Where can you find doctors and ER surgeons, lawyers, Japanese translators, car salesmen, dentists, psychologists, software engineers, physicists, police, and a whole lot more, dressed as gladiators, balanced on a thin blade of steel, wielding potent shafts of composite material, … [Read more...] about Those Among Us
People/Personalities
Books: An excerpt from John Stark Bellamy’s latest
Author John Stark Bellamy II, Cleveland’s master of mystery and mayhem, comes by his taste for the sensational honestly, having grown up reading stories about Cleveland crime and disaster written by his grandfather, Paul, who was editor of the Plain Dealer, and his father, Peter, … [Read more...] about Books: An excerpt from John Stark Bellamy’s latest
The Nice Cable Lady
I tried to retrieve my email yesterday morning, but I couldn’t get online. I’m pretty helpless when it comes to servers and web hosts, so I called my wife at work and told her I was really bummed because I had a busy day planned and couldn’t do a thing without my morning email … [Read more...] about The Nice Cable Lady
Cool people I know: Rick Porrello
Rick Porrello has built his life around crime. Porrello is author of To Kill the Irishman – on which the movie Kill the Irishman is based. It's his second book about organized crime, and he's working on a couple others. He has a website at AmericanMafia.com. By day, he … [Read more...] about Cool people I know: Rick Porrello
The Hostess
Ten years ago a water line burst by the front sidewalk of the house between us. Bobbie came out to see the water plume and apologized for not introducing herself sooner. We’d moved in a few months prior, and she’d been “so busy she’d forgotten her manners.” The next day we … [Read more...] about The Hostess