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Sounds great. I'm there! But if you guys participate in this and don't participate in the Make Friends with Feagler Rally (http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=14092.0), then you're assclowns. Just kidding ... kinda :-)

Has anyone else heard about this? Surprised I haven't yet ... It looks really good. Scheduled to arrive at Shaker Square Cinemas on September 19th. The Real Low Calorie Diet Did you know that it takes on average 10 calories of fossil-fuel energy to provide one calorie of food for our plates? Real Low Calorie Diet captures a movement across Northeast Ohio to change the way we eat. The movement, quite simply, is to eat food that is grown locally, whether on a vacant lot in the city of a fifth generation family farm in the country. As the film reveals through interviews, animation, and beautiful footage from the City of Cleveland, Oberlin, and the Northeast Ohio countryside, the simple act of eating local honors our land, our communities, and our rich natural heritage. The film captures the diversity of this movement and makes connections between the future of our food and the future of our democracy. It documents the impacts of programs such as City Fresh which link farmers and urban growers to consumers right in the city. Mostly, the film provides a message of hope in a media dominated by stories of war, catastrophic climate change, and loss of community. The film proves the critical hypothesis that the solutions to many of these critical challenges are already being developed through innovations at the grassroots level where the real hope for our democracy lies. Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiOM6ome5H4.

For those of you interested in a Feagler rally, we can continue the conversation at http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=14092.msg218923#msg218923, where I have a dummy poster for the event.

Tourism rebounds Crain's Cleveland By JOHN BOOTH 3:04 pm, September 11, 2007 Cuyahoga County drew 14.05 million visitors in 2006, surpassing the 13.72 million it drew in 2000 for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It’s also up 800,000 over the 2005 draw. “Hospitality has rebuilt and become re-established in this area,” Dennis Roche, president of the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland told an industry crowd Tuesday morning at a travel summit in Cleveland ... ... More at http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20070911/FREE/70911016/1095&Profile=1095

Francis Daniel Pastorius, (September 26, 1651 - c. January 1, 1720), was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German settlement and the gateway for subsequent emigrants from Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Daniel_Pastorius Franz Daniel Pastorius Boulevard, adjacent to the Convention Center (between Lakeside and Ontario) in downtown Cleveland was named for him at the request of the Federation of German-American Societies of Greater Cleveland in 1983 when it sponsored the German-American Tricentennial Celebration here. http://www.fogas.org/germanday.htm Knowledge is power!

I also don't know how appealing it would be to build an upscale hotel directly across the street from the justice center.

The parcel (which includes both county buildings) is about 280 x 270 ft.

KJP, do you know what department handles those requests? Streets division of Public Services? Or is this a police matter?

From (you guessed it) The Onion: Town Hall Meeting Gives Townspeople Chance To Say Stupid Things In Public September 8, 2007 | Issue 43•36 NEW BEDFORD, MA—In a true display of democracy, a town hall meeting held at the New Bedford High School auditorium Monday gave the crowd of approximately 550 residents the opportunity to publicly voice every last one of the inane thoughts and concerns they would normally only have the chance to utter to themselves. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/town_hall_meeting_gives

MayDay, you're such a Not In My HairDo.

From: THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR Andrea Taylor, Press Secretary (216) 664-4171 or (216) 857-7798 Michelle Watts, Asst. to the Chief of Communications (216) 664-3999 or (216) 857-0124 For Immediate Release:September 10, 2007 Mayor Frank Jackson Takes the Lead in the Fight to Curb Gun Violence in Cleveland and Throughout the State of Ohio Today Mayor Frank G. Jackson announced his plan to help curb gun violence in Cleveland and across the state of Ohio. Mayor Jackson is asking the Ohio General Assembly to help get guns out of the hands of young people by passing legislation that would prohibit anyone under the age of 21 from possessing a firearm ... ... More at http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/pdf/press/20070910293.pdf

I'm definitely still in ... I'm going to mock up a poster tomorrow if I get a chance and will start a new thread when I do (don't want to fill up the Marketing Cleveland thread with Feagler bile). As far as location goes, Public Square would be a good location ... I had been thinking of the Plain Dealer or Ideastream (or both). As for times, I'd say 7:00 - 8:30, 11:00 - 2:00 and 4:30 - 6:00 would probably be the best hours for getting substantial foot traffic. We should definitely get something going by the end of September!

Tower Press's renovation has been finished for a number of years now. Usually the only complaints I hear are that it's "overfinished" ... that it's too polished for loft space. It's a great building full of artist studios, art galleries, a cafe, a yoga studio, a boutique gym, etc. Definitely worth checking out. Were you maybe thinking of Gospel Press?

Check out the basement of Flower Child or the ground floor entrance of Chelsea's ... If you're not a fan of the vintage fab look, you'll have to dig through a lot of 60s and 70s designs. But I have found skinny ties with tame designs in both stores and usually at a fraction of the price of a new tie ($10-ish).

