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Could see that bad boy from Whiskey Island today. Looked good!

A pretty bad mugging outside Dave's in Shaker Square on Monday at 11pm according to a resident nearby who I just spoke with.

I do love me some Taza. Best restaurant at Eton outside of Flemings

But, realistically, what does a young boy do in downtown Cleveland for the better part of a day in 2011?

Urban, I admire your optimism and agree that kids might enjoy the trip to downtown on occasion. However, it seems like a lot of effort for relatively little benefit, as again, there just aren't enough kid-friendly amenities to be worth this effort. A parent isn't going to go through this effort just so the kid can play at a tiny park, and you can only take them to the science museum so much. Going downtown and finding stuff to do shouldn't be a chore, so why people would an otherwise busy parent do it outside of the occasional adventure or promoting the city to the kids.

You know, reasons to go downtown on a beautiful day besides food and sports. Parks and other green area, shopping districts, art galleries, gardens, more museums, downtown neighborhoods and districts, outdoor events, memorials and monuments, lots of people....things of that note. I'm not going through the whole 'Why doesn't Cleveland have these things' motions, just explaining why people might not go downtown on a beautiful Saturday day, especially with their young kids in tow.

Interesting stuff, OP. To be honest, I've been spending less and less downtown lately myself. From 04-09 or so, outside of working downtown for two years, I would go once or twice a week to the usual suspects (E4, W6,9, West Bank Flats, Huron Rd), and party. But a couple of years ago - I'm 29 now - I just started losing interest in those areas. They're still very cool and a lot of fun, perhaps even more during the day (nothing beats lunch on E4), but there really needs to be more than bars, restaurants, sports teams, a couple museums which are hard to get excited over, and I can't afford Playhouse more than once every so often. Outside of weekends at Anatomy, maybe Shooters, I would guess that a number, most, of my friends are the same way. Downtown is out; Tremont is in, at least by your upper 20s and higher. Not always, but usually. And yeah, there really needs to be more things to do than just eat and drink or go to the E9 museums, and maybe in time there will be, but for now I definitely see where your friends are coming from. I mean, what would little kids do down there except go to the Science museum? They'd be better off at University Circle (play at the lagoons, go to Children's, Art or (eventually) MOCA museum, have fun at Little Italy, Natural History museum, etc...

Well, luckily for me and the other members of the firm, our growing number of clients seem to feel comfortable with a slightly informal setting. Wearing a cheap suit doesn't mean jack to a client who is about to be deported; rather, the firm's reputation and overall talent of staff seem to do the trick.

I'm lucky I don't have to suit up unless I'm in court; hell, I can see clients in t-shirts and jeans.

I wonder when the protests will start, I mean even israelis arel starting to march

As a lawyer, 8:45-5:30 on weekdays, nights and weekends if necessary As a small business owner, 7-11 a few weekend nights, all day Saturday; all evening Sunday, with considerable flexibility

Cool shots, but let's not kid ourselves. These were very carefully arranged to show NK in its best light. You might as well show people smiling in Mogadishu today or German kids swimming laps in 1940 Germany.

Did Eminem make a difference in Detroit? I suppose at some nominal level he did, but ultimately it's pretty doubtful, and Eminem is one of the most famous musicians of all time.

WHEN IS THIS GOING TO END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an immature dick

After weeks of trying to figure out whether I should buy a new smartphone or wait for Iphone 5 (now October is the rumor??), I finally decided enough was enough with my first gen and purchased....the Motorola Atrix. And let me say, it is the BEST phone at&t has to offer. The front camera allows for video conferencing via gmail, it's as fast as any of the verizon androids I've played around with (besides the Thunderbolt), the design is very smooth and slim, really good battery (certainly compared to the HTC stuff), runs netflix (unlike the Inspire), and best of all, it has a dual processor and is powerful as hell. As excited as I was with the first iphone, I'm equally happy with this purchase. Really a hell of a phone!

Do you guys think Carrasco should be suspended the rest of the season (if not longer) for flagrantly throwing a fastball to that batter's head? That kind of conduct should be criminal (how the hell it isn't is beyond me, but then again look at all the hockey fights), and the Indians should make an example that head-hunting = we do not want you. What if he had connected, and we'd have another Ray Chapman incident... It's inevitable, you know. And it doesn't hurt that Carrasco's been crappy lately, plus he's supposedly a jerk.

They had some kind of networking thing this weekend - apparently it had a massive crowd

Fark and drudge also reported it

Great Lakes Brewery was incredible last night. I did some major damage there, and the crowd, the food, and of course the drinks were just perfect

Team leadership trade; guys like OC have intangibles for a young, playoff contender like SF

It is refreshing that we finallly made a trade for the now...for the first time in a while

PORTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Outsourcing jobs is so damaging to our country....the complete destruction of our middle class.....symptoms of relatively unchecked free market. If I were to list a hierarchy of reasons for our collapse, then yes, our unchecked free market would be at the top.

^^Prop 8 also failed because of the massive campaign by its Utah neighbors. Just another embarrassing footnote in US history.