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Legacy's third attempt at a Container Store?

I've been to the Hotel Burnham in Chicago and the Hotel Monaco in Alexandria. Both were very nice, but I was especially impressed with the Hotel Burnham. It seemed that they paid great attention to detail when restoring the building (or at least maintaining it if they didn't have to do much restoring), such as the marble stairs with decorative iron railings going all the way to the top of the skyscraper, while still providing modern conveniences and a very clean hotel. And we enjoy the wine receptions, too. My wife is very picky about hotels (we usually stay in B&B's), but Kimptons are one of the very few that make the grade for her.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it's reopening, too. I just was very disappointed in the way they treated us when we tried to eat there the last time. The time before that when we did actually eat there, both the food and service were good. It's bad enough when a restaurant doesn't follow their posted hours, but it takes a lot fo nerve for them to be rude to you for just asking if they're still open during those hours.

The one time I was there before they rudely denied me, I thought it was pretty good. I believe it's the same owner as Heck's. It does seem to be a step down from Heck's, but it's still good.

I had a feeling BRGR9 wasn't doing so well. After the last Indians regular season home game (so just over two months ago) a friend and I tried to grab a burger there on a Wednesday night at about 10:30. It said both on their website and their door that they were open until midnight. As soon as I opened the door and saw the place was completely empty, I heard someone from the back yell "leave us alone!" A server then came out from behind the bar area and I said "Are you guys open?" and she replied "Uuuummmm, no." Last time I was gonna go there.

Sure, you can improve accuracy a little. But it's kind of like a pure shooter in basketball vs. Shaq...some people just have touch and better muscle control or whatever causes you to be accurate. I really do think a lot of it is a physical gift. Regardless, I'm not sure you can "let accuracy develop" with a 30 year old NFL quarterback.

Yes, it is "synthetic ice". I believe the one that used to be on Public Square was real ice.

There used to be a rink in Public Square. I think Jane ousted it.

I completely disagree. Something I haven't seen anybody mention around here is how awful his accuracy is. He almost never puts the ball right on the money. Watch replays of even his completed passes. Often times, the receiver has to cut off his route, or reach back, or dive, and often times YAC are sacrificed. His first reception of the game to Gordon was an underthrow that worked out (it's excusable, but it wasn't a great throw by any means). The long touchdown pass to Gordon was a bad throw that probably should have been picked off (which is the only reason the defender was so out of position when Gordon did miraculously still catch it). I don't know why Cameron didn't make an effort to break up the first interception, but the ball was way behind him. The long post to Gordon in the first half wasn't where it needed to be (especially when throwing to a big receiver deep over the middle) and turned what was probably an easy touchdown into an incomplete pass. Even at the end of the game, with no pressure on him and the Jaguars secondary in the prevent, he missed horribly on a 2 yard pass over the middle to Ogbonnaya. A few games ago, he started out by sailing a few balls about 10 feet over the receivers' heads. His throws are so ridiculously wild, sometimes I wonder if he's closing his eyes before he throws it. And accuracy was supposed to be one of his strengths (along with arm strength, which he undoubtedly does have). Let's not even get into his footwork and mobility.

Whenever my wife's grandma visits us (from the way way out suburbs), she loves for us to take her down to Little Italy and sit out on the patio at Presti's and people watch. She can do it for hours, and even will say things like "I wish I lived in one of those buildings" (apartments above stores). As soon as she leaves and goes back to the exurbs, she loses that will, but for the short time she's visiting Little Italy, she's reveling in the glory of the density and activity. She comes there to enjoy the density even though she doesn't live that lifestyle. She doesn't bring her exurban sensibilities with her. I would bet that's the case for most people visiting Little Italy from the suburbs. If they wanted it to be just like a suburb, they would have just gone to the local Italian restaurant in the strip plaza by their house. It's on her own terms, though. It's just like interaction in general, the increasing tendency in our society is to pick and choose....and opt away from it when one sees fit. The phrase "nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there" comes to mind. As I said, Corbo's not a great spot for a parking lot and I don't expect to see it stay one long. But if the neighborhood itself isn't having an issue with it... You missed my point. I used her as an example because she absolutely is one of those people. You don't have to tell me that. The point was that even people like that enjoy Little Italy because of the dense neighborhood it is, even if it's only to visit and return to their sprawl.

I think ERocc uses the term "urbanist" to refer to anyone that does something that could be construed as bad or wrong.

Whenever my wife's grandma visits us (from the way way out suburbs), she loves for us to take her down to Little Italy and sit out on the patio at Presti's and people watch. She can do it for hours, and even will say things like "I wish I lived in one of those buildings" (apartments above stores). As soon as she leaves and goes back to the exurbs, she loses that will, but for the short time she's visiting Little Italy, she's reveling in the glory of the density and activity. She comes there to enjoy the density even though she doesn't live that lifestyle. She doesn't bring her exurban sensibilities with her. I would bet that's the case for most people visiting Little Italy from the suburbs. If they wanted it to be just like a suburb, they would have just gone to the local Italian restaurant in the strip plaza by their house.

