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Porkopolis, the Queen City, Hell on Earth.
Whatever name you know Cincinnati by, it's home!

And here's the lowdown on your home town.

Welcome to CityBeat's annual "Best of Cincinnati" issue, where we squeeze into 64 pages various thoughts from readers and staff writers about everything from the past year that made Cincinnati a fun, cool, weird place to be. A few details of note about the 2000 edition:

  • Once again, this is the largest issue of CityBeat ever (120 pages). Each year, the "Best of" sets a page-count record for us, and this year is no exception.

  • We also set a "Best of" record for reader ballot submissions, receiving more than 700 good ones (i.e., not stuffed, copied or mass-produced). It helped that, for the first time, we put the ballot on our Web site this year - almost half of the reader ballots came via e-mail.

  • You'll notice in the Readers Picks sections the occasional "no winner" in a category. We have fairly high standards regarding reader ballots - we're not going to award a first place to someone who receives 10 votes out of 700 total ballots.

  • A lot of people contributed to making this issue the best "Best of Cincinnati" yet. Thanks to Sean Hughes and his crack(ed) production staff of Patricia Robisch, Becky Lomax and Geoff Raker; to Woody Hinton for the great pig sculptures; to Jymi Bolden, Jon Hughes, Matt Borgerding, Wendy Uhlman, Jerry Dowling, Christopher Witflee and others for their visuals; to Matt Parmenter for kicking the computers around; to Mimi Thomas, Joellen Ivey, Betsy Hodges, Lisa Tashjian, Tracy Walker, Phil Morehart, Chuck Davis, Rodney Hancock, Robert Young and Delisa O'Neal for selling a ton of ads; and to the editorial folks who contributed their experiences: Rick Pender, Mike Breen, Steve Ramos, Brandon Brady, Doug Trapp, Darlene D'Agostino, Kathy Y. Wilson, Brad Quinn, Fran Watson, Lyn Marsteller, Annie McManus, Bill Peterson, Erma Sanders, Larry Gross and others who know who they are.

    - John Fox

    and

    Felix Winternitz

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    THE CHOICE OF THE INSIDERS:
    THE STAFF AT CITY BEAT!
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    THE CHOICE OF THE MASSES:
    THE PEOPLE OF CINCINNATI!
    Eats out & About Public Eye Urban Life
    Romance Heroes Jocks Stuff

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