October 15, 200816 yr Wow!! Awesome! I love hearing people discovering how wonderful Cleveland is. It's exciting. Great write up.
October 27, 200816 yr urbanohio representing! Selective piece of the article A purchase with a bigger pricetag is on Carole Cohen's list at Cleveland Real Estate News: Did you know there are condo complexes Downtown with units available between $79k and $99,999? Did you know you can get a 2 bedroom 2 bath condo Downtown for less than $120k? Today's trek took us to The Grand Arcade, Pointe at Gateway and Water Street. All three complexes have two spectacular things to offer: 1. Location. 'Close enough to spit at' for transportation. All three are within a ten minute walk (probably less) of Public Square and the RTA. From Pointe at Gateway you will need exactly two minutes to walk to East Fourth Street and all the activity there. Not to mention The Gund. The Grand Arcade and Water Street both sit in the heart of restaurant and club activity, including but not limited to The Warehouse District. 2. Affordability. It's been a while since I've used my mantra of 'please build condominiums below the $300k price point, Mr. Developer.' I'm sure I will again, but as you can see, paying $79,900, $95,500, $119,000 with reasonable maintenance fees makes these three buildings a great alternative to renting. Or a great alternative to paying more. You save on your mortgage per month, you probably save on stress because it's fun to live Downtown, and you can get more work done (or sleep!) while you ride to work on RTA instead of driving. Just saying! http://blog.cleveland.com/pdworld/2008/10/what_local_bloggers_are_saying_1.html
October 27, 200816 yr Crain's All fired up SCOTT SUTTELL No city beats Cleveland when it comes to the fanaticism of its sports fans. That’s one conclusion you could draw from this Wall Street Journal slideshow of 10 “famous fans” of U.S. baseball, basketball and football teams. Devoted drummer John Adams, who enlivens every Indians game, makes the list, as do members of the Browns’ Dawg Pound, collectively. Now if any the teams could give them something to cheer about … Link to WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122460727616354621.html
October 28, 200816 yr I feel like there's credence to the North Coast moniker, especially since there's another country on the other side. And when you take out of towners to see the lake, they finally realize that you can't see all the way across.
October 30, 200816 yr Scott Weiland has a new album coming out Nov 25th. His first single is a song called "Missing Cleveland"
October 31, 200816 yr http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122540736020486027.html THEATER OCTOBER 31, 2008 An Old House Made New By TERRY TEACHOUT Cleveland When Noël Coward, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne wanted to tune up "Design for Living" before bringing it to Broadway in 1933, they opened the show at the Hanna Theatre in downtown Cleveland. Theaterwise, that's about as historic as it gets. Now this grand old building, built in 1921, has been taken over by the Great Lakes Theater Festival and remodeled to make it suitable for modern repertory theater. The "new" Hanna, designed by the Cleveland firm of Westlake Reed Leskosky, has been turned from a 1,421-seat Broadway-style house into an intimate 548-seat thrust-stage theater whose seating and public areas flow together seamlessly, thus encouraging playgoers to come early and use the Hanna as a meeting place. At the same time, the charmingly elaborate architectural detail of the original interior has been preserved. I can't imagine a more pleasing place in which to see a show. ... Mr. Teachout, the Journal's drama critic, blogs about theater and the other arts at www.terryteachout.com. Write to him at [email protected].
