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The British are coming (to Cleveland): New company hopes to bring iconic London buses to the shores of Lake Erie

The red double-decker buses could be cruising Cleveland’s streets by September

 

 

When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?

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    Saturday May 18th. Biked to Playoff Hockey, lunch at Asian Festival and evening Baseball. Total ~$30      

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LOVE this shot!   Welcome Mark W. Barker to the crooked river!  

 

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^ even better you can see the sw hq crane  👍

it looks like ne ohio will be getting a direct hit and a lot of tourists from the upcoming great american eclipse of 2024:

 

 

14. Cleveland, Ohio

With a metro population of more than 2 million, this city will host a multitude of eclipse chasers. Get there a couple of days early, and fill the waiting time with visits to some of Cleveland’s highlights, including the Cleveland Museum of Arts and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Eclipse starts: 1:59:20 p.m. EDT
Eclipse ends: 4:28:57 p.m. EDT
Maximum eclipse: 3:15:37 p.m. EDT
Sun’s altitude at maximum eclipse: 48.6°
Duration of totality: 3 minutes 49 seconds
Width of Moon’s shadow: 111.9 miles (180.1 km)

 

 

more:

https://astronomy.com/news/2021/06/20-of-the-best-places-to-view-the-2024-great-north-american-eclipse

I drove down to Nashville for the last eclipse. Even though it was a Monday the party was going strong like it was a Saturday night in Bachelorette Season. 

 

Hopefully all the places in Cleveland prepare accordingly. 

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^ Eclipse on Guardians home-opener weekend as the World Series champions??

My hovercraft is full of eels

14 minutes ago, roman totale XVII said:

^ Eclipse on Guardians home-opener weekend as the World Series champions??

There will probably be a snowstorm in Cleveland during that timeframe.

 

When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?

Saw this video of a family from out of town just walking thru downtown and having a great time. Someone posted an article recently that included Cleveland as having a dead downtown. I saw that article last week and didn't post it because it's a load of crap. You can include just about every city in that poll. Yes it's been a tough recovery but we will be fine. It's clickbate to include Cleveland in a poll, the media loves to come after us. You think NY or Philly gives an f about what ppl think about them. Let's not be so sensitive. Anyway watch the whole video.

 

Damn, look at the unobstructed view in the end. Absolutely stunning.

Thank you so much for the video link. Great to see all those people on 4th St. and Prospect. The most interesting thing I noticed was none of those people wearing some kind of Guardians apparel which means they weren't there for a game. They were there just enjoying downtown for itself. 

Just now, cadmen said:

Thank you so much for the video link. Great to see all those people on 4th St. and Prospect. The most interesting thing I noticed was none of those people wearing some kind of Guardians apparel which means they weren't there for a game. They were there just enjoying downtown for itself. 

 

Last I saw people going to the game wear a different type of apparel anyway....

Downtown is noticeably closer to pre-pandemic levels even without sports.  Houses are still selling for way over asking in popular neighborhoods. Jobs are still open. Companies are still hiring. The city is actually making progress on internal infrastructure and making decisions that have been held off for so long– Cleveland is doing just fine. 

2 hours ago, downtownjoe said:

Downtown is noticeably closer to pre-pandemic levels even without sports.  Houses are still selling for way over asking in popular neighborhoods. Jobs are still open. Companies are still hiring. The city is actually making progress on internal infrastructure and making decisions that have been held off for so long– Cleveland is doing just fine. 

 

 

user name checks out. 👍

Cleveland commutes can be really great:

 

When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?

This is such a great route.   I can go from my house to W 25th with barely ever touching a city street.   

 

 

TV coverage of the WTA tounament at Jacobs Pavilion was good from a civic point of view. Cleveland looked great and the announcers spoke well of their almost full week in town. The crowd looked to be fairly up-market (slim and well-dressed).  Unfortunately a handsome roaming drone shot of the flats/dowtown area was quickly covered by a text overlay for the rest of its screentime.

 

The quality of play (Samsonova over Sasovich in two sets) was high and everybody (players, WTA management, and the Cleveland promoters) said the tournament would return in 2023.

Remember: It's the Year of the Snake

1 weekend - 3 East Side Festivals. Arts, culture and food in 3 uniquely Cleveland spaces. 

