Cleveland has its own distinct brand… we’re rough-and-tough, gritty, real — and we need to embrace it. Fully. Check out Richey Piiparinen’s feature in RustWire.com: “Glitz Wrestles with Authenticity in Clevelandtown,” an article about embracing our true selves, not trying to be like South Beach, NYC or any other city.
From the article:
Cleveland—it is a lot. It’s part Napoleon Dynamite: alienated, quirky, but with a spine of cut-through-the-bullshit intrigue. It is lunch pails and bridges, iron and stone, yet a place of poetics formed from a pensiveness borne from its afterthought status. Cleveland is hard and soft, then: knuckles and tits—and this is perhaps most embodied in its music as hybrid polka-rock DJs share the same city air that catches the sounds of the Cleveland Orchestra. Cleveland is wandering. Cleveland is finding when it’s not blinded by what it’s looking for. Cleveland is the nostalgic comfort that is hearing the night train. Cleveland is Joan Jett in the Light of Day.
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