Uh-oh, it finally happened. You’re caught in a debate -- most likely on Facebook -- about gentrification in Detroit. And everything was going just fine until someone called you -- you! -- a cause of gentrification.
On a recent Friday evening, the cast of Flint Youth Theatre’s current production The Most [Blank] City in America, rehearsed a scene in which community members have gathered for a meeting ...
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of April 11-17, 2016
The Rust Belt, linguistically speaking, is one of America’s newest regions. It was largely created in 1984 by, of all people, Walter Mondale. During a campaign stop during the presidential election...
I’m looking for a hotel room in Pittsburgh, and it’s not going well. I search Kayak, Expedia, and Priceline. I recheck Hostelworld, although I know it’s pointless.
Harvey & Me is written by Anne Elizabeth Moore and drawn by Melissa Mendes. This installment is titled "Goodbyes."
The first person John Brewer saw when he entered the YMCA in the 1950s was not a receptionist as you see when you enter the same building today, but a security guard.
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of April 4 - April 10, 2016.
Clickbait is easy: just ask people to weigh in on stuff they have strong opinions about but will never agree on. Politics: clickbait gold. Red-carpet sartorial choices: those too.
One 2014 morning on Detroit’s northeast side, residents along Mapleridge were horrified to find that 10,000 tires had been stuffed into a row of abandoned houses on their street.
When Belt announced a fellowship to cover the RNC last week, comments included: “Hell, no”; “Does the fellowship include life insurance?”; and, “Only if you provide body armor.”
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of March 28-April 3, 2016.