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This is a GREAT article. I feel like this should be posted in places in NYC or other east coast cities as well so other artists may see the opportunity.

CWRU adds alternative energy expert By SHANNON MORTLAND 10:23 am, April 14, 2009 Case Western Reserve University has appointed a professor from Spain as its first Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor in Energy Innovation. Mario Garcia-Sanz took his new post March 1. He comes from the Public University in Navarra, Spain, where he was a professor and head of the Control, Energy and Space Technology Research Group. ... http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20090414/FREE/904149966

Great to hear! what did you do to increase it if you don't mind me asking? or did it just happen...?? We passed up Cleveland Clinic's Survival Guide.! :lol:

TRIVIA: who was the first team to win at the NEW Yankees stadium?? :-D :-D

RISE UP Cleveland! It is time. It always makes me happy we have an owner who is not cheap. Quicken Loans Arena gets playoffs make-over Updated: 4/16/2009 12:10:22 PM Posted: 4/16/2009 11:56:38 AM CLEVELAND -- If you pass by Quicken Loans Arena Thursday, you might notice some changes. Crews spent the day using cranes to hang banners and signs to celebrate the Cleveland Cavaliers bid to the NBA playoffs. The building-sized banners feature the wine and gold colors along with players pictures like Ben Wallace, Delonte West and others. Full story at http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=111706&catid=3 PICS from the link: Playoff saying this year seems to be "ONE GOAL." I like it.

As we all know...but it is still nice to be reminded Cleveland poised to cash in on Cavs playoff run Posted By: Updated: 4/16/2009 10:07:27 AM Posted: 4/15/2009 5:28:48 PM CLEVELAND -- The city, fresh off the heels of the Rock Hall Induction Ceremony, is about to get another jolt of publicity and cash. "Every single game generates about $3.7 million in direct spending by fans attending the game," says Tami Brown ,of Positively Cleveland, the region's Convention and Visitors Bureau. "Millions more is generated by fans going out to bars and restaurants around the city." When the playoffs are involved, those numbers skyrocket. "We are hoping for a deep playoff run, and look most forward to the fans attending the conference finals," says Dennis Fischer, the manager of The Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Cleveland. Those attending conference finals games are more likely to be out-of-towners, willing to stay in hotels, pay the big ticket prices and purchase the playoff merchandise. In this down economy, LeBron and company have provided ticket brokers a horse worth riding. "The Cavs are the main thing right now," says ticket broker Scott Merk. "It's like printing money, as of right now." Channel 3 found tickets for the first round for as low as $27. The deeper the Cavs go, the higher the ticket price and the better the exposure for Cleveland. "That kind of visibility for city is priceless," Brown says. http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=111644&catid=3

Great pics! and great wine!

Does Cleveland count the 6000+ students in University Circle who live in Cleveland at least 9 months out of the year? (CWRU, CIA, CIM) EDIT: note Case enrollment is 4000 undergrad and 6000 grad schoolers, so this is only an estimate counting CIA and CIM.

Protesters say judge was too easy on graffiti suspects Posted by Mark Puente/Plain Dealer Reporter April 13, 2009 13:04PM CLEVELAND — Councilman Joe Cimperman led a protest Monday with 40 city residents against a county judge they said went easy on a pair of vandals. Cimperman denounced Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Eileen A. Gallagher's decision to dismiss charges against one graffiti artist and reduce charges against another. The men were accused of spray painting hundreds of buildings, light poles and other public property. More at Cleveland.com http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/04/protesters_say_judge_was_too_e.html

How important is this upcoming census for Ohio next year? And for cities like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Dayton, Mansfield, Youngstown, Akron/Canton? I wanted to start the debate to see if there is anything that can be done to best ensure proper census info is being taken, especially for cities who have be losing population for decades, but seem to be plateau-ing...and even flirting with increases. How big would a moral boast be if some of these city limits posted an increase, not to mention increased federal dollars. What does everybody think?

Although we got another loss yesterday...here's at least a feel good story from Opening Day http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2009/04/sun_rain_or_snow_win_or_lose_o.html (with mini slideshow) Sun, rain or snow; win or lose; Opening Day can be unforgettable by Bill Lubinger/Plain Dealer Reporter Friday April 10, 2009, 11:50 PM Without fail, said Rick Manning, Indians broadcaster and the team's former center fielder, some 60,000 fans flocked to old Municipal Stadium for Opening Day. And the next game would draw 3,000 stragglers. The home opener in Cleveland is about so much more than baseball...

