Behind the Sign is a documentary video series created by Cleveland SGS to highlight the unsung heroes of Cleveland’s small business community. Their achievements aren’t measured in dollars, but in pride and longevity.
When a church is not a church in Pittsburgh; thanks for nothing, South Carolina; whither the smart money in Detroit?; Lorain-born Jason Molina left behind beautiful, heartbreaking music; and a pretty little map of 1903 US immigration.
A leading avant-garde poet lives in obscurity in Cleveland.
NATO held its international meeting in Chicago a couple months before I decided to quit driving a cab in 2012. Mayor Emanuel turned the city into a militarized showplace for the visitors' benefit.
Yelp reviews of the Miller factory tour are, to be blunt, as bland as the beer. "Kinda cheesey but that's OK," one reads. "Better than I expected," says another. Bottom line? "It's free, people!"
Biz meetings in Cleveland: "Can I bring someone? Can my friends come?" Browns quarterbacks and symbology. It's all happening in Pittsburgh. David Lynch loves old factories. Distilling our mojo, or something.
Most people don’t like bugs. They are so disconcertingly unlike us – we can’t find ourselves in all those legs, wings and alien faces. Also, our sense of scale prevents us from seeing the vibrant and complex world of insects.
On October 6 at 7:00 p.m., Gary Shteyngart will be reading from his 2014 memoir, Little Failure, at the Beachwood branch of Cuyahoga County Library. Belt's Editor-in-Chief Anne Trubek talked to Shteyngart ...
Cities are organisms, whither Portland?, mortgages by race through the boom and bust, fly-over country and innovation, Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine growth, and Motor City West.
After midnight. New York City. A shadow disengages and sucker-punches Ohioan Chris Barzak square on the chin — “The hardest hit I’ve ever felt in my life,” he says — sending the writer sprawling to the sidewalk.
When Belt Magazine launched one year ago, we did so for one basic reason: We felt that Cleveland and other cities in the Rust Belt were being defined by outside media that didn’t know us. We wanted to tell our own story ourselves.
Midwest rankings in (stagnant) median household incomes, the rent is too damn high, Rust Belt beekeeping, careful what you wish for re: gentrification, how writers get paid in a virtual world of writing.