The Brelo Verdict: Safety in Numbers for the Police
When the verdict came down Saturday in the Michael Brelo case—the case of the Cleveland police officer who found it necessary to fire 49 shots into a car, killing two unarmed people ...
The Art of Vacancy: Cleveland’s Rooms To Let
Rooms to Let: Cleveland returned to the Slavic Village neighborhood in Cleveland last Sat., May 16 and Sun., May 17. Artists created a temporary art exhibition using vacant homes as their medium.
Why Can’t Cleveland Be More Like a Bicycle?
The road racing bicycle is one of history’s great design achievements: it multiplies the potential of the human body, allowing a person to travel much greater distances and at much greater speeds.
Sitting Ducks: The Mystery of the Cleveland “Duck Factory”
Abandoned, in a Cleveland building slated for destruction, ducks sit, waiting. Rubber ducks, that is.
Learning from Slavic Village: A Report from Ground Zero of the Foreclosure Crisis
When Anthony Trzaska hears or reads “Slavic Village” in news reports, he knows what is coming next.
Money Does Grow on Trees: Canopy Cover Reflects Income Inequality
An enormous tree engulfs my front lawn. I do not know what kind of tree it is.
Walking and Thinking: Technology and the New Navigation of Everyday Space
You know how when you read two books at the same time, they often kind of meld together in your head, like in that novel where Gatsby takes the raft down the Mississippi?
Readers’ Corner: Tell Us About Your Favorite Rust Belt Place
My favorite corner in Cleveland is the intersection of Literary and Professor streets. I like it because, well, I am a literary professor. And because the street names trace an otherwise lost history.
Scenes from the Cleveland International Film Festival
Between March 18 and 29, over 100,000 people attended the 39th Cleveland International Film Festival. For this photo essay, we hung out outside the theaters and related venues, watched the filmgoers, directors, queuers and workers come and go.
The Rise and Mysterious Fall of the Prehistoric King of Cleveland
Lurking in the dark corners of Cleveland history: the Dunkleosteus. (From 2015).
Silence of the City: Why Isn’t Cleveland Speaking Out About Police Violence?
Hardly anyone noticed this last one. There were a few articles in the Plain Dealer and the national press jumped in a bit, and some of his friends and relatives did put some foil balloons and prayer candles on a telephone pole ...
Cleveland: City of Tomorrow
At Tech Central in the main branch of the Cleveland Public Library, you can experiment with three-dimensional printing. These days it is mostly a curiosity for kids to experiment with.