Spangle Magazine

Let me go way out on a limb and declare: The Browns stink.Now I know that's a crazy-bold statement to make. After all, our lowly hometown team, currently sporting a miserable 1-and-9 record, is posting scores worthier of a hockey team...

Watching the busloads of teens — all cut from the same Glee cloth — pouring into last Thursday’s performance of Wicked is the first clue of who the target audience is for the newly returning PlayhouseSquare production: musical-theater-loving (and -performing) girls and gays — and non-jaded ones at...

Thanksgiving is still nearly a week away, so you’d think it’d be far too early to ponder checking out Northeast Ohio’s holiday displays. Reta...

And now we interrupt our usual programming …Today we’d planned our usual frothy mix of dish on Cleveland’s hot cultural scene. But ...

Everyday scenes from the fight for equality … The other night, I was at Cleveland City Hall with volunteers delivering postcards to city council members. ...

Picture it: Cleveland. 1880.You’re a mother of four; your husband works, but still you live in poverty, and having another child would further strain your limited household resources.But your deeply religious husband follows church teachings that say “withdrawing” is a sin. So t...

Call it unusual. Call it esoteric. Call it incomprehensible. Just don’t call it garbage.Northeast Ohio is no stranger to the reclaimed-objects-as-art movement. ...

Sure, you can throw a benefit with a prom theme and know your guests will show up appropriately attired in tuxes and taffeta dresses...

The summer between my first and second grade years, my sister — and all of the other girls in our West Point, N.Y., cul-de-sac — decided they wanted to put on an amateur performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music for our parents. The problem? Just...

It’s official (well, as official as you can get before final-final results are certified): Cuyahoga County government is about to undergo a massive overhaul. ...

You’d be the unluckiest debate-team member ever if you were assigned the job of developing the negative position against this statement: The Gordon Square Arts District constituents are leading Cleveland’s best urban revitalization project on the west side this decade. Le...

Spangler Roger Zender is back for his monthly dose of the best concerts in town and around the region. Nothing can help you embrace and enjoy the changing of the seasons like getting out of the house and experiencing them...

And now, your editor takes a small political diversion from our usual arts and culture content.Today, President Obama is poised to sign into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which will add sexual orientation and gender identity classes to existing federal...

 It’s the biggest queer holiday that doesn’t involve an ostentatious display of rainbow colors and girl-and-guitar performances: Halloween.And it involves a heckuva lot of work. Aft...