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What’s The Q: LeBron, Trump, and the RNC

2016-07-06T16:25:49-04:00By Anne Trubek|Cities, Cleveland, Commentary, Covers, Current Issue, RNC in CLE|

For the RNC, the California delegation is staying at the Kalahari Resort and Water Park in Sandusky, Ohio, 62 miles from Quicken Loans Arena, also known as the Q, where the convention will be held.

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RNC Watch

2016-07-06T16:26:17-04:00By Martha Bayne|Cleveland, Current Issue, RNC in CLE|

OK, let's be real. No one in Cleveland was thinking about the RNC this week. [...]

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Hail to the King

2018-10-26T16:04:00-04:00By Matt Stansberry|Arts & Culture, Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue|

I was born in Akron. My deathbed request for a final meal would be a Swenson’s Galley Boy, and I’d wash it down with a California. My grandfather retired from the Firestone Tire Factory and as a kid I worked for Goodyear ...

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Crowdsourcing Hunger Relief With Pittsburgh’s 412 Food Rescue

2016-06-21T16:18:54-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Current Issue, Pittsburgh, Politics and Urbanism, Urban Agriculture and Food|

The requests appear on 412 Food Rescue’s social media pages: A batch of surplus bread at a bakery in Squirrel Hill needs to go to a nearby elementary school. A pepper pickup is needed in Warrendale.

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Good Morning Cleveland

2016-06-20T13:50:58-04:00By Anne Trubek|Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue|

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RNC Watch

2016-07-06T16:27:28-04:00By Martha Bayne|Cleveland, Current Issue, RNC in CLE|

Here at Belt's RNC Watch we have our eyes on the windup in Cleveland to the [...]

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All Sales Final: The Closing of Chicago’s Clark & Barlow Hardware

2017-06-29T20:50:08-04:00By William Rickman|Chicago, Cities, Current Issue|

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 ...

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Before It Was Hingetown

2016-06-22T14:01:54-04:00By William Rickman|Arts & Culture, Books, Cities, Cleveland, Covers, Current Issue, Politics and Urbanism, Population|

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...

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