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Is Hipster Metal for Assholes?new

Lately, like scores of other music critics, I've been getting into some "hipster-metal bands," so named because guys like us listen to them. Real metal dudes hate people like me. And that certainly includes D.X. Ferris, my co-worker and author of a new book about Slayer's Reign in Blood, which is apparently some sort of classic metal album.
Cleveland Scene  |  Michael Gallucci and D.X. Ferris  |  06-20-2008  |  Music

Has Robert Smith Brought the Cure Back to Life?new

If you believe the reports, the Cure is putting on a half-decent live show for the first time in 20 years. On their current tour, the perennial goth-rockers are playing three-hour sets featuring some of their best tunes and are actually putting a little effort into it.
Cleveland Scene  |  D.X. Ferris  |  06-13-2008  |  Concerts

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

Houses in Cleveland are Selling on eBay for as Little at $810new

Turns out that real estate fiends from as far away as Florida and Texas have been buying up the slums of our fair burg, then flipping the houses on eBay
Cleveland Scene  |  Staff  |  05-30-2008  |  Housing & Development

In Ohio, the Feds Do Their Best to Conceal a Toxic Horrornew

Toxins are emerging from the ground under the former Ford Road landfill in Elyria, and many of the residents have developed cancer. Some think health reports were purposely repressed by the feds.
Cleveland Scene  |  Rebecca Meiser  |  05-27-2008  |  Environment

Help Wanted: The Next Generation of Nannies for the Super-Richnew

At the English Nanny & Governess School, they're finding it hard to recruit workers for the next generation of Ivy League child care.
Cleveland Scene  |  Lisa Rab  |  05-27-2008  |  Business & Labor

White Rabbits Conquers the Underground One Book at a Timenew

Despite his lack of formal education, White Rabbits bass player Adam Russell has long led a literary lifestyle. He dropped out of high school when he was 16 because he was frustrated with teachers who regularly kicked him out of class for reading stuff like Moby-Dick, physics texts, and Nietzsche when he was supposed to be paying attention to them.
Cleveland Scene  |  Ben Westhoff  |  05-16-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Mushroomhead's Old Frontman Returns with a New Bandnew

Jason Popson split from Cleveland's reigning rock kings in 2004, and his new group, Pitch Black Forecast, marks a return to the spotlight.
Cleveland Scene  |  D.X. Ferris  |  05-09-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

A Career Con Man Brings His Talents to Cleveland's Art Worldnew

Isaac Coleman Jr. had been committing fraud for two decades before he moved to Bratenahl and reinvented himself.
Cleveland Scene  |  Lisa Rab  |  05-09-2008  |  Crime & Justice

When it Comes to Tipping, LeBron James Goes Scrooge McDucknew

The self-proclaimed King of Ohio recently tipped $10 on an $800 bill. This is what French nobles like to call your requisite Bourgeois Bitch-Slap.
Cleveland Scene  |  Staff  |  05-09-2008  |  Sports

Returning Band Members Renew Testamentnew

Depending on how you want to score it, Testament ranks as either the No. 5 or 6 all-time-greatest thrash band -- the riff-roaring kings of the junior varsity, trailing behind Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth.
Cleveland Scene  |  D.X. Ferris  |  05-02-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Poisoned by Purina: The Case of the Alpaca Massacrenew

Jerry Forstner's farmhands found alpacas bleeding from the eyes and shrieking in pain, as a result of eating feed from Purina Mills that was dosed with salinomycin -- a chemical used to kill parasites in pigs and chickens, but which is deadly to alpacas.
Cleveland Scene  |  Denis Grollmus  |  05-02-2008  |  Animal Issues

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

Satan or Saviornew

AltWeeklies Award - Media Reporting
Cleveland Scene  |  Thomas Francis  |  04-21-2008  |  Media

Blue Mobnew

AltWeeklies Award - Investigative Reporting
Cleveland Scene  |  Aina Hunter  |  04-21-2008  |  Media

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