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Something in the Night: Bruce Springsteen at the Agora
I am a bespectacled 23-year-old with a deep affinity for Oxford shirts, Levi’s skinny jeans, and overpriced beer and coffee, and I, like so many of my kombucha-sipping contemporaries...
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Belt Bets: Pittsburgh, July 31-August 6
Friday, July 31 A huge collection of pinball, arcade, tabletop, and console games, the ReplayFX Arcade Gaming Festival also [...]
Belt Bets: Chicago, July 31-August 6
Friday, July 31 The fifth annual Chicago French Film Festival kicks off tonight at the Music [...]
Belt Bets: Cleveland, July 31 – August 6
Friday July 31: Toast payday, the end of the week and/or the end of the the [...]
On The 64: A Bus Ride Through Pittsburgh’s Past And Promise
5th & College: 10:07 a.m.: Cameron messaged me. He was on board. So began our adventure — riding Pittsburgh’s 64 bus line end to end.
Our Friendliness Will Save Us
“Can you tell me which one is the fennel?” I looked up at the voice, annoyed at being drawn out of my own panicky thoughts.
Readers’ Corner: Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Malcolm X Street, Lansing, Michigan
In his Autobiography, Malcolm X titled the chapter on his Lansing years “Nightmare.” In 1931, when Malcolm was six, his father was fatally struck by a streetcar.
Belt Bets: Chicago, July 24-30
Friday, July 24 Last chance to see Black River Falls, the acclaimed new play by Curious Theater [...]
Belt Bets: Cleveland, July 24-30
Friday, July 24 Attend the Movement for Black Lives Convening Conference, held at Cleveland State [...]
All Aboard the Red Line Greenway
Standing atop the viaduct bridge that carries commuter trains between downtown Cleveland and the city’s west side, Lennie Stover stoops down and fishes a rusty piece of metal from the gravel next to the tracks.

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