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Yes...Toby Keith Tower!

Visit the Trump thread. There's a real backlash going on against stupidity right now.

^ Good Lord

Agree. Gilbert can be tacky as hell. Remember the DICE "art" concept? Anyhow, ya know how developers release renderings and the digital people look really awkward and ridiculous?

Um, okay I'll risk the reprimand... http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/d/david_hodo-splash-650x400.jpg

I recently grabbed a last minute Promise Ring cd for a dollar before a cross country road trip. Enjoyed it! My cooler friends listened to them and others like LeTigre, Mountain Goats and Get Up Kids. But I must have been elsewhere, musically speaking. There's a lot of alt-rock music I missed in early 00's, made apparent by the fact I don't know any of the bands you've listed haha. I saw the Get-Up Kids before they were famous. I went to the same school as their bass player Jim Suptic and saw them play in a coffee shop in the fall of 1996. Here is what he (and the rest of the band, who all dressed like grandpas) looked like then: http://kcomposite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/20110729-013831.jpg I thought they were god-awful. I didn't realize then that I was witnessing the birth of emo/screamo. I now work with a guy in a screamo band and have had to go see them 2-3 times. 20 years have gone by and it's still crap. Ugh...screamo. The musical expression of suburban angst, what could possibly be worse. Even worse than West Coast "mall" punk. "My mom didn't pick me up, and I'm so bummed out. Gonna give the finger to my teacher. Gonna start a revolution...."

I recently grabbed a last minute Promise Ring cd for a dollar before a cross country road trip. Enjoyed it! My cooler friends listened to them and others like LeTigre, Mountain Goats and Get Up Kids. But I must have been elsewhere, musically speaking. There's a lot of alt-rock music I missed in early 00's, made apparent by the fact I don't know any of the bands you've listed haha.

Right. Given the chance I'd almost always choose Stones, Chuck Berry, Hollies, Who, Beach Boys Byrds and others from the era instead of the Beatles. Beatles harmonies in particular can be grating on my ears. I personally feel the same way that Robert Plant should just shut up instead of screaming "Oooohhhhhh" at every chance he gets. I'm still not gonna say Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin or the Beatles weren't tremendous contributors to music. They're both amazing.

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The Beatles were musically adventurous, always moving "forward" with new influences. I credit them for that. The opposite of the spectrum is a band like AC/DC that's had seemingly no evolution, and I suppose in a way that's also cool. The Stones and the Who got experimental too, of course. But their musicianship, while amazing in their own right, just wasn't as sophisticated and creative as Lennon/McCartney/Harrison. By the late 60's that out-of-left-field adventurism echoed the cultural changes of the time. So the Beatles were torchbearers in that way. They couldn't out rock the Stones, out sing the Beach Boys, or really get the true soul feeling of their original R&B heroes. But they managed to maintain just enough creative longevity to incorporate all of these influences really well, while somehow maintaining their popularity and core audience. I'm not sure I can think of any other artist that kept their following through such drastic changes.

According to their FB page: CHA spirits & pizza kitchen February 10 at 12:24pm · Cha will be temporarily closed starting February 10th but we're looking forward to the opening of Terrestrial Brewing this spring next door. No worry! We'll be back.

Ah yes, the new scourge of radio formats.....Alternative Gold. Radio is like that ex-girlfriend that you still care for, but every time you see her she looks worse, and just gets more and more terrible in every conceivable way.

I'm destined to never enjoy a Cavs regular season. Also, do you guys think that of all the Cleveland fans that call into sports radio, that Cavs fans are the worst?

I could see new residents west side of 25th react with NIMFY (Not in my front yard) sentiments. You see this happen everywhere, nobody wants their views blocked. Agree that the narrowing of the street is a huge gain. Much needed. There was recent plans floating around that made this stretch of W25 look like a 45mph ODOT wet dream.

Agree. I think some renderings showing new construction that fosters more business growth AND preserves access to the park (and its views) could easily change peoples minds.

No cities in Africa, no cities in Asia, no cities in South America, no cities in Latin America. Basically Western/Northern Europe, Canada and the largest city in Australia. Sounds about right for the Davos crowd. "Reputability" and "level of trust" are just really idiotic criteria. Rome (#8) has a high-moderate level of crime including theft, robbery and vandalism. Not to mention serious problems with corruption and bribery.

This group seems to be very narrowly focused on greenspace. CLE Chatter: New lakefront group surfaces with big ambition By Mark Naymik, cleveland.com on February 07, 2017 Making waves: The Green Ribbon Coalition has quietly surfaced as a new advocacy organization promoting a more accessible and connected lakefront along Lake Erie that goes beyond Cleveland's borders. The organization is the product of a merger between three groups focused on the lakefront: The Cleveland Waterfront Coalition, Cleveland Lakefront Parks Conservancy and The Cleveland Lakefront Development Corp. The new group, which was formalized last year, takes it name from the nascent Lakefront Ribbon of Green Coalition, which was formed by big-idea guy Dick Clough, an advertising and marketing professional and waterfront activist. http://www.cleveland.com/naymik/index.ssf/2017/02/cle_chatter_new_lakefront_grou.html#incart_river_home_pop

Someone in the media should ask the Mayor about what he's doing to combat terrorism in other parts of downtown. We definitely need more checkpoints, aerial drone surveillance, satellite photography, anti-aircraft missiles, bomb sniffing dogs, landmine detecting rats, carbon monoxide detectors, etc. Think of the children!!!

For the sake of humanity, Kyle Shanahan should give a TED Talk on his exact gameplan for the second half. I honestly think there's a common thread to such boneheaded, colossal failures, and they need to be studied.

Yes, he is quite well known. And as far as pro-transit cities, it's really hard to view Cleveland as being "pro-transit" after having lived elsewhere. It's clear by the blatant bus lane violations and non-enforcement in the supposedly dedicated transit lanes downtown that nobody cares. Similarly, what is Cleveland doing locally to support fixing the transit funding situation? Other cities have nice public spaces that are traversed by transit like Seattle's Westlake Park, including a plaza-like design on the street that King County Metro buses use: https://www.downtownseattle.com/2015/12/westlake-parks-winter-village/ There isn't any reason that it wouldn't work in Cleveland. Our crown jewel, the Healthline can not even get traffic light priority.

I'd like to see every metro area in America represented by at a team. Whether that's due to an expansive MLS or an increase in other pro leagues. Actually, if a super team can be assembled, for instance in NASL, soccer in USA suddenly gets more interesting.

^ A proposal to share parking with the school could have avoided this sad end.

^ The proposed larger windows would do that building a world of good.

Put yourself in a developers shoes... underground parking is approximately $45k/spot to build while above ground is $15-20k/spot. It's not as simple as "just put one or two stories underground" Exactly. People here never seem to get that it all comes down to money and what the market will bear. Don't forget about laws and zoning though. If it was simply all about money we would still see a lot more historic buildings razed for surface parking.

I could see Conan O'Brien or John Stewart (RIP) having a field day with this.