Well, this was going to be a big deal. A very big deal. The chance for a career-enhancing coup was within reach. The Food Fairy was going to the IX Center’s fourth annual Fabulous Food Show. If fabulous is in the title, then this fairy was going to be all over it. [...]
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 information to keep the public informed.” Snooze! Dude, let me give you a quick primer on Facebook. Don’t be [...]
A serial killer on the loose…county prosecutor hiding evidence…a man executed for a crime he didn’t commit… Like all good crime stories, this one’s complicated. But stick with me. Someone was killing little girls in the Akron/Canton region in the early 80’s. 12-year-old Tina Harmon from Creston, in 1981. 12-year-old Krista [...]
It’s hard being Terry Egger, Plain Dealer publisher, when two of your top columnists, Phillip Morris, resident black dude, and John Petkovic, resident rocker, currently on furlough…er…..”vacation” as he put it, spend a Wednesday night fellating you over beers at the Bier Markt on W. 25thin in order to keep their jobs. Tough work. [...]
Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the termination of Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s official “X-Files” unit, which was based out of Wright Pat in Dayton, from 1947-1969. Chief officer Hector Quintanilla and Ohio State professor J. Allen Hynek spent decades researching reports of flying saucers in the Midwest. During that time, [...]
Ladies and Gentleman, buckle the fuck up because we are in overdrive for this week’s “What’s so Funny Cleveland?” with yours truly. This week’s issue, we ask 4 questions Last Call Cleveland’s Aaron McBride, we check what’s doing at the Funnystop and Improv, and TMZ gets me on tape with a hooker after an “Independent” after-party on West 6th. [...]
During the holidays, crowds at bars and restaurants tend to pick up, but there is one local stimulus that helps jump-start that holiday cheer—Great Lakes Brewing’s Christmas Ale. As a bar owner, I can tell you it has the most anticipated [...]
We got greedy, didn’t we? I know I did. Like many of you, I purchased a house I could barely afford. Shit, why not? No money down? Sign me up! We did it because it felt good, then, remember? We were making too much money. We needed a bigger house in [...]
It was 43 years ago this week, that some giant humanoid flying creature terrorized citizens of Eastern Ohio/West Virginia near the Ohio River by Point Pleasant. The PP newspaper revisits the legend with a nice summary of events so far. While out joyriding through the heavily wooded area the couples saw two red [...]
