The Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Victor Liva today at Zion United Church of Christ in Tremont today--was transcendent.

The music felt like chocolate for the soul, after subsisting on bread and water for too long. 

Average Unique Monthly Visitors for REALNEO Benchmarking Sample
November 2008 - November 2009

REALNEO/COOP members, we own this... we accomplished this... in just our fifth year of operations. Congratulations!

ODOT and the control over ODOT to determine real estate and land use in NEO has been a reign of terror and an abuse of absolute power.  Whole neighborhoods and communities have been systematically wiped out.  Neighbors are expendable.

In the past, it was apparent that the man with absolute power was Albert S. Porter, County Engineer and Democratic Party Chair.*  

As the day becomes night, should we fear the darkness?

Citizen Ed Hauser, Victorious In The Battle Of Whiskey Island - "Ask Not What Your Planet Can Do For You..."

It has been a year since Northeast Ohio lost our selfless civic activist "Citizen" Ed Hauser, silencing the great voice in the community saying that "The Process is Broken".

November 14, 2009 - the one-year anniversary of Ed's death - a group of family and friends came together on the beautiful Whiskey Island Ed saved, before a late Autumn setting sun, to toast a glorious man, and mourn a most cursed and horrible year in Northeast Ohio without Ed.

What does the dawn hold for this long-suffering region, in the second year without Citizen Hauser?

Robert Maschke Architects is pleased to sponsor the arrival of a traveling exhibit featuring winning and top submissions from the d3 Natural Systems international design competition.   The exhibition will be on display at 1point618 located in Gordon Square at

While exposing those who profit from human trafficking and exploitation, the feature length documentary film "The Sugar Babies" vividly explores the lives of those who live in circumstances that can only be considered modern day slavery.

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Thursday, November 5th--2009

See http://www.arthouseinc.org for more information and http://www.brooklyncentre.org for more reasons to live well in Brooklyn Centre.

All the damn vampires.

It's not all gloom and doom--here are some uplifting images from a grey day in Cleveland.

I have posted here that Lincoln West is one of the schools in the City of Cleveland, which provides critical after hour community recreation and classes.  The program is called School as Neighborhood Resources. 

Okay, for once, JeffB and NormR--we can agree that aersol art can be a thing of beauty--I am including here an image, I shot while in college at Miami University of Ohio. 

Long live the REVOVOLUTION!

The Spanish American Commitee in association with Seaman Garson LLC premieres the documentary: Where is Gina? A Look at Missing Children directed by Ruben Reyes.

Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana de Cleveland
6800 Denison Ave.
Cleveland OH

For more information, please call 216-624-2263 or 216-961-7935

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Confessions of a bibliophile:  I read the Plain Dealer every Sunday for the book section and I am so grateful that the Plain Dealer understands the extreme regional importance of the BOOK.

Follow Karen Long here and please note that the PD has twitterized their site for the readers, so you will have to register to become a follower :)

Best party in town for the price--and certainly the coolest. 

The Big Bash/Splash is on Saturday, November 7, 2009

SPACES
2220 Superior Viaduct
Cleveland OH 44113
216-621-2314

Mayor Jackson, The Consulate of Italy in Detroit and the Cleveland Public Library invite you to a showing of the Award-winning documentary

inside BUFFALO

October 17, 2009

Show times 12 p.m. & 3:00 p.m.

Cleveland Public Library
Louis Stokes Auditorium
325 Superior Ave.

http://www.cpl.org

Free and open to the public

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For the 30+ years of my life spent in Northeast Ohio, in childhood and as an adult, University Circle has been at the center of my universe. What Place is at the Center of Your Universe?

If nothing else, today proved to me the power of magic realism.  Nelson Cintron is a good man, a kind man and a man gifted with the power to transform.  He is not a perfect man, but like all of us, when he tries, he can perform magic. 

In an effort to un-depress myself, I am trying to conjure in my mind the most charming places in NEO to go to when you want to watch people and feel hopeful about life.  Now, I know I can go to the middle of a forest somewhere and meditate, but I need to hear laughter and watch boats bobbing on the water. 

Why is it so hard to make it happen here in NEO?  Do you have a favorite place to share???  Please post your thoughts here.