Hmmm. Looks like Cincinnati Magazine needs a new editor. Kitty Morgan, editor since December of 1997, resigned Tuesday - it's effective May 20 - and will move to New York shortly after that.

"I'm a little nervous, but it just seemed the right thing to do. I don't have a job, so I've been going back and forth on it for a while. I do have a lot of contacts and I know there's a lot of opportunity, but you have to be there.

"It was just time for a new challenge."

When she moves, she'll be re-joining husband Charles Desmarais, the former Contemporary Arts Center director who has been on sabbatical in New York (he's curating a show) since January.

"After I leave in May, we're going to Europe for a couple of weeks, then I'll clean up here and move on. There are many, many shoes to be bought. Once I find a job."

The search for a new editor has already begun.

Where's Byron?

E-mails keep rolling in about Byron Webre, former chief meteorologist at WLWT (Channel 5). They're all along the lines of "where the heck is he?" And, "did he get the hook?"

Nope, he didn't. He resigned in December to take a job with the CBS affiliate in Austin, Texas, says WLWT general manager Richard Dyer.

"It was a good move for him," Dyer said. "Texas is his home state and he had been wanting to move closer to his family. I hear he's doing very well there."

Webre, who joined the station a little more than three years ago, came to Cincinnati from San Antonio, Texas. He did the weather on the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts for three years.

Generous gesture

It was a long and winding road, but eventually Rick Fehr's watch ended up on Ellen DeGeneres' wrist. Fehr, owner of Richter & Phillips, and wife Nancy are avid Ellen fans and watch her show together whenever they can.

Not too long ago, they were watching and heard Ellen talking about how much she loved Rolex Submariner wristwatches. Fehr took his off, packaged it and sent it to her with a note thanking her for all the entertaining moments and by way of background explaining that Nancy is battling breast cancer.

Fehr had no idea the watch or note would ever get to Ellen.

But it did, and on another recent show she thanked Fehr, then took off her Swiss Army Watch and announced she was going to auction it on eBay and donate all the proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in Nancy's honor.

She also called Fehr at Richter & Phillips - everyone in the place thought it was a joke at first - to thank him, then called Nancy to do the same.

Ellen's old watch brought in $11,100 from an Arizona woman who is also battling breast cancer.

It's a homecoming

Looks as if former Cincinnatian and CNN morning anchor Bill Hemmer is headed back to Cincinnati. At least for a day and 18 holes.

He'll play in a golf tournament honoring his grandfather, George Knittle, who died last year at age 100 at Bayley Place retirement community in Delhi Township. He'll also be there for a meet 'n' greet and to speak at the awards ceremony, where you can ask him about his experiences covering Ground Zero, Kuwait and, of course, the Florida election mess, which earned him the nickname "Chad Lad."

The tournament, at Deer Run Country Club in Green Township, is a fund-raiser for Bayley Place, a nonprofit ministry of the Sisters of Charity, and Eldermount Adult Day Programs. It's 11:45 a.m. May 3, $125 per golfer. Call 347-4040.

Local makes good

Mike Gasaway, former Cincinnatian and one-time student in the University of Cincinnati's top-ranked architecture program, is riding mighty high as one of two award-winning directors of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (8:30 p.m. Fridays, Nickelodeon).

Neutron is the animated series about 10-year-old Jimmy, a genius who makes Rube Goldberg-type inventions that always make some kind of horrible mess of his life.

Some of the industry's biggest guns - Mel Brooks, Tim Allen, Tim Curry, Christian Slater and Alyssa Milano - have done voices for the show and taken direction from Gasaway. (Mel Brooks is the only one who actually made fun of his name. Say it out loud, you'll get the picture.)

He must be doing something right. The show just won two Annies (the industry's animation awards), including Best Animated Television Series for Children.

E-mail: jknippenberg@enquirer.com