AltWeeklies Wire
Let Them Eat Cakenew
John McCrea's band is the most underrated of the alt-rock era.
Cleveland Scene |
Rob Harvilla |
01-23-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: cake
Emily's Lawnew
In Ohio, insurers bought the right to take victims' injury settlements -- for $400,000.
Cleveland Scene |
Jared Klaus |
01-23-2006 |
Business & Labor
Discarded Heroesnew
Washington sends them off to war -- and screws them upon return.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
01-23-2006 |
War
Dead Like Menew
How do you survive 11 straight hours of the Grateful Dead?
Cleveland Scene |
Dan Strachota |
01-17-2006 |
Music
Tags: The Grateful Dead
The Prisoner and the Millionairenew
A convicted child molester finds an unlikely ally in an eccentric playboy with his own sordid secret.
Cleveland Scene |
Jared Klaus |
01-17-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Romeo in the Roughnew
Tristan & Isolde's clumsy romance may make you crave Shakespeare.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
01-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Kevin Reynolds, Tristan & Isolde
God Save the Queennew
Queen Latifah narrowly survives yet another lousy movie.
Cleveland Scene |
Luke Y. Thompson |
01-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Last Holiday, Wayne Wang
Free for Allnew
The Libertine's protagonist is a boor you can't ignore.
Cleveland Scene |
Melissa Levine |
01-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Laurence Dunmore, The Libertine
New Order Comin' Upnew
Cleveland's Whitechapel admits its influences, creating a sound that's more like classic New Order than any New Order albums from the last decade.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Whitechapel
A Celebration of Lowlifesnew
Ohio Congressman Bob Ney and others are expected to assume leadership of Ohio's headlong charge toward disaster in 2006.
Cleveland Scene |
Pete Kotz |
01-09-2006 |
Commentary
Lifestyles of the Rich and Prepubescentnew
At etiquette class, 'tween debutantes learn how to hold their spoons -- and their tongues.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
01-09-2006 |
Culture
Heath in Heatnew
For a period farce, you could do worse than this sweet, silly, and intelligent romantic comedy.
Cleveland Scene |
Melissa Levine |
01-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lasse Hallstrom, Casanova
Beautiful Dreamernew
An adopted transvestite searches for her mom but runs into everything else in this new drama.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
01-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Jordan, Breakfast on Pluto
The Year in Picturesnew
From Alice to Gwen and from Devo to Kanye, Cleveland's year in music is remembered with graphic photographs.
Cleveland Scene |
Walter Novak |
01-04-2006 |
Music
Tags: yearinreview2005
Grammy Gripesnew
Today's Grammys are stale, uneventful, and hopelessly out of touch with the very world they're supposed to represent. Just how much do they suck? Let us count the ways.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
12-28-2005 |
Music
