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Diary of the Dumped™ Day 5: Memory Remaking
July 9, 2010 Exactly three month ago, today, on Friday April 9, I had my first date with the ex. We met at The Harp, a lovely Irish pub, located on the edge of Cleveland, looking over the big beautiful Lake Erie. We spent two hours, sitting there, talking, endlessly, until the bartender, at 1...
read more...07.9.2010
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Diary of the Dumped™ Day 4: Is Love a Sport?
July 8, 2010 Today, just three short hours ago, on national television, Lebron James publicly broke up with Cleveland and introduced his new girlfriend, Miami. There’s so much to say here and, given that this feels like my second break up in one short yet eventful week, I hate to say it ...
read more...07.8.2010
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Independence Day
July 4, 2010 Everything changed from the time I arrived in Chicago nine days ago to arriving home in Cleveland today. Early morning two Fridays ago I was showing off my newly planted garden to my boyfriend Vincent*. On advice of a feng-shui expert and with the guidance of my next-door neig...
read more...07.4.2010
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Cleveland in Film: The Era of Dysfunction
By Ben Lieblich and Alex Sukhoy The t-shirt said it all: “Cleveland: you’ve got to be tough!” Still available from Daffy Dan, the shirt perfectly captured how Clevelanders viewed themselves during the closing decades of the 20th century. They were sturdy. They were resilient. They mi...
read more...06.10.2010
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Spring Clearing: Time for Renewal
With sunshine and warmer temperatures finally here, we're all slowly crawling out of hibernation mode, where, especially in Northeast Ohio, for months we've quietly nestled ourselves, surrounded by creature comforts, including those foods and items that help us cope with the cold, ice and snow. And,...
read more...04.28.2010
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Business and Burgers: Two Dads’ Diner
Before moving to Cleveland in 2003, I spent two years in upstate New York, working hard earning my M.B.A. at the Simon School. The winters of Rochacha, as it's referred to by the natives, are cold, snowy, gray and the city rests just south of one of the five Great Lakes. Sound familiar? To ke...
read more...04.13.2010
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Chocolate Bar: Temptation Made Easy
On the edge of East 4th Street, Cleveland’s gastronomic Mecca, where Vivo once stood, the Chocolate Bar recently opened its doors. A franchise restaurant with another location in Buffalo, the name alone generated a certain buzz across town and peaked the interest of some friends who k...
read more...03.17.2010
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Retro Burgercraft: It’s no fiction, Five Guys satisfies
During the post-holiday season, my neighbor Jenn and I took a work lunch break and headed to Lakewood’s new foodie destination: Five Guys Burgers and Fries. While other Cleveland locations exist (there’s at least six in the area), the Detroit Avenue Culinary Mile, home to numerous a...
read more...03.10.2010
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The Primal Urge for Simple Food: B Spot Transports
If you live in the Cleveland area and haven’t heard of chef extraordinaire Michael Symon, then you either don’t watch tv, don’t eat or don’t have friends who do either. Currently working the media circuit to support his new book “Live to Cook,” Symon is everywhere and his physical presen...
read more...01.1.2010
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