 

Waterloo Arts Fest

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One World Day

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Cleveland Garlic Festival

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I was at Waterloo earlier, one of my brother's bands played at the far end down by 152.   Glad to see Fillmore was selling to-go beer.   :)

Forbes' vicious cycle of love-hate for CLE continues. 

 

Cleveland: The Next Venice?

Chadd Scott

Sep 5, 2022

 

Could Cleveland, Ohio become the next Venice, Italy? 

 

Before scoffing at the idea, consider this. “In 1894, Venice, which these days we think of as a tourist location, a sparkling jewel on the Adriatic, was down at the heels–failed port city, a backwater of Europe, looking for a purpose,” Fred Bidwell, Executive Director for FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, told Forbes.com. “They needed to do something to rebuild and reimagine what that city meant and that was the origin of the Venice Biennale.”

 

The Venice Biennale is the longest running, most prestigious art event in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world visit every other year to experience art-filled pavilions curated by participating countries and the galaxy of ancillary programs which its popularity has spawned.

 

“That idea of a World's Fair of art changed Venice from being a has-been city to a really important destination,” Bidwell said. “That's my dream for Cleveland.”

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2022/09/05/cleveland-the-next-venice/?sh=81c0ac76b175&fbclid=IwAR1ssfpd9TwJCTQhEnaNN2sg8oyk9gl42BwxZVbzIwTGuf2LRJQYbgXTnAI

^ ok they did tread the line there and yes it leans toward respectful, but forbes is on permanent blast, so they better be dam careful. 😅

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umm hmm ... 👍

 

 

Books Reviews 

Some Sisterhood for Any Woman Attempting To Go It Alone

 

Immy Humes’s The Only Woman is a deeply satisfying array of women scientists, artists, writers, medical students, politicians, and even criminals, all pictured among their fellows.

 

by Sarah Rose Sharp19 hours ago

 

 

From Smurfette to Kamala Harris, the legacy of the “only woman” is as long and varied as the course of human history that has sought to marginalize female participation in institutions — or at least restrict it to the bare minimum. A new book by Immy Humes, The Only Woman (Phaidon 2022), catalogs 100 of these only women, spotted variously in group photos across a range of male-dominated environments.

 

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Some groups are small, nearly familial — like Dorothy Parker and her Vicious Circle of New York intelligentsia. Other times, the group shot is so large, it’s difficult to find the woman among them (helpfully, Alice Chalifoux, is the lone woman and the harpist for the symphony orchestra of Cleveland, so one can look for the harp).

 

 

more:

https://hyperallergic.com/751196/immy-humes-the-only-woman-review/

 

 

where's waldo? the cleveland orchestra's alice chalifoux goes it alone in 1946

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alice chalifoux (1908-2008) teaching in maine in 2000

 

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know before you go or sohio pays your tow ....

 

you gotta love that trippy old sohio tv commercial weather sounder ...

 

 

1 hour ago, mrnyc said:

know before you go or sohio pays your tow ....

 

you gotta love that trippy old sohio tv commercial weather sounder ...

 

 

I wonder what the stats are on customers who were successfully able to prove that they used Sohio fuel and had to be towed due to "fuel line freeze-up"?  🤣  I put it near single digits. 

So the Youtube algorithm suggested some Cleveland videos from J Pilipino.   After watching a couple, I have to say that she makes Cleveland look awesome.  Without intending to, she shows off Cleveland's awesome architecture and food scene.  It always seems like the non-natives understand what Cleveland really has even if some of the locals don't.     Anyway, enjoy.   

 

And a couple of New Yorkers...

 

 

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

Nice book review of "American Demon" by Daniel Stashower in the WSJ today.  It's covers the unsolved mystery of the Butcher of Kingsbury Run and Eliot Ness. 

Remember: It's the Year of the Snake

^ i saw that. in other current literary news -- the nytimes bookclub is currently reading toni morrison's jazz if anyone wants to jump in:

 

 

 

T BOOK CLUB

We’re Reading Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’

Join T Magazine and poet Morgan Parker for a virtual conversation on Oct. 27.

