Sweeping the Streets: Poetry and Boxing in Pittsburgh
Jimmy Cvetic, also known as “the Dog”, is a boxing trainer, ex-police detective—and prolific poet.
An Unexpected Lesson In Boxing and Jack Johnson Through Poetry
Most boxing gyms are battleship grey in color – the painted concrete floors, the duct tape holding together the punching bags, the old sweat-stained tee-shirts of the fighters.
The Gay Games Without A Car: What I Saw When I Returned to Cleveland
I thought I knew Cleveland. Then I stayed downtown for a week. Without a car.
Faces And Scenes of the Cuyahoga County Fair: A Slideshow
The Cuyahoga County Fair in Berea, Ohio, was billed as “It’s A Family-A-Fair!” and lived up to its name as related humans of all ages once again gathered at this summer rite of passage.
Storming The Beach At Conneaut – A WWII Reenactment
3,700 miles away from the original battle for Normandy, D-Day in Conneaut, Ohio, began in 1999.
The Rust Belt Refugees II
These profiles tell the story of Rust Belt refugees who are happy with their lives but sometimes can’t help thinking they’ve lost something they’ll never get back by joining the Michigan and Ohio diasporas.
The Art of Amy Casey
Amy Casey’s paintings are unique takes on cityscapes but could as just well have been called organisms, or machines. Her exhibition features a handful of new works.
One Day I’ll Be a Clevelander
I was born in northeast Ohio, on the awkward border between green and brown farmland and the gray highways crisscrossing Ohio’s suburbia. It wasn’t exactly Amish country, but buggies did clip-clop down the road every so often.
Friday Link Roundup
Ferguson and #blacktwitter, the Cleveland Browns do something right, buying a house with cash, the blues and a Wisconsin chair factory, climate change and the Midwest, and that potato salad Kickstarter guy.
The Faces Of Downtown Cleveland: A Slideshow
A reflective slideshow highlighting the different faces of downtown Cleveland.
Deli Men
I can't cut it in the deli life—the corned beef—anymore. I’m just not the deli Jew my dad was.
Clarity and Abundance in the Creeks of Lake County
Better parenting through salamanders, dragonflies and spiders.