Balloonfest 1986: when Cleveland was colonised by balloons
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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Live Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio, 1974
Success was a long time a-coming for Alex Harvey. He started out on a high in the mid-1950s when he won the title of the…
Tiny Tim, the Cleveland Browns and a bear made a sword and sorcery movie
As an answer to “The Super Bowl Shuffle,” the 1986 Cleveland Browns released this short fantasy film on home video. It co-stars Tiny Tim and…
Cleveland braces for the Republican National Convention with a rude coloring book
Trump emulating King Kong on Cleveland’s landmark, Terminal Tower I moved to Cleveland three years ago, and as a Cleveland resident, I think of the…
Deep inside the psychedelic underworld of Cleveland, Ohio’s Acid-drenched ‘Love Commune’
Sign Of Aquarius (aka Love Commune) is a hippie exploitation movie shot in Cleveland in 1970. Arriving on the heels of Altamont and the Manson…
Milwaukee resident messes with airline passengers by painting ‘Welcome to Cleveland’ on his roof
Sometimes the really deadpan pranks are the best ones. Waaaay back in the 1970s an artist and photographer named Mark Gubin, living near Milwaukee Airport…
A young Jim Jarmusch reports on Cleveland’s foremost post-punk heroes, Pere Ubu, 1977
In the early 1970s, Akron native Jim Jarmusch, born in 1953, transferred from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University to Columbia University, receiving…
Fuck obscenity!: Live footage of The Fugs performing at Cleveland free speech benefit,1967
I thought I’d seen every frame of Fugs’ film footage that exists on the worldwide web… but I guess not. Here’s something totally new to…
‘Knockin’ ‘Em Down in the City’: Iggy Pop rocks the Cleveland local news, 1979
Not sure how or why this happened, glad it did: Cleveland-by-god-Ohio’s blandly caucasoid time-filler news magazine show Afternoon Exchange visited Iggy Pop during his rehearsal/soundcheck…