Former Bengal Cris Collinsworth will take John Madden's place next to Al Michaels this fall on NBC's Sunday Night Football. Madden, a former coach of the Oakland Raiders, is retiring from broadcasting. In 2001, Skip Tate profiled Collinsworth when the former wide received was hosting Fox NFL Sunday. Click here to read the story. 

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