Jeff Jarvis smells the plainly obvious rat. First note well that Schultz is married to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown as she calls on her newspapers and employer (my former employer, Advance Publications) and fellow columnists to influence Congress to remake copyright. ...Read More

Visited William Crowell, who owns and operates Classy Limo Taxi on W. 11th in Tremont.  Another in a series of videos highlighting local small businesses in the Tremont area. [youtube]gnZu4o2Ws7g[/youtube] Read More

The PD is on six month death watch, a period set by Connie Schultz herself. That is six months from now, which is a lifetime in an industry that, in the last six months, has slashed thousands of salaries and jobs. ...Read More

R.A. Washington: we ask for more media outlets, more alternatives to the shit we get, but when they crop up, we dont support them. sure we pick em up and put it in our bags, carry issues around but we do ...Read More

In conjunction with their 90th Anniversary Celebration in October, Merrick House in Tremont will be holding a public auction of Scott Radke's cement pieces on the corner of West 11th and University.  A few months ago, when the lot went ...Read More

The Great We've got your back Christine: A while back, I encouraged my friends and neighbors to take the cleveland.com challenge. Since then, I've been told by many people that I'm fighting a losing battle. Here's what I've got to say about ...Read More

I've uploaded the PDF of Kevin Coughlin's motion to dismiss James Renner's declaratory judgment action.  Renner is suing Coughlin to get a judge to declare that the story which resulted in Renner getting fired from Scene Magazine is not defamatory, ...Read More

ESPN is reporting that the long rumored Shaq-to-Cleveland trade is a done deal.  Book the NBA Finals in 2010.  Now. Once again, Danny Ferry pulls a rabbit out of a hat.  We lose Ben Wallace & Sasha Pavlovic in the trade, ...Read More

BHC is everywhere. If you're on Facebook, BHC is on Facebook (and we're in an open relationship). If you're a twit, follow our tweets. (If you run across something that means BLACKHEART Cleveland to you, let us know at the hash #BHC) Subscribe ...Read More

After James Renner was fired from the Cleveland Scene (follow the story at Blogger Interrupted) for writing a story about Republican State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Kevin Coughlin's extramarital affair, he no longer had a place to publish his comic ...Read More

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I find it interesting that BLACKHEART chose the day of the 40th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire for us to launch this blog.  In 1996 or 97, I was a bridesmaid for a friend who lived in Charlotte.  Some douchebag, who I now ...Read More

Cleveland has a black heart. The Cuyahoga is its aorta and the industrial valley forms the atria and ventricles. If you wonder why Clevelanders have a reputation for fatalism, you need look no further. This malaise has persisted for generations, and ...Read More