Sunday, February 14, 1999
Wedding cake goes to the dogs
BY JIM KNIPPENBERG
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Jeeze, and don't things just get curiouser and curiouser? Take this dog wedding, for example.
Real dogs. Not two unfortunates who hooked up out of desperation at last call. Real dogs. On TV.
That from ex Cincinnatian Sandy Deem-Nass. The 1970s Indian Hill High School and Miami University grad lives in Newport Beach, Calif., and owns a 3-Dog Bakery franchise.
3-Dog, a trendy outfit out of Kansas, specializes in baked goods for dogs — all made with an eye toward sound nutrition. Pricey place, this: Cookies are $3. “But it looks like a Busken's or something,” says her mother, Cincinnatian Anne Deem.
So anyway, one of Deem-Nass's clients asked her to cater a dog wedding, including a tiered cake with doggie bones replacing champagne glasses between tiers.
The groom, a German shepherd named Cody, wore a tux top; the blushing bride, a giant schnauzer named Kira, wore a veil and garter and was, Deem-Nass says, “radiant coming down the aisle.
“Somebody asked if the dogs would go on a honeymoon. They said, sure, to play in the park.”
The wedding will turn up on Extra (it doesn't air here) Thursday.
EDITOR IS OUT: Well, that was quick: Randy Katz, the local newsman who was named editor of the American Israelite a month ago, has been fired.
“That's true. Ted (Deutsch, the owner), called me in Mondayand said he was firing me,” Katz says. “We talked and agreed to think about it 24 hours. “He called Tuesday morning with the news.”
Because? “I refused to comply with Ted's policy that we use only Jewish writers. He told me he did not want anyone to oppose him on this issue or any other issue. I opposed him and was fired.
“I opposed him because I believe the policy flies in the face of the tradition and long and noble history of the Israelite.
“I would never want to do or say anything that would hurt the Israelite or the Jewish community in Cincinnati. But the bottom line is the truth never hurt anybody, and this is the truth.”
Deutsch, meanwhile, says: “No comment. There are too many issues involved, so I'm just not talking about it.”
Well, OK.
The AI was the fourth Cincinnati paper Katz has edited: Rivertown Times in the early '70s, Cincinnati Reporter in the late '70s, and Everybody's News 1994-98.
Katz is now working on an online paper called The Jewish People's Voice. Due soon, he says.
TRAFFIC COPS: So what, you were wondering, was arts patron Patricia Corbett doing directing traffic in a downtown garage? Shouting orders to restaurateur Shirley Bernstein, behind the wheel of a gigantic Cadillac.
Trying to help her either exit the exit backward or enter the exit forward, that's what.
To wit: Corbett and Bernstein were to meet Shirley Fishel, late of Henry Harris now of Tiffany's, at Palomino for dinner. Bernstein pulled into the garage under the building. But, Fishel says, she pulled in the exit and didn't realize it until she got down the ramp and found a car facing her.
At which point Corbett got out of the car and tried to direct her as she backed up the ramp. But it's narrow, steep, curvy and impossible in a car that size.
Enter the attendant, who asked the other driver to back up so they could enter. He did, but Bernstein still had no ticket. At which point Corbett actually climbed the divider and got her one.
Problem solved. The ladies were parked and fed.
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