Belt Bets: Chicago, August 7-13
A curated list of things to do in Chicago, including exhibitions, concerts, talks, festivals, and other goings-on the week of 08/07/15-08/13/15.
Belt Bets: Pittsburgh, July 31-August 6
Friday, July 31 A huge collection of pinball, arcade, tabletop, and console games, the ReplayFX Arcade Gaming Festival also features live music and obstacle [...]
Belt Bets: Chicago, July 31-August 6
Friday, July 31 The fifth annual Chicago French Film Festival kicks off tonight at the Music Box with screenings of L'affaire [...]
Belt Bets: Chicago, July 24-30
Friday, July 24 Last chance to see Black River Falls, the acclaimed new play by Curious Theater Branch's Bryn Magnus exploring teen [...]
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine.
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine.
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt. Belt is [...]
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt. Secondhand Stories [...]
“A Champion of the People”: Youngstown Says Goodbye to Jim Traficant
Jim Traficant hadn’t won an election in more than a decade. He hadn’t won a football game in more than 50 years. Since his release from prison in 2009, after serving seven years on federal corruption charges,
Boy Shot
For me, the details surfaced Sunday morning, over coffee, nearly eighteen hours after it happened: Twelve-year-old boy Tamir Rice shot dead by a Cleveland police officer at Cudell Recreation Center Saturday, November 22, 2014, at 3:30 in the afternoon.
From Cleveland to Ferguson, With Love
I am watching Twitter and TV, where rage spills onto the streets of Missouri like gasoline. But my heart is not in Ferguson tonight.
Life Without Bats
I grew up in a tiny rural township, ten minutes outside of Akron, Ohio in a neighborhood surrounded by looming second-growth hardwoods and whispering cornfields.