^Haha! No just inching him the few extra blocks to Asiatown, where you get the real rent steals! As far as car-free lifestyle goes, definitely the Market Ave. spot would provide great access to transit, as would locations over in Orchard Park or along Bridge or Jay. But my personal opinion is that Tower Press, with frequent bus service and many, many lines running just 2 blocks to the west, is far more mass transit-friendly than most spots in Tremont. As with all of these looking for apartment threads, I think there's a lot of availability for the Pope's price range in Tremont, OC & Downtown ... will just come down to which amenities / immediate neighborhood features he prefers.

Check out the residential directory of www.downtown-digs.com. Granted, it's on the outskirts of downtown, but you might check out Tower Press (http://www.towerpress.com/) ... One bedroom loft spaces from $625 with secure parking included as a component of your rent. There's also a cafe, yoga studio and artist lofts on site. As an added bonus, you might land a unit that overlooks the sunshine factory that is the Plain Dealer, and if that doesn't brighten your day, I don't know what will.

I looked at West Virginia a couple of years back ... great building on the inside, but it was on the high end of my price range and there were very few availabilities. Unless something has changed there, I think it would be on the high end of your range as well.

Awesome about the Arts Walk on the 27th ... keep us posted, and I'll try to get out the word about it as much as I can. Do you know if any of the artists at Tyler will be involved in the City Artists at Work tour taking place as part of the Sparx in the City Urban Gallery Hop? Also, in case you missed it, a group of galleries from the area has been meeting and discussing opportunities to cross-brand as the Cleveland Arts Quarter. I know the guys at Front Room have been somewhat involved in that effort. It might be good to send a representative to those meetings ... I can get you contact info if you'd like.

I really like that Moko has a list of other locally-owned coffee shops. While not an exhaustive list by any stretch of the imagination, it is nice to see them championing other "little guys".

http://www.greenenergytv.com/ Advance Northeast Ohio blog Mon, 09/03/2007 - 17:11 — cthompson Jim Cossler at YBI wants to make sure everyone is tuned into GreenEnergyTV. He writes: The site is Beta at the moment, and far from fully built, but its ultimate functionality is going to be enormous for those of us interested in a "greener" world. And if things roll out as planned, the site is going to make Youngstown the center of the green movement worldwide ... ... More at http://www.advancenortheastohio.org/node/186

It seemed like the story played up the affiliation of Lerner with both Case and Columbia. But I can't imagine that alone would justify such a transition. Perhaps Columbia left a bag of money on Carnegie?

I'm in total disagreement over this statement. RTA is not a tax-subsidized business. It is a political subdivision of the state. Not only is profit not its primary purpose - it's not even one among many purposes. Certainly, it needs to be solvent and a wise steward of taxpayer money, but to focus on increasing revenues at the expense of the community it serves is contrary to its role as a government agency. And with 40% of RTA's board appointed by the Cleveland mayor (and with 100% of the board appointed by government leaders in Cuyahoga County), I think that the body would have an interest in reducing urban sprawl. Moreover, I challenge your revenue projections. If I understand your argument correctly, you're saying that the revenue that would be generated by suburbanites who would only ride the train if you didn't have stops in the inner city or near suburbs would exceed the revenue generated by inner city residents and near suburbanites who would ride the train if they had an accessible stop. I don't buy that.

For the same reason, I respond to the above quote in the GCRTA thread.

Whoa. That's pretty big news.

I'm back from the Pacific Northwest, and it only took me about 3 hours to remember my deep disdain for Feagler's editorials :-) My goals for the rally would be to: - Raise attention about the role that negative editorials play on morale of residents of Cleveland. - Challenge the local media to increase the balance of its editorial content to acknowledge the many positive things going on in our community ... both individual developments that are not always in the public eye (Gordon Square, Tyler Village, Gospel Press, etc.), as well as general positive indicators (rankings by The Economist, more positive CMSD indicators, etc.). - Directly communicate some of these positives to pedestrians in high-visibility locations (PD headquarters and IdeaStream), perhaps through a brochure takeaway. My idea would be to do something highly visible, like challenge Dick Feagler to join us for a tour of "our" Cleveland (the one that doesn't resemble the apocalyptic cesspool on the verge of implosion that he tends to write about). I'd like it to be tongue-in-cheek but certainly not negative or adversarial ... setting a tone of enthusiasm and optimism about the direction Cleveland is going. I would think sometime in September would be the ideal time for something like this. And as I said, I'd be happy to take a crack at designing some posters, brochures, etc. if other people are interested in making this a reality. I don't think we should do it unless we can have a strong street presence for a couple of hours (say 10 people) ... otherwise, it might just look pathetic.