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Farley's Steady Stream of Midtempo Strumming Wears Thinnew
But Moments and Memories is like a pot of custom-blended java: 11 doses may make you bristle, but a couple cups will get your head right.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Racism Reversednew
A black police chief accuses a black mayor of discriminating against whites.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
10-26-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Turn On the Basement Lightsnew
Rock writer and Dylan freak Sid Griffin attempts to crack one of music's great mysteries.
Cleveland Scene |
Justin F. Farrar |
10-26-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
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
CBS Catches Ohio Congresswoman Blowing $2 Millionnew
Stephanie Tubbs Jones secured a $2 million earmark so Sherwin-Williams could begin development of a bacteria-killing paint, despite no evidence that it's possible.
Cleveland Scene |
Staff |
10-19-2007 |
Politics
Ohio's Losing Gamblenew
The state voted against slot machines, but we got them anyway.
Cleveland Scene |
Jared Klaus |
10-19-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
The New McCarthyismnew
An Ohio professor is caught in the feds' weird web of paranoia and incompetence.
Cleveland Scene |
Lisa Rab |
10-19-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
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
Phil Steele's Office: What Football Junkies' Dreams Are Made Ofnew
His business is top-shelf pigskin intel -- and business is good. He's made his living doing something many men do anyway, at least when the wife lets them: watching Vegas-buffet heapings of football.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Nedley |
10-09-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Death-Thrash-Power-Metal Beast Skeletonwitch Releases Third Albumnew
The mere presence of a track titled "Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery" says everything you need to know about Beyond the Permafrost.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Harris |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
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
Finally: A School That Doesn't Settle for Failing Black Kidsnew
Brush High's strategy is simple, if seldom employed: When the population of your school district begins the rapid transformation from lily-white to majority black, don't panic. Ignore the parade of evidence that suggests you're doomed, and instead, play offense.
Cleveland Scene |
Lisa Rab |
10-01-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
The Tractor Pull is What America's All Aboutnew
Cold beer, diesel smoke, and the Boob-O-Meter.
Cleveland Scene |
Jared Klaus |
09-24-2007 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Cleveland's Killing Fieldsnew
As the city's murder rate rises, the families of victims wait for justice that never comes.
Cleveland Scene |
Lisa Rab |
09-17-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
