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Belt Bets: Cleveland, September 4-10
Friday, September 4 Cleveland “swamp pop” band Cats on Holiday play the third-to-last Lakewood Alive [...]
Belt Bets: Detroit, September 4-10
Friday, September 4 The annual Detroit Jazz Festival kicks off at Hart Plaza and stretches [...]
Belt Bets: Chicago, September 4-10
Friday, September 4 LGBTIQ-friendly dance party collective Chances Dances celebrates ten years of radical booty shaking [...]
Harvey & Me: Laureates For Everything
Harvey & Me, is a comics series written by Anne Elizabeth Moore and drawn by Melissa Mendes. This installment is "Laureates For Everything"
Kick Out The Jams, Catholic School!
In 1968, the students returning to my suburban Detroit Catholic high school, Bishop Gallagher, had a surprise waiting for them: For the back-to-school dance that September, someone had booked the MC5
The Mess of Academic Distress: Are Charters in the Future for Youngstown City Schools?
Last November, Michele Lepore-Hagan was undergoing new member orientation in the Ohio House. Lepore-Hagan, like many elected officials from the Youngstown area ...
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, August 24-30, 2015, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine.
Report from the Car Kulture Show
The Lakewood, Ohio, Car Kulture Show features hot rods from 1972 and earlier, customs, gassers, classics, and vintage race cars along with original and traditional chopper and bobber style motorcycles.
Belt Bets: Detroit, August 28-September 3
Friday, August 28 One of Detroit’s smaller, but more intimate, downtown celebrations, Detroit SummerFest, continues [...]
Belt Bets: Pittsburgh, August 28-September 3
Friday, August 28 Pittsburgh’s rivers are much more welcoming than they once were, and Riverlife Pittsburgh [...]
Belt Bets: Cleveland, August 28-September 3
Friday, August 28 Launch parties for the new issues of CAN Journal are THE place [...]

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