The people’s champ! There is no better feeling than a neighborly salute to your hot fit when you go out into the world. If you aren’t familiar now, SHAME! It is time for you to take a look through the digital gallery of Frank D. Young via the notorious Instagram platform: @MelaninAndHalide. Focused on highlighting both every day and special occasion Black beauty, M&H has showcased some of the brightest faces, looks, personalities and moments for us to cherish. We are incredibly inspired and awestruck by Frank’s ability to not only recount the hundreds of faces he’s captured by name, but simply organize and recognize the changes and growth our city’s downtown has experienced the last several years. Thank you, Frank, for showing love and always encouraging us to put that shit on because you never truly know when he’s around the corner and ready to broadcast your stylish essence with his hyper-focused lens. instagram.com/melaninandhalide.

1. 21c Museum Hotel
2. Pendleton Art Center
3. Visionaries + Voices

1. Cincinnati Art Museum
2. Contemporary Arts Center
3. American Sign Museum

1. “Cincinnati Toy Heritage”
2. “Fiona and Bibi at the Cincinnati Zoo”
3. “Charley Harper's Beguiled by the Wild”

1. Panegyri
2. Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Festival
3. St. Cecilia Family Festival

1. Ice Rink on Fountain Square
2. Salsa on the Square
3. Reds Opening Day Rally on the Square

1. BLINK
2. Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
3. Findlay Market
4. Cincinnati Art Museum
5. Smale Riverfront Park
6. Jungle Jim's International Market
7. Tunes & Blooms at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
8. Wednesdays in the Woods at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center
9. TIE: Washington Park AND Contemporary Arts Center
10. FotoFocus

1. Art and Social Justice: An Interactive Experience, 21C Museum Hotel Gallery
2. Yes, But Is It Art?, Studio Kroner
3. Wish You Were Here, Kennedy Heights Arts Center

1. Dent Schoolhouse
2. Kings Island Halloween Haunt
3. USS Nightmare

1. Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo
2. WinterFest at Kings Island
3. Journey BOREALIS at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park

1. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (@cincinnatizoo)
2. Longbottom Bird Ranch (@longbottombirdranch)
3. Friends of the Public Library (@cincylibraryfriends)

1. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
2. Children's Museum at the Cincinnati Museum Center
3. Longbottom Bird Ranch

1. Bob Herzog
2. Darnell Pierre Benjamin
3. Mark Borison

1. Kiwi the Duck
2. L. D. Nehls
3. Michael Coppage

1. Dann Woellert
2. Curtis Sittenfeld
3. Leah Stewart

1. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
2. Cincinnati Pops
3. MUSE Cincinnati's Women’s Choir

1. Mark Borison
2. Kelly Collette
3. Sweett Biscut

1. Cincinnati Ballet
2. Dance Flash Fusion
3. Cin City Burlesque

1. Mark Borison
2. Cincy Stories
3. Allyson West