Belt Magazine is proud to be the media sponsor for author Tom O'Lenic's discussion about his new book cowritten with Ray Hartjen Immaculate: How the Steelers Saved Pittsburgh as part of the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival this Sunday March 26th at Noon in the Trust Arts Center in Downtown Pittsburgh.
It wasn’t the sale of the building that came as a shock - it was the buyer that caught the Cleveland art community off guard.
By Jeanette Beebe Jeanette Beebe is a poet and journalist who lives in Akron’s Highland Square neighborhood. Her reporting has appeared [...]
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"All in the Water" and "Cuyahoga Thanatos" by Frank Rosen
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A poem by Chris Carosi.
Given that the Mattress Factory once made literal mattresses, the place where dreams most often form in our minds, it feels fitting that it’s now a site for collective dreaming.
To Breathe Again: Living Along Sulphur Run
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