The Opposite of Cool: Parma’s Ukrainian Village
by George Mount excerpted from The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook There’s an effort in Cleveland to recreate what it once [...]
Visiting Gritty South Bend & Glitzy Notre Dame, Two Sides of the Rust Belt
By Matt Altstiel If you’ve ever watched Parks & Recreation, you’re familiar with the dichotomy between run-down yet plucky [...]
The Glassblock, A New Pittsburgh Magazine
In 2014, Adam Shuck started a Pittsburgh-based newsletter, Eat That, Read This. It caught on, filling a gap in the city's [...]
Right Here, Right Now: The Buffalo Anthology
My wife says I spend five days a year in dear Buffalo, and 360 nights there in my dreams. [...]
Angels of Detroit by Christopher Hebert: A Q&A
By Kelsey Ronan Detroit is a city of contradictions. It’s a city stricken by poverty and population loss, of [...]
Announcing the Belt Book Club!
Belt Publishing publishes quality non-fiction about the Rust Belt and the Midwest. Our books have won awards, been praised by Vanity [...]
On The Cusp: Cleveland’s Larchmere Neighborhood
by Harriet Logan excerpted from the Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook The Larchmere neighborhood has been on the cusp for [...]
Here on the Ground: An Introduction
There’d better be a blimp in here. Seriously: if there is not a blimp in this book, I’m going to return it to the library I stole it from. Right now, I’m like you, Dear Reader. I haven’t read this book yet. I don’t know what’s in it. We’re both here at the beginning. I know what I want. You know what you want.
We Are Good In Glenville: A Visit To The Honey Do Club Neighborhood Bar
Cleveland is a city of neighborhoods. Each tells a story with its own unique culture and history, the restaurant you have to eat at, and of course, a neighborhood bar. Being a Glenville resident my entire life, one would assume that I have ventured to my own neighborhood bar before 2015.
Why Has Cleveland Failed To Solve Its Lead Poisoning Crisis?
By Jonathan Welle Why has Cleveland failed to solve the slow-motion crisis of lead poisoning, which dims the future [...]
Overwhelmed by the Swarm: Brood V Periodical Cicadas
The cicadas have been winding down. Chitinous, black bodies crunch underfoot on my driveway every time I step out the front door.
A Little More on Pokemon Go and Tamir Rice
Two weeks ago an article started making the social media rounds in Cleveland and beyond -- a Belt article, about the curious online text that marked the west-side gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed in 2014.