April 16, 201213 yr At the induction ceremony I spoke with a couple from Milwaukee, a couple from Connecticut, and a man from Madison, Wisconsin. I asked them each how they've enjoyed there stay and every one of them had very positive things to say (even before I brought up the fact I live here). 2 things I especially loved (outside of the musical performances): 1- the opening monologue in which the man from the Rock Hall (forget his name but it wasn't the CEO) was thanking everyone and talking about all the work that goes into the event and at the very end after a very calm monologue he said "and in the words of Ian Hunter Cleveland fuckin' rocks." He then promptly walked off stage. 2- At the start of the show (I think after the Green Day performance) the man next to me from Madison kept yelling "I f'n love this place, I love f'n Cleveland, it's a rock n roll city, I want to f'n move here." Although he wasn't speaking to anyone in particular I made sure to let him know we'd love to have him.
April 17, 201213 yr I too sat next to two guys from San Francisco who flew in on Wednesday since they had never been here before. They said they had a blast and everyone they met downtown was super cool to them. They loved the city and mentioned three or four times how clean the city is compared to others they had visited without getting into specifics.
May 2, 201213 yr this is the only proper way to spend the afternoon. And this is how you'll spend your evening!
May 3, 201213 yr 'Hot in Cleveland' writer-producer Flett-Giordano visits Cleveland Published: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 2:52 PM Updated: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 3:10 PM Marc Bona, The Plain Dealer By Marc Bona, The Plain Dealer Cleveland has a new friend and fan in Anne Flett-Giordano. The writer/producer from TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland" wrapped the hit comedy's third season Friday -- and got on a flight here the next day. Like the characters from the show -- portrayed by Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves -- the five-time prime-time Emmy winner discovered a "city full of great people and food and fun." "I could use at least two more days here," she said. "I've had the best time. We've been treated like royalty." http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2012/05/hot_in_cleveland_writer-produc.html
May 3, 201213 yr 'Hot in Cleveland' writer-producer Flett-Giordano visits Cleveland Published: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 2:52 PM Updated: Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 3:10 PM Marc Bona, The Plain Dealer By Marc Bona, The Plain Dealer Cleveland has a new friend and fan in Anne Flett-Giordano. The writer/producer from TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland" wrapped the hit comedy's third season Friday -- and got on a flight here the next day. Like the characters from the show -- portrayed by Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves -- the five-time prime-time Emmy winner discovered a "city full of great people and food and fun." "I could use at least two more days here," she said. "I've had the best time. We've been treated like royalty." http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2012/05/hot_in_cleveland_writer-produc.html Nice to see. It's a cute show. Glad to see they'll use some more local exteriors next season, in addition to Great Lakes Brewing Co. which is "the Girls'" hangout (a make believe restaurant -- didn't realize it was called 'Stormi's'; missed the Josh Cribbs' episode).
May 3, 201213 yr this is the only proper way to spend the afternoon. And this is how you'll spend your evening! I don't have a problem, I have a solution.
May 3, 201213 yr this is the only proper way to spend the afternoon. And this is how you'll spend your evening! I don't have a problem, I have a solution. Lush! LOL
May 3, 201213 yr Slightly off topic, but there is a huffington post story today, showing "the urban decay of Euclid Ave. It also pretty much says Pittsburgh succeeded and Cleveland failed I can't comment on it because I'm viewing via my iPhone. I encourage fellow UOers to read and comment on the article
May 3, 201213 yr Someone is trashing Cleveland, so I wanted to rally people who love Cleveland. Here is the article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-fox/cleveland-ohio-and-its-accordion-king_b_1465943.html The Saga Of Cleveland, Ohio And Its Accordion King (PHOTOS) "As we entered the new millennium, the two cities' fates began to separate. After years of coping with its eroding manufacturing base, Pittsburgh was reborn as a health, educational and technical hub, with a healthy arts base, while Cleveland seems to have had a more difficult time polishing its worn edges." "The bustling Euclid Avenue that I remember so well is now a heartbreaker, a long line of opening and closing businesses, along with some sad reminders of the glory days. As one heads east on Euclid toward the poverty-stricken city of East Cleveland, things do indeed look bleak."
