Summer Reading Trail of Blood

Trail of Blood »

  An excerpt from Lisa Black’s upcoming novel TRAIL OF BLOOD, on sale this September. The Torso Murders of Kingsbury Run began in 1935, unless one counted the pieces of a woman washed up by Lake Erie...

May 6 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
867-5309: A Love Song

867-5309: A Love Song »

  Excerpt from David Giffels’ Be Approximately Yourself: A Rust Belt Memoir, coming in 2011 from William Morrow/HarperCollins, possibly under that title and possibly not. 867-5309: A Love Song               To live in a place like Akron then...

May 6 2010 / No comment / Read More »
More Summer Reading

The Properly Accessorized Kitchen »

The Properly Accessorized Kitchen

  By Erin O’Brien I select every kitchen gadget and accessory based not only on its technical specifications, but also on its physical appearance and my...

May 6 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

An Excerpt from Under Glass »

An Excerpt from Under Glass

  The Girl With a Thousand Christmas Trees by Jen Hirt Introduction: Glass Always Breaks On my 30th birthday, I had the blueprint of a greenhouse tattooed on...

May 6 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

THE CRACK »

THE CRACK

  By Scott Lax The slate patio built in May by the recently indicted contractor is cracked on this hazy mid-July morning. A fracture winds through...

May 6 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Excerpt from Tales from the Road »

Excerpt from Tales from the Road

  Memoirs by the Longtime Host of TV’s “One Tank Trips” By Neil Zurcher Freelancing for WJW-TV while reporting full-time for WEOL, I joined Walt Glendenning and...

May 6 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
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Summer Reading, Cont.

Untitled: By Judith Monsour »

Untitled: By Judith Monsour

  Dorothy Parker said, “Writers are always selling someone out.” I agree. I eavesdrop on your conversations; I’m a voyeur in your living room; a spectator in your tragedies, all to garner material for my work. This pisses people off. It leads to a fairly singular...

May 6 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Spring Limbs »

Spring Limbs

                Always just outside corners of sight, in spring, when girls’ arms, hibernating in parkas and under sweaters             blossom.  On the court               at the playground, I pummeled the asphalt, arced the ball to master absence, to make the strings of the orange ring             sing their slow tearing.               Nearby, I...

May 6 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

PLEASE STAY »

PLEASE STAY

  Dear Lebron, Please stay.             I sit in Section 106, Row 8, Seat 6.  During Game 2 of the Chicago series, I saw you catch your own pass. I’m just one of the thousands of people who wake up to a front page photo of you doing...

May 6 2010 / 4 comments / Read More »

In Which I Am Dismissed (And This Is a Good Thing) Before Sunrise »

In Which I Am Dismissed (And This Is a Good Thing) Before Sunrise

    By Susan Grimm A dog barks down the beach, but I only recall that later—the sequence of noises and shapes. Barking as if the chain is distended, the dog strains against   the restraint. Waiting for the sun, I am wrapped up well with my two chairs angled, with socks and a...

May 6 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »
Music

Arms&Suites EP (Download) »

Arms&Suites EP (Download) Last week, a beautiful EP by new artist Arms&Suites went up for free download. Lush, deep bass, floating vocal snippets, and sublime synths careen around...

May 19 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

…Sonically Speakin’ Mix #02 »

…Sonically Speakin’ Mix #02 DOWNLOAD!/STREAM! I’d really like to include a tracklisting, but it’s all kinda lost to time. There’s a bit of everything rock related, though. Anything garagey like...

May 18 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »
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The Stage FUSIONFEST: “WE SHALL COLLABORATE”

FUSIONFEST: “WE SHALL COLLABORATE”

  It’s a rare opportunity to view a fully rendered production of Igor Stravinsky’s theater piece “A Soldier’s Tale.”  Cleveland Play House provided northern Ohioans this treat as part of “fusionfest 2010.” Stravinsky’s ironic music,...

Apr 25, 2010 / More »
Sports Player to Be Named Later: Preferred Opponents

Player to Be Named Later: Preferred Opponents

  IF YOU ASKED Deveren Fontenot which opponents he’d prefer to see for the Cavaliers in the upcoming NBA Playoffs, he’d be quick with an answer. He wants to see the Nets, Knicks, and...

Apr 16, 2010 / More »
Food For Shame! Foodie Tricksters!

For Shame! Foodie Tricksters!

  Food Fairy Dishes Dirt on Foodie Tricksters It’s Enough to Make a Child Strike Its Mother! Well, Mary, this will get your pantyhose in a knot…food fraud is on the rise!              Nutritionists and foodies have...

Apr 16, 2010 / More »
WTF?!? Ohio Bigfoot Convention Recap

Ohio Bigfoot Convention Recap

  The annual Ohio Bigfoot convention wrapped up yesterday. Among those on hand was Bob Gimlin, one of the men who captured the shaky footage of a Northwestern “bigfoot” jogging along a riverbank–his film...

May 17, 2010 / More »
The Broad's Side Big Breasted Women in a Small Minded World

Big Breasted Women in a Small Minded World

  I truly believe that people underestimate the power of boobs. They change everything…take it from someone who knows. They have a certain mystical power that turns men into imbeciles without notice.             In high...

Apr 16, 2010 / More »
She's a Gamer Head for the Borderlands

Head for the Borderlands

  Skags, all right, are these toothy, split-faced doggish creatures who want to eat you alive, regardless of their maturity; baby to elder, they want to chew off your face. And they’re fricking everywhere....

Apr 16, 2010 / More »
Editorial A Very Special Independent

A Very Special Independent

  We should never do special issues—that was one of Ray’s warnings when we launched The Independent last August. Ray is our marketing director. We worked together at the Free Times, where he was...

May 6, 2010 / More »
Street Law 101 Street Law 101: What to do when you’re arrested.

Street Law 101: What to do when you’re arrested.

  So, you’ve been arrested. Smooth move. However, there are several things you can do to avoid making it any worse. First of all, and maybe most importantly, don’t resist. At all. Do what...

Apr 16, 2010 / More »

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