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Yeah just saw it too. And my GOD is Val Kilmer fat!!!!! I mean go back and look at him in Top Gun and then in this. Its crazy...

ColDayMan, Can you (or anyone else who may have some info) give maybe a quick pro/con of the vBulletin 4.0 based forum? I never got a chance to really play around with it so really find it hard to form an opinion. Although I do like that my numbers are back on this account :)

The last two nights were well above normal. Yeah, most of April has sucked, but the average high is still only 59, and it was in the upper 70s the last two days with no rain. And nearly hurricane force winds. I wouldn't exactly call that a great day at the ball park. I was surprised it stayed as dry as it did. Seemed like everywhere around us was getting poured on.

I think if the housing market weren't still in the dumps there might be a different story. Everyone in suburbia (including myself) is married to their house right now. If it were possible to sell your house in a reasonable amount of time, people may be considering moving to make their commute easier.

Additionally, wouldn't there need to be a lot of very expensive remediation work done in order to re-route traffic into TC? The lafefront would likely be a more cost effective way to make this intermodal center happen.

Can someone teach Kasich to fly?? I think that would take care of the "recall" desire by itself.

Wouldn't they need to gain permission to use these lots from the property owners? If the property owners are not giving them the OK then it very much is a problem. I would be very surprised if they are allowed to just pull into any private lot and set up shop without prior OK.

Very interesting and detailed article about the Canadian Oil Sands. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/04/19/oil.sands.extreme.energy/index.html Welcome to the era of 'extreme energy' By John D. Sutter, CNN Celina Harpe was 7 when her grandfather made a prediction that would forever change her life. "You see these plants and this water we've got? That's going to be all polluted. You're going to have to buy water -- and water is life. "Mother Earth is going to be all torn up." is statement felt almost ludicrous at the time -- after all, the land seemed so infinite. Decades would pass before Harpe began to put any stock in those words. Now 72, she has watched oil companies surround her village with city-sized strip mines that look like something out of Mordor from "Lord of the Rings" -- with gas flares, smokestacks and the constant boom of propane canons on the horizon. The explosions, which sound like mortar fire, are meant to scare off migratory birds. An oily death awaits them if they land in the area's toxic industrial lakes, byproducts of the mining process.

Daves Cosmic Subs, better than Jimmy Johns by far, by Tea House Noodles but they may have reached chain status. Tuckey's @ Reserve Square- its not "good" food, but it is that great bad food for those days when you really need something greasy.

Speaking of Food Trucks. Fahrenheit was out at the corner of E6th and Superior. I think we may be entering an age of guerrilla Food Trucks.

Also, that area is meant to be expanded in the future. While everyone here seems at least moderately familiar with the concept there are probably a good number of small restaurant owners that don't understand how these options could help their business, not hurt it. So placing the vendors where there is a dearth of food options, and E 9th fits the bill in spades, is not a bad start. I think Chiperman mentioned that they would be looking to expand the venues in six months or so.

Remember its good to be a sponsor, you get to dictate crazy things like this. At least I hope it is because they are a sponsor. Otherwise CLE+ has some 'splanin to do.

RNR are you sure about dinner? I thought I remember coming down for a cavs game and grabbing some pizza. This was a few years ago so it could have changed. But I will agree that while a great lunch spot, not so great for dinner.

I disagree with this statement wholeheartedly. I'm not going to argue that Ohio State (or Kansas, or anyone else) was THE best team in the country. I will, however, argue, that each of those teams are better than where they ended up being eliminated in the Dance. The tournament is not about giving the best teams the chance to advance far. The best team possibly, and likely, will not be playing this weekend. I don't care much about the tournament being "fun to watch." Sure that's what makes it money, but I would like a tournament that supposedly crowns the best team in the country to be more accurate in doing so. I won't argue with you about the MLB playoffs, in fact, professional baseball has far and away the absolute worst system of determining a true champion of all the most popular American sports. It's not even close. As for the NFL, again, given the nature of the sport, it's not nearly as bad as you make it out to be. Clearly, though, the NBA and NHL have the truest systems. While the series playoff format likely does reward the best team with the championship, I do think that both NBA and NHL have gone too far and diluted the fields. If more than half the teams from the league are able to make the playoffs then the regular season (which could be debated as truly establishing the best team) becomes a prolonged warm up. The NFL and MLB at least limit the fields so that only those that are able to compete throughout the entire season enter the playoffs. To bring this back to Buckeyes Basketball... Is Sullinger staying or going? I dont think I've heard anything either way at this point.

Mayday your slipping. This was a bit too noticeable. Better to go with a nice rendering of the WHD parking lots that would get everyone in a tizzy.

Isn't the FEB (Aloft) hotel already a go? Did that change? And to add to the speculation, wasn't there talk of converting the Huntington Building into a hotel as well?

Exactly, I have been to the Brooklyn location. And it just didn't seem right. I havent been back in a while it may be time to try again.

So is your solution to shuffle all the homeless off to an internment camp? Because that really sounds like what your getting at. These people are bad->make them go away. If you want to solve the problem have you made a nice donation to the Homeless Shelter of Cleveland or other charitable orgs that help the homeless get back on their feet. Otherwise this post is worse than some on cleve.bomb Also, I don't believe we should engineer the city for the suburbanite, too much of that has already happened.

Isn't that skyline chili's claim to fame? Yeah, and Skyline is certainly slop in my book. Skyline is not tomato based, but does include the cinnamon. Since I moved up to Cleveland this is the thing I miss the most. I know no one from Cleveland can appreciate a fine Coney or 3-way. After all when they order a coney dog they expect slop and cheese on it. :D

The entire MLS East Conference is extremely weak (much like the NBA East had been for years before Stars decided to start playing pickup with each other). I could see the Crew finishing that low, but I could also see them getting back into the playoffs as a 4 seed. It is really going to depend how quickly the younger players gel, and if we can get some goals.

I think the "Seasonal" nightclub will be more integrated into the park, and as such would probably operate closer to the Bar at Wendy Park. Which I think has seasonal hours. If it is part of the main building, then obvious fail.

Well, problem with that is that I am already downtown. So, not really going to be able to stop along the way. With the rest of the group meeting me down here. Now if the weather for today was nicer, i.e. not covered in snow, we probably would have ended up at E4th.

We did go to Otto Mosers before Billy Elliot. Good, but defiantly not the best for Pre-Theater. have not heard good things about Acappella...but interested to try Star at some point. Someone from our Ski Club, who has theater tix, recommended it as well. It feels strange considering that there are a plethora of high quality restaurants in Cleveland, but none of them are located within one of our largest attractions.

If the Stanley Block and the Columbia Building are not going to be part of this Demo (I know right now they are including demoing the Columbia Building, but that seems to have more roadblocks ahead of it) Then in effect we would remove the surface parking that is behind those buildings. Not entirely a bad thing. However considering that this would create an overkill of parking garages, it would seem to need a bit more thought. What is the purpose of the dropoff lanes that are nowhere near the actual casino? Every one I've ever seen has these either right at the door or not at all. I think this would work better: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=41.497754,-81.691254&spn=0.001021,0.001725&z=19&msid=213426266021398312367.00049e3574e0aabba89f1

So I'm wondering what decent restaurants are around Playhouse Square. Besides Bricco, Maybe Encore at Wyndham (I will let you all now later we are eating there tomorrow before Shrek) I havent found very much in the immediate area. While I know that E4th is right down the street, and normally a couple of blocks is nothing as far as my group is concerned. Tomorrow seems like it is going to be particularly nasty. So I was wondering what opinions everyone has of the restaurants immediately surrounding Playhouse. Say no farther west than E9th.