Cincinnati Edition Sunday

Fringe Festival ready to kick off 10th year

Mark Perzel — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:31:25 +0000

Starting May 28, it’s the 10^th anniversary of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. It’s become one of the fastest growing and most popular stops on the fringe circuit, and this year will provide 12 days of unique, creative, and provocative theater, dance, art and more. Producing Artistic Director Eric Vosmeier joins Mark Perzel with a preview of what to look for at this year’s Fringe Festival.

Cincinnati Railroad Club based at Union Terminal

Mark Perzel — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:31:20 +0000

Here’s a great adventure for train lovers of all ages…a visit to Tower A, overlooking all the train tracks that come in and out of Union Terminal, home of the Cincinnati Museum Center. The men and women of the Cincinnati Railroad Club are always in Tower A during the museum hours to talk trains with every visitor.

"Last Ape Standing" from science writer Chip Walter

Thane Maynard — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:31:15 +0000

Scientists have determined that at least 27 different species of humans have evolved on planet Earth, yet only one still survives. Why are we still here and our 26 predecessors aren’t?

The Big Story

Maryanne Zeleznik — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:31:00 +0000

The Big Story with Maryanne Zeleznik.

"Finding Freedom: Memorializing the Voices of Freedom Summer"

Mark Perzel — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:31:25 +0000

A new book provides detailed information about the Freedom Summer Monument on the campus of Western College at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, which was dedicated in 2000. Finding Freedom: Memorializing the Voices of Freedom Summer commemorates Western’s role in Freedom Summer and memorializes James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, the Freedom Summer trainees subsequently murdered in Mississippi. The book’s author, Jacqueline Johnson, is the archivist of the Western College Memorial Archives, and she talks with Mark Perzel about this tragic time in American history.