AltWeeklies Wire
Baseball: Where Have All the Black Guys Gone?new
Consider it fallout from the epidemic of black dads abandoning their families. Today, about 50 percent of black kids are raised in female single-parent homes, versus 16 percent of white kids. That trend wreaks unique havoc on baseball. As Indians ace C.C. Sabathia puts it: "It's a sport you play with your daddy."
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
06-13-2008 |
Sports
The Kickdrums May be Hip-hop's Next Big Beatmakersnew
And they work out of a closet in Avon, Ohio.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
04-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: hip-hop, beatmakers, 50 Cent, M.O.P., Alex Fitts, Matt Penttila, Ray Cash, The Kickdrums, Verbal, Young Wazzie
A Cleveland Cure for the Sneakerhead Cultnew
Welcome to Cleveland's Got Sole. Billed as a "shoe summit and showcase," it aims to court an obsessive cult: people who have taken their devotion to athletic shoes to scholarly heights.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
03-21-2008 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
Joe Cimperman Hopes to Tear Down Dennis Kucinichnew
Eight years ago, downtown Councilman Joe Cimperman was determined to get Kucinich's portrait hung in City Hall. Since then, Cimperman's come to believe that the man he so admired is gone.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
02-29-2008 |
Politics
The NFL's Forgotten Forefathersnew
Football players like Leroy Kelly are left crippled and broke -- and abandoned by their own union.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
01-18-2008 |
Sports
Madden Mannew
All he wants to be is a video-game hustler. Adulthood keeps getting in the way.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
12-04-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
10 Worst Jobs in Clevelandnew
We're taking you beyond the mundane torture of everyday life to find those jobs that literally pull the very soul from your chest, throw it on the ground, and beat it with some ball bearings wrapped in a sock.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
11-09-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Hunting the White Buffalonew
In rural Ohio, meth heads risk everything for a thermos of corn fertilizer.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
10-26-2007 |
Drugs
How Hip-Hop Carjacked a Historic Ohio Wheel Companynew
In the early '90s, Dayton rims -- known as "D's" -- quickly became the Air Jordans of the wheel world: so coveted that owning a set could get you killed.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
10-01-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