October 31, 200816 yr Here's what David Byrne said when he played in Cleveland last week: --- 10.23.2008: Cleveland Highway Robbery In an interview with The New York Times, Eminem reveals he rides a bike. See you on the streets of Detroit in a few days, Marshall. We have a day off here in the Land of Cleve, so a group of us hailed 2 taxis to take us to a movie theater in Shaker Heights to see W. I ride shotgun and when we tell the driver we’re going to see a movie, he volunteers that the last movie he saw was Last Tango In Paris. Hmmm. We ask the driver for his number so we can call him for a drive back and he hands me a card, saying, “This is MY number.” We arrive and the fare is a little over $18, so I pull out my per diems from my pants pocket and give him $100 and two singles and ask him for $80 in change. He takes just the 100-dollar bill and puts it near his crotch and begins to fumble with his change purse. After a bit of this, I remind him that he doesn’t have to make change — just give me $80. He then says to me that I never gave him the $100. I say I did, and he points to the remains of my per diem in my other hand and says, “There’s your hundred right there, this one is mine.” I say, “No, I definitely gave you the $100.” He repeats, “That’s your hundred in your other hand.” Oh, man. This goes back and forth a couple of more times and soon Ray and Kaïssa in the back seat both say, “We saw him give you the $100,” which gives me the assurance to keep pressing. If it were just me in the car, I might have started to doubt myself at this point…which is how these scams work. I say calmly to the driver, “Don’t do this, don’t go there,” but he keeps at it. A couple more calm exchanges, and then I snap. I start screaming at the top of my lungs at this guy, and remind him that “I’ve got your number in my back pocket and if you don’t fucking give me the money, I’ll call the cops, right now.” I have my hand on the door handle. He still hesitates and I continue to scream at him, “Alright, I’m calling the cops, you fucker.” I begin to open my door. He hands over the money and I give him a 20, plus a 2-dollar tip. Why in the world did I tip this guy? His initials on his card are R.A.S. and the phone number is 216-440-8568. My adrenaline is now sky high and Kaïssa and Ray help calm me down as we wait for the others to arrive; THEIR cab driver got lost! And this is not an obscure place, but a major intersection with shops all around. The next day in the afternoon, I ride out to a camera store to replace a lost charger. I go east on Euclid Avenue, one of the main drags of Cleveland. Or what used to be the main shopping street. For about a mile, I pass building after building, boarded up, abandoned or empty. Beautiful buildings too, with lots of character. It seems like this was, not too long ago, the main shopping street — a bustling area filled with folks buying and selling. Big department stores and offices. Some of these buildings are in the midst of renovation; their facades partially ripped off, scaffolding here and there, but the work seems to have stopped midway, for lack of funds I suspect. And given the economic earthquakes of the last few weeks, they’ll stay that way for a while. One boarded up building houses a child care center on the ground floor; another — this one not boarded up — is a center for monitoring child support. Ads on the bus stops remind young men that dads are important. It’s all too easy to connect the dots in the scenario painted by these institutions, or lack of institutions. One passes block after block of empty buildings and shops and asks, “How was it allowed to get this far?” Granted, lots of towns still have vibrant centers, and parts of Cleveland are still active — the clubs in the warehouse district and the fancier suburbs like Shaker Heights. But when encountering a place like Euclid Avenue, one thinks of the Mayan temples that were already being abandoned before Cortés even arrived. deserted street with boarded up buildings on both sides What kind of people lived here? What did they make? Why did they leave? vacant and boarded up department store buildings This was always a factory town, full of immigrants, mostly from all over Europe. Poles and Greeks, Italians and Ukrainians. The lovely greenway I biked, along Martin Luther King Boulevard from the art museum to the lake, was dotted with statues and terraces commemorating each immigrant group. The Azerbaijanis pulled out all the stops. So, while Chicago may have the Anish Kapoor Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Cleveland has this: mirror-like shiny memorial growing out of ground like a tree There’s an inscription nearby, just in case you don’t get the point, which says, “Azerbaijan, land of eternal fire, ignites the imagination, warms the spirit and kindles the soul.” The sons and daughters of these immigrants made for a legendary Rock and Roll audience in this town. Hard workers and hard partiers. They lay claim to the first Rock and Roll radio show and Allen Freed claims to have coined the phrase, though I suspect a “race” record used it way before that. So, there is some justification for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum being located here. Hard to bottle the manic release associated with that music and its audiences and the loopy creativity of the forerunners of self-made popular music in a respectful museum setting. Hard bordering on impossible. Like most of these places, the organizers kind of throw up their hands and end up exhibiting a bunch of outfits and artifacts — my old big suit being one of them. I was tipped via an e-mail sent by a man named Tim Rossiter to my office. Tim wrote: “I've got to tell you about a special Cleveland treasure, Glenn Schwartz. Glenn started the James Gang in the 60s, then moved to California and was in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. He flipped out soon afterward and was in religious communities. He's had a rough life and is tortured and crazy…Now Glenn is 67 years old and plays in a blues trio for free late every Thursday at a small bar called Major Hooples. There are typically 20-30 people there and he is jaw-droppingly amazing to see. His playing is like electric bolts straight from his psyche. He jumps off his amp and plays guitar with his teeth. And he often preaches fire and brimstone between songs. It's something very special and you won't see anything like it except on Thursdays in Cleveland.” Well, Tim didn’t exaggerate. The place was a low-key little dive and at one end, not even on a stage, was Glenn, his brother and a drummer, all playing at full volume. Sure enough, between amazing and inventive Hendrix-like solos, he would admonish the audience and prophesize “blood on the moon and War in America.” He may have lost his mind but his fingers are firing on all cylinders. The bartender told Natalie that if you wanted him to stop playing you just had to dance. Well, see for yourself. Apologies for the mostly lousy sound quality; Glenn’s playing deserves better, but you’ll get the idea. As Tim said, only in Cleveland.
