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A rocking tetro-tech banquet and multi purpose events facility!

subpixel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:05:24 -0800

"When you hear the popular phrase “Party like a rock star” in the national media, one tends to think of tony destinations, glittering venues, and dazzling celebrations. All of these perceptions will apply to Cleveland when The Rockometer building is completed." "A rockometer is a retro measuring devise or pulse meter, which indicates the “spirit” or civic “heartbeat” of the City of Cleveland. The actual meter...will indicate a visual explanation as to why the meter is pointing to low, medium or high." Alas, I live in Cleveland and this idea isn't registering on my inner rockometer at all.

Cleveland serial killer highlights police indifference

bitter-girl.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:56:54 -0800

Alleged serial killer and convicted rapist Anthony Sowell is creating even bigger problems for the Cleveland police department, who have been accused of joking about missing victims, passing the blame onto those victims and outright incompetence. As of today, the body count is up to 10 (plus one skull), and people around the world are wondering what went wrong.

Gay-hio!

kittyprecious — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:04:41 -0800

Cleveland Rocks! While the IOC is still preparing to elect the host city for for 2016 Olympics, the (unaffiliated) Federation of Gay Games has just announced that the 2014 Gay Games will be held on Lake Erie, with Cleveland's bid beating those of Washington, DC and Boston. The quadrennial Gay Games will be returning to the United States for the fifth time since being inaugurated in 1982. Controversy over the terms of negotiations for the 2006 Games, originally set to be held in Montreal but moved to Chicago, sparked a "schism" which led to the creation of the Gay and Lesbian International Sports Association, which administers the triennial Outgames, premiering in Montreal in 2006 in direct competition with the Gay Games. [previously-ish]

"Scats in the Woods"

zarq — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:50:53 -0800

Following a 30-year trend, bear sightings and human encounters in certain US cities seem to be on the rise. But when Cleveland's Fox Channel 8 (WJW) needed to report about recent black bear sightings in a NE Ohio neighborhood, they had to get a stand-in. Perhaps the bear refused to sit for an interview with intrepid reporter Todd Meany? The video gets surreal and hilarious at about the 40-second mark. Here's a YouTube link, if the station takes the report down. More. For more info about bears in North America, check out the North American Bear Center, Wikipedia and Defenders of Wildlife.

Wow. This is uh... This is a black day for baseball.

wayofthedodo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:48:05 -0800

June 4, 1974. Rangers at Indians. Ten Cent Beers.

Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video

dhammond — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:43:52 -0800

"The Cleveland Tourism Board gave me 14 million dollars about 8 months ago to make a promotional video to bring people to Cleveland. As usual, I waited till the last minute and I ended up having to shoot and edit it in about an hour yesterday afternoon. I probably should have invested more time."

Face Off in Cleveland -- and Back on Again

Faze — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:15:00 -0800

Face Off/Face On. Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, has performed America's first face transplant at Cleveland Clinic. Listen to her describe the operation before it occured. Go to the first link in the post to see an animation of how it was done.

Your favorite conductor sucks.

Faze — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:13:52 -0800

“Another Rosenberg Executed”? Classical music critic Donald Rosenberg may be the reigning expert on the Cleveland Orchestra, having written an entire book on the esteemed ensemble. But failure to fawn over conductor Franz Welser Most has gotten him booted off his newspaper’s classical music beat. People are beginning to notice… Of course, there is the usual Arts/Sports double standard at work: the newspaper doesn't seem to mind if sports columnist Terry Pluto trashes Cleveland Browns quarterback Derek Anderson, or the Indians.

Historical Slovenian Popular Music

tellurian — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:34:41 -0800

Slovenian compositions, mainly performed by solo singers (with piano or orchestra accompaniment) and by different orchestras and smaller vocal groups. The tracks are listed here. Might I suggest you start with Vinko Vodopivec and see if this the sort of thing you like?

Remembering 10-Cent Beer Night

togdon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:25:12 -0800

ESPN's Paul Jackson tells the tale of 10-Cent Beer Night and the ensuing riot in Cleveland on June 4, 1974.

The snow in Cleveland falls mainly on the stadium.

Faint of Butt — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:56:08 -0800

When snow threatened the Cleveland Indians 2007 opening game, the stadium grounds crew was there to save the day. Watch them battle the forces of nature in this time-lapse video. Think you can handle this monumental task yourself? Play the game and find out.

Waiting for Mary

klangklangston — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:48:36 -0800

Pere Ubu guitarist Jim Jones dead. Jones also played in The electric eels. Tangential, insane electric eels site here.