May 3, 201213 yr I read the article. I wouldn't say he "trashed" the City. It comes accross as exactly what it is...... an article written by an ex-pat who returned looking hopelessly for some specific points of nostalgia from the late 70's and failed to notice all of the new momentum. The fact that he said the City was still 'thriving' during perhaps its most turmoil filled years (late 70's) when everything was going downhill in a hurry certainly made me skeptical of the rest of the article.
May 3, 201213 yr I don't think he's really trashing the city. I actually like his photos. Yeah, he's he's exaggerating the divergence between Cleveland and Pittsburgh a bit, but not such a big deal. EDIT, what Hts121 said. Anyway, I'm really hoping not to see a barrage of defensive "second biggest performing arts center!" type replies. Those things make the city look incredibly stupid, IMHO.
May 4, 201213 yr Why would anyone really care about what this person has to say about Cleveland who is pining for the Cleveland of the 70"s? Why would this even be posted? Huffington Post is completely pathetic.
May 4, 201213 yr ^ Exactly. If the Cleveland of the 70's still existed, then articles would be written of how it is stuck in a time warp. I could go to Pittsburgh looking for the downtown shopping that my family and I did when I was a kid and write the same article. Change both good and bad is inevitable.
May 4, 201213 yr That is one of the most assinine articles I've seen on Cleveland. Why is this on the "I love you" thread???? sidenote: those pictures contain, I think, like 1 of Euclid Ave (in E. Clev...which is Cleveland...let's forget the imaginary lines). I definitely like the pictures but they are mostly on W. 25th St in the MetroHealth-Trowbridge area, no less. The 1977 picture is on St. Clair (around London Ave.?) in Collinwood. Euclid Ave.??
May 4, 201213 yr It's a beautiful day, and I'm working remotely on the patio of Erie Island Coffee, while I'm killing time until a lunch. Everyone walking by is smiling. "I love Cleveland"
May 5, 201213 yr Michael Symon loves cleveland. "Flee to the Cleve" Celeb chef Michael Symon will show you why his hometown totally rocks" By NICOLE RUPERSBURG Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/travel/flee_to_the_cleve_VKto60FRnjwoSzXr0ZvaFL#ixzz1u0kAzq00 By now a familiar face to anyone watching the cable cooking shows — and now finding an even broader audience as the co-host of ABC's food-centric daytime talkshow, "The Chew," Michael Symon — or, rather, make that Iron Chef Michael Symon — began his career far out of the spotlight, in his hometown of Cleveland. There, he was one of the city's earliest and most vocal advocates for revival, opening a restaurant, Lola, in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood back in the 1990s, at a time when the area was still plagued by arson and the occasional car bombing. Since then, Symon has watched the city's urban core redevelop, one neighborhood at a time. Symon, who says his New York friends like to poke fun at him for selecting struggling Rust Belt cities like Cleveland and Detroit for his restaurants, shrugs it off, proud of what the city's become. “There are the obvious things — the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, the Great Lakes Science Center, the Cleveland Botanical Garden — that are unbelievable. But for a mid-market city we have tons of stuff," he says. "We have one of the best symphonies in the country, an incredible number of restaurants from casual to upscale that have been driven by farmers markets for 15 years, way before it was cool to be farm-to-table, cocktail places long before Milk & Honey opened, and a market — West Side — that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the country.”
May 7, 201213 yr sigh, there were no car bombings in Tremont in the 90's. And few if any arsons, at least in the central portion of the neighborhood.
