Under the cover of night, local politicians, newsmen, and quasi-celebrities made their way into a recording room at Cleveland State, May 3, to record “Please Stay, Lebron,” a musical plea to the North Coast B-ball messiah. The song and the video, soon to be viral, was the brainchild of Mike Polk, best known for [...]
It’s hard to be so arrogantly condescending that a room full of fellow politicians simply laughs at you, but former Shaker Heights Mayor Judy Rawson managed to pull that off with a flourish at a Cuyahoga County Council Planning forum on April 28. Billed as a discussion of the “role” of the new county [...]
State Sen. Kevin Coughlin took a swipe at Republican goober-natorial candidate John Kasich in today’s Plain Dealer, referring to Kasich as a “toad”. Strong words coming from a man who used his campaign money to purchase tickets to Ohio State football games he attended with his mistress. Last year, I sued Kevin Coughlin along with [...]
John Stark Bellamy II, author of such warmly-titled tomes as “Death Ride at Euclid Beach” and “The Maniac in the Bushes” returns to Cleveland this month for a series of talks on his newest book, Cleveland’s Greatest Disasters. You can catch him at Visible Voice Books in Cleveland, April 23, at 7 p.m. For a [...]
The “Cleveland Global Marijuana March and Rally” will be held May 1st (also Free Comic Day—coincidence, I think not) at “high” noon on Public Square. The March will proceed past the Justice Center at 1 p.m. and finish up at Huntington Park for a rally and concert featuring Willy Mac, The Waterband, and Danny Longhair. [...]
Like Spanish conquistadors banishing images of false idols from Mayan temples, the new regime in Lakewood is trying to forget a part of its history. Seems someone has pried off former mayor Anthony Sinagra’s placard from its place in the City Center and replaced it with some Kelly-green generic label that simply says, “Lakewood, Ohio.” [...]
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 1. It is as awesome as it sounds. Free comics, people. Free effing comics. Carol & John’s comic book shop in Kamm’s Plaza starts things off late Friday night, with a party from midnight- 2 a.m. Asian Action Star Kung Fu Bob DJ Larry Syms will be on [...]
The long-time policy of Plain Dealer ownership to never lay off anyone in PD management was blown to bits on Thursday, April 8, at approximately 11 a.m. The hammer came down in the PD conference room known as the “fish bowl” as a few dozen non-union and managerial employees were handed envelopes containing buyout offers. [...]
And a special chamber in Hell has been set aside for Cuyahoga County Juvie Judge Alison Floyd, who last week ordered four teen girls to undergo polygraph tests to prove they were really victims of sexual assault. Law 101: don’t continue to victimize the victims.
In the latest episode of “Hey Cleveland City Council, what are you smoking, because I want some!”, Cleveland City Council’s economic development committee has just approved a $1.1 million loan guarantee for Nehst “Studios,” for three films to be shot in the city. Last summer, The Independent revealed Nehst’s odd legacy. The company is [...]
