By Erin O’Brien I select every kitchen gadget and accessory based not only on its technical specifications, but also on its physical appearance and my emotional connection to it. For instance, my lobster claw crackers are fire engine red and shaped like lobster claws, thereby making the instructions for use inherent in the design—a [...]
The Girl With a Thousand Christmas Trees by Jen Hirt Introduction: Glass Always Breaks On my 30th birthday, I had the blueprint of a greenhouse tattooed on my left bicep. Young men loitering in the tattoo parlor wondered what the straight lines and strong angles of beams were all about. I explained: the blueprint [...]
By Scott Lax The slate patio built in May by the recently indicted contractor is cracked on this hazy mid-July morning. A fracture winds through it like a dried-up Amazon River, looking to Jeremy as if Cleveland is about to swallow up what’s left of the near west side: its desanctified churches and abandoned [...]
Memoirs by the Longtime Host of TV’s “One Tank Trips” By Neil Zurcher Freelancing for WJW-TV while reporting full-time for WEOL, I joined Walt Glendenning and Ray Goll, another photographer friend who lived in Vermilion and was a freelance photographer for Channel 3, as unofficial photographers for the Lorain County Sheriff’s Department, which did [...]
