Episodes

  • Katie Laur: Bluegrass music pioneer

    Katie Laur: Bluegrass music pioneer
    Mar 2 2020
    Welcome to another edition of From Cincinnati!On this week's show: Katie Laur. Katie has done a bit of this and a bit of that in Cincinnati and far from Cincinnati - and it's safe to say all of it is top-notch. From The Katie Laur Band - which made her the first (or maybe second, as we discuss) woman to front a bluegrass band anywhere - to writing for Cincinnati Magazine, it's very safe to say Katie Laur can weave a tale as few can. That's why it's so lucky to get to sit down with her and reminisce a little and talk about plans for the future. It was also fun to hear about her and her longtime radio partner, Wayne Clyburn, "mashing the button" on Sunday evenings at WNKU-FM, the now-defunct public radio station at Northern Kentucky University. Katie also shares about her many times appearing with her band on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion and the time June Carter-Cash heard her play. Or the other time she found out her music was being regularly played on Saturday Night Liv
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    55 mins
  • Fashion Designer David Meister

    Fashion Designer David Meister
    Feb 24 2020
    You may not have heard of fashion designer David Meister. He's one of those behind-the-scenes people who make the glittery stars look so glittery and beautiful on the red carpet and elsewhere. But if you like clothing and you like celebrities, you may have heard of him. And he just so happens to be from Cincinnati.After graduating from the University of Cincinnati's Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning college, Meister left Cincinnati and headed for fashion stardom - with a few bumps and bruises along the way. Whether it was helping Joan Rivers hilariously rate some celebrities outfits on TV or talking fashion with various talk show hosts, Meister has made his mark. It seems just about every woman in Hollywood has, at one time or another, worn Meister's gowns: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Seymour, Jane Fonda, Pamela Anderson, Tina Few, Sofia Vergara and Demi Lavato - to name a few. Or his very first star to wear clothing he designed - Sharon Stone, whom he still considers a friend to
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Michael Flannery has heart – and laughs

    Michael Flannery has heart – and laughs
    Feb 17 2020
    Maybe you only know Michael Flannery as the guy who occasionally appears on those Goodwill donate-your-car commercials. If that's the only way you know him, though, you're missing quite a lot. You would be surprised to know that Goodwill's mission is a bit more than a job to him - it hits very close to home. You might also be a little shocked to know the guy is quite funny. In fact, that's how he got his start in show business (unless you count the days running camera for Time Warner Cable) - as a stand-up comedian and later road comic who got to know some very interesting people. Oh, and he also happens to be from Cincinnati.Also, if you're of a certain age and from Cincinnati, you most definitely know him as the head of Club 19, a ragtag band of 1990s afterschool cartoon watchers who were entertained by his sense of humor and easily recognizable with those red-rimmed eyeglasses. He was on your square, little television, keeping you entertained when you were really supposed to be doi
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Heather French Henry: Miss America 2000, politician

    Heather French Henry: Miss America 2000, politician
    Dec 30 2019
    Heather French Henry, or Heather Renee French, or as I once knew her, just "Heather" the page designer. Or maybe the-one-who-would-not-go-out-with-us, as I would remind her. Heather and I have known each other since college, where she was the very kind, very capable DAAP fashion design major and, apparently, a beauty pageant contestant who happened to kill some time doing ad design and layout at the illustrious University of Cincinnati student newspaper, The News Record. That also happened to be the same student newspaper where I cut my teeth in journalism, was the assistant photo editor and one of the many admirers of From Cincinnati's second guest.We talk about this in the show, but she went on to do something kinda significant - just a few short news cycles after she and I would occasionally grab a pizza slice and drink together at The Rhine Room (a former Tangeman University Center establishment, for you youngins' out there). That "something" happened to be - while everyone waited
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Jay Moriarty, TV writer and producer

    Jay Moriarty, TV writer and producer
    Dec 29 2019
    In From Cincinnati's inaugural edition we welcome Jay Moriarty, television writer and producer - now author (see below) - and a guy who is definitely From Cincinnati.As you'll hear in the episode, Moriarty was a boy on a mission who turned into a man on a mission, when, in 1968, he took his new bride (after they married in Cincinnati) and headed west with one goal in mind: Get a job writing for television.After some years learning the ropes - but not too many - he found a TV show and a man he would like to work for - none other than the legendary Norman Lear and his groundbreaking TV show "All in the Family." That would later translate into working on other iconic shows like "The Jeffersons," "Good Times" and "What's Happening Now," among many, many others.Some luck - including a chance meeting with another guy from Ohio and finding a writing partner (and we hear why finding a writing partner is very, very important in Moriarty's view), Mike Milligan (whose grew up in Los Angeles but
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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • NEW PODCAST: Who do you know “From Cincinnati?”

    NEW PODCAST: Who do you know “From Cincinnati?”
    Dec 13 2019
    Cincinnatians – and especially many former Cincinnatians – love and appreciate their hometown. No matter where you go after you graduate high school, some things define a Cincinnatian. It doesn’t matter whether they settle in Price Hill or Knob Hill, North Hollywood or North Avondale, Cincinnati - for good or bad - kind of sticks to your insides. And because Cincinnati and the region proudly boast some of the best secondary and post-secondary educational institutions in the world, kids heralding from Cincinnati often do pretty well out there in the big, broad world. Not bad for the world’s biggest small town.From Cincinnati's first episode: Monday, December 23, 2019.From Cincinnati is a Podcast from Loveland Local News and High Priority Partners LLC hosted by longtime journalist and experienced radio show host, Joe Wessels. It aims to track down people with Cincinnati-style chili in their DNA to hear their story and tie it into their upbringing in Cincinnati – whether they left and fo
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    2 mins