Happy Birthday, Jackass!
It is with great pride that we at Belt announce the birth of our newest book: Aaron Foley's How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, which officially hits the streets today.
Police Story
The record store was about two miles from our neighborhood and about one mile beyond the city limits. As teenagers a friend and I would go there whenever we had a little money ...
Kaufmann’s, Pittsburgh, and the End of an Era
Light Up Night, Pittsburgh's annual celebration, won’t be the same.
Beyond Rust: Part 3, “Mills and Malls”
In light of their efforts to attract the stores, restaurants, and vibrant night-life essential for remaking the downtown riverfront, Wheeling officials would have gladly changed places with Betty Esper, Homestead’s mayor ...
In Monroeville, a Living Museum
From inside, nothing can be seen. The stores are open, everything seems basically the same. Then there are groans and, after those, screams.
The Flint Anthology: Call for Submissions
It’s time to tell the stories of Flint. That’s stories of Flint, mind you, not story, because there is no one story, no singular narrative that can define the Vehicle City.
Beyond Rust: Part 2, “Victorian Wheeling”
As with the Renaissance of the 1950s, community leaders in the region’s smaller cities sought to copy Pittsburgh’s relative success in reinventing itself as a high-tech, post-industrial hub ...
Beyond Rust: Part 1, “A 12-Mile Story of Who We Are”
Rather than emerging from a coherent set of policies, Pittsburgh’s neoliberal model for urban redevelopment and economic growth evolved ...
The Cleveland Consent Decree: A Progress Report
With a settlement reached between the City of Cleveland and the Department of Justice and an independent monitor agreed on at the beginning of this month ...
Stop Being So Angry About Tamir Rice, Says Paper of Record. And Please Sit, Quietly
In an Editorial Board op-ed published in the Friday, October 16 edition of Cleveland's main newspaper readers are instructed to be "patient" with the Tamir Rice case.
The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook
Help us create the most useful, least authorized resource for Clevelanders, Cleveland ex-pats, visitors, and potential new residents. Submit a contribution to Belt Publishing's The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook...
Hart Crane In Cleveland
Hart Crane, who is famous for having jumped off the back of a boat at age 32 after having been lauded as one of America’s greatest poets, is most often associated with New York.