Ikea Zapatistas!

Rise up Cincinnati! Don't go like sheep through the automatic sliding doors of the Ikea retail slaughterhouse. Think different! Try something... wait for it... USED!

I challenge you to post your favorite local places to buy furniture - used furniture stores, consignment shops, thrift stores, antique malls, even flea markets! And if you know of a good local shop that makes their own furniture or sells locally-made, regionally-made, or at least American-made furniture, let us know about them too! Recycle, reuse, or at least buy local.

I'll start with the first suggestion...
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40 under 40

Not gonna be a hater. Some I know, some I don't. Congrats to all. Would like to see more of them involved in civic action and community service, though.

Sorry, nothing else to say.
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Post Closing - Were they still open?

Who still actually reads the Post anyway? Or should I say, who actually buys the Post? Apparently there are a few blue hairs that still get it.

I do read the occasional article or two online, but that's usually because someone links to it from their blog. I don't go out of my way to read either the Enquirer or the Post, I usually just use my blog surfing as an aggregate of the interesting news that's important enough to get noticed. I'm like Dubya that way: I use y'all as my 'filters.'

The JOA pretty much sealed their fate years ago, so I'm surprised they've lasted this long. Plus they hired that Wessels character, and that can't be good for anyone.
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