CiN Weekly Staff
Michael grew up in Cleveland (no booing, please). But he has lived in Cincinnati since 1991, married someone from Cincinnati, is a UC grad and loves Skyline, Graeter's and LaRosa's (well, all food, really), so he's not all bad.
He navigated his way to the CiN office in November 2006 after more than 20 years in sports, most recently as The Enquirer's sports editor. Michael covered Xavier and UC basketball from 1996-2002 and is author of "Tales from Cincinnati Bearcats Basketball."
After being a copy editor, designing pages, reporting and editing... we're not quite sure what he does now as (take a deep breath) "managing editor for non-daily products and new initiatives" (exhale). But he always looks very busy in his little office, so we think it must be important.
Sue is a Michigan native and a graduate of Michigan State University. She started her journalism career at the The Lima News, where she dodged both bean and Peru jokes for two years before accepting a job at The Cincinnati Enquirer.
After almost two years working on the copy and design desks at the Enquirer, she jumped at the chance to help develop a new publication that eventually
came to be known as CiN Weekly. Sue’s days at CiN are spent designing pages, planning stories and writing the occasional craft or food piece.
Sue was married in 2006 to some guy she met at a journalism conference four years earlier. Her newest obsession is knitting. Friends and family members
can expect lots of misshaped scarves and potholders as gifts.
Having grown up and lived in Elkhart, Indiana the majority of his life, Jamie was thrilled to get away from "Michiana". "Michiana" is the annoying term used by many, for the area near and around the Indiana/Michigan border. He was somewhat alarmed and confused when learning that Cincinnati had not only a 2 state connection, but a "tri-state" area. Luckily for him it seems nearly impossible to combine Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana into one word.
If you are into 80's music and were actually around then to live through it, you might have caught Jamie's band "Split Image" touring through Ohio. In between college at IU South Bend and Ball State, Jamie played keyboards and sang, wore parachute pants, and had multi-colored Flock of Seagulls hair….irony is wonderful.
After barely making it through Ball State's Telecommunications Department, he did everything from being a morning DJ/Sales rep at a small radio station, to selling cars, cell phones, and teaching piano. All of this luckily prepared him for the day when he got a call from Beryl Love talking about a publication called CiN Weekly.
After begging Beryl to save him from a lifetime of saying "Michiana", an offer was made and four and a half hours later, he was here.
His days now will consist of driving Tyler and Julie crazy with horrible 80's band stories and about how much hair he used to have.
Evenings and weekends will be spent endlessly bugging his wife Kris (that's what guys do), and playing about any PS2 game you could imagine with his son Josh.
By the way, if anyone does have a good name for the "tri-state" area, send an email, it's starting to get to him.
Katie is a native of Middletown, which is a bigger place than most people think. She is a graduate of Fenwick High School and the University of Missouri, where she received a Bachelor of Journalism (Magazine) degree. Unfortunately, she was not there at the same time as Brad Pitt. During college, she became a huge fan of Mizzou Tiger basketball and football, to the extremes of losing her voice for a month after the infamous Missouri-Nebraska "flea kicker" game in 1997.
Katie has previously worked for 2 trade publications, at the mall, as a babysitter and at several random temp jobs. She wishes she were a better athlete, but tries to do a few 5Ks a year and has attempted some 10Ks and triathlons. She even once rode 100 miles on a bike in one weekend. When she's not trying to keep her house clean or sleeping, she also enjoys volunteering at church, cooking, reading, traveling and dreaming about how her house would be much better if one of those home design shows would come make it over.
She has lived in Oakley since 1998. In June 2007, she married her husband John, after a 7-month engagement that was documented on CiN Weekly's Bride Blog. She is enjoying her life as a newlywed and now having four names, like her husband has had since birth.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Terron Austin discovered his dual passion for broadcast journalism and magazine writing during his formative years at Princeton High School. It wasn’t until he arrived at the University of Cincinnati in 2004 that he learned to channel that passion into a focus on fashion, music and entertainment writing soon proving to be the driving force behind his journalistic endeavors.
Terron began actively pursuing a career in journalism with a series of internships at WCPO-TV Channel 9, an E.W. Scripps-owned media property and ABC affiliate and Cincinnati Magazine before coming to CiN Weekly. He continues to expand his widening range of writing skills through freelance work for www.theclarksisters.com, the official website of notable Grammy award-winning Gospel music legends The Clark Sisters among a plethora of other talented voices and faces in Black music, fashion and entertainment.
Constantly buzzing about the city Terron juggles school, work, church and his responsibilities serving as a student member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), as the organization’s Region IV Student Representative and as the president of the University of Cincinnati’s student chapter, UCABJ.
Terron currently serves as the Queen City’s Style Maverick. A trendsetter and fashion rebel in his own right, Terron believes great fashion and style comes from not allowing yourself to be inhibited by stereotypes. He says people should get more creative, be bolder and do things they’ve never done before or really wish they could do on a regular basis. Not afraid to try any look at least once, Terron desires to see more style innovators and fashion trendsetters continue to stand up and stand out in this area.
Educated in Michigan's public school system, Jon believes we need to do more to secure America's future.
He believes every 10-year-old should have a safe park to play in, clean water to swim in and a baseball team that's a World Series contender.
He wants to throw open the doors of opportunity, so everyone can enjoy a new lunch spot and get an event highlighted in our calendar.
He and his iPod can be seen twice daily on the West Chester Express.
6’2”, 190 lbs, blue eyes, sandy blond hair, enchanting smile, loves to listen, enjoys long midnight rain walks in the fog.
