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Celebrate Buffalo With Us December 10
We're so happy to announce that we'll be celebrating the release of Right Here, Right [...]
Experiencing History With Dad
As a native Clevelander, my loathing of Chicago sports began somewhere in Chicagoland while visiting a traitorous childhood friend who adopted the Bulls after moving there in the early 1990s. By then, Michael Jordan had sunk "The Shot" to eliminate the Cleveland Cavaliers from the 1989 playoffs.
Some small good news
In the thickening gloom, a small ray of light -- or two, actually. Three thousand, six hundred [...]
Game Seven: It’s more than just two words
Game Seven of the World Series is more myth than reality. I would estimate that my friends and I, in games of wiffleball or whatever in our parents’ backyards on Cleveland’s suburban west side, probably played in "Game Seven of the World Series" maybe fifty more times than the event has taken place in the history of Major League Baseball. (For the record, this year’s is just the thirty-seventh.)
Belt’s Got Baseball Fever
Our baseball coverage may not have a deep bench, but what we've got can go the [...]
Coming Soon! How To Speak Midwestern
Edward McClelland's How To Speak Midwestern is due back from the printer soon, and pre-orders [...]
What’s in A Name? Cleveland’s Brooklyn Centre
What’s in a name? In my neighborhood, confusion. Countless lifelong Greater Clevelanders have asked me, “So what part of town do you live in?” and I always begin my answer, “Well, the city calls it ‘Brooklyn Centre,’ but...”
Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology — Pre-order through Kickstarter to help make it happen!
Belt Publishing’s anthologies, written by and for Rust Belt communities, include compilations from Akron, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, [...]
Archie the Talking Snowman
I wasn’t having any of it. My mother brought my older sister and me to Chapel Hill Mall each year to visit with Archie the Talking Snowman. But I wasn’t fooled. Snowmen don’t talk, and I didn’t trust the disembodied voice that floated from above.
Coming Up ‘Down the Hill’ On Peoria’s South Side
At the intersection of State and Washington Streets in the Warehouse District of downtown Peoria, a city of about 116,000 that sits halfway between Chicago and St. Louis on the Illinois River, stands a nine-foot-tall bronze likeness of the city’s most infamous native son.
How the Cleveland Browns’ Black Players Changed the NFL
When the All America Football Conference launched in 1945 it sought well-heeled owners to go head-to-head with the more established NFL. Mickey McBride, owner of Cleveland’s AAFC franchise, tabbed Paul Brown to be its head coach.
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