October 31, 200816 yr 2 taxis to take us to a movie theater in Shaker Heights to see W. Damn it people. You were in Cleveland, not Shaker Heights! Shaker Square is not a part of Shaker Heights! You're dumb @$$ should have taken the train! the cab driver should have ripped you off. $18 dollars for that when the train is MUCH cheaper and quicker!
October 31, 200816 yr The David Byrne show in Cleveland last week was stunning. There were a lot of 1970s songs (about buildings and food) like Life During Wartime and Take Me to the River. For the totally dedicated Heads heads, they did songs from The Catherine Wheel and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which were two Byrne-Eno compilations from the Remain in Light era. The two women and one man who danced during most of the show were amazing. They were certainly athletic and energetic: the choreography was totally off the wall and playful. I cannot think of a show I enjoyed more. And in Heaven, they play my favorite song Play it once again Play it all night long
October 31, 200816 yr 2 taxis to take us to a movie theater in Shaker Heights to see W. Damn it people. You were in Cleveland, not Shaker Heights! Shaker Square is not a part of Shaker Heights! You're dumb @$$ should have taken the train! the cab driver should have ripped you off. $18 dollars for that when the train is MUCH cheaper and quicker! Ummm .. it's David Byrne.
October 31, 200816 yr ^ and speaking of Catherine Wheel...did you know the bassist of that now defunct band lives in Ashtabula.
October 31, 200816 yr 2 taxis to take us to a movie theater in Shaker Heights to see W. Damn it people. You were in Cleveland, not Shaker Heights! Shaker Square is not a part of Shaker Heights! You're dumb @$$ should have taken the train! the cab driver should have ripped you off. $18 dollars for that when the train is MUCH cheaper and quicker! You should right him a letter pointing out his folly.
October 31, 200816 yr 2 taxis to take us to a movie theater in Shaker Heights to see W. Damn it people. You were in Cleveland, not Shaker Heights! Shaker Square is not a part of Shaker Heights! You're dumb @$$ should have taken the train! the cab driver should have ripped you off. $18 dollars for that when the train is MUCH cheaper and quicker! You should right him a letter pointing out his folly. WRITE, I'll right him a letter! zing! :P
November 1, 200816 yr ^ and speaking of Catherine Wheel...did you know the bassist of that now defunct band lives in Ashtabula. I vaguely recall Catherine Wheel from my "college radio days", but I don't recall their work. Sorry. IIRC, they used to play dates in Cleveland.
November 1, 200816 yr ^all i remember from their work is the song 'waydown,' video with a plane crashing. i'm on my way do o o own
November 3, 200816 yr ^Are MP3 tracks small enough to email? I think my roadrunner account can accept up to 5 or 10 MByte as an attachment.
November 3, 200816 yr Let me know if you find it. Something to do on a long, dark evening in Cleveland--which I love, don't get me wrong--love these evenings. Hey, at least we're not in Fairbanks!
November 4, 200816 yr some really nice views of CLV's big three as springsteen sings in the foreground http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/obamaroadblog/gGg8Cc
November 13, 200816 yr David Byrne has a really keen sense of urban environments. He's been blogging about his impressions of cities for years.
November 13, 200816 yr I love David Byrne. He's a weirdo, but he's awesome. I agreed with everything he said.
November 16, 200816 yr new cleveland publication covering the local arts scene > Pink Eye Magazine http://www.pinkeyemag.com/
November 17, 200816 yr new cleveland publication covering the local arts scene > Pink Eye Magazine http://www.pinkeyemag.com/ Wow, I love Robin Latkovich's steel mill paintings! Great site and concept.
November 17, 200816 yr new cleveland publication covering the local arts scene > Pink Eye Magazine http://www.pinkeyemag.com/ Wow, I love Robin Latkovich's steel mill paintings! Great site and concept. Me, too .. they're beautiful! A lot of the art featured on there is, though. I really hope this site sticks around. I think it's a great addition to Cleveland's great art scene.