 

Next up in our T Book Club series is Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” (1992), which opens with a brief account of a love triangle that has just played out in 1920s Harlem. Joe Trace, a cosmetics salesman, was having an affair with Dorcas, an 18-year-old. When it went sour, he shot and killed her, leaving him; his wife, Violet; and others in their orbit to learn to live with their grief. From there, the narrator takes us back — to the beginnings of the intrigue, to Joe and Violet’s early years in New York and their previous lives in Virginia — moving from character to character and producing a lyrical portrait of the “City,” as it is called throughout; of Black life and of the mystery of love.

 

Start reading today, and join the poet Morgan Parker and Kate Guadagnino, a T contributor, for a virtual conversation about the novel on Oct. 27.

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the hunt in the nytimes flees to the cle:

 

 

 

THE HUNT

Leaving New York for Cleveland? Here’s How Far Their Money Went.

By Debra KaminOct. 13, 2022

 

When a plum job beckoned from Northeast Ohio, a New York couple were able to search for four-bedroom houses under $600,000 in the leafy suburbs of Cleveland. Here’s where they landed.

 

 

Until Cleveland called, Sarah Scaturro thought she had it all.

 

Ms. Scaturro had a plum position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was renting a parlor-floor apartment in a brownstone in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. And she was a year into a blossoming relationship with a fellow art enthusiast, Chris McGlinchey, a former conservationist at the Museum of Modern Art who now works remotely as a consultant.

 

But just as the pandemic was gaining speed in 2020, Ms. Scaturro, who was the head conservator at the Met’s Costume Institute, was offered the role of chief conservator at the world-renowned Cleveland Museum of Art. It was a dream job, but it would mean moving to Northeast Ohio, an unfamiliar area. Mr. McGlinchey had been to Cleveland only once, years before.

 

But the city, with its affordable housing and walkable inner-ring suburbs within a short drive of the Museum of Art, drew her. “People in the museum world know Cleveland, and know the Cleveland Museum of Art’s quality of programming,” said Ms. Scaturro, 46. “I was immensely intrigued, and I just decided to make the jump.”

 

 

more:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/13/realestate/cleveland-ohio-suburbs-houses.html

 

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Sarah Scaturro and Chris McGlinchey in front of the Cleveland Museum of Art, where Ms. Scaturro became the chief conservator in 2020 after several years at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Leaving New York for Cleveland wasn’t easy, but looking for homes there was, at least by comparison. “There was no smoke and mirrors,” Mr. McGlinchey said. Daniel Lozada for The New York Times

 

Just came across this Chinese video promoting Cleveland. Not sure when its from, but the date on Youtube is 2011. Any idea who put it out? The video looks pretty good---and even covers the rail system---and though everything is in Chinese, you can hear the narrator say "RTA" when the waterfront line and RTA map are shown.

 

 

^ LOL, looks like a cool place to live!!!!!

^ haha, that is a very cool find.

 

somebody get in touch with destination cleveland and some other promo org in asiatown to update that! 👍

 

 

 

CLEVELAND

New brand identity, commitment to diversity highlights Destination Cleveland's next chapter

The non-profit organization outlined a three-year strategic plan to boost visitation to Cleveland at its annual meeting on Monday.

 

Author: Kierra Cotton, Justin McMullen

Published: 7:27 PM EDT July 11, 2022

 

more:

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/new-brand-identity-diversity-destination-cleveland-tourism-visitation/95-32107817-d70b-4c15-8e85-472e76249606

 

 

like a chinese translation for this and play it on chinese tv? and other countries??

 

 

11 hours ago, jcw92 said:

Just came across this Chinese video promoting Cleveland. Not sure when its from, but the date on Youtube is 2011. Any idea who put it out? The video looks pretty good---and even covers the rail system---and though everything is in Chinese, you can hear the narrator say "RTA" when the waterfront line and RTA map are shown.

 

 

I guess they call the city Kalifulan, which comes pretty close. 

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8 minutes ago, Dougal said:

I guess they call the city Kalifulan, which comes pretty close. 

 

haha yeah, in a japan promo it would probably be ka-ri-ba-re-n, karibaren.