This Dying City

Jazznoisehere — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:52:28 -0800

Cleveland is dying, and it is beautiful. A collection of stark photographs of Cleveland as it is dying before our very eyes.

Movie Bookmarks

cashman — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:24:41 -0800

A sample of the Cleveland Public Library's collection of movie bookmarks, on Flickr. The bookmarks were designed starting in 1926 to promote Hollywood feature films of the day as well as the Library's vast collection of print materials, which many of those films were based on. Mutiny on the Bounty. Silver Dollar. Last of the Mohicans.

More abandoned places, because they're creepy and beautiful

dersins — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:07:13 -0800

Illicit Ohio has a wide range of photos and essays of abandoned places in Ohio, from the Cincinnati subway system (yes, there really is was one, and it's been discussed here before), to various and sundry prisons, government installations, hotels, hosiptals, houses and more. And don't miss the old vs. new galleries, either.

What is Philadelphia's trajectory in 2007?

jacobw — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:54:33 -0800

What is Philadelphia's trajectory in 2007? Seven cities are compared: Philadelphia, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit and Pittsburgh.

Turnabout is fair play.

BeerFilter — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:05:37 -0800

You Jackin' It? The Daily Show's Jason Jones gets an interview with Carl Monday, CLEVELAND'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, discussed here previously.

Cleveland gets sold down the (burning) river

bitter-girl.com — Fri, 20 May 2005 08:28:34 -0800

Cleveland bloggers are organizing against a giant suburban-style shopping plaza called Steelyard Commons (to be built on the site of the city's historic steel factories), which will include an immense Wal-Mart at its core. After City Council passed legislation in February to prevent Wal-Mart from adding a grocery store (causing the Bensonville bullies to "pull out" and scuttle the project), the developer was aided and abetted behind closed doors by Cleveland's mayor, Queen Jane. Despite the mayor's proclamation of "no public money" or tax abatements for the project, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary.

Cleveland Balks!

Dome-O-Rama — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:23:53 -0800

Bye Cleveland. Democratic Official wants Northeast Ohio to secede the state.

Pink Floyd and Indecency

tgrundke — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:01:43 -0800

Crap - now they FCC Thought Police are going after Pink Floyd. Is nothing sacred?! WNCX, a local Cleveland "Classic rock" station (who just happens to be the same station that airs The Howard Stern Show in the area) is unable to play Pink Floyd's "Money" because of the use of the word "bullshit" within the song. To be honest, until this was brought to my attention, I had completely overlooked that lyric in the song. But thanks to the FCC War Against Indency, I'm now fully aware of it! What other cases of 'indecency' would you have overlooked had the authorities not brought it to your attention?

Blogging a darkened Cleveland

mrbula — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:19:49 -0800

BLACKOUT BLOG - Cleveland.com decides a weblog is the best way to cope with their servers getting knocked out in yesterday's power outage.

Joey Michaels — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:42:02 -0800

Newsfilter: 2003 Inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include Elvis Costello, The Police, AC/DC, The Righteous Brothers and the only band that matters, The Clash (sorry - no link that I declare decent). ABBA didn't make the the Hall's cut this year. MTV and CNN provide further reading. At last some bands that I can support. Coming next year: Black Flag?

Faze — Thu, 30 May 2002 13:16:23 -0800

Cities with water to burn. "While some drought-stricken cities elsewhere in the nation threaten to jail people who waste water, Cleveland wants people to open their spigots... 'Don't be afraid of it. . . . We have trillions of gallons of water here.'" So why do Clevelanders still have to use low-flush toilets and low-output shower heads?

AsiaInsider — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:13:30 -0800

The Ramones and the Talking heads to get rock and roll rocking chairs in Cleveland

The sparring, though, is as much a part of the Ramones' history as their baseball-bat-clutching American eagle logo. "They'd play for 40 minutes," recalls CBGB proprietor Hilly Kristal. "And 20 of them would just be the band yelling at each other." Danny Fields says that early on, they'd also come to blows after their sets. "Johnny would be strangling Dee Dee, and there'd be press or fans waiting to see them," he says. "I'd tell folks they were just toweling off, give them a couple of minutes, and by the time people saw them, they'd be sipping a beer."

starvingartist — Mon, 17 Dec 2001 06:43:15 -0800

"It wasn't pleasant, but it wasn't World War III" Watch the Browns/Jaguars game? Maybe it was a bad call, but throwing plastic bottles full of beer? Anybody who knows me knows I speak out loudly and firmly against the ridiculous sports culture we have in this country. This incident makes me ashamed to be a Clevelander, even a transplanted one. What is it that gets people this riled up and stupid?