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Art of the Day: Houghs Angel, by Harry Bell

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:14:51 -0400

Harry Bell is a powerful urban artist, well appreciated in Cleveland and beyond. His most famous work I know is the Wall of Sorrows, recently dismantled, under controversy, and now in storage... scheduled for future re-installation. You may know his current work from cruising through Cedar and E.55th, where he is commissioned by a gas station and car dealership to create urban art on their walls, now including the work-in-progress shown above... a memorial tribute to "Houghs Angel", Fannie Lewis, rest in peace.

New Silver/Health Line Bus Stop at E. 9th and Euclid

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:24:51 -0400

While "they" may be calling the rehab'd bus line down Euclid Avenue the "Health Line", the stations were clearly designed to the Silver Line theme, which I prefer.

Lincoln Park Pool

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:06:46 -0400

Lincoln Park Pool

I GRO East Cleveland, Thanks to Free Shaker Heights Mulch

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:37:02 -0400

In greening our little patch of the Independent Green Republic of East Cleveland, we have learned more about "Green" gardening from friends on REALNEO than anywhere else in the world... from insight sharing on how to "Improve Your Soil This Fall", to "Smart Seed"... and we're practicing what has been preached, building up our yard by a good foot with free organic matter like mulch and straw we picked up at the Shaker Heights mulch pile, shown here... leaves to be added this fall. All this in preparation for toxin free farming next year and forever after.

Art of the Day: "Electric Chair"; Glenville Shootout Memorial, by Cleveland Public Power

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:50:47 -0400

40 years ago, a great tragedy occurred at Beulah and Lakeview roads - police officers and citizens of Cleveland died here in one of the longest, most deadly urban gunfights and riots in modern American history... the Glenville Shootout. The site is still scarred, and an Electric Substation was placed dead center to where one would memorialize or reflect upon this event, cutting off Beulah Road like a huge electic chair, being the intended fate of the prosecuted ringleader of the black side of the story, a "militant" named Evans. This Death Chair Memorial illustrates the racism, stupidity and insensitivity of the Cleveland establishment. This should be a park, with a reflecting pool. It shall soon truly stand out for being surrounded by farms (although not growing food within 75 feet of this EMP nightmare and web of high voltage lines electrocuting the neighborhood). This is at the center of the Star Neighborhood, one block from the Hough/Star Bakeries complex and Browns Market... Glenville Shootout Ground Zero... now in redevelopment as a City Fresh affiliated intergenerational living and learning neighborhood center, spanning many blocks. Peace and emotional harmony shall come to this electrified place at last, by and for the people.

Fallen Soldiers in Glenville

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:59:53 -0400

Shoes hanging from the powerlines behind Glenville High School, by the basketball courts

Art of the Day: Masumi Sunflowers, by God

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:23:21 -0400

I've always loved sunflowers, but the bright, sunny blooms glowing in our front yard this Summer are special. The seeds were from the work of art below, in the "To Masumi" memorial exhibition, held last October, in celebration of the everlasting, peaceful, sunny spirit of Masumi Hayashi, the great photographer killed a year earlier, in Cleveland, with other great Cleveland artist John Jackson. The Masumi Sunflower seeds distributed in Tremont may have been planted anywhere on Earth, and I wonder where else such Masumi Sunflowers are growing today, from this one showing of love for love and art received and lost.

I imagine ours are the only Masumi Sunflowers in East Cleveland, this year, but I may be wrong... do you have any in your yard or neighborhood, that you know?

Lake Erie Shoreby Beach

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:14:07 -0400

I live about two miles from Lake Erie, and went in the water today, for this pan and header, but I do not consider it safe to swim in the water, which is pathetic. Healthy beaches and a healthy Lake Erie would improve the value of all of NEO by $ trillions... that would be worth far more than all the polluters combined. Imagine being able to take a dip here, safely, wherever and whever you like...

Question of the Day: Which NEO leader should replace Dimora?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:54:11 -0400

Northeast Ohio has some of the dirtiest water and beaches in the world, because we have some of the dirtiest leadership in the world, and that is very poor for Cleveland's image and economy. Fortunately, it seems the region is now positioned to clean up at least one of our messes.

Welcome Back Barack

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:36:11 -0400

The Barack Obama for President Shaker Heights campaign office opened July 24, 2008, at Shaker Square, where a great turn-out of old friends, young and old, all races, came together for change we can believe in.

Huron Road City Fresh

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:27:29 -0400

CIty Fresh "Fresh Stop" at Huron Road Hospital, July 22, 2008

Government and Social Leadership Stands United as GCLAC Against Lead Poisoning in NEO - Committed to Eradication by 2010

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:09:42 -0400

The most important message communicated at today's press conference kicking-off Lead Awareness Week was that our government leadership at the state, county and municipal level stand united to eradicate lead poisoning in Northeast Ohio by 2010. Publicly expressing their concern about lead poisoning here, and their commitment to its rapid elimination, East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones added important voices to the chorus of public health and social service champions of the Greater Cleveland Lead Advisory Council... a unique, world-class collaboration of around 85 organizations.

Did Henry Sherwin Intend to Cover The Earth With Lead?

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:51:41 -0400

Long before Sherwin Williams Paint Company founder Henry Sherwin died, it was well known lead was dangerous to humans. Yet Henry's company "Covered the Earth" in lead, none the less, making large fortunes for few, as celebrated at the Sherwin site at Lakeview Cemetery, in this REALNEO header, yet costing society immeasurable sums, as mourned each Lead Awareness week. As society becomes less lead poisoned, and so more intelligent, history is being captured to reflect facts learned through better uses of technology, that will set records straight for eternity. One fact we may learn is whether Henry Sherwin intended to cover the Earth with lead, and so poison its people.

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:03:38 -0400

"Read More" public art in the Cleveland Flats... perhaps by The Sign Guy

Putnam Collection Sculpture by Richard Fleishman, REALNEO Header 2

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:04:51 -0400

The nearly completed Richard Fleischman addition to the Putnam Collection, in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio - photos by Evelyn Kiefer - Logo by Norm Roulet - 07/17/08