November 19, 200816 yr Pink Eye Magazine http://www.pinkeyemag.com/ Wow, I love Robin Latkovich's steel mill paintings! Robin Latkovich's steel mill painting looks like a painting outside of my dentist's office in Mayfield Heights. I will have to check for his signature when I go there in January to have barbed probes jammed into my gums.
November 19, 200816 yr Have any of you heard Ray McNiece's slam poem "Love Song for Cleveland?" I saw him perform it live at an event this year, and thought it was unbelievably awesome. There's two places to check it out: on Myspace and Google Videos.
November 23, 200816 yr (Found this on a website called CEOs for Cities. This is one of the blog entries. Carol Coletta is president and CEO of CEOs for Cities and host and producer of the nationally syndicated public radio show Smart City. She has some cool things to say:) http://www.ceosforcities.org/blog/entry/1967 Cleveland's University Circle November 21, 2008 Posted by: Carol Earlier this week I spoke to Cleveland University Circle's annual meeting. Chris Ronayne is doing an impressive job in leading this district full of extraordinary assets, including Case Western, Severance Hall, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Botanical Gardens, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Clinic, and University Hospitals. The ambition is to make University Circle a world-class destination and premier urban district. The term "premier urban district" started me thinking, "What does that really mean?" How do you know it when you see it? Clearly, Cleveland's University Circle has a remarkable set of assets from which to build a premier district. The Cleveland Foundation is helping remake the physical design of the district to improve walkability (which it badly needs). That includes three new transit initiatives. Housing in the district is a priority for both organizations. Today housing is clearly lacking, although it is finally underway with some imaginative purchase and rental incentives. (And what's on the drawing board is blow you away, I'll-move-to-Cleveland-to-live-there impressive.) There is not much evidence yet of retail, but that is likely to follow with more housing and more walkability. What is perhaps most significant is that Cleveland's civic community sees the new construction taking place among the Circle's anchor institutions and is determined to leverage that into a growing anchor neighborhood for the city with visibly unmistakable strengths. Chris believes that University Circle stands "on a world-class stage to deliver a world-class story of opportunity and investment in the only neighborhood of its kind in the world." That may be more ambition than reality today, but his point about the opportunity for University Circle is very real. This is a district to watch.
November 23, 200816 yr http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1227360607289080.xml&coll=2 November in Cleveland?: You might question the wisdom of inviting a trade delegation from a tropical nation to Cleveland in mid-November, but the coffee barons from Costa Rica sure don't mind. In the cold, overcast city this week, they found a winter wonderland. Walter Casas and his brother-in-law, Carlos Bombardelli, sat at a window at the Great Lakes Brewery on Tuesday night -- awaiting a meeting with the Hispanic Business Association -- and watched snow fall through the lamp light of Market Street. Neither had ever seen anything like it. "This city is so beautiful," said Walter Casas, who hopes to import the family's Café Volio through Cleveland. "What a wonderful time to be here."
November 23, 200816 yr http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1227360607289080.xml&coll=2 November in Cleveland?: You might question the wisdom of inviting a trade delegation from a tropical nation to Cleveland in mid-November, but the coffee barons from Costa Rica sure don't mind. In the cold, overcast city this week, they found a winter wonderland. Walter Casas and his brother-in-law, Carlos Bombardelli, sat at a window at the Great Lakes Brewery on Tuesday night -- awaiting a meeting with the Hispanic Business Association -- and watched snow fall through the lamp light of Market Street. Neither had ever seen anything like it. "This city is so beautiful," said Walter Casas, who hopes to import the family's Café Volio through Cleveland. "What a wonderful time to be here." I have to admit, that is exactly what i thought when I heard about this. Why bring them here during this time of the year? I'm pleased it worked (will work) out.
November 24, 200816 yr Loved it so much, you posted it twice Close but not the same, go back and take a look...
November 24, 200816 yr Sorry, I was really responisble for pulling this thread way off topic by starting the PD rant. I have moved all those conversations where they belong to "Cleveland: Local Media and News Discussion in the Ohio Business & Economy section. This thread can go back to loving cleveland :wink: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,13110.360.html
November 29, 200816 yr Have any of you heard Ray McNiece's slam poem "Love Song for Cleveland?" I saw him perform it live at an event this year, and thought it was unbelievably awesome. He recited it on WVIZ Applause. Was awesome, but my GF wouldn't shut up during it. She grew up in this metro area and takes Cleveland for granted.
