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For almost a year, I've assisted my friend and housemate (the aforementioned Mr McDermott) on his/our own urban farm on the city's near west side. The farm is called Urban Growth, is located south of Lorain on West 48th St, and can be seen and read about here: www.urbangrowthfarms.com We have had a series of successful crops already this year and have sold food to CSAs (Farm Share), restaurants (Ohio City's Flying Fig), and at market (Howe Meadow in Peninsula). Though I have played only a minor role in the farm's development--volunteering my labor when I can--I can say that it's been truly inspiring to see what can be done with a small green square in the city of Cleveland. Peter, our colleagues, and I all feel a tremendous groundswell surrounding issues of local and/or urban agriculture and I am confident that this is a trend that can do nothing but good things for the city of Cleveland.

great to hear from you, guv. your insight is worth a million bucks! but what exactly do you mean by "arts-intensive cities" :? :wink: :?

^^I have a nickname for that house that I stole from the title of a Joy Division song. I call it "Atrocity Exhibition". It is truly a hair-raising piece of work :-o

As someone who is 3000 miles away from the EC, I, too, would appreciate some visuals to know what all this stink is about. haha I'm farthest! :laugh:

^Don't you mean "Roma"? :wink:

^woops! not the same view. the picture was the brooklyn bridge; in the movie poster it's the manhattan bridge you see.

"light-catching"? errr... :|

^No, I'm gonna have to guess King's Island...

According to a couple black friends of mine, Little Italy residents "take care" of their neighborhood by being openly racist. I know at least two black guys who refuse to set foot in that neighborhood. Thankfully, they've never been violently attacked. But let's just say that they've been firmly warned on a number of occasions that they'd be better off not passing through the LI. I'm fully in favor of taking care of one's neighborhood, but perhaps some people in Little Italy have gone overboard?

Too bad I can't go back in time to when I was 10 years old. I would appreciate those yearly Severance Hall field trips a heckuva lot more these days...

^That is most def a Hector Vega. (He was my art teacher at Cudell Rec in the mid 90s!)

Good for you, Cincy, Dayton, and Cbus! It was only a matter of time. Anyone want to join my newly-formed Church of Google?

I know I'm a week late, but thanks for the link, KJP :wink: I don't want to some off as the ungrateful newby.

Wow, according to all y'all's comments, appartently Wal Marts close down all the time. Although if it's just to make room in the market for a Super Wal Mart I feel like it kind of doesn't count. I guess I was using a pretty narrow frame of reference when I made my initial comments. I'm pretty sure that we have no shut down Wal Marts in NEO, but SW Ohio is obviously a whole different ballgame.

^^Plus, it's by a really famous Ohio-born artist!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dine No but really, I agree with you. I think the sculpture itself is okay, but it looks really out of place perched above the main entrance like that. Does anybody remember how much they paid for that thing? A couple million if I'm not mistaken...