May 7, 201213 yr http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/05/clevelands-downtown-rebound/1917/#disqus_thread America certainly appears to be in the early stages of a back-to-the-city movement. While the bulk of population and economic growth took place in the suburbs and exurbs over the past several decades, the 2010 Census provided evidence of a subtle shift back toward the urban core, both in center cities and in more urban first- and second-ring suburbs. This is not just happening in America’s largest, most cosmopolitan metros like New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, but in the archetypal Rust Belt as well. Consider Cleveland. A recent report from Case Western's Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, entitled Not Dead Yet: The Infilling of Cleveland’s Inner Core, provides evidence of a shift in population back to the urban core: Over the last two decades, the neighborhood's population grew 96%, with residential totals increasing from 4,651 to 9,098. It was the single largest spike of any neighborhood, suburb, or county measured for the two decades under study. Downtown residential occupancy rates now stand over 95% and developers are eagerly looking to meet residential demand
May 7, 201213 yr The comments in that article are instructive, though. Note the scale on the chart (which several of those comments discuss as well). Remember that the middle horizontal line is the zero line. The only line that has been positive the entire time is the aqua line for the suburbs and 5-county region; it's hovered slightly above zero for the past few decades but has not dipped below it. By contrast, the steep upward curve of the downtown line is partly due to the fact that it was negative for a time, and also because it's easier to have a higher percentage growth off of a smaller base value. As one of the comments noted, that 96% growth was still only about 4,500 people--and that's over two decades. That's great as far is it goes, but one shouldn't read it going farther than it goes. If we kept that pace of growth up for another 60 years, downtown Cleveland would have a residential population of about 70,000 in the year 2072.
May 7, 201213 yr ^Seriously. Cleveland's downtown residential growth is an excellent story and important for other reasons, but it's not close to deserving a regional demography headline at this point.
May 7, 201213 yr I think the talk about Downtown's growth is partly anticipatory in nature. We have seen steady growth over the last two decades, with the wave building stronger and stronger. I will go out on a limb and say that we will equal that same growth in the next 5-7 years. It has all of the momentum. We might even be appreciably higher if not for the recession (although I suppose the recession also is partly leading to the boost in rentals among young people). I'll say this..... if Uptown gets to full occupancy without much delay, watch out. That is the bellweather test which will give the green light on new residential construction if it rents out. If it has trouble filling the spaces and has to drop rents, then the status quo will remain and we will have to wait for buildings to be rehabbed for additional residential.
May 9, 201213 yr And one quick feel good blog: http://www.kakakakaty.com/2012/05/07/festivals-and-tribe-games-and-carousels-oh-my/
May 14, 201213 yr Rust Belt chic: Declining Midwest cities make a comeback Gritty Rust Belt cities, once left for dead, are on the rise -- thanks to young people priced out of cooler locales By Will Doig, Salon May 12, 2012 More than any other city in America, Cleveland is a joke, a whipping boy of Johnny Carson monologues and Hollywood’s official set for films about comic mediocrity. But here’s what else is funny: According to a recent analysis, the population of downtown Cleveland is surging, doubling in the past 20 years. What’s more, the majority of the growth occurred in the 22-to-34-year-old demo, those coveted “knowledge economy” workers for whom every city is competing. Pittsburgh, too, has unexpectedly reversed its out-migration of young people. The number of 18-to-24-year-olds was declining there until 2000, but has since climbed by 16 percent. St. Louis attracted more young people than it lost in each of the past three years. And as a mountain of “Viva Detroit!” news stories have made clear, Motor City is now the official cool-kids destination, adding thousands of young artists, entrepreneurs and urban farmers even as its general population evaporates ... ... More at http://www.salon.com/2012/05/12/rust_belt_chic_declining_midwest_cities_make_a_comeback/singleton/
May 14, 201213 yr Rust Belt chic: Declining Midwest cities make a comeback Gritty Rust Belt cities, once left for dead, are on the rise -- thanks to young people priced out of cooler locales Great find!! Interesting comments section by the way.
May 14, 201213 yr Except this part: Rust Belt chic: Declining Midwest cities make a comeback Gritty Rust Belt cities, once left for dead, are on the rise -- thanks to young people priced out of cooler often over rated and therefore typically overpriced but not necesarily cooler locales.