January 23, 200916 yr Urban planner has designs on Cleveland Brickman A weekly look at the exceptional people, events and ideas that make Cleveland a very special place. By Arlene Fine Senior Staff Reporter Published: Friday, January 23, 2009 9:21 AM EST Urban designer Andrew Brickman is so drawn to Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood that he lives in the penthouse of the historic neighborhood’s Ohio School House condos on Murray Hill. His affection for his neighborhood led Brickman, a principal partner in Little Italy Preservation Partners LLC, to spearhead 27 Coltman, a group of eco-sensitive townhouses built on Coltman Road in Little Italy. Groundbreaking for the $10 million dollar project begins in mid-January. http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2009/01/23/news/local/next_in_the_city/doc49779f289ca90227250612.txt
February 24, 200916 yr Emerging from the shadows: To reinvent Cleveland, harness strengths, overcome weaknesses Posted by Charles Michener February 22, 2009 05:00AM Categories: Opinion http://blog.cleveland.com/pdopinion/2009/02/emerging_from_the_shadows_to_r.html This is an edited excerpt of a Feb. 11 speech Michener gave to the City Club. The full speech can be downloaded as an MP3 <a href="http://www.cityclub.org/Media/Audio/CityClubPodcast-090211.mp3">here</a>. In the winter of 1938, my father left his banking job in Philadelphia to start a new business in Cleveland. He had chosen to set up business in Cleveland for one reason: babies. In those days, Northeast Ohio was one of the fastest-growing regions in the country. Before long, he had amassed a fleet of little blue, pink and white trucks that swarmed the region delivering bags of sparkling, clean diapers. My father loved Cleveland's rich intellectual and cultural life. He came regularly to the City Club. He joined the Philosophical Society. He played organ in a Methodist church. He and my mother, a native Clevelander, made sure that we four children were exposed to the best the city had to offer. And thanks to my Irish, sports-loving grandfather, I found my way into the dingy grandeur of Municipal Stadium. ...
February 24, 200916 yr I like the speakers enthusiasm, but haven't we tried one hit wonder superprojects in the past and got not so much in return
February 24, 200916 yr I like the speakers enthusiasm, but haven't we tried one hit wonder superprojects in the past and got not so much in return I wasn't sure how I felt about that, either .. but I think in terms of the outside world's perception of Cleveland, it could be helpful, I guess? Cleveland reinventing itself, etc?
March 5, 200916 yr There was recently a nice little article in a Chicago paper about the West Side Market: http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/food/2009/02/17/eating-elsewhere-ritas-west-side-market-cleveland/ Eating elsewhere: Rita's at the West Side Market, Cleveland by Mike Sula on February 17th 2009 - 12:42 p.m. Tags: Cleveland, Michael Symon, Lola, Lolita, Velvet Tango Room, National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame, Rita's, olives, West Side Market "Made a quick escape to Cleveland this weekend and kept running into natives who were astounded that someone would come from Chicago just for kicks. :x ... On Saturday morning the market was jammed with people. Even in this economy, if a midsize rust-belt city can support a place like that there's no reason Chicago can't. I've said it before: Chicago can never seriously consider itself a world-class food city until it builds a market like this." :clap: A nice change of pace, someone from Chicago has a little Cleveland envy!
March 5, 200916 yr I really wish WSM was the national iconic symbol of Cleveland instead of the R&RHoF. WSM makes an overwhelmigly positive impression on everyone who experiences it, and it legitimately makes bigger cities jealous.
March 5, 200916 yr Awesome! I'm continuously astounded by how Clevelanders do not realize how great their city is. It makes me sad.
March 5, 200916 yr Agree... Anybody I have met that have visited Cleveland said the WSM "blew them away" (and they are always envious), and it really tells Cleveland's story. Anybody I talk to that hasnt been there, I make sure I steer them there. I know they are already doing it somewhat, but it really needs to be part of Cleveland culinary tour weekend package, since Cleveland does actually get visitors as a result of some of the positive press the dining scene has recieved.
March 5, 200916 yr I really wish WSM was the national iconic symbol of Cleveland instead of the R&RHoF. WSM makes an overwhelmigly positive impression on everyone who experiences it, and it legitimately makes bigger cities jealous. Personally, I think it is. In the Food industry (we've done articles on the WSM and Cleveland food/restaurants) and we can hold our own with other major cities, despite not having being proliferated by "celebu-chefs". I don't consider MS a "celebu-chef" because of his real & down home attitude and his resistance at going "hollywood".
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