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We wish you still had a vote in Cleveland.

Wow, that really amazes me. I didn't know that you could poach museums. I can see how it makes sense for the CFHOF, but it is sad for South Bend. South Bend has 100x more college football tradition than Atlanta has.

^It definitely has a lot of Art Deco in it. Here's a description that I found: "Designed by local firm Walker and Weeks, the building's exterior is transitional between Classical, and the late flowering of Classical style known as Art Moderne or Art Deco. New York sculptor Henry Hering created an art-deco sculpture for the pediment. Inside, Severance Hall is one of America's greatest Art Deco interiors." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_Hall

naw. 1. The PD was incorrect in saying that the gay games announcement would come yesterday. It will be announced next Tuesday. 2. The mayor announced his Sustainability Advisory Group.

^No, there is an electric lighting element that will be installed in early October. It is fairly significant, so the feel of the plaza will change from its current state.

^all I know is that the mayor is supposed to make an announcement today. I know nothing else.

I'm wondering if we'll have another athletic announcement tomorrow morning around 10am..

^They don't want clubs. While some proposals have seemed ok, they are fearful of the Moda effect. That being: a nice club goes in, is successfull. It loses clients and then starts to market to a rowdier crowd. Think Flats. *They=Jay/Bridge Block Club.

If Magini is to turn this team around, it will be by building through the draft and by instilling discipline in the team. I'm not too worried about these kind of articles. Sounds like an agent or two are pissed off.

No f-ing way that Sunnydale comes in at #253! Switch them with Overland Park at #247 and I'll start taking you seriously. ;)

See item #1. I've heard that a small business from the burbs might be moving into the second floor and a restaurant would go in on the first floor.

This one is made of concrete.

^my father-in-law was a high-up for MTA (transit authority). Subways are financially-prohibitive because of the dense amount of rock underneath Nashville and especially the West End corridor. It would cost 10x the normal amount to build subways in Nashville as compared to other cities (according to him). Additionally, light rail would face an intensely fierce political and land-use rights' battle in Nashville.

^Hillsboro Village is a short two-block stretch. I can't think of any place in Nashville outside of downtown where the buildings are built up to the sidewalk. When you talk to Nashvillians, they tend to put Hillsboro Village up on a very high pedestal (Clevelanders: think Coventry divided by 4). They have an odd sense of urban perspective in that city.

West End is becoming much more dense, but it is not a nice place to take a walk. It needs some serious streetscaping. Traffic is horrendous and it is only getting worse. It has a surburban-urban feel to it now. The density is there, but it is difficult to interact with the city in an urban fashion.

I never cared for Vandy's campus so much. It feels as if they had no campus plan and just started plopping down buildings wherever. The large dorms on West End are tragic and the proximity of the medical campus kills a lot of the feel. There are some nice very buildings though. Has anyone ever seen Rhodes College in Memphis?

I've watched the movie at least 3 times in the past week (4-yr old son loves it) and I don't know what you are talking about. It is very difficult to get a good look at any other house in the neighborhood in the movie. Also, a lot of the movie was shot in Toronto. Provide us with some pictures to support your claims. If you watched this 4 times and cannot see this then you're not being very observant. I could watch it with you and point out exactly what I am talking about. Besides, this was not the point of my post... The point was, that if there was to be an idea of "A Christmas Story Street" eventually manifest...as basically mentioned in an article above somewhere... it would be good to see the other homes in better/respectable shape on the street because they look like total crap. I noticed when Ralphie was walking to school out of his house, heading south...you can see a glimpse of the street on the left...another part you can see the corner of Rowly (don't know if that is how it is spelled) and West 11th where there is a brick store-type house/building combo. I don't have photos to post, but maybe I can play the movie at a classic movie night social I host...and I'd be happy to freeze frame the parts so that my claims can be fully supported for ardent analysts of the film. I disagree with you. I've watched the movie very closely, but they really don't give you good shots of the neighboring homes. You see glimpses of them , but you can't really make them out very well.

I've watched the movie at least 3 times in the past week (4-yr old son loves it) and I don't know what you are talking about. It is very difficult to get a good look at any other house in the neighborhood in the movie. Also, a lot of the movie was shot in Toronto. Provide us with some pictures to support your claims.

While I have no idea if the Galleria would be suitable for an aquarium, it would be nice to have a tourist attraction at that location that would help pull visitors from north coast harbor into downtown.

^The people who out the parking tickets are not police officers. They are from a different department.

It better create 10,000 new jobs!

My wife pulled a subtle, yet successful prank on me a few years ago. We were living in Nashville (thank god we got out) and we subscribed to the local paper. While many people complain about the PD in Cleveland, they don't really know how good they have it. In comparison, the Tennessean is pathetic. I constantly complained about the quality, quantity and depth of reporting to her. One Sunday morning, I went out to get the newspaper, looked for the sports, and discovered that it was missing. Instead, there was a single sheet insert that read "We apologize. Due to a shortage of paper, we are unable to print Sunday's sports section." Knowing the Tennessean, I fell hook, line and sinker. My wife had gotten up early and replaced the sports with a sheet of paper that she had printed out from the computer. She knew that the paper was crap that I would easily fall for the prank.

Didn't you grow up in Cleveland? Where did you go to school?

My son, now 4, said the following a few months ago: "Dad, are apples good for you? Do they have nutrients? --yes son, they do. "Then does candy have old-trients?" I loved it. He was being entirely serious.

^I've never heard of Spring Garden? Whereabouts is that street?