Belt is on Break
We're going dark for two weeks for the holidays. We will return January 4, 2016 with more news from around the Rust Belt. Until then, stay warm browsing our archives!
We're going dark for two weeks for the holidays. We will return January 4, 2016 with more news from around the Rust Belt. Until then, stay warm browsing our archives!
On the east side of Detroit sits an old two-story house washed sky blue. The paint is chipped and the windows are barred with thick grey metal. It is my grandmother’s house of over fifty years.
Once upon a time, Municipal Stadium wasn’t the Mistake by the Lake. In the 1940s, an optimistic time in Cleveland’s history, the stadium was virtually the center of the sports universe.
Harvey & Me is written by Anne Elizabeth Moore and drawn by Melissa Mendes. This installment is titled "Book Signing."
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. Covered here, the week of December 7-13, 2015.
Our pilgrimage began on a freakishly warm day in early November. A south wind calmed the lake as David Wilson and I crossed the four-mile stretch from the Marblehead Peninsula to Kelleys Island.
Like Gilgamesh, Sir Gawain, Luke Skywalker, Batman, Harry Potter, and Katniss Everdeen, Minoo Shirazi has been chosen by the universe to battle evil.
“Hey, man, he got a spot,” says Kenny Lucas, pointing his thumb toward Dallas Schiestel, as another man joins the growing party in Riverbank Park, waiting for the Flint Community Cookout to begin.
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. Links from the week of November 30 - December 6, 2015.
South African artist Stephen Hobbs has called his home of Johannesburg “a complex space of uncertainty and contradiction” -- terms that clearly apply to many Rust Belt cities...
The building at Mack near Chalmers resembles thousands of Detroit properties: abandoned, in tax foreclosure, burned-out, dangerous, overdue for demolition.
Detroit is bankrupt. Does it hurt to write those words? Honestly, it doesn’t. It hurts as much as ripping a Band-Aid off. Detroit is bankrupt. Detroit is bankrupt.