Every four years, it comes around again. And every four years, I am gripped by the fever and swept up in the excitement.
The World Cup isn’t like the Olympic games, with its over-the-top ceremonies, its endless fragmentation of dozens of different competitions and sporting events. This is one sport with one maniacal focus for 30 [...]

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I’ve been meaning to link to this web site for a while now, and here it is. Finally.

http://www.clevelandareahistory.com
The Cleveland Area History blog focuses on everything you’ve always wanted to know about historic architecture, preservation, and development efforts in the Cleveland area. Sadly, and increasingly, it also documents the ever-growing number of buildings succumbing to the [...]

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This Friday night, one of Cleveland’s most original underground poetic voices is reading at the Borders in Strongsville, across the street from the Southpark Mall, down the road from the new-ish Costco. Dan Smith, author of “Crooked River”, spins postmodern suburban tales weaved from the wispy strings of industrial Cleveland memories. Musical accompaniment provided by [...]

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Cleveland’s Fire Museum

Morning commute

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I don’t know about you, but there are green lifeforms popping up all over my front and back yard, pushing through layers of last fall’s rotting leaves and a stray delivery label or string of tinsel blown by long-gone winter winds.
This is one sure sign of spring for us in NEO. Another is the Cleveland [...]

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Some photos from Spongepad’s Flickr Photostream got my attention this morning, and sent me out into the cool March Cleveland day to check out the space around the old Cold Storage building on the edge of  Tremont.
Demolition of some parts of the building began recently, while the main part technically still belongs to the owner [...]

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This Saturday night, February 20th, I’ll be co-reading with Azalea Tidwell and movin’ to the block-rockin’ beats of Blackwell at Blue Arrow Records in the Collinwood neighborhood, a few doors down from the Beachland Ballroom.
Come early. Stay late. Surprises abound.

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This Wednesday February 10th at Arts Collinwood. A benefit to help the people of Haiti:

Arts Collinwood + The Haiti Emergency Village Project in conjunction w/ NEONAC + Cleveland Tapes
Join us Wednesday February 10 from 6-10pm at Arts Collinwood for the Art for Haiti Benefit, including a live art auction from top local and national artists, food, cocktails [...]

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for a lot of things. Since I last posted on the blog. Since I’ve kept to my new year’s resolution. Since I’ve dared to dream. And since I’ve seen some old friends.
I promised myself I’d visit B Spot again, and I did yesterday to have lunch with a really good friend of mine whom I [...]

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Enduring Questions Lecture Series
Enduring Questions Lecture and Martin Luther King Jr.,  Keynote presentation
Friday, January 22, 8:00 p.m,
Lou Higgins Center 136 E. Bagley Rd.
Dr. Cornel West
Cornell West, professor of religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University, is one of the most provocative and insightful public intellectuals of our time. As author, speaker and commentator, Dr. West [...]

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