Barley House opens in Cleveland's Warehouse District: Restaurant Row Wednesday, April 08, 2009 Joe Crea Plain Dealer Columnist %%head%%RESTAURANT ROW There's no velvet rope, no hip per-than-thou vibe. In fact, the old crowd probably wouldn't recognize the former Spy Bar. Then again, when was puttin' on the cool ever a factor in getting into an Irish bar like the new Barley House? Old Warehouse District meets Auld Sod at the recently opened Cleveland installment of the Akron-based BH. More at http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/restaurantrow/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/123926601596450.xml&coll=2

On another note....Wallpaper from cavs.com :-D :-D

Not quite sure where to put this, so I guess "Cleveland Restaurants" works. Looks like Steve Schimoler is pushing for more live music competition at the restuarants in and around downtown: http://steveschimoler.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/cleveland-food-really-rocks/ Cleveland Food really rocks April 7, 2009 by schimoler Many of you have heard my angle of the correlation between food and music, and all it took to come up with the idea for Clevelandfoodrocks.com, was after a late night of jamming with Cream of the Crop and standing around with a bunch of fellow chefs all proclaiming that Cleveland rocks! A few key strokes later, I owned the domain names for Cleveland food, chefs and restaurants rock. So what next? start a free website that promotes our city and the robust food and music scene. A few calls to get a team together and we had ADCOM/OPTIEM agree to build the website, The Scene, WKYC, Cool Cleveland, Great Lakes Publishing and the Rock Hall all on board to sponsor at no cost!! Get a bunch of restaurants to pony up and have live music and some cool food and drink ideas and start the promo during the Rock Inductions week and the plan was on a ROLL. We ended up with a KILLER website (Kudos to ADCOM!!!!), 18 restaurants who all featured some great live music and everyone created fun rock inspired goodies for the menu. We got great TV, Radio and print coverage all highlighting Cleveland’s roll up the sleeves attitude. So now we need to keep the fires burning! Over the next 2 week we will be designing an ongoing promo schedule and make sure all Cleveland restaurants know that they can join in on the website activity as well as start getting their own house bands together for the future Battle of the Restaurant Bands contest this summer. In this challenging economy, we need to add value to the guest who frequent and support our establishments. Discounts don’t work! We need to raise the bar for the customer to insure that they can find not only great food and service in Cleveland but also a commitment to enhancing the total experience. Thanks to everyone who made this happen! Steve

Sort of a recap of everything we already know...but tucked away from the PD nonetheless: Signs of new life along Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Posted by The editors April 06, 2009 04:16AM Categories: Editorial Throughout the many years it took to conceive, design and build the Euclid Corridor -- or HealthLine, as the Regional Transit Authority's sleek new bus route is formally known -- advocates insisted that this was an economic development opportunity, not simply a transportation project linking Public Square and University Circle. By rebuilding one of Cleveland's historic grand boulevards, they said, the city could breathe new life into a thoroughfare that had become anything but grand... http://blog.cleveland.com/pdopinion/2009/04/signs_of_new_life_along_clevel.html

This sould be posted a number of places...hopefully this is the best fit: Fund-raising efforts gain speed at new energy institute at Case Western Reserve University Posted by Tom Breckenridge/Plain Dealer Reporter April 06, 2009 00:01AM Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer Former BP executive Dianne Anderson heads Case Western Reserve University's new energy institute. With her on the CWRU campus is professor Iwan Alexander, who promotes faculty collaborations on institute projects. CLEVELAND -- A modest, new energy institute at Case Western Reserve University is scrambling for money and partners to achieve its goal -- renowned research and innovation in advanced energy. Since its launch in late 2007, the Great Lakes Institute for Energy Innovation has gathered $6 million-plus in funding, joined the local pursuit of wind turbines on Lake Erie and recruited an executive director. More at cleveland.com: http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2009/04/fundraising_efforts_gain_speed.html

To get us ready for opening day tomorrow! From the PD...and Grady owns a house in Ohio City?? Indians slugger Grady Sizemore calls Cleveland second home CHUCK CROWTHE PLAIN DEALER Where's your favorite place to hang out in Cleveland? I like the South Side, in Tremont. Some good live music and the food is great and it's not far from my house in Ohio City or the ballpark. I like Sushi Rock and Rocky River Brewing Co. as well. What's your breakfast (or lunch) spot? West Side Market Cafe. Great food, friendly people, and I like the old-time atmosphere. What a beautiful building. More at Cleveland.com http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living-2/1238920330248720.xml&coll=2

