Here’s the dish: I’m a cheap ass who hates the responsibility of packing a lunch in the morning. So when it hits noon, I need economical nourishment, and fast. Most of us have an hour or less – we’re on foot, we’re in heels, we don’t want to pay for a parking garage again. We’re [...]
Speaking of prosecutors, karma finally caught up with Cuyahoga County’s own Teflon don, Bill Mason, a political junkie who rose to his position by filling the vacated terms of fellow Dems and uses his power to influence judicial and municipal races, while stacking his office with precinct committeemen. The Ohio Ethics Commission is [...]
Ohio is, once again, set to execute a man for a crime he may not have committed. Brett X. Hartmann was convicted of killing Wanda Snipes at her Highland Square apartment, in 1997. His original execution date was postponed earlier this year after local media pointed out several strange facts about the case. [...]
Plain Dealer politics reporter Mark Naymik did more to tarnish the image of journalistic integrity this summer than if he’d simply dug up Edward R. Murrow and smoked pot out of his skull. Here’s the deal (which you didn’t read in the PD): Lee Fisher’s campaign fed Naymik bogus info on Jennifer Brunner’s [...]
A cold war of attrition continues at the Cleveland Scene, as Dan Harkins, the paper’s last staid investigative reporter, abruptly left in August to pursue a new career back home in Florida. Harkins lately was the paper’s most prolific writer, regularly busting solid graphs and giving hell to city council. Scene has asked staff to [...]
By: James Renner It sure sounded cool, didn’t it? Last year, the Plain Dealer trumpeted the arrival of “Nehst Studios” to Cleveland. Star-struck North-Coasters wondered when we might begin seeing Tom Hanks strolling through Public Square. Nehst Studios. You know, like Paramount Studios. Warner Bros. Studios. They promised jobs. They promised to bring [...]
By: James Renner State Senator Kevin Coughlin carried on a not-so-secret extra-marital affair with a young Republican named Andrea Wlaszyn at the same time his wife was pregnant with their little girl. He took her to Ohio State games using tickets purchased by his campaign. Their physical trysts occurred inside Wlaszyn’s bedroom at [...]
By: Mansfield B. Frazier “Where black is the color, where none is the number …” Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall Pointing out Greater Cleveland’s lack of diversity and failure at inclusion is not something I relish doing (no matter what some of my detractors might think), but someone has to [...]
By: Mark R. Mackert Bodega isn’t so much on Coventry, it’s below it. Literally. Semi-subterranean can be sexy and mysterious. Going down or under anything is s-o-o-o very nice. From an unpretentious doorway at the north end of the Courtyard on Coventry, we descend an open staircase facing a tall kick-ass water wall. Did I mention [...]
By: Sarah Kotzman Honestly, I’m not much of a health nut, but I do have occasional urges to improve my quality of life. So when Good ‘n’ Raw hung their banner a few weeks ago, I had to check them out in the hopes they could turn my dietary habits around, one [...]
