FUG YOU! The Fugs invade Cleveland, 1967
On May 14, 1967, a benefit was held in Cleveland to assist two local figures on the local literary scene, bookseller James Lowell and poet…
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Smashing Pumpkins, live acoustic in Cleveland, 1991
I wish I could give you any kind of deep background on how this came to be. A friend shared it on Facebook yesterday, and…
Insane illustrators to invade Cleveland this 4th of July weekend, leave trail of bleeding eyes
NYC-via-Moscow painter Dimitri “Dima” Drjuchin and Indianapolis’ Jason “Homeless Cop” Fennell will be the subjects/stars of a two-man show, “Mutually Assured Destruction,” at the newish…
Stay sick: Cleveland’s legendary 1960s horror host ‘Ghoulardi’ is Paul Thomas Anderson’s father
In the city of Cleveland, people of a certain age get all misty-eyed when the name “Ghoulardi” is uttered in their presence. He was a…
Man who rescued Cleveland girls gives a hell of an interview
Charles Ramsey is a hero, for sure, but I fully expect for there to be an auto-tuned version of this interview in the very near…
Harvey Pekar’s ‘Cleveland’ is a splendiferous American masterpiece
The recently published graphic novel, Cleveland, by the late Harvey Pekar and illustrator Joseph Remnant, is a flat-out masterpiece of the form. One (hefty) part…
Cleveland’s Black Rock Legacy: Purple Image
Today’s resurgence in black rock and Afro-punk has been accompanied by a boosted interest in obscure post-Hendrix black rock from the late ‘60s and early…