Cleveland

November 12, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #9: 2011 – Time to Pivot

2011 kicked off on a gain and finished on a loss. That’s the nature of life. And that was the cycle of that year.   The […]
November 11, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #8: 2010 – A New Professional Chapter

By the time 2010 rolled around, I’d just begun writing for two publications, one for pay and one for free movie passes. Tri-C started giving me […]
November 10, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #7: Renavigating During the Chaos of 2009

2009 proved to be an interesting year. Interesting is such a broad adjective. Something people use when they don’t exactly know what else to say. Or […]
November 9, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #6: The Big 2008 Crash

“I’m the Bad Guy?…How’d that happen? I did everything they told me to.” – Bill Foster, Falling Down, 1993 2008 began as a terrific year. Just […]
November 6, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #5: Cleveland – The Script, Song & Show

“cleveland, i gave you the poems that no one ever wrote about you and you gave me NOTHING” – d.a.levi In 2007, life was great. I […]


January 5, 2014

Secrets of the Blood: My DNA (Briefly) Returns to Chicago

“Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.” – Michael Corleone, Godfather 3 Transitions are never what we think they are. They are […]
December 10, 2013

Secrets of the Blood: My DNA Leaves Cleveland

It was supposed to be one year. I arrived in Cleveland in October, 2003. After accepting an offer with one of the biggest firms in the […]
June 20, 2013

Peggy Sue Got Pregnant: A Rock ’n Roll Love Story

Cleveland Musicologist Deanna R. Adams Debuts First Novel   Three years ago, while waiting in line at the Westlake Borders to meet the one and only […]
June 11, 2013

Drawn To Cleveland’s Music Scene

Ralph Solonitz is a big talent. You’ve seen his work in Cool Cleveland. And, wherever Ralph goes, he doodles. Sometimes on white paper, sometimes on a […]
April 12, 2013

Mobsters and Boxers at CIFF

The Sugar Wars & A Fighting Heart  “Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?” — Tupac Shakur Clevelanders love stories that are about […]
April 4, 2013

Local Heroes Storm CIFF

Films made about Ohio, in Ohio, or by Ohioans. That is what movie enthusiasts will expect to see at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) […]