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Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology

2016-06-04T17:48:26-04:00By William Rickman|Arts & Culture, Books, Cities, Current Issue, Flint|

I had just started writing about Flint when I found myself sitting next to Michael Moore, listening to him talk about what Flint had to offer the world.

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Building An Art House In Pittsburgh

2016-05-03T15:31:42-04:00By William Rickman|Arts, Arts & Culture, Cities, Current Issue, Housing, Pittsburgh, Politics and Urbanism|

A few years ago, Vanessa German sat on her front porch working on the sculptures for which she’s become well known -- complex black Madonnas made of found objects.

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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-05-01T17:44:00-04:00By William Rickman|Current Issue|

News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of April 25-May 1, 2016

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From Steel to Slots: Bethlehem, PA’s Casino Capitalism

2016-04-29T00:48:48-04:00By William Rickman|Current Issue, Politics and Urbanism|

In August 2005, just off Bethlehem’s historic Main Street, two costumed gondoliers “with authentic Italian accents” set up a tent at the annual, vaguely German-themed, Musikfest outdoor concert festival.

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Table of Contents for Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook

2016-05-16T11:42:57-04:00By Anne Trubek|Uncategorized|

Belt's Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook table of contents

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Announcing Belt’s RNC Fellows

2016-07-08T10:43:50-04:00By Martha Bayne|Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue, Politics and Urbanism, RNC in CLE|

When we cooked up the idea of inviting journalists to come to Cleveland this summer for the Republican National Convention, we thought it would be a fun experiment ...

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After The World Ends, What Next?

2016-04-26T08:50:45-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Current Issue, Essays, Youngstown|

If you, like I did, woke up on summer mornings with a mini boom box and a blank tape to listen for hours on end waiting for The Foo Fighters or Everclear or Rage Against the Machine or ...

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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-04-25T11:12:52-04:00By William Rickman|Current Issue|

News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of April 18-24, 2016

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Where The River Burned

2016-04-24T20:00:54-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Cleveland, Covers, Current Issue, History, Politics and Urbanism, Population|

On April 22, 1970, schoolchildren from around metropolitan Cleveland sat in their classrooms and wrote to Mayor Carl Stokes. Over the next few days, hundreds of letters poured into City Hall ...

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What To Do When You’re Accused Of Gentrifying

2016-04-21T09:28:18-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Current Issue, Detroit, On Detroit by Aaron Foley|

Uh-oh, it finally happened. You’re caught in a debate -- most likely on Facebook -- about gentrification in Detroit. And everything was going just fine until someone called you -- you! -- a cause of gentrification.

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