oh no! Pittsburgh is copying us! Pop Up Pittsburgh, Inspired by Cleveland - May 30th April 5th, 2009 by Abby Wilson View Profile In the last year and a half, Sarah and I have traveled to almost two dozen GLUE cities. Although differences abound, vacancy is something each of these places copes with. Our friends in the policy world spend a lot of time researching strategies to combat urban abandonment, and their efforts are critical to our cities’ future prosperity. But I have a hunch that imagination and community celebration in some of our cities’ abandoned spaces might be just as important to our efforts to fill them up. As a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh’s 2007-2008 Leadership Development Initiative program, I was thrilled to learn that this year’s class is implementing an idea I first learned about in Cleveland - an idea that combats vacancy with imagination and community engagement. Leadership Pittsburgh’s 2008-2009 LDI class is bringing Pop Up to Uptown! A Fall 2008 Kent Magazine article defined Pop Up as follows: ”A Pop-Up event is, as [Terri] Schwarz explains, a temporary use of vacant land or buildings. The intent is to highlight the different kinds of potential in vacant sites in Cleveland, and to develop a sustainable business model for others who want to try their hands at similar festivities. The events, or installations as they are sometimes called, are envisioned to include outdoor markets, restaurants and shops, art installations, concerts, landscape interventions and other fun, yet thought-provoking events…” Thanks to Leadership Pittsburgh and The Sprout Fund, Uptown on the Move, Pittsburgh’s very own Pop Up project, is happening on May 30th. If you are ANYWHERE nearby on that date, you should join us! From Pop Up Pittsburgh:“Come and experience POP UP PITTSBURGH! “Uptown on the Move” on May 30th, 2009 a one day event highlighting the Uptown Neighborhood of Pittsburgh through a traveling progressive block party that engages and positively affects the community and encourages residents from throughout the region to experience and appreciate Uptown’s assets and potential…” http://www.gluespace.org/blog/?p=349

I know this has been mentioned before, but here's another news blip reminder: New initiative highlights Clevelands "hidden gems" Updated: 4/5/2009 12:16:59 PM Posted: 4/5/2009 10:22:32 AM CLEVELAND -- The neighborhoods of Cleveland are coming together to give a look at the hidden gems around our city. It's a new initiative called Down & Aroundtown formed by 11 organizations that represent Cleveland's most central and metropolitan neighborhoods. To kick off this new initiative, Down & Aroundtown has planned two tours featuring hidden gems in Cleveland. The tours feature buildings and structures that are unique and significant to Cleveland and are off the beaten path... http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=110845&catid=3

Altough this doesn't have to do with new construction...the neighborhood is still undergoing transformation. I came across this interesting article from Toledo thanks to the Rock Hall inductions this year.: http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpp/news/wupw_ToledoFreePress_Cleveland_rocks_040309 Cleveland rocks Updated: Friday, 03 Apr 2009, 8:52 PM EDT Published : Friday, 03 Apr 2009, 8:52 PM EDT by MICHAEL MILLER, Editor-in-Chief, Toledo Free Press CLEVELAND - I would not have believed a DJ could spin ’60s and ’70s R&B vinyl for 90 minutes and play only records I have never heard. My knowledge of the music is not encyclopedic, but it’s deep and wide enough so that DJ Mr. Fishtruck couldn’t possibly play nearly two hours’ worth of jams I did not recognize. But he did, and that was only one of the pleasant surprises experienced March 27 during a tour of the city of my birth, Cleveland. DJ Mr. Fishtruck — former Toledoan Mark Leddy — owns, with Cindy Barber, the Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, part of Cleveland’s Waterloo Village Model Block Initiative. The concept is to take a less-than-vibrant area and rebuild it by creating an arts and entertainment district. It’s close to what the Warehouse District is doing in Downtown Toledo, but the results have been spectacular...

From USAToday.com: Indians should contend in wide-open AL Central By Tom Withers, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND — Across the plaza from LeBron James' home-court office, powerwashers blast winter's leftovers off the seats and corridors inside Progressive Field. With opening day approaching, the fabulous ballpark is being spruced up for another season. Outside the gates, it's quiet. Real quiet. There's only one customer at box office window No. 7, and after picking up an extra ticket for an April 10 game against Toronto, the longtime fan summed up how many Clevelanders are feeling about the Cleveland Indians and their chances of winning in 2009. "It's going to be a show-me first attitude," said George Roth of Shaker Heights, a season-ticket holder for the past 15 years. "Right now, with the economy, it's LeBron and the Cavaliers. Then, it's the Indians. I think after what happened last year, fans are a little more reticent." Full story at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/al/2009-04-01-2552447943_x.htm

Just a little blurb from the AP arictle of the Cavs game last night...an extra 2 million viewers isn't bad: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "James' appearance on "60 Minutes" on Sunday was the highest rated segment of the CBS newsmagazine. It drew a 10.7 rating (17,354,000 viewers), a rating 26 percent higher than the rest of the show (8.5 rating), according to Nielsen Media Research." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ji1f1lcjvBNQPBYnKRX9GktFW1kgD97ANP280

Just read it...its from the AP...I honestly think they contacted the PD first for some info...

More on the help of the Rock Hall per economy and image of the city...plus VIDEO! (link) Rock Hall Invigorates Local Economy POSTED: 1:31 pm EDT April 1, 2009 UPDATED: 11:43 am EDT April 2, 2009 CLEVELAND -- What if you made a one-time $92 million investment and it had a return of $107 million every year? That is the gold mine that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is to Cleveland..... http://www.newsnet5.com/news/19065594/detail.html

Possibly a 4-5 story building with a bank branch on the first floor...?