We are all witnesses to the end of journalism in Cleveland. Take a look at the events of the last year. A year ago, there were two alternative newspapers in town. Cleveland Scene and Free Times. Among them, there were eight investigative reporters. Today, Free Times is dead. There is one investigative reporter left at [...]
Nine years after popular TV personality Joel Rose committed suicide outside his Brecksville home, on August 4, 2000, many people still blame Cuyahoga County prosecutor Bill Mason and the Plain Dealer for his death. Rose shot him himself in the head with his .38-caliber handgun after picking up the morning paper and reading the [...]
The bar was emptying of Democrats gathered for drinks in Columbus on a cold winter night. Inside was Jennifer Garrison, fresh off her first year in office as the state representative for Ohio’s 93rd District in southeast Ohio. Blonde, thin, attractive (Marietta’s very own Sarah Palin), she got the attention of a short [...]
I’m a 60-year-old gay man who is passionate about food, i.e., how it’s grown, prepared, presented, yada yada. I do not want to be a foodie when I grow up. I’m an out and proud food fairy. Deal with it. I don’t get reverential about what I eat. It’s food for chrissakes, not the Second Coming. And, [...]
When she felt like cutting herself again, she had a code she used to tell her friend she needed help. She would write “OIC” on her friend’s dry-erase board in the dorm. To passersby, it looked like some acronym. Only she and her friend knew that it was a subtle restructuring of the letters, “D”, [...]
