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Re-Making the Band in Clevelandnew
Mix 150 musicians, lots of Pabst, and a sports-like draft, and what happens? We're about to find out.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
03-28-2008 |
Music
Mo' Money, Mo' Justicenew
Justice Maureen O'Connor says campaign money doesn't affect her rulings. Her record says otherwise.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
03-21-2008 |
Politics
Stop Snitchin'new
The gang responsible for Shawrica Lester's murder made one thing clear: You talk, you die.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
01-25-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Dennis Kucinich, the King of Spinnew
How he remade himself from race-baiting bomb-thrower to liberal sweetheart.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
12-07-2007 |
Politics
A Renegade Reformer Lets Power Go to His Headnew
As soon as Judge John Plough took his seat on the Kent Municipal Court, he began making massive changes -- changes that would quickly earn him national headlines.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
11-09-2007 |
Politics
Jesus for Salenew
Meet the real Rex Humbard, the father of televised religious fraud.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
11-02-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Victory Records' Poison Pennew
To understand how Victory has earned the ire of some of its best-selling bands, one need only look at its contracts. They're not what you'd expect from a company that constantly touts its artist-friendly, "anti-corporate" ways.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
10-10-2007 |
Music
Victory Records: The Corporate 'Anti-Corporate' Labelnew
Label owner Tony Brummel is notorious. Ex-employees say he's a maniac. Bands like Hawthorne Heights and Taking Back Sunday accuse him of withholding royalties.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
10-10-2007 |
Music
Rock the Votenew
Who should -- and shouldn't -- be in the Rock Hall of Fame? We pick a fight.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
06-22-2007 |
Music
Queen of Steamnew
Tina Engler built a book empire from raw romance.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
06-01-2007 |
Books
Sex, Lies, a Priest, & Elaine Pressernew
Presser married into one of the most corrupt families in Cleveland history -- so she had a head start stealing from priests.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
05-18-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Two Families Suffer from a Doctor's Best Intentionsnew
In the past 25 years, Dr. Daryl Steiner's diagnosed at least 275 infants with shaken-baby syndrome -- unfortunately, he has been wrong on more than one occasion.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
04-20-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Amish Girls Gone Wildnew
Behind the bonnet is a girl who just wants to have fun -- and another beer, please.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
03-16-2007 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Race Revelationsnew
By the end of a Cleveland student's rant on MySpace, she'd spit forth 600 words of outrage, dropped the N-bomb nine times, and claimed "98 percent of blacks were ignorant."
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
12-21-2006 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
The Great Pretendersnew
They're defrauding the legends of soul -- and it's perfectly legal.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
11-03-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
