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!
Caring For All Parts: Hadad Farm
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.
The Coldest Darn Place In The World: The Great Lakes Bowl
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: Book Signing
Harvey & Me is written by Anne Elizabeth Moore and drawn by Melissa Mendes. This installment is titled "Book Signing."
Weekly Links Roundup
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.
Who Gives A Hoot? Searching For Owls By Moonlight On The Lake Erie Islands
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.
Graphically Persian in Ohio: Novel Adventures from Columbus Artists
Like Gilgamesh, Sir Gawain, Luke Skywalker, Batman, Harry Potter, and Katniss Everdeen, Minoo Shirazi has been chosen by the universe to battle evil.
Not Just Another Soup Kitchen: Inside the Flint Community Cookout
“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.
Weekly Links Roundup
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.
Stephen Hobbs: On South Africa and the Rust Belt
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...
One Block, Two Businesses, Three Families: A Detroit Story
The building at Mack near Chalmers resembles thousands of Detroit properties: abandoned, in tax foreclosure, burned-out, dangerous, overdue for demolition.
We Love Detroit, Even If You Don’t
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.