May 14, 201213 yr yep -- i wish one of these former rustbelt cities would really pull ahead in this department, but the portland/austin hipster haven nut will be hard to crack. they aren't expensive enough quite yet. better to pull from and pull back people from the bigger more expensive coastal cities and any other places for now.
May 14, 201213 yr Check out this very cool review of Cleveland (well mostly Ohio City and University Circle): http://www.city-data.com/forum/cleveland/1568747-coming-visit-best-walkable-bar-neighborhood-2.html
May 15, 201213 yr What i love is how much of an opening night city Cleveland is. Everyone turns out. The lines to the casino were longer than i had thought they would be. Good thing I had a wrist band
May 15, 201213 yr Just came across this info on a new book on Cleveland history (actually Oct 2011--but I just learned of it because of a 'meet the author') Title: Hidden History of Cleveland Author: Christopher Busta-Peck Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: The History Press (October 25, 2011) ISBN-10: 1609494393 ISBN-13: 978-1609494391 Also: "Meet author of “Hidden History of Cleveland” at May 15 book signing The Barnes & Noble at Case Western Reserve University will host a book signing with Christopher Busta-Peck on Tuesday, May 15, at 7 p.m. Busta-Peck, the founding editor of the Cleveland Area History blog, recently released the book Hidden History of Cleveland." http://cwru-daily.com/news/?p=7713
May 16, 201213 yr Huffington Post this morning -- Michael Symon love letter to Cleveland! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/love-letters/michael_symon_cleveland_b_1518392.html
May 16, 201213 yr Huffington Post this morning -- Michael Symon love letter to Cleveland! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/love-letters/michael_symon_cleveland_b_1518392.html Here is the non mobile site: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/love-letters/michael_symon_cleveland_b_1518392.html
May 16, 201213 yr Amelia Sawyer (Jonathon's wife of GHT/Noodlecat) said this inspired her and she set up a Tumblr for others to post letters: http://loveletterstocleveland.tumblr.com/
May 17, 201213 yr News from Oklahoma.... What most of us already know. "Why Cleveland rocks" BY Robert Reid When I told friends I was excited to be going to Cleveland recently – and not just because I got a ticket to the 27th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony – they thought I was joking. After they saw I was earnest, they paused, then asked, ‘Why does Cleveland have the Rock Hall of Fame anyway?’ People tend to wonder that when they’re not making fun of Cleveland, the so-called "Mistake by the Lake," a smoke-choked town with underachiever sports teams and a river that caught fire in 1969. One recent poll of cities with negative connotations had three Ohio cities in the Top 10, Cleveland being the worst. Tina Fey even dared to compare the city to a sandwich in an episode of Thirty Rock a couple seasons ago. A sandwich! But thankfully good travel is perception blind. Once on the ground, it’s about finding places where you can merge with locals in believe in the places they live. Even in Cleveland, where I’d learn, floods with infectious, if cheeky, pride – evident in its 1970s "Cleveland: You Gotta Be Tough" T-shirts and the tongue-in-cheek ‘Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video’ that triumphed the city’s homeless. Locals may pause before talking about Cleveland, but once they start, they don’t stop. One refrain I heard over all town reinforces the built-up love: "People who move away are like rubber bands. They always move back." Read more: http://newsok.com/why-cleveland-rocks/article/3674573
May 17, 201213 yr News from Oklahoma.... What most of us already know. "Why Cleveland rocks" BY Robert Reid Read more: http://newsok.com/why-cleveland-rocks/article/3674573 Another super article, thanks for posting!!
May 17, 201213 yr News from Oklahoma.... What most of us already know. "Why Cleveland rocks" BY Robert Reid Read more: http://newsok.com/why-cleveland-rocks/article/3674573 Another super article, thanks for posting!! Yeah thanks for posting. Very cool article!
May 17, 201213 yr Awesome! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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