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Travels with the U.S. Coast Guard on the Frozen Great Lakesnew
Conglomerations of small cakes and chunks from other ice formations, coalesced and refrozen into irregular shapes, often with sharp projections. We’re underway, eight nautical miles or thereabouts into the solid white mass of what I’ve been assured is Lake Erie.
Cleveland Scene |
Sam Allard |
02-20-2014 |
Features
Patients and Prisonersnew
By law, insanity defense patients are innocent, but in one Washington state hospital, they're treated like prisoners.
The Inlander |
Deanna Pan |
02-14-2014 |
Features
The War for Michoacannew
Santa Ana residents are helping to wage a secret war against one of Mexico's most ruthless drug cartels—and they're winning.
The Brothel of Bedfordnew
A behind-closed-doors look at a corrupt network of prostitution customers - and the investigation that brought them down.
Cleveland Scene |
Doug Brown |
01-29-2014 |
Features
ICP vs. FBInew
The Feds have called the Juggalos a gang. The ACLU and Insane Clown Posse are fighting back.
Metro Times |
Brett Callwood |
01-15-2014 |
Features
Tags: Insane Clown Posse, Juggalos
The Paranoid and Obsessive Life of a Mid-Level Bookienew
"When you win and win big, there isn't a better feeling in the world — you're on cloud fuckin' thirty-nine. You want to pop bottles of champagne in the basement because Hawaii won some game."
Cleveland Scene |
Doug Brown |
12-12-2013 |
Features
Heroin, LLCnew
The open-air drug market on the west side thrives in the same way that legal businesses do—by meeting demand, capitalizing on a cheap and plentiful workforce, and offering excellent customer service.
Chicago Reader |
Mick Dumke |
12-05-2013 |
Features
Bad Rabbi: Tales of Extortion and Torturenew
Decades-old tales of extortion and torture depict a divorce broker's brutal grip on Brooklyn's Orthodox community.
The Village Voice |
Albert Samaha |
12-05-2013 |
Features
Tags: Mendel Epstein
Native American input needednew
The Governor's Office is looking for candidates to re-seat the Native American Indian Affairs Commission.
The Cleveland Comedy Issuenew
Please laugh. Seriously, just a chuckle or two and we'll consider this thing a success
Cleveland Scene |
Staff |
11-20-2013 |
Features
Tags: Comedy
Turmoil at the Museumnew
Inside the affair, suicide and abrupt resignation that rocked the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Cleveland Scene |
Sam Allard and Doug Brown |
11-13-2013 |
Features
The Alabama-Coushatta Still Existnew
Beset by federal budget cuts, no written history and a general lack of recognition, the Alabama-Coushatta try to learn a different way of being indian.
Houston Press |
Dianna Wray |
11-13-2013 |
Features
You Are a Rogue Devicenew
A new apparatus capable of spying on you has been installed throughout downtown Seattle. Very few citizens know what it is, and officials don't want to talk about it.
The Stranger |
Matt Fikse-Verkerk and Brendan Kiley |
11-06-2013 |
Features
Porn Star John Snavely Murders Millionairenew
The story of a porn star stud with an endless appetite for sex, drugs, and human growth hormone; the teenage beauty queen he tortured; and a dead millionaire's dark double life.
Miami New Times |
Michael E. Miller |
11-06-2013 |
Features
