Cincinnati Arts and Culture

By all measure, Cincinnati has everything and every possible resource to make it livable and maintain its high quality of life which, through the years, many national organizations and thinktanks continue to recognize. Fortune calls it one of the best places to live and work. Expansion Management Magazine ranks Cincinnati USA # 16 Best Metro for business expansion. It s a city on the rise, says an article in Travel & Leisure, an arts destination, according to American Style Magazine.

Lately, the area is starting to rock. Area young professionals are organizing music fests to boost the entertainment district, including the Midpoint Music Festival which featured more than 300 musical arts attended by more than 50,000 young people in 2005. Connecting with young people is easy. There s a network of young people organizations that can be accessed at YPCincy.com.

Judged on the quality of music and concert venues, Esquire named Cincinnati as one of the top 10 "Cities that Rock."

To residents, Greater Cincinnati is simply a special place to live, work, and play. Come and see the million little surprises, and bring your WiFi enabled laptops. Tech-savvy Cincinnati has many WiFi hotspots, including coffee shops, parks and businesses. Have a latte and stay to surf the web, or sit and surf at downtown s Piatt Park or at Finley Market in Over the Rhine. Consider Krohn Conservatory in Eden Park among the tropical flowers and trees. Coming to a convention? Newly expanded Cinergy Center is WiFi. Pretty cool.

It is this quality of life and the wonderful amenities of big-city living that keep its more than 2 million residents here. Residents point to the variety of art and cultural riches: world-class Cincinnati Symphony & Cincinnati Pops, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, and the May Festival, which is the oldest continuing festival in the Western Hemisphere . There are musical productions at the Aronoff   Center for the Arts and at the Taft Theater. An arts destination, it is home to the Cincinnati Arts Museum , known as the " Art Palace of the West"; the new Contemporary Arts Center , Taft Museum of Art and more than 100 galleries. It is home to The Playhouse in the Park, the city s only resident equity theater and winner of the 2004 Regional Theatre Tony Award, the first to win a Regional Tony in Ohio .

There s the magnificent art deco Cincinnati Museum Center, which cover roughly 500,000 sq. ft. (the area of roughly 12 football fields) and is home to four museums-Children s Museum, African-American Museum, Museum of Natural History and Science, Cincinnati History Museum-and the 5 story domed OMNIMAX Theater. A must see is the new 150,000 sq. ft. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on the riverfront, chronicling the history of slavery and freedom.

Courtesy of the Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky Relocation Guide 2006