Category: Youngstown

  • Cruddy

    Our hometown middleweight champion of the world Kelly Pavlik goes back to the ring this Saturday to defend the belt he won this past autumn. In an article in the LA Times about him, he refers to Youngstown as “cruddy,” but as the reporter contextualizes, with Pavlik that’s a sign of honesty and affection. Which…

  • Totally excellent

    I came across this video via the blog “I Will Shout Youngstown” this afternoon, and thought it was really representative of the spirit that’s been taking over Youngstown in the past couple of years, and that community spirit seems to be growing more and more over time now. To be completely honest, it feels strange…

  • Imagining a future

    From CoolCleveland.com’s email list today, a video report from Hunter Morrison about Youngstown, the history of its loss of an economic way of life, the progression of its decline, and the strategies for imagining a future with a new identity that the thirty-something and lower crowd here have begun to bring to life in recent…

  • Alicia Delvaux

    Alicia Delvaux is one of my favorite bloggers, ever.  She moved to Cleveland this year, but she still blogs for Valley24.com, a regional online hub for the Mahoning Valley, where I live.  She recently posted a really wonderful entry about the things that have been occurring here in Youngstown in the past few years, recounting…

  • The Stage, Halloween Style

    Come to it and get up there!

  • A Glorious Sunday

    Not only did Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik win the middleweight championship in seven rounds tonight, giving it up to Youngstown in the interview afterward, the town that sent him off with a pep rally which people talked about on TV as if it were not as sophisticated as it should be, you know, pep rallies…

  • Another Youngstown Ghost

    There’s a boxer here in Youngstown who is taking on Jermain Taylor for the Middleweight Championship on HBO.  Kelly Pavlik has been working hard for what he wants.  I’m not a fan of boxing, but I’m a fan of people who chase their dreams.  He’s the talk of the town right now, and with good…

  • Interview with Linkon on Lincoln Avenue

    Hope everyone is having a good holiday weekend.  The book release party was really awesome, and I’ll be writing about it and posting some pictures of the art and attendees sometime this week, but for now I’m going to post this link to the blog for the radio show Lincoln Avenue, hosted by Dr. Sherry…

  • There goes the neighborhood

    The Lutheran church across the street from my apartment building set up a little performance area tonight, with a backdrop cloth that said “Elvis Lives”. When the sun went down, fifteen cars showed up, then people got out of their cars with folding chairs and arranged them about fifty feet across the parking lot from…

  • Oakland Open House

    I’ll be there, as usual.