Then: In April 1995, CityBeat introduced many readers to the concept of community supported agriculture (CSA). In a nutshell, CSA pairs consumers with a farm close to home. "A group of consumers (con  

Then: In January 1996, CityBeat explored the largest employer in town -- not Procter & Gamble, the city of Cincinnati or General Electric, but the University of Cincinnati. The story contained lot  

Then: In January 2003, CityBeat stretched readers' minds and introduced them to Stacy Sims and pilates. Sims discovered pilates while working as a PR and marketing director in Cleveland and livin  

Then: In 1997, CityBeat's "Stories of Eighth and State" looked at Lower Price Hill through the eyes of several neighborhood institutions, including Oyler Elementary. "Oyler stands alone as Low  

THEN: At the end of 1996, Music Editor Mike Breen compiled the Cincinnati Top 40, a list of the best local CD releases of the year. Hogscraper's self-titled release, which occupied the No. 2 posi  

Then: Connie McFerron was a "person of size" on the verge of a second marriage who saw a need and decided to fill it. After months of chatting online to other folk who faced similar issues -- in  

Then: In 1995, Terri Ford was a large part of a small Cincinnati poetry scene. She was co-coordinator of the York St. International Café's poetry readings and, as a poet herself, firmly beli  

Then: In 1996, CityBeat did a feature on fashion in Cincinnati. Although the two words would seem mutually exclusive, thanks to University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Art, Architecture and Pla  

Then: In December 1996, Hamilton County was up in arms about where to put the new baseball stadium. People had flocked to the polls to support the half-cent sales tax increase to build two new sta  

Then: Back in 1994, sax man Mike Malone was living in Cincinnati, playing gigs at the Blue Wisp and the Hyatt. CityBeat reported the CCM grad was leaving town for four months to play on a cruise s