The only thing that will change this culture is getting more people to live in the city. Right now there are plenty of Greater Clevelanders who love a night out in Little Italy, but they care more about convenient parking then density--because they live in Pepper Pike, Lyndhurst, etc.... Well, yeah. I'm not sure some here realize that a significant plurality, perhaps a majority, in this region looks at "density" the way the consensus here looks at "sprawl". I'm not a big fan of putting a lot at Corbo. But a secure lot somewhere (off street preferably) will help LI. Parallel parking is a lost art and a lot of people simply don't like trusting valets. Serious question: Is there opposition to the lot in the neighborhood? Why do you think people from the suburbs go to Little Italy instead of Olive Garden? It's not for the available parking. Sure, having parking will make those people happier. But if it's at the expense of the atmosphere (which includes density, even to those people), then it will hurt Little Italy much more than it will help it. I know you think we're the ones always trying to exert our will of density on others, but I don't see city-folk trying to build dense neighborhoods in Chesterland. Rather, it's people from the exurbs demanding more parking and (in this case) tearing down buildings on property they own to suburbanize the city. They can build the style of neighborhood they want out in BFE, but zoning should stop them from doing so in the middle of the city.

It must have been cost. Whatever they're paying for NextConnect, though, it's not worth it. It's an unreliable piece of junk that can't even tell us if a time is estimated or actual, rendering it worthless. We might as well just have scheduled times all the time on the website and ditch the tracking mechanism if you can't rely on or even differentiate the times.

Double meh

That's not correct. ALL of East Cleveland is in the East Cleveland City SD. Also, a fair chunk of northern Cleveland Heights is actually also in the East Cleveland City SD (roughly anything north of Noble/Monticello that is west of Woodview). http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_boe/en-US/CuyahogaSchoolDistricts.pdf

I'm not sure I've ever seen a black person in Little Italy that is not accompanied by a white person (well MAYBE once or twice), so I'm not sure black people would agree with you. Also, my roommate in college (he was a very dark-skinned Indian kid) was harassed walking through Little Italy at night once when a group of a few young adults (not college students) threw a garbage can toward him from a little ways away (presumably just to rattle him) and yelled a racial slur indicating they thought he was black. Granted, that was almost 15 years ago now.

Are the tags saying "HEK"? That last part's my point...I don't see bored suburban kids having the testicular fortitude to do this in LI. Especially this prolifically. A stupid but ambitious street gang is more likely. Peek and Chang were caught for tagging Ohio City, and specifically they were caught on camera tagging Great Lakes Brewery. Patrick Conway even testified against them. I don't see why you would doubt the testicular fortitude and/or stupidity of bored suburban kids.

Oh please. I regularly lurk on these forums and he is always making passive aggressive comments whenever Cleveland is mentioned. He's looking for a response just like freethink's. That's not accurate. In the past 4 months, I could only find three posts of edale's on Cleveland photo threads other than this one: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,28772.msg681295.html#msg681295 http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,28606.msg672306.html#msg672306 http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,28477.msg667006.html#msg667006 I'm not spending the time to go any further back.

Correct... http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/04/police_tag_two_as_felons_judge.html Crazy that the article never mentions the race of the offenders. ;) Also, Peek and Chang are getting off easy, as one got off early even after violating terms of his probation, and the other has repeatedly violated terms of his probation and keeps getting another chance from the judge.

True, but do those types of taggers keep returning to the same spots? Also, aren't they kind of cowardly as well as overimaginative? One would think they wouldn't repeatedly hit LI, if so. http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,8812.msg218523.html#msg218523 http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16349.msg292179.html#msg292179

Oakwood Village is southeast of Bedford. Are you thinking of Cuyahoga Heights (which already borders Cleveland, although it also borders Newburgh Heights)? I think you'd have a very tough time convincing Cuyahoga Heights anyway.

Thank you. We're checking into that inconsistency now. It took a few days, and necessitated a non-insignificant bit of code rewriting, but we appear to have resolved the issue of the Routes page showing inconsistent indication of Service Alerts. Now, the Alert icon will only be displayed when the route genuinely has an active alert. As a side benefit, the page now loads much faster, with few (hopefully none) of the AJAX callback errors some users were reporting. Check it out and let us know what you think. Two thumbs up!

I don't know about that. Weeden had 289yds 1TD 3INT vs Miami...... 227yds 0TD and OINT vs Baltimore...... and 292yds 2TD 2INT vs Detroit. He was heavily criticized after each one of those losses. Yeah, you're right. I do tend to forget that Weeden actually did put up some decent numbers at times. Maybe it's because when he's bad, he's just so bad it's hard to believe he could ever do anything right out there. Same here. I'm not sure what was going on because in his last two starts he was very aggressive in throwing downfield, throwing some passes which were probably ill-advised (and some of them turned into lucky completions). It's almost like they watched the video and the coaches stressed too much that he needs to be more careful with where he throws the ball and he got timid.

I'm not saying he had a good game. But the way the game went, I think we lose about 55-6 with Weeden at QB. Also, Campbell did not throw a pick 6. A penalty brought that back. Basically, we just sucked all the way around. But the special teams sucked the most.