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The first order of business in creating Sheet Cake, Kennedy said, was to make a list of all the artists in town who she wanted to work with. She held “top secret” meetings and reached out on Instagram.

Mesquite Fresh Street Mex, a growing Phoenix-based restaurant chain owned by brothers Ahmad and Naser Alatrash, has two more new locations in the works in the West Valley.

The days of rec ball and seasonal sports are dying, making way to specialized sports and competitive travel teams. And it comes with a much larger price tag.

The new concept promises “elevated” New York-style pizza for downtown eaters.

The chain already has one location in Orlando.

Exactly a year after making her debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, guest conductor Dalia Stasevska made a welcome return to Music Hall. We don’t know whether the Ukrainian-born Finnish conductor is in the running for CSO music director. But the program she led on Nov. 25 offered another glimpse of her considerable interpretive powers across a varied swath of repertoire. And the view this time around was just as convincing. Most importantly, the orchestra played magnificently for her.

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The brand’s local units join a list of 2023 restaurant closings that already includes everything from other chains like Zoup, Hummus & Pita Co., BurgerIM and Texas Roadhouse to long-time local operations like Tasi and the 94th Aero Squadron.

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A successful Cincinnati serial entrepreneur can now add the title of professor to her resume.

Taren Kinebrew, owner of Cream + Sugar Coffeehouse and Sweet Petit Desserts, has developed a class through the University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business’s entrepreneurship program called “How To Start a Food-Based Business.”

“It’s kind of a bucket list thing,” she told me. “I guess for me, it’s really the next part of my life.”

Kinebrew, an Army National Guard veteran, left the…

Olivia Sain has experienced a lifetime of challenges in just 35 years.

After losing her father unexpectedly in 2012 when she was 23, Sain went through a period of time where she felt lost, eventually becoming depressed and turning to alcohol to numb the pain. She went through detox twice, and, after finishing, had to figure out what she wanted to do with her life. So, she decided to make pickles.

“I researched the pickle industry and discovered that 20 billion pickles are eaten every year,”…