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SPORTS AND STYLE IN THE QUEEN CITY

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A career Pipeline at Washington park
A career Pipeline at Washington park

Today, Washington Park, a public green space with 170 years of neighborhood history threaded through its roots, is becoming a hiring floor. Folding tables are replacing park benches. Employers are replacing foot traffic. And hundreds of people are geared up, resumes in hand, ready to change the direction of their lives.

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Glow Big or Go Home
Glow Big or Go Home

BLINK 2026 returns October 8–11 with 90+ artists from across the globe, 60+ city blocks of free public art, and a reimagined opening night ceremony that will literally light up the sky. The fifth edition of the country's largest celebration of public art and light is bigger, bolder, and more international than ever.

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Feast Forward in june
Feast Forward in june

Ten food festivals. One city. Six weeks. The Cincinnati metro area's summer season runs on shared tables, open dancing, and tacos made by people who have been perfecting the recipe for decades. Here is every major June food festival, fully mapped and linked.

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Rockin' the Roebling Kicks Off the Summer Countdown
Rockin' the Roebling Kicks Off the Summer Countdown

If you have ever doubted that Cincinnati knows how to throw a party, this summer is about to change your mind permanently. Rockin' the Roebling: The Build Up to the Boom runs every Thursday night on the riverfront at Cincinnati Lager House, free and open to all ages, with live music, food, beer gardens, a silent disco, local vendors, and family programming across seven festival zones. Seventeen weeks. One epic countdown. The riverfront is ready.

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Free Kicks and Free Admission
Free Kicks and Free Admission

The Banks is Cincinnati's home for the best soccer viewing in the city. Free admission, a giant outdoor screen, and seven group stage matches on the riverfront, including USA vs. Australia on June 19 at 3 p.m. Bring the family, grab a drink, and watch the world's biggest tournament from the best free seat in the city.

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Spur of the moment and in the knick of time
Spur of the moment and in the knick of time

One team has been waiting since 1973. The other has been building since 2023. The 2026 NBA Finals is the rarest kind of sports moment, one where both sides have earned the right to win, and only one gets to. Read why a Knicks or Spurs championship carries consequences that will echo across the sport for the next decade.

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The Key for the week of June 8, 2026
The Key for the week of June 8, 2026

The Reds are in a freefall, the NBA and NHL Finals are delivering instant classics, and the World Cup is finally here. Three stories worth your full attention this week in The Key.

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