Not a week goes by that I don’t hear some students talking about some party and there never seems to be any impediment to them gaining access to as much alcohol as they want. It’s also all too common to hear about parents who host these parties in the mistaken belief that it’s safer [...]
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I am beginning to like Marty Zanotti. I’m serious. Here’s why. The dude calls me on my private cell phone to chat. How he got the number, I don’t know. It’s part of the Zanotti mystique. He wants to know why I’m gunning for him. I explain the [...]
Sometimes the Food Fairy craves a restaurant that presents the same dish in the same way each and every time I visit. It’s not cliché – it’s consistency. That’s exactly what I’ve found on multiple visits to Sara’s Place, in Gates Mills. Though the kitchen is creative with daily specials, I know the favorites [...]
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 ordained by God. Charles Dickens quietly fought these exploitative economic realities by creating heroes whom fate plucked from the mire [...]
Dad’s Cancer Spurs Daughter to Action Against Harshaw UNTIL A FEW MONTHS ago, Tracy Reinoso rarely paid attention to the news or participated in politics – having only registered to vote in 2005 at the behest of her Cuban-born husband. “I grew up in a small farming community near Wooster,” the slender, 46-year-old mother of [...]
It’s been ten years since Cindy Barber and Mark Leddy converted Collinwood’s historic Croation Liberty Home into the Beachland Ballroom, a blue ribbon, non-corporate concert club to showcase the area’s most courageous, and diverse talent. Since its Y2K opening, the Beachland has been the venue of many debuts and early booking gigs of celebrated [...]
Independent Exclusive: Zanotti Gambled with J. Kevin Kelley By James Renner Contrary to his public denials, The Independent has learned that Issue 6 architect, former Mayor of Parma Heights, and county-transition executive committee member Martin Zanotti took trips north to gamble with county corruption figure J. Kevin Kelley and several other local politicians. [...]
The Vindicator, Youngstown’s daily newspaper, reports on the rash of triangular-UFO sighings occurring across the Ohio Valley. These sightings are escalating in frequency and share common characteristics: triangular craft, flying in formation, making no noise. My money is on military craft as yet unknown; these reports remind me a lot of early sightings of [...]
