Why do I keep coming here? It’s far from my house, I’m not a bar person, and driving down W. 58th is similar to what I imagine riding a pedal wagon down a Palestinian sidewalk must be like. But, as soon as I park and get out of the car, I start to hear the
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The Standing Rock Reservation protests over the proposed path of an oil pipeline that would cut directly through a protected Sioux Reservation have been gaining both support and redoubled opposition by the hour, depending on which side of the issue one falls. Those of us who sympathize with the plight of the affected Native Americans
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Norm Macdonald’s memoir, Based on a True Story, went on sale this week, and his video podcast, which hadn’t had a new episode in over two years, finally returned last week. So, with Norm stepping back into the spotlight, let’s reflect on the career of the funniest problem gambler to ever host SNL’s Weekend Update.
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Films are running now through Friday at Shaker Square Cinemas. Workshops, “Meet The Actors” sessions and post-film receptions will be taking place all week in Shaker Square. WEWS-Channel 5 anchor Frank Wiley hosted GCUFF’s opening night at the Cleveland Museum of Art, introducing GCUFF Executive Director Donna Dabbs and Board Chairperson Alton Tinker. Local artist
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Due to the increasing popularity of clothing promoting civic pride in recent years, the number of brands selling these shirts has grown in both number and prominence. The secret to the success of the most popular of these tees is the artists behind them. They’re Clevelanders. They grew up here. They live and work here.
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“I just want a cup of black coffee. And then I want to add cream and sugar. That’s how I’ve done it my whole life! Is there a Starbucks or something around here?” If you’re having this conversation with the white-bearded man behind the counter at Troubadour Coffee Roasters, just hear him out. That man
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It’s been a weird election cycle to say the least. What has been at times the most comical, sensationalized, and tawdry of elections is kept in check by the daily reminder of how truly significant it remains. For the most part, PressureLife has stayed out of the political fray, but things are getting weird. With
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A whirlwind of energy and emotion as a child—and somewhat the same as a grown man—Wise’s mother often calmed him with a pencil and paper. Drawing usually kept him settled, and he got pretty good at it, having surely inherited some of his grandfather’s artistic talents. Unlike his grandad, young Brandon’s own drawings often included
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Actually… you know what? We’ll come back to that. Let’s start this a few days earlier, in the back of a record store in Tremont. I’m talking with some local paganists while The Velvet Underground plays in the background. Lou Reed doesn’t make it to the second verse in “Venus In Furs” before we explore
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Kasumi has a right to be concerned. When we talk, the avant garde filmmaker recounts the times local press clumsily portrayed her life’s work as “something akin to coloring books.” She is not the first local artist we’ve covered concerned over misrepresentation, but she is, by far, the most criminally underappreciated. Both a MacDowell and
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A void in me had developed after finishing every season of Friends, a void that led to drinking on a porch alone and trying to fill the void with a late-night snack at somewhere probably awful. Today was going to be different. I was going to make friends and try something new. I decided that
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His work has since become a global phenomenon that now includes several books, television news appearances, and art museum exhibitions. He has photographed everything including an abandoned NASCAR track in North Carolina and eerily-silent amusement parks from New Orleans all the way to Berlin. Lawless spoke with PressureLife about his upcoming projects, including gigs with
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Written and recorded mainly by guys that would sooner bail a stranger out of jail than be caught tipping under 20 percent, the band’s new full length album, Total Dissatisfaction, is set to be released on Oct. 7. Thematically, the album is simply a marked and functional improvement of concepts and raw feels that all
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– CIM #1016 – “Blair Witch” – 89 mins. – release: September 16th, 2016 – After being retrofit with the latest prototype motion technology, I take the new tech for walk through the woods behind the lab. A few clicks in, I find a portable cim unit on the stump of a fallen tree. Creepy?
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It’s been a rough go for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton these past two weeks. Both candidates in an election cycle, regardless of their relation to one another in the polls, will jockey back and forth trading lead from week to week. This oscillation is only exacerbated by twenty-four hour news programs padding stories to stretch
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