 | 21. |  | Bar Gazing
After fantasizing about making it in Hollywood, you’d think working parties with guests Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Jennifer Connelly and Kenny G would be a windfall. Instead, it proved just how far away dreams can be.
Issue: August 2008 Category: MyTown Author: Jay Casey
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 | 22. |  | Rage Machine Issue: July 2008 Category: MyTown Author: by Michael D. Roberts
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 | 23. |  | Shadows of Shamu Summer brings back our writer’s most cherished amusement park memories, when killer whales and dolphins leaped through the air at SeaWorld, thrilling her family. This year, Geauga Lake is gone, the final chapter in the loss of a Northeast Ohio landmark
Issue: June 2008 Category: MyTown Author: Marsha McGregor
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 | 24. |  | Bringing the Pain Cleveland needs more activisits like Ed Hauser to strip the facade from our government and reveal the awful truth of how insiders manipulate the public.
Issue: May 2008 Issue Category: MyTown
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 | 25. |  | A Zoo Story
Our writer’s grandfather fed lions, faced down the dragons of the steel mill, made wine but not whiskey, and left a family’s worth of legends behind. All Clevelanders have stories like his, if they’re lucky.
Issue: April 2008 Category: MyTown Author: John Hyduk
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 | 26. |  | Lives in Past Tense Pasted on index cards, kept in old folders and now digitized in cyberspace, obituaries have become our writer’s file of mixed souls, reminders of people missing from the city’s familiar corners.
Issue: March 2008 Issue Category: MyTown Author: Michael D. Roberts
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 | 27. |  | T-Shirt Road Show If you want to make friends on vacation, you’d better represent Cleveland.
Issue: February 2008 Category: MyTown Author: Kristen Hampshire
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 | 28. |  | The Happiest of Days Fifty years seems like a long time, until you revisit the past with people you grew up with.
Issue: January 2008 Category: MyTown Author: Michael D. Roberts
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 | 29. |  | And the Wiener Is... A dog’s-eye view of the underdog of underdogs
Issue: December 2007 Issue Category: MyTown Author: Dave “Coondog” O’Karma
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 | 30. |  | Becoming Dada The improv comedy troupe Something Dada has been making Clevelanders laugh for 13 years. What does it take to make the jump from their audience to the stage?
Issue: November 2007 Category: MyTown Author: Tori Woods
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 | 31. |  | The Island
You can’t move to Tremont without hearing people buzz about gentrification. But our writer discovers that the more her neighborhood changes, the more it stays the same.
Issue: October 2007 Issue Category: MyTown Author: Amber Matheson, photo by Norm Roulet
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 | 32. |  | You Can Run, But You Can't Hide
Shaker Heights' mayor's angry letter about the magazine's "Rating the Suburbs" issue speaks to larger concerns: suburban mayors' fears of decline and their attempts to bring the region together.
Issue: September 2007 Issue Category: MyTown Author: Michael D. Roberts, Illustration by Chris Sharron
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 | 33. |  | A Two-toned World Blurs I grew up in a world split between black and white. Now, dining in a Middle Eastern restaurant on Cleveland’s West Side, I see shades of black, white, brown and yellow, and wonder where I stand in it all.
Issue: August 2007 Issue Category: MyTown Author: Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
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 | 34. |  | New Haunt for Old Newshounds Nighttown gives shelter to the city’s star reporters of the past 150 years — such as Don Robertson, Dorothy Fuldheim, Louis Seltzer and Doris O’Donnell (pictured above) — and reminds us of the sad decline of Cleveland journalism.
Issue: July 2007 Issue Category: MyTown Author: Michael D. Roberts
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 | 35. |  | My Suburban Conversion I never thought I’d move to a subdivision in a suburb like Avon. But my kids found community there, and so have I.
Issue: June 2007 Issue Category: MyTown Author: Colleen Mytnick
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 | 36. |  | Make 'Regional' Real To stop our region’s decline, black and white Clevelanders need to come together, conquer mistrust — and embrace a new system of government.
Issue: May 2007 Issue Category: MyTown
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 | 37. |  | Schoolhouse Rock
Issue: April 2007 Issue Category: MyTown Author: Douglas Trattner
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 | 38. |  | A Real History Cleveland deserves a well-written history that names the city's scoundrels, reaches into the soul of them and evokes the ambience of the past.
Issue: March 2007 Category: MyTown Author: Michael D. Roberts
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 | 39. |  | LeBron and My Cleveland Boys Our writer, new in town, finds herself dating during a playoff run and falling in love with Cleveland, Cleveland guys, LeBron and our city’s stubborn civic pride.
Issue: February 2007 Category: MyTown Author: Anne Trubek
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 | 40. |  | The Perception Question This month marks a year in office for Mayor Frank Jackson. But should his involvement in and silence about recent public missteps, including the CMHA land deal in his former ward, have us concerned about his administration’s image?
Issue: January 2007 Issue Category: MyTown Author: Michael D. Roberts
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