RNC Watch
Here at Belt's RNC Watch we have our eyes on the windup in Cleveland to the Republican National Convention in July [...]
All Sales Final: The Closing of Chicago’s Clark & Barlow Hardware
It’s a cold, grey, blustery March morning on Chicago’s near north side. Taxis, delivery trucks, and luxury vehicles swoosh along Grand Avenue and Orleans Street, kicking up road salt ...
Before It Was Hingetown
Hingetown was born as a branding exercise in 2013 on the warm corpse of Cleveland’s queer scene. Anchored by the brick Striebinger block at West 29th and Detroit Shoreway, and extending down West 25th...
Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook Launch Party
On Wednesday, June 22, we're hosting a launch party for The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook! You should come. Seriously! Starting at [...]
RNC Watch
What happened this week on the road to Cleveland? Where's Donald? Trending topics on the official RNC website included "Hillary [...]
Stories from Nowhere, Michigan: An Interview With Christine Rice
In her debut novel Swarm Theory, Chicago writer Christine Rice reimagines a landscape from her past, a mash-up of disintegrating farmland and emerging suburb that most Midwesterners will instantly recognize...
Roger Ebert And The Multicultural Passkey Of The Midwest
Shortly after he graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1964, Roger Ebert left his native Urbana for a yearlong postgrad fellowship in Cape Town, South Africa.
A People’s Park
“Hey! What’re y’all doin?” he yelled across the empty park. A pint-sized paper bag sat on the sidewalk next to his smooth-soled tan work boots.
Belt Books at Chicago’s Printers Row Lit Fest, the Cleveland Flea, and more
Publishing is a funny business. Here we are, with a warehouse full of books, ready to sell them to you. But doing [...]
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of May 30-June 5, 2016
RNC Watch
Well. It's finally here. Summer that is, and along with it ... convention season. In just six weeks, thousands upon howevermany [...]