Even the Suburbs are Screwing Us In an attempt to stop Cleveland from losing even more money (what comes after “poorest big city”?) Mayor Jackson has developed a plan that will provide waterline repairs for suburbs if they signing a “no poaching” agreement. So not only will elephants in the Cleveland suburbs be safe, but ...
myfriendclevelandActing a Fool Forget speed dating, Next, and online profiles (unless you want to be on a TV special when you go to meet that 13 year-old boy) and check out Avail 4. This theater performance, as The Free Times relates it, has actors performing monologues that are interspliced with single audience members standing up ...
myfriendclevelandKoran = Better Auto Sales In Cincinnati a car dealership thought the best way to make a buck would be to declare a “jihad” on the U.S. auto market in a commercial. Surprisingly someone didn’t think this was cool and the ad was pulled. Kind of sucks, I was really looking forward to “Fatwa Fridays.” ...
myfriendclevelandRock Hall Rocks The Casbah Starting October 21st The Rock Hall will suck just a little bit less as a new Clash exhibit opens. Not many details as of yet, just some serious brown nosing and questionable opinions (Sandanista! one of their best two albums?!). The Clash recently scored some other news. Bassist Paul Simonon has started ...
myfriendclevelandNot Sure the Angle Goofy McPerv, master of the “There’s more candy in the back of the van,” smile, dishes out a new column about problems for a Cleveland homeless agency and a state rep. The weird thing is the guy does it with an air of humor. A homeless agency got robbed and he’s ...
myfriendclevelandDamn It! This Has Nothing to do With Beer The Great Lakes Conference starts in Cleveland today, and instead of discussing why Burning River is so delicious, these fellas are going to be trying to save a lake or something. Gov. Taft, who is still denying rumors of getting stuck in a bathtub, will be ...
myfriendclevelandMy Friends Have Been Talking About the Revolution for Years! Shiftless, complacent punks be warned! The revolution is finally coming and it’s starting in Bowling Green. That is where meetings for the Great Lakes (no affiliation to the beer, we think) Anarchist Gathering are held. I know a couple of people who have lived there and ...
myfriendclevelandGet Your Hate On The Free Times cover story this week tells the tale of young man duped into a Cleveland chapter of a neo-nazi organization. Most of the members happen to be from Parma, which the guy describes as, “a hotbed of undercurrent opposition to diversity and change,” and are led by a former ...
myfriendclevelandHe controls time too. Betcha didn’t know that A friend and I were discussing Daylight Saving Time this morning and trying to figure out when that shit was happening. I did a search online and found this page, loaded with just about any information one would need to know about this time change that I ...
myfriendclevelandWe Don’t Need No Education Polls show Ohioans care more about education as an issue than jobs, healthcare, or crime. So at Wednesday’s Blackwell Strickland debate, the only one taking place in Cleveland, get ready to see the candidates flounder and leave us uninformed. You’d think Strickland would know a thing or two about Education, ...
myfriendclevelandNow You’re in Trouble I, Andy, am going to write these news updates while watching the Rock Countdown on MTV2 (and your news will be infused with opinions on music). This will give us multiple excuses as to why this update sucks. An Actual Interesting Story from the Scene In a school district where the ...
myfriendclevelandCleveland Would Like to Welcome Slot Jockeys Mayor Frank Jackson is putting up a ballot in November to allow the opening of two slot machine parlors in Cleveland. He is hoping to make so serious cash to aid the city. Learn and Earn (have you seen their new digs in Tower City, real swank like ...
myfriendclevelandIf You Are From Ohio, Stay Off Of Cruise Ships A 37-year-old Ohio woman dissapeared from a cruise ship recently making 2 of the last 3 people to dissapear from cruises Ohio residents. This has lead to the development of two important theories. Either people from Ohio don’t know how to ride boats, or (fill ...
myfriendclevelandAkron Smells Pitchfork reviews the new Black Keys album and while not too infatuated by it, they seem even less pleased with Akron which is described as, “a city that’s not quite East Coast or Midwestern and has vaguely smelled like burning tires every time I’ve driven through it.” Hey, maybe that’s why they’re singing the ...
myfriendclevelandConan Arrested In Eastlake Come on, dude, you can’t just go wielding an axe outside a high school and expect everything to be cool. Yo, DJ, Spin That Wheel Goofy McPerv reports on Channel 19′s newest game show. You know, the one where they plaster fugitives faces to a wheel and then spin. The funny ...
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