Politics Cry For Justice: Odor in the Court!

Cry For Justice: Odor in the Court! »

  For those who follow Justice Center politics with a mixture of amusement or disdain, recent events have provided a wealth of material to digest. Some of it would be funny and worthy of a...

April 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Everyone Deserves a Second Chance in Cuyahoga County

Everyone Deserves a Second Chance in Cuyahoga County »

  Victorian society rewarded the landed gentry while pushing those with nothing further into the margins until they were collecting filth in the courtyard of a debtor’s prison to survive. It was all praised as...

March 3 2010 / No comment / Read 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...

Apr 16 2010 / No comment / Read More »

The Food Fairy Goes to Fourth Street. »

The Food Fairy Goes to Fourth Street.

  Well, it was the queer equivalent of Mohammed going to the mountain, the Food Fairy finally making a pilgrimage to E. 4th Street...

Mar 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Yeah Dave Visits the Greenhouse Tavern »

Yeah Dave Visits the Greenhouse Tavern

  Claiming how a great meal can be as exciting as a rock concert, pioneering yoga teacher David “Yeah Dave” Romanelli attempted to prove...

Mar 6 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Good Grub in Gates Mills »

Good Grub in Gates Mills

  Sometimes the Food Fairy craves a restaurant that presents the same dish in the same way each and every time I visit. It’s...

Mar 3 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
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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 remains the best evidence of this creature to date. The Bigfoot...

May 17 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Scariest UFO Encounter Ever »

Scariest UFO Encounter Ever

  This allegedly just happened up in New Hampshire. I know it’s not regional, but I had to post about this because the MUFON report is just chilling. Two teenagers claim they were in a car that got pulled into the air by a flying...

Apr 23 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Meteor Buzzes Ohio »

Meteor Buzzes Ohio

  Did you see it around 11 p.m., last Wednesday? Apparently, a large effing space rock invaded our atmosphere and shot across the Midwestern sky, lighting up the ground like high noon and leaving a trail of sonic booms in its wake. Luckily enough, a...

Apr 20 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Famous Ohio Sighting: The 1956 American Airlines Encounter »

Famous Ohio Sighting: The 1956 American Airlines Encounter

  The sightings began 13 miles west of Wiliamsport, Pennsylvania, and continued into the skies over Ohio. An American Airlines pilot was flying a DC-6B from Jersey to Michigan when he spotted three bright objects in the sky above his wing. The UFOs played a...

Apr 1 2010 / No comment / 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 / No comment / Read More »

…Sonically Speakin’ Mix #02 »

…Sonically Speakin’ Mix #02DOWNLOAD!/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...

May 18 2010 / 2 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...

Apr 25, 2010 / More »
The 411 on the 330 Poke Plusquellic

Poke Plusquellic

  Congratulations, Mayor-for-Life Don Plusquellic, for entering the computer age! Plusquellic jumped onto Facebook last week, saying, “I make it a top priority to harness the most modern and efficient ways of disseminating...

Nov 25, 2009 / More »
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...

May 6, 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,...

Apr 16, 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.            ...

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...

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...

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...

Apr 16, 2010 / More »

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