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Superman’s real love story

 

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The origin story of the Man of Steel is well known. As pop culture historian Roy Schwartz noted, “In 1934, at the age of 18, (Joseph) Shuster and classmate Jerome Siegel came up with a revolutionary idea: Superman. He was the first superhero, a concept so unprecedented that, as Siegel detailed in his unpublished memoir, every newspaper syndicate in the US rejected it for being too fantastic for children to relate to.”

 

Shuster described himself as “mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women” – more Clark Kent than Superman.

 

But as Schwartz wrote, Shuster had a relationship with Helen Louise Cohen, a fellow resident of Cleveland, who might have borne a resemblance to Superman’s eventual wife Lois Lane. Shuster sent her sketches of Superman along with at least one drawing of Cohen, and heartfelt letters in neat script.

 

Ultimately, she broke it off, choosing instead to marry “a dashing officer, later awarded the Legion of Merit and eventually becoming a colonel in the Army’s 88th Infantry Division.” Shuster was too nearsighted to enlist in the military during World War II.

 

Cohen would later tell her sons, as Schwartz noted, that “Shuster was simply too mild-mannered for her.” But she kept his letters and sketches and now the family is sharing them with the world, Schwartz wrote.

 

“The real-life Clark never got his Lois, but his creation continues to woo her more than 80 years later.”

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/13/opinions/five-lessons-midterms-opinion-columns-galant/index.html

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Probably a good time to sell, with increased interest due to the sequel coming out now. I hope whoever buys it brings the same passion this guy did. 

 

When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?

Some drone shots of Christmas Story house

 

When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?

10 minutes ago, mrnyc said:

^ yeah, i saw that it was a big header in the paper out here too  -- hopefully a buyer keeps it a museum:

 

 

 

Inside ‘A Christmas Story’ house, now for sale in Cleveland

 

By Hannah Frishberg

November 14, 2022

 

more:

https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/inside-a-christmas-story-house-now-for-sale-in-cleveland/

 

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I'm pretty sure the city can declare it a landmark, if it hasn't already.

10 minutes ago, E Rocc said:

 

I'm pretty sure the city can declare it a landmark, if it hasn't already.

 

 

that doesn't mean it has to stay open to the public though.

 

somebody might want to check about that, maybe with the city counsel rep, just to be sure.

 

would be a shame if it went back to being a private home as it seems pretty popular as a museum.

They just posted on their Facebook that they are a city landmark.

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Anyone else see this on Google?

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Just saw this and wondered what the heck this means.... On my NEOtrans blog, the city of residence where most viewers are from, is of course Cleveland (32%). Second most were from New York City (6%), third most from Columbus, OH (4%). But the fourth was, of all places, Ashburn (3.75%). No state was listed so I can only assume it's Ashburn, VA, right? But the real question is -- why Ashburn? Why the love for Cleveland from Ashburn?? It's a data center city. So perhaps they're all just ad bots?

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

10 minutes ago, KJP said:

Just saw this and wondered what the heck this means.... On my NEOtrans blog, the city of residence where most viewers are from, is of course Cleveland (32%). Second most were from New York City (6%), third most from Columbus, OH (4%). But the fourth was, of all places, Ashburn (3.75%). No state was listed so I can only assume it's Ashburn, VA, right? But the real question is -- why Ashburn? Why the love for Cleveland from Ashburn?? It's a data center city. So perhaps they're all just ad bots?

 

Ashburn is a major internet hub; could it be VPN addresses using an Ashburn data center?  Pure guess on my part.

Remember: It's the Year of the Snake

8 minutes ago, KJP said:

Just saw this and wondered what the heck this means.... On my NEOtrans blog, the city of residence where most viewers are from, is of course Cleveland (32%). Second most were from New York City (6%), third most from Columbus, OH (4%). But the fourth was, of all places, Ashburn (3.75%). No state was listed so I can only assume it's Ashburn, VA, right? But the real question is -- why Ashburn? Why the love for Cleveland from Ashburn?? It's a data center city. So perhaps they're all just ad bots?

 

 

Just now, Dougal said:

Ashburn is a major internet hub; could it be VPN addresses using an Ashburn data center?  Pure guess on my part.

I was just typing this as you responded and is likely why you're seeing it Ken.  UO is hosted in Ashburn. 

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