After years of searching for the hippest bars and the ideal job, Julie has finally become the embodiment of CiN Weekly's target audience. With six years of retail banking experience, she bets she could sell anybody under the table. Some of her more compelling talents, however, are less obvious, including her uncanny ability to correctly identify the designer and season of any given ensemble, provided it comes from The Limited.
A graduate of Xavier University, Julie survived the perfect childhood in Ross, Ohio, where she lived on a farm with lots of siblings and plenty of fresh air. She even had her own pony. Now, her home is less Norman Rockwell, more Carrie Bradshaw. And very colorful. Forever a child of the eighties, Julie's orange kitchen and chartreuse bathroom are single-handedly resurrecting the neon rainbow.
The perfect tan still eludes her, and so Julie continues to travel the globe in her quest for new and better UV rays. Her vacations have been cut short, in recent months, by her latest hobby: spoiling the world's cutest baby (really), who just happens to belong to her sister. And, if you ask, she'll swear he whispered, "Aunt Julie is my favorite," from his crib last week.
At the age of three, Kelly was already reading important children's literature. She cites the seminal work Bobo and his Blue Jacket as the beginning of a lifelong love affair with the printed word. In 1999, after her graduation from Milford High School, Kelly went out into the world in search of adventure, wisdom, and a football team that would whip fans into a riotous, drunken frenzy. She found it all at Ohio State University.
Four years, three credit cards, 15 hangovers, and several thousand Chipotle burritos later, Kelly emerged with a degree in English, a degree in journalism, and a dream -- to take the high-powered, glamorous world of copy-editing by storm. After just four months as an intern at the Enquirer, this starry-eyed 22-year-old was discovered by CiN Weekly, where she has quickly become recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on grammar and Simpsons trivia.
When she is not forming a more perfect union with the English language, Kelly can usually be found wasting her life on the GameCube, watching Adult Swim, or wandering through Target looking for 75-percent-off handbags. She reminds all her fans to follow their dreams and never to misuse semicolons.
Cincinnati born and raised, Tabari is a man of many interests ... baseball cards, The Simpsons and debating the state of hip-hop music today versus the days when Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde were still making CDs (remember CDs?). The proud owner of a master’s degree in communication from the University of Cincinnati, Tabari will also be seen on HGTV buying his first home and enjoys going to lots of a free flicks as CiN’s resident movie critic.
Kevin Necessary waits patiently, plotting his revenge.
Upon graduating from the University of Dayton with no real direction in life, Amber realized it was time for her to get a "real" job. Thus, after many months of interim customer service jobs, CiN Weekly graciously welcomed her to the staff where on any given day she can find herself cutting a rug with fellow CiN staffers, reveling in the failure of Papazao, or gorging on free Girl Scout cookies. Yeah, it's been tough adjusting to a "real" job.
Send your CDs and music downloads to this guy.
Our in-house American aquarium drinker, Rich has way too many songs on his worked-over iPod, but that’s (kind of) why we pay him.
The former CiN intern graduated from Northern Kentucky University in 2006 and joined our staff in '07. He’s lived in just about every “side” of Cincinnati, so no heckling!
Ronson Slagle was born on Christmas Eve in Ottumwa, Iowa.
Slagle reached the level of Advanced Beginner in swim class, taking the course three times. He gave up taking it a 4th time, when the age difference between he and his fellow swimmers started becoming too obvious.
His love for acting dwindled after receiving a secondary role in a musical which required him to lip sync while dressed in drag.
At his high school radio station, he discovered that one of his DJ blocks consisted of three minutes of silence followed by his voice introducing the next song, then more silence. He would not be asked to DJ again.
As a freshman, Slagle signed up to be a sprinter on the track team. While running the third leg of an 800m relay, the race finished as he was still trying to complete his second lap. Reports indicate that the 4th person on the relay team was not pleased.
Slagle currently designs, draws and writes in Cincinnati, OH. He likes to focus on the positive.
Tabatha was born and raised in Kentucky, but now resides in O-H-I-O (and no, she is not an Ohio St or UC fan, she bleeds blue for UK). She attended Northern Kentucky University where she studied Journalism and ran cross-country and track. She once was a pretty good, dedicated runner (even held school records, which of course have been broken, for the Norse) but those days have passed. She keeps thinking about the day she’ll finally run a marathon, but her party days haven’t left her yet. That is what led her to CiN.
Tabatha is always up for a good time and a challenge (who doesn’t like drama every once in awhile?). She loves her family, friends, and spare time (and don’t leave out her love for gossip magazines). Until her party days are gone, Tabatha is going to keep doing what she’s doing, Having Fun!
I was born in the pioneer days of the Nuclear Age at Brooklyn College Hospital, which means that a lot of sleep deprived, over-caffeinated med students got to watch me when I popped into this world. That probably explains a lot. If I could have had a camera in my mother's womb I would have no doubt jumped out snapping away at the scrub-suited gawkers, but as it was I didn't get my first shutterbox until I was in first grade, taking my very first photos on a class field trip to Kennedy Airport to watch the planes take off. So much for education.
My dad is a photographer and I was always in front of his lens as a child so it should come as no surprise that as an adult I would turn the tables and take my rightful place firmly BEHIND the lens. After all, it's in my blood.
New York City was my photographic proving ground, and what better place to people watch and shoot the occasional riot, but somehow (for all the wrong reasons of course) I ended up here in The Queen City. True, I will always be a die-hard Yankees fan folks, but Cincinnati has really grown on me this past decade and I am now very happy to call it my home. In fact, my wife and I bought our first house here in spring of '07 and we are getting ourselves settled in comfortably.
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