It’s not every day that the humble CSU philosophy department makes the news, but this day, apparently, is not like other days. This story in the PD says that the entire 19th floor of Rhodes Tower will be off limits for 2 whole years while crews remove asbestos that was exposed when a few ceiling [...]

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Each December brings the usual long look back in the year’s rearview mirror. But once every decade we go even further. The other day I saw the first of what are sure to be a slew of shiny magazines and supplements attempting to sum up the key events of the last 10 years. This video, which [...]

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Hey, look! I’m updating my blog! The Christmas Ale song is back again this year, albeit a shortened version.

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the fact that a Pacific Ocean typhoon has been named after my fair little burg here in Ohio has me feeling oddly… oh, I don’t know… proud? (That’s just wrong, right?)

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This Friday and Saturday, the 25th and 26th, there’s a party happening on the lower level of the Detroit-Superior bridge. Twice a year for the past few years, the county engineer’s office has opened that level of the bridge to the public to meander about and discover new vistas of the city and river below. [...]

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A few photos from the Ukranian festival this afternoon at St. Vlad’s Ukranian Orthodox Church on State Rd. (in the heart of my  Parma ‘hood). The inside of the church showing the iconostasis (icon screen) in front of the altar Music from the Carpathian Folk Quartet inside the social hall (with my friend Walt Mahovlich [...]

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Want to stop taking crap photos and improve your photography skills? Curious about just what the hell depth of field is? And just what the hell to do with that flash that isn’t built into your camera? Well, friends, I know just the cure for you. My pal Steve Mastroianni (expert photog, swell family guy) [...]

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A lot has been happening on Euclid Avenue  recently as part of the Euclid Corridor project, including shifts in traffic patterns, adding new buses, and greening up lower Euclid from Public Square up past E. 9th. It’s changed so much that a few months ago when I walked the street for a few blocks, I [...]

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I just got word that the Ottoman Mehter Military Band will be in town tomorrow, with a parade starting at E. 9th and Lakeside at 11:30 AM, ending with a concert at the War Memorial on the Mall. The Ottoman tradition of military bands stretches back more than 700 years and consisted of Janniseries. Of [...]

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Last Friday night, I was the model for the Pretentious Tremont Artists drawing group run my Tim Herron at the Literary Cafe in Tremont. With Rolling Rock in hand (or at least, near by), I sat for a 3-hour drawing and these were some of the results: Drawing by Tim Herron Drawing by Larry Zuzik [...]

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