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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-02-22T09:12:30-05:00By 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 February 15-21, 2016.

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Out All Night With Lake Erie’s Burbot Whisperer

2018-10-26T16:03:08-04:00By Matt Stansberry|Covers, Current Issue, North Coast Biodiversity, Regulars|

In an undisclosed parking lot somewhere on the southern shore of Lake Erie, the weak December sun fizzled out like a match dropped in the snow.

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Happy, Sad, Gay, Or Just Interested: The Queer Legacy of WBFO

2016-12-19T10:52:24-05:00By William Rickman|Arts & Culture, Buffalo, Cities, Current Issue, History|

Our meeting was improbable, but lucky. I found Alex van Oss through a research project involving the University of Buffalo’s Leo Tolstoy College/College F.

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Lamentations Of A Clevelander In Exile

2016-05-10T12:48:19-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue, Essays|

I moved to Cleveland on a whim in 2004. I met a girl while visiting a Clevelander friend and I fell in love with both the girl and the city. The rock-and-roll mythos, blue-collar grit, pierogies — I was wonderstruck.

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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-02-15T09:20:41-05:00By 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 February 8-14, 2016.

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When You’re Embarrassed To Be A Michigander

2016-02-11T20:13:47-05:00By William Rickman|Cities, Current Issue, Detroit, Flint, On Detroit by Aaron Foley, Regulars|

Supposedly, “Michigander” is an offensive term, first coined by Abraham Lincoln as an insult. Lincoln thought Lewis Cass, the great Michigan governor for which so much of our institutions and municipalities are named...

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Brite Winter Heads Back To The Flats

2016-02-10T08:22:26-05:00By William Rickman|Arts, Arts & Culture, Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue, Music, Performance|

On February 21, 2015, bars across Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood were filled to capacity. Crowds huddled around fire pits.

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Up In The Morning & Off To School In Detroit

2016-02-09T22:32:21-05:00By William Rickman|Cities, Current Issue, Detroit, Politics and Urbanism, Population|

On my first day of sophomore year in 1982, I transferred from St. Martin DePorres High, a very small, very focused, very caring Catholic high school, to Northern Senior High School, a very large, very chaotic, very cold public school.

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Call for Submissions: The Chicago Anthology

2016-05-10T18:42:40-04:00By Martha Bayne|Chicago, Cities, Current Issue|

Here at Belt we’re in the business of covering the Rust Belt. But what exactly does that mean when it comes to Chicago?

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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-02-08T19:47:29-05:00By William Rickman|Current Issue|

News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. We’re independently owned; become a member and support us. This week February 1 - February 7, 2016.

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